December is such a busy time of year. Not only are we celebrating Christmas all month long, but it's an obvious time to reflect on the past year. Not only am I reflecting on my personal life, I have also been reflecting on the year according to the blog. That's why I am so excited to be co-hosting this 2015 Blogger Year in Review linkup! I am really looking forward to sharing some great blogging moments from the past year! Last week I shared some of my most popular (and my favorite) posts. This week I'm sharing a few blog related things I've learned this year. And I will finish the series by sharing some of my favorite bloggers and posts I think are worth reading. I hope you enjoy and link up with us as well!
In 2014, I made a personal goal to start blogging on a more regular basis. In 2013, I basically just posted weekly updates about Noah and then occasionally posted about larger family activities/holidays. In 2013, I posted a total of 181 times and jumped to 261 posts in 2014! While I always had lots of blog post ideas, I had trouble finding the time to write posts last minute. I would lose track of the month and end up with only a few posts a week. Now, I plan out my posts well in advance. I look at the calendar on my Mac and add in blog posts as all day events... that way they show up at the top of the day/column and is hard to ignore. First I fill up all the weekly posts I do, like weekend recaps and five on friday. Around holidays I like to plan out a few craft posts as well as some gift guides or fashion ideas. I also see what family activities we have planned that I want to devote an entire post to. I usually have a few unplanned days and I leave them empty for last minute ideas or in case I need to move things around for a sponsored post or linkup that I'm co-hosting. On the weekend, I go through the week's posts I have planned and try to write as many posts that can be done ahead of time. That way I have time to do any of those last minute posts during the week. I make a list of photos that need to be taken and get all my links set up. I've found this has really help me blog on a regular basis without going crazy each night!
Not only do I love blogging, but I also love reading other blogs. Even when I was only posting occasionally, I was an avid blog reader. I personally use the Bloglovin app to read all my blogs and follow quite a few! I used to just read them, but I've been making a real effort to comment on the posts I really enjoy. I know that I love getting comments on my posts, so I figure why not express the thoughts I have and maybe make someone's day by getting another comment :) I've also found that by commenting on other blogs, it has increased traffic and the amount of comments on my own blog. I have found that most of my comments are from the same people each and every day. When you keep seeing comments from the same name, you naturally form a relationship with them. And since I make sure to reply to all my comments, it has been an easy way to start having some back and forth conversations with my readers and other bloggers. I love the relationships I've made so far! This little blogging world can be such a wonderful place when you surround yourself with some really amazing people! Through these relationships, I've been able to co-host linkups, do some guest posts, as well as get some great blogging advice!
When I started the blog, it was simply a way to share my wedding planning process. Then it turned into a personal scrapbook where I documented holidays and the larger events in our life. When I got pregnant, I started the weekly bumpdates which turned into weekly updates about Noah. But in 2014, when I started blogging 5 days a week, I obviously had to add some variety to my posts. My only criteria for what I blog about is that it must be something I am interested in. Thankfully, I have lots of interests. I still blog mostly about our family adventures, but I also like sharing posts about decor, organizing, food, photography, and kid crafts, to name a few. I've been trying to make sure that each week/month has a mix of posts so that it's not just all about any one topic. I also find it interesting to look back and see what topics were reader favorites. Last week's post was very informative for me and based on the numbers and reader comments, I will definitely be scheduling more craft posts in 2016.
I'm also linking up with The Farmer's Wife and September Farm for "Oh Hey Friday" and with A. Liz Adventures for "Five on Friday"!
These are some great tips!! Something I have really struggled with this year is finding the "me time" to write posts. I have so many great ideas yet just can't find the extra minutes. I feel like I'm slowly getting back on the horse. I hope in 2016, I'm able to get back on the 5 times a week horse! I miss blogging (and the relationships) so dearly! I am certainly going to implement some of your tricks!
Enjoyed reading this and getting to know you better. Thanks for hosting. It is always good to go back and see where we have come and how we are going to go in the future.
I'm really loving this series, you guys! I love looking back at how far you've come and all the goals you've set and reached! You've really upped your photography game lately and it definitely shows! Love your blog!
Your planning tips are great! I love reading your blog on the regular. Keep up the good work!!
YES!!! I agree with all of these. I'm trying to work on my photography too. I only have my phone and probably won't be getting a camera anytime soon because realistically, I don't think I would use it. The phone is just so much more convenient for me. BUT that doesn't mean my pictures can't get better. I want to start using natural light more often when I can and hopefully that helps. I also agree with you on the forming relationships and the not selling out. If I'm being honest, I've started skipping some people's posts that all they do these days are sponsored posts. There comes a point where no matter how creative you are, we can tell it's sponsored and I'm just not interested. I've really been thinking about this a lot lately and plan to change some things in 2016 to make sure I'm staying true to myself.
LOVE the pictures you shared of you!!
i've been focusing a lot on photography a lot lately too. i still have a long way to go, but i know better pictures will help with everything. making the time to take good pictures is a challenge.


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4TU.Ethics member Philip Brey winner Weizenbaum Award
4TU.Ethics member Philip Brey of the University of Twente is the winner of the 2022 Weizenbaum Award. The Weizenbaum award is an award for excellence in computer ethics. It has been awarded by the three members of the Weizenbaum Award Committee, which are Maria Bottis, Director of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, Keith Miller, President of the International society for Ethics and Information Technology and Herman Tavani, past President of the Society.
Philip Brey will receive the award during the Philosophical Enquiry 2023 Conference, in Chicago, coorganized by INSEIT, the University of Illinois and the research team IHRC of the Ionian University in May 2023.
More information about Philip Brey can be found here.

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Archive | Travellers
Interview with Anton Crone
By Sarah Duff on August 10, 2015 in Travellers
I first met Anton Crone when he'd just given up a long career in advertising and decided to try his hand at travel blogging. Even before I knew him well, he seemed like the perfect traveller (and a good person to drink many beers with and chat about everything) – a hardy motorbiker who takes everything in his stride with good humour and a sense of adventure. I love Anton's take on slow travel (he once drove from Cape Town to the Serengeti in a Smart Car, for no particular reason), his genuine enthusiasm for Africa, wilderness and conservation, his choice of really off-the-beaten-track destinations (like Mali), his beautiful photography – and his portraits in particular – and his truly inspiring story (read it here) about how he decided to change life track so drastically and give up his career for travel, at a time when most people are settling down to stay in the same place for the rest of their lives.
Anton's moved from blogging to a job as the publishing editor of Africa Geographic Magazine, and he's about to embark on a new travel venture. He continues to write about what he loves – conservation, Africa and the beautiful wild places he's been to.
Read about Anton's travels through Africa on his blog, Bright Continent, and his blogs and articles on Africa Geographic, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
What was your first trip without your parents?
The first trip I remember with my folks was to the highlands of Nyanga in Zimbabwe. It was a strange time – there was a war going on. We explored ancient ruins and swam in mountain streams, but dad carried an AK and mom packed an Uzi. We left Zimbabwe for South Africa soon after that. My first trip alone was going back there as a teenager. My parents put me on a long distance bus. They were happy to see me go because I was a real shit, and I didn't want to come back. I considered Zimbabwe home. I would be staying with family friends on their farm and I thought it was going to be like old times – playing the fool; getting up to mischief. But I was put to work branding cattle and hoeing fields. My folks had arranged it like that. It did me a lot of good. And I missed them.
What's been the most meaningful journey you've done?
I hitchhiked from Anchorage to Acapulco in 1999. It was so far from my perceptions of America, and myself. I lived like a hobo. I loved it, and sometimes I hated it.
Where in the world have you felt happiest?
Probably the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. I had just fallen in love. While we were walking around the gardens, trying to figure each other out, I realised that she must like me because she was laughing at my silly jokes.
What's the best sky you've ever slept under?
The sky above Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana. It's a wonderful place to see the expanse of the Milky Way, and to feel ridiculously small.
What are your favourite travel books?
Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia of course! His Songlines I loved too. Then there's Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari and Shackleton's South. One book that really stuck with me was The Water in Between by Kevin Patterson.
Why do you travel?
I travel to move. I get fidgety if I'm sedentary.
What places that you've travelled to have had the biggest impact on you?
Mount Assinboine in Canada. I felt so exposed to the elements hiking there. Denali in Alaska for the same reason. Djenné in Mali for its mud mosque and Koranic Island. Then there's Africa's Albertine Rift – the entire region astounds me, culturally as well as geographically. Lagos, for the mad energy. Malawi because I feel like I belong there – which is incredibly presumptuous of me, so let's say I want to belong there.
What's your favourite story you've written?
A little piece about a kid on a boat on Lake Malawi.
How can people learn to be better travellers?
I think the people who are better at travelling are those who travel like it's their first time, every time. Who just throw themselves into it without planning; without following the same method or strategy. Who just travel to see what happens next.
What's the wildest place you've ever been to?
Alaska.
What's your favourite mode of transport and why?
I love motorcycling because it exposes you to the environment. But I would say hitchhiking is my favourite because you meet so many wonderfully interesting people. They tell you stuff they don't tell others, and you tell them stuff you don't tell others, because you think you'll never see each other again. You get to really understand a country that way and you become a part of it.
Interview with Justin Fox
By Sarah Duff on September 24, 2014 in Travellers
I realised the other day, when scrolling through my Facebook feed and coming across photo after amazing photo of friends in exotic places around the world, that I know some pretty interesting travellers – people who spend most of their lives on the road, writing stories and taking photos of their adventures across the planet. I've decided to start doing a series of interviews with people whose jealousy-inducing posts inspire me to travel even more.
The first is with Justin Fox, my ex-editor at Getaway International, whose pen marks on my over-laboured stories when I was a lowly intern set me on my travel writing path. Justin spent 14 years at Getaway magazine, as a photojournalist, deputy editor, editor at large, and editor of the spin-off publication Getaway International, going on assignments that took him all over Africa and the world. He's cruised down the Niger River to Timbuktu, sailed a dhow to the Somali border, got manhandled by a gorilla in Rwanda, flew in a hot air balloon over the great migration in the Masai Mara, explored the highlands of Ethiopia, learned to salsa in Cuba, crossed China on a Land Rover expedition retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo and slept at minus-five degrees Celsius in the Arctic's ice hotel. He's published many travel books, won awards for his travel journalism, and is now a freelance writer, photographer, part-time lecturer and novelist, having recently published his first novel, Whoever Fears the Sea.
Because if you leave me alone in one place too long I start chewing my hand off. A sedentary life and boredom are sort of synonymous for me. Movement is the elixir. I also find it much easier to write when I'm on the road.
Hiking with my school class mates in the Witels when I as about 13. We swam naked in the streams and told ghost stories at night that completely freaked us out.
I spent a couple of months in the winter of 2004 driving around the edge of South Africa, tracing the borderline. I wrote a book about that journey, The Marginal Safari, which describes the emotions, highs and lows of getting under the skin of the country.
It's less about place and more about the people I'm with. So the happiest places seem to be those where I was in love. Like sailing down the Nile on a cruise ship with a lover I'd not seen for many years. Or visiting the Italian Riviera and doing cheesy romantic things with my girlfriend. Happiness is usually people, not places.
What's your favourite room you've ever slept in?
There was that sumptuous room with throw cushions and mosquito nets and kelims right on the beach on Mnemba Island, just off Zanzibar, that had the whole tropical fantasy down pat.
Who are your favourite travel writers?
If you count WG Sebald as a travel writer, he'd be close to the top of my list with his more travel-orientated books such as Rings of Saturn. I love much Jonathan Raban's writing, especially his masterpiece, A Passage to Juneau. Geoff Dyer, Colin Thubron and Bruce Chatwin would also be on that list. In South Africa, I think William Dicey's Borderline is a damn fine travelogue.
What's the best story or book you've written?
I think my favourite book is The Marginal Safari – it's the accumulation of a lot of my ideas about travelling and writing. I've also just finished a novel, Whoever Fears the Sea, set in Kenya and Somalia, which is by far the best novel I've ever written, especially given that it's the only novel I've ever written.
If you could live anywhere where would it be?
A simple, laid-back tropical island wouldn't be half bad. I'm thinking of one of the nossies in northwestern Madagascar. Failing that, a cottage in rural Provence would be alright.
Strangely, all my answers would probably be African. Northwestern Namibia for landscapes, the Okavango Delta for wildlife, Madagascar for beaches and the mud cities of Mali for cultural exoticism. Oh, and Ashgabat for the weirdest, off-the-wall-insane city on earth.
In the age of blogs, social media in an over-reviewed world, what do you think the future of travel writing is?
It's a bloody disaster. Every Tom, Dickhead and Harriet thinks he can be a travel writer. The good stuff has been swamped by the open sewer of mediocrity. There are few gatekeepers left, few editors who can hold back the tide of drivel. Travel writers worth their salt can't make a living because too few care about quality, so they turn to PR or custom publishing or underwater basket weaving. All is lost. Make for the lifeboats.
Find Justin Fox online at Justinfoxafrica.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter @JustinFoxAfrica.


If we know what causes cork-tainted wines, why hasn't that flaw been eradicated?
How do I tell a friend his homemade wine is bad?
How do you recognize cork taint in sparkling wine?
Wet dog. Old Sock. Moldy basement. It seems there's a litany of ways to describe the taste and aroma of cork taint. And, unfortunately, most wine drinkers have had plenty of chances to verify those descriptions of this common wine defect.
Yet despite still being one of the leading reasons for returned bottles, a new study suggests that cork taint now affects less than 1 percent of all wine bottles. The cork industry is of course pleased by the findings—Amorim, the Portuguese company that is the world's largest cork producer, was quick to trumpet them in a press release. Corked wine has cost the industry millions of dollars a year in business lost to alternative sealing methods.
But other scientists were quick to caution that the results were far from scientific, and that cork taint remains a major problem, despite industry efforts to reduce the rate of corked wine.
Corks are made from the bark of cork trees, and various fungi live inside the fine pores that give cork its light, springy structure. Certain conditions cause the fungi to produce various chemical compounds that can affect a wine's flavor. The most notable is 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA). These compounds give the wine that musty, moldy flavor and aromas.
The cork industry has spent decades trying to eliminate TCA and its friends. When chlorine- and bromine-based pesticides sprayed on cork trees and chlorine bleaches used to wash cork planks were suspected of triggering the fungi, they were eliminated, but taint kept popping up. Now Amorim and other producers use various cleaning processes. Some test the corks with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to detect TCA early on and reject the cork. While the industry says the methods have reduced the number of bad corks, others remain skeptical.
"It's been almost 60 years that the industry has had to fix the problem," said Christian Butzke, an enology professor at Purdue University and the author of the new study, "and now they are reasonably close to doing it."
Butzke bases his claim, which appeared in a recent issue of Vineyard and Winery Management, on his survey of the 2008 and 2009 Indy Wine Competition, one of the country's largest competitions, held in Indiana annually. Both years, 70 judges identified fewer than 1 percent of 3,300 wines they tasted as affected by cork taint.
Butzke admits that the survey did not meet the rigors of a scientific study, but others support the results. "Ten years ago, people said it was much higher. Five percent, higher, the numbers were all over the place," said Susan Ebeler, a chemist in the department of viticulture and enology at the University of California, Davis. "But I trust Dr. Butzke that the number is below 1 percent now."
The assertion runs counter to several analyses, however. A 2003 report in a French journal postulated that 5 percent to 8 percent of corks on that market were tainted. In 2005, Wine Spectator senior editor James Laube found that 7 percent of 2,800 bottles sampled during tastings that year were tainted. Laube recently reported similar findings this past year.
Yet research into the science of cork taint indicates that the two results may not be mutually exclusive. The explanation for that paradox revolves around TCA itself. According to Ron Jackson, author of Wine Science: Principles and Application, a person's ability to detect the presence of TCA varies so widely that the percentage of bottles identified as corked could swing wildly depending on who was doing the tasting.
According to Jackson, 99 percent of people can detect TCA at concentrations in the range of 200 to 300 parts per million. "But some people can detect concentrations as low as single parts per trillion," said Jackson. Unfortunately, even when TCA levels are too low to detect, they can ruin a wine—at low concentrations the chemical deadens a wine's fruity flavors and aromas.
A 2002 paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry further complicates the matter. According to that paper, human identification of cork taint did not correlate with detectable levels of TCA, calling into question tasters' ability to distinguish between cork taint and other forms of wine spoilage. So not every moldy, musty smell may result from a cork problem, even if that is where tasters lay the blame.
Jackson believes the level of cork taint may dramatically drop in a few years. Cork producers phased out chlorine pesticides in the '90s, but it takes a decade or more for the trees to regenerate their bark. Soon the entire cork harvest will be chlorine- and, hopefully, TCA-free. And as long as producers like Amorim are losing money to alternative closures, they'll continue to invest money in finding ways to clean up TCA for good.
Finally! I have often thought that many "corked" wines, were "off" but not necessarily due to TCA, marginally made wines to begin with, or handled poorly after they were bottled. Improper storage, VA, or any number of things can effect the final product. In my personal experience (30+ years) in the industry, at best taint has been an issue, maybe up to 3% at best. There are unstable wines out there, especially in the lower price tiers, but to suggest that it runs upwards of 7-10% as I've heard some claims is questionable.
That said, I am all for any wine that is meant to be consumed within the first five years, well - "screw them!"
WineRelease.com just completed a wine closure survey with its consumer and winery trade. 33% of consumers thought cork taint to be 1-3% and 32% believed it was 4-6%. 46% of winery responses believed cork taint to be 1-3% and 28% said 4-6%.
Not such a simple subject. I believe, just considering TCA, that age accentuates the problem. I am not sure why this happens, chemically. When you are tasting 20 year old bottles, it is very noticable. Definitely we should buy our Lafite, Gaja, Penfolds and Dunn with another seal.
I believe the cork makers know their product and direct worst corks (more TCA) to less sophisticated/vocal markets (like here in Brazil - where we don't export much). Cheaper corks also have a lot higher contamination rate than expensive corks - probably because they tend to be made up of many pieces of cork, any one of which could be contaminated and ruin the wine. The good news is that, yes, TCA is appearing less and less, the cork producers are getting their act together.


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Q: NPM Module, ES6, require vs import, sharing code, lib creation etc So I'm looking for guidance, I reckon I got myself confused with all this. I know my answer is somewhere on the internet, and I might have actually read it, but I'm just confused with all this.
What I'm trying to achieve: I was coding ReactJS and React Native apps on the same topic, and I had to copy paste code from one to the other, I thought: enough, I haven't copy pasted code in years, let's make a lib. I didn't get anywhere so I thought: enough, let's make a stupid test so I understand it and take it from there. Still got nowhere (I'm awesome aye? :D).
Anyway so here is what I came up with:
testLib/
  app/
    hw.js
  lib/
    hello.js

With this I made hello.js look like this:
exports.world = function() {
    return "Hello World 1";
};

An npm link in lib, an npm link hello in app, and hw.js:
var hello = require("hello");

console.log(hello.world());

node hw.js shows "Hello World 1" I'm king of the world. So at this point I understand how to make a javascript library which I can probably use for standard websites. Maybe? I guess there's more to it, but that's the idea.
Now: import XX from YY is ES6 if I understand that well, so I can either use experimental stuff and rename everything to mjs (what kind of a solution is this really? :)) or use webpack, I'm familiar with webpack so here is how I updated lib:
testLib/
  lib/
    dist/
      bundle.js
    src/
      index.js
  webpack.config.js

the webpack config is simple as:
module.exports = {
    entry: {
        bundle: __dirname + "/src/index.js",
    },
    devtool: "",
    output: {
        path: __dirname + "/dist",
        filename: "[name].js",
    },
    resolve: {
        extensions: [".js"],
    },
    optimization: {
        minimize: false,
    },
};

index.js has a basic:
export default {
    world: function() {
        return "Hello World 2";
    },
};

But now, I cannot get require to comply, require('hello') doesn't work anymore, so I gotta go with require('hello/dist/bundle') which is basically an empty object.
I assumed that require doesn't play along with es6, I updated my app/hw.js to app/hw.mjs (which makes me sad) and run it with --experimental-modules but I still can't get to import my lib with either import world from 'hello'; or import world from 'hello/dist/bundle'
I guess I must be missing something obvious here, and any help or pointers would be gratefully received.
Cheers
PS: I've tried installing "@babel/core", "babel-loader" and "babel-preset-env" in the lib, still got nowhere. I also checked a lot of existing libraries, but the lack of standard is a painful realisation and ended up adding even more confusion.

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David Gambles and other members of the Focus Transport team are at the annual event at the National Exhibition Centre near to Birmingham in the West Midlands.
The name Leopard has been revived by Plaxton and appears on the launch vehicle supplied to Roy McCarthy Coaches of Macclesfield. The Leopard was unveiled to the trade and the public today at 09.05 by Colin Robertson Chief Executive of Alexander Dennis Ltd.
And now herewith is a selection of images taken this morning and illustrate some of the vehicles present. Amongst them are examples from Alexander Dennis, King Long, MAN, Plaxton, Volvo and a vintage Bedford.
And finally it is evident that King Long intend to launch a new design later in the day. In the meantime a couple of other models pose for the camera.


Gina and Sergio get WET!!
Saw these pictures in the weather channel videos. These pictures are amazing!
I also saw these pictures on TWC, WOW! I'm not a professional photographer, I have done photo sessions with my (almost 16 yr. old) daughter. I love to capture unique moments, not just posing…..those pictures are usually the best ones! I have been asked if I am a professional photographer, I take that as a huge compliment! Funny thing is, I take all my pictures with my cell phone! I do wish in the near future I can get a good camera and be able to go further with photography. Congratulations on the awesome pictures! The couple was great too, they just went with it! Their surprised expressions and big smiles made the moment captured unforgettable!
Hi blogger, i found this post on 18 spot in google's search results.
your posts and pages will end up, so having reasonably low bounce rate is important for improving your rankings naturally.


Just as infrastructure development acts as a catalyst for economic growth, it is also changing the landscape for potential investors and the burgeoning field of infrastructure finance. Infrastructure systems for transportation, utilities, and public works are essential for economic growth and have quickly developed into an emerg-ing alternative asset class.
The Postgraduate Certificate in Infrastructure Finance examines how the activities associated with updating and creating efficient transportation and communications, reliable and affordable energy, clean water, and other essential systems, have become a profitable financial endeavor. Recently, providing, operating, and maintaining infrastructure has advanced as a recognized and important investment sector that reaches beyond earlier business models. The course puts this field in perspective and details what you need to know to succeed within it.
An informative look at infrastructure finance-an emerging alternative investment for all types of institutional investors. Dissects the central organizational and financial issues behind the revolutions that are occurring in infrastructure management and finance. Contains detailed guidance for navigating the dynamic field of infrastructure finance.Discusses infrastructure as arteries of life for a better world.Highlights infrastructure undergoing transformations to adapt to turbulent environments.Focuses on Green infrastructure to balance economic and environmental changes.
As infrastructure finance continues to grow in importance, you'll need to enhance your understanding of its essential aspects.
each year. Applications for the January intake open from 1st October and for the July intake from 1st March.
A recognized professional qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc.
The teaching and learning strategy will utilize a variety of learning materials and methods. The tuition period will include mini lectures, tutorials, case studies and worked examples, problem based learning, simulations and group work which will facilitate understanding of wider perspectives and build peer support opportunities. This strategy will aim to maximize the achievement of the learning outcomes through a combination of formal input via lectures at the beginning of the module with a shift to facilitate a student centered learning approach as the module progresses. Thus students will be expected to read and research widely on an individual basis and to prepare for classes.


The Khaan freeskate has a rigid shell and cuff. It offers great support and the extruded and CNC machined frame is stiff and reactive. The liner feels comfortable right from the first time you skate. The Khaan is a perfect allround skate for transportation, cruising or freeskating.


1995 BMW E36 M3 Coupe, finished in flagship Dakar Yellow color over black leather interior.
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1995 BMW E36 M3 Coupe, finished in flagship Dakar Yellow color over black leather interior. Follow us on instagram and Facebook @thebarnmiami and @gastonrossato for behind the scenes.


MobilityWOD founder Dr. Kelly Starrett helped launch an international movement with his New York Times bestselling book Becoming a Supple Leopard. With the second edition, he builds upon the lessons and techniques from that groundbreaking training manual with 80 pages of new, expanded content—largely pulled from his continuing work with many of the world's top gyms, professional sports teams, and individual athletes.
Co-written with Glen Cordoza, Becoming a Supple Leopard lays out a blueprint for athletes from all backgrounds and disciplines, offering clear, concise methods for limiting pain and injury risks, keeping the body at peak efficiency, and reaching one's maximum potential. With the second edition, Starrett singles out more than 200 techniques for cleaning up common training mistakes, building endurance, and recovering faster after a workout.
As many self-proclaimed supple leopards have learned, by taking charge of the maintenance of your own body, you won't just be a better athlete, you'll be a happier person.


As many of you have already seen, we are working on the next generation of the archive.org web site, which we call Version 2.0 (v2). It's in beta right now, so go check it out!
We get a lot of feedback from the people who have elected to try out v2, and we read ALL of it. As themes emerge about what people are having trouble with, we make changes to the design and then we pay attention to subsequent feedback to try to gauge whether we solved the problem (or not).
The goal of this redesign is to make the site more inviting and easier to use. Right now our work is focused on how the site looks and how things are organized on the page. For the most part, everything that is available to you in Version 1 (v1) of the site is available to you in v2 – but those things may be in different places!
We have a lot of long-time users of the site, and we know that any major changes will cause them to have to relearn where things are and how to accomplish the things they already know how to do on v1. This kind of major change can be very annoying, so we're working hard to make sure you only need to relearn things once. While we will be adding more features as time goes by, we expect those changes to be incremental and not to affect the basic layout of pages.
If you've been using v2, you've probably noticed some changes over the last few weeks. I'll discuss some of those changes here, and some of them are highlighted in the included images.
Volume information. We have a lot of journals and books with Volume information that was not showing in search, collection or account pages. The volume information is now prepended to the title for easier visual scanning within a collection.
Live Music. Rights information for a collection is now displayed on the About tab. We also changed the way shows are described in band collections to list the date and venue before the band name, making it easier to visually scan the items in a collection.
Mobile. On most mobile devices we decreased the initial number of search results from 50 to 25 in order to lighten the page load time.
Collection description. The description area for the collection at the top of the page has been shortened. We encourage collection builders to add useful descriptions, and you can see the additional information in the new About tab.
About tab. The About tab replaces the Contributors tab. We wanted to have a place for all of the information about a collection, and "Contributors" didn't cover it. The new About tab contains the longer description for a collection, rights information (when it exists), data about how many reviews and forum posts are in that collection, and the content from the previous Contributors tab – the collection creator, people who have added to the collection, and charts for Views and Items over time. You will also find related collections listed on the About tab below the graphs. Parent collections and subcollections still show up in the Collections tab, since they are part of a collection's direct hierarchy.
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package jim.android.mainFrame;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import jim.android.Splash.R;

/**
 * Created by Jim Huang on 2015/8/25.
 */
public class ShareCodeCheck extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener {
    private EditText code;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.share_check);
        initView();
    }

    private void initView() {
        ImageView back=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.share_check_back);
        Button check=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_share_check);
        code=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.share_code);
        back.setOnClickListener(this);
        check.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        switch (v.getId()){
            case R.id.share_check_back:
                finish();
                break;
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                    Toast.makeText(this,"验证码错误",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
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                break;
        }
    }
}

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After a long time I want to continue my series on building out your own home lab. Up next: Storage. What to choose, how to build it? I will be focussing on building out shared storage in this blog post. Yes you could use local disks just fine without sharing them outside that one box, but that is not where the hard choices lie. Once you decide you want shared storage, the questions start to pop up and decisions have to be made.


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Certified Lover Boy album breaks Apple Music 2021 record and Drake becomes the most-streamed artist in a day
Drake is a certified record-breaker. Drake's new album 'Certified Lover Boy" crushed Apple's one-day streaming record and the day isn't over yet!
After dropping his Certified Lover Boy album, the hitmaker broke Apple Music's 2021 record for the artist with the most streams in one day. He broke the record in 12 hours and the streams obviously will keep on ascending for the duration of the day.
Under 12 hours after its release, Drake's 6th studio album Certified Lover Boy has effectively broken Apple Music's 2021 record for the most-streamed album in a single day. Furthermore, Drake is the most-streamed artist on Apple Music in 24 hours this year.
The 21-track album, which Drake depicted as "a combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of the truth which is inevitably heartbreaking," was released around 1 a.m. EST on Friday (Sept. 3) highlighting appearances from JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Travis Scott, Future, Lil Baby, Young Thug, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, and more.
Certified Lover Boy (CLB) bests the record set only days prior by Kanye West's DONDA, which was the most-streamed album and artist in a day on Apple Music. It arrived at No. 1 on Apple Music's Top Albums chart in 152 countries in 24 hours.
On its first full day of release, DONDA was streamed more than 60 million times in the U.S. and was the third-most-played album on its first day of release on Apple Music ever.
This isn't the first headline that Drake has made with his new album.
One headline, as revealed, was around his song "7AM on Bridle Path."
The media right away got that he was dissing his musical opponent Kanye West. A few verses within the song are aimed at Yeezy's distress and constant running to social media to air out their own disparities.
Another headline, from the recently released album, rotated around another song named, "TSU."
Apparently, he sampled "Your Body's Calling" from R. Kelly's 12 Play album. At the point when fans saw that he sampled and credited Kelly, they instantly took to social media to question how he could include the troubled singer on the project.
The last headline, that wrote about was according to his dedications.
The Toronto rapper devoted the exceptionally expected album to the deceased Instagram influencers Nadia Ntuli and Jenae "Miss Mercedes Morr" Gagnier.
The Apple Music description written by Drake for Certified Lover Boy read, "A combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of the truth which is inevitably heartbreaking. Executive produced by me, Noah '40' Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, and Noel Cadastre. Dedicated to Nadia Ntuli and Mercedes Morr. RIP."
Drake could surpass his last album, 2018's Scorpion, which broke Apple Music's single-day global record with 170 million streams. He additionally broke Spotify's one-day global record with more than 132 million streams.
After it was shared that each of the 21 "CLB" tracks beat Apple Music's charts, Drizzy broke another record.
They've been good friends for longer than 10 years, and with every Drake release, LeBron James has been there to celebrate the OVO Sound mogul's successes. We're kneedeep in Certified Lover Boy news as Drake's highly-anticipated album shown up at the top of Friday (September 3) morning. Each of the 21 tracks from the project has arrived at the top of Apple Music's charts as fans and pundits keep the album on repeat, taking apart Drizzy's bars from top to bottom.
24 hours haven't passed since the release of Certified Lover Boy and Apple Music got back to social media with another Drake achievement. LeBron made a point to retweet the post.
"Breaking single-day records. [owl emoji]," Apple Music tweeted. "@Drake is now the most streamed artist, and #CertifiedLoverBoy is the most streamed album, in less than 24 hours on Apple Music in 2021." Bron added in the caption, "The Boy!!!!!! @Drake [owl emoji][clapping hands emoji]."
Fans' reactions to Certified Lover Boy (CLB) have been a mixed bag as individuals have been contrasting the album with Kanye's Donda that dropped last week. They have additionally been doing their bests at sorting out who was the objective of certain disses all through the project.
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Is the recommended therapy for heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction adequate?
ESC guidelines introduced the mid-range ejection fraction type of HF (HFmrEF), defined as HF with EF 40–49%, which should be treated like HFpEF, hence, without beta-blockers . Beta-blockers increase left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and reduce morbidity and mortality for a broad range of patients with reduced LVEF in sinus rhythm. However, it is not known whether HFmrEF patients benefit from beta-blockers [2,3].
In this meta-analysis, the effect of beta-blockers on LVEF and prognosis was investigatedf, stratified according to the baseline LVEF and heart rhythm, in double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials that recruited >300 patients, with a planned follow-up of >6 months and explicit reporting of mortality.
11 trials were eligible for this purpose, including 14,262 patients in sinus rhythm and 3050 AF patients, with a baseline LVEF measurement and a baseline ECG. The primary outcomes for this analysis were all-cause mortality and CV death.
The mean follow-up was 1.5 years (SD: 1.1), and the median LVEF at baseline was 27% (21–33%). 721 patients had LVEF 40–49% and 317 had LVEF ≥50%.
Baseline LVEF was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (adjHR for each 5% lower LVEF: 1.16; 95%CI: 1.26–1.19; P<0.0001) with a stronger association for patients in sinus rhythm than in AF.
Beta-blockers were associated with reductions in all-cause and CV mortality compared to placebo for patients in sinus rhythm (interaction P>0.5 for LVEF as a continuous measure), except in the subgroup of patients with LVEF ≥50%.
In the subgroup of LVEF 40-49% for patients in sinus rhythm, all-cause mortality occurred in 7.2% of patients randomized to beta-blockers compared to 12.4% of patients assigned to placebo (adjHR: 0.59; 95%CI: 0.34–1.03), and CV death occurred in 4.5% of patients on beta-blockers and in 9.2% of patients in the placebo group (adjHR: 0.48; 95% CI: 0.24–0.97); the authors conclude that there is no difference in benefit between the LVEF categories 40-49% and <40%. Patients with AF showed no clinical benefit with beta-blockers, regardless of LVEF.
LVEF changes were measured at a follow-up visit in 4601 patients in sinus rhythm and 996 patients in AF (median 1.0 years after baseline). In sinus rhythm, LVEF increased more in patients with beta-blockers than placebo in all subgroups (+1.9% [1.1% SE] for LVEF 40-49%), except for the subgroup with LVEF ≥50%. This was also true for most LVEF categories of patients in AF (+4.8% [1.9%] for LVEF 40-49%), again not for LVEF ≥50%, nor for LVEF 35-39%.
The figure illustrates the changes in absolute mortality and LVEF in patients with sinus rhythm (beta-blockers vs. placebo), stratified by baseline LVEF.
For HF patients with sinus rhythm and LVEF <40%, beta-blockers improve left ventricular systolic function and reduce CV mortality. Based on the observations in patients with LVEF 40-49%, the authors conclude that they show similar CV mortality and change in LVEF as those with LVEF <40%. These findings suggest that HFmrEF patients might benefit from beta-blocker therapy similarly to HFrEF patients.
3. Kotecha D, Flather MD, Altman DG, et al; Beta-Blockers in Heart Failure Collaborative G. Heart rate and rhythm and the benefit of beta blockers in patients with heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 2017;69:2885–2896.
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Sustainable Human Existence, The D Word & Treading carefully
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Funny things dreams. Profound to some – sophistry to others.
So please mind your language!
I used the word Dream in a presentation once in the UK. Won't be doing that again in a hurry any time soon: certainly not without a lot of qualification.
Let's just say I had not realised how 'spooked' grown ups can get by a word.
Equally, it served to remind me that my own slap dash use of language and bumbling naivety could do with some heavy spanner work and a healthy dose of tuning fork.
To be fair the D word popped up in very particular circumstance – a discussion about a methodology called Dream In A Box.
The methodology endeavours to reuse and recycle old wisdoms, contemporary cultural signposting, local idioms and vernaculars to write a new narrative – to re-imagine prosperity, reframe sustainability and transform desire – the consuming kind particularly – to a more enduring and sustainable model; all this in pursuit of a more sustainable human existence.
The D word was chosen for its particular resonance with and reference to 'the American Dream' and the staining nature of its most recent variant on our beleaguered planet. Not that it was always thus.
The American Dream was one under which all men (and, sure, yup, women, and ok, eventually, if you're going to push it, with a civil rights movement for example, Afro-Americans) were equal.
In the heady industry-rebuilding, economy-expanding (where waists would surely follow) post-war rush to create the perfect American thriving, surviving white-picket society, that dream took a few toxic turns, until finally, it eventually settled on the perfectly trimmed lawn of the idyllic all-consuming sub Urban lifestyle that we know and love.
Cue Cary Grant movies. Loveboat. Doris Day. And the chirpy satire of Mad Magazine.
It was a dream promising the consumer citizen infinite growth, financially, spiritually, socially and collectively; all merrily based upon an apparently infinite, fecund and plentiful pool of glorious 'Godly' resources; material human and physical.
The patently obvious and accelerating realisation of how wrong that immaculate assumption actually was aside, the feeling in the Dream In A Box camp was that the Dream bit of the phrase was reasonably off set by the In A Box bit.
The In A Box part of it made the following particular point: unless you can find a way of containing the otherwise intangible, lofty, unreachable and mildly frustrating dimensions of a Dream and make them real in ways that are meaningful and valuable to everyday people in the everyday thread of life, you are merely peddling opiates.
Even so, for some it smacked of an over simplified homogenous hideous social chimera. A one size fits all piece of social bullying or bluff that was fundamentally anti–social in its anti-individualist bent.
But this vehemence is not a feeling reserved exclusively for the more square cornered sustainable analysts, scientists, engineers underwriting the operational truths of supply and value chains everywhere.
Dreams generally enjoy a dynamic polarity in many people's minds.
Dreams seem to inhabit a similar place to things like religious fervor, faith and Walt Disney for many of the reason and rationality junkies out there.
To the nay-sayers and doubters, the idea of having a dream (a phrase preferably spat out or sneered through) verges on criminal self delusion and puffery.
The intangible what if nature of them seems to fill them with some form of existential dread.
There is no place for dreams in a reasonable world, especially a scientific one and certainly no place for reason in dreams – so what if Brian 'Mine's Hadron Collider' Cox's band was called D.Ream. Doesn't mean he ascribes to them.
The reoccurring theme seems to be that Dreams, like faith, are dangerous things – dark instruments. Dreams obfuscate the real raw nature of our human existence and all of its incumbent challenges, puzzles and conundrums.
The realm of Morpheus is a confection that far from enlightening us is seen as one that diminishes us.
Its almost as if Dreams are flawed in some evolutionary way: rendering us incapable of basic human survival; stupefied by our hazy, twinkle-filled and fantastical view of the world.
A small rummage around the point counter point arguments of, on the one hand, the evolutionary benefits set out in Anttii Revonsuo's Threat Simulation theory, and Flannagan's concept of Evolutionary epiphenomena (dreams as a state that lacks any form of adaptive function) on the other clearly inform us that the evolutionary jury's out on this one.
And the case for Dreams as a scientifically proven improver of our human condition is never helped in the eyes of the scientist by the presence of Dream Catchers and other juvenile voodoo bric a brac in the windows' of student houses and hippy retreats.
Perhaps the most virulent critics spent one long night too many at college or university pretending to give a crap as the fragile teen sitting opposite them bleated their dream stories in some desperate effort to seem windswept, deep and interesting.
Equally the phrase 'to follow one's dreams' doesn't help, in that it implies a sheep-like loyalty: a subservience in service of something intangible beyond your control. And we know how rationalists like a smidgen of control.
Whatever it is that causes the anger and disdain; it is a powerful and quite corrosive emotion.
But, for the Dream believers, Dreams are a way of allowing people to transcend the bleak sharp cornered truths of what is and embrace the brighter potential of what could be. Dreams allow us to rise above the deterministic absolutes of any given situation and envision something better.
Martin Luther King had a dream that succeeded in helping to shift millions of black Americans from a position of sub human species needing to know its place to a powerful ethnic constituency in search of a spiritual homeland and tangible human rights and respect.
I doubt even the fiercest doubters could ridicule or set aside the power of that dream to change lives and human existence for the better in some shape or form.
There is a sense that, in the USA of the 1960s, the political power elites, intellectual tribes, state collectives, regional advocates and community activists all jostling for position on either side of the colour divide would never have convened their mighty voices into that one immutable, immoveable and deafening roar without the focus of that Dream, voiced so eloquently and publicly.
But equally, John Stuart Mill found the idea of galvanising and socialising a nation through a singular collective idyll – an idea or dream of better – was at best childish and naïve and at worst an aggressive act of hubris and societal hegemony – a social tyranny.
He believed in the axiom that 'man should judge everything in life based upon its ability to promote the greatest individual happiness'.
"the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling is more formidable than many kinds of political oppression …leav[ing] fewer means of escape … and penetrat[ing] more deeply into the details of life. "The "tendency of society to impose … its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and if possible, prevent the formation of individuality, not in harmony with its ways"
There is a sense in this view that an individual Dream is fine while it is held safe and unsullied in the heart and the mind of an individual. It is a beautiful and highly personal wonder, broadly uncorrupted though perhaps a little influenced by the dreams of others.
(It is worth reminding ourselves that Martin Luther King Jnr. said 'I have a dream…'; not 'We have a Dream'. It was his; it just had the potential to move many others within it.)
It seems that while in its unadulterated individual state, that which is most emotionally proximal to its originator, a dream is widely lauded as the profound generator of poetry, music, art and literature.
Yeat's Cloths of Gold directs the listener to 'tread gently for you tread on my dreams'. They are presented as the purest, most precious things he has to offer the world.
Mamma Cass's 'California Dreaming' protested a desire for a sunnier brighter life far removed from the cold emotionally bleak east of Fall and Atlantic swells. It is her dream and hers alone: just one that happened to be shared by a generation.
The problem it seems is that when mobilised, industrialised and socialised at scale, a dream becomes The Dream – the Mother of Suppression of the Individual in hot pursuit of the collective good. The Dream quickly becomes the destroyer of intelligent dissent and the brutal editor of different orthodoxies and philosophies that did not quite 'fit' 'The Dream'. It becomes all that John Stuart Mill berated and warned of in his view of one dimensional models of collective happiness as some conjuring trick played on the masses.
Dreams also have an ill-judged and reoccurring tendency of turning up at the very heart of large orgiastic excursions into nationalistic and hubristic megalomania.
Dreams of Empire whether by Georgian and Victorian Britain, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy or the German Third Reich always seem to bear out the truth of Mr Mill's perception.
To use a singular Dream in this way is to squash the very diversity and healthy human tension the enables us to evolve as a species. Dreams are a recidivist and controlling mechanism that are worthy of deep suspicion.
The pollutant seems (as so often is the case) to be somewhat rooted in what man has done in the name of dreams; not in the condition of dreaming which in itself is a pretty confounding experience. They are after all an axial mechanism of our deepest mind.
Dreams at their most basic level are the powerhouse of our emotional computing.
They are the synaptic equivalent of taking the big data from every facet and corner of our existence and atomically mixing it up with the narrative skills of Lewis Carroll, Dickens, Spielberg and Plato.
Dreams are the super processor of individual human potential.
They are the transcendence mechanism in us – they are the 'reach' mechanism that compels us to perhaps stretch beyond what seems immediately possible or probable to test the edges of what could or might be.
Science clearly sets out the power of our sleeping computations in regards to cognitive ability and capacity.
But given their sleep hosted 'madness', flaky associations, the abstracted corollaries that exist within them and Freud's rather particular take on them, it is easy to set Dreams aside as garish hyperemotional gibberish – or reinvent them as some twist of needy or proving self-identification and elevation.
Most people find the sharing of what one dreams an immature act of identity assertion; usually by those who feel there is little social or intellectual mystery or magic about them. Given that it is a habit that one usually hopes dies out with the arrival of slightly greater intellectual and spiritual surety, perhaps the mere sight of the word makes them run for the hills screaming.
There is a theory that dreams exist in the sleep-scapes of REM Rapid Eye Movement and NREM Non Rapid Eye Movement and do so with a very clear function.
It is believed that the process of sleep to encode and transfer data from the temporary memory store in the conscious mind accesses and activated in NREM sleep to the long term memory store in the subconscious mind accessed and activated in REM sleep – and the continual activation of this flow is what stimulates dreams. So in that way they are a robust and meaningful process of our body science and an enricher of our more adaptive cognition.
It is not just the science of the brain that frames the arguments and beliefs around dreams and their role.
Human history and the texts of the ancients are riddled with expansive philosophical treatise and frameworks. From the ancient Mesopotamians, Chinese, Upanishads, and Babylonians, to the Egyptians Greeks and Romans, the powerful nature of dreams have always held a deep and profound place in our collective social memory.
In some ways perhaps the truth of Dreams lies as with many things somewhere between the two; at the point at which these two distinct perspectives overlap and stitch together; neither being the predominant force but both represented as balanced and weighted in a perfect symmetry with each other. This duality might offer us a more productive way forwards.
Gramsci invites us to apply Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will in all things. Perhaps this is the filter through which we should view Dreams and everything to do with them in regards to the ambition of transforming the more toxic desires of the average consumer.
Certainly in regards to the Dream word being used as a way to frame the spiritual social and material vision of a more sustainable form of consumption, Gramsci's invitation would help balance the two dimensions.
The pessimistic Intellect – the science – interrogating the truths of how we engineer and support these more sustainable lifestyles while the optimistic Spirit – the philosophical – compels a more transcendent human nature be applied at every opportunity – a higher human purpose that might take everyday humanity beyond the impenetrable science and just doing enough to scrape through.
This would liberate the word and the language around it to be both rooted in the deep science that will be required to reinvent our standard forms of consumption and yet elevated by the optimism of a collective human endeavour lived in real time in the real world.
And perhaps if we liberated the word – set it free from the shackles of an Either/Or model of determinative application we might find something richer and more human again in Dreams.
If perhaps we also recognised that in regards to visionary models of human consumption, Dreams can be nuanced, shaded and culturally meaningful even at a meta level.
In the Dream In A Box initiatives undertaken so far we already have 5 Shades of Dream – Emerging; Latent; Resurgent; Extant; Evolving – starting to reveal themselves in regards to formulating desirable and enduring lifestyles of consumption.
I am certain that more will present themselves before we are finished.
So here's to those turbulent, intangible, flaky, studenty, inspirational, nation-shaping, scientist irritating things called Dreams.
If for nothing else they should be considered eminently remarkable purely on the basis that they can elicit so much passionate debate and discourse purely by their mention.
As long as each Dream is considered on its merit – not on some preconceived concept of what it does not fulfil, or on some etymological witch hunt dressed up as rigour and realism we'll perhaps be fine. Until then…
As Stephen Tyler sang: 'Dream On'


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PHOTOS: Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials at 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
Lydia Lassila of Australia competes in the Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Aerials Qualification on day seven of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on February 14, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) ( 469340499 )
US Ashley Caldwell competes in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials finals at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527076518 )
Belarus' Hanna Huskova (27) takes a warm up run before the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifications at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527061050 )
Brazil's Joselane Santos cries after her jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Belarus aerials coaching staff celebrate in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials finals at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. Belarus' Alla Tsuper won the Gold Medal. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527078670 )
(L-R) Silver Medallist, China's Xu Mengtao; Gold Medallist, Belarus' Alla Tsuper; and Bronze Medallist, Australia's Lydia Lassila celebrate at the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Flower Ceremony at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527079024 )
Australia's Danielle Scott jumps during women's freestyle skiing aerials training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing )
China's Cheng Shuang watches her score at the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials finals at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527076756 )
China's Xu Mengtao lands from her final jump in the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
A freestyle skier jumps during women's freestyle skiing aerials training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing )
Alla Tsuper, of Belarus, competes during the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Tsuper won the gold medal. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Russia's Assoli Slivets jumps during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Australia's Lydia Lassila jumps during women's freestyle skiing aerials training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing )
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Women's freestyle skiing aerials gold medalist Alla Tsuper(13), of Belarus, is hugged by bronze medalist Lydia Lassila, of Australia, at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Russia's Assoil Slivets lands from a jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( APTOPIX Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Alla Tsuper, of Belarus, competes during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( APTOPIX Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
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Course workers prepare the surface of a jump before the start of the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
China's Xu Mengtao makes her silver medal winning jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Ashley Caldwell of the United States reacts after a jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
China's Li Nina crashes on her final jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Russia's Veronika Korsunova wears a heart on her cheek during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, on Valentines Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
China's Li Nina smiles after a jump during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
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Australia's Lydia Lassila competes during the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Lassila won the bronze medal. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Australia's Laura Peel competes in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials finals at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527075182 )
Brazil's Joselane Santos competes in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifications at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527063136 )
Russia's Alexandra Orlova competes in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifications at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527064204 )
Australia's Samantha Wells catches air during a training session for the women's freestyle skiing aerials at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ( APTOPIX Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Ukraine's Anastasiya Novosad competes in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifications at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527062081 )
Russia's Alexandra Orlova jumps during women's freestyle skiing aerials training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing )
Australia's Lydia Lassila crashes on her final jump in the women's freestyle skiing aerials final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
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Dry ice is prepared for use on the surface of the jumps bedore the start of the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
Kazakstan's Zhanbota Aldabergenova jumps during the women's freestyle skiing aerials qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ( Sochi Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women )
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Russia's Veronika Korsunova hugs a member of the Russian tean after advancing in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualifications at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527063770 )
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(L-R) Bronze Medallist, Australia's Lydia Lassila; Gold Medallist, Belarus' Alla Tsuper; and Silver Medallist, China's Xu Mengtao celebrate at the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Flower Ceremony at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) ( 527080001 )
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The film lesbian ARTivism: current realities is a frank documentary that showcases the experiences of a variety of lesbian artists from around the world. On Oct. 24, at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, the film premiered to an audience including director kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, producer Johanne Coulombe, and many of the artists who appeared in the film.
In the summer of 2016, the University of Ottawa hosted a conference bringing together lesbian artists from a range of professions, age groups, and nationalities. The symposium specifically focused lectures and seminars on the role of lesbian "artivists"—activists who use various art forms as their medium to advocate for change—within the contexts of globalization and intersectionality.
The documentary touched on themes ranging from questions of self-representation and archiving, to the nature of art as a means to advocate for lesbian issues. In each section, snippets from some of the conference's speakers are shown in a talking-head style. Coulombe, one of the head organizers of the conference and a producer of ARTivism, decided to record the event and tasked kimura-lemoine with editing the compiled footage.
Coulombe pursued the project as a means to bring visibility to gay artists.
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ARTivism was made to get a message out. Through an artistic lens, Coulombe and kimura-lemoine tell viewers a story of lesbian empowerment and self determination.
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I found this journal entry I wrote on November 2 in 2006 or 2007. I don't remember the circumstances surrounding this entry, or what inspired me to write it. Because of this, it spoke to me today as if it had been written by someone else.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base of things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
It is not flattering to be chosen by God because to be chosen means that I am weak and/or foolish. Doing God's work is satisfying but not because I am a great person. It is satisfying because God can use me to glorify Himself, regardless of how weak or foolish I am. The more I allow my weakness and foolishness to be exposed, the more God will be glorified!! It is not flattery, but humility, that I should feel in my heart when I am chosen to be used by God! May God remind me of this over and over again!!
Without God's hand in my life, I am a dead, worthless being going through the motions of my life, doing the foolish and weak things that fill it. With God in my life exposing the ugly things within, I am still a dead worthless being, but God comes in and makes the dead alive and the useless worth something, as long as He is within.
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God – and righteousness and sanctification and redemption – that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
This entry was posted in Journal, Life History, Spiritual on May 21, 2015 by Tabetha Gedeon.
Oops! I just accidentally referred to the little communion cups as shot glasses!
Phillip (8), "Mom, can a bunny fly faster than an eagle can hop?" Now he's beginning to sound like me!
I was looking all over for the red stuff Bethany (5) said was floating in the sky. Then I realized she was referring to the sunset!
This entry was posted in Fun, Kids on April 30, 2015 by Tabetha Gedeon.
I thought I'd share some scriptures that have spoken to me in the last week or so. Maybe they'll bless someone else, too!
This entry was posted in Spiritual on August 3, 2013 by Tabetha Gedeon.
After it is completely melted, add melted butter from oven and stir thoroughly (I just mix with my hands to make it easier).
Put crust in the oven and bake for 7 minutes.
This entry was posted in Recipes on March 22, 2013 by Tabetha Gedeon.
Several months ago, I took a survey on the Six Flags website. When it asked me which Six Flags I visited most, I wasn't sure what to say because I don't go often. Then I saw an option that said "I really never visit any of these" and chose it. I love the personal email I immediately got in my inbox from Six Flags!
We are working on a new park newsletter for I really never visit any of these! which we hope will improve the park experience for everyone by ask our expect guests to share some recommendations about how to enjoy the park best. How it works is simple: we'll ask you (our expert) a bunch of questions about what you like, and most importantly why you recommend it. We'll then combine your answers with other guests to come up with recommendations we'll send out to everyone.
If we use your recommendation, we'll print your name (next to your recommendation) in the newsletter. We'll also pick one winner each issue from among those whose recommendations appeared in print to receive a free pair of tickets to the park.
Are you willing to share your I really never visit any of these! recommendations with other guests?
This entry was posted in Funny on October 21, 2012 by Tabetha Gedeon.
Anna had fun braiding the girls hair and putting flowers in it. I think she did a great job! What an artist I have. Here is what it looked like!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2012 by Tabetha Gedeon.
God created us to bring Him glory. When God miraculously heals someone, He gets glory. When He gives joy, even without healing, to a quadriplegic, He gets glory. When He blesses someone with great wealth – from Job and Abraham to J. C. Penny , He gets the glory. When He provides for each daily need, He gets the glory.
It's easy to give glory to God in the good times – when the miracles are obvious.
The Bible is full of miracles – like the time when He kept the oil from running out in I Kings 17:8-16 and when God blessed Solomon in II Chronicles 1:11-12.
When I was in college, I got a last minute opportunity to be a summer missionary. I had never heard of such a thing, but I wanted to try it. The deadline had passed, but there were still unclaimed openings.
I signed up and was accepted. That left me very little time to raise money for the trip, but God knew what He was doing. He brought in every last dime that I needed in time for the trip. God's timing is amazing!
When God told us to move to Rhode Island, we had very little notice, yet amazingly, our house sold & closed just 2 weeks after putting it on the market!! Then He helped us out of a sticky situation by helping us find a very well cared for van that we could easily afford with just a 24 hour notice! Yes, God's timing is perfect. He wanted us to go and He provided the way.
God is not limited by time, resources, or circumstances. He has proved time and again that He can do much with a small window of time. And in all these things God receives the glory. That's easy!
It is not so easy to give God the glory He deserves in the tough times – when the miracles are not so obvious.
Job certainly had a lot to be thankful for (1:2-3), at least for a while (1:13-19), but when the hard-times came, Job still trusted God and blessed his name (1:20-22).
How do you give thanks to God when He allows hard things to happen? Amazingly there always is a blessing hidden in there somewhere, and while seeking God for that blessing, you learn more about Him, and He uses you to bless others through your hard time.
Fortunately, He promises His presence and peace when we are going through those not so easy times.
About a month ago on December 15, 2011, we found out that our youngest child, Thaddeus, has a terminal illness – Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy . In case you've never heard of it, DMD is a disease that affects the muscles. When a person has it, his muscles degenerate over time. Since the heart and diaphragm are muscles, the person with DMD usually dies from congestive heart failure or from not being able to breathe.
Thaddeus has no symptoms yet, but they usually start by the age of 5 when the muscles in his hips start showing their weakness. His future probably holds many falls, leg braces, muscle stretches, some minor surgeries, a wheelchair, and maybe even a ventilator.
This definitely is not an easy phase of our lives. While you never know how long any child will live, it is hard knowing ahead of time that your child most likely will not reach his 30th birthday.
But God's timing and power are great in tough times too. Jesus accomplished more in three years than any of us will achieve in our 70. And God can do amazing things through Thaddeus in his short years.
You covered me in my mother's womb.
And that my soul knows very well.
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
When as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
God created children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. While life is more difficult for them, God is able to use their lives to reach others. They can touch the lives of so many people in just 15 or 20 years!
God was not taken off-guard. He knew before Thaddeus was ever born that he had DMD. He chose to make Him that way, and I do not have the authority to ask Him why. I may never know.
But I do know this. I love Thaddeus dearly! To wish I had not given birth to him would be missing out on an amazing amount of sweetness and joy! I plan to cherish every moment I have with all my children. I will train them all to be godly men and women, to go into this world, passing God's blessings on to as many people as possible!
I am sure more posts will follow on this topic, but for now, I will end with Blessings by Laura Story.
This entry was posted in About Me, Family, Life History on January 20, 2012 by Tabetha Gedeon.
Tonight is family night! Since the whole family has been interested in Luke's job, we decided to learn how to do some of it! Who knows! Maybe some day some of the kids will decide to join Luke in his work!
Some of the things we learned about in the CSS group are color theory, font size, and how to use firebug to edit. And a few things we learned in the HTML group were elements, tags, and something about slashing heads and opening bodies!
This entry was posted in Family on July 31, 2011 by Tabetha Gedeon.
In a small saucepan or the microwave, melt 6 tablespoons of butter.
Place about 24 graham crackers in a plastic bag. Roll with a rolling pin until finely crushed. This may be done in small batches.
Measure 1 1/2 cups of graham cracker crumbs into a medium bowl.
Add 1/4 cup of sugar to the graham crackers.
Stir or blend together with your hands.
Press into the pie plate or other pan.
To pre-bake the pie crust, bake for 8 to 10 minutes in a preheated 350 degree F. oven.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2011 by Tabetha Gedeon.


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La 9a etapa del Tour de França 2008 es desenvolupà el diumenge 13 de juliol entre les ciutats de Tolosa i Banhèras de Bigòrra, amb 224 km de recorregut.

Perfil de l'etapa
És la primera etapa dins dels Pirineus al Tour del 2008.

La primera meitat del recorregut és relativament plana, amb dos esprints intermedis. Després de remuntar el riu Garona i el riu Pique fins a Banhèras de Luishon, es comença a pujar el coll del Peyresourde, de primera categoria, arribant als 1.569 metres d'altitud. L'ascens al Peyresourde són 13,2 quilòmetres amb una mitjana del 7,1% d'inclinació. El descens arriba fins a Arreau, on comença l'ascens al coll d'Aspin, també de primera categoria, fins a arribar als 1.489 metres. A partir d'aquest punt, hi ha 26 quilòmetres fins a l'arribada, a Banhèras de Bigòrra.

Desenvolupament de l'etapa
Aliaksandr Kuchynski, Sebastian Lang i Nicolas Jalabert s'escapen al quilòmetre 22 de l'etapa, arribant a tenir 14 minuts i 20 segons d'avantatge. Cadel Evans caigué al peu del Peyresourde, fent-se mal al colze i el genoll esquerre, però continuant en carrera.

Durant l'ascens al Peyresourde, Sebastian Lang es queda sol, aconseguint un avantatge de 5'25" al cim sobre el gran grup.

A l'ascens de l'Aspin, Riccardo Riccò i Stefan Schumacher ataquen des del gran grup, on es queden Kirchen, Evans i Valverde. Sebastian Lang pateix i va perdent avantatge sobre els seus perseguidors, sent atrapat per Riccardo Riccò abans d'arribar al cim. L'italià baixà sol l'Aspin i arribà primer al final, amb un temps de 5 hores, 39 minuts i 28 segons. Vladímir Iefimkin, que atacà a cinc quilòmetres del final, quedà segon, i Cyril Dessel, amb la resta del grup de favorits, arribà tercer. Stefan Schumacher perd la tercera posició a la general.

Esprints intermedis
 1r esprint intermedi. Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze (km 29,5)

 2n esprint intermedi. Segouagnet (km 111)

Colls

Classificació de l'etapa

Classificació general

Classificacions annexes

Classificació per punts

Classificació de la muntanya

Classificació del millor jove

Classificació per equips

Combativitat
 Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner)

Abandonaments
No hi va haver abandonaments a l'etapa.

Tour de França

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