SOUND HEALING ARTICLE FOR CADUCEUS.
"The basic principles of music therapy were recognised throughout the ancient world. The concept may be traced in the writings of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Hindus, Chinese and other learned nations of antiquity. It was, and still is, a part of the religious ceremonies of primitive peoples throughout the world." Manly P Hall.
Each sound healing session is utterly unique. Clients are often surprised during a return visit to discover that the course of their treatment is different from before. For this reason and because I am continually unfolding and evolving this form of sound healing I can only give a somewhat general account of my work in sound healing.
I first trained in spiritual healing in 1965 and at that time my interest in sound healing first began. As sacred percussion instruments from the Far East continued to come my way from 1968 onwards I began to search for ways of using them in sound healing. However, for me personally, this search seemed to crystallise once the Singing Bowls of Tibet came my way. I found that the 'sacred' bowls, especially, possessed the most potent forces, being the most psychically charged of all my sacred instruments. As my collection of these ancient sounds grew so too my understanding of how to use them in sound healing also unfolded in a most organic way. In 1970 I joined The White Eagle Lodge immediately giving myself in service to the form of spiritual healing practised there and so I received further training in this particular path of service.
During a sound healing session the bowls are played with great patience allowing their sound to dissolve. The playing of their sounds begins with malleting which captures the moment or takes the mind away from drifting thoughts and helps to concentrate it upon and within the eternal Now. If, added to this, we cannot predict what will follow any one sound, then we enter a state of acceptance (a 'non-dualistic' state of mind. i.e. beyond' good & bad/right or wrong'), following the course of the sounds to where they lead. Listening to the striking of a bowl can be like being awakened to the moment of awareness from a long sleep in mind chatter.
Between the different tones, harmonics appear, pulsating, sending sound into the entire aura and into the chakra centres. In general lower chakras equal lower tones to higher chakras equalling higher tones. These tones very slowly dissolve whilst the larger bowls possess a slowly pulsating fundamental beat creating an experience of deep relaxation. The actual cyclic speed of these pulses is very close to that of certain brain cycles i.e. Alpha and Theta which brain states correlate to deep relaxation, contemplation and altered states of consciousness; especially visualisation or an active imagination. So, paradoxically, very deep, low pitched Bowls, create a very slow pulse or oscillating beat, which – through the law of resonance – stimulates and awakens alternative states of heightened consciousness! In other words, it doesn't necessarily follow that only 'high pitched' bowls are capable of stimulating 'higher' states of consciousness!
In THETA there can be visual images. Such images can seem very real, and in some of the Lower THETA states there is little or no sense of the physical body. A person may experience their body as a field of energy or as if parts of their body are floating in the air, unconnected to other parts.
The internal experience one has during THETA activity seems to be the most prevalent perceived reality. External reality to a greater or lesser extent is simply not experienced.
'Non-ordinary' states of Awareness appear in THETA beginning in ALPHA (slow respiration rate & deep relaxation). During these sound-healing sessions with the singing bowls of Tibet it is not uncommon for people to 'see' colours beyond those of earth! Also people will often experience moving away from 'normal' consciousness (awareness of time, pitches, notes, intervals, and discordant or concordant chords – combinations of bowls) to losing that awareness and leaving their bodies altogether. Upon returning they felt their physical body to be very heavy!
Perhaps it is also helpful to reflect that during our sleeping hours our physical body receives the opportunity to renew itself because the astral and mental bodies have returned to their natural spheres. Similarly, during the entering of Alpha, Theta and sometimes Delta states, through listening to the bowls, the physical body may receive temporary rest from the mental and astral bodies allowing these same regenerating energies to become activated and so leading to renewed health.
There is also a connection with the 'Four Temperaments' of the ancient alchemists: Choleric, Sanguine, Phlegmatic, and Melancholic. The several ancient modes, connecting with the planets, would then have had a connection with these temperaments also. For instance, people with the Choleric temperament (according to Rudolph Steiner, the most difficult of the temperaments for spiritual advancement) need to listen to Melancholic music to best make spiritual progress.
To the ancient Chinese the Element Metal (5 Elements) was associated with the 'Divine.' The use of Bells in ancient Chinese ritual music was intimately associated with the cult of Ancestors, i.e. with the most spiritual of all musics (sacred music). In those days there were two types of bells:- Orchestral Bells (of short duration) and Temple Bells which were made to have a very long sustain with a warm, rich sound.
At the very start of a healing session I begin by preparing myself and praying that I may be of service to the patient and the Healing Angels. This involves becoming very still and communing with the Cosmic Christ Spirit in the Temple of Healing on the higher spiritual planes as well as making contact with those 'spirit' healers of the Great White Brotherhood, and other spirit guides with whom I work, each one of which specialises in a different kind of healing. At this point I also play one of the 'Space – Cleansing' Bowls from my collection. This has a dual purpose. One is to cleanse the space; to remove all of the existing energies in the room, whether good or bad, from the previous activities that occupied the room. Being as commencing from that moment the only appropriate energies are those that surround the patient. As these take the centre stage they become easier to focus upon. Two is to hold the patient under the Light of the Christ Star – under the Healing Ray from the Healing Temple in the 'world of spirit.' At this initial point I would also consider whether, according to my observations, the client had an affinity with either of the three major paths:- Karma Marga, Bhakti Marga, or Jnana Marga, as this would affect the type of treatment given.
Next I play through a specially selected set of 5 pairs of small Yang bowls placed upon the floor in the shape of an upward pointing triangle around the patient's head. These start from around the level of their shoulders – one beside each ear – and then move upwards towards a point where the top pair are besides one another. This serves to balance left and right hemispheres of the brain. Certain psychoacoustical properties of the singing bowls are exploited here. Namely, Heterodyning. These pairs produce slow beats that can be imagined as pulsing down the patient's entire auric body. These slow pulses vibrate at less than 8 cps and therefore synchronise with both Alpha and Theta brainwave states – leading to altered states of consciousness. These slow pulses also help the patient to relax and begin to 'surrender' to these powerfully tuned sounds. These Yang pairs are placed in an ascending order of pitch and beginning from the left hand side whilst the right hand side bowl is generally the higher pitched of the two in the pair. There is also something of a link here with 'alternative audition' as developed by Dr. Lefebeure.
Whilst this opening ritual section is taking place, I begin to clairvoyantly look at the patient's chakras and start to diagnose their condition alongside the causes of the inharmony. I am also considering which individual sound requirements are necessary to assist in moving them towards a more harmonious state of health. At this stage I'm also noticing whether the patient responds more favourably to the sounding of any one pair of Yang bowls being played. This can also provide certain diagnostic indications.
Next, I select a bowl to work upon the Throat Chakra. I have four throat chakra bowls. I make my choice by selecting the bowl that produces the desired Colour i.e. Blue, Green, White or Gold. I then play the bowl, or combination of bowls, and direct the Colour Healing Ray to the patient's throat chakra and from there it will extend throughout their entire aura.
This concludes the opening section of the treatment, which is the same for all clients. From this point onwards I select from the remaining 40 to 50 bowls those which I perceive will assist in the treatment alongside working with my intuition which, transcending deductive reasoning processes, can act in an instant.
Regarding the Colours:- with the Throat Chakra bowls I choose Blue for it's soothing effect whilst Green would be used if more of a cleansing treatment is required. Blue is also used if the patient's condition consists of considerable pain. Blue creates a very peaceful vibration and this would also be used, therefore, if a large aspect of the treatment for the condition consisted of this quality of deep peace, tranquillity, or serenity. For instance, in such cases, I would often follow the Blue Throat Chakra Bowl ('Song of the Crystal' Bowl) with the 'Infinite Peace' Bowl. Such conditions often require some treatment at the Solar Plexus Chakra and I would then choose a Solar Plexus Bowl which also produces Blue on the inner planes – such as 'Kuntazangmo' Bowl – or a special matched pair. In cases of obsession, I have a very rare and special Bowl ('Panic Bowl') which, traditionally, was created for this very purpose. It is also called 'Silver Flame' Bowl because it channels the Silver Ray which is used in such drastic circumstances. This same bowl may also help with certain 'relationship issues' (unhealthy psychic attachments etc) as well as certain ear disorders.
The spiritual healer themselves must be in touch with this deep inner peace of the spirit. It is also very important to remember often that the Great Healer in Life is the Cosmic Christ Spirit of Divine Love. Accordingly, whilst we must also use our minds and willpower, yet the role of the Christ spirit within our heart must never be underestimated or overlooked. Using these sounds of such remarkable stillness, linked to meditation and other spiritual exercises, assists in leading the client into contact with their own deepest spiritual Centre – the I AM – the Universal Cosmic Christ Spirit. Sometimes I will silently chant certain simple, archetypal, spiritual affirmations such as " I AM Divine Peace;" or "I AM Divine Love" etc, with the appropriate bowl, colour ray treatment, and spiritual vibration, according to the need of the patient. On other such similar occasions, I will also use a specific Tibetan singing bowl (e.g. "Audience with the Master Bowl") in order to facilitate a meeting with the Higher Self of the patient – the God-Self within; with their inner teacher (In-Tuition); with their personal spirit guide or current spirit helper, or even their spiritual Master – whether known to them or not!
Sometimes a treatment might require the energy of a particular Element :- Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Certain bowls are attuned to (or especially designed for entering communion with) one of these five elements and accordingly will be selected for the patient at an appropriate moment of their treatment. Added to this, there are also a variety of techniques for playing the bowls and these several techniques also possess a connection to the several Elements. These Five Elements can also be connected with both Colours and with Planetary Rays and these associations provide other ways of applying the energies of the different Elements. In remote antiquity these Elements were also related to certain spiritual Initiations. These 'initiations' are given by Life itself and are not the 'property' of any one Spiritual/religious School or group. Therefore, we may be passing the tests of one or more of these 'Elements' at any one point in our life. Correspondingly, the treatment will also take this into account when determining upon the course of the treatment for the individual patient. Needless to say, it is something of a prerequisite that the healer have some sort of affinity with these tests, ideally through having passed them themselves, either during this incarnation or in several past incarnations.
During some sessions a sense of security may sometimes be required and this is achieved through predictability; through striking the bowls very regularly – say every 30 beats or 20 beats or whatever, sometimes, also, gradually increasing the speed of such repetitions. Otherwise, this technique may be used in order to energise the patient or strengthen the effect through the power of rhythmic repetition.
Nothing is 'THE answer!' We find a Trinity in Tibetan Buddhism based upon three possible reactions to anything. (1) I love this sound. I want more! (2) I hate this sound. Take it away. Stop it immediately! (3) I don't know whether I like this sound or not. So, there is never one answer for all people. These three reactions can then be likened to one of three energies within each one of us :- Love (attraction); Will (repulsion), and Wisdom (confusion), or, to put it another way, Thinking, Feeling and Willing. Accordingly, to the ancient wise men of India, there were three main Paths :- Bhakti Marga, Karma Marga and Jnana Marga. A patient might be learning lessons or otherwise evolving along any one or other of these main paths. The treatment will also vary because of this factor. That is to say that Will people, for instance, are generally attracted to deeper sounds and stillness-silence. According to how far they have evolved through initiations along the Will Ray, so the planetary energies needed will vary because of what is emphasised and correspondingly unemphasised. These planetary qualities are found in certain bowls and also linked to certain chakras.
The sound healing session will close by returning to the Yang pairs again only this time playing them in a Descending order and beginning with the Right hand bowl first. However, sometimes it is necessary to play these in an Ascending order. Certain additional variations can occur during this closing ritual depending upon the perceived needs of the patient. Generally speaking, I could say that either a 'cooling down' or a 're-energising' approach would predominate. This is related to the degree of sound stimulation taking place plus the addition of extra bowls and other techniques applied during this closing process. In order to bring the energy level of the patient back for functioning in the physical body, it is helpful to use this combination of different Yang pairs, either in a DESCENDING (centring, 'back to earth' – grounding) pattern or in an ASCENDING one (uplifting and revitalising). This can also, effectively, consist of approximating either an Ascending or Descending musical interval along with the esoteric significant meaning of the interval(s).
Finally, I end by playing an ancient Tibetan Meditation cymbal (Ting-Shag) three times. Before starting I explain to the patient that this particular sound will signal the end of my treatment and that they may then gradually begin to resume their life.
Basically, I've been taught that all dis-ease starts in the soul and only finally manifests as an illness. Sound works upon these 'inner' levels. 'Dis-ease' can be seen to mean being 'out-of-tune' with ourselves; not in touch with the deepest truth of our innermost being. During a sound healing session, therefore, it is my purpose to see what has caused the imbalance and strive to strengthen the patient's own 'inner note' or to provide a means whereby they can be otherwise reconnected to their essential being. Certain of my singing bowls can assist in exposing the patient to such an intimate contact or reconnection. I also believe that Love is the creative power of the universe and that many diseases arise when we succeed in cutting ourselves off from this Divine Source of Love. Many sound – healing sessions, therefore, will involve working with singing bowls which focus those energies concerned with soul lessons around the Heart and Solar Plexus chakras i.e. working with those chakras found within the body or torso, whilst the Head centres are concerned with other conditions and the throat is a halfway house.
A lot of dis-ease may also be seen to result from being distracted from the Truth of our being; distracted away from feeling okay about ourselves and in-tune with Life and Love. Giving and receiving Love. Maybe we feel unlovable because we're unattractive (cultural 'norms', or 'bad press' from a disgruntled partner/ relationship) or because we want to please others so as to be 'loved' by them. But we make mistakes and then, being fearful that we'll be disapproved of again, we 'hide' behind loutish behaviour, or appearing tough and unemotional, hopefully to protect our delicate feelings of vulnerability. But it only makes matters worse. For by appearing to be invulnerable, others feel that they can hit us harder before it hurts. So it is that we get more hurt and so feel more unlovable and unattractive! Desire is at the root of this. The desire for Love. For Love is Life and therefore, lack of love is death and so dis-ease. We are 'out of tune' with our True Self which, being at-One with the Universal Being, has no desires; for it possesses All, being inseparable from the All; the One!
The desire to avoid ever being hurt again may lead us to develop our power of will. To control ourselves, our emotions, and so, too, to control others – to dominate them. Ultimately, we feel miserably isolated because we can no longer 'receive' from Life unless we are in control. We are blocked off from our feelings and so from Love.
So it is that ACCEPTANCE is a large part of healing, for most disease is a result of our inability to adapt to, or otherwise accept, changes in our lives. The peaceful, relaxing sounds of the bowls assist us to allow ourselves to briefly 'let go' of our controlling mechanism and simply 'go-with-the-flow' of life – 'Accepting' all that happens in perfect Trust and finding that real everlasting Happiness.
I leave lots of 'space' for the bowls to work their magic. I mostly allow the sound of the bowls to disappear into the silence. That was part of their original use – to follow the sound into the silence; to begin to hear the 'Inaudible' sound, or Anahata Nada, as it's called in India. The Karmapa (head of the Kagyu Sect of Tibetan Buddhism) when he was alive heard a group of Westerners playing singing bowls and he said that this "sound of the singing bowl is the sound of the Void." The Divine Truth of the Void (the Buddhist conception of the ultimate nature of reality. Refers specifically to the lack of inherently existent self in all phenomena and beings). In the silence of our own innermost being, we learn and discover about our true selves. So, this is also music of self-discovery or self – development. The answer to all our problems lies within. When we have stilled all our outer activity, we can begin to hear the voice of our own conscience – the voice of Wisdom, which can guide us into more harmonious ways of living. The stillness within the bowl sounds provide us with such an opportunity during the sound-healing session.
The form of trance-work that I did was known as 'light trance' or 'overshadowing' and, nowadays, as 'channelling.' This means that I am always fully conscious whenever a discarnate entity wishes to communicate with other beings living upon this earth plane through my body. It also means that I can function in such a manner whilst performing an individual sound-healing session. In this way I consciously work alongside of the members of the Great White Brotherhood from the spirit world – with whom I'm attached throughout this lifetime – who specialise in various healing methods, plus the other healing guides from the discarnate spiritual group to which I belong. This is the group of brothers whom I first encountered at the age of 16 and not to be confused with the White Eagle Lodge.
Regarding the use of Colours alongside the sounding of any one bowl – sometimes the colour used is the same as that of the bowl; sometimes it is the colour Ray of the planetary Ray to which the bowl is attuned. For example, I have a bowl ("Ecstasy – Song of Nirvana" Bowl) which carries the energies of that most mystical and spiritual of planets:- Neptune, which also has a connection with the Seventh Ray of Higher psychic development and so, by association, with the Amethyst Ray. This colour can be used for the heart chakra for certain treatments, whilst this particular bowl itself also affects the heart chakra – although the colours which it normally channels are those of Gold and Rose.
Similar remarkable demonstrations of the power of sound to affect physical matter was demonstrated by Ernst Chladni in 1802 ('die Akustik') with his famous 'Chladni plate.' In a sense bowls or bells are nothing more than a flanged circular Chladni plate.
All is potentially present in the Chladni plate only different tones elicit each pattern; placing an emphasis upon certain harmonics which are ever-present within the plate. In the 1960's the Swiss anthroposophist Hans Jenny developed experiments furthering the work of Chladni and Jenny's wonderfully fascinating findings can be discovered within his two books called 'Cymatics.' For those unfamiliar with this subject; Chladni discovered (whilst he was investigating Lichtenburg figures) that stroking the edge of a metal plate, sprinkled with powder, using a violin bow, produced geometric figures which were altered according to the particular harmonic(s) of the plate stimulated. The vibratory movement caused the powder to move from the antinodes to the nodal lines, and Chladni was thus enabled to lay down the experimental principles of acoustics. This technique allowed one to actually 'see' the powerful effects of sound upon substance. We may contemplate, perhaps, that the bowls are made of seven metals with the ability of each metal to resonate or 'channel' inner energies (7 planets) whilst these 7 metals also exist inside our bodies. As the bowl resonates to a different tone/pitch so, too, it stimulates different overtone patterns, even as the several metals with which the bowl is comprised may resonate to different frequencies producing individual metal patterns. Certain bowls have a distinguishable predominance of one metal, most commonly gold (Sun) or silver (Moon). So that, in the case of golden bowls, the dynamic created primarily affects the blood circulation. But the heart above all, as the central organ of the circulation, shows this influence of gold.
In a like manner, we can see that the Sound coming through US awakens various aspects of our Consciousness/Life. Chakras are like Bowls/Chladni plates and when specific vibrations are applied to them, then certain aspects of consciousness are awakened. Listening in meditation to the 'inner sound' (NADA) rearranges the various energy fields (aspects of consciousness/being) within our total being. During this practise our physical, emotional and mental bodies are quiescent, or still, (nodes) and only the spiritual levels of our being are Active. These are the least physical (4th Chakra – Heart – UPwards) levels of our total being, and so we are active on Invisible and Inaudible planes of Life.
© Copyright 1998 by Frank Perry. All rights reserved. Revised 1999.
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The Meijer LPGA 5k Run & Walk presented by Kellogg's® to bring the community together on July 25
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., 2015-4-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Meijer LPGA 5k Run & Walk presented by Kellogg's® seeks to bring the community together by featuring multiple competitive challenges for corporations, schools, members of the media, families and individuals.
The race will once again be powered by Gazelle Sports, and will start at 8 a.m. July 25 at Rockford High School. It will include a complimentary breakfast provided by Kellogg's®.
"The race is really another way to get the community involved with the Meijer LPGA Classic presented by Kraft, and ultimately help increase awareness around hunger in the communities we serve," Meijer President J.K. Symancyk said. "Tournament week will offer something for everyone, and this year we wanted to kick the race up a notch by incorporating fun, yet competitive challenges for the community."
"The great thing about the Meijer LPGA 5k Run is you don't have to be a professional athlete to take part. Anyone can run a 5k," said Dathan Ritzenhein, a Rockford, Mich. native and professional long-distance runner who placed 7th in the 2015 Boston Marathon. "Building off the success of last year's inaugural event, the 5k is a great way to get the whole family involved in a healthy lifestyle, receive free tickets to the tournament, and help feed those in need."
Each participant will receive a Meijer LPGA 5k Run & Walk presented by Kellogg's® shirt, and two daily tickets to the golf tournament, valid for any one day Tuesday through Sunday.
Community 5k Run & Walk
The cost to participate is $15 per person, ages 17 and younger, and $25 per person, ages 18 and older. Strollers are welcome at the event.
The top three runners in each age group will receive $500, $250, and $100 in Meijer gift cards, respectively.
The cost to participate on a team is $150 per team. The top five finishers in each team will be scored.
Corporate: Local corporations are encouraged to put together a team of five to 10 runners.
Media: Meijer will donate the entry fees for up to five teams of members of the media. Each team must include five to 10 runners.
School: Meijer will donate the entry fees for up to 10 teams of high school students. Each team must include five to 10 runners.
Winners of the community challenges will receive a $1,000 donation to the Meijer Simply Give program in their team's name.
With Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer as the title sponsor, the driving mission of the tournament is focused on feeding the hungry and improving the quality of life within the region. The tournament will coincide with the retailer's Simply Give program, which has raised nearly $14 million for food pantries across the Midwest since its inception in November 2008. Similar to last year, proceeds from the tournament and each of the week's festivities – including the 5k Run & Walk – will benefit the Simply Give program.
"As runners, we all understand the value of nutrition as it relates not only to our health, but our performance," said Greg Meyer, a professional long-distance runner from Rockford, Mich. who won the Boston Marathon in 1983. "Helping to provide nutrition to families in need offers them a greater likelihood of being healthy and productive in the community. I hope all area runners and walkers will help support the Meijer Simply Give program by joining me and Dathan Ritzenhein in the Meijer LPGA 5k."
Registration for the Meijer LPGA 5k Run & Walk presented by Kellogg's® is now open at meijerLPGAclassic.com
About Meijer Simply Give
Meijer is a family-owned retailer based in Grand Rapids, Mich. with a fundamental philosophy aimed at strengthening the communities it serves. Meijer operates 213 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and proudly donates more than 6 percent of its net profit each year to charities throughout the Midwest. With hunger as a corporate philanthropic focus, Meijer partners with hundreds of food banks and pantries through its Simply Give and food rescue programs. Meijer also supports education, disaster relief, and health and wellness initiatives. For additional information on Meijer philanthropy, please visit meijercommunity.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
About Blythefield Country Club
Located just north of Grand Rapids, Blythefield has been providing families the best golf and social experience in West Michigan since 1928. With the Rogue River flowing through, Blythefield boasts one of the most beautiful championship layouts in Michigan. Previously, Blythefield has hosted the 1953 Western Amateur, the 1961 Western Open, won by Arnold Palmer, and the 2005 Western Junior won by Rickie Fowler. In 2014, Blythefield hosted the inaugural Meijer LPGA Classic presented by Kraft. Learn more about Blythefield Country Club at www.blythefieldcc.org.
About the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association)
The LPGA is the world's leading professional golf organization for women. Founded in 1950, the association celebrates a diverse and storied membership with more than 2,300 members representing more than 30 different countries. With a Vision to inspire, empower, educate and entertain by showcasing the very best of women's golf, LPGA Tour Professionals compete across the globe, while dedicated LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals (T&CP) directly impact the game through teaching, coaching and management. The Symetra Tour consistently produces a pipeline of talent ready for the world stage. The LPGA is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida. Follow the LPGA on its television home, Golf Channel, and on the web via: www.LPGA.com, www.facebook.com/lpga, www.twitter.com/lpga, and www.youtube.com/lpgavideo.
About Octagon Global Events
Octagon Global Events is a division of Octagon, the world's largest sports and entertainment representation and marketing agency. Octagon Global Events focuses on premium event/property management, providing strategic corporate solutions. The division currently manages two Champions
Tour events, two LPGA Tour events and the Toyota Texas Bass Classic. For more information, visit http://www.octagonglobalevents.com.
Contact: Lesley Baker, Tournament Director, Octagon, 616-426-6225, Lesley.Baker@octagon.com or Christina Fecher, Public Relations Manager, Meijer, 616-735-7968, Christina.Fecher@meijer.com
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Quickies: Serena Williams, tracking menstruation, and the glorification of masculinity
Amanda June 9, 2015
Every Serena Williams win comes with a side of disgusting racism and sexism – "In the moments surrounding her win, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive."
With iOS9 Apple's HealthKit will finally track menstruation – Of the former iteration of the software: "It could be used for almost every metric a human might think of — if you forget, as Apple did, that some humans menstruate fairly regularly." From Courtney.
NPR's #RaceOnTech collects diverse voices in STEM fields – "In mid-July, All Tech Considered will select innovators who are breaking new ground in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. We will invite a selected group to join us on Twitter for the day as we follow their footprints on Twitter."
The glorification of masculinity in the queer dating scene is totally a thing – "I'd argue that there is a definite element of masculine privilege in queer circles, and that privilege is protected by everyone involved – including femmes. Consequently, femmephobia and femme-policing still occurs because masculinity is still viewed as superior to femininity."


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Kamran Iqbal
Co-Founder and CEO SMS Fuel Cell Systems, Founder and CEO EAG, ex Airbus, ex Bombardier Transportation
Kamran Iqbal is the co-founder and CEO of Smart Megawatt Stack (SMS) Fuel Cell Systems Ltd. He is also the Founder and CEO of Electric Aviation Group (EAG) Ltd which was formed and established in August 2017, located in Bristol (UK), the heartland and hub of aerospace industry in the UK. He completed his undergraduate/postgraduate degrees in Aeronautical engineering with distinctions from UK Universities and Executive MBA Programme from Warwick Business School (UK).
He has significant (18+ years) experience in the aerospace industry through his multiple appointments in Airbus Industry, Bombardier Transportation and EAG. During his employment at Airbus, he worked on several Airbus Aircraft programmes (A380, A330 and A340) providing design, certification and in-service support on Landing Gear Systems. He spent last 4 years of his career in Airbus working on Landing Gear R&D projects aligned with Airbus Future Product development strategy. Kamran is co-inventor of first ever in-house Landing Gear Design produced by Airbus for its future aircraft products.
Before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey as a co-founder & CEO of SMS Fuel Cell Systems Ltd and Founder & CEO of EAG, he also had a stint of 16 months at Bombardier Transportation (Trains Business) as a Global Engineering Lead, Strategist and Director of Climatisation Systems.
Kamran's career in R&D has earned him 25+ patents (granted and pending) including EAG's proprietary Urban Air Mobility Aircraft concept 'Silene'. He also received multiple industrial awards and recognitions working for Airbus. He received a Local Airbus Recognition Award in 2009 for solving a Major In-Service Problem on Airbus A380 Aircraft. He is a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and he also received a centennial scholarship award from the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Kamran brings along a very strong team with hundreds of years of combined practical experience with a proven track record in launching, executing, implementing and commercialising several aircraft development programmes.
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These were soooo good! Definitely worth the extra effort of getting out of bed a little early!
Preheat your oven to 475 degrees. Coat 6 nonstick jumbo muffin cups with 1/2 teaspoon unsalted butter. in a large microwave safe bowl, melt 4 teaspoons butter. Add 4 cups frozen hash browns, thawed, and 2 egg whites; season with coarse salt and ground pepper and mix thoroughly. Place 1/2 cup mixture into east muffin cup, firmly pressing in the bottom and up the sides of each cup. Bake for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small nonstick skillet, melt 1/2 teaspoon butter over medium heat. Add 1/2 small red onion diced small, 1 small red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and diced small and 4 ounces of chicken chorizo. Cook, stirring occasionally until onion is softened, about 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Divide vegetable mixture evenly among cups and top with 3 ounces of cheddar, grated. Bake for 2 minutes.
Remove the muffin cups from the oven and crack 1 large egg into each cup. Season with salt and pepper and bake until whites are set and egg yolks are as desired, about 8-10 minutes. With a small offset spatula, remove cups from the pan and serve!


I'd like to address why the internship program at the Austin Stone Community Church is now a fund-raising, and not salary, paradigm.
There was a time when the church staff was much smaller. So was the church attendance. But in terms of attender giving vs mission, enough funds came in that each staff member was afforded a salary. God's direction has been such that the full time staff has actually not grown to a great degree, but the mission and size of the church as a whole has. For some time, it seemed that the solution was to hire "interns" on a first semester non-paid "trial" period of sorts, and then give them small stipends, which sometimes increased by semester. This worked for about three years.
And then several things became clear, not the least of which was: Our mission and our equipping of the saints to perform said mission were being hindered by our then-current structure. There were not enough funds to support every person who wanted to come help and learn, and so the church leadership had to make a decision: turn away those who could be trained to continue the mission of God, those fatihful to whom we'd been called to entrust with the Gospel, or change the way the program worked.
Thus the Austin Leadership Institute. Now, unhindered by a constraint on funds, the Stone can bring on as many people as the organization can adequately train and utilize, as many as the Lord brings, as many as will take on the effort of fundraising. And interns aren't bound by the lovely, but usually very small, amounts associated with stipends.
So it's not about "them" refusing to pay "us" for our hard work. It's about trying to get creative with the Body of Christ to accomplish the goals of Christ, knowing we can only ever do either through His strength.


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Public sector productivity
Your Tax Money At Work
Or, why it\'s right to have markets in the public services.
As Paul Krugman said, productivity isn\'t everything but in the long run it\'s pretty much everything. So these aren\'t good numbers:
The ONS calculates public service productivity by counting the number of procedures carried out in hospitals, pupils taught in schools and elderly people cared for in nursing homes (classified as "output") as well as the number of staff employed by the state such as teachers and doctors and the equipment bought for them to do their jobs ("input").
It found that the amount of labour and assets used by central and local government rose by an average of 3.2 per cent between 1997 and 2008, with the greatest increase in 2002.
However activity in public services grew by smaller amounts, averaging 2.9 per cent a year.
"Because inputs grew a little faster than output, productivity over the whole period fell, on average by 0.3 per cent."
Now what we expect to see in the economy as a whole is a rise in productivity: trend appears to be about 2% for labour productivity for example, year on year, decade by decade, we get 2% more per unit of labour, measured across the economy as a whole. The other important one is total factor productivity, which is what is being measured here for public services. Not just labour, but all inputs. Not quite sure what trend is here but it\'s certainly positive.
There is one thing which also needs to be taken into account: Baumol\'s Cost Disease. We would expect services to become more expensive relative to maufactures over time because labour productivity is easier to increase in manufacturing than it is in services….yet average wages are set by average productivity across the entire economy.
Given that the private sector numbers include manufacturing the private sector numbers will likely always be better than the public sector.
However, not by all that much, given that at least half and perhaps 75% of the private sector is also services.
What we get out at the end of all of these hems and haws is that if public sector productivity is going backwards then this is making us all poorer….even, reducing wages across the economy as a whole. We wouldn\'t expect public sector productivity to increase as fast as private, this is true, but we should be expecting it to increase just the same.
All of which brings us to the policy decision we need to take in order to get public sector productivity moving in the right direction. You can see what that is by examining the bones of Krugman\'s argument here. Planned economic systems seem to be near incapable of increasing total factor productivity. As Baumol also notes, it is market systems that seem to be able to create innovation (innovation being the utilisation of inventions….that is, not making some new box that goes \"beep beep\", but getting the beep beep box into the hands of people where it actually gets used.).
So our lesson here is that, in order to get productivity moving in the right direction we need to bring markets into the public services.
No, this doesn\'t necessarily mean capitalism, multi-nationals or Crapita. It\'s markets, competition among suppliers, whether those suppliers be sole traders, consumer owned mutuals, worker owned co-ops or whatever.
And just to bend over to be absolutely fair, yes, we can also say that markets will be wasteful. There will be duplication, waste as people negotiate. But this is a static analysis and what we want is a dynamic analysis.
So let us provide such a dynamic analysis with made up (but believable) numbers.
We spend around £100 billion on the NHS. Productivity is declining at 0.3 % a year. So after five years we\'re going to be getting 98.5% of what we get for our £100 billion today (yes, I\'m ignoring inflation, or rather assuming that there isn\'t any). After 10 years we\'re getting 97%.
Now we bring in markets and we manage to turn around that productivity number, from minus 0.3% to the 2% we expect of labour productivity as trend (no, not quite the right numbers but this is an example, a model, and I\'m allowed to do that, see, just to make the point).
After five years we\'re now getting 110% for our £100 billion…..and after 10, 121%.
But there\'s a cost of bringing markets in. The cost of having spare capacity, of negotiating, of getting the workforce of the NHS acculturated to actually thinking about prices and efficiency. Call it 10% (entirely made up, it\'s a model, capisce?) of our £100 billion, £10 billion a year.
We can see that in year 1 we\'ve only got 90% of the health treatment we would have had without markets. Bad…and static. After 5 years, our market based system has begun to nudge ahead. The 10% loss is outweighed by the 10% gain in productivity while the non market system will have slipped 1.5%. After a decade though we\'re really motoring. Our non reformed system will have slipped to 97% of output for our £100 billion while the market system will be, after out 10% of costs for markets, be producing 111%.
OK, yes, those percentages aren\'t quite correct. And you can change the numbers around as you wish, assume different levels of productivity growth, costs and so on, leading to different numbers of years that it takes for the market system to move ahead.
But this is the difference between a static and a dynamic analysis of the effects.
If it is true, as a Nobel Laureate and one of the perennial also rans both state, that it is markets, not planned systems, which are able to improve total factor productivity, and markets alone which are able to do this, then a dynamic analysis shows us that moving to a market based system (or even a pseudo market based system) will, in time, leave us all better off even at the pain of short term costs.
And of course this is the very justfication of technocracy, of those wise and omniscient peeps in government organising things for us, isn\'t it? That our individual actions at times do not lead to a collectively optimal outcome. To reach that collective optimum our immediate instincts, immediate self-interests, need to be curbed, curtailed, so that in the long run we\'re all better off.
Like, say, a 10% hit to health care today for a system which in a decade provides 10% more for the same money….and keeps on then getting better by 2% a year forever.
Which is why we need markets, if not capitalism, in public services.
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8 thoughts on "Public sector productivity"
Roger Thornhill July 28, 2010 at 8:41 am
It is not just markets, but where those markets operate.
New Labour engineered markets to operate to court the State, so you had competing providers vying for monopoly contracts. This is usually a very bad idea.
If you have the market placed to court each individual asynchronously, then this will be infinitely better in most cases IMHO.
teodor todorov July 28, 2010 at 2:41 pm
It probably means that there are less bottlenecks.
Perhaps there aren't people queuing up at 5am outside the walk-in dental surgery at the Royal Hospital in Whitechapel anymore.
Can only be a good thing.
Tim adds: Umm, no. In theory you're supposed to know these sorts of things, your email addy being the LSE. But the removal of bottlenecks increases, not reduces, productivity. For resources already paud for would be sitting their twiddling thei thumbs as a result of bottlenecks….waiting for people to get through the bottlenecks. Remove them and already paid for resources would be used not wasted, thus raising productivity.
teodor todorov July 29, 2010 at 10:04 am
Umm, no.
Think of it this way. Get a personal doctor for every person in the country. What would happen? A massive drop in productivity.
On the other hand, health would also improve.
No one knows where the line should be drawn.
But looking at productivity numbers doesn't help all that much.
Tim adds: Erm, no. You don't get to change your argument from "bottlenecks" to "ludicrous overprovision".
And looking at the productivity numbers is the only useful thing we can do. For by doing so we're looking at both the outcome (the better health) and also the resources (the inputs) which must be used to achieve that result.
Which is, as Krugman says, not the only thing but in the long run is pretty much the only important thing.
Come along now, you're at a university which is supposed to be teaching economics.
Gene Berman July 29, 2010 at 7:43 pm
The matter's even simpler than you've made it, Tim.
The eventual failure of a socialist commonwealth is preordained, simply on the basis of its inability to calculate economically, to gauge profit/loss on the basis of the value of its assets (for which there cannot be a market).
However, this weakness is not characteristic of socialism–it's just as true of all governments; the difference in other systems simply being in the extent to which the government engages in the provision of goods and services. More is bad, less is good–it's that simple, as a rule of thumb.
In the private sector, the consumer (as represented by the market) is sovereign and determines who reaps profits and who gets skunked. Government is always blind because, in the first place, they are able to foist what they (the gov't.) wants on the consumer, to a great extent but are oblivious to the costs established by systems like civil service, which regularize similar performances requiring similar abilities–totally without regard to what the consumer may be willing to pay for those various performances.
Private enterprise efforts are a virtual guarantee that more and more will be available at lower and lower cost. Government efforts guarantee virtually the opposite.
But the worst part–or one of the worst parts–is that the "more and more for lower and lower" leads to dramatically increasing populations in the least-able poverty-holes as they are more easily able to survive because of the lowering of the costs of maintaining life at the near-marginal level to which they've been long accustomed. That's where the most dramatic effects will be felt when those long accustomed to producing efficiently and profitably and the further accumulation of capital begin to reverse direction, starting, most likely, not with obvious unprofitability–but with the harder-to-see decumulation of capital.
Just don't say I didn't tell you.
Teodor Todorov July 30, 2010 at 8:42 am
Look. Bottlenecks in this case show themselves in, say, long queues. People are waiting outside a doctor's room night and day, and he is very productive because every slot is filled.
Now get ten more doctors in the same place. Every doctor is less productive – productivity falls.
But the patients' productivity rises. Instead of waiting in queues day and night, they can go and do other useful things.
If you have trouble, think of a one lane road supporting lots of heavy traffic, and what would happen if another lane gets built.
In this case productivity is not wholly, but largely irrelevant.
Tim adds: No….for if we're talking about the GP being the bottleneck then we're saying that the other NHS resources behind that are lying unused. All of that waiting to see the GP is balanced by specialists twiddling their thumbs waiting for the patient to arrive clutching their GP letter. Increase the number of GPs, clear the bottleneck, and the productivity of those specialists goes up. Thus so does system productivity.
Now you can say that there are no specialists in the system lying unused. That clearing the queues at the GP wouldn't lead to greater utilistation of the specialists' time. OK, fine, but then that is telling us that the GPs aren't a bottleneck, isn't it? What we're actually saying now is that the entire system has insufficient capacity, a very different thing indeed.
I was using the GP example as an illustration of one type of bottleneck, not as a description of how the entire system.
(But you're wrong even on the GP example. If there is 100 people for 50 slots every day at a GP, then, at most, 50 people get sent to 'the next level'. We don't know if the machines there are lying unused or are running at capacity. That depends on how many there were to start of with. But the GPs are still a bottleneck, and if their number increases, there is insufficient capacity at the next level because 100 people get sent there instead of 50).
I would venture that, as you say, there is insufficient capacity, pretty much everywhere. That is why there are so many queues at many points in the system (signs of bottlenecks, or if you would prefer, insufficient capacity – buts let not argue about word usage and concentrate on the actual point i.e. why a fall in productivity may be no bad thing).
This doesn't have to mean that there is a next level where lots of machine are lying unused.
I would guess that is what is going on. There have been massive new investments in labour and assets, and it has meant that doctors are twiddling their thumbs a bit more some days, but patients are being treated faster ( and perhaps more time is taken over their care).
Productivity falls, but hey, its a price I would pay.
Tim adds: "This doesn't have to mean that there is a next level where lots of machine are lying unused."
Yes, it does. That's what "bottleneck" means.
Like I said, more productive to argue whether a fall in productivity is always a bad thing.
You think it is, because you followed it with a statement on the virtues of free-enterprise.
Tim adds: No, I followed it with a closely argued point about how a market based system is the only one that allows us to discover improvements in productivity. I'm absolutely certain that when I went to the LSE it was necessary to show competence in reading and parsing an argument before entry……
I didn't think I needed to spell out that I was referring to virtues of free enterprise in relation to public services.
'What we get out at the end of all of these hems and haws is that if public sector productivity is going backwards then this is making us all poorer'
Even the general argument from Krugman's essay isn't too convincing.
He was one of the only people pushing the Young paper back then.
Two problems with it;
1)In the basic Solow model, we start with the assumption that any savings are invested. But in developing countries, what's missing is 'the ability to invest' as Hirschman calls it. Another words, they struggle to get to that equilibrium assumption. What was remarkable about Asia was the way in which they were able to invest the savings.
(And I would add many people disagree with his methodology full stop, and his returns to education numbers and theory are a bit suspect as well)
2)This is graph is about Latin America, but still very interesting nonetheless. http://rodrik.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c891753ef01348487b65c970c-pi
Think about what it says.


Grace Hopper Open Source Day: register now!
Are you planning to attend this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, taking place on October 2-5 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US?
Created by the Anita Borg Institute, this annual conference is named for Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneer in computing who worked on the first large-scale commercial computer—UNIVAC—and led the team that created the COBOL programming language.
Each year, Grace Hopper brings together more than 3,000 women for a week of technical presentations, hands on labs, skill building workshops and networking events. If you've never attended Grace Hopper, I can't recommend it to you highly enough; all are welcome, though the conference is geared towards female technologists in industry and academia. You can find registration details on the conference website.
If you're now convinced that you should join us at the Grace Hopper Conference, consider also joining us for Grace Hopper Open Source Day.
Taking place on the final day of the conference, this day long hackathon was created to give attendees of the conference and some of our friends from the local community the opportunity to code, network, build their portfolios and contribute to the greater social good. The event had its genesis in the Code-a-thon for Humanity held at the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than fifty women gathered contribute to humanitarian focused open source projects. From that initial event, Grace Hopper Open Source Day has grown greatly, welcoming more than 200 women at each gathering to collaborate on a variety of projects.
We'll be working with a several open source projects that will offer mentoring and coaching on-site to participants, including a list of bite sized tasks that you and your new found friends can work on and finish during the course of the hackathon. While all participating organizations have not yet been announced, we'll be working with a variety of organizations creating code for social good, including an opportunity to give back to the Minneapolis community by writing code for local projects. You can find more information about the participating organizations and Grace Hopper Open Source Day in the 2013 Event FAQ.
With so many great sessions on offer at Grace Hopper, you may wonder why you'd like to attend Grace Hopper Open Source Day. The answer is simple: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) adoption and usage is becoming widespread and many employment opportunities require experience on FOSS projects. It can be daunting to know how to contribute to an existing FOSS project or release your individual software tool or application under an open source license. We hope to help attendees gain more experience in these areas, as well as the chance to network with more like-minded technical women and to encourage you to take your first steps as an open source contributor.
Signing up for Grace Hopper Open Source Day requires two easy steps: select Grace Hopper Open Source Day as an event you'll attend when registering for the Grace Hopper Conference. You'll receive further details on signing up to participate with a specific mentoring project in your registration confirmation email. If you have any questions about the process, check out our 2013 Event FAQ or email the organizing committee.
Speaking as a co-organizer of the Code-a-thon for Humanity that blossomed into Grace Hopper Open Source Day and a committee participant each year since that inaugural gathering, I cannot encourage folks enough to attend. You'll have the opportunity to work with knowledgeable and approachable mentors and gain the new skills you need to contribute to open source projects. Plus, you'll make a ton of new friends.
How much more appropriate to use Grace Hopper to celebrate/encourage women in computing than the overrated narcissistic lunatic Ada Lovelace.
As an educator who is forever dismayed that our courses only attract around 20% female students I heartily support this initiative.


While animal testing may cause animals pain, loneliness and fear - that is an unfortunate side-effect, not an intention of animal testing. Humans cause equivalent harms to nature all the time through their mere existence. This indicates that intention, rather than mere impact is relevant to the ethics of an action.
This line of reasoning would ban prisons, tough jobs and other harsh human situations. While freedom from pain, loneliness and fear is not a human right, it can't be reasonable to demand these rights for an animal.
Animal testing creates a net utilitarian benefit due to the advancements it has caused in scientific and medicinal development.


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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian
For the Love of...
Are you working in a job that you love? Are you doing a skill that comes naturally to you? Can you imagine doing anything else? If you answered Yes, Yes, and...Yes, then you must be insanely happy. It could be healthy to daydream of doing something else, or even partake in different kinds of productive activities that are wildly different from your career. Studies of scientists have shown that the more varied their hobbies, activities, and other professional pursuits are, the more important and numerous their breakthroughs may be. Performing the same task over and over again becomes drudgery, no matter if you're a widget stamper in a factory or a recombinant DNA engineer in a lab. Our minds need diversion in order to focus when it's important.
My interests have always been diverse, it's in my DNA. But deep down, I always knew I wanted to do something in recording. When I was a tiny tot, I remember thinking that when every song on the radio ended, there was another band right there in the studio waiting to play the next song. When I asked Mom how they could fit everyone in there, she explained that they were just playing records. Although the magic vanished, I realized then that I wanted to be the wizard behind the curtain turning the knobs.
When I started to seriously explore being an audio engineer, I was a teenager in a small town at the very southern tip of Ohio. It was 1978, and like a lot of high school seniors who were feeling the pressure to make hard decisions about their future, I honestly had no idea what I was going to do with the rest of my life. I had many interests, but none were screaming out at me – except for audio recording. But because that world seemed so distant and secret, I looked at more traditional career paths. I traveled down some very crooked and winding paths to get where I am, but I feel that my false starts and wide interests have actually helped me become a better producer.
I was a child of the space race, and like a lot of baby boomers, I wanted to be an astronaut. This is my earliest memory of actually thinking about my career. The astronauts were heroes and each mission was a triumph of mankind – how could you not want to go to space? But as we waited and waited for Apollo 13 to splash down after their nearly fatal mission, that was it for being an astronaut. But my keen interest in spacecraft have actually helped me to recreate sounds of rockets and other flight vehicles.
I dabbled in photography as a teenager and worked on the school paper and yearbook, and was a stringer for the local newspaper. After chasing ambulances and working a few weddings and events, I knew I couldn't face a lifelong job of trying to please the mother of the bride. I still shoot for pleasure, which is a nice diversion. I can also actually converse somewhat intelligently with a cinematographer or videographer about lighting and other details on a set without sounding too stupid.
I remember when cassette tapes were really taking off in the late 1960s. Dad got a portable recorder with a microphone and I pretty much commandeered it to record any sound I could. This fascination continued through high school. I had many friends that were gen-u-ine radio DJs, so I got to hang out in radio stations and see what went on behind the scenes. Our high school had a TV station, another place I haunted while absorbing the profession. I looked into schools and programs for audio engineers, but back then there were very circuitous routes that were either: 1) over-education in a profession I didn't like (such as broadcast engineering), 2) military (Armed Forces Radio and Television), 3) expensive crash courses (that cost as much as a year or two in college), or 4) work my way up from emptying waste paper cans in a studio. It looked like I was going to have to find something else to do. But my experience inside a radio station really helped me later on when I started working in radio myself.
I've played music since I was at least 6 years old and was surrounded by musicians and all sorts of styles. I played in school bands and small groups, and thought I was pretty good, but not the best. Then one day a career dropped in my lap. I received a music education scholarship from a tiny college in eastern Kentucky called Pikeville College. It was decision time so I went for it. I really didn't want to teach music, but getting major financial help to go to college was pretty enticing. I eventually continued my education at the University of Kentucky, but found myself falling farther and farther away from music education. I started taking more theory and arranging classes, one of which was at graduate level that I have no idea how I talked my way in to.
Eventually the audio recording profession came a knocking, and UK's bill collectors did too. I was tired of spinning my wheels in college and had taken what I thought were the classes I needed to get a start in recording. So I stepped away from college and into the studio and haven't looked back since. I still draw on my theory and arranging classes, listening for balanced tones in an overall mix like an arranger would do when developing a score for orchestra. Or making musically correct edits to soundtracks so that it makes sense to the listener and doesn't jump out as a mistake. Or even something as basic as selecting music in a particular scale, range, or tempo to fit the emotion of the project.
I have many, many other interests that are diversionary by nature, and sometimes by design. I can't be an audio engineer 24/7 or I would go crazy. But I admit that my engineer's ears sometimes perk up if I hear something out of the ordinary in a movie and wonder, "How did they do that? Did they use a wobbulator widget on the thing-a-ma-bob?" Or I sometimes read something interesting and think, "I wonder if I could turn that into a documentary?" Our brains can't, and shouldn't, be shut down. Nor should we discourage alternate interests when they can be a healthy addition to our overall health. So get out there and widen your interest by painting a picture, or building a stamp collection, or cutting and pasting some DNA sequences together.
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Home Latest News Kabul Police Tackle Car Theft… By Deflating Tyres
Kabul Police Tackle Car Theft… By Deflating Tyres
by AFP October 24, 2016
Wakil Kohsar—AFP
Senior officials say cars cannot be stolen if they cannot be moved.
Police patrol the Afghan capital on a warm Sunday, but not to hunt extremists. Instead, they are deflating the tyres of parked cars—a theft prevention tactic that is raising eyebrows as the country struggles to contain the growing menace of petty crime.
Kabul and its estimated five million inhabitants are at war, a prime target for Taliban-led insurgent attacks as well as assaults by a nascent Islamic State. The capital's fledgling police force are under pressure to prevent atrocities, so—short on time and resources—they have taken a scorched earth approach when it comes to tackling more routine petty crime.
The logic is indisputable: if the car cannot be moved, it cannot be stolen.
"Police politely ask the residents to not park their cars in the open… but when they prefer to pay no heed, then police may move in to remove the air nozzles as a last measure," says Feraidoon Obaidi, chief of Kabul police's criminal investigation department. "We can protect people from both the thieves and the terrorists," he says. "But they should know how much energy we have to put in to stop terrorists in the city. By leaving their cars in the open, they are inviting thieves."
A series of attacks have ripped across Kabul in recent months, jihadists armed with bombs and guns killing dozens of people, including the assault targeting Shia Muslims during the Ashura festival earlier in October that left 14 people dead. Most have been carried out by the resurgent Taliban, including attacks on a global charity and a university as well as twin blasts in September that killed 41 people.
The Ashura attack was claimed by the Islamic State. In July, the Middle East jihadist group, which is struggling to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, claimed bombings that tore through minority Shia Hazara protesters in Kabul, killing 84 people in the deadliest attack in the capital since 2001.
Official data shows up to 300 cars were stolen in Kabul's streets from March to July—slightly down from last year, but still frustrating for police.
"In some cases they work in gangs, while others work individually snatching cars, especially [the ones] that can easily be unlocked," says Kabir Ahmad Barmak, chief of Kabul's eleventh district police. "They snatch cars parked in vacant streets especially at night, and sometimes turn them into spare parts," Barmak says, adding police have been forced to use valuable resources on special mobile patrols to tackle the problem.
Officers used to simply slash the tyres, but now take the slightly more considerate route of removing the air nozzles instead. "When you see these thieves lurking in dark and people recklessly leaving their cars in the open, it makes you think, best way to protect is to damage the tyres," says another officer in the district, who requested anonymity. "It is working," he adds with a triumphant smile. "Fewer people today leave their cars on streets than before."
But the tactic is angering a public frustrated with the inconvenience and financial burden of repeated repairs. "Should one expect the police to serve or to hurt?" says Akbar, a customer at a tyre repair unit on the roadside outside central Kabul's "Bush Bazaar," a black market named after U.S. President George W. Bush. "It is not fair to puncture a car to avert theft… You park your car here for few minutes, it is either stolen by a thief, or damaged by police," he says. "That is vandalism, not service."
Others pointed out they had little option but to leave their cars in the open. "When you go to the city, there are not many places to park your car except the streets, and then it is gone without much hope for its recovery," says Ahmad Shoaib, whose car was stolen last month.
But there is one merry, busy segment of the capital that appears to appreciate the situation. "Police are doing a service," says handyman Abdul Shukoor at the roadside mobile tire repair unit, sipping from his steaming tea with a smile. "They prevent the cars from being stolen and help me make more money. The world is fair."
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During engineers week, some girls in our class entered the 'Build A Bridge' competition in school. Well done to Doireann Walsh who was awarded first place from our class.
Congratulations to all who entered, there were some fantastic designs!
We are learning about Healthy Eating and where fruit and vegetable's come from. How does it get to the supermarket for us to buy? Where and how does the food grow?
Merry Christmas from Ms. Noctor's 2nd Class!!!
During science week we looked at how quickly the coating on the outside of a skittle would dissolve and diffuse in various substances.
Skittles are coated in food colouring and sugar. When you pour water over the skittles the coloured coating dissolves spreading through the water.The colour and sugar dissolve into the water and then diffuse through it.
We explored 3D shape and space during Maths Week. We worked on a project over a few days to construct castles from a variety of materials.
Also here are some fun and easy Maths Games websites for you to try at home!
Molly Lamb and Aoife Kane from the Dublin Ladies Football team and Kilmacud Crokes came to visit us in the school today! We were the lucky ones getting to sit on stage with them! Look at all those happy faces!
We went on a mini-beast hunt this week! We found loads of interesting creatures to study!
Did you know that slugs have four noses but only one foot?!
2nd Class were busy making good luck posters for the Dublin Senior Ladies Football team who are in the All Ireland Final this Sunday!We have a small message for our Local GAA club Kilmacud Crokes who have 5 girls representing Dublin on the Panel. Best of Luck Molly, Lauren, Julia, Mia and Aoife!
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Just a short note to tell you how happy we are in our new home!! You really pulled through for us when we were down and out and feeling pretty rotten about things. You worked 24 hours a day and were there to answer and question, squash any doubts, and get us into our new home in just 13 days!! We are so happy in our new house. Anytime my friends or family talk about real estate we will always bring your name up. We will definitely recommend you.
We want to say "Thank You" for the fantastic job Larry McNabb did in selling our home. Larry went well beyond the call of duty. He helped us through what what could have been a stressful situation for our family with professionalism and compassion. Larry treated us like were part of his family, and genuinely cared about our family. He was very protective in making sure that our best interests were first and foremost. Larry sold our home, but he is still available for our questions and concerns regarding our move…he just never stops!
Communication is very important in selling a home, and Larry made it a priority to keep us informed. Selling our home was a huge thing and we needed to trust our realtor…we trusted Larry with not only selling our home, but our family's future. I would recommend Larry to anyone who is looking for someone who is genuine, caring, compassionate, trustworthy and extremely hard working. I am thrilled with the job did for our family and I will highly recommend him to all my friends and family in the future.
During the last couple of months, we had the pleasure of using Larry McNabb's services, in our search for our new home. He was recommended to us by our mortgage broker as being one of the best realtors in Nanaimo. When we first contacted Larry, he was more than happy to immediately send us over the lastest listings. He was very attentive to our exact requirements, right from the get-go. Once we decided which places we wanted to view, Larry was excited to visit them with us. He even rode in the same car and attended to our little guy when he fussed!
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I recently purchased my second home in the last year through your company and I wanted to leave you some comments concerning my real estate agent, Larry McNabb. I never felt anything less than complete confidence in him and his ability to help me purchase my home. I knew that at all times he had my best interests in mind and never tried to push me into anything that wasn't right for me.
All my concerns were addressed quickly, my phone calls returned promptly and no detail seemed too small for 100% of his attention. He sold one property and purchased another one for us, and the move could not have been smoother. I have referred Larry to my friends and will continue to do so in the future. I just wanted to let you know how pleased I was with his outstanding service.
I am very pleased to have discovered Larry McNabb through a referral. I found him to be friendly, professional and knowledgeable about local real estate. As this was the first home I ever purchased, I needed an agent who would be extremely honest and candid with me. I found that in Larry. I never felt he was ever trying to "sell" me ever! He immediately zeroed in on my needs and found me a house that met all my needs and was in the exact location I wanted!
Throughout the entire time, Larry demonstrated the utmost in competence and professionalism and was very friendly and easy to deal with, even when challenging situations arose.
I have no hesitation in recommending Larry to assist with your real estate needs.
We just wanted to drop you a short note to commend one of your realtors; Larry McNabb.
We had the pleasure of working with Larry on the sale of our present home and the purchase of our new home and we have to tell you it was a fantastic experience.
He was always there for us; taking our calls personally and addressing our needs immediately. With real estate "teams" becoming more popular, it was refreshing to be able to call and reach Larry without going through a "team" member. Even when our criteria changed, Larry just went with the flow and worked with us to find the perfect home; and he did!!
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As a client of Larry McNabb, I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for, or trying to sell real estate in the Nanaimo and surrounding area.
Larry spent several months helping my spouse and I find the perfect home in Nanaimo. I believe I was a "high maintenance" client yet Larry was extremely patient with me. I would actually have to say that Larry made it FUN. With all the homes that he showed us he always gave us his honest opinion, with always a sense of humor, along with keeping our wants and needs in place. We never felt pressured, but rather felt that he genuinely wanted us to find a home that we would be happy with.
Larry was generous with his time and erspectful with ours. he was flexible and made himself available to our schedule and responded heroically to our ever changing desires. His knowledge, resourcefulness and professionalism were incredible. he took the time to explain the local market, the neighborhoods, all of the documents and many other pieces of information as they became relevant. Most importantly, Larry earned our trust as he operated with honesty and integrity. He is a true gentleman and a trustworthy person.
The McNabb family is well known to Nanaimo for their generosity and Larry, as I am proud to say, has carried on with this tradition.
I am proud to say that Larry was our realtor and will certainly highly recommend him to friends, family and acquaintances wanting to buy/sell a house.
I just wanted to drop you a short note to thank you so much for working with me on my recent house purchase. As you know, this was the first house I ever purchased and at first I didn't actually have a realtor and didn't think I needed one.
A friend of mine who you had helped buy his first home insisted that I call you and I am very glad i did! We visited many homes and your advice and real estate expertise allowed me to pick out the perfect house. From the first time we met, up to and even after I moved in, you have been there to answer every question in your open and honest way. Your highly professional business approach was very much appreciated, as well as your consistent follow-up after the sale was completed.
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NASA rover was snapping the pictures of the surface of planet Mars and some photos shocked our scientists again. In this picture, we can see clearly that something is present on the surface of planet Mars, which proves that ''ancient Martian Civilization'' was intelligent as well as we humans are. In this picture, you can see the bricks of broken walls that were used in the construction of houses. By adding some kind of cement with those bricks, they had made their homes on Mars, just like we humans make bricks built home here on earth today. You can see those similar pieces of bricks that have been found on mars that we use here on earth.
By looking at the exact square shape of these bricks and the art of making these walls, we can imagine that there was an intelligent species living on the planet Mars in the past, which was very similar to us. They were also skilled at how to construct houses! Although, NASA scientists did not say anything about the ancient life on Mars, but by looking at those bricks here in this photo, it must be said that with the help of mangroves and stone pieces of Mars, they had built a much stronger houses there in the comparison to the houses built here on earth. NASA admits or not but they cannot deny this fact that there was life on Mars in the past.
You can compare the bricks built walls which are seen in these pictures of Mars, from the walls of our houses and you will find no difference. Both of them have been made seem to be made in the same way. This fact is very clear that the ancient Martians were equally developed in their past as we are today. Sometimes they had all the arts and technologies that we have today. They were equally skilled in engineering as we are today here on earth. This debris of the houses of ancient Martians (such as bricks and pieces of the walls) is scattered almost everywhere on the planet Mars. These pieces of houses indicate any horrible catastrophe on Mars. Nobody can say for sure that what had happened in the past on the planet Mars that the entire planet became desolate? What kind of catastrophe would have come there that ended the entire life from the planet Mars? Could any living species successfully survived from that destruction? If so, who were those survivors, and where did they go? Did they go to another planet or inside the planet Mars? Why they did not try to establish life on Mars again? Questions still remain……..
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Peter Welnhofer (* 19. Dezember 1948 in Passau) ist ein bayerischer Landespolitiker der CSU.

Biografie
Peter Welnhofer machte 1968 Abitur am Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Regensburg. Danach studierte er in Bonn und Regensburg Rechtswissenschaften. Er legte 1975 die zweite juristische Staatsprüfung ab. Von 1976 bis 1986 versah er den Dienst in der allgemeinen inneren Verwaltung und als Richter am Verwaltungsgericht Regensburg.

1967 trat Welnhofer der CSU bei. 1972 wurde er Kreisvorstandsmitglied der Regensburger CSU. Seit 1988 ist Welnhofer Mitglied im Landesvorstand des Arbeitskreises Polizei der CSU. 1991 wurde er zum Kreisvorsitzenden der CSU Regensburg-Stadt gewählt. Dieses Amt bekleidete er bis Anfang 2008. 1978 wurde er erstmals in den Stadtrat von Regensburg gewählt, dem er seither ununterbrochen angehört, 1984 bis 1990 war er Vorsitzender der Regensburger CSU-Rathausfraktion.

Am 12. Oktober 1986 wurde Peter Welnhofer für den Stimmkreis Regensburg-Stadt in den Bayerischen Landtag gewählt und hat dieses Mandat bis zum September 2008 behalten. Er war Mitglied im Vorstand der CSU-Landtagsfraktion, stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Verfassungs-, Rechts- und Parlamentsfragen, Mitglied des Ältestenrats sowie Mitglied der Richterwahl-Kommission. Zur Landtagswahl in Bayern 2008 stand der erst 59-Jährige nicht mehr zur Wahl. Grund für seinen weitgehenden Rückzug aus der aktiven Politik war neben erbitterten Machtkämpfe innerhalb der tief zerrissenen Regensburger CSU die schwere Krebserkrankung seiner ersten Ehefrau.

Als Rechtsvertreter des Bayerischen Landtages war Welnhofer Beteiligter bei einer Verfassungsklage, die zu Ungunsten der Bayerischen Staatsregierung entschieden wurde. Am 27. Oktober 1998 erklärte das Bundesverfassungsgericht weite Teile des Bayerischen Schwangerenhilfeergänzungsgesetz (BaySchwHEG) vom 9. August 1996 für verfassungswidrig. Zwei bayerische Ärzte hatten am 21. November 1996 in Karlsruhe Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen den "bayerischen Sonderweg" eingelegt.

Peter Welnhofer leitete am 5. Februar 2003 die turbulente Wahlversammlung des CSU-Ortsverbandes München-Perlach, die später die "Münchner CSU-Affäre" um Stimmenkauf und Wahlmanipulation auslöste. Am 12. Mai 2005 sagte er vor dem Untersuchungsausschuss des Bayerischen Landtages aus, die Wahlversammlung sei schwierig und voller Spannungen verlaufen, "sie wäre beinahe geplatzt".

Am 1. Februar 2006 meldete der Münchner Merkur, Welnhofer sei vom Amtsgericht Regensburg wegen Verkehrsgefährdung und Unfallflucht zu einer Geldstrafe von 4800 Euro und einem dreimonatigen Fahrverbot verurteilt worden.

Welnhofer ist nichtberufsrichterliches Mitglied des Bayerischen Verfassungsgerichtshofes, Mitglied im Kuratorium der Universität Regensburg und im Kuratorium der Hochschule Regensburg. Außerdem ist er seit 1973 Mitglied der Deutsch-Italienischen-Dante-Alighieri-Gesellschaft Regensburg e.V.

Seit Januar 2010 ist er in Regensburg als Rechtsanwalt mit Schwerpunkt Wirtschaftsrecht tätig.

2013 machte Peter Welnhofer in der sogenannten "Verwandtenaffäre" von sich reden. Er hatte als bayerischer Landtagsabgeordneter kurz vor Inkrafttreten eines Beschäftigungsverbotes für nahe Angehörige im Jahr 2000 seine erste Frau ein Jahr zuvor sowie seine Tochter noch am 30. März 2000 angestellt. Die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse endeten im Jahr 2009.

Familie und Privates
Peter Welnhofer ist seit 2009 verwitwet und seit 2011 in zweiter Ehe mit Heidi Welnhofer verheiratet. Sie haben zusammen fünf Kinder und leben in Regensburg.

Auszeichnungen
 Universitätsmedaille "Bene merenti", Universität Regensburg
 2014: Silberne Bürgermedaille, Stadt Regensburg

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 Homepage des Landtagsabgeordneten Peter Welnhofer (Bayerischer Landtag)

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