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The UMCG is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands, renowned research institution and leading teaching and training center in medical sciences. In particular, research at the UMCG is characterized by a combination of fundamental and patient oriented clinical research. The interaction between these two stimulates the development of new clinical and research opportunities. On one hand, problems that occur in the clinical practice act as a catalyst that sets new fundamental research in motion. On the other hand, fundamental research can facilitate new clinical possibilities.
The UMCG has defined healthy aging as one of its main priorities in all its present and future activities. One of their major research projects related to healthy aging is the ambitious LifeLines project. It started in 2006 with the objective to study the health course of 165,000 inhabitants from the northern part of the Netherlands for a period of 30 years. Diverse sets of information ranging from images, questionnaires, genome and phenotype data should be stored and made available to researchers for further scientific analysis. A major challenge is the development of the necessary scalable infrastructure for data processing, storage and access. UMCG is collaborating with Target partners on developing such flexible data management system. In addition, Target provides UMCG with its testbed infrastructure for storage and processing of data from the LifeLines project. For more information on the LifeLines project, see Target Projects.
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text: ELIZABETHTOWN Is it possible to sell snow to Adirondackers during the middle of winter? Standing in 20 degrees Fahrenheit weather on a windy day, Ed Grzanowski of Lewis tried to find the answer. For three hours Feb. 16, Grzanowski stood in front of the Grand Union in Elizabethtown peddling snowballs. He said the initial idea to sell snowballs began as something fun to do, but turned into a fundraiser for the Elizabethtown Food Pantry. Making the snowballs, he said, was a challenge because the snow was powdery, and hed had to add water to get them to collect. Grzanowski also suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome, making the work a bit painful to perform. He came prepared with 175 snowballs pre-made. The prices, he said, were very reasonable - snowballs cost 25 cents each, or five for $1. Grzanowski didnt manage to sell any snowballs in front of the Grand Union, although many people passing by offered a donation. He said he solicited several businesses for donations, and had to make snowball deliveries to Plattsburgh, as well as at the Elizabethtown Community Hospital. Mad Pup Tattoo Parlor in Plattsburgh donated $100. Through the snowball sale, Grzanowski raised $350 for the food shelf. Every little bit helped, he added. It turned out better than I thought, said Grzanowski. Grzanowski said next year he planned on hosting a red, white and blue snowball sale. His goal is to double the amount of money he collected.

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When heiress Parker Welles learns she's lost everything due to her father's insider trading scheme, she hopes renovating a cabin in Maine will be a partial answer to her financial woes; the last thing she wants or needs is daddy's attorney and right-hand man, James, helping her salvage her inheritance—or her heart.
Parker Welles has known nothing but wealth, privilege and success, so when the bottom drops out of her world in one fell swoop, she's unprepared for the reality of being a broke and homeless single mom. It wouldn't bother her quite so much if she didn't have a young son to take care of, but she does, and so wallowing in self-pity or standing still like a deer in headlights simply aren't options. Packing her son off for a summer vacation in California with his father and stepmother (Ethan and Lucy from The Next Best Thing, 2010), Parker heads to Maine in hopes of selling her last remaining possession, a small house in Gideon's Cove (location of Catch of the Day, 2007), which turns out to be a falling-down shack. But life is what happens when you're making other plans, and sometimes a curve in the road—even one that threatens to throw you off a cliff—turns out to be just what you need to understand who you really are and what can make you happy. Parker will learn things she never expected to want or need to know. Things like how to clean mold out of cabins in Maine and how beautiful the sky can be when you're sitting on a dock next to the water. She'll also learn that people aren't always what they seem and that James Cahill, the man she loves to hate, has a few secrets of his own. Maybe, for Parker, losing everything is the only way to truly have it all. Great writing, well-drawn, realistic and likable characters, and a plot that keeps the audience engaged and rooting for James and Parker despite their missteps, make this an entertaining, romantic read. Higgins fans will love revisiting familiar favorites in secondary characters.
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November 27, 2012 – The School of Continuing Studies and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have joined forces to create a new executive master's program in emergency and disaster management (EDM).
The one-year program, set to launch in fall 2013, is designed to prepare future leaders in emergency management through an immersive learning environment using scenario-based sessions and real-world case studies.
"This program will prepare students for careers in emergency and disaster management that are critical to our national and economic security," said Walter Rankin, interim dean of SCS. "As we saw with Hurricane Sandy last month, there remains a tremendous need to build multidisciplinary teams that span federal, state and local jurisdictions that can act quickly and effectively in the interest of saving lives and protecting communities."
In keeping with SCS' practice of offering educational programs that tie to industry, the EDM program will engage with leading industry organizations, subject matter experts and government officials.
Faculty members in the program will be drawn from the field in order to facilitate a curriculum that brings theory to practice.
And a combination of face-to-face learning and online coursework will be employed to teach emergency and disaster management theory and legal framework, natural disasters, domestic terrorism and international disasters.
Georgetown-LLNL Partnership
This is the first degree program arising from the 2009 Georgetown-LLNL partnership spearheaded by Spiros Dimolitsas, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Georgetown.
The mission of LLNL, a government-sponsored laboratory, is to enhance the nation's defense, reduce the global threat of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance.
"The strength of this program is the combination of LLNL's national security science and technology expertise and Georgetown University's commitment to educate students to work in service of others," said Nancy Suski, deputy program director in the laboratory's Office of Strategic Outcomes and EDM executive director.
Scenario-Based Labs
Students in the program will participate in five on-site "intensives" that feature natural and man-made disaster scenarios and the technical, legal and ethical considerations that govern them.
LLNL has advanced modeling and simulation capabilities, so that students will be able to visualize disaster scenarios and learn how best to respond to them.
In one of the learning modules, for example, students will travel to LLNL's headquarters in California to study the consequences of terrorism in the United States.
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The EDM program features a global executive format that will take students to four different cities around the world.
In addition to traveling to LLNL's headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area and studying in Washington, D.C., students will travel to New Orleans and Doha, Qatar, to participate in real-world scenario laboratories and lectures.
Students are required to complete a final project that demonstrates the depth and breadth of knowledge gained through completion of the program's coursework.


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May 2016 - Monthly report
My Overview
Total portfolio: £8755 ( +567)
Debt:1155 (+1155)
Net Worth: £7600 (-588)
Investments UK: £1923 (-555)
Investments overseas : £1803 (-10)
Cash: £1026 (+940)
Pension: £3899 (+88)
Total Income: £1079 (-659)
Passive income: 18 (1.66%)
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What a mess, i would say. But it is all an organized mess, as i am trying to start a small business, and i moved some assets in cash, and i start to prepare for first months expenses, hoping that very soon (1-2 months soon) i will start to get some income from it. Overall is not very bad, as my investments still got up, despite selling some of them and moving the money in the cash account. Pension still got up a bit, and cash vs debts is a close match. What it is most important right now is that i see 2, maybe 3 possible pathways to reach my financial independence faster, even if this will mean some extra work for the next 3-4 years. But i can see the Light, it is there at the end of the tunnel, and it is bright and comforting. I also published my second poetry book (and i am very pleased because of this). Passive income went a bit down this month, but will get up again in the next months. Is it all because of me relocating assets and adding a new whole dimension to my retirement plan. But I see exciting moves in my financial future this year. Even if it is still a long way until my yearly report.
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In complex adaptive systems like modern financial markets, a change the price of any one market has ...
Charts Can Warn of Earnings Misses
10/09/2012 10:50 am EST
Focus: STOCKS
Will this week's earnings reports confirm the prevailing view of a deteriorating economy? And what action should you take before your stock reports earnings? MoneyShow's Tom Aspray suggests some simple steps and weighs in on three companies that report this week.
Last Friday's late reversal in the stock market led to more light selling in Monday's reduced holiday trading. More gloomy forecasts on the economy from the IMF hit the financial press Tuesday, as they warned "Risks for a serious global slowdown are alarmingly high."
This adds to the investor nervousness as we start the earnings season. Alcoa (AA) customarily kicks off earnings after today's close.
No matter what financial press you may read or TV channel you may watch, there is clearly a divergence between stock prices and the prevailing view of the economy. I discussed this in more detail last Friday.
This does not make the decision any easier for those investors whose companies are scheduled to report earnings in coming weeks. Do you sell before the earnings in fear of an earnings miss, or hold on to the stock in the hope that the report will exceed investor expectations?
I would argue that even the most basic technical analysis can give you a better chance of making the right decision than hope or fear. An interesting example is the widely held Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), which a leading Web site noted in July " has missed analyst estimates for four quarters in a row."
The earnings misses started during the second quarter of 2011, as KMP closed on July 30, 2011 at $70.49. With KMP's close Monday at $85.79, it has gained 21.6% over the past 14 months.
A look at the monthly chart of KMP shows that it has continued to make higher highs and higher lows since November 2009, when KMP moved above the 2008 highs. It would take a drop below the May 2012 low of $76.65 to change the major uptrend.
For those who want to do more detailed analysis, I favor relative performance, which compares a stock's performance to the S&P 500. Stocks that are weaker than the overall market tend to be sold more heavily when they miss earnings than those which are acting stronger than the market.
The monthly relative performance analysis of KMP shows that it has formed higher highs and higher lows (line b) since it completed a bottom formation in 2008 (line a). A change in this pattern would warn of a future price decline.
So what about this week's earnings—are there any stocks you should be selling before they report?
Chart Analysis: The outlook for Alcoa (AA) has not changed much in 2012, as the weekly chart shows the sharp slide in prices from March through December 2011.
- The weekly close only chart shows a pattern of lower highs (line c) and lower lows (line d).
- The key resistance is the mid-September high of $9.93. A close above this level would be a positive sign.
- Conversely, a weekly close below the July low of $8.22 would reinforce the downtrend.
- The relative performance shows a pattern similar to prices, as it has made lower highs (line e) and lower lows (line f)
- The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) has been below its WMA since March, and has also formed lower lows (line g).
- The daily analysis (not shown) does look more positive, as there was a nice surge in volume in early September.
- On the daily chart, there is short-term support at $8.72, which if broken should signal a decline to the $8.50 area.
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Safeway (SWY) reports earnings on Thursday. The average analyst's estimate is for a 13.2% rise over their earnings from a year ago.
- The daily chart shows that SWY has been in a trading range (lines b and c) since July. Given the sharp slide from the February high of $23.16 (a loss of 29.4%), this is likely a continuation pattern or a pause in the downtrend.
- There is initial support at $15.86, followed by $15.50.
- A break of support (line c) will project a decline to the $13.50 to $14 area.
- The relative performance has traded in a tight range since July, and shows a long-term downtrend (line d).
- The daily OBV is below its WMA, but is barely holding above support (line e).
- Watch for an increase in volume if SWY weakens ahead of the report.
Fastenal (FAST) is a $13 billion construction supply company that also reports its earnings on Thursday. The earnings are expected to be flat, and a couple of analysts have recently lowered their estimates.
- FAST has also been in a tight range since July, with resistance at $45.22 (line f) and support at $41.54 (line g)
- A break of support has downside targets in the $37.50 to $38 area.
- The recent action reflects that FAST has certainly not been a market leader, as the daily RS analysis has formed lower highs (line h).
- A break of relative performance support (line i) could precede a break of chart support.
- The daily OBV violated support (line j) in late September. It has since rebounded, but still looks weak.
- The weekly studies (not shown) are negative.
What it Means: There has been little technical reason to be long Alcoa (AA) in 2012, but given the overwhelming negative sentiment, a positive surprise would not be surprising. Until it shows signs that it is a market leader, like it did in 2010 and 2011, I would avoid AA.
Both Safeway (SWY) and Fastenal (FAST) have been acting weaker than the S&P 500 or Spyder Trust (SPY) over the past few months. Because of the sharp declines early in the year, the recent trading ranges favor a downward resolution, and I recommend not holding these stocks through earnings.
How to Profit: No new recommendation.
- For greater detail on the technical analysis used in this column, read Tom's recent Trading Lesson, 3 Ways to Predict Post Earnings Shocks.
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For years now I've been working on Habbo retros, but recently I've come across a browser based Pokemon MMO that I can't stop playing. It's called "Pokemon Legends". It's an incredibly addicting browser based Pokemon game that has the look and feel of the old Pokemon games we played as kids, just in color, and with almost every gen of Pokemon..
That being said, I'm looking to get into Pokemon MMOs and was wondering where I'd start to create something similar. For Habbo you download everything such as the emulator, the database, the cms, the client, etc. And then youre free to edit it. I was wondering if thats the case with these browser based client Pokemon games and if so what would be the right files to search for.
Any info helps! Just looking for a push in the right direction, maybe some links to tutorials to help me setup a basic browser based on my pc with xampp and navicat or something? Again, anything helps!
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Top-performing stocks can deliver market-beating returns for years. But discovering which stocks will be tomorrow's best performers isn't as simple as just looking at yesterday's returns. Often, the great stocks of the future look downright ugly today. And on the other side of the coin, you can't necessarily count on what looks like a great track record of strong performance to continue in the months and years to come.
Chasing performance
Beginning investors often fall into the trap of basing their investment decisions on past performance. Just take a look at the current craze among many investors: Treasury bonds. Much of the clamor over Treasuries has come from the fact that while stocks haven't done much of anything this year, Treasuries are up strongly, with double-digit gains on longer-term bonds. Those returns are unlikely to continue, but it hasn't stopped investors from adding hundreds of billions of dollars to bond investments this year.
The same thing happens with stocks. When oil topped $100 per barrel in 2008, commodities stocks soared, and no matter how high they went, optimists saw more room for gains. Eventually, though, the bottom fell out of the market, and those stocks dropped sharply, hurting those who tried to catch the wave late in the game.
Conversely, sometimes, you'll find stocks that have performed terribly in the past but that have promise for the future. If you can ignore their bad track record and focus solely on what tomorrow may bring, you could uncover a path to great wealth.
Yesterday's losers, tomorrow's winners
As an example, let's go back to 2005. The stock market had finally started to recover from the bursting of the tech bubble from 2000 to 2002, and although the S&P 500 hadn't come close to regaining all of its bear market losses, it had made great strides in that direction.
If you'd had to pick stocks back in 2005 that looked like they'd be among the market's top performers over the ensuing five years, you probably would have passed over these stocks:
Total Return, 2000 to 2005
Total Return, 2005 to 2010
F5 Networks
Dollar Tree
Big Lots
Red Hat
Source: Yahoo! Finance, as of Aug. 25, 2000; Aug. 26, 2005; and Aug. 25, 2010.
These stocks all had performed abysmally in the first half of the decade. Many of them are tech companies that suffered collateral damage from the tech bust yet found ways to survive and even prosper in its aftermath. Dollar Tree and Big Lots, on the other hand, owe their bad performance to an improve economy in which consumers tended to prefer higher-priced retailers. Certainly in 2005, there were few signs that the economic expansion would ever come to an end.
Investors who focused on the future, however, were able to reap big rewards. Priceline reinvented itself, carving out a niche with the help of William Shatner while offering many of the same services its competitors did. F5 survived the tech bust and found its bearings in the networking market, while Red Hat has managed to keep Linux living throughout the decade. Illumina turned the megatrend of genetic sequencing into higher margins and a competitive edge over rival Life Technologies
Don't miss out
It's easy to justify buying stocks that have performed well recently, in the belief that they'll keep on chugging away and producing further gains. It's a lot harder to go against the crowd and put your hard-earned money into a flagging stock that has seen brighter days.
As tough as it is, that kind of conviction in your investments is what separates decent investors from great ones. By dismissing the past and looking forward to what's to come for a company, you'll often find great stocks that others pass up.
Buffett and tech stocks go together like oil and water. But Alex Dumortier has found one tech stock that Buffett likes.
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By Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., and Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, December 21, 2017
In these times of heated rhetoric about what various health care reforms can and cannot accomplish, both hopeful and doomsday stories abound. Proponents and opponents of reforms often claim that their views are grounded in evidence, but it's not always clear what they mean by that — particularly given the wide range of often incompatible views. Voters, physicians, and policymakers are left to wade through a jumble of anecdotes, aspirations, associations, and well-designed studies as they try to evaluate policy alternatives. Having a clear framework for characterizing what is, and isn't, evidence-based health policy (EBHP) is a prerequisite for a rational approach to making policy choices, and it may even help focus the debate on the most promising approaches.
EBHP, we believe, has three essential characteristics. First, policies need to be well-specified; a slogan is not sufficient. For example, "expand Medicaid" isn't a policy. "Expand existing Medicaid benefits to cover all adults below the poverty line" is closer — but, of course, moving to a specific, implementable program requires vastly more detail.
Second, implementing EBHP requires us to distinguish between policies and goals. This distinction is important in part because different people may have different goals for a particular policy.
Third, EBHP requires evidence of the magnitude of the effects of the policy, and obtaining such evidence is an inherently empirical endeavor. Introspection and theory are terrible ways to evaluate policy.
What makes for "rigorous enough evidence"? Professional medical societies have developed gauges of the strength of evidence to support clinical guidelines, and we should demand nothing less for health policy. No study is perfect, and important policy questions are rarely answered definitively by any one study. Nor does pointing to a large literature with similar results prove a point if those studies share a common weakness such as an inability to control for confounders.
There is also a key difference between "no evidence of effect" and "evidence of no effect." The first is consistent with wide confidence intervals that include zero as well as some meaningful effects, whereas the latter refers to a precisely estimated zero that can rule out effects of meaningful magnitude. These nuances are often lost when "evidence" is deployed in policy debates.
The effect of a policy, of course, also depends on the design and implementation details and the program particulars, and evidence needs to speak to those particulars. It is also important to consider the full range of a policy's effects — its costs and benefits, and how each of these evolves over time.
Making health policy on the basis of evidence will always be a fraught and uncertain endeavor, and each component we outline here comes with challenges.
In addition, just as the distinction between policies and goals is often muddied, interpretations of the evidence are often flavored by the implicit goals of the analyst.
Finally, even a rich body of evidence cannot guarantee that a policy will achieve its goals, and waiting for that level of certainty would paralyze the policy process. In health policy — as in any other realm — it is often necessary to act on the basis of the best evidence on hand, even when that evidence is not strong.
Just because something sounds true doesn't mean that it is, and magical thinking won't improve our health care system. EBHP helps separate facts from aspiration. But as important as evidence is to good policy choices, it can't tell us what our goals should be — that's a normative question of values and priorities. Better policy requires being both honest about our goals and clear-eyed about the evidence.
By Don McCanne, M.D.
What role should evidence-based health policy play in the design of our system of health care financing? Before answering that, we need to decide what the goals are. Then we need to survey various policies that might achieve those goals. Finally we should look at the evidence as to how effective each of those policies might be. How are we doing?
Of course, the goals are most important. At PNHP we believe that everyone should have access to comprehensive health care that is of reasonable quality and is affordable – goals achievable only through the collective effort of government working with the public and private health care delivery system. Others believe that health care should be an individual responsibility thus they have a goal of minimizing the role of government. Obviously the selection of policies, whether evidence-based or not, would be quite different for these sharply divergent goals.
When you have a system that is designed to cover absolutely everyone, what evidence-based studies do you need to be sure everyone really is covered? Silly question – you don't need any studies, everyone is automatically covered. Accessible? Regional planning with appropriate allocation of resources – no policy studies, you just do it. Comprehensive? Simply cover appropriate care (which might be guided by evidence-based health care studies, but you don't need evidence-based policy studies). Affordable? Fund the system using progressive tax policies – you do not need an evidence-based policy study to show that those who can afford it need to pay more than those who can't.
A prime example of placing evidence-based policy before goals is the classic RAND Health Insurance Experiment. That study showed that requiring cost sharing payments when receiving health care reduced total spending on health care. Although it is conceded that cost sharing (deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance) does reduce the use of beneficial health care, little attention has been paid to that. Instead, the policy of cost sharing, especially high deductibles, has been used for the goal of reducing spending, while ignoring the goal of affordable access to health care. This demonstrates why the goals are so much more important. This tradeoff satisfies the supporters of individual responsibility in health care but fails for those who support health care for everyone.
We are seeing a similar process with ACOs, MACRA, MIPS, APMs and other policies that supposedly replace volume with value, or quality instead of quantity. What are the goals? Although some lip service is given to quality, reduced spending is the real goal. The goals of health care justice as supported by PNHP are nowhere in sight. So we have moved forward in implementing these policies, but are they evidence-based? Many studies have been done and many more are in process, but the evidence is that they are relatively ineffective. Yet the public and private bureaucrats are implementing them because of their perceived goal when, in fact, they do not have adequate evidence that these policies are effective.
Evidence-based health policies may be of value in limited circumstances. But the real debate is over the goals. Let's fight that one out now. Universality, access, equity, affordability, comprehensiveness, and administrative efficiency are the goals to which we should aspire. We do not need decades of building an evidence-based case for implementing the policies that effectuate these goals.
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A pieced, quilted, fur blanket is decadent - even for me. I offer no apologizes for this.
You see: it gets COLD up here on the mountain!!! I have always maintained that, given a choice, I prefer a cold climate to a hot one. Now, we all know why: so that I have a reason (I do try to be pragmatic!) to sew, and wear, warm, fuzzy, soft, bulky and cuddly things. Sybarite that I am, I love texture - and plenty of it. Hence: this quilt.
This is not a typical quilt by anyone's definition of the term.
But then, I have never aspired to be typical.
I started with a kit for assembling a fake fur throw.
I read the directions, really I did. I even thought I was following them. However, the first instruction -- "cut printed fur into 9 - 8in wide strips" -- threw me. I started cutting the strips, following the instructions to cut each fabric, single layer with scissors rather than a rotary cutter. This I did, until after the 7th strip, when I ran out of fur. S * I * G * H. A closer look at the instructions revealed that there had been no mention of which direction to cut the strips. Selvage to selvage?? Lengthwise?? I used the SWAG method and cut selvage to selvage, which gave me the longest strips. The process deteriorated from there.
Once I was done cutting the fabrics as close to the instructions as I could, I proceeded to arrange the strips of fabric according to the photo on the front, and attach them to each other. Having no advice on this from the instructions (it was roughly around this time that I tossed the instruction sheet into the recycling bin), I attached the strips with my serger set on a wide 4-thread, with Wooly Nylon in the upper looper. So glad I thought to do that!!! Fake fur creates A LOT of lint. A LOT. My cats loved chasing puffs of fur lint around the house. My vacuum cleaner was less enthusiastic.
I could have pieced the strips, borders, and sashings together, and been done with it -- that was the original design. [as near as I can remember]. But I didn't like the networking of serger thread that only matched some of the fabrics, showing. Also, as I may have mentioned, it can get a tad nippy at this elevation, so I didn't think a warm backing, with tight, cotton batting between would hurt a thing.
Since I have taken the Stashbusting 2014 pledge, I couldn't run to a store, or website to buy backing fabric. Not to worry --- for several moves now, I have carted around a thick cotton flannel fitted sheet that no longer fits any bed we own. I couldn't get rid of it -- it was great fabric. I cut out the elastic (yes - I saved it. I'll use it someday), and used the sheet for the backing. It feels great!!!!
Black machine quilting thread (Gutterman) was used to stitch-in-the-ditch on the topside, using my Pfaff's Quilting stitch. This is a back-and-forth stitch that, on the bobbin side, looks like hand-quilting. [which is as close as any project I ever make will come to actually being hand-quilted]
For binding, since this blankie was all about texture, I wanted a satin binding. Behold! My stash contained 3/4 yd. of a black crepe-back satin that I cannot remember buying or using. (!?). It took some piecing, but there was just quite enough to make a wide bias bound edge.
When all is said and done, the most important thing you need to know,
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This, snapped me out of LaLa land.
Help Yourself to Happiness. Think about that for a moment...a majority of people who have weight issues, are emotional over eaters. Is this really a message we should pass along? Help yourself to happiness at an all you can eat buffet? This is the exact behavior that I have been trying to break for years! An over eater seeing this message is almost like inviting a recovering alcoholic to an open bar and saying "help yourself".
Sorry to dwell on that, it just struck a cord with me for some reason.
I do believe that food is love. I believe that family times gathered around food are sacred. However, it's not the consuming of food to the point of near bloat that makes these times happy. It is the enjoyment of one each other's company that does.
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Does anyone have experience with pregnancy while having a blood clotting disorder? I have Factor V Leiden, and the hubby has Pro Thrombin 20210. Our first son had to be induced a little before 37 weeks because my platelet count was low during a non-stress test and the Dr. was concerned w/ me throwing blood clots. (At this time we didn't know that I or my husband had clotting disorders.) 19 hours later after induction with Pitocin (Oxytocin) and no pain meds, my son was delivered. He had breathing trouble and was taken to the NICU, where he spent the next 3 weeks. After many tests they discovered he had 3 blood clots in his brain, they ended up dissolving on their own. After some genetic testing it was discovered that my son had Factor V & PT20210, further testing revealed he got the Factor V from me, and the Pro Thrombin from his Dad, neither of us had any issues or signs prior to our son being diagnosed. Now we are expecting again, currently at 10 & 1/2 weeks, and in addition to my regular OBGYN I am also seeing a high-risk OB specialist who has recomended a course of action of one low-dose aspirin a day, and will see how this works. Since aspirin does cross the blood supply, she felt this would be the best plan w/ the least chance of ill side-effects. If this does not help I will have to go on blood-thinners during future pregnancies. They are also going to be more pro-active in monitoring the baby this time around with more ultrasounds on advanced machines to check for blood-clots and such in the baby. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this? And if Pitocin is safe with blood clotting disorders? Thanks! :)
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I have to say that I'm pleasantly amused by the latest round of anti-Obama ads that McCain's campaign has released. In this latest one, he compared Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. I thought to myself, "What?! Is he fucking kidding me?" In all honesty, McCain is so out of touch that he probably doesn't even know who they are. If you remember, up until recently he didn't even use email. How is McCain smart enough to draw the comparison? Well, he's not, although his people that came up with his campaign try to be.
This is not the first time that McCain's campaign has attempted a weak attempt at slinging mud at Obama. The commercial that comes to mind is the one where the commercial mentioned how Obama was against domestically drilling for oil. Even funnier, McCain tried to paint himself as some Republican environmentalist. Whether or not he is, I can't say. I don't have the image of McCain as trying to improve EPA regulations, emphasizing the need for alternative/renewable energy sources, etc. However, I do have the image of him as a decorated Vietnam veteran and, seemingly, a supporter for the wars overseas. The commercial was a trivial attempt for McCain to take on Obama's characteristics and be seen as supporting the very things that Obama has. McCain isn't young, charismatic and full of health and new ideas. He's old, stagnant, with unpredictable health and supporting the same way of doing things that isn't getting things done. You can always gain "experience." On the other hand, new ideas are often more difficult to come by.
I am not naïve here. I know that in politics there's mudslinging. There has been since probably cavemen gathered in groups to protect their mutual interests. Nothing has changed. One person wins while the other loses. Precisely how this happens is always different. While we don't allow actual assassination, we do allow character assassination. This latest instance is the best and perhaps funniest one of all because this really is something that honestly can only roll off of Obama's back. If McCain is so experienced and tries new things, then why not discuss the issues and arrive to new solutions?


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They're an all-male acoustic quintet from Minnesota with a clunky name and a roster of hard-plucking string pickers. The guys have a few beards and pairs of sandals between them.
But as Pert Near Sandstone tunes up for its first-ever headlining set Friday at First Avenue, it's about time everybody stops comparing it to a band playing Minneapolis' premier rock club on Wednesday, Trampled by Turtles. Heck, I'm even breaking our weekly quota on Cabooze-graduating roots groups to stress the differences between the two acts (look for a feature on TBT in Sunday's paper).
For starters, the Trampled guys still have to consume beer out of bottles and cans at their rehearsals. On Sunday, Pert Near's members were pretty nearly drinking straight out of the brew kettles at Fulton Brewery's tap room, a godsend of a rehearsal space that came courtesy of clogger and washboard player Andy Lambert being the brother-in-law of Fulton's co-owner.
Then there's Lambert himself, a limber dancer who taps and slaps along at Pert Near's gigs, guaranteeing that the group stands out from just about any band.
"We still do great when we tour without Andy, but we always notice the difference," said banjo player Kevin Kniebel. "When he's there, it's instantaneous. The whole room wants to dance."
Most of all, the thing that separates Pert Near Sandstone from Trampled and a lot of the other string bands catering to rock fans nowadays is Pert Near's faithfulness to old-time bluegrass and folk music.
Even the dozen original songs on the group's latest album, "Paradise Hop," sound like they could've been written by coal miners or hobos in the 1920s. Never mind their modern references to collapsing interstate bridges and the like. Even their wild version of "I Am the Walrus" from 2010's "Minnesota Beatle Project, Vol. 2" album -- which became a calling card of sorts locally -- sounded like an old-timey barn-dance number.
"We really embrace being stewards to traditional string-band music, because we have so much fun with it," said Kniebel. "There's plenty of eclectic variety between the ragtime, jug-band blues, fiddle music and the string-band stuff."
Added guitarist J Lenz, "And just having multiple original songwriters guarantees we always have a lot of variety and freshness."
Pert Near formed as an informal living-room jam session in 2004 when Kniebel and Lenz -- two of the group's three singer/songwriters -- were living in a house in St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood. Kniebel was going through a personal rough patch, and Lenz said his suggested remedy was "just play music as much as possible to take your mind off things."
They recruited two childhood pals from the Brooklyn Park area to join in: fiddler Ryan Young, who later left to join TBT, and songwriter Nate Sipe, who plays mandolin and now fiddle, too. This ragtag group of friends came up with their peculiar band name on the fly just before their first public gig. The moniker, which has nothing to do with the town of Sandstone, is based on the band's genesis near the (sandstone-lined) bluffs of the Mississippi River.
Said Sipe, "Somebody else suggested the name means 'almost rock,' which sounds better than the real story."
Sipe and the band's bassist for the past two years, Adam Kiesling, are the real bluegrass/folk traditionalists in the group. Both have been collecting old-time records since they were kids (Sipe specifically credits Minneapolis public libraries for getting him hooked). The rest of the members came to the music more through the Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia ex-rockers route.
Pert Near played mostly to rock fans early on. They grew from regular gigs at the Hexagon and Viking bars to the Turf Club and then the Cabooze and Cedar Cultural Center, both of which sold out following the November release of "Paradise Hop." The guys head west on a tour next week and have a mix of old-timey festivals lined up.
"It's cool that we've been attracting different generations to our music," said Sipe. "We get to play to older 'A Prairie Home Companion' fans, and to kids in college or kids from jam-band festivals. There's something magical about the appeal of American roots music."
Although Kiesling is the first to cry foul when the band veers from tradition -- as when Sipe added a verse about "chasing tail" to the old public-domain song "All Night Long" for the new record -- he admits a big reason for Pert Near's success is its ability to tastefully update those old-school sounds.
"You generally don't get to headline First Avenue by playing just traditional old-time music," he rightfully pointed out.
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Following in the earplug-demanding tradition of local duos the Birthday Suits and Gay Witch Abortion, the metallic fuzz-bleeding twosome Bloodnstuff comes storming out of the gate this week with a debut album that once again makes the case for the littlest bands in town often being the biggest, sonically speaking.
Guitarist Ed Holmberg and drummer Dylan Gouret, both formerly of the artier (and wimpier) Economy Team, were already a standout at First Ave's Best New Bands showcase in January, and their self-titled collection shows why. Tracks range from the thundering, hazy Queens of the Stone Age-like anthem "Bloodnstuff" -- you can go ahead and call them a metal band with a namesake song like that -- to the slower and moodier "It's Fun to Be a Kid," where Holmberg bellows like Ozzy Osbourne and manhandles his guitar like Kim Thayil of Soundgarden.
Proof that these guys can keep up with the larger noise-making ensembles in town, their release party Friday at the Triple Rock will feature Marijuana Deathsquads and the Stnnng for openers (10 p.m., $7). Bloodnstuff is also on the just-announced lineup for the free Lyn-Lake Street Festival May 20, along with Kid Dakota, Halloween, Alaska, Omaur Bliss and Mayda.Random mix
Winona will hold its own not-so-little answer to South by Southwest on April 19-21, the third annual Mid West Music Fest (MWMF), with performers including Greg Brown, Kimya Dawson, Tapes n' Tapes, Charlie Parr, the 4onthefloor, Rogue Valley, Ben Weaver, Saturday's First Ave headliners Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps and dozens more, all performing in various venues downtown along the river. Details at www.Midwest musicfest. org. ... Another of the MWMF's performers, Toki Wright, dropped a new mixtape last week titled "Faders" and featuring such guests as Talib Kweli, Sage Francis and I Self Devine. Look for it on Wright's Bandcamp page. ...
Chris Koza (of Rogue Valley), Chastity Brown, Ellis, Alison Scott, Kevin Bowe, members of the Farewell Circuit, Ari Herstand, Joe Horton (No Bird Sing), Gabriel Douglas (4onthefloor), and more will perform at the Varsity Theater on Thursday to fight the proposed state amendment that would ban gay marriage. A $20 donation at MNUnited.org/April12 will get you in, or cover at the door will be $25 (6-10 p.m.). ...
Douglas had one of the better quips at Nick and Eddie restaurant's farewell bash Sunday, where he lamented missing Zoo Animal's set. "The one time a band ever went on on time here," he cracked. Curtiss A, Pink Mink, the Magnolias and many more musicians were also on hand to bid adieu to the Loring Park hangout, which might live on elsewhere. The operators of Cafe Maude (also great music supporters) will take over the space. ...
The Current's morning show will mark its third anniversary with a live broadcast from the Red Stag Supperclub on April 13, with nonmusical appearances by Slug and John Munson (both dads of young kids, so they're used to getting up early). ... Munson's old band Semisonic will reunite this summer for a charity block party, the OLL Blast, May 19 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School in Mound. Tickets ($25) are on sale through Ticketfly.com and at the Electric Fetus. ...
Minneapolis' Electric Fetus is also the only place to get a wristband for Trampled by Turtles' promotional show Tuesday at 7th Street Entry. They will be given out at the store Tuesday starting at 9 a.m. with a purchase of the band's new album, "Stars and Satellites," out that morning and already one of my favorite albums of the year. TBT's gig Wednesday in the main room is long since sold out. ... Best lemonade-making news of the week: Yeti Records is shutting its doors on Nicollet Avenue, but owners Jake and Lisa Luck have plans to stay in business as a mobile operation -- sort of a musical food truck. Love it.
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We made these Bolivian Finger Puppets from felt, feathers, buttons and hot glue.
You just choose your color, cut a rectangle of felt, design your face and feathers and so on, then glue on all the parts. Finally glue the puppet into a cylinder that will slip over your finger. Tell a story with your puppets.
Crafting brightly colored knit items is an old native tradition in Bolivia. Real Bolivian Finger Puppets are made of alpaca wool most often.
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- Bolivia is located high in the Andes Mountains
- Bolivia is landlocked, but they have a navy that practices on Lake Titicaca
- Bolivians believe the head is a sacred part of the body so they always wear hats
- It's not against the law in Bolivia to belong to whatever religion you want, but if you want your kids in public schools they have to attend Catholic Mass on Sundays.
- Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar, the South American freedom fighter who was largely responsible for throwing off Spanish rule in the 1800's.
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- Alpaca farming has become popular in the US and other parts of the world. See if there's an alpaca farm near you where you can see these South American animals in person.
- Here are some Myths and Tales of Bolivia you can browse through when deciding what stories to tell with your finger puppets.
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Deerfield Beach, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/02/2016 -- Zion Research has published a new report titled "Monosodium Glutamate Market for Food Processing Industry, Restaurants and Institutional Food Service Applications: Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis And Forecast, 2014 - 2020." According to the report, the global monosodium glutamate market was valued at USD 4,500.0 million in 2014, and is expected to generate revenue of USD 5,850.0 million by end of 2020, growing at a CAGR of 4.5% between 2015 and 2020. In terms of volume, the global monosodium glutamate market was stood at around 3,000.0 kilo tons in 2014.
Monosodium glutamate is most commonly known as MSG and is also called as sodium glutamate. MSG is a non-essential amino acid. Monosodium glutamate is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. It is naturally occurring in tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, potatoes, mushrooms, and other vegetables and fruits. Some of the most commonly used commercial production methods of MSG include hydrolysis of vegetable proteins, direct chemical synthesis with acrylonitrile, and bacterial fermentation. Bacterial fermentation process is most widely used method for manufacturing of MSG. It is typically used in the food industry as a flavor enhancer and food additive. MSG is also used in animal feeds in small volume.
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Food processing industry (snacks, canned food, frozen food, others), restaurants and institutional food service are some of the major application markets for MSG. Food processing industry is the largest segments of monosodium glutamate market. The demand for Chinese food products and fast food is expected to grow in Asia pacific region. Food processing industry include in snacks, canned food, frozen food, sauces, gravies, ketchup, canned meat, soy sauce, sauces and, gravies among others. Restaurants and institutional food service providers is also an important application segment of MSG and expected to witness significant growth in the years to come.
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How I Optimized My Sleep With Technology
As a data geek, I have been quantifying my health for over a decade, measuring different aspects of my life in order to improve it. Although it has been a long process, I also managed to optimize my sleep with technology. Are you curious, how?
For years, I was frustrated by the quality of my sleep. One day, I would wake up refreshed after just 6 hours of sleep, but another I spent fatigued, even after getting the "recommended" 8 hours of shuteye. Given how important proper sleep is to brainpower, health and overall well-being, I wanted to optimize how I slept through the nights.
As many struggle to get a good night's sleep, I decided to lay down how I measured, understood and optimized mine. Here's my guide to sleeping better with technology.
Getting started with improving sleep quality: Step 1, Finding the problem
A mistake people often make when they want to use technology to live better is rushing to buy a wearable device. Devising a way to optimize your life is up to you. A wearable can help you, for sure, but only with the data. It is only you who can change your own lifestyle. I wrote about my system here.
As each health tracker has different features, you must find the one that can solve YOUR problem. So the first step is understanding the problem itself.
I knew my sleep quality was not satisfactory, but to understand more, I started scoring my sleep every day. To learn exactly what I measured, check my free, step by step guide to hacking sleep.
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Making a simple graph in an Excel spreadsheet made it clear that I regularly make mistakes before going to bed, as my subjective sleep quality often plummeted. But the change in quality did not depend very much on the actual sleep time or other often cited factors in sleep quality. So the scores helped me realize there are many things to improve, but without precise data about my sleep quality, the best I could hope for was a "trial and error" approach. To dig deeper into what made certain nights refreshing and others frustrating, I needed more data. It was time to look for a wearable device.
I purchased a small device, Withings Pulse. I chose it because it offers detailed sleep data such as how much time it takes to fall asleep; how long light and deep sleep periods are; and that is what I needed. It was also affordable with a cost of about 90 EUR.
One thing I often hear people worry about is wearing a tracker for the rest of their lives, but don't worry! I only wore the device daily for about a month when I optimized my sleep. Nowadays I just put it on every other month or so – when I feel something's amiss with my sleep quality.
In a week, I learnt more about my sleep than in decades before. It confirmed it doesn't matter at all whether I sleep for 7 or 9 hours, as long as I have at least one long deep sleep period. Crucial information that flies in the face of common sense.
After a few months, I realized I could get even more details data so I started testing other devices: Viatom Checkme and O2, Fitbit Surge and Pebble Time. What I learnt is that if the tracker is good (but not perfect), measuring sleep quality still works when the application I use on the smartphone is great.
Sleep as Android is the best app (I'm sorry, iPhone users)! It works with many types of sensors; and is the perfect app to provide detailed measurements as well as wake you up at the best time. Because of this, I sleep with a sensor connected to the app every night, but in return:
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Baja Peninsula is a paradise on Earth, and the giants of the marine world agree with us. Our yearly visitors from Alaska are the Humpback and Grey Whales. They have traveled for thousands of years to the coast of Baja California Sur to initiate and complete their reproductive cycle.
The whale migration journey is the longest mammal migration on Earth; they travel more than 16,000 kilometers from the coast of Alaska and Canada down to the warm waters of Baja's Pacific lagoons. They begin their journey through winter, from early December until April. These are the months when we have the opportunity to interact with them, and they amaze us with this natural and unique spectacle.
Baja California Sur knows the importance of the reproduction and safety of the whales; that's why it has its own "Whale Sanctuaries", protected natural areas to ensure the security of these mammals. Ojo de Liebre Lagoon is the biggest Whale Sanctuary in Baja, located in the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage. This sanctuary is the most important site for the reproduction and wintering of the grey and blue whales. The Ojo de Liebre lagoon is located on the Pacific coast, and it has an area of 227, 994 hectares.
Another important sanctuary is the San Ignacio Lagoon with an area of 142, 956 hectares located near to Ojo de Liebre Lagoon on the Pacific coast too. Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast is another special place where grey whales give birth to their babies, where they mate and feed and play. You can take a small boat from Adolfo Mateos Port or San Carlos Port to get into the bay and enjoy the peaceful whales and their newborn babies. The peace that you feel here is amazing, the bay is beautiful and quiet with only a few boats and mindful fishermen and whale guides, where whales can enjoy pure peace.
All the whale sanctuaries mentioned above are located 6 hours or more from Cabo San Lucas, so your whale watching trip to those lagoons would take at least two full days. If you can't take that much time away off of your Los Cabos vacation, don't worry – you can see the whales in Los Cabos as well! In Los Cabos, we have tour experts and providers that every year welcome visitors who come to live this unforgettable experience. Here you can see these playful mammals jumping into the sea enjoying the warm waters of Baja.
If you'd like to see the whales in their natural sanctuary, in the serene lagoons of the Pacific Coast, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, and we will be happy to organize a tour for you. The whale watching season in Baja lasts from December until the end of March.
Whale watching is one of a kind experience that will leave you unforgettable memories, the peace of these gentle mammals and their greatness is incredible. Whale season is one of our favorite seasons in Baja; we hope you can experience it to its fullest.
>> For more information on whale watching in Los Cabos and Baja, or if you have any other inquiry about Cabo San Lucas vacation rentals or property management services, please don't hesitate to contact us. We'd be glad to help! Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or call us at: USA Toll Free: 888-264-1827, USA: 619-819-6178, or Mexico: 624-105-9100.
* All the photos in this blog post are taken during our whale watching trip in Magdalena Bay.


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BIRD GOD of ILLNESS and PESTILENCE
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Bulalakaw is regarded more of an omen than an actual worshipped deity, although he is worshipped by babaylans, it is usually to spare the villages of the disasters a "bulalakaw" may bring to earth. It was once believed that whenever a comet is seen, pestilence is sure to follow. In ancient times, the people thought that when a star "falls" it usually means a bad omen is going to befall their community, especially if the comet "falls" on rainy, cold seasons, when sickness is rampant in the community due to lack of modern medicine and proper hygiene and sanitation observed by ancient communities, but nonetheless… ancient Visayans believed that the bird god of illness can be appeased by performing necessary rites and rituals are performed by the shamans or "babaylans". Some of the rituals and rites involve sacrifice of the flesh for the bird god, in order for him to be satiated during his rare visits to earth. These sacrifices of the flesh in ancient times include, animal sacrifices, sacrifices of young maidens or children and even drawing of one's own blood or flesh and burning it in the community fire to satisfy the deity.
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One should also take note that beliefs regarding Bulalakaw continued till the modern times, even as the Spanish missionaries converted the people to Christianity, and tried to change the belief's of the ancient Visayans, as the strong beliefs of this bringer of illness prevailed to this day, and until now whenever there is a comet that darts in the night sky, the superstitious folks would warn the children not to point at it, or bite their fingers when they do, warning them that Bulalakaw does not like to pointed at and might punish them for this deed.
as some believed he looks like a thin boy wearing a bird-like headdress or even a genderless deity with a bird's head. Some stories describe him to be a diwata who visits the earthly plane in form of a comet, hence the name "bulalakaw" (shooting star).


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When I was growing up in the tiny town of Gaston, Oregon (population: 325), there was a week-long festival in the "big" town of Forest Grove six miles away.
It was called the "Gay Nineties" and featured a parade with townspeople wearing clothing from the late 1800s. There was plenty of ice cream, a petting zoo, an imported carnival in the shopping center parking lot, and a dunking booth populated by local teachers and business owners.
Back in the 70s, this was seen as the highlight of the year for kids in my town. Sure, we had the Gaston Good 'Ol Days parade, and we were guaranteed a spot by simply showing up with our favorite farm animal, but it was not nearly as elaborate as the Gay Nineties. After all, Forest Grove had over 10,000 people, so their events were much more exciting than ours. They had a marching band and a queen!
I went out of state to attend college in 1978, traveled around the world during my senior year in 1982, and when I came back to Gaston for a visit after graduation, I wasn't
too surprised to learn that the Gay Nineties had been discontinued. You see, "gay" was no longer a word that meant "happy"--it was a word that meant homosexual. Gay Nineties was no longer considered an appropriate name for a town's annual festival.
I moved to Japan, met my wonderful husband-to-be, and after our wedding, we spent time in Palm Springs. My aunt Linda, a divorcee, lived in a charming cottage there and gave us the scoop on her new city. Unimpressed by the pool of eligible males, she told us that Palm Springs was referred to as the Gay Nineties--because all the men were either gay or in their nineties!
In 1988, my half-brother Dennis, a brilliant ex-Foreign Service official and executive director of an international business council, called to tell me that he had been fired by the board for marching in Chicago's Gay Pride parade. An openly gay man, he was stunned that his good work could be viewed as less important than his expression of pride in his sexual identity. He moved to San Francisco, became a high school history teacher, and shortly thereafter, became ill. He was diagnosed with AIDS, and died within a year.
During the 90s, my father--who announced he was homosexual back in 1964, his dumbfounded Mormon wife forced to pack up the three preschoolers to go live with her parents--would vent hostility at the mere mention of the word "gay." Never one to speak honestly about his own sexuality to his children despite the fact that it was stunningly obvious, he felt the word "gay" was somehow demoralizing.
In 2003, my younger brother Lynn, who had struggled mightily since the age of three with depression and an overpowering sense that he was not who he was, took his own life. He had been in counseling to find the courage to explore and embrace the seemingly shameful but unshakable notion that he had been meant to live as a woman. It didn't take.
I never miss the Gay Pride parade here in Portland. Every year, it's held on Father's Day. It is a joyful celebration of diversity and acceptance in all shapes, sizes, colors and preferences. I see a little bit of my loved ones there.
It bears absolutely no resemblance to the Gay Nineties parade of my youth. There may be petting, but no farm animals. It is raucous, bawdy, bittersweet, and full of tremendous affection and humor. There are wild costumes and vivid colors accented by throbbing music and boisterous dancing.
In short, it is gay--in every sense of the word.
Maya Talisman Frost is a mind masseuse in Portland, Oregon. Through her company, Real-World Mindfulness Training, she teaches creative and powerful eyes-wide-open alternatives to meditation. To subscribe to her free weekly ezine, the Friday Mind Massage, please visit http://www.MassageYourMind.com


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From Etsy: Hoo Are You Mobile from Tango and James, Large Cotton Bed Canopy/Netting from Caramiya, Carpe Noctem Wall Decal From Pillbox Designs, Fox Dream Large Print from Ginger Pocket
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Did you know that in some primal societies, members were unable to distinguish between the dream world and the waking world? Or they could simply choose not to make the distinction? They saw that the dream world was not only an extension of reality, but as a more powerful world. In the Greek and Roman eras, dreams were believed to be direct messages from the gods or from the dead. Special shrines were built where people could go to sleep in hopes that a message could be passed to them through their dreams. Their belief in the power of a dream was so strong that it even dictated the actions of political and military leaders. In fact, dream interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battle to help with war strategy. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle believed that dreams were a result of physiological functions. Dreams were seen as being able to diagnose illness and predict the onset of diseases. Special temples were built and it was believed that sick people who slept in these temples would be sent cures through their dreams. In Egypt, priests also acted as dream interpreters. People with particular vivid and significant dreams were believed to be blessed and were considered special. People who had the power to interpret dreams were looked up to and seen as divinely gifted. Then during the Middle Ages, dreams were seen as evil and their images were temptations from the devil. In the vulnerable sleep state, the devil was believed to fill the mind of humans with poisonous thoughts. In the early 19th century, dreams were dismissed as stemming from anxiety, a household noise or even indigestion. Later on in the 19th century, along came Sigmund Freud who revived the importance of dreams and the need for dream interpretation.
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And so it goes on. I wonder what future generations will see as the place of dreams to us, the people of the 21st century? There are plenty of dream dictionaries out there –books and websites where you can check out what certain dream symbols or themes mean. There are scientific theories about dreaming as a processing of our day's events. There are Freudian psychoanalysts. I don't know if these tools are useful to anybody else but they've never seemed relevant to my own dreaming. They're too simple. I can never make them 'fit'. Maybe there's no definitive answer. Maybe when it comes to understanding our dreams - like the meaning of life - all we have is the mystery. Because, like life, it's beyond us to understand, but we can still soak it up, breath in every moment, marvel, enjoy. Because like the meaning of life the more we try to hang on to an answer, the faster it slips away. We think we have it and then it's gone. Grabbing on aggressively and pulling with all our might is fruitless. Better to lay still and replay that dream, letting the film roll as it pleases. Being with it, sitting with it, gently, with no pressure.
All people dream, but not equally.Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,
Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,
For they dream their dreams with open eyes,And make them come true.
(DH Lawrence)
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Blue Jackets scout staff firings… 8th overall pick in play? / Jeff Carter Available?
OK, a new Lowetide article is up that mentions news about the Columbus Blue Jackets cleaning up their scouting staff. Don Boyd (Assistant GM, dubbed "amateur scouting guru" by the article) and Bob Strumm (Pro Scouting Director) were fired. Lowetide mentions that with this happening so close to the draft, you have to wonder if this fuels the rumor even more of their 8th overall pick being available. Of course, the Oilers and Howson have their history, and he's generally been a willing dance partner with us.
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Veteran actors Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier play the earthy Battistini and shabby but elegant Mondardini, two older men abandoned by their families during the vacation months who decide to vacation together on the famed beaches of Cote d'Azur. The two bicker, quarrel and make up while they pursue various amorous dreams with the lovely women they encounter. Battistini runs into the man who stole his wife from him (Vittorio Caprioli) and is offered a chance to take her back. His own fortune depleted by his incessant pursuit of women, Mondardini begins a relationship with the ruined gambler Germaine (Andrea Ferreol). Misfortunes of all kinds appear ready to derail these two bon-vivants' good times, but they always manage to shrug them off and enjoy themselves.
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EFF in the News
The incentive to settle is to keep from being named forever in court records as a porno fiend, which "seems to me like it's a good way to make an easy buck," said Julie Samuels, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, nonprofit advocate for what it calls "freedoms in the networked world."
This could also be a project for the EFF. The EFF has the expertise, they list "innovation" and "fair use" among their causes, and they talk explicitly about trolling on their intellectual property page. But they've typically involved themselves in a smaller number of relatively high-profile cases.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also on board with this initiative, as are a score of law schools across the United States. DDP seeks to modify and balance privacy laws to make sure they are compatible with today's technological reality.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation — based in San Francisco and known for its advocacy in support of digital privacy measures — has been encouraging its supporters to aid activists around the world by putting their computers in service of a volunteer-run anonymizing online network called Tor.
he legislation is aimed at websites that stream copyrighted content for profit, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes the bill will "impose a chilling effect around the posting and creation of online video."
Other porn companies, media businesses and law firms have embraced similar strategies, which San Francisco digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation describes as "copyright trolling."
Jennifer Lynch, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jennifer Lynch, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
An Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece argues that Microsoft and Cisco are more interested in abetting China's repressive regime than taking a stand for freedom.


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E3 – Wolfenstein: The New Order Interview with Machine Games
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Day one of E3's show floor kicked off with a bang. At the Bethesda booth, we got to see a demo of Wolfenstein: The New Order by MachineGames, and then were treated to some hands-on time with it. We spoke with Thomas Björk, a narrative developer on the project, about the new direction this classic series is moving in.


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Rich Hammond, selling more tickets!!!Author: kingster
100 bucks a pop to meet Rich and sit in a suite for a Kings game. This is being billed as some sort of superfan night, a "give-back" sort of deal from Rich and the Kings.
100 bucks a pop! Journalism at it's finest! Hey Rich, what happened with Mark Hardy's incestuous firing? Heidi Androl's drunken driving or Luc Robitaille's home foreclosure? INVESTIGATE something you namby-pamby PR hack!!!
As a follow-up to the post about the "suite" games, Frank did some yeoman's work over the past few days. Noting that, in the comments, there was a bit of a groundswell for a game against a higher-profile opponent — even at a cost increase — Frank worked with Larry Abel of Staples Center and came up with a new alternative for the first of the two nights. The Nov. 19 game against Detroit (a Saturday) has now been made available, at the cost of $100 per ticket. That's in contrast to $75 for the other games. So here's how we will handle it. Since the polling for the first night was close, we'll take the top two games and then add in the Detroit game and see which one people favor. Again, please don't vote unless you believe there's a realistic possibility you will be able to attend the game. Thanks… Getting this done far in advance should make for a memorable, fun night for all involved!


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My father said: "You were born quite unexpectedly,
Remote from Aksum, like a beauty spot for al-Najaf-'the Virgin's Cheek.'
Your one obsession has been writing, but
The sea will run dry before you arrive at the meaning of meaning."
He affirmed: "During a pressing famine,
I devoted myself to watching over every breath you took.
I would thrust my hand through the film of hope
To caress your spirit with bread.
You would burp, and
I would delightedly endure my hunger and fall asleep.
I could only find the strength to fib to your face and say I was happy.
I would feel devastated when you fidgeted,
Because you would always head toward me,
And I felt helpless."
Aksum! They say you're far away!
"No, it's closer to you than your exile."
"And now?"
"Don't talk about 'now' while we're living it."
"The future depresses me. How can I proceed?"
How can the ear be deaf to the wailing from the streets?
Aksum, you have colored my skin. Al-Najaf has freshened my spirit.
She knows and does the opposite.
She knows that I inter only dirt above me, and
That I deny everything except spelling out words:
M: Mother, who went walking down the alley of no return.
F: Father, who hastened after her.
B: Brother, who never earned that title.
S: Sister who buttoned her breast to a loving tear, no matter how fake.
………………….There's no one I care about!
The trees tremble some times, and we don't ask why.
My life surrounds me the way prison walls surround suspects;
I am the victim of a building erected by a frightened man.
With its talons time scratches its tales on me,
And I transform them into a silent song
Or, occasionally, a psalm of sobs.
Father, do you believe that–the roots have been torn asunder?
Fantasies began to carry me from al-Najaf to Afyon
And from Afyon to nonexistence,
Yellow teeth stretching all the way.
"History's not anything you've made,"
One American neighbor tells another.
He's surprised to see me.
"Who are you?" he asks when he doesn't believe his eyes.
Would he understand the truth of my origin if I told him I was born in al-Najaf
Or that Aksum has veiled my face?
I have walked and walked and walked.
I'm exhausted, Father.
Is your child mine?
Show yourself and return me to the purity of your loins.
Allow me to occupy the seventh vertebra of fantasy!
Don't eject me into a time I don't fit.
I need you.
I ask you:
Has my Lord forbidden me to be happy?
Am I forbidden to preserve
What I have left
And sit some warm evening
Averting my ear from a voice that doesn't interest me?
Answer me, Father!
Or change the face of our garden
So it changes….to what they believe!
-Copyright 2014 © Faleeha Hassan (Translated by William Hutchins)
More about the Poet: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/faleeha-hassan
More poetry by Faleeha Hassan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6zJuH8NII
Image credit: http://sjmagazine.net/july-2016/poet


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Marie Delafon
Any website you wish to feature? Do you have a blog or place you post your work?
I am a french artist based in Paris. I had a website I closed, and redirected to my blog www.mariedelafon.com. Actually I am trying to build the new one on Cargo Collective. There'll will images, blog, thumblr and web shop. On my blog I am not posting that much, some pieces of my work, view through the window, little installations in my working place…I draw, I take pictures or I scann, I re-work images, I change scale, some are printed and put in little installations in front of my working table, to inspire me.
You mentioned you use 5 notebooks, this is very interesting! Which is your favorite style and why?
I use 4 or 5 notebooks, because I take notes by writing and drawing. Also I let my mind free to full them. I am afraid to forgot things to do, ideas, dreams, so I don't go out without 3 of them:
1-classic Pocket plain sketchbook (hard cover). It is red. drawing, pattern etc.
2-classic hard cover large sketchbook (usually it stays in my working place). drawing gouache; collage
3-Classic large soft cover ruled notebook. anything to remember, to do list, meetings etc.
4-classic large soft cover weekly planner. Usefull and full ! even if i use I Cal.
5- a small thin one for extra project: website etc. it stay near by my PC place in the studio.
How do you currently use all the notebooks and why?
I like the classic style, and mostly the heavyweight paper to draw and support pencils, and gouache.
I use them in the studio, but take them to my home in the evening,and for holidays, it is like a small portable studio! Even if I don't use them, I know it is nearby ! The placebo effect !
Where is your ideal location to take a notebook? If you had to just list one dream place where you could have a whole day to yourself to write in your notebook, where would this place be?
I can work and create anywhere: using note and sketchbooks, camera, computer. The good place is a quiet one. A garden, or inside with the window open, or inside near by a fire place ! even on holidays my kids know that it is personnal. But they ask to look inside, and they go on my blog to check ! They also have many notebooks ! They know the rule: first step to create is the HAND. Computer comes after. Whatever you draw or note, it stays in you visual and mental library.
What do you want to tell the world?
Tell the world ? Humm, Play ! Use all you senses for that. Well, it is what the world tells me !
Where will you and your notebooks be in 5 years?
In 5 years. I wish I could find the time and the energy to make some of my projects come out of the notebooks and the studio: images, books, prints, products, pictures, movies ! Who knows ?


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San Francisco, CA, Thursday, April 7, 2005 - Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS) announced today that the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Department (the "Nasdaq Staff") has notified the Company that it is not in compliance with the requirements of Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(14) because it has not yet filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2004 (the "2004 10-K") with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, Advent common stock is subject to delisting from the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Company's delay in filing its 2004 10-K is the only listing deficiency cited by the Nasdaq Staff.
Advent intends to request an appeal hearing before a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel (the "Panel") to review the delisting determination. Under the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules, the delisting of Advent's common stock will be stayed pending the Panel's review and determination. Until the Panel's ultimate determination, the date of which is not yet known, Advent common shares will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, but its trading symbol as of Thursday, April 7, 2005, will be amended from "ADVS" to "ADVSE", to reflect the Company's filing delinquency. Advent disclosed in a Form 8-K filed on March 31, 2005 that the Company's management was still in the process of completing its assessment of the Company's internal control over financial reporting, although because of the material weaknesses identified to date, management will conclude that the Company did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004. The Company intends to file its 2004 10-K on or before Wednesday, April 13, 2005.
ABOUT ADVENT Advent Software, Inc. (www.advent.com), a multi-national firm, has been providing trusted solutions to the world's leading financial professionals since 1983. Firms in 50 countries using Advent technology manage investments totaling more than US $8 trillion. Advent's quality software, data, services and tools enable financial professionals to improve service and communication to their clients, allowing them to grow their business while controlling costs.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from those described in such statements as a result. In particular, the forward-looking statements relating to the Company's intent to file its 2004 10-K and the expectation that its stock will continue to trade on The Nasdaq Stock Market are based on management's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that may contribute to such a difference include, but are not limited to the results and completion of the audit of the Company's financial statements and assessment of its internal control over financial reporting, and the fact that, despite the appeal process, the Company's stock may still be subject to delisting, which could affect the value and liquidity of the Company's common stock. For more information regarding other potential risks and uncertainties, see the "Factors That May Affect Future Results" section of the company's most recent Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004 and Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
ADVENT is a registered trademark of Advent Software, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other company names or marks mentioned herein are those of their respective owners.
Graham Smith – Chief Financial Officer
Advent Software, Inc.
301 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 543-7696