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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies treat the whole person, targeting the cause of illness rather than its symptoms. This White Paper, "Healthcare Revolution: The Growing Popularity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)," explores why a growing number of healthcare professionals and consumers are adopting CAM – and changing the fabric of the U.S. healthcare system.
CAM's patient-centric approach emphasizes prevention and individualized programs of care:
• Studies show that massage therapy (MT) increases endorphins and serotonin, chemicals that act as natural painkillers and mood regulators.
• Chiropractic treatment of neck pain provides more relief than over-the-counter drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen.
• Acupuncture has been studied for a wide range of pain conditions, such as post-operative dental pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, headache, low back pain, menstrual cramps, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis and tennis elbow.
CAM's growing popularity highlights a number of opportunities to explore alternative therapies that can be incorporated with conventional medicine.


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At a pancake breakfast this morning in Moline, Illinois, Ann Romney took to the mic and addressed all of her sisters in robothood. (Sidenote: the Romneys just cannot get enough pancakes.) She started by saying she is "really upset" with Obama's policies, and then tried to get us to bond over our anger: "I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy." It's true that women do know what money is, which is one of the few things we have in common with the Romneys. And it's this supposed obsession with money which she'd like to use to secure our votes for Mitt:
Women are talking about jobs, women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women. We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why we're upset and what we've got to do to fix things.
Way to not sound desperate at all, Ann. But you do make a great point. We do need to remember why we're upset. For starters, we should remember that we're upset about Mitt's idea to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood. We're upset that he's anti-choice and that he's seeking to be the head of a party that seems to have far more interest in waging war on women's rights and our access to basic healthcare services than getting us jobs and reducing our deficit. Oh, and we're upset that you made your dog ride on the roof of your car. Just a few things for us gals to remember come election day.
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Why San Diego county is not part of this?WASHINGTON -- The government Wednesday raised the maximum for mortgages in 14 high-cost California counties that could be guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration to $729,750 from $362,790.
The temporary increases announced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development are part of a recently enacted economic stimulus package and are intended to let more homeowners with high-rate mortgages refinance into government-insured loans.
The department is expected to raise FHA limits in other counties nationwide in the coming days.
The stimulus legislation also includes a temporary boost, to $729,750 from $417,000, in the cap on loans that government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy or guarantee.
The California counties at the new maximum level for FHA loans are Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Orange, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Ventura


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In the BEGINNING, there was the Juan Santamaría International Airport aka, the San José Airport. Then came the Daniel Oduber International Airport aka, the Liberia International Airport, so tourist types could hit the beaches of the northern pacific coast without the hassle of navigating the shitty roads Costa Rica is known for- I get that. Now, the powers that be, mainly Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sánchez, and his Panamanian counterpart, Ricardo Martinelli, have decided it would be a good idea to build another international airport in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica (in Palma Sur), which would benefit both countries. Costa Rican officials are hoping a southern zone airport will have the same developmental impact that the Dan Oduber Airport in Liberia has had on the pacific coast. I have NO doubt.
Personally, I think this is a GREAT idea. I'm a HUGE advocate of progress, development and modernization, especially when it attracts the TOURIST dollar for the overall economic betterment of the country. Businesses and specifically ones connected to the tourist industry (which is pretty much EVERYONE) will benefit BIG time- this of course is all that matters.
I've always argued that Costa Rica should be more accessible to Joe Schmo tourist. If I were running the show, I would build International Airports in Tortuguero, Puerto Viejo, Manuel Antonio and even in Penas Blancas on the Nicaraguan border (we don't want our neighbors to the north to feel left out). For example, it's ridiculous to have to rent a car and navigate the shitty roads or figure out the bus system in order to visit the leatherback sea turtles in Tortuguero when a strategically built airport and hotel shuttle could put anyone at a Leatherback nesting site in short order. And an International Airport in Manuel Antonio/Quepos is just sound LOGIC, since it's a TOP Costa Rican destination and included in just about anyone's travel itinerary- HELLOOO…who doesn't go THERE?
MY International Airport in Puerto Viejo, located in the Southeastern part of the country, would complete the 4-corners, making Costa Rica much more 'USER' friendly.
On a somewhat related note: Upon exiting the plane in Puerto Viejo, tourists would be entertained by authentic Caribbean locals belting out popular reggae tunes… as well as given some sort of foo-foo Coconut drink…. i think it's a nice touch.
I applaud Arias, do you know how much time will be saved with an International airport close to Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula… DAMN IT, people want their wilderness areas more ACCESSIBLE. Seriously, even I haven't visited Corcovado yet because it's such a pain in the ass to get to. But not only accessible, like most Americans, I want what I want when I want it… and for the record I don't DO tents or hostels, so I better have access to nice hotels, resorts, restaurants...
and of course a plethora of souvenir shops in order to pick out the perfect wooden toucan which BEST represents MY Costa Rican experience. Oh, and I really don't care for rice and beans, a Burger King would be nice. (I think this is the positive developmental impact they're talking about). Actually, even a handful of all 'inclusive' resorts scattered about might bring in some folks who wouldn't normally visit a country like Costa Rica, that way they could have a wilderness experience in LUXURY, if you know what I mean. Everyone should have an opportunity to visit the 'Happiest' and 'Greenest' country on the planet. Including Heidi and Spencer from 'I'm a CELEBRITY, Get me out of HERE'
The best part is, EVERYONE will be HAPPY, businesses will prosper, land values will increase in the International Airport areas, and foreigners will have yet another reason to relocate and purchase a little piece of paradise… and of course tourists will be happy they EXPERIENCED Costa Rica without too much effort.
Actually, I have a few other IDEAS Costa Rican officials should consider:
*All National Parks should have a monorail system in place so they can be observed and experienced in a timelier, more eco-friendly manner. This also shows we care about our handicapped brothers and sisters. All Costa Rican wildlife should be placed (STOCKED like fish in a pond) in these parks so animal and bird sightings are GUARANTEED. It would also be a nice touch if at the end of the monorail there was a sort of petting zoo, where tourists could actually hold a sloth, pet a kinkajou or ride on the back of a giant Leatherback sea turtle. Then everyone would have a perfect photo opp.
*It should be mandatory for ALL Costa Ricans to learn the English language. We gringo's should feel comfortable when traveling abroad.
*ANY major tourist destination should have at least 1 of the following located in close proximity to its central area: WalMart, Home Depot, Borders Books, Target, Starbucks, Office Depot, Costco, Radio Shack, Payless Shoes and of course some kind of indoor MALL area (just in case it happens to be raining a lot and/or the kids get bored), complete with movie theater and food court.
*It goes without saying that Costa Rica should have at least 3 or 4 amusement/water parks- with PURA VIDA type themes.
I have more, but this would be a nice START.
I'm all about progress… I'm 21st Century (Digital) Boy.
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Book Smart in Dallas' Forest Hills
Shay Ometz and Jeff Barfoot's home showcases their love for art and the written word.
If this were a romantic comedy, boy would have met girl in an independent bookstore. But this being real life, the meeting was a little less cute.
Designer Jeff Barfoot came to speak at Fossil, where Shay Ometz just happened to be the senior art director for lifestyle photography. "Because of the things he said in his presentation, I knew I wanted to be with him," Shay says. Not only did they share a design aesthetic, they also shared a love for books. "We were attracted to one another for that reason. We were anti-television, pro-book," she says. Two years later, they merged collections when they married. "We had a lot of doubles," she says, laughing.
In 2006, the couple got the news that they were expecting. They set out to find a house—and they found it right away in a Forest Hills midcentury modern. "It was the first house we looked at, and we knew it was the one we had to buy," Shay says. Of course, they looked at 30 more. But in the end, they came back to the original.
What made it so great? Well, as for renovations, the majority of the heavy lifting was already done. "It was move-in ready," Shay says. "The original owner had lived here until she was in her 90s. When she moved out in 2003, this cute couple bought it and redid the kitchen and built what was to become our studio in the backyard. They managed to keep the integrity of the house." New touches such as stainless steel appliances and terrazzo marble mix well with original details like the light fixtures—all of which are controlled by a unified panel near the kitchen. "That took some getting used to," Shay says with a laugh.
Once they moved in, they set about making the space their own—they changed the tile in the master bathroom and started thinking about paint. "Where we lived before, things were very bright. When we moved in here, we wanted the colors to be a little more sophisticated," she says. They mixed subtle colors with their art collection—Jeff favors graphic posters while Shay is drawn to paintings and collage art. Many of the pieces are works of their own creation.
Their furniture is also eclectic. "I love Elle Decor UK—a mix of old and modern," she says. She's used that inspiration for her house. In the living room, for example, a sofa from Room & Board is complemented by an Ikea coffee table and chairs she found at Vinya.
The living room was also the perfect place for the hundreds of books the couple has amassed—well, most of them, anyway—perhaps the reason it's Shay's favorite room. The shelving along the wall is from Ikea. "I had them before we moved in," Shay says. "And they fit the wall so perfectly. It was like it was meant to be. People always think they're built-ins."
In the backyard, the couple set up headquarters for Bee Things (bee-things.com), their screen printing business. "We knew when we bought the house that we wanted to make the shed a studio," she says. "A year after we moved in, Jeff spent a summer putting in insulation, and we brought in electricity. We'd like to build a real 700-square-foot studio when we win the lottery."
Shay and Jeff made some even more dramatic additions to the house—namely Calder, age 4, and Milo, 18 months. The neighborhood is decidedly family friendly. "We have the best neighbors in the world," Shay says. "We have a play group for everybody here."
So with the addition of kids, is the couple still anti-television? "We have one now," Shay says with a sigh. "Since we have kids, we couldn't refrain." She's even read a few books on the iPad, but she remains a purist. "I still prefer the physical book," she says.
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WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, on a smooth path to confirmation as secretary of state, is likely to face friendly questioning when he testifies before the committee that he's served on for 28 years and led for the past four.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman will sit at the witness table Thursday at his confirmation hearing, a month after President Barack Obama said he wanted him to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton is stepping down.
The five-term Massachusetts senator is expected to win overwhelming bipartisan support from his colleagues. That notion was reinforced by the list of the people who will introduce him: Clinton, Massachusetts freshman Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. John McCain.
McCain and Kerry are friends who have worked closely on national security issues.


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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has notified Lancaster County and the City of Lincoln of proposed modifications to the base flood elevations for the Little Salt Creek floodplain in north central Lancaster County. The Base Flood Elevation Notice of Studies was published in the Lincoln Journal Star on November 6 and 13.
The modifications impact individual property owners in different ways. Property owners will have 90 days (until February 11, 2012) to appeal following the second date of publication if they believe they are adversely affected by the base flood elevation determinations and have knowledge or information that the proposed base flood elevations are scientifically or technically incorrect.
Appeals should be made to Ben Higgins, Public Works and Utilities Department, 555 S. 10th St., Suite 203, Lincoln, NE 68508. The appeals will be forwarded to FEMA along with a recommendation from the City.
FEMA must receive all appeal information within the 90-day appeal period. For more information, visit http://lancaster.ne.gov/commiss/flood/.


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OpenVPN-Rig is a small application for configuration and controlling an OpenVPN client connection from a Sailfish OS phone. I've just submitted it for QA to the Jolla Store. It's the first time I've submitted an app so this is all very new, but to be honest I'm not expecting it to get through. The app violates one of the store's requirements that it not need setuid permissions. Still you never know, and I thought I'd give it a try anyway. There's also now an OpenVPN-Rig page with some more info and screenshots.


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An organization opposed to tax avoidance has released a report estimating the world's wealthiest individuals have stashed at least $21 trillion in offshore tax havens: an amount greater than the combined GDP of the United States and Japan.
The London-based Tax Justice Network (TJN), a liberal advocacy, calls its current estimate "conservative," and says the true figure could potentially be as high as $32 trillion, more than twice the U.S. GDP of $15 trillion. The report updates a 2005 study that put the offshore total at $11.5 trillion.
The report, prepared by by former McKinsey & Co. Chief Economist James Henry and released this week, acknowledges the difficulty in estimating numbers that are intentionally hidden by the "rich and powerful." Consequently, it supplements data from the IMF, UN and central banks with its own data mining to indirectly establish what it considers a "base case," or safe estimate.
Tax attorney Jim Duggan of Chicago's Duggan Bertsch expressed skepticism of TJN's numbers. "Many of the assets offshore are in jurisdictions with strict confidentiality law," Duggan said in a statement, "so it is difficult to accept the findings of any such report since it likely supposes too much."
The report's author says TJN is making its data and methods publicly available and issued a challenge:
"We believe that the resulting estimates of unrecorded capital flows and accumulated offshore wealth are the most rigorous and comprehensive ever produced. In the spirit of open research, we hereby issue an open challenge to the IMF and the World Bank—to all comers, in fact—to see if they can come up with better estimates."
A key purpose of the report is to draw attention to tax revenue lost to the world's poor because of the tax evasion of the rich and powerful. TJN estimates that unrecorded wealth might amount to $189 billion in annual revenue, or more than twice the amount that the rich Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries give in annual foreign aid.
Duggan disputes this finding as well, saying "a strong argument can be made that these structures are indeed assisting in globalization as they are being invested into other countries around the world to promote development and economic growth."
The report frames the lost revenue problem very differently, arguing that "if we could figure out how to tax all this offshore wealth without killing the proverbial Golden Goose, or at least entice its owners to reinvest it back home, this sector of the global underground is also easily large enough to make a significant contribution to tax justice, investment and paying the costs of global problems like climate change."
The TJN report focuses on quantifying the offshore money more than tracing motives for offshoring the funds. The report says motives include:
- short-term speculation ("hot money")
- longer-term portfolio diversification
- sset protection (including protection against political risks and illegality) and
- more dubious motives, like money laundering, income tax evasion, "round-tripping" (taking money offshore, dressing up in secrecy structures then pretending to be 'foreign' investors in order to take advantage of tax breaks and exchange rates only available to "foreigners"); back-to-back lending games; export subsidy fraud; avoidance of import duties; corruption; and more.
In an interview Friday with AdvisorOne, Duggan acknowledged the existence of financial criminality but had a different take on offshoring: "There is nothing inherently illegal whatsoever with having money outside of one's home jurisdiction, period. Illegality comes up when someone chooses not to report that income or is evading taxes."
"In some cases [keeping money offshore] might be advisable," he added.
Tax Justice Network is primarily concerned with the welfare of developing nations, saying on its website that it aims to "provide a medium through which tax justice issues can be promoted within multilateral agencies such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund [IMF], the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development and the European Union."
According to audited income and expense information on its website, TJN is funded mainly through governmental and nongovernmental grants. The development aid arm of Norway's foreign ministry provided the largest grant for 2011, nearly three times the funding provided by the second-largest donor, the international relief group Oxfam.


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The example of Spain illustrates how the production of socio-ecological scales is centred on the social transformation of nature and the construction of socio-ecological and political-ecological scalar gestalts. Concrete geographies, with choreographies of uneven and shifting social power relations, are etched into these ecological, social, political or institutional scalar configurations. These processes are infused with contested and contestable strategies of individuals and social groups, who mobilise spatial scales as part of struggles for control and empowerment, and contest the power geometries of extant scalar gestalts. Needless to say, the mobilisation of scale, the occupation of geographical scale, and the production of scale are central moments in such processes of socio-spatial change. Struggling for the command of scale, or strategizing around excluding particular groups from the performative capabilities of certain scales, shapes social processes, defines relative empowerment and disempowerment and gives rise to very specific socio-spatial relations.


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Oxford United have no plans to make a move in the loan market as key players return from injury to strengthen the side for their automatic promotion push.
The window for temporary signings re-opened last weekend and will last until March 27.
But the U's are not intending to do any business as their squad is due to be boosted by the return of seven injured first-team players.
Mickey Lewis clinched a loan move for David Connolly on deadline day last month.
After getting his top target, the caretaker manager has not lined up anyone else and is hoping the returning group means new faces will not be necessary for the rest of the campaign.
"There were a few irons in the fire near the deadline in case the Connolly move didn't come off," he said.
"We are monitoring the injury situation and seeing how that develops.
"We have some good players to come back, so at the moment we're OK."
The exception is back-up goalkeeper Jonathan Henly, who extended his loan from Reading for an extra month yesterday.
Alfie Potter was the first member of the sidelined group to return. The winger was a surprise inclusion among the substitutes in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Bristol Rovers.
While the 25-year-old, who has been out since November with an ankle injury, had only completed one full training session, his presence alone boosted the squad.
Midfielder Danny Rose said: "It's a massive lift to see him. He trained on Friday and was brilliant.
"Obviously, starting a game was out of the question as it was too soon, but there's no midweek game, which is important for him, so he can get a good week's training under his belt.
"We have a lot of games coming up, especially in March, so hopefully he will be fighting fit for the run-in."
Michael Raynes and Ryan Williams are also close to fitness.
Four others, including skipper Jake Wright, are making good progress.
It is timely for the U's, who are involved in a tight race for automatic promotion heading into the final third of the campaign.
Rose added: "Our squad is only going to get stronger in the next few weeks, they are good quality players at this level.
"I don't think many other teams have as many injuries as us, especially to key players. It bodes well."


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Criminal past forces Neighborhood Advisory Councilman's resignation
A man entrusted to help improve Kansas City neighborhoods has abruptly resigned because of something in his past.
Orrin Ellis, who has been serving as a member of the Neighborhood Advisory Board since 2009, was convicted in 1993 of raping an 8-year-old girl.
On his application for the board, he was asked to certify that he had no outstanding warrants, but he was not specifically asked whether he has a criminal past.
"He's a community leader, so I was kind of taken aback and shocked by the whole thing," said board president Karry Palmer.
Palmer said he had no idea about Ellis' past until another board member brought it to his attention last Monday.
"I couldn't believe it," he said.
He said he immediately asked Ellis to resign, but Ellis refused. He said it was only after telling Ellis that he would be voted off the council that Ellis submitted his resignation.
"We act as a liaison between the neighborhood groups, homes associations and neighborhood organizations in the city," Palmer said.
The elected members take neighborhood issues like crime and trash concerns from the community to the Kansas City Council. Ellis served in the southeast region of the city.
"The positions we hold are positions of trust in our communities and we take it very highly," said Neighborhood Advisory Council Vice President Joseph Jackson.
Palmer said the incident has made him aware of holes in the application process.
"That'll be one of the first things we bring up Tuesday," he said. He said Neighborhood Advisory Council would meet for its regular meeting next week to discuss how to keep something like this from happening again.
Palmer said the council works under the city's Neighborhood Services Division, so any background check would have been conducted through that organization. He said he's unsure if one was ever conducted.
Ellis avoided questions from KMBC 9 News and had a representative tell reporters that he had no comment.


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Description: Today at DragoArt.com we will learn how to draw Alex the lion from the popular and wicked funny Dream Works flick Madagascar. I have watched this movie so many times that I almost know everything they say in the flick. My favorite all time character is Alex the lion because he is the funniest and most awesome character. I love how he roars for the crowd and when he is in the wild and he has no steak to eat and he roars wicked loud. And my other favorite parts are when Alex is the most powerful and dominant carnivores out of the Fossa. In the movie his friends are the most important things in his life. He is thankful for having them. Anyways, during his time in the zoo, his best friend Marty always dreamt of going into the wild and being free. He couldn't stand the zoo. The rest of Alex's friends loved the zoo. One day Marty came across four penguins. They were digging to escape their exhibit into the wild as well. They explained to Marty how to escape to the wild. Anyways, Marty had the idea in mind to escape. So he left the zoo and walked around freely in the public. Once his friends realized that he was gone they all escaped to find him. Once the humans reported the zoo animals were loose, they caught them and wanted to ship them off into the wild. While on the ship heading for Africa, a storm approached. The boxes that the animals were in floated the sea and landed on an island called Madagascar. They escaped the boxes and noticed their surroundings. At first they couldn't find one another but then they started finding each other while on a beach. Anyways, they soon find out about this group of lemurs dancing and singing to a song called "I like To Move It." The lemurs find out about the visitors and ask Alex to protect them from the hungry Fossa. This image took me a while to color and sketch. I drew it on my Wacom Intuos3 tablet while using the program Adobe Photoshop CS. I drew this character out of inspiration from the new Madagascar 2 movie. I can't wait to see it! I 'm so excited, its coming out sometime in November or October. Anyways I hope you enjoy the Alex the lion tutorial!


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Pelvic Inflammation Puts Girls at Risk for Repeat STIs
Nov. 13 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Teenage girls treated for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) become highly vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sometimes just weeks or months after treatment, researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center report.
The findings, according to the researchers, suggest that treating PID "with a prescription and a brochure" isn't enough to change behavior and prevent future repeat infections, which can increase the risk of chronic pelvic pain, ectopic (outside the uterus) pregnancies and infertility.
"Because our findings show PID is not a single isolated incident, doctors should look for ways to change behaviors in girls and not just treat the acute clinical episode. We are talking counseling, we are talking strict follow-up, and, most importantly, we need to develop new strategies that actually work," lead investigator Dr. Maria Trent, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist, said in a Hopkins news release.
The four-year study included 80 Baltimore inner-city girls, ages 15 to 21, who were diagnosed with PID and returned for follow-up. Of those girls, 27 (34 percent) were diagnosed with at least one STI over a six-month period. And of those 27, eight (30 percent) had at least two STIs in the follow-up period.
The findings were published in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
This study included girls in Baltimore, but teenage girls across the United States probably face similar problems associated with inner-city life and have behaviors that put them at high risk for repeat STIs, the researchers said.
The best times for counseling these girls may be at the time of diagnosis or when they return for the prescribed repeat PID screening within 72 hours. This counseling needs to go beyond simply urging them to practice safe sex or to abstain from sex, the researchers added.
"What we think we need is individually tailored counseling by a clinical provider that is done after an in-depth interview with each patient to determine what aspects of her behavior put her at risk and must change," Trent said.
More information
The U.S. National Women's Health Information Center has more about pelvic inflammatory disease.
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, news release, Nov. 3, 2008


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I got up this morning around 6:30 a.m.; my back pain did not allow me to lie about longer. I fired off one e-mail in pursuit of a job, then read chapter 5 on Dominican spirituality. I have chapters 5 and 6 saved to my computer. It's been so long since I read the other chapters that I don't remember what they covered. Chapter 5 is "Dominican Life is Liturgical" which basically emphasizes that prayer is central to daily Dominican life. Unless we have spent time in prayer and pondering, we might miss the Lord's promptings: "Sometimes the Holy Spirit sends his illuminations long after the period of formal prayer has passed. It may be in the thick of the apostolate that the priest hears his whisperings. He will not hear these soft-spoken promptings if he does not live in the atmosphere of prayer, if he has not made a cell in his own heart."(1)
Then I went in search of the book online, searching the Dominican links I have, and was unsuccessful. Well, I still have chapter 6 to read and I'm quite certain I'll find it eventually.
Then I had a can of soup for breakfast. Then reviewed the first chapter of my CCNA book. That made me groggy - a full belly and a dry book. So I proceeded to pick up my attempt to memorize Psalm 27. I was working on the third "stanza" (Hear my voice, LORD, when I call...) Going over and over it in my groggy mind. Then out of nowhere pops "Did you tell me who I am?"
My immediate reaction was "Who is this idiot that needs me to tell him who he is?" Which was very quickly followed by "uh oh" then ...
Lord, You are my God and my Saviour.
Just as the beginning of the Psalm said, You are my light and my salvation.
You are the source of all good.
You are the source of my being.
You are my Lord and my God.
1. DOMINICAN SPIRITUALITY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE by William A. Hinnebusch, O.P.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
I got up this morning around 6:30 a.m.; my back pain did not allow me to lie about longer. I fired off one e-mail in pursuit of a job, then read chapter 5 on Dominican spirituality. I have chapters 5 and 6 saved to my computer. It's been so long since I read the other chapters that I don't remember what they covered. Chapter 5 is "Dominican Life is Liturgical" which basically emphasizes that prayer is central to daily Dominican life. Unless we have spent time in prayer and pondering, we might miss the Lord's promptings: "Sometimes the Holy Spirit sends his illuminations long after the period of formal prayer has passed. It may be in the thick of the apostolate that the priest hears his whisperings. He will not hear these soft-spoken promptings if he does not live in the atmosphere of prayer, if he has not made a cell in his own heart."(1)
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Last day on the job. I tried to leave quietly but one rowdy fella pretty much announced it to all with a loud "BYE ___!" as I was walking out. I spread the news to some yesterday evening. Then the news got around this morning. So by the time I left this afternoon, I would think that most if not all knew about it.
I am very happy to be leaving the job that just didn't fit me. I did no better and no worse than anyone else, though I did have one or two commendations. It just wasn't good for my psyche for me to be stationary to a cubicle 12-14 hours straight daily (except for for a restroom break, butt break, or a vist to the vending machine) and constantly on edge to keep on top of things. Exhausted when I get home at night, dragging when I get up in the morning.
So now I'm happily liberated, though unemployed. I stopped by a church on the way home. I was hoping to do an impromptu visit to an OP afterwards, but there was no answer when I called and I didn't leave a message. So I just went home. Then washed my car. Finally. I hadn't seen daylight on a weekday in such a long time. It was strange. But very nice.
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Jasper test results
Saturday, September 23, 2006
OK, I threw out a *few* resumes. Hopefully some company is desperate enough to hire me. Did I already say that dial-up on my dinosaur computer is *slow* ? Then for fun I took the Jasper test. Results follow. I think I'd make a terrific Dominican novice. I just need corporate sponsorship to make my debts disappear.
Type 1 (Thinker)
What you want out of work:To quietly do your work in a thoughtful way without rocking the boat too much.
Your colleagues think of you as:Introspective, somewhat reserved but easy to get along with.
What you have to offer:A steady worker who thinks things through before acting.
Diplomatic. Your leadership style can be characterized as Diplomatic. You are patient and poised and exude a sense of calm. When you're in a leadership role, you are tactful in your interactions and your relaxed disposition makes others feel assured in your presence.
Agreeable. You are more Agreeable than Rousing when it comes to your work personality. As someone who goes with the flow, you have the ability to adapt to almost any change that is thrown your way. You tend to be quite accommodating to your colleagues and easy to be around.
Multi-tasking skills. With multi-tasking as your strongest universal skill, you are likely effective in managing multiple things at once and are talented in producing work quickly. You are sharp, tend to be a quick learner, and don't get daunted in the face of stress.
Collaborative. You show strength in your ability to be a Collaborative worker. While you're not at a loss when working by yourself, you feel much more productive when you can work with a team and bounce ideas off of other people. You also likely enjoy the camaraderie of group work.
The Jasper Test is Monster's free online Job Assets & Strengths Profile Test career tool designed to help you find the ideal work environment. I didn't post the link previously partly because I'm lazy and partly because you might have to have a Monster account to access it.
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What is Seeking_Something up to? Seeking has had enough with the job from hell. I intend to end my hell very soon. Do I have another job lined up? No. Well, that's crazy. Uh huh, but I gotta do what I gotta do.
We had the rite of acceptance at mass this morning. Four catechumens and two candidates will now move forth into RCIA Sundays - "to know God and to love your neighbor", then hopefully to join at Easter.
a snippet from the rite:
Priest: What do you ask of God's Church?
Catechumens: Faith.
Priest: What does faith offer you?
Catechumens: Eternal Life.
My friends, these few words are very big questions. WHAT DO YOU ASK OF GOD'S CHURCH? This is so mind-boggling I don't even know where to begin. In this rite, God's Church promises you FAITH.
The next time that "Church" disappoints you, I'd like to ask you, "What is Church?" and "What do YOU ask of God's Church?"
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Howdy all. If you could help out efforts in Kenya, it would be much appreciated.
I have met this tenacious, resourceful and energetic Sister and I assure you that no donation will be wasted. It is a very challenging political environment there in Africa. Your assistance in monetary or material goods or spiritual support and moral encouragement will help them overcome their challenges. Even an e-mail would be uplifting. Snail mail, I was told, is much appreciated. Any teachers out there? You could have your young'uns overwhelm these missionaries with a postcard from each of your students.
US Postage rates to Kenya are $0.75 for post cards not exceeding 6" x 4 1/4" and $0.84 for envelopes not exceeding 1 ounce. (For reference: the domestic $0.39 rate is for an evelope not exceeding 1 ounce.)
Thanks all.
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just a little OP time
Saturday, September 16, 2006
My job from hell kept me from getting to the Dominican event on time. In fact, I was an hour late. Even at that, I was violationg some job rules, leaving before the job was done (almost 3 hours past my shift end). I was very angry when I left work; the workload is downright unreasonable. But in the 15 minutes that took me to get to the Dominicans, I had calmed down.
I enjoyed the time I had with the OP's. We had a nice turn-out of seven women, myself included, discerning. I slept fine Friday night and woke up Saturday around 6:15 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. Then my bladder eventually made get out of bed. Still a little groggy, I bumped the wall in the bathroom and probably woke up the person adjoined to the bathroom. Oops. Uh, a little taste of community life for that person maybe. Anyhow, had I been at home I would probably have slept until 9 or 10 a.m.
I'm back home now, back to my reality. I like my goodbyes short and simple, so as soon as I got the good bye hugs, I was out the door. Mainly because I know that my hosts will have post-event work to do and I didn't want to delay them. I'm up for my volunteer gig at my parish tomorrow. I'll be back to my usual Sunday get-ready-for-the-week activities. I'll need to shoot off a thank-you card as soon as possible, and perhaps send snail mail to one of the OP's overseas. She was here for the event but was leaving to return to her mission. It'd be nice for her to get mail.
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love the blog
Monday, September 11, 2006
Ask Sister Mary Martha is just a blast. I can't remember what alerted me to this blog. I love it.
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weekend in review
Sunday, September 10, 2006
On the topic of confession, I wonder what the priests do afterwards. They can't talk about it. Do they just emerge from the confessional and say something like, "Well, that hour is over. Hey, you wanna go grab some cold beer? I wonder what's for dinner?"
Slept late yesterday. Got up and chilled out for the morning. Forgot all about the shuttle launch. I was doing dishes around noon when Tonto got up. I ran some errands. Came back and ate a little something then my stomach got upset. Tonto agreed that I shouldn't worry about the other errands. So I took a nap until ...
"Hey, have you gone to bed for the night?"
"No, it was supposed to be a nap. What time is it?"
Wow. That's a 4-hour nap.
So I got up and reheated some dinner for Tonto. I ate a slice of watermelon then spent some time on the computer. After several rounds of Sudoku, I finally got my butt up around 2 a.m. to take care of some of the things I meant to take care of that day: vacuumed half the house, cleaned out the cat house (man, they made a mess), refilled the water cooler, and ironed five t-shirts. I think I went to bed around 4:30. Sunday morning I was up at 9 a.m. ready to go. I changed out the porch light bulb before heading of to mass.
My Pastor ... I do love my pastor ... most masses, he manages to bungle up something. But he's so handsome and rather senior so it's kinda cute. (Well, he's also pretty darn smart, gives great homilies and is absolutely awesome with the sacraments.)
Ran into two sisters at a restaurant check-out counter this afternoon. "Hello, Sister, are you with the CCVI's?" I inquired. "No, IWBS" she said. "Oh, Incarnate Word. Say hello to Sr. __ " I admit I was pretty smug about knowing those initials. Actually, IWBS is the English version, they are actually CVI's. There are so many out there, it could easily have been one that I'm not familiar with. Oh, and I knew they were Sisters only because they wore the nun's headpiece and I guessed at the congregation by the colors they wore. Many of the CVI's do wear the habit.
I'm looking forward to next weekend, when I get to spend some time with the OP's.
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Saturday, September 09, 2006
...made it to confession
My confessor said to me, "Sit back, this is not a test."
hee hee
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Labels: funny
If you name your dog "Please" then I suppose it would go like this:
Please, sit!
Please, down!
Please, stay!
Please, no!
and so on...
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no sir
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
I am 99.99% of the time stony faced and dead serious, except for the occasional obligatory smile to go with "hello!" and "I'm just fine!" And in truth, I am at this moment stony faced and dead serious, but at least I can be more expressive in writing:
I received a vocational mailing today ... from a men's order.
Yes, I get gender mix-ups quite often. It happens quite understandably when it's not face to face, due to my name being what it is (which y'all don't know). It sometimes happens even in person, but only rarely. Gender neutral jeans an t-shirts kinda confuses some, I guess.
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honey do
Monday, September 04, 2006
Happy Labor Day to all.
Went to work today. Left work half an hour before my shift ended. Came home and ate a little something. Ran a little errand for Tonto. Then bought a kitchen faucet on sale. Then spent the rest of the evening uninstalling the old faucet and installing the new faucet. The last time I did this, it was a $20 faucet (so it was the $20 faucet that I was removing). We went more upscale this time with the faucet. The last time I did this, it was also my first time it it confirmed that yes indeed, I do NOT have a basin/faucet wrench. I remember that fact but still refused to buy one, since replacement of a faucet hasn't happened all that often. The new faucet looks good a works good.
That's the thing about having a house: you are forever fixing this or fixing that. There is a very long list of what this house needs. A few weeks ago I put up a towel rack. It took a whole month before I ever got around to it.
Maybe if Tonto's friend, the one that helped us with the washer and introduced me to agitator dogs, would get in touch then he'd help super tighten the faucet down. Tonto is really concerned about this friend as we've not heard from him in a while. "I hope he's not dead," Tonto says. Some people are plagued with stuff that happens to them -- he's one of those.
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
I'm exhausted. I know, you hear that from me ALL the time. I can't even begin to tell you about my past week. It would take up the entire internet space ... yes, really. I crawled to bed around 4a.m. last night. The plan was to shower in the morning. Well, I woke up barely in time to just wash up and make it to mass. (Thank you God for waking me up in time.) I was up for my volunteer stint; I had to be there. I was a little late getting there and normally I'd jog up to the church doors if I was running late. But this morning, I could only think about how I'm too tired to jog. My volunteer thing does not require me to interact. So I did my thing and left. I didn't say anything to anybody - coming or going. I didn't even greet my pastors. No hug, no "good morning" - just in and out. And either everything went just fine with the volunteer thing (thank you, Holy Spirit), or I was just too out-of-it to recognize that there were problems.
I'm popping some pills for my sinus and I'm going to take a nap.
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Green standard: OMRF building earns kudos for sustainabilityPublished: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:00 am By: Tom Lindley
OKLAHOMA CITY - The human sustainability experts at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have learned a lot lately about saving both the environment and some green.
By this time next year, they will have a lot to show for their research - an eight-story, $54 million tower that is believed to be the first medical research facility anywhere to harness the wind to help power its laboratories.
"Our mission at OMRF is to perform research that helps people live longer, healthier lives," Dr. Stephen Prescott, OMRF president, said Wednesday. "What is that but human sustainability? So with this tower, we're just taking the natural next step - trying to attain environmental sustainability."
But the 24 double-helix wind turbines that will sit atop the tower aren't the whole story, although they will serve as an important symbol of Oklahoma's renewable-energy potential.
The real lesson may be that thinking green means thinking way ahead.
"Most people design a building and then ask, 'How can we make this green?'" Prescott said. "We installed the green features first, and then we designed the rest of the building around them."
Sheryl Rood, OMRF's owner representative on the project, said the design team was fabulous in incorporating sustainable features into the building's design from the start.
"I think it boils down to reduce what you need; reuse what you can and what you can't use, you recycle," Rood said.
As a result, the tower is only the second building in the state and the first in Oklahoma City to earn gold-level certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
OMRF also has been selected as a finalist for the Renewable Energy World North America Award in the category of building integrated renewals. The winners will be announced Feb. 23 in Austin.
Overall, the tower's energy-saving measures will decrease electricity usage by 37 percent and total power use by 17 percent, which will cut annual CO2 emissions by 2,162,520 pounds.
Sustainability was a factor throughout the design process, including the site selection, the demolition process (the new building went in on the site of an existing building) and how the new tower would be positioned.
For example, the demolition process took a little longer to allow the contractor to reclaim some materials for recycling, Rood said.
"The actual sighting of the building and how you orient it toward the sun is another key component," she said. "We have more wall covering on the east and west sides to minimize the heat and the north and south faces have a lot of windows to allow for indirect lighting."
The ultimate size of the building also could be scored as a sustainability plus.
Originally, it was thought that 200,000 square feet would be needed to satisfy the research program's needs, but Rood said that through design efficiencies the size was reduced to 186,000 feet, a 7-percent reduction and an energy saver.
The building also will feature a living roof and rain garden to prevent runoff pollution and insulate the building, as well as an air-conditioning system that will reduce water consumption by recycling condensation.
"I am proud," Rood said. "This is really a neat building."


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Being the CIO or CISO at a technology enterprise has to be a challenging job. Beyond the external threats and threat actors, you are dealing internally with employees who think they are smarter than you - everyone you deal with is a security expert. But there are perks to this situation, too, according to Chris Birrell, CIO at Blue Coat Systems.
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Using CIDR notation in Cloud Networks
Last updated on: 2016-06-06
Authored by: David Hendler
What is CIDR?
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), is a range of IP addresses used by a network. A CIDR address looks like a normal IP address except that it ends with a slash followed by a number. The number after the slash represents the number of addresses in the range.
Here's an example CIDR IP address in IPv4:
Since IPv4 has a 32-bit address space the 24-bit prefix above means that the address range is the 8 bits (256 addresses) after 192.0.2.0.
And here's an example in IPv6:
IPv6 has a 128-bit address range so the 32-bit network prefix means it refers to 96 bits' worth of addresses following 2001:db8::, about 76 octillion addresses.
CIDR Notation in the Cloud Control Panel
If you're using the Cloud Control Panel to create a Cloud Network you won't need to worry about calculating the IP address. The CIDR field is automatically populated with an IP block on the Rackspace Network. You only need to supply a name for the network and click Create Network.
For complete instructions on how to create a Cloud Network using the Cloud Control Panel see Create an Isolated Cloud Network and attach it to a server.
CIDR Notation in the Cloud Networks API
If you're using the Cloud Networks API to create a network you must specify the CIDR and a name for the new network.
The nova client command looks like this:
nova network-create <network_label> <cidr>
Where network_label is the name of the network, such as my_new_network, and cidr is the IP block to allocate from, such as 172.16.0.0/24 or 2001:DB8::/64.
The following example shows a cURL command that creates the network:
curl -s https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/010101/os-networksv2

-X POST -H "X-Auth-Project-Id: 010101" -H "Content-Type: application/json"

-H "Accept: application/json"

-H "X-Auth-Token: 574c5763-86ab-431e-8b6c-5f7cf84c30ca"

-d '{"network": {"cidr": "192.168.0.0/24", "label": "superprivate"}}' | python -m json.tool
The JSON-format response would look similar to this:
"network": {
"cidr": "192.168.0.0/24",
"id": "aaa77608-bae2-4eed-840e-896a7dd345d4",
"label": "superprivate"
Note: To help calculate a subnet, you might use a tool like this:
For more information on using the Cloud Networks API see the Rackspace Cloud Networks API Developers Guide.
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The official source of documentation for the Asterisk project, this wiki is maintained by the development team that manages the Asterisk code base. The development team is committed to keeping the content up to date and accurate. All Asterisk users are encouraged to participate by leaving comments in the wiki to constantly improve the documentation.
Visit wiki.asterisk.org
Source Code Documentation
The documentation written inside of the Asterisk code is generated into a website using a Doxygen documentation generator.
Visit doxygen.asterisk.org
Asterisk: The Definitive Guide
This is a book for anyone who uses Asterisk. It was written for, and by, members of the Asterisk community. Produced with the generous support of O'Reilly Media, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide is the 4th edition.
The following is a collection of video resources for Asterisk users and developers. Please keep in mind that the opinions expressed in these videos belong to the presenters, not Digium or the Asterisk.org community.
YouTube Videos - The Official Asterisk YouTube Channel
Say Hello to Asterisk - What is Asterisk and what can you do with it?
Asterisk Essentials - Online training course to learn the basics
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The pressure to get reviews and make them look good has led to a number of businesses to take short cuts. They have started to write reviews themselves, work with services that filter out bad reviews, trade reviews with peers or engage sock puppets to increase their volume. I am not a big believer in faking reviews, filtering them or otherwise attempting to game the system. In fact I think that it is a terrible idea.
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A rambling post today. Fuzzy brained and foot loose!
I was recently thinking about the concept of free will. It's an idea that has always bothered me, like a tickle at the back of the throat. I firmly believe in cause and effect. I firmly believe in the laws of physics and what they imply. So without an outside force, it makes sense that everything is controlled very directly by these laws. Including us. The logic behind it is fairly simple. I'm guessing it's the complexity of existence and the relative simplicity of our minds that makes choice such a plausible illusion. But an illusion is what it must be.
This used to scare me. Deep down, I do not actively enjoy the idea of being so mundane and effectually predictable. Trapped. And in my mind, nothing special. Accepting that there's nothing beyond death was easy. Accepting the fact that I am a huge equation was much harder. After all, I chose what I valued and valued choice for itself.
I spent a long time letting the idea sink past my emotions and into my more rational core. Eventually I decided that it didn't matter. How I make a choice, be it simply chemical predetermined or an active and separate process, matters much less than what my choice does. If my actions make the world better in some way my goal has been accomplished. And thinking back on this fear now, I can understand the desire to reject the idea of determinism altogether. Anything that removes our safety nets and makes us feel small tends to be met with the same resistance. Science gets the brunt of this reaction, but determinism falls right in with plenty of people.
So with all this in mind, I wonder what other people think on the subject. Is it frightening to think of yourself as an eventuality? Has anyone come across anything contrary to the idea of determinism? Do we perhaps agree? Thoughts, please!
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@Chris: I think we disagree on an axiom (theism vs atheism), which is of course pretty much impossible to resolve since we both probably have weighed the arguments for at least 20-30 years. As long as you don't base neurosurgery on the knowledge gained from the Bible alone, I think we can compromise and agree to disagree. :)
@Atheist Exile: Admittedly my terminology is a bit weak, but I hope the essense of what I was going for is clear. I can give myself a psychosomatic migraine through sheer willpower which is untreatable by triptanes. In addition I have managed a few times to cure one using social consumption of alcohol, thc and/or nicotine. Though I doubt I could manage something as massive as schizofrenia without the aid of modern medicine. It is one of the reasons why Nash is one of my greatest heroes and his (and von Neuman's) game theoretical mathematics fascinates me - it is pure behavioral analysis. Add a bit of Freudian psychoanalysis and intercultural analysis, and you can understand how I percieve much of the world around me (I'm an expat plomped down in a culture very different from my own, it's a handy trait).
@ Atheist Exile - "And I see you STILL haven't cited your sources." = Are you talking about sources for credible theories and peer reviewed research speaking to pseudo-randomness and such?
If so, then you obviously have not been reading the links that I have put up in this discussion. I gave you...what...5, 6, 7?? wiki articles that speak to many of the major physics theories regarding this and all the info you could want to know...look at the sources for those wiki articles...that is how many more???
I gave you a peer reviewed research article on computational randomness and pointed you to the quote by the authors in the conclusion where they themselves said that it was impossible to prove randomness and so at best all we can truly settle for is the idea that things appear random, but they most probably are not.
So, I have actually offered you many many sources to back my statements of the obvious. When I stop and think about it, realize that you have not offered one single source for your assertions besides some guy's name. So, to flip the script...
"As most modern physicists know, he was wrong." = Could you please link to some sources with these modern physicists?
I truly believe I have sufficiently proven the credibility of my claims. If I need to hold your hand and slowly walk you through every source I provided then I will. If not, then please quit wasting my time with this unproductive drivel and move onto another thread.
For Christ's sake, Chris, this is my last post to you until you quitting feigning ignorance and actually provide the source citations I've already requested twice. I'll even repost those requests so you'll have no excuse for claiming ignorance . . .
Comment by Atheist Exile on June 20, 2011 at 1:10am
Hi Chris,
Would you cite your source for your assertion that the randomness in quantum physics was "later learned to have not truly been random at all" please? That's news to me.
It doesn't matter to self-determinism if randomness does or does not exist.
Now, here's my second request . . .
Comment by Atheist Exile on June 21, 2011 at 1:14pm"Remember, that usually when it comes to our current understanding of any scientific observation at a given time that is initially contributed to "randomness" (ie- sub-quantum fluctuations) is later learned to have not truly been random at all."
Hi again, Chris,
I was referring to the same thing I referred to when I asked you to cite your sources.
Here's the assertion you made:
You didn't cite you source and I'm confident you can't . . . but I could (embarrassingly) be wrong. I'm certainly just a layman where quantum theory is concerned.
Just to show my goodwill, I will provide the citations you request -- even though you STILL haven't provided the citations I requested . . .
According to Wikipedia: in modern physics, "there is universal agreement that quantum mechanics appears random". However, there is still debate (Copenhagen versus Many-worlds interpretations) over how measurement affects observation.
In my prior post, I referred to Michio Kaku's conviction that quantum randomness is a real property of reality and that those who attempt to invoke Einstein's distaste for it (God playing dice with the universe) need to face the fact that Einstein was wrong. "Get over it" was his response to them. Here's the video (click the link, then watch the video in the right side-bar of the home page) I was referring to in that citation.
And here's what other scientists have had to say about the topic . . .
Quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy ~Murray Gell-Mann
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. ~David Bohm
Writing about Alain Aspect's 1982 experiment to test Bell's Inequality, Paul Davis had this to say:
"The results left no doubt: Einstein was wrong. Quantum uncertainty can not be avoided. It is an integral feature of the quantum world and can not be reduced to something else. Naive representation of the reality of particles with well-defined properties in the absence of observations on them have failed the test. Aspects had hammered the last nail in the coffin of physics based on common sense."


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With liftoff scheduled in just a few weeks, ESA's CryoSat-2 ground teams are in intensive training for the launch and early orbit phase - the critical first steps in the mission's life.
CryoSat-2 is scheduled for liftoff on 25 February from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan on a Dnepr - a converted SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.
For CryoSat-2, the ground segment - the hardware, software, telecommunications and other resources that operate the satellite and process data received from the instruments - comprises two parts. The Flight Operations Segment is at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, and the Payload Data Ground Segment is based at ESRIN, ESA's Centre for Earth Observation, Frascati, Italy.
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If anything can go wrong, it's most likely to happen during LEOP.
"We began simulation training in August, and through December and January we are conducting five simulations per month – usually two per week – to practise all elements of LEOP as well as the first few days of the mission. It's an intense time for everyone," says Spacecraft Operations Manager (SOM) Nic Mardle.
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In a typical simulation training day at ESOC, the entire CryoSat-2 operations team are put through their paces during a particular period of the mission. Flight controllers sitting on console see 'real' data and results from the satellite, which are generated by a sophisticated CryoSat-2 satellite simulator. This simulator provides realistic feedback to their commands, which must be correct. Once the teams are familiar with all planned operations, the simulation managers inject unexpected faults, errors and system failures, forcing the teams to react as they would have to if, say, a ground station went offline, or a power system on board failed.
"We've even simulated what happens if a team member - or even the SOM - were to be suddenly taken to hospital, which really forces everyone to know each other's jobs and roles," says Mardle.
In addition to the intense LEOP period, several simulation days will be devoted to practising manoeuvres and the commissioning phase, which will run for up to six months after launch. Commissioning will include confirming the operation of all flight control systems and turning on and checking out CryoSat-2's sophisticated payload: SIRAL (Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radar Altimeter) and DORIS (the Doppler Orbit and Radio Positioning Integration by Satellite receiver).
CryoSat-2: new and improved
Mardle, who served as SOM for the first CryoSat mission, which ended when the satellite was lost owing to launcher failure in October 2005, says that CryoSat-2 is no mere replay of a satellite and its ground segment. For flight operations, the new CryoSat-2 represents an almost totally updated set of systems and procedures. The satellite itself is a much improved version, since technology obsolescence, software updates and lessons learnt precluded simply rebuilding the old spacecraft.
"Practically every element of the ground segment at ESOC has changed in one way or another. Whether it is to ensure that the mission can be supported throughout its lifetime or to cope with technology improvements on the satellite, we have had to revalidate every system - and we are doing so with an almost entirely new team. The lessons we learnt from the first CryoSat and implemented on CryoSat-2 have made a significant difference to the ease of operations," she says.
Preparations continue right up to launch
Starting early this month, the Cryosat-2 teams will be back for more simulation training throughout January and February, covering all aspects of the mission and including a full dress rehearsal on 22 February, just three days before launch.
During this rehearsal, the teams will interact with the actual CryoSat-2 satellite mounted on the Dnepr launcher and connected via umbilical cables to the ground segment at ESOC. Engineers will be able to receive real status data from it until just shortly before liftoff.
The last few pre-flight days will also see the ESOC and ESRIN teams working with ESTEC and the industry teams, located both at the launch site and at ESOC, to prepare the satellite in Baikonur for final countdown.
Flight Operations Director Pier Paolo Emanuelli highlights the sense of responsibility felt by everyone working on the mission.
"The Flight Control Team, the Ground Operations Team, Flight Dynamics, personnel working with the ground stations used for LEOP, the teams at ESRIN and ESTEC and the industrial support team are all working extremely hard to ensure readiness for launch. Everyone knows how vital CryoSat-2's polar ice data will be for a better understanding of climate change."


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