Deliver optimal communications to individual customers based on interaction history, offer details, channel preferences and timeframe. Use data models to find the best communication for each customer and reduce wasted communications. Reduce customer fatigue and decrease opt-outs.
Identify limits that can impact contact strategy such as size of marketing budget, number of available offers of various types, and number of telemarketing calls that can be made per period. Create campaigns and define the proposed contacts to include in each campaign. Make informed decisions about the individual offers and messages each customer should receive.
Identify customer preferences including preferred channel to receive communications, maximum number of contacts to receive each month, and primary product or service interests. Balance business objectives and constraints with customer preferences and history, and automate the manual process of optimizing customer communications.
Define rules based on business considerations. For example, identify limits for how many offers a sales agent can handle or specify marketing goals based on optimal customer value or probability of response. Define business goals by utilizing scores from the customer and offer level, and rank offers by segment and offer combinations using a scoring matrix.
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Meditations for Letting Go is a collection of guided meditations designed to help you relax and let go and briefly slip away from life's demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. Perfect for anyone who wants to recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness, these meditations utilize relaxation, mindfulness, and visualization.
Guided Meditations for a Quiet Mind is a collection of guided meditations designed to help you stop overthinking, calm your mind, and briefly slip away from life's demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis.
These relaxing meditations are not hypnosis or a step-by-step meditation guide. They offer gentle guidance but still allow space for your own experience and natural process. They are a light touch of guided support to help you enjoy a quiet mind.


BEFORE I WENT AWAY to college, I sat with my grandmother while she polished silver. "Don't you want to stay home and make things beautiful?" she asked me. No, I did not.
When I finished graduate school, unsure of what to do next, I signed up with a clerical temp agency, a stopgap until I found a real job. I was sent to work at the largest teaching hospital in Boston. Ten years later, when I received a service pin and a rose, I realized that I still thought of myself as temporary. During this time, I had made no effort to be promoted up the clerical ladder. For many years, I didn't make contributions to the retirement annuity the hospital offered, because I didn't intend to be there long enough to make it worth my while. I left the hospital only after a secretary in the cardiology office where I worked shot one of the doctors four times and then put the barrel in her own mouth.
She had come to us as a temp. She announced immediately that she was not a secretary. We'd heard that before. In fact, she really wasn't a secretary. She didn't know how to type or transcribe dictation. She was, as she told us, a professional. She had worked for a number of years as a pediatric social worker. She told us she was temping while she looked for a job in hospital administration.
Who goes off to college aspiring to be a clerk? Reading the classified ads, I am amused by the attempt to get the pink-collar class into suits. During the years I worked in an office, the title "secretary" fell from favor and was replaced by "administrative assistant," and, more recently, "assistant." I don't know if there is a secretary left at Harvard since the clerical workers unionized there.
Mine was not what they called a "front office" job, and did not require that I dress professionally. From time to time, I would admire a suit on a store mannequin and try it on, the store clerk dressing me up with accessories. Looking in the mirror, I knew I could get my resumé together and get a better job. When I was younger, I would sometimes buy the clothes and bring them home, where they would hang in my closet. The better tailored the dress, the more I felt I was wearing someone else's clothes.
When I spilled spaghetti sauce down the front of my white blouse one day and asked to go home, my boss sent me to the laundry to get a pair of scrubs. After that, when I didn't have a clean blouse, I would wear a scrub top. Patients and visitors sometimes had trouble distinguishing between the physicians, nurses, technicians, and janitors, all of them rushing through the halls in their scrubs (aquamarine in my hospital). The uniform covers a rigid hierarchy of expertise. The physician touches the patient. The office worker does not assist.
I held on to my title. I was a secretary. The first requirement of my job was secrecy. I had to cultivate disinterest, detach myself from the papers that crossed my desk and keep the patient's history confidential. I was saved because it was impossible to type and read at the same time. If I paused over a patient's medical record, I began thinking in lifetime narratives rather than words per minute, and lost a good part of my day.
The larger secret we were hired to keep is that hospitals are businesses. Between the insurance companies and the patients, the doctors are middle managers. The secret is so well kept that many come out of medical school without knowing it. Many leave the profession when they find out how much of the job is paperwork. This is where she stood out. She was a problem solver, adept at scheduling for the physicians and getting insurance issues resolved. After a month in our office, she became the go-to person for administrative issues. After two months, she accepted an offer to stay on as one of the clerical staff.
She became one of us. She joined in with the office gossip. She gasped at the story of the surgeon who had screamed at his secretary for taking the last Coke in the refrigerator, and commented, "Well, I guess no one died." She reassured the young woman whose husband had started getting manicures that this was not a sign he was gay. She offered to use her discount at the bookstore where she had a night job to buy me books.
Most of us chattered about our families: the irritable child who was finally diagnosed with diabetes; the husband who had fifteen years' of Scientific American stacked in the basement; the mother who never cleaned her refrigerator. She didn't talk about her family, except to worry about her parents' health. She talked about the families she had dealt with as a social worker. She told us about the crack babies she had to take away from their parents, and the battered children she had to place in foster homes. Later, I wondered if her obsession with a married man who had children was social work slipping into sociopathy. She was trying to place herself in the ideal family.
Why did she stay on as a secretary? Why did I? We were both Irish Catholics and had both come up in Catholic schools where, from grammar school on, we didn't prepare for an occupation, but listened for a vocation. The promised call might come as a shout, but more often as a whisper. It always came as a question, an invitation, never an answer. The special would be called to religious life, but if we listened, we would all find a path in the world. As a child, I felt that once I knew my way, the work would be over and my life would begin.
I thought it a great blessing, having been taught by religious sisters, to get through school without hearing a call to join them. At the same time—and I don't know if those not raised in my tradition will understand this—I was miffed at the silence. That left the old truth: unless you are gifted with extraordinary talent, your work is usually in the family business.
Medicine was my family's business. My father was a neurosurgeon, my mother an operating-room nurse. My sisters and I had bandage scissors in our art box and protected our hands like surgeons. Even now, when I close a car door, I hear my father's voice: "Watch your hands." When my mother died last August, my sisters and I each chose pieces from her jewelry box. I took her nursing pin—Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1942.
I have four sisters: none of us went into medicine. We knew the costs. My father had a clear vocation, literally being called at all hours. He was precise, hyper-vigilant, and often irritable, pacing from his study to the kitchen and back. "Like a caged animal" was the cliché I knew then. Like a surgeon, I know now. Still, carried in the wake of our parent's mission, three of us worked in hospitals.
Why does anyone stay? I know I was addicted to the urgency, the constant crises and resolutions. My mother used to tell the story of the nurse's aide who visited the hospital chapel at the end of each day to undo the work of her eight-hour shift by praying for the death of those in pain. Like her, I sat on the sidelines of life and death, feeling I was in the game.
My colleague's father was a retired FBI agent who had worked in New York City, another constant vigil. I imagine that it was from him she inherited the tropism of looking behind herself every few minutes, ready (hoping?) for the encounter. Social work had confirmed for her that the world was made up of the ruthless and their victims. She told me that her father had taught her and her sisters to use a gun to protect themselves. Later, we wondered how long she had been carrying it in her backpack.
My father, who was old school, made a distinction between medical and surgical thinking. Surgeons consider what they can remove to cure the patient. Physicians consider what they can add to the regimen to promote healing. He once speculated that if every patient walking into the emergency room was taken off of all medication, half would leave cured and half would die.
The surgeon's main contact with the patient is from the other side of a mask. The physician sees the patient regularly and follows his history for years, making notes about headaches, back pain, constipation, and then, suddenly, acute heart failure or inoperable cancer. In the hospital, the surgeons walk through the halls in scrubs and clinic coats. The senior physicians wear suits. The caricature of a cardiologist is a man in a suit, signing his records with a fountain pen.
The physician she murdered was a world-renowned consultant on cardiac arrhythmias. He was Irish, with that peculiarly Irish mix of personal reserve and great wit, seemingly the least likely victim in the office. He was a great diagnostician, and not simply within his own specialty. He was able to find an early brain tumor in one of his patients, endocrine problems in another. His special talent was auscultation, listening to the heart, a dying art in these days of cardiac ultrasound. He did not simply read a printout of the rhythm; he could hear the music. And he listened to his patients, taking their complaints seriously. To the irritation of all of us secretaries, his patients began to treat him as a primary care physician, calling him to report colds, depression, and stomach problems. He had the largest practice in the department.
They should have sent in the philosophers. After the murder, gossip in our office gave way to speculation about first and final causes. We talked about it all day, every day: where we stood, what we saw, how she got into his office, how many gunshots we heard, the awful smell of gunpowder. Every day we came up with new theories about motive. He had complained that someone had broken into his computer and viewed private financial information. Maybe he caught her trying again and confronted her. Maybe, doing his own investigating, he had broken her cover and found out something about her past. Maybe he finally realized she was stalking him. The counselors who haunted our office urged us to stop dwelling on the details, give up trying to make sense. We couldn't. We had a vocation.
The medical record includes two kinds of narrative. There is the story of the patient, and the much more interesting story of the doctor trying to make sense of it all, ruling diagnoses in and out by symptoms, clinical testing, and empirical trials. If the patient has trouble breathing and bending down to tie his shoes, he probably has problems with his lungs, but if he needs to sleep on several pillows to breathe at night, he more likely has problems with his heart. If the poor man who has trouble bending down to tie his shoes is fat, he may have trouble with either his lungs or his heart, or maybe both. If his lungs wheeze, he probably has lung disease; if they crackle, he probably has heart disease. And all God's children got algorithm.
The principal is Occam's razor, a kind of surgical thinking: prefer the simplest diagnosis that explains all symptoms. The tricky part is that the real problem can change its cover, appearing as new symptoms. Anxiety is the most common diagnosis made by cardiologists. In our office we had calls every day from patients who had researched their symptoms on the internet and were sure they had a medical emergency or a fatal disease. Because they had had dangerous aberrations in their heart rhythms in the past, our patients had their fingers on their wrists, and were conscious of every extra beat. After the first diagnosis, subsequent symptoms made a "sticky wicket," as the Irish doctor would say. Which disease was the face, and which the mask?
I am still haunted by the history I had to type of the woman my age bitten by a dog while trekking in Nepal. She flew to Australia, where a doctor advised her to get the full series of rabies shots. Rabies has never invaded the island continent, so the serum would have had to be flown in. She began to feel foolish. The bite was healing, and she had no symptoms. She decided to fly home without waiting for the serum.
Once home though, she must have had second thoughts, because she looked rabies up in the encyclopedia. She knew herself to be a hypochondriac. When she began to feel numbness and tingling in her hand and moving up her arm, she convinced herself that she had frightened herself with the reading and was having an anxiety reaction, surely the simplest explanation for her symptoms. Even when her boyfriend brought her into the emergency room because she was so terrified of water that she would no longer drink or shower, she was embarrassed, and told the admitting physician that she thought she might be creating the whole syndrome in her head.
The razor can slip even in the hands of the professional. An answer is simply the place we stop investigating, a diagnosis is the place we stop cutting. The end result of the differential diagnosis is sometimes an "occult" syndrome. As the nuns taught us, the enemy is sometimes disguised as Legion. There was no simple connection for the multiple diseases caused by AIDS until the HIV virus was discovered.
Outside of our office in the hospital, the assumption was that the two of them had had an affair; he had made promises, broken them, and backed off, rejecting her. The story is, as my grandmother would say, "old as dirt," and would seem the simplest explanation. In our office, we did not accept it.
In medical thinking, the physician does not start by counting symptoms, but by looking at the patient, listening to his story, then going to the place where the picture does not make sense and asking what it would have to mean in order to make sense—like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.
In fact, in his retirement, my father diagnosed a neighbor's condition by watching his house through our dining-room window. He knew when the man left for work in the morning, and knew what cars were usually parked in the driveway and on the street in front of the house. The man left the house at seven in the morning and always drove the black car. When neither he nor his car left the house one morning, and cars of all colors started coming and going from the house, my father reckoned he was in the hospital. Because of his age (over sixty) and occupation (stockbroker), my father diagnosed him with a myocardial infarction, a heart attack.
Then, by some calculation of the number of cars on the street and the frequency of their comings and goings, my father intuited that his condition was not so serious that it required open-heart surgery, and he had likely undergone cardiac catheterization and angioplasty. My sisters and I were mortified that my father had nothing better to do in his retirement than look out the window at neighbors, but when the man came home, he confirmed that my father was right on all counts.
There was the matter of their comings and goings. There was no time for an affair. The physician saw patients from ten in the morning until five in the afternoon, taking a short break for lunch in his office. He spent one day each week consulting for the arrhythmia unit at a hospital in another city. He had a family, including two young girls, and took his turn carpooling them to school.
After she worked nine-to-five in our office, she went directly to her night job in a bookstore downtown. She knew his schedule. Looking around for him when he didn't keep it, she was always surprised to learn that he was out of town on vacation.
And there is the anti-razor, the famous dictum of the physician John Hickham: "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please." In fact, she had an eating disorder, which, in a fifty-one-year-old woman, was likely end stage. Starvation that had gone on that long must have taken its toll on her brain. How could someone critically ill work around doctors for nine months without anyone intervening?
Like many with the disease, she talked about appetite and eating all the time, implying that her weight was a metabolic problem. On Ash Wednesday, when some of the staff came in with dark smudges on their foreheads, she announced that she could not think of fasting, even for a day. Behind her back, we would talk about her thin, frizzy, we thought over-processed hair. I found out only after she died that this, and the facial hair she covered with thick makeup, were symptoms of advanced disease. The truth is that her energy, efficiency, and effluent cheerfulness belied the moveable fast.
The truth is—and this is something she never understood—the doctors weren't looking. In a hospital, the secretary is invisible. We work behind the scenes. No one of us is marked by skills that are particular or indispensable to the institution. We move in and out of these jobs, giving two weeks notice, learning the details of a new job in a few more weeks. In my years in the hospital, I worked in five different departments.
A few months before the murder, she became increasingly edgy and aggressive. She began speaking loudly in an officious voice: officiousness for the sake of officiousness. She told us that she had been offered a significant raise and implied that she would soon be our manager. When I reminded her that she was a secretary like the rest of us, she stopped talking to me and later tried to make peace by telling me that she knew I hadn't meant to say what I had. The day of the murder, she announced that someone had to "take care" of a secretary who had rearranged the EKG schedule.
When they searched her apartment, the detectives found a to-do list including a reminder to clean the gun, a box of ammunition, and two different kinds of antidepressants. We learned that her family had committed her to a psychiatric hospital a number of years earlier, but she had signed out against medical advice. At about the same time, right before Christmas, she had gone down to Virginia, where she could buy a gun with just a driver's license, and bought a snub-nosed revolver at a pawnshop. Nothing found in the apartment revealed any connection to the physician or shed light on her motive.
Scientologists picketed the hospital for a number of days, blaming her violence on the prescription for antidepressants. For a few months after the murder, a psychiatrist from the emergency room would stop in to see how we were doing. Every time he came around, we pressed him on the subject of what kind of mental illness could have made her snap. He told us that everyday he was called upon to evaluate people, to see if they might be harmful to themselves or others, and everyday he interviewed suicidal patients. The homicidal did not knock on his door.
My father had a story he never stopped laughing at. As a medical student, he was on rounds with an attending physician who stopped on the staircase, sniffed, and asked the students if they smelled it. Smelled what? Cholera. He thought he smelled cholera. When they got to the floor, the attending approached a nurse and asked her if there were any patients with cholera on the floor. Yes, she told him, the one he had admitted the night before.
She set herself up. The undercover work doomed her. If she had only gotten to know him instead of becoming intimate with his personal details—breaking into his computer, interviewing his secretaries, investigating and tailing him—she wouldn't have been duped. She used the wrong edge of the razor. Believing he understood her and shared her feelings, she took every gesture or word as confirmation.
She never spoke to me about her crush. She did admit to being charmed by his brogue. We all were. He could say hello or thank you and it sounded personal. She was second generation and should have known better: the Irish will never dishearten a stranger. "A little way down this road" can mean fifty miles.
After my father died, I met a woman who had worked at the hospital where he had had his surgical practice. She told me she had never seen him out of his scrubs. I was jealous: I had never seen my father in his scrubs. When I conjure him now, I think of his wonderfully expressive upper face. He could wiggle his ears, wink with either eye, move his whole forehead up and down, raise one eyebrow, or two, in a startled expression that was characteristic of him—all this, while holding his mouth closed.
It occurred to me years later that this exaggerated expression must have served him in communicating above the mask he wore in the operating room. Strangely, or not so strangely, my sisters and I all mimicked his expressions. "Body screaming," my husband calls it.
It was staged. She played both the victim and the killer. The day before, she asked each of us individually if we would be in the office the next day. She needed a chorus. She arrived dressed all in black and went into the bathroom several times that morning to comb her hair. He was the last to come in: it was his day to carpool his daughters to school. Moments later, she went into his office and began shooting.
So I am living the life my grandmother imagined for me. I can sit at my desk grateful that a typo, unlike the slip of a scalpel, cannot kill. Still, there is some moment in every day when the panic sneaks up on me. I can be washing the dishes and, suddenly, smell the gunpowder. Even more distressing is the compulsion to look back, the idea that if I could figure out exactly what happened and why, I would never have to go there again.
The doctors told us that there are those with personality disorders, seemingly born without conscience, unable to empathize with others, without a chance. I can't accept that. This is what I believe: She, too, was looking back when she turned into a pillar of salt.


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As the new Champion, Ippo must protect his title against some of the best boxers available. Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by Kamogawa's former rival, Hama Dankichi. What makes things worse is that Sanada works at the same hospital where Kumi is a nurse at and everybody at the hospital wants Sanada to win. Not only does Ippo have to defend his title, he has to reclaim his love.
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Aired: Apr 18, 2003
Producers: Madhouse, Geneon Universal Entertainment
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Isoflavones are a type of phytoestrogen, or plant hormone, that resembles human estrogen in chemical structure yet are weaker. By mimicking human estrogen at certain sites in the body, isoflavones provide many health benefits.
The effects of the isoflavones are much less powerful than the estrogen hormones. In fact the effectiveness represents around 1/1000 of the estrogen hormenes). This is why isoflavones exercise a balancing effect when the level of estrogens is low, such as during the menopause. Isoflavones can also reduce the effect of the estrogen when the hormone levels are high, thereby reducing the risk of estrogen linked cancers.
Below are the chemical structures of the two most important isoflavones: daidzein and genistein.


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University / By Gareth Bell
Home/Student Life/UNIMIB
Welcome to Milano-Bicocca
SUMA at UNIMIB is embedded in the Master in Materials Science. The postgraduate Master's course drives the students to learn about the interpretation and design of function vs. structure relationships in a wide class of materials, providing an underlying basis for understanding principles, applications and entrepreneurial aspects of nanotechnology.
In order to allow for an individual specialisation, the program provides a broad choice of courses on specific classes of materials and their function-related structures. Besides technical knowledge, the program also focuses on acquiring competencies related to research skills and scientific communication.
University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) offers a background in materials chemistry and physics and, in partnership with industry, skills in technology and nanotechnology of semiconductors, polymers, ionic conductors, and materials for photonics. UNIMIB has strong industrial connections and trains students intensively in research skills, innovation transfer, entrepreneurship and interactions with industry.
Since 1998 the University has built the future, turned its district around, and trained young students to become informed adults ready for the real world.
Through our broad and rich educational offerings, we aim to allow students to find their real vocation, advance their own interests, take a critical look and acquire skills and a solid know-how to build their profession. Excellent teaching, excellent research, and high quality service place focus on the individual, as the pillars of a modern, future-oriented university.
Our university teaches its students to seize the world's opportunities and not to be frightened to confront them and put themselves out there. It is an inclusive university which shares, respects and protects diversity, as one of its main values. Bicocca is a leader in local and international cultural development.
UNIMIB is a young, dynamic and multidisciplinary university, which in the space of ten years has created an extensive network that includes many world-famous universities, research centres and top corporations. The student life at the international campus is vibrant and rich in opportunities. ESN Milano Biccoca organises many events for the international community at the university.
The University also promotes development of activities, events and projects for cultural growth. The Library, in collaboration with other University facilities, supports the University in "third mission" initiatives and organises meetings to promote scientific culture, workshops for schools, book presentations, exhibitions and concerts open to citizenship as part of the CuriosaMente review – Cultural events in the Library.
Moreover, inside the University there is a choir and two orchestras: the BicOrchestra, an amateur symphony orchestra, and the Ensemble of guitars. Participation is open to students, teachers, technical-administrative staff, former students but also to people outside the university.
Finally, as part of the Between University project for the acquisition of transversal skills, the music area is dedicated to listening and practising music. The possibilities range from participation in concerts and shows, to singing and instrumental music lessons.
SUMA local Coordinator
Professor Alberto Paleari
alberto.paleari@unimib.it
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The Australians helping young Afghans take up arms against the Taliban
By South Asia correspondent Siobhan Heanue
Updated July 08, 2018 09:34:06
Photo: An Australian digger advises an Afghan officer who will train hundreds of young Afghan officer cadets. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
Related Story: Taliban and Afghan soldiers take selfies to mark Eid ceasefire
Map: Afghanistan
Australian Jason Tuffley is a Gold Coast detective, so it's not as if he's unaccustomed to suffering and violence.
But on a stint as an Army reservist in Afghanistan, he's been impressed by the guts shown by the young Afghans he works with.
"I'm mentoring four officers, all four of them have lost their fathers in this conflict," Captain Tuffley says.
"The majority of these boys come from provinces where this is their daily reality, so it's not as if there is a frontline."
Australia withdrew from combat operations in Afghanistan in late 2014, and since then the war has faded from the front pages.
Photo: Captain Jason Tuffley is a Gold Coast police officer who also works as an Army reservist and is responsible for advising four officers in Afghanistan. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
But there are still about 300 Australians working in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mandate to "train, advise and assist".
That means little frontline action, but Australia is maintaining a stake in the future of the country.
"We can't just say we've had enough now were not going to do this anymore, it's too hard and too long," says Australia's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Nicola Gordon-Smith.
"It's a fight we have to keep on at — otherwise we lose."
Australians return to a changed Afghanistan
There are Australian soldiers returning now who have spent whole chunks of their careers in Afghanistan.
They've seen combat here, some of them have seen mates killed or injured, and now they're back in an advisory role.
Photo: Australia's involvement is aimed at helping Afghans run their own war. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
This time, the Taliban controls or contests 45 per cent of the nation's districts.
"There's a network of Taliban where they've set up, it appears, an alternative government or a shadow government," says Australia's Task Group Commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Peter Connor.
It's widely accepted that the enemy will eventually be included in a political settlement aimed at ending the war.
Last month, both sides laid down their weapons for the first time since the war began, for a three-day ceasefire at the end of Ramadan.
The short ceasefire stunned the world, with Taliban fighters posing for selfies with soldiers and locals on the streets of Kabul, before melting back into the mountains and returning to the fight.
Photo: The war against the Taliban began when most of these Afghan soldiers were children. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
The Australian advisors are also accompanied by "guardian angels" — Australian Defence Force (ADF) soldiers assigned to protect them against the threat of insider attack while they are working.
A US service member was killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Such attacks became frequent prior to the end of combat operations in 2014, but have decreased in the wake of boosted force protection measures.
Helping Afghans run their own war
Australia's current contingent in Afghanistan is aimed at helping the Afghans run their own war.
A special forces advisory group is present in the country.
Australians mentor the intelligence officers in charge of protecting Kabul from terror attacks.
Photo: An Afghan officer gives orders to soldiers. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
Australians are helping get a fledgling Afghan air force up and running.
And soldiers like Captain Tuffley are helping young soldiers become better fighters, better leaders.
An intractable slog of insurgency and counter-insurgency lies ahead of these young Afghan men, and some women, in a war that began when most of them were babies.
The army or police force are among the only options for steady employment in the country, and even then, they might go a month or two without wages.
The economy is shattered.
Getting paid enough to support extended families is sometimes more of a worry than fighting the Taliban.
Photo: There are still about 300 Australians in Afghanistan training, advising and assisting local troops. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
Are they fearful of being killed?
"I wouldn't say they're fatalistic," says Captain Tuffley, "but because of their faith in god and their upbringing and their culture they're very accepting of what needs to be done."
"They want to play a part — and whatever happens, happens."
One officer cadet explains how his aunt was killed by Taliban fighters.
They kicked him on the floor, and he watched her die.
"I want to kill Taliban," he says simply.
Photo: A young Afghan soldier who is being trained to fight the Taliban. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
Figures released by the US military back in 2015 showed the Afghan army had to replace about a third of its 170,000 soldiers that year due to casualties, desertion, and failure to re-enlist.
Part of Australia's job now is to improve the standard of leadership in the army, in the hope of boosting morale and reducing deaths among the troops.
Captain Tuffley, a military history buff, spends the hours when he's not out with the Afghans reading about their history.
Driving out through the landscape, he points out the Hindu Kush mountain range in the distance.
"That's where Alexander the Great marched through, that pass there, on his way to Kandahar," he says.
Photo: Mountains around Kabul (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
A long-term perspective is a must for anyone who thinks they can have an impact in Afghanistan.
"In the grand scheme of things, I'd like to think I've contributed in some small way towards an improvement in the level of training," says Captain Tuffley.
"These junior officers in later years are going to be the senior officers.
"As small as it is, that contributes to the stability of this nation — and they deserve it."
Photo: Part of Australia's role in Afghanistan is to improve the leadership capabilities of local troops. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, afghanistan
First posted July 08, 2018 05:42:18


Planview surveyed 650 professionals involved in managing or working on projects. The survey respondents are typical of many workers who are thrown into the project management mix without a formal title, training, or credentials.
Just because a company puts a team of people together doesn't mean it will automatically be uber-productive.
of the survey respondents said they are not project management certified but manage projects as part of their official responsibilities.
of respondents estimate that their teams waste more than 20 hours per month due to collaboration inefficiencies. That's six weeks per year that teams are not being productive!
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A $20,000 computer server gone missing. A $1 million check left for months in a mailbox. A mobile security field station squatting unused in a Lake City parking lot. Those are just a few of the blunders the governor's Homeland Security office uncovered in Colorado as its auditors sought to track the way the state was spending federal Homeland Security funds in 2008 and 2009, according to a joint study published last week by the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Center for Public Integrity.


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Despite the pandemic, Jai Jagat marches arrive in Geneva in September 2020
Jai Jagat International > Blog > Blog > Despite the pandemic, Jai Jagat marches arrive in Geneva in September 2020
On October 2, 2019, the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the incredible epic Jai Jagat (the "victory of the world" in hindi) was launched: on the initiative of the Indian defence movement of the small farmers Ekta Parishad, a march of about 50 people from various nationalities, which was to link Delhi to Geneva in one year, was leaving. Its main objective: to relay and to collect the testimonies and actions of all the voiceless along its route and excluded from globalisation in order to bring them to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, according to the Gandhian method of non-violence in action.
After having walked the roads of India, Pakistan, Iran and Armenia, the Jai Jagat walkers were stopped in March 2020 in Yerevan because of the health measures taken in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Much to their chagrin, they had to suspend their walk and return to their homes all over the world.
Nevertheless, a seed of hope was planted: that of working through inspiring action towards greater justice and peace for humanity and, more broadly, for all living things on the planet.
This is why, in spite of the measures of travel restrictions and gatherings taken everywhere because of the Coronavirus, Jai Jagat marches and actions are being organised and are taking up the torch again in this month of September 2020 :
At least three walks from France, including one from Guérande in the very west of France, will converge in Geneva to take part in the solidarity meal THE MEAL on Saturday 26 September from 11.30 am on the Plaine de Plainpalais. The day before at the end of the afternoon, some of these walkers will be welcomed beforehand in the town of Meyrin for an evening of debate and discussion.
From 21 September, on the International Day of Peace, a peace fast will be launched by Jai Jagat's friends all over the world: in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mexico, Canada, Georgia and Europe. The fast will run until October 2, 2020, on the occasion of the 151st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
On the same day in Geneva, at the International House of Associations, a large conference-debate will be organised throughout the day to discuss between local and international actors the transition to a green and non-violent economy, or the need to completely rethink our model following the pandemic, so as not to return "to the abnormal".
In parallel, during this sequence, between 21 September and 2 October 2020, a series of online conferences will take place to exchange on peace, the rights of migrants and indigenous peoples, non-violence in action… See all the details here.
The general idea is that, even though the pandemic has suspended the big Jai Jagat march in Armenia, the message of the latter of the urgency of another global model in which "no one is left behind" (corresponding to the slogan of the United Nations Agenda 2030 "no one left behind") is more relevant than ever. Indeed, Covid 19 has demonstrated the urgency of a world for everyone, a world that is more respectful of all living things and brings back to the forefront the ideal of non-violence dear to Mahatma Gandhi and his heirs.
If the big march has stopped, it is only a postponed part, in order to be able to leave again next spring, hopefully in order to arrive in Geneva in September 2021.
Jai Jagat, more than ever!
Benjamin Joyeux, Jai Jagat coordinator in Geneva
For all the details on walks from France, read below the articles by Claire Lhermitte, who notably walked from Delhi to Yerevan :
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Q: How do you learn from MITOpenCourseWare 18.06 Linear Algebra Course? I recently finished my 9th grade and I'm beginning to want to skip ahead and learn Linear Algebra throughout the summer, mainly because I want to know it to program my own games in OpenGL with C++. I already made couple of games before, but now I need to know Linear Algebra to learn OpenGL with ease.
My math skills is quite limited, as it's only up to grade 9 level, which is Algebra 1. I don't know functions and what not, passed linear equations, but I do know a bit of trigonometry. I was hoping someone could guide me to the right path to learning linear algebra?
It'd be nice if I can skip passed through some stuff, but if not, I'll go ahead and learn the stuff required to deal with vectors and matrices.
Basically, what I'm asking is, is that based on what I've just told you (only knowing math up to linear equations), can you guide and lead me to learning linear algebra without any hassles on the way there? So maybe have a list of prerequisites I should probably check out and learn, and if possible, suggest me some good resources I can learn from. I keep googling and the answers bounce back and forth, either you need to know calculus, functions, etc, or you don't. I'd like this to be cleared up, thanks.
EDIT: Sorry for the duplication, but now I don't know how to navigate/learn from the MITOpenCourseWare of 18.06 Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra course. I looked at Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra, the course 18.06 at MIT, and it may just be me being stupid, but how do I know when to start reading the book, etc, from the lectures? I mean, I already watched the first lecture, and obviously, there's a book he has that you have to read, but I don't know when to read it. I see the Readings and Calender, but they don't really make any sense.
Thanks.

A: Well! Khanacademy is a good start but it will quickly bore you I suppose...
Local university is ure best bet...
Online course via Stanford online or some other format is also smart (educere is the cheapest)
Or you just get your own books online and grind it out yourself.
You only need algebra I to do linear algebra but it requires a lot of creativity and determination as you will likely find a lot of annoying  notation and jargon thrown at you... Be patient!
Also I recommend studying the AoPS book collection as a good break from the usual collegiate grind

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Geopolitics / War / World War 3
Map Shows Which US Cities Might Be Targeted First In Nuclear Strikes Upon America
by Stefan Stanford · Published April 19, 2017 · Updated April 19, 2017
Map Shows Which US Cities Might Be Targeted First In Nuclear Strikes Upon America by Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline
The new story over at the Daily Mail today reports North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un smiled and waved as a cheering crowd watched a simulation of a US city being wiped out by a North Korean nuclear attack. You can see that video as the final video below. Just the latest provocation proving the 'mad dictator' is out of his mind, and more than willing to sacrifice the lives of the North Korean people, one North Korean defector recently stated Kim will stop at nothing to nuke the US as a 'last stand'.
With the world on the edge of a nuclear war that could begin at any time according to the North Korean foreign minister in this story from The Sun that the Drudge Report linked to on Monday morning, we take a look within this ANP story at this recent story from JD Heyes over at Natural News called "If Nuclear War Breaks Out, Which US Cities Would Be Targeted First?" and all of the latest news from around the world that shows us we may be closer to nuclear war now than at any time since the Cold War.
While most military experts believe that a war with North Korea would be 'won' by the US, those same experts warn that North Korea could do an incredible amount of damage to the US and as the Natural News story reports, striking American cities would have a multiplying effect. According to China, perhaps even more correctly, in such a war, nobody would win.
For cities that were spared, residents would no doubt panic, leading to widespread chaos and even more death and destruction. Smaller cities of 1 million, 500,000, even 100,000 people would quickly degenerate into mayhem as the national government fought mostly to save itself – though a strike on Washington, D.C., would most assuredly take out the bulk of the federal government. Even a single nuclear strike could cause widespread pandemonium in American cities that were not targeted.
While we've been ever so fortunate here in America to have long avoided an all-out war upon US soil, NKorea has also recently warned that "If the USA is planning a military strike against us, we will react with a preemptive nuclear strike!" as also heard in the 1st video below. Also claiming that they'll be conducting more missile tests on a 'weekly, monthly and yearly basis', North Korea's Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol warned that an "all-out war" would result if the US took military action.
While many believe that North Korea's missiles couldn't strike most of the US if launched from Kim's 'hermit kingdom', this new story from Zero Hedge claims the potential range of North Korea's current weapons, particularly the KN-14 and KN-08 missiles, would put most of the US and the world within range as seen in the next graphic below.
And as we reported on ANP back on April 14th, North Korea's traditional nuclear weapons may not even be the biggest problem and threat that America faces. Warning that NKorea still has at least '3 aces in the hole', while a North Korean nuclear strike upon the US would be beyond devastating, an EMP attack launched upon our country could quite literally 'take down all of America at once'. And as we've been warned, such a devastating attack would only need one strike to be successful while NKorea 'taking out' 17 different cities would require at least 17 successful attacks.
Yet we come back to the Natural News story's warning: Even a SINGLE nuclear strike could cause widespread pandemonium in US cities all across the country. While US cities make up less than 4% of the country's land mass, they are home to 62.7% of the total US population according to this March 4th, 2015 US Census Bureau story. If the 'snowflakes' in America are troubled now by the lack of 'safe spaces', war upon US soil could instantly lead to NO 'safe spaces' unless you're headed 'underground', and even most UG bunkers wouldn't be completely 'fail safe' should war upon US soil lead to a forthcoming 'invasion of America' such as that warned of by Pastor Henry Gruver.
Below videos, we take a look at a new SQAlert which asks if Gruver's prophecy is now coming true with an alleged warning that the nation of Mexico may be allowing North Korea to use its ports and bays for an attack upon America in exchange for parts of the Southwest being returned to Mexico should NKorea pull off a miracle and win a war against the US. While we're unable at this time to confirm that this warning is true, it's been reported time and again that Mexico is seeking 'reconquista', the 'reconquest' of the parts of America that were once Mexico.
As we've previously reported on ANP, Gruver had a vision of the invasion of America and its total destruction by the hands of the Russians and the Chinese. For those who may have missed it, the third and fourth videos below are Gruver's interviews with Steve Quayle in which they discuss his open vision of a nuclear strike by Russia on the East and West coast's of the United States in a two-part interview.
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Q: Обработка массива данных MySQL в PHP
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Код работает, но неправильно: нет связки по id.
Помогите разобраться, пожалуйста.
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Что я делаю не так?

A: Попробуйте вставить mysql_query() внутрь цикла
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6th May 2019 Half day Introduction to Tellington TTouch Training Workshop at the Natural Dog Show. Includes background of Tellington TTouch Training, Calming Signals, Strigger Stacking, Autonomous Nervous System Responses, Observations and some useful Touches to get you started. There is an additional half day afternoon session aimed at Dog Groomers and those Dog Guardians who struggle to brush or clip their dogs nails, etc.
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Create your own mosaic panel with mosaic artist Heather Richardson in this day-long workshop that will give a crash course to newbies and teach seasoned mosaic artists a few new tricks. All materials included, please bring safety glasses/goggles and rubber gloves. Private classes or private smaller group classes are available.
We will be working on jewelry ideas in porcelain and other clay materials. I will have a variety of samples and we welcome your designs and ideas. We will work in clay and do some glazing the first session and glaze if needed and put together parts the second session. We will make beads, pendants and earrings. You may make mosaic parts or create an independent project. Please let me know if you elect to do either of these so that I may bring appropriate supplies. Call or text Jan at 727-612-4110.
You have a story to tell – so write it!
$20 at the door if paid at the door at the Safety Harbor Art and Music Center by noon on the day of class.
Personal History writer Laura Kepner, co-author of A Brief History of Safety Harbor, Florida, will work with you on key elements of memoir writing. You don't have to be famous to write an interesting life story! Laura will focus on how to begin, continue and finish this sometimes daunting project. She will offer insight into the vulnerability of writing honestly about your personal experiences so your fears don't get in your way through the process.
Please Note: SHAMc reserves the right to cancel any class due to low enrollment (less than 50%) without incurring obligations. If a class is cancelled, you may transfer to another class or request a full tuition refund. If a transfer is requested it must be used within 6 months of transfer. Failure to request either a transfer or refund will result in the loss of that tuition. If a class does not meet the minimum enrollment prior to the start date, it may be cancelled, so please register early!
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Q: App crashes automatically when I completed the cropping image without any error logs. I used expo-image-picker the app crashes and closed automatically without any error logs.
let result = await ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync()({
      mediaTypes: ImagePicker.MediaTypeOptions.Images,
      allowsEditing: true,
      // aspect: [4, 3],
      quality: 1,
    });

A: yes I saw this bug lately, it seems shown in bar flow, by the way, Its work with me after I cancel cropping by delete
allowsEditing: true

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*Or you can go back to pick image expo module documentation and follow linking module manually.
https://github.com/expo/expo/tree/master/packages/expo-image-picker

*Or just copy this activity to your manifest file
<activity android:name="com.theartofdev.edmodo.cropper.CropImageActivity" android:theme="@style/Base.Theme.AppCompat"> </activity>
good luck


MANILA Local airline Cebu Pacific (CEB) has dismissed the baggage tampering claim of a female passenger who reported her belongings were missing after taking a CEB flight from Hong Kong to Manila last April 14.
As far as Cebu Pacific is concerned, the case is closed, the airline's spokesperson, Charo Lagamon, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA).
Lagamon said CEB had thoroughly probed the incident and based on footage, there was no tampering that happened at all and the female passenger's baggage still had its lock even after she complained.
Last weekend, the female passenger complained that the lock in her baggage was missing and that clothes were the only things left inside it.
In a Facebook video posted by Anthony Enriquez, the complainant was shown making a scene beside the baggage carousel. In that video, the female passenger also claimed that the perfumes and an iPad she had put inside her bag were missing.
"The complainant used a different airline from London to Hong Kong where she retrieved her luggage before checking in for CEB flight 5J 113 bound for Manila," Lagamon clarified earlier, adding that the baggage was placed inside a Unit Load Device (ULD) or baggage container and secured aboard CEB aircraft.
CEB also coordinated with ground handlers at Hong Kong International Airport to trace how the complainant's luggage was handled from the time she arrived there.
The airline has announced that a thorough investigation was undertaken and found no discrepancies and indications of tampering in the baggage while under the custody of CEB.
Lagamon told PNA that CEB has examined all the video and CCTV footage from the arrival of the aircraft to Manila all the way to the unloading of the baggage.
"We are submitting a full report, including the footage, to the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA)," she added.
Also last Monday, MIAA Public Affairs Department's officer-in-charge, Ma. Consuelo Bungag, told airport reporters that initial investigation also indicated no discrepancy in the baggage weight when the passenger checked-in at Hong Kong International Airport and when she arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).


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magazine FeaturePersonal Reflections
Meeting a Man of the Way
Under the unorthodox tutelage of legendary photographer Minor White, John Daido Loori makes an unexpected discovery: between photographer and subject, there is no separation.
By John Loori
In meeting a man along the way, greet him neither with words nor with silence. Now tell me, how will you greet him?
— An old Zen koan
Minor White, 1974. Reproduction courtesy of the Art Museum, Princeton University, the Minor White Archive and the artist. © 1974 John Weiss
In the late 1960s, Minor White was fondly known as the Eastern guru of photography because of his unusual teaching methods, which included techniques borrowed from Eastern spiritual traditions. Over six feet tall, with a wild mane of silver hair, Minor was a magnetic and fascinating presence in the world of the arts.
When I first heard of him, Minor was teaching photography in the Architecture Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Russians had just launched the Sputnik, and there was much criticism of America's schools and universities because they seemed to be producing technicians rather than innovators. Minor's job at MIT was to open up the students' "creative side." I began to follow his work through Aperture magazine and learned that he taught photography as a sacred art. The first time I saw one of his photography exhibits, I understood why.
The exhibit, called "The Sound of One Hand Clapping," was being shown in a small gallery in Massachusetts. Curious to see Minor's work in person, I drove up from New York. What I saw moved me in a way I was totally unprepared for. Minor was a "straight photographer," which meant he didn't manipulate his images during the developing process. Yet Minor's way of using natural light and shadows to produce a wide range of tonality in his prints was incredible. Looking at his photographs, I felt myself being thrust into another realm of consciousness. I realized then that there was a lot more to photography than I had previously imagined.
I started photographing when I was ten, and by the time I reached my mid-thirties, photography had become an integral part of my life. I had worked as a physical chemist for seventeen years, but had also started to teach college photography part time, and was seriously thinking of turning it into my profession. For a while my work as a research scientist was fulfilling, but at a certain point the questions that had led me to science to begin with became larger than their container, and I saw that they were fundamentally religious questions.
I began to systematically study the great spiritual traditions, trying to make sense of my life and the world around me. Unfortunately, by then I had become highly cynical, and much of what religion had to say seemed to me inconsistent with the realities of life in the twentieth century. I became opposed to organized religion, and turned into an avowed atheist. Yet many of my friends laughed and referred to me as "Pope John." It was obvious to everyone that the passion that drove me was deeply spiritual, but I just couldn't admit that to myself at the time.
One day in 1971, I received a letter from Aperture announcing a workshop that Minor White was giving in Lakeville, Connecticut. At first I was hesitant to apply because I didn't think my photographs were good enough. But after some encouragement from friends, I sent in my portfolio—along with my date and place of birth so an astrologer could draw my chart. Although I was a resistant and hardened scientist, I wanted so much to study with Minor that I was willing to play along. He wanted to read my stars? Fine. He wanted me to read Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Reality, Eugene Herrigel's Zen and the Art of Archery, and Richard Boleslavsky's Acting: The First Six Lessons? Fine.
I was accepted into the workshop, and a few months later I was on my way to the Hotchkiss School, where I and sixty other participants would spend a week studying photography with Minor White.
Vicinity of Danville, New York, 1955 by Minor White. From Sequence Ten/Rural Cathedrals, 1955
The first day began around four in the morning. I walked out into a large field with the others, wondering how in the world we were going to photograph in the dark. We were asked to stand in one long line and follow the instructions of a modern dance instructor who began to lead us through a series of movement exercises. I looked around, puzzled, but everyone was following, including Minor. I turned to the man next to me, "Why are we doing this? What does this have to do with photography?" "Ssshhhhh. Just do it," he said. The young woman on my right said the same thing.
I thought I had been very patient up to that point, but this was just too much. I had paid hundreds of dollars to study photography. I wasn't about to waste my time dancing in a field. Furious, I stormed away.
Back in my room, I started to pack my things, but the line of dancers in the emerging dawn caught my eye as I passed the window, and I decided to photograph them. I screwed a long telephoto lens onto my camera and began to shoot, feeling very pleased with myself. They can do whatever they want, I thought. I'm going to photograph. Thinking back on it, I realize that that was the perfect reflection of where I was at the time: standing apart from my life, staring at it through a lens, like a voyeur.
After the morning session was over, a group of students led by the dance instructor came to my room to convince me to stay. Though I was skeptical of Minor's esoteric teaching methods, a part of me knew I couldn't just walk away. I really wanted to learn to see the way he did, to capture my subjects in a way that didn't render them lifeless and two-dimensional. I didn't realize that Minor was teaching us exactly that: not only to see images, but to feel them, smell them, taste them. He was teaching us how to be photography.
I decided to stay, telling myself that I was doing it because my companions really wanted me to. The truth was, I felt moved by how much they cared. And so I woke up before dawn, meditated, and danced with everyone else. We didn't even touch our cameras until about the fourth day, when Minor directed us to start working with the questions that had brought us there, by photographing them.
One assignment in particular had a profound effect on me: photographing our essence. "Your essence is the inner quality of being that has been with you since birth. It's what you know as yourself," Minor said. He asked that we go beyond our personality, the outward aspects of our being, and delve deep into the core of who we really are. In Zen terms, this question can be expressed as: "What is your original face, the face you had before your parents were born?"
As I packed my equipment, getting ready to go out, I had a hunch that this photograph was going to be the photograph of the workshop. In fact, I was so confident, so set on staying out as long as it took to come to full terms with the challenge, that I told a couple of people not to be concerned if I didn't come back that night.
I set off early in the morning with a small backpack and my 4 x 5 camera. I walked through the woods slowly, without direction, trying to sense the subject that was supposed to find me. Minor's instructions echoed in my mind: Venture into the landscape without expectations. Let your subject find you. When you approach it, you will feel a resonance, a sense of recognition toward it. If, when you move away, the resonance fades, or if it gets stronger as you approach, you'll know you have found your subject. Sit in your subject's presence and wait for your presence to be acknowledged. Don't try to make a photograph, but let your intuition tell you the right moment to release the shutter. If, after you've made an exposure, you feel a sense of completion, bow and let go of the subject and your connection to it.
Windowsill Daydreaming, 1958 by Minor White. From Sequence Fourteen, Sound of One Hand Clapping, 1960
After a while I found a tree that seemed to beckon to me. I went to it and bowed. I set up my camera and then settled in front of that tree, waiting for my presence to be acknowledged. It was early afternoon; the sun had just passed its zenith. I sat with one hand on the shutter release, my whole body alert yet still.
That's the last thing I remember.
Hours later I realized that the sun had set and the afternoon was turning cold. Time had completely disappeared for me. I stood up slowly, aware of the fact that I felt very different. My body and mind, my concerns had shifted. A lot of the questions I'd been struggling with all week had completely evaporated. I didn't even know whether I'd taken a photograph. Somehow it didn't matter.
I packed up my gear and headed back to the school, remembering that I had an appointment with Minor to talk about my work. When I arrived Minor was sitting on the porch outside his room, waiting for me, so I sat down with him. I had a list of questions I'd prepared two days before, but somehow all those questions no longer seemed relevant in the afterglow of my experience with the tree.
"What would you like to talk about?" Minor asked.
Embarrassed, I said, "Honestly, I don't have anything to say."
"Good. Then let's just sit here together."
So we sat in the quiet of the evening, until the next student arrived. I got up to leave, and Minor placed his palms together and bowed. I felt overwhelmed with a deep sense of gratitude that I didn't know how I could requite. I told him as much, and he said, "You're a teacher, right?" I nodded.
"Well then, teach."
After that day in the woods, something in me had shifted, and for a while the world was right; I was right; everything was perfect and complete. Emotionally, creatively, I felt better than I had in years, and I wanted to be able to share that with others.
But this feeling didn't last long. Slowly, over a period of a year, the buoyancy I had experienced began to dissipate. Frantically, I tried to recreate everything we'd done in the workshop in an effort to hold on to it. I read books on religion, spirituality, and philosophy. I practiced yoga, ate vegetarian food, meditated. I didn't want those new feelings of clarity and resolution to disappear. What was it that had allowed me, for a moment, to become so thoroughly intimate with that tree, the world, and my life?
In 1972 Minor gave another workshop, at Pumpkin Hollow Farm, a retreat center in upstate New York. I went, but by then my admiration for my teacher had turned into resentment as I realized that my photographs were beginning to look like his. I felt stuck inside Minor's head. What was my own way of seeing? Who was I?
Movement Studies Number 56, 1949 by Minor White
Halfway into the workshop, Minor began to really push us on one of the exercises. We were already raw from much work and lack of sleep, and when Minor started to press a particularly fragile student, I lost my temper. As before, I ran away, but this time I began sitting zazen as soon as I got to my cabin. Sitting had been the one constant thread in my life since the first time I met Minor. It had become as natural to me as brushing my teeth, and when I went out to photograph, I often found myself sitting quietly in the woods, my camera next to me, unused.
After an hour or so of sitting, I returned to the workshop and found that the session had been successfully concluded and the room was quiet. Everyone was meditating. I apologized to Minor and took my place with the others.
A short time after the workshop, I wrote him a letter asking him if he would be willing to show some of his photographs from the "Sound of One Hand Clapping" exhibit in the gallery I had just opened. He not only agreed, but let me offer his photographs for sale at whatever price I wanted, and only asked for $25 each to pay for materials. I didn't understand why he was being so generous to me, when I had shown him nothing but resistance.
I began to realize then that I needed a spiritual teacher, but I didn't know where to turn. Minor had never presumed to be anything but a photographer. He used elements of the teachings of Gurdjieff, yoga, Zen, and mysticism in his workshops, but he never called himself a spiritual teacher. Still, I called him and asked if I could visit him. He was still teaching at MIT, so a couple of weeks later, I drove to Cambridge and met him at his house. We drank a bottle of wine and talked of many things. I didn't ask for advice and he didn't offer any, but when I left him I was feeling confident again. As I drove back to my hotel that night, I couldn't stop thinking about our meeting. He really hadn't said anything to me, yet something had shifted in me again. Why?
When I entered the hotel, I noticed in the lobby a poster advertising a conference called "The Visual Dharma." One of the speakers was Trungpa Rinpoche, who was acquiring a reputation in the West as a powerful teacher of Buddhism. I decided to go to the conference, and through a series of events met my future teachers: Eido Shimano, Soen Nakagawa, and my transmission teacher, Taizan Maezumi. Gradually, Zen became the central aspect of my life.
The questions I had carried with me through all these years began to crystallize into an urgent need to understand the nature of my self. Something had happened that day in the woods during Minor's workshop. What was it? And why did I feel so at ease in the presence of someone like Minor? I had to know. I kept searching, and that search led me to become ordained as a Zen monk and, finally, to turn myself over entirely to the religious life.
Reflecting back, it's clear to me that the arts provided a beacon that guided me through the dark places of my spiritual journey. It would have been impossible for me to enter Zen training through the front door of a monastery. I'm still impressed when I see people who are able to do that. Just the sight of shaved heads and robes was enough to turn me off. But, as things would have it, I was able to enter through the back door and, ultimately, to be able to engage fully in spiritual practice.
The spiritual journey is long and sometimes lonely. But some of us are fortunate enough to encounter a person of the Way along the Way. I am indebted to Minor for first opening the door, and for accompanying me during part of my journey.
John Loori is the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. "Just the Right Amount" was extracted from a question-and-answer period that took place in a Zen workshop.
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This 3-hour course is a series of concepts and questions concerning the Arizona Fair Housing Act. The student will apply certain Fair Housing concepts, as well as choose between correct and incorrect interpretations of certain Fair Housing Statutes.
Approved for 3 hours of Fair Housing continuing education by the Arizona Department of Real Estate.


Long-serving defender underlines his commitment to Arsenal as we round up the latest transfer rumours on Saturday, July 28.
Hector Bellerin has hit back at those who have questioned his commitment to Arsenal, insisting he does not want to play for anyone else.
Bellerin has been with Arsenal since he was 16 but that longevity has not stopped talk of a transfer, with Barcelona and Manchester City linked with the right-back in recent seasons.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, the 23-year-old has moved to put an end to the speculation surrounding his future.
"It is crazy that people ask me these questions all the time," he said. "A few years ago I signed a very long-term contract.
"I have never said that I have wanted to be anywhere else. I am very happy in London. I am very happy at this club.
Arsenal cannot afford to lose the leadership qualities of Aaron Ramsey, according to team-mate Alexandre Lacazette.
Ramsey has entered the final 12 months of his current deal and admitted earlier this week he is uncertain about his Arsenal future, with his agent locked in negotiations over a new deal.
Head coach Unai Emery has made it clear he wants Ramsey to stay and, speaking at the launch of Arsenal's third kit in Singapore, Lacazette told Sky Sports News: "Aaron has been there for about 10 years, he is like a legend at the club.
"We have to be respectful for everything he has done and of course with his quality he can help the team to be better. He brings stability, quality and leadership.
"He is an example for all the young players too, so of course we need Aaron in the team."
Ernesto Valverde insists Ousmane Dembele has a future at Barcelona.
The 19-year-old France international has been linked with a move away from the Camp Nou following the La Liga champions' capture of Malcom.
Arsenal boss Unai Emery is reportedly in the market for a pacey winger, but his counterpart at Barca, Valverde, insists Dembele remains in his plans.
"Let's hope it's his season. He is an extraordinary player," Valverde said. "The past year has been complicated because of the injuries, but even so he has brought us a lot.
"The important thing is that there is competition within the team. There are a lot of matches and we cannot handle them with only eleven players."


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JR: 'This is Wolves' best ever chance of winning the FA Cup'
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John Richards believes Wolves might never get a better chance of FA Cup glory as they prepare to face Manchester United.
The legendary Molineux goal king is also urging Wolves to give the fans the Wembley dream they want – and help heal some hurt he still feels.
Wolves look to have the best opportunity to get to Wembley in a cup in decades, with United in the sixth round on Saturday night standing between them and a first semi-final in the competition since 1998.
Richards played in four FA Cup quarter-finals for the club, winning three, all after replays, in 1973, 1979 and 1981.
The only one he lost was in 1976 against United, which also went to a replay, 3-2 at Molineux, after they had drawn 2-2 at Old Trafford.
Richards, now 68, won two League Cups with Wolves but it's the three losing semi-finals that still 'irk' him after all these years.
The 194-goal former club record top scorer wants Nuno Espirito Santo's side to seize their opportunity, and senses the whole city is backing them to end the club's 39-year wait for a major trophy.
"It disappoints me still that we lost those three semi-finals; it irks me a bit that we didn't get to a final," said Richards.
"We won the League Cup twice, which was great, but as a player, and a former player, you look back and think 'I wished I'd have played at Wembley in an FA Cup final.'
"They might not ever get a better chance. These lads have got that opportunity, and I don't want them thinking when they have stopped playing 'We missed out on what was our best chance to get to an FA Cup final and to win a trophy for the club.'
"Because the fans want it. They would love a trip to Wembley, they're crying out for it.
"They haven't won a major trophy since 1980 so you're looking at nearly 40 years.
"So I hope Wolves take this with all the seriousness that they can, because this year they've got a great opportunity to if not win the FA Cup, then get to the final.
"That's why I want them to do well in this match against Manchester United because the fans want it so much.
"They're safe in the Premier League, they're going to finish seventh or eighth or whatever, so they will get some good financial rewards for that, but the FA Cup would be the cherry on top of the cake."
Nuno has already said he will keep John Ruddy, who is his deputy to Rui Patricio in the Premier League but has played all the cup games, in goal.
But Richards feels Wolves must field their strongest side to topple a resurgent United.
"I would hope so. They got out of jail against Shrewsbury when he made a few changes and you could understand it because of the draw of the Premier League," he said.
"But they got away with it then after being 2-0 down (against Shrewsbury), and I hope they will think the response they got for the replay, when they had a full house, that they can see the fans really want them to go for it."
Having scored in four FA Cup quarter-finals himself, Richards joked Nuno could hand him a shock recall to the squad as a lucky charm, nearly 36 years after his last game for Wolves.
"Perhaps they should pick me! That's a thought – get me back, just for this match! Stick me on the bench!" he cracked.
John Richards was speaking at the annual fundraising dinner for @SmileForJoel, which was held at the Copthorne Hotel, Brierley Hill and raised over £10,000 for victims of homicide. Richards was one of 17 former Wolves players spanning five decades among over 30 former West Midlands footballers who attended the event.
Richards said: "It's lovely. You look around and say 'I know, him, I know him' so it's nice to introduce yourself and catch up.
"It's lovely to reminisce about the memories we all have because the Midlands in those days was a strong powerhouse of football in this country.
"At the moment, there's only Wolves and Leicester in the Premier League but it would be nice to see that back again.
"I told Ally Robertson I think I've still got one of his studs in my calf from when he went down the back of my leg!
"But they're great lads and it's a great cause, and that's what brings us together."


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#ifndef _SYS_SOCKIO_H_
#define _SYS_SOCKIO_H_

#include <sys/appleapiopts.h>

#include <sys/ioccom.h>

/* Socket ioctl's. */
#define SIOCSHIWAT       _IOW('s',  0, int)             /* set high watermark */
#define SIOCGHIWAT       _IOR('s',  1, int)             /* get high watermark */
#define SIOCSLOWAT       _IOW('s',  2, int)             /* set low watermark */
#define SIOCGLOWAT       _IOR('s',  3, int)             /* get low watermark */
#define SIOCATMARK       _IOR('s',  7, int)             /* at oob mark? */
#define SIOCSPGRP        _IOW('s',  8, int)             /* set process group */
#define SIOCGPGRP        _IOR('s',  9, int)             /* get process group */

/*
 * OSIOCGIF* ioctls are deprecated; they are kept for binary compatibility.
 */
#define SIOCSIFADDR     _IOW('i', 12, struct ifreq)     /* set ifnet address */
#define SIOCSIFDSTADDR   _IOW('i', 14, struct ifreq)    /* set p-p address */
#define SIOCSIFFLAGS     _IOW('i', 16, struct ifreq)    /* set ifnet flags */
#define SIOCGIFFLAGS    _IOWR('i', 17, struct ifreq)    /* get ifnet flags */
#define SIOCSIFBRDADDR   _IOW('i', 19, struct ifreq)    /* set broadcast addr */
#define SIOCSIFNETMASK   _IOW('i', 22, struct ifreq)    /* set net addr mask */
#define SIOCGIFMETRIC   _IOWR('i', 23, struct ifreq)    /* get IF metric */
#define SIOCSIFMETRIC   _IOW('i', 24, struct ifreq)     /* set IF metric */
#define SIOCDIFADDR     _IOW('i', 25, struct ifreq)     /* delete IF addr */
#define SIOCAIFADDR     _IOW('i', 26, struct ifaliasreq)/* add/chg IF alias */

#define SIOCGIFADDR     _IOWR('i', 33, struct ifreq)    /* get ifnet address */
#define SIOCGIFDSTADDR  _IOWR('i', 34, struct ifreq)    /* get p-p address */
#define SIOCGIFBRDADDR  _IOWR('i', 35, struct ifreq)    /* get broadcast addr */
#define SIOCGIFCONF     _IOWR('i', 36, struct ifconf)   /* get ifnet list */
#define SIOCGIFNETMASK  _IOWR('i', 37, struct ifreq)    /* get net addr mask */
#define SIOCAUTOADDR    _IOWR('i', 38, struct ifreq)    /* autoconf address */
#define SIOCAUTONETMASK _IOW('i', 39, struct ifreq)     /* autoconf netmask */
#define SIOCARPIPLL             _IOWR('i', 40, struct ifreq)    /* arp for IPv4LL address */

#define SIOCADDMULTI     _IOW('i', 49, struct ifreq)    /* add m'cast addr */
#define SIOCDELMULTI     _IOW('i', 50, struct ifreq)    /* del m'cast addr */
#define SIOCGIFMTU      _IOWR('i', 51, struct ifreq)    /* get IF mtu */
#define SIOCSIFMTU       _IOW('i', 52, struct ifreq)    /* set IF mtu */
#define SIOCGIFPHYS     _IOWR('i', 53, struct ifreq)    /* get IF wire */
#define SIOCSIFPHYS      _IOW('i', 54, struct ifreq)    /* set IF wire */
#define SIOCSIFMEDIA    _IOWR('i', 55, struct ifreq)    /* set net media */

/*
 * The command SIOCGIFMEDIA does not allow a process to access the extended
 * media subtype and extended subtype values are returned as IFM_OTHER.
 */
#define SIOCGIFMEDIA    _IOWR('i', 56, struct ifmediareq) /* get compatible net media  */

#define SIOCSIFGENERIC   _IOW('i', 57, struct ifreq)    /* generic IF set op */
#define SIOCGIFGENERIC  _IOWR('i', 58, struct ifreq)    /* generic IF get op */
#define SIOCRSLVMULTI   _IOWR('i', 59, struct rslvmulti_req)

#define SIOCSIFLLADDR   _IOW('i', 60, struct ifreq)     /* set link level addr */
#define SIOCGIFSTATUS   _IOWR('i', 61, struct ifstat)   /* get IF status */
#define SIOCSIFPHYADDR   _IOW('i', 62, struct ifaliasreq) /* set gif addres */
#define SIOCGIFPSRCADDR _IOWR('i', 63, struct ifreq)    /* get gif psrc addr */
#define SIOCGIFPDSTADDR _IOWR('i', 64, struct ifreq)    /* get gif pdst addr */
#define SIOCDIFPHYADDR   _IOW('i', 65, struct ifreq)    /* delete gif addrs */

#define SIOCGIFDEVMTU   _IOWR('i', 68, struct ifreq)    /* get if ifdevmtu */
#define SIOCSIFALTMTU    _IOW('i', 69, struct ifreq)    /* set if alternate mtu */
#define SIOCGIFALTMTU   _IOWR('i', 72, struct ifreq)    /* get if alternate mtu */
#define SIOCSIFBOND      _IOW('i', 70, struct ifreq)    /* set bond if config */
#define SIOCGIFBOND     _IOWR('i', 71, struct ifreq)    /* get bond if config */

/*
 * The command SIOCGIFXMEDIA is meant to be used by processes only to be able
 * to access the extended media subtypes with the extended IFM_TMASK.
 *
 * An ifnet must not implement SIOCGIFXMEDIA as it gets the extended
 * media subtypes by simply compiling with <net/if_media.h>
 */
#define SIOCGIFXMEDIA   _IOWR('i', 72, struct ifmediareq) /* get net extended media */

#define SIOCSIFCAP       _IOW('i', 90, struct ifreq)    /* set IF features */
#define SIOCGIFCAP      _IOWR('i', 91, struct ifreq)    /* get IF features */

#define SIOCIFCREATE    _IOWR('i', 120, struct ifreq)   /* create clone if */
#define SIOCIFDESTROY    _IOW('i', 121, struct ifreq)   /* destroy clone if */
#define SIOCIFCREATE2   _IOWR('i', 122, struct ifreq)   /* create clone if with data */

#define SIOCSDRVSPEC    _IOW('i', 123, struct ifdrv)    /* set driver-specific
	                                                 *         parameters */
#define SIOCGDRVSPEC    _IOWR('i', 123, struct ifdrv)   /* get driver-specific
	                                                 *         parameters */
#define SIOCSIFVLAN      _IOW('i', 126, struct ifreq)   /* set VLAN config */
#define SIOCGIFVLAN     _IOWR('i', 127, struct ifreq)   /* get VLAN config */
#define SIOCSETVLAN     SIOCSIFVLAN
#define SIOCGETVLAN     SIOCGIFVLAN

#define SIOCIFGCLONERS  _IOWR('i', 129, struct if_clonereq) /* get cloners */

#define SIOCGIFASYNCMAP _IOWR('i', 124, struct ifreq)   /* get ppp asyncmap */
#define SIOCSIFASYNCMAP _IOW('i', 125, struct ifreq)    /* set ppp asyncmap */

#define SIOCGIFMAC      _IOWR('i', 130, struct ifreq)   /* deprecated */
#define SIOCSIFMAC      _IOW('i', 131, struct ifreq)    /* deprecated */
#define SIOCSIFKPI      _IOW('i', 134, struct ifreq) /* set interface kext param - root only */
#define SIOCGIFKPI      _IOWR('i', 135, struct ifreq) /* get interface kext param */

#define SIOCGIFWAKEFLAGS _IOWR('i', 136, struct ifreq) /* get interface wake property flags */

#define SIOCGIFFUNCTIONALTYPE   _IOWR('i', 173, struct ifreq) /* get interface functional type */

#define SIOCSIF6LOWPAN  _IOW('i', 196, struct ifreq)    /* set 6LOWPAN config */
#define SIOCGIF6LOWPAN  _IOWR('i', 197, struct ifreq)   /* get 6LOWPAN config */

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Maria McMurray reports on a recent eye surgery compensation claim victory.
A claim was started in June 2014 against a leading Laser Eye treatment firm. Our client had visited their outlet wanting to alleviate her need for glasses.
At the consultation she was advised that they had a slot free that weekend. She was told that they would reduce the cost of surgery by 10% if she paid a deposit that day and the full cost of surgery prior to surgery. In order to receive the discount, this appointment was taken. The Claimant was told that after surgery she would require over the counter reading glasses only.
For the first few days following surgery the Claimant was able to see clearer than she had done prior to surgery. The Claimant then began to notice a gritty feeling to the eyes and ghosting and blurring to the vision which gradually got worse.
The recommended reading glasses did not help these symptoms. Our client returned to the clinic for advice and rectification. The Claimant was told this was common after surgery and was due to dry eyes. She was told that the symptoms would settle with time.
She attended on a monthly basis for several months post-surgery. She was simply provided with eye drops and told things would settle with time. One day the Claimant went to the branch and it had closed down.
Some 5 or 6 months later, the firm opened a further branch nearby. The Claimant sought further action. She was told that they would look at providing laser treatment to remedy the error with her vision. When she went for corrective surgery she was told she could not have the surgery due to a scratch on her eye.
A month later, at a further appointment arranged with a Consultant in Harley Street, the Claimant was told that she had Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy which should have been detected prior to surgery.
Due to this condition, the Claimant should never have been given any eye surgery. Any further surgery would increase her risk of corneal decompensation.
Following a lengthy and robust battle for compensation for our client a five figure settlement was achieved.