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There is a war.
by Benquo 13 min read24th May 201831 comments
Households vs markets
Taxation is mobilization
MobsterBucks: an interlude
Wartime inflation
The scarcity factory
This is a linkpost for http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-is-a-war/
The first symptom was the clutter on the kitchen counter. One cutting board, two pans, one knife. My colleagues had arrived at the rented house the day before, so they'd had plenty of time to arrange things to their liking. I was sure the clutter was not to their liking, if they noticed it at all.
A teachable moment. Instead of tidying the counter myself, and accreting a small amount of resentment, I suggested to one of them that she think of the things on the counter as things that were in her power to arrange however she liked, to suit her taste, selfishly. ("Just as you might optimize your text editor to suit your workflow," my other colleague chimed in.) She took this suggestion, and spent a few minutes arranging and rearranging the items on the counter. She put away the knife in the knife block.
A puzzle. She noted that she doesn't usually think of the items in her home this way. Instead, household chores feel as though they are impositions from an abstract, outside authority. She was capable of accessing this other, more pleasant way of working on the things around her. Why wasn't it natural for her to feel that way in her own home?
An hypothesis. In our usual mode of life, there is a separation between a job - which is done for someone else, to satisfy someone else's standards, outside the home - and consumption, which is at least ostensibly done to suit one's own taste. One of the goods you can buy with an income from a job is a nice place to live, and you can also buy services to keep the place clean and tidy. For the most part, you maintain the place you live by leaving it, and entering the domain of an outside authority. Household chores are the remainder that cannot efficiently be outsourced, or an echo of a previous era in which such outsourcing was less common.
A household. I pointed out that in the past, people mostly did not work for a salary. Instead, they worked on things in their local environment. For the most part, this was not in order to receive money, but in order to have the thing, even if it was part of a process directed towards producing goods for trade. Home improvement used to be, not a hobby or special interest, but what one did if one wanted an improved home. Even those without a substantial amount of arable land to work might keep a garden. A minority engaged in trades or professions. Loops were mostly closed, either at the level of the household or at the level of the village.
A leak. My colleague pointed out that taxation means you can't actually just have a closed loop anymore, even if you were willing to do without modern inconveniences. To occupy a space, even a space you legally own, unencumbered by any debt or lien, one must pay rent in the state's currency. If you don't pay, you have to leave. This means that at least some of a household's activity has to be, in effect, defense spending: providing the state with mercenary services, directly or indirectly.
External standards. It's worth noting that the phrase "good enough for government work" was originally a compliment; it referred to the exacting procurement standards of the US Government, more precise than the standards people were otherwise accustomed to. Things need to be machined with more legible precision if the customer can't just go consult with the craftsman.
Tribute. Likewise, it's a commonplace that a village can't improve its prospects by taking in each other's washing. But, actually, a village can't improve its prospects by engaging in any sort of closed-loop commerce; something must be procured as tribute. In a country with an income tax, exchanging services - if legibly enough to be detected - actually causes an outflow of wealth.
Why are we doing this to each other?
Imagine a peaceful village with a closed economy. Much of the villagers' productive activity is not transactional, but simply working to make the village a better place. The reward for producing food is that the village has more food. Perhaps some transactions are market-based, though few will be arms-length. If so, it is easy to imagine that a precious metal like gold might be, if not an actual medium of exchange, at least an unit of account. In addition, people often maintain their own households, and improve them. Again, the reward is an improved household, not money.
This way of life affords a freedom to which the people of my generation and the generation before are not accustomed: if you don't like the activities by which one might get gold, you can just not do those things. Accordingly, social policing has to be comparatively direct. If you want to exclude someone from village life, you have to actually coordinate to run them out of the village. Especially if they own land to deprive them of their livelihood you have to physically expel them from their own house and land. Anything less is merely an inconvenience.
Suppose the Golden Benevolent Empire decides that this village, like many others along its border, needs defending against the Barbarian Horde. The Golden Benevolent Empire has limited resources, and insists that villages contribute to their own defense, in the form of professional soldiers.
One way to do this would be to demand specific in-kind contributions from each village. But centralized resource allocation of this sort is tricky, especially without reliable record collection and a very large computer, so it settles on a simpler expedient. Require a certain, small quantity of gold from each villager (a head tax, or maybe a land tax), on pain of death.
Now, everyone in the village needs to come up with at least a little gold. Not only will some people be happy to accept pay as professional soldiers, but the other villagers will be eager to provide whatever goods and services your army needs - so long as you are willing to pay in the same coin you demand from the villagers. Like magic, your army is fed, clothed, and equipped.
But something else happens. In the village, gold - which was perhaps used occasionally, either for transactions of ritual significance, the occasional foreign trade, or largely optional market transactions - is now just as necessary to sustain life, as food and water and shelter are.
Different villages may solve this problem differently. Some may coordinate to produce trade goods that can be sold elsewhere, otherwise retaining their accustomed mode of life. Others, already integrated into larger markets, may simply shift their production person-by-person slightly more towards trade. On the margin, closed-loop households are destroyed; no one can be fully self-sufficient. Villages nearest the military encampments will be in a good position to serve as intermediaries. Villagers from poor or remote villages, that can't afford their tax, may move closer to these trade centers, or accept employment as mercenaries themselves.
In any case, all across the Golden Benevolent Empire, production shifts towards things that can be traded for gold, and people are more eager to keep accounts. Commerce, in other words, is booming.
In some ways, this points towards our present-day situation. We pay taxes, and this would be sufficient to explain why we can't have totally closed loops. Small towns are dying, and people are moving towards participation in the global economy when they can. What it doesn't explain is our apparent reliance on this process, such that when the demands made on us by the economy decline, our society doesn't revert to more home production; instead, we anxiously seek out employment, and hope the state will stimulate additional demand.
The need to concentrate resources to administer the Golden Benevolent Empire has led to the emergence of a few very large cities, where its administrators and soldiers have gold to spend. This drives up wages, which draws peasants from the poorer villages, the villages which are not productive enough to bear the burden of their land taxes. There are also great merchant ports, enabling gains from trade that could not have been realized before so many lands were unified and pacified under Imperial rule. Both of these cities also draw immigrants from other lands, because gold has no national allegiance.
The growth of these cities has outpaced the Empire's ability to enforce its own laws, and in one of them, something strange and new is happening.
It is not at all uncommon that immigrant communities sharing a nation of origin have their own customs, norms, and ways of enforcing these. This can take the refined form of the Ottoman millet system, or the crude form of street gangs.
What is uncommon is how one of these gangs is administering its territory.
It is not at all uncommon for a gang to demand payment from the residents of its territory, in exchange for "protection" - both from outsiders, and from the gang itself. But in many neighborhoods, the amount of hard currency available is nearly nil - the people live on credit. Demanding in-kind payment is administratively difficult, for the same reason the Golden Benevolent Empire ultimately decided against it. One enterprising gang has a solution: MobsterBucks.
The proposition is simple, perhaps inspired by a folk tale about a village oppressed by archers. Each person in this gang's territory has to pay one MobsterBuck per year, lest they meet with some sort of mishap like a broken kneecap or worse. How does one acquire MobsterBucks? Well, the gang is the sole issuer of said currency, and is happy to exchange it for goods and services it needs. Soon, the internal economy of this community is denominated primarily in MobsterBucks.
Having implemented this scheme, this enterprising gang now needs a monetary policy. If it spends too many MobsterBucks, then people will be less afraid of injury for want of MobsterBucks, and the exchange value of the currency will decline. This can of course be corrected by simply raising the rate of taxation - demanding more MobsterBucks from each person.
On the other hand, with an imbalance in the other direction, an inefficiently high number of people will be kneecapped, permanently reducing the productive capacity of the gang's territory. Another problem with deflation is that inside the gang's territory, debts are now denominated in the convenient unit of MobsterBucks. Anything that increases demand for MobsterBucks may unsustainably immiserate a large number of debtors, forcing them into less-productive debt slavery, and substantially eroding any good will towards the gang.
What to do if the gang is spending too few MobsterBucks? Giving money directly to the people lacking money would eliminate the incentive to work, which would reduce the productivity of the gang's territory, but the gang can correct the imbalance indirectly by increasing spending or reducing taxes.
One might imagine that to avoid either an excess or shortfall of MobsterBucks, the correct policy would be a balanced budget: demanding and spending the same number of MobsterBucks each year (or other budgetary period). But in practice, some wealthy people in their territory may hoard MobsterBucks against a future need, leaving less than nothing for others, who may go into debt - leading ultimately either to debt slavery to the richer ones, or to kneecapping. So the optimal MobsterBucks spending and taxation levels are not obvious, and require considerable sensitivity to economic conditions.
A second question the gang may face is the optimal level of resource extraction. If the neighborhood is transient, or they face an emergency situation that requires all the resources they can bring to bear, they may as well extract all they can, as quickly as they can. On the other hand, if the neighborhood is comparatively stable, they may want to extract as little as they can, in order to allow the reinvestment of productive resources. The exception is the occasional public good; where the gang is well-positioned to make productivity-enhancing infrastructure improvements to the neighborhood, or subsidize otherwise undercompensated activity.
To some extent the Golden Benevolent Empire must account for the same things, but these are somewhat obscured by the fact that gold also has foreign exchange value, limiting the Empire's freedom of action. I waited for MobsterBucks to introduce these complications, as a simpler example.
The Golden Benevolent Empire is at war! Its very survival is at stake! More soldiers are needed! More equipment is needed! The treasury is spent down, and taxes are raised. Whole villages are reorganized, to meet the increased demand for arms, supplies, and soldiers. People swarm towards the cities and fortresses and arms factories, where the money is flowing. Areas that are not so useful to the state suffer under the new taxes, and sink into debt.
The value of money changes during this period. The Empire's demand for additional resources is greater than its territory's ability to supply them, and more money chases increasingly scarce goods. Prices rise, and common citizens must make do on less. In war time, one needs national economy.
Interest rates also change. As the decisive battle approaches, the Empire would much rather have money now, than a year from now. It is willing to borrow, even at high rates of interest, since if it loses this battle, it loses everything. The towns and villages of the empire acquire a correspondingly high time preference. If you can get a better return on your money by lending it, than by reinvesting it in productive assets, then it is more profitable to do the former than the latter. This, too, is appropriate behavior for wartime; spend down resources, and recover once you are at peace.
But a side effect of this policy is that the poor sink into debt to pay their taxes, while those with money are further enriched by a high return on investment.
Then the decisive battle is won, and the Golden Benevolent Empire is at peace. Soldiers are released from duty, and sent back to their villages. Conscientious administrators and common citizens alike breathe a sigh of relief, and expect that after the austerity of war, they will reap the rewards of peace.
But things are not so easy. Enterprises that sprung up in the cities to serve the war effort find themselves suddenly out of business. The populations brought into the cities during wartime now find themselves with little to do. Many of them go back to their villages, but the villages themselves have less of their former character, and are oriented towards serving the national economy.
What's more, while spending is reduced, this is not so much true of taxation. The Empire is honestly administered, and if it borrowed, then now it must pay back its debts. But this deflationary policy forces indebted farmers off their lands, reduces businesses that borrowed to support once-profitable enterprises to bankruptcy, and immiserates whole villages.
The Imperial government is not pleased. Imperial administrators have hearts, like anyone else, and they did not fight a war to immiserate their citizens. In the heart of the Imperial Treasury, a clever bureaucrat from humble origins in a poor area of the capital city comes up with a plan, based on what he saw his neighborhood's street gang do.
In his plan, the Empire will confiscate all gold, and replace it with a scrip issued by the Empire: GoldenBucks. Creditors must now accept payment for all private debts in this currency, and it can also be used to pay public debts - taxes. The gold will be enough to pay off foreign creditors, but the Empire is no longer constrained by honor to tax as much as it spends. It can simply issue more GoldenBucks. As the people need employment, the Empire will spend or lend its newly minted GoldenBucks, until demand matches supply.
A massive, disruptive deurbanization is thus averted, and the Imperial economy continues its operation. However, the resulting taxation means that resources and attention still flow towards the places the Empire spends its money.
Of course, the government will still be constrained by a need to preserve the value of GoldenBucks - it would not do to disrupt the national economy too much, too quickly - so taxes will still be collected.
In the first half of the 20th Century, the world order was shattered by two successive, cataclysmic wars. Great empires were brought down. The country that ultimately emerged victorious - and became the world's sole superpower - won with a strategy of complete economic mobilization. In between these world wars, this country experienced a massive economic disruption in which a full quarter of people who wanted a job could not find one. The government responded by confiscating all hard currency, and substituting pieces of paper that its citizens were required to accept for debts previously denominated in gold. It then engaged in massive public works projects, paid for by this new, fiat currency.
The symbolism of this new currency is a bit too on the nose for me to include in a fictionalized narrative. On the obverse, a portrait of the country's highest-ranking general, and a statement that this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private. On the reverse, a pyramid, perhaps the most famous of monuments built by centrally planned, conscripted labor, topped with an eye, a symbol of surveillance. And a bird of prey, holding an olive branch and an arrow; production and violence bound together by the agency of an apex predator.
These world wars coincided with unprecedented levels of urbanization. At the beginning of the century, 40% of the country's population lived in cities. Halfway through, after the wars, 64% did. These wars were not isolated events. The transition to a state of total mobilization was happening before them. (In 1860, at the beginning of the US Civil War, only 20% of the US population was urbanized.)
The timeframe of this massive urbanization has roughly coincided with the timeframe in which recessions begin to be a thing. In earlier societies, we hear about immiseration, about famines, about disruptions in trade, about heavy taxation and debt serfdom, but not recessions. That's a modern thing - we start hearing about them and related financial panics after the US Civil War, which was perhaps the first modern war with total economic mobilization.
What's perhaps more surprising is that the trend has continued. After the conclusion of the second world war, the victorious US elected its foremost general as president. In his two successive four-year terms as leader of the free world, he presided over a transition from a system with the capacity to mobilize on demand, to a system of permanent readiness, the military-industrial complex he described in his valedictory speech:
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.
We do not seem to be in the middle of a cataclysmic war. Even the "cold war" against Russia appears to have been decisively won by the liberal Anglo-American system. But we behave as though we are still at war. I don't just mean the routine bombing of foreigners, or maintenance of a huge permanent military establishment. I mean that we still have an elevated time preference, as though we were in a state of emergency; 10% is not an unusual internal rate of return for major corporations. Many businesses' effective time preference is even higher. Perhaps we have become so accustomed to wartime mobilization that we don't remember any other way of life.
Recall that between the world wars, the US (and much of the rest of the world) experienced, not peacetime prosperity, but a massive economic contraction leading to immiserated laborers, driven out of their homes and forced to wander as vagrants.
The orthodox policy solution is to create demand for labor. To manufacture scarcity. To create a pressure differential between money sources and money sinks, such that almost everyone in the country is required to do things, to alleviate that pressure.
But in the process we have become accustomed to accumulating wealth in the form of financial instruments and rising prices, rather than improved homesteads. These are the sort of wealth one can accumulate during wartime, but are only valuable as claims on the work of others. We can't become richer by all going into debt to each other. So someone has to become poorer.
The composition of major businesses reflects this. The growth of the financial services industry is often cited in this context, but a classic business with a real physical product, like Coca-Cola, is a marketing company dedicated to persuading people to drink flavored sugar water. Facebook is mostly trying to maximize the attention it uses up. More generally, business as we know - especially weighed by profitability - is largely marketing, in the sense of creating needs. When it isn't, it's often about bottleneck capture. (There are of course major exceptions.) This is a battle for control of a fixed resource (cash flows), not production. Business books and news articles routinely use the framing of war to describe the running of a business. One is reminded of stories about how groups of chimps that encounter a stable food source begin to fight over it.
Our rulers didn't create this system out of perversity; they did it to win two successive world wars. We can think of countries as engaged in an adversarial game, making tradeoffs between creating resources, and using resources in adversarial contests. The character of modern war has been such that while rapid militarization typical of the German strategy has failed, persistent economic mobilization of the kind employed by the Anglo-American alliance has dominated. Countries that succeeded in relaxing back to peacetime standard were perhaps simply selected out of the pool by means of conquest long before.
That doesn't make the consequences of permanent mobilization any less unfortunate. Lifespans are declining at the center of the empire, though not yet at the periphery. This suggests that near the center time preference has increased to the point where we're creating scarcity faster than we're alleviating it, while at the periphery scarcity is still actually being alleviated because there's enough scarcity to go around, or perhaps marginal areas do not suffer so much from total mobilization.
The friends I grew up with still live in a world where they can't help with the family homestead because there is no homestead, even though in most cases they grew up not in a city, but in a house in the woods. If they can't find a job with wages, they're in serious trouble, even if they're willing to work, even though there's no war on, and no conscription. A high cost of housing, and tax burden, means you can have a situation, but not really property. The state will be happy to kick you off your land if you don't cough up tribute, and this is the new normal.
Thanks to Jessica Taylor for helping me think through the households example, Jack Gallagher and Ben Pace for independently suggesting the idea of MobsterBucks, Wei Dai for pointing out the possibility of strong selection for political orders that can engage in total mobilization, Michael Vassar for independently noting that WWII in a sense never ended, and I owe a debt to David Graeber for the basic framework of taxation as mobilization.


I have a lot of food links.
I like food, you see, like creating new recipes and old cookbooks and figuring out the kids' latest favourite thing and eating, my god, can't forget eating and planning a grocery list (altho' not so much the actual shopping) and trying to re-create experiments and remembering suppers gone by.
I am lucky enough to have found some great food bloggers and to have several sites that send me new recipes to try. And I do, really, but there are some things that I just cannot make, no matter how easy they are. Things that would never get eaten.
Food that may taste good, but your kids? Are nevah, nevah gonna let any of this pass their lips. Good luck on that one.
Can someone tell me what would possess a person to name a pasta salad "Fruity Pasta Swiss Salad"? Or tout Eggplant Roll-ups as a family favorite? Put zucchinni on a grilled cheese sandwich. Or even use marshmallow in a main dish. Italian Marshmallow Chicken, anyone?
Trying to get my kids to eat that would be an exercise in futility. I can pick my own battles, thank you. And frankly, I'd rather deal with the tried-and-true narrowed-eye suddenly suspicious 'Do I smell onions?' than to break new ground with those horrors.
My kids have had all types of different foods. Some they even liked! And we never stop trying new things. Some recipes, though, are just not worth the trouble.
I'm fascinated to see how all three of my daughters choose to eat now they're adult and living in their own homes . Some differences have developed but some things seem to be ingrained . Lots of fish but no desserts seems to be a given but the rest varies .
On the other hand , when they'd all left , we started eating differently too . We've even been known to eat the odd bit of junk food . Shhhhh !
Believe it or not, It does get a little better. Emily was quite the gourmet baby, with a palate that would put most adults to shame...Green beans and Watercress? Why Yes, thank you Mother.
Then she hit about age 13 months and it all went out the window. She actually would gag and VOMIT on restaurant table if we tried to slip a vegetable past her lips.
At 12, she is good about at least trying new things. We figure we will just keep offering and one day she will order this stuff on her own and act like her shocked parents are imbeciles.
Yep, I too live in a sort of boy-dominated Animal-farm type world: Fried stuff GOOD, green stuff BAD!! I reckon I could actually hire my boys out as Micro-Vegetable-Matter-Particle-Detectors. If there was ever a call for such a thing.
And BTW, thank you for that link - if Santa takes the very heavy hints I have been throwing around, I will be getting a slow cooker for Christmas, so it will hopefully come in very useful!
I hear you. I have one child that will sort of eat like a human being, and one who refuses to try anything new. I look longingly at new recipes, and then invite unwary friends over so that I can try them out.


How is it that a work of art may now double as a restaurant, a barter network, a walking tour, a community garden, a scientific study, a town hall meeting, or a virtual community archive? Since the turn of the 21st century, artistic projects that invite exchange, imagine new social relationships, and provoke individual and collective actions have grown increasingly popular, especially amongst a younger generation of creative practitioners around the world. This transdisciplinary approach is typically characterized by collaboration across liberal art and art and design disciplines. Rather than being the product of a single artist working within an isolated studio, social practice projects are driven by the desire to connect, to look outside oneself in meaningful and tangible ways, and to positively impact daily life within specific communities—often co-created with people with a variety of life experiences. For this kind of socially-engaged work to be successful, artists, designers, writers, scholars, architects, urban planners, and curators (among others) must develop a unique set of social and material skills, an awareness of history, and a nuanced understanding of the relationship between social justice, polemics and poetics. This course offers a theoretical and historical foundation for students interested in socially-engaged practices within or across their own disciplines, whether they are studying in the liberal arts, art and design, or performance. It will introduce some of the economic, political, and aesthetic forces that have influenced the emergence of these contemporary art and design practices. Through assigned texts, case studies, site visits, and writing assignments, students will investigate art historical legacies that challenge the boundaries between "art" and "life"; study methodologies stemming from social justice movements, new ways of teaching and learning, and ethnography; and engage in current debates regarding the ethics of cultural production in the public sphere.
This course satisfies a requirement the Social Practice minor.


Aconex is a CDE (common data environment) used a lot through some regions for managing AEC correspondence. It is also used to register and share some BIM-related files and documents, although I don't personally think Aconex is a great tool for that particular job.
In any case, if you are using it regularly it makes sense to automate the process. RTV have built a tool that allows you to connect with Aconex, and publish and transmit documents through the official register.
Just fill out the form and checkout, and you will get a link in an email. The current version is RTV Aconex Uploader 2017. You will be able to activate the software for free.
The form creation engine in Revit does not really know about flat vertical zero thickness surfaces. However, with DirectShape, we can make almost any type of mesh geometry. One interesting idea coming out of the RTC ANZ event this year was creating these flat surfaces to display grids in 3D. This lets us do things like dimension easily in Navisworks or Revizto. I wanted to use them to add some flat datum lines to a construction setout point family.
Under-slab insulation (fitted or fixed below a concrete slab) is a legitimate coordination item. Typically it is installed first on site, so other trades and services must fit in around it.
This means it needs to be modelled by someone, which can be a headache in Revit. The slab soffit (underside of slab) often moves up and with concrete beams and pads. If you have access to editing the structural model, you may look for a way to incorporate slab insulation into the floor items themselves. However, this still does not work well for the vertical faces of a slab setdown.
A 4-point adaptive component for irregular shapes. After placement, the four corners can be selected and moved into place.


Strain Survey: The Air Force plans to send a team to 10 bases to study the strains airmen face in working at a constant high pace with limited resources. "We are at war and [operations] tempo is very high," said Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, head of manpower and personnel on the Air Staff, in a July 31 release. He added that the team from his staff would "gain vital perspective" to develop "viable solutions for the field," such as streamlining unit programs and administrative processes. The bases to be visited are: Andrews in Maryland; Hickam in Hawaii; Kunsan in South Korea; RAF Mildenhall in Britain; Nellis in Nevada; Peterson in Colorado; Spangdahlem and Ramstein in Germany; Travis in California; and Yokota in Japan.


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Q: Android kernel source compile error When I run command
make -j3

I get this error:

net/netfilter/xt_mark.c:16:37: fatal error: linux/netfilter/xt_mark.h:
  No such file or directory

How to fix the error.

A: Error
fatal error: linux/netfilter/xt_mark.h: No such file or directory

normally arises when you build kernel on shared folders or other filesystem which doesn't support links.
Build kernel on local Linux filesystem (ext4, xfs, etc.).

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High reliability interconnect manufacturer, Harwin, has secured a distribution agreement with elcon electronic GmbH in Goettingen, Germany, to reinforce its presence in the German market place. elcon electronic distributes a range of active, passive and electromechanical components for over 20 well established manufacturers throughout Germany.
ith this new agreement, we expect to see an increase in our German business," comments Wolfgang Pohl, Sales Manager, Germany for Harwin. "We are confident that elcon electronic's excellent contacts and highly-qualified team will attract many new customers and design-wins for Harwin," added Pohl.


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So beloved, idolized, so desired, idealized, yet so vilified.
The imperialist America, the lonely, arrogant, bigot, militaristic. So contradictory, intrusive, nosy, a policeman, interventionist.
America so rude, liberistic, oppressive, insensitive and racist.
Stubborn, arrogant, capitalist; warmongering, too armed and a little fascist.
But there is New York.
And there is San Francisco.
And if you put your foot in there, like a traitor lover you can forgive her everything, and love her nonetheless.
Put water (or stock) and quinoa in a pot, bring to boil and cook over medium-low heat for about 15 to 20 minutes, until all the liquid has been absorbed.
Cook edamame in boiling water for 4 minutes, drain, shell and set aside. Meanwhile, finely chop the onion and cut bell pepper and mango into small cubes. Mix everything with the quinoa, adding the juice and zest of limes, almonds, cranberries (you can substitute them with raisins or dried cherries), balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, minced fresh cilantro and a generous sprinkling of coconut flakes. Serve the salad cold or at room temperature.
*I put together this recipe inspired by a similar thing that I spotted at Whole Foods. I looked at the color, peeked at the ingredient list, and voila, my serenade to California.
Thirty six years later, Bush cried when discussing the decision she made to try an aggressive surgery to prolong Robin's life, according to Vanity Fair. Bush was only 28 years old when her daughter died, but the ordeal turned her hair white. She told "Today" that Robin is who her husband "will see first" when he dies..
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James Dearth- a Tarleton legend
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James Dearth is one of six former Tarleton Football players pictured on the outside of the newly renovated stadium. Photo by Makenzie Plusnick.
James Dearth came to Tarleton in 1996 after leaving the University of Tulsa to marry his wife. In his time as a Texan he was able to snag 77 receptions for 992 yards and nine touchdowns, according to Tarleton Sports. Tarleton left the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in 1994 to join the Lonestar Conference (LSC) in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). Until Dearth, Tarleton had yet to produce an NCAA All-American. Dearth was named to the NCAA Division II All-American team and received first team All-LSC South Division honors in both 1997 and 1998. In 1998, Dearth received the LSC Offensive Lineman of the Year award.
Dearth did not know he was the first NCAA All-American for Tarleton.
"The thing I wanted to do was be the best player I could possibly be, and be the best teammate I could possibly be," Dearth said.
In 1999 Dearth was selected in the sixth round of the National Football League (NFL) draft by the Cleveland Browns.
Dearth was shocked when the Browns called to say they were going to draft him.
"I didn't have words," Dearth said.
The Browns brought Dearth in to compete for the tight end spot, and also made him into a deep snapper. The Browns eventually cut Dearth. He went on to talk with the Tennessee Titans and was fairly set on going to Nashville when his agent talked him into taking a meeting with the New York Jets, a meeting which Dearth said he went into rather skeptically.
"New York was a little too big for me…I told my wife…I just don't think that's [going to] happen," Dearth said. "Just meeting [Herm Edwards]…I said a quick prayer…and I just felt like that's where I needed to be."
His feelings were proved right when he signed an eight-year contract with the Jets, the longest in NFL history to that point.
"The biggest thing for me was stability. I'm not a money guy," Dearth said.
In his time with the Jets, Dearth played in every game from 2001 until 2009.
After his eight-year contract was up following the 2009 season, the Jets decided not to resign Dearth. The Washington Redskins signed and cut him in Aug. of 2010. After that it was off to the San Diego Chargers for Dearth where he would injure his foot in Sept. of 2010 before being able to play a game for the Chargers. Then, in 2011, in the span of a week, the New England Patriots signed and cut Dearth. Dearth made the decision to retire.
Dearth was inducted into the Tarleton State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012. His face is one of six on the newly renovated Memorial Stadium.
"I am overwhelmed and grateful to have been honored by Tarleton State University in this way," Dearth said. "I would have never dreamed to have been recognized in such a manner that Tarleton would put my picture on the stadium! I am very proud to call Tarleton State University my family and my home and also representing them in wearing the purple and the white."
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A Commons Use Permit is required for all events that are held on the Commons, from fundraising bake sales to musical festivals. Common Council approved a new Fee Schedule for Commons Use Permits beginning January 1, 2016. Please consider these costs when determining your event's location.
Apply for a Commons Use Permit by completing and submitting this Online Form. The Ithaca Commons Amenities Map can assist with specifying the specific location on the Commons for your event. We request that the application be submitted at least 2 weeks prior to the event date for processing.Common Council adopted new legislation in 2015 and 2016 for the Commons that included changes to a variety of permits including driving on the Commons, Outdoor Dining, Mobile Vending, Street Performers, and more. You can find more information here.
PLEASE NOTE: If your event will require three or more (3+) permits and/or resources from the City (i.e. expecting more than 50 people, using food or retail vendors, tasting/serving alcohol, using amplified sound, etc.) you would need a Special Event Permit from the City Clerk's Office.
The Office of the Superintendent of Public Works now issues permits for a variety of uses on the Ithaca Commons. Please click a link below for more information about that permit.
For questions or to obtain further information not on this website, please contact the Superintendent's office at (607) 274-6527 or e-mail kservoss@cityofithaca.org.
Service and business deliver vehicles are allowed on the Commons between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. daily except when major festivals are planned.
All vehicles must enter the Commons on the West End at the Cayuga Street Entrance and exit the East End at the Aurora Street Entrance to the Commons.
Vehicles must remain on the edge of the Fire Lane.
Vehicles may not be unattended for more than 5 minutes at a time.
No parking of vehicles is allowed.
Any vehicles remaining on the Commons after 9:00 a.m. shall be subject to towing at the owner's expense.
Vehicles with a gross weight over 10,000 pounds and trailers must obtain an additional permit from the City of Ithaca Superintendent of Public Works.
Requests to drive on the Commons after 9:00 a.m. must obtain another permit from the Superintendent of Public Works.
Permits are issued for two (2) hour time periods ONLY!
No vehicle shall operate at a speed greater than 5 miles per hour.
The Permit Holder will not operate a vehicle in reverse gear unless a flagman is present to protect pedestrians (except emergency vehicles).
Precautionary measures must be taken to prevent dripping of oil, transmission fluid or other fluids on the concrete when a vehicle is stopped. A protective mat is required under all vehicles displayed on the Commons. In the event that drippings of oil or other fluids occur, the vendor and/or merchant is required to ensure such drippings are cleaned in a timely manner.
To apply to drive on the Commons after 9:00 a.m., please fill out this Application Form and bring to the Superintendent's Office at 108 E. Green St. Room 202, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Businesses on the Commons may apply for a permit to have work done on the side of their building that faces the Primary Commons. Beginning September 2018, new sidewalk closure fees are charged for the square footage that is closed off for work sites on the Commons. The 2019 fee is $2.98/square foot/year ($0.0081644/sf/day).
Work Sites must be set up with fencing or barriers to ensure pedestrian safety. Our preferred method is orange field fencing surrounding the work site with the use of free-standing bollards or stanchions to hold up the fence. Other types of solid barriers are also accepted as long as they are free-standing and are not attached in any way to the ground/pavers.
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS: Contractor applicants shall provide a certificate of insurance naming City of Ithaca as additionally insured and NY State-required Worker's Compensation forms specific to the project.
Public liability coverage shall be a minimum of: $100,000 for any one person and $300,000 for any one accident. Property damage coverage shall be a minimum of: $50,000 for any one accident and $100,000 in the aggregate. Higher coverage limits can be required by the Superintendent.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS: Sketches, plans, pedestrian detour plans, traffic detour plans and additional information may be required.
DAYS OF WORK: Perform permit work on valid dates during business hours. Valid dates may be revised upon request. Do not perform work on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays unless approved in advance by the Superintendent.
PERFORMANCE: Perform all work at the permit holder's expense. Perform all work in accordance with the applicable provisions of the City Charter, Code, rules and regulations, special conditions and specifications.
estimated costs for corrective work if the Superintendent determines that permit holder has failed or defaulted on the work. If the Superintendent determines that work does not comply with the terms of the permit, or that public safety is at risk, the Superintendent may revoke or cancel a permit and may decline to approve future permit applications made by the same applicant.
A Mobile Vending agreement is required for all outdoor sales on the Ithaca Commons.
Please print and complete the Mobile Vending Application and send it to the Superintendent of Public Works office, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 274-6527 or e-mail to kservoss@cityofithaca.org.
The Ithaca Common s Amenities Map identifies the vending sites available for food and retail sales. We suggest that you spend some time reviewing the vending sites before you select and commit to a site as the fees are non-refundable.
Fees include the Application Fee ($100 for new vendors/$50 for returning vendors), Security Deposit ($100), and a Use Fee.
Security deposit. A refundable security deposit is required for all vendors. All sites are subject to periodic review, and the deposit will be refunded upon final site inspection by the Department of Public Works at the end of the agreement period. Vendors must comply with guidelines for stain removal established by the Department of Public Works/Board of Public Works as noted in the Maintenance Guidelines.
All fees for the mobile vending agreement must be paid in either cash or check payable to "City of Ithaca".
Mobile Vending applications are processed on a first-come, first-serve basis; preference will be given to returning vendors.Incomplete mobile vending applications will not be accepted.
City of Ithaca is preparing for the upcoming outdoor dining season. If you are planning on having outdoor dining this season, it is important that you read the enclosed Information Sheet, complete the Outdoor Dining Application and provide the required documentation and fees at your earliest convenience so that the outdoor dining permit can be issued in a timely manner.
There are two permits to choose from: Annual or Seasonal. The Annual Permit runs from April 1st through March 31st of the following year. The Seasonal Permit runs from April 1st through October 31st of the same year.
An Application Fee must be included with the application when it is submitted. For applicants that have not held outdoor dining permits in the past 3 years, the application fee is $100. For returning applicants, the fee is $50.
Use Fees are determined by the square footage of the dining area that the restaurant will be utilizing. These fees are established by the Board of Public Works. The current fair rental value of land for 2019 is as follows: $1.46/square foot for Seasonal Permits; $1.76/square foot for Annual Permits.
In addition, if alcohol will be served in the outdoor dining area, you must receive approval from Common Council, which meets the First Wednesday of each month at 6:00 PM. Applications must be turned in to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Works at 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 prior to the Wednesday the week prior to the meeting. Any applications received after the listed deadlines will be held until the following month's Council meeting.
Please contact Kathy Servoss at (607) 274-6527 or kservoss@cityofithaca.org if you have any questions or concerns.
Street Entertainment is defined as all entertainment performed on The Commons including but not limited to acting, singing, playing musical instruments without amplified sound, pantomime, juggling, magic, ballooning, dancing and reciting.
Performance Area Locations are indicated on the Commons Amenities Map with "B" markings. Keep your permit with you at all times.
Performance Times are 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Performances are limited to 45 minutes per location, at which time you must rotate to another empty location. Performance Restrictions will be enforced during programmed events & activities. No permits will be issued on those days.
The right to act as a street performer on the Ithaca Commons is a privilege. Entertainers are expected to respect the right of pedestrians to move freely along the Commons and businesses to operate without undue disturbance by entertainment outside their premises. The volume of a performance must be reduced upon request or the performer will be asked to vacate from the site. Entertainers may encourage donations but may not aggressively solicit them.
Carts may be used to transport performance materials but they cannot remain at the performance site. The street performer needs to be able to move quickly and completely to the next space.
Street performers may sell items that directly pertain to their art (i.e. CDs, t-shirts, etc.). They may not sell any other items or items for other performers.
City of Ithaca Municipal Code §157-18, entitled "Commons," require that businesses obtain an External Speaker Permit in order to have a sound system installed and used on the outside of the business. There is no fee for the permit; however, the Commons Advisory Board must review and approve the application. The Board meets the First Monday of each month at 8:30 a.m. in Council Chambers on the Third Floor of 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca.
Pursuant to Chapter 157 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code entitled "Commons", owners and tenants of buildings on the Primary Commons, whose only access is through the Primary Commons may apply for a Dog Permit to walk their animal on a leash or in a carrier to and from their residence or building. No more than two (2) permits shall be issued for each residential or commercial unit. This permit is not transferable, and is valid for the duration of the owner's lease or ownership of the premises on the Commons or for a period of one year, whichever is shorter.
For businesses that require the presence of animals to perform the function of the business, animals are limited to the area between the premises and the closest of the three Primary Commons entrances. One permit shall cover the business and all of its customers.


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World Premiere – "Attack On Titan" Season 3 to Screen in US & Canadian Theaters
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Funimation Acquires "Attack On Titan" Season 3
International Hit Anime Series Scheduled to Premiere in July 2018 in Japan Attack On Titan returns for a third season much faster than our wait for season 2 was. There is no doubt that Attack On Titan has been a huge hit, both as manga and as an anime. Some feel its over-hyped but others […]
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Attack On Titan Season 2 Blu-Ray Review
After the first season of Attack On Titan made waves in western markets, it finally returns. After a very long wait for a second season fans were excited and upset. The second season was only 12 episodes, compared to the 25 episode first season. However, unlike the long wait for season 2, season 3 is […]
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Most Anticipated Returning Anime In 2018
The winter anime season is under way and 2018 is shaping up to be another jam packed year. 2018 promises to bring back some long awaited returns (and some short) of existing anime series. We go through our list of most anticipated returning anime in 2018. From titans attacking humans, to super heroes saving the […]
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Attack On Titan Season 3 – New Visual & Date Revealed
At the end of the finale episode for Attack On Titan season 2, the new season was confirmed as 2018, proving our theory of an announcement right after season 2 ended. Nothing more specific had been given at the time but Funimation revealed today on their Attack On Titan Facebook page that the new season […]
Attack On Titan Season 3 – Date Confirmed
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Giveaway – McFarlane Toys 'Mikasa' Attack On Titan Figure
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Q: Fubini theorem on integral with brownian motion Consider $X_t = \int_0^t \int_0^t B_s B_r ds dr$
Computing $E[X_t]$ yields swapping integrals: $$E[X_t] = \int_0^t \int_0^t E[B_s B_r] ds dr $$
Why am I allowed to do this using Fubini's thereom?
I do not quite get which requirements are met in detail.

A: For $r<s$ we have $$E|B_r||B_s|\leq E|B_r|[|B_r|+|B_s-B_r|]$$ $$=r+E|B_r|E|B_s-B_r|$$ $$=r+\sqrt r E|X|+\sqrt {s-r} E|Y|$$ where $X,Y \sim N(0,1)$. [I have taken $X=\frac  1{\sqrt r} B_r$ and $Y=\frac  1{\sqrt {s-r}} B_{s-r}$]. Hence $E|B_r||B_s|$ is bounded and you can apply Fubini/Tonelli Theorem to finish.


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Globalists Warn A Deadly Pandemic Could Sweep The World In Hours, Killing Millions: Here Are Some All-Natural Remedies To Help You Survive And Avoid Big Pharma's Poisons
- What Do The Globalists Know About 'Disease X' That We Don't Know?
According to this new story over at the Daily Mail, a new scientific study has determined that a deadly pandemic could sweep the world in hours and kill millions because NO country is fully prepared and while the United States stands head and shoulders above most of the rest of the world when it comes to 'preparedness' for such an 'event', given how fast the pandemic would spread, even the US and other countries with advanced health care systems would struggle.
Reporting within their story that scientists believe the mass outbreak of a flu-like illness is inevitable and it could spread worldwide within hours because of the inter-connectedness of the world in 2019 and a constantly travelling population, the sobering report put out by scientists from Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security called the 'Global Health Security (GHS) index' recommends that governments should immediately invest money into putting preparations in place, also doing pandemic simulation exercises.
Also reporting that only 13 countries even have the resources and medical 'know how' to put up a fight against what they call an 'inevitable' outbreak, with the US ranked #1 in preparedness followed by the UK, Holland, Australia, Canada and Thailand, the DM story warns "a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere" while sharing the map seen below, warning that numerous diseases could trigger an outbreak that rapidly spirals out of control. From the Daily Mail story.:
The report, named A World At Risk, said current efforts to prepare for outbreaks in the wake of crises such as Ebola are 'grossly insufficient'.
It was headed by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Norwegian prime minister and director-general of the WHO.
He said in the report: 'The threat of a pandemic spreading around the globe is a real one. '
A quick-moving pathogen has the potential to kill tens of millions of people, disrupt economies and destabilise national security.'
He claimed that previous recommendations about the threat of a global pandemic have been largely ignored by world leaders.
The team drew up a map of the world with a list of possible infections which could trigger the hypothetical outbreak.
So with globalist scientists hinting a major outbreak of a deadly disease that could rapidly kill 10's of millions is inevitable, we'll be taking a look below at two new stories over at Natural News titled "Survival Medicine: Basic Tips And Supplies For A Pandemic" as well as "Survival Medicine: Home Remedies For Digestive Problems, The Flu And Stress Relief" to help get us prepared for what the globalists are warning is ahead while also taking a look at numerous all natural solutions to help us avoid 'big pharmas' vaccines that are sure to emerge once 'disease X' arrives.
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In the 1st video at the bottom of this story titled "BrisScience (October 2019): Pathogens, Pandemics and Preparing for Disease X" we're warned why the outbreak of a new disease could spread so quickly and be so deadly, with the World Health Organization refering to these currently unknown pathogens as 'Disease X'.
As we hear in the video, a Conference at the University of Queensland in Australia, once 'Disease X' arrrives, it'll take perhaps thousands or more tests to develop a 'vaccine' for the newly emerged disease, taking as long as 16 weeks or more before one could be developed, hence one of the reasons why they feel it will spread so rapidly.
And while I choose to avoid any vaccine as if it were the plague, instead focusing upon building up my immune system naturally and eating foods regulary such as raw garlic, which has been determined to be not only anti-viral but anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-microbial and anti-protozoal, as this October of 2018 story over at Natural News reported, it's very simple to make our own antibiotic garlic tincture that can kill almost any diseases with garlic also happening to be anti-cancer according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.
So while many will be lining up to take whatever vaccine that the globalists develop to deal with whatever 'Disease X' turns out to be, we'll be using the best all natural anti-biotic, anti-viral around. From this Natural News story.:
During the time of the pioneers, most natural cures were made from local herbs and plants. They often used garlic (Allium sativum) to make herbal remedies, and this article will discuss a potent antibiotic garlic tincture that even modern preppers can use to treat various ailments like a cold or skin infections. (h/t to PreppersWill.com.)
Making the antibiotic garlic tincture
Garlic is a popular superfood for a reason. It has powerful antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral properties. The Chinese first discovered that garlic is also an immune stimulant and an effective antioxidant.
This antibiotic garlic tincture is a potent infusion of garlic in distilled water, grain alcohol, or vinegar. Garlic has many health benefits thanks to allicin, but the antibacterial agent is only active for a short period after garlic is crushed and before it is heated.
The chemical compound allicin is derived from the amino acid cysteine. Allicin is odorless but it also contains sulfur. (Related: Yummy superfoods that even beginner gardeners can plant today.)
To retain the allicin content of garlic while making this tincture, the bulbs are macerated or steeped in one of the liquids listed above to preserve the potent chemicals. The recipe below is similar to the one used by pioneers, although it incorporates some modern ingredients like distilled water.
While you can read the rest of the Natural News story here on how to go about creating the garlic tincture, and it's very, very easy, the final video at the bottom of this story also provides a detailed explanation.
Also from Natural News in this story titled "Survival medicine: Basic tips and supplies for a pandemic":
When prepping for a pandemic, here are a few things you need to know:
Know the symptoms. Not all diseases work the same way, so it's important to learn which condition is currently on the rise and its symptoms.
Wear protective gear. Wearing protective clothing like coverall suits, gloves, and masks can help quell the spread of disease, especially when dealing with outsiders.
Keep a stockpile of food and water. The baseline of every prepping plan is keeping a steady supply of food and water available.
Learn how to use essential oils. These elixirs in a bottle have a very long shelf life and are commonly used to treat basic ailments. Essential oils can also ward off sickness and germs when diffused into the air.
Stock up on entertainment. Being locked up inside your own home for a long time can cause some people to get bored. Having a bunch of board games, party games, and even video games can help keep everyone entertained.
Set up sanitation stations. Areas allotted for sanitation supplies should be spread out throughout the home, especially near entrances. These should be used regularly to keep everything clean.
Being aware of the situation and preparing well is what every prepper needs to do to survive when SHTF. If you're well-prepared, a pandemic is just another hurdle for you to get over. Read Pandemic.news to stay informed.
The title of this October 26th story over at Natural News is "Survival medicine: Home remedies for digestive problems, the flu and stress relief" within which author 'Isabelle Z' offers us some outstanding suggestions on how to deal with certain illnesses, diseases if we don't trust doctors or don't like going to medical facilities.
Reporting immediately that if we fall into one of those categories, we're definitely not alone with millions of Americans no longer trusting the medical system that seemingly only wants to enrich 'big pharma', as their story reports, there are thankfully some very good alternatives to traditional medicines and as the previously mentioned Natural News story pointed out, remedies going back to the time of the pioneers and long before.
If you've come to distrust conventional medicine, you're not alone. The questionable side effects and poor efficacy of these drugs have many people turning to alternative treatments. While home remedies are certainly a more attractive option right now, they could become downright essential in a collapse situation. Now is the perfect time to start learning how to address common problems without heading for the pharmacy.
Home remedies are natural, inexpensive, and generally safe, but perhaps one of their biggest draws is how accessible they are. In fact, there's a good chance you already have the things you need to heal in your kitchen.
While their story then details for us home remedies for digestive problems, cold and flu and stress, even the NY Times had reported all the way back in 1979 that in 16th‐century France, garlic was worn in little pouches around people's necks to ward off the plague while Louis Pasteur experimented with garlic as an antiseptic. And Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint‐Pierre is quoted in the Larousse Gastronomique as having said that "garlic, the smell of which is so dreaded by our little mistresses, is perhaps the most powerful remedy in existence against the vapors and nervous maladies to which they are subject."
And although we don't have all of the answers, and we're not medical doctors, with globalists now warning of a fast moving pandemic that could kill millions in no time at all, while claiming that no country is fully prepared to deal with such a scenario, it's in our own best interests to be fully prepared for whatever is unleashed because the government/medical industry certainly aren't going to save us.
So we'll close with an excerpt from this story over at Medical News Today titled "Top Seven Safe, Effective Natural Antibiotics" to help get us ready for a time when 'Disease X' arrives and big government begins pushing 'big pharmas' poisonous vaccines on to the masses as 'the only solution'.
The scientific jury is still out concerning natural antibiotics. While people have used remedies like these for hundreds of years, most treatments have not been thoroughly tested.
However, some show promising results under medical review, and further studies are underway.
With an ongoing increase in drug-resistant bacteria, scientists are looking to nature when developing new medications.
Here, we examine the science behind seven natural antibiotics.
1. Garlic. Cultures across the world have long recognized garlic for its preventive and curative powers. (ANP: Both Susan and I swear by this garlic as it has gotten rid of tooth infections and other illnesses!)
2. Honey. Since the time of Aristotle, honey has been used as an ointment that helps wounds to heal and prevents or draws out infection.
3. Ginger. The scientific community also recognizes ginger as a natural antibiotic. Several studies, including one published in 2017, have demonstrated ginger's ability to fight many strains of bacteria. Researchers are also exploring ginger's power to combat seasickness and nausea and to lower blood sugar levels.
4. Echinacea. Echinacea has been used to treat infections for many years. Native American and other traditional healers have used echinacea for hundreds of years to treat infections and wounds.
5. Goldenseal. Goldenseal is usually consumed in tea or capsules to treat respiratory and digestive problems. However, it may also combat bacterial diarrhea and urinary tract infections.
6. Clove. Clove has traditionally been used in dental procedures. Research is now finding that clove water extract may be effective against many different kinds of bacteria, including E. coli.
7. Oregano. Some believe that oregano boosts the immune system and acts as an antioxidant. It may have anti-inflammatory properties.
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The Durham studio of global design and architecture firm Perkins+Will recently earned Fitwel certification, becoming the first workplace in North Carolina to demonstrate its commitment to employee health and well-being in this way.
Fitwel was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. General Services Administration, and is administered by the nonprofit Center for Active Design. The certification process includes an evidence-based assessment to examine workplace features and programs that promote occupant health and well-being, such as proximity to public transit, on-site fitness facilities, indoor air quality, and healthy food standards. Perkins+Will is the first U.S. company to pursue Fitwel certification for all its North American and European offices.
The Durham studio of Perkins+Will, located in the landmark Legacy Tower building, provides an open and collaborative workspace with abundant daylight penetrating the entire studio. The use of sit-to-stand desks and the arrangement of teaming spaces within the studio creates a flexible work environment that encourages activity, creativity, and collaboration. A wellness room gives employees a quiet space to relax and recharge. The walkable and bike-friendly urban location offers easy access to the nearby Durham Station Transportation Center and the bustling cafes, shops, and cultural sites of one of America's fastest-growing small cities.
To date, Perkins+Will has registered or achieved certification for 17 of its U.S. and European offices. The firm also employs 13 Fitwel Ambassadors, who serve as advisors to clients on the healthy building movement, certification, and the evidence-based connection between design and health.


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The Wickedness of Eisav
Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9)
by Rabbi Zvi Belovski
Much of this week's Torah portion is concerned with the relationship between Yaakov and Eisav. At the end of the portion, after the incident with the blessings, we learn something about Eisav which is quite fundamental to properly understanding his character. Eisav felt that he should have received the primary blessing from his father, but had instead been cheated by Yaakov. He was extremely upset with Yaakov and resolved to kill him for his "theft" of the blessing.
While Yaakov fled from his brother's wrath, Eisav found himself a new wife:
Eisav saw that the daughters of Canaan were wicked in the eyes of Yitzchak, his father. Eisav went to Yishmael and took as a wife Machlas the daughter of Yishmael, the son of Avraham, the sister of Nevayos, in addition to his wives. (Bereishis 28:8-9)
We may suggest that the sequence of events is crucial. Eisav felt cheated and, in response, decided to marry a new wife. He thought that changing his wife would improve his bad fortune!
It is understood that if events do not go exactly as planned in one's life, then the appropriate action is to contemplate one's personality and embark on a course of self-improvement. Perhaps one has not been living up to one's responsibilities, and God is dealing with one accordingly. Self-improvement is the key to an improved lot in life.
All of this, however, was beyond Eisav's comprehension. He was thoroughly wicked and could not imagine that anything he could possibly have done himself could have caused his misfortune. He thus looked outside himself to rectify the situation. To him, the problem was completely external - and the obvious place to look was at his wives. He thus found a new wife immediately after the incident of the blessings.
This catastrophic character defect - the inability to even consider that one has flaws - was inherent in Eisav's name. The name "Eisav" has the same letters (and basic meaning) as the Hebrew word asui (made; completed). This indicates that Eisav was a man who felt no need for self-improvement whatsoever - he was perfect, complete in every way. Indeed, the gematriah (numerical value) of "Eisav" is 376, which is the same as that of shalom (peace; wholeness). Eisav was entirely at peace with himself. He did not and could not feel the discord that every normal human experiences - the realization that one is not perfect and must improve.
Just before Eisav returned to his father to discover that Yaakov had already received the blessings, we learn:
And Eisav came from his hunting (Bereishis 27:30) - Eisav was armed to entrap his soul. (Bereishis Rabbah 66:5)
It is not entirely clear whose soul is referred to by this midrash. We may suggest that it is Yaakov's soul which Eisav was intending to trap. At this stage, before he knew that he had been usurped by his brother, Eisav believed that he could have everything - he would eventually ensnare and eliminate Yaakov and remain the chosen son, inheriting everything, both spiritual and physical, from his father. But when he entered his father's room and discovered that Yaakov had already received the spiritual blessings, his world fell apart; he would ultimately remain secondary to Yaakov and his descendants. At that moment, Eisav should have realized that he was at fault, that this calamity had befallen him through his own personal deficiencies. Instead, as we have said, he turned not to himself but to his family, for in his mind, the problem must have originated with them and not with him.
Indeed, when Eisav remarried, his calculation was quite careful. He reasoned that he must have made an error in wedding the daughters of Canaan, for they were forever cursed. This error must have caused his misfortune. So he turned instead to his uncle, Yishmael, to find a new wife. He assumed that since Yishmael was a relative, indeed a descendant of Avraham Avinu, who had received his own blessing, then marrying his daughter would restore his lost fortune. We know that Eisav intended to kill Yaakov and perhaps was confident that Yaakov would be spiritually damaged by his encounter with Lavan. In Eisav's mind, remarrying and intending to kill his brother were all that were necessary to ensure that life would continue as before.
It is intriguing to note that Eisav did not even divorce his existing wives. As we saw, the Torah indicates that Eisav married Machlas in addition to his existing, Canaanite wives. Despite their unsavory behavior (we saw above that Yitzchak hated them), the only fault that Eisav could find in them was their yichus (family background). It didn't worry him that they were evil people, so he just married a new wife for child-bearing purposes while retaining the old ones. Once the minor problem of his future children's yichus was dealt with, Eisav felt that he had no need for further action.
YAAKOV IN CONTRAST
We can demonstrate that this character description of Eisav was precisely the opposite of that of Yaakov. Yaakov's name means "heel," and the name of a person always describes his essence. Yaakov imagined himself as a "heel" - a lowly person, someone who could achieve much more for himself. He was a climber, always prepared to engage in self-improvement and self-criticism. Our Sages tell us:
Anyone who refers to Avraham as Avram [his original name] has transgressed a positive command, but anyone who refers to Yisrael as Yaakov [God gave Yaakov the additional name of Yisrael] has not transgressed, as the Torah itself calls him by this name later on. (Berachos 13a)
While the name "Yaakov" means "heel," the name "Yisrael" derives its meaning from "striving with God and men and prevailing." It is a name which indicates that Yaakov had achieved very great success in all of his endeavors. My holy father explained the above statement of our Sages to mean that even after Yaakov became Yisrael, he still saw himself as a "heel"; he was still prepared to realize that continuous self-assessment and development was the only way to a meaningful existence. While in God's eyes and the eyes of those around him Yaakov was now Yisrael, in his own eyes he remained firmly Yaakov.
There is a great message in this for all of us. We must take to heart the difference between Yaakov's existence and that of Eisav. Eisav's inherent downfall was his refusal - his inability - to appreciate that when life didn't work out for him he should examine his own lifestyle and make improvements. Yaakov, our role model, realized that this ability to scrutinize one's actions and change accordingly is the key to a valuable Jewish life.
Excerpted from Shem MiShmuel by the Sochatchover Rebbe, rendered into English by Rabbi Zvi Belovski, published by Targum Press. Click here to order.
Rabbi Zvi Belovski
Rabbi Zvi Belovski is the Rav of the Golders Green Synagogue in London. He received Semicha from Gateshead Yeshivah and attended University College, Oxford. A popular speaker and counsellor, Rabbi Belovski is active in Jewish outreach; he teaches at the Jewish Learning Exchange (Ohr Somayach) and the London School of Jewish Studies, and serves as Rabbinic Mentor for British campus rabbis across the country. He is the author of Shem MiShmuel: Selections on the weekly parashah and festivals. His special areas of interest include the study of Midrash, contemporary Jewish Law, Polish Chassidic thought, and he is particularly interested in the writings of the Rebbes of Sochaczew and Ishbitz. Rabbi Belovski lives in Golders Green with his wife and family.
(1) Andy, November 17, 2009 12:55 PM
difficult to believe and if true troubling?
with parents and grandparents and a brother he had it's tragic and it seems to me too simplistic to put all the blame on Eisav. The ability to even consider that one has flaws needs to be taught. Don't parents and teachers have an obligation to educate a child that this is the human condition and we are on earth to grow our character? With parents and a society that cater to ego no surprise Paro and others thought they were perfect but Eisav?
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Q: How to get windows boot loader back I uninstalled ubuntu 32 bit to get ubuntu 64 bit but when I did that when I turn on  my pc when I try to go to windows and get a black screen that just blinks and I do not have a windows disk

A: Grub will still work for you, all you need to do is give it a new place to store its files (since the original place was on the Ubuntu partition).  Windows machines frequently have several FAT partitions for recovery or tools, any of which will work to store the grub files.  Suppose you have a FAT partition on sda1,  just add a directory "boot" and install grub with that as the  boot-directory. Run the Ubuntu live media, mount the FAT partition in /mnt, so you see /mnt/boot  (make the boot directory now if you haven't already).  Then install grub there
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda

This should pick up Windows and result in a bootable system.


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Colombian Cardinal asks employers to respect dignity of the their employees
In his message for Labor Day (celebrated in many parts of the world on May 1, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker), Cardinal Pedro Rubiano, Archbishop of Bogota, called on authorities and business leaders to renew their "commitment and obligation to respect the dignity of their employees" because "the dignity of each employee is inalienable."
The Cardinal explained that "the international celebration of labor day and the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1st, provides us an opportunity to greet with special affection all workers in Colombia."
"The Church recognizes and values the importance and dignity of human work as a source of progress and social wellbeing, as it constitutes a fundamental dimension of the existence of man on the earth," said the Cardinal, adding that "this was the reason why Pope Pius XII in 1952 wanted to offer Christian workers a model and protector in the person of the glorious Patriarch St. Joseph, in his role as worker."
"God has ordained and blessed work," he continued, and He has "given man intelligence and a way to continue His work." Nevertheless, "throughout history, these concepts have been clouded and workers have been denied their fundamental rights, such as the right to employment and to a just wage."
Cardinal Rubiano said that "therefore, as shepherds, we implore that the feast of May 1st be a time of reflection for business leaders: they have the commitment and the obligation to recognize the dignity of their workers, making them participants of the benefits that the funds and the company provide."
"As Christians, we contemplate blessed St. Joseph the Worker, model and example for workers, and united as Colombians we congratulate all workers, with whom we maintain the hope that social justice will become a reality, so that food will always be on the table and love and peace in our hearts and families," he added.
On the other hand, the Cardinal expressed his "concern for children involved in the work of adults; for women whose labor rights are trampled upon; those who have been displaced or are unemployed and who aspire to live in equality and justice."
Therefore, he added, "We invite all Colombians to celebrate May 1, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker and international labor day, by raising a white flag over homes, places of worship and all buildings, or by carrying a white handkerchief in labor day marches, as a clear sign of peaceful resistance to violence, kidnapping and injustice and as a symbol of our commitment to the promotion of peace."
"On this day we pray as well that the Lord might look upon us with kindness and bless us with gift of Peace," the Cardinal concluded.


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Lakers 93, Sixers 81: Dec. 17 Diary
Published by Mike Trudell on December 17, 20106:27 pm in Running Diary.
Below is a running diary of L.A.'s Friday evening road game at Philadelphia, the fifth of a six-game trek through the Midwest and East Coast, with some comments drawn from our @LakersReporter Twitter account, and a few more details in case you missed any of the action:
Lakers: Fisher, Bryant, Artest, Odom and Gasol
Sixers: J. Holiday, J. Meeks, A. Iguodala, E. Brand, S. Hawes
5:51 It was a cold, snowy day in Philadelphia, and the two teams apparently felt the weather on the floor as they combined to miss their first nine combined shots. But while the Lakers got going, scoring eight straight points, the Sixers had yet to score a single point in the first 5:09 of action, prompting Coach Doug Collins's first time out. L.A. was exposing a matchup advantage with Ron Artest being guarded by Jodie Meeks, since Meeks was too small to guard Kobe (Iggy took him).
2:33 The 76ers put Andre Nocioni in the game, and that matchup and energy change quickly led to a 15-6 run for Philly, leading to Phil Jackson's time out. Philly has been playing quite well of late, winning three straight and 7-of-10, showing L.A. a lil' something after the slow start.
0:00 Six turnovers and 33 percent shooting didn't help the Lakers much in the latter half of the quarter, and a 21-18 deficit was the result. No player had more than four points, as the Killer B's plus Odom and Andrew Bynum took the floor to start the second.
7:17 Remember how the Sixers couldn't score at the start of the game? It happened again, this time thanks in part to Bynum's presence in the paint, while the Lakers reeled off a 9-0 run capped by Odom's baseline bucket. The Lakers' second unit was simply much better than Philly's, as should be the case on nearly every NBA night. Philly finally scored on a put-back after Bynum forced a miss, but Odom answered with two free throws.
2:04 The whistles weren't coming for action in the paint, and Gasol didn't like it after taking a shove. During a time out, he approached the ref, but Phil Jackson intercepted him and instructed him to go to the bench. Generally, Jackson likes Gasol to push back when he takes a hit, and generally, Gasol responds to whatever criticism or instruction he receives. Sure enough, he came out of the time out to score seven straight points, including a difficult and-1 despite a hard foul. That's why he's an All Star, and Jackson a Hall of Famer.
0:00 The Lakers went on their third big run of the game, this time at 9-0, to take a 44-39 lead into the half. Gasol and Odom combined for more than half of those points (24 total) while Bryant took only five shots, making two. L.A. held Philly to 37 percent from the field towards those 39 points.
5:57 While the Sixers got the best of the first half of the third, Bryant's leaning jumper in the lane tied the score at 53, Philly having made up six points thanks in large part to Spencer Hawes, who had reached a game-high 16 points, and blocked Gasol twice under the rim. In came Bynum for his second stint, seeing if he could solidify L.A.'s paint as he had in the second quarter.
3:00 Perhaps due to a sore pinky that got cracked in the first half, Bryant hadn't looked for his own shot at all, taking only 10 to that point and making three for nine points.
1:00 A super loud, impromptu "MVP!" chant broke out around Wells Fargo Center, but it wasn't for Philly native Kobe Bryant. Nope, Eagles QB Michael Vick strolled in, and the crowd went absolutely nuts. As in, standing ovation, throwing adoration around. The Sixers used the energy boost to close the quarter on a 7-2 run, opening a 62-58 lead at the quarter break.
8:18 We probably haven't given Matt Barnes enough credit for his consistently good play this season. He kept it right up in Philly, grabbing his eighth rebound in 19 minutes after hitting two free throws, and then sprinting to the other end to nail a corner three. That got him to 10 points, and gave the Lakers a 71-64 lead. Moments later, he'd give L.A. their biggest lead at nine by finishing a pretty cut to the hoop thanks to Odom's pass.
5:03 It was quickly becoming the Barnes and Odom show for L.A., the collective energy on the wings propelling L.A. a 29-10 edge to open the fourth. Odom shot up to a season-high 26 points, with nine in the period, while Barnes was everywhere in scoring nine himself (15 total) plus grabbing five boards (nine total) in nearly putting the game away, the score at 87-72.
0:00 That would be all, the Lakers turning on the jets in a big way in the fourth by outscoring Philly 35-19 when it counted to win 93-81. That's four straight road wins, improving the team to 20-7. Up next is the final game of the trip, in Toronto, before the team mercifully returns to Los Angeles. Until then, your numbers:
POSTGAME NUMBERS
28 Season-high in points scored by Lamar Odom, who was terrific throughout the contest. Odom added eight boards and three assists, continuing to play the really good hoop he'd been offering all season.
18 Total points scored by Odom and Matt Barnes … in the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter … to put the game away for the Lakers.
9 Points totaled by Kobe Bryant, who appeared to have hurt his pinky in the first half trying to catch a Pau Gasol pass. He took 11 shots for the game, instead setting teammates up while drawing Philly's attention, which Odom in particular took advantage of.
3 Three-pointers made by the Lakers in the fourth quarter after missing all 12 attempts in the first three periods.
2 Lakers double-doubles, from Barnes and Gasol, the Spaniard going for 19 and 13 plus two blocks and three assists.


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Florida Man Stabs Son Over Stolen Can of Lima Beans
A Florida man was facing attempted murder charges Saturday after allegedly stabbing his son over a can of missing lima beans, local broadcaster Bay News 9 reported.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A Florida man was facing attempted murder charges Saturday after allegedly stabbing his son over a can of missing lima beans, local broadcaster Bay News 9 reported.
Police said they responded to a home in St. Petersburg, Fla., at around 10:00am Friday on a report of a stabbing. When officers arrived on the scene they found 26-year-old Donald Gilley suffering from several stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.
His father, 54-year-old Donald Wynn, told police he had stabbed his son with a pocket knife because he believed Gilley had stolen a can of lima beans and other belongings from him.
Wynn was booked into jail and charged with attempted murder in the first degree.
His son was taken to a local hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. He was still in critical condition Saturday.
A police report said Wynn and Gilley did not have a relationship until recently, and had only lived together as of about a month ago.
Their landlord, Ramses Khan, said Wynn was "on medication and was a little off."
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