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Kellyanne Conway Tried Defining "Alternative Facts" & It Didn't Work
"There you go, using those words," Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday during an interview with Brian Stelter, a journalist whose job is literally to use words to explain the media to viewers at home on Reliable Sources. The pollster turned presidential adviser was complaining about the news channel's coverage of the White House; Conway disagreed with Stelter's characterization of the Republican health care bill implosion as a "stunning failure." Thus, Conway revived the "alternative fact" saga, by explaining what the term actually means. As it turns out — unsurprisingly — it has everything to do with placing blame on the media.
After a long interview volleying back and forth questions and answers regarding the media's fairness to the White House — about 25 minutes — Stelter changed the topic to "alternative facts." But it didn't even take one minute for the interviewee to try and steal back the power dynamic.
Conway asked Stelter repeatedly, "Do you know what alternative facts are? Do you know what they are?" She went on to answer her own question:
Alternative facts are "partly sunny, partly cloudy." Alternative facts are when all of you in the media say, "We have the highest-rated show," and another show that's a competitor says, "No, we have the highest-rated show."
Conway continued to explain that one show, in her example, would base that claim off of its total viewers while the other would base it off a specific demographic.
"Alternative facts," Conway declared. "Alternative fact: glass half full, glass half empty" — in other words, it's the media's spin that creates alternative facts in Conway's world. "Everybody knew what I meant ... They just wanted to look at it through the most negative lens possible."
Of course, her attempts to blame the media don't make sense. When Conway first used "alternative facts," it was in reference to the White House's numbers of the inaugural crowd that didn't jibe with every other count. Conway also reargued that whole situation in Sunday's interview, defending the crowd size of the inauguration once again.
You now, in 2016, 2017, have people looking at the inauguration up close and in person. You have people watching on their screens, which they couldn't do 10 years earlier. You have people certainly watching on TV, listening to it on the radio, multimedia way of doing that.
Then Conway went on to try and deflect away from the topic, by saying that "alternative facts" don't matter when you compare them to other issues of the day.
What matters is if the president is able to move the needle economically and through national security. And indeed, since Jan. 22, he has. And that's not an alternative fact, that's a fact.
Conway, just to attack CNN and the media one last time, sarcastically thanked Stelter for bringing up the topic.
Thank you for raising, I knew you meant it to be snarky, but I'm at least glad to have the platform to explain it.
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"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by
deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
John Von Neumann
The GIF below shows the evolving outputs of Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNGs) produced by the Genetic Program I implemented in C.
See the Wiki pages on Genetic Algorithms & Programming, Entropy and Koza's paper [1] for supporting information to this post.
Each PRNG in the population outputs 16384 "random" bits / 2048 bytes. Fitness (or "randomness") of a PRNG is measured using the Shannon Entropy equation for binary sub sequences of size $h$ from $1 \to N_{max} = 8$, across the 2Kb output. For each sub sequence of size $h$;
$E_{h} = - \sum_{j} P_{(hj)}\ \log_2\ P_{(hj)}$
therefore the total entropy of a PRNG output for binary sub sequences of size $h$ from $1 \to N_{max} = 8$;
$E_{total} = \sum_{h = 1}^{N_{max}} \left[ - \sum_{j} P_{(hj)}\ \log_2\ P_{(hj)} \right]$Therefore in order to achieve maximum entropy for $E_h$, all probabilities for all $2^h$ binary sub sequences of length $h$ must be equal to $\frac{1}{2^h}$.
The maximum achievable entropy for sub seqences of sizes $1 \to 8$ can be calculated as;
$E_{max} = \sum_{i = 1}^{8} i = \frac{8 \cdot (8 + 1)}{2} = 36$
For this run the population is evolved over 39 Generations. The entropy is evolved rapidly to begin with and then fluctuates around 97~99%* until on the 39th generation it reaches the terminating entropy of 99.93% (or 35.97386 bits of entropy out of a maximum 36 bits). Each frame in the GIF shows the output of the fittest PRNG in the population at that generation.
May the lord have mercy on my soul!
[1] John R. Koza, Evolving a Computer Program to Generate Random Numbers Using the Genetic Programming Paradigm. Stanford University, 1991.

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THREE TIMES IN the last two weeks I have had friends ask me about visiting Japan.
I've been going there for 30 years, for business and pleasure, and I love the place. But now I'm worried too many people are going there, and it will be spoilt.
The numbers are astonishing. I looked up the statistics from tourism Japan and I was amazed. Just a decade ago, in 2008, only eight million people visited Japan. After the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 the numbers dropped to six million.
Then came the boom. Last year more than 30 million overseas visitors entered Japan, most of them from China or Korea. Numbers from the West are also increasing quickly.
The overall number of visitors has quadrupled in just a few years. Japan is the fastest growing tourist destination on earth. That's great for the local economy, but bad news if you like to go places where there aren't too many other tourists (and don't kid yourself that you're a traveler, not a tourist – we are all tourists).
I have been to Japan more than a dozen times, and I really do think is the best destination on earth. I've been telling people for years they should go there, but it seems too many of them have taken my advice.
I'm glad in a way that people are starting to realize what a great place it is, but I'm worried that it will get overrun, like Venice or Barcelona or Amsterdam.
But do not fear! I have some advice that will help you enjoy Japan while you still can.
When should I go?
The tourism statistics I looked at show that numbers are pretty constant all year round. This surprised me, because winter is very cold and summer is very hot and humid. I suppose the winter numbers are boosted by the popularity of skiing in the northern island of Hokkaido (there are also very good resorts not far from Tokyo), and summer is when most Americans and Europeans take their vacations.
The best weather in Japan is in the spring and fall. Spring is great, because you can see the famous cherry blossoms, but you need to avoid Golden Week in late April and early May, when most Japanese take their vacations. There are many public holidays during this ten day period and it is like Christmas and Easter and Thanksgiving all rolled into one.Don't go there then.
Autumn is the best time to visit Japan – September and October. It's too late for mainstream northern hemisphere travelers, the weather is just right, and you might even catch the end of the baseball season.
What about Tokyo?
Tokyo is a must. You have to be there anyway because most international flights arrive and leave from Narita airport. Fortunately, it is such a big city that even a million tourists wouldn't make an appreciable difference.
I won't try to fill you in on all the delights of Tokyo. It is one of the world's most exciting cities. Its fabulous metro system will get you anywhere in town in 30 minutes with a maximum of one change of trains (avoid it at peak hour).
Tokyo is so big it has four or five different downtowns. Central Tokyo is for finance and government. Shinjuku is the retail hub. Roppongi is the nightclub district. Akihabara is where the electronics are. You can never tire of Tokyo.
Should I go to Kyoto?
All the guidebooks say that Kyoto is a must, that it is the soul of Japan, blah blah blah. I say give it a miss, or don't spend much time there. The city itself is ordinary, and it is one place that definitely has too many tourists. People go there for the temples, which are fabulous if you like that sort of thing, but there are equally good temples elsewhere in Japan.
If you feel you must go to Kyoto – and a first-time visitor probably should – don't stay there. Stay in nearby Osaka. Japan's second biggest city is almost as exciting as Tokyo and hardly has any tourists. It has great food and nightlife, and it's only half an hour on the train from Kyoto. It's cheaper, too.
If you like temples I advise going to Nikko, which you can do on a short visit from Tokyo. It has very good temples, and they are closer together than they are in Kyoto. But avoid it on the weekend, when it is overrun by Japanese day trippers.
Is Hiroshima worth visiting?
Even if you only have a week in Japan you should go to Hiroshima. The Atom Dome and the Atom Museum are very sobering. The museum starts off low-key and just gets more and more horrific. It has just been renovated.
The other must see in Hiroshima is Miyajima, which means 'magic island'. It is home to the Itsukushima Shrine, one of the most famous and recognizable sights in Japan – it's that red Buddhist gate thing that sticks up out of the sea. And there's tame deer everywhere. Again, avoid Miyajima on the weekend.
You can also take the cable car ('ropeway') to the top of the mountain for one of the world's most spectacular views. It's a 30 minute ferry ride from the wharf near the Atom Museum.
How's the skiing?
I don't ski. Ask somebody else.
Where else should I go?
Just about everywhere in Japan is worth a visit. The cities are vibrant, the countryside is beautiful, the food is fantastic, and the people are incredibly friendly and polite. It is the cleanest and safest country on earth, and the most efficient. Everything works.
My two favorite places for a short visit are Kanazawa on the west coast and Takayama in the mountains. You can visit them both on one train loop in a couple of days.
Kanazawa has the best garden in Japan, Kenrokuen. Its 25 acres of subtle beauty will make you fully appreciate the meaning of serenity.
Takayama is a small city with one of the best preserved old towns in Japan. It has become a bit touristy, but it's still a wonderful place. And it is the saké capital of Japan.
Mount Fuji is good, and can be done on a day trip from Tokyo. But it's the luck of the draw whether you actually see the mountain, because of mist and fog. As always, avoid weekends.
Isn't it expensive?
No. Japan used to have that reputation, but if it was ever true it isn't now. It is cheaper than Western Europe. Just don't go to expensive restaurants. Eat in the tiny bars that abound in Japan, and which are one of the best things about the place. All the big railway stations have plenty of cheap eateries. And don't leave home without your Japan Rail Pass.
What else do I need to know?
Nothing. Except do not get a cab from Narita airport to Tokyo – it is much too expensive. There are good buses and trains.
Everything else is just details. The main thing is to go now, before too many other people do. It's still not too late.
Enjoy your trip!


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Magnificent Byzantine Temples- The paleochristianic church of Aghios Vasilios - a huge temple with three naves and capitals of basilica rhythm is built at the first half of the 6th century - is bigger than the contemporary cathedral of Kalymnos. Other churches are: Three naves basilica of the Assumption of the virgin Mary dated back to the second half of the 5th century - beginning of the 6th century, the basilica of Panaghia, of Hellenistic type at the beginning of the 6th century, where the cemetary of the sank city was in the Byzantine years, as well as the contemporary cemetary, the ruins of Aghia Triada, a paleochristianic basilica of the 6th century and final1y at the northern part of Te1endos, the Aghios Konstantinos Monastery with the ruins of its castle.
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Professor Werner G Jeanrond has been appointed Master of St Benet's Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford run by Ampleforth Abbey. He will succeed Father Felix Stephens in September.
Professor Jeanrond is currently Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow and becomes the first layman ever to run the Hall. In 2008 he became the first lay person to hold the Chair of Divinity, the senior chair of University of Glasgow; prior to that he was a professor of systematic theology at Sweden's University of Lund, the first Catholic in Sweden to hold such a post.
The Abbot of Ampleforth, the Right Reverend Cuthbert Madden OSB, said: 'I would like to express my gratitude first of all to Father Felix Stephens, under whose leadership the Hall has made substantial progress in a number of areas. We hope that Professor Jeanrond will be able to build on those foundations to continue the Benedictine educational apostolate in the University of Oxford, so that St Benet's Hall may become a beacon of excellence in forming both monks from all over the world and an educated Catholic and Christian laity'.
Professor Jeanrond said of his appointment: 'I look forward to working together with students and staff for the continuing development of St Benet's as a centre of intellectual excellence and personal formation within the University of Oxford. It will be an honour to serve students as well as university, church and society in this way.'
Professor Werner G Jeanrond was born in Saarbrücken, Saarland, now Germany, and studied theology, German language and literature, and educational science at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Regensburg and Chicago. He has held academic posts at the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of Glasgow.
Professor Jeanrond has received a number of academic awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship for his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, and research fellowships at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and the Center for Subjectivity Research at University of Copenhagen. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Uppsala, Chicago, Regensburg, and Riga. From 2007 to 2009 he served as external examiner at the University of Oxford for the degrees in Theology and in Philosophy and Theology.


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Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has been hailed and criticized a lot on the field of play but off the field regarding Black Stars issues he is like a saviour.
Gyan is currently the richest Black Stars player and as the captain of the four-time African champions he has always been there when the team need his services.
On two occasions, the former Al Ain and Sunderland goal machine rescued the Black Stars while the team was on duty outside Ghana.
Ghanacrusader.com looks at the two great moments, Gyan financially saved the Black Stars.
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Black Stars arranged two friendly games which was against Mexico and USA. The Black Stars played Mexico on June 28th in Houston, and after the game they had to leave Houston to Connecticut for USA friendly on July 1st but due to poor arrangement the players went in batches.
However, two players were left behind and Gyan stepped in by saving the situation which he used his credit card to pay for the airfare of the said two players.
2. Congo vs. Ghana (World Cup Qualifier)
Ghana played a World Cup qualifier against Congo last Tuesday in Brazzaville which the West African giants won 5-1.
After the game, the foreign players needed to fly back to Ghana so that they can join their respective clubs on time – failure to do so their contracts will be terminated.
The government of Ghana wasn't ready to charter a flight for the team the same day. Again Gyan stepped in by paying for the team's chartered flight and the team arrived late Tuesday.
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This case study highlights some pretty incredible results that were achieved when the @Mssg campaign was connected with an Action Network petition page. The Democratic Coalition Against Trump (DCAT) is a progressive organization that organizes across many issues and still is able to keep focus on what's important in these crazy timesIn this campaign, DCAT used Facebook Messenger to drive supporters to a petition page fighting the tax bill and demanding to see Trump's taxes.
The Democratic Coalition had previously connected with supporters over Facebook Messenger, collected supporter data and built a list of people subscribed to Facebook Messenger news alerts. The Senate's discussion of the Trump tax plan was the perfect news opportunity to activate their list.
The User Experience:
Users received a message on Facebook Messenger that explained the situation and asked them to reply with a reaction – emoji or text in response to the news. When the user responded, the conversation continued and they received another message that included a button to sign the petition.
When supporters clicked the button, the petition page opened inside Facebook Messenger and the supporter details were auto-filled into the Action Network petition page.* The user just needed to submit the petition.
The Results:
Results were astounding. Overall, 23% of the people that received the message, completed the petition. That's more that 20x better than what most organizations expect to see from email blasts.
Analytics from messaging campaigns work quite different from webforms. Each response or click tracks more data and offers insights into user behavior and disposition.
● 35% of the people that received the message responded. Almost all of these responses happened within 2 hours.
● Of the people that responded to the news alert, 72% opened the petition in Messenger.
● Of the people that opened the petition in Messenger, 91% completed the petition.
This activation demonstrates that Messenger is a great channel to engage users and also drive action. There's one more interesting aspect to the Messenger conversation. When users were asked to reply, they provide interesting qualitative information. They'll explain how they're angry, scared or shocked. This type of "opening up" offers some interesting future engagement opportunities.
We encourage you to connect with DCAT on Facebook Messenger to see how they are using the channel. Click here and send in a message, or open Facebook Messenger on your phone, search for TheDemocraticCoalition and message in.
@Mssg is the platform that powers Facebook Messenger campaigns. You can read another case study here or download the Playbook that shows how to use messaging as a marketing channel.
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It might be the world's most popular sport, but not everyone likes football. In fact, a lot of people hate it.
Fair enough. There's a lot to dislike about the modern game and the crass culture that surrounds it. But let's not throw the baby out with the bath water here.
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Prospect Courtyards Owners Association made a change from our previous property management company to All Point in hopes of reducing our association dues while increasing our service support. While it is often said, "you get what you pay for," it is the exact opposite with All Point. The Association Dues from All Point are by far the most competitive in the market today and the service that they have brought to our courtyard has increased ten-fold from our previous management company. The support services, personnel and management within All Point are reliable, professional and personal, making it a pleasure to do business with this company. The financial, legal and landscaping services that they guarantee upfront are absolutely adhered to and the ability of All Point to keep an entire community organized is second to none. I would highly recommend All Point to any community, association or property looking for a positive change with their management services.
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NAMErequest-key.conf - Instantiation handler configuration file
DESCRIPTIONThis file and its associated key-type specific variants are used by the /sbin/request-key program to determine which program it should run to instantiate a key. request-key looks first in /etc/request-key.d/ for a file of the key type name plus ".conf" that it can use. If that is not found, it will fall back to /etc/request-key.conf. request-key works scans through the chosen file one line at a time until it finds a match, which it will then use. If it doesn't find a match, it'll return an error and the kernel will automatically negate the key. Any blank line or line beginning with a hash mark '#' is considered to be a comment and ignored. All other lines are assumed to be command lines with a number of white space separated fields: <op> <type> <description> <callout-info> <prog> <arg1> <arg2> ... The first four fields are used to match the parameters passed to request-key by the kernel. op is the operation type; currently the only supported operation is "create". type, description and callout-info match the three parameters passed to keyctl request2 or the request_key() system call. Each of these may contain one or more asterisk '*' characters as wildcards anywhere within the string. Should a match be made, the program specified by <prog> will be exec'd. This must have a fully qualified path name. argv[0] will be set from the part of the program name that follows the last slash '/' character. If the program name is prefixed with a pipe bar character '|', then the program will be forked and exec'd attached to three pipes. The callout information will be piped to it on it's stdin and the intended payload data will be retrieved from its stdout. Anything sent to stderr will be posted in syslog. If the program exits 0, then /sbin/request-key will attempt to instantiate the key with the data read from stdout. If it fails in any other way, then request-key will attempt to execute the appropriate 'negate' operation command. The program arguments can be substituted with various macros. Only complete argument substitution is supported - macro substitutions can't be embedded. All macros begin with a percent character '%'. An argument beginning with two percent characters will have one of them discarded. The following macros are supported:
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EXAMPLEA basic file will be installed in the /etc. This will contain two debugging lines that can be used to test the installation:
create user debug:* negate /bin/keyctl negate %k 30 %S
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Proposal of Belgium on amendments to Article 8 of the Rome StatuteBelgium submitted to the 8th session of the ASP three proposals for amendments to Article 8 of the Rome Statute regarding the criminalization of certain weapons as war crimes. Of the three proposals it was decided that only the first of the proposals put forward by Belgium would be submitted to the Review Conference.
This first proposal extends the criminalization of the use of poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and all analogous liquids, materials or devices as well as the use of bullets that expand or flatten in the body to armed conflicts not of an international character. The use of the weapons listed in this draft amendment is already incriminated by article 8, paragraph 2, b), xvii) to xix) of the Statute in case of an international armed conflict.
The following will be submitted to the Review Conference:
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1. Add to article 8, paragraph 2, e), the following: xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons;
xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
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Carmen Aguilar, who was born in Spain, came to the U.S. when her then-boyfriend, Moises, was hired by an American company in Washington, D.C. Both of them had been trained in computer science and interviewed with the company, but only Moises, whom Carmen describes as one who "strikes people as being deep and intelligent," received the congratulatory gift basket. Moises moved to Washington, D.C., and Carmen flew back and forth to visit him. Months later she quit her job in Madrid and moved to D.C., where they got married. Subsequently, they moved to Denver, where they lived for a year, but for the past 13 years they have been living in Chicago.
In Denver, Carmen joined a gym. Yoga was offered between two other classes she liked, so she decided to try it. She recalls, "I was so terrible. I felt so many aches and pains that I didn't even know I had…. Also, I was used to doing pretty well at pretty much everything I tried. So it was a new experience to be the absolute worst. I was very weak. I never knew I was weak."
Nonetheless, she was instantly hooked, so Carmen took classes, workshops, and trainings with yoga masters Rod Stryker, Ana Forrest, Richard Freeman, Shiva Rea, Tias Little, and Paul Grilley, and traveled to places such as Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in western Massachusetts and the Ukraine to study with Andrey Lappa. Her interest in computer science waned and her interest in yoga grew. She'd had health issues (injuries from running, and she was dealing with anorexia and bulimia). "Yoga was starting to heal me on an emotional level," says Carmen. "It was more important than computer science. Yoga helped me to anchor myself."
The Lab, the studio Carmen and Moises opened in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood four years ago, was intended to be primarily a place for milonga, tango dance parties. It was Moises' idea. He suggested that if Carmen wanted to, she could teach one or two classes yoga each week in the space. "And then it evolved into something different," says Carmen. Yoga and tango were not compatible. Tango shoe heels were scratching the floor, and the lifestyles of tango dancers and yogis were not in synch. Tango dancers stay up late; Carmen gets up at 5:00 a.m. "Eventually we abandoned the tango idea," she says.
Initially, Carmen taught all the classes; now there are 16 teachers, including herself and Moises. Carmen never imagined that running a studio would be so much work, which she describes as like having a child. "You have to take care of it 24/7…scheduling, coordinating, preparation, relationships with students and teachers, teachers having emergencies—being sick or traveling."
Carmen says, "I thought if you open a yoga studio, it's all about yoga. But it's only 30 percent about yoga…. It's not good or bad. It's the way it is. If you just want to teach yoga, you should never own a business. Just stick to teaching classes."
Regardless, Carmen says, "It's an interesting learning experience." Her feeling is, "The class is sacred, and there is nothing more sacred than your practice." Carmen practices two and a half hours every day, except on vacation when she cuts back to two hours. Since it's difficult for her to do yoga first thing in the morning, she organizes her day around her practice, such as scheduling a 15-minute nap and not eating beforehand.
"The feeling after practice is addictive—the juice I get out of it," says Carmen, especially from challenging poses. "If I am putting my leg behind my head, it becomes so automatic and simple. I feel like I cannot get that much juice out of it any more. Everything is very peaceful. It's not as much fun as the harder things that I am good at." In addition to technique, she pays close attention to her breathing, the quality of her mental focus, and all the sensations she feels in her body.
As disciplined as she is, Carmen says, "It's very challenging. No matter what people tell you, it's difficult to step onto your mat even if you have all the time in the world, even if you have the luxury of not having to work." On Friday, her day off, she tries not to schedule any private yoga sessions. She practices, rests, does personal errands, and cooks.
Carmen's style of yoga, which she calls cYoga, is a combination of the best of what she has learned over the past 14 years from others as well as from her own body. She describes it as a dynamic and intense yoga style with a therapeutic approach. Class flows and poses are smartly linked in a non-traditional way (i.e., not using the conventional updog/downdog vinyasa over and over), and having a specific theme in mind with specific goals or "peak poses" to try out that day. "Students tend to progress faster and be more motivated to have a consistent asana practice," says Carmen.
Teacher training is the most rewarding experience for Carmen, watching her students grow from not knowing proper sequencing to not only having an acute awareness of their own bodies but also knowing how to help others or recognize their struggles. This year she is offering two trainings instead of just one, as she had in the past.
In addition to sequencing, hands-on adjustments are also a big part of The Lab's teacher training. Because of earlier food disorders, Carmen's body was deprived of minerals and vitamins, causing her joints to ache. At first she used props to help achieve poses. Moises, whom she calls the adjustment guru, also explored ways to help her ease her pain. "He would work on me, and I would work on him," she says. For the teacher trainings, Moises is the one who developed principles of adjustment "on a high level and a very deep level," says Carmen.
In fact, Moises is one of Carmen's most popular teachers. All her teachers, whom she has trained, teach the same style of sequencing, although their personalities shine through. Some are more mellow or nurturing; others are "aggressive or abrasive, like I am," says Carmen. "Moises is strict, but he disguises it in a way so you walk out of class feeling accomplished, that you did very well, and you kept on breathing the whole class. And some people like to be pushed: [if they want a] type A, in-your-face kind of person, they come to my class for that."
Carmen is grateful to everyone she has learned from, including her students, but says that her practice is what teaches her the most: to be humble, to breathe, to calm down, to know when to teach more aggressively or relaxedly, to be able to shift her moods. "Change your moods and be okay with it," says Carmen. "That's a hard lesson. Some days you can do things, and other days you can't. That's perfectly okay. I am reading the Bhagavad-Gita again, which says, 'Let go of the end result. You put your best effort, but you don't get attached to the fruits of that action.'"
What are Carmen's goals with yoga? "There is no end," she continues. "You can always breathe better, you can be calmer, you can move slower, transition more beautifully. Ultimately it would be a moving meditation, regardless of the level of the asana. You are meditating, you are unattached, and effortlessly flowing from one move to the next. It's the easiest way you can tell if someone has been practicing. A person may do poses perfectly, but they may have no concentration, no dristi (focus). Another person cannot do the pose as perfectly, but may be more beautiful to watch.
"Everything I gained in the last 14 years has been a product of work. I wasn't born that way. As a result, I tell my students that the poses I teach are absolutely possible. You can do a handstand. It is a matter of determination and practice, and it can happen."
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Birthplace: Zaragoza, Spain
Astrological sun sign: Cancer
Favorite/least favorite poses: I try not to like or, particularly, dislike any pose. Obviously some are easier. I am more of a forward bender. Anything with a leg behind the head or under the armpit comes easier than others. I'm working on a backbend, going into wheel pose, and trying to grab my ankles (tiriang mukhottanasana). I can do one hand and one ankle, and then I let go and try the other side. I'm nowhere near the finished product. It's very intense on the chest, shoulders, and thighs. It's refreshing and purifying. When you come out, you feel like you've cleansed your blood, just from putting in the effort.
Spare time activity: Dancing the tango is our #1 favorite activity when we are not teaching. We have the space in the studio, and we have our shoes there. We like to travel, read, watch movies, and cook.
Favorite thing to cook: Spanish tapas. Moises makes Japanese sushi and maki rolls. I like to make croquetas, little fried balls of batter filled with spinach, mushrooms, and spices. It's delicious, not healthy, but I don't get to make them very often so it's a treat.
Currently reading: The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran. Moises is working on an interpretation of the symbolism of the Bhagavad-Gita. (He also wrote an interpretation of the Yoga Sutras, published last summer, available at amazon.com.)
Favorite book: Mystery or adventure books. I love Garcia Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera is an all-time favorite. His books mix reality with dreams. I like books that make me think and make me wonder.
Favorite quote: "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."—Joseph Campbell
Words I live by: "Practice and everything will come" (paraphrased from a quote by Pattabhi Jois).
For more information about Carmen, The Lab, schedule of classes, and teacher training dates, visit labchicago.com.
Sharon Steffensen is the editor and publisher of Yoga Chicago magazine. She has been teaching yoga since 1975.


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This PSAV program prepares graduates for employment as licensed practical nurses. The program includes but is not limited to theoretical instruction and clinical experience in: medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and medication administration, geriatric and long term care nursing, and obstetrical and pediatric nursing.
Graduates are eligible to take the NCLEX-PN state board examination to become licensed practical nurses.
Clinical experiences are included as an integral part of this program.
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This program is approved by the Florida Board of Nursing.
Program Learning Outcomes
For detailed information, visit www.palmbeachstate.edu/learningoutcomes/Program-Learning-Outcomes.
General Admission Requirements to the College
- Complete an Application for Admission, located at
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- Submit an official high school or GED transcript and official college/university transcripts from each post-secondary institution attended. Refer to the Admission Procedures section of the college catalog for more information regarding transcripts.
Admission Requirements for Practical Nursing
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- Take the TABE exam if not exempt from TABE testing. To determine is you are exempt, please go to www.palmbeachstate.edu/academicservices/curriculum-and-programs
- Attend a mandatory Practical Nursing information session;
- Take the HESI (Health Education Systems Incorporated) Admission Assessment Exam. A cumulative score of 75 or higher is required;
- Submit a completed Practical Nursing program application, located on the program website, and pay the application fee by the deadline.
Completion Requirements
Successfully complete all of the courses and achieve the required test scores in the program. Achieve an 11th grade level or higher in math, reading and language on the TABE or qualify for TABE exemption.
Program Length
1,350 Clock Hours
Full-time program: approximately 12 months
The program is offered at the Lake Worth campus.
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|Required Courses
|Clock Hours: 1,350
|Group A
|Health Care Concepts
|Health Care Concepts Lab
|Group B
|Nurse Aide & Orderly (Articulated)
|Group C
|Concepts of Fundamentals of Nursing 1
|Concepts of Fundamentals of Nursing 2
|Concepts of Practical Nursing 1
|Concepts of Practical Nursing 2
|Transitions into Practical Nursing
|Total Program Clock Hours: 1,350
Employment Opportunities
The Licensed Practical Nurse is qualified for employment in hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation medical offices or clinics and as a private care provider.
Gainful Employment
For more information about graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the program, and other related information, see www.palmbeachstate.edu/areasofstudy/GainfulEmployment.
Career Path Notes
An LPN is eligible for 11 credits towards the A.S. degree in Nursing.
Career Center
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Occupational Outlook Handbook: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Christy Nockels: Into the Glorious Review
You may remember her as part of the CCM group Watermark from the early 2000s. Or, if you have listened to worship projects from Passion, you may have heard her Life Light Up album. Well, after a three-year wait, Christy Nockels is back with her sophomore project on Sixstep Records, titled Into the Glorious. Once again, Christy combines her beautiful vocals with her heartfelt worship, making for a fabulous project to play during your quiet time with God.
"Ever Lifting," the opening track, is definitely the most upbeat track off the record. With a slight country twist and beautiful harmonies, this fun track reminds the listener that nothing on earth is like a personal relationship with the God of the universe. The booming bass is an added bonus.
The other ten tracks off Into the Glorious are mostly acoustic and very worshipful, accentuating Christy Nockel's soft vocals. "For Your Splendor" borrows lyrics from Psalm 1, speaking of being planted by the rivers of water, while "Wonderful" has an Audrey Assad sentiment to it, mostly because of the sole piano mixed with Christy's angelic vocals. The title track doesn't hold off on drums, while the soft piano sound is at times really strong. We are reminded that God desires for us all to partake of His glorious and to live an extraordinary life. It's the perfect title track, as the lyrics of wanting more of God are very heartfelt.
I love those songs that speak to the soul, as Psalm 103 does. That's what "Be Loved" is, a soft and melodic track contemplating the deep love of God, and how all we have to do is receive it. "Waiting Here For You" a song about waiting on God, and "Sing Along" build nicely as they go along, the latter speaking of singing along with the song that God is singing over us – very creatively lyrically.
Next, Christy Nockels covers The Judd's classic "Love Can Build a Bridge," very nicely. "Your Love is Moving" followes aptly, as both are about the powerful love of God. The very soft "Healing Is In Your Hands" and "Already All I Need" close the album Into The Glorious, celebrating the everlasting goodness of God. Both are soft, mostly piano, but very beautiful.
Into the Glorious is what you get when you cross Christy Nockels' beautiful vocals with soft piano, strings, and light drums. Though most of the album was a little bit slow for my personal preference, I mostly enjoyed Christy's unique songwriting. I believe that Into the Glorious is an album that fans of Audrey Assad's will enjoy, for its softness, worshipfulness, and intricate beauty.
Rating: 3.5/5
Release date: April 3, 2012
Track listing:
1. Ever Lifting
2. For Your Splendor
3. Wonderful
4. Into the Glorious
5. Be Loved
6. Waiting Here For You
7. Sing Along
8. Love Can Build a Bridge
9. Your Love is Moving
10. Healing is In Your Hands
11. Already All I Need
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1) Paint all Neopets chocolate. It's just so obvious. I mean, pets and chocolate
are great separately, but when put together, my gosh have you got yourself a
combination! Your pets will look so delicious you'll have to resist slobbering
all over your keyboards and it will certainly liven your day!
2) Neomail a friend a totally random sentence! This is so fun on so many levels!
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cause your friend is just hilarious! Just to help get your mind juices flowing,
here's a sentence example: "My toe fell off this morning, so I glued it back
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3) Decide to talk in a certain way on the Neoboards all day! This can be done
in several different ways! Like a pirate (Arrr!), like a ninja (Heeeeya!), like
Adam (ASPARAGUS! GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!) You get the point.
4) Buy yourself some Cheery Tomatoes! They're about 1,000 NP to buy, but they're
SO darn cute, it will just liven your day, I promise! There are several other
"cute" items you could buy to brighten your day, but if you're a particularly
evil person, a "Bad Seed" is the way to go!
5) Get out 100 NP (1000 NP if you're feeling quite bored) and buy 100 1 NP
items! Once you've got as many as you can handle, donate every single one to
the Money Tree and run there quick to see your name and your hundreds of items!
I have no idea why, but this gives you the best feeling and rumour has it, donating
to the Money Tree can boost your Random Events! What have you got to lose? (Well,
besides a measly 100 NP.)
6) Try getting one of those nasty game Avatars you've been trying to get for
months! Today could be your lucky day, after all!
7) Get round some friends (no matter how old or young) and make over yourselves
like Sloth! Just some green face paint and a little creativity can get you a
long way and trust me, the end results are always funny!
8) End every sentence you type or speak with "Meep". You'll have all your friends
and family more confused than the Library Faerie doing her maths homework!
9) Buy each of your pets a gourmet food. They don't have to be expensive and
the sheer delight on your Neopet's face is definitely worth it!
10) Try drawing your pets! I personally, cannot draw (seriously, if I tried
drawing a house it would come out looking like a hand... it's that bad), but
even when I tried drawing my babies, the finished product wasn't that terrible!
And if you really do well, you can enter your piece into the Neopets Art Gallery.
You never know!
11) Set aside a good 20 minutes and try answering as many as the Neopets Polls
as you possibly can! Make your views count, woo!
12) Dive into the Rainbow Pool head first! Go on, I dare you! Your pets will
have a blast and being stained rainbow for the rest of the day is surely a mood
13) Hang outside Hubert's Hotdogs and natter with your pets. Just be careful
not to get too loud; Hubert can get pretty raucous at times, but the hot dogs
are worth it!
14) Steal lots of free omelette when the Tyrannian Lupe isn't guarding it.
Fun and yummy!
15) Buy an army of a certain cheap item (or an expensive item if you're loaded!).
Just buy hundreds of the item and call it your army; no one will ever mess with
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your lookup, shop layout, gallery layout, pet lookups, the lot! Choose lots
of new bright coloured ones and make everything cheery!
17) Join a guild! Or if you're already in one, get more active! Guilds can
be absolutely wonderful if you put in your time; they help you with problems
and are always there to chat to when you're bored. Plus, you make loads of new
18) Try and make up your own Neopets tongue twister and then get all your friends
to try and say it 3 times quickly! Here's an example I thought of: "Many mischievous
magic mirgles might make you moan!" That one isn't very good; I'm sure you could
all do better!
19) Try and get something at the Money Tree! It takes some patience to do,
but if you do get something it could make you some Neopoints and you get a great
feeling in your tummy when you get something, especially if you've been trying
all day!
20) Finally, try and write your very own Article for the Neopian Times! All
you need is an idea and a dictionary and boom, you got yourself an article!
Not only is it fun to do, if you get published you get a glorious trophy for
your user lookup and who doesn't want one of those? It certainly made my day
writing this article and I hope it brightened your day reading it!
There you have it folks! 20 days to enjoy Neopets even more! Hopefully you
guys can do as many of these things as possible; I'm pretty sure your pets would
have a great day (probably laughing at you!) if you did!
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Summer 1978 in THE GOREY DETAIL (Ireland) Francis Stuart writes, All the best fiction lately, and this will be evident in the future, is a criticism and extension of the novel form. No good piece of fiction can now be self-contained, it is open to the world outside at both ends.
AND: Knowledge, as Blake said is love. Knowledge that is not love, and that is almost all contemporary knowledge is illusion.
AND: The serious novel is negative to popular ideas, is alienated from the general assumptions of its society, gives an unequivocable 'No' to all general ideas and ideals. Only in the style in which this "No" is annunciated is there a positive glimmer.
One could quote the whole short article but why bother as we live In a culture that has grown only worse from this moment back when Stuart writes, The real enemy of art is not general indifference or widespread public ignorance. It is culture, what passes for culture among any of the so-called well-educated. For them art is an adjunct to their successful lives; it is positive and reassuring, confirming them in their intellectual assumptions. This kind of culture, that incidentally, prefers biographies and even travel books to fiction, is rampant in the literary supplements of the English Sunday papers.
Of course Stuart if he was still alive would add: this is still true and maybe even more dire now with the partial disappearance of literary supplements in the United States and the growing importance of the on-line substitutes such as The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post which are even worse in their sheer knowing ignorant stupidity. These supplements, these organs of power have made us aware of and popularized the fakery represented by: Paul Auster, Jonathan Franzen, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Martin Amis… each of which is an incitement to never admit that one writes or reads as too many consciously think of these as being what is good and drop sad inevitable necessary comparisons, the trying to explain… better give it up! As you will only be thought to pressing sour grapes as opposed to…
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For many, the most important part of a song is its lyrics. We draw inspiration from the flowing prose of rebellious rap music, or the longings of a love story weaved through rock beats, or the wistful wonders of a ballad. Almost all of our favorite lyrics probably come from real-life experiences that the artist had, which is why we can connect so strongly with them. However, have you ever wondered what it would be like if we used fiction as our lyrical inspiration? Luckily, this is exactly what people have started to do.
All over the Internet, fans of TV shows, movies, and books have begun using music as a medium for expressing their inner obsessions. The biggest example of this is the genre known as Wizard Rock. It consists of songs that were written about or influenced by (you guessed it!) the Harry Potter franchise. It was originated by Harry and the Potters, a self-produced "rock" band whose music has gone viral. Now, many rock bands have sprung up across the internet, including such headliners as The Eighth Horcrux and Muggle Relations.
Internet sensation Hank Green has even dabbled in rock writing. Many of these bands play at Harry Potter conventions like Leaky-Con in California. When these artists do choose to sell their music or hold ticketed concerts, it is usually for the benefit of an organization such as the Harry Potter Alliance, which is a fan-run nonprofit that works for equality, human rights, and literacy. Even if you aren't a Harry Potter fanatic like me, you must admit that rock music is innovative, fresh, and unlike anything else.
The popular British TV show Doctor Who, one of my favorites, also has an abundance of musical followers. The Chameleon Circuit is an indie band based in the UK started by You Tuber Alex Day. The animated music video for their song "An Awful Lot of Running" has over 2 million views on YouTube.
Even famous songwriters hide references to "geek culture" in their music. For example, Led Zepplin's "Ramble On" references the classic fantasy series Lord of the Rings on more than one occasion, using characters and places like Gollum and Mordor within his lyrics. Guns N' Roses wrote a song entitled "The Catcher in the Rye" after Salinger's novel of the same name. There has even been some conjecture that "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift was inspired by the anime series Death Note, though this was never fully confirmed. This growing phenomenon of music influenced by fiction is a sort of trans-medium collaboration between two artists, and that's cool.
The next time you hear a hit melody in your head but can't find any lyrics, don't be afraid to let your inner geek shine. Taking the themes or characters of fiction and using them to connect with more people is sort of the entire reason for creating works of fiction in the first place. So, let the world hear your Sherlock Holmes Sonata or your Star Wars Waltz or your Spiderman Salsa. You never know what your music could inspire someone to do.


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I purchased this Piping Hot Binding tool and book on my last trip to the States (I think), intending to use it to put piping on the edge of The Misery Quilt when the time comes. I finally used it last week on a smaller quilt for a bit of practice before just diving in on a show quilt.
The directions are very thorough and straightforward, though obviously the method adds a bit more time to the binding process since you have to make the piping and then apply it before putting the binding on. I used my Pfaff 2056 to make the piping and bind the quilt since it has the dual feed, and I figured it would be way easier to find a Pfaff foot to use to make the piping because I have a much better selection of Pfaff feet around.
I used a Pfaff appliqué foot and moved the needle to the right just enough to clear the cording to make the piping. The foot has a channel on the underside so that the piping slides under it nicely and it's easy to guide it through the machine. The Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool made it super easy to accurately trim the piping to an even width after sewing. I used a regular 0A foot on the Pfaff to sew the piping to the edge of the quilt; I tried an open toe appliqué foot, but found that the 0A foot held the piping steadier with less shifting around while sewing it down.
I think my only issue with the whole process would be the fact that after you apply the piping, you have to put the binding on "upside down" so to speak. Usually I lay the quilt edge on the machine, and ever so slightly stretch the binding fabric as I sew it on. It makes the bindings firm, and takes care of any slight ruffling at the edges of the quilt by drawing it in a bit so it's flat. (If I'm working on a show quilt, I do things a bit differently if the edges are ruffly, but on non-show quilts this is my quick and dirty cheater method of choice, and it usually works pretty well.)
When I turned the quilt over to bind it from the back to accommodate the piping, the binding strip was on the bottom, so I had to stretch the binding and then put the quilt over the top of it, and I don't think it worked as well. The edges of this little quilt are kinda stretchy and funny, so the next time I do this, I'll probably try to stretch the piping when I put it on the edges, before putting the binding on. If that doesn't work then I guess the quick and dirty cheater method will have to give way to something a bit more precise in the way of ruffle control.
Next time I'll also pay more attention when sewing at the corners; out of four corners, I got one that I would consider perfect, and good enough for a show quilt.
The other three were only so-so between the piping and the actual binding corner. I think the problem occurred when applying the binding, and that maybe a bit more attention to detail would fix it. The binding looks like the sewing line wasn't quite where it needed to be right at the corner there, so there's a bit of the thread that attached the piping showing that shouldn't be:
All in all, I'd label the Piping Hot Binding tool and technique a success. Here's the finished quilt, Vintage Cutwork Star:
And oh, by the way, this was one of the quilts on my Creativity List, so I can cross it off as DONE! Yay for finishing!


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"Doctor Who" Contest – Hanah Tikvah
Today we feature our latest entry for the Who North America Doctor Who Cosplay Contest from Hanah Tikvah of Cincinnati, Ohio presenting her Ace.
I had always loved Ace's personality and predisposition to blowing things up, so when I was an Ace of Pandoracon, it seemed like a great match!
The skirt and jacket were thrifted. I found patches everywhere I could and made my fingers raw trying to sew them all on over the course of a week. The last few patches were safety pinned on since my fingers were done. To get the Ace for the back of the jacket, I cut out the letters from glue-backed foam and stuck them to the back of the jacket.
Voting has been moved to start on September 11th, and end on September 16th, and the results of the Popular Vote and the Judge's Choice will be revealed on September 17th.


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David Cameron has lost the parliamentary vote seeking Britain joining a US-led strike on strife-torn Syria. Amid the looming military intervention against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the coalition was defeated by 285 to 272.
The prime minister asserted that the UK will "act accordingly" following the rejection of military strike.
When pressed whether Britain will approve military action through other ways, Cameron said: "I can give that assurance. I strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weapons, but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons."
He added: "It is very clear tonight that while the House has not passed a motion, it is clear to me that the British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action - I get that and the government will act accordingly."
However, it is widely believed that Cameron is disappointed by the unexpected rejection and the parliament defeat is seen as an acute embarrassment for the coalition.
Hailing the MPs' decision, Labour leader Ed Miliband said the rejection is a response to Cameron's "cavalier and reckless leadership".
Conservative MP Adam Holloway told Sky News: "To me what matters here is not so much the arithmetic of the vote but that it is much less likely now that we won't be intervening in a horrible civil war that is fast becoming a regional conflict. Outrage isn't a strategy."
A stunned US said it would "continue to consult" with the UK as it is "one of our closest allies".
The White House said in a statement: "President Obama's decision-making will be guided by what is in the best interests of the United States."
The statement added that the US president "believes that there are core interests at stake for the United States and that countries that violate international norms regarding chemical weapons need to be held accountable".
The US authorities have been saying with certainty that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons, which the US had considered to be a "red line".
Fraser Nelson, the editor of right-wing The Spectator and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, wrote: "David Cameron failed the test of trust, and paid the price. Parliament has rejected the PM's vision of this country's place in the world."
Labour blogger Sunny Hundal tweeted: "A sitting Prime Minister loses the support of his own party on a motion to go to war. There isn't a bigger humiliation, frankly.


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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Big Ben; Who has enough?
It's about having enough. And what is enough? Well, when Jupiter (expanding/beliefs/education)is traveling through the sign Taurus(money/comforts/art/banking)~{ and it is currently retrograde}~ everyone has a chance to review what is ENOUGH. And just how do we judge? By having food, by having shelter, by being able to 'buy' comforts? Actually it goes beyond that.
The wheel has to keep turning and it will. How does it turn? I go to school to learn how to make a product that you will buy or learn a skill that you will hire me to implement. The school employees people to teach, thus charges a fee, shares that fee with the teachers and whoever is needed to carry out the goal of education to others so that they can feed/shelter/and buy things they want and might need in this life. When it goes crazy out of balance, like the school taking 50 percent of the fee to pay the president, or the company heads needing ** MORE THAN ENOUGH** WAY MORE THAN ENOUGH- it all gets out of balance.
Its called GREED.
What is happening now in the world, is that the common day people who keep the machine going- have become rusted. They are screaming "BUSTED" (like the B52's song!!) because they are locked in to NOT HAVING ENOUGH. This is when change is forced. And it won't be without blood. Because everyone takes BIG BEN very very seriously when Jupiter is in Taurus. Especially Americans. We are all about the MONEY. And if you think its about "FREEDOMS" and EVERYONE BEING EQUAL......well, just check out your recent bank statement 'changes'.
The REVIEW is in full swing and it will be until CHRISTMAS DAY. Yep. The biggest commercial holiday in America, and the day that Jupiter turns direct- @ 2:09 pm PST. This year, Christmas might actually be about Christ's teachings! And he was no passive dude. Even he had a temper tantrum now and then to remind the GREEDY how ugly GREED is.
And while Jupiter is in Taurus everyone wants to be seen as beautiful. So that means there is hope. But first comes the revolution. So get your weapons: your voice, your pen, your ideas of how change should come about, and not just be a campaign slogan. Get involved. Scorpio energy is building and Scorpio does battle the smart way, behind the scenes and with correct timing to have the most effect. They withhold. You need me? (or my vote, my service, my advice, my trust,my resources, etc) well then, best be on the side of integrity or you are not getting it! That is what Scorpio says. And its written in stone. That is why the protesters on Wall Street aren't going anywhere-but deeper. Unmovable. Ever try to stop a wall of water coming at you? Listen up Washington: The umbrella of pretense will not work anymore.


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Oh no, Tori Spelling! The star of 90210 was born into incredible wealth due to her father's enormous success in television production, but she is now opening up about her financial mistakes in her new book, Spelling It Like It is.
Tori's father is one of the most accomplished figures in the history of television. He started producing shows in 1959, and has 219 producing credits to his name. His shows included Charlie's Angels, Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, The Love Boat, Dynasty, and many more, including 90210. The Spelling family owned the largest single-family home in all of Los Angeles, at over 56,000 square feet. They were so wealthy, the fictional family in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air claimed to live across the street from the Spellings.
OK! News: Find out TV superhero Ryan Seacrest's net worth!
Tori grew up incredibly rich, and had many guest-starring roles on her father's shows as a child. Her fame grew when she played the seminal character Donna Martin on 90210. Tori became estranged from her parents in her early 30s when she cheated on her husband and left him for current spouse Dean McDermott. When Aaron passed away in 2006, he left behind a $500 million estate.
How much of that $500 million did Tori receive? Oh, just $800,000, as did her brother Randy. Both she and Tori launched publicity campaigns to decry the other, with simultaneous memoirs and a reality show for Tori, So NoTORIous.
OK! News: It pays to be a Kardashian! See Kris Jenner's net worth.
Tori now explains that any money she had on her own from acting roles, book advances, and reality shows is totally gone. In her newest book, she confesses that she bought or rented four different homes in less than a year, losing a million dollars in the process.
"It's not my fault I'm an uptown girl stuck in a midtown life. I was raised in opulence," Tori says. "My standards are ridiculously high." She also says she has a terrible shopping habit, and her children's boutique is even hemorrhaging money. She and Dean have no savings aside from retirement, and she's already borrowed money from her mother Candy once. Yikes!
Watch: Tori Spelling celebrated her fortieth birthday with an adorable dance party with her kids.
With her reality show Tori & Dean recently canceled, Tori has almost no sources of income. She says she googled herself and saw that her net worth was listed as $15 million. "Fifteen million dollars! I didn't have one million." There you have it!
Are you shocked by Tori's poor spending habits? What would you handle growing up as an heiress? Do you feel bad for her? Tell us in the comments below or tweet us @OKMagazine.
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Mobileye N.V. Teams With Delphi Corporation and With Volvo Car Corporation to Deliver Vital Vision Processing Technology for the Next Generation Volvo S60
AMSTERDAM, May 7, 2009 -- Mobileye N.V., a global pioneer and leader in vision-based driver assistance systems and analytics for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, teams with Delphi Corporation and with Volvo Car Corporation to deliver vital vision processing technology for the next generation Volvo S60, planned for a mid-2010 debut. The safety enhancements on the new S60 sedan take active safety to the next level with features like Full Speed Range Adaptive Cruise Control and a Collision Warning and Mitigation system with full automatic braking power, that not only detects moving and stationary vehicles but pedestrians as well. The system warns the driver of an imminent collision and automatically brakes the vehicle if the driver is not able to do so.
Mobileye N.V. provides the EyeQ2 vision processor chip and the vision algorithms for Delphi's radar and vision system that is at the heart of the Volvo S60's new active safety system. Delphi provides the sophisticated camera module and radar sensor. Unlike most competitive systems that limit braking power to 50 percent, the new Volvo system uses input from the Delphi vision and radar sensors to allow full automatic braking power when it estimates a high risk for collision with a pedestrian or a vehicle.
"Volvo's uncompromising safety philosophy matches our own mission of keeping the driver focused, alert and responsive, regardless of concentration levels or distractions," said Amnon Shashua, Ph.D., Chairman of Mobileye N.V. and Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. "We're pleased to be part of Volvo's safety solutions and technology team."
The Volvo Car Corporation project is planned to be the first project which uses the EyeQ2 chip developed by Mobileye. The EyeQ2 system on chip enables the necessary processing power for the challenging task of pedestrian detection, in addition to vehicle detection, lane detection and data fusion. This system enhances the current Delphi - Mobileye system installed already on previous Volvo car models.
The radar and vision systems use unique data fusion algorithms that combine the inputs from radar and vision sensors to enhance functionality and increase road safety. Visual and audible warnings are provided to the driver if the Volvo active safety system estimates a high risk for a collision as the vehicle approaches a pedestrian, a moving vehicle, or one that is stationary. If the driver doesn't react to the warnings, the system will automatically apply the brakes, to avoid or considerably reduce the effect of the collision.
The ability to save lives via intelligent vision-based technology is one area that automotive manufacturers, fleet operators, consumers and government agencies agree on as a safety solution. The popularity of Mobileye's technologies is further evidenced by the growing number of OEMs, Manufacturers and Distributors that are integrating the life-saving systems into their vehicles.


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HALF MOON BAY (KCBS) _ Some of the hardest workers at this time of the year are UPS drivers, who put in long hours to deliver loads and loads of packages.
Company spokeswoman Rhoda Daclison said it's what they gear up for every year.
"This is like our Super Bowl," she said.
KCBS' Mark Seelig Reports:
Chris Pederson works in Half Moon Bay and is a ten-year veteran.
"People are excited to see us. We even have people driving up looking for their packages," Pederson said.
This year has been so busy that UPS hired about 1,300 seasonal workers in Northern California alone. Most of them team up with experienced drivers like Pederson.
And this year, Chris' younger brother Shane is pitching in.
"This is one of the best workouts. I've already lost seven pounds in less than two weeks," Shane said.
The day starts around 8 in the morning and once the trucks are loaded, the brothers hit the road.
"This is not an eight-hour day," Chris said. "It's more like an eleven and a half hour day."
Chris and Shane said they've met the famous and not so famous on their route and have delivered just about everything you can think of, even crickets and bumblebees.
For them, it was just one stop down and several dozen more to go.
(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
Cute story, but why is it news?
It's a story of a group of men sacrificing there Christmas so others can share with there Love one the brith of Jesus Christ ! Merry Christmas
The Ups guy
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Session Killed...!!
For my development databases running on unix-like systems, I created a stored procedure allowing developers to kill their own sessions. The stored procedure has an exception to catch the error ORA-00031(session marked for kill), so when it happens, it calls a shared lib that kills the process id in the OS.
Sorry for the messages and coments in portuguese, but I'm sure all you can understand the idea:
----> cut here and break your display<----
create or replace procedure p_killme(vsid in number, vserial# in number) as
vusername varchar2(100) := '';
vpid integer := 0;
session_marked_for_kill exception;
pragma exception_init(session_marked_for_kill,-31); begin
select s.username,p.spid
into vusername,vpid from v$session s,v$process p where s.sid=vsid and s.serial#=vserial# and s.paddr = p.addr; if vusername = user then begin execute immediate 'alter system kill session '''||vsid||','||vserial#||''''; -- mata a sessao exception when session_marked_for_kill then sys.p_killpid(vpid);usuario que nao o '||user||'.');
-- mata o processo referente a sessao
end; else raise_application_error(-20902,'Impossivel matar sessoes de outro
end if;
when no_data_found then raise_application_error(-20903,'Nao existe uma sessao com essascaracteristicas.');
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From: Chen, Sarah [mailto:Sarah_Chen_at_BUDCO.com] Sent: quinta-feira, 15 de setembro de 2005 11:54 To: 'Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us'; 'chiragdba_at_gmail.com'; 'Oracle-L Freelists'
Subject: RE: Session Killed...!!
I always check process id as well as sid and serial# while killing a session from Oracle.
I will always query v$session before and after, and if the status of v$session marked "killed", and then I will go ahead kill OS process to clean this session. It always works on Solaris.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:47 AM To: chiragdba_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: Session Killed...!!
If you kill the unix process associated with this session first, and then the session it will go away.
Killing sessions in Oracle has always been weird. Sometimes they go away and sometimes not, depending on OS. In Windows, use orakill to kill the session - this always seems to work in windows. And killing the unix session then the Oracle session seems to work just fine in AIX.
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
On Behalf Of Chirag DBA
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:36 AM To: askdba_at_freelists.org; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Session Killed...!!
Hi ,
I saw many users on my database connected for more than 6 days without any activity.
I killed 1 user and still the status in v$session is showing as killed.
but it it not getting removed from the v$session.
I am running 220.127.116.11 <http://22.214.171.124> on solaris.
any idea? We already hit the bug ora-07442.
regards - chirag
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Sep 15 2005 - 13:45:25 CDT
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