For northerners, a snow day is just, you know, a normal Tuesday, but here in the south, it is an event. Schools and businesses close, roads become impassable for days, and life basically just stops.
I was just remarking to Greg a few weeks ago that nothing has interrupted our life for awhile now. That's actually a really good thing, because it means that we have had no sickness or tragedies to deal with. However, there is something nice about all your routines coming creaking to a halt for a few days, when it doesn't involve ill health or tidings. And so, when I woke up on Friday to flakes pouring from the sky, I rejoiced along with my children. They were celebrating the possibility of sledding and snowmen, while I was celebrating a break.
Because that's what snow days are. They are a kind of weather-induced Sabbath, where we get to stay put for awhile and just "be." They remind us that we are not all-powerful, we with our roads and our vehicles and our never-ending to-do lists. They open our eyes, yet again, to the fact that the world does not stop spinning just because we stop being productive and simply enjoy our lives for a little while. In some ways, snow days teach us a hard lesson because they remind us of our own finiteness, our limits, our levels of impotence. But they are also a blessing, in the way that anything that opens our eyes to the truth of our existence is a blessing.
And so instead of working or teaching or doing schoolwork, our family goes sledding. We tromp through the woods behind our house, marveling at the new Narnia-scape. We work puzzles in front of the fire. We have movie nights, and introduce our kids to The Princess Bride, which we quote all the next day. We drink hot chocolate and live off of whatever is in the fridge and the pantry. We ban screens, and listen to the kids build tents and play with their stuffed animals. We relax.
Of course, we also have to work, but it's not "important" work. It's not the work that we describe as a "calling," or that we believe will change the world. No, it's the mundane work of washing the same 16 layers of clothing each night, of running dryer load after dryer load of hats and mittens and scarves, of repeatedly mopping snow and water off the kitchen floor, of meal preparation and cleanup. It's the dull, repetitive work of survival that somehow takes on new life when it's the only work you have to do, and when it so clearly facilitates your family's enjoyment of the day. It's that simple grunt labor that connects you with your humanity and with the reality that labor is inherent in existence.
And for me this year, our snow days have done two other things. One, they have challenged me to fully embrace this wild, wonderful life. I'm the type of person who would rather sit inside reading a book and watching the snow fun through the window. And yet, my kids think it's Christmas if Greg and I go out and sled with them. So, of course, I bundle up in layer after layer, and march my 35-year-old body to the top of our giant hill, plant it on a small plastic sled, and push off. And I feel that familiar exhilaration and excitement and a little bit of fear at the chaos theory being enacted by our hill—you truly never know exactly what path the sled is going to take. I get to the bottom and am dumped out in some way, and then I haul sled and self back up the icy slope to give one of the kids a turn.
I'm not a kid anymore, so the up and down is not as easy, and yet I'm still healthy and somewhat young, and it would be criminal not to embrace it. Sometimes as I sit at the top of the hill, I think about how one day (if I'm lucky), I will be old, and my body won't work right anymore. Maybe pain will be a constant part of my life. Maybe my actions will be severely limited by my failing health. Certainly, these days will be over soon. Certainly, my kids will grow up and be gone. And I hope I still enjoy my life then, even with all its limitations, but I can't help but think of the longing I will feel when those days come. The longing for the time when my kids were young and at home, when Greg and I were healthy and active, when we had snow days where we could sled down hills over and over. And I feel my future self smiling on this present self, who is sitting on top of a snowy hill on a little sled, and my future self tells my present self, "You made a good choice." So I push off, and I scream happily at all the bumps and dips, pretending that I'm not going to feel them all the next morning.
The other thing these snow days have challenged me to do is to recognize the precious gift that is my family. Just a couple days ago, a poor two-year-old's body was found after he wandered away from his grandmother while on a hike in the woods. It appears that he died of exposure, a thought that contains such horror and sorrow that my brain shuts off protectively when I start to think of it too much. Also this week, my great uncle died, and actually, if we weren't snowed in, I would be at his visitation today. In contrast to little Noah, Uncle Donald lived a nice, long life, but even so, it is still so hard for our family when our days on earth come to an end. And as much as we may try to ignore the thought, they will come to an end, and we are not promised a long life like Uncle Donald had. There is a temptation toward fear when faced with that reality, but I choose instead to let it prompt me to gratitude for every second I have with my family. Even those seconds where I am peeling wet jeans off wiggly legs, or vacuuming the same room for the second time in 24 hours because of all the popcorn kernels. Those wiggly legs and errant popcorn are the result of the presence of fragile humans whom I so dearly love. Sometimes it takes something as morbid as death to wake you up to the depths of that love. I have felt those depths during these snow days.
I went on a walk around the block today, and ended up shedding my outer coat, hat, scarf, and gloves. It was much warmer, and the icy roads were starting to thaw. I felt my Sabbath melting around me in the slush through which I trudged, and I faced the fact that Greg would head back to work tomorrow, and the kids and I would spend the day doing school. That's not exactly a tragedy, as I do enjoy our normal life, but I did so cherish this snow day Sabbath, and I loved embracing its invitation to hold tight to this charmed and fleeting life.
Kim, Please keep writing! I love your reflections and they are indeed a blessing to my life! Thanks for sharing & for mentioning Uncle Doodle O! We all loved him so much!
I agree with your Mom! You should definitely write a book! Love this post! Hugs, dear one!


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Sex differences in corpus callosum size: Relationship to age and intracranial size
Edith V. Sullivan, Margaret J. Rosenbloom, John E. Desmond, Adolf Pfefferbaum
This quantitative MRI study reports measurement of corpus callosum area taken from midsagittal brain images in 51 healthy men and 41 healthy women, spanning the adult age range (22 to 71 years). Men had larger brains and corpora callosa than women, but callosal size did not correlate with age in either sex. Intracranial (i.c.) volume (ICV) and midsagittal i.c. area (ICA) of brain were used in covariate, regression, and ratio analyses to determine whether sex differences in the corpus callosum endured with statistical adjustment for sex differences in maximally attained brain size. With the exception of one ratio measure, the different statistical adjustments for the contribution of sex differences in brain size to corpus callosum size all indicated that men had larger corpora callosa than women for their brain size. A subsample of men and women selected to be matched on i.c. volume and age confirmed this statistical observation. Sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum is not a simple artifact of sex differences in brain size and may reflect differences in connectivity necessitated by differences in brain size.
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Sullivan, E. V., Rosenbloom, M. J., Desmond, J. E., & Pfefferbaum, A. (2001). Sex differences in corpus callosum size: Relationship to age and intracranial size. Neurobiology of aging, 22(4), 603-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-4580(01)00232-9
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Pet insurance firm holds the Cat Walk to raise money for animal shelters
Sun Oct 23, 2022 at 8:10pm ET
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a digital event to help homeless felines. Pic credit: Agria/ Facebook
This weekend, an event was held for the benefit of homeless cats. Agria, a French pet insurance company, hosted "La Balade des Chats."
Free, supportive and digital, this event allowed the public to donate to overcrowded refuges. Thus, the insurer committed to donating 5 euros per participant to an animal shelter.
It's 2022, and abandonment continues its devastating course. In France, there are over 11 million homeless cats.
An increase followed last year's confinement period in abandonment. Consequently, this epidemic has spread to an already massive population of stray felines.
In addition to being rejected, many of these cats suffer from malnutrition and disease. And their non-sterilization only worsens the situation.
Kittens are born not in a warm home but on the street, where there is danger. Furthermore, Agria revealed in a press release, that in four years, a couple of unsterilized cats could produce up to 20,000 kittens.
Faced with the exponential proliferation of felines and their perpetual suffering, the company has decided to organize a solidarity event: "The Cat Walk."
After being initiated in Sweden in 2020, it has continued in the European countries covered by the mutual, namely France, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
The idea was straightforward: Cat owners film or photograph their cat taking a few steps and publish on social networks by indicating their participation with a hashtag.
For each post, the insurance company gives 5 euros to a charity.
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The Cat Walk: a mobilization in favor of stray cats
In France, the first edition was held in May 2021, with countless pet owners showcasing over 18000 pets according to Agria. In addition, more than thirty-five thousand euros were raised on this occasion.
Following the event, Julien Begue, the firm's director, said:
"We thank all the owners and cats who made the Cat Walk a success. The animal cause is part of Agria Pet Insurance's DNA, and we are delighted to put our money where our mouth is."
With the money gathered, the beneficiaries could pay some of the expenditures associated with the sterilization of cats, identification, care, or nourishment.
Agra insurance has reiterated its commitment to helping animal welfare groups save lives this year. Organized on October 22 and 23, this cat's walk will benefit The Périgueux shelter.
Like many animal shelters, this center suffers from overpopulation and a lack of resources.
To summarize, the event's goal is to educate people about the need for responsible adoption, and the potential dangers of not sterilizing their pets.
At last, the Cat Walk provides financial assistance to organizations working tirelessly to improve animal welfare.
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International Living magazine's Annual Global Retirement Index has identified the most-affordable places to buy or rent property abroad in retirement
Ecuador was found to be the best in this category. In the colonial city of Cuenca, you can rent a two-bedroom apartment for $500 or less, while the same property in the popular mountain town of Cotacachi will set you back $450 to $600 a month (although you can find rentals for much less if you shop around). Even in the capital, Quito—where you have great healthcare and amenities within easy reach—rentals can be had for under $1,000.
Ecuador also has stunning beachfront properties for sale and rent, as expat Denver Gray has found out.
"Here you can find ocean-view apartments from under $100,000" says Denver, who lives in the coastal city of Salinas. Denver himself bought a four-bedroom oceanfront condo for $220,000. "For half of the year, we have all of the windows open in our condo to enjoy the cool breezes and the sound of the surf," he says.
"In the same building where my wife and I live, right on the Malecon (beachfront promenade), there is a fully furnished one-bedroom apartment, with a view of the ocean and the Salinas Yacht Club for only $97,000. You'll find 1,300-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom units, also on the Malecon, for just under $150,000."
With its highly fertile farmland available at incredibly low prices, Ecuador is a perfect choice if you want to homestead in retirement. "In the fertile valleys of Ecuador's northern Andes region, you can pick up productive agricultural land for as little as $500 an acre," says expat David DeChambeau. "Compare that to the U.S. Midwest, where you can easily pay more than $6,000 an acre."
There are fantastic property deal elsewhere. Take Nicaragua, for example. "Back home in San Diego, I never dreamed that I could afford to own something with an ocean view," says Inyernational Living's Nicaragua Correspondent Bonnie W. Hayman. "There you can pay $1.5 million for something like that. Yet in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, I own a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house, on an acre with an ocean view, which cost just $132,000."
Malaysia also scored strongly, due to the great-value rentals you can find there, as International Living's Malaysia Correspondent Keith Hockton reports:
"My wife Lisa and I pay $950 a month for a 2,100-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo, with gleaming marble floors in the living areas, high ceilings throughout, and polished parquet floors in the bedrooms," he says. "There's a shared gym, a landscaped garden, a golf chipping green, and a swimming pool."
From groceries to utilities, from rent to transport—every expense involved in living a comfortable retirement was factored in to the cost of living calculation.
Of all the countries in the Index, Cambodia won for having the lowest cost of living. And when you hear some of the prices being quoted by expats there, it's not hard to see why.
"Apartment rentals in nice areas are available for as little as $250 a month," says expat John Grady, who lives in the capital of Phnom Penh. "But what really amazed me was the cost of eating out. You can fill yourself with barbequed meats, grilled fish, or Khmer soup and endless bowls of rice and noodles for under $5."
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Over 11,000 civil service jobs created since Brexit vote, review reveals
Written by Richard Johnstone on 23 March 2018 in News
2018 "set to be a big year for civil service recruitment" as Brexit preparations increase, says IfG
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An analysis of civil service employment figures by the Institute for Government has found that the civil service has grown by 11,500 posts since the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016.
The review of the latest civil service employment figures published this week by the Office for National Statistics confirmed that an increase in employment had essentially reversed the staff reductions made in the departments most affected by Brexit, including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Home Office.
However, IfG researcher Aron Cheung highlighted that while the Brexit referendum represented a turning point in civil service job numbers, which stand at 427,000 up from a low of 416,000 in late 2016, it was not the only reason.
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"The pace of cuts was already slowing by late 2015, and many of the new jobs are not related to Brexit: HM Prisons and Probation Service, for example, is currently recruiting up to 2,500 new prison officers," he said.
"In senior civil service grades, staff numbers have been rising since 2012, and some of the increase in civil service numbers reflects staff being transferred from public sector bodies (which technically are not part of the civil service). For example, in the most recent quarter some 900 staff members moved from the Environment Agency to Defra."
Cheung also highlighted that the IfG had estimated that by March 2019 preparing for Brexit will have cost Whitehall £2bn, a significant proportion of which will be spent on additional staff.
He also noted that chancellor Philip Hammond had made departmental funding allocations for Brexit in the Spring Statement, headed by the Home Office's £395m and £260m for HMRC. "This again indicates that in preparing for Brexit, some of Whitehall's important operational departments will have to invest in a bigger workforce over the coming year. After years of staff cuts, 2018 looks set to be a big year for civil service recruitment," he added.
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1. In a mixing bowl, combine the whipping cream, sugar, milk, and cocoa powder. Whisk well until the cocoa powder stops sitting at the top.
2. I have a cuisine art ice cream maker – I had to have the bowl in the freezer for 24 hours before using it to churn the ice cream- and I poured the mix as the machine was already on. Churn for 15 minutes.
3. After 15 minutes, add in the cookies and let it churn for 5 more minutes.
4. Pour into an air tight container. Freeze for at least 3 hours and then serve.
1. In a small bowl, mix the cocoa powder and sweetened condensed milk until the cocoa powder blends in.
2. In a big mixing bowl, combine the whipping cream and vanilla. Use either a hand mixer or a whisk (which will turn into an arm workout) and mix until you get stiff peaks.
3. With a rubber spatula, fold in the cocoa mixture and then fold in the cookies, and pour into an air tight container.
3. Freeze overnight for best results.


There are numerous healthcare digital channels today in the market, but selecting the right channel for your audience is the key to success. You could come up with a multichannel marketing plan or omnichannel marketing plan for your brand, but it will be of no use if you don't understand the channels involved in these marketing plans.
To start with, let us first understand why we are emphasizing on healthcare digital channels over traditional marketing in healthcare for 2018. Over the last few years, you might have seen the growth of digital mediums such as smartphones, better connectivity, advanced laptops/desktops, free Wi-Fi and many other platforms for communication in real time. This growth has changed the way we look at our world and most importantly how we look at ourselves.
What we do if we get cold or fever today? First, we google it to find out ways to cure it or look for alternatives. Now we all are in some way self-proclaimed doctors and always ready to give advice too. This has created a chain of troubles yet opportunities, for healthcare marketers and companies. We will be writing a blog on how we can manage this situation. To get immediate updates about the blog, subscribe below.
Needless to say, before accepting any healthcare digital channel or multichannel or omnichannel marketing from any marketing or advertising company, we need to be familiar with the concepts of these various digital channels. Let's have a look at this image and try to bifurcate each channel based on its reach and impact.
Spread the word – The objective of this step is to spread the word far as we can – reach as many target audiences as possible. Here we assume that audience hasn't heard about your brand or has heard it but isn't very interested in it.
Engage – This is where we ask them to make a transaction by sharing the content, images, liking social media pages, sharing emails and subscribing to newsletters.
Connect – This is a very crucial step, we need to ensure that the transaction process is easy for them. For instance, the app should be easy to load, great UI-UX design and compatible with the user's smart phone.
Nurture – Here we need to nurture our client and not just forget or take them for granted. Send them a thank you email for instance or ask them about feedback.
Here is the list of healthcare digital channels which you can implement in your healthcare marketing plan.
Attracting new patients and retaining existing patients requires a strong healthcare email marketing strategy, the same applies to even pharmaceutical companies too. We strongly recommend email marketing to take hold of 90% of the marketing strategies that we plan to implement.
Creation of sharable content such as articles, blogs, interactive posts, videos etc that does not explicitly promote a brand or product but is intended to stimulate the interest. Btw, social media and SEO are the integral parts of content marketing.
This is an old tactic used by various industries and is yet to be explored by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. One can launch a breast cancer awareness podcast channel for their physicians or patients. A very small niche and it has got good potential and great ROI.
Apart from the SEO benefits, infographics are easy to digest information as we absorb visual information very quickly as compared to text information. Infographics are used to build brand awareness and for getting a targeted message across your audience without losing their interest. If you are deploying content marketing as part of your marketing strategy then one must adopt infographics in it.
If you are planning to launch your brand then the first step of getting across to your patients and physicians is by developing a whitepapers as free downloads. One can submit their email IDs to get access to whitepapers, these emails can be used as part of your upcoming email marketing strategy. In healthcare marketing language, a whitepaper is a persuasive, authoritative, in-depth report on a specific topic that presents a problem and provides a solution to physicians or patients. Marketers create whitepapers to educate their audience about a particular disease area or product or explain and promote a particular methodology. Whitepapers are advanced problem-solving guides.
There are ways in which healthcare and pharma companies can use social networks to reach out to patients and physicians. As part of our internal content marketing plan we have decided to write an article on healthcare social media marketing in next few weeks. Subscribe today to be the first one to know about it. Subscribe here.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a specialized research-driven process of analysing and editing your website in order to increase the rankings of your site pages for specific search terms in search engines. By targeting strategic key phrases that appeal to your target audiences.
Webinars are very popular due to the fact they are inexpensive and easy to produce and can attract a large number of participants. The main advantage is that no one has to travel to get to a webinar or make any special arrangements or preparations.
Technology has made video creation very fast. Take a look how video in your marketing gives you and edge. 63% of businesses are using video content marketing. 82% of businesses feel video is an important part of the strategy.
Having a website means customers are always able to find you – anytime, anywhere. Even outside of business hours, your website continues to find and secure new customers. It offers the user convenience as they can access the information they need in the comfort of their own home.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) involves implementing an online marketing strategy in terms of your website's brand identity. This will ensure that your website is visible on the internet especially in terms of SEO, PPC and other forms of internet marketing such as banner ads.
In our busy social media crazy world, we often forget the importance of being in a live face-to-face setting with others from the business community. Being active in your industry trade association can bring with it many benefits. There is power in being connected to other people who are active in your line.
These are advanced tools and tactics to deploy patient and physician education programs. Let us know if you are interested to know how these technologies can be implemented in your setting and we will send you a detailed note explaining the same based on your industry and product setting.
Using the principles of machine learning and IBM Watson one can develop patient education platform using Natural Language Processing tool. This not only helps build awareness of a disease, but can also provide insights about type of queries patients are asking. This is to be done intelligently and should be mobile app based. Novel and Innovation are the key ingredients in Artificial Intelligence Patient Education Programs.
There is difference between native, hybrid and web-based apps but they all act like siblings. Based on the utility and target audience we need to decide which app will be of great benefit to the target audience. To know more about app development process, check out this link.
A referral URL is great at accelerating a customer through signing up for a referral program. Contrary to referral codes, unique URLs will take users right to the sign-up page. The combination of the streamlined approach and the analytical benefits of URLs delivers a match made in heaven for many markers.
From an advertisers' perspective, affiliate marketing is a favoured web marketing strategy, as it can have a significant impact on increasing the amount of traffic to his website. It can be cost effective, and the advertiser can benefit from gaining links from established websites and online marketers.
Learning Highlights: Encourages matching skills and quick thinking. Social interaction and entertainment. Not to mention it can be a major stress relief. Plus, it's high quality entertainment and it's something you can do again and again after only having to pay once.
Interactive retail displays offer both customers and retailers great benefits. They have the ability to transform the entire customer experience. They can change running an errand into an experience all together.
Photo booths—in all their shapes and sizes—are becoming increasingly popular at events. And they may be providing more than fun and games. When you have a photo booth at an event, you're taking the pleasure of excitement and memories to the forefront.
In today's world, healthcare marketing is simply expected to furnish the right message at the right time to the right audience, and then analyze the outcome. No longer do advertisements and sponsorships alone convince people to consider a brand to be the best for their healthcare needs.
Consumers are always connected to the internet, and can make a quick decision based on the appeal ability of a healthcare institution they wish to choose. The expectations are very high, and nothing less than state of the art is chosen.
At Moisaka, we thrive to provide step by step assistance to our clients by starting with basic level analytics, learning about the potential audience patterns and behaviors and targeted tactics, so that we are completely prepared to discharge our duties even before the client approaches us. We also believe in establishing a platform of confidence and trust and make the potential partnership unwavering. To get periodic updates about healthcare digital innovation in healthcare, subscribe below.


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Debug, Debugger, Debuggest!—A new Collaborative Comprehension Experience
Fri Apr 23 2021 by Luis Héctor Chávez
Earlier this year, we decided to close the #1 most requested entry in our Canny board, which requested to improve our previous debugger so that it could also work with multiple files in a project. This was done because it became very clear that there is a need to have better tools to aid with program comprehension built directly into Replit. But we also realized that we could go even further. Even though most of our users could be happy with a traditional debugger experience, our mission is to give people computer superpowers! So today we are announcing that we are working on a new, reimagined, collaborative debugging experience (or maybe we should call it a "program comprehension experience?").
We plan to tackle this problem from two fronts: the first one is that interactive debugging is very limiting and potentially frustrating, in the sense that it only exposes the state of the program at a single point in time. There are ways to make the program state advance, but if it advances too much, there's no going back, and the program needs to be restarted from the beginning and be placed in the same state again. This process is stressful enough that one very commonly-used alternative is to manually instrument the code to add tracing (also derogatively referred to as printf() debugging). Logging/tracing definitely has its merits and is a good practice to do overall, but it's not ideal to have to rebuild the program and re-run it just to know what it's doing.
What's your theory for why programmers reach for printf-debugging more frequently than other modes (like step-debugging)?
— Amjad Masad ⠕ (@amasad) April 9, 2021
All of these problems are the reason why we want to provide a time-travel debugging experience for our most popular languages, which should make the whole process a lot less stressful. The best thing is that we plan to make this such that there will be very little setup needed, other than enabling debugging on your repl!
The second problem that we want to attack is that whatever we do, it must integrate well with the Replit editor, and that includes features that are mostly unique to it: collaborative code editing. This means that the debugger will also have a way for a group of people to be in this debugging experience at the same time, collaborating in understanding what the code is doing, and why it is doing so. We still have some open questions about what this is going to look like, and the kinds of problems that you are trying to solve, so we are going to reach out to some of you for interviews to gather a better understanding and design tools that will work great for everybody.
Because Replit today is the editor of choice for so many people at the start of their programming journey, if we're successful, we will expand access to debugging tools and increase mindshare and hopefully get the next generation of programmers using advanced debugging techniques. In a sense, this is going to bring us several steps closer to achieving the dream of learnable programming!
A proof-of-concept from @amasad that captures some of the long-term possibilities of learnable programming.
We know that this is going to be a brand-new concept for a large number of users, so we will also create an user onboading experience to highlight common use cases together with tutorials to make it easier to know what's possible and how to use this new tool more effectively. And of course we are still going to expose an interactive debugger so that folks that are more familiar with this paradigm don't miss it!
There is a lot of fantastic progress in the time-travel debugging space, so we're going to be drawing on and collaborating with the following projects and companies:
Pernosco
Expect more news in the next months, and happy repling!


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UK and Ecuador Conspiring to Extradite Assange to US
President Lenin Moreno betrayed his supporters by transforming Ecuador into a US vassal state, reversing Rafeal Correa's more progressive agenda.
In cahoots with Washington and Britain, Moreno appears headed toward expelling Julian Assange from his country's London embassy, a move to extradite him to America for the crime of reporting hard truths its ruling regimes want suppressed.
On July 15, the London Sunday Times reported UK and Ecuadorian ministers at the highest levels are conspiring to evict Assange from the South American country's embassy, given safe haven there in 2012.
Moreno lied calling Assange a "hacker." He a publisher of vital truths imperial America, Britain, and their NATO partners in high crimes want suppressed.
Rafael Correa protected Assange from kangaroo court injustice in Britain and America. Moreno considers him an "inherited problem," a "stone in the shoe."
According to the London Times, "(s)ources close to the Australian-born Assange said he was not aware of the talks but believed that America was exerting 'significant pressure' on Ecuador, including threatening to block a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if the Latin American state did not evict him from the embassy."
Indicting 12 Russian nationals on fabricated US election meddling charges increased US pressure on Ecuador to hand over Assange to Britain as a conduit for permitting his extradition to America.
For first time weeks earlier, two Australian High Commission officials visited Assange in London at the Ecuadorian embassy.
He's an Australian national, abandoned by his native country in deference to Washington. It's unclear if the first time visit suggested a possible policy change – very doubtful.
Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson she couldn't reveal details of the meeting because of the "delicate diplomatic situation."
According to an Inter-American Court of Human Rights days earlier ruling, nations are obliged to uphold inviolable asylum rights, guaranteed under international law, including the right of safe passage to the country granting asylum.
The US and Britain consistently and repeatedly breach fundamental international laws – Moreno an apparent co-conspirator with regard to Assange. He could be expelled from Ecuador's London embassy any time.
According to WikiLeaks legal advisor Geoffrey Robertson, the Trump regime concocted a "new legal theory" with no validity, circumventing First Amendment free expression/free press rights in cases involving foreign journalists.
It's a flagrant misinterpretation of what this vital right is all about, excluding no one for any reasons, notably bogus ones in the case of Assange.
Friday's indictment of 12 Russian nationals on fabricated charges didn't mention WikiLeaks by name. It referred instead to "Organization 1," falsely claiming it hacked into and stole "documents…from US persons, entities and the US government" – a bald-faced lie.
WikiLeaks is a media organization, publishing information it's provided, operating legally, stealing nothing, committing no crimes. Yet it's unjustly targeted anyway.
Assange explained information WikiLeaks obtained relating to the US 2016 presidential election came internally from a whistleblowing DNC source legally. No evidence proves otherwise.
No Kremlin interference in America's political process occurred – a US specially, occurring scores of times worldwide in the post-WW II era.
Assange's fate is up for grabs. Despite having committed no crimes, he could end up imprisoned in America longterm – solely to silence him and discourage others from revealing disturbing truths Washington wants suppressed.
Neocon CIA House Organ WaPo Big Lies on Putin/Trump Summit
America's Media: A Travesty and Tragedy


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Dr. Alan Reichow, Professor Emeritus from Pacific University, began investigating the role of vision in human performance in sport 40 years ago. He continues to diagnose the Rx needs of amateur and elite athletes, working not only with Olympians and professional sports teams but also the underserved.
Prevent Blindness® recommends the use of appropriate sport protective eyewear.
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Our youth are especially vulnerable to sport-related eye injuries. That vulnerability is increased when everyday glasses are worn while at play. Our kids' prescription sports glasses are a stylish way to reliably protect your child's eyes while maintaining the cool factor that's an important aspect when picking the right frames. To that end, Optics Outfitter offers a quick, easy, and entirely free-to-use home try-on service. Choose four of your favorite frames and we will send them to you, so you can get the full shopping experience from the comfort of your home. This way, when you order prescription safety glasses online, you'll know exactly what to expect.
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GE Technology to Boost Output of Poland's Next Utility-Scale Wind Projects
published 2012 年 05 月 09 日 15:23 | editor | category News
GE (NYSE: GE) will supply 38 wind turbines for four wind projects in construction in Northern Poland. When operational, these projects, referred to collectively as Darlowo Wind Energy Center—Phase Two (Darlowo—Phase Tw... more
GE PulsePOINT* Technology Helps Wind Operators Reduce Costs and Achieve Optimal Energy Production
GE (NYSE: GE) announced a new technology that can help give wind farm operators a competitive edge by identifying problems with wind turbines before they can cause downtime or major failures. Using advanced software, GE's in... more
World's Most Efficient Wind Turbine to Make European Debut at 50-Megawatt Fina Enerji Project in Turkey
GE (NYSE: GE) will supply 31 of its 1.6-100 wind turbines for Fina Enerji's Tayakadin wind project in Istanbul, Turkey, which will supply enough clean, wind-generated electricity to meet the needs of more than 14,000 Turkish... more
GE Wind Turbines Selected by Chinese Wind Power Developer for 100-Megawatt Project in Canada
GE's (NYSE: GE) broad and competitive portfolio of advanced technology wind turbines will power a new wind project in the province of Ontario, Canada that will add 100 megawatts of clean energy to the region's electric... more
GE's 2.5 Series Wind Turbines Top 2 Gigawatts of Capacity Worldwide
GE's (NYSE: GE) advanced technology 2.5 series wind turbines have surpassed 2 gigawatts of installed capacity worldwide, enough clean electricity to power approximately 1.4 million European households. GE announced this mile... more
GE to Supply NextEra With 288 Turbines for Ontario Wind Projects
General Electric Co. (GE) will supply a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) with 288 turbines for six wind farms in Canada that will be able to power about 120,000 homes. The 1.6-megawatt turbines will be used in NextEra Ener... more
Canada Hot Global Wind Market for GE
GE (NYSE: GE) advanced technology wind turbines have been selected to power nine new wind projects in the province of Ontario, Canada, adding approximately 650 megawatts of clean energy to the province's electricity grid. Wh... more
GE to Supply 41 Multi-Megawatt Wind Turbines for Four Projects in Germany
GE (NYSE: GE) announced a contract with the German project developer Energiekontor AG for four wind power generating projects comprised of 41 2.75-103 wind turbines. Using a proprietary 50.2-meter blade with a proven aerodynamic s... more
GE Launches GeoSpring™ – Its Most Energy-Efficient, Hybrid Electric Water Heater
Nearly all Americans (96 percent) think improved appliance efficiency is important for personal financial reasons,[1] yet many homeowners don't realize their water heater is the second single-biggest, energy-consuming applia... more
GE Solar Technology to Bring Power of the Sun to Invenergy's Grand Ridge Solar Project
GE (NYSE: GE) announced an agreement to supply 23 megawatts (MW) of advanced solar equipment to Invenergy. Invenergy will install the solar equipment at its Grand Ridge Solar project ("Grand Ridge Solar"), now under co... more
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Melanorivulus es un género de peces de agua dulce de la familia rivúlidos en el orden de los ciprinodontiformes, que se distribuyen por ríos de América del Sur.

Antiguamente incluido como subgénero dentro del género Rivulus, fue elevado a la categoría de género en 2011.

Hábitat
Viven en ríos y arroyos de la sabana boscosa y en estanques y pantanos de la selva de gran parte de Sudamérica.

Especies
Se conocen unas 40 especies válidas en este género:

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 NCBI (en inglés)

Peces de acuario de agua dulce

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(Reuters) - Unilever (ULVR.L) has agreed to sell its margarine and spreads business to U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) for 6.83 billion euros ($8.04 billion) to concentrate on faster growing products.
The maker of Knorr soup and Dove soap announced the deal on Friday, hours after Reuters reported that KKR had entered exclusive talks to buy the shrinking business after outbidding rivals.
The brands to be sold include Becel, Flora, Country Crock and Blue Band. Unilever put the business up for sale in April, following a review of its assets prompted by February's unsolicited $143 billion takeover attempt by Kraft Heinz (KHC.O).
The spreads business has been in decline for years as people eat less bread and margarine, but Unilever has taken steps to stem the decline and the unit is very profitable. That made it attractive to private equity firms who were the main bidders in the auction run by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Based in New York, KKR had $153 billion in assets under management as of the end of September. The firm has a long history in the consumer sector and it has investments in India's Coffee Day Resorts and Chinese white goods maker Qingdao Haier. Earlier this year, KKR bought majority control of vitamin maker Nature's Bounty.
The deal with Unilever is expected to close mid-2018, subject to regulatory approvals and employee consultations.
Unilever, whose sales unexpectedly slowed in October, said it plans to return the cash to shareholders, unless more value-creating acquisition options arise.
This year Unilever has snapped up small brands including Tazo tea, Sundial Brands and Carver Korea.
Unilever said last month it favored ending its dual Anglo-Dutch structure to become a single entity, but it has delayed a decision whether it would be based in Britain or the Netherlands.


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As the recession continues and businesses struggle, it is appalling to see that the current policy is also affecting other sectors.
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According to several recent press reports tourists have been told it is "probably best" they do not visit Gloucestershire during the proposed badger cull due to commence this summer. Apparently a Blakeney, Glos resident said: "A lady from Surrey rang the tourist office up and said 'if they're shooting badgers we won't be coming to visit'. The lady in the office replied 'it's probably best'."
Drew Pratten, from Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting (GABS), said the surprising advicecame from Gloucester Tourist Information Centre.
When he rang them to check the response they repeated it to him.
He added: "That is the exact opposite of what they are supposed to be doing, which is encourage people to come here.
He said the lack of public information about the cull meant the centre could only give out "dubious information at best".
Mr Pratten said GABS had been called by several businesses in Gloucestershire worried about how the cull would affect them.
He said: "There is an awful lot of concern that people will go elsewhere because they don't know what's happening."
Owner of Ferndale House B&B in Lydbrook Christine Finch-Dent said: "A lot of our guests come here for the wildlife and they are not happy about the cull."
A spokeswoman for Gloucester City Council said it had received queries from concerned visitors who said they wanted to avoid the area during the cull.


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During this Meditation seminar, B. Alan Wallace introduces the theory and practice of three methods of developing meditative quiescence or shamatha. He begins with the practice of mindfulness of breathing as taught in the Theravada tradition, which is especially effective for soothing the body and calming the discursive mind. He then explores an approach to shamatha that is particularly pertinent for Dzogchen practice, called "settling the mind in its natural state," as taught by the 19th century Dzogchen master Lerab Lingpa in his commentary to the "Heart Essence of Vimalamitra." Finally, he engages the practices of "shamatha without a sign" as taught by Padmasambhava in his classic treatise Natural Liberation. Although this subtle practice is taught explicitly as a means of achieving shamatha, Padmasambhava comments that it may even result in a realization of rigpa, or pristine awareness. The achievement of shamatha is widely regarded in the Buddhist tradition as an indespensable foundation for the cultivation of comtemplative insight (vipashyana). The seminar consists of lectures, guided meditations and discussions and recorded in January 2010.
This MP3 set chronicles the seven-day The Way of Shamatha retreat held at Santa Barbara's historic Old Mission in April 2008.
The retreat was specifically designed for clinical psychologists, researchers, and other mental healthcare professionals interested in learning how various Buddhist contemplative practices can help to alleviate mental problems and enhance mental health and balance.
DVD VIDEO SET: This nine-disc DVD Video or MP3 Audio CD set, chronicles the seven-day seminar retreat held at Santa Barbara's historic Old Mission in February 2008. MP3 AUDIO CD SET: This five-disc MP3CD set chronicles the seven-day seminar retreat held at Santa Barbara's historic Old Mission in February 2008. The retreat was specifically designed for clinical psychologists, researchers, and other mental healthcare professionals interested in learning how various Buddhist contemplative practices can help to alleviate mental problems and enhance mental health and balance. Please select either the DVD video 9-disc set or the MP3 audio CDs. Your discs will be shipped by US Postal Service or Fedex
The 19th-century classic Dzogchen treatise, The Vajra Essence, by the eminent master Dudjom Lingpa concludes with a concise lucid account of the Six Bardos, namely the Bardos of Living, Dreaming, Meditative Stabilization, Dying, Reality-itself, and Becoming. The teachings on these Bardos show how each of these trasitional phases of cyclic existence can provide a platform for achieving enlightenment, particularly by way of the practices of shamatha, Vipashyana, and Dzogchen. During this retreat, B. Alan Wallace offers an explanation of Dujom Lingpas teachings, together with guided meditations for putting them into practice. All seven days of this retreat are reproduced in full in this two CD set, conveniently divided into teachings, meditations, and discussions. PDF files on the first disk include explanatory notes on the audio files, retreat handouts, and other pertinent information. This audio MP3 CD set chronicles the seven-day retreat held at Santa Barbara's historical Old Mission. Recorded March 21-28,2010. MP3 CDs suitable for use in computers and MP3 players.
This MP3 Audio disc set chronicles the seven-day Meditation Seminar for Neuroscientists & Mental Healthcare Professionals recorded March 22 - 29, 2009 at the Old Mission in Santa Barbara, CA.
The Seven-Point Mind-Training stems from the teachings of the 11th- century Indian Buddhist scholar and contemplative Atisha and was first written down by the 12th-century Tibetan monk Chekawa. This train- ing summarizes the Bodhisattva way of life by integrating theories and practices for the cultivation of ultimate and relative bodhichitta, or the mind of awakening. Beginning with a careful investigation of the nature of the mind and its relation to nature as a whole, resulting in a realization of emptiness and dependent origination, this training then leads one to the experience of profound compassion and the trans- formation of all experiences into means of furthering one's spiritual growth. This training is widely taught in all schools of Tibetan Bud- dhism and provides a practical guide for transformation one's whole life into spiritual practice. A central theme of the Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from the constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with others, which occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself. Its use of aphorisms or slogans makes the teachings easy to remember and to put into practi- cal use immediately. Tonglen or Taking and Sending meditations are designed to help overcome suffering of self and others. All seven days of this retreat are reproduced in full in this two CD set, conveniently divided into teachings, meditations, and discussions. PDF files on the first disk include explanatory notes on the audio files, retreat handouts, and other pertinent information. This audio MP3 CD set chronicles the seven-day retreat held at Santa Barbara's historical Old Mission. Recorded March 21-28, 2010. MP3 CDs suitable for use in computers and MP3 players.
B. Alan Wallace and Glen Svensson 04 Apr 2018 – 30 May 2018 Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Tuscany, Italy During this eight-week retreat, Alan Wallace will begin by commenting on Sera Khandro's explanation of the preliminary practices for Dzogchen in The Fine Path to Liberation and by granting the empowerment of the Lake-Born Vajra manifestation of Padmasambhava. He will then give detailed oral commentaries on one of the five classic Dzogchen treatises by Düdjom Lingpa, The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness, in addition to Düdjom Lingpa's commentary (edited by Pema Tashi), entitled The Essence of Clear Meaning. Alan will comment on all aspects of these texts except the pith instructions on the direct crossing over (thögal), which is to be taught only to individuals who are able to abide continuously in pristine awareness.
Prerequisite Requirements to Purchase Program
To subscribe to this program, you should be familiar with the foundational teachings and practices of shamatha, the four applications of mindfulness, and the four immeasurables. See below for list of teachings. One must have genuine interest in practicing the dharma and must have read the text, "The Fine Path to Liberation."
Please read full details below in Description.
"The Foolish Dharma of an Idiot Clothed in Mud and Feathers," "Buddhahood Without Meditation" and "The Fine Path to Liberation" with B. Alan Wallace
03 Apr 2017 – 30 May 2017 Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Tuscany, Italy During this eight-week retreat Alan Wallace will give detailed oral commentaries on two of the five classic Dzogchen treatises by Düdjom Lingpa, The Foolish Dharma of an Idiot Clothed in Mud and Feathers and Buddhahood Without Meditation, in addition to the brief text on the preliminary practices for Dzogchen by Sera Khandro, entitled The Fine Path to Liberation. This will be the first in a series of 8-week retreats in which commentaries and oral transmissions will be offered for all five of these treatises: The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra (2018), The Enlightened View of Samantabhadra (2019), and The Vajra Essence (2020-2023).
To register for this retreat, you should be familiar with the foundational teachings and practices of shamatha, the four applications of mindfulness, and the four immeasurables. See below for list of teachings. One must have genuine interest in practicing the dharma and must have read the text, "The Fine Path to Liberation." Please read full details below in Description.
The Enlightened View of Samantabhadra
Location: Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Tuscany, Italy
Held From: April 4th - May 30th, 2019
During this eight-week retreat, Alan Wallace will give detailed oral commentaries on one of the five classic Dzogchen treatises by Düdjom Lingpa, The Enlightened View of Samantabhadra. This is the third in a series of 8-week retreats in which commentaries and oral transmissions will be offered for all five of these treatises: The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra (2018), The Enlightened View of Samantabhadra (2019), and The Vajra Essence (2020-2023)
This audio stream and download contains 26 meditations from retreats with Alan Wallace in Santa Barbara, CA in 2009 . You will receive a Dropbox link to listen to these guided meditations.
Phase 1: "Taking the Impure Mind as the Path" and Phase 2: "Revealing Your Own Face as the Sharp Vajra of Vipaśyanā" in The Vajra Essence: From the Matrix of Pure Appearances and Primordial Consciousness, a Tantra Self-Emergent from the Nature of Existence with B. Alan Wallace.
Retreat Dates: April 1- May 26, 2020
A Meditation Retreat on Shamatha, Vipashyana, Mahamudra, and Dzogchen
B. Alan Wallace 29 Mar 2016 – 24 May 2016 Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, Italy Spring 8-Week retreat on Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Mahamudra, based upon two texts: Panchen Lozang Chökyi Gyaltsen's Highway of the Jinas: A Root Text on the Precious Geluk-Kagyü Mahamudra Tradition, and Karma Chagmé's Naked Awareness: Practical Teachings on the Union. Prerequisite Requirements to Purchase Program To register for this retreat you should be familiar with the foundational teachings and practices of shamatha, the four applications of mindfulness, and the four immeasurables. See below for list of teachings. Please read full details below in Description.
A virtual retreat from Miyo Samten Ling in Crestone, Colorado
Sponsored by Santa Barbara Institute and the Center for Contemplative Research
The Vajra Essence – Part III March 31 - May 30, 2022
Audio Stream/Download Registration
This online, 8-week retreat will focus on completing Phase 4: "Determining the Characteristics and Qualities of the Ground," Phase 5: "Determining Secret Dualistic Grasping and Revealing the Way of Natural Liberation" and Phase 6: "Teaching on the Essential Points of Practice and Their Key Distinctions" from The Vajra Essence: From the Matrix of Pure Appearances and Primordial Consciousness, a Tantra Self-Emergent from the Nature of Existence. Prerequisite Requirements to Purchase Program To subscribe to this program, you should be familiar with the foundational teachings and practices of shamatha, the four applications of mindfulness, and the four immeasurables. See below for list of teachings. By purchasing you acknowledge that you have satisfied the retreat prerequisites of listening to both the 2020 and 2021 8-week retreats on The Vajra Essence and will listen to Lama Alan's oral commentary to The Vajra Essence in its entirety and have had an empowerment or will receive the recommended empowerment. If you have not received the Lake-Born Vajra empowerment from Lama Alan, then you should not listen to Yangchen's teachings on the sadhana (which began after the empowerment was granted during the 2022 8-week retreat on May 11, 2022). We do hope that at a future date the empowerment will be available again. This year we are offering multiple pricing options as you will see below when you select Choose An Option. Please read all of the details below under description.
The Vajra Essence – Part 2
Phase 3: "Revealing the Ground Dharmakāya" and Phase 4: "Determining the Characteristics and Qualities of the Ground" in The Vajra Essence: From the Matrix of Pure Appearances and Primordial Consciousness, a Tantra Self-Emergent from the Nature of Existence. April 1 – May 26, 2021
To subscribe to this program, you should be familiar with the foundational teachings and practices of shamatha, the four applications of mindfulness, and the four immeasurables. (See below for list of teachings) By purchasing you acknowledge that you have satisfied the retreat prerequisites of listening to the 2020 8-week retreat and will listen to Lama Alan's oral commentary to the Vajra Essence in its entirety and have had an empowerment or will receive the recommended empowerment.


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The AV Club
Miley Cyrus taps into a new level of confidence with new single "Flowers"
Gabrielle Sanchez
January 13, 2023, 10:23 AM ·2 min read
Miley Cyrus in the music video for "Flowers"
Back in December, Miley Cyrus teased a "New year, new Miley." With the release of "Flowers," Cyrus offers the first look at her forthcoming album Endless Summer Vacation, which sees Cyrus dial down the edge presented in her previous album, Plastic Hearts.
Cyrus is no stranger to taking on personas and kicking off new audio and visual eras with each album release. Some stints have certainly been misses, others have only gotten better with time (ahem, BANGERZ), but Plastic Hearts marked Cyrus' first brush with critical acclaim and popularity.
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The last couple of years have been good for Cyrus' career, and "Flowers" feels as though Cyrus is no longer trying to prove something, exuding a confidence in herself and her songwriting not yet seen throughout her 15 years in the public eye. It's now up to Cyrus to not allow this comfort to lead to laziness, which "Flowers" very nearly trips on.
Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)
We could go into all the ways "Flowers" feels like a jab at the singer's former husband Liam Hemsworth, but that feels so much more boring than what's actually going on in the single (although releasing the track on the actor's birthday is an admirable level of pettiness). "Flowers" is a spunky track about flaunting one's self-reliance and independence, no longer depending on someone else to feel complete. While the premise is by no means a revolution in the world of pop, it feels perfectly suited for Cyrus' current place in life.
Plastic Hearts tinkered with the sounds of '70s glam rock and power pop, but "Flowers" leans into another burgeoning sound of the time: Disco. A funky bassline guides the song, paired with a swooning string line and fizzy cymbals. With the chorus, "Flowers" becomes a bonafide earworm (although, as said before, is nothing too inventive).
Although we can never get the full picture of an album from lead singles (which have only weakened in power over the last few years), "Flowers" offers enough promise for the Mike Will Made-It (BANGERZ apologists, rejoice), Greg Kurstin, Tyler Johnson, and Kid Harpoon-produced project.
Miley's Endless Summer Vacation kicks off on March 10.
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