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Healthy Hedonism
'Tis not the season for self-denial. Cookbook author Myra Kornfeld shares her wisdom on healthier ways to indulge in the holidays' guilty pleasures.
By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | December 2008
I knew things had reached a low point the day my husband offered to pour me a bowl of cereal for breakfast and, while peering into the cupboard, asked: "Do you want sticks and twigs, sticks and berries, or just sticks?"
I decided to take a pass on sticks and devote an extra three minutes to making some steel-cut oatmeal, even if I was just doing it the lazy way — in the microwave. I emptied part of a bag of frozen blueberries into the oatmeal and topped it with milk: Mercy! I suddenly had a delicious breakfast made of real food, not a tragic meal of something that looked like bedding for hamsters. Now that wasn't that hard, was it?
No, in terms of the cooking and time, it wasn't hard at all. Conceptually, though, it was sort of tough.
Like so many modern people, I, too, am prone to falling into the trap of thinking that eating healthfully means sacrifice, scarcity and unpleasantness — and, conversely, that eating happily means lying to your cardiologist.
Cookbook author, chef and cooking-school tutor Myra Kornfeld has made a career of trying to show people a third path: "It's true," she says. "People do think that something healthy is just going to be sort of sad and not flavorful or fun or luscious. But I don't think there's any conflict between luscious eating and healthy eating. That's why my cookbooks have words like 'hedonist' and 'voluptuous' in them — people need to know that good food doesn't have to be monastic."
Kornfeld, who's written The Voluptuous Vegan (Clarkson Potter, 2000) and The Healthy Hedonist (Simon & Schuster, 2005), has, for her latest effort, taken on the third rail of American food: the holidays.
I call the holidays the third rail because it seems to me the particular place where ideas of abundance and scarcity clash: If we skip the eggnog, candied yams, appetizers and desserts, we're "good" — and lonely and deprived. If we have it all, we're "bad" — though warm, happy and a well-loved part of the celebration. Sound familiar? But Kornfeld insists it doesn't have to be this hard.
In The Healthy Hedonist Holidays: A Year of Multi-Cultural, Vegetarian-Friendly Holiday Feasts (Simon & Schuster, 2007), she puts together elaborate celebration meals for all the big American holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and day, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's, and all the rest. These are celebration meals that show a holiday table can be abundant, laden and healthy.
Her version of sweet potatoes, for instance, gets its sweetness from natural potatoes, coconut milk, a little fresh lime juice and a mere tablespoon of maple syrup (see Web Extra!). It relies on the way a sour element like lime juice showcases sweetness as effectively as, say, adding more sweetness with mini-marshmallows.
Kornfeld also shows, through advance-prep time lines, how you can do the cooking for one of those zillion-course extravaganzas that are only possible to pull off during the holidays. More miraculously, she proves that an extravaganza can be healthy. How? Lots of the courses can be beautiful salads and vegetables. And for dessert, a butternut squash pie is Kornfeld's solution to ending a holiday meal with the rich opulence of a cheesecake — without the heaviness.
"I really do think that part of the equation when you're eating is how you're going to feel afterward," she says. "If you have this nice, delicious meal, but you feel like a brick when you're done, is that good food?"
Kornfeld is convinced there's a better way — a more enjoyable way. "We've become this culture of black and white: It's either deprivation or it's too much. Too often we think deprivation is going to be what saves us, so we ask ourselves: What can we take away? What can we deny ourselves? But if you come from abundance, that's the key. I recently talked to someone who had some health issues and lost 100 pounds, but his diet now is so sad it almost makes me cry — nothing but steamed vegetables and boneless chicken breasts. I gave him a copy of my book, and said, 'You can add some flavor to your life and still be healthy.' Life and food are not black or white — there's a big lovely gray in there. There are ways to not deprive yourself, but still find you're eating really well."
That's good news to me, because, truth be told, I never liked those bowls of sticks and twigs. I'd much rather have an abundance of sweet potatoes and salads.
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is a celebrated food and wine critic. Nominated seven times for James Beard Foundation Awards — the Oscars of the food world — she has received four awards for her restaurant and wine columns. Since 2001, her work has been regularly featured in the Best Food Writing anthologies.
For the recipe pictured above, Winter Citrus Salad With Parsley, Fennel and Walnuts, as well as more recipes from The Healthy Hedonist Holidays, see the Web Extras! below.
WEB EXTRA!
Winter Citrus Salad With Parsley, Fennel and Walnuts
1 cup red onion, thinly sliced into halved rings
4 navel oranges or tangerines
1 medium fennel bulb
1/4 cup olives, preferably kalamata, halved, or niçoise, whole (optional)
1 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup walnuts
1 bunch watercress, washed, with hard stems removed
1/4 pound feta cheese, preferably sheep's milk, crumbled, about 3/4 cup (optional)
Soak the onion in cold water for 15 minutes. Drain and dry thoroughly. Cut the peel and any white pith from the oranges with a sharp paring knife, then cut the sections free from the membranes, letting them drop into a medium bowl to collect the juices, which will become part of the dressing. Add the onions to the citrus. Trim the fennel, using a peeler to peel off any discolored parts. Halve the fennel and cut away the hard core. Using a mandoline or a knife, slice the fennel halves very thinly and add it to the citrus along with the olives. If you plan to serve this immediately, stir in the parsley at this point as well. Stir in the salt and sprinkle with black pepper. Stir in the olive oil and let sit for 30 minutes or so to let the flavors marry. In a medium, heavy-bottomed skillet, dry-toast the walnuts until fragrant, about five minutes. Rub the walnuts against the strainer (over the sink or wastebasket) to loosen the skins. Remove the walnuts from the strainer and chop into small (1/4-inch) pieces. Serve the salad on the watercress, sprinkled with the walnuts and cheese. Recipe excerpted from The Healthy Hedonist Holidays by Myra Kornfeld (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
Sweet Potato Gratin With Coconut Milk and Chipotle Chile Serves eight
3 pounds sweet potatoes (about six medium), peeled and cut into 1/4-inch rounds
One 15-ounce can unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, seeded and minced
1 tbs. fresh lime juice
1 tbs. maple syrup
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes, coconut milk, chipotle chile, lime juice, salt, maple syrup and garlic. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish (8 x 11-inch Pyrex is ideal). Cover with aluminum foil. Bake 45 minutes to one hour, until the sweet potatoes are just tender. Uncover and bake an additional 30 minutes, or until the tops are browned. Recipe excerpted from The Healthy Hedonist Holidays by Myra Kornfeld (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
Cherry-Almond Baked Apples
1/2 cup whole almonds
1/2 cup dried cherries
1 tbs. almond butter
1/4 tsp. almond extract
4 baking apples, such as Cortland, Rome Beauty or Mutzu
1/2 lemon
1 cup apple juice
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Dry-toast the almonds in a medium, heavy-bottomed skillet about three minutes, until fragrant and lightly browned. Remove from the heat and chop into small pieces. Place in a bowl with the dried fruit and cinnamon. Mix together the almond butter, maple syrup, vanilla, almond extract and a pinch of salt in another small bowl. Stir into the nuts just until the mixture is moistened. Core the apples and peel a 1/2-inch band of skin around the middle of each apple to prevent them from splitting. Rub the peeled area with the cut lemon. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of filling into each apple. Place the apples in a baking dish or pie plate and pour the juice on the bottom. Bake, uncovered, until the apples are tender, 45 minutes to an hour, basting every 15 minutes. A teaspoon of lemon or orange zest is a delicious addition. Serve warm or at room temperature. Recipe excerpted from The Healthy Hedonist Holidays by Myra Kornfeld (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Experience Life Staff Holiday Traditions
Experience Life staff members share some of their holiday traditions.
Celebrate! A Holiday Party Menu
By Betsy Nelson
Throw a sophisticated party with a menu of easy, healthy, and delicious appetizers.
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11 Ways to Experience Holiday Joy
By Laine Bergeson Becco, FMCHC
Rediscover the real source of the holiday season's magic.
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ROUNDUP: Avoid Stress During the Holiday Season
Some of the best from our archives on how to deal with this busy holiday season.


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Authe is een gemeente in het Franse departement Ardennes in deregio Grand Est en telt 91 inwoners (2009). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Vouziers.

Geschiedenis
Authe maakte deel uit van het kanton Le Chesne tot dit op 22 maart 2015 werd opgeheven en de gemeenten werden opgenomen in het kanton Vouziers.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Authe bedraagt 9,2 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is dus 9,9 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Externe links

Gemeente in Ardennes

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the rain held out for us to spend many hours wandering the state park of fort flagler. we visited many but not all of the batteries and some of the most stupendous views of the surroundings . probably one of only places to see amazing views of both mt rainer and mt baker in one spanning head turn .
i had taken my sunglasses off to not look suspicious but there is an automatic suspiciousness which i felt just for the fact he had a really big gun. i can see how the presence is such weapons alone makes people jittery and nerved. keep following the road about ten miles and "have a good day "
said he still ready if needed to shoot the hell out of us.
we followed and followed the road and entered directly from the road we ridden the entire way.
driving straight in and parking amongst the old army housing some of which was empty others which showed signs of habitation if not at this very moment then not one too far past.
it was this photographers dream.
the batteries and tunnels and darkness within this hollowed out shells of what they used to be the life that heaved within in them at some point in the name of protecting the country.
a playground for young and not so much young .
the forts back east were never like this and one can easily imagine if left to sink into the earth and forgottenesss that some day they could easily resemble an alien landing pad or something in the same questionable realm as some of the aztec structures we pontificate over.
we saw lots of bald eagles, four wales and lots of deer in addition to some gems of history.


A little over a year after major UK contractor, Carillion, went spectacularly bust, we thought it would be opportune to consider the criticisms of poor governance by the board and failings by the auditors, and look at the solutions subsequently proposed for audit regulation and audit practice. We can then consider what difference they might have made had they been in operation in the years prior to the collapse.
Carillion was created in 1999 as a demerger from the long-established construction company, Tarmac, to focus on contracting services in what was then seen as a rapidly expanding market and, particularly, the opportunities arising from the Private Finance Initiative from the government to outsource public services. Over the next few years it grew rapidly by acquisition of some other former UK construction industry leaders such as Mowlem and McAlpine, and ventured overseas, for instance buying companies in Canada.
in at least one case, the purchase of energy efficiency business, ERGA, in 2011 for £305m, almost from day one, the justification for the acquisition was invalidated by the change in government policy which progressively cut the subsidies on which ERGA's business model was founded. Over the next five years ERGA's losses exceeded the amount Carillion paid for it.
The result of building a business through assembling a set of poorly performing operations with razor thin margins at best, funded by debt, was the requirement to keep finding new sources of cash. The approach taken was later described as a type of Ponzi scheme, in which the new businesses acquired would generate initial cash flow which would cover the losses made on earlier non-performing contracts. The end result was probably inevitable without someone arresting the process and stopping new contract signings while sorting out the legacy of loss-making ones, and simultaneously raising funds to bridge the turn-round process. Sadly, unlike some of its peers, no-one bit the bullet at Carillion.
The end came after the company had declared profits before tax of £142m on revenues of £5.2bn for 2016 in unqualified accounts signed off by KPMG. Six months after the year-end the directors had to declare write-offs of £845m, and the CEO resigned. There followed three profit warnings, and Carillion collapsed into compulsory liquidation the following January with cash balances of £29m and liabilities of £7bn.
Where did the governance go wrong?
If we take the leading accountants' approach to corporate governance, we would have to say that, assuming KPMG were doing their job properly as external auditors, Carillion apparently ticked all the boxes as regards compliance with the regulations applying to a listed company and with the UK's Corporate Governance Code. KPMG signed off their accounts for 2016 and the earlier years without any qualification regarding compliance.
However, Carillion went bust within a little over twelve months from the last audited year end, so "compliance" doesn't appear to have been much use in assessing the quality of their corporate governance.
For many years, recognising the limitations of relying on compliance, we have therefore defined corporate governance holistically, and that is how we'll summarise the failings here, by reference to our Five Golden Rules of good corporate governance.
The board paid regular dividends to shareholders in order to maintain the image of a successful company though its finances were clearly inadequate. This imperilled the business, and hence the well-being of its 40,000 employees and hundreds of suppliers. Similarly, in the year before collapse, it awarded significant bonuses to its senior staff who were instrumental in creating this disaster, and, worse, not long before the final collapse, the directors had removed a "malus" clause in the remuneration contracts which would have clawed back earlier bonuses in the event of a subsequent liquidation.
Here we see Carillion chasing after government outsourcing contracts, frantically agreeing hopelessly optimistic performance targets to get the business. However, the government had rather different objectives, which included shifting responsibility for the performance from their own departments to the supplier, and moving the financial obligations from the Treasury to the private sector. The contracts were drawn up very aggressively in the knowledge that the competing firms were desperate to get the work. Mutuality of interest was weak, and when things went wrong, government was quick to lay the blame on the contractor, though a large part of the performance commitment and much of the financial requirement then came back to haunt them.
The strategic decision made by Tarmac was to hive off part of their business into a new vehicle to focus on outsourcing by government departments. The management of Carillion then set themselves the goal of building scale rapidly, and did this by debt-funded acquisitions over the following years until it had been built into the second largest operator in the field. So scale was achieved, but the profitability in the target market was very slim, and the resources acquired to deliver were plainly inadequate, evidenced by poorly run acquisitions and insufficient finance. Moreover, lessons weren't learned, and the flawed strategy was pursued to destruction.
There seems to have been little integration of the acquired businesses, which appear to have been simply bolted on. This may be an unfair criticism, but remarks made by the Insolvency Service about the difficulty of determining who were the directors on the various boards at any given point in time suggests a serious lack of central control. Moreover, the fact that there were huge amounts of uninvoiced work and disputed invoices, presumably across the whole network of subsidiary companies, points to ineffective management controls generally. The apparent ignorance of the board as to the true, underlying state of affairs points to a serious failing both in information systems and controls, but also in the supineness of the directors in not challenging the information they were given.
The 2016 Report and Accounts summarised the outlook with the words: "High quality order book and strong pipeline of contract opportunities". The summary stated an "order book pipeline of £41.6bn" and "net borrowings of £218m" together with, as mentioned above, a figure for profit before tax of "£146m". But what it certainly didn't highlight was that due to the extreme financial pressure, Carillion had taken advantage of a government scheme through which suppliers to companies like Carillion could get paid promptly, for a modest fee, through a separate bank scheme. This took these trade creditors off Carillion's books and put the liabilities into a different part of the balance sheet, thereby flattering the short-term liquidity position.
Furthermore, the goodwill in the balance sheet had grown to huge proportions as the company made its acquisitions, and its valuation, in reality, was very small. For instance, ERGA, mentioned above, was taken into Carillion's books at a valuation of £329m against a purchase price of £306m, and even after the losses mentioned above, the goodwill was left unimpaired. It took a newly appointed CFO of one of the group companies to challenge Carillion's "sloppy" accounting practices, in early 2017. And despite the initial rebuttal, this "whistleblower" had pulled the thread which caused the concealment to start unravelling. A few months later Carillion announced its huge write-off.
What were the criticisms of auditors?
The criticisms of the Big Four accountants firms, all of which were involved with Carillion in different ways, can be grouped into two broad categories: professional ethics and professional competence.
PwC: liquidation adviser and adviser to the pension fund.
PwC was challenged on the ethical question of, effectively, advising on how much was owed to its own client. The others were accused, less fairly, of feeding voraciously, like vultures, on the sucker which was Carillion.
Regarding professionalism, it is arguable that EY's exercise was essential, but too late, even if it was more than the company could afford at the time. Similarly, KPMG's help in an unsuccessful exercise to try and raise vital funds can clearly be justified. But the performances of KPMG and Deloitte in their roles of external and internal auditor can surely only be described by an independent onlooker as dire.
KPMG's defence is effectively the "safe harbour" one, that they followed all the required steps and it was management's business judgement that was to blame for the sudden collapse. The challenge to this view is the one that has been debated around the issue of the so-called expectation gap regarding the purpose of audit, but Deloitte must surely have a more difficult case to answer.
Since Carillion blew up, the UK Parliament has been attacking the audit profession, or more particularly, the Big Four. In the view of MPs there is a cosy oligopoly which is detrimental to standards, and where audit is used as a loss-leader to help sell lucrative consultancy and advisory work. And all the big client audit work is shared out among the Big Four, to the exclusion of the worthy smaller firms.
Kingman Review of Audit Regulation: which recommended that the regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), was out of date in its remit and should be replaced by a new body, the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA), which would have a wider remit and all the extra powers of a statutory body. And maybe consider a UK version of the US's SarBox.
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA): issued proposals which include splitting up the Big Four, ring-fencing the audit side of the firms, joint audits and a cap on market share.
Project Flora, headed by Donald Brydon: currently examining the quality and standards of audit and what can be done to meet public expectations.
What difference would the new proposals have made to Carillion's governance and the interests of its stakeholders?
Looking at our short summary of Carillion's nineteen year business life and the issues that led to its downfall, do we think the changes outlined above would have made a significant difference to the eventual outcome?
The chief factors that doomed Carillion were a marginal business model, ineffective operational management, delusional accounting, and dangerous over-gearing which led inexorably to the cash shortages which killed it. The public presentation of the company's performance fooled some analysts (referred to by the KPMG partner as providing support for his judgements) but not all (it was one of the most shorted companies towards the end). So would separation of the audit into a separate firm have improved KPMG's audit? Would bringing a smaller firm into a joint audit have made a difference? Would a new more powerful regulator with a wider remit to include the Corporate Governance Code have spotted the flaws in the audit process?
The answer to the first two questions is surely no, as the perceived purpose of the audit would be no different, and hence the practice would still adhere to existing principles, which, for instance, would permit demonstrably flawed valuation of goodwill. And creating a bigger regulatory bureaucracy with the remit to include the Corporate Governance Code would surely deliver yet more extensive box-ticking. It's possible that Donald Brydon will redefine the purpose of the audit to bring it closer in line with common sense, but less likely that he will add the rider that the practice should include an independent survey of the key stakeholders to cast a light on the reality or otherwise of the company's internally generated information flows.
We outlined our views regarding the future of audit in our earlier articles. Official opinion has been moving our way in recent years regarding the need to account to all the key stakeholders, not just the shareholders, and on a wider range of matters than simply financial performance. Sadly, one of the key elements – independent survey – hasn't yet appeared in recommended practice. So, in the words of Christopher Booker, this looks like another example of a sledgehammer to miss a nut, albeit a rather big nut.


Linda Sarsour (& others) Shed "Light on Darkness" – Hanukkah in Bklyn 2015 | the "silent" majority no more!
It was Chanukkah. Saturday, December 12, 2015. Brooklyn.
Organizers say the goal was to send a message that America is a nation of refugees and that it must continue to keep its doors open.
Daniel Greenfield describes perfectly the nature and associations of the crowd gathered in Brooklyn. If you had no idea who they are – you will NOW.
Because I was filming, I needed to find some pictures as well. So, Thank You TWITTER! (and Facebook).
This menorah was very tall and the spirit of those celebrating was warmly welcoming. (NEVER had a latke this GOOD!) Given to us by two lovely kids.
As 6 pm approached and the city maintenance truck was still lighting the menorah from the 'cherry picker', the crowd that gathered was looking "suspiciously" UN-political.
So, we went searching for the POLITICAL menorah lighting. We found them "Shedding Light on the Darkness: Saying Yes to Syrian Refugees & Saying No to Anti-Muslim Hate!" at about 6:18 and thru twitter-pics, I see we missed Debbie Almontaser's speech.
The IMAM below is from Syria. He joined with Jewish, Muslim & Christian Brooklynites to light the menorah, to welcome refugees & to stand against "Islamophobia".
He spoke and sang a Muslim prayer.
Next, this Brooklyn politician, Brad Lander, sang a poem written by the infamous anti-Zionist, TONY KUSHNER.
AND THEN : LINDA SARSOUR.
Sylvia Hamer, Brooklyn's Chief of Staff, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann (left) and Cantor Lisa Segal (right) flank speaker, LINDA SARSOUR, at the December 12, 2015 Chanukkah protest rally held at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Linda is Exec Dir. Arab American Assoc NY. The crowd adulation was effusive, most likely a portent of what these BROOKLYN Soc/Commie/Progs have in store for her: POLITICAL OFFICE of the highest order.
Sarsour ALWAYS has a LONG list of "VIOLENCE against Muslims" that she rattles off in speech after speech, claiming that ISLAM has been here at the creation of the United States – via slavery and making NO MENTION of the SLAVE TRADERS of ISLAM, THEN AND NOW.
Even though I was unable to record his entire speech. I was there. He said Not ONE WORD about the Christian martyrs of the 21st century.
Pastor Gil Monrose Retweeted . "Here's some amazing pics from tonight's #Hannukah service ". Which included the aforementioned, Debbie Almontaser.
(12/13/15) BROOKLYN – Members of Brooklyn's Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities came together on the steps of Borough Hall Saturday night to protest hatred they say is fueling anti-Muslim violence.
My last two videos from this menorah event: Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer (Refugee Advocate & Educator) @JFREJNYC [Jews For Racial and Economic Justice)] and [HIAS] "my religious tradition teaches to place human dignity & respect above all else." She leads with the Torah and how we are to treat the Stranger ….
As I was leaving the menorah protest (in support of open borders) I had a brief look at the counter-protest that Rabbi Lippman referred to earlier: No to Open Borders – We Can't Vet them, Don't Let Them In. Protect Americans FIRST.
They ended with some folk-singing (of course).
The Terrorists are everywhere. Vetting is not possible. This a dangerous time to hold back. Now is the Time to NO LONGER REMAIN Polite and SILENT.
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Q: Random redirection to adult sites of mobile.juicyads.com Since two days ago, almost all of my clicks open new tab and redirect to this Adult-only URL:
mobile.juicyads.com/service_redirect.php?p=64686&s=124309&u=http://www.google.com

Parameters p and s are not fixed as far as I know but parameter u which is http://www.google.com is fixed and for all of redirections are same. I understood that the URLs which didn't visited yet are redirecting to mobile.juicyads.com websites so if we visit URL A and see the mobile.juicyads.com advertising once, we won't see it again if we go to URL A again.
What is the problem and how can I fix it? I use Windows 7 ultimate and Google Chrome browser and tried these:

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*Scanning whole my drive for virus and other bad-wares using Avast!

*Restoring computer for earlier time using Restore Point

*Disabling plug-ins and extensions (Everything I could!)

*Clearing DNS cache and other caches

*Using different DNS servers on my modem-router

*Pinging pages that I didn't visited before, results were OK

I should say that it's not Only my problem and occurs for other people too. And also before this problem (about a month ago) pages were redirected to adfoc.us website (See related question).

A: You have malware on your system.   Get Malwarebytes (or an equivalent piece of malware - which is distinct from antivirus software), run it and see if it cleans it up.
I note you may have some difficulty getting Malwarebytes if your system has been infected and is using a proxy to hijack your browser - using another browser MIGHT be a way arround this, otherwise download it from another system and use a USB or equivalent to get Malwarebytes to the infected system.   To be safe you should probably not trust the USB key after its been plugged into the infected PC.  (Or use a burnt CD so the contents can't be changed).

A: It sounds like an issue with DNS, or an HTTP proxy.  The issue could be in your computer's browser settings, your computer's Internet settings, or settings of the default gateway of your computer (your "router"), or any other router, including those of your ISP or some other Internet access provider (perhaps the "upstream" ISP that your local ISP branch uses).
The first thing to do is to figure out how your system is getting the Internet connectivity configuration.  Are you using automatically assigned settings (e.g., DHCP/IPv4)?  Learning this early can help prevent problems from re-creating themselves.
The next thing to do is to make sure that your system is using a trusted DNS server, like 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 or 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3 or OpenDNS's servers.
Does the issue also affect when you're using HTTPS?
See if checking these things ends up revealing a solution.  If there is a network administrator other than yourself (like if you are at a company that has professional computer support), then report this to your network administrator.  Otherwise, report this to your ISP (after figuring out the things I suggested you checked earlier).  This is rather sounding like an issue that might not just be your local PC, and it may even be something happening at your ISP or upstream.  In that case, they may be able to troubleshoot this easier than you, and many ISPs won't charge for the service (particularly if the troublesome equipment seems to be equipment that is not at your site).  On the other hand, they might provide you with some indication that the problem is your equipment, at which time they will typically stop additional free troubleshooting until your equipment is fixed.  (I'm referring to a lot of experience I've had with some various ISPs; I do imagine that different ISPs around the world could act different.)

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was awarded yesterday evening. The visitor counter was at 501 when they arrived (there was no guest at 500 count) an 10,005 views of our pages.
The lucky winers are Šárka and Lukáš from Hradec in Czech Republic.
Lucky couple came out for dinner at Skojera to celebrate their anniversary, 3.5 year of dating. Lucky indeed!
They could not believe they won a dinner. In the video you will see them asking "pravda".
Happy Anniversary Šárka and Lukáš!


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The general conditions as mentioned below.
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Agreement: Every agreement concluded between HRC Trading and the other party.
Product: All matters that are the subject of the agreement concluded between the Other Party and HRC Trading.
Voucher : A voucher, which meets the security features, of which the other party obtains the product without payment or at a discount.
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These General Terms and Conditions apply to every offer, quotation and Agreement concluded between HRC Trading and the Other Party, unless parties have expressly and in writing deviated from these General Terms and Conditions.
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If it appears that one or more provisions in these General Terms and Conditions are void or voidable, then the General Terms and Conditions will remain in effect for all others. In the event of this situation, HRC Trading and the Other Party will consult with the aim of agreeing new provisions to replace the void or void provisions.
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Offers and / or quotations are made in writing and / or electronically, unless urgent circumstances make this impossible.
All offers and / or quotations from HRC Trading are non-binding, unless a period for acceptance has been set in the offer and / or quotation. If a period for acceptance is stated in the offer and / or quotation, the offer and / or quotation will expire when this period has expired.
The offer and / or quotation applies as long as the stock lasts. It is possible to order in advance. The product is then put in stock and delivered as soon as the product is in stock.
HRC Trading can not be held to its offers and / or offers if the Other Party, in terms of reasonableness and fairness and generally accepted views, should have understood that the offer and / or offer or a part thereof is an obvious mistake or error.
If the acceptance, whether or not on minor points, deviates from the offer included in the offer and / or quotation, then HRC Trading is not bound by it. The Agreement will then not be concluded in accordance with this deviating acceptance, unless HRC Trading indicates otherwise.
A composite quotation does not oblige HRC Trading to deliver part of the goods included in the offer and / or quotation at a corresponding part of the price quoted.
Offers and / or quotations do not automatically apply to future orders or repeat orders.
The Agreement is established by timely acceptance by the Other Party of the offer and / or quotation from HRC Trading.
Cancellation of the order is not possible, unless there are special circumstances or if HRC Trading has explicitly given permission for cancellation.
The Other Party will provides HRC Trading in a timely manner with all data or instructions necessary for the performance of the Agreement or of which the Other Party should reasonably understand that these are necessary for the performance of the Agreement.
If the foregoing information and instructions are not or not provided on time, HRC Trading has the right to suspend the performance of the Agreement. The extra costs incurred by the delay are for the account of the Other Party.
Orders are exclusive -, delivery- or shipping costs and any credit card surcharges, unless stated otherwise.
HRC Trading will provide the other party with any additional costs in time for the conclusion of the Agreement or provide data on the basis of which these costs can be charged by the Other Party.
If HRC Trading agrees on a fixed price with the Other Party at the conclusion of the Agreement , HRC Trading is entitled to increase the price, even if the price was not originally given under reserve.
If HRC Trading intends to change the price, it will notify the Other Party as soon as possible.
stipulated that the delivery will take place more than three months after the purchase.
The Other Party is entitled to dissolve the Agreement if the price is increased more than three months after the conclusion of the Agreement, unless the Agreement stipulates that the delivery will take place more than three months after the purchase.
In the case of Distance Selling, delivery must take place within 30 calendar days at the latest.
In the case of distance selling, HRC Trading has the right to oblige the other party to pay up to 50% of the price in advance.
In the case of Distance Selling, the Other Party has the right to cancel the Agreement for fourteen calendar days after receipt of the goods delivered by HRC Trading, without stating reasons.
In the case of distance selling, the other party has the right to revoke the agreement after thirty calendar days if HRC Trading has not delivered the product within thirty calendar days, unless the parties have agreed a different delivery period.
If HRC Trading has not complied with its obligation to provide information or has not provided information in the correct form, the Other Party shall have the right to dissolve the Agreement for three months after receipt of the goods delivered by HRC Trading, without stating reasons. If HRC Trading still complies with the obligation to provide information within those three months, the day after it has still fulfilled that obligation starts the period of fourteen calendar days.
The Other Party may revoke the Agreement via the standard withdrawal form placed by HRC Trading or in a manner chosen by the Other Party.
If the Other Party sends back the delivered goods, the Other Party must return the goods in a proper packaging, with all accessories and in original condition. The shipping costs of the return are at the risk and expense of the Other Party.
If the Other Party has exercised its right of withdrawal, the Other Party is obliged to return the goods within 14 calendar days because the Other Party has informed HRC Trading that it will cancel the agreement.
If the Other Party has exercised his right of withdrawal, HRC Trading will return the full down payment including the paid shipping costs no later than fourteen calendar days after the dissolution of the Agreement.
If the goods are not available, HRC Trading will inform the Other Party as soon as possible and HRC Trading will return the deposit amount within fourteen calendar days at the latest. If HRC Trading and the Other Party agree that a case of similar quality and price may be delivered, then the shipping costs for the return will be charged to HRC Trading. The foregoing only applies if the Other Party makes use of its right of withdrawal during the cooling-off period.
Delivery takes place because the case is put in power to the Counterparty. After delivery, the risk of the case passes to the Counterparty.
Delivery takes place at the address given by the Other Party, unless agreed otherwise.
The Other Party is obliged to purchase the purchased goods at the time when they are handed over to the Other Party, unless this entails serious objections or unreasonable costs.
If the Other Party at the place of delivery refuses to take delivery of the goods or is negligent with the provision of data or instructions necessary for the delivery, the goods intended for delivery shall be stored at the risk and expense of the Other Party, after HRC Trading has informed the Other Party of this.
Delivery will take place within a term specified by HRC Trading.
If HRC Trading requires data or instructions from the Other Party that are necessary for the delivery, the delivery time commences after the Other Party has provided it to HRC Trading.
If the delivery term is exceeded, the Other Party must declare HRC Trading in default in writing, whereby HRC Trading will still be offered a reasonable period to deliver the goods.
A notice of default is not necessary if the delivery has become permanently impossible or otherwise it appears that HRC Trading will not fulfill its obligations under the Agreement. If HRC Trading does not proceed to delivery within this period, the Other Party has the right to dissolve the Agreement without judicial intervention and / or to demand compensation.
The items that are the subject of the Agreement are at the expense and risk of HRC Trading up to the time of bringing the items to the Other Party into control.
The risk of loss, damage or depreciation of items that are the subject of the Agreement will pass to the Other Party at the time when goods are placed under the control of the Other Party or a third party to be appointed by the Other Party.
Payment is made by means of IDEAL, PayPal, Sofort, Belfius or a similar payment method or transfer to a bank account specified by HRC Trading or in cash at the time of the purchase or delivery, unless otherwise agreed.
Payment can be made both before and after.
Payment afterwards must be made within 7 days after the invoice date, in a manner to be indicated by HRC Trading and in the currency in which is invoiced, unless agreed otherwise.
HRC Trading and the Other Party can agree that payment is made in installments. If payment in installments has been agreed, the Other Party must pay according to the terms and percentages as laid down in the Agreement.
The Other Party is not entitled to deduct the amount owed on account of a counterclaim made by it.
After the expiration of 10 days after the invoice date, the Other Party is legally in default without notice of default. The Counterparty will owe an interest of 2% per month on the due and payable amount, unless the statutory interest is higher.
In the event of bankruptcy, suspension of payment or receivership, the claims of HRC Trading and the obligations of the Other Party towards HRC Trading are due immediately.
If the Other Party is in default or omission in the (timely) fulfillment of its obligations, then all reasonable costs incurred in obtaining payment out of court are at the expense of the Other Party. In any case, the Other Party owes collection costs.
With regard to extrajudicial (collection) costs, HRC Trading of the Other Party is entitled to the statutory maximum allowable reimbursement as determined in the Decree on compensation for extrajudicial (collection) costs.
HRC Trading is only entitled to compensation for the extrajudicial (collection) costs, after HRC Trading has sent the Other Party a notice of default after the commencement of the default to pay the outstanding invoice or invoices within 15 days.
Any reasonable legal costs and execution costs incurred will also be borne by the Other Party.
A voucher can only be outsourced to HRC Trading.
The Counterparty must store a Voucher carefully. No compensation will be paid in case of theft or loss.
A voucher is only valid during the validity period. The period of validity is stated on the Voucher.
Vouchers can not be returned or redeemed for cash.
In the case of distance selling, vouchers can be returned within fourteen days. After this period, vouchers can not be returned or exchanged for money.
All goods delivered by HRC Trading within the framework of the Agreement remain the property of HRC Trading until the Other Party has properly fulfilled and fully paid what it owes under the Agreement.
The amount due also includes: the reimbursement of all costs and interest, including from earlier and later deliveries and services rendered, as well as claims for damages due to shortcomings in the performance.
As long as the ownership of the delivered goods has not been transferred to the Other Party, it may not resell, pledge or otherwise encumber the items that fall under the retention of title, except within the normal course of his / her business.
After the conclusion of the Agreement HRC Trading has come to know circumstances that give good grounds to fear that the Client will not fulfill his payment obligation.
The Client is declared bankrupt, submits a request for suspension of payments, requests the application of debt restructuring natural persons, is confronted with a seizure of his property.
Dissolution takes place in writing and without judicial intervention. If the Agreement is dissolved, the claims of HRC Trading on the Client will be immediately due and payable.
A shortcoming can not be attributed to HRC Trading or the Counterparty, as the shortcoming is not due to its fault, nor is it due to law, legal act or generally accepted beliefs. In this case, the parties are also not obliged to fulfill the obligations arising from the Agreement.
In these General Terms and Conditions, force majeure is understood in addition to what is understood in the law and jurisprudence in that area, all foreseen causes, foreseen or not foreseen, on which HRC Trading can not exert influence and as a result of which HRC Trading is unable to meet the obligations. come.
In case of force majeure, the parties are not obliged to continue the Agreement, nor are obliged to pay any compensation.
HRC Trading guarantees that the delivered goods comply with the agreement. HRC Trading also guarantees that the delivered goods comply with the usual requirements and standards that can reasonably be imposed on them and that the goods have those properties which, taking all circumstances into account, are required for normal use.
The guarantee applies, from the moment of delivery, for a period of 6 months, unless the nature of the delivery dictates otherwise or parties have agreed otherwise. After expiry of the guarantee period, all costs for repair or replacement, including administration, shipping and call-out charges, will be charged to the Other Party.
Any form of guarantee will lapse if a defect arises as a result of improper use or lack of care, whether it is the result of changes that the Other Party or third parties have made to the delivered goods. Nor is HRC Trading responsible for any damage that may arise as a result of these defects.
The guarantee will also lapse if the defect arises due to or is the result of circumstances that HRC Trading can not influence. Under these circumstances include weather conditions.
The Other Party is obliged to inspect the delivered goods at the moment of delivery, but in any case within 5 days after delivery. The Counterparty must also examine whether the quality and quantity of the delivered goods correspond with what has been agreed, or at least meet the requirements that apply to them in the normal course of trade.
Defects and shortcomings must be reported to HRC Trading in writing within 8 days of delivery of the Product. The defective Product must be returned together with the proof of purchase, unless this is impossible or unreasonably onerous.
The payment obligation will not be suspended if the Other Party notifies HRC Trading of the defective item within the specified period.
If a complaint is submitted in time, the Other Party remains obliged to purchase and pay for the purchased items, unless it does not have an independent value.
HRC Trading is only liable for direct damage caused by deliberate recklessness or intent of HRC Trading.
HRC Trading is never liable for indirect damage, including in any case consequential loss, lost profit, missed savings, business stagnation or immaterial damage of the Other Party. In the case of consumer purchase, this restriction does not extend beyond that which is permitted pursuant to Section 7:24, paragraph 2 of the Dutch Civil Code.
HRC Trading is not liable for damage of any nature whatsoever, because HRC Trading has assumed incorrect and / or incomplete information provided by the Other Party, unless this incorrectness or incompleteness should have been known to HRC Trading.
The limitations of liability included in this article do not apply if the damage is due to intent or gross negligence of HRC Trading or its managerial subordinates.
If HRC Trading is liable for any damage, then the liability of HRC Trading is limited to the amount up to a maximum of three times the amount stated in the invoice or to the amount to which the insurance contracted by HRC Trading entitles, increased by its own risk that HRC Trading carries according to the insurance.
The Other Party must report the damage for which HRC Trading can be held liable, as soon as possible, but in any event within 10 days after the occurrence of the damage to HRC Trading, all this subject to the penalty of any right of compensation for this damage.
Any liability claim against HRC Trading will lapse within one year after the Other Party became aware of the harmful event or could reasonably have known about it.
HRC Trading has the right to change these terms and conditions unilaterally.
Dutch law is exclusively applicable to all legal relationships to which HRC Trading is a party. This also applies if a contract is performed wholly or partly abroad or if the Other Party is domiciled abroad.


DETROIT, March 3—The Ford Motor Company announced to day that 90 per cent of its auto mobile engines would be modi fied this fall, at the start of the 1971 model year, to run on nonleaded gasoline.
Ford said that the rest of the engines would be modified with in the model year.
The General Motors Corpo ration said last month that all its 1971 cars would be modified to run on nonleaded fuel as an antipollution move.
Eliminating lead from gaso line will remove lead particu lates from the air, reduce by a small amount the unburned gaso line emissions from an auto engine, and clear the way for use of advanced antipollution devices on cars in later years. The leaded gasoline ruins such advanced equipment.
The effect on the motorist is likely to be decreased car per formance, at least the first year or two, with fewer miles to the gallon and less acceleration.
Ford's action puts additional pressure on the gasoline com panies to produce nonleaded fuel. Several have promised such fuel by fall.


After discovering that she is part of a prophecy, Liora becomes determined to be able to learn skills that would better prepare her for the troublesome, dangerous world outside the protective walls of Demor. She knows that many won't allow her to learn how to use a weapon but with the help of her best friend she hopes to learn some skills that could help her defend herself if needed.
Here is the section where Cáel is trying to teach Liora how to throw a knife.
Liora and Cáel headed down to the training grounds. The late noon sun was behind the castle allowing for enough shade to cover the grounds so they wouldn't get too hot in the open area surrounded by dummies and targets. The cool spring breeze danced through her hair, moving the strands across her face while she stared at the target across the field. Its wooden slats punctured and dented from previous attempts to hit the red painted center of the board. The dirt was torn in patches from her previous attempts as she slowly breathed in through her nose.
Her palms were sweating, her arm aching from trying to position her aim just right as to hit the target. She licked her lips following by pressing them together tightly in concentration. She felt a gentle hand on her arm lower her aim by an inch as Cáel used his foot to slide hers farther in front.
"Follow through with yar knees," Cáel breathed, moving his cheek against hers to see if she was properly aligned with the target.
"You're a little close, aren't you?" Liora muttered; glancing at the boy whose cheeks reddened as much as hers.
Breathing in through her nose, Liora threw her arm forward letting the dagger fly as she watched it skip across the ground like a pebble on a lake.
"Gods damn it!" she hissed, stomping her foot.
"That was closer," Cáel hummed, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Not close enough to hit the bloody thing," Liora sighed, picking up her dagger that wedged itself into the dirt.
"Well yah can't be perfect at everythin'," Cáel smirked, as the girl glared at him with her steel grey eyes.
"I'm not!" Liora stated, looking at the blade that rested in her hand. The ivory handle was speckled with dirt, as the blade was caked in muck.
"Obviously," he pointed towards the board.
"I still have a lot to learn from Caldor," Liora answered.
"Yah will, I mean we've been at this a few times. Ya've picked up on the defense fine – throwing is just one of those extra perks," Cáel shrugged, taking his dagger out from his belt and with a quick flick with his wrist it flew flawlessly into the target board.
"A perk you can do with your eyes closed," Liora grumbled, when Cáel flashed her his goofy grin.
Liora kicked the dirt sending small puffs of sand into the air. She didn't like not being able to learn something quickly. Maybe this was her weakness? Maybe she couldn't fight after all?
Standing before Cáel, she moved her foot in front and squared her hips with the target. Cáel held her arm, moving it in the movement she was to follow. His hands were warm as he tightened the satin ribbon that kept back her sleeve so it wouldn't get in the way.
"Breathe, relax, focus, follow through," he instructed.
"Breathe," she took a breath. She narrowed her eyes as she glared at the target. She was going to get it this time. She knew she was. She could feel it in her gut.
With a quick throw, Liora heard a thunk as the dagger skipped across the ground wedging itself into one of the barrels along the wall.
"Bloody hell!" she seethed, her hands balled into fists as she stomped her foot.
The woman shouted from the steps to the garden, as the girl turned to see the flustered expression on the Detress's face. Her curls bounced when she descended another step. The woman's shadow loomed over her, as the sun blared behind making it difficult for Liora to focus.
"Hello… Marcia," Liora rubbed her upper arm. Cáel ran to pick up the dagger. He cleaned the blade on his trousers before tucking it into his belt.
"It's my fault, Marcia. I suggested she try it since she wanted to–," the boy stopped when the woman raised her hand.
"Cáel, yah know better. Fighting is for boys, not for young ladies. Now, Liora come. I've got some weeding to do and ya're gonna help," Marcia turned to return to the garden.
"Later?" Liora whispered, seeing her friend nod.
"Li, now!" Marcia's voice was shrill as Liora ran up the steps to meet with the Detress who held a basket in her crossed arms.
The woman turned without saying a word as Liora followed her to the other side of the garden closest to the steps leading to the stables. The sun shone, but there was enough shade from the stables and small silver birch to keep them cool. The woman gathered her cotton dress before her as she knelt in the garden getting right to work with the weeding.
Liora had expected a lecture. She had expected Marcia to go on about how she shouldn't have been learning to throw daggers… even if she was doing a poor job. The Detress did none of those things. All Marcia did was weed in silence, her back facing Liora while the girl rang her hands.
Her stomach churned, as her shoulders felt heavy. She didn't like Marcia upset with her. Normally, Marcia was the one that understood her actions but not of late.
Taking the leather string from her wrist, she tied back her hair to keep it out of her face. The shorter strands fell in front of her eyes as she tucked them back in hopes they would stay in place as she worked in the garden. She knelt beside the woman. The damp grass seeped through her thick cotton dress. The black soil of the flowerbed was cool to the touch as it imbedded itself deep under her nails while she dug out the roots of a large thistle growing between the rosebushes.
They worked in silence as the minutes passed. The heaviness she had first felt was growing more as the moments passed. She preferred the woman to have yelled at her than give her the silent treatment. Nothing felt worse than knowing someone was angry but no one spoke.
"Are we going to talk about why you're angry… or are we just going to pretend everything's fine?" Liora whispered, resting her hands on her lap. The black soil left handprints on the tan material as she picked at the dirt under her fingers.
"What is there to talk about? Yah weren't supposed to be down there, now yah know," Marcia explained, placing a dandelion in the wicker basket between them.
"But why? Because I'm a girl? It's not like I'm training for the front. Cáel was just reviewing what he was learning with me," Liora stated, hearing the woman sigh.
"That there is bad enough. Cáel knows better than to do that. He's to be a soldier just like his da' and yah a proper lady," Marcia explained.
"But what if I don't want to be a proper lady?" Liora stated, her hands clenching the material at her knees.
"Because I'm a girl," Liora added.
"I don't agree with that," Liora stated, turning back to digging out weeds. What did Marcia know what kind of lady Liora wanted to be?
Love this…sneaky preview…. 😉 Hugs!


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La cariólisis es la disolución completa de la cromatina, lo que implica una disolución nuclear debido a la actividad de la ADNasa. La célula, después de la cariolisis, se observa al microscopio como una mancha uniforme tan solo coloreada por eosina. La cariolisis es usualmente antecedida por la cariorrexis y ocurre principalmente como resultado de la necrosis, mientras que en la apoptosis, luego de la cariorrexis, usualmente el núcleo se disuelve en los cuerpos apoptóticos.

Véase también
 Apoptosis
 Necrosis
 Picnosis
 Cariorrexis

Referencias

Fisiología celular


Wachusett Brewing Company is bringing back its original IPA (nicknamed "Purple") that they first brewed in 1995 in support of National Rett Syndrome Awareness Month this October. Named "Pretty in Purple" in its reincarnation, all proceeds from sales of this IPA will be donated to Rettsyndrome.org.
"Purple is one of the beers we still get asked the most about" said Ned LaFortune, Founder and CEO of Wachusett Brewing Company. "We made our first batch of it on my family's farm right here in Westminster and it remains one of my personal favorites to this day. To bring it back 23 years after we first made it and now have it help contribute a positive impact for the Rett syndrome community is amazing to me." LaFortune concluded.
"We could not be more excited about this partnership" said Rettsyndrome.org Executive Director Melissa Kennedy. "A girl is born with Rett syndrome every two hours. The funds raised by Wachusett will help us with our goal to fund research to help find a cure and provide support to families who are impacted by this devastating disorder." Kennedy concluded.
"Pretty in Purple" will be available for sale at the Wachusett Brewery's tap room and retail store in Westminster, MA for the month of October.
As a major private funder of Rett syndrome research, Rettsyndrome.org has funded over $44M in high-quality, peer-reviewed research grants and programs to date. The organization hosts the largest global gathering of Rett researchers and clinicians to establish research direction for the future. Rettsyndrome.org, a 501(c) 3 organization, has earned Charity Navigator's prestigious 3 star rating year after year. To learn more about our work and Rett syndrome, visit www.rettsyndrome.org or call (513) 874-3020.


January 27th to April 6th... sorry I haven't blogged in awhile. In February I was busy skiing, running and indoor rock climbing. When 7:30 PM on a weekday night came, instead of walking over to the local Starbucks in 20 degree Fahrenheit weather to write a blog post, I stayed in my apartment without wifi. And for the last four weeks I've been in an air cast with two broken bones and two moderately torn ligaments, so I have not been going out at night.
What happened? I've had some stress at work. Not a lot. Not nearly as much as I had at times in my previous job. The kind of stress that raises me to do a good job, to double check my work, that humbles me, and relaxed me when it eventually subsides, as it has in the past two weeks.
Our company fired it's first person. He's a great guy. He was only with us for about a month. We aim to be people that "lead from the front" and my understanding is that he just wasn't the right kind of great at his job that we hoped. It was a bit of shock to most people, and morale definitely suffered. It's instigated a larger conversation about what our culture is, and what we want it to be. And it's started a dark joke (for me as a man) that we're going to fire all the men and hire all women.
I've started interviewing people. I love it! I've interviewed six people I think one on one. I love it because I think I can learn something from everyone, so I try in my little 30 minute interviews to learn something from each person that we can use in our company, whether we hire them or not. Also, I've found a fair amount of the time that I would enjoy working with the person, but the person is not the right fit for the role or the company at this time. I have pretty high standards. Ideally you would only hire people better than yourself, and frankly, everyone I have voted we hire, appear to be able to do their future jobs excellently, and are better than me.
I think hiring is the single most important thing that we do as a company, it will either make or break us. It can turn us into a ten, or a seven or a a twelve by how employees rate the company. You don't want to be the seven because you don't attract as high of quality candidates and you don't want to be the twelve because then on a conference call a person might not realize he is not on mute and say, "I'm going to kill myself." Which is both a true story from a 200 person conference call, and a saying that was typical at that company, which former employees say was not well addressed by management. Quick tangent, I never applied to MIT, in part because it has a suicide rate. I can take things really hard sometimes, and I don't, or didn't, want to put myself in a situation where suicide was a thing that happened. Instead WPI was a great choice for me. At the time the marketing slogan was, "The university of science and technology. And life." We made fun of the "And life" all the time. However, people would agree that there was in fact support for us and our mental health. At the time WPI had something like 16 years or 24 years or some long stretch of time without a suicide of a student. As far as I know they still have not not had one, although there were two deaths while I was there, one pedestrian hit by a car and I forget the cause of the other, I think it was cancer or another medical tragedy.
My company has also been ramping toward our first full power customer deliveries, and frankly, we're not ready to deliver a full power product to the customer. So there is a little stress as we fix the bugs and optimize the system with looming deadlines. But again, it's a pleasant level of stress. We haven't missed a customer required deadline yet, and still have months before we might possibly. Then we currently have a bit of a slow 2019 for deliveries, so we will likely be able to iron out more hiccups as production slowly ramps up. Plus, I work with a great team! We really have some of the best in the industry and I am confident we will deliver. If I have any specific unique skill at our company, it's that I can deliver. When it comes to getting a product to a production state I've been through the wringer, and seen several different types of programs. I've been through four different production launches, three quite small, sub million dollar programs with less than 40 new parts, and one $150 million program with something like 5000 parts. I've also been early design stage on two $2-10 million programs with 100-500 new parts at my previous company, which would be where our two current projects are in terms of part count.
Running was going well, until I broke my leg and partly tore my ligaments. I'm hoping to be able to run again in late May, and walk without a cane in late April. I think that my focus athletically for the rest of the year will be becoming healthy and strong, by summiting the 26 remaining 14ers I have left, rock climbing a couple long technical routes, and taking a go at Nolan's 14 for the third time.
Skiing, I made eight resort days with my Ikon base pass, and eight backcountry days, and one cross country skiing day. I'm hoping to get out on a lift one more day before all the resorts close, simply so that I am not afraid of skiing next season. Of course, worst cast scenario, I simply hike up a snowfield in June and ski 500 feet.
We are on the same page with our Christian faith, and eventually worship at the same alter.
So what happens after I meet a person that meets those requirements, but I don't feel captivated and infatuated? So far my solution is keep seeing her, but not be in a rush to make babies with her. My motivation to date goes up and down. I've had a few thoughts recently that maybe I really want a great climbing and running partner more than I want a romantic partner. Probably not what I really want, but it has gone through my head. Plus it's a false dichotomy, it's not one or the other, I can possibly have both.
I hope your life is going well, and again someone feel free to post this to my Facebook wall as I haven't logged onto Facebook in 2019 and might go the whole year without using that data promiscuous company.
Back in college I read the first couple chapters hanging out in a book store or a friend's house one night. It was nice, but not nice enough I bought the book. Well, my church is going through the book in Bible study and sermons during Lent and they were giving away free copies, so of course I picked one up and started reading it.
Wow! It's a good book! I really was not expecting much. I mean, how much 2000 year old evidence could there be? I was expecting him to cover maybe 10 sources or pieces of evidence, but when you add them all together you have dozens of points, and that's just in his simple book for laymen. He lists dozens of sources with more thorough analysis of the individual pieces of evidence.
I've been a Christian my whole life. Sure I have doubts from time to time, but it's always been a constant. My Christian experience, and simply knowing how quickly the early church grew despite persecution from the Romans has always been enough evidence for me. It was never important to me that Josephus or Tacitus wrote about Jesus. The fact that only a few of the disciples wrote down the story of Jesus, and not all of them never bothered me. Of course, in today's world, were the three years of Jesus's ministry to happen, everyone would write three books about his life. However, for the first century to have the four gospels, plus a few letters from the original 12 disciples, copied and translated remarkably consistently from a group of 12 people where a few might have been illiterate, there was no printing press or internet, and both the Jews and the Romans were trying to squelch Christianity, by historic standards is as strong as evidence comes. For example, Thallus wrote a three volume history of the Mediterranean, which would be an important text if it were found, but it hasn't survived to modern times. So why do we have the New Testament? Probably because the people spreading it were incredibly convinced that this was a really important story to tell.
Who might possibly enjoy reading the book? Good question, honestly, anyone middle school and older, Christian or atheist. It's an easier read than the Bible and provides a context to the Bible that the Bible itself does not give. It doesn't have all the answers, and honestly we never will.
If there is any change from me after reading the book it is that I might talk about God and Jesus more. Instead of being nervous of being ridiculed or challenged for my faith, at the moment I feel more like, '…whatever, and here is point A, B, C and D for your objection.' What I've realized is that it's easy to attack faith, and people have been attacking Christians (and every faith) for years, but it's a lot harder to attack evidence, and people can't really dispute the evidence of Jesus and his resurrection. For example, why did the people who knew Jesus in large part die claiming he was raised from the dead? It's one thing to die for a faith as people still do today, but it's another thing to die for a faith that was started by a person you knew. In other words, if the original disciples knew that the story of Jesus was false, they would not have died committing to it.
I've been investing in the stock market in individual companies since 2011, and one of the first companies I bought was John Deere. I only bought a little, but I still own it and it's increased in value quite a bit. They send out a nice annual report every year, and attempting to be the diligent investor, I've read most of it. One thing that caught my attention years ago was the major ownership. As of the 2018 annual report which was just sent out in January 2019, there is an organization called Cascade Investment L.L.C. that owns 9.8% of John Deere on page 22 of the annual meeting and proxy statement. Turns out, it's one of Bill Gates investment firms.
So Bill Gates owns owns 31,423,573 shares. In 2018 Deere paid $2.58 in dividends per share of stock. That comes to $81,072,818.34 that Bill Gates made in dividends just for owning such a large share of the company. To the best of my knowledge, he's basically all hands off and doesn't really direct the company at all. However, I'm pretty sure that somewhere up the ladder phone conversations happen, and Microsoft will be used at Deere indefinitely.
The CEO, who does a good job, made $18,525,667 from employment in 2018. In other words, the CEO who works hard, certainly ends up answering calls and emails on the weekends and at night, made less than 1/4 of what Bill Gates made, just for owning such a large portion of the company. That's inequality! I'll call that inequality #1 for the day.
Inequality #2 is between the CEO and the next four highest paid officers. The next four people made between $4,273,996 and $4,633,762. That's less than a quarter of what the CEO makes. I am 100% a fan of CEOs being paid well, but is it really appropriate for the CEO to make over four times as much as the division directors? I mean, 50% more or double would still be a huge step up. I mean, for the average person, if they had a salary making $1.5 million a month I don't think they would last very long, probably only a number of months, at the most a couple years. I just don't really know what you do with that kind of money.
An aside, if the CEO was fired, for cause, meaning he did something wrong, he would still get over $42 million dollars.
Inequality #3 is for the board of directors. While they certainly serve an important function, basically keeping the CEO and senior leadership from going off track, it is a part time job, something that probably takes 2-4 days per month on average. Let's just say that it takes a total of two months of full time work per year. For the members that served a full year, they were paid $270,160 to $329,928. Hands down, I want that kind of job! You could sit on one or two boards, make half a million dollars a year, and work less than six months a year.
I want to be on a board of directors!
The final inequality, #4, is between the median employee and the CEO. The median employee was a US based employee who made $76,083. That's 1/243rd of what the CEO made. In other words, the CEO is doing the work of 243 median employees. What is interesting about this, is that as Deere expands outside the USA the current ratio of 29,152 employees in the USA and 42,946 outside the USA will become even more lopsided. Eventually the median employee may very well be an engineer in India, at which point the salary will be somewhat less than $76,083. As I've thought about financial inequality probably over a thousand hours I can't see the reasoning to pay any one person more than 10 times any other person. Ten times the median USA income is a pretty large income. You can afford to fly first class wherever you go. You could live in a million dollar home. You could buy that fancy sports car. You could buy a vacation home. I don't see how you can really justify an income above $10,000,000 per year on a value added basis. I will say, I do think that founders of companies, like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deserve outsized rewards for the disruption and innovation they implemented. However, there is a difference between being a manager and being a founder. A manager likely took the safe route, at an established company and worked his or her way up. A founder risked going bankrupt to corner a market that likely didn't really exist when the company was started.
In closing, Bill gates was paid by John Deere 1,065 times as much in dividends alone, not counting stock price appreciation, as the median employee and more than four times as much as the CEO at John Deere, simply because he owns the stock and not because he worked on those Saturdays when production was behind schedule, or did any work at all actually relating to Deere. That is inequality.
Again, I am a shareholder of John Deere. I think Sam Allen is doing a really good job. Bill Gates is donating more money to charity than probably anyone in the world, which is great. I do think people in corporations responsible for making big decisions should be paid very well. I think founders of companies like Microsoft should be rewarded for their innovation. As for my politics, I'm a registered unaffiliated voter, I like to think I'm independent. I just look at these numbers and get frustrated, and want to go into politics to revise the tax code and lower the price of healthcare or at least make the prices more transparent. I'm privileged. My parents gave me opportunities when I was young, helped pay for a chunk of my college expenses, and (along with my extended family) bailed me out in 2010 when I couldn't find an engineering job. I'm good at what I do. I'm not the best configuration engineer in the world yet, but I'm good. Still, I expect that I will only make $3-5 million dollars in my entire working career. There are thousands of people that stand to inherit more than that. And my income is above the median and above the average, for whole households! So when I struggle to save money and pay all the medical bills after having a broken leg and pulmonary embolism in six months, how is the median person or family supposed to afford a safe place to live, a car, food on the table, and a little entertainment in this country?!
Not sure what "I'm okay" means, but I'm alive.
I broke my leg on the first ski run of the day March 9th at 9 AM at Copper Mountain. I broke my left tibia malleoulous, and fibula near the top of my boot. At the same time I partly tore my deltoid ligament and syndesmosis ligament.
I've lost my inReach, somewhere between Golden, Canada and Longmont, CO.


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A: The Advanced and Simple API's will no longer receive new features, and soon you will not be able to create new apps for them.
Vimeo has moved towards a unified API, which you can read about at http://developer.vimeo.com/api. Make sure to use the api through api.vimeo.com, not vimeo.com/api/rest/v2.
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Raise your hand if you'd rather be at the beach. It's pretty impossible not be dreaming of sunshine, paddleball, summer beach reads, the sand between your toes, the sound of crashing waves, and a salty sea breeze now that it's June. So if you're itching to get out of the office but don't have time to renew your passport or enough PTO left for a grand overseas vacation, don't fret... It's definitely not too late to plan a quick summer getaway by the water. In fact, some of the most beautiful beaches in the entire world happen to be in our own backyard.
So without further ado, prepare your pinning finger and scroll through the most beautiful beaches in the U.S.
From gorgeous lookout points to sunny seaside lounging spots—and even some freshwater beaches for our landlocked friends—there's a bit of everything. Whether you're craving New England charm, Southern hospitality, California ease, or tropical bliss, this American beach town guide will have you packing in no time. So without further ado, get to know the most beautiful beaches in the U.S., from sea to shining sea. Plus, take note of where to stay and what to do while you're there, and don't forget your sun hats.
Local Flavor: If you want to take the tropical route, we suggest visiting Punalu'u Beach on Hawaii's Big Island. This way, you'll have the best of both worlds since you'll get a taste of the tropics and all it has to offer (think balmy climate, lush greenery, pretty views, and swim-friendly warm waters) while also enjoying the unique beauty of a black-sand beach.
Local Flavor: For a quintessential California experience, head to Laguna Beach in Southern California. It's one of the few places in the Golden State that really does live up to the reputation of feeling like summer year-round. Aside from the beach, there are plenty of local art galleries, delicious Mexican food, and laid-back California vibes to soak up.
Local Flavor: East Coast tradition—think lobster boils and hole-in-the-wall specialty shops—meets hip, up-and-coming scenes, all against the backdrop of the Long Island Sound. Depending on where you go, the vibe will vary.
Local Flavor: We get it: Some people are drawn to mountain towns and freshwater lakes rather than the wide-open ocean. Here's a gorgeous Northern California option with crystal-clear water, crisp mountain air, and endless outdoor adventures to pursue when you're not exploring the shores of the lake.
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Similar Vibes: Stay in Oahu, but ditch the city of Honolulu for a slower pace at Lanikai beach.
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No Kid Hungry California - Breakfast After The Bell
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California is 28th in the country for the number of children who are eligible, but not receiving school breakfast. More than half the state's breakfast need is in the LA Area, which includes dense urban poverty and isolated regions with food deserts. We are currently partnering with schools in LA County to expand access and participation for breakfast by implementing "Breakfast After the Bell" and making breakfast a part of the school day. Our goal is to increase breakfast participation over the next year in 20-30 schools throughout LA County.
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For over 30 years, Share Our Strength has been a leader in the war against poverty. In 2010, we launched No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America to ensure kids have access to meals where they live, learn, and play. Today, 1/3 fewer kids are struggling with hunger.
1.7 million children in California are growing up in families that struggle to put enough food on the table. Food is one of the most significant social determinants of who will have good health and who will suffer from disease and inequities. By connecting kids to healthy food, we can start improving health outcomes today and the adults they become in the future. Meals provided through federal nutrition programs—like free and reduced-price school breakfast and lunch—are healthy and dependable sources of nutrition for kids facing hunger. When schools fully harness federal child nutrition programs, they can serve as nutrition hubs. Breakfast fuels the momentum for ending childhood hunger. Traditional school breakfast is served in the cafeteria before the start of the school day. A late bus, conflicting family work schedules, and the stigma of being the 'poor kid' keep millions of children from a healthy morning meal. Only 39% of eligible kids are eating breakfast at school in California.
Breakfast After the Bell feeds more kids. Nine years of school breakfast work has taught us a lot. We've crafted a set of practical, successful tools and approaches that work in all kinds of communities. Our No Kid Hungry breakfast strategy can be customized to meet the unique needs of districts, schools, and students everywhere. We plan and execute our work based on a measurable, data-driven approach.
Making breakfast available as part of the school day eliminates the barriers and dramatically increases participation in the program. There are 3 versions of the program: 1) Breakfast in the Classroom where breakfast is delivered and eaten in the classroom. Participation rates avg 88%. 2) Second Chance Breakfast where students eat breakfast during a break in the morning, often between 1st and 2nd period. Participation rates avg 70%. 3) Grab and Go where students pick up breakfasts from the mobile service carts on the way to class. Participation rates avg 63%.
"Breakfast After the Bell" is a cornerstone of No Kid Hungry's approach to ending childhood hunger. We know this model increases breakfast participation rates, reduces stigma, and has countless other benefits for kids at risk of hunger. A new research report That came out in January 2020 shows that serving breakfast as part of the school day also has the potential to significantly reduce chronic absenteeism in schools, which currently affects more than 8 million students each year. The original research, conducted on behalf of No Kid Hungry by researchers at the UCSB, found that serving breakfast as part of the school day can reduce chronic absenteeism by an average of 6 percentage points.
As a means of assessing our progress toward that goal, we utilize school-level data from the California Department of Education to track average daily participation rate increases. Last year, through our efforts in the Oakland Unified School District, we tracked average daily participation rates pre and post Breakfast After the Bell Implementation across seven schools we supported, which resulted in an average daily student participation increase of 138%. While percentage increases vary based on initial participation, the models chosen to implement and the efficacy of the implementation process, our experience across the country and in California demonstrate these increases are achievable.
In addition to tracking participation rates, we use secondary outputs to track our overall progress to goals related to our specific strategies including:
Number of schools implementing or committed to implementing Breakfast After the Bell models
Number of school decision-makers targeted and engaged in conversations toward the goal of breakfast expansion and the strength of those relationships to yield future impact
Number of school and political champions cultivated.
Number of Breakfast Champion touch-points created throughout the year through both media and peer-to-peer tactics.
As an organization, we have a uniform reporting structure documenting program participation data: In November, we will have finalized data on participation from the previous school year; In March, we will have preliminary data on the first 3-4 months of the current school year; and in July we will have 7-9 months of the previous school year data. These data points will be used to evaluate and adjust program strategies and to direct planning for each school year.
Over the school year, we worked with schools across Southern California and the Greater Los Angeles Region to help them get started on their own of Breakfast After the Bell programs. Here is an example of "success" and how Breakfast After the Bell impacted a high school in Rialto:
Last school year, No Kid Hungry gave Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California a $26,000 grant to start a Breakfast in the Classroom program. Our Breakfast Navigators were on hand to provide technical help and resources. Before Eisenhower started the program, kids could only get breakfast before school started in the cafeteria, and only 400 students were eating breakfast at school. Today over 2,000 students are starting their day with school breakfast, 400% increase.
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With this grant, we seek to enhance our outreach, marketing, and staffing capabilities to have a greater impact on Southern California as a whole. Our priorities at this time include putting an end to neighborhood drilling throughout LA county, supporting the rights of indigenous groups, finding renewable energy solutions to fight climate change, putting pressure on Chase Bank to #stopthemoneypipeline that's destroying the Amazon, and educating/informing Angelenos about climate change via our podcast EcoJustice Radio.
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Current kitchen location built in the 1950's. Fresh meals made Monday-Friday all year. Old, industrial appliances need replacement. Increase clients served from approximately 40/day to 200/day especially in response to Corona-19 issues. Increase volunteers from approximately 10/day to approximately 30/day. Funding for food, reusable/recyclable containers and additional materials to increase all operations. Add new programs such as Ani-meals, library services, craft tasks for clients.


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July 13, 2021 Circeo Law Firm Insights
A Latin phrase that attorneys become familiar with is "res ipsa loquitur." It means that an incident that causes a victim injury speaks for itself, reducing their burden of proof amid circumstantial evidence in a liability case. A successful claim, though, is as precise as possible in drawing a line between harm or injury and the specific defectiveness of an item or piece of merchandise.
Product liability cases run the gamut from large, class-action lawsuits to individual tort claims. Famous examples include the multi-billion dollar payouts by Johnson & Johnson to women who successfully argued products such as its talcum-based baby powder were a key contributor to their development of ovarian cancer. An appeals court in Missouri concluded the company knowingly disregarded consumer safety by failing to warn consumers that talc could cause such cancer.
In another still-ongoing large lawsuit, hundreds of consumers are pursuing the manufacturers of the heartburn drug Zantac, alleging the manufacturers knew of the dangers of a chemical in the drug called NDMA but failed to properly warn the public.
In Massachusetts, however, the state's highest court rejected a claim in January by a woman who sued a drug manufacturer over a knee injection that triggered side effects so severe she fell and broke her neck, among other injuries. In essence, the judge said that she could not prove her injuries had a direct, cause-and-effect relationship with the shots.
Why do some product liability claims succeed and others fail? While these claims can draw on as many legal theories and principles as possible, overlapping with personal injury or general negligence claims, four basic conditions that must be satisfied:
The product or item was either sold in a dangerous condition, or the manufacturer didn't adequately warn consumers of the potential danger. The Johnson & Johnson and Zantac cases fulfill this requirement on both counts. At a minimum, acting responsibly would have meant establishing an expectation of potential danger to the general public or certain groups because of their product's ingredients.
The manufacturer of the product had a reasonable expectation it would not be changed or altered by the time it reached the consumer. Assuming no tampering occurred after the fact, they should stand by the product's integrity once it leaves the production floor.
The consumer was injured or sustained a loss from the defective product. "Near-misses," where a person almost hurts themselves or just narrowly avoids other property damage from the defective product, fall short – though you may be surprised by just how many plaintiffs attempt to pursue a case on these grounds. Instead, a tangible and demonstrable injury or loss must occur.
The injury or loss had a direct, not just circumstantial, correlation to the defective product. The Massachusetts case, where the plaintiff sued for failure to warn, breach of warranty and negligence as well as product liability, fell apart on this point. The case failed to establish anything the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the knee injection did or did not do that caused the plaintiff's injuries.
Some plaintiffs may attempt to contend that the product or item's design, rather than how it was manufactured, was what caused their injury. But in product liability cases, this is a much narrower road because a defendant can successfully argue the onus was on the purchaser of the product to understand the risks.
It's important to confirm that an express or implied warranty was present if the plaintiff intends to contend that a warranty was breached. This is particularly the case if a manufacturer or seller's representation of a warranty induced an individual to purchase a product.
Res ipsa loquitur is not all that it seems to be, but attorneys skilled in the nuances of this principle can maximize your compensation when a defective product causes you injury, loss or harm. The team at Circeo Law Firm is just a consultation away to guide you through your options and help develop a winning strategy.
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