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Emails show 'cozy' ties between EPA, environmental group over power-plant rules, senator says
By Judson Berger, | Fox News
In this July 1, 2013, file photo, smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. (AP)
Newly released emails detail what Republicans say are "cozy" ties between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a top environmental advocacy group, raising questions about the group's influence -- and participation -- in the Obama administration's so-called "War on Coal."
One 2010 exchange even shows the agency's future boss and a senior environmental lawyer praising each other over a legal settlement, though they ostensibly were on opposing sides of that case.
The emails, released by Republicans on the Senate environment committee, come as GOP lawmakers pursue an investigation into possible "collusion" between the EPA and the Natural Resources Defense Council in drafting what they claim are onerous federal regulations on coal-fired power plants and other sectors.
Lawmakers and industry groups have long questioned how much influence the NRDC has in guiding far-reaching environmental regulations proposed under the Obama administration. The new emails reflect, at least, a close relationship between top EPA officials and advocates with the organization.
Of note is a December 2010 exchange on the day a settlement plan was announced between the EPA and several groups -- including state governments and environmental organizations -- suing them over pollution standards for coal-fired power plants and oil refineries.
David Doniger, a senior attorney for one of those groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council, emailed Gina McCarthy that evening to thank her for the day's announcement. McCarthy, now head of the EPA, was assistant administrator at the time.
"I know how hard you and your team are working to move us forward and keep us on the rails," he wrote. "The announcement is a major achievement. ... We'll be with you at every step in the year ahead."
McCarthy responded: "Thanks David. I really appreciate your support and your patience. ... This success is yours as much as mine."
Critics have long claimed the EPA and other groups have engaged in a controversial tactic known as "sue-and-settle" -- where a "friendly" group sues the agency and settles on mutually agreeable terms.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the December 2010 email exchange is a "key example" of the close ties between the EPA and NRDC.
"These discoveries clearly demonstrate the EPA and NRDC's beyond-cozy relationship and force the question -- Who is working for whom?" Vitter said in a statement on Tuesday.
Regarding the 2010 email, he said: "It doesn't get any more blatantly obvious than that."
In this case, the settlement agreement announced among the NRDC, EPA and other groups paved the way for new emissions standards for power plants -- an effort which culminated earlier this year with the Obama administration's controversial proposal to slash emissions from existing power plants.
The New York Times reported in July that NRDC employees including Doniger drafted what amounted to the blueprint for that EPA proposal. One energy policy expert was quoted in the piece saying the NRDC proposal "has its fingerprints throughout this."
Both groups have downplayed any coordination, with the EPA disputing the notion that the NRDC unduly influenced the climate plan. (McCarthy called the Times' claims "preposterous" in a July 9 email to staff.)
The EPA on Tuesday again pushed back on the GOP claims, arguing that the power plant rules were developed through "extensive public outreach" involving tens of thousands of people.
"To imply that one group had any undue influence on the proposal's development is ridiculous and absurd. There is simply zero merit to the idea," agency spokeswoman Liz Purchia said in a statement.
"This is a flawed narrative driven by cherry picked and isolated communications that in no way reflect the full breadth and depth of the unprecedented outreach EPA engaged in to formulate and develop the Clean Power Plan."
A separate blog post by the EPA said this narrative "simply ignores the well-documented and widely reported and recognized sweep and range of the Agency's engagement."
NRDC spokesman Edwin Chen also pushed back on Tuesday, noting the EPA met with "many groups on all sides" of the issue. "Senator Vitter thinks it's inappropriate for a public interest group to suggest policies to a federal agency -- a basic exercise in democracy," Chen said in an email. "Senator Vitter is simply trying to silence those he doesn't agree with."
The newly released emails at least show that the NRDC had several meetings with EPA officials on power plant standards after that initial 2010 announcement.
They also show McCarthy and Doniger discussing how the agency's positions are portrayed in the media. In a March 2010 exchange, Doniger forwards McCarthy an article in The Hill newspaper that noted the EPA "declined to criticize" a Senate bill blocking greenhouse gas emissions rules for two years.
"Pretty cautious," Doniger tells McCarthy, under the subject line: "Why not a stronger response?"
He warns the position in the article "could be interpreted as openness" to a delay.
McCarthy writes back: "Sorry David. We will clear this up. No one is supporting this bill."
Vitter and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., have been investigating "alleged collusion" on regulations between the EPA and environment groups. According to their offices, the NRDC has gotten $1.9 million from the EPA in grants since 2009.
They and other Republican lawmakers wrote to McCarthy last month requesting documents on the NRDC's involvement in the power plant and other rules, calling it "harmful and outrageous" that one group "drafted" a rule that puts "a tremendous cost on everyday Americans through increased electricity prices." The EPA has not responded to that request.
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The Powerful Tune That Drives 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'
A melody can carry an undeniable purpose even before it gets paired with a lyric.
It is my belief that a single melody can carry an undeniable purpose even before being paired with a lyric. I suppose that is why "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," the patriotic standard whose lyrics were first published in The Atlantic in 1862, is so stirring. I reimagined this anthem as a contemporary look at the American ideal, while keeping the melody intact.
The power of a melody is something we all have experienced. There is music for everything in America—it's an undeniable part of the fabric of everyday life. Whether it's in the form of nursery rhymes, lullabies, folk songs, spirituals, or drinking tunes, these melodies act as soundtracks to our memories and accent the ebbs and flows of our collective lives. Often, they serve as the connective tissue between generations. They are timeless.
They are also universal, and ubiquitous in every culture. It's our natural inclination as human beings to inject music into every occasion. Whether it's the satirical playground chant you made up in the second grade or the hymn the organist plays at your great uncle's funeral, these songs have the potential to carry indescribable depth of meaning to us. They not only serve as a musical backdrop for who we are, they also become a part of us.
In the mid-1800s, compilation books were released documenting many of these traditional songs. One genre of folk music known as "marches" became prevalent nationally, reaching its peak in America in the late-19th century and into the 20th century. The march genre in the United States was greatly defined by John Philip Sousa, whose popularity influenced early American music like ragtime and jazz. You can still hear all types of march-influenced music in contemporary society; just ask anyone from New Orleans about a second line parade.
In stark contrast to many traditional songs, however, marches are a common soundtrack in times of war, creating a trance-like intensity that catapults a line of soldiers into battle. Military bands had a tradition of drilling and playing military music (marches) and local bands had a tradition of playing dances (waltzes, quadrilles, schottisches). The Civil War created a military culture that popularized these bands and their bandleaders, including the early-antebellum composer Patrick Gilmore, and the acclaimed African American composer Francis Johnson, who was the first published black composer and who participated in one of the first integrated public performances in the United States.
In most marches of the time, the drums appear like the heartbeat of our nation, and the melody is often optimistic and powerful, lending itself to lyrical proclamations of faith in a cause greater than oneself. One of the melodies that became popular during the Civil War was"John Brown's Body," which later became the tune for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." "The stars above in heaven are a looking kindly down / On the grave of old John Brown." The lyrics' focus on the afterlife makes sense for a time when sacred melodies were often adopted as war songs. From the early camp meetings of the Protestant Christians to the front lines of battle, these ubiquitous melodies were well traveled, constantly deepening their meaning along the way.
I first heard "John Brown's Body" on a recording by the jazz musicians Milt Jackson and Oscar Peterson; I was a budding musician, and was studying a lot of recordings. The melody felt familiar to me, but I couldn't place where I'd heard it before. Eventually I realized that it was the "Battle Hymn." It was the first time I had that experience of recognition while listening to a jazz song. The way they swung it was inspiring to me, and it marked the beginning of a new chapter in my musical development. I asked myself a question: Where do our melodies come from?
My first experience participating in a march came a few years later in 1996 when I began playing in the John Quincy Adams middle-school marching band in Metairie, Louisiana. We were working on songs like "Hot Cross Buns," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "Eye of the Tiger," and whatever else was the latest radio hit. Admittedly, sitting through band rehearsals wasn't always the most fun—especially after experiencing what it was like to march in a parade! The band room felt drab in comparison to seeing the crowds react as we marched down the main drag of Veterans Memorial Boulevard, blaring a well-practiced song through our horns. Witnessing that power was a revelation.
I thought of those marches as I reimagined the "Battle Hymn." While honoring its origin, it was important to me to showcase musically how patriotism can simultaneously evolve and unify people across cultural differences.
I started out by creating a march-like beat on the prepared piano, a beat that was crafted from several traditions of global march music; I wanted the movement within the beat to be a reflection of how interconnected our world is today. The United States itself is a melting pot of influences and cultures harmoniously coexisting under one umbrella, just as many musical styles can harmoniously coexist in one song. So I reimagined the "Battle Hymn" using just one instrument—the piano—to represent our one nation and brought in a variety of musical influences from around the world to represent the harmonious inclusivity that our founders wrote about in the Constitution.
The melody is ethereal yet triumphant, rendered with some dissonant notes and vocal wailing to add a hint of anguish. That is the sound of our struggle. Many have died in pursuit of what we call "the land of the free and the home of the brave." I wanted the listener to hear the spirits of our heroes in the melody. When the lyrics were sung, I wanted the sacred context of the music to be present, as well as the blended styles of singing, from that of the Black Indians of Louisiana to that of the southern gospel tradition.
My objective was to speak to how amazing our country could be if we simply listened to ourselves and actually walked in the values we claim to live by.
I could have reimagined the piece in an endless number of ways, just as many have before me. We are billions of stories all trying to harmoniously coexist as one united republic. Our odds of doing so are better if we can remember that this country is best represented when we see each other as equals in the pursuit of life, liberty, and peace. Keep marching to the beat of that drum, no matter what the opposition brings your way. His truth is marching on.
Jon Batiste is The Atlantic's music director. He is also the bandleader for Stay Human and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

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The Lived Realities of Precarity and Post-Industrialism
Andrew Stevens
The Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue 83, Spring 2019
10.1353/llt.2019.0010
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Stephanie Procyk, Wayne Lewchuk, and John Shields, eds., Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood, 2017)
Arne L. Kalleberg, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies (London: Polity, 2018)
Tracy Newmann, Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Jamie Woodcock, Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres ( London: Pluto, 2017)
The "precariat," writes Richard Seymour, is a "particular kind of popu-list interpolation which operates on a real, critical antagonism in today's capitalism."1 But it is not a class, he continues. His was not the first missive of a concept popularized by Guy Standing in his 2011 book, The Precariat, and later A Precariat Charter in 2014.2 The term has indeed become a placeholder for the framework of contemporary class relations and often a stand-in for proletariat in the advanced stages of capitalism – and, much like the multitude of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, understood by some as a new dangerous class struggling to achieve consciousness of its importance in the [End Page 247] world economy.3 Post-industrialism, as a concept, has been similarly invoked to characterize shifts in the configuration of capitalism and class, albeit through radically divergent interpretations by conservatives and Marxists alike. The texts investigated here explore the geography of post-industrialism and precarity through the prisms of labour, employment relations, and urban development. Together they mobilize these respective conceptual models to offer critical reflections on the contemporary experiences of work and help to ground these ideas in actual social relations.
Stephanie Procyk, Wayne Lewchuk, and John Shields assemble a collection of chapters covering the breadth of precarious employment in their edited book, Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Based on a joint university-community initiative led by United Way Toronto and York Region and McMaster University, the book showcases findings from the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (pepso) project. The editors begin by unpacking the origins of precarity as a lived reality from a workplace and community dimension. For agencies associated with pepso, the growth of precarious employment has generated new forms of inequality, impacting both mental and physical health outcomes. As the study suggests, employment insecurity has been expanding with the erosion of the standard employment relations (ser) regime that defined much of the post–World War II era, at least for a considerable segment of the workforce. Even information technology giants like Apple have dismissed assumptions of lifelong employment, embracing precarity as a norm rather than a labour-market anomaly among an otherwise privileged workforce. But precarity is also experienced differently, as Yogendra Skakya and Stephanie Premji demonstrate in their chapter on racialized immigrant women.4
Through the telling of powerful vignettes, Skakya and Premji show how employment uncertainty takes the shape of material and social deprivation, exposure to physical and psychological hazards, and the challenges of acquiring affordable child care. In some of these cases live-in caregivers are treated as servants by their employers, routinely underpaid and exploited by middle-class families who depend on a foreign-worker stream. What these and other authors in the collection point out is that the Live-In Caregiver Program (lcp) itself is a symptom of the absence of a universal national childcare program in Canada. Theirs is an intersectional analysis of precarious work, one that highlights how this particular system of employment generates varied outcomes premised on social position and identity. [End Page 248]
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, André Lyn, Janet McLaughlin, Biljana Vasilevska, and Don Wells take this further, exploring the impacts of repeated separation among foreign workers, specifically those employed through Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (sawp).5 A precarious employment regime by definition, the sawp has for decades enabled agricultural producers to reduce labour costs by sourcing workers from the Global South. Less explored in the existing literature are the consequences of prolonged estrangement from family and home – another feature of precarity. The families of migrants are required to shoulder the social reproductive costs by such means as caring for injured workers...


Surveillance video captured some of the crime while it occurred, but Corpus Christi police are still asking for help in finding the thief.
Corpus Christi Police are asking for help looking for a burglar who they say stole tools from southside home last month.
On July 28, police were called to a house on 5000 Cain Drive about a burglary.
The victim told officers a man took tools from a shed behind her residence.
The crime was captured on video.
The video shows a man pulling up to the house in a red Suzuki then going to the back of the residence. The driver is seen putting tools into his car then driving off.
Police are asking that any information on the burglary to call the Corpus Christi Police Criminal Investigations Division at 886-2840, call Crime Stoppers at 888-TIPS (8477) or submit the tip online at http://www.cctexas.com/crimestoppers.


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This Annual Report provides an overview of some of the activities and achievement of the organization over the past year, from July 2017 to July 2018.
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The dairy market in Canada has been growing for the past few years, and quota grew to meet this demand for dairy in Canada. As a result, investments at both farm and processing levels have been notable. However, 2018 is showing signs of demand softening. The long-term widening of trade balance between Canada and the US has narrowed in 2017, and currently sits at about the same level as in 2014, prior to the need to import butterfat in the face of rapidly increasing butterfat demand. In the last ten years, Canada's dairy trade deficit (defined as trade of products under Chapter 4) has fluctuated from year to year and has grown steadily in the last ten years, reaching a high in 2016. In 2017, Canada imported a massive $470.6 million in US dairy products. When one adds imports of other dairy products that are not subject to a tariff-rate quota, Canada is even more generous in importing products from the US and elsewhere.
On the trade front, uncertainty and unpredictability have been the words that best describe the ongoing NAFTA renegotiations. To verify the Canadian pulse, Dairy Farmers of Canada commissioned Ipsos to do a survey of consumer attitudes towards the dairy sector, supply management and NAFTA. The results showed 75% of Canadians believe that the Canadian dairy sector should be defended, and that the federal government should make more efforts to do so in the NAFTA renegotiations. Additionally, eight Canadians out of 10 share Canadian dairy farmers' concerns with regard to the NAFTA renegotiation and the potential concessions that could result from this renegotiation.
Recent market trends are tempered by the impact of trade deals that have been signed and are giving away access to the Canadian dairy market. Food technology marches on and Dairy Farmers of Canada, like the rest of the dairy industry in the world, is closely monitoring the potential market disruption of "dairy proteins" and other meats fabricated in a lab, without the need for animals.
Dairy Farmers of Canada is also keenly aware of the long-term trends of declining consumption of fluid milk, especially in the younger generation. Millennials are changing the market overall and the dairy sector does not escape this trend. The younger generation is more determined to put their money where their mouth is, making food choices based on their sensitivity to the environmental footprint of food, local economy, nutrition value and care of animals.
Food choices carry opportunities and risk for the dairy sector. Certainly, with the proAction Initiative, we have put in place the stepping stones to prove how farmers do the right thing for animals and for the environment. The dairy sector is first or second most important agriculture sector in seven of ten provinces in Canada, contributing to the local economy throughout the country. It is up to DFC to tell the story of the superior nutrition value of dairy products. This, remains a priority of the organization.
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Nason (auch: Amekan kondre) ist ein Dorf der Paramacca-Maroons im Distrikt Sipaliwini von Suriname. Das Dorf liegt auf einer Insel (Nason Tabiki) im Fluss Marowijne.

Geographie
Der Ort liegt an einer Stelle, an der mehrere Inseln im Fluss liegen, neben dem gleichnamigen Nason Tabiki auch Rouga Tabiki (N) und Amékan Tabiki (S), welche bereits zu Französisch-Guyana gehört. Am Ostufer des Flusses, in Französisch-Guyana liegt der gleichnamige Ort Nasson. Auf dem Westufer besteht noch eine Landebahn für Flugzeuge (Nason Airfield)

Geschichte
Das Dorf hieß ursprünglich Amekan Kondre nach dem Häuptling Amekan. Der heutige Name Nason bezieht sich auf die Nassau Mountains, die in der Entfernung sichtbar sind.

Missionare der Redemptoristen waren im Gebiet der Paramacca seit dem 19. Jahrhundert aktiv. 1938 gründeten sie die Anton Domici School und eine Bibliothek im Dorf. Weil die umliegenden Dörfer nur klein und isoliert waren, wurde die Schule als Internat gebaut. 1985 hatte das Internat 21 Betten. Eine Klinik wurde von der Organisation Medische Zending errichtet.

Vor dem Surinamese Interior War (1986–1992, Binnenlandse Oorlog) war Nason eine der größten Siedlungen des Stammes. Im Krieg unterstützten die Paramaccas das Jungle Commando, weshalb viele Einwohner nach Französisch-Guyana zogen. Das Internat und die Klinik wurden zerstört. Die Gebäude wurden seither wieder aufgebaut.

Der Haupterwerbszweig im Dorf ist Subsistenzwirtschaft und Goldsucherei.

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Insel (Südamerika)
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The main owner of Renova, Viktor Vekselber, became the key shareholder of Bank of Cyprus.
According to the disclosure of the Bank of Cyprus, Viktor Vekselberg's Lamesa Holdings has become one of the largest shareholders of Bank of Cyprus with a 9.3% share. Vekselberg has increased his share for the second time, becoming a key shareholder of the bank. In 2015, he also increased the share and bought a package of about 0.7% of the capital from the ex-head of Norilsk Nickel and Rostourism, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, as wrote the Cypriot newspaper Kathimerini.
In September 2014, the Cypriot bank, following the results of the additional issue, disclosed the share of Renova Group in its capital, which amounted to 5.4%. Earlier, a representative of Renova told Interfax that investments in the bank had been a "prospective financial investment." According to a source close to Norilsk Nickel, Strzhalkovskiy got a bonus ($50 million) for his work at Norilsk Nickel in Cyprus Cyprus Popular Bank and subsequently spent a long time trying to save it; Vekselberg's purchase of its share is part of the operation. Renova reported that the Vekselberg's company acquired the shares without any connection to some significant debt in the bank. "That's a good bank," says a representative of Renova.
Renova emerged among the shareholders of the bank after the Cyprus crisis of 2013, when thousands of depositors of Bank of Cyprus, including a large number of Russians, received shares of the bank in exchange for the deposits withdrawn under the bailout program of the Cyprus financial sector. Authorities forcibly exchanged 47.5% of the deposit amount in excess of €100 000 for the shares of the bank. As a result of the reorganization, the Russian companies which kept money in the Bank of Cyprus, received a total of more than 30% of its shares, and were the largest shareholders. Bank of Cyprus also absorbed its nearest competitor Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl in the framework of the restructuring of the banking sector, supported by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Director of the Center for protection of the rights of shareholders and investors of the Cyprus banks, Yevgeny Kogan, estimated the losses of Russian depositors of the BoC at least at $4 billion. In the top management of the Cyprus BoC there were Russians quite often: in addition to the already mentioned Strzhalkovsky, the general director of the North Domodedovo complex, Eriskhan Kurazov (represented the interest of the co-owner of BIN Bank, Mikhail Shishkhanov, during the purchase of the National Hotel); a member of the Board of Directors of BIN Bank, Angelica Anshakova; Anton Smetanin, who represented the interests of Vitaly Yusufov the board of directors of Bank of Moscow.
However, the billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, the former major shareholder of Uralkali, became the pioneer in the Cypriot market. Even before the crisis (in 2010), he was one of the largest shareholders of Bank of Cyprus (9,7%). In addition, the bank had a significant number of branches in Russia; its ownership of Uniastrum Bank also connects it to Russia. The latter was sold to the owner of Regional Credit bank, Artyom Avetisyan.


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Q: Invalid JSON number '2L'. shard key being serialized to number but defined as string? Exception:
System.FormatException: Invalid JSON number '2L'.
   at MongoDB.Bson.IO.JsonScanner.GetNumberToken(JsonBuffer buffer, Int32 firstChar)
   at MongoDB.Bson.IO.JsonScanner.GetNextToken(JsonBuffer buffer)
   at MongoDB.Bson.IO.JsonReader.PopToken()
   at MongoDB.Bson.IO.JsonReader.ReadBsonType()
   at MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Serializers.BsonDocumentSerializer.DeserializeValue(BsonDeserializationContext context, BsonDeserializationArgs args)

Shard key definition, which is a composite key created by the constructor;
public string ShardKey { get; set; }

Query code:
    public virtual async Task<ICollection<City>>(City city)
    {
        string shardKey = city.CityNumber + city.ShortName;
        return await MongoDb.CitiesCollection.Aggregate().Match({
        "{ 'Time': { $elemMatch: { $eq: 0 } }," + " ShardKey: " + shardKey + " }")
            .ToListAsync();
    }

Why does this fail?

A: Wrap the value containing the number like:
" ShardKey: '" + shardKey + "' }"

with single quotation marks.
I haven't been able to find this documented anywhere though. But it makes the my integration test run so :)

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May 7, 2018 The app now has an improved and fresh design. Individual categories can now be accessed via their respective preview in the stream – the drop-down menu is no longer needed. The 14-day weather feature now includes a legend of the symbols and colors used.
Minor improvements and bugfixes in every new app version.
April 24, 2018 The app now has an improved and fresh design. Individual categories can now be accessed via their respective preview in the stream – the drop-down menu is no longer needed. The 14-day weather feature now includes a legend of the symbols and colors used.
April 10, 2018 The app now has an improved and fresh design. Individual categories can now be accessed via their respective preview in the stream – the drop-down menu is no longer needed. The 14-day weather feature now includes a legend of the symbols and colors used.
April 5, 2018 The app now has an improved and fresh design. Individual categories can now be accessed via their respective preview in the stream – the drop-down menu is no longer needed. The 14-day weather feature now includes a legend of the symbols and colors used.
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I've been reading lately about mineral supplementation: of the body and of the soil. Traditionally I've been a hard sell for nutritional supplementation of my 'natural' diet. I used to think of supplementation as, 'Crisis Management' in the respect that conventional medications are to a certain extent, 'Crisis Management.' Q.E.D. I made the less than logical leap Supplements Ergo Medications. So what changed for me?
I'm of the belief if you don't know, then ask. You know the drill, "The only dumb question is the one you don't ask!" I see dumb people. No, I see dumb questions hanging un-asked in the air like thought bubbles. I consulted with experts in the agricultural, grocery, foods and supplements businesses. I came to appreciate that non-chemical supplementation, whether of the soil, or human body, has a place in our 'modern' world.
For most of us alive on this planet right now, we either have lived through, or are living with the direct and indirect effects of decades of synthetic chemicals in our farming and food systems. Everything comes from the ground, water, and air, and by extension our farms. I'm referring to food and non-food products (clothing, soaps, packaging, cleaning products and so on). You've seen the bumper sticker, "No Farms, No Food." Well no farms, no lots of things!
Synthetic chemicals were introduced into our farming systems in the 1950s. The intention seems to be a good one: take the guesswork out of farming by controlling the variables: pests and crop yields. Hence feeding many more people. However, relying on chemical control of pests and growing crops out of balance with natural conditions has given us a legacy of soil depleted in minerals, requiring more and more synthetic chemical management to achieve similar crop yields. This is not a judgment of hardworking farmers who use synthetic chemicals; we don't walk in their shoes, we can't understand their thought process without a dialogue. This is a comment on our food system: our plant systems are working long hours under very stressful conditions to put out crops that are much lower in mineral content (nutrients) than just fifty years ago. Not to mention the health stresses of agricultural workers on whom we depend for our food.
To quote a recent article in Organic Connections Magazine (published by the Peter Gillham supplements company), "U.S. agricultural records has found that the nutrient content of fruits and vegetables has been dropping since these records were first taken in the early 1960s—just over 40 years ago. To illustrate the point, you would need to be eating five apples today just to get the same nutrients you would have found in one apple in 1965." Of course they are talking about conventional apples, not organic. How about them apples? All five of them.
The same Organic Connections article goes on to discuss that modern farming relies on chemical fertilizers that are petrochemical based. The article recommends using cheaper, powdered rock minerals to "re-mineralize" the soil and hence boost the mineral (nutrient) content of crops. "A ton of rock dust costs anywhere between nothing at all and $8.00 and only needs to be applied every 1–10 years, depending on the application. Compare this to chemical fertilizers, which cost over $400 per ton and need to be applied at least once each season." (Organic Connections).
Many organic growers are using re-mineralization. Cal-Organic organic carrots, for example, are grown using this method. Chef Alice Waters is an advocate of re-mineralization and has up to 70 re-mineralized fruits and vegetables grown for her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, CA (Organic Connections).
What can we do? Add powdered rock minerals to our home or community garden vegetable beds. Also, follow some principles of organic farming: crop rotation, and companion planting (planting to attract birds and 'beneficial' insects to eat the bad insects we want to avoid). Lastly, when an area of your garden is not in use, till in compost, and plant cover crops such as winter rye, or hairy vetch to build the soil and deter weeds naturally. I've used all these methods at the G4U Farm, and they work, even on a small scale.
I now believe supplements have their place in the diet, especially if one is depending on conventional produce. However, pick a good supplement that is whole foods based, not bulked up with synthetic fillers. The operative word though is, supplement. Supplements do just that – they supplement the diet, they do not replace fresh, chemical-free produce and foods. That's the whole story.


The north of Slovakia is full of amazing locations that should be a mandatory part of anyone's "what to do in Slovakia" list. One of the must-see places has to be the castle of Stará Ľubovňa and its neighbouring skanzen museum.
Stará Ľubovňa castle, dating back to the late 13th century, is a massive construction, very well maintained after recent reconstructions, and gives you an amazing view over the valley.
The skanzen museum, a large open-air property full of authentic traditional wooden houses from the region, gives you a nice insight in how people used to live back in the days. The highlight for me has to be the (still functional) original 19th century wooden church of St. Michael, brought from the nearby village of Matysova, with its colourful decoration.


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Key Words: Canal of Castile, railways, roads, transport system.
The paper analyzes the role of the Canal of Castile in the development of communication routes from Mid-Eighteenth Century to the first third of the Twentieth, taking into consideration its North Branch. This impressive public work of the Enlightenment acted as a key element in the articulation of the transport system in this area. Thus, it had a decisive impact on the lay-out of railway lines: the line from Alar del Rey to Santander is seen as an extension of the Canal towards the sea, while the branch from Valladolid to Alar became a direct competitor because it was a parallel route. Also it promoted the improvement of the road network, stimulating the building of different regional (Palencia-Santander), provincial (Burgos and Palencia) or local (district or neighborhood) highways. As a result, the Canal of Castile favored that the villages located along had a better connection and helped to establish a communication corridor to join the Castilian meseta with the Cantabrian coast through the axis Valladolid-Palencia-Santander which has existed up until today.


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Hippos and Pezosiren: Walking Under the Water
Hippopotamus amphibius, photographed at the Philadelphia Zoo.
Have you ever tried to walk along the bottom of a pool while fully submerged? It isn't easy. Keeping your feet on the bottom is enough of a task, and you would probably need a weight belt to take an underwater stroll. Hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius), though, walk and even prance along the bottom of lakes and rivers with ease. How do they do it?
When compared to a whale or even a manatee (the latter of which I will address a bit later on) a hippo does not look especially well-adapted to life in the water. It has a low, squat body and lacks a broad tail, flippers, or any other broad surface to help propel itself through the water. Neither is this amphibious mammal well-suited to quick movements on land. Hippos can trot a bit, but they are so cumbersome that while walking on dry land they always keep three of their feet in contact with the ground at a time.
A hippo walking on land
The hippo is obviously a cumbersome animal, but it is not just because of their tubby physique. Parts of the appendicular skeleton of hippos are osteosclerotic, meaning that their bones are extraordinarily dense due to the replacement of porous bone with more compact bone. (Hippos have extra, lighter bone material in the large medullary cavities within their limb bones, too.) This means that their bones act as a kind of ballast to help them achieve neutral buoyancy underwater. Without this added weight they would have to actively expend a lot of energy to remain underwater (and, conversely, too much "bone ballast" would make it harder to surface when they needed to come up for air).
This adaptation to aquatic life allows hippos to exhibit a greater range of locomotion under the water than on land. Since they do not have to actively hold themselves down, and the watery environment buoys them up, they can walk, prance, and even "fly" underwater. This range of movement was recently described by biologists Brittany Coughlin and Frank Fish in the Journal of Mammalogy after observing the two female hippos kept at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New Jersey.*
*[As a side note, these individual hippos often harass and even attempt to eat the birds kept within the enclosure. Many captive birds have died from stress as a result. This raises questions about the ethics of attempting to create a "natural" setting for aggressive animals in zoos and aquariums.]
A hippo moving underwater. Note how it uses minimal movement of its forelimbs to push off from the bottom.
Unfortunately the size of the hippo enclosure and the amount of time selected for study limited the observational data, but Coughlin and Fish still recorded 102 sequences of hippos moving underwater (of which 32 were selected for analysis). The hippos did not perform their full locomotive repertoire, but they did often walk by the viewing window along the pool bottom. When they did so they moved in a sort of slow-motion gallop with only one foot (vs. three on land) in contact with the ground at any one time. It almost goes without saying that the hippos would not be able to move the same way on land as they did underwater.
A restoration of Pezosiren The bones in grey represent parts of the skeleton that were recovered. From Domning (2001).
Could Pezosiren, an Eocene relative of modern manatees from the rock of Jamaica and described by D.P. Domnig in 2001, have moved in a similar fashion? Today manatees and their relatives within the Sirenia are adapted to a fully aquatic lifestyle; their forefeet are stubby flippers, they lack hindlimbs, and they propel themselves with up-and-down oscillations of their broad tails. Like whales, however, sirenians evolved from terrestrial ancestors, and Pezosiren is a startling creature that helps illustrate how sirenians became adapted to aquatic life.
If you only saw the skull of Pezosiren you might be fooled into thinking it was a fully aquatic form like modern sirenians. While it's skull differs in some subtle ways, it is easily identifiable at first glance as being a relative of manatees and dugongs. The strange thing is, however, that Pezosiren had four limbs and almost certainly was an amphibious creature. It could still walk on land and did not have the swimming adaptations seen in its later relatives.
Indeed, Pezosiren looked very hippo-like. It was short and barrel-bodied, and it also had osteoslerotic bones. This was not an animal that was just dipping its toes into the water but one that was already semi-aquatic. There is little doubt that it was spending considerable time in an aquatic environment. I do not know of any studies seeking to reconstruct the locomotion of this animal, but it would seem a fair inference to suggest that while its movements would be restricted on land it would have exhibited a wider range of movements under the water. It may have moved in ways analogous to, but not exactly like, the hippos studied by Coughlin and Fish.
For more on aquatic mammals see:
Puijila darwini: A Significant Seal
Maiacetus: The Good Mother Whale
Elephants Out of the Ooze
Indohyus: Almost Like a Mouse Deer?
Coughlin, B., & Fish, F. (2009). Hippopotamus Underwater Locomotion: Reduced-Gravity Movements for a Massive Mammal Journal of Mammalogy, 90 (3), 675-679 DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-279R.1
Domning, D. (2001). The earliest known fully quadrupedal sirenian Nature, 413 (6856), 625-627 DOI: 10.1038/35098072


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As a coach one of the things I run into a lot is the limited budget that companies have these days for training.
I'm always looking for tricks (let's call them hacks) that will allow my clients to get more value out of their limited budget.
When I ran public training with PairCoaching.net (Before I gave the domain away), I quickly discovered that hiring public training rooms upfront was not smart for my business. Either the rooms were not needed, when I could not sell a certain training. Or they were too small when I had a huge success.
The hack I discovered at the time was to not book a room and then a week before the training was due, to contact a company I knew, and ask them if they had a training room available for that day and offer them a free place in the class in return.
My luck had turned, instead of rejecting an interesting order, I now would do a training, in an office that is close to my home.
Even better, their office was at 300 meter of my children's school. I could park my car with my training stuff on their parking lot, take my kids to school, and come back and install myself for the training. But wait, that was just the start, it got even better, during the break of the training, I started talking with Vincent. Vincent had started to work agile at OneAgency. We stayed in touch -remember I give free life time support on every talk I have- and a few years later One Agency became a client.
I'm telling this story because I want to turn on the heat on this way of working.
I know that when I deliver agile training, it's best to take a team offsite. Teaching a team in an offsite location, changes the dynamic totally.
Managers think that when they do a training in-house, they can find the people when there is an emergency. That is 3589% true. Unfortunately in most occasions the interrupts are not emergencies. Sometimes, they are urgent, yet not important. Sometimes important, yet not urgent. Over the 15 years that I give training, the times that an interruption was urgent and important I can count on one hand. And I'm sure that in these rare cases, the people would have been able to contact the people in the room if we would have been offsite.
2) part of an agile training, is also building the team together. An offsite helps in creating such a team.
3) With some of my training, we do crazy stuff. Play with lego or blow up balloons, even -dare I say it-, even talk about emotions. All that stuff works so much better offsite. People are not afraid that the CEO will walk in and ask what they are doing. Especially if the training room is a nice glass room.
Now in the current economics most companies can't afford an offsite training anymore.
As a change agent, I understand this dynamic and I want to see if I can't turn these disadvantages on it's head.
What if one company would offer their training room for free to another company, that would in return do the same thing for the first company?
What do you think? Are you interested in this?
you want to build cool thing: you don't give them a cool environment.
Last week I blogged about how I helped a team decide if they wanted to split.
This week I will write about how I helped teams to do their split. By now, I have been using this technique with multiple teams, their sizes vary from 40 till 7.
If you want to use this technique, I want to stress that it's crucial that the team itself wants to split. I was myself part of a group where this technique was used, when we were not convinced that the split was needed. That was a disaster. If you don't want to take the time for a team to decide if they need to split, you might as well decide on the split yourself.
Update: ok disaster was a little harsh. One of my teammembers told me, it did work, yet we spend a lot of time discussing after the fact and a few people where really hurt. I'm convinced we lost more time after the split then we would have if we discussed before. For me as a coach I learned a lot, as a participant, not really.
Please read my previous post, to have an idea how I did that in one occasion.
Ok, by now your team has decided that they want to split. In a lot of cases, they will come back to you and say, please help us, we don't know how to split our self up.
In most cases, what they mean is: make the decision for us.
People have told me, they did not like that, as it made them think of in school they had to select someone for sport or other activities. As someone who was bad at most sports and frequently selected last, I can see people don't like that.
This technique is different, it does not let one person select, and there is no one selected first or last. Also this technique won't help you as a manager or coach to select your dream team.
The team does not want to do it. You can't either.
With this, you will help your team to self–organize in multiple sub-teams.
What you need: a large empty room.
I have used meeting rooms where we put all the tables and chairs to one site.
Then I ask the team to walk around in silence.
I tell them that the way we will select teams is by physically standing together. As long as they are not happy with the TOTAL result they should be moving.
That simple? Yes that simple. Yet as most simple things not easy.
I have seen a team do this in less then 30 minutes and another team needed a few days for it.
How many facilitators does this need?
2. One to help the group stay quite and sometimes facilitate some questions. And one to talk people who have a hard time.
yes. This is why you need a second facilitator that can have a person chat with people for who this becomes to emotional.
Does this guarantee the best team split?
No, not at all. Yet I know this is a much better split then any manager of coach can come up with.
What if there are some real constraints on how to split up the team, like every team should at least be able to do x?
For that I trust the people of the team. I know that there are multiple spoken and unspoken rules that these new teams have to follow. When you start discussing these rules -especially the unspoken ones- you have discussion and create separation in the total group.
When you don't discuss them. The people that care about a certain rule, will not be happy with the end result. These people will keep moving. In the end, everyone will be happy, even if people might not agree on all the rules that everyone individually had for herself.
If you prepare people for the split, won't people create alliances before?
For me this does not really matter. The fact we walk around and feel, these things will become very explicit.
When we see everyones pre created alliances, two thing can happen.
– Things won't change: this basically means that the pre-split alliances are accepted by everyone. >> Great.
Now people see that the created alliances don't make sense for everyone. This might make people mad (remember the emotional part?) At least the not followed alliances are also very visible to other in the alliance (and outside).
Making things visible, make it possible to deal with.
Did the question to split came from the team?
I think this has been partially answered by my first post. Yet maybe not enough.
One of the teams had an external customer refusing to work with a sub-team. To reorganize the team was a team decision for them. The team were I explained the process of deciding, there I was hired to see if I could help the team splitting. I have no idea who came up with the original idea. Yet it was 100% the decision of the team to split. If they would have said no, it would have been no split. One of the things I guaranteed also was that after x time (x decided by themself) we would reevaluate the split. (That evaluation was also positive and I will post that as a third post).
Could you give a few examples when things get tough?
Good question. yes I can and will.
In one of the teams, the original problem that let to the desire of splitting up, was not solved after one of the moments that people stopped moving. (They wanted to split up a sub-team that customers complained about. And these people where still together, now with a few more people. ) When I asked if everyone was happy, one person complained that the people where still together and that they boycotted the process. I told him that although it was true that these people where together. I disagreed that it was only their fault. As everyone had been moving. So if everyone really wanted the split, they should all behave like it.
This seems to be typically. People prefer to put the blame on others, yet they don't see how their own behavior had also on influence.
I looked at them. I could not find my words. I looked at them for a full minute, and then I said something like: I don't understand. You wanted another team split, as the previous one was done by x & y. And now you tell me I have to do it?
No. I refuse to. I have told you when I started, that I would give you tools that would help you to take decisions on your own. I could not explain then, what I ment. Well this is one of these tools.
When I said that last sentence, I looked around. I could see in their eyes, that it clicked. They started to walk around and some time later, they ended up with a team I would never have selected. Later a few team member told me, that was the moment she first understood what a self-organizing team really was about.
Challenge: to split or not to split?
Agile is about self-organisation. Yet self-organisation does not mean self-creation.
Yes, agile teams can take all the decisions they need to make, yet sometimes, especially in the beginning, they can use a little help with it.
One of the ways I am helping teams is playing games.
We have agile games that are good at teaching people new skills, like leadership, iterations etc. And we also have so called serious games.
Serious games, don't teach people stuff, they help do stuff. And sometimes what needs to be done is take a decision.
In one of the teams I coached, there was the option to split the team in two.
In the team, we had people in favor, and we had people strongly against it. Which is good, at least it did not let people indifferent.
Taking a decision like this, should not be taken lightly. To help the team take this decision, we took the time.
Let's have a look at what we did.
1) As a coach I had F2F with everyone on the team (which was normal as I had been joining the team only recently, and I asked every team member his or her opinion.
3) It was not the first time I had helped a team split up. I knew a technique that was really good at helping a team split. Yet this blogpost is about the decision, does the team want it.
I will post a few follow post on how to do a split. And how to evaluated it, 8 weeks later.
We had lots of idea's and made a few plans on how will we help them decide.
In the end, we chose the challenge cards game, I had played this before with my friend Jurgen De Smet, yet then he led it, now I would be in charge. My PairCoach would be an observer for this exercise.
One part would write on pink post it's why splitting the team was a bad idea.The other would write green post it's why splitting the team was a good idea.
People sat at opposite sides of a large table.
Lots of laughter, funny idea's and some real good serious ones. We had it all. We did this workshop, after the demo (Show & Tell), so we had chocolates and beverages on the table.
After that, I asked the groups to change places. Now thye replayed the exercise, yet from the reversed position.
After that we played the real challenge game. People could choose the site they wanted.
I did a decide to see if they had all the information to take a decision.
They did not. A few questions where still unanswered. I let them write down the questions.
We let the team go to lunch and the coaches team + management met, to gather the answers.
After the lunch we (actually management) answered all the questions.
When I then asked the team to decide, they could not. Discussions went in multiple directions, yet I felt they needed some space alone to discuss freely.
So I proposed we (coaches team + management) would leave the room for 15 minutes . This would give them the option to speak clearly.
We left to go to the roof of the building where it was sunny and windy. It was my first time at this roof and it was good as I felt I was tense.
When we came back. The team had not decide, yet it looked they were close, so we left them for another 15 minutes.
After 10minutes they called us. They had decided they wanted to split.
In retrospect, I think it's dangerous to leave a team without facilitator to discuss such a hot topic.
It's good as it shows a team I trust them. As a "media is the message" it is strong. Yet I have seen a lot of teams having a hard time to take decisions without a facilitator. It was a risk I took.
I also think that the small timeboxes, helped them to focus.
With agile going mainstream more and more entrepreneurs, are looking for new ways to organize their company.
When a company goes agile, it has an impact on the company culture.
where can I look for examples of companies that don't work the traditional way?
This is a list of books & documents about companies that are working in a less traditional way.
Delivering Happiness (Zappos)And because I'm in a good mood, instead of 7, here is 8the one, with examples of multiple companies wikinomics.
Yves lots of people don't have the time to read these books. True, will you give me links to articles about these and other companies in the comments?
With version 43, we added Peter Armstrong as 89 person to the book. That is the last person we add to Volume 1.
Are the links to person you mention that are in the book, are these internal book links working?
Are the books you mention in the book list?
Are your links you provided in the contact list?
Is your question in the question list?
is there anything you are missing in the book?
is your location on the map correct?
Update: is your location mentioned at the bottom of your answers?
Update: Does your location (mentioned at the bottom of your answers) have a correct wikipedia links?
As you can see, doing this for 89 people and +20 community events is a lot of work. That is why we are sending out mails to everyone in the book to help us.
Will you help us too?
If you send us info, please add the version of the book you have been reviewing.
Here are the slides of my ALE2012 Presentation about all the online collaboration projects I started.
Unfortunatly on the slide I only have pictures of 68 people. somehow I did not find out how to create a picture of 146 people in google picassa.
The presentation was originally called: "What I learned from Who is agile", but when the ALE2012 organisation to talk for 1 hour instead of 30 minutes, I started thinking about more projects then just the book creation.
I love metaphors, they can help you to understand a situation better.
Yet sometimes we can take a metaphor to far.
Imagine what would happen if you would design a plane for a self-organizing team.
No need for a flightcrew, and the passengers fly themselves.


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British age group athlete Russell Cox was in Bussleton at the weekend for Ironman Western Australia. Having taking a sabbatical from work for the past three months to live the triathlon lifestyle down under, he was hoping his hard work in training would pay off with a new personal best of nine hours and twenty minutes. And he managed it too, finishing in 9:20:22. Here is his report.
This year's Ironman Western Australia was always going to be a significant race for me. Having given up work and spent the last three months, making the most of the Gold Coast for training, it was going to be a test of all the hard work I'd put in. I'd had a good race here the previous year, but felt that given the nature of the course (flat, very flat) I should be able to do even better. I'd not gone as well as I hoped in Switzerland earlier this year so I was hungry for a new PB. From the time I arrived in Busselton I was pretty clear that 9:20 was my goal. A real step up, but at the same time a realistic target from the training I'd been doing.
After watching the pros head off at 6am I had a very brief warm up just to make sure the wetsuit was comfortable. Everything was good, the waters were clear and calm and swimming felt easy. We were seeded by estimated swim time with blue caps right at the front. I have no idea what time I put on my entry form, but somehow I'd ended up with a white cap for the second group. Not that it's strictly enforced, but I'd secured a blue cap the day before so I could put myself up the front. A bold move given the Aussies are known for their swimming and for me it's still a work in progress!
6:15 and without a countdown the horn sounded. In typical Ironman fashion the first 10 minutes are spent trying not to get bashed too hard whilst keeping a good position. I managed to hold my own in the group and while I'd gone out quite hard I wasn't gasping for air.
Eventually things settled down and I found a decent set of feet to follow. The swim at Western Australia is fantastic, really the highlight of the race. You have the jetty by your side to sight off and clear waters full of sea life. Rumours of sharks always circulate in race week, but the biggest danger is small stingers that sometimes drift in.
Having had groups to draft off of the entire time I reached the beach not really knowing how things had gone. The swim felt too easy so I must have been going slowly! A quick check of the watch and I see a 58 with some seconds. Clearly I'd found the right group and had already put myself ahead of my schedule. I headed into transition feeling confident from a great start to my race.
The bike course here is totally flat, there is nothing approaching a hill. Having ridden with the local squad I can tell you that you need to ride 30km before you reach anything like a climb. That said it has its own challenges most obviously in the form of the wind. My aim for the bike was to work off heart rate keeping myself in a comfortable position to run well. At the same time I had a time goal of going under 5 hours so the trick was going to be balancing the two.
Experience tells me I often go out too hard and fade a little later. Did that stop me? Yes and no, I went out harder than intended, but not to the extent I've done before. This was all about a measured effort to deliver an overall race result not just a great bike.
Being quite well placed from the swim I soon moved up to one of the lead pace lines. I stuck near the back until the first turn around when I couldn't keep up and had to let them go. After the initial excitement and a fast first lap my pace slowed a little. I might just be the fatigue, but the wind seemed stronger and things got tougher. Each turnaround that pace line would taunt me by being just a few kilometres up the road. All I could do was keep working and focus on maintaining an effort that would set me up for my run.
The third lap was not just physically tougher, but mentally too. By now I had no doubt the wind was stronger. I'd seen the course twice and the third time could only offer more work. It was tempting to let the mind drift, but I kept coming back to two figures on my bike computer: the average speed and my heart rate. The game was to keep the first one up and the second one down as much as best I could. I knew the average speed for a five hour bike and was comfortably over that. Keeping the average up would help build my buffer for the run so I kept working into the persistent headwinds. When I hit the town for the final time I eased back a little and stretched out. With almost five hours spent on the aerobars the body starts to stiffen up. The last thing I wanted was to carry any of that over into the run.
Still ahead of target I was into transition off a 4:54 bike which got me out on the run under the 6 hour mark.
I have no idea why, but for me the first few kilometres of Ironman marathons always feel great. So much that if I'm not careful I start to record silly split times which would put me on route for 2:45 marathons. My first Ironman taught me that wasn't likely to happen and since then I've learnt I need to hold back however good it feels. I'd set a run goal of a 3:10 marathon, again something I thought should be possible, but being cautious my plan allowed a ten minute buffer to the 9:20 goal.
Each distance marker I'd check I was on pace. For the first 6km this mostly involved slowing myself down! Things settled in pretty quickly and I was careful to take on some nutrition at every aid station. I was pleased that despite no mention in the race booklet the Anzac biscuits were back. Anzacs soaked in coke are a favourite run delicacy. However I think providing Vegemite is an unfair advantage to the Aussies.
Lap one was done on target, perhaps a little fast, but nothing I was worried about. Somewhere in lap two things started to get tougher, but I hadn't expected a 3:10 marathon to be easy. I kept pushing, but the real difficulty was keeping the stomach settled enough to take on food. I got through the lap relatively unscathed, but headed out on the third knowing that I was going to need some of that 10 minute buffer.
With only 10km remaining I had roughly 50 minutes to hit my goal, should be easy I thought. With only 8Km to go I staggered into an aid station and walked it taking on everything offered to me. Somewhat optimistically I thought that would fix things and off I'd go. A few hundred metres down the road I decided a minute's walk break might help. I wanted to be strict about this and not waste too much time walking. I had 40 minutes for the 8km so I should be fine as long as I didn't spend it all walking. Miraculously when I started back running my legs seemed to be working again, it seemed I'd passed the worst of the low and got through it. I gingerly started to push the pace and make up some lost ground.
By the time I had just 4km left I was really starting to move. There's something about knowing the finish line isn't that much further that really gets me moving. No more slowing for aid stations it was straight for that line. The fact it would all be over soon helped push the pain to the back of my mind. It must have worked as one spectator shouted I shouldn't make it look so easy! Believe me at this point easy was the last thing I considered it. Then there was the chute and much as I'd love to celebrate I had tunnel vision for the arch at the end. Once I was over it I could let the catchers worry about keeping me upright!
I'd love to say that I was elated to have got my new PB, but to be honest I was mostly just relieved to have finished! It took a while to sink in, the whole plan and process of the race had been so clinical and until the lull in the run I'd felt entirely in control.
The phrase 'train hard, race easy' had come up in conversation in previous days. I can't make any claim that the race was easy, but I'd trained hard and put myself in a position to deliver the race I wanted. I was extremely pleased to have got myself into the top 50 at an Ironman and the top 10 in my age group. Unfortunately not quite enough for a Hawaii slot. I leave Busselton feeling that the training is working and things can only progress from here on in. The next Ironman is Australia in April and the goal is to improve the age group placing and secure that Hawaii slot.
I've spent two weeks in Busselton and have to say what a wonderful region it is to train in. The race itself is fantastic, the town gets behind it and really makes the event. The locals are incredibly friendly and went out of their way to support me in the build up to the race. I'm pretty sure I couldn't have performed as well as I did without their help, particularly Sue and Neil who provided me with a homestay whilst I was there.
Also thanks to Jaggad (www.jaggad.com) as part of the Technical Development Team their kit is integral to my training and racing. They were present at the event and it was great to meet them for the first time. Getting to pretend to be a model for a few hours was an unexpected bonus too!


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New Sanctions Target the Government of Venezuela's Access to US Capital Markets
Jamie L. Boucher Eytan J. Fisch William J. Sweet, Jr. Lindsey F. Randall Joseph M. Sandman
On August 25, 2017, the U.S. government dramatically increased sanctions on the government of Venezuela. Unlike the Venezuela-related sanctions already in effect, which are list-based and to date have targeted only specific individuals,1 the new measures are aimed at access to U.S. debt and equity markets by the government of Venezuela, including state-owned or controlled entities. The new measures include specific requirements relating to Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), and its U.S. subsidiary, CITGO Holding, Inc. (CITGO). In developing the new sanctions, the U.S. government adopted the model of sanctions used by the United States in the context of sectoral sanctions on Russia and first introduced in 2014. The most recent action makes clear that the U.S. government continues to be concerned about the political situation in Venezuela, and further sanctions remain a possibility.
The most recent action makes clear that the U.S. government continues to be concerned about the political situation in Venezuela, and further sanctions remain a possibility.
President Donald Trump imposed the new sanctions on Venezuela via Executive Order (E.O.) 13808, which broadly prohibits transactions related to new medium- and long-term debt and new equity of the government of Venezuela and certain pre-existing bonds it issued. The executive order targets dividend payments or other distributions of profits from any entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the government of Venezuela to the government of Venezuela. It also prohibits the purchase, directly or indirectly, of any securities from the government of Venezuela other than certain specified debt securities. The prohibitions in the executive order apply to U.S. persons or transactions that are otherwise subject to U.S. enforcement jurisdiction.
Simultaneously with the imposition of the new sanctions, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued four general licenses authorizing certain transactions that would otherwise now be prohibited. Administration officials, including the secretary of the Treasury, have suggested in press briefings that the general licenses are intended to limit the impact of the restrictions in the executive order on U.S. persons, the global petroleum market, the secondary bond market and the Venezuelan people, while applying financial pressure to the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
Restrictions on Debt and Equity
Generally speaking, the new measures create different restrictions on three categories of Venezuelan government debt: (1) new PdVSA debt; (2) other new debt of the government of Venezuela other than new debt of PdVSA; and (3) existing bonds issued by the government of Venezuela. In addition, the new measures impose restrictions on equity of the government of Venezuela, including PdVSA and other state-owned or controlled entities.
New PdVSA Debt
The executive order prohibits all transactions related to, provisions of financing for and other dealings in new PdVSA debt with a maturity of greater than 90 days. New PdVSA debt with a maturity of 90 days or less is not prohibited, and administration officials indicated in a background briefing that the new sanctions are not intended to be an oil embargo. Indeed, the U.S. government appears to have distinguished between new PdVSA debt and other new Venezuelan government debt to make it commercially feasible for PdVSA to continue to participate in the global trade of petroleum.
New Debt Other Than PdVSA Debt
The executive order prohibits all transactions related to, provisions of financing for and other dealings in new debt of the government of Venezuela with a maturity of greater than 30 days (other than PdVSA debt). General License 4 authorizes new debt transactions related to the exportation or re-exportation of agricultural commodities, medicine, medical devices or replacement parts and components to Venezuela, or to persons in third countries purchasing specifically for resale to Venezuela, provided that the exportation or re-exportation is licensed or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Department of Commerce under the provisions of the Export Administration Act.
Government Equity
The executive order prohibits all transactions related to, provisions of financing for and other dealings in new equity of the government of Venezuela, including PdVSA and other state-owned or controlled entities. General License 2, however, authorizes new equity transactions otherwise prohibited by the order if the only government of Venezuela entities involved are CITGO or any of its subsidiaries.
Existing Government Bonds
Unlike the Russia sectoral sanctions, which do not target debt in existence at the time of the imposition of sanctions, the new Venezuela-related sanctions treat existing bonds differently from other categories of existing debt. The executive order does not generally restrict dealings in existing nonbond debt of PdVSA or the government of Venezuela. It does, however, restrict dealings in bonds previously issued by the government of Venezuela. Specifically, the order prohibits all transactions related to, provisions of financing for and other dealings in bonds issued by the government of Venezuela prior to August 25, 2017. Bonds issued on or after that date would be subject to the restrictions on new debt.
General License 3 authorizes dealings in specified bonds — listed in an annex — previously issued by the government of Venezuela, including certain bonds issued by PdVSA as well as all bonds issued by U.S. entities owned or controlled by the Venezuelan government, including CITGO. Administration officials indicated in a background briefing that the new action is not a restriction on secondary market trading of bonds previously issued by the Venezuelan government. Administration officials also indicated that in practice, all bonds previously issued by the government of Venezuela are authorized under General License 3, except for two series of bonds that are entirely held in Venezuela state enterprises.
Restrictions on Dividend Payments or Other Distribution of Profits
The executive order prohibits dividend payments or other distributions of profits to the government of Venezuela from any entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the government of Venezuela. This restriction appears intended to prevent the government from extracting the proceeds though dividend payments or other distributions from companies it owns or controls, including CITGO.
Restrictions on Purchases of Securities
The executive order prohibits the purchase, directly or indirectly, of any debt or equity securities from the government of Venezuela, other than securities qualifying as new debt with a maturity of less than or equal to 90 days in the case of new PdVSA debt or 30 days in the case of other new government debt. This restriction also limits the purchase of existing securities issued by a third party — such as by a nonsanctioned company not owned or controlled by the Venezuelan government — but held by the Venezuelan government.
Wind-Down Period for Certain Existing Contracts
Under General License 1, provided the transaction does not involve a person on OFAC's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, OFAC has allowed for a 30-day wind-down period with respect to some activities, which it did not allow in the context of the Ukraine/Russia-related program's debt and equity restrictions. Specifically, General License 1 authorizes through September 24, 2017, all activities necessary to wind down existing contracts otherwise prohibited by E.O. 13808 and relating to new PdVSA and government of Venezuela debt and equity, pre-existing bonds issued by the government of Venezuela, and the purchase of securities from the government of Venezuela. General License 1 does not, however, authorize the wind down of existing contracts relating to dividend payments or other profit distributions to the government of Venezuela.
CITGO and US Subsidiaries Owned or Controlled by Venezuelan Government
General License 2 exempts CITGO, a U.S. subsidiary of PdVSA, from E.O. 13808's restrictions on new debt and new equity. It also authorizes the purchase of debt and equity securities from the government of Venezuela when the only government of Venezuela entities involved are CITGO and any of its subsidiaries, to the extent otherwise prohibited by the executive order. Additionally, General License 3 authorizes dealings in pre-existing bonds issued by U.S. persons, including CITGO. Neither general license authorizes the distribution of profits from CITGO or other U.S.-owned or controlled entities to PdVSA or the Venezuelan government. Comparison to Ukraine/Russia-Related Sanctions Program
The restrictions on new PdVSA and Venezuelan government debt are conceptually similar to the restrictions under Directives 1 through 3 of the Ukraine/Russia-related sanctions program, and OFAC has issued guidance in the form of FAQ similar to that issued under the Ukraine/Russia sanctions program. For example, similar to the Ukraine/Russia program, if a U.S. person entered into a long-term credit facility or loan agreement prior to the sanctions' effective date, drawdowns and disbursements with repayment terms of 90 days or less for PdVSA or 30 days or less for the rest of the government of Venezuela are permitted. Drawdowns and disbursements whose repayment terms exceed the applicable authorized tenor are not prohibited if the terms (including the length of the repayment period, the interest rate applied to the drawdown and the maximum drawdown amount) were contractually agreed to prior to the sanctions' effective date and are not modified after that date. The prohibitions also extend to the rollover of existing debt, if such rollover results in the creation of new debt with a maturity of longer than 90 days or less for PdVSA or 30 days or less for the rest of the government of Venezuela. While OFAC has not restated all FAQ related to debt and equity restrictions in the Venezuela context, we would expect that much of the guidance issued in the context of Russia debt and equity restrictions is instructive.
Unlike with the Russia-related sectoral sanctions, the U.S. government has decided to more directly target the Venezuelan government and all state-owned or controlled enterprises rather than distinguish among sectors of the Venezuelan economy. Additionally, as discussed above, OFAC has allowed for a 30-day wind-down period with respect to some activities, which it did not allow in the context of the Russia-related debt and equity restrictions. Finally, unlike with the Russia-related sectoral sanctions, OFAC has not issued a general license authorizing derivative products whose value is linked to an underlying asset that constitutes new debt of PdVSA of longer than 90 days maturity, or new debt with a maturity of 30 days or new equity for the rest of the Venezuelan government.
The new measures constitute a considerable escalation in U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. Companies with any business dealings with the Venezuelan government, including any Venezuelan state-owned or controlled enterprises, should exercise caution. In addition, in following the Russia sectoral sanctions model, the U.S. government has answered a question that many financial institutions, companies and legal practitioners asked after the imposition of those sanctions in 2014: Will the restrictions on access to U.S. capital markets become a staple tool in the U.S. government's sanctions toolbox? In light of the new Venezuela sanctions, the answer appears to be a clear yes.
1 See Skadden's 2016 Insights, "US Economic Sanctions: New List-Based Programs."
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First up: Organize/knit the stash. I usually want to decrease the stash (or at least avoid increasing it) so the new year is a perfect time to recommit to old projects. There are many ways to accomplish this goal, some more serious than others.
1. Knitting one old project for every new project. Depending on how extensive your stash is this can be a great way to get it down while still enjoying fresh and exciting projects.
2. Only knit from the shash: this is a great goal for January but lets be real, you will probably need new yarn just to use up your old yarn and who can resist the allure of the fresh new project for a fresh new year?
3. Knit 2 balls of stash yarn for every new ball of yarn. I tried this one last year and while I did end up with a bit of debt (I owe myself knitting a few balls) I did manage keep myself under control.
4. Organize first and make a plan. I find a plan helps me keep on track and stay productive.
Another great way to start the new year is by looking through your patterns. Scope out your Ravelry queue or your binder of patterns (what? not everyone has these things?!) and come on in to UY to look through books and binders for inspirations. Is there something you have been planning to knit for ages and haven't gotten around to? It's time!
I'm personally plotting a project number for 2012. Not only do I want to complete more projects but I also want to remember to put them on Ravelry and take good photos. I find gift knitting is the most difficult in this respect because I tend to finish them at the last minute and miss my photo opportunity (winter and it's lack of daylight thwarted me several times this year). I can't decide what a good project number is for me. I want to use other knitters productivity as a guideline but it's important to pick someone with a normal pace (KT, you are out you crazy girl!).
Knit Along! How about doing a knit along this year? If you haven't joined us yet it's a lot of fun and we are starting our Tiny Owl Knits KAL tomorrow so cast on!
Happy New Year from everyone at Urban Yarns!!!!!
I have handed off my Christmas Knit exchange items. I wasn't knitting them at the last minute this year but don't worry, I just picked up a couple of extra projects that I'm sure to be furiously weaving in ends on the 24th. They are the ever popular (and easy!) Mistake Rib Scarf, and I polished off another Hunter Hat (pattern available in store) while I was at it. Both knits are going to boys so my brother Jordan was good enough to model the combination for me. A couple of skeins of Tosh Vintage for the scarf and one skein for the hat.


Before moving to the beach, Robert spent five years at WKRG in Mobile, Alabama, and a year at WNBC in New York.
Robert attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he was a member of the cross country and track teams, but completed his communication degree at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
When Robert isn't at the station, he enjoys teaching his Border Collie, Stella, new tricks and spending time with his wife Amanda and daughters Kelley and Emma.
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Psoriasis treatments need to be effective on a cellular level. Treating this skin disorder in the cells may help prevent the appearance of scales and yellowish plaque.
The patches may itch or hurt, especially if they are scratched. Doctors believe that psoriasis is caused by a problem with the immune system. For some reason, a faulty signal in the immune system tells the skin to shed its cells too quickly. As a result, the dead cells build up into the silvery scales characteristic of psoriasis. The skin underneath is usually inflamed and appears pink or red.
Topical treatments are applied directly to the skin.
Phototherapy involves the use of special lights.
Systemic therapy refers to pills and injections that treat the immune system.
One of the frustrations of psoriasis treatment is that something that works well for one person might not help someone else. Also, treatments can work for a while and then stop. It may take a process of trial-and-error to find the right regimen.
Moisturizers. Using a heavy moisturizing cream after bathing can help with mild psoriasis. Moisturizing bath oils can help, too.
Coal tar. Products containing coal tar can help relieve symptoms. Look for gels, ointments, and shampoos. Several online retailers carry coal tar products like Oxipor, including AmericaRX or Shop in Private. Drugstores often carry coal tar shampoos, such as Neutrogena T-Gel, which is used to treat scalp psoriasis. Unfortunately, products with a high concentration of coal tar tend to have a strong, unpleasant odor and may discolor clothing.
Hydrocortisone cream. Hydrocortisone is a type of steroid. It helps calm the immune reaction at the surface of the skin. The over-the-counter creams can be applied once or twice a day over small areas. It is important to follow the label's instructions and check with a doctor before using these creams over large areas or for long-term periods.
Oatmeal baths. Colloidal oatmeal baths, such as Aveeno Soothing Bath Treatment, can help soothe itching and remove scales.
Epsom salts or Dead Sea salts. Soaking for about 15 minutes in an Epsom salt or Dead Sea salt bath can also help remove scales. Follow up by applying a generous amount of moisturizer to lightly damp skin; this will seal the moisture.
Salicylic acid. Creams and shampoos containing salicylic acid may help remove the scales.
Simply getting out into the sun can help, too. Ultraviolet light, which is part of natural sunlight, actually helps calm the immune reaction. Daily exposure to sunlight (in short doses, not long enough to lead to sunburn) can improve the rash and even diminish the occurrence of psoriasis over time.
More potent steroid creams. Strong steroid creams can help when over-the-counter versions fail. However, long-term use can cause thinning of the skin. They also should not be used long-term over large areas of the skin, because the steroids can be absorbed into the body and cause serious problems.
Artifical light therapy. Artificial sources of ultraviolet light can be used in the doctor's office, sometimes in combination with medicines that make the skin more sensitive to the light rays.
Medicines to suppress the immune system. Severe cases often improve with medications that reduce the action of the immune system. Methotrexate (for severe psoriasis, often known as Trexall); etanercept (an injectable medication known as Enbrel); and cyclosporine (a liquid or pill used only for very severe cases) are some choices. These medicines require close supervision, because suppressing the immune system increases the risk of developing potentially serious infections.
Other medications. Tazarotene is a topical retinoid, similar to the medicine in the acne pill Accutane. It may help with severe cases. The topical preparation Calcipotriene, a special form of Vitamin D, seems to slow down the overgrowth of skin cells. Like all medications, these creams do have side effects, and they're not right for everyone.
Researchers are working to find new and better types of psoriasis treatment. Medicines already in use for other skin conditions, such as eczema, may also be helpful for psoriasis. As doctors learn more about how and why psoriasis happens, new treatments may become available. If you have psoriasis and haven't been to the doctor lately or are unsatisfied with your current treatment, it may be worth a visit to learn more about these options.
Psoriasis is a common condition that affects nearly 7.5 million Americans, according to the National Psoriasis Foundation. Many treatments exist, ranging from simple home remedies to strong medications, but it is extremely important to consult with a dermatologist prior to trying anything new. With patience, attention and diligence, it is possible to lead a comfortable and pain-free life even with the discomfort typically associated with psoriasis.


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