Leza's book 'Here Comes The Sun', from which this post is adapted.
Was it my inner voice? The voice of island's Goddess Pele? It didn't matter. I didn't listen.
I had no intention of returning to Tokyo, where I'd lived once before. I loved California; there was no going back. Until the day my Japanese husband said he needed to return to Japan take care of his elderly father. And oh, was I coming with him?
I didn't really want to go back to Tokyo, the busy life, the pollution, the stress. But I loved my husband, and wanted to be with him. And I knew that a good marriage was partly based on compromise–even sacrifice. After all, the root of the word sacrifice is sacred. In the highest sense, to make a sacrifice is to do something completely for someone else, with no personal gain. As an independent American woman, that idea took some getting used to.
And what would I do in Tokyo? I'd lived there for four years during the Bubble Years, where I wrote for newspapers and magazines, taught English, and worked as a copywriter for a cosmetics company. It was a fun life, a fast life, a life that was great for someone in her twenties. But California had made mush of me, and I loved my slow-pace, my friends and my yoga.
Suddenly, I remembered the message about opening up a yoga studio in Tokyo.
"Do you think I can do that?" I had asked my husband.
Like the fish who can't see the water, the Japanese were surrounded by the spirit of calm, unity with nature, and an appreciation of the impermanent and imperfect. But somehow, in the rush to modernization and progress, they'd largely abandoned it. And so had I.
I Googled "yoga studios in Tokyo." Only two came up, so maybe it was a good time to try.
"A yoga studio in Japan? Wasn't that a bit like selling ice to the Eskimos or coals to Newcastle?" friends warned. I was disheartened, but then I broke down this old saw. So-called "Eskimos" have ice all around; their culture is built on it. And Newcastle once depended on coal for survival. What if the ice disappears? What if the coal runs out? Japanese culture is built around nature, but people are stressed out, especially in the cities. Maybe yoga was just the thing they needed–we all needed.
I decided not to listen. I decided to stay with Shogo, to go where he went. So we packed our bags and prepared to move back to Japan.
Before we left, my sister Rachel gave me a box full of baby clothes her son had outgrown.
"For yours," she said, hugging me.
I took a deep breath in, stacked the box up with the others. My son wasn't here. But it was not for lack of trying. I held onto the dream, though my body did not cooperate.
I'd been waiting too long for too many things in life, like starting a family. I'd heard the voice of my child calling me for a decade, but I was still waiting for that child to arrive.
I set my intention. I'd open the studio in Tokyo and surrender to the rest. If my yoga had taught me anything, it was that there was freedom in keeping your commitment to yourself, and in trying your best, It didn't matter what that looked like to anyone else. And in Japan, there was nobility in failure. If you'd tried your best, you could keep your head held high even if you stumbled and fell.
Our bags were packed. There was no going back.
While we flew over the Pacific Ocean, thirty yoga bolsters and sandbags were sailing to Japan. I knew I'd have to offer Restorative Yoga in Tokyo, it had saved my life almost daily, and I knew what a fast pace that city operated on, that it could help others, too.
I didn't have anywhere to put them, so I knew I'd need to rent a studio. Soon.
We found a small, airy room. It was on the market because no one wanted its large built-in credenza. We signed the lease.
In Tokyo, there was not much green outside a cup of tea. I wanted to make a calm oasis with a moon window, so we brought some bamboo from my husband's family garden into the space, bringing the outside in. I too, was an outsider in a closed society. Would there be room for me and California-style yoga here?
We're ready to open, but there's a hitch. Turns out Customs had to check every prop for drugs, and the props are held up. When they finally arrive, they fit perfectly into the credenza. The deal breaker for everyone else was perfect for us.
So I opened my studio. And guess what? No one came.
I tried to hold myself together, not to fall apart, to trust that voice that had guided me here. After all, it was in Haiku that I'd heard it. Japan's the birthplace of haiku, so the gods had to be happy, right?
I practiced alone in the quiet, calm space, embracing the nobility of failure, like a samurai. Then one day, I got it: I was waiting for others to come, but I hadn't yet fully arrived myself. So I rolled out my mat and began my own practice. Day after day, I embodied the space, embraced it. And then, amazingly, my first student came, followed by others.
I offered Community classes for charity, though I had been warned they won't fly in status-conscious Japan. I didn't listen. I offered Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, partner yoga. Everyone said Japanese people will never touch strangers. Again, I didn't listen. I knew that what had broken down the barriers for me and so many others was universal. If you're lonely, reach out to someone else. Our yoga teaches us to surrender to everything–even our long-cherished notions of being singular. Soon we had a sangha, and I had a new home.
Then, after a decade of trying to start a family, it was time to get serious. To understand that the child was not going to come from my womb. It was going to come from my heart.
After all, I'd heard this child calling to me for years.
We applied to adopt, even though Japan was notoriously difficult to adopt in, and even though by that time I was forty four and my husband was forty eight, the voice wouldn't go away. I will have to fight for this child, like I've fought for everything in my life.
But so what? I am not a victim. I am a yogini. I am a warrior. The yogini's path is of surrender, strength, grace and acceptance.
And if I got to the end of the road and my child didn't come, I will find other ways to be a mother. I will embrace that quest as another practice. And I will set my intention to be of service, to surrender to whatever will come.
As the months passed, I tried to hold onto that intention, tried to see the glass as half-full, but I hadn't heard the child's voice for a while. Still, I shook out my yoga mat and went through my practice. Found refuge in that practice, sometimes as the tears wouldn't stop.
I swept my arms overhead, gathering up the light of the sun, bringing prana and hope back in. Bringing in light. I found power in the Warrior Pose, stillness in balancing postures like Half-Moon. I wavered but I held my ground. I opened my heart in backbends, then stretched and twisted to wring myself out. I melted into the earth in child's pose. I inverted, letting my world turn upside down yet again. The blood rushed to my head, clearing my mind. Or sometimes not.
When it came time for Corpse Pose, a posture of deep letting go into the earth, I lay down on the ground, arms out by my side, palms up in surrender, and I rested. Deeply.
Every time I met the earth, I asked myself: how deeply could I let go? How much more could I surrender? And I listened for the answer.
One day, I felt the contours of my body start to dissolve, then disappear. It was as if I was no longer a body. There was no me. There was no earth. Only a shimmering field of energy. I rode its waves.
After some time, I wiggled my fingers and toes and came out of the pose. Then I sat down to meditate. I watched my breath. And then the breath too, disappeared. It was no longer me breathing. I felt myself being breathed. The breath flowed through me. I was a conduit, a vessel for this energy, this life force, this light.
And then, instead of waiting for my child's voice to come to me, I spoke directly to my child.
Leza Lowitz is an accidental global citizen–bicultural mother, modern yogini, and multi-genre, award-winning author of over eighteen books. This post is adapted from her memoir about her quest for motherhood across two continents, two decades and two thousand yoga poses: Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras.
Her book Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By is an amazon best-seller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Wanderlust.com, Elephant Journal, The Manifest-Station, Shambhala Sun, Best Buddhist Writing, the Huffington Post, and the Japan Times. Lowitz lives in Tokyo where she runs the Sun and Moon yoga studio, tends her century-old garden and cares for her young son, husband, and two half-wild wolf dogs. Find out more about her at her personal website LezaLowitz.com and or at the Sun and Moon Yoga Studio website.


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Watch trouble
Print edition : April 01, 2016 T+ T-
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Photo: Sudhakara Jain
CHIEF Minister Siddaramaiah found himself in the midst of a controversy recently over his Hublot wristwatch. It all started in late January at an election rally of former Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy. He raised the issue of the expensive watch the "socialist Chief Minister", his one-time comrade-in-arms, was seen wearing these days. The barb followed insinuations that Siddaramaiah had acquired a penchant for expensive spectacles and fancy footwear. It was also reported that Siddaramaiah had recently "bought a waterproof saree worth Rs.1,20,000 for his wife". The opposition was quick to use the issue to corner Siddaramaiah.
Speaking to Frontline, Kumaraswamy said: "How can Siddaramaiah call himself a socialist and a follower of Ram Manohar Lohia and at the same time wear such an expensive watch? And it is not the only one. Photographs on his official website show that he has 15 to 20 such expensive watches. I don't care if he wears a watch worth even Rs.2 crore, but let him not mislead people saying he is a socialist. I did not raise it to malign him but to expose the ideological paradox. Let him say that he is not a samajwadi [man for the masses] but a majamadi [man who loves a good time and materialistic things]."
Siddaramaiah brushed off Kumaraswamy's charges as stemming from sheer envy and as a case of "much ado about nothing", and said he was ready to sell the watch and his "expensive" spectacles to anyone for Rs.5,00,000. He claimed that the watch was a gift. Siddaramaiah also pointed to the fancy cars that Kumaraswamy's son owned.
Kumaraswamy then alleged that the watch was most likely a stolen one and pointed to a complaint filed with the jurisdictional police by Dr Sudhakar Shetty in July last year that his watch had been stolen from his Bengaluru residence. According to Kumaraswamy, the jurisdictional police recovered the Hublot watch and a couple of other stolen watches and handed them over to a senior police officer, who in turn handed them to a retired police officer, who is said to have "gifted" it to Siddaramaiah. Speaking to Frontline, Kumaraswamy said: "Sudhakar Shetty tried to contact me through an intermediary on the night of February 9. At that time, I was busy with the zilla panchayat elections and said we could meet in two days. But the meeting did not take place because Sudhakar Shetty faced threats. My phone is also being tapped by the government."
With insinuations and invective flying around and the opposition disrupting proceedings in the Assembly, on March 2 Siddaramaiah said the watch had been gifted to him last year by Girish Chandra Varma, a Dubai-based doctor friend of his for well over 30 years, and that he had paid income tax for the watch. He then handed over the watch to the Speaker, Kagodu Thimmappa.
In a letter to the Speaker, he said: "I, being the Chief Minister of Karnataka, by following the precedents set by the predecessors in office, declare the gifted watch Hublot Big Bang.301-M as a government asset and hand it over to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, to forward the same to the Chief Secretary, to place the same in the Cabinet Hall at Vidhana Soudha." Accusing the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) of politicising the issue, Siddaramaiah said it was a pre-owned watch and cost only Rs.1.4 million, and not Rs.5 or 6 million as the opposition was claiming.
The Chief Minister's decision notwithstanding, the opposition continued to demand an inquiry by a Central investigation team. Speaking to this correspondent, Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar said Siddaramaiah had been very economical with the truth.
"We are disputing the ownership of the watch. Was it gifted or a stolen one? Initially, the Chief Minister said it was a gift but didn't disclose who gave it him. Now he has disclosed a name, but there is no affidavit from his friend, no receipt of the watch being bought in Dubai, no receipt of duty being paid when the watch was brought into India…. The C.M. is hiding something. It is a dubious watch; why should it be kept in the Cabinet Hall?" But the Speaker, after accepting the watch, had said that no documents were necessary nor did it matter to him to whom the watch belonged.
A senior Minister put it succinctly: "In the 1950s, Ambedker wore a suit, not Indian dress. Similarly, a watch can't change Siddaramaiah's ideology. But being in public life, he has to be careful. He has to have all the relevant records and papers. The watch episode has only defamed politicians in the eyes of the public."
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Luis Carlos Fariña Olivera (born 20 April 1991) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Paraguayan Primera División club Cerro Porteño.

Club career
Born in Buenos Aires, Fariña graduated from Racing Club de Avellaneda's youth system. He made his professional debut on 28 August 2009, replacing Sebastián Grazzini in a 1–1 home draw against Club Atlético Colón for the Argentine Primera División championship. Fariña appeared sparingly in the following campaigns, mainly used as a backup. He was only utilized regularly in the 2012–13 campaign, after profiting from both Giovanni Moreno and Lucas Castro's departures.

Fariña scored his first professional goals on 19 November 2012, netting a brace in a 4–0 home win against Quilmes Atlético Club. He finished the season with 28 matches and four goals, attracting the interest of S.L. Benfica, S.C. Braga and Sporting CP.

On 24 July 2013 Fariña signed for Benfica on a five-year deal for €3.5 million, joining fellow Racing teammates José Shaffer and José Luis Fernández. On 9 August, however, he was loaned to UAE Arabian Gulf League side Baniyas SC, in a season-long deal. On 27 July 2014, Fariña moved to Deportivo de La Coruña also in a temporary deal. He made his La Liga debut on 23 August, starting in a 1–2 away loss against Granada CF. Fariña scored his first goal in the main category of Spanish football on 15 December, netting the winner in a home success over Elche CF.

In August 2015, he joined Rayo Vallecano on loan for one season, until it was terminated early in January 2016, with the Argentine moving to Universidad de Chile until June. On 7 August 2016, Fariña moved to Greek Super League club Asteras Tripoli in another temporary deal. A year later, the 26-year-old Fariña rescinded his contract with Benfica, without ever representing them, and signed a three-year contract with Aves.

Personal life
Fariña's parents were born in Paraguay, with himself also holding a Paraguayan citizenship since December 2014.

Honours
Racing Club
 Copa Argentina: Runner-up 2011–12

Aves
Taça de Portugal: 2017–18

References

External links

 Luis Fariña – Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI

1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine sportspeople of Paraguayan descent
Argentine footballers
Association football midfielders
Argentine Primera División players
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
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Argentine expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
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Expatriate footballers in Qatar
Expatriate footballers in Chile
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
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Julian Pollersbeck: "A match completely different from the league"
Published on 07 April 2021 at 5:00 PM by ev
Julian Pollersbeck gave a press conference on the eve of the Round of 16 match in the Coupe de France against Red Star. Find the entire press conference on replay on OLPlay.
His position at the club
"I feel good here, when I arrived I knew I would be the second-choice goalkeeper. For the moment I am doing well and am grateful to be able to play in the Coupe de France. And I hope we get to the final so I can play as much as possible."
Learning about French football
"I knew a little bit, I didn't watch it often. But I see some differences with Germany. The level is more less the same as there. I love football here, it's a different mentality. I've had a lot of opportunities to watch from the bench."
A lack of playing time
"It's a little difficult, but I've become used to it. In my former club, the same situation happened to me and in the end I played a lot of important matches at the end of the season. For me it's not that important, I've had matches with the National 2 side, we are training well. I know I will be well-prepared."
His working relationship with Lopes
" We get along very well. I really like working with him, we don't speak the same language but we can communicate in French or in English. I take French lessons every week. He's a different kind of goaltender from me, but I'm learning a lot from him. He's a very good goalkeeper, he's more experienced. I hope he can learn from me too!"
Approaching the match against Red Star
"It's a match completely different from the league, as it's all about one game. We are focused on the Coupe de France, we want to win it. It's still the shortest way to a trophy. These opponents who come from the lower divisions are always difficult because it is the game of the year for them. We will have to be at 100%, we have eebn preparing well, we have trained on a synthetic pitch to mimic the conditions of the match."
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Red Star-OL: The post-match reactions
OL players spoke to OLTV at the end of the match. All the reactions can be found on OLPlay.
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Despite dominating the match throughout, OL were forced to win penalty shootout to confirm their qualification, won thanks to a save by goalkeeper Julian Pollersbeck.
Rudi Garcia: "I expect a reaction from my players"
Lyon coach Rudi Garcia spoke to journalists on the eve of the Round of 16 match in the Coupe de France against Red Star. The full press conference can be found on OLPlay.
Red Star-OL: Get back to winning ways (7 PM, Eurosport 2)
A few days after a frustrating draw in Lens, OL have the opportunity to get back to winning ways and forget their league campaign with this trip to Red Star in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France.
Retro Red Star - OL: 21 years ago, Sidney Govou wrote the first chapter of his legendary story
On the occasion of the Coupe de France match between Red Star and OL, we take a look at the last match between the two teams, also a Round of 16 match in the Coupe de France.
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YOU KIDDING ME? Congress Wants a Pay Raise
You'd think this comes straight out of the satiricle website The Onion, but sadly no – this is real life.
Congress wants a pay raise.
Congress members think they're not being paid enough and so we'd better just increase their salaries.
Sadly, I'm not.
And look who's leading the charge:
Same w/ member pay.
Members are paid more than avg - but job reqs 2 residences + we can't take tax deductions for work costs.
No one wants to be the one to bring up increases, so instead ppl take advantage of insider trading loopholes & don't close them for the extra cash. 🤷🏽♀
Perhaps the most absurd part of the story is their logic behind the pay raise.
Democrats say they need a raise because otherwise they'll have to turn to "grey areas" to raise cash.
What a ridiculous and even criminal statement!
If we don't pay you more, you'll just turn to illegal activities to get whatever cash you want?
Oh, I'm sorry, no that was "gray areas".
That's not how this works Congress, that's not how any of this works!
I want more cash too, but it doesn't mean I can just go Walter White and start selling the blue meth!
Do we have a Congress full of criminals?
Who talks like this?
Who makes threats like this?
Here is more, from RT:
Living in Washington DC is expensive. For US lawmakers, that means it's time to give themselves a pay raise. But with confidence in politics at a miserable low, selling a raise to the public could be an uphill battle.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) called for the raise on Wednesday, in remarks to the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. A pay raise, he said would ensure that elected representatives who don't come from wealthy backgrounds can live comfortably in Washington DC.
"Americans ought to have our nation's diversity of economic backgrounds better reflected in this House," he said.
Members of Congress have had their salaries frozen since 2009, but still earn considerably more than the average American. Senators and Representatives take home $174,000 per year, with party leaders on both houses earning $193,000, and the Speaker of the House topping the scale at $223,500.
Meanwhile, the median American household income in the US was $59,039 in 2017.
Living in Washington DC is expensive. Renters there pay a median rent of $2,700 per month, and the average home costs $585,000, according to real-estate website Zillow. That's nearly twice the national median of $1,695 to rent and $278,000 to buy. Likewise, the cost of food and transportation in DC outstrips the national average by up to 45 percent.
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) complained about DC's cost of living when she was elected in November. Ocasio-Cortez again angled for better pay in a tweet on Wednesday, arguing that lower pay makes staffers flee to lobbyists and members turn to more legally gray avenues"for the extra cash."
To confirm the story, here's the official transcript of remarks from House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD), from the official House Gov. Website:
"One of the ways I believe we can achieve those goals is by giving Members the opportunity to have a greater say in directing spending toward critical public projects in their communities. Yes – I'm talking about restoring earmarks, which I believe can be great instruments of good when done in a way that is fully transparent and accountable. When Democrats were last in the majority, we reformed the earmark process substantially, requiring Members to post all their earmark requests online and justify every dollar. We banned earmarks to private entities and required Members to certify they had no financial interest as well.
"Transparency and accountability fixed what was wrong with earmarks in earlier
years. Eliminating them altogether, which was a winning talking point but a misguided policy, has had the effect of taking Congress out of key funding decisions. No executive branch official knows a district and its needs better than that district's Representative. I believe it is time to bring earmarks back with the reforms Democrats instituted.
"I also believe it is time to address the issue of Member and staff pay and benefits. I know this isn't the most politically popular issue, but it is an important one. Americans ought to have our nation's diversity of economic backgrounds better reflected in this House. The cost of rent, child care, and other necessities has risen substantially in Washington and across the country in recent years, but Member and staff pay and benefits have not kept pace with the private sector. Many talented, bright, and patriotic citizens are choosing not to step up and serve because they believe doing so would place them under financial burden. Others are choosing to leave mid-career, and the result is that we lose their expertise and institutional knowledge. If we want to attract a more diverse group of Americans to run for office and work on Capitol Hill, we need to make it financially possible for them to do so.
Oh you poor Dems in Congress!
Child care costs are too high?
Rent is too high?
You poor babies, let me cry some tears for you!
However will you get by?
Here, let the lower-middle class send you some extra money, how much do you need good masters?
How much can we send you to alleviate such a difficult existance for you?
GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK!
At least common sense prevailed on Twitter:
I will introduce legislation to base congressional pay on the median wage in their district. They don't get a raise unless you do.
And I'm donating all my *own* pay above the #CD39 median wage to teachers in the district to reimburse them for supplies. That's $96k/year.
— Steve Cox (@RealSteveCox) March 16, 2019
A trillion dollar budget deficit and they can't keep the government open? Na, man. They should be paying us.
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) March 16, 2019
Sure, if they release their individual budgets to justify why $174,000 a year needs a raise.
— Samantha Hagan (@samantha_hagan) March 16, 2019
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Even NPR confirmed the bizarre story:
Members of Congress have not received a pay raise in a decade. So like most Americans, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., would like a raise.
"The cost of rent, childcare, and other necessities has risen substantially in Washington and across the country in recent years, but members and staff pay and benefits have not kept pace with the private sector," Hoyer said last week at a hearing held by the new Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
Most House members make $174,000 per year, but they often have to maintain two residences and related expenses. Congress has not approved a raise since the economic recession hit in 2009. Hoyer said if Congress wants to attract Americans from all socio-economic backgrounds to run for office, it needs to pay better. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., said that applies not just to lawmakers, but also to the thousands of staffers that work on Capitol Hill.
"Simply put, we don't have enough staff to do our jobs. The staff we have are underpaid, and they don't stay very long," she told the committee.
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Better pay and more employees are just two of hundreds of ideas offered up at a recent lawmaker spit-balling session on how to make Congress function better. It's a question a new bipartisan task-force has just one year to answer before making formal recommendations for change.
The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress is equally divided between six Republicans and six Democrats, and it is expected to file a report by the end of the year with formal recommendations for how best to reform the House's internal operations. Last week, the panel held a hearing in which all lawmakers were invited to come and offer up their best ideas for change.
Lawmakers' proposals largely fell into two categories: the kind that would change the culture of Congress, and the kind that would change how laws are made.
One common theme was that lawmakers need structured ways to become friends — it's a popular idea among freshmen like Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips. "We should begin orientation by getting to know one another," he said, "By participating in team building exercises and by allowing each new member to share his or her life story in a full group setting." Phillips also said the U.S. Capitol complex needs a design overhaul akin to the way companies like Apple, Google and Tesla approach office and sales space. "And yet we operate in dark compartmentalized offices that were the hallmark of the 19th Century, designed to segregate not collaborate," he said.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., offered perhaps one of the more dramatic ways to shake up modern Capitol Hill culture with his proposal to ban lawmakers from living out of their offices. As many as 50 members are estimated to do it — former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was one of them.
"The actions of these members raise several obvious and potential violations that reflect negatively upon the decorum and the credibility of the House as a body and as an institution," Thompson said.
And even the left-leaning CNN published an incredulous response to the proposal:
The Democratic Party says it's the party of the working class, but congressional Democrats this week complicated that pitch by calling for a pay raise for members of Congress.
"Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution," said Rep. Alcee Hastings during a Monday Rules Committee hearing on the upcoming year's legislative branch appropriations bill, according to Roll Call.
The number two House Democrat told reporters he agreed with Hastings.
Rep Steny Hoyer said it was appropriate during the recession years in 2009 and 2010 to not approve any pay increases, but to continue that policy "simply will dictate that the only people who can serve are the rich and I don't think that's what the founding fathers had in mind."
Members of Congress are paid $174,000 annually, and haven't enjoyed a pay raise since 2009. Staffers are paid considerably less, with the average staff assistant on the Hill earning roughly $35,000 per year.
That creates a barrier to entry into Congress for low-income Americans, and contributes to a brain drain that's made it difficult for congressional offices to recruit and retain top talent, Hastings argued.
"This institution is heading towards elitism," Hastings said on Monday. "And that's crazy."
If it's ok with you all, I'll just stick with people like Donald Trump to run our country, thank you very much!
People who have the real business sense to MAKE MONEY and then apply those skills to work on behalf of our country!
How about we stop hiring losers as our leaders and we put BUSINESS PEOPLE in charge?
Sounds like a good idea to me!
You either make money or "You're Fired!"
You ever seen The Apprentice?
You figure out how to make it work or you're outta here!
Hell no, you don't get to vote yourself a pay raise!
This is the craziest damn thing I've seen all year!
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Aspatria RUFC announce the return of the Tatie Pot Supper
By Ben MacDonald @BenMacDNews Reporter
SUPPER: The club will welcome RFU President, Jeff Blackett as guest of honour
Aspatria RUFC have announced the return of their annual President's Tatie Pot Supper.
A dish of communal eating, the Cumbrian Tatie Pot is a rare English dish that mixes its meats, something more common on Continental Europe. The stew of meat can also be mixed with black pudding and vegetables. Like a Lancashire Hotpot, it is topped with a layer of thinly sliced potatoes and baked until they form a crisp crust.
The rugby club's supper is something of tradition in the area and after recent regulations, the club have announced that it will return on February 18.
As the event takes place at the half-way point of the Six Nations tournament, Aspatria RUFC will welcome current RFU President Jeff Blackett as the guest of honour.
A barrister, Mr Blackett retired from a distinguished career with the Royal Navy in the rank of Commodore and was Judge Advocate General from 2004-20. He has been President of the RFU since June 2020.
The event is free; however the club intend on raising funds in order to provide a donation for the Injured Player Foundation. Seating for the supper is limited and reservations can be made by contacting Club President Alan Bowes on 07900 415129 before January 31st.


We know that being the first in your family to navigate college can be a daunting thought. Some first generation students may feel that they can easily assimilate into the campus culture and community and that's awesome; however, some may feel lost and confused with an environment that seems to have a number of unspoken rules and cultural norms.
All of our university members are here to help you but below are a couple individuals that specialize in helping first generation students. Some of them are first generation themselves and know exactly how you feel. Some of them are not first generation but all of them are passionate about helping you succeed!
Do you have some suggestions for first generation programming and/or connections?
Fantastic – we would love to hear them! At Oglethorpe, we value your unique student perspective and you may have some ideas that we haven't thought of yet. Please email our Assistant Dean of Students, Amy Palder, at apalder@oglethorpe.edu with your suggestions.


Now unless you have been living under a stone, or maybe in some Amish community that has no electricity – you will have heard of the brilliant vlogger Mother Pukka. Now we know her and we like her. She is very very funny. And pretty. Actually, maybe we hate her? No, we are not that shallow. Anyway, I digress. On her hugely popular Instagram, she often seen posing in front of a rather striking graphic wall. Now that wall is why we are all gathered here today.
The wall has been painted/muralised whatever by the amazing graphic artist Camille Walala. Camille Walala is a purveyor of powerfully positive digital print. A graduate in Textile Design from the University of Brighton, her namesake brand was established in East London in 2009, where she continues to live. Yes, she is one of those hipster-types and not only is she achingly generic doxycycline hyclate price cool – her work is off the charts cool.
And now kids can get a piece of Walala action as she has created a capsule collection for Labour of Love. It's first brand in the UK to collaborate with Camille and they have taken her punchy signature prints and redesigned them onto their new range which is available for women, men and kids.
O.M.G I love these! Yes friends, it's another Vans collaboration for the text books, this time with old faithful Disney Pixar's Toy Story.
Did anyone else let our a giant WHOOP of yesterday (once the kisses and assurances that everything was going to be OK) on your kids' first day back at school? I'll start. ME! Now don't get me wrong. I do adore my kids. Just in ever so slightly smaller doses than you get from 24/7 for 8 weeks on the trot. Like THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (insert giant hand width) MUCH!
First up Gucci. My complete obsession and unrequited love – largely due to my epic fail of not having married a billionaire. Next we have Loewe – which I was told, in a very passive-agressive way some years ago by a complete bit£% i used to work with at a designer fashion brand, is pronounced Low-aire-vey. Whatevs – they too had cats!
So here is how it works for kids.


nBeginning: 18th century in mercury-mine Idrija (west Slovenia) – the medical and social care for the miners and their families was assured by world famous doctors like Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 – 1788), Balthasar Hacquet (1739 – 1815).
nDuring 1963 and 1967 the Dispensaries of occupational medicine were founded to take preventive and active heath care for all the workers in Slovenia.
nOn 9th September 1971 the Clinical Institute of Occupational Medicine in Ljubljana was founded.
nContinuing Medical Education is required to be licenced by the Medical Chamber of Slovenia.


The Contessa of Neroli (Italy) Anna Maria an Italian Princess used the oil as a perfume and to scent her gloves and bath water.
Orange Blossoms / flower petals have long been a feature of wedding bouquets symbolizing innocence as well a securing love.
floral water, skin care, cosmetics and eau de cologne.
Neroli is said to be relaxing. Hypnotic and somewhat euphoric and said to relive chronic anxiety, and stress. Soothing in highly emotional states. Instills a feeling of peace.
Benzoin, bergamot, coriander, geranium, jasmine, lavender, petitgrain, rose, sandalwood and ylang ylang.


"Assist people with leprosy" -made by a CALA villager cured of leprosy and handicapped as a result of not catching the disease in time. This is all made from the raffia palm tree leaves.
Some of the woman in the village are very creative and spend most of their day creating jewelry, placemats, hats and baskets from seeds, nuts, leaves and natural fibres. Here are some examples.
-"While the patients in the two remaining CALA leprosy villages in Antalaha enjoy free health care and schooling for their children and grandchildren, thanks to the support of donors, and some earn a living by working in the village and at Macolline planting nurseries, the newer patients struggle with the consequences of their disease without any assistance. Families lack the means to support a non-productive member of the household and patients with families of their own, cannot support them." —Taken from an article in the IRIN; an award-winning humanitarian news and analysis service covering the parts of the world often under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.
I urge you to read this article in full and more about the villages that JHA FUND supports by clicking on the link below.
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The widely welcomed cut to the small business tax rate has come with a sting in its tail.
The changes will put pressure on business owners to pay out retained earnings sooner than they might have otherwise planned, to give shareholders the benefit of existing franking credits before they lose some of their value.
The tax rate for 2016-17 has been reduced to 27.5 per cent and the franking rate has been cut along with it. As a result, the value of tax credits held in companies' franking accounts has fallen too.
Take a business that paid tax at 30 per cent in previous years, but retained the earnings inside the company to use for working capital and investment. For 2016-17, the maximum franking credit it can attach to dividends is 27.5 per cent.
This means it is holding "excess" credits in its franking account and, since they cannot be distributed to shareholders, these excess credits will be wasted. The situation will worsen over the coming 10 years as the tax rate and franking rate both fall to 25 per cent by 2026-27.
The number of companies affected by the changes will also grow dramatically. A "small" business is defined by its turnover, and this threshold rises over the same period from $10 million to $50 million. After much heated debate in federal parliament, the changes became law on 19 May 2017.
The sting is that their effect is retrospective to the start of 2016-17.
This creates a very practical problem for small businesses that paid a dividend for the first half of that year.
Let's say the company paid a dividend at the end of the December half, attaching a franking credit of 30 per cent. This rate applied in all years up to 2015-16 and was still technically legal when you made the distribution.
But in the eyes of the ATO, that dividend is now "over-franked", because the maximum franking credit that your shareholders can claim is 27.5 per cent. The ATO is advising companies to write to their shareholders telling them the revised amount of franking credits they are entitled to claim.
Companies are also required to adjust down the value of their franking accounts in line with the declining franking rate.
As the tax and franking rates fall over the coming decade, the value of these franking accounts will slide even further.
The franking credits will also be less valuable in the hands of shareholders, because they will not have the same power to reduce tax on income from other sources.
This creates a dilemma for business owners. Should you pay out retained earnings as dividends faster than you might have planned? If you do, where will you get the capital to fund your daily business operations, and future growth of your business?
If the plan is to finish up in business soon, it might be worth liquidating the company and distributing its funds to shareholders.
If your business is still in its prime, but you do want to return some funds to shareholders, you will need to search for ways to tighten up cash flow and work your capital harder.
This does not have to mean going to the bank for expensive finance, pledging property as collateral and locking yourself in to expensive long-term loans.
Scottish Pacific offers a range of flexible alternatives, from invoice finance for day-to-day transactions to trade finance for importers who purchase both in domestic and international markets.
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This week in the Goldfields Art Centre I met Alan Radford and Steve Austin of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Alan and Steve are both working as Engagement managers.
Anyway – they let me know about Table Builder (read more cut/paste info after the break) which is a new system that allows you to make your own data products from the ABS data pool. We also discussed that as the census happens every 5 years and the population of Kalgoorlie changes by 50% every 2 years (completely ambit claim that they agreed with in a completely ambit manner) then the census probably is only a snapshot in a rapidly changing stream, (like a cross-section of a breaking wave – it is true, but may not reflect what's before and after the snapshot). Venkat's article on stream citizens is relevant in the Goldfields – FIFO miners, snowbirds, Aboriginal people, Highschool students, expat New Zealanders ( The greatest concentration of Kiwis outside NZ is here) all share high-mobility in common.
So, how can Australia measure it's flowing cultures better?
Image: Animated screen showing a pile of suitcases in an Airport somewhere in the Stream.
TableBuilder allows users the freedom to construct basic to complex tables of data. You can build tables for all geographic areas as defined in the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) webpage, except Mesh Blocks.
For the 2011 Census, there are two versions of TableBuilder.
TableBuilder Basic is a free product designed for clients who have some experience using Census data and who want to construct basic data tables. TableBuilder Basic provides access to most Census data in a range of topic-based data cubes that include classifications such as age, education, housing, income, transport, religion, ethnicity and occupation.


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Naomi Wolf vs. the forces of darkness
Recently, David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine featured an article about Naomi Wolf's turn to God and spirituality to combat the "forces of darkness" and evil, which, she believes, are behind vaccine mandates and other restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wolf has appeared regularly on Steve Bannon's War Room Pandemic to side with pro-Trump conservatives and populists who similarly oppose vaccine mandates and restrictions.
Wolf authored a lengthy essay titled "Is It Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God?," in which she accuses her former progressive friends and allies of becoming "cultlike" and "insular" in their thinking about the so-called science supporting vaccine mandates. Many of her former progressive friends now call her a "conspiracy theorist" and worse. She is especially critical of "feminist health activists" who, she writes, were "formerly reliable custodians of well-informed medical skepticism and women's health rights" who have ignored or downplayed reports of adverse consequences resulting from the COVID-19 vaccines. These former "luminaries of feminist health activism" who have protected "abortion rights" have suddenly let her down in the midst of the pandemic by supporting vaccine mandates.
This, she says, has caused her to start to pray again. She resumed praying because she feels "the awfulness of the evil around us ... almost awe-inspiring levels of darkness and of inhuman, anti-human forces." She is reaching out to God, she writes, as a "countervailing force" to fight the evil of vaccine mandates.
Wolf claims that those who support vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions manifest an "infection of the soul," which includes a "dilution of parents' sense of protectiveness over the bodies and futures of their helpless minor children." "In the policies unfolding around us," she writes, "I saw again and again anti-human outcomes being generated: policies aimed at killing children's joy; at literally suffocating children, restricting their breath, speech and laughter ..." All of this, she writes, is "metaphysically scary."
What Wolf fails to address in her introspective essay is her continued strong support for the "right" to kill children in the womb. Such children are the most "helpless minor children" whom she claims to care most about. And she has written courageously about the humanity of children in the womb. She actually called abortion a "sin" in her famous article, "Our Bodies, Our Souls," in 1995. Wolf has defended Feminists for Life. But she has also called abortion "a necessary evil." And she has written that the abortion "rights" movement "should give God a seat at the table."
Now that Wolf is praying and acknowledging it publicly, perhaps she will find in prayer and God's grace the knowledge and understanding that abortion is a result of those same "forces of darkness," and the same "inhuman and anti-human forces" she recently wrote about, and that legally protecting helpless, defenseless children in the womb from the abortionists' deadly instruments is even more important than protecting them from a vaccine mandate.
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Devolution to be protected post Brexit
Published: 27 Feb 2018 16:18
Constitution and democracy
Continuity Bill introduced.
An EU Continuity Bill has formally been introduced to the Scottish Parliament to protect devolution and prepare Scotland's laws for Brexit.
The Bill is being introduced after UK Government legislation was called "incompatible with the devolution settlement" by a cross-party Holyrood committee.
The UK legislation - the EU (Withdrawal) Bill - would mean the UK Government taking control of some devolved powers such as aspects of farming and fishing, after Brexit.
The Continuity Bill will come into effect if the Scottish Parliament decides not to consent to the EU Withdrawal Bill and will prevent what ministers have described as a "power grab".
The Scottish Parliament will be asked to consider the introduction of the Continuity Bill as an Emergency Bill, to ensure that the Continuity Bill is passed before the EU (Withdrawal) Bill becomes law.
The purpose of the Continuity Bill is to ensure Scotland's laws will work properly on the day the UK leaves the EU.
Michael Russell, the Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland's Place in Europe said:
"Both the Scottish and Welsh Governments have today published EU Continuity Bills to protect devolution.
"The Scottish Government is opposed to leaving the EU in line with the overwhelming majority of people in Scotland, but we have a duty to prepare our laws for Brexit.
"We have offered to work with the UK Government on UK-wide legislation to do this job but they are insisting on taking control of devolved powers without the agreement of the Scottish Parliament.
"We could never recommend giving consent to such a law and therefore we must make our own preparations in devolved areas to provide certainty and to protect devolution.
"If the UK Government drops its power grab then it may still be possible to reach agreement, in which case we would not need to proceed with the Continuity Bill.
"But we are proposing this bill should be put through on an emergency timetable to ensure it becomes law in time to make the necessary preparations.
"It must be stressed that the Scottish Government can only introduce this Bill if we are satisfied that it is within the powers of the Parliament to do so.
"The Lord Advocate will answer a written question on this matter and because of the importance of this issue, if Parliament agrees, will make a statement in the Chamber tomorrow.
"In addition the Presiding Officer of the National Assembly of Wales has approved the Welsh Continuity Bill.
"The statement from the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer on legislative competence does not in any circumstance prevent the Scottish Government from introducing or progressing any Bill – nor does it prevent the Scottish Parliament from approving this Bill. We are determined to protect the devolution settlement that the people of Scotland voted for."
The European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill can be found here.


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Change Management, Continuous Process Improvement | Afterburner, Inc.
Today, the rate of change is overwhelming. An endless line of scholars and business leaders have lamented the turbulent age we live in and a few, like John Kotter, have given us a powerful theoretical structure of change management for leading organizations. But, somewhere in the past decade or so, a line was crossed. That hazy, imperceptibly vague line separated a past world that changed in fits and starts from the world we live in now: a world of constant, relentless and disruptive change.
The prescription for the detailed implementation for Kotter's theoretical outline is the Flawless Execution® methodology. Theories are great. They provide a mental model to interpret our world. But, they rarely provide detailed, process-oriented guidance – the specific details that people need to take action on a daily basis.
In Kotter book "Accelerate", he proposes that organizations adopt a dual system; a "left" side that maintains the effectiveness of hierarchy and specialized function, and another "right" side of networked individuals perpetually focused on change and adaptation. The value of Flawless Execution is that the iterative 'loop' or process that it prescribes enables agility and adaptability for Kotter's "right" side while simultaneously enabling continuous process improvement on the hierarchical "left".
Develop a self-similar process that iterates at the highest strategic levels almost exactly as it does at the day-to-day operational and task-oriented levels of the organization.
Collaborate as a leadership team to develop situational awareness, create vision, and then communicate that vision in the form of leader's intent. The concept of leader's intent is critical to empowering others to act on the vision.
Form a powerful guiding coalition that builds situational awareness and engages in the planning process in a collaborative way that includes not just the leaders of the organization, but specialists and representatives from middle management and front-line leadership.
Create a vision of the future. Flawless Execution calls its notion of vision a High Definition Destination℠ (HDD). Creation of an HDD requires a collaborative team to describe leader's intent in a minimum of 5 key areas with the option to select from several dozen more specific aspects of each of the key areas to provide the high definition needed.
Flawless Execution constructs strategy as intent, and continually tests its validity through iterative cycles. If the strategy fails, it is changed or altered. The iterative Flawless Execution Cycle consolidates team, organizational, and even process improvement plans by addressing root causes. By identifying root causes, the team can pivot and iterate in order to battle complexity with simplicity. The Flawless Execution methodology becomes the functional mental model for leading change and improving every day.


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Q: Interpreting results from GLM I'm trying to understand the results from a glm I ran. I am doing this for multiple different fish species (one at a time), to see how month, average salinity, temperature, discharge, and rainfall impact their abundance. Below is an example from one fish, I have gotten similar results from other species as well.
I used this data
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Swp0rEFeaInGD4kA1h3xZReFNtho6JPz/view?usp=sharing
and this code to run a GLM on one species
glm.full.bin = glm(binom~Month +Salinity +Temperature +Discharge.x +Rainfall.x,
                   data=fish_B_all,family=binomial)
glm.base.bin = glm(binom~Month,data=fish_B_all,family=binomial)

#step to simplify model and get appropriate order
glm.step.bin = step(glm.base.bin,scope=list(upper=glm.full.bin,lower=~Month),direction='forward',
                    trace=1,k=log(nrow(fish_B_all)))

#final model - may choose to reduce based on deviance and cutoff in above step
glm.final.bin  = glm.step.bin
print(summary(glm.final.bin))

#calculate the LSMeans for the proportion of positive trips
lsm.b.glm = emmeans(glm.final.bin,"Month",data=fish_B_all)
LSMeansProp = summary(lsm.b.glm)

#plot model
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(glm.final.bin)

and the plot shows this.. What does this mean when the residuals and qqplot look like this? Do I need to do something to transform my data to correct this?

A: These diagnostic plots are designed for use with normal models, not binomial ones.
Moreover, when the response values are all 0s and 1s, the diagnostic plots will always look sort of like this. Take residuals versus fitted. The residuals are defined as $Y_i - \hat Y_i$, so all the points in this plot will have coordinates $(\hat Y_i, \; 0-\hat Y_i)$ when $Y_i=0$, and $(\hat Y_i, \;1 - \hat Y_i)$ when $Y_i = 1$. So these points all lie along two lines with slope $-1$ and intercepts $0$ and $1$, respectively. In this particular plot, there is some additional standardization, causing some shifting and curvature, but that does not stop it from showing two distinct curves corresponding to the 0s and the 1s.
Don't worry about it.

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Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup
Over the past few years, I've encountered countless startups that claim they are going to disrupt or revolutionize book publishing.
I once thought we might see one of those take off. Today, I'm not so sure. Book-related startups face a particularly tough path forward. Here are a few reasons why.
When Amazon is the chief disruptor, the odds are stacked against you
Any company that comes along trying to reinvent book publishing is competing not only with traditional book publishers but also with Amazon(s AMZN), which is almost 20 years old but keeps finding new ways to shake things up. Print book buying continues to move online and Amazon, which is now delivering on Sundays and offering same-day delivery in a growing number of cities, has a lock on that business. Kindle, launched in 2007, is the dominant ebook reading platform and Amazon is continually rolling out improvements to the Kindle e-reader and Kindle apps — sharing, search and so on — that rival what many startups have tried to do.
A couple of exceptions are two companies that Amazon has acquired: reading-based social network Goodreads in 2012 and digital comic book retailer comiXology this past April. Yet those companies, both founded in 2007, were already several years old by the time Amazon bought them. They were able to grow at the same time as Amazon's digital book business grew. An ebook startup that launches today must grow in Kindle's shadow.
Companies that attempt to make improvements on the actual process of reading books on a screen are hindered by the fact that if they're not supported by Kindle, they won't be able to gain a wide audience. One company that didn't support Kindle but still seemed to be gaining traction was the Berlin-based Readmill, but it was acquired by Dropbox earlier this year and its technology will be absorbed into that company.
Book publishers aren't obsolete, self-publishing isn't going away
Unlike newspaper publishers, the large traditional book publishers are doing pretty well, thanks in part to increased profits from ebooks. This week, for instance, we saw profits rise at Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins. Titles from traditional book publishers dominate bestseller lists. A lot of self-published authors are doing well, too, but quite a bit of their success is tied to Kindle and it's unclear that startups can do much to assist. It's going be tough for them to draw authors away from either traditional publishers or Amazon. That's why I'm skeptical of companies that aim to crowdsource publishing
Book-related startups aren't going to gain much traction by starting with the premise that "book publishers are dinosaurs." As publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin wrote earlier this year:
"An incumbent's job is to continue to maintain economic viability. A start-up's objective, often, is to 'change the paradigm.' If the paradigm does change, the incumbent needs to roll with that, but they don't need to be an instrument of change. A start-up often does. That is an inherent difference in perspective that a start-up can't afford to ignore."
Witness Inkling, which started out as an iPad textbook publisher in 2010, expanded with a number of digital titles that it sold through its website and apps and indexed via Google — and then shut down its consumer-facing business this week. It's going to focus on delivering enterprise products and services to publishers. That's not a very sexy proposition but, as Inkling CEO Matt MacInniss told Fast Company earlier this year:
"The reality is that [these publishers] actually did know their business better than we did, even if they weren't as tech savvy as we were. We had to listen to the vision they had for themselves and find ways to support that vision with our technology."
Text is text, social is social
Startups that focus on delivering original ebook content or on helping readers find new books begin from the premise that readers have trouble finding enough things to read. This notion seems absurd: Anybody on the internet these days is overwhelmed with an infinite list of free things to read and a zillion services trying to curate reading material for them. There is not room here for a new recommendation service that is focused specifically on books: Readers don't have time for it. They have too much other stuff they've been meaning to read already, whether it's a book or a blog post.
Similarly, I don't think there's room for a new service that tries to make reading more social. Goodreads, imperfect though it is — and it's due for a major design overhaul as well — has accumulated a critical mass of readers and authors and is now incorporated into most Kindle e-readers, bringing it to a larger audience. And there's plenty of book discussion on existing "general" social networks Facebook (s FB) and Twitter (s TWTR), where authors are engaging directly with readers. Recently, I've noticed a mini-trend: When people want to share a passage from something they are reading on their mobile device, they simply screenshot it and share the screenshot (hint: You can do this on the Kindle Paperwhite too). No separate app necessary.
Discoverability is more of a publisher problem than a reader problem: Witness the failure of book publishers' joint venture Bookish, which was sold to another social reading startup and ebook retailer, Zola Books, earlier this year. Zola, too, has failed to gain traction; while I admire the company's mission to sell ebooks, I'm skeptical that it can succeed due to all the factors listed in this story.
Apple + "Netflix for ebooks"
Two ebook subscription services, Scribd and Oyster, launched last fall. (Scribd already existed as a document-sharing site but changed its focus.) They both offer users access to an unlimited library of ebooks for under $10 a month. I don't think both of these services will survive, but one of them might. Both are expanding, though neither has shared user numbers — Scribd now has over 300,000 titles and Oyster has over 500,000. A lot of these titles are self-published books (via a deal with Smashwords), but an increasing number of traditional publishers are also participating. HarperCollins is the only big-five publisher making its titles available to either service thus far, but that company has commented publicly on its success with the model, and either Scribd or Oyster or both will likely sign another big-five publisher soon.
So here's an idea: What if Apple bought one of these companies, as it is rumored to be buying hardware and streaming music service Beats? It would be a bargain — far, far less than the rumored $3.2 billion Beats is going for — but Apple would be acquiring the work that these services have already done in terms of securing rights to the books included through them. Amazon is reportedly considering launching its own ebook subscription service as well (separate, apparently, from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which is essentially a marketing tool for self-published authors at this point) and this would allow Apple to get ahead. (Since Apple was found guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix ebook prices last year, it's highly unlikely to launch a service like this from scratch; even such an acquisition might come under scrutiny.)
An ebook subscription service, fueled with content from traditional book publishers and backed by and distributed through Apple: Now, that could be revolutionary. But the revolution wouldn't be coming from one company alone. It would come from a combination of forces, new and old. That's the kind of disruption that readers might actually be able to use.
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Ingham County has the unique distinction of being the only County in the United States in which the Capitol is not located in the County Seat. The Capitol is in the City of Lansing while the County Courthouse is in the County seat, which is the City of Mason. In 1971, the Courthouse was put on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1980 a renovation study was done to preserve the courthouse and to improve efficiency of operations. In 1995, after fifteen years of renovations and restoration work, the final work of decorating the public areas was completed by the County Commission on History.
The Ingham County Historical Commission is the oldest County Commission on History in the State of Michigan.


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Perhaps this entry may be the nicest places that you will find to eat at around the Big Rock/North Aurora area. A bit pricey, sure, but you get so much incredible value for every single one of the dollars that you spend here. It's romantic and very impressive for your more special Chicago Party Buses celebrations, and there's of course a full bar with excellent happy hour prices. The back half of the week are the nights you will most want to visit them on to enjoy their unbelievable lobster pot pie, lobster corn dogs, and red pepper mashed potatoes! Yum! They've got lots of great wine and beer to choose from here, pleasing even the biggest snobs in our party.
If you want to keep it simple and visit a really consistent and high quality sports bar to watch the big game while you're out in Big Rock/Yorkville with Chicago Party Buses, Legends Sports Bar & Grill is always a nice choice. One of the cleanest, most well maintained bars you'll find, with food that is always nice and fresh and served piping hot. They've got a great patio that you'll really enjoy when the weather is right for it. The bacon cheese fries with ranch are one of the highlights for us, along with their tremendous spicy garlic boneless wings! Really great service and plenty of TVs to watch the game! Good stuff!
Our next choice is located where Banek's was previously, and if you haven't had a chance to stop in since the changeover, why not during your trip to Big Rock/Aurora with Chicago Party Buses. Sunday brunch is a real highlight here, always enjoyable with really fresh and delicious breakfast items to choose from. The stuffed burgers are simply out of this world. We could go on and on about them, but why not just head over there and try them yourself? The margaritas are excellent here and not expensive at all, even for the finest liquor choices! Very friendly folks working here too. We love it!
If you're a lover of a nice bar for a good stiff drink at the end of the night, Schmidt's Towne Tap is one that you owe it to yourself to check out. And why not do so during your trip with Chicago Party Buses in Big Rock/Elburn? The prices are really affordable here and you'll even enjoy watching the game on TV while you're there. The hamburgers and cheeseburgers are the thing that they're known for and they've also got incredible hot pastrami sandwiches with really flavorful Swiss cheese. They've got a beautiful beer garden to enjoy during seasons when the forecasts allow too, great place to catch a baseball game in the dog days of summer!
Fireside Grille has always been one of Chicago Party Buses' favorite restaurants and bars in Sugar Grove and it's so conveniently located for you during your trips to the Big Rock area. The french onion soup is one of our top favorite choices here, best side dish has to be their baked sweet potatoes. For your main dish, you can't go wrong with the broasted pork chops or the steaks! One of the nicer surprises here is the saganaki. We can never get enough of that. Note that this one is closed on Mondays, but it's always a good time the rest of the week! Free wi-fi and TVs for the game are another huge plus!


Battle Re-enactments can vary in size, from a small skirmish with a few dozen on each side, to major musters, which can see up to 1500 people take to the field.
On the battlefield, there are oportunities to be in 'the thick of the action' in a number of roles, including; Pikeman, Musketeer, Drummer, Ensign, Artillary, Cavalry or Water Carrier.
If you have the desire and commitment, you can rise up through the ranks – and who knows, maybe one day command a Company, or, even the Regiment.


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I hiked 21.5 miles into Baxter State Park. I set up camp at The Birches. The Birches is a small camp site just for Nobo thru hikers. I went to the Ranger Station and registered with them. I am a go to summit Mount Kathadin tomorrow morning.
This morning, I was not sure of what I was going to do. Maybe spend a night by Abol Bridge or take a rest day. I got to the general store by Abol Bridge and did not like it. It was loud, dusty. I just decided to push on with no plan and no idea of what is going to happen, other than what is meant to be, shall be. The trail will provide.
I made it to the register for The Birches, which is about 9 miles south of the camp and there was plenty of space left (holds 12, 3 had signed up) and the weather forecast looks good. So I made up my mind. Tomorrow is Summit Day!!!!! My date with destiny! The mountain has been pulling me pretty strongly the last few days for sure. I am meant to be here and see it through. It so does not feel real to be at the base of it and looking up one mile into the air, to its summit. On the hike today, I would get a few clear looks at the big mountain and it just filled me with awe and joy to such an extent I can't describe it. It is no ordinary mountain and this has not been an ordinary adventure. For me, finishing here is the only way for it to be.
I will go to bed early and hope I can sleep. Will get an early start tomorrow morning.
Our hearts go out to you! Wishing you a safe and inspirational end to your journey. Thanks for sharing your amazing adventure and awesome pictures.
Thanks for supporting me and for being the cool people you are!
So proud of you! Savor every moment.
I am do much. Thank you!
Congrats again, J. This is your day!
Congratulations Jason! I am so inspired and excited for you. I understand the trepidation over returning to urban life. However, you can take Jason out of the AT, but you will never take the AT out of Jason. The trail will always provide for the rest of your life. You are blessed for sure!!!!
Congrats and thanks for the blog!
Might seem very strange to you, but the emotions are here also, so very proud and pleased you were able to complete your journey. Have learned so much from you and have enjoyed the blog everyday and of course loved all the pictures. Hope you feel like talking a lot when we see you, have to hear it all you know.
I guess my comment got lost in space… I was saying that I was excited for you and not having read the last day yet, could just feel the anticipation of what you had ahead. I know the feeling of not wanting something to end, but also that you worked so hard and long that you want to get to the ultimate reward!!! Can't wait to toast your success when you return!
You mean a dog on a leash is even barred from entering that beautiful place? Just wonderin' .
the park does not allow pets of any kind into it, as I understand it.
Thank you. I was excited and very focused for sure. I walked in the footsteps of some giants for sure.


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Prominent during the year under review have been the scientific discussions and the exchange of information between our five Consortia (ALADIN, COSMO, HIRLAM, LACE and UKMO) mainly in our Workshops and to a lesser extend also in the Consortia meetings.
The first workshop of the year was simultaneously the First Workshop of the Lead Centre for Meso-scale Verification whose creation had been decided at the SRNWP Annual Meeting 2000.
The participation at this first meeting with 23 participants was modest which was unexpected as everybody agrees that we do not know how the very high resolution meso-scale models should be verified in general and more specifically how precipitations and cloudiness should be verified. Important recommendations concerning our future work have been made, the most important one concerning a free exchange between EUMETNET Members of all the SYNOPs messages (not only the 3-hourly ones).
Most of the problems discussed were related to the non-hydrostatic two time level dynamics. The main points were the coupling of the physics to the dynamics when using a semi-lagrangian technique and the revival of interest in the semi-implicit technique (the choice of the prognostic variables) and in the Davies-Kallberg relaxation scheme (the dipole and aliasing problem).
It has been much regretted that the ECMWF, for the first time in this meeting series, has not sent a representative.
Unfortunately, in the aftermath of the 11 September tragic events, it has not been possible for our US colleagues to join the meeting. But the participation retains - with the exception of the USA - its worldwide character, which is a very welcome feature of these workshops.
The main conclusion of the workshop is maybe that the split-explicit method seems today to be the most efficient method for time discretization. The trend to the two time level schemes (2TL) has been confirmed, also for the slit-up methods.
It was formally an HIRLAM Workshop which has been extended to a SRNWP Workshop.
Concerning the mountain effects, the main point is the confirmation that our traditional NWP models with terrain following vertical coordinates and same grid for everything (orography, dynamics and physics) have several problems with the orography when the horizontal resolution becomes smaller than 10 km. The remedy is everywhere the same: the orography has to be smoothed. Important was also the conclusion that meso-scale models must also parametrize the mountain gravity wave drag because of its action in the lowest part of the troposphere and at the surface.
Concerning the soil processes, the trend is to leave the ad-hoc models as the force-restore model for explicit multi-layer soil models with the same configuration (number and depth of the layers) for the hydrological and the thermal parts.
Next to these SRNWP Workshops, each Consortia has organised at least two scientific meetings. The Programme Manager participated, next to the HIRLAM Workshop mentioned above, to an ALADIN Workshop (Toulouse, June the 7th) and to the Annual COSMO Meeting (Athens, 5th of October). He could convince himself that the development works made in the different Consortia in 2001 stayed at the same high level as during the previous year. And again he can confirm that all the Consortia are at the same high level of scientific development although the directions or the emphases or the directions taken by the Consortia are not the same. For example HIRLAM devotes a lot of efforts in the variational methods for data analysis when COSMO emphasizes the very high resolution non-hydrostatic modelling.
Another 2001 mile stone concerns the document "NWP Software Exchange between the NWS participating in the EUMETNET C-SRNWP Programme". At its 12th Meeting (6th of April 2001), the EUMETNET Council has accepted our proposal. Now, we have inside EUMETNET a solid basis and a clear procedure when a Member wishes to acquire NWP software from another Member.
The initial TOUGH proposal for a EU Project complementing the activity of the COST Action 716 (Exploitation of Ground Based GPS for Climate and NWP Applications) also foresaw activities on operational issues when at the same time Working Group 4 "Planning for the operational phase" of the Action was working on the subject. The Programme Manager took the initiative to inform the NWS participating in the Action that the operational issues, which are essential for a future operational use of the GPS data, should remain in the responsibility of the COST Action and should later, in the view of the Programme Manager, be coordinated by EUMETNET in the frame of the EUCOS Programme. The initial EU project proposal has eventually been revised and limited its objectives to scientific ones, mainly to the difficult problem of the assimilation of the GPS data by variational techniques.
The "ATOVS Retransmission Service" that EUMETSAT will organise covers Southern Europe much less extensively than Northern Europe. The Programme Manager thought that this was not without a flaw coming from an intergovernmental european institution. Now, the problem is solved: EUMETSAT will implement the scheme as initially defined and in a second step, a southward extention of the coverage will be submitted to the EUMETSAT Council, probably already in 2002.
The SRNWP Annual Meeting 2001, combined as usual with the EWGLAM Meeting, has been organised by the polish Institute for Meteorology and Water Management and took place in Cracow on the 11th and 12th of October. It was a rich meeting with among others a presentation of the BALTEX Project made by Prof. Hantel of the University of Vienna who studies the convection in this Project. As we did it already for the Annual Meeting 2000, we also had a presentation of a EUMETNET Programme: the E-AMDAR Programme has been presented by its Technical Coordinator, Steward Taylor from the UKMO.
The Coordinator of the SRNWP Programme considers it as very important to know how Europe compares with other major countries of the world as the USA, Canada, Japan and Australia in the field of the NWP. To get the best possible picture, he participated to two major Conferences, one in Japan and one in the USA. Although in both Conferences there were ideas that he had not met in Europe, he received confirmation that Europe is by no means neither in model design nor in data assimilation trailing behind. On the contrary. In fields like numerics or 4D-Var, Europe is leading.


Celebrity is all about image. With all of the gossip blogs casting negative images it's only natural that many celebrities have put a lot of money and attention into their own official celebrity websites. Some of these sites are used to promote movies, some to promote charity, some to promote tour dates, and some to simply provide more access for their fan base.


County Road 135, Glenwood Springs, Colorado – Approximately one mile of roadway improvements including widening and realigning to improve drainage. Also included a new waterline alignment to complete the loop of existing water in the area.
4-Mile Road, Glenwood Springs, Colorado – In conjunction with HNTB, Denver, joint city/county engineering study for this county road with aerial mapping.
Fire Station No. 2, Glenwood Springs, Colorado – Site development services for the demolition of the existing fire station and site design of a new fire station and parking area.
U.S. Highway 6 – 2 miles of streetscape improvements including drainage, landscape, and right-of-way work.
Pitkin Avenue – Colorado Avenue – 7th Street – 8th Street – Each of these projects involved intensive road, curb, gutter, sidewalk and utility replacement projects for both residential and commercial property.
Aerial Topography – Established horizontal and vertical control and set panel points for mapping of the entire City and adjacent areas.
Town of Vail, Colorado – Approximately 1 mile of roadway improvements, Gore Creek Road and Matterhorn Circle.
Owl Creek Road Realignment, Town of Snowmass, Colorado – Surveying and engineering for the design of 1/2 mile of road realignment and drainage improvements.
Snowmass Maintenance Facility, Town of Snowmass, Colorado – Site development services for the new $4,000,000, five-acre maintenance facility, including extensive grading, site work and off-site sewer.
Carbondale Town Center, Carbondale, Colorado – Civil engineering design for town municipal building, including value engineering to maintain town budget requirements.
Updating the Master Drainage Plan for Bromley Park Metropolitan District No. 1, which encompasses 3,170 acres of residential, commercial, industrial and open space.
Designing detention facilities, conveyance facilities and storm water infrastructure.


The European Probiotics Association awarded Foods for Health Institute postdoctoral researcher Steven Frese the 2014 Jules Tournut Probiotics Prize for his Ph.D. work. As a graduate student at the University of Nebraska, Frese conducted research in the lab of Jens Walter on host-specificity among vertebrate gut symbionts.
In Walter's Lab, Frese and others studied how a species of Lactobacillus in vertebrate animal hosts evolved to live in different host animals. Using comparative genomics, Frese was able to determine that bacteria pursue different lifestyles that correspond to the physiology of the host; this is the first time someone found host-specificity among vertebrate gut symbionts. Frese worked with Gerald Tannock's team in New Zealand using gnobiotic, germ-free, mice to confirm how one particular bacterial gut symbiont, Lactobacillus reuteri, behaved distinctly in mice by forming a biofilm unique to rodent stomachs.
Jens Walter, now Associate Professor and CAIP Chair for Nutrition, Microbes, and Gastrointestinal Health in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science/Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, notes that Frese's Ph.D. work made "major contributions to our understanding of the biology and evolution of symbiosis between vertebrates and their gut microbe."
Most broadly, Frese was able to show that host adaptation and host specificity are important aspects of host and microbial interaction, and as a result, it is crucial to understand where a particular strain of Lactobacillus comes from if it is intended for use as a human probiotic. This has powerful implications in understanding the nutritional impact of various beneficial bacteria currently used as probiotics, and in filling the knowledge gap on exactly how probiotics work in the human body.
The European Probiotics Association recognized Frese's research to bring about a more rigorous and mechanistic understanding of how probiotics work by awarding him this prestigious international prize. Frese says he was both surprised and honored to receive the Jules Tournut Probiotics award, which he submitted at the urging of UC Davis Professor David Mills.
As a postdoctoral researcher in Dave Mills Lab, Frese is using a pig model for understanding infant gut diseases. Working with Chris Calvert in the Department of Animal Science and Daniela Barile in the Department of Food Science & Technology, Frese is researching how milk glycans are degraded in the gut, by "who," and by what mechanism. Frese is looking to answer these questions using a pig model to conduct studies that cannot be completed in human infants.
Frese says that this kind of work, which is both mechanistic and translational, is something he appreciates about working with Dave Mills. In turn, Mills believes that Frese is a talented addition to UC Davis, and will further enrich the exciting research that makes up the Foods for Health Institute.


I have searched the web and found very little, so I guess it cannot be done! But just in case!
I have a working iA6 RC receiver, but a broken transmitter.
Can I use a Arduino Nano with a 2.4Ghz transceiver module? If I can, how do I find the serial/code/id which will allow the Nano Transmitter to communicate?
Looking to save having to buy a new one, and learn something whist saving.
IF you searched the web already, then give us a little help, too. What did you find for a data sheet on your iA6 RC receiver? You have the receiver and stuff, but we don't.
What 2.4 gHz transceivers did you find that can talk to the receiver? Any data sheets on them?
I found very little with regards to the transmitter, but you can read signals by hooking up the receiver to an Arduino.
This lead me to believe that it is straight forward to code using an iA6 receiver based on what it receives, but nothing from the Transmitter side. I would, I guess, need some tool which can read 2.4Ghz signals and look for changes whilst moving the controls on the transmitter to isolate the signal to that one controller.
So when I see a change from the signal tool, and the serial hooked up to the receiver (via Arduino) I would see the changes. However, even if I had these, I would not have the id / code which would allow my Arduino Transmitter too talk to my receiver (iA6). So I would need to know what ID is sent with each signal to allow my receiver to read it. Also, thinking about it I would also need a working iA6 transmitter, and a tool to read signals.
Perhaps I should just not be cheap and buy a new controller?


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