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A predicted little flutter of a storm that had been expected early in the week to drop a casual two to six inches on Long Island ended up morphing into one of the biggest single-day blizzards in recent history. But while the storm caught many by surprise, Glen Cove was prepared.
"We had a crew of 14 doing prep work starting at 3 a.m." on Thursday, said DPW Chief Manny Grella, chief of the city's Department of Public Works. "We went into full plow mode at 6 a.m. and didn't finish our shift till nearly midnight."
There were no injuries. But it was back-breaking work, "really grueling," according to Grella. Conditions of near-zero visibility hampered initial efforts as the crews struggled to keep abreast of the storm, he said.
"We made three complete passes throughout the city, and when we got to the end of the first pass, it looked like we hadn't even been there at all," he said. But by midnight, "everything was clear." Grella's crews have been working normal shifts since Friday.
The Glen Cove Police Department reported a quiet day, according to Detective Lt. John Nagle, with the city reporting no criminal complaints during the actual storm and no traffic issues. "We went out on eight calls" throughout the day, he said, most of which were "chest pains, health issues. Mostly, people stayed inside."
He cautioned that the aftermath of a storm like last week's is often worse than the storm itself, and the city did log two criminal complaints the following day.
Glen Cove, like other parts of Long Island, was also protected by a bigger entity — the U.S. Coast Guard.
"We started monitoring the weather systems on Wednesday as forecasts started coming in," said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Shannon Andrew. "Our main concern in a storm of this magnitude is to make sure heating supplies get through."
More than 90 percent of all the heating oil consumed in the Northeast is delivered by barge, she explained, so "our main concern is to monitor the ice build-up." The Coast Guard had three vessels on call during the storm – one 65-foot harbor tug and two 49-foot BUSLs (buoy utility stern-loading), which the Coast Guard deployed provisionally as small ice-breakers.
The Coast Guard received no distress calls during the storm, despite monitoring a coverage range from Canada to New Jersey. "We sent out warnings about the severity of the storm, and people must've listened and stayed in port or inside," Andrew said.
Churches and homeless shelters provided round-the-clock service, including the shelter at Glen Cove's First Presbyterian Church and the INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network) at First Baptist Church.
"We've been serving hot meals and providing shelter for the past 21 years, said Cantor Gustavo Gitlin, who heads the project at First Presbyterian. Volunteers from many different local churches and synagogues bring food for as many as 25 guests, but where the shelter is normally shuttered during daytime hours, "we decided to keep it open," he said.
Although the shelter itself can only provide space for two dozen, "we will find shelter for anyone who comes to our door," he said. "No one should have to sleep in the cold."
The shelter doesn't need food or sleeping bags at this time, he said, but the men do need winter boots.
The storm itself was nearly twice as severe as the first major blizzard of 2017, according to Faye Morrone, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. "The first major storm of 2017 hit the first weekend in January," leaving nearly 10 inches on the ground. Last week's blizzard deposited 16 inches of snow in less than 24 hours on the North Shore. And this winter is proving to be one of the coldest on recent record. "By this time last year, Long Island had had 14.5 inches of snow," said Morrone. The figure so far this winter is an even 22 inches.
An average winter's snowfall on the North Shore usually amounts to about two feet, according to Morrone. With 22 inches of snow and counting, this year seems set to break that mark. Asked about global warming she said, "It's impossible to speculate about cases based on a single event."
At least in Glen Cove the clean-up is going well. "We had no downed trees or power lines," Grella said. "Most of it was done by close of business on Friday." And except in the East Island area, the city experienced no flooding.
The economic cost of the storm is more difficult to know. A severe, prolonged winter, such as the region experienced in 2014, can cause the entire economy to contract, according to a report in Fortune magazine. While a local event can cost individual homeowners, a number of local insurance brokers refused even to speculate based on past experience, nor would any speak for the record.
It is the local impact that is of greatest interest to most people, and in that respect at least, Glen Cove appears to have come through better than many.

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5. He wrote at length about new research developments, especially the remarkable work done by Mayo Clinic researchers regarding the effects of fungus on sinusitis. Although the results are still somewhat controversial, this team has shown that an atypical immune response reaction to fungus in certain people to common fungus might be the root cause of sinusitis. The theory is growing in popularity and new topical anti-fungal medications are being developed.
7. He emphasizes that eating the right foods can make a big difference, but he isn't totally dogmatic about it. I was turned off once by another book in which the author stated that one must simply give up certain foods if they wanted to get over sinusitis, and these included cheese, chocolate, wine and all other alcoholic beverages, among other things. For a person like me who lived for several years in France, this would be unbearable. I might mention that for a French person it would be unthinkable.
8. A clean living environment is also stressed, and the book has motivated me to break out the bleach bottle and give our bathroom the once over. Molds can apparently grow very rapidly on wet items, so one should be careful about having wet clothes or rags lying around, for example.
9. Also included in the book is a discussion about the validity of alternative therapies, like acupuncture, holistic medicine, and chiropractic, for example. I think this is useful, and in fact a niece recently told me she had acupuncture treatments for her sinus problems and she was excited about how much better she felt.
The five step plan that Dr. Josephson recommends is presented at the end of the book. The steps are:
1. Take care of your sinuses through proper irrigation.
2. Clean up your environment
3. Be vigilant about food choices
4. Take your medication (i.e., take the entire prescription)
5. Embrace life-altering changes and enjoy your health.
There has been a lot of progress made in the treatment of sinusitis in the past 5-10 years, and Dr. Josephson's book puts it together and brings us up to date. "Sinus Relief Now" is certainly a great reference for anyone with CAID problems. There are descriptions of just about every medication used in any of the treatments, both prescription and OTC. I learned several things I didn't know before. For example, I didn't know that antihistimines are only effective against allergies. I thought they would simply prevent excess mucus forming in any case. Also, Dr. Josephson feels that decongestants should not be used long term but only for a week at a time as he believes they can cause problems if used for long periods. In general the book is almost a reference work for any type of respiratory or digestive condition. All sinus sufferers would do well to read "Sinus Relief Now" and then to refer to it any time problems come up. It is the best sinus book I've ever read.
Walt Ballenberger is founder of http://www.postnasaldrip.net, a resource web site for sinusitis sufferers like himself. For a free report entitled "Sinus Treatment Success Stories", visit http://www.postnasaldrip.net and click on the Free Report link. This resource can be of significant help to chronic sinus sufferers.
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Detox with what?
10 Warning Signs That Your Body Has Toxins
How can you know if you need detoxification of the entire body? Your body will tell you, you just need to know how to listen and what to look for when the body is trying to convey you a message.
In many cases, the list of the symptoms includes things that almost everyone experience occasionally. The important thing is how often this happens. If you often feel tired, or have constipation or indigestion and other problems, then it is very important.
1. Lack of energy / fatigue
With the huge increase in popularity of energy drinks and the enduring popularity of drinks with caffeine, you'd think the world has an epidemic lack of energy. However, attempts to make up for a lack of energy with stimulants like caffeine or taurine in the long run can only exacerbate the situation. After the increase of energy, energy decline will usually follow and you will feel even worse than before. This actually means burdening the liver, further deepening the problem and sending you into a spiral of low energy.
If in the morning, you feel sluggish and that feeling is more or less present throughout the day you should definitely consider detoxification as an option. The program for detoxification can help you regain energy and get rid of toxins.
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That's exactly what I would like to know Mike, WITH WHAT?? They have 10 symptoms and do NOT tell you how you can detox or with what!! Why print this "stuff" if you can't give the solution!!
– Try a smoothie [I tried one from Dalgarno Way Community Project and it worked 8 hours later, clearing out the bowels/system]. Of course, you could make your own at home choosing your own ingredients. Mine was mainly cucumber, carrots ingredients.]
– Andrews Liver Salts. Follow instructions on label on the tin.
– Cool boiled water last thing at night or every morning.
– Sweat it out in a Gym
– Try fasting
I had all 10 of these symptoms going on and the found out I had celiac disease! going fully gluten free has freed me from all 10 symptoms.
Time to hit the sauna folks.
Sweat it out of you!
The solution to a good detox is to eat 1kg of prunes per day for 2 weeks. just make sure you're not too far from the loo for those 2 weeks.
Can you please give some reference or explain in what you base that detox. I am curious about it. How did you discover that detox? How and why does it work?
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Just eat a healthy balanced diet with fresh fruit and veg and wholemeal rather than white bread etc and leave your body to do its own de-toxing which it is doing every minute of the day. (If you must eat meat or animal products try to limit them to once or twice a week. Carnivorous animals get more energy per kilo from their food -the herbivorous animals have already changed the grass etc into protein for them- and do not need to eat every day.) Your urine and faeces, breath and sweat all get rid off toxins from your body with out any interference from anything else. As long as you don't overload your system with junk, eg alcohol,sugar, refined carbohydrate, you should have no problems. If you do then there is something amiss and it would be wise to visit a qualified medical doctor.
Sorry but this sounds like a description of someone with Hypothyroidism. A trip to the doctor to test your hormones and thyroid function is probably in order if you feel like this.
Absolutely and I have it terrible as well as chronic fatigue!
Thats a very good post. infact, i enjoyed reading it.
Another sign of toxins is smells from mouth and body, troubles with teeths and slime from different parts of the body.
I use lemon water to begin detoxifying my body. It's the first stage in the California Cleanse. Also, I create a home made sauna suit (garbage bag/lawn bag- cut holes for arms and head and slip on!), and wear it under sweatsuit while I am cleaning or working out. I sweat 3-5x more.


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An overview of global annual average temperature anomalies in 2016
January 2017 - Global temperature data from centres around the world show that 2015 and 2016 are clearly the warmest on record with 2016 likely the warmer of the two.
At the end of each year, there is usually interest in where the year sits amongst the global temperature rankings. Sometimes, the answer is straightforward: 2015 was indubitably the warmest year on record. And sometimes, it is not: 2014 was a serious contender for warmest year, but it was not possible to say for certain whether it was or not, although it was clearly one of the top ten.
As the preliminary numbers for the whole of 2016 are finally released, it is a good time to reflect on how the information from different global data centres fits together and what the available evidence tells us about the rankings for the year.
2015 and 2016 saw weak El Niño conditions develop into a strong El Niño event which has now dissipated. El Niño events typically drive a short-lived spike in global temperatures, with the spike usually lagging a little behind the temperature variations in the tropical Pacific. The strong El Niño is the main reason why 2015 and 2016 were warmer than 2014, but anthropogenic influences are necessary to explain the majority of the overall warming since the 1950s.
However, in order to better understand the relative warmth of 2015 and 2016, we need to dig a little deeper into what happened in the global climate over the past two years, how global temperatures are estimated and how the two interact.
Estimating global average temperature
Surface temperature data are gathered by a global network of weather stations, ships and buoys. This network measures air temperatures over land and sea-surface temperatures over the oceans. A number of groups use these data to produce global temperature data sets. The data are carefully processed to account for changing measurement methods and instrumentation, and for the uneven distribution of measurements around the world. The methods that the groups use are different and so the estimates of the global average that they produce are also slightly different. In addition to traditional data sets based purely on surface temperature measurements, there are atmospheric reanalyses, which use a much wider range of observations including satellite data in combination with a weather-forecasting model to produce a globally complete temperature analysis.
Figure 1 shows the estimated global annual average temperature differences from the long-term average, as calculated from six data sets: HadCRUT4 (produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia), GISTEMP (produced by the Goddard Institute of Space Studies at NASA), NOAAGlobalTemp (produced by the National Centers for Environmental Information at NOAA), Berkeley Earth and Cowtan and Way (CW). It also shows (dotted and at an offset because it begins in 1979) a global temperature series calculated from the ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis.
Figure 1: (top) Global annual average temperature anomalies (relative to the long-term average for 1961-1990). Six datasets are shown as indicated in the legend; (bottom) difference from the HadCRUT4 data set on an expanded scale (difference from ERA-Interim not shown due to offset).
In general, the agreement between the data sets is very good. They all display a similar increase in estimated global average temperature over time and the short up ticks and drops in global temperature of around 0.1 to 0.2°C that signify the pulse of El Niño and La Niña can be clearly seen in each of the data sets. However, some differences are to be noted, particularly in the 19th Century where data are sparse and in the mid 20th Century when there were large changes to the way that sea-surface temperatures were measured.
However, we are here focusing on differences in 2015 and 2016 where the data sets fall roughly into two groups. One group, formed of HadCRUT4 and NOAAGlobalTemp shows 2016 as only marginally warmer than 2015. The other group, comprising GISTEMP, Berkeley, CW and ERA-Interim, has 2016 as quite a bit warmer than 2015.
Why the differences?
One major difference between the data sets is the way they deal with geographically-uneven sampling. It leads to a difference in the degree to which they attempt to fill gaps in the station network using information from nearby stations, as illustrated in Figure 2. All the data sets perform some degree of interpolation, but the GISTEMP, Berkeley and CW data sets – in fact those which have 2016 as much warmer than 2015 – do the most interpolation. On the other hand, the HadCRUT4 and NOAAGlobalTemp estimates (in which 2016 is warmer than 2015 by a smaller margin) do less interpolation and, most importantly for the discussion here, they do not interpolate extensively into the polar regions which were particularly warm in November 2016.
Figure 2: Surface temperature anomalies for November 2016 (°C, relative to the 1961-1990 average) from the five traditional global temperature data sets showing the difference in coverage: HadCRUT4, Cowtan and Way, NOAAGlobalTemp, Berkeley Earth and GISTEMP. Colour scales are shown beneath each diagram. The outer edge of the colours scales are ±10°C unless the highest or lowest anomalies for the month lie outside that range
In fact, in 2016, the Arctic was particularly warm throughout the year. Figure 3 shows that temperature anomalies for areas north of the Arctic Circle (approximately 65°N) were nominally the highest on record, with temperatures around 2.0 to 3.5°C above the 1961-1990 average. The Arctic average was considerably higher than the average for the rest of the globe so the data sets with sparser coverage in the Arctic will – all else being equal – tend to underestimate the global average temperature for 2016.
Figure 3: Annual average temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961-1990 average, 2016 is January to November average) for the polar regions: (top) Arctic (North of 65°N) and (bottom) the Antarctic (South of 60°S). Note different temperature scales. Here we have adjusted the anomalies from ERA-Interim to be comparable to those of the other data sets during the 1981-2010 period. The Antarctic series starts in 1958, which is the first year of long-term routine measurements in continental interior.
In October and November 2016, temperature anomalies for the month exceeded 10°C in parts of the Arctic. The unusual Arctic warmth contrasted with large negative temperature anomalies across Asia. This combination was sampled differently by the data sets and it led to a large divergence in estimates of the global average in October and November (Figure 4). Over the same period, the Antarctic was also warmer than average. During October, Arctic sea ice extent recovered slowly from the annual minimum and the monthly extent was the lowest on record. In November, sea ice extent in both the Arctic and Antarctic were at record low levels.
Figure 4: Monthly global average temperature anomalies (relative to the long-term average for 1961-1990). Five datasets are shown as indicated in the legend.
The Arctic was also warmer-than-average in 2015, but the average anomaly here was much lower than in 2016 (by around 1°C). In addition, in the Southern Hemisphere, a strongly persistent pressure pattern of below-average pressure over Antarctica and above-average pressure at lower latitudes – which defines the positive phase of the Antarctic Oscillation – held sway over the continent during much of 2015. During the positive phase of the Antarctic Oscillation there is a tendency for temperatures across the continent to be below average. From January to September 2015, average temperatures across Antarctica were below the long-term mean, somewhat balancing out higher-than-average Arctic temperatures in the more heavily interpolated data sets. The positive phase continued through much of 2016, but the associated modest cooling across Antarctica was more than balanced out by the extreme warmth in the Arctic.
How much difference does this make?
We can explore the size of the "coverage effect" by successively reducing the coverage of all the data sets to that of HadCRUT4, which performs the least extensive interpolation. In the top panel of Figure 5, we display the global average anomalies estimated from each of the data sets after first converting them to the same grid as HadCRUT4 – the same basic pattern can be observed as in Figure 1. Differences between global averages calculated from the data sets and HadCRUT4 exceed 0.05°C (the shaded region shows the ±0.05°C range) in a number of years, including 2016.
Figure 5: (a) Global average temperature anomalies for the five global temperature data sets at full coverage (HadCRUT4, Cowtan and Way, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, Berkeley Earth) relative to the 1961-1990 average. Colours are as in Figure 1. (b) Differences between individual data sets and HadCRUT4. The grey shading indicates the ±0.05°C range in the difference plots. (c) Global average temperature anomalies calculated from data sets matched to HadCRUT4 coverage in the polar regions. (d) Differences between individual data sets and HadCRUT4 after data matched to HadCRUT4 coverage in polar regions. (e) Global average temperature anomalies calculated from data sets matched to HadCRUT4 coverage everywhere. (f) Differences between individual data sets and HadCRUT4 after data matched to HadCRUT4 coverage everywhere. 2016 data are based on January to November.
Next, we reduce the coverage of each of the datasets to be the same as HadCRUT4 north of 60°N and south of 60°S (Figures 5c) This has the effect of reducing the differences (Figure 5d) such that even the largest differences between the five traditional data sets do not exceed 0.05°C. Finally, we reduce the coverage to be equal to that of HadCRUT4 across the whole globe (Figures 5(e) and (f)) which makes only a small additional difference. The residual differences when all the data sets are reduced to their common coverage are around one to four hundredths of a degree, thus indicating excellent agreement between them where they overlap.
The small residual differences reflect the net effects of differing input data, and analysis choices. One recently highlighted difference between the ways the data sets are processed is the choice of how they deal with changes in the marine observing system. HadCRUT4, CW and Berkeley handle it one way (using a method developed at the Met Office) and NOAAGlobalTemp and GISTEMP use another (developed at NOAA). Differences between sea surface temperature data sets are around a few hundredths of a degree when averaged over the global oceans, which is consistent with the size of the residual differences seen between the data sets here. Another difference to be taken into account is the choice of whether to use air temperatures or sea surface temperatures in ocean areas covered by sea ice.
An alternative way to think about the differences is to look at the uncertainty estimates provided with the HadCRUT4 data set (Figure 1). A large component of the uncertainty in the annual average is associated with limited coverage. Other uncertainties associated with local sampling and measurement limitations amount to around four hundredths of a degree, which is the expected size of the residual differences between data sets when disparities in coverage have been accounted for.
Despite the processing differences, the generally good agreement between the data sets demonstrates that estimated long-term global surface temperature change does not depend strongly on the methods used and therefore may be considered a robust scientific result.
2015 and 2016 stand out, in all analyses, as the two warmest years on record. The datasets which have the most complete global coverage indicate that 2016 was warmer than 2015 globally. Although some data sets do not provide temperature information for all areas of the globe, there is good agreement between the data sets in the areas where they do overlap. Differences between the data sets in 2015 and 2016 are mostly due to how data gaps are dealt with in data sparse regions, particularly the Arctic where 2016 was nominally a record warm year in all data sets.
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A two day National Conference on Nanomaterials Science, Technology and Applications (NAMASTA 2017) is organized by the Department of Physics, Dibrugarh University on November 10-11, 2017. The conference is sponsored by North East Council (NEC), Science and Engineering Board (SERB) and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).The inaugural session was held in the Indira Miri Conference Hall of the Dibrugrah University. The welcome address was delivered by Dr Bulumoni Kalita, Assistant Professor, Dibrugarh University and the Convener of the conference. In her speech she hoped that the conference would be able to provide a platform for the young researchers of the region to interact with some of the best minds in the field of nanoscience. Her address was followed by a brief introduction of the organizing department by Professor Kalyan Bhuyan, the Head of the Department of Physics, Dibrugarh University.
Inaugurating the conference, the Honourable Vice Chancellor, Dibrugarh University, Professor Alak Kumar Buragohain emphasized on the importance of interdisciplinary and joint collaborative efforts for realizing the true potential of the nanoscience based applications. In his address he also fondly recollected his close association with the field. The inaugural address was followed by the release of an Abstract Volume, a collection of the summaries of various research papers to be presented during the conference. Professor G.P Das from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata performed the honours.
Professor Dipankar Das Sarma, Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, delivered the Inaugural Plenary Talk titled "Fascination of Semiconductor Nanomaterials : Their Extraordinary Luminescent Properties".Professor Sarma is one of the most prominent figures in the field of Material Science in the world and one of the pioneer figures of the field in India. His lucid explanations of the subject combined with his unique interacting skills mesmerized all sections of the audience, be it the students or the experts alike. It was a very very rare opportunity for the budding researchers of the region to listen to a researcher of this class. A short question-answer session was also organized after the completion of the talk. The inaugural session eventually concluded with vote of thanks offered by Dr Pankaj Dutta, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Dibrugarh University.
Professor P. K. Baruah Dean, Research and Development, Professor Lila Kanta Nath, Dean of School of Science and Technology, Dibrugarh University, many past and present faculty members, research scholars and students of different disciplines were also present in the inaugural ceremony.
As many as 11 experts in the field of nanoscience : Prof. D. D. Sarma (I.I.Sc), Prof. G.P. Das (I.A.C.S), Prof A. Chattopadhyay (IITG), Prof. A. Perumal (IITG), Prof. A. Kumar, Prof. R.C. Deka (Tezpur University), Dr B. Satpati (SINP), Dr P. Ghosh (IISER Pune), Dr A. De (T.M.C Mumbai), Dr D.N. Nath (I.I.Sc.) Dr. M. R. Das (NEIST) are scheduled to deliver their talks during the two day conference. A total of 70 scientific papers are to be presented by the participants during the conference.


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Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised a way to eliminate the need for crystallization by using lasers to align large groups of molecules.
"Strong laser fields can be used to control the behavior of atoms and molecules," Argonne Distinguished Fellow Linda Young said. "Using x-rays, we can investigate their properties in a totally new way."
Crystallization allows scientists to create a periodic structure that will strongly diffract in specific directions when bombarded with x-rays. From the resulting diffraction pattern, a real-space image can be reconstructed.
However, without crystallization, when x-rays collide with multiple, randomly oriented molecules, they diffract in different directions, making it impossible to create a composite diffraction image, Argonne Physicist Robin Santra said.
Some molecules, such as many involved with drug interaction, cannot be crystallized and imaging would require numerous samples to bombard in order to get a full composite picture. Young's laser technique allows for millions of molecules suspended in a gaseous state to be aligned so that when bombarded with x-rays, they all diffract in the same way. The resulting images are at atomic level resolution and do not require crystallization.
"Understanding the structure of the approximately 1 million human proteins that cannot be crystallized is perhaps the most important challenge facing structural biology," Young said.
"A method for structure determination at atomic resolution without the need to crystallize would be revolutionary."
Young and her team have successfully aligned molecules using a laser, probed the aligned ensemble with x-rays and shown theoretically that the technique could be used for x-ray imaging (See E. R. Peterson et al., Applied Physics Letters 92, 094106 (2008)), but they require an proposed upgrade to the Advanced Photon Source facility located at Argonne before x-ray diffraction can be done experimentally.
Source: Argonne National Laboratory
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'Leadership by fear-mongering and intimidation'? Did the White House intentionally mislead the public on the sequester?
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," April 2, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Tonight: The O.K. Corral, a showdown in the White House briefing room. It's Fox's Ed Henry versus press secretary Jay Carney!
ED HENRY, FOX NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Can you give us an update on the sequester because yesterday, the Customs and border protection (INAUDIBLE) said that they're actually postponing furloughs and overtime cuts for border patrol agents. I thought in February, when Secretary Napolitano came out here with you, she told us it was dire, these border patrol agents were going to be furloughed and that we were going to be less safe because of that.
JANET NAPOLITANO, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Look, I don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country with sequester as without sequester.
JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, I think both are true. What is -- what is a fact is that when you're dealing with these kinds of across-the-board forced budget cuts in the middle of the fiscal year and you're having to make all sorts of adjustments to account for them and to reduce your expenditures accordingly, you know, it's a moving picture. And you know, what -- and that can be on the plus side where furloughs may take place a little later or on the minus side, where things may be more immediate.
NAPOLITANO: Yes, it'll be like a rolling ball. It'll keep growing.
CARNEY: Feel free to convey to your readers and viewers that the sequester doesn't matter and then -- and then explain...
CARNEY: ... then explain...
CARNEY: ... said it wasn't dire.
HENRY: The secretary came in here and said that we were going to be less safe!
NAPOLITANO: Put simply, the automatic budget reduction mandated by sequestration would be disruptive and destructive to our nation's security and economy.
CARNEY: People were going to be crossing the border because there were less border patrol agents. And then they announced yesterday, Actually, we're not doing that. So I'm not saying it's not important. I'm saying -- I'm saying...
HENRY: (INAUDIBLE) mislead the public.
CARNEY: Absolutely not. And I'm saying that this is -- I mean, you're editorializing enormously in that, but the...
HENRY: How so?
HENRY: February 25th, she said...
NAPOLITANO: If you have 5,000 fewer border patrol hours or agents, you have 5,000 fewer border patrol agents. That has a real impact.
HENRY: Those are her words.
CARNEY: Right.
HENRY: It's not politicized. And how is that not the case? They announced yesterday they're not doing that!
CARNEY: Well, but there are reductions, and whether it's those border patrol...
CARNEY: Go ahead and report that, Ed. We've make clear -- listen...
NAPOLITANO: If you have 5,000 fewer border patrol hours or agents, you have 5,000 fewer border patrol agents. That has a real impact.
HENRY: And we're not doing that.
CARNEY: Talk to the -- talk to those who have been laid off in the defense industries. Talk to those who have been furloughed in the...
CARNEY: Look, you can obviously go to DHS and...
HENRY: Yes, she said we're going to be less safe.
CARNEY: Right.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, it certainly seems like a simple question! Did Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Obama administration intentionally mislead us or not?
Former congressman Allen West joins us. Nice to see you, sir.
ALLEN WEST, FORMER CONGRESSMAN: It's always a pleasure, Greta. How are you doing tonight?
VAN SUSTEREN: I'm very well. And I guess it's a two-part question. Number one is, did they mislead us, and number two, whether you think, if, in fact, you think they misled us, that it was intentional rather than accidental or even uninformed.
WEST: Well, I think that what you witnessed was a very horrible kabuki dance being done by Jay Carney. And without a doubt, they did mislead the American people and they continue to attempt to try to mislead the American people through a leadership by fear-mongering and intimidation, when we know that this whole thing about sequestration is just about a 3 percent cut on the actual growth of government.
But Janet Napolitano and Jay Carney should listen to this. Climate change musical expenditure, $697,177, funding for robotic squirrel studies, $325,000, $947,000 for funding of a Mars menu out of NASA, $1.6 million spent on NASA video games. And we also know about this study of obese lesbian alcoholism.
So you know, I don't know what they're talking about as far as this whole thing about furloughing. The only people that are really being severely affected are veterans and people in the military, which should be the number one priority for our federal government is to provide for the common defense.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Well, what would be the motive to intentionally do it, if, indeed, it were intentional? I mean, I've gone through the list. You've got Eric Holder said that there were going to be furloughs of Bureau of Prisons staff. That didn't happen or it's not going to happen. You've got Janet Napolitano, Secretary Napolitano, on the border. You've got Education Secretary Duncan saying things about education at least hasn't happened. Everyone doesn't think it's going to happen. You've got the -- you've got issues about airport delays and stuff.
You know, if -- what would be the point, if it's intentional, to do it intentionally because they know they would get caught. It's not going to happen. Is it that there are no consequences?
WEST: Well, first of all, let's be very clear. The only people that are reporting this and, quote, unquote, catching them at this is this new station that we're talking on right now. You're not going to hear this on any other mainstream media outlets or some of the other cable news outlets.
This is all about continuing to spend the American taxpayer dollar, and when you look at the fact that something I thought was an April Fool's joke, when the president comes out and says we're going to have national financial capability month in April -- well, this really is national take away from the American taxpayer more of their hard earned capital to give it to Washington, D.C., to wastefully spend because we know what happens on the 15th of April, and if the American taxpayer is late, you're going to hear from the federal government, but yet we still have not gotten a budget from the president and from the White House and they're late since the 4th of February.
So again, this is about responsibility. This is about continuing to want to see this out-of-control spending that's coming out of Washington, D.C., the almost $7 trillion of debt that has been incurred since January of 2009, the continuation of these trillion-dollar-plus deficits. And what do we have? We'll continue to operate on a continuing resolution, not a budget proposal and a budget plan.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, what I don't get is this. I mean, a lot of -- I mean, we go through -- night after night, we go through a lot of waste, we go through a lot of fraud, we go through some programs I think most people think are sort of silly if we're -- you know, if we're studying the sex life of a fly or something, I think a lot of people would think that shouldn't be public funds, even if there's, you know, a scientific reason for it, we can find private funds for it.
But I don't -- what I don't understand is that at some point, we're going to -- it's going to -- we're going to implode. You can't keep spending more than you have. I mean, that -- you know, that -- that is true. And you're going to implode.
Do you believe that the president's administration just thinks that day will never come, or do you think that they're hoping that the economy gets so revved up that we're suddenly going to get flush with cash from revenue from tax receipts?
WEST: I think that they believe that the American people will not come to a realization that that day will come. Look, our monetary policy is horrible. Everyone is complaining in Washington, D.C., about $85 billion of sequestration. We're printing about that much money for a month to buy up our own Treasury and mortgage-backed security debt. So that's almost a zero sum.
Our monetary policy is horrible. And so we have an artificial economy. We have money that is circulating, and everyone keeps touting about Wall Street doing fine, but our small businesses are not. As a matter of fact, if you go to the American Action Forum, you'll find out that the federal government just instituted $218 million of new regulations just in the last week.
So the message is not getting through to the White House or through the people in Washington, D.C. We are bankrupting this country. We're bankrupting the future for the next generation, and sooner or later, the bill payer is going to come. We see what happened in Cyprus. We seen what's happened in Greece and what's happened through the euro zone.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, I may be the only one who thinks it, but every time everyone says that the stock market is doing well, I always think to myself, yes, the stock market is great for those who actually have money who can put it in the stock market. But a lot of Americans just simply don't have that luxury. But I'm going to take the last word on that, Congressman. I've got to go. Nice to see you, sir.
WEST: Yes. Always a pleasure. Thank you, Greta.


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For clarity, we shall focus exclusively on producing a ranked item list for a particular user. We leave to another post the orthogonal problem of producing a ranked user list for a particular item.
There are really two steps involved in producing an item list: (i) identify a candidate list, and (ii) rank them. Let us look at each of them.
Identifying a candidate set
This seems trivial but it is not. One might think that we can use all the remaining items, but it is not very effective. First, each user is really interested in only some items. Second, including all the good items is not necessarily satisfactory to the user: They often want a mix of items of different tastes, even though some of they may not be of high quality. And third, how can you measure the quality of the candidate set? What if all the candidate items are of high quality but none of them will be actually in the future list?
There are a number of ways to produce a candidate list. The most intuitively way is to look for other items which similar users have seen. More specifically, we first identify top K similar users and aggregate all the items seen by them, minus those already seen by this particular user. This poses two questions: (a) what is the similarity measure, and (b) what is the best K? Adequate answers to each question deserves a research paper itself. So we will not pursue here.
There are of course other system criteria -- one might look to maximise the purchase rate, or the total revenue per user, the reduction of inventory, the higher degree of diversity, or so.
Producing the ranked list
Given the candidate set, a straightforward way to produce the ranked list is to first predict the rating for each item, and then sort them. For this, we do not need any specialized ranking algorithm, but it is less exciting: One might argue that since our objective is ranking, we should learn a ranking function in the first place.
What is a rank function? The simplest rank function might take a pair of (user,item) and return a real score. These scores will be used to sort items. For this the ranking will be easy -- the cost is usually Nlog(N) for standard sort algorithms. The drawback of this method is that it implicitly assumes that all items are independent, whereas indeed they are not, because after all, they are liked by the same user (and not just one user). Nevertheless, this method is by far very popular, dating back to the Luce's axiom of choices in the 1950s, to the recent rise of learning-to-rank in information retrieval and label ranking in machine learning.
There is another way: a rank function can take a triple (user,item1,item2) and return the ordering between item1 and item2. Ranking among all items will be based on voting, e.g., number of times a particular item is ranked higher than the others. The cost of this method will be N(N-1)/2. One drawback of this method is that it does not enforce the transitivity, i.e., if item1 is ranked higher than item2, and item2 higher than item3, then item1 should be ranked higher than item3. It also does not take higher-order interaction among items into account. Despite of these shortcomings, this method is widely practised, and one of the earliest citations is Bradley-Terry's work.
This leaves the most informative method: Think of the rank function is a way to produce a permutation whose utility for the user is maximum. In other word, we must solve a set-wise problem rather than the point-wise or pair-wise problems. However, there is a big problem here: the computational complexity is bounded by N!, which is too expensive for even moderate N. Thus, we would not address this method for the moment.
Updated references:
- Probabilistic Models over Ordered Partitions with Applications in Document Ranking and Collaborative Filtering, T. Truyen, D. Phung, and S. Venkatesh, in Proc. of SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM11), April, Arizona, USA, 2011.
- Learning from Ordered Sets and Applications in Collaborative Ranking, Truyen Tran, Dinh Phung and Svetha Venkatesh, in Proc. of. the 4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2012), Singapore, Nov 2012.
- Preference Relation-based Markov Random Fields in Recommender Systems, Shaowu Liu, Gang Li,Truyen Tran, Jiang Yuan, ACML'15, November 20-22, 2015, Hong Kong.
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Garage sales rock. They are a lovely new family tradition. Here's a great garage sale story from this weekend.
Find garage sale in progress in empty office building. Bit suspicious but venture inside. Find in back room a three box bonanza of vintage sewing patterns. Feel like I've just passed out and I'm hallucinating...
Bark quick instruction to husband to ask woman how much patterns are each. "50 cents each" is the report. Frenziedly make a 'must have' pile, a 'how cute' pile and a 'what were they thinking but quirkily cute' pile (I've gotten terribly efficient in weeding out the bad patterns).
Woman comes down, sees the slightly manic but ecstatic glint in my eye and we banter excitedly when she finds out I sew with vintage patterns for my daughter and she offers the lot to me for $2. Two Dollars!!!!!!!!! I feel quite light headed and thank her effusively. Leave with 30 vintage patterns dating from the 50's and 60's, mostly children and some ladies. Here's some of my favourites:
I have also started the hair cap for another Steiner doll. This one just a little influenced by a good friend of mine, the elusive Miss C. Don't you love the colour?? Seeing my knitting makes me giggle. I'm a very new knitter.
And if you are twoing and froing about whether to see The Dark Knight, just do it. It is AMAZING.
Happy crafting everyone and have a great week!!
Sunday, 17 August 2008
The handing down of the patterns
Shared with you by silly gilly at 22:09
Topics garage sale, vintage patterns
6 comments:
- trashalou said...
it is good to click with someone and share the craftong love.
- 18 August 2008 at 04:39
- Hoppo Bumpo said...
Two dollars - no way! Your patterns looks amazing. What a treasure trove.
- 18 August 2008 at 06:41
- Cathy said...
WOW! Lucky you! Those patterns look so yummy!
- 18 August 2008 at 08:37
- CurlyPops said...
What a fab find!
Why were they having a garage sale in an old office building? That's a little strange.
I love the 1950's dresses with the tiny waists (I wish I had one of those).
- 18 August 2008 at 09:30
heheh.. I have influence :)
You know I am going to have to come pilfer those patterns?
- 18 August 2008 at 20:10
- Knit - R - Done said...
Keep knitting! It looks lovely.
- 21 September 2008 at 01:49
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Bomb The North Korean Nuclear Facilities--Now
The time has come to stop mere words on the North Korean nuclear threats and take action, bombing the North Korean nuclear sites. It ought to be done without further delay.
North Korea's threat to test its nuclear weapons must not be met with further bluster. Two American administrations, Clinton's and Bush's, have said that a North Korea nuclear capacity is unacceptable. Since the foul dictatorship of Kim Il Jong apparently is not listening, we ought to act.
The cost and danger to the U.S. of the North Koreans being allowed to further develop their nuclear arms is immense. If a nuclear device is exploded, it probably means that Japan, and even possibly South Korea will develop nuclear weapons as well, since they could no longer trust in the U.S. to take timely action against the North Koreans. And we cannot rely on a fledgling anti-missile program of our own to reduce the danger to American cities of a nuclear-armed North Korea.
President Bush accurately called North Korea and Iran part of an axis of evil several years ago. Now is the time to act on North Korea and, if the Iranians go on with their nuclear enrichment, it will be time to act on them too.
Certainly, we cannot count on the United Nations to act to preserve the peace. We see already in the Middle East how worthless UN assurances are, as they waffle with implementation of the peacekeeping force in Lebanon and refuse to fight their way into the Sudan. This is an organization that is dying, and, pretty soon, in the world it's going to be each country for itself.
North Korea has gone too far with its threats this morning. And perhaps an attack on the North Korean coast also ought to include missile launching facilities. Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have forces at the ready in the Far East, and they should not be used.
Fifty years ago, it was a mistake to end the war with North Korea in a truce. Now, we are paying for that folly.
Sen. Bill Frist, the Republican leader in the Senate, says on a visit to Kabul he is convinced the Afghan war cannot be won, and we ought to negotiate to bring the Taliban into the government. This would be like making an agreement to cut your own throat. Thank goodness, Frist is leaving government. He does not belong there.
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Hey guys!
Here is the last "Lost Post" I will do from last year. I slightly modified it to show you more outfits in which you can wear combat boots. I think you can wear combat boots with pretty much anything as long as you rock it with confidence. I love the edginess feel they bring to any outfit. I love wearing my combat boots and have to admit that I feel slightly bad ass when I do. lol I hope you enjoy the outfits I've put together and like the few pins I've added to give you more ideas.
Note: I linked the pics that aren't mine back to the Pinterest link from where I originally saw them. :)
|Here, I wore a white tank layered with a plaid button up, leather jacket, and faux fur vest. My pants are simply distressed skinnies.
|I like to leave my boots untied and loose at the top to give a more effortless look.
^^this link has a bunch of other combat boot outfit ideas^^
Do you have combat boots? How do you like to style them?
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(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) expects a decline in its net interest margin in the third quarter as low interest rates continue to squeeze the money it makes from loans, Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan said on Tuesday.
The decline could be similar to that of a year ago, when the bank's net interest margin fell from the previous quarter by 17 basis points, Sloan said at an investor conference. A basis point is 1/100th of a percentage point.
In the second quarter, Wells, the fourth largest U.S. bank, reported a net interest margin of 3.91 percent, unchanged from the previous quarter. Sloan attributed the estimated decline to lower variable income than in the previous quarter, the running off of higher yielding loans and securities, and strong deposit inflows.
Wells executives in July had said the bank's net interest margin would remain under pressure. Sloan, as he has said in the past, said the bank does not focus on managing its margin, concentrating instead on increasing earnings.
The bank has taken steps, however, that could soften the blow to the spread between what it pays depositors and what it makes on loans. It has worked to reduce the interest rates it pays account holders and has redeemed certain trust preferred securities to reduce borrowing costs, Sloan said.
Wells also has the ability to increase loans by attracting new customers and by buying portfolios from other banks, he said. "We really don't look at the net interest margin and say, 'OK, how many loans do we have to grow?'" Sloan said. "We just want to go ahead and grow loans."
Wells Fargo shares were down 1.13 percent to $34.20 in early trading.
Reporting by Rick Rothacker; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Leslie Adler


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2015 Holiday Show Schedule
posted on October 13, 2015
So many of you have asked where I'll be set-up this holiday season, so I figured it was high-time I posted my show schedule. Mark your calendars, here is my 2015 Holiday Show Schedule. I'll have new holiday products, our best selling kitchen towels, our usual stock of southern goodness, plus a few extra surprises! All of these shows are great events to stock up on all your holiday gifts including hostess gifts, teacher gifts, co-worker gifts and stocking stuffers! Hope to see you out this season.
HO HO HO y'all!
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Sofia Coppola - Lick the Star (1998)
Her debut short film. I had been meaning to watch this for a very, very long time. Watched it today and I thought it expressed a lot of things that I feel at the moment. And it looks good. And it fits into the whole 90s girl-power angsty tavi whatchamacallit blog hype - so kill me!
Activity on my blog might resume over the summer, I'm still thinking about it.


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Problems are striking for Austria manager
Austria, like their Irish opponents for next week's World Cup tie in Vienna, are struggling for strikers and goalscorers as the qualification campaign enters a crucial phase.
Martin O'Neill raised a few eyebrows with the selection for his 35-man squad which contained five goalkeepers but only four centre forwards, two of whom (Adam Rooney and David McGoldrick) have yet to play in a competitive game with the other two having a combined age of 66 (Kevin Doyle and Jon Walters).
Austria coach Marcel Koller can commiserate with the lack of options available up front: apart from veteran Marc Janko (another 33-year-old, like Walters and Doyle), two of the three forwards named yesterday by Koller in his squad have yet to score, putting a lot of pressure on Koller (28 goals from his 59 appearances for the national team) to deliver.
Koller has a number of issues to deal with as Ireland prepare for their date in Vienna, with morale low following their poor showing at Euro 2016 and a less than spectacular start to the World Cup campaign.
Austria's key man, Bayern Munich star David Alaba (inset), has been under fire in Germany for his displays in the Bayern side, and fans back home in Austria were less than impressed when stories emerged of Alaba partying the night away in Belgrade after their 3-2 loss to Serbia last month.
Koller predicts a tough evening at home to Ireland.
"We know it will be a tough task for us," he said. "Ireland play a very physical kind of game, but they are also dangerous going forward. We will need to show quality and composure in the game."
He has named three English-based players in his squad: Stoke veteran Marco Arnautovic, Watford defender Sebastian Prodl, and Spurs rookie Kevin Wimmer, who has just six senior caps to date.
Austria squad v Ireland
Keepers: Linider (Eintracht Frankfurt), Luske (Altach), Ozcan (Bayer L).
Defenders: Dragovic (Bayer), Hinteregger (Augsburg), Klein (Stuttgart), Lazaro, Stangl (Salzburg), Prodl (Watford), Suttner (Ingolstadt), Wimmer (Spurs).
Midfielders: Alaba (Bayern Munich), Arnautovic (Stoke), Baumgartlinger (Bayer), Harnik (Hannover), Ilskaner, Sabitzer (Leipzig), Junuzovic (Werder Bremen), Schaub (Rapid Vienna), Schöpf (Schalke).
Forwards: Gregoritsch (Hamburg), Hinterseer (Ingolstadt), Janko (Basel).


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come with me to spain, im hopeless
Aaahhh Bless!
Don't be hopeless. You'll meet loads of people on your travels. I'll be in Spain over the summer for a while, probably mid June, so if you're there then and still feeling hopeless, this good samaritan will meet up with you for a drink!
Take care, and remember to enjoy your trip!
Where will you be?
What will you be doing?
How long will you be there?
What are you most worried about?
If you let people know some who, what, wheres, and whens you should be able to have plans to meet up with people even before you go and/or you can get tips on how to meet people. There are some special internet sites just for meeting people I think one is www.meetup.com. Also some of the links from TP are sites that have similar travel companion forums or people from other countries willing to show people around.
Don't be hopeless!! Try and act confident even when you're shaking on the inside!! This is good advice all the time but especially when you're traveling... and pretty soon you start to impress yourself with how well you can handle things.


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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Aijek Debut Collection - All About Love
Aijek debut collection "All About Love" will be launched September 2011.
Inspired by love, romance...
Monday, August 8, 2011
Aijek The Label
Aijek was created in 2010 by self-taught designer Danelle Woo who wanted to create a line comprising of beautiful, easy and effortless pieces with sustainable high quality fabrics. Choosing to work mostly with natural fibers such as silk which ages beautifully, she presents them in modern feminine silhouettes. The result is a timeless creation of easy-to-wear pieces that will stay in the wardrobe for years to come.
All Aijek's pieces are designed and manufactured under the exclusive Aijek label.
All Aijek's pieces are designed and manufactured under the exclusive Aijek label.
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Time for an update on my Pan That Palette project. I'm planning on doing an update every two months, my intro being in February. When I introduced this palette I had 38 empty pans and had hit pan on 8.
Before I show you my current progress, I just wanted to point out that the two shadows that I have marked with an "X" are ones that I have removed from the palette. One was a white shadow that was incredibly glittery and crumbly and I knew I was never going to use it. The other was a pale neutral shadow. Nice colour but it was so hard that I couldn't get any colour pay-off.
I now have 45 empty pans and there are 6 I have hit pan on. Although I am still making progress, I am finding that with the more neutral matte shades being finished, it will start getting tougher. I was using them to contour my eyes so it was easy to use more than one shadow for each eye look. The number I can use in one look is now dwindling, but my determination to continue is not (did you like what I did there? lol)
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Many Kratom users also utilize potentiators — substances that interact with kratom in a positive manner. Potentiators increase the effects of kratom, thereby enabling individuals to take lower doses while maintaining the same degree of efficacy.
In this article, we'll explore kratom, kratom potentiators and how it all works.
What is Kratom and How is it Used?
Kratom is a natural herb that's derived from a tree (Mitragyna Speciosa). It grows in southeast Asia, where native cultures have used kratom leaves in herbal remedies for hundreds of years.
Kratom leaves are dried, ground up and brewed into a tea or placed into capsules, which are used as a supplement. You can buy kratom online.
Kratom is not an opiate, but it produces opiate-like effects making it a popular, non-addictive alternative for individuals who suffer from chronic pain. In addition, kratom treats some of the most problematic aspects of opiate withdrawal, like aches and pains, diarrhea and anxiety. This makes it popular among individuals who wish to move away from using prescription painkillers.
Grapefruit as a Kratom Potentiator
Grapefruit contains elements that serve to inhibit the enzymes that break down certain substances, like kratom. This means a higher amount of the substance remains in the individual's body for a longer period of time. It's completely natural, inexpensive and delicious, making grapefruit a popular choice as a kratom potentiator.
A glass of grapefruit juice works well, as does the actual fruit. One entire grapefruit will produce potentiator effects. Some even eat the rind. It generally works best if eaten about 30 minutes before the kratom is used.
Notably, another alternative is starfruit, which some kratom users say is even more potent than grapefruit.
Magnesium as a Kratom Potentiator
Magnesium, which is sold as a supplement, is a popular potentiator and it can also serve to reduce tolerance when used in the long term, making it possible to use less and less kratom with time.
Notably, magnesium does relieve constipation too, but it can actually worsen diarrhea. So this potentiator can actually have negative effects on individuals who are in the process of self-weaning from opiates.
See this related article to learn more about magnesium's potentiator effects:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11873038
Phenibut as a Kratom Potentiator
Phenibut is a substance that's sold as a prescription drug and supplement. It's used to treat an array of ailments, such as PTSD, anxiety and insomnia, though it's not an approved pharmaceutical in the U.S. or Europe.
Phenibut is said to potentiate kratom's relaxation effects in particular, though according to a number of online forum posts, users reported experiencing nausea in some instances.
Tagamet (Cimetidine) as a Kratom Potentiator
The drug cimetidine, which is sold under the name Tagamet, serves to amplify the effects of kratom. Tagamet is an over-the-counter drug used to treat heartburn and other gastric ailments.
The manufacturer's recommended dose of Tagamet is sufficient to produce potentiation effects.
Chamomile Tea as a Kratom Potentiator
Chamomile Tea serves to enhance the relaxation effects that are associated with kratom. This is actually a very popular potentiator, as kratom can be ingested as a tea, so many mix 1 part chamomile tea and one part kratom tea.Conversely, others open a kratom tablet and sprinkle it into a cup of chamomile tea.
There are a number of different kratom potentiators, but each individual is unique and experiences can vary. Trying different options is one way to find the potentiator that has the most desirable effects on your unique body.
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I've been writing about this for a while now, just collecting and scribbling down my experiences with this new operating system from Microsoft. It's such a big system with so many drastic changes under the hood that at this early stage, it can have teething problems. Read my first two months experience Here.
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Here are nine things to follow, when trying to eat clean: (information was provided by ehow.com)
2. Choose whole grains and complex carbohydrates to give you more energy and keep you feeling fuller longer. Remember that whole wheat is not necessarily whole grain. Look for breads, rice and pasta that are not just brown, but also made with 100% whole grains. One serving is about the size of your closed fist.
Some items I always have on hand:
Tons of fresh veggies and frozen ones. Avoid the canned one, they have hidden crap in them. Chicken breasts, fish, pork chops, ground turkey, whole grain bread, pasta and rice. Make sure the label says whole grain. I also keep pb2 and all natural peanut butter on hand. Old fashioned oats and steel cut oats are also always on hand. Once you start eating clean or "cleaner", it gets easy. It becomes a way of life. And now is the time to give it a try with all that fresh produce available in the summer months!
Hope you all had a great weekend! I sure missed being able to see my dad this weekend. :( BUT.....we will be poolside, in Florida, with him, in 4 weeks!


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Over 70% of small businesses in the UK expect the governmentΓÇÖs decision to raise VAT to 20% to have a negative, hard-hitting impact upon their business.
Published today by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), who exist to promote and protect the interests of the self-employed and those who run their own business, the Voice of Small Business survey revealed that 71% of respondents expect the rise in VAT to be unbeneficial to their business ΓÇô with 45% expecting to see a fall in turnover and 36% predicting a loss of customers as a result.
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Unlike big businesses, who it is believed will be able to absorb the increase, the FSB believes that small businesses will find themselves having to pass the cost of the rise back on to customers, reduce stock levels or find ways of cutting costs in other areas of their day-to-day business.
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"If the Government truly believes that the private sector is going to strengthen the recovery we need to see action. Increasing the threshold at which companies have to register for VAT will put almost £900 million back in the pockets of small businesses. Without this small firms will struggle to bounce back as the spending cuts start to bite." concluded Mr Walker.


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I was kid in the '50's and had what can only be described as an Ozzie and Harriet/Leave It To Beaver kind of childhood. My father was the wage earner and my mother stayed home and took care of the kids and the house. Except for the style of automobiles, music and fashion, my childhood was pretty much interchangeable with the '30's or the '40's. Except, of course, the Great Depression and World War II were behind us. But, for the most part, societal norms were the same.
One of those societal norms was that a woman's place was in the home. Nobody questioned it. I'm sure everyone reading this has seen that email making the rounds depicting the top ten sexist ads of the day.
Then came the '60's and the sexual revolution. I think it's a fair assessment to say that a contributing factor was the hard fought battle to make birth control pills available to the public. The battle was long, having begun in 1950 and the history is interesting, if you care to look it up. The pill made it possible for women to have sex without the consequence of getting pregnant. It gave them the freedom previously enjoyed only by the male of the species.
All of a sudden women were footloose and fancy free: burning their bras, opting for careers over family and having sex when they wanted with whom they wanted. They were speaking up and speaking out.
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Call identifier: H2020-EO-2016 Publication date: 14 October 2015
Call summary and aims
Horizon 2020 Earth observation (EO) activities are considered an essential element to accompany the investments made by the Union in Copernicus, the Union Earth observation and monitoring programme. Through Copernicus and Earth Observation activities in the Horizon 2020 the European Union also contributes to advancing the Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems (GEOSS).
In particular, activities under the societal challenge for climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials focus on GEOSS, notably the development of comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems that stimulate the smart use of strategic resources, support the development of evidence-based policies, foster new environmental and climate services, and develop new opportunities in global markets. Activities under the Leadership in Industrial Technologies part focus on the evolution of Copernicus and the exploitation of existing European space infrastructure by promoting the development of innovative products and services based on remote sensing, geo-positioning or other types of satellite enabled data as well as geo-information generated already by services such as Copernicus services.
Moreover, taking into account the wider relevance of EO to all parts of Horizon 2020, proposals addressing application and uptake of EO for the development of innovative applications addressing specific challenges can also be submitted to the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges where related references are included. To that end, applicants to those parts of Horizon 2020 can also access Copernicus data and information (licensing conditions may apply)[[Access to Copernicus Sentinel data and service information is provided to users on a free, full and open basis. For other satellites data, the DataWareHouse document 2.0 is available at http://www.copernicus.eu/main/library/technical-documents/ and licensing details can be consulted at http://gmesdata.esa.int/web/gsc/dap_document as well as http://gmesdata.esa.int/web/gsc/terms_and_conditions.]].
To facilitate access to opportunities for applicants, the following list includes dedicated Earth observation activities in calls in other work programme parts, in addition to those in this call:
- Blue Growth – demonstrating an ocean of opportunities (H2020-BG-2016-2017):
- BG-9-2016: An integrated Arctic observing system
- BG-12-2016: Towards an integrated Mediterranean Sea Observing System
- Sustainable Food Security – resilient agri-food chains (H2020-SFS-2016-2017):
- SFS-43-2017: Earth Observation services for the monitoring of agricultural production in Africa
- Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials - Earth Observation (H2020-SC5-2016-2017):
- SC5-18-2017 - Novel in-situ observation systems
- SC5-19-2017 - Coordination of citizens' observatories initiatives
- SC5-20-2016 - European data hub of the GEOSS information system
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- EO-2-2016: Downstream applications for public sector users
- EO-3-2016: Evolution of Copernicus services
- EO-2-2017: EO Big Data Shift
- EO-3-2017: Preparation for a European capacity to monitor CO2 anthropogenic emissions
- Competitiveness of the European Space Sector: Technology and Science (H2020-COMPET-2017)
- COMPET-2-2017: Competitiveness in Earth observation mission technologies
- SME Instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017), although not dedicated uniquely to Earth Observation, is particularly well suited for SMEs addressing space based applications
- SMEInst-04-2016-2017: Engaging SMEs in space research and development
- SMEInst-12-2016-2017: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas and priorities of Societal Challenge 5
Call updates
29 June 2016 13:58
An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab "Topic conditions and documents" (Additional documents) in each topic section.
04 March 2016 09:50
A total of 62 proposals were submitted in response to this call.
The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:
• EO-1-2016: 30 proposals
• EO-2-2016: 2 proposals
• EO-3-2016: 30 proposals
The evaluation of the proposals, including an ethics screening, is planned to start on the 11th of April and will be closed on the 20th of June 2016. Applicants will be informed on the outcome of the evaluations before the end of July 2016.
02 December 2015 18:22
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: In order to allow the search of the best expertise needed to evaluate the proposals, it is highly encouraged to insert specific titles, abstracts and keywords since the first submission phase.
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE: In order to allow the search of the best expertise needed to evaluate the proposals, it is highly encouraged to insert specific titles and abstracts since the first submission phase.
The submission session is now available for: EO-2-2016(PCP), EO-3-2016(RIA), EO-1-2016(IA)
- 10 November 2015 18:45 The submission session is now available for: EO-2-2016(PCP), EO-3-2016(RIA), EO-1-2016(IA)
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