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The Merge in Crypto Can Change Your Life.
By Evans & Company Blog, Cryptocurrency, Investing, Markets, Press, Wealth Management
While the Internet and how we interact digitally are being disrupted, you can build transformative wealth.
Total read time: 9 minutes
I missed the boat on the most significant bull run in financial history. My financial expertise and insights were born & bred at large wealth management firms. I was conditioned to scoff at new economic ideas like Bitcoin. Now, I have my firm. I'm integrating crypto market ideas into a traditional portfolio. And what an exciting time to do so.
Introducing, The Merge. I'm not going to miss this ride. And when you're done reading this, neither will you.
To appreciate the potential opportunity ahead of us, here's what we missed in numbers.
I learned about Bitcoin from a 22-year-old on rideshare in an Uber. He asked if he could run something by me after I told him what I did for a living. He bought "something" for $0.40, and the price was now $500. In other words, his $400 investment in Bitcoin became $500,000. He asked me if it was real. I had never seen anything like it. He was afraid to touch it. I said the only way to know its objective is to try to cash it out. By now, he knows it's real. But when did he know it was real? Did he sell it at $500? Did he sell it in a panic during the Pandemic when it was $6,200? If so, he would have earned $6.2 million on a $400 investment.
You know what it is, but you probably don't know how it works. To fully understand The Merge, you need to know. Bitcoin is a decentralized currency. The government does not print it. It's not borrowed from a bank. In other words, there are no intermediaries between you and Bitcoin, as there are with cash. Intermediaries take fees and charge interest on money. They report large cash deposits to the government so that they can assess taxes. But when you turn your cash into Bitcoin, you can also liquidate your Bitcoin for money without any "middlemen." A ledger is the only record of your transaction of the coin. It's called the blockchain. And you are a number on the blockchain, not a name. You are anonymous.
The Birth of Ethereum
The heart of Bitcoin's success is the blockchain. It allows every transaction to be anonymous. Every new transaction is a new link in the chain. The blockchain is designed, managed, and stored on large custom servers.
Three years after the birth of Bitcoin, a group of programmers figured this out. They created their blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, they decided their blockchain would not be exclusive. They would create a blockchain that anybody can use to make their currency. It's called Ethereum. It's more than just a coin.
Unlike Bitcoin, it's an ecosystem.
The Birth of Decentralized Finance (Defi), ICOs & NFTs.
Many apps and cryptocurrencies have been formed on the Ethereum blockchain. Decentralized Financial Applications (called "DApps") are the most disruptive. In the same way, there are no banking intermediaries with Bitcoin. There are no merchant intermediaries with DApps.
To listen to music, we must go through a streaming platform. They charge a monthly fee and pay the artists a tiny royalty rate. With DApps, the artist can bypass streaming platforms entirely. You don't need to apply if you need a loan. You can skip the bank to get a mortgage within minutes. There are "open banks" on the blockchain where you can "deposit" your currency. These crypto banks lend money against your "wallet" like a regular bank and pay you part of the interest.
The Ethereum blockchain has also been programmed to create smart contracts. These agreements are binding, like ones drafted by an attorney. These contracts allowed companies to raise capital to grow their company through their cryptocurrency. It's called an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). In the contracts, they offer ownership in the company. And sometimes, it's special offers, discounts, and memberships to coin holders.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are similar. The asset behind the token is not a company. When you own an NFT, you own something unique. Artwork, music, memorabilia, or exclusive video. Owning an NFT gives you membership, special access to the artists, a share of the royalty, licensing of the underlying work, and even a percentage of the proceeds from selling the underlying asset.
Like a stock, you can buy and sell your ICO and NFT token to a third party, in a secondary market, like Open Sea. With Bitcoin and Ethereum, you buy and sell your coin directly from them on their blockchain.
Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake
Everything I mentioned above has not gone mainstream yet. The electricity costs to manage high storage servers and mint coins for an ecosystem are too expensive and exhaust too many resources. It's so bad that China had to stop crypto miners in their country. Minting coins and running servers were overwhelming the electric grid and creating blackouts. It's also happening in California. The state has passed this cost on to taxpayers as a gas tax. The tax is the highest in the nation. Their mandate to be green energy independent will make it worse. But I digress.
Minting coins is called proof of work. When you pay cash for Bitcoin, you get a currency that is registered on its blockchain. But that's one coin on one blockchain. Imagine multiple coins on one blockchain. Rising costs have become a barrier to creating currency on the Ethereum blockchain.
In response, programmers have created new blockchains based on proof of stake. With this development, you don't need to mint a coin to be on the blockchain. The community on the blockchain validates your ownership. Once they do, the servers create a new link. This eliminates the rising costs and exhausting of resources of minting coins.
Solana is the blockchain responsible for this new development. The coin is widely known in the crypto market as the "Ethereum Killer." Just like Ethereum, many applications can be created from it. This development has helped Solana win growing favor with ICO issuers and NFT creators. The coin has greatly increased in value.
The Merge
It was always believed that once a blockchain was created, it was permanent. For Ethereum to compete with Solana, it would have to merge its proof of work protocol with a proof of stake protocol.
This is impossible.
So, we thought.
Turns out, by Sept. 13, 2022, the Ethereum blockchain will merge with proof of stake, eventually phasing out proof of work completely.
This Transforms The Entire Crypto Market.
Bitcoin & Ethereum own 62% market share of the total crypto market. The Ethereum ecosystem of apps and cryptocurrencies is a big part of that percentage.
This merge doesn't just affect the Ethereum currency but the entire ecosystem.
All the Decentralized Finance applications I mentioned above will start to accelerate their plans to launch and execute.
And with this market share, Solana, and other coins like them, become a moot point and begin to lose value. Large investors like Elon Musk and Tesla are already pulling out of Bitcoin. The only cryptocurrency holding all the upside now is Ethereum, and all the coins are built on their blockchain.
At the time of this writing, Bitcoin is currently $21,000. Ethereum is at $1,600. I believe Ethereum will one day surpass Bitcoin in price. Merging with a proof of stake protocol cuts costs and conserves natural resources. It is a profit and a sustainable environment investment opportunity. The only thing stopping Ethereum's momentum is government regulators. But the nature of the crypto market makes regulation difficult. China already has a "digital currency." The United States is taking steps in that direction. It may accelerate. The government can only regulate crypto markets by phasing out cash.
The only way around that is to hold cash in a different currency. My custodian partner allows my clients to buy and sell stock in other global currencies. This is what makes my firm unique in this area.
Go out and buy Ethereum. How much? Depends on your risk tolerance. It is still speculative by nature. If you're feeling you caught a case of FOMO, good. Me and you both. I'm not going to miss these opportunities again. Neither should you.
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Why you shouldn't panic in a recession
By Evans & Company Blog, Inflation, Investing, Markets
In this newsletter, I will share why I don't panic in a market downturn. I sleep well at night, and my clients do too. I used my training in quantitative economics to make investments based on a thesis of how I see the world. The result is three proven, time-tested insights to protect your portfolio in recession and the next.
In 2009 I took responsibility for managing my client's portfolios. I found it challenging to get explanations and action steps on the Great Recession from the institutional money managers I hired. So I fired them and began to use macro thematic insights to create a foundation of stability in my clients' portfolios that could weather a stormy market.
Global Exposure through Property & Casualty Insurance Industry
In a recession, companies quickly lay off workers to cut costs and slash budgets across their business units like marketing and operations. Where they don't cut costs, however, are the lines of insurance that cover the cost of settling lawsuits and protecting their assets such as plants, equipment, and real estate from human error and natural disasters.
This protection is in the form of property casualty insurance.
The BRICs–Brazil, Russia India and China are some of the most rapidly growing economies in today's world. This has led to an explosion of commercial real estate development and residential home values that have never been higher!
New assets need new liability coverage.
The international financial markets are not as transparent when investing in global growth. It's difficult to find publicly traded companies. However, this makes sense if you're also looking for risk-managed exposure across borders because insurers like AON Corporation (AFL), Chubb Corp.(CB), and Arch Capital Group Incorporated(ACI) all do business in these countries.
Please also note why I didn't mention healthcare.
Health insurance (health care coverage) is a cyclical industry. A health insurer's largest policyholders are small business owners and corporations. When the economy expands, there is an increase in premiums through hires. When they lose premium and sales, layoffs decrease sales. Property & Casualty insures cars, homes, boats, commercial buildings, events, and other properties and assets are typically non-cyclical.
Health Care/Assisted Living
America has been aging for the last 20 years and assisted living facilities have rapidly developed across the country to meet this need. You'll also find that they evolved into diverse facilities with various business models, locations, amenities, and specialized care, such as the disabled elderly and those with Alzheimer's Disease as an example. You can invest in these facilities through a real estate investment trust (REITs), a publicly traded trust of pooled healthcare facilities where the rental income generated from these properties is paid directly to you, the shareholder. Omega Healthcare is one of the largest trusts whose price and rental income remain stable during recession cycles.
E-commerce & Warehousing
Another interesting play in the REIT space is to invest in warehouses that fulfill online orders. E-commerce was already becoming an integral part of our online user experience. Shopping on the Internet, on your phone, and at home accelerated delivery by the Pandemic lockdowns. In another dramatic paradigm shift, the remote work lifestyle was born. This also marks the beginning of The Great Resignation, where people demand more space and flexibility in their work schedules from their employers. Due to this movement, many commercial buildings in New York City have become residential properties. People no longer want to go to the office every day when they can be productive at home. JPMorgan Chase has shuddered hundreds of branches across the country during the pandemic, and they're not likely to return.
With this said, I believe you will also find stability in the REITs market by investing in properties that are in the warehousing and fulfillment of online consumer products like Prologis, which has the largest e-commerce warehousing/fulfillment portfolio in the world.
"Household Name" Companies.
If you're subscribed to my weekly newsletter Macro View™ I have spoken about redefining the notion of "investing in companies with products that you love and use everyday."
Because that is not an investing strategy.
Instead you should think about investing in companies that everybody loves and knows, and as it turns out, those companies have tthe largest percentage of individual investors than any publicly traded company. If you're managing risk, you want as little volatility as possible, and individuals who invest in companies that everyone loves. Because when people love the company they tend to hold on to its stock, and not sell it in a panic. This characteristic tends to cause the volatility (the up and down up and down frequency) to become less than other stocks, even in a down market. They're also the first stocks to recover when the market rallies upward.
Because here's the dirty little secret: volatility is often caused by institutional investors like corporate pension plans, insurance companies, state retirement plans, endowments, and large private foundations who when they trade, do so in large volumes that move the market in a noticeable direction.
I invested in Apple Computer at $6.96 a share in 2007 because I believed that the iPod was just one of many products that would come out of this company, and I believe that there was no other company like it. They also operate on a proprietary technology platform which made it hard to replicate, making their products projectively indispensable. By 2012 Apple stock was as high as $295 a share. I've also recently added Tesla to my portfolio. There's a very large share of individual investors in that stock as well, and they have done two stock splits in the last 2 years, which I and my clients have benefited greatly from.
The growth in these sectors will continue to be strong in the foreseeable future, mostly driven by technology and growing global market share, which makes them long-term keepers in my portfolio. and Management's ability to adapt to disruption.
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We're pleased to announce that we have strengthened our UK creative team, after an increase in requests to deliver full service live events for our global clients.
Three new members have recently joined our Head of Creative, Ian Anderson's team and will be based at our headquarters in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Laura Burnside joins us as Senior Exhibition Designer, Dan Peach as Creative Events Designer, and Ellie Taylor as Junior 3D Designer.
Dan joins from a design consultancy in Derby where his innovative outlook and outstanding graphic design skills were used across a variety of clients and industries, including a well-received campaign aimed at raising awareness of Multiple Sclerosis. As a specialist in branding and corporate identity, Dan will focus on the 2D design elements of the meetings and events for both Ashfield and SPARK clients – from event branding, pop up banners and stage backdrops to information booklets and name badges. Dan also brings animation abilities to our talented in-house team.
Ian Anderson highlights that the addition of three new members couldn't have come at a better time, as we have seen a significant increase in clients requesting full service live events support over the past year.
The creative team expansion follows a succession of new business-wins and growth of existing services for our current Ashfield and SPARK clients, and the whole company is celebrating following our most recent award-win at this year's International Corporate Event (ICE) Awards – 'Most Effective Agency Collaboration' with leading pharmaceutical business, Sanofi UK .
If you're interested in joining our creative team, we are always interested in potential candidates. Send us your CV by clicking here so that we can take a look.


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How will sea level rise impact Stonington? A recent public meeting began the discussion.
It may not be a matter of if but when, and how to plan for it, when it comes to coastal Maine and sea level rise over the coming decades. And Stonington is one waterfront town that is not chancing a wait-and-see approach.
A recent $60,000 Maine Coastal Program Grant from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry has funded a study by GEI Consultants to assess where and how badly a rise of one, two, four or as much as nine or 10 feet could affect the town's infrastructure.
"It's a way to hone in on the particular things that are critical for Stonington and come up with a solution," said GEI engineer Leila Pike to about 20 concerned citizens and town officials at a March 5 public meeting at town hall.
According to a 2017 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study, the mean sea level will rise from a low projection of 1.5 feet to an extreme of 11 feet by the year 2100.
Pike's presentation showed how the study will assess flood risks to critical town infrastructure and ways to adapt in the short-, medium- and long-term, based on 30-year, 50-year and 80-year projections. Areas deemed sensitive to flooding include Main Street, with its pumping stations, Hagen Dock and fire department, Moose Island, Burnt Cove, Oceanville Road and Airport Road. The fish pier is the subject of a separate, grant-funded study and will "probably" be raised two or three feet, Pike said.
"2100 is 80 years from now. How can we plan for that?" asked resident Hilton Turner.
Pike said GEI will consult with the public works department on determining what elevation of flooding might damage a structure, and the study will highlight incremental adaptations, rather than plan for extremes. For example, short-term adaptation for a road covered with water during a storm could be placing signs or flashing lights, while a long-term adaptation could be raising the road itself.
Towards that end, voters approved $25,000 for a Sea Level Rise Reserve Fund at town meeting March 9, that can serve as the town match for future grants.
Once the vulnerabilities assessment is completed, GEI will hold a second public meeting to go over the results before designing adaptive measures, to be presented at a subsequent meeting.
"There are a lot of places in the world where the towns just disappeared," she said.
A Maine Coastal Program Grant will help Stonington adapt to a potential future sea level rise.


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December 15, 2017 Weekly Market Recap
Taxes and Rates. U.S. stocks climbed to new record highs this week as investors digested policy directives from several of the world's most influential central banks and grew increasingly optimistic about the GOP's chances of passing its promised tax overhaul.
The S&P 500 added 0.9%, the Dow advanced 1.3%, and the Nasdaq jumped 1.4%. All three major indices settled Friday's session at fresh record highs.
The Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise the fed funds target range by 25 basis points to 1.25% – 1.50% on Wednesday, as expected.
In addition, the Fed's so-called "dot plot" revealed that the median FOMC member still anticipates three rate hikes in 2018 and two in 2019. Both figures were unchanged from the projections released in September, even though the central bank acknowledged that overall inflation and core inflation have declined this year and are running below 2.0%.
U.S. Treasuries rallied in a curve-flattening trade on Wednesday following the decision, while the U.S. Dollar Index moved sharply lower. The 2yr – 10yr spread ended the week at 52 basis points, which is six basis points below last week's closing level. The U.S. Dollar Index finished the week higher by 0.1% at 93.94.
The flattening of the yield curve weighed on lenders, sending the S&P 500's financial sector lower by 0.1%.
Elsewhere, the European Central Bank decided to leave its key policy rate unchanged, as expected, and reiterated that it will reduce its monthly asset purchases to EUR30 billion (from EUR60 billion) starting in January and continuing through September 2018.
The Bank of England also met this week, voting to leave its key rate at 0.50% and its asset purchase program at GBP435 billion, as expected.
In Washington, House and Senate Republicans reportedly reached an agreement on a final version of their tax reform bill on Wednesday, but Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) pushed for some last minute changes, saying on Thursday that he would vote against the measure unless it further expands the child tax credit for lower income households.
GOP leadership worked to appease Mr. Rubio and earned his support, as well as the support of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), on Friday. With the two Senators on board, it appears that the Republicans have enough support to pass their tax reform bill, but a final vote won't take place until early next week.
On Wall Street, telecom shares within the S&P 500 jumped 4.0% this week, underpinned by the prospect of tax reform and the Federal Communications Commission's decision to roll back the "net neutrality" rules put in place by the Obama administration back in 2015. The rules required broadband providers to treat all internet traffic equally.
In corporate news, Walt Disney (DIS) agreed to purchase select assets from 21st Century Fox (FOXA), including its film division and much of its TV operations, for $52.4 billion in stock. The two companies added 6.8% and 5.1%, respectively.

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How to remove a wall in a contact: several ways
To date, there are few people who do notfamiliar with social networks, most of them have been using them extensively for a long time. But Internet communication can not always replace real communication, although if a person is far away, this is one way to maintain any relationship. Currently, there are many popular social networks, but we will talk about one of them - the social network "VKontakte", as well as how to remove the wall in contact.
This network has great functionality, as well asEach user's page has a so-called "wall". With its help you can mark favorite records and add them to yourself, so as not to lose sight of. But there are situations when other people clog your "wall" with unnecessary messages, pictures and other nonsense. If you do not like it, and you want to learn how to remove a wall in a contact, see the following several ways:
You can delete your own, as well as other people's recordsby yourself, just by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner of each entry. But if there are a lot of records, you will agree, it is too labor-intensive process. The creators of the social network "VKontakte" specially made in such a way that it was impossible to delete all records at once and completely. This was done so that if the user's page was hacked, the attacker could not delete the necessary information entirely. You, of course, can use this method if there are a small number of entries on the "wall", and also if you have enough time. An accidentally deleted record can always be recovered, just click on the word "restore" that appears after each deleted entry, but if you have already reloaded the page, you will not be able to restore the records.
How to delete a wall in contact? With the second method, you do not have to delete your own or other people's records. You can change access to your content using the privacy feature. That is, you can prevent other users from leaving their records on your "wall", as well as denying access to photos, videos and audio recordings. To do this, select the "settings" column in the left menu and change the corresponding parameters.
How to delete a wall in contact? The third way to remove all unnecessary records is a special program. But it only works in the Mozilla Firefox browser. First you need to download the necessary program and install it in the browser. After restarting the browser using the toolbar, you need to find the item "managing plug-ins". Then you find a special script to delete records from the wall in the contact, add it, and your wall is safely cleaned.
The fourth way to remove a wall in the contact is identical to the third, but here you need a program for another browser - Opera, all of the above actions are repeated in the same order.
As you can see, there are several ways that givethe answer to the question of how to remove the entire wall in contact. But if you do not want to download other people's programs to your computer, it's best to use the first or second method. Of course, the first method is very laborious, but after it you can use the second method or both.
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Companies can no longer simply export their values and practices to their international arms, says Robert Amsterdam: the global is now local. Or is the local now global?
IN LATE OCTOBER, as Hurricane Sandy pounded the Eastern seaboard of the United States, causing billions of dollars in damages, one of the first questions being asked was who was to be blamed. Just a week earlier in Italy, a court convicted six scientists and a government official, sentencing them to six years in prison for failing to predict the magnitude and damage of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake.
Meanwhile, in the UK the Ministry of Justice is considering a bold expansion of the Corporate Manslaughter Act, making it extra-territorial, which would cause a dramatic shift in how people conduct business abroad.
Of course, the UK is not alone. In the United States, the Alien Torts Claim Act (which allows US courts to hear lawsuits filed by non-US citizens for violations of international law) continues growing in many respects. The US is also seeing a growth in cases under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, while new anti-bribery and anti-money-laundering legal mechanisms are being put into effect in Europe.
In a world of extraterritorial accountability, where what is done abroad may come to hurt them at home, foreign investors and organisations must adopt a new culture of self-governance and responsibility in line with the values, principles and expectations of the local community.
As more and more corporations become involved in catastrophic environmental disasters, such as BP and Deepwater Horizon, questions of horizontal governance, adapting business practices to those local customs and laws, begin to come into play.
Following the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has made some bold moves to partner with a minority stake in Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft, creating the world's largest publicly traded energy company. But before we all applaud, BP's latest Russia move comes laden with risk, including but not limited to expropriations of private property, complex and capital-intensive projects in the Arctic, and a poor record of shareholder rights.
Rosneft accepted BP's bid in order to take advantage of its technical expertise, but it is much less clear if Rosneft's partners in the Russian government will respect BP's internal regulatory standards and overall vision of how to manage the portfolio of assets.
One of the things that BP would have to ensure is that its values and norms are internalised in a company where it only has a minority interest, even though it may become exposed to considerable political and environmental risk.
WHETHER IT IS an accident, a violation or simply a trumped-up case, liability for events in foreign jurisdictions can now relate to corporate culture, opening up new risks. For example, in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, the law states that a jury may consider 'the extent to which the evidence shows that there were attitudes, policies, systems or accepted practices within the organisation that were likely to have encouraged any such failure… or to have produced tolerance of it'.
The need for horizontal governance is further underscored by the UK Bribery Act, which considers 'facilitation payments', which may not necessarily constitute anything unlawful or improper, as potential violations.
What all this means is that the well-intentioned rhetoric of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes will no longer be sufficient, as law enforcement bodies are riding a wave of a popular discontent that is demanding to see individual executives prosecuted and punished in addition to the companies.
A whole new body of thought is being advanced which one day may be reflected in law. A seminal report written by Harvard University professor John Ruggie, who serves as the UN secretary-general's special representative on business and human rights, mirrors the thinking of the Corporate Manslaughter Act in terms of the 'attitudes, policies, systems or accepted practices' as determinants for liability.
However, foreign investors have to go beyond just controls in order to implement a fundamental and meaningful shift in corporate culture to avoid problems in foreign jurisdictions. The formation of a 'corporate foreign policy', which takes into account the management of relations not only with the government of the day but also with civil society groups and stakeholders, provides for a second line of defence and a more predictable framework to anticipate and negotiate conflicts.
Sometimes doing the right thing is not enough, and hoping that your local partners will follow suit is dangerously short-sighted. It's time for business leaders and investors to become leaders on rights and values, instead of the usual suspects. There is no shortcut to the new world of extraterritorial accountability, except to embrace its principles beyond the states that claim to exercise it.


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Reconciling the Patient's Role in the Improvement of Health Outcomes: Medical Informatics' Newest Frontier
Warren J Winkelman
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Warren J Winkelman, MD, MBA, FRCPC
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto ON, Canada
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
190 Elizabeth Street, 4th Floor
Toronto Ontario M5G 2C4
Email: wwinkelm@uhnres.utoronto.ca
In this issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the reader is presented with two important studies that focus on the challenges of integrating patient participation and partnership in medical informatics. Both studies address the enormous potential of information technology to effect change in health by influencing patient behavior.
The study by Ross et al is a randomized controlled trial of SPPARO (System Providing Patients Access to Records Online), a patient-accessible electronic patient records (EPR) system implemented at the University of Colorado, measuring its impact on health outcomes and patient satisfaction [1]. SPPARO is one of a handful of organizational EPR patient-access projects with a substantial body of peer-reviewed literature easily available for study. SPPARO shares a common identity paradox with these other systems in that it portends to be patient-centered while employing physician-centered design and evaluation frameworks [2]. It is therefore not surprising that, in their study, patient access has little measurable impact on patient-specific health outcomes.
The SPPARO study also serves to illustrate two key dilemmas facing clinical informatics researchers. In defining the unit of analysis, is "access" the antecedent for change in outcomes, or is it more appropriate to look for some kind of behavioral change, like technology acceptance or actual system utilization [3]? Furthermore, in the short time frame which characterize most studies, how realistic is it to expect the substantial, meaningful changes in patient health behavior that could conceivably promote changes in health outcomes [4]?
The second study by Kim and Johnson observes the contributory role of format on the subsequent accuracy of data entry by patients in personal health records (PHR), and vividly illustrates the most important challenge facing developers: how to make the PHR useful for patients [5]. The interfaces reviewed in this paper are presented with little knowledge of the research behind them. As readers, we never really know if these products faced rigorous usability testing or if they were constructed with knowledge or awareness of health literacy. In fact, it appears as if the interfaces were most likely written in physician language. Does a patient's thinking about disease proceed along the same trajectory as a clinician's thinking without substantial training? Or, should a PHR ideally be constructed from the ground up, emphasizing the patient's perception of illness and disease [6]?
In conclusion, medical informatics research must continuously develop the capacity to demonstrate that information technology can effect positive change for patients [7]. These two studies illustrate the importance of availing ourselves of the knowledge gained in other related fields, and applying it to the challenges of our own field. For example, we should familiarize ourselves with validated models for evaluation that have appeared in the social science, behavioral psychology, and information systems literatures in the last several decades, and adapting them to research questions around the relationship between patient behavior, technology use, and health. As we are presently in an age of shrinking healthcare resources and expanding health expectations, the medical informatics academic community has the responsibility to public health decision-makers, healthcare providers, and patients to expeditiously provide high quality evidence for the value of information technology to improve health [8,9].
Ross SE, Moore LA, Earnest MA, Wittevrongel L, Lin CT. Providing a web-based online medical record with electronic communication capabilities to patients with congestive heart failure: randomized trial. J Med Internet Res 2004 May 14;6(2):e12 [FREE Full text] [Medline] [CrossRef]
Winkelman WJ, Leonard KJ. Overcoming structural constraints to patient utilization of electronic medical records: a critical review and proposal for an evaluation framework. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2004;11(2):151-161. [Medline] [PMC] [CrossRef]
Venkatesh V, Morris MG, Davis GB, Davis FD. User acceptance of information technology: toward a unified view. MIS Quarterly 2003;27(3):425-454.
Winkelman WJ, Choo CW. Provider-sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients: improving health outcomes through organizational patient-centred knowledge management. Health Expect 2003 Dec;6(4):352-358. [Medline] [CrossRef]
Kim MI, Johnson KB. Patient entry of information: evaluation of user interfaces. J Med Internet Res 2004 May 14;6(2):e13 [FREE Full text] [Medline] [CrossRef]
Van't Riet A, Berg M, Hiddema F, Sol K. Meeting patients' needs with patient information systems: potential benefits of qualitative research methods. Int J Med Inform 2001 Nov;64(1):1-14. [Medline] [CrossRef]
Forkner-dunn J. Internet-based patient self-care: the next generation of health care delivery. J Med Internet Res 2003 May 15;5(2):e8 [FREE Full text] [Medline] [CrossRef]
Ball MJ, Lillis J. E-health: transforming the physician/patient relationship. Int J Med Inform 2001 Apr;61(1):1-10. [Medline] [CrossRef]
Ross SE, Lin CT. The effects of promoting patient access to medical records: a review. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2003;10(2):129-138. [PMC] [Medline] [CrossRef]
Edited by G Eysenbach; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. published 20.05.04
© Warren J Winkelman. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 20.5.2004. Except where otherwise noted, articles published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, including full bibliographic details and the URL (see "please cite as" above), and this statement is included.
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Q: How do I write a function for identifying odd positions in matrix How to create a function that generates all the elements in odd positions (e.g. 1,1 1,3 ) in a say...5-by-8 matrix?

A: I assume that by "odd" you mean where both the index for row and column are odd.  This means your resulting matrix should be 3 by 4.  Anyway, your code is below.
function Anew = yourFunc(A)
   %Create a test matrix of dimensions 5x8 of random numbers from 1-10
   A = randi(10,5,8);
   %Set the values of all elements with either index being an even number equal to zero
   for r = 1 : size(A,1)
       for c = 1 : size(A,2)
           if rem(r,2) == 0 || rem(c,2) == 0
              A(r,c) = 0;
           else
              continue
           end
       end
   end
   %Delete rows that contain ALL zeros
   for r = 1 : (size(A,1)/2) + 1
       if A(r,:) == 0
           A(r,:) = [];
       end
   end
   %Delete columns that contain ALL zeros
   for c = 1 : (size(A,2)/2) + 1
      if A(:,c) == 0
         A(:,c) = [];
      end
   end
   %State final answer
   Anew = A;
end

Please note that there may be a more efficient code solution, but I have never studied computer science (not my engineering discipline), so I don't know any fancy stuff.

A: Indexing will stop at the greatest possible value.  So indexing x=1:2:4 will generate x = [1 3].  x=1:2:1 will generate x = 1.  So now you just need to figure out how many elements are in each matrix row and column.
Pro-Tip: everywhere possible in any code you write, use the length() function for indexing.  With the code below, A can be any size matrix.  This prevents needing to change your code when you change the matrix you want to analyze.
for row=1:2:length(A(:,1))
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O antecessor do clube Korvpalliklubi Rapla (), foi fundada em 1996 como uma divisão do Rapla Escola de Esportes, desenvolvimento de homens e mulheres de jogadores de basquetebol. Em 2004, Rapla Korvpallikool () foi formada.

Em 2010, Rapla movidos para o novo Sadolin Sports Hall, e foi promovido para o primeiro nível Korvpalli Meistriliiga. A equipe comandada pelo Indrek Ruut, a equipe terminou o 2010-11 temporada regular em 6º lugar e alcançou os playoffs, mas foi eliminado nas quartas de final por TTÜ/Kalev, perdendo o série 1 jogo 3. Em 2011, Rapla juntou-se o Desafio de competição da Copa do regional Báltico Liga de Basquete para a temporada 2011-12 , mas não conseguiu passar da fase de grupos. Em 2012, Rapla atingiu o estoniano Copa do Final, mas terminou como vice-campeão, depois de ser derrotado por Rakvere Tarvas 64-81. Em 2014, Ruut foi substituído, como treinador, o ex - Estónia equipe nacional de basquete jogador Aivar Kuusmaa. Rapla terminado o 2014-15 da temporada regular, em terceiro lugar. Nas quartas de final, a equipe enfrentou Valga/Maks & Moorits e venceu a série de 3 jogos a 1. A equipe perdeu nas semifinais para Kalev/Cramo , mas ganhou as medalhas de bronze, em terceiro lugar, partidas, venceu a série contra Rakvere Tarvas 2 jogos a 1.

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 AVIS Rapla: 2015–presente

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 Salão de Esportes Sadolin (2010–presente)

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 Aivar Kuusmaa 2014–presente

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Troféus

Prêmios Individuais

Referências

Ligações externas
 Site oficial

Clubes esportivos fundados em 1996
Clubes de basquetebol da Estônia

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Hyperlipid: Protons so far, some sort of summary!
I thought the "Physiological Insulin resistance again" post a nice summary, but with this latest post you are surely spoiling us? ;-) - to paraphrase the naff ad!
I know you don't wear the paleo hat (nice idea spoilt by dogma IMO) and I love cheese so what if it's not paleo? that doesn't make it bad, no?
I was going to post a too long missive, so just to say that it seems quite clear that we did not evolve to consume ad-libitum carbohydrate calories all year round (and live sedentary life-styles to boot) and the sooner we accept this - and act on it - the better.
All your "Physiological insulin resistance" posts do.
I've always found it odd and poorly thought-out at best or disingenuous at worst, that standard nutritional advice is to avoid ketogenic states and/or fasting because, among other misconceptions, "look, you get insulin resistance!". As if that insulin resistance is the pathological, long-term issue found in the metabolic syndrome which often leads to diabetes type II.
Yet, the key distinction does not have to rely on an understanding of the mechanisms, its should be easy to detect: the natural 'off switch' for insulin is turned quickly back on if a moderate carb diet is resumed.
Despite that, I have not found anywhere the simple study where subjects are given a glucose-challenge test after 2 days in fasted ketosis, then revert to moderate carbohydrate diet and after two days are given the challenge test again. There's anecdotal info on various sites of course. If you know of such a study, please point me there? The reason I'm picking on the glucose challenge test is because that's often used as 'proof' that someone's become insulin resistant.
I've had biochemist colleagues do this for me a year ago when I was first testing out ketosis and I found instant reversal of that resistance as concluded from that surrogate test. Same reversal has been found when I've periodically had the opportunity to test for any other surrogate measures of resistance after ketosis or fasting, like a high blood glucose spike (eg.120 points ΔBG) after a high-glycemic meal. The glucose Δ reverts to within a 'normal' range if I've been eating even moderate carbs (100-150gms) for just a day.
Still, I'd like to point to a definitive study. If it's shown to be reversible, it's not pathological and there's no argument at that point (whether someone thinks they understand the mechanisms or not).
you commented "Under normal physiology I would expect blood glucose to remain under 7mmol/l at all times, probably under 6mmol/l..."
In the Stefansson study I believe there is that experiment, and they [he and his partner] soon are glucose tolerant. That may not be the data you're looking for, but it is something published.
Jenny DiabetesUpdate, recommends 3 days on 150 gms CHO before an OGTT, so that one may exhibit an healthy response. It seems she based this advice on many anecdotes - within which I include the BelleVue Steffannsson study, where the sample size is but a pair (but they are Arctic Aces!).
Anyone with a glucose meter may do an OGTT. I do one every 3 months, with my my sturdy OneTouch (For Health)and many Strips.
John, thank you. I wasn't aware of that and yes it's not quite what I was looking for, but it will now likely be 'exhibit a' in my anecdotal evidence/references!
Hi Konservation issues, I have the greatest of respect for Dr B. He was one of my earliest diabetes educators, after my initial 25 years as a clinician! He is engineering humans towards the ideal of 4.6mmol/l, 24/7. This is probably not the human condition unless LCing 24/7. We all age, it probably happens more slowly at 4.6mmol/l. It's a lot easier to maintain after half a pound of fatty lamb than an equal number of Taterhead calories!
marie and Leon, that's why i like the mice in the Axen and Axen pt (4) post. Serious insulin resistance, full reversal. But in people???? Luckily I'm one of those dinosaurs that sees NOTHING special about humans. We're just big dogs and not that different from mice. I even think (gasp, horror) that C57BL/6 mice might tell us things which matter. Especially once we understand what is wrong with them.
OMG Leon you had me chasing. But the clip was good.
I agree that we are but big dogs &/or undersized pigs - physiologically.
However, when I examine studies - for e.g."Dietary fructose induces endotoxemia & hepatic injury in calorically controlled primates" Kylie Kavanagh et al. - I scale up my estimate of a possible effect on humans, by comparing liver weights.
I personally find mouse studies more tricky to evaluate as mice have larger livers and pancreases relative to their weight than humans. So, my scaling factor would be based on relative organ weights. Consequently when a mouse study shows certain effects on mice when eating a 66% fructose diet, my first thought is that similar effects would be seen in humans when on a 33% fructose diet.
Peter, may I ask a direct question through your blog? I know you're a busy man IRL and this would be better asked on the "Prostate post" but that's in the past now.
I was asked this the other day by someone who became aware I LC whether there was any evidence that it (LC) can attenuate BPH? I had no idea and a quick scoot round the web threw up some tenuous mentions that it may halt the progression but not much more.
Do you have any views on the matter?
Leon, I'm at the level of CL57B/6 mice having poorly assembled supercomplex formation, ie is this free radical damage induced or pure genetics. So does this happen in hyperglycaemic people? And of course we have known since the 80s or 90s that CL57B/6 mice have a defect in first phase insulin response. As soon as you add fructose and produce a little insulin resistance they simply will never keep up. We then can look at the genetics of the first phase insulin response and how this might respond in humans to 20 years of challenge with flour and sucrose... All lines of thought, but I think uncoupling and palmitate has to come next.
Leonrover, that's a great point about relative organ weights. Especially if it happens to be a disease of that organ that one is looking at through the monocle of animal testing.
Here are some observations of glucose and insulin responses, over a longer term than usual, by Dr Kraft, showing the influence of different diets.
I don't know if you know this data, thanks to http://profgrant.com/2013/08/16/joseph-kraft-why-hyperinsulinemia-matters/ for the introduction.
Thanks for those Kraft references. His conclusions on Insulin/OGTT response typology is very interesting. I wish there were inexpensive home insulin meters, so anyone may do their own tests. Individuals would be able to do their own diagnoses.
I think Bernstein is talking about fasting. The Postprandial target limit for people trying to slow CAD is 110mg/dl (If you eat something that pops you above that level - don't eat it again or eat less of it).
Peoples ability to tolerate carbs varies - by tolerance AND individual - my 90 yearold father can eat most anything and stay clocks in under 108 - If I eat the same meal, I would pop 160.
This brings me to my beef with the medical community - unless they are OBGYN they only test fasting - by the time fasting is elevated, lots of damage is already done.
@Petro I like the summary, but think you should have mentioned the PUFA SAT effect.
Trying to reduce my PUFA exposure to 1960's levels is not easy.
Now - do you have any advise for treating constipated cats?
The cat depends on hows and whys. If on CIAB, stop CIAB. If there is a neural plexus failure you are in for routine management for megacolon. If there is too much bone in the Raw Meaty Bones and a small solid stool is passed without too much problem, carry on. Ping just occasionally has to put a little effort in to rather solid bone droppings... Not enough for me to do anything about.
If there is Other Pathology, find out what it is!
Not on CIAB - have added availability of some cat grass.
I had to give him some PEG and extra fluids, but today he is a happy camper.
I was not excited about giving him the PEG/fluids and came up with a trick that worked: I mixed up the PEG and then added some water from a can of tuna - he just drank it down - no stress - on him or myself.
Just glad I didn't have to give him an enema - he might not have talked to me afterwards.
Have read some about the evolution of PUFA food crops - turns out it is a side effect of breeding in frost resistance. No GM required. The kinked up PUFA's reduce the freezing point.
One problem is that the same seeds are used even when the crops are grown in the south.
While many like to hate GM foods - it might take GM to maintain the food output at current levels while reducing the PUFA content - and I don't think anyone has realized they need to to that - even O-6 reduction seems to not be a focus.
@karl -- I've had good results with an herbal concoction for cats called Plantaeris.
@Peter -- Thank you for these complex 1 and electon transport chain posts. It requires much rereading on my part.
I'm a long time reader, cancer survivor and follower of near-keto diet. I'm aware of the Lisanti study on ketones fueling cancer and the numerous weaknesses in that work, but these are two older links indicating, in mice, that fasting and the resulting free fatty acids and ketones can promote tumor growth. Please ignore if this is off-topic, but i'd welcome any insights you might have.
"Mixtures containing hyperlipemic plasma, lipid extracts (ethanol:acetone, 1:1) of hyperlipemic plasma, or albumin from hyperlipemic plasma increased tumor [3H]thymidine incorporation. Free fatty acid concentrations were increased about five times in hyperlipemic plasma and perfusion of tumors with normolipemic blood containing added linoleic and arachidonic acids increased [3H]thymidine incorporation. Blood mixtures containing palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids were inactive".
I rather like Sauer already and I've only read a handful of pubmed abstracts!
Some of us are saturophiles. We like a decent input of FADH2 through ETFD because this tells the cell to reject glucose. An omega 6 fat fails to do this, it pours NADH in to complex I while still allowing glucose in through GLUT 4s and so provides a sh*tload of ATP to the nearest cancer cell in town. Failure to produce insulin resistance when needed, failure to generate FADH2. Omega 6 fats are, at the molecular level, the most ubiquitous cancer supporting agents promoted by cardiologists. I find the oxidation of PUFA in bulk rather problematic, but then I'm not a cardiologist!
When you get to look at the metabolically coupled cancers, where fibroblasts are recruited to convert glucose (and FFAs?) to lactate and ketones which then feed cancer cells, you have to consider what is happening. What is the ketone flux from the fibroblast to the cancer cell? If you starve the fibroblast of of glucose so it cannot make lactate, what happens to the cancer cells? If you limit blood ketones to physiological levels will you support cancer cells as the fibroblasts do? If you limit FFAs to saturates will you limit glucose entrance to the fibroblasts and cancer cells directly?
I do not have answers, but I can see what questions we might ask. I really like Sauer!
" I find the oxidation of PUFA in bulk rather problematic, but then I'm not a cardiologist!"
In order to test the hypothesis that peroxidized fatty acids, generated by heating of standard cooking oils, trigger hepatic inflammation, Boehm et al. performed short-term experiments in which they heated standard corn oil to raise peroxide content more than 100-fold compared to unheated oil and gavaged rats with either standard or heated corn oil for six consecutive days. The livers of animals treated with heated corn oil expressed higher levels of several inflammatory genes, including interleukin 1beta, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and tumor necrosis factor alpha. This was associated with increased infiltration of CD68 positive macrophages. Peroxidized linoleic acid induced nitric oxide synthase-1 and COX-2 in Kupffer cells and mixed non-parenchymal cells through activation of p38 MAP kinase pathway. Whether these findings are relevant to human disease remains to be determined.
How does glucose overload produce insulin resistance?
"the study published in the Sept. 10 edition of Nature Communications, the team led by researchers at the CU School of Medicine reports that fatty liver and insulin resistance may also result from fructose produced in the liver from non-fructose containing carbohydrates.
The study, whose first authors are Miguel Lanaspa, PhD, and Takuji Ishimoto, MD, reported that mice can convert glucose to fructose in the liver, and that this conversion was critical for driving the development of obesity and insulin resistance in mice fed glucose.
"Our data suggests that it is the fructose generated from glucose that is largely responsible for how carbohydrates cause fatty liver and insulin resistance," said Lanaspa."
Polyol pathway... Interesting. The hyperglycaemia vs insulin, chicken vs egg is very complex. Received wisdom says insulin. I keep getting pushed towards hyperglycaemia. It is very far from straight forward. Can't get the paper through my borrowed Athens account so can't tel is the systemic messenger is plasma fructose or hyperglycaemia giving fructose generation in adipocytes. Ultimately we have to come back to adipocytes.
Carbohydrates with high glycaemic index are proposed to promote the development of obesity, insulin resistance and fatty liver, but the mechanism by which this occurs remains unknown. High serum glucose concentrations are known to induce the polyol pathway and increase fructose generation in the liver. Here we show that this hepatic, endogenously produced fructose causes systemic metabolic changes. We demonstrate that mice unable to metabolize fructose are protected from an increase in energy intake and body weight, visceral obesity, fatty liver, elevated insulin levels and hyperleptinaemia after exposure to 10% glucose for 14 weeks. In normal mice, glucose consumption is accompanied by aldose reductase and polyol pathway activation in steatotic areas. In this regard, we show that aldose reductase-deficient mice are protected against glucose-induced fatty liver. We conclude that endogenous fructose generation and metabolism in the liver represents an important mechanism by which glucose promotes the development of metabolic syndrome.
"Activation of the polyol pathway results in a decrease of reduced NADPH and oxidized NAD+; these are necessary cofactors in redox reactions throughout the body, and under normal conditions they are not interchangeable. The decreased concentration of these NADPH leads to decreased synthesis of reduced glutathione, nitric oxide, myo-inositol, and taurine."
Reductive stress and oxidative stress at the same time. Also, deficiency of taurine at the same time as sorbitol is increasing osmotic stress.
"Sorbitol cannot cross cell membranes, and, when it accumulates, it produces osmotic stresses on cells by drawing water into the insulin-independent tissues"


Team » Daily Globe appears in 52 issues.
A newspaper in the Marvel universe, which first appeared in Fantastic Four #2. The paper is known for being somewhat more sleazier then the Daily Globe, but often got news-scoops that made the paper a well read one and from time to time even outsold the Daily Bugle on the stands.
Peter Parker, star photographer of the Daily Bugle from time to time even applied 'the Globe' photos when 'the Bugle' would not take them. At one time, Peter even joined the ranks of the Globe's news team when he was fed-up with J.Jonah Jameson (owner of the Bugle)'s behavior. A famous reporter of the Daily Globe was Eddie Brock, whom had the scoop of revealing the true identity of Sin Eater. It later turned out to be a mistake, witch ruined Eddie Brock's career at the Globe (witch eventually resulted in him becoming Venom). The Daily Globe also had another scoop, and made it public (with the help of the FBI) that lawyer Matt Murdock was Daredevil. Daredevil later on sued the paper for slander.
Another possibly unrelated newspaper appeared on the second appearance of Two-Face in Detective Comics #68 (and reprints).
Detective Comics #68 - The Man Who Led A Double Life!
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The commission will vote on the resignation of Chairman Mark Johnstone at their May 18 meeting.
Johnstone, a Republican who represents District Nine, bought a home outside his district and is required by state law to resign his position on the commission. Johnstone submitted his resignation letter in the county's agenda packet earlier this week.
The caucus met Thursday night to discuss several items. The most pressing of those items was appointing Johnstone's replacement as chairman.
Commissioner Billy Spain said he's wanted the chairman position for years, but won't pursue it, citing health concerns. Spain nominated Deaton, the caucus chairman.
"I'm electing to step aside," Spain said. "My family believes it'll be best for my health, and I believe it'd be best for the commission.
"I'm not going to resign from the commission, I just won't be in a leadership position," he said.
Spain recently was admitted to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after falling at his home. He fractured a couple of vertebrae, but said he was feeling fine.
Commissioner Gerry Neese said he supported Deaton, but is concerned about Deaton having too many positions on the commission. Along with being chairman of the caucus, Deaton also is the chairman of four committees, according to committee listings updated March 3.
Deaton said he'd gladly step aside if another commissioner wanted one of his positions.
"As far as me being chairman, I'm more than willing to do it, I can do it, I know how to do it," he said. "This is not the best time in the world to change this position no matter who was chairman. It's right at budget time so we'll need to handle this in a very cautious way so we can get through this."
Empty commissioner position
The former chairman of the Madison County Republican Party, Jay Bush, was in attendance Thursday night, and he said he would be interested in Johnstone's soon-to-be-vacated seat. Bush is an attorney in Jackson and lives in District Nine.
"I've got kids in public school in Madison County," Bush said. "I just see us doing really great things here and I just want to be a part of creating an environment where we can grow economically, where we can improve our schools and where we can just make a better way of life for the folks that live here."
Bush will have to apply for the position like any other candidate, but the caucus' support would go a long way in the Republican-controlled commission.
The caucus plans to vote for who they would nominate at their June meeting.
Johnstone's replacement can't be voted on by the commission until the June commission meeting. Appointees must receive at least 13 votes from the 25 member commission to be elected, according to Madison County Attorney Steve Maroney.
Reach Tyler at (731) 425-9629. Follow him on Twitter @tyler_whetstone.


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Former MPA Considers Suing Former MPs over RCDF
Friday, 30 April 2010 10:26 AM
A former member of the provincial assembly (MPA) of Choiseul Province has blamed the Taiwanese government for releasing the $10 million dollars payout to the outgoing members of parliament.
The Choiseul leader, Wilson Pita calls on the MPs to return the money or else face the court on the matter.
Mr Pita says the Taiwanese government should not have allowed the payout of $10 million dollars of Rural Constituency Development Fund, RCDF, on the eve of the dissolution of parliament.
Mr Pita says he doubts the money paid out to the former MPs will reach people in the rural areas. He blames the Taiwanese government for causing the problem.
Meanwhile, Mr Pita also says it's wrong for the outgoing government to request the $10 million RCDF to be paid out to them and urges the MPs to return the money to the Ministry of Rural Development.
Mr Pita says he plans to file a case on the matter to the courts.


The Bubble Wax fabrics we launched last season are back in new colours and patterns. Bubble Wax is a product that highlights the nature of Vlisco's exclusive wax printing.
The random irregular breaking of the wax is what defines the design and makes every yard unique. Aside from the new colours, this season's Bubble Wax fabrics feature subtle patterns which are the result of controlled breaking of the wax.
Characterised by the small motifs and camouflage effect, the fabric still highlights the simplicity of the irregular bubble but new shapes are created by playing with the intensity of the bubbling. The colours and patterns of Bubble Wax make tailoring effortless and full of character.


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Q: What can I use to monitor and log incoming/outgoing traffic to/from remote hosts? I run a web server (Debian Squeeze on a VPS), and the graphs provided by the hosting company show consistently that around twice as much traffic is incoming to the server compared to the outgoing traffic.  I am a little confused by this, so I would like to run some kind of logging utility on the machine that will not only confirm the upload/download figures, but also split them up by the remote host involved, so I can see if a large proportion of the incoming traffic is from one particular source.
I suspect most of the outgoing traffic goes through Apache, but the incoming traffic may be mostly through Apache or could be dominated by other scripts and cron jobs, so I would prefer a tool that would monitor traffic at the interface level rather than something within Apache.
Ideally I would like a tool that I can leave running for a few days, then come back and get an output of "bytes per remote host" for both incoming and outgoing traffic.
Is this possible with a standard Linux tool and a bit of configuration (if so, how?) or with a specialist program (if so, which?)

A: And for a more advanced metrics you can use something like monitorix which have modules for most common services and it's just a simple:
apt-get install monitorix

Also you have cacti an complete GUI RDDtool, but not real time.
And in the top 1 for me it's the multi-configurable grafana. Its a little bit more difficult to install & configure but it's just perfect, you can measure everything in detail and real-real-time.
It needs some dependencies JVM,graphite, whisper,... some knowledge about JSON, but works like a charm I really recommend it!
Maybe a good config for your case should be:
collectd + graphite + whisper + grafana

Actually grafana changed my life in the office.

A: ntop is probably your best solution for doing this. It is designed to run long term and capture exactly what youre looking for.
It can show you what remote destinations are being used the most, how much traffic sent to/from, what protocols and ports were being used etc. It can do the same for the source hosts if you run it on a router so you can see the same stats on local clients as well.
It then uses a web GUI to navigate and display this information.

A: If you have root, you could just use tcpdump and grab everything. You can then pull it up in Wireshark and analyze to your heart's content.
$ sudo tcpdump -i <interface> -w mycapture.tcpdump

... and then hit ctrl-c when you've had enough. Run in a screen session if you need to detatch, etc.
By default, it'll only capture the first part of each packet, but since you're mostly interested in origin analysis that should be fine. Tons of other options to tcpdump if you're feeling adventurous.
EDIT:
In fact, once loaded into Wireshark, you can just use the menu option Statistics | IP Addresses... and get a nice summary of traffic by count/rate/percent:

A: sure ;)
https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper
Also if you want a mini-howto for how to connect everything:
https://linuxboss.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/graphite-grafana/


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Instant Gratification: "Election" and four other good movies to watch on Netflix Instant
Pick of the Week: "Election" — Tracy Flick would have turned up her nose at the messy, careless Cheryl Strayed, but after seeing Reese Witherspoon's tour de force in "Wild," it's fun to go back and see her in Alexander Payne's 1999 comedy about a driven high school student and the teacher (Matthew Broderick) determined to stop her.
"Cast Away" — Either the greatest product placement for a sporting goods company ever or a thrilling adventure starring Tom Hanks as a schlub stranded on a desert island for four years. Damned if he doesn't make you cry over a stupid volleyball.
"The French Connection" — Popeye's here, as William Friedkin's iconic action thriller is back on Netflix Instant. It still has the gold standard for car chases.
"Snatch" — Guy Ritchie's follow-up to "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" is too convoluted by half, but still has a lot of fun moments, especially Brad Pitt as a loopy, unintelligible boxer.
"Mystic River" — Clint Eastwood took Dennis Lehane's novel about three childhood friends reunited by murder and made it a haunting meditation on fate and loyalty.
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