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BA (Hons) Combined
In an era when access to an extraordinary variety of written and spoken forms of English seems to be constantly expanding, knowledge about how language works is indispensable.
The study of the English Language combines perfectly with any other discipline: all subjects depend on language to some extent and linguistics is interested in all aspects of discourse. Whether your other subject is in the creative arts (one popular combination is English Language and Creative Writing), the humanities (the English Language programme is located in the Department of English within the Faculty of Humanities, which includes the Department of Modern Languages) or the sciences (aspects of linguistics are, of course, scientific), English Language is a natural choice.
IMPORTANT NOTE – One obvious ‘combination’ is English Language and Literature but that ‘combination’ of subjects has its own dedicated Single Honours programme – see the web pages for English Language and Literature (BA Single Honours).
English itself is perhaps the most widely-spoken language in the world, with hundreds of millions of speakers - truly a global language, and a growing one. Currently only Mandarin Chinese has more speakers, but by 2025 the number of English-speaking Chinese is likely to exceed the number of native English speakers in the rest of the world. English is the official language of more countries than any other, and is the preferred international language of use for business, politics, education, and the arts and sciences. Whatever your other choice of subject for your degree, the study of English Language crosses over into many other disciplines, so you can also learn about English history, literature, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and even a bit of physiology (e.g. how we articulate sounds).
This exciting degree programme explores the English language in all of its multifaceted forms and uses. You will learn theoretical frameworks and concepts drawn from linguistics to enable you to analyse spoken and written English discourse - ranging from the language of the internet and TV interviews to poetry, news reporting and political speeches. You will also investigate the historical and social nature of language - where English comes from and how it has changed; how it can both indicate and shape individual and group identity; and how language can be used to control and empower.
Each year you will take 120 credits worth of modules. Modules are worth either 20 or 40 credits. In combining English Language with another subject you share these credits with modules from your other course. At Level 6 (Year 3) a combined honours student can choose to take either 40 credits (‘Minoring'), 60 credits (‘Equalling') or 80 credits (‘Majoring') of English Language.
As a Combined Honours English Language student, in your first year half of your studies will be spent studying English Language in two compulsory core modules. In the following year you can choose to study more of one of your two subjects, and then, in your final year, you can ‘Major' or ‘Minor' in one (or opt to do an equal amount of both). The Combined Honours programme, therefore, gives you the opportunity to balance your studies to suit your developing interests.
You will be introduced to core concepts in the study of English Language and tools of linguistic analysis: the sounds of speech (phonetics and phonology) and the structure of words and sentences (morphology and syntax).
You will apply your knowledge of language structures and functions to the analysis of spoken and written discourse, whether it be poems, speeches, reviews, text messages or news reports. You will be introduced to conversation analysis including ways of recording and transcribing speech. You will also study genre, style and audience.
Where English comes from, how it has changed, and where it is going.
In the final year students may choose - depending on how many credits of English Language they take - to do a research-based Dissertation in a language and linguistics-related subject of particular interest to them
Assessment methods vary. You will write standard essays and give short seminar presentations, and also be encouraged to collect your own original language data for analysis as part of a coursework assignment.
You may be asked to record and transcribe spoken data. Although the majority of assessment is coursework based, some modules include formal examinations.
The course will prepare you for a wide range of jobs including:
Jobs directly related to your degree:
Jobs where your degree would be useful:
You will be equipped with transferable skills which are valued by employers such as:
If you are studying this course on a combined basis you should look at options with both subjects.
For further information please visit:
|UCAS points:||280 UCAS points from GCE A Levels or equivalent. Typical Offer - BCC/BBC|
|GCE A Level:||
The department recommends one of the following subjects:
GCE A Level: English Language, English Literature, English Combined (Language and Literature)
|BTEC:||BTEC Extended Diploma/Diploma: merit/distinction profile plus one of the GCE A Level subjects listed above|
|Irish/Scottish Highers:||B in 4 subjects, including English|
|International Baccalaureate:||26 points, including 5 in English|
|Access||Access to HE Diploma (must include English Language or Literature at Level 3) and to include 45 credits at level 3, 30 of which must be at Merit|
|OCR:||OCR National Extended/Diploma: Distinction/Merit profile plus one of the GCE A level subjects listed above|
Please note that we accept a maximum of 20 UCAS points from GCE AS Levels and that the Welsh Baccalaureate (core) and A Level General Studies will be recognised in our offer. We will also consider a combination of A Levels and BTECs/OCRs.
Studying English at Chester has been a joy. I feel I have matured intellectually and my passion for English has continued to grow."
English Language StudentAlyson O'Hare | <urn:uuid:67958c65-2171-4466-a74e-2959dfb744f2> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.chester.ac.uk/undergraduate/english-language-combined | 2015-11-24T22:08:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398444047.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205404-00218-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921351 | 1,258 |
Both greater and lesser prairie chickens are omnivores and eat mostly seeds, berries, and insects. In the summer, they’ll find more insects and bugs, and in the winter they rely more on grains, leaves, seeds, and other stuff they find foraging.
Where To Prairie Chickens Live?
Prairie chickens also called Pinnated grouse and boomers, are native to North America. They were once living in abundant numbers across the Midwest and northern central plains.
Unfortunately, a sad reality is that this species is now extremely rare. This is largely due to habitat loss such as developments taking up their habitat.
They can live on agricultural land, but prefer to live in tallgrass prairies - hence their name. This is mainly because they eat the plants and bugs found in this kind of landscape and create nests in weeds.
The Prairie chicken has been close to extinction. It’s totally due to human interactions that they’ve been reducing in numbers.
Due to deliberate efforts to help conserve them, numbers are climbing again. According to Wikipedia, a rough estimation is that there are around 500,000 Prairies.
There are some large Lesser Prairie populations in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Greater Prairies can be found throughout North America.
In fact, at the time of writing this, there were six states with huntable populations. That’s not my idea of a good time, but obviously, hunting is big business.
Differences Between Lesser and Greater Prairie Chickens
You may have noticed there are two classifications of Prairie’s; Greater and Lesser Prairie chickens.
As far as I can tell, apart from the Greater being a physically larger bird, there are just a few subtle physical differences that separate these two birds:
Greater Prairies have more prominent feathers on their neck called pinnae. They also have a bright yellow eye comb and an air sack on their necks that is an orange to yellow color.
The main difference you’ll notice when looking at a Greater and Lesser bird together is that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken has a red air sack, opposed to the yellow one on the Greater.
If you want to see the differences for yourself and witness one of the greatest mating rituals I’ve personally ever seen, here is a video of Lesser and Greater Prairie Chickens stomping and booming for females:
What Do Greater Prairie Chickens Eat?
Both species are omnivores and eat seeds, grains, leaves, acorns, fruits, beds, and various other plants they find. They also eat most insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, and all the usual bugs most backyard chickens eat.
They are great foragers, as you’d expect for wild chickens that are able to survive just fine in the wild (unless they experienced habitat loss as I covered above).
Prairies are also great flyers, which usually comes as a surprise to those familiar with backyard checked breeds. I say this because they aren’t too different in size and appearance to most chicken breeds, yet they can fly several miles at a time with ease.
So, they’re able to find food on land, in trees, or in more difficult to reach places.
What Do Lesser Prairie Chickens Eat?
Lesser Prairies have the same diet and eat the same things as Greater Prairies. The differences between the two are in appearance, not in behaviors.
So, this means they also eat all kinds of bugs and insects. Typically insects that are found in long grass, like grasshoppers, crickets, Japanese beetles, ants, armyworms, grubs, etc.
They also eat vegetation, like bushes, grains, alfalfa, berries, and so on. As long as they have prairies to roam on, there isn’t usually a shortage of food options.
What Do Prairie Chickens Eat in the Winter?
Interestingly Prairie chickens are pretty cold-weather hardy. In fact, they can be seen diving into deep snow as a way of keeping warm.
It was once thought severe winter weather was contributing to their dwindling numbers. This is now known not to be true, although heavy rainfall can kill chicks or wash nests away.
There are a lot fewer insects to eat in the winter. So, they simply switch up their diet and eat more plant matter.
Being omnivores, Prairies can survive on both meat and plants. The proteins and other nutrients in insects are important to their long-term health but reducing their intake during the winter months isn’t an issue.
Prairie chickens are not kept as backyard chickens, but I’ve always been fond of them when seeing them on wildlife programs and wanted to help raise some awareness for this wonderful species.
As you can see, they eat a diet very typical of most chickens in the wild. They will eat bugs, insects, and plant matter. Pretty much taking up whatever opportunities present themselves, and they do just fine scavenging and scratching around. | <urn:uuid:6fd6e9ff-ec75-4aba-b1ce-672960e3c101> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://chickenandchicksinfo.com/what-do-prairie-chickens-eat/ | 2023-06-05T10:01:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224651815.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605085657-20230605115657-00143.warc.gz | en | 0.96817 | 1,061 |
On Sunday, June 5, we celebrated our daughter becoming a bat mitzvah. She is our oldest, so other than two brit milahs, this was our family’s first simcha.
Over the years my husband and I have transitioned through the spectrum of religious observance. Though our Jewish education as children was minimal, during our marriage we have studied and learned with rabbis and religious families from Miami Beach to Brooklyn, Lakewood to Atlanta, implementing new mitzvahs and making Judaism and Torah part of the essence of our lives.
So planning our daughter’s bat mitzvah — a name sometimes given to the event rather than the person it celebrates — got me thinking about the paradox of religious expression.
For my bat mitzvah class, as for many other Jewish children, that milestone marked the beginning and the end of our Jewish education and connection.
Our daughter, on the other hand, attends a Jewish school and has spent the past nine years, several hours a day, studying Torah, the prophets, Jewish history and Hebrew and learning the daily prayers, along with science, math, language arts and other secular subjects.
Now that she has officially become a bat mitzvah, a daughter of the Torah, all the laws she has learned are officially part of her.
It is interesting that the root of the Hebrew word halachah means “to go forward.” I had often considered the laws as something that held us back in some way. But it is just the opposite.
Our daughter’s bat mitzvah date was not just a day on the calendar devoted to a portion of the Torah, though that part did hold special significance. Now the entire Torah is hers, as it has been ours for thousands of years and generations of Jewish women. The Torah goes forward with her.
In her bat mitzvah portion, Bamidbar, we begin the fourth of the five books of the Torah. This book is also known as Numbers, for G-d commanded that a census of the Jewish people be taken. Through this counting, G-d reminds us of how precious we are to Him, that we are all part of His master plan, and because of that, we all count.
G-d gives each of us unique gifts, talents and missions. Each of us is endowed with a special purpose that only we can fulfill. Just as no two people look exactly alike, no two souls are exactly alike. Each individual is custom-made and has a purpose that only he or she can fulfill.
As parents, our role is to help our children recognize and develop these strengths. I am busy with life and don’t often take the time to tell my children about the virtues I see in the them. During my speech to my daughter, I shared those virtues with her, as well as with her friends and family.
The bat mitzvah celebration was a chance for us to come together after her years of study and immersion in Jewish rituals and laws — not just at school, but also, more important, at home. It was a special day that denotes her opportunity to embark on a life that, I hope and pray, is filled with meaning and connection to her heritage, her Torah and G-d.
Hasidic thought explains that the census, or counting, recorded in the parshah was a profound event that touched on the core of the Jewish spirit. When a group is counted, everybody is equal. No person is counted twice, however important he or she is.
What then are we actually counting? It is not our personalities, our unique talents, our wealth, our knowledge or our esteem. Rather, we are counting our very identities. When the Jewish people are counted, the core of our Jewishness, possessed by all Jews equally, is stimulated and brought to the surface.
This spark is responsible for the remarkable phenomenon among countless Jewish people who, throughout history, were threatened with death if they refused to renounce their Judaism.
History has shown that Jews from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, including the nonobservant, gave up their lives rather than denounce their religion.
Why? Because the Jewish core is always alive. And when the G-dly spark comes to the surface, any Jew will naturally feel that his Jewish identity is so important that he is not willing to compromise it even for a moment.
Once we are unified in our service to G-d, regardless of our backgrounds or affiliations, as we were at Mount Sinai when we received the Torah, then our uniqueness can shine, and our mission in the world can come to fruition — as individuals and as a nation.
Whether we have recently become a bar or bat mitzvah or it has been decades, may we all merit to know who we are and to feel good about ourselves as unique individuals and as part of the Jewish people as a whole — from generation to generation, together as part of His master plan.
Sources: “Torah for Your Table,” Rabbi Yisroel and Rabbi Osher Anshel Jungreis, compiled by Rebbetzin Ester Jungreis. The Gutnick Edition Chumash, Sefer Bamidbar. | <urn:uuid:076464b0-20f7-4738-8bcd-28a172d4aa0d> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/bat-mitzvah-lesson/ | 2018-03-24T05:53:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649931.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324054204-20180324074204-00098.warc.gz | en | 0.975643 | 1,081 |
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The voice came from behind me as we waited to board our flight to Maui at L.A. International Airport: “You go to Hawaii for a lot of things, but food isn’t one of them,” it said.
By the time I turned to see who said it, I was too late. I didn’t hear the voice again and had no idea who spoke those words.
Jennifer and I have been to Hawaii many times in the last 20 years, usually to Kapalua on the island of Maui. We’ve also been to Kauai and The Big Island of Hawaii. We go for the golf for me, the spas for Jennifer and the whale watching for both of us. We’ve had some very relaxing and wonderful visits. But I can’t say the food ever was the reason for booking the flight.
After a while, I realized the voice in the airport could have been saying either of two things: a) there is no good food in Hawaii, or b) with so many other things to do, food isn’t the main draw.
From our many trips to the islands, I could have accepted either alternative. We’ve ridden horses through lush forests, driven to the top of volcanoes, watched plenty of whales, visited sites where the musical South Pacific was filmed, seen indescribable rainbows, explored the Hana highway, and marveled at the beauty of countless waterfalls. When it comes to food, however, we’ve identified just a few restaurants we enjoy enough to visit again, and many not so much.
Merriman’s in Napili on Maui is the clear winner among all the restaurants we’ve tried over the years. It’s so good that we made reservations well ahead of time for two dinners on our most recent trip. It’s a rare place that does justice to meat dishes as well as fish on the same menu, and the fish offerings are not the boring standard items you will find dozens of other restaurants. Anytime I see Colorado lamb on a menu, I know the restaurant is a probable winner. That’s what Jennifer had on our first night this year, saddle of Colorado lamb. I’ve eaten kanpachi at sushi bars countless times, but this was the first time I’ve seen it offered cooked. It came from local waters. Both dishes were excellent
We’ve been to Merriman’s several times and never yet have we seen a man wearing a baseball cap, torn jeans, or flipflops. Most of the women wear dresses, many with a hint of Hawaii in the patterns. Most of the men wear collared shirts.
For breakfast on Maui we like Longhi’s in Lahaina. We go early, before Front Street fills with traffic and pedestrians, before the cruise ships arrive. The large shudders at the front of the restaurant are open to the scent of the ocean. The eggs are fresh, the bacon full of flavor, the Italian sausages are tops, and the orange juice is squeezed fresh. Then there is the French toast, thick slices of bread, well slathered in eggs, fried perfectly and served with very good maple syrup. With a side of bacon, it makes me swoon.
If you’re looking for something a bit up scale for dinner, there’s the Lahaina Grill on the ground floor of the historic Lahaina Inn. We dined there a few years ago, enjoyed it, but had not inclination to go back, not with Merriman’s just up the highway.
For a quick lunch or afternoon snack, the calamari fritti at Lailani’s on the Beach at Whalers’ in Kaanapali is a good bet, particularly if you can score a table overlooking the beach on a bright, sunny afternoon. It’s the Hawaii of travel brochures.
If we go back to Maui, it probably won’t be to Kapalua. There are other good golf courses elsewhere on the island and any other resorts have a spa. The weather at Kapalua has been problematic our last few visits. It’s the rainiest and windiest part of the island. It can be raining at Kapalua and you seven miles south you’ll find sunshine in Kaanapali or Lahaina. We haven’t been to Wailea in a long time. There’s good golf and spas there, usually better weather, and reasonable whale watching. There was a time when one could commute between the northern and southern cities of the west side of the island, but traffic has become a real issue.
We loved our visit to Kauai a few years ago. We saw the greatest rainbow either of us ever has seen. It touched down just a few yards from where we were having breakfast and lasted a solid 20 minutes. We visited many of the sites where the movie South Pacific was filmed, ate breakfast on a patio from which we had wonderful views, rode horses to waterfalls, and took a helicopter tour of the mountains. The concierge at our hotel recommended a VIP luau package that included dinner at Gaylord’s restaurant instead of the buffet luau food.
The Gaylord’s dinner was four course prix fixe. FIRST COURSE: shrimp and scallop spring rolls, or a roasted beet salad on a leek tart with goat cheese and sweet, fried Maui onions. SECOND COURSE: caprese with Tahitian vanilla infused balsamic vinegar, or a field greens salad with grilled portobello mushrooms, goat cheese and toasted pine nuts. THIRD COURSE: sesame seared ahi with ginger scallion rice and tempura avocado, or Hoisin glazed pork spareribs with pineapple fired rice and Asian slaw. DESERT: Banana cream pie with butterscotch sauce, candied walnuts and Gold Koloa Rum whipped cream, or profiteroles with mandarin orange anglaise, hot chocolate truffle sauce and vanilla bean ice cream. That’s a meal that would be great with or without a luau and was light years better than any traditional luau food you can find anywhere.
The other “do-it-again” meal on Kauai was laulau at Hanalei Taro and Juice Co., a food truck found near Princeville. Again, credit the concierges at the St. Regis for this recommendation. Laulau is a native Hawaiian dish. The traditional preparation, which is what we had, is pork wrapped in taro leaves and placed in an underground oven. Hot rocks are layered on the leaves which then are covered in banana leaves and buried for a few hours. There are several other food trucks on Kauai that offer laulau, but the concierge said this was the best. Strange thing is I’ve never seen laulau offered anywhere on Maui.
That’s pretty sparse pickin’s for two islands, just three restaurants and a food truck. I don’t want to leave the impression that there are no other places worth visiting on Maui or Kauai. It’s just that I don’t find any of them distinguished or distinctive. Go online and look at menus. After you’ve seen three or four, they all begin to look the same – aji, mahi-mahi, opa … We had some acceptable meals on The Big Island. They just were not memorable.
This is not a new situation. My culinary history in the islands dates back to the mid-1960s, when I was a partner in a tour packaging company that specialized in very high-end Hawaiian travel. Our operating mantra was there would be no more expensive Hawaiian vacation package on the market and the traveler would get his or her money’s worth and more. We were dealing with the best of the best in hotels and restaurants. The “best,” of course, is relative. Luau food was dreadful back then and still is today. We contracted with a caterer for a luau package that was exclusive to our tours and met our very particular standards.
In the final analysis, no matter which way you want to interpret the remark I heard at the airport, you don’t go to Hawaii for the food. Not in the 1960s and not now. But it’s worth going for everything else. | <urn:uuid:bd2b07f4-0444-41d9-b208-c2250f285444> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.tabletalkatlarrys.com/2019/05/does-anyone-go-to-hawaii-for-the-food/ | 2019-05-24T15:13:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257660.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524144504-20190524170504-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.961473 | 1,786 |
Part seven in our ongoing retrospective letter series. An index of all letters can be found here.
From: Leigh Alexander
To: Kirk Hamilton
Subject: Poor Pokey-Headed Young Thing
So by now you saved Cloud and came upon the game’s most major plot twist. Confession: When I was a teenager, it wasn’t quite clear to me. Like, I often still have to go back and read up to refresh my memory of what actually happened in Nibelheim and remind myself—where’d Jenova’s head end up? So how has Sephiroth been showing up all this time? How’d Cloud and Zack get away?
Actually, you don’t know about Cloud and Zack getting away. You have to go back to Nibelheim later and find out. Check out the tanks in the library. Zack was a real super-SOLDIER.
Cloud, obviously, wasn’t. Even though it gets a bit muddled mako-and-Lifestream nonsense at this point, I like it. It’s the first time, for me, that I really start to feel a sense of love and protectiveness toward the hero. I mean, in those Nibelheim flashbacks of his childhood, look at his cute little-kid sprite walking determinedly up to Tifa’s house while she is inside hanging out with the cool boys. Aww! And so what if Cloud never became a real SOLDIER—he kept his promise to Tifa, awwww!
From there I felt he was realized, in a way that was pretty advanced relative to the times. It made me want to really invest time in making him and the party stronger. Actually, most of the really good character moments from here are pretty optional. You can, by the way, go back to Midgar now whenever you feel like. The key’s at the archaeology site; it’s considered a “normal treasure” and I think you can get it if only you talk to that dude chilling by the fence.
Anyway. What’s interesting is that from this point forward, actually numerous characters become more sympathetic, or more nuanced, or the gaps in them get filled in if you seek them out (can you reach Vincent’s waterfall yet?) Even the Shin-Ra are engaged in a misguided and yet somehow appreciable attempt to help save the planet; you’ve got to love Reno’s very selective sense of when he is “on the clock” or not.
And the game kind of builds this slowly, right? You’re getting this sense of people coming together around the end of the world. So even when the dialog is cheezy pep-talk LET’S DO THIS FOR AERIS AND MARLENE AND LUCRECIA AND FOR MY SPACE DREAMS type stuff, you can’t help but feel fond of all these cute, blocky little people and everything they’ve been through and believe in.
Every Japanese RPG threatens you with the end of the world. Some supernatural villain is planning to cause a great disaster event to eliminate or take over the world, either because he’s some soulless nihilist, vengeful psychopath, or wannabe despot, and you and your ragtag band have to stop him. The game usually ends with an 11th-hour showdown on the top of the tower where you finally challenge what’s-his-name while he’s just about to do whatever.
But FFVII’s pacing is surprising, and it remains unique. You noticed that you had two thirds of the game left after Aeris’ famous death. Sephiroth gets the Black Materia and summons Meteor halfway through, and then you’ve gotta play out the rest of the game with that ominous object looming, with townsfolk having accepted their likely end, with the guts of the planet erupting up from the sea and apocalyptic monsters just, y’know, flying around. Life goes on! There’s still Chocobo racing!
I always thought that was cool, the relatively slow pacing of the quintessential-RPG-disaster events. You get to see the world and its characters change as you go, and that’s probably another incentive to explore: Return to a place and it’s different than the first time, like Mideel. Or learn something you didn’t know, like Nibelheim. The narrative is telling you you have one thing to do — but from elements that have piqued your emotional attachments and curiosity to those that are scratching your gameplay itch (CHOCOBO)—you actually feel the urge or desire to do a lot of things.
It makes the world feel bigger and richer right when it’s at its most vulnerable. I think that’s why FFVII’s later game is satisfying. It’s dug into your heart, and you can feel it ending, which is interesting on its own—and yet there’s so much more you can do to prolong your relationship with it. Which is maybe why I never noticed a narrative disconnect: Hey, Meteor’s coming, we’re running out of time, what are we going to do, oh yeah play at Gold Saucer! There are just enough visible “game” frameworks in FFVII that it feels okay. There’s another benefit for abstraction; you can be “gamey” without losing immersion.Anyway. I don’t think you’re in “late game” yet. Lots of stuff to do yet—but the pace will pick up.
And on the over-simplistic names? I think it’s brilliant. Yes, it is funny having a weapon named WEAPON and a meteor named Meteor and an archaeology site called Bone Village and a gold saucer called the Gold Saucer. But it makes it a lot easier to follow, doesn’t it? Supposing Aeris was busy calling on Thyllullia to stop Sephiroth from using the Phthalath to summon Mytheteon and destroying all of Rephistytheles with the resulting surge of the W’teva? Could you still go and race K’thul at the Aurelio Magneo or dig for the Stone of Opening Midgar in Wyzemere Village without feeling kinda stupid?
The basic names are abstraction at work again. You can map such simple things onto your brain without even trying—you won’t need to be reminded what the “Highwind” is or where to find Cosmo Canyon (duh, in a canyon). That frees you up to think about what things are instead of what they’re called.
And because most things and places are named pretty clearly after what they are, it also makes it more magical when Cloud can do something called “Climhazzard” or Vincent can become “Death Gigas”. Or when you have a weapon called a “Premium Heart”, or truly important locations named after Norse myths. Letting simple things be simple helps make other things intriguing, beautiful by contrast, and again, that’s something that RPGs stuffed with lorebooks just don’t get. | <urn:uuid:949c9dcd-13a3-4e29-820c-5b3b30c536fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/04/the-final-fantasy-vii-letters-part-7.html | 2017-10-20T16:20:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824226.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020154441-20171020174441-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.949486 | 1,542 |
04/29/10 7:04 PM ET
Navarro returns from two-game suspension
By Adam Berry / MLB.com
Navarro missed both games of the Oakland series and said he was sorry for the actions that led to the suspension, but he is ready to get back on the field. He wore a brace on his knee before Thursday night's game, but he said there will be no limitations caused by the sore right leg that kept him out of two games prior to being suspended. If anything, Navarro said, the punishment worked out well because it gave him more time to heal.
"It worked out perfectly," Navarro said. "Obviously I wouldn't plan it that way, but it came out fine. I'm ready, excited, can't wait."
John Jaso got the start at catcher over Navarro against Kansas City, simply because of the way he has been playing lately, manager Joe Maddon said. Jaso, who was called up from Triple-A Durham when catcher Kelly Shoppach went on the 15-day disabled list, is batting .450 with three doubles, a home run, nine RBIs and six walks to just one strikeout.
"Navvy's ready to go tonight. I just chose to go with Jaso," Maddon said. "He's been hot, quite frankly. I just cannot walk away from Jaso right now. I told Navvy that straight-up, and he understood it. He's a great team player."
Howell's rehab looks to be on track
ST. PETERSBURG -- A day after throwing a bullpen session, as part of the rehab to heal his left shoulder, J.P. Howell said his progress was right on track.
The lefty reliever threw from 135 feet on flat ground and about 30 pitches from the mound, before Wednesday's game. He said he woke up Thursday morning, stretched out his left arm, and felt fine.
"I feel like I could pitch today, and that's what I want," Howell said. "I don't want to feel like I need three days off to be all right. Today's pretty good progress again."
After throwing only easy fastballs Wednesday, Howell will throw another bullpen session Friday, of about 35 to 40 pitches and mix in more changeups. He said he will start working in a curveball either next Wednesday or Thursday.
"Tomorrow, another bullpen, and that'll be another hurdle," Howell said. "I'm going to get through that, then we'll see how I feel on Saturday."
Howell said Wednesday he hopes to return by the end of May, but manager Joe Maddon wouldn't commit to a specific timeframe.
Maddon, Zobrist see funny side of hitting Bartlett
ST. PETERSBURG -- Ben Zobrist and manager Joe Maddon expressed an unusual emotion the day after a foul ball by Zobrist struck teammate Jason Bartlett in the back: disappointment.
Bartlett was on third base when Zobrist came to the plate for the final at-bat of Tampa Bay's six-run fifth inning Wednesday night against Oakland, and the switch-hitter nailed a pitch from A's reliever Brad Kilby directly into his teammate's lower back. A day later, Zobrist and Maddon joked about the fact that the line drive wasn't hit hard enough to do more damage than it did.
"I saw the mark on his back last night, and I was like, 'Is that all? Is that all it did?'" Zobrist said with a laugh. "I was like, 'Man, I would have hoped I would have gotten some seams on you or something.'"
Maddon jokingly added: "It's kind of disappointing, I think, that Zobrist gets him with his best shot, and he's able to play the next day."
Bartlett played the sixth inning before Sean Rodriguez came in to pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the seventh. Bartlett started at shortstop and led off the Rays' order in their Thursday night game against the Royals, so Zobrist and Maddon can now laugh about the incident. But Zobrist was far less amused at the time.
"I was shocked. It was so quick that I was hoping he was OK," Zobrist said. "Then, once I saw he was OK, he kind of gave me a nod like, 'Hey, the field's out there, buddy. Make sure you hit it in between those two lines.'"
Benoit thrilled to rejoin Rays
ST. PETERSBURG -- Joaquin Benoit had plenty of reasons to breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday night.
The right-handed reliever was called up from Triple-A Durham when the Rays optioned catcher Jose Lobaton. Benoit joined the team at Tropicana Field before Thursday night's game. The 32-year-old veteran left the Bulls, who were playing in Buffalo, N.Y. -- all the more reason for Benoit to be excited about the move.
"It's really a relief, first of all, because it was like 20 degrees in Buffalo. That's not really my weather," Benoit said. "To be up here, the change of scenery is great. The big leagues is the big leagues. You cannot have anything better than this."
Benoit was the last player left off the Rays' final 25-man roster at the end of Spring Training, and he said the time spent in the Minors should leave him better prepared for his new role out of Tampa Bay's bullpen.
"Being the last guy to get cut, it gives you some sense of, 'OK, I've got a chance to prove to myself that I belong there. So I went up there, tried to do the best I can."
Benoit, who spent all or parts of eight seasons with the Rangers from 2001-08, missed the entire 2009 season recovering from rotator cuff surgery. He pitched in eight games for Durham this year, going 0-1 with two saves, a 2.79 ERA and 17 strikeouts to just three walks in 9.2 innings of work.
The righty pitched on back-to-back days just once with the Bulls, and he said he would most likely be ready to take the mound every other day for the Rays. Manager Joe Maddon said it would depend primarily on his workload in his first appearance. If he throws 20 to 25 pitches, he won't go back-to-back, but he could be available if he only throws eight to 15 pitches in his first outing.
"I'm comfortable in a more high-leverage situation with him," Maddon said. "I do like him on lefties a lot. I'm not going to run away from the righties, but he's got a little [Rays right-handed reliever Lance] Cormier in him. He's that kind of a pitcher, although the velocity's better. He's been throwing up in the mid-90s in Durham."
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s ambitious retrospective, Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist, is a near complete survey of the great filmmaker's work, including all of the theatrical features that he directed, along with many of television films, as well as films influenced by him or featuring him as an actor. The series concludes with the works of the second half of Fassbinder’s career — these screen from November 7th through the 26th — a phase which contains several of his most impressive masterpieces.
One of the most remarkable and underrated films of this period is the rarely screened, well-written tele-film, the 1975 Fear of Fear, a study of the mental discrimination of a beautiful housewife, played by the fascinating Fassbinder muse, Margit Carstensen. The director’s mise-en-scène here — despite a few infelicities involving zooms — is at its most sophisticated, stylistically alluding to the baroque flourishes of Hollywood melodramas and films noir from the 1950s and late 1940s (Fear of Fear was photographed by the distinguished Jürgen Jürges, one of Fassbinder’s frequent collaborators).
The excellent supporting cast is drawn from the panoply of the director’s celebrated stock company, featuring Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Adrian Hoven, Armin Meier, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Lilo Pempeit, and Hark Bohm, among others. Fassbinder’s regular composer, Peer Raben contributed a score that memorably evokes the neo-Romantic soundtracks of the American films that inspired Fear of Fear.
The 35-millimeter print being screened by the Film Society, despite some dirt and wear, still has much of the attractive gleam of a new copy, but blown up from the original 16-millimeter format, it is much too grainy.
Fear of Fear screens twice on Thursday, November 13th and once on Sunday, November 16th.
Grace of Monaco
Biographical films aren’t what they used to be, and thank goodness for that. Many of those inspirational, by-the-numbers celluloid (er, digital) resumes are thud-worthy. At Cannes there are a few biographies, and while not all are works of genius, many take a different approach to the genre.
The festival opened with Olivier Dahan’s “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace, nee Kelly. Alright, this is not the best example of a new style of biography. In fact in this version of her life, Princess Grace single-handedly saves a world on the brink of war, when she gets all the right people to attend a Red Cross benefit. On top of that, she discovers family traitors in the ranks in a story of palace intrigue. Who knew?
“Mr. Turner” by Mike Leigh, stars Timothy Spall as the eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner. In addition to the apparently huge amount of research done by Leigh and Spall, the film itself has the look and feel of a Turner painting. Spall is magnificent as the solitary painter who had a genius way of painting but has the look and feel of a feral animal when it comes to most human contact. As with another great work by Leigh that deals with historical - and artistic - characters, “Topsy Turvy” (about Gilbert and Sullivan), the film doesn’t lay out the characters’ entire life. No flashback to childhood so we might understand why Turner is the way he is. Instead we are treated to a moment in his life; a sketch, perhaps, that give us a hint to the life of the man.
“Saint Laurent,” Bertrand Bonello’s fantastical and exciting portrait of the designer, comes on the heels of a fairly standard bio of Yves Saint Laurent. That one uses a prosthetic nose so that we recognize the main character. Bonello does no such thing. His actors (two portray Saint Laurent at different stages) simply embody the man, and so we know him very well by his words, his movements. Bonello uses lavishness in the characters and the photography to represent an excessive era.
Speaking of prosthetics, Steve Carell does use one to inhabit the character of disturbed (to say the least) millionaire John du Pont in Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher.” And while his portrayal is intensely disturbing, this writer spent a great deal of time internally remarking that Steve Carell was hidden under that nose. Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum used no such devises to play the Schultz brothers. Miller depends on these intense portraitures to evoke that strange happenings on the du Pont estate.
Jessica Hausner’s “Amour Fou” tells the story of 19th century poet Heinrich von Kleist, who committed suicide along with his lover, Henriette Vogel. The film comes off as a studied, wry comedy. By the way, that’s comedy in the Shakespearian sense; that is, Hausner does not view suicide as tragedy. Instead, she creates a period set piece that veers on the absurd.
With the exception of “Grace of Monaco,” each of these films gives a new look to biographical drama. Taken together they represent not just deeper looks at real life, but instead using true stories and characters to propel cinematic storytelling, a win for viewers, certainly – but also a win for the future of biographical storytelling.
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The first issue to resolve is the difference between a smoker and a grill. For those who are barbecue enthusiasts, this is an important distinction. The smoker uses indirect heat from charcoal and hardwood that is close enough to cook your dinner, but not close enough to cook directly. The air vents draw in air and send the hot smoke around the food to cook indirectly. The grill uses a direct heating method with charcoal or wood directly under the food. A smoker/grill can do both types of cooking. The steel drum barrel serves as a perfect base.
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Things you need
- 2 Steel drums
- 4 Barrel supports
- 2 Male metal collars
- 2 Female metal collars
- 2 Vent pipes (placed in between barrels)
- 2 Stove pipes
- 4 Hinges
- 1 small grill grate
- 1 large grill grate
- Metal cutter
- Mason blocks
- Wood deck
- or Sleepers
- Lock washers
Clean each drum with a wire brush inside and out. It's best to find a steel drum that has been used to transport biodegradable materials or food and not toxic chemicals.
Build a fire in each drum to burn off residues of food or debris. This fire should burn hotter than what you would use to cook food, and should be allowed to burn completely out. This may take a full day.
Wash out the cooled drums and empty the ashes and contents. The barrels are now ready to be converted to your smoker/grill.
Turn the barrel on its side and secure it in place with mason blocks. Draw a line on the side of the barrel 2 inches from the top with a wax pencil or Sharpie. Draw another line 2 inches from the bottom of the barrel. Connect the line at the top with the one at the bottom to create a rectangle shape. This will be the door into the smoker/grill. Use a metal cutter and cut out the shape you drew. Bolt two hinges at the top of the rectangle piece and the barrel.
Turn the other barrel on its side and secure it in place with mason blocks. Use the wood metal collars as a guide and cut two holes in the top with a metal cutter. One should be 6 inches from the top of the barrel, the other 6 inches from the bottom.
Bolt the support frames of the double barrel kit to the bottom barrel, this will be the barrel with the two holes in the top. The male metal collars will fit into the holes and can be secured using bolts. The supports can be placed at either end and secured into place with bolts.
Bolt the second set of support frames to the bottom of the barrel with the vent holes and secure the frames to a wood deck or a couple of sleepers. The barrel should be sturdy and level. Insert the wood stove vents into the metal collars on the bottom barrel and secure them with bolts and washers on four sides.
Lift the second barrel over the top of the first, with the door facing outward. Set the barrel down on the supports, and use a sharpie to mark the position of the vents. Use the small vents as a guide to find where you will cut the vent holes into the second barrel. Remove the barrel and cut the holes. Insert the female metal collars into the holes, and use bolts and washers to hold them in place. Lift the second barrel again and place the two vents into the holes on the upper barrel. Use bolts to attach the upper barrel to the female metal collars.
Cut a large door into the bottom barrel and attach hinges as you did with the upper barrel. This will be your feeder door where you will put wood or charcoal. Slide the small grill grate into the barrel. There should be about 3 inches of open space available under the grate in the bottom barrel. Drill two holes on the outside of the barrel that are lower than the grate. This will allow air flow into the grill/smoker.
Drill two holes into the top barrel just under the bottom of the door frame and two holes in the rear of the barrel. The holes should be at the same level. Insert two bolts into the front and secure them with lock washers and tighten. Repeat for the holes in the rear of the barrel.
Set the large grill gate into the top barrel on top of the bolts you installed. This will be your cooking/smoking surface.
Install one stove pipe vent on each side of the upper barrel. Use the metal cutter to create a hole that is smaller than the diameter of the metal collar on the stove pipe vents. Bolt the vents to the smoker. The vents will draw the smoke and heat from the bottom barrel up to the upper barrel.
Install handles on the lids by using metal screws. Drill a small hole in the upper barrel lid and insert a grill thermometer. Your smoker/grill is now ready for service. For smoked foods, use the firebox beneath. For grilled foods, place the smaller grill grate in the upper chamber under the large one and put charcoal in the upper barrel.
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As we age it’s common to forget things now and again and we might fear this is the first sign of dementia, but that’s not necessarily the case! Dementia is not a natural part of ageing. Dementia is an umbrella term, used to describe a group of symptoms that commonly include memory, thinking, problem solving, language and perception.
There are many different types of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is the most common one. According to Alzheimer’s Society the other types of dementia are:
- vascular dementia (caused by problems with blood supply to the brain)
- mixed dementia (usually Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia)
- dementia with Lewy bodies
- frontotemporal dementia (including Pick’s disease)
Alzheimer’s disease tends to start slowly and gradually progress over time.
Why do people develop dementia?
There are a various reasons why this happens. Age is the biggest risk factor and some people have a genetic predisposition to developing it. According to the National Institute on Aging some of the risk factors for dementia include the following:
- Consuming large amounts of alcohol
- Atherosclerosis (a thickening of the artery walls, which can hinder blood getting to the brain which can then increase the risk of a stroke or other brain injury)
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Some other possible underlying factors, according to research, include high homocysteine levels, oxidative stress (anti-oxidants support this), poor circulation in the brain and an increase in beta-amyloid proteins. According to Alzheimer’s Society, during the course of Alzheimer’s disease these ‘proteins can build up in the brain to form structures called ‘plaques’ and ‘tangles’. This leads to the loss of connections between nerve cells, and eventually to the death of nerve cells and loss of brain tissue’.
What can we do to reduce our risk?
Thankfully there is a lot we can do to reduce our risk before we get ‘old’ and adopting a healthy lifestyle is a good start. Around the age of 40 onwards is a good time to think about making healthy choices to support your cognitive health.
10 Top Tips
- Keep physically active! – aim for 30 mins, 5 days a week. It doesn’t have to be an exercise class but just keep moving!
- Don’t smoke
- Eat a healthy balanced diet – see below for details
- Keep alcohol intake low – have days without it
- Get tested! – go to the GP for regular health checks
- Keep to a healthy weight – the NHS website has guidelines on what these are
- Give your brain a daily workout! – do crosswords, puzzles or learn a new language. Keep your mind active!
- Consider taking a nutritional food supplement – specifically to support brain health (like the ones listed below)
- Use sage and rosemary in your diet – studies have shown these herbs may support cognitive function, including memory.
- Include blueberries in your diet – research show that regular blueberry consumption may improve memory and concentration levels.
A healthy balanced diet
- Avoid sugars and refined carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, biscuits, cereals etc)
- Avoid all processed foods, burnt foods and artificial ingredients
- Eat healthy fats (nuts, seeds, avocado, olive oil, coconut oil and oily fish (eg salmon, mackerel, and sardines)
- Eat plenty of vegetables and some fruit- eat a rainbow of colours and 8-10 a day
- Keep sources of carbohydrates to starchy vegetables (eg carrots, butternut squash, beetroot etc) and wholegrains, such as brown rice, oats and buckwheat (naturally gluten free).
- Have good quality protein (organic/free range chicken, eggs and meat and wild caught fish –not farmed, as well as organic sources of plant proteins)
- Have less saturated animal fats (red meat and dairy products)
- Drink 2 litres of water a day (filtered or natural mineral water).
What can we take?
There are a number of nutritional food supplements and herbal supplements that support brain health and cognitive function (which includes memory, concentration, mental clarity and focus). Some of the ingredients listed naturally contain anti-oxidants and anti-oxidants are important to help counteract any oxidative stress. Many of these products can be taken long before old age sets in, especially if you have a family history of dementia. Or they may be taken if you’re already suffering with some form of cognitive decline.
Turmeric — a powerful anti-oxidant with anti-inflammatory properties, it is being used in dementia research as it has an affinity to the brain.
Brahmi — supports circulation to the brain and has anti-inflammatory compounds.
Gotu Kola — also supports circulation to the brain
Holy Basil — High in anti-oxidants and also supports circulation in the brain.
Rosemary — a powerful anti-oxidant and supports memory. It has been shown to inhibit an enzyme which breaks down acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter) and studies show that people with poor memory have been low in acetylcholine.
Sage — Studies show this also supports memory, by inhibiting the enzyme which breaks down acetylcholine in the brain.
Gingko Biloba — has been shown to increases blood flow to the brain
Phosphatidylserine — this is a phospholipid fluid that is found in high concentration in cells, especially nerve tissue cells, and supports cognitive function.
Omega 3 fatty acids — these are important for general brain health including cognitive function.
B vitamins — B vitamins (B6, folate and B12) support healthy homocysteine levels in the body and studies have shown that high homocysteine can be an underlying risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease. Choose a methylated B complex for improved absorption. B Vitamins also support the nervous system.
Blueberry Concentrate — 100% pure blueberry concentrate, to mix with water and make a delicious drink or add to smoothies or yoghurt. Blueberries contain high levels of antioxidants and as mentioned above, research shows that regular blueberry consumption may improve memory and concentration levels. A study by the University of Exeter, showed improvements in cognitive function and blood flow to the brain, in older people who drank concentrated blueberry juice, every day for 12 weeks.
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- mai 13, 2022
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And i imply, We realized which had happened, however, I did not read potentially, just how so it inspired my personal psychology for the rest of my entire life beginning within 9. It had been only me and my personal mother and you will my personal 18-month-old cousin, Amery, at your home. It absolutely was a friday morning. My personal sis Haley, who had been annually and a half young than just I happened to be, she are checking out my grandmother Sally, who I am in fact planning to wade see a few weeks, my dad is at functions, and thus, it absolutely was just me personally and my mom and my personal kids sibling, Amery. Once again, she was a year and a half, household to the a saturday morning. And that i woke up to brand new sound out-of my mother, my personal mother saying, “Oh, my kids, my infant.” It’s amazing how i is also bear in mind so it, but I recall rubbing my personal attention. And at basic, I imagined my mom is actually having fun with Amery, I was thinking she was claiming, “Oh, my child, my child,” inside the a playful tone, then again whenever i woke up and We found, We believed real depression and chaos and you may concern and you can angst, I don’t even know just how to establish they, throughout the tone out-of this lady voice as the she said, “Oh my personal kid, my personal kids.”
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And you can my parents’ rooms was across the hallway. We sprang regarding my bed. I realized the latest hall, and my personal mother are providing mouth area-to-lips CPR on my kid sis Amery. And you will Amery was breastfeeding using my mommy, after which my personal mommy are lookin off from the the lady since she are breastfeeding. And you may appear to, my personal kid brother Amery’s sight merely glossed more, and you can my personal mom started undertaking CPR. And Amery was not answering and you will she never ever responded and you can she died you to day. Now, I do not know what is actually taking place in those days, yet not my personal mom speaking of in advance of she died, I am stating she died at health, or perhaps that’s when she was pronounced lifeless. Therefore, I am speaking of one to day because the I’m thinking about my personal mother and you may I’m going, “Mother, what are you doing?” And you may this woman is like, “Amery means help, Amery requires assist.”
Thus, Jenai forced me to to return towards my youth, return into the my life, and you may observe that from the nine yrs . old
Therefore, it wasn’t, Amery’s passing away otherwise inactive. It was, Amery demands help. And you may she sent me, said, “Visit the next-door neighbor, visit Grant’s house. They have oxygen.” He had been an adult gentleman, probably within his 1970s otherwise 80s. Thereby, he had an air container which he useful his or her own clean air. And you can she told you, “Go get Offer, score his oxygen tank.” And therefore, I went off to the fresh neighbor’s family, therefore is probably seven or 9 have always been. And you may Grant, he answers the doorway and you may they are strolling that have a good cane, I mean, he isn’t the quickest. And you can I am saying, “Rush, Give, rush. My personal sister.” And then he more sluggish made their method– i lived-in new mountains. So, particularly, we did not live-in a routine people. He had to visit, such as, up a dirt slope to try to get to your house. And then he introduced it. I would not hold the latest outdoors container. It was too big. It had been like four ft significant otherwise any sort of.
Thus, the guy wheeled they more than, and we put they in, and he wear it Amery’s deal with. And also the mouthpiece, the newest fresh air, it had been too-big on her nothing infant’s mouth area. And i also think of Grant, I recall your, brand new despair inside the sound, as he said, “It’s too large. It’s too-big for her face.” And you can a keen ambulance showed up, and you will my dad turned up around the same time frame of really works. And you can my personal mother and you will my dad got in brand new ambulance and it opted for my cousin for the health in which We thought what you was going to getting ok, since my pal Ben, their mom Janine chose me upwards, drove us to their house therefore i cannot end up being at the a healthcare facility, but simply hang out and possess my personal mind away from they and you will merely enjoy. | <urn:uuid:e04fb834-cd81-4af7-90ca-e6929e0b5ef9> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://fortademunca.ro/at-the-nine-yrs-old-you-could-be-aware-of-the-tale/ | 2024-03-01T00:19:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474893.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229234355-20240301024355-00743.warc.gz | en | 0.980739 | 1,126 |
Have you ever truly thought about what it means to live one day at a time. To live a life with no foreseeabke future. Living with a disorder that clouds your future to the point of obscurity. In our youth we find this thrilling a desire above so many others. Freedom to do as one wishes with no societal controls. The freedom to act with a selfish thoughtless greed. Then sickness or poverty hits.. A time in life when one must look up from the life of daily dailies and leave the confines of sickness. What if when you do everthing has changed for the worse. What if the motion that carried you has stopped. What if the passion that fueled your drive has burnt you to ground one to many times in life. What if you wake up and almost all the people you thought cared had passed judgment upon your head and heart. What if your own family had lost its need for you. What then.?
That life of living each day for the day looking back gave you nothing but heartache and sorrow. What if the future you saw never made up its mind up always changed kept you guessing what was next..Would you chose to live this life of faith and heartache. I’ve become a man so lost and scorned by his peers i fear my fate in this town, this life means nothing. I’ve made to many bad choices. To many leaps of faith that have ended with me crashing to ground before all to see. Sadly in the end none of it matters for we are all selfish scared creatures of the flesh. I put my heart my sleeve to many times only to have it soiled. By bad choices and users. Are you in my life for good of me or the good of you? If my life ends does it matter? Has it ever mattered for more than just a blink of time,. This bag of bones and shaky skin.
If i could still run. i would run and never stop, burn this flesh to the bone of exhaustion for my heart and soul have nothing more to give. I exists in a house of fear and uncertain futures. I’ve lost my star and gained a a universe of unknown potentials all the while my heart breaks and fear pours from every oraphus.
Lost wandering in a crowd of vultures if i knew what was right then I’d chose but this disease of the nerves as left me blind. Everything is grey as I pray for clarity yet recieve ambiguous signs of fate. My heart and soul want to be done with this struggle. I’m to tired and sad. To care about much of anything. If I’m shown no hope then no hope is what i have. If I’m shown love and affection then it is that what i believe. I cannot guess or see anymore that gift has been taken from me.
Now it’s time to bleed the paint from my broken soul once again. Once again i will paint this nightmare of a life in beautiful colours so all can be happy. So that colours of bright greens and golds can wash over you as you are thankful for your things.. I will watch you from the gutters of this life. So eat and drink like kings and queens on mankind. I will sit and paint and write my finals days on this earth then waves goodbye as the seasons change. For i am no longer needed here. You’ll be alright without me. God will still be there for you as will all those you convent so dearly. It’s just I who have grown tired of this mortal coil. This burnden is to great at times. Life lived on day at time for those who don’t have privilege looks like the end eachday. It doesn’t look or feel like freedom. I looks like hell feels like hell and burns the life straight out of ones soul daily. That is why eachday i so desperately seek things of great beauty for the darkness engulfs me at every point and the further you wander from the light the easier the darkness can find you..
Forgive me for my sins, as it says around my neck, forgive my transgressions against man and creature alike. For in the end when the darkness swallows me whole i hope i gave you enough light to carry you along your path. I hope you find the peace in this life i could not. Fear not of these words for they won’t be my last but but they, you and this life have broken me. Walk just one mile in my shoes, live with stage 6-7 pain for as many years as i have, fight with corp greed when you’ve not even enough sense to know what days it is. Love blindly those who would leave you wondering in life where you stand or why you even stand at all of the lack sincerity. Then cast your judgement upon me….. The End.
Thank you for allowing me to write here. To express my fears, dreams and desires openly without judgemental eyes. This was a post nap free write. May the day bring hope, love and faith. Love being the most important thing of all for it binds us together in hope that better days will come.
All my love… Always.
Benjamin M Prewitt
This is a very deep and emotional post, Benjamin.
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Yes my friend it is. Life has been so hard. Things have happened i never could have imagined. Cinga my Long term disability insurance carrier pulled a fast one. They asked me during cancer care to review my case. With no carer or guidance at the time i failed to meet there needs and they put my case on hold. This being the same ppl that declared me disabiled in the first place lol. Its simply such a classic case of corp greed and ppl being uncaring. The Feds reviewed my case and sent me a letter saying basicaly do to my diagnosis code they understand that getting worse is my only option. Apparently Cinga Health Insurance doesn’t themselves accountable to the same standards.
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Laboratory snags five R&D 100 awards
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“Oscars of Invention” recognize greatest innovations of 2009
Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 21, 2009— Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists won five of R&D Magazine’s
2009 R&D 100 Awards. Recognized as the “Oscars of Invention” by the
Chicago Tribune, these awards honor the top 100 proven technological
advances of the past year. Winning Laboratory projects are MagViz, the
SIMTECHE CO2 Capture Process, Lasonix, TeraOps Software Radio, and the
Artificial Retina Project.
“The Department of Energy's national laboratories are incubators of innovation, and I'm proud they are being recognized once again for their remarkable work,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. ”The cutting-edge research and development being done in our national labs is vital to maintaining America’s competitive edge, increasing our nation’s energy security, and protecting our environment. I want to thank this year's winners for their work and congratulate them on this award.”
"Congratulations to our R&D 100 winners, who pushed the frontiers of science to create practical applications that will benefit the nation and the world," said Laboratory Director
Michael Anastasio. "The awards are validation of the depth and breadth of the state-of-the-art science that takes place every day at Los Alamos National Laboratory."
This year’s awards bring the Los Alamos total to 111 since the Laboratory first entered the competition in 1978.
Speeding airport screening, increasing passenger safety
MagViz will enhance passenger safety and speed airport security lines by making airline liquid restrictions obsolete. The technology leverages recent advances in ultra-low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quickly scan even the tiniest amounts of liquids and classify them as dangerous or harmless. Michelle Espy of the Lab’s Applied Modern Physics group and an interdisciplinary team developed the technology.
Revolutionizing electronics fabrication
Lasonix, a novel process that uses lasers to grow micro- and nanoscale electronics, is poised to revolutionize the world of electronics. Lasonix creates three-dimensional electronic circuits, rather than circuit boards, and integrates a wide range of microelectronics through a single tool. Lasonix was developed by James Maxwell of Applied Electromagnetics, who won a 2008 R&D 100 award for his Laser-Weave™ technology, and his team.
CO2 Capture Process: Reducing greenhouse gases
Efficient removal of carbon dioxide from coal syngas is a key technical challenge for next-generation power plants. The SIMTECHE CO2 Capture Process captures carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuel power plants and other industrial operations and compresses it. The process is less energy and capital intensive than the technologies currently in use. Robert Currier of the Lab’s Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy organization and SIMTECHE worked jointly under a cooperative research and development agreement to develop the technology.
Taking radio into space
TeraOps Software Radio moves the concept of software-defined radio into space, where it can be used to extend dramatically the lifetimes of electronic systems aboard satellites and in space payloads. The components that make up the TeraOps Software Radio are compact, lightweight, cost-effective, and--most important--adapted from commercial off-the-shelf products. Mark Dunham of the Lab’s International, Space, and Response group and Michael Pigue of Space Instrumentation Systems developed the technology.
Restoring sight through science
Members of the Artificial Retina Project developed a bioelectronic implant that restores useful vision to patients blinded by retinal diseases. The project, funded by the Department of Energy's Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Second Sight Medical Products, was jointly submitted by Los Alamos, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Second Sight® Medical Products. John George of the Lab’s Applied Modern Physics group led the Los Alamos team.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWXT Government Group, and URS, an AECOM company, for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
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I'm a recovering classicist. On a long hiatus from undergrad. I’m looking forward to finally getting that coveted slip of paper, the license to call myself ‘A.B.’, and being done with the whole sordid affair. Till then, I’ve left myself to my own devices, and am enjoying a life of hedonism and sloth.
Crossfit: totally addicted. Now that I'm no longer in school, it's the single thing that takes up the biggest chunk of my time.
Cuddling is the best. I hope you agree. Why is our culture so afraid of body contact?
When I'm with someone, I'm perfectly content to just let time pass for a while without words. This makes some people uncomfortable, for some reason.
I'm from Oakland originally, and sometimes I do feel culturally Californian more than East-Coaster. I usually spend a couple months out of the year visiting the Bay Area.
CRUSH THE PATRIARCHY, PLEASE!
Once I walked 12 miles through Wisconsin farmland for a day-trip and got bitten by a farmdog.
Polyamory is my default mode. I sense, though, that might be willing to try monogamy if I was really head-over-heels smitten. But that hasn't happened in a long time.
Favorite play: probably ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
Neal Stephenson kicks ass, though ‘Reamde’ was a slight disappointment. ‘Seveneves’ was better, but his high point is still the ‘Baroque Cycle’/‘Cryptonomicon’ tetralogy.
‘Calvin and Hobbes’ and Lewis Carroll shaped me in my tender formative years.
The Stone Dance of the Chameleon!
I’ve never read a book on anything but paper, and I probably never will.
Movies: black-and-white classics (Katharine Hepburn = goddess; ‘Witness for the Prosecution’, ‘Casablanca’, ‘Bringing Up Baby’, etc.); CLUE; science fiction. —Shows: 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica. Doctor Who, Torchwood. Futurama. Archer, Bob’s Burgers. Orange Is the New Black, Childrens Hospital, Parks and Rec, Six Feet Under. Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers. Not an anime person in general, but I loved Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Attack on Titan. Know some other anime (aside from Miyazaki) that's high on artistic merit, low on sexualized preteen girls and other irritating anime tropes? Feel free to recommend!
Oh yeah, and Daria! Daria is definitely my rôle model.
When it comes to popular music of the past 50 years, I have a startling cultural illiteracy. Probe me about it sometime, you'll be impressed by how little I know. On the other hand, super-old music can capture me. Renaissance polyphony, Mozart’s symphonies, Beethoven’s late string quartets, and Bach’s organ works are among my casual obsessions. (I’m an enthusiast, but not really an aficionado.)
Food: Spicy is good. Meat is good. Food is good.
I play PC games too, sometimes. Games are the most exciting burgeoning new medium of creative expression to arise in our time. FTL and other cool indie stuff. Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings II. Infocom text adventures and retro-style point-and-clicks. Fallen London junkie (my two accounts are hwoosh and R Fellow Oswho; add me!).
How much muscle I need to put on before I qualify to list myself as "Jacked" on OKCupid. ;)
I have congenital oligodontia. (And I like gratuitous fancy polysyllabic Graeco-Latinate words for things, too!)
Also, I have a cute little birthmark above my knee. And a sacral dimple. (TMI?)
Sometimes when I look at a person's face I see their skull and get really weirded out.
The phrase "hopeless romantic" makes me grind my teeth.
If you suffer from internalized homophobia, racism, transphobia, misogyny, machismo, smallmindedness, willful ignorance, narcissism, sanctimoniousness, an irrational fixation on monogamy, or a belief in astrology, then yes, I'm probably judging you. (But, if there's physical attraction, I'll probably still hook up with you. Such are the ways of the world.) | <urn:uuid:c82c8aa0-1a53-47a8-adc8-29ce6829951b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.okcupid.com/profile/hwoosh?cf=profile_similar | 2016-10-25T05:01:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00023-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904255 | 1,002 |
What if your sales training department ran your church? (Or synagogue, or mosque; this is meant to be an equal-opportunity religious metaphor).
Suppose you move into a new community, and are looking for a place of worship. The minister (I’m just going to use the one metaphor from now on, please infer your preferred tradition) meets you, and says:
“Welcome. First we’d like you to fill out this spiritual needs-assessment instrument, so we can appropriately benchmark you for your level of sinfulness and spirituality potential.
"Part I evaluates your sinfulness; we prefer the so-called "Ten Commandments" instrument; Part II measures your level of mastery of the behaviors and habits of Highly Spiritual People (HSPs).
"You can fill it out over there in the cubicle; be sure to use only the Number 2 pencils provided.”
You do so. You take it back to the minister.
“Well, let’s see what we’ve got here, let’s pull the quick-scoring answer template. Hmm, only 5 out of 10 on the commandments. Well at least you go the biggies right, didn’t kill anyone lately, am I right, heh heh, sorry my little joke there…"
“You’re also scoring at a “meets expectations” level on your HSP. You probably know the Golden Rule, that sort of thing; but you probably don’t give alms to the poor, right? And tithing, fuggedaboudit! Am I right? Heh heh heh thought so, yup.
“OK, your achievement levels put you into the AIS group; Advanced Intermediate Spirituality. It’ll be a bit of a stretch, but we have some remedial online CBT programs that you can study up on. They meet at 11AM.
You sign up. Your kids are admitted to their own appropriate Sunday school classes. Embarrassingly, at higher levels than you.
You show up Sunday early, to be greeted at the door by a deacon.
“Please fill out this expectations document for today’s service. You can write in your own expectations if you want, but the multiple choice checkboxes are enough for most people.
You go in. You listen to the sermon.
“Today I’ll talk about Daniel and the lions. You will learn the skills and behaviors associated with Advanced Intermediate Spirituality with respect to faith. On leaving, you will be able to recognize faith when you hear it, identify the three main levels of faith, and to be reasonably faithful yourself. And we’ll do some faith role-plays (what we like to call “praying”) to make it realistic. So now let’s get started, shall we?
You sit through the sermon. It concludes with:
“The sermon today has been about Daniel and the lions. You should have learned the skills and behaviors associated with Advanced Intermediate Spirituality with respect to faith. You should now be able to recognize faith when you hear it, identify the three main types of faith, and to be reasonably faithful. And, you’ve experienced the behaviors of faith through role-play (“praying”).
“Please take a moment now to complete your evaluation document that the deacon handed you on the way in.
You read the document. It asks:
“The sermon for today met my expectations" (1 definitely, 2 mostly, 3 sort of, 4 not really, 5 not at all)
“I am now able to recognize basic faith” (1 definitely, 2 mostly, 3 sort of, 4 not really, 5 not at all)
“I now have a moderately high faith level” (1 definitely, 2 mostly, 3 sort of, 4 not really, 5 not at all)
“The minister trained well today" (1 definitely, 2 mostly, 3 sort of, 4 not really, 5 not at all)
You leave the church; the minister greets you on the way out the door. “How’d you like the service?” he asks, sneaking a glance at your evaluation document.
“Well, I’m still not sure I feel like I really have faith,” you say apologetically.
“That’s OK,” says the minister. “Just fake it ‘til you make it. You’ll get the hang of it. Continue to meet your metrics, and everything will work out—just have faith in the process.”
Hopefully you enjoyed that. In case it’s not clear, I’m trying to suggest that when it comes to certain "soft" subjects, the traditional management-by-numbers and train-by-behaviors can feel inadequate to the task.
How is this relevant? In training, I hope it’s clear. Different techniques suit different subjects.
But I think it speaks to issues of management and leadership too. Do you believe in values, missions and belief systems? If you’re trying to manage a values-based organization, what approaches work?
Managing through behavioral metrics doesn’t quite do the job when it comes to motivating people to higher-order beliefs.
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Sick days are no fun, especially when you are nearly two years old. Here are some tips and tricks to brighten up a sick day with a toddler.
November has definitely been a month to remember. #ToddlerLnC got Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease while we were visiting my Mom for Halloween. She had some little red spots on her hands and when we checked, she had spots and blisters in her mouth and on her feet too. As soon as we got home, I took her to the pediatrician who confirmed it was HFMD. She told me to give her Children’s Advil® for discomfort and fever.
What I didn’t realize is how contagious Hand, Foot and Mouth is. A few days later, I showed signs of it as well. I think (and hope) that it is worse in adults than children, because I was miserable and wouldn’t want her to go through that. The Toddler was on the mend, thankfully, and I just needed to take care of myself too.
Whenever she is sick, I try and keep her comfortable and happy. I have a little checklist of items and activities that we do, so she can have fun, even while not feeling good. Children’s Advil® from Walgreens is always in our medicine cabinet. The Toddler loves Grape flavor, but I’m sure when she is older she might like some of the other tasty Sugar-free Dye-free flavors, like Berry, Bubble Gum, Blue Raspberry, Fruit Punch and Dye-Free White Grape. I remember, as a kid, having the Children’s Advil® Grape Chewables easy-to-swallow tablets, because I liked them better than liquid at that point. When my toddler has a fever, I want effective relief that I can count on. Children’s Advil® helps bring her fevers down, keeps them down longer with less medicine than Children’s Tylenol®, and gives relief, for both her and me.*
Sick Day Activities for a Happy Toddler:
- Forts/Tents – we love building forts and the toddler loves playing hide-and-seek in them.
- Coloring – crayons and coloring books are one of our favorite activities. It helps her learn the color names and fine motor skills
- Puzzles & Books – these are two of her favorite things. She is so smart and loves her shape puzzles. She has her very own bookshelf with her favorite books, so she can grab them anytime and look through them – or bring one to Mommy or Daddy to read to her.
- Bath Time – sometimes a little extra bath time makes her feel better, especially when we have fun bath toys to play with like foam alphabet letters.
- Make Music – we make music with everything. She has some musical instrument toys, like bells, drums, and a piano, but we also use bowls, spoons, and anything else she can find. She loves listening to and making music.
- Busy Books, Sensory Bins, and Crafts – a great resource and one of my favorite blogs is The Educators Spin On It, run by my friends Amanda and Kim. They have so many great ideas for children of all ages on their blog.
- Cuddles – a necessity when sick, because cuddles make everything better!
Tips & Tricks
- Rest, rest, rest – she normally has a set sleep/nap schedule, but when the Toddler is sick, that goes out the window. She needs rest to get better, so she naps and sleeps a bit more, and doesn’t do any strenuous activities.
- Food – a lot of times, she doesn’t want to eat much, or at all, when she isn’t feeling good. I make sure we have some fruit and veggie pouches because I know she loves them and can get good nutrients from them too. Depending on her illness and what her pediatrician says, I also make her smoothies. She loves all kinds of smoothies and it cheers her up when I pull the blender out
- Hydrate – I make sure she has a sippy cup of water available at all times. Depending on her illness and what the pediatrician says, sometimes she can have milk or juice mixed with water.
- Ice Pops – if she has a sore throat, she loves Ice Pops. Homemade Ice Pops are great, but if you don’t have the molds or time, store bought is okay – I try and get the 100% fruit with no added sugar ones.
- Humidifier – if needed, we plug in her humidifier at night, to help her sleep better.
- Children’s Advil® – we always keep Children’s Advil® on hand in case of a fever, teething, or cold.
What are your go-to sick day activities and what is your child’s favorite Children’s Advil® flavor?
Until next time,
LOVE & CONFECTIONS!
*Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. Please, always, consult your child’s pediatrician with concerns and questions. Always read and keep the cartons for complete warnings and dosing information on Children’s Advil®. Refer to and only use the dosing device and information that comes packaged with Children’s Advil®. If known, dose child based on weight, as this is the most appropriate method. If weight is not known, use age. | <urn:uuid:145ac75f-2d25-4d49-b456-52ed3564ef14> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.loveandconfections.com/tips-and-tricks-for-sick-day-with/ | 2022-12-05T19:19:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00412.warc.gz | en | 0.970082 | 1,206 |
A one-shot jab to protect newborns against meningitis and other fatal infections has been developed by scientists.
The vaccine has proved effective in monkeys, the final animal model before human trials, after a substance or 'adjuvant' was added to boost their immune response.
Newborns are highly vulnerable to infections and don't respond well to vaccines because their young immune systems mount weak antibody responses.
So immunising them before they are two months old, the current limit for most, would prevent thousands of child deaths a year.
Dr Ofer Levy, a paediatric infectious disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts, said: "Our efforts to understand the biology of the newborn immune system has now led to adjuvant approaches that may enable earlier protection of newborns and young infants from life threatening infectious diseases, such as pneumococcus, pertussis or even respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)."
Pneumococcus is the most common cause of bloodstream infections, pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections in young children.
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is also highly contagious while the cold like symptoms of RSV can be serious in very young babies.
A 5-in-1 single jab already protects against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Hib, a bacterial infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis in young children.
But it isn't recommended by the NHS until babies are eight weeks old.
Globally, vaccines that could be given at birth could sharply reduce infant mortality. Currently, the only vaccines that work in newborns are those for tuberculosis, polio and hepatitis B, with the latter two requiring multiple doses.
Now two new studies cap a decade of research in Dr Levy's lab aimed at tailoring vaccines unique to newborns' immune systems.
Pneumococcal vaccine was used as a test case because it can cause potentially fatal pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis, or blood poisoning, in infants.
In the first published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation-Insight newborn Rhesus monkeys were given a series of three shots with the existing vaccine known as Prevnar 13.
This is already packaged with an adjuvant (Alum), but half the monkeys who also received another called 3M-052 were much quicker to develop an antibody response after 28 days, even before a second dose.
Pneumonia resistance improved
And their antibody levels were 10 to 100 times greater than that with Prevnar 13 alone - high enough to ensure protection against infection. Immune cells that specifically fight pneumonia were also dramatically enhanced.
Dr Levy said: "The protective antibody response we saw was so strong that it's conceivable that you could get protection with one shot.
"This is critical because in many parts of the world, birth is the most reliable point of healthcare contact. After birth, it becomes challenging to bring children in for repeated clinic visits."
The adjuvant 3M-O52 works by stimulating the chemicals of white blood cells that fight infection.
Studying white blood cells from newborns' umbilical cords, the researchers also saw the number of immune cells increased when given 3M-052 alone. When it was added to Prevnar 13, this improved even more.
The added substance is designed to minimise side effects, being made with chemicals that mix poorly with water. This keeps it from getting into the bloodstream, where it could cause inflammation and flu like symptoms.
Fevers and chills
Explained Dr Levy: "Rather than floating all over the place causing fever and chills, when you inject this 3M-052 adjuvant, it stays put in the muscle and enhances the immune response to the vaccine."
His second study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology used a different adjuvant called CLO75 to both maximize immune response and avoid inflammation.
It was specially engineered to be taken up by infectious cells which trigger immune cells to make antibodies.
When added to human cells in a dish and when injected into mice, it stimulated immune responses that were as good or better than those induced by the tuberculosis jab, one of the few that work in newborns.
The team's next steps are to develop a highly stable formulation, obtain more safety data and further investigate age specific responses, comparing newborns with older infants.
Dr Levy plans to work with scientists from around the world, via the Precision Vaccines Program he founded last year, to work towards eventual human trials.
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The White House and Democrats have reached agreement on the core structure of a $15 billion loan package for the auto industry but are holding back any final go-ahead until the plan is first shopped with Senate Republicans, whose votes will be decisive.
Provisions were tightened to strengthen March 31 as a “drop dead” date if companies fail to deliver on promises to restructure their operations, and a mid- February benchmark added as a sort of bully pulpit for the new auto czar—designated by the executive branch—to pressure the companies to keep pace.
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Come March 31, any of Detroit’s Big Three who fail to comply will have their loans called in by the auto czar and lose any chance of more federal aid. Moreover, the czar will have a third hammer: the power to effectively force a company into bankruptcy and then propose to the court his or her own government-backed restructuring plan.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC stand to feel the most impact given their dire cash situation. To protect taxpayers, warrants would be demanded from the companies; in the case of Chrysler, Democrats prevailed on the White House to include new language authorizing the government to demand stock equivalents from its major stakeholder, the New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management L.P.
Ford Motor Co. has less of a stake in the initial $15 billion but it also is seeking access to a line of credit of at least $ 9 billion for the future and can’t then ignore the March requirements. “The gorilla in the room is that none of these guys can survive without help and they’re not going to get it unless they meet the requirements in March,” said one person active in the talks.
The initial loans would be financed by shifting money from an Energy Department program to speed the production of energy-efficient cars. This decision has angered environmentalists, and, over White House objections, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has persisted in her demands that Detroit — in turn — drop its litigation seeking to block California’s tougher tailpipe emissions standards.
At this stage, Pelosi’s office said she is prepared to call the House into session Wednesday and introduce a version of the bill with the emissions language included. But Democrats know that the greater battle will be in the Senate. And if the leadership decides that it is better for the Senate to go first, the emissions provisions could be short lived.
A White House official told Politico Tuesday night: "We’ve made enough progress that we have agreement in the concept of the legislation – short-term bridge financing, with strong protections that ensure the automakers make the tough decisions to become viable."
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned Tuesday that he will keep the chamber in session this weekend if conservatives obstruct action. And much depends on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has supported the industry in the past given its strong presence in his home state.
Before Thanksgiving, McConnell endorsed an even more generous aid package, but he now faces a Republican caucus where even those who support government intervention, like Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), want more concessions up front.
Corker, who is drafting his own legislation, has argued that the government must use its leverage — and the real threat of bankruptcy — to force GM’s bondholders to come to the table in the next few weeks and reduce the company’s debt. He would give the United Auto Workers more time but by March 31 wants to see the union agree to adjust wage levels for the Big Three to be comparable to those paid by foreign-owned “transplant” operations such as Toyota plants in McConnell’s own state.
Corker told Politico early Tuesday that he feared that “the ship has sailed” and that the White House and Democrats would try to reach a deal that he is not part of. Absent further compromise, he predicted a “black or white” vote this week in which senators have to choose between a “weak bill and bankruptcy.”
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has thus far refused to help by making available unspent financial market rescue funds. And in a letter released to Politico on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers that he can’t be counted on as a backstop if the package fails or if additional loans are needed to get through the first quarter of 2009.
Responding to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), Bernanke raised doubts about the ability of the automakers to offer adequate collateral to secure a loan from the Fed. He said matters of “industrial policy” are better left to Congress, and that the Fed “would be extremely reluctant to extend credit where Congress has actively considered providing assistance but, after due consideration, has decided not to act.” | <urn:uuid:904d22a3-2310-4a12-a211-d03389024e2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.politico.com/story/2008/12/wh-dems-agree-on-bailout-016396 | 2017-05-29T10:01:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612069.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529091944-20170529111944-00361.warc.gz | en | 0.961634 | 1,005 |
In order to work on a Linux system directly, you will need to provide a user name and password. You always need to authenticate to the system. As we already mentioned in the exercise from Chapter 1, most PC-based Linux systems have two basic modes for a system to run in: either quick and sober in text console mode, which looks like DOS with mouse, multitasking and multi-user features, or in graphical mode, which looks better but eats more system resources.
This is the default nowadays on most desktop computers. You know you will connect to the system using graphical mode when you are first asked for your user name, and then, in a new window, to type your password.
To log in, make sure the mouse pointer is in the login window, provide your user name and password to the system and clickor press Enter.
|Careful with that root account!|
It is generally considered a bad idea to connect (graphically) using the root user name, the system adminstrator's account, since the use of graphics includes running a lot of extra programs, in root's case with a lot of extra permissions. To keep all risks as low as possible, use a normal user account to connect graphically. But there are enough risks to keep this in mind as a general advice, for all use of the root account: only log in as root when extra privileges are required.
After entering your user name/password combination, it can take a little while before the graphical environment is started, depending on the CPU speed of your computer, on the software you use and on your personal settings.
To continue, you will need to open a terminal window or xterm for short (X being the name for the underlying software supporting the graphical environment). This program can be found in the-> , or menu, depending on what window manager you are using. There might be icons that you can use as a shortcut to get an xterm window as well, and clicking the right mouse button on the desktop background will usually present you with a menu containing a terminal window application.
While browsing the menus, you will notice that a lot of things can be done without entering commands via the keyboard. For most users, the good old point-'n'-click method of dealing with the computer will do. But this guide is for future network and system administrators, who will need to meddle with the heart of the system. They need a stronger tool than a mouse to handle all the tasks they will face. This tool is the shell, and when in graphical mode, we activate our shell by opening a terminal window.
The terminal window is your control panel for the system. Almost everything that follows is done using this simple but powerful text tool. A terminal window should always show a command prompt when you open one. This terminal shows a standard prompt, which displays the user's login name, and the current working directory, represented by the twiddle (~):
Another common form for a prompt is this one:
In the above example, user will be your login name, hosts the name of the machine you are working on, and dir an indication of your current location in the file system.
Later we will discuss prompts and their behavior in detail. For now, it suffices to know that prompts can display all kinds of information, but that they are not part of the commands you are giving to your system.
To disconnect from the system in graphical mode, you need to close all terminal windows and other applications. After that, hit the logout icon or findin the menu. Closing everything is not really necessary, and the system can do this for you, but session management might put all currently open applications back on your screen when you connect again, which takes longer and is not always the desired effect. However, this behavior is configurable.
When you see the login screen again, asking to enter user name and password, logout was successful.
|Gnome or KDE?|
We mentioned both the Gnome and KDE desktops already a couple of times. These are the two most popular ways of managing your desktop, although there are many, many others. Whatever desktop you chose to work with is fine - as long as you know how to open a terminal window. However, we will continue to refer to both Gnome and KDE for the most popular ways of achieving certain tasks.
You know you're in text mode when the whole screen is black, showing (in most cases white) characters. A text mode login screen typically shows some information about the machine you are working on, the name of the machine and a prompt waiting for you to log in:
RedHat Linux Release 8.0 (Psyche) blast login: _
The login is different from a graphical login, in that you have to hit the Enter key after providing your user name, because there are no buttons on the screen that you can click with the mouse. Then you should type your password, followed by another Enter. You won't see any indication that you are entering something, not even an asterisk, and you won't see the cursor move. But this is normal on Linux and is done for security reasons.
When the system has accepted you as a valid user, you may get some more information, called the message of the day, which can be anything. Additionally, it is popular on UNIX systems to display a fortune cookie, which contains some general wise or unwise (this is up to you) thoughts. After that, you will be given a shell, indicated with the same prompt that you would get in graphical mode.
|Don't log in as root|
Also in text mode: log in as root only to do setup and configuration that absolutely requires administrator privileges, such as adding users, installing software packages, and performing network and other system configuration. Once you are finished, immediately leave the special account and resume your work as a non-privileged user. Alternatively, some systems, like Ubuntu, force you to use sudo, so that you do not need direct access to the administrative account.
Logging out is done by entering the logout command, followed by Enter. You are successfully disconnected from the system when you see the login screen again.
|The power button|
While Linux was not meant to be shut off without application of the proper procedures for halting the system, hitting the power button is equivalent to starting those procedures on newer systems. However, powering off an old system without going through the halting process might cause severe damage! If you want to be sure, always use theoption when you log out from the graphical interface, or, when on the login screen (where you have to give your user name and password) look around for a shutdown button.
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I've just closed my eyes again
In the top of the third, Weaver continued his streak, getting Baron Frost to miss on a 0-2 pitch far outside the strike zone. The ball eluded Catcher Brad Davis and rolled to the backstop, allowing Frost to reach first base. The big right-hander proceeded to "K" Billy Hart (who served as USC's fourth-string QB last fall), Hector Estrella, and Jon Brewster, the latter for the second time in the first three innings.
Michael Moon then flied out to right field to lead off the fourth inning, ending Weaver's strikeout streak at ten. The All-American went on to whiff 14 Trojans in seven innings as Long Beach State defeated USC, 3-1. Relievers Brett Andrade and Neil Jamison combined for three strikeouts, tying the 49ers' record of 17 for the game.
Weaver opened his 2004 season last week, pitching seven shutouts innings while scattering three hits with no walks and six strikeouts. For his effort, Weaver was honored as Collegiate Baseball's National Player of the Week--the third time that he has won this award.
If you hadn't heard of Weaver before, you have now. If he remains healthy, look for him to go in the top five in this year's draft. Weaver is so advanced and such a dominant force that it would not surprise me if he pitched in the big leagues in 2005.
Weaver's pedigree (he's the younger brother of Dodger pitcher Jeff Weaver), size (6'6", 200), arm (low-90s fastball), and record make him as good a bet as any amateur pitcher to succeed as a professional.
I sat directly behind home plate among a sea of major league baseball scouts, surrounded by more radar guns than at a California Highway Patrol convention.
A Kansas City Royals scout sitting behind us told me that he "wouldn't rush" Weaver. When I asked him if he preferred high school or college players, he said "college" when it came to pitchers--noting that most arm injuries are incurred between the ages of 18-20.
When I mentioned Zack Greinke, the Royals' top pitching prospect and #1 draft pick in 2002, he just smiled. Greinke was drafted as a high schooler even though General Manager Allard Baird had instructed his staff that he wanted to select a college pitcher in the first round. The 20-year-old prized prospect dominated the Carolina League and acquitted himself well enough in the Texas League last year that he stands an outside chance of making the team this spring.
Weaver is actually a year older than Greinke. If the latter can make it to the big leagues this year, then why couldn't the former get there next year? Although Weaver may not have Greinke's professional experience, he has pieced together an incredible resume.
During his sophomore season, Weaver was 14-4 with a 1.96 ERA. He tied a school record with 144 strikeouts. Weaver then led Team USA to the silver medal in the Pan American Games. He went 4-1 with a USA single-season record 0.38 ERA and was named Baseball America's Pitcher of the Summer. Weaver strung together an all-time record scoreless innings streak of 45 before giving up his only two runs in an eight-inning loss to Cuba in the championship game.
Nothing But Dirtbags
Weaver was the fourth straight 49er to be named to Team USA, following teammate Abe Alvarez (2002), Jeremy Reed (2001), and Bobby Crosby (2000). Alvarez was selected by the Red Sox in last year's draft.
After the draft, Boston GM Theo Epstein said, "We were really happy to get Abe Alvarez. He's a first-round talent and we got him in the second round."
"Alvarez is a left-hander who has gone out for Long Beach State every Friday night for the last three years against other team's No. 1 starter. He's an outstanding performer. He has command of the strike zone and can get swings and misses with his changeup. He's an entertaining pitcher to watch."
Reed, a center fielder with the Chicago White Sox, and Crosby, a shortstop with the Oakland A's, are two of the favorites to capture Rookie of the Year honors in the American League this year. Reed and Crosby were named first team Minor League All-Stars in 2003.
Reed, who finished third in the Minor League Player of the Year voting, led all minor leaguers in batting average (.373) and on-base percentage (.453), splitting time between Single-A Winston-Salem and Double-A Birmingham. Reed was rated the the second-best prospect in the Carolina League and the third-best prospect in the Southern League.
Crosby, who made his major league debut last September, batted .308 with 22 home runs and 90 RBI for Triple-A Sacramento. Crosby was voted the third-best prospect in the Pacific Coast League and was named Baseball America's Triple-A Player of the Year.
Other past National Team players from Long Beach State include current major leaguers Rocky Biddle (1995) of the Montreal Expos, Jason Giambi (1991, 1992) of the New York Yankees, and Chris Gomez (1990, 1991) of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Long Beach's baseball program has also produced Mike Gallo (Houston Astros), Jeff Leifer (Milwaukee Brewers), and Steve Trachsel (New York Mets) as well as Termel Sledge (Montreal Expos). Sledge, a 27-year-old rookie, had an outstanding season (.324, 22, 92) at Triple-A Edmonton last year and is expected to compete for the team's starting left field job this spring.
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Michigan has one of the nation’s best three-point shooting defenses in the country, allowing teams only 28% of made three-point attempts. Defense was going to be key for the 2-seed against the 10-seed Florida Gators, but the Wolverines frequent multi-sport SEC opponent could only seem to hit from deep to start the game.
Thankfully for Michigan, it looked like it could get what it wanted close to the rim, scoring all of its first eight points in the paint – coming off two Jon Teske dunks, one jam from Ignas Brazdeikis, and a layup by Charles Matthews.
Florida may have started the first four minutes and forty-two seconds going 67% from three, but Michigan opened up the contest going 67% from the field.
Up 8-6 coming out of the first media timeout, Jordan Poole drained a three while getting fouled, and the Wolverines had quickly doubled up the Gators. Poole dropped his second attempt, a great sign to lead the game, and Michigan found itself on an 11-0 run.
Florida responded, getting a dunk and two threes, while the maize and blue failed to hit on their side of the court. What was 15-6 was quickly 15-14. But the Wolverines point guard struck back, draining a three of his own, to give Michigan an 18-14 lead at the under-twelve media timeout.
Coming out of that timeout, the Wolverines looked to struggle to hit from the floor, but two consecutive offensive rebounds by Isaiah Livers gave Eli Brooks a chance to drive the lane and lay it in. But the Gators remained hot from deep, hitting 5 of 10 attempts.
And Michigan found itself in a scoring drought, going three-plus minutes halfway into the first-half. The Wolverines kept the lead on the back of solid rebounding, getting 5 second-chance tries to Florida’s 2. The Gators would tie the game with 7:18 remaining in the first-half, on the back of a 15-6 run. Michigan’s 67% shooting was down to just 38%, and 27% from three. Florida would take the lead moments later, but Simpson’s patented sky-hook helped the maize and blue break its drought from the floor.
Both defenses came to play, with Florida tightening in the paint, keeping Brazdeikis from getting an easy bucket underneath, but the freshman phenom returned the favor by getting a clock on the other end. The game remained tight, with the Wolverines going back up four, but Gators guard Andrew Nembhard drained a three, before Brazdeikis picked up his second foul at the under-four media timeout. Michigan was up by one, 27-26.
Coming out of the under-four, Matthews would go on to prove that his ankle is working just fine, as he entered a crowded lane and hammered home a dunk to put the Wolverines back up three. But Florida continued to play with confidence, and Kevarrius Hayes was the benefactor of an alley-oop layup to cut the deficit to one. But an Isaiah Livers three-pointer would put the maize and blue up by four, which would be the spread going into the locker room at halftime, with the Wolverines leading, 32-28.
The second-half couldn’t have started any better for the Wolverines, and it somewhat mirrored the first. Brazdeikis started off the scoring, with a three bouncing up and in. Teske got a dunk and kept the Gators from getting to the basket on the other end. Jordan Poole drove the basket and got it to drop, being fouled in the process. The precarious Michigan lead was quickly ballooning, as the four-point halftime lead turned into an 11-point advantage just 101 seconds into the second-half.
The timeout called by Florida did little to help. Poole hit the and-one, and drained a three moments later to push the Wolverines lead to 15, and his point total to 13 – the highest of all scorers in the game. Michigan’s 11-0 run was ended by the Gators’ seventh three-pointer of the game. The maize and blue was back to missing from the floor, however, going 0-for their last four, to take a 12 point lead into the under-sixteen media timeout, 43-31.
Naturally, 0-for-4 equated to a three-plus minute scoring drought, while the Gators went on a 9-0 scoring run. The Wolverines uncharacteristically turned the ball over a few times which led to Florida offense. Michigan took a timeout with 14:13 remaining, clinging to a 43-37 lead.
The maize and blue got a gift, as Jordan Poole was fouled while making a three-point attempt. He drained all three shots to push the lead back to nine.
But the Wolverines’ four-minute scoring drought gave way to another offensive lull, now two-minutes long. Having missed the last six shots from the floor, the Wolverines needed to get something going coming out of the under-twelve media timeout if the team was going to close this one out.
It didn’t get any better coming out fo the timeout. Michigan had a shot clock violation on offense, but defensively, the Wolverines locked the Gators down. The drought was ended by Eli Brooks, who got a runner to go and pulled in a rebound on the other end. Now the Gators were on a three-minute scoring drought.
The Gators ended their drought, but Michigan was still 1 of 12 from the field and on yet another three minute dry spell. Finally, Isaiah Livers broke that up, getting inside for a layup, while being fouled in the process. The Wolverines were up by 9, 50-41, with Livers going to the line to push it back to double digits with 7:34 remaining in the game.
Livers hit, but Florida answered with a three from an abnormally quiet Kevaughn Allen, who now had just 5 points. But he picked up his third foul on the ensuing possession, putting Zavier Simpson to the line for two, where he hit both.
Suddenly, Michigan found itself back up 13, where a Charles Matthews block led to a grown-man throwdown by Isaiah Livers, who rose above three Florida defenders to jam the ball down hard into the cylinder.
The score held, as did Michigan, keeping time on its side. A Jordan Poole deep three pushed the Michigan lead to 17.
Florida tried to answer, but it would be too much. Michigan went on to beat the Gators, 64-49, giving the Wolverines basketball team its second win over Florida in NCAA Tournament games this decade, and the team’s third win over their SEC rival in four years across football and basketball.
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Now We Rest
Sonja takes a breath, but not before clearing up the drama, "snitches," and why she would never skip dinner.
I cannot believe this is it? Maybe we can rest now? I hope everyone enjoyed it!
Wow Jill, you are holding the grudge longer and deeper than Bethenny? I didn't watch the show before, but my heart was broken when I saw a clip of you and Bethenny. It seemed a lot deeper. I think this thing with you and Ramona is different. It does have a life of its own, but I feel you are still friends. I feel Ramona still cares about you deeply.
I'm glad I got to tell Jill she wasn't who I was referring to as a "snitch." I would never want her to think that. I don't think she ever snitched on me, so I'm glad it came up. I have had people make up stuff in the press, and I know who they are. That only takes a few dollars to find out and sometimes just a call. I am fighting so many battles right now, it is such a mistake for the girls on the show to think I think I consider this kind of bickering a battle.
Congratulations to Ramona on selling 60,000 bottles of pinot grigio! If Jill is seriously outing Ramona for a problem then Ramona can out Jill. It's not for Jill to say Ramona has a drinking problem. That's a major statement. People who don't drink do tend to be critical. They don't know what they are talking about and should not go there.
Ramona wanted to bring her wine and promote it at Cindy party in Quogue, and Cindy asked her to not bring it. Then she didn't have it? When a guest arrives to a party they want a drink the minute they walk in. Whatever it is. Ramona's wine is pinot grigio. It's a table wine, very light and very drinkable. Kelly saying Betheny doesn't drink her her own margaritas? Where does she get this info?
I don't think it is nice to put down Ramona for using the wrong word while complimenting her stepdaughter for overcoming her facial birthmark. She meant well. It takes a lot of nerve to step up and compliment someone on such a sensitive subject in the first place, and I like to support those people who mean well. I don't think Ramona should be ridiculed for her faux pas.
Or how she pronounces "Veneto"! All that matters is that she is selling an affordable wine that is easy to drink, tastes great, and goes with every dish. No one needs to know more than that! Ramona never pretends to be the expert!
As far as LuAnn's video: At first, I was concerned about how my scene in a towel opening the door for the hotel boy was described, but then that was cleared up by the producer. But I was so tied up with business, my legal battles, my housekeeping in NYC, and, most importantly, my daughter didn't want me to leave her during the week -- and I didn't want to leave either. These are the best years of her life, and I am loving them.
When Alex went downstairs in Morocco, Ramona had reached a limit. She was broken. She was so picked on! The acoustics in that house with the stone and the echos really made it more dramatic.
None of us knew about dinner time. I would never miss dinner!
I like LuAnn's hair shorter. Like Jacques. Don't you?
I have an only child. Sometimes siblings do not get along, so there is no guarantee that having another baby is good for the first one.
Alex is very nice and civil. She is not an aggressive type. I am not sure why the girls find her so bad that they have to attack her. The times she voiced anger was in defense of another. Am I missing something?
Seems like some people are not happy with their lives. Live each day as if you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for watching. I know sometimes it is entertaining and other times it can be downright nerve-wracking.
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It's a sad day for evil. Ross Karpelman, a co-founder of the House of Shock heavy metal haunted house in the shadow of the Huey P. Long Bridge, has confirmed that this is the last year for the long-running Halloween attraction. For 22 years, the warehouse labyrinth has treated guests to up-close and personal encounters with gory ghouls, over-the-top religious irreverence, heart-stopping surprises, spectacular pyrotechnics and general hellishness.
Despite the popularity of the devilish destination, profit margins are always pretty slim, Karpelman said. And, the last two years, have been particularly tough. In 2012, Hurricane Isaac wrecked the outdoor stage where the House of Shock's explosive pre-tour performances take place, requiring a laborious restoration. Then, Halloween night 2013 was a rain-out.
"It's hard work, brother," Karpelman said of producing the big show. "People think we're minting money over there." But in truth, he said, considering the labor and risk, "it doesn't make sense to do it" anymore.
Cold, hard economics are only part of the reason for bringing down the curtain. As Karpelman described it, the House of Shock has nothing left to prove.
"I mean, it's been over two decades," he said. "We've kept the same theme for 20 some odd years. We were trendsetters without trying to be. We made our mark. Now I'm seeing others doing the same thing. We invented the idea of the interactive haunted house. It's time to call it quits."
The House of Shock's co-founders were Karpelman's pals Jay Gracianette, Steve Joseph and Phil Anselmo. The first incarnation of the haunted house in 1992 was in co-founder Jay Gracianette's grandparents' backyard. It wasn't long before the operation moved to a warehouse in a barren stretch of industrial park in Jefferson. From the beginning the house had a demonic / slasher movie vibe. As Karpelman put it in a 2012 interview: "'The Exorcist' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' that's our generation."
The house also had a heavy-metal, pseudo-satanic theme. The theatrical devil worship tapped into popular fears of the 1990s. It was so effective that a few parents, school officials and a Jefferson politician or two warned the public away from the horrifying amusement. This naturally made it all the more attractive to rebellious kids.
In 1999, Anselmo, who had risen to rock star status with the band Pantera, famously parted company with the other founders. But the show went on and over the years the House of Shock received its share of national attention. A highlight was when he was asked to hold a Playmate in his arms during a Playboy magazine photo shoot, Karpelman said.
Asked what he'll miss most, he said that everyone associated with the House of Shock will agree that it's the camaraderie between the staff members who spend their October weekends scaring the heck out of the public.
"We really are a family, a community," Karpelman said. "What defines us is us. It's every person who put their blood and soul and lives behind this thing called House of Shock."
It isn't an easy gig, either. Working in makeup in the closed warehouse for hours can become stifling.
"It's gets hot as hell sometimes," he said. "Y'all walk through, we stay there."
And the payoff, he said, for the volunteers anyway, is "a slice of pizza at the end of the night."
The House of Shock
- What: The last season for the gruesome Halloween labyrinth tour, featuring thrilling surprises, faux gore, and pseudo-satanic themes. The show also includes a pyrotechnic opening performance plus and outdoor festival with food and drink.
- Where: 319 Butterworth St. in Jefferson.
- When: From 8 to 11 p.m. every Friday and Saturday in October, plus Oct. 26, 29 and 30.
- Appropriate for: Intrepid teens and adults who are not offended by disrespect of religion.
- Admission: General admission is $25 and VIP admission is $50, allowing patrons to skip to the front of the line.
- More information: Visit the House of Shock website.
Asked what he plans to do with himself during the fall season, when the House of shock is closed, Karpelman said: "I don't have any clue."
In addition to helming the horror attraction, Karpelman is an accomplished keyboardist who sometimes joins in on heavy metal gigs around town. He travels with rock bands, sometimes as stage manager, sometimes driving the tour bus. And he further fills the off-season chauffeuring a tourist and convention bus. He'll probably do more of all that, he said. Who knows?
There's one more Halloween to come, of course, and Karpelman can't bring himself to rule out the possibility that the House of Shock may be reborn in another guise. The heavy metal horror experience is over, he said wistfully, but if fans demand it, it's not impossible that there could be a second incarnation.
"Who's to say there's not a future," Karpelman said. "If the public speaks, we will answer. The House of Shock is done and gone. But who's to know what the future may bring? I've been doing this since I was 22 years old. I'm 45."
As House of Shock fans know, Karpelman plays the role of Lord Belial, a basso profundo Satan who struggles each night with the power of goodness for the souls of audience.
Asked if the closing of the House of Shock implies that goodness has finally won out, Karpelman laughed, then promised that he still may have some evil tricks up his sleeve during the last season.
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1. Hillary Clinton to Middle East. The big news today is that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to the Middle East to try and help broker a peace in the ongoing fighting in Gaza.
Usually, someone as high level as Clinton isn’t dispatched in this sort of delicate situation unless a deal is imminent. If that’s the case, it would certainly be a feather in Clinton’s cap in her last overseas trip. And it could be a strong credential if she runs for president in, dare we say, 2016.
Samrang Pring / Reuters
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for the 4th ASEAN-U.S. leaders' meeting at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh Nov. 19, 2012.
2. Race cited as opposition to Rice. As NBC’s Frank Thorp and Luke Russert reported yesterday nearly 100 House Republicans wrote a letter to President Obama, saying they would strongly oppose a Susan Rice nomination for secretary of State.
Of course, this has no teeth. Presidential appointments that need congressional approval have to be approved by the Senate. The House doesn’t even get a vote. But it is indicative of how deep the opposition is among hard-right conservatives.
But now Rep. Jim Clyburn, echoing the feelings of many on the left, said on CNN this morning that race appears to be a factor in the criticism of Rice.
NBC's Domenico Montanaro talks about Sen. John McCain's criticism of President Barack Obama's decision to send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to try to broker a Mideast ceasefire.
“During this recent campaign,” Clyburn said, “we heard [Gov.] Sununu calling our president lazy, incompetent. These kinds of terms that - those of us, especially those of us born and raised in the South, we've been hearing these little words and phrases all of our lives, and we get insulted by them. Susan rice is as competent as anybody you will find. … Say that she was wrong for doing it, but don't call her incompetent.”
Democrats point to the harshest criticism from the right of Obama’s cabinet has been aimed at minorities and women – Attorney General Eric Holder, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, and Rice, who are all black, as well as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who are women.
Republicans would say they have just been involved in some of the more controversial decisions made by the administration, from regulating energy to the implementation of the health-care law to trying to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
3. Labor pushes back. Labor groups -- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, and the National Education Association, NEA -- are going up with ads pressuring Democrats to hold the line on domestic spending, the Washington Post reports. The TV ads will run in “Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, along with radio ads in Pennsylvania, Alaska and Missouri.”
From an ad running in Virginia, entitled, “Jobs not cuts”: “How do we move our country forward and reduce the deficit? By creating jobs and growing our economy, not by cutting programs that families rely on most. We need Senators Warner and Webb to continue to stand up for us by investing in job creation, extending the middle-class tax cuts, and protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and education from cuts.”
The key to getting a deal done on the “fiscal cliff” is for both parties to first, get their own houses in order. House Speaker John Boehner certainly has a difficult task ahead of him to marshal his conservative House conference. But the president also has challenges in getting the left on board and finding 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a Mitch McConnell-led filibuster, if there is one.
4. Rubio flirting with running for president. In Iowa, yes Iowa, the FLORIDA senator joked about running for president:
“Let's just address right up front the elephant in the room, because anytime anyone makes a trip to Iowa, people start speculating about what you're going to do in the future, so let me just be blunt: I am not now nor will I ever be a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.”
Rubio played college football, and that got laughs. But he’s done nothing to tamp down that he’s seriously considering running in 2016. Of course, the opposition vetting process is what a lot of Republicans worry about with Rubio.
5. GOP not thrilled with Christie. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is the ostensible reason Rubio was in Iowa – for a birthday fundraiser – took a swipe at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his praise for President Obama during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
"There are some people that think maybe he could have handled it - been a little less gushing,” Branstad said. “But that's his personality. He has got that New Jersey edge to him, you know, for good or bad."
And Matt Drudge, a big Romney fan, headlines: “Christie Clowns on SNL as Residents Suffer."
But Christie is getting the thumbs up from New York City residents. Asked who did the best job handling Sandy, respondents to a Quinnipiac poll said Christie.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo 15%
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg 12%
Those wanting to take shots at Christie probably have little connection to the New York/New Jersey area. Christie saw the places he grew up devastated by the storm. And the furthest thing from someone’s mind who has to govern during a time when your residents are dying and houses are being destroyed should be politics.
6. Ron Paul endorsed secession. Retiring Rep. Ron Paul isn’t going out quietly. He endorsed secession, calling it a “deeply American principle.”
"Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession....In fact, the recent election only further entrenched the status quo. If the possibility of secession is completely off the table there is nothing to stop the federal government from continuing to encroach on our liberties and no recourse for those who are sick and tired of it."
7. Dems draw from NY, CA. The GOP has taken a lot of criticism as a regional party with its members and power center rooted in the South. Well, almost 30% of Democrats in the House now are from just New York and California, the highest percentage ever, according to the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics blog. http://bit.ly/QrZqJW
8. A brief history of turkey pardons. As we make our way closer to Thanksgiving, there’s an annual presidential tradition that Obama will take part in once again tomorrow – pardoning a turkey. The quaint exercise, however, does not date as far back as some might think. And even presidents have wrongly cited the first to do so. We break it down. | <urn:uuid:7318ccfe-a6e9-4860-8a83-13033c12391b> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/20/15307566-first-read-roundup-clinton-to-middle-east-politics-of-rice-rubio-christie?pc=25&sp=25 | 2017-09-21T23:10:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687938.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921224617-20170922004617-00054.warc.gz | en | 0.960041 | 1,469 |
|Celebrated Name:||Diane von Furstenberg|
|Real Name/Full Name:||Diane Simone Michelle Halfin|
|Age:||75 years old|
|Birth Date:||December 31, 1946|
|Birth Place:||Brussels, Belgium|
|Height:||5’8″ (173 cm)|
|Husband/Spouse (Name):||Barry Diller, Egon Von Fürstenberg|
|Children/Kids (Son and Daughter):||Yes (Alexander Von Fürstenberg, Tatiana Von Fürstenberg)|
|Dating/Boyfriend (Name):||N/A/Yes (name)|
|Is Diane von Fürstenberg Lesbian?:||No|
|Profession:||Belgian fashion designer|
|Net Worth in 2022:||$1.5 Billion|
|Last Updated:||November 2022|
Diane von Furstenberg is a former Princess Diane of Furstenberg. She is a famous Belgian-American entrepreneur and fashion designer who is widely recognized for her wrap dress. Her marriage to the German Prince, Egon von Furstenberg, brought her immense stardom.
She is the founder of her fashion brand by the same name. Her extensive portfolio includes home decor, dresses, shoes, eyewear, and designer luggage. Many top celebrities such as A-list Hollywood stars, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the First Lady are seen to wear her designed shoes, dresses, and other accessories.
Maybe you know about Diane von Fürstenberg very well, but do you know how old and tall is she and what is her net worth in 2022? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Diane von Fürstenberg’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you’re ready, let’s start.
Early Life & Biography
Diane is born to her Romanian-origin father, Leon Halfin, and her Greek-born mother, Liliane Nahmias. Her father was an electronics executive, and her mother was a Holocaust survivor. Her mother has been a prime influence in her life and taught her how to live life fearlessly. She instilled self-belief and self-confidence in her that made her strong. Her teachings remained with her throughout life.
Diane received her schooling from schools in Spain, England, and Switzerland. In 1965, she attended the ‘University of Madrid’ for some time, and after a year, switched to the ‘University of Geneva’ and majored in economics.
After graduation, she moved to Paris and assisted an agent to fashion photographers named Albert Koski. She worked as a trainee to the clothing manufacturer firm and learnt about cut, material, and color. During this training, she designed her first silk jersey dress.
Daine got married to her first husband, named Clara Agnelli, in 1969. The couple has two children, named Princess Tatiana and Prince Alexander. She is also the grandmother of four children, including Princess Talita. In 1983, the couple got divorced. In 2001, Diane got married to an American media mogul named Barry Diller.
Fürstenberg is a humanitarian. She works as a director of a charity organization named “The Diller” that offer assistance to a not for profit organization in the field of education, community building, arts, human rights, environment, and health.
Diane’s designs are labeled as liberating and have made her a key figure in the female liberation movement of the 1970s. Over the years, her brand has evolved from a fashion brand to a style statement, and many top celebrities like A-list Hollywood stars are her clients. They are seen to wear and promote her designed shoes, dresses, and other accessories.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on December 31, 1946, Diane von Fürstenberg is 75 years old as of today’s date 29th November 2022. Her height is 5 ft 8 inches tall, and her weight is 60 kg.
In 1972, Diane rose to fame when she designed the ‘wrap dress.’ It became a monumental success and became a clothing staple for women.
In 1974, she inaugurated a perfume and cosmetic range named ‘Tatiana’ and sold around five million wrap dresses in just a few years.
In 1997, she re-launched her business and was back with her signature wrap dresses. She introduced her first memoir, elaborating events from her personal and professional life.
In 2011, she came up with her diffusion collection. In the next year, she introduced a clothing range for kids as ‘Gap Kids.’
Her fashion firm, Diane von Furstenberg, operates in more than seventy nations, and forty-five free-standing shops all across the glove with the headquarters and leading boutique in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
In addition to running her fashion brand, she has also published a few popular books as:
- Diane’s Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
- Diane: A Signature Life
- Diane’s The Woman I Wanted to Be
Awards & Achievements
Diane von Fürstenberg is a very popular entrepreneur and fashion designer. In 2005, the ‘Council of Fashion Designers America’ had awarded her a lifetime achievement award. In 2008, the Seventh Avenue Fashion Walk of Fame honored her with a star.
In 2010, she was presented a Gold Medal at the yearly Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Gold Medal Gala. In the next year, under her brand,” DVF” introduced an elaborate home collection, that included a signature fragrance, “DIANE.”
She has been working as the president of the “Council of Fashion Designers of America since 2006. In 201, she stood at the 68th position in the list of world’s most powerful women by Forbes. In 2015, her name was included in the list “Time 100” by Time Magazine. In 2016, The New School presented her an award for an honorary doctorate.
Net Worth & Salary of Diane von Fürstenberg in 2022
As of November 2022, the net worth of Diane Von Furstenberg is calculated to be $1.5 Billion. She is one of the most successful and recognized fashion designer and philanthropist in America. Diane has received a significant part of her earnings from the sales of her wrap dresses and other fashion under her fashion brand, “DVF.” This brand operates in over thirty nations and has completed around fifty years of operation to date.
In 1970, she laid the foundation of her fashion line. She became widely popular for her jersey wrap dress that was considered iconic in the fashion world. Her dress secured a place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. After ten years, she laid the foundation of her own publishing company and various other businesses.
In 1997, she re-launched her wrap dress. She also became the author of “Diane: A Signature Life.” Diane has a dozen high-profile women, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Obama, Jessica Alba, Catherine, Madonna, Duchess of Cambridge, etc. as her clients. In 2012, she inaugurated her first kid’s collection with “GapKids,” followed with a denim collaboration.
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PYRENEES ENDURO TRIP
Price 1850€ per person
The Central Pyrenees (Huesca), straddling the National Park of Ordesa and the Natural Park of Posets – Maladetas, are unique. Snow-capped peaks and glacial valleys sculpted by rivers over time, centuries-old forests climbing impossible slopes and spectacular landscapes shaped by centuries of livestock use will accompany us on this journey through the most authentic and pure Pyrenees, where Nature and Man have found their balance. And of course, the helibike… In Spain, the unique experience of flying over the Pyrenees and descending 2000 m of cumulative elevation gain along an endless path, from the rocky and rugged peaks to the bottom of the valley, crossing meadows, rocks, forests and rivers. A tremendous historical heritage and an exquisite gastronomy will complete the menu to create a unique and unrepeatable experience.
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2-9 OCTOBER 2021
17-24 JULY 2022
10-17 SEPTEMBER 2022
What is included
- Round trip airport transfer.
- 7 nights accommodation on a half board basis (breakfast and lunch included).
- A dinner in a very special place.
- 1 HELIBIKE ascent.
- Ascents in 4×4 van to access the riding sectors.
- Guided visit to a local winery with wine tasting.
- 2 local guides per group.
- Support vehicle.
What is not included
- Drinks outside of meals.
- Optional activities.
- Helmet rental and protection items (optional).
- On board type GoPro camera rental (optional).
- Accident insurance.
This is an example of what a typical trip program would be, although it may be modified without prior notice depending on the weather or other factors. Data are given for meters of cumulative elevation gain of descent and ascent, because inevitably some ascent will have to be pedaled, despite the use of 4×4 ascents … On average we will combine descending between 1000 and 1500 m of negative elevation, and trying not to ascend more than 300 – 350 m. On the helibike day it will be around 4000 m of descent.
DAY 1: ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION
Transfer from the airport to Aínsa. Welcome, presentation of the team and trip briefing.
DAY 2: RIDING IN AINSA – ZONA ZERO
Get accustomed to the terrain, discovering the BTT center Zona Zero of Aínsa, where we will do some of the most famous trails in the area, including the mythical descents of the Enduro World Series.
DAY 3: RIDING IN AINSA – ZONA ZERO
We will start the day in Aínsa and its mythical trails and in the afternoon we will climb the high valleys of the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido to explore the most attractive trails in the area.
DAY 4: HELIBIKE IN BIELSA – PURO PIRINEO
Today is the day for Helibike, the star activity of the trip without a doubt. We will fly to Punta Suelza at about 3000 m from where we can contemplate the beating heart of the Pyrenees. We will take the opportunity to stop, look around, observe and understand a little how this mountain range has been formed. The descent of 2000 m of cumulative elevation gain, across meadows and forests, crosses all the habitats present in the Pyrenean mountain range, from the rocky and arid peaks to the green and fertile valley bottom.
DAY 5: RIDING IN FABIAN BIKE CENTER (FRANCE)
After the thrills of the helibike, today we will visit our French neighbors to try their fantastic trails carefully prepared for maximum enjoyment. A more relaxed morning of riding to release tension and regain strength. In the afternoon, we will go up to the collado de Sahún, at 2000 m, to enter the Valley of Benasque, a new territory to discover.
DAY 6: RIDING IN BENASQUE – PURO PIRINEO
The Valley of Benasque is known for Aneto (3404 m), the highest peak in the Pyrenees, but also for the more than 100 summits more than 3000 m high that are concentrated in this valley of glacial origin. The development of cycling tourism in the area led to the creation of the BTT center Puro Pirineo, with long lifts and endless descents as varied as you can imagine.
DAY 7: RIDING IN BENASQUE – PURO PIRINEO
The mountain landscape is mixed with the tradition and history of the peoples who settled in this originally cattle-raising valley. Times change and today the economy of the valley is based mainly on mountain tourism, and the Valley has established itself as the cradle of Mountain Guides in the Pyrenees. The Valley goes a long way and we will continue exploring and traveling the slopes, accumulating meters of elevation until our arms ask us for the well-deserved rest.
DAY 8: FAREWELL AND RETURN TO THE AIRPORT
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
- Is the travel program fixed?
No, the program is tentative and the order of the riding zones is not fixed. Because we are in a mountain area, the weather is very changeable and we may be forced to change the riding zones depending on the weather forecast.
- Do I have to bring my breakdown tools?
You don’t need to bring tools. Our bikes are equipped with the minimum essential spare parts kit, and our guides carry everything you need for quick fixes on the road. We also have a support van for more complex breakdowns and spare bicycles if necessary.
- What kind of clothes do I need?
In the Pyrenees, the weather is very changeable, so we must always carry a waterproof jacket in our backpack. In addition, on this trip we will visit both high mountain areas as well as valley bottoms and warm areas, so we will need short and long equipment, depending on the area we are in. You may also need a thermal shirt in case it is cold in the higher areas.
- Do I have to bring my protection items or can I rent them at the destination?
It is highly recommended to bring your own protection items for reasons of comfort and hygiene. But if you need to rent them, contact us and we will see how we can manage it.
- Do I need a full face helmet?
We do not consider it mandatory to wear a full face helmet, although the removable chin guard option seems highly recommended, given the variety of trails that we will find during the trip.
- What can I do if one day I don’t want to ride a bike?
In the riding zones there are multiple options for adventure sports adapted to all levels (rafting, canyoning, climbing, via ferrata, hiking, etc.). We will help you to book these activities.
- If one day I don’t want to ride a bike, is the cost associated with that day refunded?
No, the price of the trip is fixed, so no refunds are made for reasons of voluntary rest.
- If I can’t travel with my bike, can I rent one at the destination?
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... or it didn't happen.
Sarah Palin has put paid to rampant web speculation that she had sought to enhance her political profile by augmenting her physical profile. The former VP candidate and erstwhile governor of Alaska triggered a blogosphere earthquake last week when she appeared at a horse racing meet with what some claimed to be a suspiciously …
"Palin also bemoaned the effect the debate had had on her own time management. "It makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look at an area that I don't need them to look at.""
Mrs. Palin, may I interest you in a burqa? One size fits all!
"Which will presumably ensure that the public focuses squarely on the area of Palin's ideological and ecological views."
I hope so, as Palin has some deeply worrying beliefs, and if she runs for president she could be the worst thing to happen since Dubya took office.
"As a senior US politician surely an understanding of her politics and manifesto would be far more newsworthy?"
This has already received plenty of attention.
She knows more about Russia than anybody else because its next to Alaska, she reads all the papers, including erm, and um, not forgetting her policy of 'drill, baby drill'.
(or was 'a senior US politician' satire?)
I find it more offensive that you consider her a senior US politician. The most notable REAL thing she has done is leave her job before completing it to pursue her ambitions. What about all those people that voted her into office? They believed she would do a good job to full term.
Should she get a chance at president? Well unless someone comes up with world-president, she would at least finish her term.
Seriously though I am not sure what some people see in her. I guess she's just repeating what some people want to hear and that's enough for some. However she lacks everything the representative of a country should have.
Well she has been Governor of Alaska, and vice-presidential candidate that would make her a senior US politician. Sure her knowledge of geography is a little weak, but then this isn’t all that unusual in politicians. Even the president has been known to slip up on the location of some of the more minor countries.
She does seem to be very popular with the US electorate. Perhaps the folks who voted her into office thought she would do a good job by representing them at a higher level? Her views may be a little eclectic but they also seem to followed by plenty of other people.
If she were a real politician, and not in the press because of said assets then it would not be being discussed to begin with.
The truth is she is not a serious politician, has not revealed any real political policies. All her "views" are based on diatribe and political slogans, and she has yet to offer any real proposals of actual solutions to real problems.
I believe it is the US public's realization that she does not actually have real politics or manifesto that leads them to discuss the only thing she does have of interest, and that relates to her past work as winning beauty pageant contestant. This was already newsworthy in her election run where she revealed that she doesn't really read, is not familiar with the constitution or supreme court decisions and generally can't articulate complex thoughts. Most of America wrote her off then as not having any real valid political message.
Funny that there is recent debate about whether she should be able to call herself a feminist, I would think participation in beauty contests would pretty much make you on the opposite side of most in the feminist movement. This actually becomes newsworthy, because as a woman who promotes herself as self made feminist going against the rules in a mans world, it would especially hypocritical of her to get such surgery. Though again, unless she decried her participation in beauty contests most feminists would right her off as B$
I'm kinda mad at Larry Flint and Tina Fey for making keeping this Frankenstein monster alive so long. Tina Fey knew what damage she was doing, but SNL waved too much money for her to say no. Larry of course gave life to Sarah as a character making her a porn star as well....
Will Ferrel I think too late realized that he had humanized Bush too much in his mockery of him, and in his post SNL show he does a much more real Bush (mean spirited, stupid and ignorant like the real one) to make ammends.
Even if she has more money now than she used to, what with being the governor of Alaska and the Vice President and all, one really would have thought that if she were going to get implants, she would have done that back in her beauty contest days.
At this point, even if she does still look pretty good, I suspect that in the area of cosmetic surgery, it would be, say, a face lift that she would be shopping for at this time. And, unlike implants, a face lift to get rid of wrinkles probably is something that a female politician actually has to consider - not something that would disqualify her from being taken seriously.
Indeed, though, her opponents should focus on her policies and not bother with unfair blows because she is a woman. There's plenty to object to there; and I can say that even though I liked G. W. Bush as President.
When the media is too intellectually deficient to address the policies of a grass roots politician, there is a tendency to objectify and dehumanize. It is the same tactic taken by Hitler and his conies duing World War II.
Ms. Palin has certainly taken her share of vicious dehumanizing attacks, she is a magnet for hate: a family woman, a hard working individual, reasonable looks, experience in energy, experience as a businessperson, and even greater years of executive experience than the person who was elected as President by the opposing party! (Good looks, business sense, and experience are not attributes of The Left in American politics.)
If there is anyone that the White House at the colonies on the other side of the pond needed FOR MONTHS, it was for someone like Ms. Palin, whose family understands oil and energy, to be engaged at the highest levels. The inexperience and mistakes of their current executive might leave a black spot on the U.K. & Western Europe as the crude continues to leak unabated and hits the gulf stream.
(Flame for not burning the crude off immediately, as the original ignored disaster plan stipulated, and facilitating the crude to remain under water via dispersants - to be carried where the gulf currents will eventually take it. If there was a sand-berm icon, that would be a good pick too, since that was part of a disaster plan whose implementation experienced a month-long American Federal Government Executive Branch delay, but that will not really affect Europe.)
But she is an under-informed idiot, and most of the criticism levelled against her has been entirely fair. No one objects to her being pretty or having a family - they object to her being outrageously ill-equipped to be in government, and holding extremely dodgy views.
You've just fallen foul of Godwin's Law in the most spectacular way in your first paragraph, anyway, so I fear you have lost.
Incidentally, I removed your last comment from this site as it contained a nasty and unfounded accusation against a public figure. I'd say it amounted to a vicious, dehumanizing attack, in fact.
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You can send the British Cattle Movement Service updates via CTS Online, approved farm software and a self-service phone line.
To report the births, movements and deaths of cattle, bison or buffalo electronically, you can use:
- Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online
- CTS Web Services using approved farm software
- the CTS self-service telephone line
CTS Online is a British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) website that is free to use and lets you:
- report births, movements and deaths and get receipts for your transactions
- access a list of all the cattle on your holding, see their details and look at the history of your herd
- view your holding’s transactions for the last 6 months
- see if there are any problems with your transactions and send BCMS information to resolve them
- order bar code labels and forms
CTS Online is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It allows you to get your cattle information to BCMS quickly, upload movements in batches and send information via a ‘contact BCMS’ facility (eg if you make a mistake in reporting). It also validates some of the information you send, which leads to fewer mistakes.
You can download ademonstration that lets you navigate around as you would on the live site (press the ‘escape’ key to exit).
Enrol to use CTS Online
Before you first use the system, contact BCMS to get a CTS Online reference number. You’ll also need to if you haven’t already registered to access other government services online. You’ll use your Government Gateway user ID and password to access CTS Online.
Once you’re registered with the Government Gateway, there are two ways to enrol to CTS Online for the first time:
You can alsoall in one go.
Once you’ve enrolled, each time you use CTS Online you can choose whether to.
Help with CTS Online
You can download help guides on:
There is also help information on the right-hand side of each screen on CTS Online.
If you still have a problem, you can contact BCMS, with the following information to hand:
- your County Parish Holding (CPH) number
- the web page you were using when the problem happened
- your internet service provider (ISP) and browser type
- the date and time the problem happened
CTS Web Services
CTS Web Services is a BCMS system that allows compatible farm software packages to link straight through to the Cattle Tracing System via an internet connection. It allows you to report your cattle births, movements and deaths securely to BCMS through your farm software.
As with CTS Online, some of the information is validated by the system, helping to eliminate mistakes.
You can also request receipts for your transactions. To find out if your transactions have been successful in reaching CTS, you can enter your receipt number back into CTS Web Services. This will show if any mistakes have been made, so you can enter your information again.
Other features include:
- a ‘cattle on holding’ cross-check option, which allows you to automatically compare your holding register with the information CTS holds, to ensure there are no discrepancies
- a ‘get animal details’ option, which allows keepers and abattoirs to view full movement histories for up to 50 individual animals
To start using CTS Web services using approved farm software or to change your CTS Web Services password for your farm software, contact BCMS.
If you want to produce a product which uses CTS Web Service and you’d like more information, email [email protected].
CTS self-service phone line
The CTS self-service line (SSL) is an automated phone line for cattle keepers who don’t have access to a computer.
The number is 0345 011 1212 (Welsh language line: 0345 011 1213).
The line is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
When you register with BCMS, your CPH number and the telephone numbers(s) you’ll be calling from will be registered on the Cattle Tracing System. To change the number or add other numbers to call from, contact BCMS.
If your telephone number is withheld, the system won’t recognise it unless you dial 1470 before the SSL number. If you have trouble dialling in from a mobile, your mobile provider should be able to tell you what settings to change so that the system can detect your number.
How to use the SSL
You can use the SSL for reporting:
- births (press 1)
- movements on (press 2)
- movements off (press 3)
- deaths of registered animals (press 4)
- deaths of unregistered calves (press 5)
You don’t need to wait for the menu to finish before pressing the option you need.
The most effective way to use the SSL is by using the telephone keypad to enter information.
There’s a limit of 50 transactions in one call. If you need to report more than this, hang up and re-dial.
At the end of each call you’ll be given a reference number, which you should note in case of queries. The information you have given will appear straight away on CTS Online.
British Cattle Movement Service
BCMS helpline 0345 050 1234
Welsh language helpline 0345 050 3456
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Artist Bio: I was born in Chicago and was raised in multiple cities throughout my childhood. The one central area I was mostly raised in is Englewood, Chicago.
I was bullied throughout most of my life and suffered severe depression. I started off doing poetry in the 3rd grade. It was a way for me to cope with the depression that I was going through.
Later on branch off into rapping and producing my own music. When my depression has gotten better, I branch off into dancing, acting, and drawing. As I got better and better in my craft I realized that I can do this full time.
In 2017, I made the decision to drop out of school and pursue my career full time. Even though my family had rejected me because of it, I believe 100% that, my music and my personality will get me extremely far.
My music and talents has gotten me the toughest times in my life and I just want the masses to relate my music in their own story.
1) What inspired you to be a part of the music industry?
What inspire me to be in the music industry is the hip hop culture. The culture has had a huge effect on my life in terms of how I dress, how I communicate with others, and what i think. Also nothing beats the feeling of performing in front of thousands and hundreds of thousands of fans and just vibing with the fans and connecting with them.
2) Talk to me about the making of your latest project. What was the inspiration behind it?
The inspiration behind my latest project is the situations that I had within myself, the situations I had with my friends and my family. This project was about me acknowledging past and evolving to the future leaving behind the haters, leaving the negativity behind and living a life of freedom.
3) What was the process behind making the project?
When making these songs, I was downstairs in the music room of the dormitory I was residing in. It was around midnight and thats when my mind really was in the mood to making music. When I open up ableton, I just started browsing through different samples and audios I have to see which one I like.
I found one sample for the song for Snap and I thought ” wow this is a hit.” So I just plug the sample in and let my imagination take over from there. Once I finish the song, I began to indulge in the song to see what I was going to make the song about. Once I find out, it took me a few minutes to write.
I just naturally let the words flow as if I knew what to write down. Same goes for the rest of the songs I made. I just browsed for a simple melody and let my imagination take over. Once I finish with the project it was around 5 in the morning and I was on pure determination and energy drinks.
I was so happy with what I made that I went to my dorm room, took a 7 hour nap and went to the studio to record my vocals and get it mix and master.
4) What are your thoughts on the hip-hop industry at the moment?
My thoughts on the hip hop industry overall is that I like where we stand. We some artists making good quality songs that express their story or situations to their audience.
Some artists are just making songs for people to have fun and dance to which that’s all people want to do is listen to music to dance and let loose. I think we are slowly advancing as a culture in my opinion.
More and more people are paying homage to those before us and more and more of the population are starting to recognize us and love us as a culture. In the billboard charts the top songs are hip hop. We still have room for growth but we are improving.
5) Do you enjoy grinding it out independently or would you prefer to be signed to a major label?
At a point in life, I did enjoy the independent grind. I love promoting my own music, having creative control over my music and doing it on my own.
But it hinders me from making music and performing my craft. Having a label to support me would allow focus on making good quality music and performing for my fans. I won’t have to stress about promoting my project.
6) What do you think goes into building a loyal fanbase?
I think what makes a loyal fan base is connecting with the fans on a personal level. Having the fans involved through the creative process of the project.
Having fans come on the stage to perform with me and have the fans send me design suggestions for merchandise. Providing fans content not only that I will enjoy but the fans we enjoy and relate to.
Also connecting with personal narratives and helping some fans with there situations.
7) What sort of online promo and marketing are you doing to reach your fanbase?
Right now I am putting my music on blogs and websites that target my audience that loves the hip hop genre. I am also using word of mouth marketing.
8) As an indie artist, how do you brand yourself and your music to stand out from the rest of the artists out there?
I wear a bandanna on my head and two different earrings. Once I put these things on, it already made me different from any other artist.
My artist name is D1 and I kinda use the number 1 as my brand because it symbolizes my difference from everyone. That the things people are too afraid to do or decisions people are too afraid to make, I’m the only one to do.
My music has a classical and trap vibe to it and the songs sound different from what we heard today.
9) How do you currently make a living as an independent hip-hop artist? What sort of income streams do you have?
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I Have Fibromyalgia. My PS Says the New Gummy Bear Implants May Be Contraindicated for my Condition?
- Asked by boobiewish in Mississippi
- 7 months ago
Fibromyalgia and Silicone Gel Brass Implants?
Thank you for the question. You may wish to review the FDA website pages regarding silicone gel breast implants. Additional consultations with board-certified plastic surgeons may also be worthwhile. To date, there have been no shown association between rheumatologic disease and silicone gel breast implants.
Fibromyalgia and breast implants
All the studies have shown no definite link between implants and fibromyalgia, at least so far. It is not surprising that a surgeon would advise against implants because of all the mess we plastic surgeons had to go through with this issue in the past. I would also play it safe and not advise implants, but you will always be able to find somebody to do the surgery if you really want it.
Fibromyalgia and Silicone Gel Implants
To confirm, there are no contraindications from the FDA. The two available gummy bear implants, the 410 from Allergan and the shaped implants from Sientra, are both highly cohesive, shaped and textured implants that have an excellent performance record compared to their moderately cohesive silicone gel and saline counterparts.
Be sure you see plastic surgeons that have a lot of experience in using these devices to get the best results and the lowest risk of complications. They require meticulous surgical technique to create a snug pocket for them to fit into, something that many surgeons are not used to doing. However, these devices will give you the most natural and predictable upper pole fullness compared to the others. These are the my preferred implants by far!
Best of luck!
Web reference: http://www.drminniti.com
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My PS Says the New Gummy Bear Implants May Be Contraindicated for my Condition?
You might want to consider a second opinion from another surgeon. There are no known associations between silicone imlants and all the studied rheumatological illnesses, and the studies have been extensive.
All the best.
Gummy bear implants and fibromyalgia
There is no known causal connection between the new gummy bear implants and fibromyalgia. These implants have been studied at great length specifically to rule out such links, which have not been established. Best of luck to you.
Gummy Bear Breast Implants in someone with Fibromyalgia
There is no contraindication to using the new highly cohesive silicone implants (the so called "Gummy Bear implants which is what all silicone implants are now). The data that confirms this is from a multitude of studies done over the last 20 years (the most intense study ever of any medical device) after the FDA had some question of implant safety including the causation of collagen vascular diseases. Almost all board certified plastic surgeons are aware of this since our societies send information about such data and the data are also in our journals. There are, however, a number of physicians calling themselves plastic surgeons that are not board certified and, thus, not in our societies to receive this information and, frequently, do not read the journals to keep up with the latest literature.
Fibromyalgia and Cohesive Gel (Gummy Bear) Implants
Dear Bobbiewish, Highly cohesive silicone gel filled implants are some of the most intensely studied medical devices in the history of the FDA. To my knowledge, there has been no linkage between the highly cohesive gel implants and fibromyalgia to date. A second opinion with a plastic surgeon who has been an investigator with these newer generation implants may be recommended.
No connection or contraindication between gel implants and fibromyalgia
In the dark days for breast implants there was a contraindiction for the use of gel implants if the patient had a connective tissue disease. There is no such contraindication today. There have been numerous studies showing the safety of breast implants. For more information you may want to go to the web site. Breast Implant Safety .org
Web reference: http://www.breastimplantsafety.org
Fibromyalgia and breast implants
There have been many studies on breast implants and fibromyalgia and to my knowledge, there is only one which has shown a weak link to fibromyalgia in patients with rupture implants with extracapsular spread of the silicone (i.e. the silicone gel has gone beyond the scar tissue capsule that surrounds the implant). It is very unlikely that ruptured "gummy bear" implants would ever have extracapsular migration of the free silicone. No studies have linked "gummy bear" implants with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a complex disease so check with your rheumatologist before proceeding with surgery. I, personally, have put dozens of silicone implants in fibromyalgia patients and not one of them ever reported aggravation of their symptoms.
Gummy Bear Implants and Fibromyalgia
I have never heard of fibromyalgia being a contraindication for using cohesive silicone gel breast implants. You might want to get a second opinion from another plastic surgeon if your first one does not feel comfortable with your situation.
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It’s Monday! What are you reading?
Join Kellee and Jen’s meme to share all the reading you have done over the week – everything from picture books to young adult novels! Connecting with the #IMWAYR community is such a great way to hear about fantastic books “new to you.”
I read a lot of picture books this week. Here are my favourites:
Pecan Pie Baby by Jaqueline Woodson and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. A perceptive little story about a young girl who is anxious about a new baby coming and changing the connected relationship between her and her Mama. Love Sophie Blackall’s illustrations – all the tender snuggles between pregnant Mom and daughter.
Ladybug Girl by Jacky Davis and David Soman I’ve read other Ladybug girl stories but not this original book and I like it best of all. Lovely illustrations and the highlights of outdoor pretend play.
Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Freya Blackwood The best part of this story is the celebration of play through some very imaginative building with boxes. (Fantastic illustrations by Blackwood) Of course, it’s also a great book to touch on anxiety about moving somewhere new.
C.R. Mudgeon by Leslie Muir and Julian Hector There is much to this little book. A tribute to friendship, a reminder to break out of your comfort zone and be ready for new things and the celebration of individuals who really truly grab on to the world and shake all there is to find within it out! Go read it . . . so worth it!
Some Cat! This was a wonderful read aloud in my room. I shared my students’ reactions here.
Because Amelia Smiled by David Ezra Stein The pay it forward story line isn’t unique for a picture book but none of us can hear this message too often: kindness passed on grows and strengthens. Loved the illustrations. Beautifully colourful and whimsical. I read this to my class and it sparked a lovely brainstorming session on how we can create more kindness in our classroom.
Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Robertson A boy wants a dog. A dog wants a friend. Really, they need each other. If you just look at it in the right way . . . Touching story of the need for a companion and how far some might go to find that connection. Chapter format in a picture book.
Bullly by Patricia Polacco Handles middle school issues of cyber bullying, friendship and loyalty very well.
I also read some fantastic nonfiction. Read this post for more details.
In novels . . .
I finished The Diviners by Libba Bray. This was one of my must read in 2013 titles as I’m trying to read more fantasy novels.
Wow . . .this was some book! Dramatic. (I loved the 1920s setting and characters.) Funny. At times, absolutely scary. Eerie and shivery kind of scary. Horror. Paranormal activity. Special powers. It was the kind of read where it is necessary to say to yourself, “just a book, just a book . . . ” Some nights I would turn off my light and then haunted by worries about a specific character, turn the light back on and read on.
This is a long read (578 pages) but highly addictive. The ending definitely leaves many things unanswered (hooking readers for the next in the series . . .)
I also read How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr.
I read this book quickly finding myself very attached to what might happen to all of the characters. The story is about two teenage girls (Jill and Mandy) who find their lives completely colliding when Jill’s Mom decides to adopt Mandy’s baby in an open adoption. Pregnant Mandy comes to live with Jill and her Mom and brings with her sadness, secrets and longing for a different life. Jill is still reeling from the recent death of her father and finds it difficult to be open to anyone. Somehow though these characters find a way to make sense to each other and the ending is . . . (I don’t want to spoil it but must say, it really touched me)
Currently, I’m reading The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver to my children and The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (think this is the fourth time I’ve read this book!) with my student book club at school. We are really enjoying The Spindlers – it’s full of delightful and unique characters from “below” My son is finding the idea of spindlers a little spooky but every time I stop reading, he begs me to continue!
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), the largest retailer in the world after surpassing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) last year, is buoyed by a diverse array of businesses in sectors ranging from healthcare to media and entertainment. Just like Jeff Bezos and Amazon (AMZN), the Alibaba Group operates all around the world with businesses across many verticals.
With operations in more than 200 countries, the Chinese company’s flagship company, of course, is Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business-to-business trading platform. Alibaba.com has three main segments: an English-language portal, Alibaba.com, that connects sales between importers and exporters; a Chinese portal, 1688.com, that serves as a platform for China’s in-country business trade; and a retail website, AliExpress.com, that connects buyers to small quantities of product at wholesale prices.
Here are nine other companies owned by Alibaba Group:
Alibaba Group announced in March 2018 that it would invest another $2 billion in Lazada Group SA. Alibaba had previously held an 83% stake in the company after it invested $1 billion in June 2017. Alibaba took control of Singapore-based Lazada in April 2016 in a $1 billion deal with its founder, Rocket Internet, making it Alibaba’s largest acquisition to date.
Lazada focuses on e-commerce in six Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand.
The number of countries that Alibaba operates in.
South China Morning Post
Alibaba Group acquired South China Morning Post, a century-old Hong Kong-based, English-language newspaper, in December 2015 for about $266 million as part of its plan to grow its media and entertainment business.
At the time, Jack MA, CEO of Alibaba, said it wanted to reshape coverage of what it thought was a negative portrayal of China in Western media.
Alibaba Group acquired AutoNavi, a Chinese map, and navigation company, in 2014. The company has been providing mapping data to Google for more than a decade, and it also has connections with Apple Inc. (AAPL) in providing mapping data on China. Its own app garnered more than 100 million users, making it one of the top apps in the country.
Alibaba Group founded Taobao in 2003 as a consumer-to-consumer marketplace in China, similar to eBay Inc. (EBAY) or Amazon (AMZN). At the time of its launch, eBay had acquired China’s leading online auction site, Eachnet. To compete, Taobao offered free seller listings and features like messaging for buyers, and it became the leading auction site in the country within two years.
The Alibaba Group founded Alipay in 2004, and it’s now the world’s most significant online payment with more than 400 million users. Alipay, currently under parent company Ant Financial Services Group, also an Alibaba Group affiliate, surpassed PayPal as the most extensive digital payment platform in 2014. In August of 2017 Alipay announced a partnership with Yelp, a sign of their plans to expand west.
Alipay says it connects with 65 financial institutions like MasterCard and Visa. It provides payment services for its businesses, like Taobao.
Alibaba Pictures Groups
Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd. was renamed from ChinaVision Media after Alibaba Group bought a 60% stake for $804 million in 2014. The entertainment company has been the largest Chinese movie company since 2015.
Although a dominant player in Chinese film production, Alibaba Pictures Group said in November 2017 that they had reported losses of $83.7 million.
Aliwangwang and Laiwang
Alibaba Group launched Aliwangwang, its instant messaging service, in 2004 for real-time interactions between Taobao’s online sellers and customers. Now, Aliwangwang is the second-largest instant messenger in China.
In other messaging technology companies, Alibaba Group announced in 2013 that it would use Laiwang, its messaging service app, over rival Tencent’s messaging service app, WeChat. Laiwang is now another company under the Alibaba Group.
Ali Health Information Technology
Ali Health is Alibaba Group’s health-care company that started in 2014 after Alibaba and private equity firm Yunfeng purchased a 54% stake in a company called Citic 21CN. Lately, Alibaba has been focusing on beefing up the company into its flagship healthcare platform with a $488.3-million deal in which Ali Health will acquire Alibaba’s health food business.
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Modern Mothers Aren’t Drinking Anymore Than Generations Before Us So Why Are We Judged Like It
Today, there are many books, memes and blog posts dedicated to this idea that wine (or any other alcoholic beverage for that matter) is mom’s best friend.
On social media, moms around the world crack jokes about it “being 5 O’clock somewhere,” or “inserting Pinot Grigio IVs,” or “burning calories by running around the house, searching for their wine glass.”
There has been a significant shift in the dialogue surrounding drinking and mothering. But is alcohol dependency really that ubiquitous in modern mommyhood?
After my mother-in-law sent me an article by the Telegraph about the growing number of stressed-out moms in the U.K turning to alcohol to unwind, I couldn’t help but feel self-conscious pouring myself a glass of wine in front of her. There is a real problem with drinking that starts after school. It used to be a cup of tea, now it’s a glass of wine at 3.30pm instead, the article says.
Headlines announce the discovery of an underground culture of wasted mothers drinking Chardonnay from sippy cups just to ease the stress that comes with motherhood.
Stay-at-home moms are portrayed as overwhelmed, over-worked and haggard, so they turn to wine not to fall apart. Working moms are also seen as being thrust into the pressure of keeping up with their male counterparts on all fronts — including the “drinks after work” culture.
Are We Drinking More Than Our Mothers Did?
Consuming alcohol hit historical peaks for Canadians twenty-five years ago, according to Gerald Thomas, scientist with the Centre for Addiction Research of British Columbia. The rate of consumption took a dip in the 90s and has been on a slight increase ever since.
In 2013, roughly 17 per cent of Canadian women aged 35 to 44 reported heavy drinking* (defined as having four or more drinks, on one occasion, at least once a month in the last year). In this age group, it was down from 20% in 2003.**
Simply put, the rates of problematic drinking for this age group have not changed significantly—yet the conversation about it has.
The Reasons Behind The Supposed Increase
Ann Dowsett Johnston grapples with the many complexities of women and drinking in her groundbreaking book, “Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol.” One of the questions that drove her research was whether the pressure of the modern world led women towards the bottle or not. She discovered that because of the societal roles women have assumed in the modern world, Generation X’ers have used alcohol to master so many tasks at one time.
We have careers to be concerned about; we take care of our houses, children, and sometimes, useless partners. But haven’t women always had a lot on their plates?
As well as being multi-taskers, millennial and generation X moms tend to be more open by sharing plentiful details about their habits on social media. The upside to our modern culture of networking is that those who need help don’t have to stay isolated for long.
The Difference Between Drinking To Unwind And Dependency
With all the sharing and blogging and quoting, there is something that must be made clear: there is a distinct line between someone who is predisposed to and/or has a dependency issue and one who does not.
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse suggests a guideline for women to drink no more than ten drinks a week, and no more than two drinks a day most days. Beyond that, they say, women are at risk of developing alcohol dependence issues, and long-term health problems.
Some of the most popular memoirs based on drinking and motherhood, such as Drunk Mom, written by Jowita Bydlowska, reveal raw and painfully honest accounts of being a mother with alcoholism.
Stephanie Wilder-Taylor, blogger, author and recovering alcoholic, says that she “had no problem finding other mothers who shared my enthusiasm for better parenting through Chardonnay.” This was until, she said, “I caught a glimpse of my puffy face in the bathroom mirror; I was appalled and ashamed,” before she leaned over the toilet bowl to puke again.
Pan to a scene of the majority of those enjoying some wine with friends (or alone doing the dishes) and you will most likely see the ability to cork the bottle when a personal limit is hit.
For us modern mothers that glass of wine may very well be present at play dates, birthday dinners, and Saturday afternoon get-togethers. It has become normalized by way of a cultural shift towards women owning their own choices and being open about it. But the lines between serious issues and moderation shouldn’t get muddled because of survey percentages and feverishly Tweeted personal memoirs.
Alcoholism is a very serious issue and can be a long, slow journey of controlled drinking that slips out of line and ends up ruining one’s life. There are so many components that lead to drinking in an unhealthy way. If alcohol affects your life negatively at all, this is enough to stop and take a look at it. Take this online self-test for alcoholism.
The fact is, roughly 80% of Canadians drink alcohol. That is to say, the majority of us do tip back cocktails from time to time. And yes, there is a definite increase in heavy drinking for young women (aged 18-24) to a point that scares me for our children’s generation (The rate of binge drinking among women aged 18-24 has increased more than seven times than men in the past 10 years.). But I don’t think us mothers (in my age group, 35-44) are any less able to handle the stresses in our lives without dependency than any other generation.
These brave memoirs, documentaries, and articles have generated an incredible amount of awareness about the signs of unhealthy habits and have created a helpful community for those who need it.
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Further to my previous post on recruitment agencies I felt I had to post details of an exchange I had with an agent today because it is a great example of the attitude most recruitment agents have.
I got an email at 12:15pm from an agent, let’s call him Paul because that is his name, with the subject “C#/ASP.net Developer – Central London”. This was the third such email received today. I’m not going to post the entire message, just the key bits that annoyed me.
First of all, please accept my apologies if you have received this email in error or are not currently looking for a role.
If you ever find yourself starting an email with a sentence similar to this one, stop and think about what you’re doing. If you feel the need to apologise for an email before you’ve sent it you probably shouldn’t be sending it in it’s current form.
I have just received a very exciting vacancy at a global company for a C#/ASP.net Developer – Permanent role – that I wanted to make you aware of.
Yeah, they’re all exciting, and most of them are at some global company or other. Either that or they’re a startup with great prospects and a “relaxed and friendly atmosphere”.
If you are a .Net Developer with 2+ years of experience this is a great opportunity for you…
If you don’t know whether I’m a .Net developer with 2+ years of experience, why are you sending me an email about a job that requires it?
This vacancy is live now – so please get in touch.
I try to avoid touching live things – they tend to hurt!! Also, if you had sent me an email about a job that wasn’t actually available I really don’t know what my reaction would be. I’d probably laugh a lot.
I don’t really know why, but this particular email hit some of my buttons. I deviated slightly from my standard reply asking to be removed from their database, and including such gems as…
Did you even read my CV? No, you didn’t. How do I know this? Because I don’t have anywhere near 2 years experience with C#, and absolutely no experience with ASP.net. It’s pathetic, it really is.
My profile on Jobsite has been marked as non-searchable for nearly 3 months which means you’re using a very old database or their site is broken. I’m going to assume it’s you, because… well, just because.
Tell me who [your client is] so I can contact them and recommend they use another recruitment agency. You know, the type that does some research rather than spamming the lake hoping to find a fish.
Have a spamtastic day.
Ok, so none of it was comic genius, but I think the point was well made and I could only hope that Paul would get it. About 15 minutes after sending that I got a reply, which I am going to quote in full…
Your information has been removed from our database. I can only say that hopefully my email has reached someone who it is appropriate for and is looking and has the right skills. Hopefully an appropriate email will reach you sometime and you will see the benefits of the system.
System? You’re calling spamming people a system? I mean, seriously, if your “system” had better searching abilities against CVs, such as “I need people with 2+ years of .Net experience” it might work better. If I had to guess I would say my CV matched this guy’s search because it mentions C#, ASP and .Net. It’s worth noting that there is no mention of ASP.Net on my CV.
As for hoping that an appropriate email will reach me sometime I accept that on occasion when I have been looking for a new job the occasional ideal position does arrive. However, when you consider the percentages I had to wade through a lot of crap to notice them.
The “benefits of the system” are all in favour of the agencies. Like other spammers they get to do minimal work and unfortunately chances are good that their email will hit a small number of people for whom it is relevant. Does that mean we should all put up with it?
Can anything justify the use of poorly maintained databases? In my opinion sites like Jobsite should require that any company taking data from their database periodically updates that data to ensure that it’s current. I would expect that to put a stop to the vast majority of the recruitment spam I get because every agency database would sync with the sites where I’m registered – meaning they would know I’m not looking for work.
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An Important Breathing Exercise for Supporting Lung Health Amidst COVID-19
As many of you know, COVID-19 primarily infects the lungs and if it progresses far enough can result in pneumonia where there is increased fluid and scar tissue. This reduces our ability to obtain oxygen and ultimately breathe.
According to this source, it appears that this pattern of edema and fibrosis can be present in the lungs even before symptoms appear. (https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-examined-in-lung-tissue-of-symptomless-patients/.
The increased fluid and scar tissue are a result of the body’s immune system trying to fight off the virus. However, problems arise when the debris created from the immune response is not being cleared out effectively and efficiently. This is what causes the congestion and fibrosis in the lung tissue.
When dealing with an infection in the lungs we need to not only have a strong enough immune system to kill the virus but we also need to be able to clear away the debris. This occurs primarily through our lymphatic system.
Our Lung Lymphatic System
We have lymphatic channels and nodes throughout our lungs to filter and clear away the waste created by an immune response. Just like our heart powers our circulatory system, our lymphatic system also requires a power generator. This power generator is our breathing and movement.
Therefore, in order to power your lymphatic system pump to keep your lungs clear it is imperative that you optimize your breathing and movement.
Did you know that most likely your baseline breathing is not sufficient to accomplish this?
This is especially true if you are under stress, have asthma, allergies, or any other baseline respiratory condition. We find that the majority of our patients are shallow breathers, when in fact our diaphragm needs to fully contract and relax in order to be an efficient pump. When we breathe too shallow, our diaphragm becomes too tight.
In order to relax the diaphragm, you must first learn how to exhale completely. After a complete exhale, you can then take a large inhale. These excursions of inhales and exhales create the pressure differentials needed in the lungs for efficient lymphatic drainage and clearance of respiratory debris.
However, we can’t forget the other driver of lymphatic flow which is the 3-dimensional movement that should normally occur through our pelvis and rib cage during breathing and walking. This also serves to pump our lymphatic system. It is ultimately the combination of our breathing coupled with the alternating rotation of our bodies during walking that drives this mechanism.
Body Rotation During Walking
We have adapted a Postural Restoration Institute based breathing and movement technique that accomplishes these goals. We believe if everyone could perform this exercise a couple times per day it could significantly help prevent and minimize the respiratory complications related to covid-19.
Seated Alternating Reach, Breathe, and Tone Technique
Depending on your physical ability, sit on either a low step stool/stack of books in a squat position or a regular chair facing sideways. The lower the chair the better. If in a regular chair you can try placing a footrest/books under your feet.
Round out your low back and roll your pelvis back so you can feel your sit bones.
Reach forward with your right arm (thumb up) and backwards with your left arm (thumb down) while keeping your back rounded and weight through your sit bones.
Inhale through your nose as you reach backwards with your left arm. You should feel your front left chest opening. Do NOT inhale too aggressively so that your neck muscles engage. Inhale enough so that your neck muscles stay relaxed.
As you exhale create a low toned vowel sound such as “uh”, “oh,” or “ah.” Try to maintain the tone as long as you can get ALL of the air out of your lungs. You will feel your abdominals engage during this and maybe some vibration in your body.
You may notice that your next inhalation feels deeper and more opening in your chest.
Repeat this for 4 toning/breath cycles on one side and then switch to the other side (L arm forward/R arm backwards) for 4 cycles.
Perform 3-4 cycles each side, ideally 2x day to optimize your lung lymphatic flow.
We also suggest incorporating this breathing technique at times when you are walking. You can substitute the exhale toning with a prolonged pursed lip exhale if you think you might intimidate nearby passerby.
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The mantra, “calories in versus calories out dictates weight loss” is just plain wrong. The human body is far more complex than simple subtraction. I have this conversation nearly every day with both my patients and our tribe members.
It is my goal to help you understand this as well.
So, what is insulin resistance?
First, let’s take a look at insulin’s role in the body.
INSULIN IS THE GATEKEEPER FOR FAT LOSS
Our pancreas produces a key hormone known as insulin, which serves as the gatekeeper for fat loss and fat storage. We can affectionately (or begrudgingly) refer to insulin as the “fat-storage hormone.”
Insulin is secreted when it receives the signal of glucose elevation. Its primary job is to move glucose from the bloodstream into our cells for energy storage and utilization.
INSULIN CREATES A DETOUR FOR GLUCOSE IN THE FORM OF FAT STORAGE
To answer the question “What is insulin resistance?” we first need to be able to answer another question: Just how does insulin store energy? It does so by inducing glycogen synthesis, which stores glucose in our liver and skeletal muscle. The problem is that only a finite amount of glucose can be stored before finding an alternative destination. Insulin creates this detour for glucose in the form of lipogenesis. This is where glucose is stored as fat in the form of triglycerides within our adipose (fatty) tissue and prohibits lipolysis, the breakdown of stored fat.
WE SUFFER FROM FOOD ABUNDANCE
Believe it or not, insulin is one of the primary reasons we exist today. When asking “What is insulin resistance,” remember that insulin served as a survival mechanism for our homo sapiens species for millions of years. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors primarily relied upon insulin’s fat storage when they were forced to go long periods without food. The problem today lies in that we no longer suffer from food scarcity but rather suffer from food abundance.
DEFINING INSULIN RESISTANCE
To answer the question “What is insulin resistance?” it’s also key to understand that a constant deluge of sugar and highly processed, carbohydrate food products result in persistent elevation in our blood glucose levels. As a result, insulin must work overtime to compensate. Eventually, our cell receptors mitigate their response and down-regulate their uptake of glucose carried by its chaperone, insulin. Unfortunately, our blood glucose remains elevated and therefore, the pancreas continues to push out insulin in hopes of moving glucose out of the bloodstream and to its destination. This continuing push of insulin ultimately defines insulin resistance.
VISCERAL FAT IGNITES INFLAMMATION
Once again, this leads to fat deposition in both our subcutaneous and visceral fat, which is the fat stored in and around our organs. Visceral fat ignites a cascade of inflammation through the production of inflammatory adipokines, such as of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-alpha), Interleukin (IL)-6, and macrophage chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), and Resistin.
Seeing as inflammation is the nidus of most disease processes, insulin resistance ultimately serves as the catalyst for all forms of metabolic disease. My point in including is explanation while answering “What is insulin resistance?” is to highlight that insulin resistance does far more than make us gain weight; it creates chronic metabolic disease.
Let’s recap the cascade of events leading to insulin resistance and its inevitable impact so that you can better answer the question “What is insulin resistance?”:
- Step 1 – Excess consumption of sugar and processed carbohydrates.
- Step 2 – Persistent and chronic elevation of blood glucose levels.
- Step 3 – The pancreas secretes insulin to chaperone glucose into our cells for energy storage and utilization.
- Step 4 – Insulin receptors downregulate due to excess exposure.
- Step 5 – The pancreas produces even more insulin in an effort to solve the problem.
- Step 6 – More Insulin creates greater fat storage – both subcutaneous and visceral fat. (fat in and around our organs)
- Step 7 – More visceral fat creates an uptick in inflammatory adipokines like Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-alpha), Interleukin (IL)-6, and macrophage chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), and Resistin.
- Step 8 – Welcome metabolic disease in all forms- cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and autoimmune
Now, let’s come back to this “calorie in versus calorie out” discussion.
Typical caloric restrictive diets may overall reduce blood glucose to a degree. However, if our bodies still have glucose and glycogen (the storage form of glucose) available, insulin will continue to wreak havoc, holding the key to unlock the path to breakdown fat through lipolysis. To put in plainly, our body will never utilize fat stores for energy when insulin levels are elevated. Let me repeat it. To fat adapt, which essentially means burning our own stored fat for fuel, we must exhaust glucose and glycogen stores to lower insulin levels. This is most efficiently achieved through a low carbohydrate/ketogenic nutritional plan.
CREATING METABOLIC FLEXIBILITY
As we consume fewer carbohydrates, we lower blood glucose levels and insulin levels diminish. This in return, allows our insulin receptors to upregulate to become more responsive to both insulin and glucose. What we are creating here is metabolic flexibility. As a result, we see much greater long-term success when we follow a low carbohydrate nutritional plan. If we are simply calorically restricting, we will see reductions in blood glucose to a lesser degree.
Additionally, we won’t have the same impact on the other hormonal regulatory processes that help control insulin sensitivity. For example, low carbohydrate nutrition increases Glucagon-Like Peptide–1 (GLP-1) and Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), further accentuating insulin sensitivity. Plus, these hormones help increase satiety, making the dietary changes more sustainable.
LOWERING CARBOHYDRATES MITIGATES INSULIN RESISTANCE
While we see phenomenal outcomes with our members following a ketogenic plan, we absolutely see incredibly impressive results with those following our low carbohydrate track. Just lowering carbohydrates within the diet will help to mitigate insulin resistance.
When asking ourselves “What is insulin resistance?” the final take-home message is appreciating how lowering glucose levels reduces insulin resistance, thereby shifting our bodies to burn fat for fuel. Herein lies the key to not just weight loss but optimization of metabolic health and disease prevention.
So, what is insulin resistance? See what you learned with this quick quiz (answers below):
- What hormone is produced from the pancreas due to blood glucose elevation?
- What happens when we have chronic elevation in both glucose and insulin? What is this called?
- Does insulin create fat storage and prevent fat breakdown?
- What is the best way to create insulin sensitivity and, therefore, promote weight loss?
Celebrate your answers:
- Insulin receptors downregulate, resulting in persistent elevation of glucose and insulin levels. This is how we define Insulin Resistance.
- YES – fat storage is called lipogenesis, and fat breakdown is called lipolysis
- Lowering glucose levels through lower carbohydrate nutrition. Especially carbohydrates coming from sugar and processed food products.
How did you do on the quiz? Can you answer the question, “What is insulin resistance?” better than you could when you started reading this article?
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• Rietman A, Schwartz J, Mensink M. High dietary protein intake, reducing or eliciting insulin resistance? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2014. Sep;68(9):973-979. | <urn:uuid:1ac97d54-244d-4bee-a7ff-dc3f0a60a548> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://yourwellbeingtribe.com/what-is-insulin-resistance/ | 2022-05-27T11:48:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662647086.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527112418-20220527142418-00189.warc.gz | en | 0.891727 | 1,767 |
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of Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire
[DUTT421] Odard de Dutton (born 1046, son of [SAUV401] Yvron Bellomontensis de Cotentin, see SAUVEUR), held Dutton as sub-tenant at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086), 1st Lord of Dutton, married Alice.
[DUTT431] Hugh FitzOdard Dutton (born 1086, at Dutton), 2nd Lord of Dutton, married [PICA432] Alice Picard (born 1106, daughter of [PICA421] Sir Nicholas Picard, see PICARD). Hugh and Alice both died c.1130.
[DUTT441] Hugh de Dutton (born 1128, at Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire), 3rd Lord of Dutton, married (1151) Alice Prescott (born 1132, daughter of Richard Prescott & Martha, see PRESCOT). Hugh died c.1154 at Kekwick, Cheshire, and Alice died 1178 at Dutton.
[DUTT451] Geoffrey de Dutton (born 1160, at Rocksavage, son of Hugh de Dutton), married [EUST413] Helen de Lacy (daughter of [EUST401] John FitzRichard de Lacy, see FITZEUSTACE). Helen died 9th April 1228. Geoffrey died 1248, at Nether Tabley..
[DUTT451] Hugh de Dutton (son of Hugh & Alice), 4th Lord of Dutton, married [MASS462] Isabel de Massey (born 1155, daughter of Hamon, see MASSEY).
[DUTT461] Sir Hugh de Dalton, 5th Lord of Dalton, married [ADES452] Muriel le Despenser (daughter of Thomas le Despenser of Armesby & Burton, by Rohese, see ABITOT).
[DUTT471] Sir Thomas de Dutton, succeeded his brother Hugh as 7th Lord of Dutton. He married [STAN472] Philippa de Standon (daughter of Vivian de Standon & Rohese, see STANDON).
[DUTT481] Hugh de Dalton, 8th Lord of Dutton, married 1. [MALP482] Joan St. Pierre (daughter of Urian St. Pierre, Baron of Malpas & Idonea de Malpas, see MALPAS).
[DUTT502] Katherine de Dutton (daughter of Sir Hugh & Isabella) married [PULF501] Robert de Pulford (see PULFORD).
[DUTT501] Sir Thomas Dutton (born 1314, son of Hugh & Joan), 10th Lord of Dutton, married Baroness [CANT502] Eleanor Thornton (born c.1316, daughter of [CANT491] Sir Peter Pierce Thornton, 1st Baron of Cantilupe, & Lucia Hellesby, see CANTILUPE).
.[DUTT511] Sir Edward Dutton, married [MUNZ512] Joan Munshull (daughter of Henry & Tibota, see MUNSHALL). Joan had previously married 1. William de Hooton.
[DUTT521] Peter Dutton (born 1366, at Halton, Cheshire), 12th Lord of Dutton, married [BOTX522] Lady Elizabeth Boteler (born 1377, daughter of Sir John Boteler, 10th Baron of Warrington & Alice de Plumpton, see BOTELER). Elizabeth died 19th June 1428 and Peter died 1tth October 1433.
[DUTT531] John Dutton, 13th Lord Dutton (born 1403), married [SAVA532] Margaret Savage (born c.1403, daughter of Sir John Savage II of Clifton, (see SAVAGE). Margaret died 29th June 1463.
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The 17-digit numbers found on Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) symbolize the following information:
- The first character- identifies the country where car was manufactured.
- The second character refers to the manufacturer. For example: eight stands for vehicles manufactured by Saturn.
- Third character refers to the type of vehicle type the manufacturing sect.
- The fourth and eighth characters identify the car's features (including the body style, model, features and so forth).
- Ninth character reveals the vehicle identification number's accuracy as a check digit.
- The tenth character refers to the car's model year. For instance, ‘Y" represents the year 2000.
- An eleventh character symbolizes the assembly plant of the vehicle.
- The twelfth and seventeenth characters- refer to the sequence of the automobile's production order when it rolled off the manufacturer's assembly line.
Various online vehicle history sites offer Buyback Guarantee programs with each vehicle identification number (VIN) decoder report. These polices can protect a consumer from purchasing a car with significant mechanical problems that may have been erroneously reported by the state's Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) agency.
Running a VIN search with a guarantee policy may work as the affordable alternative to a Certified Pre-owned (CPO) vehicle program.
A savvy way to shop around for a used car entails requesting the dealer or seller for the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). At online car site, car buyers may use the Web site's VIN decoder to learn about the car's history.
Did you know that the letters I, O and Q will never be found on a Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs)? Subsequent to 1981, VINs were added to all cars. The VIN number can provide valuable information pertaining to a car's history.
Here are three places to locate the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN):
- Driver's side door on jamb stickers
- Title documents
Vehicle identification number (VIN) searches are critical security features to buying a car. VINs serve several key purposes:
-- Defend against consumer fraud and theft
-- Assure accurate information regarding a vehicle's history
-- Identify any glitches in the vehicle's title
When used cars are certified, the VIN is verified against a Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) database.
Since VIN records are centralized, it is simple for any person to access the records of a prospective used car. As a result, conducting a VIN number searc is essential to making the right car buy.
Due to confidentiality issues and inept inspection practices, not all VIN decoders will include a car's complete history.
Here is a list of information that is not included on a vehicle history report:
- The previous owner's name(s)
- According to the 1994 Drivers Privacy Protection Act, vehicle history reports are prohibited from including such information.
- Lien release information is not generally included in a Vehicle history report.
- Data and information regarding pre-1981 vehicles
- Since, the standard of manufacturing cars with VINs was not legalized until 1981, adequate information is not available on models produced before that time.
Since the boom of the Internet, buying a new car online could not be easier. Today's online tools can ensure that any auto consumer may buy a used car – lemon-free. Here is how any Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) may decode a car's history or bumpy past:
- Title information
- Title transfers and checks
- Was the car salvaged?
- Has the odometer been turned back?
- Was the car in a major accident?
- Has the car experienced any significant mechanical problems
- Was the vehicle ever flooded or rebuilt?
- Has the vehicle been involved in any fraud?
- Has the car been damaged by fire or ever stolen
- How was the car used or procured in the past
(leased, rented, driven as a taxi or police vehicle)
Not all car dealers and sellers practice ethical tactics. A number of fraudulent used car transactions could be prevented with the use of a vehicle identification number decoder.
When it comes to buying a used car, naiveté may cost you headaches and expenses. Fortunately, VIN decoders will paint a more accurate depiction of a vehicle's history. Car buying Web sites feature VIN decoders.
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Buoyed by the BJP’s performance in polls in three northeastern states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday set his sights on Kerala by citing increasing support of minorities for the party and slammed rivals saying they are wishing ‘mar ja Modi’ but people have been chanting ‘mat ja Modi’.
With the BJP retaining power in Tripura on its own and with its senior ally in Nagaland set to be part of the government in Meghalaya, Modi hit out at the Congress for its president Mallikarjun Kharge’s attempt to play down his party’s poor show in the polls by describing it as “small state elections”.
“This is an insult to these states and their mandate,” Modi said, adding that it underscores the Congress’ vote bank politics in which the interests of the poor, Dalits and other deprived sections have been ignored. This mindset has harmed the country a lot and will sink Congress, he said.
The BJP’s rivals and their ecosystem have repeatedly tried to paste one label or another against the party by associating it with particular groups like trading and middle classes, or regions but they have been busted over time, the prime minister said at the party’s headquarters here.
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Tribals, Dalits, and backward classes and regions are with the BJP now, he noted, highlighting that its rivals used to claim that the party does not get much support from some of them. Modi also said that the BJP works for all without any discrimination.
The prime minister’s remarks aimed at minorities came days after his outreach to Pasmanda Muslims.
Another propaganda was spread in the country and abroad for years that minorities should be fearful of the BJP, he said.
The people of Goa have been exposing this “lie” against the BJP by repeatedly supporting the party in the state where Christians are in large numbers, and voters support for the BJP has been increasing now in the northeast region, he said.
He noted that Christians are in majority in Meghalaya and Nagaland, and their support for the BJP has been rising.
“As gradually the lies of our rivals is exposed, the BJP will expand… I am sure in the coming years, as it has happened in Meghalaya and Nagaland and has been happening in Goa, the BJP’s alliance will form government in Kerala too,” he said, blasting the Left and the Congress for their politics of deceit with their “friendship” in Tripura and rivalry in Kerala.
The Left and Congress are the two main parties in the southern state.
The people of Kerala are watching the sham of these two parties’ rivalry but the truth is now out that they are together in looting the state, the prime minister said.
The Left and the Congress had joined hands in Tripura to take on the BJP but were handed a crushing defeat in the state. Muslims and Christians are in significant numbers in the southern state where the BJP has failed to make much headway so far.
Modi said, “It’s a time for a new history and new era as peace, prosperity, stability and development flourish in the northeast. When I visited the region recently, I was told that I had visited the northeast 50 times. By frequently going there, I won their heart. And, it’s a big win for me.”
Noting that polls in the region used to be discussed for violence and other bad incidents, he appreciated the extensive coverage the election results drew on Thursday. The region is now distant from neither ‘Dilli’ nor ‘Dil’ (heart), Modi said.
Attacking rivals and in a reference to some objectionable slogans raised by a few Congress members during police action against party leader Pawan Khera, he said they wish to dig his grave, but the lotus (BJP’s poll symbol) is blooming everywhere.
The prime minister said some people who are involved in ‘kattar’ dishonesty wish him death by chanting ‘mar ja Modi’ but people say ‘mat ja Modi’ (don’t go Modi).
Taking a swipe at the party’s rivals for being in pain as to how it keeps winning one election after another, Modi credited this to ‘triveni’ of work and work culture of the party-run governments and its workers’ commitment to serving people.
He said a political model existed in which difficult tasks are never handled and politicians thought about the easy way out to mislead people. It was said that statesmen think about the next generation and politicians about the next elections but a time has now come that politicians are only concerned about the next day’s headlines and coming on televisions, Modi added.
The BJP has on the other hand put in a lot of hard work to tackle difficult challenges, he said.
“After seven decades of independence, many villages of the northeast didn’t have electricity. Previous governments knew that it was a difficult task to electrify those villages, and therefore, they turned a blind eye towards them,” the prime minister said, highlighting the efforts to provide people with their drinking water, infrastructure and housing facilities. | <urn:uuid:a96075bd-8cc2-4e72-8159-cf3a02e2032f> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://english.udayavani.com/article/english-news/some-say-mar-ja-modi-but-country-chanting-mat-ja-modi-says-pm-after-bjps-victory-in-ne-polls/1437151 | 2023-05-28T20:26:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644506.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528182446-20230528212446-00261.warc.gz | en | 0.977474 | 1,157 |
Rapid Dose Therapeutics and Chemesis to Introduce Innovative Quickstrip™ Oral Thin Strips to the Michigan Cannabis Market
June 27, 2019
Burlington, ON and Vancouver, BC, June 27, 2019 — Rapid Dose Therapeutics Corp. (CSE: DOSE), (“RDT”) and Chemesis International Inc. (CSE: CSI) (OTC: CADMF) (FRA: CWAA) (the “Company”) announced today that they have expanded the scope of their previously announced agreement (the “Agreement”) expanding the territory where Chemesis has been granted Gold Vendor Status to license, manufacture, distribute and sell RDT’s QuickStrip™ innovative, proprietary delivery technology for the medical cannabis market to Michigan, USA.
“We are focused and committed to providing consumers in the U.S. medical and recreational cannabis markets a Smoke-Free Choice™,” said Mark Upsdell, CEO of RDT. “RDT will continue to expand our strategic global partnerships and further strengthen our market share in the cannabis sector. This Agreement with Chemesis improves the QuickStrip™ position as a growing international brand and delivery device to Michigan consumers, while simultaneously offering health benefits and improving patient outcomes.”
RDT’s proprietary QuickStrip™ technology is a Quick, Convenient, Precise, Discreet™ oral fast-dissolving drug delivery system that offers a No Smoke, No Smell, No Stigma™ product to consumers. Chemesis expects to produce and distribute QuickStrip™ in Michigan by the end of 2019.
“Michigan is a lucrative and growing market in which we have recently received approval to produce quality cannabis products. Chemesis continues to take an aggressive growth approach to ensure a leading presence in the U.S. as the opportunities evolve,” said Edgar Montero, CEO. “Chemesis is committed to providing patients and consumers advanced cannabis products and innovations. This expanded agreement with RDT will enable us to bring QuickStrip™ technology to the Michigan market and offer patients a unique product that delivers a consistent and precise dosage.”
As part of the Agreement, Chemesis maintains the option to add future markets as the opportunity in those regions evolve.
About Rapid Dose Therapeutics
Rapid Dose Therapeutics Corp. is a publicly-traded Canadian life sciences company that provides innovative, proprietary drug delivery technologies designed to improve outcomes and quality of lives. RDT offers Quick, Convenient, Precise and Discreet™ choices to consumers. RDT is focused and committed to clinical research and product development for the healthcare manufacturing industry, including nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cannabis industries. Within the cannabis sector, RDT provides a turn-key Managed Strip Service Program which enables RDT’s QuickStrip™ proprietary drug delivery technology to be licensed by select partners. RDT’s service based annuity contracts drive recurring revenue which enables rapid expansion into emerging markets — generating value for consumers and shareholders. Rapid Dose Therapeutics is committed to continually create innovative solutions aimed at multiple consumer segments and future market needs — including humans, animals and plants.
For more information, visit: www.rapid-dose.com
For inquiries please contact:
Mark Upsdell, CEO
Rapid Dose Therapeutics
Office (416) 477-1052
Ali Mahdavi, Managing Director
Spinnaker Capital Markets Inc.
Office (416) 962-3300
About Chemesis International Inc.
Chemesis International Inc. is a vertically integrated U.S. Multi-State operator with International operations in Puerto Rico, and Colombia.
The Company focuses on prudent capital allocation to ensure it maintains a first mover advantage as it enters new markets and is committed to differentiate itself by deploying resources in markets with major opportunities. The Company operates a portfolio of brands which cater to a wide community of cannabis consumers, with focus on quality and consistency.
Chemesis has facilities in both Puerto Rico and California, and is in the process of constructing a GMP certified facility in Colombia. Chemesis’ Puerto Rico operations are licensed to operate 100,000 ft2 of cultivation, and 35,000 ft2 of manufacturing floor space. The Company is positioned to win additional licenses in highly competitive merit-based US states, and will expand its footprint to ensure it maintains a first mover advantage.
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More than 30% of adults in the United States don’t get an adequate amount of sleep. This statistic is shocking, given that sleep plays a big role in our health and mental wellbeing.
Without sleep, we feel tired, absent, and less efficient. Healthy sleep habits, collectively known as sleep hygiene, can do wonders for our productivity, health, and happiness. If you’ve been struggling with poor sleep habits, such as insomnia or irregular sleep schedules, follow along! Below are ten tips on how to improve your sleep hygiene.
How To Improve Your Sleep Habits
Before we begin, we have some myth-busting to do. If anyone tells you there’s such a thing as “catching up on lost sleep”, don’t believe them! You cannot make up lost sleep. In fact, sleeping too much can even be harmful to your body!
Additionally, sleeping poorly at night and napping multiple times a day doesn’t help either. Sleep doesn’t add up. Think about it this way – every time you wake up, your sleep clock resets, so you should be aiming to sleep for 7 uninterrupted hours. Now, on to the tips!
1. Avoid Napping in the Afternoon
Listening to what your body wants is usually a great idea. However, when it comes to afternoon naps, this isn’t the case. Napping in the late afternoon can help you feel less groggy now, but it will prevent you from getting a good nights sleep later in the evening.
It’s best to hold out for a few hours until bedtime and hit the hay truly exhausted. That will make the quality of your sleep better and will prevent you from getting less than the recommended 7 hours of sleep.
2. Find the Ideal Temperature
Our body temperature drops when we fall asleep. In fact, lower temperatures help us fall asleep and allow our bodies to stay asleep. This is why it’s important to find the ideal temperature for your room at night. Colder temperatures will help in the cooling process and can help you fall asleep quicker and remain asleep through the night.
3. Don’t Excercise Before Bed
Exercise gets us all hot and sweaty. Like mentioned above, you don’t want to be warm, or increase your body temperature in any way, before going to bed. You’ll sleep better when you’re cooler, more relaxed, and less sweaty.
So, schedule your runs or gym sessions for the morning! This will not only help you build a routine but will also guarantee that you’ll be more tired at night and will fall asleep quickly.
4. Get a Good Mattress
There’s nothing worse than waking up to a horrible back-ache. A bad mattress can affect your mood, your posture, and your daily pain-levels. Investing in a mattress for your specific back needs is important, especially if you have not replaced or turned your mattress in years.
If you’re interested in learning more about how to shop for a mattress and which one might be right for you, check out this handy guide from The Mattress Nerd.
5. Build a Nighttime Routine
Our bodies are built to run on routines. Our circadian rhythm, when working properly, works around the clock to provide us with a cyclical routine. If you’re feeling like you never get tired when you want to go to bed, you tend to oversleep, or you can’t seem to stop napping during the day, your circadian rhythm might be slightly off-tune.
In order to balance out your sleep hygiene, it’s important to have a nighttime routine that your body can get used to. Try to start winding down one hour before bedtime. Turn off all your electronics and focus on relaxation. Brush your teeth and read a book in bed to wind down. Before you know it, you’ll be asleep.
Repeating this process every night will tune your body into falling asleep and waking up at the same time every day. It works like a charm!
6. Don’t Eat Large Dinners
One of the biggest mistakes people with poor sleep hygiene make is eating large, heavy meals at night. Our bodies immediately begin to process foods we eat, so eating a large meal will essentially ramp up bodily functions.
During sleep, bodily functions slow down significantly. But if you’ve already ramped them up, it’s hard to bring them back down to a comfortable sleeping level. Try switching out burgers and pizza for salad and lean meats.
7. Limit Coffee Consumption in the Evenings
I’m sure you’ve heard this one before, but try to limit coffee consumption after 2 pm. Even though you might not feel jittery at 9 pm from that 4 pm coffee, the caffeine is still coursing through your veins and keeping you up at night.
8. Ditch the Beer
Most people think alcohol makes you sleepy and tired. Some people drink alcohol to fall asleep. However, it doesn’t help you sleep at all! In fact, alcohol keeps us up at night and can have numerous negative consequences on our health and sleeping habits. If you’re interested, check this out.
9. Embrace the Darkness
Light, even artificial, keeps us awake. It’s part of how our bodies naturally determine when we should be awake and when we should sleep, like back in the day when people used to sleep at sundown and wake up at sunrise.
Keeping your room dark as you prepare to go to sleep can signal your body to start producing melatonin, a sleep-regulating hormone.
10. Don’t Hang Out in Bed
This might be a hard one if you’re anything like most of us, who love cuddling up in bed to watch Netflix or just hang out. However, spending time in bed while awake can make it harder to go to sleep.
If you only use your bed to sleep, your body will automatically start getting tired the minute you hit the sheets. It knows what your bed is for, so it will pump melatonin when you tuck yourself in. It’s a clever trick for those who struggle with staying awake all night.
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Customer care is something that we take a lot of pride in even though we already offer an unbeatable inventory of mobile storage in the Baden, PA vicinity. We want to make sure that you know exactly which portable storage product or mobile office is going to work best for your needs. As a result of our feel for customer satisfaction, you will discover that we ask quite a few questions about your project to make sure you are not going to end up with too small or big of an office or container. We will take even more stress of the job by making certain the portable storage are delivered within at least a few days.
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What Choices Do We Supply in Baden, PA
If you are a business owner within the Baden, Pennsylvania area, we have the products you need. We understand the importance of having a safe and sound place for you to store your gear away from the home office in Baden, PA. Our theft and weather-proof storage containers and offices throughout Baden are an easy way to accomplish this feat. Whenever you are serious about working away from the headquarters in the most effective manner by renting a mobile office, give our personnel in Baden a call at 888-267-8963 to find out more about the options we have to offer you.
Kinds of Storage Containers We Provide in Baden, PA
Storage containers are one of the most popular products we rent in Baden, PA every day. These come in 10, 20, 40 and 48-foot dimensions. Regardless of which size of container you select, you will find that they all feature a locking door and extremely durable steel for the utmost degree of security. Along with the high level of security provided by our storage containers, you will have no problem walking in and out of them to access your equipment. To make navigating the storage products even simpler, we also offer a number of different doors you can choose between. If you do not know which portable storage units are best for your requirements, our staff would be more than happy to assist.
Our Mobile Office Solutions in Baden, PA
Mobile office leases in Baden, PA are another option our business has added to the product lineup as a result of high demand. Customers seeking the simple solution choose our 8-foot by 20-foot mobile office, and individuals wanting the most luxurious option select the 24-foot by 60-foot unit. The smaller option still has lots of features, such as a desk and shelves to help your staff work as efficiently as possible. The deluxe model is the cream of the crop since it is loaded with features such as desks, shelves, two bathrooms, four offices and much more. Of course, you can also add options, such as blinds, showers and much more to any of the portable office units.
When it comes to making your project away from the home office as easy and secure as possible, you will notice that storage containers and offices from Kerneli Storage Containers come in incredibly handy. The biggest downside to working on the road is that there are simply too many logistics involved if you attempt to bring your own trailers for storage. Give our mobile office and containers company a call today at 888-267-8963 to discover just how simple our line of products can make your next project in Baden, PA. We also offer service to storage containers Fitzgerald amid other cities and states all around the country.
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MBA515 Week 3 Discussion 3
When the California absolute acreage bazaar crashed, Artisan Shutter Aggregation encountered astringent banknote breeze problems. Half of the company’s barter started authoritative backward payments. Eventually, the aggregation had to lay off 15% of its advisers due to bereft banknote inflows.
The primary purpose of the account of banknote flows is to accommodate capacity on the sources of case inflows and the uses of the firm’s banknote that aftereffect from operating, investing, and costs activities over a aeon of time (month, quarter, annual). The operating activities accommodate the banknote aftereffect of all affairs that aftereffect in revenues and costs and actuate the firm’s net assets (if for-profit) and net assets (if non-profit). Advance activities accredit to the sources and uses of banknote constant from the acquirement or auctioning of abiding assets or the lending of basic to alternative companies. Finally, the costs activities accommodate accepting banknote from arising debt (bonds and notes) or adopting basic through the auction of equities on the primary bazaar or declaring and advantageous assets to stockholders; redeeming abiding debt or agreeable in a banal buyback; active alarm options on accumulated bonds. Now, as a administration official, it’s important to apprehend the affiliation amid a company’s artefact activity aeon and the account of banknote flows. There are four (4) phases in the activity aeon of a product: 1) introduction, 2) growth, 3) maturity, and 4) decline. The phases aural the activity aeon don’t change based on the product, but the amount in which articles move through the four phases may alter appreciably based on changes in accumulation and appeal which are brought about by new entrants in to a bazaar (substitutes), bread-and-butter downturns, changes in assembly costs to acknowledgment a few. While the artefact activity aeon ambit does a analytic acceptable job approximating sales and profits as articles move through the four phases, it wouldn’t be advisable for administration to await alone on the activity aeon to adumbrate sales and profits. Aback a artefact is in the anterior phase, the banknote from operating activities and banknote from advance are abrogating admitting banknote from costs is positive. As the artefact enters the advance phase, the banknote provided by operating activities become positive; however, is not able to awning the advance needs of the firm. As the artefact enters the ability phase, banknote from operating activities beat the firm’s advance needs which, in turn, admittance the retirement of debt. Aback entering the final phase, decline, the banknote from operating activities becomes negative; however, banknote from advance activities becomes absolute aback it is assumes that the close with advertise off assets and the costs activities become added negative. Cyberbanking abstracts from the account of banknote breeze accompanying with abstracts independent aural the antithesis area and assets account can be acclimated to appraise a company’s clamminess and solvency position, not to acknowledgment it’s chargeless banknote breeze (FCF) which can be acclimated to aggrandize the business.
Garrison, R., Noreen, E., & Brewer, P. (2014). Managerial accounting (15th ed.). Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Education.
The Artisan Shutter Company, like abounding companies that relied on the architecture industry, took a cyberbanking hit aback “housing bubble” access in backward 2007. Lenders were authoritative subprime mortgage loans to borrowers who absolutely couldn’t allow the assumption and absorption (P&I) payments and after defaulted on their loans. This was followed, in 2008, by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a all-around bank, which about brought bottomward the world’s costs system. Due to tighter cyberbanking regulations, abounding individuals and companies begin it acutely arduous to defended loans. Despite the government’s accommodation to apparatus quantitative abatement as a agency of aesthetic the economy, unemployment, claimed and accumulated bankruptcies increased. Looking at The Artisan Shutter Aggregation and brainstorm that you were a affiliate of the administration aggregation and noticed that the banknote breeze position of the aggregation was actuality acutely attenuated by what economists perceived to be a pro-longer bread-and-butter downturn. The owners are understandably anxious about the abiding activity of the firm. Prepare a position cardboard that outlines strategies to advance banknote position of the aggregation as it tries to “weather the storm” and adventures a normalizing of the economy. In adjustment to codify your position paper, you may appetite to anxiously accede the botheration (reflecting aback to 2008 recession), aggregate accordant abstracts and information, alarmingly appraise the alternatives, and certificate your recommendations application complete arguments that are able-bodied supported, appropriately vetted, and logically presented. It is important that administration anxiously accede any abeyant ethical implications associated with their declared position. If there are any abeyant ethical apropos associated with your position, they should be articular and discussed in the position paper.
The certificate should be able constant with the APA autograph appearance (6th edition) and reflect college akin cerebral processing (analysis, synthesis, and or evaluation).
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New Haven came finger-snappingly close to playing host to "The Addams Family."
The film, one of the biggest hits of the year, grossing more than $55 million in just two weeks of release, almost made a local historic building a cinematic landmark as well.
After covering the country looking for the perfect creepy, ooky, spooky mansion for the movie's exteriors, Orion Pictures, the film's original producers, zeroed in on the Davies mansion in New Haven in the late summer of 1990.
But Yale University and a ravaging fire kept the 122-year-old mansion from being a Hollywood star.
"We respectfully declined to have the house used," says Radley Daly, Yale's associate secretary.
Daly says he was afraid that the film company would make "a Disneyland" out of the 7-acre site, in the midst of Yale's extended campus, next to its Divinity School.
Radley says the filmmakers didn't want to take the mansion "as is" and planned on making what he considered substantial changes for the filming: taking off a porch, adding a balcony, removing trees, covering the driveway.
"The historic people would have shouted bloody murder," Daly says.
However, preservationists say they weren't consulted by Yale and disagree with Daly's conclusions.
One preservationist says the money Orion was offering Yale -- some place it in the six-figure range -- could have been used to restore the building, which has been deteriorating from neglect since the university purchased it 20 years ago.
"We really would have had no objection as long as they didn't do anything substantial inside the house," says Preston Maynard, director of the New Haven Preservation Trust. "In fact, we could have been sympathetic to the idea because they might have spent some money to stabilize the building. ... But Yale never came to us [for our opinions.]"
Matthew Nemerson, president of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce, says there was the feeling at the time that the film company needed immediate agreements that Yale was unwilling to give on such short notice.
He says city officials and business leaders actively lobbied Yale on behalf of the movie company because the production would bring in an estimated $2 million to $4 million to the area.
"They wanted to film here really bad," says Trish Paesani, director of the state's film commission, adding that the producers were already seeking hotel accommodations for their actors and crew.
In the midst of negotiations, a mysterious fire at the mansion made the matter moot.
A three-alarm fire Sept. 26, 1990, destroyed the inside of the building and severely damaged the structure.
Fire officials say arson was the cause. No charges have been made, and the fire is still under investigation, though there are no new leads in the case.
"Clearly in our minds the fire was unrelated [to the movie offer]," says Yale's Daly.
Others, who declined to speak on the record, feel Yale has never been committed to restoring the building but was only interested in the 7-acre parcel, one of the largest open areas in downtown New Haven. Giving the building the cachet of a famous movie landmark could have boosted its historic significance and may have further protected the mansion from being razed. "It's prime property up on the hill," says John W. Shannahan, director of the Connecticut Historical Commission. "One wonders what Yale's agenda is."
After the fire, the movie company decided to build its own Addams mansion in Burbank, Calif. The Victorian manor has since become a tourist attraction. The 23-room building had been vacant since 1972 when Yale bought it and its property from the Culinary Institute of America for $1.2 million. The Institute purchased the building in 1947.
In 1980, the university decided maintaining the structure was too costly, and sealed off the building.
Daly says in the past 10 years Yale considered a number of proposals for the building but rejected them because they lacked financing.
It also resisted efforts by preservationists to develop the property, Shannahan says.
Filmmakers spent the summer of 1990 looking for the perfect replica of the mansion where cartoonist Charles Addams' ghoulish creations live. Addams created the characters for a series of cartoons for The New Yorker magazine. The characters inspired a popular '60s television series, and now appear again in a $25 million feature film starring Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston. Principal photography was completed April 16.
The three-story, French Second Empire mansion in New Haven was designed by famed New Haven architect Henry Austin and his student, David R. Brown. John M. Davies, who was associated with Winchester Repeating Arms Co., moved in the late 1860s.
The building, which is listed with the National Register of Historic Places, sits on the peak of Prospect Hill at 393 Prospect St.
Since the fire, Yale erected a fence around the property to keep vandals and vagrants out. Yale has no purpose for the building
right now, says Daly.
"The building's in bad shape now," says Daly, doubting the building can be restored.
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Laganiere, Miller Get 3 Points Each Against Bears
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It's been three full weeks since they played a home game, and the Bulldogs looked happy to be in their house tonight. Antoine Lagainere's two goals and one assist, and Andrew Miller's goal and two-assist night propelled the No. 13/15 Yale men's hockey team to a four-power-play goal night in a come-from-behind, 4-3 ECAC Hockey win over Brown before a sellout crowd at Ingalls Rink.
The Bulldogs (6-2-1, 3-2-0 ECAC), winners of four straight, erased 2-0 and 3-1 deficits and scored three straight times to close out the second period with a lead they would hold on to despite being outshot 14-6 in the final frame.
The four power-play tallies are the most by an Eli squad since Jan. 16, 2010, when Yale had five at home against Brown in an 8-5 win. Yale needed just seven attempts (and 12 shots on target) tonight to get to the four while outshooting the Bears overall, 37-30.
"It (the power play) just worked today. We were working pretty well, even in the first period, but it finally worked in the second," said Laganiere, who leads the team with 13 points.
Brown (3-5-2), which went 1-for-4 on the advantage, got goals from three different players and 33 saves from Marco DeFilippo.
Nick Maricic got the start in the Yale net and gave up a pair of goals on five shots before being replaced with six minutes left in the first period. Fellow senior Jeff Malcolm stopped 22 of 23 shots in relief to get his fifth win of the year.
"We played really well. We had a good start despite falling behind. We stuck with it and played better in the second period, which caused us to draw some of the penalties," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach.
Brown blueliner Dennis Robertson opened the scoring with a long shot from the point that went through traffic and found the net on the ice at 10:22.
Chris Zaires made it 2-0 less than four minutes later when he converted a nice feed from Matt Wahl at 14:00. Zaires received the pass above the crease on the left side, swung around and sent it inside right post. That was the last shot taken on Maricic, who finished with five saves. Malcolm came in to stop the final two Bear shots of the frame, while his teammates got one back at the other end.
Junior defenseman Gus Young did most of the work on the Yale goal at 17:24 on a brief power play. Trent Ruffolo chipped the puck to the point for Young, who deked a defender and skated around him along the boards before flicking a shot off DeFilippo's blocker. Young got his own rebound, went behind the net and headed left. He cut back to the right and flipped a pass to Laganiere. The big senior banged it back low glove side from eight feet away to make it 2-1.
Miller had a great chance in the early seconds of the middle frame to get the equalizer, but his mini-breakaway attempt was stopped by the Brown netminder. It came back to bite the Bulldogs because the Bears jumped all over their second advantage to grab the two-goal lead back. Massimo Lamacchia saved a Yale clearing attempt and hit Matt Lorito with a crossing pass. The sophomore forward connected with Matt Harlow, who flicked it into the net and gave the visitors a 3-1 edge.
Yale again cut the lead to one, and it came off a draw in the Brown end. Jesse Root won the faceoff and got it back to Miller, who quickly moved from left to right for Kenny Agostino, whose one-timer from the top of the right circle went top right corner at 7:53.
The Blue used a two-man advantage to get the equalizer and get its first lead. After Allain called a timeout, Miller saved an errant pass from leaving the zone and then skated to the top of the right circle. The senior captain unleashed a low blast that whizzed past DeFilippo's glove at 17:31.
Still up a man, Laganiere gathered a pass from Miller (97 career assists) in the right circle and swooped into the high slot before snapping off a wrister that hit the net with 1:55 left to make it 4-3 and give the senior forward a team-best eighth goal of the year.
Yale outshot Brown 17-7 that period, but it was a different story in the third. The Bears peppered Malcolm with rubber and came close to getting a goal numerous times.
"They (Brown) really pushed hard at the end," said Allain. "They were taking chances offensively, which is what teams do when they are behind. We did a good job of back-checking and covering sticks in front of the net. Jeff Malcolm did a heck of job for us in the third period."
Robertson was called for a penalty with 1:01 left, but the Bears pulled their goalie and make it 5-on-5 while continuing the pressure. Malcolm came up big time after time to notch the win.
"We are kind of on a streak right now, and we need to work hard and focus on the system to keep it going," said Laganiere.
Filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
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Here we are one year later and chasing a morphed version of our dream.
After the difficulties we encountered while attempting to use Wilber to document expeditions, we eventually exhausted every avenue conceivable to accomplish our goal using Wilber as our vessel. Wilber is a lovely vessel suitable for other purposes, but not the right vessel to carry the equipment we need to conduct and document longer, self-sufficient expeditions. We were frustrated by this realization, but not discouraged from our end goal. There was no other option than to find or build a different Wharram model that would be suitable for what we want to do.
While spending time in the Florida Keys in 2015 for that years Hui Wharram, which is a gathering of builders, sailors and admirers of the Wharram designs, we met wonderful people sharing that passion for the Wharram range of boats. Conversations about building techniques, sailing styles, levels of comfort in different boats were flowing constantly. Many revolved around questions of this or that with an exploratory character and some were based on very adamant points of view. The common thread was that no matter what, it was always interesting.
Casey and I described my passion for finding boats that have lost their way with regards to the dreams of their original owners and my desire to bring those boats back to the life they deserve; living and sailing along the paths less traveled.
I had searched long and hard through the obvious internet channels for potential projects, but boats with lost souls, by their very nature, generally don’t get found that way, at least not by me. My newly found friend Brandon mentioned a Wharram ‘Tangaroa’ (35 foot) looking for a new owner was laying forlorn in a Texas yard and thought it might fit our desires to a ‘T’… and it did.
We packed up in the Keys and drove all the way back across half the country to Houston to meet the owner and take a close look at it. I spent about five days crawling all over this boat, poking and prodding all manner of places trying to find all the secrets she may be hiding. This survey was to ensure that I felt I was up to the task of doing the work of breathing life back into this dream.
Hopefully there won’t be too many things missed, although I’m sure there will be some.
And so to make a short story long winded;
Near as we can tell the tale of this particular Tangaroa begins about 50 years ago in Connecticut, maybe in the late 60’s, early 70’s. She has never been officially named and her keels have never felt the kiss of the tides she was designed to live upon. Through the four owners prior to us she has traveled from the northeast to the mid west coastal Texas and ended up in a small place between Houston and Galveston called Bacliff.
Her varied owners have lost her presence in their lives through death, deceit or the realization of more relevant dreams. Now she is in our lives and we’re calling her ‘Curious’.
Our intention is to bring her back to life, bring her back to her purpose of floating the dreams of those aboard her decks… chasing sun bleached beaches, … that remote island paradise … and exploring the elusive horizon.
Now before we can get Curious on the water for the first time in it’s extended life, I have repairs, rebuilds and new creations to complete. From sitting and waiting for near 50 years there is some rot to deal with. (The bacteria that causes rot in timber thrives in freshwater and rain is the only water to have ever wet this boat.) Modifications have been done departing from the original design specs and we’ll endeavor to return her closer to those specifications. Obviously not everything will be exactly to plan, I don’t think I have ever been able to maintain a straight, pre-planned course in my life, however I’ll do my best,…ish.
Our life seems to be a creative work in progress; we have ideas in mind that we are working toward, but we hold them loosely to allow flexibility for dealing with hiccups as they emerge… and they always do. On the Blog page I’ll be posting more of these ideas as I think on them.
As time passes I’ll put together various posts to fill in some key moments in our world, from looking at Curious for the first time in Texas 2015 and now one year later, finally getting to work on her.
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Approved Minutes of the Third Meeting of the Governor's Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform Task Force
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Working with the Grain for Reforming the Public Service : A Live Example from Sierra LeoneLarizza, Marco; Srivastava, Vivek (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012-12-21)Development practitioners still lack a critical mass of empirical evidence which can help identify the set of interventions that are more likely to work, and inform the design and implementation of feasible reforms. This paper contributes to fill this gap by looking at the case of the 'Sierra Leone Pay and Performance Project', a World Bank-supported initiative to reform the civil service. It analyzes the functional problems characterizing the civil service and discusses what factors account for the observed dysfunctions. The central argument is that the current dysfunctions might be difficult to reverse as they define a sub-optimal equilibrium which serves political purposes (dysfunctions by design). However, politics is not all that matters. This equilibrium is further reinforced by systemic dysfunctions that may not be the consequence of any strategic design or the outcome of elite preferences (dysfunctions by default). This is where there is scope for change, even in the short run. The authors conclude that the chances of successful civil service reforms are likely to be maximized if reform initiatives support modest and incremental changes that work with the grain of existing incentives and are consistent with government preferences. The Sierra Leone Pay and Performance Project aims to do so by adopting a limited and targeted focus on pay reform, performance management and recruitment and staffing. In addition, the use of the results-based lending instrument is expected to help mitigate the current dysfunctions by aligning the incentives of the various players and, in this way, create the conditions for greater coordination across government agencies. Although the suggested approach is not without risks, recent dynamics suggest that the chances of success are greater today than in the past.
The Many Faces of Corruption : Tracking Vulnerabilities at the Sector LevelPradhan, Sanjay; Campos, J. Edgardo (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007)This paper explores the use of prototype road maps to identify corruption vulnerabilities, suggests corresponding warning signals, and proposes operationally useful remedial measures in each of several selected sectors and for a selected sample of cross cutting public sector functions that are particularly prone to corruption and that are critical to sector performance. Numerous technical experts have come together in this effort to develop an operationally useful approach to diagnosing and tackling corruption. The many faces of corruption is an invaluable reference for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers engaged in the business of development.
Moldova : Public Economic Management ReviewWorld Bank (Washington, DC, 2013-08-06)Unfavorable initial conditions, and extreme vulnerability to external shocks, as experienced by Moldova's economic transition, culminated in the 1998 regional financial crisis, which fostered the need for radical fiscal retrenchment, namely, reductions in social sectors expenditures. Currently, and despite a seemingly reasonable, attainable growth, the challenge for the Government is to improve basic outcomes in social sectors, and address inequities in access to basic social services. Key recommendations in this report suggest: a) launching a major program of public service reform; b) strengthening the government decision-making process, through the introduction of a system of Cabinet Committees, and the restructuring of the State Chancellery into a non-political Government Secretariat; c) strengthening strategic prioritization in budget formulation, through a structured approach to developing, and implementing the Medium Term Expenditure Framework; d) strengthening the budget process, through increased budget coverage - deepening Treasury coverage - and setting a stronger, internal/external accountability framework. Similarly, recommendations call for a strengthened civil service management, by amending the Civil Service Law, securing the application of key merit principles, and de-politicization, while launching a functional program to rationalize government structures. Furthermore, sector-specific reforms in the social sectors should be accelerated, particularly for education and social assistance, balancing basic education, primary health care, and emergency services. | <urn:uuid:a1c83ff4-e709-497b-b1e4-4b5bafd64f0b> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://repository.globethics.net/handle/20.500.12424/302983 | 2023-12-04T09:14:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.884332 | 900 |
Trevor Dickson has secured a job helping to obtain evidence from a hard-to-reach archaeological site in the Grand Canyon. Now all he needs is to assemble his team. While he gathers most of the members with relative ease, the one man he desperately needs is also proving to be the most elusive: Darren Mathews, Trevor’s friend from the S.A.S. and former security contractor for a shadow company called The Orange Corporation. When he tracks down the one man who would know where Darren has disappeared to, Trevor realizes that his search for his friend—and carrying out his sure-fire gig—will be a lot more complicated than he had initially calculated.
Meanwhile, within Hollow Earth, Darren, Mich, and the rest of the refugees are settling into their new lives among the Lemurians. Hidden away from the shadow government and its mercenaries, they feel free to immerse themselves in all that their new home has to offer. With midterm elections coming up, they seem to have arrived not a moment too soon. While chaos erupts above them, the Lemurians show them technology, knowledge, and spiritual bliss beyond their wildest dreams. Yet with great knowledge comes great danger. If they are to survive their explorations, they must proceed with cautious guidance or run the risk of curiosity truly killing the cat.
Will Trevor be able to fulfill his job without his most important team member? What will Darren and his friends discover as the Lemurians bring them closer to the ultimate truth? And with midterm elections just around the corner, what will become of the United States above them?
After the untimely death of a beloved friend and colleague, things are looking bleak for Darren and his fellow defectors. Chased by bounty hunters from the land above and haunted by monsters lurking in the tunnels below, nowhere is safe for them. The world has gone mad, and even man-of-steel Darren Mathews is beginning to lose his resolve. All that is left for them now is to escape somewhere far, far away, beyond the reach of the Hidden Hand. With no other options, they set to seek refuge in one of the few cities in or under the world untainted by human greed and hubris: the Lemurian city of Telos beneath Mount Shasta, California.
Yet the path to Nirvana is never a smooth ride. From leaving loved ones and entire lives behind to exposing themselves to mind-expanding narcotics, reaching Telos will prove to be one of the biggest challenges that these soldiers and academics have ever faced. The sacrifices that they must make are countless, but the reward—a lifetime of peace and enlightenment—is priceless. However, finding the underground city is just the beginning, and none of them know what is waiting for them within its limits.
In a time when no one can be trusted, making a new home in a new world requires a leap of faith most people are not willing to make. Are Darren and his friends ready to take this risk? Will they be able to locate Telos? And if they reach the legendary city, will they be welcomed with open arms or turned away at the border, left vulnerable to the vicious wolves who will stop at nothing to hunt them down?
After narrowly escaping from the men in black, Darren, Bill, and their ragtag team of defectors are on the move once again. They are in need of emergency medical care, and with mainstream healthcare out of the question, they are grasping for the last straw they can reach: Marconi’s secret city in South America. There they encounter medical miracles and technological advancements beyond man’s wildest dreams. It does not take long for curiosity and a sense of adventure to overtake this mix of scientists, military personnel, and everyday explorers, and soon their new safe haven becomes a treasure trove of wonder and danger.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic Ocean, Darren’s daughter Dana and tech wizard Jason work to reveal the secrets Darren’s wife, Amy, left for Dana on a series of floppy disks. But how can they access files on a piece of technology so outdated it’s virtually obsolete? As they attempt to solve this mystery, Jason and Dana are forced to watch as the world around them spirals into chaos. A new wave of censorship has begun to take down Alex Jones and other truth seekers under the guise of hate speech. This time, though, Dana and Jason are not content with sitting complacently as the Hidden Hand attempts to gain complete control of the internet, the final outlet left for those trying to bring about change.
Will Darren and his accomplices continue to evade the powers-that-be? Is there any way that Dana and Jason can get the truth out to the public? What secrets does Marconi’s city hold? And most importantly, are some secrets best left buried—permanently?
Bill Jenkins and his family are in trouble. Deep trouble. They have seen and learned too much, and now the powers-that-be have placed a target on their backs. Unfortunately, they have only begun to scratch the surface of the truth that must be uncovered in order to free the world from the shackles of the Hidden Hand.
With his daughter unjustly incarcerated and him on the run with his son and grandson, Bill needs to come up with a plan to get them out of North America fast. The men in black will stop at nothing to track down and silence this whistleblower and all witnesses—psychological trauma, physical torture, and murder are all fair play. If he wants his loved ones to survive, Bill must call upon his most trusted allies and dig even deeper into the rabbit hole. Yet as Bill knows, the further you go into the woods, the harder it will be to find your way out.
The key to Bill’s salvation is Darren Mathews, a veteran of Australia’s S.A.S., former security contractor for The Orange Corporation, and Bill’s close friend and confidante. The only problem: Darren is half a world away on the continent of Africa. Will Bill and his family reach safety in time? Or will the men in black get to them first?
Ten years ago, archaeologist William “Bill” Jenkins disappeared without a trace. After all these years, Bill’s son, Connor Jenkins, wants answers. Where is his father? Why did he leave? Most importantly, is he still alive?
After a chance meeting with his father’s old acquaintance, Connor may finally have the opportunity to solve this riddle, but not everything is what it seems. Connor’s search for the truth leads him all over—and under—the world, uncovering bits of his father’s shady past. Yet with these memories Connor also unveils some of the world’s oldest secrets, many of them so fantastic you might think they were out of this world. Ancient generators and flying machines, child sex rings, and Satanic rituals are just a few of the eye-opening and horrifying discoveries Connor makes as he tries to make sense of this topsy-turvy world into which he has fallen.
Darren is done waiting for Trump to give us disclosure. Empowered by what he has heard from Dr. Stephen Greer, he has decided that it’s time for the truth to come out. Suppressed technological advances, bio weapons, interventionism, a one-world government… Darren is about to throw open the floodgates. He knows from his wife’s murder that whistleblowing comes with a price, but the Deep State will soon learn that there’s no greater enemy than a man prepared to lose everything. With the help of Jason DeBruin and his website UFO Watchers, this elite Australian (Former S.A.S.) soldier will tell the entire world what he knows before America collapses as planned by the Luciferian Clinton-Obama-Bush cartels. What he is about to reveal will challenge everything you thought you knew—about technology, about history, about the human race itself. And once you open this Pandora’s Box, there will be no closing it again. | <urn:uuid:a5940fe5-986d-477e-a307-06cb790a40d3> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://teslabookstore.com/shop/?layout=list | 2019-03-19T06:32:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201904.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319052517-20190319074517-00032.warc.gz | en | 0.967398 | 1,674 |
- Author: Robert Jordan
- Series: Wheel of Time #4
- Genre: Fantasy
- No. of pages: 1007
- Dates read: 15.06.2021 – 16.07.2021
- Star Rating: 4 stars
- Challenge: Sequel
Plot: The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind. In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken? In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn. In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland. In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve. Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn…
Before you venture any further this will be a spoiler filled review as its quite hard to truly say my thoughts without spoiling so do not read further if you haven’t read the book.
Ok, Book 4! 1000+ pages. It took me an entire month to finish this book and was the first ever 1000+ page book that I have completed. I just want to preface that there are probably loads of things that I have forgotten to mention or include in this review but there is 1000+ pages of content to review here so it’s inevitable really.
I am going to start off with my general thoughts on the book and then talk about some other points that I really liked.
Starting off with the writing and getting the more “negative” part of this review out of the way. The reason this book obtained a 4 star rating over my previous 5 star ratings is because the pacing, and sometimes the writing, just felt really slow at times. I know that with this series you have to be in it for the long haul and I am super prepared for that but sometimes my attention started to wane because it felt quite slow going. Especially for those slower scenes, when big moments of action happened I consumed 50+ pages in one sitting but when it’s just travelling from one place to another it would be a struggle sometimes to keep going.
In terms of plot, it was a solid 10/10. I love this story, I love following each characters individual journey and I love watching everything unfold and trying to make theories based on this new information I have received. Jordan is masterful with his plot and I find it so engaging. I also loved how this book was structured, for book 3 I loved how we followed everyone but Rand and in this book I loved how the characters are splitting apart and going on their own important journeys which allows us to get varying different stories at once. My personal favourite was Perrin’s story in the Two Rivers.
The characters as per usual are great. It can be daunting at times trying to remember all the characters from the past books as well as all the new ones but I liked all the new characters we meet and I love how the past characters were expanded on. There were a couple of interesting developments for our past characters; Rand learns about his past and who is biological family is, Egwene and Rand end their betrothal (thank god!!!), Siuan is dethroned AND STILLED!!! So much happened and at times I was super happy, other times I was super sad and one of the things that always has me sticking around with this series is the great characters. I want to see what happens to them and where they end up.
The world building is another incredibly strong element to this series. I don’t normally untilise maps in fantasy books, I never really need to, but every time I pick up one of his books I am constantly flicking back and trying to refer back geographically to this map and picture where the characters are etc. I loved some of the new additions to the world like Rhuidean and the mysterious lizard like people that give you gifts or answers. Every time I feel like I understand this world, Jordan adds something completely new. I loved learning more about the dream world as well, watching Egwene try and navigate it was so interesting.
Also, not enough Lan and Nynaeve moments. I can’t witness their first on page kiss and then not see them together for the REST of the book!!!!
Moving on now to things that stuck out to me.
- Egwene and Rand deciding that they don’t want to be together because they have changed as people was icing on the cake for me. Personally I have never vibed with that pairing. I actually found them to be quite boring. So this was refreshing for me, do I love Rand and Elayne…. not particularly.
- There is so much detail in this series which I love but I know I have missed so much.
- I loved the Perrin and Faile marriage scene but let me be honest I find them super frustrating at times. Like the core of their relationship I love, willing to do anything for each other and protect them no matter what but god are they annoying about it sometimes. The constant arguing over practically anything and everything.
- Lanfear is a girl boss and I will leave that there.
- Really liked Aviendha but does every girl Rand meets have to like him!!!!
- I loved all the scenes in the Two Rivers, I love going back and watching Perrin reflect on his journey and then watching all the Two Rivers stubbornness was amazing.
- I really liked learning about other people who can channel that aren’t connected to the White Tower.
- Siuan’s whole arc in this book is crazy!!!! Like my girl was stilled and everything. My brain couldn’t comprehend what was going on!!!
- Nynaeve being as strong as a Forsaken just sits right with me. It is accurate and I’m here for it.
- RAND HAS A HALF BROTHER
So finally, some predictions going forward:
- Moiraine will die at the end of the series.
- Lan will be bonded to Nynaeve and they can be together.
- Rand will die at the end of the series.
- Galad will turn into a Whitecloak
- Siuan will die
- Nynaeve or Egwene will become the Amyrlin Seat, not sure who
- One of the girls will kill Lanfear, hoping it’s whoever Rand ends up with
- Nynaeve and Moiraine will be close friends by the end
- Rand’s half brother can defo channel. My guess is it’s Logain????
- Logain, according to Min’s vision, is going to have some kind of Prince Zuko redemption
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Paraty is a lovely colonial town that can be found on Brazil's southeastern coast. Just 125 miles away is Rio de Janeiro, while Sao Paulo is approximately 205 miles away. This helps to make Paraty a popular Rio and Sao Paulo side trip destination. As for what people come to see, the town's historic core is the main attraction. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city's old town boasts well-preserved colonial buildings that are a joy to take in. Adding to the allure of a visit are the nearby hills and the area waters. This is an excellent place to play when you're not seeing the manmade sights.
Paraty became a significant Brazilian port in the 1800s, thanks largely in part to the gold that came from the nearby Minas Gerais. The gold that was brought to the coast was destined for Portugal, and when it finally ran out, coffee became the industry of choice in the region. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, the coffee industry dried up, and this saw Paraty fall into a state of relative insignificance. By the early 1900s, the population had fallen from 16,000 to 600. The city might have completely gone to the wayside if it wasn't for its historic relevance. In 1966, the colonial core was designated a World Heritage Site, and this has helped to make tourism the main industry of the day.
Paraty Brazil is set along Ilha Grande Bay, and rising up behind it are a series of hills that are often cloaked in misty clouds. It's a truly wonderful setting, especially when you also figure in the colonial architecture in the historic core. Among the most attractive Paraty Brazil attractions is the Santa Rita church. This old church dates back to 1722 and stands beautifully against the backdrop of the lush, green hills. Rococo accents add some flare, and should you have the time, you can check out the church's Museum of Sacred Art. This small museum might not be the most renowned art museum in the country, but there are quality works with religious themes that art enthusiasts should enjoy.
Other churches that figure among the top Paraty Brazil attractions include the Ingreja da Matriz, the Ingreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario e Sao Benedito, and the Capela de Nossa Senhora das Dores. The former is the largest church in town, not to mention the most ornate, and while it started out as a chapel in 1646, the church that you will see today dates back to the 1870s. As for the Ingreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario e Sao Benedito, it dates back to the 1720s and is especially simple and rustic. The simpler design reflects the fact that it was both built and used by slaves. The Capela de Nossa Senhora das Dores, on the other hand, was finished in 1800 and mostly served the needs of wealthy society women.
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BRAMHAM PARISH COUNCIL – NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
Please note – at the moment the Plan is being modified in accordance with the Examiner’s recommendations – the final version will be available shortly !
Bramham Parish Council submitted the Bramham Neighbourhood Plan Proposal to Leeds City Council for independent examination. Under para 16 of The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, the Council publicised the plan proposal, seeking comments from those who live, work or carry out business in the Bramham Neighbourhood Area and any consultation body referred to in the submitted consultation statement.
The consultation ran from Monday 28th May to Monday 9th July 2018 (closing at 5pm).
- Bramham Neighbourhood Plan Proposal
- Map identifying the Bramham Neighbourhood Area
- Bramham Consultation Statement
- Bramham Basic Conditions Statement (explains how the plan proposal meets the requirements of paragraph & Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act.)
- Bramham Neighbourhood Plan SEA-HRA Screening Report
- Bramham PC Chair Submission Letter
- Independent Examination of the Bramham Cum Oglethorpe Neighbourhood Development Plan
- Letter from the Examiner – 10th July 2018
- Representations Made – 12th July 2018
- Bramham PC Comments on Representations Made – 23rd July 2018
- Joint Response – Bramham NP – LCC and Bramham PC – 25th July 2018
- Letter from the Examiner – 16th August 2018
Bramham Neighbourhood Plan – Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Update 2018
On 7th September 2018 Leeds City Council wrote to the Independent Examiner to provide the HRA Screening Update (2018) as per his letter and request for clarification of 10th July 2018.
The Council’s letter is available to view HERE
On 10th September 2018 the Independent Examiner for the Bramham Neighbourhood Plan wrote to the Council in response to the HRA Screening Update (2018).
The Examiner’s letter is available to view HERE . The Examiner has requested that the HRA Screening Update is publicised on the Council’s website for a period of 6 weeks with a statement that any interested party may make representations in respect of this document and that any representations will be available to the Examiner so that he may consider them when concluding whether or not the neighbourhood plan meets the Basic Conditions.
The Council is therefore publicising the HRA Screening Update (2018) between Monday 17th September 2018 and Monday 29th October 2018 (closing at 5pm).
HRA Screening Update
The HRA Screening Update is also available on the Bramham Neighbourhood Plan website:
Paper copies of the HRA Screening Update are available upon request at Merrion House, 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8BB.
Representations may be made by email and sent to [email protected] or be made in writing and sent to Neighbourhood Planning, Policy and Plans Group, Planning Services, Merrion House, 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8BB. Please note that any representations made will be sent to the Examiner and will be made available on the Council’s website.
On 2 November 2018, the Independent Examiner published his report on the Bramham Neighbourhood Plan. The report concludes that subject to proposed modifications being made, the Bramham Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic Conditions and other legal requirements and should proceed to a referendum. The Examiner’s Report (PDF 564KB) is available to view.
Paper copies of the Plan were made available at the following locations during the consultation period :
- Leeds City Council, City Centre Hub, 2 Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BA (Mon, Fri 09.30 – 17.00, Tues, Weds, Thurs 08.30 – 17.00)
- Wetherby Library, 17 Westgate, Wetherby, LS22 6LL (Mon 10.00 – 17.00, Tues 09.00 – 19.00, Weds, Thurs, Fri 9.00 – 17.00, Sat 10.00 – 16.00)
- Bramham Post Office, 12 Front St, Bramham, Wetherby LS23 6RD (during opening hours)
- Bramham Medical Centre, Clifford Rd, Bramham, Wetherby LS23 6ZA (during opening hours)
- Leeds City Council website: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/planning/neighbourhood-planning
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The Promise of the Land
Genesis 12 to 22
The time came when God further enlarged and explained the promises. Stephen testified that "The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee" - Acts 7v2,3; Genesis 11v27-32. Abraham (at that time called 'Abram') and some of his relatives lived in Charran (Haran) until the death of Abraham's father Terah. Then God renewed His call to Abram to completely leave his country, and enter "a land that I will shew thee" - Genesis 12v1. (Note that "had said" should be rendered "said", as in the Revised version).
Abram was a man of faith, & we read - "so Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him;..And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance..and into the land of Canaan they came" - Genesis 12v5 cp Acts 7v4.
To enter the land of Canaan, it was necessary to cross the river Euphrates, and because of his "crossing over" from a place of idolatry to the land of promise, Abram became known as "Abram the Hebrew", Genesis 13v13. 'Hebrew' signifies (a) 'crosser-over'. We also must "cross over" from the old to a new way of life, passing through water (link to 'baptism'). Many years ago, the following propositions re the promises to Abraham were presented, and it will be opportune to place them in full below for the enlightenment of a much wider audience.
'THE GOSPEL PREACHED
TO YOUR SALVATION'
1. LUKE 13v23-30. Christ stated that Abraham and other faithful ones will be in the Kingdom of God. These will include both Jew and Gentile (those of other nations beside Israel). Many will be shut out.
2. ROMANS 4v1-5. Abraham's great attribute was faith - note v3 - "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness".
3. ROMANS 4v13. He believed in SOMETHING DEFINITE, i.e. "the promise that he should be heir of the world". His "seed" also would inherit the promise.
4. ROMANS 4v13-22. The "seed" of Abraham..those having THE SAME "faith of Abraham" (see v17) - Jew and Gentile.
5. ROMANS 4v23-25; 15v8,9. "Jesus Christ..confirm(ed) the promises" i.e. all who believe will receive them - link to 'sacrifice'.
MADE TO ABRAHAM
6. GENESIS 12v1-3. Seven-fold promise NOTE: v3 - "in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" is THE BASIS OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE - Galatians 3v8 - cp GENESIS 22v18 - see below.
7. GENESIS 13v14-18. The inheritance of the land of Canaan promised to Abram and his "seed" FOR EVER. (Note that he received "none inheritance" during his lifetime. And nor did Isaac and Jacob, "the heirs with him of the same promise" - see ACTS 7v2-5 cp HEB. 11v8-13,39,40).
8. GENESIS 15v5-21. Abram's faith resulted in God making "a covenant" with him. Notice the extent of the promised inheritance in v18.
9. GENESIS 17v1-14. Circumcision was the sign of God's covenant. Abram is now called Abraham (signifying "father of many nations", v4,5). Circumcision was the sign of the "new covenant", as compared to the "old covenant", the sign of which was the Jewish sabbath. To refer to this, follow link to 'grace' - page 2.
10. GENESIS 21v1-12. "In Isaac shall thy seed be called". Paul shows that Abraham's son of his old age represented the true "seed". See ROMANS 9v7-9. See link below to page 1 re persecution of the true seed.
11. GENESIS 22v1-18. This was Abraham's great test. There is final confirmation of the promises (v15-18) BECAUSE OF HIS OBEDIENCE. Cp James 2v14-26 - "Abraham" was thus "justified by works" - his "faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect". His "seed shall possess the gate of his enemies", cp page 1 re ch.3v15.
12. GALATIANS 3v16, 26-29. The "seed" of Abraham = Christ (v16) & those who are baptized into Him on the basis of THE SAME "FAITH" OF ABRAHAM (v26-29). Compare No. 4 above re ROMANS 4v13-22.
CONCLUSION: God requires FIRSTLY our belief in the promises made to Abraham, and SECONDLY our obedience on the basis of that faith. This involves baptism into the Lord Jesus Christ (link to 'baptism'). We then become "Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise", Galatians 3v29, and if we are faithful, "shall sit down (with Abraham and all the redeemed) in the Kingdom of God" - Luke 13v28,29.
Jesus showed that Abraham, Isaac & Jacob must rise again Luke 20v27-38 - link to 'mortal'. Cp Acts 23v6; 24v14,15; 26v6-8.
CLOSING REMARKS. In the first promise in Eden we read that God promised eternal life to those who would be faithful. We have now learnt that this eternal life involves the inheritance of Canaan (Israel). The final promise involves the setting up of the Kingdom of God. This is on page 3.
the promise of life
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Imagine finding out your most recent departmental budget was only 40% of what it should be. If you’re like me, you’d get a strong feeling that “something is missing and it’s a real disaster.”
Well, here’s the thing. If you’re a CISO – or if your job involves information security in general – you should be getting that exact feeling right this minute. Because most businesses only secure 40% of their endpoints.
Clearly, no one thinks that 40% is good enough – whether it’s your budget or your endpoint protection strategy. So why would an otherwise buttoned-up, well-run enterprise security organization pursue a strategy that fails to protect 60% of their endpoints?
Mobile devices are now the most common endpoints in the enterprise
The problem, in a word, is mobile. Enterprises have had decades to plan, implement and iteratively refine robust management and security solutions for traditional endpoints like desktops and laptops. But mobile devices transformed almost overnight from a nice-to-have luxury into the single most critical endpoint in the enterprise for employee productivity, connectivity and collaboration.
Today, enterprises are still struggling to get their arms around protection for mobile devices. That struggle results in part from the vast difference between mobile threat defense and traditional threat defense. Unlike desktop PCs:
- Users are the admins on mobile devices, so they decide when to upgrade their OS, what networks to connect to and what apps to install;
- All apps are in containers on mobile devices, limiting the capabilities of security apps; and
- Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions are ineffective on mobile devices.
Mobile devices are under-protected and disproportionately targeted
Bad actors recognize that mobile endpoints are a relatively easy target. By September 2020, we had already recorded more mobile app breaches, failures, and data leaks than all of 2019.
Every day, Zimperium detects 600 million threat events involving enterprise mobile devices. Essentially, all the methods and strategies hackers use on traditional endpoints apply to mobile devices.
- Targeted attacks against enterprises often use unknown, “zero day” attacks that require machine learning-based detection;
- “Land and expand” campaigns target the weakest link for entry into the network – unprotected mobile devices are the hacker’s perfect starting point today; and
- To maximize the ROI of compromising any system (including a mobile endpoint), hackers want to establish a persistent foothold that remains even after reboot.
Even aside from inadequate protection, mobile devices have inherent characteristics creating a larger attack surface than traditional endpoints. Cybercriminals can attack mobile devices from multiple vectors.
- Device: Attackers’ primary goal on mobile is to fully compromise the device, be persistent, and weaponize it for “land and expand” lateral movements;
- Network: Attackers use rogue access points (RAPs) and man-in-the- middle (MITMs) to steal data and deliver targeted exploits to compromise the device;
- Phishing: Mobile phishing – especially via text/messaging apps and personal email – is a highly effective way to steal credentials and deliver targeted exploits; and
- Apps: Malicious apps can create fraud, steal information, and deliver device exploits; even apps from legitimate sources can have coding or other errors that make them vulnerable.
All of this is to say that the endpoint security problem itself is huge. But the bigger picture is that when your endpoint security is compromised, all your information security is compromised. If 60% of your endpoints lack adequate management and security, you cannot succeed with security frameworks such as zero trust. But this is not to say that protecting mobile devices is a hopeless cause. Rather, it just requires a different approach.
EPP and EDR solutions can’t protect mobile devices, but MTD can
I mentioned earlier that EPP and EDR solutions are ineffective on mobile devices. The reasons for that are complex. For example, the kernels in mobile OSs such as Android, iOS and ChromeOS are locked down. And since EPP and EDR rely on kernel access, they are blind and ineffective on mobile.
They have no ability to detect risky or malicious networks, and cloud-based detection can easily be disabled by network attackers. They can’t even assess privacy and security risks in legitimate (non-malicious) mobile apps.
Mobile endpoints therefore require a new security approach. Gartner calls this new class of solutions mobile threat defense, or MTD. As the global leader in mobile threat defense protecting millions of enterprise mobile endpoints around the world, Zimperium’s MTD solution uniquely has the characteristics required for successful MTD:
- Detects threats even with locked-down OS kernels;
- Detects known and unknown (targeted) device, network, phishing and malicious app risks and attacks;
- Provides on-device detection that protects user privacy and defends mobile devices even when an attacker owns the network and protects user privacy; and
- Assesses privacy and security risks in legitimate mobile apps.
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Welcome to 2012 and the first edition of Online Insights for another year. This month we take a different approach to resolutions involving food, give ourselves some tricks for spelling better, correct some of the common myths we all believe and finish with a way to play book publisher.
What’s more, most of tonight’s links may prove helpful on this sweltering, 41 degree day.
Food list challenge
Could this be your New Year’s Resolution for 2012?
The food list challenge is a list of 100 foods and the authors believe your score determines how much of a ‘foodie’ you are. Turns out I am Mr Average with 47 out of the 100.
The list includes:
- Biscuits and gravy
- Frogs’ Legs
- Pistachio Ice Cream
- Rabbit Stew
They’re all from my COMPLETED list. Some still to conquer include:
- Black Pudding
However, I am in NO rush.
One observation, though. If you struggle with New Year’s Resolutions for giving things up, you might do better with this because it is about putting things in your mouth.
Take the challenge yourself and share your results on Facebook, if you wish.
10 words you need to stop misspelling
All of us have words we misspell often. I seem to struggle with ‘separate’. Every time I write it I need to force myself not to write ‘seperate’.
Meanwhile, some of us keep getting tripped up by some of the fundamental building blocks of English, such as its and it’s, and their, they’re and there.
Oatmeal has come to the rescue with a simple chart that captures 10 of the most commonly misspelled words, along with tips for avoiding the error in the future.
Here are a couple:
- Its and it’s: One of these is a contraction of it is (the one with the apostrophe), the other, without the apostrophe, is the possessive of ‘it’, ie, something belonging to ‘it’. The tip Oatmeal gives you is this: If can replace the term ‘its’ with ‘it is’ then you should be using the apostrophe.
- Definitely: It seems many people put an ‘a’ into this word. The solution from Oatmeal: If you put an A into Definitely, you are definitely an A-hole. Not classy, by it might help you remember.
- A lot and alot: Need help with this one? Firstly, ‘alot’ is not a word and secondly, the Oatmeal tip is to remember you need ‘a lot’ of space between ‘a’ and ‘lot’.
While this small, educational artwork is not the complete answer to life, the universe and everything, it is a start and has lots of links to other resources.
10 facts that everyone gets wrong
This article is from the Washington Post and is available to newspaper subscribers OR people who log in to the paper’s Social Reading App on Facebook. Basically, if you follow the link, below, you will be asked to log in to Facebook, if not already, and then agree to the App being part of your experience. After that, you get plenty of access to Washington Post material, in return for your friends seeing what you are reading in the Facebook news feed AND you being able to see what they are reading.
That aside, here are some of the questionable facts outlined in the story (sure to stoke up some New Year’s Day discussions):
- Cracking Your Knuckles Won’t Give You Arthritis – As it turns out, this is anecdotally true, after a doctor cracked one of his thumbs every day for 60 years, while leaving the other one uncracked. No arthritis in either thumb.
- We Only Use 10 per cent of Our Brains – This is false. Or rather, this is a myth. We actually use 100 per cent of our brains. Whether the statement started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or other luminaries, we now know that destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior.
- Fans Can’t Kill You – This is right, sleeping with your electric fan on overnight is safe, despite the hysterical beliefs of Koreans. In fact, the hysteria is so great in Korea that fans sold there have timers so they can turn themselves off.
You can log in and read through some of the other argument starters. Enjoy.
Here is a ‘novel’ way to create books you would like to read.
Unbound is a site where established and new authors pitch books they would like to write. We can then pledge money towards the projects, or books, and in return become part of this publishing journey.
Depending on how much you pledge you could end up with your name in the back of the book, you could even have lunch with the author.
What happens is that when a book project has raised enough pledges, the author is given the go ahead to produce the work.
Fascinating project and I wish it every success.
Some of the titles being pitched at the moment include:
- How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage – Mrs Stephen Fry’s guide to an almost perfect marriage. Just like hers.
- News from Gardenia – A sci-fi novel by Robert Llewellyn, the star of Red Dwarf, set 200 years in the future in a Britain where we’ve somehow got things right.
- Evil Machines – A darkly funny set of linked tales about vengeful phones and hoovers by the legendary Terry Jones.
And I discovered this because Stephen Fry’s tweet last week to a small poem he wrote under his long-running pseudonym of Mrs Stephen Fry. It is called How The Frynch Stole Twitmas.
Every Twit down in Twitville
Liked Twitter a lot,
But the Frynch,
Who lived just North of London,
The Frynch hated Twitter!
The whole Twitmas season.
Now please don’t ask why,
No-one quite knows the reason.
It could be his laptop
Wasn’t plugged in quite right,
It could be perhaps
That his pants were too tight.
But I think the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his dongle was two sizes too small.
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Taking on debt for buying a car is a risky proposition. Taking on subprime debt for buying a car is simply a bad financial decision. The subprime loan market is booming for auto loans. Cars can last longer, require basic maintenance, and typically run better than older models. That brings up challenges for the auto industry that needs people buying newer and more expensive models. But consumers always want the newest car or gadget so financing is the best way to get people to purchase an item. This is why the iPhone which would sell for $600 or more is usually bundled with a contract instead of the consumer paying for it all at once. You pay for it slowly over time. The same applies to car loans. However, the typical auto loan used to be 36 or 48 months. Now, we see 72 months and 84 months (6 or 7 years!) of car payments. This is such a bad financial move especially if you want to plan wisely for retirement. Taking on a depreciating asset is just not a good move especially with risky debt.
Subprime remerges with auto loans
The banking industry realizes that consumers only care about one thing and that is the monthly payment. That is why when the housing bubble was growing, many loans started focusing on lowering monthly payments via riskier mechanisms like interest only loans or others that deferred even interest for a future date. Loans for cars are now going on the same trajectory:
“(NPR) Six-year car loans used to be in the minority. They’re now the norm, and loans of seven or eight years are even becoming popular. New-car sales in the U.S. are booming, and longer car loans are playing a role. Nearly a third of new loans are now 74 months or longer.
But some worry the trend will hurt the auto industry in the future. Others worry it’s hurting consumers right now. Ed Kim, an analyst with AutoPacific, says one thing driving the trend is the cars themselves.”
The growth in subprime debt is coming from auto loans:
This debt is even worse than the debt in housing. At least a home is seen as an asset that typically appreciates over time. A car depreciates the instant you take it off the lot. The fact that auto loans of 72 months and higher make up one third of all new car loans is startling. People are still paying more but the monthly payment remains the same because people are tapped out and there is simply no wage growth.
You’ll notice from the chart above that new auto loans are booming. But a big part of the boom is coming from longer loans but also subprime debt:
People are consuming their future today and locking into big expenses by buying cars with risky debt. I would say a good rule of thumb is to not spend more than one-third your annual income on a car. That is, if you make $60,000 a year your upper limit should be $20,000. There are plenty of great used cars that you can get for that price or lower. Consumer advocates realize how nutty it is to take on long-term auto loans:
“Well, if we all had the luxury to take a 36- or 48-month term, but the bottom line is you know the average consumer just can’t afford that,” she says.
That reasoning drives consumer advocate Mike Sante nuts. He’s with Interest.com and says people on a budget are precisely the ones who shouldn’t be taking out long loans.
“They’re a way to get people into cars that are more expensive than they should really be buying,” he says. “It’s these kinds of decisions that you make, that will truly determine how much money you have later in life.”
Sound familiar? Someone buys a car today with a 72 month loan and they will be paying deep into 2021! And given that half the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the first priority should be on saving for the future not buying a car they can’t afford. Yet this is how we are pumping up our economy again by finding creative ways to finance big purchases. You also have many younger Americans financing their college education with student loans. The first thing many do once they are out is buy a car with a big loan. Instead of starting off on the correct financial footing, many are entering their first job in a negative net worth position. 6 year and 7 year auto loans make no sense and if you need to get a loan for this long of a period, you simply can’t afford that car.
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[Open PDF in InDesign] PDF2ID v3.5 – Customizing PDF to InDesign conversion
Welcome to the PDF2ID – Preferences tutorial.
As you’re all aware of PDF2ID’s phenomenal ability in converting PDF and Windows XPS to editable InDesign files, today we want to show how you can customize PDF2ID to better suit your workflow. Specifically, we want to go over the Preferences Panel of PDF2ID.
Over the last few years, a lot of users have been asking us whether there were ways customize PDF2ID so it would better fit their requirements; we’ve often directed everyone to the “Preferences Panel” as that’s where you get to customize PDF2ID. So, today we’re going to talk all about Preferences.
To get to the Preferences panel, we need to have the “PDF2ID – Options” window open. So, what we’re going to do is go to the Recosoft menu in InDesign and select the “Convert PDF/XPS file..” command. We choose any PDF file and click OK. Once the PDF2ID – Options window appears we see “Preferences” towards the right. Lets click it.
As you can see within the Preferences panel, there are a number of different areas that can be customized. What we’re seeing here are the “General” Preferences. By clicking the type menu you notice there also are Annotations, Color Profiles and Graphics, Default Font Mappings, Formatting Options and Other Preferences.
Lets go over General Preferences first as its already visible.
The area that says, “Converted file Options”; you notice that you can specify whether the converted “Images should be embedded in the InDesign file” or “linked” to the InDesign file. You also get to specify the “Destination folder” and whether to overwrite a file with the same name.
Moving down towards the “Default Style and Image Names” area you notice that you can specify the default Character style, Paragraph style and Image name and whether the Properties should also be added as part of the name. For example, in the case of Character Styles, a property would be the name and size of the font. PDF2ID will automatically append the font name and size if you want it to. For paragraphs the left/right indentation are properties. For images, the height and width are properties.
Towards the end we have the “Others” area. This allows you to control whether PDF2ID should display tips and whether PDF2ID should remember the last used conversion settings.
Lets now look at the Annotations Preferences.
The Annotation Preferences, allows you to specify the Font to use when Annotations are recovered. You also get to specify whether Annotations should be put into a separate layer in the resulting InDesign file, and whether annotations should be converted to InDesign notes; and finally whether to create a separate layer for each annotation author.
Now, lets switch to the Color Profiles and Graphics Preferences.
Within the Color Profiles and Graphics preferences, you notice you can make profile and graphics related setting. You get to specify the default RGB and CMYK color profiles when color space conversion occurs.
If you look at the Graphics Options, you notice you can control the resolution of images that are up-sampled. Furthermore, you can make PDF2ID provide more information of the image conversions by marking images that have been “Up-sampled”; marking “Fragmented images” that have been recombined to form a larger image; and marking images that were created from complex vector graphics.
Now, Lets look at the “Default Font Mappings” Preferences
The default font mappings are the fonts that PDF2ID automatically maps to when PDF fonts can’t be matched to fonts available in your system. You get to define a default font per language or actually encoding type.
Then we have “Formatting Options” Preferences.
The formatting Options allow you to fine-tune the conversion fidelity for Tables, Frames and Paragraphs.
Looking at Table and Cell properties, you can preset the Border type; Width alongwith the horizontal and vertical justification in a cell.
Within the frames linking area you can control whether frame breaks should be inserted or not. Within the Paragraph and Styles area you can specify the default paragraph justification and to what degree the style accuracy should be.
Finally, we have others Preferences.
Within the “others” panel you notice that you get to specify whether conversions should be recorded into a conversion log. The conversion log is beneficial if you ever want to see a complete list of files you converted using PDF2ID. The conversion log is an ordinary text file that lists the file name and conversion details.
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Wrong solution to culturally inept 'surge' participants
Is it true, as Valley legislators allege, that "Too many of the Department of Public Safety troopers assigned to the South Texas border region do not understand the local Hispanic culture and are unable to speak Spanish"? Perhaps. I'll even go with, "Probably." To me, though, the solution is to scale back the politicized, pointless, metric-free, "surge," not to build a damn training center down there to make it permanent!
Lawsuit alleges sexual assault by employee of county jail contractor
A lawsuit by a former inmate alleges she was sexually assaulted by an employee of Community Education Centers, a private prison firm out of New Jersey that operates McLennan County's local jail, reported the Waco Tribune Herald. Jail privatization has already been a financial albatross for the county, but, if true, these allegations and the process of proving them in court might turn public opinion against the county's jail contracts more viscerally.
I Can't Breathe, South Texas style
Eighteen students and staff members at a Raymondville ISD middle school were given medical treatment after they were exposed to tear gas during a training exercise at the neighboring Willacy County State Jail, reported KWTX TV.
New Tarrant DA will create Conviction Integrity Unit
The new Tarrant County DA Sharen Wilson will create a Conviction Integrity Unit. The fellow hired to run it, Larry Moore, said correctly that the lower number of exonerations in Tarrant may be because they “didn’t have the pattern of abuse you found in Dallas," as local officials have insisted. "But frankly, all the evidence was destroyed here, and Dallas kept it,” he added, which regular Grits readers know more accurately gets to the heart of the matter.
Priced to go
Outgoing Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Tom Price spoke to the Austin Statesman's Chuck Lindell about his last-minute declaration that he opposes the death penalty after sending hundreds of men and women to death. (Price's views have migrated greatly from those of the judge who was warned by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in 2001 for a campaign message touting that he had "no sympathy" for the criminal.) Regrettably, Lindell's conversation with the judge did not stray from Price's new-found death penalty views to plumb other topics like ideological splits on the court, relationships among judges following the Charles Dean Hood debacle, or his reasons for switching sides in Ex Parte Robbins I and II. I understand Texas Monthly will publish an interview with outgoing CCA Judge Cathy Cochran early next year, though don't expect her to break decorum and speak about the insider baseball stuff.
Reddy: Pretrial detention of low-risk offenders 'counterproductive for public safety'
Vikrant Reddy of the Texas Public Policy Foundation authored an editorial in the Houston Chronicle explaining how "pretrial incarceration of those who do not pose a high risk of committing a serious crime is counterproductive for public safety." He argues for "developing pretrial risk assessment instruments that can be used to make sound determinations about who needs to be in jail and who does not."
Mass imprisonment and public health
I'd missed a NY Times editorial from last month regarding harms to public health from mass incarceration. Here's a notable excerpt from its opening:
When public health authorities talk about an epidemic, they are referring to a disease that can spread rapidly throughout a population, like the flu or tuberculosis.But researchers are increasingly finding the term useful in understanding another destructive, and distinctly American, phenomenon — mass incarceration. This four-decade binge poses one of the greatest public health challenges of modern times, concludes a new report released last week by the Vera Institute of Justice.For many obvious reasons, people in prison are among the unhealthiest members of society. Most come from impoverished communities where chronic and infectious diseases, drug abuse and other physical and mental stressors are present at much higher rates than in the general population. Health care in those communities also tends to be poor or nonexistent.The experience of being locked up — which often involves dangerous overcrowding and inconsistent or inadequate health care — exacerbates these problems, or creates new ones. Worse, the criminal justice system has to absorb more of the mentally ill and the addicted. The collapse of institutional psychiatric care and the surge of punitive drug laws have sent millions of people to prison, where they rarely if ever get the care they need. Severe mental illness is two to four times as common in prison as on the outside, while more than two-thirds of inmates have a substance abuse problem, compared with about 9 percent of the general public.Common prison-management tactics can also turn even relatively healthy inmates against themselves. Studies have found that people held in solitary confinement are up to seven times more likely than other inmates to harm themselves or attempt suicide.The report also highlights the “contagious” health effects of incarceration on the already unstable communities most of the 700,000 inmates released each year will return to. When swaths of young, mostly minority men are put behind bars, families are ripped apart, children grow up fatherless, and poverty and homelessness increase. Today 2.7 million children have a parent in prison, which increases their own risk of incarceration down the road.If this epidemic is going to be stopped, the report finds, public health and criminal justice systems must communicate effectively with one another. | <urn:uuid:3786d89f-d036-46a4-9b91-188b8c79d905> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-cant-breathe-south-texas-style-and.html | 2016-12-10T22:23:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698543577.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170903-00055-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957547 | 1,119 |
Country School’s next head
Aaron Cooper has been selected as New Canaan Country School’s next head of school, effective July 1.
New Canaan Country School is a co-ed, independent, day school for students in pre-K through ninth grade.
During his six years as head of Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, N.J., he has been recognized by faculty, staff and the administrative team for both his pedagogical knowledge and his collaborative style. Cooper guided the school through a successful capital campaign and long-range campus master plan, and the development of a sustainable financial model. He also developed and implemented a comprehensive, integrated STEAM program, a renowned instrumental music initiative, and an interconnected diversity and inclusivity program.
Prior to becoming head of Elisabeth Morrow School, Cooper served as assistant head, dean of students, and he coached and taught math, Latin, ethics and public speaking, and led middle school advisory groups. He was also actively involved in the school’s re-accreditation process and an initiative to expand the school to include grades seven and eight.
Cooper earned a Master of Education in private school leadership and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Columbia University; he received his Bachelor of Arts in growth and structure of cities from Haverford College, and a diploma from Groton School.
He serves on the board of The Community Chest of Englewood, has served on five re-accreditation visiting committees and is a member of the Elementary School Heads Association.
This announcement is the culmination of a comprehensive effort led by the Head of School Search Committee and consultants at Carney, Sandoe & Associates over the past seven months.
The search committee was led by co-chairs Lynne Byrne and John Lancaster and included Yolanda Coffield, Marisa DiBiasio, Gary Engle, Bart Fredo, Sarah Irwin, Barbara van der Kieft Latimer, Randy Salvatore and Gretchen Tapscott.
The dean’s list
New Canaan’s Leslie Y. Ford, a student in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was named to the dean’s academic honor roll for the 2017 fall semester. Students honored on the dean’s list are Baylor undergraduates with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7, while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours.
Thirteen New Canaan natives made the fall dean’s list at the University of Connecticut: Davis Baer, Caroline Bearden, Angelina Fagundes, Calvin Gaynor, Luis Gonzalez-Miranda, Shelby Haydu, Nicole Howard Krog, Sarah Maddox, Hazel Montano, Maria Oliveira, Anneliese Segarra, Maximilian Urbahn and Erin Williams.
The UConn students were registered for at least 12 credits, received no grade below a “C,” had a grade-point average of at least 3.0 and were in at least the upper quartile of their school or college.Read Full Article
Curry College is proud to announce that William Young, of New Canaan, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2017 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must earn a 3.30 GPA, have no incompletes, and have no grade lower than a “C” for the semester.
Mary Pivirotto, daughter of Jennifer and Richard Pivirotto of New Canaan, has been named to the dean’s list at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. for the 2017 fall semester. To be named to the dean’s list, a student must have carried throughout the semester a course load of four or more graded credits with an average of 3.5 or above.
Pivirotto, a senior majoring in economics, is a graduate of St. Luke’s School.
Waveny Estate aims for historic status
The New Canaan Preservation Alliance, Inc. selected The Public Archeology Laboratory, Inc. to prepare the nomination of Waveny Estate to the National Register of Historic Places.
NCPA selected the consultants from among 20 applicants after consultations with the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office.
PAL is a leading authority in cultural resource management and specializes in archaeology, architectural history, research and documentation, and preservation planning throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic region. An independent, nonprofit corporation with offices and laboratories located in Rhode Island, PAL has successfully completed more than 3,500 projects in the areas of cultural resource management, historic preservation planning, and regulatory consultation and compliance.
PAL prepared the nomination listing 12 of New Canaan’s “moderns” to the National Register in 2010.
Virginia Adams, senior architectural historian for PAL, will be coordinating the research.
She has assembled a team to include a landscape historian, as the landscape and gardens were designed by the world-renowned Olmsted Brothers; an interiors historian as the interior decoration and furnishings were designed by the prestigious Albert Herter and Herter Looms; and an architectural historian as the mansion was designed by the eminent William B. Tubby, NYC architect.
NCPA requests any materials, maps, or documents pertinent to the history of Waveny be please shared with the consultant. Any such materials may be brought to the attention of Mimi Findlay or Rose Scott Long, who are supervising the project for NCPA. They can be contacted at [email protected].
The nomination will be presented to the State Review Board in early summer, with a preview given at the annual May meeting of the NCPA, who is sponsoring the nomination. The public will be invited to attend both presentations.
Half the cost of the preparation of this nomination is funded with a grant from the State Department of Economic and Community Development Commission, Offices of Culture and Tourism through the State Historic Preservation Office.
Call for entries
The Fairfield Museum invites professional, serious amateur, and student photographers from Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to participate in the IMAGES 2018 Juried Photography Show.
Submissions will be accepted from Dec. 1 through Jan. 22. IMAGES 2018 provides an excellent opportunity for artists to connect with prominent collectors, gallery owners, fellow photographers and the public.
A jury of artists, photographers and curators selects approximately 40 submitted photographs for exhibition in the IMAGES 2018 show, which will be on display at the Fairfield Museum and History Center from March 1 to April 15, 2018.
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Annie Clark is a force to be reckoned with. Going by St Vincent, with her guitar fuzzed records and constant side projects, she is a woman addicted to work. We look back at what makes our feature artist this month so incredibly special.
One look at Annie Clark and you'd think she's got it all down pat. The effortlessly chic goddess of rock is someone you'd look at and wish you could be friends with. So how did Annie Clark become one miss St Vincent?
She grew up Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas, one of 8 children (collectively between her two parents families) and started playing guitar at the age of 12. As a teenager, Clark worked as a roadie for her aunt and uncle, Tuck Andress and Patti Cathcart, of the guitar-vocal jazz duo Tuck & Patti. St Vincent the name is said to have come from the Nick Cave song "There She Goes My Beautiful World" where it refers to the hospital in which Dylan Thomas died, "And Dylan Thomas died drunk in / St. Vincent's hospital". Her great-grandmother's middle name was also St. Vincent, a nice coincidence perhaps...
After three years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Clark decided it wasn't for her and moved home where she then joined The Polyphonic Spree and embarked on a European tour. In 2006 she left The Polyphonic Spree and joined Sufjan Stevens' touring band before going on to finally release her debut album Marry Me in 2007. Named after a line from the television show Arrested Development, the album gained traction and people started taking note of this Bowie inspired goddess and foreseeing her future as a cult figure in the alt rock genre.
She followed her debut with Actor in 2009, a well received sophomore album, which she admits to writing a lot of on Garageband and MIDI because at the time as she didn't have a studio and was getting noise complaints from neighbours at home.
Her third full length album, Strange Mercy, was released in 2011 and she followed that with her collaborative album with David Byrne in 2012 titled Love This Giant.
In November 2013 Clark received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Performing Arts and in 2014 she went on to release St. Vincent, her self titled fourth album. The album named best new music by Pitchfork, album of the year by The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly and NME. In the words of Lindsay Zoladz from Pitchfork, "Over the course of four albums, St. Vincent's Annie Clark has been focusing her vision and sharpening her music's edges. St. Vincent is in a sense the Platonic ideal of a St. Vincent record, executing with perfect poise everything we already know she can do". The album won her her first Grammy for Best Alternative Album and she was the first solo female performer in 20 years to win a Grammy in that category. Speaks volumes considering the recent grammy upset and comments about women in the music industry.
In 2014 she also joined a line up of kick ass women, including Lorde, Kim Gordon and Joan Jett, for the 29th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Nirvana. She fronted the band to perform lead vocals on "Lithium".
Her most recent release from last year, Masseduction, is possibly her most personal and heart wrenching yet. Coming from a very private person, the album is about being left and recovering in the aftermath, mixed with themes of sex, drugs and rock and roll you might say. She had a somewhat public relationship with model Carla Delevinge that ended in 2016 and seems to be the spark to a lot of the material on this album (although Delevingne also guest vocals on the album). In an interview with Rolling Stone she credits pharmaceuticals with helping her move on to the next phase of her career following the stress and anxiety brought on around the time of her previous album. "What sold me on working with Annie was how much she was willing to expose and how ready she was to rip it all apart and go all in," Jack Antonoff (her producer on the album) said to Rolling Stone.
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Foot Rot 101—A hoof infection that occurs when the skin between the two toes on a hoof is either punctured due to injury or softened by prolonged contact with moisture, such as during a rainy spell. Bacteria invade the hoof area and, if left untreated, can result in lameness and poor weight gain due to the animal’s immobility. The bacterial infection can also spread to other animals in the area.
We’ve had a few minor instances of foot rot in our cattle, but most were easily treated with an antibiotic injection that cleared it up in a few days. However, one occurrence got away from us.
In 2006, Bill bought some replacement heifers and turned them out to grass on one of the rental pastures. During late July and early August, he was busy with his job and putting up hay so didn’t check on them for a week. They weren’t due to calve until around Labor Day so he wasn’t particularly concerned. When he got to the pasture, one of the heifers was limply badly, favoring one hind leg. He looked her over and couldn’t see any sign of an injury so he assumed it was foot rot. He came home, hitched up the stock trailer, went back to the pasture, loaded her up and brought her home. He gave her an antibiotic injection and took her back to the pasture.
Bill checked a couple of days later and the heifer was lying on the ground and didn’t want to get up. He coaxed her up but she could hardly walk. Time for a trip to the vet. The vet treated her with a different antibiotic. Two days passed and the heifer’s mobility wasn’t improving. The options were limited: amputate the toe and hope the infection didn’t spread to the other toe, or just put her down. Selling her as a hamburger cow wasn’t an option because of a withholding requirement by law for antibiotic treatment. Amputation, of course, would cost money. However, the potential loss from putting down a cow carrying a calf was greater. So Bill played the odds and opted for amputation.
The surgery went well and after a day of observation at the vet clinic, the heifer was released to be brought home. Bill put her in the corral and fed her grain and hay, and filled a small stock tank with water. We were scheduled to leave on a 10-day vacation to Colorado the next day. We already had a house-sitter hired who could do chores; the vet agreed to make a couple of barn-calls to change the dressing while we were gone. So we headed to Colorado.
While on vacation, Bill called home a few times and everything was going fine.
We returned home on a Friday. On Saturday, Bill attended a volleyball officials’ clinic, a requirement to officiate scholastic volleyball. I was home doing the post-vacation umpteen loads of laundry. On one trip from the clothesline to the house, I detoured by the corral to check on the heifer. She had a mucusy, bloody-looking substance hanging from her rear end. Oh no! She was having, or maybe losing, her calf. Then I looked at the ground in front of her. Correction: she’d had her calf and it was alive. What I saw being expelled was the afterbirth. She wasn’t due to calve until around Labor Day so the calf was over two weeks premature. And it was tiny, less than half the size of a normal newborn calf.
Bill pulled into the driveway a couple of hours later, and I ran out to tell him about our preemie. He was flabbergasted and rushed out to the corral. He had never seen such a small calf alive. He lifted it to its feet and guided it over to Mama so it could eat. The poor thing was so small it couldn’t reach the faucets. Bill mixed up a bag of colostrum substitute and the calf took part of it. Late in the evening, he was able to get the rest of it into the calf and also fed him an electrolyte mixture. He estimated the little bull weighed about 35 pounds. A normal newborn calf weighed between 65 and 80 pounds. Even carried to full term, this calf would likely have been below average birth weight because the heifer’s partial lameness prevented her from grazing to sustain both her and the unborn calf, and the added stress of the toe amputation.
Bill fed milk replacer to the calf for the next couple of days. Then, on the evening of the third day, he headed out to the corral with the bottle of milk replacer and found the calf reaching up as far as it could, standing almost on the tippy toes of his hooves, with the end of a teat in his mouth, sucking away. Another hallelujah moment on the Hilbert farm!
The calf wasn’t yet strong enough to get all its nourishment from Mama, so Bill continued supplementing with milk replacer for a few days. Mama regained her strength and her hoof healed, enabling her to limp along on a hind leg with only one toe. Appropriately, Bill named her One-Toe and he named the calf Itty Bitty.
Several years later, we still have One-Toe. She still limps but can get where she wants or needs to go, and she raises great calves!
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Explore the words cloud of the smartCC project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "smartCC" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH
|Coordinator Country||Germany [DE]|
|Total cost||159˙460 €|
|EC max contribution||159˙460 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2017-06-01 to 2019-09-15|
Take a look of project's partnership.
|1||MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH||DE (DUSSELDORF)||coordinator||159˙460.00|
Smart interfaces alter their properties in response to an external trigger. Such devices open exciting opportunities for novel technologies with manifold applications. Electrical fields pose easily controllable triggers for smart interfaces and even allow a precise 'digital' switching between 'on' and 'off' states. The research project ‘smartCC’ will employ a biologically abundant class of biomacromolecules – coiled-coil peptides – to prepare smart selective interfaces, whose ability to specifically bind targets can be switched reversibly. Moreover, the produced interface will constitute a highly sensitive sensor by application of the attenuated total reflection infrared reflection technique. The variability of coiled-coils, employed in numerous biological systems, will also extend the potential application bandwidth of smart interfaces significantly. Molecular details of the switching and binding behaviour of the coiled-coils at the interface will be studied to test the feasibility of the envisioned working principle. Furthermore, the novel devices will be tested for an application with industrial relevance. To reach the goals of ‘smartCC’ a highly interdisciplinary approach is chosen that includes cooperation between three academic and one non-academic European partners. Thus, the implementation of this project will support bringing an emerging technology towards an economical benefit, foster intra European collaborations and mobility as well as strengthen Europe’s scientific sector.
|year||authors and title||journal||last update|
Aimee L. Boyle, Martin Rabe, Niek S. A. Crone, Guto G. Rhys, Nicolas Soler, Patrick Voskamp, Navraj S. Pannu, Alexander Kros
Selective coordination of three transition metal ions within a coiled-coil peptide scaffold
published pages: 7456-7465, ISSN: 2041-6520, DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01165j
|Chemical Science 10/31||2020-04-06|
Fang Niu, Martin Rabe, Simantini Nayak, Andreas Erbe
Vibrational spectroscopic study of pH dependent solvation at a Ge(100)-water interface during an electrode potential triggered surface termination transition
published pages: 222824, ISSN: 0021-9606, DOI: 10.1063/1.5018796
|The Journal of Chemical Physics 148/22||2020-04-06|
Geert A. Daudey, Christian Schwieger, Martin Rabe, Alexander Kros
Influence of Membrane–Fusogen Distance on the Secondary Structure of Fusogenic Coiled Coil Peptides
published pages: 5501-5508, ISSN: 0743-7463, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04195
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "SMARTCC" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email ([email protected]) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
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Are retractions on the rise? Yes—but that does not necessarily mean science is rife with error
A 2008 paper in the journal EMBO Reports made a startling, unsettling claim: the retraction rate in scientific journals was on the rise.
Using the Medline database, the authors, led by Murat Cokol from the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, found that since 1950, more than 17 million articles were recorded in Medline, and as of the fall of 2007, 871 had been retracted.
The first retractions were seen in the 1970s and “raised awareness of the problem of scientific misconduct and triggered the establishment of the US Office of Research Integrity,” Cokol, et al., reported. From there, the percentage of retracted articles rose steadily, from roughly 0.25% in the late 1980s to more than 1% by the early 2000s.
Retractions are usually ugly. When they happen, it means the publisher is stating that the article is not a valid source of knowledge. Retractions can ruin reputations, derail funding, stall professional advancement, and/or result in long-term public shaming. According to a 2015 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, retractions result in researchers taking a 10% penalty in future citations, with that figure crawling to 20% in the case of retractions due to misconduct. (Plot twist: a 2019 article in Science and Engineering Ethics found that authors who retract papers due to “honest mistakes” are praised by peers and actually see a reputational bump.)
Cokol, et al., offered two possible explanations for the rise in retractions over the years: the pressure to publish meant flawed articles were produced at a higher rate, or the easier identification of flawed manuscripts means that self-correction was improving.
Since then, reported Science in 2018, the number of annual retractions has continued to grow, but the rate of increase has slowed. Concurrent with that, journals have instituted improved oversight, aided in part by more attentive peer reviewers and also by helpful software such as iThenticate, which plumbs the depths of scholarly publishing hunting for plagiarism.
Why are articles retracted? Enago Academy lays out the two main reasons:
- Human error: Researchers made mistakes when collecting data or classifying them, applied problematic statistical analyses, or otherwise submitted information which peer review was not able to verify.
- Intentional misconduct: Gnarlier than human error, this involves made-up data, manipulated research, plagiarizing, failure to comply with research protocols, forged signatures, fake reviews, or salami slicing.
FWIW, Wikipedia adds a third category:
- Public outrage: References in the paper, usually religious in nature, which spark a PR disaster and force the journal to backpedal.
While the stats suggest the number of retractions in academic publishing continues to rise, a deeper dive into them shows that not all retractions are created equally. A 2018 analysis of retractions found that of the 30,000 authors named in Retraction Watch Database, just 500 accounted for one-quarter of the 10,500 analyzed retractions, and 100 of those authors had 13 or more retractions each.
Further, the Science analysis found that 40% of all retractions in the database were from one publisher—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which pulled thousands of abstracts published between 2009 and 2011, generally from Chinese authors and on a diverse range of topics. Those abstracts, the publisher said, failed to meet guidelines.
What are researchers—and those who depend on scientific publications—to make of all this? The stigma associated with retractions makes them harder to confront, notes Science, and many journals prefer to simply correct papers, not yank them. The Committee on Publication Ethics has issued guidelines which attempt to draw the line between the two actions and what journals need to say publicly when they make a decision. Science suggests that standardizing the difference between the two might be a step in the right direction.
“Reserving the fraught term ‘retraction’ for papers involving intentional misconduct and devising alternatives for other problems,” the journal notes, “might also prompt more authors to step forward and flag their papers that contain errors.” | <urn:uuid:752fa897-03e2-45e1-ac8c-ab7e91dc7ebd> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.idtdna.com/pages/community/blog/post/are-retractions-on-the-rise-yes-but-that-does-not-necessarily-mean-science-is-rife-with-error | 2021-04-17T04:38:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038101485.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417041730-20210417071730-00109.warc.gz | en | 0.95105 | 883 |
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Discussion in 'Guitars in General' started by Gasp100, Dec 20, 2012.
Have used tone pros....so so results... did a full Faber bridge/insert install. What a difference!
Why not change one string at a time, leaving the other old ones on? Makes it a non-issue
That's what I do whether Gibson, Fender, and even acoustic but some prefer to remove the old strings all at once
I have a 2011 Wildwood Spec R7. It came stock with the TonePros Long Locking Tailpiece studs. I wanted to both improve the balance of the unwound and wound strings as well as move the unwound strings to more of a "round sound" even if it meant a little less bite.
Here's what I did to alter the voice:
Replaced the stock steel ABR-1 Thumbwheels with a set of nickel plated brass wheels from Philadelphia Luther Supply and this totally accomplished the mission. A set of brass wheels from Retrospec was also tried, and they look allot better but had less of a damping effect on my guitar, but still were effective but the thicker brass wheels were better on my particular R7.
Replaced the TonePros Long Locking Tailpiece Studs with a set of Long Steel TailPiece Studs that I got from RetroSpec. These fit very tightly over the ears of the stock Gibson lightweight Tailpiece and were functionally locking. No real huge change in timbre but it did seem like there was more sustain, so these stayed. I did not replace whatever tailpiece bushings that were installed by Gibson when they installed the long TonePros studs, but the Retrospec studs were a "swiss watch fit".
I also tried a Faber ABR-1 Bridge with the combinations of thumbwheels that I have here and decided that I actually prefer the stock ABR-1 for now. Legend has it that the wired ABR-1 is slightly warmer than the non-wired ABR-1 that I have, so that may be worth trying down the line if I feel the urge to tinker, but things are good right now.
In "researching" what others have done with their Les Pauls, mainly over at both TheLesPaulForum and MyLesPaul, it seemed apparent that changes to the bridge, thumbwheels, and bridge posts/screws is going to yield some noticeable changes in the voice of a guitar with things like the Tailpiece and TailPiece Studs also making a difference in the combinations.
So I decided to start where I thought I'd get the most immediate result, and the thumbwheels was the big game changer on this one. They cost about $4!
TailPiece Studs 1.5 inches):
Every guitar is going to be different, most will need no changes!
If you want some really noticable change in your tone, I'd also consider the Callaham bridge. I'm in the process of switching to that from the stock bridge on my 2000 R9. I say "process" because I'm having other things done as well, and part of the plan is to nickel plate some longer brass studs to replace the stock ones, and reuse the stock brass wheels. I have mounted the unslotted Callaham bridge on the stock studs just to see how that changes the tone and I like what it does.
Tone pros locking are the way to go and love the fact that it does not fall off during string change and love what it does to the tone and sustain at least for me
Cool info guys, I think I'm going to try either Tone Pro's or Faber kit. The guitar is exceptional so I might as well get it to where it's perfect for my hard gigging guitar.
I did the mapleflame mod. I have had a lot of mods done to many guitars over the years and the mapleflame mod was the best improvment out of all of them.
The "Mapleflame" mod is the inspiration for my buying longer brass studs to use. The original mod was using stainless steel, which makes great sense from the structural standpoint, but changes the tone based on the material used. I'm planning to stick with brass, but make sure the studs go all the way in.
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Admittedly, Hillary's email hilarity is a lot more fun than the pleasure we get seeing the United States private healthcare system go down the tubes, but we have to work with what we have. This post was prompted by the first entry, which I saw in the dead-tree version of the Washington Post this morning. The rest have been in the digital refrigerator a while, and may be a bit limp and slimy, like 2 week old produce.
About 25% of the Obamacare policies taken out since the last enrollment period have gone inactive: Coverage in Affordable Care Act health plans wanes since winter
Nearly 1 in 4 of the Americans who picked a health plan this year through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces have dropped or lost their coverage, according to new federal data.To be fair, the article points out there are many reasons for people to drop off Obamacare, not all of them resulting in their becoming uninsured. Some may get jobs with benefits (but then, some could lose them as well and become eligible for Obamacare; given the slow growth of jobs, those should approximately balance), they could age out and go onto Medicare. But others simply may be finding the cost of the insurance even with subsidies worse than the penalties, and are simply deciding to pay their own way.
A report, released Tuesday by federal health officials, shows that 9.9 million people were paying, as of the end of June, for health plans they had gotten through the federal and state-run insurance exchanges created under the health-care law.
Those people reflect a decline from the roughly 12.7 million consumers who signed up for a 2015 health plan. The vast majority signed up during an open enrollment period that ended in February and the rest through special enrollment circumstances since then.
The figures also mean that health plans sold on the exchanges are covering slightly fewer people as the year goes on. Between the end of March and the end of June, the number of people with active coverage dipped by about 300,000.
Obamacare's Implicit $1,200 a year 'Wife Tax'
OK, strictly speaking it also could be fairly called a ‘husband tax’ or a ‘spouse tax.’ You may also quibble on the ‘tax’ bit, largely because this is being done to avoid a tax. But, hey: no Republican voted for this monstrosity, remember? So I’m admittedly a little indifferent to any Democratic pain over the nomenclature.Let’s face it… the only winners from Obamacare were the insurance companies
To avoid the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “Cadillac tax” on rich benefit plans, companies are adding surcharges of $100 a month or more to wives and husbands of workers, hoping spouses will seek coverage elsewhere,new employer data shows.Basically, if you have a high-end plan – and thanks to inflation, the definition of ‘high-end’ will get broader and broader every single year – then the company that you work for will want to get your spouse off of your insurance plan whenever possible. If making you pay a hundred bucks a month will do so, then that’s what an increasing number of them will do. To be fair, many companies don’t really want to, because people get cranky on the subject, but again: no Republican voted for this monstrosity. “Tell your troubles to Jesus: the chaplain’s gone over the hill.”
The idea behind the so-called “spousal surcharge” employers are implementing is to reduce the number of people an employer covers so the company can save money and avoid triggering the special excise tax for plans with high cost benefits.
Somebody has been taken for a ride and I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether or not you came out on the losing end. But there was certainly one set of winners in all of this. As David Williams pointed out at The Daily Caller last week, the biggest insurance companies have been doing a victory lap.March For Life Defeats Obama Administration In Court
Meanwhile, as Americans are suffering from rising costs and less access to quality health care, the biggest winners from the passage of Obamacare are the insurance giants. In the aftermath of the government health care takeover, there has been an explosion of health insurance company profits, windfalls and megamergers. As “stock market darlings,” health insurance company profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs and stocks have split even thanks to the health care law.What’s really curious is how the President can remain in full blown denial mode after all this time. Is it just political positioning or does Barack Obama honestly think this is how we wanted things to work out?
Reports show the so-called “Big Five” health insurers – UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and Anthem – have all outperformed the broader stock market by a wide margin since Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. That’s why America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s main trade group, filed an amicus brief to defend the Obama administration in the recent Supreme Court case, King v. Burwell. And when the law was upheld, it was no surprise that there was a boost in health insurance company stocks.
A federal court prohibited the Obama administration from forcing a pro-life nonprofit to insure “abortion-inducing” contraceptives Monday, in what is the first exemption from the mandate granted to a secular organization.The Latest Frontier in 'Total Regulation'
March for Life, which holds a pro-life rally every January in Washington, D.C., filed suit against three federal agencies last year, demanding an exemption from the mandate. It requires employers to provide insurance coverage for 20 FDA-approved contraceptives at no extra cost to the employee — including birth control pills March for Life and other pro-lifers believe are a form of abortion.
A D.C. District Court sided with March for Life Monday, signaling organizations that are not overtly religious can be exempted from the mandate, in addition to those which fall under a religious exemption put in place.
“If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense-indeed, no sense whatsoever to deny March for Life that same respect,” the decision states.
The newest domain to fall under the regulatory gaze? Personal trainers. The Washington Post reports today:
After decades of unregulated existence in all 50 states, the booming field of personal trainers is braced for a wave of scrutiny that is expected to transform the industry and could make or break some of the biggest fitness companies in the country.Yet another thing that no one knew was in the Affordable Care Act. Nancy Pelosi was right: indeed we did have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. And I suspect we’ll be finding out new things in the bill for a very long time.
The new regulations, being written by and for the nation’s capital city, will create a registry of all personal trainers in the District only. But they are expected to become a model that winners and losers in the fight believe will be replicated elsewhere.
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EDGEWATER -- After three major surgical operations and some poor investments gave 69-year-old retiree Richard E. Ellis a strong incentive to earn extra money, he and a few friends hit upon a seemingly brilliant idea.
Why not, the former real estate broker pondered, create an employment service that matches people age 55 or older who possess trade skills with homeowners in need of routine repairs?
Within a matter of weeks, Senior Services of Anne Arundel County was enkindled and immediately "took off like a bonfire," the Edgewater resident recalled.
Calls flooded into the Ellis household, and a crew of four expanded to a crowd of 35 workers.
Ten months later, the red-hot idea has turned to dying embers. The phone no longer rings off the hook, and Mr. Ellis has difficulty finding seniors to take his few jobs.
The Maryland Home Improvement Commission, the Baltimore-based watchdog agency that weeds out fly-by-night contractors, decided that much of what Mr. Ellis and Senior Services' workers were doing violated state law and has warned them to stick to yard work and housecleaning.
"In essence, we were told that we can clean out people's gutters but we can't put a nail in one to repair it," said Mr. Ellis, a Takoma Park native.
"I think they [the Home Improvement Commission] have gone out well beyond reason."
The conflict between Mr. Ellis and the 28-year-old state commission provides a classic example, the company's supporters say, of the thin line between vigilant consumer protection and government regulatory overkill.
When Mr. Ellis formed his company last February, the idea was to fill a void in the marketplace.
Homeowners with broken window panes, cracked plaster or leaky faucets often had difficulty finding dependable people to do the work at reasonable prices.
On the other hand, seniors such as Mr. Ellis possessed the skills to do the chores and needed some part-time work. Senior Services would link the two parties together.
"We ended up getting calls from customers who were elderly or indigent themselves," said Mr. Ellis. "They think older people won't rip them off, and they like calling an organization that will screen the people they send out to do the job."
Working from a desk with a ledger, a telephone and an answering machine in a corner of his living room, Mr. Ellis did not employ his workers -- he simply matched them with the customers. Typically, the jobs would last two hours and cost about $50 with the company earning 20 percent of that as a referral fee, he said.
"Anyone who has ever tried to hire a contractor for a medium-size job knows that you can't even find people to come out and look at it," said Richard Tubman, 71, a retired Annapolis contractor who worked with Senior Services.
"This has been the story for 20 years at least."
But soon after the company began to prosper -- Mr. Ellis had to hire a part-time employee to help answer the phone and placed want ads to find more workers to meet the burgeoning demand for services -- the Home Improvement Commission received an anonymous letter.
The letter pointed out that Senior Services was not licensed to do home improvement work.
Under the law, jobs such as nailing down a floorboard, patching a roof or painting a room are home improvements and require a contractor's license.
The commission investigated and then notified Mr. Ellis that he was breaking the law. Unless licensed by the commission and hiring only licensed subcontractors, "you may not engage in providing home improvement services for compensation," a commission official wrote in a letter July 9.
In order to qualify for a license, an applicant must pass a written test based on a fairly thick set of state regulations and general knowledge of business practices. He must also demonstrate financial solvency (pass a credit check and possess enough assets to finance a credible business) and pay a $275 fee.
Such an arduous process -- one licensee said obtaining one cost him at least $1,000 -- proved too great a burden for all but a handful of the workers.
As a result, Senior Services stuck to such chores as leaf and trash removal, lawn mowing and grocery shopping. Interest in both hiring and working for the company plummeted.
"I've been in construction all my life and held a home improvement license," said Oliver M. VanTassel, 61, a Pasadena resident who stopped working with Senior Services as a result of the decision.
"What Mr. Ellis was trying to do is a helluva good service, and the home improvement laws are too restrictive."
Vernon L. Simms, acting executive director of the Home Improvement Commission, defended the ruling as appropriate. The commission's mission, he said, is to protect the consumer from getting cheated and to make sure contractors are treated fairly.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Trader Joe’s Jelly Beans & Citrus Gum Drops
Trader Joe’s is getting its “summer candy” on the shelves. Summer candy is usually sugar candy, or candy that bears the heat well. The great thing about summer candy is that it often reflects the taste of summer fruits.
One product is Trader Joe’s Gourmet Jelly Beans in 18 natural flavors. The jelly beans are even naturally colored with vegetable and fruit sources. (They’re not quite vegan though, since they use beeswax for the final polish.)
At first I thought that they might be actual Jelly Belly, but without the Jelly Belly stamp. But then I thought maybe they were Marich, who makes Green Beans for Whole Foods. Then flipping over the box I saw that they’re made in Ireland ... which really doesn’t make much sense to me because there are so many great jelly bean makers here in California.
The flavor mix is almost all fruits, except for liquorice, which is really essential for any mix. The box is a nice size at 5 ounces and $1.99 they’re cheaper than Jelly Belly ($6.40 a pound versus about $9 a pound for most Jelly Belly).
The citrus flavors included: Lemon, Lemon & Lime, Tangerine and Pink Grapefruit. All were sunny and zesty, though sweeter and not as intense as Jelly Belly. The zest was a little uneven as well, some were rather bitter from the peel oils but the same flavor another time wasn’t at all.
The berry flavors included: Strawberry Smoothie, Strawberry, Blueberry, Raspberry and Blackberry. These flavors had good combinations of both tartness, sweetness and the fragrant floral notes that accompany berries. I liked the raspberry quite a bit, it wasn’t quite jammy but still the best rounded (and possibly the most ubiquitous flavor in my box) but on the other end blueberry was completely lacking in any flavor at all.
Traditional fruits were Cherry, Apple and Grape.
Cherry was weird, in fact, I wasn’t sure for a while that it was the cherry, but process of elimination meant that it couldn’t be anything other.
Apple was dark green, not the light green shown on the package. It’s mild but convincing.
I can’t say that I remember eating the grape.
Exotics were Banana Split, Coconut, Mango, Passion Fruit, Liquorice and Pomegranate.
Coconut was watery and sweet but still had a “coconut flavor” to it. I didn’t care much for it on its own but combined with other flavors like pomegranate or banana split it was a nice pop.
Pomegranate was sweet and a bit like cotton candy and raspberry.
I was quite fond of Liquorice, mostly because it was the first all natural licorice jelly bean that I think I’ve had. It had all the anise and licorice flavor - very sweet but a balanced woodsy and spicy character - but didn’t have any of the food coloring bitterness.
Mango was like peach for me, a little too much like the peel (or fuzz in the case of peaches) and not enough of the luscious tangy and custardy flesh.
Passion Fruit was similar to mango in that it didn’t quite get the fresh fruit for me, but it was a good mix of sweetness and toasted sugar flavors.
I loved Banana Split. It was sweet but still a good rounded banana flavor that made it taste creamy.
The texture overall is firmer than Jelly Belly and other gourmet beans. They’re smooth and very well made but chewy. Some folks may prefer that texture but I thought they were lacking punch and many didn’t taste different enough to warrant 18 flavors over 12 or 8.
Like the Jelly Beans, these are all natural and vegan. They’re also Kosher.
They’re also a better value, at 8 ounces for the same $1.99 price tag. I was hoping they’d be as good as the Starbucks teensy gum drops or the comparably priced but huge Whole Foods Gourmet Gum Drops.
The gum drops fit right in as gum drop sized. Like a thimble of firm jelly candy. The sugar sanding is fine grained and stuck well, so there’s not a lot of dust.
Lemon - spectacularly well rounded, more like a marmalade than lemonade. Very zesty and only lightly tangy. The citrus oils are very pronounced and have a bitter aftertaste that I love until I’m done eating them and I have a bit of a burning tongue.
Pink Grapefruit - I had high hopes for these but they were a bit blander than I’d hoped. They’re more about the juice flavors than the peel. So they’re not bitter but just lacking a well rounded citrus punch but did have a bit of a caramelized sugar/honey smoothness.
Key Lime is subtle and quietly peppery. A little tangy and zesty but much deeper than the usual lime.
Tangerine - it says tangerine but it tastes simply like orange, perhaps even like Tang. Sweet and juicy, but not zesty or tart.
The gum drops were so well suited to my preferences, it’s like Trader Joe’s has been reading the blog. I liked the size and of course the price was great for a premium item. They’re not pate de fruits but they’re more vibrant than Dots.
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When it comes to choosing a career, they say "do you something you love and you'll never work a day in your life." I'm very fortunate that I fit into the category of people who, quite literally, were able to make their dreams come true.
When I was young I dreamed of being a racecar driver. I think that every five year-old boy, when they grow up, wants to be a fire fighter, an astronaut or a racecar driver. I guess I just never grew up because several years on, I am incredibly fortunate to be a driver in the Indy Lights series. I'm sure you've all heard of IndyCars, and to put things in perspective, Indy Lights is to IndyCars what OHL is to NHL, or what college football is to the NFL.
Now that you understand a little bit about who I am and what I do, I hope you can appreciate that cars and driving are passions of mine and my goal through this column is to share some of my experiences and thoughts of road cars and the goings-on of the automotive world.
Being someone who races cars for a living, I get the opportunity to drive a lot of road cars. I have had the chance to drive everything from family transporters to exotic super cars. One of the perks of the job. A common question I get asked is this: What do I think is the best car on the road?
This is a tough question to answer because the auto industry does this pesky little thing called designing new cars. That means that what you think is your favourite car today could be easily usurped by the latest creation from Ferrari or Lamborghini tomorrow. New cars come out so often, with the expectation that they will be better than their predecessor, that it is rare that one car will hold the top spot for too long.
I was a victim of this phenomenon for a while. The Ferrari F355 was followed by the Aston Martin Vanquish was followed by the Porsche Carrera GT, all in quick succession. There was always a new car to shock the senses and win over the masses.
Then I started driving them.
I'll never forget the first Ferrari I got to drive, or the first Porsche, or the first Lambo. Actually getting to drive these cars, rather than forming opinions based on looks and 0-60 times, changed my perspective dramatically. Yes, they are beautiful. Yes, they are fast enough to scare you. However, they were pigs to drive at low speed, the electronics often got in the way, the seats were great for the track but not comfortable for a drive to work. Unless you only owned one for track days, they simply weren't practical. Beautiful, but not practical.
I started to think that maybe that's just what super cars are all about. You had to be willing to sacrifice a smooth ride, a reasonable clutch and some creature comforts to drive something that sounded like an eight-cylinder orchestra and looked like Angelina Jolie on wheels. They didn't have to be practical.
That was until Audi packed on some pounds and entered the 'heavy weight' class of the automotive world; this class is known as the super car. It is not hard to find a car that looks beautiful. To find a car that is beautiful, drives well, sounds great and will not cost you an arm, leg and first-born child is tougher than getting your money back from Madoff.
Audi did the impossible with the work-of-art-on-wheels they call the R8. In a class of car that includes the Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT and Bugatti Veyron, they created a car that ticks every single box you could possibly imagine. And some you hadn't thought of yet.
When you think "super car," you think "fast." The R8 certainly doesn't slack off in this category. With 414 hp and a 0-100km/h time of 4.4 seconds, this German goddess keeps up with its greatest rivals from Italy, America and Japan. Going fast is something all super cars do well. What makes the R8 the valedictorian of the super-car class is how comfortable it is when driving slow.
This car can cruise around town effortlessly and is even a dream in bumper-to-bumper traffic! If you didn't know that you were sitting in a super car, it would be easy to think you were driving a luxury sedan. The ride is a dream, the finish is top class and it has all the bells and whistles you could want in a ride. And then, just when you think you are getting comfortable, you step on it, and instantly this car turns into more racecar than should be legal.
I have never driven a car that is so easy and forgiving to drive around town, but can still hold its own when being put through its paces. On top of that, the look of this car is breathtaking. It bucks the trend of wedge shaped, rear-engine cars and went the way of curvy lines and soft edges without losing that sexy, aggressive look. It's such a unique look that it won't be mistaken on the road.
Top all that off with a price tag of around $160,000, a fraction of most of its immediate competition, and the bang-for-buck ratio is unmatched on the road today. The industry will keep on making new cars, but I feel like the R8 will sit atop my list for quite some time.Report Typo/Error | <urn:uuid:65e78cea-3dfc-479f-b277-8f254c38ae01> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/the-car-thats-a-breathtaking-work-of-art/article4291456/ | 2016-12-07T17:03:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542217.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00016-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983475 | 1,142 |
New Jersey’s six coronavirus vaccine mega sites will all be open on Friday, state officials told NJ Advance Media.
The Atlantic City Convention Center and Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment Complex will both be open Friday, but neither is currently taking appointments as they are both booked. More appointment times will be added, the sites said.
The other four other locations that have already opened are the Moorestown Mall in Burlington County, Rowan College of South Jersey in Gloucester County, the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Middlesex County and Rockaway Townsquare in Morris County.
Each site is currently offering the shot only to priority groups, including healthcare professionals, EMS teams, police officers and firefighters, people over age 65, those with chronic health conditions and smokers. State officials have said each location will eventually have the capacity to vaccinate thousands of people per week, but none do currently because the federal government is not providing enough doses.
Here’s how to get an appointment at each site:
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic County
The site officially opens Friday, and appointments are made through AtlantiCare and can be done so by clicking here.
As of 7 p.m. Thursday, there were no open appointments, but more were scheduled to be made available on Jan. 26 at 3 p.m., according to AtlantiCare.
The site is located at 1 Convention Blvd., Atlantic City.
Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment Complex, Bergen County
Hackensack Meridian Health is handling vaccination efforts at this megasite, which officially opens on Friday.
Walk-ins are not accepted and the healthcare provider asked those who are interested to not call your physician offices or the hospitals to schedule.
Anyone who was looking to get vaccinated at the site was asked to make an appointment online by visiting https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/covid19/.
As of 7 p.m. Thursday, all appointments were full.
“We hope to schedule again as more vaccines are received,” a note on the site stated. “Thank you for your patience. Please continue to check back.”
Moorestown Mall, Burlington County:
The Moorestown site, which launched on Jan. 15, was chosen due to its proximity to Camden County. Anyone in the region can set up an appointment. However, walk-ins are not allowed.
To schedule an appointment, visit Virtua.org/vaccine and complete the form. You will then receive either a text or email that will contain a link to schedule your appointment.
You should bring a health insurance card if you have one, a federal, state or local identification card and employer-issued identification.
Information on the second-dose appointment will be provided in-person at the initial appointment.
Answers to frequently asked questions about the site can be found here.
Rowan College of South Jersey, Gloucester County:
The 30,000-square-foot facility in Sewell opened on Jan. 8 and will be able to handle more than 2,000 people a day once vaccines are widely available in New Jersey.
Registration is required to receive the two doses, according to the college’s website. A link to pre-register with the state can be found at https://covidvaccine.nj.gov/.
Vaccination hours will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week.
Those with appointments can enter the campus at 1400 Tanyard Road though either North Campus Drive or West Campus Drive and park in Lot E, then follow cones to the Instructional Center.
New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, Middlesex County:
The Edison site, located at 97 Sunfield Avenue, is equipped with 20 vaccination stations and will be open weekdays from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. It opened on Jan. 15.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines will be administered at the site, but people registering cannot choose which vaccine they want.
Qualified individuals can complete a vaccine registration form on RWJ BarnabasHealth’s website here. You will then receive an email or text to schedule an appointment through a link to a scheduling app.
Due to the high volume of requests, you will not get the link immediately, according to the website. You will be entered into a queue to receive the scheduling link based on the number of people who requested a vaccine before you.
Rockaway Townsquare, Morris County:
The Rockaway site opened Jan. 11 in the shuttered, 30,000 square-foot Sears department store at the Rockaway Townsquare shopping center on Mt. Hope Avenue. The vaccination center is on the lower level of the building.
Reservations must be made using an online registration form on Atlantic Health System’s website, found here. As of 7 p.m. Thursday, no appointments were available at the site.
According to the website, there are currently no appointments available, but you can sign up for appointment alerts. Scroll to the bottom of the page to opt in for alerts.
Appointments for second doses will be made on-site when the first dose is administered.
Reporter Avalon Zoppo contributed to this report
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Hi Guys....Today i just thought of sharing something on SQL400 for beginners...
SQL Relational Database In the relational model of data, all data is perceived as existing in tables. DB2 UDB for AS/400 objects are created and maintained as AS/400 system objects.
AS/400 System Terms and SQL Relational Database terms
Library. Groups related objects and allows you to find the objects by name.
Collection. Consists of a library, a journal, a journal receiver, an SQL catalog, and optionally a data dictionary. A collection groups related objects and allows you to find the objects by name.
Physical file. A set of records.
Table. A set of columns and rows.
Record. A set of fields.
Row. The horizontal part of a table containing a serial set of columns.
Field. One or more characters of related information of one data type.
Column. The vertical part of a table of one data type.
Logical file. A subset of fields and records of one or more physical files.
View. A subset of columns and rows of one or more tables.
SQL Package. An object type that is used to run SQL statements.
Package. An object type that is used to run SQL statements.
Authorization name or Authorization ID.
· One can use either the system (*SYS) or the SQL (*SQL) naming convention in DB2® UDB for iSeries™ programming
· System naming (*SYS)
In the system naming convention, tables and other SQL objects in an SQL statement are qualified by schema name in the form: schema/table
· SQL naming (*SQL)
In the SQL naming convention, tables and other SQL objects in an SQL statement are qualified by schema name in the form: schema.table
Types of SQL Statements
— SQL schema statements, also known as data definition language (DDL) statements, ex - ALTER TABLE
— SQL data and data change statements, also known as data manipulation language (DML) statements, ex – DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE
— Dynamic SQL statements, ex – COMMIT, ROLLBACK
— Embedded SQL host language statements, ex – DESCRIBE, EXECUTE
List of main SQL objects
· Tables, Rows, and Columns
· Stored Procedures
· User-defined functions
· User-defined type
· SQL Packages
SQL objects used on the AS/400 system are collections, tables, aliases, views, SQL packages, indexes, and catalogs. SQL creates and maintains these objects as AS/400 database objects. A brief description of these objects follows.
Tables, Rows, and Columns
A table is a two-dimensional arrangement of data consisting of rows and columns. The row is the horizontal part containing one or more columns. The column is the vertical part containing one or more rows of data of one data type. All data for a column must be of the same type.
An alias is an alternate name for a table or view. You can use an alias to refer to a table or view in those cases where an existing table or view can be referred to.
A view appears like a table to an application program; however, a view contains no data. It is created over one or more tables. A view can contain all the columns of given tables or some subset of them, and can contain all the rows of given tables or some subset of them. The columns can be arranged differently in a view than they are in the tables from which they are taken. A view in SQL is a special form of a non-keyed logical file.
Ex – The original file appears like:
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A view of the file selecting only the required fields:
An SQL index is a subset of the data in the columns of a table that are logically arranged in either ascending or descending order. Each index contains a separate arrangement.
The arrangements are based upon Ordering, Grouping and Joining.
Ex - ORDER BY , GROUP BY etc
Constraints are rules enforced by the database manager. DB2 UDB for AS/400 supports the following constraints:
Unique constraints - ensures that all values in a column are distinct
Referential constraints - is the rule that the values of the foreign key are valid only if:
• They appear as values of a parent key, or
• Some component of the foreign key is null.
Referential constraints are enforced during the execution of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
A trigger is a set of actions that are executed automatically whenever a specified event occurs to a specified base table. An event can be an insert, update, or delete operation. The trigger can be run either before or after the event.
A stored procedure is a program that can be called using the SQL CALL statement. DB2 UDB for AS/400 supports external stored procedures and SQL procedures. External stored procedures can be any AS/400 program or REXX procedure.
A user-defined function is a program that can be invoked like any built-in function. DB2 UDB for AS/400 supports external functions, SQL functions, and sourced functions. External functions can be any AS/400 ILE program or service program.
Consider a simple scenario where one wants to process some data. One can mention some selection criteria which can be expressed as a function SELECTION_CRITERIA(). Your application can issue the following select statement:
SELECT A, B, C FROM T
When it receives each row, it runs the program's SELECTION_CRITERIA function against the data to decide if it is interested in processing the data further. Here, every row of table T must be passed back to the application. But, if SELECTION_CRITERIA() is implemented as a UDF, your application can issue the following statement:
SELECT C FROM T WHERE SELECTION_CRITERIA(A,B)=1
In this case, only the rows and one column of interest are passed across the interface between the application and the database.
A user-defined type is a distinct data type that users can define independently of those supplied by the database management system. Distinct data types map on a one-to-one basis to existing database types.
An SQL package is an object that contains the control structure produced when the SQL statements in an application program are bound to a remote relational database management system (DBMS). The DBMS uses the control structure to process SQL statements encountered while running the application program
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Two years ago Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray faced off against each other for the first time in a Grand Slam final at the Australian Open. Djokovic, who won his second Melbourne title that night, cemented his position within the top three. Murray, on the other hand, notched a ragged and at times incoherent performance (remember all the ranting he did midway through the match?) that had many wondering if he would ever reach another Major final again, let alone win one.
Fast forward to tomorrow where Djokovic, now number one in the world and still defending Australian Open champion, will once again take on Murray, now defending U.S. Open champion, in a men’s final that could well set the tone for the whole season. Once confined to the ATP Tour and its Masters events, the Djokovic/Murray rivalry is slowly turning into the top pairing that could well decide Grand Slam titles for the next few years.
That’s not to say Federer or Nadal won’t be big contenders at upcoming Majors, but the days of the frequent “Fedal” showdowns as fans like to call them are probably history. While Federer and Nadal’s popular rivalry was built upon their vastly different playing styles and Nadal’s challenge to Federer’s domination of the sport since the mid-2000’s, Djokovic and Murray frequently played the supporting roles during that era, often losing in the semifinals or earlier. Now that things have changed and the “B Plot” is now headlining the show, what can we expect?
Well for one thing, their matches will likely not be lopsided. Or boring. If we throw out the very earliest meetings during their soon to be 18 match head to head (Djokovic currently leads 10-7), since 2009, only one has ended in a retirement (2011 Cincinnati Finals won by Murray) the best two out of three encounters have contained a least one close set and their best three out of five tilts at the Majors, since that one-sided 2011 Melbourne final, have gone the distance. That last stat alone is a strong indicator that tomorrow’s final may well end up going five sets too.
Both men make their Euros, or in the case this fortnight, Australian Dollars, from the baseline. But while Djokovic is growing into the sport’s ultimate showman with his amazing flexibility and ability to come up sizzling winners from nearly impossible positions on court, Murray’s game is a mix of patience, still underrated speed, but mixed now with a willingness to move forward and, hard to believe even a year ago, take big cuts with his forehand — a shot that was often criticized as being a liability for him.
Neither one has an decided advantage on any surface, either indoors and outdoors, and since both men have known each other since they were juniors, they know the other’s tendencies and tricks in almost situation on court. And that alone ensures that every time they face each other, each man knows that they will have to play their very best to win, a factor that can only but help produce great battles each time.
Some diehard fans and probably some T.V. sports executives will probably still hold out hope that ‘Federer vs. Nadal’ will bloom again, if not almost every month as we grew accustomed to, but at least several more times each season. But with Federer playing a limited schedule and Nadal likely to do something similar unless he becomes 100% healthy, it’s more than likely Djokovic vs. Murray will start seeing each other more frequently than ever before.
Tennis and its rivalries often force one player into the role of “underdog” and that may be Murray’s moniker to deal with unless he continues to beat Djokovic on the biggest stages as he did in 2012. Murray was long considered the outsider to the “big three”. But with Djokovic now appearing to play at an even higher level as he’s shown throughout this year’s event in Melbourne, Murray himself will have to raise his own just to keep up. If Murray can, then this still friendly rivalry with his friend, and still sometimes practice partner, could become one of the sport’s greatest.
Both men will get a chance to add to that history, that seemed to hit a permanent speed bump two years, when they enter Rod Laver Arena again tomorrow night. | <urn:uuid:3661970d-0d9c-48be-9b16-2b51496202f1> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.stevegtennis.com/2013/01/will-djokovic-and-murrays-rivalry-takeover-in-2013/ | 2018-02-24T07:13:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815435.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224053236-20180224073236-00026.warc.gz | en | 0.974933 | 943 |
I introduced myself to Chef Dava Parr at the Willitts Farmers Market. She was selling meats, eggs and cheeses and organic produce from her vegetable garden in Paonia.
Claiming to be An Ever Expanding Spirit Junkie, I believe Dava to be just that with a wholesome smile and a low-key voice that leaves me thinking of Humphrey Bogart. Her wise cornflower blue eyes, golden ochre hair and creamy rosy skin glow with the spirit of a woman one with the earth.
A reputable Chef and a leading force in bringing organic and local food to nearby communities, Chef Dava is also known for her organic cooking classes, her farmers cooperative and her charming Fresh & Wyld Farmhouse Inn & Gardens located just outside of Paonia, a place where I was determined to check out on a weekend getaway with Wade.
Located just over McClure Pass, the Inn is popular amongst Aspenites who are looking for inexpensive comforting food and a change in scenery. With an elevation of 5,674 feet, as opposed to our 7,890 feet, and room rates beginning at only $95 per night, the Fresh & Wyld Farmhouse Inn offers just that.
Situated on the North Fork of the Gunnison River, Paonia is not only known for its “Wild West” history and the nearby Meeker Massacre where the Ute Indians were forced to leave Western Colorado but it is also known as a mountain town situated in a lush valley with the perfect soil for vineyards and orchards producing peaches, apples and cherries.
Desperately in need of good food, copious amounts of wine and a solid chunk of alone time, we were determined to arrive in time for the Inns Friday evening farm dinners and we took off the moment Wades brave parents arrived from Denver to take care of their three grandsons.
The Inn is tucked away off the back roads of Paonia and we were glad that we had lifted the directions off of the website. We parked the car and followed the flagstones to the outside patio to check in and were greeted by Paco, a beautiful long-haired resident German Shepard who promptly dropped a miniature log at our feet. Also at our feet was a sweet baby girl with baby food all over her chin. Not wanting to break up the love affair between her daughter and Paco, her mother was spooning her baby food as she leaned against the 1908 blue-bird painted farmhouse. Introducing ourselves we discovered that we were practically neighbors. The young couple had been married at the Inn and were on a return vacation from Basalt, this time with their baby and her grandparents. She just sat in Pacos water bowl, the mother informed us as her baby crawled away with a very wet bottom.
The door to the Inn swung open and Marian, an Inn employee, emerged with a tray of wine glasses. She offered us a glass or bottle of wine from the local Bethlehem Vineyards. With cocktails in hand we strolled over to our charming apartment suite located in a wing of the Inn. It was the perfect layout for a couple with a baby, or without, with a kitchenette, living room, twin bed, sleeping sofa and bathroom offering all organic products. The main bedroom was separated for privacy. Wade flew onto the bed and stretched out to test the mattress. The firmness would gauge how much wine he was going to drink to ensure a good night’s sleep.? Nice and firm.
As the guests gathered for cocktail hour we strolled through the vegetable garden and said hello to the chickens whose fresh eggs we would be eating in the morning. Memories flowed of the time we left Brevitt on his second birthday to enjoy a culinary trip to Napa that we had won through the Aspen Food and Wine Festival. This time we didn’t have to fly all the way to California to experience delicious home grown food.
(Wade grows tired of my camera)
We made our way to the dining room for the only seating at 6:30. Dinner began with an Antipasta platter for two with steamed artichokes to be dipped into a creamy chipotle mayo and Avalanche cheese that woke up our palette for the entre of barbecued pork spareribs. The tasty meat tenderly fell off the bone and was complimented by corn on the cob, so beautiful with plump kernels glistening in butter I almost didnt have the heart to eat it. Dessert finished up the meal nicely with a moist blackberry upside down cake with fresh whipped cream.
With nothing left but a pile of bones on our plates, we went out into the warm summer night and walked down the long dirt road. The moonless evening was intoxicating with the sound of cicadas filling the air. I reached my arms high into the air thinking that I might get sucked into the Milky Way spread out above us like a magic carpet. Reaching the paved road we continued to walk, we had a lot of food to walk off. Wade pushed me to the side of the road as a speeding local in an old jeep zoomed by. This road was his and it was up to us to get out of his way.
The next morning as Wade slept I read through The Encyclopedia of Country Living, a book left in the rooms for guests to greater connect with food. Reading about mushrooms and the best way to gather and saute them, I could have read the entire book but the need for coffee prevailed. I poured the hot black steamy liquid into an old country mug and wandered into the sun-drenched kitchen where I found the breakfast Chef, John Garrison, cracking eggs double-fisted into a large bowl, the fastest egg cracker in the West. He agreed that he was so good at it he used it as a performance in a talent show, dressed in drag, at the renowned Steamboat Dance Theater where he also worked in the summers. That was a story I needed to hear more of but Wade was sleepily awaiting his coffee to be delivered.
Breakfast was served at 9:00am and John did us right with an outstanding meal consisting of organic sausage patties, an enormous fluffy omelet, corn salsa I couldnt get enough of and more of that upside down blackberry cake that tasted even better than the night before.
Packing up to head off to explore the nearby Black Canyon, we thanked Dava with a warning that we would be returning with the boys to pick apples and partake in the “We Bought the Farm and pig roast Party” held at the Inn during the Mountain Harvest Festival, a three-day event October 7-9.? She gave us her beautiful smile and encouraged us to come back as she combed through her books, Better book early, she said. I wanted to reply, “Here’s looking at you kid.” | <urn:uuid:ad5f7fcb-2776-4164-855d-e618dce2a3b9> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.aspenreallife.com/2011/09/07/fresh-wyld/ | 2018-08-21T12:39:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221218122.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821112537-20180821132537-00661.warc.gz | en | 0.978601 | 1,418 |
When a year draws to an end there are always two things that amaze me. One is looking back on how fast the year past, and two is looking back on how slowly the year past. I know it's a very contradictory statement, but sometimes a year can be all too fast when it comes to something like spending time with your family and watching your kids grow, and too slow when it comes to those many moments that didn’t make your year the best.
When it comes to gaming though it's actually been a pretty good year, and again another area that time passed to quickly on. When I look back and my New Years Resolutions posting from the end of last year I see that I actually did a lot of what I struck out to, even if I missed in some other areas. But before I get into rehashing that I wanted to talk about my blog a little bit.
Articles with the most hits have been:
To be honest I was shocked at how popular my Out Into The Late Night Rift series was since I don't really write about TV a lot. I will say that it was interesting to write since it bought up a lot memories I hadn’t thought about in years, some of which were really good times.
I was also pleased to do my Trekking Through Games series as well, and I have some more of those upcoming in the next year. I was actually hoping to get an article on STO up by the end of this year, but time hasn't worked out for it, yet. Although my starting this series in 2016 on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek was nothing more than a coincidence. .
All of these articles were fun to write though, and I want to take a moment here to thank everyone for reading them. Getting positive feedback on Google +, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, e-mail, and even on the comments section of my blog itself make it all worth it.
One of my New Year's Resolutions was to also get this blog transferred to a proper website this year. Sadly that didn’t happen, and it's mainly been a time thing, and just trying to find the creative energy to put into it. Maybe in 2017 though.
100 SNES Titles by the end of 2016 - Not even close! I have 48 titles in my collectors app, plus another 7 in my backlog, so 55. At least I’m more than halfway there.
200 NES titles by the end of 2016 - Done! This was accomplished within days after writing the article.
Have 300 Atari 2600 titles by the end of 2016 - 227 plus 1 backlogged. To be honest the NES and Atari 2600 now run nearly head to head in the amount of games.
Systems I would like to add in 2016
-Sega Game Gear - Done
-Sega Saturn - Done
-NeoGeo AES - Debating getting an MVS instead, but American AES aren't easy to come by
-Xbox (Original) - Done
-Arcade Cabinets?? - Air Combat, and an X-Arcade
Also added in 2016:
-Atari 2600 portable
-Swing Along pinball machine
Games I would like to add
-Super Metroid - Nope
-Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen - Yes
-Double Dragon Advance - Nope
-Tank Commander - Nope
My List of Shame - Don’t ask I played a little more of many of those games but finished none, and even added a few more
The Return of 8-bit Fridays - Yes, I’ve added multiple entries in 2016
Attend a Gaming Convention - My family and I attended Midwest Gaming Classics in April of 2016
Finish My Gameroom - Not even close, looks the same as my 2015 picture.
Support my Local Gamestore - Not working one town away anymore has meant my visits are few and far between.
This years surprises
As I said I was happy to get such a huge reaction to my Out Into The Late Night Rift series, since I kind of kept it on the down low, not being a videogame based article.
Another big surprise was finally digging through and playing a load of 7800 games I have had (mostly NIB) just sitting since early 2015. All said it done it was a huge push through to get played over a single weekend, yet I did and now I’m only 9 games shy of have a complete Atari 7800 collection.
Than there’s Swing Along a pinball machine from 1963 we bought at Midwest Gaming Classics. Going there I was mainly looking for games and a Sega-CD, but I had thought about maybe seeing if an arcade machine was a possibility. To say the least leaving that Saturday knowing I bought a pinball machine was a unique feeling.
As far as actual arcade machines finding my Air Combat machine for $150, and the X-Arcade for $0 were also surprises, but I will admit I had my heart set on a Moon Patrol machine. Staying on the subject of arcade machines there is also my Coleco Pac-Man mini arcade, which was a surprise find and just one aspect of a fun fall day out with my family.
So what am I hoping for 2017? I don’t know but rest assured I will have a 2017 resolutions following this in a few days.
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Today’s Amazon launch event is a showcase of new Kindle hardware and a glimpse at where the company wants to take its various platforms and services over the next 12-18 months. The rumor mill has been grinding non-stop over what the company might or might not showcase today, with discussion of new seven and 10-inch tablets, new backlit e-ink flavors, and even a Kindle phone. I’m dubious about this last; tablets seem a much better fit for the kind of products and experiences Amazon focuses on.
There’s a lot riding on today’s announcements. Amazon is the only company that offers any sort of competition to Apple’s content library and device-level integration. The Kindle Fire is one of the few non-iPad tablets that can fairly be labeled a success. Bezos took this on directly in his opening comments, stating that the reason other tablets failed is because “they’re gadgets, and people don’t want gadgets anymore. They want services that improve over time. They want services that improve every day, every week, and every month.” Kindle Fire is that sort of service, and the Amazon executive obviously believes that’s a substantial part of why the device has sold well. Pricing obviously didn’t hurt, either.
First up, we’ve got the new Kindle Paperwhite. Backlit e-ink, a higher resolution screen, and font-changing options are all integrated; the 212 PPI is a substantial increase over the current 167 PPI on the Kindle e-reader. Amazon apparently worked to ensure there’d be no variance in screen lighting across the panel. Amazon is claiming eight weeks of battery life. Book searches and information have also been improved; it’s now possible to scan a book for all mentions of a character or related chapters. This is being shown off using some of George R. R. Martin’s work — an excellent test case if there ever was one.
The Kindle Paperwhite will also give you an updated estimate on how long it’ll take you to finish a book or chapter at your present reading speed and will be available on October 1 at $119. That’s pretty damn cheap. The Kindle Paperwhite WiFi starts at $119, the basic Kindle (with faster page turns, crisper fonts) will now sell for $69, and the 3G-enabled KPW at $179.
As for the new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD, the standard Fire is picking up a faster processor, double the RAM, and longer battery life with a $159 price point. The Kindle Fire HD is an 8.9″ screen with a 1900×1200 IPS display, 254 PPI, and the same sort of bonded surface that the iPhone 4/4S uses. That’s going to make replacement more expensive; bonding the screen and digitizer reduces glare but requires that both units be replaced at the same time.
At the heart of the Kindle HD is a Texas Instruments OMAP 4470, with 50% more memory bandwidth and FPU muscle than Nvidia’s Tegra 3. Tegra 3 is the go-to platform for Google’s Nexus 7; it’s not surprising that Amazon opted for a different hardware platform for their own device. The Kindle Fire HD also offers dual speakers, stereo support, and a dual-antenna wiFi solution that supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz operating modes. Kindle Fire HD is the only tablet to offer twin antennas thus far.
Finally, we can all say good-bye to 8GB of storage on the HD model. Presumably the lowest-tier will be 16GB. Software integration is also a major part of what Amazon is offering here, with direct ties to IMDB, multiple profile options, a new Facebook app, Skype integration, and face recognition. If the old Kindle relied on third party apps and user ingenuity to provide certain functions, the new device packages them in from day one.
Kindle, in a very real sense, has grown up. This is the sort of cohesive integration that could challenge the iPad, and the Kindle Fire HD is sized to compete with Apple’s titan.
The updated Kindle Fire will be $159, the 7-inch 16GB Kindle Fire HD will be $199, and the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire will be $299. The 7-incher will ship September 14th while the larger model will go out November 20th. A 32GB, LTE-enabled Kindle Fire will also be available, for $499 — priced directly against the iPad.
Bezos is taking a risk with that. Conventional wisdom predicted that one reason for the Kindle’s success was that it didn’t try to take the iPad on directly. By anchoring the product line with two lower-cost models, Amazon has effectively hedged its bet while simultaneously demonstrating that it’s not afraid to fight Apple on its own turf. It’s a gutsy move, but a good one. Even if Apple comes back with a new iPad that outclasses Kindle Fire HD for $499, it sends a message. | <urn:uuid:b87d3657-ec4f-42fc-8092-48865a0701cc> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/135595-amazon-launches-kindle-paperwhite-updates-kindle-fire-and-debuts-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd | 2020-05-28T19:05:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347399830.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528170840-20200528200840-00108.warc.gz | en | 0.934612 | 1,066 |
Buying a new home is an exciting time. But with any real estate purchase comes the need for due diligence and research to ensure you’re making the best decision possible.
Foundation repair experts understand how important it is to ensure a house is in good shape before taking ownership, and that’s why we’ve compiled this guide of 23 tips to help you along during your home-buying journey.
From checking the foundation to looking out for potential problems, this guide will give you the information you need to ensure your new home will be safe and secure for years.
1. Start your search by researching the area, including local average home prices and information about any foundation repair and maintenance performed in the past. Knowing this information can help you decide on a potential property.
2. Ask to see the house’s full inspection report before making an offer—this is especially important if there are signs of foundation damage or previous flooding. It’s better to be fully informed than to purchase a home with unknown issues that could be costly.
3. Look for signs of water damage outside and inside the home, such as discoloration, peeling paint, wet spots, mold growth, or musty smells throughout the house. These clues can be indicators of a larger problem.
4. Check the basement for signs of flooding and any existing cracks in the foundation or bowing walls that may require professional repair.
5. Get an estimate from a professional contractor for how much it would cost to repair any damage found during your inspection and factor this into your decision-making process.
6. Keep an eye out for uneven concrete flooring around exterior doors—a sign of settling soil beneath the slab that could create problems in the future. Check for the most suitable size of concrete reinforcement for your home. There are suppliers like Heaton Manufacturing that can help you with this.
7. Request proof from the seller that all building permits were obtained before construction began, as well as confirmation that any previous foundation repairs were completed according to the code.
8. Schedule a soil study to check for any problems with the land, such as excess moisture or drainage issues that could lead to foundation damage down the line.
9. Contact local utility companies to find out if any underground lines are on the property and the potential costs for installing new service lines.
10. Verify that the house complies with local ordinances and is up-to-date on all building codes before making an offer.
11. Check windows and doors for signs of air infiltration or drafts, as these are common signs of foundation settling which can be costly to repair later on.
12. Look for large trees around the home’s perimeter, as their roots can cause serious damage to a home’s foundation over time if not properly maintained.
13. Have a contractor inspect the condition of the roof and gutters for any signs of deterioration or damage that could lead to further repair expenses.
14. Check the grade around the home and ensure it slopes away from the house, as this helps with drainage and reduces potential water damage to foundations and foundation walls.
15. Investigate whether there are any easements present on the property before making an offer—these can restrict what you can do with your land in certain areas and may require additional maintenance costs down the line.
16. Look at signs of mold or mildew either outside or inside of the home, and ask the seller if any mold remediation has been done in the past.
17. Ask to see energy efficiency ratings for appliances and systems throughout the house—these can be a great indicator of potential maintenance issues down the line.
18. Have a contractor check for signs of termite damage, as these pests can cause serious structural problems over time if left untreated.
19. Ask about zoning regulations before making an offer on a property. You must know some areas’ restrictions or limitations before looking at houses there.
20. Check for signs of settling along door frames or window frames—a sign of soil movement beneath the foundation that could create problems.
21. Look closely at the age of any HVAC system, as older systems can be costly to repair and may require replacement shortly.
22. Have a contractor inspect any electrical wiring or plumbing to assess if they’re up-to-code—these repairs could be costly if not done correctly from the start.
23. Ask for proof that any previous foundation work was completed correctly, such as permits or warranties from a licensed contractor. Knowing that your new home will be safe and secure for years will give you peace of mind.
This expert guide gives you all the information you need when looking for a new home. When in doubt, it is always best to consult with a foundation repair professional to ensure that your purchase has been inspected properly and that you can confidently move forward. These tips allow you to find the perfect home without any future foundation worries! | <urn:uuid:a0fd22b3-54c3-4b20-9101-f4566f965095> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://emptylighthome.com/a-foundation-repair-experts-guide-to-buying-a-new-home/ | 2023-06-07T20:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654012.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607175304-20230607205304-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.938636 | 1,015 |
I love art. Some people want to relax on the beach all day, go to a concert, or spend the day at the mall. Not me. If the bookstore is closed, take me to a museum. Better yet, drop me off at a starving artist’s boardwalk. Oh, and don’t wait up. I’ll be back sometime after dinner.
I’m not partial either. Graphite sketches, copper plates, paintings, sculptures, and hand-carved woodwork all captivate me. I love most forms of creativity–except, if I’m honest, really gory stuff like a display of ancient ear necklaces. Yuk.
Pastels, on the other hand, speak to my soul, and I can stare at a sculpture forever wondering why the artist chose a bottle cap with a crown on it for a toenail. For me, art has its own language. It has a dream and just like a novel, it has a story to tell–if the artist has done his or her job.
Over the years, art has changed though, hasn’t it? The museums came to the masses via the internet and with them came an artistic revolution. The common people rose up with eyes blazing with inspiration and a burning desire in their hearts to create something. Technology giants eagerly seized the opportunity to
make money empower the general public. Suddenly the tools were affordable. Software programs marched into the stores, handy tutorials invaded the world, and the ability to publish and disseminate artwork became as easy as tapping on a few buttons.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m amazed at all the amazing work out there, and the sheer number of creative people in the world. I’ve seen paintings that make my pulse race, and photographs that brought me to tears. Sometimes, I can’t tell which were created by hand and which by technical means.
I do think we should acknowledge those who take the craft seriously, though. Particularly those who spend years honing their skills and developing their ideas, in addition to learning new techniques. Because while the results of this technological creative revolution are nothing short of breathtaking, there’s a part of me that shivers at the impending loss of tangible, hand-crafted art. I mourn the death of visions that require weeks and months on one piece of work. I don’t want to passively watch the disappearance of passion from the canvases of the world. And let’s not even talk about the amount of time we devote to a photograph or sculpture these days. Reflection is so overrated anyway, right?
The creep of technology into creativity’s realm isn’t anything new. Neither are the fears. In his post Don’t be a Tooler (2009), Designer Von Glitschk says:
“Our industry may be digitally driven but ideas are still best developed in analog form.”
(Important to keep in mind for ANY creative industry, including writing. Handwriting produces more ideas, something a plastic keyboard can never do. Have you used a pencil today? Ha! That’s my new tagline)
Von Glitschk goes on to say:
‘That’ll never change no matter how advanced our technology gets. So step away from your computer, grab a pencil (It’s that yellow thing not tethered to a keyboard), start drawing, stop whining, take some creative risks and see where it leads you.’
There’s something special, almost spiritual, about putting pencil to paper and brush to canvas that a software program can never re-create. I can only hope the saturation of easy creativity doesn’t deter traditional expressions of art, and wound the soul of the artist too much.
In case you were wondering, I am NOT an artist (you’ll see for yourself next week. Yes, it’s going to take me that long to build up the courage to share my own work). No, I’m an author. My husband, on the other hand, is a closet artist. I’ve suggested he take a lamp in there, or at least a flashlight, but he never listens.
He did, however, agree to let me share some of his sketches here.
If you’ve visited my Contact Page, you’ve seen this one:
He drew this adorable creature over the course of several years.
The scales alone must have taken days.
(the discoloration at the bottom is a reflection; proof of my poor photography skills)
I’ve always wondered why a giraffe had stalks!
I’m not sure what to say about this one. I like the flag. You can’t properly conquer anything without a flag. Ask Eddie Izzard.
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Exploding interest in “meatless Mondays” and plant-based foods on restaurant menus and at grocery stores suggest trouble for the beef industry. But, for now, that’s only in the United States.
Elsewhere, beef is surging in popularity and global demand for the meat is looking broader than ever, which is good news for Minnesota’s food companies and ranchers.
“Beef consumption globally has increased,” said Pat Binger, head of international exports for Cargill, the Minnetonka-based agriculture giant that is one of the world’s top processors of beef.
“Really, it’s about people moving into the middle class,” he said. “There’s more money in more pockets and, historically, we have seen a correlation between incomes going up and protein consumption levels going up.”
A new report from Grand View Research shows those rates continuing to rise, led by China. The global beef market is expected to grow 20% over the next six years to surpass $383 billion, the firm forecasts.
Cattle raised for slaughter require more land and water than for many other types of food, and many groups worry about the toll higher global beef consumption could have on the environment.
“If the global population is going to grow to about 10 billion by 2050, we have to ask ourselves what are the resource implications under business-as-usual growth rates and what kind of things do we need to consider for how we use our resources,” said Richard Waite, a research associate for the World Resources Institute’s food program.
China ‘the game-changer’
Cargill sees burgeoning opportunities in Southeast Asia, Latin America and — farther in the future — Africa and the Middle East. But beef consumption in those areas, while growing, is dwarfed by that of places like Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Mexico. “We are seeing pockets of emerging markets like Vietnam, the Philippines, Colombia and Peru, but we are still very reliant on some of those larger, industrialized, aging countries,” Binger said.
Cargill is optimistic in the near term about countries like Japan, with a younger generation eating less seafood and adopting a more meat-centric, Western-style diet. But Binger said the company is less confident about the 10- to 20-year period because Japan’s aging populace isn’t being replaced by adequate immigration or birthrates.
The real driver for global beef growth is China.
“China has been, far and away, one of the biggest drivers for global beef,” he said. “Without China, global beef consumption has been relatively flat. And I think it will continue to be the game-changer.”
Pork is the meat that defines the Chinese diet. The average Chinese resident eats just 13.5 pounds of beef in a year, which is about a pound below the world’s average. But that figure is up from about 10.1 pounds a decade ago, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
“When you have a population of 1.4 billion and you move consumption up one pound per person, you increase that [total consumption] very, very quickly,” Binger said.
The U.S. and China don’t have a trade agreement that would allow Cargill direct access to China. But, Binger said, the company delivers a lot of beef to Hong Kong and “it’s common that beef in Hong Kong will flow into China.”
Consumer behavior varies across the globe, with some patterns that cross borders. But, Binger said, the growing concern among U.S. consumers over animal welfare is not something that resonates in many other parts of the world. By being a major seller both domestically and internationally, Cargill is able to export parts of the carcass — like the tongue — to countries that will pay a higher price for cuts that Americans wouldn’t buy.
Beef alternatives rise in U.S.
Here in the U.S., grocery stores are bursting with new plant-based alternatives, from yogurts to burgers to coffee creamers, answering a growing cultural desire to eat more foods that come from plants. Many consumers are blending these alternatives into their diets, but not converting to a pure vegan or vegetarian lifestyle.
“There are growing concerns around animal welfare and the environment and what [animal] agriculture brings to it,” said Darren Seifer, food consumption analyst for the NPD Group. “Younger people are a little more attuned and that will bring headwinds in the future for the industry.”
U.S. Department of Agriculture data show annual per capita beef consumption in steady decline since 1976 when it peaked at 94 pounds a year. Still, Americans today eat an average 57 pounds of beef per year, trailing only Argentina and Paraguay, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Even as individual consumption levels have decreased in the U.S. over time, population growth and exports have helped keep U.S. beef production relatively steady in recent decades.
Many nutritional studies, including a recent one published in the medical journal the Lancet, recommend that people who eat a lot of red meat should eat less of it. On the other hand, dieting trends, like the recent popularity of the ketogenic diet that advises eating a lot of fats, only help the meat industry.
Methane emissions, water use and traceability are the big consumer concerns that Cargill sees challenging the U.S. beef market.
“The environmental concerns are understood and we have taken a lot of very strong actions to improve the way the industry does its work,” said Jon Nash, Cargill’s head of North American protein. “There’s a lot of things we are doing just to prepare for the future.”
Right now, he said, the company is optimistic about beef’s outlook because the economy is strong. Raising cattle for slaughter takes longer than it does for other livestock, which makes it a more expensive meat.
Affordability is always an issue and several other meats, led by chicken, cost less. An economic downturn, or drought that reduces cattle herds, could push more U.S. consumers away from beef.
Waite, of the World Resources Institute, says the future of beef shouldn’t be oversimplified; it’s about global resources and a fair distribution of nutrition. People in developing regions will aspire to eat more meat as their incomes grow, he said, “and it will probably be good for them from a nutritional standpoint. I’m not going to sit here and tell people in those regions not to eat more meat. Just from an equity standpoint, that doesn’t seem right.”
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ATLANTA—I am in the big city today, covering the arrival of fall. I am sitting on a bench, reading an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. I am a longtime admirer of this paper. I’ve been reading it since boyhood, back when we would visit family here in Atlanta.
When I hold this newspaper, I still remember my first pangs of literary ambition. I was a kid who wanted to be a writer. A columnist, even. I dreamed of a thrilling life in journalism, filled with rewarding work, the machine-gun sound of newsroom typewriters, grumpy editors in suspenders, and above all, an expense account.
But some things are never meant to be. I didn’t even start writing until I was a grown man who had barely finished community college.
I am taking the MARTA bus today. I figured, why not? The weather is nice. Fall is here. And most importantly, I hate Atlanta traffic.
When I was a kid we lived here for a hot minute. To live in this city means spending half your life stuck on Interstate 285, physically abusing your steering wheel during gridlock.
Riding the MARTA bus is a more mellow experience. The bus takes me through town while I read the sports section.
The bus arrives at an upscale shopping area. I visit a few stores. A strange lady sprays cologne on me against my will. One man in a kiosk begs me to buy a timeshare. I get a three-dollar massage in a coin-operated recliner. You can’t beat it.
For lunch, I eat at a taco joint. Atlanta is full of taco joints.
“Tacos are huge in Atlanta,” one taco employee tells me. “We cater tons of weddings, everyone wants tacos at their wedding.”
I believe it. A few months ago, I attended a friend’s wedding. It was a fancy event with porta-potties and an outdoor tent. A dance band played “Mustang Sally” for country club members who had been overserved and spent the night bumping and grinding with their spouses, many of whom resembled Captain Kangaroo and Barbara Bush. There are some things you can’t unsee.
The wedding dinner was tacos. These were not regular tacos, but gourmet tacos with weird meat fillings like goat, octopus, and sweetbread.
“What’s sweetbread?” I asked a groomsman sitting next to me.
“It’s pancreas,” he said. “Lamb, I think.”
I guess they decided against the chocolate fondue fountain.
After lunch, I visit a few trendy clothing stores. A retail employee named Erin sees me browsing and gives me free fashion advice. She has lots of tattoos and multiple piercings.
Erin looks at me with a thoughtful frown and says, “Dude, I totally recommend a graphic Tee and a blazer.”
She takes me to see the T-shirts with logos. These are called “graphic Tees,” as opposed to, for example, “T-shirts with pictures on them.” They’re all the rage. Erin shows me her particular favorite graphic Tee. On the front is a pink shark with a little cloud coming from beneath its tail. The text reads: “Mommy farts, y’all.”
“I just love this one,” says Erin.
You have to wonder about America’s youth.
When I was a kid, you had two basic T-shirts. White undershirts with cheap fabric so thin you could read a book through them. And the Leave It To Beaver Special—a tight-fitting shirt that usually exposed your belly and made you look like a mama’s boy who still sucked his thumb.
So I buy a few graphic tees. Erin also talks me into a pair of sensible shoes. Next, I do some people-watching from a bench. I buy an ice cream cone and read a few more pages of the paper.
When I’m done, I wait at the bus stop. Here, I meet a boy. He’s fifteen. He wears an Atlanta Braves T-shirt. I ask if he’s been to any games this season.
“No,” says the boy. “My little brother can’t do crowds. And I won’t watch a game without him. That’s a promise we made each other. We always watch them on TV.”
“That’s pretty nice of you,” I say.
“Not really. He’s my brother.”
In a few minutes we see a boy walking on the sidewalk. The boy has Down syndrome, and is accompanied by a young woman. He is hooking arms with her. They are laughing.
“That’s him,” says the fifteen-year-old. “My little brother. He always tells me he’s gonna steal my girlfriend.”
“LOOK!” says his brother. “I STOLE YOUR GIRLFRIEND!”
“See what I mean?” says the young man.
If I were smiling any bigger, I’d pull a muscle.
Soon, I am on the bus again. I am looking out the window at millions of people go by. The skyscrapers. The cars. The restaurants. A university hospital that once saved my mother’s life. A newspaper that made me want to dedicate my life to sentences and paragraphs. And a baseball team I love.
I don’t know why I feel so nostalgic when I’m here. I’m not an Atlantan. Maybe it’s the tacos.
The bus driver arrives at my stop. I stand. I leave my folded newspaper on the bus seat behind me. Not because I’m finished reading it. But because, who knows, maybe the beauty of the written word will change some little boy’s life.
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If you’ve been following news and information about CBD products, you’ve more than likely heard the revelations about Diamond CBD… but are they true?
To review, the claims came from author Shayla Love from Vice and toxicologist Michelle Peace from Virginia Commonwealth University, and they stated that Diamond CBD was selling vape liquid that contained synthetic marijuana and other dangerous compounds. Initially, they received a tip from a customer stating that they got “extremely high” after using their products, which as you know, is not supposed to happen when vaping or otherwise consuming CBD. According to the subsequent study published by Peace and her co-workers, “Out of nine CBD e-liquids from Diamond Gold, four contained a synthetic marijuana called 5-fluoro MDMB-PINACA (5F-ADB). One contained dextromethorphan, an ingredient in cough syrup.”
So, what happened? Is it possible that a well-reputed company like Diamond could have let some products fall through the cracks? Was there some kind of error at Peace’s lab? Or was there a discrepancy in Love’s reporting? We reached out to Diamond CBD directly to get some answers, and this is what they had to say:
Diamond CBD Official Response:
“The company can unequivocally state that there is no 5-fluoro MDMB-PINACA (5F-ADB) in any products and not as reported in the items listed in the Vice article or Consumer Reports. There are no illegal synthetics and no dextromethorphan (dxm) in any vape or e-liquid products. Unfortunately, these articles were simply reiterations of other online reports without a full and proper review of all relevant information.
The authors of these articles never purchased any product directly from our company and independently delivered such products to any third party laboratory. Had they done so responsibly, then they would not have found any of these ingredients in any vape or e-liquid products as reported by Vice.
The initial report about this issue was like an “ambush” at a trade show without an opportunity to investigate and research the substance of the report. Such information necessary to properly frame a response was not readily available at the trade show and that information does not appear in the study which includes the reply discussed more fully below.
Without overtly attacking the credibility of the authors, there are questions that arise regarding the methodology and results. Based upon a review of the company website purchase history, the individual who purchased the products online and author of the article, Michelle Peace, ordered 11 total items on July 27, 2017 (3 items) and September 28, 2017 (8 items), through her school e-mail address under her name.
The article history indicates that it was received on September 3, 2018, and revised on October 24, 2018. From analysis methodology obtained from third party laboratories, the testing typically only requires minutes and not more than a year which is the time frame that passed from the purchase until the article was received.
In addition, our company can unequivocally report that the packaging is old and not representative of the current product line bearing the same names. Further, those photographs illustrate that the packages are evidently opened and not in their original condition.
In order to explain the manufacturing process, and as is typically industry standard, the raw material is purchased from third party vendors for production purposes. Our company does not physically extract the liquid from the plant so we rely upon those suppliers and their representations as to product quality and substance. Those suppliers provide reports as to the content of the raw material. Regardless of such reliance, our company conducts our own analysis through third party testing laboratories. None of these reports indicated the existence of any unnatural or improper derivative in the product.
If the issue was prevalent in the product line, then every product tested would have had the same exact results. Since the results were not consistent, the company contends that there may have been tampering with the products. As an industry leader and innovator prior to the recent skyrocketing popularity of cannabidiol products, there are many other individuals and companies who may intentionally seek to harm that position.
The company strives to provide the assurance that we supply the best, highest quality products on the market. As a result of these articles, the company is committed to re-test all of the products. If there are any products from our new testing that have any such indication as described in the articles, the company would immediately recall any products potentially affected from such test results. With so many smaller companies that have more recently appeared in this industry, I would presume that there are some businesses manufacturing their products in their bathtub or garage. As mentioned in Consumer Reports, our company would support the regulation of the industry to ensure the safety and quality of any product.
Select any item directly from our company website and send directly to any third party laboratory and you will not find any of these ingredients in any vape or e-liquid products as improperly reported by Vice. Our confidence is so absolute that we are developing a more thorough public challenge to these claims that will be disclosed after the holiday season.”
As you can see, Diamond is trying very hard to be transparent and is even willing to incorporate options for the public to be able to send their products out for testing. Without having tested the products ourselves, everything is purely speculation at this point. What’s important to keep in mind is that both companies and reporters can be unfairly targeted, and as you can see, this conflict seems to go beyond just the article that was written.
When buying CBD products, always make sure to do your own, extremely thorough research before making any kind of purchase or consuming anything you buy. These products are going into your body with the purpose of promoting health and wellness, you want to make sure all the ingredients are on the level.
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This means that the illuminated side of the Moon, lit up by the Sun, is facing away from earth, and in our sky the Moon appears dark or totally invisible.
Very quickly after the actual moment of the New Moon, we start to see a tiny crescent of the illuminated Moon, but at the true moment of the New Moon, there is nothing to see.
In astrology, the New Moon symbolizes new beginnings, and indeed marks the beginning of new 28-day lunar cycle. Astrological New Moons are usually hopeful in nature, bearing the promise of light to come.
The New Moon in Capricorn on December 23rd, 2022 channels the emotional energy of the astrological Moon through this most business-like of zodiac signs.
This is get-on-with-it energy, which makes it ideal for getting a new venture or project off the ground. Capricorn is a cardinal sign, which means that it likes to take action. No hanging about during the Capricorn New Moon, therefore – anything worth being started should be started straight away.
With some other lunar influences, through other zodiac signs, this could lead to impulsive, hasty or ill-thought through action – but Capricorn is also an earth sign, rooted in common sense, practicality and stability.
New projects begun under a Capricorn New Moon therefore stand an excellent chance of a strong start.
In astrology, Capricorn is often associated with careers, business and work, since it’s one of the most ambitious zodiac signs. However, it’s not only work or business projects which are well-starred under a Capricorn New Moon.
On a personal level, this lunar influence provides a grounded, stable and loyal background energy for fresh starts in love, friendship and interpersonal relationships too.
The potential drawback with a Capricorn New Moon is that ideas can become too rigid, or too authoritative. It’s as if there is only ‘one true way’ during a Capricorn New Moon, with other possibilities being discounted.
To get the most from this lunar influence, then, it’s essential to maintain some flexibility and a willingness to consider other viewpoints.
This New Moon does transit your career zone, so it’s ideal for job hunting, finding a new position or asking for a promotion.
Be prepared to prove how you are a good fit for the job – this New Moon encourages evidence and consideration of the facts, not hyperbole or flamboyant approaches. A structured approach to career progression will pay dividends now, so consider your plans for the next several years to come.
Taurus Zodiac Sign (Taurus Dates: April 20 – May 20) During the New Moon in Capricorn
This New Moon falls in your travel and exploration zone, and it puts a real spring in your step. Ideal for making travel and vacation plans, or for starting a metaphorical journey, it fills you with confidence and encourages you to step beyond your comfort zone.
For you as a sign which sometimes likes routines a little bit too much, the Capricorn New Moon shows you how change can be embraced.
Gemini Zodiac Sign (Gemini Dates: May 21 – June 20) During the New Moon in Capricorn
This New Moon tests some of your most fondly held beliefs about yourself – and it may show you where you can make personal self-improvements. It’s a good time for seeking therapy or counseling, and also for recognizing what you yourself have to offer others.
If you have been through a hard time or faced a particular problem, this New Moon may cast you in the role of teacher or mentor to others.
Cancer Zodiac Sign (Cancer Dates: June 21 – July 21) During the New Moon in Capricorn
Occurring in your love zone, this New Moon is an obvious blessing for a relationship that needs healing. It’s also an exciting possibility for anyone who is single – meeting someone new under this lunar influence may feel magical or even fated in some way.
In an established relationship, you can use the strong and stable Capricorn New Moon to rekindle the magic you once felt for one another.
Leo Zodiac Sign (Leo Dates: July 22 – August 21) During the New Moon in Capricorn
Take a fresh look at your time management skills during this New Moon. There are things you can stop doing – and other things you can start doing – which will make a huge difference to the amount of time you have available, and thereby to the quality of your life.
Get organized and get streamlined using the intensely practical energies of this Capricorn New Moon.
Virgo Zodiac Sign (Virgo Dates: August 22 – September 21) During the New Moon in Capricorn
The earthy energies of the Capricorn New Moon are great for your creativity. This is a fun time to start a new creative project, or even a creative side hustle to increase your income.
However you like to express yourself, let it all out now. This is also a very good-humored, almost joyful influence, so have fun with it. Indulging your inner child is a great way to honor this New Moon.
Libra Zodiac Sign (Libra Dates: September 22 – October 22) During the New Moon in Capricorn
This New Moon can be a very positive and helpful influence on your domestic life, especially if you want to or are planning to move home around this time. It’s also a good time for welcoming new family members or pets, or for starting DIY projects or renovations.
Above all, however, this is a time to love and honor your family members, especially those who you cannot see very often.
Scorpio Zodiac Sign (Scorpio Dates: October 23 – November 21) During the New Moon in Capricorn
The grounded energy of the Capricorn New Moon helps to calm your emotions, Scorpio, and draws a line under some of your wilder fears and anxieties.
This is a time for careful planning and lots of strategic decisions about the future. Think carefully about the words you use at this time because they have a distinct amount of power. Mean what you say and say what you mean.
Sagittarius Zodiac Sign (Sagittarius Dates: November 22 – December 20) During the New Moon in Capricorn
A New Moon in your money zone is typically good news, helping to solidify your income or getting a new business venture off to a good start. It’s a good time to shop around, financially, to ensure that you’re getting the best deal on credit, insurance or loans.
This lunar influence also helps to get your spending under control, reminding you that you simply cannot buy the most important things in life.
Capricorn Zodiac Sign (Capricorn Dates: December 21 – January 18) During the New Moon in Capricorn
A New Moon in your own sign is a personal moment of renewal – like your own mini New Year. This hugely positive influence is an exceptionally good time for starting a big new project of any kind or for creating grand plans for the future.
It’s also a highly emotional time, however, so don’t be surprised if you find yourself much more easily moved to tears, whether from laughter or sadness.
Aquarius Zodiac Sign (Aquarius Dates: January 19 – February 17) During the New Moon in Capricorn
A New Moon in your spiritual zone is a chance to make progress towards your spiritual goals. If you don’t have any – now is the time to create them!
Dig deep into your chosen faith, or research your position on issues that are paranormal, mysterious, sacred or otherwise spiritual. There is so much to learn, and you’re all fired up now and ready to go.
Pisces Zodiac Sign (Pisces Dates: February 18 – March 19) During the New Moon in Capricorn
This New Moon transits your friendship zone and is a good time to reach out and meet new people. Come out of your comfort bubble and make friends with people you don’t normally associate with.
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We are bumping along the bright, ochre orange road in an overland truck; a straight line on a dusty concave with no concrete sheets or stone markers – just light tracks in the earth that make it clear not many have passed through here.
The 90km stretch of the Peninsula we are driving along is the beautifully deserted image of the Australian Outback you’ve always dreamt about. This is Western Australia – home to one the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth known as the Kimberley.
From Broome to the Kimberley coastline, that jags along the northern stretches of Australia’s largest state, is a single road that journeys up to the tip of the Dampier Peninsula. It cuts through a stretch of land where the coastline to the west quickly starts transforming into desert to the east.
It takes one full day to sample a miniscule patch of this one million square kilometer northwestern part of the territory.
Out here it’s wild, rugged and unchanged. As passengers in this Kimberley Wild truck that rattles through what is known as the ‘Dampier Land’, discussion naturally leads to the accessibility of the area, the history of this pristine native wilderness and Aboriginal rights. We are, after all, a group of 21 people who have chosen to pass through here collectively rather than brave the off-road unknown ourselves.
We learn of plans to pave the road into an accessible ‘highway’. But what would that mean for the future of the north Western Australia Peninsula – a region cultivated, protected and owned by little more than 1,000 people in tiny clusters of Aboriginal communities?
It is a contentious debate that rests on access to more people being able to experience this region, versus the wishes of the community and the social issues that come from mass numbers of outsiders.
“As it stands, the only people who come out here are those with four-wheel drives, those confident with their off-road experience, and people who are experienced in going into remote areas,” our driver says. If the road were sealed everyone would come up here, including the caravans and backpacker vans, drastically increasing the number of visitors overnight.
I was in Broome at the end of the tourist season, and not in July when it was brimming with over 50,000 people in contrast to its 15,000 permanent residents.
“So imagine those thousands of people coming up here into the small communities like Beagle Bay, where there’s only 300 people?” our driver adds. “It would be very overwhelming.”
Visitors are welcomed, but it is better for the survival and wishes of the communities that it is done so in the most sustainable way. Joining an overland tour means travelling with people who know the roads and who are known to the communities for bringing visitors at certain times and in small numbers, to which the community gets income from visitors fees.
In one day we pass through three communities, spending money in local stores and learning about the history of pearl fishing that brought it wealth. This is not the kind of tour where you get to meet briefed locals geared up for mass tourism and ask questions – people go about their day as normal, as you pass through.
The first stop took us to the Beagle Bay Aboriginal Community, known more to visitors for the Sacred Heart Church whose interior is crafted from pearl shells.
In the Ardyaloon (One Arm Point) Aboriginal Community, we passed through the quiet settlement and headed for the coastline, to learn about the hatchery and trochus shell fishing trade of the saltwater people.
The drive ended at the very north of One Arm Point, home to the world-famous operational pearling farm of Cygnet Bay, where you can take to the whirlpools and waves in a speed boat to dart around the rocky Buccaneer Archipelago that spreads out before it.
We understood better about the unique area, whose knowledge of its seasons, survival and secrets lie in the hands of a few. We understood better how a thriving industry has also brought the area wealth, despite its somewhat dark history.
Flying back in a one hour scenic Kimberley flight from the parallel peninsula tip coastline of Cape Leveque to Broome was to see Australia’s northwest in its bare glory.
It’s beauty not only comes from its changing colours and terrains that combine leafy greens and dusty reds with the swirling blues of creeks and the jagged silver of gorges, but from its isolation. This, the ability to present a picture of the Earth’s surface untainted by modern interference – looking down upon the Australia that has existed for countless millennia.
For hundreds of kilometres lay places where humans haven’t ever trodden. One of Earth’s last preserved wilderness areas, full of arid desert and Protected World heritage landmarks including craters and National Parks.
To open it up too much, would mean taking away exactly what the Kimberley is – the wide, open, untouched Outback. To open it more would mean overlooking the wishes of its guardians – the Aboriginal people; the oldest living culture in the world, whose land we are already lucky enough to be passing through.
Some things are only to be seen from a distance, and they are just as beautiful at that.
Things to Know about Kimberly, Australia:
- Touring around the isolated Kimberley requires meticulous planning and knowledge. To make things easier, Kimberley Wild offers day trips and short multi-day excursions from Broome, picking you up and dropping you off at your accommodation. Day tours offer a round-trip 4WD option or a 4WD combined with scenic flight home, with King Leopold Air, who have been operating small, chartered flights in the area for over 20 years. I highly recommend this duel combination so as to see this incredibly vast region from the air, since what feels boundless on the ground is colossal from the skies.
- The speedboat trip was part of the Giant Tides Tour, which we went on following an introduction to the farming processes and grading of pearls with a Cygnet Bay expert. It is a two hour-long tour that departs from the land of Cygnet Bay and transfers directly to sea using an amphibious Sealegs vessel.
- For further information on this region, visit Tourism Western Australia who I partnered with as part of their ‘Just Another Day in WA’ campaign and which you can follow on all social media platforms via the hashtag: #JustAnotherDayinWA.
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Opinions are coming in on the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to let public broadcasters spend a little more on air time running fundraising campaigns for charities and related nonprofits. One divide is obvious. Religious broadcasters love this idea. NPR hates it.
“Removing the prohibition on third-party fundraising would create the potential for stations to be inundated with requests from local nonprofits, jeopardizing relationships with potential programming partners and imposing an administrative burden on station staff,” a letter from NPR to the FCC warns. “Perhaps most importantly, a removal of the prohibition may also undermine stations’ ability to raise funds from their members, who are vital to stations’ economic well-being.”
On the other hand, there is the perspective of National Religious Broadcasters on the question. “We believe that the educational content provided by on-air fundraising by non-commercial NCE stations on behalf of non-profit groups will serve a vital public interest,” the group writes; “it will energize citizens to desire an increased spirit of volunteerism, and will assist the NCE [non-commercial educational] stations and the charities that they promoted so they can meet critical social and humanitarian needs during a challenging economic time.”
At present, NCE stations can only raise funds for themselves, as they do during station drive marathons. Periodically, the FCC grants waivers letting public stations raise donation cash for big disasters (Hurricane Katrina; September 11 in NYC; the 2010 Haiti earthquake), but that’s pretty much as far as it goes.
Then the Commission released a report titled The Information Needs of Communities, which suggested a loosening of this restriction:
We recommend that the FCC consider allowing stations or programmers that are not grantees of the CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcasting], such as most religious broadcasters, to spend up to one percent of their airtime doing fundraising for charities and other third-party nonprofits. The broadcasters should disclose how this time is used—including how much is helping charities in the local community—so the FCC can make an assessment about the efficacy of this experiment.
The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks for public comment on this idea, including whether to bar CPB stations from taking advantage of the new proposed fundraising window. NPR is particularly nervous about the risk that some public radio stations will decide which charities to fundraise for based on the self-interested proclivities of their respective boards of directors:
A relaxation of the current prohibition on third-party fundraising could tempt licensees to use the station to raise funds for their own discrete interests. NCE stations could face pressure to raise funds for a variety of projects or endeavors wholly apart from the core mission of the station. Especially in the case of a station licensed to a small nonprofit organization, the station could be used to produce a financial windfall for the organization’s officers and directors, and it would be difficult for the FCC to police such matters.
But the College Bible Broadcasting Company has no qualms on these questions. The non-profit runs stations WRCM-FM in Wingate, North Carolina and WMHK-FM in Columbia, South Carolina and wants to offer more help for what it describes as “crisis pregnancy centers.”
“Working with these types of local organizations would serve to educate our listeners more fully about the needs of women in our own community that have nowhere to turn when faced with an unplanned pregnancy,” the College Bible company writes. “Listeners would have new opportunities to get involved and make a difference.”
As for procedural and transparency concerns, College Bible apparently has none:
The FCC should reject any requirement for the NCE station itself to conduct all third party fundraising activities. The collection and distribution of funds and all incidental activities would create an undue burden on most NCE stations and would dampen worthy efforts to serve the public.
Finally, CBCBC agrees that while we have no objection to including reports in our local public inspection file on any third-party fundraising activities, it would be burdensome for NCE stations such as ours to be required to also file periodic reports to the FCC.
Most of the comments in this proceeding are coming from religious broadcasters, but a consortium of radio stations licensed by colleges, universities, and schools shares NPR’s concerns.
“It is important that the FCC not make the change,” writes the University Station Alliance:
“Shifting the third-party fundraising protocol from extraordinary needs to ordinary needs would result in unintended consequences that create a negative station/licensee gatekeeper effect. By telling the community 88 hours of programming time is possibly up for grabs, entities desiring fundraising air-time could interpret FCC maximums for third-party fundraising as mandates. The criteria for air time would be from relief fundraising due to devastating events such as hurricanes, wide-spread flooding, tornadoes, and earthquakes, to ordinary fundraising. This change would create a competition among not-for-profits to gain access to air-time.” | <urn:uuid:1e084ff6-c81c-4286-b3b7-254051f40812> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2012/07/24/npr-religious-broadcasters-split-on-fcc-third-party-fundraising-proposal/ | 2015-03-31T09:42:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300464.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00216-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955421 | 1,041 |
While Orlando isn’t the capital of the state of Florida, it’s a city that almost everyone knows about. The city is one of the larger cities of the United States and known as the ‘Theme Park Capital of the World.’ But besides theme parks, this city has a lot to offer the people that come to visit it in both the people and other attractions that it holds.
The population of Orlando, Florida is interesting and ever evolving. The population of the city is at about 238,300 people. The population is made up of a majority Caucasian people, but there are large numbers of Latinos and African-Americans living in the city.
There are two growing communities inside of Orlando that are really contributing to the local culture: the Puerto Rican community and Caribbean community. The Puerto Rican community has been long established, and the culture has affected the city immensely.
Besides diversity of races, Orlando has a large LGBT community. The city is often recognized as one of the most tolerant in the Southeast. The city throws several LGBT events and has had many LGBT officials.
The history of Orlando, like many other places, is full of ups and downs that eventually led to the Orlando that we have today.
Orlando began officially existing as a town in 1875. However, about twenty years before that, Orlando was where Florida’s Orange County was governed from. During the time that Orlando wasn’t a town, the area suffered during such events as the Civil War. During that time, the area specifically suffered from the United States’s naval blockade of the Confederacy. After the Civil War was over, the area had a population increase that led to it becoming a town.
The town eventually became a city in 1885. The area had become the state’s citrus industry hub, but in 184, a freeze took over the area leading to a shift of land holding in the area. In the 1920’s, Orlando began to build out creating more and more neighborhoods. But after several hurricanes and the Great Depression struck, the city slowed down it’s building of new neighborhoods.
Two events that probably put Orlando on the map occurred in 1965 and 1971. In 1965, Walt Disney announced plans for a new theme park in the state; and in 1971, the new park opened. Both of these ushered in boosts to the economy and a population increase.
Points of Interest
Now obviously all of the theme parks that are located in and around the city can be considered points of interest, but Orlando has a lot more to offer than just theme parks. If you’re looking to go to Orlando, then here are a few other places to go when you’re in the city.
La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil
Located in the Disney Springs area, this is a perfect place to see a show. While it is located on Disney property, the shows here are separate from the parks in the area. This means that you can get out and see a cool Cirque du Soleil show without having to go to the Disney parks.
Since it’s Florida, there had to be one theme park on the list. However, this theme park is an indoor theme park. This theme park is all about testing your knowledge and having some hands-on fun with some science. The hands-on nature of all the exhibits inside makes this a great place to take a family.
While it’s not a single location, downtown Orlando certainly should be on any list. Because there’s so much to do there, the city put together a guide for the area, including some of the best attractions, best hotels, best food, and a small map of the area so you can see where some of these attractions are. There’s a ton of stuff for people of all ages to do in downtown Orlando, so no matter what kind of fun you want, you’ll be able to find it in downtown.
If you’re looking to move to Orlando rather than just visit, there are several places you can go to live in the city. Here are a few neighborhoods that might interest people looking to move to the area.
On the Southern side of town, the Lake Nona area is a newer neighborhood that was originally going to become a large golfing area. However, the area is now full of housing for people with a range of budgets. There are luxury homes in the area, but there are also townhouses and such. Although the area isn’t quite the golfing mecca that it was originally imagined as there are several golfing events in the area that are quite popular in the golfing community.
Although this neighborhood is actually located in the city of Kissimmee (a town just south of Orlando), the Celebration neighborhood is perfect for families or for those that are looking to work at the nearby Disney resorts. This neighborhood is designed with the retro designs of the 1910s in mind. Besides the retro design, the neighborhood also boasts a positive atmosphere that is perfect for families. The people that live here have several community events such as an Oktoberfest and a Great American Pie festival. This neighborhood really behaves as a mini-city full of neighborly people and a great attitude.
The city of Orlando is so full of life and things to do that even if you don’t want to live in the city, visiting it has to be on your bucket list. The city boasts not only many of the most visited theme parks, but plenty of other attractions for people with varied interests. There are tons of great shows to go to and plenty of good food for you to taste. Because of the great diversity, the culture is full of intersecting ideas and celebrations. There is something in this city for everyone, but you have to get here to find it for yourself. | <urn:uuid:60c2cf7f-8409-431f-9207-cdc7bb220173> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.boanlaw.com/learning-little-orlando-florida/ | 2018-04-26T03:30:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948064.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426031603-20180426051603-00098.warc.gz | en | 0.977397 | 1,200 |
The world of robotics is full of unknowns! From sensor noise to the exact positioning of important objects, robots have a critical need to understand the world around them to perform accurately and robustly. We previously demonstrated a pick-and-place task in Unity using the Niryo One robot to pick up a cube with a known position and orientation. This solution would not be very robust in the real world, as precise object locations are rarely known a priori. In our new Object Pose Estimation Demo, we show you how to use the Unity Computer Vision Perception Package to collect data and train a deep learning model to predict the pose of a given object. We then show you how to integrate the trained model with a virtual UR3 robotic arm in Unity to simulate the complete pick-and-place system on objects with unknown and arbitrary poses.
Robots in the real world often operate in and must adapt to dynamic environments. Such applications often require robots to perceive relevant objects and interact with them. An important aspect of perceiving and interacting with objects is understanding their position and orientation relative to some coordinate system, also referred to as their “pose.” Early pose-estimation approaches often relied on classical computer vision techniques and custom fiducial markers. These solutions are designed to operate in specific environments, but often fail when their environments change or diverge from the expected. The gaps introduced by the limitations of traditional computer vision are being addressed by promising new deep learning techniques. These new methods create models that can predict the correct output for a given input by learning from many examples.
This project uses images and ground-truth pose labels to train a model to predict the object’s pose. At run time, the trained model can predict an object’s pose from an image it has never seen before. Usually, tens of thousands or more images need to be collected and labeled for the deep learning models to perform sufficiently. Real-world collection of this data is tedious, expensive, and, in some cases like 3D object localization, inherently difficult. Even when this data can be collected and labeled, the process can turn out to be biased, error-prone, tedious, and expensive. So how do you apply powerful machine learning approaches to your problem when the data you want is out of reach or doesn’t actually exist for your application yet?
Unity Computer Vision allows you to generate synthetic data as an efficient and effective solution for your machine learning data requirements. This example shows how we generated automatically labeled data in Unity to train a machine learning model. This model is then deployed in Unity on a simulated UR3 robotic arm using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to enable pick-and-place with a cube that has an unknown pose.
Simulators, like Unity, are a powerful tool to address challenges in data collection by generating synthetic data. Using Unity Computer Vision, large amounts of perfectly labeled and varied data can be collected with minimal effort, as previously shown. For this project, we collect many example images of the cube in various poses and lighting conditions. This method of randomizing aspects of the scene is called domain randomization1. More varied data usually leads to a more robust deep learning model.
To collect data with the cube in various poses in the real world, we would have to manually move the cube and take a picture. Our model used over 30,000 images to train, so if we could do this in just 5 seconds per image, it would take us over 40 hours to collect this data! And that time doesn’t include the labeling that needs to happen. Using Unity Computer Vision, we can generate 30,000 training images and another 3,000 validation images with corresponding labels in just minutes! The camera, table, and robot position are fixed in this example, while the lighting and cube’s pose vary randomly in each captured frame. The labels are saved to a corresponding JSON file where the pose is described by a 3D position (x,y,z) and quaternion orientation (qx,qy,qz,qw). While this example only varies the cube pose and environment lighting, Unity Computer Vision allows you to easily add randomization to various aspects of the scene. To perform pose estimation, we use a supervised machine learning technique to analyze the data and generate a trained model.
In supervised learning, a model learns how to predict a specific outcome based on training a set of inputs and corresponding outputs, images, and pose labels in our case. A few years ago, a team of researchers presented2 a convolutional neural network (CNN) that could predict the position of an object. Since we are interested in a 3D pose for our cube, we extended this work to include the cube’s orientation in the network’s output. To train the model, we minimize the least squared error, or L2 distance, between the predicted pose and the ground-truth pose. After training, the model predicted the cube’s location within 1cm and the orientation within 2.8 degrees (0.05 radians). Now let’s see if this is accurate enough for our robot to successfully perform the pick-and-place task!
The robot we are using in this project is a UR3 robotic arm with a Robotiq 2F-140 gripper, which was brought into our Unity scene using the Unity Robotics URDF Importer package. To handle communication, the Unity Robotics ROS-TCP Connector package is used while the ROS MoveIt package handles motion planning and control.
Now that we can accurately predict the pose of the cube with our deep learning model, we can use this predicted pose as the target pose in our pick-and-place task. Recall that in our previous Pick-and-Place Demo, we relied on the ground-truth pose of the target object. The difference here is that the robot performs the pick-and-place task with no prior knowledge of the cube’s pose and only gets a predicted pose from the deep learning model. The process has 4 steps:
An image with the target cube is captured by Unity
The image is passed to a trained deep learning model, which outputs a predicted pose
The predicted pose is sent to the MoveIt motion planner
ROS returns a trajectory to Unity for the robot to execute in an attempt to pick up the cube
Each iteration of the task sees the cube moved to a random location. Although we know the cube’s pose in simulation, we will not have the benefit of this information in the real world. Thus, to lay the groundwork for transferring this project to a real robot, we need to determine the cube’s pose from sensory data alone. Our pose estimation model makes this possible and, in our simulation testing, we can reliably pick up the cube 89% of the time in Unity!
Our Object Pose Estimation Demo shows how Unity gives you the capability to generate synthetic data, train a deep learning model, and use ROS to control a simulated robot to solve a problem. We used the Unity Computer Vision tools to create synthetic, labeled training data and trained a simple deep learning model to predict a cube’s pose. The demo provides a tutorial walking you through how to recreate this project, which you can expand by applying more randomizers to create more complex scenes. We used the Unity Robotics tools to communicate with a ROS inference node that uses the trained model to predict a cube’s pose. These tools and others open the door for you to explore, test, develop, and deploy solutions locally. When you are ready to scale your solution, Unity Simulation saves both time and money compared to local systems.
And did you know that both Unity Computer Vision and Unity Robotics tools are free to use!? Head over to the Object Pose Estimation Demo to get started using them today!
Now that we can pick up objects with an unknown pose, imagine how else you could expand this! What if there are obstacles in the way? Or multiple objects in the scene? Think about how you might handle this, and keep an eye out for our next post!
You can also find more robotics projects on our Unity Robotics GitHub.
For more computer vision projects, visit our Unity Computer Vision page.
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Inc. editor-in-chief Eric Schurenberg reflects on this year's Inc. 5000 list and the highs and lows of living the entrepreneurial life.
From a rational point of view, starting a business is crazy: The failure rate is high, the emotional toll is high, and the likelihood of having to work extremely hard for potentially little reward is incredibly high.
But every year millions of people take the entrepreneurial plunge, and many succeed. Why do some succeed while others don't?
Here's another in my series where I pick a topic and connect with someone a lot smarter than me. (There's a list of some previous installments at the end of this article.)
This time I've gone straight to the top, to a guy who has spent much of his professional life interviewing, studying, writing about, and celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit: Eric Schurenberg, editor-in-chief of Inc. (And yes, ultimately he's my boss.)
In very broad strokes, why do some entrepreneurs succeed?
In 2003 the economist Amar Bhide wrote "The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses." He looked at founders on the Inc. 500 to determine how they were different from the rest of the people who start businesses.
He found the people who reached that level of success were in many ways no different: They didn't start with a comprehensive business plan, didn't have a deep knowledge of their industry, didn't have a competitive advantage like special access to financing. So he came to two conclusions.
One was that the entrepreneurs who succeed tend to be in a field where tremendous uncertainty exists, so they're rewarded for taking significant risk. That's why technology is such fertile ground: plenty of uncertainty, change takes place at a rapid pace, incumbents often disappear quickly, the barriers to entry are low.
It's easy to start a software company in the basement, but not an automobile company.
Absolutely. Plus the Internet affords tremendous potential for scale. So, again in very broad terms, one set of entrepreneurs surfs the waters where conditions change quickly and they manage to catch a maverick wave--or they wind up becalmed or squashed by a rogue wave.
Tech entrepreneurs certainly gain a lot of attention, but for every tech success there are dozens of successful stories that aren't based on "new."
True. That's why Bhide also noticed the Inc. 500 tended to be overly populated by service companies. The key in service is differentiation, often on a personal level: You might not have a built-in advantage like financing or specialized knowledge, but by dint of your personality and hard work and chutzpah you can still succeed.
You can be like Gary Vaynerchuk and return every single email you receive. Or you can be incredibly outgoing or work impossible hours or give up your firstborn to make that sale--those people can gain an advantage that can translate into success simply by the force of their own personality.
What else have you noticed from analyzing the Inc. 500?
One story nearly every entrepreneur shares is that moment of near death: almost bankrupt, down to the last dollar, credit cards maxed out, house approaching foreclosure... and then a customer shows up. Or they land funding. Those are such incredible stories, but the ones we hear about are ones where the cavalry rides to the rescue in time.
We tend not to hear the stories where the cavalry never shows up, and the entrepreneur licks his or her wounds... and then starts another company.
I've always thought the failure rate should scare more people away, if only because for years it scared me away.
People tend to underestimate the risks of entry and failure, at least on a personal level. There's this famous survey where people were asked about their driving ability and 80 percent said they were above average, even though the respondents were all people who were injured in car accidents.
Entrepreneurs are particularly prone to overconfidence--and they need to be.
I like to call that irrational optimism. To succeed at a high level--in business, in sports, in anything--you have to push aside all the doubts: feelings that you aren't smart enough, dedicated enough, adaptable enough... or that in spite of your best efforts you won't succeed.
Absolutely. What person with a ton of talent and labor value would throw that away to pursue a venture with a low likelihood of success and a high risk of failure, both financially and personally?
From an economist's points of view entrepreneurship is a total conundrum: It shouldn't happen in a world where people make rational decisions to advance their best interest.
Yet entrepreneurs succeed every day--many of them beyond their irrationally optimistic dreams. That's what makes entrepreneurs so fascinating.
So let's talk about failure. Why do many entrepreneurs fail?
In broad strokes, tech companies tend to fail because there's only so much funding to go around. The cost of getting on a customer's radar screen is often high--switching costs are sometimes too high even if your product is better. In essence, many companies fail simply because it's so hard to succeed.
In service businesses there are often no inherent advantages to the customer. We won't switch to another provider unless we're totally blown away by the personality of the entrepreneur.
My theory, based on zero science, is that most entrepreneurs have one skill that brings them to the dance. Your one skill gains you entry, but when you try to grow past a certain level your lack of other skills is a killer. Lots of entrepreneurs I talk to say what got them past that near-death moment was finding a partner with complementary skills.
There are so many institutional and systematic pitfalls when you try to scale past initial success. And don't forget many start-ups end up in that funding no-man's land: too small for venture capital but too big for ever-increasing resource needs.
Managing growth is hard. Ultimately you don't just need a partner who complements your skills. You need a bunch of "partners": a great CFO, a great CTO, any number of great people who bring specialized skills. Without them, growth is often impossible.
I also think a lot of people overestimate their "general" business skills--what works in one industry doesn't necessarily translate to others. People like Norm Brodsky, whose business seems to be business, are somewhat rare.
A good way to interpret Norm's success is to say he has a talent for spotting opportunity and the skills to implement successfully. Take City Storage: He owned a bike messenger service and a customer needed a place to store documents--so he started by storing boxes in his office. Then he used his business acumen to build from there.
What does this year's Inc. 5000 say about entrepreneurial success?
Like in many other years but to a somewhat greater degree, a significant percentage of the 2013 Inc. 5000 are B2B service companies: terrific salespeople and plenty of elbow grease. Don't forget B2B success is not necessarily easier but it's different than B2C: Land a couple of big contracts and you have a going business. When you own a sandwich shop you need to attract a ton of customers to survive.
Take the No. 1 company on this year's list, Fuhu. Fuh's founders embody everything we've discussed. This is the seventh company its president, Robb Fujioka, has started.
Fuhu didn't invent anything totally new: They found a niche by creating an inexpensive Android tablet for children. They rode uncertainty to catch the wave of tablet adoption.
The problem with tech is that you always need a "next."
Fuhu is already working on a number of "nexts," and that's something else successful entrepreneurs have in common: Next is in their DNA.
Check out other articles in this series:
- How to build your own talent pool
- Inside a completely transparent company
- Why 'going green' won't be optional in the future
- Is it better to train or hire great talent?
- The keys to maximizing your return on sponsoring events
- The ins and outs of franchising with Noodles CEO Kevin Reddy
- How Ashley Madison's founder built a business everyone loves to hate
- Julia Allison on building a great personal brand
- Eric Ripert on how to build a classic brand
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Only about five percent of the total matter and energy of the Universe is made of the same familiar matter that makes up everything from stars to planets to human beings. The identity of the remaining 95 percent, roughly one-third of which is known as "dark matter" and two-thirds as "dark energy," is unknown. Though scientists have not yet detected it directly in laboratories on Earth, dark matter’s existence has been deduced from its gravitational effects, which affect systems on scales from individual galaxies all the way up to the entire observable Universe.
Its prevalence and physical effects have ensured dark matter a crucial place in cosmological theory because of its key role in defining the structure of the Universe and in binding all galaxies—including our own Milky Way—together. Modern astrophysics and particle physics theory suggests that dark matter exists in the form of an as yet undiscovered elementary particle.
Dark matter is pervasive throughout the Universe, so it’s no surprise that dark matter is also prevalent on Earth. Based on the motions of nearby stars, cosmological theory predicts there to be about one dark matter particle per coffee mug-sized volume of space in our immediate vicinity. The direct identification of the dark matter particle will establish a firm connection between physics on the largest astronomical scales and the microscopic scales studied in laboratories on Earth.
To better understand our Universe, it is often necessary to estimate the mass of an astrophysical object. Those objects can range in size from the Sun, to our galaxy, to our entire Universe. Researchers use a number of techniques to measure the mass of extremely large objects. One way to estimate an object’s mass is by observing its light output. If the object does not emit its own light, researchers can examine the way in which the light of background sources bends around it. Another technique is to examine the dynamic motion of objects around it.
It was long believed that the estimated masses coming from these techniques would agree with one another. However, over the past 80 years, it has become apparent that for objects at the galaxy scale and larger, the amount of mass contained exceeds the mass of its luminous constituents. This additional mass, which cannot be accounted for by the luminous matter we know about, is what has earned the name “dark matter.”
Observing the Effects of Dark Matter
The nature of dark matter remains mysterious because, so far, we can't see it directly; instead, we observe its effects indirectly on the large-scale structure and dynamics of the Universe. New classes of elementary particles are theorized to constitute the dark matter; these range from particles in supersymmetric extensions of the standard model to light “axion” fields thought to arise in string theory.
The properties of the dark matter particle, including its mass and interactions with normal matter, influence how cosmic structure forms and grows. Scientists at KIPAC use observations of galaxies, large-scale structure, and gravitational lensing to test dark matter theories. This research connects the microscopic properties of the dark matter particle to its effects on the largest observable scales in the Universe.
The Search for Dark Matter Particles
Many dark matter models predict that two colliding dark matter particles can self-annihilate, releasing energy in the form of detectable elementary particles such as photons, electrons, or neutrinos. These annihilation products often have large energies, ranging up to the emission of gamma ray photons. KIPAC researchers are using gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to search for dark matter annihilation products. Astrophysical foreground (i.e., sources of gamma-ray emission from known particles) have to be understood precisely to ensure that potential dark matter signals in these data are robust.
A second way to look for these dark matter particles is with specialized detectors that are shielded from conventional sources of radiation, by searching for minute energy transfers that result from dark matter particles striking an atomic nucleus in the detector. KIPAC researchers are attempting to detect dark matter with two major research programs. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Super CDMS) uses silicon and germanium solid-state detectors that are cooled close to absolute zero, and are sensitive to very small temperature changes when a dark matter particle scatters off of an atom in the detector. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) program uses vessels filled with liquid xenon to measure small amounts of UV scintillation light produced when the nucleus of a xenon atom in the detector is struck. KIPAC researchers are also developing new experiments to search for other types of dark matter, including the Dark Matter Radio project, which is designed to detect low-mass axion dark matter particles. | <urn:uuid:1ec40d3c-8aa0-4905-80dc-731738929235> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://kipac.stanford.edu/research/topics/dark-matter | 2021-04-20T10:22:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039388763.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420091336-20210420121336-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.933234 | 958 |
About the Guest
I am truly humbled to welcome today’s guest, Alan Clements, onto the show. Honestly trying to condense Alan’s bio into something shorter than his entire podcast, has been a challenging task. In short, though, and trying to not to do this globally recognised Spiritual Leader a disservice. Alan was born in the US, he is a former Buddhist monk, and was ordained as one of the first Buddist Monks in former Burma. In 1984, forced to leave the country by Burma’s military authorities, Alan returned to the West and through invitation, lectured widely on the wisdom of mindfulness, in addition to leading numerous mindfulness-based meditation retreats and trainings throughout the US, Australia, and Canada. Years later in Zagreb, he wrote the film Burning while consulting with NGO’s and the United Nation’s on the pivotal role of consciousness in understanding human rights, freedom, and peace.
Alan has made a career of integrating his classical Buddhist training with a political awareness that includes global human rights, environmental sanity, democracy and the preciousness of everyday freedom. His efforts working on behalf of oppressed people led a former director of Amnesty International to call Alan “one of the most important and compelling voices of our times”. A speaker at UN, Amnesty and global events, we can say with complete confidence that Alan knows a thing or two about living a meaningful and intentional life.
If you are at all interested in hearing from this poet, writer, artist, creator and global speaker on seeking what the soul desires, conscience reflection on the quality of our presence on earth and falling in love with life in the moment amidst troubling times, then settle in and listen on as Alan blows my mind with his poetic and eloquent deconstruction of the times we live in and how to face up to life’s challenges with conscious intention.
- Alan started looking at life differently while growing up in America and the war zones of Vietnam being draftable. A society where people are exposed to violence and advocating democracy at the expense of other people’s existence was very repulsive to him. His earliest days of seeking peace and happiness were to trust his perceptions. That took him to align himself with a few people: the radical, rebels and music savants. With his new-found inner circle, they banded, created poetry, made love, danced, did art and thrived in a community of free-forming movement.
- As time went on, Alan felt an urge to understand which led him towards the East. Alan and his partner travelled across Europe and the Middle East and eventually found their way to India. They came to visit, not to seek salvation, but to experience the sanctity the place provided to ask existential questions. They lived in India for a few years and found the calling that meditation was the natural response to this inner journey.
Alan’s journey eventually led him to the country of Burma where he requested if he could stay and be ordained as a Buddhist monk to meditate. The government declined his petition so he spent the next year and a half figuring out how he could get into the country. He was inspired by the monks in Burma because he believed they held the secrets of the soul. They said that if you reach various states of consciousness, you’ll come to know about yourself; you’ll come to know a more sustainable, ethical, spiritual and dogmatic intelligence that supersedes the cultural neurosis that you’re born into and your entanglement with it.
- Alan felt a revolution in his heart early on. He was disgusted by the classroom setting and confining himself into mediocrity. Early on he pursued a radical path. He considered himself a rebel but in retrospect, he felt that he was a wise person who was consciously repulsed by the sociopathic fabric of society.
- Alan stayed in Burma because of their teachings and practices. They were not into transactional teachings. In other words, everything was offered freely. It was offered generously without any condition other than practice. The meditative practices and wisdom he gained uplifted his spirit.
- For Alan, falling in love is the greatest possibility of mitigating the inherent suffering of being human and the way to elevating the highest status of the spiritual, psychological, emotional and physical life is to reinvent the meaning of what love means to your soul. He encourages people to defy conformity, to fight your life in your mind and listen to the artists out there on how they’re doing it. Then, come back home and ask yourself, “What do I really love? And what will I do to make that real?”
- “Don’t just tell someone you love them. Tell them what you love about them. Touch their hand, embrace their soul and do something beautiful today for others. That’s the message for today. Meditation isn’t just about personal peace but also an action living an engaged life.”
- Alan believed that the urban centres we’re living in today are already driven by fossil fuels that poison the future. People are compelled to reach into their wallets to spend money and driven by a cultural norm and propaganda of advertising on what beauty is that has nothing to do with true beauty. People are like living in sociopathic kind of holographic mirage. Bad hallucination. Society is corrupt. As what J. Krishnamurti posits, “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Alan holds the idea that if you get that at your soul, you start becoming rebellious. A rebellion-driven creature who refuses to participate in the politics of sociopathic behaviour. This means finding small oases, as rare as they are. There is no real oasis on this planet anymore. You’ve got to find one in your heart. And, if you’re lucky to find it in two or three, you’re really rare. Be willing to fight and do everything you can to authenticate what you call conscience, integrity and passion.
- Finally, Alan shares some valuable insights from his journey. First, “learn what resilience means and to practice it every day. Ask, “what does my soul cry out for?”. Do all that you can to navigate the map. Know your needs. Take care of yourself – your diet, your health and your body. Do yoga, walk and exercise. Second, are you living where you want to be? If not, pack up and go with a suitcase. Third, find a new tribe if you need to. If you’re not happy with the one you’re with. Be humble. Go to places in the world. Ask questions. Dare to be different. Break the monotony and the pain. Get up and move. If you don’t know meditation, Alan suggests learning the beauty of meditating. Lastly, if you’ve made mistakes, seek forgiveness in a letter, text or even in your own mind. If consciousness exceeds death, what would you like your child to be reborn in? What would you want them to know? Live that truth”.
- “Live in the most radical way today. If you’re pretending to think you’re saving for the future, take about 1/10 of that and use the remaining to go on the most radical adventure for the next six months that you could imagine. Going with your wife, friends, lover, yourself, brother or sister and do everything you can to use the gift while Earth exists. To go on the most splendid adventure and to learn from the earth. Learn from other people, animals, trees, and butterflies. Swim, get naked, get a massage, do tantra retreat, make love with life and breathe in a way that you’ve never dreamt but risk it all for the reason you’re a human.”
Okay so that was podcast one with Alan, of the new series on living with conscious intention in troubled times, I’m kidding! My mind was just blown, I’ll need to recover from the sensory overload that was my first interview with Alan, before recording another, but I would definitely love to have him back on the show.
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Many Estate Plans consist of a strategy called the AB Trust strategy. This common Estate Planning strategy either begins with a Living Trust or a Last Will and Testament. At any rate, upon the death of the first spouse, the will either creates two trusts or the Living Trust creates another trust. There are then two trusts. Thus the AB nomenclature. The primary purpose of the AB trust is to reduce or eliminate estate taxes. It can also be used as an asset protection strategy for the heirs.
Estate Tax Overview
Both Minnesota and the Federal Government have a Death Tax, also known as the Estate Tax. When you die, if the value of all your property, life insurance proceeds, and other assets is above a certain threshold then your estate must pay this tax. As of the time of this writing in 2017, the Estate Tax threshold for the Federal Estate Tax is $5.49 million. This does adjust each year on an index that is meant to track inflation.
Minnesota’s Estate Tax is set to gradually increase to cover estates valued at over $2 million. In 2017, the threshold is $1.8 million, but it will become $2 million next year. Any estate valued above these thresholds will pay Estate Taxes. The Federal Rate is 40% while Minnesota’s rate is graduated from 10%-16%. So, if your estate is taxed at this level for both the Federal government and Minnesota you could be taxed from 50%-66% of the amount over the threshold.
The AB trust strategy is used to delay the payment of these taxes. When one spouse dies, any property that is transferred to the surviving spouse is not subject to the tax. The government allows for the surviving spouse to control it and then taxes any eligible amounts upon the death of the second spouse. Many surviving spouses will have spent a significant amount of the assets to live. This means that there is less left over to tax at the death of the second spouse.
How does it work?
The couple will make sure that their Living Trust or their Last Will and Testament put funds into either the A trust or the B trust. It is very important that this language be drafted by a qualified estate planning attorney. An error in this language could void the entire scheme. Many folks use joint accounts to avoid probate. Most of the time, joint accounts do avoid probate. However, the joint account gives the assets outright to the surviving spouse rather than to the A trust or the B trust.
If the money doesn’t make it into the trust then it can’t be a part of the strategy. Any joint accounts should have their beneficiaries changed to either the A trust or the B trust. This will make sure that the assets are in the trust and the plan works as intended.
When the first spouse dies, assets with enough value to equal the threshold for the Estate Tax ($1.8M for Minnesota and $5.49M for the Federal government) are transferred into Trust A. This is called the “Bypass Trust”, “Credit Shelter Trust”, or the “Family Trust.” This is the maximum amount that can be transferred to anyone other than the surviving spouse without paying the Estate Tax.
If there are still assets left after the threshold amounts are put into Trust A, the remaining assets move into Trust B. Trust B is called the “Marital Trust”, the “QTIP Trust“, or the “Marital Deduction Trust.” These assets pass to the trust for the benefit of the surviving spouse tax free. Taxes are delayed until the death of the surviving spouse.
What happens if your estate is less than $5.49 million dollars? Well, if your attorney files the appropriate forms with the IRS, the remaining amount can be transferred to the surviving spouse. So for instance, if Andy dies and has an estate valued at $3 million and the Estate Tax threshold is $5.49 million there is $1.49 million of unused exemption. If this is passed to the surviving spouse then the survivor may pass $6.98 million to their heirs free of the Estate Tax. So, the assets in Trust B could total up to $6.98 million upon Andy’s wife’s death and avoid the Federal Estate Tax.
These are the basics of the AB trust strategy. It can also be used to potentially handle generation skipping taxes, but that is a topic for another article. If you would like more information or have questions regarding this strategy please fill out the form below:
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Should he arrange his children’s marriages or do Hajj with the money that he has?
A man from Jordan is physically and financially able to perform Hajj, and at the same time he will go as a mahram for his mother and his wife. But he has adult children and fears that they may fall into temptation whilst he is away for Hajj. Will he be excused if he delays Hajj to next year so that he can arrange marriages for some of them and ensure that the others will be safe with someone whom he trusts will prevent them from falling into temptation?
Published Date: 2016-08-07
Praise be to Allah
Hajj is obligatory and must be done immediately by the one who is able to do it and who meets all the conditions of it being obligatory, and it is not permissible for him to delay it without an excuse. For more information, please see the answer to question no. 41702.
It is obligatory for a man to arrange the marriage of his son, if the son needs to get married and cannot afford the expenses thereof. This is included under the heading of obligatory spending according to the Hanbalis.
Ibn Qudaamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Mughni (8/217):
Our companions – i.e., the Hanbalis – said: It is the father’s duty to keep his son chaste, if he is responsible for spending on his maintenance and he needs that which will keep him chaste. End quote.
Al-Mirdaawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Insaaf (9/404):
it is obligatory for a man to keep chaste those on whom he is obliged to spend, including parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren and so on, among those for whose maintenance he is responsible. This is the correct view according to our madhhab (i.e., the madhhab of Imam Ahmad). End quote.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
A person’s need for marriage is a serious matter, and in some cases it may be like his need for food and drink. Therefore the scholars said that it is obligatory for the one who is obliged to spend on a person to arrange his marriage, if he can afford that. So it is obligatory for a father to arrange the marriage of his son, if the son needs to get married and does not have sufficient wealth to get married. End quote from Majmoo‘ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (18/410).
The excuses that make it permissible to delay Hajj include a man arranging the marriage of his son, if the latter needs to get married and he fears that he may fall into temptation and that which is prohibited, and his wealth is sufficient either to do Hajj or arrange his son’s marriage. Hajj is not obligatory for a man unless he owns wealth surplus to what he needs for his own maintenance and that of those on whom he is obliged to spend, and arranging the marriage of his son comes under the heading of obligatory spending, as mentioned above. Moreover, for a man to keep his son chaste and protect him from falling into that which is prohibited, at times when temptations and desires are powerful, is something that cannot be delayed, whereas it is possible to delay Hajj until after the son’s marriage has been arranged.
Ibn Qudaamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Mughni (3/217):
It is essential that this (i.e., the money for Hajj and the expenses thereof) be surplus to what he needs to spend on his dependents for whose maintenance he is responsible, during his trip until he returns, because maintenance has to do with people’s rights, and their need is greater and their rights are more affirmed.
If he needs to get married and fears that he may fall into that which is prohibited, then he should give precedence to getting married, i.e., he should give it precedence over Hajj, because that is obligatory for him and he cannot do without it, so it is like spending on his maintenance.
But if he does not fear that, then he should give precedence to Hajj, because marriage is voluntary and should not be given precedence over the obligatory Hajj. End quote.
And he (may Allah have mercy on him) also said – as noted above – Our companions said: The father is obliged to keep his son chaste if he is responsible for his maintenance and he needs to keep his son chaste.
End quote from al-Mughni (8/217).
His Excellency Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked:
I am a young man, eighteen years old, and am in high school. My mother is approximately fifty-eight years old, and my father died fifteen years ago. My mother wants to go for Hajj, but she says: That is not permissible and is haraam until I get married. I hope that you could advise me as to whether my mother should give precedence to arranging my marriage before she does Hajj.
Undoubtedly Hajj is obligatory upon everyone who has the means to do it, because Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka‘bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence)”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:97] .
So if you have the means to do Hajj in terms of finances, then it is obligatory upon you, and if she has the means to do Hajj in terms of finances, then Hajj is obligatory. But if you start with marriage, because you need to get married, then there is nothing wrong with that, because marriage is also obligatory when one has the desire and wish for it, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “O young men, whoever among you is able to, let him get married. Whoever is not able to, he must fast, for it will be a shield for him.” Whatever the case, there is nothing wrong with giving precedence to Hajj over getting married.
End quote from Fataawa Noor ‘ala ad-Darb by Ibn Baaz (20/42).
If the situation is as the questioner mentioned in his question, that he fears temptation for his children and wants to arrange the marriages of some of them with the wealth with which he would otherwise do Hajj, then in this case there is nothing wrong with him delaying Hajj until Allah makes it easy for him, so as to ward off this great evil.
And Allah knows best.
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Atlanta’s public pension funds are $1.2 billion in the hole, largely the result of shortsighted decisions at City Hall over the last eight years. A new report calls, among other things, for slashing benefits for new employees.
But those steps won’t help much with the funds’ current liabilities. Legally, the city cannot take back benefits that workers have already earned.
The general employees’ fund faces the biggest shortfall, with $749 million in assets and $1.4 billion in liabilities as of Jan. 1. That’s a shortage of $687 million, more than the city’s 2010 operating budget. The police fund was short by another $313 million, and the firefighters by $233 million. (A state audit reports these numbers.)
Some quick background:
— In 2002, shortly after Mayor Shirley Franklin took office, the council sweetened the police retirement package. The so-called “multiplier” — the figure used to calculate a pension benefit — was jacked up from 2 percent to 3 percent. So, someone retiring after 20 years would collect a pension equaling 60 percent of base pay (20 years times 3 percent) rather than 40 percent (20 times 2 percent).
— In 2005 (an election year), the city cut essentially the same deal for firefighters and for general employees. (Although general employees only got a multiplier of 2.5 percent.) Moreover, the vesting threshold was trimmed from 15 years of service to 10. A city task force in 2004 also made 10 recommendations for shoring up the pension plans; none were adopted.
Council members say no one told them this would cost more money.
And, for as long as anybody can recall, the city’s fund contributions have not kept up with the growing debt. That allowed the “funded ratio” for each plan to slide dramatically in recent years.
For general employees, for instance, the fund’s assets covered 77 percent of estimated future payouts. Since then:
2003 — 77 percent
2005 — 65 percent
2007 — 60 percent
2009 — 52 percent
— Now, in 2009 (another election year), everyone in city government seems to recognize pensions are a huge problem.
Four candidates for mayor talked about pensions over the weekend at forums hosted by the Campaign for Atlanta, a coalition of 13 neighborhood groups. Here’s what they had to say:
City Council President Lisa Borders says the city must evaluate whether current pensions plans are economically sustainable: “We can look at parts of the plan and find ways to ratchet back some of our obligations.” She also thinks the city should review investment strategies to see if the plans can make more money.
For new workers, Borders called for consideration of:
— Returning the vesting threshold for earning retirement benefits to 15 years,
— Reducing the multipliers in each of the funds,
— Consider rejoining the Social Security System, which city employees withdrew from in the 1970s.
State Sen. Kasim Reed described the pension deficit as the “most serious threat facing the city of Atlanta’s financial strength.” He plans to select experts to look at other cities’ best practices and give him an action plan in his first 100 days in office. He said “all options” should be on the table, other than trimming benefits for retirees and current employees.
The city recently extended its amortization schedule to fully fund the plans, Reed said, but “all we really did is kick the can down the road.”
The pension enhancements in 2002 and 2005, Reed said, were “really a false promise because what Atlanta has done since it implemented those benefits is fire 2,000 people … We created a liability that was costing the city so much money that the only way to pay for it was to fire people.”
City Council member Mary Norwood called for a comprehensive review of employees’ pay package: “The whole compensation issue of benefits, insurance, vacation time, increments … has to be looked at holistically.”
Norwood said she has no specific plan but would bring in expert advisers to sort through the options. She does not know yet whether the multiplier should be adjusted: “Someone needs to run those numbers for me.”
She, as did the other candidates, blamed the council’s 2005 vote on a lack of information about the consequences: “When the City Council approved the changes to the pensions, we did that with the understanding that the actuarial studies had been done … and [had found] it was something we could afford to do.”
Jesse Spikes also wants to evaluate pension options as part of a comprehensive look at employee compensation. He noted, for instance, that the 2005 vote “was about people feeling that the employees were under-compensated. … We might have done it on the salary end with a great deal more effectiveness.”
He said he would tackle the issue immediately on taking office. “The studies have already been done,” he said. “They have not been followed because of a lack of political will.”
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If you think Mr. Trump is just blowing smoke when he rails against Washington’s bloated bureaucracy, you’d better sit down and brace yourself for a series of shocks …
Shock #1. The federal government’s complete failure to pass its audit: Just four days ago, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its full audit report covering fiscal year 2016 … and it’s a disaster:
The U.S. government failed the audit on about 34% of its assets.
This is crazy. When you run a public company, if your books are so botched up that your auditors refuse to give you a clean bill of health, it’s the kiss of death. But for the federal government, it’s routine; Uncle Sam has failed his audit in every single one of the past 20 years.
Here’s what’s new: Mr. Trump is the first president since Ronald Reagan with an explicit agenda to disrupt the status quo. Will that include a reorg that cleans up the mess? That remains to be seen. But if ever there was a president who has explicitly expressed the intent to tolerate some disruption for the sake of long-overdue fixes, Trump is it.
Shock #2. The messiest department of all: According to the GAO, the U.S. government department with THE sloppiest accounting and THE most waste of all is none other than … the Department of Defense.
This also happens to be one area where Mr. Trump, General Mattis and the Republican Congress are unanimously gung-ho — to invest the most money. But that also raises some urgent questions:
As they move to boost defense spending, will they also tackle the waste at the same time?
If so, what kind of disruptions will be needed to really make a dent?
What will be the impact on major defense contractors?
Will they actually do it?
Trump’s pre-election Tweet against Boeing denotes a keen awareness of the problem. But the nightmarish logistics of cost-cutting indicate that he may first have to focus on the defense build-up, and only secondarily on the complex, time-consuming fixes that are sorely needed.
Shock #3. The government is the biggest enterprise on Earth: Well, maybe this is not such a shock to you. But even though you may be aware of the problem in general terms, it’s still shocking when you consider the numbers:
- The U.S. federal government employs a whopping 3.2 million people.
- India’s population is now over 1.335 billion. Take away the entire billion, and it’s still larger than America’s. But India’s biggest single enterprise, the Indian Armed Forces, employs “only” 1.4 million; and its second largest, the Indian Railways has “only” 1.3 million. Even combined, they have fewer employees than the U.S. government.
- In China, the largest single enterprise is the People’s Liberation Army. With China’s massive defense build-up in recent years, you’d think it would be larger than the U.S. government. But with 2.3 million, it’s far from it.
- Walmart, with more than 5,000 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, is America’s largest private employer. Finding someone in the store to help you may often be a challenge, but there are actually quite a few employees around — over 2 million! Nevertheless, Walmart is also much smaller than the U.S. government.
Needless to say, all this is quite a change from the days of George Washington, when the federal government employed just a handful of people in three small departments — State, Treasury and War.
Can Mr. Trump turn around, stop, or at least slow this massive, centuries-long trend of government expansion? I think it’s possible. But to the degree he can truly shake things up, the side effects are bound to be painful.
Shock #4. Unintended consequences: Everyone on Wall Street knows WHAT Trump and Congress have promised to do: They want to get tougher on trade deals, lift regulations, cut taxes, repeal Obamacare, restore the nation’s infrastructure and more.
Everyone also knows WHEN these changes will begin: Soon after Inauguration, just four days from today.
What virtually NO ONE on Wall Street can tell you is what the unintended consequences will be. They don’t know if trade wars will be triggered. They don’t know what the impact will be on the federal budget. They don’t know how America’s adversaries will react or how the U.S. government will react to those reactions. They certainly don’t know exactly how investors will respond or when.
We don’t either. Nor do we need to. Indeed, it’s precisely at times like these that our investment strategies, perfected over decades of political and market turmoil, become such valuable assets.
Larry Edelson, for example, didn’t need a PhD in political science to predict that Donald Trump would win the election. Instead, he used his deep knowledge of historical cycles, based on thousands of years of data, to correctly predict the outcome. Nor did he need a crystal ball to predict the housing bust of 2007, the Great Debt Crisis of 2008, the Fed’s wild money printing of 2008-2016 and every major move in gold since the 1980s. Cycles showed him the way.
This also helps explain why Larry’s subscribers are looking at open gains of 207% in gold bullion, as much as 167% in SPDR Gold Shares, and from 10% to 38% in four related investments recommended just last year, just to mention a few.
Similarly, our editor Jon Markman didn’t need to be an Einstein Fellow to predict when the tech sector would rise or fall. Instead he relied on his robust forecasting model that has proven itself through some of the most disruptive market gyrations of all time. End result: Overall portfolio growth of more than 25% in 2016, including all losing trades.
Better yet, right now, after years of testing and validation, Jon has just launched a new investment approach based on a trading technology developed in the 1930s by one of my father’s contemporaries — Jesse Livermore. Until now, no one, not even my father who tracked his trades in real time, was able to decode Livermore’s timing indicator. But Jon has.
Meanwhile, our editors Boris Schlossberg and Kathy Lien use a simple device that was created 354 years before boomers like Mr. Trump (and me) were born: The Gregorian Calendar.
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Executive Order #0001: Trump’s $128 Billion Gift to Investors
On Donald Trump’s first day in office, he’s expected to issue an executive order to fix one of Obama’s biggest mistakes. But not the one you’re thinking of…
Instead, he’ll cancel an obscure rule that will immediately unlock a $128 billion fortune for a small, unheard of company.
I could fill volumes with these success stories. And I could also tell you a story or two about editors who sometimes go through slumps. But suffice it to say that all of us at Weiss Research are completely ready for the indisputable outcome of the Trump presidency:
The incoming administration will shake Washington and Wall Street to its core. It will precipitate a sea change unlike anything in living memory, sometimes for the better, sometimes not, driving some markets sharply higher, others sharply lower.
I repeat: Many people can tell us WHAT the Trump presidency will change and even when those changes will begin. But we are among the very few who can tell you with disciplined objectivity and relative confidence, how to deal with the impact — on stocks and stock sectors, interest rates, gold and silver, foreign currencies, options, plus much, much more.
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Courtesy of Gary Hall Sr., 10-time World Record Holder, 3-time Olympian, 1976 Olympic Games US Flagbearer and The Race Club co-founder.
The motion of the pulling arm underwater is arguably the most important concept we must learn to swim fast freestyle and butterfly. At The Race Club camps, where we may teach up to 10 different points related to improving freestyle speed, I rank pulling with the high elbow numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the priority list. It is that important.
The reason I rank the high-elbow pull so highly is not because it enables a swimmer to hold more water, or that it creates more pulling surface area or increases the propulsive power of the pull. It does none of those. It simply reduces frontal drag. Since frontal drag is the number one enemy of the swimmer, it is worth the extra effort to pull in this manner. For a more detailed video on how it reduces frontal drag, please go to following link: http://www.theraceclub.com/videos/secret-tip-how-to-pull-in-freestyle/
The high elbow pull must be set up properly from the moment the hand enters the water on each stroke. In order to initiate the pull correctly, the shoulder must internally rotate some to insure that the elbow remains near the surface while the forearm and hand push down, creating lift. If the pull is initiated with more of a straight arm and without internally rotating the shoulder, it is too late to go back. The drag problem, caused mostly from the upper arm, is already starting.
Once the hand reaches a position below the elbow, while the elbow is near the surface, the hand begins the motion backward, creating propulsion (propulsive phase). In order to keep the elbow near the surface during this phase of the pull, while also rotating the body sufficiently along the axis of motion, the shoulder must extend backward in the joint. Not everyone has the flexibility required in the shoulder to either extend or internally rotate well. For this reason alone, dry land and shoulder-stretching exercises are important for the freestyler.
The underwater pulling motion is another example of the conflict between frontal drag and propulsive forces. While the deeper pull creates more frontal drag, it is also allows for more propulsion than the high elbow pull. Since the deeper pulling arm is a longer lever than the bent high-elbow pulling arm, this pulling motion also causes more torque to be placed on the shoulder, particularly the anterior (biceps) tendon. The higher elbow pull shifts the strength requirement more to the back of the shoulder and the smaller four muscles attached to the scapula.
While using the velocity meter, without any kicking involved, I measured my body speed using both types of pulling motions. With the deeper pull, my body speed dropped by 40% between the fastest point in the cycle, when the hand first entered the water, and the slowest point, at the start of the propulsive phase (hand is about one foot in front of the shoulder). With the high elbow pull, the body speed dropped by 30% during the same period. A 10% difference in speed may not seem like a lot to you, but I assure you that when you are taking many strokes, it is significant.
For this reason, virtually every world-class distance swimmer pulls with a high elbow motion. That is not true in the 50 meters, where one sees elite swimmers using a range from deeper pulls to mid-range pulls, opting for more power. Any race over a 50 is considered a middle or distance swim and for best results, should involve pulling with a high elbow. With practice and strength training, this important pulling motion can continue to get stronger and stronger, resulting in a faster swim. Here are a couple drills to practice the high elbow pull: http://www.theraceclub.com/aqua-notes/high-elbow-pull-freestyle-stroke/
Yours in swimming,
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-hall/9/908/671 [email protected]
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