November is the month of Thanksgiving, so use it as an excuse to show your thanks to the people who have blessed your life. Expressing gratitude should be a regular thing, but it can be easy to forget to do so with everything going on in your life. In this week's Wildwood Towers Apartments Blog, we've got a short list of a few ways you can express your gratitude!
If you've been the recipient of service and the kindness of others, you can show your gratitude for what's been done for you by doing something kind for someone else. Paying it forward is when you perform a kind deed for someone other than the person who performed a kind deed for you. Instead of returning the favor, you bless the life of someone different. Hopefully, your act of kindness will inspire others to pay it forward as well!
If you have difficulty remembering things to be thankful for, we recommend investing in a gratitude journal. Take some time every night to think about what you have to be thankful for during the day. If you aren't used to journaling, this will take some time to get used to, but once you get into the groove, you'll be able to look back on your journal and reflect on the many things you have to be thankful for.
Sometimes, when someone does something nice for you, you may have the urge to want to repay their kindness in some way. Try expressing your thanks by writing them a thank you note. These notes aren't supposed to be very long, but a concise, specific thank you note can make someone's day.
Do you have any favorite ways to express your thanks? Let our Arlington, VA apartment community know by leaving a comment!


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The Best Way to Solve a Relationship Conflict
Do this, and no one will walk away angry.
By Kenny Thapoung
Isn't it strange how you can offer your friend sage advice when they're fighting with their spouse, but when it comes to your own relationship struggles, you're way less rational? That might be because people who mentally distance themselves from a situation (their own or another person's) are better at thinking things through, according to new research to be published in the journal Psychological Science.
MORE: The Number One Thing Couples Fight About
Researchers recruited nearly 700 people for a three-part study. In each phase, participants were split into groups and asked to describe how they would handle certain situations (like if a partner cheated) from different perspectives. Some were asked to analyze this imaginary event as if it happened to themselves or to a friend from either the first person point of view ("why am I feeling this way?") or the third person angle ("why is she/he feeling this way?"). The goal was to see which mindset would get people to pause and really think about a problem instead of just acting irrationally.
And it turns out, people made more rational (and wiser) decisions when they thought about a problem from the third person viewpoint, whether they were analyzing a friend's situation or their own. Even referring to yourself as "she" instead of "I" will let you get a better perspective.
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So how can this help you during a blowout fight with your partner? Essentially, it'll give you that clarity you seem to only have when you're helping a friend out with her own relationship issues. "One hypothesis is that when you're able to distance yourself from a situation, you're better able to see the 'big picture,'" says lead study author Igor Grossmann, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Usually, emotions take control and cause a person to go with their instincts. But looking at something from an outsider's standpoint can help you really consider all of the factors and solutions about a problem, says Grossmann.
And this technique is applicable to a range of arguments and relationship troubles—from larger issues like infidelity to smaller tiffs like showing up late to date night, says Grossman. Before you duke it out, take a moment to imagine you were helping a friend through a similar problem. Consider all the information you have and the potential outcomes that could stem from your actions. Sure, it'll take longer to consider all those "what ifs," but ultimately, it will help you resolve the conflict in a wiser, more rational way.
MORE: 4 Ways to Fight Fair
Kenny Thapoung Social Media Editor When I'm not stalking future-but-never-going-to-happen husbands on Facebook, you can catch me eating at one of NYC's B-rated or below dining establishments—A-rated restaurants are for basics.
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"Great Flood" redirects here. For other uses, see Great Flood (disambiguation).
A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primaeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life".
The flood myth motif is found among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian flood stories, Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, Pralaya in Hinduism, the Gun-Yu in Chinese mythology, Bergelmir in Norse mythology, in the lore of the K'iche' and Maya peoples in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in North America, the Muisca, and Cañari Confederation, in South America, Africa, and the Aboriginal tribes in southern Australia.
Though the account of Noah in the Hebrew Bible has long been the most studied flood story by scholars, in the 19th century Assyriologist George Smith translated the first Babylonian account of a great flood. Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account closest to that in Genesis found in a 700 BC Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.:20-27 The known versions of the Mesopotamian flood myths have as their protagonists Atrahasis (in the 18th century BC Atrahasis Epic), Ziusudra (in the 17th century BC Sumerian Flood Story), and Utnapishtim (in the 7th century BC Gilgamesh flood myth). The Sumerian King List relies on the flood motif to divide its history into preflood (antediluvian) and postflood periods. The preflood kings had enormous lifespans, whereas postflood lifespans were much reduced. The Sumerian flood myth found in the Deluge tablet was the epic of Ziusudra, who heard the gods' plan to destroy humanity, in response to which he constructed a vessel that delivered him from great waters. In the more detailed Mesopotamian accounts of the flood, the Gilgamesh flood myth and the epic of Atrahasis, the highest god Enlil decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy. The god Ea, who created humans out of clay and divine blood, secretly warns the hero Utnapishtim of the impending flood and gives him detailed instructions for building a boat so that life may survive.
In the c. 6th century BC Book of Genesis, the god Yahweh, who created man out of clay, decides to flood the earth because of the sinful state of mankind. It is also Yahweh who then gives the protagonist Noah instructions to build an ark in order to preserve human and animal life. When the ark is completed, Noah, his family, and representatives of all the animals of the earth are called upon to enter the ark. When the destructive flood begins, all life outside of the ark perishes. After the waters recede, all those aboard the ark disembark and have Yahweh's promise that he will never judge the earth with a flood again. He causes a rainbow to form as the sign of this promise.
In Hindu mythology, texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana (dated to around the 6th century BC) and the Puranas contain the story of a great flood, "Pralaya", wherein the Matsya Avatar of the Vishnu warns the first man, Manu, of the impending flood, and also advises him to build a giant boat.
In Plato's Timaeus, written c. 360 BC, Timaeus describes a flood myth similar to the earlier versions. In it, the Bronze race of humans angers the high god Zeus with their constant warring. Zeus decides to punish humanity with a flood. The Titan Prometheus, who had created humans from clay, tells the secret plan to Deucalion, advising him to build an ark in order to be saved. After nine nights and days, the water starts receding and the ark lands on a mountain.
A world-wide deluge, such as described in Genesis, is incompatible with modern scientific understanding of natural history, especially geology and paleontology.
Excavations in Iraq have revealed evidence of localized flooding at Shuruppak (modern Tell Fara, Iraq) and various other Sumerian cities. A layer of riverine sediments, radiocarbon dated to about 2900 BC, interrupts the continuity of settlement, extending as far north as the city of Kish, which took over hegemony after the flood. Polychrome pottery from the Jemdet Nasr period (3000–2900 BC) was discovered immediately below the Shuruppak flood stratum. Other sites, such as Ur, Kish, Uruk, Lagash, and Ninevah, all present evidence of flooding. However, this evidence comes from different time periods. The Shuruppak flood seems to have been a localised event caused through the damming of the Karun River through the spread of dunes, flooding into the Tigris, and simultaneous heavy rainfall in the Nineveh region, spilling across into the Euphrates. In Israel, there is no such evidence of a widespread flood. Given the similarities in the Mesopotamian flood story and the Biblical account, it would seem that they have a common origin in the memories of the Shuruppak account.
Floods in the wake of the last glacial period may have inspired myths that survive to this day. It has been postulated that the deluge myth in North America[clarification needed] may be based on a sudden rise in sea levels caused by the rapid draining of prehistoric Lake Agassiz at the end of the last Ice Age, about 8,400 years ago.
The geography of the Mesopotamian area was considerably changed by the filling of the Persian Gulf after sea waters rose following the last glacial period. Global sea levels were about 120 m (390 ft) lower around 18,000 BP and rose until 8,000 BP when they reached current levels, which are now an average 40 m (130 ft) above the floor of the Gulf, which was a huge (800 km × 200 km (500 mi × 120 mi)) low-lying and fertile region in Mesopotamia, in which human habitation is thought to have been strong around the Gulf Oasis for 100,000 years. A sudden increase in settlements above the present water level is recorded at around 7,500 BP.
Adrienne Mayor promoted the hypothesis that global flood stories were inspired by ancient observations of seashells and fish fossils in inland and mountain areas. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans all documented the discovery of such remains in these locations; the Greeks hypothesized that Earth had been covered by water on several occasions, citing the seashells and fish fossils found on mountain tops as evidence of this history.
Another hypothesis is that a meteor or comet crashed into the Indian Ocean around 3000–2800 BC, created the 30-kilometre (19 mi) undersea Burckle Crater, and generated a giant tsunami that flooded coastal lands. Some of the largest tsunamis in history, resulting from the Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, were thought to have affected roughly the entire Americas (or nearly all of the Western Hemisphere).
In the late 17th century, there were famous speculations accounting for the Genesis flood by natural causes. Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra (Sacred Theory of the Earth) had water rising from the hollow earth. William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth postulated that major changes in the earth's history could be attributed to the action of comets.
Speculation regarding the Deucalion myth has also been introduced, whereby a large tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea, caused by the Thera eruption (with an approximate geological date of 1630–1600 BC), is the myth's historical basis. Although the tsunami hit the South Aegean Sea and Crete, it did not affect cities in the mainland of Greece, such as Mycenae, Athens, and Thebes, which continued to prosper, indicating that it had a local rather than a regionwide effect.
One quite controversial hypotheses of long term flooding is the Black Sea deluge hypothesis, which argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea. This has been the subject of considerable discussion.
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US Letter: The Left Faces Reality
Editor, Quadrant Online
An old joke in New York newspaper circles imagined Armageddon as reported by the city's rival rags. The pre-Murdoch New York Post, then owned by the genteel leftist Dorothy Schiff, pitched to the interests and sympathies of its core readership: "End of World: Jews and Negroes Suffer Most". What brings this to mind is the headline that runs across the top of this morning's ink-and-paper Times:
Democrats, Students and Foreign Allies
Face the Reality of a Trump Presidency
Can't you just savour the dilemma facing the Times men, women and persons who drafted those few words? So many victims set for the gibbet, so little space on one front page to list them all. What of all the other groups allegedly destined to be ground beneath the Trump jackboot? What of environmentalists and homosexuals, Muslims, Mexicans and sundry other swarthy sorts, unionists, bureaucrats, women, the elderly, universities, endangered species, entire cities, the US legal system and perhaps, as any Times editor worth his organic, non-iodised sea-salt would have put it had space permitted, the very fate of the planet itself?
The sense of shock, of appalled and near-bilious dismay that such a man could have beaten Saint Hillary is everywhere as I write, a scant twenty-four hours after the votes were tallied. On yesterday's bus to New York two of my fellow passengers were very glum girls indeed. They were students most likely, sporting backpacks, Hillary buttons and matching pairs of red and puffy eyes. As we shuffled aboard, the taller laid her head on her friend's shoulder and heaved a few more tears, the perfect picture of heartbroken misery.
It was lovely to watch.
And it only got better as the shock and horror of democracy's result on November 8 inflicted its dreadful torments on Generation Snowflake, whose serried brat-allions, summoned by social media, turned out to march down Fifth Avenue that night. I heard about the protest over dinner with my son, a dual-citizen who lives in New York and whose phone was running hot with Facebook messages from contacts variously de-friending him or simply heaping abuse on his tousled head.
"I've just been called a fascist again," he said with a rueful smile after a message from his gender-fluid cousin interrupted the poori and chicken-liver appetiser. His crime against leftist sensibilities? He had observed via Facebook that there might well have been another Democrat destined for the White House if Team Hillary had not rigged the primary system in order to render Bernie Sanders a mere annoyance, rather than a bona fide contender. He had a point. The landscapes of the fulcrum states that went with Trump or swung to him—Michigan, Wisconsin, all of the South—are punctuated by empty factories, silent mills, grim prospects. An old-fashioned, soak-the-rich class warrior might, just might, have won those votes. As it was, those citizens' blue-collar lot was to be worse than ignored, it was to be loudly scorned. This was the wasteland of the "deplorables", as Mrs Clinton so ill-advisedly described them.
This report appears in the December edition of Quadrant.
Take West Virginia, for example, which Mrs Clinton won easily in 2008 when contesting the primaries against Barack Obama. This year, back in May, she told a town hall meeting in Ohio, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." Her hand-picked audience, balanced as any assembly Tony Jones and the Q&A crowd-stackers might summon to provide that show's on-cue bleating, cheered lustily and the candidate basked in their adoring approval. Back in the mountains of West Virginia, where Stonewall Jackson kept the Union at bay and coal has been the lifeblood for generations, that was enough to doom her prospects. Sure, as an afterthought she went on to promise new jobs building wind turbines and the like, but she might more convincingly have argued that her husband is a moral and upright man.
Federal programs have come and gone, with billions of dollars poured into alleviating backwoods poverty, yet the communities remain poor. A working coalmine is a bird in hand. The vague promise of replacing it with "green tech jobs" very much a case of flipping the bird, as Americans call the one-finger salute, at those whose votes she needed.
My son's phone kept beeping messages of scorn, including self-shot video footage of his cousin screaming "Sieg heil" outside the eponymous building that served as Trump's campaign headquarters and nerve centre. This was too good to miss, so we polished off the Kingfisher lager and made haste from the Upper West Side to Fifth Avenue. Later, when I checked the Australian papers on the internet, I would be informed by aghast columnist Madonna King that the crowd was composed of vile racists and rednecks chanting—and I kid you not—"We hate Muslims, we hate Blacks, we want our great country back". She had been gulled by a hoax picked up from a parodic website and re-broadcast without the blessing of a moment's reflection to consider the account's veracity. That's the thing about roping a dope, as any conman will tell you: you can only fool those who want to believe. Ms King's hard-wired reaction to the Trump victory was a case of confirmation bias. She believed what she wanted to believe because, well, the way she feels carries far more weight than the few grams of logical, rational, analytic capacity at her disposal.
Nor was the former Brisbane ABC radio host and vendor of subjective appraisals alone in crediting that a vast posse of Klansmen would assemble in the middle of Manhattan. Other keyboard ticklers amplified the same false story, thereby honouring their preconceptions about America and Americans. If you think that way, if you prefer to frame the US in the rhetoric of an Al Sharpton or a Black Lives Matter agitator, then a mass eruption of spontaneous racial hatred is the most natural expectation in the world. Perhaps their mothers were scared and scarred by too many viewings of In the Heat of the Night.
Anyone with even a passing grasp of New York City's political ecology would have known the purported redneck rally had to be a furphy. On election day, Manhattan voters favoured Mrs Clinton by a margin of better than 90 per cent, with the city's four other boroughs not far behind. You might have found someone dressed as a Klansman a few days earlier at Manhattan's famous Halloween parade through Greenwich Village; then again, it would likely have been nothing more sinister than a reveller draped in a bed-sheet and pretending to be a ghost. In New York, whose current mayor is an avowed leftist and former activist on behalf of Nicaragua's unlamented Sandinista regime, public fun comes only in strains of the politically correct.
Yet somehow those Australians who are paid to report or interpret events on the other side of the Pacific appeared to know little of the United States and understand less. Fairfax Media's Paul McGeough, for example, chronicled the primaries with frequent references to Donald Trump's imminent demise. The day before the election he even succumbed to a Dewey-beats-Truman moment in assuring Sydney Morning Herald and Age readers that "America's nightmare" was about to end, as Trump was set and certain for a thumping. Not to boast, but at Quadrant Online, which I edit, I had that same day urged readers to put their money on Trump at the handsome odds then available. It's not that I'm clairvoyant, just that, and here modesty must be set aside, I had actually done the reporting, gone out and taken a close look at the country where I spent twenty-six years of my working life.
Eight days earlier I had touched down in Florida, picked up a rental car and begun a serpentine journey north towards Washington, stopping off along the way at the homes of old friends and pre-divorce in-laws. Over in Tampa, my one-time brother-in-law, a cable-television installer who runs his own small business, was all for Trump. Racism had nothing to do with his preference. "It's the goddamn IRS," he said, "they're auditing me again. Someone needs to get the tax man off our backs."
Further north, on the Florida–Georgia border, the proprietor of a hole-in-the-wall Hispanic lunch counter and provender of delicious Cuban sandwiches (ham, pork, cheese and crunchy dill pickles on a press-toasted roll) was coaxed to candour by my foreign accent. Hillary was chueco—bent and crooked—and he wouldn't be voting for her, despite what the media said would be a near-unanimous manifestation of Spanish-speaking support for the Democrat in the Sunshine State.
That was near Jacksonville, where one of McGeough's no-more-astute colleagues reported that a heckler had been ejected from a Hillary rally for screaming "Bill's a racist!" Australian reporters in the US must be deaf as well as biased, apparently; the actual cry was "Bill's a rapist!" and it was heard often. If you wonder why Trump's vulgarian boast of grabbing female crotches and getting away with it failed to tip the scales against him, the fact that his opponent has been an apologist for a lifelong sexual predator might just have something to do with it.
The thing, though, that most of all telegraphed the possibility of an election-night upset was the signs. It is the American custom in the political season to plant front-lawn placards proclaiming the resident's support for one candidate or another. On the run from Fort Lauderdale across to Tampa—the celebrated Alligator Alley, which the pundits said was vital to Mrs Clinton's prospects and which they believed would heavily favour her—there was but one Hillary sign to be seen, just one, while scores proclaimed allegiance to Trump. It was also on that leg of the trip that another manifestation of support for Trump became obvious. Finger-scrawled in the dust on the rear doors of many big trucks, one word: TRUMP. Whoever the pollsters were quizzing, they weren't to be found in the nation's truck stops.
How could the press corps have missed such an obvious imbalance in signage, such a disparity? Well here's a clue, drawn from something I witnessed first-hand during Mrs Clinton's run for the Senate in 2000. At the time I owned a weekend cabin in upstate New York, and when the local radio station announced that Mrs Clinton would be making a campaign stop nearby, I drove across, not as a member of the working press but as a curious rubbernecker. I was early and thereby privileged to watch her advance party set up a trestle table, load it with jugs of "homemade" lemonade and then station two photogenic moppets behind a sign proclaiming "Cool drinks 50 cents". Not long after, the candidate's motorcade rolled down the road and stopped at the table, where the candidate sampled the kiddies' wares and posed for photographs. The trestle and its children were packed away almost before the sound of the accompanying press bus had faded to the inaudible. Those reporters were being taken for a ride, literally and figuratively. What was worse, they seemed to enjoy the charade.
And so my journey north continued, weaving in and around the I-95 main highway up the east coast. Here, too, the traffic gave a clue to the "unexpected" result of November 8: plenty of Trump bumper stickers and, again, but a single mobile endorsement of his rival—that one was plastered on a Prius also emblazoned with a "No Nukes" label and an adhesive plea to keep the US safe from fracking. When I pulled alongside the male driver, grey and old enough to know better, he had a ponytail.
That night, checking in late at a North Carolina motel, I asked the desk clerk who would win the White House. She was white, thirty-ish, a single mum and, according to the mainstream media narrative, an almost-certain Hillary supporter. She paused for a moment—America is a respectful society, a place where people generally go out of their way to avoid giving offence—then said, "Well, it won't be her." I asked why and the reply was twofold—Hillary had told too many lies; and "that husband of hers". Had one of Mrs Clinton's pollsters been within earshot, the campaign's panicked efforts to make sure Trump did not take the state would have been even more frantic. The polls said it would be a close-run thing. It wasn't, as events turned out. Trump triumphed there as well.
And so to Washington, with some 2000 miles on the rental car's odometer, much of it on minor state highways and back roads. A friend with whom I had worked on a US news magazine told me I was crazy to think Trump had a chance. That night, watching CNN and the other cable news stations, the accepted wisdom was amplified, not to mention enhanced, by a rather selective use of fact, quote and sound bite. Trump, CNN reported, had been endorsed by the "leading Ku Klux Klan newspaper". Leading indeed! The Klan is a spent force in America, bankrupted by lawsuits and left behind by a population that long ago moved on. In Louisiana, where lynched blacks were the "strange fruit" of Billie Holiday's famous song, there is a dark-skinned governor of Indian descent, Bobby Jindal, who would not have been allowed to sit at a Woolworth lunch counter in the bad old days.
On election night I strode with thirsty purpose from my room to Harry's Bar, off the lobby. It was packed and all the television screens were covering the results as they were tallied and states were declared blue or red. At first, early in the evening, the young woman on the stool beside me was the picture of effervescent confidence. The early voting numbers from Florida—tallied previously in camera and posted the moment the polls closed—put Mrs Clinton ahead, then further so. But then my neighbour's smile faded. Those early returns had come from the southern tip of Florida, a Democrat stronghold where early voting had been particularly strong, but they were being gradually overtaken as more northern precincts reported their numbers. "Trump has Florida," I opined, noting that the Panhandle—the narrow strip that runs along the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico—would be a Trump stronghold. It is known as the Redneck Riviera, so no surprise there.
Towards the end of the evening, as the map was being painted mostly red, my stoolmate was so upset she screamed, "Don't talk to me any more!" Perhaps suspecting that I had made like a recent president and let an ambling hand come to rest on her knee, the barman suggested it would be best if I left the premises. I did. An armed society is a polite society, and I had no wish to test the forbearance of fellow patrons equipped with misplaced chivalry and something more dangerous than a high-decibel shriek. As my smile at Hillary's looming defeat was wider than Trump's growing lead, the barman probably did me a favour by banishing me from such glum and angry company.
In the wee hours of the next morning, the woman confidently predicted by multitudes as the breaker of the ultimate glass ceiling found herself so thoroughly defeated, not to mention distraught, she could not bring herself to front the cameras and deliver the formal and traditional acknowledgment that her hopes had gone down for the count—a count of 228 Electoral College votes to 290, to be precise. Television's talking heads were gasping, the pollsters blabbering.
The quest for an explanation other than the most obvious—Mrs Clinton is both tainted goods and a dreadful campaigner—took off in all the predictable directions. She had been rejected because she was a woman or—the narrative that emerged more dominant—she had been laid low by the votes of racist rednecks. This was a further manifestation of what might be called Madonna King Syndrome. Something happens, something unpleasant and unexpected, something that is beyond the ken of those who are so very certain of the way things should be, and their only explanation is that virtue, the sort of virtue Ms King no doubt believes herself to represent, must have been defeated by the base instincts and dumb bigotry of the lesser and loathsome. If you want to talk about blind prejudice at its most myopic, look to the likes of Ms King.
Still, she and so many others had an excuse for believing in the inevitability of Hillary's triumph, as the vast bulk the mainstream media had been in the tank for the Democratic contender throughout the campaign. CNN fired Donna Brazile, Al Gore's one-time campaign manager, for leaking questions that were to be asked at town hall meetings. Why supposedly impromptu, meet-the-folks gatherings were only presenting questions written in advance and approved by organisers is a story well worth pursuing, but so far nobody has bothered. Likewise, according to Wikileaks, other reporters had been e-mailing their stories to Team Hillary for vetting and amendment before sending them on to press or computer screen.
In another example of the craven, bended-knee attitude of the US Fourth Estate, reporters solicited questions from Team Hillary that might embarrass Trump and his surrogates. Not that this is solely an American vice, as anyone would be aware who saw the Seven network's Mark Riley ask Julia Gillard at the National Press Club how the media might be of greater assistance. It seems that to be the very model of a mainstream media journalist one needs a certain narrow, fixed and port-canted worldview. Blame it on groupthink or the blinkered education doled out in university journalism schools. Or just blame it on sheer laziness. It requires some effort to leave the office or climb off the campaign bus and put "dirt on your shoes", as the editors of old used to say. Whatever the factors, as newspapers die, this campaign and its coverage are a good reason not to shed too many tears for a business that has thrown away that single asset even more valuable than advertising revenue: its credibility.
The walk from West 72nd Street to the anti-Trump protest took about thirty minutes, but there was no need to hurry, as the marching throng had only just begun to tap the deep wells of its bitter fury. The first thing, the most striking, was the cookie-cutter sameness of those who had turned out to denounce the result of an entirely democratic election. With few exceptions, the oldest faces—other than my own—would not have been much more than thirty, with most demonstrators of college age. The overwhelming skin pigment was whiter than any Westchester country club.
The truculence being paraded down Fifth Avenue seemed the product of political disappointment and a consequence of errant parenting. This was Generation Brat in full voice and the self-absorption was deafening. The anticipated pleasure of victory on election night had been denied them, so the response was a tantrum. The election was invalid, yelled a bearded young fellow from beneath his fashionable man-bun, never bothering to exclaim why the orderly and honest exercise of a nation's franchise needed to be overturned. At another corner, an obese young woman was being hugged in her tearful misery by a coterie of friends, all equally upset. There was the chanting of predictable couplets—"Hey, ho, / Trump's gotta go" and "Dump Trump / Dump Trump"—and vows and pledges to oppose and frustrate "the racist Trump agenda" at every turn. Had these children never before been denied that for which they wished? Evidently not, and now they were throwing a tantrum worthy of toddlers. And not just in New York: across America similar rallies were congealing. Need it be said that the petulance was reported with great sympathy in the Australian media?
This is where the next few years will be very interesting indeed. When George W. Bush was elected in that 2000 squeaker, ultimately decided by the US Supreme Court, the opposition was rude, loud, obscene, very personal and constant. He was made a figure of ridicule and fun, as prescribed by Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, the handbook of the agitated Left. Much the same treatment was meted out to Tony Abbott, who could not even wink at the idea of taking a talkback call from a dirty-talking phone-sex granny without being immediately vilified as a misogynist. Bush and Abbott suffered such treatment in stoic silence as their poll numbers declined. Donald Trump, a man cut from very different cloth, would seem unlikely to do likewise.
Roger Franklin is the Editor of Quadrant Online.
padraic – 3rd December 2016
Some excellent points made in this article. I noted that HC was happy to put coal miners out of work and replace their jobs with the alleged new hi-tech jobs of the digital age relating to alternative sources of power. I heard the same guff here in Oz some years back from the Greens. Initially, it looked possible, as an Australian company developed cutting-edge research into solar panels and set up a factory in Sydney with the aim of selling to the world. It lasted about 4 years from memory after which the technology appeared to have been adapted by Chinese manufacturers and the local company folded (with loss of jobs) as governments and other customers for solar technology in Australia sourced their panels from China. The same applies to wind energy equipment. Hi tech jobs for Australians in manufacturing equipment for alternate power sources is a chimera.
en passant – 4th December 2016
Padraic,
The university research carried out by the company you mention was funded by the Oz government (>$10M), but the patents were taken out by the researcher. They put solar panels on top on the Sydney Opera House (with 'celebrities' in for the photo shoot). They then moved their HQ to San Francisco and milked enormous grants from an even more gullible US government (though all manufacturing was done in China). When the grants ran out and no more were forthcoming they moved to China and then folded their tent leaving a few at the top very rich indeed and as heroes of the climate con.
padraic – 6th December 2016
Thanks, en passant. I was not aware of those shenanigans. It makes activist dole bludgers look respectable, as well as showing up the verdant hypocrites for what they are. It reminds me of the situation some years back when verdant activists pushed to have chemical termiticides phased out and replaced by dubious methods and no prize for guessing who set up companies to implement the dubious methods.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell that President Joe Biden's next budget request should include an increase in defense spending by at least 5% above the inflation rate to counter what he called long-term threats to U.S. interests from Russia and China.
McConnell in his speech noted that the increase in military spending should follow the recent sanctions imposed against Moscow in connection with its invasion of Ukraine to ensure that the United States will be able to counter advances in Russian and Chinese weapons, which, according to him, were designed to keep American troops away from the regions.
"This president's job is to seriously confront the growing threats coming from Russia and China," McConnell said in his speech.
"President Biden should set an example. The President's next budget request should include at least a 5 percent increase in defense spending above the inflation rate. Russia and China have been giving priority attention to the modernization of the armed forces for literally decades," he said.


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Essay on math and music
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Music helps students in standardized tests as well. David Kung (St Mary's College of Maryland) presents "Symphonic Equations: Waves and Tubes" - a miniexcursion into math and music, presented as a MAA Distinguished Lecture at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Math has always been regarded as an uninteresting subject containing only numbers and equations. Read more, mathVibrationsMusic Essay 3731 words - 15 pages Math in music? Music Education in our Public Schools 1123 words - 4 pages in America need to understand that the funding and continued study of music is just as important as the funding for math or essay on math and music science to produce a well rounded graduate. The least common multiple of three and four is twelve so so the measure is divided amongst twelve equal parts. The first note in the scale is always a full tone as is the last this is because this is two octaves apart and they are the root notes. At the points of compression, many air molecules crowd together and the pressure gets very high. It can be raised or lowered vertically which means the pitch can be higher or lower.
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Odds are, if you're traveling back to wherever you came from for the holidays, you're flying.
Harnessing the power of flight is arguably one of the best things the human race has ever accomplished. We can fly across the country in as little as six hours, a trip that would have taken days or weeks in the past.
It's an amazing experience. You can skirt along the cloud tops at 500 miles an hour, never looking up from the movie you illegally downloaded the night before.
Unfortunately, to get to that point, you must pass through the gauntlet of airport security provided by the Transportation Security Administration.
Leave it to bureaucracy to destroy a beautiful gift.
I just flew to New Orleans last weekend for a music festival. The festival was amazing, and I had a great time. I could sum up the worst parts of my trips with various tales of airport security.
I always get to the airport way too early, to try to "beat security lines." This has led to mixed results, but luckily, on this trip I was bouncing between a few smaller airports so I didn't actually have to wait a long time to feel the warm, inner-glow that comes from a TSA agent groping my inner thigh.
Not only does my carry-on bag travel down a conveyor through what looks like flux capacitor, but now I'm getting x-rayed, patted down, my hands are being tested for explosive residue and the whole time my belongings are just hanging out in the open.
I wouldn't even mind if the TSA was any good at the jobs they attempt to do.
In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security started sending undercover agents through TSA security checkpoints with fake weapons. From the records they released, they performed 70 of these tests throughout airports across the country.
TSA agents failed to detect the fake weapons in 67 of those tests, a sky-high failure rate.
I, for one, find it hard to believe that someone with the minimum requirements of a GED, one year "security experience," and U.S. citizenship may not be fully qualified to run high-tech equipment like full-body x-ray machines.
I met Nicole McConnell, a woman who had just landed in Phoenix from Virginia, and asked about her thoughts on the full-body scanners.
"It's a little eerie, it almost feels invasive," McConnell said.
At least while I'm getting fondled and watching the soda I forgot I had in my backpack be thrown into the trash after being wiped for explosives, I have plenty of time to think about the $7 billion we spend on the TSA every year.
That's almost enough to buy the Chicago Cubs six times over, and at least they won the World Series.
You're also paying about $2.50 on every ticket you buy for the privilege of going through airport security.
I barely remember flying before 9/11. I remember being able to meet family at the gate as they got off the plane. In a sense, we were naïve. In another sense though, we were much more free in our travels.
"I remember being a little kid and being able to go into the cockpit," McConnell said "You can't do that anymore,"
There's no question that 9/11 changed everything about airport travel and security. Even though he's dead, I still have to curse Osama bin Laden every time I hear, "Could you step over here for extra screening? Your roll of pennies looks like a shotgun shell." Full disclosure, that didn't happen to me on this trip; It actually happened when I was around 11 years old, which is actually more ridiculous.
We were scared, and we wanted security. It makes us feel safer, I guess. However, doesn't that kind of fall apart when the entity you're depending on for security fails basic checks 95 percent of the time? Is it worth being treated like human cattle as you're poked and prodded for suspicious devices?
I would gladly give up airport screenings for something that could be more impactful, like more Federal Air Marshalls.
Usually, when I write a column, I do so with the idea that I have an opinion on something that has the potential to change. Maybe I could persuade a few people to also have an idea, write about things I believe in, and maybe things change for the better.
This isn't one of those columns. This is life now. You'll never get to meet grandma at the gate again, unless you take a 90-minute detour through security.
So, you know, happy holidays. Enjoy your flights.
Reach the columnist at cjwood3@asu.edu or follow @chriswood_311 on Twitter.


A new white paper has been published that covers MySQL Replication – background information, how it works, how to use it and what's new in MySQL 5.5. Simply register for the white paper at mysql.com and you'll be sent your free copy.
The paper starts by covering the fundamental concepts behind replication such as the difference between synchronous and asynchronous replication and the idea behind semisynchronous replication.
It goes on to describe the common use-cases for replication – scaling out, high availability, geographic redundancy and offloading backups or analytics.
Various replication topologies are discussed from simple master-slave to multi-master rings.
Semisynchronous replication: Improved resilience by having master wait for slave to persist events.
Replication Heartbeat: Automatically checks the status of the connection between the master and the slave(s), allowing a more precise failure detection mechanism. Can detect loss of connection within milliseconds (configurable). Avoid unnecessary relay log rotation when the master is idle.
Per server replication filtering: When a server is removed from a replication ring, a surviving server can be selected to remove its outstanding replication messages once they've been applied by all servers.
To be better able to use replication, it helps to understand the basics about how MySQL Replication has been implemented – for example the roles of the binary and relay logs and so this is covered.
Replication is a little different when using MySQL Cluster; most significantly because you can have multiple MySQL Servers and other application nodes modifying the same database but also because the domains where MySQL Cluster has been used have required extreme High Availability and so there are Cluster-unique features such as active-active replication with conflict detection and resolution. This paper isn't focussed on MySQL Cluster but a summary of these differences is included.
MySQL (part of Sun Microsystems) have just announced the release of MySQL Cluster 7.0. This is a major new version of the database.
The highlights of the release (as well as an overview of the MySQL Cluster architecture) have been published in a new white paper: MySQL Cluster 7.0: Architecture and New Features.
Multi-threaded data nodes. Could previously exploit up to 2 cores/CPUs/threads for a single data node. This is extended to 8 cores by introducing a multi-threaded version of the ndb process. This delivers a very significant performance improvement if running on a host with more than a dual core.
On-line add node. The ability to add a new node group to an in-service Cluster without impacting service. Includes the ability to repartition the data in existing tables after the new node group has been added.
Carrier-Grade directory back end. Support for using MySQL Cluster as the data store for a directory server. Allows LDAP access to your data. OpenLDAP will be the first directory to release a driver for this.
Multi-Threaded Disk Data File Access. Improves the performance for disk-based table data.
Improved large record handling. Performance/network bandwidth improvements.
Alpha version of a Windows port. Intended for development use only, not for deployment.
Snapshot option for backups. Option to have the backup represent the state of the database at the point that the backup was started rather than when it finished. This lets you synchronise it with other, external events such as the backing up of other databases.
Caching of configuration data. When a node restarts, it will only adopt any changes to the config files if explicitly told to – avoiding the situation where one node restarts and ends up with different config data to the others.
Transactions for schema changes. Safer way to update the schema that can tolerate node failures mid-operation.


Awww puppies! How can anyone focus on anything else when puppies are around?
It's your wedding. If she doesn't take it serious and gets herself excluded that's her problem, not yours. And even if you were selfish (which you don't seem to be), it's your wedding. It's ok to be selfish about your own wedding. So long story short: Tell your mom that you're planning your wedding yourself because she's not taking it serious enough.
Yup, you're the bride and she mother of bride. Also, at 5 months out its only getting worse. Enjoy visits with your parents, but have a wonderful life with your spouse!
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This Week in Solar: Solar Trust Centre Weekly Recap
Here are some solar news stories you may have missed from this week.
by Solar Trust Centre Team September 22, 2017, 3:11 pm
Here are some solar news stories you may have missed from this week. Click on the links to read these stories in more detail.
1. Indian Energy Firm Adani Invests in Solar Plant in Australia
The Indian energy giant Adani will build a 175 megawatt solar farm later this year after getting the development approval from the Isaac Regional Council.
2. Solar Wins In Australia As Cheapest Form of Energy Production
The CET (replacing the RET after 2020) is an important part of the plan of making sure that a clean, affordable and reliable energy system can sustain the country. Solar comes out on top as being the cheapest form of energy generation in Australia.
3. Australian Wind Alliance Says Wind Power Will Trump Liddell Coal
The Australian Wind Alliance has stated that renewable energy projects that were approved or still are under construction can replace the Liddell power station that is set to retire in 2022.
4. SunWiz Reveals Record Rate in Solar Installation
Industry analysts SunWiz revealed 98 megawatts of rooftop solar have been installed in Australia for both business and homes in the month of August, making it the biggest month of the year for solar power adoption.
5. Huge Uptake in Solar Energy Lowers Risk of Electricity Shortfall
Experts and officials of the Australian Solar Council are saying the risk of a power shortage this summer are exaggerated. The fast construction times of solar PV plants make the supply shortfall null.
6. $150 Million Will Be Invested For Renewable Energy By The South Australian Government
The state is targeting zero emission by the year 2050 and working to increase energy efficiency in government buildings. Not to mention, solar rooftop installations for residential and commercial properties are at an all-time high.
7. $300 Million In Subsidies Will Be Paid to Saudi Arabian-owned Solar Farm
Australians are set to pay about $300 million in subsidies to a Saudi Arabian-owned solar farm that takes effect from the federal government's energy reforms. This has also escalated the argument whether to cut the subsidies to keep the coal-fired power plants to stay in operation.
8. Western Australia Farming Community Is Getting Affordable Power Through Solar
Six farming households in Ravensthorpe, south of Perth, have chosen to get power from solar and solar batteries.
9. Australian National University Solar Car Presented To The Public
The Australian National University (ANU) has presented their solar car that will compete in this year's solar car race from Darwin to Adelaide. The solar car named "Super Charge" will compete on World Solar Challenge against other solar cars from around the world.
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Digital autoradiography is yet another technique that is used for quantitatively assessing thin layer plates where, for example, radioactive tracers are employed to follow the metabolic pathway of certain drugs. There are two basic procedures for radioactive monitoring, both of which are extremely sensitive as, by employing extended periods of measurement, very low levels of radioactivity can be identified and measured. The first is contact radiography, in this procedure after the separation process is complete and the plate has been dried, a photosensitive film is placed in contact with the plate and, consequently, exposed to the radiation from the spots. This exposure is continued for an appropriate time. Clearly the longer the time of exposure, the lower will be the radioactivity level that can be detected and the greater the overall sensitivity. The film is then optically scanned to obtain density measurements and the density of each spot will be proportional to the number of emission particles activating the film.
The second method for radioactive monitoring is to use an automatic radioactive counter-scanner that will scan over the plate (in much the same way as a optical scanner) but will measure the frequency of particle emission across each radioactive spot on the plate directly. As in the previous procedure, the overall sensitivity of the technique can be increased by slowing the rate of scanning. As a consequence, a wide range of sensitivities can be made available by trading in time for sensitivity. Due to the first method requiring both exposure time and scanning time, in general, the later is the faster method of evaluation.


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Looking at this golf matchup, first thing, why just the first nine holes, why not make it all 18 - where there is less luck involved? Or why not at least mix those up a bit? I think all of the golf matchups have been nine hole matchups?
for the first 3 round we use first 9 holes because of the length. Normally they take 2 hrs instead of the 4+ for 18 holes.
What is the highest someone has gotten up to so far? I saw someone at 10.
11 has been the highest, but that should be broken shortly.
Hey Streak Master, with some participants questioning the validity of the scoring system, is there possibly a way of including a link for each match up detailing exactly how it will be scored?
All links for the games are on the right hand side, we use the same links as the users to keep updated.
I would like to know if total bases include walks. On Weds. Carlos Pena had 2 walks and Carl Pavano only had one strike out. The system has that Pavano was the winner. I thought with total bases that it is how many bases they take. What is correct?
Total Bases does NOT include walks. We have had some questions about that but the scoring for total bases is 1-single, 2-double, 3-triple, 4-home run.
Have you figured out what you are going to do when someone hits 15? How long did the actuaries say it would take for someone to hit 25 in a row?
No, I am still up for suggestions. I am up for doing anything (kind of) but I'd like to keep it interesting with a goal for users to see The StreakMaster do something funny.
I really have no idea what to think of the Astros, but that being said, they won't make the playoffs.
Someone hit 15 in the beta version. Why is it taking longer in the real deal?
The questions are getting harder, the beta version was a test, now it is the real deal.
What's the plans for when baseball season ends?
Lots and lots of football matchups.
Do we have to see it? I figured you were like Buzz, and had the looks and voice made for chatting.
I'd love for you guys to see it, that's why I through the idea out to all the users. I want to get creative here.
When the streaks start getting closer to 25, are we going to see an increase in matchups that are coin flips that are harder to predict (like the fastest serve matchup from a couple days ago)?
We try to put ones on the board that are basically a 50-50 matchups. When someone gets close the matchups should stay the same.
Can you make a pick without being logged in? I made my first pick the other day but my overall record is 0-0. Today I noticed it said my name at the top of the page but I still had to enter my password, although I could still make picks, what's going on?
make sure you are logged on with username and password before making a pick so the pick will go through. It should work.
On your prop bets, is your goal to make the pro vs. con a 50-50 split? When you had the prop about whether the Brewers or the Mets would have the first extra base hit, the split was 85-15 Mets. I took the Brewers to be a contrarian. Of course, I was wrong but why did so many pick the Mets to have the first extra base hit?
The Mets were up first that's why they had the advantage plus there was not a good starter on the mound for the Brewers.
How do you come up with all these matches?
lots and lots of research on specific teams and players. We look for every stat you could think of to get these props.
Is there any plans for another contest once this one ends. I think this was a really great idea.
We have received a great response from this game and we hope it keeps on growing where we could evolve it into a full-time game.
Will the ravens win on sunday?
Not sure about that. Vegas likes Cinci and I'd have to agree. I like Flacco but his first start, I don't see them winning.
ESPN is really heading downhill if they're giving you a chat. Buzz is bad enough as it is. This is ridiculous.
You're my favorite user. What is wrong with my chat? The Buzzmaster is a great chatter, and a great catcher on our softball team.
The weather at the BMW Championship looks nasty. It is already in a weather delay with tee times pushed back. What is going to happen with those matchups?
We will monitor them throughout the day, but hopefully the rain will hold off.
He seems to always have a trainer around him, but I can't wait to see Roddick take him out tonight.
Do you think more people will ultimately play for the monthly prizes (going with volume) or stay conservative and try to get the big dollars?
I think the 1 million is too hard to pass up for users but the monthly prize is a great second prize to go for if you think 25 is out of reach.
Besides New England, who do you like in a survivor pool? I took Detroit, can't see them losing to Atlanta.
I picked the Giants in one of my games. I will be at the game tonight by the way, but there is no way the Giants lose to the Skins tonight. ELI!!!!!
Have not played it, I'll take NCAA 09 over Madden any day. Never got into the Madden craze, I am not a gamer.
so whats the streak masters streak at? are we ever going to see you atop the leader board?
debated on the Jets in my survivor, but ended up wussing out and taking the chargers. should i take off my skirt and take the Jets?
Don't take the Jets. Favre may be terrible and Pennington may be great. It's too close to call.
Why was the matchup yesterday between Grady Sizemore and Carlos Quentin made an automatic push just because Quentin didn't start? He could have pinch hit and got some bases.
We read on the White Sox page that he would not be playing at all, so the game was scratched. Those are always tough to pull, because of that chance.
Follow up to Kim, is the monthly prizes to most total correct, or longest streak?
Most correct picks, the longest streak is just for the grand prize.
p.s. I will be on the Fantasy Podcast with Matthew Berry and Nate Ravitz next Thursday, be sure to tune in!
You ever hang out with that kid that did the "Sportscenter's Going Live" commericals?
I am much cooler then "Steve". I would never hangout with a Steelers fan.
Be honest. Aren't most prop bets for suckers? Longest TD run versus winning margin? How could anyone forsee a broken play? The only time prop bets work is if you were certain UCLA would beat Tennessee.
Most users love prop bets, and so do I. They are more challenging but they are over quicker then sports matchups which allows users to make more picks throughout the day.
Are you implying that Steve isnt his real name?
That's his real name, but I think he still has the clock around his neck.
Lots of talk about Survivor leagues today, I might as well chime in. This is my first time in one. How many weeks do people usually last? Should you take safe picks first or trying to be a little risky so you can keep teams like Indianapols and New England for later on?
Tough call. I am going with the Giants to save the Pats and Colts but some people want to stick around for a while.
how much u getting paid for this gig?
Not enough....take care guys. Have the Buzzmaster ready for our softball double header tomorrow.


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Why did the Mona Lisa become one of the most famous paintings of all time? That's a question an incredible amount of people have asked themselves in the past. And one possible answer is this: because of her unique smile.
The smile is is the "the symbol that was rated with the highest positive emotional content" concludes scientist Andrew Newberg. And for me personally, I've been very reluctant before embracing smiling. Only a few years back, when one of my teachers told me: "Why don't you smile more? Go learn how to do it!", I started to research learn about the actual power of smiling.
I had a brief moment of disbelief that anyone can learn how to smile better. And yet, since then, for many years, I practiced smiling in the mirror and on many other occasions. That's a fact I've often been a little embarrassed to admit, yet the research of this post confirms how powerful practicing a bit of smiling can be.
Let's say you experience a positive situation and you see a friend you haven't met in a long time. This means that neuronal signals travel from the cortex of your brain to the brainstem (the oldest part of our brains). From there, the cranial muscle carries the signal further towards the smiling muscles in your face.
"Smiling stimulates our brain's reward mechanisms in a way that even chocolate, a well-regarded pleasure-inducer, cannot match."
Smiling then, seems to give us the same happiness that exercising induces terms of how our brain responds. In short: our brain feels good and tells us to smile, we smile and tell our brain it feels good and so forth.
Real vs. Fake smiles - can we tell the difference?
Whenever we smile, there are 2 potential muscles we activate. The first one is the zygomaticus major and it controls the corners of your mouth. Whenever this muscle only is activated, it's not actually a genuine smile. Scientists call this also the "social" smile. The second muscle, known to show sincerity is the obicularis occuli and it encircles our eye socket.
We think about the situation and judge whether a smile is expected.
Most importantly: We automatically mimic the smile, to feel ourselves whether it is fake or real. If it is real, our brain will activate the same areas from the smiler and we can identify it as a real one.
Dr. Niedenthal and her colleagues asked the students to place a pencil between their lips. This simple action engaged muscles that could otherwise produce a smile. Unable to mimic the faces they saw, the students had a much harder time telling which smiles were real and which were fake.
Smiling can change our brain, through the powerful feedback loop we discussed above. And your brain keeps track of your smiles, kind of like a smile scorecard. It knows how often you've smiled and which overall emotional state you are in therefore.
Smiling reduces stress that your body and mind feel, almost similar to getting good sleep, according to recent studies. And smiling helps to generate more positive emotions within you. That's why we often feel happier around children - they smile more. On average, they do so 400 times a day. Whilst happy people still smile 40-50 times a day, the average of us only does so 20 times.
The baseball card study also found a clear correlation between how big a smile someone made on a baseball card photo and how long they would live. The people who smiled the most turned out to live 7 years longer than those who didn't.
Of course, the above only shows a correlation, and not a causation. And yet, I can't help but agree that smiling breeds trust, makes you happier and helps you to live longer.
"We just asked a person, before they engage in a conversation with someone else, visualize someone they deeply love, or recall an event that brought them deep satisfaction and joy. It's such an easy exercise, and we train people to do it in our workshops."
Personally, I've tried to do the same experiment before a phone call or even before writing an email. I've found that people can always tell if you have a smile on your face, even if they don't see you. I've even tracked how this improves response rates to emails I send for Buffer related feature suggestions or partnerships for example. That should most likely be another blogpost.
Here is something I've done for almost a few years in the morning: Stand in front of the mirror and smile. Practice to activate both your mouth corners and your eye sockets. You will know whenever your smile is genuine, because you will immediately feel happy and relaxed. The power of a smile, even practiced in the mirror is that it can invoke the emotion immediately.
A lot of people (myself included!) see smiling as something that makes you weak. Personally, I've found that developing a better smile starts with being very comfortable to smile a lot. If in your head, you can imagine yourself going through the day and smiling lots to everyone and everything, that's often when a happier life starts.
Yes, this might be just a small change in thinking. And yet, for me personally, that was the most important part to smile more every day.
"In general women are more accurate than men in detecting what is really going on with someone by looking at their face and listening to their voice. Women are more likely to tell the difference between a felt and a fake smile."
Smiling is definitely more than just a contraction of muscles in your face. In fact Mother Teresa's "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." reaches probably even further than imagined. What have you discovered about smiling? I'd love your insights on this.


The foundation of a thriving downtown Rochester encompasses more than a desirable housing market. Consider the case of Flint, Michigan where a bad official decision to save money on public water infrastructure has resulted in the lead poisoning of many children and a drinking water crisis. When you cannot drink the water, breath the air, or if your built infrastructures (transportation, water, waste, telecommunications, and energy) are crumbing, even a cheap McMansion will be undesirable.
In a changing world, where the past we knew is not an indication of our future prospects, one of the most dramatic changes Rochester and its downtown hub will experience is Climate Change. Our housing market, our job prospects, our public health, and everything else we hold dear will not thrive if our environment (our life support system) is collapsing. In the past we developed and advanced under the delusion that our environment would take care of itself despite our environmental interference.
Things have changed. Or rather, our recognition of our incredible negative effects on our environment has improved—culminating in our growing awareness of Climate Change. Our environment is a much more sensitive biological system that we previously thought. The Paris Agreement, agreed to by almost every nation in the world, should if nothing else remind everyone everywhere that sustaining a viable future must include an urgency to act at every level.
A year ago City Newspaper reported "Rochester to undertake citywide climate inventory" (January 21, 2015) and it looks like the city is finally getting around to it. How robustly the city embraces the community-wide Climate Action Plan (CAP) and other 'green' initiatives could determine whether we remain a desirable place to live regardless of downtown development. Rochester is and will be experiencing many changes due to the great warming but not as much as many other areas whose ability to get enough fresh water, maintain farm productivity, and protect themselves from extreme weather will fail long before these vital elements fail here.
Rochester has been slowly addressing Climate Change, although we have yet to reach the degree of concern equal to the threat. And the public has not been engaged.
· Rochester's OFFICE OF ENERGY & SUSTAINABILITY http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589936085 You can download the Energy Management and Climate Action Status Report here!
In other words, Rochester government is changing its energy profile, assuming I suppose that if they lead on energy efficiency, conservation, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions the public will follow. But if the public doesn't know that Rochester is leading, the message is lost.
Rochester has increased their focus on active transportation (walking and bicycling), which not only increases the likelihood that more folks will want to live downtown, but also decreases our fossil-fuel transportation system's effects on our health and greenhouse gas emissions. But we have not educated the public about the importance of active transportation in combating Climate Change, we see the same old conversations about different transportation modes while the elephant sits in the room ignored.
Rochester has talked about its commitment to addressing Climate Change. But it has not demonstrated its concern to the public in a consistent manner that engages the public or the local media. Climate denial and its devastating obstructionism is still rife in our community. This means we are still talking about solving our existing problems and orchestrating our future development as if Climate Change doesn't exist. Other areas, including other cities in our country, do not have this problem because they've presented their communities with strong climate action plans.
Because of climate refugees, downtown Rochester will probably grow in numbers—one way or the other. The best way would be to ready ourselves by planning and educating the public to gain their support. The other way, business as usual, will be madness.
Ultimately, the most important attraction for a city will not be its snazzy architecture. It will be the likelihood of its prolonged sustainability, and its perception among the affluent that it will flourish.


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D.C. Public Schools superintendents come and go—there's been eight in the past 15 years alone—but Mary Levy's been there for each one, holding them to account. Levy's been involved in DCPS issues since her daughter entered the system in 1975. Five years later, she helped found Parents United for the D.C. Public Schools, long the city's most outspoken schools activist group. Since then, Levy, a lawyer by trade, has spent years researching and analyzing DCPS budgeting and policy. That means, for one thing, she's on every local education reporter's speed dial for the institutional knowledge that DCPS' revolving-door leadership tends to lack. Since dawn of the Michelle Rhee era, Levy has avoided the shrill rhetoric that's greeted the new chancellor, but she has been asking valuable questions about a vague and questionably composed DCPS budget and providing the hard data to back those questions up.


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The Dyldam Parramatta Eels have today announced Kieran Foran has agreed to terms with the club for the next four years.
The 24 year-old international, who has played 19 Tests for New Zealand, will leave the Sea Eagles at the end of the 2015 season to join the Blue and Gold from 2016.
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