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Iowa State's Prohm secures school's best recruit and recruiting class
Tommy Birch, tbirch@dmreg.com
AMES, Ia. — The mountains of Virginia where Lindell Wigginton lives make it hard for the high school basketball star to get cell phone reception.
So Iowa State men's basketball coach Steve Prohm would text with him daily to keep the school's biggest recruit committed to the Cyclones.
Wigginton, the highest ranked recruit in Cyclones history, highlighted the best recruiting class in school history when he signed his letter of intent to play for the Cyclones on Wednesday.
Peterson: Any question about Steve Prohm's recruiting chops? Not anymore.
"I don't know if I missed a day, probably," Prohm said. "He's in the mountains in Virginia so he doesn't get much service so it's really a text conversation. Probably every day since April since we first found out about him and heard about him."
The 6-foot-2 guard from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia is the prized piece of Prohm's three-player recruiting class. He joins Terrence Lewis, a 6-5 forward from Milwaukee and Darius McNeill, a 6-3 guard from Houstonin Iowa State's class. All three are four-star recruits, according to ESPN.
Wigginton is a four-star recruit according to all major recruiting outlets, a top-50 pick by Rivals and ESPN, and the top-ranked player in Canada's 2017 class according to Hoops Hype Canada. 247sports lists him as the top-ranked composite recruit in school history.
It's easy to see why. As a junior, Wigginton averaged 16.4 points per game at the prestigious Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., one of the nation's premier prep schools. In October, he chose Iowa State over Oregon and Arizona State.
Cyclones rotation breakdown: How will Steve Prohm spread out the minutes?
"He's a guy that can come on campus Day One and that's ready to compete physically, mentally just from the competition that he's used to going against at Oak Hill for the last three years," Prohm said.
Wigginton could compete with Donovan Jackson for the starting point guard spot next season. Starter Monte Morris is in the midst of his senior season. Jackson, a junior, is in his first season with the Cyclones after transferring from Iowa Western.
"It's going to be a battle," said Iowa State guard Naz Mitrou-Long.
Mitrou-Long is more than familiar with Wigginton. The fellow Canadian said he knew Wigginton before Iowa State recruited him. Mitrou-Long also knew Wiggington's brother Rodell, who played at Buffalo.
"He's a hungry kid," Mitrou-Long said. "He thinks he's nowhere near where what he needs to be. He wants to go after everybody that's ahead of him. I think it was one of the best gets that this school could get. He's going to be awesome for the program. Hell of a kid, person and incredible player."
This year's trio of recruits was ranked No. 19 by 247sports.com, topping the previous high of 34 in 2009. Prohm's class is second among Big 12 schools in the rankings and trails only Texas, which checks in at No. 8.
Peterson: ISU guards swish from everywhere, but the frontcourt needs work
Prohm said the emphasis was to go heavy on perimeter players with Morris, Mitrou-Long and guard Matt Thomas all set to graduate after this season.
"It needs to be a good class for the future of our program, and we're off to a really good start," Prohm said.
Lewis averaged 22.2 points, 9.9 rebounds, and 1.8 assists last season. He shot 52.1 percent from beyond the arc last season and hit 62 of 121 3-pointers. Prohm is excited to see what Lewis can do once he adds some weight.
"He's a guy that can really, really make shots," Prohm said. "(He can) get out, run the wing and put pressure on the defense, but really good size at the wing position."
McNeill averaged 14.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.2 assists as a junior. Prohm said McNeill could play either guard spot.
"He's got a bright future," Prohm said. "His upside I think is really, really high. Competitive. Another guy with really long arms—lanky."


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Lawyers for Tyson Foods and seven other poultry companies are challenging Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's hiring of three law firms (Miller & Keffer; Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis; and Motley Rice) to represent the state in its environmental action over river pollution, per the Northwest Arkansas Morning News. "The contracted law firms could win up to 50 percent of any settlement or damages awarded, according to the contract." Each of the three law firms is also a campaign donor to Edmondson. "Government lawyers are expected to do justice and they can't have a personal financial stake in the outcome of the litigation. That principal applies just as well to private law firms hired by the state as to attorneys working in Attorney General Edmondson's office," argued Tyson attorney Robert George of Kutak, Rock. Edmondson's lawsuit has stirred up ill feeling between Oklahoma and neighboring Arkansas. We've been covering the controversy for quite a while (here, here, here, here, and here).


I fancy myself a holistically hippie Taurean with an unfortunate proclivity for reality television, sugar, and tie-dye.
#23. Whether my inability to keep plants alive has any correlation to my mothering skills.
Who knows, you might just find your mom-friend soul mate.
I'm a writer, mother, Hypnotherapist, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Birth Doula, and Amateur Smoothie Chef. I enjoy digging in the dirt with my son and attempting to capture his 2-year-old wisdom in written word. Bailey blogs at Feng Shui Mommy, Facebooks over on the book, and has a slight obsession with taking photos for Instagram .
Every time you yell 'No!' a fairy loses her wings.
Teaching my child to sing the chorus of "Land Down Under" in an Aussie accent. My husband's from Australia.
Guilt is a worthless emotion, you're much more amazing and capable than you give yourself credit for, and spit-up-hued beige is the new black.
You'll be stunned by the number of celebs this 10-year-old has interviewed!
In pregnancy, honor whatever makes you feel most connected to your true self.
Erin Robinson shares her personal struggle with uterine fibroids and urges women everywhere to make women's health a priority.
She's raising the bar for pregnancy fitness.
3. "Using a village to raise a child" isn't just dreamt about on the island — it's organically put into practice.
We're those "backwards" people who checked off life's boxes in the order that felt best for us versus the order people told us to do it in.
From an IVF nurse who's seen it all.
This doesn't set the intention that you'll have a C-section, it sets the intention that you'll be prepared for anything.
Or how to keep their brains from turning to mush on your watch.
Be gentle with yourself, let yourself feel the emotions that come up, and just keep breathing into motherhood.
Hurts so bad it's good.
The joy in offering the simple gift of time and service to someone else opened me to the light around and within me.
They were just like us, a busy family with 48 hours worth of to-dos to accomplish in 24 hours and children that needed to be fed.
The love of my child has finally opened my eyes to the damaged pieces of my confidence that need a heaping dose of super glue.
#4. Meditate with your baby, while setting the intent that you're tapping into their "voice" and intuition.
And don't forget to have Mickey rub your belly for good luck!
If you're an expecting mama who has no medical need for intervention, these tips are for you, sister.
#3. Thou shall not touch my toys whilst I am organizing them into chaos.
We are all for getting our kids in tune with their emotions.
These may sound a bit "hippie," but don't knock them 'til you try them.


Marillion are one of the UK music scene's best kept secrets; purveyors of soulful, powerful, and often deeply-moving music, with a long-standing reputation for blistering live shows which have earned them an impressive and faithful global fanbase.
On October 13, 2017, Marillion played at the Royal Albert Hall for the very first time. The concert was sold out in a split second and the audience, travelling from all over the world, was rewarded with an incredible Marillion show. Watch their new video now!


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When using photographs or video of individuals in connection with the University of Houston-Downtown, including on the website (www.uhd.edu) and related sites, in any UHD-produced programs, advertising, promotion, social media and/or publicity, it is important to consider if an Authorization for Use of Image form ("release") from the subjects/models is required before photography is published or otherwise made publicly available.
The following guidelines apply to the distribution of photos/videos taken by university personnel or those acting as an agent of the university and distributed externally, such as on university websites, digital channels or in marketing materials.
Releases are typically required if the individual:
is recognizable; the primary focus of the photograph/video shot
is identifiable in a small group setting, such as a small group of students studying in the library or congregating on the south deck. In these cases, a release should be obtained from each subject
has been recruited to serve as a model
is a minor (under 18 years of age); a parental release is required
Releases are typically not required if:
The subject is not recognizable, such as silhouettes, posterior view or out of focus
The photos/video are not being taken to be distributed by UHD. When news media is covering a story on campus or a production company is shooting content it plans to distribute, a UHD photo release is not required. In many cases, they will have their own releases. The film shoot guidelines outline protocols for filming on campus.
What if I am not sure if a release is required?
If the situation does not fall under one of the outlined scenarios, assess the need for a release by asking: what expectation of privacy does the subject reasonably have in this situation? If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, a release is necessary.
Why do we need photo releases?
Photo releases are especially important and necessary when photographing students and complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), the federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
Photos are not considered directory information at the University of Houston-Downtown. Only directory information can be released publicly by UHD. Photographs/video taken by or on behalf of the university become university records. By making those records public, such as publishing it on uhd.edu or social media, the university is making a disclosure of a student record not considered to be directory information. To comply with FERPA, UHD must have a signed written consent for all students easily identified in UHD produced photos/video prior to making the content public. Passive consent is not in compliance with FERPA.
Do photo releases only apply to students?
No. The photo release must be used to models, students and minors, per the guidelines outlined above. It is strongly suggested and a best practice to use the release form for any individual who is the primary subject of the photo, including faculty and staff.
In all cases, consent must be given. It is permissible, however, to get informal consent from faculty, staff and other individuals, such as asking to use a person's image and receiving consent through email.
May we bypass the photo releases if we have posted signage with a notice to attendees that photos will be taken and possibly used by the university?
This type of notification is not permissible taking for photos/video of students. Students must give written consent to comply with FERPA.
This type of notification may work for nonstudent events with finite points of entry. The signage should be prominent (20"x30" or larger) and located at all points of entry. The university personnel responsible for the event should keep a record of the signage and where it was posted. When possible and applicable, this notification should also be included in registration materials.
Suggested language for photo notification signage:
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Typically, you need consent for each photo event. One release does not constitute consent for any and all future photos of the student. However, it is permissible to get a release for a semester if it specifically identifies the program/group being documented. Example: if you are documenting a group of art students building a project over the course of a semester and it will involve multiple photo sessions, you can have one release that covers consent during course of participation.
An authorization for Use of Image form that covers multiple photos/video over an extended time period can be downloaded. Note, the time period must be related to a specific university-related event and may not exceed six (6) months. After the time period outlined in the Authorization, a new release will be required. This does not restrict the time period in which the University may use the resulting photos, video or likeness.
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I started writing this post a couple of months ago, when the world was crazy, but much less crazy than it is right now with the Ukrainian invasion. When the macro level is this out of control, when people are forced into situations they didn't ask for, it drives home the point of what extreme lack of agency looks like. War is a time when individuals lose their sense of agency—over their own lives, and also over the direction of the world.
Agency is the ability of your effort to first affect the condition of your life, and then the condition of the world.
Without agency, you don't believe that your effort means anything. Agency is tied to your sense of purpose — you can't fulfill your purpose without agency. At a basic level, you must be able to
perceive a choice
act on the choice
believe that the choice has the possibility to give you the result that you want to see.
This is so fundamental to human potential and achievement that "agency" is a driving characteristic I look for in investments.
In 2020, Nikhil wrote a post on trends for 2021, and he asked people in tech what their thoughts were. My answer was simple: individual agency. I wrote: "The next big thing in 2021 is agency – where people can construct their lives, regardless of location, and find a way to build the career and lifestyle they want."
Over the last few years, I've realized that agency is the unifying idea that underpins Spero's thesis.
It's about investing in the things that enable agency. The 3 different components of "things that make life worth living" are all related to people's agency—their ability to choose what happens in their lives and the world.
Wellbeing: the agency to live your life with the physically and mentally capability that you choose. To be able to access your data, choose your path to wellbeing, as you define it.
Sustainability: the agency for people to have a positive impact on the planet, while also choosing abundance. The ability to make informed choices that reflect their values while thriving and enabling the planet to thrive.
Learning, work, and play: the agency to choose your path, learn what you want to, work on problems that energize you, build the life you want to have, and enjoy yourself with the people that matter.
Agency makes life worth living.
#Spero
Hardware as a Moat
Photo credit: Peloton
When investors look at companies, one of the things we try to understand is whether the company can build a moat. In tech, a moat is a conscious business design choice that allows a company to develop and maintain a sustained competitive advantage over other players in the space.
Economies of scale and network effects are two of the best-known moats. But there are others—like deep tech, etc. Today, I want to propose a new moat: hardware. I'm talking about products like Peloton, where the hardware is central to having the full experience.
In the wellness space, software solves real problems, and the app ecosystem in these spaces is thriving. These apps help with things like meditation, period tracking, sleep tracking, and exercise of all kinds. But in a crowded market like that, investors ask, "How does a company win?"
Now, when you have "just" apps in these spaces, with no connected hardware, they are fungible. To move from one app to another, you just… click. If you have paid an annual subscription, you might wait until it expires, or you might just eat the cost and try a new app regardless. With these apps, there may be UI differences or instructor differences, but the experience is largely similar. The customer choice is being made based off of relatively small differences.
As my colleagues and I have written, in a software-only space where differences are minimal, a product-led community can be a great moat. Another moat could be sales to enterprises, where a company buys the app/service as a benefit for employees. If you lock up as many companies as possible, very quickly, the employees of those companies become your customers. But this kind of lockup, while valuable, may not be driven by passion or love for the product.
So, a moat that could be longer lasting is hardware. Yes, hardware often scares VCs, because it can be complicated. You need to create processes around mailing things out, dealing with returns, production challenges, and more. There seems to be an endless list of issues.
However, hardware has changed over the past few years, becoming easier to manage than it was 10 years ago. A whole ecosystem of companies has emerged to support hardware companies with many of the logistical issues. And engineers, product people, designers, and marketers who have built and shipped multiple versions of good consumer hardware are available in the market.
In a crowded software market, hardware can be your moat.
The most successful of these companies is Peloton. If you buy a bike (or presumably a Tread), to just get your hardware to turn on, you have to pay Peloton $39 a month for a subscription. And while your parents' generation ended up using exercise equipment mainly as a clothes horse, these new devices are a joy. They are well-designed, they are connected, they often have community elements, and they have a rich user experience that's compelling and powerful. So, sure, much like your parents, you could turn your Peloton into a dumping ground for your shorts and t-shirts, but once you've bought a device that costs several thousand dollars, the additional monthly pinch of $39 is likely making sure that you are using the device. Their numbers back this up: their S1 claims 95% 12-month retention for those who buy their hardware. Even if it is a bit lower, like some analysts debate, it's still incredibly strong. Also, just yesterday, agreeing with this point of view, Lululemon bought Mirror, a connected hardware exercise mirror, for $500M.
Photo Credit: Core
It is even better when the hardware gives you unique data. For example, our portfolio company Core provides your Heart Rate, your HRV, your minutes of calm, and your minutes of focus for each session. Because you are holding a device that vibrates to give you a point of focus, and that same device gives you all this data, once you've bought a Core, you're unlikely to want to use anything else to meditate. Same goes for Peloton.
In addition, unlike another apps on your phone, which are all behind the black glass screen, hardware is visible. You can see your Peloton bike in your house, your Core trainer on your desk or bedside table. And by being visible, and by being well-designed, they beckon to you to use them and experience the tactile, live user experience with them. They exist in the real world.
These are still the early days of connected hardware, but between the physical presence, the cost paid to acquire the device (which could be a proxy of customer commitment), the tactile experience, and the data generated, these devices can serve as a moat in crowded software markets. Over the next few years, companies will evolve their model and create fantastic new experiences for consumers. Both as a user and as an investor, I am excited to see where this world goes, and I'm excited to use these beautifully designed products and apps to achieve my goals.
#Product Thoughts
Re: Money On The Screen
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What I love most about the newsletter format is that it encourages discussion. In response to my last post, Put The Money On The Screen, a founder emailed me with some points that I want to share and discuss.
The founder rightly pointed out that there's nuance to the idea of putting the money on the screen. Spending and cost-cutting decisions depend on the stage of the company and the unique circumstances.
Here's part of what the founder wrote:
The problem with cutting off-screen costs is that the results over time mainly go to investors (because the great majority of the company over time is investor owned), and proportionally less to employees and common shareholders, which are asked to bring the sacrifice. Just be mindful of what asking people to sacrifice means.
This founder was speaking from a personal experience: being asked to take a ridiculously small salary after raising a significant Series A from a top-tier firm. The founder went into debt as a result of this, and it took a long time to recover.
While I haven't heard both sides of the story, I do think putting a founder in that situation is harsh. VC firms should make sure founders and CEOs aren't under undue financial stress—it's in everyone's self-interest for the CEO to be able to focus on building the company. Additionally, some expenses that might strike VCs as superfluous may be legitimately necessary for team morale or culture. Those are best judged by the company's leadership.
All of this depends on the stage of the company. At the later stages, the tradeoffs will change. But regardless of stage, employees bear the brunt of putting the money on the screen during tough times. I've seen this happen in film, where the writer/director bears the highest cost in "making it happen," and first-time founders are often in the same situation.
While that's the nature of the beast, it's something worth pausing on. It is not always the right decision to cut some "off-screen" costs. The best decisions may emerge when investors and CEOs have honest conversations that recognize the impact and consequences of these decisions.
#Perspectives
Lessons for entrepreneurs from India's pickle queen
Photo credit: Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times
A few days ago, The New York Times published an article about Usha Prabakaran — AKA the "pickle queen" of India. She wrote and self-published a niche, cult classic book with 1,000 pickle recipes from around India. I really enjoyed the article as it combined my love for pickles, my hometown of Chennai, and impressive women.
It's also an article about an entrepreneur, and there are a number of useful lessons for those of us in the business of building businesses:
1. Bootstrapping to product-market fit is a great path to follow
But over the next two decades, "Usha's Pickle Digest," self-published by an unknown author, with a first print run of just 1,000, became a cult classic in India and its diaspora — praised for its precision and scope, celebrated on blogs and podcasts and hunted down in shops, where it sold out.
2. Be disciplined about product scope and get it out there; avoid feature creep.
In her book, Ms. Prabakaran limited herself to 1,000 recipes. When I finally got my own print-on-demand copy of "Usha's Pickle Digest," through Amazon, I was dazzled.
3. Focus on the goal. Learn what you need about other industries in order to accomplish the goal.
Ms. Prabakaran, now 64, became known as India's "pickle queen,"but she wasn't interested in monetizing that title. "I know nothing about publishing, and I was never interested in selling books," she said at her home in Chennai. "My job is to keep the past alive."
4. Sustainability is important.
A straightforward "anti-waste" chapter includes recipes for plantain skins, jackfruit seeds, ridge-gourd peels and lime leaves, which often end up in the compost heap. While restaurant chefs make headlines now for cooking less wastefully, pickling has always been about saving the scraps, developing flavor and texture with ingenious frugality.
5. Be laser focused on what actually matters. And you get to decide what matters.
Ms. Prabakaran is small-framed, with a wicked sense of humor and a big, throaty laugh. Her forehead is dimpled where the tumor was removed, close to the hairline, and she has no interest in reconstructive surgery.
"People care too much about looks," she said with a shrug. "If I have any spare time, I want to work on my books."
6. Don't rest on your laurels. Move onto the next release, next product.
Ms. Prabakaran is at work on a second book, turning her attention to Indian rasam, a kind of soup.
7. Leave your customer feeling intense joy
The pickle did what all great pickles do: It revived me with a ripple of salt and acidity. The grainy oil tickled with chiles and citrus. It had the effect, with every breath, of filling my lungs with more air so I could breathe more deeply. And it made everything on the plate taste bigger, stronger, hotter, better.
"Isn't it absolutely dynamite?" she asked. The question was rhetorical. She was grinning.
8. Founder-market fit is important. Do the work to know your space.
Ms. Prabakaran was hooked. She apprenticed herself, learning to turn jars in the sun so the fruit dried evenly, and to combine new and old tamarinds to balance out their acidity levels. She made so many pickles that she often gave jars away to friends and family, who begged her to write down a few recipes and share them. As she tried to standardize the recipes, her project became increasingly more ambitious.
9. Be unstoppable and don't take no for an answer.
She spoke with publishers, and when none were interested in her idea, Ms. Prabakaran decided to do it herself.
10. Mission matters. Find the "why" that is bigger than yourself.
Ms. Prabakaran worried that without documentation, the gradual loss of this knowledge was inevitable — that more and more people would make fewer and fewer pickle varieties, until eventually, the expertise was lost.
"The reason for writing the book was to ensure that the vast culinary heritage of this land stays on the map," she said.
11. Be resourceful to get what you need.
12. Focus intensely on the product your customers will see. You need to know it in extreme detail.
"My friends called me a crafty devil, because I could wriggle a pickle recipe out of anyone," Ms. Prabakaran said. After she narrowed the recipes down from a catalog of 5,000, she tested each one in her home kitchen three times — a more thorough process than is used for many glossy cookbooks from big publishers.
13. Ignore the doubters, they may sometimes be friends or allies.
Friends who had supported her pickle book were skeptical — was there really so much variation when it came to rasam? Would she even be able to find 1,000 recipes this time around? And why devote a whole book to something so ordinary?
14. Be willing to do the hard, unglamorous work to make something great.
Ms. Prabakaran was undeterred. She sat down to write a love letter to rasam as a genre, extolling its value and declaring it worthy of celebration. Then she spent 10 years researching it, gathering and testing recipes, documenting patterns and anomalies.
15. Ignore the gatekeepers, work around them.
Ms. Prabakaran plans to self-publish the book in March. She wants to make it easy for cooks to find, right from the start, even if that means giving it away for free.
Entrepreneurs come in many forms. Ms. Prabakaran has displayed so many of the traits that make an entrepreneur successful. I recommend you read the article yourself. In addition to new lessons you may find, you will get a peek into a fascinating world.
I now own the pickle book (thanks, Amazon) and I'll be on the lookout for the book on rasam. I'm not a great cook, but I always want to support the entrepreneurs who inspire.
Focusing on the Core
Announcing Spero Ventures' latest investment in health & well-being: Core, which promises to make meditation easy and accessible for everyone.
After my fourth cycle of chemo, my anxiety was at an all-time high. Little things I had never noticed before, like the light that beamed out of the top of my television and onto the ceiling, kept me awake for hours. My anxiety got so bad that I started to see a therapist. In one of our first meetings she asked me if I was open to meditation.
Our bodies are complex and interconnected systems. Physical and mental well-being are intrinsically connected. At Spero Ventures, we invest in technology that makes life worth living. Mental well-being is an area we believe is foundational to the health of our communities. And so we are happy to announce our investment in Core.
For decades our society has focused on improving our physical well-being, but until recently, we have largely ignored our mental well-being. Just like we can train our bodies, we can train our minds. And it is important we do so because the state of our mind has a pervasive effect on all parts of our lives.
Meditation is one of the most effective ways to train the mind. The positive side effects of meditation are numerous: It helps reduce stress and anxiety; it increases our attention-spans and enhances our self-awareness; it may reduce age-related memory loss; it can help fight addiction; it can decrease our blood pressure and help reduce pain; and it can even help us sleep better.
More people are beginning to realize the positive effects of meditation. Some 14% of American adults meditated within the past year?—?a threefold increase from 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
So why aren't all of us meditating? Because it takes real effort. When we want to change the shape of our bodies, it can take months of concerted effort working out, eating better and sleeping well. While we understand those requirements on the physical side, the same effort and focus is required for meditation. But even if people manage to find the time to meditate, focusing on something as ephemeral as the breath is hard for most people.
Core, founded by Sarah McDevitt and Brian Bolze, has developed a unique and immersive meditation experience to make it easier for everyone to meditate. At the center is the Core Meditation Trainer, a beautiful device that gently pulses as you meditate. The tactile signal allows meditators to focus on something tangible and ever-present.
The device is supplemented by a rich app experience that fades into the background as you start meditating. The device tracks your stress levels through heart rate and HRV, and the app shows you the moments when you were thinking about something else, and helps you understand your stress during a meditation session. It can also help you understand how your practice is improving your health over time.
We believe that technology can help address some of the most important problems that we face today. Core exemplifies this. We are excited to work with the expanding team at Core as they bring their vision to life.
Non-obvious choices
My film school classmate Heather shared this video of Henry Thomas' audition for E.T. Take a look.
What stands out are the choices he made. Before becoming an investor, I spent some years in film. I've auditioned children for roles and most of them make the obvious choice – screaming, shouting, being loud. That is likely what most of the kids who auditioned for this role did, too. "NOOOO!!! You can't take him!!" etc.
But what Henry Thomas did was so unexpected. With such little information, he decided to very quietly cry. He made the creature his friend, he asked how the agent even knows all this. He decided to be extremely vulnerable. These are the choices that got him hired.
I've often said that there are a ton of similarities between tech and film1. This is one small example – when you are interviewing candidates, a majority will pick the obvious answers. That's fine. They could be journeymen in the company. But when there is a candidate who makes an entirely non-obvious choice, something that makes you sit back and think in a new and different way, those are the candidates who can change the trajectory of the company. Hire them.
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Norwegian Womens Motivations And Preparations For Freebirth
This project was targeted on authorized perspectives on huge information within healthcare. She beforehand led work on regulation within numerous roles employed in the Norwegian state. Her experience spans the Ministry of Health and Care Services, the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Board of Health. She was the authorized director and director of negotiations for the Norwegian Medical Association. As the Director of Simula Consulting, Valeriya Prior plays a pivotal function bridging the gap between academia, trade and society.
They have been deprived of their civil rights, detained or expelled from the nation to Germany along with their youngsters, the BBC says. Norwegian men who married German women weren't equally handled. According to World Health Organization, feminine genital mutilation estimates that over three million girls are at threat of undergoing feminine genital mutilation yearly. In addition, human trafficking and sexual trafficking is characterized because the world's fastest rising crimes, the place girls and women rely for a lot of the victims. Rape and illegal abortion force girls worldwide to take extreme measures so as to survive.
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In 1886, the Norwegian Association for Votes for Women had demanded access to common suffrage. However, in 1901, women who can set up a minimum earnings of their very own and these who are married to a voter might take part in municipal elections and then in 1907 in national elections. The man retained management of the home of the couple, but the woman could now freely eliminate the fruit of his work. During this period, new legal guidelines were passed, and although they didn't directly revolutionize the standing of girls, barriers had been being crossed regularly and quickly. Formal equality of women with men grew to become almost full in the house of just two generations. The rule of, who wished women to be entitled to nothing past joint-ruler standing, lapsed and equal inheritance for both sexes turned the rule.
Menarcheal Age For Norwegian Women Born 1830
Immigrant populations have tended to move into a few of the less fascinating and fewer well-paid occupations corresponding to cleaners and quick meals employees. Government, labor, and administration are built-in into a centralized industrial planning system. Since the 1970s, the precept of codetermination has meant that labor and management increasingly share the dedication of every day operations and longer-term planning. As a consequence of this pattern in industrial democracy, emphasis is positioned on training and the upgrading of workers' abilities. In distinction to nations the place labor is cheap and training is limited, decision making incessantly is delegated to lower-level workers. The division of labor is predicated more on expertise than on standing and seniority. As a consequence of the invention and exploitation of North Sea oil within the 1970s, Norway has turn out to be the world's second largest exporter of oil and natural fuel.
Although not a Minister, she stays a Member of Parliament for the Labour party and is a eager proponent of ebooks and digital tradition. Today it is extremely uncommon for any party to not have a lady as the primary or second name on an election record. Erna Solberg has been the Prime Minister since 2013, and the leaders of three of the 4 events in the present coalition authorities that run the country are feminine. It says lots about Norway that a 29-year-old, Pakistani-Norwegian Muslim woman can function a minister in the Norwegian authorities. Equality of opportunity is a thread that runs all through Scandinavian society and while it's not good, the mannequin is held up as an example to follow by many different nations. Three of Norway's leaders within the current coalition are female and the nation is doubtless considered one of the most gender equal on the earth. Board gender quotas ought to no longer be seen as a radical idea nor a shock to regulatory or financial systems.
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The prominence of women's rights leaders in the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association and other Nordic suffrage organizations is clearly examined all through this text. It illustrates that the push to offer women the proper to vote was spearheaded by a really powerful alliance of women from many alternative cultural backgrounds. There was a lot of hard work accomplished at many ranges to make this important part of historical past turn out to be a actuality. By the time the United States adopted the nineteenth Amendment in 1920, different Scandinavian international locations had already handed legal guidelines permitting women to vote—for instance Norway in 1913 and Denmark in 1915. Relevent Sports Group is among the most influential privately-owned international soccer corporations. It's targeted on rising the popularity of the sport in North America and Asia. RSG delivers distinctive multi-platform experiences and entry for followers throughout the International Champions Cup, Women's International Champions Cup, and the International Champions Cup Futures tournaments featuring the highest soccer golf equipment.


Today, while on Face Book (shut up) I came across a link to a site called Green Beans Coffee. They have a program called A Cup of Joe for a Joe. Being a naturally curious person, I clicked and found myself reading about how I can buy a cup of coffee for a soldier.
This appealed to me because I like the idea of treating these hard working, dedicated soldiers to a cup of coffee, but the likelihood that I would walk up to a soldier and make an offer like that is close to zilch. I admire those of you who have no problem doing that type of thing - almost jealous, in fact - if jealousy weren't a sin, you understand. It's just not my style to put myself forward like that. Even though I do like to express my appreciation.
Along with my natural curiosity, I have a healthy dose of skepticism. Especially if it appears on the internet. So, I was happy to find that I could use PayPal. PayPal is my friend when I do finally decide to make a purchase via the wide world web. If a site doesn't have PayPal, then I don't usually purchase from that site. Quirky me.
Anyway, back to the joe. I love the thought that I can treat a soldier to a cup of much needed coffee (and perhaps a small sense of home) and a note expressing my appreciation for what they are doing. Green Beans Coffee is located on many bases throughout the world, but especially on the front lines of service. It was important for me to know that my donation is actually making it to those who are really putting themselves in harm's way for my freedom.
A person can also buy coffee cards (just like a gift card) and designate a recipient on a particular base. How cool is that?! If I'd known about this site when The Calm One was deployed, I could have bought him a cup of coffee everyday he was away from me. And he could redeem the card at his convenience.
It's just a small, easy way to say thank you. There are many, many organizations that are helping soldiers far and wide. Please share the ones you know about in the comments section.
It is such an awesome program. I love that you could bless someone that you do not know with a cup of coffee and a note. What a cool ministry that could be!
I wouldn't walk up to someone, either. I love stuff like this.


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Revolutionary in pain management: RelieVR
More than two million people in the Netherlands live with chronic pain. That's more than all cardiovascular and diabetes patients combined. Chronic pain often takes over one's whole life. The Frisian entrepreneurs Louis Zantema (31) and Margryt Fennema (25) developed an innovative method to give people with chronic pain control back over their life and fight pain effectively. It resulted in RelieVR: a virtual reality game that teaches patients skills so that they can deal with pain better in daily life and improve their quality of life.
Louis Zantema and Margryt Fennema
Healthcare psychologist Louis Zantema compares pain to a fire alarm. 'A fire alarm goes off as a warning, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's a fire. That's also how it works in the body. People with chronic pain often have an alarm system that is set too tightly, causing it to go off unnecessarily from time to time. That doesn't always mean to say an injury.' As an example, he cites the story of a construction worker who stepped on a nail at a building site. 'The nail went right through his shoe. In great agony, the man went to the hospital where his shoe was cut open. The doctors then saw that the nail was between his toes, so it hadn't gone through at all. But because his brain had registered something that is supposed to hurt a lot, he felt it.'
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Normally will pain disappear again. If someone hits his thumb with a hammer, it will automatically fade away after a while. For people with chronic pain, the pain stays. Months, years, and sometimes even a lifetime. 'Life is completely adapted to it. Many people sleep badly, can't work anymore or can't do without pain medication', Louis explains. As a healthcare psychologist, Louis sees many people with these complaints. 'For RelieVR, I explained during conversations with patients what pain is, what it does and what influence the brain has on it. I gave people anchors to make the pain more bearable, but noticed that there was often too little time or capacity to really follow it through.'
During her graduation, Margryt came across technology in healthcare. She found it so interesting that she decided to follow the master's programme 'Digital innovation in Healthcare' at the NHL Stenden. She subsequently met Louis In 2017, who was working as a psychologist at the Leeuwarden Medical Centre. Together they came up with the idea of RelieVR at the end of 2017.
Journey through the body
'The information Louis gave to patients was very valuable, only patients found it difficult to do anything with it at home. In the end, together with the patient, we came up with the idea of VR glasses with a game', explains Margryt. In the game the user takes a journey through one's own body. 'People play a game, but at the same time they also receive information and learn skills in a playful way to control the pain better in daily life.' The collaboration with patients was central to the product development – which images, colours and music suit the pain best? The VR glasses trigger the emotional brain. 'It's extraordinary, because even though your rational brain knows that the world in VR is not real and that you are playing a game, your emotional brain thinks it is real. So, whether you want it or not, the game influences the pain in a positive way', Louis adds.
Meanwhile, it has already yielded good results, and the pair have won the Northern Netherlands preliminary round of the National Care Innovation Prize. 'But it's ultimately about the patients and what they think of it. The results are promising: many patients sleep better, take less medication and are much more active again, and that's after just a few weeks of practice,' Louis explains. 'That's great to hear. That's what we're doing it for.'
Practicing with the app
The two young entrepreneurs want to continue testing this year in collaboration with various care institutions, and plan to roll out their game in August 2019. 'Since only a small percentage of people with chronic pain complaints are undergoing treatment, we want to ensure that people who are not undergoing treatment will also be able to use our game in the future. By using a VR app on their phone, for example.'
A solid company has now been set up, but in the run-up to this stage Margryt and Louis followed the VentureLab North programme in Groningen. 'Creating business plans, making contacts, raising capital; we learned a lot from them through their programme and through the extra training courses. And that gave us a lot of confidence.' And indeed, the young entrepreneurs can be very proud of themselves. Something which started as an idea has now grown into a thriving company. Alongside Margryt and Louis, there are now a further three programmers and three other employees. 'That's so cool!' Margryt says nodding enthusiastically. 'All stemming from the same passion: helping people with chronic pain. Because that's what we're doing it for!'
Video: Pitch of Louis Zantema op Youtube
Website RelieVR
Pain relief using VR glasses
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We are seeking highly motivated computational biologists to join the research group of Peer Bork within the Structural and Computational Biology Unit as a postdoctoral fellow. This bioinformatics group works on a wide range of topics with a current focus on microbiome analysis in ecosystems like the human gut and the ocean. Within the TREC (Traversing European Coastlines) project, we are gathering microbiome data from soil and ocean samples.
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The Müller group is looking to recruit a highly motivated and cross-disciplinary postdoctoral researcher to pursue structure-function analyses of RNA polymerase I and RNA polymerase III transcription complexes. The Müller group (https://www.embl.org/groups/mueller/) pursues on one hand integrative structural biology and biochemical characterization of yeast and human Pol I and Pol III transcription complexes and their interaction with cellular factors in vitro to understand better their roles in human diseases including cancer. On the other hand, we explore in situ the role of Pol I and Pol III transcription in shaping the nucleolus and in genome organization using cryo-electron tomography, fluorescence microscopy and correlative approaches.
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require 'bundler/setup'
require 'eventmachine'
require 'fileutils'

def answer(data)
  case data
    when 'ping' then "pong\n"
    when 'bad' then "what\n"
    when 'timeout' then sleep 5; "ok\n"
    when 'exception' then raise 'haha'
    when 'quit' then EM.stop
    when 'big' then 'a' * 10_000_000
  end
end

class Echo < EM::Connection
  def post_init
    puts "-- someone connected to the echo server!"
  end

  def receive_data data
    puts "receive #{data.inspect}"
    send_data(answer(data))
  end

  def unbind
     puts "-- someone disconnected from the echo server!"
  end
end

class EchoObj < EM::Connection
  include EM::P::ObjectProtocol

  def post_init
    puts "-- someone connected to the echo server!"
  end

  def receive_object obj # {:command => 'ping'}
    puts "receive #{obj.inspect}"
    send_object(answer(obj[:command]).chop)
  end

  def unbind
    puts "-- someone disconnected from the echo server!"
  end
end

trap "TERM" do
  EM.stop
   FileUtils.rm($sock) rescue nil
end

EM.run do
  $port1 = (ARGV[0] || 33231).to_i
  $port2 = (ARGV[1] || 33232).to_i
  $sock = (ARGV[2] || "/tmp/em_test_sock_spec")
  EM.start_server '127.0.0.1', $port1, Echo
  EM.start_server '127.0.0.1', $port2, EchoObj
  EM.start_server $sock, nil, Echo
  puts 'started'
end

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"""Constants in Logi Circle component."""

CONF_CLIENT_ID = 'client_id'
CONF_CLIENT_SECRET = 'client_secret'
CONF_API_KEY = 'api_key'
CONF_REDIRECT_URI = 'redirect_uri'

DEFAULT_CACHEDB = '.logi_cache.pickle'

DOMAIN = 'logi_circle'
DATA_LOGI = DOMAIN

LED_MODE_KEY = 'LED'
RECORDING_MODE_KEY = 'RECORDING_MODE'

# Sensor types: Name, unit of measure, icon per sensor key.
LOGI_SENSORS = {
    'battery_level': [
        'Battery', '%', 'battery-50'],

    'last_activity_time': [
        "Last Activity", None, 'history'],

    'recording': [
        'Recording Mode', None, 'eye'],

    'signal_strength_category': [
        "WiFi Signal Category", None, 'wifi'],

    'signal_strength_percentage': [
        "WiFi Signal Strength", '%', 'wifi'],

    'streaming': [
        'Streaming Mode', None, 'camera'],
}

SIGNAL_LOGI_CIRCLE_RECONFIGURE = 'logi_circle_reconfigure'
SIGNAL_LOGI_CIRCLE_SNAPSHOT = 'logi_circle_snapshot'
SIGNAL_LOGI_CIRCLE_RECORD = 'logi_circle_record'

# Attribution
ATTRIBUTION = "Data provided by circle.logi.com"
DEVICE_BRAND = 'Logitech'


Christians have the seven deadly sins.
Buddhists have the negative emanations of the mind.
These are all the dark parts of ourselves that we would like to keep secret, be it anger, selfishness, jealousy, insecurity, violence, shame, or other dark elements to which we are prone.
How do we make peace with those parts of ourselves that we sometimes consider unworthy or unlovable or undeserving?
We start by looking closely at ourselves, especially our flaws. We acknowledge them. We accept them. And we work at transforming them. We start by examining and owning our actions, especially those that have had less than desirable outcomes. We start by seeing those parts of ourselves as worthy, lovable, and deserving. We aim for wholeness by integrating the dark and the light in and around us.
Some call the dark side of ourselves "evil." I call it humanity. Yes, people do terrible things to each other; sometimes they do these things because of their beliefs, and sometimes they're done in the name of their religion (think Crusades; think jihad). Does this make us evil? No. It makes us human because we chose to act on those dark aspects. Yet, seemingly evil things somehow transform in ways unexpected, and we discover the silver lining.
Spirit calls us to take the path of inner truth. This means taking responsibility for everything that is in us -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. When we accept and own our imperfections and our gifts, we embrace our full humanity in all of its complexity. It's part of the package.
Spirituality is not for wusses. It takes courage. It takes bravery. It takes perseverance, integrity, and guts.
Jesus was known to hang around characters considered unsavory by society's standards. He knew people in low places: prostitutes, thieves, tax collectors and the like. Prior to his arrival on the historical scene, ancient Levitical law decreed that people with physical deformities were unfit to enter the Temple; they were seen as unclean in spirit.
To compound the issue, the Old Testament God was portrayed as so strict and so pure that he could not look at evil, nor tolerate it. The entire religious system was based on teaching people how to purify themselves in order to enter into God's presence. Unless you were a priest, you had no chance.
But Jesus shook things up when he arrived.
People were still considered impure because of their deeds (or misdeeds), their diet (pork was a no-no), their race (think Gentiles), and their gender (women and menstruation). He saw past their imposed imperfections; he recognized the divine in each one of them. And he loved them anyway, no matter what the religious hierarchy said.
He loved unconditionally and he treated the lowly as equals. He called them his brothers and sisters. Not only did he accept these "impure" individuals, he radiated so much love for them that they flocked to him because he made them feel good about themselves. He held them accountable and transformed them through his love, and they changed because of their love for him.
From this day forward, take responsibility for how you perceive yourself and others. Focus on the divine essence within you and begin to recognize it in everyone else.
When I spent time in Nepal, people always greeted me with "Namaste," accompanied by a slight bow with hands pressed together, palms touching with fingers pointed upward in front of the chest, or heart chakra.
The greeting, from Sanskrit, means "I bow to you." It is a gesture that represents the belief that there is a divine spark within each of us. As we bow, we bow to the divine in each other.
I grew up with a similar greeting. My mother, a native of Germany, would always say, "Grüß Gott" to others, meaning, "Greet God," or, I greet God in you. Roll the "r" when you say it. The umlaut over the "u" makes for a long "u", and that funny looking symbol that looks like a B is really a double "s." "Gott" is pronounced "gawt," not "got."
Make it a point to see the divine in yourself and in others. Offer the greeting, "Namaste," or "Grüß Gott" and make note of what happens as a result.
Spirit will be everywhere, inside and out. And you'll see everyone and everything in whole new light.
Read the introduction to 31 Days of Spiritual Growth. In it, you will find links to each post in this series.
Another very good post, Penny!
Taking full responsibility was something I was taught at a very young age.
Some times, believe or not, even with all of my loving and best intentions, I got myself into situations that were not the best, but even in those times, I took full responsibility, come what may.
It is really the only way to live.
You really packed a lot into one blog post.
Recognizing the God in all of us, our humanness, how Jesus accepted all and showed that unconditional love can get people to change.
Great wisdom flows from you.
True, sometimes my best intentions got me into some sticky situations, but they always worked out as soon as I recognized my responsibility. Funny how that happens...LOL.
Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your insights as always.
It's so true Penny that Spirituality is not for wimps. We have to probe deep in order to discover the higher truth of our "being."
When we are holding a vibration of anything but love we are still locked in a state of ignorance. This is not a "bad" thing, it's just a level of consciousness that we have to liberate ourselves from.
Jesus the Christ was aware of this and even demonstrated this when he forgave the people for nailing him to the cross when he said ""Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." - Luke 23:34. He literally "meant" that because he knew that they were still in the vibration of ignorance and not love.
When we choose to take "responsibility" for our own life instead of blaming outside forces for doing something to us that is the moment when we are "liberated" from victim consciousness and RISE out of ignorance.
Like you said, "it takes courage. It takes bravery. It takes perseverance, integrity, and guts to walk the spiritual path along with a lot of hard work and self-reflection.
Wow, Gena, thank you for your response. I like how you put it when you said, "When we are holding a vibration of anything but love we are still locked in as state of ignorance," which is not bad or evil; it's just a level of consciousness that holds us back from being our authentic selves.
And talk about Jesus's ability to forgive because he knew his executioners were operating from a level of ignorance...that is powerful beyond words. What an example he displayed.
Thank you again for stopping by and sharing your thoughts! They inspire me so much!
We are certainly works-in-progress, but the beauty is that we can make modifications along the way to let our authentic selves shine. Keep up the good work!
I especially loved this sentence.
"Spirituality is not for wusses. It takes courage. It takes bravery. It takes perseverance, integrity, and guts."
Some people think it is all hearts and flowers and do not take seriously the depth of the experiences involved. It is beautiful work though.
I think Jesus really got that trying to harm others really harms you in the end. So, in my mind, I add an extra ending to the verse. "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do... (To themselves when they seek to hurt another.)" It is easy to forgive and have compassion when you clearly see that the only harm done is to the self.
This post, Gena's and your comments give us much to think about.
True, spirituality is not for the feint of heart. People mistakenly perceive it to be a pollyanna approach to life, which couldn't be further from the truth! It involves a lot of personal mining.
I love your addition "to themselves when they seek to hurt another" to the end of "they know not what they do." That is powerful and gives much food for thought when it comes to forgiveness and compassion. I am just being blown away by this! Wow! Thank you!
Blessings and lotsa love to you Dina!
Beautiful thought Penny and so true! One should take responsibility of one's actions only then can they aim at transformation!
Hi Aditi! So happy to hear from you! Transformation is so important on the spiritual path, but like you said, it starts with taking responsibility. Thanks so much for dropping in and sharing. I love hearing from you.
I'll be playing catch up...thank you for the 31 days of spiritual learning and growth!
I will be looking forward to hearing more from you.


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1. The Final Event: Dawn of the Age of Truth 2.The Elixir of Immortality 3. Creating the Soul Body by Robert Cox
by wsmystic in Book Reviews/Interview, Consciousness, Immortality, Metaphysics, Mysticism / Mystics, SOUL, Spirituality, Transformation /Transformative practices, Vedas Tags: Book Review
Robert Cox's The Final Event provides major new insight into the timing and significance of the momentous events beginning now to unfold on planet earth at this most crucial period of human history. Based upon his own intuitive cognitions, the author ties together prophetic indicators derived from the Vedic, Egyptian, Christian, Greek, Judaic, and Mayan traditions to develop a predictive historical model, which spans the last 13,000 years and, for the first time, connects the Precession of the Equinoxes with the cyclic unfolding of the four Ages of Man.
The model accurately pinpoints, describes, and aligns the cultural and spiritual character of historical periods and points to June 2009 as the end of the current cycle of Ages and the beginning of the next. The author predicts that this date will mark the beginning of the 42-month period indicated in The Apocalypse of St. John, when all of humanity will traverse the Valley of the Shadow of Death making our way toward a new Golden Age, or Age of Truth.
Like most birth processes, this global transformation is likely to be traumatic, and the author supplies advice on how to prepare for it physically and spiritually. Nevertheless, he argues that this risky and challenging passage will provide the greatest opportunity for transcendence ever offered to humanity, and he advises us how to take advantage of this opportunity through ego-mastery and meditation. The model predicts that the 42-month transition period, which marks the time of Tribulation, will end on December 21, 2012, when the light of the new Golden Age will first be see
Robert E. Cox holds a Master's degree in Vedic Studies from the Institute of Creative Intelligence in Switzerland. For nine years he lived as a reclusive monk, during which time he received intuitive cognitions regarding the structure and dynamics of consciousness that inspired his research. He is the author of The Pillar of Celestial Fire, The Elixir of Immortality, and Creating the Soul Body, and he lives in Arizona.
About The Elixir of Immortality
A modern-day quest that echoes the ancient alchemists' work to discover the elixir of life
• Provides an overview of alchemical practices in the ancient world–from Europe to China
• Reveals the alchemical secrets for creating this elixir in clear scientific language
In 1989, while attempting to extract precious minerals from his property, a wealthy Arizonan obtained a mysterious white material that initially defied scientific attempts to identify it. After several years of testing, this substance was revealed to consist of gold and platinum–but in a form unknown to modern science. Further research showed that this powder, which had also been discovered to possess marvelous healing powers, contained monatomic forms of precious metals whose electron units had been altered to no longer display the physical, chemical, or electrical properties of the original elements. This substance, Robert Cox shows, bears eerie resemblance to the ultimate quest of the alchemists: the elixir of immortality.
The mysterious material-spiritual science of alchemy was once pervasive throughout the ancient world, spanning the globe from China and India to Egypt and medieval Europe. In The Elixir of Immortality, Robert Cox reviews the alchemical lore of these traditions and the procedures each used to produce this fabulous elixir. Using his own alchemical research, Cox then reveals secrets that have been kept hidden for millennia uncovered in his own modern-day quest to rediscover this long-sought elixir of life.
About Creating the Soul Body
Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body's death
• Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice
• Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred science
Ancient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is therefore eternal, surviving the passing of the physical body. They engaged in spiritual practices to make that transition maximally auspicious. These practices can be described as a kind of alchemy, in which base elements are discarded and higher levels of consciousness are realized. The result is the creation of a vehicle, a soul body, that carries consciousness beyond physical death.
These spiritual preparations are symbolized in the Vedic, Egyptian, and Hebraic traditions as a divine stairway or ladder, a step-by-step path of ascent in which the practitioner raises consciousness by degrees until it comes to rest in the bosom of the infinite, thereby becoming "immortal." This spiritual process explains the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, for example, whose reincarnation is confirmed in infancy through physical and spiritual signs, indicating that the consciousness has been carried from one lifetime to the next.
In Creating the Soul Body, Robert Cox maps the spiritual journey of consciousness behind this sacred science of immortality and reveals the practice of creating a soul body in detail. He also shows that this ancient spiritual science resembles advanced theories of modern science, such as wave and particle theory and the unified field theory, and reveals that modern science is only now awakening to this ancient science of "immortality."
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From Hell Week to hell on earth, they go where no one else dares, kill with precision, and pull off daring attack, rescue, and reconnaissance missions. What kind of man becomes a secret warrior—a Navy SEAL, Delta Force ranger, Army Green Beret, or Air Force special op pilot?
For the first time, veteran Newsweek reporter Douglas Waller takes you inside this secret, elite world, from the SEALs' legendary Hell Week, where trainees get four hours of sleep in five days of body-and-mind-breaking drills—to an electronics-jammed Pave Low, the most sophisticated helicopter in the world. Then he follows the Commandos into the action—in never-before-revealed Desert Storm battle scenes, where U.S. Special Forces waged Scud-busting night missions, behind-the-lines firefights, and some of the most unconventional and dangerous missions in the history of war.
Douglas C. Waller is a lecturer, author, and veteran correspondent. Before joining Newsweek in 1988, he worked as a legislative assistant for Senator William Proxmire and Representative Edward J. Markey. From 1994 to 2007, Waller served in Time magazine's Washington bureau as a correspondent. He has authored or coauthored nine books including The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers and Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage. Waller earned a BA in English from Wake Forest University and an MA in urban administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Judy.


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Seed germination is a fundamental step in establishing a crop. It represents the transition from a dormant seed to a new growing plant. Germination is initiated by the intake of water by the seed in the process of seed imbibition. This water uptake is then followed by the growth of the seeding from the radicle (root) tip.
However, the critical process of water uptake, which represents the first step towards seed germination, has been little studied. Further research is needed to evaluate the post-water-uptake events during seed germination and the metabolic processes that are initiated as the seed springs into life and embryo development commences.
A recent study by Munz et al used the 500 MHz Bruker AVANCE NMR imaging platform to directly follow the entrance of water into the rapeseed (Brassica napus) seed as well as the pathway it follows to reach the embryo tissues. 5 Functional NMR was used in combination with computer-aided seed modeling, fluorescence-based respiration mapping, and Fourier transform infrared microscopy to enable analysis of the essential cues that promote seed germination. In addition, the NMR data were used to produce time lapse movies.
The holistic in vivo strategy adopted in this study enabled investigation of the associations between the key processes of seed germination. The nature of water entry and allocation and how these impact subsequent chemical and metabolic events and structural changes were studied.
The investigators discovered an endospermal lipid gap that allows water to be channeled towards the radicle tip. Tissue rehydration was identified as the signal for the commencement of sugar metabolism and lipid utilization. Spatial analysis of the germinating seed revealed that water is imbibed rapidly but unevenly.
The imaging data obtained in this study, provide a more in-depth insight into the changes, both spatial and metabolic, that occur during seed germination. This enhanced understanding will hopefully help researchers refine the processes to optimize seed germination rates, which in turn will maximize crop yields.
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Announcements, Reports | May 28, 2021
RWJF Poll Finds Public Supports Substantial Increase in Spending on U.S. Public Health Programs
According to a poll conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a large majority of the public favors substantially increasing federal spending on improving the nation's public health programs. A similar majority believes the activities of public health agencies in the U.S. are extremely or very important to the health of the United States.
The poll, "The Public's Perspective on the United States Public Health System," reported that when it comes to trust, the public is more trusting of health workers than U.S public health institutions and agencies. Public trust was highest in nurses (71 percent), health workers they know (70 percent), and doctors (67 percent). The lowest levels of trust came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (52 percent), state health departments (41 percent), and local health departments (41 percent), the National Institute of Health (37 percent), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (37 percent).
Additionally, the poll's survey responses found only about one-third of adults (34 percent) gave positive ratings on the nation's system from protecting the public from health threats and preventing illnesses. However, the research found that the public's trust in the nation's medical system increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, with half of the adults giving it a positive rating in 2020.
Co-Director of the survey Richard L. Menschel, Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, highlighted the critical importance of increasing public trust in public health institution and agencies during this time. Menschel also noted that it is a moment for public health to commit to addressing the systemic challenges to improve health and well-being, which includes structural racism and discrimination.
The full public health poll can be accessed here.


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Removing deadweight loss from economic discourse on income taxation and public spending
Charles Manski 18 August 2013
Economists usually think of taxation as inefficient. This column argues that the anti-tax rhetoric evident in much lay discussion of public policy draws considerable support from the prevalent negative language of professional economic discourse. Optimal income taxation doesn't have to employ the pejorative concepts of inefficiency, deadweight loss and distortion; and this column argues that it is high time for economists to discard them and make analysis of taxation and public spending distortion-free.
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The anti-tax rhetoric evident in much lay discussion of public policy draws considerable support from the prevalent negative language of professional economic discourse. Economists regularly write about the 'inefficiency', 'deadweight loss', and 'distortion' of income taxation.
An influential article of Feldstein (1999) begins "The traditional method of analysing the distorting effects of the income tax greatly underestimates its total deadweight loss as well as the incremental deadweight loss of an increase in income tax rates".
In a recent review article in the Journal of Economic Literature, Saez, Slemrod, and Giertz (2012) state: "under some assumptions all responses to taxation are symptomatic of deadweight loss. Taxes trigger a host of behavioural responses intended to minimise the burden on the individual. In the absence of externalities or other market failure, and putting aside income effects, all such responses are sources of inefficiency".
Students of economics learn that the formal usage of the concepts 'inefficiency', 'deadweight loss', and 'distortion' in normative public finance refer to a theoretical setting where a private economy is in competitive equilibrium and a government can use lump-sum taxes to modify the endowments of individuals.
In this setting, classical theorems of welfare economics show that any Pareto efficient social outcome can be achieved by having the government use lump-sum taxes to redistribute endowments and otherwise not intervene in the economy. Income taxes and other commonly used taxes logically cannot yield better social outcomes than optimal lump sum taxes but they may do worse. Deadweight loss measures the degree to which they do worse.
Careful instructors caution students that the theoretical setting envisioned in classical welfare economics is far removed from reality for a host of reasons, from the impracticality of lump-sum taxes to the presence of many forms of market failure.
Nevertheless, prominent applied public economists continue to take the theory quite seriously. For example, Feldstein (1999) concludes his article on the deadweight loss of the income by writing that "The analysis implies that a marginal increase in tax revenue achieved by a proportional rise in all personal income-tax rates involves a deadweight loss of two dollars per incremental dollar of revenue. This has important implications for the cost of financing incremental government spending".
The Feldstein article and similar research on deadweight loss appear predestined to make income taxation look bad. The research aims to measure the social cost of the income tax relative to the utterly implausible alternative of a lump-sum tax. It focuses attention entirely on the social cost of financing government spending, with no regard to the potential social benefits. If applied economists are to contribute fair and balanced analysis of public policy, I think it essential that we jointly evaluate taxation and public spending within a framework that restricts attention to feasible tax instruments and that makes a reasonable effort to approximate the structure of the actual economy.
A constructive approach is to specify a social-welfare function and determine the welfare achieved by alternative feasible taxation and spending policies. An appropriate social-welfare function recognises both the costs of taxation and the benefits of tax-financed spending, making it unnecessary to invoke one-sided concepts such as inefficiency, deadweight loss, and distortion.
Indeed, Mirrlees (1971) made no mention of any of these concepts in his seminal study of optimal income taxation. In Mirrlees' work and in the body of research stemming from it, the specified social-welfare function is the only normative concept required for evaluation of public policy. The welfare function and the specified set of feasible taxation and spending policies express the assumptions made about the structure of the economy.
Income taxation and infrastructure spending
The gross inadequacy of deadweight loss and related concepts for policy analysis is particularly striking when considering tax-financed public spending for infrastructure that aims to enhance private productivity. Even as strong a proponent of private enterprise as Milton Friedman recognised the need for government to provide infrastructure for voluntary exchange, writing "In… a free private enterprise exchange economy, government's primary role is to preserve the rules of the game by enforcing contracts, preventing coercion, and keeping markets free" (1955).
Friedman's statement focuses on the need for government to provide laws, regulations, and a justice system to enforce them. One might reasonably add many further governmental functions, including formation and execution of monetary policy, provision and oversight of transportation and communications, protection of the environment, and support of research. Each of these and other functions may be performed with varying intensity, at correspondingly varying cost. Taxation is the main mechanism that governments use to finance infrastructure.
In recent work, I have studied optimal income taxation to finance public spending on infrastructure (Manski 2013). My analysis follows Mirrlees (1971) in some respects and differs in others. Following Mirrlees, I suppose that each member of a population allocates time to paid work and to the various non-paid activities that economists have traditionally called 'leisure'. Persons have heterogeneous wages. An income-tax schedule is applied to gross income, yielding net income. Persons allocate time to maximise utility, which increases with net income and leisure. Social welfare is utilitarian. The chosen policy must balance the public budget, equating tax revenues and government spending.
I depart from the Mirrlees setup in several ways.
First, I consider the use of tax revenue to finance public spending on infrastructure.
Second, I suppose that persons may have heterogeneous preferences for income, leisure, and public spending.
Third, the social planner may have partial knowledge of population preferences and of the productivity of infrastructure spending.
In contrast, the body of research on optimal income taxation stemming from Mirrlees (1971) has commonly studied the use of taxation to redistribute income while holding government spending fixed and has assumed that all persons have the same, known, preferences.
For the present discussion, the essential feature of my research is the transparent way that it characterises how public spending on infrastructure may enhance private productivity. I suppose that wages are person-specific positive constants multiplied by an aggregate production function expressing the wage-enhancing effect of infrastructure spending. This contrasts sharply with the common research practice of considering wages to be fixed.
Analysis of optimal policy is particularly simple in an illustrative setting that yields easily interpretable closed-form findings. In this setting, the planner only considers tax schedules that make the tax proportional to gross individual income. Persons have Cobb-Douglas income-leisure preferences and no non-labour income. These assumptions imply that time-allocation choices are invariant to policy.
The assumptions imply that optimal infrastructure spending is determined by the shape of the aggregate production function expressing the private productivity of public spending. Increasing the tax rate is socially beneficial if and only if the additional infrastructure spending enabled by the tax rise yields a more than commensurate increase in wages. The optimal public-spending level maximises aggregate net (after tax) income.
Performing this research, I found no need to use the concepts of inefficiency, deadweight loss, and distortion. Over 40 years ago, Mirrlees had it right when he found it unnecessary to use these pejorative ideas in his study of optimal income taxation. I think it overdue for the profession to discard them and make analysis of taxation and public spending distortion-free.
Feldstein, M (1999), "Tax Avoidance and the Deadweight Loss of the Income Tax", Review of Economics and Statistics, 81, 674-680.
Friedman, M (1955), "The Role of Government in Education" in R Solo (ed.) Economics and the Public Interest, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press.
Manski, C (2013), "Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity: Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation", The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
Mirrlees J (1971), "An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation", Review of Economic Studies 38, 175-208.
Saez E, J Slemrod and S Giertz (2012), "The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review", Journal of Economic Literature, 50, 3-50.
Topics: Frontiers of economic research
Tags: taxation, efficiency, inefficiency
Charles Manski
Board of Trustees Professor in Economics, Northwestern University