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Revolutionary Self-Care
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation,
and that is an act of political warfare."
Our host pours the tea with a sweeping motion, her arm deftly swinging and dipping over the translucent purple glass bowls. Water vapor rises, its subtle aroma lingering for an instant before melting into the air. Her hands now sliding, turning each cup toward its drinker.
I reach for mine, hold it with both hands, its warmth traveling up my limbs and through my body. Lower my face to its broad surface. Breathe in. Close my eyes. Breathe out. Aware of the way the glass feels against my palms, the faint sound of music, the slight movements of the bodies around me. Sip the tea. Continue to breathe.
"Plant medicine comes in many different forms," explains Margaux Muller. "Tea ceremonies help us find calmness within self. The ceremonial aspect of tea allows our senses and subtle bodies to interact with the medicine in ways that go beyond the possibilities of language. It [is] a great way to incorporate cannabis and all of its healing elements as plant medicine in with herbal plant medicine. The simple act of drinking tea mindfully reveals to us the accessibility of the biggest questions and the divinity of the smallest moments."
This is the first time I've attended a cannabis tea ceremony, but I think it deserves a regular slot on the calendar.
Parenting, self-care, and cannabis
One of the most exciting aspects of this movement to end prohibition is our rediscovery of cannabis for self-care. Aside from its medical applications and recreational appeal, the cannabis plant holds a multitude of benefits for our physical and emotional wellbeing.
Like our young children, parents are not typically known for their self-care skills. How many times have you skipped a workout because your kid needed help with a school project? Substituted coffee for a meal because you didn't have time to eat? Operated on five hours of sleep or less because you have to make more hours in the day somehow? See what I mean?
This year has felt particularly difficult. Our favorite musicians are dying, we're still working to convince folks that black lives matter, and we've just survived (so far…I think) one of the most contentious, surprising, and anxiety-provoking presidential elections in history. We all could use a little self-care right about now, and, if we want to make ourselves useful to others, we must attend to our own needs.
Take some time now, while we're all feeling introspective, and establish some self-care rituals to preserve your sanity, soothe your mind, and refill your tanks. The holidays are coming, and, after that, we have a long road ahead.
We all know the basic things we must do to feel our best; we recite them to our children on a daily basis. Nutritious meals full of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other real, whole foods. Plenty of water, exercise, and time in nature. Calming, contemplative rituals like yoga, meditation, or prayer. Having fun with people you love. A restful night's sleep. And if you're lucky, a massage, a steam, a float, or a bath.
The harder part, of course, is prioritizing these practices, doing them with enough consistency that they have a cumulative positive effect. I've found that cannabis can act as an assistant here. It reminds me to pump the brakes when I discover that I'm on autopilot and encourages me check in with myself to uncover what I truly need. It helps us breathe, and to remember to breathe, it helps us create space, ceremony, and the sense of something sacred. Cannabis helps me more easily cultivate those self-care habits.
Not only does cannabis bestow a welcome pause when life gets chaotic, but it is also available in a number of delivery methods that are designed to complement self-care. Topical cannabis applications, such as creams, ointments, and oils, are a favorite way to incorporate cannabis into daily rituals. They're also an easy entrée for new and returning consumers. With all the healing properties found in cannabinoids and without a psychoactive effect, topicals are your skin's best friend. And they make you feel like you're doing something special, even if you're just moisturizing your legs after the shower. If you're looking for a treat, try an infused massage or a cannabath.
Juicing raw cannabis provides an assortment of health benefits including reduced inflammation and improved immune function. Nutritionally, the cannabis plant is on par with other leafy greens, packed with enzymes and vitamins with the added benefit of cannabinoids but no psychoactivity. Because cannabis juice should be made from fresh, organically grown, raw cannabis leaves and flowers, it is still hard to find. But if you grow your own, you should definitely try juicing.
Microdosing has become more popular lately, and many people swear the effects are amazing. The practice involves careful consumption of extremely small quantities of cannabis, often so small that you notice no psychoactive effects. In order to achieve maximum benefits from your microdose, you'll have to experiment with titration and your personal thresholds, but the key is to start low. Particularly effective ingestion methods include low-dose edibles, vaporizers, and tinctures. Anecdotal reports suggest that microdosing helps increase focus and attention, and promotes overall health and wellbeing.
Nurture yourself first: self-preservation as political action
The final pot of tea has steeped. We've cycled through all of the offerings donated by Goldin Leaf Apothecary in Portland, Oregon: an astringent herbal concoction, a bright and refreshing Earl Grey, a spicy turmeric-heavy chai blend, and a sweet floral rose. The past hour spent in virtual silence, communing with cannabis tea and exploring the mental spaces it awakens. The plate of infused shortbread cookies sits nearly empty, and the candles burn low.
Owner Jessica Goldin, a mother herself, developed this line of teas as a unique and healthful way to ingest cannabis. She envisioned her creations as an experience, not just a product, in which the soothing properties of both cannabis and tea combine to elicit feelings of tranquility. "My thought was to provide a relaxed atmosphere in which people could sample my tea. The goal with my tea is provide a nurturing experience. I think that was achieved."
When you take the time to take care of yourself, you can burn brighter and longer. I walk out into the sunny day feeling present, connected, at ease, and peaceful. The tea ceremony was a reset, a clarification of both my senses and my internal processes. I am subtly high, but more than that I am energized, determined, purposeful, ready to respond. The unrelenting result of revolutionary self-care.
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Jenn Lauder is a media maker, content creator, community builder, and marketing strategist in the cannabis space. Cofounder of Splimm, the world's first pot and parenting newsletter, she has a decade of experience as a progressive, anti-bias educator in independent and public schools and spent five years at nonprofits offering services and advocacy for children and families. Jenn is half of the founding team of Weekend Review Kit, a cannabis review and lifestyle site; has written for numerous print and online media outlets; led a license-winning application for Maryland's medical cannabis program; and directs marketing and advocacy efforts for an herbal products company. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and attended graduate school at Harvard University and Goddard College. Of Jenn's many jobs, her favorite is being a mama to her nine-year-old daughter.
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Hi Team,
I am using this in my cloudfront template to add my custom SSL on that and it is showing me some an error:-  Exactly one of [AcmCertificateArn,CloudFrontDefaultCertificate,IamCertificateId] needs to be specified.
So please let me know how will i add this or if there is any option to add in parameter so that it will list that certificate. Please guide me for the same. This is my certificate ARN - arn:aws:acm:us-east-1::certificate/2345f-534234

A: ViewerCertificate block should look like this in your case:
"ViewerCertificate": {
        "SslSupportMethod": "sni-only",
        "AcmCertificateArn": " arn:aws:acm:us-east-1::certificate/2345f-534234"
}

Also what you should always take care is that certificate is provisioned in us-east1 region (yours is, based on the ARN :)

A: The property you need to use is ViewerCertificate. The configuration within the CloudFormation documentation should help you identify any options you might want to add.
You can add a parameter if you would like to specify the ACM certificate, the type will be a string.
Below is an updated template. You will need to ensure th ACM certificate includes your account id. I have ran this to validate that it builds successfully.
{
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    "Parameters": {
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        }
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Перику, Pericú (варианты написания названия на испанском языке: Pericues, Cora, Edues) — аборигены Калифорнийского полуострова (крайняя южная оконечность современного мексиканского штата Южная Нижняя Калифорния). Племя исчезло в конце XVIII века.

Территория

Исконной территорией племени перику является полуостров Нижняя Калифорния, от мыса Сан-Лукас и на восток до мыса Пульмо, а также острова в Калифорнийском заливе — Серральво, Эспириту-Санто, Ла-Партида и Сан-Хосе. Уильям Масси (William C. Massey, 1949) полагал, что восточную часть мыса, включая Байя-де-лас-Пальмас и Байя-Вентана, занимало племя из группы гуайкура, известное как кора. Последующие исследования показали, что «кора» — синоним перику (Laylander 1997).

Что касается Южной Нижней Калифорнии (регион Ла-Пас), вопрос о проживании там перику остаётся спорным. Масси считал, что там жили два племени из группы гуайкура — кора и арипе. Майкл Мейзес (W. Michael Mathes, 1975) полагал, что эта территория принадлежала перику в 16 и 17 веках, однако была захвачена племенем гуайкура где-то в период 1668—1720 гг. Согласно альтернативной гипотезе, данная территория была предметом споров между перику и гуайкура в исторический период.

Язык

Письменные свидетельства о языке перику ограничены несколькими словами и десятком топонимов (León-Portilla 1976). Иезуитские миссионеры отмечали, что язык перику не похож на язык их соседей и врагов гуайкура. Массей (Massey, 1949) предположил о родстве двух данных языков, однако его предположение основывается прежде всего на их географической близости.

Доисторический период
Наиболее ранние археологические находки на территории, где к моменту прихода испанцев проживали перику, относятся к раннему голоцену, около 10000 лет назад, и, возможно, даже к позднему плейстоцену (Fujita 2006). Характерные гипердолихоцефальные (удлинённые) черепа, обнаруженные в захоронениях на Калифорнийском мысу, заставили ряд исследователей предположить, что предки перику представляли собой потомков либо транстихоокеанской миграции, либо ранней волны палеоиндейской колонизации Америки (González-José et al. 2003; Rivet 1909). Однако анализ ДНК показал, что «в группе представлены все те же гаплогруппы, что и у других индейцев, что позволяет предположить возможность процессов местной дифференциации данной конкретной группы».

С племенем перику связан характерный погребальный комплекс Лас-Пальмас (Las Palmas burial complex), где были обнаружены вторичные погребения с телами, окрашенными красной охрой и помещёнными в пещеры (Massey 1955). О длительной изоляции перику и в целом региона Южной Нижней Калифорнии, а также об архаичности их быта свидетельствует то, что они ещё в XVII веке продолжали использовать атлатль и дротик, а также лук и стрелы, тогда как на большей части Северной Америки они уже вышли из употребления (Massey 1961).

Харуми Фудзита (Harumi Fujita, 2006) отметил изменение традиций в эксплуатации морских ресурсов и в поселениях доисторического Калифорнийского мыса. По мнению Фудзита, после примерно 1000 г. н. э. там возникли 4 крупных социально-экономических и церемониальных центра: близ Кабо-Сан-Лукас, Кабо-Пульмо, Ла-Пас и на острове Святого Духа.

Исторический период
Европейцы начали контактировать с племенем перику с 1530-х годов. Первым их встретил Фортун Хименес и мятежники из экспедиции, посланной Э. Кортесом, завоевателем центральной Мексики. За ними вскоре последовала экспедиция самого Кортеса (Mathes 1973). С 16-го по начало XVIII века перику неоднократно встречались с различными европейскими экспедициями, причём отношения в одних случаях были дружественными, в других доходило до столкновений.

Иезуиты основали свою первую постоянную миссию в Нижней Калифорнии в Лорето в 1697 году, однако лишь через два десятилетия они решили распространить своё влияние на территорию мыса. Для племени перику (и для других соседних племён) были основаны миссии в Ла-Пас (1720), Сантьяго (1724) и Сан-Хосе-дель-Кабо (1730).

В 1734 г. в ходе восстания перику двое миссионеров были убиты, и контроль иезуитов над мысом прервался на 2 года (Taraval 1931). Однако в гораздо большей степени пострадали сами перику, не только потерявшие в восстании много погибших, но и начавшие вымирать от занесённых европейцами болезней. Ко времени, когда испанская корона изгнала в 1768 г. иезуитов из Нижней Калифорнии, племя перику перестало существовать как самостоятельная культурная единица, хотя часть современного местного населения, возможно, является их потомками, в том числе от смешанных браков.

Традиционная культура
Быт перику известен главным образом по рассказам ранних европейских колонизаторов (Laylander 2000; Mathes 2006). Наиболее подробный рассказ оставили британские пираты (приватиры), проведшие длительное время на мысу Сан-Лукас в 1709—1710 гг. и в 1721 гг. (Andrews 1979).

Натуральное хозяйство и материальная культура
Хозяйство перику было ориентировано на море: они ловили рыбу, собирали раковины, добывали морских млекопитающих из вод южной части Калифорнийского залива. Также важную роль в рационе играли такие наземные ресурсы, как агава, плоды кактусов, мелкая дичь и олени. Сельское хозяйство не практиковалось.

С другой стороны, перику были одним из немногих народов доколумбовой Калифорнии, у которых были более совершенные суда, чем распространённые среди других племён плоты из бальсового дерева. Перику строили деревянные плоты и использовали двойные вёсла. Рыбу добывали при помощи сетей, копий и гарпунов, а на животных охотились с помощью копий, луков и стрел. В качестве контейнеров использовались плетёные сумки, корзины и высушенные тыквы, керамика была неизвестна.

Жилища и одежда были довольно неприхотливыми. Женщины носили юбки из волокон растений или шкуры животных. Украшения были распространены как среди мужчин, так и среди женщин.

Социальная организация
Разделение труда было основано на факторах возраста и пола. Сообщения европейских путешественников о семейных отношениях в племени перику противоречивы: в одних говорится о моногамии, в других - о полигамии. Отдельные общины-поселения перику были независимы друг от друга. Титул вождя наследовался, иногда вождями могли быть женщины. Часто вспыхивали войны, как с другими племенами, так и между различными общинами перику. Особенно часто перику конфликтовали с племенем гуайкура.

Примечания

Литература
 Andrews, Thomas F. 1979. English Privateers at Cabo San Lucas. Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles.
 Fujita, Harumi. 2006. «The Cape Region». In The Prehistory of Baja California: Advances in the Archaeology of the Forgotten Peninsula, edited by Don Laylander and Jerry D. Moore, pp. 82–98. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
 González-José, Rolando, Antonio González-Martín, Miguel Hernández, Hector M. Pucciarelli, Marina Sardi, Alfonso Rosales, and Silvina van der Molen. 2003. «Craniometric evidence for Palaeoamerican survival in Baja California». Nature 425:62-65.
 Laylander, Don. 1997. «The linguistic prehistory of Baja California». In Contributions to the Linguistic Prehistory of Central and Baja California, edited by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat, pp. 1–94. Coyote Press, Salinas, California.
 Laylander, Don. 2000. Early Ethnography of the Californias: 1533—1825. Coyote Press, Salinas, California.
 Leon-Portilla, Miguel. 1976. «Sobre la lengua pericú de la Baja California». Anales de Antropologia 13:87-101.
 Massey, William C. 1949. «Tribes and languages of Baja California». Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 5:272:307.
 Massey, William C. 1955. Culture History in the Cape Region of Baja California, Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
 Massey, William C. 1961. «The survival of the dart-thrower on the peninsula of Baja California». Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 17:81-93.
 Mathes, W. Michael. 1973. The Conquistador in California: 1535. Dawson's Book Shop, Los Anegles.
 Mathes, W. Michael. 1975. «Some new observations relative to the indigenous inhabitants of La Paz, Baja California Sur». Journal of California Anthropology 2:180-182.
 Mathes, W. Michael. 2006. «Ethnohistoric Evidence». In The Prehistory of Baja California: Advances in the Archaeology of the Forgotten Peninsula, edited by Don Laylander and Jerry D. Moore, pp. 42–66. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
 Rivet, Paul. 1909. «Recherches anthropologiques sur la Basse-Californie». Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 6:147-253.
 Taraval, Sigismundo. 1931. The Indian Uprising in Lower California, 1734—1737. Quivira Society, Los Angeles.
 Venegas, Miguel. 1979. Obras californianas del padre Miguel Venegas, S.J. 5 vols. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico.

Народы Мексики
Исчезнувшие народы Америки
Индейцы Аридоамерики

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Autumn Sandeen and Martin Luther King Jr.
November 2, 2011 GallusMag
Autumn Sandeen is a man who enjoys acting out the subjugated sex-roles enforced upon females for his pleasure. He is a public figure due to his blogging at ostensibly Lesbian site Pam's House Blend (where actual lesbians are not represented and are in fact censored and banned for discussing concerns of female persons) and also his gig at San Diego LGBTWeekly writing about the interests of Gender Affiianados (those who celebrate and enjoy sex-role stereotypes inflicted on women).
He is also a long term military man known for impersonating and mimicking female military by chaining himself to the white house gate wearing a female naval uniform as a costume while claiming to be female.
Not only does Mr. Sandeen perform "women-face", and co-opt and colonize females, he also quotes MLK in every post, and sometimes Cesar Chavez, both men, and both non-white men, in his screeds about his right to not only perform women-face, but his so-called right to force the public at large to play along with his sexist female-objectified pantomine.
Mr. Sandeen, a white male, postures himself, and seeks to align himself with American civil rights activists who fought for (men's) rights and (men's) equality against white supremacists and colonizing white capitalists. But what is the relationship between a white male colonizer and fetishist who enjoys female impersonation, and the male leaders of civil rights and anti-capitalist movements?
Well Sandeen has conveniently chosen dead men to align his Genderist activism with, so we can't ask them. But we can ask ourselves.
What would MLK think about a white man who claimed that Black and white men have different brains? What would he think about white men who claim to be happier in the "Black Role"? And get their skin made-up and "pass" as Black? And who have hundreds if not thousands of websites filled with tips on acting Black and "embracing their inner Blackness"? What would he think of privileged white men calling themselves "Jamal" and stepping and fetching and speaking "ghetto" in some horrid racist pantomime? Would MLK like to see whites pantomine racist stereotypes of Blacks as they claim Black Brains? And watching themselves in the mirror masturbating at the idea of themselves as being Black? And having hundreds of websites about white men whose most profound desire is to have sex with a Black person who believes the white man is truly Black? What would he think about whites getting their legal race changed to Black because of how they "felt Black since childhood"? What would he think about recording white males as African American when collecting statistics? What would he feel about including white males in Black health initiatives? Would he like white men in blackface to be in leadership positions at the NAACP? Would he like white men to receive college scholarships set up for Black students? Would he like affirmative action programs to include whites who select "Black", since Blackness is an optional "identity" that one can embrace or deny based on one's self-concept and a cheap afro wig? Would he agree with white men who claimed Blacks have "cis-privilege" over whites who wear blackface? Would he agree that Blacks oppress white men doing blackface? Would he agree with the concept of "blackfacephobia"? What would he say when white men in blackface told MLK that even though they were born and grew up as white, they actually had "black childhoods" since they absorbed racist attitudes indirectly, and secretly internalized them? Would he like a cottage industry of voice coaches claiming to help whites "talk Black"? Would he like psychiatry to diagnose which whites are "black inside"? What would he make of blackface minstrels who factor in purchasing a "Black-friendly" automobile as part of their "trans-ition"?
What would he think of the following random trans blog excerpt with sex switched to race:
"The Ups and Downs of Switching Race
I gave the issues I last wrote about some more thought, and have a few ideas to share.
For me, being Black is a joyous and intense state. I am sociable, flirty and "on." Being a white is more of a contented and relaxed, comfortable thing. Appropriate white adjectives include strong, aware, capable.
Being Black is still quite stressful for me – not so much about being discovered, or worrying about danger any more, but more about doing things that are outside my white comfort zone.
I still have so much to remember to do (and not do) when being a Black, from voice to manner to posture – things that are not yet completely innate to me.
And then, socializing is not something that comes easily to me. Though I have revelled in the friendships and interactions that I have achieved as Black, meeting people has never been without stress for me.
I am so much more a social creature in my Black guise, and getting out and partying and enjoying the company of others tends to acquire a certain momentum if I keep at it consistently.
However, once I stop and go back to my white comfort zone, inertia takes over.
…and that can be hard to overcome…
But, when I have had the benefit of perspective instead of being caught up in the moment of how I feel, my sense is that I have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the confines of my white comfort zone as I have gotten older – and my Black emergence was part of that. There is always the potential for backsliding, or conversely, for my white self to displace the Black by finding his own excitement, but my best guess at this moment is that I will walk my road to happiness and fulfillment in sexy heels and hose sexy blackface and afro wig.
Of course, forecast is subject to change…"
Feminism, Gender, Radical Feminism, Trans Politics, Women civil rights, female hatred, minstrelism, woman-face
This Week in Men Shitting All Over Women's Sports
If TYFA is the Transgender Children's Fund who is playing Sally Struthers?

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package examples;

import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

import examples.utils.Utils;
import io.jooby.Jooby;
import io.jooby.whoops.WhoopsModule;

public class WhoopsApp extends Jooby {
  {
    get(
        "/{id}",
        ctx -> {
          Object id = ctx.path("id").intValue();
          return function(id);
        });

    install(new WhoopsModule(basedir()));
  }

  private Object function(Object id) {
    try {
      return innerFunction(id);
    } catch (Exception x) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Something Happened", x);
    }
  }

  private Object innerFunction(Object id) {
    return Utils.fail(id);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    runApp(args, WhoopsApp::new);
  }

  private static Path basedir() {
    Path basedir = Paths.get(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
    if (!basedir.getFileName().toString().equals("jooby-whoops")) {
      // IDE vs Maven
      basedir = basedir.resolve("modules").resolve("jooby-whoops");
    }
    return basedir;
  }
}

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Q: Django URLconf: getting a 404 error urls.py in project root
url(r'^people/',include('profiles.urls'))

profiles/urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('profiles.views',
url(r'^me/$','home',name='profile_home'),
url(r'^(?P<user_name>[^/])/$','public_profile',name='user_public_profile'),
url(r'^signup/$','register_user',name='signup')
)

I am getting a 404 error and Django isn't able to find the Url's when I type for existing users, such as /people/alice while the other two patterns for the profile home and signup are working fine. Infact, this was working fine yesterday but not now, and I can't locate the problem.
The error message:
Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
....
....
^people/ ^me/$ [name='profile_home']
^people/ ^(?P<user_name>[^/])/$ [name='user_public_profile']
^people/ ^signup/$ [name='signup']

A: Your regex only allows for a single character to match the username. You need to add a +:
r'^(?P<user_name>[^/]+)/$'

A: Regex pattern in the url is not correct
url(r'^(?P<user_name>[^/])/$','public_profile',name='user_public_profile'),

Change it to use [\w]+
url(r'^(?P<user_name>[\w]+)/$','public_profile',name='user_public_profile'),


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    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
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    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
    <title>Play! 2.x – Processing web assets</title>
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Play! 2.x

Last Published: 2019-02-06|

Version: 1.0.0-rc5

Overview

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Usage

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Processing web assets

Web assets can be static (unmanaged in SBT terminology) or generated during the build (managed). Their location in distribution archive is by convention inside <tt>public</tt> directory although this path can be configured.

Unmanaged assets are files (e.g. images, css and javascript files), by convention located inside <tt>public</tt> directory, which should be copied to distibution archive without any processing.

Managed assets are created during the build process usually by transforming other files (e.g. less, coffeescript). Input files are located by convention inside <tt>app/assets</tt> directory.

There is no one, proper way of processing web assets. Processing is not tightly coupled with building server side of Play! Framework application. They can even be processed by separate build system (e.g. Grunt).

In fact in Play! Framework this changed over time.

In versions 2.0.x to 2.2.x unmanaged assets were treated as resources and were just copied to build output directory. Managed assets were processed by <tt>CoffeescriptCompiler</tt>, <tt>LessCompiler</tt> and <tt>JavascriptCompiler</tt> and generated files were added to build output directory as well.

In Play! Framework 2.3.x things changed. Web assets processing (both unmanaged and managed) was moved to external SbtWeb plugins family.

I Maven build assets should be treated as resources. Below are described some build configurations.

Static assets only

The simplest case is a project with static assets only. Configuration is very simple.

    <build>
        ...
        <resources>
            ...
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/public</directory>
                <targetPath>public</targetPath>
            </resource>
        </resources>
    </build>

Processing of CoffeeScript and Less files and using Google Closure Compiler.

This plugin contains three simple assets-processing goals: coffee-compile, less-compile and closure-compile.

They implement subset of the features of similar tasks used for assets processing in Play! Framework SBT build before SbtWeb introduction (in version 2.3.x). Check original Play! Framework 2.2.x managed assets documentation for details.

Although these goals have limited functionality, they have some advantages:

performance (no need to launch external build system),

integration with error presentation system when running in development mode.

Maven configuration is simple. Add static assets as resources (as in previous scenario) and dynamic assets processing goals:

    <build>
        ...
        <resources>
            ...
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/public</directory>
                <targetPath>public</targetPath>
            </resource>
        </resources>
        ...
        <plugins>
            ...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.google.code.play2-maven-plugin</groupId>
                <artifactId>play2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0-rc5</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <executions>
                    ...
                    <execution>
                        <id>default-play2-compile-assets</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>closure-compile</goal> <!-- only if precompiling js assets -->
                            <goal>coffee-compile</goal> <!-- only if precompiling coffee assets -->
                            <goal>less-compile</goal> <!-- only if precompiling less assets -->
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>

Using full power of SbtWeb build.

Check original SbtWeb documentation to learn all its features.

SBTWeb and its plugins cannot be used in Maven build. The workaround is to create auxiliary SBT build for web assets processing purpose only and call it from Maven build using SBT Runner Maven Plugin.

The simplest configuration is presented below. It may not be clear, why Play! Framework SBT plugin (<tt>"com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin"</tt>) is not used. It’s on purpose. SbtWeb plugin has many less dependencies and therefore forked SBT build initialization time is much shorter.

Maven configuration is different. Resource directory must point to the place, where SBTWeb writes all (static and generated) web assets. It’s <tt>web/public/main</tt> subdirectory of SBT build output directory. Complete configuration:

    <build>
        ...
        <resources>
            ...
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/target/sbt/web/public/main</directory>
                <targetPath>public</targetPath>
            </resource>
        </resources>
        ...
        <plugins>
            ...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.google.code.sbtrun-maven-plugin</groupId>
                <artifactId>sbtrun-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>compile-assets</id>
                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <args>web-assets:assets</args>
                            <jvmArgs>-Dscala.version=${scala.version}</jvmArgs>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>

SBT build files:

<tt>build.sbt</tt>:

scalaVersion := Option(System.getProperty("scala.version")).getOrElse("2.11.12")

lazy val main = (project in file("."))
  .enablePlugins(SbtWeb)
  .settings(
    sourceDirectory in Assets := baseDirectory.value / "app/assets",
    resourceDirectory in Assets := baseDirectory.value / "public",
    target := baseDirectory.value / "target/sbt"
  )

<tt>project/build.properties</tt>:

sbt.version=0.13.15

<tt>project/plugins.sbt</tt>

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-web" % "1.4.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-js-engine" % "1.1.4")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-coffeescript" % "1.0.0")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-less" % "1.1.1")

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Giants ready for first 'stand tall' game
Published on: February 28, 2020 March 19, 2020 by Mary Category:Uncategorised
For the GWS Giants, their win against the West Coast Eagles in the AFLW last weekend may have been the best in their history. The margin of 28 points certainly suggests so.
But after a disappointing loss to North Melbourne the week before, for Bec Beeson and the rest of her Giants teammates, it was important to bounce back strongly.
"I thought our connection on the field and being able to share the ball around was a real stand out," says Beeson.
"After that hard loss to North Melbourne we had to come together, and in the midfield meeting we had a few hard discussions about what we've done in the past and how we're going to fix it. It was a strong week in the lead up to that game and it showed on the field."
The Giants now head into Round 4 with two wins and one loss. That's a positive start for a team that is yet to feature in an AFLW Finals series.
As the season is so short, only eight rounds in fact, each game is crucial, but for the Giants, this weekend's game against the Brisbane Lions is considered pivotal to their finals chances.
So crucial in fact that Giants coach Al McConnell is calling it the team's first ever 'stand tall' game. The impact of this game has not been lost on the players.
"There is a tradition in the men's program of 'stand tall' games. These are games the teams have won in critical times of the season or against the odds," says Beeson.
Amanda Farrugia of the Giants leads the team out of the sheds.
"This is our most important game in our four-year history. It will set up the rest of the season."
What the Giants will hope will shine through in this game is the connection between the players that served the team so well in the win against West Coast.
This is something the squad has worked hard on this year. It can be a challenge in a state where the VFL team is only in its infancy and where so many of the players come from interstate to join the Giants family.
That means working hard on the field, but having fun off the field too – something you'll know the Giants are very good at if you keep an eye on their socials.
Given how many players come from interstate, the one advantage the team has is that squad members become each others family away from home and spend plenty of time with each other away from footy.
Beeson comments on the laughs the team shares together, particularly McConnell who starts most meetings off with some kind of gag.
Fortunately McConnell hasn't played a gag on Beeson, but she plans on keeping her head down just in case.
This light-hearted approach has also impacted Beeson's football.
"In particular this year I have found more fun in football. I've played a lot of footy over the last couple of years, but I have had to learn how to find more enjoyment in footy as well as try and take some of that individual pressure off myself," says Beeson.
But despite the competitiveness of footy and getting the results, Beeson is often reminded about the importance of the AFLW in giving young men and women visible female role models playing footy.
She had another reminder last weekend after the game against the West Coast Eagles when she had the chance to meet a young Giants fan named Aubrey.
"After the game we are given a footy and we get to pick someone in the crowd to give it to. Usually I try to find a young girl to give the footy to and Aubrey caught my eye," Beeson recalls.
"It was a warm-hearted experience. You can make someone's day by giving someone a footy and having a bit of a chat.
She probably went home and slept with that ball last night."
For Beeson and many other AFLW players, they are playing footy because they love it. But given that the AFLW is only in its fourth season and seeing women being given the opportunity to play footy is relatively new, it means that these players are seen as role models and by virtue of playing footy, they are having a big impact on the next generation coming through.
GWS Giants celebrate a win (AAP Image/Tony McDonough)
"I don't think you realise the impact you are having until you meet some of these young girls," says Beeson.
"I work at the club and get to read a lot of the fan mail that gets sent to the club by our younger members. And the mail says things like 'I watched you on the weekend and now I want to play footy like you'. We have the chance to make a real impact here and experiencing that impact is a beautiful feeling."
"What we do is more than just a game. It's not just about how you perform on the weekend. It's about the broader impact you can have on society by playing sport."
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Bethenny Frankel went 'off the rails' during the 'RHONY' reunion, plans to quit show?
Bethenny Frankel reportedly didn't hesitate to bring the drama during the 'RHONY' reunion -- despite having a fever.
Bethenny Frankel may have been busy finalizing her divorce from Jason Hoppy during filming on the 8th season of The Real Housewives of New York City, but that didn't stop her from brining tons of drama to the show. According to a new report, the Skinnygirl mogul "went off the rails" while taping the reunion in July.
"There were so many bombshells [at the reunion], my head was spinning. It took me two weeks to recover," Ramona Singer revealed during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on August 30.
Sonja Morgan was equally impacted by production and said she was "hardly able to speak" after leaving the set.
Meanwhile, Singer labeled the taping as a "grueling" day.
Although Bethenny Frankel arrived to set with a fever, the single mom didn't hesitate when it came to let her feelings be known and in addition to claiming her co-star, Jules Wainstein, planned to go through a dramatic divorce as the show aired, Singer claimed she let loose.
"For not feeling well, she really went off the rails," Singer revealed. As for Frankel, she said she didn't enjoy filming the reunion at all and said that while last year's taping ended with a cast dinner, this year was much different.
During an interview, Bethenny Frankel said that half of the cast members don't air their full life stories on the show, some due to legal and liability issues, which makes for a difficult dynamic for the other women.
Frankel also said that because of this issue, she may not be returning to the series. Frankel also said that something "very dramatic" happened during filming that questioned her integrity. Although she didn't say what it was, she noted that she takes the issue "very seriously."
For more of Bethenny Frankel and her co-stars, tune into The Real Housewives of New York City reunion starting tonight, August 31, at 9 p.m. on Bravo. The reunion will be seen in three parts.


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9.2. Intersections with sexual orientation
We heard how people face a "double burden" of coming out as gay, lesbian or bisexual and also disclosing a mental health issue. Some said the stress they experienced because of discrimination based on their sexual orientation contributed to mental health issues and addictions. Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are at greater risk for certain mental health issues, including depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders. [58] These often relate to experiences of discrimination.[59] LGB youth are more likely to have experienced suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide than heterosexual youth. [60]
We heard concerns about stereotypes that gay, lesbian and bisexual people are assumed to be "mentally ill," even though being gay is no longer identified as a mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Some people told us of homophobic remarks from mental health service providers, or that their service providers lacked understanding about their experiences relating to sexual orientation.
I was sent to a psychiatrist at [a hospital]. When I mentioned to him that I am gay and wanted to talk about it, he wasn't ready to listen, because he was "not an expert in that area"! I had to wait another five months before I met a gay-friendly counsellor at [a community mental health agency]. – Survey respondent
We heard about homophobic comments from other clients within a service environment, which may be dealt with inappropriately by service providers. Within mental health services, same-sex partners may not be treated as legitimate family members, preventing them from getting information about someone receiving treatment or support.
[58] Allen M. Omoto & Howard S. Kurtzman, eds., Sexual Orientation and Mental Health: Examining Identity and Development in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people (Washington, DC: APA Books, 2006); S.D.Cochran, J.G. Sullivan, & V.M. Mays, "Prevalence of Mental Disorders, Psychological Distress, and Mental Health Services Use among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in the United States," (2003) 71 J. of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 53; I.Meyer, "Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence" (2003) 129 Psychological Bulletin 674; as cited by W.B. Bostwick, Mental Health Issues among Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) People, (National Alliance on Mental Illness: 2007) online: NAMI www.nami.org/TextTemplate.cfm?Section=Fact_Sheets1&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=54036, retrieved 5 August 2009.
[59] For a review of the literature, see Dean L, et al., "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns" (2000) 4:3 J. of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association 101.
[60] Elizabeth Saewyc et al., Not Yet Equal: The Health of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Youth in BC (Vancouver, BC: The McCreary Centre Society, 2007) at 31.


I was not yet twenty one, had big metal-band-era hair and acid washed jeans, along with a night job that left a little time for watching cable television, when I met a guy named Wolf Blitzer narrating the opening of what would become the First Gulf War. I have many friends and colleagues who were part of Operation Desert Storm as military personnel; their reflections and recollections are fascinating and much different than mine. In this post remembering the 25th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, I wanted to reflect on my personal impressions as a college student and civilian, to ask questions about the legacy of this conflict in terms of how civilians now view war, and the implications for the military-civilian culture gap. As a military ethicist now reflecting on those experiences, it is clear to me that this short conflict had profound impact on expectations of current and future conflicts, often in problematic ways that need to be directly addressed moving forward.
It looked exactly as I imagined that modern war in the computer age ought to look, narrated by a young, cool guy named Wolf.
As a college student majoring in philosophy and international relations (but no clear sense about the intersection of these areas), I was drawn to what was effectively the first CNN conflict. The run up to the war included breathless commentary and comparisons to Hitler and World War II, featured what seemed to be a broad "coalition of the willing" engaged in a response to a clear cut case of aggression. Once the conflict began, there were impressive visuals of the air war and 'sorties,' which growing up as the child of an Air Force NCO provided a chance to bond with my father and reflected the aesthetic of my generation who cut their teeth on Star Wars movies and space invader video games. It looked exactly as I imagined that modern war in the computer age ought to look, narrated by a young, cool guy named Wolf.
In a way, it was an epic, movie-like presentation of American military and political triumphalism that was moment by successful moment erasing the imagery of the Vietnam War and its perceived failures.
"The Luckiest Man in Iraq" — General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
In preparation for the ground conflict, there was a parade of former generals and other military boosters showing off the latest military technologies and extolling the professional acumen, character and superiority of American military technology and personnel. These presentations were firmly optimistic and positive, with clear characterizations of possible damage to the enemy (who was presumed to be weak and not capable of much resistance), with little discussion of messy things like collateral damage and non-combatant harms; these weapons were capable of precision and would be used in surgical strikes resulting in a swift victory. There was very little critical questioning from the press (continued in the highly choreographed daily military briefings from General Norman Schwarzkopf among others), even as I was vaguely aware of arguments that this was about oil and not about Kuwait's sovereignty.
In a way, it was an epic, movie-like presentation of American military and political triumphalism that was moment by successful moment erasing the imagery of the Vietnam War and its perceived failures. There were 200,000 Iraqi casualties, but little of these were seen on CNN while the couple hundred US casualties were trumpeted as some kind of contemporary Agincourt. From my perspective in front of a TV screen in Fargo, North Dakota it was all beautiful, clean and precise and over before I had time to become bored or to question the narrative and imagery presented. And we won. The victory was decisive and impressive, credited to the superior technology and moral superiority of the US military forces. Vietnam had been banished and American exceptionalism vindicated on TV with great visuals, a superb narrator and compelling cast of characters.
Of course, these are but my own hazy personal reflections from twenty-five years ago. This is not to say that this what the experience of war was like from either the coalition or Iraqi military sides; it is to say that these reflections demonstrate a certain civilian experience of war that, in my view, was not entirely uncommon and still profoundly shapes how civilians in the US experience and think about contemporary conflicts like Iraq, Afghanistan and the emerging conflict against ISIS.
The first thing to note was the stark moral clarity (or so it seemed) reflected in the moral consensus as evidenced by the "coalition of the willing" and President George H.W. Bush's explicit invocation of the jus ad bellum criteria of the Just War Tradition in his speech asking to go to war. There was a clear narrative of Last Resort, supported by diplomatic efforts, UN resolutions and public conversations about how to deal with Saddam Hussein's actions. There was also Just Cause in the violation of Kuwaiti sovereignty and the threat to the international community and peace complete with the Saddam is Hitler imagery invoking World War II. The fact that Kuwait was a much smaller country and that Saddam had engaged in a long war with Iran only seemed to fit the narrative and make clear that collective military force was necessary to stop him and redress the injustices committed.
Second, this conflict seemed to fit nicely into the conventional war paradigm of air power and ground troops and vehicles that seemed in many ways a throwback to World War II only with newer, shinier technology. Unlike World War II, this one was very short and from the US perspective, relatively bloodless. There were precision, surgical strikes and sorties flown with images of destruction of physical things, but very few pictures of the human toll, of blood, pain and suffering that inevitably goes with war and its effects. It was clean, scientific and technological in an era when Americans (as they still do) think of technology as a way to make life easier, to clear up messiness and as an engine for progress.
…controlling the narrative and keeping the conflict short and decisive was the perfect recipe for a successful war.
This fit perfectly with the birth of the 24/7 news cycle mentality and the shrinking of the national attention span with greater and greater cultural emphasis on immediacy and convenience. War had now become yet another good to consume and be tweaked according to our expectations and preferences. This perception was enhanced by the degree to which the military controlled the narrative (in reaction to the view by some that the press lost the war in Vietnam and undermined the support on the home front); controlling the narrative and keeping the conflict short and decisive was the perfect recipe for a successful war.
Third, this conflict was experienced by many civilians (and perhaps the military as well) as the antidote for and repudiation of the Vietnam syndrome. Vietnam had been a long, indecisive conflict fought with unconventional/asymmetric tactics against an elusive and changing enemy; the cause was eventually viewed as morally murky and from the civilian perspective ended with a retreat and defeat of sorts. The Gulf War was a decisive victory, fought with conventional tactics with no question as to who the enemy was and where to find him. From the civilian point of view, this redeemed the Vietnam experience; there was no question about the competency and moral character of the US troops and we won battles which settled the war.
Given these points, what are we to conclude about the implications of Operation Desert Storm for contemporary and future conflicts?
Failure is simply not an option. Patton famously observed that Americans will not tolerate a loser, and this is especially true with respect to military matters and war. We see this risk aversion in the increased use of unmanned systems (including drones and robots), a concerted focus on force protection and resistance on the part of political leaders in committing ground troops to conflicts. When we do so, there is the inevitable demand for an exit strategy before the conflict even begins, with the admonition that we do not want another Vietnam.
Americans have a short attention span and focus when it comes to war.
Connected to the risk aversion is the short attention span and low tolerance for drawn out conflicts. Americans have a short attention span and focus when it comes to war. Only a short time after the success of this conflict, a perception of debacle in Somalia was followed by public demands for withdrawal, followed a few years later by President Clinton promising not to commit ground troops to deal with ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and no military action in regards to an in progress genocide in Rwanda.
There is also the problem with a perceived lack of moral clarity in asymmetric conflicts.
There is also the problem with a perceived lack of moral clarity in asymmetric conflicts. The initial phase of Afghanistan was tied to 9/11, which seemed to provide a measure of moral clarity, but as the conflict dragged on, this justification became muddied. The 2003 intervention in Iraq was infamous for the contrived (and highly controversial at the time) moral clarity, that evaporated very quickly. Meanwhile resistance to interventions in Syria, and later Iraq again (to deal with the threat from ISIS), various locations in Africa experiencing various degrees of genocidal and ethnic cleansing issues, not to mention the crisis in the Ukraine all demonstrate the struggle with a civilian perspective with this issue of moral clarity, which many civilians see as a pre-requisite to going to war.
Finally, there is the worship of war as primarily a technological enterprise — clean, instant results, precise and bloodless.
Finally, there is the worship of war as primarily a technological enterprise — clean, instant results, precise and bloodless. The visuals and narrative of this conflict firmly established in the mind of the civilian public the idea that technology was responsible for the swift, decisive victory with very low US causalities. This sets the norms and the expectations for future conflicts; this is what war is.
I would argue, as an ethicist, that these are serious issues to engage in the public discourse on war, but all are rooted in a manufactured and unrealistic image of war as a limited, controllable enterprise in isolation from social and political factors. We hear this in the call to bomb nuclear facilities in Iran, as if this act were purely a matter of military technology.  This kind of call is regularly repeated every time there is some crisis or difficulty — from the civilian standpoint, we can just bomb, we can send drones or worst case send in Special Forces or other elite forces who will 'take care of it' and get out. It is the First Gulf War more than any other factor that shaped the idea in the mind of the US civilian population that this is possible and desirable. After all, we saw it on CNN.
Pauline Shanks Kaurin holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University, Philadelphia and is a specialist in military ethics, just war theory, social and political philosophy, and applied ethics. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA and teaches courses in military ethics, warfare, business ethics, and history of philosophy.
 The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf. (New York: Times Books, 1991), p. 228–30; 307–311.
 See the opening monologue on the 1970 film, Patton, starring George C. Scott.
 See Kenneth L. Vaux's reflections on this in regard to the Gulf War in Ethics and the Gulf War: Religion, Rhetoric and Righteousness. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), p. 31.
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Corporate cost cutting strategies - Phil's Rambling Rants
Corporate cost cutting strategies
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September 8th, 2010 10:04 pm (UTC)
I have a lot less of a theoretic problem with Ryan Air wanting to eliminate co-pilots than I do with BP having decided to put "be stupid" in the first twelve positions on their list of ten things to do today.
If someone is willing to fly on an airline with no co-pilot, thereby betting, say, the 50 pounds (British airline) that he's saving against the unlikely-on-any-given-flight but statistically-certain-in-the-long-run possibility that we're going to lose the pilot in flight and kill everyone on board, I suppose they should be allowed to make that informed choice.
I just want to see the ad campaigns that the competition is going to put out in response. A Ryan Air flight crashing into the ground, full of screaming passengers after the pilot strokes out. Then the man awakes, being gently asked by a stewardess to put his seat in the upright and locked position, because we'll be landing shortly.
"British Airways. Because your safety shouldn't be optional."
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Problem is, it's exactly the same kind of thinking in both cases. BP didn't put "be stupid" on their to do list, they put "save money" on their list. When you push too hard to save money, you make people do stupid things -- only nobody identifies them as stupid until someone gets hurt.
September 9th, 2010 03:12 am (UTC)
My father worked as a compliance officer for Peabody Coal way back when. His job was to get a mine into compliance with the safety regs. He could do it.
The problem was that when he left the mine to go to the next mine, people would slide back into the same old sloppy habits, because it was "easier" and the safety stuff wasn't really needed.
Until something went really wrong.
Trust me, a lot of these things are easily identified as stupid. :)
The people actually working on the job will be just as faithful to their safety procedures than their bosses expect of them. The bosses' bosses, somewhere in an office, make decisions about how hard to push for the budget for safety equipment and paying for fully trained people, and they're answering to bosses who are ultimately looking at the bottom line. It comes down to whether they're looking at the bottom line in the long term, or (usually these days) just desperately trying to make this quarter look more profitable than the last one and not really worrying about what, by the odds, won't come along for several years.
It'll look stupid to the reporters and the accident investigators, but it probably didn't feel stupid to the people who physically handled the tools and equipment. What's missing is the bosses' bosses' bosses, making the policy decisions, facing any personal responsibility when their policies cause damage. The high level decision makers aren't stupid. They're very clever. They just don't have the right incentives.


A low carb diet, also known as low carbohydrate diet, is a type of eating plan which aims to minimize the daily carbohydrate consumption of a person in the attempt to control his weight or lose weight due to being overweight or obese.
In a study conducted by the University of Western Ontario Department of Medicine, they were able to pinpoint that the moderate replacement of the carbohydrate intake in your meals with high protein and low fat foods improved the overall cardiovascular health of the subjects. The use of low carb diet plans not only normalizes the triglyceride and cholesterol levels but also allows for the production of more HDL or good cholesterol which is integral to better health. The increased production is accompanied by better particle size when maintaining the low carbohydrate meal plan.
The American dietetic association, as well as other governmental and medical agencies, suggests combining exercise with sensible eating for a healthy weight loss program. In the end, all that matters is your decision to become healthy and to stay motivated in carrying out that decision. This stems from the work done by Cordain, Eaton and others whose research found that the majority of paleo and hunter gatherer diets are lower in carbohydrates and higher in protein and fat than today's diet. A diet high in refined carbohydrate diets is not healthy – especially the standard western diet, where carbohydrates are eaten far in excess of requirements.
And yes for the most part I am talking to people who have some weight to lose but are generally healthy. I tried very low carb back when Atkins was new, lost weight but was sick with Mono for months, didn't get well until I went off Atkins. I would like to know which carb is beter for body sweet potato, squash beet, or fruits that have quite amount of sugar. Please click on the form graphic, above, to download and print your own healthy and trim, low-carb Grocery Shopping List!
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The reduced risk profiles were based on the considerably lower levels of cholesterol and triglyceride derived from the low carbohydrate diets. There are also myths that say it is not healthy or that it is not effective. These are all opinions mostly from people who are not motivated enough to stick to the low carb plan or have gone from one diet to another and still remain fat.
Everything else is so simple, just follow the low carb diet as it is laid out and you will become healthier, more energetic, and slimmer in no time. However it needs to be noted (again) that this may be because of the dietary availability of carbohydrates, and the higher availability of protein sources. Very low carbohydrate diets are widely promoted for weight loss, and the low carbohydrate trend has become entwined with paleo eating.
Most feel better on a moderate carb diet, which is still a lot lower in carbs than the standard western diet, and more importantly if you eat a paleo diet, you will be cutting out the damaging carbohydrates. I also see many CrossFitters eating low carb diets and suffering – low energy, poor recovery, sleep problems, adrenal fatigue.
This is because they eat lots of volume of vegetables, but not enough of the carbohydrate containing ones.
So, I am considering backing off protein a little and increasing carbs a little to see if this will help increase my energy and workout recovery.
Started on Zone later, found it well balanced, keeps me out of ketosis, controls weight and appetite nicely, + no more afternoon fatigue. Can you explain haw not going low enough on carbs causes the problem please – I and many readers would love to know.
CardsTrim Healthy Mama Visual Shopping ListPlanning a Frugal Family Trip to Washington, D.C. The lower glucose level is the result of lower carbohydrate intake which maintains the production of sugar that can be converted into body fat. It has been shown in some studies that having an ideal body weight leads to a healthier lifestyle and lesser health related problems.
Quality carbohydrates eaten in the context of a paleo diet will be less that the standard diet.
I then experimented with Atkins, thinking this must be the ultimate in avoiding carbs, and gave myself some sort of terrible hormonal imbalance – my skin was shocking, periods irregular, no energy, just a mess. I also used to believe in this myth before consulting the expert dietician on online USA doctors.A lot of vegetables are very low in carbohydrates and they are essential to our diet for the vitamins and minerals they contain.
I really don't need to lose weight but am flabby around the waist especially after gaining weight to help increase muscle mass while lifting weights (back squat, deadlift, and military press) which are part of my Crossfit workouts. Also, as I've gotten fitter and slimmer, my carb tolerance and maybe even need for carbs has increased.
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An astonishing video has been emerged showing the moment that a house exploded into a fireball just after cops arrived outside of the house after an SUV crashed into a Texas house. Police dashcam shows a police officer walking up to the Dallas home on Wednesday as it exploded into flames leaving debris flying into the air. According to the reports, the explosion occurred after an SUV crashed into the house and hit the natural gas line-the crash injured five people including two policemen.
A house in Texas has exploded into a fireball after an SUV struck it.
Police responded a call after the vehicle crashed into the home-the house exploded seconds after they arrived.
In a newly released dashcam video, the house can be seen explode after a vehicle crashed into a home and struck the gas line.
A man, his wife, and son were injured due to the explosion, 12 miles from Fort Worth.
The driver, Arnulfo Castro, 40, has been arrested and was found without a legal license.
An astonishing video has been emerged showing the moment that a house exploded into a fireball just after cops arrived outside of the house after an SUV crashed into a Texas house.
Police dashcam shows a police officer walking up to the Dallas home on Wednesday as it exploded into flames leaving debris flying into the air.
According to the reports, the explosion occurred after an SUV crashed into the house and hit the natural gas line-the crash injured five people including two policemen.
I just remember a big heat wave and something kind of pushing me from the side.
There was shrapnel coming out of the house. The roof explodes, insulation was coming out. Things were coming out on fire.
Arnulfo Casto, 40, had been driving the vehicle when it hit the bungalow where a man and his wife were staying with their adult son. Dixie Bridges was hospitalized after the accident, but the husband and son have not been identified yet.
According to the police statement, the SUV swerved into the residence on Myrtle Drive Saturday afternoon shortly before 1 pm. The statement also revealed two of the officers responding the crash got injured of the blow.
One of the officers was treated at the scene whereas the other was treated at a hospital.
The driver was found to be driving without license-he was arrested later and charged with driving without a license. He didn't get injured in the accident.


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JULY/AUGUST 2000· VOLUME 21 · NUMBER 7 & 8
CORPORATE PIGS AND OTHER TALES OF AGRIBUSINESS
A Serious Beef with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association
An Interview with Jeanne Charter
Jeanne Charter is a Montana-based rancher active in the Northern Plains Resource Council, a member group of the Western Organization of Resource Councils.
Multinational Monitor: What is the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA)?
Jeanne Charter: Until 1996, when they merged with the Chicago Livestock Meat Board, it was called the National Cattlemen's Association. Through the merger, which was approved by USDA, they got control of what is called the beef check-off fund, which is supposed to go for non-partisan beef promotion. Now the vast majority of NCBA's funding comes from the check-off. The check-off brings in about $85 million a year, and they get at least $55 million of that. As a result, their annual budget grew from $12 million to $55 million. It covers all of their overhead and staff costs.
MM: How does the check-off work?
Charter: It's assessed each time a cow is sold, whether it's a calf sold to a feedlot, whether it's the same calf when it's sold again to be slaughtered, or whether it's a mother cow when it's culled from the herd and slaughtered. So it's assessed each time there's a sale. It's a mandatory assessment that has been in force for 12 years under the Beef Promotion and Research Act of 1985.
In some Western states, where cattle are branded for ownership purposes, the state brand inspection officers are often the ones who collect it. A lot of brand inspectors hate it, because it undermines their police authority because there is a lot of unrest about this and it has turned them into tax collectors.
Because they administer the check-off, NCBA claims in public and before the U.S. Congress to represent a million cattlemen. It's not a voluntary representation; their voluntary membership is only about 3 percent of cattlemen in the country, something like 30,000.
MM: What does NCBA do with the money it raises through the check-off?
Charter: NCBA does a lot of lobbying in Washington, and a lot of advertising in agricultural publications. They're probably the biggest advertisers (mostly to support the check-off) on rural radio stations, which in rural areas is where most people get their news. There are very few agricultural stations that will say anything critical about them because of that. In the last three or four years they've put about $8 million dollars into advertising to create a media blitz in support of the check-off program itself. And the U.S. government is letting them do that.
MM: What else does the NCBA do with the money?
Charter: In recent years, most of the $55 million goes to branded trademark product promotion for table-ready products like table-ready pot roast sold by giant food wholesalers such as Sysco and Sara Lee. This is our money, being used to develop products for these giant firms. NCBA has 18 product development professionals who do this. They develop the product and then let the company they're working with trademark it. I'm also not so sure about the nutritional value of these products. They're not just meat -- they're full of preservatives and other chemicals. That's where our money is going -- to develop those kind of nutritionally questionable products. I think their weak-witted idea is that if they sell a lot of this, the benefits will trickle down to the industry.
MM: What kind of lobbying positions does NCBA take in Congress?
Charter: We object most of all to the positions that they take -- supposedly on our behalf -- on market and trade issues. NCBA's position on livestock markets is basically that there should be no government policing of them. But the markets are getting more and more manipulated because the buying sector is becoming increasingly centralized. The arrangement is becoming increasingly like the chicken sector, where people are basically under captive contracts where it starts out good but it becomes increasingly predatory over time. In Congress, NCBA has always opposed a series of initiatives to get more competitive market enforcement. And they say they do that on behalf of everyone in the industry.
The other place NCBA is notorious is international trade. The inner circle of members that they serve tends to be both packers who have international operations and very large feeders that are also large multinationals. They're basically advocating wide open borders to the United States, arguing that we're going to export more beef.
In Europe, the NCBA is really pushing beef with artificial growth hormones. While they say they are doing that for the cattlemen, they're really doing this for the pharmaceutical makers, who are considered an "allied industry."
Similarly, NCBA supports opening up South America for trade. It's really scary for someone in our position. Brazil has a herd that's bigger than the U.S. beef herd. In this case the "allied industries" sell them semen and other things.
MM: How has the industry come to be dominated by large corporate interests?
Charter: Twenty years ago the packing market was quite competitive and there were lots of packers. Since then it's been consolidated. There's not that many of them left. There are three dominant firms -- Iowa Beef Packers (IBP), ConAgra and Cargill. They basically operate as a cartel. They control nearly 85 percent of the fed slaughtered animals. We mostly sell feeders to feedlots where they're slaughtered under different ownership. It's not like the old days where people would raise cattle.
The companies form "strategic alliances" where feeders get under long-term contract with one of the three packers, with no competitive pricing ability. They commit to deliver product -- fully-fattened animals ready to slaughter -- and they derive their prices off a reference market. There's still a cash trade that's not forward-committed and they'll give them a premium off of that. Or sometimes they'll do it off of futures, which are weakly competitive. All of these arrangements create a negative downward pressure on prices.
It's not bad for everyone. If you're big enough as a feeder, you can do all right. Also, the packers have their own feeders. For instance, ConAgra feeds hundreds of thousands of heads themselves. If you feed hundreds of thousands of animals a year, you can get by with a very small margin. At the feedlot level, their biggest cost is cattle, so if they can do something to drive down the cost of input cattle, it means a lot to a big feeder. So our interests are opposed to the interests of those we sell to -- whose interests are represented by the NCBA.
MM: What have you done to challenge NCBA's work on behalf of these corporate interests?
Charter: We had been upset for some time by the fact that NCBA got control of the check-off fund, so my husband and I deliberately refused to pay the check-off on a yearling sale in the fall of 1997. It was about 247 head of yearlings. We wanted a hearing because we thought the government had made a mistake when they approved the merger in 1996. The next spring, we sold three cows, for which we also refused to pay. So it was a total of 250 animals. We wrote a letter to the editor of our paper explaining why we didn't pay and that we wanted a hearing.
The government filed suit against us in the summer of 1998. Their opinion was that they could fine us $5,000 per head. Later they asked what we were worth, because they thought they could fine us what we are worth.
We finally had a hearing before a U.S. Department of Agriculture administrative law judge on this in the summer of 1999. Her ruling was basically a rubber stamp of what the USDA bureaucrats said, which is that the check-off is a government program voted in by a national referendum of producers in 1986. But once we voted for it, it was USDA's program. In her ruling this April, the judge said that the USDA should be given "substantial deference" in how they interpret their own regulations.
The NCBA knew the outcome three weeks before we did, because the USDA's marketing service had faxed it to them. That's how close they are.
We are appealing the decision. We have to first go through a second administrative review before we expect to go to district court.
We think we're in a good legal position. There was a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Tennessee in 1999 related to a parallel forced check-off in the mushroom industry. A big mushroom processor sued on the basis that it was unconstitutional, and they won unanimously at the appeals court level. The opinion is clear.
MM: What is the check-off campaign and how did it start?
Charter: It's similar to the pork check-off campaign. Independent ranchers and cattle producers have joined together with the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) to demand a recall vote on the beef checkoff. LMA is the national trade association for livestock auctions and cattle buyers. They have as much to lose from a captive supply system as independent cattle producers. They're based in Kansas City.
LMA organized a petition drive. A total of 146,000 signatures were handed in to USDA secretary Dan Glickman over eight months ago. That's far more than the minimum necessary, which is about 108,000, to insure that USDA will find enough valid signatures to call for the referendum. Glickman has yet to respond.


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Long wait ahead for presidential election results
PORT-AU-PRINCE— Haiti's voters have spoken. But nobody's quite sure what they've said.
Even tentative results of Sunday's presidential election likely won't be known for at least 10 days, despite the fact that the election, which involved 54 presidential candidates and tens of thousands of contenders for other races, went unusually smoothly.
Few places in the world take longer to give citizens any hint of who won an election.
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JetBlue to add more Boston-Haiti flights next year
JetBlue Airways is doubling down on its US-Haiti routes, adding bigger planes to its New York and Florida gateways and planning three-day-a-week summer season flights direct from Boston beginning next June. Citing a "growing demand" for travel to Port-au-Prince from the US, the move will add 50,000 additional seats for JetBlue in the US-Haiti market.
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UN wants another year for Haiti mission
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. secretary-general is recommending that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti stay for another year — which might be its final one.
The head of the mission, Sandra Honore, told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that Ban Ki-moon wants the peacekeeping mission to extend for a year to help Haiti complete its upcoming round of elections.
She says the mission also will help the country with an "orderly and sustainable" transfer to having national authorities assume responsibility for future elections.
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Kerry stops in Haiti to discuss election preparations
PORT-AU-PRINCE— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped in Haiti's capital on Oct. 6 to discuss preparations for the country's upcoming elections and encourage people to refrain from disrupting balloting after a messy parliamentary first round in August.
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Voters grapple with packed field for presidency
"There are so many candidates it's impossible to focus on it all and see if a few might actually have good ideas. Right now, this whole thing really gives me a headache,'' secretary Germithe Merzilus said with an exasperated sigh as a group of partisans walked by in matching T-shirts touting a campaign.
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City joins in presenting Citizenship Day: Sept. 26 at Timilty School, Roxbury
Bostonians who hope to become US citizens will get an assist this month from city officials who are teaming up with a non-profit organization to help streamline the naturalization process.
The Mayor's Office of New Bostonians has pitched in with Pro-ject Citizenship to co-host Citizenship Day on Sat., Sept. 26, at the Timilty School in Roxbury.
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Former Boston Police officer, mayoral aide Yves Dambreville killed in Haiti
Yves Dambreville was a kaleidoscope of identities -- Boston police officer, community liaison, Haitian, American, veteran, family man. The 66-year-old former officer was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, according to the U.S. Department of State.
Dambreville, a 33-year veteran of the police force and a committed advocate for the Haitian and larger Caribbean communities, has left behind a legacy of cultural outreach, friends and coworkers said.
"We extend our sincere condolences to his friends and family," the State Department wrote in a statement. The department said it was "providing all appropriate consular services," but declined to provide further information, citing privacy concerns.
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Dominican truckers block border crossings into Haiti
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic— The main truckers union in the Dominican Republic on Monday blocked transport of all freight through border crossings into neighboring Haiti, citing concerns about their safety.
The Dominican truckers said they were protesting recent violence against them while in Haiti. They asserted that some 60 trucks were pelted with rocks in recent days and some were looted.
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Officials exit government over Martelly's remarks to woman
PORT-AU-PRINCE— A hostile comment made by Haitian President Michel Martelly at a campaign rally has set off an uproar in his coalition government, leading a politically allied party to announce the resignation of three officials from his administration last week.
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US issues new travel advisory, warns of threat of robberies near airport
The United States has updated its travel warning to its citizens, advising US citizens to "exercise caution" when visiting Haiti and "strongly" encouraging visitors to "obtain evacuation insurance." The advisory was issued by the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince online and on its Facebook page— which it uses to offer regular updates on potential security issues.
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 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

 <xsl:variable name="pathexcluded" select="'CATALOG/CD1 | CATALOG/CD2 '"/>
 <xsl:variable name="changed-nodes" as="node()*" >
  <xsl:evaluate xpath="$pathexcluded" context-item="/"/>
 </xsl:variable>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*" name="identity">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="$changed-nodes">
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

A: As in previous example, an alternative is to use a static parameter and a shadow attribute:
<xsl:param name="pathexcluded" as="xs:string" static="yes" select="'CATALOG/CD1 | CATALOG/CD2 '"/>

<xsl:template _match="{$pathexcluded}"/>

You will have to provide details on your performance problems to allow us to judge whether xsl:evaluate is the culprit. The above is mainly posted as an alternative approach, test yourself whether it performs better with your use cases. Your example with the simple xsl:variable doesn't even make it clear whether that part is variable or not any time you run the transformation.
BTW: in XSLT 3 you can declare <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/> instead of setting up the identity template.

A: A performance question really only makes sense if you can quantify it: what is the size of the source document, how long is it taking, how does this compare with your performance requirement?
I can't see why you're using xsl:evaluate here, given that the path expression is fixed. Perhaps it isn't fixed in your real code? But then, if this isn't your real code, perhaps you haven't shown us the actual source of the problem? Certainly if it's a large source document and you're only evaluating the xsl:evaluate once, then it's unlikely to be the cause of the trouble.
The <xsl:template match="$changed-nodes"/> might well be a problem if $changed-nodes is a very large node-set. I have a feeling we did some work recently to address this: you haven't said which Saxon release you are using. But even with those improvements, testing each node to see whether it matches the criteria for deletion is going to be better than forming the set of all such nodes and then testing each node to see whether it is a member of that set.


Mumbai Mirror has published a blind item about a superstar who used to show off his six packs, but now has a "dad bod".
Mumbai Mirror seems to be showering too much attention on this greek god superstar(click here to read more). We wonder why he is so vulnerable. You divorced your wife, one movie flopped, so what? Move on. There were rumors that he had employed a life coach to take his mind off his divorce. It doesn't help that he has a coke habit. Frankly speaking, someone needs to tell him to stop whining over his problems & to grow a pair! He needs to do what god sent him to do – dazzle his fans with hit movies & sit at the very top of the bollywood food chain. Anything less will be talent under utilized in his case.
Speaking if his body, this is not the first time he has let his gym routine go haywire. Even before the shooting of the previous installment of his hit superhero franchise, he had posted pics of his tummy. But as usual he got back to his grueling gym routine & got his six packs back. Maybe its just boredom. He has been maintaining his physique since the last 18 years. Give him a break guys!
But we are supremely confident that he will be back in the reckoning soon. While a big budget movie a few years back starring him flopped, his last movie did decent business. His upcoming biopic looks promising & his movie alongside a talented star kid is sure to set the cash registers ringing. Just one hit & he will have the world eating out of his palms.
But then we maybe wrong. It says the actor is scared of losing the few fans he has left. But the man we are talking about is very much an A-lister. His instagram pics show him sporting a lean physique. So it maybe this other actor who is in the news only for his new romance with his brazilian GF, following his divorce to his wife of many years.
A leading actor, known as much for his great talent as for his gorgeous looks and sixpacks, seems to be a bit on the wane. His personal and professional life came crumbling down within months of each other, and it seems his gym routine has also gone for a toss. He has barely stepped out of his home in the past few weeks, spending time mostly with his family. Even if he shares posts of himself, they are always chest up. The star has developed what is very rudely called a "dad bod", and well, is scared of losing the few fans he has left.
Mumbai Mirror work for Stalker Kangana. She is back in town and we have 5 back to back blinds against Hrithik.