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The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide
Nick Gillespie | 12.28.2010 9:57 PM
Over at Truthdig, Richard Reeves makes the case that, unlike most stories clogging annual journalistic top ten lists, Wikileaks is the one big new development:
No. 1 on the game-changer list would be WikiLeaks. If we need final proof that the new information technologies change everything, WikiLeaks is that proof. The engine of democratic power—and totalitarian rule as well—is control of the flow of information to the people. For better or worse, leaders have been losing that power for at least the last three decades, beginning probably with the development of CNN in 1980.
That power, the power to shape public opinion and reaction to specific events, is gone. If there were another Pearl Harbor or another Holocaust, we would all learn about it at the same time, details to follow in minutes. We might not do anything about it, but we would know.
Whole thing here.
I think Reeves is right here. The power shift under is way, way, way bigger than Julian Assange and it's bigger than Wikileaks. Whatever happens to them specifically, the larger forces they represent aren't going away any time soon. To me, it's like unauthorized file-sharing. Napster and various other iterations of it was definitively croaked (including Pirate Bay just this past year). And downloading is bigger than ever.
As long as the insta-cliche of "game-changer" is in the air, let's take a moment to proclaim the radical loss of secret knowledge by governments, corporations, and the like "the new normal." Like it or hate it, better get used to it. The proper reaction isn't, "How do you stop it?" It's "How do we live with this?" As Reason's Jesse Walker wrote recently, it's a leaky world and no umbrella is gonna keep us fully dry.
Contrary to the various Dems and Reps and handmaidens in the press calling bloody sedition, I think the U.S. government has come off looking relatively decent in the recent batch of cables that have been aired (accent on relatively). Our diplomats and agents abroad do not seem to be participating in the grossest form of hypocrisy and corruption that is commonplace. Which isn't to say that the U.S.'s foreign policy isn't stupid, poorly conceived, and generally ineffective. Only that we're mostly on the up-and-up in being as stupid as we seem. The Sauds, the Russians, the Afghans, and the Pakistanis can't boast that.
And for those who think that Wikileaks is inherently anti-American or pro-lefty, do remember the group's role in circulating the emails of East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit. Wikileaks represents a new alphabet, a new grammar, a new language. Long after it's purged the Holocaust deniers on its payrolls, disappeared from memory, and Julian Assange is a cast member on Dancing with the Stars or Celebrity Rehab, we'll still be living in the world they helped create. The net result just may well be governments, scientists, businesses, and other sources of power that act more openly and honestly.
Reason.com on Wikileaks here.
Reason.tv asks four journos whether Wikileaks is a force for good:
NEXT: The DEA Searches for Ambiguity in Michigan
Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason.
Foreign Policy WikiLeaks
December.28.2010 at 10:24 pm
Mine are more interesting, and I made the same argument…
December.29.2010 at 12:26 am
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…Michael Moynihan, senior editor at Reason magazine, gets the Government Shill of the Year Award ? to be known, henceforth, as the "Shilly"…
"Moynihan's essay averring that Assange is not a "real" journalist, and WikiLeaks is not a journalistic enterprise that ought to enjoy First Amendment protection, is especially noteworthy in this regard: Of course, there have been others ? plenty of them ? who have labored mightily to curry favor with the feds by anticipating and creatively prefiguring Assange's coming indictment, but Moynihan deserves special "credit" on account of the mental gymnastics required to target Assange in the pages of an allegedly "libertarian" periodical. Bravo!" Love the bitchslap
What's aggravating is the idea that only the journalist profession has freedom of the press.
tkwelge
December.29.2010 at 2:35 pm
IT seemed to me that Moynihan's qualm with Assange is that he should be responsible for the information that he leaked. I didn't see him argue that Assange belongs in prison or that wikileaks should be shut down.
How dare he dissent from the libertarian line! Dissent must be crushed for freedom!
Yeah, what a strict litmus test. How dare anyone expect libertarians to hold basic libertarian views.
Ummm – pass.
Federal Man
Assange is going down. If the Swedes or Brits don't make an example out of him, we Feds will find a way to get it done. If his punishment is not severe and inevitable, others may follow in his footsteps.
http://youareproperty.blogspot…..ps-up.html
When is reason going to release all of their internal memos? Come on, Weigel, throw us a bone!
I think you miss the point here. Government is bad. They should never have secrets. Private enterprise, especially journalism, is good. Their secrets are protected under the First Amendment. I would add that, in considering what constitutes "private enterprise" one must exclude private property which is stolen via illegal copying and distribution, because every unprincipled anarchist knows that, if you can't see it, it isn't property. Hope this helps.
I agree that some of the documents released by wikileaks do come up against libel and slander laws when we are talking about private individuals. Governments and public figures do not have rights to anything. They are public servants and nothing more.
I'm not an anarchist, but the argument has never been that "if you can't see it, it isn't property." THe actual argument is that something isn't theft if nobody's ability to utilize a resource has been infringed. Interpreting private property as a right to profit is not accurate.
Farmer Jim
Interpreting private property as a right to profit is not accurate.
I have no right to sell my potatoes (my property) at a profit? I did not know that. If somebody steals my potatoes and eats them himself, is that OK too? What if he sells my potatoes? Is that good or bad?
You have a right to sell your potatoes at a profit if you can find someone willing to buy them at a price that will be profitable to you. You don't have a right to be guaranteed a profit via government preventing other people from selling potatoes in competition with you.
Just like you don't have a right to maintain your "property values" by restricting the actions of your neighbors.
So no, you don't have a right to profit AS SUCH if you can't obtain one through unfettered exchange on a free market.
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I dunno, Sidney Crosby's goal in Overtime changed the game against the US.
Ken Shultz
"That power, the power to shape public opinion and reaction to specific events, is gone."
That's, quite frankly, contradicted by recent events–as recent as September 6, 2003:
"WASHINGTON (AP) ? Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, says a poll out almost two years after the terrorists' strike against this country.
Sixty-nine percent in a Washington Post poll published Saturday said they believe it is likely the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks carried out by al-Qaeda. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents believe it's likely Saddam was involved."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/w…..iraq_x.htm
That poll was taken six months after we invaded Iraq. Almost 70% of the American people polled believed that Saddam Hussein was complicit in 9/11–and someone thinks the power to shape public opinion and reaction to specific events is gone?!
How would Wikileaks have improved that situation? The Plame Affair went public months before that poll! Torture only became an issue after all those Abu Ghraib photos went public–but even after that, the mob defended those "interrogation methods" tooth and nail!
Wikileaks may be a game changer, but the significance of having access to information can be overstated. For most people, being fooled isn't about not having access to the information–it's a character issue.
There's no shame in being lied to, but no amount of lies could ever make me condone something like torturing people by some other name either–and there just isn't anything about Wikileaks that improves people's character.
>> Almost 70% of the American people polled believed that Saddam Hussein was complicit in 9/11
70% of the American people don't know what "complicit" means.
Sheng-Ji Yang
What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
I prefer "Fear is the mind-killer"; regardless, as long as a critical mass of people will do whatever they're told when they're frightened, they'll continue to be susceptible to "noble lies".
More information doesn't change that equation. Scare the masses, and they'll do whatever the guy in charge says will make them safe. …and they'll lash out all the dissenters too–guaranteed.
Bush did that during the War on Terror. Obama did it during the financial crisis. And the worst of those abuses didn't happen behind our backs–they happened right in front of us. We knew all about it!
People who rationalize whatever the guy in charge is doing so long as they think it's being done to save them? Can't blame subsequent abuses on a lack of information.
I'm a big fan of more ammunition, which is what Wikileaks is, but let's not get confused about what the problem is here. A huge chunk of the people out there believe what makes them feel good regardless of the facts–and Wikileaks does nothing to address that.
What a strange rant. Anyway, it is better to have the information than to not have it. That is the point. Yeah, 7 out of 10 Americans may have been that stupid, but the fact remains that the truth was widely available had people bothered to look. That is different than living in a time when you could even access such information no matter what resources were available.
Kolohe
In terms of criticizing the overblown game-changing triumphalism it's spot on.
Gillespie says straight out that for the US government, the hidden was not too different from the visible. And even with information opening available for people to read themselves some people are still spinning various findings as hard as they can. (positively or negatively)
This doesn't represent a sea change because it won't significantly affect the 'decision points' of governments going forward – because such revelations haven't changed them in the past. (I've said this before but how many wars were prevented by revealing and confirming in the Pentagon Papers the blaring mendacity of the US government wrt Southeast Asia?)
"This doesn't represent a sea change because it won't significantly affect the 'decision points' of governments going forward – because such revelations haven't changed them in the past. "
First of all, it is not just changes in communications technology that is changing the game. We have changed too. The speed at which information becomes available and is distributed keeps increasing, and the wikileaks story is only the beginning. I also disagree that revelations of truth haven't made a difference in the past.
We have changed too.
And that's exactly it, 'we' have not. We're still the same bags of water powered by mitochrondria and governed by 1.5 kilo mass of electrical connections.
Human society is run by human beings, and the information available has long beeen greater than the ability to assimilate it all. The decisions that are made individually, collectively, and/or by (willingly assigned, grudgingly accepted, or hostilely opposed) proxies are still made by human beings with the same limitations and incentives as they've had for millenia.
Nick stop that. Wikileaks played no role in breaking the Climtegate story. I challenge you to find one 2009 vintage story article on Climategate that refers to Wikileaks as a source.
Nat Wilcox
The notion that Wikileaks played anything other than a reluctant me-too role in the CRU emails is ridiculous. See here:
http://climateaudit.org/2010/11/30/assange-on-climategate/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201…..ange-wuwt/
Charles the moderator (at WUWT) challenges Assange to contradict his version of events, but as we all know Julian Assange explains himself to nobody, at least not on request.
They're still better than other mainstream outlets that tried to ignore them or avoid publishing them by reasoning that it was an unacceptable invasion of privacy or whatever.
That's what my Dad calls "Damning with faint praise."
sevo
Disagreed. Wikileaks is a positive, but it's marred by that asshole Assange.
More importantly, in any sort of practical effect, that hag Pelosi's 'healthcare' is bound to cause 'way more harm than Wikileaks could ever correct.
Fatty Bolger
Hey! I thought this was a libertarian site! I want my "nothing will change" doom & gloom articles about the impact of wikileaks on politics, and I want them now!
Almanian
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association judges could use some "wikileaking".
Now, when a US pipe band wins the World Pipe Band Championship, THAT will be the "End Times Game Changer". Not holding my breath for that eventuality…but it's only been 23 years since the first win by an "overseas" band, so who knows…maybe in my lifetime.
Pravin Lal
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
You sound like you've been drinking even more than I have – here's mud in yer eye – bottoms up!
No, he's read too many of Assange's C-minus term papers on, uh, something like graph theory. Shouldn't dignify it by actually calling it graph theory.
Deirdre Skye
Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
Well my favorite conspiracy was mentioned, and given credibility through the leaks so I'm pleased.
Craig Stapleton, GMOs, threatening France, etc.
Yeah, there's nothing worse than a guy who transforms the world as we know it, but doesn't live up to our image of unblemished heroic righteousness. I mean the nerve of that guy! Hell, that's even worse than a sports star who doesn't fulfill his mandatory function as a role model for ten year olds.
And, when you get right down to it, Assange is just like all the others who changed history. No individual is important because, after all, if they hadn't done it, someone else would have. Assange, like Walter Frederick Morrison, invented something so simple that anyone of a bazillion other people could have done it (notwithstanding the fact that none of those other bazillion people actually did).
I'm sure that any one of us libertarians who tried something never done before would have easily avoided the mistakes that Julian Assange made. And, faced with instant rock star fame on a global scale with women throwing themselves at our feet, we would have brushed off uncertainty and temptation and instinctively behaved with absolute confidence and impeccable integrity. People would probably have compared us favorably to Gandhi or Christ.
Yeah, if only everyone were like us…
server squirrels
"And, faced with instant rock star fame on a global scale with women throwing themselves at our feet, we would have brushed off uncertainty and temptation…"
I may not have rock star status on a global scale, but women do find me irresistible.
And I handle it gracefully.
LarryA
People would probably have compared us favorably to Gandhi or Christ.
Both of whom were killed for their good deeds.
What I have noticed is that the cables have been out for a month now, and the sky has yet to fall.
Yes, and so, we can all agree that the cables are nothing more than adolescent ameriphobe porn. Of course as libertarians we are obligated to defend the rights of pornographers. Without celebrating porn of course, the enjoyment of which is a matter of taste not principle. Bad taste.
Showing that the American government does evil acts does not make one an "Ameriphobe".
Or maybe not:
http://www.theatlantic.com/int…..bwe/68598/
Wikileaks made outing government secrets fashionable. And this comes at the worst possible time for democratic governments, which after having finally learned that secrecy is the antidote for a powerful populace, are now being threatened with the loss of that tool.
Unfortunately, the public is as afraid of having power as the government is of losing it, so not everyone sees this as a good thing.
Some minor points: the wikileakers played only a small role in the CRU leaks. Further, anti-American asshole Assange is an asshole and all those people going to form OpenLeaks agree. Last, the proper term is 'file-stealing' not 'file-sharing'.
Openleaks is going to be formed by ex-employees-of course they have an axe to grind.
affenkopf
If you steal from a thief is it really stealing?
At least in Texas "theft" includes appropriating property you know to be stolen.
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The only thing wikileaks has significantly "changed" is the self-satisfaction levels from lolbertarians. Pro tip: Ayn Rand, as an ardent war hawk, would want Julian Assange hung up by his balls.
Ayn Rand also was no libertarian.
Ya but would she want him to wear a condom?
Mr Whipple
Truthdig, where editor-in-chief, Robert Scheer, still blames Clinton's repeal of Glass-Steagall as the primary cause of the financial "collapse".
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The blog post was great and right on but then links to four establishment hacks who have nothing good to say about wikileaks – bit of a disconnect there…
Isn't it too soon to declare victory?
What will the government do to prosecute Assange? The Public Relations campaign has started, but what else may they try? Remember Manuel Noriega?
Has anyone polled public opinion to see how many in the public think we should go get him?
I doubt Assange is polling well in Peoria especially after the job the media-government complex have done on him.
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What does Ellsberg's attorney think?
"Mr. Assange is no boon to American journalists. His activities have already doomed proposed federal shield-law legislation protecting journalists' use of confidential sources in the just-adjourned Congress. An indictment of him could be followed by the judicial articulation of far more speech-limiting legal principles than currently exist with respect to even the most responsible reporting about both diplomacy and defense. If he is not charged or is acquitted of whatever charges may be made, that may well lead to the adoption of new and dangerously restrictive legislation. In more than one way, Mr. Assange may yet have much to answer for."
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..on_LEADTop
Who says everything anybody does has to be in the best interests of everyone?
People having freedom means them having the freedom to do things I don't like–and embracing that fact is what libertarianism is all about.
Embracing rights isn't the same thing as approving of something. As P.J. says, freedom is its own punishment. If you use your freedom to do stupid and socially destructive stuff, well then by golly I'll use mine to point out that your being an ugly destructive fool.
I believe Ellsberg would disgaree and that guy ain't his lawyer – the huy represented the NYT in the Pentagon Papers…
http://www.thenation.com/video…..ument-dump
I accept the correction that Abrams was the lawyer for the NYT. I'm also well-aware that Ellsberg has gushed positive about Assange. I still believe Abrams is worth listening to, and that he has several cogent points. The uncritical valorization of Assange around these parts is truly appalling.
If Wikileaks is such a game changer, let's wait for the huge dump of Chinese or Iranian or Saudi or North Korean internal musings, places were leakers would be summarily executed. Wikileaks is only a game changer because it hurts the West, specifically, the U.S., which is Assange's goal.
Sigivald
The net result just may well be governments, scientists, businesses, and other sources of power that act more openly and honestly.
Much more likely that "bad stuff" happens completely off the record so there's nothing to leak, or so strongly encrypted as to be equivalent.
The best way to kill "transparency" in the long run is to make it so very expensive in the short run that nobody will tolerate it.
As "Think of England" suggests, no "closed" state is going to change because of WikiLeaks – and I suspect very strongly that the "open" states will simply start to clam up.
(And I suspect there will also be far more popular support for it in the face of hostile actors like Wikileaks than without it.
Thanks, Julian! Thanks a lot.)
Van: Nothing. That's what'll happen to him at the hands of the US government, and he damned well knows it – which is exactly why he's so willing to attack the US.
When he attacks Russia and embarrasses the FSB, I'll give him more credit (and a much shorter life expectancy, so I can't blame him, either).
The intelligence community in the U.S. has a LONG memory. They have history of friendly relations with MI6 and MI5.
Don't count your chickens just yet.

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November's Chat & Learn featured curriculum-aligned winter holiday resources from PBS LearningMedia with historical perspectives on familiar traditions. We also spotlighted engaging PBS KIDS content about snow, celebrations and friendship perfect for the younger set. Below is a sampling of what we viewed. Register for our next Chat & Learn today!
Have you ever stopped to wonder why celebrate Thanksgiving in November or choose valentines in February? These familiar traditions have fascinating and sometimes surprising origins. Get to know the history and significance behind these U.S. holidays (and more!) with this collection of resources.
This collection includes clips from several favorite PBS KIDS programs, including Pet + Cat, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, and Dinosaur Train.
Experience the Mayflower's arrival in November 1620 and learn about the Pilgrims' first winter, in this video adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Pilgrims. With passengers and crew weakened by the voyage and weeks exploring Cape Cod, the Mayflower anchored in Plymouth harbor in late December 1620. After ferrying supplies to land, the Pilgrims began building a common house for shelter and to store their goods. The weather worsened, and exposure and infections took their toll. By the spring of 1621, about half of the Mayflower's passengers and crew had died.
This is a scene from a holiday musical written by Billy Edd Wheeler and Ewel Cornett. In the play, photographer Lewis Hine uses his camera in a glass factory to help the children who work there. In this scene, the children sneak into the factory at night and encounter Hine, who explains what he is trying to do. The children sing "Pitiful." This segment was taken from a performance by Stage One young people's theater.


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package EnsEMBL::Web::ImageConfig::gene_variation;

use strict;
use warnings;

use parent qw(EnsEMBL::Web::ImageConfig);

sub init_cacheable {
  ## @override
  my $self = shift;

  $self->SUPER::init_cacheable(@_);

  my %colours;
  $colours{$_} = $self->species_defs->colour($_) for qw(variation haplotype);

  $self->set_parameters({
    image_resizeable  => 1,
    label_width       => 100,        # width of labels on left-hand side
    opt_halfheight    => 0,          # glyphs are half-height [ probably removed when this becomes a track config ]
    opt_empty_tracks  => 0,          # include empty tracks
    colours           => \%colours,  # colour maps
  });

  $self->create_menus(qw(
    transcript
    variation
    somatic
    gsv_transcript
    other
    gsv_domain
  ));

  $self->load_tracks;

  $self->get_node('transcript')->set_data('caption', 'Other genes');

  $self->modify_configs(
    [ 'variation', 'somatic', 'gsv_transcript', 'other' ],
    { menu => 'no' }
  );

  if ($self->cache_code ne $self->type) {
    my $func = "init_".$self->cache_code;
    $self->$func if $self->can($func);
  }
}

sub init_gene {
  my $self = shift;

  $self->add_tracks('variation',
    [ 'snp_join',         '', 'snp_join',         { display => 'on',     strand => 'b', menu => 'no', tag => 0, colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'variation'} }],
    [ 'geneexon_bgtrack', '', 'geneexon_bgtrack', { display => 'normal', strand => 'b', menu => 'no', tag => 0, colours => 'bisque', src => 'all'                         }]
  );

  $self->add_tracks('other',
    [ 'scalebar', '', 'scalebar', { display => 'normal', strand => 'f', menu => 'no'               }],
    [ 'ruler',    '', 'ruler',    { display => 'normal', strand => 'f', menu => 'no', notext => 1  }],
    [ 'spacer',   '', 'spacer',   { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', height => 52 }],
  );

  $self->get_node('gsv_domain')->remove;

  $self->modify_configs(
    [ 'variation_feature_variation' ],
    { display => 'compact', strand => 'f' }
  );
  $self->modify_configs(
    [ 'somatic_mutation_COSMIC' ],
    { display => 'compact', strand => 'f' }
  );
}

sub init_transcripts_top {
  my $self = shift;

  $self->add_tracks('other',
    [ 'geneexon_bgtrack', '', 'geneexon_bgtrack', { display => 'normal', strand => 'f', menu => 'no', tag => 1, colours => 'bisque', src => 'all'                                        }],
    [ 'snp_join',         '', 'snp_join',         { display => 'normal', strand => 'f', menu => 'no', tag => 1, colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'variation'}, context => 50 }],
  );

  $self->get_node($_)->remove for qw(gsv_domain transcript);
}

sub init_transcript {
  my $self = shift;

  $self->add_tracks('other',
    [ 'gsv_variations', '', 'gsv_variations', { display => 'on',     strand => 'r', menu => 'no', colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'variation'} }],
    [ 'spacer',         '', 'spacer',         { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', height => 10,                                             }],
  );

  $self->get_node('transcript')->remove;
}

sub init_transcripts_bottom {
  my $self = shift;

  $self->add_tracks('other',
    [ 'geneexon_bgtrack', '', 'geneexon_bgtrack', { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', tag => 1, colours => 'bisque', src => 'all'                                        }],
    [ 'snp_join',         '', 'snp_join',         { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', tag => 1, colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'variation'}, context => 50 }],
    [ 'ruler',            '', 'ruler',            { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', notext => 1, name => 'Ruler'                                                       }],
    [ 'spacer',           '', 'spacer',           { display => 'normal', strand => 'r', menu => 'no', height => 50,                                                                      }],
  );

  $self->get_node($_)->remove for qw(gsv_domain transcript);
}

sub init_snps {
  my $self= shift;

  $self->set_parameters({
    bgcolor   => 'background1',
    bgcolour1 => 'background3',
    bgcolour2 => 'background1'
  });

  $self->add_tracks('other',
    [ 'snp_fake',             '', 'snp_fake',             { display => 'on',  strand => 'f', colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'variation'}, tag => 2                                    }],
    [ 'variation_legend',     '', 'variation_legend',     { display => 'on',  strand => 'r', menu => 'no', caption => 'Variant Legend'                                                              }],
    [ 'snp_fake_haplotype',   '', 'snp_fake_haplotype',   { display => 'off', strand => 'r', colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'haplotype'}                                              }],
    [ 'tsv_haplotype_legend', '', 'tsv_haplotype_legend', { display => 'off', strand => 'r', colours => $self->get_parameter('colours')->{'haplotype'}, caption => 'Haplotype legend', src => 'all' }],
  );

  $self->get_node($_)->remove for qw(gsv_domain transcript);
}

1;

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The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides annual grants to the City of Cocoa to develop a viable City by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for low and moderate-income persons. The program is authorized under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383, as amended; 42 U.S.C.-5301 et seq.
The City must develop and follow a detailed plan which provides for and encourages citizen participation and that emphasizes participation by persons of low or moderate-income, particularly residents of predominantly low and moderate-income neighborhoods, slum or blighted areas, and areas in which the City proposes to use CDBG funds.
The City of Cocoa also receives HOME funds.HOME is authorized under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as amended and is used to fund a wide range of activities that build, buy, and / or rehabilitate affordable housing for rent or homeownership or provide direct rental assistance to low-income people.


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To be able to share knowledge and insight that may inspire someone to create a new empowering path, to me is truly a blessing. I can't imagine not giving back something in my lifetime to help others.
Since Derek's early years he has always shown a passion for speaking, the visual arts and creative writing. After graduating with a BFA in 1994 he followed a career in advertising and marketing. For twenty years in the industry he learned how to present new designs and conceptual marketing strategies to clients. Understanding the significance of giving a successful presentation and meeting the needs of the clients, was such an important skill set to acquire.
"At a very young age I have always had this desire to express an idea or a realization. For many years I did this in the form of art, illustrating my vision in hopes that it would help someone see a different view point. Not until I entered the world of a teaching did I realize how much more effective I was in reaching out to others and helping them understand complex concepts. Finding creative ways and analogies became a fun and challenging way to relate to people who were struggling with certain topics. This opened the door for me to a new career and passion."
After a few life changes Derek made the decision to seek out new horizons and moved to Australia. Once settling in on the east coast he started working for Apple Inc. There he found a desire to speak performing various workshops, hands on training events, specialty group lectures, internal presentations on company procedures and product tutorials. Excelling in this area he became one of the trainers specializing in giving presentations, educating groups and one on one training.
Derek performs weekly speeches about business, work/life/balance and living a healthy lifestyle through the wonders of nutrition. These topics many of us struggle with on a daily basis.
What does health have to do with the corporate world? Ever heard the expression "If you don't have your health you don't have anything"? If someone physically does not feel well does it affect the decisions they make? What kind of energy do they have and does it effect others around them? How well do they perform overall and especially in stressful situations? Having a healthy work environment is such an important key for a company's growth and success. Has anyone discussed the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and how it reflects their performance? What strategies does your company have to support a healthy work environment? Can you see how important the benefits are around wellbeing. Creating that awareness and having that support can be just what a company needs to lift the energy in a workplace. Imagine taking it another step further and implementing a program that inspires a healthy mindset that brings people together.
Many of Derek's speeches revolve around nutrition, mindset, emotion and wellbeing. His unique creative approach and knowledge will enlighten an audience in just about any type of event. Food and our diverse lifestyles is a subject we all can relate to and find common ground.
Whether you're a school, social group, gym, health clinic or non profit organization, you will be so glad that you made the decision to have Derek speak at your event. A Great way to bring awareness and support to a community is to have an exceptional speaker. Someone who can lift up the room with energy and inspire those around them. Having a guest speaker can literally change an entire event and create a buzz that will last a lifetime.


Preheat oven to 240°C (475°F). Place the tomato puree, garlic, salt and pepper in a medium bowl and stir to combine. Place the Brussels sprouts, oil, salt and pepper on a large oven tray and toss to combine. Cook for 6–8 minutes or until tender.
Place the pita breads on 2 large oven trays, spread with the tomato mixture and top with the Brussels sprouts, ham, chilli, pecorino and ricotta. Cook for 8–10 minutes or until crisp and golden. Top with the extra pecorino to serve. Serves 4.


After his prized guitar is stolen, a down-and-out musician makes a deal with a headstrong teenager – if she drives him across Texas to get the guitar, he'll introduce her to the man she believes is her father – his famous former music partner he hasn't seen in 16 years.
Our cast and crew will be gender, age, and minority inclusive. A few crew spots and internships will be offered to students of a local university with one of the most diverse populations in Texas. In addition, we are 50+ year-old female filmmakers, an age and voice often underrepresented in film.
Please follow our campaign by clicking the FOLLOW button! Thanks to Seed & Spark and Duplass Brothers Productions, we have a special opportunity to have Duplass Brothers Productions sign on as an Executive Producer of our project. This will allow us to benefit from their extensive knowledge of independent film production and their connections when we are seeking distribution and film festival showings. But we can't get there without great followers and supporters like you so please, FOLLOW our page and DONATE if you can.
The story of BABYDOLL revolves around Robby Hayes. Robby was once part of a wildly successful country music duo.
At the height of their success, he left to focus on writing songs that were more than empty country pop. But sixteen years later, he's washing dishes, living alone in the storage room of a small town diner, and struggling to write those songs.
The only thing he still owns - the only thing he still cares about - is his prized guitar, Babydoll.
But when Babydoll is stolen, Robby is forced to re-engage with the world in order to find her. That's when he runs into 15-year-old Kemah, the daughter of a former band groupie. Actually, she's run away from summer camp to track Robby down.
She's looking for a way to connect to a father she's never met and she's sure Robby can help her. Robby isn't interested but Kemah has just inherited the one thing he needs to get Babydoll back - a car.
They make a deal: Kemah will drive him across Texas to find Babyoll, then Robby will introduce her to the man she believes is her father - the famous former music partner Robby hasn't seen in 16 years.
BABYDOLL is about reconciliation and self-forgiveness, the importance of a positive father-daughter relationship, and how the collaborative experience of making music can create family.
Much of the story comes from my personal experience. My father left our family when I was 14 and while I did see him occasionally, we never developed a father-daughter bond. Much has been said about the importance of the mother-daughter relationship and I'm lucky to have been raised by a strong and encouraging mother. But as I've gotten older, it's clear to me that a strong father-daughter relationship is an important, but all too often missing, key in empowering young women and their future success. This experience helped me in creating the character of 15-year-old Kemah and understanding her desire to know her father.
But if family bonds aren't born, they can be created. Working musicians are members of my family and extended family. They get along and they squabble with members of their bands but the act of collaborating to make music binds them together. In addition, key members of our production team and I are life-long residents of Texas. We grew up in the small towns around Austin, listening to Texas music and dancing in its historic rural dance halls.
Texas has a vibrant music culture and a respect for songwriters who can craft a good tune and tell a great story. Songwriting is unique in the arts in that the words may tell the story, but the music evokes the emotion that tells us how to feel about it. However, in the long run, songwriting isn't really a solo venture...other musicians help carry the story and an audience shares it.
In this screenplay, I paint a vivid picture of a musician's life in Texas – the songwriters who labor to craft a good tune and tell a great story, the $50-a-night gigs, the late nights, hoping for success and living with regret. Robby may have left his famous music partner but they are still bound together by their music. When Robby finally addresses the mistakes of his past and makes the decision to include Kemah and her mother in his future, he's able to reconnect to his music.
If you're wondering if $7500 is enough to make a feature film, the answer is NO! The money we raise here on Seed & Spark will allow us to hire a local Casting Director to help us find the best actors possible for this project, acquire the film rights for the music of a Texas songwriter, and to lock down the right filming locations. Any money we're able to raise over and above the $7500 will be used directly for production and will help us get one step closer to the big screen. Raising funds through crowdfunding also helps us show investors that there is already an audience for our project.
But it isn't just money. Every supporter and follower gets us closer to winning the grand prize, AND there are great prizes for every benchmark we hit along the way. This is not a journey we can take alone - we NEED you along with us!
And we want you to have some goodies too. We've got some great and fun rewards for every level of donation! Check them out under the INCENTIVES banner, and come be a part of our film and music making family.
- Click the FOLLOW button on our page. In order to be considered for the Hometown Heroes finals, we need at least 1000 followers! We need you! So go ahead, CLICK THE BUTTON!
- SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! Please share our page to your social media platforms. Tell your best friend, your mom, that neighbor who plays guitar, your co-workers, your dad, your ex from high school, or anyone who is interested in film, songwriting, Texas or looking to do a good deed for the day!
- Contribute financially to the campaign (any amount is AMAZING!) and be a part of helping us WIN the rally and bring this story to life!
The reality is that we won't get there without you, so please FOLLOW our page and DONATE if you can.
THANK YOU! Glad you're on the road with us! You'll receive all our BABYDOLL Project Updates as well as high praise on the 'BABYDOLL Wall of Fame'.
In addition to the afore mentioned Updates and High Praise, you will receive a personalized shout-out on ALL of our Social Media! If you have a project or business you want us to promote, let us know and we'll happily include it in your personal SHOUT-OUT!
You've just committed to supporting quality entertainment AND the independent film industry! Because of your awesomeness you'll receive the above + a digital download of Surprise Content that might include adventures in location scouting, interviews with cast and/or crew as they come on board, videos of Leslie and Susan doing glamorous pre-production type stuff, and/or behind the scenes footage or outtakes from filming of the above pitch video. Guaranteed to be entertaining!
You'll receive all updates, your name on the Wall of Fame, Surprise Content, AND a personalized musical Thank You by one of our cast or crew, posted to all of our Social Media!
You'll receive all Updates, your name on the Wall of Fame, Surprise Content, a personalized musical Thank You, AND a lovingly curated Babydoll Playlist! The playlist may contain music from Babydoll, and/or songs by local musicians/singers/songwriters that we love!
You'll receive our Updates, your name on the Wall of Fame, Surprise Content AND you'll get to NAME A BAND in the Babydoll film!
Get FEEDBACK ON YOUR SHORT SCRIPT (10 pages or less) from our very own Susan Busa, who is head of undergrad Dramatic Writing at Texas State University! Susan was a James A. Michener Fellow in Screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin where she was awarded a MFA in Writing in May 2000, and has written for television networks and film production companies. You will also receive all Updates, Wall of Fame recognition, Surprise Content and a Musical Thank You!
You deserve star treatment! You'll receive our Updates, your name on the Wall of Fame, Surprise Content AND you'll have a CHARACTER IN THE FILM NAMED AFTER YOU!
Wondering what Robby and Kemah are munching on during this road trip? Here's your chance to find out! We'll send you an "All the Good Snacks" gift basket filled with all kinds of delicious Texas goodies! You'll also get all Updates, Wall of Fame recognition, Surprise Content and a Musical Thank You!
You will be recognized in Babydoll's end credits as an Associate Producer, as well as on IMDb! What a great way to begin your budding movie business, add to your already impressive industry resume, or simply support independent film in a really tangible way. You will also receive all Updates, Wall of Fame recognition, Surprise Content and a Musical Thank You!
You will be recognized as a CO-PRODUCER in Babydoll's end credits, as well as on IMDb! This will look great on the resume of your budding film career, add extra sparkle to your already impressive industry resume, or simply support independent film and provide access to a really fun ride as we build our Babydoll community and move on to the production phase of filmmaking. You will also receive all Updates, Wall of Fame recognition, Surprise Content and a Musical Thank You!
YOU'RE WITH THE BAND! You'll be credited as an Executive Producer of Babydoll in the end credits and on IMDb. And of course, you'll receive Updates, Wall of Fame recognition, Suprise Content, a Musical Thank You, the Gift Basket and a front row seat in our hearts.
What the Heck is a Line Producer?!?
The person who makes the budget! So we know exactly how much is needed to make something AMAZING!
1 Month Rental of THE RIGHT CAR!
Road trip movies need cars! We need a car FULL of personality! Small, old, beatup and charming!
Screenplay requires a super special ELECTRIC GUITAR and case.
To begin our search for the perfect talent to play the characters in Babydoll.
Music rights acquisition. Local Austin-based songwriter.
We want to film in Texas' historic DANCE HALLS. We also need a diner and a hotel room.
Susan's writing career started in the childhood garage when she convinced all of her neighbors to perform in her updated version of CINDERELLA using a picnic bench for the Prince's horse.
Since then, she has written for and optioned screenplays to NBC, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Highway 101, and Go Dog! Creative and has directed several short films, including HARMONY IN THE HILLS and DAN'S THE MAN. Her most recent comedy short, SLEEPOVER, was a festival selection at the Women Texas Film Festival and Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. In addition to her film work, she co-founded UpStage Theater Company where she wrote and directed nine youth musicals , including WELCOME TO CAMP KATCHIKOOTEE, A SCHOOL FOR SUPERHEROES and THE WICKER STREET WAR. A former James A. Michener Fellow in Screenwriting, Susan is a co-founder of Twenty-two Twenty-two Media with Leslie and serves as the head of undergraduate dramatic writing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University.
A former high school cheerleader from Bryan, Texas (Go Tigers!), and a former child actress with Jimmy Lloyd Productions in LA, Leslie graduated with a degree in political science from Texas A&M and immediately moved to Sao Paolo, Brazil. There, she learned Portuguese and opened a high-end interior design showroom. After her first child was born, Leslie and her family moved back to Texas where Leslie began a successful real estate career. But both of Leslie's children had the show business bug and it wasn't long before Leslie caught it again too.
Leslie and Susan's partnership began eight years ago when Susan cast her as a pregnant mom in her musical ALL THE CHILDREN SING. The experience of wearing a belly-pillow around convinced Leslie that she wanted to return to show business. Leslie has been an active supporter of indendepent film and theater makers before co-founding Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Media with Susan Busa and Stuart Hargrove.
Brian was born in San Francisco, California and raised in the East Bay. Active as a youth in sports Brian participated in football and ran track in college. He majored in English and Psychology while attending California State University at Chico, he also earned a AA degree in Film at San Francisco City College. After moving to San Francisco in the early 1990s he participated in a number of theatrical productions. Brian is producer of independent film, including the award-winning feature BELLFLOWER, as well as the short MUTED and SALVATORE.
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Das Hochwasserrückhaltebecken Straußfurt liegt bei Straußfurt, Landkreis Sömmerda in Thüringen. Es war zunächst ein sogenanntes "Grünes Becken" und hielt nur bei Hochwasser das Wasser der Unstrut zurück. Weitere Zwecke sind Brauchwasserversorgung und Naturschutz.

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Das Absperrbauwerk ist ein Erddamm, der Ende der 1960er Jahre errichtet worden ist. Er besteht aus zwei Zonen, einem wasserseitigen Dichtungskörper aus Keupermergel und einem luftseitigen Stützkörper aus Kies. An der Wasserseite ist er zusätzlich von einer Asphaltbetonschicht abgedeckt. Der Damm hat ein 91 m langes Entlastungsbauwerk aus Beton. Die Hochwasserentlastung besteht aus einem 270 m langen Hangüberlauf mit einer 200 m langen Rinne.  Das Hochwasserrückhaltebecken wird von der Thüringer Fernwasserversorgung betrieben.

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Liste von Talsperren in Deutschland
Liste der Gewässer in Thüringen

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Prof. Marko Sarstedt (Profile, Citation) is a Chaired Professor of Marketing at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Newcastle (Australia). His main interests are the advancement of research methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior. His research has been published in, for example, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Organizational Research Methods, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, Journal of World Business, Marketing Letters, and Long Range Planning. Marko has coedited several special issues of leading journals and co-authored three widely adopted textbooks, including "A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)" (together with Joseph F. Hair, G. Tomas M. Hult, and Christian M. Ringle).
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EDUCATION FOR SELF-RELIANCE – 20 YEARS AFTER
January 1, 1989	at 12:40 am · Filed under Issue 32, Miscellany
Tanzania's Education for Self-Reliance Policy together with Universal Primary Education (UPE), both of which caught the world's attention as the country's proudest achievements in fighting ignorance still do not have very much to show in achievement.
The present crisis of primary school leavers, as exemplified by the flooding of urban areas with an influx of young semi-literates who cannot get a place in secondary school or fit into rural life in their villages, appears to be both confusing and compounding.
It is confusing because the introduction of self-reliance was meant to adapt pupils to the realities of a country in which 95% of the population lives in a rural environment. The education reform was also meant to be a means of slowing the rural exodus into the cities, thus lowering the unemployment rate and preparing the youth for appropriate roles in society and working towards better living.
But twenty years later the migration of youths from the villages to urban centres has increased; so has the youth's disillusionment as they confront the growing appreciation that urban streets are not paved with gold. And along with this disillusionment the young people question and disregard the relevance of mainstream social values, leading sociologists to fear that the costs of this attitude to individuals and the nation may be monumental. What worries them is the number of those growing up with a limited and hostile sense of life. For many, they say, the future is tightly hemmed in by horizons so narrow that moving out of poverty seems unthinkable. With no capital to make a living in their villages most of these youths, some as young as fourteen, drift to urban areas where, finding no reliable source of income, they soon drift into alcoholism, drug abuse, burglary, armed robbery, stowing-away and other unbecoming behaviour like prostitution.
But in a country where education has long been considered to be one of the basic social needs and accorded a high status, the situation raises some controversial questions.
Officials blame the young people who enjoy the benefits of a free education and go on to spurn facilities which society places at their disposal. But critics think society itself is to blame as these young men and women are merely victims of circumstances and forces they cannot control. As soon as they come out of school a stark, colourless life without any support is what greets them in the poor villages. Squeezed between poverty and indifference the urban streets look like the only outlet to them.
Critics of the existing education system say the problem has been caused by ignoring actual facts in overall education planning, notably the economic structure of the country and its growth trends which limit and overestimate employment opportunities.
Ministry of Education officials however counter that the current educational and economic systems in the country clearly depict the spreading of modern agricultural methods and appropriate technology, especially in the Villages. And while UPE has raised the literacy rate from 41% to 85% and this may have resulted in a considerable gap between the appreciation of rural facilities and their availability this is an achievement and a situation which every level-headed Tanzanian has to understand rather than condemn. The officials maintain, and very rightly perhaps, that those who feel disillusioned with the current situation in the villages do so for their own selfish ends and not because of lack of government goodwill and efforts to develop them – SHIHATA
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The multistep synthesis of a series of substituted amidino-benzimidazolyl-furyl-phenyl-acrylic acid`s esters and substituted amidino-benzimidazolyl-naphtho[2, 1-b]furan-carboxylic acid`s esters is described starting from corresponding 3-(2-furyl)-2-phenyl-acrylic acids. The new compounds were tested on the cytostatic activities against malignant cell lines: pancreatic carcinoma (MiaPaCa2), breast carcinoma (MCF7), cervical carcinoma (HeLa), laryngeal carcinoma (Hep2), colon carcinoma (HT 29), melanoma (HBL), and human fibroblast cell lines (WI-38). All compounds inhibited the proliferation of tumor cell lines. Inhibitory effect of examined compounds depended on cencentration, but without significant diference among the type of tumor cells. The compounds 2 and 5 exerted very low inhibitory effect on the growth of human fibroblasts.


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As genomics begins to play a greater role in healthcare thanks to precision medicine initiatives and the advancement of science, 2bPrecise, LLC, an EHR-agnostic, cloud-based precision medicine platform, today announced a technology license agreement with Mayo Clinic as well as a collaboration to develop and research genomics-based care protocols. As part of the licensing agreement, Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education and
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The Kelowna Rockets added some veteran grit to its lineup at the Western Hockey League trade deadline on Tuesday.
The Rockets acquired 20-year-old forward Brett Lyon from the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for two WHL bantam draft picks, sending a 5th round pick in 2014 and a 7th round pick in 2013 to the Warriors in exchange for Lyon.
To make room for Lyon, the Rockets released veteran blueliner Kevin Smith.
Lyon, a 20-year-old native of Grand Forks, BC, is in his fourth WHL season and had 28 points and 95 penalty minutes in 41 games played this year. He was also a plus-nine.
"We are happy to acquire Brett," said Rockets general manager Bruce Hamilton. "We're glad to have another older guy that can play. He's having a pretty good year and we're excited to see him in the line-up."
Lyon, who will fly to Portland to meet the Rockets and his new teammates for Wednesday's game against the Winterhawks, said he was surprised by the deal.
"I was a little shocked when I heard," admitted Lyon. "I wasn't really expecting it but I know it's part of the business. I'm looking forward to it. I know Kelowna has a good team and I think it will be a good place to play."
Lyon is no stranger to Kelowna, having spent one season at the Kelowna based Pursuit of Excellence during his minor hockey years. After playing as a 16-year-old in Fernie in Junior B, Lyon joined the Kamloops Blazers in 2008-09. He also spent parts of two seasons in Vancouver before joining the Warriors last year.
At 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, Lyon will bring a big body to the table.
"I like to play a tough game with a lot of grinding in the corners and help out offensively when I can," he said.
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Cesar Azipilicueta is adamant they will try to get back to winning ways following their disastrous performance in the London derby against Tottenham Hotspur.
Chelsea were made to pay for their lacklustre display as Spurs pumped in three goals past the Blues keeper as they leapfrogged them to the second place. Dele Alli opened the proceedings with an intelligent header to the far corner to provide the lead to the home side.
Harry Kane doubled the lead with an unchallenged shot firing past a hapless David Luiz and Son Heung-min added an icing on the cake with a brilliant third solo goal. The result could have been much worse but Chelsea custodian Kepa Arrizabalaga made sure the scoreline remained within the reach.
Azpilicueta said, "The start was really bad. After 15 minutes being 2-0 down is tough to come back from.
"It's true in the last couple of games we didn't start the game in the way we have to start. In some ways we didn't pay for it, but we paid for it straightaway against Tottenham. When you have this handicap it's tough.
"Tottenham are an aggressive team, they press well, and we were not able to get out with the ball and play our football.
"We have to do better and it hurts to lose in this way. We have to learn from our mistakes, to improve and come back as a team.


Fifteen years ago, a small number of coaches and trainers had their athletes applying ice and taking cold baths (Cold Water Emersion—CWE) routinely after heavy workouts or competition in an effort to decrease recovery time.
More recently, coaches have prescribed Whole Body Cryotherapy, which entails 'chilling out' in a very cold room for several minutes, post-training or -competing. The main benefit of both techniques appears to be the blunting of inflammation and increased blood flow that occurs after the hyper-cooling of muscle tissue.
An Australian study seemed to support these effects when they were tested on the performance of cyclists.
In this study, the 'cold' and the 'hot/cold' baths showed significant effects on improving recovery and performance over the 'hot' and 'no-bath' groups. The cold bath had the best effects on improving power in the sprint test, whilst the hot/cold bath had the best effects on endurance (time trial). The 'hot bath' and the 'no bath' groups actually experienced a decrease in performance.
However, several other studies have shown that whilst ice baths do have a positive effect on post-exercise muscle damage, there is not adequate evidence to say that they improve actual recovery or performance. Also, the effects of non-water cooling after exercise (so called Whole Body Cryotherapy) are supported by even less evidence.
So considering all the research, it's clear that there may be some advantages to CWE after particularly heavy workouts or competitions, including the repair of muscle damage. However, it has yet to be proven that it is more effective than applying ice to the worst-affected body parts, along with the most important remedies: good nutrition and rest!


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Every smoker knows they should quit. Have you ever heard a smoker talk about how happy they are that they decided to start smoking? People who do not smoke can't really understand how hard it is to stop, but ex-smokers have lived the journey. Take some time to read advice from some who have walked in your shoes.
When you have made the decision to stop smoking, try seeking out help from a support group. Support groups can help you learn how to cope with the physical and emotional challenges you may experience while quitting. These people can offer tips, support, and guidance for quitting. You can check your local church, rec center, or even the community college to find these support groups.
TIP! You should try to ease the pain of quitting as much as possible. It is not usually wise to try and quit cold turkey.
Taking things slowly can help you stop smoking. Instead of focusing on quitting forever, just focus on quitting for today. Establishing a shorter timeline can make things seem more attainable. After you feel like you have been successful with your short term commitment, you can try to set goals for long term compliance.
Many people turn to food when they quit smoking, so it is important that you stock up on healthy snacks. This will boost your health by enjoying some healthy produce while stopping weight gain in it's tracks. You must remind yourself that your body will want to eat when you are quitting, you should eat healthy.
Commitment is key to quitting smoking, so are you able to commit to never smoking again? You must answer yes to this question before you start quitting. Often failure to stop smoking can happen because they are not motivated properly or don't have a backup plan when cravings set in. It's possible to remain committed by thinking about the reasons you want to quit.
When you are thinking of quitting, switch brands. Switch to a brand that you don't like or a cigarette that you don't like the taste of. Avoid smoking more of them than you normally would or inhaling them in different ways. This will help you get started on the path to becoming a nonsmoker.
One of the best things you can do to help yourself quit is to not falter if you have a relapse in judgement. Very few smokers are successful at quitting the first time they try. Stop smoking, and make a strong effort to avoid starting again as long as possible. If you fail the first time, set a second quit date immediately. Just recommit every time you quit, learning from your failings as you go. Hopefully, you will eventually come to a place that you will quit and it will last forever.
Try giving yourself rewards when you reach important milestones. Plan out those rewards well in advance. These rewards can be tied to a given amount of time spent without smoking, whether a day or a month. Keep it in a place you visit often, like the refrigerator or bathroom mirror, so you can view it repeatedly. This can motivate you at times of weakness.
TIP! Understand that quitting smoking will take a long time to materialize. Giving up nicotine is a slow process.
Think about the likely consequences of a major decline in your health caused by smoking. How would your loved ones and friends be impacted? In America, about 20% of all deaths are from smoking-related illnesses. Don't become one of these unfortunate statistics.
The best way to stop smoking is to quit today. Do not try to set up a date to quit for the future, make today the day! You can reduce the risk of smoking-related death by quitting smoking, as soon as possible. In addition, you will be protecting those around you from the dangerous effects of smoke that they inhale second hand.
If you have already attempted to quit and have not been successful, do not feel discouraged. It is normal for many efforts to fail, no matter how organized. Examine where you felt your weakness was, and figure out how you can learn from your experience when you try again. You may experience a bigger triumph down the road.
TIP! To prevent yourself from gaining weight after quitting smoking, snack on fresh fruits and vegetables instead of sweets or carb-laden foods. This is one way to combat the characteristic weight gain that comes with quitting.
Quitting may be easier if you get rid of things that remind you of smoking. Throw out lighters and ashtrays. Abolish the stench of smoke in your house by cleaning all clothing that contains the smoke odor. Taking these steps can reduce your urges to smoke a cigarette because you are removing potential triggers.
It is hard for nonsmokers to imagine why you crave a smoke when it can so clearly hurt your health. They also can't understand just how difficult quitting can be. However, there have been people that have indeed quit, and their experiences were shared in the above article. Use this information to liberate yourself from being a slave to cigarettes.


He specifically pointed to the lira being under pressure from US President Donald Trump. It crashed more than 15% against the USA dollar, euro and pound sterling on August 10 and continued to fall when markets reopened after the weekend on August 13.
A bigger danger is that Turkey's crisis will spill over into other emerging market economies and there were signs on Monday that other countries seen as vulnerable were coming under speculative attack.
"What is the reason for all this storm in a tea cup?" "There is no economic reason for the present (currency plunge) situation".
Mr Albayrak dismissed any suggestion that Turkey might intervene in dollar-denominated bank accounts, saying any seizure or conversion of those deposits into lira was out of the question.
Terming Turkey a "vital member and engine of the global economy", the FO spokesman said Pakistan greatly appreciates Ankara's role towards regional and worldwide peace and stability.
Even before the current crisis, the worldwide monetary environment had started turning against emerging currencies as central banks in developed economies, especially the Federal Reserve, began increasing rates as their economies improve.
The threat to the lira, the stock market and the economy has drawn a sharp reaction from Erdogan, who has promised to look for new economic friends, including among traditional U.S. adversaries. Meanwhile, inflation has hit 15 per cent. Goldman Sachs estimated last week that Turkish banks' excess capital would be wiped out at roughly 7.1 per dollar, for example.
In a statement the White House clarified that Trump had authorized the preparation of documents to raise steel and aluminium tariffs.
Sun Xin, a lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business at the King's College in London, agreed that the chances are good that China will help Turkey, so as to "unite some little brothers" in facing up to trade threats from the United States.
The central bank raised interest rates to support the lira in an emergency move in May, and again the following month.
It has vowed to provide banks with "all the liquidity the banks need".
Poland, more than half of whose government, household and corporate debt is denominated in foreign currencies, has seen the zloty fall by nearly as much since the beginning of August. In particular, the report flags that Spain's BBVA, Italy's UniCredit and France's BNP Paribas, all of which have significant operations in Turkey, are especially exposed.
Higher US rates make the dollar more attractive to hold, offering investors an extra incentive to switch out of risky emerging country assets.
It makes us hard to bat against, especially in our own conditions, and the Indians ran into a bit of a ideal storm on Friday. It happened in the 2nd Test Day 4 when India came out to bat after the hosts declared their innings with a lead of 289 runs.
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Let me say it like this, past year he already had a few problems with that but he could obviously play - and played really good. After netting six times in nine pre-season appearances, Sturridge went into this afternoon in fine goalscoring form.
As the birdie putt tumbled in, he took a hard swing through the air with his right fist and yelled into the early evening air. Phil Mickelson failed to qualify for the Ryder Cup for the first time since 1993, his first full season on the PGA Tour.
US Ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson said Iran needed to make tangible and sustained changes to behave like a normal country. The US will also sanction companies in third countries, such as Morocco, from trading both with Iran and the US.
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"All the Comforts of Home" Synopsis, Cast List, & Promo Pics
ABC has released the official plot summary and some photos for the next Agents of SHIELD episode, airing on March 2.
Coulson and team set out to rewrite the course of humanity's fate, but they're unaware that their efforts will dramatically change one S.H.I.E.L.D agent's life, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," FRIDAY, MARCH 2 (9:01-10:01 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Henry Simmons as Agent Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez.
Guest starring are Jeff Ward as Deke, Catherine Dent as General Hale, Dove Cameron as Ruby, Brian Patrick Wade as Carl Creel, Briana Venskus as Agent Piper, Shontae Saldana as Candice Lee, Antonio Aaron as Officer Kennedy, Stewart Skelton as Chief Wellins, Patrick Warburton as General Stoner, Joel David Moore as Noah, Josh Fingerhut as bartender and Amy Tolsky as woman.
"All the Comforts of Home" was written by Drew Z. Greenberg and directed by Kate Woods.
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