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CULTURE, FILM + TV, NEWS
CANCEL THE MONARCHY? HARRY AND MEGHAN REVEAL STRUGGLES LEADING TO SPLIT FROM ROYAL FAMILY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kj8UPnZfPc The sunny and warm California backdrop for the Oprah Winfrey interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry didn't prepare viewers for the darkness of some of the revelations made by the couple. "CBS Presents Oprah with Meghan and Harry," the first interview of the pair since stepping down from their royal duties, aired on…
Cassandre Coyer March 8, 2021
CULTURE, NEW YORK, NEWS
PRINCE WILLIAM + KATE MIDDLETON VISIT NEW YORK CITY FOR THE FIRST TIME
On Sunday, December 7th, 2014, Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in New York City for a three-day trip. From visiting president Obama in DC to scoring front row tickets to a Brooklyn Nets game, among many other things, this brief visit was the royals' first trip to the big apple. As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge…
CULTURE, FASHION, LONDON, NEWS
SMALL LONDON LABEL GETS A ROUGH & ROYAL WAKE-UP CALL
If you ever thought the world of fashion labels was exclusively filled with mammoth houses employing hundreds of people, you were quite wrong. Issa London is the (formerly) small London-based fashion label that supplied the blue wrap dress Kate Middleton wore on the day she and Prince William announced their engagement. At the time, Issa,…
ART, LONDON
JUBILEE AT PERTWEE ANDERSON & GOLD – MAY 25 – JUNE 9
Pertwee Anderson & Gold in London will be hosting an exhibition of Alison Jackson's intimate and iconic portraits of the Royal Family. However, as most people know, Alison Jackson is famed for her photographs featuring royal and celebrity lookalikes rather than the real thing. Most notably, Jackson shot to fame in 1999 after producing black…
FASHION, LONDON
TEMPERLEY LONDON AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S
On April 4th, Temperley London, in collaboration with Madame Tussaud's, presented a new Catherine Duchess of Cambridge wax figurine dressed in the label's designs, which was created in honor of the one year anniversary of Catherine and Prince William's marriage. The Temperley London figurine shown at Madame Tussaud's in London is just one of…
The Untitled Magazine April 7, 2012


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Characterization of mitochondrial proteome in pathophysiological conditions
Rita Ferreira department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Rui Vitorino department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Renato Alves department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Ana Padrão department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Pedro Domingues department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Rosário Domingues department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
Francisco Amado department of chemistry & QOPNA, university of aveiro
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Who do you think of when you think of a wildlife conservation donor? Maybe a middle aged man from Colorado, or perhaps a pink-haired vegan college girl in London. But in the decades to come, the people who will be making a difference to conservation will be likely to grow up in Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Bangalore or Jakarta. Currently, if they are part of an outreach effort, these audiences are mostly included as stakeholders in the local conservation ecosystem, not as donors or consumers.
Most outreach efforts are still aimed exclusively at Western audiences, who have the disposable income to donate, can be reached through traditional communication channels, and fit conservation's comfort zone. And yet it is the behaviour and mindsets of people in emerging markets that will be influencing policy makers and markets in the years to come.
The results of our pilot products in the last two years have opened our eyes to the ability of mobile games to reach consumers in emerging markets. Through our lean product development approach, as we built and tested products over the past two years, we noticed promising traction in countries where we did not expect it.
Mobile games have an incredible power to reach consumers in emerging markets. Smartphone penetration is on the rise - in particular Android, while cost of data is coming down, making it easier than ever to reach audiences.
One of our early products, the Safari Central preview application launched in 2017, has been downloaded over 66,000 times (as of November, 11) of which the vast majority came from India, Brazil and Pakistan.
Above: pictures taken by users with our Safari Central Augmented Reality preview application.
We believe these results can be attributed to our marketing approach. We kicked off with a six week launch campaign with eight conservation partners, but uptake was slow. Our Brazil based partner WWF was successful in spreading the word about the application, which they did in Portuguese, with Brazilian influencers and press. Localising campaigns is an interesting lesson learned that we will explore further for our next product.
Without significant promotional budget beyond the partner promotion phase, we focussed on growth hacking to make the application discoverable, resulting in a better organic reach of audiences. Soon, in our weekly analysis, we saw new areas on the world map light up.
Surprisingly, our preview application did well even in rural areas. This could be because online video, games and applications are one of the only sources of entertainment in those places: there are less other channels, and people are less distracted.
The Safari Central Preview application had a nifty little feature that became an unintended research tool: users can upload their images to our photo stream on Facebook. This feature created an unexpected window into the lives and locations of our users. After the initial launch, we first saw mostly pics of users in the West, posing with a pangolin or grizzly. Increasingly, photos popped up that appeared to be taken in rural South-East Asia*. Photos of Indian classrooms, Indonesian living rooms and Bangladeshi offices starting to stream in, with excited children, curious parents, cautious office workers, and dewy eyed couples.
Our audiences in emerging markets/low income countries are enthusiastic, eager to participate, and inventive. In one touching example, an Indian teacher uses the application to teach his pupils about wildlife. He has produced a video tutorial on how to use Safari Central for education purposes on Youtube, in Marathi, a state specific language in India.
The lesson: when you find the right channels and engage people in positive ways, the possibilities to mobilise people in emerging markets in large numbers seem limitless.
Ignoring the emerging market audience for conservation campaigning is a missed opportunity, because as these economies grow, peoples consumption power grows, and so too will their ability to influence markets and policy makers. Equally, if not more important, they live in countries where wildlife is still prevalent, their mindsets and decisions are influential, and conservation impacts them most when change happens on the ground.
In 2050, the global population will soar to 9.6 billions and 68% of us will be living as urban, technology driven human beings. Nature will continue to be further and further removed from our daily lives. The biggest part of the global population will be living in non-Western countries. And while the population of Western countries is ageing rapidly, Africa and Asia are the youngest continents. If we want conservation to have any chance of success in the future, we need to engage these audiences on their terms, through channels that have traction, in ways that are relevant to them. We will keep you posted on our experiments and progress.


On Nov. 16, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement condemning a series of massive attacks on five hospitals in Syria — three in Aleppo, the country's largest city, and two in the town of Idleb — that had occurred during the preceding three days. These most recent hospital bombings represent a shocking escalation in an already horrifying systematic military campaign against health care infrastructure in Syria throughout 2016.
While the WHO avoided identifying the parties responsible for these most recent attacks, several news organizations, including The New York Times, CNN and the BBC, pinned the blame for these atrocities squarely on Syrian government forces.
Two of the Aleppo hospitals targeted by government forces were major trauma centers that provided surgical care to thousands of critically injured patients. One of the two hospitals hit in Idleb was a key referral hospital for comprehensive emergency obstetric care, where more than 200 major surgeries and 600 deliveries occurred each month.
Particularly disturbing were government airstrikes with barrel bombs against Aleppo's only children's hospital and a nearby central blood bank. Dr. Hatem, director of the children's hospital and one of its three remaining pediatricians, told CNN that medical staff and all patients were forced to seek shelter during the bombing in one room in the facility's basement.
The senior leadership of Syria — including President Bashar al-Assad, who is himself a physician — must be brought before the International Criminal Court, headquartered at The Hague in the Netherlands, and prosecuted for their war crimes against the country's civilian population.
If the civilized world allows these war crime perpetrators to escape with impunity, there will be little hope of deterring similar crimes in the future.


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Congratulations on being elected by your Club to serve as Club President! There are two trainings that you need to attend: District Leadership Team Meeting/Pre-PETS and PETS (President Elect Training Seminar).
District Training Assembly & Pre-PETS
The District Training Assembly will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at the York HACC Campus in the Cytec Building. The Cytec building will be located on the right hand side of Pennyslvania Avenue.
Registration, coffee, and pastries will be available from 8:00 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. The training portion will begin at 8:30 a.m. and include a luncheon buffet. Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. and feature a keynote speaker. Cost to attend is $20 per person.
At the conclusion of lunch, all Rotarians will be dismissed with the exception of the President-Elects and Assistant Governors who will remain until 3:30 p.m. for a Pre-PETS training session.
There is no cost for the Club President-Elect to attend the District Training Assembly and Pre-PETS session. All other Rotarians will need to register and pay a nominal $20 registration fee.
PETS (President-Elect Training Session)
Congratulations on being selected by your club to lead them during the 2023-2024 Rotary year. PETS is a very different training experience that will provide you with the important information that you will need to lead your club in the coming Rotary Year.
You will learn about leadership strategies that will empower you to manage your club; The Rotary Foundation; and Rotary International's Public Image and Branding campaign.
Your interactive sessions will allow you to share your ideas with your fellow Presidents-elect.
You can network to form Rotary and professional partnerships with your "classmates" through our sessions and District Hosted Hospitality suites.
Our optional sessions take place on the evening of Thursday February 23rd and your RI required sessions begin on Friday, February 24th and conclude on Saturday, February 25, 2023. You must register for PETS and make your hotel room reservation. Your PETS registration has been paid by the District, however, the cost of your hotel room is covered by you.
Please note that you must contact your Governor-elect to make other training arrangements if you cannot attend the MAPETS. A list of alternate PETS options from PETS Alliance is available under Resources on the menu above.
On July 1, 2023, you will become the president of your Rotary club along with more than 33,000 Presidents-elect around the world. This is both a privilege and a responsibility. Whether you are a new or repeat President-elect, you are expected to attend the Mid-Atlantic Presidents-elect Training Seminar (MAPETS). Attending MAPETS is the very best way to insure that you have all the tools that you need to be a successful club president.
Registration to join almost 300 dedicated Rotarians at this inspiring and uplifting event is now open. Explore the website to register, review the program offerings, read the bios of the plenary speakers selected just for you and check the resources to help you prepare for "your year" as president of your Rotary club.
Please visit http://www.mapets.org/ to learn more about PETS.
About PETS:
The following paragraphs are excerpts from various RI publications, including the 2016 RI "Manual of Procedure."
DEFINITION and PURPOSE
A PETS, which may be a multidistrict PETS, shall take place for the purpose of orientation and training of club presidents-elect in the district as determined by the board. The PETS shall be held annually, preferably in February or March. The governor-elect shall be responsible for the PETS. The PETS shall be planned and conducted under the direction and supervision of the governors-elect. 2013 RI Constitution – Section 15.030
REQUIRED ATTENDANCE
The president-elect shall attend the district presidents-elect training seminar and the district training assembly unless excused by the governor-elect. If so excused, the president-elect shall send a designated club representative who shall report back to the president-elect. If the president-elect does not attend the presidents-elect training seminar and the district training assembly and has not been excused by the governor-elect or, if so excused, does not send a designated club representative to such meetings, the president-elect shall not be able to serve as club president. In such event, the current president shall continue to serve until a successor who has attended a president-elect-training-seminar and district training assembly or training deemed sufficient by the governor-elect has been duly elected. - 2013 Manual of Procedure – Article 10 Section 5(c) – 2010 Part 4, Section 5, Page 204
The Presidents-elect Training Seminars (PETS) are informational programs that are planned and conducted by the district trainer under the direction and supervision of the governor-elect as provided in PETs Leaders Guide 2012. Its purpose is to develop club presidents who have the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation to:
Sustain and / or grow their club's membership base;
Implement successful projects that address the needs of their communities and communities in other countries
Support The Rotary Foundation through both financial contributions and program participation;
Develop leaders capable of serving in Rotary beyond the club level.
- PETS Leaders Guide 2012
To achieve the stated purpose of the program, the following components and learning objectives will be included in the PETS.
Planning Your Year
Running Meetings
Leading Rotarians
Engaging Your Members
Running Your Club
Participants attending the PETS should include the governor-elect, assistant governors, the district trainer, and all incoming club presidents in the district. It is recommended that the expenses of the incoming club presidents be paid by the clubs or the district.
Assistant governors shall assist the governor with promoting attendance among the presidents-elect to whose clubs they are assigned and team-building among the presidents-elect, governors-elect and themselves. - Manual of Procedure - 2013

President Elect Training


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Milan, Italy – The proposition of Tom Notte and Bart Vandebosch for Autumn/Winter 2015 is the adaptation of cold weather and the harsh nature of the Himalayas to the urban style condition.
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The garments are supplemented by classic black boots, technical gloves and duffle bags alternating with weekenders and iPad cases. Ethnic silver ear cuffs looking and a snap-hook keychain refer to the high-altitude mission which, in terms of the modern fashion, gives the collection an elegant, essential tones.
An inspiring collection to be worn in a dedicated season.


We are all haemorrhaging data, giving out email addresses and checking in at this location or that or using loyalty cards, appearing on hundreds of CCTV cameras, using online and face-to-face services, and all this data disappears down the rabbit hole to be used for whatever purpose was stated Terms and Conditions we probably didn't read all that thoroughly. It's our data, but most people don't have the means to acquire or use it, even though (in the UK at least) we have a legal right to access it. The TechniCity shouldn't just be for corporations and governments! So my idea would be to give everyone access to their own data, in an easily-usable form, develop tools, and teach them how to use the data they have created, the data that they own, to make their lives better.


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Good Morning Chelveston, Caldecott and Chelston Rise. It's Friday 24th April and this is Adrian Dale with the daily podcast. Now a word of warning for you. Today's podcast will be much longer than normal. I make no apologies for this, some stories can't be shortened. Get yourself a coffee, sit back and relax.
Firstly I must say happy birthday to Jim May of Duchy Close and also to Brenda May his wife of 54 years whose birthday is actually on Sunday. Jim and Brenda might have been married 54 years, but neither of them can say for certain when they met. They were both born in the same hospital in Somerset just 1 day apart and so it is possible that their cots were next to each other in the hospital nursery. They certainly met at the age of 6 as they started the same Sunday school together, just one week apart. And they are still together today. Now that is staying power! Which one deserves the medal? Who knows but Happy Birthday to you both. Today is a special day for Brenda as she can boast that once again, she is younger than Jim.
Thank you to everyone who managed to overcome our technical problems to listen to the broadcast yesterday. We had some great feedback from the podcast.
The overwhelming view is YES to a flagpole. However, there are many different views on where it, or even they, should be sited. There was a strong view that we needed at least 2 or may be even 3 flagpoles. Now that I have lit the blue touch paper, I will retire, and let the Parish Council sort it out. That's what they are there for afterall!
The reaction to Miss Mary Helen Simpson, MBE, of Chelveston was fantastic. What a girl. The general conclusion was that the lady was a star and that we should be proud to live in the same Village as she did.
Jenny Harwood made a special journey to the Churchyard to spend 40 minutes contemplating the world and the contribution she made. It was a peaceful moment for her and one of contemplating the impact that a single individual could have.
When she did this, Jenny didn't know that she would be in spot light today.
Today the story is about Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Harwood M.B.E. or Cllr Glenn Harwood M.B.E. depending on whether you focus on his military career or his civic service. I said that Miss Mary Simpson MBE of Chelveston was a one woman storm. Well Glenn was a veritable hurricane.
Glenn and Jenny first moved to the Village in 2004, but I first met Glenn in the Spring of 2005 at a beer festival in Yelden. I had walked across the fields to Yelden to have a few beers without worrying about driving back. I collected my tray of 6 halves and went outside to the beer garden. I liked to savour as many beers as possible. I was surprised to find Glenn sitting there with his dog Five. I had seen Glenn around the Village, but not had chance to chat before. Now was the chance. Glenn mentioned that he had recently retired from the army. According to him, he'd been serving at a local communications base in Bedfordshire. It was only later that I found he was the base commander.
Now I was interested in stories about the Army and said that I'd become hooked during the Northern Ireland troubles. I asked Glenn whether he had served there. Yes he said, he'd spent some time there but no big deal and most soldiers don't tend to talk about service on their own soil. So I left it at that.
But months later, once I found out that Glenn had an MBE I wondered if it was service in Northern Island but it wasn't. It was only recently that I found that Glenn had spent 5 years in Northern Ireland undercover with Special Forces.
I then said to Glenn had he served in the Falklands? Yes he said, but he needed some more beer before he could talk. He came back with a tray of pints. He said in his line of business, no one drank halves. It was pints or nothing. So we started on the pints.
Oh yes Glenn Harwood had been in the Falklands. One week after the invasion, he was on a Norwegian ferry sailing South. He was part of the advance operations team. They were landed on the blind side of the Island and tasked with establishing a forward communications base in the hills to help the recapture of the Islands. His job was to yomp through the hills overnight for several days until they could safely set up the comms post.
Now as you know our son Jonny is in the Army, serving in the same Corps as Glenn, the Royal Signals. They have the annual lanyard challenge when the soldiers attempt to march 40 miles in 40 hours carrying 40lb ruck sacks. The first couple of hours are easy. The rest are a killer. When Jonny did it he suffered stress fractures to his feet, but still got through.
Glenn had been warned by his quartermaster that he must not lose any of his kit or he would pay personally from his wages. He was carrying his own clothes and rations, his own comms kit and the operational kit for his brigade. It was all too much for a night time hike behind enemy lines. So Glenn stripped. He wore only the clothes that didn't smell and everything else he didn't need was put into a plastic bag which he buried.
When the conflict ended, Glenn went back and dug up his plastic bag. He wrapped it again and then posted it back to Jenny in the UK. She hadn't heard from him in 2 months but the first parcel she received contained a warning. DO NOT OPEN THESE BAGS. Like a good army wife, she didn't. So when Glenn returned he was able to take the foetid mass of stinking clothes back to his quartermaster. Not even a sock was missing and Glenn's pay cheque was intact.
Well our pints ended and I said to Glenn that I must go home. He asked me to look after his dog called Five, whilst he went to the gents, then I could go. But Glenn came back from the gents with a jug of scrumpy. This was a 7.8% jug of scrumpy. Glenn was from Devon and he said that this was a real man's drink. I managed only ½ pint before I just had to go.
It took me 1 ½ hours to stagger my way back to Chelveston, and I am embarrassed to say that I threw up twice on the way in the hedges. I was a mess.
But as I passed the Star and Garter, the beer goggles told me quite clearly that one more pint and a packet of crisps was just the cure I needed so I went in.
And who was sitting at the bar but Glenn, Jenny and Five. Glenn had finished the scrumpy, realised it was opening time in the pub back home and had called Jenny to pick him up and take him home.
That man was a legend and well out of my league.
When I got back I researched Glenn Harwood and was surprised to find that Staff Sergeant Glenn Harwood had been present at the Argentine surrender and that his signature was on the surrender document. He was the most senior non-commissioned officer present. Again I wondered whether his service in the Falklands was the reason for his MBE, but it wasn't.
I talked to Jenny about it later and she told me that Glenn was one of a team that abseiled into the Argentine compound on the day of surrender to take control. They didn't know it then, but the compound was heavily mined. They were all lucky to escape with their lives. But in Glenn's words, so what they survived, why worry, next . . .
Glenn never divulged what his MBE was for, it was no big deal for him. But yesterday Jenny told me. Glenn fought in the first gulf war. He was again part of the advanced brigade who had to setup the communications facilities for the Generals to command the action. The army hadn't fought in these conditions in modern times. Glenn devised the new military doctrine for such a campaign. He called it the BFT, the Big Effing Tent. He kitted out a whole series of armoured troop carriers with advanced comms kit and they advanced into enemy territory overnight. They would then circle the wagons and the team would erect a huge tent over the top for the generals and brigadiers to create their command centre, often behind enemy lines. It was this that Glenn got his MBE for – not the shiniest shoes in the army.
Now Glenn's attachment to special forces meant that he enjoyed parachuting, a hobby that Jenny joined him in. Glenn was part of the Royal Signals Blue Helmet display team.
Unfortunately, one of his displays went disastrously wrong and he crashed to the ground, breaking his sternum and 25 other bones in his body. His heart stopped three times on the way to hospital. It could have killed him. But again in his words, it might have killed him, but it didn't, he survived, next, carry on… Glenn was skydiving again within 6 months.
Glenn's last skydive before leaving Cyprus was a special one. Him and his best mate Pedro decided on a naked sky dive as a finale. They even persuaded our Jenny to join in. Naked skydiving is strictly forbidden. The three of them wore jump suits in the plane going up, but had nothing underneath. They stripped just before jumping. The ground crew had a huge shock as they saw them descending. Jenny said to me that more things flapped that day than she knew she had as she plunged towards the ground.
Now as the ground crew slapped the blokes on the back, Jenny landed a few seconds later. She had had the good sense to pack a pair of knickers in her helmet to preserve her modesty on landing. Now I ask you who deserved the MBE?
So life in retirement must have seemed quite tame for Glenn.
It wasn't long before he joined the Parish Council and made a huge impact. Then when Barry Saunston died, Glenn took his place as a District Councillor. When Derek Lawson retired, Glenn took his place as a County Councillor. Glenn was definitely our man of choice. He represented our Village brilliantly and steered our District and County in a way that will be hard to better.
During all of this, his broken back continued to play up and he had many operations. Then he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was given three months to live. He beat that too. As as he said, to me yes I might have died, but I didn't, next, carry on.
A few days before he died, Glenn was at the offices of East Northamptonshire Council on the 11th November. All marched out of the offices at 11am in front of the flag pole. An awkward silence fell. Glenn was once a Regimental Seargent Major and a few seconds in his voice rang out . . . They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old . . .
Now I was sitting in my office overlooking the field where the air ambulance landed on the day that Glenn died. I saw it land and just knew that a legend in his life time had ended.
Glenn Harwood MBE, Councillor and Colonel we will remember you.
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On September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda members attacked the United States. The terrorists were following orders from their leader, Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden is the leader of the terrorist network al-Qaeda. He was born in Saudi Arabia, but at the time of the attack he was living in Afghanistan. He was being protected by another Islamic fundamentalist group called the Taliban.
After the attack against the United States took place, the U.S. government asked the Taliban to turn Osama bin Laden over to them. The terrorist network refused to turn him. Therefore the United States decided to invade Afghanistan to attack the Taliban and al-Qaeda and to capture terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden. On October 2001 the United States started attacking Taliban air defenses, airfields, and command centers. They also attacked several al-Qaeda training sites and searched for the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. The United States have not yet found the al-Qaeda leader, but the search continues. In an effort to destroy the terrorist networks and find Osama bin Laden; the United State allied with rebel groups to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Before the invasion took place, the Taliban was in control of the Afghanistan government and by December 2001 they no longer held control of it. The U.S. had managed to seize control of the government from the Taliban and help Afghanistan establish a new democratic government. People in Afghanistan are now able to participate in the government and hold free elections.
However during the past few years, the Taliban are regaining power and are trying to destroy all progress that was made before. The Taliban still wishes to seize control of the government again; however U.S. forces still remain in Afghanistan to help the new Afghanistan government, keep peace and improve stability.
During the early 2000's the United States thought that Saddam Hussein and his government was creating and hiding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Weapons of mass destruction are very deadly weapons that can wipe out millions of people. The United States and Britain insisted that Iraq be searched for WMDs, many countries on the other hand thought that Iraq was not hiding any WMDs. After many arguments, the United Nations asked Saddam Hussein to let inspectors inside his country to inspect the WMDs. Some of the inspectors that were allowed into Iraq said that the Iraqi government was not cooperating with the inspection.
United States and Britain warned Hussein to remove any WMDs. President George W. Bush later stated that Hussein was large threat to the world. Some countries like France and Germany did not agree with what the U.S. and Britain were saying. They believed that they should be looking for weapons in other countries.
On March 17, 2003 President Bush warned Saddam Hussein and his government to leave the country within 48 hours or else they would face a military strike. Saddam Hussein and his government refused to leave their country; after two days a coalition led by the United States and England took place. The first attacked was an air strike that was launched towards the city of Baghdad (Iraq's capital). The next day, coalition forces invaded Iraq through Kuwait. During the invasion of Iraq, U.S. forces searched for WMDs, however no WMDs were found in Iraq.
Many months later, Saddam Hussein's government had collapsed and he was no longer in control.
Regardless of the victory, a lot of work needed to be done in Iraq, especially rebuilding the nation. U.S. forces remained in Iraq to manage the rebuilding of Iraq and to keep peace between many religions and ethnic groups. A new democratic government was established in Iraq and now people may hold free elections. However violence still continues in that country, many of Iraq's religious and ethnic groups are fighting each other.
Even though Saddam Hussein went missing during the invasion, he was later captured, placed on trial, and executed for his crimes.
As of August 2010 U.S. troops are starting to pull out of Iraq and only 50,000 are to remain to support and protect Iraq's new government.
al-Qaeda terrorists attack the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.
WMDs - Very deadly weapons of mass destruction that can wipe out millions of people.


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Q: Combine data frames in R unless entry already exists I have a large data frame A that has sales figures for different items for only a few weeks and doesn't mention the weeks where no sales occurred. I therefore created a second data frame B where I have included all weeks with sales set to 0. I now want to add B to A but not for the weeks where A already mentions a sale. I was hoping to do this via an added combination variable but can't seem to figure out a fast way to do this.
So I have for example
A  Week ID Sales Combination           B   Week ID Sales Combination
   1    X  5     1_X                       1    X  0     1_X
   2    X  6     2_X                       2    X  0     2_X
   5    X  5     5_X                       3    X  0     3_X
   6    X  4     6_X                       4    X  0     4_X
   1    Y  2     1_Y                       5    X  0     5_X
   3    Y  2     3_Y                       6    X  0     6_X
   5    Y  2     5_Y                       1    Y  0     1_Y
                                           2    Y  0     2_Y
                                           3    Y  0     3_Y
                                           4    Y  0     4_Y
                                           5    Y  0     5_Y

And what I want is this
 Week ID Sales Combination
 1    X  5     1_X
 2    X  6     2_X
 3    X  0     3_X
 4    X  0     4_X
 5    X  5     5_X
 6    X  4     6_X
 1    Y  2     1_Y
 2    Y  0     2_Y
 3    Y  2     3_Y
 4    Y  0     4_Y
 5    Y  2     5_Y

Hope this makes it more or less clear.

A: Let dfA be the first data.frame, and dfB be the second one, you could do
# Get relevant data together
new_df = rbind(dfA, dfB[dfA$Combination != dfB$Combination,])

# Order the data frame
sorting_index = sort(new_df$Combination, index.return=T)
new_df = new_df[sorting.index$ix,]

Alternatively, you could set your new data frame as being dfB and then use match to get the values from dfA and put them at the right place.

A: newdataframe <- rbind(A,B,by='week')
newdataframe <- newdataframe[!duplicated(newdataframe$week),]

This should solve it

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Visual arts & music, photography, graphic & web design, all things automotive, from vintage - current.
Haha, kudos! Good one Jim!
I'm considering buying an Acura Integra or RSX for my next daily driver. !
I'm a bit late, but welcome, and I absolutely ADORE your '95. I had to take a snap shot of one of the pics to show my boyfriend, as your car is right up his alley I'm originally from Manhattan, though I moved out here to TN in '09.
Haha cute! I just made an appointment for our Land Rover to get a new windshield just in time for the snow falls, but we desperately need new tires... Was the Cavalier hit from the side? And like the others have said, the rims don't look bad on Xena!
thanks for the comment on the photography, i've been practicing for about a year with this dslr i got a friend and i were discussing the idea of scoring a parts car, and if i could get my hands on a wrecked gto that had surviving brakes and an engine for a good price, and a place to keep it (my mom would probably kick me out if i had a wrecked car in the garage), i'd get it. though right now i may have access to '02 trans am ws6 brakes. i just need to do my research as far as what the patterns and how to retro fit them and everything like that. luckily my buddy is super handy with this sort of stuff, so maybe we'll have something this summer. the only issue with the bigger brakes are the need for new wheels and tires. i love my 15 inch rally IIs but i am thinking about something five spoke, black with polished lip. nothing bigger than 17".
Thank you everyone for the kind words on the 'bird, I really appreciate it Haha, Chaos, I'm doing so A buddy of mine may be giving me some WS6 brakes I need to see if we can retro fit to put on this summer, but sadly if I do that I think I have to part ways with those rally II wheels Suspension work and a new carburetor & intake will follow. I just am not sure which type of carb to go with.


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mod utils;

use std::env;
use std::io::Cursor;
use std::path::PathBuf;

use clap::crate_version;
use regex::{escape, Regex};

use git_global::{subcommands, Report};

fn report_to_string(report: &Report) -> String {
    let mut out = Cursor::new(Vec::new());
    report.print(&mut out);
    String::from_utf8(out.into_inner()).unwrap()
}

#[test]
fn test_info() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|mut config| {
        let basedir = config.basedir.clone();
        let cache = config
            .cache_file
            .clone()
            .unwrap()
            .to_str()
            .unwrap()
            .to_string();
        if config.manpage_file.is_none() {
            config.manpage_file = Some(PathBuf::from("/test"));
        }
        let manpage = config
            .manpage_file
            .clone()
            .unwrap()
            .to_str()
            .unwrap()
            .to_string();
        let report = subcommands::info::execute(config).unwrap();
        let expected = vec![
            format!(r"^git-global {}$", crate_version!()),
            format!(r"^============+"),
            format!(r"^Number of repos: 3$"),
            format!(r"^Base directory: {}$", escape(basedir.to_str().unwrap())),
            format!(r"^Ignored patterns:$"),
            format!(r"^Default command: status$"),
            format!(r"^Show untracked: true$"),
            format!(r"^Cache file: {}$", escape(&cache)),
            format!(r"^Cache file age: 0d, 0h, 0m, .s$"),
            format!(r"^Manpage file: {}$", escape(&manpage)),
            format!(r"^Detected OS: {}$", escape(env::consts::OS)),
            format!(r"^$"),
        ];
        let output = report_to_string(&report);
        for (i, line) in output.lines().enumerate() {
            let pattern = &expected[i];
            let re = Regex::new(pattern).unwrap();
            assert!(
                re.is_match(line),
                "Line {} didn't match; got {}, want {}",
                i + 1,
                line,
                pattern
            )
        }
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_list() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let basedir = config.basedir.clone();
        let report = subcommands::list::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There are no global messages; the per-repo messages are simply a list
        // of the repo paths themselves.
        let expected = vec![
            PathBuf::from(&basedir).join("a"),
            PathBuf::from(&basedir).join("b"),
            PathBuf::from(&basedir).join("c"),
        ];
        let output = report_to_string(&report);
        for (i, line) in output.lines().enumerate() {
            assert_eq!(expected[i].to_str().unwrap(), line);
        }
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_scan() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let report = subcommands::scan::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There is one global message about the three repos we found.
        assert_eq!(
            report_to_string(&report),
            "Found 3 repos. Use `git global list` to show them.\n"
        );
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_staged() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let report = subcommands::staged::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There are no global messages.
        assert_eq!(report_to_string(&report), "");
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_stashes() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let report = subcommands::stashed::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There are no global messages.
        assert_eq!(report_to_string(&report), "");
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_status() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let report = subcommands::status::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There are no global messages.
        assert_eq!(report_to_string(&report), "");
    });
}

#[test]
fn test_unstaged() {
    utils::with_base_dir_of_three_repos(|config| {
        let report = subcommands::unstaged::execute(config).unwrap();
        // There are no global messages.
        assert_eq!(report_to_string(&report), "");
    });
}


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In addition to the Marker Classification Sheet (see Opening Marker Classification Sheet), you can directly edit the markers in Well Correlation.
Note: You can only edit the markers in the Well Correlation view if you are the owner of the active marker set for a specific well. You can take ownership of the active well marker set, create your own marker set, or change to use another marker set in order to edit the markers (see Defining Well Markers, Managing Well Components and Selecting Default Well Components).
In the Control Panel, go to the View menu and click Well Correlation. The Well Correlation window will be displayed.
Select the Edit markers check box. Alternatively, right click in any of the well curve tracks and click Edit markers.
Move a marker up/down by dragging it to a desired time/depth level in the well curve track.
Add new marker — Create a new marker in the specific curve track. The Edit Marker window is displayed when you click this menu option. Type a label for the new marker and define the measured depth where you want to place the marker. By default, the measured depth displayed is based on the position where you right-click to open the context menu, and in the vertical dimension set in the navigation bar. You can type a new depth for the marker. Click OK.
Note: When you are labeling a new marker, you are not allowed to use spacing or a comma in the name. However, you can use hyphen and underscore. To see a sample of a marker file, go to Well Import File Formats.
Add last named marker — This menu option is only enabled once you have added a new marker. You may want to use this option to add the same marker you have just created in another well curve track, or to move the same marker to a different depth on the same track.
Delete marker — In the well curve track, right click at the marker you want to delete. Click Delete marker <name> in the context menu to delete the specific marker.
You can undo/redo the change by clicking Undo/Redo in the Markers tab in the Configure Well window of the specific well item (see Managing Well Components).
Once you are done with the changes, clear the Edit markers check box at the navigation bar in the Well Correlation window. Alternatively, right click in any of the well curve tracks and click Edit markers.
Save the current session to save the changes you have made to the markers.


AMOUNT OF DEDUCTION: The local designating body determines the length of the deduction; 5 or 10 years for areas designated before 7/1/2000, or 1-10 years for areas designated after 6/20/2000. See table above for deduction percentage.
LIMITATIONS: The equipment must be used in direct production, processing or finishing of tangible personal property, or for the disposal of solid or hazardous waste by converting it into energy or useful products.
Indiana has an extensive business assistance program to include financial assistance, training assistance, international assistance, technical assistance, and workforce assistance programs. Many grants, loans, and tax incentives are available to companies looking to locate in Indiana. Contact the Indiana Economic Development Corporation at (317) 233-5121 or visit www.in.gov/iedc for more details.


EndeF is one of the companies that has been given a boost by the Repsol Foundation Entrepreneurs Fund (Fondo de Emprendedores de la Fundación Repsol). The marketing of an innovative hybrid solar panel is providing employment to ten young people aged 30 to 35.
The truth is that most young people look for jobs as employees but it is also true that many try to establish their own companies, either through necessity or conviction. Within this group, some ideas develop into innovative products that improve people's quality of life and provide added value to society. The business venture of three young people from Aragón belongs to this category. Alejandro del Amo, Isabel Guedea and Gonzalo Brun were working in the research department at the University of Zaragoza and spent their free time developing a hybrid panel that would improve the thermal efficiency of conventional photovoltaic systems, which lose 85% of the solar radiation they receive.
Their work began to bear fruit in 2012 when they decided to enter the Solar Decathlon, a competition that brings together the best developments connected with renewable energy. This year, the challenge consisted in generating the maximum amount of power in the smallest possible space. "We had considered three solutions; we tested them and saw that one, the one with the energy collector attached, tripled the electrical performance of the others and could be produced", says Del Amo, technical director of EndeF. The three partners of the company came to the event with several prototypes and realized that they had a product with which they "could produce electricity and heat on the same panel, occupying 40% less space and providing excellent energy yield, which reduced the payback period to six or seven years". Ecomesh hybrid panels had just been invented.
The next step was to assemble a production line and an installation business to install the panels in three buildings in Zaragoza. By monitoring these three pilot facilities since last year, they have confirmed the validity of the data collected in the laboratory. As they provide the entire production process, from the engineering phase to installation, including the manufacture of the panels, there has been another positive effect: the generation of new jobs. "The goal we set in 2013 for 2014 was that one of us would be able to earn a living with the company and we have ended the year with ten employees with an average age of 32", says the technical director of EndeF.
Such progress would not have been possible, at least not so quickly, if they had not decided to enter several competitions seeking prizes and, therefore, funding. "We knew we had an industrial product but we needed a lot of money to finance it". One of the first options they considered was the Repsol Foundation's Entrepreneurs Fund, which supports innovative projects that promote energy efficiency. Their panel was one of the eight winning ideas among 470 candidates in the 2013 edition. The prize consisted in two years in a business incubator with guidance offered by three tutors who would assist them through the maze of business processes – "people with experience who help you to develop your ideas and who provide useful advice to consolidate the business and develop" – and 12,000 euros, half for recurring costs (wages, travel and other day-to-day expenses) and the rest dedicated to technical issues, such as manufacturing prototypes, buying material… "Repsol's competition is by far the best regarding conditions because even if you do not attract an investor, the company is still yours, you don't owe anyone anything and you have a product on the market", explains Alejandro del Amo. This support resulted in them leaving the university and embarking on a full-time business venture.
This year, which has just begun, they hope to expand the business to the rest of Spain – they are presenting their hybrid panels to installation and building companies, architects and engineers – without ignoring the possibility of international deals. "It is very attractive but costly. Our goal is to try to sell in other countries, especially considering the situation in Spain.
Looking back, Del Amo advises other entrepreneurs who have an idea and are starting to develop it to seek a market niche, compare it with what already exists in order to improve it and to market it as soon as possible "because, if not, someone else is going to come out with something else and beat you to it". He recommends entering all types of competitions to obtain funding and incubators that provide business training. "If you get the money, that's one step, and they will help you a lot". In addition, each time you win a prize or get selected you achieve recognition, you get lots of e-mails from people who are interested", he summarises. What about resorting to the Government? The technical director of EndeF regrets that there is "so much bla bla bla about entrepreneurship but little real aid. There are lots of ideas that are worthwhile but not all can be promoted by Repsol and other similar institutions".


Part of my extreme aversion to stepping stones is my complete and utter inability to do any form of jumping. Although, these days, I have relatively non-jumpable knees, I was never very good at it and can remember running out, crying, onto the secondary school playing field instead of facing my nemesis, the high jump.
A while ago I took some great photos of Not-At-All-Blonde jumping on a Dartmoor rock near to Bowerman's Nose and, as I was out with her for a 25th birthday walk last week (how weird that we should be the same age), I decided it was about time I got a similar photo of myself jumping.
The first rock I stood on was too high (we are talking under a foot here) and there was much havering. Then I tried to ignore rock shelves for a while and do my jumping straight from the floor. The photo below amply demonstrates my inability to get off said floor.
Things did eventually improve with a bit of jumping practice but it would appear that the heady heights of 'big air' are going to continue to evade me.
Plus… my right knee still hurts!
I applaud you for trying, but I reckon that old cliché: "you can do anything if you want" is a bit misleading – there are sometimes things you just can't do and Wainwright, the ultimate grumpy old man, realised this. In the middle of nowhere, on the Wet Sleddale Horseshoe there is a large boulder called Gray Bull. Years ago when I was in my second childhood, age about 60, I ran round that horseshoe and climbed onto Gray Bull with ease, but more recently, on my campaign to bag all Wainwright's Outlying Fells with my friend BC, we came across Gray Bull again and there was no way I could get onto it. See Dropbox link below.
I am all for getting kids to exercise within reason, but forcing people who are obviously not suited to certain pursuits, perhaps high jumping for example, is just a means of humiliating them, much better to find something where they show some aptitude and develop that.
Thanks Conrad. It is a shame that the occasion of the un-jumped high jump is my over riding memory of school sports. Having said that, things are mostly different now and I know some most excellent and really dedicated PE teachers.


Suzuki Motor Corporation manufactured the SV659 for the international market starting with 1999. Before the SV came along, riders looking for a sporty and easy-to-ride yet first bike didn't have many options. This Suzuki motorcycle features medium performance components and a mid-sized 2 cylinders, 4-stroke, 90° V-twin engine. Because the sales were a success, manufacturers realized the demand for budget middleweights, so they created a new class of bikes that includes the Yamaha XJ6 Diversion and the Kawasaki ER-6f. The naked SV650 was replaced in 2009 with the Gladius.
The SV650 Suzuki motorcycle was introduced in the late 90s as a budget bike in the emerging market and in 2008 started to offer fully faired models. The SV is an easy manageable ride that combines a strong handling, rigid chassis and light weight, attractive features for both experienced and beginner riders. The first generation (1992-2002) was molded after the Suzuki TL1000S, although the Ducati Monster also influenced its aesthetics. In 2003, SV1000, the bigger alternative of the SV650, replaced the TL Series.
After its release, the SV650 Suzuki motorcycle rapidly became popular, but the hard to please buyers wanted a more sportier version with higher foot pegs, a windscreen, lower handlebars and a bikini fairing. Thus the S version was produced for the Canadian and European markets. Suzuki began importing the SV650S to America in 2000.
The second generation model produced in 2003 was not initially accepted by riders, due to its new angular aesthetics, larger and more aggressive than the first generation. The new features included a swing-armm revised rear brake caliper mounting, pressure-cast aluminum truss frame, bodywork, electronic fuel injection/induction system, exhaust and a digital speedometer display. However, some old parts still remained on the Suzuki motorcycle, such as the radiator and the rear sets.
The 2004 Suzuki motorcycle suffered further modifications: a front seat with a narrower design, a trail raised by 2 mm and a 40 mm lower sub-frame, making flat flooging easier. The rear fender was restyled so it provide more protection for the riders against flying fragments. The 2007 SV650 and SV650S California models received an exhaust gas oxygen sensor and added twin spark plugs per cylinder to reduce emission. The 2004 model was also quite fast. In fact, it wasn't wise to acquire it without the best radar detector because such a motorcycle was wasted if it was not pushed to its limits. In fact, it is a wonder that Suzuki didn't think to include the best radar detector in the purchase of the car. This would has certainly been a good advertisement campaign.
In 2008, the manufacturer introduced a new SV650SF model (SV650 Sport UK) alongside the traditional 650 and 650S. As a result, the production for SV650S ceased. Furthermore, a new Suzuki motorcycle was introduced on the Australian market in 2008. The SV650SU was a more basic version of the 650S, built according to the country's Learner Approved Motorcycle Scheme.


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Jay's eyes traveled around the main lobby of Davenport Realty as he took in the space. It was tastefully decorated by illustrations of luxury home floor plans and commercial real estate properties. In addition, there were several framed portraits that lined the wooden walls. Jay's attention was more focused on the single portrait of Lotus Pagua, which hung above the receptionist's desk, than the receptionist in front of him. He was staring at the portrait when her voice sounded once again in his ears. This time, she had a slight attitude.
"Sir, do you have an appointment? Who are you here to see?" she asked.
Jay raised his brow, hearing the harshness in her tone. He looked down at her desk and saw an enormous amount of paperwork. He figured she had other things to do so he decided to stop stalling. "Lotus," he told her.
The woman looked at him quizzically, and it was then that Jay realized his mistake. Most people were unaware that the owner of the real estate company was born Lotus Pagua. "Harold Davenport, I need to see Harold Davenport," he told her, and then held up his briefcase as a sign that he had come on business. The woman didn't seem to recognize him, a factor that could potentially work in his favor.
Jay ignored her question, and headed to the row of empty seats. He sat his briefcase in the seat next to him before giving the lobby another once-over. The building that housed Davenport Realty was far more upscale than the premier office in Brookstone. Jay assumed that the Texas location was more profitable.
Jay plastered a smile on his face as he saw Lotus walking into the reception area. He appeared to be in a dismal mood from the signs of stress on his face. It made Jay think twice about approaching him; however, he was determined that his visit to Dallas was not going to be in vain. He rose to his feet quickly and stepped into Lotus' path.
"Uh…" Lotus uttered as he blinked his eyes twice to make sure he was seeing right. Certain that he was, he looked Jay over from head to toe. Lotus hadn't spoken or seen Jay in years. Jay lived in New York, so Lotus knew that he had intentionally come to Texas and sought him out for a specific reason.
"Do you have a moment for Hector's son?" Jay asked him with a smile. He followed Lotus' gaze, which was fixed on his briefcase. He then looked back at him only to see that his facial expression had turned to one of nervousness.
Jay quickly grabbed his briefcase and followed Lotus out of the building. A black limousine awaited them outside directly in front of Davenport Realty. Jay made no hesitation in getting inside although his own limo was across the street in the parking deck. Before turning to address Lotus, he sat his briefcase in between them and buckled his seatbelt.
Jay looked over at Lotus hoping that he could read his facial expression. Instead of answering his question, he opened up his briefcase. He pulled out a white envelope and handed it to him.
Jay focused the conversation on the real reason that he had come to Dallas. He had recently linked up with one of his old comrades who had helped him put millions into a new investment, one that he wanted Lotus to help him out with. His plan was to use their connection to his advantage.
Jay knew that what he said next was going to send Lotus into a fury. "I need a warehouse," he told him, quickly.
Jay unbuckled his seatbelt as well. He grabbed Lotus' shoulder, in an attempt to calm him down. "Lotus, come on, listen to me. I know you helped me with this before, but I need another one. I mean, you sold me the building for Blue Magic. I'm making honest of the restaurant, aren't I? I promise you, I will—" Jay was interrupted as Lotus screamed in his ear.
Lotus shook his head, nervously. He knew that if Jay was asking for a warehouse then there was probably some illegal operation about to go down inside of it. The last time he had sold him one, he ended up using the space to house illegal drugs and weapons. Now, he wanted one again. Certain that Jay was still running a drug cartel, Lotus didn't want anything to do with it. His days of working alongside a criminal enterprise were long gone.
"Sir, should I still pull over?" his driver asked.
Jay looked at Lotus, waiting for him to respond. He smiled when he told Arnold no. It was a clear sign that Lotus probably wanted to know more. If he did, Jay could potentially be leaving Dallas with a place to house his newest project.
Lotus closed his eyes briefly as he thought of Jay's father. Everything that Jay was saying was true. He had been Hector's best friend. In addition, he was also legally Jay's godfather. It was a secret that he had never made known. Part of the reason was because his main concern had always been in establishing a new identity. He didn't want anything to do with Hector's criminal enterprise, which was why he had broken away in the first place. Even now, he didn't want to take part in Jay's project. Lotus felt that if he gave Jay what he wanted, he wouldn't be working in his best interest. Instead he could be aiding him in getting another seventeen year stint in prison.
As the limo eased into the median, Lotus knew that he was pressed for time. He still had to break the news to Jay that he wasn't going to help him and reveal his secret. He knew that if he gave Jay a heartfelt explanation of why he wouldn't help him that he would accept it. Besides, it was time for him to let a skeleton out of the closet.
Jay looked out the window as the driver parked the limo directly across from his own. The bomb that Lotus had dropped had made him speechless. He never thought in a million years that Lotus Pagua could be his godfather. Lotus was right when he said he hadn't played the part. He had been absent from his life for many years. While his secret helped Jay to better understand Lotus' stance, he still wanted his warehouse. Deep down, Jay knew that Lotus wouldn't let up. Therefore, without bothering to respond, Jay got out of the vehicle.
Lotus took a deep breath as Jay's lofty frame disappeared into a white limo. He wasn't quite sure how to take Jay's reaction. In addition, he was very curious about his godson's newest venture. What are you up to now? You're too much like your father, always working on something. Lotus sighed at the comparison. He got ready to direct Arnold towards his house until he noticed a black velvet bag on the seat opposite of him. He had never seen Jay place it there but he figured his godson had pulled a fast one on him. Lotus picked the bag up, loosened the strings, and glanced down into it. A slight snicker escaped his lips as he saw that the bag was full of diamonds.


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Act Your Age
Dorothy Foltz-Gray
Standing in a mirrored dance studio one day, I caught a glimpse of my chin. It wasn't where it was supposed to be, firm and taut against my jaw bone as it had been (or so I thought) the day before. No, instead it was swaying just a tiny, tiny bit, like a little hammock.
Just like that, I realized my body was no longer young. I felt sad and slightly panicky. "What do I do now?" I thought. "What does this mean?" I had somehow crossed a line into the unknown. What I would confront there I couldn't imagine and
didn't want to think about. I was 38 years old.
Part of my panic had to do with vanity. What had seemed far off, even improbable, was staring me in the face: I, like everyone else, would wrinkle and age, and from that moment forward, I would never again look as good as I once had. No one—despite nips and tucks and Botox and hair dye—gets to go back.
But vanity was only the top layer of my worry—perhaps the one I thought of first because our youth-obsessed culture insists on it. Besides, by focusing on my looks, I could tamp down the more difficult news my changing face brought: Act 2 in my life had begun. Eventually, I would die.
We all face such moments—and none are easy. The question becomes, How do we handle, even embrace, these changes that seem to arrive overnight? How do we deal with the knowledge that we aren't the youthful beauties we once were—and more disturbing, that our time to live the lives we want is growing shorter?
Eighteen years after that moment in the dance studio, I am, of course, deeper into the process. My friends and I joke about our reading glasses and lost brain cells. But we're not laughing so hard when we talk about how invisible we've become. "Part of what's hard about getting older is that I used to be considered pretty, and now I'm seeing that slip away—no more whistles as I walk down the street, no more flirtations coming my way," says my friend Pat.
Harder and scarier to contemplate are the metaphysical questions. Have you accomplished what you hoped? Can you address your regrets in the time you have left? And what if you can't?
This is not easy stuff to talk about. For the most part, these moments happen in solitude, triggered by a photograph of your younger self or by hearing in a young person's unbounded ambitions the narrower shape your own goals have taken.
Losing parts of yourself you once thought were essential—youth, beauty, ambition—is painful, agrees Sharon Salzberg, 53, a meditation teacher at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. "Whatever you count on—looks, talent—is bound to change. So you naturally suffer when that change happens."
But as Salzberg sees it, the suffering stems not from change itself but from resistance to it. "Life is change," she says. "Everything gets older and dies. That's true of animals and plants and humans. But in this culture, we don't see it because we're too busy in the car and with shopping and acquiring. We're separate from the nature of things."
Working through the anxiety and sadness you feel so you can connect with the positive aspects of aging isn't simple—or possible to dispense with once and for all. Instead, it's a slow process of integrating moments of insight with those of denial. Salzberg, for instance, admits to some delusion about her own age. "I'm 53, but I think of myself as in my late 30s," she says. "There's a dissonance between the years climbing higher and my internal sense of what's happening."
And as with everyone else, when reality hits, it's not always easy. "I don't say, 'Oh good, here I am with new aches and pains,'" Salzberg says. But her experience of loss at an early age—her mother died when she was nine—made her grasp, on a profound level, that change, loss, and death are part of life. Later, meditation studies in India shaped her further. "It is accepted there that people die, that this is the truth of things," she says. "And that's what we need—an internal recognition that aging and dying are natural. We may not like them, but the feeling of resentment doesn't have to be there."
Such recognition can come through the evolution of a long yoga practice, says Patricia Walden, 58, director of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Mala in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Walden admits to bad moments when she wakes up stiff and thinks, "My body feels so different than it did in my 30s." But the practice itself helps her get through such feelings. "Halfway through I feel like I did in my 30s," she says. "asana takes me beyond my age, and I start to feel free in my body and mind. That happens again and again. In practice I transcend time and age."
She acknowledges, though, that her practice is different now from what it was. In her 30s she simply wanted to get into a pose, to build strength and form. "But now I'm not as interested in outer form as in how the poses feel and what they unfold in me," she says. "I work to see what a pose evokes in me mentally and spiritually."
Transcending Time
The embrace of age hardly comes in a straight line. The humbling reminders are too insistent. But why fight what is? "To accept the process of aging, yoga says, 'See clearly that it's inevitable,'" says internist Timothy McCall, the medical editor of Yoga Journal and author of the forthcoming book Yoga as Medicine. "Yoga doesn't promise miracles, but it can change the quality of the way you age. You may look like you have a less impressive practice at 50 or 70, but you know better. You know you have more peace of mind, that you're happy, that you have more compassion."
Grieving, accepting, and even relishing the gifts that come with age, however, doesn't mean that you don't want to look good. After a year of gray hair that I enjoyed—my head looked like a brushed silver knob—I've returned to auburn, and it feels like a bright homecoming. I don't plan on a face-lift or Botox—I'd rather take the funds and go to Italy—but I'll certainly paint my toenails and slather on face creams.
Yet I'm also sure I don't want to confuse looking good with denial. It's sad and unsettling to see a middle-aged woman who dresses like a teenager or surgically pulls her face tighter than a drawn shade, creating a portrait of her own unease.
"Wanting to look good isn't a terrible thing," Salzberg says. "But if your deepest sense of who you are is shattered by gray hair, that's a problem. You can both accept aging and color your hair, but you have to be honest about your state of mind. Everything depends on your motivation."
And having the right motivation comes from seeing things in a different way, the result of a practice that regularly turns us inward. In such a practice, "what we are seeing is the deepest sense of who we are, and that gives us meaning," Salzberg says. "Any kind of practice that explores your inner world will help you get in touch with qualities you can rely on more than looks, such as compassion or awareness or lovingkindness."
Even narcissism can help you grow wiser, says psychiatrist Mark Epstein, a Buddhist practitioner for 30 years and the author of Open to Desire. "From a Buddhist point of view, there's nothing wrong with using Botox. Buddha says, pay attention to that narcissistic attachment when it arises, because you can learn a lot about what you think the self is and who you think you are. The main point of Buddhist meditation is to see the self as it actually appears, and you come closest when you most identify with having a self, including when you feel old or ugly."
You may notice as you meditate, for instance, that your mind wanders to a memory of once-auburn hair, or smooth skin, or a svelte self. Pay attention: Those thoughts will pass, and you will see that you're chasing what's no longer there. "Buddha has no problem with relishing the pleasure of youth and beauty, only with attaching oneself to that moment's pleasure, trying to make it last longer than it can," says Epstein. It's that resistance to change that causes suffering.
My friend Elizabeth and her husband—both of whom have lost siblings—have had their own struggles with aging and the limits it imposes. "It's not easy, coming up against the face of death," Elizabeth admits. "But when you realize you're not going to live forever, the dross burns away."
Like Elizabeth, I too lost a sibling early: My twin sister died when we were 32. And like Elizabeth, I try to balance the things that matter most with honoring the simple realities of daily life, including the pleasure of looking good. For a while after my sister's death, daily concerns—certainly how I looked—became extraneous.
But as I healed, I also realized that these small daily things—worrying about deadlines, fussing over dinner, getting a lovely haircut—make up the luxurious fabric you get to wrap yourself in if you live. They are part of the luck of a survivor.
I want to be good at growing older, to feel proud and comfortable with who I become. The process isn't easy, and sometimes it's downright undignified. But it helps to remember that it's a process I'm lucky to have.
Dorothy Foltz-Gray is a freelance writer in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Caption: I sensed I was moving forward in life, but it turned out to be the rest of the world going by my headed in the opposite direction.
Caption: Why is there life on me? The first wonder of the world.
Caption: I'll never leave her. She is my world.
Caption: Directory. The world has passed me by. I understand absolutely nothing about the work people do from reading their corporate job titles.
Caption: Bringing a lawyer won't help. There's no due process for the naughty and nice verdicts. I don't know what my naughty/nice status is. I do some things that my mom thinks are naughty, but my Grandma thinks are cute and adorable. The system needs an update. Naughty or nice is a binary judgment of our actions in an analog world. Just my luck, I get stuck behind some kid answering the naughty or nice question with a whole "My Year in Review" thing! It's much easier for Santa to compile his naughty and nice lists these days. Kids document everything they do on social media now.
Caption: Subway. The economy is surging! I hope protections are in place. In a digital world, a surge can lead to a system crash.
Caption: Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics! (Published originally on February 9, 2013).
Caption: It looks like you're drinking coffee out of a little globe. I bring this out every four years. It's the world cup!
Caption: Mars is close enough to earth to see some surface details, but from here earth just appears to be a blue dot. Everybody sees the world differently.
Caption: Vote. Ernie, I've been a prominent political consultant for decades. I've worked all over the world. I have a reputation for effectiveness, honesty and integrity. I'm proud of my career! As you know, I received this award for the work I did in a recent campaign. It's a prestigious award and I was honored to accept it. So, please stop saying that I "medaled" in the election!
Caption: Humans rarely use cash anymore. It's all electronic transfers in and out. Computer algorithms target them with ads, telling them what to buy. More and more, computer programs select marriage partners for them. And now we're seeing electronics override human drivers in cars! Only alarmists worry about electronic devices taking over the world and controlling our lives. Sometimes they are just so funny!
Caption: United Nations HQ Day Care Center. Hopefully one day we'll get the opportunity to "change the world" in other ways!
Caption: The world will end when the hot dogs ... and buns come out even!!
Caption: The human world must be very different from ours. They just said additional nets will make a baseball stadium safer.
Caption: Today Ernie will try to guess these cliches being demonstrated by celebrities. Here's characters from the TV show "The Big Bang Theory." Ouch! That's Sheldon and Penny. The cliche is "Penny Pincher." This photo of the 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies is sliced right up to the second baseman. Chase Utley --- The photo is "cut to the chase." A comedian with a career spanning decades is being covered with gold. Lily Tomlin --- "Gilding the Lily"! And this "Pirates of the Caribbean" star is making a long-delayed appearance here ... I know! I know! Johnny Depp ... "Johnny come Lately"!
Caption: It's kinda sad when he hums "It's a Small World After All."
Caption: Attorney. He left money in his will to build a casino. Why? He wanted to leave the world a bettor place.
Caption: Look! Up in the sky! It's absurd! It's inane! It's Malaprop Man! Malaprop Man! I hear you're a political operative these days. Yep. I'm working for my candidate out on the champagne trail. We do fundracing, skunk speeches, clownhall meetings ... What about interviews? Sound blights are one of my specialties! Actually, I derange just about everything! I think you fit perfectly in the world of politics, Malaprop Man!
Caption: Flat Earth Society. We have members all over the world. We've gone global!
Caption: I hear he's a very sentimental planet. Yeah, it's a schmaltz world after all.
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INTRODUCTION: Facebook is the world's most widely accessed social network, where millions of people intercommunicate. Behavioral and psychological changes relate to abusive and uncontrolled use creating severe impacts on users' life.
METHOD: A critical revision was performed through MedLine, Lilacs, SciELO and Cochrane databases using the terms: "Facebook Addiction," "Social Network Sites," "Facebook Abuse." The search covered the past 5 years up to January 2015. Articles that examine dependence on Facebook in the general population were included; we analyzed how this concept evolved over the last five years, and hope to contribute to the better understanding of the issue and its impacts.
RESULTS: Although controversial, published reports correlate Facebook addiction to mechanisms of reward and gratification. Some users developed an abusive relationship stimulated by the false feeling of satisfaction or as a way to feel better or more self-assured (increased level of excitement or escape). Studies from several countries indicate different prevalence, probably due to lack of consensus, and the use of different denominations, giving rise to the adoption of different diagnostic criteria.
CONCLUSION: Social Networks are modern communication tools; however, not only benefits, but also subsequent damage caused by its abusive use must be monitored. Many users with abusive usage and dependence recognize significant losses in their personal, professional, academic, social and family lives. Further investigation is needed to determine if abusive Facebook usage is a new psychiatric classification or merely the substrate of other disorders.
Keywords: Facebook Addiction, Facebook Abuse, Social Media Addiction, Social Media Abuse, Social Networking Sites Addiction.
BACKGROUND: Insomnia is the most commonly occurring sleep disorder: recent reports estimate that 25-30% of adults in the general population occasional instances of experience insomnia, while 10% suffer from disturbances severe enough to meet diagnostic criteria for insomnia. Little is known about the mechanisms, causes, clinical course, and consequences of this condition. Over 30 studies have been published on the matter but only a small proportion has found differences in the working memory of individuals with vs. without insomnia.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize evidence regarding the differences in working memory performance between insomniac vs. normal adult sleepers.
METHODS: The survey was conducted using an advanced search in the ISI Web of Science and MEDLINE/PubMed with the terms "sleep", "insomnia" and "working memory" as major descriptors; these were crossed with the following keywords: "psychological tests", "neuropsychology" and "performance".
RESULTS: A total of 112 articles were identified in the search conducted in PubMed and Web of Science. After the screening, 102 articles unrelated to the proposed theme were excluded. Thus, 10 articles were analyzed by the eligibility and exclusion criteria, and included in this systematic review.
CONCLUSION: The information resulting from the analysis of the reviewed articles suggests that mild, but not definitive deficits in cognitive performance might be masked by insignificant disparities in studies comparing insomniac individuals with normal sleepers. This shortcoming can be circumvented by larger and better-characterized samples, together with optimized methodological control of factors which might otherwise result in confounding variations among participants.
Keywords: Insomnia, working memory, cognitive performance.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the reliability (stability) of the peak velocity measurement (VPeak) derived from the incremental maximal effort test, as well as to establish the possible influence of the level of training on these responses.
METHOD: Thirty-eight male volunteers made two visits (3 - 5 days apart) to the training center where the study was conducted and performed maximal progressive running tests. The protocol consisted of increments of 0.5 km.h-1/min, starting at a running speed comfortable for each participant (7-9 km.h-1). All subjects were encouraged to achieve the maximum possible performance in both tests, with final voluntary exhaustion being the criterion for interruption.
RESULTS: The intra-class correlation coefficient presented excellent consistency of measurements (ICC = 0.975 - p = 0.001). The typical relative error of the measurement was 2.6% for the stability of the measurement of VPeak. Moreover, there were no significant differences between the individual coefficients of variation for measures 1 vs. 2 (p > 0.05). Graphical representation of Bland-Altman demonstrated a homogeneous distribution of the measurement error for all dependent variables.
CONCLUSION: Determination of VPeak exhibited excellent levels of reliability with small measurement errors. There was no influence of the training level on the reliability responses.
Keywords: Reliability; VO2Max; Aerobic Exercise; Aerobic Performance.


With his new book In Amazonia: A Natural History, anthropologist Hugh Raffles has set a new standard for the genre of natural history, artfully bringing to life the people, history, and science of this highly romanticized region.
In engaging prose, Raffles traces the mystique of the Amazon back to 16th-century explorers and describes how it captivated Europeans' imagination as "a paradise full of riches" and simultaneously became the target of European anxiety about disease and the horror of unbridled nature.
"Since the 1540s, people have described Amazonian nature as overwhelming and mysterious, yet it's also portrayed as a place of wealth and incredible natural resources," said Raffles, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of In Amazonia: A Natural History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).
In Amazonia has been hailed as a breakthrough natural history and celebrated for its "lively and witty prose." Central to Raffles's story is his contention that although the Amazon has long been considered a place of unparalleled wildness, the river's landscape has actually been dramatically transformed by hundreds of years of human intervention.
"People talk about the Amazon as a natural landscape, but the people who live there have been transforming it forever," said Raffles. "It's much more appropriate to think of the Amazon as a managed landscape, as people are beginning to think about the American West."
The Amazon continues to draw explorers of all sorts, and Raffles raises ethical questions for scientists and anthropologists. "For centuries, the Amazon has been a place of discovery. Even with bioprospecting today, the hope is that it holds the secrets of life," said Raffles.
But In Amazonia was written for a broad audience, and Raffles writes for those who love to read, telling historical and contemporary stories about life on the river as he explores notions of place, nature, and science. He devotes one section of the book to the history of a small community established in 1958 by a landlord whose indentured laborers steadily remade the river to improve access to timber and other resources. Over the years, the residents cut through a waterfall at the mouth of the Amazon and established a network of water routes that runs three to four miles into the forest.
The remote community, which Raffles calls Igarapé Guariba, is a "classic remote Amazonian village" that is home to about 150 people who live without running water, electricity, or sanitation. Located a four-hour boat trip from the nearest city, residents nevertheless make forays to the city two or three times a week.
"They have dramatically changed the size of what was a narrow, shallow creek into a waterway that is now 800 meters across," said Raffles, who spent 15 months living in Igarapé Guariba. "They completely reengineered the landscape." Ultimately, opening up the land ushered in changes that helped residents displace the landlord in what Raffles calls a "mini revolution."
Conservationists who portray the Amazon as a "natural landscape" may unwittingly jeopardize the lifestyles of the residents of hundreds of similar communities that are located along the Amazon's shores, said Raffles. "People on the river have changed it, and not just in the ways we've been hearing about since the 1970s," said Raffles, referring to the massive clear-cutting of rainforests. "There really isn't any left that's pristine."
Note to Journalists: Hugh Raffles may be reached at (831) 459-3614 or via e-mail at raffles@ucsc.edu.


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