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You can tell if a fraction is bigger than two wholes. By looking at the numerator and denominator. If the numerator is twice or more than the denominator than you will know that its bigger then two wholes. For example 20/10 it two wholes.
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Sample Actuarial Problems
Apply your math skills to actuarial exam questions.
Actuaries earn professional credentials by passing a series of examinations. This online exam is designed to give you an idea of the types of questions you might encounter on the preliminary actuarial examinations administered by the Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries. The sample problems are actual questions from prior exams, but they do not cover all the topics or all levels of difficulty.
Answer the five multiple choice questions below, then click submit to see your results.
A car dealership sells 0, 1, or 2 luxury cars on any day. When selling a car, the dealer also tries to persuade the customer to buy an extended warranty for the car. Let X denote the number of luxury cars sold in a given day, and let Y denote the number of extended warranties sold.
P(X = 0, Y = 0) = 1 / 6
P(X = 1, Y = 0) = 1/12
P(X = 2, Y = 0) = 1 /12
P(X = 2, Y = 1) = 1 /3
P(X = 2, Y = 2) = 1/6
What is the variance of X?
Let X be a continuous random variable with density function
Calculate the expected value of X.
An auto insurance company insures an automobile worth 15,000 for one year under a policy with a 1,000 deductible. During the policy year there is a 0.04 chance of partial damage to the car and a 0.02 chance of a total loss of the car. If there is partial damage to the car, the amount X of damage (in thousands) follows a distribution with density function
What is the expected claim payment?
An insurance company issues life insurance policies in three separate categories: standard, preferred, and ultra-preferred. Of the company’s policyholders, 50% are standard, 40% are preferred, and 10% are ultra-preferred. Each standard policyholder has probability 0.010 of dying in the next year, each preferred policyholder has probability 0.005 of dying in the next year, and each ultra-preferred policyholder has probability 0.001 of dying in the next year.
A policyholder dies in the next year.
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An insurer's annual weather-related loss, X, is a random variable with density function
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“Trikona” means triangle. Since this Asan when demonstrated gives the appearance of a triangle, it bears the name Trikonasan.
Stand erect keeping the feet two or three feet apart. Now stretch your arms wide on the sides in a line with the shoulders. The palms should fall downwards. Bend to the left slowly and touch the left toes with your left hand. Remain thus for 5 seconds and slowly return to your standing position. Do not bend your legs or hands when you bend down or when you get up. From the standing position bend to your right next and touch your right toe with the right hand. Remain for 5 seconds in this position and then come back to your original standing position. Repeat thus 4 times. This is Trikonasan
Trikonasan tones up the spinal nervers and the abdominal organs, increase peristalsis of the bowels and invigorates the appetite. Constipation is relieved. The body becomes light. Those who suffer from a shortening of the legs due to a fracture of the hip or thigh bone or bones of the leg will be benefited by this Asan. The trunk muscles are contracted and relaxed and stretched. The spine is bent laterally on both sides and the muscles are fully stretched. This Asan keeps the spine very elastic.
“Sava” means ‘dead body’. When one performs this Asan it gives the appearance of a dead body. So it is named Savasan. This is a closing pose. You should do this after doing all the other exercises.
Spread a soft blanket and lie supine (on the back). Keep the hands on the ground by the sides. Let the legs be straight. Keep the heels together and the toes separated. Now relax all the muscles of the body. Breathe slowly and rhythmically. Give up planning and scheming. Keep your eyes closed. Relax all the muscles, the nerves and the organs. Start the relaxation process from the toes upwards. Then proceed to the calf muscles, gastronemius, soleus and plantaries muscles, muscles of the neck, face, etc. Decide on a system. See that the abdominal organs, the heart, chest and the brain are also relaxed. Do not sleep. In this pose you will enjoy perfect peace, ease, comfort and relaxation.
The pleasant and exhilarating feeling can only be realized by those who can successfully do this Asan. Words cannot adequately describe the peace which the practitioner enjoys. Every one of you should enjoy it. If you are tired from hard work, perform this Asan for 5 minutes. You will be fit again to consider your hard work with the same old vigour. This is a blessing for all hard workers.
Uddiyana Bandha
Empty the lungs by strong and forcible expiration. Now contract and forcibly draw up the intestines and also the navel towards the back, so that the abdomen rests against the back of the body high up in the thoracic cavity. He who practises this Bandha constantly conquers death and becomes young. This helps a lot in keeping up Brahmacharya. Uddiyana Bandha is practised during Rechak and at the end of Rechak (exhalation). Uddiyana can be done in a sitting or a standing posture. When you practise this in the standing posture, place your hands on the thighs. Keep the legs apart and bend your trunk slightly.
Uddiyana Bandha imparts good health, strength, vigour and vitality to the practitioner. When it is combined with Nauli Kriya which consists in churning the abdomen, it serves as a powerful gastro-intestinal tonic. Uddiyana Bandha and Nauli Kriya are two potent weapons of the Yogi for combating against constipation, weak peristalsis of the intestines and the gastro-intestinal disorders of the alimentary system.
Nauli Kriya
Nauli Kriya is intended for regenerating, invigorating and stimulating the abdominal viscera and the gastro-intestinal or alimentary system. For the practice of Nauli, you should know Uddiyana Bandha well. Yddiyana Bandha can be done even in a sitting posture ; but Nauli should be done only while standing.
Expire forcibly through the mouth and so keep the lungs completely empty. Contract and forcibly draw the abdominal muscles towards the back. This is Uddiyana Bandha.
For practicing Nauli, stand up. Keep the right leg a foot apart from the left leg. Rest your hands on the thighs. Slightly bend forward. Then do Uddiyana Bandha. Now allow the centre of the abdomen to be free by contracting the left and right side of the abdomen. You will have all the muscles in the centre in a vertical line. This is Madhyama Nauli.
Contract the right side of the abdomen and allow the left side to be free. You will have all the muscles on the left side only. This is Vama Nauli. Again contract the left side muscles and allow the right side to be free. This is Dakshina Nauli. By carrying out such graduated exercises you will understand how to contract the muscles of the central, left and right side of the abdominal muscles. You will also notice how they move from side to side. In this stage you will see the abdominal muscles only in the central, the right or on the left side.
Keep the muscles in the centre. Slowly bring them to the right side and then to the left side in a circular way. Do this several times from right to left and then do it in a reverse way from the left to the right side. When you advance, you may do these more quickly. This last stage of Nauli will appear like ‘churning’ when the abdominal muscles are isolated and rotated from side to side.
When Nauli is demonstrated by advanced students, the onlookers will be extremely surprised to see the movements of the abdominal muscles. They will feel as if an engine were working in the abdominal factory. Those who have a tender body, can very easily learn and perform this Kriya in a beautiful and efficient manner.
Nauli Kriya eradicates chronic constipation, dyspepsia and all other diseases of the gastro-intestinal system. The liver and pancreas are toned up. The kidneys and the other organs of the abdomen are also made to function properly.
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0.032149 | <urn:uuid:526a4fdb-e079-4f9b-8c6a-1f8ae8a4fa7b> | en | 0.961539 | Hidden Obsession by Joanne Rock
Hidden Obsession by Joanne Rock is the first in the Perfect Timing mini-series for Blaze. As in the Perfect Timing anthology, the Sex Through the Ages exhibit is the mechanism for the time travel.
A modern man.
A medieval babe.
Some long-distance relationships are unbelievable
LAPD Weapons expert Graham Lawson is in the midst of investigating a case when he's swept into some kind of elaborate hoax. Because there's no way he's in the Middle Ages... even if the setting is pretty authentic. Fortunately, he's landed in the closet of a delectable gentlewoman named Linnet Welbourne. An excellent vantage point indeed.
Fearing a potentially brutal future, Linnet is desperate to escape. Sure, Graham's sudden appearance in her wardrobe isn't exactly part of the plan-- yet Linnet trusts the peculiarly attired man. As they flee, Graham inadvertently finds himself opening up a whole new world for Linnet-- one free of sexual inhibitions. But even as Linnet's erotic education begins, Graham's eye is returning to his own time... and this could be one lesson he can't finish!
I really liked Perfect Timing and the whole time travel Blaze idea, so when I saw this in the store, I immediately picked it up. Actaully, that's all kinda strange since I really usually stay away from time travels. But anyways...I really liked this story. I'd say you need to read it with the idea that this is a fun read, not a deep one. No nitpicking about historical accuracies or anything like that. But once you set that idea behind, it's a fun, sexy book.
Graham is an LAPD detective working part-time as a weapons consultant for an action movie. He's also working on a strange case involving medieval weapons and sexual torture. Some evidence points to the Sex Through the Ages exhibit as maybe having something to do with the case, so he heads over to look at it. And well, ends up in medieval England. To be exact, in a wardrobe in a woman's bedroom in medieval England.
The wardrobe belongs to Linnet. She's a virtual prisoner after being promised to a tyrant. Linnet is understandably surprised to find a man in her bedroom. Yet she finds herself trusting Graham as they escape from the castle and set out on the lam. I dunno quite how it worked in the book, but I bought into it. And then there's the dildo that actually ties into Graham's case. Yup, you heard that right. Oh, and the chastity belt. *grin* Like I said, it's a fun book. I liked both Linnet and Graham. Time travel always boggles my mind if I think too much about it, so I decided not to. SO if you think you can do the same, I recommend picking this one up.
I think I'll try to get the next Perfect Timing book, too. It's Highland Fling by Jennifer LaBrecque. Should be interesting. Maybe I should make Màili read it. I mean, wouldn't it be cool to see her head explode?
Suisan said...
This sounds cute.
But I'm confused--there's an anthology too? Or this is the first in the series which includes an anthology.
Overthinking leads to confusion...
Nicole said...
There's an anthology titled Perfect Timing that kicked off the mini-series. But every story is a standalone. Only the Sex Through the Ages exhibit (and the guard for it) is in every one. | http://bloghappy.blogspot.com/2006/06/hidden-obsession-by-joanne-rock.html | dclm-gs1-181981087 |
0.039556 | <urn:uuid:9df683fb-fc22-4a36-a7e9-d40128b40f12> | en | 0.971235 | Is Seattle Public Schools putting money on its promise to close the opportunity gap?
Seattle Public Schools released its annual Report Card a few weeks ago, with bad news about a central part of their mission – closing opportunity gaps in the district. As reported by the Times “[p]assing algebra by the end of eighth grade is traditionally viewed as an early indicator of college readiness. But Seattle is losing ground on this important benchmark. And when examined group by group, the numbers become even starker. Only 18 percent of black eighth-graders had completed algebra last June, a decline of 6 percentage points from 2014. White students, while lagging a bit on this measure, still show 58 percent passing algebra by the end of eighth grade.”
SPS District Scorecard Board Presentation
I spent four years teaching middle school math to students who were almost all represented by the small orange bars on this chart, and worked hard to understand and attempt to fight the structural barriers and racism that faced those students as they tried to pass Algebra. This news hit me hard, and I wanted to understand why a progressive and prosperous district like Seattle was failing to close the gap. I’m in a class at the College of Education at the University of Washington about school finance, so the first question that came to my mind was “where’s the money?” Perhaps this gap has persisted because SPS is failing to ‘put money where their goals are’ in terms of student achievement. I started downloading Excel data files from the WA OSPI website to try and find out.
Allocating resources with equity in mind
Seattle is unique in the state of Washington in that it allocates money to schools based on the characteristics of the students in the school, as opposed to the more traditional per staff model. As stated in their 2017-18 budget report, they consider this a ‘priority-based’ budgeting process that should align resources to the strategic goals they set. The district “allocates budget and staff to schools based on the number of students and their characteristics. The formula used for school allocations is called the Weighted Staffing Standards (WSS) model. The WSS model uses projected enrollment numbers to determine the instructional staff levels needed for each school to provide the necessary services for its students. The model also allocates non-instructional staff such as administrators, office staff, counselors and librarians and discretionary funds.”
Their budget report shows in detail the amount of money the WSS allocates to schools, and they even help break down why schools with similar numbers of students would be budgeted for differing amounts. I was left curious, however about what was actually spent. The only ‘per building’ expenditure data available to download is the total salary information for certificated staff members at schools. This salary spending can be used as a good indicator of equitable funding, considering that salary, insurance, and benefits spending accounts for more than 70% of total expenditures at the school level. I broke the salary data down by grade and FTE assignment, and calculated a per pupil salary spending amount by dividing by the total number of 6th-8th graders in the school.
Where are the 6th-8th graders in SPS who identify as black? How do their test results compare?
Using enrollment data I found 1,731 of 10,699 6-8th graders enrolled in SPS for school year 2015-16 identify as black. 65% of these students attend 5 of 21 middle or K-8 schools in the district. All five are south of downtown or in West Seattle, which makes sense considering Seattle’s demographics, and are the larger more traditional middle schools in the SPS system. They are also higher in the percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch.
Description of Seattle schools with the most and least black 6th-8th graders
Then I dug into the Smarter Balanced Assessment data to find measures of student achievement in math. OSPI intends to report on Algebra completion rates, but this information isn’t yet publically available. I found the percentage of students who met the SBA standard (that means they scored a ‘basic’, level 3, or level 4), the percentage who got a Level 4, and the percentage that got a Level 1 averaged across grades 6, 7, and 8. There were significant gaps in this data, as OSPI suppresses the results for small student groups at the schools so as not to potentially reveal personal information. Just as the SPS report said, I found that the black student group had consistently lower scores than the average for all groups, and significantly lower scores than the white student group. This held true in both the schools with a larger proportion of black middle schoolers, and those schools with very few black students.
2015-16 Math SBA results by school and student sub-group
In the top 5 schools for black enrollment, the black student group average tended to be at or above the average for the district, though still far behind the other student groups.
Spending and student results – is there a connection?
After pulling together the demographic, financial, and student test score data, I went looking for a relationship between what SPS pays its certificated staff and the scores for students in those buildings. Does the district spend less in schools with more black students? As the figure below shows, there was actually very little relationship between the percentage of black students and the per pupil salary spending at the school. If anything, there was a slightly positive correlation which would indicate that the WSS was succeeding in sending more money to those schools serving a higher proportion of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch.
Per Pupil Salary Spending by the % of students who identify as black
I graphed the student group results against the per pupil salary spending to try and observe any other relationship. As shown below, student performance on the SBA seems unrelated to growth in per pupil spending, which is consistent with national research on student spending as it relates to student achievement.
What held true across per pupil spending amounts was black students performing lower as a group than white students.
Interestingly, when comparing the percentage of students who got a Level 4 and Level 1, we can see a slightly negative relationship between per pupil spending and test scores. This again may indicate that the SPS WSS strategy is getting dollars where students are struggling.
It’s important to remember that there is a lot missing from this picture, like the other 30% or so of school spending on programs, supplies, and extracurricular activities. It also has no measure for the small but important difference PTA funds may make. Also, test scores are not a perfect measure of student achievement, but they do give us a window into the persistent structural barriers that our students face in their math classrooms. From my quick math, though, it does seem like SPS is putting their money where their goals are, even if that goes to show that there is still a lot more work to do. | http://blogs.uw.edu/danyac/ | dclm-gs1-181991087 |
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Phone Bill
Here's a expense from a few days ago I forgot to log here... my home phone bill was $33.10. I have really been thinking hard lately about canceling my home phone service and just using my cell phone. I like the convenience of it - not having to carry the cell phone with me all around the house and having an effective way of filtering telemarketers. I also LOVE my home phone number. :) However, I also know it is probably a silly expense in the scheme of things. What do you think? have any of you dumped your home phone and what do you consider the pros and cons?
1. When I lived alone, I didn't have a land line. Part of the reason was that my apartment was small enough for me to hear my cell phone all over the house and the other was I thought of it as an unnecessary expense since the only people who would call me on it were my parents and telemarketers.
My parents have yet to dump the land line, even though we are all aware that it is an added expense we don't need right now. They keep it because of our extended family. My dad, who is notoriously bad at answering his cell anyway, lives 1,000 miles from his mother, brothers, and sister and having a land line that someone will answer (especially at night) is a good thing. My mother's parents are older, and while they have a cell phone, they don't really get it, if you know what I mean. Even though they know my mom isn't at home or is at work, they call the house first.
In our case, having the land line is a good thing, but if you can't think of several good reasons to keep it, then I would get rid of it.
2. We dumped our home phone. We use cell phones all the time(cheapest plan),and I use skype and oovoo to all family in other states and countries.
3. we dumped our home phone, but first we turned the ringer off and sorta tested it out on how it would be without the home phone, did that for a bout 6 months with no prob so we ditched it.
4. We still have our landline just for the internet,(I'm from England)and us older members of the family each have a pay as you go mobile phone.We've saved pounds 'cos once you've used up your credit its up to you to top up.Cheap tariff and basic phones. | http://budgetconfidential.blogspot.com/2010/11/phone-bill.html | dclm-gs1-182041087 |
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EDOUARD-LEON SCOTT: The First Recorded Sound in History Was About Clowns
Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to record sound. A Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville actually did it earlier.
He invented a device called the phonautograph, and, on April 9, 1860, recorded someone singing the words, "Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit." But he never had any intention of playing it back. He just wanted to study the pattern the sound waves made on a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp.
"Au clair de la lune
Mon ami Pierrot
Prête-moi ta plume
Pour écrire un mot
Ma chandelle est morte
Je n'ai plus de feu
Ouvre-moi ta porte
Pour l'amour de Dieu"
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0.025274 | <urn:uuid:f25930c0-d1b6-45e0-9292-e44009d3a380> | en | 0.964029 | Music, Music, Music
Like so many of you, I'm a lover of music. My favorite choices run the gamut from the 1940's crooners along with Big Band to the current artist Lou Bega, performing Mambo #5. I cannot stay still when I hear that zesty little number! Having spent my formative years in ballet class, I've also come to have a great love and interest in classical music when my soul longs for soothing moments, while jazz and classic rock play a part in my nearly daily choices too. Most of my Cd's are compilations of these favorites I've put together myself.
What I most love about music is that when my quiet time or my aching heart have no words because of the pressing issues of life, I find that music can bridge the gap or speak my heart for me.
There are times in my life, and only God could do this, when my world was crashing down yet despite all the outward circumstances, I was waking up with praise music in my heart. I knew that wasn't coming from me, but from prayers that were lifted up on my behalf for my current dilemma.
Psalm 28:7 says:
The Lord is my strength and shield.
my heart trusts in Him and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy
And I will give thanks to Him in song.
I have an older CD that I listen to during different periods of my life and when I "rediscover" it, I chide myself for not listening to it more often. Recently when I pulled out this CD, it had a different effect on me than ever before now that I'm in recovery meetings. The title is Along The Road and the performers are Ashton, Becker and Dente. The album title and song of the same name on the CD are by Dan Folgelberg. However, there are a few selections on this album that really soothe my soul and lead me into trust, faith and calm when needed. To me, it's an awesome and clear reminder of the daily choices that come my way.
If you click on today's post title, you will be taken to a list of the cuts from this CD (#10 on the playlist) and you can listen along if you'd like.
What Am I
Used to be my life was a page of white
Then You wrote Your name on my heart
And I began to see the image clear with every line
As You became the author of my soul, so the story goes
Now every day I stand before two roads
And every day I'm faced with a choice
To follow other signs or read the writing on my heart
But one is always fiction, one is true, so You're the road I choose,
'Cause what am I without You, what am I
And looking at the pages in the story of my life
The core of my existence flows from You, from any point of view
So what am I without You, what am I and what's the use
What am I without You, what am I
Wayne Kirkpatrick & Billy Sprague
© 1994 Emily Boothe, Inc. / Magic Beans Music (BMI) / Skin Horse, Inc. / BENCAP (ASCAP)
God's peace to you!
cedrorum said...
You've summed up the way I feel about music as well. I can still get goosebumps listening to certain songs I've heard for 30 years now. I can feel certain songs actually move through my body. It is something not all people understand. Since having going to college in 1992 and then having our 5 and 8 year old I haven't played my bass or guitar in that time. I recently broke them out again and am starting to play again. I feel I've gained back a part of my soul.
Lou said...
I'm so happy that sometimes the words that used to make you cry, can now lift your heart. Very nice post, and I'm going to give the songs a listen.
P.S. Phoebe was looking for you this morning:)
TraceyBaby said...
I am turning into a music addict. I spend so much time listening to my playlists on the internet. I have at least six going so far. Time to get an iPod. | http://enablinglove.blogspot.com/2008/09/music-music-music.html | dclm-gs1-182311087 |
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You’ve most likely noticed that excessive weight gain will cause a plethora of health conditions, together with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
Why Your Body Stores Toxins In Fat Cells
Back within the 1980s the Environmental Protection Agency conducted a program known as the National Human adipose tissue Survey.
They discovered that all human fat samples contained traces of four industrial solvents and one dioxin. nine more chemicals, as well as three more dioxins and one furan were found in more than ninety percent of the fat samples. And on the average, 83 percent of the samples had PCBs.
What are dioxins?
Dioxins are a category of chemical contaminants that are shaped throughout combustion processes like waste incineration, forest fires, and backyard trash burning, furthermore as throughout some industrial processes like paper pulp bleaching and herbicide producing.
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Toxins, like vitamins, are often divided into two categories:
Water-soluble toxins: that are simply flushed out of the body via the blood and kidneys.
Fat-soluble toxins: that should be converted by the liver to become water soluble (3).
Fat-soluble toxins include pesticides, preservatives, food additives, heavy metals, pollutants, plastics and different environmental chemicals.
Your first Line of Defense – Liver
The liver produces bile, a greenish-yellow fluid that’s stored within the gallbladder. it’s essential for digesting fats and for eliminating worn-out red blood cells and certain toxins from your body.
During digestion, the gut becomes by selection permeable so the lymphatic system could obtain absorbed fats and carry them to the liver. Sensible fats then get turned into cholesterol, cell membranes, hormones, brain cells and skin cells.
Bad fats ar processed and marked for elimination through bile, that is absorbed by insoluble fiber and exits the body as fecal matter or normally called poop.
This is the explanation why eating diet high in dietary fiber is so important.
How Does The Lymphatic System Contribute?
Gut Associated Lymphatic Tissue, is the lymphatic tissue which surrounds the entire intestinal tract.
As mentioned on top of, this tissue absorbs and processes each nutritionary and hepatotoxic fats from the digestive system and transports it into the lymphatic system.
For this method to figure, each the biological process tissue and also the lymphatic tissue should be healthy.
Here are a few signs of a congested GALT :
• Bloating
• Allergies
• Holding extra weight around your belly
• Hypersensitivities
• Skin irritations or itching
• Joint stiffness
• Swollen hands and feet
• Elimination concerns (constipation or diarrhea)
• Occasional headaches
How To Get Rid Of Toxins
Food allergies, excessive weight, poor diet and high stress levels all contribute to this. Instead, do the following to assist your body flush out toxins naturally.
1. Get Fit
Leading an energetic lifestyle can keep you young and healthy and stop toxic overload. Sweating can help your body expel toxins through your skin.
In addition, the a lot of you progress, the a lot of you stimulate your lymphatic system and cardiovascular system. Keeping these two system healthy can guarantee correct waste removal.
2. Detox
Periodically detoxifying your liver can keep it from turning into congested. There are several safe & natural ways that to accomplish this method.
Additionally, the a lot of toxins you expose yourself to, the more durable your body needs to work to eliminate them. Purchase organic foods whenever you’ll and clean your home with natural products.
3. Eat Well
It’s vital to make sure you get enough dietary fiber to soak up your bile. Fruits, calciferous vegetables and whole grains (quinoa, oatmeal, teff) all do a wonderful job and are filled with important nutrients.
It’s also vital to respect any food sensitivities that you simply might have, like milk and protein, which can cause a lot of inflammation.
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Dog Whistling Dave II
The important thing about dog whistles is that they are deniable. The whistler should be able to adopt a look of wounded innocence and declare, "I never meant it to be taken like that." So it should surprise no-one that David Cameron and the Tories are now denying he suggested that state funded trips to Auschwitz were a 'gimmick.' (1)
The line (2) being spun is that the 'gimmick' aspect referred to the Government's filure to fully fund the initiative, requiring schools to contribute part of the cost:
Their remarks came after Cameron criticised Brown during a speech in Bolton for being "obsessed with short term gimmicks". In a briefing note to explain the speech the Conservative press office listed 26 "gimmicks". Fourth on the list was trips to Auschwitz.
The Conservative leader believes the government announced a "gimmick" when it said it would provide £4.65m for the Holocaust Educational Trust's Lessons from Auschwitz programme. The Tories believe this has not lived up to its billing because schools are asked to contribute £100 towards the £350 cost of taking each pupil.
A Tory spokesman said: "School trips to Auschwitz are a brilliant idea. However, by announcing these trips without providing the necessary funding the government has - in classic fashion - hidden the detail in the small print.
"Under a Conservative government these trips would be funded in full and schools would not have to find £100 per pupil from their budgets." (3)
Where does this leave us? Good question. It could be as the Tories are suggesting. Or it might not be. The original briefing (4) makes it clear that it is the funding that is the gimmick, not the trips themselves:
4. Trips to Auschwitz
• In fact schools would have to find £100 to fund every sixth-former’s trip (Times, 4 February 2008) (5)
That doesn't clear it from being a dog whistle, though it is in Cameron's favour. It is the effect of the message on the target audience that is important. We'll have to see how that develops in the nastier reaches of the internet, where sublties don't matter.
One interesting point is that the way clumsy reporting of the story may have, in effect, turned it into what it was originally described as - the original point los tunder the gibbering claims (I bow my head in shame for having contribute in my own small way) that Cameron was playing politics with the Holocaust. Trying to Brand Cameron as racist, anti-Semitic or ruthlessly power-hungry would be very desirable the more ammoral in Labour, and they might not be above fomenting a little racism in putting the idea out there. Shame on them if it is so.
1 - As described previously on lefthandpalm:
2 - 'Cameron under fire for Holocaust 'gimmick' remark,' by Nicholas Watt in the Guardian, 23rd of February, 2008. (
3 - ibid.
4 - 'Brown's governemnt by gimmick,' briefing notes released by the Conservative Party, 22nd of February, 2008. (
5 - ibid.
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Q1. How much body fat do you need to lose?
Q2. What is the time frame? (a realistic level is 0.5-1kg per week)
Next, is the exercise. What type of exercise are you going to do? When are you going to do it? You can't achieve long-term success if you don't plan your exercise.
Q3. What type of exercise are you going to do?
Q4. What days will you do it?
Q5. What time will you do it?
Q6. Who will you do it with?
Q7. Do you need to buy any equipment?
Finally, your eating plan. You need to plan every single meal and snack. I know it's takes time but you can't succeed without it. Remember, you not only have to avoid foods high in fat, but also foods high in sugar.
Q8. What will you have for breakfast each morning?
Q9. What will you have for lunch? Do you need to prepare it the night before?
Q10. What will you have for dinner?
Q11. Do you snack? What will you snack on?
Each of these questions need to be answered if you wish to succeed. Sit down right now and do your list. Then you will have your detailed plan for successful fat loss! | http://my-health-inf.blogspot.com/2009/03/weight-loss-goal-setting-for-success.html | dclm-gs1-183041087 |
0.04981 | <urn:uuid:0d01cb77-38f0-4e0a-974f-4da1aa17b525> | en | 0.976293 | Tarbert, Argyll, 26 December 1883 - James E Maclarty
JAMES E. MACLARTY, General Merchant (46)—examined.
46698. The Chairman
—What is the nature of your business; do you deal in drapery and dry goods?
—Yes, and all sorts of goods.
46699. Do you find in your trade as it stands now, compared with what it was a few years ago, evidence of increasing welfare and resources on the part of the people ?
—Most undoubtedly —very marked.
46700. Is that with reference both to food and to dress?
—Yes, with reference both to food and to dress.
46701. With regard to the matter of food, is there more wheat flour consumed, for instance, as distinguished from oats and barley ?
—Yes, there is more, and the food of the people is very much altered from what it was perhaps twenty years ago. There is still a considerable quantity of oatmeal consumed, but a t the same time they live better. The circumstances of the people have so improved that they live better. They use a better class of provisions, and have a more plentiful supply of them.
46702. More and better?
—More and better.
46703. Is there a great increase in the consumption of tea?
—There was always a good consumption of tea at Tarbert, and it still keeps up.
46704. Is there a diminution or increase in the quantity of coffee sold?
—There is a diminution in this way that there is not the same quantity used away from home. In all the boats they used to have a supply of coffee, but they do not have it now. It is principally tea and tinned meats and tinned milk. They are getting into the use of these things now.
46705. What do they take in the boats with them ?
—Tea, sugar, perhaps a little coffee, preserved milk, preserved beef, and wheaten bread.
46706. Is it common for a crew to take preserved beef with them?
—It is becoming common.
46707. Then as to those that take meat with them to sea in their boats, how many nights are they away ?
—I speak of the week's supply.
46708. But you do not know how many nights they are away from home ?
—When they are away from home it is not in our own immediate neighbourhood. They go away early on Monday morning, and return on Friday night or Saturday morning.
46709. And they would take away a week's provisions with them ?
46710. Are they in the habit of taking spirituous liquors?
—No, not as a rule. That will be an exception.
46711. In regard to dress, do they buy a better and a more substantial quality of things, or finer things ?
—The ladies buy finer things, but the gentlemen dress very much the same, only they get a more abundant supply perhaps, more than they did in former years.
46712. Do they make greater use of waterproof stuffs?
—They do—rather a wasteful use sometimes.
46713. Wasteful in what respect?
—I mean they do not grudge to buy new things. If a coat or a pair of trousers gets old, they don't grudge to buy new things. They like to keep themselves comfortable from the damp or wet —much more so than they did formerly.
46714. We understand there is nothing done in the way of truck, barter, or interchange of commodities at all?
—Nothing whatever.
46715. Did you ever hear that such a system formerly existed in this part of the country ?
—Not here.
46716. The fishing people of Loch Fyne lie under no obligation to anybody that the labouring class elsewhere do not incur ?
46717. Professor Mackinnon
—You have been connected with the trade of the place all your life ?
—Yes, except a short time I was in Glasgow.
46718. And you have known about it through your family for a long time back ?
46719. In those exceptionally bad years when the fishing was a failure in the place, although people were harder up than in a good year, they were able afterwards to pay up ?
—Yes, the people are honest, and no matter how they fell behind—though it might be for five or six years—when the time came that success attended their efforts, they always paid up. I never had a bad debt with any one, and so long as a man lived I never despaired of his debt and always got paid eventually. The people are honest, industrious, and always willing to pay.
46720. And they are able to lay by more money than they formerly did?
46721. But there is not a system of insurance against accident or loss of life ?
—That would not be of very much service here, for really there are very few accidents. In twenty years I do not think three boats have been lost. It would really be of very little service here.
46722. And since the trawling has been recognised there has been no loss of gear to speak of?
—Well, nets get torn, but these are usually made up, and at the expense of a few pounds at the outside. It might be an advantage for the people to have a mutual insurance society—that is, to insure their lives. If that could be introduced among them it might be an advantage, but so far as insurance of gear is concerned I do not think it would be of advantage.
46723. Do you remember the time when the people were engaged on land and in fishing at the same time?
—I remember one or two places on the other side of the loch, where there was a very prosperous community, but they died out and some of them emigrated.
46724. Did they take more of their livelihood from the land or from the sea ?
—They did not prosecute the fishing with the same rigour that we do now-a-days. They went during the summer mouths when the weather was fine, and returned to work their crofts in harvest, and they were also engaged on the crofts in spring. They did not follow the fishing in the systematic manner in which we do now, because we have reduced it to a trade and science. Our men are east, west, north, and south; if the fishing is not prosperous at home, they go wherever it is to be had.
46725. As the conditions of fishing now are, you do not think it would be an advantage to have land?
—No; I do not think that land would be an advantage to the fishing.
46726. They could not work the fishing so successfully as they do if they had land ?
46727. So even if it were possible it would not be desirable that they should have it ?
—I do not think so.
46728. That of course has reference to this particular place ?
—Yes. I think the same remark will apply to Ardrishaig.
46729. I mean the whole of Loch Fyne ?
46730. The great development of the fishing is partly due to the ready market ?
—Yes, and better prices.
46731. And partly to the more energetic prosecution of it by the people themselves ?
—Yes, we are very much indebted to the system of sending fish to Glasgow so early in the morning by these screw steamers, which enables them to get much better prices than they formerly got.
46732. With respect to a close time, what would be your own opinion about that—whether it would not be desirable that there should be a close time ?
—Most assuredly it would be desirable to have a close time. So far as I am aware there is a law at present, but it is not enforced, prohibiting fishing during the twenty-four hours of the Sabbath. Certainly we find it to be our experience here, that the Monday night's fishing is the best of the week, showing that the rest from Saturday till Monday night brings the fish in close to the shore where they are more accessible.
46733. I suppose there is not much Saturday night fishing, because there is not a Sunday market ?
—I think there is a Sunday market. They do not scruple to buy. They take the fish up on the Monday morning, and have the chance of the two days. But our men have not done anything for years on the Sunday, and what we complain of is that other men come and take advantage of the Sabbath rest.
46734. I suppose you consider it a grievance that the people here are injured by their own supply being made less, and the prices being spoiled for the Monday market ?
—What we wish is that we should all be put on an equal footing, that the law as it stands should be enforced, and that we have the rest on the Sabbath carried out and secured to us. We have a cruiser on the coast, and one or two boats have been seized, but the law has not been rigorously enough enforced to have a complete observance of the Sabbath rest.
46735. You obey it voluntarily, and you wish that others should be compelled to obey it ?
—We find it to be our advantage to do so.
46736. And I suppose that is quite the feeling of the whole of the people of this place ?
—I believe it is the feeling of the community.
46737. The Chairman.
—And there would be no great inconvenience to the great markets either in Glasgow or the north of England?
—Not the slightest.
46738. Professor Mackinnon,
—They would get the fish at least by the Monday afternoon ?
—There might be no fish upon Monday. There might be on Monday afternoon. If all observed the law there would be no fish sent in practically till late on the Monday, and then there would be an increased take on the Tuesday, as it is invariably the case that the Tuesday's take is the best of the week.
46739. The Chairman
—But one of the previous witnesses said that the fish could be delivered in Glasgow on Monday afternoon ?
—After a certain season—we shall say after 20th September.
46740. But not in summer?
—Not in summer.
46741. Professor Mackinnon.
—It would be daylight in summer by the time you could get a chance of getting at the fish ?
—Yes, till about the 20th September.
46742. After that date there would be sufficient darkness to catch some fish on the Monday morning, and send it up to Glasgow that day ?
46743. The Chairman.
— Can they not catch herring by daylight ?
—They do it at certain seasons, and in certain circumstances, but not as a rule. The best fishing is got at night.
46744. Sheriff Nicolson.
—Is the population of Tarbert increasing considerably within your recollection ?
—Yes, very much so.
46745. Is it steadily increasing ?
—It has increased about two hundred in the last decade.
46746. What do the additional inhabitants do—do the men follow their fathers in the profession of fishermen?
—Yes, always.
46747. Do any of them migrate to other places, or do they stay at home ?
—The boys stay at home as a rule.
46748. Do they continue to live with their fathers, or do they set up house for themselves ?
—Some of them do remain at home, but the bulk of the boys make settlements for themselves as soon as possible. Fishermen, as a rule, are blest with large families, and the boys get out as soon as they can.
46749. Are any considerable number of them employed as sailors ?
—No. The fishing is much more profitable than going to sea.
46750. Are any of them enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve ?
—Not at present. We had a number at one time, but we have a Volunteer corps here.
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Are You a "DomesticTerrorist"?
So that means if I had joined the Iraq war protestors a few years ago, a very small "nonviolent protest" in our quaint little town of Norwich, NY, I might have been labelled a "domestic terrorist"! This is an outrage.
Computers listening to my calls to Ireland (if the search words are Bush I'm sunk), outsourcing of torture, flagrant disregard for the constitution, what next? Rounding up people like me and holding us captive indefinitely without access to a lawyer? Things are getting very Orwellian wouldn't you say?
Congress has a solemn obligation to carry out a full investigation into these grave breaches of our constitutional liberties. If they don't, our country is lost.
Where are the Democrats??? With all these outrages, this is their chance to step up to the plate and actually mean something. Why aren't they SCREAMING????????????????? | http://onaridge.blogspot.com/2005/12/are-you-domesticterrorist.html | dclm-gs1-183171087 |
0.039804 | <urn:uuid:d220ff28-7dc7-41b3-8966-0bb56ffc2333> | en | 0.970689 | 36 Weeks!
How far along? 36 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Total of 8lbs
Stretch marks? same old same old
Best moment this week: We did our maternity photos! Can't wait to see them!
Movement: Bubby is really good at making me run to the bathroom! He punches my bladder HARD and loves to push his butt up between my lungs!
Food cravings: Chocolate Milk
Gender: Still a boy...
Labor signs: Lots of Braxton Hicks this week
What I miss: Being able to bend over without getting out of breath. Should have seen me shaving my legs this week. Geez!
What am I looking forward too: Those sweet sweet sleepy newborn moments!
Weekly Wisdom: Take pictures, LOTS of pictures!
Milestones: Bubby's bones are fully formed! His bones are ready, but his lungs still need a little more time to develop!
And a few Halloween belly pictures... I was brave, I'm a pretty modest person so it took some guts for me to do this and actually share pictures. Please ignore my pasty white skin and the icky stretch marks! LOL!
Just A Random Update...
I promise to be a better blogger once I get these last few weeks of school done. I'm SO close to finishing up my BIO classes (aside from scheduling my finals), but it's taking up a lot of my time! I'm sitting at the table with Boogie while she eats her new favorite breakfast... cheerios and milk! Yea, MILK! This child has been adamant about not drinking cow's milk, but since I've introduced her to the world of cereal and milk, she's all for it! LOL!
Anyways, I'll be 35 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I cannot believe it! This pregnancy has gone by SO fast I still feel like I'm grasping at the fact that we're going to be a family of four! Everything is ready for Bubby, all we have left to do is pack our bags and install his car seat. Although... I think we're going to just wait until he's here to do that, J can do it while I'm in the hospital. The way our belts and child latch system is in our van we will have to move Boogie back to the very back seat, and there's no way my big belly can squeeze back there to unbuckle her! So.... yea. Not doing that until after Bubby is born :)
We are doing our maternity photos on Monday evening, I'm so excited! We were supposed to have them done last weekend but our photographer (who is also pregnant!) got really sick and needed to rest! I think it will work out better this weekend though, the fall colors in our beautiful mountains are gorgeous right now!
Boogie is a mess this week, she has made me laugh so much this week with her crazy antics! She is newly obsessed with Cinderella... or in her words, "Cindarellwa", and I can't tell you how much I love it.... it's so much better than Minnie Mouse! LOL! We just got the movie two weekends ago and that's all she wants to watch now! She's also gotten a few books and some of these tiny princess dolls with clothing. (She's really into dressing her dolls and such, so this was a great toy!) She's getting so big, and her vocabulary continues to amaze me. She's slowly but surely learning her ABC's, numbers, and colors. Her colors need a lot more work, but we're getting there. As soon as my classes are done I plan on getting more organized and really start Tot School with her. She loves to learn and do crafts (at least some crafts) so I'm sure she'll enjoy a little more of that on our schedule!
Last weekend on J's days off we did some Halloween and fall crafts and even managed a short trip to the pumpkin patch. We painted pumpkins, made Halloween snacks (well... mommy and daddy made the snacks lol), glued fall leaves onto a paper tree, etc etc. The pumpkin patch was a bust, but at least Boogie enjoyed the animals! I will share some pictures tomorrow or Monday of that fun stuff.
Other than that everything is pretty good around here, J is working a lot of course, but he's still managed to spend time with both Boogie and myself. Bubby continues to grow and get stronger, he's measuring right on and doing well. I feel like my nose is constantly buried in the computer doing homework, I've been leaving facebook up on one of my tabs while I do hw so that I have a reprieve between assignments and can have some "social" interactions lol. I'm still very overwhelmed by everything, but it's not nearly as bad now that my LIT class is over! I'm sure I'll update with pictures soon, as well as with maternity pics sometime this week! Until then... God Bless!
34 Weeks
How far along? 34 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Total of 10lbs
Stretch marks? same old same old
Best moment this week: Hiccups!
Gender: Still a boy...
Labor signs: Lots of Braxton Hicks this week
Weekly Wisdom: Don't let those hormones take over!
Desperate for Sleep
I am at a complete loss. It doesn't matter what time this child goes to bed... either a noisy neighbor is waking her up or she's getting up at her own at 5am every freaking morning. I'm exhausted. Granted, J gets up with Boogie most mornings, but on his double shift days I do. I stay up doing homework, and at this stage in my pregnancy I'm not sleeping well anymore. I toss and turn (or should I say flop? because that's what it feels like now) all night, I don't have a restful sleep... I'm burnt out. I'm short with her, I'm impatient with her, I snap at her.... and I HATE that. She doesn't understand obviously but she does know that mommy is upset and somehow it's her fault. So she gets upset and then has a bad rest of the day. What do I do? How can we get her to sleep longer? We've tried earlier bedtimes, later bedtimes, making her room dark, allowing the hall light in her room, later naps, earlier naps.... nothing is working! What am I going to do when I'm awake every few hours with Bubby and even more tired than I am now and she does this?
If you haven't heard of it, Influenster is this great site where you can review and give your opinions on a wide variety of products! I haven't been a very active member because I felt that the old layout was a little awkward and confusing to click through.... but they've "remodeled"!
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So...what exactly is Influenster? So glad you asked. Here’s a handy definition that would make Merriam-Webster proud:
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It was a dark and stormy night…wait, that’s not right. Influenster was started in 2010 by a team of people just like you: culture and beauty junkies with a whole lot of opinions about everything. We wanted a place to come together to share our opinions and hear what other people like us had to say about products and services. The goal? To learn what other influencers care about and to help brands make products that better serve us. After so many hours of labor, out popped Influenster -- an active community where real people share their experiences and give feedback to improve the products we use and the world we live in (yeah, we went there).
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Five Question Friday
Sorry I've been MIA so often lately... school is kicking my butt and any downtime I have I'm spending with Boogie or resting! Nearing the end of this pregnancy and the exhaustion has hit!
1. Did you have any homecoming traditions?
Well, that depends on what kind of homecoming we're talking about... I'm assuming you mean high school homecoming? If so, then no not really. When I was in band it was a big deal kind of... but other than that it was and still is just another day. Now church homecoming... before my home church became a little bit more 'with it' and popular it was your typical Southern Baptist small town church, and that meant homecoming consisted of good home cooking! Yummo!
2. Do you ask your spouse before spending money?
For large purchases, yes. For groceries and small splurges, no. He DOES make the money, but I manage the money ;-)
3. If you could be famous for something, what would it be?
I'd love to be a musician... even though I've put music on the back-burner since getting married and becoming an adult, it's still a huge part of my life!
4. Have you ever seriously thought you were going crazy?
Lord, yes. Becoming a parent does that sometimes! Especially on days when your child(ren) are CRAZY!
5. How do you eat your steak? Burger?
Well-done... no mooing burgers/steaks here!
Vacation 2012
This was Saturday night when Boogie wouldn't sleep
At our favorite Christmas store in Pigeon Forge
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0.138328 | <urn:uuid:5f105b73-08ae-4fdb-86a3-4617912f4f74> | en | 0.967176 | Wednesday, June 11, 2014
What Happens When Your Discipleship Pastor Goes Missing?
By Eric Geiger
Leaders and organizations make decisions all the time. They choose a direction, allocate resources, and execute. Often there are unintended implications, sometimes good and sometimes bad. The unintended implications don’t necessarily reveal themselves immediately but are often more understood as time passes.
In the last 6-8 years, the role of “minister of education” or “discipleship pastor” has been diminishing in many churches. For those unfamiliar with the role, for many years, in churches of 200 or more, a minister of education/discipleship pastor was often hired to lead all the “education” or discipleship ministries of the church. The staff member typically provided direction to the adult groups either directly or through a team and led staff and leaders assigned to other age groups. So in those churches, a kids ministry director/pastor and student ministry director/pastor reported to the minister of education.
Depending on the context, there may be multiple reasons why churches moved away from the role. One, of course, was financial. Some churches and church leaders viewed the “minister of education” as middle management. And we know what happens to middle management in a financial crisis. Instead of leading through the minister of education/discipleship pastor, senior pastors/executive pastors decided they would lead the kids, students, and adult teams directly.
In some churches, the move has worked well. Senior pastors/executive pastors have stepped in and effectively filled the need that the minister of education was addressing. But in many churches, three unintended consequences have emerged. | http://patford.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-happens-when-your-discipleship.html | dclm-gs1-183291087 |
0.045245 | <urn:uuid:f209b472-5e16-4123-9c6d-6b2829100566> | en | 0.965781 | Friday, May 05, 2006
Best of 7: Experts weigh in on the 'best first round ever'
We asked our writers seven questions (and a bonus) about what many are calling the best first round in NBA playoff history:
1. Who is the defining player of the playoffs so far? Which player, other than Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, has been most compelling to you?
Chris Broussard: I think Kobe is clearly the defining player, just because of his incredible shift from gunner to facilitator. The most compelling player has been Bonzi Wells. Talk about being motivated in a contract year! Wells, a free agent this summer, has abused Bruce Bowen like no one alive ever has.
Ric Bucher: Defining player? Kwame Brown. Compelling? Bonzi Wells. The theme of these playoffs has been redemption. Complementary players dismissed or discounted have loomed large while the stars have canceled each other out. Wells, who was not even on the All-Star ballot, has exposed a weakness in the defending champions' arsenal and made good on his tantalizing talent.
John Hollinger: The defining player of the playoffs has definintely been LeBron James, just because he's been under such a microscope in his first playoffs and delivered so hugely. Other than Kobe and LeBron, I would say Dirk Nowitzki. He dominated the Memphis series and showed why he merited being in the MVP discussion.
Chris Sheridan: While the defining players have been Kobe and LeBron, the most compelling player has been Andres Nocioni of the Bulls. I've been covering him since '99, and I knew he was good. But not this good.
Marc Stein: It's been a first round of surprises and so I go with my biggest individual surprise: Luke Walton. He probably wouldn't start for any coach in the league besides Phil Jackson, but he's as important to what the Lakers are doing to control the tempo against Phoenix as Kobe or Lamar Odom. And he tied up Steve Nash in the most controversial play of the playoffs so far, setting up the wildest of numerous wild finishes. Luke is the poster boy for this script-shredding Round 1.
Point23: The most defining player - so far - has been Kobe, but jsut barely, over LeBron. The two most memorable plays so far this postseason both involve the soon-to-be No. 24: Kobe's game winner after the improbable jumpball, and Raja Bell laying him out. Plus, Kobe's willingness to change his entire philosophy is the storylines of the playoffs. But if the Lakers blow a 3-1 advantage - which they are dangerously close to doing - then most defining goes to LeBron. Two game winners and a triple-double in your playoff debut as a 21 year old? We' re all just witnesses - truly. As for most compelling - I'll take Dirk. Remember not so long ago when he was yeling at teammates at midcourt and his leadership was under fire? Not anymore. The Greatest German Ever (and not even grreatest baller ever - the greatest German, period. Can you think of a better one?) pulls off the only sweep off the first round and has his team playing better than anyone right now. Throw in the clutch three and the very real potential of winning an NBA championship, and it's a no brainer.
2. Which team has been the most pleasant surprise? Most disappointing?
Broussard: The most pleasant surprise has been Chicago, because with their lack of power inside you'd have thought the Bulls would be dead men walking against Shaquille O'Neal. The biggest disappointment has been Phoenix. To get pounded inside by the likes of Kwame Brown is just unacceptable.
Bucher: Pleasant surprise? Lakers. Watching any team make itself greater than the sum of its parts is always captivating. The Lakers have done that. Most disappointing? Nuggets. Denver, conversely, has disintegrated before our very eyes, shredding reputations and damaging careers in the stroke of a single series.
Hollinger: Most pleasant surprise has been the Lakers, because they're playing much better defensively than I thought they could. The most disappointing has to be Denver -- they had chemistry problems, took terrible shots and completely gave up in Game 5.
Sheridan: Pleasant surprise is the Clippers, even to those who missed out on the bandwagon when I started it. Most disappointing is the Grizz. Throw a couple of games late in the season if it'll get you the train wreck Nuggets in the first round. There is no chivalry in being 0-12 in the postseason.
Stein: I heard (and cracked) lots of jokes about Ron Artest coexisting with Bonzi Wells when the Artest trade went down. So I'd have to say Ron-Ron and Bonzi emerging as the leadership tag-team behind Sacramento's bid to stun San Antonio has to be the most pleasant surprise. Denver is the easy answer when it comes to disappointments, because the Nuggets didn't even show up for the playoffs, but Memphis extending its streak of playoff futility to 0-12 was just as tough to watch.
Point23: The most pleasant surprise has been Chicago. Has there been a more fun team to watch in the playoffs? Not with the Suns being slowed down, there hasn't. The Baby Bulls play a beautiful style of basketball - push the ball, drive and kick, knock down threes, get in the lane and find people. Plus, they completely exposed Miami's perimiter defense. How geeked are Kidd, Jefferson and Carter right now? I think Shaq just picked up his second foul thinking about Jason Williams or Gary Payton getting beat off the dribble. And no one was more dissapointig than the Nuggets - it wasn't even close. The whole K-Mart debacle was ugly, and Reggie Evans grabbed someone's cookies. Blow it up, Kiki.
3. Which series other than Lakers-Suns has been most enjoyable to watch?
Broussard: Cleveland-Washington has been a blast because it's LeBron's postseason coming-out party, and he's in a shootout with Gilbert Arenas.
Bucher: Bulls-Heat. The two teams have such contrasting styles and personalities.
Hollinger: Cavs-Wizards has been great, especially yesterday's Game 5, but the others were hardly chopped liver either. The LeBron vs. Gilbert shootouts have been reminiscent of Bird vs. Dominique.
Sheridan: Wizards-Cavs, cuz it's fun to see two neophytes kill each other to earn the right to be swept by the Pistons.
Stein: Spurs-Kings. It's more competitive than expected, it's given us multiple great finishes already and it's posing an interesting question to take into the next round: Has Sacramento exposed unforeseen vulnerability with San Antonio or merely sharpened the Spurs up for Dallas? I'm leaning toward the latter.
Point23: For drama's sake, nothing tops the Cavs/Zards. But no team so far has been as fun to watch as the Baby Bulls. Kirk Hinrich's quiet battle with Dwyane Wade has been intense (how many times has one of them stopped the other only to have the favor returned immediately?). And I could watch Ben Gordon shoot those tear drops in the lane all day. Have you seen how high they get? Then swish - pure.
4. What's the best coaching move you've seen? And worst?
Broussard: Phil Jackson has been spectacular. His ability to convince Kobe to share the rock and forego his attempts at scoring 50 is the best coaching move. The worst? D'Antoni's failure to adjust and find a way to run against L.A. (until Game 5).
Bucher: Best? Posting up Luke Walton, Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown. Or, basically, everyone except Kobe. The Lakers' floor balance and the Suns' energy expended defending the paint has short-circuited Phoenix's vaunted offense and, for the most part, neutralized Shawn Marion. And worst? Alienating Kenyon Martin. Pushing K-Mart aside didn't galvanize Denver the way punishing Kwame did last year for the Wizards. As inconsistent as Kenyon has been this season, the Nuggets had little chance of winning without him, reflected in the multiple starting lineups in his absence.
Hollinger: Best? The play Gregg Popovich ran against Sacramento at the end of Game 2 -- it caught the Kings completely by surprise. The worst has to be Mike Brown's play-calling at the end of games -- completely, utterly predictable.
Sheridan: I'm biased in favor of Wiz-Cavs, cuz I've been covering it a lot, but the play the Cavs ran for LeBron at the end of OT in Game 5 couldn't have gone off better. So Mike Brown gets my vote. The worst is George Karl suspending Kenyon Martin. Why does Furious George always feud with guys?
Stein: Phil letting Kobe do whatever he felt necessary to get the Lakers to the playoffs and then getting total commitment and focus from Kobe -- and your Kwame Browns, Smush Parkers and Brian Cooks -- to buy into a totally new game plan for the playoffs. The worst would be an otherwise sharp Rick Adelman not subbing out Bonzi late in the fourth quarter of Game 2 and then bringing Bonzi back when the Kings got the ball back in offense-defense mode. Instead he left Wells on Manu Ginobili to pick up his sixth foul when he didn't even need to be on the floor, forcing Wells to watch all of overtime from the bench in a game that, had Sacramento stolen it, might have had us talking about a historic upset.
Point23: It's not technically a move, but Dr. Phil getting Kobe to buy into this new philosophy and then trusting that Kwame flippin' Brown could control the paint is hand's down the best thing a coach has done in Round 1. Although Pop's baseline kick play to tie Game 2 was brilliant, just brilliant. The worst? Anything involving Eddie Jordan. What a train wreck. Make up your mind on how you're playing LeBron. And call a timeout after he hits the next game winner instead of heaving up a 60-foot airball.
5. What's your quick take on the officiating, rough play, suspensions, etc.?
Broussard: I don't have the stats but it seems like the refs are calling more offensive fouls than ever before, and it seems like they're calling charges on plays that have been blocks in previous years. This is clearly throwing players (Shaq, Jermaine O'Neal, LeBron) off.
I think the league had to suspend Raja Bell after the precedent it set by suspending Artest, James Posey and Udonis Haslem. But I think some of these suspensions could have been limited to flagrants without suspensions. Finally, on a positive note, the officials have been consistent -- every team feels like it's getting shafted.
Bucher: The more competitive the series, the more physical confrontations and heated emotions there are -- and this year we have an extraordinary number of competitive series. The postseason fracases also could be a by-product of the regular season. Referees were instructed by the league to be judicious with their T's and talk through conflicts. Players and coaches subsequently became more demonstrative about calls knowing they wouldn't pay a price. Add the do-or-die emotion of the playoffs to the wider boundaries and you have the spillage the refs are now trying to clean up.
Hollinger: Actually, I think the league is doing a great job of keeping this stuff to a minimum. There's always going to be some chippy play when teams see each other seven straight games, but the NBA has reduced greatly the incentive to vent frustrations against opposing players.
Sheridan: The arc beneath the basket has opened up a can of worms in terms of block-charge interpretations. It needs to be addresssed by the competition committee.
Stein: I can't even answer this until someone explains how Reggie Evans went unsuspended after what he pulled.
Point23: I may be alone here, but I think the NBA needs to take a chill pill. The only person who deserve to be suspended - the cookie monster, Reggie Evans - only got fined. Is Violet Palmer running the NBA disciplinary office? Does Stu Jackson pee standing up? Good Lord, that's atrocious. Every other instance was punished fairly enough when the player was ejected and assessed his tech. This is the playoffs, fellas - expect and allow more contact. Don't tamper with the intensity.
(And in case you missed it, reread Stein's answer. I don't know if it was intentional, but that was the best double entendre I've heard in a while. 'Atta boy, Stein! Way to sneak it past the big boys!)
6. What's the most underreported story of the first round?
Broussard: Pat Riley's playoff struggles. First, few have mentioned that this potential debacle on South Beach is all Riley's doing (revamping the roster, replacing Stan Van Gundy). Then, Riley's last four playoff appearances entering this season ended with his Heat being beaten by lower seeds. What's it say about him if this year's star-studded club falls to a far inferior Chicago club?
Bucher: How the Nuggets, eliminated in five games last year, went from a promising force to be reckoned with, to a team, eliminated in five games this year, that is poised to sink back into lottery hell. When a franchise's front office is in disarray, the trouble eventually will filter down to its team. This should be a cautionary tale for every NBA team -- and every organization of any kind. Underreported Story II: The conflict in the Kings' organization over acquiring Ron Artest and growing speculation that the Maloofs want to both re-make and relocate the franchise.
Hollinger: Dallas kicking the pants out of a very good Memphis team. We've reflexively made San Antonio the favorites in the West, but the Mavs played better than anybody else in Round 1.
Sheridan: Phil Jackson's game plan against the Suns, although I'll opine that underreported is too strong of a word. Is under-understood a word?
Stein: I'd still rather see best-of-fives in the first round. But for the first time since the NBA went to best-of-sevens from the start, nobody's complaining about how long the first round is. Because it's been so good.
Point23: How good the Kings are. They are arguably the third or fourth best team in the West right now. If they played with that roster for 82 games, they could have realistically won the Pacific over Phoenix. Look at that roster: one of the best, playoff-tested PG's in Bibby, the best perimiter defender in the L (and not too shabby a scorer, either) at the 2 in Ron Artest, Bonzi Wells eating people alive at the 3, Abdur-Rahim being the vet that he is at the four, and a versatile shooter and passer at the center spot in Miller. Look out next year. And if Barry doesn't hit that corner three, SA might be goin' fishin' a little early this season.
And as a runner-up: the Wizards making fun of LeBron (Caron Butler mocking his chalk in the air routine; Gilbert Arenas saying "we're all just witnesses" and then LeBron lighting them up. Honestly - they asked for it.
7. Two No. 7 seeds and a No. 8 seed are making serious challenges -- a sign of increasing parity or just a blip?
Broussard: Increasing parity wrought by injuries. Tim Duncan's not himself because of the plantar fasciitis, so S.A. is no longer invincible. Phoenix is without Amare Stoudemire and Kurt Thomas, and Miami's just never gelled and Shaq is aging fast.
Bucher: Fortuitous matchups. Low-seeded teams have been paired with teams they're ideally suited to create problems for. This year also points up the illusion a robust regular-season record can create.
Hollinger: Just a blip -- this has happened before. Three years ago San Antonio had the league's best record but was tied 2-2 after four games; so were the top-seeded Nets in the East. Of course, they both ended up in the Finals.
Sheridan: Blip. The Kings are good, period. They got an 8-seed cuz they stunk before they got Artest. Think they'd rather have him, or Peja Stojakovic and his mysterious swollen knee?
Stein: It's a sign of favorable matchups more than anything. The Lakers, Kings and Bulls have all found the favorites' flaws and (here's the rub) they're all exposing those flaws repeatedly.
Point23: Just a goofy set of circumstances. The Kings snuck into the playoffs after they acquired Artest - if they had him all year, they wouldn't be an 8 seed. The Heat can't guard a soul of the dribble - guess what Chicago thrives on? Perimiter penetration. Plus, it was always effort with the Heat - when they play hard, they win. They just didn'y play 48 minutes in Games 3 and 4. The Suns had to deal with the Mamba factor: 'nuff said.
AND THE BONUS: Are we in a new Golden Age of the NBA?
Broussard: That's hard to say, but there are reasons to believe that. With the Lakers and the Cavaliers emerging as strong teams, a few Finals matchups between the league's two best players (Kobe and LeBron) could be a distinct possibility, starting in a few years. That would be like Magic vs. Bird. Then with other great youngsters like Amare and D-Wade, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul … yeah, this could be the dawn of something special.
Bucher: Only time will tell. The presence of LeBron, the impact of Phil and Kobe reunited, the quiet emergence of the made-over Dallas Mavericks, the resurgence of Jason Kidd and Vince Carter certainly offer an array of interesting story lines moving forward.
Hollinger: Seems like it. With the draft class of 2003 entering its prime and several other young studs stepping forward, the league looks like it's finally over the post-Jordan hangover.
Sheridan: LeBron is going to change things, and Kobe is special, but Golden Age? We're in a transitional age, and we'll appreciate the "team game" more and more as long as we keep seeing the Pistons and Spurs win championships and Argentina win gold medals.
Stein: It's way too soon to talk about Golden Ages. It might be the Best First Round Ever, but it's still only the first round.
Point23: Oh, go out on a limb, fellas! This absolutely is the dawning of the new Golden Age. Look at all the different clashing philosophies trying to win a ring: run like Phoenix, have the single super-duper star like L.A. or Cleveland, be a great team like Detroit or SA? When have their ever been more MVP candidates? Kobe and Lebron and Dirk hitting buzzer beaters...this is The Best First Round Ever for a reason: it's the start of something huge. Plus, look at all the great names not in he playoffs: KG, Amare, Iverson, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, T.Mac & Yao...yikes. Get ready for an NBA Renaissiance. I'm rambling like an idiot I'm so excited.
(In case you were wondering, ESPN held a little round table with its "experts" on their website, and somehow, they forgot us. Simple miscommunication, we're sure. So we took care of it. How'd we do?)
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Filter Clogging detection in HRV systems Disclosure Number: IPCOM000194671D
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Filter Clogging detection in HRV systems
In HRV systems, used in residential/small office applications, the air filters used in these units will be covered by dirt/dust through time. These filters need be changed in order to maintain the required air quality as well as the performance of the HRV units. As changing the filters are typically done by the maintenance people, there is a need for identifying the situation where a filter is indeed clogged (through gathered dust/dirt). An automatic detection of filter clogging is hence desirable.
Existing method
The current approach to detection of the filter clogging is based on the registration of the time where the HRV unit is started, normally is done by a switch which is activated by a side lid/cover of the HRV unit. When the lid is closed, a HW timer is started and after a predefined period (typically 6 months) an alarm signal, indicating the need for changing the filter, is activated.
The current method does not consider any environmental impact on the filter; A filter can be clogged much faster (or slower) than the predefined period.
We propose a SW based method based on the following concept:
Figure 1: Pressure drop along the duct system
Different elements in the duct system introduce resistance to the air flow in the duct system. Hence these elements cause pressure drop along the duct system as it is shown on the figure. A fan acts as an air pump that adds an air pressure needed to compensate for these pressure drops while providing the required air flow. In our approach we use a sensor measuring the pressure difference over the fan, i.e. DP, and the control signal for the fan (that could be a PWM signal or a voltage/current signal).
The know facts are the following:
ÿ The fan rotational speed is a function of the control signal, henceforth RPMref (in most case it is linear).
ÿ The air flow through the fan, Q, is linearly proportional to the fan’s rotational speed.
ÿ The relation between the air flow and the pressure difference over the fan is described by the following equation:
Q = K . sqrt(DP) (1)
where K is a constant and is HRV unit specific value. K is the same for HRV units of the same product series, i.e. it is obtained for one HRV unit and is then used for all HRV units of the same production series.
Considering the above-mentioned facts it is easy to conclude that, under nominal conditions, when a known control signal (RPMref) is given to the fan system, it will produce a certain air flow and hence pressure difference, henceforth called DPref. Hence, under nominal conditions and when the filter is clean, the set (RPMref, ... | http://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000194671 | dclm-gs1-183361087 |
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0.022682 | <urn:uuid:f9bc2ee5-e1e8-4d07-b5cd-1cfab74b98e1> | en | 0.960701 | The Crisis of Higher Education for Syrian Refugees
Between Relief Work and Strategic Planning
By Mohammad AlAhmad
Text written on tapestry: "You can destroy My books My shop My street You cannot destroy My thoughts My ideas My story"
“Absence Has Presence” – Rubbing by Elizabeth Ashcroft from the Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. The project was founded by Beau Beausoleil in response to the 2007 car bombing of Baghdad’s historic Al-Mutanabbi Street, the heart of the city’s intellectual community and home to numerous booksellers.
Meeting the educational needs of refugees and displaced people, particularly the need for higher education, is considered one of the greatest humanitarian challenges facing the international community in its response to the Syrian crisis. UNHCR estimates that globally, only 1% of refugee youth are able to access higher education.
When the Syrian revolution broke out in March 2011, university students joined the peaceful protests calling for the fall of the regime. Students and academics were exposed to a campaign of brutal repression, which took hundreds of thousands of students as victims, either martyred or arrested. Professors were not spared either, as many of them were detained and others were forced to flee. When the international community abandoned the peaceful protesters, the uprising evolved into an armed conflict, towns and cities were systematically destroyed, and institutions of higher education collapsed. The most significant consequence of the conflict has been that during the past six years, Syria has witnessed the largest wave of displacement seen in modern times. Nearly 5 million refugees have registered abroad and roughly 7 million Syrians have been internally displaced. There is no accurate data on the number of university-qualified students among these figures, but certain reliable organizations provide estimates. For example, the Institute of International Education says that more than 100,000 Syrian refugees are university-qualified students, while a cross-organizational study published by Al Fanar Media* estimates that roughly 120,000 -140,000 of Syria’s internally displaced people (IDPs) are university-qualified students.
The necessary regional and international response
Certainly, there are international organizations, academics, groups, and individuals in civil society working to provide refugees with education. These people are aware of potential long-term impacts of the crisis and call for the consideration of higher education as a priority, alongside food, shelter, and primary education. Although the considerable support that has been given to Syrian students and academics is both praiseworthy and highly appreciated, all of these organizations and bodies acknowledge that it is not enough, given the scale
of the crisis.
The number of all the grants and scholarships given to Syrian students since the start of the crisis and that have been promised for the coming years, does not exceed several thousand, according to the Al Fanar report. As such, there is a huge gap between opportunities provided and the demand, leaving more than 100,000 Syrian refugees and more than 120,000 IDPs without higher education. IDPs in particular cannot access these grants, nor are they likely to be able to in the future since they are unable to leave Syria and often do not have the required documents in their possession.
Experts and practitioners cite several reasons for this opportunity gap. Efforts to provide educational opportunities for Syrian refugees entail, according to Karsten Valber from the HOPES program, “a strange mix of relief work that has to be done quickly and higher education that has to be planned on a long term basis.” Some attribute the gap to barriers refugees face to enrolling in universities in the region, such as conditions for residency and the difficulties of obtaining academic documents such as transcripts. This is in addition to well-known obstacles like English-language barriers, the difficulty of obtaining travel visas to Western countries, and the distrust of online education certificates among governments in the Arab world. Others attribute the gap to the lack of multi-level cooperation between government-sponsored universities, donors, scholarship programs, international organizations, and educational institutions.
While all of these reasons are true and compelling, I believe that the main reason for the continuation of the crisis is the lack of strategic planning to deal with it.
Towards strategic planning and sustainable solutions:
Given this situation, it has become of paramount importance to hold an international conference with the mission to create a clear strategy for dealing with the crisis, including a concrete timeframe that reflects the pressing need to act with speed. The conference should have appropriate representation from ministries of higher education, university leaders, and political representatives from various states, and the agenda should highlight the necessity of sourcing sufficient funding to solve the crisis of elementary, secondary, and university education for Syrian refugees and displaced people.
Because of the widening gap between need and opportunity, the escalating numbers of refugees and displaced Syrians, and the unlikelihood of resolving the Syrian crisis in the near future—in addition to recent calls for universities in the region to provide higher education opportunities for Syrian refugees—I argue that the best sustainable solution is to set up a Syrian university in southern Turkey, where a large percentage of Syrian refugees reside. Ideally, such a university would have the ability to absorb more than 100,000 refugee and IDP students and would provide employment for displaced Syrian academics. Students whose studies were disrupted should be allowed to continue their education from the point at which they left off. In order to make this possible, a university of this type should operate in Arabic to avoid creating a linguistic barrier, and the material, methods, structure, and ways of teaching should be the same as that to which Syrian students are accustomed.
Making this vision a reality would not be easy, but the Turkish government has proven to be supportive of other educational projects for Syrian refugees. Given the vast numbers of Syrian refugees needing educational opportunities, it will take a project of this magnitude to even begin to address the crisis and enable a significant number of students to resume their studies after years of disruption.
Dr. Mohammad AlAhmad is an Assistant Teaching Professor at CCAS. This article was previously published in the Summer 2017 CCAS NewsmagazineA previous version of this article was published by Brookings. | http://sfs.georgetown.edu/crisis-higher-education-syrian-refugees/ | dclm-gs1-183561087 |
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Entertainers and Role models WTF?
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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Howard Dean
Howard Dean seems to be a rather independant Democrat. According to Ted Rall's piece, HOWARD DEAN FOR PRESIDENT, Dr. Dean has some innovative ideas, such as class-, not race-based affirmative action. Furthermore, he is not, unlike most of his party, a gun-grabber; that is, he does not support excising the 2nd Amendment from our Constitution. According to Howard the Hawk, Dr. Dean is also not in favor of emasculating the US military.
I could almost consider voting for Dean, if it were not for the fact that, given his pro-abortion stance (see Howard Dean on Abortion), TO DO SO WOULD BE A MORTAL SIN!
To give him credit, at least he calls it abortion on his website, avoiding diversionary phrases like "a woman's right to choose" or just "choice." (Who's against choice in America?) He also uses the term "partial birth abortion," not giving in to the insane argument that that "procedure" is justifiable because it is not called by that name in the medical establishment. (That would be like saying that because Hitler did not use the term "genocide," what he did was okey-dokey.)
If his stance on abortion were not enough, the good doctor is also in favor of the Right (or Duty) to Die (see Howard Dean Attacks Bush Decision to Save Terri Schiavo's Life (Lieberman Supports terri)[sic]. | http://shinja.blogspot.com/2003/12/howard-dean-howard-dean-seems-to-be.html | dclm-gs1-183621087 |
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Deception in the Sky
I am seeing an interesting tactic used by the chemtrail culprits. They fly one plane and leave what looks like a contrail that may dissipate after a few seconds or maybe linger. They try to look normal but the discerning eye can see that they are not.
Both today and yesterday here, is was clear, blue skies and the few times I looked up, more often than not, I would see a plane spewing out toxin into the sky.
I propose that this is a ruse, a deceptive maneuver, to condition us to think "see, this is normal". But this is NOT normal nor is it right no matter what the disinfo military deceivers and agents provocateur say on message boards or in the controlled news media.
Below are 3 shots of the same plane at 11:30 am here in Sonoma. Click each photo to enlarge.
1 comment:
1. Yeah, what about it? A 747-400 from Asia going to LAX. Oh yeah, bet you didn't know that did you? I bet you didn't know the routing over Sonoma is used almost everyday by us. Here's the route that you won't understand of course.. FOT, OAK, J1 AVE, SADDE6. Sorry, You really have so much to learn and shouldn't be posting this on the internet when you obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about.
JetBlue pilot. | http://sonomachemtrails.blogspot.com/2008/06/deception-in-sky.html | dclm-gs1-183671087 |
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Review of Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Mild-mannered Lester Ferris is a sergeant stationed on a backwater, former British colony, Mancreu. Life on the island is a mix of expatriates and locals, and on the surface of things is relatively peaceful for Ferris. His job is easy, he has the opportunity to box at the local club, he has drinks with a local café owner, and he befriends a local boy with a passion for comic books—a passion that comes out charmingly in his patois. The island is experiencing some geologic instability and is surrounded by a fleet of ships nobody pays much attention to. But real trouble for Ferris begins when a group of local men murder an acquaintance. Essentially British embassy, consul, army, police, and general representative all rolled into one, Ferris finds himself attempting to get to the bottom of the murder. Funny thing is, the boy has some interesting ideas how Ferris might go about solving the crime.
Where The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker were rooted in fun characters found only in fiction, Tigerman has both feet on the ground; it’s impossible for any reader not to sympathize with Ferris’ situation or understand the boy’s life circumstances. The tide of the two’s relationship is the main pivot point of the story, and thus while their political compasses may not always point in the same direction, their humanity does.
This comparison/contrast is captured nicely in the cover image (who is the hero, and who the victim?), and goes some distance to describe the aforementioned socio-political undercurrents of the novel. With relatively significant foreign presence on Mancreu (the Americans, the French, the Japanese, Ukrainians, NATO, and others), Tigerman is set on a deliberately fictional, non-European island such that it can be made to stand in for the majority of tensions occupying the the West and its former colonies in our real world. Military occupation, wealth discrepancies, culture clashes, terrorism, resource dependencies—a load of contemporary issues delicately influence Ferris’ story. The sturdy sergeant’s personal story occupies the forefront, but certainly any reader even remotely aware of the current global state of affairs will recognize his larger socio-political environment, and all the tension that comes with life in a former European colony. Ferris and the boy’s relationship strikes chords in the heart, whereas the larger situation they are caught in strikes chords of real-world social and political relevancy.
Perhaps one of the most commendable aspects of Tigerman is Harkaway’s avoidance of noir sentimentalism, particularly in his main character. Where there was every opportunity (the murder investigation, the lonely foreign island, the isolated male character, the superhero tie-in) for Ferris to be presented as the classic cynical, brooding, nihilistic, distanced investigator, Harkaway moves in another direction. Ferris is a realistic character, and how the superhero trope is put to use, interestingly, only makes him moreso.
In the end, Tigerman is Harkaway’s most pertinent, affective novel to date. Readers looking for more of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker may walk away disappointed that the author did not fully utilize his excited-puppy approach to language and story, while readers hoping for him to apply what are prodigious writerly skills to something more ambitious no longer have to wait. A very personal story about a man trying to deal with the politicized/globalized situation he finds himself in, there remains a major political undercurrent flowing through the story. Harkaway’s story thus holds much more in common with the literary approach to superheroes (e.g. Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) than the genre approach (e.g. Lavie Tidhar’s The Violent Century or Alan Moore’s Watchmen), and comes recommended as such.
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JSA (Issue 3)
Official Name
Justice Society
Flash (original chairman)
Green Lantern (second chairman)
Hawkman (third chairman)
Secret Hotel Room, Capitol City
Combating Crime
First Appearance
All-Star Comics, Vol. 1 #3
(December, 1940)
Background Information
In the parallel-universe of Earth-2A, by early 1941 (an earlier year than its (Earth-1A counterpart) the Justice Society of America had established themselves at a secret hotel room located in Capitol City. Initially, the team was not directly involved in the war against the Axis threat, but they continued to serve the cause by routing out Nazi agents at home, frequently collaborating with the FBI.[1] They also fought various non-powered crime figures and scientist.
By mid 1941, the JSA roster began to change and evolve. The Flash stepped down as team chairman, preferring instead an honorary position with the team.[2] Johnny Thunder was officially inducted into the ranks, followed shortly by Doctor Mid-Nite and Starman.[3]
In November of 1940, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler acquired a powerful mystic weapon known as the Spear of Destiny.[4] With it, he intended on manipulating its power to dominate all of Europe.
Meanwhile, the sorcerer known as Doctor Fate discovered that Hitler was in possession of the Spear of Destiny. He knew that such a weapon in the hands of a tyrant could only spell destruction for the entire world. Perceiving an imminent Nazi invasion of England, Doctor Fate enlisted the aid of the so-called Mystery Men including, the Atom, Hawkman, Hourman and the Spectre. Fate's magic teleported the heroes to the White Cliffs of Dover where they assisted the British soldiers in fighting off the Nazi hordes. The Spectre single-handedly demolished a fleet of Nazi warships. A British officer named Smythe had also learned of Hitler's plans and informed American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt, pressured by Congress to maintain an isolationist stance, refused to openly involve the United States in England's war with Germany. However, he knew action must be taken. He selected two "Mystery Men" of his own from a top-secret dossier to use as civilian agents against Hitler's forces – the Flash and the Green Lantern.
Not long after the formation of the Justice League in the parallel-universe of Earth-1A,[5] the Justice Society would team up on certain ‘cross-universe’ missions. It is believed to have started when Barry Allen, who was the Justice League's Flash, first met his Justice Society counterpart Jay Garrick, though the exact circumstances of this encounter are unknown.[6]
In 1951, after a lengthy hearing, the committee members demanded that the JSA members reveal their secret identities to the general public or be accused of communism. The Spectre vehemently argued on behalf of his colleagues, citing that without their secret identities, they would become targets for enemy agents across the globe. Unwilling to reveal their true faces, the Justice Society instead elected to disband. The public however, never lost faith in their heroes.[7]
Known Earth-2A Members
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5. This continuity/timeline would deviate from the Silver Age timeline. It is explained this way for simplicity.
7. As revealed in Adventure Comics, #466 (December, 1979).
8. As revealed All-Star Comics, #58 (February, 1976).
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A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
This quote by French author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery hits the nail on the head for me and for pretty much everyone I coach and train. One of the things I like to do when I meet with clients is to get them to set a goal. This is what I get, “I need to lose weight”, “I’m going to try and lose weight”, “I would like to exercise more”, “My Doctor said, I need to lose 50 pounds”, “I want to get in shape”, “I want to be more toned” and my personal favorite, “I need to lose (fill in the blank with unrealistic number) for my wedding next month”.
So without a plan of action, these people; without intervention, will continue spinning around in the cycle of diet hopping, changing workout plans and trying every quick fix available on late night TV, only to find themselves right back where they started.
Does this sound like you?
The answer is simple. Set a realistic, specific, exciting goal that when accomplished will have you jumping for joy and feeling so empowered that you are ready to take on the world.
Here are the steps:
1. Make a goal. Be as specific as possible! If you want to lose weight, how much? Is it realistic? Do you want to hike a mountain in a foreign country? Is it realistic? This goal does NOT have to be about weight loss. It can be about anything. The process is the same.
2. Write it down! Get that goal on paper. I prefer good ol’ pen and paper as opposed to the computer. There is something about the person connection of writing that seems to have more power. Having a goal, no matter how good floating around your head with everything else is going to get lost, so write that sucker down.
3. Write it down. Yes, it’s that important. Put it somewhere you can see it throughout the day.
4. Get support. Ask positive people and family members for support. Have them join you. Stay away from those who discourage you with well-meaning comments like, “You don’t need to lose weight, you are fine just the way you are”. Yes, you may be fine, but are YOU happy with where you are? That is all the matters.
5. Set a date. Your goals need to have a sense of urgency or they will never happen. Again, be realistic. If you have a lot of weight to lose, give yourself 6 months to a year. If you reach your goal before that…AWESOME!! If you plan to run a marathon or climb a mountain, make arrangements, pick a race far enough away that you have plenty of time to train without getting injured.
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Have you taken a close look at a one dollar bill? Have you noticed the “all seeing eye” above the pyramid? It represents the third eye, which is considered the highest and most powerful source of ethereal energy available to man. Egyptians, Indians and many other groups were and are very aware of this inner power, but somehow we were deprived of this information.
The pineal gland (also known as the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or third eye) is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It is photo-receptive and located between the two hemispheres, near the center of the brain. The pineal gland produces a hormone called melatonin, which affects the modulation of wake and sleep patterns.
Where is the pineal gland? | Third Eye Chakra | The Lills
The third eye chakra is located in between the eyebrows, in the middle of the forehead. With meditation, trust and direct focus to the third eye, a person can activate his or her pineal gland and access their higher-self or higher consciousness, a center of intuition and foresight. Eastern and Western spiritual traditions consider the third eye to be the “inner-eye” and Hinduism and Buddhism consider the third eye a symbol of enlightenment.
With enough intention and practice, a person is supposed to eventually be able to move freely from the physical world to the spiritual or astral world and back, using the third eye chakra as a gateway. This is also known as astral projection or astral travel. The third eye also controls various bio-rhythms in the body. It has been said that when the eye opens, a person can feel pressure at the base of the brain.
There is a big conversation going on over the idea that those who control our world have been using this power and keeping it for self-gain and the big agenda. In any case, as long as we humans are purely focused on the physical world, we’ll never understand our full potential. It’s time we all take a look inward.
It’s also important to become aware of flouride. It kills the pineal gland and yet it is found in hundreds of everyday products, like toothpaste, food and soda. We read Sodium Fluoride is added to 90% of the U.S. water supply, meaning it’s in our tap water too. According to a study by scientist, Jennifer Luke, the pineal gland absorbs more fluoride than any other physical material in the human body. Flouride literally dumbs us down and keeps us from being able to access higher realms.
According to many ancient religions, humans have been aware of their pineal gland and third eye chakra throughout history. Somehow over time, we lost that knowledge or were kept from it. Thank goodness for the internet, as it looks as though more and more people are coming across this information.
If humans can realize the power within, there is a chance everyone can learn to establish an inner connection and awaken. This world is by far more magical and exciting than what is often depicted in our reality. It just takes letting go of the ego, superficiality and negativity, so we can see clearly through the veil and make better choices for ourselves, each other and this world. | http://thelills.com/the-pineal-gland-and-third-eye-chakra/ | dclm-gs1-183881087 |
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A Playdate With The Zoo
We're at the zoo, the Gladys Porter Zoo, in Brownsville, Texas, and we ohh, ahh, giggle and smile at all the babies.
It's sunny and cool, about 55 degrees. Which means nearly everyone mills about. Because they can. (Pics.) Because the normally oppressive Texas heat went somewhere else for a while. The wonderful weather invites the animals to get up and move, and it invites the animal mommas to bask in the sun with their babes.
We see a momma mandrill (like a baboon) tucked up against a viewing window, clutching her infant (I can see just the baby's ear). A spider monkey lays on a grassy bank with her baby sprawled on her lap. She picks at the baby's head. The baby reaches up with her long spindly arms and returns the favor.
Around the corner, another baby monkey romps with her siblings, until momma crashes the party and whisks her away, climbs a tall palm and hangs out on top. She glares down at me.
I walk on. Look back at her. She still looking at me. So I walk on, feeling a little intimidated, then foolish for feeling intimidated.
I see a momma giraffe nuzzle her little one; and at the nursery, a lonely camel baby searches the crowd, probably looking for mom.
It's at the tiger's exhibit we see the most action.
There are no babies here, but the pen is full of big guys who play just like kittens, rolling, leaping, swatting, whacking each other with their hips. One lays in wait behind a big rock and attacks when his "brother" strolls by. Another dances on his hind legs, boxing something (or nothing) he sees (or imagines) in the air.
We stand mesmerized by their kitty-like antics, a spell broken when a zoo worker heads behind the exhibit, we think to mop out the muck.
Immediately, the curious cats lunge toward a metal grate at the side of the pen, three, four at time, up to six of them jockeying for position at the gate. Feeding time? At 3 p.m.?
Outside, there's more action. Three electric cars pull up and the drivers leap off and run -- not walk -- inside the back of the den.
From inside, where the men are, I hear a growl, then a mournful wail. From a cat. There's a tiger inside there with all those men.
A car, not an electric car, a real gas-driven car, pulls up on the walkway and stops. THREE men leap out and dash in. They all have walkie-talkies. They look concerned.
What could it be? I hear the wail again. The cat is not happy.
Is a baby being born? I wonder I wonder. Of course! I'm sure it's a baby. The zoo is full of babies today. How exciting. A baby!
One last electric car pulls up and the driver, a woman in full zoo uniform, parks and walks in.
We wait. And wait. So do the tigers outside, trading spaces to stare through the grate.
Then one by one, the men leave the den, like bees from a hive. The final person to leave is the woman. She's the one I approach. Because she's lingering, not flying away.
"What's happened?" I ask expectantly.
Nothing exotic or exciting, she replies.
The cat didn't eat breakfast; his handler freaked, panicked over the walkie-talkie, making it sound like death was imminent.
But all's well, the woman says. The cat'll eat when he's hungry. And no, no baby's on the way.
At least, not today.
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A Multithreaded Application in C#
Before examining some of the different ways you can use threads in C#, let's see how easy it is to create a secondary thread in C#. After discussing the example, I'll look more closely at the System.Threading namespace and, specifically, the Thread class. In this example, I'm creating a second thread from the Main method. The method associated with the second thread then outputs a string showing that the thread has been called.
using System;
using System.Threading;
class SimpleThreadApp
public static void WorkerThreadMethod()
Console.WriteLine("Worker thread started");
public static void Main()
ThreadStart worker = new ThreadStart(WorkerThreadMethod);
Console.WriteLine("Main - Creating worker thread");
Thread t = new Thread(worker);
("Main - Have requested the start of worker thread");
If you compile and execute this application, you'll see that the message from the Main method prints before the message from the worker thread, proving that the worker thread is indeed working asynchronously. Let's dissect what's going on here.
The first new item to note is the inclusion of the using statement for the System.Threading namespace. We'll get to know that namespace shortly. For now, it's enough to understand that this namespace contains the different classes necessary for threading in the .NET environment. Now take a look at the first line of the Main method: -
ThreadStart WorkerThreadMethod = new ThreadStart(WorkerThreadMethod);
Any time you see the following form, you can be sure that x is a delegate or-as you learned in Chapter 14, "Delegates and Event Handlers"-a definition of a method signature: -
x varName = new x (methodName);
So, we know that ThreadStart is a delegate. But it's not just any delegate. Specifically, it's the delegate that must be used when creating a new thread, and it's used to specify the method that you want called as your thread method. From there, I instantiate a Thread object where the constructor takes as its only argument a ThreadStart delegate, like so: -
Thread t = new Thread(worker);
After that, I call my Thread object's Start method, which results in a call to the WorkerThreadMethod.
That's it! Three lines of code to set up and run the thread and the thread method itself, and you're off and running. Now let's look deeper into the System.Threading namespace and its classes that make all this happen.
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Jury sees video of GI buying bomb-making items
Texas jury sees video of Fort Hood bomb plot suspect buying components for explosive devices By The Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) ' The first day of testimony has ended in the federal trial of a Muslim soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops.
A Wal-mart employee told jurors Tuesday afternoon that store receipts matched items found in Abdo's Killeen motel room near Fort Hood. That's where he was detained in July, and authorities say they found pressure cookers, clocks, wires and other bomb-making components.
Jurors also saw surveillance footage showing Abdo buying the items and later taking them into his motel room.
Killeen police were tipped off by a gun store manager who was suspicious of Abdo's purchases and behavior.
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A vegetative state is defined as the absence of responsiveness or consciousness in which a patient shows no awareness of his or her environment. Patients may exhibit eye movements and other involuntary movements. A minimally conscious state is one in which a patient has some awareness of self and/or the environment. Referring to a person in a vegetative state as a vegetable is considered offensive. It is preferable to use precise medical terminology or, if that is not possible, terms such as comatose or non-responsive. If using the term vegetative state, use people-first language, such as a person in a vegetative state. Avoid referring to someone as a vegetable or “veg” as such words dehumanize the person.
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Abraham Lincoln was president at the time of abolition.
Abolition of Slavery in the USA 02
This KS3 History quiz takes a second look at abolition of slavery in the USA. The majority of slaves in the USA were Africans. Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Today, slavery in any form is illegal in most countries. In the USA, the road to the abolition of slavery was long and hard. There was a lot less slavery in the northern states and by the nineteenth century, many people living in the north wanted slavery to be abolished. A strong abolition movement developed. One leading figure of the movement, Frederick Douglass, was born as a slave but escaped to freedom when he was 20 years old. He became a writer and speaker against slavery.
By the end of the 18th century, free slaves and northerners who were against slavery were helping slaves escape from the south. They did this via a network of safe houses that were termed the Underground Railroad. This was one of the things that caused tension between the north and the south even before the Civil War began - the southerners saw this as being an attempt to take away a system that supported their way of life.
1. Who escaped from slavery and led black Americans in the nineteenth century?
He had taught himself to read and write
2. The American Civil War began in which year?
The anti-slavery north versus the slave-owning south
3. Who was elected President of the Confederate states?
He was the one and only president of the Confederate States as they lost the Civil War and had to re-join the United States
4. The northern states were known as what?
That is because they represented the regions that had remained part of the United States
5. Which was NOT a Union state?
Alabama is a southern state and supported slavery at the time of the Civil War
6. In what year did the USA abolish slavery?
It took many more years for the abolition to significantly improve the lives of slaves
7. Who was President at the time of abolition?
He took office as President in March 1861
8. Freedom for the slaves was also known as what?
The Emancipation Proclamation set free the slaves in the Confederate states
9. The North won the Civil War in which year?
It is estimated that between 800,000 and one million people died during the American Civil War, that is about 550 to 600 people killed each day of the conflict
10. Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned slavery?
The 14th and 15th Amendments also relate to the rights of former slaves
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European Championships, cutting the losses
After 6 canceled days in the rain, the first task stopped because of dangerous conditions, the second task with a fatal accident, and a forecast for even more rain it was time to take stock and make some hard decisions. All in all it seemed quite pointless to waste more days in Greifenbug, and we decided to head home early. Bjørn, Speidern and I drove home, while Olav stayed because he is going on to the Pre-Worlds in Laragne
I concider this the worst flying trip in my 12 years of flying, I did not enjoy the little flying we had. I’m sorry for the organizers that had such bad luck with the weather. they deserved better than this. I hope the pilots that are left get some good days at the end so we can have a real European champion.
The European Championships 2008, Day 7
So finally we woke up to sun and blue skies, and an early task before the warmfront shut us down. We got a 101km task to the east, to try to stay out of the shade. It was also the first day with the new rule about a max height at the start gate.
I got off quite late, but went straight to cloudbase and went towards the start circle to wait around 30 minutes there. I was in a good position for the first startgate, and flew with some of the leading pilots. But it started to rain, and I had to run from the shower with a very wet and misbehaving glider. I went into the start circle where there was some sun, and started scratching on the ridge at 1500 meters. The start gate was at 2200 meters, through a mountain peak that was 2400 meters, so we had to fly out into the valley.
I spend a long time looking for a better lift on the ridge, and missed the first start gate again. Got a better thermal flying back towards takeoff, and got up to take the second start with a nice gaggle. Unfortunately for us the warmfront and cirrus had come over us by now, giving us slower and tougher conditions ahead. Racing down the ridge we hit some shitty air that I did not want to stay in, and just kept on going to the edge of the ridge where we had to get up before crossing the next walley.
I had a pretty good run from there, and stayed in a good gaggle until between the second and third turnpoint where I went on a little to aggressively under good clouds, and had a too low valley crossing. I ended up having to glide out to a landing around halfway through the task, where the gaggle stayed back watching my stupid mistake, and slowly climbing a few hundred more meters before crossing.
It really feels like I’m out of competition shape, my mind is not where it should be, I’m flying too much on instinct, and not planning enough ahead. I know this from before, and I just need a few good days to get into shape, but the few short days here did not do the trick so far.
Kjell did a pretty good run, landed 10 km from goal, Bjørn J raced too hard and landed before the first TP, Olav Lien did not get up after the start circle, and landed at the main landing.
One pilot tumbled just after the start circle, I’ve not heard anything official about it expect that there will be no task. The weather forecast is for rain and crap conditions.
The European Championships 2008, Day 6
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Popularity of the Name
In 2012 the name Bradley’s popularity was ranked outside the top 100 most popular baby boys names in England. The name can be shortened down to several nicknames including Brad, Lee, Brady or Rad for short. Bradley is also becoming an increasing popular name for little girls with different variations of spelling.
Famous People Called Bradley
There are several famous people with the name Bradley including actors such as Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt and Bradley James just to mention a few. Omar Bradley was a great American General from the World War II who also bore the name Bradley being used as his surname. Famous English people with the name Bradley include Bradley Wiggins the famous cyclist who won the ‘Tour De France’ and Bradley Walsh the entertainer who appeared on Coronation Street.
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0.280369 | <urn:uuid:19af568a-60e2-4614-ae64-7b8473080b1a> | en | 0.936233 | Choosing a dentist and common dental services
Dental care is not limited to maintaining healthy teeth but extends to oral hygiene (to prevent dental disorders) and oral surgery (undergoing surgery of the jaw bones to modify dentition). So, when you visit dentist Hamilton, you will likely be lectured on some common services that can be performed such as:
Braces do not just help to achieve a beautiful smile; they play a major role in teeth alignment or straightening to shift the teeth into their rightful position. Braces consist of small metal brackets fused together by elastics and archwires which place the pressure to correct rotated teeth. Moving teeth in a patient’s mouth to the rightful position is quite a challenging task, hence the use of archwires to gently reposition them.
Fillings and repair
Cavities are very common and quite less difficult to repair. For cavity treatment, the decayed part of the tooth will be removed to be replaced or filled’. Filling a tooth is required to repair a cracked, broken or too
Teeth Whitening
Teeth whitening involves using a peroxide-based material to whiten the teeth which have suffered discoloration due to some food consumption habits such as tea and coffee intake. Also, the
teeth get darker naturally as we age, so almost everyone is a potential candidate for teeth whitening.
Extracting a tooth is quite a common practice that brings relief. A tooth decay is often accompanied by pain, causing discomfort and sleepless nights for the patient. In such a case, the most reliable remedy is to extract the tooth from its socket in the bone for permanent relief.
Root Canals
This is a treatment for a badly decayed tooth. During the process, the nerve and pulp are removed to take out the infection from inside the teeth which may have resulted in swelling on the face, neck or head. This will require the patient to take an x-ray to determine the depth of infection in the bone and to see the shape of the root canal.
Bridges and implants
These include replacing a lost tooth due to an injury, periodontal disease or any other similar reason. Dental implants are artificial replacements positioned into the jawbone to act as an anchor for teeth replacement. They improve appearance, feeding habits, speech, comfort, and self-esteem.
Bonding is a process used to improve the appearance of a discolored, fractured, decaying or chipped tooth. The dentist uses a special tooth-colored plastic directly on the damaged or discolored teeth to whiten them. The process can also be used to close up tooth gaps.
Crowning and capping
These procedures are done to improve the appearance of damaged and cracked teeth. The crowns, made from porcelain and metal are positioned above the gum line of the tooth to add strength and protect the teeth from further damage.
This is a protection against impending decay or bacteria. It is a thin plastic coating that protects the enamel from bacteria, applied exclusively to molars and premolars.
These procedures are performed only by certified dentists after which you must have visited once or twice and have undergone the necessary checks or x-rays where applicable. It is always
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The star of movies including "Men in Black" and "The Beastmaster" was arrested in January after police found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp with a loaded revolver.
A defense attorney says Torn is thankful no one was injured and he didn't end up in jail.
Torn won an Emmy in 1996 for his work on "The Larry Sanders Show." | http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/12/14/actor-rip-torn-pleads-guilty-connecticut-bank-break.print.html | dclm-gs1-184601087 |
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Articles - Website designing tips
"Forget AIDA -- Think MAGIC!"
written by Charles Lewis
Step one of how to design a web page that sells, is to locate the right tools for the job. Step two, is to make your site easy to use. And, without step three, the first two steps will mean absolutely nothing.
The difference between a site that sells and one that does not is ad copy (your sales letter, headline(s), snippets, etc). AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) is a common acronym that many people use to remember how to format their sales letters.
Me? I'm one for change, and if you want to succeed online, you'd better prepare yourself to ride trends like roller coasters at a theme park.
Everyone and their dog has written an article on the AIDA copywriting formula. So, when the time came for me to produce something on the topic, a new acronym seemed absolutely necessary. Here it is - the M.A.G.I.C. formula for writing a killer sales letter!
## MAGNETIZE Your Headline
Draw your prospect's attention and create a strong curiosity in what you have to offer. This friend is the all-important "ad for the ad". If your headline does not draw the reader into your offer, then you might as well have a four-year-old child write your sales letter - because your response rate will be the same either way.
"Okay, so how do I get their attention?", you ask.
Well, for starters, you aren't out to GET anyone's attention. You must RIVET their attention, and at the same time appeal to the correct TYPE of person.
For example, if you are selling flowers, do not write in all capitalized, bold, italic font. You'll scare off all the kind, gentle people who enjoy sending flowers to people for crying out loud. Use a soft color, and write from the heart.
Listen, I don't care if you are selling the latest hype-filled MLM product, French bath oils, or Viagra. You must use an emotional vocabulary. Pierce the heart and mind of your potential customer, and they will follow your words like a dog on a leash. I know this, because a sales letter written by Joe Vitale does it to me every single time. How does he do it?
The answer is actually rather simple. He uses powerful, active verbs, highly descriptive adjectives, and writes in a way that makes the person reading the sales letter feel like they are being directly spoken to. The response he is looking for most of the time is probably something to this effect:
"Oh no! I have to read on, and find out how I can save my business by giving this guy some money!"
And right when you want to turn back, he will hit you with some sort of useful piece of knowledge that any potential prospect of his will benefit from. Telling your prospect something helpful that they didn't already know can be a fantastic way to keep them reading.
I could give you a listing of a whole crock of "power words", but honestly - that's what a thesaurus is for! Buy one, and take it with you everywhere you go!
## ATTACK The Innermost Desires of Your Reader
Create a sound emotional impact that will melt away the mental barrier between you and the person to whom you are selling. That someone will want to know a few things. First, they will wonder:
"What does this dirtbag have that I want?", and secondly...
"Why should I care?"
That is a challenging question to answer. If you've tried your hand at dating (hey, some people haven't!), you have some practice at this. Just put yourself in the shoes of the most cynical person you can possibly imagine, and you will know what it feels like to read your sales letter.
The next most likely question will be, "Are the benefits going to outweigh the price of this gimmick?"
And your answer is:
Well, of course the benefits will outweigh the price, stupid! ...or will they? Hmm, good question. Let me lay it all out for you, so you can make the decision yourself. Now for the next step. . .
## GENERATE Credibility
How does the person who is reading your sales letter know that you are not just some twelve-year-old grade school dropout, trying to make a quick buck?
Well, credentials come to mind. Tell them who you are, what you've done, and why they should believe you. It sounds tough, but if you can get a few testimonials on your back, things will run smoothly in this area. Think of them as character witnesses for an old-fashioned credit bureau.
Next, you have to separate yourself from the competition. This is where the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) comes into play. If you don't know what a unique selling proposition is, I wrote an article on it recently.
Just drop me an email ( if you'd like to give it a read.
I suppose it can be boiled down to one sentence: Tell your potential customer why they should buy from you, and not the competition.
## INTEREST Your Potential Customer showing them how they will benefit from purchasing your product. This is where the old "Features = Benefits" comes into play. You can tell them everything that you have to offer, but if they cannot put two and two together, and figure out exactly how they will benefit, your efforts will be in vain.
For example, let's say that you are a salesman, selling air conditioning units to homes lacking this luxury. Well, first you would outline all the bells and whistles, extreme ease of use, and a load of other bull. But what does it all boil down to?
By using an air conditioner, these people will never again have to set up giant buckets of ice all over the house. Sweat will be a thing of the past! Living with air conditioning will put a person in a better mood, therefore increasing their quality of life. In turn, they will not smell bad, and women will fall all over them, and so on and so forth.
This is where you give them a call to action. Tell your prospect what to do, or they won't. This is simple psychology here. Don't just stick an order button at the bottom! You must tell them to order your product.
Give them a solid guarantee. This will take care of any uncertainties a person might have about your product. I always offer a one year 100% money back guarantee on all of my products, because I know that however many more people return the product, it will be outweighed by the drastic increase in sales.
Another trick I really like to use is to add a highly valued "surprise" bonus that will hit them right before they order. I've seen sales ratios go up by 50% after implementing this one simple tactic. The bonus itself does not necessarily need to have an overwhelming value (although it helps quite a bit), but any surprise bonus will be the straw that broke the customer's back.
## M.A.G.I.C - Magnetize, Attack, Generate, Interest, Closure.
Whether you remember the format of a sales letter using MAGIC or AIDA is up to you. Times are a' changing and innovation is driving the world's economy. Are you willing to follow the leader? Or are you going to get off your butt, and start making your own decisions?
Followers don't make money on the 'net - leaders do. Rome wasn't built in a day, and your business is no different. It will be built over many days, tears of frustration, late nights fueled by coffee and the drive to succeed. I know - I've been there, shed the tears, and taken the many hard knocks to my esteem. Do not ever give up, because those at the top are the ones who were patient enough to trudge through the muck.
Charles Lewis is editor of "The Creative Marketer", a weekly newsletter dedicated to delivering proven online marketing techniques.
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Killing Weeds with Vinegar
Question. I don't use chemicals on my lawn, but just learned that my wonderful daughter and son-in-law have hired a chemical lawn care company to get rid of their weeds. I've heard you speak about using a vinegar with 20% acidity to achieve the same end. I went to a large garden center, but they didn't have it. Please tell me where I can get 20% vinegar. And please provide any 'man-to-man' information I can share with my son-in-law; my daughter wants my grandchildren to be able to walk barefoot on their lawn, so we really need your sensible advice.
---Barbara in Cherry Hill, NJ
Answer. Some people get mad at me when I take this (high) road, but I feel strongly that the job of parents is to protect their children's health, not to take risks with it. Many of the herbicides in use today are hormonal disruptors, and to me, it is the height of madness to expose small children—whose hormones are very easily influenced—to anything that could possibly harm them.
Will they definitely be harmed? What's the absolute risk? To me these are meaningless questions; chemical herbicides are 100% unnecessary, making any risk a foolish one.
That's right—unnecessary. The Dirty Little Secret lawn care companies don't want you to know is that the most important factors for keeping a lawn as free of weeds as possible have nothing to do with chemicals or organics; it's all in the cutting, watering, seeding and feeding.
If your son-in-law has a lawn composed of cool-season grasses—the norm in New Jersey and similar climes—and cuts it or allows it to be cut below three inches, weeds are inevitable. If he feeds it or allows others to feed it any time other than Spring and Fall, weeds are inevitable. And if he waters it for short periods of time, weeds are inevitable.
To achieve the least amount of weed in a lawn in the North, the grass must be three inches high after cutting. Never cut the lawn during a dry heat wave or feed it in the summer. If Nature has not provided an inch of water that week, water deeply overnight, ending at 7 or 8 am. Do those things—all free of cost and risk—and you will have prevented a good ¾ of potential weed problems; maybe closer to 90%.
Now to directly answer your question. An Internet search of the phrase 'horticultural vinegar' brought up a dozen organic products that are readily available ranging in strength from 8% acidity to 20%. Because they're liquid, they can be expensive to ship; so if vinegar you want, try and get a local garden center that offers organic options to stock a few brands.
Just be aware that while residual vinegar won't harm people or water supplies, vinegar in the eyes will. If you choose this weed control option—which I sometimes do for weeds in my gravel driveway—be sure and wear eye protection (which you should do when spraying ANYTHING other than pure water).
But vinegar is just one chemical free weed control option—and probably a poor choice for lawn weeds, as it is a 'non-selective' herbicide that will kill any grass it soaks as well as weeds. An organic herbicidal soap might be a better choice; and the newest kids on the block, herbicides made from iron, are designed to be very kind to adjacent grasses.
But again, care for the grass correctly and weeds should become a serious non-issue.
---Nick in Reinholds, PA
Answer. Super-excellent questions, Nick! And the answer to them all is 'yes'.
As with any contact herbicide, chemical or organic, you'll get the best results when you coat the surface of the undesired plant with a high-strength vinegar at the hottest height of a hot and sunny day when it hasn't rained for awhile and is not predicted to rain within the next few days. And, as with any contact herbicide, care must be taken to avoid or protect adjacent plants.
As you seem to have figured out, high-strength vinegars also have a quasi-systemic action. They aren't absorbed into the cellular structure of a plant like some chemical herbicides, but large amounts can lower the pH of the soil the plant is growing in below its survival range. In my opinion, this is the best use for the horticultural vinegars; finishing off tough weeds like bamboo and thistle after you've stressed their above ground growth by repeatedly cutting it back.
To achieve this noble end, cut the monster weed back several times beginning in Spring, and then drench dry soil around their root systems with vinegar on the hottest, driest day of the year. Stress them enough, time it right, use a good amount of the highest acidity vinegar you can find, and you'll achieve an impressive knock down.
Yes, you'll knock down some soil life as well, but that life will return as rain and time ease the soil pH back up. After a month or so if you like, you can dust some wood ash on the area to get the acidity levels closer to normal a little faster.
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It isn’t just in the golf swing that we need LAG.
One of the secrets to successful ball striking (inc putting) is that we need to produce LAG in every shot, from the putter all the way up to the driver.
I spend most of my time talking and explaining to others how to achieve LAG in the full swing but we also want LAG in a putt. And once you produce it, you’ll never look or feel, the stroke in the same way again.
So what are some of the keys to producing LAG when putting?
Well, let’s start by quickly going over impact and work our way back from there.
The No 1 alignment in golf is the FLAT LEFT WRIST AT IMPACT and it’s crucial whilst putting as well. Most golfers flip the club head through impact which causes too much loft to be added to the ball. This starts the ball off bouncing and bobbing around more than we want and it’s very difficult to control distance. Which is so much more important than line.
So to stop flipping the club head at the ball through impact, start paying attention to the role of your left wrist (for righties).
First off, your left hand should be placed on the handle to the side. So that the lifeline of the left palm is attached to the side of the handle.
Most people still hold the putter much like they do for a normal golf shot with a normal golf swing. Don’t forget, we are standing much closer to a putt than we do a golf shot. Therefore, the shaft angle is much more vertical.
Place your left hand to the side of the handle, not on top! Once your left hand is placed on the handle in the correct fashion, start to slightly BOW your left hand toward the target.
From your eye line it will appear that the shaft is leaning forward slightly in the setup. From here, produce a slight forward press with the back of your left hand and make your stroke.
The objective in the putting stroke, much like the golf swing, is for the head to never outrace the handle. Understanding this hinging/bowing action in the left wrist will produce a flat left wrist at impact and the ball will be struck very cleanly out the sweet spot.
Also, because your impact dynamics will improve your distance control will improve. You’ll start to feel as though you can drop/die the ball into the hole from much longer distances.
Try and putt your mind in your hands, or more importantly in your left wrist. There’s absolutely no hope to ever becoming a good putter unless you educate your left wrist.
Take a look at how Rory Mcilroy has educated his left wrist through the stroke. Check out his forward press and then how he maintains his flat left wrist. | http://www.jamesparkergolf.com/lag-putter-like-rory/ | dclm-gs1-184901087 |
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What's Going On with Medicine in America?
Whistle-Blowing Doctors
Better Safe than Sorry?
Does the Advertising of Prescription Drugs Make Sense?
Growing Older
What Can We Do?
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Planning My French Adventure
I've always dreamed of learning some French and moving to France for six months to work on becoming fluent in the language. It's hard to follow a dream like that when you are in a relationship with someone who does not share the dream, but Terry and I are good at compromise. As I wrote that post back in October about the couple who sold everything upon retirement and live on the road (it has now moved to the one prior to this one because I changed a spelling error,) I began thinking about ways to make it work.
Market in Gordes
I discovered the Home Away website, where I searched hundreds of apartments all over Provence. I started with Marseille because it is central, bigger than many of the other places, and on the coast. I found one apartment near the old port, but when I inquired about the price for two months, the owner raised the price substantially because Marseille is the site of a cultural celebration all next year. I'll let her find another renter.
Then I found another apartment in Marseilles, much nicer than the first one and for a similar price. I was about ready to sign the contract but decided to check out the neighborhood on Google Earth. I just love the feature that allows you to virtually walk the streets of a neighborhood, but even more so now that it saved me from making a big mistake. Every surface of every wall in that neighborhood is completely covered in graffiti! Even if it is safe, I'm certain that it would be very depressing to walk those streets every day.
When I read that most of Old Marseille was blown up by the Nazis, I decided maybe that was not where I wanted to stay after all.
Another town that I have never visited but always been intrigued by is Aix-en-Provence, just a short bus ride inland from Marseille. The original old town is still there; the new town has just been built all around the old town. The birthplace and home of Paul Cezanne, Aix (pronounced EX) is an artist's kind of town.
It didn't take long to find an apartment in Aix - just one block from the Cours Maribeau, where everyone wants to hang out. It has a complete kitchen, and the washer and dryer will be a huge money-saver. You can see photos here. I found out that it is important to contact the owners for a price quote. Many were much higher than advertised; this one was much lower for the long rental.
Before I committed to this one, I checked apartments all over Provence. This one was definitely the best deal. The deposit is paid and the contract signed, so there is no backing out.
Ochre cliffs at Rousillon
I am checking various websites weekly for a good rate on the planes tickets. As always, I don't have enough miles with any airline to fly free, but this one should put me over the top for the next trip. Today I found out that I can do a side trip to Portland, Oregon, to visit my kids for less than $100 extra. A flight to Portland alone is about $450, so that is something I will definitely consider.
I am working on the language: reading, writing, listening , and pronouncing. I jump around from Rosetta Stone to old videos of French in Action on YouTube (I've got the book.) I have French for Dummies and French Made simple. If I make through all of these, I've got a box full of cassettes. I also get regular posts from Marie Claire's online magazine in French.
Pont du Gard
I've been reading MFK Fisher's books about her life in France and cooking from Patricia Wells at Home in Provence. I'm remembering aoli and tapenade, wines and cheeses and pastis and my mouth is watering. I look through my old photos from 1999 and remember visiting some of those places like it was just last year. I'm trying to decide which ones to skip this time around and which I want to explore without the pressure of a tour group ready to move on.
I'm really excited about the chance to travel without the pressure of moving around all the time with luggage, searching for hotel deals, catching trains. I may even hop on the bullet train for the three hour trip to Paris for a few nights. I love beginnings - the possibilities are endless!
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Retirement Can Be an Adventure
I read an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal online about a retired couple who sold their house in California last year and have been living more or less 'on the move' ever since. They've whittled their stuff down to what they can carry in a few suitcases and move slowly around the world, renting furnished apartments and houses online that they live in for a month or two.
In the past 18 months, they have lived in Mexico, Argentina, Florida, Turkey, France, Italy, England and the US. They will finish out the year in Ireland and Morocco before going back to the US to spend the holidays with family.
I've done enough traveling to know that I need a home of my own to come back to -- a place to keep the stuff that I enjoy when I'm home. I've already over-purged my belongings once and then decided I wanted some of it back. That was a lesson well learned.
But why not a compromise between staying home and moving all the time? I told myself for years that, as soon as I learn enough French, I'm going to rent an apartment in France and live there for a while to become comfortable speaking a third language. I've always thought that six months would be nice, but that was before I met Terry. He has no desire to live in, or even visit, France. So I put that dream away for some undefined time in the future.
Reading this article got me thinking about that dream all over again. Terry is going to Florida to visit family and friends for five or six weeks in May and June, so what is stopping me from going to France at that same time? It won't be six months -- I don't really want to leave Mexico for six months -- but I can settle for two. I won't come home speaking perfect French, but a rental agreement and a ticket are good incentive to study over the next six months. And I can always go back another time to learn more.
The couple in the article have lots more cash than I do; but then, I own two houses in Mexico. Still, this seems like something I can do. I've seen quite a few vacation rentals online that rent for less than $1000US a month. With a kitchen for cooking my own gluten-free vegetarian meals, I'm pretty well set. And with wi-fi and my computer, I can do my few daily hours of work wherever I may be. And I have Skype on my iPod Touch so I can easily call home. And with more than one bedroom, I can even invite a girlfriend or two to come visit me and help with the rent.
The idea just keeps expanding as I think about the possibilities. The next year, I could do my "French Lesson" in Morocco and maybe Vietnam the year after that. What about French Polynesia? Or Vanuatu and the Seychelles? And then St. Barts and St. Martin in the Caribbean? I've been to some of these places but I always felt a little lost, or kind of left out, because I couldn't speak the language.
Speaking Spanish has made it easy for me to move around in Latin America and Spain. Sure, there are some differences in the way it's spoken in the different countries, but it hasn't been difficult to adapt. And my Spanish even came in handy once in Croatia when my tiny bit of Italian was lacking. I got away with using Spanish in Portugal, and with a Brazilian friend, too. Speaking French will open up so many more possibilities.
Actually, I've been to France before -- even to Provence -- but it was with a tour and we moved around so fast that we missed all but the main tourist traps. And,of course, I didn't speak any French at all. That was my first and only official tour.
I prefer the idea of slow travel, like I did in Japan. I had a whole month to enjoy Kyoto. It was so much better than a few days or even a week. Two months will allow me to return to Roussillion, and St. Remy, and Avignon. And I'll be able to visit Aix-en-Provence, and Grasse, where they make the perfume. And I can follow van Gogh around Arles. The more I think about this, the more excited I get! And of course I'll write all about it.
I've got to get back to my Rosetta Stone now...
If you would like to read more about the couple that brought on this whole plan, check out their website.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll, Part 2: Legalizing Marijuana
Have we reached the tipping point for the decriminalization of marijuana yet? Now that Obama doesn't have to worry about being elected again, will he go with public opinion? What could make better sense than to decriminalize it, license it, and tax it?
A 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug with 18.1 million users in the United States. It is estimated that 76% of 50 year old high school graduates have tried marijuana. It may be the largest cash crop in the US with a value in the billions of dollars.
Decriminalization of marijuana for personal use would:
• Allow law enforcement officials to turn their attention toward preventing more serious crimes
• Save state and federal governments the billions of dollars that are now spent to prosecute marijuana users
• Empty out a lot of prison cells all over the country
• Deprive gangs and organized crime of the income they now receive from growing and selling marijuana
• Provide legal access to people who believe that marijuana helps with health issues
• Allow recreational users access to a drug that is less dangerous than alcohol to both themselves and those around them
• Provide the government with substantial tax revenue.
Prosecuting Marijuana Users
According to the Controlled Substance Act, Marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 drug, along with heroin, LSD, and Ecstasy.
In 1965, right about the time we baby boomers were first becoming acquainted with the drug, 18,815 people were arrested for marijuana. By 2009, that number had risen to 858,408. There were 1,531,251 drug arrests in 2011. Some involved other drugs, but 757,969 were for marijuana possession alone. Here is a chart that shows how arrests have grown over the years.
Each one of these arrests required the time and effort of police officers for the arrest and booking. Then each of them had to be prosecuted in court, requiring judges, juries, attorneys, court clerks, etc. I have no idea of the cost of this, but I imagine it is quite expensive.
Not only that, the federal government is going after the states that have recognized the cost of this prosecution of marijuana users and chosen to decriminalize it.
Costs of Sending Users and Dealers to Prison
The average cost for holding one inmate in any kind of jail or prison for one year is about $31,500. That amount is closer to $50,000 in many states.
In 2004, there were 11,630 inmates in federal prisons for marijuana charges and 33,186 in state prisons. That is 44,816 inmates at an average cost of $31,500 each. That comes to $1,411,704,000 per year!!! And don't forget, there are many more being held in local jails, too.
According to the US Penal Code, the sentence for possession of more than 1000 kilos of pot or more than 1000 plants is not less than ten years or more than life in prison with no possibility of early parole. For 100 or more kilos or 100 plants, it is not less than five years or more than 40 years with no possibility of early parole. For less than 50 kilos or 50 plants, the sentence is no more than five years and a $250,000 fine.
So, to follow through on this, each one of those big-time dealers cost us a minimum of $315,000 for his ten year sentence and up to maybe $1,575,000 if he was busted young and lived long. And those numbers do not consider inflation. No doubt these are some pretty serious dealers, but if marijuana was legal, they would be out of business.
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
For six years now, the news around the world has been talking about the numbers of deaths in Mexico supposedly caused by President Calderon's war against the drug cartels. I don't agree with blaming those deaths on the president, but that is beside the point. For years, Mexico has been asking the US to do something to halt the demand for the drugs north of the border. Without that demand for the illegal drugs, the cartels would be put out of business.
Two weeks ago, following Uruguay's lead, a bill was introduced in Mexico to legalize production, sale, and use of marijuana. Both countries are hoping to put the cartels out of business by killing the market for illegal pot. Of course, the US does more to support the cartels than the Mexican market could ever do.
As long as marijuana is illegal, those who choose to use it will be forced to associate with gangs and criminals who deal with must worse stuff. Decriminalizing or legalizing pot would make life very hard for these gangs.
Medical Marijuana
The first medical marijuana laws were passed in the 1970s, and now 30 states have laws recognizing marijuana's medical value. Unfortunately, federal law supersedes state law. This means that no matter how many states see the value of it, the federal government still can go into those states and bust providers and users.
Marijuana is used to treat nausea, loss of appetite, chronic pain, anxiety, epilepsy, inflammation, migraines, and Crohn's Disease. It also eases pain and improves the quality of life for people with arthritis, cancer, AIDS, Glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis, insomnia, and ADHD.
Pharmaceutical companies have developed drugs, Sativex and Marinol, that the government likes to call legal medical marijuana. Based on cannabis extracts or synthetic THC, these drugs are more expensive and less effective than the real thing and cause more side effects.
AIDS and chemotherapy for cancer cause nausea; marijuana helps by increasing appetite and insuring better nutrition. Marijuana helps to lower the intraocular eye pressure for Glaucoma sufferers. People with Peripheral Neuropathy find that marijuana relieves pain better than other drugs.
Why don't they just use regular drugs like everyone else? Many of those regular drugs are narcotic, are addictive, are dangerous, and can have bad side effects.
How does it work? The human body produces endocannabinoids that help to regulate the body's responses. THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is also a cannabinoid, and it can bind to the body's cannabinoid receptors and produce the desired effects such as reducing pain and anxiety. This is also what makes us high. Some studies are showing that marijuana may also slow the development of certain cancers.
Recreational Use
Right after the election in which the voters in Washington and Colorado voted to legalize marijuana, I saw a younger (late 30s? early 40s?) guy on the news complaining that baby boomers, who apparently were responsible for these laws being passed, just don't understand that the pot of today is nothing like the pot we may have tried in the 1960s.
The huge flaw in his argument is that he assumes that baby boomers outgrew marijuana somewhere along the way. I don't know anymore about north of the border, but I would guess that 75% of the retired boomers I know of here in Mexico still smoke pot fairly regularly. And, contrary to what they told us 50 years ago:
• Smoking pot had no effect on our IQ scores and there has been no effect on global intelligence.
• Death by overdose from smoking pot is practically impossible.
• Memory is affected in very regular users, but that effect is very small.
• There is no conclusive evidence that marijuana use leads to abuse of other drugs.
• Unlike with alcohol, there is no link between being stoned and violence.
According to the Archives of Internal Medicine (2006), "...Observational studies failed to demonstrate a clear association between marijuana smoking and diagnosis of lung cancer. Therefore, we must conclude that no convincing evidence exists for association between marijuana smoking and lung cancer based on existing data."
The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society reported a meta-analysis of studies "failed to demonstrate a substantial, systemic, and detrimental effect of cannabis use on neuropsychological performance."
And in 1998, the World Health Organization said that "use of cannabis poses a much less serious public health problem than is currently posed by alcohol and tobacco in western societies."
Legalized or Decriminalized
Although Amsterdam is the most well known, the idea is catching on in many countries around the world. The following have either legalized or decriminalized marijuana use: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Uruguay is expected to follow by the end of the year. Additionally, medical marijuana is legal in Canada, Finland, and Israel.
Wikipedia has a map that shows marijuana laws by state in the US.
The US Economy on Marijuana
The law that Uruguay is about to pass (there is no substantial opposition to it) makes so much sense that I can't believe it has taken this long for someone to come up with it. It creates the National Cannabis Institute and grants it the power to license individuals and companies to produce marijuana for medical, recreational, and industrial use. The country will collect taxes and fees for every step along the way with a portion of the money going toward the fight against abuse of more serious drugs. The law also allows adults to possess almost 1.5 ounces and grow up to six plants at home.
If the US passed a similar law, it would, at the very least, eliminate the 1.5 trillion dollars it is spending to keep all of those people in prison. In addition to emptying the prisons, it would free the police to concentrate on more serious crime, clear the pressure on prosecutors and courts, keep families together, allow sick people the relief they need, and be more fair to those who prefer to relax with marijuana rather than alcohol. A tax on legalized marijuana would also add billions of dollars to government coffers.
Polls show that 60% of Americans think the government should back off on this, but those with the power to change the federal laws don't seem to get it. We have to make sure that they know we mean it. A lot of politicians were quite surprised by the recent elections, but the people let them know that they weren't willing to accept the way things have been going.
It is time for a change. Contact your senators and congressional representatives. Write to the president. Explain the issues to them. Explain the finances of it. Share this post with them. I'm happy to explain.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sex, Drugs, & Rock n' Roll, Part 1: Sex
Attitudes about sex changed just about when we boomers were coming of age sexually. Now they tell us that a good early sex life leads to a good sex life later, so I guess we had it right from the beginning, no matter what our parents tried to tell us. By the time we reach retirement age, we know exactly what we want, and we know how to get it.
People are ageing better now than we used to. We are more fit, we look and feel better, and we are more interested in sex. Seventy-year-olds are healthier than they were thirty years ago. They have fewer distractions, more time and privacy, and no worries about pregnancy.
Many people remain sexually active into their 70s and 80s. A Swedish study that reported on seventy-year-olds said that 58% of the men and 62% of the women were sexually satisfied. Another study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine said that of people aged 57 - 64, seventy-three percent had recently engaged in sexual activity. In the 65 - 74 age group, it was 53%, and for those between 75 and 85, it was 26%. Just look at what we have to look forward to!
Seven Reasons Why Sex is Better After 60
This is adapted from Jim Selman's blog on Huffington Post:
1. We have more patience; we can slow down and relax.
2. We know that the more we give, the more we receive.
3. We have better conversations - before, during, and after.
4. We are less judgemental in the bedroom.
5. We are present in the moment with no worries about past or future.
6. We are more about the journey than the destination.
7. We understand love. We can relate to others without needing to be in control. Sex is a gift that we give to each other.
The Relationship between Sex and Happiness
In a study of married couples over the age of 65, in the group that had sex at least once a month, 80% said they were very happy with life in general. If they hadn't had sex for the past twelve months, only 59% reported that they were happy with their lives. And of the ones who had been celibate for more than a year, it was only 40%. I have to wonder if the sex makes them happy or if a couple who is happy together naturally has more sex.
It doesn't just happen all by itself; it takes some effort to keep the passion alive. It helps a lot if you can talk to your partner - share your hopes and dreams and your sexual thoughts. It will probably never again be like it was in your twenties and thirties, but it can be better. At this stage of our lives, intimacy and love are often more important than orgasm.
Nine Tips for Hot Sex After 60
This is adapted from Joan Price's Eldr blog. (There were 10 but I missed one.)
1. Slow down. Foreplay can last for hours.
2. Kiss, kiss, and kiss again. It helps you bond with your partner.
3. Appreciate, decorate, and celebrate your own and your partner's bodies with lingerie, feathers, massage oil & candlelight.
4. Do sexy things together. Dance. Buy sexy clothes. Go to a sex shop.
5. Make love during high energy times. Try a morner or an afternoon delight.
6. Explore sex toys.
7. Use a silky lubricant.
8. Enjoy quality snuggle time before, during, and after.
9. Laught a lot.
When Problems Arise
Loss of libido, or just not being interested anymore, can be caused by a variety of medical conditions, such as depression, stress, diabetes, low testosterone in men, or as a side effect from some medication.
Other problems can come from heart disease, arthritis, surgeries, medications, high blood pressure, anithistamines, anti-depressants, or acid-blocking drugs. Erectile disfunction can be dealt with by taking Viagra or Cialis. They may be expensive but can be well worth the expense.
Viagra has only been around since 1998, but it is one of the most prescribed drugs out there. It only works if the man is sexually aroused, just like normal. Possible side effects include headaches, long-lasting painful erections, and heart attacks, which is why it requires a prescription. It cannot be taken with nitroglycerine, though. The good news is that Viagra's patent expired in March of this year, so generics should bring the price down.
A huge part of sex is the desire to be desired. When women report sexual disfunction, it is usually from lack of desire, which is often connected to a woman's sense of intimacy with her partner. Experiences from her past can add to the problem. Medical conditions can also affect libido.
If the Thrill is Gone...
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, talks about viewing our partners, both men and women, as beautiful flowers. When we first get together, we want to do anything that is possible to keep our flower happy. We give it lots of love and attention and our flower responds to that love by thriving.
But over the years, we get kind of lazy and take our flower for granted. We get busy with our own lives and forget to pay any attention to our flower. Our flower responds by getting kind of droopy and not so pretty anymore. Then maybe we don't like our flower so much anymore. Maybe we think about throwing it away and getting a new flower.
But what can happen when you remember the old days and how much you loved your flower. Remember how happy your flower was and how it thrived? And when your flower thrived, weren't you happy, too? Maybe if you start paying attention to your flower again - give it some of the loving care that you used to - it will respond by perking up and becoming happy again. And then you can be happy again, too.
Play Safely
I've heard a rumor, completely unsubstantiated, that the 81,000 seniors living at The Villages in central Florida can give the youngsters a run for their money in the sex department. They have ten women living there for every man, and the competition is tough. One night stands and quickies in golf carts aren't unheard of. The market for Viagra is thriving, but so is the rate of sexually transmitted diseases. Most of them spent the better part of their lives married to their first love who has now died and left them alone. They don't have to worry about pregnancy and are too old to have had sex education at school, so they never learned about STDs. They need some young people to go stand on the corners passing out free condoms in lots of pretty colors.
And finally, the Mayo Clinic's Senior Sex Tips
1. Talking with your partner can help you both enjoy sex more.
2. Talk to your doctor if there is a problem. He or she can explain if it is a medical condition or medications.
3. Expand your definition of sex. Orgasm isn't necessarily required; contact and intimacy are really more important.
4. Adapt your routine to your needs. Try different times of day. Try new positions. Try it in a golf cart. (No, they didn't say that.)
5. Don't give up on romance after death or divorce, but practice safe sex.
Take good care of yourself. Eat healthy. Stay active. Don't drink too much alcohol. Don't smoke or use illegal drugs.
Thanks for reading. And have more sex!
Friday, November 23, 2012
An Attitude of Gratitude
I had planned to write this yesterday, on the day that the US celebrates Thanksgiving Day, but then I decided to wait. Many people think about thankfulness and gratitude on that one day of the year; but what about the rest of the time?
If for no other reason, we should pay attention to gratitude for the benefits it offers to our brains and bodies. According to Dr. P. Murhli Doralswamy of Duke University, optimism and feelings of gratitude actually have measurable and beneficial "effects on multiple body and brains systems."
According to Harvard Health, when we acknowledge the good things in our lives, it helps connect us to the people around us, to nature, or a higher power. It "helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships."
Many studies have shown that a positive outlook leads to less depression and a long life expectancy. Here's a list of 31 More Benefits of Gratitude.
I learned this phrase when I lived in Japan. The literal translation is "I humbly receive," and it is often said like a grace before eating. But it is really more than that. Itadakimasu expresses gratitude to everyone and everything that had something to do with getting your meal to you.
You are thanking any animals or even plants that gave up their lives so that you can eat. You are thanking the rancher who raised the meat, or the hunter who brought it home from the wild. You are thanking the farmer who planted and cared for and harvested the plants you are eating. You are thanking everyone who participated in transporting the meal to your home. You are thanking the person who cooked the meal and set the table and served it to you. You could even take it further by including thanking the earth that supported the plants and animals, the sun that gave its energy, and the rain that kept everything hydrated.
The problem with something like this is that it is easy to just say the words and not really think about the meaning. But by really running the whole thing through your mind, it keeps you much more aware of what it took to get that food to you.
Expressing gratitude is nice for whomever you share it with, but it is even more important for what it does to you. It can change your whole life. Gratitude focuses your attention on the good stuff in your life.
Think of the old sayings we are all familiar with:
• Look at the bright side.
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• Count your blessings.
Looking for things to be grateful for will make you notice things that you have been taking for granted.
Sometimes we get so busy that we forget to notice the things that really matter. Mindfulness can help us to pay attention to that good stuff. And if you are concentrating on the good stuff, the bad stuff has a hard time getting through. There are some steps you can take that will help you focus on those positive emotions, like keeping a Gratitude Journal, writing letters of gratitude, and meditating on things for which you are grateful.
A Gratitude Journal
Whether it is some small notebook or a place on your computer, keeping a gratitude journal focuses your mind on looking for positive things in your life. You could write an entry every day or once a week or even a weekend marathon. I like the daily idea because it assures that you are thinking about it every day. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate - a single word would do. Or you could write a whole page to explain. It's your journal.
My friend Angelique has been posting her gratitude journal on Facebook all this month. Going public with it might get others to think about the good things in their own lives, but I prefer privacy. I like to let the ideas run round and round in my brain and finally come out through my hand and my pencil onto the paper in front of me. Somehow, writing it longhand seems more personal and from my heart than typing on the computer.
Another version of this is the Three Blessings Exercise. Every night before you go to bed, write down three good things that happened to you during the day.
UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center has a Fourteen Day Challenge for you.
Letters of Gratitude
I didn't get to go to college until I was in my late 30s. It was a tiny community college, and I took writing classes from the same teacher all year. Mrs. Widmer taught me to write poetry and essays and research papers. She was the most encouraging teacher I've ever had in my life.
Early this summer, I happened to run into a notebook containing every assignment I did in her classes. That notebook brought back that entire year of classes to me. It gave me such a good feeling that I wanted to share with her just how much she had changed my life. So I sat down a wrote an email of gratitude to thank her for all she had given to me.
I wanted her to know that I am still writing and that I am also tutoring college students with their writing projects. Hopefully, I am passing on not just the knowledge she shared with me but also the encouragement that made so much difference in my life.
I had never heard of a letter of gratitude at the time, but that's exactly what it was. Writing the letter made me feel wonderful, and I hope that receiving it did the same for her.
As you meditate, focus your thoughts on what you're grateful for - just simple things like the sound of waves breaking at the beach, the warmth of the sun, the patter of rain on the roof, or a fresh snowfall. Think about the love you feel toward your partner, your children, your grandchildren, and your good friends.
See how this type of meditation helps you to manage stress, sleep better, feel more satisfied with your life, show kindness toward others, especially your partner.
Nothing to be Grateful for?
Imagine having no home, no food, no money, no family or friends, a terminal illness. There is always someone who is worse off than you are. Noticing simple pleasures changes your focus from what you lack to what you have.
I'm going to leave you with a link to a site that I think is wonderful: Gratitude. I have linked to this before, but I think it is so great that it is worth watching over and over again. While you are there, be sure to watch the other amazing movies from Louie Schwartzberg and Moving Art.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Simplify: How Much Is Enough?
I think that most of us have lost sight of the difference between wants and needs. Everyone just has to have the newest iPad and iPhone and whatever other toy has come out this month, even if they already own the prior version that is only a few months old.
In the middle of what is supposed to be a bad recession, even the children walk around with phones that cost hundreds of dollars and have their own iPads.
I could hardly believe it when the people who know this kind of stuff said that Americans were expected to spend $370 million this year on Halloween costumes - for their pets!
Watch Out for Afluenza
Affluenza is a term for conspicuous consumption - the deliberate consumption of goods and services intended to provoke the envy of other people as a means of displaying superior status. People with this 'disease' tend to be overworked and stressed - in pursuit of the American Dream and trying to keep up with the Joneses.
This leads to a disfunctional relationship with money. No one wants to wait to buy something until they can actually afford to pay cash for it. It is so easy to pull out that credit card and get it right now. They somehow forget that they will end up paying so much more for the item when they include the interest.
Even very wealthy people constantly struggle to earn more, gain more, and get farther ahead. And yet they continue to feel unfulfilled. It is an unending struggle because someone else will always have a bigger house, fancier car, or more toys.
Diseases of Affluence
Diseases of Poverty are infectious diseases. They are caused by poor hygiene, unclean drinking water, lack of healthy food, and no vaccinations.
Diseases of Affluence, on the other hand, are non-communicable diseases. They are caused by too much of everything: too much sugar, too much fat, too much food, too much alcohol. The result is heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, gout, depression.
Be The Millionaire Next Door
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy surprised the world when it told the truth. The real millionaires are quiet about it. They tend to drive older cars, live in modest homes, and resist wearing the latest fashions. They are frugal. Their modest standards of living are one of the main reasons that they are millionaires.
Reducing consumption - buying only what you need - can allow you to pay off your debt, save more to retire early, or spend less time at work. You can use that extra time to pursue hobbies, read good books, and play with your children or grandchildren. Don't deprive yourself, but save your spending for the things that really matter. Buy quality and use it until you've used it up.
Some people forget what's important in life. They get so caught up in the pursuit of money and things that they don't leave time to spend with family and friends. Remember that the more money you spend, the more time you have to spend earning more money. It is important to maintain a good balance between work and life. Work to live rather than living to work.
Winning the Lottery
I once had a neighbor who had won $85 million dollars in a lottery. She was a young college student, single and pregnant. She lived in our neighborhood for about six months while her new custom home was being built. No one in the neighborhood ever got to know her, but it wasn't because we didn't try. She was invited to parties and picnics all the time, but she always turned down the invitations. She was sure that everyone was after her money. Later, I heard that she had complained to someone that she hated living there - everyone was unfriendly!
When I used to buy lottery tickets, I dreamed about what I would do if I won. Of course I thought about buying a new house and a new car, but I never pictured anything big and fancy. The thing I really looked forward to was all the good I could do with that money. I thought about how good it would feel to see or hear about someone who needed help and actually be able to offer that help without worrying about going broke myself.
Just Refuse to Play the Game
Well, I'm not going to win a lottery because I don't buy tickets. But I do own a modest home free and clear. I love this house and have no desire to live in anything bigger or fancier. I make small improvements each year - I can hear the man putting in my small fireplace right now as I write - and each year I love it more and more.
I drive the ten year old Honda Accord that my mother bought a year before she died, and I hope it will last the rest of my driving life. (It only has 70,000 miles on it.) It's kind of beat up on the outside from eight years of driving and parking on narrow cobblestone roads that were never designed to handle so many vehicles. But the inside is almost like new, the ride is very comfortable, and the mechanical parts are reliable.
While some people feel like they need a big house and a new car, I would rather spend my money on experiences, especially travel. And even there, I don't waste my money on fancy hotels and meals. I'm there for the history and the culture and to meet the people. I'd rather travel cheap and travel often.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Travel Tales: Looking for Buddha in All the Wrong Places
I have been interested in the Buddhist religion/philosophy for many years. My interest probably started in the 1970s as an extension of my following the Beatles and a boyfriend into Transcendental Meditation, but I don't honestly remember. I never had a desire to join an ashram or anything like that, but, from what I could learn, what they said made sense to me.
Because I have also had a long-time interest in Japan and Japanese aesthetics, my reading had leaned toward Zen Buddhism for quite a few years before my trip to Japan. It seemed to me that the Buddhism of the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh were somehow different from the Zen of Japan. There was a lot I didn't understand, and I was looking forward to the opportunity of exploring it more while I was there.
Kyoto Temples and Their Gardens
Beginning my first week in Kyoto, I set off almost daily to explore one Zen temple after another - Ginkaku-ji, Kinkaku-ji, Nanzen-ji - really, I visited just about all of the famous ones. Almost all of them had beautiful gardens that I would have happily volunteered to work in - working meditation - for the rest of my life. All of these gardens would have been perfect sites for meditation. But I never saw a single person meditating in any of them.
Honestly, I was becoming very confused because I never saw any sign of any Buddhism at all being practised at any of the temples in Kyoto. One day I met a Canadian guy who had been living and working in Japan for a few years, and so I asked him if he knew anything about it. He began telling me that he thought the whole Zen idea had turned into a big business. Monks were driving fancy cars and having children. He thought it was a big fraud.
I soon escaped from my new friend, wondering what had happened to make him so bitter. I just could not accept what he was saying. How could it be possible? I crossed the famous bridge in Arashiyama to start on my walking tour of the area.
The very first stop on the tour was the Tenryu-ji temple. As I approached, I could not help but notice the Mercedes Benz and Jaguar in the parking lot along with other very nice cars. I have no idea who those cars belonged to, but they sure made me think again about what the guy had said. As I continued to visit various temples, I looked at them differently - I guess you could say I took off my rose-colored glasses.
I realized that the reason I never saw anyone sitting in a temple garden and meditating was that there were no places to sit in most of the gardens. Many of the gardens were actually set up as a one-way path that visitors had to follow. There was usually no place to step off the path to linger or contemplate the scenery. The next visitor was right behind me; I couldn't hold up everyone else.
There was someone at the beginning to collect the 500 to 1000 yen fee ($5 to $10 at the time), and then there was a path for everyone to follow that led through the garden and out the exit. The few people selling tickets and working in the garden did not even appear to be monks. I suppose they collected enough money from both Japanese and international tourists that they didn't need to work anymore.
When I had this 'Zen moment' of realization, I quit going to temples that charged an admission fee, disappointed by my glimpse behind the wizard's curtain. Fortunately, I didn't stay completely away from temples because I found one that put the others to shame.
Finding Buddha After All
Honen-in was not the kind of temple to attract tourists. I saw people here and there and no one was collecting money. In one of its buildings, I saw a long piece of hand-dyed cloth suspended from the ceiling. All around the room where various objects made of hand-dyed cloth. As I was admiring the fabric, a man approached and introduced himself as the person in charge of the project. He explained.
Originally, the piece of cloth was thirty meters long. All of the temple members had gathered around and stretched out the fabric, suspending it in the air. Each person quickly splashed his or her section with fabric dye, then everyone ran and danced around, still holding the fabric suspended above them. The colors ran together and mixed. Once the dye had set, each member or family took home one meter and made something out of it. The man explained that the project was meant to show the temple members that the people can do great things when they work together, and that both the temple and the people can benefit from cooperation. My faith was restored.
Chance Encounters with Loving Kindness
After a few months, I began exploring beyond Kyoto. My first trip was to Ise, and since the transportation was new to me, I was kind of lost. A woman insisted on helping me carry my suitcase up some stairs, led me to the correct ticket booth, acted as translator as I bought my ticket and then led me to the platform. She wasn't going the same way, but she wanted to help. And the next day was amazing! First, my hostel roommate gave me a ride to the shrine I wanted to visit so I didn't have to take the train. Then, as I stood at the shrine watching a ceremony I didn't understand, a man approached and began explaining everything to me in English. Later, I was sitting on the seawall enjoying the view out over the water when a young woman approached and began talking to me. Before long, she offered give me a tour of the area. She drove me to an observation area on the mountain above Ise from which we could see almost forever. Then she took me to have tea in a jazz club in a very old converted warehouse, all the time telling me about everything, before finally taking me to catch the train back to my hostel.
In Kitakyushu I was met at the train station by Sayuri and her husband Masasaki and their two boys. We had exchanged emails for a few months and they had invited me to stay with them when I traveled south. Over the next week, I got to experience life with a young Japanese family. Sayuri's mother-in-law insisted on giving me eight kimonos - some 50 to 75 years old - to use in quilts.
Sayuri introduced me to other women who invited me to their homes and fed me wonderful meals while we talked about quilting in Japan and the US. At the Kitakyushu International House I met Chidori. We managed to communicate - her in Japanese and me in English - for an hour and she invited me to stay with her the next time I was in town.
One day I was at a crowded event at a shrine. I had purchased some items and had my hands full trying to carry it all and get some hot lunch to warm my very cold body. When I finally found a place to sit down, a young woman walked up and handed me a can of hot tea. She barely gave me time to thank her before she smiled and then turned to rejoin her friends.
One day I had a long conversation with two little old ladies that couldn't have stood much more than four feet tall. They didn't speak any English and I still only knew a few words of Japanese. The conversation was mostly sign language and smiles, but it was really sweet.
I had some very special friends, too, that were so wonderfully kind. Junko, also a quilting teacher like me, and I had exchanged emails for six months before I went. She invited me into her home, introduced me to all of her quilting students, helped me to find an apartment to rent, and was always available to explain things I didn't understand and to help me get things done.
Itsuko was my landlady. She loaned me furniture to make my apartment more comfortable. She introduced me to her Ikebana teacher, who put on a tea ceremony in my honor and then insisted on giving me some silk scraps for my quilts. And Itsuko also introduced me Miyama, a friend who quilted. Then Miyama introduced me to her teacher who also gave me gifts and introduced me to her teacher.
Remembering the Buddha's Teachings
He taught that we don't need to go looking for the Buddha, that he is inside of each of us. I learned in Japan that Buddhism isn't really in the Zen temples; it is in the love and compassion of the Japanese people.
So many of them touched my life so profoundly. It was kind of crazy of me to set off alone to a foreign country where I knew no one and didn't speak the language or understand the culture. Ten years later, I still remember well the places I visited and the experiences I had over those six months, but it was the people I met that made my trip so special. Thank you so much to all of you!
Quilts for Sale Blog Launched!
For my readers who have been waiting patiently, I finally got my quilt blog started: Quilts for Sale. I began with four quilts, in four different posts, and plan to add one more each Sunday.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Simplify: Cooking
We certainly don't have seasons here in Mexico like those north of the border, but at 5,000 feet, it does cool down a bit and houses here rarely have heaters in them. I see that as an opportunity to cook. Make something delicious while warming up the house.
Step one
Today I decided to make a southwestern chipotle vegetable soup. When I make soup, my goal is always to fill my largest pan to the brim. This soup is going to take a while to make from scratch so I want it to last a long time.
First, I cover the bottom of the pan with extra virgin olive oil and heat it up. Then I toss in:
• one chopped onion
• 2-3 stalks chopped celery
• one chopped red bell pepper
• 2 sliced carrots
I love the way that looks in the pan - like I'm cooking a bit pit of confetti. While that is softening, I cut up:
Step two
• 2 courgette zucchinis
• 2 serrano chiles, seeded and diced
• 1 small sweet potato
• 1 small can of corn (or an ear's worth)
Stir it all together and continue cooking until everything is getting soft. Now it has even more colors.
This soup doesn't have any seasoning at all in it at this point -- not even salt or pepper. But the wonderful aroma is already filling the house and making me very hungry. I like making soups like this that require me to cut up lots of fresh produce. I find that kind of work to be very relaxing - a mindfulness meditation.
I want this soup to be a complete meal when I get done with it: vegetables, grains, and legumes. It will be full of fiber and protein and antioxidants. The next step is to add:
Step three - it's starting to look like soup
• a liter of tomato sauce
• a liter of water
• a cup of rice.
• 1 tsp. cumin
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1 Tbsp. chipotle sauce
I like to use a rice blend that has brown rice and red rice and wild rice. Now stir everything up and bring it to a boil. Then lower the heat to a simmer and cover the pot for about 30 minutes, or until the rice is about half-cooked.
Now is a good time to clean up your mess from all the chopping and wash the few dishes you have accumulated.
One bad thing about covering the pot is that it holds in the smell instead of letting it drift out to fill the house, but we don't want the water to evaporate and we want the rice to cook. We'll let the smell out again pretty soon, though. By this time I'm really hungry so I grab a piece of fruit for a snack to hold me over until the soup is done.
Step four
You need something to do for the next little while, so now is a good time to chop up a half of a head of cabbage into small pieces. You can also open and rinse two cans of black beans.
You could make the beans from scratch, but you would have had to start yesterday to get them soaked overnight and then cook them for however many hours it takes. I usually use canned.
When the timer goes off, you can take the lid off and stir in the beans.
Finally done!
Then you are going to pile the cabbage on top of the soup. I always try to push it down into the soup but it just keeps floating back up to the top. You have to be careful because the pot is going to be very full, but somehow that cabbage always cooks down and everything fits eventually. As soon as it's all down into the soup, cover the pan and let it continue cooking until the cabbage is soft.
Removed the lid occasionally to give it a stir, but be careful because it is probably very full.
It's too hot to eat yet, so take a few minutes and clean up your mess again. I always make big messes when I cook so I always try to clean up often as I work.
Lunch time!
After I've dished up a big bowl of this colorful healthy soup, I like to cut up some avocado on top. So far, this is a vegan soup. But if you feel daring, you can always sprinkle some crumbled goat cheese on top. It's up to you.
Even though I was starving a little while ago, this big bowl of soup is very filling. It's tastes wonderful and it makes me feel good to know that something that tastes so great is really healthy.
This would have been a lot of work if I were preparing it for just one meal, but my next step, as soon as it is cool enough, is to divide the remaining soup up into containers so I can freeze it for future meals, too. So I not only got a great lunch, I also have enough for nine more big bowls full of soup. Usually though, I end up making each one of the containers into two cups of soup and serve it with a salad, or a sandwich, or a quesadilla.
And next week, I'll do this again with a different kind of soup. Pretty soon my freezer is full of containers (labeled in black marker) of different soups and other containers of ready-made meals.
Last week it was a gluten-free vegetarian lasagna. Next week, it might be a cream of potato-leek soup made with soy milk.
These containers have been used over and over again; I just scratch out the old label and add a new one beside it. It has to cool a bit before I put on the lids and pop them in the freezer.
Even if you don't eat vegan or vegetarian, I hope you'll give this recipe a try. You might find out that vegetarian food can be really good. And I might have spent a couple of hours making the soup, but my house is nice and warm, and I have enough packed away for nine more meals.
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In the last 4 weeks I've noticed that the amount of fluid I pass when ejaculating has become excessive. I haven't measured the volume, however it is enough to saturate a kitchen paper towel. The consistancy is very thin and clear. No odor. It is similar to when I have intercorse and delay ejaculating for a lengthy time, however, the current volume of fluid and velocity with which it exits is like nothing I've experienced before. I am 43 years old.
I'm concerned that this may be some kind of prostate issue. I recently suffered a bad bacterial infection that gave me the worst sore throat of my life, but not tonsilitis, accompanied by high fever, chills, sweats, back pain and protien in my urine, swollen lymph glands and lower back ache pain. Amoxicilin seemed to be enough to dispatch the infection, but it was never cultured and identified. I completed 10 days, 500mg Amoxicilin, 3 times per day.
Additionally, I contracted this infection while in Dubai. I consumed food from a small vendor in a small city outside the main city and may have come in contact with salmonella typhi. I also had the occassion to have unprotected sex with a prostitute, including oral sex performed by myself on her clitoris.
I have no other symptoms of prostate issues. I have no pain or perceived swelling. I urinate normally and on a normal schedule. Could the volume of ejaculate I am seeing be caused by a residual infection of my testes or prostate?
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Has someone whistled at you to get your attention? Have you heard the expression: " You, Dog!" or "Dog, Breath" or "That looks like Dog Food!" or I wouldn't treat a dog that way!" you're not alone. People have been using disparaging ways to hurt people by calling them or their actions in the name of Dogs since our canine friends became constructions of mad and wanna be genetic scientists. BTW if you can hear like a dog, consider yourself fortunate. Dogs can hear things other animals can not their sensitivity to sound may be part of origin of Dog Whistle Politics. Today on You, Animal! we discuss the widely used Dog Whistle Politics a practice incorporated in many ( if not all ) political and advertising campaigns.
Because politics has taken center stage on news platforms, dinner tables and throughout neighborhood coffee houses, pubs and pizzarias we thought it appropriate to find the meaning in the term:
"According to William Safire, the term "dog whistle" in reference to politics may have been derived from its use in the field of opinion polling. Safire quotes Richard Morin, director of polling for The Washington Post, as writing in 1988, "subtle changes in question-wording sometimes produce remarkably different results.... researchers call this the 'Dog Whistle Effect': Respondents hear something in the question that researchers do not", and speculates that campaign workers adapted the phrase from political pollsters."
Use in Australia since around 1997.
The dog-whistle analogy was drawn from Australian sheep-farming, where a farmer uses a whistle which is only audible to one dog. This idea was taken over into political contexts as a way of describing a message aimed exclusively at one section of the electorate.- ( Stack )
Dog in language usage often applied in derogatory fashion ( "You, Dog!" for example ) is common in many languages despite fact based evidence a dog Canis lupus familiaris - would never use "Dog Whistle Politics" on humans:).
DWP has no pure bred heritage and can be traced to agriculture and unsavory / hurtful political word play.
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Ruth gleaned in Boaz’s fields throughout the barley and wheat harvests. She did not need to go anywhere else, because Boaz told her that she didn’t have to, and he even instructed his harvesters to “accidently” leave a little extra when they saw that Ruth was following behind them.
Boaz had a found a small way to take care of Ruth, and we will see in this chapter that it was more than just generosity. Boaz was most certainly aware of the relationship that existed between he and Ruth, and we already read previously that he was aware of her family’s circumstances: there were no heirs to carry the name of Elimelech. The Law included some obligations for the closest male relative in such cases. If Boaz was the closest male relative to Elimelech, this story might already be over, because he would have assuredly performed his obligations on his own accord. But we will see later that Boaz was not the closest relative, and thus it wasn’t his right to act first, it was someone else’s. And so, Boaz had to wait, and in the meantime, do his best to meet the needs of Ruth and Naomi through his culture’s welfare system. That was all that he could do, until he was asked to do more.
When Ruth followed Naomi to Bethlehem, she committed herself to a life as a widow and as a live-in a care giver for Naomi. This is just the type of person that Ruth was. Naomi wanted more for her daughter, though. Ruth was still young, and if she could turn the pages to a new chapter, she had a great chance of having a terrific life and raising a family of her own.
The word Naomi actually used for “security” means rest. She wanted her daughter to come to an end of the time of restlessness and an unsettled life, and enter into a future of rest. Not retirement. Think of it as just being settled and in a good place, which in those days, for a young woman, meant having a good husband and raising lots of kids, but not just any domestic arrangement. The complete fulfillment for Ruth would be to raise kids carrying Elimelech’s name. There could be no higher station for her in life.
So keep that last part in mind as we ponder Naomi’s motives. She wasn’t just trying to find a man for her daughter, as if that would somehow make Ruth happy. Only one man would do: the one who had the legal obligation and the legal right to redeem the Elimelech family name and restore Ruth into her rightful place in that family.
Naomi knew of Boaz’s ties to the family, and it is likely that she thought that he was the closest male relative to her dead son. If she knew that Boaz wasn’t, perhaps she would have arranged a different circumstance for Ruth. So keep that in mind, too. Naomi must not have been aware that there was a relative closer than Boaz, otherwise she would not have wasted time with Boaz.
The night’s “winnowing” was actually a party that was thrown on the threshing floor. There would be food, drink, entertainment, and lots of people having fun. Boaz would be there cutting a rug (I’m sure he was a good dancer).
Get cleaned up, use some nice perfume, put on some good clothes, and join the party. It was likely that Ruth had been wearing mostly widow’s clothes up until this point, so Naomi was also giving Ruth license to put those old grief clothes away.
But Ruth was also asked to not make herself known to Boaz. In fact, in order to do this, she had to not really make herself known to anyone, because if she had paraded herself around the party, Boaz would have spotted her. So, in spite of the fact that Ruth got gussied up, she was told to remain modest. Her nice clothes and perfume were for Boaz’s benefit, not anyone else.
Perhaps there is a principle in here for all of us. God has no issue with us cleaning up, dressing up, and putting forward our best appearance. But who are we doing it for? Are we doing it to impress people in general? Or are we doing it for the benefit of one person that matters? If you are married, that would be your spouse. Or, perhaps from another angle, why dress up to go to church? Is it so that people will notice? Or is it because we just want to honor Jesus? The reasons behind what we do matter!
Getting dressed up is easy to understand. But it is what Ruth was told to do after the party that might actually be difficult to understand. She was to wait until Boaz went to bed (men slept next to the pile of grain during harvest), and lie down next to his feet, which she uncovered by pulling back the blanket. I don’t know about you, but if someone did that to me while I was asleep, I’d be pretty irritated.
But this would have had a special significance in that culture. By doing this, Ruth would be making a very clear request of Boaz, of which he would have trouble understanding her meaning.
Boaz was snoring away, but Ruth would not have fallen asleep. She would have laid there at the foot of Boaz’s sleeping area (a bed of straw?) waiting for him to wake up, at which point she could verbally complete the request that she was making.
I just want to point out that there was nothing inappropriate about any of this. This wasn’t seduction or anything like that. This wasn’t even a marriage proposal. In fact, we have no information anywhere that a girl uncovering a man’s feet and lying next to them has anything to with courtship.
Instead, what Ruth was doing (which, as a Moabitess, she had no idea what she was doing except following directions) was some sort of special “dance” meant to communicate her need for a goel, or a kinsman redeemer. Naomi knew how this worked, and Boaz knew as well (Naomi had said, “Do this stuff, and he will tell you what you should do”).
Startled awake by cold feet, he would have reached down to put the blanket back over his feet, and surprise! There was a woman sitting there!
After Ruth identified herself, she said something that actually meant, “Spread the corner of your garment over your maidservant.” Now, this did not mean that she was cold and was asking for him to share the blanket. Nor was she being all seductive and asking if she could join him in bed. This request was totally symbolic, and Boaz totally understand it: “You are one who has a legal right to redeem my family estate from being lost forever. You have the power to stop that loss from happening, it’s in your hands. I am appealing to you to cover me, make my cause your cause, and restore me.”
Just think a bit about the depth and meaning of that request. This was no trivial “will you be my hubby” request. This was not, “I think you are handsome, and I notice that you notice me, too.” What she was asking of Boaz was something that would have cost him dearly.
We’ve talked in previous studies about how God owned the land. By covenant, He gave the tribes of Israel inheritances from that land, and within the tribes, families were given plots. Each family “owned” property that was meant to stay within that family name forever. But owning did not mean that they owned it outright. God never gave up the ultimate ownership of His land. Instead, He gave people usage rights. They could use the land however they wanted (farming, grazing, development projects, etc.) but God was the actual owner. The people possessed it, and the title deed to that possession was not intended to be transferable.
However, sometimes people got into financial trouble, and they could sell usage rights to their possession (the land that they were given by covenant). The new owner of those rights could then use the land as if they were the covenant possessor. But God never intended for this transaction to be permanent. The Law had a clause which established a way for land to revert back to its covenant possessor (the original title deed holder) every Jubilee Year (which occurred every fifty years). Thus, as you can see, a purchaser of land would never possess it for more than fifty years. Many times, that possession right lasted much less than fifty years, because the Jubilee Year was a calendar event, not a contract length. If you bought a piece of land one year before Jubilee, then you only got to keep it for one year. As you can imagine, the Jubilee clause impacted market prices. Property was worth less the closer you came to Jubilee.
Well, what if your family sold your possession, and you wanted it back prior to Jubilee? Every real estate contract had a buyback clause. It specified the terms and conditions for the covenant title deed holder to exercise the option to take back possession. This was negotiated at the time of the sale, recorded in the contract, and remained a viable option. If the covenant deed holder exercised the option, and fulfilled the terms, he got back his property. There was nothing the buyer could do to stop that from happening.
What of the covenant deed holder wanted the land back, but couldn’t meet the terms of the buyback price? In that case, the Law recognized a goel, or a kinsman redeemer. This was a close relative who could stand in the place of the covenant deed holder, and pay the buyback price on his behalf. No other person had this right. It had to be the closest relative. If this closest relative passed on the option, then it fell to the next closest. The goel could pay the price specified in the contract, and then possession reverted to the original owner, not the goel.
Finally, there was a further complication. What if the surviving family member desiring to be restored to the covenant inheritance was a woman whose husband had died without any children? The widow had no legal right to possess the land, so there was nothing the goel could do for her (he could not take ownership for himself), unless, he married her. This legal situation crossed over into an area of the Law where God had a plan to keep a family name alive in the event that a husband died before having any kids. In that case, a brother to the husband was supposed to marry the widow and help her have a baby boy to carry on her dead husband’s family name. The brother was supposed to! It was a moral and legal obligation.
Back in Genesis 38, Judah had a son named Er who married a girl named Tamar. Er died, and so Er’s brother Onan was supposed to marry Tamar and raise a son to Er’s name. But Onan didn’t want to raise a son to his brother, and so while he did marry Tamar and have sex with her, he did everything that he could to make sure that she didn’t get pregnant. Well, God was not happy with that, and Onan also died.
So, Judah had one more son named Shelah, and morally, Shelah was meant to be married to Tamar, so that children could be raise up to Judah’s first son Er, and so that Tamar could remain a daughter in Jacob’s family. But apparently Judah thought that Tamar was some sort of black widow lady, and so he didn’t let his son marry her.
Judah’s actions were wrong, and well, to shorten a long story, Tamar took matters into her own hands and tricked Judah into sleeping with her. She got pregnant, Judah found out and wanted to kill her (he thought she had been promiscuous) until he discovered that he was the father. Judah and Tamar were technically “married” although he didn’t touch her again. But from this weird round-a-bout soap opera (this is actually a Bible story!), Judah managed to keep his family name going, and good thing, because Jesus descended from Judah (and Tamar, as a matter of fact)!
So back to Ruth and Boaz. She essentially requested two things from Boaz, and this is why I said that it was no small matter to Boaz: (1) she needed a relative of her husband to marry her and raise up seed to her dead husband’s name. (2) she needed a goel to exercise the buyback option on her family’s land possession. Both of these needed to happen, and in fact they could only happen if one man fulfilled both roles at the same time. If he did, then she would be restored to the Elimelech family, Elimelech’s name would continue, and the family would be restored to its inheritance.
So, are you wondering what Boaz would get out of it? Nothing. His land holdings would not change. His family name would not be expanded (as it would if he just married additional wives just to have more wives). In fact, it would cost him some of his own money, because he would be funding the buyback out of his own treasury. He would never be paid back.
So why would Boaz agree to this? Maybe the clue to that answer is found in a parable told by Jesus in Matthew 13:44, “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”
Boaz was a lot like the man who bought the field in Jesus’ parable. In order for Boaz to agree to fulfill Ruth’s appeal, he would have to want to be with her. The great cost and great sacrifice it took in order for him to have her as his wife would have to pale in comparison to the joy of just having her. He would have to consider that she was a treasure worth paying any price for. It wasn’t an investment. He could care less about not ever getting the money he paid back. Even if the price was everything he had, it was worth doing for the joy of being with her.
You know, Ruth was not even Jewish. She had no history in that area. The land meant nothing to her. Even Elimelech’s name meant nothing, because she was from Moab anyway. She was perfectly within her rights to go seek out the richest and handsomest dude around and throw herself at him. Or, she could have made romance an important focus, and sought out the perfect guy. But she did neither. Instead, she took on Naomi’s burden as her own and made it her obligation to restore the family’s fortunes. Boaz noticed this! He was impressed by this!
And, I want to point out that God noticed and was impressed, too, because Boaz said “Blessed are you of the Lord.” Why would God like what Ruth did? Because it was selfless, and it put the needs of others over her own. She would rather do the right thing than do the thing that made her feel the best.
And, Boaz agreed to Ruth’s appeal, because it was also the right thing to do. Boaz accepted his moral and legal obligation under the Law. He noted that Ruth had maintained a reputation as a virtuous woman, which means that since arriving in Bethlehem, Ruth had stayed out of trouble. She had done nothing that would cause anyone to raise any red flags over Boaz becoming her goel and her husband. There was no scandal. There were no skeletons in the closet. Thus, Boaz had no reason to turn down her request.
However, there was a complication.
Ruth 3:12 “Now it is true that I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I.”
The right to be the kinsman redeemer fell on the closest living relative. He alone had the legal right to step into that role. Boaz was not the closest relative! This other man (perhaps Elimelech’s brother) must get first dibs.
Well, Boaz promised to make it happen one way or the other the very next day. Either Ruth would be married to this other guy, or to Boaz. Either way, the land would also be redeemed.
Boaz also asked Ruth to remain the rest of the night. This has nothing to do with anything inappropriate! She just didn’t need to be wandering the streets at night, so he was both protecting her safety and her reputation as a woman of virtue.
Boaz had a plan, which we will see in the next chapter, and his plan involved nobody else knowing what he and Ruth were up to. So, he had her head home before the sun came up so that anyone else who was awake would not notice that she was a woman then and start asking questions.
He must have suspected that Naomi was behind all of this, and Boaz just didn’t want Ruth to go home empty handed. Naomi, who had waited up all night and was watching out the window, would have seen Ruth trudging down the street carrying a big bundle of grain and would have rejoiced right away.
An ephah is nearly six gallons. So Boaz gave Ruth and Naomi close to thirty-six gallons of barley! She carried that home in a bundle slung over her back. Strong girl!
Poor Ruth might have found it hard to sit still. She didn’t want some other guy to be the kinsman redeemer! She and Boaz had already made a connection, and she was settled on him. But it was outside of her hands, and so she had to wait to see what would happen.
“Be still, and know that I am God,” God says to us (Psalm 146:10). This is so hard sometimes! We appeal to the Lord for His mercies and His grace, and sometimes we have to wait, and while we wait, we need to sit still. God is not sitting still. He is working. We don’t understand how it is that His work often means that we wait, because in His infinite power, can’t He just snap His finger and make it happen? Yes, of course He can. But what if He is working things out in someone else’s life, and that person has the same kind of free will choice that you have? Sometimes it takes time, because God is dealing with people, not puppets. But in the end, God will conclude the business, and He won’t rest until it is done.
But it is so worth it! Think about what Jesus did! He didn’t rest until He was finally ready on the cross to say, “It is finished.” Now where is He? Seated at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for you and I. And, we get to rest in that. Maybe in so many other areas of life there is a lot that seems unsettled and unfinished. God is working those things out. But in the most important thing, we have that rest in which we can sit and be still. That is the peace that Jesus brings.
In the next study, we get to see the culmination of the business between Ruth and Boaz!
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As a big city cop who is bankrupt of common sense and has an uncanny ability to foul up, Detective Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is not one of New Yorks finest. Haphazardly encountering a bank robbery, Washburn needs some wheels to pursue the suspects. He stumbles upon Belle (Queen Latifah), an aspiring NASCAR driver employed with a taxi company, who has souped-up her taxi with some rims and nitrous oxide. In this slapstick, remake of a French actioncomedy, they try to capture the elusive, supermodel bank robbers. Causing great damage on their several-day chase, Washburn gets fired and Belle loses her license, leading them to desperate measures. Against all odds and with nothing to lose, they aim to apprehend these wily females without the help of the police. The film is low on amusement for a mainstream comedy.
Washburn had great insecurities as a child that cultivated into a lack of confidence as a police officer. Belle helps him to see through the fog of the past, bringing about a renewed confidence. This is commendable and somewhat parallel this is a stretch to the Christians forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. But this is about the only commendable aspect of the film. Taxi is loaded with bad language, including 19 occurrences of profanity and 10 s-words. Some impersonations also border on racial insults. A womans (Ann-Margret) drunkenness is portrayed in a humorous way several times. There is no sex or strong nudity, but a sensually provocative scene between two women implies the acceptability and normalcy of lesbianism. Preview does not hail Taxi, and you wont miss a thing if you dont see it.
Preview Reviewer: Troy Dandrea
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Crude Language: Many (50) times mild (hell 15, damn 20); strong (b-tch 2, -ss 13)
Obscene Language: Many (13) times moderate (p-ssed off 3); strong (s-word 10)
Profanity: Many (20) times moderate (G 15); strong (GD 4, JC 1)
Violence: Many times mild (many acts of pushing and struggling, throwing objects in anger, car crashes, car wrecks into buildings); moderate (few times of fighting and hitting people, people kidnapped for ransom, two people shot in the arm, several people hit in the face with fists and objects)
Sexual Intercourse: Once mild (woman feeling another womans whole body with clothes on)
Nudity: Several times mild (several girls in bikinis, several girls in short skirts, partial cleavage shown)
Homosexual Conduct: Once moderate (woman caressing another woman with clothes on)
Sexually Suggestive Action/Dialog: Several times mild (hows the view of her butt 1, feel the sexual tension 2); moderate (nads 2, me on top of you 1)
Drug Abuse: Few times moderate (woman drinking alcohol excessively and portrayed as humorous)
Other: Racial slurs (n-gger 2)
Running Time: 97 minutes
Intended Audience: Adults
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
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The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.
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It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
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Professional sports is a business.
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0.895593 | <urn:uuid:ee5007aa-b38b-4c70-a882-0ccc761eabc3> | en | 0.967789 | I'm not easily alarmed. Nuclear war, climate meltdown, economic collapse, zombie apocalypse -- nothing really fazes me. I just assume that worst-case scenarios pretty much never happen, so everything will work out in the long run.
Maybe that isn't rational. Throughout all of human history, things often didn't work out. There were countless wars. Infectious disease claimed the lives of hundreds of millions. To this very day, war and starvation kill people in poor parts of the world. Perhaps the political and economic stability of the developed world is just an illusion; in reality, the world is teetering on the brink of chaos, and my blind optimism is based on naïveté and complacency.
Sure, that's possible. A complete societal breakdown is not out of the question. But what, in my opinion, really is out of the question? Runaway, out-of-control artificial intelligence. A robot apocalypse isn't going to happen. Why?
On the evening of September 20, I get a sweet note from Mark Zuckerberg. It read:
Huh. Happy New Year? It was the middle of September. It then dawned on me that it was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. So, Mark Zuckerberg thinks I'm Jewish, despite the fact that my profile page specifically says "Protestant." Whatever algorithm Facebook uses apparently didn't take that into consideration. Oops.
(To make matters worse, a friend of mine who actually is Jewish didn't receive a New Year's wish from Facebook.)
Obviously, Big Data and AI are still very young and, hence, not very good. We can expect huge changes in both as technology advances. But no matter how good technology gets, robots and the AI that drives them will only ever be as good as the humans that program them. That's why I don't fear AI.
Even if AI gets so good that it can write its own code, I'm still not worried. Consider the Herculean efforts that the U.S. government and banks undergo to protect confidential information. Despite those efforts, they get hacked anyway.
So, if in the future, we are faced with self-coding robots bent on world domination, I am very confident that a more clever human will be able to hack them. | http://www.science20.com/alex_berezow/mark_zuckerberg_thinks_im_jewish_and_other_reasons_not_to_fear_ai-226699 | dclm-gs1-185271087 |
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Speaking with CNN today, he claims that he sent the shoes over as an olive branch of sorts after his son LiAngelo Ball's shoplifting incident. The shoes that were sent over to 45 were the ZO2s, but the three shoes came in a patriotic Red, White and Blue
According to Ball though, he didn't recieve a thank you. However, he's not fretting over it.
"I ain't gon' stress it out. 1600 Pennsylvania—the shoes are there," Ball proclaimed. "They a hot item...He know he got them shoes, and I'll tell you what, behind closed doors I think he's got 'em on his feet, just dancin'." | http://www.sneakerwatch.com/article/038345/lavar-ball-sends-president-trump-three-pairs-of-bbb-shoes | dclm-gs1-185321087 |
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e term “apnea” refers to the act of not breathing. An apnea is a period during which breathing stops or it is remarkably reduced. Combining the two words, that is, sleep and apnea, we can derive the meaning of sleep apnea as pauses in breathing during the sleep. It is a common sleeping disorder but can be serious and life-threatening too. An estimate of the severity of apnea is calculated by dividing the number of apneas by the number of hours of sleep, giving an apnea index. The severity of apnea increases with an increase in this apnea index.
Home Remedies for Sleep Apnea
Generally, the duration of these breathing pauses range between few seconds to minutes. These pauses can occur 20 to 30 times or more in an hour. These breathing pauses force the patient to wake up from the sleep to breathe again.
Naturally, this affects the quality of sleep and leads to excessive daytime sleeping, headaches, irritability, fatigue etc. The treatment of sleep apnea may be surgical or nonsurgical. Surgical treatments have their own risks like anesthesia risks, other unforeseen surgical complications and most importantly, failure to cure the disease in spite of taking so many risks. Therefore, switching to natural home remedies for sleep apneas is a much safer option.
Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of sleeping apnea characterized by a blocked airway during sleep. Breathing air through this blockage may produce snoring. Overweight people are more prone to develop this type of sleep apnea. Untreated sleep apnea tends to increase the risks of heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and other similar diseases. A comparatively less common type of sleep apnea is central sleep apnea. In this type of sleep apnea, the brain (the area that controls breathing) sends faulty signals to the breathing muscles. Apart from these two there is another type of apnea, that is, mixed sleep apnea. As the name suggests, it is a combination of the former two types of sleep apneas.
Causes of Sleep Apnea
As stated already, central sleep apnea takes place because the brain does not send the breathing muscles, the signal to breathe. Individuals with Cerebrovascular diseases, heart diseases or congenial diseases are more likely to develop central sleep apnea. Besides these diseases, some medicines and even places located at high altitudes can be held responsible in causing this type of sleep apnea.
As for obstructive sleep apnea, it is caused by a narrow airway at the base of the tongue and palate. While an individual is lying flat, the palate is situated above the air passage. When the throat muscles relax, the palate can fall backwards and in this way cause obstruction in the airway. Large tonsils, nasal congestion due to cold, allergies, smoking, and sinusitis are common causes of obstructive sleep apnea. Other causes include certain typical physical attributes like receding chin, enlarged tongue, deviated septum and the shape of the head or neck. Alcohol consumption and use of sedatives tend to increase the tendency of the throat muscles and tongue to relax more. It may also be hereditary.
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
The most obvious symptom of sleep apnea especially, obstructive sleep apnea is snoring. As sleep apnea results in poor quality of sleep, the patient may experience morning headaches, mood changes, forgetfulness, irritability and daytime sleepiness. The sleep may be accompanied by occasional gasping or choking for air to restart breathing. There could be frequent silences during the sleep. Abrupt awakenings accompanied by shortness of breath could be an indication of central sleep apnea.
Natural Home Remedies for Sleep Apnea
Most of the natural home remedies for sleep apnea consist of proper sleeping posture, breathing exercises, meditation and other such measures.
• It is recommended that the patient should try to sleep laterally and avoid sleeping on the back. This will aid in proper breathing and hence assist in curing sleep apnea.
• Eating a handful of walnuts is an effective natural home remedy for sleep apnea.
• Prepare a nasal spray by dissolving approximately half teaspoon or less salt in about 225 gm warm water and collecting the solution in a nose dropper. Lean the head back and sniff this saline nasal spray into each nostril. Spit out the water and blow the nose. Do not use too much salt to avoid the possibility of burning sensation in the nostrils. This therapy is beneficial in dealing with sleep apnea.
• Breathing exercises are also effective in the treatment of sleep apnea.
• Reduce extra body fat to get rid of obstructive sleep apnea. The reason is that fat deposits in the mouth of an overweight person are likely to limit breathing. Breathing is further limited when the person is lying down.
• Other natural home remedies for sleep apnea include healing large tonsils by gargling with salt water, and getting rid of nasal congestions that can obstruct breathing.
Diet for Sleep Apnea
There is no specific diet to cure sleep apnea. But, at the same time, maintaining a healthy body weight reduces the possibility of having obstructive sleep apnea.
Hence, a healthy and balanced diet with lots of fruits and vegetables is recommended. One should restrict the consumption of alcohol and sleeping pills, especially before going to sleep because they relax the muscles at the back of the throat and interfere with breathing.
One should avoid consuming foods that cause allergic reactions in one’s body.
Such reactions tend to add to congestions that cause sleep apnea. Certain chemicals present in cigarettes also cause nasal congestion and irritation in the air passage. | http://www.techmedisa.com/2016/01/home-remedies-for-sleep-apnea.html | dclm-gs1-185381087 |
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Rugby Union is a popular sport played by men - and increasingly by women - of every race and creed, from age five to 90, in more than 100 countries worldwide. In a few of those countries - New Zealand, Western Samoa, Tonga, Wales for instance - it is the national sport.
It is a major sport in South Africa but in the other main rugby playing countries such as Australia, England, France, Ireland and Scotland it may only be the third, fourth or even fifth most popular sport.
Rugby union is a different sport to rugby league. 'League' has been a professional sport for which the players were paid for playing since 1895. It is only seriously played in Australia and the north of England.
Rugby union was a strictly amateur sport until 1995 when the game's rulers decided that it was time that players should be paid for the sacrifices they had to make and in light of the enormous sums of money their efforts were generating for rugby.
Why rugby is different
The light and fast man (an 80kg winger) or the bigger and slower man (such a 120kg prop) both play in the same Springbok team, doing their very different but equally important jobs.
Rugby is also unique because of its very large number of Laws.
It has phases of the game such as the scrum and the lineout that make it unlike any other sport and require a variety of physiques unlike any other sport. And rugby has specific Laws on how the ball may be moved and how players may be stopped that make it quite different from any of the other 'football' and handling sports with the exception of rugby league.
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Mike Hughes stands beside his steam-powered rocket which he built from salvaged parts
This Saturday, a USA limousine driver turned self-taught rocket scientist who styles himself "Mad" Mike Hughes will reportedly launch himself 1,800 feet in the air using his own home-built, steam-powered rocket - all in a bid to prove that the Earth is, in fact, flat.
In 2014, Hughes road a different steam-powered rocket that traveled 1,400 feet into the sky. Leave enough food for his four cats - just in case anything happens.
He said that he hopes to build a space rocket someday that can take him to where he can see planet Earth with his own eyes.
Still, Hughes converted to the flat-Earth belief recently, shortly after his first fundraising campaign for the rocket earned just $310 of its $150,000 goal.
"I don't believe in science", Hughes said, via AP News. For the record: As a limo driver, he has no formal training in space launches. "It's scary as hell, but none of us are getting out of this world alive".
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Two said they had unwanted interactions with Rose during work events, while a third said she wasn't ready to detail her encounter. After he was sacked , CBS News said three more women who worked with Rose at CBS also accused him of sexual misconduct.
Given that there's no difference between science and science fiction, ExtremeTech readers interested in observing the Hughes launch are invited to beam aboard the USS Enterprise, where I'll take you on a guided tour and demonstrate some cutting-edge Force powers I've been perfecting.
A group of flat earth believers has crowdfunded money for Hughes's experiments. It's a five-acre property he leased from Waldo Stakes, CEO of Land Speed Research Vehicles, who's working on a project to make a auto that could travel 2,000 miles per hour. Hughes also added that he needs to learn more about rocket science to reach more heights in the future. Stakes receives plenty of these sorts of requests, but this one stood out because Hughes was building it himself. Why not? If I survived a launch in a homemade rocket, I'd probably decide to run for office, too. His launch pad was attached to a motor home he bought for $1,500 United States dollars.
The location of the jump will be Amboy, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert and along historic Route 66. Interestingly, the city of Amboy is said to be what the city of Radiator Springs in the movie "Cars" is loosely based on.
"I want to inspire others - and you have to do something incredible to get anybody's attention."
I actually have no idea. He has to heat about 70 gallons of water in a stainless tank prior to launching the rocket this weekend. Hughes plans to hit an altitude of 1,800 feet before pulling his two parachutes. The feat will be televised on his Youtube channel. He will be tinkering with his rocket right up to takeoff.
61-year-old US resident Mike Hughes will fly on their own rocket, which he designed, into space. "It's the most interesting human-interest story in the world".
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• Iris (Score:2, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:12AM (#37932456)
Just letting you know that android has a similar service and it was only made in 8 hours time.
So I suppose this will get alot better
• Re:Two Years? (Score:4, Interesting)
by Motard ( 1553251 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:32AM (#37932666)
Even Microsoft has this now. I was playing with voice recognition on a WP7 device and it worked pretty well. "Find Pizza", or "Call Norman" worked as expected. When I asked "What is the meaning of life?" it searched and found a couple of news stories about Siri being asked the same question. It might have been more fun if it came back with a canned answer like Siri does, but I have to wonder if that would've truly been more useful.
Microsoft's capabilities are also server based and they'll be able to tweak the capabilities fairly easily. All-in-all, I think the VR from iPhone, Android and WP7 are mostly a wash. Google appears to be ahead in other languages though.
• Re:will never use it (Score:5, Interesting)
by Eraesr ( 1629799 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:32AM (#37932672) Homepage
Talking to a device is just awkward. You try popping out your iPhone 4s in public transport and start giving voice commands to the thing. People will look funny at you. And this won't change in the next two years. So that's why this 2 year head start (assuming that's not hugely over-estimated) is a head start in a direction that's dead to begin with.
• Re:So true (Score:5, Interesting)
by dintech ( 998802 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:36AM (#37932722)
I'm an iphone 4s owner and wish that instead of Siri, I had a phone that could actually just not drop calls every 5 minutes. Seriously, the 4s is way worse than my old iphone 3G in this respect.
• by 140Mandak262Jamuna ( 970587 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:41AM (#37932766) Journal
I am totally soured by most of the automated phone response systems that does voice recognition. All phone systems are irritating but the failure rate in these voice recognition is particularly aggravating. Some allow me to punch in the numbers. Others force me to speak the responses. I speak with a slight South Indian accent, (no stress on stressed syllables, rolled rr-s, pause at unexpected places. I say slight because I have made presentations to large audience and spoken on phone to customers and teleconferences without any problem, without people asking me to repeat, scored 5 out 6 in Test of Spoken English taken when I was a TA in grad school). The voice recognition in GPS devices and cellphones too are very substandard for people with even slight accents. How good is Siri for such groups?
One thing that really took me by pleasant surprise was Google's non-English transliteration engine built into edit boxes/text compose windows of all google sites. English has just five vowels with y and w coming in very occasionally to support vowel sounds . Most Asian languages have distinct glyphs for at least 12 vowels (long and short forms separated and a few more). Google allows me to type using an English key board, when I hit a space, it changes text to the selected Indian language. If the text is not exact, I press backspace, and it creates a drop down box that typically has a few variations, and I am surprised how good its guesses are about what I was planning to type.
If Google has been collecting such data about the most common english transliteration for the most common words in other languages, it has a treasure trove of stuff. If that probability engine could be adapted to voice, it would have a global reach. If Siri has an American English focus, its lead is definitely not two years. Do not count the non-native English speakers out. Hispanic population is increasing and they use smart phones to access the net mostly. On the high end, the median family income of Asian Americans is the highest for any ethnic group. Almost double that of Hispanics, the lowest. That probably would make the ratio 3 or even 4 when it comes to disposable income. Citation provided [census.gov]. Unless they tackle both ends of the income spectrum, siri is not going to make as big a wave as these talking heads are talking about.
• Re:Why? (Score:5, Interesting)
by samkass ( 174571 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:48AM (#37932866) Homepage Journal
I don't have any hard data yet, but anecdotal evidence so far says you're incorrect. ArsTechnica's poll of their employees with a 4S indicate anywhere from 3-15 average Siri uses per day. My wife already prefers it to typing on the phone. I think it's especially interesting since it integrates fairly well with a car's bluetooth integration.
I can imagine a future screen-less phone that's just a stick with a speaker, mic, and button, with everything being done via voice...
• by Dcnjoe60 ( 682885 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @08:02AM (#37933044)
According to the summary, siri is a google killer and makes apple the best smartphone platform.
For those assumptions to be true, that means that siri has to be something that people want. While I admit there is a somewhat star trekian cool factor by talking to your phone. On*Star has had similar features. Ford's respond to voice commands and read text messages, etc. And yet, people aren't dumping their current cars for these must have features.
Granted siri is beyond the capabilities of On*Star and the like, but does the public really want to use a phone where you say everything out load for everybody around you to hear, too?
User on subway: Read Text Message.
Phone: From Sharon, I think it's time we move on and see other people.
User on subway: Damn.
Other riders on subway: Awwwww.
Don't get me wrong, there are times that this would be useful, but is it a necessity? If not, then how will it kill google ?
• Re:So true (Score:4, Interesting)
by somersault ( 912633 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @09:01AM (#37933948) Homepage Journal
Siri is based on an open sourced framework. I can't find the page in my search history, but the AI portions were based on a set of DARPA or DOD funded applications. Google already have good AI guys like Peter Norvig too. They will be able to come up with something similar within a few months if they want to.
I agree that it's likely the voice thing will be seen as more of a toy. It's definitely one that I'd like to play around with, but I don't know if I'd actually use it properly.
• Re:Iris (Score:4, Interesting)
by _xeno_ ( 155264 ) on Thursday November 03, 2011 @09:07AM (#37934028) Homepage Journal
I'd much rather have in-phone implementation of basic voice commands like: "text contact message send text", "navigate to address/business", "add contact name name number number, etc.
Oh God yes. If you haven't tried Siri, it's considerably worse than existing voice commands for one simple reason: lag.
The most annoying one is for iPod voice commands. Like, for example, "Play" to start playing whatever's on the iPod app. In earlier iPhones, this was a short pause for it to understand it, and then the music started.
In Siri, this is now a one second pause for it to round trip to the server, then Siri saying "OK," and then, finally, the music starts playing.
"navigate to address/business"
Yeah, you ... can't navigate on iOS. At all. Sure, you can get a list of directions - but good luck following those without driving into something, especially since it won't automatically move through the next steps while you're moving. Annoying as the passenger, impossible as the driver.
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Father’s Day
My father tells everyone his age, a habit that mortified my mother as she liked to pretend she was much younger than she was. I was raised in the days when dads were largely on the 9-5 treadmill and their wives were part time workers greeting their husbands with a welcome home drink while promising homely meals wafted their scents from beyond the kitchen door. Remote dads asking how the day at school went while decompressing the tension of their day to put on that calm face for family that was expected.
That may have been the dads most people had – remote, monosyllabic and disengaged – waiting for the day when the children would grow up and they would get their wives back but that was not the way my family worked.
My mother worked the 9-5 and my father worked shifts. An odd 10 day fortnight routine where no two days were the same and a “sleep day” was considered essential. What that meant for us in practical terms was that often it was my dad greeting me as I came home from school and often the banana and cheese omelette (don’t ask) would be cooked by him, or later on I carried out my mother’s instructions and we greeted my mother at the end of her working day with something that could be passed off as edible. We often masked it with the smell of perked coffee on the stove.
So it was my dad who took the dog for a walk or grew herbs in the plot outside the kitchen door to put into the dinner that night. He decorated the house on his days off and pretended to like the chocolate rice pudding or mince and potatoes I would bring home from cookery class in first year.
Then they both seemed to wake up to the 60s. Sometimes when I walked between the old school and the annex over the moor I would see my purple flowered shirt/purple cord jeans wearing father walking towards me with the dog at his heels. I tried to hide behind friends but he would always spot me and wave and I would cringe in embarrassment in the way that only a teenager can.
It was Dad who taught me to ride my bike and, much later on, taught my own daughter to ride hers. He had the patience to see a job through without getting into a flap. When I gave up on teaching her to drive and left it to the professionals as my screaming in terror wasn’t helpful, he took her out between lessons and told her what a good little driver she was and how safe she was – even when that was not entirely true.
And now he’s, as he puts it, in God’s Waiting R
oom, he’s still my daddy. He still wants to know I’ve got in to work safely and phones my office to see if I arrived if I forget to text. When you consider that many of my contemporaries are taking early retirement there is something quite sweet about that.
He potters about the house and despite walking with at least one stick on a good day, he will stand on a ladder to change a bulb or paint a wall. He works in his garden and house slowly but with pride.
He was ahead of his time, a modern man whose wife, child and grandchild were his world and there should be more daddies like him.
Kirklee Killing
Kirklee was a typical West of Scotland small town where everyone knew everybody else and honour was satisfied on Saturday nights on the way home from the pub.
Once important, its Saltire-waving uninhabitable castle at the other end of the main road sat atop the hill surveying the adventure playground and skate-park, obligatory coffee and gift shop visitor centre and bowling green sheltering beneath. The road bisected two distinct communities – the castle end was made up of the old church and conservation village properties the likes of which only doctors and lawyers could afford and behind this side lay semi-circular cul-de-sacs filled with people escaping the city whilst stepping up en route to the coastal town five miles down the road where most really wanted to live. On the war memorial side of the town lay the council scheme, overcrowded primary school, shops, surgeries, pubs and take-away restaurants. Children from both sides swooshed down the sloping pavements on silvery scooters having not learned yet that their futures would take them in different directions and pensioners looked both ways before stepping out of their front doors in case their ankles were about to be swiped. In the evenings, teenagers who actually ventured out of their rooms sat on the swings while swigging underage contraband and bemoaned their lot in life as, after all, there was nothing to do.
It was Scotland in miniature.
It was not the sort of place to have a police station even before the regions joined together as one Police Scotland centralised force and so it came as a surprise to everyone when the girl’s body was found at the top of the castle hill by Sunday morning tourists making the first climb of the day. It had been obvious as soon as they saw her that “Something awful” had happened.Her limbs were unnaturally sprawled in a way that no sleeping person would position themselves and her once blonde hair was matted with blood and mud. Murders just didn’t happen in Kirklee. Well, not for ages anyway.
Lucinda Carr arrived after the tent had been erected and the body examined by Bill Williams in situ. Bill had already gathered some physical evidence and would be the one to do all structured and sequential examination for physical and trace evidence and it would be his findings that would be presented to the Procurator Fiscal. An “integrated service” they called it but what it meant was being there from start to finish to ensure the guilty were brought to justice based on the evidence available. Bill was not one to speculate. He worked purely on the evidence and left the other aspects of the investigation to the rest of his colleagues.
Tape barred the way around the scene and Jon the photographer methodically photographed every blade of grass to be looked at later. Bill and Lucy had worked on one case together the year before but usually it was Lucy’s superior Mark who led the occasional case in Ayrshire. It was more likely that Police would be investigating a drunk and disorderly late night set-to or wifely domestic abuse to be recanted later than murder. Young girls tended to get into trouble once they left home for the city rather than while still living at home. The small town was used to policing itself and it was still okay for adults to talk to other people’s children or knock on a door to ask a neighbour to cut back a branch or move a visiting car. The flashing lights, tape and tent aroused some curiosity and a small crowd gathered.
“Time of death Bill?”
“You know better than that Lucy. I would estimate that it would have been between two and five this morning but I can’t be clearer till I get her back for a fuller examination. All I can say is that there has been blunt force trauma causing significant cranial bleeding which was possibly the cause of death.”
“Do we know who she is? Is there any I.D. with her?”
The very young looking constable who had been keeping back the growing crowd came back to talk to Lucy. “There was a driving licence in her purse with the name Cathy Small but the photo doesn’t match the hair colour. If it’s Cathy Small she’s twenty-three and lives in Panrock in Arran View and she had red hair six years ago when she got her licence.”
“She looks younger than twenty-three at first glance,” Bill said, “but again I won’t be able to confirm much more until I get her back to the lab.”
Lucy looked at the visible remains which were mostly obscured because she was face down. Cathy, if that’s who she was, was slight and short with pathetically thin arms splayed out – the right one up towards her head as if she’d been trying to stop a blow and the other unnaturally bent back over her waist. Both arms were bare apart from a vibrant loom band bracelet on her right wrist which made her look younger than 23. No rings. She was wearing a thin strappy dress with a floral pattern. It was bunched around her thighs displaying tanned legs covered in old bruises which were turning from purple to yellow. Insubstantial plastic sandals lay upturned nearby, telling their own story. She was on the worn path rather than the grass and gravel had cut her knees and elbows when she’d fallen. All in all, her ending had been painful and intense.
Lucy took the bagged up driving licence and began to speak to each of the bystanders on the other side of the tape but although people’s expressions ran the gamut from shifty to shocked no-one claimed to know of anyone missing or have heard of Cathy Small.
Silk and Tiaras
The Saturday ritual was virtually always the same: throw open the upstairs bedroom window; tip forward swivelling neck and shoulder to the right while inhaling deeply the Scottish salty air and looking out over the sea to Arran – no matter what the weather. It set up Francesca for the madness that was Saturday appointments in her bridal shop under the apartment. Retreating inward to sip a very quick double espresso Francesca would then have a final mirror check before descending the stairs to the luxury of the shop beneath. She had made a deliberate decision to have only high end products when she first opened twenty five years ago and the dresses were displayed to perfection against a background of pistachio and gold walls and thick carpets. There were of course the obligatory well upholstered high backed chairs for attendant relatives to relax on while this or that decision was made by the customer behind the changing room curtain but usually the dresses were the stars and it was no coincidence that successful brides were encouraged to display their favourite wedding photo for a month in the window of Silk and Tiaras to both highlight their success and Francesca’s at making the perfect match. Saturdays were by appointment only unlike the rest of the week but girls seemed only too keen to book an hour’s slot in order to get the undivided attention of Miss Francesca because, although she was famously unmarried, her eye for detail was said to be unparalleled. No bride was ever unhappy with the final choice, even although many a parent might have balked at the price.
The appointments book had the usual four bookings for the day. Ostensibly each appointment was an hour long but there was a half hour in-between each one to ensure that no blushing bride ever met another and somehow felt cheated out of her experience of being the most important person in the room.
Miss Francesca opened the door to greet the first appointment of the day and wondered which of the sample dresses would suit this waif-like, un-made-up creature standing with arm outstretched and a slightly nervous demeanour given away by the nibbling of her bottom lip.
“Miss Francesca, I’m so pleased to finally have the chance to see you and your fabulous dresses up close. I’m an eight but I know you’ll have worked that out already as your reputation precedes you.”
Secret horse
I knew she’d gone to that faraway fantasy land when she told me she’d bought me a secret horse to protect us all. When pushed she said it was hidden and I was to remember Jake Kennedy. “Change your surname,” she said.
And I did remember Jake. He was the old farmer who rented out the land of the landscape gardener business my mother was a company director of. Wizened and unwashed, he would toil all day, swear and drink all evening and pitch up every so often to get his rent in cash. Rich enough to build his daughter a house in case she ever married but looking as if he didn’t have two pennies to put towards a different jacket, Jake was from more than 30 years before yet hidden in some synapse to be brought out into the open again as soon as the infection hit.
It is always difficult to know what to do when someone is delirious – to humour or not? I chose the CID approach. “Where is the secret horse? When did you get it? How much did it cost? How could you afford it?” but the oddest thing is that even amidst the craziness there is a kind of sense and rationale, however irrational to the outside world.
Because, you see, there was a time when I had needed to be kept safe from a violent husband and I had been about to leave home for good. There was a safehouse all set up and I would have had to change my name. At the final moment though I balked and chose to face up to the legal nightmare rather than flee and now I wonder if Jake had been the one who was going to provide the safe passage.
Maybe I have a secret horse somewhere, about to ride to my rescue.
Level U
Ginny decided on a cool swim before breakfast to set her up for the day’s meetings which would be interminable in the July heat. Wearing her hotel robe over her perfectly plain black Speedo she pressed U and the lift door puffed together after the familiar ping. It only gradually dawned on her that that was the only sound she had heard that morning. There was no annoying muzak on her way to the basement, no cheery “Hello!” at the reception desk, no buzz and chatter in the changing room and no clang or whir coming from the gym because she was the only person around. True, everything was unlocked so she couldn’t be too early but the only movement was the switching of the silent monochrome CCTV display which flipped between corridor, gym and pool in a regular sweep registering nothing. Nothing moved. There wasn’t a ripple on the pool surface, not even the slightest shimmer. Ginny wasn’t sure if she should continue or not.
She slung her robe over one of the poolside deckchairs and slowly entered the water to get used to the temperature which was surprisingly chilly. Ginny kicked off from the bottom step and moved into her usual quick front crawl, churning through the water sending waves towards the glossy white tiled sides which then criss-crossed back towards her sending out ever increasing troughs and crests, swelling and breaking against her body as she lapped backwards and forwards for her half hour work out. She hit the shower and washed the chlorine out before going back towards the lift.
The call button lit up but the light was stubbornly showing 3 and from the lack of noise seemed to stuck on the upper floor. There was still no-one on reception and everything was back to being calm, still and empty. Ginny pulled her robe a little more snugly round her and looked around for stairs to go back up towards ground level. There were six red doors . Two led to changing rooms which then had access to the pool, one led to the gym which she could see anyway through the large windows which flanked each side of the room so it had to be one of the other three. The lift was still lit on 3 so she tried the fourth door. It seemed to be a small office as there was a desk with a laptop, a swivel chair and a filing cabinet. Door five led to a beauty/treatment room with a range of products lining the shelves so the stairwell must be behind door six. It wasn’t however as she soon discovered.
A curtain of heat met her at the door and through very dim lighting she could just about make out a sauna and a steam room but something wasn’t right as the heat and steam were not contained as they should have been and dense hot mist pervaded the corridor area.
Ginny was becoming increasingly irritable not just because she was annoyed but also because she hadn’t had anything to eat or drink yet. Where was everyone? What time was it now? Why were there no stairs – surely that was illegal?
She picked up the phone on the reception desk but there was no dial tone. She tried each digit one at a time in case there was a number to press for an outside line but nothing she tried seemed to work. There was just a buzz on the line as if it was disconnected. Ginny went back into the small office to try the laptop but its password protection eluded her.
There was nothing to do but wait.
Old Age
I blame The Golden Girls. Weekly, for years, it sold the idea of a sun-filled, fun time for elderly women full of energy who were either nearing retirement or long into it. These women still had love, romance and sex; occasional contact with their children; interests which involved working part time; going out to various parties and events; living in palatial surroundings and sharing laughter round the kitchen table while eating ice cream. It was a format that made the audience almost envy those who were approaching or in their final years.
They lied.
Old Age is not for the faint-hearted. It’s an ever decreasing circle of diminishing returns.
Unless you’ve been blessed with good genes, a good earning capacity and have had a healthy lifestyle for decades you will have instead a myriad of problems to look forward to.
Money unless you’ve salted it away to provide a cushion will never quite be enough. As your income from whatever pension you have will largely stay static, your outgoings will increase over the months and years. Inflation will mean that if you stay in you’ll worry about the heating bills and if you go out you’ll need the cash to fund that wee cup of coffee or that theatre seat. Your world will narrow as your options diminish. Best take up some hobby that isn’t that dear – the internet, libraries, rambler outings, learning a new skill or language at a returners-friendly university, Silver Screens for slightly older films and making use of free or reduced public transport while you still can.
Chronic ailments like diabetes, arthritis, auto-immune etc tend to encroach as you age. You’ll start to need medication which at first will help to alleviate the initial condition but as time goes on will have increasing side effects which will affect more and more of your body.
If you’re lucky, you will have none of these chronic conditions but you will be aware that the TV needs to be just that little bit louder, your night driving gets worse and worse and your arms need to get longer and longer just to read the small print. Your teeth will start to look longer and longer in the mirror as your gums start to recede. Those laughter lines will become etched into your face and stare back at you from the mirror. Your eyes will look puffy in the morning as if you’ve had little sleep but worryingly still look like that at lunchtime. Your gut will play tricks on you and rumble ominously in nether regions which in your early life you didn’t even know you had.
Your circle of friends will, unless you take steps to address this, decrease as people die, move away or become less able to get out and about. Loneliness will gradually encroach until you keep on the TV or the radio just to have someone else talking in the room.
And, as you approach that end stage where with reduced faculties and increasing frailty you need others to provide more and more of what you used to be able to do for yourself you face the stark choice of being a burden to someone else – either someone who loves you or someone who gets paid to pick up the slack. “In sickness and in health” means something to the over 70s who struggle on together, while they can, but as society becomes less and less about life-long relationships it is unlikely that there will be so many people with someone to provide that intensive love and support for the current singletons enjoying their youth with gay abandon.
So, if you’re young enough to make the necessary changes now – watch that diet, keep that body fit, get regular check ups, build up that private pension.
And, no matter what age group you are: buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride!
The facts via Wiki
Day Care
Paying up
She was a product of her time. Nette had been born in 1900 and so was quite affected by the First World War. Decades afterwards she spoke to me, her grandniece, about the boy she had loved who had gone away to war and how she had never married because he had never come home and although the dates didn’t quite fit, it was an explanation that suited a little girl visiting an elderly aunt.
She lived in a large sandstone fronted corporation flat off Byers Road in the West End and it was a place I was lucky enough to stay in for a few weeks when my mother was very ill in the Queen Mother hospital. She encouraged me to draw by showing me sketches she had done when she was a young girl. They were pencil sketches of flowers and bugs and boys and she cheerfully gave me pads and pencils and left me to my own devices. The flat seemed to be a warren of interesting rooms.
There was a large kitchen with a pulley which hung overhead and there were pots and pans on the wall and this was the first time I’d ever seen anyone do this. The white enamel bread bin had a green edge and this theme was picked up in crockery like her cream jug and sugar bowl and tea cups and saucers. There was a huge wooden table which dominated the room and she used to sit there a lot and mix up blancmanges or flavoured custards. She made a game of guessing what colour the dessert would be that day. The floors were all either lovely polished hardwoods or black and white diamond tiles and she hand cleaned them all every day even though I suppose she might have been in her sixties when I knew her. There was a black and gold Singer sewing machine with a treadle pedal in the kitchen which I was allowed to play with as long as the thread wasn’t in place.
Nette had a beautiful cherry wood dining room with striped upholstery chairs and the evening meal was always served there, even when she was on her own which would be often.
The living room had lots of arm chairs which matched but were not identical. They faced the marble fireplace and there was a huge crystal vase which was always full of fresh flowers, at least when I came to visit.
Her bedroom was a child’s dressing up dream because she still had her flapper’s clothes and jewelry in the mahogany wardrobe and when I was fed up with this, there was always the library which was just wonderful. Long and narrow, all it held was window seats down one side of the room and dark wood display cabinets down the other. The windows seemed to be enormous and the room sparkled with natural light. In the cabinets were literally hundreds of Penguin books and she was the sort of person that as long as you were quiet you could read anything you liked – bliss!
The Grandfather’s clock in the hall chimed dutifully every quarter hour, chiming away what was left of her life and she died unexpectedly of a heart attack in her 70s just keeling over when she was getting out of bed one morning.
It was only later when I was grown up that I was told the full story about her life beyond those conversations we had. She had been a secretary from the 20s through to 1960 and it was while at work that she had met the real love of her life. He was a married man whose wife was in some sort of institution in the days when divorce was more difficult than now. When he died suddenly in his 50s his sons who had known all about her came round to tell her, kindly enough, but told her to stay away from the funeral which she did out of respect. What that means of course, is that the picture she painted of a bookish spinster aunt was a carefully constructed artifice.
It was crisp enough for breath to curl into the cold night air. The pavement glittered as if there were diamonds underfoot and the absence of cloud cover meant the stars twinkled overhead. It might have been a romantic setting if it hadn’t been for the bloodied body on the pathway.
A dog walker had called in the murder and she stamped around in an effort to stay warm while keeping her dog on a, by now, short leash. It was part of her normal routine, she said, to take a walk along Great Western Road but the dog had slipped the leash and run off towards the Botanic Gardens, perhaps alerted by some noise or other. But no, she hadn’t seen any one else running off or heard any noises herself – just the occasional person returning home or out walking their dog before retiring to bed, just the usual nightly custom performed mechanically – almost without thought.
Margo McLean eventually told her to go home and they would contact her if there were any more questions. By that time Colquhoun had finished his preliminary examination and enough photographs had been taken of the scene for closer examination later. Colquhoun indicated that the girl had been killed fairly recently as although the body was cold, true rigor had not set in. The pooled blood had come from a single stab wound to the stomach but there were defensive wounds to the hands. There was no sign of a weapon in the immediate vicinity but a more thorough search in a wider area was ongoing now the dawn light was breaking. The first few hours were always crucial, with clues sometimes overlooked by officers too keen to return to the station. A fingertip search of the undergrowth was carried out and casts of footprints taken but there was no immediate sense of why this young girl had been stabbed or who the perpetrator was.
There was no handbag but she had a phone and a bunch of keys in an inside pocket in her pink coat and her skirt and underwear weren’t so disheveled that it suggested a sexual attack but only an autopsy would find this out for sure. After the preliminary examination the body was taken to the morgue for a fuller examination by Colquhoun and his team. Margo scrolled through the phone directory but there was no ICE number and no helpful “mum” or “dad” entries. She had about twenty contacts all listed by their first name only and, as the battery was about to die, Margo returned to the station. By the time she arrived, word was waiting that a blood covered knife had been found in a nearby bin and it had been sent off to forensics to see if there was a match. As murder investigations went, things were zinging along.
After finding the right charger, Margo started calling the names on the phone directory in alphabetical order although the numbers just rang out or went straight to voicemail until Margo tried Cameron. Cameron was quite helpful and said that the number calling him was from one of his flatmate’s number and that Zara hadn’t come home last night. Zara, he said was an architecture student and it wasn’t unusual for her to stay late to finish off projects that were due in. In fact all of the students on that course had keys to the building so that they could come and go at odd hours. He gave his address and said he would be in until 10 but had an important lecture to go to. Margo and Brian went round to the house in Warden Road which would normally have been too big for students but there were five of them sharing. After a cursory look around and asking when Cameron and Stuart, one of the other flatmates, had last seen or spoken to Zara, Margo and Brian carried out a search of the room that Zara had called home for the last two months. It had a laptop which they bagged up and there were lecture notes and drawings in tubes but nothing much to indicate what kind of life Zara had away from the house – no photos adorned the walls and there were no helpful diaries. Both Cameron and Stuart agreed that they didn’t know Zara that well because she wasn’t on the same course but that one of their other housemates, Kiera and Mel sometimes spent the odd evening with her down at the Union if someone was performing at the weekend. Her life though seemed to mostly revolve around studying for her course and Zara was a bit of a “brain”. Oddly the boys didn’t know much about her family but thought Kiera in particular would have wormed all that our of her. Kiera though was out at her part time job in Cup, a cafe known for its cakes, coffees and cocktails, and would be going to her lectures later in the day before going back to her job in the evening. Margo and Brian made their way to Cup and Kiera took a break, looking puzzled when they asked her questions about Zara’s family and routines. Zara, it turned out, had told her she had no family as they had died in a car crash a few years before but that they had left her with enough money to fund her studies for the six year course, including the work experience which she was hoping to have in Europe and Australia.
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While cleaning out the study today I found this list that I made when we were leaving our rented space in Calgary to come back to Toronto. It's kind of a ridiculous list because we brought a lot of the items from Toronto so although we did buy them at some point we didn't buy everything on the list in Calgary so the title is misleading. Also, I don't think I actually would have forgotten anything anyway, but perhaps it made me feel like I was getting organized, made me feel a bit more in control for a little while during the time before the move.
Things I Learned in Newfoundland in September
I went to Newfoundland in September of this year for a wonderful writing workshop called The Piper's Frith. It was a unique experience and thanks to Joan Clark and my group I learned not only what needs to be tweaked in my story but also why it needs to be tweaked. I've counted the tweaks the story needs (thirteen) and I've set it aside until I feel like tackling it again. If you get a chance to go to the workshop held at the Kilmory Resort on the Burin Peninsula, go. I also learned some other things while I was there. Here's the list in no particular order:
1. I don't know how to cook cod properly. It still tasted good but was a bit dry. If a native Newfoundlander offers to cook your cod for you, take them up on it rather than doing it yourself.
2. For some unexplained reason, I had no hot flashes the entire time I was in Newfoundland.
3. If you're careful, it is possible to carry a couple of cuttings of dogberry all the way home in your pocket without squishing them. They're still in a jar in my kitchen, a nice little reminder of my trip.
4. Black flies still think I'm tasty. Apparently I'm especially delicious while standing still, trying to talk on my cellphone.
5. I sleep better in the dark. It was very dark in my lovely little cabin.
6. Sometimes it takes quite a long time on the beach to pick the perfect small round rock to bring home.
7. When busy concentrating on workshopping and critiquing and writing, lunch becomes a grilled cheese sandwich every single day, sometimes with soup. (Perhaps a grilled cheese sandwich a day is a cure for hot flashes.)
8. I don't know what a bear outside at night sounds like. I thought a raccoon was making the huffing and scratching noises, but apparently there are no raccoons in Newfoundland. The next morning the whole place was buzzing with news of the previous night's bear sightings. We looked around for signs of the bear but only found a chocolate bar wrapper. I thought that was a sure sign but the others walking around with me outside my cabin said it wasn't conclusive.
Some News & a List (Who Doesn't Love a List?) of Six Writing Prompts
Last week, CBC Books, in partnership with Toronto's Luminato Festival, ran a contest called the Strong Beginnings Twitter Challenge in which you had to post first lines to as-yet-unwritten short stories. I've been away so I just now found out I was a finalist! Sadly, right after that I also found out I didn't win, but I'm thrilled all the same. So here are the tweets that got me closer to having an iPad Mini which was the prize for the contest. I thought they might be useful as writing prompts.
1. I didn’t mean for anybody to get hurt. Honest. I just wanted to build something really really big out of popsicle sticks.
2. Clarisse knew she’d soon be looking for another job when she saw the new sign her boss had posted. No swearing. No glitter.
3. Alice leaned on the doorjamb of her closet, trying to figure out what to wear besides a slathering of hydrocortisone cream.
4. The colour her sister had chosen didn’t flatter any of the six bridesmaids. They looked like yams wearing feathery hats.
5. He’d doubled the amount of liquor in the recipe. Luckily the eggnog was served in small cups. Luckily I’d worn my slippers.
6. I can’t understand why I chose this wallpaper. It’s covered in rabbits and I hate rabbits.
Things I Collect
1. old tattered Penguins (books, not birds) the ones with the number at the bottom of the spine
2. Volkswagens (toys, not full-size although I did have a 1968 royal blue Beetle many years ago that I still wish I hadn't sold)
3. two kinds of tea towels - souvenir tea towels with places on them and Royal Wedding tea towels (just ones of William & Kate for now as my Charles & Diana tea towel is too worn out to use)
4. lists found in parking lots or shopping carts or on the sidewalk. I try to figure out what kind of person had written the list (this one grosses out my daughter as she can't believe her mother is picking up other people's used pieces of paper)
5. flying pigs and other impossibilities like figurines of obese ballerinas and odd-shaped birds who have wings but could never fly
6. cookbooks. I use some of the recipes but often what has attracted me to the cookbook is the stories behind the recipes where it seems like the author is in my kitchen talking to me. I feel like I get to know the author a little bit rather than just following along as the recipe tells you to do this and then do that.
7. quotes, conversation scraps, sayings or facts that attract me like a magpie to something shiny. "I'm not sleeping so well and I'm typing like a drunk ferret." David Mitchell; "Every princess needs a peasant." overheard, said by a man on a payphone; "mad as a box of frogs" part of a headline in the Globe & Mail; Agatha Christie's pet hates were marmalade pudding and cockroaches,
8. old postcards, not for the photos, but for what's written on the back (I have a whole bunch written by a man named Pearce who was very stingy with his words)
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Which Workout is Best for Me?
Now more than ever it seems like everyone is getting fit and wanting to live a more healthier lifestyle. You’re pumped about the idea of a better you, but have no clue as to where to begin. Most people just think about losing weight when they mention starting to work out, but there are actually several workout regimes that provide different results for various areas of your body and systems. Though you may not believe it as a beginner, some people actually look for workout regimes to gain weight; in muscle usually. The first question you’ll want to ask yourself is, “What goal(s) am I trying to attain?” You could be wanting to be more flexible, build more muscle, burn fat, or just tone up. But it is important to be clear on what results you’re looking for.
So now that we’ve got in our minds what results we’re looking to attain lets look at a few of the plethora of choices.
1. Yoga.
What is Yoga? The word comes from Sanskrit , an Indian language meaning to yoke, referring to the mind, body, and spirit together as one. There are 6 branches of Yoga with several limbs stemming even from those branches. This regime focuses on flexibility and strength through poses and postures. Once you can successfully achieve your personal pose of choice your body is believed to become one with the spirit and mind through balancing and meditation. 34
2. Aerobic Fitness.
Also known as Cardio, is an exercise to help raise your heart rate and keep it raised. This workout regime improves oxygen flow in your blood by increasing blood flow to your muscles, back, and lungs. Also with the increased movement your metabolism is kicked into high gear which helps burn fat. Most people choose cardio because it covers a wide range of exercises such as jogging, swimming, and fast walking.cardio exercise
3. Weight Lifting.
Is a Strengthening regime that builds muscle mass. In weightlifting, you use dumbells and barbells and other machines that hold dumb bells and barbells to perform a number of exercises. To gain strength the weights are increased over time. A lot of people choose to lift weights in addition to other workout regimes because it helps burn fat faster.weight-lifting-exercises
There are safety measures for all of these workouts so please take time to follow them.
You’ve got the platform, now all you have to do is make the decision and like Nike says, Just Do It ✓
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Allocation Models With Bounded Dependent Variables
Here's a demonstration of this.
Now re-parameterize the distribution, using
The density of Y is now:
The second one has exactly the same style.
Here are MLE results for the first equation:
and the second equation:
Now, let's repeat the exercise using R. Specifically we're going to use the betareg package (Cribari-Neto and Zeileis, 2010). The R code is here. Here are the results, using the logit link function:
Cribari-Neto, F. and A. Zeileis, 2010. Beta regression in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 34(2).
© 2013, David E. Giles
1. Thanks for the nice post and the publicity for our R package. Note, however, that the JSS manuscript was co-authored by Francisco and myself, not Silvia.
1. Achim - my apologies!! Fixed now.
2. No worries, thanks for the quick fix!
2. Any advice if the ratio's are a time series? What are your thoughts on including lags of each of the components as regressors with various these link functions?
1. One concern would be lack of independence. Independence is assumed in the construction of the log-likelihood function used here. However, if any dependencies were incorporated properly into the specification of the likelihood function, then no problem.
3. Do you know if there is a code for Beta regression for STATA? I'm using the Papke and Woolridge GLM QMLE method with a logit link function, but would like to also try the Beta regression for proportional data. Particularly since I believe the Beta regression would be more applicable to smaller samples, right?
1. Hi - no idea, as I'm not a STATA user. It's not in EViews either, but it's trivial to code up the log-likelihood function with 3 lines of code, as in my EViews workfile:
@logl ll1
mu1=exp(alpha(1)+beta(1)*x )/ (1 + exp(alpha(1)+beta(1)*x))
and I know you can do the same sort of thing easily in STATA.
2. I see..ok, thanks, I'll give it a shot!
4. There is an expository paper discussing the topic for panels. We use the approach fairly often for time series analysis of allocation data. "Cake Slicing and Revealed Government Preference" Bell Journal of Economics, 1982
5. Thank you very much! How does the model change when we are in a panel data structure, i.e. for the same year and the same country the sum of the independent variables across the equations is 1?
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libgdx-utils 0.5.0 is out. There are several additions but also a major refactoring.
Breaking Changes
I'm sorry, but I renamed all packages to match those of libGDX. This means you will have to reimport everything. It took like 10 minutes for my test project (which is rather big) so I think it's still reasonable enough.
MathUtils, GeometryUtils and ArrayUtils have been split into two classes each. There is one in the net.dermetfan.utils.* and one in the net.dermetfan.gdx.* package.
Why? The classes in net.dermetfan.utils.* are supposed not to depend on libGDX. The halfs in the gdx package extend the ones in the utils package so it's enough to import one.
The halfs in the utils package now also have overloaded methods that accept offset and length parameters for working with arrays. But I can't explain that all here, just check it out when you need it.
Maybe also some other things but the compiler will tell you ;)
New Stuff
• CircularGroup - aligns children in a circle, draggable with the mouse (pretty cool)
• Box2DPolygonSprite - like Box2DSprite but for PolygonRegions
Other Changes
Some performance improvements, bug fixes, ... The usual things.
Now What
I still have to write a wiki page for ContextMenu and now also CircularGroup.
The ContextMenuBuilder is still just an idea.
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Fear | Joni Tyner
S~ Then the Pharaoh gave the order to all his people. “Throw every newborn Hebrew newborn boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.” Exodus 1:22 (NLT)
O/A~ Pharaoh was worried that the Hebrews were out numbering the Egyptians and feared they could overthrow the government so he decided to kill all the baby boys by having them drown in the Nile River.
I was thinking about Moses’s mom as I read this. Pregnant women seem to worry about lots of things, I’m sure this order completely immobilized her with fear. I wonder if perhaps she had experienced infertility? (Bible indicates Miriam, his sister was quite a bit older.) I think it might be possible she went from being thrilled about her pregnancy to terrified that it might be a boy.
And then her worst fears came true and she delivered a baby boy.
But God.
God did allow scary things to happen in the lives of the Hebrew people—none of it made sense at the time and seemed to be going from bad to worse. Yet God was preparing them for a beautiful journey that would take them to the promised land. I should also add—Long Journey. 40 years long. There was lots of refining and lessons learned in the desert for the Israelites, trusting God was a big one. Trusting God when circumstances seem completely hopeless and prayers seem to bounce back unanswered.
P~ Dear Lord, I get fearful sometimes that circumstances in my life seem bleak and not going the way I would like them to—please forgive me for sometimes being negative and feeling like You have forgotten me. I know You are refining my heart and I pray that I learn from this season of waiting and looming fear. Please help me see clearly Your Will and smash the evil one’s distractions and lies. Thank you for Your Word that shows me Your constant faithfulness.
You Hear Me | Kim Chipman
A~ Right now I have a few of my kids struggling with different things. It is comforting to remember that You are the God who saves me. I need to cry out to You day and night on their behalf. You will listen. Things may not go the way I want them to, but that doesn’t mean You aren’t listening. I know You hear, You are sovereign, You are just, and You are trustworthy.
P~ Thank You for being You. Help me be a great Mom. Give me the words to say as my kids struggle. Thank You for hearing my prayers and loving them even more than I do. I love You!
Pride Stinks | Luisa Penaherrera
S~ O Lord, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day. Psalm 88:13 (NLT)
O~ The psalmist continued to turn to God and ask for help, even though he felt rejected by God (verse 4: O Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face away from me?)
A~ My pride would have me turn away from God if I felt rejected by him. But I need God—always! I need to be like this psalmist and stay before my God in prayer.
P~ Father, forgive me my pride, it does keep me from you, and I really do need you. Help me to recognize when I’m letting pride keep me from you.
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My friend Sai Padma reminisces about what the International Day of People with Disability means in India today.
Sai Padma
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Today is International disability day. Another year has come and passing on for disability sector, every December we wait for something, we anticipate and pray for certain things, we have the audacity to think that things will change towards inclusion. We hope that this year will be the end of discrimination and abuse. We are tiresomely happy sometimes, that though you are burned, somewhere something is happening for better. Some years we cringe and cry helplessly, that years together activists who have worked and made petition after petition, works day and night, their work goes down the drain on a Disability Day… then we take a fall, dust off our insults, gather the energy of rights and take another…
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Nobel Wars
Nobel Wars
In the War with Polio who was the Hero? Salk or Sabin?
I have been following up the Nobel Prizes announced since last week. The surprise that was in store for all of us with regard to the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature for Bob Dylan was quite frankly refreshing and exciting.
As I was reading up about some Nobel Prize history, I came across this list of very famous people who deserved the Nobel Prize, but who weren’t awarded one. On that list was Gandhi as anticipated as well as my main man, Physicist Stephen Hawking. One name that was expected and yet which irked me the most was that of Jonas Salk, the “pioneering scientist” who is hailed in popular American folklore for having “invented” the Polio vaccine and for having virtually “eradicated” the dreaded polio. He was nominated thrice – in 1954, 1956 and the late 60s. Some have argued that he should have at least got the Nobel Prize for Peace for his contribution for his pioneering work in having removed the fear of the disease that was crippling countless children across America in the 20s through 50s. How can a National Hero be snubbed?
As it happens, the real story is a very complex. Very few talk about Albert Sabin who developed the live attenuated polio virus oral drops, the same which is in use in India in our immunisation schedule. It was Sabin’s vaccine that eradicated Polio from the face of the earth except the last 2 countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan now.
Salk and Sabin were bitter enemies who openly disliked each other. Salk was a public relations man with the support of the US President’s March of Dimes initiative and millions of dollars, not to mention the doting press. Salk appeared to be shy, and shunning the media, but he actually craved publicity. When asked by the media, ‘Who owned the patent?”, Salk replied, “ The people do. There is no patent. Do you patent the sun?”
The truth is that Salk could not have patented the Polio vaccine even if he wanted to. He did not invent the vaccine.
Dr. Sven Gard, Professor of Virology at the Karolinska Institute, and member of the Nobel recommendation Committee wrote an 8 page analysis of Salk’s work, in which he concluded that “Salk has not in the development of his methods introduced anything that is principally new, but only exploited discoveries made by others.” He concluded that “Salk’s publications on the poliomyelitis vaccine cannot be considered as Prize worthy”.
Why didn’t Sabin get the Nobel prize? Dr. Sven Gard testified as an expert in the Sabin polio vaccine trial of Griffin v United States against Sabin. Gard accepted no money for his expert testimony and paid for his own airfare and expenses. In addition Gard told the court that `Salk`s polio vaccine probably caused more cases of polio than it prevented.” Also Gard knew all about the details of the field trials conducted by both Salk and Sabin and how they had manipulated their data to gloss over the safety of the vaccine. That is why neither Sabin or Salk received the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel prize instead went to John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins in 1954 “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.” This discovery made way for both Salk and Sabin to invent their respective vaccines.
In the late 1960s, Salk, Sabin, Koprowski, and Gard were nominated for the Nobel Prize for poliovirus vaccines. Gard refused to be nominated, because he felt that they did not discover anything new, but only built upon the seminal discoveries of other scientists. This effectively killed the nomination. The developers of the poliovaccine Salk and Sabin were never again seriously considered for a Nobel Prize.
For me Gard is a personal hero who stood for the truth and who had integrity enough to recuse himself from the Nobel prize. Sabin is also a hero. I love his tenacity, passion and ingenuity in sending the vaccines to the Soviet Union and Japan for mass immunisation that gave results when America rejected him and snubbed him. He showed that the Sabin vaccine is indeed the magic bullet. It was his vaccine that finally saved the day and millions of children from permanent disability. It must be mentioned that the later versions of the vaccine are safe and effective.
The story of the Nobel Prize and War against Polio spans 50 years of rivalry and innuendo between three very complicated persons Salk, Sabin and Gard. It would be naive to look at them through the good or bad lenses, as they operated within the space, time, opportunity and necessity continuum of the day with varying consequences. However the lasting legacy is that of Sabin’ without a doubt. Someday I will make a science thriller film with this awesome plot.
One small step for Beno Zephine, a giant leap for all women with disability!!!
Beno Zephine felcicitated by Ms. Shantha Sheela Nair IAS
Beno Zephine felicitated by Ms. Shantha Sheela Nair IAS
Beno Zephine’s achievement is a shot in the arm for me and for millions of women in India! She is India’s first 100% visually challenged women to be selected for the Indian Foreign Service on merit. In fact I have been looking all over the internet to see if there was a precedent for a woman in such a position elsewhere in the world. I was aware of Avraham Rabby, America’s first blind diplomat, because I interacted with him on a teleconference several years ago at the US Consulate, Chennai at an event to mark World Disability Day. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Pakistan has been ahead of India, with Salma Saleem entering into their Diplomatic Service in as early as 2008. Our own Beno Zephine joins this list of illustrious diplomats who are trailblazing the international arena of diplomatic challenges with their charm, persuasion and personality.
Ms. Beno scored an All India rank of 343 in the UPSC exams results declared in 2014. Though she was selected a year ago, it took an entire year for the government to allocate her to the IFS as they had to make procedural changes in their rules for her accommodation. Finally the changes were made and she created history as India’s first officer with a visual challenge in the diplomatic service.
There is nothing extraordinary in Beno’s upbringing and family circumstances other than the fact of her parents unflinching support for her to pursue her dreams. Her father Luke Anthony Charles works in the Railways in the IRTC department and mother Mary Padmaja is a house maker. She has a brother who is a Software Engineer working in Canada.
Born with a 100% visual impairment, Beno went to the Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School, and later graduated from the Stella Maris College, Chennai with a B.A in English Literature. She did her post-graduation in M.A. English Literature from Loyola College, Chennai.
There were not many books that are accessible for Beno in audio or Braille and particularly books for civil service aspirants are hardly sufficient or available. Beno and her parents spent a lot of time in getting several of the material converted into Braille. She also used special software called JAWS – (Job Access with Speech) that allows her to read from the screen. She also prepared by scanning the required papers on to her computer. During preparation her mother spent several hours reading for Beno from Daily newspapers, magazines and from all the other books that were not readily available in JAWS compatible format or on Braille.
She lost out in her first attempt for the Civil Services but she didn’t give up. The second time that she tried in 2013-14 she got through. “The first time, I studied really hard. The second time was easier,” said Beno Zephine. Speaking at a felicitation program for her organised by the Society for Rights of All Women with Disability of which I am an office bearer, Beno Zephine wanted women everywhere not to give up on their dreams and to pursue them with fresh vigour not counting the difficulties.
Speaking at the felicitation program the Chief Guest Ms. Shantha Sheela Nair IAS, Vice- Chair Person, TN State Planning Commission. Ms. Nair, said that this is not only an achievement for a woman with a disability to enter the diplomatic corps, but that it is a feat for any woman to be involved in the fore-front of international policy and decision making. She urged Ms. Beno to document her experiences on a daily basis and to share her journey with the public at large on an ongoing basis in the form of blogs, articles to the newspapers etc. She stressed Ms. Beno’s moral obligation to inspire people coming after her.
What struck me about this young woman was her quiet confidence, and joyful personality. What moved me was her parent’s commitment to her welfare. What frightened me was that henceforth, all women with disability will be compared to Beno for raising the bar so high, and that a repeat or a catch up will be daunting! But what thrilled me was that the Law of the land was catching up with the rights and entitlements of all persons with disability. In future it will become difficult for the Government to deny them what is their due.
Hurrah for Beno! I wish her all the best for a stellar career!
Margarita, with a Straw. A reflection.
Margarita I saw “Margarita, with a Straw” with a great amount of curiosity and expectation. The performances were top notch, the credentials of the makers and all involved are bonafide. But the film did not work for me. In parts. And that is where the problem lies.
I want to talk about the film from two, no three perspectives because I think it is important. I want to reflect on the film from my own point of view as a woman with a locomotor disability who has been unashamed of her sexuality, and from the point of view as a member of the community who is largely unacquainted with issues related to disability and sexuality, but who is deeply empathetic. I also will try to wear my health activist lenses for a moment and try to interpret the message from the point of view of someone who has fought aggressively for the rights of everything that is marginalised, oppressed, suppressed, and less understood.
Swinging from acknowledging and portraying the sexual needs of one or two disabled young women, this film traces the arc all the way to disabled pornography as a show-and-tell for the ‘normal’. Remember those well made porn films, with a story, where the entire action takes place within a clever plot?! I was very hard pressed to differentiate this film from those. After all, why do we see porn? We see others make it, the different ways in which they make it, circumstances under which they make it, and different partner combinations making it. Same here. It was like an episode from F.R.I.E.N.D.S without the explicit sex scenes, and the friends here are either in a wheelchair or physically challenged in some other way. Because in F.R.I.E.N.D.S anything that everyone does is cool and normal. So we are told.
The whole point of the film is about Laila and her coming to terms with her libido, and her winning ways to claim love (sex), unsuccessfully or successfully. I am totally cool with Laila’s promiscuity. But what about Laila? Who is she? What does she love? Who does she love? What does love means to her? What are her aspirations, fears and world-view? She was like one of those hyper hormonal adolescents I know who are so uninteresting. For a writer who gets accepted into an American College on a scholarship for Creative Writing, she has very little to show for her depth in her personality and her quest for life and love. I came away knowing very little about her. Truth be told, if Laila were a real person of my acquaintance, I hardly think that I would be friends with her. What was Laila’s passion? The film does not reveal and so the film is very uni-dimensional in that sense. Was Laila endearing? I think not. Was she inspiring? Hmmmmm. She needn’t be. Is she just a girl with normal feelings trapped in a body bound in a wheel chair? I think the issue is not so simple. And that is where the film lets me down.
The other problem I had was in the strategic decision to dove-tail a same-sex relationship within a disability context. Did you ever wonder why there aren’t any protests? Surely all the right-wingers can’t be fashionably cool about an occult depiction of a lesbian relationship suddenly. There is enough provocative material in the film to keep the saffron, green and white brigades restlessly happy for weeks. Why are there no calls for bans? I think I can take a guess and put forward an over-simplistic explanation. Two negatives cancel each other. Two non-normals make an appeal to a normal. It’s an allowance.
I was worried about Laila contracting some STI or getting pregnant. I would have been interested in knowing how Laila perceives her risk of getting infected or her concerns about having an unwanted pregnancy. She negotiates no protection whatsoever. Surely that is ‘normal’ sexual behaviour.
On the way back from the film, my friend Olga couldn’t help exclaiming whether the New York encounter where Laila’s white male classmate Jared has sex with Laila could not be classified as ‘abuse’. Then another friend with us in the car deconstructed the situation and said that Laila had not only consented, but she was the one who made the initial move. The explanation was sufficient, but I could not help being concerned about Laila and her scope for abuse, given her vulnerability and her openness to experiment.
For me, Revathy was the real rock star of the film. She brought a beautiful depth to the many layers of her role as a mother. She is the mother we see every day providing unstinted care and support with joy and pride to their disabled child. Parents of children with disability are the real heroes. A special child makes any mother an Amazon. As I punch my keys now for this blog, my eyes are shrouded in tears remembering my father, now gone to be with his Maker, and my mother, who was in every way dissimilar yet representative of Shubhangani Kapoor.
Laila’s mother, Mrs. Kapoor is the protagonist for me. She made everything possible. Though her own value system was unfamiliar with ‘different’ relationships she accepts Laila and her choices unconditionally on her death bed. 10,000 points for Revathy. I am yet to see a finer portrayal of a mother on screen. She just slid into the role, and gave such a mature, deeply heartfelt essay. Revathy has been involved with the cause of disability for more than 15 years and her instinctive insight into the complex issues shows.
Of course, all the rest of the cast did a superb performance, chiefly Kalki and Sayani. I have seen so many films with the protagonists in wheelchairs, believe me, it is very difficult to differentiate mimicry and imitation from acting. However, because a disability is a novelty, it tends to be easy to pull it off convincingly, by contorting the face and the various body parts, and by talking with a lisp and a slur. I still stand by my firm belief that there were better performances over Redmaynes’s portrayal of Stephen Hawking this year, and that his winning the Oscar was a bit of a disappointment for me. The most authentic depictions of disability to date in Indian cinema, have been by Kamal Haasan. I couldn’t help but remember his memorable Chappani, a man with spastic hemiplegia (a type of cerebral palsy) in “16 Vayadhinile”(1977). Such an endearing character Chappani was.
Of course the character of Laila was at a very hormonal stage in her life and needed to grow. In the last scene where she has a date with herself sipping a Margarita with a straw, was perhaps her coming of age moment. But her growth and journey so far were very awkwardly and superficially done.
Something about disability on screen tugs at our heartstrings. The more emotional buttons we push, the better received the fare, when all other parameters are reasonably taken care of. I think ‘Margarita, with a Straw’ is one such tug. I only wish that this translates into respect and attention for the needs of disabled woman in real life.
The Pottallam Reader
This is the story of Catherine, my father’s mother, a peasant woman.
My grandmother was a little girl when she was married. She told me that she was about 8 or 9 years old and playing in the field one day, when her brother came looking for her to fetch her home. She wondered why her playtime was interrupted and went home crying only to find out that she was to be given in marriage that afternoon. That day she was hurriedly dressed up in some new clothes by her mother and was taken through the rituals that took place in the front yard of their hut. She was so tired from all the crying and bewilderment, she fell asleep on her father’s lap during the ceremony. She did not remember the groom nor the rest of her marriage ceremony very well. After her marriage that day, she stayed back at her parents’ home until her puberty. Upon getting her first period when she was 13 or 14 years old, she was sent to the home of her husband to live with her new family. All the other children, her siblings, had typical rustic Indian names, but her father named her Catherine, and no one knows why now. I never did ask her how she got a Christian name like that. For much of her married life she was a Hindu and had another name. It amuses me now, to realize that she had a name like that. Funny, it never struck me as odd, when she was alive.
Soon she began to have children in quick succession every year without a gap. I think she managed to have at least 12, of which 9 survived. My father was her first born. She was still reproducing at the time of my father’s marriage, and his youngest sibling was an infant suckling at his mother’s breast at that time.
I guess this is not an unusual story for any little girl that grew up in the same village, at that time. The one little difference that separated Catherine from the other children in the village was that she learnt to read and write, when most of them were illiterate. In fact most members of her own family were illiterate. She was fortunate to be sent to the local government primary school by her father, much against her mother’s wishes. So her formal education happened in those 3 or 4 years until her marriage. She was probably taught the Telugu alphabets, small words and small sentences and nothing more. But she was a smart woman and she never forgot.
Catherine was determined to send all her children to school. This was an unusual wish for her to fulfill in her part of the world. She was a poor untouchable woman, and in those days the practice of untouchability was very much alive and kicking in the villages of India, as indeed it is today, though its manifestations are more subtle now, and the community of untouchables is protected now by the Law. Those were the days when India had just got her independence and the social milieu was very different from what it is today. I guess words cannot adequately describe how ugly things were for these disenfranchised people back then. Even if words could be found, images cannot be conjured to mark those regressive times.
My father was the first boy in the village to go to College, a remarkable achievement, not so much for the boy as much for the mother who made it possible. Those days Dalit or Untouchable children from the rural parts of India did not have many reasons to go to school and college. There were no schemes to ensure their enrollment. For the poor Dalit families tattering on the edges of starvation and poverty, putting their children in school was a loss of a farm hand and therefore wages. Only a fool would send his son to school! The benefits of education had not yet captured their imagination, and they did not comprehend that it would pull them out of their vicious cycle of oppression and suppression. What good is a son who can read and write, if he has to come back to the fields to work as a coolie, a laborer at the end of the day? What options lay before him when he finished school? The way their world view unfurled in front of them was that this education could do nothing to reverse their fortunes and circumstances. It was futile to have such aspirations.
But Catherine was determined and she had her way. She sent her son to the primary school in the nearby village and then to a school about 10 kilometers away, for higher classes. She sent all her other children to school also, but it was my father who took exceptionally well to academics. Most of the other children dropped out. It is nothing but sheer magic that my father thrived under those unseemly circumstances.
Anyway, the story goes that my father would give her books to read, and she would read all of them with a great passion. She read everything she could lay her hands on. There was not much material for her to read in a remote village nook. So she would read the papers that were used to wrap articles of food items or other consumables bought in the local kirana shop. We call them pottallams or parcels. After unwrapping the pottallams, she would preserve these scraps of sundry paper and read and re-read them, even though they had no beginning or end, no head nor tail. It was perhaps a shred of a newspaper, or a fragment from a magazine. She read it all and enjoyed greatly the created word. She escaped into the world that this fragment offered her a peek into.
When my father grew older, he got her books from the town’ government library. It did not boast a great collection of books I imagine, but she read with eagerness any book that was placed in her hands. My father told me, that she had read every book from the library.
Once my father left home to go away to the big town, to continue his high school studies, he stayed in the government welfare hostel, and he visited her only during the holidays. In a way, it was a going away for my father for good, for after he left, he never really returned home in the strict sense. But every time he visited her, he remembered to get her books to read.
My grandmother told me that she was always having babies, and there was so much work to do on the farm and at home. Her older children were away at school, and they could not afford to hire laborers, so the couple had to double up and work, looking after their now newly acquired small piece of land, their cattle and their fowls. One can imagine that there would have been no time left to read. Not for Catherine! She told me that she continued to read her books, while she was nursed her babies at her breast. That was the time she squeezed for herself to read.
Almost all of us can recollect our grandparents telling us stories, and Catherine was no different. One summer when she came to visit us, when my brother and I were small, she narrated the entire Mahabharata to us in daily installments, with all its many, many subplots, and florid characters much to our great fascination. The stories were more breathtaking than any grandiose TV serial. She also regaled us with stories from the Ramayana, Jathakas, Sindbad, and the Panchatantras to name a few. Catherine was very graphic with her details and her word imagery was powerful. In due course when I began reading the wonderful Amar Chitra Katha comics as a child, I remember telling myself, these are the same stories, that my grandmother told me, but she added greater detail.
Later in life, she was introduced to the Bible, and towards the end of her life, she read only the Bible and abandoned reading any other book, save this one. I could be mistaken. But I do believe she did not read any other book, and only read books and magazines related to the Bible. That was her personal conviction and a decision that she made for herself. She read and re-read her Bible many times over. She would quote large passages from memory with great ease, and give references without any difficulty.
She must have been 55 years old, and I was a young woman just out of Medical College, when she complained to me of blurred vision. She was in despair, as she was not able to read. By that time the family fortunes had ameliorated, and she was well looked after by her children. She didn’t need to work at all. My father wanted her to come to the city to live with us, but she preferred to live in her beloved village. She spent her days in her room, reading and enjoying her Theological books. Once her sight failed, I was the one who took her to an Ophthalmologist, and had her operated for cataract in both eyes and I am fortunate to have looked after her during that period. How grateful she was to me! The restoration of her eyesight was nothing short of a miracle for her. I don’t think she really cared for anything much in her life other than her books. She didn’t want money, didn’t crave good food, jewels or clothes or anything else that people want when their children fare well. The TV had no fascination for her. She was content with her books.
Looking back, she was a peculiar woman who did not belong to her era and social setting. She read till her last day. Her books were her companions all her life. Only three of her children became graduates, and the rest of her children didn’t show any aptitude for reading. My father did very well for himself and became a civil servant in the elite Indian Administrative Services, and went on to hold important public posts and made a distinguished career for himself. It strikes me as no small achievement for a lowly peasant woman to see her son go that far.
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Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists
Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists
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Directed by Terry Ingram
Produced by Jamie Goehring
Kirk Shaw
Written by Brook Durham
Kevin Leeson
Starring Arnold Vosloo
Steve Bacic
J. R. Bourne
Randal Edwards
Music by Michael Richard Plowman
Cinematography C. Kim Miles
Edited by Gordon Williams
Distributed by Omni Releasing
Release date
• February 15, 2008 (2008-02-15) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists is a 2008 feature film directed by Terry Ingram and produced by Plinyminor in association with the Sci Fi Channel in Vancouver, B.C.
King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as "The Isle of the Mists". Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures, intent on bringing death and destruction to humanity.
An elderly Homer (Perry Long) sits down in his home and begins writing a lost installment of the Odyssey, the tale of the Isle of the Mists, a story he felt was too terrible to tell before.
Years prior, Homer (Randal Edwards) is a member of Odysseus's (Arnold Vosloo) crew as they sail back to Ithaca following the Trojan War. The crew also includes Perimedes (JR Bourne), Eurylochus (Steve Bacic), Christos (Michael Antonakos) and others. During their travels, they become lost in a deep fog and encounter strange flying creatures who kill several men and drink their blood. The only thing that can kill the creatures is a wooden stake through the heart. In disarray, the crew lands at an island, the fabled Isle of the Mists, to affect repairs and recovery from the attack.
After more encounters with the winged creatures, the crew meets a mysterious woman (Stefanie von Pfetten) who takes them to her refuge in the woods. Much to their surprise, she appears to be immune to the attacks of the creatures. Some of the crew remains suspicious even as they accept food and shelter from the woman. They learn of the Hellfire Cross, a mystical sword sealed by the gods on the island, that they come to believe can help them survive. The remaining crew decide to recover the Hellfire Cross as part of their plan to relaunch their ship.
After receiving visions from Athena (Sonya Salomaa), Odysseus realizes the mysterious woman is not what she seems. She uses her powers to transform into Odysseus's wife Penelope (Leah Gibson) and seduces him. Her failure to account for Penelope aging since the last time Odysseus saw her makes him realize the illusion, but not before he has sex with her. Odysseus and his remaining men realize her true identity: Persephone, the wife of Hades who has been banished to the Isle of the Mists and sealed there by the Hellfire Cross. Persephone reveals that the winged creatures are her children by Hades, and that she plans to escape the island with them to rule the world. Furthermore, she is now pregnant with a son by Odysseus.
Odysseus and his men escape to the cave where the Hellfire Cross is sealed and obtain it, however, all but Odysseus and Homer die. They are confronted by Persephone, who thanks them for her freedom and attempts to convince Odysseus to serve her, as the Hellfire Cross cannot be wielded by a god. When he refuses, she tells them she will merely wait until her mortal son is born and ages instead. She starts to set the winged creatures free on the world and attempts to force Odysseus to cut his own throat, but he overcomes her power and impales her through the stomach, killing Persephone, their son and all the creatures. Some time after Persephone's death, Odysseus and Homer return to the sea and continue back to Ithaca.
Completing his story, the aged Homer muses about the origins of the winged creatures, how they could only be killed by a stake through the heart, and how they fear the sign of the cross. On the Isle of the Mists, Eurylochus - who was attacked by the creatures in the cave - has transformed into one of the creatures and flies off freely into the world.
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Probability Games (Do you suffer from probability illusions?)
I) I have just tossed a fair coin 7 times. Guess which of the four sequences below is genuine (order them according to their plausibility):
II) A die has been painted in such way so that it has four green faces and two red. I have thrown the die repeatedly into a table and produced one of the four sequences. Which one is the genuine one (please order them according to their plausibility)?
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The Monty Hall problem
Consider the following problem
(Formulation by Marilyn vos Savant at Whitaker, Craig F. (1990).)
So what is the answer? Let’s see a simple solution. The following table shows the three possible arrangements of two goats and one car behind three closed doors and the result of switching or staying after initially picking Door 1
Door 1 Door 2 Door 3 Outcome if switching Outcome if staying
Car Goat Goat Goat Car
Goat Car Goat Car Goat
Goat Goat Car Car Goat
Which means that in 2 out of 3 cases we would win the car by switching doors. Hence it would make perfect sense to always switch. To understand why this is happening do take into consideration that the event “staying” is composed by only one element while its complement by two (note that all elements are equiprobable).
Frequency of winning when staying/switching doors in a sequence of "Monty-Hall" games
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It's such a good thing that an Aquarius does not get mad very often. It's all about self-control and many of us have it. - sug<<~~ I get mad alot actually.
So true.
When an Aquarius stops caring, you can't reason with them because in their mind what's done is done. TRUE , VERY TRUE
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rachel carpenterposted 2 years ago
Can we put our Hubs on PAID ads on FB, etc? Yes, I do realize the cost of the ads is more than the how much we get per click. I'm sure I sound crazy.
But, seriously, is that allowed?
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Hi Rachel,
Yes, this is allowed; you can promote your Hubs however you like so long as you're following the rules at the locations you're promoting (meaning you aren't posting links on Forums where it isn't permitted, etc).
However, as you and Marisa mention, taking the cost of promotion into account, you would be extremely unlikely to make any kind of return on your investment, and would end up only spending money where you hoped to make money.
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I don't think there's anything illegal about it, but you'd have to be mad to do it as you say. If you're going to invest in advertising, do it for your own website not on a shared site. | https://hubpages.com/community/forum/129891/are-we-allowed-to-use-facebook-ads--google-adwords | dclm-gs1-185971087 |
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The Right Way to Accommodate Religion at Work
How should religion be treated in the federal workplace? That question has plagued the United States government for years.
Proposed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations (later withdrawn) banned religious speech and activities that were "offensive" to co-workers. Good intentions notwithstanding, the regulations were tantamount to censorship of religious speech. One IRS office even prohibited an employee from displaying a religious calendar in his private work space.
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Fairness and respect
Now those days are ending. A sitting president has acknowledged that the federal workplace is not a religion-free zone. Government workers bring their religion with them to their jobs. And why not? To secure the rights of federal workers, the Clinton administration last week issued guidelines on religion in the federal workplace. This will go a long way toward ensuring that people of all faiths - or no faith - are treated with fairness and respect.
The guidelines clarify that workers have the right to engage in religious speech and activities to the same extent that they can engage in secular speech and activities. One employee can invite another to attend his or her house of worship. A group of employees can pray together during their lunch break. Bibles and other sacred texts can be brought to work and read during an employee's free time.
In most cases, religious garb and jewelry can be worn. A spirited discussion of religious viewpoints can be held around the water cooler. A supervisor can invite her staff to her child's baptism or bar mitzvah as long as she doesn't use coercion, suggesting that attendance will affect an employee's status at work, for example.
But the guidelines don't give carte blanche to every religious claimant. There must be sensible limits. In the federal workplace, there should be no religious harassment nor anything that would interfere with the operation of the government.
There is also the constraint imposed by the First Amendment: Federal employees may not engage in speech or activities that would lead a casual observer to conclude that the government was endorsing or denigrating religion. And, of course, the government may not discriminate on the basis of religion in hiring, firing, supervising, or compensating employees.
The guidelines offer useful examples of the type of conduct that is prohibited: A supervisor may not say to an employee: "I didn't see you in church this week. I expect to see you there Sunday!" A supervisor who is an atheist may not suggest that only those who share his views can be trusted with the public weal. And an employee may not repeatedly make derogatory remarks to others about their faith or lack of faith.
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The guidelines also make suggestions about ways to accommodate the beliefs and practices of employees without creating a hardship for other employees or the government.
Aside from the specific dos and don'ts, we admire the generous spirit of the guidelines as reflected in this provision: "Federal employers shall permit personal religious expression by employees to the greatest extent permissible." Thomas Jefferson - author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - would be pleased with the work of his namesake, William Jefferson Clinton.
Although the guidelines apply only to the federal government, their impact will be felt beyond the beltway. State governments can use them as a model. So can private employers who, unlike the government, are free of the Constitution's prohibition against promoting religion. While private employers are prohibited from harassing or discriminating against their employees on the basis of religion, there is no reason for employers to censor or even discourage religious speech.
The right kind of dialogue
President Clinton should be commended for the substance of the guidelines and for the process that produced them. Input was solicited from a broad spectrum of groups, from People For the American Way to the Christian Legal Society. This sort of dialogue is exactly what the White House should be facilitating. Only when Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice is invited to sit alongside the American Civil Liberties Union can all Americans feel confident about the policies and practices of their government.
The guidelines on religion in the federal workplace are an encouraging sign that people of goodwill can work together for the common good.
* The Rev. Oliver Thomas is special counsel for religious and civil liberties at the National Council of Churches, and Forest D. Montgomery is counsel for the Office for Governmental Affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals. | https://m.csmonitor.com/1997/0819/081997.opin.opin.2.html | dclm-gs1-186081087 |
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12 10 2010
Wondering how to spec in 4.0? Confused? Me too. This post is my attempt at creating a Frost DW spec that will do two things: get me to Cataclysm and help me get used to the new mechanisms and procs of DW Frost. Here’s the spec:
4.0 Frost DW talent specBrrrr
Some explanations:
Icy Reach vs. RPM: RPM lost a lot of its usefulness due to changes to other abilities, such as AMS not energizing runic power and Druids’ revitalize not giving runic power either. Icy Reach therefore provides more benefit in combat situations, since you should avoid capping your RP and a higher cap, if you are good at using up RP as it is generated, does not help you.
Endless Winter vs. On a Pale Horse: I lean towards EW because in the limited situations that both talents do anything, EW will help more. It frees you up to use your usual rotation and not lead to accidental wipes because you used up RP when you shouldn’t have. On a Pale Horse, on the other hand, is a more passive talent that, when it works, will help marginally, but will really not affect your gameplay very much. When you’re slowed, you’re still going to be slowed. Although both are narrow, I think EW has a more important effect when it is useful, since when interrupts are part of an encounter, they are often a significant part (see: Vezax, Jaraxxus, etc).
That’s all, folks?
The rest of the Frost talents for DW are pretty much must-haves, especially since many of them are new and the most important thing in the last months of WotLK is not to get uber DPS but to become used to how the new talents will work in tandem with the new rune regeneration system, which I’ll hopefully be able to talk about once the servers come back up.
Prime glyphs: Two are fairly obvious, here being: Obliterate and Frost Strike, stalwarts of Frost glyphing. The only competition is between HB and Icy Touch. After some experimenting with both, I think I’ve come out in favour of HB, mostly due to being given the nod by EJ and some testing here and there. HB just hits harder. And means that you can do quicker, better AoE damage due to not having to rely on Icy Touch/Pestilence, which suffers from the Pestilence nerf.
Major glyphs involve a bit more choice, but mine are as follows: Pestilence, AMS, Hungering Cold (or Blood Boil). Frost gets pretty mediocre returns from these glyphs, but there isn’t a lot of choice because Pillar of Frost is likely more of a hindrance than a help for PvE. Blood Boil and Hungering Cold are exchangeable depending on how useful HC turns out to be in raids (I’ve been out of the game for a while, also never had it in PvE specs before). AMS will most certainly be helpful for obvious reasons, fire bad, etc. Pestilence range increase is still good, and the rest just don’t do anything.
Minor glyphs: These also don’t do much, but if you’re curious I’ll be taking Path of Frost, Blood Tap and Horn of Winter.
What about you? Have any other choices in mind? Have you gotten on the servers yet?
Rolling Diseases: How to Effectively Spread the Plague
18 10 2009
Note: this post is primarily about Blood DPS (though it is also applicable to Frost, which often uses Glyph of Disease).
Rolling diseases is the term used for casting diseases while you have temporary buffs (such as Greatness, Fallen Crusader, Unholy Might, Unholy Force, etc.) that increase your Str/AP and then refreshing those buffed diseases with Glyph of Disease/Pestilence. The way Pestilence works with GoD is in the wording: “Your Pestilence ability now refreshes disease durations on your primary target back to their maximum duration.” Compare this to Glyph of Howling Blast: “Your Howling Blast ability now infects your targets with Frost Fever.” The HB glyph causes HB to apply Frost Fever while GoD allows Pestilence to refresh the diseases already applied to your current target.
Keep in mind that the decision to use Glyph of Disease (over Glyph of Dark Death) depends on how many on use/chance on hit AP/Str procs you have. The major ones you can get are: Darkmoon Card: Greatness, 2p t9, Sigil of Virulence, that sort of thing. The more you have, the better Glyph of Disease will work for you.
But Shop, how can I get all my procs to align?
The short answer is that you can’t. The long answer is that there are a few tricks that can help you set up your procs to align.
1) At the start of your fight, use HS-HS-DS (with the option of BT to get a 3rd HS if Unholy Might doesn’t proc) to get as many procs going as possible, then apply diseases.
2) Download and configure Procodile, an addon that can monitor internal cooldowns (ICD) of buffs (as well as the buffs themselves, but I use other addons to cover that). When you have it set up to track all the ICDs of your buffs, if you don’t get all your buffs up at the start of a fight, you can see in advance if and when multiple proc cooldowns will line up again. Considering how important this can be for your DPS, Procodile is a worthwhile investment.
How does Pestilence fit into your rotation?
If you are spell hit capped, you can wait until the last possible second to refresh your diseases. If you’re not, it’s best to leave yourself at least one GCD before your diseases fall off when you refresh. This way if your Pestilence misses you don’t lose your buffed diseases. Aside from this, fit Pestilence in wherever necessary, and where possible refresh disease right before you use DRW so you don’t waste a GCD on a Pestilence while DRW is up.
The ideal rotation for Blood with GoD is to use the traditional 20 second rotation (IT-PS-DS-HS-HS-DC // DS-HS-HS-HS-HS-DC-DC) and simply cast Pestilence before the 21-second diseases run out. This is, however, in an ideal situation and you should be thinking ahead about what might happen to cause you to be away from the boss. One example is Icehowl: you want buffed diseases to stay up as long as possible but are frequently knocked away from the boss.
Some final tips:
• First priority in your rotation is keeping buffed diseases going; if they fall off it’s not always easy to get them going again
• Know when you will be away from the boss so you can refresh in advance
• Cast Pestilence as little as you can while still keeping diseases up (i.e. don’t refresh halfway through disease timers without a good reason to)
Glyph of Disease: Revolutions
31 08 2009
This post may or may not be the complete opposite of my earlier post that generated some rather passionate comments.
Since then, things have changed a bit, especially for Frost. The main reason is the discovery that, much like how Lifebloom worked in previous eras, you can pop trinkets and time with procs to get the most AP, apply new diseases, and refresh the boosted disease ad nauseam (unless the fight is such that you can’t help your diseases falling off).
For Frost DW (if you don’ t have to provide the haste buff), you also aren’t losing much by ditching the IT glyph, which was the major disadvantage of using Glyph of Disease in previous patches. Frost DW runs in Blood Presence, and with the IT glyph frequently has an abundance of unusable procs and RP. So by using GoD, you lose the functionality of overflowing RP (for IBF and AMS) and gain significantly better disease damage and more space in your rotation.
Using the glyph comes with a caveat, however. Many fights simply don’t allow it to be used effectively, both in Ulduar and Trial of the Crusader. Basically, the glyph won’t help you if you have to keep applying diseases the standard way with Icy Touch and Plague Strike. Some examples of bad fights for the GoD are Northrend Beasts, Twin Valkyries, Faction Champions, Yogg.. the list goes on.
If you have the liberty of having two DPS specs, having one DW Frost with GoD can be very beneficial especially for sit-and-DPS fights like Vezax. Right now my secondary DPS spec is DW Frost with Endless Winter for free interrupts that I use for Faction Champions and other interrupt fights. If you’re not an off-spec tank, don’t be afraid to use one general one and another very specialized one for certain situations. My primary spec is Blood, which is good at basically everything but interrupting, since losing 20 RP at crucial moments in your rotation is frustrating (due to the Death Strike glyph and the large amount of RP that DRW uses up).
P.S. There’s a new, updated thread for Unholy over at EJ which I encourage you to check out if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
Tanking Your Glyph Knight… Wait…
5 06 2009
This is a continuation of my post at Big Hit Box about DPS glyphs, but this time focusing on tanking glyphs*. Choosing what glyphs to use as a tank is a little bit different than for a DPSer. Instead of going for straight min/maxing of DPS, where every % counts, tanks have to balance tank stats like avoidance and mitigation with DPS stats in order to stay on top of threat. Without further ado, I shall begin with Frost, as is starting to become/already is tradition here.
*This time posting the entire thing here and at Big Hit Box
Frost meatshielding (like what a fridge does for leftovers?)
There’s really only one mitigation-related glyph that’s specific to Frost, and that is the Glyph of Unbreakable Armor. Since UA is an excellent tanking cooldown for many situations (especially those where you’re taking a lot of relatively smaller hits, since UA absorbs a set amount of damage on all incoming damage), this is an excellent choice for Frost tanks. Also, Frost has such excellent single-target threat through the use of Obliterate, Frost Strike and Rune Strike that it’s not a problem to sacrifice a DPS-glyph slot for this one.
Glyph of Howling Blast is also a solid contender for Frost tanks. Where Frost DPSers can argue for the minor damage boost provided by the Obliterate glyph over taking the HB glyph, the convenience that this provides tanks is extremely helpful for any AoE tanking situation. This glyph basically does the same thing as the Disease glyph, but better; it does damage, gives more RP, and doesn’t require diseases to already be up on the target. Semi-questionable in Ulduar, where many AoE packs are untankable (like XT’s Scrap Bots and Freya’s Detonating Lashers), but a godsend for Naxx and Heroics. My guild also uses a lot of CC on Ulduar trash packs, so it’s not as helpful here. Depending on where you are in raiding and how your guild does things, mileage can vary.
The best threat glyph is probably Glyph of Frost Strike, since it’s Frost’s most damaging strike. Cutting the RP cost also allows you to use more Rune Strikes, another excellent source of threat. I prefer this over the Obliterate glyph because I think cutting an ability’s RP cost will have a more significant impact on your tanking than slightly upping the damage of another skill that usually does less damage.
If you decide not to use the HB glyph, then Glyph of Icy Touch is probably next in line. Rune Strike is probably the most-used tank ability, and a large chunk of crit for the ability will help your single-target threat.
Unholy tanking
Unholy is known for having somewhat weaker single-target threat than the other two specs, so depending on how comfortable you are with tanking bosses, your glyph choices may vary. Glyph of Rune Strike is one of the better options for increasing your single-target threat. Glyph of Scourge Strike is another, allowing you to forego weaker abilities like Icy Touch and Plague Strike for the heavier-hitting Scourge Strike.
Since Unholy tanks will almost always be taking Morbidity, as well as Impurity to further boost Death and Decay’s usefulness, the DnD glyph is a valid choice for Unholy tanks. Since you will start almost every pull with this, except in AoE situations (you can often drop DnD and pull the boss/mobs into it as your runes get close to refreshing), the glyph is a solid option.
The next glyph is pretty much mandatory due to how awesome Bone Shield is. That, my friends, is (surprise!) Glyph of Bone Shield. Buffing Unholy’s core defensive cooldown is awesome and 2 extra charges adds a not insignificant amount of uptime (which will scale with your avoidance as well).
Bloody tanks
Blood tanking glyphs follow pretty much the same logic as the other two trees: buff your defensive cooldown, your main nuke and Rune Strike. That means you want to use Glyph of Vampiric Blood, Glyph of Death Strike and Glyph of Rune Strike. There aren’t really any other solid choices for Blood because it typically uses the DRW glyph, which is completely useless for tanks, and the Dark Death glyph, which isn’t great because most Blood tank builds don’t take Sudden Doom (the talent that procs free Death Coils).
Glyphs you don’t want and why you don’t want them
Some glyphs seem like they’re pointed towards tanks, but haven’t been included in my list of what glyphs to take for each spec. These include the glyphs of AMS, Rune Tap, IBF and Dark Command. First, the AMS glyph: since AMS was nerfed to only absorb 50% of a DK’s health, extending its length is at cross purposes with the goal of using AMS, which is to absorb large spikes of damage (like Sarth’s Flame Breaths). If it lasts 2 seconds longer, it may simply end early due to having already absorbed the maximum amount of damage possible.
Rune Tap is usually fairly insignificant to a well-geared tank, and also takes up a lot of talent points to buff and make usable in the first place. Most tank builds don’t even take the talent, so the glyph is even less helpful.
The IBF glyph, which was previously bugged and added on to the amount of damage absorbed after its scaling with defense was calculated, now no longer boosts the skill’s absorption past 30%. It’s useless for tanks.
Glyph of Dark Command is simply not worth it due to the rarity of taunt misses (if your taunt doesn’t work, it was likely caused by one of 2 things: the boss was immune to taunt or suffered from taunt diminishing returns, which can make a boss immune if taunted too frequently).
The Glyph of Disease Problem
3 06 2009
In an earlier post entitled Talents Can Be Deceiving, I discussed a few talents that seem excellent on the surface but in fact can be troublesome/not worth the space in practice. Today I want to discuss the Glyph of Disease, partially in response to a comment on my glyph post over at Big Hit Box. The commenter stated that the Disease glyph is currently not worth using due to its buggy nature.* Despite this, I believe the glyph will still be a DPS loss for all current DPS specs. As per usual, I’ll begin with Frost.
*Current bugs include not proccing Icy Talons and sometimes diseases falling off too early.
But I want my Icy Touch…
Current (and past) Frost rotations have often excelled using only one disease, applied through Icy Touch. These rotations often involve the IT glyph, which means you will want to cast IT, rather than avoiding it. Since the Disease glyph is all about not having to waste two GCDs on re-applying diseases, it’s really not very effective here. Even double-disease Frost rotations, which often focus on Obliterate more than Icy Touch, will still not want to give up the extra RP from the IT glyph. Similarly, the Obliterate and Frost Strike glyphs contribute more to your DPS than Disease would.
What about the Scourge Strike glyph?
Unholy is probably the best candidate for the Disease glyph, though in my opinion it still isn’t worth it. The obvious glyph to switch out for it is the Scourge Strike glyph, which itself is only a way to re-apply diseases. The problem with getting rid of it is that you will no longer have the chance to chain long strings of SS – SS – BS – BS / SS – SS – SS. Since Unholy’s best damage comes from SS, you want to maximize its use. The other problem with Glyph of Disease, which applies to all specs, is that you’re essentially using a rune and doing 0 damage with it. It also generates less RP than its counterparts in Icy Touch/Plague Strike. Unholy gets extra RP from PS because of Dirge, while Pestilence will only be generating 10 RP. You also have to sacrifice the (minor) DPS of one Blood Strike per rotation in favour of Pestilence.
Death Strike doesn’t care about your diseases
Blood is different from the other two specs in that you don’t need diseases up to be doing full damage with two of your main nukes, Death Strike and Death Coil. This means that allowing your diseases drop off before you’re finished with your second set of runes isn’t really a big problem. The Disease glyph would require you to always refresh diseases before they run out, which would only complicate Blood rotations. You also lose out on a Heart Strike, your main nuke (unlike Frost and Unholy, who lose only a single Blood Strike, which makes up a much smaller % of total damage). Like Frost, you also lose DPS on any glyph you might replace with the Disease glyph.
Tanking might possibly sort of want the glyph
Unless you’re a Frost tank using Glyph of Howling Blast, the Disease glyph does have some applications. Mostly for tanking large packs of adds. In the end, however, it is largely a convenience, since you can simply tab target and cast pestilence on a secondary target to refresh diseases on all other targets. If you’re tanking a large amount of mobs, likely with a combination of DnD, Unholy Blight, Howling Blast and Blood Boil, having diseases fall off on one target is probably not worth fixing with a glyph slot. There are better glyphs.
So even though it’s current incarnation is quite buggy, I don’t think this glyph is worth using barring an overhaul of the way it works.
Guest Posting at Big Hit Box
29 05 2009
I just put up a post over at Big Hit Box about glyphing for DPS Death Knights, and I encourage you to go check it out there. I won’t be reproducing the whole post here because it rehashes some of the Frost stuff I just covered in my HB Glyph vs. Obliterate Glyph post, so if you’re interested just click the link. Enjoy.
Unorthodox Glyphing
28 05 2009
Rogues begone!
Rogues begone!
Reason #1: Obliterate is <10% of total damage
Reason #2: Utility
In sum, you gain:
• A more efficient AoE rotation
• Ability to apply diseases from range
And you lose:
A caveat:
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0.327603 | <urn:uuid:7305b0aa-5d18-44e3-9c71-6b905b7705b5> | en | 0.94781 | 1. Doctors in Chile are baffled by a woman who cries blood several times a day. Interestingly enough she periods salt water.
2. A funeral home in Virginia is offering people a drive-thru viewing option which would allow people to remain in their cars but still be able to view the deceased. Yet we wonder why there is a problem with obesity in this country and the rest of the world perceives us as lazy and entitled.
3. Following the Boston bombings the NFL has implemented a seat cushion ban in stadiums not allowing people to bring in a little extra padding. The seat-cushion ban, found in the middle of the new 10-paragraph policy, states: “Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, briefcases, backpacks, fanny packs, cinch bags, seat cushions, luggage of any kind, computer bags and camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size.” Wait…purses no larger than a clutch bag? That means every woman will be complaining to their man about how they don’t have room for all their shit and asking them to hold stuff for them….maybe the terrorists are winning?
4.On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional. Great, now I have to go to more weddings, spend more money, waste more time, or come up with more excuses as to why I can’t make it to your “special day.”
5. Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriot, was charged with murder, fired by the Patriots and was possibly linked to two homicides in 2012 all in the same week. Reports that he had shot a man in the face in Florida after going to a strip club have also surfaced. I see a pattern here, go to the club and start shooting people, hmmm, I thought I was a bad drunk, mental note, the roided up, hit continuously in the head, giant guy is not a good drinking partner.
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The iPhone 5 against it’s competition.
The Samsung Series 5 Slate looks similar to the Apple MacBook Air. But then again, the MacBook Air does look like an evolution of the Sony Vaio’s of old.
A 75-inch Samsung TV that costs a whopping US $17,440 and comes with facial recognition and Samsung’s gesture control system. WOW!! | https://simeonlobo.wordpress.com/tag/samsung/ | dclm-gs1-186351087 |
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SFI: 71= | Ap index: 24 | Kp index: 4 ( 4 @05:30, 5 @08:30)| X-ray flux: A4.3
SW: Density= 3.4 p/cm3 | Speed= 612.3 km/s | Temp=324(x1000)K
IMF: Bx=-5.5nT | By=3.6nT | Bz= -1.2 nT | Bt= 6.7 nT | Lat= -10.6 ° | Lon=147.2°
Live data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(s) (GOES)
X-ray flux [res:60s/300s]
Measured by the GOES satellites (current satellite(s): GOES-15 and GOES-13). Spikes are considered significant when they rise above the "M" (10-5W/m2) level. The plot shows the solar X-ray output in the 1-8Å (0.1-0.8 nm) and 0.5-4.0Å (0.05-0.4 nm) passbands.
Current solar X-ray flux
Proton flux [res:300s]
Current 5-minute averaged integral proton flux. At the moment the levels are measured by the SWPC secondary GOES satellite (GOES-13). SWPC`s proton event threshold is 10 protons/cm2s-1sr-1 at >=10 MeV.
Current solar proton flux plot
Electron flux [res:300s]
Current 5-minute averaged integral electron flux. The plot shows flux with energies >=0.8 MeV/>=0.8 MeV and >=2 MeV/>=2 MeV at GOES-13 (W75) and GOES-15 (W135). The data in this plot is invalid during a significant proton event because of sensor contamination at the GOES spacecraft.
Current solar electron flux plot
Magnetic field [res:60s]
Current 1-minute averaged parallel component of the magnetic field. Measured in nanoTeslas (nT) at GOES-13 (W75) and GOES-15 (W135)
Current magnetic field plot
SXI [res:900s]
The GOES 12 through 15 spacecraft each carry a sophisticated Solar X-ray Imager to monitor the Sun’s X-rays for the early detection of solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other phenomena that impact the geospace environment. This early warning is important because travelling solar disturbances affect not only the safety of humans in high-altitude missions, such as human spaceflight, but also military and commercial satellite communications. In addition, coronal mass ejections can damage long-distance electric power grids, causing extensive power blackouts.
SXI videos (updated daily)
Latest 27 days: GOES 13 | GOES 14 | GOES 15
Latest 14 days: GOES 13 | GOES 14 | GOES 15
Latest 3 days: GOES 13 | GOES 14 | GOES 15
Current X-ray image of the Sun
Additional data
Kp Index (estimated)
The Estimated 3-hour Planetary K index is derived at the NOAA SWPC using data from ground-based magnetometers in Boulder (Colorado), Chambon la Foret (France), Fredericksburg (Virginia), Fresno (California), Hartland (UK), Newport (Washington), Sitka (Alaska) and Jeju (Korea). Kp indices of 5 or greater indicate storm-level geomagnetic activity.
Current Kp index plot
D Region Absorption Predictions
D region absorption map
1dB ABS | 5MHz | 10MHz | 15MHz | 20MHz | 25MHz | 30MHz
Strongest X-ray solar flares recorded
1 04-11-2003 X28+*
2 02-04-2001 X20.0
2 16-08-1989 X20.0
3 28-10-2003 X17.2
4 07-09-2005 X17.0
5 06-03-1989 X15.0
5 11-07-1978 X15.0
6 15-04-2001 X14.4
7 24-04-1984 X13.0
7 19-10-1989 X13.0
8 15-12-1982 X12.9
9 06-06-1982 X12.0
9 01-06-1991 X12.0
9 04-06-1991 X12.0
9 06-06-1991 X12.0
9 11-06-1991 X12.0
9 15-06-1991 X12.0
10 17-12-1982 X10.1
10 20-05-1984 X10.1
11 29-10-2003 X10.0
11 25-01-1991 X10.0
11 09-06-1991 X10.0
12 09-07-1982 X9.8
12 29-09-1989 X9.8
13 22-03-1991 X9.4
13 06-11-1997 X9.4
14 24-05-1990 X9.3
14 06-09-2017 X9.3 (new)
15 05-12-2006 X9.0
15 06-11-1980 X9.0
15 02-11-1992 X9.0
* Taking a different route, researchers from the University of Otago used radio wave-based measurements of the x-rays' effects on the Earth's upper atmosphere to revise the flare's size from a merely huge X28 to a "whopping" X45, say researchers Neil Thomson, Craig Rodger, and Richard Dowden.
Courtesy of NOAA/SWPC.
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How I was wrong about OYO’s Ponzi scheme
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What causes condensation in tents?
It is generally warmer inside the tent that outside, because the people sleeping in it give off heat. In addition, there is also an increase in the air humidity or the amount of water vapour – due to breathing, transpiration and possibly rising ground damp from the ground warmed up during the day.
Warmer air can absorb more moisture than colder air. If the temperature in the tent is 15°C and the humidity [%rH] is 100%, then approx. 11 g of water will dissolve in one kg of air (in the form of water vapour). For an ambient temperature of 5°C and 70% rh humidity, only approx. 4 g of water will dissolve. This means that 7g of water vapour is converted into water and therefore has to precipitate. In extreme cases, this will actually take place inside the tent, also because it represents a (cooler) barrier (albeit air-permeable), such as is found with a spider’s web, which captures dew drops. Indoors, the humidity can often reach over 100%, which results in the precipitation of condensation water, say, on the cool bathroom panel after a shower.
The smaller the tent, the greater is the effect – on account of the lower volume of air in the tent. Less air movement (a lack of wind will limit the effect of ventilation holes) also leads to a larger amount of water precipitated. For this reason, it is recommended to leave additional parts of the entrances to the tent open. These can be guyed to prevent any rain getting in.
This effect is intensified with silicone-coated tents since silicone – unlike polyurethane (PU) cotton – is not hydrophilic (having an affinity for water). It is unable to partly absorb any condensation water occurring. The benefits of these textiles lie in their higher degree of UV resistance and tensile strength as well as a significantly lighter weight.
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0.131008 | <urn:uuid:3d27cda2-58a7-416d-b69f-bcdc054e3341> | en | 0.964363 | Review: Schneeballe from Schneeballen Korea (German Cookies You Eat With a Hammer)
Like any city, Seoul goes through seemingly random food trends and fads. Once such a trend hits, you're really bound to see the same food or dish almost everywhere from street food carts to even high end restaurants at times.
One such trend that has hit Seoul recently is a type of German cookie/pastry called Schneeball. This cookie is made by taking rolled out shortcrust dough and cutting out strips. These strips are then arranged over a stick into the shape of a ball and then deep fried and then dusted with confectioner's sugar or coated with other toppings.
I first began seeing these curious shaped ball cookies on the streets of Myeongdong where these strange ball-like cookies were being sold from street cart vendors. They didn't resemble anything Korean and I presumed somewhere some bakery had made this a hit and had sparked the inevitable copycats on the streets.
My assumptions proved correct as I found out a company called Schneeballen Korean has aggressively been ramping up their presence with their own stores and department store corners.
Picture from the Schneeballen Korea Facebook page
My friend, on her way from stopping by a department store, decided to graciously surprise me with a pack one day where we sampled the cookie.
Five total schneeballens within
As I've stated before, I'm not much of a sweets guy so I might have ended up buying one one day out of sheer curiosity but I would've never bought myself such a large pack O_O
Here's the explanation on the back of the wrapping
Though originally Schneeballe come only dusted with sugar, at the stores you can get an assortment of different flavors including some curious ones involving garlic or onion.
The first one I opened up was a banana flavored one which, admittedly, I was excited at first thinking it was some cheese-itz flavored one ^^;;
A schneeball next to my camera lens cover for a size comparison
Each ball was big enough to fit in one's hand. The banana flavored one came dusted with a bright yellow powder. Though I didn't have the traditional wooden mallet on hand, I took out my regular hammer and, after wrapping up the schneeball, gave it a few good whacks.
After whack whacking
Cracking it open, I could see the layer of icing that had been drizzled over the cookie before receiving its banana powder dusting.
The cookie was crunchy, slightly harder and denser than a tortilla chip. The icing provided the sweet kick while the banana powder brought out flavors reminiscent of the popular banana milk around Korea.
Over the next few days (schneeballe apparently have a long shelf life being a dry cookie) I tried out the other flavors including...
White chocolate...
And now I'm down to a coconut flakes one.
After sampling a few of the cookies I can't say I'm impressed with them. The various flavorings and coatings all taste quite a bit artificial... like artificial strawberry milk, artificial banana, etc. Given the gourmet packaging and such, I thought a more luxurious taste would naturally follow but they're the sort of taste and flavors one can easily get from the cookies and other baked treats from your local convenience store. The cookies themselves without the coating and flavoring are also nothing special... just fried bits of dough (there's a reason they come wrapped in wax paper...)
Now, I can't say my assessment of the schneeballe from Schneeballen Korea is the real deal since I haven't had an authentic one from Germany. Once I perused the Schneeballen Korea site, I found the brand is one that is under a "Sand and Food" company which is a Korean corporation. In addition to the Schneeballen Korea brand, it manages a line of cinnamon buns and cafes too.
It seems we have yet another case of a Korean corporation looking to make a new big food trend by taking in a food from abroad, Korean-izing it, packaging it nicely, getting some stars to advertise it (in Schneeballen Korea's case, Tiger JK and Yoon Mirae) and including fancy words appealing to Koreans ("European Style Bakery" for example). The fact they're also trying to market it as a high end product is evident to me as they are aggressively opening corners within department stores.
I was passing by a Schneeballen Korea store in Hongdae the other day and saw each cookie being sold for over 4,000 won! They're even looking to profit off the wooden mallets!
Oh my...
For that price and for what these cookies essentially are (fried bits of dough rolled in cheap flavorings) this sort of price is definitely not justified. I'd understand the price if the toppings were more luxurious (real pistachio bits or real dark chocolate, etc) or even as far fetched as them bringing in some master German baker who churned these out from a bakery somewhere in Seoul... but sorry Schneeballen Korea, you're not getting a won from me.
And I'm fairly certain your trend will be short-lived.... (oops, I said it!)
Address and phone number: If you find you still must take yourself to try one of these gimmick cookies you can find a list of stores and contacts at their homepage
Tip: The streets of Myeongdong, as of May, 2013, currently has street vendors copying the copycat brand for about half the price. I haven't sampled the ones from the street vendors but methinks I will find it similar taste-wise... | https://whatsstewin.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-schneeballe-from-schneeballen.html | dclm-gs1-186521087 |
0.093832 | <urn:uuid:58fac0e7-2d49-43c8-b875-77caee8315c5> | en | 0.956854 | News of the Tweet: It is a Question of Questioning
Wearing your mum's pants, the big game, and farting into someone’s face.
By Seb Kemp
Twitter raises more questions than it answers. It opens us up to more tid-bits of information but nothing that really answers the questions it raises. This week's #NOTT is all about asking the big questions. Like why do we have nails and not claws, do yoga pants have some sort of anti-gravity field in them, and is it really ironic to have ra-e-ean or your wedding day?
In Aspen, Colorado, last week, Shaun White scored the first perfect score in Winter X Games history in Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe finals on Sunday, winning his fifth-consecutive gold medal–a first in Snowboard SuperPipe. He had already won the competition, but decided to take a victory lap that included a massive 18-foot backside air, a frontside double cork 1080, a Cab double cork 1080, a frontside stalefish 540, a double McTwist 1260 and the frontside double cork 1260. White is officially the only person to have ever landed a frontside double cork 1260 in competition. Doing it for redheads everywhere, he bullies and taunts his competition with his video-game-like insanity.
Not only does he leave the world pondering ‘How do you better a perfect score?’, but he leaves some people pondering whether it was a perfect score or just a marketing stunt? Perhaps it was designed to attract positive attention to the X-Games franchise after recent unfortunate and negative publicity. The death of pipe skier Sarah Burke had a huge impact on the winter fraternity and the disqualification of Langley McNeal when the French team complained that she was wearing an armband that said ‘Sarah’ on it really could of overshadowed the Games.
Another question it raises is: Does being superhuman give someone special dispensation to wear fancy dress or is it just rubbing it in a little more?
Back to biking. Greg Minnaar raises a question that perhaps deserves some serious attention
To wear or not to wear a neck brace has been a hot topic in the lift line of Whistler Bike Park for a couple of summers now, but there hasn't been much investigation into the matter by anyone other than companies that produce them. Now the question is whether we should fold our neck or our helmet.
I found this link to design blog Design Taxi and their mini-profile of flaming mad froggy Patrick Jouffret's foldable helmet. Question: Would you rather wear one or would you keep it on your desk as a funky paperweight?
Talking of risking your life, Outside Magazine posted a neat little video that asks why extreme sports athletes risk their lives.
In other news the Santa Cruz Syndicate moved over to Fox and Shimano bits and bobs, The Whistler Bike Park loose Kona and Marzocchi but gain Giant and SRAM as sponsors, Danny Macaskill tools up with Lezyne, Kyle Strait joined the ever expanding GT team, and Kye Forte got himself a 29er and raced DH on it. Blah, blah, blah….
Hang on, wait up. Kye who? Well Kye Forte (@kyeforte) is a Red Bull sponsored BMX dirt jumper who has won multiple World Championship titles, so what on earth is he doing on a circus bike (not my words) and racing downhill on it?
Yesterday was also the big game. Fortunately the halftime entertainment was far better than this years Nickelback Grey Cup halftime show but M.I.A did do the naughty when she fingered the American Audience.
Was this just a marketing stunt? With a new record out (do we call them records still?) it wouldn't be unfair to say that slinging the middle digit and having a potty mouth would be a great way of gaining a lot of attention for M.I.A.
While on the subject, M.I.A.'s new record, Bad Girl, is a banger so turn up the volume and full screen this bit of Arab swagger.
Also brought into question this week was whether the environmental concerns of the Red Bull Supernatural contest that were voiced by "Warren Smith" in a letter to the organizers were actually legitimate or whether the whole story was a plant designed to bring more attention to the contest. What do you think? Clever marketers or moody tree huggers?
One last possible marketing stunt was Sam Reynolds' Twitter confession (or brag).
Until next week, have fun banging out questions and queries on Twitter otherwise I'll have to find something else to do with my Monday mornings. | https://www.bikemag.com/news/news-of-the-tweet-it-is-a-question-of-questioning/ | dclm-gs1-186581087 |
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Bill Maher & the Dems bemoan, “Hillary would have been better than Obama!” Gee, do ya think?
HE HAD NO CREDENTIALS OTHER THAN THE FACT HE WAS PART BLACK. He looked good on camera and could read a teleprompter really well. We warned you BHO, pResident Obama was nothing more than an empty suit.
The emptiest of suits!
Hear that hysterical chorus in the background? That’s the sound of the Obots, the elitists, the chardonnay sipping, arugula chomping, supercilious, sanctimonious fools who really believed that “winning by any means” even if that meant winning by tossing out all that the Democratic Party stood for . . . including 18,000,000 of its voters.
What's Hillary's army knew from the beginning!
The guy never held a real job. He voted “present” 123 times when he was an Illinois legislator . I’ll never get over that one! It should have been your first clue!
He never understood America or its citizens; and still doesn’t. He was in the U.S. Senate only 143 days; most of those were campaigning for POTUS! Team Obama also spent time covering up the fact HE WAS NEVER ELIGIBLE TO RUN FOR POTUS. HIS OWN WEBSITE ACKNOWLEDGES HE WAS BORN A BRIT/DUAL CITIZEN!
Now three years into his faux presidency, the economy is in shambles, the racial divide is larger and angrier before, and this country is the laughing stock of the world...and the Obots are surprised!?! I remain incredulous!
Now large segments of his supporters are crying in their Kool-Aid saying, “Hillary would have been a better president.” Gee, do ya think?
History will record that never have so few listened to the voices of so many and disregarded them . . . throwing those voices and their votes into the garbage heap and then acted surprised when what they’d “won” ultimately resulted in a loss, AGAIN!
Saturday Funnies … Christmas Crotch Bomber lites Nuts on Fire!
OK, this is too funny and too silly even for the Obots in the O’white House.
Hat/tip to Repubx for noticing that the Dear One’s age on his MySpace page is listed as 52 and not 48…. wait let me get my calculator out and check. OBAMA
Hmmm it says here in his book he was born in 1961(click, tap, click sound calculator keys being depressed)hmmm if we subtract 1961 from 2009 or the year of our Dear One’s Ascension (click, click) Nope, he’s 48.
I mean really… what are they smoking in the White House? Who dreamed this one up; the same guy that thinks there are 52 states; or was it 57? No, no, no that’s ketchup! Speaking of ketchup anyone hear Kerry’s droning voice lately? Is that guy still alive?
(Opps, I got off point for minute.) I know it’s the guy that put the phony Obama birth certificate together the one that lists Obama’s father race as African? Guess this Mensa wannabe doesn’t know Africa is a continent, that African isn’t a race, and that in 1961 the operative descriptor would have been Negro.
Now why would this merit a second of my time and your time? Let’s try this out. If Obama were 52 that would mean when he was born, Hawaii was a territory and so in this bizarre scenario that would make him a natural born citizen. Right?
Wrong, DUMBASS (I’m channeling Jeff Dunham’s Walter). Using the Hawaii was a US territory theme puts Obama in the same problematic situation as McCain, Romney, and Goldwater … minus the British/Kenyan father of course! If I remember correctly, none of them were eligible to run for POTUS. Ya but, McCain ran for POTUS, and what about Senate Resolution 511 didn’t the Congress declare McCain was a natural born citizen?
Well, Resolution 511 was an obvious attempt to by pass Article II Section 1 of the Constitution… and it wasn’t/isn’t legally binding. It it is equivalent of declaring everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. The truth is Congress and the legal community has been looking for ways to by-pass the natural born citizen clause for years.
There are scores of politicians and lawyers who think the clause should be changed, but rather than do the heavy lifting… that’s passing a Constitutional Amendment and that requires that three quarters of the states are in agreement with the change. The LA Times is on record as saying the the NBC clause should be amended. I would venture to say that this one of the reasons they refuse to report on Obama’s problems of ineligibility for POTUS.
Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty! One only has to look to as far back as 2004 when the Republicans were trying some slight of hand of their own so they could advance the career of Arnold my father was in the SS Schwarzenegger. BTW, did you know Arnold is a dual citizen? Hmmm, thought not.
If you want to look at guilty Democrats go back to 2001 and look at Barney Frank’s attempt to change the NBC clause with H.J.Res. 88. I’d look at it quickly before all traces are scrubbed.
Oh, before I forget. Did you know that Walter was going to run for President? Yes, that Walter. I say anyone that once described the letters in NBC Network as standing for “Nothing But Crap deserves my vote!
Do I really need to say much more? Some things truly are self-evident.
First we suffered through this!
And now this! No one thought people in NYC might panic? How ’bout no one thought, period!
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(Dylan Silver)
Every year, an elite group of racers gathers in the small Northern California town of Arcata. They’re not runners. They’re not cyclists. They’re not drivers. They’re much stranger than that.
Their competition: the Kinetic Grand Championship, a grueling three-day, 42-mile schlep over sand, water, mud, and pavement. Their steeds: bizarre amphibious human-powered vehicles. So sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the wild, crazy ride.
(Dylan Silver)
Founded by artist Hobart Brown in 1969, the Kinetic Grand Championship is now a Northern California institution. Once racers leave the Arcata Plaza, they head for the Samoa Dunes. Teams often switch or alter their wheels to ride on top of the soft sand. Here, Shell’s Angels, an oyster-shaped two-man craft, cruises along the beach, flanked by its pit crew.
(Dylan Silver)
Due to differences in size and speed, the sculptures or “machines” quickly spread out along the course. Racers aim to log the fastest time, but there are a variety of other awards, such as the Pageantry Award, the Mediocre Award, and the Second-to-Last Award. The most-coveted accolade? The ACE, given to competitors who finish the entire course without exiting their machines. Teams must abide by a semi-strict set of rules to qualify for the prizes.
(Dylan Silver)
Various obstacles dot the 40-mile course. One of the most daunting is a steep sand dune called Dead Man’s Drop. Machines regularly flip or violently wreck before making it to the bottom. Fun Guy sped down the slope without a problem, though the sculpture broke down later and didn’t finish the race.
(Dylan Silver)
The race is divided into three stages over three days. The second day brings racers to the edge of Humboldt Bay, where they roll into the water. Sculptures must float and need some sort of propulsion to finish the half-mile trip through the cold, murky water. Some racers don’t make it far from the launch ramp.
(Dylan Silver)
Rather than build a pedal-powered sculpture, some racers opt for simpler machines. Technically, competitors’ feet aren’t supposed to touch the ground. Though it doesn’t qualify for an ACE, roller-skating 40 miles has its own challenges.
(Dylan Silver)
Much of the race takes place on rural county roads. The route forces sculptures up the Loleta Grade, a steep tree-lined climb. Most sculptures are geared low for sand and mud and have no problems on the hills.
(Dylan Silver)
In the past, the Kinetic Grand Championship has had major sponsors, but today the nonprofit Kinetic Universe and a host of volunteers run the entire race. Several companies offer small sponsorships to different teams, but independent tinkerers who enjoy building functional art create most of the sculptures.
(Dylan Silver)
Twelve pilots pedaled A Whale of a Marriage to the finish line, where two members of the crew were married. Sculptures of every size make the trip. The largest was the 92-foot Yakima Kingfish,which raced through the late 1980s and early 1990s.
(Dylan Silver)
The course changes every year. Obstacles are added or moved. In the aughts, for example, competitors were forced to cross an outdoor ice rink. This year, a muddy river crossing near the finish line almost destroyed several sculptures. Some teams opted to skip the obstacle in exchange for a time penalty.
(Dylan Silver)
The race, though fun, is not easy. “This is a contact sport,” this pilot said after slipping from his sculpture Buggy for Glory. Medics were on site to treat everything from cuts and bruises to hypothermia and exhaustion.
(Dylan Silver)
After three days of racing, competitors cross the finish line in the small town of Ferndale. Officials close the main street to let crowds welcome the sculptures.
(Dylan Silver)
The Flaming Farmers do a loop before crossing the finish line. Of the 42 machines that entered this year’s race, only six managed to ACE the course. This year’s Grand Championship Award for the fastest time went to Tempus Fugitives: Drilling for Glory.
(Dylan Silver)
A popular saying among racers: “For the glory!” Two members of the Kinetic Paranormal Society celebrate at the finish line. Rather than build a sculpture, this team dragged an armoire along the 40-mile course. Glorious indeed.
(Dylan Silver)
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as "The Nose", "O-Gin", and "Loyalty" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants, and peasants. And in later works such as "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man", and "Spinning Gears", Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Språk Engelsk Engelsk Innbinding Heftet
Utgitt 2006 Forfatter Ryunosuke Akutagawa
ISBN 9780140449709
Antall sider 320 Dimensjoner 14,2cm x 20,6cm x 2cm
Vekt 232 gram Leverandør Bertram Trading Ltd
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Dear Bukowski
you almost had me fooled
J. Claudius Cloyd
J. Claudius Cloyd
Dear Bukowski
by J. Claudius Cloyd FollowFollow
J. Claudius Cloyd’s poetry works at the deli counter of literature. His fiction sleeps under the bridge of your soul where surrealism and absurdism...read more carpool to work. His music needs a hearing aid. And his artwork has tourette syndrome, but not the kind that makes you mindlessly blurt out profanity, but the kind that makes you laugh at everything even when it’s not funny.
Dear Bukowski
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Dear Bukowski, you almost had me fooled
with that whole myth thing that you got going
and I think you tricked many
others too, but only in a worse way…
just as Burroughs and Cobain inadvertently
created so many junkies
so did you create a good many limp dick alcoholic poets
with dreams
of hungover Buddhas and unfinished novels.
They didn’t know that that fascist
father of yours was actually good for something
by leaving you a nice
chunk of cash.
It didn’t make you rich but it sure
must’ve helped during
the crazy women, the bar fights, the blackouts, the losing streaks
the small minds, the tightfisted bosses
the absurdity
and the dimly lit rooms.
You almost had me fooled.
But I’m not knocking you. You were insane
and you told many lies
but you were right about so many things too.
You were a cheapskate
a drunk
and many times a despicable human being
but you were also
a smart gambler
who fleshed
humor and poetry out of
And for that
I give thanks
Sincerely, JC
2 years ago
hank chinaski was about as likeable as a rabid pit-bull. I think charlie lived vicariously through hank. but I also think that the beat genre was America's awakening to the sorts to people who fell through the cracks. people who lived outside social norms that were so ridged after WW2. Madison street...read more west was skid row in Chicago then. Charlie put skid row on the cover of time and look magazines, as well as, front pages of newspapers. If anything this poem points to those efforts, and does it well...
3 years ago
as clear as a Bukowski poem. A " despicable human being" yea. A troglodyte. A liar too, but all the good ones are (writers that is).
4 years ago
Cool. A little Buk critique with Buk worship. It brings a nice balance...and is a nice poem on its own, no matter which side you fall on.
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Discussion in 'Nose to Tail' started by daveomak, Jan 5, 2015.
1. daveomak
daveomak Smoking Guru OTBS Member SMF Premier Member
2. link
link Smoking Fanatic SMF Premier Member
I have never tried Cow Tongue but have eyeballed it many times in the store. I just do not know what to do with it. I may have to look it up and give it a try.
3. dingo007
dingo007 Smoking Fanatic
Well there ya go......I've been wondering why tongue has jumped from around $7 to $20 per tongue! I like it and all, but I aint paying $20 for a tongue! I used to do at least a tongue a month. Even my favorite mexican place has stopped making my favorite lengua burrito. Maybe the Japanese could reciprocate and send us some affordable wagu?
4. dingo007
dingo007 Smoking Fanatic
Braised is my favorite...either way it needs low and slow treatment. Pressure cooker is also a good option.
5. There is only one to the animal -- plus they do not weigh much ... bit like beef tenderloin [IMG] -- just not enough to go around [IMG]
I make a tongue loaf for work but I too have found that they are in short supply and as noted the price has taken a licking ... after some enquirers I found out that most if not all (types) offal is now going to the fresh pet food business as these people will pay top $$ as they get top $$
6. It all comes down to the local markets. Around here if you call ahead you can get most offal at affordable rates.
7. brekar
brekar Smoke Blower
Yep. And if you know someone who is butchering a steer, they often times can get extra tongues with their beef. Last year when we slaughtered a steer, I asked if anyone had any tongues they didn't want and the butcher threw 2 extra tongues and 3 hearts into my mix free of charge because he had the extra just laying around and was just going to get rid of them
8. I like the taste but I am not going to pay the price.
Happy smoken.
9. nrdk
nrdk Fire Starter
Never have an issue when I get my side of beef to get the tongue, heart, liver, tail, and any extras they feel like throwing in. Guess it's just the area living in Iowa.
10. venture
venture Smoking Guru OTBS Member
They used to be dirt cheap.
Now we have a large immigrant population here, and they know how to cook good food.
You can guess the rest of the story.
Good luck and good smoking.
11. dingo007
dingo007 Smoking Fanatic
I was in wally world this morning and a whole beef tongue was running $27. [IMG] ...Now I dont know my butt from a hole in the ground, but I aint paying $27 for no tongue! (Unless it's attached to someone famous [IMG]) Hypothetically that is...
12. atomicsmoke
atomicsmoke Master of the Pit OTBS Member
Yep...suppliers caught up on that and now demand premium price for cuts butcher would give you free for your dog years ago.
Oxtail , shanks , offal, even fat. A butcher shop quoted me $9/lb of back fat.
The other day I saw a show hosted by Gordon Ramsay. The theme was slow cooking/braising to make delicious meals from inexpensive cuts: oxtail, bellies, etc. I thought when was this episode made? 10 years ago?
There was also an old school butcher on the show 'splaining how unremarkable cuts can be outstanding dishes. He said at least twice "fell out of favour" (or fashion)...referring to to these. That's what makes the price.
13. atomicsmoke
atomicsmoke Master of the Pit OTBS Member
That's crazy. Hope my farmer doesn't see this...last time in paid $9.
14. welshrarebit
welshrarebit Master of the Pit
When we slaughter one of our cows I usually get the tongue and my BIL gets the tail. I'm getting both next time!!!
15. eman
eman Smoking Guru Staff Member Moderator OTBS Member
One of the best pieces of beef i ever put in my pie hole was a well prepared ox tail.
16. moikel
moikel Master of the Pit OTBS Member
It's funny here,beef hearts,chicken hearts,lamb hearts are cheap & in supermarket in my hood. No tongue,no lamb brains things I love to eat.
I have to go a suburb(s) with an Asian vibe to buy beef or pork tongue..It's still cheap.
Aussies are spoilt & lazy when it comes to meat .It is all about high end cuts ,fillets,chops etc. it's the old people & / or ethnic groups that still know how to get the most out of the cheap cuts.
We used to have our own cattle so when we killed one we ate the whole thing that's what my parents brought me up.My mother made great braises & really special beef pie."
The nose to tail movement has got a bit of traction here & it allows cooks to really show some skill.
Beef cheeks & oxtail good examples.Lamb shanks are now the cut that has gone up in price ,as soon as it's winter they just fly off the shelves.
17. shaggy91954
shaggy91954 Meat Mopper
Okay, just a good ole Kentucky boy here and I don't recall ever seeing beef tongue or tail in the grocery stores. How do you prepare these delicacies and what do they taste like? Please don't say "chicken".
18. daveomak
daveomak Smoking Guru OTBS Member SMF Premier Member
I think it has a mild beef flavor that explodes in your mouth.... UMAMI type flavor... but delicate... like the difference between a fryer chicken and an old roasting chicken that has been made into soup.... the roasting hen has tons of awesome flavor....
There, I had to throw in the yard bird....... LOL....
19. brekar
brekar Smoke Blower
At the local Wal-Mart I can find tongue and ox-tail all day long. Its a bit expensive, so I never buy it there. I usually prepare it in a crockpot cook it till tender, peel the skin off as it cools then slice it thin and serve it like a French Dip Sandwich. Delicious.
20. noboundaries
noboundaries Smoking Guru OTBS Member SMF Premier Member
I've had tongue sandwiches at Jewish delicatessens and loved them. Haven't eaten one in a while though and I've never prepared one.
The Japanese buying up all the tongue reminds me of another beef story. Back in the late 70's I was stationed in South Texas where I tasted fajitas for the first time. They were made with skirt steak and quickly became my favorite cut of meat. Porterhouse T-bones were less than $3 a pound back then, but I could pick up skirt steak for 69 cents a pound because it was considered junk meat. Soon beef prices started going up because there were a lot of the same factors going on then as there have been recently in the beef market with ranchers thinning their herds. Back then it was due to low beef prices in previous years where currently it was due to drought and high feed costs.
The price of skirt steak though quickly shot up in a very short time, tripled eventually, and when I asked the butcher about it he said "the Japanese are buying up all the skirt steak." Having been to Japan several times there's one thing I've learned; they can turn any foodstuff into something incredibly delicious. Looks like tongue is their latest effort.
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Flu and Kids
Kids get the flu most often. The flu germs are spread mainly by droplets, when people cough, sneeze or talk. The flu germs can live on surfaces like toys, countertops, door handles for up to 8 hours. Your kids can pass the flu virus to you before they show symptoms.Kids under 5 years of age are at greater risk of complications.
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Tags: Wheat Belly, William Davis, Spirituality & Health, Matt Sutherland, gluten sensitivity, wheat, Suzanne Lindgren,
Wheat Harvest
Bread has been a staple of the human diet for centuries. Isn’t it mystifying, then, that increasing numbers of people are finding out they can’t have it? Something has clearly changed, causing a rise in sensitivity to wheat and gluten, but what? A recent book, Wheat Belly, offers an explanation, reports Matt Sutherland in Spirituality & Health.
The book was authored by William Davis, MD, a preventive cardiologist who has seen irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, and a host of other symptoms disappear with the elimination of wheat from patients’ diets. Gluten intolerant himself, Davis did a little research and discovered that, while humans have been cross-breeding wheat since Neolithic times, the stuff we eat today was bred for high yields in the mid-twentieth century. No one thought to check how human bodies would respond to the genetic make-up of these new strains. And though higher yields were meant to feed the world’s hungry, it seems Americans have ended up eating some of the extra, writes Davis. This may be contributing to obesity and diabetes as well as gluten sensitivity.
Thinking of kicking your gluten habit? Sutherland offers some simple ways to avoid modern wheat: eat more vegetables, fruit, nuts, and whole grains like oatmeal or rice. If you’re feeling experimental, try baking a loaf of bread with the grains your ancestors would have used, einkorn and emmer.
Source: Spirituality & Health.
Image: wheat harvest on the Palouse, Idaho, by the US Department of Agriculture. It is in the public domain.
Annette Beach
5/13/2012 12:58:28 PM
Check this website out to purchase einkorn: http://www.einkorn.com/
Rachel Dowling
5/12/2012 1:56:15 AM
Yeah, it seems like everyone is gluten intolerant lately. Seriously, I know about 5 people who have "come out" as intolerant in the last year alone. It has to be something that we are doing to this "modern wheat." We go through so much bread in our house. I wish I had time to bake loaves of bread. I would have no idea where to buy einkorn and emmer. That's the first I've ever even heard of them.
4/18/2012 5:01:12 PM
It's our high-speed, high-stress lifestyle that pushes us to grab whatever seems convenient. The marketplace is happy to oblige because it makes big profits for them. Personally, I buy as much as I can from Community Supported Agriculture, and I've adopted the turtle as my role model. (The big ones can live a couple of hundred years. What a deal!)
4/18/2012 1:01:59 PM
Well ... yeah ... I would love to use ancient grains.....so where does one obtain einkorn .... or emmer??? I have enough trouble trying to find spelt. IMHO, the main problem is lack of choice. Go to any marketplace in Colombia or Peru and you will find a dizzying array of fruits and vegetables. Foods are not transported long distances and for the most part isnt frozen. Refrigerators and freezers are much smaller than here. People eat fresher and eat more variety and eat more locally. Why cant we? Why do we have the same ten varieties of veggies to choose from year round and maybe 5 differnet fruits? Have we gotten lazy and apethetic and only take what we are given on our grocery shelves? I dont know. I am still tying to figure this one out. | https://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/wheat-sensitivity-a-mystery-solved | dclm-gs1-187181087 |
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Why Obama is attacking a congressman hardly anyone has heard of.
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