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Al-Qaeda Leader Wants to Take the Jihad in Kashmir Away from Pakistan
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 July 2019
Al-Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a speech, "Don't Forget Kashmir", which as the title suggests focused on that conflict on the Subcontinent. Al-Zawahiri was insistent on fighting India, but he also wanted to "liberate" the Kashmiri jihad from the oversight of the Pakistani secret police and military, who have used these Islamist paramilitary forces as instruments of state policy against the Indian Union since the time of partition. In Al-Zawahiri's telling the Pakistani state, such as it is, is too close to the Americans and the West. A transcript of the speech, released in English by Al-Qaeda's As-Sahab Media, is reproduced below. Continue reading →
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The Dangers of Emptying Guantanamo
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on August 17, 2016
It was announced on 15 August that fifteen more inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have transferred, twelve Yemenis and three Afghans, to the United Arab Emirates, the largest individual release of the Obama administration. The U.A.E. also took in five "lower-level" Yemeni detainees in November. The Emirates had previously taken in just one—Abdullah al-Hamiri, in 2008—but President Obama leveraged this deal with the Gulf states at the May 2015 meeting when the Khaleejis were deeply concerned about the then-impending Iran nuclear deal, and in exchange for security reassurances, Obama extracted further concessions.
One reason why so many jihadists have been released to the U.A.E., other than having a similar language and culture, is because the U.A.E. has a competent security apparatus to monitor these people. Those released last November were kept in "a custodial rehabilitation program"—a version of house-arrest, basically. The conditions this time around are less clear.
What is clear is just how dangerous the operatives who are being let out of the Guantanamo detention facility are. Every single one of them has been assessed as posing a "high" risk to America, her interests, and her allies. Continue reading →
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Profit.bg talked to Severin Vertigov, BenchMark Asset Management portfolio manager and Dimitar Vertigov, Corporate Commercial Bank investment banking director.
Asked about his expectations of trade on BSE this year Severin Vertigov said that several factors are going to have an impact.
Political risks, in his words, are the most important ones. The European Commission's report on the progress in the fight against corruption, which is due June 16, will influence the stock price of infrastructural companies.
Another important factor in the short term perspective is the release of H1 financial reports, expected towards end of July.
As a whole, Severin Vertgov said he was an optimist and expects indexes to end the year with zero change.
It is too early to talk about regaining investors' trust after the correction on BSE of the past three months, Dimitar Vertigov added.
The introduction of the new trade platform Xetra is a very positive thing. It will boost liquidity and will win investors' trust again.
In the past month there was almost no redemption in BenchMark, subscriptions predominated, but it is too early to say the market has calmed down completely, Severin Vertgov pointed out.
Corporate Commercial Bank's Asset Management company has raised some 10 mln leva despite the situation on the market.
We all hope that the new platform will boost liquidity and make Bulgarian companies more accessible. We must be realistic, we cannot expect to see any results in the next few months he added.
All foreign investors that may hold an interest in the Bulgarian Stock Exchange have already signed a contract with a broker and is already trading. The popularization of BSE will take some time, he pointed out.


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Wohlova degradace je reakce monosacharidů ze skupiny aldóz, při níž dochází ke zkracování uhlíkového řetězce; pojmenována je po německém chemikovi Alfredu Wohlovi. Klasickým příkladem je přeměna glukózy na arabinózu, která je znázorněná níže:

Zde se v prvním kroku D-glukóza reakcí s hydroxylaminem a methoxidem sodným mění na oxim. V druhém kroku se reakcí tohoto oximu s acetanhydridem v roztoku octanu sodného v kyselině octové tvoří pentaacetylglykononitril. Oxim se zde přeměňuje na nitril samovolnou přeměnou všech alkoholových skupin na acetátové skupiny.

Nakonec se přidá roztok methoxidu sodného v methanolu, čímž dojde k odstranění acetátových skupin a nitrilové skupiny a přeměně druhého uhlíku z čtyřstěnné struktury na aldehyd.

Ruffova-Fentonova degradace
Obdobným procesem je Ruffova-Fentonova degradace, kdy se aldóza nejprve převádí na α-hydroxykarboxylovou kyselinu pomocí bromu a hydroxidu vápenatého, která je přeměněna na kratší aldózu reakcí s síranem železitým a peroxidem vodíku.

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Horsing around for photo ops
Does a symbolic display of power have an actual impact in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens?
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides a white horse to climb Mount Paektu, a peak in the country
(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
The Telegraph | Published 23.10.19, 06:56 PM
Sir — The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was photographed on horseback in the snow-covered Mount Paektu recently. A photo-op of a political leader riding a horse is not new — the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was captured riding a horse bare-bodied in 2009. But even before that, the image or statue of a leader riding a horse had been employed to show power and authority. Does such a symbolic display of power have an actual impact in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens?
Samar Kumar
Sir — The self-certification by the Union home minister, Amit Shah, that his government is transparent and that there will be no need to invoke the Right to Information Act mocks the idea of a corruption-free India ("Out in the open", Oct 16). This goes against the principle of transparency. The RTI Act is essential for a strong, participatory democracy.
Being uncomfortable with the existing provisions of the RTI Act, the government used its brute majority in Parliament to pass an amendment bill. The amended Act gives the government the power to control the terms of office and salaries of information commissioners across India. Further, it can also be assumed that its apathy towards filling the vacant posts of commissioners, which leads to a pile-up in pending RTI requests, is another attempt by the government to choke the Act.
A powerful movement demanding that the information commissioners be treated on a par with, say, the election commissioner is the need of the hour. Civil society with the help of the media must exert pressure on the government.
Jahar Saha
Forgotten names
Sir — The editorial, "Choose wisely" (Oct 18), was thought-provoking. It questioned the intent behind the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra proposing the name of V.D. Savarkar for the Bharat Ratna in its manifesto ahead of the assembly elections there.
While one must salute Savarkar's courage as a revolutionary, it is disappointing that after enduring a long period of torture in Cellular Jail he wrote mercy petitions to the British government, pledging his loyalty to the raj in exchange for his release. It must be remembered that other revolutionaries such as Ullaskar Dutta, a fellow inmate of Savarkar, bore the torture instead of pleading for mercy. I hope that if and when Savarkar's case is considered for the Bharat Ratna, revolutionaries like Dutta and others are not forgotten.
Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee
Dubious distinction
Sir — This month, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, declared the country open-defection free. However, it is an apocryphal claim and raises doubts about the evaluation process followed while verifying the ODF status. Incidents such as two Dalit children being lynched for defecating in the open contradict the government's claim as well as highlight the underlying casteism in it.
Although the Swachh Bharat Mission has achieved more success than previous schemes on sanitation, India is by no means an ODF country yet. The SBM database itself reveals that only 90 per cent of the villages that have declared themselves ODF have undergone just the first level of verification. In Odisha, this figure is as low as 51 per cent. Further, the activist from Safai Karamchari Andolan, Bezwada Wilson, has rightly asked whether a country that has around 90 lakh homeless people can be ODF. Modi must provide us with an answer.
Ranganathan Sivakumar
Sir — October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Poverty is at the root of many socio-economic problems. In India, wealth is distributed unequally, leaving thousands of people without access to necessities like food, water and sanitation. Only by eradicating poverty can social problems be tackled.
T.S. Karthik
Sir — Authorities must look into the problem of noise pollution. Little attention is paid to it. For instance, in a school in Purbachal, the ruckus caused by the constant use of microphones by teachers creates a nuisance. Even for simple activities like organizing and conducting sports, microphones are used. Being a congested locality, this becomes unbearable for patients and other residents. I hope that the authorities concerned take strict action since speaking to the school authorities did not yield positive results.
Deep Dasgupta
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Over the past five years, in approximately 40 weekly classes per year and periodic weekend workshops, we (John and Ike) have engaged in a process of experimentation and discovery in creating a context for learning NVC mediation. This context, which we call the "three-chair model," provides in-depth experiential education and is the most powerful framework we have come across for not only learning a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) approach to mediation, but also for accelerated development of core NVC skills, centered presence, and the capacity to heal and reconcile with self and others. In this article we offer our experience on creating a learning context, specifics on the approach we have developed, and the benefits people report from our trainings.
When we first began teaching this course, we thought our objective was to "teach" mediation. Early on, however, we realized that trying to teach did not feel in integrity with what we so valued about Nonviolent Communication, namely the power we had experienced of people choosing how they want to meet their needs. We were also influenced greatly in our views by Carl Rogers, and in particular an article he wrote entitled "Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning." Rogers' thesis, in essence, was that "teaching" in the traditional sense (students learning what an authority tells them to learn) was at best ineffectual, and at worst detrimental; self-directed, self-discovered learning was where real growth and meaningful behavioral change occurred. We began to view ourselves as creating a context for learning to happen rather than teaching people what to do.
As part of our learning context, we do provide a structure for people to learn mediation, utilizing a model drawn from Marshall Rosenberg's five-step mediation model. Besides presenting this model, we also present nine skills that we have found important in NVC mediation. We do coach to this model and we share what we value and have found effective based on our learning and experience. However, when we are coaching people in the mediator chair, more and more we offer possible options and choices (including to come up with their own mediation choice) at various points and phases of the mediation process, rather than directing people what to do. It is for the person sitting in the mediator's chair to try out for themselves what works and does not work in their own experience. Coaching in this way, we as facilitators also continue learning and growing by seeing over and over again what choices lead to what results and by being open to the emergence of new, more effective choices.
In addition to students receiving in-the-moment coaching while mediating, a tremendous learning for people in the mediator chair has also been to receive feedback from people playing the roles of the "disputants" in the conflict, as well as from those observing. Another aspect of this learning context is that when students ask questions, we suggest "putting the question into the chairs." We set up the situation in the three-chair model to address the questions that are asked. For example, when participants ask, "What do you do if such and such happens?" we set up a role-play to simulate "such and such" happening, and people learn by doing. In this way we attempt to support people discovering for themselves what is meaningful and effective.
At the heart of our NVC mediation training is the three-chair learning model. Participants in our trainings have the chance to play mediator and disputant in conflict situation role-plays. While sitting in the mediator's chair, students practice staying present and connected with themselves and others moment by moment, get real time coaching, and receive invaluable feedback from those in the disputant roles or observing. From being in the role of disputant or observer, people then have the opportunity to move into the mediator's chair and put into practice what they have just learned. There is a back and forth flow between experiential doing and stopping to "harvest" the learning from the role-plays, and between being in the whole group and breaking into smaller groups. As trainers, we actively coach, facilitate, and share our perspectives and experiences throughout.
In this model, we create a role-play of a conflict situation, either one that participants make up or a situation they bring in from their experience. One person decides to sit in the mediator's chair, and the other two people take on the role of the disputants. As coaches, we ask people how much coaching they want from us, and encourage people to let us know if they do not want coaching at any time during the role-play. As long as people are OK with coaching, we tend to interrupt a lot, particularly when people are new in the mediator's chair. We interrupt mostly to remind people of the choices we see at various decision points; the model provides a skeletal structure of choice points at transitions between the steps and stages, and we coach the mediator to a basic set of choices that she can try out.
Using this model supports people in having an experience of being in the mediator's chair with some way to find their bearings. They start with the basic structure, and through our coaching, develop at first a limited set of choices that they can try out, building upon those choices with their own experience in the mediator's chair and through observing others. Over time and with repeated experience, participants develop a larger set of options and those options become more readily recallable. We create the basic platform and support them with a basic structure that they then build upon themselves. An analogy might be learning to dance; when someone learns to dance they learn the basic dance steps, but at some point, with enough experience, they stop thinking about the dance steps and begin to simply dance. In our learning context we offer a conceptual structure for what a person is doing as mediator, but we remind them that it is simply a map, and we make it clear that we are not teaching this model because it's the "right" way to mediate; in fact, we sometimes diverge significantly from the form of the model when we are mediating real conflicts. Once someone learns the model and has enough practice with it, they can begin to embody the map and the choices and do it in their own way, following the flow of the conversation much as someone might follow the flow of the music, building upon the basic dance steps to create something unique.
Utilizing this model has yielded rich and unexpected learnings for us, from our own observations and from what participants have reported. In the remainder of this article we'd like to share the benefits we've experienced using this method.
Early on, one of the first pieces of feedback people gave us in our classes was how quickly the three-chair model helped them develop the core NVC skills and integrate them into their daily life. People would basically tell us, "I have tried all sorts of ways to learn NVC, including practice groups, books, CD's and empathy circles, and I have integrated more NVC into my day to day life as a result of doing this training than anything else I've tried." As we began hearing this from various participants, we began to pay attention to what was happening. The two areas we really saw this taking place were in the skill of offering empathy and the core distinctions of NVC.
The first skill we work on with participants is the process of offering empathy. Every time someone takes on the mediator role, she is practicing being present and keeping her focus lightly resting on the person speaking. She is also learning how to language guesses that inquire with curiosity what is going on for a disputant, and remembering to hazard a guess as to what the disputant is needing instead of asking them what they are needing. Since the mediator is in the midst of a role-play making these guesses and practicing being present, she gets to see immediately what works (meaning whether connection was created) and what does not as the other participants react to what she has said. Thus, the skill of empathy is practiced and reinforced each time a person takes on the role of mediator.
The core distinctions of NVC—observation versus judgments, feelings versus evaluations masquerading as feelings, needs versus strategies and requests versus demands—also get reinforced in the role-plays. As a mediator hears the story of each disputant, he is practicing translating the judgments into observations and listening behind the story for what feelings, needs, and requests the disputant might have. In a round about way, disputants also can have these distinctions reinforced. Often the role-play is a basic situation that is made up, for example, a landlord and tenant are arguing over who will pay for repairs to the house. In order to take on their respective roles, the two disputants to a certain extent must put themselves in the role, and imagine what they might be thinking and feeling in that situation. Though they are likely to play the role in a judgmental and reactive fashion, thinking about what that person might be observing, feeling, and needing can assist in making the role-play as real as an imagined situation can be.
The skill of making requests is additionally reinforced through the fact that the entire mediation process is facilitated by the mediator making a series of doable, present tense, action language requests. For example, asking a disputant "are you feeling irritated because you have a need for respect?" is a request that follows the guidelines of NVC. Asking a person to reflect needs is as well; "I heard Person A say that they have a need for respect, would you be willing to tell them that you also heard them say they have a need for respect?" As the mediator gets coached on and practices these requests, the skill is reinforced for all present. The mediator may also help the conflictants make doable, present tense, action language requests, further enhancing this learning.
Finally, as mediator, the entire process of mediating a conflict revolves around being aware of where your attention is and what's happening in the process. Are you focused on one disputant, offering empathy, or are you doing self-empathy or revealing what's going on for you? Practicing this kind awareness in class situations increases participant's ability to carry it with them throughout their daily lives.
A crucial factor that turns the three-chair model into a powerful learning context is immediate feedback. The mediator gets three types of feedback, each important. First, he gets the immediate feedback during the role-play of how each disputant responds to what he says; perhaps the disputant pushes back, or evidences resistance or frustration, which can be a message to the mediator that something isn't working. Or, the disputant may show signs, through body language or tone of voice, that he has shifted into a more open place, which is immediate evidence that he is feeling more connection.
Second, during the harvesting after the role-play, the mediator gets feedback from the disputants, the coach, and from any additional observers who are present. For example, out of role, a disputant may review and say what was happening internally for her at various points in the role-play. This feedback is still close in time to what the person in the mediator's chair experienced. This tends to be very powerful learning for the mediator, to hear first-hand the needs met or not met in others in relation to his choices. When we coach people in the debrief session, we request the feedback be stated using the distinctions of NVC—giving the observations of what the mediator said or didn't say and how the disputant felt about it before and after.
The third kind of feedback comes in the form of coaching. One of the reasons we think people report such value from using this model is the implicit and explicit permission for us to coach as closely as we do. The closer in time the feedback is to a person's action, the faster they will be able to learn. For example, if you are learning a foreign language and you speak with someone who will interrupt you right after you've used an incorrectly conjugated verb and drop in the correct conjugation for you to pick up and keep going in your sentence, you will probably learn more quickly. This is the kind of thing we try to do in coaching. While interfering with the flow as little as possible, we drop in suggestions such as, "I might try this way of saying it...," or "A few choices I see right now are...." We might offer another way of saying something, and as the mediator immediately uses it in the context of his role, that suggestion gets stored in the brain in a way that is more readily accessible next time he is in a similar situation. We don't offer the suggestion as if it's the correct one, but rather as something we might do that in our experience is more consistent with the intention of creating connection.
The combination of the immediacy of the feedback and the permission for it provides a powerful learning context. What we are engaged in, after all, is adult learning—as children, our grid of discernment is not very strong, but as adults it can be. When people come in actively wanting to learn, asking for feedback, and willing to be coached, it reduces that grid of discernment and makes learning more likely to occur. We find it crucial in adult learning contexts that the intention to be open to feedback is present, and that feedback is immediate.
Repeated experience with the three-chair model also helps people embody the reality that they might be the stimulus for another person's reaction, but they are not the cause. Since you can never be inside another person's experience, you never really know what is true for them, and thus, when trying something that you hope will connect, you never really know whether it will work. Even if something similar has created connection with a lot of people prior to this situation, with this person, you don't know. When you make a guess that has been connecting in the past, and in this situation the disputant evidences irritation, it can really sink in that their reaction is about their internal makeup and not your guess.
In practical terms, this realization gives you more freedom; if you are not the cause for the other person's reaction, then you don't need to go into your own reaction about their reaction. You can skip the whole stage of being in reaction, of judging yourself or the other person. You don't get blocked in your own learning by reacting, going into explanation, or shifting the focus. You can simply stay present with that person, essentially saying to yourself, "oh, that didn't land the way I wanted it to land, but I have these other things I can try, let me try this one." This helps you stay present with the intentions of wanting to connect and learn.
This point is worth a little more explanation. We can never predict with certainty what is going to connect with another person, though over time our guesses are likely to begin to land more often; however, over time we develop more confidence that if our guess does not land the way we wanted, that we will be able to come up with something that has a likelihood of contributing to connection. We can use this phenomenon—not knowing what will connect because we don't know what is going on with the other person—as a way to support returning to presence. At every moment in the conversation, we have new information based on what the other person has said or done, and as long as we are not stuck in the past through judging what has already happened—that we didn't language a guess that was connecting for the other person—we have an opportunity in this moment to make another attempt at connecting. Being in the mediator's chair is a real practice in returning to presence.
We have found that even when the role-plays are based on imaginary situations, the disputants become emotionally involved in their roles. For many generic conflict situations, most of us can imagine the thoughts and feelings we would have being in that situation, and as a result, role-plays can take on a certain reality. Of course, there are not as many layers as a real dispute between people, particularly people in long-term employment and personal relationships, but nonetheless, disputants get into their roles, and often take on a kind of resistance to shifting out of their position. It is particularly powerful, then, when a disputant experiences a shift, and this provides rich learning for everyone.
People in the disputant role often report after a role-play something like the following; "I had decided that I wasn't going to shift; I was not going to look at the other person or be moved by anything the mediator said. When the mediator asked me to reflect, I refused, and he then gave me empathy so I was willing to reflect, but I still wasn't going to soften. And then when I said the words back, even though my tone was grudging, I did feel the beginning of an opening." We have experienced the same phenomenon when we have role-played as disputants.
Hearing about these shifts is helpful to the mediator, though they don't happen every time. In fact, while in the middle of offering empathy to one disputant, it is never clear whether the other person is getting connected through hearing the conversation or whether they're in reaction because they are hearing judgments instead of the translation to needs. As facilitators and mediators, we have officially given up on trying to predict whether one conflictant is in reaction or whether their heart is opening based on what is taking place. There are certain signs that we can read, particularly body language and facial expression, but we are so well trained in our culture to restrain our movement and keep a poker face that it can be difficult to read what is going on for people. Sitting in the mediator's chair over and over again reinforces the fact that while the mediator can try to be aware of how each disputant is doing, prediction is imperfect, and rather than trying to manage each person's reactions, the point is to develop the trust that you can handle whatever reactions show up.
Another rich source of learning in using the three-chair model is how the internal state of the mediator affects the disputants and the course of the mediation. For example, if there is any sense of demand energy from the mediator, the disputants will react to it in the role-play or report it in debriefing. It is incredibly valuable to people to experience first-hand how quickly they and others pick up any sense of judgment, anxiety, or demand. Similarly, if the mediator holds any enemy images of themselves or the disputants, this will typically come out during harvesting, with disputants noting that they felt the judgment. It is natural for a mediator, as a human being, to sometimes find he begins to side with or have an affinity for one disputant's story, perhaps because he relates to it more than to the other side; typically, however, the other disputant will tend to pick this up—even if they don't know exactly what was going on—and report that it affected how they felt.
The three-chair model also provides the opportunity for people to experience the power of self-empathy. Particularly when a person is new, we offer self-empathy when he first sits in the mediator's chair, using the reactions that are coming up and the anxiety, distress, or discomfort he may be experiencing about his choice to mediate. At times, we also push the pause button on the role-play and ask the mediator to do self-empathy out loud, often supported by the coach, then return to the role-play. Quite frequently, one or both disputants will report in the debrief that they noticed a distinct shift in the mediator's presence from before self-empathy to after; they both felt more connected to the mediator and liked what he did more after self-empathy. This is a particularly rich learning experience for two reasons. The first is that it actively coaches people as to what self-empathy actually is. Often as facilitators, we hear people report that they have done self-empathy, but when we ask them what language they used with themselves, it was not what we would call self-empathy. In these self-empathy moments before or during a role-play, the mediator and the disputants get coaching on how to do self-empathy. Second, all people present get the positive feedback of experiencing the tangible benefit of doing self-empathy; in real time they get to experience the shift in a person's being that happens when they get connected with their needs.
We also encourage out loud self-empathy because it highlights the model we suggest people use after they have participated in mediation, have judgments about that mediation and want to shift out of those judgments and into learning. Self-empathy can be an essential step in this shift.
Something we have seen and heard from participants since the beginning of offering our trainings was how relatively quickly people gained skill in the mediator role. It has not been uncommon for people to begin our classes with anxiety and great difficulty moving through the steps and skills of the mediation process. Within weeks, however, and particularly by the end of an eight to twelve week series of three hour classes, most of these participants demonstrate significantly increased ease and confidence when in the mediator's chair.
Sometimes participants in our trainings choose to work with real conflicts in their personal, community, and work lives. The person whose conflict it is can elect to play herself in the role play or be the mediator of her own conflict while others play her role and the role of the other person. Additionally, she could choose to be an observer and watch her conflict being mediated and played out by others. The benefit we have seen (and occasionally experienced for ourselves) is that the person with the real conflict often experiences a significant shift towards greater inner peace, as well as clarity and confidence in how they would like to respond to the actual conflict. It is also not uncommon for us to later hear from people who do this work on their conflicts in training that they subsequently communicated with the others in the conflict in a way that led to resolution, as well as healing and reconciliation.
Of course, we all interpret what is going on for other people all the time; this isn't a problem in and of itself. The problem is twofold: first, we don't check our interpretations; we simply believe they are true, and second, our belief leads us to respond in various ways that do not necessarily lead to what we want. In some cases, our certainty that we are right gives us permission to tell the other person that they shouldn't be experiencing what we believe they are experiencing. In others, we limit ourselves; we edit our own conduct or speech because we are so certain of our prediction of what someone else will say or do in a situation, based on our belief of what they think or feel. When we believe that we know someone else's internal state without checking with that person, it can lead us into a dead end; we put ourselves in a box and get either depressed or angry because we don't see any options in how to proceed. In my view, believing our interpretations of what is going on for someone else is a core source of distress in the human condition.
As the above example implies, what we find out when we do begin to check with people whether our interpretations are correct is that, often, they are incorrect. What we think is going on internally for someone is, in fact, not what is happening. Finding this out puts a crack in the rigidity of our belief that we know what other people's feelings, motivations, or intentions are. This crack begins to provide more freedom; if we can get some sense that the other person may in fact actually be different than the way we are judging them to be, we begin to see more options in front of us. When I began checking my interpretations with people and found out how often I was completely incorrect, I became much more open to trying things out with people since I had loosened my certainty that I could predict what they would do.
The three-chair model, and particularly when people are in the observer role, provides a training ground for people to begin to gain awareness of their interpretations of other people's internal state and the cascade of responses that emerge from their belief in their interpretation. People report that they gain awareness that they don't necessarily know what's going on for people even when they think they do, and this awareness then gives them more options to choose from in how to respond.
Though in its simplest form, the three-chair model includes only a mediator and two disputants, at times variations on this model can yield interesting results. Sometimes the numbers in the room work out such that a group also has an observer, and we have found this to be valuable for everyone. People report another level of learning that takes place from being an observer, and in this role participants contribute to the learning for the mediator, the disputants and us through the feedback they offer. Another benefit to having an observer is simply in the additional person; it can be difficult for some people sitting in the mediator's chair to be able to maintain presence with additional observers, and this becomes part of the learning process in these cases.
Another variation is to add an additional disputant. This adds to the complexity the mediator holds, and thus adds another layer of learning. This scenario is particularly interesting when externalizing an inner mediation, that is, when an inner conflict of a participant is being role-played with different people in the roles of different internal voices. Since we all have many internal voices that can be in conflict with each other, having another person available to embody an additional voice that shows up helps maintain a clarity and focus to the mediation.
Often with the way we work, the coach is in effect in the role of an observer; however, this is not always the case. In another variation, the coach can play one of the disputants, or may even hop into the mediator's chair if participants request it, to model working through the situation at hand.
Finally, another variation adds people acting in the role of agent—someone who is acting on behalf of someone else. An agent, depending on the situation, might be a lawyer, a real estate agent, or a health care advocate. The agent is tasked with representing their principal, who might be present in the mediation or not. A role-play situation can be set up with just the two agents participating in the mediation or with both agents and principals participating, in which case you have four disputants and might then also choose to have more than one mediator.
This variation adds another level of complexity to the mediation; besides the conflict that brought all the parties together, the agents are also parties to a potential conflict since they have their own internal motivations for completing a deal. A person acting on their own behalf has much greater flexibility in the positions they take in a dispute because they are doing their own internal calculus of whether a proposal will meet their needs. When you have agents involved, however, the agents are not only doing their internal calculus of what will meet their needs as an individual in the situation, but they are also thinking about their duties and obligations to their principle. An agent will advocate for the position that is most favorable to their principal unless they have been specifically instructed that they can accept something less than the optimum position with regard to each point. This creates difficulties in mediation and gives mediators and disputants in a role-play rich material to practice with.
We find the three-chair model to be a powerful pedagogical tool that goes beyond people simply learning conflict resolution skills. It provides a unique way to practice with close in time feedback from a coach and others, it offers ample opportunity for personal growth, helps people integrate core NVC skills into their daily life, and supports the development of concrete mediation skills. As we have used this model over the course of years, we see the small shifts people make accumulate over time, fundamentally shifting their ability to be present and connect with themselves and others even in difficult conflictual situations. This gives us hope. With the looming crisis we see ahead—exponential population growth and climate change resulting in huge dislocations of people, all greater stimulus for conflict—we would like people to be able to cope more effectively with whatever lies in the future, collectively and individually. For us, NVC and the three-chair model provide a strategy for people to integrate skills into their lives that allow them to learn a whole new way of being and be agents for the creation of the kind of world that they want to live in.


Question: Does the Bible forbid all alcohol consumption or just the excessive use of it?
Answer: In answer to your question, here are several reasons why I believe the Bible clearly prohibits all alcohol consumption.
1. There is abundant and direct Biblical testimony that the use of alcoholic drinks is unwise while unfermented grape juice is a blessing.
Prov. 23:29-32 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
2. The Biblical record shows that Jesus refused alcohol. Jesus could not have turned the water into alcoholic wine. He is not a bartender. It would be hypocritical to make something that you yourself would not use. Mark 15:23 And they gave him [Jesus] to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
3. No one would argue that there are no drunkards in the world, so obviously alcohol causes many to stumble and fall and ultimately be lost according to these verses. Is it then Christian to advocate something (especially for church use) that may cause someone to ultimately be lost?
5. The very nature of alcohol eliminates the idea of temperance, since large portions of those who drink a little cannot stop.
These and many more reasons show why the Bible teaches it is better just to avoid alcohol altogether.
For a more extensive answer on this topic as well as some interesting details on how unfermented grape juice was preserved in Bible times visit our webpage "Wine" as used in the Bible.
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Bible Memory Verse Bee- Like the old fashioned spelling bee only everyone has to repeat a memory verse and the text until some people can't think of any more. Variation: See if you can repeat verses that start with each letter of the alphabet..
Trenton, the teen pictured at the top, that put together Treasures of the Messiah wrote the following. This was his last written message to the world and to his fellow youth, before he died at the age of 14, on June 9, 2013. Remember as you read it that the Pony Express' motto was, "the mail must go through."
"I, ......, do hereby swear, before the Great and Living God, that during my engagement, and while I am an employee of Russell, Majors and Waddell, I will, under no circumstances, use profane language, that I will drink no intoxicating liquors, that I will not quarrel or fight with any other employee of the firm, and that in every respect I will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties, and so direct all my acts as to win the confidence of my employers, so help me God."
As Jack Keetley swore this oath he didn't know that he would make history by making the longest ride on the Pony Express. Jack usually rode 40 miles from Marysville, Kansas to Big Sandy, Nebraska but one day when he got to Big Sandy the next rider was unable to take the mail to the next station so Jack took it on, when he finally stopped at Seneca, Kansas, he had ridden over 335 miles in thirty-one hours without stopping except to change horses.
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In this game someone says a word (for example, the word clock), and the other players in order, must come up with words that rhyme, (like dock, mock, sock, shock, knock, rock, etc.). When someone can no longer think of a word, they drop out until no one can think of another word. Then the last one that was left can chose the next word and start another round.


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A trio of public agencies have said they are ready to continue with a project to build a data exchange framework for subsurface features of the urban areas around the UK.
Future Cities Catapult (FCC), Ordnance Survey and the British Geological Survey are aiming to run a series of demonstrators as part of Project Iceberg, after the first phase proved the need for the data framework.
It is aimed at providing planners, utility companies and developers with a more complete picture of cities and towns, and to support their use of new digital technology.
Work on the project began early last year, initially focused on demonstrating the value of managing data on sub-surface features in a more coordinated manner. FCC said it demonstrated the need for a public data exchange framework that could be integrated into existing city data systems. It would not be a single map of the subsurface, but a consistent framework into which data is supplied and made available for analysis by a wide range of users.
The three organisations are now planning to take the project to the next steps.
Stefan Webb, head of projects at FCC, told UKAuthority: "The data exchange framework is a concept that we will need to be further defined, through engagement with government, regulators and practitioners but also through practical demonstrator projects, most likely with city authorities through development projects.
He said they aim to link the effort with other initiatives for the integration of data, notably the National Infrastructure Commission's 'digital twin' concept, which if carried through would make it possible to share data about infrastructure assets.
Webb said data could support the use of several technologies, including augmented reality, 3D modelling, the application of machine learning to subsurface data, and building information modelling (BIM). The principles of the latter are now being extended to include the subsurface through an InnovateUK funded project, BIM for the subsurface.
"The new data exchange framework will make the data necessary to drive these innovations, more accessible and usable, thereby helping address city challenges," Webb said.
He added that FCC has begun to assess the financial benefits of the framework, but needs to build more detailed models based on practical demonstrations.
"In parallel there is the potential to build on the existing standards, regulatory frameworks and legislative requirements to mandate the use of the data framework," he said.
Among the long term aims of the project is to increase the viability of land for development and de-risk future investment through better use of subsurface information.
Rollo Home, content strategy lead at Ordnance Survey, said: "The absence of standards governing the collection of underground data means decision-makers working on cross-sector domain projects face a challenge to untangle the web of data that is available.
"Not knowing what's buried and where it's buried causes significant disruption, wasted time, delays in street works, possible damage to other utilities and unnecessary extra repair and compensation costs. This lack of knowledge also presents very real health and safety risks to utility employees and the public.
The National Infrastructure Commission report published in December, Data for the Public Good, referenced Project Iceberg as an example of leading practice in the field.


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There are lots of calamities which people face around the world. During earthquake, people are often required to run in an open place, or to hide beneath a table, in order to protect themselves from being crushed due to the falling ceilings. Some people get trapped in the ruins of a collapsed buildings. Some die and some live. To locate them once the earthquake is over, is difficult. Rescuers use electronic devices with cameras and microphones. This device helps to find people stucked beneath the ruins who are not dead. The main disadvantage of the device is that we can't find people who are stucked dead beneath the ruins. They also use trained rescue dogs inorder to find them.
Trained rescue dogs use their noses to find the smells emitted by people.
A latest research by ETH scientists have created a sensor that helps to find people beneath the ruins without the help of cameras and microphones. This group of researchers at ETH Zurich is led by Sotiris Pratsinis, Professor of Process Engineering. This sensor detects the bodies of stucked people by sensing the gas inputs provided by the human body.
We normally emit metabolic products such as acetone, ammonia, and isoprene in low concentrations via our breath or skin. Isoprene and acetone are the metabolic products that we normally emit through our breath. Ammonia on the other hand is emitted through our skin.
This is because the human emits more carbon dioxide than metabolic products through breathing. If the person is stucked and the sensor is near to him, the sensor will detect some of the gases, and if the carbon dioxide is coming through another source, then the other sensors will detect inorder to avoid false detections. The combination of these sensors is quite useful and will give reliable indications of stucked people.
The material size of the sensor is merely a size of computer chip.
So, it will be helpful to find people who are stucked in inaccessible areas beneath the ruins. Thus, this sensor is suitable for attaching it to a drone and robot as well.
The ETH scientists will be using this sensor practically if such a situation of earthquake will arise in the near future.
They are finding new investors inorder to develop the processing of making this sensor on an industrial basis. They are also currently finding new applications which can employ this sensitive sensor for the greater good of the society. Combining this sensor with other chemical sensors can be very beneficial.


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What suddenly appears in front of Macbeth?
What suddenly appears in front of Macbeth? where could it come from? Macbeth saw a dagger covered in blood floating in the air. This happened because he was feeling guilty.
Why is Lady Macduff killed off stage?
Macbeth has too many enemies who need to avenge themselves on him (Malcolm, Macduff, Fleance) and not all of them get a satisfactory final shove at him before he's killed. So, in Macbeth, Lady M dies offstage….
What happens to Lady Macduff and her child?
In Act IV, Scene II of Macbeth, a number of henchmen arrive at the Macduff castle in Fife with orders to kill Lady Macduff and her son. On witnessing this violence, his mother flees the castle, shouting "murder," but the henchmen give chase and there can be no doubt that she is quickly captured and killed.
Why are Lady Macduff and her child murdered?
The reason for the murder of his wife and children was to clear the bloodline. In Macbeth's mind he did not want to lose the crown to anyone in Macduff's family and the massacre would also send a strong message not to oppose him.
What is Lady Macbeth referring to when she describes the golden round?
Here, Lady Macbeth talks about the primary goal for Macbeth — that he must seize the "golden round." The word "round" means "crown," so the color of gold represents royalty and supremacy.
In what way is Lady Macbeth stronger than her husband?
In The Tragedy of Macbeth, in what way is Lady Macbeth stronger than her husband? She stands firm when Macbeth begins to waver in his deadly purpose. What would be true if you were watching a play at the Globe Theater back in Shakespeare's day? The illusions of time and space would come from the words of the play.
Why do some people swear and lie?
Why, one that swears and lies. And is everyone who swears and lies a traitor? LADY MACDUFF. 50Every one that does so is a traitor and must be hanged.
Who killed Lady Macduff?
Lady Macduff is a character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. She is married to Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife. Her appearance in the play is brief: she and her son are introduced in Act IV Scene II, a climactic scene that ends with both of them being murdered on Macbeth's orders.
Who does Macduff call a dead butcher?
"A dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" is spoken by Malcolm on line 98 in Act 5 Scene 7 as Malcolm announces the beginning of a new reign, he uses this phrase to describe Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at the end of the play. The true definition of a butcher is someone that slaughters and dresses meat….
What are the bad things Macbeth did?
In the play there are many evil deeds that Macbeth committed. These include the murders of Duncan and Banquo, Lady Macduff and her son. Macbeth is also responsible for Scotland's disorder.
Are things always as they seem?
"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."
What sort of relationship does Lady Macduff have with her husband and son?
Lady Macduff has a close and loving relationship with her son, which contrasts Lady Macbeth when she claims she would have 'dashed the brains out' of her own child. She is also upset by Macduff's abandon, which suggests that he may be more loyal to his country than his wife (the opposite of Macbeth).
Why does Duncan immediately appear foolish in this scene?
Why does Duncan immediately appear foolish in this scene? He talks about how the castle seems nice and looks forward to a pleasant night, but he's approaching his death.
What does Macduff say when his family being murdered?
Macduff is expressing his regret at not being able to defend his murdered family in this line, saying, "And I must be from thence!" (meaning "And I had to be away from home!").
How does Lady Macbeth get Duncan's blood on her hands?
What is Lady Macbeth feeling as she waits for her husband to return after killing the king? How does Lady Macbeth get blood on her hands? She smears the grooms with Duncan's blood. What does Lady Macbeth's reaction to the blood reveal about her character?
What do Lady Macduff and her son argue about?
She and her son debate his fatherless state, ending with the son's claim that Macduff is not dead (thus not a traitor by her own argument): "If he were dead, you'ld weep for him: if you would not, it were a good sign."
What does the dagger scene reveal about Macbeth's state of mind?
Macbeth's vision of a dagger hovering in the air suggests at the outset of the soliloquy that he is at the very edge of sanity, the extreme stress of his violent thoughts and internal conflict causing him to hallucinate.
Why did Macbeth go crazy?
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth seems perfectly stable in his psyche, but he quickly changes into a man whose guilt causes him to hallucinate and become hysterical. By the end of the play, the witches, the hallucinations, and his hunger for power all have caused Macbeth's descent into madness….
What four things does the Porter say drinking provokes?
According to the Porter, drink provokes three things: a red nose ("nose-painting"), sleep, and urine (line 29). It provokes sexual desire, but takes away the ability to act on it: "Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes.
What title does Duncan give his son?
the Prince of Cumberland
Who really killed Lady Macduff and children?
Malcolm says that he will return with ten thousand soldiers lent him by the English king. Then, breaking down, Ross confesses to Macduff that Macbeth has murdered his wife and children.
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Bible > Ezekiel > Chap 47 > Verse 17
◄ Ezekiel 47:17 ►
The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
"The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
So the border will run from the sea to Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern side.
The border is to proceed from the Mediterranean Sea to Hazer-enan (a border of Damascus), and on the north facing north is to be the border of Hamath. This is to be the north side.
And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
And the border from the sea even to the court of Enan, shall be the border of Damascus, and from the north to the north: the border of Emath, this is the north side.
And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath: this is the north side.
And the border from the sea hath been Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus, and Zaphon at the north, and the border of Hamath: and this is the north quarter.
Border Boundary Damascus Direction Enan Enon Extend Hamath Hazar Hazarenan Hazar-Enan Hazar-E'non Limit North Northern Northward Quarter Run Sea Side Zaphon
The Borders of the Land
13Thus said the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. 14And you shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance. 15And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 18And the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border to the east sea. And this is the east side. 19And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. 21So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel. 22And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be to you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojournes, there shall you give him his inheritance, said the Lord GOD.
Numbers 34:9
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
the border from. The Holy Land, as here described, extended from about
31? to
35? N. lat. and from
37? E. long.; being bounded on the north by a line drawn from the Mediterranean to Hamath; on the east by Damascus, Hauran, Gilead, and the land of Israel east of Jordan, unto the south of the Dead sea; on the south by Tamar and Kadesh, unto the river of Rhinocorura; and on the west by the Mediterranean sea, from the same point northward till a man came over against Hamath; and its length from north to south would be about
280 miles, and its breadth about
150 miles. The ten tribes, as well a Judah and Benjamin, were to be admitted to a full share in this inheritance, which seems to imply, that the future restoration to the promised land is predicted; while the admission of strangers who sojourned in the land to a share in the inheritance, as if native Israelites, plainly intimates the calling of the Gentiles into the church, and their joint inheritance of its privileges, and of the heavenly felicity.
Hazarchan.
Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goes to Hamath, Hazarenan...
Numbers 34:9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And [this is] the north side.
Along Border Boundary Damascus Direction Enan Enon Extend Hamath Hazar Hazarenan Hazar-enan Hazar-enon Hazar-e'non Limit North Northern Northward Quarter Run Zaphon
Ezekiel Chapter 47 Verse 17
Alphabetical: along and at be border boundary Damascus Enan extend from Hamath Hazar Hazar-enan is north northern of on sea shall side The This to toward will with
OT Prophets: Ezekiel 47:17 The border from the sea shall be (Ezek. Eze Ezk)


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What happens when you combine social support, Transformation Contests, a powerful workout environment, a high energy trainer, the best exercises, and the "secret sauce" of Turbulence Training?
You get the ultimate WIN-WIN-WIN situation for you and for fitness experts everywhere when you use Turbulence Training Bootcamp workouts.
AND the latest secrets and updates about using Transformation Contests to motivate and inspire you to fat loss (OR help you build a raging personal training business if you are a trainer).
…and why it is essential for you to understand if you want to start any type of grassroots community program (whether it is a bootcamp workout or a local community organic garden co-op).
I want you to "Lead by Example".
For every one person in your office or in your group of friends who lives a healthy lifestyle, there are probably 5-10 people who want to do the same, but they just don't have the strength, confidence and courage to do it right now.
So I want you to be their role model and leader. Lead by example and you'll attract others into your life that are healthy and fit and that will help build your social support group (and that's reason #531 why bootcamps are great – because they attract folks looking to lose fat and get healthy and be positive).
You can do it! Be the change that others want to see in themselves and you'll be amazed at how many people you can inspire.
For example, just take a look at what is possible in just 12 weeks by heading over to the Body Transformation Contest winner's page.
I won't lie, I was absolutely floored when I received this entry from Robyn (aka Sparkie!). She set a new Turbulence Training for Fat Loss record (for women AND men) by losing over 34 pounds in 12 weeks.
Heck, she even did this while quitting smoking. Amazing!
Once you see and believe what is possible for others, you'll have the confidence to make the changes in yourself!
I hope that pumps you up for next Transformation Contest!
Bootcamp workouts can be done 3 days per week.
All exercises should be done at a controlled pace unless specified.
All exercises are done for time rather than repetitions because of the differences in fitness levels across your campers.
If you need to make the workouts easier, simply reduce the number of times you go through a circuit (i.e. only go through a circuit once rather than twice) and take MORE REST between exercises and circuits.
Be conservative. Focus on perfect exercise form.
Each workout starts with a warm-up. Do NOT skip the warm-up.
Finish each workout with stretching for the tight muscle groups.
Do not do TT Bootcamps on pavement or concrete.
Those are the guidelines…now here is the template.
They run them around the park for 10-15 minutes at the start of the camp.
And trust me, NO ONE looks like they are having fun!
No wonder their bootcamps only have a few people in them…they are forgetting the main rule…You must Bring the Energy!
After the warm-up, we move to bodyweight strength supersets or circuits, just like we do in the TT workouts.
We follow strength with muscle endurance circuits. These use easier exercises and less rest between exercises.
In the TT Bootcamps, there are 3 types of circuits.
The first circuit is the classic TT Big 5 Circuit method. The order of this circuit is squat, push, pull, single-leg, and total body ab exercise. Due to a lack of equipment, the "pull" exercise is often replaced with a squat that also trains the upper back (i.e. Prisoner Squat or Y-Squat) or the Stick-up exercise.
If you have equipment such as a kettlebell, dumbbell, or resistance bands, you can use traditional pulling exercises such as rows.
The second circuit method is the new TT Depletion Workout template (full TT workout of the Month coming in June) . The order of this circuit is jump, push, squat, push, single leg, total body ab exercise, and finishes with some type of sprint or explosive exercise (i.e. run in place, jumping jacks, etc.).
The third circuit method is the Tabata protocol using bodyweight exercises such as squats, pushups, planks, lunges, etc. Each "Tabata" is done for 20 seconds with 10 seconds of recovery. To add difficulty, we can do the 10 seconds of recovery by holding the exercise in a difficult position.
After using one, two, or sometimes even all three of those circuit methods comes ab training using total body ab exercises. There are no crunches in the Turbulence Training Bootcamp Workouts. Your clients will love this part of the workout!
Finally, you have the option of using the TT Fun'n'Games to finish off the program. In my experience, clients love the "follow the leader" game as well as the chance to lead the group for a few moments. Once in a while you can insert the Fun'n'Games after a warm-up, if your clients really love this routine.
Remember: The key to a great class is to "bring the energy". Your clients are there for a fun workout and to escape the stress of the real world. They don't care about equipment – they only care about results and having a great experience!
You MUST listen to BJ Gaddour's interview that you get with the TTBootcamp package.
Click here to get the complete Done-For-You TT Bootcamp Workouts.
Okay, so here's our easy 30 minutes (minimum) of activity day, and I came across this great quote in the May 2009 issue of Men's Health magazine.
I really like that quote…and if you are spending 90 minutes per day in the gym, 6 days per week, I promise you that you can get the same or better results by cutting that time in more than half.
You can even get fit and lose fat by – SHOCKINGLY – doing stuff outside. I know, crazy, isn't it?
Here's a sample Turbulence Training Bootcamp Workout. This particular session is called the TT Intermediate Introduction workout.
If you need to make it easier, just do less and take more breaks. Never skip the warm-up.
And remember, there is NO equipment required in any of the 21 Turbulence Training Bootcamp Workouts.
Rest 2 minutes and repeat 1 more time.
Rest 2 minute before repeating 1 more time.
Rest 2 minutes before repeating 1 more time.
30 minutes of fun activity…and even though the week is almost at an end and you're tired, Men's Health magazine suggests thinking twice before grabbing more coffee and caffeine to get you through the end of a stressful week.
The caffeine will actually just make your stress worse. It's a vicious cycle. Try some exercise instead to start your day.
One more sample Turbulence Training Bootcamp Workout…this one is workout #9 from the program and is called the, Turbulence Training Bodyweight 200 V. 1.0. (there are four bootcamp versions of the Bodyweight 200 in the ebook).
NOTE: This is an advanced bootcamp workout…not for beginners.
Rest 1 minute before repeating 1 more time.
Rest 1 minute before repeating 4 more times for a total of 5 rounds.
My favorite day of the week.
Listen, if you haven't already done so, head over to the Transformation Contest website and discover the dates for the next contest.
If you need money, cool, you can win some!
If you just want support and a reason to finally get serious, we've got that too!
30 minutes activity and plan, shop, & prepare.
…if you grab your copy before Monday, April 20th at midnight.


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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has today (25 January) submitted its evidence to the Clarke Inquiry, an independent inquiry commissioned by the Society to look into possible options for a new professional leadership body for pharmacy.
The Society's submission details its strategic response to this future challenge.
The new professional body should serve the whole profession - generalists and specialists, basic-level and advanced practitioners. It should lead and support them to enable them to realise their professional aspirations and deliver the best possible service to patients and the public. It also needs to provide a clear, strong voice for pharmacy in policy development and public affairs. In doing this it should provide a vision which can unite pharmacy. The Society is keen to collaborate with other pharmacy bodies to make this a reality.
Hemant Patel, President of the Society, said: "The Society is pharmacy's most significant intellectual and financial asset. It is the only pharmacy body with the breadth and depth of expertise to provide the foundation for the new professional body. In achieving this, it will work with all parties outside the Society and its membership to create a strong clear and united voice for the profession. Members will be able to look with confidence to the new professional body for strength of vision and effective leadership".
The Society's full submission, together with a summary version, is available on the Society's website at http://www.rpsgb.org (http://www.rpsgb.org/).
The deadline for submissions to the Clarke Inquiry is 31 January. A final report will be presented by the Clarke Inquiry to the Society's Council in May.
The Inquiry was set up in response to the programme of reform set out in the government's review of healthcare professional regulation in its White Paper, Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century. In a drive to modernise the pharmacy profession a new professional body will stand alongside the new General Pharmaceutical Council, which will take over the Society's regulatory function.
For further information about the Clarke Inquiry and to view the Society's full submission of evidence, see: http://www.theclarkeinquiry.com (http://www.theclarkeinquiry.com/).
A summary of the submission is outlined in a leaflet published by the Society titled "The future of pharmacy: The vision for your new professional body". This leaflet will be distributed with the 26 January issues of The Pharmaceutical Journal and Chemist and Druggist.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (http://www.rpsgb.org/)


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Q: What exactly happens at the end of a season in Diablo 3? With the start of the first Season today, I found myself wondering what happens to the characters you level up during the season, as well as your farmed items and other progress.
Can someone please elaborate on what occurs? The information I found was a bit vague.

A: In a nutshell, and based on this wiki page:
Heroes
At the end of a Season, your Seasonal Normal (or Hardcore) heroes, inventory, shared stash, and Paragon experience will transfer to your Normal (or Hardcore) non-Seasonal profile.  Any items, equipped or in the hero's inventory, will roll-over with the hero itself.
Heroes seasonal tags are removed.
Shared Stash
Items in your Seasonal heroes' shared stash will be mailed to your Normal/Hardcore non-Seasonal profile. These items can be retrieved by entering a game on any non-Seasonal hero and clicking on the mail icon located in the lower left of your screen.
These items aren't automatically placed in your non-Seasonal stash, so you can wait and make room first before claiming them (if needed). Under current design, mailed items from your Seasonal stash will remain available for 30 days after a Season has ended.
Paragon Experience
Paragon experience earned during a Season will transfer over directly without any additional involvement required from players.
Achievements
If you unlock an achievement on a Seasonal hero that you haven't already unlocked on a non-Seasonal hero, you'll gain credit for both at the same time.
Gold and blood shards
Gold will be automatically transferred from your Seasonal profile to your non-Seasonal profile. Ditto for Blood Shards.
When transferring over your Blood Shards from your Seasonal profile to your non-Seasonal profile, the 500 cap will temporarily be ignored.  In this case, players will be unable to pick up any more Blood Shards until they drop below 500.
Artisan levels and learned crafting plans
If your Seasonal Artisan is higher level, its level should transfer at the end of the season. Any recipes you have on your Seasonal Artisan that are not on your non-Season Artisan are transferred as well.
Legendary gems
Under current design, if you drop a Seasonal legendary gem that you already possess in Normal mode, you'll end up with two of such gems.
Rewards
As stated by the in-game help screen, you'll obtain exclusive Transmogrifications if you reach the level 70.  It's also possible to unlock exclusive Banner styles.

A: At the end of the season the character you created becomes a normal character in your list of characters. All items in the season stash will be sent as mail, there is a blue post on this here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/13922512563

Items will be mailed to you using the same system that delivers
  Collector's Edition items. You'll have a small envelope button in the
  lower, left hand corner, and you'll have 30 days to reclaim any items
  mailed to you in this manner when the Season concludes.
In addition, a new stash tab is being made available in Patch 2.1.0
  for players with the Reaper of Souls expansion. If you unlock tabs
  during a Season that you do not already have unlocked for your
  non-Seasonal characters, they will rollover to your non-Seasonal
  characters when the Season ends.
I think if I crammed more Seasons in that sentence, I'd age a year. ;P
  The end-of-Season process can be a little confusing to explain, but I
  hope this makes some sense!

And as for the paragon levels and experience earned in the season

When a season ends all of the paragon experience you have earned will be rolled into the appropriate pool of paragon experience for the account and you will be able to start at 0 again in the new season. - Quoted Blue Post by Travis Day

I also found this blog containing answers about seasons ending by a blue user who answers many of the post season questions if this answer doesn't satisfy all of your curiosity. While it is mainly about how it was handled in the ptr, that is essentially the same process that will be used at the end of season 1 now.

A: Since this has changed over the past several seasons,

Any currency, materials, recipes, items, Paragon experience, and Artisan progression earned during a Season will be rolled over to a player's non-Seasonal profile once the Season concludes. (src)

The Kanai Cube perks are included as part of Artisan progression. (src) And any other progress that exceeds that of your regular account is imported as well (gold, shards, artisan recipes). The character and their inventory is simply converted to a regular character, and the seasonal shared stash is "mailed" to your regular stash, whereupon you'll have a month to reconcile those items into your regular stash's limits.
Paragon levels are converted to raw experience points and added to the regular account's Paragon. (src) You can use this calculator if you want to predict your final level.

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Saturday, April 27: 5th Anniversary Celebration, Tournament, and Black Belt Demonstration! Tournament begins at 10:30am (for Wa-shin Ryu students only), and the Black Demonstration will take place around 12:00PM. The tournament and demonstration are open to the public to watch! All competitors, demonstrators, and spectators will receive lunch!
Saturday, May 25 – Monday, May 27: The Dojo is closed for the Memorial Day Holiday. The Dojo will re-open for all regular classes on Tuesday, May 28.


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International Standards For Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 (ISPM 15) is an International Phytosanitary Measure developed by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) that directly addresses the need to treat wood materials of a thickness greater than 6mm, used to ship products between countries. Its main purpose is to prevent the international transport and spread of disease and insects that could negatively affect plants or ecosystems.
ISPM 15 affects all wood packaging material (pallets, crates, dunnages, etc.) requiring that they be debarked and then heat treated or fumigated with methyl bromide and stamped or branded, with a mark of compliance. This mark of compliance is colloquially known as the "wheat stamp".
Products exempt from the ISPM 15 are made from an alternative material, like paper, plastic or wood panel products (i.e. OSB, hardboard, and plywood).


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POTD: UZI PRO Submachine Gun
Posted September 22, 2020 in Photo Of The Day, Submachine Guns/Pistol Caliber Carbines with No Comments
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Welcome back to TFB's daily Photo Of The Day article series. In today's edition, we are looking at the UZI PRO, submachine gun based on the legendary UZI design of 65 years back.
From IWI's website:
Evolution of the iconic UZI SMG
More ease-of-use, reliability and accuracy
Light-weight, compact and concealable
Looks like an UZI, shoots like a rifle!
The new UZI PRO Sub-Machine Gun (SMG) is based on the legendary UZI design of 65 years ago but has since been transformed with modern materials and advanced technological features. Today, a new short and compact version comes in an ultra-modern ergonomic design offering better control, more safety and maximum accuracy.
The UZI PRO is the latest evolution featuring the most advanced firearms technologies. It transforms the UZI weapon through new modern polymers, MIL-STD 1913 (Picatinny) rails, an ergonomic shoulder stock, and a foldable hand grip, to deliver the SMG of tomorrow.
The new SMG, based on the Israeli Special Forces battle-proven experience, has been redesigned to be lighter but still concealable. All the new developments were realized without compromising the functionality and reliability of the legendary UZI.
Since its early deployment, the UZI, one of the world's most iconic weapons continues to uphold the technological standards of the 21st century. Originally in service in 1956, the UZI was adopted as a frontline weapon by the IDF Elite Forces who favored its reliability, compact size and firepower. Since then over 2 million units have been sold worldwide.
The popular Mini and Micro UZI versions were developed for Special Units, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Elite Police units specializing in Close Quarters Battle (CQB).
The pictures above are from IWI's Facebook page.
Here is another take on the Uzi, a more classical one. This one I encountered on an IPSC handgun competition recently. Still going strong!
It's pretty cool to see it in action, and shooting it is a challenge in itself. It also goes into the Open division, which has some serious competition.
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The most sweeping changes to the tax code in 30 years have taken effect. Here's what they mean for you.
New rules passed at the close of 2017 will touch all corners of Americans' finances. While most of the changes won't affect the tax return you'll file this April, they will start to affect your paycheck early in 2018.
The entire law runs to 1,000 pages. But we've read it and have you covered — with calculators to help you figure out the new tax brackets and rules for mortgage interest deduction, a host of articles to help you take action.
Your tax bracket may change.
You might be losing some important tax breaks.
You won't see big changes, but should note these tweaks.
Breathe easy for now, but another political battle looms.
The new rules include some changes to federal income tax brackets. There are still seven brackets, but the rates are broadly lower and the thresholds have changed.
For the 2017 tax year, it's 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, 39.6%.
For the 2018 tax year, it's 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, 37%.
Our tool gives you a quick look at where you'd land under the new rules. Generally speaking, the bill lowers individual tax rates. But the new rules expire after 2025 unless a future Congress chooses to extend them. So the effects could be temporary.
» Want to know more? Check out our full breakdown of the bill and what it means for you.
Homeownership tax breaks may be pared back for some. The mortgage interest deduction is scaled back for those with large mortgages, and the tax deduction for property taxes and state and local taxes is capped.
Use our mortgage interest deduction calculator to find out what the changes mean for you.
» Want to know more? See how the tax bill impacts homeowners.
The child tax credit is bigger — up from $1,000 per child to $2,000 per child — and more families will qualify for it.
Taxpayers with non-child dependents also get a break with a $500 credit.
Up to $1,400 of this credit is refundable, which means lower-income families could get bigger refunds.
The standard deduction for single filers goes from $6,500 to $12,000; for joint filers, from $13,000 to $24,000.
Taking the standard deduction for the 2018 tax year might score you a lower tax bill than itemizing would. Using the standard deduction generally takes less time than itemizing does, so it also could lower your tax-prep bill (and your stress level).
There's a lot to unpack in the new tax rules, and cheatgame.info will keep on it.
For now, here are some more articles that might help you.


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