A significant part of PBS Group is První brněnská strojírna, which ranks among engineering brands that have been active on the world market for the longest. It has been synonymous with innovation and quality for more than 200 years. The group comprises of První brněnská strojírna, a.s., which is a complex supplier of power units especially industrial boilers. PBS ENERGO, a.s., which concentrates on development, manufacture, supply and service of steam and expansion turbines and last but not least První brněnská strojírna Velká Bíteš, a. s., which is active in precision engineering and specializes in the manufacture of machines with high revolution turbines for the aviation, power and transport industry.
We are a complex engineering producer which provides precision castings, hi-tech metal machining, electroplating and subsequent assembly of finished products in their own workshops. Our customers appreciate high technical standard, reliability and quality of our products and services. In 2012 PBS Velká Bíteš was awarded the title "Company of the Year".
PBS GROUP, a.s. is a holding company that invests in engineering companies in the Czech Republic that are focused on aerospace, power and transport industries.
PBS Velká Bíteš specializes in the manufacture of high-speed turbine machines for aerospace, power and transport industries.
We manufacture small turbine engines, auxiliary power units and air-conditioning systems for helicopters, ground attack aircraft and airplanes up to 40 passengers.
We cast precision castings from superalloys. We supply castings of internal-combustion turbine blades and parts for aircraft engines, knee replacements or turbocharger wheels.
This is real engineering with a wide fleet of machinery. We machine the whole range of materials including those that are difficult to machine. Our products serve in the power and food industry or the health sector.
We concentrate on services for the operating divisions. Marketing, central purchasing, quality management, economics, facility maintenance and administration, IT, personnel management, education, vehicles administration, premises protection. There is plenty to do.
První brněnská strojírna, a. s. (PBS Brno) is an engineering supply company, which provides complex services for construction of power and heating investment units.
We have our own technology of industrial boilers for miscellaneous kinds of fuel and we are active in the field of ecological combustion of renewable resources.
PBS ENERGO, a.s. podniká v oboru energetiky. Zaměřujeme se na parní protitlakové turbíny a parní kondenzační turbíny, expanzní plynové turbíny a dodávky turbosoustrojí.
We specialize in steam and expansion turbines. We design, manufacture, supply. Our turbines serve in city heating plants, in smaller power plants or in various kinds of industry.


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IT workarounds complicate DOD and VA health center effort
By FCW Staff
The DOD and VA are having difficulty meeting IT goals in a joint healthcare facility.
IT Systems Management
Operational Management
The Veterans Affairs and Defense department's efforts to integrate healthcare facilities has hit a snag. The two medical centers involved in the first full-scale attempt, involving the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago has had a hard time blending its IT, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
VA and DOD planned to integrate 12 specific areas in the project, and IT is the only one to be delayed, the GAO found. The others are complete or in progress.
"Despite some progress, the FHCC continues to face costly delays in the IT integration area," the report reads. "The Executive Agreement specified three key IT capabilities that VA and DOD were required to have in place on opening day, in October 2010, to facilitate interoperability of VA and DOD electronic health record systems."
In a previous GAO report issued in 2011, all three of the components were delayed, the new report says. The HCC implemented "costly workarounds to address the needs these capabilities were intended to serve."
While the components were not ready in time for the center's opening, officials told GAO that medical single sign-on and single patient registration became operational by December 2010. However, portability of pharmacy and consults orders were still delayed as of May 2012.
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Fitch Solutions: Key Asia Macro Themes For 2021
Fitch Solutions / Country Risk / Asia / Thu 03 Dec, 2020
As 2020 comes to an end, we at Fitch Solutions take this opportunity to lay out our key themes for 2021. We expect that the unprecedented challenges of 2020 will cause spillovers in the new year even as a vaccine against Covid-19 is available. The uncertainty regarding the rollout of the vaccine, persistent economic pain from the 2020 recession and lingering cross-border movement restrictions will likely stall full economic normalisation. Moreover, we expect that the policymaking environment and geopolitical factors will become more complicated, potentially adding downward pressures to the region's economy.
Below, we outline themes that, in our view, will dominate in the coming year:
Multiple Covid-19 waves will result in a bumpy post-pandemic recovery
Weaker private-sector balance sheets will prompt a deleveraging cycle in the region
Greater regionalisation of trade and investment activity
China's government to focus on improving investment quality
Increased anti-establishment sentiment to undermine social stability
Theme 1: Multiple Covid-19 Waves Could Result In A Bumpy Post-Pandemic Recovery
While several pharmaceutical firms have released promising data on Covid-19 vaccine candidates, and one has already been approved by the UK regulators, we believe that the rollout of the vaccine will be slow and uneven in Asia. Our Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare team believes that access to the vaccine will be initially limited to developed markets (DMs), such as the US, UK and Germany; and some emerging markets (EMs), especially those that have partly funded the vaccine research, such as China and Russia. This means that not only could the virus remain a threat in the region for much of 2021, but markets could also see multiple waves of outbreaks that could lead to sporadic, localised shut-downs of activity over the course of the year.
Within Asia, governments have engaged in various types of partnerships with vaccine developers to gain access to the doses; for instance, Australia has agreed to purchase up to 135mn doses of the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Novavax. Similarly, India's Serum Institute is involved in manufacturing the AstraZeneca vaccine. South Korea has engaged in an 'optional purchase' deal with COVAX (a global collaboration managed by the WHO and other international bodies committed to providing equitable access to the vaccine), which means that the country can choose to purchase doses from specific companies. Despite several expansive agreements across the region, we believe that large populations, combined with the lack of relevant infrastructure in EMs, will slow the rollout of the vaccine, meaning that it will take more than another year to effectively eradicate the virus.
Uneven Recovery Likely In 2021
Selected Asian Economies – Real GDP Growth, % chg y-o-y
f = forecast. Source: Fitch Solutions
We expect that the persistence of the virus will mean that the economic recovery across the region will not only be delayed but will also be bumpy, especially in the first half of 2021. Countries gaining access to the vaccine early and successfully rolling out mass inoculation drives will see a faster recovery to pre-Covid-19 economic activity. These could include Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. While the Asia Pacific region's 1.4% contraction in 2020 will create a flattering basis for comparison, we caution that most markets will see tepid growth on a quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) basis. For instance, we forecast full-year growth of 10.2% for China, which is a deceptively aggressive forecast that is actually based on our conservative expectations for average q-o-q growth of 1.3%. This is lower than the average of 1.5% in 2019, before the pandemic. Similarly, in Indonesia, where we expect overall growth of 6.1% in 2021 from a contraction of 1.3% in 2020, we have factored in 0.0% q-o-q growth in H121.
Theme 2: Weaker Private-Sector Balance Sheets Could Prompt A Deleveraging Cycle In The Region
Following the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant shock to the balance sheets of the private and banking sectors, we expect that private sector deleveraging will accelerate in the Asia-Pacific region in 2021. The pandemic has significantly cut private sector incomes, with consumers using savings or borrowing to supplement lost revenue. Policymakers responded to the pandemic by easing repayment terms, reducing interest rates, boosting liquidity and providing outright fiscal transfers. However, as some of these measures are phased out and debt repayments come due in 2021, we anticipate that corporates and households with higher debt burdens will turn to deleveraging. In particular, Australia, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand face challenges from high levels of private debt because of elevated servicing ratios (see chart below). We note that debt servicing ability will deteriorate from their Q120 ratios, as the Covid-19 impact on incomes feeds through.
Private Sector Deleveraging To Become More Prominent
Selected APAC Economies – Debt Service Ratio, % Of GDP
Source: BIS, Fitch Solutions
The Chinese authorities already appear intent on managing the process of private sector deleveraging as pandemic headwinds abate. Indeed, the government has made efforts to regulate or curb lending through non-banks, and monetary easing appears to have slowed through H220. Rising bond defaults in 2020 reflect the vulnerabilities created by increased debt loads and rising debt-servicing ratios, and as such, we expect policymakers to tackle excessive borrowing over the coming quarters.
Elsewhere, however, debtors themselves are likely to lead the process, with Australian and South Korean households in particular facing high debt-servicing costs. We have flagged Australia as a high probability among DMs for household deleveraging, low savings rates and a high debt-servicing ratio of 14.8% as of Q120. Similarly, South Korean households face high debt-servicing ratios and rising levels of household debt, spurred by a growing housing bubble.
In EMs such as Thailand and Malaysia, risk aversion among banks and the shock to incomes from the pandemic will likely prompt some deleveraging through to 2021. As loan repayment holidays end in 2020, we expect that banks' asset quality will deteriorate as the impact of the pandemic on business and household balance sheets becomes apparent. Indeed, despite lower interest rates in Malaysia and Thailand, loan growth has been subdued because of banks' risk aversion. Creditor confidence is likely to remain low in Thailand, given the economy's dependence on tourism, which has been devastated by the pandemic, and we expect that stimulus measures will not be enough to offset lost income, resulting in deleveraging. In Malaysia, we expect some modest tightening of monetary policy in 2021, which will likely reduce loan rollover rates.
Theme 3: Greater Regionalisation Of Trade And Investment Activity In 2021
We expect that intra-Asia Pacific travel and investment flows will rise faster than inter-regional flows over the course of 2021. As Western economies continue to face mounting challenges with the containment of the Covid-19 virus, Asian countries are increasingly looking to ease relatively strict movement restrictions that have been place in the region for much of the year. With the exception of a few markets such as India and Indonesia, the region as a whole has generally fared better than Western markets in controlling the outbreak (see chart below).
Divergence In Covid-19 Spread
Selected Regions – New Covid-19 Cases, mn
Sources: Our World In Data, Fitch Solutions
Indeed, for many countries in Asia Pacific (excluding South Asia), new Covid-19 cases have either stabilised at a low level for several months, or at worst have only seen a short-lived resurgence in infections that did not exceed their first-wave highs. These resurgences so far have also been quickly brought under control with tight and rapidly imposed containment measures.
Tourism Dependence To Remain Large In Asia
Selected Asian Economies – Tourism Contribution To GDP vs Real GDP Growth
Source: World Travel & Tourism Council, Fitch Solutions
From a travel perspective, we believe that borders will likely open up in phases, with markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, which have shown early successes in overcoming the outbreak, looking to re-open first. Risks around travel bubbles remain in these locations, with a Singapore-Hong Kong bubble, which was meant to open on November 22 2020, having been delayed to 2021 because of a resurgence in cases in Hong Kong. Countries within the region are keen to restart travel among their close economic partners not only to support the travel and tourism sector (the region as a whole receives 10-20% of GDP on average from this sector) but also to boost business sentiment and especially invigorate direct investment flows, which often require on-site visits before finalising. As such, negotiations for a travel bubble encompassing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have begun – despite risks around countries facing large outbreaks, such as Indonesia and the Philippines. According to data from the UN, foreign direct investment flows fell by 12% in developing Asia in H120. We believe that, even though vaccine prevalence and testing rates could eventually be higher in DMs from the West, Asian economies will prioritise intra-regional links because of deeper ties and localised business interests. This trend will also be supported by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership signed in November, since the simplified 'rules of origin' framework allowed by the pact will support greater regional economic integration.
Theme 4: China's Government To Focus On Improving Investment Quality
We believe that, in 2021, the Chinese government will not only be warier of the quality of investments and cut back on its funding in high-risk projects, but it will also make more effort to curb growth in the country's large overall debt load, which reached 274.4% of GDP in Q120. Over the past year, China has engaged in a campaign to alter risk perception around private debt in the country, and especially to change the perception in markets that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and debts of companies rated triple-A are backed by the government. Legally, the central government is bound to provide financial support to local governments only, and it has never given any explicit guarantee for SOEs. That said, a history of government bailouts of distressed businesses, particularly SOEs, has contributed to the growing view that a significant portion of Chinese corporate debt is guaranteed by the government, distorting risk perceptions and encouraging risk taking. This has contributed to the continued increase in private sector debt, which is now higher as a share of GDP than it was in Thailand, Mexico, or the US when these countries faced private-sector debt problems (see chart below).
China's Private Sector Debt Nearing Crisis Level
Selected Countries – Private Non-Financial Sector Credit, % Of GDP
Notably, the number and value of defaulting bonds were very low prior to the Chinese government's crackdown against the shadow banking system in 2018 (see chart below). Looking ahead, it is likely that the government will continue with its increasingly hands-off approach to debt management, thereby potentially allowing for larger-value defaults. We believe that this will help improve risk management among investors in China and thereby create a more sustainable financial environment.
Bond Defaults Likely To Remain Elevated For Years
China - Bond Defaults
Source: Wind, Fitch Solutions
That said, we still expect the government to remain cautious and to be selective of the companies that are allowed to falter, especially among larger corporate entities. The move announced on November 22 to pool CNY30.0bn (USD4.6bn) from SOEs to rescue China Evergrande is an indication that Beijing remains deeply committed to maintaining financial stability while improving market dynamics.
Theme 5: Increased Anti-Establishment Sentiment Will Undermine Social Stability
We see risks of anti-establishment sentiment rising across the region in 2021. While 2020 was a tough year, we believe that there were lower expectations given that voters likely understood to some degree that the pandemic was an event outside the control of their governments. On top of this, most governments provided stimulus packages to alleviate the immediate economic impact of the pandemic. Most governments will run record fiscal deficits in 2020, but we do not believe that this level of spending is sustainable and expect that stimulus measures will be wound down in 2021.
Furthermore, we believe that the economic recovery across the region may take months, especially to boost employment. As such, we expect labour market conditions to remain weak in 2021, with negative consequences for incomes. Already social stability is the weakest link across the region, with its score at 65.7 out of 100 in our Short-Term Political Risk Index lagging behind the overall score of 67.6.
Governments To Face Rising Discontent In 2021
Asia - Short-Term Political Risk Index, Out Of 100
Note: Higher score indicates lower risk. Source: Fitch Solutions
In the context of tightening fiscal policy and a lingering period of above-trend unemployment, we expect that voters will be less likely to forgive their governments for any perceived policy failures. This will be more likely in countries where residents have already endured a year or more of economic hardship and have lingering frustrations over social-distancing and lockdown measures. In countries where there is already rising discontent, such as Thailand, this risk is especially pronounced and could lead to even greater unrest over the coming months. In other economies, governments will face greater pressure to adopt an even more pronounced populist or protectionist stance in policymaking. Further waves of Covid-19, such as the worsening situation in Malaysia, are another risk to popular support for governments in 2021, as are delays or missteps in the eventual rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine. Over the longer term, greater resentment could build up if the recovery does not address widening economic inequality around the region, given that the poorer segments of society have been hit harder than their wealthier counterparts.


Company Profiles | adhesives | chemical products | functional resins | development and production | Toyopolymer Co., Ltd.
Completed resin production plant in industrial complex in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture.
Set up Tokyo Office in Nihonbashi Honmachi, Tokyo.
Enlarged organization by expanding into adhesive and coating materials fields.
Increased capital from initial 500,000 yen to 100 million yen through several capital expansions.
Launched six-division structure composed of the Synthetic Resins, Textile-processing Resins, Adhesives, Coating Materials, Emulsion, and Chemical Products Divisions, with each division assuming its own responsibilities.
Constructed chemical product plant in vicinity of Head Office.
Completed second factory in Kusatsu Plant.
Expanded first factory in Kusatsu Plant.
Acquired 3.3ha site for factory in Katsuta-cho (now Mimasaka-shi), Okayama Prefecture.
Relocated Tokyo Office to Higashinihonbashi 2-9-2, Tokyo.
Reformed corporate structure by launching sales and research headquarters.
Completed first stage construction of Okayama Plant (for chemical product production).
Increased capital to 200 million yen.
Changed company name to Toyopolymer Co., Ltd.
Completed second stage construction of Okayama Plant (for adhesive production).
Built Rubylon Production Building (350m2) in Okayama Plant.
Constructed third factory in Okayama Plant.
Set up Lauren production facility in the third factory.
Hisako Fukumura assumed role of president.
Launched business improvement project (new restoration project toward twenty-first century).
Increased capital to 380 million yen.
Okayama Plant obtained JIS certification.
Relocated Tokyo Office to Shinbashi Station area.
Relocated Head Office to Miyahara, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka.
Kusatsu Plant obtained JIS certification.
Shifted to dual headquarters system with Head Offices in Osaka and Tokyo.
Reduced capital to 100 million yen.
Hitomi Ninomiya assumed role of president.


Trifari Floral Blue AB Rhinestone Faux Pearl Gold Plated Necklace has an array of amazingly soft and feminine colors. The central pendant to this necklace reminds me of a floral design achieved by the coloring and placement of stones which are a combination of marquis shaped baby blue rhinestones accented by AB coated rhinestones, pale peridot color rhinestone, and alternating faux pearls. The necklace strand has a coordinating floral design.
Excellent condition, and although not detracting from this beautiful piece, there are smaller baby blue rhinestones on the necklace strand that have darkened some and as a result are a darker blue. Necklace measures 15 to 15 1/2" long and the floral centerpiece measures 1 1/2" in diameter. Necklace weighs 41 grams.


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Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS) Zombies maps
House (Zombies)
Michael Shaw and Yuri Raslov
Survive for as long as possible against limitless waves of Zombies.
Zombies, Hellhounds
"A rural house is your last hope for survival as the zombies advance."
House is the first Zombies map featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS). It features old furniture, wooden floorboards and multiple other old furnishings.
Layout Edit
First Room (Starting Room) Edit
In the first room, the M14 can be found for 1800 points and the M1891/59 for 300 points, but it is recommended that the player use the Throwing Knife because zombies in the first rounds are still weak. There is a door that can be opened for 5000 points that leads to the second room. There are a total of five windows in this room and each one with a barricade.
There is a glitch to where only Zombies can spawn in only two barricades around the "Aim for the head" area. Though at high rounds it is hard to control them both.
Second Room Edit
This room contains a Mystery Locker (DS version of the Mystery Box) which can be purchased for 950 points, an M16A1 that can be purchased for 2500 Points and also a Remington 870 for 1200. There is also a door which leads to the second floor that costs 10000 points.
Second Floor (Final Room) Edit
In this room the player can find the PPSh-41 for 5000 points and a M16A1 with a Grenade Launcher is also available for 7500 points, as well as an XM22 and a M79. Grenades are also available for purchase. There is also a hole in the floor in between the walls with the PPSh-41 and XM22 which the player can shoot through, which can be useful for safely clearing out the starting room.
Starting Loadout Edit
Makarov PM
5 Fragmentation Grenades
Throwing Knife
Wall Weapons Edit
M14 (1800)
M1891/59 (300)
M16A1 (2500 without Grenade Launcher, 7500 with)
Remington 870 (1200)
PPSh-41 (5000)
XM22 (4000)
In the first room, the words "Aim for the head" appear to be written in blood.
In the second room, a car that looks like one that Shaw and Yuri drove seems to have crashed into the wall.
One of the barricades in the first room has sandbags instead of it being a window.
The upstairs room looks like a bomb was detonated there.
Call of Duty Black Ops (DS) - Zombie Mode - House
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For the past couple of years I have been training at Verite fitness. Coming in I considered myself to be relatively fit, as I did quite a lot of running, although felt I needed additional inspiration .
I found the personal training provided by my instructor Alan informative. I was advised to add more variety and weight training into my workouts to help build more muscle. This along with advise on nutrition and calories I should consume based on my height and activity level, gave me the extra push I needed as well as helping me feel fitter and more toned.
Additionally as someone who has a gym class phobia, I nervously gave the Verite boot camp classes a try. This was a great decision as I do morning classes now whenever I can. The classes are a small group of friendly people and all at differing fitness levels. The classes change each week during the six week course offering plenty of diversity in each training session.


What is an ERP system and what is SAP Business One?
10 Oct What is an ERP system and what is SAP Business One?
When you search for "ERP" on the internet, it can be overwhelming and very confusing with all the large definitions you read. To get a better sense of how something can change your business for the better, it would be helpful if you understood what it is and how it works. Therefore, I'm going to try and explain ERP to you without blowing your mind.
ERP, better known as Enterprise Resource Planning, is a business process management software. To keep it simple, ERP combines all the functions inside a business to enable it all to work as a unit. Just think of ERP as the glue that binds the different computer systems in an organisation.
To give you a very brief history lesson on ERP, the first ERP system to be developed was SAP. SAP is a software firm established in 1972 by five software engineers based in Mannhaim, Germany. Their goal was to link different parts of a business by sharing information gathered to help a company to operate better.
So… what is SAP Business One?
Simply, SAP Business One (also known as SAP B1) is a ERP designed for small and medium-sized businesses. It is used by over 60,000 customers worldwide including companies just like yours. This was created with the idea that SME's need an ERP solution to help manage their business, but not the kind of ERP which giant complex companies use.
SAP Business One is a scalable ERP Software that provides complete visibility and control over all the main components inside your business. SAP B1 adds value which you can see and measure, making your staff more productive, your processes streamlined, and decisions more strategic.
How can SAP Business One help your business?


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Name: Tangerine
Type: Open source typeface
Publisher: Google Web Fonts
Get it at Google Web Fonts
Tangerine is a calligraphic typeface inspired by many Italian chancery hands from the 16th and 17th centuries such as Giovanni Francesco Cresci. Its tall ascender, the most distinct characteristic of this type, takes a wide line space between lines and gives a graceful texture. Use Tangerine for titles or short texts at large sizes.
I was just off my university and started making this typeface as my first script. I regularly posted the progress to Typophile, the most active online forum on typography back then. This is where my design got picked up by Google which was about to launch a new service called web fonts. It was 2009 and web font was a revolutionary new technology. It wasn't particularly made for on-screen purpose, but perhaps that is why it was chosen as a good example to demonstrate the visual distinction web fonts can make. It was a great honour for me to be among the first 10 offerings. As an answer to the frequently asked question, Google Web Fonts including mine are open-source and entirely free to use for commercial purposes. Outside of the web uses, I frequently see it used in books, cafes and similarly individually owned shops.
I made it for a woman after whom the typeface was named, and I say no more :)
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How many childrens books did dr seuss write and illustrate
Just How Many Books Did Dr. Seuss Write?
Today we tell about one of the most successful writers of children's books. Doctor Seuss was the name used by Theodor Seuss Geisel. He was famous because of the books he wrote for children. They combine humorous words, funny pictures, and social opinion. Geisel also illustrated his books with pictures of funny creatures and plants. He did not receive training in art.
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Seuss, was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his children's books.
List of Dr Seuss Books
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I tend to listen to classical music whenever I am travelling. I feel really comfortable with that kind of music.
Over the years I have thought about the connections that might be made in coach learning with composers, conductors and musicians.
The work is a study in contrasts: the individual voices sing and are silent in turns, sometimes alone, sometimes in choirs, sometimes calling and answering, sometimes all together, so that, far from being a monotonous mess, the work is continually presenting new ideas.
Occasionally, I break away from classical musical and end up meeting other musicians like the Pierce Brothers and Tash Sultana. They helped me think about performances of understanding.
This week, I discovered, Adam Levine and Maroon 5.
I have had the good fortune to work with many female athletes and coaches of female athletes. When I saw Maroon 5's Girls Like You video, I immediately thought about how a coach might support the diversity of talents and life experiences in a team.
The video is 4 minutes 30 seconds long and has a remarkable cast. I have replayed the video many times now and it is strikes me forcefully what we might learn from it to support coaches as they explore their practice and their performances.
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I am delighted Thomas has met Adam via a short detour with the Pierce Brothers and Tash. I think we have lots to learn within sport from outside experiences of performance and how we might enable a commonwealth of talent.


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Drivers in Ohio and around the country are more likely to become distracted and engage in behavior that could lead to accidents when their cars feature semiautonomous safety systems like adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane-centering technology. This was the conclusion that researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reached after observing 20 drivers for a month.
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The researchers determined that semiautonomous safety systems give drivers a false sense of security. This is particularly worrying as other studies have shown that these features do not always work in real-world situations. When the American Automobile Association tested automatic emergency braking systems, vehicles equipped with the technology failed to identify a child running into the road 89% of the time. The nonprofit organization concluded that automatic braking systems offer limited benefits in daylight and are completely ineffective in the dark.
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Pattee was cited at the 1967 International Union of Biological Sciences Symposia on Theoretical Biology as offering one of two pre-life systems with potential for variability and heredity (for Pattee, tactic copolymers). The other was A. G. Cairns-Smith's replication, with variations, of macromolecules on clays. See C. H. Waddington's report in Nature.
Pattee criticized the symposium attendees for claiming that biology was simply "physics and chemistry" without citing a single law of physics.
Although the chemical bond was first recognized and discussed at great length in classical terms, most physicists regarded the nature of the chemical bond as a profound mystery until Heitler and London qualitatively derived the exchange interaction and showed that this quantum mechanical behavior accounted for the observed properties of valency and stability. On the other hand, it is not uncommon to find molecular biologists using a classical description of DNA replication and coding to justify the statement that living cells obey the laws of physics without ever once putting down a law of physics or showing quantitatively how these laws are obeyed by these processes.
the logic of this necessity has been discussed by von Neumann in Theory of Self Reproducing Automata (University of Illinois Press, 1966). Pattee put the same point in another way when he emphasized that an effective hereditary system requires both a memory store, which must be constructed of rather inactive materials if it is to be stable enough and a mechanism not only for being replicated but also for affecting its surroundings.
Whether it is theoretically possible to conceive of a substance which is sufficiently unreactive to be an efficient store and also sufficiently reactive to affect the environment is perhaps debatable. In practice, however, it is clear that living things on this Earth have not discovered such a material. They have in general settled on the rather unreactive DNA as the memory store and on RNA and proteins to decode this into enzymes which participate both in the replication of the store and in interactions with the environment.
Following this line of thought, Pattee raised a question from the point of view of quantum mechanics, which seemed perhaps rather recondite to many of the biologists present. The stability of the algorithms stored in DNA is ensured by quantum mechanical processes which define the configuration of single DNA molecules. Their replication and decoding depend on the actions of enzymes, such as the polymerases, which ensure that the bases in a single strand of DNA are paired up correctly with the complementary bases to form the second strand or the corresponding RNA. The existence of such enzymes cannot, he claims, be deduced from the fundamental laws of physics. They are acting as "non-holonomic" constraints to limit the degrees of freedom of the whole system. Their origin at some very early stage of evolution is one of the major problems. Moreover, the stability of the algorithms stored in DNA is ensured by quantum mechanical processes, but the polymerases decode this into quantities of proteins and other cell constituents sufficiently large to operate according to the laws of classical physics. We are confronted therefore With an example of a "quantum measurement", a matter which seems to cause theoretical physicists many headaches.
In later years, Pattee rarely cited the importance of quantum physics, which is the critical element for the creation of new information.
How do we tell when there is communication in living systems? Most workers in the field probably do not worry too much about defining the idea of communication since so many concrete, experimental questions about developmental control do not depend on what communication means. But I am interested in the origin of life, and I am convinced that the problem of the origin of life cannot even be formulated without a better understanding of how molecules can function symbolically, that is, as records, codes, and signals. Or as I imply in my title, to understand origins, we need to know how a molecule becomes a message.
More specifically, as a physicist, I want to know how to distinguish communication between molecules from the normal physical interactions or forces between molecules which we believe account for all their motions. Furthermore, I need to make this distinction at the simplest possible level, since it does not answer the origin question to look at highly evolved organisms in which communication processes are reasonably clear and distinct. Therefore I need to know how messages originated.
During symposia on theoretical biology in the late 1960's, Pattee used John von Neumann's theory of self-reproducing automata to argue for the causal power of symbols over the biological world. Von Neumann had distinguished the abstract "description" (the coded symbols carrying the structural information of the self-replicating machine) from the actual material "construction" of the automaton. Pattee identified von Neumann's "description" with the linear sequence of genetic code in the genotype. He identified von Neumann's "construction" with the building of the three-dimensional phenotype.
There are two different things going on in biology, the abstract information coded in the "software" and the concrete material information structure or "hardware." Pattee saw the symbolic description as in charge of the physical instantiation and said that "life is matter controlled by symbols," making the connection to a biosemiotic description of life.
As a physicist, Pattee assumes that deterministic physical laws govern all dynamics, which can in principle be computed given the initial conditions and the boundary conditions. Pattee, and many of today's biosemioticians, e.g., Terrence Deacon, prefer to call the initial and boundary conditions "constraints." Pattee says that his concept of constraint is not easily understood. This has led to considerable confusion when applied to biosemiotics, whose practitioners know little about dynamics and their readers even less.
Pattee describes the upper level in a hierarchical system as producing constraints on the dynamical motions of the lower levels. Thus, Roger Sperry's "downward causation " of the molecules in a rolling wheel constrains their motions to those of the wheel's motion.
Quantum mechanics is a statistical theory. The appearance of deterministic classical dynamics is because macroscopic objects have large numbers of particles and quantum effects can be "averaged over." Macroscopic objects are "adequately determined - for all practical purposes."
The common language concept of a constraint is a forcible limitation of freedom. This general idea often applies also in mechanics, but as we emphasized in the beginning, control constraints must also create freedom in some sense...fundamental forces do indeed "limit the freedom" of the particles ... the fact is that they leave the particles no freedom at all.
The physicist's idea of constraint is not a microscopic concept. The forces of constraint to a physicist are unavoidably associated with a new hierarchical level of description...forces of constraint are not the detailed forces of individual particles, but forces from collections of particles or in some cases from single units averaged over time. In any case, some form of statistical averaging process has replaced the microscopic details. In physics, then, in order to describe a constraint, one must relinquish dynamical description of detail. A constraint requires an alternative description.
Now I do not mean to sound as if this is all clearly understood.
On the contrary, even though physicists manage quite well to obtain answers for problems that involve dynamics of single particles constrained by statistical averages of collections of particles, it is fair to say that these two alternative languages, dynamics and statistics, have never been combined in an elegant way, although many profound attempts have been made to do so.
Furthermore, the problem has proven exceedingly obscure at the most fundamental level namely, the interface between quantum dynamics and measurement statistics.
2 The quantum measurement problem is closely related to the statistical irreversibility problem, and it too has a long history of profound arguments central to the interpretation of quantum theory. The basic difficulty here is that a physical event, such as a collision of two particles, is a reversible process, whereas the record of this event, which we call a measurement, is irreversible (the record cannot precede the event). Yet, if we look at the recording device in detail, it should then be reducible to reversible collisions between collections of particles.
I would say that a dynamical collection is described as a constraint when there exist equations or rules in a simpler form that direct or control the motions of selected particles. Of course the dynamical equations must still tell us in principle how the whole system will evolve in time, without involving the concept of constraint.
However, I wish to generalize this concept of constraint so that it would apply even before physicists existed.
The physical meaning of a recording process in single molecules cannot be analysed without encountering the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, nor can the symbolic aspects of the genetic description be understood without an interpretation of the matter-symbol relation at an elementary physical level.
Living matter behaves differently from non-living matter.
I will put the problem of the origin of life as simply as possible for this discussion. Living matter is distinguished from non-living matter only by its collective behaviour in the course of time... beginning with a common set of dynamical laws for the microscopic motions, we observe living matter evolving hierarchies of collective order, and non-living matter evolving a collective disorder. Even the 'true believer' in total reductionism must agree that this aspect of living matter is different from non-living matter... we may ask: what is the simplest set of physical conditions that would allow matter to branch into two pathways—the living and lifeless—-but under a single set of microscopic, dynamical laws?
Events and records of events.
We shall see... that the origin of records from a deterministic system must also involve a second mode of description. The problem is to first explain how statistical modes arise spontaneously, and second—the difficult part—to explain how the 'vital' statistical mode leads to increasing organization whereas the ordinary statistical description leads to increasing disorganization.
The epistemological position, which I shall assume in this discussion, is that the concept of probability is inseparable from the concept of measurement itself...The evolution of disorder in collections of inanimate matter may ... be attributed to the propagation of error in records of initial conditions.
The equations of motion remain deterministic and reversible, but any records of initial conditions are probabilistic and lose their accuracy or significance irreversibly in the course of time.
If you accept loss of records as the source of increasing disorder in the course of time, then it is reasonable that increasing order in the course of time must require the accumulation of records. In biological terminology we describe the recording process as the accumulation of genetic information by natural selection.
The origin of life problem is to explain how this record accumulation began and why it can survive the universal tendency toward loss of records which occurs in non-living matter. What is the simplest physical system in which a persistent recording process constrains future events? By stating the origin of life problems in this way, it is clear that we need to know more precisely what we mean by the 'simplest recording process'.
I believe we must follow the reasonable assumption that the first records were in single molecules, since that is the way they occur in modern cells.
No knowledge can be gained by a "conscious observer" unless new information has already been irreversibly recorded in the universe, for example, by the experimental recording apparatus.
The essentially new condition in this origin of life formulation of the recording or measuring problem is that no human observer, no physicist, no philosopher, nor any macroscopic measuring instrument designed by biological organisms can exist in the beginning. We imagine only the motions and interactions of the elementary matter, so we can only ask, how does matter record its own behaviour without the intervention of a physicist. Or in other words: How does the motion of matter lead to records of these motions?
Someone will probably object that the observer has not really disappeared in this formulation, and that I have only hidden the observer by imagining the existence of an objective recording process which is operationally meaningless, since it is still the human observer who decides when a record has been made. Here I shall simply admit to being a realist, that is, a person who believes that there are aspects of the world which exist independent of this observer's description of the world.
Pattee here shows that the irreversible collapse of the wave function (von Neumann's Process 1, does not depend on a "conscious" observer.
I must accept as a meaningful concept supported by empirical evidence that life did not always exist on the earth, and that it was the accumulation and transmission of hereditary records at the molecular level that eventually led, only after billions of years, to observers like myself. But I must therefore add—and this is the central point—that not only matter, but also records existed long before physicists started thinking about matter and making large measuring devices.
It is my central idea that the essence of the matter-symbol problem and the measurement or recording problem must appear at the origin of living matter. Symbols and records have existed since life existed. If this view is correct, then it is a more hopeful strategy to begin by asking what we mean by the first primitive record rather than question what we mean by our most sophisticated and abstract records. In effect, this strategy forces us to make an objective criterion for a recording process.
Now it is at least logically clear that to the extent that we require by 'writing a symbol' or 'making a measurement' some selective dynamical process which is invariant to initial conditions, we must, in effect, introduce a new 'equation of motion' for the system, and this is clearly contradictory if we have assumed the original equations of motion are complete and deterministic.
One way out of this contradiction is, as we know, to relinquish the detailed description and, through a postulate of ignorance, define new variables as 'averages' over an extended time interval or over a collection of microscopic degrees of freedom...such artificial 'invariants' of the motion can selectively reduce the number of dynamical degrees of freedom, and therefore can fulfil our condition for writing.
But in return for our ability to selectively control degrees of freedom in a macroscopic system, we must accept a corresponding dissipation so as not to violate the statistical laws of our macroscopic coordinates. That is, for every binary selection or bit recorded, there must be (In 2) kT of energy dissipated. If this were not the case then we know that we could design non-holonomic 'demons' which would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics (e.g. references (Szilard) and (Landauer). Thus the classical concept of writing or recording demands a classical non- holonomic constraint which is inherently statistical in its structure and dissipative in its operation...But however we may choose to describe a selection process in physical terms, we must accept the inherent irreversibility of the concept...The writing of records and symbols is an inherently irreversible classification process, and its physical representation is therefore probabilistic.
We should not try to understand the human mind by comparing it with today's computing machines, but turn it around, and compare computers to the highly evolved biological information processor that is the hardware of the human brain and software of the mind.
I believe that any attempt to describe the origin of life in physical terms will show that the traditional deterministic classical machine analogy to life is used precisely backwards! As Polanyi has so clearly pointed out, all our macroscopic machines and symbolic languages exist only as the product of highly evolved living matter. Classical machines and symbolic systems are in essence biological constraints, not physical constraints. It is a simple, but non-trivial observation that classical machines and languages do not occur in the inanimate world. The fact that our classical machines and symbolic systems can be constructed with high accuracy and reliability is not a tribute to classical determinism but to biological ingenuity, or to put it more modestly, it is the end product of evolution by natural selection. This evolution does not begin with classical languages and classical machines but with the integrated dynamics of molecular languages and molecular machines. Single molecules function as the writing, storage, and reading constraints in all present living cells and perhaps even in the brain.
It is possible that the distinction between the dynamical and statistical descriptions will turn out to be an unfathomable gulf in the human brain even though we are looking at the simplest recording molecule; yet I cannot believe it would not be illuminating to know the dynamics and statistics as far as possible in a natural recording situation not designed by the human brain.
Compare the information physics solution to the problem of measurement.
Dynamical physical laws are completely determined, given the constraints.
There has always been an apparent paradox between the concept of universal physical laws and semiotic controls. Physical laws describe the dynamics of inexorable events, or as Wigner expresses it, physical explanations give us the impression that events ". . . could not be otherwise."
The two-stage model of free will explains how we could have done otherwise.
The modern attempts in physics to live with this paradox require introducing statistical concepts that allow alternatives into the framework of physical laws by reinterpreting the essential distinction between the laws themselves that describe all possible alternatives and the initial conditions that determine one particular case.
The physical laws are not in fact inexorable and deterministic. There is only one world, and it is irreducibly quantum. The appearance of a classical world is when we have large numbers of particles.
Statistical physics accepts the inexorability of the laws, but assumes that virtual alternatives can exist in the microscopic initial conditions. One measure of the alternatives is the entropy. Thus, we create imaginary statistical ensembles of systems which all follow the same dynamical laws, but that have different sets of initial conditions. These virtual microscopic states are restricted only by statistical postulates and their consistency with macroscopic state variables. A modification of this classical view by Born, points out that initial conditions of even one particle can never be measured with formal precision, and therefore even the classical laws of motion can predict only probability distributions for trajectories. Only when a new measurement is made can this distribution be altered.
The fact remains, however, that all our formal semiotic descriptions and computations, whether we interpret them as probabilistic, statistical, or fuzzy, are in practice assumed to be manipulated by crisp, strictly deterministic rules, even though physical laws require the execution of semiotic rules to be stochastic events.
This issue of where dynamical description should be replaced by symbolic description is not simply an empirical problem but a problem of definition and of epistemology. To objectify the question as far as possible, we must ask not what we mean by information but what the information itself means in the physical world. In physics, where there is not yet any consensus on how to properly describe the measurement process, it is at least generally agreed that a measurement must have been completed when there exists a semiotic record of the result, even though exactly what constitutes a semiotic record is not clear.
In information philosophy, the universe creates many information structures. A physical experiment must create a structure so that an observer has something to observe, at which point it may be regarded as a measurement.
The point is that the function of measurement cannot be achieved by a fundamental dynamical description of the measuring device, even though such a law-based description may be completely detailed and entirely correct. In other words, we can say correctly that a measuring device exists as nothing but a physical system, but to function as a measuring device it requires an observer's simplified description that is not derivable from the physical description. The observer must in effect choose what aspects of the physical system to ignore and invent those aspects that must be heeded. This selection process is a decision of the observer or organism and cannot be derived from the laws.
Just as the observer's cognitive selection process is necessary for a measurement, so natural selection is necessary to generate function or meaning in the genetic DNA.
The concept of selection, natural, cognitive, or any other form, implies a choice of alternatives. The alternatives may be considered real, virtual, or states of a memory, but in any case, as with measurement, the language of fundamental physical laws is at a loss to predict what alternative is selected or even describe the process of selection which, by definition, must occur outside the system being described.
Pattee here may anticipate our mind/brain model, the Experience Recorder and Reproducer. where our knowledge is ready to provide possible actions based on similar current experience.
The problem of delayed meaning is caused by the pragmatic context of a sign in a semiotic control, which post-structuralists like Jacques Derrida identified as deferring or displacing the meaning.
The brain is full of knowledge that may appear unrelated to any immediate useful action, construction, or control. Nevertheless, this high level of information is what forms our models, our value systems, our aesthetics, and our world view from which we ultimately derive our goals, decisions, and actions. It is certainly not meaningless. This problem of delayed meaning arises because of the apparent total lack of intrinsic connection between the time and place where we acquire new information and the time and place where it is selected or when we decide to use it in our actions and efforts to control. In physical jargon this arbitrariness in time scale or lack of any definable temporal relation between events is called incoherence. In linguistics jargon it is called displacement. It is this temporal arbitrariness that is one reason semiotic control is difficult to incorporate into physical models or any dynamic formalism where time or sequence defines the next-state transition.
The fundamental problem is that the microscopic equations of physics are time symmetric and therefore conceptually reversible. Consequently the irreversible concept of causation is not formally supportable by microphysical laws, and if it is used at all it is a purely subjective linguistic interpretation of the laws. Hertz (1894) argued that even the concept of force was unnecessary. This does not mean that the concepts of cause and force should be eliminated, because we cannot escape the use of natural language even in our use of formal models. We still interpret some variables in the rate-of-change laws as forces, but formally these dynamical equations define only an invertible mapping on a state space. Because of this time symmetry, systems described by such reversible dynamics cannot formally (syntactically) generate intrinsically irreversible properties such as measurement, records, memories, controls, or causes. Furthermore, as Bridgman (1964) pointed out, "The mathematical concept of time appears to be particularly remote from the time of experience." Consequently, no concept of causation, especially downward causation, can have much fundamental explanatory value at the level of microscopic physical laws.
Jesper Hoffmeyer claims that his duality of digital codes and analog codes can transcend Pattee's "epistemic cut"
At a 2015 workshop at UC Berkeley, From Information to Semiosis, Pattee described his idea of "symbol-based self-replication," based on John von Neumann's logic,which requires a clear distinction between descriptions and constructions, where descriptions are time-independent and construction vary in time. He describes a "cut" that is a distinction between the self and the non-self.
A description requires a symbol system or a language. Functionally, description and construction correspond to the biologists' distinction between the genotype and phenotype. My biosemiotic view is that self-replication is also the origin of semiosis.
Self-replication requires an epistemic cut between self and non-self, and between subject and object.
Self-replication requires a distinction between the self that is replicated and the non-self that is not replicated. The self is an individual subject that lives in an environment that is often called objective, but which is more accurately viewed biosemiotically as the subject's Umwelt or world image. This epistemic cut is also required by the semiotic distinction between the interpreter and what is interpreted, like a sign or a symbol. In physics this is the distinction between the result of a measurement – a symbol – and what is being measured – a material object.
I call this the symbol-matter problem, but this is just a narrower case of the classic 2500-year-old epistemic problem of what our world image actually tells us about what we call the real world.
Pattee connects his "epistemic cut" with the Heisenberg - von Neumann "Schnitt" somewhere between the measurement apparatus and the observer's mind. This led to the faulty idea that wave functions would not collapse without conscious observers.
John Bell asked whether the observer needs a Ph.D. and where this "shifty split"is located. Bell made a drawing of the "shifty split," which we annotate with the moment that a measurement becomes possible, the moment when irreversible information is created. As Pattee noted years ago, this is the moment when a semiotic record is created.
Can life explain quantum mechanics?


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Today, we have a really great article from TDYLF reader (and apparently a great writer), Beth Kelly. Enjoy!
Whether you know him as "Godzilla" or "Gojira", a monster by any other name does not compare. Godzilla is the internationally-respected icon of radioactivity gone AWOL, famous for destroying cities from Tokyo to Paris with his hulking jaws, giant green feet and dangerously bad breath. But being a pop culture icon for over 60 years isn't easy. After causing a ruckus in more than thirty different films, Ishiro Honda's iconic monster remains with us, bringing life to our desire for monstrous imagery. And he isn't going away anytime soon.
Following the conclusion of the Second World War, director Ishiro Honda lived through the nuclear disasters in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When additional nuclear testing and the Lucky Dragon incident caused a nationwide panic in Japan, he was compelled to create a film that would metaphorically showcase the horrors of atomic warfare and radioactive fallout. Inspired by the plot and stylistic elements within the American film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Gojira was released in 1954.
A giant prehistoric beast, awakened by nuclear explosions, rises from his slumber and begins to take his revenge on the Japanese people. Thrashing through Tokyo in a rage aimed at the scientists responsible for the nuclear blast, he seems impossible to defeat. The plot of the film primarily focuses on Doctor Serizawa, one of the scientists, as he weighs the decision to use more nuclear weapons to combat Gojira – potentially escalating the already-dangerous levels of radioactivity present on the island. In the end, the doctor sacrifices himself to ensure such devastating weaponry never makes it into the public's hands. The film tackled timely issues pertaining to scientific responsibility and wartime guilt. Filled with symbolism and strong messages about nuclear war, it remains incomparable, even among the CGI-driven monster movies of today.
Gojira was a huge success in Japan, fathering 27 more sequels and becoming the backbone of the "Kaiju" genre for many years to come. "Kaiju", meaning "strange creature" in Japanese, includes hundreds of different types of cinematic monsters, ranging from Mothra to Rodan and everything in between. Many of the enormously-proportioned monsters would continue to be used as symbols of the misuse of atomic weaponry and fears surrounding the invisible powers of radioactivity.
Gojira did make his his way to the USA, but he lost a lot of his original character in the process. In its American iteration, the film was edited to include a white American journalist character played by Raymond Burr, and cut to eliminate any anti-nuclear messages that might arouse feelings of self-reproach in American audiences. Unfortunately, its release would also set a strange precedent for the series in Western cinemas. Bad dubbing, comically campy plots and terrible acting would lead Godzilla away from his role as a harbinger of radioactive terror and towards a career as a matinee idol and children's TV star. While some of his films, such as 1998's notorious flop Godzilla are available online (see here or here), fans of the monster have largely come to rely on late-night TV reruns for hits like Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II.
Seeing new iterations of the monster to be completely out of touch with what the original Gojira film stood for, Toho shut down any further use of their iconic creature in the late nineties. In 2014, however, American production studio Legendary Pictures once again revived the Godzilla epic. Grossing more than $524 Million worldwide over the course of its run, it brought Godzilla, as well as the original concept behind "Gojira", back to the forefront of pop culture. Springing forward from this rejuvenated success, Toho has decided to release another Gojira film in 2016, with filming set to begin the summer of 2015.
Godzilla plays on the darker side of so-called scientific "progress." With a variety of ever-threatening global hazards, including the looming threat of nuclear war and the upcoming 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it will be interesting to see which message this new film will attempt to impart on contemporary audiences. Following the release of 2014's American Godzilla movie, Japanese movie makers will finally have the opportunity to reclaim a diluted cultural legacy, hopefully this time with political messages intact.
Tagged as Film, Godzilla, Godzilla 2016, Gojira, Movies, Toho Studios
4 responses to "Gojira Roars Back in Toho Studio's 2016 Reboot"
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therollerblader
Great post! I always love reading articles about the old Godzilla and Mothra characters. I grew up watching those classics with my dad.
Jason Hopkins
Nice summation, hopefully the new movie will be ever better than the last one, which was pretty darn good.


We are delighted to be collaborating with our friend Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
She has created her own courses to promote excellence of teaching in this field, including Well Woman Yoga.
After completing the Yoga Biomedical Trust Diploma in Yoga Therapy in 1999, she has continued to find the fully integrated approach of yoga therapy to be the most practical route to the healing power of yoga.
Uma further trained in Structural Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy with Mukunda Stiles, and work as a yoga therapist with special expertise in women's health.
The heart of her daily personal and therapeutic practice is yoga nidra, which she believes to be the most powerfully transformative of all yoga techniques. She first encountered the technique at the Satyananda Yoga centre in 1995, and has been exploring all aspects of it with fascination ever since.
She has been sharing the technique with teachers from all lineages on Yoga Therapy training courses and retreats since 1999. Uma leads retreats and courses worldwide, sharing the approach to yoga therapy set out in her CDs, DVDs and books.


For me that can be anything from formatting the new books (yes there are several that are ready for formatting) to editing the older books in prep for print. It's so much fun to look at the writing and jump into that. It does need to get done to keep things running smoothly. Then kids jump in and have something that needs to be done so I'm going to 'do that now' too. Then when I'm in the middle of whatever kid related activity, I get a private message on one of the many venues that people reach me at, and I have to pause to do that, return to kids things and then remember there's more work! ACK!
Realizing I've got limitations – where I distract myself from work with work – I have found a great resource for helping me get back on track. It's one of those things where I don't know how I've gotten by without one. It seemed simple enough, get help with book reviews before I knew it, I had hired a really incredible Virtual Assistant. She's fantastic, persistent, and a translator so …. Xarrok, Knights of the Immortals, and anything else I'm working on will likely be translated into Spanish. That's exciting to me.
With her help taking care of the distracting things, I have been able to replan the writing time, help the kids, and organize my to-do list in an effective manner. So simple. So obvious. And so – What was I thinking before? It's awesome.
Now, that doesn't mean I don't have a regular schedule. It's a requirement for any business. But something that many may not know, I also homeschool a niece. A fun additional item that is mixed into my day. Both working for myself and teaching require a plan and set time for everything. It's not easy to make everything move together in a seamless manner, thus why I sought and found help.
Hiring help isn't something everyone can do. This means additional support structures should be put into place. That doesn't mean external support in all cases. This could be things like a written To-Do list via Google Tasks, with updates for how long things should take and when you should move onto the next step. It could be a partner who emails you to check in with you. I found accountability partners are wonderful help. A simple email at the start of the week and a phone call toward the middle with a week-in-summary helps make certain things get done. A blog can also be used in the same manner.
So that's my rambling for now. I'll write more soon. And I'll write more about what I'm doing to find time and set a structure to my day soon. What are you doing to better your work day? Your personal life? Do you have tools or a support system that helps? What do you suggest for people who are looking forward to reviewing their available time?


Gold Coast's Gold 92.5 will welcome Katelynn Starr as the new Breakfast Producer for Bridge & Spida, on Monday, April 8.
Katelynn comes to the Gold Coast from 4KQ in Brisbane where she has gained experience in a variety of roles from the street team to brand activations and most recently producing. Her passion for working with shows has now landed her a dream gig in the Gold 92.5 studios!
Katelynn will join Bridge & Spida on Monday, April 8.


FARGO — It was early December and the North Dakota State men's basketball team left Ames, Iowa, after an 81-59 beating at Iowa State. At that point, the Bison had a 2-7 record.
They were nine tough games. Eight were on the road; one was an overtime loss and another was at No. 1-ranked Gonzaga. Adding anxiety to the formula was the makeup of the NDSU roster: It had no seniors to help mend the ship.
At 2-7, was the boat ready to sink?
Not so, says point guard Vinnie Shahid.
A few home games helped the fix. NDSU defeated a pair of reputable mid-major opponents in Eastern Washington and Missouri State at Scheels Center at Sanford Health Athletic Complex. The Bison opened the Summit League season with a solid win over the University of South Dakota, but closed out 2018 with an overtime loss at home to Purdue-Fort Wayne — a game where youth was evident down the stretch.
Once again, however, Shahid said the belief did not waver.
Head coach Dave Richman pointed to one date in January where the corner turned — Jan. 24 at South Dakota State, a game in which the Jackrabbits laid the hammer down. The Bison left Brookings, S.D., with an 87-69 loss.
"The spark has been building since January 25th after we got our tails kicked at South Dakota State," Richman said.
If Shahid said the players never wavered, neither did the head coach in his philosophy of building a team. Richman referenced the book "The Dream Manager" by Matthew Kelly, which uses a fictional company to address the problems of high employee turnover and low morale.
It's not so much about the paycheck, or in the case of basketball wins or losses, but offering a path to dreams.
In the case of NDSU, a path to the NCAA Tournament. The Bison play North Carolina Central Wednesday at 5:40 p.m. (CST) in one of four "First Four" games in Dayton, Ohio. Both teams are considered No. 16 seeds in the official NCAA bracket.
Richman saw a few things on the court improve. He shortened his bench, which appeared to lead to a smoother substitution rotation. The Bison improved their field goal percentage defense, which at one time was among the worst in the country.
Shahid, the point guard and a team captain, kept improving since transferring from Western Nebraska Community College in the offseason. He was a rock star in the second half of the Summit title game against Nebraska-Omaha.
This week is NDSU's fourth appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Each year, the Bison did it with a standout point guard. Ben Woodside led the way in 2009, and Lawrence Alexander was the leader out front in 2014 and 2015.
The four teams also appeared to have figured out the team chemistry issue. It's a major element in what Richman looks for in a recruit.