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NBCnews.com (Oct. 2, 2012) – Bats may have more in common with the fictional Batman than previously believed, since both successfully combine work with courting sexy potential mates — a lot of them. (Read entire article…)
To the bat cave! US conservationists hope bunker can halt deadly fungus
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Discussion in 'Model S: Driving Dynamics' started by Bennny, Apr 5, 2016.
Which, and why?
20" square.
A) Nice look without the pothole or harsh ride issues of the 21"s
B) Square setup lets the MS steer fairly neutral -- staggered encourages understeer
C) Square setup lets you rotate in a rear-cross pattern to lengthen tire life, staggered limits rotation options.
19" square,
A) compared to any reasonable person, this is still "low profile", and with TST or Rial wheels, nobody can tell they aren't 21s without a side by side comparison
B) Square allows for tire rotation
C) 19" is far more comfortable a ride, and far less susceptible to damage than anything larger, and performs as well or better than 20s or 21s when equipped with the same model of tires.
Disagree with B) Staggered encourages understeer.
Quite the contrary. Not on the TMS. With staggered Turbines with 245/35-21 front and 265/35-21 rear, the car handles better and with less understeer than any other Model S, on both single motor or dual motor versions.
I used to drive squared Turbines and swapped the rear wheels to 9" wide Turbines with 265/35-21 Conti 5P CSI. The car does bends much better than previously and understeer is history. I drive a 85D with air suspension.
Completely disagree with A)
I changed to 21 inch Turbines for my winter setup because any 19" wheels look tiny on the Model S and ruins the aesthetics of the otherwise good looking car. Whether Rial Luganos or TST.
No need to do a side by side comparison with 21s unless you are old with very poor eye sight and lack aesthetic judgement.
None of the above, I'd prefer the brake calipers be slightly smaller and allow 18" wheels. For range increase, cost per mile savings, cost per tire savings.
Given that isn't an option without modifying the brakes I'd take the 19" square option as the best option.
I agree...I think that's the 'SweetSpot'.....no 21 cost/damage....looks better than 19's. Looks like you have the 20" TST's? Love that look....perfect in my opinion. Like the 21s but all the issues.
I also have an 85D with air suspension.
I'd be interested in trying a staggered setup to feel the difference. Conventional wisdom says that more tread in the rear = better grip = less tendency for the rear to slide out and more tendency for the front to break loose = understeer. However, I'm not a suspension setup expert, and there's definitely other factors than this simple analysis.
Yes, I have the 20x9" TSTs.
Looks like from above I may have to get two of the 20x10" TSTs and try a staggered setup.


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In 2002, we introduced a wholly owned subsidiary, Protiviti Inc. Protiviti® is a leading provider of internal audit and business and technology risk consulting services. Robert Half International is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: RHI) and is a member of Standard & Poor's S&P 500 index.


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Summer vacation? I'm not sure if that really applies to stay at home moms. I think I am going to pack up my stamping supplies for a couple days later on in August and enjoy a little mom retreat. I'm pretty sure they can make it a few days without me--I'm just not sure about the house. LOL
Today, I escaped to the basement and made a card for Krista's Cards & Things Challenge. Krista really knows how to make me think and again with the color purple. :) Try this challenge and let's see how creative you are!!
Here's my card:
I used the Level 2 hostess set, Love & Care from the Summer Mini. I love this set.
I distressed, tore, crumpled, rolled and added butterflies. This is so unlike me! What do you think?


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There are some folks who suggest that superheroes outlived their relevancy by the end of World War II, when the blatant evil of fascism was effectively wiped from Europe and the colorful, practically-made-for-fiction evil of the Nazis was no longer a viable source of villainy. Well, those folks are wrong on two levels: Superheroes were always irrelevant and they never stopped fighting Nazis anyway.
And a third reason is because they also went on to fight allergens!
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streets, with the rest of the filth."
Asthma Monster's m.o. is to shoot cat dander directly into the open mouths of everyone on the planet Earth, crippling them with asthma attacks and allowing him to conquer the world. Why dress like a monster to do this? Good question, and also a tough call, and also I don't really know except kids hate monsters like with their whole literal brains, so he's a good villain for a kids' comic about why you shouldn't make fun of the guy who brings his inhaler to the kickball field.
When the Asthma Monster makes his return to bedevil the innocent town of Midville -- and to revenge himself upon not just Captain America, but also meddling kids and asthma sufferers John and Ruth who aided the Star-Spangled Avenger in defeating the Asthma Monster the first time around - he doesn't come alone. Accompanying the baddie and his sole weapon, the Aller-Gun (which sounds ominously Wagnerian, if you say it out loud), is a parade of tiny, hairy, dusty Gremlins ... with attitude!
|Well, you're never going to be able
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The Asthma Monster's primary powers are hucking cigar ash up your nose with a Nerf bazooka and teleportation, so he fucks off out of the fight as soon as it begins. Taking his place is his platoon of asthma-causing assistants, a crew of twisted little gnomes and weirdos who resemble what might happen if the Smurfs fucked a bunch of Ugnaughts.
Leading the crew is Rugburn, the monster who does it doggy style in front of the couch, I guess. Decked out in gold shorts, orange suspenders and roller skates, he chews "Super Smokin' Cigars" and is dispatched with a hand-held vacuum cleaner, which is a summary of the type of dream you get after a dinner of pulled pork and straight gin.
|Avengers -- Inhale!
As a personal aside, I suffered from asthma when I was a kid, growing up in the wildly unsafe-to-inhale state of California during a period when its air pollution was world-famous for literally murdering people. I ended up spending a few non-consecutive weeks in an air tent just to keep alive. If only my doctors had informed me that I could have merely beaten the tar out of filthy mogwais, I'd've reclaimed a lot of my childhood.
Anyway, the conclusion of the battle involves the apparent final defeat of the Asthma Monster, the return of John's or Ruth's parents -- whoever -- and also one kid in school who had asthma is inspired to go get treatment for it, which is good news for him because that keeps the Asthma Monster away. Victories all around!
Simpsons fans might enjoy the actual coda, though, where a reformed Asthma Monster -- himself an asthma sufferer who merely tried to give everyone asthma just so he'd feel like less of an outsider -- is granted parole and returns to a normal, healthy life as a coach for a high school swim team. In fact, it's the high school swim team on which John, the kid he'd been trying to kill earlier, is the star athlete. If he starts assisting with Ruth's meetings for Job's Daughters International, then both of those kids'll have something more than swollen bronchial passages to be afraid of.
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by George Wilson, IBM Linux Technology Center
I was recently reading through the NIST "Draft Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies" (SP 800-125 draft) [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-125/Draft-SP800-125.pdf]. It discusses various considerations relating to hypervisor security. One section that particularly struck me was the comparison of bare metal vs hosted hypervisors. These are also known as Type I and Type II hypervisors, respectively. The document states that choosing between them is a critical security decision. That started me wondering if it is actually true that Type I hypervisors offer superior security to Type II hypervisors. While a Type I hypervisor may have a small kernel, it relies on and trusts an entire OS instance in the resource-owning partition (Dom0 in Xen parlance) for device access. So while it might at first blush appear that a Type I hypervisor has a much smaller TCB than a Type II, the TCB is really just in a different place. Given imperfect knowledge of the implementations and similar size, complexity, and maturity, it would seem that Type I and Type II hypervisors would in general offer similar security. I can't find any solid evidence to the contrary. I'd love to hear from someone who can clarify why the Type I vs Type II distinction is in any way a major factor in hypervisor security analysis.
by Rajiv Andrade, Linux Technology Center
Since the foundation of the Trusted Computing Group, previously named Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, the pillars required to win most of today's security challenges have been heavily developed.
The Trusted Platform Module and the Trusted Software Stack are two of these. Now that we have in our hands the required enablement, the next expected step is to come up with the development of detailed and implementable use cases that were originally envisioned when starting the Trusted Computing Initiative.
The use case presented in this newly published Blueprint exploits the integrity measurement capability that the TPM provides. Other than using a passphrase as an authorization token, it describes how to use a machine's integrity to authorize access to sensitive files, by means of a key sealed to those integrity parameters.
The parameters include the loaded kernel image, the bootloader and its configuration file, and the BIOS. Thus, if one tries to load a different flawed kernel image, those sensitive files won't be accessible. It's also worth mentioning that the bootloader used is able also to measure critical system files (e.g. the libraries placed at /lib), making the job of a rootkit even harder.
The next step is to attest a machine's integrity using the Integrity Measurements Architecture (IMA) logs that contain a list of measurements of all files accessed by the root user during runtime.
Check it out at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/topic/liaai/tpm/liaaitpmstart.htm
By Bryan Jacobson, Linux Technology Center.
While Virtualization offers many benefits, there can also be increased security risks. For example, consider a system running two hundred virtual images. All two hundred images are at risk if a flaw in the hypervisor (or configuration) allows any virtual guest to "break out" into the host environment and affect other virtual guests.
sVirt is a project to improve the security of Linux virtualization. Svirt applies the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) features of SELinux to strengthen the isolation between virtual images. Svirt works with KVM/QEMU and other Linux virtualization systems where the virtual image runs as a Linux user space process.
sVirt is a community project, with founding authors from Red Hat: Daniel Berrange, James Morris, and Dan Walsh. sVirt is integrated with libvirt.
One of my favorite sVirt use cases is: "Strongly isolating desktop applications by running them in separately labeled VMs (e.g. online banking in one VM and World of Warcraft in another; opening untrusted office documents in an isolated VM for view/print only)." (From the 8/11/2008 sVirt project announcement at www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-August/msg00255.html).
The project announcement also identifies an excellent design goal: "Initially, sVirt should "just work" as a means to isolate VMs, with minimal administrative interaction. e.g. an option is added to virt-manager which allows a VM to be designated as "isolated", and from then on, it is automatically run in a separate security context, with policy etc. being generated and managed by libvirt.".
You can find a 48 minute video of James Morris's February 2009 presentation on sVirt at Linux.conf.au: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5750618585157629496#
Slides from that presentation are at: namei.org/presentations/svirt-lca-2009.pdf
by Klaus Heinrich Kiwi, LTC Security team
The openCryptoki project, a PKCS#11 provider for Linux with support for software and hardware tokens, has released new versions for both the openCryptoki code itself as well as for it's associated library, libica.
- Libica-2 is a major cleanup from the previous versions. It has a new API and supports software fall-back (OpenSSL) when no Crypto hardware is present. The current version (2.0.2) has bug fixes and improved code examples.
- OpenCryptoki 2.3.0 includes support for Libica-2 and has a number of bug fixes and minor improvements
OpenCryptoki is the most common way that PKCS#11-enabled applications (including Java JCE aplications) can exploit cryptographic hardware in a Linux environment.
By Bryan Jacobson, Linux Technology Center.
Tyler Hicks (from our team) recently attended the 5/25-29 Ubuntu Developers Summit for Karmic Koala in Barcelona, Spain.
Some of Tyler's observations on Security topics:
- There are quite a few eCryptfs users out there and they are generally happy with the version shipped in Jaunty. Most were using the encrypted home feature, but some wanted more flexibility and had custom setups.
- eCryptfs encrypted swap is on the roadmap for Karmic.
- Michael Rooney has been working on graphical applications to compliment some of the eCryptfs userspace tools that are currently bound to the command line.
- Tyler held an eCryptfs roadmap talk about future eCryptfs features: eCryptfs on top of popular network filesystems, improved key management, and asking for someone interested in completing the eCryptfs GPG key module.
Some general observations from Tyler:
- Ubuntu would like to be the premier guest available in Amazon EC2.
- Ubuntu users will soon have a daily build of the virtualization stack available, which is a big win for both the upstream developers and the users.
- Dustin Kirkland http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/ gave a talk on leveraging the cloud for data center power savings.
- The Ubuntu kernel team committed to removing non-upstream kernel code that no one is using anymore.
See the whole story on Tyler blog at: http://blog.tyhicks.net
Intel has done a study on the costs associated with a stolen or lost laptop. One of the most interesting aspects of the study is that they were able to quantify how much a company saves when the confidential data on the lost laptop is encrypted. The grand total is
saved per lost laptop when the confidential data is encrypted.
I'd recommend using eCryptfs if you are running Linux on your laptop.
by Klaus Heinrich Kiwi, IBM LTC Security Team.
In the Information Security world, authentication and authorization are orthogonal concepts:
- Authentication refers to the act of correctly identifying an user or other entity, e.g.: making sure a user is who he really say he is. This is often done by associating passwords or keys to user accounts.
- Authorization refers to the act of granting access from certain users to certain services or resources, e.g.: allowing the user john_doe to read the file /foo/bar. This is usually done by mapping users and groups to resources through the use of permissions.
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol aimed at providing secure and reliable authentication semantics over an insecure (open) network. In a glimpse, it relies on symmetric key cryptography and in a trusted third-party to provide mutual authentication between two entities (called Principals in Kerberos nomenclature). This means that in a scenario where a user is authenticated against a network service, not only the service can be sure of the user identity, but the user can also be sure that he is communicating with the right server. All of this is done without exposing clear passwords or keys in the network.
The Kerberos Protocol is a standard (RFC 4120) with different implementations such as Microsoft's Active Directory, Heimdal, the AFS kaserver and the Open Source MIT-Kerberos implementation.
LDAP, on the other hand, is an information retrieval protocol for accessing special purpose databases, called Directories. Directories are usually optimized for reading (queries) as opposed to writing operations (inserts), thus they are often used in write once, read many scenarios. This optimization aspect, associated with the hierarchical manner the objects are organized in the database makes LDAP an ideal choice for performing the mapping operations an authorization system needs.
LDAP is also a standard (RFC 4510, RFC 3494 among others) with numerous implementations such as the Open Source OpenLDAP and the IBM Tivoli Directory Server, aimed at enterprise use.
Since release 1.6 of the Open Source MIT-Kerberos (krb5) implementation, it is possible to combine the powerful authentication aspects of the Kerberos Protocol with the reliability and scalability provided by LDAP authorization. Such feature is included in recent enterprise distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 series and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and later, giving those platforms the possibility to benefit from combining the Open Source MIT-Kerberos implementation with the enterprise features of IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
It was with the intention of demonstrating how the above scenario can be achieved that I wrote a Blueprint covering the subject of Using MIT-Kerberos fo IBM Tivoli Directory Server backend.
Blueprints are documents describing the detailed plan of action for a specific task involving IBM hardware or technology. Blueprints bring a step-by-step description showing the exact actions needed to perform a certain task. Those steps are written with the expertise from the Software Engineers who actually work on development, but are also tested for correctness inside IBM labs – an IBM-branded HOWTO.
Besides the above Blueprint, please check-out the other publications I've authored or co-authored, including the Enterprise Multiplatform Auditing Redbook and my Logical Volume Management developerWorks article.
And as always, feedback is greatly appreciated!
by George Wilson <firstname.lastname@example.com>, IBM Linux Technology Center
Operating system security features are notoriously difficult to explain. Folks who work on security have their own specialized vocabulary, which serves well to communicate concisely with other members of our community. However, it can be difficult to translate concepts into everyday language. Have you ever tried talking about SELinux to those who have never been exposed to MAC? You have to provide a large amount of background material simply to describe what SELinux is, let alone what interesting things can be done with it.
The LTC Security Development Team have developed a number of security features over the years. We've discussed them on mailing lists, written conference papers, and otherwise communicated our work to other technical folks. However, explaining the relevance of Linux security features to non-geeks remains a difficulty.
To help address the communications gap, the LTC Security Development Team in concert with the Information Development Team have created a customer-level Linux security brochure. In it, we discuss the various capabilities we have helped bring to Linux distros. Please take a look. It is available for download here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/linux/pdfs/LTC/SecurityTeam.pdf, which BTW is one of the many resources available from the LTC Library here: http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/ltc/whitepapers.html.
By Bryan Jacobson, Linux Technology Center, IBM ( firstname.lastname@example.com).
Emily – thanks so much for the guest blogging opportunity!!
On January 5th, Twitter was hacked. "I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today" came from the account of Rick Sanchez, CNN Anchor and top 20 Twitterholic. 33 high profile accounts were hacked, including those belonging to Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly.
All because a Twitter administrator chose a password susceptible to a dictionary attack. blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/professed-twitt.html
There are 22 trillion 8 character alpha-numeric passwords.
But studies of actual passwords have found 20% or more to be guessable. A 2006 analysis of 34,000 MySpace passwords found 4% to be dictionary words, and many others were variations on the user's name, pop culture references like "blink182", or just adding a "1" to the end of a word or name. The most common password was: "password1". schneier.com/essay-144.html.
The prevalence of weak passwords creates an environment where internet worms can replicate and spread. For example, a worm that exploits weak passwords is currently mounting a Distributed Denial of Service attack against DroneBL.org (see dronebl.org/blog/8).
Can't we just tell everyone to start using good passwords? The list of 500 Worst Passwords illustrates how even when users try to form secure passwords, the result may be guessable: whatsmypass.com/?p=415.
Fortunately, on Linux, the problem of weak passwords is curable, using pam_cracklib, which was written by Cristian Gafton.
By default my Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) laptop required 8 character passwords, but allowed "arkansas", other dictionary words, or even the user's name.
Loading pam_cracklib was easy. The command "sudo apt-get install libpam-cracklib" both installed the package and configured pam_cracklib in /etc/pam.d/common-password.
Now when I try to set a password to "arkansas" I get: "BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word".
A wide variety of guessable passwords were also rejected with "BAD PASSWORD", including an explanation of the reason:
"testuser1": it is based on your user name
"arkansas9": it is based on a dictionary word
"7ytiruces": it is based on a (reversed) dictionary word
"12345678": it is too simplistic/systematic
"blink182": it is based on a dictionary word
"12121212": it does not contain enough DIFFERENT characters
I did find a couple guessable passwords that pam_cracklib accepted:
"qwertyui" (from the top row of the keyboard).
"qazwsxed" (from keys on the left size of the keyboard)
These words can be added to the file: /usr/local/share/dict/cracklib and they will also be rejected when the pam_cracklib dictionary is rebuilt overnight.
Bottom line: pam_cracklib can improve your system security and reduce the impact of worms. (You can see other pam_cracklib features at The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide, section 6.2. pam_cracklib – checks the password against dictionary words.)
Mike Halcrow has written a paper on Installing and configuring eCryptfs with a trusted platform module (TPM) key. This paper is available on IBM Systems Information Center along with a bunch of other step-by-step guides.
This paper describes how to use a TPM key directly with eCryptfs. It demonstrates the flexibility of eCryptfs' pluggable key module framework. Since the TPM wasn't designed to do bulk encryption, if you actually set eCryptfs up this way, you'll get pretty low performance, but it is an interesting exercise nonetheless and if you have small bits of information that you want strongly protected, this does provide one good option. I hear that Mike is working on replicating this experiment with a wrappered key which should provide much better performance but requires a little additional code.
In addition to showing how to integrated the TPM with eCryptfs, this paper also contains a step-by-step descriptions on how to do ancillary operations like how to enable encrypted swap in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and how to get your TPM up and operational. This side content alone makes the paper useful.


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- n. A rope used to secure a load to a pack-saddle.
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At the same time we rendered Bevans incapable of hostile movement by anchoring both hands securely behind his back with a pack-rope.
The carga is then placed on the top, if a single pack; or if two of equal size and weight one on each side, being coupled together by a rope, which balances them on the mule's back: a stout pack-rope is then thrown over all, drawn as tight as possible under the belly, and laced round the packs, securing the load firmly in its place.
The lash rope, or pack-rope, in the Army is one-half inch in size and is fifty feet long; but a forty-foot rope is plenty long enough for Scouts.
Next morning, after the sheep were out, Pete picked up a pack-rope and amused himself by flipping the loop on the burros, the clumps of brush, stubs, and limbs, keeping at it until the old herder noticed and nodded.
The bight of the pack-rope under the dead man's shoulders enabled him to heave the body out of the hole.
You will furthermore want a pack-cinch and a pack-rope for each horse.
Once fifty or sixty pounds of beef that was tied on his back slid over his shoulders along his neck and weighed down his head to the ground, fairly anchoring him; but he stood patient and still for half an hour or so without making the slightest struggle to free himself, while I was away getting help to untie the pack-rope and set the load back in its place.
Griggs slung his double rifle and seized the end of the pack-rope, casting loose the load and letting it slide to the ground, while the doctor cautiously approached to examine the place at which the mule now tore fiercely with its teeth.


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Wouldn't life be infinitely more amusing if every day were Halloween? Who would have time for war, corporate scandals or watering their lawn if they were busy stitching that last bit of brocade onto their toreador knickers or regluing that one stubborn rhinestone onto that blinding Elizabethan tiara? While we all hide behind the facades of our culture's everyday fashions (or lack thereof), costumes and masks actually unveil the desires and fantasies (not to mention superpowers) of the person they disguise; the hidden becomes surface while the surface is concealed.
The current shows at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, falling under the umbrella description "Experiments in Fashion," give you the chance to inhabit such a world, not to mention all the fabulous ideas you can steal for this year's Halloween costume.
Take Lucia Matzger's pieces in the Regional Gallery, one of the first things to give visual shout-out when you walk into the building. Now who would've thought to make kimonos for garden dwarves out of used, photocopied coffee filters? Genius! Seeing the potential antique color and texture made by good ol' Mr. Coffee is just the kind of imaginative leap so many artists fail to make.
Or how about a pair of stick and/or stone slippers for the rustic Cinderella? They're actually sticks and stones fashioned out of gut! -- trompe beef, let's say. Carol Durham's foot fetish is equally bizarre and just as bafflingly obsessive as Matzger's kimonos, and worn in combination together, the works of these two artists have the beginnings of a really great cocktail outfit!
Add to it one of Nick Cave's (not the singer) prickly wirehair helmets for the snazzier fencing competitor, or one of Jean Hicks' abstract wool hats, and hey -- who needs pants?!
Also not to miss in this grouping on the first floor are local favorite Daisy McConnel's 2-D investigations into the patterns of fashion and femininity.
But if it's an outfit to wear to the Oscars you need, and you want to upstage Bjork, then you'll have to head to the third floor for the Conceptual Clothing show. I'm not quite sure what makes these costumes and outfits "conceptual," but all the garments in this gallery definitely fall far from the Gap tree.
On the left as you enter the gallery you have a blank-faced mannequin looking smashing in CC Professor Gypsy Ames' "Zircon Dream," a dress and headdress bedazzled with large blue crystals fashioned from plastic with plenty of accentual rhinestones.
Ames' theater roots come through even more stunningly in "The Phoenix," a silk-feathered rainbow body suit that would liven up any casual Friday at the office.
If Ames' designs are just too Zsa Zsa for you, then Patricia Black's new-age imperial minimalism is just the thing when you want to blend into the curtains at Yoko Ono's pad at the Dakota. Using an ancient Japanese dying technique called "shibori," Black's outfits are loose, colorful, mysterious and say "concubine" with a decidedly feminist twist.
If it's just an accessory you're looking for, Korean-born designer Jeung-Hwa Park's shawls are ever so autumn at the Bauhaus. Wearing her craft on her sleeve, Park's knitting incorporates raised leaf shapes, nuts and other indispensable elements of the squirrel's world.
Last, and painfully far from the least, are the cumbersome, yet metaphorically hyperfunctional outfits of Bolinas, Calif. artist Sha Sha Higby. Think Dark Crystal meets H.R. Geiger on the set of a Brothers Quay movie produced in Tibet. Combining elements of sculpture, puppetry and windchimes, Higby's work has that "just got back from Hades" look sure to keep away those courtiers who just aren't deep enough.
Plan to blend in or be shamefully upstaged at the opening!
"Experiments with Fashion" featuring Conceptual Clothing, Surface Treatments, Extending the Body: Fashion Accessories, and Cowboy Couture
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
210 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo, 719/543-0130
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The proof of a delicious dinner is in this pudding, a classic baked custard reinvented as a savory meatless main dish. It's a great casserole for breakfast too.
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- In a small bowl place dried tomatoes; add enough hot water to cover. Let stand about 15 minutes or until softened; drain.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl beat together eggs, milk, and basil; set aside. In an ungreased 2-quart square baking dish toss together torn English muffins, corn, cheese, and softened tomatoes.* Carefully pour egg mixture evenly over mixture in baking dish.
- Bake in a 375 degree F oven about 30 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool slightly. To serve, if desired, spoon bread pudding atop tomato wedges. Makes 6 servings.
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Cover and refrigerate the egg mixture and English muffin mixture separately for up to 24 hours. Combine and bake as directed.
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So what is it? - I have a few people at Christmas markets that cant quite work out what the calendar is for and move on from the stall if i cant catch them to explain. It essentially a list of all your families / friends important birthdays / anniversaries that you can hang on the wall as a keep sake and always visible. The months of the year run across the top discs and then the birthdays clip under each respective one. Another great thing about the calendar is that a pen is provided with blank discs for you to write your own names on and if a new birthday / anniversary is needed in the future it can be easily added to the respective month.
I had to add one to it already recently for the birth of my niece and for this reason I decided to sell them with blank disks meaning that the writing style / pen colour will be the same throughout the calendar.
The wood I use for the disks is blackthorn, has the natural grain running through them and each one is different and unique.
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Above is the calendar - This one is our personal one which is put together and hung up in my dinging room, it was great fun making the calendar and was original done as a craft project seeing different ones online. After cutting, sanding and drying the wood I decided that this has a lot of effort in the making of it and I could see that it would be a great idea to make more and list them on my Etsy shop.
Below are some images of the calendar which comes in two different stenciled names - Family and Birthday and here is way is included in the kit -
1 x Stenciled, coloured, wooden board made from sanded pallet wood - beewaxed and screw eyes added
12 x larger pre-drilled, natural wood discs for the months of the year
24 x blank, pre-drilled natural wood discs for the birthdays / anniversaries
1 x piece of twine for hanging
24 x bronze jump rings for holding it all together
1 x black ball point pen for writing the names and months on. ( you are welcome to use your own pen but i find that ball point pens don't bleed on the wood and are easy to write with.)
1 x black ball point pen for writing the names and months on. ( you are welcome to use your own pen but i find that ball point pens don't bleed on the wood and are easy to write with.)
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Lovely project to make and looks excellent and rustic on the wall


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Investment Platforms
Investment platform providers supply online-based services that are designed to transact, safeguard and administer financial investments online. Some platforms provide services directly to investors whilst others can only be accessed via an adviser or other intermediary. Platforms offer a single view of the client's investment portfolio and provide a convenient channel through which investments can be aggregated; i.e. the bulk execution of equity orders when the intent is to buy and sell the same equity for multiple clients. This enables investments to be transacted and administered more efficiently.
Activities usually undertaken by investment platforms include the following:
- Providing access to a wide variety of retail investment products, including collective investment schemes, personal pension schemes, ISAs and other wrapper products, stocks, shares, gilts and insurance funds
- Receiving, transmitting and executing orders for transacting in those investments on behalf of clients,
- The safekeeping and administration of clients' assets,
- Acting as nominee (and therefore legal owner) of the securities that are held in trust for the individual investor who remains the beneficial owner,
- For product providers, platforms provide a means of distributing their products.
Some platforms also provide complimentary trading tools such as news feeds, market analysis, investment advisory services and account management functions.
Prior to the FCA's Retail Distribution Review, one element of the remuneration platform providers generally received was commission in respect of the transactions they effected.
From 6th April, however, platform providers can no longer receive commission payments for new business and will charge platform fees to investors. These will usually be calculated as a percentage of the investments under management although platforms may also charge fixed platform fees. The charging mechanism will not determine the liability of the services provided. For legacy business, commission can continue until 5th April 2016
The primary service the platform supplies in return for such fees (however comprised) are made up of the following functions:
- The aggregation of the investors' capital to bulk purchase securities in funds and other investment products;
- The recording of the transactions and holdings;
- The holding of the investments in trust as nominee; and
- The disaggregation of the income from the holdings, including realisation of the assets, in accordance with the individual beneficiaries' investments.
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Match Dossier – Liverpool vs Tottenham Hotspurs – 10 Mar 2013
Though Liverpool are in 7th position, they are still a big team. And, Spurs are on a brilliant form with win against heavyweights Arsenal and Inter Milan. With one playing for Champions League spot and the other playing for Europa League spot, the match is going to be the exciting match of the weekend.
Current Form: [Spurs cruising to the top]
Spurs are now undefeated in 12 matches and are in a very positive run of matches. Liverpool has 3 wins, 2 draws and a loss from their last 6 matches. Tottenham have a very strong advantage here.
Home and Away Form: [Spurs leads again]
In the last 5 home matches, Liverpool has won 4 and lost 1. Tottenham on the other hand remains undefeated in their last 6 away matches. Reds are with 12 points in 6 home games and Spurs are with 14 points in 6 away games now. Considering that playing away is difficult that at home, Spurs have an advantage here.
Head-to-Head Form: [Anfield is the only hope for Reds]
In the past 5 meetings, Tottenham has won 4 and the remaining one ended in a draw. In the last 5 matches at Anfield, Liverpool has won 2, Tottenham has won 1 and the rest 2 ended in draws. Home factor only could help Liverpool.
Player Form (Attack): [Both teams armored heavily]
In the last 14 games, Liverpool have scored in all but one match. In the last 2 matches, they have scored 9 goals. In the last 11 games, Luis Suarez has scored 11 goals. He is currently in his best form. Tottenham have scored in all but one match in their last 10 matches. Gareth Bale has scored 7 goals in his last 5 matches. Both the teams are heavily loaded in attack and are balanced.
Player Form (Defense): [Lack of defensive discipline]
Both teams have conceded 33 (Spurs) and 34 (Reds) goals this season and are quite the same in the defense. Liverpool have 2 clean sheets and Tottenham have 1 clean sheet in the last 5 matches. They are both expected to concede goals.
Directions in which the league might steer:
- Liverpool win: Europa league qualification fight will become intense. Tottenham might leave third place to Chelsea. Manchester City will move further up to affirm its position at second.
- Draw: Fight for third place will become intense between Spurs and Chelsea. Liverpool might start facing the pressure from Swansea for 7th position.
- Tottenham win: Manchester City will be pressurized to deliver results every match in order to avoid slip down. Liverpool might lose 7th position to Swansea.
Verdict: Tottenham Spurs have a very good possibility of winning this match.
If you have any statistics related to this match, please post it in comments. It will be published in EPL Statistics.
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A few weeks ago I was helping a student with her research paper for Freshman Composition. In her paper, she wanted to argue that pit bulls have gotten an unfair reputation as a breed, and that they really make excellent pets. As we talked about her research and why she chose this topic, she told me over and over again about her own dogs, and how her pit bulls are incredibly sweet and well-behaved. Since she couldn't build an entire research paper around describing her pets' behavior, she thought she might look for some sources about dog behavior and training in general, to make the argument that training has a major influence over inherent breed characteristics.
All right, great. Our college has a strong veterinary science program, so there were a number of dog behavior books for her to choose from. One of the ones she checked out was "Cesar's Way," by the Dog Whisperer himself, Cesar Millan. The book came back from its trip to her home (with her sweet, well-behaved pit bulls) looking like this:


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Energy-efficient separation of olefins and paraffins
Discover how the 2016 winner of the ICIS Innovator of the Year Award for Environment & Sustainability developed a new technology that provides a significant cost and energy savings over the method generally used for olefin/paraffin separation.
An energy-efficient separation
Separating olefins and paraffins is a critical process in the petrochemicals industry that produces the chemical building blocks that ultimately produces important materials like rubber, nylon and PVC. But the traditional method for effecting this separation of molecules requires using large distillation columns, which demand enormous amounts of capital and energy.
Developing a membrane for olefin/paraffin separation
It has been a dream in the petrochemicals industry for years to use membranes to separate olefins and paraffins, but stability was always an issue. However, membrane technology expert Sudip Majumdar, CTO of Compact Membrane Systems, was able to guide the development of a customized amorphous fluoropolymer membrane that successfully separates olefins and paraffins while remaining stable – a feat that earned M ajumdar an Alpha Innovator of the Year (Environment and Sustainability) award.
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A state appeals court Wednesday blocked a move that would have made it easier for felons to win back civil rights stripped away when they are convicted.
The 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, in a divided opinion, said trial judges do not have the authority to reverse the technical finding of guilt -- adjudication -- simply because a convict has behaved on probation.
The assistant attorney general who handled the case said a ruling the other way would have given felons another way to seek to regain the civil rights they lost when convicted.
Currently only the governor and Cabinet, who sit as the state Clemency Board, have the power to restore rights to convicted felons.
"It would have started people doing it. It definitely would have been new law," said Assistant Attorney General Joan Fowler Rossin. "There is no provision (in Florida law) for un-adjudicating somebody."
But defense attorney H. Dohn Williams Jr., who argued the case before the appeals court, said fairness dictates judges should have that power.
"If they can punish you because you've been bad on probation, shouldn't they be able to reward you if you've been good during probation?" he asked. "It's really a one-way street at this point."
The unsigned appeals court ruling came in the case of a former Broward County court bailiff. Beverly Beardsley pleaded guilty to grand theft last February, five months after she walked out of a Jordan Marsh store during her lunch hour wearing a $100-plus outfit she had not paid for.


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Edward L. Ayers. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Imagine, for a moment, that you have been transported through time and place and now live in the South and the year is 1880. There are obvious differences between this time and our own. No electrical power, air conditioning, plumbing, cars, phones, internet, television, radio, or modern medicine. Aside from the absence of modern conveniences that have increasingly come to define our lives in the 21st century, you would notice that the South in 1880 was riddled with a variety of problems. Big problems that, to a very large degree, the rest of the United States did not face.
You would immediately notice the poverty. A series of depressions ravaged the region, leaving the South economically crippled. Cotton increasingly dominated agriculture on large and small farms, forcing many growers to scale back or even stop growing provision crops and raising livestock in favor of the dominant cash crop. In order to merely feed their families, farmers were now forced to go deeply into debt, placing a lien on their next crop to local merchants just to provision their farms and feed their families. As long as the price of cotton was relatively high, then both sides won – the farmer got what he needed to run his farm and also turned a profit on the sale of his cotton, while the merchant made a hefty profit on the interest. The crop-lien system worked better in theory than in practice. Many farmers became shackled to cotton and became mired in the vice grip of debt and declining cotton prices. While there were economic success stories in the South during this era, especially in areas of retail and industrial entrepreneurship, overall, the region faced severe poverty and this made daily life a struggle for countless southerners.
If you happened to pick up a newspaper, you'd notice that the South faced many problems in regards to its political system. Traditionally, we assume that, at least among whites, the Democratic Party ruled the region. While the party was very strong throughout the South, it suffered from intense factionalism. Furthermore, the Republican Party never died and was very active throughout the region and even quite powerful in certain areas, particularly the mountains. Corruption was a large problem in politics throughout the nation and the South was certainly not immune to the so-called Gilded Age. The average southerner, especially farmers, also felt like politicians didn't really represent their interests. Many observers felt that corporations and big money interests, like railroads, controlled politics and many became disenchanted and stopped voting – even if they had passionate political views. Farmers, millhands, loggers, and many average folk simply felt ignored by state governments and by their representatives in Washington. As the economy worsened and the plight of farmers grew ever more desperate, a new political movement evolved into the Populist Revolt, reaching a fevered pitch in 1892. Populism ultimately went down in defeat, but the movement laid the ground work for a new breed of southern politician. Demagogues like Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina existed all over the South and knew how to manipulate popular sentiment into huge political capital through race baiting and inciting class warfare.
If you decided to take a railroad to travel while you were in the South, you'd immediately be confronted with racial strife. Race relations at the time in the South were particularly volatile. Many African Americans, now closing in on two decades out of slavery were starting to improve their lives financially. Some owned small farms, some owned businesses, and others were artisans. Many blacks were accumulating property, and this alarmed most white folks. It was on railroad cars that racial tensions reached an apex. If an African American could afford a first class ticket, they expected, quite reasonably, equal accommodations by the railroad. This set the stage for a showdown in court, that culminated the landmark (and notorious) Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision in 1896, which legalized "separate, but equal" accommodations on railroad cars, and eventually just about everything you could think of, including schools, toilets, water fountains, and theaters. For those blacks not lucky enough to accumulate property, sharecropping offered little but grueling work and continued poverty. By the end of the 19th century, not only was the South rapidly segregating, but white lawmakers were systematically disenfranching blacks. Stripped of their right to vote, black southerners faced not only an ever-expanding Jim Crow system but an epidemic of lynchings and desperate poverty.
You might also be struck how modern and non-traditional (if that means anything at all to you) life was becoming in the region. Old communities were dying while new ones emerged in their wake. Rural farm families, sometimes willingly (and even happily), sometimes more reluctantly, left the family farm to get jobs in textile mills, mushrooming all over the Piedmont in places like Greenville, South Carolina. In West Virginia and Kentucky, coal towns emerged out of mountain wilderness almost overnight. Throughout pine forests, men went to work in turpentine camps. Logging companies similarly expanded all over the region, transforming the workers and the landscape simultaneously. It is well documented that the shift from farming to "public work" (as it was known in the South) was a difficult and anxious process for middling and poor southern families. Even aristocratic families with huge plantations felt their traditional lives ripped apart. With no slaves to work the land, planters often rented parcels of their land out to tenets or sharecroppers. Eventually, most planters moved to town to take up residency, becoming absentee landlords. As absenteeism became more common, estates fell into disrepair as landowners, living the good life in town, became complacent and took less and less interest in their old homeplaces. In symbolic irony, these formerly grand examples of southern agricultural prosperity crumbled from neglect of their owners.
While cities and towns offered some benefits, there were problems here too. For the first time, consumer culture transformed the South and its people. Railroads brought quick transportation and relatively cheap freight rates. Not only did the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue changed offer a cornucopia of materialistic delight, local department stores filled with the latest trends, trinkets, technology, and other sundries changed southern culture in subtle ways. New stoves made it easier to cook. Grocery stores, for example brought new foodways to the South. One long time staple of the southern diet gave way to another, as biscuits replaced cornbread as the bread of choice on most southern tables. Coffee, previously something of a luxury, became cheap. Thanks to the wonderfully addictive nature of caffeine and coffee drinking in general, it moved from a luxury to a necessity. It was noted that "families whose aggregate earnings do not amount to three dollars a week will rather let their youngsters run barefoot than stint themselves in the use of the popular narcotic." While these changes were not particularly harsh, they did signal a dramatic shift in southern life. And, as with industrialization, urbanization caused anxiety as the draw of the cities pulled families apart. The lure of the city was merely symptomatic of another problem the South faced in the waning decades of the 19th century. Generational conflict constantly caused agitation between the young and the old. The Civil War and its commemoration proved to be an issue of lasting friction. Old veterans scoffed at young men who grew up soft and did not understand the sacrifices they endured during the war. Beyond the war, different generations struggled over the meaning of politics, religion, gender, and commerce. New expectations of life among the New South generation placed them at considerable distance with their parents and grandparents.
So, still imagining that you are now living in the South, sometime between 1880 and 1900, and seeing all these glaring problems and anxiety-inducing social changes taking places, what do you think of the place?
You probably think it was a really awful place. So many problems – poverty, racism, and political corruption. And for decades southern historians, quite understandably, focused on the problems the South faced. After all, many of the great southern historians in the middle and later decades of the 20th century hoped that history could be used as a tool to change the South for the better in their own time. The names C. Vann Woodward and John Hope Franklin rush to mind immediately. But by focusing on the negative so much, historians grew to disdain the region they studied. In his landmark 1951 study, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, Woodward burns with indignation on every page. Similarly, Paul Gaston proved dismissive in his important 1970 study The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking by comparing the short-sightedness of economic boosters on issues of race with that of the emperor's foolish vanity in Hans Christian Anderson's classic fable The Emperor's New Clothes. By settling a research agenda that focused on moral failings, political corruption, violence, and oppression, historians unwittingly defined the South by its limitations. The New South, according to such highly regarded scholars, was a sad place populated by sad people.
In 1992, Edward Ayers published his landmark study The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. Overall, the 400+ page book has topical chapters: politics, race relations, religion, country life, town life, literature, music, sectional reconciliation, consumerism, industrialization, and so forth. Each chapter gives a general historical overview of its topic, sometimes offering unique historiographic insights, but with such a big and expansive book, there's little room to spend more than a few paragraphs discussing very large questions that southern historians have argued about for decades. There is a lot of historical information to chew on, and Ayers offered new perspectives previously passed over by scholars. The Promise of the New South asks new questions by "look[ing] beyond the public realm." Ayers examined love letters, newspaper editorials, fiction, diaries, and countless other stories to give readers an account of what life was life for the people who lived in the South after Reconstruction. Ayers sharply asserts, "The New South appears far newer when we measure change by paying close attention to concrete differences in people's lives instead of contrasting the region with the North's more fortunate history or the claims of Southern boosters. To say that much was new in the South is not to say that things were fine. It is to say that people throughout the social order, top to bottom, faced complicated decisions." Instead of a book about the poisoned politics of the region, the horrors of lynching, the sad story of disenfranchisement and Jim Crow, the brutal reality of the crop-lien system, sharecropping, or any other problem the South faced, we learn a little bit about almost everything in the New South. Ayers discussed topics including courtship, Christmas, Coca-Cola, college football, jazz, blues, the founding of Belk department stores, life in a mill village, black achievement, the Holiness movement, the Spanish-American War, railroads, and also includes all the negative stuff that historians have typically used to account for the South's stunted economic growth, political system, and race relations. The result is a book that is incredibly honest but also looks beyond the pain of the region has both suffered and inflicted upon itself.
But as I was reading the book, I found that the "promise" the New South offered, the promise that inspired the title of book, is elusive to the reader. In the opening pages, Ayers does point out that "Southerners often managed to persuade themselves…that the new era held out unprecedented promise for the region." While Ayers is correct in this statement, I can't help but think that he used the word "promise" as a red herring to satisfy any curiosity the reader had regarding the title very early or, more likely, at the urging of an editor at Oxford or peer-reviewer who insisted that he address exactly what he meant by the word promise even though the sentence I quoted is not really what the book is about. When you finish the reading the book, with its great breadth and complexity, and then reconsider the vague promise he mentions in the opening paragraphs, you just have to scratch your head.
So what exactly does Ayers mean? I was struggling very mightily with this question after reading the book so I re-read the preface. Ayers writes that "we have focused so much so on the limitations Southerners endured that we have lost sight of the rest of their lives. The people of the New South have become synonymous with the problems they faced. Southerners of both races have become reduced to objects of pity, scorn, romance, or condescension. That is not enough." In these sentence, Ayers elevates New South history out of the darkness imposed on it by an earlier generation of historians. In Ayers' use, promise can be defined as something with readily apparent potential for good that has not yet been fully realized. By presenting an honest and richly textured account of the era that left room for tragedy, Ayers liberates New South history out the emotional darkness it existed in for a decades. The "promise of the New South" is thus a new way of looking at southern history. A duality that exists for southern historians who are themselves white southerners (especially males). There is an undeniable love of home, a joy that surrounds exploring southern culture and history that we adore. We want to love the South unconditionally, but we can't get past the shortcomings – the soul crushing moral failures at every turn throughout southern history. Whether it be issues tied to race, gender, economics, religion, politics, or some combination there always seems to be as much to hate as there is to love. That tension is reflected perfectly in the title of The Promise of the New South. So much potential. So many reasons to love it. And always in the shadow of broken promises.


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Its Foucault Night at the local leatherbar, and evil doings are afoot
in the underworld. Which man will get his boy? The scholarly bartender,
the well-read ex-con, or the charming drunk?
"Foucault WHO?" WINS AWARDS AT HOME AND IN EUROPE!
Best Short Rough Cut Film Festival, San Francisco
Best Moving Tape Lucania Film Festival, Italy
Special Mention Fano International Film Festival, Italy
FILM THREAT GIVES "Foucault WHO?" 3.5 STARS!
Film Threat's Pete Vonder Haar writes: "An effectively sinister atmosphere,
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THE BAY AREA REPORTER RATES "Foucault WHO?" the #1 short at the
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"A creepy crawly delight ... the ubiquitious Leon Acord expertly plays a barfly
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The Worldnetdaily's Craig McMillan combines the right wing's two favorite things, lying about Obama and pretending to support the Constitution while actually arguing against it. It's the usual inanity about Obama "packing" and "stacking" the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, prompting howls of faux outrage:
Stacking a court with ideologically sympathetic judges isn't a new strategy. During America's earlier "never waste a good crisis" economic moment, known as the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after being rebuffed by the Supreme Court for his efforts to expand government beyond its constitutional bounds, took another approach: He attempted to turn the nation's highest court into a rubber stamp for his utopian dynasty.
Yes, and that was an actual attempt at court-packing by establishing a bunch of new seats so that he could fill them. Which has precisely nothing to do with Obama trying to fill vacancies that exist in the judiciary.
Picking the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals as the packing victim was a good strategy for someone with disregard for the rule of law. Roosevelt was busted for his effort to stack the Supreme Court, so why not drop down one level and try it again? After all, the D.C. court decides lots of government-overreach lawsuits. Why not pack it with ideological sympathizers, so the answer is always the same: The feds can do anything they want, Constitution and all and the rest of you be damned!
I'm always amused by how much wingnuts claim to love and revere the Constitution while not knowing a thing about it. The Constitution explicitly gives the president the authority — responsibility, in fact — to nominate judges to fill vacancies on the federal court. That's not "court packing," it's just doing his job. That is exactly what the Constitution requires, but when Obama does it that makes him a "monarch" and a dictator. They aren't even pretending to be consistent or rational at this point, they're just shoveling out the bullshit as fast as they can.


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Before having a baby, I could never get it together enough to send out Christmas cards. Now, it is something I look forward to the second Halloween passes. We recently had Jane's one year photo session and decided to choose a picture from each of her sessions for our card this year. It is amazing to see how much she has grown and changed since this time last year.
From our family to yours, I truly wish you the very Merriest of holidays and the best of things to come in the new year.Jennifer Zdon for being the incredible photogapher that she is and to Lauren Alsop for designing yet another incredibly inspired creation.


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Running Benefits: Higher Body O2 Only with Nose BreathingBy Dr. Artour Rakhimov, Alternative Health Educator and Author
- Medically Reviewed by Naziliya Rakhimova, MD
- Last updated on August 9, 2018
What are the benefits of running? Running or jogging is the most natural way to increase body-oxygen levels and this is the main benefit of any physical exercise. The increased level of oxygen can be easily measured using the body oxygen test. Better results mean better physical health and even elimination of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, asthma, and bronchitis. Indeed, if the body oxygen level remains the same after weeks or months of running, there would be no improvements in symptoms and required medication.
In order to get the most physical and psychological benefits of running, a person needs to have the crucial main requirement for any physical exercise: more oxygen in the body cells after exercise. This result is easy to achieve with strictly nasal breathing (in and out) during running. Then your breathing after exercise will be lighter providing more O2 for brain and body cells.
Nasal breathing ensures absorption of nasal NO (nitric oxide), and that immediately lowers the heart rate (for the same intensity of exercise). Additional benefits of running with nose breathing include increased CO2 levels in the blood and slower breathing after exercise, which provides more O2 in the body cells. Furthermore, running daily with nose breathing mimics high-altitude training due to mild hypoxia. You do not need to go to the mountains: get more benefits from running due to nose breathing in and out.
Soviet and Russian MDs tested thousands of patients and found that daily exercise with nasal breathing only prevents acute exacerbations due to chronic diseases (no exercise-induced asthma, no heart attacks, no strokes, and so on) and gradually improves oxygen transport due to increased CO2 and NO levels in the lungs and arterial blood. It also helps with weight loss naturally.
Natural lifestyle choices before and after breathing retraining
|Lifestyle factor:
|Body oxygen < 30 s
|Body oxygen > 50 s
|Energy level
|Medium, low, or very low
|Desire to exercise
|Not strong, but possible
|Craving and joy of exercise
|Intensive exercise with nose breathing
|Hard or impossible
|Easy and effortless
|Typical mind states
|Confusion, anxiety, depression
|Focus, concentration, clarity
|Craving for sugar and junk foods
|Addictions to smoking, alcohol, and drugs
|Desire to eat raw foods
|Weak and rare
|Very common and natural
|Correct posture
|Rare and requires efforts
|Natural and automatic
|Often of poor quality; > 7 hours
|Excellent quality; < 5 hours naturally
How to run and benefit from it for beginners
If you want to experience these benefits of running, but have little or no recent experience in running or jogging, you have to start very slowly. Too often, Buteyko students, after they achieve decent daily CP numbers due to breath work (e.g., up to 30 s or even more), experience failure in their running attempts due to injuries.
Why? Their respiratory and cardiovascular systems are able, at over 30 s CP, to experience positive effects of 1-2 hours of running. Furthermore, after doing breath work, these students have very high energy levels and a desire to exercise. However, since they had not run in recent days or weeks, their muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones are not fit yet for such a long and intensive challenge.
Hence, it is crucial to consider the following suggestions, for maximum
running benefits, when you begin jogging:
- Start with walking for up to 30-60 minutes per session for 3-5 days and make a slow transition to power walking or fast walking for another 3-5 days.
- After this initial period, add only 5 min of very light and easy relaxed jogging or running at the end of your power walk (e.g., instead of 30 min power walk, do 25 min of fast walking and then 5 min of very light and relaxed comfortable running with nose breathing only).
- Increase the duration of running by about 2 min per session only so that your ligaments and tendons can readjust themselves to this physical load increase. Hence, the amount of running will increase very gradually: 5 min, 7 min, 9 min, 11 min, and so forth. In about 2-3 weeks you should be able to run for 30 min without any negative effects.
- Always use running shoes with soft soles. (Consider barefoot walking and barefoot running since these are nearly ideal Buteyko exercises.)
- If you later start to have longer running sessions (up to 30 min and more), run on a soft surface (e.g., grass, sand, snow, or gravel), but not on hard surfaces like roads and concrete pathways to avoid injuries.
This approach is similar to Graded Exercise Therapy, which has been used in clinical practice with very limited success due to negative mouth breathing, which cancels the main benefits of running for most people.
Keep in mind that for breathing retraining and higher body oxygen levels, it is smart and useful to do some "uncomfortable" or "ascetic" things (like taking cold showers with certain rules, sleeping on hard beds, sleeping in a sitting position, and running when it is windy, raining or snowing), but running with pain in your knees or feet is not a good idea. Graduality is the key to success in getting the most benefits of running.
Can I run in the morning?
For most psychological and physical benefits, it depends on one's morning CP (the body oxygen test result).
Over 90% of students and nearly all people with health problems have a large drop in their CP throughout sleep. Hence, their morning CP can be up to 30-70% lower than their best evening CP or before-sleep numbers. Then people can benefit from a short session (about 10-15 min. is enough) doing reduced breathing or practicing with a device.
Advanced breathing students have very short sleep naturally (about 4.5 hours or less naturally). As a result, they do not experience a large CP drop and their breathing in the morning is as slow and easy as they had before sleep. These students do not require any breathing exercises, or they can do one or a few breath-holds to increase their CP up to 60 s and more, and go running.
In this video below, Dr. Artour Rakhimov explains benefits of exercise for NormalBreathing vs. Buteyko courses.
A device to run and get maximally benefited
For those who are interested in getting the most benefits out of running, here is an excellent fitness device to train with. Many of my other breathing students (who were never involved in competitive sports) tried this device and found it very effective to run and benefit from exercise. The name and a link to the analysis of this device are provided right below here as your bonus content.
- Running (From wikipedia.org)
- Running for health: Even a little bit is good, but a little more is probably better (From health.harvard.edu)
- Fitness Basics: Running for Your Life (From webmd.com)
Sport and fitness articles:
- Simple breathing exercise for higher VO2max
- Increase VO2max by breathing differently at rest
- Exercise is joy if the body is oxygenated at rest
- When exercise is 100% safe for chronic diseases
- Why modern man gets little, if any, benefits from exercise
- Which exercise parameters increase body oxygenation
Go to Sport, fitness, endurance, and exercise
New breathing students with terminal conditions (end-stage disease) are accepted on CureEndStageDisease.com with Dr. Artour's Triple Guarantee.
You can leave your grammatically correct feedback and/or comment on the most relevant page. It may be below. Thanks.


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Reggie Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Cvent, an online event management company co-located out of Washington, DC and Gurgaon. With about 60 of the top engineering positions in his US operations lying vacant, Aggarwal has a problem.
"We need guys with deep engineering knowledge and every tech employer, from Fortune 500 companies to small start-ups in the US, knows that there's a huge shortage of such people in America," says the Cvent founder. "Like all other tech CEOs, I know there is a huge talent pool of such engineers in India," adds Aggarwal whose operations in Gurgaon employ around 650 such people. Even in the US, Indians form the largest part of Cvent's 550-strong workforce.
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Arctic King AKTW10CR61 10K BTU Thru Wall Air Conditioner
- 3 fan speed
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Always backup your files before installing mods (backup files are also provided within the zipped download).
(Edit: A comprehensive update of all options coming up soon is now ready to download at the Download Now button here, or on page 1 of this thread. No changes were made to the files themselves, but to the folder/sub-folder structure for an easier use. New version 2.1 coming up soon will restore WITH the Starting Lights for players who need them IS NOW AVAILABLE here, or at the Updates(3) page tab above).
This mod gives drivers a complete see-through On-Screen-Display experience in F1 2013 mode, now with many different options available in one easier-to-use package.
Key features:
- No starting lights (and no flying-lap starting lights either)
__Edit: Starting lights version(s) will be made and updated later: watch this thread.now available. Read the Readme(.txt) file.
- No audio countdown for starting lights (since there are none)
- No wrong-way X
- No session-ending legends displayed in the middle-top region of the screen (so keep all approximate remaining times in mind)
- No pit-stop timers displayed in the middle of the screen (for what, since all team crews never make any mistakes?!?)
- Invisible on-track "quick menu" so memorize your keypress - or button - sequences first, although there is a transparent-backgrounds option available in the current Version 2.1 for RD members who really need to see its arrows (up, right, down, left) and (white) text options displayed.
- Transparent OSD position & lap timer backgrounds
- (Optional*) No flags displayed in the middle of the screen (near the top): watch your steering-wheel's flashing arrows!
- (Optional*) No "Fastest Lap" boxes displayed in the middle of the screen (who cares?)
Optional* means that, keeping the original Osd\config.xml file will ensure the game's flags and fastest-lap boxes will not be modded (thus will remain visible).
To install the complete package: Copy both the chosen frontend and Osd folders of this mod to your f12013 folder.
To install the optional package: Copy just the frontend folder only (not the Osd folder) to your f12013 folder.
To restore the original OSD files: Copy the corresponding frontend and Osd folders located in the 1 - BACKUP_FILES folder to your f12013 folder.
See-through OSD For Cockpit-Cam Driving 2.1
Adds transparent OSD position & lap timer backgrounds to the previous cleaner-OSD mods.


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General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner will be taking advantage of the media circus surrounding his drive from Detroit to Washington D.C. tomorrow. As it seems every press outlet will be covering the roadtrip adventures of the three Detroit leaders as they travel via wheeled transportation to the capitol to beg for billions (remember, no corporate jets this time), Wagoner has wisely dumped the ho-hum hybrid Chevrolet Malibu in favor of a Chevy Volt mule in a Chevy Cruze body during at least the last few highly-visible miles of his journey. Wagoner will still trek part of the route to Washington in the hybrid Malibu, but just not all the way. To take full advantage of the public display, GM will also bring a show version of the highly-anticipated 2011 Chevy Volt to the capitol and put it on display when Wagoner arrives at the Russell Senate Building around 9:30 AM. If you are in the neighborhood (Delaware Ave. and C Street), Wagoner will be briefly talking to the public before he opens his heart to Congress. Thanks, TKTK.
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Activists demand details on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trial
Last Updated 26/11/2005, 11:27:06
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee says names of Cambodian judges and prosecutors short-listed to serve on a planned tribunal of Khmer Rouge leaders should be made public,
The committee which is a grouping of 18 non-governmental organisations, also demanded that the selection criteria used by the government be disclosed.
It says publicizing the criteria and the candidates under consideration decreases the risk that the public will view the selection process as the result of political influence.
The statement came as the United Nations released the names of 21 possible international judges and co-prosecutors to be interviewed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in early December.


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For issues in Sector 1 contact:
Lt. Audrey Mazzuca
For issues in Sector 2 contact:
Lt. Tim Durst
District 1 includes the western half of the city and is commanded by Captain Mike Schentrup.
Captain Mike Schentrup took over as District 1 Commander in August 2017. He is a 20 year veteran of the Gainesville Police Department, where he has rose through the ranks and held numerous positions to include;
Captain Mike Schentrup holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology for the University of Florida. He has made the Gainesville area his home since starting school here in 1988.
Captain Schentrup recently attended the Senior Management Institute for Police, hosted by PERF (The Police Executive Research Forum) and Leadership in Police Organizations taught by IACP (the International Association of Police Chiefs). He also holds numerous advanced certifications and teaches regularly in the area of criminal investigations and adult sexual violence.


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Drew put the finishing touches on the trim for the portico. And it looks better then I could have ever imagined!
He put a belly band on the bottom of the portico, and individually cut the shingles for a more authentic look.
As Drew was ripping off the aluminum siding, we found some very nice wood trim that was original to the portico. It worked perfect for the moulding around the shingles.
This is our test patch for the paint color for the house. We got the paint sample from one of the families I work for. It is the color of the house they used to live in! I think it will be just perfect!


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I have been constantly knitting though. I am in the middle of a blanket for my children's first baby cousin which is due to arrive next month. I thought I should start early to give me a bit of a chance to finish it on time.
I've also completed a pair of baby socks for a colleague at work who is expecting a little boy soon. They were actually my first ever socks I've knitted.