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Bingo's very own 'Big Apple'
South London's newest club Apple Bingo is all heart.
Bingo clubs are always at the heart of their community, bringing people together: there's a reason why the phrase 'bingo buddies' rings so true, but when a club closes the loss is so much more than just not playing bingo.
For those new to bingo, both team members and customers, the community bonds and friendships of bingo can be a revelation, something that hit home with Apple Bingo founders Arifur Rahman, Malar Kannan and Kandiah Thampinathan (Nathan).
Each of the founders of Sydenham's newest community venue, Apple Bingo, found their way to bingo from quite unrelated career paths and, as with so many, loved what they found and the opportunity to connect with people.
"We each came from different or non-bingo backgrounds," said Arifur, "Nathan has a degree in accounting and finance, Malar studied engineering and has an MBA, and I have a Masters in accounting. None of which you would have thought might have lead you to bingo.
"But we all found bingo and met each other while working for Mecca. I had been working for American Express and was looking for a new post and direction in 2011 and applied to Mecca Bingo to work at their Catford club. It was a revelation!
"I loved the environment and people, as it felt such a happy place. I had never really thought of bingo as a career before, but it just felt right."
It was while working at Catford for GM Kim Jones that Arifur met Malar and Nathan, who both felt the same way about bingo too. Malar had worked in bingo for 12 years and Nathan 18 years. Kim said, "They each have great natural energy and working with them was fantastic. They were always focused on customers' needs and their enthusiasm was infectious and genuine."
When Mecca Catford closed in 2018 Arifur, Malar and Nathan missed the club, bingo and the customers. "We had worked over 10 years at the club," Nathan said, "our bingo customers are like our family. When the club closed, we felt we had lost family."
While working at Catford the trio had got to know the local competition very well: Buzz in Eltham, Surrey Quays and Tooting, and at that time, The Palaces at Elephant and Castle. All three had played in all the clubs and watched what worked and what didn't in terms of promotion and customer interaction: all three are unanimous in siting Patrick Duffy as a huge inspiration and influence on their club, observing on many occasions Patrick's interaction with customers and solving any issues on the spot. They also paid close attention to policy: more money on the board, means more customers and more customers means more money on the board.
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They each had choice, to continue to work for someone else or, to combine their considerable expertise and experience and set up their own club: they knew the market and that there was space for a new club, and missed their customers, they just needed to find the right venue. Malar commented, "The market is very local but covers a surprisingly broad area, from Hither Green, and Catford, through New Cross and even over as far as Elephant and Castle. Bingo clubs need space, so despite the size of the area we were
looking in there were no obvious options."
Living locally as all three co-founders do, they were constantly on the lookout for options that would offer the space needed and in locations where the local authority would be likely to grant the necessary licenses.
Zanzibar nightclub in Sydenham closed in 2015 following revocation of its license due to a string of complaints regarding mismanagement and problems with patrons, since which time it had been vacant. The old nightclub offered the right square footage and was in a central location, conveniently opposite Sydenham Bus Station, a hub for south east London buses. While there was no car park this was unlikely to be an issue for most customers in the area as they used public transport, in addition to which this would also make the lease more viable.
It seemed like a great venue in an ideal location, but the issue of change of use and licenses still needed to be explored, at least in principle, before progressing further. Meetings with the local police and council revealed that not only were they open to the proposal, but would actively welcome it. While bingo players might be a bit testy when there is talking during main stage or a false call, they are, as a rule, not prone to heavy alcohol consumption and unruly behaviour, which pleased the police, and the council were eager to see the large venue brought back to community use.
The trio made their move, arranging finance for their club through personal savings, mortgages and loans in order to make it happen, opening their doors in August 2020. As the world was in the midst of the COVID pandemic, opening a new leisure venue may have been viewed by some as extremely risky, but one year and a second national lockdown later the trio are triumphant. The Catford club was doing 1,200 admissions a week, Apple Bingo Sydenham is already doing 1,500, and rising, in addition to which Arifur, Malar and Nathan have been able to reconnect with their bingo family, staff and customers.
What gave them the courage to proceed and the confidence that they would be a success? We asked Arifur.
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"Our collective time working in bingo has given us a lot of experience, of customers, managing clubs and the local south east London bingo market, as well as having the opportunity to work with and learn from some truly inspirational people in the sector – like Mark Brenton AM at Mecca, Kim Jones GM Mecca (unbeatable at customer service) Jane Hudson (beautiful mind) and Adam Conningham and Anver Murad at Buzz.
"This made us sure that if we could find a venue and physically create the right space, then we would be able to deliver the right customer experience – with Malar front of house and book sales, Nathan back of house and catering, me main stage and our brilliant host Michael Farley. We had great support from bingo industry suppliers including Tony Lister from Cowells Arrow, Jodie Biglin at ECM, Steve Clark from Leisure Technique, Chris Wrigley from ISD for Maxim, Ralph Taylor from UK Gaming and Alastair Stewart at the National Bingo Game, which we want to be able to offer in club as soon as we opened.
"Our club is all about us: me, Malar, Nathan and Michael. Our golden rule is the customer is always right. All our members know it's their club, every single one of them is like a family member – we know them, we talk to them, we try to understand what they want and resolve any issues they may have then and there. This is something you can't do in a large chain.
What makes it a success? This extraordinary group of people, you can't find the same group anywhere else and this is our success formula – with Nathan handling the back office all is in his steady control and Michael Farley a great show host, but if it was not for Malar and the sacrifices made by his wife Seema, Nathan's wife Suthakalyani and my wife Sadia who have been involved from the start, there would be no Apple Bingo."
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Venezuelan exodus reaches record levels; UN refugee agency steps up aid
GENEVA - One of the largest population movements in Latin American history is under way from Venezuela, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, which on Friday confirmed that it is increasing assistance to neighbouring Ecuador, where more and more Venezuelans are arriving each week.
Amid ongoing social and political upheaval in the South American country, more than half a million people have arrived in Ecuador since the beginning of the year, UNHCR's William Spindler said.
"The exodus of Venezuelans from the country is one of Latin America's largest mass-population movements in history," he added. "Since the beginning of the year, some 547,000 Venezuelans have entered Ecuador through the Colombian border at a daily average of between 2,700 and 3,000 men women and children. However, the influx is now accelerating, and in the first week of August, some 30,000 Venezuelans entered the country. That's more than 4,000 a day."
In response to the situation, Ecuador has declared a state of emergency in the northern provinces of Carchi, Pichincha and el Oro.
The development means that Ecuador can assign additional resources to Venezuelans, many of whom have endured weeks of hardship on their journey to the border, UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler said.
"Many of the Venezuelans are moving on foot, in an odyssey of days and even weeks in precarious conditions," he said. "Many run out of resources to continue their journey, and left destitute are forced to live rough in public parks and resort to begging and other negative coping mechanism in order to meet their daily needs."
The UNHCR spokesperson noted that Ecuador also had a "long tradition of welcoming refugees" in a region where the movement of people across borders was commonplace.
Nonetheless, the rising number of arrivals has led to "pressure" on asylum registrations.
"Xenophobic reactions to the exodus have been noted in some quarters," Spindler said. "The majority of the Venezuelans entering Ecuador continue onwards to Peru and Chile. Up to 20 per cent, however, remain in the country, some 7,000 of whom have sought asylum since 2016. The government-run asylum system is feeling this pressure."
According to UN Migration Agency, IOM, there has been a 900 percent increase in Venezuelan nationals living abroad on the subcontinent from 2015 to 2017 – up from 89,000 to 900,000.
Worldwide, the number has risen from 700,000 to more than 1.6 million in the same period.
A lack of visa requirements and other bilateral agreements make it relatively straightforward for Venezuelans to move through Latin America.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, IOM spokesperson Joel Millman said that Latin American press reports refer to people's pursuit of a "Chilean dream", a reference to the American dream that many migrants are said to pursue when migrating north.
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Karl August Kleinhenz, seit 1915 Ritter von Kleinhenz, (* 3. August 1864 in Ludwigshafen; † 4. Februar 1948) war ein bayerischer Generalleutnant.

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Kleinhenz trat nach dem Besuch des Humanistischen Gymnasiums in Speyer am 21. September 1882 in das 1. Infanterie-Regiment "König" der Bayerischen Armee ein und wurde dort am 3. März 1883 zum Portepéefähnrich ernannt. Anschließend wechselte er zum 8. Infanterie-Regiment "Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden" nach Metz und wurde in der Folgezeit am 24. Juni 1884 zum Sekondeleutnant und am 22. September 1893 zum Premierleutnant befördert. Seit 1891 war er Bataillonsadjutant und wurde nach der Beförderung zum Hauptmann am 19. Februar 1899 zum Kompaniechef in seinem Regiment ernannt. 1902 erfolgte seine Kommandierung an die Schießschule und nach der Beförderung zum Major die Versetzung in den Stab des 8. Infanterie-Regiments, in dem er am 22. Mai 1908 zum Bataillonskommandeur ernannt wurde. Als Oberstleutnant (seit 21. Mai 1912) kam er am 19. September 1912 zum Regimentsstab und wurde am 19. März 1914 unter gleichzeitiger Beförderung zum Oberst zum Kommandeur des Regiments ernannt.

In der Anfangsphase des Ersten Weltkriegs kämpfte sein Regiment zunächst bei den Grenzschlachten in Lothringen. Das 8. Infanterie-Regiment war im August 1914 Teil der 8. Infanterie-Brigade unter Generalmajor Riedl und bildete einen Teil der 33. Reserve-Division, welche im Raum Metz als Reserve lag. Für seine außerordentlichen Verdienste wurde Kleinhenz am 5. Mai 1915 mit dem Ritterkreuz des Militär-Max-Joseph-Ordens beliehen und durfte sich aufgrund der damit verbundenen Erhebung in den persönlichen Adel ab diesem Zeitpunkt "Ritter von Kleinhenz" nennen. Am 28. September 1916 wurde Kleinhenz von seinem Kommando abgelöst, übernahm eine Reserve-Brigade und kämpfte in Siebenbürgen und Rumänien. Dort erhielt er am 17. Januar 1917 die Beförderung zum Generalmajor. Vom 8. Februar 1917 bis zum 8. April 1918 befehligte er im Rahmen des Alpenkorps die 1. Königlich Bayerische Jäger-Brigade. Anschließend war er zwischen 9. April und 28. Mai 1918 Kommandeur der 200. Infanterie-Division und am 29. Mai 1918 übernahm er die Führung der 14. Infanterie-Division.

Vom 7. November 1918 an war Kleinhenz Kommandeur des Grenzschutzes Süd (Freikorps) und wurde als solcher unter gleichzeitiger Beförderung zum Generalleutnant am 2. August 1920 aus der Armee verabschiedet.

Kleinhenz war seit 15. April 1899 mit Ida, geborene Lellbach verheiratet.

Literatur
 Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. Der königlich bayerische Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden. Kriegstaten und Ehrenbuch 1914-1918. Selbstverlag des königlich bayerischen Militär-Max-Joseph-Ordens, München 1966, S. 335.

Generalleutnant (Bayern)
Befehlshaber im Ersten Weltkrieg (Deutsches Reich)
Träger des Militär-Max-Joseph-Ordens (Ritter)
Nobilitierter (Bayern)
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The  Laranjeiras River () is a river of Santa Catarina state in southeastern Brazil.
It is a left tributary of the Hipólito River, which in turn is a right tributary of the Braço do Norte River.

The river rises in the São Joaquim National Park.
The upper reaches of the Laranjeiras River are fed by streams from the  Serra Furada State Park, created in 1980.

See also
List of rivers of Santa Catarina

References

Rivers of Santa Catarina (state)


Franz can do it! Franz Gruber is a big hit with fans of Austrian cuisine. You can dine magnificently under the restaurant's giant red awnings. The restaurant also has a dash of the Mediterranean about it. The wine selection is very good, and includes many Valtellinas and other classic Austrian wines. The waiters flit about wearing red aprons. The restaurant appeals to city folk and day-trippers. There is an assortment of antique chairs to sit on. Other features in the bright and airy dining area include prints of paintings by the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, flower arrangements and unusual light fittings.


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Claudia Hunte - The Elephant in the Room is Afraid of Dying, 2014
Spreading a festival over seven murky London nights is an ambitious move. Not only is it near-impossible to attend every single event, but one also gets an overbearing sense that the programme will wear itself thin over the week. Not so. Even though some work photographed better than it sounded and certain performances engaged the audience more than others, the curatorial team of the London Contemporary Music Festival succeeded in collating one of the most interesting programmes of contemporary art and music this year has seen.
For the duration of its tenure, the LCMF was housed at Baker Street's Ambika P3 Gallery. This grand, subterranean warehouse sits deep inside the University of Westminster. Londoners on their homeward commute would be hard-pressed to find any evidence of a music festival happening right beneath their feet. Originally built as a concrete construction hall for the university's engineering department, this vast 14,000 square ft. room proved to be the prime location in which to experience some experimental music. Soft, quiet pieces were amplified by the reverberant space, while louder works sat heavy in the air, like thoughts of an impending natural disaster.
Squib-Box (Neil Luck) – Via Gut, 2015
Each day was loosely themed and each theme helped to contextualise the performances. Most of which were challenging, to say the least. The festival opened up with Edward Henderson's Tape Piece (2014), in which a handful of performers slowly unwound rolls of sticky tape around the gallery. This simple, interventionist work confounded the audience into silence. Nobody knew whether to applaud when Henderson's cicada-like run-out grooves ceased to bounce around the room. Many pieces followed this one, but it was certainly one of the highlights of the festival.
In between sets of inviting, but rather generic laptop noise-music, one was presented with a wealth of exclusive premiers. Neil Luck's Via Gut (2015), for example, took dada expression into post-digital gastro-linguistic territory. What starts off as incoherent nonsense, soon unfolds into a lesson in evolution. "Once upon a time, humans evolved into tapeworms and reconnected with the human colon," stated the frenetic narrator. This piece, along with Anne Bean's and Richard Wilson's highly gestural and brilliantly orchestrated piece, NALEMAG (2015), demonstrated that avant-garde tendencies do not always have to be overburdened with solemnity; art can be entertaining too.
Ellen Fullman – The Watch Reprise, 2015
For the first few days, LCMF's self-confessed "labyrinth of mutable formations" was divided in two by Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument. In constant development since 1979, Fullman's 50-ft installation converted the entire warehouse into a droning grand piano. Brushing her rosin-coated fingers across the instrument's myriad strings, Fullman seemed to embody The Watch Reprise (2015) with minimalist theatrics. Fullman's piece took on a very formalist, temporal dimension. Time began to lag, almost standing still, with the collective reverie only occasionally being broken by a falling beer bottle or camera shutter click.
The unassuming star of the festival was Aisha Orazbayeva. The Kazakh-born violinist performed on at least four separate occasions, appearing first beside Tim Etchells, performing the musical accompaniment to his troubling, but comic poem, Seeping Through (2015). She also contributed the violin parts to Ezra Pound's Le Testament de Villon (1926), performed solo for a rendition of Helmut Lachenmann's Toccatina (1986) and recited Vladimir Mayakovsky's futurist poem A Cloud In Trousers (1914), in its original Russian version. (Sadly, the recitals were met with indifference from the audience, despite a translation sheet having been provided.)
Tim Etchells & Aisha Orazbayeva – Seeping Through, 2015
It really felt, however, that the principal reason everyone came to the festival was for Chris Watson's premier of Okeanos (2015). Commissioned by the LCMF, Watson's grandiose piece combined various underwater recordings into a truly immersive submarine excursion. Recorded with hydrophones, the hour-long track begins in the Antarctic summer, before moving north-east, across the Atlantic, towards our shores and beyond. Any similarities to those cheesy whale song compilations are quickly dispelled, as the audience is submerged under a blanket of diverse and curious sounds. Watson's Okeanos evokes the notion of deep listening: a visceral engagement with sound that abandons visual narratives, in favour of a tender embrace with vibration.
There were few actual failures on the programme, but certain works definitely drew their ideas from the concept of failure. The quiet tenacity of David Toop's Many Private Concerts (2015) disappeared slowly into the clamour of the crowd, as was probably the intention. This brought to attention our inability to access the subtle, in an environment where absurdly copious amounts of information compete for space. Andrew Hamilton's brilliantly tense and complex piece, Music For People Who Like Art (2009), takes its inspiration from digital fatigue. The chamber orchestra battled through abrupt, repetitive phrases in their attempt to imitate a broken CD. The effect was akin to being trapped in a collapsing mineshaft, with your corrupt, static lungs grasping selfishly for air.
Dieter Schnebel – Maulwerke, 1968/74 – 2015 (solo version)
Being acutely aware of the insufferable boredom that a bourgeois concert hall can inflict on its clientele, the curators of this festival ensured that there was never a fixed vantage point. When one performance would finish, another would begin on the opposite side of the room or on the steel staircase, or somewhere else entirely. The cue would be given by the minimalist, but playful lighting, illuminating a dark and unfamiliar corner.
This year saw the third outing for the festival and one hopes sincerely that it won't be their last. You might not find everything here to your taste, but each work is carefully selected for its experimental and thought provoking nature. The LCMF, and other events like it, work in antithesis to the prevalent modern notion that music has no value. Music does have value, it enriches our lives by engaging our emotions and intellectual faculties. Good music is daring and it dares us to listen.
The London Contemporary Music Festival ran from 11-17 December 2015. For more information, please visit the festival website. All photography by the author.
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My mom taught me, by Lauren Strohofer. From our collection of thoughts shared by daughters on timeless lessons and secrets of life passed down from their mothers.
"If you want to learn about something ask someone who is already doing it." She's right. People love to talk about themselves especially when you want to hear how they became successful.
"Say yes, not yeah. Have a firm handshake. Make eye contact. Don't drag your feet when you walk." I know what you're doing. You're either thinking about someone who does one or all of those things and how it drives you crazy. Or you are thinking "Oh shoot?! Do I do that?" These are all signs of a strong, smart, woman on a mission. Have confidence ladies.
"If you keep saying no, they will eventually stop asking." Here's what she meant by that. When I was little (under 10), for whatever reason I was nervous pretty much all the time. I was happy, energetic, outgoing, but nervous. No reason that I can think of (you can therapize me later). This nervousness often led me to say no to invites from friends. I'd rather stay home than risk the unknown outcome of the adventure. So one time I told a friend that I couldn't go somewhere with them because my mom wouldn't let me. Mom knew that wasn't the case, but still covered for me. After I hung up the phone (that was corded and hanging on my kitchen wall) she let me know that if I kept telling my friends that I couldn't go somewhere or do something with them that they would eventually just stop asking. This has stayed with me for 3 decades and now you know why I am usually up for anything.
"Put your big girl pants on and go back in there." Uuugh I really didn't want to but I did. Huge work crisis had me in a tizzy and I was ready to just quit. I called my mom crying and venting and this was her reply. If I was going to quit it would be my decision not theirs. I wasn't giving up.
"Girls Can Do Anything!" I had this quote hanging on my wall when I was growing up. It was pink and purple, made out of clay or plaster and had raised letters with a little girl doing a cartwheel. I can still see it in my head and remember the smell of it. I constantly remind myself too… Oh yes! I can do anything!


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Google and Facebook were scammed out of $100M
The tech giants wired the bucks to an Eastern European man said to be posing as an legit supplier.
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Jessica Dolcourt leads the CNET Franchises, How-To and Performance Optimization teams. Her career with CNET began in 2006, and spans reviews, reporting, analysis and commentary for desktop software; mobile software, including the very first Android and iPhone apps and operating systems; and mobile hardware, with an emphasis on iPhone and Samsung. Jessica was one of the first people in the world to test, review and report on foldable phones and 5G wireless speeds. Jessica began leading CNET's How-To section for tips and FAQs in 2019, guiding coverage of practical advice on expansive topics ranging from personal finance to phones and home. She holds an MA with Distinction from the University of Warwick (UK).
Expertise Team leadership, audience engagement, iPhone, Android, iOS, tips and FAQs.
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Over the course of two years, Google and Facebook wired $100 million to an imposter as victims of a long-con phishing attack, Fortune found.
In March, the US Department of Justice published an indictment against a Lithuanian man, Evaldas Rimasauskas, for "orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise scheme that induced two U.S.-based internet companies" to send more than $100 million to bank accounts in his control.
The thing is, the identity of those companies was never known until Fortune's report on Thursday. Both Facebook and Google confirmed they were involved.
"Facebook recovered the bulk of the funds shortly after the incident and has been cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation," a company spokesperson told CNET.
"We detected this fraud against our vendor management team," said a Google spokesperson, "And promptly alerted the authorities. We recouped the funds and we're pleased this matter is resolved."
How did it allegedly happen? Rimasauskas is said to have forged invoices, emails and stamps posing as Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese manufacturer with a client list that includes Apple and Amazon. Google's and Facebook's accounting departments reportedly paid up before catching wise.
Rimasauskas, who's currently awaiting extradition and hasn't yet been tried, denies the allegations, according to Fortune.
"This case should serve as a wake-up call to all companies," Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said last month, "Even the most sophisticated -- that they too can be victims of phishing attacks by cybercriminals."
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About the Short Courses Team
Part of The Courtauld's Public Programmes, we are firmly anchored in our founder Samuel Courtauld's vision of art for all. It was his belief that great art should be enjoyed by everyone, and that the Institute he helped establish should not stop at producing "experts and highbrows", but spread knowledge and love of art among the people at large. Along with our colleagues in the Learning department, we now reach several thousand adults and school children a year. Our aim is to share art-historical thinking and research of the highest quality in an engaging and accessible manner.
Short Courses offer year-round opportunities for learning about art history, from Saturday events to term-time evening lecture series, and Study Tours at home and abroad, to intensive Spring, Summer and Autumn School courses on a global variety of themes and historical periods. Since 2020, we have been running an online learning programme that extends our reach to all those not able to join us on campus, and we shall maintain and develop this in the future.
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Is there anybody who still doesn't know that cigarettes are bad for them? You'd have to have lived under a rock—or received a public school education—to think otherwise. How about obesity, alcohol abuse, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar, and hypertension? All have received a huge amount of publicity for decades. So why do we still have an epidemic of preventable diseases from these avoidable risks?
Lack of information? Nope. We've been deluged by that for years ("This is your brain on drugs…"), and while it has indeed helped, we still have a huge number of huge people eating, drinking, smoking, and sofa-spudding themselves slowly to death.
Lack of medical care? No, not that either. Awesomely cheap preventive medical services have been a hallmark of private health insurance since they were mandated by the HMO Act of 1973. If anything, there is a perverse parallel between the growth in prevention coverage and surge in diabetes since then.
I like the state health insurance exchange concept. It offers a necessary corrective to our failed employer/government-dominated group insurance system by giving American consumers the direct power to hold their insurers' feet to the fire to deliver value. Letting exchanges operate at the state level also allows 50 different experiments to discover what works best, something we're already beginning to learn from Utah's promising marketplace and Massachusetts' deeply troubled one.
The problem is that the Affordable Care Act's version of insurance exchanges is to this consumer-market ideal what Victor Frankenstein's creation was to humanity—a good idea gone so very wrong. But unlike the good doctor's bad doppelganger, ACA is reparable. The fix requires major surgery to excise the Abbie Normal parts of ACA's monster, replacing them with features that enable consumer purchasing power to transform health care into just another, normally affordable necessity of modern life.
It has been said that Michelangelo's task of creating his magnificent "David" was actually quite simple. Just take a huge block of marble and chip away the parts that don't look like David. In fixing the Affordable Care Act, a similar approach is needed. Just start with the huge manure pile that is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and hose off the parts that don't look like a pony. As hard as it may have been to see either David or the pony imbedded in its original matrix, both are there.
Repeal and replace the individual mandate.
Expand and simplify the individual health insurance exchanges.
This article deals with number one, the mandate issue.
There are two things the newly ascendant House Republicans need to know about fixing the new health reform law. First, their mantra of "repeal and replace" (besides being moot) ignores the fact that, buried in the manure pile of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a real pony in the form of individual insurance exchanges that need to be dug out, hosed off, and nurtured by a combination of empowered consumers and enlightened, lightened regulatory oversight. Second, the GOP's oft-voiced preference for incremental health reform—tort reform, interstate insurance purchases, and tax credits—won't do anything to fix the fundamental problems in health insurance and medical care.
So I'd like to offer a guide to both parties on what we know and what they must do to fix not just the ACA, but the entire problem of unaffordable, mediocre quality medical care.
There are four basic problems to fix.
In Part 1, I wrote about why you must take the lead to drive a new health benefits strategy for your company. Now, I'd like to talk about both the short- and long-term components of that strategy.
Short-Term: Turn your employees into savvy medical purchasers.
1. Implement universal High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs). Your current rite of annual, bit-by-bit increases in deductibles and copayments is like cutting off a dog's tail an inch at a time. Stop doing that. Move all your employees now to HDHPs and health savings accounts (HSAs). Ideally, implement the maximum medical-cost-sharing allowed by the new health reform law (i.e., same as current HSA maximums of $5,950 for individuals, $11,900 for families), and get rid of all fixed-dollar copayments in favor of deductibles and coinsurance to communicate actual medical prices.
2. Maintain employee premium contributions. Despite the much lower premiums for the new HDHPs, don't reduce employee premium contributions. Keep them at current levels.
It's time to face the hard truth. For too long, you've sidestepped the issue of soaring health insurance costs by handing the problem over to HR managers who lack the means, motivation, or strategic authority to fix it. As a result, your company's standard coping mechanism has become an annual ritual of hiking employee deductibles, copayments, and premium contributions to defray the costs of an increasingly unaffordable benefit. Such actions—all under your nominal stewardship—amount to nothing more than tactical responses to a strategic problem that demands a strategic solution. I know you don't want to hear this, but you're the one who has to drive that solution.
In Part 2, I discussed the creation of consumer value as an unplanned result of ACA's forcing individuals—and not their insurers—to pay for their normally consumed medical services. In Part 3, I described how new local health plans built around these providers will be able to displace national PPO-based carriers by creating a virtual cycle of ever higher medical quality and constantly improving affordability. In Part 4, I addressed how these innovative health plans can dramatically move the needle on effective disease prevention. In this concluding installment, I'll talk about the challenges facing the innovators who will be responsible for achieving these benefits.
In Part 2, I discussed the creation of consumer-value as a result of ACA eventually forcing most people to pay for their own, normally consumed medical services in lieu of their insurers. In this third of five installments, I address the promise of local health plans sponsored by high-value medical providers.


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Resilience from the Heart The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes by Gregg Braden
by wsmystic in CHANGE, Empowerment, INSPIRATION, Spirituality Tags: Gregg Braden
In this compelling revised edition of his book The Turning Point, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to reveal the strategies for embracing stressful change in our lives. This updated edition contains an all-new chapter not included in the original release, featuring material on the surprising discovery of brain-like cells – sensory neurites – located within the human heart, and the role they play in creating personal resilience. The powerful heart-brain connection made possible by these cells is now recognized as a portal to the deepest levels of our intuition, as well as a gateway to the subconscious mind.
This book gets to the heart of the fundamental question you have no doubt asked yourself in the face of the complexities and challenges of the modern world: How do I make everyday life better for myself and my family? Through his skillful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and real-life circumstances, Gregg uniquely provides the answer, describing:
State-of-the-art discoveries that are the key to embracing big change in a healthy way
The three shifts that will transform the way you think of your career, lifestyle, and finances
The simple strategies of heart-based resilience that you can learn and use immediately for optimal health in our stressful world
A template of strategies for resilient living for your family and community . . . and much more.
Gregg is an optimist, as well as a realist. His lifetime of work with indigenous cultures, combined with his scholarship in science and ancient traditions, gives him reason to believe in our ability to transform in a healthy way. To get to that point, however, we must be honest with ourselves. When the facts are clear, our choices become obvious and something beautiful happens. And it's the power of this simple truth that is the basis for Resilience from the Heart. Join Gregg on this intimate journey as he unlocks the mystery of the world's extremes . . . to reveal the power to thrive in life!
New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he worked as a Senior Computer Systems Designer with Martin Marietta during the last years of the Cold War. In 1991 he became The First Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, where he led the development of the global support team assuring the reliability of the internet in its early days. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix, and his most recent, Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age. Gregg's work has been published in 27 languages and 30 countries and shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.
Gregg Braden: Resilience from the Heart
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Gregg Braden gets to the heart of the fundamental question: how do I make everyday life better for myself and my family? He provides state-of-the-art discoveries that are the key to embracing big change in a healthy way and offers simple strategies of heart-based resilience that you can learn and use immediately for optimal health in our stressful world. Gregg is a New York Times best-selling author and geologist, and is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality.
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Resilience from the Heart :The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes by Gregg Braden
by wsmystic in INSPIRATION, New Age, Science & Technology, Spirituality Tags: Gregg Braden
In this compelling revised edition of his book The Turning Point, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to reveal the strategies for embracing stressful change in our lives. This updated edition contains an all-new chapter not included in the original release, featuring material on the surprising discovery of brain-like cells—sensory neurites—located within the human heart, and the role they play in creating personal resilience. The powerful heart-brain connection made possible by these cells is now recognized as a portal to the deepest levels of our intuition, as well as a gateway to the subconscious mind.
Gregg is an optimist, as well as a realist. His lifetime of work with indigenous cultures, combined with his scholarship in science and ancient traditions, gives him reason to believe in our ability to transform in a healthy way. To get to that point, however, we must be honest with ourselves. When the facts are clear, our choices become obvious and something beautiful happens. And it's the power of this simple truth that is the basis for Resilience from the Heart.
Join Gregg on this intimate journey as he unlocks the mystery of the world's extremes . . . to reveal the power to thrive in life!
A New York Times best-selling author and 2015 Templeton Award nominee, Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science, spirituality, and the real world. Following a successful career as a computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he worked as a senior computer systems designer with Martin Marietta Defense Systems during the final years of the Cold War. In 1991, he became the first technical operations manager for Cisco Systems.
For more than 27 years, Gregg has explored high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to merge their timeless secrets. His discoveries are now shared in 33 countries and 38 languages through such paradigm-inspiring books as: The God Code, The Divine Matrix, Fractal Time, Deep Truth, and his newest, The Turning Point. His 2007 best seller, The Divine Matrix, was recently selected as the source for the made-for-television feature, "Entanglement," and is now a textbook for college level courses exploring new discoveries of science and our relationship to the world. Gregg is an active member of several leadership organizations, including the Evolutionary Leadership think tank, founded by Deepak Chopra in 2008. Gregg Braden has received numerous awards in recognition of his insights and innovation, and is a 2015-2020 nominee for the prestigious Templeton Award.
Gregg's work has been shared on every continent of the world and in recent years he has presented his seminars and trainings to Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. military, international businesses and is now featured in media specials on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, ABC and NBC.
Gregg Braden- the six perennial questions- the false assumptions and the new discoveries
New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix and his 2008 release, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. Gregg's work is now published in 17 languages and 27 countries and shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.www.greggbraden.com
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The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes by Gregg Braden [updated Feb 3, 2014]
There's a time when every crisis can become transformation; when simply surviving can become joyous thriving. In our lives that time is The Turning Point. In our world that time is now!
We live in a time of extremes. And because the conditions of global finance, markets, resources, and jobs touch so much of our lives, we can no longer separate our everyday routines from the extremes of the world. The crises of climate change, extreme weather, and failing economies, for example, translate directly into the cost of the fuel that gets us back and forth to work each day; the interest we pay on our loans and that we're in turn paid on our savings; the loss of neighborhood businesses and local jobs; and the closing of factories, with the many benefits they bring to our communities. All of this means that our lives are changing in ways we've never seen in the past, and they're changing faster than we've been prepared to deal with.
The good news is that nature gives us the key to turn the frightening Tipping Points of such extremes into life-affirming Turning Points of transformation.
Fact: The solutions to our biggest problems already exist!
Fact: We already have the technology and the means to adapt to the extremes!
Fact: All that stands between the suffering of the present and the world transformed is the shift in thinking that allows the existing solutions into our lives.
In this compelling new work, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to answer the questions on everyone's minds: What's causing the extremes in our world? What do the global trends mean in our personal lives? How do we make everyday life better for us and our families? Through his powerful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and real-world circumstances, Gregg uniquely:
1. Identifies the facts underlying the crises of personal, as well as global, change.
2. Describes new scientific discoveries that hold the key to turning global crises into personal transformation.
3. Reveals simple strategies of resilient thinking for our finances and lifestyles and resilient living for our families and communities as we navigate the greatest shift in power, wealth, and resources in the modern world!
Will we choose the Turning Point to the greatest transformation of living and thinking the world has ever seen?
Gregg Braden is a New York Times best-selling author whose work has led to cutting-edge books such as The God Code, The Divine Matrix, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, Fractal Time, and Deep Truth. Gregg's work is now published in 17 languages and 33 countries and shows beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.
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The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes by Gregg Braden
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Entanglement A Tales of Everyday Magic Novel by Gregg Braden, Lynn Lauber
by wsmystic in Quantum Physics/Mecahnics, Shift / paradigm shift, Spirituality Tags: Gregg Braden
Entanglement, the new novel based on the teachings of New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden, explores the exciting world of quantum physics through the experiences of twin brothers.
Charlie and Jack Franklin have always experienced life differently than your average brothers. As children, each was able to sense when the other was in danger, when the other was sad, or when the other was happy. However, as adults, these two brothers took different paths: Jack stayed in their hometown to practice his art and Charlie joined the army, only to be deployed to Afghanistan.
After a frightening vision jolts Jack into consciousness, he begins his quest to get in touch with Charlie. Along the way, he encounters his high-school physics teacher, who helps him understand the connection the brothers have and the larger universal oneness of which we are all a part.
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Tales of Everyday Magic: Entanglement with Gregg Braden
Based on the writings of best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden, Entanglement explores the possibility of quantum entanglement and our connection to "the Divine Matrix."
Gregg Braden Talks 2012: How to Handle the Changes
by wsmystic in 2012, CHANGE, Consciousness, Evolution, Spirituality, Transformation /Transformative practices, vision/visionary, wisdom Tags: Gregg Braden
The year 2012 is no longer something in the distant future – it is here. And the changes we are experiencing – globally and individually – started even before the year 2012 arrived.
Elevated Existence recently heard best-selling author Gregg Braden speak during a teleseminar series called "Healing With the Masters," where he discussed the changes occurring in our world today, the concepts in his newest book "Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny and Fate," and what we as individuals can do to navigate this new world emerging before our eyes.
"The best minds of our time are telling us in no uncertain terms that we are experiencing very unique times," he said, explaining we see the changes in the economy, climate, jobs and more. "Experts are telling us we are facing the greatest number of crises in the past 5,000 years."
However, Braden questions whether these changes are truly "crisis" or are actually transformation? It all comes down to perception and the way we think about the world, ourselves and our connection to one another.
"When we begin looking at why so many systems are collapsing and breaking, we realize the ones that are breaking are the ones no longer sustainable in the presence of the changing world," he said in the teleseminar. More importantly, it is the way we have chosen to live our lives that has led to the collapsing of these systems, and much of it is based on beliefs and teachings we have been told – many of which science is now proving to be false, he explained.
"There are many false assumptions science has made about our relationship to the world that are deeply engrained into the way we live our lives," he noted, explaining the basis for his book "Deep Truth" is to unearth these new scientific discoveries not yet making it into the mainstream. "When we embrace these new discoveries, it changes the way we view the world and how we relate to it."
We need to understand that we are all deeply connected and enmeshed with the natural world – not separate from it – and we need to look to cooperation and natural aid, rather than war to solve our problems, said Braden.
"The best science of our time is telling us there is a field of energy that connects all living things on earth," he said. "We are linked via this magnetic field."
One of the biggest new discoveries is Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest was wrong. Darwin based his observations on what he saw in only some parts of the world, and made the assumption that it was true everywhere, Braden explained.
"This one idea is so deeply rooted into the civilization and economic cycle and the way we do business today," he said. "This thinking led to some of the greatest genocides of the 20th century. Hitler paraphrased Darwin's work and justified eliminating what he believed to be inferior members."
This view of life breeds completion. More than 400 peer-reviewed studies in the 20th century reviewed Darwin's idea to discover what the optimum amount of competition was for any environment – whether a classroom, playing field of family – and the conclusion was zero.
"They discovered competition always hurts the individual and the community, and that nature is based on mutual aid and not competition. When we say competition, we are talking about violent competition, where one person, group or community benefits at the expense of another by exploiting the weaknesses of the other," Braden explained.
He used the human body as an example, saying it is made up of 50 trillion communities of cells that work in cooperation. If they don't work together, the body breaks down and becomes disease. "We don't see every cell fighting for themselves," he said.
Other false assumptions include:
– Civilization is only about 5,000 years old. Peer-reviewed scientific data shows civilization is actually twice as old in places like Peru, Turkey and Egypt. In Turkey, science discovered modern advanced civilization dates back 11,500 years. "The 5,000 years that we are taught is the history of the world forever is actually only the history of the last cycle," Braden said.
– Consciousness is something separate from our physical world. Some of the best minds in science are telling us "nothing can be farther from the truth," said Braden.
– The space between things is empty. "There is a lot of energy in the universe that doesn't conform to what our equipment is looking for, and just because our machines and devices can't detect it, doesn't mean its not there," he said.
Dealing With "Now"
After discovering life did exist beyond the 5,000 years we were taught in history books, these ancient civilizations have been studied. One of the main truths found in all of them was that there was no evidence of weapons or large-scale war. There was not even a need to protect cities with homes or walls, said Braden.
"Archeologist and anthropologists are suspecting now that what we were taught – that war is a natural part of human nature – is not who we are," he noted. "War is not nature. The first examples of war begin when we believe civilization began – 5000 years ago."
Before our time, it was known as "The Golden Age" and a time of peace, he said. Archeological evidence is now discovering that civilizations before us knew we would enter "a dark cycle and a cycle of war." The question now is – do we perpetuate the 5,000-year cycle of war or do we "recognize the deep truths" and make changes?
"Those who are clinging to the ways of life in the past, and clinging to the systems, hoping the changes we see in the world today are just a speed bump in the way of life – those are the people having the most difficult time right now," he said. "The world changed while we were looking, and nobody told us. The reality of the world we knew in the past no longer exists."
However, the good news is there is a way of thinking that we can adapt to help us navigate and adapt to the new world. We can make a subtle shift that changes everything, said Braden.
"We have all been led to believe – through false assumptions – that life is a struggle, we live in a dog eat dog world, and we need to struggle for our piece of the pie. The question we always ask ourselves – consciously or unconsciously is 'what can I get from the world that exists?' But if we can make the subtle shift from asking 'what can I get?' to 'what can I offer to this new world that is being birthed?' – that can open the door to new answers, new jobs and new possibilities of abundance."
What if as individuals, we began to look within to our inborn talents, and begin using them to give back and make a difference in some way rather than expecting the world to give back to us? "It's a subtle and very powerful shift," said Braden.
Deep Truth by Gregg Braden
20 Oct 2011 1 Comment
by wsmystic in Science & Technology Tags: Book Review, Gregg Braden
Deep Truth reveals new discoveries that change the way we think about everything from our personal relationships to civilization itself. When the facts become clear, our choices become obvious.
The Crisis:
Best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest topics that divide us as families, cultures, and nations-seemingly disparate issues such as war, terrorism, abortion, genocide, poverty, economic collapse, climate change, and nuclear threats-are actually related. They all stem from a worldview based upon the false assumptions of an incomplete science.
The obsolete beliefs of our modern worldview have brought us to the brink of disaster and the loss of all that we cherish as a civilization. Our reluctance to accept new discoveries about our relationship to the earth, one another, and our ancient past keeps us locked into the thinking that has led to the crises threatening our lives today.
The scientific method allows for, and expects, new information to be revealed and assimilated into our existing beliefs. It's the updating of scientific knowledge with the new facts from new discoveries that is the key to keeping science honest, current, and meaningful.
To continue teaching science that is not supported by the new discoveries-ones based upon accepted scientific methods-is not, in fact, scientific. But this is precisely what we see happening in traditional textbooks, classrooms, and mainstream media today.
Explore for yourself the discoveries that change 150 years of scientific beliefs, yet are still not reflected in mainstream thinking, including:
· Evidence of advanced, near-ice age civilizations
· The origin of, and reasons for, war in our ancient past, and why it may become obsolete in our time
· The false assumptions of human evolution and of the Darwinian theory "Let the strongest live and the weakest die" and how this plays out in corporations, societies, warfare, and civilization today
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.10 to 11 (final) ~The Divine Matrix – 20 Keys to Conscious Creation!
by wsmystic in Consciousness, Metaphysics Tags: Gregg Braden
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.11
The Divine Matrix – 20 Keys to Conscious Creation!
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.7 to Pt 9
by wsmystic in Awakening, Meditation, Metaphysics, Peace Tags: Gregg Braden
The Divine Matrix: Gregg Braden Pt.8


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Heathrow's masterplan revealed
By Tara Craig on	 June 19, 2019 Videos
This video shows the masterplan for London Heathrow Airport's expansion. The plans were released as Heathrow launched a 12-week statutory consultation on the expansion, giving the public the opportunity to provide feedback on the airport's proposals.
The Airport Expansion Consultation also reveals plans for the airport's growth in phases – from runway opening in approximately 2026, to the end of the masterplan in approximately 2050. This incremental growth will mirror the forecasted growth in passengers and help airport charges remain close to 2016 levels, delivering more affordable fares for passengers.
Tara Craig
Tara has worked for UKi Media & Events since 2013, initially as a freelancer. She has been a journalist for over a decade and has worked for a range of publications, including Personnel Today, Management Today and The Grocer.
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8th Science CBSE Class 8 Physics Force and Pressure Key Term to revise before exam
Class 8 Physics Force and Pressure Key Term to revise before exam
by Swati on Thursday, January 01, 2015 in 8th Science, CBSE
Class 8 Physcis Force and Pressure Key Term to revise before exam
1. A push or a pull acting on an object is called a force
2. Force has magnitude as well as direction.
3. A force between the two objects only when they interact with each other.
4. The sum of forces acting on bodies is called net force.
5. Forces applied on an object in the same direction add to one another then net force = f1 + f2
6. If the two forces act in the opposite directions on an object, the net force acting on it is the difference between the two forces. then net force = f1 +(- f2)
7. Net force on an object is zero if the two forces acting on it in opposite direction are equal
8. A Force can Change the State of Motion
9. If the force applied on the object is in the direction of its motion, the speed of the object increases.
10. If the force is applied in the direction opposite to the direction of motion, then it results in a decrease in the speed of the object
11. The state of motion of an object is described by its speed and the direction of motion
12. Force on an object may change its shape.
13. Force may make an object move from rest.
14. Force may change the speed of an object if it is moving.
15. Force may change the direction of motion of an object.
16. Force may bring about a change in the shape of an object.
17. The force resulting due to the action of muscles is known as the muscular force.
18. Force can be applied only when it is in contact with an object, it is also called a contactforce.
19. The force of friction always acts on all the moving objects and its direction is always opposite to the direction of motion.
20. A force that act without being in contact with two object is called a non-contact force.
21. Muscular and friction forces are type of contact forces.
22. Magnetic Force , electrostatic force and gravitational force are type of non contact forces
23. Force exerted by a charged body on another charged or uncharged body is known as electrostatic force
24. every object in the universe exerts a force on every other object. This force is known as the gravitational force.
25. The force by which the earth attract or pull other object toward itself is called force of gravity
26. The perpendicular force acting on a unit area of a surface is called pressure
27. pressure = force / area
28. The smaller the area, larger the pressure on a surface for the same force. Therefore nails have pointed tip and wider head. Pointed end apply sufficient pressure to push into wooden object.
29. Forces which act perpendicular to the surfaces is called thrust.
30. Bags are provided with broad straps to reduce pressure on shoulder.
31. The cutting and piercing tools always have sharp edges to increase pressure.
32. Porters place on their heads a round piece of cloth, when they have to carry heavy loads By this they increase the area of contact of the load with their head. So, the pressure on their head is reduced and they find it easier to carry the load.
33. Liquid and gases, too, exert pressure on the walls of their container as air and water exerts pressure in all directions
34. The pressure exerted by this air is known as atmospheric pressure.
35. The Envelop of air around the earth is known as the atmosphere.
36. Our body cannot crushed under atmospheric pressure because the pressure inside our bodies is also equal to the atmospheric pressure and cancels the pressure from outside
37. The SI unit of pressure is the pascal (Pa). It is the pressure exerted by a force of 1 N acting over an area of 1 m 2. Thus 1Pa = 1N/m2
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January is the month to stock up on protein products at Costco, their Muscle Pharm is already the cheapest price anywhere but in January its a steal! And it actually *tastes* good! 😉 I make green monster mint smoothies with Costco's Power Baby Greens (freeze the whole bag, no waste), almond milk, crushed ice, mint extract, & Muscle Pharm cookies & cream. Tastes like a milk shake but so so healthy!


A man died when his bike met with an accident, hit by a truck on national highway 66, near Kallapu on Sunday April 21.
It has come to light that one of the victims of Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka is a Mangalurean woman.
Sri Lanka declared a nationwide curfew after a string of eight explosions, mostly in Colombo, left at least 162 people dead and over 400 injured on Easter Sunday, authorities said.
Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has imposed rationing of water, city residents and hoteliers have began to feel the heat of water crisis.
A man from Derebail Borugudde in Kavoor police station limits has reportedly stabbed his wife to death during the wee hours of April 20, Saturday in a drunken stupor.


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Thrum
I turned back for a moment as we rode away from the floating blight. The blue white glowing and billowing forms pulsed slowly as the sun descended in the orange red sky. We would never again see the blight as a sanctuary.
We rode as fast as our track sleds would carry us. We entered the burnt forest, what was once a deep green and cool sanctuary of life, was long ago scorched and charred by the solar storms. Every ten years, our sun sends out a belch of burning plasma that sears the planet. It was the first weapon that the invaders used against us. It destroyed all the great cities of man, all his great works. These things were before my time but I've seen the pictures.
Our only sanctuary is underground. Our city was built in an spent salt mine. It had been converted to a science facility full of seed banks and data storage. So when the first solar storm destroyed the world above, great minds were preserved below. They slowly rebuilt, developed the Blades to defend against the Skree, and repopulated.
But we've grown too large for our salt mine. The hope was to get a new colony in place before the next storm. They have not been successful. Our mission to report on the progress of the colony will be a troublesome report.
The charred and twisted trunks of the ancient forest give some protection from the Skree. As fast as they are, they don't seem to be able to maneuver well. We opened our throttles all the way and traveled single file, launching over hills and stumps.
We scanned the terrain diligently for anything out of place. A Thrum disguises itself, sometimes as a large rock, sometimes as a stream of water but often as a tree. If we're lucky, the Thrum will get it's disguise wrong.
We weren't lucky. From all around, the sound of a great drum sounded. The sound grew greater and greater in a rolling tone that could be felt in the chest and head. Rapidly, it grew louder than any other sound.
Up ahead, one of the burnt trees split opened and peeled it's outer husk away. Inside, glowing purple and pink, thin unimaginably strong filaments poured out. We turned to scatter away from it.
"Blades! Blades!" I tried to call out, but I couldn't even hear myself screaming the command. I fired off my first blade at the filaments. The chemical laser swept over them, burning through some.
Dreseco, overwhelmed by the rolling drumming collapsed off his sled. The filaments immediately found him and started dragging him in, peeling first away his armor and then his flesh.
I watched the horror unfold in seconds. I fired my second Blade and struck the armor still in the clutches of the filaments. The shape charge detonated and damaged the filaments and prevented Dreseco's body being desecrated any more by destroying it in the blast.
I have never seen a Thrum thrash around so violently. I couldn't be sure but I think that I deprived it of it's prize. The filaments thrashed out in all directions.
The sled suddenly grew lighter, as I looked back, I saw Feneshi being lifted away from the back of my sled and torn apart.
I cried out his name and almost turned back. I wanted to avenge him, to do something but no, there is nothing that a man can do to a Thrum.
We sped a way, regrouped and continued on. There was no time for tears.
Skree
Eachigo died without honor. The Skree penetrated his back and then leapt to Gamelo. The Skree move faster than any man can react to. Our blades flashed over Gamelo's head in a vain attempt at intercepting it by chance. It was to no avail, the Skree pierced his chest, killing Gamelo and detonating the shaped charge in his armor. Two dead for one Skree. If Eachigo hadn't turned to run, his shaped charge would have killed the Skree and Gamelo would have lived.
I called to my squire. "Boy! More blades!" Feneshi, my squire was a good lad. He pulled the blade cores from his belt and snapped them into their holders. "More juice too." I reminded him, as if I needed to.
"Yes sir." He replied and quickly ejected the power core from my back and put in a new one.
Then we heard another one coming. "Stand back Feneshi!" I cried as I pushed him down. My first blade blazed but the blight that hung in the air was getting in the way. The other knights fired their first blades off. By fortune, one of the beams sliced into the approaching Skree, cutting it in half.
"We have to get out of this blight forest! They never used to chase us into the blight!" I called out. "Drop anything we won't need, leave the spent blades and cores. Maybe we can retrieve them later but I fear there is a Thrum here."
The men's faces turned white at the suggestion. "Surely sir, not in the blight. How will we travel?"
"It's only been a matter of time before they learned about us coming here. It will make bringing back the new colony even harder, even more will die on the trip. The floating blight slowly kills off anything that comes near to it, so I for one have never been comfortable coming here. If the Skree and the Thrum don't kill us, the blight surely will." I shook my head. "You've left the extra supplies? Good, lets move out. We'll travel through the burnt forest. It will give us some protection. Keep your ears sharp"
Zecho took my shoulders "Bachui, I've followed you for five years and I trust your judgement, but the Thrum love the burnt forest. Wouldn't it be better to travel through the plains where the Thrum don't have anywhere to hide? Yes there will be Skree, but we have a chance of defending against them. With a Thrum, a hundred men would not be enough and we are now six."
I put my hands on his shoulders in return, looking him in the eyes. "I understand your fear Zecho but we will have to move slowly through the plains so we can hear the Skree coming. We may be able to out run a Thrum. There's a better chance that at least some of us will make it back to the city and report to Lord Hishi while there is still enough time to act. If we take too long, then we have failed our mission. It has to be the forest." I surveyed the faces of the knights and the squires. It was an unpopular choice and I feared that they would not follow but a look of determination slowly came over their faces as they nodded to indicate their support.
"To the forest then" Zecho said with a face of stone.
Star Punk
For 2013 24hr contest entry, my game is a space opera without limits. In Star Punk the players get to collectively define major technologies of the game setting. There's no limits to what the players are able to choose as their traits. Go munchkin on it or create some kind of balance to your abilities. It's up to you where the game goes.
To create the pocketmod, print out the page and then fold it according to these instructions.
This is my first game to include a full index! Only the rest of the game is only seven (actually 6) pages. Hey, it was part of the contest to have an index.
My 2013 24 Hour RPG Attempt
I started my Harder Than Granite 24 hour RPG entry today. I'm mostly done with it. I'd like to get a playtest in before submitting it. My entry this year is called Star Punk. A narrative game about insanely powerful space opera characters.


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A Roman Catholic newspaper cleared its first legal hurdle Monday in its fight against a Malaysian government ban on Christians using the word "Allah" as a synonym for "God." High Court Judge Lau Bee Lan ruled that prosecutors' objection to a lawsuit by The Herald weekly was "without merit." The judge said she will allow the paper - the main media organ of the Catholic church in Muslim-majority Malaysia - to contest the government ban in court. The Herald is seeking to reverse a government order that prohibits the paper from using the word "Allah" as a synonym for God in its Malay-language section. The government says the word refers only to the Muslim God and its use by Christians might confuse Muslims. It has threatened to revoke the paper's publishing license if it defies the order.


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Q: Making an installer for an Office Add-in with a WCF service reference I'm trying to build a series of MS Office add-ins that all link to with a WCF service. I built an installer using Wix on Visual Studio which installs the add-ins and the service host app.
When I try to launch the add-ins I get an error as follows:

Could not find default endpoint element that references contract
  'ServiceReference1.IAppCore' in the ServiceModel client configuration
  section. This might be because no configuration file was found for
  your application, or because no endpoint element matching this
  contract could be found in the client element.

I tested the service with another app and it seems to be running perfectly, however I cannot get it to connect with the Office add-ins.
Has anyone come accross this issue?

A: Does your office add-in have app.config or webconfig file? The client invocation to the WCF requires the service configuration in the above file, like the below code.
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService" />
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://localhost:21011/" binding="basicHttpBinding"
        bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService" contract="ServiceReference1.IService"
        name="BasicHttpBinding_IService" />
    </client>
  </system.serviceModel>

Then I create a call.
ServiceReference1.ServiceClient client = new ServiceReference1.ServiceClient();
            var result = client.Test();
            Console.WriteLine(result);

If our client application doesn't own an appconfig/webconfig file, we could use Channel Factory library to call the service.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/feature-details/how-to-use-the-channelfactory
For instance, we could transform the above invocation to the below.
   class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
//given that we have known the service information, binding type, service endpoint.
            Uri uri = new Uri("http://10.157.13.69:21011");
            BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
            binding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.None;
            ChannelFactory<IService> factory = new ChannelFactory<IService>(binding, new EndpointAddress(uri));
            IService service = factory.CreateChannel();
            var result = service.Test();
            Console.WriteLine(result);
        }
    }

    //service contract is shared between the client-side and the server-side.
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        string Test();
    }

Feel free to let me know if the problem still exists.

A: Thanks for directing me towards an answer.
Actually, after deploying the add-ins I realized it was attempting to read the actual Office app's app.config file (i.e. Microsoft Office\Office16\EXCEL.EXE.config, etc.) instead of my own
The solution to this problem is, in the end, extremely simple.
In the Wix Product.wxs code the manifest registry entry needs to be prefixed with "file:///"
So in my case it fixed the issue by changing from this entry:

    <Component Id="Excel_Registry_Manifest">
        <RegistryValue
            Id="RegKey_Manifest_XLS" Root="HKCU"
            Key="Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\AddIns\ExcelAddIn"
            Name="Manifest"
            Value="[INSTALLFOLDER]ExcelAddIn.vsto|vstolocal"
            Type="string" KeyPath="yes" />

to this one:

    <Component Id="Excel_Registry_Manifest">
        <RegistryValue
            Id="RegKey_Manifest_XLS" Root="HKCU"
            Key="Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\AddIns\ExcelAddIn"
            Name="Manifest"
            Value="file:///[INSTALLFOLDER]ExcelAddIn.vsto|vstolocal"
            Type="string" KeyPath="yes" />

I did this with all the add-ins and they're running perfectly now.
Thanks a lot!

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