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Recently there have been a number of reality tv shows with an entrepreneurial or business aspect. The Prophet and Shark Tank that come to mind. And while it's not necessarily a major feature of either of these shows I definitely like certain business concepts and practices. This includes the Pareto Principle.
What the Pareto Principle tells us is that 80% of our rewards comes from 20% of our efforts. In other words there are things we can do which can have a huge impact in our businesses.The goal then becomes to not only figure out what the 20% is but how to make sure we put as much emphasis and attention on the 20% as possible.
And this got me to thinking as to whether the Pareto Principle could be applied to our health & fitness as well? Could we figure out which actions and efforts lead to positive results? And if so, could we then alter our focus to ensure we are doing only the things that give us the very best return on investment?
I believe so. And here's how I suggest we could go about doing so.
Journal Everything
In order to figure out what works best, and what doesn't, we need to be meticulous note takers. For example, if someone's goal was fat loss, we might track how much weight we lose using a variety of different training protocols. How much weight did you lose when you included running as part of your program? Or when you added in going for a run over the lunch? Did training for a power-lifting competition make much of a difference?
Keeping a journal well allow you to go back and see the periods where your weight dropped, maintained, or increased during different types of training.
Besides the training, you'll want to track your nutrition. What happened when you started taking a pro-biotic? Did creatine work for you? What happened over the Christmas vacation? Did you benefit from eating more protein? Drinking more water? Bringing lunch to work? Preparing meals for the week on the weekend?
Have a journal to refer back to will provide clues as to what worked better and what didn't work well, and maybe even stalled your progress.
What Could You Do More Of?
Once you have data on the changes you made and the impact this had you can now figure out what had the biggest impact. For example, let's say you started running 3 days per week over the lunch hour and found you dropped 7 pounds in a couple of weeks. Would it be possible to add in one other weekday at the lunch hour to see if there is more potential to be obtained?
And with your nutrition, if you brought your lunch to work on Mon & Tues, could you expand this to the entire week? Again this is assuming that this action led to a positive result.
Think of all the other areas of your life you could apply this to?
Could you have a hot shower before bed to relax and induce deeper sleep?
Could you do a brain dump to help relinquish the stressors of the day before bed?
Could you put all screens away before bed and opt for something enjoyable to read prior to sleep?
Could you take 1 min per day to take stock of everything you have to be grateful for rather than focussing on life's challenges?
The interesting thing is that none of these things will take any extra time out of your day. Nor will they cost you anything financially. And after a while you'll start to see which things have a positive impact, and you'll want to continue doing.
Going forward look to see the areas of your health & fitness where you can apply the Pareto Principle. It's not always about simply working harder. Sometimes we want to be a little smarter about the process and see if we can leverage the efforts we are making to increase the overall result.


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All Quiet on the Western Front
A new map of noise pollution shows where you can still hear the sound of silence.
With planes soaring overhead, trains rumbling below, and electricity and cars humming just about everywhere, silence—or the lack of the human din, at least—is hard to come by these days. And all that racket can harm wildlife (and people, too!) by inducing stress, altering behavior, and drowning out the natural communication networks of an ecosystem.
The Natural Sounds and Night Skies division of the National Park Service works to protect acoustical environments, but first it helps to know where the ruckus is worst. So the agency took 1.5 million hours of sound recordings from 600 sites to map noise levels across the country (check out its sound gallery for examples of natural and human-caused sounds). Unsurprisingly, cities—those starbursts of yellow—have the highest levels of background noise, upwards of 50 decibels. Looking for peace and quiet? Go West, young man, into the wild blue yonder of a national park, where it's usually less than 20 decibels—no louder than rustling leaves. If you need me, I'll be tiptoeing my way to Yellowstone.
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25 March 2015
Article by Alys Thomas, National Assembly Research Service
"Powers for a purpose"
On 24 February 2015 the UK Government published a Command Paper Powers for a Purpose: Towards a Lasting Devolution Settlement for Wales [PDF, 839KB, 60 pages]. Although, it is a UK Government paper it emerged following cross-party talks which took place in the wake of the Scottish Referendum. The Secretary of State held discussions with the four main political parties in Wales, focusing on the recommendations made by the Silk Commission in its second report ("Silk II Report" [PDF, 2.02MB, 226 pages]), published in March 2014.
When the Silk II Report recommended that Wales should move towards a reserved powers model it was widely welcomed in Wales, including across the political parties. On 14 October 2014 an all-party motion [PDF, 169 KB] was passed in the Assembly which sought "confirmation that the Reserved Powers model will be instituted for Wales".
Why Reserved Powers?
The Silk Commission stated that "the evidence we received was overwhelmingly in favour of a reserved powers model." The reasons given were that it provides certainty: "With a clear set of reservations, the limit of the devolution settlement should be more apparent and so allow the National Assembly to legislate with confidence". The model would provide greater clarity, simplicity and provide greater structural stability than the conferred powers model. It was also argued that it would provide consistency and coherence across the United Kingdom as reserved powers models already apply to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
However, some legal experts have sounded a note of caution. In October 2014 Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin told a Wales Governance Centre conference that whether a reserved powers model delivered in terms of some of the advantages Silk identified, depended on how the Bill was drafted.
Similar concerns were voiced by the First Minister In his statement in Plenary on the Command Paper on 3 March 2015:
There are indications that the UK Government may use this exercise to row back from Wales's current powers. The annex listing areas where reservations would be needed is of limited value, because it doesn't include any of the exceptions that will be required simply to maintain the current settlement. It does, however, highlight the risk that some Whitehall departments may take this as an opportunity to actually narrow the devolution settlement rather than take it forward. These annexes reinforce my view that we'll need to scrutinise the draft Wales Bill with the utmost caution, to ensure that our existing powers are protected, and, here, the devil will be in the detail.
Supreme Court rulings
Between the publication of the Silk II Report and the Command Paper the two outstanding Supreme Court rulings on Welsh Bills were published which provide an important context to the consideration of moving towards a reserved model. On the 9 July 2014 the Supreme Court handed down its judgement on the Agriculture Sector (Wales) Bill which was discussed in an earlier blogpost.
The ruling on the Recovery of Medical Costs for Asbestos Diseases (Wales) Bill was published on 9 February 2015. The Supreme Court ruled that the Bill was not in the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales and incompatible with the rights of compensators under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Lord Mance, who gave the leading judgement, said the bill was not sufficiently related to the organisation and funding of the NHS under the Government of Wales Act 2006, to come within the Assembly's competence.
This ruling was felt by some commentators to be a narrower interpretation of the Assembly's legislative competence than the Agriculture Bill ruling. Professor Adam Tomkins of Glasgow University considered it in the context of Supreme Court devolution case law from across the UK and concluded "Coherent, stable and workable" it is not: that much is for sure." He explained the differences between the existing settlements in Wales and Scotland:
The words "relates to" do not have the same effect in section 29 of the Scotland and section 108 of the Government of Wales Act. If an Act of the Scottish Parliament relates to a reserved matter listed in Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act it is outwith competence. On the other hand, an Act of the Welsh Assembly must relate to a devolved matter listed in Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act in order to be within competence. This is the difference between the "reserved powers" model used in Scotland and the "conferred powers" model used in Wales […] Thus, the effect of interpreting "relates to" as indicating "more than a loose or consequential connection" in Scotland is that the competence of the Scottish Parliament is treated generously: an ASP must have more than a loose connection with a reserved matter before it may be held on that ground to be outwith competence. However, the effect of interpreting "relates to" in this way in Wales is the opposite, and diminishes the legislative competence of the Assembly: an Act of the Assembly risks being held ultra vires unless the Assembly can show that it has more than a loose or consequential connection with a subject listed in Schedule 7.
What next?
The UK Government's Command Paper states that "a programme of work to prepare the model" is already underway. An illustrative list of the areas in which it believes that reservations would be needed is at Annex B of the paper, and examples of the reservations that it says would be included in the model are at Annex C. Annex D lists the issues that UK Government thinks would need to be considered in moving to a reserved powers model by posing a series of questions including "How does the interpretation of legal judgements have an impact on the boundary of the devolution settlement?". However, further clarity about Wales' journey towards "a lasting devolution settlement" lies the other side of the UK General Election.
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Trinity St David and People's Collection Wales – Assembling Welsh Cider
Posted by hthomas in Consuming Authenticities on April 25, 2015
People's Collection Wales field officer Gruffydd Jones has been out scanning material at http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/stfagans/ on behalf of Dr Emma-Jayne Abbots and Elaine Forde as part of the collaboration work for the Consuming Authenticities project. You can now view the live items on the PCW website at http://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/8326
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We want to hear your view! Collaborators' Workshop, 16 May 2015
Posted by Anna Charalambidou in Consuming Authenticities on April 13, 2015
This exciting, interactive whole-day event will give you the opportunity to share your views and experiences about authenticity and pulque / acarajé / flaounes / Welsh cider. It will also be an opportunity to visit the picturesque Aberstwyth and the internationally acclaimed National Library of Wales. When? Saturday, 16 May 2015 (10.00-16.00) Where? National Library […]
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Cooking Inauthentically: An Experiment with Flaounes
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on April 7, 2015
Before meeting Anna Charalambidou at the AHRC Care for the Future workshop where we developed the ideas for this research project, I had never heard of flaounes before. These are celebration Easter pies from Cyprus that Anna is investigating from the point of view of Greek Cypriot women who make them. I wanted to take […]
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"London Cider"- an inauthentic compound?
Posted by Elaine Forde in Consuming Authenticities on April 1, 2015
Whilst researching at the National Library of Wales I came across this book from 1842 (1819): "A practical treatise on breeding, rearing, and fattening all kinds of domestic poultry, pheasants, pigeons, and rabbits" by John Lawrence who was around from 1753 until 1839. At the back of the volume there was a quite in-depth section […]
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February is for the birds! Not in a Forgeddaboutit kind of way, but literally. Gardeners should be feeding birds in the winter to help them keep healthy so they can spend the next few months eating aphids and caterpillars from your garden. All we really want as gardeners is fewer aphids and caterpillars, right?
That plus it's the month of love. Valentine's day. These little love birds are just enough to take you through the whole month without leaving you with a pink heart hangover to deal with on Feb 15.
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Now that you have the file, why not make a calendar / memo board with it? Grab a pretty frame that fits an 8×10 inch picture and print off the file.
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Use a dry erase marker to write your To Do List for the month or just to share notes with the family. A bit nicer than Post It Notes in my opinion.
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Role of BSP and SP in the coming days in Lok SabhaLok Sabha session will be starting tomorrow which is supposed to be stormy in view of the happenings in the recent past. No confidence motion by Mamta Banerjee's party, if initiated, will change the scene on the opening day itself.
In the backdrop of this the role of SP and BSP is quite crucial. Both have committed opposing the FDI move of the Government but both are providing the outside support to it. It would be quite interesting as to how both the parties are able to balance their roles during discussions including no confidence motion, if and when put to vote.
Do you think both the parties will be able to finally choose between defending the government in the Parliament or quitting their support on crucial issues like FDI?


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Morokulien to Håvilsrud Hiking Trail
Stage 1 of Finnskogleden
Essential info
- Destination: Finnskogleden
- Season: June-October
- Difficulty: Medium
- Distance: 14.2 kilometers (point‑to‑point)
- Elevation Gain: 0 meters
- Duration: 5-7 hours
About Morokulien to Håvilsrud
This route is stage 1 of the full Finnskogleden hike. Stage 2 is from Håvilsrud to Mitandersfors.
Trail description
The Finnskogleden trail starts by the main road, just behind the peace monument. From there it heads northwest on the gravel road to the river Vexla. Cross the bridge over the river and continue along the dirt road to Breitjenn. Breitjenn is a nice place to take a rest or go for a swim. After Breitjenn, the dirt road turns into a trail. Follow the trail until you reach a place called Billia, where you cross into Sweden. Pass over a forested hill and finish in Håvilsrud.
Håvildsrud is a small village that extends across the border into Norway, where it is called Kjerret.
- Drinking water is available from lakes and creeks along the trail
- Stock up on food at Morokulien as there are no other stores until Røgden, at the end of stage 6.
Where to stay
You can spend the night in a "gapahuk" by the river Jösseälven. A gapahuk is a small building with 3 walls built for temporary residence during fishing or hiking trips out in the wilderness. Alternatively you can stay at Ronja Farm, located 1 kilometer north, along county road 361. Here, they offer a "bed and breakfast" and cabins. To book a room, call +47 902 52 309. There is also a campsite with a few cabins available nearby, called Håvildsrud Vildmark Camp. Call +46 703 520 699 for more information.
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Los Angeles Clippers' guard Kareem Rush underwent successful surgery on his right knee today to repair the torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) and partially torn lateral meniscus he suffered at New Orleans on November 17th. In addition, a microfracture procedure was also performed on the knee.
The surgery was performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache and was assisted by Clippers' team physician Dr. Steven Shimoyama. No timetable has been set for Rush's return.
In seven games played this season, Rush averaged 1.3 points in 8.3 minutes per game.


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After heavy rains in Waimea Valley, some locals built their own wave machine by connecting a flooded river into the ocean. What exactly do you think will happen when you give young eager Hawaii surfers a week of rain, a tractor, and a flooded river mouth? You will get a whole lot of fun!
From time to time, during Hawaii's rainy season on Oahu's north shore, the river that runs through Waimea Valley floods, he ocean will send a heavy flow of water into the river mouth. Shame on you river because when you give these local Hawaiian surfers any type of a surface where they can surf, then you will be in deep trouble. These die-hard surfers will find a way to surf, even if their life depended on it. All these hardcore surfers need to do is rent a tractor and dig a deep enough trench at the mouth of the river, then you will have your own man-made surfing waves in a matter of hours. Now we can see why Hawaii still remains to be the happiest place to live in the world.
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Braised Fish in Soy Sauce (Hong Shao Yu)
Braised fish in soy sauce is the basic craft of Chinese dish. The distinguishing characteristics are it looks red and glossy, rich in smell and thick in gravy. Both sides of the fish slice must be fried to become golden yellow, a thin crispy layer of skin should be left on the top before you take it out of the hot oil pot. This is the key step of forming the gloss, or you may have a dish that looks gloomy and gets torn to pieces during cooking process.
a). For step 1 :
- 4 ~ 5 slices grass carp (or other fish you prefer)
- 1 tablespoon cooking wine
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
b). For step 2 :
- 5 slices of ginger
- 1 green onion (scallion). Chop into few pieces.
- 3 tablespoons oil
c). For step 3 :
- 4 star anise
- A piece of cinnamon
- 4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 cups of water
d). For step 4 :
- 2 tablespoons cooking wine
- dash of mono sodium glutamate
- Marinate fish in wine and soy sauce for over 2 hours for best result.
- Heat oil to 80%. Add chopped green onion and ginger. Add fish and fry till golden. Take out fish.
- Add c) to pot, boil it. Then simmer till thick. Pick out star anise. Add a big spoonful of ketchup and boil up.
- Put fish back to gravy from step 3. Add wine. Simmer till it becomes thick.
Cooking time: 20 minutes
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Yield: 4 servings
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Calories: 277.5
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Telstra pushes 5G's latency advantage
Telstra, in conjunction with Ericsson and Intel, has used a demonstration of online gaming to push the low latency characteristics of 5G wireless as one of the key benefits of the technology.
Telstra, in conjunction with Ericsson and Intel, has used a demonstration of online gaming to push the low latency characteristics of 5G wireless as one of the key benefits of the technology.
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South Australia's government has revealed it will fund the creation of a digital games development hub in the state's capital.
Social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR – which announced it was closing down in July – has been acquired by Microsoft.
AltspaceVR, a leading social virtual reality platform, and the first to gain a significant user base, has announced it is going out of business.
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Victorian Opera seeks to revolutionize performance theatre by using movie-style 3D visual effects in its upcoming Melbourne production of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
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Macquarie Telecom on Thursday reported a net loss of $0.8 million for its full year ending June 30, largely due to increased operating expenses as new data centre facilities go live.
The adult industry will help drive adoption of virtual reality beyond gamers, according to the creator of one of the Internet's first free porn websites.
Businesses that "supply Bitcoin" must "charge GST when they supply bitcoin and may be subject to GST when receiving bitcoin in return for goods and services" according to guidance on treatment of the crypto-currency issued today by the Australian Taxation Office.
GameSpy is shutting down on May 31, and the Internet is furious. See, there's this list floating around of all the multiplayer PC games that will be rendered unplayable by the imminent demise of this matchmaking middleware. It's a doozy of a list--something like seventy games potentially affected.


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The Dean's Convocation Address 2005
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS '73
Dean Alfred Sommer
Photo credits: Andrew Foster
In his last Convocation speech as Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Alfred Sommer told the 568 graduates of the Class of 2005 that he always did "what seemed most important and most interesting at the time, never what might best position me for the next step in my career." Drawing on such varied sources as Sir Alexander Fleming, Louis Pasteur and Woody Allen, Sommer spoke May 25 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
At this point, I traditionally introduce a distinguished speaker. Not this year. As it is my last convocation as Dean, the staff decided you'd be stuck with me.
You and I are both graduating today, some of you after one year, some after five or six. I was on the extended plan: I am graduating after 15 years as Dean. You will soon be embarking on a new career. I will soon be losing my parking space.
I know some of what you have learned in order to earn today's degree: p-values, binomial distributions, the health effects of tobacco, factors that spread HIV, and molecular pathways.
Since we don't require a final exam or thesis from a Dean, you've no idea what I've learned. Let me share some of those things with you—I apologize for this one last lecture but at least it comes without numbing PowerPoint slides or additional tuition!
My observations are modest and practical, like those that Mark Twain shared with a friend soon after the Johns Hopkins University was founded: "A few months ago," he wrote his friend, "I was told that the Johns Hopkins University had given me a degree ... I told them I believed they were perfectly competent to run a college as far as the higher branches of education are concerned, but what they needed was a little help from a practical man. I said the public is sensitive to little things, and they wouldn't have full confidence in a new university that didn't know how to spell the name 'John.' "
One of the truly great virtues of this institution is its extraordinary vitality and collegiality, both of which spring from its famously and proudly diverse enterprise. You represent a wide spectrum of countries, societies and cultures, and have joined the School at different ages and stages of markedly different careers.
You are bound for the most varied futures of any alumni of the graduate institutions on Earth: from basic laboratory research to fieldwork; from leadership of international organizations and ministries of health to assisting marginalized populations living in desperate circumstances.
We hope a few of you will even become wealthy CEOs, as our fundraising depends upon it!
Some of you may be worrying less about your future mountaintops than about having a job this fall! I can assure you, from 15 years of observation, that you will find work! Your challenge is not so much your next job—but the long arc of your future career. You, like me, will be faced with many potential choices—if you are awake to them.
Now the practical advice, none of which is unique or even original:
- My first and most important rule is attributable to that great twentieth century philosopher, Woody Allen—"90 percent of success is showing up." Nothing will happen, or come to mind, if you are not around to observe or experience it. Of course not everything you observe or experience is worth a second thought, but I'd be surprised if you haven't already exchanged some nuggets of potentially brilliant opportunity—even if rare and far between—over beer and pretzels at Friday Happy Hour.
- The requisite corollary to "Woody Allen's Law" is Pasteur's admonition: "Chance favors the prepared mind." "Showing up" provides the chance encounter; the "prepared mind" turns "encounters" into valuable insights.
You all know the classic case study, Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin. He showed up daily to prepare and observe his bacterial cultures. Like the rest of his colleagues, he also observed, on a daily basis, that bacteria failed to grow around spots contaminated by fungi.
One day, instead of "cursing the darkness" of contaminated culture plates, his "prepared mind" asked the obvious, long-overlooked question: "Why don't those darn bacteria grow adjacent to fungi?" Mind you, hundreds of scientists had stared at this same question daily for years, but never recognized it!
- Yogi Berra famously exclaimed, "When there is a fork in the road, take it." He actually said this—I heard him on an old TV documentary.
I'm still not entirely certain what Yogi meant—but I've interpreted it as a recommendation to "follow your nose." At every point in my career I've chosen to do what seemed most important and most interesting at the time, never what might best position me for the next step in my career. In fact, I've never thought in terms of a career, only of a string of interesting challenges and opportunities. Might a different "fork" have been more rewarding? Perhaps. But one can never know. "Forks in the road" are not susceptible to randomized trials. But not taking a fork, whichever it is, leaves you stuck on the same old path.
At various times, people have been completely exasperated by my attitude and considered it dangerously lacking in self-discipline. They might have been right—but for the things I most care about, it seems to have worked.
The life of Ignas Semmelweis might give one pause. A brilliant, driven, nineteenth century Hungarian obstetrician, Semmelweis roamed the wards of Vienna's famed obstetrics hospital.
Its maternal mortality rate was, unfortunately, horrendous, the number of women dying from infection following childbirth exceeding that of many of today's developing countries.
"Chance favoring the prepared mind," he noted that women delivered by nurse midwives were far less likely to die than those delivered by physicians and physicians-in-training. You can imagine the reception this observation evoked from his obstetrical colleagues!
He further noted that the difference lay not in the level of obstetrical skill—but in the fact that nurses wore spotless starched uniforms and were fanatical about washing before assisting at delivery.
Physicians, in contrast, wore gore-covered smocks to the delivery room and rarely, if ever, washed, even when coming directly from the autopsy room.
For his insights and perseverance, Semmelweis was driven from his profession and position and died at the age of 47 in an asylum.
I am not suggesting you adopt Semmelweis's career path—but evidence-based insights are the jewels we have to offer.
Keeping them to ourselves, or even to scholarly publications, does not do the world much good, and is incompatible with your association with this institution. Those who have preceded you have spoken their discoveries to the world, and persisted in speaking them until the world took notice.
- E.V. McCollum, our first professor of Biochemistry, discovered vitamins and eventually convinced Americans to consume a more nutritious diet.
- A former Hopkins student, later Dean, D.A. Henderson, cajoled and bullied global leaders and national governments into eradicating smallpox.
- Alumnus, and later a faculty member, Alex Langmuir convinced the U.S. government to establish the heart of today's CDC, its Epidemic Intelligence Service, and so brought the SWAT-team approach to the control of potentially disastrous microbial outbreaks.
- Former student and beloved faculty member and mentor, Sue Baker, convinced a reluctant Congress that the way to prevent motorists from crashing into trees along our highways was not to warn drivers to avoid hitting trees—who in their right mind would purposely crash into a tree?—but to move the damn trees further away from the side of the road.
- Keerti Shah helped convince a dubious world that virtually all cervical cancer is a virally transmitted infection—which a vaccine can prevent. There are women here today who will be alive when no one will fear cervical cancer—or even bother with Pap smears.
- The School's "public health practicing" namesake, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, incurred the wrath of editorial writers and the vocal public by raising taxes on cigarettes—a pack now costs over $8.00 in New York City—and banned smoking in restaurants and bars. Despite dire predictions at the time, restaurant and bar attendance has risen—and tobacco use has declined dramatically.
- A decade and a half ago, the "dean" of international health, Carl Taylor, in his mid-70s at the time, called to tell me he was leaving for Iraq only three days before the onset of the first Gulf War, because, as he explained, "Someone must call attention to the plight and suffering of Iraq's children."
- And many of our faculty and students are making common cause against entirely avoidable health inequalities all too prevalent in our own nation, states, cities and neighborhoods and challenging political ideologies that seem to speak only for the wealthiest two percent.
It does not serve any of us when the President cuts the Medicaid safety net for the poor by $10 billion, as he has this year, in order to preserve a $70 billion tax cut for the wealthy.
Or when faculty, who have won highly competitive NIH research support, find themselves on right-wing Congressional blacklists for daring to test public health interventions that have proven effective in reducing the spread of AIDS.
Our country can, and has, done better. You have, and will, continue to help get us back on track.
Prominently displayed in my office is a silver-framed photograph of an ecstatic Helen Keller dancing with Martha Graham's dance troupe. Colleagues presented it to me when I first became Dean, 15 years ago. Think about that picture for a moment. Helen Keller, deaf and blind, fully engaged in dancing with Martha Graham. Inscribed on the frame are Helen Keller's words: "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all."
Each of you leaves the School to find your own life.
Over the course of that life, you will encounter many opportunities—if you are awake to them—where you too can have a "daring adventure" and, because of that, make a real difference in the world.


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Greenville, SC
Buy it this weekend (the 30th) please! I move out of my apartment complex the 13th or 14th of May and I need this to be gone by then
Hey all, some of you will recognize this car! I bought this a few months back to use the engine for another project and it's too uncommon of a car to scrap. Would be great to see it used for something fun. The car has pretty minimal rust given the New York license plates, and I know it was sitting in Georgia since at least 2009.
I'll start with the bad:
The back glass is destroyed. 3-4 holes in it and seems to be held together mainly by the tint.
Rear spoiler is destroyed ( I have a good condition spare spoiler in red to replace the trashed one on it)
Interior isn't in wonderful shape
3 flat tires, the 4th shouldn't be trusted but is currently holding air
The paint was red at one point and it shows
The fuel pump is likely dead
The good:
The wheels seem to be the originals and I have the 4 matching locking center caps that say Ford on them (No key for these)
Extra taillight (right rear is broken)
Owner's manual and "Rapido Performance" catalog (magazine) come with it.
I have an extra set of Borbets that come with it
Lots of spares for random interior parts
The mehh
The transmission is a Borg Warner T9
Asking $450 for GRMers. The title was signed away by the sellers in 2009. It sat with Wreck Racing at Georgia Tech since then. Please text me for pictures. I don't really have any decent ones offhand.


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Weppner Vetted
When right-wing fascistic talk radio intersects with real-life electoral politics, it usually shines a bright light on just how repugnant the ultra-right tea party is. It isn't always elections that do it – for instance, Rush Limbaugh's national sponsors began abandoning that drug-addled ship when he viciously attacked female activist Sandra Fluke.
Forget, of course, for a moment that insurers pay for Cialis and Viagra, but the predominately male, Caucasian, baby-boomer, "me-Generation" types who populate hate radio in America are outraged – OUTRAGED – that insurance might pay for contraceptives to prevent the natural outcome of Viagra usage.
And so it is that Kathy Weppner, a former host of an unlistenable train wreck of a hate radio show, is being asked to answer to a wider audience for a lot of the racist, nativist nonsense that she used to espouse and regurgitate to like-minded resent-porn enthusiasts, with impunity. When she announced, I wrote that Weppner:
… is not only going to be a tea partier, but is – quite literally – a low-information WBEN caller. "Kathy from Williamsville" is going to take her fact-free jingoism on the campaign trail. She is a walking, talking anti-Obama chain email, and anyone reporting on her should be sure to haveSnopes queued up on their mobile browsers. Seriously – there will be no point covering her campaign if you're not able immediately to vet her pronouncements and cross-examine her on the inevitable fabrications and fantasies she'll discuss. After all, she has a list of known communists, doesn't seem to be ready or willing to represent Muslim residents of the 26th (hint: it's the primitive blood lust), has declared "white guilt" to be "dead", warned against a hyperinflation that never came, and – like Ronald Reagan – opposes Medicare.
The Buffalo News' Jerry Zremski queued up Snopes and went through her on-air and online pronouncements. I won't examine the entirety of Zremski's thorough article here; it speaks for itself. But consider these points:
1. Weppner refused to be interviewed for the Buffalo News' article; instead, she would only answer emailed questions. If a candidate for federal elected office cannot muster the courage or mental fortitude to be interviewed by the singular local paper covering her district, she's fundamentally unqualified for public office of any kind.
2. She – or someone acting on her behalf – went through her "Straight Talk" website with a fine-toothed comb to remove any odd nonsense and otherwise to sanitize it for a wider audience. Her problem is that the internet doesn't forget, and the Waybackmachine holds all the embarrassing secrets she sought to expunge from her record. I've written a lot of profane nonsense over the last 10 years, but I haven't hidden a word of it. If you're going to take a political viewpoint – even a controversial one – you defend it. You don't run and hide from it when the rubber hits the road. She cannot defend her views. The expunged parts of her website are precisely what endeared her to the white omniphobes who support her for election. Now she's trying to poo-poo them all away – all of her treasured opinions about the un-American, Muslim foreignhood of Barack Obama, all of her ridiculous nonsense about Islam being a genocidal religion, all of her promotion of Stepin Fetchit minstrelsy bullshit. Also, socialism on the march!
3. Birtherism – she can run, but she can't hide. When it mattered, Weppner hosted lunatic birther Orly Taitz on her radio show and promoted her as a serious person. Now she says she acknowledges Obama's legitimacy, but back then, she took a brown-skinned man with a funny name and single mom and assumed he was part of some half-century-long conspiracy to place a foreign-born person as POTUS.
I believe, at that time, Mr. Obama's submission of a 'short-form' birth certificate was a topic of conversation nationally as there were many lawsuits attempting to see his long-form birth certificate. I found it interesting that there was such resistance to produce this when it should have been simple. Mr. Obama Is our President.
The demands for the long-form birth certificate were an unprecedented, racist troll. Do you always take the bait and feed the trolls?
4. Back to the minstrelsy – when asked about a blatantly racist opinion piece about "White Guilt",
Asked if she saw that language as racially insensitive, Weppner replied: "I find your question as insulting as the stereotypes printed in this Philadelphia Inquirer editorial titled 'White Guilt is Dead.' …I was surprised the Inquirer printed this. Did you pose the same question to their editors?"
Weppner deleted the "White Guilt" article from her site so recently that it still appears in Google's cache. (It was still online on March 4th). She did not add any commentary to it – she didn't question the appropriateness of the racism in that article, or query why the Inquirer printed it. She regurgitated it – verbatim – in its entirety. She endorsed it. Nice try.
Weppner that very special confluence of hatred, bigotry, ignorance, & stupidity. She is, simply put, the prototypical, perfect tea party candidate. To that point, she's still at it – uncritically regurgitating whatever conspiratorial nonsense she picks up from dubious sources:
"Should I assume the NEWS supports the Obama administration's new proposal to have the federal government investigate and monitor how newsroom editors decide topics and how topics affect policy?"
Asked about that purported policy, Debra Gersh Hernandez, spokesperson for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said: "I have no idea what she's talking about."
No one does. No one has any idea what Kathy Weppner is talking about. She is the tea party's excreta, and she's running for Congress.


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One of the "unflattering" pictures
In a stunning homage to the 17th century idiom about pots and kettles, the chubby men of Newcastle thought that they'd label Sol Campbell "fat belly" for a joke.
Only now, as is generally the way with sensitive Sol, it's been taken in absolutely the wrong way, and he left a seething message for these perceived naysayers via an interview with the popular webiste, Soccernet:
"It's pathetic."
"I had been training for three days – just three days! I am three weeks behind everyone else in pre-season."
"Don't they know I have just got married and been on honeymoon?"
Of course, far be it for The Spoiler to suggest that a honeymoon might involve fat burning exercises.
The defender went on:
"I accept that the picture wasn't flattering, and I do need to catch up on my level of fitness, but the training kit was not very flattering, and showed up all sorts of things."
Indeed. And with that in mind, here is a team made up of footballers who found a simple football kit equally unflattering. Feel free to name your own in the comments section.
Goalkeeper: Neville Southall
Defenders: Paul McGrath, Neil Ruddock, Sol Campbell
Midfield: Ronaldinho, Tomas Brolin, Jan Molby, Matt Le Tissier, Andy Reid
Forwards: Ronaldo, Micky Quinn
No do yours.
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1. European Debt Crisis Update
2. ECB Buys Bonds of Italy and Spain
3. Key German Vote on Rescue Package Just Ahead
4. Americans Ready to Clean House in Congress!
5. President Obama's "Jobs" Speech on Thursday
Editor's Note: Record Wildfires in Central Texas
You probably noticed that the Central Texas area where I live was ravaged by out-of-control wildfires over the Labor Day weekend, and several large fires continue to burn as this is written. Most of Texas has been in a record drought all year. We also set a new all-time record for days above 100 degrees this summer (over 80 days), and temps have been brutal at 105-112 in recent weeks. It felt like Phoenix in the summer!
Making matters worse, the hurricane that hit New Orleans last week created above normal winds in Central Texas. So conditions were perfect for wildfires, and fires broke out in several locations within an hour of Austin over the weekend. Because of the 30-40 mile per hour sustained winds, these fires were next to impossible to get under control.
My family and I live outside of Austin on beautiful Lake Travis. On Sunday afternoon, a large wildfire broke out just a few miles (five minutes) west of my home. The fire continued to burn all night Sunday and all day on Monday. At one point the fire had consumed over 12 square miles of land, and it's still not fully under control today.
Needless to say it was a stressful time for us. Fortunately, the weather forecast is calling for light winds and cooler weather for the week ahead, but still no rain on the horizon. Fires are still breaking out in Central Texas as this is written.
As a result, I had little time to focus on writing this E-Letter over the weekend as I usually do. Thus, I have reprinted a couple of interesting articles for you below to finish out this week's E-letter. Hopefully the wildfire threat will dissipate this week, and I can get back to my normal schedule.
European Debt Crisis Revisited
I have maintained ever since my July 19 E-Letter that the European debt crisis is the single most negative influence on the US equity markets, even more so than the continued disappointing economic reports here at home. As such, it is time to revisit the European debt crisis today. You may recall that in late July the European Union and the IMF announced a second rescue package for Greece, which was to receive the funds later this month.
As a reminder, these rescue packages must be approved and funded by all the EU members, which is quite difficult. Due to some onerous demands by some of the EU member countries, the second rescue package largely unraveled last week, and Greece may yet be faced with a default. This news weighed heavily on stock markets in Europe and the US late last week. The following analysis by Michael Schuman of TIME summarizes what has happened:
QUOTE: Only a bit more than a month ago, the leaders of the euro zone were happily congratulating themselves on overcoming their differences and cobbling together a second bailout of troubled Greece. The package, which includes 109 billion euros ($157 billion) in fresh loans from an EU/IMF bailout fund, was supposed to rebuild investor confidence in the monetary union and alleviate mounting pressure on debt-heavy Greece. But it has done neither. The euro zone debt crisis intensified after the deal, turning up the heat on giants Spain and Italy. And now, bitter infighting within the zone threatens to derail the entire Greek bailout package. If the deal can't be rescued, the failure would deliver a blow that would sink Europe deeper into financial turmoil.
What's the problem? The continued disputes over the second bailout of Greece highlight just how difficult it will be for the euro zone to resolve the debt crisis and solidify its monetary union. The very structure of the union allows too many parties with too many conflicting interests to have too great an impact on policies that impact the future and stability of the entire euro zone. Until the leaders of Europe find some more efficient method of making and implementing decisions, it is hard to envision the euro zone ever escaping from its life-threatening trials.
The case of Finland best shows us how flawed governance in the zone really is. The government in Helsinki, which leans against continued European bailouts, agreed to the second Greek rescue on the condition that it receive collateral for renewed financial support. Subsequently, the Finns and the Greeks worked out a special side deal in which Athens would deposit a chunk of cash in an escrow account for Finland to ensure Helsinki's support for the bailout. (If that arrangement – Greece putting up cash to get more cash – doesn't make any sense to you, that's because it doesn't.) But that bilateral deal quickly fell apart. Germany opposed it, while other euro zone nations, including Austria and the Netherlands, understandably demanded the same privilege as Finland. The Finns won't back down on their demand, and euro zone finance ministries are still haggling over what to do.
The Finland debacle exposes the fundamental flaws in the management of the monetary union. What it reveals is how the domestic politics of any one euro member, no matter how small, can have ripple effects through all of Europe and, in fact, threaten the survival of the euro itself. The Finns insistence on collateral could tank the entire rescue package. Under euro zone rules, the governments of all 17 members have to approve the details of the bailout before funds can be released. That means tiny Finland, which would be contributing a mere 2% of the guarantees for the rescue, could block the entire arrangement. How this gets resolved is a complete unknown. Can Finland be allowed to opt out of the bailout? Will other euro zone countries also insist on receiving collateral, defeating the purpose of the entire bailout?
What we do know, however, is that the consequences of a collapse of the Greek bailout deal would be severe. If the euro zone states can't agree on a rescue for Greece, how would they ever come to terms on a deal to bail out a bigger economy like Spain? A failure of the second Greek bailout would completely undercut what little investor confidence remains that the euro zone leadership can support other indebted members in a time of crisis, implement much-needed reform to the entire monetary union, or stand behind its pledge to protect the euro.
Domestic political issues are emerging elsewhere in Europe as well that can potentially undercut the zone's efforts to resolve the debt crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, is facing mounting opposition within parliament to a plan to expand the capabilities of the euro zone's $1 trillion rescue fund – a reform analysts believe is crucial to help Europe combat contagion. Fear of a political uprising at home have also squelched any hope that Merkel will support the formation of a eurobond jointly backed by the governments of the monetary union, a tool many see as an important method of stabilizing the debt crisis.
Meanwhile, the Greek bailout is being threatened in other ways. Part of the package is a bond swap, in which private holders of Greek government bonds would exchange them or roll them over for bonds with longer maturities, easing the pressure on Athens. The scheme was supposed to be "voluntary," but policymakers were counting on it getting done anyway. Well, as you can imagine, the "volunteers" aren't exactly lining up to join the program. There are concerns that several large German banks and agencies holding billions in Greek bonds have not yet declared if they will join the swap program. The Greek government, meanwhile, has warned it would scrap the entire scheme if fewer than 90% of the private investors sign up.
So what does all this mean? The squabbling over the second Greek bailout shows just how unlikely it is that Europe can solve its greater problems. The political structure of the euro zone is just not designed for either crisis management or achieving fundamental reform. More importantly, the political will, never strong enough to begin with, seems to be faltering even further. The members of the monetary union simply are not committed enough to that union to make it work. If the euro members can't agree on the Greek bailout, can they achieve the greater integration necessary to solve the zone's problems, which would require even bigger sacrifices? As the euro debt crisis rolls on, I become ever more doubtful that it can ever be resolved.END QUOTE
Gary D. Halbert, ProFutures, Inc. and Halbert Wealth Management, Inc. are not affiliated with nor do they endorse, sponsor or recommend the following product or service.
Greece's two-year Treasury notes spiked to a yield of 46.5% on Friday, a euro-era record. Clearly, Greece is headed off a cliff if the rescue package is not revived soon. Germany's Chancellor Andrea Merkel is pushing hard to put the package back together, even though she has no formal guarantee that her own parliament will approve the bailout.
ECB Buys Bonds of Italy and Spain
On August 8, the European Central Bank announced that it would begin large scale bond purchases from Italy and Spain. Previously, the ECB had only bought bonds from the periphery nations of Greece, Portugal and Ireland. These purchases are similar to the US Fed's quantitative easing programs.
There is a serious debate on whether or not the ECB has the legal authority to buy bonds of troubled European nations. Many believe it does not. Yet the debt crisis is so dire, the ECB has stepped in despite accusations that it has no such mandate.
One thing is sure: the ECB is buying tens of billions of bonds on a scale never seen before. Some speculate that the ECB is acting as the lender of last resort until such time as the EU increases funding for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) bailout fund from €440 billion to €1-1.5 trillion.
If the EFSF is expanded to this much larger level, it would presumably take over the bond buying in place of the ECB. Here too, the expansion of the EFSF must also be ratified by all of the EU members, including Germany, so it is far from a done deal. That puts the ECB in the uncomfortable position of not knowing just how many bonds it will have to absorb in the meantime.
In any event, the ECB is demanding that Italy and Spain undertake serious austerity measures to balance their budgets as soon as possible. Italy's parliament just approved austerity measures to balance its budget by 2013, and its Senate is expected to approve the measures later this week. All of this underscores the fact that the situation is very dire in Italy and Spain as well.
The ECB spent a record €22 billion (US$31.4 billion) in the week ended August 12 in its initial purchases of bonds issued by Italy and Spain. The ECB made additional purchases of 21 billion euros in the following two weeks, bringing its three-week total to the most since it set up the Securities Market Program in May 2010 to stabilize markets roiled by the debt crisis.
Key German Vote on Rescue Package Just Ahead
By now I assume most of my readers understand that Germany is the big, deep pocket in the Eurozone, and it holds the key to any meaningful rescue plan. The German people are by and large opposed to another bailout of the periphery nations, much less Italy and Spain. Yet as noted above, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is actively promoting such a second larger bailout, this time including Italy and Spain, despite the obvious risks to her political future.
The German parliament is scheduled to vote on the second bailout sometime in the last week of September, between September 23 and September 29. As of today, it is very unclear as to the result of that vote. Odds are about 50/50 as this is written. And this gets us to the bottom line on the European debt crisis:
If Germany votes NO on its participation in this second round of the rescue package, including Italy and Spain, expect the global equity markets to take another serious hit on the downside. This decision should come before the end of this month.
If Germany pulls out, I would expect another serious drop in US equity prices, as we will be back to fears of a further European debt crisis escalation to which there will be no good solutions.
Serious readers/investors need to keep a close eye on these developments as things are changing rapidly. I can't keep you posted on a daily basis, but things are unfolding on a daily basis, and the next few weeks will be critical.
On the other hand, if the German government agrees to underwrite this new rescue package, it may be resurrected and we may buy some time. How long we don't know. What we do know is that none of these options are long-term solutions.
Another debt crisis looms on the horizon at the same time the US economy may be falling into a double-dip recession. We gave Europe the sub-prime crisis. They may be are about to give us an even larger one. I hope I am wrong.
Americans Ready to Clean House in Congress!
Congressional approval ratings are at record lows today, even lower than President Obama's approval rating which is also at a record low. For as long as the congressional approval rating polls have been taken, a majority of Americans always said that their personal congressmen (or women) should not be voted out of office.
In other words, everyone else's Representatives in Congress should be voted out, but not their own. Well, guess what? A new CNN poll out last week found that for the first time ever, a majority of Americans now feel that even their own representatives should be voted out! Here's the story from CNN:
QUOTE: Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election.
And the CNN/ORC International Poll released Tuesday also indicates that while Republicans may have had the upper hand in the recent battle over raising the debt ceiling, they appear to have lost a lot of ground with the public and the party's unfavorable rating is now at an all-time high.
Only 41 percent of people questioned say the lawmaker in their district in the U.S. House of Representatives deserves to be re-elected - the first time ever in CNN polling that that figure has dropped below 50 percent. Forty-nine percent say their representative doesn't deserve to be re-elected in 2012. And with ten percent unsure, it's the first time that a majority has indicated that they would boot their representative out of office if they had the chance today.
"That 41 percent, in the polling world, is an amazing figure. Throughout the past two decades, in good times and bad, Americans have always liked their own member of Congress despite abysmal ratings for Congress in general," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Now anti-incumbent sentiment is so strong that most Americans are no longer willing to give their own representative the benefit of the doubt. If that holds up, it could be an early warning of an electorate that is angrier than any time in living memory."
As for all members of Congress, the poll indicates only a quarter of the public says most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected.
A lot of that anger seems directed toward the GOP. According to the survey, favorable views of the Republican party dropped eight points over the past month, to 33 percent. Fifty-nine percent say they have an unfavorable view of the Republican party, an all-time high dating back to 1992 when the question was first asked.
The poll indicates that views of the Democratic party, by contrast, have remained fairly steady, with 47 percent saying they have a favorable view of the Democrats and an equal amount saying they hold an unfavorable view.
"The Democratic party, which had a favorable rating just a couple of points higher than the GOP in July, now has a 14-point advantage over the Republican party," adds Holland.
The same pattern holds for the parties' leaders in Congress. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the top Democrat in the chamber, have never had great numbers, but the public's view of them have remained essentially unchanged in the wake of the debt ceiling debate. But House Speaker John Boehner's favorable rating has dropped 10 points, and his unfavorable rating is up to 40 percent, a new high for him. On the Senate side, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell isn't faring much better - his unfavorable rating is 39 percent, a seven-point increase since July.
The poll indicates that Americans' views of the tea party movement have also turned more negative, with 51 percent saying they have a negative view of the two-year-old limited government and anti-tax grassroots movement, with favorable ratings dropping from 37 percent down to 31 percent. Freshman House Republicans elected with major support from tea party activists were instrumental in keeping any tax increases out of the agreement to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
The CNN poll was conducted by ORC International on August 5-7, with 1,008 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey was conducted both before and after Friday night's downgrading of the country's credit rating by Standard and Poor's. The poll's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points. END QUOTE
President Obama's "Jobs" Speech on Thursday
For much of the last month, the Obama administration has said that the president will deliver a major economic policy speech during the week after Labor Day. Last week, as I'm sure you are aware, the Obama administration announced that the president would deliver this much awaited speech on Wednesday, September 7 (tomorrow) before a joint session of Congress.
The problem is that tomorrow night is the first Republican presidential debate since Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the race. This debate (on this date) had been planned for months. The Obama administration was clearly trying to steal the Republicans' thunder. To his credit, House Speaker Boehner stood up to the Obama administration and said tomorrow's date just did not work.
To my surprise, President Obama backed down, to the chagrin of his liberal base, and agreed to deliver his "jobs" speech on Thursday instead (in conflict with the NFL season-opener football game that same night).
I have no idea what President Obama will have to say on Thursday. It is clearly the most important speech of his presidency with his approval ratings at record lows. Everyone is speculating about just what he might propose.
Here is a very interesting article about Obama's economic policy options written by well-known columnist Tony Blankley. I think you should read it before the president's speech on Thursday.
That's all for today; time to hit the "send" button.
Praying for rain in Texas,
Gary D. Halbert
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Our Doughnuts
All of our doughnuts are hand-made fresh every day by real genuine humans. We put a lot of care, effort and love into everything we make. Our staff create 3 different types of dough to produce 3 unique types of doughnuts.
Yeast Doughnuts
Our Yeast Dough starts with simple ingredients and transforms into a light, pillowy cloud. Enjoy them either glazed, frosted, or filled.
Cake Doughnuts
Our popular Cake Doughnut will convert the most stubborn Yeast Doughnut lovers. Cake Doughnuts provide a crunchy and soft texture all in one.
Vegan Doughnuts
Surprise the carnivores in your family with this rich and soft dough. Flavours rotate seasonally. Sleep better knowing that our dough is 100% vegan.
Yeast Dough Process
Every doughnut is made with natural ingredients, by hand, fresh everyday. In order to do this our mornings here at the Hole start long before the sun comes up.
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Mixing is the most important part of the entire process, the temperature of the ingredients being added to the mixture is crucial in making the perfect doughnut.
Each and every batch of our Yeast doughnuts goes through a cold proof process of 24 hrs. This process is crucial for flavour development.
After the dough has fermented for 24 hrs it is then taken through the rolling and cutting process. This is the point where shape is formed by our expert bakers.
This is the final stage before frying. This process allows the dough to proof a second time to and create it's final size and shape.
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After the second proof, Doughnuts are taken to the fryer. We use 100% vegetable oil to fry. The doughnuts are then taken into their final destination where they are garnished by the loving hands of our bakers.
The Team
Glory Hole Doughnuts is a small, independently run, artisan doughnut shop located in the heart of Parkdale.Established in 2012 by Owner/Pastry Chef Ashley Jacot De Boinod, GHD has been making fresh, handmade houghnuts ever since.We strive to create the highest quality doughnut by using fresh, local, and organic ingredients whenever possible.
Back of House General Manager
Favourite flavour
I would have to say its the classic buttermilk doughnuts with vanilla glaze for me. little crunchy on the outside, soft and pillowy on the inside and fresh from the fryer, what more could I ask for.
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Argentina, but spent most of my time in Toronto.
Some of my favorite things besides eating food, making food, and thinking about food are spending time outdoors and trying to pet every doggo I see.
General Manager
Favourite flavour
It's hard to choose a favourite flavour - I've had the pleasure of trying so many great ones! but I think it must be Butter Pecan. I love the sweet and crunchy exterior and soft fluffy interior - a perfect balance of flavour in every mouthful! Close second is Raspberry Jam and Cinnamon Sugar - don't mess with the classic!
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Born and raised in Mississauga, but I love to travel - I like to think I've taken a small piece of each country's culture with me (over 30 visited!)
Hobbies include eating (hah), going for adventurous walks and getting crafty! Although I think I enjoy buying craft supplies more then I like making things with them. You should see my sticker collection!
Gerrard Back of House Manager
Favourite flavour
The fried chicken special we did with PG Clucks.
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Though my family hails from all over Europe and Canada, I spent most of my childhood in Ottawa. I moved to Toronto in 2012 for what was supposed to be a year and fell so in love with this city that I've been here ever since.
I paint and make papercraft art, play a lot of tabletop RPGs, and recently published my first book.
Gerrard Front of House Manager
Favourite flavour
my favourite flavour was the lemon cheesecake, just the right amount of lemon and crunchy graham crackers with that lovely filling. Caramel White Mocha comes close as well! I love coffee!
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Mexican! Born and raised, came to Canada on 2015.
I love music, it plays a huge roll in my life as it keeps me motivated. I also love audio/video production and to spend time with my Wife and my dog Chai.
Parkdale Supervisor
Favourite flavour
Caramelized White Mocha (was super messy but totally worth it!!)
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Born and raised in Toronto but barely know anything about the city lol. Nationality: Hungarian and Guyanese.


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Florida is a state that allows for swimming virtually year round. There are swimming pools in just about every neighborhood from small backyard pools to community swimming pools. While swimming is a great activity for children, it also poses a real risk for children, especially toddlers and smaller children who lack strong swimming, survival skills, and judgment. Certainly, a child is at risk when there is no adult supervision in the area of the water way / swimming pool. Even when adults are present, there are also risks to children if their the "supervision" is distracted by conversation, mobile phone use, a television, or just simple inattention. When a child dies or is seriously injured from a drowning incident, there is a ripple effect through the family and the community.
A recent event that occurred in Jacksonville, Florida exemplifies this. According to a news report, a toddler drowned in a backyard pool when family members briefly lost track of him. Events like these occur all too frequently. According to the Center for Disease Control, an average of over 700 children under age fourteen die annually from drowning. The Center for Disease Control also indicates that, for every child that dies from drowning, five others go to the hospital for almost drowning. Unfortunately, Florida leads the nation in number of child deaths from drowning in 2017, as revealed by the Miami Herald. Thus, staying vigilant with children around water is especially pertinent in Florida. See Water Injuries – Fact Sheet- Center for Disease Control.
Most drowning and near drowning incidents are completely preventable. Water safety / swimming precautions can include: installation of fencing around water, designation of an adult to provide constant supervision of children in water or around water, pool alarm systems for doors leading out to water access, adornment of lifejackets when children play near or in the water, and swim lessons at a young age. CPR training may also save a child's life in the event that a child drowns.


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I've been practising Sketchnoting to improve my visual facilitation skillset. Here's one from Krystal Talivai's "How to Network and Grow Your Business Course". It was great to meet and network with like-minded business owners.
Month: November 2017
How to Experience Agile in an Hour
Agile in 60 minutes It was a pleasure to be invited to give a presentation to the team at Potentia, to help refresh and reinforce their understanding of Agile. We had a time-box of 60 minutes. Rather than deliver the presentation lecture style, we got deep into some experiential learning …
In Sprint Planning, How Do You Prioritise the Requirements in the Backlog?
This is a re-post of an article first published on DZone. Background Having worked with many Agile teams, I find that every team has a slightly different approach to prioritisation, and some teams are better at it than others. I've recently observed a sprint planning session where a team couldn't …
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Painter Party 2013
High Lift weekend -
Bob Cantarera at the controls of a 60 foot lift bucket flying over HPYC this weekend. Mastheads, antennae, lights and standing rigging were inspected, repair and generally marveled at from a unique perspective.
Clubhouse clean up April 14, 2012
We'll all be sailing soon, hopefully real soon. In the meantime, we're getting ready for the season, splitting time between "boat work" and "club work".
Part of today was spent dusting, scrubbing, moving and getting the clubhouse a "touch" more presentable.
Rick Fellows - "Sugaree", Tom Finger "Irish Dream" and Jeff Wettig "Pegasus" are first of the fleet in the bay. They were off early today for the first voyage of the 2012 season - overnight to Chesapeake City. Watch this space for Jeff's report......
This has to have been a day for the record books - last of the docks repaired and installed, three lines of moorings set, a new motor and lots of grease and oil put on the boat lift, and some ground hog holes filled. All that before lunchtime.
Gene's Excellent Soup ( in caps because it ought to be trademarked) and a warming fire set everybody up for the afternoon which ended with boats getting splashed and a couple minutes in the clubhouse bar to savor the day.
PLAY the slideshow below or use the thumbnails below that to zip through the pictures.
Big progress on the boat lift. Less than a week after discovering the flat and then the bad bearings all is repaired and ready to launch docks and boats. Lots of hands (and minds) involved in the job, special thanks and kudos have to go to Fred and Dale for fast tracking the job.
Painter Party March 10, 2012
It was great to see so many hands on deck for the painter party. The work boat dock was put in the water, there was a pizza lunch, more work, and finally a couple tales and a new joke or two were shared around the fire place.
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Cinnamon simple syrup is very easy to make at home and it is a quick way to add the subtle, warming spice to any of your favorite drinks. Add a splash to your morning coffee or afternoon tea, or use this syrup to bring flavor into your favorite cocktails. Once you discover the joy of cinnamon syrup, it will become a regular in your kitchen or bar.
Unlike some flavored simple syrups, cinnamon is incredibly easy. All you really have to do is drop a single cinnamon stick into homemade simple syrup, wait for it to steep under the heat, and you're done. It's so easy that you can make it while brewing that first coffee of the day.
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 cup sugar (white or demerara sugar)
- 1 cup water
Steps to Make It
Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan.
Add sugar and stir until it has dissolved completely.
Reduce the heat, add the cinnamon sticks and cover the pan.
Simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat. Allow it to cool and steep for at least 1 hour.
Remove the cinnamon, pour the syrup into a bottle, and refrigerate. The syrup will be good for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.
Tips and Tricks for Great Cinnamon Simple Syrup
Regular white cane sugar makes a great cinnamon syrup and it's easy to find and cheap. It's the perfect option if you use a lot of cinnamon syrup.
- Demerara (or raw) sugar is another excellent choice that gives the syrup a richer flavor. It's very nice with the cinnamon.
- Brown sugar is an option, though it's best to split it with white sugar. The cinnamon can get lost behind the darker sugar, so begin with 1 part of each sugar and see how you like it. Yet, if you were to add even more spices, something like this brown sugar spiced simple syrup can be very useful.
- You can also use sugar substitutes. They work perfectly fine, though you might want to add a second cinnamon stick to amp up the flavor.
If you buy them in bulk, cinnamon sticks are surprisingly inexpensive and many of the best deals are found at international food markets. This may free you up to add a second stick to bring more flavor to the syrup. In general, though, one stick will achieve a nice, rounded cinnamon flavor.
Another way to increase the cinnamon flavor is to leave the spice in the syrup longer. While 1 hour gets a nice flavor, three hours is better.
Add Extra Flavor to Your Cinnamon Syrup
Cinnamon is a very versatile spice and you can use it as a foundation for creating unique homemade syrups for your drinks. Explore these recipes and enjoy the full range of this fun ingredient.
- Cherry-Cinnamon Simple Syrup in a Bacon Cherry Creek
- Cinnamon-Thyme Simple Syrup in an Old Thyme Sour
- Cinnamon-Vanilla Simple Syrup in a Poinsettia Punch
Using Cinnamon Syrup in Cocktails
The subtle flavors of cinnamon can be added to a number of cocktails to enhance and complement the other flavors in the drink. While some cocktails, such as the UK Sour, Poinsettia Punch, and Zombie Punch specifically call for this syrup, it can also be used in other drinks to add a light warmth.
Think of using this syrup in place of plain simple syrup in cocktails with flavors that complement cinnamon. Some examples include modern drinks like Dusk in Eden and the Designated Appletini. It can also reinvigorate classics like the Fish House Punch and Fancy Whiskey.
- Almost a Collins - Vodka and blood orange with the sweetened cinnamon.
- Baffled King - A rum and apple brandy cocktail that is a pure delight.
- Children of the Corn - Halloween treats start out with a candy corn-infused vodka.
- Raspberry Peach Cobbler - Fresh raspberries, vanilla bean, and a fruit liqueur are the perfect complement.
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Check out my book: "Similarity Search – The Metric Space Approach"
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My research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Image Retrieval, Large Scale Similarity Search, Smart Cameras.
I am leading the Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Information Retrieval (AIMIR) research group in the NeMIS lab of ISTI.
I am teaching the Multimedia Information Management course at the MSc (laurea magistralis) in Computer Engineering at the University of Pisa.
More information here.
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I am currently program chair of the following conferences:
- 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications – SISAP 2019
- 27th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems – SEBD 2019
Technology transfer
I am co-founder of Visual Engines s.r.l. (CNR spin-off pending request), a company developing solutions for visual analysis and searching.
An overview of the projects carried out by the AIMIR research group is given here.
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What You Don't Know About "Jack" Can Hurt Your Programs (webinar replay)
By Welltok Marketing
Hundreds of senior executives acknowledged that they don't know Jack - at least as well as they could - by tuning in to one of AHIP's most popular webinars of the year.
Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO of Welltok, and Chris Coloian, founder of Predilytics, provided deep insights and specific examples of how advanced analytics can help population health managers gain deeper consumer insights and predict behaviors.
Consumers, like Jack, are more than just a medical specimen. By understanding Jack as an holistic individual, you can drive engagement and targeted behavior change. Here are 3 things every population health manager should know about using advanced analytics in healthcare:
- You don't know Jack: Medical claims and clinical based records only tell 10% of the story and are insufficient in painting a complete picture of Jack. Fortunately, consumers like Jack tell us about themselves long before they interact with the healthcare industry. By combining data from healthcare and consumer sources, you can understand Jack and personalize his experience in a way that creates value for him and the healthcare system.
- You can't do jack if it isn't about Jack: Getting to know Jack is what provides actionable insights into his personal motivations, needs and incentives that trigger action - things that are mission critical to help Jack improve his health status.
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