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EOC 111: The New Era of Outdoor Adventure Storytelling with Fitz Cahall
Today’s guest on the show is Fitz Cahall. Fitz is a podcaster, filmmaker and storyteller at Duct Tape Then Beer. He is the producer and host of the Dirtbag Diaries, one of the most popular podcast series focused on outdoor adventure, and he’s also the director of the new film, Paul’s Boots.
I had a lot of fun talking with Fitz – there aren’t too many other people out there that share my same passions for both filmmaking and podcasting! I was particularly interested to hear about Fitz’s approach towards producing and directing his film, Paul’s Boots. Paul’s Boots is about a unique journey across the Appalachian Trail – any anyone who follows this podcast series knows that that Appalachian Trail holds a very special place in my heart. I produced my own film about a trip across the Long Trail in Vermont – the trail that inspired the creation of the Appalachian Trail.
Beyond my own fascination with long distance hiking however, I’m also excited about this conversation with Fitz because we are actually screening his film Paul’s Boots as a part of Les Bois Film Festival, the local Boise film fest that we co-host with the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley. So our listeners in Boise will actually have the opportunity to see this film up on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre this coming Saturday. | {
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BJ Nilsen & Karl Lemieux: unearthed
SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL - THE GEOLOGIC IMAGINATION
BJ Nilsen & Karl Lemieux: unearthed
27 February 2015 - Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The border area of Norway and Russia, where the sparse beauty of the Arctic landscape meets industrial decay and heavy pollution, is where BJ Nilsen and Karl Lemieux collected material for their audiovisual collaboration unearthed. ‘Nikel’s red and white chimneys hiss and growl as they spew out clouds of smoke. The air is difficult to breath today. With little wind, the acoustics are more noticeable and sound travels in unexpected patterns between the blocks of buildings. There is also an interesting short echo effect in some open-air locations, perhaps resulting from the reflective façades on the buildings and the lack of vegetation.’ | {
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Staying Up to Date on Hydraulic Industry Reports
If you’re in the medical coding field you need to stay up to date on annual changes to HEDIS Quality Measures. If you are a teacher, you need to know about recent curriculum changes and standardized tests. If you’re in the construction industry, you need to have up to date information on zoning and building codes. The truth is that no matter what industry you find yourself in, it is crucial to stay up to date on current topics and news.
The same can be said for the hydraulics industry. This is why Bernell Hydraulics takes pride in staying current on popular topics and industry reports. If you’re in the hydraulic business, it’s a good idea to do the same! That is why we offer industry updates to our customers to keep them well-informed.
Recently, the industry reporting company Research and Markets has released the Global and China Hydraulic Industry Report 2017-2021 report. This report gives a basic overview of the hydraulic industry before taking a more detailed look at the global hydraulic industry, with a specific focus on China.
According to this report, the global hydraulic components market totaled approximately $35.2 billion in 2016. This staggering number is a 2.6% from 2015, and the growth was driven by the strength of Chinese machinery and equipment markets. Based on the growth of China and other global markets, this market is on track to reach an impressive $46.6 billion by the year 2021.
Currently, China is the second largest hydraulic components market in the world. Though their overall value dropped just over half of a percent in 2016, the country has approximately a quarter of the global hydraulic parts market. Signs of improvement in the once downtrodden construction machinery industry during early 2017, has China poised to gain even more market share. An increase to RM75.9 billion in 2021 from the current RM58 billion is predicted, which will further increase China’s market share.
The low to medium-end hydraulic component market is controlled by a few major players in China, but higher end products are controlled by a few main companies. Precision Machinery, Kawasaki, Eaton, Linde, Rexroth and some other entities monopolize the high-end global hydraulic parts market and you can look for these manufacturers to increase their product lines in the coming years as the market grows.
Do you need help with your current hydraulic system?
It’s one thing to look to the future and debate how impactful mechanical-electrical-hydraulic integration will be in the coming years, but it’s another to talk about how to manage your current hydraulic system. At Bernell Hydraulics, we have the industry knowledge and expertise to keep your current hydraulic system up and running. From custom builds and preventative maintenance, to diagnostic and repair services, Bernell Hydraulics can get the job done. Give us a call at 800-326-7252 to learn more, of visit one of our four stores located throughout Southern California. | {
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Filed Under:nbc nonstop sound
The Luyas’ Jessie Stein recently moved to New York City and here she is talking to NBC’s Nonstop Sound. In this new piece, Jessie talks about her reasoning for making music and the feeling she wants her records to invoke. “I guess it’s in a way an attempt to combat the commodification of everything.” Watch the interview above.
Finished with the first interview? Check out Jessie in a new episode of the Beginnings podcast. | {
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Pachauri allowed to go abroad to attend global meet
TERI Director General R K Pachauri, facing sexual harassment allegations, was today allowed by a Delhi court to visit China and Japan to attend a global meet to discuss environmental issues from August 21 to September 1.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan allowed Pachauri’s application and said the Indian embassy should be informed about his arrival in both the countries.
Advocate Ashish Dixit, appearing for Pachauri, sought permission to travel abroad citing his past cooperation in the case and said that his client needed to attend the meetings and deliver a lecture on climate change on August 28 in China.
However, the counsel appearing for the complainant opposed his application saying if granted permission, Pachauri might not return to cooperate in investigation.
The counsel said since Pachauri was facing serious charges, he must not be allowed to leave the country as he was required in the probe and charge sheet was yet to be filed.
In his application, Pachauri had said that being a world-renowned scientist on global climate change, he was scheduled to deliver lecture on a report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the International Ecosystem Management Partnership in China from August 22-28.
Thereafter, he is scheduled to attend a meeting in Tokyo with Professor Katsuya Kodama, senior founder of U-brain TV.
The court had last month allowed Pachauri to enter his office premises barring the head office here and a branch in Gurgaon.
On February 13, an FIR was registered against Pachauri on charges of sexual harassment under IPC sections 354, 354 (a), 354(d) (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
TERI governing council had on July 23 appointed Dr Ajay Mathur, currently director general of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), as its Director General.
Mathur will take up his new responsibilities as soon as he is in a position to do so subsequent to being relieved from his current responsibilities by the government after a brief transition period, a TERI statement had said last month.
Pachauri had also stepped down from United Nations’ IPCC and the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change. | {
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Skiers can relax in a large hot tub/pool with cascading waterfall on one of the decks.
DEER VALLEY The idea was to build the ultimate ski home. A home designed by skiers for skiers.
Joseph Ballstaedt believes his new "Dream Home" is just that a skier's home, albeit a home few skiers could afford and most can only dream about.
Asking price is $19 million. Shorter visits are $10,500 a night, going to $13,000 during Christmas and certainly the Sundance Film Festival.
The starting point of the home goes back several years when SKI Magazine asked its readers for their views on the ultimate ski home.
It found, said Ballstaedt, CEO of Resorts West and one of the home's owners, "that real estate, particularly buying real estate in and around ski areas, was of great interest. In fact, it found it was actually becoming a part of the sport."
The magazine came up with the idea of building the ultimate home for skiers. Deer Valley, which had just been named the No. 1 resort in the country in 2001, was chosen as the location and Resorts West the developer.
Ballstaedt said he took of all the information submitted by magazine readers, then formed a committee of property managers, Realtors, guest-services representative, housekeepers and maintenance experts and came up with the elements, which were then given to an architectural firm to incorporate.
The results:
• A 14,000-square-foot home with an additional 4,500 square feet of outdoor patio/deck space heated by outdoor fireplaces or gas fire pits.
• A home with six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, with fireplaces in all of the bedrooms and several of the bathrooms. A TV screen that reflects through the large mirror in the master bath to keep bathers up-to-date on all sporting events. In all, there are 15 interior and exterior fireplaces.
• An entertainment area with a DJ booth, dance floor, pool table, 550-gallon native-trout aquarium, an indoor golf-course simulator and a 124-inch high-definition screen in the grand theater.
• A large outdoor pool, with air jets, that serves as a hot tub, with a cascading waterfall and a constant water temperature of 104 degrees. There is also a smaller hot tub away from the pool placed to gather in views of Park City, Deer Valley and Jordanelle Reservoir.
• A day spa with sauna, steam room, treatment room and a nearby fitness room behind a large bank of windows overlooking Jordanelle.
• An elevator, secret room behind a bookshelf and a multi-vehicle garage with car wash and dog spa.
"What we found from the information we gathered is skiers wanted home that celebrated skiing and life in the mountains," Ballstaedt said.
"We created a lot of indoor/outdoor opportunities where doors and windows open to blend the two. The 4,500 square feet of heated outdoor space makes it possible to sit on the deck and watch the sun come up and go down, and be comfortable.
"One request was for an enormous hot tub. Skiers said a special part of their ski vacation was having a large enough hot tub where people could congregate at the end of the day. That's why we built the large pool with the water feature, jets and why we keep the temperature at 104 degrees."
Another thing that constantly showed up in responses was skiers wanted a "ski in, ski out" access to the home, which is why the home is at the top of the mountain at the 8,000-foot elevation and is located adjacent to a Deer Valley chairlift. They didn't want to have to leave the home, pack the gear up and drive to and from the resort.
"Another thing that kept showing up was a request for a bowling alley. We couldn't find room in this home, but maybe the next. We plan to build one dream home a year at different resorts," he said.
Other things on the wish list, which were built into the home, were the large home theater, DJ booth, golf simulator, fireplaces in almost every room and rooms that made it possible to get away from the crowd.
"If you look down on this home, there are individual pods located around the perimeter and great entertainment space in the middle. With many homes this size you don't have the entertainment or gathering space," said Jeff Hill of Midways Builders, which built the home.
Each of the pods or bedrooms, workout rooms or office space is somewhat isolated and has its own entrance and bathroom.
"You can be in one of these rooms, isolated, and step out and immediately be in the large open areas," he said.
The design also filled another request, which was for more room. Ski vacations today are taken in groups, with friends and extended family members brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and grandparents instead of a single family going it alone.
Hill said the home took two years to build with lots of challenges and the rewards. Answering to three bosses Resorts West, SKI Magazine and Deer Valley was, at times, challenging, but at the same time it was rewarding "because together they knew so much about skiing and what skiers wanted."
One thing he felt was unique and something skiers felt strongly about was the entrance from the ski hill into the home.
Typically, he said, it's located in an obscure, out-of-the-way area on the lower level.
With this home, it is celebrated with a bridge that has a water feature running beneath it that drops into the pool. Skiers will go over the bridge and enter on the main level into a very elegant ski-prep room with individual lockers, sitting area and a bar.
This room, Hill said, "is three to four times larger than what you'd find in other homes of this size."
"We really tried to tie everything together, especially the indoor/outdoor experience, which is why you see this whole bank of windows in the ski-prep room open up on to the deck."
He felt the most difficult challenge was the radius features on everything from the stairs to the railings to the stone work on the counters.
"Anytime you go away from straight lines, the work become much more difficult. Take the grand staircase, for example. Work started on the stairs when we started framing, and they were one of the last things finished. I look at them as artwork, and you see this throughout the home.
"Also, the technology in this home is the most advanced available. You have control of almost everything from every room."
Ballstaedt said his committee would continue to gather opinions from skiers and other sources, and he would try to incorporate some new ideas into the next home, which might include the bowling alley. | {
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A few days ago, Thomas Stanley, author of “The Millionaire Next Door,” died in a car accident at the age of 71. I met Mr. Stanley at the Atlanta Investment Conference a few years ago (hosted by Martin Truax, a well-known stockbroker and money manager with Raymond James).
Why? Because more than any other financial expert, Stanley dispelled the notion that the rich are bad people, that they flaunt their wealth, engage in white-collar crime, divorce then marry trophy wives and don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
Stanley’s research proved otherwise. In fact, most millionaires are model citizens.
According to “The Millionaire Next Door” and the sequel, “The Millionaire Mind,” wealthy American millionaires are good people. Here are the results of his survey of more than 1,000 super-millionaires (people who earn $1,000,000 a year or more):
They live far below their means and have little or no debt. Most pay off their credit cards every month; 40% have no home mortgage at all.
Millionaires are frugal – they prepare shopping lists, resole their shoes and save a lot of money — but they are not misers; they live balanced lives.
97% are homeowners; they tend to live in fine homes in older neighborhoods. (Only 27% have ever built their “dream home.”)
92% are married; only 2% are currently divorced. Millionaire couples have less than one-third the divorce rate of non-millionaire couples. The typical couple in the millionaire group has been married for 28 years and has three children. Nearly 50% of the wives of the super-rich do not work outside the home.
Most are first-generation millionaires who became wealthy as business owners or executives; most did not inherit their wealth.
Almost all are well educated; 90% are college graduates and 52% hold advanced degrees; however, few graduated at the top of their class — most were “B” students. They learned two lessons from college: discipline and tenacity.
Most live balanced lives; they are not workaholics. 93% listed socializing with family members as their #1 activity; 45% play golf. (Stanley didn’t survey whether they were avid book readers – too bad.)
52% attend church at least once a month; 37% consider themselves very religious.
They share five basic ingredients to success: integrity, discipline, social skills, a supportive spouse and hard work.
They contribute heavily to charity, church and community activities (64%).
Their #1 worry: taxes! Their average annual federal tax bill: $300,000. The top one-tenth of 1% of U.S. income earners pays 14.7% of all income taxes collected!
“Not one millionaire had anything nice to say about gambling.” Okay, but his survey also showed that 33% played the lottery at least once during the year!
Thus, we see how the super-upper-income families of this nation are not the ones contributing to crime, welfare, divorce, child abuse and a spendthrift society. But they are paying a lot of taxes and making a lot of contributions to help solve social problems.
Although Stanley did not cover this issue, I’ve also seen studies indicating that higher-income individuals live longer, on average five to ten years longer, than the average American (76 years) and enjoy better health, fitness and quality of life. Higher-income individuals aren’t the ones causing Medicare to go bankrupt.
Stanley had been criticized for emphasizing the Calvinist lifestyle of self-denial. For example, New York Times columnist Thomas Frank complained of Stanley’s “militantly Calvinist attitude toward consumption” in which “saving and investing are ends in themselves, evidence of moral virtue, while spending is empty dissipation.”
And Nasim Taleb wrote, “I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth…. I certainly do not see the point of becoming [a millionaire] if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.”
But that’s not what Stanley advocated. He was a devoted follower of “The Richest Man in Babylon,” who believed in living liberally, but always within your means.
After all, Thomas Stanley did die in a car accident driving a Corvette, not normally a symbol of asceticism.
Instead of bashing the rich, let’s salute them. If indeed the wealthy are such good citizens, as Stanley’s work suggests, our goal should not aim to impoverish the rich, but to enrich the poor. That is our goal at Forecasts & Strategies.
Let the Debate Begin: Is the American Dream Alive or Dead?
Can you still become a millionaire next door? Is the American dream still alive – to get a fulfilling job, marry and raise a family, buy a home and retire comfortably? We’re going to debate this issue at this year’s FreedomFest.
During the past week, I’ve spent hours putting together the entire list of speakers, panels and debates for this year’s big show in Las Vegas. You will be amazed at what we have planned. What’s FreedomFest all about? Everything! Read about the conference lineup so far. | {
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[SanClementeTimes.com] 9/18/2018, Beverly Beach, OR -- "Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) announced on Tuesday, Sept. 18, that Kaia Fina, 11, who had been missing from her foster home in San Clemente since Sept. 6, was found safe in Beverly Beach, Oregon."
Editor's Note :: Please note that there has been no official amber alert issued in this case. The child is simply missing and we are trying to get the information more widely distributed.
[CBS Denver] 9/6/2018, San Clemente, CA -- "Kaia Fina, 11, was last seen wearing a black t-shirt or white tank top and pink pajama pants. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and stands about 5 feet tall. Kaia was reported missing on Sept. 7 by her foster mother in San Clemente, Calif."
"The two could be traveling in a 2007 dark blue BMW X3 with a California license plate 7RRY771." | {
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At this moment, when I write this sentence, the Bitcoin price is $7,400 so I will refer to it as the current price. We learn a lot of details about the trading.
In particular,
there is probably no leverage, the Bitcoin is sufficiently volatile even without it (I suppose that the short positions must still be insured by some margin call when, assuming no reserve funds, the Bitcoin price doubles or something like that)
the expiration moments when the futures are settled in cash will be on some days (probably all days from Monday to Friday, 5 a week), 4 p.m. London time – the settlement prices are probably exactly the BRTI daily reference rate that already exists
one contract is 5 Bitcoins ($37,000 at current price); the article implicitly suggested you can't buy any fractions but I am not quite sure
the maximum that one entity may hold is plus minus 1,000 contracts i.e. 5,000 future Bitcoins ($37 million at current price) so that no one gets the monopoly to individually corner the market (manipulate price in a way that only the biggest fish can use) – well, I suppose that traders from 10 big banks who talk to each other might corner it, anyway
the price where you buy/sell futures must be a multiple of $5 per Bitcoin (i.e. $25 per contract), so the price may change from $7,400 to $7,395 and $7,390 etc., with a downtick every 5 minutes, for example LOL
trading is from 5 p.m. of the previous day to 4 p.m. Central Time – 23 hours a day, 5 days a week
If you really can't have a fraction of the contract, it follows that only pretty big fish may participate – $37,000 is a lot of money for one position. The fanatically decentralized Bitcoin teenage trolls may be shielded from this instrument. What will happen? What is the theory behind what should happen?
Current BTC price
As I have repeatedly mentioned, the Bitcoin price dynamics is the ultimate random walk. Various people may follow some strategies – they may try to extrapolate the recent momentum, or – on the contrary – bet that recent swings will get reverted. They have various time scales etc. And the result is a random walk or Brownian motion, a Markov process where the price is de facto described as\[
{\rm Price}_{\rm Bitcoin} = P_0\cdot \exp [ W(t) ]
\] where \(W(t)\) is a random walk i.e. \(\langle W(t)^2 \rangle = t/t_0\). The typical deviation of the logarithm of the price behaves like \(\sqrt{t}\) divided by the square root of a time scale \(t_0\) – that's some proportionality constant.
For years, there's been some additional "clear momentum upwards" but that will probably be over, as I will discuss momentarily.
To have some idea how to calculate \(t_0\), it may be fun to divide the random walk to individual transactions. These days, there are roughly 300,000 transactions a day and the daily volume is $2.5 billion i.e. 340,000 Bitcoins. Also close to 300,000. So it's an excellent approximation to say that the average Bitcoin transaction is about BTC 1. Note that the median transaction is just some BTC 0.1, one order of magnitude smaller – due to the big "wealth inequality". It's the rich folks who primarily decide about the average.
It may be helpful to eliminate transactions that are much smaller than the average one. I guess that we could say that there are just 100,000 "not tiny" transactions and their average is BTC 3 per transaction. A great model to visualize a random walk. If each transaction moves the Bitcoin price by \(\Delta P\) in a random direction, 100,000 such transactions move it by \(\sqrt{100,000}\sim 300\) times \(\Delta P\). Because the daily price changes are of order 5% in average, one transaction changes the price by some 5/300=0.017%. That's $1.2 at current price.
OK, so my model for the natural trading is that a bunch of random traders buy and sell 100,000 times BTC 3 every day. Every time they do it, the price moves by $1.2 in a random direction (away from some number comparable to $7,400 now). Most of them cancel, only roughly "300" transactions don't cancel well – the square root of the number of transactions.
That's a funny picture because it suggests that the uncancelled momentum builder only comes from some 300 transactions per BTC 3 i.e. from the traders involving some BTC 1,000 ($7.4 million) a day. That's 1/5 of the maximum limit per entity that can trade the Bitcoin futures. So there is a lot of potential to insert non-randomness through the futures traders.
What will be the implications of the trading on the Bitcoin price?
First, try to assume that the futures traders assume that in the next month, the Bitcoin price will continue skyrocketing – the table at the very bottom shows that trading will be up to the last Friday of a month, 4 p.m. London time, and some 4 next such Fridays will be available at each moment. If the market thought so, the (end-of-)December futures could be traded at $15,000 per Bitcoin. But the big traders of actual Bitcoin could almost lock a profit – to be realized on the expiration date, by closing both real Bitcoin and futures positions – by shorting the future and buying the real Bitcoin more cheaply at the same moment! In effect, they would buy a cheap real Bitcoin and sell a negative Bitcoin at a higher price, which means profit.
This arbitrage opportunity will immediately push the difference to zero or some small technical values. The futures shouldn't be traded well above the current Bitcoin price, I think. The futures' price should always indicate that the Bitcoin's future is not bright, to put it mildly.
Note that the opposite mechanism doesn't really work because you can't short the real Bitcoin effectively. For this reason, it's generally assumed that the Bitcoin futures will indicate the future price below the current price, or below the current price plus some technical, profit-dictated constant which includes some fees and other expenses. The rational real Bitcoin traders will be able to look at the futures, see that the future Bitcoin price doesn't look really higher than today, so it's better to sell.
OK, at what levels should the big fish buy or sell the futures?
First, before we discuss the trend, it seems obvious that the futures trading should restrict any volatility. Because almost all the volatility is rationally unjustifiable, the trading of the futures may kill the volatility completely. The Bitcoin is an example of the perfect ultimate bubble but it should also be an example of an "asset" where the noise may be suppressed completely. There's a difference from gold or other commodities. The traders of gold futures must really make an estimate at what gold price the supply and demand are sustainable. If the gold price is too low, the system runs out of gold. But the Bitcoin is equally sustainable at any price. The Bitcoin price lives exclusively in the people's heads.
So I think it makes sense for the traders to assume that the "actual" Bitcoin price is an extremely smooth function of time. They should buy the future Bitcoin whenever its price gets beneath this smooth curve, and they should sell it whenever it gets above it. They should only spend some of their limit on positions for these purchases – to have a reasonable probability that they won't hit the limit of 1,000 contracts before the expiration day.
At the beginning, one could wait for the rest of the market to push the prices somewhere. But maybe it's not a good idea to wait because the real profits start right away. I don't know what to do. Everyone who trades the futures probably realizes that the other traders are rather intelligent – each of them may afford $37,000 for this fishy position. ;-)
I don't know what to do with the initial "one time" kicks into the real Bitcoin price and the futures price. However, I find it totally sensible that just hours or days later, the Bitcoin traders could try to target some decreasing exponential function for the price:\[
\] After the moment \(t=0\) where this behavior begins, it may be assumed that the price of the Bitcoin is decreasing exponentially with the time scale \(t_1\). One tries to adjust \(t_1\) at every moment. And one tries to buy short or long positions according to the deviations from this function, but estimate the rate at which you're buying so that you don't run out of your wiggle room – the limit of 1,000 contracts – before the expiration moment. Because of the limit of 1,000 contracts per entity, no single entity will be strong enough to eliminate the fluctuations away from a smooth curve completely. But lots of entities trading the futures actually might be – they might collectively behave as the perfect removers of all the noise.
I expect further decrease of transactions in the real Bitcoin, and even higher fees
It's pretty funny but the future Bitcoin price may really be very close to a seemingly predictable smooth function of time, such as the decreasing exponential above. This will have consequences for the real Bitcoin traders, too. Lots of them will start to believe it – for good reasons. The market might be trained to sustain one smooth function of time or another. This tendency to co-operate on the "apparent hypothesis about the future price" may also be described as a self-fulfilling prophesy. I believe that since the Czech National Bank interventions against the Czech currency that began exactly 4 years ago, this "trained market" has shown itself in numerous stages. Also, it is pretty clear that these days, the EURCZK volatility is some 1/2 of what it was 5-10 years ago (e.g. in 2009 when the EURCZK changed by more than 0.5 almost every month), because of the lots of crowns that were printed during the interventions and are held by foreigners.
At any rate, I find it obvious that after a sufficient number of the Bitcoin futures exist – and I assume that some of these traders trade both and use the arbitrage opportunities – the Bitcoin price loses much of its daily volatility. That's what the futures generally do. But once the real Bitcoin price becomes much more stable, there will be many fewer reasons to buy or sell right now. The room for daily traders of the real Bitcoin will shrink.
Lots of people and bots may just follow a funny strategy – try to wait when the Bitcoin price drops by $30, buy, then it goes up $30, sell, and you make a profit that beats the fees. (Obviously, in the long run, you don't earn anything on it because sometimes the price refuses to return where you want it to return, so you may either be caught with Bitcoins during a collapse, or without Bitcoins during a growth you missed.) But when it will be harder for the Bitcoin to move by $30 up or down, the frequency of these transactions will diminish.
In the previous blog post, I discussed the high Bitcoin fees – one transaction costs $10 in average now. I mentioned that the fees went up because the Bitcoin price went up hugely but the daily number of transactions only increased some 20% from a year ago. So if the number of transactions decreases, because the lower volatility makes it less interesting and exciting to buy or sell – and it's harder to beat the fees (which is a description of the change that is independent of emotions) – it will mean that the average transaction fee will increase further.
If and when the futures are sufficiently numerous to reduce the volatility of the Bitcoin price to 1/5 of the present value, the average transaction fee may very well go from $10 to $50 as the number of real Bitcoin transactions drops from 300,000 to 60,000. This increase of the transaction fees would discourage transactions further. This trend of the transaction fees and the boring evolution of the Bitcoin price will probably lead some of the smaller Bitcoin holders to sell everything – millions of small Bitcoin users couldn't afford a single fee, millions of others could only afford to pay a fee few times, and so on.
BTCUSD in recent 7 days
As the number of people who are meaningful members of the Bitcoin network drops, so will the idea that it's the money of the future, and even the larger investors realize that the game is over and it is meaningless to hold it. The wise short sellers should still try to buy the dips and sell the upticks from a smooth function, even if that function began to drop rather dramatically.
Let me say that the allowed daily drop (or rise) of the futures is 20%. It means to multiply the price by 0.8 a day. 0.8 to the fifth power is 0.32768 i.e. the fall by 2/3 a week, or by some 99% a month. It's plausible that the Bitcoin market understands the fate of this "asset" earlier and the Bitcoin price will systematically fall by more than 20% a day. In that case, however, I believe that the futures won't actually matter much.
While the futures open the trading to lots of big new investors and there are opportunities to make the price swings really volatile and unpredictable, I am convinced that – while there will be some events I can't predict – the overall appearance of the effect of the futures will clearly be "a huge reduction of the volatility". This fact by itself will repel the real Bitcoin trading and bets, reduce the number of transactions, increase the fees, and gradually encourage everyone to sell the Bitcoin.
Even though I can't really exclude the rise of the Bitcoin price above $10,000 or something like that – when millions of teenagers bet their parents' houses not only on the real Bitcoin but also the long futures positions – I find it unavoidable that if the trading of the futures begins at all, the path towards the incredibly shrinking Bitcoin will become obvious within a month or at most months, if not days. The potential for big gains in a month or two should evaporate because the futures will indicate a similar price as the current price or lower (otherwise there is the arbitrage opportunity I mentioned); the daily variations and the related gambling will also shrink (so the traders who basically do daily gambling will also fade away); and the fees will go up as the number of real Bitcoin transactions decreases, so lots of the normal Bitcoin users will disappear because they won't be able to afford the fees.
It seems somewhat plausible to me that those who decided to create the CME Bitcoin futures market – or who are actually behind the project – realize these things and they are doing it deliberately in order to deflate the Bitcoin bubble which some of them may be annoyed by (like me) or which others may even feel threatened by. It's also possible that the banks were intensely buying BTC in recent weeks – therefore the growth – and they will be selling real Bitcoins along with short positions to make the profit once the futures are available.
There are lots of unknowns that may invalidate the reasoning above. In particular, it seems totally plausible to me that most of the people – and even when weighted by their wealth – who trade the real Bitcoin are so financially illiterate (or obedient to the cult) that they won't understand or they won't use the arbitrage opportunity I mentioned, and they will buy the long futures to drive their price well above the current Bitcoin price, although it's clearly better to buy the real Bitcoin and wait for the expiration date instead. When BTC split to BTC and BCH, their total price – wealth of the old BTC holder – jumped discontinuously. Such irrational discrepancies do occur in the world of the Bitcoin because a big fraction of the traders really don't understand basic identities that hold in efficient markets, they don't understand key tricks to make profit. But I tend to think that when others, rational participants are allowed to enter – both short and long future positions, plus the Bitcoin itself – they will exploit the opportunities that the Bitcoin fans fail to exploit.
Bonus: a table about the CME contracts
One must realize that on top of the random walk above, there exist "legitimate" reasons for price changes, e.g. expected bans and other regulatory stories – negative and positive – as well as the worries about the potentially devastating SegWit2x fork next week, the subsequent exodus from BTC of those traders who think that the fork is a "dividend for free" they went to pick, and so on.
Daily movements
This is an update. The Bitcoin went from $7,100 to some $7,800, a new record, and then back to $7,100 or so, at Bittrex.com. The brutal 1-hour 10% drop in the evening was apparently because the 2x fork was called off by an e-mail by utterly sensible proponents who realize that the BTC straitjacket is already too tight. This should be good news for BTC – a huge existential threat has disappeared – but as I could already have predicted, for the clueless millennial "traders", it's bad news because they think that they won't get their "free dividend". ;-) | {
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Pakistanis kill 15 militants in separate clashes
KHAR, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces have killed 15 militants, including a senior commander, in separate clashes as they seek to rout the Taliban from strongholds in the country's northwest, officials said Thursday.
The deadliest fighting was in Swat Valley, the site of a major military offensive this summer that was declared a success but has been the scene of sporadic violence since.
Ten suspects were killed in overnight fighting following a raid on a militant hide-out near the Swat Valley town of Kabal, Maj. Mushtaq Ahmed said.
Those killed included Abu Faraj, the captured militant commander who had led the troops to the location, Ahmed said. Abu Faraj was captured in September and accused of plotting suicide bombings in the area.
Five other militants were killed when security forces repelled attacks on three checkpoints in the Bajur area that borders Afghanistan, local official Adalat Khan said.
Pakistan faces heavy pressure from the U.S. to crack down on Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents who attack American and Afghan troops across the border.
The army has launched several offensives, including one under way in South Waziristan. Many fear the U.S. plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan will push more militants into Pakistan.
Separately, officials raised the death toll in Wednesday's suicide bombing against naval headquarters in Islamabad to two after one of those wounded died. | {
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The Scoop on Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereals
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Breakfast cereals are undeniably quick, easy, and popular. More importantly, many fit the ideal of low-calorie, high nutrient-dense foods, and research supports the notion that ready-to eat cereals can improve children’s overall nutritional well-being, lower their risk of becoming overweight, and even contribute to improved brain power. Especially when paired with milk, cereals in general are one of the biggest sources of some very important nutrients in children’s diets, including fiber, folic acid, vitamin C, iron, and zinc.
That said, it’s important to select your children’s breakfast cereals wisely. A recent study examining the nutritional quality of cereals found that cereals created for and marketed specifically to children tend to contain more sugar and sodium and less of the important nutrients. So what does that mean when it comes to serving cereal?
You can still scoop away, but do so with the following goals in mind:
Look beyond the eye-catching packages of children’s cereal. While cartoon characters can be mighty appealing, cereals not specifically marketed to children tend to contain more fiber and less sugar.
Find cereals with a fiber content of at least 2 (if not 5) grams per serving.
Focus on finding cereals that contain no more than 10 to 12 grams of sugar per serving. Think your kids won’t go for it? Think again. A 2011 study of children’s breakfast eating behaviors found, among other things, that children were equally happy with the cereals they were served, regardless of whether they were given high- or low-sugar cereals. Even when children in the low-sugar cereal group added extra sugar, they still ended up consuming far less sugar than the high-sugar cereal group.
Consider sweetening cereal naturally by simply adding cut up fruits like bananas, strawberries, or peaches. In fact, children served low-sugar cereals are more likely to balance out their breakfasts by adding fresh fruit to their bowls.
Go for whole grains whenever possible. Fortunately, it’s getting much easier to do so, as many of the major cereal manufacturers are making whole grains more readily available.
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Norwegian US-based Flight Attendants Vote for Representation
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 10, 2016) — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) congratulates the Norwegian Air Shuttle Flight Attendants for electing the Norwegian Cabin Crew Association (NCCA) as their union representative today in an election conducted by the National Mediation Board (NMB).
This victory is the culmination of a year-long struggle by the Flight Attendants, with support from AFA, against Norwegian’s efforts to deny them the right to even vote on union representation.
“We congratulate the flight attendants on their vote to gain union representation in the U.S. Any opportunity for flight attendants to gain collective bargaining rights has our support,” said Sara Nelson, international president of AFA. “Norwegian’s attempt to evade its legal obligations in the US is further evidence that it will stop at nothing to avoid U.S. and E.U. labor laws that allow workers to negotiate contracts for good jobs.
Norwegian’s attempted to thwart a vote by arguing that it was not the Flight Attendants’ employer. The company alleged that a hiring and training vendor was the employer, and therefore there was no basis to hold a representation election. They were wrong.
With the assistance of AFA’s attorneys, NCCA successfully argued that NAS was the employer. As a result, the NMB ruled that NAS and its vendor were joint employers and therefore subject to the NMB’s election jurisdiction.
This case also serves as a reminder that Norwegian can already operate flights to and from the U.S. under it’s current foreign air carrier permit.
“We look forward to working closely with the Flight Attendants to ensure their victory will be a springboard to bring them the pay and benefits AFA has negotiated for its members around the world,” Nelson concluded.
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Missoula sure knows how to hunt down a vandal
Two weeks ago, Missoula police arrested a man they believe spray-painted "Rape Nation" stencils on the Northside pedestrian bridge and stuck "Rape Nation" stickers to pretty much every flat surface in town. Todd Patrick Jordan, 35, pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of mischief and conspiracy and was released on $2,500 bail. It was the most expensive misdemeanor release of the day, beating out drunk and disorderlies, drug possessions and an alarming number of DUIs.
Before we go any further, I would like to make it clear that I think "Rape Nation" is stupid. Vandalism is stupid. A sophisticated society does not express itself through stickers, and spray-painting a bridge is a good way to feel important without actually helping anyone. If the mischief conspiracy behind "Rape Nation" believes Missoula has a sexual assault problem and the Montana Grizzlies are to blame, they could volunteer at the Student Assault Resource Center, Make Your Move Missoula, or another service organization in the time it takes to print stickers.
That said, the irony here is as obvious as it is frustrating. The sum authorities of Missoula jumped on the case of the "Rape Nation" stickerist with alacrity. The Missoula Police Department released five surveillance photos, including one of the perpetrator's bicycle. Palmer was arrested and charged within 72 hours. This is the same police department that allegedly told Kerry Barrett, when she filed a sexual assault complaint in 2011, that "there is not much we can do except scare the guy."
They certainly scared the hell out of Todd Jordan. Before he had even been arrested, Erika Palmer, the University of Montana director of trademarks and licensing, threatened whoever was behind the stickers with an infringement lawsuit. "That is our exact paw," she told the Missoulian. "If the paw is the same, that is trademark infringement."
Of course, the first step in a trademark infringement suit is to demonstrate that a reasonable person might mistake the image in question for the trademarked one, and very little Griz merchandise has the word "rape" on it. The stickers and stencils are obviously parody, and they refer to a scandal that is very much in the public eye. Unfortunately, both the police and the university seem more interested in quashing that scandal than addressing the problem that led to it.
After the Department of Justice launched an investigation into the failure of county prosecutors, Missoula police and the university to adequately address accusations of sexual assault, UM Vice President Jim Foley did what anyone does when the house catches fire: he ran around smashing the smoke alarms.
Foley urged officials to use the term "date rape" instead of "gang rape." He wondered in an email whether one alleged victim had violated the Student Conduct Code by talking publicly about what happened to her. He wrote an angry letter to the Kaimin, noting that "the watchdog never barks at its own family members," and he emailed Mayor John Engen demanding an apology from a local police officer who publicly wondered when the university would "stop this spiraling PR mess." Then, in June, he disappeared from the news completely.
You would think the police and the university would have learned from Foley's disastrous example. When the Justice Department accuses you of collusion, stop colluding. When the public suspects you have covered up sexual assaults, stop covering up. Instead, the police launched a public manhunt for a small-time vandal, and the university announced its intention to sue whoever had the audacity to mention rape and the Griz in the same sticker.
I like the Montana Grizzlies. I like the university, and I bet I would like the Missoula Police Department, assuming they someday catch the lady who keeps pooping in the bushes next to my house. I want to believe that they did not mean to under-enforce laws against sexual assault, and that they would never try to keep people from talking about rape just to sell football tickets. But the last six months have made that difficult.
The last week has made it hard not to think that law enforcement learned the wrong lesson. They devoted substantial resources to stopping the problem of someone pointing out the problem of rape, and the courts made sure the man they arrested didn't get off easy. Meanwhile, county attorney Fred Van Valkenberg has refused to cooperate with the DOJ investigation, which he says is political.
"It seems to be tied in to the so-called war on women that is being waged at the presidential level," he told Fox News, "and I find that very disturbing."
It's a nonsensical reason from a man who is hunting for excuses as assiduously as he hunts for vandals. The Griz may be faltering, but Team Missoula is playing defense hard. University, police, prosecutorsthey've all lined up in perfect formation. Too bad they've taken their eyes off the ball. | {
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Whispering a Campaign Strategy to the NPP
This publication is based on a seemingly nightmarish dream I had on the night of Wednesday 25 November 2015 or in the wee hours of the morning of 26 November 2015. In this dream, a very prominent founding member of the NPP said categorically that he was not going to campaign for NPP, especially Nana Akufo Addo, to win election 2016.
I went straight on my knees to plead with him to rescind his decision saying, your failure to assist NPP to win the election is in effect not directed at punishing Nana Akufo Addo but indeed, to punish the already suffering Ghanaian masses due to the incompetent administration of Ghana by President Mahama.
Nana Akufo Addo was there and we both pleaded with the person (name withheld) to reconsider his decision. He was still insistent on his decision and again questioned why Nana does not engage the public in the dialect that the majority understands when he goes on campaign provided Nana understands their language instead of discoursing in English?
I am not going to reveal the entirety of the dream. However, for the attention of the public, it must be noted that my dreams always manifest in the opposite way.
As God reveals to redeem, there are lessons and strategies to be learnt from this dream.
Being emotional and insulting will not win over people's heart to us. Failing to win them over means we cannot get their votes.
Insulting and being rude drive away friends. Nobody can reason with another who insults
In the face of provocation, be calm and put across your views and ideas in most intelligent way by which you can win over people's hearts and their votes
We should always communicate with the people (electorates) in their local dialect if majority of them do understand the discussions and the campaign messages better in their dialect than in English (the official language in Ghana).
Is the purpose of the campaign not to win more people to your camp to get their votes? Why then not use the language the majority of them do understand and if possible, ask someone to interpret it into English instead of the vice versa? This is a key to imparting vote winning message to the public
We have to socialise with the people. Mingle with them. Joke with them. Shake their hands and if your stomach is not as bad as that of Rockson Adofo, eat with them and drink with them if possible, and if not for hygienic reasons, from the same bowl and cup. How glad will someone see Nana Akufo Addo shake their hands, nicely grab their corncob, break it into two-halves, eat one and give the other to the owner? Will the person not have the same feeling as a football fan will have if his favourite football star shook his hand or gave him his t-shirt?
From the dream, a message of reconciliation could be detected. However, this does not mean that those deliberately pulling the party down are not to be dealt with appropriately but the unnecessary insults must be done away with.
We need to focus on how best to put our truthful messages across to win more people to the NPP camp. We need to win election 2016 to liberate Ghanaians from their current slavery under President Mahama's dead goat regime.
I have been endowed with the knowledge and wisdom to educate people on how to woo others to their camp or side by being honest with them.
Do you know how best to COMMUNICATE your campaign messages and party manifesto to the electorates? Learn the strategies of doing so. They should not be communicated haphazardly but in an orderly manner and in truth.
Subsequent from my dream, I shall advise whoever gets the chance to mount any campaign podium from today forward to first address the congregants to eschew insults no matter how their intended culprit has offended them.
Not all the strategies can I reveal here, some are to be divulged to people, NPP disciples of course, who will be going to the ground, from home to home, village to village, town to town and city to city to disseminate the good tidings from NPP and Nana Akufo Addo and his running mate Dr Bawumia.
I end with Revelations 2:7 – "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God" and Matthew 13:9 – "Who has ears to hear, let him hear".
Rockson Adofo
(Up and coming political strategist who has prophesies hidden in his write-ups if people might care to find them out. He is the champion of liberating the minds of Ghanaians from inferiority complexes, educating them on their rights and taking pretenders straight to the cleaners without hesitation) | {
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Former Mongolian president Nambaryn Enkhbayar, found guilty in August 2012 of graft and sentenced to four years in prison, was pardoned by the man who unseated him in a 2009 election.
Enkhbayar, 55, was released yesterday by a decree from current president Tsakhia Elbegdorj. The statement announcing the decision posted to the website of the president’s office didn’t give a reason for the pardon.
Liza Carter traveled five times to Mongolia over four years to document the daily life of a modern nomadic family. Filled with photographs and personal perspectives on daily life, Moving with the Seasons: Portrait of a Mongolian Family is a visual and written portrait of a traditional life in a global economy.
Known to be a landlocked nation in East and Central Asia, Mongolia is said to become a tourist destination and an open country for gaming; next to its neighboring countries like China and Macau. Its government has been taking a lot of strategic planning for its tourism’s overall development which include amusement parks and a possible casino construction within its economic zones.
On February 06, 2013, the shareholders' meeting between representatives of the Government of Mongolia and the Rio Tinto Groupis scheduled today, accordingly Minister for Economic Development of Mongolia N.Batbayar announced that the meeting would start at 02:00pm in the Ministry of Mining.
Water samples collected from 129 wells in seven of the nine sub-divisions of Ulaanbaatar were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP–MS) using Clean Lab methods. The levels of many trace elements were found to be low with the average concentrations. The levels of uranium were surprisingly elevated (mean, 4.6 μg/L; range < 0.01–57 μg/L), with the values for many samples exceeding the World Health Organization's guideline of 15 μg/L for uranium in drinking water. Local rocks and soils appear to be the natural source of the uranium.
The Mongolian Ecosystem Network is an academic publication that covers many dimensions of the current ecological challenges in Mongolia. In 2010 the Kyoto based Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) held a conference "The Collapse and Restoration of the Mongolian Ecosystem Network in the Context of Global Environmental and Social Changes". Speakers from different acadamic fields gave an overview of the wide range of environmental issues that Mongolia is facing.
The national consumer price index in August 2012, increased by 0.7 percent compared to the previous month, 11.1 percent compared to the beginning of the year, and 14.9 percent compared to same period of the previous year. | {
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08 November 2015
Wrapped Lemons: Angela Perko & W.J. McCloskey
I had never heard of Angela Perko until recently when I saw Wrapped Lemons apres W.J. McCloskey (above);I had heard of William McCloskey, but couldn't remember how although I did remember why. The elusive artist painted strangely captivating wrapped fruits, a genre he may well have invented.
The artist Angela Perko, also turns out to admire the Canadian artists known collectively as the Group of Seven, artists I've mentioned recently. Perko cites the group, especially its lone female member Emily Carr, as influencing her use of color. She arranges colors fearlessly, as comfortable with dissonance as she is with delicacy. Like the Seven, Perko explored painting through landscape; like McCloskey she was born elsewhere but eventually moved to California.
I think Perko's Wrapped Lemons refers to McCloskey's Florida Lemons (below). Perko's painting lets us imagine a world where our eyes can separate planes of vision. This feature, along with her use of depthless color achieved through barely visible brushwork, makes this a true cubist artwork. There is a sad story about the McCloskey painting. According to The City Review (May 21, 2014), it was offered for sale at auction in New York City but "It failed to sell."
We are spoiled; we take the year-round availability for granted of any fruit we desire. Historically speaking, this state of things began just yesterday but there are artists whose works remind us of the magical properties of fruit, especially citrus fruit, with its contrasts of sweetness and tartness in seductively tactile containers.
Wrapped Oranges, painted in 1889 by the little known William J. McCloskey, brought me up short when I first saw it (see below). These arrangements of fruits in tissue on what appear to be tabletops evoke a mysterious sense of place out of time, much as the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi' s empty rooms do. Tissue was the preferred method for packing these precious fruits for shipping before the days of refrigerated trucks..
The story of American still life painting begins with the Peales (Charles Wilson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Raphaelle Peale, Titian Peale, and Margaretta Peale to name just five of the prolific and close-knit family). Their paintings were among the best that a new nation produced during its early decades. The Peales were also known as experimenters in tromp l'oeil, a technique used to deceive the eye into seeing relationships between planes and dimensions that are not there in ostensibly realistic spatting.
Like the Peales, WillIma McCloskey and his wife Alberta Binford, painted works of great technical virtuosity; William excelled in portraits and fruit, Alberta in portraits and floral still lifes. It was while staying in Los Angeles during the 1880s that the young couple established their artistic reputations. Already southern California had begun to promote itself as the garden state of the west, home to plentiful orange groves. An unusual couple in many respects, the McCloskeys did not stay put, making their whereabouts at any given moment hard to pin down; but they lived in New York City (on 23rd Street near the Art Students League), London, and Paris and exhibited their works in Atlanta, Buffalo, and Providence, at least. Neglected after their deaths, McCloskey's wrapped fruits again attracted public interest beginning in the 1990s.
Both artists bring to the table, so to speak, an enthusiasm for paint that makes joie de vivre tactile.
Angela Perko is represented by Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, Santa Barbara.
For further reading about William McCloskey: Partners In Illusion: Alberta Binford and William J. McCloskey by Nancy D.W. Moure, Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Art: 1996.
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I regularly find some of the most in depth comments in this blog. Thank you Jane. I would love the taste of a Perko or McClosky orange, but I could not touch anything without ruining their thoughtful arrangements
Frank, thank you for your very kind words. I try to write about the arts without jargon; it's opaque and nothing dates faster. As for the arrangements, they are just as visionary as the painting of them.
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May the learning of Daf Yomi be a zchus for his neshamah and may his soul find peace in Gan Eden and be bound up in the Bond of Life.He should be a melitz yoshar for his entire family and Klal Yisroel.
In his newest sefer Nasiach B'chukecha, Rabbi Avi Lebowitz (Rosh Kollel of the Palo Alto Kollel - Jewish Study Network) culls from the many works of the Rishonim and Gedolei Achronim to expound upon, elucidate and analyze the principles discussed by the Chayei Adam. His commentary are written both as footnotes and as additions of specific rules within each category.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Ulla says that Nachum Hamadi and the Sages only dispute whether cargo utensils are included in the sale of a donkey. The Sages say that a donkey is used for riding, and cargo utensils are not included, while Nachum Hamadi says that a donkey is used for cargo, so these utensils are included. The Rashbam implies that Nachum Hamadi holds that donkeys are used only for cargo, while the Rashba and Ritva say that Nachum Hamadi holds that donkeys are used for both cargo and riding.
Utensils on or off?
Ulla limits the dispute of Nachum Hamadi and the Sages to cargo utensils. The Gemora then raised the question of whether the dispute is only when the utensils are on or off the donkey. The question was unresolved. The Rambam (Mechira 27:4) rules that riding utensils are included, even when not on the donkey, while cargo utensils are not included, even when on the donkey. The Rashba and Rema, however, rules that only riding utensils are included, and only when they are on the donkey. The Rashba and Rema understand that the Gemora’s question is on both elements of the Mishna – the case of riding utensils and cargo utensils. The Rambam and Rif, however, understand that Ula was makinga categorical statement that riding utensils are included, whether on or off the donkey. The Gemora’s question was only on the disputed items. Since the Gemora’s question is unresolved, we cannot transfer the cargo utensils from their original ownership, since the buyer needs a bona fide proof to remove it from the current possession. See Taz HM 220:7, and Gra HM 220:9 for further discussion of the differing opinions.
Empty Beehive and Dovecote
The Mishna lists items that are included in a sale – a pit includes its water, a waste pit includes its manure, a beehive includes its bees, and a dovecote includes its doves. The Rashbam says that these are all cases of ancillary items being included in the sale of the main item. Therefore, if one sells only the ancillary items, the main item is not included. The Rosh, however, quotes a Tosefta that says that if one sells all the bees or doves, the beehive or dovecote is included, since one has no need for an empty beehive or dovecote.
A Pit’s Water
The Mishna says that when one sells a pit, its water is included. The Rambam (Mechira 27:10), Rif, and Shulchan Aruch (HM 220:16) rule that the water is not included, while the Rama (ibid), based on the Rashbam and Rosh, rules that the water is included. Although the Mishna says the water is included, Rava (BB 79b) says that Rabbi Nasan, a minority opinion, is the author of the Mishna, while the Sages say the water is not included. The Rashbam explains that when the Gemora identifies a statement of an amora as following a minority opinion, the statement is being rejected. However, all Rava said is that the Mishna is following the minority opinion of Rabbi Nasan, but we still rule like the Mishna. The Rambam and Rif, however, infer from the language of Rava that he doesn’t rule like the Mishna. If Rava simply wanted to identify the author of the Mishna, Rava could have simply said that the Mishna’s author is Rabbi Nasan. Since Rava mentioned the fact that it’s a minority opinion, he was ruling against it.
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While you develop up and read about the thought of sex, you could determine while the sex you had been assigned at delivery, or perhaps you may well not.
Should you choose recognize with this gender, you’re cisgender, or “cis. ”
For instance, you’re a cisgender guy if perhaps you were born with a penis and recognize as being a guy.
Likewise, if perhaps you were born by having a vagina and recognize as a woman, you’re a cisgender woman.
In the event that you don’t recognize with all the sex you had been assigned at delivery, you will probably find that you’re transgender, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming.
It’s maybe maybe not that easy.
Cisgender is definitely the reverse of transgender, many social individuals believe that they identify as neither cisgender nor transgender.
Many people identify as nonbinary, which means that they don’t identify strictly as a person or a lady.
Some nonbinary individuals start thinking about on their own become transgender, many start thinking about themselves to be neither totally transgender nor cisgender.
For instance, let’s think about a person that is nonbinary was assigned male at birth. This individual might explain by themselves as genderfluid. They could believe that their sex identity changes with time, plus they could determine as a guy some days, and a female on other times.
In this instance, the person shifts between your definitions of cisgender and transgender. They could recognize as both cisgender and transgender, or neither.
Therefore, cisgender and transgender aren’t part of a strict binary. It’s feasible become neither cisgender nor transgender, or even determine as a little bit of both.
The term “straight” is normally utilized to suggest “heterosexual. ” It may also mean “heteroromantic. ”
Heterosexual means you’re intimately interested in the sex that is opposite.
Generally speaking, “straight” means you’re attracted into the other intercourse, whether or not it is in a intimate or way that is romantic.
That is additionally not easy.
Many people are right and some people are homosexual, but there are some other opportunities.
As an example, you may be:
Biromantic or bisexual: you’re attracted to folks of numerous genders
Pansexual or panromantic: you’re attracted to folks of all genders
Asexual or aromantic: you have little to no intimate or attraction that is romantic
Intimately or romantically fluid: your orientation modifications in the long run
Queer: you’re not directly, though this terms suggest a lot of things to people that are different
They are just a few types of just exactly just how people may explain their intimate or romantic orientation. Needless to say, some social individuals choose never to label their orientation.
You may be intimately drawn to one band of individuals and romantically drawn to another combined band of individuals.
As an example, it is possible become homoromantic and pansexual. This implies you’re romantically attracted to individuals of the exact same sex as you, but intimately drawn to individuals of all genders.
Orientation and attraction may be complicated — it’sn’t simply a matter of just being homosexual or right.
“Cishet” means some body is both cisgender and heterosexual. It may additionally suggest both cisgender and heteroromantic.
Easily put, a cishet person identifies because the gender these were assigned at delivery, and they’re interested in people of the alternative sex.
There are numerous cisgender those who aren’t straight. Therefore, you will be cisgender and gay, cisgender and bisexual, or cisgender and asexual, to call a few identities.
Likewise, you can easily be transgender and straight. Some trans individuals end up solely drawn to folks of the reverse sex.
Every individual is exclusive.
You can find different terms to explain orientation and sex identification because there are incredibly ways that are many experience attraction and gender.
The variety of terms really reflects the variety of people.
Having a term to explain who you really are may be validating for most people. Usually, these terms assist individuals find community so that they feel less alone.
You are told by some people exactly what terms they normally use to explain by themselves. For other individuals, you might need to ask.
If you’re maybe not certain and also you aren’t comfortable asking, don’t make an presumption concerning the labels some body does or does not utilize.
Understand that many people might feel uncomfortable speaking about their sex or orientation, particularly if they’ve experienced discrimination in days gone by.
If you’re unsure as to what terms to make use of to spell it out your self, have actually a consider it. Read up about terms which may explain you. Take a look at forums on Reddit and Facebook groups.
You can’t always inform just what pronouns somebody uses by taking a look at them. They might state their pronouns at the start, or perhaps you need to ask. Keep in mind, it’s simpler to ask rather than assume.
If you’d like, you are able to share your pronouns whenever you meet brand brand new people.
As an example, you can merely state “Hi! I am so-and-so and my pronouns are they/them. ” You can even include your pronouns to your media that are social and e-mail signature.
There are numerous places for which you can find out more about sex, sex, orientation, and attraction. For instance: | {
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Fifa 19 Resurreccion Koke SBC Guide
Fifa 19 Resurreccion Koke SBC Guide
EA have released a pretty decent SBC in the Koke Resurreccion, not only do you get an 86 rated Koke Halloween card you will also receive a mega pack as well as a prime gold players pack!
Both the Spain squad and the LaLiga Santander squads wasn’t that hard to expensive to build so it’s an SBC well worth doing!
Below Shows the squads needed to complete both parts of the challenge.
Spain Squad SBC
GK- Kepa
LB – Victor Ruiz
CB- Marcano
CB- Raul Albiol
RB- Nacho Fernandez
CDM – Cesc Fabregas
CDM – Illarramendi
CAM – Jonathan Viera
CAM – Luis Alberto
ST – Pedro
ST – David Villa
LaLiga Santander squad SBC
GK – Sergio Asenjo
LWB – Brahimi
CB – Murillo
CB – Gimenez
CB – Savic (Special 84 Card)
RWB – Nacho Fernandez
CM – Rafinha
CM – Illarramendi
CM – Vidal
ST – Benzema
ST – Willian Jose
The LaLiga squad is a little more expensive and don’t forget to get the special Savic card otherwise the rating won’t be high enough. These were both the ways I managed to complete the challenge but if you find a better way please leave in the comments below and I will add it to the post. | {
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It’s quite a while now since she announced her resignation. Why is she still in the chancellery?
A couple of weeks back, the United Nations promulgated a compact requiring all nations to open their borders to the free in-flow of all migrants, whatsoever the grounds for leaving their native lands. Many countries, including the most powerful on Earth, have already rejected it. Merkel, however, is determined that this be visited upon the German peoples.
Merkel has a long history of betrayal and it is, perhaps, worthwhile here to take a brief look at her “achievements”.
2008/9– she literally sold Germany to the bankers to “rescue” them from their self-created (and phantom) debt crisis. (Almost all, i.e. more than 99% of the money the bankers claimed to have “lost” never actually existed – it was just “creative bookkeeping”.)
2012she pledged the entire wealth of the people of Germany, i.e. house, garden, car, bank account and all else as “security” for the debts of every land in the Euro Zone. (She and the bankers knew, of course, that these were phantom debts, i.e. loans of money which had never existed. Such debts are the daily expression of “creative bookkeeping” and have nothing to do with real money.)
Further,in the same year, she gave everything that the Germans have into the ownership of the bankers in order to “rescue” the Euro!
2013-2017 she had new laws passed, often in unannounced sessions of the German Parliament at which far fewer members than the required quorum were present, to re-enact Gestapo laws, enable the confiscation of property by bureaucratic fiat, to give the banksters immunity from criminal and civil law, to grant the banksters a “right” to order your bank to confiscate the money on your account to cover the “phantom losses” which your bank may have made. All of these and more in contradiction to articles 1 – 3 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany.
2016 onwardsshe inaugurated an illegal “open-door” policy for all migrants, gave many of them freedom from prosecution for criminal acts and, in short, created a two tier system for Germany in which the German people were given second place. She has continued to follow this subversion of the German culture by such things as forcing police authorities to accept economic migrants even though they have failed the police entrance examinations and many such similar “government by dictate contrary to law”.
To keep this hidden from the German people, a policy of suppressing the independent media (i.e. the 5% not owned and controlled by the banking cartel, pharmaceutical cartel and “friends”) by bureaucratic fiat confiscating their bank accounts, etc.. And much, much more: Those of an inquisitive mind set will, with diligence, find a very long list of Ferkel’s* illegal and criminal activities.
Now, for her swan song, those who have trusted her with their lives and their livelihood are to receive the final stab in the back:
I, as have probably you also, have noticed how the controlled media portrays this UN dictate as harmless and as having little to no effect upon Germany. The reason for this carefully manufactured lie is quite clear when one takes a close look at what has been going on around the world over the last two decades.
There are around 3 Billion people on this World living at or below the poverty line. Very, very many look with jealousy upon the wealth of the people in Europe, the USA and Australasia.
Merkel has presented Germany as a “soft target” for such for some years even, according to as yet unverified reports, personally addressing unemployed Third World youth asking them to make their way to Germany.
Given the fact that around 2 million mostly economic migrants have taken the roads to Germany even though immigration was illegal and the countries in between were not welcoming a very large (but undisclosed!) number have been given free rein in Germany.
Were the UN “open borders” dictate to be ratified by Germany, it is by no means an unreasonable assumption that 20 million economic migrants would make their way, assisted by Soros organisations, to Germany. This would bring about the final collapse of the German economy and the German culture; the desired objective of the Ferkel’s* bosses at the banking cartel.
Now, it is wise to take a look at why the banksters want to destroy Europe’s economic power house.
It appears to make no sense to destroy their main hope of continuing to steal the wealth created by the German people. If, however, you take a longer look, it does make sense.
The often, in public, declared objective of the owners of the banking cartel is to become the owners of the entire planet and the owners of the rest of humanity. To achieve this it is necessary that the “resilient” cultures of the World be destroyed.
Tony Blair successfully destroyed the cohesion of the British people. Obama bin Barak made great strides in this direction with America. This process should have been completed by Hilary Clinton creating a nuclear war with Russia in March of 2017. The American people, however, rejected this course and voted in the “outsider” Donald Trump who, since taking office, has set about reversing all the damage that Obama did.
Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin
Under Yeltsin, the bankers took complete control of Russia and destroyed its economy. The Russian people then elected Vladimir Putin who set about reversing all the damage that the bankers had done. Just this year, the last of the bankers was ejected from Russia and all debt eliminated.
The above, incidentally, is why you only hear negative reporting about Trump and Putin in the controlled press.
So, what cultures are left over? China and Germany.
For historical reasons having to do with the Tang and the Dragon Families, it has proved very difficult for the bankers to gain any degree of control in China. This leaves Germany.
Twice in the last 104 years, the bankers tried to destroy Germany by military means. Neither attempt succeeded because the German people bounced back and re-built their land. So, the bankers have decided, the German culture itself must be destroyed by flooding the country with tens of millions of ill-educated economic migrants all expecting to be given a German standard of living. The inevitable result is a civil war in which many, many millions will die and the German culture disappear for ever.
Make no mistake, the intended flood of migrants will happen because the banker backed Soros organisations will see to it that the necessary tens of millions will be promised a better life in Germany and given financial and logistical support to go there.
This is to be the Ferkel’s* final legacy.
The necessary legislation to ratify the migration pact was passed in the German parliament in which, curiously enough, exactly 666 members took part in the vote. At the vote, it was said that it would only be signed into law in the Autumn of 2019 to allow time for a judicial review. After the vote, Ferkel* decreed that it would be signed into law as a matter of highest priority by the 11th of December this year.
Twice in the last few years, most recently in September 2018, the International Court in The Hague has ruled that the Federal Republic of Germany has no standing before the court because it is not a state but merely an administrative body operating under the aegis of the allied victors following the Second World War.
In Ramstein, the largest US military base in Germany, in 2009 the then president Obama gave a speech to American troops in which, in answer to questions, he reiterated that “Germany is an occupied land and will remain so.”
This is in accord with legal opinion in Germany amongst those who have done the necessary research. Ferkel refuses to answer any question upon this!
It would seem, therefore, that “Our Donald” has the authority to save Germany by vetoing Ferkel’s last act of betrayal. Will he do so?
Next year sees the centenary of the last German uprising. Although it deposed the Kaiser, it achieved very little else because no plan had been made about what to do if the uprising succeeded and so the previous ruling powers changed a few faces and continued as before.
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while some info in this article appears to be true, the ultimate conclusion is so subjective and without any validation. just pure bigotry which is what this blog has become along with support of an elitist, nationalist; ie, fascist political tendency. and you wonder why so many anti-vax people refuse to work with you.
tamarque — exactly. I read this blog to try to understand the mindset that minorities and refugees have to deal with. Bolen is certainly right about vaccines, but then he, like Trump, has no compassion for those who have suffered the ill effects of a corporatist food supply, economy and healthcare, among them the disabled, LBQT and young people who are just trying to survive and get an education, with everything being MUCH more expensive than just 25 years ago, and wages having risen hardly at all in the same time span. And not because of immigrants. | {
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Why The New York Yankees And Man City Are Buying Into U.S. Soccer
Principles hold New York City FC T-shirts as they pose for photographs at a news conference to announce the partnership between Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees to form a Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion club in New York, May 22, 2013. Seen (L-R) are Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner. New York City FC expects to begin play in 2015.
It’s not unusual to see people walking around New York City in replica jerseys of English soccer teams such as Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. On Saturday mornings in the city, many Irish pubs fill with fans gathered to watch their favorite Premier League teams, and perhaps lift a pint or two for breakfast. By the same token, I’ve seen New York Yankee hats worn by Brits in stadiums in London.
So it doesn’t seem odd that the Yankees would partner with a top flight English team, Manchester City, to establish a new Major League Soccer franchise in the five boroughs. New York City FC will be the league’s 20th franchise, and the fee that the Yankees and Man City are reportedly paying, $100 million, is a new standard for MLS. “This is a transformational development that will elevate the league to new heights in this country,” said MLS commissioner Don Garber.
NYC FC will be majority owned by Man City, which is owned by Abu Dhabi United Group, which is led by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan,whose brother rules Abu Dhabi, the biggest of the United Arab Emirates. This is oil money and then some. Mansour, who is worth about $5 billion, spent $315 million five years ago to buy control of Man City and has since plunked more than twice that buying players for City. The spending culminated in a league championship last year. Buying players to win championships. Does that sound familiar, Yankee fans?
New York City FC will take the field in 2015, although where that field will be is subject to debate in the always dicey politics of New York real estate development. MLS wants to build a new stadium in a rundown part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, a soccer hotbed in Flushing, Queens. But there has been local resistance to giving up precious park space—New Yorkers love their parks — although not from the thousands of soccer players who descend on Flushing Meadows every weekend.
In the Yankees, Man City has a local partner with a big bat who knows how to play zoning board hardball. The new $1 billion Yankee Stadium, constructed across the street from the original on 161 St. in the Bronx (which was built in 1922-23 for $2.5 million by Yankee owners Tillinghast l’Hommedieu Huston and Jacob Ruppert), required an arduous process of negotiation, threat, and neighborhood arm twisting before it was completed. Ultimately the Yankees won—the Yankees always win, don’t they?—as the city surrendered park land and helped to finance the project. Ironically enough, the Yankees built a very nice soccer field across the street from their new home as part of the Macombs Dam Park redevelopment.
Man City has plans to be a global brand on the order of its bitter rival Manchester United, and planting a flag in New York is a good way to start. Each year, national teams stage friendly matches and big European teams including Barcelona, Chelsea, and Real Madrid tour regularly in the off season. “New York is a legendary sports town, as well as a thriving global city with a rapidly expanding soccer fan-base,” said Ferran Soriano, Man City’s CEO. Soriano selected a local lad to manage the team. Claudio Reyna was named NYC FC’s director of football and its first employee. Reyna grew up in New Jersey, where he became a high school legend. A stylish midfielder, he was a highly respected professional in Germany, Scotland and England, including a couple of years with Man City. He was a fixture on the U.S. National Team for years.
In listening to Soriano and Yankee executives discuss the new franchise, you get the sense that New York is just becoming a soccer town. Which is not true. New York was always a soccer town, just not at the glamour level. I have played and coached for many years in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League, which began life in 1923 as the German-American league. Its most famous field, Metropolitan Oval, in the Queens neighborhood of Maspeth, is still going strong.
Today, there are 100 teams in the CSL alone, and we’re just one of a number of leagues in greater New York. There are Hispanic leagues, Asian leagues, co-ed leagues, women’s leagues and urban professional leagues. There are leagues in every age group. Many of the CSL’s games are played at the Randalls Island sports complex, which has 31 soccer fields. Try booking one. Like the city itself, many of our teams are representative of the immigrant groups that have made New York so dynamic: Italians, Greeks, Irish, Poles, Russians, Turks, Albanians, Jamaicans, Mexicans, Japanese, plus teams from the police and the fire departments and American teams composed mainly of former college players. National and ethnic rivalries never fade—they merely relocate to the five boroughs.
What’s different now from when I first started playing here a couple of decades ago is how much the global game is part of city’s sports conversation. Television networks such as ESPN, Fox Soccer, and beIn Sport show top matches from Europe and South America as well as the World and European Cups. (Think about this: NBC, which just bought the television rights to the Premiership, will show more English football than American football next season.) Guys talk about Chelsea’s need for a striker or Arsenal’s manager Arsène Wenger in the same manner that they discuss the Yankees’ injury woes or the Knicks’ playoff failure. And these aren’t necessarily people who have played the game.
Part of it is Wall Street. Over the last 10-to-15 years, the London-New York financial nexus, NYLON, was exposing many American investment types to the Premier League as it was cementing its reputation as the world’s best football competition. Trips to Stamford Bridge or White Hart Lane or the Emirates became as coveted as box seats at Yankee Stadium. When soccer becomes fashionable, New Yorkers naturally want in.
The New York Yankees are the city’s favorite baseball team—sorry Mets fans, your team is a wreck. But Manchester City is the second most popular Manchester team in New York. The famed Red Devils of Man United beat Man City to the global punch—they even had a marketing deal with the Yankee cable network at one point. It will be interesting to see if City can use NYC FC to convert fans in the Big Apple to the Sky Blue. Maybe they should apply some Yankee pinstripes. | {
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If Clay Matthews ever thought his thumb was something to be taken for granted, an offseason of rehabbing from an injury and a subsequent surgery that left him with a thumb that looked like “a shark attack” made him think twice.
In an interview with For The Win last week, Matthews said his thumb is “feeling great” after months of rehab and he’s ready to start another run for the Lombardi Trophy.
“I think the fact that I’m out of a cast definitely helps me out tremendously,” he said. “You know I’ve done everything I could and I’ve had a sufficient amount of time off that it should allow me to do everything I need to do with my hand … ultimately I don’t think it should affect my game in any way.
“I think the more I continue to play on it and practice on it, the more physically it will continue to recover and learn to absorb the stress and rigors of the game as well as mentally knowing that throwing it in there it will be fine,” he added. “I think that’s what so great about this preseason for me – not only refining my skills but just having the confidence to go back out there and throw it around and know that everything’s alright.”
In an interview with For The Win (which has been condensed below), Matthews also discussed his team’s use of Tinder, domestic violence in the NFL and his new ad campaign with Hugo Boss, which he’s appearing in with Demarcus Ware and Victor Cruz.
For The Win: Earlier this [month] the Wall Street Journal published an article about Jets players using Tinder. You’re probably too well known to use it, but are there guys in your locker room who do?
Clay Matthews:I do not know … I’ve heard of what Tinder is but I personally have never been on it or used the app or anything but I don’t know [about the team] to be honest. The thing about Green Bay, in particular, is it’s such a small city, such a small town that it’s very hard for athletes to go out and not be recognized because the city is so crazy about football, they know who every football player is and what they look like that I’m sure it’s probably difficult for players to go out and start dating.
At the same time, we hope that football is at the forefront of what everyone is here for and we handle our business on the field and hopefully dating or anything off the field will fall in place.
FTW: As a spokesman for Hugo Boss, I’m sure you get sent a ton of free cologne, clothes and other stuff. Do you ever try to make the locker room smell better by spraying it [on rookies?] Do other players ever get jealous?
Matthews: There’s not that much hazing going on anymore. I think for the most part of dressing up is not only how you look but how you feel. Part of that is making sure not only you look good but you smell good as well. That type of way you get when you step out of the house or wherever that is and you’re looking good, you’re feeling good and there’s always that old saying in my business if you look good, you feel good, you play good. So it’s very much the same thing in making sure you’re covering all of your boundaries with fragrance and cologne in general.
Obviously I’m not a professional in telling you about the cologne, you know it’s woody notes and all of that … you know it’s a fantastic cologne and one that many men are going to want to have.
FTW: There have been reports that the NFL is considering a mandatory four to six game suspension for players who have been charged with or involved with domestic violence. Is that something you’d support?
Matthews: At the beginning of the year we always talk about things that have played out from previous years or over the previous offseason and how well our team has done staying out of the limelight and out of trouble so I think we did specifically a great job of that. But … I think the NFL has a responsibility to show that it’s a leader amongst its employees, as far as how we conduct ourselves. We have so many fans out there — men, women, children and not just in the US but around the world, I think it makes it very important to take a stand for all sorts of … things that are going on around here and I’m sure one of those will be addressed if there’s domestic violence …
I think it’s a subject we’ll have to deal with moving forward, but I think if we handle our responsibilities, being responsible and taking care of our business on and off the field hopefully everything will fall in place.
Hopefully there won’t be any more of those situations but yeah the NFL has to do something to show you know they take a stance.
FTW: You were working with Demarcus Ward and Victor Cruz on the Hugo Boss campaign — did you guys hang out a lot? Was it friendly or a lot of competition?
Matthews: For us anytime we get together, especially guys like Demarcus and Victor who are just pleasant to be around, both of those guys understand that in the end it’s just a game and we’re just trying to have fun, make a few plays and get a win. So anytime you can find guys like that and spend some quality time like that outside the field, it’s always great and refreshing to hear from them.
“I think the fact that I’m out of a cast definitely helps me out tremendously,” he said.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Journey to the House of the Sun
This is view from the summit of Haleakala on the Island of Maui looking down on the cloud cover below. It's a two hour drive from the coast to get to the summit. For an admitted acrophobic - its the longest two hour driver ever taken. And upon my arrival to the top -- I felt an immediate evolutionary connection to my quadruped ancestors and emulated their carriage perfectly. I even used my toes to hold on. A 50 mph wind is always a nice mountain-top touch for an closed-eyed, white-knuckled acrophobic.
Haleakala means "House of the Sun" - looking toward the east its possible to watch the sun rise from below (if you start your journey from coastal Maui at 3:30 am). Haleakala is a dormant volcano and at 10,023 feet above sea level - the tallest peak on the island of Maui. This crater is large enough to contain the entire island of Manhattan. It is 7.5 miles long, 2.5 miles wide and 3000 feet deep. Within the crater are nine cinder cones -- the largest more than a 1000 feet high.
Lush Hawaiian rain forests flank the summit midway through the drive and the birding is superb. I didn't see the infamous nene goose this day - but I did sight the beautifully plumed and rare 'apapane in the Hosmer Grove Forest.
From Gadling - On-line Travel Magazine
And last but certainly not least, I love the images shared by TR Ryan, whose amazing photostream is a perfect example of how creative photoprocessing and radical visual effects can still convey the story of a travel adventure. T.R. Ryan, blogs at the equally beautiful From the Faraway, Nearby -- a blog, he claims, is "a celebration of travel, nature and poetry of place." His site is a true traveler's photoblog, with images from 6 different continents, and filled with his impressions of the lands he visits. Definitely work a good long look.
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Screenwriters
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We are hiring a new helpdesk person at our company. We want that person to be able to reset passwords in Active Directory and unlock accounts, but not be able to create new accounts. Also, we would like the new person to be able to change NTFS file permissions on our 2008 file server, but not have full administrative rights to the server.
I'm thinking the Active Directory unlock/change passwords shouldn't be too hard to setup, but I'm not sure about the NTFS file permissions. I can't think of a way to allow that without making the account an administrator.
Per JG, delegating authority is the way to go for password management.
File permissions management is allowed by granting full control over a file/folder.
So I would
- create a security group for this type of admin
- delegate password control to the appropriate OU (create the OU if necessary) using the new security group.
- add the new security group to the ACL at the top of the folder structure you want them to be able to modify and grant Full control
- propagate the permissions through the folder structure
Since you mentioned file server, I'm assuming you want to assign permissions to the files - you right click on them and under the security tab you assign them permissions using the users and groups you created on the AD server - they will just be available to you in a list.
Per JG, delegating authority is the way to go for password management.
File permissions management is allowed by granting full control over a file/folder.
So I would
- create a security group for this type of admin
- delegate password control to the appropriate OU (create the OU if necessary) using the new security group.
- add the new security group to the ACL at the top of the folder structure you want them to be able to modify and grant Full control
- propagate the permissions through the folder structure
A 3rd party program might do the job... So that you could enter the creds, and then they could use therm. If your really determined you could use auto it to create an exe so that the login will be hidden, but they could then run various scripts to alter ad. | {
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Xavi: "Leo Messi will be the best player in the history of football"
The Catalan midfielder, during an interview with UEFA.com, gives a bit of insight into what motivates him to keep on going after having won everything there is to win
Messi i Xavi
Xavi Hernández, FC Barcelona’s vice captain recently sat down with UEFA.com to answer questions posed by users that follow the European football organization on Twitter. In fact, the response to UEFA’s interview was so successful that the hashtag #AskXavi was catapulted to the number 1 spot on the worldwide trending topic list.
When asked to give his opinion on who the greatest player of all time is, Xavi was clear: “That's very difficult because you're comparing one era with another, but if he continues like this then I think Leo Messi will be the best player in the history of football without a doubt. Everything advances and develops so fast now, and yet Messi is doing the same thing as [Diego] Maradona did 20 years ago and as Pelé, [Johan] Cruyff and [Alfredo] Di Stéfano did many years ago. I think Messi will be the best.
“A sportsman, and a footballer in this case, never gets tired of winning,” said the Catalan midfielder when asked to give insight on how he stays motivated in a sport that’s brought him almost unparalleled success. Xavi finished by saying, “all sportsmen want to continue winning and to be great. This is what sport is all about and that competitive edge makes you want to keep on winning.” | {
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Ashley Tisdale talks her new show 'Miss Advised'
Ever wonder what their personal lives are like when it comes to their own relationships?
High School Musical star (and pioneer of the top-knot hairdo?) Ashley Tisdale joined us earlier to tell us all about her new show 'Miss Advised' where we get to see whether or not the experts actually take their own advice... | {
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Covid-19 Updates
We are doing our best to fulfil orders, and many of you have been deciding to spend your lockdowns, quarantines and stays at home doing some indoor gardening.
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However due to disruptions with our fulfilment centres currently, please do note that we might not be able to ship some orders until the end of April.
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Camino 2013 - Day 24: Calzada Del Coto To Reliegos
I woke this morning and my feet felt great. The mattress I'd slept sagged a bit and my feet had been elevated most of the night and, apparently, that is what my feet needed.
We left this morning with a companion. Js, who we met yesterday, joined us. Over the last twenty-three days Gv and I had pretty much shared all our stories so it was nice to have someone else's stories to hear as we walked this part of the original Roman Camino. Walking and talking with someone always helps to distract you and help the time go by faster. This was a good thing since this section was long and the day started out with heavy overcast.
A sign indicating the original roman road.
We would pass through only one town along this stage, Calzadilla de los Hermanillos, where we would stop for an awesome breakfast at a friendly albergue and resupply at a small store. I was already starting to drag so I gave in and bought a tube of principes (tube number two I believe). We ran into a few pilgrims here who had stayed the night in the town. We'd seen this group on and off since Burgos. These four pilgrims would be the only ones we saw all day. This section is not traveled much anymore which is a shame.
The long and not winding road ahead of us.
After Calzadilla de los Hermanillos the Camino passes through farm fields, and nothing much else, for the next 18 kilometers (11.2 miles). This would be the longest single stretch without a town along the entire Camino. We were hoping to find a place to rest near a train depot that was supposed to be next to the Camino. The depot was associated with a town we could just barely see on the horizon and the train stopped here very infrequently ... if ever. We found the depot but it was off the Camino a bit, inconvenient to get to, and totally falling apart. No chance to rest here.
Watch out for the train ... that doesn't stop here anymore.
By the time we got to Reliegos I was beat. This had felt like a very long day despite the principe cookies (it didn't help that I dropped two in the mud). I was happy to get to town and into an albergue. By the time we got to the town the sun finally made an appearance.
We did our chores and headed to a cafe/bar called the Bar Elvis. The place was interesting with graffiti all over the walls. We bought some lunch and relaxed in the sun as we ate.
The graffiti covered walls of Bar Elvis in Reliegos.
That afternoon we rested and I treated my feet with Gv's help. I'd loosened my shoe laces a bit this morning and this helped make my heals feel better but it also resulted in toe blisters including a nasty one under the third toenail on my left foot. It seems everything I did to improve my feet helped one problem while creating another.
We ate in a restaurant on the small city square that evening before returning to the albergue to chat with other pilgrims. We collected our nearly dry clothes (minus a pair of Gv's underwear that mysteriously vanished) before heading for bed. The overcast/drizzly/rainy weather was slowing down the drying process all along the Camino. At times it would take two or three days for something to dry out completely.
A few days earlier we'd decided we needed a break. We decided that León, our next destination, would be our rest stop. After twenty-four days of walking (twenty-five counting tomorrow) my body was ready for a rest and I went to sleep anticipating the day of rest that was coming. | {
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Prime Numbers up to 1000
A prime number is a natural positive number, that can have exactly two
factors, 1 and the number itself. Other wise its called composite
numbers. A prime number cannot be equally divisible by any other number, other than 1 and the number itself. When we consider the factor of a number, the set of natural number can be divided into two sets, prime numbers, composite numbers. The divisors of prime numbers are also natural. The collection of all prime numbers is infinite. Here we discussed the prime numbers up to 1000 only.
Prime numbers are those numbers that cannot be divided by any number except themselves and one.
Prime Numbers up to 1000
Any prime number can be obtained by first trying to divide by 2, and remove all numbers that can be divided by 2. Next move to 3 and remove all numbers divisible by 3 . Repeat this process thought out. Instead of checking each number, its enough to check only till $\sqrt{1000}$ = $31.62$ $\sim 32$. This prime number chart to 1000 will help in keeping track of all the prime numbers up to 1000. In this manner, its possible to find the prime number till any number.
The following table gives the list of all the prime number up to 1000. | {
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Red Bicyclette
Appellation is a French word for "place" and refers specifically to the location where a particular wine's grapes are grown. Red Bicyclette Merlot grapes, for example, hail from Herault and Gard located in the Languedoc Region of Southern France, a verdant area of rolling hills and wildflowers bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
In French, terroir links the taste of wine with the place where the grapes are grown. Therefore, no other wine in the world will taste the same as a wine whose grapes are grown in French countryside soil. And, no other wine tastes quite like Red Bicyclette from France - taste for yourself…
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This is very interesting. 2008 was a fraud - and terrible wine. Now we have 2009 which is a huge bargain! Hmmm. And now it is impossible to find! Good reputations are hard to build and easier to lose.The 2009 is exactly what you would expect from an "old world" type Pinot Noir. The color is a light Burgundy. The nose is wonderful, fruity but com...
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Another interesting recent read, from a column by Laurie Daniel in the San Jose Mercury News.Reporting on some interesting market research, speculation on why tannins are so rounded and acid so lacking in reds these days, as well as an observation that America must finally be developing a wine culture of its own, "And that's a good thing."Any op...
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I have only tried a few pinot noirs, and I am beginning to think that I do not ... this style of red wine. The Red Bicyclette did nothing to sway my opinions of pinots. It is true that this wine had a slight cherry nose, but the back end was an overwhelming taste of bitter tannis and iron. This wine just wasn't for m
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Not bad. Medium-bodied, aroma of berries and leather, tasting notes of berries & oak, fruit-forward and a bit grapey even, with touches of bit of pepper, spice, and licorice in the background. Crafted for the American palate.
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WASHINGTON—While China has one fifth of the world’s population, the Chinese regime racks up far more than that proportion of the world’s human rights abuses. Responsible for Equality and Liberty (REAL) and several other human rights groups marked Human Rights Day with that unfortunate fact in mind by screening the award-winning documentary “Free China” and hosting a talk by one of the subjects of the film, in an event held on Dec. 10 at the National Press Club.
“You can’t be a human rights group if you’re ignoring 20 percent of the world,” said Jeffrey Imm, the founder of REAL and master of ceremonies for the event. “It’s in humanity’s interest,” to pay attention to human rights abuses in China, he said.
“Free China” tells the stories of two Falun Gong practitioners who each faced detention and torture for their beliefs and portrays the efforts of people around the world to stop the persecution by the Chinese regime of this traditional spiritual practice.
Dr. Charles Lee is one of the two individuals featured in the film and spoke at the event. Lee is of Chinese origin but held U.S. citizenship when he visited China in 2003. He was thrown into prison for three years.
Lee had returned to China to oppose the regime’s campaign against Falun Gong. He had plans to insert into television broadcasts documentary information about this persecution—information that is heavily censored in China.
Lee explained how this persecution came about. “We found a way of life which is much better than the doctrines given by the Communist Party,” he said, explaining the attraction of tens of millions of Chinese to Falun Gong during the 1990s. That led to paranoia from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Lee says, which was terrified of losing power.
Lee also spoke of the large number of human rights crimes committed by the CCP over its decades of rule, some of them particularly grotesque. These included descriptions of violent torture, public executions, mass starvation, cannibalism, and other atrocities.
This led Lee to a discussion of the most recent round of systematic and concentrated human rights abuses in communist China, carried out against Falun Gong practitioners since 1999. Lee focused in particular on the harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong adherents.
Organ harvesting targets Falun Gong practitioners detained in labor camps and prisons. They are blood-typed and then forced into having their organs pillaged when a matching donor requires an organ.
According to Corinna-Barbara Francis, a senior East Asian researcher at Amnesty International speaking at a recent European Parliament hearing, “Thousands and thousands of organ transplants occur in China… Belatedly, after a number of years of the issue having been exposed, [the regime] stated that the majority of the organs were harvested from executed prisoners.”
Francis said that much more horrifying and disturbing is the “allegation that these organs may be taken from live people. So in other words, individuals in China have their organs harvested and in the process of that they die… There are many groups that these organs may be taken from, the Falun Gong being one of the main groups. There are many things that provide supporting evidence that this may have occurred and may still be occurring.”
Lee not only spoke about the crimes of the Chinese regime, but also about how China could recover from those crimes.
He considers the Tuidang movement the foundation for China’s future. That movement calls for Chinese people to renounce their ties to the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Lee said the Tuidang movement leads people to understand “the basic principles and moral structures of being a human being,” something that he believes that 60 years of communist rule has distorted.
Other speakers on the day included Niemat Ahmadi of Darfur Women Action Group, Carolyn Cook of United for Equality, a gender rights group, Nathalie Nguyen, with the International Committee To Support The Non-Violent Movement For Human Rights in Vietnam, and Ahmar Mustikhan, Senior Balochistan journalist. Balochistan is a region divided among Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. The Pakistani part is that nation’s southwestern province and holds rich mineral deposits and a robust nationalist movement.
Mustikhan spoke about the persecution of Balochistani dissidents and the struggle of his people for independence. “China is deeply involved,” he said. “Some of those being tortured report the presence of Chinese intelligence personnel. I hope the U.S. will not be sleepy on this.” | {
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TRACING THE TRACKS
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In this coming year we look forward to presenting the project Tracing the Tracks.
The year 2020 is rum46's 25th anniversary as an exhibition space. For 25 years rum46 have been active on the Danish art scene by collaborative organizing and curating a number of international exhibition projects, workshops, talks, residencies, readings and publications. For our 2020 program we have chosen the name TRACING THE TRACKS
TRACING THE TRACKS takes it’s starting point in our archive of long-term exhibition projects. Here we find themes that we think are still relevant today - and therefore important to debate, comment on and reflect in a forward-looking perspective.
rum46s history and archive contains a long list of social and political engaged thematic exhibition projects where themes such as hospitality, solidarity, democracy, alternative economies, working conditions, how we communicate in public space and imagined futures have been on the agenda over the years.
To carry out TRACING THE TRACKS rum46 has invited curator Agnieszka Wolodzko PL to collaborate with us as our co-editor/curator. Together we re-invite artists and writers who have participated in some of our previous projects and new artists and writers to trace tracks from rum46s archive and history.
On the basis of a selection ofprevious projects, we are providing a thematic inspiration and historical guided framework for 25 invited artists and theoreticians who will provide us with text based works. | {
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Net::Gnats provides a perl interface to the gnatsd command set. Although most
of the gnatsd command are present and can be explicitly called through
Net::Gnats, common gnats tasks can be accompished through some methods which
simplify the process (especially querying the database, editing bugs, etc).
WWW: http://gnatsperl.sourceforge.net/
Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the | {
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Lessons from the USPTO's forum on subject matter eligibility
On January 21, 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held a public forum (Eligibility Forum) to discuss recent developments in subject matter eligibility, particularly the USPTO’s 2014 Interim Eligibility Guidance. Here we summarize some of the important points that were raised during the Eligibility Forum. For further discussion of the Interim Guidance and its details, please see the Client Alert and expanded analysis that we released shortly after the publication of the Interim Guidance. The Eligibility Forum reinforced the points we made in our analysis.
Leading the Eligibility Forum were five USPTO officials: deputy commissioner Drew Hirshfeld, senior legal advisors Caroline Dennison and Raul Tamayo of the Office of Patent Legal Administration, and technology center directors Jerry Lorengo and Greg Vidovich. Also participating in the Eligibility Forum, both in person and through the Internet, were members of the patent community, including patent practitioners from different technology areas. The Eligibility Forum schedule consisted of three parts: (1) the USPTO’s brief overview of the Interim Guidance, (2) public presentations by 19 of the participants, and (3) a Q&A session.
The participants generally agreed that the Interim Guidance is an improvement over previous subject matter eligibility guidelines, but challenges and shortcomings remain. Below are some highlights from the Eligibility Forum.
What is the “streamlined eligibility process”? In drafting the Interim Guidance, the USPTO tried to reduce the number of claims that require full subject matter analysis, e.g., moving from step 2A of the Interim Guidance (Mayo part 1) to step 2B of the Interim Guidance (Mayo part 2). To that end, in step 2A, the Interim Guidance asks whether the claim, as a whole, is “directed to” or sets forth a judicial exception. If not, the claim should enter the “streamlined process” in which the claim bypasses the rest of the section 101 subject matter eligibility analysis and moves on to other analyses of patent eligibility (e.g., under sections 102, 103, or 112). The streamlined analysis applies not only to claims that are analyzed under the nature-based exceptions (products or laws of nature), which have been the focus of most of the USPTO examples so far, but also to claims that are analyzed under the abstract idea exception, for which the USPTO will soon publish a new set of examples.
When to apply the “markedly different” analysis? The Interim Guidance introduced into step 2A the search for “markedly different” characteristics when a claim is directed to a nature-based product. Markedly different characteristics include not only structural differences (as used in some prior guidelines), but also other types of differences such as functional differences. Unlike prior guidelines, the Interim Guidance separated the marked difference inquiry from the search for elements that add “significantly more” to the judicial exception, which occurs in step 2B (Mayo part 2). The markedly different analysis has eliminated the multi-factor analysis of the March 2014 Mayo/Myriad Guidance. A non-limiting list of characteristic types that may identify marked difference, as derived from case law, includes biological and pharmacological functions or activities; chemical and physical properties; phenotypes; and structure and form.
Examiners must articulate the rejection and conduct compact examination. The participants pointed out, and the USPTO did not disagree, that in subject matter eligibility rejections, as in all other types of rejection, the examiner bears the initial burden of articulating the grounds of rejection. For example, if an examiner rejects a claim as directed to an abstract idea, the examiner is required to, among other things, clearly state what the alleged abstract idea is and why it qualifies as an abstract idea. To that end, the examiner should be required to use the categories of abstract ideas enumerated by the Interim Guidance and, when necessary, present further evidence (such as citing extrinsic evidence for the proposition that a concept is “fundamental” or “long standing”). Further, the USPTO noted that examiners must conduct a compact examination process. That is, examiners should not stop the analysis after rejecting a claim as subject matter ineligible, and should instead identify and present all possible issues with patent eligibility, such as those raised under sections 112, 102, and 103.
The participants noted several shortcomings in the Interim Guidance and the examination process. The USPTO generally acknowledged the shortcomings and announced specific plans to address some of them.
Upcoming examples for abstract idea analyses: The Interim Guidance needs more clear definitions and examples of difficult concepts, such as “abstract idea.” The USPTO announced that it will soon publish examples related to the abstract idea exception.
Examiner training: The complexity of the analysis calls for clear guidance to and training of the examiners. The training of the 8500 USPTO examiners is about to start and is planned to be complete by the end of February 2015. The USPTO will continue the iterative process of seeking and considering input from the patent community. Particularly, the comment period for the Interim Guidance extends to March 16, 2015.
Lack of rigor in 101 analysis: The Interim Guidance and, generally, the examination process for subject matter eligibility, need more rigor to reduce rejections that are subjective or at will, and for those reasons are difficult to address. Adding rigor may call for pointed guidelines and procedures, similar to the processes and forms used for analyses of novelty (under section 102) or non-obviousness (under section 103). The USPTO agreed that such procedures and forms should be provided down the road.
Cost of uncertainty: Uncertainties in the law have caused unclear and non-rigorous rejections of applications in different technologies. These rejections cause uncertainty among stakeholders about protecting their rights to their inventions, and result in extra costs of prosecution for those stakeholders. The USPTO acknowledged the problem and indicated some remedies. For example, a rejection that is based solely on newly raised grounds of subject matter ineligibility cannot be made final. Moreover, when facing a weak rejection and unresponsive examiner, applicants are encouraged to escalate the issue to the examiner’s supervisory patent examiner (SPE) or even the director of the corresponding technological area.
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More arrests likely as Garda raids smash major Galway crime gang
GARDAÍ have smashed a major organised crime syndicate in Galway, which is suspected of being one of the biggest suppliers of drugs in the West of Ireland.
Arrests are still being made in what is one of the biggest ever criminal investigations in the region.
As well as drugs, the gang is alleged to be involved in protection rackets around Galway and outlying areas.
The seriousness of the alleged offences means those involved could be tried by the non-jury Special Criminal Court – previously reserved for terrorism related trials.
A total of ten arrests have so far been made, and more are likely in the ongoing investigation. All suspects can be detained for up to seven days.
Members of one Galway city family – already well-known in the courts in Galway – are being targeted, although the Connacht Tribune has learned that several other individuals form part of the investigation.
While several members of the family are being questioned, the crime empire is mainly controlled by two of the brothers – they have also formed an alliance with two notorious Limerick crime families, now renowned for wearing bulletproof vests in public.
The Galway gang –which also has connections to highly-dangerous criminal gangs in Sligo and Dublin – is also alleged to be involved in gun crime, extortion, intimidation and burglaries.
Dozens of Gardaí – including armed specialist units and the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) – carried out 20 raids on private homes and offices as part of ‘Operation Foolscap’ on Tuesday morning, and nine men were arrested under legislation which specifically targets organised crime.
A tenth arrest was made yesterday (Wednesday) and a Garda source said that because the investigation is ongoing, further arrests may be likely.
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Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) Slow to Sleep; Fixes
A number of users have reported an issue in which Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) is slow to go to sleep. In these cases, the system will stay awake for 30 seconds to several minutes before entering sleep mode.
Fixes
Check printer queue. This problem may be caused by items stuck in the print queue. Go to http://127.0.0.1:631/jobs/, which will show all current print jobs. Cancel any stuck items, then re-attempt sleep.
You should also go to Print & Fax in System Preferences and remove any printers that you no longer use.
Disconnect external devices. Errant external devices, particularly USB drives and other peripherals, as well as iPods, iPhones and iPads, can cause a delay in sleep. Disconnect any peripherals then re-attempt sleep.
Check for hung processes. Launch the Activity Monitor (click the Spotlight [magnifying glass] icon in the upper right corner of the screen and type Activity Monitor), then sort the items by the CPU tab. Quit any items not in use that are using significant processor time. | {
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the dr has had my daugter using both it's been quite a juggling act to get all the meds in- but the mesalamine enemas are hard to retain while she has no problem with the supposotories now, is that common with the mesalamine enemas , she has no problem going to sleep with the cort enemas-thanksMom to 19 year old daughter diagnosed 11/07.asacol 2 3x dailycolazal 3 3x dailyproctofoam 3x dailymesalamine enema 1x dailycanasa suppostiories 3x daily (usually doesn't get to do 3)culturelle probiotic 1 dailychewable vitamin hydrocortisone enema at bed tme
Hmm, the rowassa enemas seem thicker than the cort enemas..Maybe it is just the time of day she is using it that is making it hard to retain? It is harder for me to retain them during the day when Im awake.Lori
Lori, the mesalamine enemas are not the cort enemas, they are in addition to them, the mesalamine eneams i believe are the same med that is in the canasa suppository, but for some reason she has a hard time with the mesalamine enema sends her qucikly to the bathroom while the cort enema can las all nightMom to 19 year old daughter diagnosed 11/07.asacol 2 3x dailycolazal 3 3x dailyproctofoam 3x dailymesalamine enema 1x dailycanasa suppostiories 3x daily (usually doesn't get to do 3)culturelle probiotic 1 dailychewable vitamin hydrocortisone enema at bed tme
Please, have you tried warming them up a bit? This might help her retain them better. You can roll them around in the hand to warm them up a bit. I find that it's harder for me to retain the Rowasa too but I had no trouble with the steroid enemas.
Another way to warm them up I read once online: put one briefly in a mug of warm water. Seemed clever but I never tried it. Maybe you can run the bottom of the bottle under hot water for the same effect easier. If she can handle the suppositories in the morning, I'm not sure it's worth the struggle with the Rowassa enemas. It seems to me that it would be better to retain the suppository all day than the Rowassa for only an hour.-------UC for the last ten yearsCurrent Meds: 6MPPast Meds: You name it; I've tried it.
The retention enemas would act like a laxative for some because of inflammation and inability to hold it in. I've had to let go of 3 in total over 19 years...but I do make sure I'm laying down and fight the urge to go. It does pass.
lori, i got you, i didn't realize what you meant, i don' t know what rowasa is, i've seen the name here but i quess it's another mesalaine drug ? her bottle just says mesalamine rectal suspension, it must be a generic? she just warmed one and went to take a nap let's hope that helps.-thanksMom to 19 year old daughter diagnosed 11/07.asacol 2 3x dailycolazal 3 3x dailyproctofoam 3x dailymesalamine enema 1x dailycanasa suppostiories 3x daily (usually doesn't get to do 3)culturelle probiotic 1 dailychewable vitamin hydrocortisone enema at bed tme
PLEASE - Yes, Rowasa is the brand name in the US (and maybe other places?) for mesalamine rectal suspension enemas. Your daughter must have the generic. They are supposed to be the same ingredients, but the brand name one seems to work better for some here. I have never had the actual Rowasa, just the generic ones, but the generic bottles are kind of cheaply made and I've heard the actual Rowasa ones are a bit easier to administer. And, yes, they can be hard to retain, especially in one is quite inflamed. It took me a while to get it down, and it is still hard sometimes, but usually the urge to expel the enema passes after a few minutes. And the urge lessens for me as my inflammation goes down. Your daughter can also try squeezing any air out of the bottle before she uses them. This seems to make them easier to retain. Just be careful not to squeeze too hard and have the actual medication come out! =)
23 years oldDiagnosed with UC March 2007Current inflamation in the rectumAsacol 4 tablets 3x/day
My feeling all along has been that your daughter is on too many meds all at once for the extent of her flare. That's why she's having additional problems. It's likely that all she needs is Asacol or Colazal + mesalamine enema or suppository. It takes a good while for 5-ASA meds to subdue even moderate flares, though, so the gastro prescribed steroids to jump-start the healing process. No way I would EVER use both steroid & mesalamine enema + suppositories on the same day! No way! Cortenemas are powerful stuff if a patient can retain them all night. They are devised to treat severe symptoms. Take care & contact the gastro ASAP re tapering off. / Old Hat (nearly 30 yrs with left-sided UC ... [etc.])
Same with me......generic Rowasa is hard to retain. It's usually a restless 4 hrs for me till I finally get up and dump it. Colocort is no problem......I never even know when it all comes out, pretty much the same with Canasa. Also, I'm a full grown man, but I can't do the whole bottle of Rowasa. You might try doing half the bottle to see if it's easier. | {
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Russia pays tribute to Palmyra hero who called in anti-ISIS artillery strike on his own position
From Thursday, Russians are paying their final respects to Aleksandr Prokhorenko, a Russian officer who was surrounded by terrorist forces during the battle for Palmyra and called in artillery fire on his own position.
Lt. Prokhorenko was taking part in the Syrian army recapture of the city of Palmyra from the hands of the terrorist group Islamic State in March. He was on the ground conducting reconnaissance and target acquisition for Russian warplanes, which were providing support for the Syrian forces.
On Thursday, the farewell ceremony, in the presence of Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, took place at the Chkalovsky military airfield outside Moscow.
Prokhorenko's body was then put on a plane and flown to his native Orenburg Region in southern Russia, accompanied by his mother.
The funeral is to take place Friday, which was declared a day of mourning by the region’s governor.
Prokhorenko's final resting place will be a cemetery in a small, remote village of some 500 residents, where he was born and where his mother still lives. He is to be laid next to the graves of his parental grandfather and grandmother.
The state funeral is to be attended by Prokhorenko's fellow officers, with whom he served and studied with at military school, as well as friends and loved ones. The 25-year-old officer is survived by his wife, Ekaterina. She is expecting a daughter, but sadly Aleksandr never had a chance to find out that he would become a father.
In April, Prokhorenko was awarded Russia's highest military decoration posthumously. His family also received WWII-era medals from France, sent in gestures of gratitude and appreciation.
The Magues family learned of the Russian officer's death from the media and decided to send several military decorations awarded to their family members for heroism during World War II. Their example was followed by another Frenchman, Daniel Couture, who sent his father's Legion d’Honneur medal to Russia. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry thanked them all for sharing their grief and building friendship between the two countries. | {
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The Kinabatangan River in Malaysian state of Sabah is home to a fabulous wealth of species, including orangutans, proboscis monkeys, and a sizeable population of the world's smallest elephant, the Borneo pygmy elephant. While local politicians have stated numerous times that the ecology of the river will be protected, locals are reporting a number of legally sanctioned sang dredging operations on the river. Dredging can affect river flows, negatively impact wildlife, and release toxins from the sediments.
"We have stopped and boarded some of the barges but all seem to have valid authorisation letters from the Environmental Protection Department," Azri Sawang, head of the Honorary Wildlife Warden team from the Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Project (KOCP), explains in a press release.
"It is very confusing for us, on one hand we hear time and time again the government is commitment to protecting this area, then we find another department issues such letters that allow this type of destruction. As for us, we want to protect the Kinabatangan, so it weighs very heavy on me."
According to the local French NGO, HUTAN, at least three barges are seen on the river every day, and each of them has a dredging permit extending for the full year.
While the entire span of the Kinabantangan River is not protected, 26,000 hectares of the river are currently preserved as a Wildlife Sanctuary in eleven fragments. Not only is the Kinabatangan river an important ecological site, it also attracts large numbers of wildlife tourists and birders who are vital to the local and state economy.
"The villagers who operate homestays and bed & breakfast have also asked us to investigate these barges following complaints from guest but since they have proper permits neither we nor the Sabah Wildlife Department is able to act," says Azri.
Tourist, Sophia Bay, from America told HUTAN: "I came to see the orangutans and Borneo Pygmy elephants of the Kinabatangan and its wonders, but I am absolutely shocked with all this sand dredging. Why is this being allowed here within this environmentally sensitive area? I am not sure I would recommend others to visit this place now."
Last year the Kinabatangan River became an important site for discussions related to orangutan survival in Sabah given increasingly fragmented forests from industrial logging and palm oil plantations. At the time, the government stated that it would provide wildlife corridors, including the acquisition of land, along the river to support orangutans and other species.
"If you love Sabah, parting with 500 meters of palm oil from the riverbank is not too much to ask," Minister of Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun, told a recent workshop on saving Sabah's most iconic species: the orangutan, the pygmy elephant, and the Bornean rhino.
(10/03/2009) In an unlikely—and perhaps tenuous—alliance, conservationists and the palm oil industry met this week to draw up plans to save Asia's last great ape, the orangutan. As if to underscore the colloquium's importance, delegates on arriving in the Malaysian State of Sabah found the capital covered in a thick and strange fog caused by the burning of rainforests and peat lands in neighboring Kalimantan. After two days of intensive meetings the colloquium adopted a resolution which included the acquisition of land for creating wildlife buffer zones of at least 100 meters along all major rivers, in addition to corridors for connecting forests. Researchers said such corridors were essential if orangutans were to have a future in Sabah.
(04/11/2010) Researchers in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo are joyful after receiving confirmation that a young male orangutan used a rope bridge to cross a river, which has separated one orangutan population from another. Due to logging and clearing forests for oil palm plantations, which cover 18 percent of land in Sabah, orangutans on the Kinabantangan River have been cut into fragmented populations.
(01/16/2010) The Malaysian palm oil industry has been broadly accused of contributing to the dramatic decline in orangutan populations in Sabah, a state in northern Borneo, over the past 30 years. The industry has staunchly denied these charges and responded with marketing campaigns claiming the opposite: that oil palm plantations can support and nourish the great red apes. The issue came to a head last October at the Orangutan Colloquium held in Kota Kinabalu. There, confronted by orangutan biologists, the palm oil industry pledged to support restoring forest corridors along rivers in order to help facilitate movement of orangutans between remaining forest reserves across seas of oil palm plantations. Attending NGOs agreed that they would need to work with industry to find a balance that would allow the ongoing survival of orangutans in the wild. Nevertheless the conference was still marked by much of the same rhetoric that has characterized most of these meetings — chief palm oil industry officials again made dubious claims about the environmental stewardship of the industry. However this time there was at least acknowledgment that palm oil needs to play an active role in conservation.
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I don't have any specific info on unit 6 unfortunately. I hunted unit 7,8,191 last year. If you have general questions about moose hunting you can pm me. There are other guys on here that have hunted moose ( probably more than me) and could probably help you out too. | {
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6/4 Spread It Before God (2 Kings 19:14) Instead of crying over things that you don't want, take it to God and trust Him to do something about it. The encouraging word and video devotional with Minister Jeff Fannell. For more visit www.ongoodground.org Distributed by Tubemogul. | {
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Tomorrow, I turn thirty. Like, years old. Thirty. I'm thirty.
I'm pretty sure it's true when they say "your thirties are better than your twenties," which, until now, I thought was just a ruse to make women feel better about themselves as they aged.
But in the last year, my 29th year, I began building a business that I love, I began meeting people who helped me push toward these big amorphous dreams that I'd always had, and I started figuring out what's really, really important.
And it boils down to two things:
a. People who love you.
b. Waking up every morning with a purpose
Despite 29 being a really hard year (moving three times, assuming I would be leaving Bozeman to go back to the east coast, not in fact being married by the time I was thirty -- which means I have a few gentlemen from middle school with whom I should probably make good on our "if-we're-not-married-by-thirty" pacts), it also was the best year.
Better than the time I left my job and traveled through Southeast Asia.
Better than the year I spend six weeks in a tent in the Himalayas.
Better than the year I made twice as much money as I'm making now.
And so, what wisdom can I bestow?
Behold. My list of what 30 years of partying (well, planning them anyway) has taught me.
(Also, be sure to read to the end for how I'm celebrating with you!)
1. There's no need to always go big or go home. Sometimes, you can go small, stay out late, and still end the night dancing in a group with your best friends. And you don't wake up with a hangover.
2. That said, when you plan to go big, you're usually going home before 9pm.
3. The best parties are the ones that are perfectly planned, then given up without expectation before they start.
4. Your legacy is more than your job. Your legacy is how you treat people. Yes, I realize the irony of stating that, at 30, I have a legacy.
5. If nothing else, wash your face, drink a glass of water, and put on soft pajamas after a great party.
6. They're right about that whole "You don't recover like you used to" thing.
7. Be overdressed. There are only so many times you'll be able to wear sequined leggings, so you should do it as often as you can now.
8. Just because everyone else is wearing cowboy boots to that party doesn't mean ballet flats aren't perfectly accessible.
9. Heels. They're totally worth it at 8pm.
10. It only takes one stranger on the dance floor to tell you that you're a really good dancer before you're full on reenacting the video choreography from NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye". What I mean to say is that doling out sincere compliments often reap really great rewards.
11. Heels. They're totally not worth it at 11pm.
12. On that note, it's astonishing that no one has invented a solution to 11pm heel angst. Like, flats that expand in water seems like they should have been invented by now, right?
13. If you're hosting an event, remember: anyone who complains about being invited to your place to eat your food and drink your beverages has forgotten their manners. There's no such thing as a bad party, just a bad attitude.
14. It's okay to be the last one on the dance floor.
15. It's also okay to be the first one on the dance floor.
16. It's never okay to not be on the dance floor because you think you're a terrible dancer. Just stick close to someone who is a good dancer and you often get lumped into the "good dancer's club" by association.
17. Go easy on cocktail hour. Parties are a marathon not a sprint.
18. Repeat after me: Hydrate. Fuel. Repeat.
19. Dietary restrictions are hard. Do your absolute best, but most people are either extremely good at letting you know what they need, or extremely good at packing snacks.
20. You can take care of people to a certain point. After that, it's their responsibility to be adults and take care of their own needs.
21. Parties are only fun when you ask for help. So do that.
22. The best part of planning a party is the "What's done is done" part. The quicker you get there, the more fun you get to have.
23. Just because it tastes like fruit punch doesn't mean it's fruit punch. Remember that after your second one.
24. If you've ever planned your own party, try to refrain from judging how someone else plans theirs. At the end of the day, the sole mission is to have fun. So do that. You're off the clock, sister.
25. The best people at the party? The staff. They can do all sorts of things for you (like find you special alcohol or see if there's any more dessert in the back) so be nice to them.
26. If you're on the fence about going to a party or staying home, go. You never know what will show up when you do.
27. Sometimes, drinking wine on your couch with your best friends is just as soul-filling as spending all night in a club. Especially if couch parties turn into dance parties.
28. Invite everyone you can possibly invite and see who shows up for you. When you ask people to show up for you, they will.
29. That said, show up for them. Be there, even if you're tired and don't feel like being social. The greatest gift you can give someone is to be there when they need you.
30. Having fun is a choice. You should choose it more often than you don't.
In honor of my 30th birthday, I want to discount my Plan of Attack calls from $199 to $99. Want to ask me any burning questions for an hour? Need tips on how to find your perfect venue? And get templates, a sample agenda, and an action list of 10 steps you need to take RIGHT NOW to plan your event? Sign up for my mailing list below and you'll get instructions on how to do that straight to your inbox!
Hey, Sis. I'm Lauren.
I help entrepreneurs and small businesses build their platforms and strengthen their communities by marketing and executing LIVE events.
Lover of spreadsheets, event marketing strategy, and plane rides to far off places, I call Bozeman, MT my home and work with clients literally all over the world (so far, London, DC, New York, SoCal, Phoenix, LA, Canada, and Australia). | {
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Hour audio of Zoltan Istvan arguing for Basic Income via his Federal Land Dividend
Here's my debate via 53 min audio on #BasicIncome at #libertarian FreedomFest 2018 in Las Vegas against Dr. Barbara Kolm, director at the Austrian Economic Center. The debate was moderated by syndicated columnist and scholar Veronique de Rugy, with about 100 people in attendance. I supported my Federal Land Dividend, a libertarian version of a basic income that leases Federal Land and distributes some proceeds back to Americans. This version of a basic income does not raise taxes and will eliminate other redundant social programs. | {
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Ok, i know its been almost a year since i updated this thing but her we go. My nephew is no 11 months old, starting to walk and talking a little bit. He finds it fun to beat the hell out of uncle shaun's head to. Especially after its freshly shaved. More to come i promise this time | {
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Welcome to Paradise: Batteries Now Included
When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost died.Evslin grew up on Kauai, a nub of a former volcano at the oldest end of the Hawaiian archipelago, but he was living on nearby Oahu at the time of the accident, working and competing in races with
The biggest race of the year is a daylong ocean crossing from the island of Moloka’i to Oahu’s Waikiki Beach, which can take between five and eight hours. Exhausted paddlers rotate out of the canoe during the race, jumping into the water to be scooped up by a waiting motorboat. During the first switch, Evslin was getting ready to heave himself into the canoe when the motorboat struck him.
The propellor sliced across his back in five places, severing muscle and bone along his spine and pelvis, each cut a potential death blow. His teammates pulled him out of the ocean and rushed him to shore. Judging from the looks on everyone’s faces, Evslin wasn’t sure he would survive the hour-long trip to land.
“I wasn’t scared to die,” he wrote a month later from his hospital bed, “but I was sad to die. I realized how much I love our beautiful world and everyone that is a part of it … and I was sad that I’d only just noticed.”
Soon after, still recovering from his wounds, “I made the terrible choice to read Walden Pond,” Evslin recalls. He came across these famous words from Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Evslin began dreaming of a self-sufficient life, in touch with nature and free of the careless consumption of modern society. He convinced his then-fiancee, Sokchea, to move to a rainy acre on his native Kauai, where they built an off-grid yurt powered by six solar panels and a bank of batteries.
They planned to use only their own energy, eat what they grew, and eliminate their carbon footprint. Luke even planted a few coffee trees, imagining he would keep up his caffeine habit guilt-free.
“I had this grand plan of being an example for people,” he says, “showing how easy it was going to be.”
Photo by Grist / Daniel Penner
He had good reason to think that. Bathed in Pacific sunlight year-round, Kauai has all the hallmarks of a renewable energy paradise. Others thought so, too. In 2008, the member-owned electricity cooperative set an ambitious goal to run the entire island on 50 percent renewable energy by 2023.
At the time, Kauai had no utility-scale solar at all. But by the final day of 2015, the island’s main power plant — a rusty sugar plantation-era diesel generator — shut down for the first time since firing up the 1960s. For a few hours in the middle of the afternoon, two large solar farms did the heavy lifting on the island of 65,000, and the diesel plant sat dormant.
It was a good omen. By the end of 2016, the utility was on track to hit its 50 percent renewable goal five years ahead of schedule.
But, as Evslin quickly learned, the path to a low-carbon future can be tougher than it seems. Even in Hawaii, the sun doesn’t always shine — and when it does, sometimes you end up with more power than you can use in the moment.This February, the co-op board voted to move the goalposts again: 70 percent renewable energy by 2030. It will probably clear that mark early, too.
How to collect that solar energy, predict it, get it to the right places at the right time, save it up for a rainy day — those are the kind of challenges our massive, spread-out, and unevenly populated country faces as we make the switch to clean energy. It’s one of the reasons that Tesla is making a major investment on Kauai, hoping to get it right.
And it all comes down to a lesson that the Evslins learned the hard way: It’s not about getting off the grid. It’s about building a better one.
“I imagine that there will be a lot more failures than successes to report,” Luke Evslin wrote in the first post of a blog he started to document his life off the grid, on January 1, 2011. “But that’s the point of it.”
Evslin didn’t know just how much he would come to reconsider what counts as failure and what constitutes success. On a visit with the family this summer, I walk the property with Luke as he points out trees he had planted. He’s tailed by a handsome dog named Asher and a mismatched set of terrier mixes, Peanut and Pico. A calico cat appears and settles on the railing with a view of the yard, where ducks and wild chickens peck hopefully. | {
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RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog
Hollywood, TV, movies, etc. have society that giant spiders are taking over the world. Obviously that is not the case! Certainly spiders do evoke fear and arachnophobia in many people. There are some obvious things I want to convey about spiders. For the most part, spiders are beneficial insects that control other pests. In Massachusetts & Rhode Island we do not have hobo or widow spider species that can cause serious harm, injury, or death. Certainly there have been cases with these species but these are rare incidents because they are not indigenous to our region. The most common issue is the Yellow Sac Spider, it is the cause for most bites in the U.S. Their bite is equivalent to a bee sting or less. They do not attack but defend by biting, most bites occur with incidental contact i.e. sitting on them. Certainly anaphylactic shock can be a serious issue with allergic reactions.
There are numerous spider species in Massachusetts & Rhode Island, all of which are considered “occasional invaders” which means they are not pests of structural damage nor do they cause injury. They are considered a nuisance.
Insecticide treatments for spiders can yield relief however it will not eliminate spider activity. Simply put, it will kill foraging spiders that contact the treated areas but spiders will continue to forage until they die or contact treated areas.
The best form of spider control is prevention. Take away conducive conditions. Spiders are opportunistic which means they go to & live where there is a good opportunity to feed. This is typically where food is most abundant or temperature/moisture levels are ideal. A damp dark humid setting is attractive to insects thus spiders. Spiders are found around exterior lights because insects are attracted to lights.
Invest in a dehumidifier. Switch to yellow bug lights for exterior lights (attracts less insects). Improve lighting inside the house. Clean inside + outside to reduce attractiveness to other insects. Remove any clutter as this provides a dark-humid environment. If you see a spider inside use a dust-buster or vacuum, this is the best non-chemical control. Destroy any webs because spiders will leave an area if their hard work is getting destroyed. Excluding all points of entry is another key element in keeping spiders from getting in. Look for openings around pipes & cables and seal off the excess voids. Remember, spiders are there for a reason. Take away their reason to be inside & they will stay in the garden where they belong. | {
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Travelling to seek medical help has been an ancient concept dating back to the oldest civilizations. For instance, Ancient Romans built thermal spas in disparate locations across the empire and many foreign convoys learned about the ancient Indian medicine of ayurveda. Over the years, as medicine evolved into a profit-oriented industry, the reemergence of medical tourism has brought in several opportunities for patients to seek alternative therapies or conventional treatments at an affordable price.
The healthcare industry, on the whole, is not an accessible avenue for many in the world, the primary deterrent being skyrocketing prices of the treatments and the lack of disposable income. However, in recent times, several developing countries have turned this drawback and disparity into a moneymaking business by offering the same treatment at much cheaper prices than in developed countries. The global medical tourism market is being fuelled by the high number of Westerners traveling to Southeast Asia or Central Europe for cheaper but high-quality medical treatments. Research analysts at Transparency Market Research have stated that the global medical tourism industry was valued at US$10.5 bn in 2012 and is expected to reach US$32.5 bn by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 17.90% from 2013 to 2019.
India to Lead Global Medical Tourism Market
According to the Economic Times, India is expected to remain at the forefront of the expanding medical tourism market, as healthcare is set to be costlier in developed countries. According to another report, the Indian medical tourism industry is expected to reach US$8 bn by 2020. According to a Grant Thornton white paper, low costs of medical treatments in India are the prime reason motivating 80% of the patients. Owing to this reason, several medical tourism corridors have opened up for patients across the globe, such as in Singapore, Costa Rica, Mexico, Taiwan, Malaysia, and India. Some of the famous cities for medical tourists in India are NCR, Mumbai, and Chennai.
Low Cost of Surgeries to Drive Medical Tourism Market in India
The primary growth driver for the medical tourism industry in India, as mentioned above, is the low cost of procedures such as bone marrow transplants, cardiac bypass, and dental treatments. Furthermore, as English is a commonly spoken language in India, it offers a huge assurance to the travelers as communication becomes easier and accurate. This aspect has also accelerated the growth of the medical tourism market in this country. In the coming years, growing investments in the healthcare sector and advancements in medical technologies will also give an impetus to the growth of this medical tourism market in India. | {
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MC partnering with Chevron for energy savings
Published 2:07 pm, Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Midland College will realize more than $3.6 million in savings over the next 15 years, thanks to an agreement with Chevron Energy Solutions.
Trustees unanimously approved the nearly $2.8 million contract at its meeting Tuesday afternoon. The contract was Phase II of the plan with Chevron, and deals mainly with internal lighting and cloud services.
Work on Phase II will begin nearly immediately with most improvements completed by the end of this calendar year, and the final work wrapping up in October 2015.
Savings in the first year will total $787,000, and reach $3.6 million by the end of the contract. Additionally, Midland College will receive an estimated $75,000 rebate from Oncor because of reduced energy demand.
Phase II includes converting indoor lighting to LED bulbs on 23 buildings, applying window film on 1,244 windows to reduce sunlight’s heating effects, replacing the inefficient chillers at the residence and dining halls, improving temperature controls in three buildings and switching to cloud computing.
Dennis Sever, vice president of Information Technology and Facilities, said a review of the proposal shows the conversion to LED won’t save as much on energy as it will on labor.
“If I have light fixtures that last three-to-five times longer than a fluorescent tube, I don’t have somebody in your office or in a faculty member’s office changing a light bulb (as often),” Sever said.
Currently, the college replaces about 50 to 120 bulbs a week. There are more than 35,000 bulbs around campus, he said.
“This is a significant deal for labor savings at a time when I find labor hard to come by in the facilities department,” he said.
Phase I was approved in November at a cost of $761,640, and includes replacing or retrofitting exterior lighting. Phase I began in March and will last through the end of August. Exterior lighting changes will save $745,940 over the guarantee period, and will lead to an approximately $28,000 rebate from Oncor.
More than 1,600 outdoor lights were changed to LED lighting in Phase I.
When combined, both phases will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1,045 tons, sulfur dioxide emissions by 1.8 tons and mono-nitrogen oxides by 0.6 tons, according to a presentation by Geoff Howland, business development manager for Chevron Energy Solutions in Dallas. This is the environmental equivalent to removing about 240 passenger vehicles or planting 950 acres of trees, according to the presentation.
“This is something, from my perspective, you should be proud of and should be talking about in terms of sustainability that you’re bringing,” Howland said.
If the full energy savings aren’t realized, Chevron must figure out why, and then cut Midland College a check for the balance, Howland said.
Rick Bender, vice president of Administrative Services, said the bulk of the contract’s expenses — about $2 million — will be paid from reserves in the 2014-15 budget, while the rest will be paid from this year’s budget. | {
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The UK minister for culture, communications and creative industry has called for a revolution in the way computer science is taught in our schools. Fearing a future drop in the number of students able to properly write programs (as opposed to those able to simply operate programs such as word processors and spreadsheets), Mr. Vaizey hopes to bring a “stronger” computer science curriculum to secondary schools.
Veteran programmer David Braben has launched the Raspberry Pi (via a UK-registered charity, the Raspberry Pi Foundation), a $25 computer only slightly larger than a 20p piece, in the hope of rekindling an interest in computer science and programming in children, something he feels has been lacking from the UK curriculum in recent years. | {
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Western Weekender Cheerleader Competition: Emily
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Throughout the season, The Western Weekender has been profiling the Penrith Panthers cheerleaders, and readers have been voting on their favourites each week. Now down to eight finalists it’s up to Panthers fans to pick the ultimate winner! Check out the video of Emily above and the seven other Cheerleader of the Year finalists – and vote for your favourite by sending an SMS to 19 19 18 with the name of your entry.
The victorious Cheerleader of the Year will win a $1,000 voucher from JB HiFI, 10x Hoyts Movie Tickets, a professional photo shoot and will be featured on the cover of The Western Weekender.
The winner will be announced September 7, our final home game against the Warriors.
Emily
Occupation: Beauty Therapist
Favourite Panther: Matt Moylan
If you could go on ANY reality show, which one would it be? ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
If you could take 3 things to a deserted island, what would you take and why? My favourite book to read, my iPod to listen to my favourite songs and my best friend to keep me company
Which celebrity would you like to take on a hot date? Zac Efron
What’s your favourite pig-out spot? Outback Steakhouse
What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you whilst cheering/dancing? Forgetting the entire dance on stage because I started in the wrong spot, and falling over on multiple occasions
If you could morph into any animal, which would you chose and why? A lion so I can be king of the jungle!
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Don’t go to the doctor
Karma Nabulsi’s critique of the Prevent strategy passes over one particular aspect of the programme: its potential extension beyond the ostensible focus on ‘violent extremism’ to the policing and suppression of undesirable political and ideological positions (LRB, 18 May). Nabulsi quotes the definition of extremism given by Prevent, but omits the final sentence: ‘In a more general sense, extremism may refer to political ideologies that are opposed to a society’s core (constitutional) values and principles.’
I was offered Prevent training as part of my role as a parent governor at a local primary school. I agreed to take the training in part because I was intrigued to see how the policy would be explained and presented. The session was certainly instructive. There was no discussion of the unspecified ‘political ideologies’; the session was pointedly introduced as ‘not a session on government policy’. However, we did talk about what sorts of group might be considered ‘extremists’ or terrorists. Greenpeace was mentioned; the course trainer even said that some Greenpeace tactics could be likened to terrorism. I am a member of Greenpeace, and I objected: surely Greenpeace wasn’t being likened to Isis, in the context of referring young people to counter-terrorism police? I was told that the session was not a discussion of government policy, and the issue was dropped.
Perhaps the trainer’s remarks about Greenpeace that day were merely ill-advised and off-the-cuff, but he did also express his regret that the government had been unable to fund a further development of Prevent, whose intended aim had apparently been to train school-age children to recognise the signs of extremism, so that they could report on each other.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
A ‘strategic decision’ was taken, Nick Moss writes, not to police areas including Northern Ireland, Brixton, Liverpool and Handsworth in the 1980s, and ‘a counter-economy of drug distribution was allowed to take root’ (Letters, 18 May). I cannot speak for London, Liverpool or Birmingham, but Moss’s contention that the pattern of ghetto uprisings followed by heroin and crack epidemics in the US in the 1960s and 1970s was repeated in Northern Ireland is not borne out by the evidence.
In the 1970s, Northern Ireland had relatively low levels of drug use (mainly cannabis, sulphates and LSD). Heroin was almost unheard of; the first registered heroin addict was recorded in the early 1980s (I am very reliably informed that this was someone who had arrived from London), though there is anecdotal evidence that a small close-knit group of users existed in Belfast in the late 1960s. In 1985, 35 people were officially registered as ‘drug addicts’, most of whom were notified as heroin users; by 1997 there were 78 registered heroin addicts; the number notified for heroin reached 233 in 2000.
A change seems to have taken place with the arrival of ecstasy in the early 1990s. Surveys of drug use, together with drug seizure data for the period 1991-95, indicate that there were sharp rises both in the popularity of ecstasy and in its availability. Seizures of cannabis and LSD also increased in this period. A new government policy, including actions to be undertaken in education, research and evaluation, treatment and enforcement, was adopted in 1995. Before the ceasefires, which took place around this time, a strong police and army presence had been a deterrent to drug traffickers, since there was a high risk of detection while transporting or dealing drugs. The scaling down of this presence may have made it easier for traffickers to establish and maintain a market, and as individuals felt more confident about going out at night, social centres such as pubs and clubs began to flourish. Throughout the Troubles, paramilitaries had played a role in the supply and distribution of drugs, as well as in protection and extortion, and after the ceasefires they turned their attention to organised crime.
One can hardly be surprised at the approach the police took in relation to the two groups, Direct Action against Drugs and Republican Action against Drugs, which Moss says were being ‘criminalised by the state more determinedly than the dealers they sought to challenge’. Between 1995 and 2001 Direct Action against Drugs, thought by many to be a front for the Provisional IRA, claimed responsibility for the killing of nine alleged drug dealers. Republican Action against Drugs was formed in late 2008 and was active mainly in Derry and the surrounding area. The group’s methods included shooting alleged dealers in the arms and legs, pipe-bomb or arson attacks on their property, and threats or ‘banishment’. It claimed its first killing in February 2012 and in July that year it was announced that RAAD was merging with the Real IRA and other independent republican paramilitary groups to form what is now referred to as the New IRA.
At the end of last year the Stormont Justice Committee was briefed on the extent and nature of organised crime in Northern Ireland and heard that there were 138 groups, including paramilitaries as well as criminals from outside the country, involved in drug dealing, sexual exploitation and fraud; and that there was also collaboration between loyalist and republican paramilitaries and foreign criminals.
Moss is right to suggest that greatly increased funding for rehabilitation is required, to which I would add early intervention, education and support.
James Grainger
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire
Uses for Barleycorn
Josephine Quinn writes that one of Theodora’s stage performances as a teenager involved her ‘lying down dressed only in a regulation undergarment … attendants scattering barleycorn about her private parts, and a pack of trained geese pecking it off’ (LRB, 4 May). The use of barleycorn had a long history in the Greek theatre. In Aristophanes’ Peace, first performed in 421 BC, the hero Trygaios tells his slave to throw barleycorn out to the spectators. When the slave says that everyone has received some, Trygaios complains that the women didn’t get any. The slave replies that the men will give it to them later that night. The passage can be taken as evidence that women did not attend the theatre in Athens in the fifth century BC, or that if they did they were segregated at the back. The word for barleycorn (κριθή) was also a colloquialism for a penis, so the passage may be no more than a sexual joke.
Josh Beer
Ottawa
Chomsky says
Hilary Rose’s letter concerning alleged ‘contradictions’ in my ‘radical positions’ relies on an account by Chris Knight that is rich in innuendo and falsification, but lacking in evidence (Letters, 1 June). Knight’s crucial charge, which Rose repeats, is that military funding influenced my scientific work. There is a very simple way to verify the charge: determine whether (and if so how) the work changed from the time I was a graduate student at Harvard with no military funding, to my early years at MIT, when its funding was quite generally military, to subsequent years when I received no military funding at all. Answer: not in the slightest relevant way – which is doubtless why Knight evades this test. Exactly the same is true of the other researchers in the same programme. End of story. And an end to the slanderous charges against all of us.
Further, during the years of military funding in the 1960s our group was at the centre of academic resistance – not protest, resistance – to the war in Vietnam. My own involvement in such activities was even more direct. Knight sidesteps all this.
Rose mentions one specific example, a faculty-student committee on military labs of which I was a member. Following Knight, she misrepresents the issues and the background. In fact the issue of military funding of academic research never came up. As for the labs, it was understood, of course, that whatever the commission determined, the military work would continue. The only question was where. One position, which prevailed, was to end ‘each and every military research project on campus’ (Rose’s approving words). The meaning was obvious: while formally separated from the campus, the military labs would continue their work as before, also effectively maintaining relations with academic programmes, though not visibly. It’s quite true that I didn’t share this concern for the purity of campus, which was a matter of no interest to the Vietnamese or any of the US military’s other victims. Again, no contradiction.
There is much more to say about Knight’s quite astonishing performance and, more important, about the idea that scientific work is necessarily influenced by its source of funding (corporate, military, whatever). That claim, easily refuted, should not be confused with the work of Everett Mendelsohn on science-society relations that Rose adduces. But no need to pursue these matters here.
Noam Chomsky
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Noam Chomsky is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. From the centre and the right he has been vilified for his alleged anti-Americanism, and from the left for his supposed complicity with Pentagon-supported research at MIT. Hilary Rose takes this latter tendency and runs with it, concluding that Chomsky’s putative failure to condemn all military-funded projects at MIT ‘helped take the steam out of the student revolt’. Chomsky is not above criticism, but this is a bizarre claim. Surely there were other more compelling causes for the weakening of anti-war protest: the infiltration of the student movement by FBI agents provocateurs, the ending of the draft, the rise of identity politics. Whatever the ambiguities of Chomsky’s actions at MIT during the Vietnam War, he played a major role in legitimating the anti-war position among the American intelligentsia at a moment when Cold War liberalism was still ascendant and speaking out against militarist pieties required real courage.
There is also an epistemological argument in Rose’s letter, which contrasts Chomsky’s faith in pure science with the historicist view that ‘science and society are co-constructed.’ As a historian I am committed to that constructivist perspective, and there is nothing in my essay to suggest otherwise. What I argued was that Chomsky’s philosophical position is idiosyncratic: he is a rationalist and humanist who believes in the reality of such universal ideals as truth and justice, while at the same insisting that certain problems may remain forever resistant to questions posed by scientific research. From a constructivist view, as I acknowledged, Chomsky’s universalist epistemology may be naive, even fundamentally mistaken. But it may also provide a firmer foundation for political action than a postmodern impulse to question absolutes and universals. In this Chomsky resembles Orwell, whose slogan ‘good prose is like a windowpane’ embodied a simple-minded view of language but also underwrote a commitment to truth-telling in a time of lies.
Jackson Lears
Ringoes, New Jersey
Who’s the real cunt?
Andrew O’Hagan’s broadside against Paul Dacre reminded me that the bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke, got there first forty years ago (LRB, 1 June):
This paper’s boring mindless meanFull of pornography the kind that’s cleanWhere William Hickey meets Michael CaineAgain and again and again and againI’ve seen millionaires on the DHSSBut I’ve never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
Philip Murphy
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London WC1
It may be worth noting, a propos of Andrew O’Hagan’s account of the Daily Mail, that the Dictionary of the Scots Language lists ‘dacre’ as a verb, meaning ‘to inflict corporal punishment’.
Annalena McAfee
London WC1
Continuing Contempt
In the last paragraph of his discussion of the Sutherland Clearances David Craig gives an instance when the painful memories remained very much alive more than a hundred years after the events (LRB, 18 May). In this case the instigator of so much misery was Patrick Sellar, the estate manager (factor) for the Duke of Sutherland, who set about the eviction of tenants with great brutality. The memory was that of one of those affected by it. Two hundred years later the memories survive, and the male residents of Glasgow, where many of those who’d been evicted ended up, as Craig also notes, have the chance to demonstrate their continuing contempt for Sellar in Lios Mor, a traditional Gaelic music pub in Partick, by pissing on him in the urinal dedicated to his memory.
Paul Sutton
Glasgow
No Acolyte
I was mystified to find myself described by Wes Enzinna as a ‘former acolyte’ of Murray Bookchin who ‘wrote a book, Beyond Bookchin, ridiculing him’ (LRB, 4 May). I am not and have never been anyone’s acolyte, least of all Bookchin’s. And my book was hardly mere ridicule, though I couldn’t avoid some sarcasm at the expense of his self-image as the sole legatee of a historical dialectic from the Greek agora through Hegel, Marx, Yankee democracy and the revolutionary anarchist tradition to today.
As I say in the book, I once respected Bookchin for his contribution to radical politics. He had the good sense to write about anarchism at a time when much of the New Left was waving Mao’s Little Red Book. He also offered what seemed to be a promising notion of radical social ecology. His work was ‘frequently rich and always problematic’, I said, but added that in the light especially of his later essays, which were ‘increasingly vituperative, dismissive, pessimistic, almost paranoid’, it might be time to ask: ‘What kind of social ecology ought to survive the passing of Bookchin?’
In 1988-89 most environmental activists and radicals were appalled at the murderously Malthusian, anti-immigrant declarations coming from a few Earth First! militants. But they were just as dismayed by Bookchin’s self-serving denunciations of activists and deep ecologists who expressed a spiritual connection to nature similar to the connections expressed by native peoples, or activists interested in Buddhist and Taoist attitudes towards nature, or even social ecologists and ecofeminists not committed to Bookchin’s ideas. Bookchin’s lack of generosity not only to people he disagreed with, but to people with whom he agreed on important things (including me), undermined whatever was valuable in his work.
David Watson
Detroit, Michigan
At the Partisan Coffee House
Nicholas Faith refers to Raphael Samuel as ‘a deeply irresponsible man’, which seems to me a bizarre and wrong-headed judgment unsupported by the evidence of the exhibition about the Partisan Coffee House at the Four Corners Gallery (LRB, 1 June). It is incorrect to say that he told no one about his plans for the café: the correspondence on display showed that he told dozens of people when canvassing for financial support. It is a matter of opinion whether the funds spent on kitting the place out were ‘excessive’: most of the fittings were built at very low cost by Ernest Rodker. And besides, many a capitalist venture, then as now, has gone down the tubes without anyone having to have behaved irresponsibly. Finally, I can refute the assertion that ‘few if any’ of the Partisan’s customers were other than middle class: I came from a Scottish working-class background, as did Eddie Linden, and we recently recalled together many of the diverse characters from all parts of the UK and abroad we bumped into at the coffee house between 1958 and 1962.
Harry Marsh
London N10
Making It
I visited Hannah Arendt shortly after the publication of Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, the reissue of which James Wolcott writes about (LRB, 18 May). The book infuriated her. She said it was the only truly pornographic book she had ever read. Her anger at his reference to her New Year’s Eve party prompted her to cancel it as an annual event – she later resurrected it on a much smaller scale.
Jack Blum
Annapolis, Maryland
Mistakes
Alan Finlayson claims that the new EU regulations on personal data, agreed in 2016 and due to come into effect in 2018, will not do so in the UK, because by then the UK will be ‘free of such shackles’ (LRB, 18 May). Three pages later, Francis FitzGibbon notes that the rules will come into force by May 2018. He is right, since the UK will not leave the EU until April 2019 at the earliest.
Tom Crewe mistakenly writes that the Lib Dems defeated ‘Tory Zac Goldsmith’ in the Richmond Park by-election last year, helped by the Greens standing down. Goldsmith is undoubtedly a Tory, but in the by-election he stood as an independent, which helps explain how he mislaid nearly half the 34,000 votes he had attracted as a Conservative in the 2015 general election. Now that (however improbably) he has been reselected by the local Conservatives, the chances of the Lib Dems retaining the seat are low.
David Elstein
London SW15
Ill Advised
I have learned since enjoying Tom Shippey’s piece on Aethelred the Unready that in French his name is Aethelred le malavisé (LRB, 30 March). | {
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3.0 Device Management Settings
The Device Management section contains the following settings:
Local Device Logging:
Configure logging of messages to a managed device’s local drive. You can determine what severity level messages are logged and when the log file is backed up. You can also determine what severity level messages are sent to the ZENworks server for viewing in ZENworks Control Center. For more information, see Local Device Logging.
Device Refresh Schedule:
Specify how often a device contacts a ZENworks Server to update bundle, policy, configuration, and registration information. You can also specify what to do with a device when it has not contacted a ZENworks Server within a certain number of days. For more information, see Device Refresh Schedule.
ZENworks Agent:
Configure uninstall and caching settings for the ZENworks Adaptive Agent as well as enable or disable specific Adaptive Agent modules. For more information, see ZENworks Agent.
System Update Agent:
Configure System Update behavior on ZENworks Agents. For more information, see System Update Agent.
Registration:
Control the settings used when registering devices, including how registered devices are named, whether registration rules are enabled, and whether device objects in ZENworks Control Center can be renamed as they update their registration information. For more information, see Registration.
ZENworks Explorer Configuration:
Configure common settings for ZENworks Explorer component of the ZENworks Adaptive Agent. You can select whether or not you want a bundle to be uninstalled after it is no longer assigned to a device or the device’s user. You can also rename the default folder in Windows Explorer, on the Start menu, and in the ZENworks Window where all bundles are placed. For more information, see ZENworks Explorer Configuration.
System Variables:
Define variables that can be used to replace paths, names, and so forth as you enter information in ZENworks Control Center. For more information, see System Variables.
Preboot Services:
Configure settings for devices that use Preboot Services. For more information, see Preboot Services.
Primary User:
Determine how and when a device’s primary user is calculated. For more information, see Primary User.
Primary Workstation:
Determine how and when a device’s primary workstation is calculated. You can also disable the calculation by selecting the None (Do not calculate, this affects both Primary Workstation and Primary User) option. For more information, see Primary Workstation.
Dynamic Group Refresh Schedule:
Determine how often a dynamic group’s criteria are applied to devices in order to update membership in the group. Membership in a dynamic group is determined by applying the dynamic group’s criteria to devices. If a device meets the criteria, it is added to the group; you cannot manually add devices to a dynamic group or remove them from a dynamic group. For more information, see Dynamic Group Refresh Schedule.
Wake-on-LAN:
Configure the number of retry attempts to wake up a device and the time interval between the retry attempts. For more information, see Wake-on-LAN.
Remote Management:
Configure Remote Management settings, which are a set of rules that determine the behavior or the execution of the Remote Management service on the managed device. For more information, see Remote Management. | {
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As long as we’re alive, there will be change involved. As long as change is involved, fear & discomfort will be felt at times. It’s normal and to be expected. Knowing this can help empower you on your path rather than throwing you off course.
Consider this, anytime you’re changing what is FAMILIAR to you, it will likely feel uncomfortable or simply unfamiliar, in other words, leaving the comfort zone. Now even if you’re sick & tired of something in your life and you’re changing it, you’ll still likely experience some degree of fear or discomfort. See, to the subconscious mind, you’re changing certainty and certainty equates to safety – which is the top priority to the subconscious mind. It’s almost as if you’re sending up smoke signals to the subconscious mind to be on the lookout of this new terrain you’re entering.
It might be a new relationship, new career path, health changes…it could also show up when you’re growing your business or doubling your income. Whether you see the change as positive or negative, the fact that you’re changing the familiar and certain, you will provoke feelings of discomfort.
So what to do when those uncomfortable feelings show up?
Here’s a few things that I utilize to help me:
Get Curious. What’s this about? I like to get curious about my fear and poke around to see what is creating it. I like to take the observer or similar to the reporter and ask more questions versus freeze or shutdown. Get curious about the feelings versus taking them as fact. Feelings are not facts – they’re simply indicators and/or teachers.
Get Moving. Many times changing up my environment and/or getting my body moving helps me release the fear energy and clear my head. It can help to shift your focus and the fear versus staying stagnate or stuck in it. There are many benefits to exercise, specifically the natural endorphins that the body produces that create a calming effect.
Get Support. Having a coach, friend, or accountability partner who you can talk and connect with to support you during change is a key success strategy. Having outside insight that you respect as well as the social support to be your cheering squad will help significantly with staying the course of your goals and working through your fear versus being stopped by it.
I also like to: pray, meditate, read, utilize essential oils, eat healthier foods, journal, listening to uplifting music, do things that bring me joy, go hiking, time in nature, workshops, coaching, and time with loved ones.
What’s on your list?
I invite you to create a list of things that support and inspire you as resources to nourish yourself during the uncomfortable feelings.
By recognizing that fear and feelings of discomfort are normal when working through change and new territory, we realize that it’s part of the change process. We no longer have to assume that fear means something is wrong or that it’s a “sign” yet rather more often it’s a sign that you’re human and alive experiencing a normal reaction to change.
If fear is a biggie for you, I recommend the book, “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyways” by Dr. Susan Jeffers as she covers thoroughly the aspects of fear and how to handle it.
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Heredity, Natural Selection, and Evolution
Species and Population
Can scientists predict how populations will grow?
Yes, using mathematical models scientists can predict growth when populations are growing at their maximum rates. This happens in two distinct patterns: logistic or exponential growth. In logistic population growth, the population grows in cycles, responding to limiting factors in the environment. An example would be a population of insects that is limited by the amount of available food. Exponential growth is growth at a constant rate of increase per unit of time and is used to model continuous population growth in an unlimited environment. An example of exponential growth would be the doubling rate of bacterial growth on the turkey left unrefrigerated after Thanksgiving dinner. | {
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Personalized bath and body kits are a great....personal way to tell your employees that they did a great job, or as an add-on for all of the luxury retreats that financial companies often attend. This particular spa kit, contained in a custom printed clear vinyl zippered bag with Euro style rope handles includes a net sponge, loofah, nail brush, shampoo, and body lotion. This is one of our more "deluxe" kits.
Personalized Spa Kits
This spa kit is called the "Revive" because it does just that! The packaging is a translucent drawstring tote, and in it you will find: shampoo, hand & body lotion, shower gel, net sponge, loofah, and nail brush. These are called spa kits, but they also make great higher end giveaways for anyone on the road, or to keep aside if you are hosting out-of-towners, because they will really appreciate this gift if they forgot their favorite toiletries.
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We call this the "rain" kit because it's a great gift for your hardworking salespeople who have been "making it rain" all year. Ok, maybe that's not why it's called that, but we sit here writing these blogs every day and you have to let the ninjas have some fun now and then. Call 401-451-1874 to order these great kits, they include a clear mini tote filled with hand & body lotion, nylon sponge, and loofah.
Promotional Carabiner Bath and Body Set
This set is one of our more modestly priced bath and body sets, but is still packed with features. We also like the packaging on this one more than the others, but that's just personal preference combined with our obsession with carabiners. | {
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Renowned spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display "magnanimity" and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal.
"All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said.
India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis of war befall on the nation, he said, appealing to all
the political parties to display magnanimity on the issue.
"At a time when the country is faced with severe energy shortage, the government has negotiated a nuclear deal with the US, which can augment sustainable energy sources," he said in a statement in Seattle. | {
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Apollo 13: Failure is not an option
Gene Kranz didn’t tell attorneys about shedding an ego, being ethical or practicing professional conduct.Rather, he illustrated them — and their importance.For nearly 50 minutes, Kranz held the audience of approximately 400 attorneys, Governor Brad Henry and guests spellbound as he recounted those tense days following Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell’s message from space, ‘‘Houston, we’ve got a problem.’’Kranz, Apollo 13 flight director, was keynote speaker at the Oklahoma Bar Association luncheon during the 105th annual meeting, said the talk was not about himself, but the men and women in flight Mission Control providing information that brought the crippled spacecraft and its three-man crew safely back to earth.‘‘Failure is not an option,’’ he said, following the theme of speech. For those in the space program, failure is never an option.Kranz told about the pain and sorrow experienced during that journey that began in the early 1960s when America clearly was behind the Soviet Union in space exploration, even getting a man into orbit, let alone on the moon.It was a time when IBM officials wouldn’t let the new computer of its day go to Cape Canaveral ‘‘because they didn’t trust the men and women who would be using it.’’It was a decade when college students would take to the campuses and streets to protest the Vietnam war.And it was a time when a brash and articulate young leader, President John F. Kennedy would issue a challenge and give the nation a dream, he said. Kennedy said the U.S. would choose to go to the moon, not because the task getting there would be easy, but that it would be hard.Even as Kennedy issued that challenge the U.S. was struggling to put a spacecraft into orbit. One month prior to the speech, the second Atlas rocket in the program had been blown up. Just nine days prior to the speech, the U.S. had launched Alan Shepherd into space for a total of 20 minutes of space flight experience. Despite the directive at that time, the U.S. had never been into orbit.Reliable vacuum tube computers were put on the island of Bermuda and with a small team of controllers, all eyes were focused eastward just in case communications was lost with the crew while in flight. If that happened, that team would tell the astronauts what to do when the engine shut down.Communications at that time consisted of a 60 words per minute teletype network that dated back to the days of the Pony Express, Kranz said. All had to become proficient in Morse code which served as the backup form of communication between the ground-tracking network, the ground team and the space crew.Early leaders in the space program underscored the drive for excellence as an individual, a team member and a leader, he said. Everyone had to be part of the team and when their time came, they had to move forward, assume the leadership role and make their contribution. When that role ended, they had to be able to step back into the ranks and become part of the team.‘‘Work develops chemistry and chemistry in any organization is a force amplifier. It amplifies the individual talent as well as the team’s talent,’’ Kranz said. ‘‘That same chemistry leads to a line of communication and in our line of work it is vitally important to know when the person next to us needs help or needs a few more seconds to come up with an answer.’’There is no such thing as a first team in Mission Control, he said. Once the launch has been completed, every team must be capable of accomplishing their part of the mission.For a time, there were 13 tracking stations around the world, Kranz said. They went into the heart of Africa, to Zanzibar, to Australia and a ship set in the islands of the Pacific.Risks were high and controllers in Africa twice were rescued by the Nigerian Army. A team worked under the protection of the Queen’s Royal Rifles in Zanzibar. Things became so violent that the state department ordered these stations shut down after about three years.Each time there was a Mercury launch it was a chapter in the history book of space flight, Kranz said. Mistakes were loud, visible and brutal.The engine shut down when the first Redstone rocket was launched. Through some miracle, the rocket settled back down on the launch pad without exploding. The escape tower fire went up to about 4,000 feet, came plummeting down and senators and congressmen in the viewing stands ran for cover.Engineers in flight control were speaking in German and no one understood what they were saying. No one literally knew what to do.Yet, when Project Mercury was finished, the nation understood and learned that man could live in space.Another lesson was about leaders and leadership, Kranz said. Leaders have integrity. They are teachers, great listeners and team builders. When there is trouble, they find they also have learned a lot about themselves as individuals.‘‘When we first came into the program, our egos were bigger than this room,’’ he said, referring to the large banquet room. ‘‘It was tough to get people to work together. But we knew success would come only as a team so we learned to check our egos at the door.’’A very large group of women was attached to the Mercury project, Kranz said. ‘‘These women — about 100 — were mathematicians and we called them computers.Computers were people in the early days, not machines. These women would travel from headquarters in Langley Field in Virginia to the Cape to watch launches. They would bring calculators along, punch away at the keyboard all day, write answers on a piece of paper daily just to do a single mercury trajectory. But that approach was not going to get anyone to the moon.Finally, the space center did get computers, ‘‘each as big as a house,’’ Kranz said. Five units filled the entire first floor of the new Mission Control center. Even a small 4,000-word computer was on the spacecraft.Since no one at the space center knew how to use computers, sergeants and corporals being discharged from the Army at Ft. Bliss, Texas were recruited and merged into the Mercury veterans.At first, the Soviet Union had about a 2 1/2 year lead, Kranz said. But when Ed White stepped outside the spacecraft in the Gemini 4 mission, that lead had been narrowed to a mere three months.People never understood how close the missions came to failure, he said. When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon on July 20, 1969, there was less than 17 seconds of fuel remaining for the touchdown. But that mission fulfilled the late President Kennedy’s charge to go to the moon.But it was Apollo 13 that tested the entire crew, required split second and often gut wrenching decisions.No one realized the damage to the space craft when the Lovell’s message was first received, Kranz said. In fact, everything looked good when the second shift took over.Once the seriousness of the situation was understood, it fell to Kranz to get everyone focused on what needed to be done.‘‘Many of us had been fighter pilots,’’ he said. When there was an emergency, it was necessary to settle down to get control of the situation. It took that kind of discipline in Mission Control.There was a debate about which route would be best to bring Apollo 13 home. There were discussions about the three fuel cells and what should be done to conserve fuel and keep the spacecraft under control.It fell to Kranz, who using a gut decision, opted to send the space craft around the moon to get it on track for a safe return.‘‘Failure is not an option and through a miracle we were going to get those people home,’’ he said. That was when another quality was realized. Trust existed among the ground crew and team to make it possible.Kranz relied on every person’s expertise, especially when a ground crew member said it looked like the space ship would not hit the earth’s atmosphere correctly and literally would bounce off into space. Each time an adjustment was made.There was a time when one side of the craft was being blistered by the sun while the opposite side was frozen solid. The ground crew determined a way to stand the craft on an axis and start it spinning so the sun would warm the side that was frozen. There also was the danger from carbon monoxide poisoning within the craft that had to be solved.As Kranz described the drama that unfolded in the final hours of the Apollo 13 descent — and the time that communication was lost — his audience was totally silent.That tension was broken only after communication was re-established, touchdown occurred and the space crew was safely aboard an aircraft carrier.Then Mission Control crew lit cigars to celebrate the successful recovery.Kranz said the cigars were a tradition and he had the cigars cut in half so everyone who was involved could celebrate by lighting up — if they wanted to.Everyone also received and signed the staff of a small American flag they would keep to remember the project. Veterans already had a large number of these flags.Mission Control has but one mind-set, he said. ‘‘Failure is not an option.” | {
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Acrylic leg connection to wood
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We have a client looking for a console table solid walnut top with a clear acrylic 24" wide leg which would be connected about an inch back from the wood edge. Question is- Anyone have advice on the connection? Our thought was a 1" deep mortise into 1-1/2" solid, and glue it in with epoxy, or some other adhesive. Its a relatively small table, but the concern would be if there is any lateral force applied obviously.
Pretty sure there isn't an adhesive solution of acrylic to wood. The wood is going to move, and acrylic moves, but not at the same rate. I would glue an acrylic plate to the top of the leg, then screw to the wood from underneath through slots to allow for wood movement. Another option is to drill and tap the acrylic, bolt on a piece of aluminum or wood on top, then connect.
We use acrylic for our furniture once in a while. I would order the acrylic slab with a right angle piece on the top and recess that into the top with epoxy and T nuts or wood screws. The acrylic people know how to fuse the parts together with no seams and it is strong.
blind dado it in and have the dado 1/8 bigger and silicone it in place. this is what we do for glass handrails in metal channels. Silicone has give which will allow for wood movement which epoxy will not.
Looks like the table is relatively thick. Dado out a slot that will fit the acrylic panel snugly. Drill through the thickness of the acrylic, maybe 3/8" hole and insert a steel or aluminum rod through it, something that fits snug. Mortise slots in the underside of the table radiating from the slot that will let the steel rods fit into it. Apply a bead of silicone to the bottom of the dado and insert the acrylic with the steel rods into it and apply clamping pressure. Fill the mortises with a gap filling epoxy and then put a wood filler on top of the rods to secure them into the mortises. Let it cure.
There is a correct adhesive for your application. In the boat construction industry we have used a product called Plexus adhesive. Its not epoxy. Its methacrylate. It is used for bonding fiberglass deck/hull joints. I know about because we used it to bond aluminum mainsail track to a carbon fiber mast on a 50' racing sailboat. You can't mechanically fasten to the carbon. It is also sticks to a wider variety of substrates including many plastics that are generally unbondable.
I needed a small bit for bonding plastic to a carbon mast and found this product which is labeled epoxy, but if you read the back it is methacrylate. It smells like cutting plexi glass on a tablesaw. Super stinky for about a day.
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Teacher Shortages Become More Acute
Valarie Strauss at The Washington Postwrites about the teacher shortages every state is facing this school year, a problem that has become acute in recent years.
An excerpt:
Teacher shortages are nothing new — most states have reported some since data started being kept more than 25 years ago — but the problem has grown more acute in recent years as the profession has been hit with low morale over low pay, unfair evaluation methods, assaults on due-process rights, high-stakes testing requirements, insufficient resources and other issues.
According to a 2016 report by the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute, teacher education enrollment dropped from 691,000 to 451,000, a 35 percent reduction, between 2009 and 2014, the latest year for which there is data. And there are high levels of attrition, with nearly 8 percent of the teaching workforce leaving every year, the majority before retirement age.
She lists the five key factors that the Learning Policy Institute cited in their report:
The Learning Policy Institute report found five key factors that influence whether a teacher decides to enter, remain in or leave the profession: salaries and other compensation; preparation and costs to entry; hiring and personnel management; induction and support for new teachers; and working conditions, including school leadership, professional collaboration and shared decision-making, accountability systems, and resources for teaching and learning.
Like Strauss said this has been a problem for years, but it has become worse over the years. I can’t help notice the spike between 2009 through 2014. What was introduced? What changed?
While there isn’t empirical evidence to point to this as the cause I believe Common Core along with the accompanying assessments has been a factor. The Learning Policy Institute cites working conditions – I have heard from numerous teachers they no longer feel like they are in control of their classrooms. Also linking teacher evaluations to assessments impacts morale among teachers.
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It is all working perfectly as planned. Again, the perfect Hegelian Dialectic. In swoops TFA and other alternative teacher sources and all the more reason why we must now have the computer teach our children instead of a teacher. This is what they intended all along with their accountability measures. They knew exactly what would happen.
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Robert A. Cumins is now known for catching the second plane on film just as it hit the WTC.
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On the morning of September 11, Jewish photographer Robert A. Cumins was running late. He was on his way to a coffee shop down the hill from where he lives in New Jersey for his daily ritual of coffee and breakfast, when a fateful premonition urged him to turn around.
Timing was everything, and a split-second decision six years ago made Cumins witness to an international crisis, subsequently placing him on the front page of People magazine.
When Cumins got to the bottom of the hill near his apartment, 28 kilometers west of Manhattan, the light turned red.
Cumins was not aware of the exact time, but he knew he was running a few minutes late. At the light he noticed he had forgotten to turn on the radio, which he usually does when leaving his home, and reached over to do so.
"Smoke is coming out of a tower and we are trying to get closer," Cumins heard WCBS reporter Tom Kaminsky say from a helicopter above the island. Cumins figured a plane hit the control tower of the nearby Newark International Airport.
But as the light was about to turn green, reports confirmed that smoke originated from a fire at the World Trade Center. "Not to sound kitschy, but my mother, a news junkie who passed away a month before, reached out to me from the heavens and said to turn around," Cumins recalled six years after the attack on the Twin Towers.
Minutes after the attack, Cumins was standing on the balcony of his ninth-floor apartment looking out over the southern corridor of Manhattan. All he saw was smoke, but it was clear to him that "something significant was happening." Cumins ran downstairs to grab his Nikon 500 millimeter lens, which he bought to photograph the 1993 handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, and returned to his balcony upstairs.
As he was putting film in the camera and inserting the lens, Cumins saw a plane work its way northward across the Manhattan skyline. He figured this was just another plane from the airport, but thought the plane juxtaposed to the city on a perfectly clear day would make a good photograph. He lifted his camera and took two shots immediately, one after another.
When he shot the third photo, Cumins saw the fireball. But even then, Cumins never imagined what he would learn a short while later, that the plane he had initially snapped had flown into the WTC causing the explosion he had just captured on camera.
"When I saw the fireball I lost focus on the plane and said to myself 'Shoot it, get the fireball!'" Cumins explained. "For whatever it was, surrealism takes over, you lose any sense of reality." Cumins remained on the terrace for another few minutes, photographing the atomic looking cloud, and then retreated inside to turn on the television.
"I heard people screaming about the second plane that just hit the building, but it didn't occur to me that it was the plane I had seen," Cumins said.
It was about an hour later when Cumins, who had not yet made the move to digital photography, had the chance to look at the negatives of his morning shoot. He was working his way backwards on the 18-photograph contact sheet, until he arrived at the frame with the fireball.
"Bring that picture up," Cumins told employees at the photography lab where he brings his film to be developed.
The first picture is of the plane a split second before hitting the tower, the second shows the tail of the plane and a tiny dot of red and the third shows the fireball.
"When I saw it, it all of a sudden became clear to me that the plane I had photographed was the one to hit the WTC," Cumins said, still shocked by the events of that day. "I realized I had made a picture of the plane going right into building." Cumins contacted Blackstar, his agency, who sold the photo to People magazine. The film was processed within one hour and 20 minutes, and People saw it by 11:30 a.m.
"That was probably the first still photo that was seen by any magazine; everyone was still down there," said Cumins. Unlike many of the photographs taken that day which were snapped from east of Manhattan, Cumins shot his from the west, resulting in a hazy, silhouetted image. "The effect is haunting," said Cumins.
In American Photo Magazine, where Cumins's photo won best of the year, documentary photographer Steve McCurry wrote: "The starkness of it really reduces the elements to their most basic and fundamental... The moment's there, the composition is there, and the fact that it's a silhouette reduces it to the essentials - skyline, smoke and the impending crash."
The photograph also won the National Press Photographer's Association Picture of the Year in the Attack on America Category. It currently hangs at the 9/11 Tribute Center in lower Manhattan and is part of the permanent exhibit. It will be part of the fixed '9/11 Gallery' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC, scheduled to open at the end of this year.
Today Cumins knows exactly how long the light stays red at the bottom of the hill near his house, where he decided to turn around six years ago. In the year following the attack, Cumins was still trying to piece the story together. He retrieved a recording of the radio report he had heard that fateful morning in 2001. What he had failed to hear then was that he made his decision to turn around that morning at exactly 8:58 a.m. The second plane hit the towers at 9:03 a.m.
"That gave me 4.5 minutes to put the car in front of the building, go to the elevator, run down, run back, go out to the terrace, put the film in and lens on the camera and shoot," Cumins said. "Had I stopped to put the TV on or to call someone, or do anything, or had I had the radio on when I left my parking spot, most likely I would not have taken that picture."
Though known now for the photograph he took on September 11, Cumins has worked as a photographer for almost 40 years, largely for the Jewish community. Cumins, 59, got his start as a student in Miami, photographing for AP and local Jewish federations. Just after graduating, he was hired to help "put the Central New Jersey Federation on the map," and since then has worked as the official photographer for United Jewish Communities and its predecessors. "I didn't really know what a federation meant, but I've certainly learned in the last 38 years, and I have met some incredible people along the way," said Cumins, who is currently a freelance photographer.
Cumins has photographed every major peace treaty since 1979; he's been to Israel 175 times, and around the world almost as many; he has worked with every Israeli prime minister and he recently traveled with Senator Hillary Clinton on her first trip to Israel since she took office.
But it was this one photograph taken from the balcony of his apartment that would define Cumins's career more than anything else.
"With everything I've done in the Jewish community, this will be the one thing they write in my obituary," said Cumins.
"I always felt it was pretty ironic that I was the one photographer who made this overall image. Here I am, a photographer of the 'Jewish world' community, a photographer of Israel-Mideast peace treaties, one who has worked with politicians around the world...and here, the circumstances of the day put me in that place, in position. How ironic that has always been to me," Cumins contemplated.
Asked what he has done on September 11 in the years since the attack, the photographer choked up.
"The first couple of years, I stood on my balcony," Cumins said, holding back tears. "Now I don't know, I try to make the day just go."
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Ad-Less Social Network Ello Selling T-Shirts to Pay the Bills
Ello, the currently invite-only (I’m still waiting for mine) social network, has decided it needs to sell t-shirts to cover its costs.
The site has always insisted it will forever remain ad-free and this statement has puzzled more than a few people, producing the question of exactly how will Ello make money? The shirts are being made in partnership with artist community focused e-commerce site Threadless. Artists who submit t-shirt designs to Threadless are being encouraged to design shirts themed to Ello’s logo and brand. The Threadless store will cycle through limited edition designs each month, with a a group of standard black and white shirts being sold alongside those for $25 each.
It could be said that Ello can’t really survive on shirt sales alone, so it’ll be interesting to see what else they have up their sleeve to keep their “Public Benefit Corp” alive. | {
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A colleague returned from her son's parent-teacher interview frustrated. Her children attend a “well-off” school, with community support, that serves a large number of middle-income families. In contrast, the school she teaches at serves many low-income families.
She complained that her children's school was too 'safe'. They weren't striving to be better but instead choosing to maintain the status quo. Students used computers for one week to do word processing; literacy strategies were 5-10 years out of date and nowhere in their program were they 'cutting edge'.
To the casual observer, this was an exemplary school. Test scores were high, students learned, parents were happy and highly engaged. Her frustration wasn't with performance but the loss of potential. She knew they could be doing so much more, but weren't. This was a school that could try new things, take some chances and excel, but instead they stayed safe. She didn't understand it.
It's a common refrain heard in education. Why don't things change faster? Where is the innovation in schools? Last week a parent complained that schools are only willing to innovate about things that don't really matter (e.g. balanced school day). Where are the new approaches to teaching and learning?
It's a common refrain heard in education. Why don't things change faster? Where is the innovation in schools? Last week a parent complained that schools are only willing to innovate about things that don't really matter (e.g. balanced school day). Where are the new approaches to teaching and learning?
Fortunately, innovation is a highly discussed topic. Experts explain how to enhance innovation and agreed that to foster innovation we need to create an "innovation culture".
As Dr. Robert Langer, head of the highly innovative and creative Langer Lab at MIT said "Very often when you are going for real innovation you have to go against prevailing wisdom". Best practices mean that Canadian educators are discouraged, and in some cases forbidden, from going against prevailing wisdom. Curriculum gurus insist they know best, and tell educators what to do in classes they've never seen and are thousands of miles away.
Best practices mean that Canadian educators are discouraged, and in some cases forbidden, from going against prevailing wisdom. Curriculum gurus insist they know best, and tell educators what to do in classes they've never seen and are thousands of miles away.
The question we must answer is how can we create a culture of innovation in Canadian schools? How do we encourage innovation in an education system that is increasingly conformist, politicized and risk averse?
The question we must answer is how can we create a culture of innovation in Canadian schools? How do we encourage innovation in an education system that is increasingly conformist, politicized and risk averse?
Here are three places where the seeds of innovation exist and where, if supported and nourished, educators can develop new ideas that, once proven, can be safely transferred to the educational mainstream. Places where mainstream education can go looking for practices and approaches that work better than what we are currently doing:
Independent Schools: I am not referring to traditional conservative private schools (e.g. Upper Canada College) but schools organized around a pedagogy or philosophy. Montessori methods have survived and grown in independent schools and are now entering the mainstream. Schools such as Calgary Science School or Quest University are current examples of independent schools that are innovative leaders.
First Nations Schools: A system in crisis that sits outside of provincial oversight is perfectly positioned to innovate. The existence of a separate native culture justifies 'challenging the prevailing wisdom' about education, and educators in remote locations should have the freedom to try new approaches. Chief Mathews Elementary in British Columbia is a great example of this in action.
Low Performing Schools: Schools where traditional methods aren't working because of poverty or culture, where students aren't learning, are prime breeding grounds for innovation. Educators who want to innovate should be flocking to these schools to try new approaches. A great example of this is an approach taken at Inner City High in Edmonton using rapping to educate disengaged students. There are lots of other examples.
n.b.: A Teaching Out Loud Podcast featuring Andrew Campbell is available HERE
Each student has made a personal commitment to attend school regularly, and participate in all components of the program: academics, service work, adventure learning, personal and social growth learning as well as career exploration through placements and career counseling – learning that impacts their growth as a whole individual. The high degree of student success is attributed to the program model, which challenges youth to strive for excellence and build internal resiliency skills. happy birthday
I think you're being a bit unfair to "traditional conservative" independent schools like Upper Canada College. While I can't speak to UCC, I think if you checked out Bishop Strachan's approach to problem-based learning or Greenwood College School's experiential program or my own school's approach to 1:1 collaborative technologies you'd see innovation, creativity and a definite lack of conservative outlook on the educational process. In large part the independent school community gets overlooked by being typified as crisp-white-collars-stuffy but you'll find it an innovative place that's open to sharing and growing together. | {
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Welcome to the Psychology Department
The Department of Psychology at the University of West Georgia is unique in that our theoretical roots are in humanistic, transpersonal, and critical psychology. Our courses range from classically humanistic concerns - like the centrality of human subjective experience in psychology, holistic approaches to psychological understanding, human growth and development, and the enhancement of human potential - to contemporary attention to transpersonal and spiritual horizons. Themes such as the meaning of genuine community, sociality, understanding oneself and others, and the myriad ways through which we grow and develop are central to our academic learning environment.
Why Humanistic Psychology?
Our program, founded on a Humanistic framework, is non-traditional in many senses of the word. Our Department focuses on growth and development in the individual and community. This approach allows the professors to teach courses they are most passionate about. Being self-motivated, expressive, and involved in the program are key aspects of being a part of the Psychology program.
The mission of the Department of Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels is to approach the subject matter of psychology in ways that facilitate the understanding of oneself and others as: (1) foundational to personal growth and development; (2) critical to a deeper understanding of the nature of psychology itself; and (3) central to professional development.
This long-standing emphasis of the Department is consistent with the University’s goal: to foster educational excellence in a personal environment.
In addition, the Department seeks to provide an educational environment in which students and faculty can address social and personal issues in a specifically psychological manner. This emphasis requires knowledge of humanistic and alternative approaches to psychology as well as acquaintance with the discipline’s traditional topics and definition as a social science. Such a broad scope of concerns accords well with the University’s emphasis on critical scholarly inquiry and creativity. | {
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The Kansas City Chiefs announced on Monday that the club has agreed to terms of a two-year Reserve/Future Free Agent contract with QB Ingle Martin. As per club policy, no further terms of the agreement were announced. Martin (6-2, 220) originally
The Kansas City Chiefs announced on Monday that the club has agreed to terms of a two-year Reserve/Future Free Agent contract with QB Ingle Martin. As per club policy, no further terms of the agreement were announced. Martin (6-2, 220) originally
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What awful parents would name their sweet baby "Ingle"?????
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What awful parents would name their sweet baby "Ingle"?????The Martin's of course.:D | {
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Angel Haze Talks Romance With Ireland Baldwin
Rapper Angel Haze spoke out on her relationship with model, Ireland Baldwin. In an interview with The Independent, she says “I don’t know if there’s like some confirm or deny thing with the way relationships work in the media, but everyong just calls us best friends, best friends for life, like we’re just friends hanging out.” She went on to add, “We fuck and friends don’t fuck. I have never fucked one of my friends. Once I see you in the way, it doesn’t happen. Baldwin is the daughter of actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
She added,
I don’t know if there’s like some confirm or deny thing with the way relationships work in the media, but everyone just calls us best friends, best friends for life, like we’re just friends hanging out. It’s funny. It’s rad in some ways, it sucks in others. There are still certain limitations for women. If we were two guys, it’d be insane, negatively insane with the attention. With us it’s all being very positive, the media are like, ‘Oh they’re so cute, they’re best friends. An interracial gay couple, I mean that’s just weird for America right now. We fuck and friends don’t fuck,” she said. “ I have never fucked one of my friends. Once I see you in that way, it doesn’t happen. But we do fuck and it’s crazy and that’s weird to say because I think about it in terms of an audience reading it and them thinking, ‘What the hell?’ But it happens.
Julie is a music writer who has worked on HipHopSince1987.com, InFlexWeTrust.com, TheRapFest.com and Jumpoff.tv. She is a New Jersey native trying to leave her mark on the world by doing what she loves. Twitter: Julie1205 IG: Julie1286 | {
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Upskilling at Home
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The opera’s new season opened with the American premiere of this work by the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.
An Opera Plot Ripped From the Tabloids
The New York City Opera, which faces financial distress, began its season on Tuesday night with the American premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s story of Anna Nicole Smith.
So the private equity firms have struck again, invoking a material adverse change clause in their deal to buy certain properties from Innkeepers USA Trust. The deal was a major component of Inkeepers' already confirmed Chapter 11 plan, and the latest word is that Inkeepers is opposing the private equity firms' request for their deposit back.
LONDON -- Almost everyone I meet here has heard about "Anna Nicole," the new opera by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, which will have its premiere on Thursday by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. The company has clearly done a good marketing job. The opera's tragic heroine is Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy Playmate, model, actress and reality show host who died in 2007 from combined drug intoxication, according to forensics reports. | {
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In-depth: From trusted to busted – when brands lose consumer trust
Johnson & Johnson recently lost its fifth court case in the US, which has understandably lent a blow to the brand’s image world over. Several legacy brands from McDonald's to Volkswagen have been taken to court for selling ‘substandard’ products. How do they deal with such situations and how difficult is getting back?
What do global Giants Volkswagen, Tata Motors, Nestle and Johnson & Johnson have in common?
All of them have lost market share in respective industries because of controversies surrounding quality issues or faulty products.
Germany-based Volkswagen lost its dominant position in Europe because of manipulating with fuel emission norms. Tata's Nano car could never pick up after a number of cars caught fire within a year of launch. Nestle fought the Maggi battle with Indian food regulators after lead above permissible limits was found in its two-minute noodles brand.
And just last week, a Los Angeles jury directed Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a 62-year-old woman who has blamed the company and its talcum powder for her ovarian cancer. This is the fifth case that the baby care giant has lost. Johnson & Johnson, which faces a staggering 5,550 claims in US courts, has lost four previous cases in St Louis amounting to $300 million in all.
While J&J will appeal the verdicts, its brand image has taken quite a hit. It is not just in the US that the brand is facing a tough time. Johnson & Johnson used to enjoy a market share of about 80 per cent in the year 2008 in the baby care segment in India and today the brand holds over 50 per cent of that market. The difference is huge and this is despite the brand investing huge monies in marketing.
As per Kantar Media, the brand invested $1.12 billion in marketing in the US alone in the year 2015 and an estimated $2.5 billion globally, according to reports.
BestMediaInfo.com spoke to a few brand experts to try and understand how popular brands are impacted because of that one mistake and how do they get back on track.
Harish Bijoor
Harish Bijoor, Brand-expert and Founder, Harish Bijoor Consults Inc, believes that in case of J&J, the stigma from the court cases the brand is battling in the West is the reason for its declining popularity in India.
“Stigma is strange and it has the habit of following you from shore to shore. In today's viral environment, no one is an ignorant person. Word of digital spreads faster than word of mouth! I do believe J&J has suffered an image hit with the global controversy on its talc. Bigger than the compensation payout claim is the hit on brand image, value and credibility. This has affected the brand badly in India for sure. The brand needs to undertake very quick and effective surgery on its image,” said Bijoor.
However, experts feel that trusted brands do get a second chance from consumers. "In case of Maggi, you see Nestle is back with a strong product line with different flavours. Now they're offering more value. It won't be easy to reinstate the dominant leadership it held earlier but it still is the most selling instant noodles brand," a brand consultant said. The consultant didn't wish to be named as he works with a conflicting brand.
However, the impact on brand revenue is huge because of less than expected sales and huge marketing budget to reinstate its position.
Volkswagen despite losing market share is trying to rebuild its position in Europe on the back of the strong marketing campaigns. In the campaign launched last year, post the emission scandal, the company said, “Volkswagen is more than a car, it’s a lifelong companion.”
However, all are not as lucky to make a comeback. Nano, despite being the most affordable car, could never pick up. Dhara, the edible oil brand, could never fight back.
Experts feel that the reason a few brands could not gain their share back was not because they lost people's trust entirely and did nothing to rebuild it. But also by the time they set their house in order and tried coming back, the competition in market had already intensified.
Experts point to reasons such as the growing market, intensified competition and fragmentation of the sector for the brand’s falling numbers when it comes to market share.
Talking about J&J's court cases, Vibha Desai, Director Vibha Desai Consulting, feels the court cases in the US have no bearing on the brand’s performance in the Indian market.
“I personally think that the average Indian consumer will not know about the court cases. People in India traditionally have used the ‘ghar ka nuska’ on their children but now a lot of people are not living in joint families and have moved away from their hometowns to metros. As all these factors come together, the market would have expanded. You have to understand that J&J has grown the market. Brands like Himalaya just came in and there was a market ready for them as they concentrated on the middle class and the lower middle class families. So I think the falling market share is a mix of factors like the shift from ‘ghar ka nuska’ to branded items and the market expanding rather than the US court cases,” said Desai.
Experts say that brands that have been around for generations also get confused in dealing with millennials.
Ramanujam Sridhar
Ramanujam Sridhar, brand expert and Founder, Brand-comm, said, “People today are not consulting their parents. It is therefore possible that they are finding better and cheaper products that their peer group is recommending online."
Speaking specifically about why J&J lost its market share, Sridhar said it's not only about court cases but also because its products are expensive and people have cheaper options available now.
"The biggest challenge that Johnson & Johnson usually faces is the fact that its products are generally higher priced. So, it is possible that young parents today are looking for products that are cheap but of an acceptable quality,” said Sridhar.
Sharda Agarwal, Co-founder, Sepalika, agrees that the market is far more fragmented today than what it was before. This has led to entrance of brands that have brought to the table many more propositions.
Talking about why FMCG brands now have a tough time rebuilding their brands, she said it is because of the concept of supermarkets. "Consumers get to see a variety of products on the shelf. Hence, they just don't rely on one product," she said.
Taking J&J as an example, she said, “The arrival of the whole concept of the supermarket means that consumers can now pick their brands. In the past, one of the big advantages that J&J had was the huge barriers for entry. The only way to make yourselves heard was through advertising, which is an expensive way and only established companies like J&J could afford to do it. Today, for new brands to exist in the market, you don’t need to advertise because you can be discovered by the consumer. So, the growth of retail players has helped smaller players with limited advertising budgets to introduce brands. The barriers to entry have come down and that means more brands are entering the market.”
According to Agarwal, as any market matures and grows, there will be more players staking a claim on the pie, which would in turn mean the biggest player that used to control a majority of the market will be the most affected and that is probably what is happening with J&J in India. | {
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Nathan Edwards
Virtually Human by Ed Brooks and Pete Nicholas aims to give a theological foundation for life in the digital world. The book is split into two parts. The first part puts our technology in the framework of our theology and the second part covers five more specific areas and how…
It’s a question that I’ve been pondering on a fair bit recently, and it is pretty pertinent to me given I work 40+ hours a week building websites. Is the web really worth it? The obvious answer would be ‘yes’. Where else can I get instant access to news, communication…
A friend recently asked me if I’d heard of an organisation that gets christian programmers involved in using their gifts to further the Kingdom - I’m ambivalent to the idea but I only gave their website a quick browse so I might be being unfair. Anyway, it got me thinking…
Gospel Speech Online is a very small book by Lionel Windsor that I would describe as a primer on the subject of relating to others in the online sphere. I was blessed to attend the same church as Lionel in Durham, UK, a few years back, so when I heard…
It is a rarely well answered question. Why does your church website exist? For many churches the only reason that their website exists is because, well, it does. It is often barely a passing concern for the decision makers in church, especially when that basically amounts to the minister. On…
Not too long ago most people would have consumed the news either in printed form or at 6 o’clock on the BBC. We would also have been lucky to share more than an annual christmas card with those people we didn’t see regularly due to work, school, church or… | {
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Speaking at the 25th annual Chaos Communication Conference (25C3) early last week, security researchers demonstrated the first known application of a years-old theoretical attack against the MD5 hashing algorithm used by companies like Verisign and Thawte to issue SSL certificates.
SSL certificates use hash codes generated by a variety of algorithms, including MD5, to verify their issuer’s identity. The hash code is an important feature of public-key cryptography, which SSL is based upon, as it is essential to protecting the secret, private code that CAs use to sign SSL certificates.
By exploiting a weakness specific to hashes generated with the MD5 algorithm – namely, that they are prone to “collisions”, or multiple inputs producing the same output – an attacker could derive a working private key from a single, regular SSL certificate, and then use that key to sign future SSL certificates with the original CA’s signature.
Security experts have known about the possibility for MD5 collisions since at least 2004. Until now, however, the vulnerability was dismissed as a theoretical possibility due to the amount of CPU time needed to attack a single hash for collisions. The 25C3 presenters claim they were able to run the attack in only four weekends, using a network of 200 PlayStation 3 game consoles at a cost of $657.
For about $2,000, said the presenters, an attacker could pull off a similar attack using Amazon’s cloud-computing EC2 service, and the attack would take about a day.
A successful attack would allow attackers to appoint themselves as an Intermediate Certificate Authority, and then generate trusted certificates without having to contact a real CA. The spoofed certificates could then be used to add the appearance of legitimacy to a phishing site designed to steal bank account passwords, for example.
While many CAs have moved on to the more secure SHA-1 or SHA-2 algorithms, a handful of issuers have not. Of the brands still using MD5, the researchers found approximately 97% of those certificates to be signed by Verisign-owned low-cost CA RapidSSL. Other companies using MD5 include FreeSSL, Thawte, and Verisign.co.jp.
Verisign announced that it will replace RapidSSL customers’ certificates free of charge.
“This successful proof of concept shows that the certificate validation performed by browsers can be subverted and malicious attackers might be able to monitor or tamper with data sent to secure websites,” said security researcher Alexander Sotirov, who worked with others from the U.S., the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
Extended-Validation SSL certificates are immune to the attack due to the fact that they are forbidden from using MD5.
Microsoft reportedly downplayed the threat, noting that the researchers withheld important information that renders the attack “not repeatable”.
A blog post from Verisign’s Tim Callahan says his company applauds the team’s research, noting that their work was so secret that not even Verisign had access to the information before the 25C3 presentation.
Customers holding an MD5-signed SSL certificate will need to contact their CA to acquire and install a new certificate on their servers.
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why didn't they use nintendo wii's? nintendo are far outselling playstation3's. it would be really hard to get 200 sony playstations from one shop. wouldn't it be much simpler to get 5000 ninento wii's from one shop. that would save you heaps of running around. and i'm sure your mates would wanna play wii-fiit afterwards. i'm sorry if this runs over any playstation fan-persons fingers. | {
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Child-molestation advocate Alfred Kinsey claimed that 90% of all people were innately either homosexual or bisexual, and that sexually active children were laudable. Yet it somehow becomes necessary to teach how to be Gay and condition children to think genderbending is totes normal.
The latest example of conditioning kids to kinky sex? Iowa.
A series of presentations touted as being about anti-bullying of LGBTQ&c. kids had little to do with tolerance, and everything to do with perversity and kink:
“Several speakers also included elements some will find disturbing:
One speaker wore a dress made of condoms, so they could be easily detached and ‘used as needed.’
Another told a rousing story of how he used social media to find friends and accidentally stumbled into an orgy.
One session taught how to properly use ‘binders’ to reduce the visibility of a girl’s breasts and discussed hormone treatments for delaying puberty, assuring kids the drugs were safe.
“Toward the end of the performance, Peru told the kids if they see a car with a bumper sticker that reads, ‘It’s Adam and Eve for a purpose,’ they should, ‘Reach down inside yourself and give them a blessing … then slash their tires!'”
Teaching kids to be terrorists who engage in gay orgies? Remember, this is a middle school with preteen children. Parents were livid:
“‘When she got there, it wasn’t really on bullying; it was basically a sexual education class for same-sex couples,’ he said. ‘It was crude. One presenter told students who asked whether anal sex hurt that, as a lesbian, it really depended on how big the device is that their partner straps on.’
“‘My daughter went to listen to the comedian, Sam Killermann, thinking it would at least be funny,’ the father continued. ‘But instead, Killermann explained how pleasurable it is for gay couples to eat each other’s behinds and how to use different flavors of [oils] to make it taste better.’
Laughably, it is being claimed that this was hosted and all initiated by a “student run club”…
This is something that anal-sex loving child rapist Roman Polanski could approve of…
The veritable Stacy McCain aptly explained why this insanity has not only been allowed, but been given a more equal status:
“The superintendent is saying that, whatever happened at the conference, the district will not shut down the ‘student-run club’ that sponsored a trip to the conference, because it wouldn’t be ‘equal opportunity’ to prevent students from being exposed to the LGBT/Democrat agenda. Everyone employed by the Iowa public school system, including Humboldt Superintendent Greg Darling, is required to endorse the LGBT/Democrat agenda, because this is the entire purpose of Iowa public schools, i.e., to teach kids to reject Christianity and vote Democrat. Becoming homosexual is not mandatory in Iowa public schools yet, but certainly no student or employee in the Iowa public school system can oppose homosexuality, for the same reason Christianity is prohibited in Iowa public schools.
“In Iowa, as in every other state, the public education system exists to employ Democrat teachers and administrators, who are paid to train students to think like Democrats. Taxes are paid by Republicans in order to fund these Democrat voter-training facilities where the children of Republicans are taught to hate their parents. And nobody is allowed to tell the truth about any of this, because public schools (like the media) only employ professional liars who condemn the truth as ‘hate.'” | {
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Am I the Only One?
Good Wednesday to you all! I hope your day is treating you well so far. Mine was off to a good start and continuing nicely along that trajectory. Just a few random thoughts today… as if my random thoughts yesterday weren’t enough! A lot of “anyone else?” questions below!
So this morning I woke up at 7:30. Not bad except I’d prefer to wake up at 7:15. My dream time is 7. But no matter what I do, no matter how much I prepare and set myself up for success the night before, I wake up at 7:30. I think it’s because I know I can still be on time if I wake up at 7:30, even if I wake up at 7:45… or 7:50 as has happened before. I’m on time, but I’m rushed, and I don’t get to do everything I want to do… like a little eye makeup and play with bling. Any tips on how to actually wake up? Let me say that my alarm goes off at 6:40 and I’ve tried a variety of noises. I do wake up, I just hit snooze-a-looze and go back to sleep. Who else has this problem?
So far so good on the healthy train. Yesterday I DID NOT want to run. It was on my schedule to do a 2 mile run after work and I just wasn’t feeling it. My head was allergy foggy all day, I had a twinge in my back, I was feeling like I had a little bit of cramps, and most importantly, I just didn’t want to. As always, I turned to the friend for guidance and butt kicking. Here is a quick summary of the texts following this one…
Me: my plan today was to run 2 miles. I’m still so foggy. Run or no?
Friend: brisk walk if that’ll feel better?
Me: I don’t like to walk lol. I prefer to run.
Does anyone else have a friend like that? (Mags is her dog btw) Mine is the best. I didn’t want to do it, was pretty convinced I wasn’t going to run, and I was so, so, so happy I did. I surprised myself with how much I was able to do and felt so good even though I hurt so bad. I used my free interval app on my phone and set it for 60 seconds run 10 seconds walk. Every 5 intervals or so I walked for 10:60:10. I was able to do it and banged out 2 miles pretty quickly, but I think next time I’ll give myself a 15 second walk and hopefully I won’t have to take the extra long walk. Do you like running through the woods? I feel like part wood nymph, part Katniss, and part latin dancer due to my Pitbull songs.
Pretty sure I look like that.
After running my stomach kind of hurt. Am I the only one who gets stomach aches after running? Maybe I ate my banana too soon after. When I got home the Mumsie had prepared a yummy chicken and veggie meal and I inhaled that. An hour later I was still hungry so I satisfied my incredibly weird, always present post-run craving: an egg and avocado sammy.
Maybe I’m really just craving protein and fat? In any case, I fried up two more eggs for lunch today. I.Can.Not.Wait. Do you have weird post-run cravings?
Please tell me I’m not the only one!
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Why Innovation Fails: The Past Vs. Future Problem
Sustainable innovation efforts call for integrating two competing ways of thinking about a business.
Having worked with business leaders for years in the pursuit of innovation, I have come to realize that there is a fundamental reason for failure. Companies have two modes of operation that often are viewed as incompatible. One mode focuses on the past and one focuses on the future, and the inability to integrate the two explains why companies find it so hard to innovate.
Established businesses are great at maintaining value through greater efficiency and effectiveness, but over time these businesses become irrelevant. Start-ups are great at spotting unmet needs and driving a relentless charge -- only to find that they have an unsustainable business model.
Innovative companies like Apple find a way to do both, keeping an eye on the bottom line while sensing the hearts of their customers.
Is there a way for your firm to innovate on a constant basis? Yes, and it involves integrating your past and future.
Your company most likely operates in "reliability mode" most of the time. Decisions are made by looking backward into the operations of the company and finding elements that lower costs or drive more revenue from existing operations. When a big enough element is found, projects get funded. You know this mode dominates when you are asked to "prove it" before receiving funding.
Start-up companies operate in "eventuality mode." It is the act of looking forward into the changing marketplace and finding the elements that will change what customers want from a company. When a big enough element (insight) is found, the entire organization is directed to meet the trend with enough momentum to catch it. You know this mode dominates your company when you are asked to commit to a vision.
When a company can integrate the two modes, and not rely too heavily on either of them, innovation succeeds. Here's an example. One of our clients, a large health insurance provider, was unable to get approval to fund a customer-centric redesign of its member website. The reliability metrics (e.g., number of members using the site, call center inquiry reduction) couldn't prove that a $10 million investment would pay off. Then healthcare reform created a well-defined "eventuality"; more people would be entering the market for health insurance and using digital channels to manage their claims. Once it became clear that the company's core competency of managing member claims was at risk, the funds were allocated.
Your company might not be lucky enough to have a government-mandated eventuality looming over the horizon. As a leader you have to put the time and effort in to provide a level of certainty about future events that can balance the natural focus on the reliable past. So before you claim that symptoms such as risk aversion, lack of ideas and data paralysis are the problem, evaluate how effectively you integrate concepts of eventuality into your business decisions.
The focus on individual company dynamics is important. We talk historically about disruption in terms of these kind of macro forces or once-in-a-lifetime strategic decisions, but we take actions every day that open or close the door to disruptive ideas.
The Innovator's Dilemma absolutely describes the circumstances or context in which these two modes create market adversaries. It however did not dig deep enough into the mechanisms inside of an individual company that empowers leaders to mindfully manage that dynamic.
Disk drives are a great example of an industry that made up a mechanism to track eventualities (e.g., capacity, read/write speed, reliability) but failed to understand the eventualities of the consumer need. As I recall the example (it has been awhile since I read it) the innovation was to offer less rich feature sets to a segment that was under served. Eventually that technical direction yielded the next step change in the market leaving the incumbent playing catch-up. If the Eventuality efforts of a company gets to focused on their own metrics the outcome can be a false sense of security.
@ubm_techweb_disqus_sso_-6529726ec55620e74fd30f58de0eb907:disqus - I agree that there is a great amount of diversity when it comes to the actual practice of product development/budget approval processes. My experience has been that companies over time swing from a rigorous methodology to a gut/bandwagon approach then back again. This at a higher level represents an organic (yet less then optimal) attempt at integrating Reliability mode and Eventuality mode.
It's the "innovator's dilemma" that was identified by Clay Christensen: keeping your current market happy with incremental innovations while trying to tap a new market with breakthrough/disruptive innovations. Remember that the industry he first found this in was disk drive manufacturing.
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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, led by Tracy C.
Grikscheit, MD, have mapped the genetic changes resulting from short
bowel syndrome (SBS) using a novel zebrafish model and by performing
intensive gene sequencing. This approach to determining which genes are
markedly over or under expressed in SBS may assist scientists in
developing future therapies for children and adults with this condition.
Results of the study are published in BioMed Central Genomics.
Necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, Crohn’s disease in
children and adults and trauma can necessitate the removal of
significant quantities of small intestine resulting in SBS and
subsequently, in the body being unable to absorb nutrition from food
because of an inadequate length of small intestine. In children, the
incidence of SBS is almost double that of childhood cancer and the
mortality rate at 5 years following surgery is approximately 30 percent.
Until now, the morbidity and mortality associated with SBS has been
related to malnutrition and liver fibrosis from intravenous nutritional
products. In this study the researchers sought to determine systemic
effects attributable to the disease process alone.
The research team conducted the study in zebrafish, using a validated
SBS model created in the Grikscheit laboratory. This model allowed the
investigators to study matched samples of small intestine from zebrafish
who had bowel surgery and those who underwent “sham” or control surgery.
According to first author, Kathy A. Schall, MD, “Most studies of SBS
focus on the epithelial cells that line the intestine but this model
allowed us to focus on systemic effects and the associated genetic
alterations responsible for those effects.”
The paper reports that 29 fish had intestinal surgery compared to 28
fish that received sham surgery. After two weeks, a time previously
determined to be associated with maximal stem and progenitor cell
activity, RNA-sequencing analysis was performed. Zebrafish with SBS had
1346 significantly upregulated genes and 678 significantly downregulated
genes compared to sham-operated controls. The upregulated genes were
related to processes that include cell proliferation, acute phase
response signaling, innate and adaptive immunity, bile acid regulation,
production of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species, cellular barrier
maintenance and coagulation. Downregulated genes were associated with
folate synthesis, gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis, fatty-acid oxidation
and activation and drug and steroid metabolism.
“We’ve identified marked changes in several metabolic pathways –
including some that had previously been considered an effect of
intravenous nutrition,” said Grikscheit, who is also a tenured associate
professor of surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of
Southern California. “Knowing that these alterations are caused by SBS
in the absence of intravenous nutrition provides us multiple targets for
developing new therapies to modify these effects. Instead of digging in
random places we now have a map to follow in our search for therapeutic
approaches for SBS.” Grikscheit adds that a reduction of just 10 percent
of U.S. patients requiring home intravenous nutrition for SBS would
result in an estimated saving of nearly $800 million in health care
costs.
Additional contributors to the study include Matthew E. Thornton, Mubina
Isani, Kathleen A. Holoyda, Xiaogang Hou, Ching-Ling Lien and Brendan H.
Grubbs of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los
Angeles and USC Keck School of Medicine. The study was funded in part by
the 2014 CHLA CIRM Training grant (8236-TCS008566) and the 2015 Broad
Clinical Fellowship sponsored by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
(8237-TGA009320-00).
About Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been named the best children’s
hospital in California and among the top 10 in the nation for clinical
excellence with its selection to the prestigious U.S. News & World
Report Honor Roll. Children’s Hospital is home to The Saban Research
Institute, one of the largest and most productive pediatric research
facilities in the United States. Children’s Hospital is also one of
America’s premier teaching hospitals through its affiliation since 1932
with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern
California. For more information, visit CHLA.org.
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Managing Households - Creating, Deleting and Re-Creating
This article will teach you how to see if your database has been householded, how to automatically household a database by certain preferences and how to delete and recreate household records.
Householding is a labor of love. The system does a lot of the heavy lifting by looking for contacts that live at the same home address, and creating the separate household record in your database, but it’s up to you to keep them up-to-date by maintaining the correct Salutation, and Envelope Names.
IMPORTANT: Prior to householding you'll want to make sure the address records for each member of a household are as consistent as possible. For example a street address could have a minor difference such as St. vs Street. Click here learn how to automatically conform addresses in your database.
Outline
#1 Check if your Database has been Householded
#2 Automatically Household your Database
#3 Steps to Delete and Re-Create Household Records
#4 Related Resources
#1 Check if your Database has been Householded
Under the Application Menu follow Voter/Donor> Households
Click [Search] from the search tool strip and if it returns zero records then your database has not been householded. If it returns a list of records it means your database has been householded at one point but there could be records that are not householded if they were added after the last householding process was run.
NOTE: Subsequent executions of the householding tool will ONLY household those records not previously household - in other words, new records added to your database since the last execution of the householding tool.
#2 Automatically Household your Database
Under the Application Menu follow System Manager> Tools > Create Household Records (this assumes you have security access to this menu item – if not contact your DB administrator.)
Select your preferences on how you want to Household the database within the Create Household Record window. Create households where… “Voters have the same address” is selected by default when householding.
In this example I chose the options that “Voters must have the same last name to be considered a household” and ”Create FORMAL salutations and envelopes when appropriate data available (each record MUST have a title”) were selected.
Click [OK] located in the bottom right of the Create Household Record window to begin the process. You will be prompted with a warning message, click [OK] if you want to proceed.
After running the process you will be presented with the results, click [OK] to finish.
You’re finished householding all records in your database that were not previously assigned to a household.
IMPORTANT:As new records are added to your database, you should periodically run householding. This can be done anytime - but at least before you attempt to print letters and before exporting your data as a householded list.
#3 Steps to Delete and Recreate Households
Under the Application Menu follow Voter/Donor > Households and click [Search] to pull down a list of all your householded records. You can also pull up a list of specific household records if you want to delete them in parts rather than as a whole.
Click the [File] drop-down from search tool strip and select Delete.
Trail Blazer will prompt you with a warning message click [OK] to move forward with deleting the householded records in your list. This does not delete the individual donor/voter/contact record. It deletes ONLY the house hold relationships.
Let Trail Blazer work its magic – it will display the status of the deletion process and it will notify you when the process is complete - with the results; click [OK] to proceed.
Click [Search] from the household search window and the record count should now be equal to 0 if you deleted all household records.
Now you can go through the same process as described earlier in this document on how to automatically create household records by the preferences of your choice.
Tip:Set the age and gender for your records before running householding and you will have a better chance the order of the household members is correct, you can do this from the Donors/Voters list: | {
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This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Oosterhouse party: Carter stops by the Houston
Home Show this Saturday.
Courtesy of Carter Oosterhouse
Thursday, August 18
New Orleans-via-California-via-Dallas songstress Kristy Krüger can pretty much do it all, and you can bet she has. She'd been studying and playing piano most of her life (and had even won an award from DownBeat magazine) when she turned her talents toward the singer-songwriter trade, where her training and experience set her well apart from the pack. She's just as likely to echo Chopin as Ani DiFranco. 8 p.m. McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk. For information, call 713-528-5999 or visit www.mcgonigels.com. $10.
Friday, August 19
Hark! Do you hear that ear-splitting-yet-melodious caterwaul? That, faithful reader, is the unmistakable sound of us tooting merrily away at our own horn. Yo, the Press has been doing its thang all over H-Town for a full decade-and-a-half, and we're celebrating tonight with the pithily named "Houston Press 15th Anniversary Still Rolling With the Punches Party." The legendary Hollertronix boys will be handing out world-class beatdowns over the speakers, and the rest of you can show your gratitude to the flyest alt-weekly the world has ever seen by just, y'know, being there. Let us know you love us at 10 p.m. at Bayou Place, 534 Texas Street. For information, call 713-629-3700 or visit www.houstonpress.com. $15 to $25.
Saturday, August 20Cosmopolitan justlisted him as their favorite TV hunk. He made People's "Sexiest Man Alive" list. And he's good with a hammer. That's right, the dreamy Carter Oosterhouse is blowing up these days. The hunky carpenter and Trading Spaces cast member is slated to appear on the new NBC show Three Wishes, and today at theHouston Home Show, Oosterhouse will answer all your home-renovating questions (and possibly field a few marriage proposals) from 11 a.m. to noon and again from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Home Show runs 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, August 19; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today; and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, August 21. George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas. For tickets and information, call 713-529-1616 or visit www.houstonhomeshow.com. $8; free for those 12 and younger.
It's Saturday night. Time for the requisite dinner, drinks and movie. Luckily, local eatery t'afia, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Tasting Room have your night mapped out for you. At 5 p.m., sit down to an elegant wine-pairing dinner featuring libations from the Rosenthal Wine Merchant Collection at t'afia (3701 Travis, 713-524-6922). The folks there will comp your rail pass, so catch the Southbound to the MFAH (1001 Bissonnet, 713-639-7300) for the 7 p.m. premiere of Mondovino. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter, a sommelier by trade, created what's been called a "passionate and subversive" exploration into the world of modern wine production. He examines every aspect of the biz, from the peasant grape-pickers to the multinational conglomerates. (Call it Sideways on steroids.) After the flick, share your thoughts at 9:45 p.m. at a post-screening discussion and wine tasting at the Tasting Room in Midtown (114 Gray, 713-528-9463), where your movie pass scores you one free pour. For information, call 713-524-6922, ext. 3, or visit www.tafia.com. $75 per person; includes dinner, movie ticket, rail pass and wine tasting.
Sunday, August 21
Do you enjoy having thousands (okay, millions) of people staring at you? Are you comfortable spending hours waving from an open car in freezing East Coast November weather? Do you have a talent that can be demonstrated and understood in 30 seconds or less? If your answer to any of these questions is an immediate "Heck, yes!" you might want to try out for this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in lovely New York City. Aspiring jive turkeys should apply online at www.campbroadway.com and then arrive no later than 1 p.m. Sunday, August 21, at the Theatre Under the Stars Studios at the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby. For information, call 212-575-2929. Free.
Monday, August 22
Chicago-born, San Antonio-based artist Joan Fabian is full of energy, which is why her current exhibition at Art League Houston is entitled "Vital Surge." A cancer diagnosis and an eye-opening trip to Pakistan gave Fabian a new lease on life and art, and her vibrant, colorful abstract figures are a "challenge to ideals of beauty, normalcy and voyeuristic desire." Now that's what we're talking about. Get your peep on at Art League Houston, 1953 Montrose. For information, call 713-523-9530 or visit www.artleaguehouston.org. Free.
Tuesday, August 23
When the remains of "hobbit-sized" creatures were recently discovered on the island of Flores, Indonesia, the sci-fi/fantasy world went nuts. "Frodo lives!" popped up on Lord of the Rings fansites. Unfortunately for them, the species, Homo floresiensis, were three-foot hominins who managed to create tools and fire some 18,000 years ago, despite their relatively small brains. (So it's doubtful they spoke with English accents or bore any resemblance to Elijah Wood.) Today, Charles Hildebolt, Ph.D., a physical anthropologist at Washington University, discusses the little creatures in a lecture called "Hobbits of Flores." 6:30 p.m. Houston Museum of Natural Science, One Hermann Circle. For tickets and information, call 713-639-4629 or visit www.hmns.org. $12 to $15.
Wednesday, August 24
Isn't it just a little eerie the way corporate mascots worm their way into our shared consciousness? From Tony the Tiger to Mayor McCheese (never mind the Frito Bandito), these often animated, always nonexistent shills are nonetheless a part of us, man, a part of our culture, and none more than the Pillsbury Doughboy. The jolly little guy turns 40 years old this month and darned if he's not celebrating the big day at the NASA Space Center (your guess is as good as ours). This is your big chance to hang with the Doughboy-of-the-hour while stuffing your face with cakes and brownies, decorating your very own chef's hat, signing a giant birthday card and even having your picture taken with some poor fellow dressed up like the giggling whiter-than-white icon. Poke him in the belly from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. NASA Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, 281-244-2100. For information, visit www.pillsburybaking.com. Free with Space Center admission.
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Category: Boeing
Salmah Hayati Ghazali, deputy director general of a Malaysian government development agency
At the Malaysia pavilion inside one of the exhibition halls here at Farnborough on Friday, tears welled in the eyes of Salmah Hayti Ghazali, a Malaysian goverment official, as she spoke to me about the shocking and cruel news that came late yesterday.
“It’s incomprehensible,” she said. “We did not think this could happen. It was out of our minds.”
“It’s no fault of ours,” Ms. Salmah said, struggling to find a better word than “unfair” to describe the murder of of 298 innocent travelers.
“I do feel the world is with us,”she said. “When I came this morning and I saw every flag at half mast, that was something consoling.”
The downing of the 777 has cast a pall over Farnborough.
The rows of international flags lining the entrances to Farnborough are at half mast today, in mourning over the tragedy.
And Boeing canceled the planned flight display of its 787-9.
Yet the living must go on. Ms. Salmah, deputy director general of MARA, a Malaysian government development agency, was at the Air Show Friday to welcome a group of about a dozen young Malaysian engineering students who attend universities around the U.K.
Thursday is the last business day at the Farnborough Air Show and this was a quiet one, with nothing happening after the closing Airbus press conference in the morning. I left the Boeing chalet to head back to my hotel in central London at 4 p.m. local time. At that time, no one there had heard about…
Tim Keating, Boeing’s chief political operator in the halls of Congress, this week is frequenting the company chalet at the Farnborough Air Show and the related aviation industry dinners and receptions in central London.
He’s offering reassurance to Boeing’s foreign airline customers, some of whom are worried that the controversy in Congress around the Export-Import Bank could end the financing they need to buy jets. And he’s hosting the many U.S. political delegations here as part of Boeing’s intense lobbying effort to save the bank, whose authority to operate expires in September.
Boeing this week at the Air Show gave the first public details about its plan to use robots in assembling 777 fuselages. Initially on the 777, and then on the 777X, it will use German machines that can drill and fill 60,000 rivet holes on each plane. Missed in the initial reports was this…
On the opening day of the Farnborough Air Show, the Boeing 787-9 did a spectacular touch-and-go in the afternoon flying display, coming down and touching the tarmac as if to land, then powering up and climbing steeply away.
He said the airport authority won’t allow either Airbus or Boeing to do it again this week.
“We can all climb steeply,” said Chapman. “What you mustn’t do is turn straight away (on take-off). If the wing hits the ground, it’s over. Their wingtip was 15 feet off the ground. They don’t like you being close to the ground.”
Tuesday, the Boeing communications team here had a decidedly conspiratorial explanation: That Airbus had whispered to the Air Show authorities and spiked such displays so as not to be shown up.
Bjorn Kjos, chief executive of an airline that had a nightmare experience with its first two 787s last year, could now moonlight as a salesman for the Dreamliner.
Bjorn Kjos, CEO of Norwegian, with his Skytrax award at Farnborough
Norwegian Air, his new international low-cost carrier, now has a fleet of seven Dreamliners that he’s flying on very long routes such as London to Bangkok and back. With minimal down time at each end, that’s up to 18 hours flying in a day.
“The Dreamliner is the first airplane built to fly such high utilization. It’s performing to it,” said Kjos. “It’s going better and better actually.”
The forthcoming 777X large widebody jet will have an interior cabin with the same pleasant passenger features that have been a hit on the 787 Dreamliner: large windows, less dry air, and a lower cabin altitude pressurization.
All those features were introduced with the Dreamliner and touted as an advantage of the carbon fiber composite that’s used to make the fuselage. That material is stronger and lighter than aluminum and doesn’t corrode when the surface is wet.
The 777X will have a traditional aluminum fuselage, yet it will have the same features,
Boeing said the 777X fuselage, which will be assembled in a new building now under construction in Everett, “will be built using automated, guided robots that will fasten the panels of the fuselage together, drilling and filling the more than approximately 60,000 fasteners that are today installed by hand.”
Boeing spokeswoman Elizabeth Fischtziur said the new robotic system “will be implemented first on today’s 777” and once its high rate production capabilities are validated it “is expected to be baseline to 777X fuselage production.”
As expected, the European jetmaker launched a new model of its A330 mid-size widebody jet, the A330neo. Predictably, sales chief John Leahy made confident claims that it will best Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
On the eve of the Farnborough Air Show in London, Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Ray Conner announced a new high-density version of the forthcoming 737 MAX family, something long requested by leading 737 customer Ryanair.
He also talked down the threat from the expected announcement by Airbus Monday that it will launch an update of its A330 mid-size twinjet with new fuel-efficient engines.
And Conner flatly rejected any compromise in the current political controversy over the U.S. Export-Import Bank. | {
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I can say without hesitation that 1988 was a turning point both for local musical matters and for an ambitious intellectual initiative in the artistic life of Nea Ionia. Vassilis Gratsounas and Maria Galani founded, through their own personal efforts, the conservatoire En Organis at 9 Isminis St., in the suburb of Perissos. This institution is living proof of how much and how many things are to be achieved by persistence, endurance, hard work and the quiet talent of these two individuals, who, ignoring financial and personal sacrifices, have achieved something unique in the area.
They have managed to create a hive of musical activity and a small concert hall, whence they have caused to sally forth, and continue to pour forth today, a parade of prestigious and internationally recognized artists. And so, the conservatoire En Organis has opened up a unique path to music for hundreds of students over all these years. More than this, however, it has given music-lovers the chance to enjoy splendid musical ensembles and soloists of a rare quality, all for the cost of a very reasonably priced ticket in a warm and hospitable concert hall. He has also managed to create new lovers of serious music.
From the year of its foundation, in 1988, En Organis has continued its unbroken activity up to the present. It is a shining example, both to musical officialdom and to the ordinary people of the area. Happily, it has managed this without the blowing of trumpets and noisy advertising campaigns. It remains the only central, and so far unique, touchstone for serious music in the area.
Vassos Voyatzoglou,
Pediatrician and writer
I am profoundly grateful to God that, whenever I am about to faint away in horror at the harshness of things, at how evil – which some simply call ‘the system’ with that clever instinct for self-preservation that it has – knows how to thwart us by keeping us continually on the round of the treadmill of daily life, so that we are stymied from doing anything that might threaten its unchallenged dominance, along comes a person, an artistic event or a book about ethical values in art, about quality in education or about the values of Greekness in culture.
Vassilis Gratsounas is utterly dedicated to the world of tradition, an inexplicable survival from better times, in whom we have a serious connoisseur of folk music, a splendid performer on many instruments of folk tradition, an extraordinarily skilled maker of instruments and, above all, a passionate teacher of this music and its culture. Likewise, Maria Galani is his wife and his utterly likeminded companion on this journey of work.
In these two people, in the En Organis conservatoire and in the book we are now holding in our hands, I have been granted everything together, to support me in my heavy trials and in my sadness at the extent of all the compromises, retreats and turmoil we face today.
Well, this is no utopian dream. The conservatoire exists and it teaches children and the young to sing, play accompaniment in a manner completely faithful to the spirit of Greek tradition. Now anybody, and not just their own conservatoire students, who is interested in the study of many instruments that belong to the musical tradition of the east, in terms of performance and song accompaniment (on for example, the Constantinopolitan laouto, the outi, the Constantinopolitan lyra, kanonaki, nei and various types of pipes) has a splendid source of help. This consists of the distillation of the knowledge and experience of teaching that this distinguished teacher possesses. | {
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Tag: classical physics
Quantum entanglement remains one of the most challenging fields of study for modern physicists. Described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”, scientists have long sought to reconcile how this aspect of quantum mechanics can coexist with classical mechanics. Essentially, the fact that two particles can be connected over great distances violates the rules of locality and realism.
Formally, this is a violation of Bell’s Ineqaulity, a theory which has been used for decades to show that locality and realism are valid despite being inconsistent with quantum mechanics. However, in a recent study, a team of researchers from the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich conducted tests which once again violate Bell’s Inequality and proves the existence of entanglement.
John Bell, the Irish physicist who devised a test to show that nature does not ‘hide variables’ as Einstein had proposed. Credit: CERN\
Bell’s Inequality (named after Irish physicist John Bell, who proposed it in 1964) essentially states that properties of objects exist independent of being observed (realism), and no information or physical influence can propagate faster than the speed of light (locality). These rules perfectly described the reality we human beings experience on a daily basis, where things are rooted in a particular space and time and exist independent of an observer.
However, at the quantum level, things do not appear to follow these rules. Not only can particles be connected in non-local ways over large distances (i.e. entanglement), but the properties of these particles cannot be defined until they are measured. And while all experiments have confirmed that the predictions of quantum mechanics are correct, some scientists have continued to argue that there are loopholes that allow for local realism.
To address this, the Munich team conducted an experiment using two laboratories at LMU. While the first lab was located in the basement of the physics department, the second was located in the basement of the economics department – roughly 400 meters away. In both labs, teams captured a single rubidium atom in an topical trap and then began exciting them until they released a single photon.
“Our two observer stations are independently operated and are equipped with their own laser and control systems. Because of the 400 meters distance between the laboratories, communication from one to the other would take 1328 nanoseconds, which is much more than the duration of the measurement process. So, no information on the measurement in one lab can be used in the other lab. That’s how we close the locality loophole.”
The experiment was performed in two locations 398 meters apart at the Ludwig Maximilian University campus in Munich, Germany. Credit: Rosenfeld et al/American Physical Society
Once the two rubidium atoms were excited to the point of releasing a photon, the spin-states of the rubidium atoms and the polarization states of the photons were effectively entangled. The photons were then coupled into optical fibers and guided to a set-up where they were brought to interference. After conducting a measurement run for eight days, the scientists were able to collected around 10,000 events to check for signs entanglement.
This would have been indicated by the spins of the two trapped rubidium atoms, which would be pointing in the same direction (or in the opposite direction, depending on the kind of entanglement). What the Munich team found was that for the vast majority of the events, the atoms were in the same state (or in the opposite state), and that there were only six deviations consistent with Bell’s Inequality.
These results were also statistically more significant than those obtained by a team of Dutch physicists in 2015. For the sake of that study, the Dutch team conducted experiments using electrons in diamonds at labs that were 1.3 km apart. In the end, their results (and other recent tests of Bell’s Inequality) demonstrated that quantum entanglement is real, effectively closing the local realism loophole.
As Wenjamin Rosenfeld explained, the tests conducted by his team also went beyond these other experiments by addressing another major issue. “We were able to determine the spin-state of the atoms very fast and very efficiently,” he said. “Thereby we closed a second potential loophole: the assumption, that the observed violation is caused by an incomplete sample of detected atom pairs”.
By obtaining proof of the violation of Bell’s Inequality, scientists are not only helping to resolve an enduring incongruity between classical and quantum physics. They are also opening the door to some exciting possibilities. For instance, for years, scientist have anticipated the development of quantum processors, which rely on entanglements to simulate the zeros and ones of binary code.
Computers that rely on quantum mechanics would be exponentially faster than conventional microprocessors, and would ushering in a new age of research and development. The same principles have been proposed for cybersecurity, where quantum encryption would be used to cypher information, making it invulnerable to hackers who rely on conventional computers.
Last, but certainly not least, there is the concept of Quantum Entanglement Communications, a method that would allow us to transmit information faster than the speed of light. Imagine the possibilities for space travel and exploration if we are no longer bound by the limits of relativistic communication!
Einstein wasn’t wrong when he characterized quantum entanglements as “spooky action”. Indeed, much of the implications of this phenomena are still as frightening as they are fascinating to physicists. But the closer we come to understanding it, the closer we will be towards developing an understanding of how all the known physical forces of the Universe fit together – aka. a Theory of Everything! | {
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[The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to Feet to Follow, Eyes to See]
Andrew and John, two fishermen from Galilee, were fascinated by John the Baptist and his message that Messiah would be coming soon. When the baptizer identified a man walking by as the “Lamb of God,” the two fishermen began following this man at a distance. Eventually the man turned around and asked them what they were looking for. All they could think to say was, “Rabbi, where are you staying?”
“Come and you will see,” He replied.
When Andrew and John asked where Jesus was staying, they were really saying that they wanted to follow Him and hear His message. So Jesus invited them to come and promised that if they came, they would see. They had no idea at the time how much they would see, no idea how much their eyes would be opened and their lives would be changed. At that moment they simply had feet to follow wherever Jesus would lead and the eyes to see whatever He would show them.
When my wife and I traveled to Israel in early 2011, the sign that greeted us at Ben Gurion Airport read Beruchim habayim. The way to say, “welcome” in Hebrew, it’s a phrase which literally means “blessed are those who come.” We had come with feet ready to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and the hope that the experience would give us eyes to see Him in a way we never had before. We had no idea at that moment how truly blessed we would be in coming. | {
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Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Daily Treatment Reviews
It was given to my mom as a gift set with the shampoo and it works great! I only use about a nickel side on each side of my hair and not close to the roots because i have a very oily scalp. As long as I do this, my hair will feel very smooth afterwards.
— 3 years, 7 months ago
I love paul mitchell but this stuff was nasty. It does what it promises, facilitates straight hair, however it left a film over my hair like I didn't wash the product out all the way. Maybe its because my hair is very fine and thin. I agree with the below reviewer, dont get this stuff unless you have very thick, curly hair.
— 3 years, 9 months ago
My stylist reccomended this to me, even though I have fine, straight, thin hair! Why? I don't know. It was just okay. Please try this if you have thick, curly hair!
~Best wishes
— 4 years, 2 months ago
This product left my fine hair greasy and flat. It felt like I didn't wash my hair at all and it felt greasy. I think this might be ok for someone with really thick hair but not for someone with fine hair.
— 5 years, 6 months ago
What's interesting is that everyone has different hair needs and what works for one doesn't work for another. I tried this series on a whim and it's been my standby for years. I have thick coarse hair that is currently short but has been longer and it works just as well. I use the conditioner and the blow dry serum and it really straightens my hair and beats the frizzies. I love it.
— 6 years, 2 months ago
This product is my least favorite Paul Mitchell conditioner. I found that while it made my hair easy to manage, it didn't make my hair very shiny-looking, as I originally thought it would. The price tag is a little steep for not delivering on performance. It also gave my hair a texture I thought a little more stiff than a regular moisturizing conditioner.
— 6 years, 5 months ago
Helps keep my frizzy, coarse, curly hair under control. I'm sure the silicones in it have something to do with that, but I could swear that it doesn't take as long to blow dry my hair after using this product. Could be my imagination, though.
— 6 years, 9 months ago
I love Paul Mitchell's Super Skinny line. It makes my hair so soft and manageable. I think this line only works for a particular type of hair. I have big thick long hair. You know the kind you break brushes in and have to go to the salon to get it thinned out as well as trimmed. I think it work best for thicker hair so you don't end up having a product build up. For my hair it's perfect and I love it.
— 6 years, 10 months ago
this is definatly a heavy conditioner. if you have really curly dry hair it will work amazingly. compared to most people i do have curly thick hair but this was too heavy for me.
— 7 years, 2 months ago | {
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Also, let us know any other EHX designs you’d like to see in the Merch Shop (btw, we do know that the ‘ramhead’ isn’t in there yet—there’s a technical complication, and we’re still working out the best solution).
Last time I tried, I wasn’t able to make the design I wanted anymore :cry:
Here’s what I think you’re seeing—there are two kinds of print processes, the “flex” process and a “digital direct” process.
The flex process provide technically best-quality results (they actually cut and apply each design to your shirt). Whereas the digital direct process is more like a printer—compared to flex, digital direct isn’t quite as crisp and may eventually start to fade somewhat sooner.
So, we’ve been trying to make sure that all of our designs qualify for the flex process—and that’s exactly why we’ve been having trouble with the ramhead design, it’s hard to get it to work with flex.
But because of the way flex works, they can’t be scaled down quite as small as digital direct can.
With all that said (phew!) I do believe you can still switch the flex design to print via digital direct (look for the printtype pull-down menu toward the bottom-left of the customizer)—and I think you could then scale it down however small you want. | {
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Author's infos
Introduction:
Hard Brutal Sex humilitaion Lesbian bondage and Beastiality
My Slutty Wife Used as a Dog Slave Bitch!
My wife Sissy and I were married, when she had just turned 18. At the time we lived in some apartments just outside North Island a Navy base in San Diego that I was stationed at, being in the Armed Forces, this was a convenient place to live, almost everyone that lived there were mostly single men along with, a few young newly married military couples like us.
Sissy was an oversexed slutty little thing even in High school, and sex always seemed to be on her mind, many of her thoughts had come from her early teenage years, and the things that had Happened to her where she had lived in the country! She seemed to have a knack for getting herself into trouble at least with the older boys!. The fact that she was cute shapely, and a very sexy little prick tease, along with being an incredible flirt! Only seemed to make matters worse.
She was the red haired green eyed thing that would get most men hard just watching her, and that they, or anyone considered perfect for sex!. She stood 5'3” and had weighed about 105 pounds. She had gone from white little 32” C sized virgin titties at 15, to slightly larger 34” breasts, and her weight was now almost 120 pounds at 18. The other thing about her was, her breasts, they pointed up and out to each side quite unusually provocative, that still required no bra, this along with a slender waist, and a full and very plump round 36”ass, and both giggled and wiggled with little effort!making her ever so more appealing!
She loved the fact that she could put her hair in short little pigtails that even at 18 would make her look much younger. When she walked, her pointy nipples along with her soft breasts and the the ripe round overhanging globes of her bottom moved in the most perverse and sexually inviting way! If ever their was a girl that begged to be drug off into the bushes and raped she certainly was that girl!
She, even at 18, still had a bit of baby fat that left her breasts bottom and tummy so soft pale, and virgin
like!.
She also had this incredible smile that made one think that you!, or anyone else she was with, Were the only one. She quickly learned that she could get whatever or whoever she wanted when it came to sex with men, women or boys!!!..., and it didn't seem to matter which.
Her one fault if you wanted to call it that, was that she was the perfect description of a stupid blonde!, only she had red hair!, especially when it came to sex or what might happen!.... This never seemed to be of any concern when it came to accepting questionable offers to meet men, women or several men, that she did not know in some of the most remote out of the way, and unsavory places of the city!
She always thought that this kind of risky sex would end with pleasurable consequences, and for the most part did! At first it started out this way, but gradually changed as her lust and insatiable desire for more abusive, cruel and sadistic sex always seemed to be more addictive!
As a young girl her parents had moved out into the country. Her father was gone almost all the time due to his business. Once Sissy was about 12 yrs old, and could pretty much take care of herself, her mother seemed to be gone almost as much. They had a house keeper that made sure Sissy was taken care of and had what ever was needed, she was an older attractive black woman that later turned out to be a somewhat sadistic bisexual woman who's name was Belinda, and that everyone called Bull!
Sissy had wondered at the time how she had gotten such a name?, but even Belinda, was not around that much until one day she caught Sissy masturbating!......
Sissy was an only child, the school bus would pick her up and deliver her to the front gate of her home. She had few friends in this out of the way place were they lived, and had to entertain herself as best she could.
Her parents had seen to it that their home had everything, along with the latest satellite dish, it had all the channels including some of the hottest and most kinky porn sites one could imagine, and since she was alone most of the time she could watch this, or whatever else she wanted!
These sites, had easily helped perk her sexual interest in just about every possible kind of persevere and depraved sex act one could imagine! And with no parental supervision allowed her to become infatuated with all kinds of sexual abuse!
These sites were also the place where she discovered masturbation and quickly became obsessed by it! She had done so much of it that the thin little membrane of her hymen was almost entirely gone!. The property she lived on was about two acres of fenced back yard that had a large area of thick trees and brush right behind their property and her only neighbor. This area of trees and brush was followed by sparsely populated land.
She loved to go out into the wooded area because it was kind of scary, especially during the late summer evenings, she would wear almost nothing, mostly panties and a “T” shirt! She had found what she thought was a small secluded meadow and when there, would take every thing off and lay in the tall grass pleasuring herself, thinking about what she had seen on the satellite, and thought? that no one could see her!!...
She did not know much about the neighbors and hardly ever saw them, only an older rough looking man once in a while, who never seemed to be very friendly and that he, had given her a most sinister look!. She had waved at him several times trying to be friendly, but his look had always frightened her in a strange sort of way! Though he usually just seemed to ignore her? They, the neighbors did have several very large vicious looking dogs! That had really growled and barked at her anytime she came near the chain link fence, that separated their yards.
She thought the dogs were a special breed of Rottweilers, and would be astounded when she finally found out what they were really used for?....
Since no one ever seemed to be around, she would occasionally sun herself nude in the back yard laying on an old lounge chair. Several of the young girls at school had really great tans and Sissy really envied them, but she always seemed to burn and was only able to stay out in the sun for short periods of time, and for a red head never seemed to tan at all!.and had fantasized about her weird neighbor, and that he might catch a glimpse of her, the thought of this big scary looking man seeing her naked was always deliciously exciting!!!....
This was another reason why she loved the woods, especially in the late summer afternoon and evenings. She had just recently turned 15 and one day while laying on the lounge chair had decided to take everything off, just like she did in the meadow, and try to tan. She at first had not noticed that several of the dogs, seemed to be watching her? The thought excited her!.
She was scared at first, but for some reason they were not growling as they usually did? Once she realized they could not get through the fence and they were not barking, thought she might try something very lewd and indecent.
She had seen a short movie clip on one of the porn channels of a dog licking a girl between her legs and the thought had made her quite giddy, flush and very wet and excited!.
She now had what seemed like two very interested dogs, who's noses were touching the fence and decided to see if she could tease and tempt them even more!
With all her clothes off she had pulled the lounge up next to the chain link fence, and had laid down on it opening her legs very wide and had pushed her pink wet little cunt up directly in their faces!, she then started playing with clit! Both of these big dogs were now drooling as they could smell her, and had become quite excited! Sissy, as she got more and more excited, so seemed the dogs! She had inched herself closer and closer to the fence scooting down the lounge and bending her knees even more, the dogs were licking their chops and trying to stick their tongues through the links, and were wining to get at her! Sissy was so excited now, that at first did not realize how close she was getting!!!....
She finally could not stand it and with out thinking stood up, pushing her bare tender wet little cunt close enough for their tongues to easily reach her slit!!!..
The wet, warm and very coarse feeling of their long rough tongues on her equally wet virgin slit!, and especially her clit immediately brought her to an incredible orgasm, much better that anything she had ever experienced, while masturbating! Oh!Ooooooooo!!!....Oh! My, Oh! My.....
Oh my gawd, it was so... wonderful her thighs were trembling and her fingers were turning blue as she tightly clinched the chain link fence, she could hardly stand, and it was all she could do to hold herself now, as tightly as she could pressing her wet little cunt up against the links, So that the dogs could easily have their way with her!
They greedily took turns nipping and licking, giving her young body orgasm after orgasm!!!!... she had no idea of time when she finally heard the dogs being called, Brutus!, Satan!,get over here and leave the girl alone!.
They reluctantly left and bounded off as they too, seemed to have enjoyed themselves. She in her condition had not really noticed just how large these animals were or how massive their animal pricks had become!!!....while pleasuring her!
Sissy had staggered away from the fence and into the house, she lay on her bed still shaking!, her soft little breasts were wet with sweat, her heart was pounding, and as her breathing was starting to return to normal, and was not quite sure as to what just happened?. Her pussy was dripping and the sheets under her were wet and a little red from what little had been left of her virgin hymen, The warm lingering glow of this new and most wonderful feeling was now slowly fading from her genitals. Oh My Gawd if this was animal sex she wanted more!!!...
After this episode, the thought of what her neighbor had said finally dawned on her, (”Leave the girl alone”), she was almost afraid to go out into the back yard now, and kept looking out her back bedroom window with the thought of, was this man watching? Did he see her push herself up against the fence? Did he watch her have those wonderful orgasms? This thought of uncertainty had again left her sweet pink little slit very wet with sinful possibilities!
The next day she was laying on her bed and could not help herself, her door was wide open and she was laying there masturbating with half closed eyes thinking about what the dogs had done to her, when she heard the voice of her housekeeper say girl, you better watch out! Playing with that sweet pink little cunt of yours right in front of me! I just might take take a big bite right out of it!!!..
Sissy with a start! Jumped, almost falling off the bed! no one had ever caught her doing this so forbidden thing! Sissy then said please! Belinda don't tell my parents, The housekeeper held her chin for a minute thinking, then said okay, but you will have to do something for me!.
Sissy then said whatever you want!, I will do what ever you want! Belinda, just don't tell my parents. The house keeper then said, lets see if you really mean that! Belinda then said call me bull! And from now on when I tell you to do something. I mean now!, do you understand!...girl!... Sissy nodded her head yes.
Bull then said to her, stand up and turn around, Sissy was still naked and the wetness between her legs had seeped down the inside of her thighs and was still easily showing along with the embarrassed flush cheeks of not only her face, but for some reason her round ass that was now sticking out was also flush! Bull first lovingly reached out and twisted one of Sissy's pink little nipples and patted her bottom. Bull then said girl, I've been waiting to have some of this for a long time! Sissy at first wondered just what she meant by that?
She would find out rather quickly as Bull said, stick your hands up over your head, now spread your legs! Sissy did exactly as she was told not thinking. Now, bend over and hold onto the arms of that chair real tight and don't let go! no matter what!, and stick that pretty little ass of yours up real nice so I can get a real close look at that sweet tender little pussy of yours!!...
Bull who was standing had at first reached around Sissy's bare back under her arms and had gotten a very firm grasp of both nipples, and with her strong fingers gave them, a very sadistic twist and at the same time pulled them down stretching the tips and her breasts quite painfully to their limit!, before releasing them. Sissy's white soft titties jiggled quite obscenely as they sprang back against her chest, She at first was caught off guard and yelped quite loudly, tears quickly welled up in her eyes.
She had never experienced pain quite like that!. Bull then slid around behind her and sat down on the bed. She gasped slightly as she felt Bulls warm breath on her gentiles!
She then heard Bull say nice, very nice as Sissy felt the fingers of this older woman touch and then slightly open her wet little slit, first up one side and then down the other. Sissy had the most sweet almost bare little cunt it had little pubic hair, just a very thin patch of red and some thicker strands mostly around her clit.
The mounds on either side of her little cunt were slightly swollen and puffy this was from her masturbation and previous attention. Her clit and lips were usually hidden and only recently had started to show from the manipulation she had been giving it and the dogs of course had really stimulated her to the point that they were, both quite noticeable as her slit was now slightly open almost all the time as if her body was starting to respond with out her even thinking about it!.
Bull first slipped one finger in followed by another and then another, until three fingers were in, she had to put them tightly together to make them fit!, saying oh, Sis you have a really tight little pussy! Sissy was now trembling and wondering what was next! The pain from her earlier nipple pulling had now become a warm tingling feeling that had radiated down to where it ended with bulls pinching of her clit!
Bull then said, as she skillfully toyed With Sissy's now not so little clit and said in a rather matter of fact way, I know you masturbate out back in the back meadow, and I saw you, in the back yard nude the other day when you teased the neighbors dogs into eating your pussy!!! so I know what a slutty little bitch you are, and I also know that you are going to become a much bigger slut!. The combination of Belinda tweaking her clit and the realization that she knew everything about her new found sexual perversions made her heart sink and if she hadn't been holding tightly to the chair would have almost certainly collapsed.
Sissy at first didn't no what to say, as Bull was now pinching her clit a little harder each time. Belinda please, what do you want? Bull then said I have several ideas girl, first I want you to say, as loud as you can so that there will be no mistake, I am Bull's slutty sex toy and will do whatever she asks. Sissy repeated these words several times as Bull said louder until Sissy was almost screaming! The pinching on Sissy's clit had become more intense and as she uttered this last statement Bull sadistically pinched her clit and twisting it as hard as she could as Sissy really screamed out these last words in pain and collapsed to the floor in tears, sobbing!!!...
Sissy was down on her knees squatting against the floor and still hanging on to the arms of the chair, her pussy was dripping and she was whimpering as one big drop of love juice after the other fell from her sore and swollen tip of her clitoris onto the floor. It had now made a rather large pool of female cum as bull said okay, I will be back later to pick you up so that we can start making you into that slutty little whore I know you are. I !, want you ready when I get back , go take a shower and since you like being nude a lot! You wont need to wear much of anything! and handed her a black leather dog collar saying, do you have any heels? Sissy said no but I think my mom has some that I could wear. Okay as long as they are black and high!
Bull left, Sissy was still wondering just what she had in mind for her as she climbed in the shower. The interesting feeling in her breasts and nipples had now migrated down to the very base of her clit and had gone from sadistic pain to a very warm pleasurable feeling. She loved the idea of being sexually abused and ordered around by this older black woman and was getting more and more excited as to what Belinda might do to or with her?
She heard a car in the driveway and at first looked out, Bull had brought several of her friends?. Sissy had set down on her bed wearing only heels totally nude and had buckled the black dog collar around her neck and waited..
Belinda walked into her room had snapped a leash onto the collar and had re-tightened it to the point Sissy could hardly breath, this in its self really scared her as she gasped for breath!
She was literally pulled out of her bedroom down the stairs and out into the front yard, and was led to the car, Sissy was at first terrified that someone might drive by and see her! But it was far enough away from the street and no car drove by, the two rear doors opened as Bulls friends got out, they turned out to be two big black women, both were mean looking and quite intimidating especially the way they looked her over like animals as if she was just a piece of very young dumb succulent and very tasty cunt meat!!!...
The look they had given her produced only cold fear as she stood there naked next to the car in front of these two very hard looking women.
Both commented in detail as to what might happen to her pointy little nipples or her soft round plump bottom, but what really caught Sissy's attention was what they said each were going to do to her sweet little virgin pussy!!!..if she didn't do exactly as she was told. This sent cold shivers up and down her spine, and one, went on to say that if they didn't owe Belinda, Sissy this innocent little red headed 15 year old, would already be statistically stretched apart, hideously raped wit a big strap on, and brutally tortured! The thought left Sissy's heart literally pounding!
Belinda then turned her around and told her to bend over Sissy was just a little bit to slow! As a leather belt viciously stung her bare bottom. Sissy screamed out in pain as Bull said I told you to do exactly what I say and I mean it now!
The results along with the comments and the belt had again brought tears to her eyes as Sissy said, I will do anything, Belinda! just don't hit my bottom anymore with that belt!...
Each of these women with her bent over so inviting gave her sore and very red bottom several more viscous stinging open handed slaps! She let out another painful squeal and was then helped into the back seat in tears her whimpering was interspersed with short little sobs!... With these two big mean women setting on each side, and Bull in the front driving, the car went down the drive and out onto the country road.
Sissy was surprised how quickly, as she rubbed the welt on one of her sore ass cheeks, that the pain from only a moment ago was turning into an even more warm sensual and erotic feeling that had descended deep into her gentiles and only seemed to leave her young over sexed body wanting, no begging for more?... painful abuse!
They had turned onto the main highway and had driven for quite a while, only to turn off again at an old truck stop. This place was on the old road several miles from the main highway, and had been bypassed when the new one was built.
The top line truck companies did not stop here! Only the small independents and outlaw truckers did. The place had regular fuel pumps and the price was cheaper. But this was not the reason they stopped here.
The whole place was really run down, there once had been a maintenance shop that was now abandoned, but it still had a reasonably good restaurant and tavern, along with a large parking area out back intended for the truckers to rest, but was rarely used for that. At the back of this lot was a Men,s only restroom with a number of dirty stalls and an old shower.
On one side of it was an area for dogs to run and do their business, as many of truckers had some big,and very mean dogs!. On the other side was an old rundown motel that was now for adults only and used by a number of prostitutes. This was the reason why most of the truckers and others, stopped here. Especially if they were looking for submissive prostitutes or for hard abusive sex with young women that could otherwise be forced into to some of the most degrading and sadistic sex acts one could imagine!
This was also a place where men brought their slutty wives or girl friends for the same type of treatment, and for those that craved the same type of wild and abusive sexual torture, and was also the place where lesbians like Bull and her friends brought innocent young oversexed things like Sissy, for their first submissive sexual encounter, so they could experience any number of sexually humiliating or disgraceful sex acts first hand just to see how they would react!
It was rumored as Bull went on to explain that a fairly attractive female truck driver with extremely large tits had stopped here some time back and had tried to use the men,s only rest room, She had been wearing only a halter top that barely covered her big breasts and cut off Levis. Once in the men,s room she was accosted by a group of men and ended up having her clothes ripped off, and literally hung up off the floor by her big tits along with being beaten and brutally raped so many times that she hardly remembered anything!, and if this wasn't bad enough after they were done, had staked her out naked in the dog area, and had let several of the truckers big viscous dogs bite her bare breasts, bottom and pussy!, the bites had left hideous teeth marks all over these so sensitive female parts of her body. They had also stood around taking bets as to how many times each of the dogs would fuck her!, and had taken pictures....Of course this was only a rumor!
Someone supposedly, did call the county sheriff, but even though her screams could be heard all over the parking lot and in the tavern no one did anything, and it was quite obvious she had been brutally raped, beaten and bitten, their were no witnesses, at least none that would come forward, and the woman herself did not want to press any charges either. Apparently she had been threatened that if she did say anything something much worse might happen to her!. Besides this was a remote area that law enforcement cared little about,and rarely patrolled, as long as no one was murdered they seemed to leave the place pretty much alone.
Sissy was so ripe and wet with anticipation, Bull had been threatening her that all sorts of cruel, dreadful and sexually sadistic things could or would happen to her. The thought of this? Along with the fact, she had been setting between these two big black women during the drive over, and that they could do what ever they wanted, and had also been taking turns seeing just how much pain and abuse Sissy's little breasts and big nipples could actually take. First tying a string around both nipples and pulling them together so tight that her nipples had turned a rather grotesque dark blue on the very ends!!!.
Then, one of the women would hold her arms and force her chest out so that the other would have no trouble sadistically pulling twisting the bare tips so hard that after the string was released, were now so super sensitive they had gone from blue to blood red!.
Even Sissy with tears of pain in her eyes was surprised at first, she was able to take so much sadistic and painful abuse on her no longer virgin little breasts.
They had decided to lead her around complex?. The car pulled to a stop in front of the old motel it was almost dark, but there were several dim lights around the front of the motel and in the parking lot.
Both of these big black women at bulls instructions had been writing on Sissy with bright red lipstick young slut in training on her well abused little titties and on the cheeks of her ass! They had then gotten her out of the car and had tied her hands behind her back and with bull leading her by her collar and Sissy wearing only hi heel shoes had pulled her off stumbling towards the motel parking area! Both of the big black women were now wearing skimpy tight leather bras and panties their big shapely bottoms and breasts were both trying to squeeze out and left them quite sexually appealing even for their size!.
Several women one young and another older were already in the parking area between the two rows of motel rooms and both were already bound and naked. The older one was down on her knees being used by a number of men she had an extremely large black cock up to the hilt in her pussy and an equally large white cock in her mouth with lots of cum leaking out of both ends and one could hear the gurgling of cum, but was not sure if it was from her mouth or pussy!. The other was being almost dragged around by only the big chrome rings that were pierced through her cunt lips she was crying and begging them to stop, as they really stretched her! but this was only met by laughter and her being pulled even harder. Apparently this was the only place the leash was attached!. Sissy's eyes were Wide with excitement and she could not believe a girls cunt lips would stretch as far out as this girls did did!
woah...i cummed so hard reading this.i started to lick myself and got my dog and forced him to be with me and shoved his face up my pussy and he licked and licked ooohhh it was sooo good you should try it! | {
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