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By Hermione Cole | Autumn 2022
A Guide to Sea Salt: How it's Made and Where it Comes From
Let's get to know all about salt!
Salt production is one of the oldest practises dating as far back to 6,000 BC. Used for various trading and religious offerings, empires such as the ancient Romans actually used salt as a means of commerce, with Rome deriving the word 'salary' from salt. In present times, salt is one of the most important ingredients used and loved by cooks and foodies around the world. Not only does it enhance flavours within dishes and allows you to season to perfection, it is an element in which the human body can't live without – sodium!
With this in mind, we want to explore the significance of sea salt, where we look into how sea salt is made, delving into various production and salt-work methods. Additionally, we guide you on where sea salt comes from around the world, and most importantly how Maldon Salt is formed.
How is Sea Salt Made?
Let's keep this simple – sea salt is made by seawater from the ocean entering into shallow ground or a 'salt works' (man-made salt water pools) where by time the sun will begin to evaporate the water, leaving behind sea salt crystals – this is called solar evaporation.
Now this is is the easiest and preferred method for warmer climates with a low rainfall and high evaporation rate. But what about the other climates like the UK that aren't graced with regular hot weather? This is where countries like ourselves get creative with sea salt production. We can delve into this in more detail in how Maldon Salt is formed deeper into the article.
Where Does Sea Salt Come From?
Have you ever wondered if sea salt really comes from the sea? Well, it does! Sea salt is naturally produced by our world's ocean sea water. It's why we love it so much, as it a naturally occurring element, containing less iodine than table salt and obtains traces of minerals/nutrients including magnesium and potassium – a nod to the health conscious.
What about other salts – where do they come from?
Although it's safe to say Maldon is sea salt's biggest fan – there are other salts!
Table Salt – mined from natural salt deposits (older bodies of seawater which have dried long ago) the salt is then processed and manufactured into smaller crystals. Unlike sea salt, which is produced through natural methods, table salt production involves chemicals after being mined. It's purified and striped of minerals and infused with anti-caking substances.
Mineral Salt – similar to table salt, but this type of salt is specifically mined from areas such as Pakistan, near the Himalayas. Did you know it's colours are influenced from the additional minerals, such as calcium, potassium, and magnesium. You may know this as 'Rock Salt' . Here at Maldon we stock Tidman's Natural Rock Salt, where the naturally occurring rock salt is extracted from ancient rock deposits from Cheshire Britain. Fact – unlike other salts, Tidman's is also additive free!
How is Maldon Salt Formed?
Now let's talk about our beloved Maldon Sea Salt. Since 1882, our world-famous salt flakes have been made with the same traditional artisan methods from the coastal town of Maldon, Essex. Our salt works are run by the fourth generation Osborne family, currently in the hands of Steve Osborn, following his father's footsteps Clive, grandfather Cyril and great grandfather James.
The Maldon Sea Salt Process:
Seawater from the the Blackwater Estuary in Maldon is carefully harvested on the spring tide, where there is an appreciated art to the temperature and timing, which is a family secret. Master of salt makers have been hand harvesting the naturally formed pyramid-shaped crystals that have since became Maldon's signature.
Maldon Salt is created through an evaporation process. Brine is evaporated in our salt pans over flames to form the unique salt crystals. This method is still used today, where our salt makers use the same time-honoured techniques with skilled hands poised over every batch. You can find out more where Maldon Sea Salt comes from by heading over to our YouTube channel.
Maldon Sea Salt vs. Table Salt
The unique pyramid flakes are Maldon's trademark, recognised as the finest of sea salts. The pyramid flakes release their saltiness with sweet precision, a fresh intensity and clean taste. It is a highly versatile ingredient that can be used at any point in the cooking process, loved by chefs and the world over. Not to mention the texture has a beautiful flaky feel, perfect to sprinkle as a finishing salt.
Table salt as we've learnt always involves chemicals in the process – it is not natural like sea salt. The taste of table salt is also less saltier than sea salt due to being stripped of naturally occurring minerals and nutrients in the extraction process.
As a result, replacing your table salt with Maldon Sea Salt will help you refine your sodium intake as you only need a humble pinch of Maldon to enhance and season your dishes flavours and not a whole grinder's worth to satisfy your salty crave.
Uses for Sea Salt:
Preserving – using sea salt as a preserve for food is a wonderful way of ensuring your dish retains moisture and doesn't overcook. A salt crust creates a layer which insulates the food, minimising the chances of moisture from escaping. This mean that all the delicious juices and flavours stay inside the dish and ensues the food cooks more evenly. Check out our Salt Baked Sea Bass recipe in which go throughs the salt preservation process in more detail!
Flavouring – sea salt allows dishes to be heightened in sweetness and to remove any bitterness. This is because of the sodium in salt in which supresses the bitter flavours in a recipe, creating foods to be more flavourful for the pallet. Head over to our YouTube channel to see our video with Sorted Food on different hacks and genius ways in using Maldon Salt to enhance flavour within a dish.
At the end of the day when choosing your everyday seasoning, sea salt and table salt still have the same nutritional value. However it is our Maldon Sea Salt that helps connect people in the moments of pleasure from food and drink. We know taste enhances mood and Maldon Salt offers a little magic no matter the meal occasion, culture or cuisine. Our unique pyramid flakes are characteristics of Maldon, recognised the world over as the finest of sea salts. With the flakes itself, they release their saltiness and sweet precision, a fresh intensity and clean taste that can be used at any cooking process. You can also check out our recipes, tips and blogs to explore how Maldon really does give that pinch of magic to your recipes.
So now that we've got your interest, why don't you try it out for yourself? Head over to our Where To Buy page now to buy online or find your nearest store.
For more recipes and inspiration check out our social media.


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Get a racket ball (not a golf ball, tennis ball or lacrosse ball). A racket ball is the perfect size and has just the right amount of "give" for this practice. If you don't have one, remind me, and I'll be happy to give you one at your next massage!
Imagine there are 3 vertical lines from the ball of your foot to your heel: inside (from big toe), middle, and outside (from pinky toe).
Hold onto something to support yourself (wall, chair back or counter), stabilize yourself with your standing leg, and place the ball on floor under one foot.
You will find some sensitive spots* along the way. When you reach your heel, move up the next line, pausing to press and breathe, and so on.
When you complete both feet, take a moment to notice any difference. People report their feet feel "wider", "more alive", "more flexible," their legs feel more energized, and their calves feel looser.
Do this on each foot once or twice each day. It takes approximately 5 minutes.
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15 Questions for Bernie Sanders
If Joe Biden enters the convention with a plurality of delegates, will you advocate for him to be the nominee?
Conor Friedersdorf
Staff writer at The Atlantic
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
After Super Tuesday, it's clear the Democratic primary is a two-person race, between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Here are 15 questions that I'd like to see Sanders address before the next round of voting:
The spread of the coronavirus highlights the value of a capacity to rapidly develop new vaccines. What role, if any, do you think the profit motive has played in increasing that capacity?
During a debate, you were asked whether you could guarantee full employment if, over 10 years, tens of millions of people lost their jobs to automation. You answered, in part, that the planet faces the greatest threat in its history from climate change, and that the Green New Deal "will create up to 20 million jobs as we move away from fossil fuel."
But heads of state have often found that economic planning is far harder than they imagined. Why are you confident that you can predict the number of jobs in a complicated, fast-changing sector? Why should we trust your forecasts in any sector when guessing wrong means misallocating and wasting lots of money and manpower?
The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures. But most Fourth Amendment case law predates digital technology, including smartphones, GPS location data, facial-recognition software, high-resolution aerial video, and more. Surveying the National Security Agency, the FBI, and the rest of the criminal-justice system, including law enforcement and prosecutors, do you think the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans are being adequately protected? What new limits on the state, if any, will you impose to safeguard people's privacy?
You've insisted that billionaires should not exist, full stop, while defending your status as a millionaire by pointing out that you wrote a best-selling book. If anyone else does the same, you say, then they too could become a millionaire who owns three houses. Of course, if anyone writes code for a computer operating system that's adopted as widely as the one Bill Gates developed, or creates a social network that is joined by as many people as the one Mark Zuckerberg created, or writes and performs 14 No. 1 hip-hop albums like Jay-Z, and then invests the profits, they too could be a billionaire. Why is that different?
The British press says sexist and racist patients could be barred from nonemergency care at the National Health Service. "Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or physically violent," Sky News reported. "But these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist or racist remarks." Some believe that reform is necessary to guarantee just working conditions for NHS employees; others say doctors and nurses have a duty to treat all patients, even racists and sexists, as long as they pose no physical threat. What do you think?
Would you rather reduce income inequality without any rise in working-class living standards or increase working-class living standards without any fall in income inequality?
Consider a family of four with a household income of $120,000 earned by parents making $60,000 each. How much more would they pay in taxes if you get your agenda through Congress?
Say a person earns $100,000 a year. If he paid 1 percent of that in taxes split among federal, state, and local governments, you would favor raising his taxes. If he paid 100 percent of his income in taxes, you would presumably find that to be unjustly confiscatory. What's the maximum percentage of his income that the state could justly take?
The essayist Scott Alexander once described the difference between "mistake theorists" and "conflict theorists":
Mistake theorists treat politics as science, engineering, or medicine. The State is diseased. We're all doctors, standing around arguing over the best diagnosis and cure. Some of us have good ideas, others have bad ideas that wouldn't help, or that would cause too many side effects. Conflict theorists treat politics as war. Different blocs with different interests are forever fighting to determine whether the State exists to enrich the Elites or to help the People.
Like Donald Trump, you typically adopt the rhetoric of a conflict theorist, positing that elites are putting one over on the people and that progress requires a movement big and powerful enough to overwhelm "the billionaire class." What would you say to a voter who believes that many important matters are better characterized as thorny problems or tough trade-offs with no clear answers being confronted by well-intentioned people with different guesses about what would work?
You've said that while you might praise discrete actions taken by leaders like Fidel Castro in Cuba, you reject authoritarianism and are happy to denounce it. In your estimation, why did idealistic proponents of socialism in countries as varied as Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and beyond wind up living under authoritarian tyrants? How can proponents of democratic socialism avoid having your vision usurped in ways you don't intend?
If you get your way, the federal government will grow much bigger and more powerful. Do you worry about what the next Republican president would do with those new and expanded powers?
While the front-runner, you argued that it would be very divisive for the Democratic Party if a candidate with a plurality of delegates going into the convention does not become the nominee. If Joe Biden enters the convention with a plurality of delegates will you advocate for him to be the nominee?
If rapid climate change is among the biggest threats that humanity faces, why do you favor phasing out nuclear power, America's biggest source of energy that emits no carbon?
If the federal government spends significantly more on social welfare for all people in the United States, as you propose, some worry that Americans will become more hostile to newcomers to this country, because every immigrant will cost more in government outlays. Would your domestic agenda likely result in—or even require—fewer immigrants?
What if Medicare for All causes some of the best doctors to exit the public medical system, with its lower rates of pay, and instead provide private concierge medicine to the rich?
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1 Overdose antidote: A company whose prescription opioid marketing practices are being blamed for sparking the addiction and overdose crisis says it's helping to fund an effort to make a lower-cost overdose antidote. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma announced Wednesday that it's making a $3.4 million grant to Harm Reduction Therapeutics, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray. The announcement comes as lawsuits from local governments blaming Purdue, based in Stamford, Conn., and other companies in the drug industry for using deceptive marketing practices to encourage heavy prescribing of addictive painkillers. Last week, the number of lawsuits against the industry being overseen by a federal judge topped 1,000.
2 Tropical storm: Blamed for the death of a Florida baby and intense wind and rain that pummeled parts of the northern Gulf of Mexico coast, Tropical Depression Gordon weakened Wednesday but still spread bands of heavy rains across a swath of the South as it swirled over central Mississippi. It promised more of the same on a forecast track expected to take it northeast into Arkansas, which was forecast to get heavy rain Wednesday evening. By Saturday, what's left of the storm was forecast to hook to the north, then northeast on a path toward the Great Lakes.
3Plane quarantined: A large commercial jet from Dubai caused a scare on Wednesday after a pilot radioed that it would be landing at New York's Kennedy Airport carrying several passengers and crew members who fell ill with flu-like symptoms. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately quarantined the double-decker Emirates aircraft holding 520 passengers so it could evaluate about 100 of them. Some had complained about coughs, headaches, sore throats and fevers.
4$1 fine: A Virginia man convicted of an assault against the organizer of last summer's violent white nationalist rally during a news conference has been handed a $1 fine with no jail time. Prosecutors said Jeffrey Winder could be seen on video punching Jason Kessler, who was mobbed after he attempted to hold a news conference on the day after violence erupted in Charlottesville. The Daily Progress reports Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery for a second time during an appeal trial Tuesday. The jury could have sentenced Winder to up to 12 months of jail time and $2,500 in fines.
5Terror plot: A Boston police captain's son, who authorities called a "committed soldier" of the Islamic State, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for plotting to use assault rifles and homemade bombs to kill Americans on a college campus. Alexander Ciccolo pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in May, three years after his father alerted the FBI about his son's desire to fight for the terror group. Ciccolo was arrested after receiving four guns from a person who was cooperating with the FBI.


There are 4 primary principles to being successful in EvolvHealth. These four fundamental elements will determine whether you'll call it quits or persevere, and whether you will ever discover the key to absolute success.
It is very common to be told tales of myriad people who've attempted growing an organization inside EvolvHealth but never completed a single sale or made even 1 check. Eventually these reps all wind up in the same spot, burnt out and resigned about EvolvHealth and sometimes the mlm industry completely, and of course spreading the "this won't work" mantra, simply because they would not execute these four primary rules, and accordingly didn't succeed in EvolvHealth before they gave up.
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EvolvHealth Success Principle Number One: Knowing what you want to accomplish!
At the beginning of your EvolvHealth journey, you should expect that your enroller is going to give you the "What do you expect to accomplish with EvolvHealth" monologue. Regardless if you blew off this crucial step as just standard boilerplate drivel, or you seriously wondered why you're a rep for EvolvHealth, this is your chance to really think and decide exactly what you will do and what that means to you.
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Goals inspire purpose, purpose inspires energy, energy intensifies focus and focus provides you the drive and impetus to succeed no matter the cost! This concludes lesson one of 4 in the series "4 Keys To EvolvHealth Success". Keep an eye out for module Two.


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HomeTechnologyNASA aborts its second attempt to launch Artemis 1 to the moon
NASA aborts its second attempt to launch Artemis 1 to the moon
For the second time in a row, Artemis will not be able to fly this week due to a medical condition. Having unsuccessfully attempted to stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel from the rocket, NASA was forced to scrap a second launch of the rocket scheduled for late Saturday morning due to the leak.
In an official announcement, Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson announced that the rocket had been scrubbed at 11:19 a.m. ET (7.19 p.m. UAE time). During Monday morning's launch attempt, NASA aborted the rocket's first attempt after a sensor indicated one of the rocket's four engines wasn't cooling down to the correct temperature.


Narcolepsy can often be either mis- or undiagnosed. Individual with narcolepsy commonly wait to consult a doctor because the most common symptom is unnecessary daytime sleepiness, a symptom that could be analytic of several conditions. Furthermore, narcolepsy symptoms are often falsely attributed to other sleep disorders or medical conditions such as depression or epilepsy.
As the only unique symptom of narcolepsy is cataplexy unexpected loss of muscle control, diagnosis of the condition can take a long term. If you believe you have narcolepsy, be sure to talk with your doctor about all of the symptoms you are experiencing.
Formal diagnosis may require a sleep study and some tests may be needed to diagnose your narcolepsy.
Many sleep latency tests determine how long it takes you to fall asleep during the day. You will need to take four to five naps, two hours apart.
The Epworth sleepiness scale is a simple questionnaire. It asks how likely you are to sleep in different conditions.
ActiGraph monitoring keeps track of how and when you fall asleep. This device is worn like a wristwatch and may be used together with a sleep diary.
Narcolepsy has no cure. It's a chronic condition that lasts a lifetime. The goal of Narcolepsy Alternative Treatment is to control symptoms and improve daytime functioning. Stimulants, lifestyle change, and avoidance of unsafe activities are all used to treat this disorder. There are some categories of medications used to treat narcolepsy.


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Project acronym ADAPT
Project Origins and factors governing adaptation: Insights from experimental evolution and population genomic data
Researcher (PI) Thomas, Martin Jean Bataillon
Host Institution (HI) AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Summary "I propose a systematic study of the type of genetic variation enabling adaptation and factors that limit rates of adaptation in natural populations. New methods will be developed for analysing data from experimental evolution and population genomics. The methods will be applied to state of the art data from both fields. Adaptation is generated by natural selection sieving through heritable variation. Examples of adaptation are available from the fossil record and from extant populations. Genomic studies have supplied many instances of genomic regions exhibiting footprint of natural selection favouring new variants. Despite ample proof that adaptation happens, we know little about beneficial mutations– the raw stuff enabling adaptation. Is adaptation mediated by genetic variation pre-existing in the population, or by variation supplied de novo through mutations? We know even less about what factors limit rates of adaptation. Answers to these questions are crucial for Evolutionary Biology, but also for believable quantifications of the evolutionary potential of populations. Population genetic theory makes predictions and allows inference from the patterns of polymorphism within species and divergence between species. Yet models specifying the fitness effects of mutations are often missing. Fitness landscape models will be mobilized to fill this gap and develop methods for inferring the distribution of fitness effects and factors governing rates of adaptation. Insights into the processes underlying adaptation will thus be gained from experimental evolution and population genomics data. The applicability of insights gained from experimental evolution to comprehend adaptation in nature will be scrutinized. We will unite two very different approaches for studying adaptation. The project will boost our understanding of how selection shapes genomes and open the way for further quantitative tests of theories of adaptation."
"I propose a systematic study of the type of genetic variation enabling adaptation and factors that limit rates of adaptation in natural populations. New methods will be developed for analysing data from experimental evolution and population genomics. The methods will be applied to state of the art data from both fields. Adaptation is generated by natural selection sieving through heritable variation. Examples of adaptation are available from the fossil record and from extant populations. Genomic studies have supplied many instances of genomic regions exhibiting footprint of natural selection favouring new variants. Despite ample proof that adaptation happens, we know little about beneficial mutations– the raw stuff enabling adaptation. Is adaptation mediated by genetic variation pre-existing in the population, or by variation supplied de novo through mutations? We know even less about what factors limit rates of adaptation. Answers to these questions are crucial for Evolutionary Biology, but also for believable quantifications of the evolutionary potential of populations. Population genetic theory makes predictions and allows inference from the patterns of polymorphism within species and divergence between species. Yet models specifying the fitness effects of mutations are often missing. Fitness landscape models will be mobilized to fill this gap and develop methods for inferring the distribution of fitness effects and factors governing rates of adaptation. Insights into the processes underlying adaptation will thus be gained from experimental evolution and population genomics data. The applicability of insights gained from experimental evolution to comprehend adaptation in nature will be scrutinized. We will unite two very different approaches for studying adaptation. The project will boost our understanding of how selection shapes genomes and open the way for further quantitative tests of theories of adaptation."
Project acronym ANTS
Project Attine ANT SymbiomeS
Researcher (PI) Jacobus Jan Boomsma
Summary "The attine fungus-growing ants are prime models for understanding phenotypic adaptations in social evolution and symbiosis. The mutualism has many hallmarks of advanced cooperation in its mating system commitments and functional complementarity between multiple symbiont partners, but potential conflicts between sexes and castes over reproductive priorities, and between hosts and symbionts over symbiont mixing have also been documented. With collaborators at BGI-Shenzhen and the Smithsonian Institution my group has obtained six reference genomes representing all genus-level branches of the higher attine ants and a lower attine outgroup. With collaborators in Denmark and Australia we have pioneered proteomic approaches to understand the preservation of sperm viability in spite of sperm competition and the enzymatic decomposition of plant substrates that the ants use to make their fungus gardens grow. Here, I propose an integrated study focusing on four major areas of attine ant biology that are particularly inviting for in depth molecular approaches: 1. The protein-level networks that secure life-time (up to 20 years) sperm storage in specialized ant-queen organs and the genetic mechanisms that shape and adjust these "sexual symbiome" networks. 2. The ant-fungal symbiome, i.e. the dynamics of fungal enzyme production for plant substrate degradation and the redistribution of these enzymes in fungus gardens through fecal deposition after they are ingested but not digested by the ants. 3. The microbial symbiome of ant guts and other tissues with obligate bacterial mutualists, of which we have identified some and will characterize a wider collection across the different branches of the attine ant phylogeny. 4. The genome-wide frequency of genomic imprinting and the significance of these imprints for the expression of caste phenotypes and the regulation of potential reproductive conflicts."
"The attine fungus-growing ants are prime models for understanding phenotypic adaptations in social evolution and symbiosis. The mutualism has many hallmarks of advanced cooperation in its mating system commitments and functional complementarity between multiple symbiont partners, but potential conflicts between sexes and castes over reproductive priorities, and between hosts and symbionts over symbiont mixing have also been documented. With collaborators at BGI-Shenzhen and the Smithsonian Institution my group has obtained six reference genomes representing all genus-level branches of the higher attine ants and a lower attine outgroup. With collaborators in Denmark and Australia we have pioneered proteomic approaches to understand the preservation of sperm viability in spite of sperm competition and the enzymatic decomposition of plant substrates that the ants use to make their fungus gardens grow. Here, I propose an integrated study focusing on four major areas of attine ant biology that are particularly inviting for in depth molecular approaches: 1. The protein-level networks that secure life-time (up to 20 years) sperm storage in specialized ant-queen organs and the genetic mechanisms that shape and adjust these "sexual symbiome" networks. 2. The ant-fungal symbiome, i.e. the dynamics of fungal enzyme production for plant substrate degradation and the redistribution of these enzymes in fungus gardens through fecal deposition after they are ingested but not digested by the ants. 3. The microbial symbiome of ant guts and other tissues with obligate bacterial mutualists, of which we have identified some and will characterize a wider collection across the different branches of the attine ant phylogeny. 4. The genome-wide frequency of genomic imprinting and the significance of these imprints for the expression of caste phenotypes and the regulation of potential reproductive conflicts."
Project acronym ARCHADAPT
Project The architecture of adaptation to novel environments
Researcher (PI) Christian Werner Schlötterer
Summary One of the central goals in evolutionary biology is to understand adaptation. Experimental evolution represents a highly promising approach to study adaptation. In this proposal, a freshly collected D. simulans population will be allowed to adapt to laboratory conditions under two different temperature regimes: hot (27°C) and cold (18°C). The trajectories of adaptation to these novel environments will be monitored on three levels: 1) genomic, 2) transcriptomic, 3) phenotypic. Allele frequency changes during the experiment will be measured by next generation sequencing of DNA pools (Pool-Seq) to identify targets of selection. RNA-Seq will be used to trace adaptation on the transcriptomic level during three developmental stages. Eight different phenotypes will be scored to measure the phenotypic consequences of adaptation. Combining the adaptive trajectories on these three levels will provide a picture of adaptation for a multicellular, outcrossing organism that is far more detailed than any previous results. Furthermore, the proposal addresses the question of how adaptation on these three levels is reversible if the environment reverts to ancestral conditions. The third aspect of adaptation covered in the proposal is the question of repeatability of adaptation. Again, this question will be addressed on the three levels: genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic. Using replicates with different degrees of genetic similarity, as well as closely related species, we will test how similar the adaptive response is. This large-scale study will provide new insights into the importance of standing variation for the adaptation to novel environments. Hence, apart from providing significant evolutionary insights on the trajectories of adaptation, the results we will obtain will have important implications for conservation genetics and commercial breeding.
One of the central goals in evolutionary biology is to understand adaptation. Experimental evolution represents a highly promising approach to study adaptation. In this proposal, a freshly collected D. simulans population will be allowed to adapt to laboratory conditions under two different temperature regimes: hot (27°C) and cold (18°C). The trajectories of adaptation to these novel environments will be monitored on three levels: 1) genomic, 2) transcriptomic, 3) phenotypic. Allele frequency changes during the experiment will be measured by next generation sequencing of DNA pools (Pool-Seq) to identify targets of selection. RNA-Seq will be used to trace adaptation on the transcriptomic level during three developmental stages. Eight different phenotypes will be scored to measure the phenotypic consequences of adaptation. Combining the adaptive trajectories on these three levels will provide a picture of adaptation for a multicellular, outcrossing organism that is far more detailed than any previous results. Furthermore, the proposal addresses the question of how adaptation on these three levels is reversible if the environment reverts to ancestral conditions. The third aspect of adaptation covered in the proposal is the question of repeatability of adaptation. Again, this question will be addressed on the three levels: genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic. Using replicates with different degrees of genetic similarity, as well as closely related species, we will test how similar the adaptive response is. This large-scale study will provide new insights into the importance of standing variation for the adaptation to novel environments. Hence, apart from providing significant evolutionary insights on the trajectories of adaptation, the results we will obtain will have important implications for conservation genetics and commercial breeding.
Project acronym ATOMICAR
Project ATOMic Insight Cavity Array Reactor
Researcher (PI) Peter Christian Kjærgaard VESBORG
Host Institution (HI) DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Summary The goal of ATOMICAR is to achieve the ultimate sensitivity limit in heterogeneous catalysis: Quantitative measurement of chemical turnover on a single catalytic nanoparticle. Most heterogeneous catalysis occurs on metal nanoparticle in the size range of 3 nm - 10 nm. Model studies have established that there is often a strong coupling between nanoparticle size & shape - and catalytic activity. The strong structure-activity coupling renders it probable that "super-active" nanoparticles exist. However, since there is no way to measure catalytic activity of less than ca 1 million nanoparticles at a time, any super-activity will always be hidden by "ensemble smearing" since one million nanoparticles of exactly identical size and shape cannot be made. The state-of-the-art in catalysis benchmarking is microfabricated flow reactors with mass-spectrometric detection, but the sensitivity of this approach cannot be incrementally improved by six orders of magnitude. This calls for a new measurement paradigm where the activity of a single nanoparticle can be benchmarked – the ultimate limit for catalytic measurement. A tiny batch reactor is the solution, but there are three key problems: How to seal it; how to track catalytic turnover inside it; and how to see the nanoparticle inside it? Graphene solves all three problems: A microfabricated cavity with a thin SixNy bottom window, a single catalytic nanoparticle inside, and a graphene seal forms a gas tight batch reactor since graphene has zero gas permeability. Catalysis is then tracked as an internal pressure change via the stress & deflection of the graphene seal. Crucially, the electron-transparency of graphene and SixNy enables subsequent transmission electron microscope access with atomic resolution so that active nanoparticles can be studied in full detail. ATOMICAR will re-define the experimental limits of catalyst benchmarking and lift the field of basic catalysis research into the single-nanoparticle age.
The goal of ATOMICAR is to achieve the ultimate sensitivity limit in heterogeneous catalysis: Quantitative measurement of chemical turnover on a single catalytic nanoparticle. Most heterogeneous catalysis occurs on metal nanoparticle in the size range of 3 nm - 10 nm. Model studies have established that there is often a strong coupling between nanoparticle size & shape - and catalytic activity. The strong structure-activity coupling renders it probable that "super-active" nanoparticles exist. However, since there is no way to measure catalytic activity of less than ca 1 million nanoparticles at a time, any super-activity will always be hidden by "ensemble smearing" since one million nanoparticles of exactly identical size and shape cannot be made. The state-of-the-art in catalysis benchmarking is microfabricated flow reactors with mass-spectrometric detection, but the sensitivity of this approach cannot be incrementally improved by six orders of magnitude. This calls for a new measurement paradigm where the activity of a single nanoparticle can be benchmarked – the ultimate limit for catalytic measurement. A tiny batch reactor is the solution, but there are three key problems: How to seal it; how to track catalytic turnover inside it; and how to see the nanoparticle inside it? Graphene solves all three problems: A microfabricated cavity with a thin SixNy bottom window, a single catalytic nanoparticle inside, and a graphene seal forms a gas tight batch reactor since graphene has zero gas permeability. Catalysis is then tracked as an internal pressure change via the stress & deflection of the graphene seal. Crucially, the electron-transparency of graphene and SixNy enables subsequent transmission electron microscope access with atomic resolution so that active nanoparticles can be studied in full detail. ATOMICAR will re-define the experimental limits of catalyst benchmarking and lift the field of basic catalysis research into the single-nanoparticle age.
Project acronym AYURYOG
Project Medicine, Immortality, Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia
Researcher (PI) Dagmar Wujastyk
Summary The project will examine the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasashastra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focussing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices. The goals of the project are to reveal the entanglements of these historical traditions, and to trace the trajectories of their evolution as components of today's global healthcare and personal development industries. Our hypothesis is that practices aimed at achieving health, rejuvenation and longevity constitute a key area of exchange between the three disciplines, preparing the grounds for a series of important pharmaceutical and technological innovations and also profoundly influencing the discourses of today's medicalized forms of globalized yoga as well as of contemporary institutionalized forms of ayurveda and rasashastra. Drawing upon the primary historical sources of each respective tradition as well as on fieldwork data, the research team will explore the shared terminology, praxis and theory of these three disciplines. We will examine why, when and how health, rejuvenation and longevity practices were employed; how each discipline's discourse and practical applications relates to those of the others; and how past encounters and cross-fertilizations impact on contemporary health-related practices in yogic, ayurvedic and alchemists' milieus. The five-year project will be based at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Vienna University and carried out by an international team of 3 post-doctoral researchers. The research will be grounded in the fields of South Asian studies and social history. An international workshop and an international conference will be organized to present and discuss the research results, which will also be published in peer-reviewed journals, an edited volume, and in individual monographs. A project website will provide open access to all research results.
The project will examine the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasashastra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focussing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices. The goals of the project are to reveal the entanglements of these historical traditions, and to trace the trajectories of their evolution as components of today's global healthcare and personal development industries. Our hypothesis is that practices aimed at achieving health, rejuvenation and longevity constitute a key area of exchange between the three disciplines, preparing the grounds for a series of important pharmaceutical and technological innovations and also profoundly influencing the discourses of today's medicalized forms of globalized yoga as well as of contemporary institutionalized forms of ayurveda and rasashastra. Drawing upon the primary historical sources of each respective tradition as well as on fieldwork data, the research team will explore the shared terminology, praxis and theory of these three disciplines. We will examine why, when and how health, rejuvenation and longevity practices were employed; how each discipline's discourse and practical applications relates to those of the others; and how past encounters and cross-fertilizations impact on contemporary health-related practices in yogic, ayurvedic and alchemists' milieus. The five-year project will be based at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Vienna University and carried out by an international team of 3 post-doctoral researchers. The research will be grounded in the fields of South Asian studies and social history. An international workshop and an international conference will be organized to present and discuss the research results, which will also be published in peer-reviewed journals, an edited volume, and in individual monographs. A project website will provide open access to all research results.
Project acronym B2C
Project Beasts to Craft: BioCodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts
Researcher (PI) Matthew COLLINS
Summary The intention of Beasts to Craft (B2C) is to document the biological and craft records in parchment in order to reveal the entangled histories of animal improvement and parchment production in Europe from 500-1900 AD. B2C will lay the foundations for a new approach to the the study of parchment manuscripts —biocodicology— which draws evidence from the overlooked first stages in production, the raising of livestock and the preparation of the skins. 1. Parchment is an extraordinary but overlooked high resolution zooarchaeological record and a molecular archive. Livestock genetics is revealing breed diversity and markers of character traits such as fleece quality. B2C will exploit this new-found knowledge, using progressively older dated archival (sheep) parchments to study the history of improvement 1300 - 1900. Visual examination of the skins will search for direct evidence of disease and fleece quality. 2. Craft skills can be read from parchment and, when combined with chemical data and comparison with modern analogues, will produce the first European wide record of the craft from 500-1900. The size and scope of this the parchment archive means it is one of the largest and most highly resolved records of a specialist medieval craft. We will explore how these skills develop and when and where regional patterns appear and decline. These two remarkable records requires a large interdisciplinary team. However biocodicology draws from and informs upon a wide and diverse spectrum of existing scholarship in conservation, the arts and sciences. A third strand of the project will (i) furnish manuscript scholars with some of the information available to the scribe at time of production (ii) inform and shape attitudes to parchment conservation (iii) provide high resolution biological data on animal management, movement and health and (iv) explore methods to link datasets and promote data reuse.
The intention of Beasts to Craft (B2C) is to document the biological and craft records in parchment in order to reveal the entangled histories of animal improvement and parchment production in Europe from 500-1900 AD. B2C will lay the foundations for a new approach to the the study of parchment manuscripts —biocodicology— which draws evidence from the overlooked first stages in production, the raising of livestock and the preparation of the skins. 1. Parchment is an extraordinary but overlooked high resolution zooarchaeological record and a molecular archive. Livestock genetics is revealing breed diversity and markers of character traits such as fleece quality. B2C will exploit this new-found knowledge, using progressively older dated archival (sheep) parchments to study the history of improvement 1300 - 1900. Visual examination of the skins will search for direct evidence of disease and fleece quality. 2. Craft skills can be read from parchment and, when combined with chemical data and comparison with modern analogues, will produce the first European wide record of the craft from 500-1900. The size and scope of this the parchment archive means it is one of the largest and most highly resolved records of a specialist medieval craft. We will explore how these skills develop and when and where regional patterns appear and decline. These two remarkable records requires a large interdisciplinary team. However biocodicology draws from and informs upon a wide and diverse spectrum of existing scholarship in conservation, the arts and sciences. A third strand of the project will (i) furnish manuscript scholars with some of the information available to the scribe at time of production (ii) inform and shape attitudes to parchment conservation (iii) provide high resolution biological data on animal management, movement and health and (iv) explore methods to link datasets and promote data reuse.
Project acronym BEHAVIORAL THEORY
Project Behavioral Theory and Economic Applications
Researcher (PI) Botond Koszegi
Host Institution (HI) KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM
Summary "This proposal outlines projects to develop robust and portable theories studying the impact of psychological phenomena in economic settings. The proposed work falls in three broad research agendas. My first main agenda is to formally model and economically apply a simple observation: that when people make decisions, they do not focus equally on all attributes of their available options, and overweight the attributes they focus on. I will build a set of portable models of focusing in attribute-based choice and risky choice based on the idea that a person focuses more on attributes in which her options differ more. I will also use the framework to develop novel, focus-based, theories of intertemporal choice and social preferences, as well as analyze the implications of focusing for product design, principal-agent relationships, and other economic questions. My second main agenda is to explore some implications for market outcomes, welfare, and policy of the possibility that consumers misperceive certain aspects of products. I will investigate the circumstances that facilitate the profitable deception of consumers; firms' incentives for ""innovating"" deceptive products, including novel financial products aimed at exploiting investors; how firms' ability to distinguish naive and sophisticated consumers affects the consequences of deception; whether learning on the part of consumers will help them to avoid making mistakes; and how regulators and other observers can detect consumer mistakes from market data. Two further projects apply the model of reference-dependent utility I have developed in earlier work to understand the pricing and advertising behavior of firms. I will also aim to disseminate some of my work, along with other cutting-edge research in psychology and economics, in a Journal of Economic Literature survey on ""Behavioral Contract Theory."""
"This proposal outlines projects to develop robust and portable theories studying the impact of psychological phenomena in economic settings. The proposed work falls in three broad research agendas. My first main agenda is to formally model and economically apply a simple observation: that when people make decisions, they do not focus equally on all attributes of their available options, and overweight the attributes they focus on. I will build a set of portable models of focusing in attribute-based choice and risky choice based on the idea that a person focuses more on attributes in which her options differ more. I will also use the framework to develop novel, focus-based, theories of intertemporal choice and social preferences, as well as analyze the implications of focusing for product design, principal-agent relationships, and other economic questions. My second main agenda is to explore some implications for market outcomes, welfare, and policy of the possibility that consumers misperceive certain aspects of products. I will investigate the circumstances that facilitate the profitable deception of consumers; firms' incentives for ""innovating"" deceptive products, including novel financial products aimed at exploiting investors; how firms' ability to distinguish naive and sophisticated consumers affects the consequences of deception; whether learning on the part of consumers will help them to avoid making mistakes; and how regulators and other observers can detect consumer mistakes from market data. Two further projects apply the model of reference-dependent utility I have developed in earlier work to understand the pricing and advertising behavior of firms. I will also aim to disseminate some of my work, along with other cutting-edge research in psychology and economics, in a Journal of Economic Literature survey on ""Behavioral Contract Theory."""


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Unveil (Live)
The long awaited new live album from New Life Church and Desperation Band worship leader Jon Egan.
Jon Egan is a worship leader and songwriter serving New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who is best known for the songs "I Am Free," "Overcome," "Strong God," "Make A Way" and "On The Throne." In addition to serving on the New Life Worship team and recording numerous audio and video projects for the church, Jon is a co-founder and former leader of the student-focused Desperation Band with whom he has toured throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Throughout his career, Jon has collaborated with a variety of writers, producers and artists including Jason Ingram, Jeremy Camp, Kari Jobe and Paul Baloche. His combined recordings with New Life and Desperation Band include the critically-acclaimed favourites Strong God, Counting On God, You Hold It All, Light Up The World, Center Of It All and Banner.
Jon's first solo recording, the live album Unveil, is available through Integrity Music at the end of March.
"Worship is a weapon," says Jon. "It stands in defiance of darkness to sing about such a great and marvellous light. When we sing about the greater reality of Jesus, earthly realities grow strangely dim."
Listen to samples:
The Name We're Running To
Pure Exaltation
Unveil Spontaneous
What You Said
Glorify Prelude
Everlasting Joy
Open The Gates
Nehemiah (Stand Strong)
The Table (Love's Invitation)
Ultimate Worship 2019
Made For You (Live)
The World's Favourite New Worship Songs
You Hold It All
Strong God
Strong God Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD)


A new poll has brought some welcome news. When asked, "Do you think the country is headed in the right direction?" more responders say yes than no. This is in stark contrast to the latter stages of the Bush administration, when the no's were mounting to unheard-of levels, past 80%. The headline says that President Obama's honeymoon isn't over, but this poll means something more.
It's about the melodrama of meltdown.
Mass media thrives on melodrama, and so does modern politics. We became addicted to the scary side of the economic meltdown — the term itself is a piece of verbal melodrama. We were "going over the cliff," "crashing," "ending the American dream," and on and on. In the political arena, the right wing issued dire warnings about holding the next three generations hostage with crippling deficits.
But melodramas don't end a crisis. They do just the opposite by freezing the mind with fear and the prospect of doom. Economists constantly tell us that markets are psychological. Recessions, while normal if unpleasant parts of the business cycle, spiral into depressions when the public panics. Melodrama is one stage of panic, so it's good news when people don't buy into it. The new poll is one indicator, if a small one, that our no-drama president is actually leading the country and convincing the public of his point of view.
If you stand back and take a breath, the realities are difficult but not panic-inducing. White collar unemployment among the college educated stands around 4.5%, which is low. The hardest hit are blue collar workers. They have been at a disadvantage for years as the American economy has shifted. Today you have to have computer skills to survive; working on an assembly line is becoming obsolete. What's to be done? Exactly what the administration wants to do: educate the young and provide help for those who can't change or who are caught in the current squeeze.
The same holds for health care. Health care is bankrupting the country and making American products non-competitive in the world. To cure those ills, the government has to reform the entire system, and that in turn will lead to higher taxes. No one is thrilled with this news, but it's not a cause for melodrama. In an aging society, rising health needs exist, no ifs, ands, or buts. The issue has been pushed aside for eight years; now it must be faced.
One by one you can go down the list and see that we've reached a turning point. America has to be reinvented for the future. Obama realizes this, as do many other people. For the first time, however, he has the will, the political clout, and the public approval to move forward. All previous presidents lacked one or the other ingredient, so nothing was done. Echoing the Bush administration's enforced policy of diverting attention from our problems, the forces that foment melodrama are trying to shut down the future. They have seized on a new tactic like tea parties, but the agenda is the same reactionary delusion as before. We find ourselves in convulsive times, but that's no reason to panic. Everyone wants a future, and now we can actually shape the one that fits our best vision of ourselves.


I'd like to use the mouse in Vim only for scrolling (not to enable other Vim modes or otherwise interact with Vim). Using :set mouse=a seems to be an all or nothing operation, can this be altered? Alternatively can iTerm be made to only pass through scroll events and never click/drag events?
Long Explanation: I use Vim in iTerm a lot and don't use the mouse. However, inertia scrolling with a trackpad is really nice and a great way to peruse large files. I can :set mouse=a and use the trackpad to scroll and it's great. Now when I click however vim enters visual mode and iTerm will not copy selected text. I would like to retain iTerms ability to select and copy text.
I have thought about setting up Vim so that copying in vim will copy in Mac OS X (using pbcopy, I need to do this anyway). This will do the trick when editing local files, but most of the time I'm ssh'd somewhere and editing remote files.
It works only with mouse scroll as I've tested.
If you set mouse=a, you can still use Option-click to make iTerm do selection. Not ideal, but it's the best option I've found.
I'm not sure about iTerm but this is achievable with Terminal.app.
There under 'Send mouse events for:" uncheck "Left click", "Middle click", "Right click".
This allows scrolling and then highlighting gives you a visual block.
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One Day in Ho Chi Minh City
03/07/2013 30/08/2015 Eleanor1 Comment
The tour, Ho Chi Minh City Highlights, began in Phu My and a long (2+ hours) bus trip from the port to the city. The distance may not be so great but the traffic was heavy. Our guide, Tuan, kept us entertained and amused with information and some jokes – one joke pertaining to the so-called "Condom Trees" (Rubber Trees) that lined the highway from the port to the city. It was a long involved story suitable for Reader's Digest! I could probably remember it but it was such a shaggy-dog tale that went on and on. Clearly he (Tuan) had told it before as it lasted most of the way.
Rubber Tree Plantation
All along the highway were coffee/refreshment shops. Part of the deal in these places are the hammocks; rows and rows of hammocks where, after your meal you can have a nap for as long you wish. I imagine you'd have to pay for the privilege.
The population of Saigon is estimated at 10million and there are approximately 6million scooters and motorbikes. The most popular scooter is one made in China and available for the Dong equivalent of $300 (Australian). There are approx. 20,000 Dong to the Aussie dollar. The scooters come at you from every direction and the trick, when crossing the road, is to set your course and not waver one iota! The drivers avoid you so, if you jump out of the way or something like that, you will be hit for sure.
The weather in Saigon was hot and humid. Apparently, when we were there (in March) the tourist season is coming to an end and the really hot weather is about to start. Tuan explained that once the tourist season ends so does his job. The wages are low and the population is still expanding as it has been since the end of the war. Farming is the main source of income and the fertile land produces up to three crops a year. Coffee is the major export with rice a close second. Tuan explained he came from a farming background and only started learning English as a young man in his late teens/early twenties. There is not much future for those who cannot speak English.
Tuan taught us a few handy phrases to use – one of which was sing-a-song to be used when you need the loo! Some of the other phrases were a bit tricky for someone as language-challenged as I am but nodding and smiling seemed to be OK.
The main Post Office was high on the list of where we absolutely had to go. The reason became clear once we got there … that's where the authorised money changers hang out. I made my solitary purchase in the hawkers alley there – two wine holders shaped like the crescent moon and painted with a delicate pattern.
The History Museum is a fascinating place and the antiquities on show are extraordinary; many are incredibly beautiful and, to my mind, reminiscent of ancient Greek and Egyptian sculptures.
We visited the former Presidential Palace now known as Reunification Hall which became famous when a North Vietnamese tank crashed through its front gates on April 30th 1975, signalling end of the Vietnam War. We were taken through the bomb shelters under the Palace where many of the maps and some of the old telephones are on display. I found it spooky and couldn't wait to get out into the open air again.
I believe we visited the Jade Palace but I have no recollection of it at all!
Many of the people (particularly the women) wear masks. I, along with most of the others on the tour bus, thought this was because of the pollution but … according to Tuan … it is to keep the facial skin pale! He said they take the masks off at night and there is still pollution but no sun!
Quick thoughts on Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City: Noisy, dirty, scary, fun, traffic, slums.


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Home Hear Peter Bloom Band Jazz Up The Holidays With Reindeers Away
Peter Bloom Band Jazz Up The Holidays With Reindeers Away
The singer-songwriter unwraps a toe-tapping big band tune for the holidays.
The Peter Bloom Band get into the holiday swing with their zippy, toe-tapping Christmas single and video Reindeers Away — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
"The coronavirus pandemic had a multi-pronged effect on me and my creative outlook," says Bloom, the alter-ego of alt-pop singer-songwriter, voiceover artist, and former radio personality 'Scary Pete' Cugno."First, it made me stop feeling sorry for myself as I realized just how lucky I have been and still am. Many have not been so fortunate as a result of the pandemic. Second, it made me take stock of what really matters to me and gives me a sense of purpose, which is making people feel good … Making them smile and laugh. God knows, we could all use more of that in these times.
"Finally," he adds, "with less voiceover work coming in, I had more time on my hands to get in my studio and focus on creating music that would make people feel good. Despite the unfamiliar territory of writing in this style of music, Reindeers Away just came pouring out of me, and I figured if it makes me feel this good, then hopefully it can do the same for others."
Reindeers Away is composed, and produced by Cugno, with big-band arrangement by Cristiano Calaresu. Cugno is well-known as a comedian and radio personality 'Scary Pete.' During his time on-air, Cugno created countless memorable character voices as well as numerous satirical bits, parodies, and viral hits such as I AM NOT Canadian (a spoof of the famous TV spot), and his 2012 NHL lockout song Shut the Puck Up. He has also been the voice of the Family Channel, a singing Mini-Wheat, Kyoya from Beyblade and François Turbot on Paw Patrol.
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The Chinese airline industry is expanding exponentially and to fill up vacancies for experienced captains, Chinese airlines have targeted disaffected pilots at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and is luring them with sky-high salaries.
There are predictions that the airline industry in China is poised to take off as there is enhanced prosperity in the world's second-largest economy, forecasts by planemaker Boeing Co indicate that there would be requirement for more than 100,000 new pilots during the next two decades for companies like China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines and Juneyao Airlines.
The sharp growth of the Chinese airline industry means that it is now facing a shortage of captains who possess several thousand hours flying experience and according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), training of around 4700 new pilots a year at home and abroad is conducted.
Cathey Pacific had recently terminated the services of 600 employees in what is its biggest round of staff cuts in almost 20 years and pilot recruitment companies are now crowding the Hong Kong market with the hope of attracting the established pilots from the loss-making airline Cathay.
The housing allowances of pilots of Cathy are set to be cut from next month, which can be as high as HK$100,000 (£9621.38) a month, even though the company has not yet fired any of its 2,500 pilots who are based in Hong Kong.
The cuts as planned by Cathey could leave the pilots unable to survive in Hong Kong which is one of the costliest cities of the world, fear the pilots of the airlines who are amongst the highest experienced and paid pilots in the world. many of the pilots are Australians, Americans and Briton expatriates.
"Most expat pilots will have a serious re-think ... if the (housing) allowance is cut too drastically," said a pilot interviewed by the media.
According to job ads, tax-free yearly pay packages of up to $314,000 is being offered by some of the Chinese airlines. That is almost the same as the present gross pay for the Cathey pilots not including the proposed pay cuts. Cathey is also seeking to reduce pensions and enhance productivity.
Pilots are scoured by recruitment agencies globally for Chinese airlines. The problems of Cathey has made Hong Kong a target even though the city was not on the target list earlier for recruiters.
Before abruptly cancelling a road show in Hong Kong last month, Longreach Aviation Resources reportedly has said that as many as 200 Cathey pilots have inquired with them. Earlier this week, 9 Cathey pilots were recruited by Wasinc International, another recruiter, on the very first day of a road show and due to interests shown by mainland Chinese airlines, Yu Feng Consulting said it also intends to hold similar road shows to attract pilots.
Cathey has been prone to its pilots being targeted by other rival carriers, said Cathay Pacific Chief Operations and Service Delivery Officer Greg Hughes.


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Osho, why does everyone here understand you in his own way?
It is just natural - Tathata. How can it be otherwise? Everybody has to understand me in his own way, because everybody has a mind - and right now the understanding is happening through the mind. When mind disappears then of course everybody will understand in my way. Then there will be no problem, then there will be no question. Then there will be no need for me to say anything - I will be sitting in silence, you will be sitting in silence, and we will enjoy silence; there will be communion, a heart-to-heart communion.
But right now you have minds and there is no other way for me to communicate with you. And one has to accept this: that when you are communicating with minds you have to accept that they will understand differently, they will understand in their own way. It is natural that people should understand differently - people have different minds.
Julius: "How many Commandments are there?"
Julius: "What would happen if you, err, well, if you broke one of them?"
Julia: "So, there'd be nine!"
On Mother's Day her husband presented her with a beautiful skunk coat.
"I can't see how such a beautiful coat comes from such a foul-smelling beast," said the mother.
"I don't ask for thanks, dear," replied the husband, "but I do demand respect."
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"Can you tell-a me how long-a it takes from Roma to Poona?"
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"Have you ever been bedridden?" the new doctor asked Mrs Longo.
"Sure I have. And I've been screwed lots-a other ways, too," the lady said proudly.
"What do you want for your birthday, son?" the indulgent Italian father asked his kid.
"I want-a watch," the kid said.
Shrugged the father, "If it's all right with your mother, it's okay by me."
During an official ceremony in a European country, the Brazilian ambassador is in a carriage with the Queen of England when suddenly the horse farts noisily.
Very embarrassed, the Queen apologizes, "I'm very sorry, Ambassador."
"It was nothing, Your Majesty, it happens. Mind you, I even thought it was the horse!"


The first hundred or so times we read our kids Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type -- Doreen Cronin's wonderful tale of barnyard subversion -- we slightly edited it into a tale of cows who find an old computer in the barn, because we knew Nini and Desmond had never seen or heard of a typewriter.
Happily, that has changed, big time, and I've become a typewriter evangelist: If you've got a child old enough to peck at a keyboard, do your kid a favor and hunt down an old typewriter at your very earliest opportunity.
We started with a portable Underwood manual typewriter I found at the Oneonta Salvation Army, and I cannot imagine a more ideal plaything for a young child. It's sublime in all the ways a kid wants a machine to be: sleek, virtually indestructible, with all sorts of fascinating buttons and moving parts whose operations are directly visible to the eye. A three-year-old can pound on it to her heart's content, and the worst thing that happens is the keys clump up into an easily separated jumble.
What's more, a typewriter has a quality that's precious to children, and too often beyond their reach: realness. Kids are much more captivated by actual devices than by simplified kiddie versions. Past a certain wee age, they'd readily, for example, choose a battered actual screwdriver over a shiny painted wooden one, a real vacuum cleaner over a buzzy toy one; they would clearly prefer your real cellphone over some bright plastic beeping thing that spouts the same irritating three lines over and over.
And without a doubt, once your child is interested in the alphabet and the very beginnings of reading and writing, a typewriter is a delightful tool. My kids will spend a solid hour or more asking us how to spell various words and patiently hunting down the letters on the keyboard. They can't write letters on paper yet, but they can now spell out their names whenever they want, and see the results. And unlike when they want to do this with the computer, we don't have to be right next to them, terrified that some crucial part of the hard drive will be destroyed through youthful exuberance: You pretty much don't have to say "no" to a kid who is playing with a typewriter.
Eventually, since my kids are also fascinated by everything having to do with electricity, we got them an electric typewriter, too -- one of those early word processing types where the words show up on a screen before they're typed onto the paper. Alas, the ribbon that was in it quickly ran out, so for the moment, it's out of service. If you're like us, you'll probably end up spending more money on new ribbons for your ancient machine than you paid for it in the first place. Never fear, though, they can be found: For our Underwood, we even got our hands on one of those ribbons that types in black and red.
This idea is positively brilliant! It makes perfect sense. The one problem is I fear I would have great difficulty with ribbon-changing etc. I will definitely be on the lookout for some old typewriters for Isadore. I think he would get a kick out of them and plus I've often wanted to use one myself.
i love click clack moo too! happy click clacking, you two!


Been busy at work and had kind of a tired time. The page will be online at soon as possible, probably on Tuesday.
I'm an inch away from finishing my last short story to upload on Amazon and it's getting difficult for me to concentrate on other matters, appart from my job at the language school and other priorities that have been giving me a little hard time.
PD: Can't remember if I said this… but I'm remaking Chapter 1 from the beginning too, and probably part of chapter 2. I'm not too proud of how it started and I need to give it a turn. 😉 Sketched 7 pages already. Need to finish the hardest parts: inking and coloring.


I have narrowed this down a bit more and I believe I mischaracterized it above. This only happens after objects from the MySQL query are stored into and then retrieved from our cache, meaning they pass through our custom object serializer.
It is actually a problem in StringBuilderValue.equals(). If you pass that function a BinaryBuilderValue representing the same string, it returns false. My serializer implementation doesn't differentiate between binary and string values because our PHP code expects to be able to serialize either binary or text data; in vanilla PHP the two are not distinct from one another and I didn't want any Unicode transformations happening under the covers to confuse things.
I think it should probably be the case that a StringBuilderValue and a BinaryBuilderValue that evaluate to the same value on the PHP side should test as equal. But in the meantime I will change my serializer to scan the data it's unserializing and produce a StringBuilderValue if there aren't any non-ASCII bytes in the value.
A little more detail, actually: what's happening is that ArrayValueImpl.get() is being passed a StringBuilderValue by the above code. It computes the correct hash value, but skips over the array entry it should be matching because the key happens to be a BinaryBuilderValue.
Actually, it's more complicated than that.
BinaryBuilderValue is a PHP6 string with unicode.semantics='true'. It is not a PHP5 object at all.
In that case, maybe this is a documentation issue; the difference in semantics between binary and string values isn't described anywhere (that I saw) in the documentation describing how to interface between PHP and Java.


The Burr Ridge Village Center is the place to dine this week for Restaurant Week – September 26th to October 2nd. Check out the video below or the website here for all the details. Burr Ridge is just 25 minutes from Chicago down I-55. Besides dining, you can also shop at all the local stores. It's a great way to make a day out of it.


In the Extended Learning Track program we have been watching the broad markets for influence on individual stocks. I have been demonstrating a method of watching the broad market indexes that reduces the need for multiple charts. I have decided to revisit an article I wrote a while ago that describes this method.
Those of you who have attended Online Trading Academy's Professional Trader Course know that we always have a chart of the S&P 500 or NASDAQ to view in addition to our stock chart in the class. On average, 50-60% of a stock's movement will be directly related to the movement and trend of the broad market. 30-40% of the stock's movement will be influenced by the sector of that stock. That leaves only 10% of influence from the company itself.
I am sure you have noticed that the stocks moving with the market trend often move faster and farther than those trying to move against it. The other choice we must make is which market should we be following, the S&P 500, the NASDAQ, DJIA, or the Russell 2000? It comes down to which of those indexes is leading in the current trend. Most traders would suffer from information overload from trying to watch the charts of those four indexes as well as their stocks. I have found a solution for keeping an eye on the markets while focusing on your stock trade.
TradeStation software allows me to chart the four indexes in one chart. This is something I have used extensively in the XLT programs to identify market trend and potential confirmation at supply and demand levels. I use the "Percent Change" feature to compare all four indexes and easily identify the leader in the dominant trend. I like to use the ETF's: SPY, QQQ, DIA & IWM to represent all of the indexes. You could easily substitute the indexes themselves or even the futures contracts. Since the futures are listed on different exchanges, you will have to adjust your chart to local time instead of "Exchange" time for them to overlay. You can see the finished chart below.
To create the chart, I start with a chart of the S&P 500. If you right click on the chart you can select "Insert Symbol" and then add the next ETF to your chart. You need to make sure you have the "Prompt for Format box checked when you add the symbol. You will need to go to the Scaling Tab and change the Sub-Graph to 1.
You can then add the additional ETF's one at a time in the same manner. You can change the style and color of the lines when you add them if you keep the "Prompt for Format" box checked. Once all four are added your chart will look like this.
Finally, you must choose a starting point for the comparison. On intraday charts, I use the open. I right click on the chart at the line that represents the beginning of the day. Under the "Percent Change Chart" menu, I select "Calculate from This Bar." That will start the price comparisons at zero from the open of the day. If I am using a daily chart or want to compare a longer move, I will start the chart from a major top or bottom and see when the trend is weakening from the leading index changing direction.
For more information on how we can use this tool, come join me in the Extended Learning Track of Online Trading Academy or even attend the Advanced Technical Analysis course. The skills you will pick up in these classes can greatly improve your trading.


Shawnee Daniels wrongly assumes she's being punished for innocently hacking the Police Chief's photos. Okay, maybe not-so-innocently, but someone had to expose him for the dog that he is. When she arrives at the mandatory computer seminar, the FBI enlists her help in stopping a serial killer who's remotely hacking vehicles while the owners are behind the wheel.
Why he's targeted these people remains a mystery. None of the victims frequent the same places, some don't even live in the same state. The only commonality is they all drive Fords.
When Detective Levaughn Samuels is taken hostage—his life teetering on the edge of a high-speed chase—there's nothing Shawnee won't do to save him, no line she won't cross. And when her BFF shows up unannounced with problems of her own, she only complicates matters.
Can Shawnee stop the killer before she loses the only man she's ever loved? Or will the ride of his life end in death?
HACKED is a Mayhem Series crossover novella.


The East Entrance Road is one of five roads that provide access to the Grand Loop Road and the rest of Yellowstone. This is the route usually taken by those staying in, or passing through, the town of Cody, Wyoming on the way. The East Entrance Road is typically open for vehicle travel May through October.
The entrance sign welcomes you to Yellowstone National Park. Just 0.1 mile beyond, the road passes through the entrance station. The park entrance fee must be paid or a valid pass shown.
On the right is a paved pullout area with a stone wall. Beyond the wall is a very high waterfall, informally named Sylvan Falls. Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to get a good view of it from the overlook, and a better view requires dangerous scrambling around that is not recommended.
A nice waterfall, the Crecelius Cascade, is on the left. Limited pullout space is available to stop and walk up the slope for a closer look.
The road passes by Sylvan Lake. Just beyond this is the Sylvan Lake Picnic Area.
A side road is on the right. This one mile long road leads upwards to a sweeping view of Lake Yellowstone known as the Lake Butte Overlook.
A parking area for Sedge Bay is on the left. This is a popular launching place for small watercraft.
The road goes by a small parking area for Steamboat Point. This is a relatively calm geothermal area right on the bank of Lake Yellowstone.
The road passes by the parking area for the Storm Point Trailhead. This is an easy 1.5 mile loop trail to Storm Point. Rangers frequently lead hikes on this trail.
The parking area for the Pelican Valley Nature Trail is on the left. This is an easy half mile loop trail, mostly on boardwalks, through a marshy area near Lake Yellowstone. Like nearby Storm Point Trail, rangers often lead hikes on this route.
The entrance to the Fishing Bridge RV Park is on the right. This is the only place in the park that offers RV hookups. It is operated by park concessioner Xanterra, and reservations are possible.
The Fishing Bridge Visitor Center, store, and service station are on the right.
The road crosses the Yellowstone River just north of Lake Yellowstone on the Fishing Bridge. Although now prohibited, it used to be a popular place to fish from.
The road arrives at Fishing Bridge Junction. A left turn joins the Grand Loop Road on the Fishing Bridge to West Thumb section. A right turn enters the Canyon to Fishing Bridge section.


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Since you have a Walt Disney World vacation package and will be staying at a Walt Disney World resort, you can make your FastPass+ selections up to 60 days in advance. Your parents will have up to 30 days to make their FastPass+ selections. My suggestion is to make the FastPass+ selections that you want at your 60 day point and then copy your plans to your parents at the 30 day point. You might not be able to match attraction and every time exactly the same. If you aren't able to get the same attractions for your parents, keep checking back for more availability. Guests change their plans daily, so an attraction that isn't available today could be available tomorrow.
For your parents to be able to make FastPass+ selections in advance, they will need valid park tickets linked to their My Disney Experience account. They can purchase their Florida resident tickets online or by phone. They can enter their Will Call Confirmation Number into their account.


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Music made for the masses
Steve Langton makes musical instruments, but they're nothing like the ones you'll see in an orchestra. They don't require note reading, metronomes or even talent, allowing all types to try their hand at making music.
"The body itself is musical," says Mr. Langton. "It's the mind that gets in the way."
Strapped into an A-frame connected to plastic tubes that snake around his body like a giant octopus, the Australian bangs away happily at the contraption with a pair of thong flip-flops, producing a catchy rhythm. The "Dr-Whi-a-phone" is one of several instruments he's helped build during the past two months at the Haja Center, an alternative learning center in Yeongdeungpo in Seoul.
Founder and now sole member of the Australian music group Hubbub, Mr. Langton has made it his mission to make music accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. Eschewing traditional Western European instruments and written music, he builds his own sound machines, ones that are designed to bring out people's curiosity to explore sound.
His two-month stay at Haja, with his partner, Fatima, and their son, Oscar, focused on transplanting the Hubbub ethos to Korea: that music is everywhere, and it brings people together by transcending cultural, socioeconomic and age differences.
His mission has its roots in his childhood, which was spent with his missionary parents in India, his travels around the world as an adult, and his talent for building things from ordinary materials.
At first, he used his skills to make presents for friends and families, practical things that people needed. But it was at a flea market near his hometown of Maleny where he found the inspiration to make things that make sounds.
"I came across this old man with his hair combed across his bald spot, sort of off to the side," Mr. Langton says. "He was crouched over these long plastic tubes, banging away on the ends with a pair of thongs. I'd been all over the world and seen a lot of stuff, but I'd never seen anything like this before.
"Before long, there were about 30 people crowded around just watching this old guy going off."
What the old man was playing was a crude version of what is known as a thong-a-phone. Based on a folk instrument used by people in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, it has been around as long as man himself.
The newer version is made of rubber PCV pipes of differing lengths. When the ends are whacked with a thong they produce a percussive tune.
Roots of funk
"When I first heard the thong-a-phone, I thought to myself, Wow! This is '70s funk," Mr. Langton says. "But it meant that these sounds were around long before the '70s. Humans have been making them forever. It was like, funk comes from the Stone Age,"
Mr. Langton built his first thong-a-phone in 1994. The interest in fringe instruments, and "sound installations," as he calls them, led him to partner with like-minded musicians and form Hubbub, a group dedicated to helping people of all ages and backgrounds explore and create music for themselves.
By 1996, Hubbub had enough of these strange instruments to take their innovative show on the road, sometimes literally as they participated in numerous street festivals around Australia.
One crowd pleaser is a contraption Hubbub has called the "Sprocket," which Mr. Langton describes as a human-drawn, junk-percussion trolley. It's played by five performers who are strapped to what looks like a helicopter blade at the top. They spin around the trolley in circles, pounding out beats as the trolley is pulled down the street.
Hubbub began building "sound playgrounds," giant, vandal-proof musical structures that can be installed at parks or playgrounds. The group offered workshops at schools and community centers all over Australia, helping people create not only music but instruments as well.
Hubbub first came to Korea in 2002 at the invitation of the Ghandi School, in Sancheong, Gyeongnam province. Mr. Langton had been conducting music-making with the school's Australian Experience program for about three years before in his hometown.
In his first venture abroad with Hubbub, he built a sound playground during his five weeks at Ghandi. Kim Jong-hui, a project coordinator at the Haja Center, saw Hubbub at Ghandi and invited the troupe to his school.
The Australia-Korea Foundation and Arts Queensland, a state-funded arts organization, paid for the residency program at Haja, which was administered by Asialink, which is based in Melbourne.
The alternative school offers youths who don't fit into Korea's rigid public education system the chance to direct their energy in more creative ways. It was the perfect place for Hubbub to come and do its thing.
Some of the instruments created during Hubbub's stay at Haja include a Soprano Marimba, a large wooden xylophone; log drums; a tuned cow-bell set; sub-vibes (low frequency tuned alloy planks with acoustically distorted resonators); an alto vibraphone; inflated and tuned soft-drink bottles; harmonic flutes; a four-octave thong-a-phone; and a pair of Dr-Whi-a-phones, named after Mr. Kim, the coordinator.
The first month at Haja was spent building the instruments. A typical day would begin with a short discussion about goals for the day, and each student was assigned various jobs.
Before working on the instruments, students would do a body-percussion warmup, exercises designed to teach students rhythm. Movements as simple as walking, clapping, stamping the feet or chest were assigned to each beat in a bar.
"Even something like walking is rhythmical, and everybody knows how to walk," he says.
The next month focused on playing the instruments the students had created. Many of the instruments Mr. Langton makes are tuned to the same key, so it's impossible to get the sound wrong. This helps remove the fear of failure.
"You can't play a wrong note," says Mr. Langton. "All you can do is get the rhythm wrong."
Students worked long hours in jam sessions. They practiced different instruments and were responsible for learning different parts for a public performance last weekend that capped the two-month stay.
The students' transition to musicians wasn't always very smooth.
One student's lack of ability was so painfully obvious that Mr. Langton says even he was doubtful whether the boy could perform in the concert.
"He just seemed to be so rhythmically-inept, but he wanted to play so badly. He practiced with us the whole time and ended up performing wonderfully. He got everything," he says.
Another group of students seemed far more interested in what they looked like than actually performing. When Mr. Langton confronted them, they told him that they were too shy and didn't want to be in the show.
A week before the show he got an urgent phone call from them saying that they very much did want to perform. He was able to incorporate the late-comers, who performed well.
One student who has a musical background, Double E, as he calls himself, has been going to Haja for three years. He practiced with Hubbub for about a month and played the thong-a-phone during the show.
"It's been very fun," says Double E. "This instrument (thong-a-phone) makes a low-bass, sort of organic sound. I like playing the guitar, but this is different."
Mr. Langton says it looks like he'll be back to Korea again next year, although for a shorter stay.
Perhaps he'll make a Haja Sprocket then, says Mr. Langton, but he's not sure yet.
What he is sure of is how well the workshop went this time around. Students from the school plan to tour Korea with the instruments they made.
Mr. Langton was especially happy with how fired up all the students were after their concert.
"When you have a lot of people playing simple parts, it really interlocks and makes a sound that's very complex," says Mr. Langton.
"I think that everyone is a musician from birth, except people grow up in different environments. Some are discouraged right from the start. Others just need to have it brought out."
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