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Is there a song you remember that you would like to share?
Or a book you want to mention that you particularly liked?
What does that mean?
"There far away, far beyond the sea.
There is already mine, there is my home."
What did you mean here? Israel?
No, firstly, I meant my home outside of Israel, this was a song we sang there.
I don't know what was intended. Maybe we meant Eretz Israel, which was far away,
It was a song essentially dedicated to the emigrants,
because in our city, there was unemployment, so people would immigrate to far off places,
and would always remember their original home.
So this song came out, because there were many cases like this.
It was a popular folk song.
All of the people you see in the pictures were people of means, like my father.
When someone would marry off a daughter,
and it was known that they were poor,
the wedding would be taken care of,
that there would be food and everything that was needed,
anonymously, that they wouldn't know who sent what.
They would send basic food and also some money,
what they were able to.
Thus they provided help.
There were no technologies back then like today,
such as a washing machine, an electric iron, or ovens.
There was an outdoor stove where they would bake bread once a week
and prepare all the foods for the Sabbath and we would eat.
Interviewer: Your mother did all of these things by herself?
No maids ever entered the house.
All the laundry was done by hand.
There wasn't even a tin for it. Everything was done by hand.
To heat something up, we would kindle wood.
In the winter there was an oven with logs to heat the home.
Life was very good.
Interviewer: your mother did all of the chores?
All of the chores, from A to Z.
I never felt even one instance of antisemitism.
I told you, I was accepted amongst all circles.
For me, except for antisemitic literature,
we thought that antisemitism was only in Poland. Nowhere else.
In Yugoslavia we really didn't sense any antisemitism.
Also in Belgrade when we were there.
Antisemitism began in Belgrade in 1939, when Germany conquered Poland,
suddenly a group of Christian Fascists emerged, who would persecute the Jews.
They would go to the Jewish areas, where the youth branch was located,
and would be provocative just to start up with us.
But we were all athletic and we didn't fear them.
They would start with us, and they would take a few blows
and they would leave, because they didn't want to get hit.
They couldn't hit us because we were stronger than them.
Thus, antisemitism was only for a short period.
Afterwards, I entered the army, where there was no antisemitism.
My mother loved to go out with my father,
they would go dancing at 'be-ba-bo' parties.
This was before the war. I remember this was before the war.
Interviewer: What were these 'be-ba-bo' parties?
They were parties of ballroom dancing.
They were young. My mother was 34.
My father was maybe 40.
There was love, a strong love, between them.


text: Chris Moore, Principal Sales Engineer at Trifacta, gives a demonstration of Trifacta for data onboarding with advertising clickstream data. The demo was originally presented at our March 2018 New York User group and re-recorded as a webinar for people who were unable to attend the event. This is a good overview of Trifacta's features including connectivity, creating recipes, transforming and preparing data, joining datasets, viewing the data profile results, and more. In addition, Chris shows a personal, real-world application of analyzing health biometrics data from a fitness tracker.

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Twins put up 10 runs in win over Mariners; bullpen shaky again
A six-run sixth inning fueled the Twins to a 10-5 win over the Mariners Thursday afternoon at Target Field.
Nelson Cruz and C.J. Cron homered for Minnesota to push their MLB-leading homer total to 132. Cruz led the way with three hits and three RBI, while Ehire Adrianza also had a three-hit day and three other Twins – Jorge Polanco, Marwin Gonzalez and Jonathan Schoop – had two hits apiece.
The Twins led 1-0 with two outs in the sixth inning but Ryne Harper relieved Michael Pineda and gave up a game-tying single to center field. Harper got out of the inning and Pineda was charged with the run, but Minnesota's offense erupted for six runs in the sixth and three more in the seventh on Cron's homer.
Fernando Romero, called up from Triple-A Rochester earlier in the day, gave up two runs and didn't record an out in the eighth inning before Matt Magill relieved him and struggled his way to three outs in the eight, and three more in the ninth.
Magill allowed two runs on two hits and two walks.
The Twins' bullpen (Harper, Morin, Romero and Magill) combined to allow four runs on five hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings.
The Twins are now 18-4 after a loss this season.
Up next: Twins vs. Royals, Friday at 7 p.m.


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Staff analytical notes
Canadian housing supply elasticitiesWe explain how housing supply elasticities for Canadian cities are estimated. The procedure we use exploits the systematic differences in various cities' sensitivity to regional house-price cycles.
Reaching for yield or resiliency? Explaining the shift in Canadian pension plan portfolios"Reach for yield"—This is the commonly heard explanation for why pension plans shift their portfolios toward alternative assets. But we show that the new portfolios also hold more bonds, offer lower average returns and produce smaller and less volatile solvency deficits. These shifts are part of a broader strategy to reduce solvency risk.
Household financial vulnerabilities and physical climate risksNatural disasters occur more often than before, potentially exposing households to financial distress. We study the intersection between household financial vulnerabilities and severe weather events.
Canadian job postings in digital sectors during COVID-19Digital technologies have helped maintain economic activity while allowing people to remain physically distant throughout the COVID-19 crisis. This note shows that the number of online postings for jobs related to the production of digital technologies in Canada decreased less than the number for other jobs and recovered more quickly after lockdowns were lifted.
The uneven economic consequences of COVID 19: A structural analysisUsing a structural model, we study the economic consequences of the COVID-19 shock. The uneven consequences, such as higher unemployment among young households, amplify the negative implications for the macroeconomy, household vulnerabilities and consumption inequality. Government support programs have stimulated the economy and lowered inequality and medium-term vulnerabilities.
Exploring the potential benefits of inflation overshootingAfter a period with the interest rate at the effective lower bound, temporarily overshooting inflation may offer important economic benefits. This may be especially true for vulnerable segments of the population, such as workers with low attachment to the labour force and the long-term unemployed.
BoC–BoE Sovereign Default Database: What's new in 2021?The BoC–BoE database of sovereign debt defaults, published and updated annually by the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, provides comprehensive estimates of stocks of government obligations in default.
Small and smaller: How the economic outlook of small firms relates to sizeFirms with fewer than 100 workers employ about 65 percent of the total labour force in Canada. An online survey experiment was conducted with firms of this size in Canada in 2018–19. We compare the responses of small and micro firms to explore how their characteristics and economic outlooks relate to their size.
Analyzing supply and demand for business loans using microdata from the Senior Loan Officer SurveyBoth supply and demand factors help determine the level of business lending in the economy, but most data show only their combined effect on prices and quantities. Using the Bank of Canada's Senior Loan Officer Survey microdata on financial institutions' lending conditions and demand, we separate supply from demand effects.


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Aeronautics and Aerospace
The Impact of Satellite Positioning System Failures on our Lives
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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are integrated into numerous applications and, therefore they take an increasing part in human habits. Every year, the whole market of GNSS products and services increases at a rate of about 25% [1]. According to some predictions in 2020 [2] more than 1 billion satellite navigation units will be in operation, driven by growth in emerging economies. Some factors are facilitating the growth of GNSS applications: receivers are more powerful, smaller, cheaper and easier to handle, emerging economies are growing, etc. They provide a strong impact in the countries' development.
This article discusses the impact of GNSS critical applications on society, via critical infrastructures. This investigation will show how our society is becoming more dependent on GNSS applications. One problem concerning GNSS systems is their reliability. GNSS systems cannot work completely without fail. We will highlight the principal sources of the SATCOM and GNSS spectrum interference, the effect of its outage and its consequences. Finally, we will review current and new mitigation techniques capable of resolving SATCOM and GNSS spectrum interference issues.
Criticality of GNSS Applications
Applications using GNSS cover a large array of sectors including all kinds of transport (road, air, maritime and rail), energy production and distribution, advanced technologies (timing, scientific surveying, earth observation, network synchronization), safety of life (surveillance, defense, emergency and location-based services) and even social networking and recreation, as shown in Figure 1. GNSS technology is important in real-time predictions of real or possible critical situations and natural disasters. Moreover, GNSS applications are linked with all levels of human security in our society.
GNSS and Critical Applications
In society, a critical infrastructure is an area composed of equipment and systems that require the support of critical functions (applications) to satisfy basic needs of society and provide public safety. The critical infrastructures are vital to a nation's security, economy and survival. There are 8 categories of critical infrastructures [5], which include the following sectors (refer to Figure 2).
We can summarize the GNSS impact on services and activities and the minimal degree of performance needed to accomplish them. In reviewing GNSS main applications, they can be classified in different criticality categories [3]: Safety of life applications and Mission applications.
By definition, safety of life applications are those where failures or errors may directly cause harm, injury or death to humans: aviation, rail, maritime, emergency management (ambulance, fire, police, search and rescue), traffic surveillance, personal protection, etc. Basically, these applications are vital to people's health and integrity. Their main characteristics are the following: they must be error-free (high integrity) in any circumstances. They also need high availability and high continuity. In the end, because of their criticality, the devices intended for safety of life applications must be certified.
Mission applications are those where failures or errors may indirectly affect people's integrity or health by causing destruction of systems, damaging property external to the system, or damaging the environment. These applications are deemed vital to an organization's business success or existence. They need to be highly accurate, highly reliable and highly available. They include industries such as: oil and gas, mining, environment, space, construction/civil, fisheries, precision surveying, precision agriculture, forecasting, geodesy, timing, fleet management, engineering, vehicle control, and robotics. These kinds of services need high accuracy, high precision and high reliability GNSS receivers to perform adequately.
GNSS technology can be related to numerous types of accidents. They are involved in distracted driving. For example, GPS devices being fallible, some errors can lead to outdated or inaccurate information for driving guidance and navigation. Because of these factors, GNSS devices can increase the risk of accidents and take the thought process out of the driving equation or awareness. For example, it is estimated that GPS units were directly involved in 300,000 car accidents in the United Kingdom alone, in 2008 [4]. In addition, virtually hundreds of thousands of civil aircrafts rely on GNSS devices. GNSS applications can be classified as mission critical or safety critical, as shown in Figure 4.
Connection between Applications and Infrastructures
The relationship between GNSS services and society can be explained by the following steps, graphically described in Figure 4:
- We know that a society is composed of many institutions. Some of them are critical, as previously stated. An example of critical infrastructure is health and emergency services with ambulances.
- We know that many elderly people in our society use health and emergency services for assistance or for public care. Some of these services use GNSS signals for ambulance tracking and to track patient health via wireless devices (heart, blood pressure, temperature, etc.). These services are critical.
- So we can make the assumption that GNSS has an impact on critical health and emergency services (critical infrastructure) in our society.
- Knowing that GNSS is embedded in health services, emergency services, defense, transportation, finance, food production, energy production, environment surveying, all sectors vital to society, we can conclude that GNSS services impact society via crucial infrastructures.
GNSS Effects on Critical Infrastructures
Critical infrastructure, seeking the increased efficiency made possible by GNSS, has also developed a reliance on GNSS that can lead to serious consequences if the service is disrupted and the applications are not equipped with mitigating devices and procedures. There is a real dependency on GNSS services. If crucial infrastructures are affected (as it is described in Table 1), the people's confidence towards the systems will gradually lower.
Table 1. GNSS description of effects on infrastructures
Sources of Space Spectrum Interference
The technology of radio navigation via satellite is becoming increasingly precise and accurate. But under some circumstances, GNSS receivers may fail to work properly. The main sources of failure or malfunction a GNSS user can encounter are the following:
- Source n° 1: System Malfunction
- Source n° 2: Hazards in Propagation Channel
- Source n° 3: Unintentional Interference
- Source n° 4: Intentional Interference
- Source n° 5: Human Factors
Space Spectrum Interference Mitigation Strategies
There is no magic wand to cancel undesired Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from satellite communication and GNSS signals. The protection of satellite communications and GNSS requires a set of measures to deal with the various aspects of RFI: regulatory protection and efficient mitigation techniques.
To understand how the sources of space spectrum interfere with GNSS and what kinds of strategies can be used to reduce or eliminate those interferences, please read the Research Paper available in the Journal "Positionning" at the following link:
Do Alexis Sanou, René Jr. Landry (2013). Analysis of GNSS Interference Impact on Society and Evaluation of Spectrum Protection Strategies. Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal (Qc), Canada. Positioning, 2012, (Positionning Journal article)
This article is also available via Espace ÉTS.
René Jr Landry
René Jr Landry is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at ÉTS and the Director of LASSENA. His expertise in embedded systems, navigation, and avionics applies notably in transportation, aeronautics and space technologies.
Program : Electrical Engineering
Research laboratories : LACIME – Communications and Microelectronic Integration Laboratory LASSENA – Laboratory of Space Technologies, Embedded Systems, Navigation and Avionic
Do Alexis Sanou
Do Alexis Sanou completed a master degree at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montréal. His thesis was on GNSS receivers interference and multipath reduction.
Program : Electrical Engineering
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Yoshihara, Jiro
Jiro Yoshihara was born in Osaka in 1905.
After he had taken his doctor´s degree in economics at the University of Kansai in 1928, he started working in his father´s oil factory.
In the same year, his first exhibition took place in Osaka. After 1934 he took part in the exhibition of the group Nika, initially as a figurative painter (typical are his fish inspired by Chiriko), later as an abstract painter. He received an award at an exhibition of Nika in 1937.
Together with Yoshihiga Saito and Takeo Yamaguchi, he organized the Kyushitsu, an abstract avant-garde group in 1938, which was created within the Nika.
In the following years, he was influenced by surrealism, and subsequently and by the Art of Brut and Dubuffet.
After the war he advocated the promotion of artistic life in Kasai, making use also of his own enormous financial means as an oil industrialist. In 1948 he took part in the founding of the art association of Ashiya, where he became the president shortly after. In 1952 he led the Gendai bjutsu kondam (Talks on Contemporary Art), meeting held by the young artists from Kansai each month, to discuss contemporary art. Several artists united around him from the Gutai group.
In the activities of the group Yoshihara has played an extremely important role as initiator and organizer since he was to be the one who proposed "novelties" like the first open-air exhibition or the "art on the stage"
In addition to a few of his installations or actions of considerable interest, he dedicated himself mainly to painting. His characteristic motif is that of the circle, initially painted with speed and gastric approach.
Jiro Yoshihara
Indian ink on paper, signed.
With a certificate of Registration by Japan Art Dealers Association.
Size: 39,5 x 39,5 cm
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Engineered Cell Models Seen as Best for Capturing Living Lung Response
Engineered models of the lung and trachea replicate the cellular dynamics found in living organisms better than other models used to study these cells in culture, a new study suggests.
These engineered artificial lungs and tracheas may be more suitable to study cell-based therapies for lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis, its researchers suggest.
The study, "Platform Effects on Regeneration by Pulmonary Basal Cells as Evaluated by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing," was published in the journal Cell Reports.
Doing research on the lung requires understanding how lung cells behave, which can be difficult to ascertain in living animals. It is often necessary to use culture models, which can be more easily manipulated and studied in a lab setting.
Several culture models exist for this purpose. One involves growing lung cells into a three-dimensional structure called an organoid. Another model, called the air-liquid interface (ALI), involves growing cells on top of a plastic filter, sort of like how grass grows on a lawn.
Other types of models involve organ engineering. Conceptually, this involves creating a scaffold of the organ of interest. This scaffold is basically the organ itself, but with all of the cells removed so that only the architecture and the matrix proteins (the extracellular matrix, or ECM, that provide support to cells) remain. Then, cells can be 'seeded' on to these scaffolds, repopulating them.
In this study, researchers at Yale University compared four culture models of the lung and airways: organoids, ALI, engineered lung, and engineered trachea (the 'windpipe,' or tube that goes from the mouth to the lungs).
"Rather than focusing on a specific disease, we tried to better understand the tools that the whole pulmonary field is using to study diseases," Allison Greaney, a graduate student at Yale and the study's first author, said in a university news release.
The models were evaluated using single-cell RNA sequencing. This technology can reveal the transcriptome of individual cells — essentially, which genes are 'turned on,' and the extent to which they are.
Using computer algorithms, the researchers compared the cell-by-cell transcriptome profiles of each of the culture models to that found in living animals (all experiments were done with rat cells). In this way they could ascertain which model best replicated what was seen in the animals. Importantly, the same starting type of cells and the same culture medium were used; the only difference was the platform on which the cells were grown.
Broadly, the two engineered models were found to be more similar to living animals than the organoid or ALI models — in both latter models there were culture-specific irregularities not found in the engineered models or the native tissue.
"We found that artificial culture platforms are uniquely associated with transcriptomic patterns reflecting cellular assimilation to the artificial culture environment," the researchers wrote. In other words, the cells' transcriptomes appeared to change because of stimuli present in the culture environments (such as rigid plastic or more fluid gels) that are not present in living bodies.
The findings suggest that "cells grown in engineered lungs and tracheas more closely resemble native lung and trachea cells," said Laura Niklason, PhD, MD, a Yale professor and the study's senior author. "These engineered constructs provide a more realistic environment for cells than the hydrogel or the plastic filter of the other platforms. The engineered cells were able to recognize and assimilate to those specific environments."
"Not many people use engineered trachea or lung constructs in our field because they are somewhat more difficult to work with," Greaney added, "but the beneficial effects on cells we found in this study suggests that it is worth the extra effort."


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Dieter Stoffel GmbH was established in 1998. It has since grown into providing, parts, services, repairs for gas and steam turbine parts and complete engines.
Dieter Stoffel GmbH specializes in providing
· GE industrial Gas Turbine capital parts like blades, vanes, combustion liners and transition pieces.
· Gas Turbine Capital parts and consumables for Nuovo Pignone Gas turbines.
· Siemens V94.2 gas turbine non-OEM capital and consumable part
· Westinghouse/Fiat turbine non-OEM capital parts and consumables.
Consumables for Aero-derivative gas turbines
Dieter Stoffel GmbH was established in 1998. In last 11 years we have provided capital parts, locking hardware, fasteners, consumables to various Maintenance, Overhaul and Repair companies, End User as well as OEM. Our technical teams have overhauled turbines in Nigeria, Middle-east and Asia.
Technical assistance as well as in repair of capital parts like blades, vanes, combustions, transition pieces, fuels nozzle, gas turbine rotors. We have continued to grow and provided additional services like dismantling of existing Power Plants, boilers and relocating these power plant.


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PHP Session can be created using $_SESSION which is a global variable in PHP.
$_SESSION is a super global variable that is used to store any information about a session.
So what is a PHP Session?
With PHP, every time a User comes to our website, we can start or create a Session. When we start a Session, we can store any kind of information regarding a Session which will be saved as an array in the variable $_SESSION.
PHP Session: What kind of data that are usually save in the PHP $_SESSION?
Now, imagine yourself as User, you go to a website that provides you a service that requires you to log in.
Essentially, when you go to a website, a Session is started, then you log in, upon successful login, a data is saved to the Session to identify you as a logged in User.
Then you can proceed to use any services the website is providing to user who has login only. This is one example of the many things you can do with PHP $_SESSION
Let's get down to coding
We will be creating some restricted pages that are only accessible to logged in User.
Create a new file,
index.php and paste the following.
<?php @session_start(); ?> <!doctype html>     <form action = 'backend.php' method = "POST"> <input type ='text' placeholder = "Username.." name = 'username' /> <input type ='password' placeholder = "Password.." name = 'password' /> <button type ='submit' value = 'submit' name = 'submit'>Login</button> </form>
So, in the
index.php, we have created a really simple form with 2 inputs.
Next, create another file, name it
backend.php and paste the following.
<?php if($_POST && isset($_POST)){ //$admin = array("username" => "adminsite", "password" => "admin123"); $normal_user = array("username" => "normaluser", "password" => "123456"); print_r($normal_user); $username = $_POST['username']; $password = $_POST['password']; // check if username and password match if($username == $normal_user['username'] && $password == $normal_user['password'] ){ //if match, start the session() @session_start(); $_SESSION['username'] = $username; $_SESSION['user_type'] = 'normal'; header("Location: /rasyue.php"); }else{ header("Location: /"); die(); return; } }else{ die(); return; } ?>
This PHP script will serve as our simple login authentication, we are just going to hardcode the correct username and password to login.
In reality, in this part, we usually have to talk to the database and verify if the user inputs(username and password) exist in the database.
If both inputs match with our hardcoded data, we start the Session and set the appropriate key and value in our $_SESSION array.
The script will then redirect back to
Go ahead and create another file and name it
<?php @session_start(); if(!isset($_SESSION['username'])){ header("Location: /"); die(); } ?> <!doctype html>
This is a restricted page

In this file, what we did was that we started the session with
@session_start() and the we wrote a logic to check if the user is logged in based on whether the key
username is set in the
$_SESSION array.
See how simple we can create restricted page using
Now, think broader, you can set any kind of key value in the $_SESSION array and do things like how to recognize whether logged in user is a normal user or admin.
PHP Session The End..
And with that, you can now continue with your super cool project and implement this feature. See you in the next tutorial.
Take a look on this PHP Login Tutorial to learn more how we can use PHP Session.
Or if you are the type that loves to read and love challenges, read this PHP OOP.


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IMAGINE FEELING well enough for daily activities—except that one side of your face droops, involuntarily produces smiles or squints, contracts, or stiffens to the point of becoming immobile and expressionless. You may also drool or shed crocodile tears (tears with no emotional cause).
Sudden drooping or stiffening of one side of the face could be a worrisome early sign of stroke. But a stroke causes muscle weakness in other parts of the body as well, hence the early stroke-detection method FAST that includes raising both arms. Also, a stroke rarely affects the forehead or eye.
Paralysis that arises suddenly, affects only one side of the face and worsens over 48 hours often signals Bell's Palsy. The condition affects about one in 60 people during their lifetime, and is becoming more prevalent, possibly related to increasing rates of herpes zoster infection.
Incidence of Bell's palsy increased to almost 40/100,000 during 2000-2010, compared to 25/100,000 in the years 1968-1982. Although Bell's Palsy is considered idiopathic (no known cause), herpes infection is present in most cases.
Bell's palsy also arises after infection with the flu or Lyme disease, in pregnant women, and in those with type 2 (usually adult-onset) diabetes. Bell's palsy is more common between the ages of 15 and 60, with peak incidence around age 40.
Swelling in the facial nerve leads to ischemia, a restriction of blood and oxygen to the nerve cells. What's also called the 7th cranial nerve has so many functions that any disruption can lead to an array of symptoms that vary from person to person.
Bell's palsy can include pain (often behind one ear or headache), loss of taste, and hypersensitivity to sound (hyperacusis). Some sufferers cannot close the eye on the affected side, even during sleep. A rare symptom, synkinesis—when facial muscles move in tandem—can cause simultaneous smiling and blinking.
The label "refrigeration palsy" comes from the common memory among sufferers, soon before symptoms begin, of "cooling of the face or a cold draught," or exposure to cold, such as driving or sleeping with a window open in cold weather.
Bell's palsy rates were higher during the cold seasons in a two-year study of active-duty military service members, who have a higher incidence of almost 43 cases/100,000, perhaps due to their unlimited access to free health care.
In this group, climate that was both cold and arid appeared to increase risk, although incidence was higher in the southern region of the United States than elsewhere. Also, sufferers spent more time indoors than the "lower-injury group," leading to the hypothesis that dry indoor air—heated but not humidified—could "traumatize mucus membranes… in turn, induce reactivation of the herpes virus."
In this study, incidence increased with age—twice as high for those in the oldest group compared with the youngest—and was higher for females than males and married personnel than their unmarried counterparts.
Facial-nerve paralysis dates back at least 4,000 years, based on representations in Egyptian sculptures, and asymmetrical and distorted faces appear in paintings from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The uneven smile of Mona Lisa's portrait has been the subject of facial-nerve symposium presentations.
Stress and high blood pressure may play a role in setting off symptoms. During her separation from Brad Pitt in 2017, Angelina Jolie developed Bell's palsy along with hypertension, and believed sessions of acupuncture helped her recover. Other famous sufferers include George Clooney, Roseanne Barr and Sylvester Stallone.
If stress plays a role in the cause of Bell's palsy, it is exacerbated for sufferers when symptoms arise and have no clear end point. Most cases resolve within two weeks although some take several months, and 90% recover completely.
Treatment for more serious symptoms can include oral acyclovir starting within three days of the first symptoms, along with steroids to reduce inflammation. And Botox has helped speed recovery from the drooping.
—Mary Carpenter
Every Tuesday, well-being editor Mary Carpenter reports on health news you can use.


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Boys vs. Girls: Our gender blind society
I can't put these books down. I've finished the one about girls and am flying through the one all about boys. Now I've got to order Dr. Sax's book "Why Gender Matters," cause I know I'll be obsessed. In these … Continue reading
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'I love your curves. Every inch of your body is perfect' – Manu says.
He's clearly lost in the lustful moment of it all. His hands stroke my hip bone and he moves his fingers up to my ribs one by one like he is climbing up a wall.
I don't have curves like the other women my age. I am straight like an iroko tree with a round fat belly; which is odd because I am skinny. My body dips where my hips should be and my breasts are two allergic swellings. This is why I'm shocked when Manu puts his mouth over them and seems to enjoy it. I tell him it's pedophilic and he takes his mouth off even after I tell him I'm joking and beg him to continue because I like it.
'You can't joke about consent and rape, Titi'
Sometimes I can't wrap my head around how moral he is.
He wouldn't enter me because I told him one time that I wasn't ready and now he thinks I want to only because he asked. I mean, it is; but it's my decision, yes?
My mouth is tired from all the kissing and I want to sleep but I like his hands on me so I fight the drowsiness.
Manu knows how to make me feel good. Not just physically. He knows just the right words to say. It's almost like he lives in my head.
His fingers stop when I murmur that I love him. He looks over my shoulder and pauses. My eyes are firmly shut. I pretend it was sleep talk but he knows. I feel him smile and kiss my ear. He pulls me closer and drifts into sleep.
I shouldn't have said that. We've known each other for only three months. I know he will bring it up in the morning so I let my heart pound on my chest heavily at the fear of rejection.
I'm lifting up holy hands in church the next morning but I can still smell him and I wonder if everyone else can too. I try not to stay too close to the other choristers on stage but three of us are sharing one microphone so it's hard.
I miss my cue to sing so Lydia jumps in. I'm distracted by the lingering smell and taste. I mean, I scrubbed myself vigorously before coming but I guess I need a long soak in the bath for him to leave.
I don't stay for service. I am cheating on Christ for whom I just cried on stage singing about; even I am disgusted at my pretence. I sneak out through the back door so that the busy-body aunty who ushers every second Sunday doesn't ask too many questions. I will need to lie to her and that means my sins are piling up.
Listen, I really want to stop. I want to turn back to God in repentance but my flesh has grown wings. It is a rebellious teenager with raging hormones on a fast train to destruction and I am not strong enough to fight.
Besides, I am enjoying it. Why does sin have to be so sweet?
For our six month-versary , Manu tells me that he has a surprise for me. I already know what it is because he asked for my bikini and flip flop sizes two weeks ago. It has to be a beach date. We're not officially dating so I make sure to remind myself not to fall in love yet even though l have named our future three children. In my dreams we have two girls- Tiara, Desire and a mini Manu, Emmanuel.
I'm not a fan of the beach. I don't like the way the water moves. I can't tell whether it's teasing me or yelling at me. I also don't like it when the sand enters my bum crack and I have to pretend that I don't feel it. I wonder if people wash their bums inside the water when they go in. That's disgusting and one more reason I hate the beach. Why should I dive into and swallow tamba* water?
At the beach house, I try to lead his fingers into me but he turns it into a game and kisses my forehead. I try a couple more times but I realize soon enough that he isn't budging.
A text comes to his phone as I am rubbing his head on my chest to sleep. It's a woman. She's thanking him for last night. I try not to think about it. Maybe he helped her with her car – he knows a lot about them. He gets up and goes into the bathroom. I hear him laughing but cars are not funny.
I try to stop thinking about the lady but can't help myself so I pull out her Instagram profile when I get home. Her body is full. Her hips are round, her breasts sit perfectly on her chest like two obedient grapefruits – not too big, not too small, and her thick thighs can definitely save lives.
My heart hurts a bit but I don't blame him. Even I would cheat on myself for her. I make a new account and follow her. I feel crazy because we're not actually together so I can't confront him.
The next time we meet, I force him to enter me. He wouldn't cheat now that he can finally get everything from me.
I fall sick about three weeks later. I'm puking and nauseous so I can't follow him to London for his birthday weekend. He wants to stay behind but I tell him to go. We planned this trip two months ago.
His pictures to me are sporadic and weirdly angled. I, the viewer can only see part of his head like a badly done crop. I tease him the next time he calls. He's locked himself in the bathroom again.
'Are your enemies after you? Should I send ten k urgently?'
He laughs, but I'm serious.
It is then that I hear her voice. It's perfect – sultry and calming. She sounds confident and content. Like she's experiencing the purest form of love with no worries.
Manu breaks into a coughing rage and flushes the toilet in a bid to drown her voice but it's too late.
Why do men…what is… why are men…?
I scream into my pillow. Folding and moulding it into my face to withhold air from my nostrils. I don't want to die – but I will like to pause for a bit and feel the pain and discomfort.
I usually am stronger than this but I can't stop my self from crying. I think my period is about to start. Or wait. Oh God no.
I'm lifting up my hands in church again. This time with Manu next to me. He's holding on to my side and counting my ribs like old times. On his other hand he's holding a baby… our baby as the Pastor blesses her. Tiaraoluwa – From the body of God.
Manu smiles at me wearily. He has stayed with me and put a ring on my finger. I feel pitiful like a charity project even though he says it's not true.
His moral compass made him stay. But where the fuck did morality go when he was laying with another woman?


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a land problem
Over the last few years I have become quite interested in housing issues, especially those related to affordability. I also love learning about various housing models that exist, including land trusts and housing co-operatives. I don't consider myself an expert by any means, but as someone who is quite passionate about housing, I have come to the conclusion that we have a land problem.
And this land problem is not simply an issue of what can or should be built where. It's much deeper than that. I believe it's rooted in our beliefs about our relationship with the land.
In many of the housing discussions I follow, there is some debate about who can do what with a certain parcel of land. One property owner wants to build something that a nearby property owner objects to. As we see our city grow and build, there are no shortage of examples of disagreements about what can be built where.
Concerns from neighbours about what's being built near them often seem heightened when what's proposed involves providing shelter or services that support those who are often pushed to the margins by our existing systems - those without shelter, those who use drugs, those who are dealing with mental health challenges, and so on.
We are seeing that play out right now as the residents of A Better Tent City are in search of a new location for their homes. They have been told they must leave their current space by June 20th. After many discussions, a possible new location has been found in Woolwich Township. Waterloo Region residents are divided on the issue with supporters seeing this as a good location that will work for ABTC residents, and opponents fearful of how their existing community will potentially be impacted by new neighbours.
While I fall squarely into the supporters category because I don't believe that we have a right to choose who gets to live near us and who doesn't, I still can't help but wonder if we might be looking at this issue with the wrong lens. And it all comes back to land and our relationship with it.
In almost every discussion I hear regarding objections to a proposed development or change, opponents reference the fact that they are a home owner, a property owner, and that they pay taxes so they should be listened to. Let's put aside for a moment the many, many problems I have with those arguments, and just take a look at the bigger issue here around the assumptions about land - that we 'own' it and therefore get to decide how it should be 'used'. I am starting to see how that may be at the root of many of our housing challenges.
I think we have a lot to learn from Indigenous Peoples in this (and many other) area(s). I am no expert in this area either, but as I read more about Land Back and the relationship Indigenous Peoples have with the land, I see value in that. It seems to me the relationship with land should be less about ownership and more about stewardship - how can we take care of the land so it can provide for generations to come?
If we view our housing discussions through the lens of stewards of the land, how will that change those discussions? I suspect it will lead to more compassionate and caring decisions around 'land use'. An 'ownership' lens may require that Woolwich demand planning applications and processes are followed before deciding if these residents can access this space. A stewardship lens may instead see the urgency in finding these residents a place to live and not demand that the 'planning rules must be adhered to at all costs'.
Perhaps, using that stewardship lens, will allow us to see the value in having a small community of people put up some tiny homes on a small piece of rural land and build a garden and a home.
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The Grand Compromise, Ctd
Leonhardt has genuine worries about the Bush tax cuts lapsing, while Chait wants Obama to reverse the Bush tax cuts during his next term - provided he has one:
If Obama is re-elected, he simply has to veto any extension of the upper-bracket tax cuts. If it means all the tax cuts die, so be it. Why, you might wonder, would he be willing to do that then but not now? Well, hopefully the economy will be in better shape. (If it isn't he probably won't be re-elected anyway.) On top of that, canceling all the Bush tax cuts would have a real depressing effect on the economy, which in turn would also harm his re-election chances.
It's called strategy; and it beats the Krugman-Rich purism that is pure tactics.


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Being stepmother sometimes occurs so much pressure because people like to have comparison between the step and the biological. Every relationship between parents as husbands or wives, or between the parents and children, has its own demands. It also includes the relationship either between husband or wives as step mother or father, or between step parents and step children.
Stepparents, either step father or mother, need to put the highest responsibility raising the children not their own, or at least not they're biological ones, with the same exact amount of affection. Especially, stepmothers, who need to understand the complication and duties as a mother. Although stepmothers are given so many responsibilities and duties, they also have some rights to concern either by their husbands or stepchildren. So now, let's find out some important rights of stepmother in Islam that might be beneficial to us. find out Islamic rules for second marriage in islam
- Rights for proper accommodation
Stepmothers as wives should be given proper accommodation either from the husbands, or from their stepchildren when they get old. There shouldn't be any differentiation towards stepmothers just because they're not the biological mother of the children.
"(During the waiting period) lodge them according to your means wherever you dwell, and do not harass them to make them miserable.And if they are pregnant, provide for them maintenance until they have delivered their burden. And if they suckle your offspring whom they bore you, then give them due recompense, and graciously settle the question of compensation between yourselves by mutual understanding. But if you experience difficulty (in determining the compensation for suckling) then let another woman suckle the child." (Qur'an, 65:6)
2. Rights for financial and emotional support
Stepmothers deserve financial and emotional support from their husbands. The rights include every aspect in her life, from the fundamental needs like clothes, foods, money, until affection as form of emotional support. Our Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah may be upon him) once said:
"That he should feed her whenever he eats and cloth her whenever he clothes himself, that he not hit her face, that he not call her ugly and that he not boycott her except within the house." (Ibn Majah)
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3. Rights to be treated well by husbands and other family members
It is good to maintain close relationship with stepmothers. And the stepmothers actually deserve proper treatment from their husbands ant other family members. There shouldn't be any differentiation because apparently they have the same status as the biological mothers and wives. This ayah below spoke:
"Believers! It is not lawful for you to become heirs to women against their will. It is not lawful that you should put constraint upon them that you may take away anything of what you have given them; (you may not put constraint upon them) unless they are guilty of brazenly immoral conduct. Live with your wives in a good manner. If you dislike them in any manner, it may be that you dislike something in which Allah has placed much good for you. " (Qur'an, 4:19)
4. Rights to keep distance from stepchildren
According to the practice of Islam, stepmothers have rights not to interfere the life of their spouse's children from the previous marriage. They have rights to keep distance and it's not obligated to take care of the children. Sometimes, it can depend on the arrangement or consent between both spouse, but it will be better if stepmothers keep maintaining such a good relationship with their children, especially the children of the late wives of their current husbands. Our Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah may be upon him) once told the miraculous benefits of taking care of children as orphans:
"The one who cares for an orphan and myself will be together in Paradise like this." (Bukhari)
5. Rights for respect and honor
Another important rights of stepmothers is that they deserve to be given respect and honor from their stepchildren. Stepchildren should obey them with respect and honor as their stepmothers are the one who replace the role of their biological mother. They're not different with the biological ones. This ayah below told us to be good to our parents, either the biological ones or not:
"Your Lord has decreed: Do not worship any but Him; Be good to your parents; and should both or any one of them attain old age with you, do not say to them even "fie" neither chide them, but speak to them with respect, and be humble and tender to them and say: "Lord, show mercy to them as they nurtured me when I was small." (Qur'an, 17:23-24).
6. Rights to be thanked
Every living humankind deserves to be thanked. Showing our thankfulness to other people reflects our affection towards them. Stepmothers also have rights to be thanked by their husbands and stepchildren. Thanking stepmothers for what they have done is so grateful and rewarded by blessing from Allah. Our Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah may be upon him) persuaded us to be thankful to others as the reflection of gratitude:
"The most grateful people to Allah Blessed and High are the most thankful of them to others." (Ahmad)
7. Rights for affection
Stepmothers also have rights for affection from their husbands and stepchildren. The affection can be shown through the close relationship between them and other family members. Loving stepmothers is also the best righteous deeds anyone can do because it strengthens the tight with the people whom the father gives affection. Our Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah may be upon him) said:
"One of the best righteous deeds is fr a man to uphold ties with the people whom his father had affection." (Muslim)
8. Rights to educate and discipline children
Stepmothers have responsibility to raise their children although it is not much obligated. The huge amount of responsibility to raise their children properly sometimes comes from other family members, and society. Therefore, in order to fulfill the responsibility, stepmothers also have the same rights as biological mothers to educate and discipline the children. Educating and disciplining children should be done to make them become righteous ones.
"The best gift to children from parents is their correct training" (Tirmizi).
Besides the hadith below, Allah also has persuaded us to raise children well for the sake of their upbringing. Stepmothers get rights to educate and discipline their children in order to follow the command from Allah
"O you who believe! Ward off yourselves and your families against a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the commands they receive from Allah, but do that which they are commanded" (Qur'an, 66:6).
9. The rights for provision after divorce
"Likewise, let there be a fair provision for the divorced women; this is an obligation on the God-fearing." (Qur'an, 2:241)
The ayah above told that whenever women get divorced, the should gain fair provision, either they are the biological mother of the child from the husbands, or the stepmother of the child from the husbands. The provision should be based on mutual consent and consultation, and the stepchildren should be aware of the rights of their stepmothers. This ayah below also explains more regarding to this issue:
"If they wish that the period of suckling for their children be completed, mothers may suckle their children for two whole years.(In such a case) it is incumbent upon him who has begotten the child to provide them (i.e. divorced women) their sustenance and clothing in a fair manner. But none shall be burdened with more than he is able to bear; neither shall a mother suffer because of her child nor shall the father be made to suffer because he has begotten him.
The same duty towards the suckling mother rests upon the heir as upon him (i.e. the father). And if both (the parents) decide, by mutual consent and consultation, to wean the child, there is no blame on them; if you decide to have other women suckle your children there is no blame upon you, provided you hand over its compensation in a fair manner. Fear Allah and know well that Allah sees all that you do." (Qur'an, 2:233)
10. Rights for inheritance
Stepmothers have rights to inheritance from their late husbands and their stepchildren should be aware of this. The distribution of all inheritance left by the late husbands should be fair and appropriate based on the law of Islam. This ayah below explains more about that:
"And to you belongs half of whatever has been left behind by your wives if they die childless; but if they have any children then to you belongs a fourth of what they have left behind, after payment of the bequest they might have made or any debts outstanding against them.
And to them belongs a fourth of what you leave behind, if you die childless; and if you have any child then to them belongs one-eighth of what you have left behind, after the payment of the bequest you might have made or any debts outstanding against you. And if the man or woman has no heir in the direct line, but has a brother or sister, then each of these shall inherit one-sixth; but if they are more than two, then they shall inherit one-third of the inheritance, after the payment of the bequest that might have been made or any debts outstanding against the deceased, providing that the bequest causes no injury. This is a commandment from Allah; Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing." (Qur'an, 4:12)
- The rights to be obeyed by their stepchildren
- The rights to be loved by their husbands and stepchildren
- The rights to frequently visit other family members and relatives
- The rights to be respected by their stepchildren
- The rights to be helped by their stepchildren
- The rights not to be abused by their husbands
- The rights to have separate accommodation with their stepchildren
- The rights to have privacy from public affairs
- The rights to be guided spiritually
- The rights to get praising by their husbands or stepchildren
Finally, those are 20 important rights of stepmothers which we often neglected. Remember, stepmothers also have the same great status as the biological mother, and treat them with honor and respect is one of good righteous deeds which any man can commit.


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Campaign 1800's: Hermaphrodite raised on hoe-cakes
A footnote: I love this video but they join the "War on Context" with the snarky "try cracking a history book" at the end as – while they are exactly correct that foul things have been said in the name of campaigning through history, they get a Village Square rap on the knuckles for doing some major cherry picking.
First of all, we should note that the Jefferson and Adams campaign was ultimately the first election in human history with a peaceful transition of power from one party/group of people to another… let's just say given the unique feat they were undertaking, it's not that hard to imagine that tensions ran high. The standard way to handle it up until then was with bayonettes. Â
Secondly, they attribute some quotes by editorial supporters of the two candidates to the candidate. They're engaging in our style of politics in trying to tar our Founders with some words uttered by others on their behalf. The putrid ads we posted at Purple State of Mind yesterday (link posted just under this one) were thoroughly thought through by teams of people and given the stamp of approval by the candidate him or herself as a part of a strategy. Apples and oranges.
Finally, this was a legendary feud (not business as usual, as it is now) that resulted in these two men becoming estranged for close to the rest of their lives, until they began writing to each other as elderly men, in one of the most profound legacies of our founding (page down) that I personally suggest we should work harder to emulate than the foul words that were thrown around during the campaign. I suspect were Adams and Jefferson here to advise, they'd agree.
If what Reason is doing is advocating that this is just dandy for democracy, thumbs down. If they want to entertain us, thumbs wwwaaaayyyy up. (Thanks to Florence for the heads up.)
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Dan says
Interesting post, Village Square has some nice articles. Added to bookmarks!


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Well last night (April 7, 2013) was WrestleMania 29. First off I predicted six out of the nine matches winners. As for WrestleMania itself was just ok. I think I fell for all the hype. There is only one stand out moment for me. Which was during The Undertaker vs. CM Punk match. Undertaker was lying on the Spanish announce table. CM Punk climbs to the top rope, then jumps. His elbow hit Undertaker right in the chest but the table is not break. It was a really hard hit. They both must of got hurt on that one. The rest of the show was your standard PPV/TV show.
Pre-show match. (Didn't get to see this. But going to watch it on WWE.com) The Miz wins the belt from Wade Barrett.
Sheamus, Randy Orton, Big Show vs. The Shield: Did pick the Shield to win and they did. Thought there would be some kind of cheating. But there wasn't they got a clean pin.
Ryback vs. Mark Henry: Thought Ryback was going to win. Mark Henry did. After the pin Ryback pulled of this shell shock move on Henry. That was pretty cool.
Kane and Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler and Big E Langston: Kane and Bryan kept the belts. The stand out thing from this match was how Big E is not a real that good of a wrester.
Chris Jericho vs Fandango: This was a pretty good match. Picked Fandango to win and he did.
The Undertaker vs. CM Punk: This was the best match of the night. For a guy who is older and only wrestles once a year he was awesome. Want CM Punk to win but deep down knew that wouldn't happen.
Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H: Not a bad match. Brock did this belly to back throw a bunch of times. One them had Triple H crashing threw the Spanish announce table.
The Rock vs. John Cena: This was the worst match of the night. Boring and predicable. Knew Cena would win the belt. When he came out to the ring the got the loudest boos I have heard in a long time. This ended the PPV and it was terrible. Cena leaves the ring after winning the belt and doesn't celebrate . So the Rock can have his music play and say thank you to the fans. Cena waits for him at the top of the ramp. The shake hands then hug it out. Then walk of the stage together. It was just bad. They have been feuding for two years. Now they are best friends.
Was very disappoint with this WrestleMania. Oh forgot about the 8 person tag match. Well that was easy because it didn't happen. Before, during or after. It was advertised. My guess they pulled it for time. Had lots of fun watching this but the show itself was a bit of a let down.
3 out of 5 GT (GT = Good Times)


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Mental conditioning coach and fitness trainer Paddy Upton on his three years with the Indian cricket team
When that six from M.S. Dhoni's bat soared into the Wankhede Stadium sky on the night on April 2, 2011, India erupted. And every Indian, across the globe, wouldn't be able to tell who they hugged first when Ravi Shastri said, "And, the party has started in the dressing room". What they will tell you though is they too cried when Sachin Tendulkar ran on to the field and hugged an emotional Yuvraj Singh. Till this day, when the magic moments of India's World Cup final triumph are YouTubed or surface on a screen near you, that's the exact same feeling… a lump in the throat and a wash of pride.
What made the champion team though? Calcutta got an insight into the psyche of Dhoni's boys in blue when Paddy Upton, the then mental conditioning coach of the team and the head coach of Rajasthan Royals, came down to the city to launch his book The Barefoot Coach and sat down for a chat with Rita Bhimani at Red Sofa Conversation presented by The Conclave, in association with t2. Excerpts…
"Who did Gary Kirsten and I think we were that we could make other people better people?"
Gary (Kirsten) was about to be a coach for the first time in his life and me in this role of mental conditioning coach and strategic leadership coach, which didn't exist in world of cricket, and was also my first time. So, we were as green and inexperienced as it could be, taking over what is essentially the biggest brand in world sports.
We came up with four goals. One was to take India to the number one position in Tests, which they hadn't achieved by that point. Number Two was to win the 2011 World Cup, something they hadn't done in 28 years. We wanted to create a happy team environment because from previous interactions we had learnt about the unhappiness Greg Chappell had left behind. And the fourth part that we never shared with any player or publicly until after we'd finished three years later, was try and help the Indian cricketers become better, more grounded people. That had nothing to do with cricket. There were two reasons why we never shared that fourth goal… the BCCI did not employ us to make Indian cricketers better people. They employed us to make them win cricket matches. And more importantly… the potential arrogance in that statement… who did Gary Kirsten and I think we were that we could make other people better people?
"A clever comment is different from verbal abuse"
In cricket, the least respected human beings are those who are engaged in sledging. The most respected cricketers who go on to be very successful never engage in sledging. Rahul Dravid will never sledge. He doesn't need to. VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Sachin Tendulkar…. In order to sledge a fellow cricketer, you need to first earn the right. And once you earn the right, there is no need. A clever comment is different from verbal abuse. It is always worth a good laugh or story afterwards.
Intuitive leadership…
Gary and I didn't arrive with the concept or the notion of intuitive leadership. It was something that as we worked, started developing. It was important for us as foreigners because we really didn't understand India or Indians. Even the headshake… we really didn't understand what was yes and what was no.
We were playing a soccer match… a youngster took the ball from Yuvraj (Singh) quite a few times, which got him to lash out… just a reaction he had in a particular moment… at the time we just let the game continue. Part of our belief was that as an adult you don't need to reprimand another adult…. Three hours later when the team got into the bus… the furthest back left is where M.S. Dhoni sits always… he sat next to MS for a while, then he sat next to the youngster for a while and then he came and sat next to Gary. He said: 'I just want to really apologise for my behaviour earlier'. Reprimand never ever works other than to create a fear of failure.
"I knew Mike Horn's story would really have an impact on the cricketers"
We were actually playing a Test match in Calcutta against South Africa and I learnt that my university friend was sailing around the Andaman islands. I got hold of him and asked him whether he would come to Calcutta for a night and talk to the team. I hadn't seen him in 20 years. He sailed 1,200km across the Andaman Sea to come and talk to the team…. I knew his story would really have an impact on the cricketers.
In India, cricket being what it is, the highest amount of pressure that can be experienced is by the Indian cricket team when they walk on to the cricket field with half a billion people's expectations on their shoulders. We were preparing for World Cup and needed to try and exceed what the Indians understood to be pressure. And, Mike Horn is probably recognised as the greatest modern-day adventurer. When he told his stories, the concept of pain, fear, exhaustion… all of a sudden was redefined for the Indian team.
"I truly believe that there is no such thing as mental strength"
It's a concept, a myth… I have never come across a professional athlete who doesn't have fear, insecurities, vulnerabilities, doubts and negative thinking. But for some reason there is this idea in the sports world that those things are bad and if you've got them, you are mentally weak, fragile and soft. That's just not true. That's normal.
We knew that if we made it to the World Cup final, Sachin Tendulkar would have to walk on to that field in his last World Cup match… can you imagine there could be any more pressure on an individual in the world of cricket than that? When you walk out on to that field, those billion peoples' hopes and expectations, you walk out and hold them by the hand and take that out with you, embrace it. Bring it with you and still focus on the job.
India was touring Australia and Gary Kirsten flew over, not in official capacity, but he wanted to have one-on-one conversations with players. He asked Sachin: 'What do you want from me as coach?' Sachin said what Gary never ever expected. He said: "I want you to be my friend'. And, that's not written in any coaching manual.
We knew we cannot impose our way on the players. We knew that the team was unhappy and the team needed direction and strategy. Nothing to resist was our motto.
'T' was we play as a team, backing each other, always team first. 'E'… we wanted to bring excellence, be consummate professionals… we wanted to entertain the crowd. 'A' was attitude of winners. 'M' was mature individuals, role models for representing Indian players who have gone before and setting a good example for players to come.
Top tip…
- You don't succeed in business if your main driver is fear of not making mistakes. The way that you succeed is to really accept failure and not worry about them and be innovative, forward-thinking.
- In this day and age, in the knowledge era, there is always more knowledge in the collective of the team than there is in the senior leadership. It is no longer possible to be the expert in a subject. There is always somebody who knows better today.


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The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
Molly doesn't want to be seen as "Miss Difficulty Overcome"; she wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father's death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The boys' baseball team. Her father taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and Molly hopes it's enough to impress her coaches as well as her new teammates.
Over the course of one baseball season, Molly must figure out how to redefine her relationships to things she loves, loved, and might love: her mother; her brilliant best friend, Celia; her father; her enigmatic and artistic teammate, Lonnie; and of course, baseball.
Mick Cochrane is a professor of English and the Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
An Excerpt fromThe Girl Who Threw Butterflies
On Monday, after band rehearsal and intramurals, when Molly got home from school, her mother was sitting at the kitchen table going through the day's mail. It was after six, daylight saving time now, and still light, thank god. Even in Buffalo, the snowiest, grayest place on earth, spring eventually came.
Her mother had changed from her work clothes into her white designer sweats, matching pants and top with padded shoulders, which made her look to Molly like a fencer--all she needed was a little red heart.
She had cable news playing low on the countertop portable, a bottle of water and a pile of catalogs in front of her. It was what her mother did after work. Her ritual unwinding. She'd page through the glossy daily stack of catalogs one by one, turning the pages mechanically, looking irritated, angry even, fierce lines on her forehead. It seemed mysterious to Molly. Was her mother mad at Eddie Bauer? At Pottery Barn and Talbots? Dissatisfied with L.L.Bean's selection of boots and raingear, with Williams-Sonoma's pots and pans? It didn't make any sense. Her mother occasionally bought stuff, blouses and sweaters usually, always the same color, teal, which was weird enough--how much teal-colored clothing do you need, really?
As far as Molly could tell, her mother almost always returned whatever she bought. The UPS guy brought packages, and her mother opened them, unpinned and unfolded and held things up, sometimes tried them on. But then she'd usually just reassemble the packages and readdress them. She drove them around in her car for a few days and eventually dropped them off at the post office. To Molly, it seemed like a lot of work. Why subject yourself to such misery? What was the point?
Molly had learned not to interrupt her. Her mother was in some distant, ticked-off, unreachable place--the Planet of Inexplicable Exasperation. Molly put down her backpack and saxophone case, grabbed an apple from the fridge, sat down, and waited. There was nothing that looked like dinner happening anywhere in the kitchen. Why bother cooking for just the two of us? her mother had gotten into the habit of asking. Sometimes, with her dad at work, they used to make dinner together, Molly and her mother. They used to wash and chop vegetables and talk and even joke a little. Molly liked it--it was like their own little cooking show. But no more, not for a long time. That show got canceled. Nowadays they mostly ordered out, subs or Chinese, pizza and wings. Molly missed her dad's cooking. He had only a handful of meals, spaghetti and stir-fry and omelets and meat loaf, that was his rotation, nothing fancy, but always tasty.
On television the square-headed security czar seemed to be changing the threat level while baseball scores crawled across the bottom of the screen. The Cubs had beaten the Pirates, 12-1, which pleased Molly, because it would have pleased her father. They were his team. He'd grown up listening to their games on the radio. The Cubs were lovable losers. They hadn't won the World Series for something like a hundred years. No matter. Her dad had always paid attention to the scores, and now, out of habit, Molly couldn't help but do the same.
"So how was your day?" her mother asked, her eyes still scanning the Sharper Image catalog in front of her--ionizing air cleaners, massage chairs, turbo-groomers.
"Fine," Molly said. Most days this was the right answer. It meant that she had negotiated another day without disaster, steered her little boat through the rocky waters of eighth grade without capsizing. She hadn't failed anything, she hadn't been given detention. In the past ten hours she'd done nothing to ruffle her mother's sense of well-being.
"What about rehearsal?" her mother asked. Sometimes she wanted more. What her English teacher called "supporting detail." She needed to "show" not "tell" her mother about the fineness of her day. Specifics. Molly would offer up something, a success, a little academic triumph she'd been saving--"You know that social studies test I was studying for? I got a ninety-eight!"
This was just what her mother wanted: evidence that Molly was a Good Kid on the Right Path, a girl making Smart Choices, the daughter of a Good Mother. Yes, her father had died six months ago--exactly six months ago; today was the anniversary, the fourth of April. But she was doing fine, she was resilient. Molly understood her part in this story perfectly: She was the brave-hearted poster girl, Miss Difficulty Overcome.
"We're playing a movie medley for the pops concert," Molly said. "Star Wars, The Pink Panther. I might get a solo."
"That's great," her mother said.
"And I lent Ryan Vogel my last reed. I need to get some more."
"That was nice of you."
What Molly didn't tell her mother was that Ryan, the other tenor player, who had toxic BO and dog breath, who was a volcano of rude eruptions and nasty remarks, had pointed toward her case with his own last, wrecked, saliva-covered reed and grunted something--she'd recognized only "gimme." She'd tossed him her entire pack and hoped he'd leave her alone. There was nothing nice about the transaction; it felt like a holdup, a mugging.
"Very nice of me," Molly said, and smiled a dopey, mock-charming smile. She framed her face with her fingers and tilted her head. "I'm a very nice person."
There was so much she couldn't tell her mother. How, for example, she had dreamed about her father again the night before. It was nothing especially dreamlike, nothing weird or unusual, nothing symbolic. On the contrary, it was beautifully ordinary. Her dad, sitting across from her at the kitchen table, spreading jam on a piece of toast, wearing his favorite plaid shirt, frayed at the collar, his weekend shirt.
In the dream her dad smiled, a little sadly, maybe, as if he knew something she didn't, and handed her a plate with the toast on it, two slices, strawberry jam, cut diagonally, and it looked perfect, the most delicious thing imaginable. She could smell that warm-toast smell, even in her dream, the best, coziest smell in the world. And when she was wrenched out of her dream and back into the world--her mother rapping on her bedroom door as she walked by, "Six-thirty, Molly, time to get up"--it was terrible, like another death, just as cruel.
What would be the point? Maybe her mother had her own dreams. In the past six months, Molly had come to understand that the most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it. A heartbreaking dream about toast. The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chattering about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no?


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Binary Put Options are also known as downbets and are an all-or-nothing option that settles at 100 (if in-the-money at expiry, i.e. the underlying price is below the strike) or at zero (if out-of-the-money, i.e. the underlying price is above the strike).
If at expiry the underlying price is exactly on the strike price then the settlement price of binary put options can be established in different ways, i.e. the two obvious alternatives are that binary put options are treated as in-the-money or out-of-the-money and are settled at 100 or 0 respectively. A possibly more rational method would be to treat the settlement as a 'dead heat' and settle the bet at 50. Should there be binary call options and binary put options trading then it is imperative that the rules ensure that the sum of binary call options and binary put options settlement prices comes to 100. To that end, it makes eminent sense that the expiry settlement price of at-the-money binary call options and binary put options trading on the same underlying with the same expiry should both be 50.
The price of binary put options could be interpreted as the probability of the underlying price being below the strike assuming zero cost-of-carry, i.e. interest rates are zero.
Figure 1 shows the expiry profile of a Gold $1700 binary put option.
The profile would appear to be a binary call option reflected through the horizontal axis at 50 which would be a fair assessment since:
Binary Put Options Fair Value = 100 ― Binary Call Option Fair Value
so that selling binary call options is the same as buying same strike, same expiry binary put options.
If binary put options are so trivial what might be the rationale of offering binary put options as well as a binary call options to customers?
i. Firstly, many retail speculators and investors remain uncomfortable with the idea of 'shorting' financial instruments. Going 'short' is what those reprobates of financial markets, hedge funds, do. Shorting is for professionals. This might mean that a speculator who wishes to bet that a market will fall will be uncomfortable selling deep in-the-money binary calls whereas buying lower premium out-of-the-money binary put options is more palatable.
ii. Secondly, buying binary put options possibly provide a slightly easier calculation of downside risk than selling binary call options.
Figure 2 illustrates a price profile illustrating how the expiry profile of Figure 1 is arrived at over time. The buyer of this binary put option is betting that the Gold price is below $1,700. The 25-day profile is almost horizontal and one could be excused for thinking that this must surely be the most prosaic, boring financial instrument in existence. But over time this animal changes its spots to become the most highly geared and dangerous instrument in the world of finance. It is doubtful that any other single instrument can offer a P&L profile that can exceed an angle of 45°. Indeed the angle of an at-the-money moment before expiry tends to the vertical and becomes absolutely unhedgeable.
What is also apparent from the profiles over time is that the bet decreases in value when out-of-the-money and increases in value when in-the-money, i.e. the out-of-the-money has a negative theta, the in-the-money has a positive theta while the at-the-money has a theta of zero assuming that the above 'dead heat' rule is applied.
The profiles also slope down to the right with the rising underlying price generating a delta that is always negative or zero. The 0.5-day profile is the steepest of the profiles close to the strike and therefore has the most negative delta.
Figure 3 presents binary put options over a range of implied volatility. The profiles are all fairly close together since the implied volatility is relatively high so that large incremental changes are required to substantially shift the fair value.
To underline this point the same profiles are displayed in Figure 4 with just 0.5-days to expiry and the profiles remain tightly spread.
The fact that the profiles are in a narrow range means that the vega is low. If one were to draw a vertical line from an underlying price along the bottom axis then the change of 1% measures the binary put option vega.
The attraction of binary put options is the limited-risk nature of both buying and selling this instrument. The gearing obtained from the 0.5-day Gold binary put option is phenomenal whatever the implied volatility and such gearing are unavailable with any other limited risk financial instrument.


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Grow Your Mind
One cornerstone of a positive culture of learning is empowering a growth mindset. Dr. Carol Dweck, a Stanford psychologist studied what differentiated people who succeed from those fail. It came down to whether they hold a fixed mindset or growth mindset, which is a belief about themselves and their abilities.


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Matcha Milk
Matcha, finely ground green tea powder, gives this drink its bright green color and an antioxidant boost.
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Servings: 1 cup
- 1/4 cup boiling water
- 1 teaspoon bright-green matcha powder
- 3/4 cup plain, unsweetened non-dairy milk, especially soy milk, chilled
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup or honey
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a liquid measuring cup, whisk together the boiling water and the matcha, and pour into a small fine strainer set over a medium mug (stir the inside contents of the strainer and scrape the underside to glean all of the liquid). Add the remaining ingredients, whisk well, and chill. Serve cold.
Dina Cheney is a regular contributor to Clean Eating and is now the author of The New Milks. Featuring 113 cooking and baking recipes, the book explores dairy-free alternatives to milk. Find it here.


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Established in the year 1995, Edcon Real Estate Developers, started operations by taking contracts to build residential, industrial and institutional buildings. Built in 1996, Edcon Enclave in Alto Santa Cruz – Bambolim, was their first ownership project.
The partners, Cedric Vaz and Edwin Menezes are both civil engineers who met in college, where their friendship turned into a bond of trust and entrepreneurship automatically followed. Cedric was inspired by the field of construction from a young age and went on to become a civil engineer. Edwin too, was fascinated by buildings and he topped in his civil engineering diploma course. He also went on to attain a degree from Goa Engineering College as well as a law degree. Both Cedric and Edwin always nurtured a dream to construct their own buildings. They started designing projects on their own, architecturally as well as structurally.
Since its inception, the company has delivered over 10,00,000 sq. ft. of real estate and over 25 commercial, residential and hospitality projects in Goa. Initially in 1996, the company had to deal with a recessionary climate in Goa and this low phase continued till 2002. The company survived when many others in this field gave up. However, the years 2003 – 2007 were very good. Again recession hit the industry in 2008 – 2009, but with acquired experience and hard work, Edcon has become a name to reckon with in the Goan real estate industry. The company concentrates on quality, not quantity, and focuses on the value each project has to offer.
Edcon leads the way as far as innovation is concerned. They were the first to offer stilt parking in Bambolim and also the first to offer structural glazing in Panjim city. Edcon continued to pursue projects in Panjim and built a perception of being 'city builders'. With regards to environmental clearances they have never faced any issues as their projects have always been in areas marked for development.
Edcon looks for trustworthy and honest employees. Responsibility and dedication are of the utmost importance. According to them, a friendly and empowering culture produces the best results. Their employees are given the freedom to innovate and suggest changes to any process and they play an important role in the growth and improvement of service.
The company supports a lot of social projects and charities like religious trusts, educational institutes, old age homes and orphanages, both financially as well as through free services. They have also helped to promote sports events, theatre, art and culture. Most often however, they keep their charitable activities confidential and do not try to gain publicity for social work.
Edcon has always invested in the latest technology in their constructions. Stainless steel railings, marble staircases, structural glazing, firefighting facilities and underground parking are some of their unique offerings. Both the partners, being engineers, are actively involved in the design process and oversee even the smallest details. Reliability and trust are their selling points. They always stick to the approved plans and many times over deliver. This has helped them to build their brand equity in the Goan market.
Their USPs include not just reliability and trust but also innovation in design. The company is now on par with all leading competitors in terms of size and number of projects, but in terms of quality and reliability they have established a unique name for themselves.
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Kaitlyn Lawes (after 8-4 over Norway): "Norway are a fantastic team. They played their hearts out and it could have gone either way. We wish them all the best in the bronze medal game. That sudden-death game is huge at the Olympics and we knew it was going to be a tough one.
"It's an honour to be playing in the gold medal game, knowing that we've going to leave it all on the ice and we're coming home with a medal. It's incredible. I couldn't have dreamed for a better week for us, especially after losing that first game."