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6 Best Diets for a Man's New Year Weight Loss Plans
Looking to slim down in the New Year, fellas? Look no further as we have the best weight loss plans just for you to shed those pounds and keep them off for good. As rated by traffic trends here on DietsInReview in 2023, the following plans have been consumer approved and specifically designed for those looking to slim down and make healthy living a lifestyle that sticks. Use our Diet Finder to identify the plan that's best for you, or see if you find a fit from these below.
Weight Watchers Online for Men – Celebrating a 50 year anniversary in 2023, Weight Watchers has had a specific plan in place for the guys for quite some time. You'll use the Weight Watchers 360 program via Weight Watchers Online for Men, which offers convenience and even anonymity. Weight Watchers promotes real food that you enjoy by managing your PointsPlus. You'll get all the guidance you need via a secure online dashboard that you can manage any time from anywhere.
Pros include: Affordable, personalized, promotes fitness, and no harsh restrictions. Cons include: No in-person support.
NutriSystem for Men – NutriSystem is one of the most recognizable names in weight loss and has earned its place among the top diets. Founded in 1972, this popular diet program has helped millions of people lose weight on its convenient portion-controlled meals, making it ideal for those who don't like to cook. There's virtually zero guess work on this diet, making it an an easy approach to healthy weight loss. In addition to monthly delivered meals, NutriSystem customers also have online access to health information, community support, weekly newsletters and tracking tools.
The men's program was introduced after NutriSystem realized men desired to lose weight and feel great just as much as women do. So, it developed the first men's commercial weight loss program that's designed to provide the right amount and variety of food to control hunger to keep men satisfied.
NutriSystem for Men includes hearty foods like pizza, ice cream, and burgers in the correct portions so men can lose weight without feeling deprived. Celebrities such as Dan Marino, Terry Bradshaw and Larry the Cable Guy have already used the NutriSystem for Men program to slim down and maintain a healthy weight, proving it's a great option for men of all ages and activity levels.
Pros include: Convenient, proven effective, little work on your part. Cons include: May be cost prohibitive; not great for those who don't enjoy packaged foods. (more…)
Posted on December 26, 2022 by Dana
Tony Horton's 90-Day Plan to Transform Your Body on Dr. Oz
Tune in November 13 to see special guest Tony Horton visit the Dr. Oz show. The 54-year-old is famous for his brand of fitness books and DVDs, most notably the in-home P90X program.
Horton brings an exclusive program to the Dr. Oz stage made specifically for Dr. Oz show viewers, a 90-day plan intended to transform your body for life. Horton tells Oz that anybody can do his fitness plan and the results will last for life. He gives three cardinal rules to follow and a ten-minute workout that everyone can do. (more…)
Posted on November 13, 2022 by SarahS
Paul Ryan Would Leave Joe Biden in the Dust if Politics Was Gym Class
As vice presidential candidates Paul Ryan and Joe Biden battle for the country's vote, we are looking at the politicians in a different light – that of their physical fitness and personal diets. Will the person who can do the most pushups be the best as second-in-command? Maybe not, but it does say something about them, however you may interpret it.
Congressman Ryan, 42, is well-known for his love of exercise. He is a devotee of P90X workouts, the high intensity DVD program developed by Tony Horton, frequently leading sessions in the capitol's gym. The grueling sessions range from 60 to 90 minutes, combining cardio workouts, weight training, yoga, and stretching for an extensive training routine that really pushes your body.
Ryan's rumored six-pack abs have had their own set of scrutiny, with more Google searches of "Paul Ryan shirtless" than "Paul Ryan budget" after the announcement in August that he was running alongside Romney. Out of college, he worked as a personal trainer and enjoys as sport skiing and hiking. If catfish noodling counts as a sport, he does that, too. (more…)
Posted on October 11, 2022 by SarahS
Battle of the Biceps: Between Obama and Romney, Who's Healthier?
With the presidential election just around the corner, President Barack Obama and his opponent Mitt Romney have come under intense scrutiny regarding their policies, beliefs and respective plans for the future of our nation. But political issues aside, we can't help but wonder about the health of the presidential hopefuls. If it came down to it, which candidate is healthier?
First up, President Obama who is dedicated to his fitness regimen with a particular fondness of the basketball court. Whenever he has time, he enjoys a fast-paced game of basketball, always playing a game on election days.
In an interview with Men's Health Magazine, Obama divulged his workout routine as a mixture of 45 minutes of cardiac-strengthening, weight lifting, and running on the treadmill six days a week.
When it comes to vacation time, Obama doesn't slack off on his workouts and neither does his family. While vacationing in Hawaii recently, the Obamas enjoyed hiking, swimming and golf, all in addition to President Obama's early-morning workouts at a fitness center. (more…)
Posted on September 17, 2022 by SarahS
Candice Ball Lost 41 Pounds with P90X and Insanity
This week's inspiring true weight loss story comes from Candice Ball of New York City who lost more than 40 pounds after deciding she'd put health on the back burner for long enough. Candice had struggled with her weight for the majority of her life, but in 2023 she came to the realization that she had to get healthy. "I've struggled with weight basically all my life," she said. "I was not eating healthy…I was addicted to an unhealthy lifestyle."
At her heaviest, Candice weighed 174 pounds. Her adorable puppy, Toshi, who is a professional pet actor and model, was one factor that triggered her weight loss journey. "I was embarrassed that I made sure my dog was well taken care of, but I wasn't."
Another factor that helped Candice finally decide to lose the weight was a run-in with an old flame. "I ran into someone I really cared for many years ago and I felt awkward, him seeing me the way I looked. I was always active when I was with that person," she said. "Then I just let myself go."
In December of last year, Candice started doing P90x2 and within two weeks, she dropped 17 pounds. After she finished the program she continued to follow a food plan and added Insanity to her workout routine. Candice's initial goal weight was 140 pounds, but she surpassed that mark and is currently thrilled to be 133 pounds.
Even though Candice met her weight goal, she still continues to workout and eat healthy. Her exercises consist of circuit training, P90x2, running, martial arts, and riding horses. "Anything to keep me moving and not in the same routine," she said. (more…)
Posted on September 5, 2022 by Samantha
Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan Stays Fit with P90X
When news broke Sunday that Mitt Romney had chosen his vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, no one expected the focus of the campaign to shift toward Ryan's extreme fitness routine. But as with most things in politics, we should always expect the unexpected.
Ryan has been a member of Congress since 1999, and has made somewhat of a name for himself by becoming the 'fitness buff' of the political world. The vice presidential hopeful eagerly wakes up at 6 a.m. to meet several members of Congress in the Congressional gym where he leads them through intense P90X workouts.
P90X was created by fitness expert Tony Horton, and is no walk in the park no matter what level of fitness you're at. The at-home workout DVDs demand extreme physical effort on behalf of the participant, sometimes requiring hundreds of push ups or pull ups in a single session.
This likely explains why Ryan, who stands at 6'2", weighs just 163 pounds and claims his body fat is between 6 and 8 percent. (more…)
P90X Made me Feel Like Ironwoman
I love to workout and always have, which is why I stay active five to six days a week doing a challenging workout of some kind.
While it varies from week to week between running and weight lifting, I just enjoy the sheer act of exercise. So when my friend recently told me she was planning to do P90X at her house, I jumped on the chance to give it a try.
P90X is a three-phase, 90-day fitness program that promises to transform your body into a lean and ripped muscle machine in the comfort of your own home. It requires minimal equipment – dumbbells, a pull up bar and/or resistance bands – and includes 12 DVDs that are to be completed in a certain sequence in each phase of the program.
The workouts range from upper body to lower body to yoga and abs, to ensure you're focusing on a different area of the body each day.
Tony Horton, the creator of the program, is a stern yet encouraging leader throughout the workout. I never once felt discouraged or that I wasn't giving enough – he only pushes each person to their individual limit. (more…)
Posted on June 27, 2022 by Dana
Tony Horton Creates P90X and Builds a Fitness Empire
If you're a fan of getting in shape at home then you'll love this guy! Tony Horton was born on July 2, 1958 in Westerly, Rhode Island, and is the creator of America's best selling at-home fitness program, P90X. He attended the University of Rhode Island where he graduated in
1980 as a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. After graduation, Horton moved to Los Angeles, California, with high hopes of becoming an actor.
You may be surprised to find out that Horton wasn't raised in the healthy environment one might think. He used to enjoy fast food, lacked motivation to exercise and had a small frame to prove it. After getting his foot in the door of the show-biz industry, Horton's agent informed him that if he wanted to succeed he was going to have to "get fit."
Horton didn't take this order lightly and began working toward this goal by becoming a member of the World Gym in Venice, California, where he came in contact with famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger and actor Lou Ferrigno. (more…)
Posted on June 12, 2022 by Danielle
P90X2 Makes its Long Anticipated Release
Fans of intense fitness rejoice! Today is the official release date for P90X2. Developed by fitness guru Tony Horton and Beach Body Fitness, the original P90X has been a wildly popular workout and nutrition program that advertises significant improvements in your physical fitness over a 90-day period.
The P90X series brings results with an emphasis on "muscle confusion," a phrase the fitness community uses to describe a routine that involves constant change in exercises to avoid the body's tendency to slow progress when it gets used to repetition.
Like P90X, P90X2 comes with a 90-day program that split up into three training packages, based on what the company states was two years of research and development. Here are your options: (more…)
Posted on December 1, 2022 by Jason
Why Cynthia Pasquella's P.I.N.K. Method is Exclusively for Women
What is the P.I.N.K. Method? That's the question on everyone's mind since its debut this week on the Dr. Phil show. Just in time to fight the post-Thanksgiving bulge and New Year's resolutions, Cynthia Pasquella released the lifestyle program she's been working on for the past five years. We spoke with her yesterday, just a day after P.I.N.K.'s big announcement, and she sounded energized by the explosion in interest. "It's super exciting for us," she said, and added that they're absolutely enjoying the whirlwind. She even noted it's been a bit of an emotional roller coaster.
Pasquella explained to us that the P.I.N.K. Method was "designed by women for women to produce rapid weight loss without giving up health benefits. P.I.N.K. is a fusion diet blending workouts with food." It's a three-phase plan that gradually introduces your body to better nutrition and sustainable workouts. For the nutrition side, Pasquella explained that the custom meal plan you gain access to upon membership takes away all the guesswork, giving you a daily meal plan (known as the Blueprint) for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even snacks. She also told us "There's a reason for every single food" that was included in the P.I.N.K. Method, as she explained that the food was researched to find those that specifically spike metabolism, boost energy, and burn fat.
For the workouts, there are three phases, each led by a different member of the P.I.N.K. Method training team – Jenna Phillips, Lisa Christie and Basheerah Ahmad. Each of these women focus on a different area of training, whether it be laying the groundwork to help start your fitness regimen or building strength and endurance for the long term. Pasquella explained as an example that in Phase 1, you might do an intense 20-minute workout that starts building the major muscle groups. Then, in Phase 2, you'll move on to exercises that require more strength and use more intense cardio. (more…)
Posted on November 30, 2022 by Natalie K
P.I.N.K. Method vs. P90X
The newest weight loss program to hit the market, the P.I.N.K. Method was unveiled yesterday on the Dr. Phil Show. This program is designed specifically for women by nutritionist Cynthia Pasquella. There are already rumblings that P.I.N.K. Method and the wildly popular P90X are quite similar. It's a comparison that Pasquella welcomes, but is also quick to point out the differences.
In an interview with DietsInReview.com, Pasquella compared her P.I.N.K. Method with P90X. She pointed out that two programs are similar in that they each combine workouts with a healthy diet, and they provide users with daily direction. However, she says the two part ways there.
"What I did was focus on women because we're not the same as men," she told us. In her clinical nutrition practice, Pasquella recalled women who would feel bad about themselves after attempting the rigorous P90X. With P.I.N.K. Method she wants them to feel "empowered not defeated," and she does this by designing a three-phase workout program that gradually increases in intensity.
How else does the P.I.N.K. Method stack up against its competitor? (more…)
Posted on November 29, 2022 by Margaret


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Q: GPX parsing patterns and "standards" I would like to continue the discussion from this post: GPX Schema validation problems. To go directly to the point, I want to ask how people are parsing and working with GPX files in their software or give me suggestions as to how one should do it.
Although one may say, well just parse the trkpt elements and use them in your software, the things are not that simple for me. Firstly, as discussed in the cited post above, a lot of the gpx-producing-devices(software, gps-handheld-devices, etc) produce gpx files which do NOT conform to the official GPX schema(elements are laid-out in the wrong order, value types changed, elements' names changed, etc.). My initial taught when starting parsing gpx files, is firstly check if they validate against the GPX schema . There are a lot of them which contain the actual GPS data ( sequence of latitude/longitude/elevation values ) but the format in which it is presented ( although nicely hidden by the GPX suffix) may be designed anyhow. So the file will contain the required data, but will not conform to the GPX schema. How is this problem overcomed ? Is there any way to make the software accept generic GPX files as input ?
Secondly, I would like to point out I am not interested in various suggestions you may have(e.g. first pre-process the GPX file and then parse it, change your schema, etc.) as to how to solve the problem. I am more interested if someone knows how things are done in practice. So if anyone has or has had any experience with processing GPX files in (possibly) commercial environment please do share your thoughts.
I hope I made my points clear.
Thanks,
Petar

A: In my applications I'm using a normal XML parser (e.g. pythons xml.dom.minidom) I'm just using the tag names to access the information I need.
As it was mentioned in the other Thread, the thing that makes validation fail is the  <xsd:sequence> in the GPX standard definition. While it's true that GPX producing devices should respect the standard, it's actually not that big of a deal on the parsing side (at least with the GPX Files/Devices I worked on).
If a GPX file contains additional information then it will be dropped (unless you chose to extract the tagnames unknown to you).
If this method fails because the file is not vaild XML or the GPX uses different tag names for e.g. lat lon information there is no other way to read the file than to write a special importer for this specific use case (I have not seen such files, except for corrupted ones, in the wild)

A: i have just worked out a simple gpx parser that i use to scrape tracks and waypoints from a gpx file and save in a database.  i have stripped all DB code and left a barebones example.
<?php
include('simple_html_dom.php');

if (file_exists('5alqs3.gpx')) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('5alqs3.gpx');
    foreach( $xml->children() AS $child ) {
        $name = $child->getName();
        if ($name == 'wpt') {
            print_r($name.'    ');
            echo $child['lat'].' '.$child['lon'].'  ';
            $name = $child->children()->getName();
            if ($name = 'ele') {
                echo $child->children().'
';
            }
        }
        if ($name == 'trk') {
            foreach( $child->children() AS $grandchild ) {
                $grandname = $grandchild->getName();
                if ($grandname == 'name') {
                    echo $grandchild.'
';
                }
                if ($grandname == 'trkseg') {
                    foreach( $grandchild->children() AS $greatgrandchild ) {
                        $greatgrandname = $greatgrandchild->getName();
                        print_r($greatgrandname.'  ');
                        //echo '
';
                        if ($greatgrandname == 'trkpt') {
                            echo $greatgrandchild['lat'].' '.$greatgrandchild['lon'];
                            foreach( $greatgrandchild->children() AS $elegreatgrandchild ) {
                                echo $elegreatgrandchild.'
';
                            }
                        }
                        if ($greatgrandname == 'ele') {
                            print_r($greatgrandchild);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
} else {
    exit('Failed to open 5alqs2.gpx.');
}
?>

you could take this one step further and parse kml from this.  check this link out for more on this subject.  Creating a kml file from a mysql database with php
THIS CODE WORKS WITH MULTIPLE TRACKS.

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Chances, Challenges, and Dimensions of Diversity: Lecture and Paneldiscussion
Diversity in Teams fosters creativity, productivity and more complex thinking (Antonio, 2004; Nathan & Lee, 2013). Yet research teams in photonics are only slowly becoming more diverse – but why? Are differences attracting each other, also in a scientific context, or do similar minds work better together after all? Our event series wants to take a closer look at diversity in science, and offer a platform to address the strengths and challenges of diverse teams.
Diversity has various dimensions: ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation and identification, and many more. What all dimensions have in common is that they enrich discussions and bring in new perspectives. Studies in the realm of marketing, management and law show that diversity in teams brings great advantages (Nathan & Neil, 2013; Sommers, 2006). Especially in science, diverse teams are more likely to be more innovative and expand the scope of research than homogenous teams. But more perspectives and experiences also bring challenges: How can we work up to the different skills of the members? How can everyone be individually encouraged? And how can we communicate with each other in an esteeming and sustainable way?
As part of our event series, we approached these questions in a lecture, and a panel discussion and will have workshops with our PhD candidates on it.
Recap Panel Discussion: Diversity in Physics and Photonics
Thursday, May 19 2022
This virtual panel discussion organized together with the joint SPIE and OPTICA student chapter Jena highlighted the topic of diversity in the field of physics and photonics. We had invited diversity experts as well as physicists who are themselves particularly involved into "diversity in research and teaching". We talked about the current status of diversity in physics by comparing different countries and perspectives. Furthermore, we got individual insights and talked about personal experiences of the panellist.
OUR PANELISTS WERE:
DR. GEORGE DWAPANYIN is a Ghanaian national currently working as a research fellow with the Optical Manipulation Group at the University of St Andrews, UK. From 2010, he has almost always been the only person of colour in his academic/research groups and has experienced almost all that comes with belonging to the minority at the workplace. He will share some of his experiences as a panelist and how he copes with such situations.
TIMOTHY IMGORE is currently a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Physics Jena. His research work focusses on tailoring the dispersion properties of fiber Bragg gratings in advanced fibers. He also served as a member of the OSA (now Optica) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Rapid Action Committee (DEI-RAC) and contributed to the #WeAreOSA podcast on diversity.
PROF. STEFANIE KROKER researches and teaches at the TU Braunschweig and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) on "Optical Quantum Metrology", focusing on photonic systems for applications in optical precision and quantum experiments. This makes her one of just 13% female full professors in physics in Germany and worldwide.
PROF. HAKEEM OLUSEYI is a former NASA astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and US army veteran. He is currently a professor at George Mason University, and he is the president of the National Society of Black Physicists. His book "A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars" details his unlikely journey from a childhood of poverty and crime to a top-notch physics PhD program at Stanford University. His story has been an inspiration and motivation to many young stars in similar circumstances to aim for the stars.
DR.in ULLA WEBER is the Central Gender Equality Officer of the Max Planck Society. In this role, she faces the challenge of implementing the theoretical concept of an intersectional gender equality approach, which connects the striving for gender and diversity equity, into practical gender equality work and concrete goals and measures. In doing so, she benefits from her many years of experience in gender equality research, work and policy in academia.
We would like to thank the panelists and the >40 participants in the audience for a great discussion. It's outcome can be summarized as follows: To achieve more diversity in science, we need above all more role models from minorities who are given a chance to prove their skills - for example, through a quota. In addition, we need awareness for the topic, perseverance in addressing it again and again, and we all must learn to value, embrace, and use our differences to achieve greater good.
Recap Lecture: Why Should we Aim for Diversity?
In a keynote speech on 12.04.2022, Sanin Hasibović provided basic information on the dimensions of diversity and showed how we can deal with the challenges. He demonstrated how everyone is influenced by unconscious stereotypes - even if we don't want to be - and what we can do to not let these unconscious prejudices steer our behavior.
Using recent studies, he was also able to show that diversity in research teams actually has many benefits, resulting not only in better research output but also in diversification of research activities. But: This is only true if it is managed properly! Diversity just for the sake of diversity leads to increased communication problems and conflicts in teams. A poorly managed diverse team will therefore probably be less successful than a poorly managed homogeneous team. With this comes the call to all group leaders: invest time in diversity management and communication within the group, and you can achieve amazing results with diverse teams!
Sanin Hasibović, M.A./MES, is a trainer, mediator and coach. Due to several international degrees in journalism and communication studies, business administration, Eastern European studies and EU studies, among others, he has a broad interdisciplinary knowledge. His training and coaching focuses on international cooperation, diversity and unconscious bias.
Antonio, A. L., Chang, M. J., Hakuta, K., Kenny, D. A., Levin, S., & Milem, J. F. (2004). Effects of racial diversity on complex thinking in college students. Psychological Science, 15, 507–510.
Nathan, M., & Lee, N. (2013). Cultural diversity, innovation, and entrepreneurship: Firm-level evidence from London. Economic Geography, 89(4), 367–394. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecge.12016.
Sommers, S. R. (2006). On racial diversity and group decision making: Identifying multiple effects of racial composition on jury deliberations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(4), 597–612. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.597.
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A research team including MPSP alumnus Dr. Heiko Knopf and Fellow Dr. Falk Eilenberger recently published a scientific article in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. Heiko now told us in an interview, what eyeglasses have to do with quantum communication and why this might shape future Photonics research.
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Crops for Every Corn - or Sauerkraut!
By Dave Armstrong - 22 Jan 2016 12:11:0 GMT
Whether it's this Uzbek cotton not going rotten, diseased Californian strawberries or flooded Indian rice paddies, we need new varieties to resist climate change or rise in sea-level and old and wild varieties to refresh genomes to survive these future risks Cotton image; Credit: © Shutterstock
Global gene-banks rarely get publicity, but the action of the German government in backing The Crop Trust this week must be brought to notice. The Crop Trust, with their Svalbad gene bank essential for the conservation of many species and varieties, needs such support so that we can be future-proof ! Their CGIAR (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) resources are a comprehensive collection of the genomes we will use as climate change or other crop failures can create famine in almost any part of the world. Nevertheless, it has taken until 2016 for these resources that are our food future to be fully funded.
830,000 samples of almost every known crop are held on behalf of 60 major institutions and every major country in Svalbad. Recently, Kew Gardens in London have been gathering wild relatives of at least 29 crops to enhance the variability available. Norway originally contributed $50million for that initiative, named Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change.
So the question is, why did The Crop Trust need German help. On 19th January, the major grant to an endowment fund was headline news at international green Week in Berlin. The fund should now be reaching $500 million for a conference in April 2016. Previously full support from Germany consisted of a €7.5million (more or less the same in dollars) set of donations pre-2010. The German minister responsible for a further €25 million was quoted as saying I am glad about the engagement of the Ministry of Development Cooperation on this important topic. We cooperate closely on this issue, since raising agricultural productivity and fighting hunger and poverty in rural areas depend on the diversity of food crops. Protecting crop diversity is therefore the duty of the entire world community.
There's the hopeful situation- if all else goes well, we may at least have enough vegetables to eat in the future, for every nation. As far as one crop is concerned, the US, Brazil and China join Uzbekistan as major cotton producers according to business news here.


hKCNE4 inhibits the hKCNQ1 potassium current without affecting the activation kinetics.
All five members of the KCNE beta-subunit family are capable of modulating the KCNQ1 potassium current. We have previously published that the murine variant of KCNE4 inhibits the human KCNQ1 current [J. Physiol. 542 (2002) 119]. Recently, this finding has been challenged by Teng et al., stating that the human variant of KCNE4 does not attenuate the KCNQ1 current but does slightly modulate the activation kinetics of the channel after expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes [Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 303 (2003) 808]. In the present study, a detailed investigation on the ability of human and murine KCNE4 to affect either human or murine KCNQ1 currents has been performed. We find that the hKCNE4 subunit drastically inhibits the hKCNQ1 current after expression in X. laevis oocytes. This inhibitory effect is also observed for both hKCNE4 and mKCNE4 when either of these subunits is co-expressed with mKCNQ1. Analyses of the current properties of hKCNQ1 revealed that activation kinetics are independent of the presence of hKCNE4. hKCNE4 has, however, the ability to prevent the inactivation observed for the KCNQ1 current. Based upon previous studies and the present results, it is concluded that both hKCNE4 and mKCNE4 have a drastic inhibitory impact on both hKCNQ1 and mKCNQ1 currents.


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7 Technologies Underpin the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, 2016
The challenges of creating, implementing and preparing for the IoT.
Contributor: Kasey Panetta
When a store begins to gather specific data about a specific customer, such as if the female customer prefers a specific brand of soda, has a birthday in June, and hits the gym four times per week, they'll be able to predict more about that customer's future actions than they would if they just knew it was a middle-aged female shopper. With these specific details in mind, companies can use a concept termed the "digital twin" to predict what types of purchases you might like to make at specific times. Digital twins are solidly in the technology trigger phase of the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, 2016.
Now in its fifth year of publication, the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, 2016 is focused on critical issues for enterprises implementing IoT projects, the challenges of creating custom IoT products and preparing for integration of IoT products by other business units.
The IoT will help digital transformations but will take 5 to 10 years to gain mainstream adoption…
Gartner defines a digital twin as "a dynamic software model of a physical thing or system that relies on sensor data to understand its state, respond to changes, improve operations and add value." Digital twins are considered transformational technology because within three to five years billions of things will be represented by digital twins. Organizations can use these digital twins to proactively repair and plan for equipment service, plan manufacturing processes, operate factories or predict equipment failure. Currently, digital twins exist in a relatively narrow group of professional communities in select industries, but over the next decade–as IoT itself matures–operations managers will begin to see the value of the technology.
"The IoT itself will help digital transformations but will take 5 to 10 years to gain mainstream adoption," said Alfonso Velosa, research vice president. The IoT remains on the peak of inflated expectations for the third year in a row as vendors push the hype even higher, but most companies struggle to find use cases beyond proof-of-concept.
However, CIOs need to prepare short-term policies for integration, analytics and security, and long term policies for governance and cooperation strategies.
Seven technologies underpin the IoT, including: Data Federation/Virtualization Tools, IoT Edge Architecture, IoT Integration, IoT Services, Low-cost Development Boards, Machine Learning, and MDM of Product Data.
CIOs might be in charge of implementing IoT products for all business units, but given the diversity of technologies, it can be difficult to find staff to support all IoT initiatives. IoT services are professional consulting services that provide business and technical expertise to support design, development, and deployment of IoT solutions. Given the ever expanding uses and demands of the IoT, it can be difficult to supply in-house IoT-related skills and analytic domain expertise to support IoT solutions. Businesses should define the necessary IoT service requirements and create a formal IoT service request to ensure that the IoT services are able to support all the needs of the company.
While self-driving cars are probably the most well-known example of machine learning, the technology could also have an impact in automation, drug research, customer relationship management, predictive maintenance and fraud detection. Machine learning is one of of the top two concepts in IT as growing surges in data volume and increasing complexities in conventional engineering have made keeping up–for humans–extremely challenging.
In the future, industries like transportation, energy, medicine and manufacturing will not be possible without machine learning. Companies should nurture their in-house machine learning talent, and partner with universities and thought leaders to stay abreast of current data science and consider the potential business impact across a wide range of use cases.
Low-Cost Development Boards
While low-cost development boards can be used to applications such as 3D printers, robotics, and healthcare applications, they can also be used to prototype basic IoT applications. With the success of the original low-cost development boards, more and more semiconductor companies are launching their own versions, moving the technology from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to post-peak. Current boards are proving functionality, and once they prove capability, will need to be redesigned to prove reliability and cost-effectiveness for mass marketing.
The boards will shorten the time to market for designers, a critical aspect of new product development, allowing for a faster development from idea to prototype to marketing. Additionally, the availability of the boards will allow small-scale startups and individual developers to innovate and enter the industry.
Client Research
Clients can learn more about the IOT in the full research Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, 2016.
Leadership eBook
Learn how to lead through digital disruption. Download the complimentary CIO Leadership eBook.
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016
Learn more about driving business performance at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016. Follow news and updates from the events on Twitter using #GartnerSYM.
Upcoming dates and locations for Gartner Symposium/ITxpo include:
November 6-10, Barcelona, Spain
November 15-18, Goa, India
February 28 – March 2, Dubai, UAE
Read Complimentary Relevant Research
Building a Digital Business Technology Platform
What are the technology building blocks an enterprise needs to support digital business? This report details how CIOs and IT leaders…
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Видът е разпространен в Боливия, Бразилия, Колумбия, Еквадор и Перу.

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Edith Holm Sondergaard (15. veljače 1899. – 14. kolovoza 1985.), poznata pod umjetničkim imenom Gale Sondergaard, bila je američka filmska, kazališna i televizijska glumica, prva dobitnica Oscara za najbolju sporednu glumicu (1936. godine).

Životopis
Sondergaard, koja je danskog podrijetla, rođena je u Minnesoti, gdje je, nakon studija dramske umjetnosti, počela glumačku karijeru u kazalištu. Pridružila se putujućoj glumačkoj družini koja je širom SAD-a izvodila djela Williama Shakespearea.

Godine 1930., nakon udaje za drugog supruga, redatelja Herberta Bibermana, preselila je u Hollywood. Njen filmski debi, 1936. godine u filmu Anthony Adverse, donio joj je Oscara za najbolju sporednu žensku ulogu, prve godine kada se ta nagrada počela dodjeljivati. U narednih trinaest godina ostvarila je gotovo četrdeset filmskih uloga, do trenutka kada je njen suprug optužen za komunizam u jeku makartističke histerije. Sa suprugom je preselila u New York, gdje je nastavila glumiti u kazalištu.

Na filmu se Gale Sondergaard ponovo pojavila tek 1969. godine. Tijekom 1970-ih i početkom 1980-ih ostvarila je veći broj uloga, uglavnom u tv-serijama. Godine 1985., dvije godine nakon umirovljenja, umrla je u Los Angelesu.

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Američki filmski glumci
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When a recipient consents to participate in research, their data are contained in the CIBMTR's Observational Database. The database includes recipient baseline and outcome data for related and unrelated allogeneic transplants or other cellular therapy from any cell source, and for autologous transplants or other cellular therapy. Data are also collected on unrelated donors and their donation experiences.
The primary purpose of the Observational Database is to have a comprehensive source of data that can be used to study hematopoietic cell transplantation.


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Q: ZFS RAID 10 pool with mixed disks size I have 4 disks: 2x2TB and 2x1TB.
All of the same RPM 7200 and manufacturer. OS is Ubuntu 16.04.
I want to make a RAID 10 pool, but I've heard that mixing disks size is not a good approach to ZFS - correct me if I'm wrong...
So which is better of these 3 options ("m" means mirror):

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*Whole disks mirrors: (2TB m 2TB) + (1TB m 1TB).

*Split 2TB disks into 1TB partitions: (1TB m 1TB) + (1TB m 1TB) + (1TB m 1TB).

*Two separate pools: (2TB m 2TB) and (1TB m 1TB).

Personally I don't really like the third option, but maybe it is the most stable one? I am new to ZFS so please suggest.
I've made an image to illustrate the second option:

A: Before answering your question, a disclaimer: obviously it's simplest to just use duplicate hardware. It's worth noting that even though your devices are from the same manufacturer and have the same number of RPMs, the throughput will be different between them for a given IO size (because the 2TB drives probably have higher byte density per ring), and the number of IOPS will be the same between them even though the 2TB drives will be hit twice as frequently in a random read situation. Basically, you'll have asymmetric performance anyway, where the 2TB disks do ~2x better on large IOs, and the 1TB disks do ~2x better at short random IOs.
I'm going to answer assuming that you don't want to sell your 1TB drives to buy another 2TB drive. From your question I can't really tell -- what's your desired replication level? No matter what, there are two guidelines you should try to follow:

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*You're better off letting ZFS configure full disks in the zpool, because the failure semantics when one drive fails are a lot simpler than if two partitions can fail together (when the disk they're both on fails).

*It's easiest to add new disks to the pool later if your top-level node in the pool is a striped vdev. That way you can always add groups of duplicate new devices at the same time and it doesn't matter if their sizes match those of the existing devices in the pool.

If you want a 2-disk mirror, your option 1 seems the best to me. If you ever buy another disk, buy a second of the same type and add them both as a new mirror under the striped node in this tree:
striped
    mirror
        2TB
        2TB
    mirror
        1TB
        1TB

If you want a 3-disk mirror, you could do a mirror like this, but adding devices to that later is harder (add them as another mirror? add them as another stripe under the 1TB area?):
mirror
    2TB
    2TB
    striped
        1TB
        1TB

If you want to do RAID-Z, I'd recommend just not using different-sized devices, or you could buy some more 2TB and 1TB devices and stripe across multiple RAID-Z groups.
An alternate method for replicating data in ZFS is the copies=N setting that you can set on filesystems within the pool. This may be tempting for your use case, but note it doesn't help for all data loss problems -- a device-level failure will still result in failure to use the entire pool. (The main use case for this is corruptions within a disk.)

A: what i would suggest is raid10 with :
mirror-0 2TB & 1TB
mirror-1 2TB & 1TB
to accomplish this, you would create a raid0 with both 1TB first and then perform a zpool attach twice to attach each 2TB drive to each 1TB drive. this evens the load on both mirrors. make sure to set autoexpand for future expansion. you'll end up with about ~2TB space.


Growing up in the Highlands, Emma learned traditional fiddle music with Alpha Munro and Gordon Gunn (Session A9). She was a member of Kiltearn Fiddlers for 6 years where she played at countless events in and around the Highlands. Kiltearn Fiddlers also played further afield including performances at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, in Wales, and a tour to Denmark in 2009.
Emma has written original Scottish music since she was 12. Her compositions were featured on Kiltearn Fiddlers' album Kitchen Sessions. Below are recordings of more recent material. She also writes for Scottish fiddle and clarsach duo, Turadh.


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NCCO9, 2021
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Founded in 2017, the NCCO Conductor Fellowship offers the following opportunities to five selected Fellows.
Encouragement and support graduate students who are on the cusp of a career in academia.
The chance to sharpen conducting technique, score preparation skills, and rehearsal methods in a conducting masterclass with Members of the UMD Chamber Singers and Prof. María Guinand, one of the NCCO8 Featured Artists.
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The following are the 2019 NCCO Conductor Fellows.
Noemi Binag
Noemi Binag is a MM student at the Eastman School of Music where she studies with Dr. William Weinert and leads the Eastman Repertory Singers. Previously, Binag was graduate assistant for the Eastman-University of Rochester Women's Chorus under Dr. Philip Silvey. Noemi served as clinician for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (Philippines) and the Philippine Choral Directors Association. Prior to her graduate studies, she was a program committee member of the International Bamboo Organ Festival, resident conductor of the Ateneo de Manila University Glee Club, and conductor of the University of Asia and the Pacific Chorale.
Hannah Grasso
Hannah Grasso is a first-year M.M. candidate at Temple University where she studies conducting with Dr. Paul Rardin and serves as graduate assistant conductor for the Singing Owls Community Choir, directed by Dr. Rollo Dilworth. In May 2019, she graduated with the B.A. in Music from Smith College, where she studied conducting with Dr. Jonathan Hirsh and served as assistant conductor of the Smith College Choirs. Hannah's professional profile includes conducting experience in collegiate, church, community, and youth choir settings. She has participated in conducting masterclasses with Dr. Jerry Blackstone, Dr. Edith Copley, and Ms. Carolyn Kuan.
Jennifer Jun
Jennifer Jun is a DMA student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she is an assistant conductor of the CCM Chamber Choir. She also a church music program in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and is assistant conductor of Musica Sacra in Cincinnati. She received the May Festival Choral Conducting Fellowship in 2018. Jun is from Seoul, South Korea, and earned degrees from Emory University and Yonsei University (South Korea). In 2017, Jennifer was a finalist in the ACDA Conducting Competition and, in 2012, winner of the Choral Conducting Competition of the National Chorus of Korea.
Minji Kim is a doctoral student in choral conducting at the University of Maryland. Her teaching experiences at UMD includes working with the University Chorale, teaching undergraduate conducting classes, and assisting the Chamber Singers. Also, she is a music director at Northminster Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. Prior to joining UMD, Minji was at Texas Tech University where she assisted the University Choir and taught the University Singers as assistant conductor. Her other education includes a Bachelor's degree in composition from Yeungnam University in South Korea and a Master's degree in choral conducting from the Ohio State University.
Sinhaeng Lee
Sinhaeng Lee is a first year doctoral student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the tutorage of Dr. Andrew Megill, assisting Oratorio Society of the school and Director of Music of First Presbyterian Church of Urbana. He conducted the Yonsei University Men's Glee Club and Westminster Community Chorus. He studied with Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Amanda Quist, Dr. James Jordan, and Dr. Hae Ock Kim.
Mr. Lee earned a master's degree in choral conducting from the Westminster Choir College. He holds a bachelor's degree in church music and choral conducting from the Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Founded in 2003, International American University is located in the heart of the Caribbean Islands, in the southern district, Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, West Indies. The University is chartered and authorized by the government of St Lucia to confer various undergraduate and postgraduate degrees including the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. We offer a state-of-the-art curriculum in medical education, using the latest technology and teaching methods, based on the U.S. model and is delivered by a team of expert faculty. Every medical school has its own unique characteristics, a distinct personality and goals for the future. Our mission is to provide quality medical education to capable and highly motivated individuals who want to pursue a career in medicine. Through numerous collaborations with health care organizations, academic medical institutions, and other key stakeholders, we have played a major role in the development of the health and education infrastructure in St. Lucia and have provided training and education for hundreds of health care professionals and students around the world.
Our team brings together a diversity of knowledge and experience from every corner of the health care industry. The senior leadership group includes members from US and Canadian medical education and the health care systems. Our full-time staff consists of experienced professionals from the various fields of medicine, education, research, medical planning, health information technology, business strategy development, leadership and management. Our services and programs continue to draw upon the expertise of our faculty and staff across the medical school, and all of our affiliated teaching hospitals and institutions.
The four-year medical degree program is designed to produce physicians who qualify for licensure in St. Lucia, United States and Canada. The MD program is comprised of two years of Basic Sciences at the St Lucia campus and two years of Clinical Sciences in U.S. teaching hospitals.
Students are eligible to participate in clinical clerkship programs approved by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in teaching hospitals throughout the United States. IAU is approved by Education Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), USA and listed in the International Medical Education Directory (IMED). We are also approved by the WHO and listed in the current WHO World Directory of Medical Schools maintained by the University of Copenhagen. Students of IAU can appear for the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) and other licensing examinations such as the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examinations (MCCQE) and the United Kingdom's Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board Test (PLAB).
IAU has put together a well defined course structure to achieve better integration among the subjects of study in the Basic Sciences and Clinical Sciences. Moreover, the University has successfully reduced the lecture hours in lieu of small-group case-based teaching with the early introduction of clinical material to promote student interest and retention of learned material. Introduction of case-based learning in all semesters enables the students to learn the practical application of Basic Sciences to patient care in a clinical setting.
The Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program is designed to foster excellence in future leaders in the field of medicine. Special emphasis is placed on self-directed learning methods to create competent and compassionate health care providers. Experienced faculty and aggressive educational leadership help students become outstanding medical practitioners. Throughout their course of study, students under the direct supervision of qualified physicians work with the Ministry of Health and primary healthcare professionals of St. Lucia to provide health services to the people of the island. The University has also embarked on research programs to keep up the inquisitive mood of the academic institution.
Each student must possess certain abilities and skills to be enrolled in and to graduate from IAU College of Medicine. Admission is a holistic process based on a student's application, supporting documents, personal interview, and ability to meet IAU's technical standards with or without reasonable accommodation. Our technical standards include attributes that are necessary to successfully complete a rigorous medical education program and ultimately, to provide quality medical care.
Observation Skills: Students must have the ability to observe lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory activities in the basic and clinical sciences. Students should have a functional ability to observe patients and assess findings. Observation includes the use of vision, hearing and touch.
Communication Skills: Students must be able to communicate effectively with patients, their families and other healthcare professionals. Communication includes speaking, reading and writing. Students must be able to interpret written records and document information accurately.
Motor Function: Students must have the motor function necessary to perform clinical activities including examination, diagnostics and treatment methods. Motor function encompasses physical ability, coordination of gross and fine motor skills, and equilibrium.
Cognition: students must have sufficient cognitive abilities to process the information provided during the basic and clinical sciences. Students must possess intellectual, conceptual, integrative and quantitative abilities. Students must be able to perform measurements, calculations, reasoning, analysis and synthesis. Students must be able to solve complex problems in a timely manner under stress and in diverse settings.
Behavioral and Social Attributes: Students must demonstrate maturity and emotional stability to allow for the full use of all intellectual abilities, sound and timely decision making, and effective relationships with patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals. Students must be able to work effectively under high levels of stress, changing work environments, and the uncertainties of healthcare. Students must have an understanding of and abide by legal and ethical standards in regards to healthcare. Students must be able to work as part of a team and possess integrity, empathy, and the interpersonal skills necessary for medical practice.
Reasonable Accommodation: IAU College of Medicine does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations are those that will allow each student to function independently and do not lower academic standards or require modification to the academic program.


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University of the Third Age (u3a)
The University of the Third Age is very much an international organisation but with strong roots in the community it serves. There are branches in Australia, Cyprus, New Zealand, South Africa and Poland – to name but a few locations. It is particularly strong in France, where it was launched by Toulouse University in 1975.
U3A was founded in 1981 by three friends, all distinguished in their own field and embarking on the "third age" of their lives. Peter Lazlett, Eric Midwinter and Michael Young. They met in Cambridge to discuss the intellectual and cultural prospects for older people. France had already set up in 1972 their Universités du Troisieme Age and this was their model. In 1983 they hosted a conference with a view to setting up a U3A branch in the United Kingdom. During the conference an interview was given to a local radio station, prompting over 400 letters of interest. Cambridge U3A was born. From the outset, the co founders rejected the idea of direct association with any University. They preferred what we have today, each local U3A branch fully independent, self funding and democratically managed. At the initial conference it was agreed that the University of the Third Age should be open to all people in their Third Age – that is, no longer in full time employment. It should be educational in its widest sense, including leisure and social pursuits as well as academic interests.
Once Cambridge U3A was established, the next two cities to launch branches were London and Huddersfield, where a weekly dance class featured strongly.
The main dynamic of all U3As is the focus on activity groups. Thameside (Wallingford) U3A has over fifty separate groups, all studying and enjoying many and varied interests, from Latin to Pétanque to current affairs to country walking, to singing. In addition to membership of one or more groups, members meet monthly for a talk on a general interest topic, attend a coffee morning for a social get together, take one of the monthly excursions and enjoy an annual celebratory lunch. We have at present about 400 members, while some city U3As have over 1000. Thameside (Wallingford) U3A was founded some ten years ago by the original Wallingford U3A, that still meets in Crowmarsh and was itself launched in 1983.
All UK U3As are members of the Third Age Trust, that provides national leadership through a representative committee, with administrative and educational help supplied when requested. The Trust is supported by a small professional office staff.
Thameside (Wallingford) u3a is also a member of the Thames Valley u3a Network. The objectives of the Network are to advance the education of members in the Network and encourage leisure activities by facilitating cooperation between u3a branches in the Network. The Thames Valley Network organises various meetings and Study days that may be of interest to Members. Watch out for these in our News items, or click on the link above to browse what's happening.
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Cool Waters Holiday Park Cairns offers motorhome sites and cabin accommodation, delightfully located on the banks of Freshwater Creek in Brinsmead Cairns.
Ideal for singles, couples, families, groups of friends holidaying together, corporate business travellers or convention delegates looking for either short or long term accommodation in a great Cairns location at an affordable price, the Cool Waters Holiday Park is a grassy, well manicured park with a wide range of facilities on site to make your stay as enjoyable as possible.
The caravan and camping sites offer vast amounts of shade with the backdrop of huge rainforest trees that border the creek and surrounding areas. The landscaped gardens in between the sites provide privacy for you to enjoy your own space and that of your tropical surroundings.
Catering for your caravan, motorhome, camper trailer, campervan or tent, the sites are spacious, green, and many have creek frontage. Priding themselves on keeping the park well maintained, tidy and neat at all times, the Cool Waters Holiday Park Cairns provides accommodation to suit all travellers, from families to singles, from tour groups to campers! There are fully self-contained family units and cabins that are well appointed and comfortable. There are cabins with or without an en suite, catering for all budget requirements. All accommodation is set amongst landscaped tropical gardens and has an undercover outside area.
What better way to relax then in the tropical settings of our salt water swimming pool & spa? Created with families in mind the pool boasts a waterfall, partial shade and sunbeds for you to relax in. Central to the park the pool is the perfect place to spend time either with the family or doing some exercise. There are landscaped gardens and an in site kiosk which sells ice-creams, chips, chocolate and other confectionary, soft drinks, juice, milk, washing powder and basic grocery items. Fresh bread is delivered daily as are newspapers, ice and LPG refills.
Located centrally in the park, the kids playground is a great place to spend an afternoon and while the kids enjoy themselves you can relax in the shade. Entertainment nights at Cool Waters that includes 'Eat as much as you can' Pizza nights. Have a beer in our tropical gardens and relax to a local band playing on stage. A great family nights entertainment you can't miss, all in a friendly environment on the banks of Freshwater Creek.
The park also offers FREE car parking, grassed camping area, camp kitchen, BBQ facilities and entertaining area, guest laundry, a gift shop, turtle feeding, bird watching, scone mornings, Rainforest Creek Walks as well as the new addition Elva's Cafe for fantastic coffee and delicious food.
If you need to stay in contact with friends and family there high speed WIFI connection to the internet and provide laptop connections if needed.
Transport to and from Cool Waters Holiday Park is easy if you do not have a vehicle, courtesy of the local Sunbus service that picks up passengers just across the road. They can transport you into Cairns City, out to the northern beaches and to countless tourist attractions that Cairns has to offer.
The Cool Waters caravan park has an arrangement with three local pubs that provides a complimentary pick up service to their establishment. They will then bring you back to the park whenever you are ready to leave. All of these pubs have very good restaurants so going out for a meal has never been easier. Taxi booking is also available at the office.
Tours to all local attractions can be arranged by the tour desk. There is an onsite cafe and a mail service that delivers mail daily as well as collect it for delivery to the Cairns mail depot on a daily basis. The Cool Waters Holiday Park offers all the facilities you would expect from a 4 Star rated holiday park.
The aim at Cool Waters Holiday Park is to ensure that your holiday, whether it is overnight or for an extended period, is as comfortable and convenient as possible. With that in mind, Cool Waters has fantastic staff, with plenty of local knowledge, willing to help at all times. If there are any problems or questions to be asked you can feel free to see them at reception.


Do you think Christianity is a conspiracy?
Discussion in 'Conspiracy Theories' started by greenstingray20, Mar 31, 2016.
I've been interested in conspiracy theories for a few years, and after researching this for some time, I believe that Christianity is definitely a conspiracy. Christianity serves as an excellent way of gaining control over a populace, as it promotes the development of character traits such as blind obedience, submissiveness, and "turning the other cheek", i.e., not seeking justice when one is wronged. What are other's thoughts on this? A good source I've used for this research is http://exposingchristianity.org. It's astounding how far the conspiracy goes with this.
The word, "conspiracy" implies that there is a finite group of people with a single goal, or a group of related goals.
Who are those people and what is the goal? Are Jimmy Swaggart and the Pope on the same side of this?
Are Mormons Christians (for conspiracy purposes)?
Have any of the goals been achieved? How do you measure it?
Who is in on the conspiracy?
Wrong. Look up some of the things that Rome did to control their people.
Wanna talk about some of the cathedrals that were put up because they got enough donations to build it?
After that, let's talk about the mega churches that are sanctioned by the government and given tax free status while the preachers get rich.
but good hate thread, this is a new wrinkle.
It must be a conspiracy.
I mean, how else can you explain why people are not receiving the medication necessary to prevent their paranoid delusions?
------------------------------------- I think that you post is correct . And now my conspiracy or thought , islam is being introduced to the WEST as a way to change things and control people in the West . See how things are changing in the western countries like germany , sweden and other nations Wolfstrike .
afterall , islam and shariah are all about submission and obedience Wolfstrike .
---------------------------- the reason that churches get tax free status is because the churches follow the rules laid out by the government . See the 'Johnson amendment' that was done by LBJ sometime in the 50s or early 60s BSailor !!