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Helsinki Airport powers with solar energy
Ozgur Tore
Finavia, the operator of Helsinki Airport, has decided to speed up its ambitious climate programme, which aims to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions caused by the operations of all of the company's 21 airports to zero by 2020. At Helsinki Airport, this goal will already be reached in 2017, when the largest airport solar power plant in the Nordic countries is opened at the airport, and when airport buses start using renewable fuels.
Through its airport network, Finavia is a key party to the commitment of European airport companies to have 100 carbon-neutral airports in Europe by 2030.
Renewable energy for airport terminals and buses
"As the international climate policy has faced difficulties through the unexpected withdrawal of the United States, it is even more important that companies lead the way in reducing emissions. Finavia is committed to working hard to prevent our airports from increasing their carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. In addition to minimizing our own emissions, this means that we are committed to reducing emissions in countries struggling with environmental problems, such as in India, through compensation mechanisms," says Kari Savolainen, CEO of Finavia.
At airports, carbon dioxide emissions are mainly caused by the energy consumption of buildings, lighting systems and vehicles. Helsinki Airport plays a central part in reducing Finavia's emissions. Finavia is also determined to start reducing emissions at its other airports.
Finavia's climate programme consists of a range of different actions. Its essential parts are the significant increase in the use of renewable forms of energy, the origin of power and heat, the improvement of energy efficiency in all activities and the compensation of emissions in the markets.
International agreement on controlling aircraft emissions
"Questions about the environment have more and more impact on the choices consumers make, also in terms of air traffic. That is why it is important to know that air traffic is the first industrial field that has a global emissions control system. Last year, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) made a decision on a CORSIA mechanism which ensures that air traffic emissions do not increase after 2020, even though the number of passengers increases," Savolainen says, describing the emissions control system of the air traffic industry.
Construction of a solar power plant in progress at Helsinki Airport
Currently, Finavia is among the first European airports to invest in a solar power plant to be located at Helsinki Airport. The construction of the power plant is underway on the roof of terminal 2, and it is expected to produce energy starting from late summer 2017.
The entire system, with a total output of more than 500 kWp, will be completed in 2019, and it will be the largest airport solar power plant in the Nordic countries.
"This project required thorough planning, as there is not much previous experience in the use of solar power plants in global airport environments. The power plant needs to be built in great detail to prevent, for example, solar panels from causing reflections to aircraft. Solar power will produce nearly ten per cent of the power required in the new energy-efficient terminal areas at Helsinki Airport," Savolainen says.
In addition to Helsinki Airport, Finavia will increase the use of renewable energy at its other Finnish airports, for example, using bioenergy and geothermal heat.
Vehicles fuelled by renewable diesel
Finavia will significantly increase the use of renewable fuels in ground vehicles at Helsinki Airport during 2017.
Buses travelling between the terminal and aircraft will be fuelled by a diesel product manufactured wholly from waste and residue. In addition, smaller airport vehicles are already mainly powered by electricity. Finavia's goal is to engage other companies operating at its airports to use renewable fuels.
Facts about the climate programme
The operations of Finavia's airports produced 32,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2016. The company has reduced its emissions by an average of three per cent per passenger per year over the past ten years.
Key activities under Finavia's climate programme by 2020:
Use of wind power
Construction of a solar power plant
Airport vehicles fuelled by renewable diesel
Purchase of eco-friendly vehicles
Significant increase in LED lights
Use of, for example, pellets and geothermal heat as heat sources
Compensation, emissions units from voluntary markets
Eco-efficient construction, e.g. BREEAM certification
Engaging other companies operating at airports to reduce their emissions
Read more about Finavia's work for the environment from our responsibility report.
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Orlando Health workers concerned by cutbacks in hours and pay
By By Marni Jameson and Orlando Sentinel
Many Orlando Health workers are distressed by the news of cutbacks that will hit their pockets hard.
This week, the eight-hospital health system notified night-shift workers that their "differential" pay would be trimmed by several dollars an hour. Some of those rates will be cut by more than half — from nearly $10 extra an hour to less than $5, according to letters nurses received from the hospital system.
The across-the-board cuts, which take effect Sept. 8, amount to a salary reduction of as much as 20 percent for workers, the letters show. Meanwhile, the hospital has raised its cafeteria prices, reduced the tuition-reimbursement benefit and cut hours.
Orlando Health officials say the move is part of a restructuring that began in November, when the health system announced it would eliminate up to 500 positions from its workforce of 16,000, and that cuts would affect all eight hospitals and all departments.
The hospital system — which reported an $8.1 million loss last quarter, and reported losing money for four of the past five quarters — says the cuts are necessary. The change in differential pay puts Orlando Health in line with the median pay of other hospitals in the Southeast, hospital officials say.
One nurse, who has worked for Orlando Regional Medical Center for more than a decade, is having her "differential pay" cut by nearly $15,000 a year — reducing her annual pay from $65,000 to $50,000 — under what the hospital is calling its "Value Creation" program.
"It's creating value for her," the nurse said of Orlando Health CEO Sherrie Sitarik, citing the administrator's seven-figure compensation and recent luxury vacation to Bermuda.
The nurse, like other Orlando Health workers, talked to the Sentinel on the condition that her name not be used because she feared losing her job.
"I support my family on this," she said. "I work nights so I can be home for my kids when they get home from school, and help them with homework. I tuck them in bed, then go to work."
Night-shift workers receive incentive pay on top of their base pay for their willingness to work nights. Workers also get this "differential pay" for weekend and holiday hours. Depending on the employee's tenure and credentials, the additional pay could be $3 to $13 an hour on top of base pay.
"We get incentive pay to work nights because many people won't work that shift," said the nurse.
"We are nurses because we love being nurses," she said. "But I have patients spitting on me and hitting on me. I'm exposed to HIV and other health risks. We work harder at night because the support staff has all gone home, and you're telling me I'm not worth what I've been making?"
In addition to the cut in pay, workers are seeing their hours cut, too. One employee whose differential pay dropped from $9.75 to $4 an hour also has seen her hours decrease from between 32 and 36 hours a week to sometimes as few as 28 hours.
Another nurse said her hourly pay for night work was decreasing from $30.75 an hour to $25, while her weekly hours had been cut by 4 to 6 hours.
Both worry that the trimmed hours could result in them losing health benefits.
"Not true," said Orlando Health spokeswoman Kena Lewis. "An employee would have to change status — and that's a job change — before losing benefits. Even if a full-time employee flexes down to 28 hours a week, they would still get benefits."
Hit 'from every angle'
Another veteran nurse doesn't know how much less she'll be making "because I didn't do the math. I didn't have the stomach."
When she opened the letter stating that her differential pay would go from $10 to $4, the single mom said, "I sat at my kitchen table and cried."
That $6-an-hour pay cut is on top of the tuition reimbursement the hospital reduced earlier this year. A registered nurse working toward her bachelor's in nursing, the longtime employee said the hospital had paid $3,500 in tuition reimbursement, but now will only pay $2,500.
"No way will I be able to do that now," she said.
Meanwhile cafeteria prices have increased by as much as 20 percent, according to a company memo.
"They're hitting us from every angle," one nurse said.
In addition to the pay cuts, the nurses reported that three pharmacists and at least seven respiratory therapists were laid off recently.
"We are undergoing a long-term process to reduce expenses and increase revenues," said Lewis. "That process includes many initiatives, some of which have just occurred: cafeteria price increases, changes to differential, and reductions in tuition reimbursement, and they will include adjusting our staff as needed."
Though hospital officials would not disclose the number of recent layoffs, Lewis acknowledged that some workers had been laid off this summer, and there may be more layoffs to come.
Among the hospitals in Orlando Health's network are Orlando Regional Medical Center, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Children, Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital and Health Central in Ocoee.
Ill-timed vacation
"Maybe I could swallow this horrible pill if Sherrie Sitarik wouldn't show up in Facebook posts on a vacation with her family in Bermuda," said one nurse, who is wondering how she will make ends meet on less.
Sitarik's Bermuda trip a week before the cutbacks were announced was not paid for by Sitarik nor by Orlando Health, said Lewis. The VHA, a supply-chain management service that serves a national network of not-for-profit health organizations, paid for Sitarik and her husband's trip.
Sitarik and her husband paid for their adult daughter, an Orlando Health employee, to join them. The daughter posted the Facebook photos: Under one of Sitarik and her daughter, the caption reads, "…thanks for having a meeting in Bermuda."
The timing of the Bermuda vacation "shows a remarkable insensitivity to the rank and file's financial plight," said health-care analyst Brian Klepper, principal of a Longwood-based company that helps businesses save on health care.
"It has to do with not only questionable professional decorum, but also with being out of touch because you're wealthy and they're not," he said. "This sort of behavior is way too common in an industry that is still flush with money."
Regardless of who paid for the trip, the behavior "is not very leaderly," Klepper said. "Leadership is about not being aloof, and about showing empathy all the time. That's why you get paid the big bucks."
Sitarik's total compensation last year, according to Lewis, was $1,120,633. Tax documents from 2011 show her compensation that year was about $1 million.
Lowest pay in years
"Most of us work nights to make the rest of our life work," said one nurse who expects her income to decrease about $12,000 as a result of the cutbacks. "If we didn't do it, who would?"
For one Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital nurse, making $5 less an hour will mean taking home about $800 less a month, she said, or about $10,000 less a year.
"It's the lowest my salary has been in five years," said the single mom, who said she will start looking for a second job.
Other workers she knows are planning to leave. "Lots are looking for new work," she said. "The hospital is about to lose some really good nurses."
The changes are tough, Lewis acknowledged, "but cutting our differential structure is preferable to more layoffs."
"This is the new normal," said Lewis, "and this is not just us. Hospitals all over the country have to become leaner and more efficient. And we are on that path."
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Sammy Fatkin's basketball journey comes full circle with Montana Lady Griz
By: Kyle Hansen
MISSOULA — The Montana Lady Griz sit near the top of the Big Sky Conference standings this season with a 5-3 mark in league play and are 12-5 overall.
A big reason behind that has been the stellar play of guard Sammy Fatkin. The senior has come full circle in her Lady Griz career as she's made a big impact in her final season on the court.
Heading into this week's games against Weber State and Idaho State, Fatkin is second on the Lady Griz in scoring this season at 13.2 points per game, and has been a weapon driving to the basket, shooting from deep, and everything in between.
"She's always been a scorer. Just score, score, score," Lady Griz coach Brian Holsinger said. "And I said, 'Become a basketball player. If somebody takes this away, there's always another option.' And so, I've really challenged her with that and she's just ran with it and gotten better and better and obviously she's shooting the ball good and doing a lot of other things for our team."
Fatkin is shooting a career-best 37.2% from 3-point range and 44.1% from the field. She's also averaging 4.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game and has racked up 19 steals as well.
And it's been a winding college basketball road that has led to Fatkin's success this season.
Fatkin initially began her career at Arizona, but transferred to Montana in 2018.
But mid-way through her junior year in 2019, Fatkin left the program and basketball all-together, and returned home to Washington.
"Last year, I was able to spend it home with my family and that was amazing," Fatkin said. "Really blessed that I just got to be around them for that year."
Fatkin completed her undergrad degree in health and human performance at UM, and after graduating in November 2020, joined the workforce and began working at an Enterprise Rent-A-Car in the Seattle area.
"I'd always just seen myself in the medical field, and so working for Enterprise was a big shift and change of plans, but I learned a lot," Fatkin said. "And so that is part of the reason what inspired me to come get a masters and now I'm getting my masters in public administration."
But after over a year away from the game, the basketball itch came back, and Fatkin got in touch with Holsinger last summer through her connection with assistant Lady Griz coach Jordan Sullivan.
"I'd always had a relationship with Jordy, so that never went away," Fatkin said. "She was like, 'You should just get on the phone with Brian and see what you think.' Immediately I was like it just felt right and I love Montana. I loved it when I was here the first time and everything just lined up."
Once she got the green light to come back, Fatkin lept at the opportunity to return to UM for her final year of college basketball, and hasn't looked back.
"Honestly I just feel really blessed," Fatkin said. "The experience this year has just been amazing. Our team this year and the culture, it's just very family-oriented. We're playing together and honestly just full of joy. I couldn't ask for a better group."


A dense government cashflow found its way to Harvard, for artificial intelligence to be developed by "some of the most intelligent minds in the country," according to DigitalTrends.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a government institution that concerns itself with large-scale research efforts, has awarded a $28 million grant to Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard's Center for Brain Science (CBS), and its Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
The effort is apparently focusing on understanding the way neurons work in the human brain, to replicate the human brain in robotics.
"This is a moonshot challenge, akin to the Human Genome Project in scope," said David Cox, project leader and assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and computer science.
Most news articles talking about these efforts are framing the issue in a cheesy way, always comparing AI to science fiction, alluding to hyperbolic scenarios of artificial intelligence taking over humanity.
Perhaps a better concern would be the mix of hegemony and artificial intelligence: power.
Knowing the history of the people investing in artificial intelligence, perhaps a much more reasonable concern is government wielding AI for evil, rather than AI overtaking all of humanity because it is sentient.
Goldman Sachs, Toyota, DARPA, Harvard in conjunction with IARPA, Facebook: they are only a fraction of the powers currently participating in a sort of AI arms race.
Goldman Sachs is going big on big data. Don Duet, cohead of the bank's technology division, said the firm was investing deeply in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Toyota is investing over a billion dollars on an artificial intelligence project in Silicon Valley.
Titled the "Toyota Research Institute," the company announced on Friday that they will soon have a laboratory adjacent to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for the sake of research on artificial intelligence technology.
DARPA has launched a program that will try to develop a bridge between neurons of the human brain, and supercomputers.
Without neglecting to recognize the fascinating nature of developing AI or potential good of the tech, the bottom line is power hungry people are the ones racing to wield it right now.
People who don't do the world much good in the first place are seeking to use their money and power to develop artificial intelligence.
Can a Saudi Arabia allied, hospital bombing, mass incarcerating, war crime committing empire (The US and their military apparatus DARPA) be morally responsible for artificial intelligence?
Can they even be held responsible for drone strikes they are currently unleashing on people, with a 90% civilian death rate? Of course not, and yet they are developing insect-like legs for helicopters and drones to be even less accountable. They are pouring money into warping efforts of young geniuses at Harvard, to concentrate even more power in their hands.
The bottom line is, it requires some time to sit down and learn about DARPA and AI, this technological acquisition of power, if we want to be prepared for the near future. It takes time to learn about this, and people who care about having a future need to sit down and face reality: how can we possibly clear a path for a free, prosperous future when there are people doing this?
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The school canteen is open every day with counter sales available at both recess and lunchtimes. The canteen aims to sell quality food of high nutritional value, including a range of 'homemade' items. Vegetarian and halal options are also available. Special themed lunch order days are organised throughout the year.
Lunch may be ordered in two ways – manually and online.
On the outside of a paper 'lunch size' bag write child's name, class, room number, lunch order and amount of money enclosed.
Please place your money in the bag and fold it so the money is secure.


Thylane Blondeau looks white-hot on the July 2018 cover of Cosmopolitan Russia. Photographed by Markus Lambert, the French model wears a Calzedonia swimsuit with shorts from Levi's. For the accompanying spread, Thylane poses in feminine and flirty looks styled by Elena Dudina. The L'Oreal Paris face wears the designs of Dior, Fendi, Max Mara and more.


Jon Kabat-Zinn This is exactly what every employer and employee desires to be. The difference between successful organisations and the rest is not confined to the ability to face adversities but also advancing the vision of the organisation through the achievement of its goals. This can be achieved by investing in the inner resources of employees. Mindfulness practices are geared towards developing these inner resources. In fact, successful and innovative organisations such as Google and Apple have been running programmes to sustain a mindful corporate culture in the recent years.
Our daily transactions at work are most often than not driven by our habitual tendencies like an autopilot. These habitual tendencies could sometimes be detrimental to the objectives and goals of the organisation, department or even personal commitments. The ability to step away from our habitual inclinations and focus on the goals objectively would require a mind that is naturally responsive and not one that is reactive. This can be achieved through Mindfulness Practices that are based on clear intention and purposeful attention. It all starts from within.
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This is a easy and healthy lunch or starter option and really good with either Ballymaloe Country Relish or Ballymaloe Jalapeno Pepper Relish.
Ballymaloe Original Relish is delicious with all sausages. Here is a recipe for Ballymaloe homemade sausages which can be used as a canape, or as part of a main meal.


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With more and more clients requesting the ability to access online music services such as Pandora and Rhapsody, RMS has researched several products that deliver these services intuitively and at a good value. One of these has become the go-to product for RMS clients who want a standalone music system which offers streaming music content as well as their local music collection in a simple, easy-to-use interface. That product is Sonos.
When it comes to playing music, we believe all rooms should be created equal. That's why you can put Sonos in absolutely any room where you want music. With Sonos, no room is off-limits and you can add music wirelessly to practically any number of rooms: the bedroom, the backyard, even the bathroom.
Sonos puts the control of all your music and all your rooms right where it should be — in your hands. With the touch of a finger you can find and play a world of music, whether it's streaming direct from the Internet or stored on your computer. Tune in to your favorite radio station or browse through your entire music library. You can play the same song in every room or choose different songs for different rooms. It's up to you. And so is which Controller you use — the dedicated Sonos Controller 200, Sonos Controller for iPhone™, Sonos Controller for Mac or PC, or a combination of all four.
The key to designing a music system that plays music all over the house is having a wireless network that works all over the house. That's why Sonos created a wireless mesh network called SonosNet to deliver the range and performance required of a multi-room music system. When you need to stream music wirelessly, the network you use really matters. When a network is overloaded or stretched to its limits, you hear echoes and delays from room to room, and your Internet speed can be sluggish. Not so with Sonos.
Sonos chose a mesh network because a traditional network with a central hub relaying all the traffic didn't provide the house-wide coverage we wanted. What's more, access point networks were plagued by performance issues. SonosNet changes all that — providing the extensive range and superior performance you need to enjoy music in every room without requiring a massive wiring remodel.
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PHUKET: Three tourists from Phuket were injured this morning when the driver lost control of a tour bus trying avoid a collision with a big bike in Krabi.
Krabi City Police stationed at the Khao Khram police box were notified of an accident on Phetkasem Rd southbound, Moo 1 in Khao Khram, which is opposite the Krabi Extension and Agriculture Development Centre (Horticulture) at 7am today (Mar 16).
Krabi City Police arrived at the scene along with Krabi Pitak Pracha rescue workers to find a white tour bus in a roadside ditch and smashed into a tree.
One foreign man and two foreign women had minor injuries and were taken to Krabi Hospital.
The tour bus driver, Rachen Sawengsuk, 46, told police, "I was driving the tour bus, which belongs to 'Coral Travel Co Ltd', from Phuket to Krabi International Airport. The tour bus was carrying 36 Russian tourists.
"When arrived at the scene, three big bikes were racing. One of them suddenly cut in front of me. I immediately tried to avoid a collision and steered to the side of the road,. However, I lost control of the vehicle which caused the bus to go into the ditch and collide with a tree," Mr Rachen explained.
"Another tour bus from the same company was called to pick up the tourists and take them to Krabi International Airport," Mr Rachen noted.
"Try interviewing the 36 passengers that were on board," I have yet to see, in any "accident", on land, or water, the passengers being interviewed, the police don't seem to interview them, and the "professional" reporters don't, nor do they photograph the accident scene to any high degree, eg, blown tyres, "giant" potholes, skid marks etc.
Regardless of the excuses it's called failure to control. Tired of this stuff and innocents being hurt by negligence and inability. "What Is Failure to Control?
Failure to control is what it sounds like, it applies in a lot of circumstances that are largely out of your control. If you skid or slide because of poor road conditions due to snow, rain, or ice,etc."
Try interviewing the 36 passengers that were on board.
Racing big motorbike and than braking/cutting in front of a bus?
Unless the bus dash cam can prove that story, I not believe it.
A big motorbike driver is not that stupid. Would he?
Reality, and fantasy about it is here daily quite fun to read.


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Austin's Creel Strives For Ultra-Perfection on the Trails
Austin's Patrick Creel is an ultra trail runner
It's 5:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning and Patrick Creel is up early to run 40 miles. Not four miles, and not 40K, but 40 miles. In the dark. On trails. Yeah, Creel is one of Austin's cadre of ultra-runners—known to run extreme distances on gnarly trails. This is a guy who's done 26 miles worth of repeats on Austin's infamous Hill of Life, just for a workout.
That's right, besides his endurance hobby, Creel, 43, is a classically trained musician (french horn; piano), who performs professionally in the Austin area. Additionally, he is a professor of horn and wind chamber music at Southwestern University, and teaches about 45 students a week in the AISD.
Creel first caught the running bug after moving to Austin in 2007.
"I decided to head to the Town Lake trail. It was July, 2:00 in the afternoon, and I found myself on the trail attempting to run what I could," said Creel. "I was immediately taken aback at how many people were using the trail and how fit everyone looked. I was so inspired and tried my best to run along with some people. I think I made it 1.25 miles before feeling like I was going to die. I drove back to the apartment and told my wife, 'I'm going to be a runner and I am going to run a marathon'."
Creel made good on his promise, running the Austin Marathon in February of 2008. He later progressed to triathlons (including the Ironman distance) but kept a strong running core. In addition to running 60-80 miles a week, he still swims around four miles a week.
"I was fortunate enough to work with two wonderful coaches, John Schrup and Steve Sisson. It was through their guidance and the group runs/workouts that I really embraced this life of running," said Creel, who's gone 3:18 for the marathon.
Eventually, in 2014, he gravitated towards trail running, hooking up with Erik Stanley's Trail Roots. His debut ultra was the Big Bend 50 miler.
"That race was everything and more of what I expected," said Creel. "To this day Big Bend has the largest impact on me and how it shaped me into who I am as a runner."
Big Bend was followed by the Javelina Jundred in McDowell Mountain Regional Park in Arizona as well as numerous 50 milers and 100k's in Colorado, Squamish B.C., Texas, Arizona, and Utah.
"Finishing my first Hundo (100 miler as it is called) in Zion National Park was a memory that I will never forget. It took everything in me to see it through, all emotions were brought out and tears at the finish line," said Creel. "What sticks out most to me with the Zion experience was the crew who came out to Utah. They met me at every aid station and paced me from mile 50 to the end. I have been lucky to have that experience at multiple races and my gratitude is never ending. I think that is a huge part of what I like about trail running, the people and the sense of community."
For the last two years Creel has run the Grand Canyon R2R2R and considers it a yearly pilgrimage.
"As long as I can go to run it, I will find a way to do it," Creel said of the R2R2R runs. "It is like a complete restart of all the stresses and events life throws at us. I leave them feeling spiritually refreshed and with the clearest of mind. In fact, that is what I treasure most with trail running, it is like free therapy.
"I still don't know what drives me to extremes, there is something in me that always seeks that out," said Creel. "So much of what I do in running and sport stems from my routines established in musical journeys and practices where it can feel like it's never enough. I always strive for perfection in music, and that tends to drive me towards the same thing in running. Every trail run gives me a sense of clarity, healing, gratitude, and inspiration. I always find one thing to take from a run that is positive."
News Flash! Austin marathoners Will Nation and Sarah Jackson made big strides at the California International Marathon last week, both running personal bests and breaking through to the next level. Creel popped a 2:13:24, while Jackson ran a six-minute PR of 2:42:27.
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If you're a video game fan, think of building resilience like collecting hit points. The more resilient you are, the more damage you can take before you break down. Real life is an unpredictable and occasionally dangerous game; you want all the hit points you can get.
You might think these things have nothing to do with Paleo – how is food going to help you through a night in the airport? But actually, this is one big way that Paleo can improve your life: by helping you build the resilience you need to tackle these kinds of challenges.
"Resilience" is both mental and physical, and it's silly to try to separate the two. Having a strong body gives you more mental energy, and makes it easier to think clearly, even if you don't have to face any physical challenges (as you very well might). So here's how to use Paleo to build up your resilience – mostly from a physical perspective, but in ways that cross over into the mental.
The "one step backward, two steps forward" model, where you recover and overcompensate. For example, exercise initially makes you sore and tired, but in the long run, regular exercise gives you more energy. If you want the science behind this, check out this explanation of hormesis.
The "slow steps forward" model. Getting good sleep is an example of this. You're not going back and then forward; you're just slowly building up your strength and energy.
Here's a simple test to see whether Paleo is really helping you build resilient strength: if you're strong and resilient, you move spontaneously.
Sometimes, you dance around the kitchen while you're cooking because your favorite song is on and you can. Sometimes you go for a walk because it's a nice day outside and you just want to enjoy the evening. You may not always be totally raring to go to the gym or head out for a run, but it's not a constant battle every single day just to haul your aching and exhausted body off the couch.
Moving spontaneously is a sign of energy, mental and physical. If you have that extra energy, it's a reasonably decent sign that whatever your diet/workout/recovery/stress management routine is, the energy you invest in it is coming back with interest, and giving you spare energy for all kinds of other challenges.
If you're so run-down from chronic calorie restriction and/or over-exercising that every form of movement is a chore, you never move unless you have to, and your workouts leave you so exhausted that all you want to do the rest of the day is sit down, you're not building resilience. You're just overtraining and beating yourself down – and making yourself vulnerable to any other stressor that might come along. The same is true of beating yourself into the ground by any other means (a long string of late nights, a chronic pattern of horrible days in the office…pick your poison).
The "move spontaneously" test isn't perfect, but it's a reasonably good way to get started.
Seek out the good stress.
Hormetic stress is stress that makes you stronger once you recover from it. The classic example is exercise.
Progressively challenge yourself with your workouts, but only within the limits of your ability to recover. It bears repeating: a workout that you don't recover from does you absolutely no good. It doesn't make you stronger, or faster, or healthier. There is such a thing as planned overreaching, which is a deliberately-designed period of under-recovery, but it's something that professional athletes use under the guidance of a coach: unless you fall into that category, don't do it.
Seek out unpredictable challenges, again, within your ability to recover. A heavy squat is a challenge, but it's a predictable one. You know it's coming. You can decide whether you're up to it or not. But life isn't like that – if you want to "train" for life, you need to learn to handle unpredictable challenges. Go somewhere new. Do something you've never done. Hike a new trail; explore a different part of town.
Nourish yourself and avoid stressors that just tear you down.
Even hormetic stress can tear you down if you can't recover from it. And some stressors aren't hormetic at all – like chronic sleep deprivation. There's just nothing useful about it.
Eat nourishing food, and eat enough of it. Food can either help prepare you for stressors (by providing nutrients that your body needs), or it can be a stressor (if you aren't getting enough, or if you're getting enough calories but not enough nutrients). Starving yourself is not the way to get stronger. Even if you want to lose weight, be gentle with your body; you don't have to get extreme with the 1200 calorie diets to make it happen.
Sleep. It's valuable to be able to stay up all night when you need to, in extreme emergencies – and sometimes those emergencies do happen. But you'll do much better in a crisis if you have a background of consistently solid sleep.
Consistently getting enough food and sleep builds up your strength, so you'll have it ready to go when you really need it.
Resilience is a kind of strength, but it's not about how much you can deadlift. It's about how much life you can handle. You can build up your resilience with good sleep, good food, and stressors that you can recover from.
A good test for whether it's actually working that way is spontaneous movement: if you enjoy moving your body and do it willingly, you probably have energy to spare.
Paleo should help you build your resilience and give you a stockpile of energy that you can use as "hit points" when life gets tough. This is the way that it really goes beyond a "diet" for weight loss, and turns into a way of eating that improves your whole life.


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A handle which has a port for insertion and removal of stylet as well as for creating negative suction pressure during FNA.
Fanning technique: In this technique, needle is positioned at different areas within the mass and then moved to and fro multiple times in each area. The needle path can be altered using either the "up/down" endoscope dial or the elevator. In a recent randomized controlled trial which compared the standard technique versus fanning technique, authors found no difference in diagnostic accuracy, technical failure, or complication rates. However, fanning technique required lesser number of passes to establish the diagnosis with a higher percentage of patients achieving diagnosis on pass one (57.7% vs. 85.7%; P = 0.02). We routinely use fanning technique in our clinical practice.
Using stylet which is more controlled as material is expelled drop by drop is preferred by most endosonologists.
Alcohol fixation: As soon as the slides are prepared and still wet, they are immersed in ethanol or sprayed on. These slides are stained with Papanicolaou stain.
In centres with low sample adequacy of EUS FNA and nonavailability of ROSE.
Various other designs of EUS FNB needles to improve upon the diagnostic yield have been developed over the last few years [Figure 2]. These hollow FNB needles can be either noncutting or cutting needles. The cutting needles include either side-type cutting (e.g., Tru-Cut or ProCore) or end-type cutting (such as Franseen and fork-tip). The end cutting type needles are the recent introduction to the EUS armamentarium. The two most recently introduced EUS FNB needles are Franseen needle (Acquire, Boston Scientific) and fork-tip needle (SharkCore™, Medtronic) and the initial studies with these new needles are very encouraging [Figure 3]. However, the current data comparing various EUS FNB core needles for sample adequacy, diagnostic accuracy, and acquisition of a core specimen is scanty. The newly developed EUS-FNB needles are expensive than the first-generation needles and need more robust evidence of superiority than what is currently available before they can be widely used. However, still there is limited data to suggest that the use of FNB with adequate core tissue material may be performed without ROSE and therefore may replace FNA.
Sample is placed on a glass slide and with the help of needle is microdissected to form tissue cores.
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Wani S, Early D, Kunkel J, Leathersich A, Hovis CE, Hollander TG, et al. Diagnostic yield of malignancy during EUS-guided FNA of solid lesions with and without a stylet: A prospective, single blind, randomized, controlled trial. Gastrointest Endosc 2012;76:328-35.
Rastogi A, Wani S, Gupta N, Singh V, Gaddam S, Reddymasu S, et al. A prospective, single-blind, randomized, controlled trial of EUS-guided FNA with and without a stylet. Gastrointest Endosc 2011;74:58-64.
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Lee JK, Choi JH, Lee KH, Kim KM, Shin JU, Lee JK, et al. A prospective, comparative trial to optimize sampling techniques in EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses. Gastrointest Endosc 2013;77:745-51.
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Lee JM, Lee HS, Hyun JJ, Lee JM, Yoo IK, Kim SH, et al. Slow-pull using a fanning technique is more useful than the standard suction technique in EUS-guided fine needle aspiration in pancreatic masses. Gut Liver 2018;12:360-6.
Klapman JB, Logrono R, Dye CE, Waxman I. Clinical impact of on-site cytopathology interpretation on endoscopic ultrasound- guided fine needle aspiration. Am J Gastroenterol 2003;98:1289-94.
Erickson RA, Sayage-Rabie L, Beissner RS. Factors predicting the number of EUS-guided fine-needle passes for diagnosis of pancreatic malignancies. Gastrointest. Endosc 2000;51:184-90.
Iglesias-Garcia J, Dominguez-Munoz JE, Abdulkader I, Larino-Noia J, Eugenyeva E, Lozano-Leon A, et al. Influence of on-site cytopathology evaluation on the diagnostic accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound-guide fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) of solid pancreatic masses. Am J Gastroenterol 2011;106:1705-10.
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Why would Michael Phelps give up this honor?
He's the United States most decorated Olympian ever.
He earned this. His fellow Olympians voted to grant him this honor.
Some liberal clown at CNN has a better idea.
Michael, it's your white privilege that earned all those medals.
Not the 5 AM daily four hour training sessions that you did for years.
Not your will to compete.
Nope, it's simply white privilege and you should bow down and let the Black Muslim fencer, who has never won a medal, represent the United States.
Thank you! I really appreciate the fact that you have made — or will make — the right choice here. You haven't announced it yet, but I'm sure you will soon.
I know you have a big machine behind you. With The Olympics coming up, it must be extremely hectic around you right now. It has to be difficult to contact all your trainers, coaches, business managers, talent managers, Hollywood agents, sponsors, counsellors, associated charities, foundations, staff, assistants, friends, family, boys clubs, and girls clubs to let them know that you have turned down such an honor.
Obviously, I am talking about what I hope will be your decision to decline the position as flag bearer in opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Rio De Janeiro on Friday. While you haven't said this yet, I'm sure this is what you are going to do, because you are not only an Olympic hero, you are — by medal count — the Olympic hero. And yes, being asked to carry the flag is a big deal. I'm betting that even a star of your magnitude is still feeling the glow of being voted to carry the flag by your Olympic peers. But I know that you must know that there is a better choice to carry the flag — the athlete who came in second to you in the vote for flag bearer, fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad.
It shouldn't be a big deal for you to give up your spot. For one thing, according to the Los Angeles Times, the vote was close. So Muhammad must have lots of fans among the athletes. And also, let's be real here, Michael. It's not like you need the honor.
With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. You already know how America feels about you. We even forgave that youthful indiscretion of being photographed smoking from a water pipe of the type that is often used for smoking marijuana. And we have forgiven those other youthful indiscretions (even the one that happened two years ago when you weren't that youthful).
It's an honor Michael Phelps earned. His fellow Olympians voted on it.
Case closed. End of discussion.
No silly politically correct columns needed or wanted.
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Q: Ajax file upload not working in IE7 I've used this plugin for file upload via Ajax in asp.net mvc3.
http://malsup.com/jquery/form/#ajaxSubmit
But it won't work in IE7.
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A: IE 7 is old browser and not support XMLHttpRequest Level 2.

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http://malsup.com/jquery/form/#file-upload

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Chance the Rapper is currently married to Kristen Corley. He has been in one celebrity relationship averaging approximately 6.4 years. His one marriage has lasted 0.1 years so far.
"She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall. She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep."


Taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre in September, this year's Critical Communications MENA (Middle East and North Africa) was an important event for the sector. First of all – and probably most significantly – a great many of the presentations centred in particular around the development of LTE technology for use in a community safety environment. This suggests a clear acceptance of mission-critical broadband right across the global radio community, at the very least as an accompaniment to TETRA and ultimately as its likely replacement.
It was also an important event for the region itself, giving visitors the opportunity to learn more about the cutting-edge work being carried out in states such as Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Indeed, one of the highlights of the two days was a presentation from Bravo's CEO Dr Fahad Mushayt describing the ongoing roll-out of a hybrid system within Saudi Arabia.
Lastly, CCMENA 2017 marked the beginning of a new era for the brand. As announced by TCCA chair Mladen Vratonjic, next year's event will take place at the Madinat Jumeirah resort rather than the Dubai World Trade Centre.
The first day began with a presentation from new TCCA CEO Tony Gray, who described the work that the organisation has been doing around the development of LTE technology in the community safety realm. While he expected TETRA to be around for many years, he said it was necessary to take as wide an approach as possible going into the future. To illustrate this, he formally introduced the TCCA's newly formed Broadband Industry Group (BIG), which launched in September.
The first part of the first day ended with a panel discussion on the topic of 'What part can the region [ie, the Middle East] play in pushing the global critical communications industry?'. This involved a variety of industry experts, including Kirkaldy, Motorola Solutions' director of business development Kiran Vaya and the founder of Quixoticity, Peter Clemons.
Speaking about one of the fundamental differences between the Middle East and other markets, Vaya said while the region is often further ahead on adoption of technology, it has a long way to go on standardisation. It is, he said, probably the only region where private networks are still the norm.
The agenda now turned to work being carried out by individual nations. This discussion was led by Dr Barbara Held, head of directorate operations at the German Federal Agency for Public Safety Digital Radio (BDBOS).
Held began her presentation by looking at some of the issues facing European nation states in particular, following a "manifest expression of the need for broadband" issued by the continent's public responders. Unsurprisingly, these included areas already outlined by Kirkaldy, such as standardisation and the fight for spectrum, which she referred to as "decisive".
She cited the work of countries, beginning with Finland, the inhabitants of which she described as "so good at strategy and planning". This talent, she said, is reflected in the country's five-step plan – taking place over the next 20 years – to upgrade its government-owned Virve network to accommodate data as well as voice.
By the end of Held's presentation it was clear that there are numerous possible approaches when it comes to upgrading nationwide legacy public radio systems to accommodate broadband. Each one is as unique as the geopolitical, social and economic needs of the country in question.
The portion of day one focusing primarily on the move from TETRA to broadband came to an end with two presentations – one from Motorola Solutions' account director Philip Bond, and the other a case study looking at 'The Finnish story'.
He continued by discussing the market itself, suggesting a level of confusion due to the recent 'coming together' of the IT and radio industries. According to Bond, this has sometimes caused an issue around decision-making, with the two groups not necessarily speaking the same language. "There are legacy systems which need upgrading, but that's often put on hold because of confusion about what technology should be implemented," he said.
Other speakers from day one included Airbus DS's Simon Riesen ('Our hydrid solutions for networks'), DundasTech director John Dundas ('Future technologies and their use in mega sporting events') and Motorola Solutions' Vaya ('Public safety networks cyber security in next generation'). Clemons, meanwhile, led a discussion on the notion of 'one ideal, long-term broadband solution'.
Following an introduction from the TCCA's Vratonjic, the second day of the event began with an account of Saudi Arabia's efforts to roll out a hybrid TETRA/LTE network across the kingdom. This was delivered by Bravo's Mushayt.
Mushayt began his presentation by describing the context into which the new network is being deployed. The current situation, he said, is quite fragmented across the country, with numerous 'siloed' networks operating on a variety of different technologies. There are also many different verticals functioning within the region, including the military, health and transportation, again with each sitting on different networks.
He continued by citing Bravo's own iDEN solution, which he said currently has around 200,000 subscribers, including the military and the Saudi Ministry of Hajj. This is expected to continue until around 2020 at the latest.
The company's current "journey" towards TETRA started in mid-2016. Bravo has chosen Airbus as its partner in deploying the technology.
Speaking of the progress which has been made so far, Mushayt said: "We decided to build the first network in the western region of Saudi Arabia, which had to be prepared to cater for the Hajj.
According to Mushayt, this includes live-streaming from drones, something that has already been demonstrated in the kingdom. In terms of voice itself, Bravo is hopeful of operating TETRA functionality over LTE by 2018.
The morning was completed by two panel discussions, focusing first on the ever-more voracious desire for data on the part of users. This was followed by another session looking specifically at 'intelligent public safety operation'.
The theme of the final part of CCMENA 2017 was the growing investment in command and control solutions, with much of the discussion centring firmly on the analytics and the storage of data.
The session was steered by a TCCA transportation working group chaired by Robin Davis. He also gave a fascinating presentation on use of the cloud, in particular exploring its increasing relevance in relation to critical and public safety communications.
Davis began his presentation by suggesting that a certain level of mistrust has traditionally existed within the critical communications community when it comes to the cloud. What would need to happen, he asked, for people to fully give themselves over to this solution? Davis continued by outlining current cloud use in the public safety environment, suggesting that it will likely consist of a mixed economy, with agencies using a variety of different hybrid technologies.
These will include remotely hosted solutions, as well as software as a service, something which is already used by some public safety organisations for back-office functions such as HR and payroll. This has the added advantage of being flexible, he said, a factor which will become more important with organisations increasingly reticent to invest in their own infrastructure (or, as he called it, "tin").
Outlining further the benefits of this kind of working, Davis discussed the potential for better business continuity, illustrating his point by mentioning Oxfordshire County Council's ability to get core services back up very soon after a fire. He also suggested that service providers have improved prioritisation and latency, illustrating this by discussing how easy it was to have a WhatsApp conversation with his wife on the plane coming over to the event, as well as mentioning cloud-based private automatic branch exchange (PABX) systems being used in the UK. That being the case, he said, security and data ownership is clearly still an issue, as well as standardisation, given the variety of models and vendors.
Other presentations from the last part of the second day included Ged Griffin from the Australian Institute of Police Management on the use of public safety mobile broadband, and Prisma Telecom Testing's Luca Dell'Anna introducing the company's product for portable mobile network emergency management, EmergencyNET.
CCMENA 2017 was instructive for a number of reasons. First, it proved once and for all that public safety comms is on the cusp of a new epoch with the ongoing move from narrowband to broadband. Different nation states may be taking different approaches and working to contrasting timescales, but it's clear that a more connected – and potentially more complex – world is on the way.
At the same time, however, the event also made clear that the core challenges to the sector are the same as they ever were, no matter what the technology. These include issues around standardisation, spectrum, regulations and so on.
Summing up the event, the TCCA's Gray said: "CCMENA was an excellent opportunity for its many participants – drawn from around the region as well as worldwide – to catch up on the latest developments and to exchange ideas and views.


Only 167 warrants were trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange ($TSX) and the Toronto Venture Stock Exchange ($CDNX) in total as of the end of July, 2011. Of those 167 only 38 (23%) were associated with 33 commodity-related stocks with the necessary 24+ months duration to be included in my proprietary Commodity Company Warrants Index (CCWI). See here (1) for details. Only 22 of the 167 warrants (13%) are of the long term variety and associated with 19 gold and silver companies which are the constituents of my proprietary Gold and Silver Warrants Index (GSWI).
The GSWI has not fared as well – to date – in 2011 but given the optimism expressed in many articles (see the "Related Articles" section below) high hopes are anticipated before the year is out for the stocks of gold and silver mining companies. The associated warrants of such companies have historically outperformed the stock of the company in an up-leg, by approx. 70% on average (+74.8% in 2010) but, conversely, have underperformed the associated stock by roughly 60% in a down-leg as exemplified by the YTD performance of -36% vs. only -14.5% for their associated stock. Incidentally, with the exclusion of the LT warrant and stock of Agnico-Eagle, which are each down 53% YTD, the GSWI is down -26% and their associiated stock down -6.3% which is right in line with the HUI/GDX.
As one can see warrants are quite volatile compared to their associated stock but if one truly believes in the future performance of precious metals equities then warrants are the place to be and now is the time to get positioned. For interest sake, the large/mid-cap gold and silver company stocks (HUI/GDX) are -5.2/7.5% YTD, the mid/small-cap miners (GDXJ) are -9.6% YTD and Rob McEwen's index of non-producers (the McEwen Junior Gold Index) is -11.9% YTD. Incidentally, the aforementioned performances of the various indices shows that, YTD, the larger capitalized the mining companies are the better their performance. For details on the differences between the various indices please review this (2) article.
To learn why you should buy the long-term warrants of commodity-related (and particularly gold and silver) companies and exactly how to go about doing so please read this (3) article.
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Not only is baseball back in D.C. today, but the Nationals home opener also marks the return of another season's worth of beefy tributes to the Nats' #1 starter.
The Strasburger. This particular homage to the Nats ace is from Tortilla Coast on Capitol Hill. And it's about damn time we took it down.
Don't go looking for a burg when the Boilermaker Shops open up at The Yards later this year-- brb burger is no longer coming to the new development near Nats Park.
The Red Porch in Nationals Park has just introduced their own version of the StrasBurger, dwarfing all others sharing the name.


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Ken Heller, Chief Transportation Officer, will speak to students about subjects such as leadership and the value of building and sustaining business relationships at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on April 12. He will join Michelle Livingstone, Vice President, Transportation for The Home Depot, at the student event.
Heller has a BS in Finance from Indiana University and is on the IU Supply Chain Advisory Board. He began his career at Kraft Foods where he and Livingstone were colleagues. Livingstone has a BS in Business, with a concentration in transportation, from IU.
Women's leadership in the supply chain and logistics industry will be one of the topics covered at the event. Heller has worked for many years with Ann Drake, Chairman of the DSC Logistics Advisory Board and former DSC CEO, who founded the women's leadership initiative AWESOME (Achieving Women's Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management, and Education).
AWESOME brings together senior women leaders in supply chain to advance and transform through collaboration, learning, connecting, recognition and inspiration. Livingstone has long been actively involved in the AWESOME initiative and serves as an AWESOME Advisor. She will be honored as a 2019 AWESOME Legendary Leadership (ALL) award recipient at the annual AWESOME Symposium, May 1-3, in Seattle, Washington.
A founding partner sponsor of AWESOME, DSC is a sponsor of the 2019 Symposium, as is CJ Logistics. Ready to lead in the global marketplace, DSC has joined with CJ Logistics to enable integrated supply chain innovation. As the companies work together across cultures, countries and companies to create seamless solutions, fostering diversity and cultivating leadership will continue to be key focus areas.