How Has Technology Changed the Way We Learn and Teach Music?
These days, you can learn practically anything you want online. For music students and teachers, the resources include helpful videos, guides, apps - and of course, online music lessons! With so many resources at your fingertips, it's easy to find the best teacher, technology, study guides - whatever you need, wherever you live.
Check out the infographic below, put together by our friends at TakeLessons, showcasing the ways technology has changed (and improved!) the way we learn and teach music for the better!
Who doesn't want to feel close to their family and friends? The need to belong and connect with other people is one of the most important elements of living a good life.
Music can be a fun solo activity but it's also an excellent way for us to connect with those around us. Learning music gives you a wonderful opportunity for creative self-expression and doing it in a group setting can be even more rewarding and beneficial to your wellbeing.
If you only ever make music by yourself you are missing out on some of the most enjoyable experiences the world of music has to offer - and although it may seem intimidating at first, the skills and memories you gain from making music with others will reward you throughout your life.
There are many ways to include others in your music learning. You might choose to take a group lesson at the local music school, finally start that band you've been dreaming of, find a new instrument teacher for lessons or join an online music community where you can get help with your training.
If you're hesitant about whether you should learn music with others or try to go it alone, consider the following benefits of learning music in a group.
Music is learned more quickly when playing with others. You can be actively involved and contribute to the group. If you have a question, instead of spending valuable time puzzling over it, you can simply ask someone in your group. Similarly, you can help others when they have problems understanding something you know.
Learning music with others is also a way to receive personal feedback. The more ideas and responses exchanged between you and the members in your group, the better you understand the material and fill in your learning gaps. These benefits don't just cover factual knowledge, they apply to your live music performance skills too!
In fact, getting feedback and support from others is one of the 3 most effective ways to get better results from your musical training.
When you are in a group environment, you get to work with all types of people. You learn and develop important skills in teamwork, cooperation, listening and concentration. You learn to understand your individual part, yet know when to adjust and work toward a common goal.
By working in a group, you tap into vital human connection. You get to make new friends who can motivate and inspire you. The ability to effectively communicate with others is invaluable, whatever you do in life.
These benefits have a specific musical impact: you learn to play music with others, trading musical ideas and synchronising beautifully in a way that only practising music in a group can teach you. Whether you plan to perform with a group or not you will become a better musician by learning in a group.
Confidence is a challenge for all musicians, but especially those who try learning music in isolation. Learning music with others boosts your self-esteem. Sharing ideas and turning negative feedback into positive change helps build confidence. You learn that nobody is perfect, and we can all improve.
Even if you don't aim to become a professional musician, the ability to perform in front of others is an important skill. With encouragement from your teacher and other musicians, you can be at your top performance level.
One example of a friendly and supporting group learning environment is Musical U where you can develop your musicality surrounded by people just like you who will help you improve faster and have more fun along the way.
Of course the first person you should consider including in your music learning is an expert instructor. If you're ready to find the right music teacher and get personal advice on perfecting your musical skills, check out The ZOEN. A live, online music lesson from The ZOEN's experienced music teachers is only a few clicks away!
Making music in a group is the beginning of an exciting journey towards achieving musical understanding and gaining great skills in life. Have you joined a music lesson with others before? Where do you go to get valuable group feedback? Share your experiences in the comments below!
Christopher Sutton is the founder of Easy Ear Training and Musical U, where musicians can discover and develop their natural musicality. Born and raised in London, England, he lives with his wife and far too many instruments.


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Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy
R. Greiner, A. Goldhirsch, B. W. Davis, E. Dreher, T. Peyer, G. Locher, H. Neuenschwander, R. Joss, K. Brunner, P. Veraguth
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Greiner, R., Goldhirsch, A., Davis, B. W., Dreher, E., Peyer, T., Locher, G., Neuenschwander, H., Joss, R., Brunner, K., & Veraguth, P. (1984). Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy. Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, 39(11), 712-713.
Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy. / Greiner, R.; Goldhirsch, A.; Davis, B. W. et al.
In: Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, Vol. 39, No. 11, 1984, p. 712-713.
Greiner, R, Goldhirsch, A, Davis, BW, Dreher, E, Peyer, T, Locher, G, Neuenschwander, H, Joss, R, Brunner, K & Veraguth, P 1984, 'Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy', Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 712-713.
Greiner R, Goldhirsch A, Davis BW, Dreher E, Peyer T, Locher G et al. Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy. Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. 1984;39(11):712-713.
Greiner, R. ; Goldhirsch, A. ; Davis, B. W. et al. / Whole-abdomen radiation in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma after surgery, chemotherapy, and second-look laparotomy. In: Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. 1984 ; Vol. 39, No. 11. pp. 712-713.
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So what does supporting the will of the 11th District Republican Leadership give you?
By KG One, Section News
Posted on Sun Jun 10, 2012 at 01:54:59 PM EST
Tags: Kerry Bentivolio, Nancy Cassis, L. Brooks Patterson, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, Write-in Campaign, August 2012 Primary, Oakland County, Wayne County, Republican kakistocracy (all tags)
"About 25 Wayne and Oakland County GOP leaders and elected officials huddled Wednesday at the Suburban Collection Showplace to coalesce around one candidate. About 11 members reunited Thursday at a hotel to interview the possible write-in candidates the party could get behind, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said."
"The confab was necessary, Patterson said, because the party can't get behind Bentivolio, the Republican who made the Aug. 7 primary ballot. Bentivolio raises reindeer and launched his candidacy to challenge McCotter on issues like government spending and borrowing.
"While there is an individual on the ballot, the people deserve a choice, and that shouldn't be an accidental choice," Cassis said."
from The Detroit News - June 7, 2012.
No, scratch that.
"Wow!" Doesn't even begin to describe the level of hubris and arrogance displayed by the Republican kakistocracy on this one.
These people know what running for office entails.
They know how, where, and most importantly, when the process takes place.
To even imply that they couldn't have gotten involved in the race simply reeks of gross competence for a person of their station.
And on top of that; they felt the "need" for multiple, secret close door meetings.
And only one member had the integrity to step forward and actually admit that they were actually there.
What's even worse yet?
"Patterson said Bentivolio's priorities were too extreme for him to accept." - The Detroit Free Press, June 7, 2012
And this is compared to...
{Continued below}
As I mentioned earlier, I did a quick glance at Ms, Cassis' record to see what made her stand head and shoulders above a person who promised to support the concept of limited government and specific enumerated powers for government.
To her credit, there were some votes which did fall into those criteria.
Sadly, there were many bills she introduced and votes of hers that did not.
Now, I can go on about items like why she received things like an embarrassing 56% approval rate in 1997 and paltry 69% approval rating in 1998 from the Michigan Conservative Union (state chapter of the people who put on the yearly CPAC Conferences) and a discomforting 57% approval rating in 2002 from Michigan Gun Owners of America. I can talk about her fluff bills like making the Cherry the official state fruit. Or, mandating warning labels on window blinds (does anyone really question whether you might choke yourself if you put your head in there). But things got better (or worse, depending on where you stand in supporting her) the more I read.
Some of her bills she introduced and supported that "Knocked the ball out of the park":
During the heady days of the early 2000's when state budgets were becoming a pathetic joke and lawmakers scrambled to find whatever revenue they could, from any source they could, to get state government to limp along into the next fiscal year, then-Rep. Cassis proposed a bill to double the fees for legal documents that Michigan residents needed to pay when filing. Later, then-Senator Cassis introduced a bill to slap an additional 35 cent tax on cigarettes (whoops...can't use "tax", lets try a softer term like "equity assessment"), from companies that weren't part of the original tobacco settlement agreement.
Speaking of smoking, guess who supported a bill to trample on the rights of private property owners by banning smoking in Michigan bars and restaurants?
If you said; "Nancy Cassis", good call.
Apparently, the effect on private businesses bottom lines and plummeting Michigan Keno sales didn't factor into her backing of this bill.
But, hey? What does less money into the state's coffers mean when the state can tell an individual what they can do with their own body and property? It's for their own good, and that's all that matters.
I'm not even finished yet. Her storied legislative record continues.
Senator Cassis also introduced bills to impose even more restrictions on Michiganians who are in the contracting trade. Back in 2005, she introduced SB 631 & 632 to increase the fees for contractors and increased the state regulations over that business. She did the same thing again in 2007 when she introduced SB-453 increasing them even further.
You would think for someone who loves expanding government with more fees, that she would eventually develop a soft spot and cut people a break, especially during the Granholm-induced recession.
Well, she did.
In 2005 then-Senator Cassis was THE person responsible for implementing the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit. For those who aren't familiar with what this is, this is where you can effectively have a "negative income tax", whereby state government takes from the people who produce income, and gives it to people who do not.
Wasn't that nice of her?
People who are generous with other people's money factor very highly when I step into that voting booth on election day.
In 2006, then-Senator Cassis introduced a bill that would give local municipalities who made irresponsible agreements on their labor contracts, the ability to borrow money to pay for those bad decisions resulting from the unfunded liabilities from those contracts. No vote of the people required to implement.
Effectively, a tax increase on future taxpayers in that municipality.
Oh, but it gets better.
In 2008. then-Senator Cassis introduced a bill granting an exemption to foreign companies from paying into the Michigan Business Tax.
Michigan-based companies: Pony up. These foreign companies are going to get a free ride!
Nancy Cassis apparently has a thing for foreign companies over Michigan based ones. In 2010, she supported tax breaks for battery manufacturers like Korean-based LG Chem, not once, but twice.
Isn't it reassuring to see that she believes in playing around in the private sector with the public purse? Almost like Obama with Solyndra?
I can continue, but I have no intention of competing for Kevin's record in cranking out a Magnum Opus here on RM and I believe that I've made my point regarding Nancy Cassis' record.
Now, compare this to the maxim that Kerry Bentivolio has put out which bears repeating once again:
How I Will Determine My Vote
Article 1 Section 8 gives specific enumerated powers to Congress. Anything not expressed within this section is outside the authority given to Congress.
These are the questions I will ask on every bill:
1) Does the Constitution give us the authority to act on this issue?
-If yes, continue to question two
-If no...then vote no!
2) Will it benefit ALL of the people?
-If yes, continue to question three
3) Can we afford it NOW without having to borrow?
-If yes...vote yes
-If no...then vote no!"
Oh, one last thing.
Regarding that "too extreme" comment Brooks made, I only have this response to provide from someone whom even Brooks cannot even dream of holding a candle to.
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Words to live by for people who have obviously forgotten the true role of government.
Something to also consider during the August Primary.
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So what does supporting the will of the 11th District Republican Leadership give you? | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)
For the record, . . . (none / 0) (#1)
by Kevin Rex Heine on Sun Jun 10, 2012 at 05:23:09 PM EST
. . . my longest post on this site was 25,631 words in length. That was an August 2008 interview with Albert S. Abbasse, a democrat currently from Byron Center, who was at that time Justin Amash's general campaign opponent for the 72nd State House seat being vacated by termed-out Glenn Steil, jr.
Al Abbasse is the current Secretary of the Kent County Democrat Party, a perpetual "name on the ballot" in heavily-republican portions of the county (check the 10th District County Commission race), a hardcore progressive-liberal, and a borderline statist.
The aforementioned interview was only my 13th post on this site (back when I was a newbie to political blogging), and apparently exceeded the maximum allowable word limit on this site. (Yes, there is one, and it's somewhere in the immediate vicinity of 10,000 words.)
That having been said, we need to get Nancy Classless' entire record (every damming bit of it) collected in one spot. I'm thinking, KG, that you could draft the entire thing as a Microsoft Word Document (with links), convert it to a PDF, and then e-mail it to either Jason or me so we can post it in the RightMichigan Media Library for all to observe and admire.
Is that an idea you can run with?
Let me give that a little thought. by KG One, 06/10/2012 08:21:20 PM EST (none / 0)
Sounds good . . . by Kevin Rex Heine, 06/11/2012 10:59:39 AM EST (none / 0)
Oy! Just what DC needs more of... (none / 0) (#4)
by Corinthian Scales on Mon Jun 11, 2012 at 11:42:34 AM EST
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/22029343/selling-bonds-isnt-solution
Obviously, L. Brooks and the rest of the old entrenched Party establishment that's pushing Nanny Clueless is quaking in their boots with having Kerry Bentivolio being "the Republican" on the ballot for a reason.
Floating taxable bonds to subsidize bloated unsustainable public sector benefit debt that was gifted by assclowns like L. Brooks and his Novi puppet buying public goonion votes with Gretchen? Disgusting.
Why hell, L. Brooks and Nanny Crassis calling themselves republicans are the exact reason that the TEA movement folk came about.
Y'all really need to send Kerry some jingles.
The old Party guard is just now beginning to ramp up their surrogate disinformation/smear campaign for Nancy against an honorable man.
Bentivolio campaign manager Bob Dindoffer on Friday denied the rumblings, adding that he is seeking an endorsement from Right to Life.
"He is pro-life. We don't know where this malicious whisper campaign is coming from," Dindoffer said.
Bentivolio, a high school teacher in Livingston County, is busy finishing up the school year and then will turn his attention to the election, Dindoffer said.
"While we respect everyone's right to run, what we don't appreciate is when a group of ten to twenty-five career politicians and operatives get into a smoke-filled room and anoint a candidate to run against a solid conservative who is already on the ballot," he said.
Besides, can anyone demonstrate a time when Federal debt money loving Lush B. Patterson (Babbling Brooks), or any of his Party cronies like Paul Welday have ever been in support of the TEA candidate elected Conservatives in Oakland Co who don't believe in killing babies?
Disgusting (none / 0) (#5)
by archiespeck on Tue Jun 12, 2012 at 09:05:23 AM EST
That's the only way I can describe Brooks and his GOP cronies' behavior these past few weeks. Unlike Brooksy, I've actually taken a good, hard look at Mr. Bentivolio's positions, and I fail to see the "extreme" positions Brooksy sees. In fact, I see just the opposite -- a lot of common sense, small government ideas that we so desperately need in Washington.
The upshot to all of this is that Kerry will owe no one anything once we send him to DC. That's probably why Brooksy is so scared of him.
Bingo by JGillman, 06/12/2012 12:30:43 PM EST (none / 0)
Bentivolio (none / 0) (#7)
by Fafnir on Thu Jun 14, 2012 at 07:10:39 AM EST
Very interesting piece. Well done. I'm flabbergasted by Cassis and the rest of the "leadership" attitude on this.
There's a Bentivolio money bomb going on today. If anyone wants to chip in: https:/www.facebook.com/events/373180319410311
Question (none / 0) (#8)
by Republican Michigander on Thu Jun 14, 2012 at 11:06:19 AM EST
What's going to happen if Bentivolio wins the primary against the write-in? That's a very likely scenario. Are they going to get on board and be team players?
I don't like this "consensus" deal and neither do a lot of establishment republicans, let alone the tea party. This is a decision for voters. That's why we have primaries.
If party resources pay to support Cassis, that's money that won't be spent supporting fights against democrats. It's pragmatically a waste of time. It also does nothing to bring people into the party.
Given . . . by Kevin Rex Heine, 06/14/2012 12:27:25 PM EST (none / 0)
Nancy played the Party's cards for everyone to see by Corinthian Scales, 06/14/2012 05:43:56 PM EST (none / 0)
Bravo by JGillman, 06/14/2012 09:40:58 PM EST (none / 0)
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+ The Detroit News - June 7, 2012.
+ The Detroit Free Press, June 7, 2012
+ 56% approval rate in 1997
+ 69% approval rating in 1998
+ state chapter of the people who put on the yearly CPAC Conferences)
+ 57% approval rating in 2002 from Michigan Gun Owners of America.
+ making the Cherry the official state fruit
+ (does anyone really question whether you might choke yourself if you put your head in there)
+ a bill to double the fees for legal documents that Michigan residents needed to pay when filing
+ 35 cent tax on cigarettes
+ guess who supported a bill to trample on the rights of private property owners by banning smoking in Michigan bars and restaurants?
+ the effect on private businesses bottom lines and plummeting Michigan Keno sales didn't factor into her backing of this bill.
+ SB-453
+ In 2005 then-Senator Cassis was THE person responsible for implementing the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit.
+ the ability to borrow money to pay for those bad decisions resulting from the unfunded liabilities from those contracts.
+ a bill granting an exemption to foreign companies from paying into the Michigan Business Tax.
+ once
+ twice
+ that Kerry Bentivolio has put out which bears repeating once again:
+ this response to provide
+ Also by KG One
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Firms are being encouraged to back a pledge to safeguard the data they hold about citizens and customers. Drafted by the Information Commissioner, the Personal Information Promise tries to improve respect for the data companies have gathered. Firms and organisations who use data that people surrender do not always take enough care with it, said Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner. 2008 saw a series of data breaches and losses that left the personal details of millions of people at risk from ID thieves. By signing up to the promise firms say they will go beyond the strictures laid down by law which govern what they can do with the personal data they hold on their customers or clients. Those backing the promise will be exhorted to consider privacy risks when they start work on new information systems that draw on databases of personal data. They must also put in place safeguards to ensure data is securely stored and does not fall into the hands of ID thieves. On the day the promise was launched 20 organisations pledged to back it. Those signing up included BT, Vodafone, Royal Mail, British Gas, Experian, Equifax, AstraZeneca and T-Mobile. see Personal Information Promise and Press Release.


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'Lucky to be alive': Doctors perform 6 life-saving surgeries on Cape Cod shark attack victim
Jennifer Eagan
BOSTON (WHDH) - Doctors at Tufts Medical Center are saying a man attacked by a shark off of Cape Cod is lucky to be alive.
William Lytton went through six life-saving surgeries after a shark bit him in the leg and torso while he swam in about eight to 10 feet of water off Truro on Aug. 15.
Surgeons extracted shark teeth fragments from Lytton, leaving Chief of Orthopedic Trauma Surgery Dr. Scott Ryan in shock.
"I have to say I've never seen a shark bite injury like this before," he said.
Lytton says he punched the shark in its gills to escape its grasp before being rescued.
"He is certainly lucky to be alive," Ryan said. "The injuries were severe to his leg. I think some of it was from his quick thinking, freeing himself from the shark which was very impressive and that probably ended up saving his leg."
Lytton suffered puncture wounds to the bone, missing major blood vessels and nerves by a few milliliters, doctors said. It took doctors three to four hours to stitch up the massive wound.
He opened up earlier this week about the terrifying moments from Spaulding Rehab in Charlestown, telling the Associated Press, "The pain was really excruciating. I remember the helicopter landing and then nothing for the next two days."
Doctors expect Lytton will make a near full recovery.


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First, let me confess I am that I am just like you. I have played the diet game; fallen for the gimmicks that promise you can eat anything you want and still lose weight; and been in outright denial about my weight and health. Honestly, I had no excuse.
As a registered nurse, I had spent many, many hours studying on how to take care of people in a holistic approach: mind, body and spirit. Why could I not follow the same ideas that I taught my patients? The answer is honestly I had bought the lie that the things I ate weren't that bad, and I was still healthy even though I didn't exercise. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
At the beginning of this year, I was the most unhealthy that I have ever been. I had a constant distain for my appearance and was starting to have aches and pains in my joints. I was tired all the time, but really felt there was nothing I could do about it. I would have conversations with myself, trying to convince myself that I didn't really look that bad. My thought was life was too short, and I should be able to eat what I want! However, I found myself becoming more and more unable to accept that reasoning. I remember thinking to myself, "Either accept you for the way you are now and quit whining or do something about it." I was tired of feeling starved and deprived from food. I was tired of dieting! I wanted to be able to eat food!
Every diet, including Weight Watchers only made me obsess on what food I was going to have and the foods I couldn't have. It was never satisfying and I couldn't sustain it. My results were mediocre, to say the least; only losing a minuscule amount of weight in comparison to the time I took obsessing about food. The idea of walking into a gym was horrendous to me. When I had done that in the past I felt so self conscious all I could do was think about leaving. I was sure everyone was staring at the fat girl (which probably wasn't true, but I was sure they were). I wanted to eat normally, and I realized and finally accepted that the only way to do this was I was going to have to exercise. There was no other way. With all this baggage you would think I wouldn't have had any hope…but there was! It was in the form of my friend, Staci.
I had watched her transform her body in just a few months by doing something called Crossfit. We talked about it and hesitantly I agreed to go. I really wasn't sure what it was or if I could do it. After all, it had been more than 10 years since I had worked out in any form. I remember being a nervous wreck my first day. However, with Staci and the awesome trainers helping me along with the workout of the day (WOD) I completed my first work out and felt pretty darn good about finishing it too! I remember one of the trainers telling me, "Becky, if you will just do it, it WILL work. I promise." What I found out was that I could do it! No, I was not the fastest or the most agile, but I could do it. I could complete the WOD and it felt GREAT! The confidence that came from that was amazing. Crossfit was a place where I was encouraged by the other members and trainers. There were others at the same place as I was; some worse than me and better than me and it was okay. What mattered was that we were all there…it didn't matter where you were starting from but that you started!
I learned that weights are not just for guys. I could lift the weight bar over my head and do a clean press! I could eventually do a hundred squats, pushup and sit-ups in a total workout and it felt great! With each passing week I got stronger, faster and had more confidence. I found I was pushing myself more and more and finding out I could do it. It was a wonderful feeling to get to the end of a work out and high five someone else and say "Yes! I did it!".
What I want you to know is – you can do it too! It isn't just reserved for me. I am not special or a superhuman just an average girl wanting to look and feel better.
After about 3 weeks of exercising, I chose to measure myself and not weigh on the scale. I needed to know if what I was doing was making any difference. The trainers strongly discouraged the scale because it will drive you crazy. In all reality it probably won't move very much. Muscle weighs more than fat and the scale can't determine what it is weighing so stay off of it. Using a measuring tape on the same day of every week I measured everything – arms, chest, waist, hips and thighs. With every passing week I noticed more and more inches coming off until I had lost 5 inches from my waist and chest in a matter of about 2 ½ months. I couldn't believe it. My clothes started to get bigger because I was getting smaller! Hallelujah!
1. All sodas, regular and diet, are just plain awful.
The stuff in diet sodas is especially evil because they stimulate the hunger center in your brain only making you hungrier and dehydrated. This makes you want to eat and causes you to be FATTER than you already were!It is only causing the calcium to be leached from your bones and causing memory loss to start. You don't need it. Give it up.
Have you done this? I mean really done it and tried to understand what is in the products we buy at the grocery store? There is sugar, sugar, sugar in EVERYTHING! It is ridiculous the amount of it in our foods. Americans have a sugar addiction in epic proportions. The food industry has put it in everything and called it a few dozen names so we don't know what we are eating. We have such an obesity problem in our country because of this in my opinion.
Have you noticed what Europeans look like in comparison to Americans? Most of them are within their weight range. I find it highly interesting. We need to adopt some European practices into our American lifestyles – walking, eating whole foods and appropriate portions. Believe it or not you don't need an extra biggie size anything to fuel your body and stay away from the fast food in all forms. This is the greatest country in the world, and we should look great and be healthy too.
The grocery business and food distributers have duped people into believing fat free and low calorie options are the best alternative to the fattening stuff. People! The fattening stuff is not nutritional and neither is the fat free low calorie options – it does not fuel the body. No wonder we feel run down and drained we are pumping our bodies full of chemicals!
5. Clean eating is where it's at!
This is when I went to "clean" eating. Honestly, there is not much reason to go passed the front of the grocery store where the produce, lean meats, dairy and whole grains are located. The rest of the stuff on the other isles is pretty much junk. Don't waste your money and stay away from it. There should not need to be any other foods listed on a label other than those that are natural. If you are buying strawberries then all that should need to be listed on the label is strawberries. It doesn't take any more time to eat clean than it does to eat all the processed junk. I am not hungry, haven't sacrificed flavor and taste, and I think I actually eat more than I did! I just go by the personal rule: if there are 49 or even 10 chemicals in something and will have a shelf-life that lasts years, DO NOT EAT IT!
As of today I have been on my new path since February 4, 2013. I have lost a total of 31 pounds, 3 inches off my arms, 7 inches from my chest and waist, 4 inches from my hips and 3 inches off my thighs. I have gone from a size 14 to a 7. All I can say is my trainer told the truth, it did work. All I had to do was do it. Crossfit definitely worked for me and continues to work. I feel better, have more energy, sleep better, manage stress better and feel good about physical appearance. You can do it too! All you have to do is make the choice. It really doesn't matter where you are starting from, what matters is you start! You can do it!
Good for you! Thank you for sharing your story.


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Want Healthcare LLC
About Jay
Why medicine is changing
April 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM Leave a comment
I just submitted this piece for the Colorado Medical Society magazine:
Dear Colorado Physician,
Hi. It's Jay, the guy from down the hall. I am writing to you today to talk to you about how our world is changing, and why I think it is doing so.
First, none of this is going to make any sense until we face up to the fact that what we have viewed as "the normal course of business" in medicine is anything but normal. In the history of the world, never have so many spent so much of other people's money with so little accountability for how it was spent. Never. It's been the biggest bonanza of unsupervised money in the history of the planet. You and I, hospitals, drug companies, insurance companies, and many others have made incredible livings based on this lack of adult supervision of our spending patterns. While we like to excuse ourselves from that list, as Walt Kelly said in Pogo, "We have met the enemy, and they is us." At least, partly us.
How did this happen? Well, remember that in 1950, the sum total of the data about our practice patterns could fit into a cocktail party conversation. With loud music on. In the absence of the ability to judge who was doing better and who was doing worse at our gig, society did a number of things to try to help itself sleep at night.
First, they invented the malpractice suit. By more or less randomly punishing anecdotally bad behavior, they sent the message, "We can't tell if you're doing a good job, but we'll rely on your fear and guilt to regulate your behavior. Sorry to resort to that, but it's the best we can do right now." We learned to fear and loath trial attorneys.
To try to regulate our spending, the spending with no natural brake on it, they invented prospective review in insurance companies. This was to send the message, "We can't tell if you're doing a good job, but we'll rely on you giving in to hassle factor for things you don't really want all that much, to distinguish what's medically necessary from what's not. Sorry to resort to that, but it's the best we can do right now." We learned to fear and loath insurance companies.
To try to regulate our quality, the quality no one could define with any specificity, they created hospital peer review and credentialing. Good, we thought, because we control those, and so while we do punish egregious error, for the most part we go through the motions and excuse anything we can imagine having done ourselves on a bad day. We do no root cause analysis, no systems improvement, and we wait for the same thing to happen again. We shake our heads when it does, and wonder why so many of our peers are having bad days.
But in 2013, we are learning to tell who does a good job.
In 1965, Gordon Moore working at Fairchild Semiconductor, observed that the number of transistors on a chip was doubling every 18 months, and the cost was halving at the same time. This meant that computing power, and therefore information, was getting cheaper at an exponential rate. Today in 2013, Moore's Law is still true, and information is cheaper than zero.
The cheapness of information fundamentally changes the properties of modern society. It means that everybody's performance can be measured, including yours, with increasing precision and accuracy. It means data will be increasingly available to do systems analysis, and improve the safety, reliability, and efficacy of treatments and procedures. It means that very complicated things will be modeled predictively, including things that are way more complicated than a hip replacement. So the chances this computing power isn't being applied to your performance as a doc? Zero. All the major health plans have already invested a lot of money to do exactly that.
So we have a couple of options here. We could try to ignore this trend, and hope everyone who pays for our stuff will, too. We can spend our time and effort trying to discredit the data that's being used, even though similar techniques are being used to send coupons to women who are pregnant before they've told anyone, through their buying patterns. Big Data is here, and it cannot be lobbied or wished away.
Or, we can use the information that health plans and others can provide to get better, and to accelerate our quest for error-free, high value care. We can humbly accept that the smartest doc alone has no chance to do her best work without the data and analysis enabled by Moore's Law. And we can begin to use these data to get better at what we do at a rate unimaginable in the days before powerful computing.
I'm not here to make that choice for you, even if that were possible. I'm here to tell you that whether you voted for this or not, it's where we are. The profession will never be the same, and like all loss, that is sad. But we should recognize that the old system and its imperfect quid pro quo were driven by society's inability to judge what it was buying from us; its need to feel safe through fear and guilt-based mechanisms; and comforting delusions about our infallibility that we secretly wanted to believe ourselves. Today in 2013, I am confident that none of those things produced what is best for us, our patients, and our society at large.
What will you choose? You won't have to tell anyone. They'll know from the data.
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In a single excerpt from a single essay, I'm pretty sure I can recap the several years of deep reflection that took me from conservative Republican to anarcho-capitalist libertarian.
This would be no more than an extreme application of the political philosophy implicit in most modern communities. It has stolen on us unawares. Two wars necessitated vast curtailments of liberty, and we have grown, though grumblingly, accustomed to our chains. The increasing complexity and precariousness of our economic life have forced Government to take over many spheres of activity once left to choice or chance. Our intellectuals have surrendered first to the slave-philosophy of Hegel, then to Marx, finally to the linguistic analysts.
As a result, classical political theory, with its Stoical, Christian, and juristic key-conceptions (natural law, the value of the individual, the rights of man), has died. The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good — anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.
I'm fighting for the government to control how people act.
The people I support won't always be in control.
If the government has the power to control how people act and I don't agree with the people in charge, I'm at risk to have myself and my behavior controlled in exactly the same way I'm advocating.
The only way to avoid tyranny is to take away the power to control behavior from the state.
In other words, I'm not a libertarian because I hope for libertine squalor or because I hope to hasten the moral decay of society (whatever that means). I'm a libertarian (and border on anarcho-capitalist) because I dread tyranny.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Listen, people: you can't pass laws that make people better or fix society's ills. All you can do is make everyone less free in the process. Make no mistake: government-run healthcare is a tyranny no less sincerely executed for the good of its victim than the moral do-gooding of the religious right. In the end, we're left only with less freedom and heavier chains.
I wish I could shout this from the rooftops.


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import org.usfirst.frc330.Robot;

import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.command.BBCommand;

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    public SetAutoPIDs() {
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        // BEGIN AUTOGENERATED CODE, SOURCE=ROBOTBUILDER ID=REQUIRES

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    }

    // Called just before this Command runs the first time
    protected void initialize() {
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    }
}

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The Dragonlance campaign is somewhat unique where prestige classes are concerned, as some prestige classes require levels in other prestige classes. This means that a player has not one, but two or three prestige classes to keep track of where requirements are concerned.
The following are combined requirements for the Legion Mystic, Legion Scout, and Legion Sorcerer prestige classes from Age of Mortals for those who would rather have a singular guide.
Base Save Bonuses: Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +6.
Skills: Bluff 3 ranks, Diplomacy 4 ranks, Heal 6 ranks, Knowledge (religion) 6 ranks), Sense Motive 6 ranks, any one skill 9 ranks.
Spellcasting: Ability to cast 2nd level divine spells without preparation.
Special: Must possess the Legion Knowledge class ability.
Base Save Bonuses: Fort +2, Ref +6, Will +2.
Skills: Bluff 6 ranks, Diplomacy 4 ranks, Gather Information 10 ranks, Survival 6 ranks, any one skill 9 ranks (recommend using Gather Information for this).
Skills: Bluff 3 ranks, Diplomacy 4 ranks, Gather Information 6 ranks, Knowledge (arcane) 6 ranks, Spellcraft 6 ranks), any one skill 9 ranks.
Spellcasting: Ability to cast 2nd level arcane spells without preparation, including at least three divination spells.


The whole idea of this outfit started with this cool t-shirt I found surfing on Instagram; I saw it and thought "This is totally me, I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed it!". At the beginning I had no idea about I was going to style it, but then I ran into these (much wanted) ripped jean and the whole outfit started to make sense in my head.
To be honest I had a lot of fun wearing this outfit, mainly because of the message in the t-shirt, it was quite fun to see people's reaction and I'm looking forward to do it again. Definitely t-shirts with sayings is a hot trend I'm willing to explore deeper during this Spring/Summer season.
The best thing about this outfit is that with a simple change of shoes you can go from day casual to chic. This time I chose a pair of black stilettos, a leather biker jacket and my well known Chanel Boy bag, but you can also try it with a pair of Converse shoes, in color gray for example, for a comfy look. My accessories in a mix of red and silver.


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Recommendations: Institution-Wide Dynamics and Resources
Recommendation 6. The campus lead, leadership team, and faculty, embed safety communication in laboratories, classes, departments and throughout the wider campus.
Tools for Recommendation 6
Implementation strategies for embedding safety communication
Create campus-specific safety videos to use at public meetings.
Open formal meetings on campus with a safety message.
Video examples to raise awareness of the importance of safety
The University of Minnesota safety video winner for 2015
Available from the University of Minnesota.
A humorous video that highlights some common laboratory mistakes.
A Day in the Lab
Available from University of California San Diego.
Highlights some common laboratory mistakes.
Lab Techniques & Safety: Crash Course Chemistry #21
Available at Crash Course.
An accessible video on some important points for lab safety.
Experimenting with Danger
Available at the Chemical Safety Board.
Provides hazards associated with conducting research at chemical laboratories in academic institutions.
Examples of winning marketing campaigns for safety
WolfAlert Emergency Communication Campaign
Available from North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University won CSHEMA's institutional marketing campaign Award of Excellence.
Available at the University of Nevada Reno.
University of Nevada Reno's campaign earned the 'Marketing Campaign Award of Distinction' at the CSHEMA national conference.
Safety communication resources
The Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Safety Zone blog "covers chemical safety issues in academic and industrial research labs, as well as in chemical manufacturing".
BioRaft Research Safety Blog – regularly updated blog on safety news.
Available at WCF.
WCF has a large library of helpful safety resources, including safety posters, safety meeting resources, checklists, videos, and more.
Safety and Health Topics
Available at the United States Department of Labor.
Regularly provides information on safety and health hazards that can be shared with the campus community
Workplace Safety & Health Topics
Available at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Provides information that can be shared with the campus community.
Available at University of California, Riverside.
Brief, one-page summaries of various safety topics that can be used for reference or training.
Comparison of Recommendation 6 with other key resources
From Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in Academic Chemical Research (NRC, 2014):
Conclusion 4: There are several key attributes related to research group dynamics that contribute to the advancement of the laboratory safety culture. A strong, positive safety culture includes regular safety communication, for example, "safety moments" in academic research events (e.g. seminars, group meeting, doctoral defenses, and teaching includes open communication about safety as a key element that is sought out, values, and acted upon.
From Cultures in Academic Institutions (ACS, 2012):
Recommendation 16. Establish a system to promote safety in an institution or department that encompasses: electronic communications; printed materials;' special seminars or events discussing or promoting safety; a recognition system for good safety performance; and a process to solicit, review, and act on suggestions for improving safety and identifying safety issues.
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Southern Kaduna IDPs Get N500,000 Donation From Ashiru
By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna
Hon. Isa Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2019 election, has donated the sum of N500,000 to some victims to the Southern Kaduna attacks, who are at an IDP camp in Mariri in Lere Local Government Area of the State.
Ambassador Sule Buba, his campaign Director General was the leader of the delegation that represented Ashiru, presented the cash donation to the Internally Displaced Persons.
Buba, who spoke on behalf of governorship candidate, said the Ashiru sympathize with them, he feels their pain and understands their challenges. He said he is deeply touched by the incessant strife occurring in the State, especially in Southern Kaduna, where innocent lives and properties are perpetually lost.
The Director General, said the money is a token of his support towards alleviating their situation and bring succour to them.
He called on government to stop the blame game, be unbiased and live up to its cardinal responsibility of protecting life and property of the people, which is the primary purpose of government.
In the same vein, he called on the people to eschew bitterness, shun violence and learn to live together in peace for the progress and development of the State .
Ardo Ruguni Pate, who received the donation expressed their gratitude to Hon. Isa Ashiru for the act of Kindness.
He said this shows that Ashiru is a man that is sympathetic to the plight of others and is ready to come to their aid at their time of need.
Amongst the members of the delegation, were Deputy Director General, Comrade Danjuma Sarki, Hon. Ben Bako, Alhaji Tijjani Musa as well as Hon. Aisha Ibrahim.
It you recall Ashiru recently visited and donated the same amount to the Mercy Internally Displaced Persons Camp, Zonkwa in Zangon Kataf LGA.
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Slack Bot
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Robot para Slack con algunas gemas útiles para gente de Nicaragua

Este repositorio utiliza [Lita](https://www.lita.io/)

# Requerimientos

**Redis**

Variables de entorno

    SLACK_BOT_KEY
    REDISTOGO_URL

# Ejecutar

    $ bundle
    $ lita start

Este repositorio contiene un archivo Procfile para poder hacer deploy en heroku.

Para definir SLACK_BOT_KEY puedes obtener una llave aquí: [https://[tu-cuenta].slack.com/services/new/lita](https://[tu-cuenta].slack.com/services/new/lita)

En heroku para definir REDISTOGO_URL puedes ejecutar este comando:

    heroku addons:create redistogo

Este repositorio ha sido probado en heroku y no ha presentado ningún problema.

# Plugins

* [TUC](https://github.com/rubyni/lita-tuc)


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Yim Yames, Jay Farrar, Will Johnson release Woody Guthrie tribute album
January 11, 2012 | 9:32am ET
To coincide with the 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie, My Morning Jacket's Yim Yames, Son Volt's Jay Farrar, Centro-matic's Will Johnson, and Varnaline's Anders Parker have recorded an album featuring previously unrecorded Guthrie lyrics. Entitled New Multitudes, the LP comprises interpretations on 12 Guthrie compositions, most of which were written during his time in Los Angeles.
Says Guthrie's daughter Nora, who sanctioned the project: "Lyric wise, it's a part of the story that is still mostly unknown. From Woody's experiences on LA's skid row to his later years in Topanga Canyon, they are uniquely intimate, and relate two distinctly emotional periods in his life." As an early taste, check out the track titled "Old LA", which is streaming below (via The Line of Best Fit).
New Multitudes will be released on February 28th via Rounder Records as a 12-track LP and a 24-track limited edition. The limited edition features original Guthrie lyric sheets, the 12 track release, and 12 additional compositions recorded by Farrar and Parker. The album will also be available on vinyl.
In support of the release, the four musicians will tour together in March. Those tour dates are also below.
New Multitudes Tracklist:
01. Hoping Machine
02. Fly High
03. My Revolutionary Mind
04. VD City
05. Old L.A.
06. Talking Empty Bed Blues
07. Chorine
08. Careless Reckless Love
09. Angel's Blues
10. No Fear
11. Changing World
12. New Multitudes
New Multitudes 2012 Tour Dates:
03/06 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
03/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Music Box
03/10 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
03/12 – Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
03/14 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Anders Parker
Jay Farrar
Will Johnson
Yim Yames
Elevate Your Mind with Full-Spectrum CBG Tincture & Gummies
Pope Francis Visited a Record Store and Left with Mystery CD


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import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.SerDeException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySerDeParameters;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.typeinfo.TypeInfo;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;

class Hive2SerDeParametersShim implements SerDeParametersShim {

  private final LazySerDeParameters realSerDeParameters;

  Hive2SerDeParametersShim(Configuration configuration, Properties properties, String serDeName)
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    this.realSerDeParameters = new LazySerDeParameters(configuration, properties, serDeName);
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Because of calling Memphis home and they're records have bee released on Goner, Nots often get the "garage punk" blanket through on them. The thing is though they don't sound like anything from Back From The Grave nor much like any contemporaries they'd get bracketed in with that comes with the tag. If there's was anything that a listener would associate with the blues on a Nots record it would be more about the band's aural darkness than something that might be heard in your average backyard on a Saturday while some cuts into a roasted pig.
If anything, the band is much more closer to the late 70's jittery UK DIY art-conk than what usually flows down through the Mississippi. The differences though where that stuff acted a bit demure and hoity-toity about its agitation, Nots don't mince words. They use guitars as serrated knifes to make jagged patterns and searing synths to then cauterized the wounds. Instead of offering something for the pain, drums beats rattling as the only distraction for the brain while a chorus of bawls and wails jeer.
"Cold Line" takes the listener to a dark and damp place. It's a dampness that is not of the cold, clammy sort the we've been told in fables that the English deal with though. The goth here is of the southern type. Slathered in humid echo the song sounds as if it recorded in some graveyard where dorky psychobilly zombies get made into dust after passing through a 5 story tall grater.
Covering a song that any self-respecting maven of weirdo music considers definitive and a touchstone for a whole form usually leads to a lot of derision. "HOW COULD THEY DO THAT?" I don't know how many times now I've heard a band do a take on "T.V.O.D." and no matter how sincere and serious that band may have been about doing it justice, it's usually sounds like a cornball tribute or something else simply unconvincing. Somehow though when the Nots do it though it really seems like they've have been sucked in by the video addiction and are using an IV that's hooked up to cable television feed.


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Chris Boardman backs Fabian Cancellara to break hour record but calls on UCI to set more stringent rules
British legend reveals thinking behind his own successful attempt in 2000
by Colin Henrys
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His battle with Graeme Obree during the 1990s for the hour record defined a generation of British cycling and pushed the limits of bicycle design.
It is little surprise, then, that Chris Boardman now heads his own bicycle brand and Boardman Bikes unveiled their 2014 Elite Series range on the 31st floor of London's Centre Point tower earlier this month.
However, the British legend hopes innovation and technology will be cast aside when Swiss star Fabian Cancellara attempts to break the hour record next year.
Innovator: Chris Boardman claims to be involved in 'every nut and bolt' at Boardman Bikes, but hopes technology will not play a part in Fabian Cancellara's hour-record attempt (Pic: Boardman Bikes)
Boardman and Obree's records, achieved with tri-bar extensions and a radical 'superman' position, were later reclassified by the UCI as 'best human efforts', as cycling's governing body insisted any future attempts be made on a standard bike like that used by long-standing record-holder Eddie Merckx.
Boardman responded by breaking the Belgian's 28-year mark, on a bike fitting strict criteria, by just ten metres – setting a new record of 49.441km shortly before his retirement in 2000.
Only one man – Czech rider Ondrej Sosenka – has broken the record since, riding 49.7km in 2005, and it is this mark that Classics king Cancellara will target next year, according to reports in La Gazzetta Dello Sport.
Boardman, however, hopes the UCI will seize the opportunity to regain a firm grip on the rules of the hour record, in order to set a mark to last the ages – as he and manager Roger Legeay hoped would happen after his 2000 attempt.
Boardman told RoadCyclingUK: "It was a project that was first conceived in 1993 while researching an attempt on the 'standard' hour in Bordeaux.
"A 'technology-free' attempt was subsequently forgotten about and then revived in 2000 by my then-boss, Roger Legeay.
"His rational was that, as I'd been one of the two riders (the other being Graeme Obree) held rightly responsible for pushing the technological limits of the time, establishing a mark that had nothing to do with technology and was just about the athlete seemed poetic, sort of tidying up before I left.
"Also, after the mess of the Festina affair in 1998 we requested the UCI take and store blood and urine samples for future testing specifically to create a mark that cycling fans could believe at face value. Sadly the UCI of the time didn't see the value in this, something I'm sure they now regret!
Fabian Cancellara will bid to break the hour record next year according to reports in Italy (Pic: Sirotti)
"I hope this element can be added in now as combined, the goal of establishing a record that allowed comparison between athletes 30 years past or 30 years in the future could be truly realised – 'The Athletes Hour'."
Although initially a private exercise, Legeay kept the UCI informed of Boardman's attempt in 2000 to ensure they would properly recognise it.
However, to Boardman's frustration, the governing body of the time later took control.
He explained: "What most people won't know is that when we started on the project, it was an entirely private exercise but Roger was keen that the UCI recognise it so kept them in touch. Fine by me.
"Sadly, near the end they decided to 'take charge' of the event and adopt it as their own invention, which would also have been fine by me had they not decided to start messing with the super-simplistic rules we had set out for ourselves, or anyone else that would follow."
Such rules included limits on the bike – which had to be metal and of a traditional tubed design – with all the tubes strictly round, and no smaller than 25mm, except for stays and forks.
Aero sections were to be banned, while the wheels used all had to be spoked with a minimum 18 on the front and 24 on the back – all measuring no more than 2mm in diameter.
The weight of the bike was also not to exceed 6.8kg. "It seemed if you have to pick a mark that was as good as any for this exercise," said Boardman
Boardman is backing the Classics star Fabian Cancellara, pictured winning Paris-Roubaix for the third time, to break the hour record. pic: ©Sirotti
Position and clothing for the attempt were to be controlled using the UCI's guidance for the points race, although Boardman and Legay's proposal for no helmets – "the human head isn't going to change shape in the next few million years" – was over-ruled.
Boardman added: "By and large though, the overriding philosophy behind this event was that those attempting it respect the whole point of it.
"It was to be a mark set without the aid of progressive technology, one that is completely about the rider and in such a way as to allow direct comparison between athletes regardless of the date or even era the attempt is made.
"In the years immediately after my retirement, when I saw the record attempted with no stringent doping controls that kept samples, and aero seatposts and forks used, I was really disappointed that those who had been left in charge of this event had immediately lost sight of why it was established in the first place.
"It would be great if the new UCI establishment got a firm grip on the rules for this potential Monument and defended them rigorously, and as Cancellara's attempt is set to take place next spring, they haven't got long to get on top of it.
"If they don't then it will be a tragic waste of an opportunity to create something quite beautiful, a single athletic mark in a time of massive uncertainty, that the fans can believe in at face value, something everyone could desperately use right now."
Nevertheless, Boardman is still pleased the record is set to end up back in the spotlight next year.
He said: "I was delighted to hear that Fabian Cancellara was to attempt the athletes hour record as if they are not attempted, preferably by the very best in the sport, records just gather dust and die.
"As for whether he can do it? I have no doubt a rider of his calibre can take the record and, in doing so, make it the Monument it should be – I'm rooting for him!"
For more information on Boardman Bikes, or to see their 2014 range, visit www.boardmanbikes.com
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Celent: Proposed Mandate Could Hurt Indian Market
May 03, 2011 at 08:00 PM Share & Print
Indian insurance regulators have drafted a product design proposal that could cause problems for life insurers doing business in India, an analyst says.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is looking at the idea of requiring players in the insurance market to sell a product that would combine a small amount of life and general insurance at a pre-set price, according to Anshuman Jaswal, a senior analyst at Celent, Boston.
Adoption of that proposal would be bad for the Indian life market, but the market has been opening up rapidly in the past few years, Jaswal says.
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The number of insurers has increased to 48 this year, from 6 in 2000, and 36 of the carriers in the market involve joint ventures with insurers from outside India, Jaswal says.
The number of new life policies sold has increased to about 20 million in fiscal year 2010, from 13 million in fiscal year 2008, and ratio of life premiums to gross domestic product increased to 4.7% in 2009, from 1.8% in 2000, according to Celent.
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Туа май тхрот () — тайська вулична страва з лялечок шовкопряда.

Цю страву найчастіше їдять як закуску до алкоголю. На смак схожі на картопляне пюре. Продається в упаковках та консервованому вигляді.

Туа май тхрот має корейський відповідник Беондегі.

Примітки

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A new offshore wind power plant is due to be completed by the beginning of 2018. Headed up by Dong Energy, the market leader in offshore wind, a total of 91 turbines, supplied by Siemens, will be installed in the Spring of 2017.
The Race Bank plant which will be located 16.8 miles off the North Norfolk coasts and 17.4 miles off the Lincolnshire coast will cover an area of 29 square miles.
It is anticipated that this development will lead to investments in the area as local suppliers are invited to tender for services and components. In addition, it will play its part in helping to drive down the cost of electricity produced by offshore wind farms.


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Home/Scholarship By Countries/Australia Scholarships/European Research Council Starting Grants at University of Melbourne Australia for 2022/2023
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European Research Council Starting Grants at University of Melbourne Australia for 2022/2023
Are you interested in furthering an education in Australia? We are glad to inform you that European Research Council Starting Grants is currently ongoing application at University of Melbourne. In this article, we will explain more about the scholarship, its worth, eligibility and application process.
The University of Melbourne is excited to offer the European Research Council Starting Grants to talented students in Australia for 2022/2023. The University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia.
The university was established in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. The University of Melbourne's main campus is situated in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses based across Victoria.
Since 1872, different residential colleges have become associated with the university by offering accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are also ten colleges situated on the main campus and in nearby suburbs.
The University of Melbourne consist of ten separate academic units and is affiliated with so many institutes and research centers, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Grattan Institute.
However, Times Higher Education rated the University of Melbourne first in Australia and 32nd globally in 2022, while the Academic Ranking of World Universities rated it 35th in the world 'both first in Australia and the whole of Oceania'.
In the QS World University Rankings 2022, the university rates 37th globally and 2nd in Australia. The fascinating thing is that Four Australian prime ministers and five governors-general have graduated from the University of Melbourne.
Times Higher Education ranked the university 31st globally '1st nationally' in the 2020-2021 repetition of its annual World University Rankings. In the QS World University Rankings 2021, the University of Melbourne was rated 41st globally and 3rd in Australia.
In 2020, the University of Melbourne rated 32nd among the universities around the globe by SCImago Institutions Rankings. In the most recent CWTS Leiden Ranking, the university was rated 28th in the world (1st nationally).
In the 2020 publication of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) league table, the University of Melbourne was rated 35th globally and 1st in Australia. According to QS World University Subject Rankings 2020, the university rated 10th in law, 12th in education, 16th in accounting and finance, 17th in social policy and administration, 19th in sociology, 22nd in environmental studies and 23rd in linguistics.
Worth of European Research Council Starting Grants
The European Research Council Starting Grants will provide an award of about $4,000,000 to the successful applicants.
The scholarship may also be awarded up to €1.5 million for a period of 5 years (pro-rata for projects of shorter duration). But an extra €1 million can be made available to cover qualified start-up costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU or an affiliated country and/or the purchase of major equipment or access to large facilities or other major experimental and fieldwork costs.
Eligibility for European Research Council Starting Grants
To be qualified for the scholarship, you must have 2 – 7 years of experience since the completion of a PhD.
Researchers from anywhere around the world can apply for European Research Council Starting Grants provided the research they go through will be executed in an EU Member State or Associated Country.
You must present a project which is organized in a public or private research organization to be eligible for European Research Council Starting Grants. Please note that this could be where the candidates already works, or any other host organization situated in one of the EU Member States or Associated Countries.
How to Apply for European Research Council Starting Grants
If you are interested in European Research Council Starting Grants and you are eligible for the scholarship, visit the university's official website to apply.
Application Deadline for European Research Council Starting Grants
The application deadline for theses scholarship is January 13, 2022.


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#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>

/* A very simple program used to test constructor and destructor functions
 * in executables (instead of shared libraries).
 */

int x = 0;

/* Initialize x to 1 when the program starts. This will be checked
 * later by the main() function.
 */
static void __attribute__((constructor))
on_load(void)
{
    x = 1;
}

/* Crash intentionally if 'x' is set to 1 */
static void __attribute__((destructor))
on_exit(void)
{
    if (x == 1)
        *(int*)(void*)0 = 10;  /* force a crash */
}

int main(void)
{
    int status;
    pid_t pid;

    /* First, check that the constructor was properly called ! */
    if (x != 1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Constructor function not called!!\n");
        return 1;
    }

    /* prevent our crashing child process from generating a core file */
    {
        struct rlimit rlim;
        rlim.rlim_cur = 0;
        rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
        setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rlim);
    }

    /* Fork the current process, then wait for the child to exit
     * and crash.
     */
    pid = fork();
    if (pid < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not fork process: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        return 2;
    }
    /* in the child, simply exit after 1 second. */
    if (pid == 0) {
        sleep(1);
        return 0;
    }
    /* in the parent, wait for the child to terminate */
    if (wait(&status) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not wait for child: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        return 3;
    }
    if (!WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Destructor not called!!\n");
        return 4;
    }

    /* Prevent crashing */
    x = 2;
    printf("ok\n");
    return 0;
}


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pokejs #1: Introducing pokejs!
By David • February 11, 2016 JavaScript
This is a project I've been thinking about for a while. Come check it out.
Here's the long and short of it (you can also read this in the project's README on GitHub):
The goal for this project is to create a lightweight, browser version of the 1996 Nintendo game Pokemon. The game will be initially created in the style of the original Pokemon Red and Blue, but made highly modular to support multiple versions of the game engine, graphics and UI, rules, and Pokemon set.
The purpose for this project is not to replace Pokemon or get people playing the game in browser instead of on the 3DS, but rather to investigate the behind-the-scenes mechanics that make the game so great and timeless, and eventually carry the lessons learned over into a new game.
The program itself will be VERY modular. I want everything to be able to be easily switched out, from battle logic to monster code and from movesets to tilesets.
The repo itself is currently divided into three branches: the master (of course), which will be reserved for finalized code; the "overworld-engine" branch, and the "battle-engine" branch. We'll work on each part separately and merge them in later. Eventually, we'll see branches spring up for all of the project's features.
Roadmap:
Build complete battle engine
Build battle engine UI and sprites
Build "overworld" engine
Build "overworld" UI and sprites
Add all Generation 1 Pokemon
Tweak battle engine to match the modern version's more expansive ruleset
Add Pokemon from generations 2-7
Build the complete Gen 1 Kanto region
OAuth login for game saves
"New Game" options, including Support for an "enforced" Nuzlocke run (including variant rules)
Build various visual interfaces that mimic generations 2-7
Testing Assets:
We'll begin testing the battle engine with only three Pokemon evolution lines (the Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle lines, of course). This will limit the number of Pokemon and moves to a manageable size while giving a good, representative amount of diversity to the testing.
The overworld will begin testing with only Pallet Town, the brief path of tall grass to the north, and the short stretch of ocean to the south; but we will make the NPCs in the town battleable to test the integration between the overworld engine and the battle engine.
A note about the é:
Yes, the word should actually be spelled with an accent (Pokémon), which means that the name of this project should be "pokéjs" and the code should include accents wherever the monster or game is mentioned. While the game's title screen, UI, and dialogue will all use the correct form, I'm an English-speaking American developer, which means that the code itself will be limited to characters that actually appear on my keyboard. A keyboard that doesn't include é, unfortunately.
Tagged pokejs, pokemon.
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So whats the update on this? I'm still waiting for some Pikachu goodness
Really busy with actual work at the moment…but I definitely want to get back to this! Call it a slow burn. :-)
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Top Page > Press Release 2013 > Update (No.17): Incident Involving the Containership MOL Comfort
Update (No.17): Incident Involving the Containership MOL Comfort
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Koichi Muto) updates the status of the containership MOL Comfort as of 23:00 JST (18:00 Dubai time) on July 01, 2013. The vessel could not continue sailing under its own power from June 17 because the hull fractured in 2 parts while under way on the Indian Ocean.
The fore part is located near 17'02"N 67'57"E. The weather in the area is still adverse.
The condition of the fore part is stable with majority of cargo aboard.
Rescue of the cargo and hulls
We have contracted with a salvage company to rescue the cargo and hulls. The tow wire was disconnected from the fore part which was being towed in a west-northwest direction. We are working on the recovery with 3 tugboats and will resume the towing in a west-northwest direction once the work is completed.
Oil leakage (No change from the Update (No.16))
We confirmed through the monitoring that no oil film around the fore part is present.
We had been monitoring the area where the aft part sank on June 27, but confirmed neither oil leakage nor floating containers visible. We have reported the same to Indian authorities and have completed the monitoring operations.


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Cedexis Lands $22 Million in Financing to Promote Global Growth
Leading Global VCs and Corporate Sponsors Invest in Next Generation Web, Video and Application Acceleration Market
Cedexis
Jan 26, 2016, 09:00 ET
PORTLAND, Ore. and PARIS, Jan. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedexis, a leader in Internet measurement and optimization, today announced the closing of a $22 million Series B financing round, bringing total company funding to $33 million. Ginko Ventures led the round, with participation from Foxconn, Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), Citrix Systems Ventures as well as Cedexis' Series A investors, Advanced Technology Ventures and Madrona Ventures. This latest investment will support immediate opportunities to drive global growth as well as to broaden solutions for accelerating over-the-top (OTT) video, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services and web application delivery.
"The web is now at the core of value delivery in almost every industry, making web performance mission critical for most enterprises. Cedexis dramatically increases an enterprise's ability to improve their users' Quality of Experience (QoE) over shared 'best effort' networks and clouds," said Scott Grout, CEO of Cedexis. "We have a very unique approach of crowd-sourcing billions of daily end-user measurements from a shared community of hundreds of participating global enterprises. This data set yields unprecedented real-time visibility into global web performance which we then use to optimally route users across multiple networks (CDNs), clouds or data centers dramatically improving their experiences. This increases consumer engagement and measurably improves business results for the enterprise."
"Global enterprises using Cedexis are at the leading edge of a revolution in how companies proactively manage their value delivery across shared Internet infrastructure," said Dominique Pitteloud, Managing Director at Ginko Ventures. "Cedexis' focus on improving user QoE, and thus increasing enterprise revenues, customer retention and conversion rates, is impressive," continued Mr. Pitteloud.
"Cedexis is at the forefront of the transition to cloud-centric SaaS infrastructure. The Cedexis approach of informing their global traffic management solution using crowd-sourced data, from the very audiences that utilize their customers' web applications, is truly novel and differentiated in the marketplace," said Andy Cohen, VP of Strategic Development of Citrix.
"With their ability to optimize Internet performance and cost in real-time, Cedexis is a real game-changer for enterprises," said Bo Ilsoe, Managing Partner at NGP. "With deep roots in both the US and France, we are delighted to invest in Cedexis and help accelerate their global expansion."
Cedexis' customer base is rapidly approaching 1,000 global enterprises and includes major brands such as Accor Hotels, Airbus, Bloomberg, Comcast, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nissan, PBS, Tumblr and Shutterstock. In addition, Cedexis partners with all leading CDN, cloud, hosting and APM providers, globally, to establish the world's largest performance community focused on improving Internet performance for billions of users worldwide.
In addition to the $22M in equity financing, the company secured a $770K business development loan from bpifrance, a leading French investment bank that actively promotes fast-growing global companies with roots in France. The total $22.8 million of new funding will be used to extensively expand the size and global reach of Cedexis as well as to accelerate customer growth. Cedexis will be increasing investments and hiring in engineering, marketing and sales. For more information on Cedexis, please visit the company's website and follow Cedexis on Twitter at @cedexis.
About Cedexis
Cedexis provides web-scale, end-user-experience monitoring and real-time traffic routing across multiple clouds and networks. Cedexis Radar crowd sources billions of real user measurements (RUM) a day from a community of nearly 1,000 enterprises. Cedexis Radar provides real-time visibility into how cloud/network performance is impacting the experience of web and mobile application users. Cedexis Openmix then uses this insight to route traffic for best performance, or availability, or cost, or any mix of the three. Cedexis Impact then demonstrates the real-world correlation of end-user performance to business KPIs, enabling enterprises to maximize web performance returns. Cedexis is trusted by nearly 1,000 global brands including Accor Hotels, Airbus, Cartier, Comcast, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Nissan and Shutterstock. Cedexis is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in Paris, France, San Francisco, CA, Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.
About Ginko Ventures
Founded in 2015, Ginko Ventures is a venture capital firm targeting technologies, devices and solutions that will improve the way people work, play and live. We primarily focus on investments in European and Israeli companies whose technologies have the potential to rapidly access global markets. Together with our limited partner Foxconn, we are also keen on creating tangible industrial leverage for our portfolio companies. Our mission is to enable sustainable partnership between industry leaders and amazing entrepreneurs for disruptive innovations and superior value creation. For more information visit: www.ginkopartners.com
About Foxconn
Established in 1974, Foxconn Technology Group ("Foxconn"), under the leadership of Founder and CEO Terry Gou, offers the most competitive production manufacturing technology in the world. A recognized global industry leader, Foxconn created the 3C OEM service business model, eCMMS, incorporating vertical integration of mechanical, optical and electronic components. Foxconn offers many of the world's leading companies a one-stop integrated manufacturing solution. Foxconn has in recent years expanded into technology services, providing customers the most comprehensive solutions for their technology and manufacturing needs. In addition to maximizing value creation for customers, Foxconn is also dedicated to enhancing the concept of environmental protection in the manufacturing process. In addition to being a trusted partner for its customers, Foxconn is working to be a best-practices model for global enterprises.
About Nokia Growth Partners
NGP is an independent fund manager sponsored by Nokia, backing entrepreneurs focused on building a connected world. NGP offers industry expertise, capital and an extensive network, enabling entrepreneurs to build disruptive, industry-changing companies and taking them to the global market. With offices in the US, Europe, India and China, NGP extends the reach of companies making their products and services local everywhere. For more information, please visit http://www.nokiagrowthpartners.com
About ATV
Founded in 1979, Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is a bi-coastal venture capital firm with $1.4 billion in capital under management. ATV works closely with entrepreneurial teams in several technology markets, including Communications, Healthcare, IT Infrastructure, Software and Services to build emerging-growth business ventures into market leaders. With more than 35 years of experience, ATV has a proven track record of success in helping to build strong, sustainable business enterprises.
About Madrona
Madrona has been investing in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest since 1995 and has been privileged to play a role in some of the region's most successful technology ventures. The firm invests predominately in seed and Series A rounds across the information technology spectrum including consumer Internet, commercial software and services, SaaS, digital media and advertising, networking and cloud computing, and mobile. www.madrona.com.
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