Visiting the Playmill Theater each summer is a family tradition I have enjoyed since I was a child. The theater is located in West Yellowstone, MT. It is a small, cozy theater with seats on 3 sides of the stage. Each summer, they put on 3 different shows (usually musicals). The performance quality is wonderful every year. the performers make you want to sing right along. The pre-show performances are fun, featuring popular songs, comedy routines, and sing-alongs. The intermission snacks are delicious with Heidi's Fudge being the Playmill special. After the show, the performers line up and greet the guests. It's a very fun experience for all ages!


Acupuncture is one on the oldest forms of health care today. It is over 3,000 years old. One of the first documented books on Chinese medicine and acupuncture is called the Yellow Emperors Classic of internal medicine written in about 200BC. Acupuncture became nationally introduced to America in 1972 through the media, when one of the presidential reporters James Reston, who was covering President Nixon's travels in China, became ill. He was treated with Acupuncture and it helped him with postoperative pain. When he returned to U.S. he wrote about the mysterious medicine he received in China. After that schools of Acupuncture and Oriental medicine started popping up like flowers!
Acupuncture has been around so long and is gaining acceptance in the western world. Its validity as reliable healthcare treatment is becoming more accepted because of research done related to a medical model. It is difficult to study Acupuncture in that form because it is based on Eastern medicine philosophy and follows a different model of medicine – it is the study of energy of the body mind and spirit.
Acupuncture works by balancing the body's Chi energy in order to restore the body mind and spirit to its natural state. This is done by inserting needles into acupuncture points and using moxibustion (burning moxa, a dried herb, on the points) to access the chi energy.
Chi energy is your life force; it is the energy that makes you who you are. Chi controls the work of the organs and the body's functions.
When your energy is out of balance you can become ill. When the body, mind and spirit are in balance, it is very difficult for you to become ill. By accessing the acupuncture points with needles and using moxibustion, we can move the energy along the meridians or pathways to correct the energy imbalances so the body mind and spirit can start to heal.
What are meridians? Meridians are the pathways of energy. They are like rivers in the body, rivers of energy that never cease flowing. There are 12 main meridians that bring energy or chi to organs and functions in the body. These 12 meridians in the body are the heart, small intestine, bladder, kidney, pericardium, circulation, gall bladder, liver, lung, colon, stomach, and spleen.
Acupuncture affects the Chi energy as it continually flows from one organ to another in a set route. This energy must rise and fall in a natural state like the breath. The balance of energy is a cycle much like life and death or like the breath. There is continual movement between fullness and emptiness – and it must follow that pattern or it becomes imbalanced or one becomes ill.
Imbalanced energy may be too full or depleted or become blocked like a dam. By needling specific acupuncture points located along the meridians, an Acupuncturist can directly affect the energy of individual so the body mind and spirit can start to heal, much like a lock system in a river. We can increase or decrease the flow of energy to wherever we see the need. This is done through an Oriental medical diagnosis. We are looking for the energetic imbalance that gives rise to the patient's symptoms and western diagnosis.
Acupuncture treats so many people for so many things. The NIH has funded acupuncture research and showed results in some of the following: headache/migraines, addictions, menstrual cramps, post operative dental pain, post operative and post chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, fibromyalgia, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, asthma, osteoarthritis, and pain relief. Acupuncture also serves as an effective complement to standard care (NIH Consensus statement on Acupuncture-NCCAM Web site).
I have had great success at many of these same things and I have also seen great success with insomnia, depression, panic attacks, anxiety, ankle and foot pain, bursitis, thyroid issues, palpitations, allergies, menopausal symptoms, and immune system improvement over time. I have treated people age 3 months to 92 years and seen acupuncture rid people of the common illnesses that plague them year after year.
The needles are probably the scariest part for people. To reassure you, they are now considered in the medical device category, much like surgical instruments. All Acupuncture needles are FDA approved and packaged sterile for individual use. The needles are very thin like the thinness of your hair. Sensation of the needling varies depending on the location but the best way to describe it is like a baby tooth getting pulled out- an ache then it feels so good after.
In each state the scope of acupuncture may be regulated. The regulation is important to provide confidence and consistency of the standard qualifications in the Acupuncture profession. In Utah, an Acupuncturist must be licensed by the state. There are a few exceptions to the rules: MD's and Chiropractors are not licensed as acupuncturist but may engage in the practice subject to circumstances and limitations. A Licensed Acupuncturist often is educated with a minimum of a master's degree training, which is about 3,000 hours of training, and some even have the title of Doctor of Oriental Med. Licensed acupuncturists in Utah must pass the NCCAOM exam or the National certification commission of acupuncture and oriental medicine exam. This exam is a base of knowledge that acupuncturists should have to practice acupuncture safely and intelligently.
Each licensed acupuncturist must pass the CNT exam, which is a certification on the use of sterile needles and blood borne diseases.
When looking for an Acupuncturist it is important to ask where they trained, their credentials to practice acupuncture, and if they are nationally certified and licensed as an acupuncturist in this state. Read more about how to select an acupuncturist.
Acupuncture is practiced throughout the world, in US, UK, Europe, Japan, and all over Asia. Many of the hospitals in China incorporate Acupuncture into the treatment plan for the patient. We are starting to follow suit here in the U.S.


Waiting for a job on a cold day in Brooklyn.
Around 7:30 a.m., the men gather in the chilling December air at the corner of South 5th Street and Bedford Avenue, next to the Williamsburg Bridge overpass, as they do every morning. There are about 30 of them, ranging in age from twentysomething to early fifties. Some stand alone; others cluster in small groups, chatting, making jokes. But everyone keeps an eye on the street, watching the cars, vans, and pickup trucks that pass by — and waiting for the occasional vehicle that slows down.
The men are part of a sad tradition in American labor — the shape-up crew. For generations, the unemployed have clustered on particular street corners in American cities, hoping to get a day-labor job for a couple of hours or even better, several days. Because most of them do not possess a special craft or skill, they are of little interest to unions or conventional employment agencies, and so are left to their own devices.
At the height of the Depression, most shape-up crews were made up of native-born Americans. Today, the crews are almost entirely composed of immigrants, legal and otherwise. Mexican-dominated crews have long been common to Southern California. Here in Greenpoint, two of the men waiting by the bridge are African-American and several are Latino, but most have emigrated from Poland or the former Soviet Union.
Zygmunt "Zygi" Lemond, a stocky, friendly man of 43, came from Poland — he is vague about the exact year, but it was some time after the fall of the country's Communist regime in 1989. Drawn to Greenpoint by its large Polish community, Zygi has lived for almost a year in a homeless shelter on Bedford and Atlantic Avenues, about half a mile south.
Wearing a patterned jacket, hightop sneakers and a painter's cap, he is dressed a bit more colorfully than the others. (Even more bizarre is a younger man who looks like a college student, wearing a backpack, a Walkman — and rollerblades.) Zygi's background is also unconventional. Trained as a musician, he left Poland when he realized that work would be harder to come by in a capitalist society — "How many dance bands do you need?" he asks rhetorically.
But Zygi felt that the American music business, while equally competitive, offered more opportunity. And he does on occasion play bass guitar with a band, working New Jersey towns such as Linden, Garfield, or Passaic, which have large Polish neighborhoods. He plays both nightclubs and social events — weddings, christenings, baby showers.
But it's not enough to make a living. So every morning, he is out on the corner, looking for construction or warehouse jobs or "painting, sometimes." The pay isn't great, but it's better than minimum-wage — at least $6 an hour, and as much as $10 for more strenuous construction or demolition work.
The real problem is the length and frequency of the jobs. When asked if he gets much work, Zygi makes a face and says only, "It's not regular." Some of his jobs have been as short as two to three hours, but none have been longer than two days. "Yesterday," he says, "I worked nine hours, in a warehouse." He usually stays on the corner until noon before giving up for the day.
At one point, a station wagon pulls up, with two men in the front seat. Everyone clusters around, gesticulating, talking in two or three languages, as those with better English translate for their friends. Zygi joins in for a few minutes, then walks away. Eventually, no one else decides to get in the car, and the men drive off.
Not everyone can afford to be so choosy. Down the block, on the other side of the overpass, another group of East Europeans have staked out their own patch of turf. One of them, Sasha, a Ukrainian immigrant who has been in the U.S. for three months, says with a laugh that he does "everything." Another in the group, Tibor, who comes from Bulgaria, lists his skills as "welder, electrician… and I put down tiles." They are less easily discouraged than Zygi — they usually stay on the street until 2 or 3 p.m.
At his end of the block, Zygi sniffs that there are "too many Russians out here" — some days, in fact, they outnumber the Poles. Is he voicing ancient resentments, given the history of relations between Russia and Poland? More likely, it's a matter of numbers. The more men on the block competing for jobs, the less chance any of them has of getting one.
Occasionally, Zygi says, the competition gets ugly. When an employer announces two openings and four (or more) men are gathered around his car, push can literally come to shove. But the disputes are generally forgotten, or at least set aside, by the following day. The men have to face each other every morning, and holding grudges is a waste of energy.
From time to time, two uniformed policemen in a squad car circle the block, keeping an eye on the group. But the men are careful to stay on their best behavior. Until several months ago, the group had been gathering a few blocks away, at the intersection of Wallabout Street and Kent Avenue; they were chased away by the police, after local residents complained that some of the men were drinking in public and throwing bottles and other garbage on the street. Zygi confirms the charges, although he personally claims innocence.
Now another car pulls over. Before Zygi takes three steps in his direction, the Latino driver picks the first three men who approach, and drives away. Zygi shrugs, takes a cigarette from a Marlboro pack, and lights up.
But Zygi prefers not to take sides in this argument; he will only speak of his own feelings and experience. Welfare, he says, is not for him, but he does not judge anyone who takes that route.
What Zygi really wants is the chance to leave the corner for good. He says he knows of "some people in the summer who go to upstate New York. They get regular factory jobs and they don't come back." And Zygi himself has an application in at a factory on Java Street, a few blocks north.
For now, though, he remains under the bridge, waiting for another car to pull up to the curb.
Originally published in Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront Week weekly newspaper, 1995.
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There's a dead-set match between place and thing with Coonawarra and wineries, but despite our region claiming to produce some of the greatest Cabernet Sauvignons in the world, there's certainly more to get to know in this South Australian heartland than our wines. At a four-hour drive from Adelaide, and a little more from Melbourne, Coonawarra makes a great destination for wine lovers and general adventurists alike. Allow us to talk you through the best way to keep yourself entertained in our backyard.
OK, so I know I said there's more to Coonawarra than wine, but if you were to come for the wine, taking the Coonawarra Wineries Walking Trail is the BEST way to do it. First thing to point out is that Coonawarra is tiny. The whole region sits on a strip of terra rossa soil over limestone with a pure underground water supply. Pretty cool. So this cigar-shaped strip is only 20km long and about 2km wide, so you don't have a large patch of land to cover when visiting. Hence the walking trail. There are only a handful of wineries on this 5km trail, including Redman Wines, of course, as well as Brand's Laira, Zema Estate, Di Giorgio, Wynns and Ottelia. Make a food pit stop at Fodder at Ottelia or grab your pre-ordered picnic basket at Coonawarra Store to enjoy at one of the wineries along the way. If you allow 20 minutes at each winery, the trail should take about 3 hours to complete.
Have you heard of the Coonawarra Siding? It's a short-track rail connection in the heart of Coonawarra to the outside world, and its installation allowed the region to flourish and made the pathway for our wonderful produce to reach everyone in our wide brown land. You see, this track was built by John Riddoch in 1898, allowing our wines to be enjoyed by Aussies everywhere, as well by people across the seas to Europe and beyond. The rusty old tracks are no longer in use but there's a greater purpose afoot to keep these tracks alive – the local Wattle Range Council has commissioned a feasibility study to determine whether the 16km stretch of unused rail line could be converted to a bicycle track along the winery route taking in the stunning viticultural scenery along the way. Watch this space. But in the meantime, come and visit this historical landmark that was the catalyst for our Coonawarra region to flourish as a great farming and wine district.
At only 20 minutes north from Coonawarra, the ancient Naracoorte Caves represent one of the best activities, beyond wine, in our neck of the woods. We thought our regional winemaking history dated back a long way, but our winemaking endeavours have nothing on these 800,000-year-old caves. They are World Heritage listed and feature spectacular stalactites and stalagmites, and are one of the world's most important fossil sites. Palaeontologists have excavated all kinds of wild and wonderful fossils, dating back several ice ages and to the arrival of humans in the area, and they've been able to reconstruct skeletons of the megafauna that existed thousands of years ago. Four of the known 28 caves in this area are open to the public (other caves are closed for scientific research and protection). The caves' temperature remains a consistent 17C all year round, so they make fantastic spots to visit every season.
Hands up who knows about Robe? Some call it Australia's beachside hidden gem. It's just over an hour's drive from Coonawarra, so we jump in the car and take the kids for a surf and a romp on the beach all the time. What else can you do at Robe? The stunning coastline features both sandy beaches and rocky outcrops, creating fabulous snorkelling opportunities, as well as great conditions for fishing (including crayfishing), surfing and four-wheel driving. Don't forget to enjoy the amazingly fresh, locally caught fish at one of the local dining spots.
Feeling exhausted after caving and crayfishing? Come back to winery wonderland and, this time, let the professionals lead the way. Coonawarra Discovery and Coonawarra Experiences are local boutique tour operators that offers half- and full-day options, visiting all the local wineries with personalised tastings in our historic region. The tours can be tailored to your own requests or you can follow the lead of the tour operators – and most importantly, there's a designated driver, so there's no need to spit if that's not your thing!


Bitcoin has had a busy few weeks. The most popular digital currency in the world faced price drama, a new legal ban, and harsh words from big banks. Some say the cryptocurrency has bounced back stronger than ever. Others argue that Bitcoin is finally being exposed for the volatile fad that it is. While no one can say for sure, one thing is clear: proceed with caution.
Bitcoin emerged soon after the financial crisis of 2008 as a means of sidestepping banks and everyday payment processes and systems. It's a digital currency based on math puzzles and rules set up by an anonymous creator, alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoins can be bought or sold with traditional currencies, or earned by "miners" who solve complex puzzles.
On the surface, Bitcoin seems to share some of the same advantages that physical gold offers: it operates outside of central banks and governments, gives holders control over their wealth, may help hedge against a weak dollar, and provides a certain level of anonymity. BUT—Bitcoin has a long way to go before it is (if ever) as widely accepted as gold.
And gold? There are only about 57,000 tons left to mine, reports the U.S. Geological Survey. Pool this gold together and it would form a cube that stands about as tall as an adult giraffe.
But the differences don't end there. While gold and cryptocurrencies are often considered related in the financial markets because of their standings as alternatives to cash, the precious metal, which has been used in this way for ages, is typically more stable than Bitcoin, writes Bloomberg.
In the course of just three days last week the value of Bitcoin sunk by about 40 percent and then recovered more than 25 percent off the lows, notes BloombergView, illustrating Bitcoin's potential for considerable price volatility.
Bitcoin prices have been known to fluctuate by hundreds of dollars in a matter of minutes. These huge, mostly unpredictable, price increases have created fears of a new bubble among seasoned market watchers.
"There are no fundamentals behind any of this—it's all based on public perception, so you can start to see some really strange phenomena," says Rob Moffat of Balderton Capital.
This false facade has leaders like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sounding the alarm.
The tulip bulb mania that consumed Holland in the early 1600s is now held up as the first example of an economic bubble. Speculation drove the value of tulip bulbs to extremes. At the peak of the market, you could trade a single tulip for an entire estate and at the bottom, all you could get was an ordinary onion.
The prices were not an accurate reflection of the value of a tulip bulb. As soon as some people started selling to realize their profits, a domino effect set in, prices took a nosedive, and panic ensued. People had literally traded their homes for a piece of greenery, notes Investopedia. The Dutch government tried to step in but it was too late. The economy entered into a period of depression, all thanks to unbridled speculation around flowers.
The unprecedented speculative nature of Bitcoin has today's government authorities worried, too. Norway, Thailand, Russia, India, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Iceland have either banned the use of cryptocurrencies or instituted regulations around them.
On September 14, China joined these ranks. Beijing ordered cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading and block new registrations. China accounts for almost a quarter of all Bitcoin trades and is home to many of the world's biggest Bitcoin "miners," notes Nasdaq, so the final impact of this change could be huge.
By shutting off cryptocurrency exchanges, China is questioning the legitimacy of Bitcoin and its future, making it more difficult for the virtual currency to gain broad acceptance as a medium of exchange, as an asset, and as a different means of payment. Will the U.S. be next? The E.U.?
When they do, Bitcoin holders could lose it all. They may be holding on to something that's nothing but an illusion in the long run.
The benefits of owning physical gold are no secret. Request U.S. Money Reserve's free Gold Information Kit to get the information you need to make the strongest decision for your future.
Bitcoin: A dimming star, a bubble set to burst?
After eight years, Bitcoin still struggles to find mainstream acceptance. Like a slot machine, it can be fun to toy around with, but it's no substitute for a time-tested, strategically diversified portfolio. And it's hardly a match for physical gold.
Bitcoin has little history, no precedent as a vehicle of wealth insurance, and a very uncertain future. Diehl, one of America's most influential luminaries, summed it up best.


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Onkyo announces high-end and mid-range A/V components with Dolby Atmos sound
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ. Onkyo has announced that its upcoming TX-NR1030 and TX-NR3030 network A/V receivers, flagship PR-SC5530 Network A/V Controller, HT-S7700 and HT-S9700THX HTiB systems, and SKS-HT693 and SKH-410 speaker packages will launch with Dolby Atmos, a next-generation audio format that delivers captivating multidimensional sound in home theater environments.
The company will also release a firmware update, targeted in September, enabling Dolby Atmos® on its mid-range TX-NR636, TX-NR737, and TX-NR838 network A/V receivers now available worldwide.
With Dolby Atmos sound comes alive from all directions, including overhead, to fill the home theater with astonishing clarity, power, depth, and detail.
"Some of the world's leading filmmakers are using Dolby Atmos to transport audiences to the center of the action," said Onkyo Corporation General Manager, Kevin Miyagi. "Dolby Atmos delivers a multidimensional sound experience with breathtaking detail and clarity. We are excited to be among the first brands to offer this technology to our customers."
Onkyo's 2014 models supporting Dolby Atmos feature Dual 32-bit DSP Engines to decode, scale, and calibrate Dolby Atmos to suit individual home theater configurations. Owners of compatible Onkyo components have the flexibility to choose their preferred theater layout, unleashing the format's effect with the addition of a pair or more of in-ceiling height speakers, complementing traditional 5.1, 7.1, or 9.1 configurations. Alternatively, users can augment an existing speaker setup with Dolby Atmos-enabled loudspeakers. For more information on these speaker configurations please visit dolbyatmos.onkyousa.com.
About Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos delivers captivating, multidimensional sound that places and moves specific sounds anywhere in the room, including overhead, to bring entertainment alive all around the audience.
Since its introduction in the cinema in 2012, Dolby Atmos has been embraced by all the major Hollywood studios, seven Academy Award® winning directors, and 16 Academy Award-winning sound mixers, among others. Later this year, entertainment enthusiasts will be able to enjoy Dolby Atmos in their home theaters.
To learn more about Dolby Atmos and home theaters, visit the Dolby Lab Notes blog here.
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Since 1946 Onkyo has been passionately committed to developing audio products that deliver uncommon performance, quality and value. Bundling proprietary technologies and innovations with other sound-enhancing exclusives, Onkyo continues to created award winning products that are lauded by many of the industry leading audio publications. The company's philosophy is to deliver products that are superbly designed and built to a consistently outstanding standard of excellence. The results can be seen in the obviously high quality of any Onkyo-manufactured product, even before it is turned on. Visit Onkyo's website at www.onkyousa.com. Follow Onkyo USA at www.facebook.com/OnkyoUSA.

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River Bugs are single person inflatable craft, used to ride down a river whilst wearing webbed gloves and short flippers to help manoeuvre. River Bugs are made up of chambers behind and beside the 'bugger' to bounce off rocks. The day begins on a gentle section of water learning the correct technique before participants move on to white water.


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The most wonderful gift of my life are my parents. My parents are very kind. They love me a lot and give me all the things that I need. They tell me the things that are right and the ones that are wrong. They trust me a lot and support me every time. Most people say my parents are not good. But I say my parents are very nice. They help me to study, how to behave etc.
Now my parents are giving me everything. When I grow up I want to give everything that my mother and father need. I am glad that God has gifted me such wonderful parents.


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We are pleased to provide the following list of published works authored or co-authored by Freedom from Hunger staff, past and present. These articles are generally available for free download in PDF format or via links to other websites. In some cases, articles have been published by journals that provide access only by subscription or purchase.
The titles are listed according to the date of publication, starting with the most recent articles. We provide complete citation information for the convenience of researchers wanting to cite the publication in their own work and provide access to French or Spanish versions, when available.
We sincerely hope you will find these articles useful for broadening your understanding of value-added microfinance and related topics.
Microcredit participation and nutrition outcomes among women in Peru
Hamad R, Fernald LCH. J Epidemiol Community Health. 7pp. (2010).
Background Microcredit services the awarding of small loans to individuals who are too poor to take advantage of traditional financial servicesdare an increasingly popular scheme for poverty alleviation. Several studies have examined the ability of microcredit programmes to influence the financial standing of borrowers, but only a few studies have examined whether the added household income improves health and nutritional outcomes among household members. This study examined the hypothesis that longer participation in microcredit services would be associated with better nutritional status in women.
Methods Cross-sectional data were obtained in February 2007 from 1593 female clients of a microcredit organisation in Peru. The primary predictor variable was length of time as a microcredit client measured in number of completed loan cycles (range 0 to 5.5 years, average loan size US$350). The outcome variables were age-adjusted body mass index (BMI), haemoglobin levels (g/dl) and food insecurity measured using the US household food security survey module. Extensive data on demographic and socioeconomic status were also collected.
Results Longer microcredit participation was associated with higher BMI (b¼0.05, p¼0.06), higher haemoglobin levels (b¼0.07, p<0.01) and lower food insecurity (b¼0.13, p<0.01). With the inclusion of demographic and socioeconomic variables, the associations with higher haemoglobin (b¼0.03, p¼0.04) and lower food insecurity (b¼0.08, p<0.01) were sustained.
Conclusion This study supports the notion that microcredit participation has positive effects on the nutritional status of female clients. Further research should explore more definitive causal pathways through which these effects may occur and should examine the effects on other household members.
Developing Linkages with Health Providers: A Technical Guide for MFIs
By Cassie Chandler, in collaboration with Laura Fleischer Proaño and Marcia Metcalfe. Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. 67 pp. (2010).
Health Loans: A Technical Guide for MFIs
By Rossana Ramirez and Myka Reinsch with Freedom from Hunger staff and associates Marcia Metcalfe, Frédéric Ruaz, Mahamadi Cissé, Soumitra Dutta, Cassie Chandler and Kathleen Stack. Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. 41 pp. (2010).
Market Research for Microfinance and Health Protection: A Technical Guide for MFIs
By Rossana M. Ramírez with Cassie Chandler, Laura Fleischer-Proaño, Edouine François, Bobbi Gray, Marcia Metcalfe and Myka Reinsch. Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. 103 pp. (2010).
Health Savings: A Technical Note
By Myka Reinsch and Rossana Ramirez with Freedom from Hunger staff and associates Mahamadi Cissé, Frédéric Ruaz and Marcia Metcalfe. Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. 26 pp. (2010).
Advancing Women's and Adolescent Girls' Access to Resources and Influence in Rural India
By Bobbi Gray and Sheila Chanani. Freedom from Hunger Research Paper No. 11. 79pp. (July 2010). Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. (English only)
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MAHP Research Summary Report: Bandhan
By Megan Gash and Sheila Chanani. Freedom from Hunger Research Paper No. 9A. 25pp. (June 2010). Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger.
Costs and Benefits of Credit with Education: The Case of PADME in Bénin
By Myka Reinsch and Frédéric Ruaz with Teddy Ekoué Kouvahey. Freedom from Hunger Research Paper No. 10D. 15pp. (June 2010). Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger. (English and French)
The Business Case for Adding Health Protection to Microfinance
By Myka Reinsch with Christopher Dunford and Marcia Metcalfe. Freedom from Hunger Research Paper No. 10. 35pp. (June 2010). Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger.
Costs and Benefits of Health Microinsurance Premium Loans and Linkages with Health Providers: CARD's Experience in the Philippine
By Myka Reinsch with Marcia Metcalfe and CARD staff. Freedom from Hunger Research Paper No. 10B. 9pp. (June 2010). Davis, CA: Freedom from Hunger.


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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in SEQUOIA Phase 2/3 Study of ARO-AAT for Treatment of Alpha-1 Liver Disease
Aug 8, 2019 at 7:30 AM EDT
PASADENA, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2019-- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has dosed the first patient in SEQUOIA (AROAAT2001), a potentially pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical study of ARO-AAT, the company's second generation subcutaneously administered RNA
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2019-- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has dosed the first patient in SEQUOIA (AROAAT2001), a potentially pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical study of ARO-AAT, the company's second generation subcutaneously administered RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic being developed as a treatment for a rare genetic liver disease associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD).
Bruce Given, M.D., chief operating officer and head of R&D at Arrowhead, said: "ARO-AAT is the first RNAi therapeutic derived from our proprietary Targeted RNAi Molecule, or TRiM™, platform to reach a potentially pivotal study. This is a significant milestone for Arrowhead and, more importantly, it represents potential hope for patients living with alpha-1 liver disease, who currently have no available treatment options other than liver transplant."
SEQUOIA (NCT03945292) is a placebo-controlled, adaptive design Phase 2/3 study to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of ARO-AAT administered subcutaneously to patients with AATD associated liver disease. SEQUOIA is designed to enroll 120 patients who will receive at least 9 doses, or approximately two years of treatment, with ARO-AAT or placebo. Doses will be administered on day 1, 29, and approximately every 12 weeks thereafter. The four-arm placebo-controlled Part A component of the study will feed seamlessly into a two-arm placebo-controlled Part B component. The primary objective for Part A is to select a single dose level for use in Part B of the study based on a combined evaluation of safety and pharmacodynamic dose response in each Part A cohort using change from baseline in soluble liver mutant AAT (Z-AAT), insoluble liver Z-AAT, and serum AAT levels as pharmacodynamic metrics. The primary objective for Part B is to evaluate efficacy, as assessed by the proportion of ARO-AAT treated patients relative to placebo achieving a 2-point improvement in a histologic grading scale of AATD associated liver disease, and no worsening of liver fibrosis on end of study biopsy.
Source: Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc.


How can I sell my computer related/technical knowledge?
How would I go about selling this knowledge?
Can anyone give me a few ideas?
I think you'll have a difficult time selling "general" computer skills.
You could do very well, however, selling your services geared toward doing specific tasks.
So the analysis of what you can do for money needs to begin with you listing all the specific tasks you are good at and especially those you enjoy doing.
Then do your market research online to see what kind of demand there is for those specific things you're considering. Visit the technical forums and see what questions are being asked and whether you could do those things on a regular basis to make a consistent income.
It's the same with any market analysis, find a hungry audience, see what they want, design a way to give the specific thing to them, then provide an outstanding service with over-the-top customer care and you're well on your way to having a very successful Internet business.
I've seen guys like you make a living doing freelance work, but they're constantly busy because of the network they've built over time.
I have no idea how you can create that network. It seems like a very offline kind of thing. But if you do a good job, word spreads. There's a huge market for IT guys in general.
First of all I want to say that knowledge is the King and you are the King as you possess knowledge.
If you are thinking short term you can publish a book at Amazon.
If you want to make it some what medium term you can sell your product on Clickbank.
And if you want to be full time long lasting then you should build a blog and start grabbing visitors and then create a membership site or sell a product directly on your website.
You can also try Google Helpouts, still invite only though.
I personally don't know any such site but if there is any question and answer site related to computer technical issues and solutions, which pay for answering the questions then it will be good for you.
As I've seen people asking minor issues on yahoo answers.


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The Musical Ally: An Interview with David Silver
As part of our exploration of the concept of music as an ally, the Awakened Heart Blog was lucky enough to talk about the subject with David Silver, former co-host of Mindrolling Podcast.
David has spent much of his life working with some extremely talented musicians, including legends such as Bob Marley and Bruce Springsteen.
Be sure to read the "Music as Ally" article on ramdass.org.
Awakened Heart Blog (AHB): Let's start with what you and Raghu talked about on your original Mindrolling podcast on this subject. Tell me what you think about what Raghu had to say:
"That's what music as an ally is: It's a circular feeling that becomes very trance-like, and puts you into a one-pointed place where your discursive thought gets eliminated. It's at this point that a deep absorption into the inner self can take hold."
David: Raghu! Very articulate! There's a lot a variables within there, depending on what kind of music, why you're using it, what for. And it's something we make a decision about sometimes several times a day, sometimes not.
This morning, for instance, I was shaving and I thought, "Well, I'm going to put on some kirtan." And it was a kirtan group that I'd never heard of, and which I'm not going to mention the name, because after a minute of it I said, "No, this is not doing it for me. It's too smooth, it's too American. It's not what I want, what I want from this particular form." So I drop that, and then I just put on some Ry Cooder, country blues, and listen to that. Now, that was just filling in a boredom gap. You know, I was just bored with shaving or something, and I just thought, music. And there's every variable upon that. But I liked Raghu's circular thing about getting rid of discursive thought, which it can. And it can do a very quick, sort of micro-healing, because that's why we listen to it in the first place.
AHB: Are there different forms of being an ally that music takes? We're going to talk about music as a spiritual ally, but there are a lot of times where I use music to get me pumped up and going at the gym; it's my ally in that way.
David: It's very exquisite, the choice. The brain, the consciousness, will just quickly jump to your own library of things you've heard. Depending on the exact need, there is an exact answer, within a range. I'm like you, sometimes I don't want to listen to sacred music, I want to listen to energy music. For me, and many of my generation, that would be anything from the Stones, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty. Some of it's not even uptempo, it just gets you going. But some of it, indeed, crosses the line from just being energy music into being spiritual, in the sense that it puts you in a certain mood.
AHB: I was just listening to "House of the Rising Sun" to get ready for this talk. Is that one that sort of hits that line for you?
David: Well, yes. You know, pop music, and they call it pop music for a reason, popular music was really designed to be disposable. That's why there were charts, that's why there were single releases – originally 78s and 45s, and now MP3s and so on. But it became more than that at one point. A single song sometimes is enough.
So, I love the Rolling Stones, always did. Defend them like a maniac, because I'm their age exactly. When people make nasty comments, and they've been doing that for 30 years, about them being too old. I get it. When I was younger I'd feel that way a little bit. But the Stones are just a band that has a riff machine going, and no matter how glammed out it is, or how expressive Jagger might be, there's a basis to it which is blues based, but also disco based, and it gets me going almost instantaneously. Now, I've almost saturated myself with that, so I'll go out into many areas to get that feeling too, anything from the Congos to the Greenhornes to Florence + the Machine to, I don't know, certain kinds of rap music will do it for me, too.
AHB: Okay, I was going to ask you about that. When I was in college I listened to a lot of rap because that was the music that had a lot of energy to it, that I'm sure you guys felt back in the 60s with rock. But it's weird, because there's not a lot of spirituality to it, but it can put you in that place still.
David: It can. It depends how you want to interpret it, subjectively speaking. Because a lot of hip-hop music is very about the subject of inequality and worse, of slavery and of terror. And that to me has almost a spiritual effect in the sense that I hear people who are making art out of suffering and are also transmitting an energy to the people who bring about the suffering: would you please stop.
There's an element of that in 60s music too, because originally where I was living in Boston, then in England, then in New York, there was a folk music tradition that was entirely activist. But, you know, our general concept of pop music was smashed up by 1965-66-67, when bands like the Byrds, and Janis, and Jimi, and the Beatles, and the Stones, they started writing political and spiritual music. So Revolver was the turning point for the Beatles when they turned from being basically a pop boy group, even though the word is derogatory now.
AHB: Well, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"…
David: Right, "She Loves You" and all of that. But then it was suddenly "Tomorrow Never Knows." Then much later it was "Instant Karma" and "Across the Universe" and amazing music that the Beatles made, that was definitely based upon their visit to India and the Maharishi. They were influenced by the sitar, and obviously George Harrison went on to become an accompanist with Ravi Shankar occasionally, and then brought the Krishna Consciousness to it. And there's a fusion there where it's quite obvious that a major popular figure decided that the material world wasn't enough for him, despite the fact the he raced Formula One cars and sports cars that no normal person could. But, you know, he bought a house for the Krishna people in London, and then "My Sweet Lord" and the Hari Krishna Temple albums – they were the first that fused really rock & roll and eastern philosophy.
So that was a big change, where that kind of melting pot started happening. Now, I think it had a time when it was there, and I think it had a time when it left. Certainly bands like U2 kind of rebirthed it in the late 70s and 80s, but there's nothing quite like what was going on then with the likes of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young, Bob Dylan. These artists were writing about every imaginable thing. So, as an ally, it depended on your mood.
These days, with this weird period we're going through right now, I'm sure hip-hop is covering that better than other music. But if you were to look at various Native American music, and music from Asia and music from Africa, you're going to find a great deal of activist music in there. Also, some music which is full on spiritual music, certainly from Senegal and Mali.
I mean, Tinariwen are a band that may be my favorite band in the world. They are an African band, but I've seen them live and they're astonishing. The guitar player models his guitar playing on middle period Jimi Hendrix. And they were actually freedom fighters, you know, with guns and everything. After they won certain victories there, they became a band and they play a complete fusion of kind of Sufi Islamic music and very hard-edged, guitar-based rock & roll, and it's absolutely enchanting, it just gets you going. I have every album they ever made, and I listen to them probably more than anybody.
AHB: I can't wait to go check it out.
David: Give it a chance, because at first it's just, "Wow, what is it?" And then suddenly you'll hear the beat, the rhythms are incredible because they're African rhythms, but the guitar playing could be, you know, John Mayer, it could be a master Western guitar player, it's so good. And the singing is just incredible.
AHB: Do you have any other recommendations?
David: From the past more than the present. I do recommend Peter Gabriel's music to people, because from the other side, from the Western side, he was capable, and very masterful, at bringing in all kinds of new sounds. Genesis were a very forward-looking, progressive band, but I think once they finished Gabriel was sort of liberated and formed his own world music record label with some fabulous stuff on it. But if you listen to his albums, they are quite marvelous in their own way.
In terms of what's going on now, I would just blanket recommend Senegalese, and Ivory Coast, and Nigerian-Ghanaian music. And then up into North Africa, the Middle Eastern, Islamic-based music, but it's not necessary to read the Quran to listen to it. Any Gnawa music from Morocco. Joujouka, Sufi, Islamic spiritual dance music. The Joujouka tribe is famous for having been visited by William Burroughs and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the late 60s. And then myself and a group of National Geographic people, we spent two months in the mountains with them. They played trance music when we were with them. Talk about getting rid of discursive thought – you got rid of yourself. You became completely invisible.
Some people might think this is questionable, what I'm about to say, but it's the highest music I've ever heard. Now, I except kirtan music from that because it's a different form, it's call and response. This isn't call-and-response music. This is very interesting reed pipes and drums, and then singing from something called the Boujeloud – it's kind of a ritualist figure dressed in goat skin. It has to be a virgin teenager dancing. They sing while he dances. And when he dances and they're playing, you know, 12 drummers, 15 singers, two Boujloud out there in the mountains. When I experienced it, sometimes I would lose consciousness altogether. They have healing ceremonies. In fact, Joujouka was known as a place where you would take schizophrenics and people who had temporarily "gone mad," or people who were epileptic. They would take people where they are in the Ghibli mountains, which are in the foothills of the Rif mountains in Northern Morocco, and they would take them there to a particular place in the village where they would dance and sing around the person, and there would be healing. So that's a direct ally thing.
AHB: Literally the healing power of music in action.
David: Yeah. The other thing I would say is, the most accessible music ally, which has an access between romantic music and totally spiritual music, is obviously reggae music. Now, classic reggae music sort of converted into Dance Hall music, and then Reggaeton started building itself in Hispanic culture, and it has changed. I don't know enough about what happened when it mutated. But, the original reggae music, as defined by Bob Marley and his two Wailer compatriots, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, that is purely spiritual and political music, there's nothing else. I mean, there's love songs, but they sort of remind you of what they used to call metaphysical poetry in English poetry, and also Jewish mysticism, which is comparing the love for god, or Jah, that unity, to a sort of erotic experience.
AHB: And even those have transformative power to them.
David: Absolutely. So reggae was a huge part of my life because I filmed a lot with those guys. But even if I hadn't, and I didn't even intend to – it was quite strange I got into that – but I was a huge fan of Bob Marley. I know a few people in the world who don't love Bob Marley…
AHB: How?
David: I know of one person who doesn't, and I try to avoid her at all cost.
But seriously, there's nothing like Bob. Although Peter Tosh, if you listen to Peter Tosh's albums, they're equally wonderful. There just weren't many of them because he was murdered at a young age. Bunny Wailer is still alive and kicking, and his albums are remarkable. It's just amazing to me that it's not a known thing that Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer are all individually, as solo artists, geniuses. The fact that that happened is analogous to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr becoming single artists after the Beatles. In a way, it's even more exalted because all three of them were almost like preachers. They're just focused on Jah and how to live a life that is, in their words, righteous. There's lots of controversy around it, because it's all to do with Rastafarianism and Ethiopia and Haile Selassie, and it's very hard for us to wrap our heads around all of that. I couldn't, even though I hung out in Jamaica so many times. I was very respectful of it, but I couldn't quite use it like they used it. But, the essence is the same as any mystical experience. The word ally really applies, I would say, more to classic reggae.
I mean, I could name, if I really used my memory correctly, probably 50 reggae artists who are all really great. And some artists are very not known at all. Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus are a group that I would recommend highly to people. The reason for that is they are an original groundation band. Reggae music came out of groundations, a religious ceremony which is basically rhythmic, with lots of herb and lots of meditation. I filmed Ras Michael, and I've never in my life come across anything so unusual and yet so completely compelling. So if people can get hold of Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, you'll hear a different kind of reggae which is entirely spiritual, there's no reference to romantic love, there's no reference to politics, it's all about union with the divine. And it was a religious event, ceremony. I went to one, ever. It's not something you sort of go to, it's a community thing. But I did manage to go to one once in summer in Jamaica. But I do recommend that early reggae. Reggae turned into Dancehall music and toasting music, and it influenced hip hop. Unfortunately, at least in the 90s, there was a lot of Dancehall music which was misogynistic and homophobic, and I couldn't get with that, so I don't care much about it.
AHB: What do you think about Ziggy Marley?
David: Ziggy is great. I think of Ziggy as being one of the most successful offspring of a major musician. You think of children of musicians, it's a very difficult deal for them to have an original voice and to be taken seriously. I've never seen Ziggy live, but he seems to be the real deal to me. He doesn't even try not to be who he is. And he's a powerful figure in Jamaica, both politically and in terms of herb and legalization of such.
I did various forms of that with Bob and with Peter. I had the privilege of smoking a bit with Mr. Marley, although he insisted that he roll the blunt, and it was a blunt. I think I told this story on Mindrolling. One time I had a business meeting with Bob. I got to his house on Hope Road in Kingston. It was sort of a courtyard, not fancy at all. Fairly large house with a concrete area around it. There was stoops with steps by the gates. I got in a cab from my hotel and when I got out, there was Mr. Marley on the stoop with a couple of his pals. I got there, and we knew each other a little bit, so it wasn't awkward. "Come on, sit down, you know."
So I sat down and he was rolling a spliff. Let's put it this way: it was about four to five inches long and the end of it where you light it was at least the size of a quarter, but probably bigger. A glowing circle of the best weed in the world. I didn't say anything, I didn't say, "Can I have a toke?" Because in Jamaica you don't do that. You don't pass a joint, you have individual joints. So I didn't say anything, and he's rolling and he's talking to me about how was the flight, being quite normal for him. Then he said to me, "Alright man, I know you like the herb, this is for you." He hands me this gigantic thing, like an ice cream cone. And he looked at me as if I was sort of mentally deficient and said, "Well, smoke it." So he lit it for me and this huge flame came out of it, and I took maybe two tokes and I put it in the ashtray. And he said, "Whatcha doin' man? Whatcha doin' David man? Pick it up, eat it, smoke it, do what you want."
I said, "No, I'm so high."
He said, "No man. English man, smoke it man!" So I smoke more of it, and I really was just sitting there out of my body going, I'm smoking a giant spliff with Bob Marley outside his house in Kingston, and I've kind of forgotten who I am. I was so high I couldn't speak. He knew this, by the way. He was a rascal. He's going, "Ah, you wanna have the business meeting now, Mr. Silver?"
I said, "Ah, well, can we… no."
He said, "That's alright man. You want some juice?"
I said, "Yeah."
And we never had the business meeting, that's the funny thing. Because then he said, "Ah man, Englishman like the football. So we have a game coming up here." And then about 20 Rastas arrived and they had a full-scale football match in the back of the house. English football. They asked me to join and I really said no, because they were tackling like the World Cup was going on, it was vicious.
And Bob was very good. He was a really good soccer player. I actually wrote about this in an article recently: "Typical Bob, he did not play the striker. He was a winger or a wing-back and constantly supplied the striker with the ball." So that person could score. He never scored over the whole – they played for about 40 minutes, I guess – and he didn't score once, he just kept running with running with the ball, dribbling, and passing to the center-forward. That was that. It's typical of Bob. He was not an egomaniac. He was a very strong person.
But, to get back to your theme here, of all the people I've ever worked with in terms of music, and I've worked with some pretty amazing people, he's the only one that I would actually say was definitely a shaman.
AHB: There's no one else who comes close?
David: No, I would say the experience of Springsteen can be incredible. I worked with Springsteen extensively, and he's a terrific fellow. Great guy. He has that ability to take you up, take you higher, take you higher. So yes.
There are also some blues players. I think that Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightnin' Hopkins, and that era of Southern and then Chicago blues players, the electrified ones and the non-electrified ones, they had the ability to take you to a higher place.
AHB: Yeah, they're so connected to that soul plane, or whatever you want to call it.
David: Exactly that, yeah; soul plane. We associate music a lot with sex and drugs and rock & roll, and that's fine, but I think my generation and then the generations that followed and evolved from that, want more than that in their music. I find that all the time with unknown musicians, people who just love them in the community. These days people are playing music which reflects the feelings they have about the environment, the political situation, there's a lot of that going on. Then you've got people like Kendrick Lamar who are poets and artists as well as musicians. I like Jay-Z's music a lot, I think he speaks to people, at least he has in the last five years, and I'm fond of his music. It's not exactly my culture so I don't know it well enough, but I've begun to understand it. It's taken me a long time, but I know it's really important music. And the more misogynistic and coarse aspect of it is just part of the spectrum. It's not the whole spectrum.
AHB: No, there's conscious rap out there. I'm very fond of groups like The Roots and Blackstar. Back to Bob. You were saying he didn't have a big ego, is that what enabled him to be the way he was? Is that part of it?
David: Yes. Bob was just an unusual human being in the sense that he came from a strange background. He actually grew up in Trenchtown, Kingston. It was poor. I spent time with him in some of those places. He definitely liked to smoke his herb. Never touched alcohol. Certainly liked the company of a woman. He was definitely a human being, and was a part of this world and knew what was going on.
I directed a little TV show with him in it when my friend Earl Chin interviewed him. This was when Bob was at his height; this was in '79 or '80, and he was in New York to play Madison Square Garden. We were in his hotel room. Earl, who had a reggae television show, he was a VJ, which I did. So I was really part of the scene for a while. So Earl asked him, "So Bob, you've become such a huge superstar. How's that feel?" And in the film you see him sort of scoff at that, and he said to Earl:
"No, I'm not a superstar at all. Not!"
Earl said, "So what are you?"
"I'm a messenger."
He wanted to be known as someone who was a conduit to transmit matters of humility, of egalitarianism, of social justice. He knew that America listened to him, that Europe listened to him. But he was most interested in his African fans. In Zimbabwe, he played at the Liberation Day when the British finally gave over Rhodesia and it was renamed Zimbabwe. Bob was there to try and give it a positive vibration to start off the country. Although there was a great deal of divisiveness after that.
I think Bob's words, "I'm a messenger," weren't saying, you know, I'm a priest or a holy man. He was saying this music is designed to take people to a consciousness which is going to heal them. The healing of the nation actually refers to marijuana, but in some ways, it was maybe marijuana plus reggae music. The reason it's so popular all over the world – in India it's very popular, and Asia very popular, in Japan and Southeast Asia, all over the world – is because he just sort of speaks that language. People can easily absorb it. It's not so easy to absorb some sacred music. Some people just don't get it, and they don't want it, and it doesn't make them dance, and it doesn't make them laugh.
Reggae music is capable of doing all that. It's one of the great musical genres of our time. But it comes in waves. Like in 70s, 80s, and 90s reggae music, there were people like Toots and Maytals, Max Romeo, Freddie McGregor, all kinds of great people. And they were all spiritual people. But then it changed, it changed. It still exists, but a lot of other music crept in, and a lot of that was about sex. A lot of that was about women and how they should be treated. And it wasn't, shall we put it, a feminist view point. So it became a little difficult for me to get interested again. But I do love reggae music and I give it a lot of credit for my life.
AHB: Before we move to the more spiritual aspect of this, I really want to ask, do you think rock music is dead?
David: No, but it's a struggle. In terms of what gets out there now and is able to survive, we're talking Foo Fighters, we're talking bands like that, which are really bands that are already 20 years in the making. I mean, post-Nirvana, let's say 25 years, there are outbreaks of it, and there's a great deal of interest in the history of it, in terms of people going to see what remains, like The Who. It's encouraging to an old dude like me, because it helps me fight ageism. When people say how could Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey still be doing this, well, if you're actually going to see them. Or you're going to see Clapton. You see something very special, a very matured version of it all.
But in terms of people in their 20s and 30s, there are lots of really good musicians. But is it a central part of the zeitgeist? As it was with the Grateful Dead. As it was with the Beatles. I have to say no. However, I hear and see things on something like Austin City Limits or YouTube, and I'm mind-blown. I see something really great that moves me, and it's being performed by people 30 or 40 years younger than me, and it still breaks through. Because the music is really, really ingrained. Guitar music. It's a very enticing thing for really young people in their early teens to get into still.
A lot of my younger friends, of whatever ethnic background, are more into hip-hop than they are into that, it seems to me. I also know a lot of people between 25 and 40 who will do anything to get to a Dead and Company concert because they've grown up with Phish, they've grown up with bands that emanated from that kind of music. So it's familiar to them, it's timeless. I'm not an expert in what's really going on right now, like Cardi B and all that. I mean, seems like a lot of it is very overtly sexualist, I'd call it, rather than sexual. It is very overtly to do with sex and sometimes that okay, but when it becomes everything it seems lacking to me. I'm loath to criticize it, because I don't know enough about it.
But just by watching television you can tell there seems to be more interest in the Dead than in bands 40 years younger, and one wonders why. Why isn't there a Dead now? I mean, when U2 happened, which is now a long time ago, that was a sort of an outbreak of another variable upon the theme and that had a great effect. But most people who go to concerts are younger than a U2 fan now, and are not all enmeshed in classic rock. There's music for young people, and there always will be. But I put it back to zeitgeist central. When the Beatles were at their peak, and the Velvet Underground were at their peak, and Buffalo Springfield, and even on to the Eagles and stuff, it was just something special. It had many dimensions other than just fun. It wasn't just fun. It was there to expand your awareness in some way.
AHB: Something you can make a deeper connection to. Okay, let's talk spiritual music and kirtan. How do you feel about kirtan? What's your mindset when you go see Krishna Das?
David: Well, to get back to Raghu's comment, for me it is a way of conquering those discursive thoughts, and anxiety and neurosis and doubt and all of that. Because if you really get into it, obviously you're much more into it than just sitting and listening to it because you're actually repeating the names. So for me, it does that. But it takes me a while. I was at a kirtan a couple weeks ago in New York, a small, and it took me a while, I noticed. It took me a couple of songs, you know, and my mind was still all over the place and wondering about what I was going to do the next day. Then suddenly, and it always happens like this for me, suddenly that's over with, and the music takes over. What's key is that it's call and response. Because even with someone as masterful as Krishna Das or Jai Uttal, if there was no response and it was just KD singing – it would be wonderful because he really is a great singer and was a terrific rock and roll musician – but it's different when we're feeding back because then you become a part of the awareness, a part of the consciousness.
Kirtan is vitally important. It's an immersive and powerful tool to get into a meditation, which is a little bit more accessible that just say sitting down and meditating. It's different because it is devotional. I wonder sometimes when I'm singing to Ram or Krishna or whoever, "What is going on here? I don't know these people. It's not like I'm singing to Martin Luther King!" It's someone who may have lived thousands of years ago. You know, there are no real Buddhist kirtans. So you could talk about Buddha and Milarepa but they're not being sung about. We're singing about Ram and Sita, Krishna and Hanuman, and so on. You just get into the wave of it.
I'm not the most devotional person, but once I'm in there, I get it. I started singing kirtan in KD's house in the early 80s, I suppose, and there were usually about 10 people there, it was very intimate. Sharda was playing drums and Ectar. And KD was just as great then, you know, just in his front room. He was just the same. I mean, now he's very sophisticated in recording and performing and the whole thing, he's become a total master. But he was then. It was engrossing beyond words. Sometimes I'd go for the kirtan and stay for a week. Many times, actually. That's how I started with kirtan, in doing that. When I'm alone at home I do listen to KD, and I listen to Shyam Das. I would always go to Shyam Das' kirtans in New York or Massachusetts. He was a genuine, authentic Krishna guy, and lived half of the year at least in Krishna land, in India. He wasn't a person who was trying to open it up to more and more people, he was just who he was, and totally pure. Sometimes people couldn't get with it because he was too authentic. But you knew he was going to a place, and if you just followed his lead you would get to that place. So I think kirtan is enormously important in the ally music department, because that's all it's about. For some I guess it's not. Some people go and they just love. I know people who just love it, they don't really know why. That's fine.
AHB: They take it on a different level, for sure.
David: Yes. But the cultivation of it by people who really know it – because of the amount of time they spent in India, some who were with Neem Karoli Baba, some who weren't – there's an authenticity to it which is so hypnotic and takes you right there. I'm very much like Raghu in the sense that I'm not a big kirtan follower. There are dozens and dozens of kirtan wallahs now. And it's all good. I'm not going to criticize them, because who am I to criticize them? They're trying to connect. But I'm very particular. It's like I raved about Bob Dylan, but I wasn't crazy about Simon and Garfunkel. I knew they were great! I knew people loved "Bridge Over Troubled Water." For me, it was like, eh. I wanted to hear "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Hard Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows." I wanted to hear stuff with some juice.
AHB: Can we talk jazz for a minute? I know Coltrane was big for both you and Raghu.
David: I saw Coltrane live at the Dome Auditorium in Brighton, in Sussex in England. He did a tour with Eric Dolphy, and McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones, and I was lucky enough to go to it. That was an important moment for me, because my older brother was a jazz fanatic. John Coltrane to him was as close to a divine figure as he could get with. He got great tickets for the two of us. In fact, front row, center. So I had the privilege of being about 20 feet away from John Coltrane for about two hours. And that was astonishing. It changed my life. Jazz was the beginning of a deeper kind of dynamic for me. I was about 14 at that time, and because of my brother, who was 24, I was kind of precocious about music because he forced me to listen to modern jazz. Of course, the big change happened in 1956-57-58 when Elvis, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, all of those guys came to light in England. That was a big, big change for me. I can't call it a spiritual change as much as a visceral change. But it certainly helped me.
AHB: But it's something would set you down that road to opening yourself up a little bit, in order to get to that place where you can do the spiritual change?
David: Yeah. When the Beatles went to India, at least with the people I knew, it was like, "What? What's going on?" But they quickly communicated everything, and it wasn't all positive. They had some strange criticisms, but also the Maharishi was a controversial figure. But that album – Revolver – which came out I believe in the late summer of '66, was remarkable because it just took us all to different level. It wasn't really "psychedelic" music in the same way that Pink Floyd was, or even the Dead. It was more just multilevel, multidimensional. John Lennon instigated a new kind of depth and didn't seem to care one way or another whether it was popular, and that was a big turning point for all of us that were listening to that kind of music.
Of course, there were concurrent things going on: Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, soul artists like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. And Parliament Funkadelic. They were all doing experimental and amazing stuff at the same time. The richness of it made us aware of other things that were to do with race, to do with religion, to do with all those other things. It was suddenly remarkable to see black artists like Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, becoming hugely popular with very high-quality music. That was a big deal because one minute you could be listening to the Velvet Underground or to, I don't know, Poco – country-based rock & roll – and the next minute you were listening to Detroit soul music. It all was a big patchwork that worked. And that was huge in our lives then.
AHB: Can we finish up by touching on classical music for a minute? I used to listen to the Four Seasons as a kid to help put me to sleep.
David: That's great. The Four Seasons is great.
Classical music, a lot of it was by patronage, and it was for a specific reason. Some of it was just court entertainment. It is remarkable to think about who actually heard Mozart's music when he was conducting the orchestra. Now, hundreds of millions of people have listened to it, but in those times how many people could there be? It certainly wasn't like a Beyoncé
concert. So it's interesting that it was for the elite, but that didn't stop them from writing from their heart. Mozart did, at the age of 6 or something, which always blows my mind.
A lot of classical music I can't really listen to, because it's too stiff for me and doesn't really evoke much. But when I listen to Beethoven or Mozart, but mainly Schubert and Schumann, and more modern people like Sati, it evokes incredible vibes if you really just allow it to flow through you.
When my mother died, I remember distinctly afterward listening to classical music. Not immediately afterward, but that week that I was still in England getting the funeral and the wake and all that, feeling very traumatized, I remember listening to certain kinds of classical music that soothed me.
AHB: Another example of music as an ally. Thanks so much for your time, David!
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The Old City of Jerusalem , There is a magical quality about the Old City of Jerusalem that does not exist anywhere else in the world. Perhaps it is due to the glorious history of the towering stone walls and ancient buildings, or the sacred atmosphere that surrounds the holy sites of Jewish, Christian, and Moslem religions. The enchanting quality of Jerusalem may also come from the colorful markets and narrow alleyways, or from the city's dynamic history - a history woven with war and peace, love and hate, destruction and resurrection.
The Moslem Quarter , The Moslem quarter is the largest quarter in the old city, and most of its population arrived after its original Jewish and Christian residents moved to newer neighborhoods. The Moslem Quarter has churches and mosques, and there are several Jewish homes and Yeshivas still remaining. The most important sites in the Moslem Quarter are sacred sites for the Moslem faith such as the Dome of the Rock on Mount Moria (also a holy place for the Jews).
The Armenian Quarter , The Armenian quarter is the smallest quarter of the Old City. The Armenians settled in Jerusalem in the 4th century CE for religious reasons, and the St. James Cathedral was built in the 12th century. This church later became the center for the Armenian people in Israel. It is one of the most beautiful churches in the country and is built upon the remains of a Byzantine church. At the center of the church is a dome resting on four pillars, through which the sun shines and sheds light on the paintings on the walls.
The seminary for Armenian priests and the Armenian Museum, which presents the cultural and national history of the Armenian people, are also located in the Armenian quarter. The most important site in the quarter is the building that houses the Armenian Patriarchate.
The Christian Quarter , The Christian quarter has more than 40 churches, monasteries, and hostels that were built for Christian pilgrims. In the heart of the Christian quarter is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or the Church of the Resurrection, which, according to Christian tradition, was the site upon which Jesus was crucified and buried following his final walk along the Via Dolorosa, or the Stations of the Cross. The Via Dolorosa begins at the courthouse - which was located at what is now the Lions' Gate – also known as St. Stephen's Gate-- and ends at Calvary Hill or Golgotha, where the Church is now located. Many Christian pilgrims walk along the Via Dolorosa following the final path of Jesus.
There are several sites that are important to the Christian tradition inside the Church of the Resurrection, including the Stone of Anointing, the tomb, and the rotunda.
The market - one of Jerusalem's most popular tourist attractions, is located in the Christian quarter and is a noisy, colorful market where one can buy decorated pottery, candles, souvenirs, ethnic costumes, mats, rugs, beads, and jewelry, glass lamps and decorative items. The merchants call out their wares and the food stands emit tantalizing aromas. One of the most outstanding attractions of this market is that shoppers are expected to bargain for wares, and if you insist, you can bargain shopkeepers down from their original price.
The Jewish Quarter , The Jewish quarter is the main residential area for Jews in the old City. This quarter also contains the Western Wall, or the Wailing Wall - which is a holy place for the Jews since it was part of the Temple and close to the Holy of Holies within the Temple.
The Jewish quarter also contains interesting archeological sites such as the Burnt House - the remains of a house from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans 2000 years ago. The Cardo is a typical Roman street built in the 6th century consisting of stores situated between two rows of columns. The remains of the tall columns, arches, and stone floor can still be seen in the Cardo.
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What is Kubernetes Load Balancer?
Load balancing is a concept where tasks are compartmentalized and distributed amongst resources such that all the resources are optimally utilized. This way any particular resource isn't overloaded or underutilized.
In the context of Kubernetes load balancing is essentially network traffic management and resource allocation. A load balancer assigns pods, containers, and other cluster resources when it identifies an incoming request based on their availability.
Besides availability, the balancer also ensures all resources are functioning efficiently and providing expected returns in the right amount of time. Overall, the Kubernetes load balancer has three tasks:
● Distribute service requests across instances.
● Enable autoscaling based on the traffic and addition/deletion of resources.
● Ensure high availability at all times.
How do Load Balancers Work in Kubernetes?
Types of Load Balancers
Kubernetes primarily has two types of load balancers:
● Internal Load Balancers: These are responsible for routing requests between containers of the same Virtual Private Cloud. They also perform in-cluster load balancing and service discovery.
● External Load Balancers: These are responsible for assigning resources to incoming external HTTP Requests. Based on the availability, the set of services provided by pods and containers, the HTTP Requests are routed to specific clusters, identified by their IP addresses, and specific nodes, identified by a port number.
Algorithms Used for Load Balancing
Usually, there are multiple algorithms used to execute the process of load balancing. These algorithms are chosen by rules that fit different scenarios and are meant to prioritize and accomplish different results.
Round Robin and Its Variations
The basic Round Robin algorithm is mostly used for elemental load balancing tests because it is not dynamic in nature. Here, a set of servers will get assigned connections in an order one after the other.
This means it doesn't account for varying speeds, the addition of resources, and other aspects. Hence a server that is slow, and a server that performs well would get the same number of connections, which isn't efficient for running applications where real-time network traffic constantly fluctuates.
In L4 Round Robin load balancing kube-proxy uses IP tables and its rules to implement a virtual IP for services. Thus, the complexity of backend infrastructure increases with time and this causes latency. Thus, this solution isn't scalable.
L7 proxy is used to bypass kube-proxy, thus eliminating the complexity and scaling issues. When a request arrives, the availability of pods is checked and the balancer identifies which pods are eligible. Based on this, the round robin algorithm is applied and the request is assigned.
Ring Hash
This algorithm is used in places where the clusters need to manage cache servers with dynamic content. A hash table is created with the help of a key and every time a service is assigned based on the hash value.
The number of servers doesn't affect the hash table. Every time a new server is added, the remaining servers will give a fraction of their hits to the new one. This fraction will be determined by the number of servers. If there are 5 servers and a 6th server comes in, it will get 1/5th of the hits from each server.
A couple of use cases of this algorithm would be sticky sessions and session affinity. In real-time, this technique is used for managing shopping carts. This is because here, the same set of pods handles the specific client requests which has its disadvantages.
The workload would be highly uneven and dynamic, thus distributing that evenly amongst all resources would cause latency and inefficiency.
Fastest Response
Here the server that responds the quickest to a request will get assigned with it. This algorithm is used in processing short-lived connections.
Fewest Servers
This technique ensures that only the required number of servers are used at any given time. Any excess servers would be de-provisioned or powered down temporarily. The balancer first assigns all the requests to one server until it is at its full capacity and only then moves on to the next one.
Least Connections
This assigns requests to the servers with the least active connections. A variation of this is weighted least connections. Here, the balancer assesses how long were the active connections active, what kind of services are they handling, and more.
Based on this, the balancer handles unhealthy and slow servers and efficient servers differently. The adaptability of this algorithm is incredible since it can work with both short-lived and long-lived connections.
Least Load
Like least connections here the server with the least load is the criteria. The load can be measured in kilobytes (kb). If the server is lighter, it will get a request assigned irrespective of how many connections are currently running.
Benefits of Load Balancing
The key benefits of load balancing in Kubernetes include:
● Handling high traffic during peak hours. This way the requests are handled in the most efficient way and latency doesn't affect the end-users.
● Avoiding bottlenecks at any point load balancers enable the shifting of traffic.
● Predicting traffic behavior based on historical data, where some load balancers can also suggest corrective action.
● Assigning alternate servers whenever certain servers are down or maintenance operations occur.
● Maintaining system speed even running two different versions of the same application.
Example of Kubernetes Load Balancer
Google Kubernetes Engine has an in-built Ingree Load Balancer. The service uses an HTTPS load balancer and allows you to define how traffic will reach the various services and can give a single IP address to multiple services in a cluster. Beyond this, the integration with Google Cloud Services makes the complete process simpler and more efficient.
Overall, a load balancer is an imperative need for K8 clusters because they ensure that the infrastructure functions at maximum efficiency at all times irrespective of the traffic behavior.
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A beautiful sunset from Echo Ridge.
Attractions. The Echo Ridge Nordic Ski Area is a unique cross country ski area with more than 25 miles of groomed trails just shy of 10 miles from downtown Chelan. Some would describe Echo Ridge as a cross country ski area that has something for everybody. The terrain varies in skill level, the vistas are breathtaking, one daily low price, dependable snow, consistent grooming for skate and classic skiing, and there are even trails where you can bring your dog. With the lower parking lot at an elevation of 3,600 feet, Echo Ridge is typically above the clouds that cover the Lake Chelan valley in the winter. On a nice day amazing views of the Enchantments, Pyramid Peak, and the Okanogan Highlands can be enjoyed from a number of the groomed trails. The trails are both expertly groomed and laid out over rolling hills circling ridge tops and travelling through broad drainages. Even on a busy day skiers have a sense of solitude as they explore the vast trail system. Snowshoers will also find plenty of trails to fill a weekend of adventure.
Elevation: The trails lie between 3100′ and 4000′ of elevation and typically hold good snow from mid-December through March.
Trail System. The trails are both expertly groomed and laid out with single and double track platforms as well as extensive skating loops. The pitch of the trails undulate nicely and the green (easy) skating routes, while not flat, still provide a very nice skating experience for beginners. The system is divided in several different loops coming together at 5 major junctions. Snowshoers will also find plenty opportunity to get out on the Shoe, Zoom, Outback, Somewhere to Ride, and Divine Intervention trails. Free maps of the trails are available at the main parking areas and the signage and large-scale maps at the major intersections are all excellent. Signage, in fact, doesn't get much better.
Access. The Nordic trails are about 9.5 miles from the town of Chelan. Follow the Manson Highway (SR-150) 2 miles to Boyd Road and turn right. Follow Boyd Road to Cooper Gulch Road, following signs to the Echo Valley Ski Area and snowmobile Sno-Park. The county road ends at the Echo Valley downhill ski area. From this point, a plowed Forest Service road winds steeply uphill for about two miles where you'll reach the main parking areas – Lower and Upper Echo Trailheads, both capable of holding about 50 vehicles. These trailheads provide access to the best skiing. On your way up you'll pass the Zoom Trailhead about 1 mile from Echo Valley which can hold 6 or 7 vehicles. Between the Zoom Trailhead and the Lower Echo Trailhead, there's also a trailhead and small parking area named, The Shoe, giving access to snowshoeing trails.
View of Mt. Stuart from Echo Ridge.
Management. The Echo Ridge Nordic Area was established in 1991 by the US Forest Service. The area is operated under a cooperative agreement between the Lake Chelan Nordic Ski Club and Chelan Ranger District. The Club maintains the trail grooming operation through the efforts of paid grooming staff and many volunteers.
Fees. The trail fee (paid at self-serve drop boxes in the parking areas) is currently $10 per day per adult. Kids 17 and under ski for free. Season Passes ($70) are available by mid-November each year and can be purchased at the Chelan Ranger District at 428 West Woodin Ave, Chelan or at the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce. Online pass sales are available from the Lake Chelan Nordic Ski Club . NW Forest Passes and Washington State Sno-Park Permits are not accepted.
Pets. The Tootsy Roll, Whoop-Di-Do, Lolly Pop, Zoom, Outback ski trails allow you to travel with dogs. All snowshoe trails are also open to dogs. The other trails are closed to dogs and walking.
Summer. In summer mountain bikers, hikers, and trail runners all enjoy using these same roads and trails. There is no fee for using the area in summer. See our summer report in the guidebook.
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The media has done a wonderful job of selling us on the attractiveness and benefits of buying "new", "improved", "special" products. However, we already collectively own so much that we could all survive for quite a while on the existing products - if we just reused them a few times!
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Old calendars, colorful pictures, etc. can be used to make your own envelopes. You can unstick a used envelope and use it as a template for making envelopes.
Old rolls of wallpaper can be used for children's drawings.
Pet shops appreciate old newspapers.
Toilet roll centers can be recycled - they're made of cardboard.
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Fast amortized inference of neural activity from calcium imaging data with variational autoencoders.
Bayesian Manifold Learning: The Locally Linear Latent Variable Model (LL-LVM).
High-dimensional neural spike train analysis with generalized count linear dynamical systems.
Clustered factor analysis of multineuronal spike data.
Bayesian Computation Emerges in Generic Cortical Microcircuits through Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity.
Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit.
Spectral learning of linear dynamics from generalised-linear observations with application to neural population data.
Probabilistic Inference in General Graphical Models through Sampling in Stochastic Networks of Spiking Neurons.
Neural Dynamics as Sampling: A Model for Stochastic Computation in Recurrent Networks of Spiking Neurons.
Empirical models of spiking in neural populations.
A Spiking Neuron as Information Bottleneck.
Tag-Trigger-Consolidation: A Model of Early and Late Long-Term-Potentiation and Depression.
On Computational Power and the Order-Chaos Phase Transition in Reservoir Computing.
Spike-Frequency Adapting Neural Ensembles: Beyond Mean Adaptation and Renewal Theories.
Simplified Rules and Theoretical Analysis for Information Bottleneck Optimization and PCA with Spiking Neurons.