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Landscape Drainage Issues
Drainage problems may result in serious consequences.
1 What Can Be Done to Prevent a Soggy Lawn?
2 What to Do About Lawn Erosion
3 Problems With French Drains
While water puddling up in areas of your yard might make for a mushy, soggy walk that is anything but pleasant, standing water may result in more than a minor annoyance. Poor soil drainage impacts nearly every part of the yard and is often the catalyst for problems such as plant disease and death. Become familiar with damage associated with drainage issues and make changes to improve drainage immediately.
Structural Building Damage
Water drainage problems in a yard are not restricted to plant and land damage. When water drains poorly, your home may also be at risk. Be particularly carefule with the height of the soil line in relation to structures such as homes, garages or sheds. Soil that has been built up higher than a structure's slab may result in water that seeps indoors, which could lead to foundation damage. Soil "should be at least 2 inches below the top of the slab," notes Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. For problems with slope and water that drains from the yard toward buildings, you may need to install an underground drainage system to redirect the water.
Wasting Water and Plant Drowning
Drainage problems may result in wasted water. When soil is incapable of absorbing water at an appropriate rate due to poor drainage, the water that runs off or evaporates is wasted. Inefficient watering may result in increased water bills and runs contrary to best practices in water conservation to protect the environment. In addition, the water that puddles up and remains on the soil may kill plants. Plants consistently take up fresh water and nutrients in ideal conditions. When the soil around their roots is saturated for extended periods, the plants become waterlogged and drown. This problem is not reversible, and you will have to replace the dead plants.
Root Rot Disease
In addition to cultural issues that result from poorly draining soil, overly wet soil may encourage the development of pathogenic problems. A vast array of fungal diseases that attack plant roots are collectively referred to as root rot diseases. The majority of root rot diseases develop in poorly draining soils and attack plants "when the base of the plant and roots are waterlogged for many hours," notes Ohio State University Extension. As root rot diseases often severely damage or destroy root systems before above-ground symptoms appear, the disease is difficult and sometimes impossible to treat.
Improving Drainage
Soil should drain at approximately 2 inches per hour. If soil drains slowly or water puddles when you water, amend heavy soil by adding several inches of organic content, such as compost, into the top layers of soil. In lawns, heavy thatch may be responsible for water than cannot reach soil. Dethatching lawns with a rake or a motorized dethatcher will improve lawn drainage problems. To improve a sloped landscape, French drains move water away from areas that tend to puddle.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: Drainage Problems Around the Home
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources: Water Conservation Tips for the Home Lawn and Garden
University of Illinois Extension: Drowning and Edema
Ohio State University Extension: Root Problems on Plants in the Garden and Landscape
University of California Davis Good Life Garden: How to Improve Your Soil Drainage
Tarah Damask's writing career began in 2003 and includes experience as a fashion writer/editor for Neiman Marcus, short fiction publications in "North Texas Review," a self-published novel, band biographies, charter school curriculum and articles for various websites. Damask holds a Master of Arts in English and creative writing from the University of North Texas.
Damask, Tarah. "Landscape Drainage Issues." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/landscape-drainage-issues-46817.html. Accessed 16 July 2019.
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As a young boy growing up in the outdoors and on a family ranch with 6 brothers and sisters, I was always looking for things to do that held an element of adventure and excitement. Winters were cold and the creek was frozen over, the same place we would swim in the summer. A place we called the cow hole.
The creek flowed through the back forty of the ranch into town, about 2 miles. I didn't dare tell mom what I was about to do and I was getting bored skating on the pond so I laced up my old hockey skates dad got at Salvation Army for all us kids and all our 4H friends. Yep, I ice skated two miles to town on the frozen creek, jumped two barbed wire fences that kept the cows out of the neighbors pasture and thought I invented a new sport and skill.
When the ice melted it opened up and about June we would all go swim at the cow hole.
As an adult I realized how special a creek or a stream and rivers are for recreation as we fished, swam, floated every time we could in the little paradise called Rock Creek .
For the last 50 years I have experienced rafting and kayaking all over the west, from the Grand Canyon to Alaska in a raft, canoe, or kayak. I had a career as a Park Ranger and also was a river guide, naturalist and adventurer and all the best times were on a river, somehow, somewhere, someplace.


Cryptocurrency investors are blind to the most important factor of any investment – valuation.
Merely uttering the word "blockchain" has been a hypnotic weapon, sending investors into a trance where they clamor to buy at any price.
Tea cup from Get Out: The process of sending blockchain investors into hypnosis.
This isn't the first time growth investors have gone wild. Technological innovation typically turns investors into emotional basket cases. Today, a blockchain protocol with any facade of technical aptitude is valued at eight figures.
Throw out a $10-term like "DAG" or 'interoperability" and you'll get nine figures.
And these low eight- or nine-figure valuations are turning into 10-figure valuations. Wash, rinse, repeat…. The blockchain voodoo is working.
Blockchain investors using jobu to increase protocol valuation.
Well, for people who view tokens as a casino chip instead of an asset who's value will ultimately converge to fundamental value….
Spoiler alert: this won't end well.
History tells us it can't be that simple.
The "Nifty Fifty" of the 1960s, a group of 50 stocks that represented some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet, bought regardless of price, epitomizes a case of growth investing gone wild. The goal of the approach was to identify companies with the most optimistic outlooks in earnings growth. The stocks that highlighted "America's great stocks" lists were Xerox, Kodak, Motorola and Texas-Instruments.
"Hold!" they said. The resulting P/E ratios in 1972 are shown below.
What do you notice about the names above?
The spectacular growth abruptly came to an end for many from technological obsolescence and competition. P/E ratios for the 50 stocks selected collapsed to 10. By 1975, the Nifty Fifty had shed two-thirds of its value.
Newly conceived ICOs are raising at valuations in the hundreds of millions and the same venture investors that would scoff at a $500 million valuation in the "real world" are lining up to buy tokens with no recourse and without any regards for valuation.
Valuation is the least important factor instead of the most. And as a result, there are 24 early-stage crypto assets with a valuation over $1 billion, most of which only have one value proposition: speculation.
If you were planning to buy a new house, hopefully you'd ask what the price is. But instead, just like with housing leading up to 2008, blockchain investors have been lured into believing that growth alone obviates any need for valuation rigor.
When price starts to diverge from value, and growth at any price becomes the general market sentiment, risk adjusted returns fall dramatically. Crypto investors will ultimately need to have a strategy, other than selling the token to a greater fool.
The most important factor driving an investment success or failure is the relationship between the price you pay and the asset's worth. A fundamentally strong asset can be a bad investment if too optimistic of expectations are priced in and vice versa.
What tends to get investors into trouble is conflating "interesting asset" with "interesting at any price". I'm fascinated by the vision for a "world computer". But that alone doesn't mean Ethereum is a high expected value bet at a $100 billion valuation.
Objective merit alone is about as good of a predictor of price increases as Jamie Dimon's forecasts are.
There are two fundamental investing approaches that warrant dissection: value and growth. Value investors look to buy the proverbial one-dollar bill for $0.80. Growth investors look to buy a one-dollar bill that can turn into a fancy new bio-tech drug or consumer application worth $5 10 years down the road. Either strategy can work.
But regardless, both schools of investors still need to accurately price and understand what constitutes "low" and "high" for any given asset. If the asset purportedly worth $1 turns out to be worth $0.25, both investors are overpaying and reducing risk adjusted returns substantially.
Generally, the early stage investment realm is dominated by growth investors due to the difficulty of determining present fundamentals.
Due to the future uncertainty, growth investors like venture capitalists typically require a higher rate of return to compensate them for the risk. According to CB Insights, only 0.91 percent of startups make it from seed stage to greater than $1 billion in value.
Thus, seed valuations need to be more than $10 million ($1 billion multiplied by 1 percent) and returns need to be higher than 100x for the bet to be expected value positive at that failure rate (100x multiplied by .$01 = 1x money). (This is a slight oversimplification but helpful for purposes of this analysis).
The bottom line is that the initial valuation matters and needs to compensate you for the risk.
Many crypto assets are undoubtedly riskier – you're trading the preferential rights and recourse of an equity investment for a tote bag and a token with an unproven value capture mechanism.
In fact, according to Fortune, 60 percent of ICOs have already failed after just two years – talk about not wasting any time. Required return, or the discount rate, needs to be higher for crypto assets to generate a positive expected value. Given the increased risk, you'd think crypto valuations would be lower than early stage venture capital but instead they are order(s) of magnitude higher.
Because valuations are already in the hundreds of millions, investors need conviction that these protocols will ultimately be worth tens of billions to generate a substantial risk adjusted return (10x-50x required return multiplied by hundreds of millions = $billions).
For those already worth billions the challenge is clearly magnified. Billions of dollars of value capture is not in and of itself a problem. But in crypto it will be for many assets because the only way that a crypto asset can be worth tens of billions of dollars is if it becomes a reserve store of value.
The key to ascertaining fundamental value in crypto is an understanding of  economic activity – transactional usage of the token + the store of value component and  velocity – how frequently the token changes hands.
Every other quadrant is relegated to the world of nine figures, largely because of the importance of velocity.
Recognizing the importance of velocity, there's been a lot of work done to manipulate it through relatively complex mechanisms. However, I tend to agree with Nic Carter below on most "solutions" I've seen.
I think "velocity sinks" and the field of "tokenomics" are just sugar-coated synonyms for the more mundane idea of ensuring returns for token backers. Of course, nothing is free, and many of these schemes will end in tears.
If users are reluctant to hold the token, in more cases than not, there's no escaping the high velocity that will ensue.
And in the long run, with the proliferation of seamless decentralized exchanges and atomic swaps, the only assets I believe individuals will be comfortable holding a substantial amount of wealth in are those that satisfy the properties of a store of value.
Thus, if you subscribe to the view above, the conclusion is that for a token to have a valuation of above $1 billion it must  be a store of value and  have substantially greater than $1 billion in wealth held due to the velocity problem. A tall order for most assets in the space, but they're definitely not priced like it.
If you're investing in an asset today with a valuation in the hundreds of millions, to generate a positive risk-adjusted return you need those millions to turn into billions. Because only reserve stores of value will be worth billions, you're implicitly betting that the asset becomes one.
An understanding of these facets will open your eyes to the insanity of crypto valuations.
Slight caveat: This analysis doesn't include security tokens that are more similar to equity and given the recourse can be worth greater than $1 billion.
Becoming a store of value is not trivial. The best reserve store of value must secure purchasing power over an extended period of time. Let's break that down.
At the very least, money must first be secure. If security is a concern, high mental transaction costs will prevent its adoption; social scalability is eliminated (a big reason why FDIC was instated, for example). A store of value cannot be vulnerable to replay attacks, buggy smart contracts and double spending.
And because code is bound to have bugs, the development needs to be conservative and only prioritize crucial features. The development needs to be a complete meritocracy – errors cannot be tolerated.
A sound money and reserve store of value must also retain its purchasing power. There needs to be strong predictability to the supply, which guarantees to holders that they will not witness a drop in the purchasing power of the currency. It needs to be highly durable, thus cannot be arbitrarily changed or devalued by a centralized monopoly.
In the case of gold, for example, the durability is guaranteed by its physical characteristics and cost of extraction.
The cheaper the option to run a full node,  the less users need to rely on trusted parties to audit when they've been paid and  the greater the checks and balances against arbitrary rule changes to the system. Together, this allows the durability, censorship resistance and trust minimization that is so critical to reserve store of value functionality.
A lot to ask for. And why, 99 percent of tokens won't ever satisfy the store of value pre-requisites.
You'll also notice that usage as a medium of exchange and dAppp functionality is not listed as a prerequisite. There are two diametrically opposed tradeoffs between security and usability at the base layer. The more complexity at the base level, the larger attack surface and higher the cost of the option to run a full node. If the cost becomes prohibitive, users need to completely rely on a trusted third party to verify transactions.
Said another way, base layer trustlessness is a necessary condition for a reserve store of value and layer-one transactions and feature richness are not.
Without trustlessness, blockchains start to act a lot like our status quo institutions and they will end up more like a decapitated Napster or our current inflationary monetary system than a reserve store of value. To wrest control of money out of the hands of centralized institutions and live to tell the tale, decentralization is absolutely paramount. If the money you save can be destroyed, there's no point to doing so.
Job one is to stay alive.
However, individuals are willing to accept various degrees of trust. Ultimately, as holders start saving the reserve store of value, out of convenience they'll transact in it through second layer solutions that are less trust minimized. But the base protocol first needs to cement itself as secure, trust-less and decentralized. Then and only then can it add all of the fun stuff on top. The low entropy base chain allows the higher entropy use cases to flourish.
The question to ask about every crypto asset is why individuals would hold their wealth in anything other than the most objectively secure, trust-less and censorship resistant asset with the soundest monetary policy.
Analyzing ethereum is a helpful case study as it straddles the borderline between a pure utility token and store of value.
It's possible to justify ethereum's current price as either under or overvalued – and it all comes down to whether it becomes a reserve store of value. Even though ethereum's core value proposition is not to be a "digital gold," it effectively needs to become one to generate a high risk-adjusted return.
And the same quandary holds true for bitcoin cash and many other assets. How's that for irony?
The first analysis below projects out ethereum returns in the case it doesn't become a reserve store of value, using the quantity theory of money.
Slight caveat: Economic activity should also capture MoE payments. For simplicity of this analysis, the sheer magnitude of the upside in activity should capture this.
Even with a 1000x increase in economic activity from $350 million – $350 billion from 2018-2021, the price of the token actually decreases by 90 percent. Because the price is 8.5x overvalued based on actual circulating market cap today, the growth in usage does not bail the investor out for the high price paid.
As the speculation premium contracts and velocity increases, the price will contract to an equilibrium value at a fraction of the total economic activity.
If, on the other hand, ethereum becomes a reserve store of value the valuation is relatively more compelling. The oft-quoted comp for a reserve store of value is gold at a ~$7 trillion market cap. The question is, what is the probability of it doing so? Extremely low, in my opinion.
Ethereum has three main use cases today, none of which bolster the store of value argument: (1) crowdfunding platform, (2) crypto kitties / digital collectibles platform and (3) a platform for hackers to hack each other.
The complexity of the base blockchain materially detracts from ethereum's potential use as a store of value. The rich statefulness increases the attack surface. And if the "world computer" actually works, a full node is effectively the equivalent of running every computer operation in the world on one server. Imagine having to verify every single Uber trip, Dropbox transaction and poker hand on your computer to ensure the current state was accurate.
Dapps aren't even live yet and the cost of running a full ethereum node is increasing dramatically. Unless ethereum considerably changes its architecture, users will ultimately be forced to rely on trusted third parties instead of running a full node themselves – and we unfortunately know all too well that "trusted third parties are security holes." For certain use cases this may not be an issue – but for a reserve store of value it's absolutely intolerable.
The story doesn't end there: The vulnerability and security of assets held on a Turing-complete protocol, rich statefulness of the base blockchain and high political centralization also detract from the store of value thesis. And the lack of clarity around the monetary policy is an absolute deal breaker.
If users are not certain that  their purchasing power won't be arbitrarily reduced in the future and  their funds are secure from buggy code and censorship, savings and liquidity will both be stifled.
With that being said, I don't want to pretend that the investment world is binary. The key is applying a probability to each potential outcome and deducing the expected value of various opportunities. At the right price, an unlikely bet can still have positive expected value. The issue is when prices no longer compensate you for the risk.
This essay is not saying that non reserve store of value crypto assets will always be bad risk-adjusted long-term investments. But just that it's the case today because most are valued greater than $100 million. Early-stage crypto experiments are valued like later-stage successes. The only way to grow beyond the valuations is through becoming a reserve store of value.
When asset valuations drop by a couple orders of magnitude after investors inevitably regain their sensibilities, the equation will be entirely different.
But for the meantime, navigating this cryptocurrency environment will require a fundamental perspective shift. Given where valuations are today, usage and objective merit alone are not predictors of success.
The protocols that generate long-term returns may not necessarily be the ones with the best teams and highest chances of transactional adoption, but instead those that can potentially become a store of value, where the price paid compensates you for the probability of it doing so.
Disclaimer: The comments, views, opinions and any forecasts of future events reflect the opinion of the quoted author or speaker, do not necessarily reflect the views of Tetras Capital Partners, LLC ("Tetras") or other professionals at Tetras, are not guarantees of future events, returns or results and are not intended to provide financial planning or investment advice.


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If you have shopped online for UGG® boots, shoes or accessories, you may have already been exposed to the thousands of Counterfeit UGG Websites advertising their fake UGG products using wording such as "cheap UGGs", "discount UGGs", "UGGs on sale" or websites calling themselves "UGG outlets" or "UGG shops".
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New research from the London Leisure Pass Group shows that out of all nationalities of tourists to visit London's most popular sites, those sites with royal connections get two thumbs up more often from U.S. visitors than from other countries. For example, while 50 percent of all nationalities enjoy Westminster Abbey, a staggering 61 percent of U.S. visitors actually visit -- 11 percent over the average.
With Windsor Castle (the queen's weekend palace), double the number of U.S. visitors than the average of all nationalities visit this site. The trend also continues for other London venues with Royal connections -- the Royal Mews (where the queen's horses are kept), Kensington Palace (the last home of Princess Diana), and the Tower of London (where many queens met their untimely deaths). All are more popular with American tourists than the overall score of all nationalities.
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On a recent location exploration BCW revisited RAF Greenham Common. The sole mission for the day was to get an update on the Ground Launched Cruise Missile Maintenance Area or GAMA. Most people know GAMA as the missile silos located in fenced off south west corner of RAF Greenham Common.
Since our last visit it still hasn't found a full time use and the owners still refuse to to entertain any idea of preserving it for the Public, presumably as it wouldn't produce them a profit despite GAMA being a scheduled monument. However on visiting it was apparent that some of the doors had been repaired. This in itself was intriguing.
Anyway, it was good to have another good look around the GAMA silos and it was interesting to note that the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) silo has had its underground area sealed up. (The QRA silo was the only one built with underground crew quarters) so sadly it wasn't possible to go down and see that area this time.
Having heard rumours about Flying A Services (the owners) storing old aircraft there in boxes we were not surprised to find creates and containers stored in the silos and didn't give it a second thought until a few weeks later a photo appeared in a paper of an aerial shot of GAMA with the Millennium Falcon sitting proudly outside of the QRA silo! As it turns out GAMA is the new Rebel Base in the New Star Wars film. So as it turned out those creates were full probably full of Star Wars props including a X-Wing fighters and the like. However one rule of our site visits is that we leave only footprints and take only photos. We definitely would also never damage anything so opening and peeking in crates is a big no no.
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For the rugby fan the week is off to a great start with Monday evening Varsity Cup rugby.
This brilliant tournament titled "FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International" has brought life to rugby at our tertiary institutions and will provide a showcase of the best young talent available.
In the professional era the focus on student and club rugby has been on the decline and this tournament has already proved to be the spark needed to grow rugby amongst the younger generation.
We have to agree with newly appointed Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer that development of the game needs to start from the youngest levels. It is also important not to have a vacuum between school rugby and provincial rugby. Tournaments such as the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International as well as our U/19 and U/21 Currie Cup competitions can close this gap.
The best part about the Varsity Cup is that it creates an awesome vibe amongst all students- male and female, and the players get the opportunity to experience both the pleasure and pressure of playing in front of a big audience!
Our female sports photographer Denese Lups shared some photos capturing the action and vibe at Varsity Cup rugby. This game was played on the 13th of February 2012 at Shimlapark between Shimlas and NMMU.


Fractures of the posterior process of the talus are extremely rare and more so when it is associated with a pilon fracture. Anatomical reduction and fixation of these injuries are important to prevent post traumatic ankle and subtalar arthritis and nonunion. The author presents a case of fracture of the posterior process of the talus with pilon fracture. In addition to these he also had ipsilateral, undisplaced extra articular fracture of the calcaneum, undisplaced fracture of the navicular and fracture of the first metatarsal.
Key words: Talus; Posterior process; Foot; Fracture.
The posterior process of the talus has two tubercles, the medial and lateral, with the groove for the flexor hallucis longus tendon in between. The more prominent of these is the lateral tubercle. The posterior process is an intra articular component to the subtalar and ankle joints and any incongruity to the posterior process can lead to early degenerative arthritis of both joints.
Fracture of the entire posterior process of the talus is a very rare injury with only 13 cases reported to date. [1,2,3,4] Pilon fractures of the tibia account for 1-10% of lower limb fractures5, and is usually the result of high energy trauma in active people. Concomitant injuries reported with posterior process fracture include medial malleolus fracture , and subtalar dislocation6. Pilon fracture in association with fracture of entire posterior process of the talus is not reported so far. The patient in this study also had ipsilateral extra articular os calcis fracture, fracture of the navicular and fracture of the first metatarsal bone.
A 29 year-old male expatriate worker was brought to the accident and emergency with history of a heavy sheet falling on his both lower legs. The right ankle and lower leg was grossly swollen. There was mild swelling of the left ankle with tenderness over the lateral malleolus. He didn't have any co-morbid medical illness. He also had a puncture wound over the medial malleolus on the right. There was no distal neurovascular deficit.
X-rays performed in the emergency department showed comminuted fracture of the right distal tibia extending to the tibial plafond and the medial malleolus, with suprasyndesmotic fracture of the fibula. (Figs. 1 A and B, and 2) In addition, he so had undisplaced fracture of the right os calcis, navicular and first metatarsal bone. X-rays of the left ankle showed an undisplaced fracture of the lateral malleolus.
Figure 1 A and B Lateral (A) and anterior posterior (B) view x-rays of the ankle showing the extent of injury.
He was taken for surgery the very next day. Under epidural anaesthesia the fibular fracture was fixed first with a third tubular plate. The wound over the medial malleolus was debrided again and the pilon fracture was fixed through a minimally invasive approach, with stab incisions, and a spoon plate was used for stabilization. The fixation was checked with imaging intra operatively and the posterior process fracture was found minimally displaced. This was approached by extending the lateral incision and fixation was done with a 4 mm partially threaded cancellous screw. The peroneal tendons were displaced to visualize the fracture.
The soft tissue attachments to the fragment were not disturbed. The wound was closed in layers with a drain on the lateral side. Post operatively the leg was immobilized in a slab for 6 weeks. The patient remained in the hospital for 11 days due to necrosis of skin on the lateral side which eventually healed with dressings.
X-rays taken during the post operative period showed acceptable reduction of all fractures. (Figs. 4) The patient was followed up at 6 weeks where the immobilization was removed. The patient was also advised non weight bearing mobilization of the ankles. We were unable to follow up this patient as went to his home country and attempts to contact him failed. The patient was informed that data regarding his case would be used for publication and gave his written consent.
Fractures of the posterior process of the talus are very rare injuries with only few published reports in the English literature. [1,3,7] Fracture of the posterior process of the talus involves both medial and lateral tubercles There are few reports of isolated fracture of the posterior process after the first report by Nasser and Manoli. [4,8,9] Subsequent to this reports of posterior process fracture with other ipsilateral injuries have been reported.
High index of suspicion is needed to diagnose isolated posterior process fracture, but if associated with concomitant injuries the diagnosis becomes easy. A CT scan is useful to determine the amount of displacement. Early operative intervention and fixation prevents post traumatic arthritis.
1. Bhanot A, Kaushal R, Bhan R, Gupta PN, Gupta RK, Bahadur R. Fracture of the posterior process of talus. Injury 2004; 35: 1341-1344.
2. Ahmad R, Ahmad SMY. Fracture of the posterior process of the talus: An unusual injury. Emerg Med J 2007: 24: 867.
3. Prasad G, Mittal D, Harlekar V, Raut VV. Fracture of the posterior process of the talus: A case report. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 2007; 17: 417-419.
4. Nakai T, Murao R, Temporin K, Kakiuchi M. Painful nonunion of fracture of the entire posterior process of the talus: a case report. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 2005; 125(10) 721-724.
5. Sirkin M, Sanders R. The treatment of Pilon fractures. Orthop Clin North Am 2001; 32(1): 91-102.
6. Naranja RJ Jr, Monaghan BA, Okereke E, Williams GR Jr. Case report: Open medial subtalar dislocation associated with fracture of the posterior process of the talus. J Orthop Trauma 1996; 10(2): 142-144.
7. Chen YJ, Liang SC, Huang TJ. Fracture of entire posterior process as an obstacle to reduction of an anterior talar subluxation: Case report. J Trauma 1997; 42(2): 314-317.
8. Nasser S, Manoli A. Fracture of the entire posterior process of the talus: a case report. Foot Ankle 1990; 10(4): 235-238.
9. Nadim Y, Tosic A, Ebraheim N. Open reduction and internal fixation of fracture of the posterior process of the talus: A case report with review of the literature. Foot Ankle Int 1999; 20(1): 50-52.
10. Jimulia TR, Parekh AN. Fracture of the entire posterior process of the talus. J Postgrad Med 1995; 41: 54-55.
11. Kose O, Okan AN, Durakbase MO et al. Fracture of the os trigonum: a case report. J Orthop Surg 2006; 14(3): 354-356.
12. Nyska M, Howard CB, Matan Y, Cohen D , Peyser A, Garti A, Bar-Ziv J. Fracture of the posterior body of the talus-the hidden fracture. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 1998; 117: 114-117.
1 Head of Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedics, Ibri Regional Referral Hospital, PO Box 46 Ibri 516, Sultanate of Oman.


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All Aboard the Bookshelf: Barefoot Books Ambassadors go to France!
Barefoot Books Ambassadors go to France!
Last weekend, eight of the top Barefoot Books Ambassadors in the world - four from North America (including my team leader, Laurie) and four from Europe - went on an amazing tip to France that they won for their performance as Ambassadors during the 4th quarter of 2012 (October, November, December). The trip to France is often one of the top prizes in our yearly 4th quarter challenge, and it's one of the most special and unique perks of being a Barefoot Books Ambassador. Laurie took some gorgeous photographs while she was there, and I wanted to share them with you...you'll have to head over to Flickr to see them all, but I promise they are worth it!
Scenes Around Le Tupe - Le Tupe' is the private vacation home of Barefoot Books founder, Nancy Traversy, and her husband Marty. The home is located in a teeny town "Noilan" in southwest France. To put it mildly - it's out of this world.
Day Trip to Toulouse - Toulouse is the city closest to their home. Also known as "The Rose City", a shopping and touring excursion to Toulouse is always on the agenda.
Trip to Carcassonne - Carcassonne is a beautifully preserved medieval city complete with castle and cathedral. Being there is seriously like stepping back into time onto the pages of a fairy tale - perfect for those of us whose stock-in-trade is beautiful story books!
Color Me Barefoot - The world of Barefoot Books is a colorful one. Step inside any of our books and it's an obvious and clear distinction. Our brand of "color" however, is so much more than ink on a page. The colors are who we are, what we love, how we experience, how we celebrate, how we live, how we connect, how we learn. Spend time with us, meet our founders, explore what we do, what we seek, what we share, what we love and celebrate and you see that the "Color of Barefoot" is not only how we live, it's magic. Color is expression. Color is vibrance, it's exploration, it's celebration. Color is essential. Color can reach deep inside you. Color can speak to you and rest assured it can transform your soul.
Nancy Traversy, Chief Executive Officer of Barefoot Books, who graciously opened her home in France for this trip.
Nancy with Tessa Strickland, Editor-in-Chief of Barefoot Books. Nancy and Tessa founded Barefoot Books together 20 years ago, and are still going strong today!
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Sai Tamhankar goes natural for iPhone film Pondicherry: Poster
Read in:	Marathi
Directed by Sachin Kundalkar, Pondicherry also stars Amruta Khanvilkar, Neena Kulkarni and Mahesh Manjrekar in key roles.
Mumbai - 01 Feb 2019 20:00 IST
Actress Sai Tamhankar kicked off the shooting for her next film, Pondicherry, opposite Vaibhav Tatwawaadi today. The makers announced the commencement of the start to finish schedule in Pondicherry by releasing the first poster of the film.
The poster features Tamhankar and Tatwawaadi, and has an intriguing tagline — the story of a family living far away. The poster doesn't give away any other clues about its plot.
What we do know is director Sachin Kundalkar is shooting the film on iPhone. The poster also features #smartphonefilm.
"It is the first (Marathi) feature film shot entirely on iPhone," says Tamhankar, who was recently seen in the web series, Date With Sai.
Pondicherry also stars Amruta Khanvilkar, Neena Kulkarni and Mahesh Manjrekar in key roles.
Tamhankar will be seen a very basic realistic look in the film.
"You'll see me in a very natural look in this film — no make-up and no hairstyle. I am already enjoying the process of making this film. I have this lovely feeling that you when you go to a workshop for the first time," said Tamhankar about starting work on the film.
The actress is also excited about attempting something different from what she has done so far in her career.
"I think every actress should get to do a film where one is forced to get out of the comfort zone and do something different. So I am excited about the shooting of this film," she added.
Kundalkar and Tamhankar have earlier worked together in Vazandar in 2016.
Actors Tanmay Kulkarni, Bhupendra Singh Jadawat and Gaurav Ghatnekar are also part of the film's cast.
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Global climate talks
Michael Bloomberg pledges to help world leaders reach climate deal
Former New York mayor says he will 'carry the flag' for Ban Ki-moon's attempts to get heads of state to agree 2015 climate deal
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who says he will help the UN on efforts to reach a global deal on climate change Photograph: SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
New York's former mayor, Mike Bloomberg, said he plans to spend his post-political career helping the United Nations with the "very difficult" and "frustrating" work of herding leaders towards a global climate deal.
Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.
The former mayor put climate change at the top of his agenda during his 12 years running New York, and led an international group of cities acting on climate change, the C40.
He told a conference call organised by the C40 group the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, could use a push getting world leaders to turn up to a summit in New York in September with "concrete solutions" to climate change.
"The secretary general – he has a very difficult job," Bloomberg told the call. "I think he is probably a little bit frustrated that the nations of the world haven't come together in Rio+20 and all the others things like that have to be taken to the next step. What he is trying to do is get as much help as he can so at the national level they take the bull by the horns, and really make progress."
He went on: "If I can carry the flag for him, and get him a little bit of information and be a spokesman for him, I would really love to do that," Bloomberg said.
As mayor, Bloomberg committed to cutting New York's greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, retrofitting official buildings with energy saving features, cleaning up waste, and installing bike lanes.
He told the call cities produced a large and growing share of greenhouse gas emissions. Three-quarters of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, according to projections.
Bloomberg argued that city mayors, through their use of executive powers, have greater scope for action than state or national legislatures.
"While little progress is made on international levels, cities are just forging ahead," he said.
The 63 member cities in the C40 group had between them committed to 8,000 different actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report out on Wednesday.
Those actions ranged from introducing energy-saving building codes to investing in bus rapid transit systems which take thousands of cars off the roads, and installing LED street lighting.
Some 90% of cities were now moving towards the more efficient LED lighting, the report said. Among those is Glasgow, funded by the UK's green investment bank. Thirty-six cities had bike sharing schemes.
Not all of Bloomberg's efforts succeeded, of course. He failed in one of his biggest battles to get a congestion charge, taxing vehicles entering Manhattan, through the New York state legislature.
But the mayor told the call he saw his two-year term as UN climate envoy as a chance to persuade national leaders there was a lot they could do to avoid catastrophic climate change.
"It is in the interests of all these countries to do something, and sometimes I think the benefits just get lost in all of the verbiage and structure," he said. "Sometimes just bringing something to people's attention just gets them to focus and take action."
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IT BEGINS: CNN blames Trump for Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime hoax (just as we predicted)
Thursday, February 21, 2019 by: JD Heyes
Tags: America, arrest, Chicago PD, civil society, CNN, Crybullies, deception, diversity, Don Lemon, fake news, faked, felony, hate crime, hate crime hoax, hoax, Journalism, Jussie Smollett, left cult, mainstream media, media enablers, Media Lies, prison, propaganda, ROFL, staged assault, stupid
(Natural News) Racism is an abomination and hating someone so badly that you seek to harm them solely on the basis of their skin color cannot ever become tolerable or acceptable.
That is especially true in diverse America. We are told often how our diversity is one of our strengths.
But that said, it should be equally intolerable and unacceptable for anyone to fake a race-related 'hate crime' no matter who they are and regardless of their skin color.
Or political preference.
"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett may have let his hatred for POTUS Donald Trump get the better of his judgment last month when he — according to charges leveled against him by Chicago police — faked a hate crime.
According to the allegations, Smollett conspired with two Nigerian brothers to make it appear as though the actor was beaten up by Trump-supporting white guys who, during the attack, hurled racial and homophobic epithets at him, poured a bleach-like substance on him, and put a noose around his neck.
None of that is true, apparently.
When Smollett made his complaint, the disgustingly dishonest and irresponsible "mainstream" media (MSM), which is in the tank for the far-Left Democrat Party, built a bandwagon and then leapt on it, declaring how "horrific" a crime it was and lecturing us about the 'dangers' of Trump's 'politics of hate,' etc. etc., yada, yada, ad nauseam. Hollywood's ill-informed Left joined right in.
Now that the incident has been exposed as a hoax — as many of us long suspected — some of the same disgustingly dishonest MSM outlets (CNN and especially that race-baiting hack Don Lemon, we're looking at you) have continued to blame the president and thus perpetuate the hoax that Smollett created. (Related: Want Jussie Smollett to actually PAY for the investigation into his hate hoax felony? There's a form for that.)
As reported by Townhall's Katie Pavlich, Lemon had a near-meltdown after learning that Smollett was in police custody, having surrendered to cops on a charge of felonious disorderly conduct for making a false police report.
"Since the beginning of the Smollett case, Lemon has been one of the actor's biggest defenders and shamed those who doubted his story," Pavlich noted.
The fake news media perpetuates and enables these hate crime hoaxes
CNN's Don Lemon panics over Jussie Smollett's felony charge: "Sean Hannity is going to eat Jussie Smollett's lunch every single second. Tucker Carlson is going to eat Jussie Smollett's lunch every single second. The President of the United States is going to eat his lunch" pic.twitter.com/aYCQE9Y50J
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 21, 2019
"CNN's Don Lemon panics over Jussie Smollett's felony charge: "Sean Hannity is going to eat Jussie Smollett's lunch every single second. Tucker Carlson is going to eat Jussie Smollett's lunch every single second. The President of the United States is going to eat his lunch," Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra noted.
Well, let's hope Hannity and Carlson "eat Smollett's lunch." Because if they do, they'll be among the shrinking pool of responsible journalists left like us who have the guts to call out scams and scandal when they see it, regardless of who is responsible.
CNN, in the words conservative commentator, like MSNBC and the networks, are pathetic enablers of people like Smollett who are allowed to weaponize their race and sexual orientation against their political opponents.
"Don Lemon completely gives the game away of why CNN won't simply own up to this and other failings. Because they are paid to act like opposition. Smollet, Parkland, Covington, list goes on… they believe they are political opposition. Not journalists," he tweeted.
There's no doubt that's true. Lemon, like Pavlich points out, has been all-in on the Smollett hoax since the beginning. So invested is he in the story being true that once it was outed as a scam, he angrily deflects any blame for perpetuating the lie onto his network competitors and President Trump, none of whom are responsible for Smollett's actions.
If the actor is convicted of his crime, he could get three years in prison. He should, and further, he should serve every day of those three years.
We cannot tolerate acts of racial, homophobic violence in America because our people are so diverse. But that also means we cannot tolerate hate crime hoaxes, either.
Read more about hate crime hoaxes at Hoax.news.
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IT BEGINS: CNN blames Trump for Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime hoax (just as we predicted)


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Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip and Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury Christopher Hui today visited the Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices. They learnt about the operation of a temporary testing station set up for staff working at the building as well as the resumption of more public services by government departments. Currently, 15 departments have set up offices at the building, providing public services such as health, district affairs enquiry, registration of persons and death and vehicle licensing services. The Government Property Agency set up a temporary testing station at the building from today to February 2 (except the weekend) to provide a free virus testing service for staff members who work there, after two government staff at the building tested positive for COVID-19. Mr Nip and Mr Hui inspected the station's first-day of operation, including the testing service workflow and the infection control and social distancing measures put in place. They also took a virus test on site. Both officials noted that early testing can safeguard staff safety and health and help clear any doubts of people visiting the premises for public services. They appealed to all colleagues working at the building to join the free testing plan. Starting today, government departments resume the provision of some basic public services, in addition to emergency services and essential public services. Mr Nip and Mr Hui said they were pleased to learn that the service resumption was generally smooth on the first day.
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Salesforce Announces Appointment of Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Parker Harris to its Board of Directors
PRNewswire August 8, 2018, 7:59 pm August 8, 2018
Salesforce , the global leader in CRM, announced that Parker Harris, Salesforce Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, was appointed to its Board of Directors, effective as of August 7, 2018. The appointment increases the size of the Salesforce Board of Directors to 13 members.
"Since our founding in 1999, Parker has been instrumental in driving Salesforce's innovation and shaping our culture," said Marc Benioff, Chairman and co-CEO, Salesforce. "I'm thrilled to welcome him to the board and look forward to his continued impact on the company."
"It's been a privilege to be part of Salesforce as we've revolutionized the software industry, built a world-class company culture and grown into a Fortune 500 company," said Parker Harris, Salesforce Co-Founder and CTO. "I'm grateful and honored to join the Board of Directors."
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Background on Parker Harris:
Harris currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Salesforce, the global leader in CRM. In this role, Harris oversees product strategy for the company from design to development to service delivery.
Since founding Salesforce in 1999 with Marc Benioff, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez, Harris developed Salesforce's multi-tenant cloud architecture, led transformative company technology initiatives and played a key role in establishing Salesforce as a best place to work.
Prior to Salesforce, Harris was a co-founder of Left Coast Software.
Harris has a degree in English Literature from Middlebury College.
Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced new innovations across marketing, commerce and service enabling brands worldwide to deliver smarter, more personalized and connected customer experiences. In addition, Salesforce and Google continued to deliver on their strategic partnership with new integrations between Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 becoming available. Salesforce is showcasing these innovations and more at Salesforce Connections, where the world's top brands are gathered to learn how they can deliver next-generation customer engagement.
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Canada's 1954 bank notes were meant to be a fresh start.
Symbols of British dominion were deliberately traded for those representing Canada's new spirit of nationalism while, at the same time, the new, young face of the British monarchy was displayed prominently.
However, it wasn't the national character of the new bills, or the striking Canadian landscapes they depicted, that caught the public eye. It was Satan hiding in the queen's curls.
The devil, as they say, was in the details.
The eight landscapes making up the 1954 bank note series' so-called Great Lone Land vision of Canada.
The 1954 Canadian dollar bill was issued as part of the Canadian Landscape series of bank notes and replaced a series dating back to 1937, which carried the portrait of of the British monarch, King George VI.
It's fair to say that the impetus for the new bank note series was threefold.
There was death of King George VI, on February 6, 1952, followed immediately by the accession of his daughter Queen Elizabeth II.
And the year before, on November 8, 1951, there had been a speech by Canadian prime minister Louis St-Laurent to the House of Commons declaring that it was his government's policy to replace the word "dominion" with the word "Canada".
This was in keeping with the spirit of the 1931 Statute of Westminster, by which Canada, like Australia and New Zealand, had effectively ceased to be a dominion (or self-governing colony) of Great Britain.
The traditional ornamentation of bank notes reflects a 'Victorian' taste in design…However, elaborate ornamentation is not consistent with Canadian taste—particularly ornamentation which is derivative from times associated with an immature, colonial status.
What was needed was a new Canadian design for the times. The respected Canadian painter and war artist Charles Comfort was contracted to create a unifying contemporary design for the series of eight denominations.
It was decided that the reverse of each bank note would feature a different Canadian landscape—all of them suitably mythic and unspoiled by human activity. Over 3,000 images were considered and the eight which where chosen became known collectively as The Great Lone Land vision of Canada.
This was in reference, apparently, to The Great Lone Land, a North American travel narrative written in 1872 by William Francis Butler.
Two additional considerations constrained the design of the 1954 series of bank notes. One was the legal requirement that they be bilingual (in English and French—Canada's two official languages). The other was the fact of bill-folding, which, according to the Bank of Canada, led to positioning the Queen's portrait out of harm's way on the right-hand side of the obverse.
Only the 1954 series featured Elizabeth II's portrait on each of the eight bank notes. This portrait was adapted from a photograph of the Queen taken by the famous Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh—originally for a stamp. It required extensive retouching to remove a tiara.
The modified, tiara-free version was approved by the Queen and engraved by George Gunderson, one of the best engravers with the British American Bank Note Company—a contractor closely involved in the creation of the 1954 banknote series.
Given the special care taken every step of the way with the Queen's portrait, the Bank of Canada could not have been expecting anything like what happened after the new banknotes were introduced into circulation.
Worst hair day in the history of the British monarchy?
A 1954 Canadian "devil's head" five dollar bill with the offending area of hair enlarged.
Even small variations—no one of which might be noticeable by itself—will usually combine to produce an easily distinguishable difference in general appearance. Good notes look "good" because of the skilled craftsmanship behind them.
As you come into possession of the new bank notes, study them to become familiar with their general appearance.
One of the people who carefully studied the new bank notes as they came into his possession wasn't even Canadian.
"I enclose an envelope for the return of the note but I would be better pleased if you told me you had burned it," the hopping-mad Mr. Hogg added.
According to a Wikipedia entry, the controversy around the new Canadian money made at least one U.S. paper—with the Toledo Blade describing the devilish apparition to its readers as having "pouchy eyes, hooked nose with flared nostrils and thick loose lips".
There is not otherwise a wealth of documentary evidence available online to illustrate the degree of national (if not international) controversy that you may think would be required to convince the Bank of Canada to change how it printed the entire banknote series. But that is exactly what the Bank did—and quickly.
According to the same Wikipedia citation of the Toledo Blade, as well as the Bank of Canada, the banknote printing plates were modified beginning in late 1955, to darken the hair behind the Queen's ear and thus eliminate any Satanic overtones.
In 2018 the Bank of Canada revisited the 64-year-old controversy to illustrate how the devilish highlights had actually been present in the source photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, and engraver George Gunderson had simply (and perfectly) reproduced them.
So, contrary to alderman Hogg's assertion, the Devil's head was not the "fiendish design of the artist". Neither was it the result of any error on his part. Rather, explained the Bank of Canada, it was proof of Gunderson's truly extraordinary skill as an engraver. Nice!
None of the above history, by the way, was known to me back in 2015, when I took advantage of a rare opportunity to photograph a Canadian dollar bill from 1954.
Having already extolled the beauty of the 1974 dollar bill in 2014, it seemed only fair to write a companion post on its predecessor—for the sake of thoroughness, if nothing else, and especially since the opportunity for original photographs had fallen into my lap.
The truth is, I wasn't that impressed by the 1954 dollar bill. Compared to the bold redesign issued 20 years later, as part of the colourful Scenes of Canada series of banknotes, I thought that it looked dull and uninteresting. So I lost interest.
Now I regret not immediately doing the research that would have proved me wrong while I still had all my photos of the 1954 dollar bill.
Four years later I can only wonder what the devil I was thinking.
Oh, in case you're wondering, other notable deviltry of 1954 included the films Beat the Devil, Devil Girl from Mars and Devil on Horseback; various Looney Tunes cartoons, including Devil May Hare and Devil's In The Details. There were the songs Up Jumped the Devil, by Roy Brown and Old Devil Moon (recorded three times), by Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and J. J. Johnson; the Japanese manga The Devil of the Earth, by Osamu Tezuka; the play, The Devil A Saint Would Be; the books The Devil's Hunting-Grounds, by Walter Roberts; and When the Devil Holds the Candle, by Karin Fossum, plus the science fiction short story Rastignac The Devil by Philip Jose Farmer.
Also, the Devil delivers a plot-setting monologue at the beginning of Hugo Hass' 1954 film opus The Bait. and on the night of December 23, 1954, it is alleged that the cloven-hooved devil himself made a live appearance at a ballroom in Tooreen, County Mayo, Ireland.
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But one area I've struggled with has been how I handle the ongoing projects that I have to do.
By GTD's definition, a project needs to have a specific, achievable outcome. If there's no outcome, it goes against the philosophy of GTD and it will feel like you never accomplish something because the project is never crossed off your list. I like this philosophy and embrace it, and most of my project have a specific, achievable outcome… and it feels GREAT to cross them off of my project list when I complete them!
But I also have ongoing projects that need to be done and don't have a specific, achievable outcome. Specifically, I try to blog daily in my business and I have a dozen or more client content commitments to write each week (like articles or blogs, etc.). These are multi-step activities that often require some research, brainstorming, a first draft, editing, and publishing… and sometimes a bit of time to think about them.
I have been happy with GTD overall but have struggled with handling these ongoing projects because they never feel like they get crossed off my list.
Solution 1: Schedule them in your calendar: Many of the uber-GTD superstars have said that there is no such thing as an ongoing project — it's an action that needs to be scheduled in your calendar. Some were quite adamant in their assertion that any ongoing activity needs to be scheduled.
Yes, for any ongoing activities that require me to show up and do something, scheduling them into my calendar makes the most sense. That's how I handle activities like working out, doing my weekly GTD review, and invoicing clients. The note pops up on my calendar and I do it. And it will pop up again in a couple of days or at the end of the month or whenever I've scheduled it. Easy; and I don't have to think about it. But these activities are generally one-step activities that are done on a specific date and don't require preparation.
But it doesn't work for all ongoing activities because not all of my ongoing activities are one-step actions that can be performed on a specific date. The content I write each week requires some preparation, several next actions, and it needs to be done plus-or-minus a few days; I can't always do it on a specific day.
Solution 2: Make it an Area of Focus: Another solution suggested by the uber-GTD supestars is to make my blog and each of my clients an Area of Focus and then make each piece of content its own project.
Of course my blog and my clients are each Areas of Focus. But it goes against the philosophy of GTD to create as many as 20 or more projects each week on individual pieces of content. I'll spend more time creating projects than I want to and GTD will cease to be useful to me. I don't want to fill my project list with "AaronHoos.com blog post – Monday", "AaronHoos.com blog post – Tuesday", "AaronHoos.com blog post – Wednesday", etc.
And I would be screwed if I ever wanted to work ahead or if I'm pre-writing a bunch of content prior to taking a vacation. The number of projects I would need to create for that would not be practical.
(Clarification: I actually do like this idea of creating projects for individual pieces of content, and if I wrote less ongoing content each week then I would definitely do this. And I do use this method for my one-time projects. But the sheer volume of content I do each week makes this impractical because it fills my project list with more detail than I find useful).
Solution 3: Leave them on one list as ongoing projects: This was my default method for a long time but I ended up only ever cycling through 75% of my project list. The other 25% never felt "completed". Since I love to cross stuff off, and I get really motivated to put new projects onto my project list, this kept me from enjoying a sense of productivity.
Solution 4: Create 2 project lists: Another solution (often suggested by the GTD upstarts who hack their own methods into GTD) is to have a list of achieveable projects that can be crossed off when completed, and a list of ongoing projects that are never crossed off. I tried that for a while but wasn't as happy with handling two project lists. I prefer one list with everything on it… and again, I love to cross things off, so the ongoing project list isn't as appealing to me.
Be achievable — I want to be able to empty my project list!
The desired outcome is a quantity of content for a specific time period. It's really a group of small-ish projects. Basically, you're creating a project from an Area of Focus and even though you might do a similar project in the future, you are placing a measurable limit on your project to make it achievable.
Of course, you might have a different type of ongoing project that isn't related to writing but I think this solution could work for other professions as well.


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Heo Yeom, born in 1952, is a semiconductor expert who majored in electronic engineering at Seoul National University and completed a master's degree in electronic engineering at KAIST and completed the Ph.D. course in electronic engineering at Stanford University in the U.S.
In 1976, he was in charge of new businesses at Samsung Electronics' Strategic Planning Office, and served as head of Hyundai Electronics' media business in 1994, vice president of Hynix Semiconductor in 1999, CEO of Magna Chip Semiconductor in 2004, and CEO of Silicon Mitus in 2007.
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Delta Rae Giordano will portray Jarnsaxa Rising's alpha and omega of magic and theology. As Sister Margareta, she'll dispense early Christian justice via a witch trial. As Vala, she's the spiritual seer, official speaker, and legal advisor to Thrym, King of Jotunheim. That's a lot of power, but she's a powerhouse.
Viking society depended on women for strategy and cultural cues. The oldest and best known poem in Scandinavian culture opens The Poetic Edda. This poem, The Völuspá, is a seeress' vision of the creation and end of the world, told to Odin. These prophetesses went by several different titles: völva (wand carrier), fjolkunnig (magical knowledge), or spækona (seer). As followers of Freya, they travelled, often in groups, to provide advice and ritual, particularly in time of crisis. Not only were their rituals performed with wands, but also the distaff and loom were used, to spin or knot spiritual threads. The Osenberg ship, one of the best-preserved archaeological relics of Viking culture, included the bodies of women, one or both of whom may have been a völva (relics found included a wand made of wood). Vala, seer to the King of Jotunheim, does not travel, but has nearly the same status as the king. Her visions give her authority over public policy and The King's decisions. However, visions are not always perfectly clear, and Vala's interpretation may be biased by opportunism.
"Hey, I got this new book. it's called, How To Drown A Witch-"
"Boring."
"-In FROZEN WATER."
Sister Margareta represents some of the early Christian influence in Scandinavia. This process had a longer establishment than on other parts of the world; maybe because of the cold, maybe because early Scandinavians were very happy with their system of beliefs and resisted change. During the middle ages, many missionaries found compromise with pagan beliefs worked better. Places sacred to the Norse Gods were consecrated to saints, and imagery of Mjölnir was incorporated with the cross. This character is named for Margareta, a Swedish missionary who practiced in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. She was from the Sami people (also known as Laplanders)m and fought hard to convert them from polytheistic paganism. This hard fight worsened when Thomas Von Westen burnt their sacred objects and destroyed many of their sacred places in the 18th century. Margareta was said to have visions, for which the church investigated her, unable to determine if the visions came from God or Satan. She must have been a fierce woman.
Delta Rae Giordano is pleased to join the cast of JARNSAXA RISING and embark on her first collaboration with writer Lindsay Harris-Friel and first podcast project. As a freelance actor in the Twin Cities, Delta has performed with Theatre Pro Rata (EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHATELET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW), Illusion Theater (three tours of MY ÁNTONIA, FRESH INK: MIRANDA), as well as Teatro del Pueblo, Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, Nimbus Theatre and several others. She was a company member with Theatre Unbound from 2004-14 and appeared in more than a dozen productions including the world premieres of SILKWORMS: A NUN PLAY, THE GOOD FIGHT and FRANKENSTEIN INCARNATE: THE PASSIONS OF MARY SHELLEY (directed by Carin Bratlie). Most recently she participated as an actor and an adoptee in the ADOPTION PLAY PROJECT with Wonderlust Productions. Originally from California, Delta is a graduate of Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
What made you decide that you wanted to do this project?
It was a chance to work with Theatre Pro Rata again, as well as some firsts for me — working with writer Lindsay Harris-Friel, learning more about Norse mythology, and doing a science fiction audio drama.
Who's your favorite character from Norse Mythology?
I don't think I know enough to say I have a favorite, but maybe Skade who is described as the "goddess of skiers." I was reading about how she loved the mountains but had to marry Njord who loved the seashore. They tried living at the beach and then in the mountains, and later decided amiably to live separately in the places they loved. I'm from southern California originally and love the coast but I'm in awe of people who can ski well.
What are you reading these days?
I've been to California a few times recently, and I like to read stories about places where I'm traveling, so I'm finishing up one of the Lew Archer novels by Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die. Archer has to track a case from L.A. to Palm Springs to San Francisco and gets into some dicey situations. MacDonald's descriptions of people and places are physically detailed with some social commentary thrown in.
Also I checked out D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths from the library as research for this project, and as soon as I saw the illustrations I realized that I must have read this book when I was a kid.
What's your favorite pre-performance ritual?
It depends on the material — I might spend more time warming up physically and vocally for some shows than others. I usually try to have some quiet time before jumping in.
What's under your bed right now?
Mostly clothes, but not a random pile o' clothes because we have a bed with storage drawers.
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Q: Are the computers out to get me? I was at my friends house, and we were trying to beat the Special Cup on Mirror Mode (to unlock the Boo Pipes). After awhile, we noticed that the computer players would tend to target us over the other computer players. Are they designed to target the human player(s) in this mode, or were we just getting unlucky?
I started to assume the computers were targeting us when one of them back threw a Red Shell (hitting me) despite him being in 3rd, me in 4th, and 2nd in the perfect spot to be hit.

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Usama Hasan is a British astronomer and former academic. He is a former senior lecturer in business information systems at Middlesex University, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was also a senior researcher in Islamic Studies at the Quilliam Foundation until it was closed down in April 2021.

Hasan has previously argued in favour of a compatibility between Islam and human evolution, arguing the mention of Adam and Eve in the Quran is purely symbolic.

Family
His father, Suhaib Hasan, is a Saudi Arabia-trained Islamic scholar who considers himself Ahl-i Hadith and Salafi, while his grandfather, Abdul-Ghaffar Hasan Al-Hindi (d. 2007), was a scholar as well, having taught at the Islamic University of Medina at the request of the influential Salafi scholar Al-Albani.

Career
He has stated that he fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation.

Hasan was a member of the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Projecting British Muslims delegations to Egypt in 2008 and to Afghanistan (Helmand) in 2010, was a Keynote Speaker at the Anglo-Syrian government-sponsored conference "The Message of Peace in Islam" in Damascus in 2009, and is a Patron of both the Forum for the Discussion of Israel and Palestine (FODIP) and Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum. Usama was also a speaker at the Google Ideas/Council on Foreign Relations Summit Against Violent Extremism (Dublin, 2011).

He is Senior Researcher at the Quilliam Foundation. He has appeared on television programmes, including BBC Hardtalk, CNN, and has also written various columns for The Guardian and The Washington Post.

Controversies

Evolution controversy
Hasan has argued that Islam is compatible with the theory of evolution, describing the story of Adam and Eve as "children's madrasa-level understanding" of human origins while pointing to antecedents of the modern theory of evolution among medieval Muslim philosophers like Ibn Khaldun (d.1406) and Ibn Miskawayh (d.1030). His lectures have been disrupted by hecklers and has reportedly received death threats.

Hasan later retracted some of his views on evolution. Several British Muslim writers, including Inayat Bunglawala and Yahya Birt, backed his right to free speech. On 5 January 2013, he was featured in a debate against Yasir Qadhi titled Have Muslims Misunderstood Evolution?, in which he argued in favor of human evolution.

Power struggles at the Masjid al-Tawhid
Hasan has complained about "extremism" at the London Masjid al-Tawhid mosque and in May 2012, as part of the arbitration process, he and all other trustees voluntarily stepped down from their positions as Trustees of the masjid. In June 2012, the new Trustees of the Trust changed the locks of the Mosque doors and employed security guards. According to the website of the Masjid al-Tawhid, the Hasan family "want to ... regain personal control of the mosque".

Al-Shabaab video threat
In October 2013 Hasan was alerted by anti-terrorist police that he and other Muslim figures in the UK who had spoken out against Islamist extremism had been targeted by a propaganda video created by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group responsible for the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya.

Views

Fatwa against ISIS
In 2014 he and others issued a fatwa condemning British Muslims fighting for the "oppressive and tyrannical" Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Their fatwa "religiously prohibites" would-be British jihadists from joining the Islamic State and orders all Muslims to oppose ISIL's "poisonous ideology".

Summer fasting times
Usama believes that Muslims in the UK should fast shorter hours – rather than the dawn-to-sunset hours that most Muslims do – as summer days at such latitudes can run for up to 19 hours.

See also

References

External links

 Usama Hasan's articles at on the Guardian website
 Unity - Blog by Usama Hasan

English Muslims
English religious writers
English people of Pakistani descent
Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
Living people
Academics of Middlesex University
Theistic evolutionists
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Breaking: Russia's Central Bank is Developing a National Digital Currency
The Central Bank of Russia is testing a number of digital currency pilots toward the development of a national digital currency. Speaking at the 2017 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today, deputy chairwoman of Russia's central bank Olga Skorobogatova has, in a significant revelation, stated…
Author: Samburaj Das @sambdas
The Central Bank of Russia is testing a number of digital currency pilots toward the development of a national digital currency.
Speaking at the 2017 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today, deputy chairwoman of Russia's central bank Olga Skorobogatova has, in a significant revelation, stated that the regulator is working on a national digital currency.
According to a report by TASS, Russia's largest news agency, Skorobogatova sees national cryptocurrencies as the future and claimed that it's merely a matter of time before countries around the world adopt national digital currencies.
She stated:
Regulators of all countries agree that it's time to develop national cryptocurrencies, this is the future. Every country will decide on specific time frames. After our pilot projects, we will understand what system we could sue in our case for our national currency.
Based on a Hybrid Blockchain?
As CCN reported in April 2016, Skorobogatova's first public comments on a national digital currency hinted at a 'hybrid network' of both public and private blockchain protocols to create a unified distributed ledger leading to a national digital currency.
While details of the digital currency pilots are currently scarce, it is notable that the Bank of Russia has already developed and tested an Ethereum-based interbank blockchain prototype in 2016. Titled 'MasterChain', the blockchain prototype saw Russia's largest banks participate in the financial messaging pilot, drawing speculation of a SWIFT-like financial messaging platform for Russia's banks, operated by the central bank.
Skorobogatova has notably spearheaded the effort to establish a blockchain working group backed by the central bank in February 2016, to research and explore applications of the decentralized technology, ultimately leading to 'MasterChain'.
'Legalize Bitcoin'
Speaking at the same event today, Herman Gref – the CEO of Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, called for the legalization of cryptocurrencies. The banking executive has previously been critical of Moscow's effort, through its Finance Ministry, to ban bitcoin in the past.
Gref is a bitcoiner himself and has publicly spoken about being an investor in bitcoin.
Samburaj Das @sambdas
Samburaj is the Editor for CCN, among the earliest and foremost publications covering financial and blockchain news. He has authored over 2,000 articles for CCN. Email him samburaj(@)ccn.com or find him barely tweeting @sambdas
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