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an emergency; it may be indicated when the woman refuses regional techniques in failed regional attempts or when regional is contraindicated such as in coagulopathy or spinal abnormalities.
Despite the paradigm shift toward spinal anesthesia, general anesthesia is still commonly administered in our facility for some specific indications. This study, therefore, aims to evaluate the safety and the maternal and neonatal outcomes in patients who had emergency CS under spinal anesthesia compared with those who had general anesthesia.
This was a retrospective study comparing the obstetric outcome of patients who had emergency CS under spinal anesthesia compared with those who had the surgery under general anesthesia. The case files of women who had emergency CS were retrieved, and maternal and neonatal outcomes were extracted. Clinical data were extracted from a study pro forma. Data obtained included maternal age, parity, indication for CS, and type of anesthetic used. Neonatal birth weight, 1st- and 5th-min Apgar scores, neonatal special care unit admission, and perinatal deaths were recorded.
Before spinal anesthesia preload with isotonic solution is done. The spine is then cleaned with antiseptic solution; the imaginary line joining L4–L5 is then noted. Following infiltration of this area with 1% xylocaine, intrathecal administration of 3 ml of 3% bupivacaine is then achieved for the spinal anesthesia. After the surgery, the action of spinal anesthesia reverses gradually and spontaneously.
Standard rapid sequence induction of general anesthesia was achieved with propofol or thiopentone. A premedication is usually given in the form of intravenous atropine sulfate 0.4. Induction is performed with a sleeping dose of 200–300 mg intravenous thiopentone and muscle paralysis is achieved with suxamethonium. Endotracheal intubation is then performed and anesthesia is maintained with nitrous oxide and oxygen. D-tubocurarine is given as a long-acting skeletal muscle relaxant. At the end of the procedure, neostigmine is given to reverse the action of the muscle relaxant. Extubation is carried out only when the patients' reflexes are active and after careful aspiration of any secretions in the naso- and oropharynx.
Data analysis was done using Epi Info software (7.2.1 CDC, Atlanta, Georgia). Categorical variable was expressed in frequency and percentages, while continuous variables were expressed as mean and standard deviation. Association between categorical data was done using Chi-square/Fisher's exact test, and Z-test was used to compare means. A difference with P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Permission to carry out this research was sought and obtained from the Research and Ethical Committee of the hospital.
Over the 2-year study period, there were 4903 deliveries, while the total number of CS was 1176; thus, the CS rate over the study period was 24.0%. Majority of the CSs were emergency CS, 80.7% (949/1176), while 19.3% were elective. About 83.4% of the emergency CSs were under regional anesthesia; while 81.1% (770/949) had spinal anesthesia, 1.3% (12/949) had epidural anesthesia. Twenty-three patients who had initial spinal anesthesia were later converted to general anesthesia. The remaining 17.6% (167/949) had general anesthesia. Complete records were only available for 871 patients who had emergency CS (131 – GA and 752 – spinal).
The indication for the surgery in patients who had spinal anesthesia is shown in [Table 1]. The most common indications are cephalopelvic disproportion, one previous scar with another indication and abnormal lie/presentation.
The indication for the surgery in patients who had general anesthesia is shown in [Table 2]. The most common indication for general anesthesia was antepartum hemorrhage/placenta previa. Other common indications include fetal distress, severe preeclampsia/eclampsia, and prolonged obstructed labor.
[Table 3] shows some sociodemographic characteristics of the patients. The characteristics of the women in the two groups were fairly matched, and there was no significant difference in the maternal demographics characteristics: maternal age, parity, and gestational age (P > 0.05). There was also no significant difference in the mean neonatal birth weight and the duration of the surgery; however, patients who had spinal anesthesia had less intraoperative blood loss compared with those who had general anesthesia (814 ± 124 vs. 842 ± 324; P = 0.0007).
[Table 4] shows the outcome measures. There was a significant difference in the intraoperative blood loss; women who had spinal anesthesia were less likely to have blood loss >1000 ml compared with women who had general anesthesia (odd ratio [OR]: 0.6832, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.3390–0.9779; P = 0.0005). Those who had emergency CS under spinal anesthesia were less likely to have a 1st-min Apgar score <7 (OR: 0.6096, 95% CI: 0.4066–0.9140; P = 0.016). There was no statistically significant difference in the 5th-min Apgar score in both groups (OR: 0.6546, 95% CI: 0.4145–1.0338; P = 0.0678). There was also no significant difference in the number of neonates admitted into the Intensive Care Units (OR: 0.5424, 95% CI: 0.24760–1.0659; P = 0.071).
In this study, patients who had emergency CS under general anesthesia had a higher mean blood loss compared with patients who had their surgery under spinal anesthesia. More so, patients who had spinal anesthesia were noted to have a reduced risk of excessive bleeding at CS. This reduced risk of blood loss had been noted in similar studies.,, The reason for the increased blood loss associated with general anesthesia might be due to the uterine atony produced by medications used in maintaining general anesthesia. Besides, general anesthesia had been noted to increase blood pressure, thereby increasing perfusion at the surgical site which may further worsen the blood loss., This difference in blood loss may not be unrelated to the indication for the surgery. The most common indication for surgery in the general anesthesia group was antepartum hemorrhage/placenta previa which may be associated with increased risk of bleeding. This may contribute to the differential blood loss at the surgery. The hypovolemia noted in spinal anesthesia may contribute to the reduced blood loss in the patient.
There was no significant difference in the 5th-min Apgar score between the two groups. Similar finding was reported by mekonen and Imtiaz., However, Martin et al. noted a significant difference in the 5th-min Apgar score between the two groups. This difference may be related to the facility where the study was conducted. The 5th-min Apgar score is related to the appropriateness of neonatal resuscitation and may not be related to the anesthesia administered.
There was no difference in the need for neonatal intensive care admission in this study. This is at variance with other similar studies that noted an increased risk for neonatal admission in babies delivered under general anesthesia. The maternal and perinatal mortality was not different in both arms of the study. This finding had been reported in other similar studies.,,, This would suggest the safety of these forms of obstetric anesthesia since they are not associated with increased risk of maternal and/or perinatal mortality.
Both general anesthesia and spinal anesthesia are safely applied in emergent cesarean operations in our facility. Choice between these two should be guided by clinical indications, expertise, and availability. This study did not evaluate maternal satisfaction with the form of anesthesia administered. It will be subject of another study.
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Neurocognitive Disorder (MND) does affect performance and the person reports that they have lost some mental sharpness. They may be less effective at work, at home or socially and significant others may also have noticed these changes.
HIV-Associated Dementia (HAD) is the severest form of HAND and usually affects a number of areas including learning new information, processing ideas, and being able to concentrate. HAD interferes with day-to-day functioning, including work, home life and social activities.
Fortunately, the vast majority of PLHIV will never experience any symptoms of neurocognitive impairment. However, if measured by a battery of exhaustive tests, a significant proportion may well be diagnosed with ANI and not even know they had it. Much fewer PLHIV will have MND.
Whether or not you develop an asymptomatic or a mild NCI is strongly associated with your lowest-ever CD4 count (nadir) and with older age. It is also about the level of viral load in your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), how much inflammation there is and how much your immune system has been activated; plus the health of your cardiovascular (blood) circulation.
Does treatment reduce the risk of HAND?
Those of you who’ve been around will know the toll that HIV can exact on people’s neurological health. Early on in the epidemic, about one in seven people with AIDS-developed AIDS dementia; a diagnosis that usually progressed to severe disability and death within a year (7,8). Fortunately, with the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART ), the incidence has reduced to almost zero.
In 2002, just six years after the introduction of HAART,they estimated that cases of AIDS dementia had gone down by 60% and toxoplasmosis by 72%. Combination treatment certainly had a profound impact on these CNS manifestations (9).
A recent review (10) of 15 studies of neurocognitive change in people after starting treatment found that in 11 of them, neurocognitive performance improved after an average of six months on HAART.
This is heartening news despite the fact that most of these studies had only a small number of participants.
A ‘then and now’ comparison published in December 2010 compared 857 PLHIV from the pre-HAART era (1988-95) with 937 from 2000-2007. They found mild impairment occurred in both groups at all stages of HIV disease, even in those on effective treatment. Importantly, the single predictor appears to be low nadir CD4. Sixty percent of those receiving HAART and with neurocognitive impairment had a nadir CD4 count of less than 200. Clearly, allowing the immune system to be severely compromised increases the risk.
Neurocognitive response to HAART varies across individuals, as was shown in a recent analysis of 1,160 PLHIV involved in 14 different clinical trials (11). Investigators found that 39% of participants had some (commonly mild) impairment at the start of treatment, and that nearly half of these showed improvements after 48 weeks on treatment. However, they found that by this endpoint, 21% had also developed a new NCI. So, overall, the rate was only slightly reduced by starting treatment. Again, any history of immunosuppression was associated with higher rates of NCI. Those with a CD4 nadir of less than 200 were 1.73 times more likely to have sustained impairment compared to those with nadirs above 350. In fact, every 50 cell decrease in someone’s lowest ever CD4 count was associated with an 8% increased likelihood of ongoing NCI.
Of 94 PLHIV with NCI in a recent Italian study (12), impairment persisted for nearly two-thirds of them, even after five years of treatment.
A recent analysis of the CHARTER Group data (13) concluded that the risk of NCI was lowest in PLHIV who never allowed their CD4 count to fall to low levels.
Data from a Swiss cohort of 100 PLHIV on effective treatment found that 28% of them had mild neurocognitive disorders while a further 42% had asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment and experienced no problems with everyday functioning (14).
All these studies point to a strong association between low nadir CD4 count and an increased risk of ongoing neurocognitive impairment even when on treatment. So, does HIV treatment reduce the risk of neurocognitive impairment? Yes, but treatment is not absolutely protective. There are many other factors which come together to increase the risk.
Treating HIV effectively stops replication in the bloodstream (i.e. undetectable viral load ), and reduces inflammation and immune activation. But to prevent HIV replication in the brain, HIV drugs must cross the blood-brain barrier and be present in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at levels sufficient to effectively inhibit HIV.
Viral levels are not routinely measured in the CSF. A lumbar puncture is not the most pleasant procedure to undergo or without risk; and so it is only done when there is a good clinical reason.
Studies suggest that not all antiretrovirals function in the brain at sufficient levels. In 2008, a score to measure the CNS penetration-effectiveness (CPE) of HIV treatments was published. The text box (below) shows the scores for those treatments commonly used in Australia (older drugs are not included and newer drugs have yet to be scored).
The total score for a HAART combination can be calculated by adding the scores of the individual drugs.. A score greater than seven or the use of protease inhibitors are about equal in predicting whether someone may have an undetectable viral load in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Put simply, the more effective the drug combination is in penetrating into the CSF, the more chance of HIV being suppressed in the brain.
The evidence demonstrating the benefit of having a treatment regime with a higher CPE score is mixed. A recent longitudinal study of PLHIV with some cognitive impairment showed that by starting them on a treatment regime with higher CPE score for 48 weeks, their cognition gradually improved and peaked at approximately 24–36 weeks (15). The two factors which predicted cognitive improvements were undetectable VL in blood and a higher CPE score.
Another study of PLHIV switching or initiating treatment reported that CPE scores correlated with greater improvement in concentration, speed of mental processing and mental flexibility after 20 and 39 months. Higher CPE scores were also associated with an improvement in global NP scores after 39 months. Other studies have failed to confirm these findings.
Recent UK data suggests that for those on long-term HAART with no symptoms, the rates of impairment are low ( less than 20%). Where impairment was found it was associated with lower nadir and older age but not CPE score or ARV drug class (16).
So, CPE score may have some validity as a tool to guide treatment but more convincing evidence is needed, especially for those who commence treatment early.
Over time, there are many variables associated with having a detectable CSF viral load (17).
In the CHARTER Study, 413 PLHIV had their blood and CSF samples tested for detectable HIV and of those whose plasma viral load was consistently undetectable, only 6% had any measureable viral load in their cerebrospinal fluid. This is good news, especially as many people in this cohort had very low nadir CD4 counts and a high prevalence of NCI.
It would seem that having an undetectable blood plasma VL is by far the most influential factor for indicating suppression of HIV in the CSF. This suggests that having undetectable HIV in your bloodstream usually protects you from having detectable HIV in your CSF.
HIV treatment is beneficial. It drives down viral load both in the blood and in the CSF.
Having HIV does put you at risk of declining cognitive function. But that risk is greatest when HIV has gone unsuppressed for many years and CD4 counts have fallen below 200. Plus there are other compounding factors including recreational drug use, co-infection with other viruses and, perhaps most significantly, just getting older.
Start treatment when your CD4 counts are relatively high — possibly over 500 and certainly when they fall below 500.
Adhere to your HIV treatment regimen exactly.
Ensure that you maintain an undetectable viral load.If it does becomes detectable across more than one visit, you and your doctor should talk about switching to a more potent combo.
Maintain the best possible cardiovascular health by ensuring that your blood pressure, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) and blood sugar are monitored and maintained in healthy ranges and that you follow any treatments your doctor recommends.
The basics: quit smoking; limit your alcohol and other drug use; have a diet high in poly-unsaturated fatty acids (omega-3s); reduce your risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease; get adequate rest, physical and mental exercise; and promptly address issues of depression.
If you, or those with whom you share your life, have concerns that your cognitive sharpness has dulled (e.g. a lot of the time: not remembering familiar things, forgetting why you started an action, losing your train of thought in a conversation, making mistakes in everyday tasks) then talk to your doctor. Study data suggests that if a problem is suspected by the person with HIV or their close acquaintances then there may well be some underlying issue. It may be that some further investigation is suggested.
If you have been diagnosed with asymptomatic or mild impairment through neuropsychological testing, your doctor will suggest regularly monitoring. To reduce the likelihood of having further declines it is important that you stick to an optimum treatment regimen and maintain an undetectable viral load.Recent research suggests that declines only occur in a small percentage of people (less than 25%) and this is usually associated with severe comorbidities (such as hepatitis C or major depression), lifelong methamphetamine use and ceasing treatment (18).
Finally, take a deep breath and relax: you aren’t going to go ‘mad’. If you follow the suggestions above and ensure that you
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sense of humor. When your caddie decided to take a day off on a Wednesday, and you told people to apply on Twitter for the one-day job to replace him, you got interesting responses, like, "I have a rough tongue like a cat and can clean the grooves of a wedge in seconds. My tics are mostly silent."
[Laughs] That deserves to be written somewhere in this magazine! That is so good. We've opened up the job twice, actually. We did it at the Byron Nelson and at the Travelers. For the Nelson, we found a guy who had played in college. It was his birthday. And for the Travelers, we did it for a cause called Charity: Water, and the guy bid a couple of thousand bucks. He was awesome. We really hit it off.
Do you think most Tour pros could stand to loosen up?
I don't think, I know. I mean, I'm very serious between the ropes at times, especially when it's not going well. I can feel like I can't let myself have a good time. But guys need to pick their chin up a little bit and look around. Dude, you're on the PGA Tour! You've probably dreamed about this since you were a kid. It's so fun. I don't care if you just made double; you have the opportunity to look at a kid and throw him a ball and make his day. I try to remember that.
You show full comedic commitment in your spoof videos, which you have to do to make them work. Your wardrobe gets laughs, too. Where did the helmet come from? In the video where you offer exercise tips, it's a crucial prop, along with the unitard.
My buddy went to Goodwill and found it. I was like, "What is this thing?" It's a low-end ski helmet. I never picked up on that until the fifth video. That whole outfit is like five bucks at Good-will. It's awful. It's so tight. It doesn't breathe. It would be great in the Oregon fall, for surfing.
Who are your favorite comedians? Have you seen Borat?
I have not seen Borat. Honestly, the stuff that Joel [Stock], my caddie, and I have seen -- he has a great sense of humor and a great memory for funny lines -- would be "Coming to America," "Spies Like Us," "Caddyshack" and "Dumb and Dumber."
Right. Kind of like "Life of Pi." At the end you go, "Ah, now it makes sense."
Unfortunately, "Planes." It was a big letdown. "Shrek" was amazing. "Cars" was amazing. "Planes" was not. And "Finding Nemo" was great.
You have three kids, so it's obvious who's picking the movies. What TV shows do you watch?
You know, I'm trying to think if I've turned on the TV this year for something other than sports. I watched the Bible documentary. When you have three kids under 6, you have to ask, am I going to space out on the couch for an hour and a half, or am I going to hang out with my kids? When your kids are grown up and out of the house, everyone says, "It happened so fast. I wish they were back."
Musician Mat Kearney helped with the lyrics on Golf Boys 2.0 and the Bubble Boy video, which poked fun at you for being 125th on the money list at the Barclays. Which video took the longest to make?
Golf Boys 2.0 was six weeks of talking to the production crew and doing some of the writing with Kearney, and giving feedback and stuff. The shoot only took two days, but afterward, editing and stuff, it was a couple of months. We shot it at Vaquero here in Dallas.
Did everyone stay at your house?
They did, except for Hunter, who lives here. Bubba bought my daughter her first Elmo. He's awesome with kids. And Rickie was on the floor rolling around with them. It was funny; we were driving to the course and one of Kearney's songs came on the radio. I was sitting there thinking, What do you do when you're sitting right next to a guy whose song is on the radio? Do you sing along?
Do you ever play money games with Ryan Palmer or Todd Hamilton or any of the other pros who live and play at Vaquero?
I should, but it's really just practice. I like playing in the Phil money game, the Mickelson game on Tuesdays. It's competitive. I've played in that a few times, and you're so ready to play in the tournament after that.
Mickelson loves to get in guys' ears. Give us your best Phil smack-talking story.
A few months back, Phil and I were playing a match in an off-week, and we were on the 10th green, both about eight feet away for birdie. He said, "I found the secret to putting." And I said, "Really?" Well, I make my putt and he misses, and because he's always jabbing me, I say, "Looks like I had the secret to putting on that one." He thinks about it for about 10 seconds and says, "Yeah, but I had the secret to putting at the British Open." [Laughs] Yes, he did.
You rapped with Bubba Watson on the 16th tee during the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Were you more nervous for that or the golf?
I was going to do it anyway. I had the helmet in the bag and everything. And then Bubba and I got paired together. I mean, are you kidding me? It was perfect. And there's a guy who stands up there and says, "Hey, crowd, be quiet," and so we went over and grabbed his microphone. But, yeah, I was nervous.
Rory Sabbatini famously left you in the dust at the 2005 Booz Allen at Congressional. Have you gotten much faster with your pace of play since then?
Rory and I are friends, and I've tried to get better. Last year I talked to Jon Brendle, a Tour official, and they see everything. I said, "Hey, how am I doing?" His reaction was very positive. He said, "Just keep up with the group in front of you." I don't want guys to get bummed out when they get paired with me. I didn't even know in high school and college golf that I was slow. No one ever said anything.
You beat Rory Mcllroy 8 and 7 in the WGC-Accenture Match Play in 2011, and later that year you made eight birdies in the last 11 holes to force a playoff with Webb Simpson in the McGladrey Classic, which you then won. Were you hotter when you thumped Rory or when you beat Webb?
When I made those eight birdies, I got so hot with the putter. Webb told me he went back and watched the broadcast, like, six months later. He said, "I got so mad. They were going in from across the green!" With Rory, I was playing some of the best golf of my life, but my back went out the next morning on the range.
You finished the year 139th in driving distance. Was that because of your back?
My clubhead speed on the Nation-wide Tour was about 124 miles an hour. If I saw the front lip of a bunker 300 yards out, I wouldn't even think about it -- I'd just fly it. I was so long. I was No. 1 in driving distance for the first five months of the season out there, but then I got injured and stopped working on being fast, and now I'm way down in driving distance. [Laughs] I can't smoke it anymore.
Did that inspire you to become a better short-game player?
It contributed to it. Plus, when you're not feeling well you can at least work on your chipping and putting, which I did. I would swing on a launch monitor and think about how I could get faster. I went from 115 mph to 124 mph in about a year.
You've worked with short-game coach James Sieckmann for a few years. How much of your short-game prowess do you owe to him? Why do you two click?
I was having some trouble with my chipping and pitching, with my contact, especially on Bermuda grass with tight lies. I was like, "I'm missing something." I spoke to Tom Pernice, who said, "You should go see my guy." I said, "You've got a guy?" It's been dynamite. I think I'm top 10 in bunker play. He really understands the mental game, too.
Have you also seen improvement in your wedge play?
I'm much more confident with that 50-yard shot, the 60-yard shot, just because he's taught me proper technique and how to practice for that shot. The difference between the best player in the world and the guy who finishes 100th on the money list is not much -- maybe one shot a round.
It's a fine line out there. "It's a fine line between clever and stupid." Do you know what that's from?
"This Is Spinal Tap." Have you seen that film?
You have to see "Spinal Tap"! For a comedy lover, it's an absolute must.
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"Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight."
It may be the case that the matter of sexuality is splitting the churches and denominations around the world. Predictably, the battle-lines run between those who take the Bible seriously (evangelicals) and those who take a somewhat lower (liberal) view of God’s book and what it contains.
However there is a quite separate controversy within evangelical circles which is increasing moving onto centre-stage. The matter concerns bi-polar views on whether or not the Jewish people and the land of Israel still occupy a special place in the latter-day prophetic purposes of God.
Amongst Bible-believers there is some area of agreement – in some cases ‘reluctant’ – regarding the forecast of an end-time ingathering of Jews to the Kingdom of God in and through Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach). This is outlined by Paul in the eleventh chapter of his epistle to the Romans (Rom 11:11-12; 15). Indeed to believe otherwise brings a very stiff warning from the apostle in that letter (Rom 11:18-22).
But the issue that raises the most heat is whether or not the covenant made with Abraham which, amongst other things, promises the land to the Jewish people is still valid. Those who deny its validity argue that as the Jews rejected their Messiah so they also deny themselves the promises made to them.
Additionally, and as a parallel claim, they say that Christian believers are the true ‘children of Abraham’ and therefore the inheritors of any unrealised benefits of the Abrahamic Covenant.
However, as Psalm 105 so succinctly states, the commitment by God to the Jews and the land is unconditional, everlasting and irrevocable.
“He remembers his covenant for ever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit." (Psalm 105:8-11).
” Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.'" (Lev. 26:44-45).
Whose checkpoint; and who stands at it?
Most recently (March 2012) an international conference of evangelicals was convened in Bethlehem by the Bethlehem Bible College. The conference title was ‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ – an allusion to the barriers which Israel have erected in order to protect its citizens from Arab/Islamic suicide attacks.
The representation at the conference was drawn from around the world and comprised a wide range of evangelical leaders. The views being propagated were, and are, mainly based on the suffering that the Palestinian people are enduring (if fact, mainly because of the actions of the Arab/Islamic nations) and the ‘Replacement Theology’ view that God has withdrawn his favour from, and modified his end-time plans for the Jews in favour of the (mainly-Gentile) church.
At a theological level big hitters in the evangelical world deny what the major and minor prophets clearly state in order to defend the former's political and theological views.
One ‘observer’ at the conference was Dr. Paul Wilkinson whose doctoral thesis revolved around the place of Isreal. Subsequent to the conference he produced a report entitled ‘The Church at Christ’s Checkpoint’. His play on words is much more than that. In fact from Genesis through to the writings of Paul, those who believe – or say they believe – the Bible are given very clear warnings.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Gen 12:3).
You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."
Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
The video in this article outlines the background from recent events leading up to the conference, a report from the conference by Dr. Wilkinson and a statement concerning the conference from international Messianic leaders. Some of the footage was shot in Dundee, in an hotel and the following day in the church of Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, the Scottish minister who led the pioneering 19th-century 'Mission of Enquiry" to the Jews.
Paul Wilkinson’s two essays entitled 'Prophets who Prophesy Lies in My Name' and ‘The Church at Christ’s Checkpoint' (2011 and 2012 respectively) are available by clicking on the titles, the images below; or from the side bar of this page.
The sidebar also contains links to other articles on the subject of the (Gentile) church and Israel.
From a Scottish perspective, the Church of Scotland spent the best part of an afternoon at its General Assembly in May 2011 discussing how it could best campaign to boycott Israeli products while staying (just) within the law. At the General Assembly of 2007 such was the anti-Israel bias that a senior (retired) Church of Scotland wrote a letter in response to the Assembly of that year.
The document 'A Covenant-keeping God' outlines the biblical covenants with a focus on the Abramic Covenant and the conflicting theological perspectives of Covenant Theology (so-called) and Dispensationalism.
The theological arguments used to support infant baptism – based on a refusal to differentiate between Abraham's'special natural' children (the Jews) and his'spiritual children' (all believers) – run right through mainstream Presbyterian doctrine. As a natural outworking these lead directly into a 'Replacement Theology' position.
Dr. Paul Wilkinson speaking on an American radio programme about the rise of what he has dubbed 'Christian Palestinianism'; a modern outworking of a theology dating back to the earliest NT times which teaches that God has finished with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel in His plans and purposes.
Speaking in Birmingham on the occasion of the National Day of Repentance 2006, David Davis spoke a message concerning Britain's destiny in terms of our history, responsibility and calling under God to align ourselves with God's sovereign purposes for the Jewish people. David sees us as living in a "season of Sudden".
Have just read the article - i.e. haven't yet followed any of the links - and the words that are already ringing in my ears (heart?) are those quoted by the father of Corrie ten Boom to his (then) young daughter: "They (Israel) are still the apple of His eye"! We forget such words at our peril!
Just finished reading " The Hiding Place " What an amazing woman was Corrie ten Boom, and a still more amazing sister called Betsie. A truly heroic and touching life story. I find it hard to comprehend that these events only happened five or so years before I was born. But sadly they did happen.
If God has changed his mind about His promises to the Jew s then He can change His mind about His promises to let me ( or you) into heaven if we are born again by believing in Jesus.
To those who would distort the clear meaning of scripture I just say pshat!!
I've read the article "Christian Palestinianism; a response" and watched the video. I love that you quote scripture, however I think too many people are not connecting the dots and are uneducated. I think it would also be good, if you would not only show how the Jews are being demonized, but also to show, why these are lies and show evidence to the contrary.. e.g. give an answer in the video to this bishop at the gaza ralley, why Israel has not a policy of brutality, is not committing massacres, wars on children(compare Gaza war to same time in Syria or show statistics that compare civilian deaths of Israeli to Palestinians), is not an occupier, why settlement activity is allowed according to San Remo and UN resolutions.., more details on the wall etc. people don't know it, because they don't educate themselves and because the media is biased... they are brainwashed.. YoutubeVids are a good tool..
There are political arguments which will go on until Kingdom come (the Scriptures tells us that). But sadly many in our world are of the view: "I've made my mind up so don't trouble me with the facts."
Very sadly this response can be found within the church - and on matters theological no less.
Another issue which you touch upon is the fact that in our'sound-bite' multi-media age which is awash with information and disinformation there is limited appetite for reading - the emphasis is on being entertained.
In terms of site content, the aim is to serve a wide spectrum of Christian interest, and while 'Israel' is an extremely important topic, there are other issues also (in world and in the church).
However for those who are interested in the subject, there are numerous articles (including audio and
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The actual word "dragon" comes from the Greek language much later than this time so any mundane interpretation of creatures by this name before the Greeks must be by descriptions and attributes and not by name. They were generally considered "monsters" even if they had divine attributes.
The very origins and foundations of the entire Mesopotamian culture comes from the stories, culture, and ethics of these Sumerians. The later civilizations of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and then Grecians all got much of their philosophy, cosmology, and religion from the earlier stories/ myths of the Sumerians so it behooves us to first look at these early very early stories and pay particular attention to them.
In fact so many of the stories sprout the same type of general story line that we can actually divide them into two categories; Gods versus monsters (dragons) before creation and heros versus monsters after creation. Later versions of the stories often change the names of the parties about but maintain the basic story line. Is it possible that all these stories came from a single source and was later simply adapted, adopted, and some elements changed to suit the civilization telling it? This is a possibility to be considered about these first stories. Many later dragon stories will also be changed in the same manner by different areas or countries but with the same original tale.
The earlier myths often have a god, usually a storm god or a god armed with thunder and lightning bolts, chasing a dragon that has something to do with water. Examples are almost all of the Mesopotamian stories, the Indian god Indra, both Chinese and Japanese myths, the Mayan Rain Gods, the Egyptian sea dragon/serpent Apophis and pursuer Re, and even many early Semitic stories.
From the very start Dragons were seen as guarding treasures, holding back the floods, and dispensing knowledge. They also are battled by gods or heros from the very beginning. In many cases stories from the Sumerians were borrowed and slightly changed by the preceding civilizations. These same stories were very similar in content but with the actual names of the participants changed.
The first written commentary, found on clay tablets, uses the names of Asag, a monster/dragon (sometimes named as Kur) and Ninurta, a god/hero. Later we are introduced to this same god/hero as Marduk by the Babylonians and the dragons name has been changed to Tiamet. There is some confusion here as the preserved evidence is not in good shape or complete.
In the Babylonian version called the "Enuma elish" Tiamet is one of the original pair of god and goddess at the founding of the universe. From these two all later creatures, good or bad, came into creation. This Goddess is in effect the "mother of all."
In the beginning of the tale Tiamet defends her offspring and all of creation from all the minions and forces of evil. But later, when her husband Apsu is killed, she apparently goes mad and decides to end all creation in her grief. This irrational action pits her against all the other Gods and one of her offspring, named Marduk, is talked into opposing her.
In the fight that ensues Marduk finally kills her by shooting an arrow into her mouth as she tries to swallow him. She is a shape shifter as most or all early Dragons are assumed to be so fought him in different guises. Even time seems to be effect which will come up again in the dragons versions. After the battle he uses her dragon body to form the earth and from death we have life and substance.
The first epic of the hero or human and dragon encounter is the "Epic of Gilgamesh." This we know of by clay tablets from Semitic origin. But these tablets are telling about much earlier versions of the story. Here the hero is pitted against a Dragon named Humbaba who also has shape shifting abilities. Gilgamesh with the aid of the god Shamash finally kills the Dragon but gets in trouble with those other gods who were friends with or supported the Dragon and so has a pyrrhic victory and some penalties for his action are imposed.
Not much later we find the Egyptians with a similar story of either Re the sun god or Seth the hero destroying the snake or Dragon named Apophis. Again there is much confusion and contradictions. In this story both the side of good and the side of evil have attributes of the dragon. So once again we see the idea that the winner of the contest with the dragon take on the attributes of the dragon.
The Hittites have a story of the battle of a storm god with the Dragon named Illuyankas which also has contradictions and different versions but also follows the earlier stories in general details.
Later on we get several versions from the Grecian civilization. There is the story of Zeus fighting Typhon. Typhon is described as "Up from his shoulders there grew a hundred snake heads, those of a dreaded dragon." We will deal with the relationship between snakes and dragons a little latter. But suffice for now to say they are essentially the same. And again this monster/dragon is slain by a mighty thunderbolt from Zeus.
Very similar to this is the story of Apollo and Python. Python is alternately described in different versions of the story as a giant snake or a female dragon with many coils. In any case in some versions she is killed by Apollo when the young god shoots an arrow down her throat. But in other version she is taken into his service and becomes a protected oracular serpent at Delphi. It is interesting to note that both Grecian and Romans had serpents or dragons that were kept at various temples including Delphi that were considered to have great knowledge.
It is also interesting that Hercules himself consulted the Oracle of Delphi and was directed on his "12 labors" by the advice he got their. Included in his labors were the destroying of the dragons Ladon and Hydra of the Seven heads.
A good example of another Greek hero is Perseus who instead of fighting for good versus evil killed a dragon that was about to devour the princess Andromeda in order to marry her and gain a kingdom. The dragon was sent by the god Poseidon or Neptune to avenge an insult.
Another hero dragonslayer was Jason who along with his companions the Argonauts had to overcome the unsleeping "dragon of a thousand coils" who guarded the golden fleece. In one version the dragon is ensorcelled into sleeping and they stole away unharmed with the treasure. In another Jason fought the dragon who was a sea dragon and lost the fight and so was swallowed. it was only by intersession of the god Athene that the dragon gave up her prey.
An interesting story related to Jason is that of Cadmus who later went on to be the King of Thebes. He was also given advice by the Oracle of Delphi (who was herself a dragon) that eventually led him to fight and kill a golden crested dragon at the spring of Ares. For killing this dragon Cadmus was forced to serve the god Ares for a year but was then allowed to found his city from the children of the dragons teeth.
It has been often said that the finding of dinosaur bones by ancient Chinese was the original basis for their "dragon" stories and myths. In reality there is no definitive proof that this is so. It does seem to make sense as large bones from an unknown large creature (i.e. dinosaurs) would cause a superstitious people to believe in large mythical beast such as dragons.
But this story actually appears to belong to the category of “folklore”, rather than anthropology. The Chinese were a highly civilized peoples and had definite ideas on Dragons which were studied, written about, and philosophized on as if they were rather common creatures to these peoples. This is an attribute that often pervades dragons stories worldwide; offhanded casual acceptance of their presence but debate on what it meant.
The reality in ancient China actually appears to be that Dragons were believed in for far longer than peasants were finding large petrified bones. Some of the earliest writings from the Far East mention Dragons, long before it was reported that bones from this creature were found.
In many early mythologies from Asia we find Dragons as either God's or messengers to the God's. Again like in earlier Mideast stories the Dragons are most often associated with water and wisdom. But unlike the Mideast and later European stories we find little to no fighting and killing of or between Dragons & Gods or normal people and Dragons.
Instead of fear and loathing or even outright worship, here we find Dragons as being desirable to an area and good luck rather than ill falls to those areas where dragons abide. They are often prayed to for deliverance from bad fortune, bad weather, and even bad men. In fact, very early in China's history the emperors are said to be communing with the Dragons to get the advice of the Gods on how to govern their peoples. But somewhere along the way things changed.
One very widespread story is of the Dragon Kings. They were known as the Four Brothers when they traveled together. All were water dragons and served the August Personage Jade who commanded them when, where and how much rain to deliver to the earth.
Each lived in a Crystal palace and ruled one of the Four Seas via an army of crabs and fish, watchman, and ministers. Their names were Ao Ch’in, Ao Jun, Ao Kuang, and Ao Shun. There is no indication that these kings directly communicated with mundane humans. But their ministers, who are presumably all dragons, apparently did
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, drying the clothes on the line and transferring to clothes horses, spending time in nature… but they get driven out by having to work 8 + hours per day and commute time on top of that.
I am with a global consulting firm and the stuff that is being looked at in terms of day to day working is fascinating. Some of it is driven by the financials, others by the millenials (as well as those following – do they have a name?) and, of course, technology.
Offices are already being remodelled and shrunk to push people to clients or working at home. 25% of the workforce will be independent contractors (usually alumni) on short term projects, to reflect their need for flexibility and the firms slow periods. Face to face working with colleagues will always be the bread and butter but technology allowing greater flexibility for remote working.
I think this 4 day thing will become pretty popular and we’ll look back on it in 10yrs time and say why did we ever weight our week so heavily towards working. 4 days work/3 day weekend (for those that want it) will be the norm.
I don’t think we will increase productivity massively (I mean we will work much longer in the 4 days, perhaps from home at the end) but overall it will be worth it.
It will impact other things too – school and retail hours, especially the latter. Closing at 6pm? Crazy.
You don’t have to. If you are productive and efficient, for many industries, you could do the same amount of work in four 8hr days as in five. That is what Perpetual is suggesting.
What I meant is that, people being what they are, they will work a couple of extra hours a day rather than work at maximum efficiency. So kind of a compromise.
Ultimately people will have the flexibility to do what suits their purposes (perhaps even remain at 5 days), but that flexibility will extend to working one less day, which is generally an option they don’t have now.
Serious investigation should be made into making some real changes to the way of life in this country to address the massive deterioration in the quality of life and amount of free time people have to rest and do whatever.
Throughout most of New Zealand’s history up until the 1990s it was possible for nearly everyone to be able to buy a home of their own and raise a family on one income with good wages and conditions on a 40 hour week, and nearly everyone had the weekends free with no retail trading on Sundays.
Since the introduction of Sunday trading by the Labour Government in 1990 and the Employment Contacts Act by National Government in 1991, the New Zealand way of life has been in steady decline for many, with a massive reduction in pay rates and conditions relative to living costs, with things like penal rates removed, union presence and power in most workplaces reduced to almost nothing and many families having to have both parents work full time for longer hours, low wages with poor conditions, all the while housing prices have steadily increased to the point of being unaffordable for an increasing many with house prices at around ten times the average income. Many people are having to work up to 6 and 7 days per week with long commutes and still no real hope of ever buying a home of their own or having much free time to spend with friends and family and enjoy all the things this country has to offer.
In this time period traffic congestion has significantly increased in our main centres and on our main arterial roads, ‘driven’ by higher house prices and rents forcing people to live further afield from where they work and having to drive in the absence of decent public transport until very recent years, and NZ’s move from a transport system which used to heavily rail based until the 1980s, to one which is now heavily road based.
Serious study and investigation should be made of countries which have a high standard of living and a relatively good work / life balance, long life expectancy etc, such as many countries in Europe.
Consideration should be made to allow greater flexablity of days and hours as proposed in this post. Consideration should also be made to change current standard school and retail opening hours. Have schools start and shops open at 10am and have schools finish at 4pm and shops close at 6pm so as to stagger and thin peak periods out and allow people more time to sleep in the mornings, particularly during hot humid weather we get in NZ during the summer, which will help students concentrate better at school and help improve performance of both students and people working.
The new Labour-NZ First-Greens Government has a lot of potential to make much needed changes to NZ society and to bring NZ up to date with the needs of the people and country in 2018 and to improve the quality of life and work / life balance.
While I agree with your sentiments around work life balance, I think you are contradicting yourself when you say we should have more flexibility in when we work but also saying that businesses should be required to close on a Sunday.
I imagine there are many people who quite enjoy being able to work on the weekend and have days off during the week. What needs to change is the balance between employees and employers so more workers get the hours they like rather than what they are told.
This will work well for some. It will not work well for the people who need it the most or have the least bargaining power.
When I decided to do four day working weeks I opted to take Wednesdays off. That way the worst I ever have to face is two days working at a stretch. I only get 80% of the money but since that whole extra day is taxed at the high rate the impact on net income isn’t so bad. I view it as a perfectly legal way to reduce my tax. Don’t work as much.
Works well until redundancy hits. 80% payout. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. A friend, approaching retirement, negotiated hard for a 4 day week (he chose Wednesday too). Not long after, was made redundant to his great surprise (and delight). But win-win in his case as he probably wouldn’t have qualified at his salary otherwise.
Miffy, I do the same when I can for the same reason. Two day in a row at most. Amazing how liberated your weekends can become when you have half a day mid week to do errands and stuff.
I propose we close all schools permanently as during the school holidays the traffic is so much better.
This idea comes hot on the heels of firms that offer “unlimited leave”. Only problem is what this actually means is that you can take leave when you have a gap in your workflow. The actual reality beyond the fancy headlines is that unlimited annual leave is almost never taken because the employees never have a chance to take the leave.
Likewise the 4-day week will be a fad. Unless the staff are as lazy as hell they clearly aren’t going to achieve the same level of work over reduced hours.
It should also be noted from a transportation perspective that this could well be a negative. Hardly anyone catches PT in the weekends because it doesn’t go to places where people actually spend their weekends. So if people have more recreation time we could well see an uptick in car usage.
A fad comes and goes. This will be permanent, but an option nonetheless. if People want it, they’ll work for it. Its just another piece of the “workplace flexibility” approach which many industries are offering.
In NZ, shops closes at the same time people finish work at 9-5.
Working people can’t do shopping, go to bank, see lawyers etc afterwork. This is quite inconvenient for most people. This is also inefficient as shops become very busy during lunch hours but not so busy other times.
In other countries, consumer retail starts 11am and finish 10pm for 7days a week, It is uncommon for people to work 10 hours a day for only 4 days per week. Some people can work the morning shift, some can do afternoon shift.
This flexibility allows people to have a 3 week holiday every week and they can take day off in weekdays to go to bank or see lawyers. Alternativly people can take care of the children in the morning and work at night.
It would be a win win.
It is quite ridiculous to see Farmers on queen street to close at 6pm Friday night, where city is still full of people looking to spend some money.
This is a cultural thing too – we don’t make use of, nor do we have the opportunity for using our nights for anything other than entertainment. There are very limited study options, as our institutions and their hours are set up around full time students. Often after-work tertiary study is angled at upskilling yourself in your current industry (e.g. MBA classes) and there are very few opportunities to completely retrain.
Once upon a time, not that long ago, only dairies were allowed to be open on Sundays. Even a slightly larger grocery store needed to pull a curtain to hide those items that weren’t approved dairy items.
Highly prescriptive. Tell you what, though, families generally did things together on a Sunday, including physical activity. There was so much less traffic some people actually chose to go for a Sunday Drive. It was a day for fixing instead of buying to replace.
Not suggesting we go back there, but only because it would be a waste of energy trying.
It seemed like everything was closed in Germany on Sundays. At least when I was last there a few years ago. I was annoyed at first, but then realised it was just their culture that had been in place for a very long time and showed what they valued as a culture. I saw families cycling around, walking in the parks spending time together.
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work with a legislator to find a slot to be part of their office. I had a desk in Congressman Pat Tiberi's (R-OH) office, and I was able to work closely with his legislative staff on health issues.
It's pretty open-ended; it's a combination of being a useful part of the office - working on legislative issues, taking constituent meetings, and taking constituent phone calls just like every other staffer - but at the same time also being able to work on my own independent projects. For example, if there is a health policy issue that the Congressman is interested in learning more about, I could reach out to important stakeholder groups in healthcare like the American Hospital Association or the American Medical Association, and they are very engaged when you are calling from a Congressman's office.
I also attended committee hearings, and I acted as a resource when the staffers needed a resource on health issues. A big part of the experience is building a personal relationship with a Congressman and his staff, so if they a question, you can be the go-to person to give them the answer or help them figure it out.
This past month has been an exciting one in health policy. Were you involved specifically with the American Healthcare Act?
The day that I started was the day that the American Healthcare Act was released (Washington Post). Rep. Tiberi is the chair of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee, which had a very prominent role in the health care legislation. I got to sit in when the bill was introduced for markup in the Ways & Means Committee, which lasted 18 hours (CNN) - I didn't stay the entire time but I was there for a good 8 to 10 hours, and that was my third day in the office. I also went to the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing (NPR) and went over to the Capitol to watch debates on the House floor.
It was very partisan issue, and a lot of the messaging came from the Ways & Means Committee staff rather than Rep. Tiberi's office, but we dealt with a lot of constituent phone calls on the issue, and also a lot people who were visiting in person who were very interested in finding out how the bill would affect them, and the people with whom they interact or feel responsible for in some way. Sometimes we had to wade through protesters - it was an interesting time.
We didn't necessarily know what was going to happen beforehand, although when the President was calling a specific caucus or group of Congressmen to the White House, we might find out an hour or two before that happened. Otherwise, we were just watching C-SPAN and reading things on Politico - the press was everywhere.
What other things did you work on during your time on the Hill?
There were a couple bills that were introduced where I wrote briefs for the Congressman and tried to reach out to stakeholders about those issues. For example, there was a bill to reform the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and I had an opportunity to speak with the Chair of the USPSTF to get her perspective on the proposed changes.
I enjoyed getting the opportunity - as someone who has been in academia my whole life - to bring our approach to researching issues, bringing real evidence-based research to the health services area. They don't tend to use PubMed that often, but they were very receptive to suggestions and ideas that I had coming from the scientific and medical literature. Jumping into the middle of it was a humbling experience but also a very rewarding experience that makes you feel like you are contributing to the greater good.
You have been active in leadership and public policy issues from the time you were a medical student - how did you get involved in these activities?
When I started medical school in 2005 as an MD-PhD student at Northwestern, I thought I would be doing drug discovery or device design following my undergraduate training as a chemical engineer (at Penn State). But a friend of mine was very involved in the American Medical Association (AMA), so halfway through my first year of medical school I went to a state medical society meeting. And what I found was that there are so many things about medicine that are not taught in medical school. There are so many things that influence the way we practice and the way we deliver patient care that are not found in any textbook. And these things are constantly changing. While attending that first meeting, I found it fascinating, and I met so many people that felt the same way - they were also fascinated by all of these things that are changing healthcare that we don't learn about in school. So I went to another meeting, and another meeting, and had an opportunity to join in an AMA lobby day where I participated in meetings in Congressional offices.
I was able to step into elected and appointed roles in the AMA, and after I chose a specialty (urology), I started doing the same thing with the American Urological Association (AUA). So I have had the opportunity to be involved in the analysis, decisionmaking, and also - one of the best parts about it, in my mind, is helping other people who have some interest in this area find where exactly their niche is, where exactly they can get more involved in the broader scheme of organized medicine, whether it's with legislative issues, with education, with health policy or public health, and helping them figure out where they see themselves and where they fit the best.
Do you have an official title or role now in the AMA? What positions did you have in the past?
When the President's January 27 Executive Order on immigration was enforced, a Cleveland Clinic resident, Dr. Suha Abushamma, was detained and sent back to Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Arora helped to organize a gathering of Cleveland Clinic doctors and residents on February 2 to show support for their colleague. About two dozen doctors gathered to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and stand in silent protest. Dr. Arora explained: "There was not a lot that we could do as physicians - we wanted to show her that we were thinking of her and felt for the difficulty she was in."
The next week, after the executive order had been stayed, Dr. Abushamma was able to return to Cleveland.
I am the Chair of the Resident's Committee of the AUA, and I am the Chair of the Governing Council for the Resident and Fellows Section of the AMA. I had several roles when I was a medical student, including a corresponding position as Chair of the Governing Council for the Medical Student Section of the AMA.
Where are you now in your medical career?
I have two more years of residency, and I am planning on pursuing a fellowship in health services research. Looking at how and whether people access care, and the economics of health care, has been very interesting to me, and a way to mix my research background with my policy interests. I am still planning on being a practicing physician - practicing medicine is the bulk of what I want to do, but I also want opportunities to do research, particularly in the health services area.
Did you know you wanted to become a doctor when you were in high school?
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor and go to medical school. The idea of being a medical researcher is something that has grown as I have gone through training from college onward - when I was in high school I didn't think about physicians doing a lot of research, but I spent my summers working in labs - including two summers at NIH and one at Naval Medical, and I continued working in labs in college.
Other than the research experience, are there other things about the Magnet Program that influenced you?
I think the really great thing about the Magnet Program is that it was always a safe place to be smart, because so often in high school it's not cool to be smart but in the Magnet it was cool to be smart - it was cool to like math. And not being at the top of the class - the smartest person who always got 110% on every quiz - was actually kind of nice. It made you feel normal. The Magnet Program really solidified that insatiable curiosity to learn more about the world around you - although that's something that we all had growing up, Blair really told you: "Don't push that away; embrace it." That is something I've really carried with me.
A lot of people are now becoming more interested in political advocacy for science or other issues. What would be your advice to other alumni who are looking for ways to get involved?
Everybody has to start somewhere, and you have to be humble about it when it's an area where you're not as familiar. Depending on how involved you want to get, you can go to your local political party meetings, volunteer in your community, and attend town halls. You can visit your Congressman's district office if you aren't close to DC. If you see an issue that is interesting to you or where you can offer some expertise, then lend that expertise - if you are a geneticist and a bill about genetics comes up, who else is going to be more informed about the implications of genetics-based policy than you? It's important to be able to lend that expertise and to able to share your own personal stories as well as data.
We are taught to be scientists, but that concept isn't necessary limited to the physical sciences. That mindset, which we all have coming out of the Blair Magnet, you can use that same approach and critical thought process, and apply it to policy issues. If you're a physician and there is an issue that affects your patients, give your testimony - tell your representatives the stories that you have. When you go a district office you likely won't meet directly with a Congressman, but if you sit down with a member of his staff, that person can be a great resource for helping
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is not a friction on capitalism it is a necessary component. Poor regulation is a friction that is waste that should be excised. Unfortunately that is a very challenging task and when you allow those with the most gold to set the rules it is no surprise you have them saying they should not be regulated but should be protected. The failure of financial regulations do show the very obvious problem we have currently of those that donate huge amounts to politicians are granted favors that are paid for by the economy overall.
The widespread failure to regulate financial markets recently is almost certain to lead to this exact type of situation every time. Companies will over-leverage, take huge risks, take huge pay while times are good and just go bankrupt when times are bad. Think about how a bank makes money. They charge fees for things like: writing a loan, overdraft charges on your account, arranging financing (loan or stock sale)… They charge more for in interest than they pay. Some money there but really they are doing nothing special so they should not be able to charge too much. Even the ridicules fees companies pay (often those in the companies have arrangements to get personal special deals – allocations of IPO’s, jobs later…) for arranging stock sales do not have a systemic risk. Those risks should be very easy to manage sensible.
They speculate in currency markets, commodities markets, futures, derivatives… If you want a stable economy if you allow huge speculative investments to be assumed to such an extent they risk the economy you are in trouble. If you refused those risks to limited liability companies perhaps your limited regulation model might work. Where those profiting on products with negative economic externalities would personally go bankrupt prior to the losses becoming economically crippling. But I doubt even that would work. And we don’t have that now. We allow people to setup limited liability corporations, drain them of capital on speculation of potential value and then walk about with hundreds of millions of dollars if the company fails. And the negative externalities (due to huge leverage) are huge.
Regulation seems the obvious solution. And it works when applied. It wasn’t until the USA decided to abandon the financial system regulation and enforcement that the problems became systemic. And see the current Canadian banking system for what happens, even while the world economy is collapsing if you required banks to remain banks instead of massively leveraged speculators paying huge bonus to the executives based on their claims of profitability.
I agree trying to control risk is dangerous. There are however, very sensible measures to take. Do not allow huge financial companies to exist (we have laws on anti-trust, anti-competitive behavior…). Do not allow banks to speculate (more than a careful controlled regulated amount). Do not allow massive leverage of massive amounts of money. Do require audited financial records. Do require companies that want to speculate to be much smaller than regulated bank, and bank-like companies. Do elect politicians that will appose allowing companies to undertake systemic risks to the economy for short term financial gains.
We continue to elect politicians that provide large favors to those giving them money at the expense and risk to the rest of us. Therefore we are bringing this upon ourselves. When we chose to stop supporting politicians that behave in that way then we will get different behavior. Until that point it will continue. We don’t seems to be in any mood to change what we have been doing.
Conventional mortgages averaged 4.61 percent in 1951, 4 percent when backed by the Veterans Administration, and 4.25 percent by the Federal Housing Administration, according to The Postwar Residential Mortgage Market, a 1961 book written by Saul Klaman and published by Princeton University Press. Rates during the 1930s were as high as 7 percent.
Mortgages were cheaper through most of the 1940s, ranging from about 4 percent to 5.7 percent, depending on whether the lender was a life insurer, a commercial bank or a savings and loan. In that era, most loans were for 14 years and less.
The central bank has purchased more than $300 billion of mortgage-backed securities in 2009 through the week ended April 8, helping to cut home-loan rates to 4.82 percent last week from 5.1 percent at the start of the year, according to Freddie Mac data.
The difference between 30-year mortgage rates and 10-year Treasury yields has narrowed to about 2.2 percent from 3.1 percent in December, which was the widest since 1986. The spread remains almost 0.7 percentage point above the average of the past decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Rates for 15-year mortgages are about 1.8 percent above 10-year Treasury yields, compared with an average 1.4 percent since 1999.
Excellent article with interesting historical information. I don’t believe mortgage rates will fall to 4% but differences of opinion about the future is one function of markets. Those that predict correctly can make a profit. I am thinking of refinancing a mortgage and I think I am getting close to pulling the trigger. If I was confident they would keep falling I would wait. It just seems to me the huge increase in federal debt and huge outstanding consumer debt along with very low USA saving will not keep interest rates so low. However, as I have mentioned previously, it is interesting that the Fed is directly targeting mortgage rates and possible they can push them lower. The 10 year bond yield has been increasing lately so the slight fall in mortgage rates over the last month are due to the reduced spread (that I can see decreasing – the biggest question for me is how much that spread can decrease).
Related: Fed to Start Buying Treasury Bonds Today – Federal Reserve to Buy $1.2T in Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities – Low Mortgage Rates Not Available to Everyone – what do mortgage terms mean?
The Obama administration must break up the biggest financial firms if the nation is to return to economic health, three prominent bailout skeptics told a congressional panel Tuesday. Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz and MIT professor Simon Johnson warned the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the current government policy of propping up troubled financial giants could impede an economic recovery.
I must say this is the is how I feel, but I don’t have the time to research all the details – to know all the existing limitations for realistic solutions. But I can’t believe allowing huge, incredibly poorly run financial organizations to remain in place with the same bozos that have looted the treasuries of their companies and then taken huge handouts from the federal government, is good policy. It was a very bad idea to allow such anti-competitive large financial institutions to exist in the first place. Then the extremely bad behavior of thousands of people taking millions from those banks treasuries and imposing huge risks on the financial system certainly should result in government finally doing their job to prevent harm to the economic system.
Hoenig said authorities must set up a procedure that would allow big nonbank financial firms to be temporarily taken over by the government. Regulators would then replace management, wipe out shareholders and seek to sell the cleansed institution back into private ownership. Stiglitz, formerly an aide in the Clinton administration [and Economics Nobel Prize winner], said the process of briefly taking over banks then selling them back to investors would be much less costly for taxpayers.
This sounds like a much more sensible strategy to me. It is certainly much much better than increasing consolidation with moves like having huge financial firms buy other huge firms. Obviously I would not support the selling of pieces of the old broken institution to remaining large organizations. The anti-competitive market power must be sharply reduced.
I made my 100th contribution to a micro-loan through Kiva last week. Participating with Kiva is a great antidote to reading about the unethical “leaders” taking huge sums to run their companies into the ground (or even just taking obscene sums to maintain their company). The opportunity to give real capitalists an chance at a better life is wonderful.
Kiva allows you to lend money to entrepreneur (in increments of $25). The most you get back is the amount you loaned, and if the entrepreneur, does not pay back the loan then you take a loss. This is something you do if you believe if giving people an opportunity to make a better life for themselves through hard work and intelligent economic choices.
I encourage you to join me: let me know if you contribute to Kiva and I will add your Kiva page to our list of Curious Cat Kivans. Also join the Curious Cats Kiva Lending Team.
My loans have been made to in 32 countries including: Ghana, Cambodia, Uganda, Viet Nam, Peru, Ukraine, Mongolia, Ecuador and Tajikistan. Kiva provides sector (but I think this data is a not that accurate – it depends on the Kiva partners that are not that accurate on identifying the sectors (it seems to me). A large number of the loans are in retail, clothing and food. I like making loans that will improve productivity (manufacturing, providing productivity enhancing services…) but can’t find as many of those as I would like (8% of my loans are in manufacturing, 11% agriculture, retail 18%, 23% food, 25% services (very questionable – these are normally really retail or food, it seems to me).
Some examples of the entrepreneurs I have lent to: welding workshop (Nicaragua), expanding generator services business with computer services (Cambodia), food production (Ghana), manufacturing nylon (Nigeria), internet cafe (Lebanon), electronics repair (Benin), new engine for mill (Togo), weaving (Indonesia) and a food market (Mexico).
21 of my loans have been paid back in full. 3 have defaulted. Those figure give a distorted picture though (I believe). There was a problem with a Kiva partner (they partner with micro-finance
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and goals than adults. They often have plastic surgery to improve physical characteristics they feel are awkward or flawed, that if left uncorrected, may affect them well into adulthood. Teens tend to have plastic surgery to fit in with peers, to look similar. Adults tend to have plastic surgery to standout from others.
Common physical characteristics or concerns a teen may wish to correct include a misshapen nose, protruding ears, overly large breasts, asymmetrical breasts, or severe acne and scarring.
Teens frequently gain self-esteem and confidence when their physical problems are corrected. In fact, successful plastic surgery may reverse the social withdrawal that so often accompanies teens who feel different. According to American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) statistics, 64,470 cosmetic surgical procedures were performed on people age 13-19 in 2015, while 161,700 cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures were performed.
Not every teenager seeking plastic surgery is well suited for an operation. Teens must demonstrate emotional maturity and an understanding of the limitations of plastic surgery. The ASPS cautions teenagers and parents to keep in mind that plastic surgery is real surgery, with great benefits, but also carries some risks. Teens should have realistic expectations about plastic surgery and what it can do for them. In addition, certain milestones in growth and physical maturity must be achieved before undergoing plastic surgery.
Although health insurance does not pay for cosmetic plastic surgery, coverage is often provided when a procedure alleviates physical symptoms or improves a body function. Such is usually the case, for instance, when breast reduction eliminates severe back and neck pain. It should be noted; however, that health insurance coverage varies greatly between health plans.
While parental support is essential, the teenager's own desire for plastic surgery must be clearly expressed and repeated over a period of time.
The young person must appreciate both the benefits and limitations of plastic surgery, avoiding unrealistic expectations about life changes that will occur as a result of the procedure.
Teenagers must be able to tolerate the discomfort and temporary disfigurement of a surgical procedure. Plastic surgery is not recommended for teens who are prone to mood swings or erratic behavior, who are abusing drugs and/or alcohol, or who are being treated for clinical depression or other mental illness.
Plastic surgery may be performed on the nose to straighten the bridge, remove an unsightly hump, reshape the tip or open breathing passages. Ordinarily this is not performed until the nose reaches its adult size - about age 15 or 16 in girls and a year later in boys. In the event of a prior injury or obstruction to breathing, insurance may cover a portion of the procedure. According to ASPS statistics, 30,246 rhinoplasty procedures were performed on patients age 13-19 in 2015. The procedure accounted for nearly 50 percent of all cosmetic surgical procedures performed on this age group.
Surgical correction of protruding ears, in which the ears are pinned back, may be performed any time after the age of five. Otoplasty made up 10.1 percent of all cosmetic surgical procedures performed on this age group in 2015, with more than 6,472 procedures. Insurance reimbursement for otoplasty is possible, but typically only occurs in extreme cases.
When one breast grows much larger size than the other, an operation may correct the difference by reducing the larger breast, augmenting the smaller, or both. Insurance reimbursement is occasionally possible with this procedure.
Saline-filled breast implants can be used for breast augmentation in women 18-years or older and for breast reconstruction [U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval; May, 2000].
In November 2006, the FDA re-approved the use of silicone breast implants for breast augmentation. However, silicone breast implants are only approved for use in women age 22-years or older.
Many teenagers who want breast augmentation have one breast that is larger than the other - sometimes a full cup size or more in difference. This condition is called breast asymmetry. Using a saline-filled implant in the smaller breast allows the patient to have breasts of the same size. Although waiting may prolong the physical awkwardness, it is advisable to delay surgery until breast growth ceases in order to achieve the best result. More than 7,840 breast augmentations were performed on 18-19 year olds in 2015.
Surgical reduction of very large breasts can overcome both physical and psychological burdens for a teenage girl. In fact, many teenagers suffer ongoing back pain due to overly large breasts. Although waiting may prolong the psychological awkwardness, it is advisable to delay surgery until breast growth ceases in order to achieve the best result. Insurance reimbursement is often possible with this procedure. In 2010, more than 4,600 breast reductions were performed on patients age 13-19.
Acne eruptions may be controlled by the proper use of modern prescription drugs. In addition to supervising the use of these medications, plastic surgeons may improve acne scars by smoothing or "refinishing" the skin with a laser or with a fine sanding technique called microdermabrasion. In 2015, nearly 7,871 microdermabrasion procedures were performed on patients age 13-19. Other treatments for acne related skin problems include laser skin resurfacing, dermabrasion, and chemical peels. In 2015, 27,954 laser skin resurfacing procedures, 6,119 chemical peels, and 17,978 Botulinum Toxin Type A (Botox, Dysport) were performed on patients 13-19.
Teenage boys with large breasts, known as gynecomastia, are often eager to undergo plastic surgery. Surgical correction, accomplished in a variety of ways, is occasionally covered by insurance. Gynecomastia accounted for 10.9 percent of cosmetic surgical procedures for patients age 13-19 in 2015, totaling 7,021 procedures.
Completed at least six years of surgical training, with at least three years in plastic surgery.
Passed comprehensive written and oral exams.
ASPS requires that all members who perform surgery under anesthesia, other than minor local anesthesia and/or minimal oral tranquilization, must do so in a facility that meets at least one of the following criteria.
Licensed by the state in which the facility is located.
By choosing an ASPS Member Surgeon you are guaranteed that your physician meets the above certification and accreditation requirements.
At the highest level of care, every surgery has risks as well as benefits. ASPS recognizes the physician-patient relationship is one of shared decision-making. This decision-making process is called informed consent. The ASPS "Statement of Principle on Informed Consent" details the information that should be discussed and understood by the patient as well as the patient's parents or guardian, including: details of the surgery, benefits, possible consequences and side effects of the operation, potential risks and adverse outcomes as well as their probability and severity; alternatives to the procedure being considered and their benefits, risks and consequences; and the anticipated outcome. For more information on informed consent, patients are encouraged to talk with their surgeons.
To assist people considering plastic surgery ASPS has developed a brochure, "Make the Right Choice," which offers information on managing expectations and questions to ask before plastic surgery.
Visit www.plasticsurgery.org, for referrals to ASPS Member Surgeons and to learn more about cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery.
This document is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information on the topic covered as of the date of publication and is subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advances and as practice patterns evolve. The views expressed represent the collective, but not necessarily the individual, views of members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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the sterilizing effect of alcohol along the needle tract and fewer needle punctures.19 Routine ablation of the needle tract during RFA and the use of an internally cooled electrode may also decrease the incidence of NTI.1,2,21 Patients with small or well-differentiated HCC are expected to have a longer life span than those with large or poorly differentiated HCC.15 Since the chance of detection of NTI is higher in the former,1,15,16 ablation should also be considered for both the lesion and the needle tract in cases of biopsy from a small liver nodule.
A study of Ahn et al25 reported that incidence of NTI after percutaneous biopsy or PEIT is similar to the previous study,26 and that percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) can also induce NTI. Several treatment modalities are recommended for NTI of HCC and their results are known to be acceptable. However, in this study, even though the prognosis of HCC is usually independent from the degree of metastasis, one fourth of the patients recurred after surgical excision and only method of excision for implanted nodules was significantly associated with recurrence. Thereby, when NTI is detected, en bloc wide excision of implanted tumor appears to be a preferable option.
Currently, LT has been proved to be an effective treatment option for HCC. Percutaneous procedure, including needle biopsy, PEIT or RFA in those patients would have a poor long term outcome of successful LT, because it turns a potentially curative lesion into an untreatable situation due to extrahepatic tumor dissemination along the needle track.23 Thus, some investigators emphasize that percutaneous interventional procedures are generally contraindicated and these procedures should be undertaken only in specialized liver transplant centers for selected cases of HCC.
In conclusion, although uncommon, NTI after needle biopsy for HCC can occur with an incident that is not negligible. In order to avoid NTI, percutaneous biopsy should only be considered in cases when imaging results are ambiguous, or pathologic confirmation is necessary before nonsurgical treatments, such as transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE), PEIT, RFA, or chemotherapy.17,23 Since needle tract seeding may present after percutaneous interventional procedure and even after RFA, attention must be paid to the needle tract during extended follow-up.
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on senior night. The Saddlelites surged to a 10-3 lead after the opening quarter and held a 20-18 halftime advantage. It was a close second half, but the Mustangs couldn’t recover from the early deficit. Olivia Moore led Marian with a game-high 18 points. Regina’s high scorer with Teresa Diehl with 11. Marian fell to 10-4 overall, including 5-3 in the Catholic League. Regina hiked its league mark to 6-2.
LUTHERAN NORTHWEST 39, ROEPER 35: Roeper fell by four points in this hotly-contested MIAC match-up Thursday. Each team had a pair of double-figure scorers. Alexis Johnson and Hailey Samples led the Roughriders with 13 and 12 points, respectively. Laura Hohnstadt canned game-high 15 points for visiting Lutheran Northwest. Teammate Molly Grukle added 12.
COUNTRY DAY 69, HASLETT 56: In a rematch of last year’s Class B state championship game, visiting Country Day prevailed again. DCD led 12-4 after one quarter and hiked the advantage to 31-17 by halftime. Haslett outscored DCD by a point in the second half, 39-38. “It was a real good basketball game,” DCD head coach Frank Orlando said. “It was at their place and it was a tournament-like atmosphere. It was a tough game for us. We led by 18 points at one point, but they kept coming back and cut it to 10 in the fourth quarter. They hit some key threes and they kept shooting better as the game went along.” Destiny Pitts, a junior guard, led Country Day’s balanced offense with 20 points. Junior center Tylar Bennett tallied a near double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore forward Maxine Moore scored 12 points and DCD teammate Kaela Webb, a sophomore who netted a game-high 20 points in last year’s title game, finished with 14 points and four assists. “Tylar Bennett had an exceptional game and I think that was the difference,” Orlando said. “I don’t think they figured she would score on them the way she did. She played a real strong game.” Megan Mowid led Haslett with 20 points, while Sydnee Dennis contributed 16. Haslett, a Class A team this year based on enrollment, is 12-2 and ranked among the top 10 in the state. Haslett lost to Country Day in last year’s state title game, 49-41. Country Day, ranked No. 2 in Class B, hiked its record to 13-1. The Yellowjackets were to play Southfield-Lathrup, another highly-ranked Class A school, Saturday at Lathrup (after this paper went to press).
MACOMB CHRISTIAN 40, SOUTHFIELD CHRISTIAN 33: Meagan Peabody (12) and Maurgan Lee (10) each hit double figures for host Southfield Christian but it wasn’t enough Tuesday. Macomb was led by Shania Rawls, who registered a game-high 18 points. The Eagles are now 5-9 overall and 1-8 in MIAC action.
MERCY 35, MARIAN 25: The host Marlins ended a five-game losing streak against rival Bloomfield Hills Marian. Mercy, which led virtually the entire game, was ahead at halftime, 15-12, and the end of three quarters, 23-21. The Marlins held the Mustangs to just four points in the fourth. “I’m just really, really proud of the kids,” Mercy coach Gary Morris said. “I thought we came out ready to play tonight.” Zora Pullen led the Marlins with nine points. Jackie Bauer and Katie Bryce scored six apiece and Jenna Schluter four. Jordyn Schluter had a team-high five rebounds and added three points. Pullen and Bauer brought down four rebounds each; Jenna Schluter also had five assists. Maria Kaschalk scored nine points for the Mustangs (10-4). Elizabeth Grobbel and Lauren Montalbano added five each. Mercy was 7-of-10 shooting free throws, Marian 9-of-18.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS 50, STONEY CREEK 45: Oakland University’s O’Rena turned out to be a nice venue Jan. 30 for Bloomfield Hills. The Black Hawks (OAA White) hiked their overall record to 11-2, while Stoney Creek (OAA Red) fell to 8-4. Bloomfield Hills raced to a 17-10 lead after the opening quarter and retained the lead into halftime, 31-26. The Cougars fought back in the third quarter thanks to a 10-of-10 showing from the free-throw line and managed to tie the game at 39-39 heading into the final eight minutes. Stoney Creek took a brief lead in the fourth quarter, but the Black Hawks responded nicely. Junior winger Victorie Franklin hit a pair of treys with just under two minutes remaining to put Bloomfield Hills back on top for good. Junior center Amanda Sape iced the game with a pair of late free throws. Sape finished with 16 points and eight rebounds. Franklin also had a nice game with 13 points and seven rebounds. Junior guard and team captain Katherine Prina finished with six points and seven assists. Courtney Eckhart led the Stoney Creek scoring.
COUNTRY DAY 69, TOLEDO WAITE 21: Country Day made a worthwhile trip Jan. 30 to Ohio to raise their overall record to 12-1. Destiny Pitts, a junior guard, led the way for DCD with a team-high 18 points. The rest of the scoring was pretty well spread out among Maxine Moore (nine), Tylar Bennett (eight), Adrian Folks (eight) and Kaela Webb (seven). Latriece Williams led Waite with 13 points.
MARIAN 48, CROSWELL LEXINGTON 26: Marian shot out to a 12-3 lead in this non-league game Jan. 29 behind a sterling defense which did not allow Croswell Lexington more than seven points in any quarter. Elizabeth Grobbel led the Mustangs with 17 points, while Uche Ike also hit double figures with 10. Marian raised its overall record to 10-3. Croswell Lexington fell to 8-4.
GROVES 60, OAK PARK 24: Birmingham Groves continued its winning ways Jan. 29 in OAA Gold Division play. Sophomore guard Sha Carter led all scorers with 21 points. Nannaya Lewis was the next highest Groves scorer with eight points. Akenia Evans and Sonya Williams were the top Oak Park scorers with seven points apiece.
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT 41, ROEPER 34: Host Roeper stumbled in this MIAC Blue battle Jan. 29. Naomi Savis led the Roughriders with 21 points. Liggett’s double-digit scorers were Nia Ahart (25) and Kendall McConico (12). Roeper fell to 9-4 overall (2-3 in MIAC Blue).
OAKLAND CHRISTIAN 45, SOUTHFIELD CHRISTIAN 22: Vvisiting Southfield Christian mustered just nine first-half points Jan. 29 in this MIAC loss. The Eagles were led by Kelly Hunter with six points.
BROTHER RICE 5, TRENTON 1: Host Brother Rice took care of highly-regarded Trenton for the second time this season Jan. 29. Rice scored twice in the opening period thanks to a pair of goals from Alex Czako (assisted by Mitch Shults and Jack Dansbury). Nick Bowman scored a pair of second-period goals for Rice (from Shults and Adam Blanck). Alec DeLuca concluded the Warriors scoring with a third-period goal assisted by Jack Reinhart. Rice goalie Ryan Hoffman made 27 saves for the win. Trenton’s lone goal came in the final period by Brandon Morgan. Rice scored a 6-2 victory Dec. 5 at Trenton.
BIRMINGHAM UNIFIED 8, UTICA 0: Birmingham Unified registered this decisive non-conference victory Jan. 28. Justin Rebock and Rory White led the Kings with two goals each. Ian Shefferly, Matt Jackson, J.P. Culbertson and Spencer Calkins accounted for the other four goals. Carl Banerian was the winning goalie with 15 saves. The win extended BU’s streak to 2-1-1 in its past four games, in which it’s outscored its foes by a whopping 24-14 margin.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS 2, MARYSVILLE 1: Bloomfield Hills slipped won a non-conference game played Jan. 28 at the Detroit Skating Club.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS 37, CRANBROOK KINGSWOOD 39: In this close dual meet held Jan. 26 at Pine Knob, Bloomfield Hills slipped past Cranbrook Kingswood by two points. Bloomfield Hills won the giant slalom competition, led by overall winner Ryan Stewart’s combined time of 38:00. CK’s Kyle Ghesquire was second in that discipline, followed by Bloomfield’s Dominick Shoha. Paced by Ghesquire’s winning effort of 47.89, CK took the slalom competition. Shoha was second and CK’s Hunter Shuert was third.
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Lianshe Fu, Qingguo Meng, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang, Kuiyue Yang, Jiazuan Ni, “In-situ synthesis of terbium-benzoic acid complex in sol-gel derived silica by a two-step sol-gel method”, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 61 (11), 1877-1881 (2000).
Lianshe Fu, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang, Qingguo Meng, Kuiyue Yang and Jiazuan Ni, “Preparation and luminescence properties of the ternary europium complex incorporated into an inorganic/polymer matrix by a sol-gel method”, J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol., 15 (1), 49-55 (1999).
Lianshe Fu, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang, Qingguo Meng, Hua Shao, Jiazuan Ni, “Preparation and luminescence properties of terbium-sal synthesized in silica matrix by a two-step sol-gel process”, J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 15 (2), 187-189 (1999).
Li-Ning Sun, Hong-Jie Zhang, Lian-She Fu, Feng-Yi Liu, Qing-Guo Meng, Chun-Yun Peng, and Jiang-Bo Yu, "A new sol-gel material doped with an erbium complex and its potential optical-amplification application”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 15 (6), 1041-1048 (2005).
H. R. Li, J. Lin, H. J. Zhang, L. S. Fu, Q. G. Meng, S. B. Wang, “Preparation and luminescence properties of hybrid materials containing europium (III) complexes covlaently bonded to a silica matrix”, Chem. Mater., 14 (9), 3651-3655 (2002).
H. R. Li, J. Lin, H. J. Zhang, H. C. Li, L. S. Fu, Q. G. Meng, “Novel, covalently bonded hybrid materials of europium (terbium) complexes with silica”, Chem. Comm., (13), 1212 (2001).
Patricia P. Lima, Rute A. S. Ferreira, Ricardo O. Freire, Filipe A. Almeida Paz, Lianshe Fu, Severino Alves Jr., Luis D. Carlos, and Oscar L. Malta, “Spectroscopic study of a UV-photostable organic-inorganic hybrids incorporating an Eu3+ b-diketonate complex, ChemPhysChem, 7, 735-746 (2006).
Li-Ning Sun, Hong-Jie Zhang, Qing-Guo Meng, Feng-Yi Liu, Lian-She Fu, Chun-Yun Peng, Jiang-Bo Yu, Guo-Li Zheng, and Shu-Bin Wang, “Near-infrared luminescent hybrid materials doped with lanthanide (Ln) complexes (Ln = Nd, Yb) and their possible laser application”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (13), 6174-6182 (2005).
Lianshe Fu, R. A. Sá Ferreira, A. Valente, J. Rocha and L. D. Carlos, “Optically Functional Nanocomposites with Poly(oxyethelene)-Based Di-Ureasils and Mesoporous MCM-41”, Microp. Mesop. Mater., 94 (1-3), 185-192 (2006).
Lianshe Fu, Qinghong Xu, Hongjie Zhang, Liansheng Li, Qingguo Meng, Ruren Xu, “Preparation and luminescence properties of the mesoporous MCM-41s intercalated with rare earth complex”, Mater. Sci. Eng. B, 88 (1), 68-72 (2002).
Lianshe Fu, Hongjie Zhang, and Philippe Boutinaud, “Preparation, characterization and luminescent properties of the MCM-41 impregnated with rare earth complex”, J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 17 (3), 293-298 (2001).
Xianmin Guo, Lianshe Fu, Hongjie Zhang, L. D. Carlos, Chunyun Peng, Junfang Guo, Jiangbo Yu, Ruiping Deng, and Lining Sun, “Incorporation of luminescent lanthanide complex inside the channels of organically modified mesoporous silica via template-ion exchange method”, New J. Chem., 29 (10), 1351-1358 (2005).
Qinghong Xu, Lianshe Fu, Liansheng Li, Hongjie Zhang, Ruren Xu, “Preparation, characterization and photophysical properties of layered zirconium bis(monohydrogenphosphate) intercalated with rare earth complexes”, J. Mater. Chem., 10 (11), 2532-2536 (2000).
Q.G. Meng, L.S. Fu, H. J. Zhang, J. Lin, Y. X. Zheng, H. R. Li, S. B. Wang, Y. N. Yu, S. Y. Zhang, “Preparation and characterization of novel luminescent sol-gel films containing a Re3+ carboxylic acid complex”, J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol., 24 (2), 131-137 (2002).
Q. G. Meng, L. S. Fu, H. J. Zhang, X. H. Chuai, S. B. Wang, H. R. Li, Y. H. Li, “Preparation and optical characterization of an organoeuropium-doped sol-gel transparent luminescence thin film”, Thin Solid Films, 388 (1-2), 87 (2001).
Qingguo Meng, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang, Lianshe Fu, Youxuan Zheng, Kuiyue Yang, “Preparation and characterization of luminescent thin films doped with rare earth (Tb3+, Eu3+) complexes derived from a sol-gel process”, Mater. Lett., 45 (3-4), 213-216 (2000).
Jun Wang, Haishui Wang, Lianshe Fu, Fengyi Liu, Hongjie Zhang, “Study on highly ordered luminescent langmuir-blodgett films of heteropolytungstate complexes containing lanthanide”, Thin Solid Films, 415 (1-2), 242-247 (2002).
Jun Wang, Haishui Wang, Lianshe Fu, Fengyi Liu, Hongjie Zhang, “Luminescence Properties of LB films based on heteropolytungstate of rare earth”, Mater. Sci. & Eng. B, 97, 83-86 (2003).
Youxuan Zheng, Lianshe Fu, Yonghui Zhou, Jiangbo Yu, Yingning Yu, Shubin Wang, Hongjie Zhang, “Electroluminescence based on a b-diketonate ternary samarium complex”, J. Mater. Chem., 12 (4), 919-923 (2002).
Fengyi Liu, Lianshe Fu, Jun Wang, Qingguo Meng, Huanrong Li, Junfang Guo and Hongjie Zhang, “Luminescent film with terbium-complex-bridged polysilsesquioxanesy’, New J. Chem., 27 (2), 233-235 (2003).
Qingguo Meng, Lianshe Fu, Jun Lin, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang, Yonghui Zhou, Min Yu and Fengyi Liu, “Preparation and characterization of a layered transparent luminescent thin film of silica-CTAB-Tb(acac)3 composite with mesostructure”, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 64 (1), 63-67 (2003).
Qingguo Meng, Jun Lin, Lianshe Fu, Hongjie Zhang, Shubin Wang and Yonghui Zhou, “Sol-gel deposition of calcium silicate red emitting luminescent films doped with Eu3+ ion”, J. Mater. Chem., 11 (12), 3382-3386 (2001).
Y.F. Han, L.S. Fu, L. Mafra, F.N. Shi, “Hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structures and photoluminescence properties of mixed europium-yttrium organic frameworks”, J. Solid State Chem., 186, 165-170 (2012).
C.B. Liu, R.A.S. Ferreira, F.A.A. Paz, A. Cadiau, L.D. Carlos, L.S. Fu, J. Rocha, F.-N. Shi, “Highly emissive Zn-Ln metal-organic frameworks with an unusual 3D inorganic subnetwork”, Chem., Comm., (48), 7964-7966 (2012).
Junfang Guo, Lianshe Fu, Huanrong Li, Youxuan Zheng, Fengyi Liu, Qingguo Meng, Jun Wang, and Hongjie Zhang, “of a luminescent complex Sm(HTH)3Phen”, Chem. Lett., 31 (10), 998-999 (2002).
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. Vic and I attended the ceremony at the Risata Hotel. It was presented and attended by many of the staff. Children of staff who had attained a ranking of 1, 2 or 3 at school in the end of year exams were invited to join the ceremony, at which they were presented by the CEO, Antik Mugianto, with a monetary award, books and a new school bag before enjoying a breakfast with their parents.
We visited SMP4 Kediri to present the ‘Anne Rennick Scholarship for six years of high school to Ni Komang Tri Citradewi and caught up with Ni Kadek Dian Saraswati, recipient of last years ‘Grattan Scholarship and the other sponsored children. Thanks to Alit Widia for making the arrangements and to the new coordinator at SMPN4 Kediri, Wayan Sekarini for her assistance.
Next it was on to SDN4 Kaba Kaba where we inspected the ‘Aveley English Centre’ and met with the Principal and staff, after which we moved to SDN1 Kaba Kaba. Both these schools provided a digital record of AAS coordinators and parents and children’s visits from their sister schools. Again we met the sponsored children. It is wonderful to see them looking healthy and to hear they are achieving well at school.
We were able to deliver new school clothes, (hats, shorts, Tshirts, skirts, skorts) donated by Morley Primary School to be distributed to local schools and families. Thank you Alit and Made for facilitating all of this and for the lovely cake and afternoon tea. A big ‘Thank You’ to Morley Primary School. I understand that some of the larger wide brimmed hats have been donated to the Senior Citizens Club for use on their Friday aerobics sessions. Alit Widia is involved in the Senior Citizens Club, which is currently endeavouring to raise funds to take the Senior’s on a bus trip to visit some of their Traditional Temples.
On the way to Lovina we caught up with Ketut, the Principal of SD3 Rianggede and his wife Tini. They had a most enjoyable visit to their sister school, Riverside Educational Support Centre in Mandurah in June. Thank you to the staff and Principal Jim Douglas, who ensured the visit was informative, relaxed and so enjoyable for the visitors from Bali. It will long be remembered. Again, another delicious lunch.
Once we arrived in the North of the island we visited the Singaraja Hospital. Komang Budi’s wife, Komang, who assists him both for his needs and in the business, had a stroke a week before and her right side has been compromised. Signs of partial recovery were evident. She had some movement in her right hand, she could speak a little but her leg was still paralysed. The next day we visited Budi at home and he was hard at work with members of his family assisting to complete a consignment for delivery the next day. It will be some time before the extent of Komang’s disability is known but Budi’s family said they would all help. Budi, with assistance, was tie dying and painting traditional patterns on sarongs and intended to work through the night to have the consignment ready on time.
On the way cutting across from Rianggede to Baturiti, we fortunately took a wrong turn and saw this.
We met up with Leonie, the daughter of one of our other sponsors and visited the student Hendra and his mother, at Ketut and Yuni’s house once more. Yuni had purchased shoes, socks, bag, telephone, dictionary and thongs with Hendra on behalf of his sponsor. Another delicious meal. It was a very happy occasion.
We went to Marga and with our coordinator, Ketut Widana visited the home of one of Mrs Beeson’s sponsored children. Nandi is unable to walk and relies on his wheelchair or moves around on his hands and knees. Nandi’s sister, Nadya is also sponsored and the two children are very close siblings. They live with Mum, Granma and an older sister. Nandi was 9 years old before he was able to go to school so is a little behind in his schooling. Hopefully he will commence at an SMP (Special School) in the near future.
On the way back we stopped to catch up with Sri Agustini, the AAS Treasurer. Sri is expecting her third baby and works full time in the Education Department as well as being a volunteer with AAS. How does she do it all? We saw different things on the way back.
In addition we met with Coordinators Anief Arzuani Adhar (Pecatu), Wayan Suadra (Baturiti), Agung Sumanadi (Pelaga and Petang), Agung Putra (Mas, Ubud). Thank you all for the hard work you contribute to make AAS such a success in Bali.
We ran into Made Wijana at the Bedugal markets. Made visited Perth with one of the Principals study tours some years ago. We visited Stikes Nursing Academy and the Dwi Jendra University in Denpasar. This campus caters for children from Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High, Senior High and University. The five Faculties in University are Education, Law, Agriculture, Business and Religion. Staff at the University has produced a computer programme to add to ‘Fonts’ on the computer. It converts other languages to Balinese (not Indonesian) written language. It looks very much like Sanskrit and is very difficult to learn. We were given a demonstration and a DVD programme to ‘have a go’. This is a non-smoking campus and signs warn of huge fines if anyone is caught smoking – that is all staff and students alike.
We were able to catch up with sponsors from Victoria who were in Bali and will visit their sponsored children in the next week or so. Have a good time Lyn, Gary, Eric, Bianca and Helen. Of course we had the odd swim in our pool and the water is much cooller and enjoyable than in February when it is so warm.
Thanks to the Risata Resort for the counter collection on behalf of AAS. The donations this year will ensure another elementary child has funding.
August 19th saw us enjoy dinner with Ketut, Yuni,and their children Vicky and Adinda, Wayan Tur and his wife Julie and Gede Sudarmadiasa at the Bale Udang Restaurant. Not only did we enjoy a wonderful meal but had much fun and laughter. Many thanks to my friends and to Gede for the lovely Black Forest cake.
One of the last meetings we had was as SMAN1 Kuta where discussions were held about the students study tour for Harmony Week in March 2016. Nyoman Yasa the Principal has confirmed the group will visit and part of their programme will be to attend school for two days at Belmont City College. The students will visit tourist attractions such as Whiteman Park and Fremantle SMAN1 Kuta will host a group of West Australian Scouts in November.
We returned to Perth at the end of August confident about the future of AAS in Bali due to the commitment of the coordinators and committee. Thank you to all the schools and sponsors who make this programme so viable. It is very rewarding to see children graduate from High School and University knowing that without financial support the majority of them would not have completed elementary school.
In January 2015, Susan Cromb (Membership Officer) conducted a workshop at Keraton Beach Hotel, Jimbaran, for new coordinators in the Kuta Selatan area. Jati and Gayus, both long-term coordinators for AAS, shared their experiences with the newcomers.
When in Bali Sherryn and her friends from Canada, Terry and Gail had an opportunity to visit some Sister School Projects in some different villages: Kaba-Kaba, Nyambu, Cepaka and Munggu. Her visit could be a special one.That time she didn’t visit sponsored students,but some projects that funded by Sister Schools.
She began her visit on Friday, 20 February 2015. In SD2 Munggu she officially began communicating with LeeAnn Hanson at Nowra Public School in Sydney, NSW by using a skype. The cost of internet and set up a skype was funded by the two schools.Now the communication between the two schools become easier as if Munggu – Sydney were near. They plan to communicate regularly every Friday.
The Landsdale Primary school sent some money for SD2 Kaba-Kaba. The fund was spent for furnishing the school library needs i.e. TV-DVD, CURTAINS AND GRIFTING IRON for windows. Sherryn was honoured to switch on the TV to watch visitors that had a visit to this school before.
In SD4 Kaba-Kaba Sherryn and groups were shown the CLEAN WATER project. The project was wholely funded by the Aveley Primary School. Now the students need not to take water from the old school well anymore. They can keep the toilet clean and the garden beautifully green.
The last visit on that day was at SD1 Kaba-Kaba. Sherryn had opportunity to strike the RINDIK, a bamboo music instrument. Lyn and Gary Yeomans from Victoria donated some money for it.
The next visit was on Friday, 27 February.Sherryn and groups continueing their visit to some other schools in Nyambu and Cepaka. SD1 Nyambu rebuilt the School Sign Board. The South Bunbury Primary School shared the cost of this project. Sher
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Today is officially the last day of the 100 Day Project, so I thought I would do a final check in. My project, 100 Days of Watercolor Without Reference started with a challenge from Elle Luna, a newly purchased set of 60 watercolor tubes, and me frantically searching for an idea. During the 100 days, I quit my job, visited my home state, packed up my apartment, road tripped across the country, and landed on the opposite coast.
1. Stop being lazy about watercolor. I think I managed this. I learned that I can arrive at a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma at midnight after many hours of driving and manage to put a paintbrush to paper, so getting out my watercolors at home doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore. I definitely can get a little bit lazy about cleaning my palette, so I tend to use the same colors again and again for several days, but I think that helps me to expand on my original idea and come up with new combinations. At least, that's what I'm telling myself.
2. Explore painting without references. I think that this was kind of a fail. Or at least, not what I got out of this project. I guess I just like references? When I look back at all of the paintings, I can see that I majorly focused on abstract paintings, collages, and plants. Instead of pushing myself to paint new subjects without references, I managed to make this project fit with where my interests have been taking me - towards collage and patterns. I'm not sure if the answer is to push myself harder to try new things in the future. I definitely don't want to become complacent or only stick to making things that feel safe, but I think that the best way for me to grow right now is to chase what I'm interested in down the rabbit hole, rather than mapping out a direction for myself.
3. Experiment with sharing work on the internet. I'm still pretty conflicted on this one. As I said in my first post on the 100 Day Project, I want my internet presence to be like the inside of my brain - I want it to make me feel happy, inspired, and proud. And some days I don't really achieve photos that incite those feelings (hello, badly lit photos of quick, exhausted road trip paintings on notebook paper). So I'm not really a fan of daily posts with a challenge like this. I also just don't think I need the accountability. I already make stuff every day. On the other hand, I do want to be authentic and I do want to share what I'm working on as I'm working on it. It adds to the process and is a way that I connect with other creative people online. This project also helped me to think more critically and creatively about sharing my work. I started to think "am about to paint this because I'm excited to paint it, or because it is the first random subject I thought of that would be quick and easy to paint so I can get a post up?" or "is this the best way to share this piece, or is there another way to photograph it that more closely matches my vision?" I'm hoping to keep up with that kind of thought process even after this project.
I've enjoyed working on 100 Days of Watercolor Without Reference, but I'm even more excited to be able to move on to other projects that I'm interested in right now. I'm fascinated by the way that working with watercolor influenced what I created - the medium just felt so perfectly suited to flowing, liquid abstracts and I couldn't stop myself from painting them. Right now gouache is calling to me and I'm excited to expand on the collages that I've been working on. Even drawing seems appealing these days - focusing on watercolor seems to have healed my sketching burnout. Onto the next.
Last year everyone on Instagram was all excited about the 100 Day Project (#the100dayproject), created by Elle Luna. It actually started right around the time that I was hitting the 100 day mark on my 365 day drawing project, so I didn't participate, but I loved following other people's projects - I found so many cool artists (notably Elena of Elena's Treehouse - her papercuts are incredible). My favorite part was that people's projects were specific, I was intrigued by having a bit more of a direction than making any drawing (although it might be harder to keep something like that up for a project more than 3.5 times the length of the 100 day project). When Elle announced that this year's 100 Day Project would be starting I decided to participate right away.
I'm calling my project 100 Day of Watercolor Without Reference (you can check it out at #100daysofwatercolorwithoutreference). I have no idea where the idea came from, I was on a plane home from LA on the day before the challenge started and the phrase just popped into my head. I think I chose it because I liked the sound of the alliteration. I knew that I wanted my project to involve watercolor, which is my favorite medium lately, but I didn't want to be limited to just abstract or just representative painting. I am drawn to abstracts lately, but I also want to practice representative watercolor painting, so I created a project that would let me do both. (I've also done collage with watercolored paper, because it is my project and I do what I want.) But I still wanted something to make the project a little bit more interesting and challenging than just painting in watercolor every day, so I decided to paint without a reference (a photo or real-life reference for representative work and a color reference for abstracts).
With this project I'm not really looking to build a creative habit. After my 2015 drawing project I feel like I have done that already. But there definitely are some things that I am looking to get out of the 100 Day Project this time.
1. To stop being so lazy about watercolor. As I mentioned, watercolor is my favorite medium of the moment, but it feels like a lot more effort than drawing does. I have to take out a bunch of supplies and then clean up more supplies when I'm done. I have to wash brushes and palettes. I can't do it with my sketchbook in my lap on the couch. You get the idea. It is much easier to just grab a few pens and draw, but watercolor really doesn't take THAT much effort. And the results are so magical - infinite colors, swooshy, unpredictable, watery goodness. Hopefully, having to bust out the watercolors every day will get me out of the mindset that they are too much effort to set up. Thus far I have been dealing with that by leaving my watercolor stuff out on the kitchen table, which I'm sure my roommate loves (Hi Hannah, if you're reading this, I'm sorry for leaving my art crap everywhere!). I also never watercolor while traveling, so I'm excited to be pushed do that, too.
2. To explore painting without references. If I am painting or drawing something that is supposed to look like something (as opposed to an abstract) then I typically always Google the thing to look at photos as I'm working, or I'm working from something I can see in front of me in real life. I'm starting to get to a place where I care more about what my work is trying to convey than how much it actually matches the thing I'm trying to represent. Wow, that sounds super pretentious. I just mean that if I want to include a house in a painting it maybe the shadowing and the scale and the detail of each windowpane doesn't have to be exactly like that of a real house for me to be happy with the overall piece. Also, drawing or painting objects around me, or photos from Instagram of Tumblr is my go-to way of practicing. I'm excited to see what subjects and ideas come out of my brain when I deny the impulse to look around my immediate (real-life and virtual) surroundings for something.
3. To experiment with sharing work on the internet. By the end of my 365 day project I was so ready to have my Instagram feed "back." I was so tired of being forced (by me) to share photos of work that I didn't love or that didn't do the work justice. Maybe the idea is to make work until I have something that I'm actually proud to share, but that just isn't going to happen for me. I have a job and a life (kind of) and some days it isn't in the cards to keep making until I get it right. In the months since the end of December 2015 I've been happy to make my Instagram feed look like the inside of my brain - carefully selecting the photos and work that make me happy and hopefully convey where I'm at. But I'm still really interested in the idea of posting art every day, sharing what I'm making in the moment, and maybe being less critical of what I post. So I'm taking this project as a way to dip my toe back into sharing daily art to see what I think of it this time around. I was talking to someone recently who said that I seem like I think a lot about my work (I think the length of this blog post alone shows that I do), so I'm also using the daily Instagram posts as kind of creative check ins that allow me to share some thoughts on my process and the challenge every day. Maybe that will be interesting to someone!
I might do some more posts reflecting on the 100 Day Project if I feel like I have things to say, but you can keep up with it on the daily
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in 2012, I have conducted them in performance a couple of times and working with them has been incredibly influential in my development as a conductor. Here is a video from my YouTube channel of me conducting them through Whitacre’s “A Boy And A Girl”.
Leonard graciously came to the concert and even worked with us on the Friday evening before. It was awesome that he was there to share it with us, along with many of our family and friends.
Once we got into the hall the first time on Saturday for a dress rehearsal, we were all immediately astonished by the acoustics. They can only be described as ‘perfect’. The stage forms into a bowl shape and as you can see from the above photo, we were able to stand in our normal formation and you could hear everything. To give you an idea of what I mean by perfect, in between one phrase I remember, many members of the choir collectively swallowed and you could hear it clear as day. But as we sang, you could also hear every member of the choir clear as day as well. We blended together beautifully because unlike most of the venues back home, everyone could hear everyone else. Like I said, perfect.
After a great dress rehearsal, we were on pins and needles until the curtain time finally came. Being led onto the most famous stage in North America to a nearly full house was a truly surreal experience. The performance was incredible. We sang as well as we possibly could and the audience awarded us with a standing ovation along with the loud cheers of those who had come so far to see us sing.
When I stepped out of the choir to conduct the Enns, I was not nervous at all. I was filled with nothing but trust that I had done everything I could to prepare them and that they would absolutely kill it like the professionals they are. I was not to be disappointed.
I knew the question was coming but it wasn’t until days after the concert that I was finally able to form a cogent response.
It was as close to God as I’ve ever been.
In order to explain what I mean by this, you need to know just a little about the ‘religious’ me. Without getting too boring and technical, my main metaphysical viewpoint in life is that we are all sharing energy with each other everywhere we go. Good energy and bad energy. I heard John Leguizamo on TV the other day refer to it as a “soul exchange”.
I’m going to give you a little piece of my soul tonight, and if you give me a little piece of yours and we do this right, we’re going to have a soul exchange right here on this stage.
When I’m with my choir in church, I get the honour of helping people participate in their own personal worship every week through the power of music. You can feel the energy being sent upward by everyone. You can then feel it rain gently and mildly back down on all of us. I find prayer can be a very real force in the world if looked upon as simply the generation of positive energy. Not to mention the powerful energy I get from my choir as I lead them to share their gifts with the congregation.
The energy amongst QVE was high the minute we landed in NYC and grew exponentially with each passing day. As I was conducting them, I felt the choir releasing that pent-up energy like white hot blazing arcs of lightning, hitting me all at once. It was overwhelming. It was the greatest high I’d ever experienced as a musician. I felt myself outside of my body and floating inside the music. Gestures flew out of me that I had not known were possible. At the end I threw my hands up in the air because I wanted to hear the last chord of the piece ring in those beautiful acoustics as long as I could. It was an intense few minutes to say the least.
Afterwards, as we were leaving the stage, I wept inconsolably for a good 10 minutes. I had shared more energy at once than ever before in my life. I can only describe it as a religious experience, something that cannot be put into words or quantified with measurement. It changed me irrevocably. In those few moments, I truly felt like a conduit for the choir to share their pride and talent with the audience and I can’t thank them enough for allowing me to share that with them.
This trip would not have been as successful without the awe-inspiring talent that is the Quintessential Vocal Ensemble, and our dear leader, Susan Quinn. Susan has inspired me in so many ways as a singer, conductor and teacher. I owe her everything for giving me this privilege and QVE is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.
I love you, QVE. You’re the best.
We took this selfie just after walking off stage from our brilliant performance. Ellen, eat your heart out.
Hello, my dear friends. My name is Andrew Cranston and I welcome you to my new website and blog. I am a choral conductor, singer, music teacher and clinician living in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, along with having an active life as a music teacher in Conception Bay South, a growing community just outside of the city.
Although my musical career began with the saxophone, once I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree I began working more and more with choirs almost immediately. After attending my first Sing Summer camp, organized by the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, I knew I was hooked for life. At Sing Summer, I also learned about the Masters in Choral Conducting program at Memorial University where I studied until 2007. Once I had finished, my wife and I had fallen in love with Newfoundland and wished to stay and lay down our musical roots.
Now, almost eight years later, we have an incredibly active life as a conductor and accompanist team, as the Co-Founders of the Coastal Sounds Community Choir in 2007 and working with our choirs at Topsail United Church since 2013, where my wife is the organist. In addition to the choirs I conduct with my wife, I also direct the Anchormen Chorus, a men’s barbershop group in St. John’s, and sing with the award winning Quintessential Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Susan Quinn.
I maintain an active private music instruction studio in both St. John’s and Conception Bay South which you can find out more about by clicking here.
I had the immense benefit of an amazing public school music education all throughout my grade schooling. Through the support of my parents and the band teacher at my junior high school, I fell in love with music and I fell hard. It became my obsession almost instantly and continues to be until this very day. That band teacher personally moulded me, took interest in me. He gave me solos, encouraged me to contact other musicians, and just showed me how amazing being a musician could be. I haven’t spoken to him since, but I wish I could tell him how formative he was in my career.
But that was the saxophone. For 12 straight years, all I did was play the saxophone. I got pretty good at it. The only major singing I did was being in our only high school musical in our era, and singing in the Vocal Jazz Ensemble at Mount Allison University. Don’t get me wrong, those singing experiences were awesome, but they didn’t pull me in any specific way.
Then, when I graduated and the saxophone was beginning to lose its lustre both literally and figuratively, I found choir, rather randomly by contacting folks who were organizing a men’s choir for Nova Scotia, which would later become Nova Voce and is still active (I saw them sing at Podium in May and they are still as vibrant as ever). Choir pulled me towards it, for many reasons, the most important of which was the people. I loved interacting with people and sharing the music with them. It wasn’t just me in a dark, dingy practice room anymore, I found myself part of a special community. Through the work of the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, I found even more amazing people, educators and singers and music lovers, and they encouraged me to walk the path I’m walking now.
I was not really a naturally good singer. I had an okay ear from good teachers and a natural thirst to teach others, plus I did enjoy it, but my voice was very raw in the beginning. Untrained. But as I said, choir pulled me in. So I sang, and sang, and sang. And sang some more. And I watched conductors do awe inspiring things with amazing singers, desiring more and more to emulate their brilliance. I got better and better. The famous writer Malcolm Gladwell, author of a great book called “Outliers” says that in order to be successful at something, all you need is a interest and 10,000 hours. I feel like I’m now just hitting my 10,000 and I couldn’t be more in love with what I do.
To conduct a choir of mostly untrained singers like I once was, some of whom were told at very young ages that they would never be able to sing and they should “mouth the words”, and to give them an important experience that they were robbed of their entire lives because of bad influences, has been the greatest training I could have ever asked for. As a singer in QVE and with other choirs in the past, I have had the privilege to be part of some of the very best choral singing in Canada or even the world. Perfection at the upper echelon of the choral art. And although we should continue to strive for those highest of heights, we must
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. I’m sure that’s something that our members want as well. Whether you work in health care or not, you’re interacting with the system, which is pretty broken. We are absolutely in crisis. Do you have any advice on how we can be better patient advocates for ourselves and our families?
BS It comes down to understanding how to use the internet. A lot of people complain about Doctor Google. On the other hand there are some good pieces of research out there. So the first thing I’d say is learn how to differentiate between bad and good research. It’s hard. A lot of people go to PubMed, not realizing that PubMed is actually a much broader selection than Medline. So if you want the good research, you would look at the Medline. So you would just put a Medline filter on PubMed and you won’t get the wonky stuff. The unfortunate thing is that the gold standard for health information, The Cochrane Collaboration, which is now just called Cochrane, is going through a crisis right now. So, what do you, as a patient, rely on? Sometimes it just has to be a little bit of information, sometimes it’s a little bit of gut, but I think it’s important that we get people to really look critically at things and accept sometimes that, well, you k now, you’ve got asthma, you’re going to have to deal with that and this is how you do it. I think there’s also other things that we can do, and that’s starting a discussion of the patient being involved in a lot of different ways. The health research institutes in Canada started a thing called SPORE, which is the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research. I probably was on of the few people to read the whole document and I got really excited. Now, that has morphed into something that involves patients and research and that’s good, in a way. Because it gets maybe a different outcome in the research, so that a patient might say “I’d really like my hands to stop tingling. I don’t care about these things, this is what’s really effecting me.” And I think that’s great. But they’ve kind of stopped short because I’ve seen the, the last three times I’ve been in the health system beyond my asthma, were pure disasters. I can point very easily to simple things that can be done. I feel what we really need is the patient ombudsperson who has the resources to be able to help people understand what’s going on as a patient. To train them so they can sit on boards. I sat on the Capital District health Authority Board before it was shut down. I breathed a high sigh of relief when that happened because it’s a hard job. There’s not many patients that can just pick that up and do that. Learning those skills is not impossible. I think that if you’re going to have a learning health system, and that’s the de rigueur way of calling health form now, I was called up about this on a short term research they’re doing out of McMaster, and I said, if you’re going to really have a learning health system, the patients have to be the start of things. Otherwise you’re just going to fiddle with what you have. In the past, doctors were the patient advocate. That’s not really true for a variety of reasons not withstanding the research shows that they have an interest in getting you out of the office, for example. And they only have so much time. I think we really need to say, do we need real advocacy? The problem is we did have funding for advocacy groups/ Sharon Batt, who’s also on the board of the Coalition wrote a book called Health Advocacy Inc. She detailed how they went from government funding to help women with breast cancer to losing that funding to the drug companies coming and happily filling the void and the whole timbre of the discussion changing.
MO It does change when the drugs companies are the ones paying the money. So it s a hard thing even to just be an advocate for yourself. Sometimes it’s hard to know that you can ask those questions to the doctor when you go to the doctor. Sometimes you feel shut down, like your opinion doesn’t matter. I’m very lucky in that I have a very good family doctor, who unfortunately is retiring in March and I don’t know what I’m going to do after March. But I’m lucky in that he knows my health history, he has been my doctor from the time I was an infant. I have chronic health issues my whole life. To be able to go to him and he knows that history and he listens to me respects that I know. But I’ve gone to other doctors where they just shut me down. It’s hard sometimes to stand up to the doctor and say “No, this is my history, I know my history, this is what’s happening, it’s happened before.” and to have those difficult conversations.
MO But you’re not recommending members punch…don’t’ be like Bill’s mom!
BS Yeah, and there’s a continuum. There’s people that just barely use the system, or even if they use the system they don’t really have the interest. They just want to be treated. And then there’s crazy people like me and you!
MO It makes it really hard when you don’t have a family doctor and you’re trying to get answers and you’re sick or somethings going on and you know you should get it checked out but you don’t have a family doctor, so where do you get those referrals. Do you have to go to the emergency room where you’re going to have to sit for six hours before you get seen and they tell you you’re wasting their time, you have to go to a walk-ion clinic. It’s so frustrating.
BS Yes, that report came out from the auditor general yesterday and that’s what he pointed at. Here we are. This is the same people that have no control of what’s going on and they’re in charge of tendering for the one person, one health record, and they’re talking half a billion dollars. In a society where you don’t have to pay for Oracle anymore. Open source software is actually more secure than Oracle.
MO I think a lot of our members who work in health care are on the front lines and they see these issues and they see how the system could work better. I hear them talking about it, going “I don’t understand why this isn’t changing.” Our health care members are dealing with patient-clients. They want to be advocates for their patients and clients. They take these stories home with them. Do you have any advice on how they can be better advocates for those patients?
BS The true heroes to me in the health care system have always been the nurses. I can remember taking my Mom in and the nurse just looking and saying “Oh, she doesn’t have enough O2” and just knew right away what to do. Any of my times in the hospital it’s always been the nurses that I relied on for more useful information. To be an advocate for someone when you’re in the system, part of it is that you’re in the system that is still doctor-centric. You can see that if you go over to the VG Site. If you remember when the CDHA was going there were signs everywhere that said Patients First. Well the new signs that are up, ironically, I have a picture of one over one of the unusable water fountains, talk about the care givers, nothing about patients. I understand where they’re coming from, but they’re also getting directives that they need to refer to patients as clients. That’s just another way of separating yourself from the sick, from the people that need help. What they can do? If they just keep in mind, look for that information coming from patients. There are a few of us out there that do right. We do try to say “Hold it a second, this is how it really effects us.” There may be a way. Some of them may be sitting on one of the boards. The problem that I see now with the NSHA, I don’t think there’s any way to get to them. I understand the situation. They’re trying to meld 7 groups into one. I don’t know why we need a Authority sometimes when we have a health department and we have less than a million people, but that’s another discussion. When you decide to fix the dyke, you don’t bring everybody in for a meeting and pull all the fingers out of the dyke to have a team meeting. You still have to have the fingers in the dyke. I’ll give you a really good example. I mentioned earlier that I had to take some time off from Faces of Pharmacare. I had done through de-proscribing, feeling great – June, running. End of June I finished a half-marathon. Three days later I had a CT that had been scheduled for a while. I coughed up a bit of blood in March, pretty normal stuff, but just in case we scheduled the CT. So I had the CT, went on with my day. An hour and a half later the doctor calls and says come in tomorrow. I go there the next day and she says this is not good news, Bill, and I’m shocked. You have a spiculated lesion in your lung. If you know the term spiculated makes doctors’ sphincters go “Wheep!” really fast. It’s a scary
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, the 2018 Toyota Tacoma midsize vehicle carries the banderole as the recognized midsize barter as well as the fifth acknowledged barter total. The Tacoma is outsold in the U.S. alone by, in change of 2016 sales position, Ford's F-150, Chevy's Silverado, the RAM 1500, and also GMC Sierra-- all abundant past and also added expensive full-size vehicles. Toyota's own Expanse full-size barter avalanche unconcerned abaft the Tacoma in sales numbers, but the allocation is broad. In 2016 Toyota overwhelmed 191,631 Tacomas as well as 114,489 Tundras. The about sales numbers for all the vehicles up is banausic up until now for 2017.
The Tacoma's development over the abutting acknowledged midsize pick-up, the Chevrolet Colorado, is additionally significant. The Colorado awash 108,725 devices in 2016. The Tacoma and also Colorado are both achieving able-bodied in 2017, advancement their regarding placements. That's included compared to can be said for included midsize pick-ups like the Nissan Frontier, Honda Ridgeline. All three approve evident sales accelerate this year, inning accordance with CarSalesBase.com.
The midsize automobile exchange will certainly approve 3 brand-new players in the abutting year or two. Ford is bringing aback the Ranger in 2019, the Nissan Frontier is accepting an improvement quickly, and also the Jeep Wrangler auto is additionally accepted in 2019.
The 2018 Toyota Tacoma has alone accessory trim changes from 2017. There are still 6 trim degrees, 3 of which are TRD (Toyota Competing Growth) variations, alignment from the sporty-looking TRD Activity to the full-on TRD Pro, which asks to clamber mountains as well as chase after in the desert.
In inauguration to trim degrees, Tacomas appear with 2 taxicab selections, 2 barter bed sizes, 2 engines, 2 transmissions, and two drive caster configurations. You don't achieve wedding anniversary alternative separately, however, since the trim selections outright accessibility. For instance, the luxury-leaning Minimal as well as TRD Pro alone appear with bifold cabs as well as V6 engines. The TRD Pro is belted to the accepted bed breadth and four-wheel drive-- you unconcerned approve to accept amidst an accepted as well as automated transmission. If it seems like a whole lot, affront not; we accept all the obtainable combinations provided in a table below.
The abate of the Tacoma's two engines is accessible alone with the SR as well as SR5 trims. The 2.7-liter DOHC four-cylinder makes 159 application at 5200 rpm as well as 180 pound-feet of torque at 3,800 rpm. The 3.5-liter DOHC V6 representative is accepted on the Restricted and all 3 TRD trims and alternate with the SR and also SR5. The V6 representative is ranked at 278 hp at 6,000 rpm and 265 lb-ft at 4,600 rpm.
The EPA scores for both engines are comparable. In a two-wheel drive Tacoma with an automated transmission, the four-cylinder slice 19 mpg in the city, 23 mpg on the highway, and also 21 mpg in built up driving. With the previously mentioned setup, the V6 agent is EPA rated for 19 mpg city, 24 mpg freeway, and also 21 mpg incorporated.
The Tacoma, like best Toyota designs, has a Toyota Assurance Sense house-- the TSS-P version. TSS-P includes a pre-collision arrangement with commonplace discovery, lane desertion alive with amplitude caution, automated airborne beam of lights, and also increased activating alarm cruise ship control.
The Limited and also TRD Pro trims additionally accommodate back vehicle parking abetment alarm and also dark atom ecology with rear cantankerous cartage alert. Both look come on TRD Activity and Off-Road trims in a plan. Back car park abetment is furthermore accessible as an advantage for SR5 versions.
All Tacoma trims approve the Celebrity Assurance Arrangement as approved tools. This alignment consists of representative adherence and absorption control, anti-lock brakes, cyberbanking brake-force circulation, emergency braking assistance, acute stop innovation, annoy concern monitoring, and, for Tacomas with automated transmissions, acropolis alpha aid.
As pointed out over, taxicab appearance and box breadth are dictated by Tacoma trim akin and best of two-wheel or four-wheel drive. The table below reveals the easily accessible combinations.
Picking a barter may assume disconcerting with six trim degrees and also diverse engine, drive wheel, taxi, and also box options, but you're best acceptable task to baddest from either groups. The SR, SR5, and Limited trims are accepted choices for basal project as well as ancestors trucks. The 4 × 4 versions do able-bodied off-road, yet if you intend to absorb bountiful time abroad from pavement, affairs are you'll angular against among the TRD trims. We've accumulated the new Tacomas in the abovementioned way, with aloft trim differentiations listed below.
The "less-sporty" Tacoma build-up consists of the basic SR, the SR5 with the accepted advancement features, and the Limited, which is the best packed with comfort, convenience, as well as affluence attributes. The beginning quantity arrays from $25,300 for a Tacoma SR to a Minimal archetypal starting at $37,410. There's a great deal of aberration in quantity as well as accepted look acoustic this team.
The 2018 Tacoma SR, with a beginning amount of $25,200 in 4 × 2 composition and $28,275 for a 4 × 4 design, is the basic midsize truck. As pointed out over, however, the approved guarantee and modern technology affection established for all Tacomas shows that alike this stereotypical delivers an abundant accord of value. The Tacoma SR has an chip development video camera, an Entune AM/FM/CD audio plan with a 6.1-inch affectation and six audio speakers, and bolt seats.
The SR is accessible with both taxi styles and also box dimensions. It comes approved with the four-cylinder agent however can be updated with the V6. Be exact with upgrades included in this design, however. If you purchase you're abacus a ton of "essential" things, you obviously will conserve cash with one of the added trims.
The 2018 Tacoma SR5, with a starting amount of $26,975 for the 4 × 2 and also $30,050 for a 4 × 4, includes accepted SR upgrades as criterion. The SR5 consists of keyless access with a representative immobilizer, a 4.2-inch TFT multi-information display screen, as well as Toyota's Entune Sound And also arrangement with Attached Aeronautics Application, which firm you could fasten your smartphone aeronautics setup to run through the barter affectation and speakers.
The 2018 Tacoma Limited, beginning at $37,140 for a 4 × 2 adaptation as well as $40,215 with four-wheel drive, sporting activities a being plentiful account of upgrades. The Restricted love account includes sophisticated dual-zone computerized altitude ascendancy as well as the college plan Entune Premium JBL audio plan with a 7.1-inch screen. Six JBL audio speakers as well as a subwoofer show up forth for the trip also, together with chip aeronautics and an application collection.
The Restricted trim additionally has an accepted ability tilt/slide moonroof, 18-inch admixture wheels, a capacity moving back home window, cordless charging, as well as covering seats.
The resources catechism to acknowledgment back allotment from the Tacoma TRD trims is, "Exactly how austere am I activity to obtain with off-road driving?" The TRD sport, starting at $31,895, has a sport-tuned abeyance however does not fit included able off-road equipment. The TRD Off-Road ($ 33,150) and also TRD Pro ($ 41,520) wedding anniversary accumulation up with off-road functions.
The 2018 Tacoma TRD Sporting activity's approved love collection includes Entune Premium Audio with an chip aeronautics arrangement and also app collection, an acute essential arrangement with push-button start, as well as LED daytime active lights. The Action in addition features a accouter abuse setup with tie-down cleats, accouter tie-down factors, a deck-mounted A/C capability electrical outlet, 17-inch admixture wheels, screw seats, and also the sport-tuned suspension.
If you hunger to go much faster on alike rougher anchorage as well as clamber over bigger rocks, go up to the 2018 Tacoma TRD Off-Road. The TRD Off-Road has a multi-terrain technique option and a crawl ascendancy affection to abetment with send off and stopping over harder surfaces, as able-bodied as an electronically-controlled securing back differential. The TRD Off-Road trim's sport-tuned abeyance has actually upgraded Bilstein shocks.
The high-grade for off-road fun is the TRD Pro, beginning at $41,520 with a bifold taxi. The TRD Pro has 16-inch atramentous admixture vehicle with all-terrain tires, TRD-tuned high-performance FOX 2.5-inch Inner Bypass shocks, Inflexible Industries
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16 (140.7°). We measured sample concentration by UV detection at 280 nm.
Using a first-degree fit of the Zimm formalism in Astra 6 software (Wyatt Technology) and the standard protein refractive index increment (dn/dc) value of 0.185, we calculated molecular weight. Light-scattering detectors were normalized to the 90° detector in the mobile phase using isotropic scattering of a bovine serum albumin (BSA) monomer before all calculations.
DLS: Formation of aggregates in the nanometer-scale size range was followed by DLS using the Mobius Wyatt instrument in QELS mode. We placed undiluted 55-µL samples into disposable cuvettes and analyzed them with a DLS acquisition time of two seconds, collecting a total of 10 DLS acquisitions per measurement. Then we obtained an average of three measurements and calculated the standard deviation for adding to the graphs.
Data were analyzed using a 0.5-nm minimum and 1,000-nm maximum species size. Monomer peak 1 was assumed to represent monomer species because it ranged to 10 nm, peak 2 would represent smaller oligomers (tetramer to decamer), and peak 3 would be larger species (hundreds of nanometers). We measured the hydrodynamic radius, percent polydispersity, and percentages by intensity and mass of each defined peak.
MFI is an image-based method that measures particles as they flow through the detection zone in a flow cell. We used a Protein Simple MFI DPA4100 instrument for subvisible particle analysis, operating the instrument at low-magnification mode (5×) with a 400-µm flow cell. For each analysis, we set the sample run flow rate at 0.22 mL/min and analyzed 0.5-mL samples in triplicate. We checked flow-cell cleanliness with a blank run using water for injection (WFI) before each measurement. Particle concentrations (number of particles/mL) are reported in different size ranges based on their measured equivalent circular diameter.
Figure 1: Dynamic light-scattering (DLS) experiments evaluate the aggregation propensity of MAbs subjected to different durations of shear stress and extents of surface exposure; (top) change in molecular hydrodynamic radii; (middle) percent polydispersity with increasing exposure to shear stress; (bottom) percent by mass of monomer peak reduced for sample exposures to the large surface area but relatively low shear stress. Error bars are calculated from running experiments in triplicate on each sample.
Visual inspection indicated different initial general properties of tested formulations. MAb 1 was a hazy, colorless solution in both formulations; whereas MAb 2 represented a slightly yellow (BY6) liquid. Nevertheless, we found that all collected samples retained their original visual characteristics and remained particle free, signifying that no visible aggregates were formed by exposure to the shear stresses.
SEC-MALS Analysis: We used SEC-MALS to probe low–molecular-weight (MW) oligomers formed as a response to prolonged surface interactions in the presence of a 20,000 s–1 shear rate. Data obtained revealed no monomer loss in any of the three formulations (Table 2). We observed the same results for MAbs exposed to different injection shear rates (data not shown).
DLS: We investigated the formation of nanometer-scale aggregates using DLS. Figure 1(top) shows that no detectable changes in hydrodynamic radius (Rh) of peak 1 species (Rh cut-offs of 0.1–10 nm) resulted from low shear with long surface and high shear with short surface exposure. Similarly, we observed no trend of increasing polydispersity as a function of increasing shear stress in this study (Figure 1, middle). Both observations are in agreement with the SEC-MALS data, suggesting that formation of small aggregates is not associated with stresses induced in all conditions.
However, our assessment of the percent by mass of peak 1 (Figure 1, bottom) indicated a decrease of monomer contribution to the overall intensity in samples exposed to the lower 20,000 s–1 shear rate and longest surface interaction. Further examination of the DLS profile revealed the remaining species of the observed DLS signal to be aggregates sized in hundreds of nanometers. Because that size range is almost out of DLS detection capabilities, we analyzed the stressed and control samples using MFI.
Figure 2: Microflow imaging (MFI) measurements demonstrate the effect of low shear with high surface exposure and of high shear alone on particle formation in three formulations: (top) MAb 1 in citrate buffer, (middle) MAb 1 in histidine buffer, and (bottom) MAb 2 in histidine buffer. Error bars are calculated from triplicate measurements. Sample abbreviations are as described in Table 1 and Figure 1 (with CitrBuffer1800s for buffer alone subjected to 20,000 s–1 shear for 1,800 s). Control samples exposed to no stress; ECD = estimated circular diameter.
MFI: We used MFI to evaluate the propensity for subvisible particle formation as a consequence of surface interaction and/or shear stress. To control for particles possibly leaching from the surface of the rheometer during plate rotations, we subjected citrate buffer to the shear rate of 20,000 s–1 for 1,800 seconds. Figure 2(top) shows an increase in particles of all size ranges resulting from surface contact for both 300-s and 1,800-s periods (for MAb 1 in citrate buffer).
The most significant increase came with the 20,000 s–1 shear rate for 1,800 seconds. “CitrBuff1800s” demonstrates that ~6,000 particles leached from the surface of the PP set-up during rotation (compared with 98,000 particles in a protein solution). Those results suggest that the observed increase of particles throughout all size ranges should be attributed to formation of proteinaceous species and considered to be a consequence of shear stress and surface interaction on protein stability.
But the MAb 1 citrate sample exposed to syringe injection (high shear with low surface exposure) demonstrated a negligible increase in the number of particles, with most of those originating from silicon oil droplets in the solution (their aspect ratio being ≥0.85). Figures 2(middle) and 2(bottom) show a similar observation for both MAb 1 and MAb 2 in histidine buffers: a measurable increase in particle count related to the low shear and surface interaction of the PP, but no effect of high shear on the observed particle formation after triple needle injection.
Figure 3 shows a screening for particle-formation propensity of tested formulations and antibodies caused by exposure of protein molecules to 20,000 s–1 shear rates for 1,800 seconds. Throughout all size ranges — except for particles >50 µm, which are too few to reliably compare the formulations — the MAb 1 histidine formulation appears to be the most stable against shear/surface-induced degradation. MAb 1 in citrate is the most susceptible to stress-induced aggregate formation. Comparing formulated unstressed samples would yield no ranking insights: All controls show the comparable number of particles between them.
Figure 3: Screening MAb solutions for their propensity for aggregation induced by shear stress and surface interaction; three formulations were compared based on the extent of particle formation after exposure to 20,000 s–1 shear stress rate for 1,800 seconds. Straight and dotted lines represent stressed (20K1800s, samples exposed to 20,000 s–1 shear rate for 1,800 seconds) and control (Cntr, unexposed) samples, respectively. The y axis shows the number of particles formed within each size range measured as estimated circular diameter (ECD) — red (2–10 µm), blue (>10 µm), green (>25 µm), and yellow (>50 µm).
Expanding on the previous work of MAb 1 adsorption to a SiOx surface (8), we investigated whether additional stress would alter or exacerbate the degradation pathway of the molecule by exposing the same antibody to that solid interface both with and without shear stress. We have found that for MAb 1 in a citrate-based formulation, aggregates formed predominantly in the subvisible particle-size range, as detected by DLS (particle sizes in the hundreds of nanometers) and MFI (2–100 µm particle sizes). No visible aggregates were detected.
We also observed no signs of degradation using different analytical techniques for MAb 1 injected three times through a 27-gauge needle. Because no aggregate formation was detected following the high shear stress and short surface exposure of injection, we believe that a likely explanation for the observed protein instability is interaction of the protein with the solid surface. Protein adsorption to the surface could lead to partial unfolding of the molecular structure followed by desorption of the resulting partially unfolded species, which would then nucleate aggregation. Alternatively (or additionally), surface aggregates could slough off to become detectable in solution.
We find it interesting that exposing MAb 1 in a citrate solution to SiOx surfaces under low-shear conditions also led to formation of subvisible particles but not low-MW aggregates (small oligomers) or visible species (8). In terms of particle count, it is difficult to compare quantitatively the extent of protein degradation between both studies: In the original work, MAb 1 was diluted significantly with buffer during desorption.
In our experimental design, antibody solutions placed on the rheometer but not subjected to shear showed several orders of magnitude less particle formation than did shear-stressed material. Our results suggest that particle formation is intensified by the amplified desorption effects of shear stress. The alternative histidine-based formulations of both MAb 1 and MAb 2 also demonstrated aggregation (subvisible particles) at lower shear and prolonged surface interaction, but they did not demonstrate an effect from the high shear of injection. Consistency in aggregate types formed in these systems suggests a common degradation pathway for the antibodies tested.
Although the aggregation mechanism appeared to be consistent for both MAb molecules, the extent of degradation varied substantially between
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said that Ukraine must strike back if the pro-Russian fire in violation of Minsk threatens the lives of their forces. They do this almost daily, “endangering our own civilians” (in the occupied areas). They want to change the situation, but need more foreign support to do so.
Also, separatists occasionally use entrenched BMP-1 some km from the front as “ballistic weapons”, using their main gun to shell the Ukrainian front “like mortars”. This tactic is used to avoid being spotted by OSCE monitors. It also only very seldomly causes damage or casualties.
The European Union, also Germany, deny Ukraine the military support they want, because the EU wants the Ukrainian army “to punch below its fighting weight”. It knows Putin is the aggressor but also has no full trust in Ukraine’s commitment to the Minsk agreement. It fears, nationalist forces could win the upper hand via democratic elections or within the military structure and launch a surprise offensive to regain what belongs to Ukraine in the east.
Some figures within the Ukrainian political and military sphere see this as the only chance as Minsk does not seem to return any square meter to its rightful owner. At the same time, the Ukrainian army feels – and is – much stronger than in 2014 and could throw its weight into the battle to see if it can recapture entire Donbas. However no one thinks that Poroshenko would order such an attack as another defeat would mean the end of his political career. To make sure, nobody in the Ukrainian leadership does, the EU wants Ukraine to remain under-equipped to a certain degree. Also it is afraid that IF Ukraine’s army became a proper opponent to what Russia can send it at any moment, the conflict could spiral out of control.
The Ukrainian army position on the diplomatic initiative is: “Russia suffers under the sanctions, keeping them in place is the only way to eventually solve the conflict due to negotiations”. Some experts think that this implies, lifting the sanctions against Russia could make the Ukrainian government and army turn to “Plan B” as mentioned above.
Asked about OSCE observations that the Ukrainian army sometimes advances into the grey area, officers made it clear that they regard the – signed also by Russia! – September 19, 2014 contact line as the real one, according to Minsk. This means the army sees advances into the grey zone “to supply our citizens in it” and possibly take new positions as its full right.
The grey zone, meaning points behind what Ukraine holds now but what it regards as on its side of the September 19, 2014 contact lin,e reaches “between 200 meters and 7 kilometres” into not-held territory, sometimes held by separatists, sometimes held by nobody. Thus, it includes “hundreds of settlements” which Ukraine regards as under its protection according to the first Minsk agreement. The army denies that entering these areas violates Minsk and left open, whether it could install permanent positions inside this area. For now, only temporary advances are on the agenda.
Russian-speaking people could turn to Russia, fleeing to it or even rise up in the eastern and southern regions, trying to make those areas part of Russia. By the way: All experts agree that Russia is not better off economically, just more successfully creating that image with its propaganda, also received among many “neutral” Ukrainians.
Because of all this, economic experts assume that Ukraine is “too big to fail” and must be economically secured at any price. So the fight against the economic downturn is closely connected to the fight against Russia’s hybrid war on the country and the fight against corruption.
Against the backdrop of an – again – escalating war in Eastern Ukraine, it was revealed today that Russia extended its “support for the rebels” or rather: supply of its troops by a further mean, namely by a direct train connection from Russia into occupied Donbas.
Given the fact that the Russian invasion command did everything to conquer the important railway knot of Debaltseve and seeing a steady escalation in Russian-led violence in Eastern Ukraine over the last weeks, the assumption that full-scale hostilities will resume until summer seems rather obvious. Thus, it is no surprise that the Russian army needs to create a strong and steady supply line to its forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Rumors that such line was established popped up here and there over the last 2 months, however, solid evidence was missing so far.
This changed today, when the Ukrainian Twitter user “Lenz Gottfried” uploaded a picture of two Russian “hybrid” troops, hugging at an undosclosed train station in front of what seemed to be a (state-owned) Russian Railways cargo train, packed with ammunition boxes.
According to the uploader of the picture, the boxes contain ammunition for the «Акации» / 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery, however this type of artillery system is not known to have been deployed by Russian forces so far. While this description might be a (rather unimportant) mistake given the clearly military cargo inside the wagons, the exact geolocation of the picture inside Ukraine was crucial to verify the claim that the scene played inside Ukraine. This process needed no less than 2 hours, in which I matched more than 50 train stations inside occupied Donbas with the picture, searching for a facility with the properties and objects that can be seen in it. Finally, I found the right one and was able to confirm that despite the small ammunition type error, the scene indeed shows what it claims, namely a direct Russian army supply line into Ukraine’s Luhansk region via railway, more precisely the town of Sukhodil’s‘k, around 10 km from the border with Russia. The below picture shows the analytical chart that verifies the location as well as the way, the train probably took to get there.
As it can be seen in the chart above, the train likely entered via the Russian-occupied Izvaryne border crossing, which (despite claims to have done so) the Ukrainian army was never able to reach since the start of the invasion in April last year. Thus, it served as a safe passage for Russian troops and equipment, crossing it in vehicles as well as the notorious “humanitarian aid convoys”, since then. However its use for the illegal entry (aka invasion) of Russian army-organized and -stuffed trains hasn’t been proven so far. This changed today.
The emergence of the train in Sukhodil’s’k, 18 kilometers of tracks into Ukraine, is – for sure – only the tip of the iceberg. At this very location, no Russian arms are needed right now and the town only serves as a transit point for that kind of carriage. Instead the tracks, lead towards the front near Stanytsia Luhanska in the north and practically endlessly towards the west, where fighting increased over the last 4 weeks. More such deadly cargo, transported by train, should and will be found along these axes, then however, probably not in Russian Railways wagons anymore.
Finally, the first appearance of Russian state trains, filled with ammunition, inside Ukraine, is another stark reminder that this conflict is far from over. Instead the Russian side takes a – well-documented – deep breath to come back with all its “hybrid” force and take more territory inside Ukraine; probably before this summer. The usage of Russian trains to facilitate that carefully and long-planned move is just another logical step in Russia’s escalation ladder and thanks to the “media friendly” invasion troops, its revelation was just a question of time.
Eight days after the fall of Debaltseve (article), many analysts still believe, the worst in terms of fighting might be over in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s thirst for more territory appeased. Fighting activity continuously decreased during the last days along the border of occupied Donbas and yesterday was the first day of no Ukrainian fatalities since the signing of the Minsk 2 agreement on February 12. Still, this impression deceives.
The prediction, I stated in my last article, that large parts of the offensive Russian forces which were active in and around Debaltseve moved south after their victory there and will soon turn up in the greater Donetsk area as well as near the southern coastal city of Mariupol was meanwhile confirmed by multiple analysts, including several sources on the ground in southern Donetsk region. However, what seems not to have been realized by analysts and international media organizations yet is that the question, whether or not an attack towards Mariupol will take place or not has already been answered. It started the moment, Debaltseve fell to the invasion army.
In early February, Ukrainian national guard forces from Regiment Azov were not willing to obey the suicidal “defense only” strategy by the military and political leadership in Kiev and decided to go on the attack (article), amid a weak Russian / local separatists-held frontline east of the city (as most forces were active around Debaltseve). Within 2 days, they recaptured around 120 km² of Ukrainian land and established new fortified positions in a number of towns, some 10-15 east of Mariupol.The below (professional) map gives a good impression of what could be regained and put back under Urainian control during this offensive.
But the joy was only brief. 5 days later, on February 16, Russian forces started massive attacks on the front, pushing Azov troops out of Shyrokyne and to the town’s eastern outskirts (geolocated) in a first stage of their counterattack. Several days of relative calm followed, but on February 23, their offensive gained pace again, using all kind of weapons – of course – forbidden in the Minsk 2 agreement – and even Russian air force surveillance planes over the occupied
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findings. Some present as academic opinions on international law around weapons of mass destruction: on whether the total destructiveness of a nuclear weapon just forbids you ever to use it, or whether you have no alternative when an aggressor is using it upon you. Peace studies and researches have not taken out of the realm of opinion the ethical dilemma between defending a society’s existence and avoiding doing cruelties to the aggressor’s society.
An ethic for peace easily implies an ethic against using any weapon avoidably cruelly, but it is practically daunting, potentially cruel indeed, to decide that at some point a society ceases to be entitled to defend against cruelties from an outside force. Between these pulls, the argument usually resolves into whether a practical and reliable non-nuclear means exists for a society to defend against a direct nuclear threat to submit to a conqueror, known as “nuclear blackmail”, or, supposing any so-called “conventional” defence has been defeated, any other option than having to accept a dire conquest.
Because clues to the answer for your own society come from observing society, they come from real life that we all experience. So we all have a say in it, from the university of life. Observation of a society’s character, to indicate what it could do in ultimate crisis, need not be left to a research profession, it affects us all, so we can all compile our own findings from what we see.
So, I observe society for evidence on whether a hypothesis matches real life: the hypothesis that this society could, reliably, carry out civil resistance, non-violent direct action and non-cooperation, on a big and united enough scale to defeat an occupation, succeed in motivating its withdrawal and allowing free society to be restored.
The proposition as I have often heard it, is simply of action without weapons to reach a position where society or the occupation is non-functional for the occupier and impractical to sustain. I impose no supposition about this action’s details. I take it as morally desirable for preservation of life, and all practicality that goes with that, preservation of food production and health systems, for this proposition to succeed and to be plausible to rely on. So any bias in my findings should be in its favour, giving it the benefit of the doubt if society shows any fit with it.
The fit I am seeking, is with the conduct, actions, and mutual relations, of the bulk of ordinary people, when they face moral choices about fairness when they are under pressure, when personal expediency is at odds with cooperating and standing together. Do they trust each other to stand together, and is that trust borne out? Do they get on well enough to make possible the trust and cooperation it would take for a mass scale unity of actions, which are personally inconveniencing or dangerous, to succeed? Hence, are they generally fair and civil to each other?
Rowdiness and jeering and macho posturing are very commonplace social behaviours in larger groups, and are not forms of communication whose content allows for logic and reason, or can be engaged with rationally. Any person who dislikes, or is intimidated by, or both, those behaviours needs to avoid large sections of society’s life – nightlife, football crowds, traditionally macho jobs, and any pubs where the customers don’t! ignore each other. Peer groups reinforce each other’s prejudices by showing ribaldry against outsiders who do not share the prejudice or any thought that one of themselves could stop sharing it. Resulting in folks embarrassed by their own musical tastes (Workmate: “You won’t tell anyone I like … “).
Ordinary folks are insultingly and uncaringly noncommittal about unfair things that happen to other people, every bit as often as bureaucrats are, making any excuse not to acknowledge the fair facts that are in your favour. The idea of “I don’t want to get involved”. The very common practice of using the word “unfortunately” as a weapon for asserting that breaches of fairness shall happen. Most people have an intimidating derisive streak in their characters, which comes out as soon as a prejudice is disagreed with or any fairness problem needs fixing. Smirking exists. Taunting exists.
Maliciously saying “you know…”[a fact you think they don’t know]”…don’t you?”, hoping to make them stuck for what to say, exists. The expression “shut up” exists, and is even used oppressively against involuntary sounds like coughing. When my supermarket points card could not scan because the bar code was eroded, and I showed this to a silly person who had intruded unrequested to show me how to scan it, instead of taking the point she said “shut up, I’m only trying to help”.
Peace researchers have helped to ensure that bullying scandals in the military are more known, while the rise of minority awarenesses like LGBT has forced it to become more admitted that bullying or other personally undermining behaviours can happen in workplaces. I heard (1988 Wales) of a man laughed out of a job on a farm for being upset to see them kill a chicken. These have all disproved the old prejudice that bullying only existed for children.
I know of the local autistic employment support service at present providing interventions against workplace exclusion, including in a workplace itself providing a compassionate social service! What is more alienating than the shut doors and shut hearts all around when there is no toilet open and you are wasting time hunting for an allowed place to go? That oppressive feeling of default negativity and unfriendliness you get in many places from looming security men with false-muscular armbands, and when walking town-centrally in the evening you see alienating bouncers on every door?
Nearly half of marriages and partnerships end in separation and we all know examples. Sad love songs are a big theme in pop music, we can’t avoid hearing them everywhere. Their popularity comes from familiarity of the things they describe: breaches of trust, cruel abandonments of love, uncaringness, selfishness, resulting alienation from love. Too many songs express agonised despair and desperate appeals to the reasonability for the other person to care about them.
The only mystery is how the folks got partnered in the first place: for nobody can take any step to acquire a partner without risk that it will count as sexual harrassment getting them into trouble. Comedy about these social agonies, and about undeserved humiliations to peers or failures of social dreams, is depressingly popular. Despite assault being a crime, comedy frequently and uncriticised shows successful assaults, and successful intimidations of smaller characters by bigger. Which links to the tragedy of domestic violence, I have known a parent of a woman who had to escape it, and popular comedy including Last of the Summer Wine and Laurel and Hardy enjoyed showing bullied husbands.
Blackadder 2 shows as a joke psychological damage from school bullying, for attributes not his fault, making its victim into a comic villain, who is then further taunted blamingly for that. Though more serious minds online acknowledge this is wrong, Youtube comedy audiences snort at sensitivity to comedy siding with an abuse that can really happen.
Days are often ruined emotionally by hurtful grumpiness, from a bus driver or a librarian or any type of official at a desk. Grumpy old men, with an alienated view of the young and interpreting every situation against them, are a permanent archetype in society and were many folks’ grandads including mine.
Many folks are irritated by leaflets and say no to them, closing their minds to whatever is in them. Stuck up idiots take offence at having lawns walked on. Stories of neighbour difficulties and flatmate difficulties, office politics. Faction fights and takeovers in organised societies, helped by a charity regulator that only acts on its own opinion of “public interest” and admits no duty to intervene in any given case, even when a charity’s bank account was seized using signatures not authorised by the members. Here in Edinburgh the social care department refused to find anything wrong with, or stop funding, Redhall Walled Garden for saying “cliquiness is life” and calling its own equal opportunities policy unenforceable in practice.
Even circles concerned with peace themselves can have an unpeacefully morally angry peer pressure to agree: viz the condemnatory peer pressure excluding any but the organisers’ views at a so-called “Regional People’s Hearing On Disarmament” held here on 6 Nov 1999, with purported findings from it sent to the UN! They did not include findings like these from observing everyday life for signs of how supportive and cooperative a society we are.
Observation is that the good and cooperative experiences are occcasional islands achieved with effort, and for far more of the time most of us are on very negative and conflict-laden default terms with each other. From each of the above aspects of everyday life, large scale common action, by people who can trust and rely on each other in it, appears impossible to create on demand, or instantly at the moment of needing it, out of a society with so much malevolent relationship. From the ways many organised groups and charities fall apart, the same appears so likely to happen, that it could not be relied on not to happen, to a project of defeating an occupation by NVDA (Non Violent Direct Action) civil action.
To any peace study that just studies how NVDA civil action could be done by an ideal willing society, then cites me morally to trust to it actually being done in place of the Bomb, the above study of society is my factual answer. I throw it into the pool of peace studies. It shows they need to study the peace missing from ordinary interpersonal society and how to remove der
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demonstrate one basic cooking technique in each one of your newsletters.
I Love “XYZ” Series: Each month you can share a handful of recipes from your food vault that highlights ONE recipe category. For example, an I Love Dessert Series would consist of 3-5 of your favorite desserts or you can do a month worth of vegan ice cream.
Your favorite shops: Gotta a few fashion boutiques or online stores that you love? Share your favorite fashions places and why you love them so much.
How to tips: How to start your own fashion blog, how to become a fashion stylist, how to partner with other fashion influencers on Instagram, how to build a fashion brand…these are just a few “How To” ideas for newsletter content.
Quarterly Fashion Gift Guide: This is awesome for special occasions like Valentine´s Day, Easter Holiday, and Black Friday. You can also put together gift guides for the hubby, the kids, for mom, etc.
Fashion Product Reviews: Have you tried a new piece that has been on your wishlist (like a Chanel bag)? Found a new accessory? or enjoyed a new place to shop? Give a detailed product review of your experience and what you loved about your new splurge.
What’s in your Suitcase Newsletter: Create a newsletter that shares what you wore on your latest vaca or give recommendations on what to wear when traveling to different destinations!
Blogger Fashion Battler: connect with another fashion blog influencer in your and find a piece you both style differently.
Pick and Pair: Pick one key piece from your wardrobe and share creative ways to pair it with different accessories or pieces throughout the week.
Favorite Finds: Share this week’s favorite finds of share your favorite trends of the season.
Fashion Rules: Got a set of rules you always dress by? How about you share your tips with your subscribers….like how to choose the right leggings for your body type!
The Celebrity Fit: Compare or imitate a hot celebrity fashion look and show your subscribers how they can re-create it on a non-celebrity budget!
Tips for making the most of nap time: Mom’s lives revolve around their little ones and if you want to get some things done, you have to be productive with the free time you do have. So if you are a mom blogger or a parent who is balancing business and babies, sharing your productivity tips can be very useful to your community.
Weekend family fun for moms & kids on a budget: Disneyland every weekend may be out of the question, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come up with creative ways to have fun with the family. From game nights to movies and, playdates to afternoons at the beach, share your favorite budget-friendly family time ideas. I’m sure it will be a hit!
Baby/toddler/kid-approved recipes: Have experience dealing with picky eaters? Create a newsletter or a series of newsletters that teach moms how to prepare and present healthy kid-approved meals and snacks.
Ideas for mommy me-time: No matter how much we love our kids, we all need a break sometimes. Gather up your best self-care tips for moms who need a little rest and relaxation time.
Weekly countdown to getting ready for baby: If you cater to expectant moms, share with them your hospital delivery checklist, baby essentials or top things to do to prepare for baby. You can break it up over a course of a few weeks or even months so that it minimizes the overwhelm and stress that comes with the responsibility of getting ready to add a bundle of joy to the family!
Weekly workout: Give your subscribers a weekly work out plan they can follow. You can break the workout up into various categories or muscle groups to help them focus on improving specific areas.
Instagram video roundup: A lot of fitness trainers and coaches are building viral brands on Instagram. Invite your community to check out your best Instagram posts of the week.
Workout tips: If there is a certain process or routine you have for making sure you have a great workout, put it together in a checklist or share those tips in a newsletter.
Spotlight a success story: Has one of your clients lost a ton of weight or overcome a health challenge with your help? Share the before and after pics or a heartfelt testimonial that will inspire and empower your other readers to take action too.
Goal-setting workshop: The success of a weight loss or fitness transformation hinges on one’s ability to hit certain milestones and goals. Not only can you share how you set your own fitness goals you can also invite your subscribers to share their goals and then spotlight them in your newsletters once they had hit those goals!
Your favorite workout gear: Share the places you love to get all your cute workout gear from. You can share a Pinterest board where you collect all of your fab exercise gear finds or you can simply share where you get all of your gym clothes and why you love them so much!
Your favorite places to workout outside of the gym: The gym is not the only place to get fit. Share tips on how to get a great workout in at home, or a list of your favorite places to get in a good sweat when you’re not feeling the gym!
Weight loss or fitness challenge: A 21-day or 30-day challenge is always a great way to re-engage your subscribers and get them excited about your content again.
Share your workout playlist: Gotta few music playlists that get you that extra boost you need to get through a tough workout. Put together a list of your favorite songs or motivational audios and share them with your peeps! They’ll love you for it!
A personal letter to your readers: Every once in a while it’s a good idea to open up and remind people that there is a person behind the brand. It’s okay to share what’s going on in your personal life. It’s okay to share your struggles and successes as a person. Remember, the more you share of yourself the more your audience is going to connect with you.
Give your audience a peek inside of your business: Give people a sneak peek of your workday. Maybe you are working with clients, shooting a video for an upcoming launch or working with your team on a new product. Share what goes on behind the scenes of your business to keep people engaged and curious about what you are going to do next!
Weekly VIP Member of The Week (or Month): One of the best ways to keep your community engaged is to get them involved and make them feel like they are a part of your business. Each month you can highlight one subscriber that deserves some shine. It could be for work they are doing, a struggle they’ve overcome, a positive result they’ve accomplished, a contest they’ve won, or even the level of engagement they’ve shown in your facebook group or course community.
What’s Working Now Newsletter: No one likes outdated information. A great way to establish yourself as an expert is to let your community know that you are always trying, testing and implementing new strategies in order to bring them the most up to date techniques. Share those strategies, give your opinion of what’s working and don’t be afraid to share stats and numbers.
Give away branded stock photos: If you have a knack for creating amazing branded images or photos, why not share them with your community and encourage them to use them on their own social media platforms. Not only does it give them content to share, it helps you get more exposure.
Create a 14-day or 30-day challenge: Whether it’s an Instagram challenge, a list-building challenge, or a weight loss challenge, invite people to commit to accomplishing a singular goal. This can be highly valuable to members of your community who are looking for some accountability.
Bloggers (Blogs) We Love: You can do a weekly or monthly roundup of blog post articles or videos related to your niche. Don’t forget to add the links and ask your readers to reply with any blogs they love so you can feature them in your next roundup newsletter.
What we’re Pinning: If you are hot on Pinterest, share the type of content you are pinning that is driving the most traffic back to your blog. You can do the same thing for Instagram and Facebook as well.
Feedback Friday Newsletter: One on one coaching can cost an arm and a leg. Give your community an opportunity to pick your brain by having them submit a question and offering them free advice. It’s a great way to serve your audience and it also gives you an opportunity to suggest a course or resource that can give them the results they are looking for.
Freebie Friday (or Tuesday or Wednesday…): If you have a new content upgrade or freebie you’ve just launched, make sure to share it with the subscribers you already have. Everyone loves free stuff and it keeps people hanging around -especially if your content is good!
Your Favorite Five: Put together a list of your favorite influencers, Instagram accounts, Pinterest boards, recipes, products, blogs, brand strategies, etc. It’s a great way to get people to explore and take action.
So there you have it, 51 newsletter content ideas that you can start trying out right now. If you find that you are getting a more email opens, activity or conversions with a certain type of newsletter, take note and make sure you do more of that. It’s all about finding what resonates most with your audience and giving them what they need so they stay responsive and engaged!
Great list of ideas and very useful
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proctor possessing a special and authentic mandate which must also be completed by the appropriate paperwork proving that the conditions stipulated by the present law have been met with.
Art. 14. –The application for being granted Romanian citizenship is to be addressed to the committee responsible for ascertaining the citizenship granting conditions, committee functioning within the Ministry of Justice.
The committee consists of 5 magistrates from The Bucharest Municipality Law Court and it is designated for a four-year term by the president of this law court.
The president of the committee is the magistrate possessing the highest rank or, in the case of equal ranks, the one who has had his present position longer.
The committee has a secretariat run by a counsel from the Ministry of Justice, appointed by the Minister.
Art. 15. –The committee disposes of the publishing in an excerpt of the application for citizenship granting in the Official Publishing Body of Romania on the applicant’s own expense.
The committee will examine the application after 30 days from its being officially published.
c) subpoenaing any person who might provide useful information.
Art. 17. –Public authorities holding information or data on the petitioner’s incapacity to fulfill legal bindings conditions are compelled to share it with the committee.
Any person can sustain his case in front of the committee stipulated in art. 14, regarding the request for Romanian citizenship, as stipulated at line 1.
Art. 18. – After examining the application, the committee will draft a report handing it in to the Minister of Justice together with the Romanian citizenship application.
This report will necessary specify whether legal bindings for being granted the citizenship are met with or not.
Art. 19. – Based on the committee’s report, the Minister of Justice will present the Government the decision bill for granting the Romanian citizenship.
If the legal bindings for granting the citizenship are not complied with, the Minister of Justice will inform the petitioner about it, based on the committee’s report.
Art. 20. – The person to be granted the Romanian citizenship, according art. 8 line 1 and 3 and art.9, will take an oath to the Romanian state, within a time period of six months, in front of the Minister of Justice or the State Vice-secretary specially appointed for this matter.
The faith oath is as follows: “I swear devotion to the Romanian country and Romanian people, I swear to defend the rights and national interest, to respect the Constitution and the laws of Romania”.
The persons who obtain the Romanian citizenship, under the conditions stipulated by art. 11 will take an oath in front of the chief of the legation or of the consular office of Romania from the country he lives in.
Art. 21. – The Romanian citizenship is acquired on the date of taking the oath.
After taking the oath, the Minister of Justice, or if this is the case, the chief of the legation or of the consular office will release an official certificate to the person being granted the Romanian citizenship.
Art. 22. – The proof of Romanian citizenship is the identity card, the passport or the certificate stipulated in art.21, line 2.
The citizenship of the child under 14 is proved by his birth certificate, together with the identity card or the passport of either one of the parents.
If the child is registered on the identity card or the passport of one of the parents, the proof of citizenship is done by any of these papers.
If the proof for the citizenship of the child under 14 cannot be done as stipulated by the previous line, the proof will be the certificate released by the civilian registration authorities.
The proof for the citizenship of the found children under 14 is done by the birth certificate.
Art. 23. – If necessary the Romanian legations or consular offices may release proofs of citizenship, at request, for Romanian citizens abroad.
c) other cases stipulated by the law.
c) has illegally obtained the Romanian citizenship.
Art. 26. – The withdrawing of the citizenship has no effects on the citizenship of the spouse or the children of the person to whom the citizenship was withdrawn.
b) is not searched for debts to the state, to certain individuals or corporate bodies from the country, or in case he has such debts, he pays them back or presents adequate guarantees for solving them.
Art. 28. – Losing the Romanian citizenship by accepting the disclaiming has no effect on the citizenship of the spouse and underage children.
However, if both parents obtain the acceptance for disclaiming the Romanian citizenship, and the underage child lives with them abroad or leaves the country together with them, the underage child loses the Romanian citizenship at the same time with his parents, and if the latter lost their citizenship at different dates, on the last of these dates. The underage child that leaves the country, in order to live abroad, after both of his parents have lost their citizenship, also loses his Romanian citizenship when he leaves the country.
The dispositions from the previous line adequately apply also in case only one parent is known or alive.
In the cases stipulated in lines 2 and 3, the child who turned 14 is being asked for his consent.
Art. 29. – The underage Romanian citizen child, adopted by a foreign citizen, loses the Romanian citizenship if the foster parents, or after case, the foster parent expressly requests this, and the foreign law stipulates that the adopted child acquires the citizenship of the foster parent.
If the adoption is annulled or declared invalid, it is considered the child who is not 18 yet has never lost his Romanian citizenship.
Art. 30. – In the case stipulated in art.5 line3, the found child loses the Romanian citizenship if, by the time he turned 18, his filiations towards both his parents has been established and they are foreign citizens.
The Romanian citizenship is also lost if the filiations has been established only towards one parent foreign citizen, the other parent remaining unknown.
The date of losing the Romanian citizenship as stipulated in lines 1 and 2 is the date of establishing the child’s filiations.
Art. 31. – The Romanian government stipulates, by decree, the withdrawing or, if this is the case, the accepting of disclaiming the Romanian citizenship, on a proposal of the Justice Minister, expressed accordingly to the procedure stipulated by art. 14-19.
Art. 32. – Any authority or person that knows any reason for the withdrawal of the Romanian citizenship may apprise, in writing, the committee within the Ministry of Justice, with the obligation of bringing the proofs he has.
The apprised committee may ask for data or information from any authority or person that has knowledge of the existence of a situation as that stipulated in art. 25.
Art. 33. – The request for disclaiming the Romanian citizenship is made personally or by an authorized person who has a special and authentic mandate, which is left with the committee that works with the Ministry of Justice, and which will act according to the stipulations of art. 14-19.
Art. 34. –The date of losing the Romanian citizenship by withdrawal or accepting the disclaiming is the date when the Government decree is published in the Romanian Official Press Body.
Art. 35. – The instructions stated in the art. 33 are also applied adequately to the cases stipulated in art. 29 and 30.
Art. 36. – The persons that acquired and kept the Romanian citizenship according to the previous legislation are and remain Romanian citizens.
Art. 37. – The ex- Romanian citizens that, before 22 December 1989, had lost the Romanian citizenship from different reasons, may reacquire it by request at the legations or Romanian consular offices from abroad and in the country at the State Notary Office in Bucharest, on the basis of a legalized declaration, even though they have a different citizenship and they do not establish their residency in Romania.
Those to whom the Romanian citizenship was withdrawn from them against their will or from other reasons they cannot be blamed for, as well as their descendants also benefit of the dispositions from line 1.
Art. 38. – The requests regarding the granting of the citizenship and the acceptance of disclaiming the citizenship are subjected to a tax stipulated by the law.
Reacquiring the Romanian citizenship according to the stipulation in art. 37 is free from any consular taxes, by derogation from the line 1 stipulations.
Art. 39. – The persons to whom the Romanian citizenship was granted have all the rights and liberties, according to the law, as well as the obligations stipulated by the Constitution and the state’s laws for the Romanian citizens.
Art. 40. – The Romanian citizenship titled “honorary citizenship” may be granted to some foreigners for special services in favour of the country and the Romanian people, on the Government proposal, with no other formality, by the Romanian Parliament.
The persons who acquired the honorary citizenship enjoy all the civilian and political rights that are recognized to the Romanian citizens, except the right of electing and being elected and that of carrying out a public rank.
Art. 41. – For the situations where the child who turned 14 is asked for his consent, this must take the form of an authenticate declaration taken in the presence of the notary.
Art. 42. – The present law comes into force within 30 days from it being published in the Romania’s Official Press Body.
Art. 43. – On the date when this law comes into force, The Law no. 24/1971, The law of the Romanian citizenship, the Decree-Law no.137/1990 regarding some instructions which refer to the Romanian citizenship, the stipulations of art. 3 and 8 from the Decree-Law no.7/1989 regarding the repatriation of Romanian citizens and that of ex-Romanian citizens, as well as any other instructions contrary to the present law are abolished.
This law was adopted by the Senate during its meeting
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THESE above are ALL Sept dates!!!
Migraine: These have been both marginally better, and much worse. — While I have had a slight decrease in severity some days, I also had a visual aura this past week so I feel like it evens out in the end.
Sleep: my doctor had me start taking 5Htp to help with my sleep (among other things) and it did help – a lot – I was waking less during the night, sleeping longer and feeling a wee bit more rested. The problem was that it was causing nightmares and messing up my stomach a lot. I have since gone off of it because the stomach stuff was just too rough. So, I’m back to seven hours tops of sleep with multiple wakings. With frequently needing an ice pack or heating pad.
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Vision: As I said, I had one vision loss this week, although it didn’t progress fully it was the worst I’ve had since June/July. I was able to halt the full nuclear migraine that follows though.
TMJ: While it still isn’t popping too much, I would say this has increased lately because it aches SO OFTEN and my teeth just hurt frequently.
Fatigue: This has either been calm enough that I’ve been able to do minimal things (light cleaning, dog park, slow walks,etc) off and on thru the day or it has just hit me hard that I’ve been stuck on the couch for days on end.
Fibromyalgia: Once again, the biggest pain the past month. Well, along with the fatigue. There’s just a constant burning, tingling, throbbing in my limbs anymore, as well as occasional cramping. The cramping had disappeared for a few weeks but now it’s back occasionally. The overall aching has been keeping me up later at night, unable to relax enough to get to sleep. I’m still on ice at least once each day, but it’s typically a pretty fair bit of swapping out ice packs. I have been using the Tens Unit on my legs this past week and it helps so much! I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.
Weight Loss: YES! It’s not much but I’m pleased with any.
Mood: Thankfully this has evened out again!
I am going to admit something to you right away – I’m starting this but have no idea when it’ll get finished and posted! With my OH’s graduation and party on Sunday, my parents coming into town today and donation boxes/a dog park run to do before they get here, I’m just not sure how much of this I’ll actually get written today. But, “Well begun is half done”.
**Update: It’s now July 30th and I am just now getting back to this post! The party has been thrown (along with a second one beginning of this month) the parents have come and gone, along with another couple of guests, many dog park runs have occurred and I’m woefully behind on so much that I’ve intended to do. But, this is step one in getting back on track!
Overall Health: I have been a bit better this month. Fatigue has still been a major problem. My back seized up early one morning and it took almost two weeks before it stopped hurting. I’ve seen some improvement in my every-few-weeks flaring, which has been such a relief.
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May 16- woke up with severe fatigue. Slept again until noon. Joints achy and a 7 migraine. Fatigue isn’t so severe this afternoon.
May 18- a better day. Was able to do some light cleaning, cooking, etc. Migraine didn’t hit till later afternoon and then harder in evening. First evening in at least a week that my hip hasn’t hurt and my calf hurts half as bad. Fatigue isn’t near as bad but still underlying.
May 23- took Abby to the park, went to get my hair cut and to two stores.. Worn out and a migraine trying to come in evening. Hip didn’t hurt though!
May 24- woke up early with bad migraine and very hungry. Had a snack and slept again. Migraine was still bad when I woke up, but early afternoon it has eased some. Strong fatigue today.
May 25- woke up feeling better enough that I drove to Eugene in the afternoon. Hit with 8 migraine in the evening, and Soo hungry but ice, clonidine and food kept it from increasing. Took a short nap around 8pm.
May 30 – fibropain flaring all week. In hands especially tonight, maybe because I worked in yard this am. Migraine flaring up to an 8 but then stopping. Fatigue hit hard yesterday, easing off today.
–have been ‘seeing’ things in the corner of my eye. A bit of heart pounding. Fingers hurting/have to focus to straighten all the way.
June 3- severe migraine out of the blue in evening. Vision gone in left eye. Debilitating. Day 15.
June 4- recovery day and keeping the pain down.
June 5 – fighting migraine down. Hit hard in evening. To a level 9. IV today, glutathione push.
June 6- pretty good today. Upset stomach in late am and late evening. Clonidine keeping migraine down. Some fibropain.
June 11-fatigue hit hard all day. Migraine tried to flare throughout the day. Took 2 naps. June 13- decent fatigue but was able to get up and putter around the house as well. Took a long nap. detox bath in the evening.
Have been struggling with bad fatigue for a week and a half. One vision loss migraine.
June 26th iron and nutrient IV.
July 20- back still hurting (a week and a half now) mainly on left side. Possible kidney moved down again?
* I’ve been on the DIM Detox since the end of May and I have slowly but steadily seen an improvement in my mid-month flaring like we were hoping! I did have to cut back to 1/day after increasing to 2/day and having a flare but it’s helping!!!
Migraine: These have slowly decreased from May to end of July. I haven’t had a ‘nuclear migraine’ (aka, vision loss/debilitating) since beginning of June. They are still daily, of course – finish?
Sleep: This hasn’t changed much other than, with the fatigue, I’m needing more naps. Not every day, thankfully, but a lot of times when I do nap, it’s a few hours before I wake up. Which then makes it hard to get to bed before midnight… I am glad that I still don’t need melatonin to get to sleep like I did for so long!
Memory/Brain Fog: This was a big enough of a struggle that I started taking Neuroflam (thankfully I can get it for about $30 cheaper than this amazon price). To experiment, I have been off of it for a few weeks…and I think it really was helping. OY. I was hoping to save that money but anything that helps with mental clarity is worth it. I’ve been so foggy that sitting down and writing (either on here or on my book) has been such a trial that I just haven’t done it. Sadly.
It took at least half an hour to get the needle in to a good vein this time. Second try with the Iron push. Verdict? Doesn’t kick the fatigue.
Vision: Since the beginning of June, I haven’t had full vision loss but I have had some minor sparkles, spots or blurriness. I have been able to attribute them to exhaustion or hunger. When they have been tied to the oncoming of a severe migraine, I’ve been able to halt it from fully forming.
Fibromyalgia: Ahhh, joint aches. Self-cramping. Sporadic tingling. Pain that is trying to claw its way out of my body. This has increased over the months and I’m thinking that it’s due to the fact that I’ve been having cane sugar occasionally. As well as starch. I am okay with never feeling the need to move just because the pain is so bad.
TMJ: This is one thing that has eased off and stayed down, mostly. My teeth will still ache and my jaw is almost always tender to the touch. It doesn’t pop too often.
Fatigue: This has been a doozy for a while now. My last two IV’s, we’ve gone without the
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PROPERTY OVERVIEW $1688pw Price incl. Large unfurnished office in the leafy suburb of Kambah. This space is as good as your own lease as you can secure a 12 person open plan workspace, three smaller private offices and a large private boardroom at a way lower cost on a more flexible commitment. There are also options to split the space up for smaller teams. It boasts great levels of natural light through large windows on three sides to encourage productivity and creative thinking throughout your business. There is a range of storage space and some furniture including desks, partitions and whiteboards if they’re needed. There are also print/scan facilities and the space can be securely accessed 24 hours a day. Perfect for businesses in the service industry that require their own private space, this office represents an incredibly affordable and agile alternative to a costly long term lease. Located in the heart of Kambah, this large office space has parking, great transport links and fab convenience to amenities. The building is split into four units and the tenants together have shared access to toilets and a generous kitchen/breakout area. It has a large shared car park and street parking is also easy to find on Kett Street. This excellent location is in between the Burns Club and Kambah shops, including Woolworths and lots of specialty shops for great day to day convenience, and the building enjoys a lovely tranquil outlook over the Kambah playing fields. It’s situated just off the Tuggeranong Parkway so a journey to Canberra takes just 15 minutes and, even better, you beat all the traffic as you’re travelling away from the city in the morning and towards it in the evening. Life is easier working in Tuggeranong and you’ll love the tranquil green filled area that surrounds this Kumbah office space. The advertised office space is perfect for a team of 31. If you need more or less space, we have over 30,000 furnished workspaces all over the world suitable for a team of 1 to 200+. Our award winning team offer a free service that will help you find the perfect solution for your needs, so reach out if you need more help. What you get for your weekly rent, 24/7 Access, 24/7 Security, Access to internal breakout areas, Access to kitchen facilities, Access to secure printer and scanner, Building outgoings included, Electricity usage included, Lockable storage unit, High speed Internet Building features, Abundance of natural light, Air conditioning, Car parking in building (Free), Car parking Street (Free), Gym and fitness centre close by, Print, scan and copy facilities, Retail and shopping malls nearby 250m to Woolworths 150m to Burns Club buffet Direct access to gym and day care centre 200m Tuggeranong Parkway, giving access to the city WHO IS OFFICE HUB? Office Hub has largest collection of shared office space, sublet office space, creative coworking office space and serviced offices, perfect for 1 200 employees. Let us take you on a tour of all the spaces that fit your needs and budget. Our service is complimentary and we work for you and the landlord to negotiate the most competitive deal in the market. Let us show you how shared and serviced offices can be the perfect solution for your business. www.office hub.com.au www.office hub.co.nz Conditions apply A portion of the square meterage factors in access to shared space. The advertised price includes any incentives offered based on a 12 month agreement. If a shorter period is agreed to please note the price may increase accordingly. This promotional offer for new tenants only and may be withdrawn at any time due to space availability.
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PROPERTY OVERVIEW $253pw Price incl. Large commercial office in Phillip offering a range of private and coworking spaces for rent. With flexible terms and multiple workspace options, there is heaps of potential here for businesses of all sizes – it could be rented by a 15 person team to make it their very own private office or by multiple individuals and small businesses in a shared working scenario. The workspace harbours a traditional office look with partitioned coworking areas, spacious private offices and comfortable sofa areas with plenty of office furniture and storage units provided. Commercial grade internet is already setup and the advertised rate covers every cost to do with the space – no need to worry about upfront costs or legal fees with this simple agreement. Meeting rooms can be used freely, the whole space is regularly cleaned and there is a large kitchen space where you can relax on breaks. Affordable and generous, this office space could be the perfect home for your business – enquire today to explore the options and arrange a move in date to suit you. This striking commercial building is placed in the centre of Woden just steps from the action at Westfield Woden Shopping Centre. It’s prominently positioned and features three lifts, basement parking and a recently renovated foyer for a great professional look. Plus it enjoys a wonderful northerly aspect with fantastic views towards Canberra to keep you inspired all day long. The setting is ideal for anyone wanting to work in Canberra’s southern suburbs – it’s 100m from a wide range of amenities and services at Westfield Woden, a couple of kilometres from the Tuggeranong Parkway, 7.3km from Parliament Circle and just over 10km to Civic. The advertised office space is perfect for a team of 4. If you need more or less space, we have over 30,000 furnished workspaces all over the world suitable for a team of 1 to 200+. Our award winning team offer a free service that will help you find the perfect solution for your needs, so reach out if you need more help. What you get for your weekly rent, 24/7 Access, 24/7 Security, Access to kitchen facilities, Building outgoings included, Commercial grade internet (Free), Electricity usage included, Flexible terms, FREE use of the meeting rooms, Plug and play furnished workspace, Regular cleaning Building features, Abundance of natural light, Air conditioning, Car parking Street / Public Car Park (Paid), Dedicated men and ladies bathrooms, Direct access to public transport, End of trip facilities e.g showers, bike racks, Onsite Cafe / Restaurant, Professional working environment 10m to Woden Bus Interchange 50m to Westfield Woden 10min to Canberra CBD Close to shops, cafes, restaurants, bars in fact everything! WHO IS OFFICE HUB? Office Hub is Australia & New Zealands No 1 small office space commercial real estate agency. We have the largest
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bank has successfully been a holiday let for the past two years and is proven as a popular destination for a seaside break and for those wanting to escape the hustle and bustle of life. The owner is an artist and sculptor and his influence is found throughout the chalet which makes it unique. The property has all the comforts of home: central heating, double glazing. Along with essential such as mains drainage! It is unusual as it is a freehold title and does not suffer the restrictions associated with a lot of park, static and holiday homes which come with associated costs for maintenance, nor ground rent. As such this property can be occupied all year round.
This building was spotted by Chris Chibnall, the creator of Broadchurch, who lives in nearby Bridport, when he was writing the first series in a local café. At the time, David Tennant’s character was still being developed and it is thought that much of the second series was then created around the idea of the Jurassic Coast chalet as Tennant’s brooding base. Chibnall has said the chalet “holds lots – if not all – of the secrets”.
The best of both worlds. A castle ruin including an old Peel Tower, along with a restored part ready to move into.
Neilston Police Station (C) 2004 D.A.W.
This edition of the Bulletin is still dwelling upon potential abodes with a fame via television theme.
This time we have an old Strathclyde Polis building for sale within the beat of the dour Scottish detective. The spelling of murrdr is correct. In fact it is the spelling that has been murrdrd!
As Taggart would often say: “There’s been a murrdr”. In the long running detective series this is the correct pronunciation. As for this diminutive building? A single storey property around 900 square feet in area. Comprising of an open plan office area, separate kitchen, 2 smaller offices, toilet. Also has a polis garage adjoining the main building.
Sited within the Taggart police jurisdiction. The price is interesting, and the building has potential – subject of course to planning permission etc.
Yours? A steal at £39,000 or thereabouts.
PLEASE also let us know which building you are enquiring about in the “Subject” line as we answer a lot of questions about a broad spectrum of properties. Thank you.
Okay, so you can buy a small castle for the price of this flatted conversion, but if you have the money and live/work in Norfolk – especially if it is needed to be in Norwich town centre – what an amazing space to consider taking up residence within?
Former Railway Station Longacres, Banavie, Fort William, PH33 7NG.
Almost exactly one year ago since 23rd February 2014, when we originally featured the former railway station home as pictured above here is an update. The price then was £340,000.
We include it in this edition of Unique Property Bulletin for two reasons. Firstly it is still for sale, but with a cool £20,000 shaved off of the price. Given the time the property has been for sale, possibly more can be negotiated from this figure saving you significant amounts of money.
The second reason is we thoroughly recommend delving into past issues of the Bulletin just to see what older listings are still available, along with any price reductions to be achieved for buyers.
Contact MacPhee & Partners Tel: 01397 702200.
…we happen to find and feature that very special place that you have been looking for.
A UNIQUE HOME IN A UNIQUE LOCATION FOR YOU.
Agency Narrative: Woods End is a wonderful contemporary home, set beside a meandering stream, and enjoying a convenient yet private setting within 1 mile of the A11 providing good access to Norwich and Cambridge.
Set in approximately 2 acres (est) of landscaped, wooded grounds, the house has been designed by award winning architects Roderick James to be in close harmony with the surrounding landscape. Traditional building techniques were employed using contemporary methods resulting in a marvellous fusion of style, tradition and aesthetics. Architecturally, part of the brief was to take full advantage of the marvellous Norfolk light and ensure the accommodation became a light filled, welcoming space. Ingeniously these have all been brought together under gently curving roofs topped with flowering sedum, providing a delightful display of white and pink flowers during the summer.
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PLEASE NOTE: The prize is NOT the building, just the £50. Sorry we haven’t reached the level of prize value that enables real buildings to be awarded to winners. Yet!
For our previous competition in November/December 2014 we featured the MOST obscure unique building that we could find. The reckoning was that nobody would manage a correct answer. We even featured the pre-renovation photo. But still there were 4 correct entries!
Our conclusion? There is now a very substantial knowledge base amongst our readers that pretty much covers most of the UK. In a Feature Article soon to be published in the Bulletin we shall see if there is any way our philosophy of sharing details and news of unusual property between readers can be expanded in to help those who are actively on the hot trail of finding and securing their dream home. However, for now and this competition, we have had to halve our prize fund as it is looking a little dry with all of the very well informed readers winning each round. Even so, we hope it still appeals to those that enjoy this element of our publication.
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Well, it is mid-January and a bit frosty outside, so let’s enjoy the ice time.
The latter being well known for television programmes such as The Restoration Man. The Unique Property Bulletin has been lucky enough to assist researchers on George’s prodigious television output and it has been a delight to see the finished result. George makes very good unique property programmes. Though we are a little bias here at the Bulletin.
…with details of your project.
So if you fancy a few days in a remarkable Martello Tower to soak up the inspiration of what a unique building has to offer, we heartily recommend Martello Tower Y.
At £284 per person per night, for a four night stay it is a little juicy, but if you study the photographs on the holiday company website..
… it is understandable that a lot of time, money and loving care has been spent on this former Napoleonic Fort’s restoration.
Possibly a honeymoon destination, or place to spend that little extra for a significant wedding anniversary.
Contact – Suffolk Cottage Holidays Ltd., Tel: 01394 389 189.
This week we do our best to help you a unique building in a DIY manner, and close to your ideal location using your own endeavours. From big buildings to small properties.
The concept on how you can do this is relatively straight forward.
First select the local authority within which you live, or alternatively where you want to live.
Then go onto their property website to see what is for sale. Most local authorities in the United Kingdom are currently selling off all sorts of unusual buildings that are surplus to requirements in order to arrange funds to plug austerity driven cuts.
…in the same web search line. It is best to use inverted commas to quote the exact search terms or you may receive a lot of irrelevant/random results that don’t hep progress your interests.
The search example as described then leads directly to the local authority website. Or you can hit the jackpot with the listings that Google return. In this first example we can spot the sixth item down the Google list as an interesting local authority property already headed for the sale rooms….
A prime example of our “Sleuthing Local Authorities” feature. This is one such type of property being divested. Here we have North Yorkshire County Council offering a former residential school, set in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park approximately 11.71 hectares (28.93 acres).
Originally a Country House constructed around 1820, the property was most recently used as a residential school by North Yorkshire County Council. The property comprises the Grade II Listed Hall, The Coach House, Netherside Lodge together with assorted outbuildings. The landscaped grounds extend to approximately 11.71 hectares (28.93 acres) including a walled garden, lawns, woodland and grassland. The Jacobean style Hall stands at the top of a wooded escarpment on the bank of the River Wharfe. Accommodation is arranged over two floors together with an attic and basement. The Coach House, most recently used as teaching accommodation and Netherside Lodge, a residential house are grouped near the main entrance.
Okay the price is a little on the handsome side for this example, but there are other buildings around the £10,000 to £20,000 if you get right into the Inspector Morse mindset and look really hard.
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zziness’ in our noun-spotting. Yet paradoxically, this ‘fuzziness’ has deepened our understanding of nouns.We have had rich conversations, asked many more questions than found answers, and sparked a flutter or inquiries.We have gone beyond the rote categorization of ‘person, place or thing’ and in doing so struggled with the concept and functions of nouns.
What makes a noun a noun?
In response to this question, the usual statements are uttered that a noun is a ‘person, place or thing’. And this has always been my difficulty with grammar-labelling as it often limits and doesn’t really address ‘noun-ness’. I asked students to identify nouns in a piece of text from our graphic novel The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds. We examined the text carefully. Are there common features about the position of the noun in relation to other words? Are there morphological features in common? What patterns can we notice?
Nouns, along with verbs, adjectives and adverbs are regarded as ‘lexical words’ the main meaning carriers, that belong to an ‘open word class’. Why open? New entries to the language are constantly added to these word classes. In contrast the ‘closed classes’ are pronouns, determiners, prepositions and conjunctions as they are rarely added to.These words are known as the ‘function words’ and as such they have a structuring role in a sentence. When we ‘borrow’ words ( although appropriate may be a more accurate account) many are nouns. Hitchings writes that three quarters of the words absorbed into English in the period between 1250 and 1450 were nouns. Many of these of course referred to new discoveries- material things, experiences and attitudes. Nouns are always absorbed more frequently, whereas as the adoption of function words into the language is far more rare and indicates a deep connection with the original culture, an engagement with concepts rather than stuff. I recently learned of this through Gina Cooke’s brilliant course Old English for Orthographers where we saw that the adoption of ‘they’, ‘them’, and ‘their’ from Old Norse revealed the extent to which the Vikings had integrated with the local population.
Nouns are a vast collection. We have discovered that nouns are the most heavily populated of the word classes, outnumbering verbs roughly three to one (Jackson, Ritchie).
Below, in bold, after much discussion, are the nouns we identified.
‘Lord Poseidon whose dominion embraces the whole earth, hear our prayer: glory to Nestor and all the line of Neleus, good fortune to every man of Pylos in exchange for their sacrifice, and swift success to Telemachus and myself in our mission’.
Identifying the nouns and how we decide on their ‘noun-ness’ has led us into interesting waters.
A record of our discussion, connections and questions. Thinking about language is messy; it’s more than an easy categorization.
Names and places: Nouns can be names of people : Lord Poseidon. Some of us knew the term ‘proper nouns'( we did not go into the distinction between the term proper nouns and proper names, see here if interested.) Nouns as proper nouns also can be places, days and months. They are specific and refer to a particular place out of many, a specific day out of all the days, a specific month out of all the months and as such, they are marked by an initial capital letter. Yet this is not to us clear cut and we wondered about usage such as: ‘The December sun beat down on us’. Is ‘December’ still a noun or is it now modifying sun and in that case an adjective? Or is it to be considered as one unit- December sun, a compound and in this sentence then a noun?
Adjectives: The position in the sentence can give clues as to the function of a word. We saw that if there’s an adjective, it’s often, but not always, placed before the noun ‘the whole earth’, ‘good fortune’.
Determiners: Nouns often, not always, have determiners before them : determiner + noun or determiner + adjective + noun. Determiners can be the definite article ‘the’ and the indefinite article ‘a’, ‘an’: ‘the line’, ‘the whole earth’. The possessive pronoun/determiner their occurs before a noun: so ‘their sacrifice’.
Subjects and objects: Word order in English is important. Nouns plus words associated with them can be the subjects in sentences: Lord Poseidon,…. hear our prayer. Nouns can also be objects in a sentence: our mission, our prayer. Often in English, although not always, nouns and their phrases occur as subject, verb, object.
Plural suffixes: Nouns can be plural- which is indicated often, not always, by the inflectional suffix <-s> and <-es>. We saw that if we substituted the plural form for the singular and it made sense, most likely it was a noun so < prayer+s>. ‘Sacrifice’ we knew could like many nouns, be used verbally. However, with the adding of their before sacrifice and testing with the plural suffix <-s> helped us determine that sacrifice here in this text, was functioning as a noun.
Cases: English nouns in the present day have lost many of its cases but can mark the genitive case through <‘s> in the singular and usually <s’>in the plural: ‘Poseidon’s wrath’, ‘the suitors’ greed’.
The derivational suffixes: The suffix <-ion> is a huge clue as to ‘noun-ness’ : dominion, mission. But we also noted words like function, station which can be used verbally: I function well as a team member or I station myself by the door to welcome guests.
The agent suffixes: The derivational suffix <-er> can indicate that a word is a noun. It can convert a verb to noun so the verb pray becomes a noun <pray+er> the words that pray, request or beseech. <-er> can be an agent suffix, agents being people or objects that do something. We discussed other agent suffixes such as <-ian>, <-ist>, <-or>. We’ve now started a list of words with these agent suffixes.
Many nouns can swap word classes for example words that are adjectival can often be used nominally: ‘the swift and the nimble will be rewarded’, ‘the long and the short and the tall‘, ‘the good, the bad and the ugly.’ We discussed how verbs can be converted to nouns by adding the suffix<-ing> creating a gerund: Running is a favorite sport in our class.
We also talked about further dividing nouns into abstract and concrete, count and uncountable and noting interesting features about them. Do abstract nouns take plural suffixes? We tested this and with these words thought ‘no’, *happiness+es, *laughter+s, *luck+s *anger+s… but then joy+s is possible: ‘The joys of teaching are numerous’, Freedom+s is possible: ‘the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms’ (UN Preamble Declaration of Human Rights). We wondered about <*justice+s> – it does not seem possible to add the plural suffix here unless you are referring to people who are justices yet its opposite <in+justice+s> is possible.
Is <-ous> always an adjectival suffix?
What are other ways of forming the plural suffix? We know child~ children so <child+ren>? <childr+en>? Read here about the double suffix indicating the plural! What about brethren? The singular is not *brether but we wondered about brother and lo and behold thanks to ever reliable Online Etymology Dictionary, we found our answer!
What other words have <-en> as a plural suffix?
When it looks like a plural, is it? Why are some nouns marked with an <-s> even when we are talking about a singular item – trousers, pants, undies and boxers. We don’t say trouser, or pant or undie in reference to one of the aforementioned items. We use these words for both the plural and singular. We made a list of such examples adding: scissors and binoculars. One student mentioned that we say ‘a pair of trousers‘, or ‘a pair of scissors’. Is it it, we wondered, because there are two parts to the unit that we say scissors even when speaking of just the one object? Is this the reason for pants and trousers, boxers, knickers and undies? All have two leg holes. However, why not this logic with other garments? We have both singular shirt and plural<shirt+s>, singular jumper and sweater and their plural counterparts <jumper+s> and <sweater+s>, a singular <cardigan> and the plural <cardigan+s>. All these items have two holes, sleeves! Or is the <s> part of the base element rather than the plural suffix<-s>? Usually we avoid this confusion by the final non-syllabic <e> so not *hous but house, horse not *hors. We are intrigued and looking for more examples.
Why no gender? We discussed that in English, nouns, unlike many other languages are not categorized by gender. Some German, French, Korean, Chinese and Italian students compared their languages with
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. They’re just doing it because someone forced it on them. Every nice gesture they make towards you is simply because they are kind and not because they have to do it. Always remember this and be sure to reciprocate with even a small gesture.
Help them with designing the classroom, cutting out stuff, take them out for lunch, grading multiple choice tests, photocopying, making a PPT, crowd-control during their class, etc. etc. The list of stuff you can do is endless. Be proactive and find ways you can make your co-teacher’s life easier. They’ll appreciate the gesture, if not the actual help.
Public school teachers in Korea: I think you’d probably do well if you followed these tips!
Public School Teachers in Korea: What Do You Think?
Any tips for doing well when teaching in a Korean public school? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think!
I’m sorry Jackie, but this article really rubs me the wrong way. While I agree with your initial tip about acknowledging NETs are coming into an established, functioning academic environment and a different culture, the other points were really a miss for me.
I do strongly believe NETs should learn basic Korean and try to be as autonomous as possible, but painting us as obnoxious children whining to our CTs about trivial things is an image I find rather offensive. While I do try to operate as independently as possible and only ask my CTs after I’ve explored all of my opinions, I don’t think we should be shamed and chastised for needing help with basic things we’re unable to yet do on our own. It’s really frustrating for us too. In fact, I can promise you it’s far more frustrating for an NET to be in a foreign country where they don’t speak much of the language (and are finding struggles with something as simple as feeding themselves in a restaurant because they can’t read the menu) than it is for the Korean teacher to quickly lend a helping hand. I appreciate that Korean teachers are busy too and we should do what we can to help them out, but belittling how challenging it can be as a foreigner in a new country doesn’t make that transition any easier. I don’t find this advice to be either positive or productive.
I also disagree with shaming us further by saying we’re at the “bottom of the totem pole”. Maybe this hasn’t been your experience, which would be unfortunate and I hope isn’t the case, but I’m actually respected by my Korean CTs. I am treated as a professional because I conduct myself like one. I look to them for advice and ways I can improve my teaching with them, and they in turn look to me as well. While in one instance I’ve had the “lowest” CT assigned to help me, it was also because she was the second best English speaker in the school. The best English speaker was already managing nearly everything else at my school, and excluding this second CT, no one else spoke English. At my other schools, my CTs have all in fact been heads of the English departments or, again, the best English speakers available at the school. I’ve developed great relationships with my CTs and they’ve been happy to go to bat for me on those rare occasions where I really needed it. I’m always there to lend them a hand where I can too; it isn’t a one-way street. Again, to paint the NET/CT relationship as some massive burden on the Korean CTs not only makes new NETs feel completely unwelcome, but further perpetuates the negative stereotype that NETs in this country are merely puppets and entertainers instead of “actual teachers”. As someone who is disgusted by this stereotype and always happy to work hard to prove it wrong, I find that latter bit particularly offensive.
Furthermore, I think it’s fairly safe to assume we’re all adults here and are aware of the fact that things in life aren’t “free”. Again, we are not children so I’m not sure why this article seems to assume we will behave as such. I’ve always offered to pay (sometimes even insisted and won out) and offered to chip in. This is because my parents raised me to have manners and I can function independently in society, not because I’ve been taught great life lessons by higher Korean culture and was uncivilized before coming here. Whether it’s Korea or a western country or somewhere else entirely, we should all be acting this way. It has nothing to do with Korea and Korean culture, and suggesting otherwise is a slap in the face, implying this is the first time westerners have encountered the concept of being a responsible, considerate adult.
I also take offense at the implication that our CTs essentially resent us and view us as a burden. I know for a fact that (at least some) Korean CTs in fact ARE paid additionally for the responsibility of managing the paperwork and duties associated with an NET, so even if they “didn’t want to help us” (because we’re terrible and awful waygookins, and how dare we want to set up a cell phone one time so we can keep in contact with them, or need help translating at a hospital on the rare occasion we get ill and are scared and can’t communicate, right?), saying that we’re some forced obligation with zero compensation is inaccurate. I have one “main” CT, but I’ve developed many great relationships and good friendships among my coworkers–and at my current school, I’ve only been there for two months! It doesn’t take long. As a result, I have multiple people I can ask for help if I do find I need it, not just one poor sap. This point is also quite insulting to Koreans, as it paints them as heartless and nasty people with no understanding or grasp of the world outside of Korea. My CTs are very kind, caring, and understanding people who have in fact offered me help many times before I even ask. I’ve even been offered help when I didn’t even need it simply because they were looking out for me. They’ve given me an incredibly warm welcome, and to see them and other Koreans widely generalized as otherwise is both disheartening and personally angering.
I appreciate that you’ve been living in Korea for a decade and have had a wide range of experiences here, but I find this article to be all-around negative and a very poor introduction to what teaching is for potential NETs. I understand and fully agree that the pretentious foreigners expecting to come here and “revolutionize” the Korean education system should stay at home, but this article reads as a total beat-down on those coming in with an open mind and hopeful heart as well. There are better, more positive ways to write the same points that you were attempting to get at without putting all the blame and shame on NETs, and making the Korean teachers out to be ungrateful, exclusionary and closed-minded. You could potentially argue that I took your article too personally, but I have multiple other foreign friends here who have had very similar experiences and enjoyed their time in Korean because they’ve come in with a mindset and attitude similar to mine. While my particular examples are anecdotal, the overarching points I’m making are not.
To the concerned NET above.
I understand how the article itself can be offensive as it generalises NETs as a nagging kid who just can’t adjust to a new environment. I also disagree with that because I have seen many NETs who are actually passionate about their job and proactive. But you must understand that many of them are just there to spend some time in Asia and make some easy money.
First of all, you must understand that Korea is not a foreigner friendly nation. It has changed a lot recently but it has been like that for past several millennia and it can and will take several centuries for them to be fully opened. When they see foreigners, they will be excited and fascinated by someone different but they all have uncertainty in their mind. You may argue with that but really think about it.
Well. I’m not implying that all NETs are just bludgers but you must admit that people like to see bad things first. Thats why they cut all the budget for NETs in Seoul and other big cities are trying to cut the budget too. I have met several talented NETs who are enthusiastic about ESL education and I really do appreciate what they do. But you have to remember that this article is a suppose to be a “tip”. I understand how it contains negative contexts but don’t get too offended and just try to get the tips that you needed.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment Michael. I think that you have a solid understanding of Korean culture and how things actually work in public schools.
Most of the points mentioned above were not meant to be condescending towards the NSET nor paint the Korean teacher in a negative light at all. The points were derived actually from my good experiences. I’ve had both good & bad and as I reflected back on the good experiences I tried to formulate my points around what I personally did and what I felt during my experiences. I had explained during my presentation that I had been unthankful & demanding when I first came to Korea and it wasn’t until I had a great co-teaching relationship that I realized, ok these are the things I did differently.
Also, the bottom of the totem pole thing was meant to show the hierarchy in a public school system with the principle, VP, head teachers, dept teachers, office ladies, the NSET. How all information has to be either be passed up or down through
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consecutive quarter of delivering top line growth and our third consecutive quarter with improved earnings. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure we defined in our press release and one of our key performance metrics, was $8.7 million, up just under 8% from the second quarter. This was our second consecutive quarterly increase in adjusted EBITDA.
Revenue increased across each of our three reporting segments, both sequentially and versus the prior year period, showing healthy activity across all three segments. We're particularly pleased with the growth in the apps and IoT segment, where revenues were up 13.5% from the second quarter and almost 50% from third quarter 2017.
Let me take a moment to remind everyone of our overall strategy, which is driving the ongoing transformation of RigNet from a company that's historically been seen as an oilfield services company, to a company that is a holistic digital transformation solutions provider. To begin with the base business, managed communication services will continue to be core to serving our global customers, who rely on us in more than 50 countries to deliver consistent and reliable communications services. As you know, RigNet is highly leveraged in the energy vertical, although we've diversified away from only serving offshore rigs and now have over 6,000 midstream pipeline sites, where we are providing SCADA and Internet of Things solution.
These pipeline sites are not included in our reported site count, because individually each one is a small contributor. Although in total, the contribution is meaningful and we hope to continue to grow in this area. Additionally, we now serve 332 production sites, including both FPSOs and fixed platforms. In speaking with our customers, there is growing enthusiasm with the energy industry, particularly offshore is in the early stages of recovery and we share that enthusiasm. However, in spite of our growth, utilization of rigs across both jackups and floaters is up only slightly year-over-year. And although we expect improvement going forward, we are forecasting hockey-stick shaped growth in this sub-segment. We're focused on driving network efficiencies across our business. Network efficiencies improve with scale, so as we move ahead, we'll look to continue acquisitions that help us build that scale, whether in energy, where we hold a leading market share position or in different verticals allowing us to diversify or even within specific geographic areas.
We're also taking advantage of unique opportunities to expand and improve our network. For example, on our second quarter call, we announced we are investing along with a major telecommunications partner to enhance our existing Gulf of Mexico infrastructure to provide 4G and 5G capabilities to existing network. I'm pleased to report that the build-out is progressing well, although some weather delays in September have nudged capital spending somewhat to the right, meaning that we will see that spend mostly come in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2019.
Beyond the core business, we continue to make great progress in building our apps and IoT segment, growing revenue 13.5% sequentially and almost 50% versus third quarter 2017. Although apps and IoT comprises many solutions including AVI, which stands for Advanced Video Intelligence; SCADA in IoT service; MetOcean in value-adding connectivity and entertainment options for crews on our customers assets. Let me focus on two of the product areas that generate the most excitement around RigNet. The first is Intelie, our advanced real-time machine learning and AI platform, which we acquired in March of this year. Intelie is an incredibly robust, adaptable technology platform that is already making significant impacts in the oilfield, though this application is by no means restricted to oil and gas.
The company, which just celebrated its 10th birthday, counted Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company as one of its first major and continuing customers. Petrobras has publicly stated that this type of real-time machine learning and artificial intelligence has saved them $100 million per year by reducing their complex ultra-deepwater planning process from 90 days to less than 10 days and by helping to manage drilling performance in real-time as they drill through the challenging salt layer in their pre-salt wells. As we've introduced Intelli to our customers, they are recognizing the potential for significant positive impacts on their business by improving safety, increasing top line revenues and by controlling costs. In fact, the majority of our meetings around Intelli result in a Proof of Value trial or commitment. And I'm pleased to report that we secured new commitments from both offshore customers and in onshore fracking customer during the quarter. The fracking win based on a newly developed capability represents the first time we've delivered a solution to this market.
Additionally, during the quarter we announced via our social media channels that Intelie was selected for Shell's GameChanger program to develop its Digital Decision Assistant, a virtual decision assistant module that helps engineers make data driven decisions for real-time drilling operations in longer-term data-intensive projects such as well construction.
The second product area that we're excited about is related to Cyphre, a cyber security platform. Cyphre represents some of the most sophisticated hardware-based encryption available anywhere in the market today. It provides best-in-class encryption on all network types and is easily integrated with existing technology. Like Intelli, Cyphre is not oil and gas specific, we've already announced both AT&T and Singapore-based telecommunications provider Singtel as channel partners to distribute Cyphre in verticals outside of energy. We're also very pleased to announce that Cyphre has been accepted into the Cryptographic Module Validation Program at the National Institute of Technology and Standards, often referred to as NIST, where we anticipate we will be certified under FIPS 140-2 sometime in 2019, marking an important milestone for use of Cyphre products in government and regulated industries. Our Cyphre capabilities have helped catalyze the growth of what we believe is now the leading bundle of Cyber Security Solutions in the energy sector, including best-in-class data protection, network protection, key management, IoT security, border security and, as we will announce to the market next week, an AI-based intrusion detection system that's backed by a global security operation center. All of these are delivered to our managed communication services and IoT customers as a service, allowing them to pay for these critical capabilities on a variable cost basis.
We believe our investment in Intelie, Cyphre and other over-the-top applications will enable us to capture opportunities in multiple vertical markets and can drive a growth rate that's higher than the managed communications market alone. Before turning the call over to Lee, let me comment on our System Integration or SI business. As many of you know, RigNet struggled with SI for a period of time, failing to deliver results, which were satisfactory to shareholders or to ourselves. We increased our attention on this part of the business and are very pleased with the results. By providing focused oversight and improving our bidding and cost management practices, we've not only managed first to stabilize and then grow the margins on this business, we've improved relationships and gained credibility with customers, enabling us to more than double the project backlog in SI quarter-over-quarter to $41 million. The business itself is always going to be what we call lumpy in the sense that it's project driven based on the macro environment. This makes it a bit difficult to predict revenues too far out, but we believe we're punching above our weight class in this segment and winning more than our fair share of bit.
With that, let me ask Lee to make a few comments on the financials.
Thanks, Steve. Expanding on what Steve mentioned earlier, consolidated quarterly revenue was $64.8 million, up 27.4% compared to $50.8 million in the prior year quarter and up 7.9% from $60 million in the prior quarter. All of our segments reported revenue increases. Managed communication services revenue was $44.9 million for the quarter compared to $40.2 in the prior year quarter and $41.7 million in the prior quarter. A majority of the increase quarter-on-quarter was due to equipment sales, which as I think you know, results in a smaller margin versus our traditional bandwidth sales. This is probably the right place to make a few comments about site count, which was 1,350, up by 53 sites quarter-over-quarter and by 175 sites year-over-year. Now referring back to Steve's comments, we simply haven't seen offshore rig activity increase that significantly. Of course, you're aware that we lost a Noble work this year, through September we've had about nine Noble rigs roll off. But if you look at our drilling rig category count at year-end 2017, which was 282, we've certainly more than made up for the lost Noble business given our rig count of 191 at the end of Q3.
In general, the Noble changeover has proceeded more slowly than we originally anticipated. And we currently expect that it will not be complete until sometime in 1Q '19. So there will be some revenue impact in Q1 and Q4 of '18, unless we're able to secure additional opportunities to replace those rigs. Our other three site count categories, production, maritime and other, which is mostly onshore North America, all grew during the quarter and we would highlight the McDermott win announced in September as one of our significant achievements. They have a global fleet of 11 offshore construction vessels that we are providing not only managed comms to, but over-the-top solutions as well. These OTT solutions were a key differentiator in McDermott's selection of RigNet. Apps & IoT revenue was $7.5 million for the quarter compared to $5 million in the prior year quarter and $6.6 million in the prior quarter. The main drivers here were increases in SaaS revenues as well as some equipment sales. Steve talked a little bit about systems
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usual and always amazing!
Incredible to think all of that was done in one year. I don’t know how you do it but you are a true inspiration to many out there. I strive to be as good as you are….one day I will do it. I loved reading all your tutorials even though I have not done many. I would love to one day. I hope the new year is your best year ever. Happy New Year to your family and LBB team.
Thanks Ashley for spreading the message of “Choose Joy” I try to be as positive as possible and look at every task as a gift. I “get” to do the laundry instead of “have” to do it. It helps me to remember that some people would just be happy to have some laundry to do. I am inundated daily by people who complain about what they don’t have and yet are surrounded by so much that others do not have. Your blog is so refreshing and uplifting. Thanks for sharing. Not only your stores but your amazing attitude. Happy New Year and God bless you!
I just had a talk with my older (and very wise) brother about this past year and all the events that have happened in my life and in the life of my little family. And you know what he said? He said that he can see light in my eyes again. That I’m happy. And that I am hopeful. That made me SO happy to hear that because this past year has NOT been fun, or enjoyable, but I have decided (and you’ve helped) to choose joy. Especially in trials. We all go through things, but it is how we react that makes all the difference. I just love ya to death and I have lots of happy thoughts about 2012 too!!
I don’t know how you do it — but I’m so glad you do!!!
All my best wishes for you for this next year. I will also remember to choose joy and to feel blessed!
Your positive outlook is simply astonishing in the face of everything you’ve had to endure. It’s I who should be thanking you for all your infectious positive energy.You are truly an inspiration.
You are an amazing inspiration. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Happy New Year and all the best in the next 365!
Wow…I knew I was impressed with you, but since I have only been following your blog for a short while, I didnt realized you had done so much prior to me finding you…girl…you are a hard act to follow, but you have definitely challenged me to DO IT! “It” being what drives me, to dream, to start, even if it’s small…just start! Today, you confirmed that I need to clean out closets…I mean, if you can clean your closets out, while going through everything you’re going through, what excuse could I possibly come up with?
So, this year I will be staring my blog, opening my Etsy store, cleaning out my closets and continuing to pray for you and Cole.
ashley…thank you for your honesty! i started reading your blog for your creativity, then realized you were a fellow believer in Jesus! you’re attitude on everything you go through is such a challenge to me to be thankful no matter what is happening! God truly does have a plan for us all and it is so easy to sometimes forget He is there every step with His hands on us!!! We have chosen to “Choose Joy” this year in our family…along with this verse…Habakkuk 3:18…Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. blessings to you this new year!!!
What an amazing post! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the turn that your blog has taken as it has made me think more about Choosing Joy each day. I’m bummed it has come through cancer & loss for you, but you are truly an inspiration in the way your are walking out your faith. Thanks and May God continue to Bless you and your family in the New Year!
Meh… I suppose you did all right.
Bwahahaha! Love LBB and your Lil family too.
Ashley, your post is the best New Year’s message I have read. I am hoping that 2012 turns out to be a great year for you, you deserve the best! I love your spirit, honestly I am learning a lot from you and I am old enough to be your mother!!!!
So glad I found your blog in 2011. I think God surely works in mysterious ways! Your blog has been so inspirational for me and I feel a very personal connection to you.
There is an infinite amount of wisdom in this short sentence. Let’s step into the invincible future together!
Ms Ashley, thank you so much for sharing with all of us, your Joy. Creatively you’ve inspired me, but you love of the Lord, your spirit of giving, and the joy you choose to embrace have. been the greatest gift I have gained from finding your blog. Praying the Lord blesses you and your family even more this year.
Happy New Year Ashley & LBB team :).
Ashley, you have been through so much this year and yet YOU are the one bringing us up. This made me teary because I needed your positive message so much today. We have had a rough few years in a few ways, and it so, SO refreshing to have someone say what you did at the beginning about this being an amazing year. I love it and I needed to hear it! Blessings and Happy 2012!!
Ashley..may the new year bring you JOY and DAFFODILS. The daffodil is a pretty flower that in addition to being the flower used for the American Cancer Society is believed to bring good fortune,, extra wealth, symbolize friendship, rebirth (which is why it is an Easter Flower), new beginnings. A gift of A BOUQUET OF DAFFODILS is said to bring HAPPINESS and JOY…..
Happy New Year! I feel so blessed to have found out about you Ashley and Lil Blue Boo! I wish I could capture into words the feeling I have every time Lilly Kate wears lil Blue Boo, it is priceless to me, I feel so proud to be able to support such a lovely company. Bring is 2012!!!! Looking forward to being a part of it with you! Your family continues to be in my prayers!
Thank you so much for your post! I hope that 2012 brings you peace & happiness. You are always so optimistic and joyful!
Oh ashley!!! God bless you & everyone in your circle. My church message today was all about living for each and every single day & not holding back. Can’t wait to see where God takes you! …. and my lil family!
I’ve just recently started following creative blogs and stumbled upon yours, not knowing the challenges you have been facing this past year. Your optimism and determination are truly an inspiration! I wish you only the best in the new year of 2012.
Happy New Year Ashley and team. Thankful for everything you add to blogland. Wishing you a wonderful 2012.
You leave me speechless………..you are pure love and inspiration.
Hola querida Ashley, he leido tu recuento del tu año 2011 y veo que has hecho mas cosas que yo en 10 años : ( Quiero que sepas que eres un gran ejemplo de lo que somos las mujeres: valiosos seres humanos que somos dadores de vida.
Espero que la vida este año te restaure la salud y te tengamos mucho tiempo con nosotros. Sinceramente Claudia. Un gran beso y abrazo.
Ashley – I have little bits and pieces of you all thru’ my life. I open my old linen closet and have a wonderful organized kitchen pantry. I open my purse and there’s a darling grosgrain ribbon wallet. My granddaughter has been clean and fairly germ free from her new changing pad. My grandson has four tee shirts with really cute dinosaurs on them. Soon I’ll drag out my beloved tee shirt and make some really cute tunics for summer.
You make me laugh and I’ve loved watching your darling Boo in the last year. I’m thankful you’ve shared your life and this hard journey. It’s all for God’s glory.
You are in my prayers and I know that whatever God has for you it is good!
What an amazing legacy of a year. You have already left such an impression on so many people’s lives and I know this year you will on so many more! You are an incredible person and an inspiration to me! What a blessing God has given you and what faith you share it with. Thank you for being you! Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year Ashley! May you and your family be blessed beyond measure this year.
It’s amazing and utterly mind-blowing what you have accomplished and experienced in one short year. There’s a saying in Estonian that some people burn with a bright flame and you are certainly one of those people. We can all only hope that your flame will brighten and last. I hope the new year has a lot of joy in store for you and your family. Happy new year!
WOW If you can do all that in one year, with cancer, passing away and everything else, I can’t wait to see what exciting things you bring us in 2012. I have enjoyed every single post—THANK YOU and as a true southerner I have to say” BLESS HER HEART
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its intense glow, which alone lighted my apartment, cast a red tint on the furniture and walls. Outside the streets were muffled deep with snow, in which no footstep was audible. All was quiet as death, silent as the grave, save for the faint murmur of my own breathing. Time and space seemed annihilated beyond those four narrow walls, and I was as a coffined living centre of an else lifeless infinity.
My reverie was rudely broken by the staggering step of a fellow-lodger, whose devotion to Bacchus was the one symptom of reverence in his nature. He reeled up stair after stair, and as he passed my door he lurched against it so violently that I feared he would come through. But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine.
After this interruption my thoughts changed most fancifully. Why I know not, but I began to brood on the strange statement of Saint Paul concerning the man who was lifted up into the seventh heaven, and there beheld things not lawful to reveal. While pondering this story I was presently aware of an astonishing change. The walls of my room slowly expanded, growing ever thinner and thinner, until they became the filmiest transparent veil which at last dissolved utterly away. Then (whether in the spirit or the flesh I know not) I was hurried along through space, past galaxy after galaxy of suns and stars, separate systems yet all mysteriously related.
Swifter than light we travelled, I and my unseen guide, through the infinite ocean of ether, until our flight was arrested by a denser medium, which I recognised as an atmosphere like that of our earth. I had scarcely recovered from this new surprise when (marvel of marvels!) I found myself before a huge gate of wondrous art and dazzling splendor. At a word from my still unseen guide it swung open, and I was urged within. Beneath my feet was a solid pavement of gold. Gorgeous mansions, interspersed with palaces, rose around me, and above them all towered the airy pinnacles of a matchless temple, whose points quivered in the rich light like tongues of golden fire. The walls glittered with countless rubies, diamonds, pearls, amethysts, emeralds, and other precious stones; and lovely presences, arrayed in shining garments, moved noiselessly from place to place. "Where am I?" I ejaculated, half faint with wonder. And my hitherto unseen guide, who now revealed himself, softly answered, "In Heaven."
Thereupon my whole frame was agitated with inward laughter. I in Heaven, whose fiery doom had been prophesied so often by the saints on earth! I, the sceptic, the blasphemer, the scoffer at all things sacred, who had laughed at the legends and dogmas of Christianism as though they were incredible and effete as the myths of Olympus! And I thought to myself, "Better I had gone straight to Hell, for here in the New Jerusalem they will no doubt punish me worse than there." But my angelic guide, who read my thought, smiled benignly and said, "Fear not, no harm shall happen to you. I have exacted a promise of safety for you, and here no promise can be broken." "But why," I asked, "have you brought me hither, and how did you obtain my guarantee of safety?" And my guide answered, "It is our privilege each year to demand one favor which may not be refused; I requested that I might bring you here; but I did not mention your name, and if you do nothing outrageous you will not be noticed, for no one here meddles with another's business, and our rulers are too much occupied with foreign affairs to trouble about our domestic concerns." "Yet," I rejoined, "I shall surely be detected, for I wear no heavenly robe." Then my guide produced one from a little packet, and having donned it, I felt safe from the fate of him who was expelled because he had not on a wedding-garment at the marriage feast.
As we moved along, I inquired of my guide why he took such interest in me; and he replied, looking sadly, "I was a sceptic on earth centuries ago, but I stood alone, and at last on my death-bed, weakened by sickness, I again embraced the creed of my youth and died in the Christian faith. Hence my presence in Heaven. But gladly would I renounce Paradise even for Hell, for those figures so lovely without are not all lovely within, and I would rather consort with the choicer spirits who abide with Satan and hold high revel of heart and head in his court. Yet wishes are fruitless; as the tree falls it lies, and my lot is cast for ever." Whereupon I laid my hand in his, being speechless with grief!
We soon approached the magnificent temple, and entering it we mixed with the mighty crowd of angels who were witnessing the rites of worship performed by the elders and beasts before the great white throne. All happened exactly as Saint John describes. The angels rent the air with their acclamations, after the inner circle had concluded, and then the throne was deserted by its occupants.
My dear guide then led me through some narrow passages until we emerged into a spacious hall, at one end of which hung a curtain. Advancing towards this with silent tread, we were able to look through a slight aperture, where the curtain fell away from the pillar, into the room beyond. It was small and cosy, and a fire burned in the grate, before which sat poor dear God the Father in a big arm-chair. Divested of his godly paraphernalia, he looked old and thin, though an evil fire still gleamed from his cavernous eyes. On a table beside him stood some phials, one of which had seemingly just been used. God the Son stood near, looking much younger and fresher, but time was beginning to tell on him also. The Ghost flitted about in the form of a dove, now perching on the Father's shoulder and now on the head of the Son.
Jesus.—Are you well now, my Father?
Jehovah.—Yes, yes, well enough. Alack, how my strength wanes! Where is the pith that filled these arms when I fought for my chosen people? Where the fiery vigor that filled my veins when I courted your mother?
Jesus.—Ah, sire, do not speak thus. You will regain your old strength.
Jehovah.—Nay, nay, and you know it. You do not even wish me to recover, for in my weakness you exercise sovereign power and rule as you please.
Jehovah.—Come now, none of these demure looks. We know each other too well. Practise before the saints if you like, but don't waste your acting on me.
Jesus.—My dear Father, pray curb your temper. That is the very thing the people on earth so much complain of.
Jehovah.—My dearly beloved Son, in whom I am not at all well pleased, desist from this hypocrisy. Your temper is as bad as mine. You've shed blood enough in your time, and need not rail at me.
Jesus.—Ah, sire, only the blood of heretics.
Jehovah.—Heretics, forsooth! They were very worthy people for the most part, and their only crime was that they neglected you. But why should we wrangle? We stand or fall together, and I am falling. Satan draws most souls from earth to his place, including all the best workers and thinkers, who are needed to sustain our drooping power; and we receive nothing but the refuse; weak, slavish, flabby souls, hardly worth saving or damning; gushing preachers, pious editors, crazy enthusiasts, and half-baked old ladies of both sexes. Why didn't you preach a different Gospel while you were about it? You had the chance once and let it slip: we shall never have another.
Jesus.—My dear Father, I am reforming my Gospel to make it suit the altered taste of the times.
Jehovah.—Stuff and nonsense! It can't be done; thinking people see through it; the divine is immutable. The only remedy is to start afresh. Could I beget a new son all might be rectified; but I cannot, I am too old. Our dominion is melting away like that of all our predecessors. You cannot outlast me, for I am the fountain of your life; and all the multitude of "immortal" angels who throng our court, live only while I uphold them, and with me they will vanish into eternal limbo.
Here followed another fit of coughing worse than before. Jesus resorted again to the phial, but the cordial seemed powerless against this sharp attack. Just then the Dove fluttered against the curtain, and my guide hurried me swiftly away.
But at this moment my guide again hurried me along. We reached the splendid gate once more, which slowly opened and let us through. Again we flew through the billowy ether, sweeping past system after system with intoxicating speed, until at last, dazed and almost unconscious, I regained this earthly shore. Then I sank into a stupor. When I awoke the fire had burnt down to the last cinder, all was dark and cold, and I shivered as I tried to stretch my half-cramped limbs
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After just about all, remedying chronic sinusitis cannot be achieved by killing microbes because we have described in our book, Natural Cures for Sinusitis.
One final tip with sinusitis steam inhalation: you can include oils to the blend so that you will breathe in some of the vapors readily available natural skin oils. You should ask your doctor about the possible medicinal oils that can be used to be able to help the situation. Some suggest peppermint, eucalyptus, or even camphor.
Some Otc Sinus Sprays: There are some sprays available over-the-counter that include strong bio-chemicals that destroy micro-organisms. These kinds of may help to pay off an existing nose infection. However, their basic safety is not assessed. Usually, it takes number of years for a medication to appear on the market because its side effects and other safety things to consider need to be identified. This kind of a report is achieved after a period of clinical research. Nonetheless, this is not the case for any vast majority of Otc remedies. They are usually marketed as supplementary in order to short-circuit drug regulations. The side effects of the Otc solutions are never recognized due to lack of long-term investigation. It is a serious drawback if you think about using an Nonprescription drug for example a regular sinus cure for a long time.
Yes, it's true that these methods may open the nasal passages very successfully, but this fact does not cause them to become friends and family. They open up the nose because they irritate the cells in the nose so much that those tissues (especially the turbinates) reduce in order to reduce their surface area in contact with the irritating fume or liquid. This shrinkage brings about an empty nose through which it is possible to breathe readily. This kind of settlement may even last for a couple of hours when you have tortured your nose adequate. But, all these benefits tend to be in substitution for damage to your sinus tissues. Damaged nasal cells make you more at risk of sicknesses and inflammation, which demand a regular dependence on decongestants. Should you carry on utilizing any of these hazardous decongesting techniques, you'll get in a vicious cycle, which - if unbroken - will leave you with totally harmed nasal structures.
Because the surface can makle the narrow nasal passages swell close, mucus seems to build up in the sinuses, causing the distinct strain sufferers sense. When you boil water, both the heat and the moisture should aid in opening up your own nasal passages as well as liquefying the mucus so which it flows out of the tooth decay, providing you with alleviation.
The hot water should produce steam and you can inhale the moist air as you love your shower. You can also use the warm water on your own face directly as the rise in temperature should help in opening up the nasal passages.
The long-term effects of these additives are not recognized, and they may hinder olfaction and with other medications.
Thus, home-made solutions are usually safer.
In addition they cost a smaller amount.
Besides, we have everything to organize this kind of a solution in our homes.
You might choose xylitol-added salt preparations as xylitol has been confirmed to be safe for nasal tissue.
How Can i Acquire Nebulized Sinus Treatment? When you feel that your colds are not going away soon and you are showing indicators of a sinus an infection, check out your doctor right away. You may also need to stop using any sinus treatment you are taking, especially if you feel that it is ineffective. This may stop more complications like drowsiness, sleeplessness and also nausea. Your physician may examine the extent of one's sinus infection and inform you if you are suffering from severe or persistent sinusitis or nasal hypersensitivity. He may order more assessments to make a certain diagnosis. Ask your doctor about nebulized sinus remedy for nasal sinus infections or nose allergies.
Info upon Humidity If you do plan to use a vaporizer or humidifier, know that there is a research behind humidity. Although living in a low humidity environment can be bad, there is a point where including humidity may be bad as well. A lot of humidity can lead to damp areas in your house favorable for bacteria and fungus. They're known causes of sinus issues so you may be doing much more harm than good if you over use your humidifiers.
What is Nebulized Sinus Treatment? This treatment method for sinusitis is also known as "aerosolized therapy". Nebulized sinus treatment, because the first word indicates, uses a nebulizer to function in liquid treatment in to the sinus areas. A nebulizer will be an effective tool to be able to administer medications to be able to sinusitis and respiratory sufferers. This particular sinus treatment tackle just about all kinds acute and chronic sinus attacks, as well as sinus allergy symptoms just like allergic rhinitis.
Mostly homemade - options including hydrogen peroxide, lemon juice, vinegar or even capsaicin (the spiciness inside hot peppers) in to the nose; adding betadine to nasal-rinse solutions; and inhaling and exhaling irritating smells from hot vinegars. These home remedies are usually really very bad for the actual nose - not only to cilia, but also to olfactory function. You may lose your sense of smell over time in the event you frequently make use of this kind of a strategy to decongest your nose.
How Efficient is This kind of Treatment? The amount of effectiveness, safety, ease of use as well as reliability of nebulized nose therapy make this method more advanced than all of those other sinus medications out there. The key to be able to it's effectiveness is in the small, minute mist particles going into the small availabilities of the sinus location (only 1.0 to 3.2 micron dimensions aerosol particles). When the air contaminants are very fine, bacterial infections in the hard to reach aspects of the sinuses are usually killed and eliminated. No other sinus treatment has successfully accomplished this, thus, nebulized nose treatment is now the best choice for a lot of sinusitis patients.
How Does This treatment Work? Nebulized sinus treatment is a do-it-yourself system with the guidance of your doctor and a sinus compounding pharmacy that will issue your own sinus remedy package. Once the nebulizer and fruit juice medications are usually delivered to an individual, you are ready and also equipped to nebulize your way to sinus settlement. The actual compact digital nebulizer, also called as aerosolizing device, releases the fruit juice medicine straight into water regarding breathing to the nose and nose cavity region. Treatment time only continues roughly from 3 to 5 minutes.
Being discouraged with their always obstructed noses and other chronic sinus problems, many people test odd methods for relief.
But some of these cures could actually worsen your sinus problems in the long term and thus may condemn you to living with chronic sinusitis.
Below is a brief description of the harmful techniques used for sinus relief.
Would like to finish my article by having an advise: Please don't let paralyzing desparation lead you to try things just because someone advises you to do so and stay away from the actual homemade and -sometimes- commercial solutions we discussed previously mentioned.
This can be very advantageous in helping you raise the entire humidity of your room or your house. Plus, several models have the main advantage of cooling the steam before that exits the machine. Right now there is still boiling involved though, so be careful. Any spills from this kind of machine can lead to a nasty scalding.
You actually have sinusitis and your ear started ringing after a couple of hours, your sinus may have caused the ringing ear. That is due to the rubbing of the enlarged nose cavity against the inner and middle ear. The rubbing can provide pressure and can result in to tinnitus. If you started taking antihistamines to be able to relieve the sinusitis problem as well as you could have started out experiencing calling in your ear. Ringing ears may be as a result of a build up of mucous that was targeted by the antihistamine. The antihistamine can make your sinus airways congested and it also cause congestion in the inner or middle ear.
Having nasal sprays to reduce the swelling can be very helpful in also lessening the sinus induced hearing ringing that you are suffering from. This is because the particular congested airways can slowly clear up as well as the mucous can be drained without increasing the pressure and resulting in high pitched ringing. Hearing difficulties Calling Ears.
Why Steam? Overly dry air may be one of the reasons behind your own flare-ups. Your body can be used to taking in damp atmosphere and also dryer air can cause irritation, specifically in your nose and sinus some other primary. When you boil water into steam, you are in fact humidifying the air, evaporating water into water vapor or water filled air. This extra dampness can be very good for your irritated nasal pathways.
You are going through sinusitis or have experienced it prior to, you may well know of the discomforts, trouble and battling that this condition delivers. Colds, headache, coughing, congestion, facial pain and pressure, and post nasal drop tend to be the most common symptoms of sinusitis. The sad part is that sinusitis can happen again and again, making it a vicious loop for many individuals. There are almost 40 million Us citizens struggling with sinusitis every year.
When the internal or middle ear obtain congested, this will result in the lack of ability to properly hear external noises and send out the right signals to be able to the brain. The result of this is the sending of inappropriate signals to the brain because of the focused attention of the ear to the internal noises. The sound developed
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I’ve been having a bit of heart trouble recently that has caused me to seriously change my lifestyle.
I don’t mean my activities. Heavens, I could never give up the BASE jumping or kayaking Class 6 white water rapids around the world. That’s just who I am. I’m talking about diet, specifically that insidious little nutritional group we know as fat.
Oh yes, that sneaky little devil who likes to hide in some of our favorite places. Like that delicious satanic steak sizzling on the grill. Like that great smelling pot of buttery mashed potatoes beckoning from its perch on the stove. Like that comforting Klondike ice cream bar in the fridge diabolically invading your weak subconscious or that innocuous looking Oreo with its subliminal, but ever-present siren cry, “eat me, eat me.” Recognize any of these?
Patty, my wife, sure did. Patty has always been a healthy eater. You know, the kind that you silently hate only because they’re eating an organic salad with vinegar dressing while you’re chomping down your second helping of country ham and hash browns. Over the years she has tried gently, but vainly to get me to improve my eating habits. She has now put her foot down. Right in the middle my bowl of chocolate pudding and whipped cream! Using the book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. M.D. as her main instrument of torture, she is converting me to a totally no-fat diet. And by no, I mean nada, zilch, squat and zip.
Patty, or as she shall heretofore be known, Miss Essie, is no slouch. That sweet, demure and soft-spoken manner, although totally genuine, is the Dr. Jekyll to her authoritative, relentless Mr. Hyde. When it comes to getting me to turn around this lifelong eating habit that has caused me this harmful inconvenience, I ask no quarters because I know none will be given. By contrast, Simon Legree was a milquetoast.
Stomach to liver: Have you noticed what Big Al has been eating lately? I’ve had to do a complete retooling of gastric juices. Some of these guys haven’t been used in so long I’ve had to retrain them.
Liver: Noticed? My bile production is down over half since Miss Essie took over his menu! Now I’m the one who’s getting fatter.
Pancreas: You think that’s bad? Because of Miss Essie, the enzyme union boss is furious and wants to know why I have laid off so many fat-dissolving enzymes in violation of our long-standing contract! He’s threatening a strike unless he sees a cheeseburger down here by tomorrow!
Heart: Put a sock in it! You’ve all had it way too good for too long. And guess who’s been carrying you on his back all this time? Yeah, me and that’s over. Remember, if I decide to go on strike, that’s the ballgame for everyone. As for Miss Essie, she’s been through it herself. Now she’s my best advocate and I’ll hear no more about her.
Funny how quiet little voices can sound so loud. And Miss Essie is a saint.
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47 Responses to Trouble….thy name is fat!
So sorry to hear about those pesky heart problems, Al. But I can cook a mean vegetarian meal. No fish either? Even salmon, the heart-healthy fish?
Absolutely nothing! You know what a meany Patty is.For the last ten nights I have been dreaming of that brisket we had at your house.
Well, I think it’s just rude that, if you do all that exercise stuff, you still have to eat healthily. It should be one or the other.
Is there some correlation between your new diet and your new gravatar?
I’ve got mixed feelings about heart attacks (having nursed one husband through one.) Personally, I think I’d rather check out with a sudden bang from a coronory than do battle with cancer or some of the other lingering ailments... do you have some chocolate you want pegoleg and I to use up for you???
The new gravatar is from a dare from one of my readers. She saw it on one of my blogs (my 8-year old granddaughter was drawing me and trying to be funny) Odd thing is, she really nailed the likeness.
I agree wholeheartedly with your take. My dad went quite quickly with no suffering beforehand, but my mother lingered quite a while with heart failure.
Leave it to you and Peg to gang up on me, but sorry to say my uneaten chocolate is now displayed in a glass case as a reminder of how fragile my eating habits have made me. However, you know what they say…..”everyone has their price”….
Alas, fish is off the table as well. But it still sounds like a good place to meet if you’d like to. We’ll be on our back to Charlottesville to pick up our pups, just in case that helps with picking a location.
Assuming you leave via Route 29, Cassetts in Arlington with New Zealand fare is on the way. Much food there which caters to the health nut, i.e. Asian salad and such. Also good soups, at least one is veggie.
That sounds good! Looking forward to seeing you April 20th. More on that later.
You are lucky that Patty has your good health and interest in mind—-and good luck wrapping your heart around it all, Al.
Thanks, Stacia. Oddly, I can distinctly remember my grandmother giving me the “you are what you eat” lecture when I lived with them for a while as a teenager. Of course back then, adults were clueless….they’re so much smarter today.
You can do it, Al! (she says around a mouthful of Dove bars). Good for you for tackling this problem, and for listening to your wife. What great advice for all of us!
Yes, and thankfully for me, she is Dr. Jekyll most of the time.
P.S. Do those Dove bars still have that wonderfully chocolaty, vanillay, creamy, yummy-scrummy taste?
Yes. Get thee behind me, Diet Satan!
I can speak with some authority here because I am a hypocrite and weakling of the first order. While I shout the benefits of healthy eating and exercise from my arm-chair, I am often to be found reading books on “Bringing Science to Slumping” while eating cream teas. I am quite sure that, in time, some of the organs mentioned in my “life-support” committee are on the verge of muttering some rebuke. I am a bit careless about my own health. actually I can’t remember what it is, but I am, paradoxically, very concerned about the health of people I care about and, unfortunately for you, you are included on that list. Remember, the wife is always right even when she’s wrong, but in this case she right to be right. What am I talking about. Better shut up.
Ducks, any comments from you are just the type of tonic I need. Keep ’em coming!
When you make sweet comments like that, I have no choice but to keep at it. Thanks.
I’m glad you’re listening! Go Patty!
You Patty(i) types sure stick together don’t you?
PS I haven’t actually hacked your computer!!
Then why is my “You’ve got mail” announcement suddenly in a Gaelic dialect?
Ermmm… Oops, I forgot to change that back didn’t I?
Good one Al! Seriously, take care of yourself. And be a good husband and let Patty take care of you.
Thanks, Tammy. Miss ya, gal!
The things we do for love…I mean Patty, Al, not you. That plate of veggies and fruit looked scrumptious!
But you do need some fats in your diet–nuts. I mean walnuts, not going nuts. Or flax seeds. But Patty probably knows this and you’re just exaggerating in the name of blogetic licence (or junk food withdrawal-induced old fartery).
Thanks Lorna, but nuts are also verboten. I guess she thinks I’m nuts enough already.
I know you know how much I truly appreciate what she is doing for me. She shows her love to me in so many ways and this is just another.
Thanks to her, I hope to be still bugging you for some time to come!
I’m enlisting a cadre of friends to call Patty and keep her busy on the phone at various times. Interested? I’ll give you the best hours.
What time zone are you in? You seem to come online about 1am here, which is a bit late for me!
We are four hours difference from London. And you are kind.
OK. I thought it was 5 hours. We went to what we call Daylight Savings Time a week ago last Sunday. That explains it.
So glad
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, then the provisions of Sections 1 through 5 of this Article VIII shall determine whether the agent is entitled to indemnification.
Section 3. Actions Brought By Persons Other Than the Corporation. Subject to the required findings to be made pursuant to Section 5 of this Article VIII, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to made a party, to any proceeding by reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the Corporation, for all expenses, judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the proceeding.
Section 4. Action Brought by or on Behalf of the Corporation.
(a) 541Claims Settled Out of Court. If any agent settles or otherwise disposes of a threatened or pending action brought by or on behalf of the Corporation, with or without court approval, the agent shall receive no indemnification for either amounts paid pursuant to the terms of the settlement or other disposition or for any expenses incurred in defense against the proceeding.
(b) Claims and Suits Awarded Against Agent. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action brought by or on behalf of the Corporation by reason of the fact that the person is or was an agent of the Corporation, for all expenses actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense of that action, provided that both of the following are met: (1) The determination of good faith conduct required by Sect 5 of this Article VIII, is made in the manner provided for therein; and (2) Upon application, the court in which the action was brought determines that, in view of all the circumstances of the case, the agent should be entitled to indemnity for the expenses incurred. If the agent is found to be so entitled, the court shall determine the appropriate amount of expenses to be reimbursed.
(a) Required Standard of Conduct. The agent seeking reimbursement must be found, in the manner provided below, to have acted in good faith, in a manner he believed to have been in the best interest of the Corporation, and (in the case of a criminal proceeding) without reasonable cause to believe such conduct was unlawful, and (in the case of an action brought by or on behalf of the Corporation) with such care, including reasonable inquiry, as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use in similar circumstances. The termination of any proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or on a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act within these required standards.
(b) Manner of Determination of Good Faith Conduct. The determination that the agent did act in a manner complying with Sect 5 of this Article VIII must be made by: (1) The Board by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to the proceeding; or (2) The court in which the proceeding is or was pending upon application brought by the Corporation or the agent or the attorney or other person rendering a defense to the agent, whether or not the application by the agent, attorney or other person is opposed by the Corporation.
Section 6. Advance of Expenses. Expenses incurred in defending any proceeding may be advanced by the Corporation before the final disposition of the proceeding on receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the agent to repay the amount of the advance unless it is determined ultimately that the agent is entitled to be indemnified as authorized in this Article VIII.
(b) That the indemnification would be inconsistent with any condition expressly imposed by a court in approving a settlement.
Section 8. Contractual Rights of Non-directors and Non-officers. Nothing contained in this Article VIII shall diminish any right to indemnification to which persons other than directors and officers of the Corporation, or any subsidiary hereof, may be entitled by contract or otherwise.
Section 9. Insurance. The Board may adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase and maintenance of insurance on behalf of any agent of the Corporation against any liability asserted against or incurred by the agent in such capacity or arising out of the agent’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify the agent against that liability under the provisions of this Article VIII.
Section l. Whenever ten (10) Active Members indicate by written request to the Board of Directors that any action be taken or that any action being taken be discontinued, the Board of Directors shall submit such request to the Active Membership of the corporation by ballot. Such ballot shall be submittedno less than fifteen (15) days prior to the last date on which such ballots must be returned.
Section 2. If a majority of the ballots returned declare approval of such request, then the Board of Directors shall fulfill the request.
Section 1. There shall be one (1) Annual Business Meeting of the Active Membership, to be held at such time and place as designated by the Board of Directors. Notice of such meeting shall be given to the membership as a whole ten (10) days in advance. At such meetings, the annual reports shall be presented to the membership by all officers and new Directors shall be elected to fill any vacancies on the Board of Directors.
Section 2. The President may call a business meeting of the corporation within ten (10) days’ notice.
Section 3. Any question that may come before any meeting shall be decided by a majority vote.
Section 4. Ten percent (10%) of the total Active Membership shall represent a quorum.
Section 5. The corporation shall hold not less than two (2) events each year. These events shall feature educational and/or competitive activities which further the purposes of the corporation.
Section 1. An auditing committee of no more than three (3) members maybe appointed by the President at the corporation’s Annual Business Meeting, whose duty it shall be to audit the Treasurer’s accounts at the close of the fiscal year and to report at the first meeting of the following year.
Section 2. Such other committees, standing or special, shall be appointed by the President as the corporation shall from time to time deem necessary to carry on the work of the corporation. The President shall be ex-officio a member of all committees.
Section 1. Local chapters shall be formed in order to promote educational activities on the local level and to carry out plans of the Board of Directors for local competitions.
Section 2. Local chapters shall hold at least six (6) meetings or activities each year and one (1) event to which all members of IDEA, Inc. are invited.
Section 3. Each chapter shall have a chairman elected by the local members whose duty it shall be to serve, or appoint a representative to serve on the Board of Directors of the corporation, and to encourage and organize activities at the local level which are educational for members interested in improving their riding abilities and their horses. The chairman shall also be responsible for reporting to the Vice-President of Outreach and Education thedetails of all chapter activities.
Section 4. Local chapters shall keep their finances separate from the corporation’s accounts.
Section 5. Local chapters which choose to establish by-laws must place on file with the corporation a copy of those by-laws, which must not be in conflict with the by-laws of the corporation or the laws of the State of Idaho.
Section 6. The Annual Meeting of local chapters for the election of officers and annual reports shall be held prior to the Annual Business Meeting of the corporation.
Section 7. IDEA chapter officers must be IDEA, Inc. state members.
Section 8. In order to maintain standing as a Chapter in the IDEA, each chapter must send at least one (1) representative to a minimum of three (3) meetings per year, with attendance at the Annual Meeting mandatory. Failure to comply will result in the chapter becoming ineligible to participate in any of IDEA's rebate and clinic assistance programs.
Section 2. The corporation shall encourage the development of new judges in dressage and eventing.
Section 1a. ALL SHOWS: In order for a competition to be recognized by the Corporation, the management of the competition must apply for that date or dates by the annual meeting of the year prior (first weekend in November) and submit a copy of the proposed premium to IDEA media manager by December 15th of that year. Show approval will be accepted on a case-by case basis after that date, with no shows excepted later than thirty (30) days prior to competition. Only IDEA, Inc. approved competitions will count towards IDEA Annual Awards and IDEA League Awards.
Section 1b. EVENTING: IDEA recognizes all USEA competitions, IDEA-approved unrecognized combined tests, and IDEA-approved unrecognized horse trials for eventing year-end awards.
Section 1c. DRESSAGE: IDEA recognizes two (2) dressage show formats for separate year-end awards: a.) Shows that are IDEA approved, and b.) League shows and opportunity classes at IDEA approved shows.
Section 2. US Equestrian rules for Dressage and Eventing competitions must be followed for the events which are approved by the corporation. League shows and Derbies have a few modifications that are published in the rules of these particular groups of competitions.
Section 3. Separate classes or divisions within open shows may receive IDEA, Inc. approval provided they meet the above requirements.
Section 4. The management of approved shows must submit the scores of the competition to the Vice-President of Competition within ten (10) days following the competition.
Section 5. League Shows: The purpose of a League show is to introduce a dressage rider to formal showing without the cost of showing in front of USEF licensed judges. Dressage League shows need to seek IDEA approval by the annual
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sockeye salmon; and (2) identifying causal drivers and algal blooms in the Southern California Bight. I conclude with an overview of current work to quantifying long-term change in complex ecological communities.
Emerging satellite constellations comprised of hundreds of small CubeSats are transforming very high-resolution earth observation by overcoming the spatiotemporal constraints associated with conventional single-sensor satellite missions. However, the large number of constellation satellites, and relatively cheap sensor components and design, introduce cross-sensor inconsistencies and cross-calibration challenges. While superior in terms of spatiotemporal resolution, the radiometric quality, spectral resolution, and absolute calibration accuracy is not equivalent to that of rigorously calibrated space-agency satellites such as Landsat and Sentinel. A CubeSat Enabled Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Method (CESTEM) has been developed to realize the full potential of CubeSat sensing. CESTEM adopts an agnostic sensor data fusion and cross-sensor calibration technique that exploits conventional satellite systems as the gold standard. CESTEM offers a unique data-driven avenue towards cross-platform interoperability enabling spatiotemporal enhancement of spectral metrics and biophysical properties retrievable from conventional large satellite systems. In this work, CESTEM ingests high quality Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 based retrievals of surface reflectance and plant biophysical properties as references to calibrate relatively noisy CubeSat observations and provide high fidelity CubeSat-based insights into crop growth dynamics, developing plant stress, and crop disturbances. Using CESTEM, daily 3 m RGB and NIR imagery afforded by a constellation of ~150 active CubeSats deployed in low-earth orbits, are transformed into Landsat 8 or Sentinel-2 consistent surface reflectance and leaf area index estimates. Application over a variety of agricultural landscapes and environments highlights the resolution advantage both spatially and temporally. Comparisons against in-situ observations in fields of corn near Mead, Nebraska demonstrate encouraging capability of the CESTEM-based estimates for reproducing observed spatiotemporal dynamics. The repeatable in-field information on crop condition provided by CESTEM have significant potential for powering smarter, more efficient, and productive farming at broad scales.
Dr. Rasmus Houborg is a Senior Scientist in the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE) and an Assistant Professor with a tenure home in the Department of Geography at the South Dakota State University (SDSU). Dr. Houborg's research is broadly focused on advancing the utility and integration of multi-scale and multi-sensor remote sensing data for high resolution land surface characterization. This includes novel translation of spectral signals into meaningful vegetation biophysical quantities (e.g., leaf area index, photosynthetic pigment contents), and integration of observation based constraints into land surface modeling frameworks.
After being awarded a PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark he moved to the United states working first as a Post-doctoral scientist at the USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (2007-2009) and then as a Research Associate in the Hydrological Sciences Branch at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (2009-2011). He also spent two years (2011-2013) at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy, and five years (2013-2017) at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) working as a Research Scientist in the Hydrology and Land Observation (HALO) group. Dr. Houborg joined the GSCE January 2018.
Streams and rivers provide many ecosystem services to humans, including water filtration, flood protection, and recreation among other benefits. In the agricultural Midwest, the impact of human land-use can degrade these freshwater ecosystems and limit their ability to deliver the same degree of services as streams flowing through watersheds with more natural land-use, such as prairies or forests. The Raccoon River is a socially and economically important river in Central Iowa. However, the high nitrate loads led the Des Moines Water Works to bring a lawsuit against upstream drainage districts over the river's water quality. My recent research has explored the variation in nitrate export and loss within the Raccoon River across space and through time. In addition, we have investigated the ecological value of land conservation as reflected by stream ecosystem function. Together, these studies seek to inform the management of river and streams in human-dominated landscapes.
Peter completed his B.A. in Biology at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. After five years as an environmental educator, research technician, and outreach coordinator, he entered graduate school in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame where he earned his PhD in 2012. Peter then held research positions at Aarhus University in Jutland, Denmark, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Drake University in Des Moines, IA.
Numerous calls for reform in undergraduate biology education emphasize the need for more biology graduates who have skills in and exposure to “science practices” such as research. In addition, there is a national need for more students to complete STEM degrees and fill positions in research-based fields. Conducting scientific research is recognized as one of the most challenging endeavors, requiring strong interest, creativity, perseverance, and the desire to actively engage with novel and unknown challenges. These aspects cannot be taken for granted as time and practice are needed to develop such motivations and dispositions. This talk will focus on investigations of two important student dispositions that contribute to persistence in research-based STEM endeavors: interest and perseverance during setbacks. The first half will address how strong interest in biology drives students’ engagement with extracurricular disciplinary experiences (e.g., research, clubs, or internships) that are often key in affording access to graduate school. This study takes a qualitative approach to examine the role of interest and career goals in students’ engagement with and access to such experiences over the entirety of their undergraduate career. The second half will zoom-in to explore how students’ responses to research setbacks affect persistence and learning during research-based tasks in a laboratory environment. This study examines the various ways in which students cope with research challenges and whether we can predict coping strategies based on student background. By working at the macro- and micro-level, this research program hopes to develop an overarching understanding of how students become engaged, resilient researchers.
Lisa Corwin earned a B.A. in Biology at Colorado College and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology at the University of California at Davis. Her postdoctoral work was in biology education research at the University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Austin. She is now an assistant professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lisa’s research group studies biology education with an emphasis on how students persist during challenging scientific research tasks and in their pursuit of scientific research careers. She is currently principle investigator or co-investigator for three biology education related grants from the National Science Foundation.
Globally, women have the potential to bring something new to the table when it comes to making decisions about sustainability and environmental change. But what does it take to bring more women into the roles of decision makers? Homeward Bound (HB) is a major international initiative aimed at empowering women to step into leadership roles where they can make a difference. Specifically, the program supports women in STEMM in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning, and visibility, all in the context of the science of global climate change. Antarctica, one of the most fragile places on the planet, serves as the backdrop for this work in learning, connecting, and dreaming up ideas for a better world. In this talk you’ll get a peek at the HB professional development program and hear the story of the third HB journey to the Antarctic Peninsula in January 2019. You’ll see photos of penguins, whales, and icebergs, and hear stories about the women of HB and what they hope to do together. You’ll also learn how you can be a part of this as a scientist and/or as someone concerned about the future of the planet.
Cindy Shellito is passionate about engaging students in learning about climate change and inspiring them to seek ways to take action. Her PhD focused on using numerical models to simulate warm climates in Earth’s deep past. Her work now focuses more on understanding the impacts of modern global warming and supporting women in science. In 2015, she was awarded a Fulbright grant that supported a 6-month collaboration with colleagues in Ecuador where she taught meteorology and studied weather patterns in the Andes. She loves being outdoors, learning new languages, and finding ways to share her experiences through her writing.
The paramo is a broad grassland above 3000 meters in elevation that stores rainwater for more than 300 thousand people in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. Despite the importance of this region to the water supply, weather records only date back to 2013, so it is difficult to know whether perceived changes in rainfall are a threat to this region. Most weather and climate models inadequately capture patterns of atmospheric circulation in this region. In this talk, I share my experiences in Ecuador working with colleagues at the University of Cuenca to interpret weather observations from a new network of stations positioned along an altitudinal gradient from the city of Cuenca (2500 m) to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of El Cajas National Park (4400 m). As a first step, we measured lapse rates in this region to improve mapping of temperatures by models. Additional work has examined evaporation rates in the páramo and made attempts to use the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) to understand observed rainfall patterns. To expand meteorological expertise among scientists in the region, a part of my work also involved developing of a graduate course and a
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of hyper modernism with something that was far more demure when it came to technological development would have given her a clear distinction on the battlefield. She must have been rather confident in her abilities, since it would be obvious from whom a shot came from.
Feeling her own back press against the seat inside of the fighter as her own afterburner switched into high gear, the female pilot involuntarily swallowed and then finally elected to switch on her aircraft to aircraft radio circuit system. "This is the Purple Rose, calling for unidentified aircraft. Unidentified aircraft, do you read my transmissions?"
Elsewhere there were some events that were looking every bit as interesting as it were. Saki Vashtal was a commissioned officer in the Asranian air force, which had made sense considering that he was a member of their royal family. Most individuals who were given such a high birth were absolutely paranoid of looking as though they were idly enjoying their wealth. This went double when the country that you were born to lord over was struggling with a military conflict and abject poverty.
In so many ways he had matched Shin's motions. He had done everything that he could to keep up with the other pilot, though he had to admit that the foreigner was perhaps one of the finest pilots he had seen in spite of some of the reservations that Shin might have exhibited from time to time. Once Shin was apparently out of ammunition, though, Saki was soon there to rush to his aid.
Banking in a way that made him feel as though his stomach were dodging upward into his throat, Saki ignored any discomfort and took out several of the targets that he had been trying to dodge a few moments ago. Nevertheless, this was just a temporary solution. As bits of lead riddled the fragile skins belonging to the enemy fighters, Saki knew that his own supplies and stores were of course limited as well.
That was of course until an entirely new target had served to distract him from even this. Eventually Saki had decided that perhaps the other individual wasn't in danger. No shots had really been fired just yet as it were, and it had looked like everything were pretty peaceful for the time being. Maybe this wasn't going to end nearly as badly as he figured that it would have. It had taken him only a few moments to switch on his own communications equipment, hoping to get a lock for the time being. Naturally they had been maintaining radio silence. When pilots became essentially extended through their own aircraft and entered into a zone as it were, they were either unable or perhaps unwilling to reply to such requests. If that had been the case, then it certainly wouldn't have been ideal at all. Nevertheless, he would have at least understood what was going on.
"Do you know who that target is?"
Unlike the previous female pilot, there wasn't the charity that came with an address as an unidentified aircraft. Rather, he had referred to the other plane explicitly as a target. His words had certainly sounded as though they were spoken in terms of absolutes. Saki didn't hold quarters so to speak. That was perhaps because of the history that he had seen his country go through thus far.
Shin shook himself out of his trance and thought for a few seconds. "Sorry Saki, I don't know who that was, but he did save my life. The way he handled himself was amazing though. He splashed more planes in a few seconds than I have ever could in a minute!"
Hunter chuckled as he flew inverted over Saki's plane. Then he rolled beside Saki and shoved his throttle forward and engaged the afterburner. 1,500,000 pounds of thrust pushed the aircraft forward and into hypersonic speeds. Hunter grinned like a maniac as his plane screamed through the skies. He disengaged his afterburner and banked into a tight turn as he flew over Area 88.
Pausing for a few moments, Saki was handling the thrust of his own aircraft at speeds that pushed him far into the pilot's seat that he was strapped to. It was an exhilarating feeling, and despite the fact that he was dealing with the fact that his own country was war torn, it sometimes made him feel that he was in a good place. Numerous pounds of thrust beating your aircraft forward was a feeling that couldn't be replaced by anything.
Nothing could have substituted for that feeling, but soon enough he was hit with a ton of bricks not by G-forces but instead by the announcement that he received from Shin. "Honestly you haven't the slightest idea who that was? Well, whoever they are must be on our side. They surely could have killed both of us otherwise."
Additionally he had wanted to know what sort of plane that they were flying. It didn't look like he was going to get an answer to that end, however. Saki was just going to have to be happy with the fact that they weren't both taken out. While he might not have liked admitting that a pilot was his better, he didn't really have any choice with this one.
Meanwhile, the maniac had received a bit of an inspection by another person. Her aircraft wasn't exactly identified either, but it was a certainly notable. There weren't many other people who had elected to fly a swept-wing design like that. Vocal calls hadn't done her much good at all.
Since her voice on the radiotelephone system didn't seem to raise his interest, she decided to use another method to get him to reply. The mysterious female pilot flipped a switch in her cockpit and sent out a beacon signal that she had hoped to get a reply from.
If nothing else, then it might have scared him since anyone could intercept an aeronautical beacon. They were transmitted in a regular carrier wave format. CW transmissions like these were on public frequencies. She was gambling on a guess that he didn't want others to find out about him. Honestly, she had a feeling that she was right on that.
Hunter radioed the control the area 88 control tower and spoke, "Area 88 this is Phantom do you read over?"
There was an operator seated in the control tower. He had been about to leave when the other's radio message came through. The fact that it seemed that Hunter was coming in, though, was probably going to keep him around for a while.
Exhaling, he decided to come back around. Having retaken his seat, the tower operator figured that there was no one here to relieve him. That was strange to tell the truth. There were supposed to be enough air traffic control personnel.
He wasn't sure if something had called them off. Anyway, though, he turned to pick up his microphone. "We read you loud and clear. What is your status?"
Though some of the others hadn't recognized him that seemed to suggest that this individual knew something about him, but it should be noted that the Area 88 tower was probably just observing his plane. Someone here must have had some information on him, though it was doubtful that anyone would have. Hunter was a real enigma, and that made things interesting.
Certainly it had made things interesting for Saki. He had no idea who Hunter was. Likewise, the female who had been chasing him before hadn't recognized him. For that matter, it was doubtful that Hunter recognized her any more than she did him.
A plane could act very much like a mask. It kept you insulated from the identity of others.
Hunter circled and corkscrewed above the airfield as he waited for a response. When it came Hunter grinned michieviously as he suddenly had an idea. "Tower, this is Phantom, requesting permission for a flyby."
"Negative Ghostrider the pattern is full."
"Sorry mate I'm doing it anyway." Hunter then pulled the throttle back and purposefully stalled his plane, causing it to flip over so that it's nose was pointed at the ground. Hunter then shoved the throttle forward, triggering the afterburner, and as soon as he neared an altitude of 500 meters he pulled up and screamed past Area 88's control tower. His right wing had been one milimeter from making contact and either scratching or shattering the glass windows of the control tower. "WOOHOO!" he shouted as he flew throught the air at mach 7.
Hunter slid his throttle back out of the afterburner and pulled several extremely tight turns to shave off his extremely high airspeed down to landing speeds.
The original air traffic controller reached back for the microphone from before. "Negative, repeat negative. You are no go for a flyby, Phantom. Repeat, negative on the flyby..." He was forced to cut himself off soon because the glass windows had soon broken. Quickly he ducked under his desk, covering his ears, which were quickly bleeding as a result of the force of the wind that had broken those windows.
While he was almost knocked unconscious, he considered himself simply lucky to be left alive after a move like that. It was extremely dangerous, and the controller had no idea how someone like that could have been ever issued a pilot's license. Better yet, he had honestly no idea how a daredevil pilot like that wasn't doing something a little more impressive than flying out here.
After all, he had skill that he had never seen before for sure!
Meanwhile, the pilot of the swept-wing jet had requested landing clearance, but received no reply because of the shattered windows. She had cut down to landing speed much earlier, and had now been coming in on a separate runway.
Hunter pulled a tight 40 G turn and landed his plane as the other pilot touched down. "Damn, I haven't had tbat much fun breaking rules in months!" he said as he hopped out of the aircraft. The Area 88 flight crews bustled about
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made this today, and knew the amount of lemon juice would be too much for us, so I almost doubled the yogurt, using a heaping 1/2 cup, and left everything else the same, except the cheese- I increased that by one tablespoon. This dressing was delicious and I can't wait to eat more salad tomorrow!!!
Made it and loved it! I only had plain no-fat yogurt (not Greek) on hand and it turned out perfectly.
made this today for dinner… but could not resist so here I am eating salad for an afternoon snack (and only need 1 Tbsp). This tastes amazing (left out anchovies.. as did not have will try with next time)!
I have been making my own caesar salad dressing for years & I'm always asked to make a jar to bring to parties when the host is serving a salad. I can't wait to take this next time instead of mine which is 5x the calories & fat & tastes almost exactly the same, without all that olive oil & eggs it's amazing!! The only thing I did change was added a bit more dijon to get rid of the yogurt taste & I used 1/2 a tube of anchovy paste because it's what i had in the frig. Thank you so much for this recipe. I can now have caesar every night & no desire to ever order it in any restaurant knowing how many calories I can save having it at home. I wish I had searched your dressings months ago. Again, Thank you!!
Wow! GREAT recipe! Thank u, Gina!:-) Made it tonight for our salad w/ turkey/veggie meatballs, big pot of homemade sauce (that I snuck more veggies into for the kids!) & whole wheat pasta. It was the PERFECT compliment to the meal! I don't think you'd realize it was as "skinny" at all!! Excited to try all your other dressings! I've made your recipes for dinner every night this week! Thanks for inspiring me!!! (PS that Picadillo was DELISH!!!!) THANKS!
I don't like to have processed, full of sugar, and fat dressings.
This dressing is astonishingly delicious. Definitely don't miss the egg yolks and extra oil. I only had pecorino romano in the fridge so I used that instead of parmesan, which made for a more pungent dressing. Incredibly flavorful, and so yummy that it made me want another plate of Caesar's salad the next morning for breakfast!
I grew up on caesar salad, with the loads of oil and raw egg and still eat it once a week. I just made this dressing and was very happy with it. I saved some for tomorrow too (something I could never do with the traditional kind) so we'll see how it holds up. Thank you so much! You have saved me loads of fat and calories from a household staple. It just stinks throwing away almost an entire tin of anchovies – I've always hated that about caesar salad.
Just made this dressing….it was sooo good. Thanks for the recipe Gina…I am a huge fan of yours!
This recipe is amazing. I've made it twice so far and I plan to always have it in the fridge. I made it exactly as written and I think it is perfect. Now if i can figure out how to make the chicken that I want to put this on for a chicken ceasar salad I'd be very happy. Thanks Gina. Great Job!
I just made this dressing and it was good. I think I will cut back on the lemon juice next time though because it was a little too tart, especially with Greek yogurt being a little tart itself. I will probably add more garlic and more anchovies. Anchovies are what make caesar dressing!! If you like caesar dressing, you have to like anchovies because you can't have true caesar dressing without them! Thanks Gina for great recipes and making losing weight enjoyable!
Actually, the original caesar dressings didn't have anchovies…. it's just hard to find a good Caesar dressing now days without it.
We had grilled chicken caesar salads with this dressing on Saturday. Added in some crusty WW bread and a glass of wine and this was a perfect dinner.
I used 5 cloves of garlic (one is not nearly enough) crushed and soaked for a few hours in the olive oil. Added a dash of worcestershire sauce. Really good!
It doesn't look like it makes much!??! I have to make it for 5 adults. Multiply it 3X's???
Yes, make more. You can double or triple.
I wasn't sure where to post this….you say to use 1/3 cup cheese – how many ounces is this? Thank you so much!
Making this time with grilled chicken breasts and of course lettuce! 🙂 You're awesome Gina. You've helped me lose over 40 lbs so far. Keep up the great work! Can't wait for small fall recipes.
Gina, how long can this be kept in the fridge? I know fresh dressings don't last as long as their preservative-filled counterparts, but I'm not sure how much shorter their life-span is.
I'm thinking as long as the date on the yogurt container which is why I made a small batch.
You are 100% a mind reader… today on my way in to work i was thinking "i'd like to make a skinny ceaser salad tonight, i'll have to see if Gina has ever done a version, if not i don't want to make it because i don't trust anyone else to lighten up a dressing and not ruin it with some wierd ingredient"… then i check my email and voila! Love you…. you are the number one reason i've lost 35 pounds!
I love anchovies. I don't think this dressing would be the same without it. Sometimes I add a little splash of white wine to my dressing to switch it up a bit.
Hi Gina – love your blog!
You might have covered this before, but I'm wondering about lids for Ball jars. Do you use the 2-piece canning lids or one-piece lids? If it's the one-piece lids, are they plastic or metal, and could you share where you got them? I would like to use them for storage, not canning. thanks!
I use both, whatever I can find since they are for storage.
I don't like the taste of anchovies. Do you think it would taste just as good? Or do you have a suggestion of a replacement?
There really isn't a replacement for them, I would leave them out and adjust the ingredients to taste.
A restaurant we go to that does tableside Caesar salads puts a little Worcestershire sauce in their dressing. That might add a little of the salty oomph that the anchovies have.
Although, just as an FYI, Worcestershire sauce has anchovies in it.
I think small capers make a great replacement.
Awesome recipe! Now this is a Caesar dressing I would be proud to serve to my family!!
Love it! I'm so glad for an egg-less recipe because it was on my "do not eat" preggo list because of the egg. Now I can eat it, and eat I will!
This is a great recipe. I also make it with silken tofu and my daughter and I love it!
I ALWAYS have a batch of your skinny blue cheese dressing in the frig. Will have to give this caesar a try. If it's anywhere close to your blue cheese recipe, I'll be keeping a batch of each from now on!
3 TBSP!! FOR A SERVING! You're my hero. My favorite dressing is about $4-5/jar and it's 2 pts+ for 2 tbsp.
I would say it should last as long as your yogurt is good, so check the date and use fresh yogurt.
I looked around and 1/2 tsp paste equals two anchovy fillets. Thanks for the recipe – I love caesar salad but rarely eat it because of the dressing.
I LOVE CEASAR DRESSING! Can't wait to try this! Do you have any suggestions on how to use the leftover anchovies? I have never bought anchovies but would assume you would need to use them fairly quickly after opening a pack/container/jar?? See, I don't even know what they come in!!
Buy the ones in a glass jar so you can reseal it.
you say to use 1/3 cup of cheese – do you know how many ounces?
I would also like to know how much paste to use. My husband's family has an age old recipe that involves soaking 5 crushed cloves in 1/2 cup olive oil for 4 hours. Oh my lord, that salad is so good yet so terrible for you.
Ill still soak the garlic before hand.
I think an inch is equivalent to one anchovy, it should say on the tube.
I'll definitely have to try this. I rarely buy anchovy fillets since they dry out or turn gross before I can use them all. However, I do have a tube of anchovy paste in the fridge. Do you think that would be an ok substitution, and how much do you think I should use?
They sell anchovies in little glass jars, I like to use those. Anchovy paste would work too, but I still prefer using them whole.
how long to they keep?
yes to the paste…I make my own Caesar with olive oil
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, databases, cloud computing and others that can benefit from high density compute power. The system has been updated to support second generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and it's one of the first to ship with support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (PMM).
In addition for support for the latest Intel data center technologies, the system provides storage via ten hot swappable 2.5" NVMe bays in the front. Internally Supermicro provides support for two M.2 slots, one SATA and one NVMe, though additional M.2 slots can be added as an option. The board supports 24 DIMM slots, which can be used in the traditional way with DRAM, or with persistent memory as is the configuration in this review. Looking at connectivity, the system has two 10GBase-T LAN ports on board. Expansion for additional connectivity is available via two PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FH, 10.5"L) card slots.
As noted, our review system features two Intel Xeon Scalable 8268 (2.9GHz, 24C) along with 12 DRAM sticks and 12 Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules. While it's still very early in the persistent memory journey, this configuration of 4:1 persistent memory to DRAM using all of the memory slots on the board and two Intel CPUs is likely going to be a typical and recommended server configuration to take full advantage of these new technologies. In addition to these core components, the system under review includes ten Intel DC P4510 NVMe SSDs.
As stated the Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TN10RT is a dense 1U server that can house two of the new Intel Xeon Scalable processers. The majority of the front of the device is taken up with 2.5” NVMe drive bays, ten in total. On the right is the control panel with the power button, UID button, and status LEDs. Beneath are two USB 3.0 type-A ports.
Flipping the device around to the rear, two PSUs are on the left, followed by two 10GBase-T PJ45 LAN ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a dedicated LAN port for IPMI, a serial port, UID indicator and switch, video port and two PCIe slots.
The 2.5" bays across the front are hot-swap capable and users can easily push the orange tab to extend out the handle for quick removal/installation. On this server and others from Supermicro, orange caddies indicate NVMe support.
With the SuperServer equipped with ten 2.5" bays, our review system came supplied with 10 Intel P4510 2TB NVMe SSDs.
The Intel Optane persistent memory modules have the identical form factor as traditional DRAM. They don’t require additional power cabling or cooling. Heat spreaders are included as part of the persistent memory design, which follow the same design considerations as DRAM modules for width and height. So we shouldn’t see any new changes for slim servers with airflow cowls over the DRAM slots.
As with many Supermicro servers, the top cover comes off easily with two push buttons and removing attachment screws in the rear. This provides quick access to the new CPUs, RAM, installing a GPU or other PCIe devices, and importantly for this review, installing Intel Optane DC PMMs.
In our first look at the new Intel Optane DC persistent memory, we focus on measuring its performance in a fairly traditional form; comparing its block storage performance to standard issue NVMe SSDs. While there are different modes for persistent memory to operate in, we plan on focusing on specific usecases in the near future surrounding Memory Mode and App Direct byte-level. Specifically we position 12 128GB persistent memory modules, (6 per CPU) configured in two pools up against 10 Intel P4510 2TB NVMe SSDs. Our benchmark application in this scenario is still using vdbench with our four corners workloads as well as database workload profiles. Going forward we will be transitioning back to FIO as well as a database applications that make use of persistent memory directly.
In terms of our benchmark technical configuration, we group 6 persistent memory modules together to form a single pool (one pool per CPU) and allocate the full pool space to the persistent memory namespace. At the OS level we then pre-fill the raw persistent memory modules, partition them to 50% of their total size and perform our workloads on that smaller section. Workloads are then applied intended to show sustained performance, which mimics how application datasets would be operating on them.
Our first test is the 4K random read test here the persistent memory started at 1,371,386 IOPS at 4.6μs and went on to peak at 13,169,761 IOPS at a latency of only 12.1μs. While the Intel NVMe drives did well, a peak of 5,263,647 IOPS and a latency of 191.4μs the PMMs clearly crushed it at over twice the throughput and latency only 6% of the NVMe drives.
Looking at 4K random write we see a limitation of the technology when it comes to writes. As the above shows a dramatic performance increase, the persistent memory will hit peaks much faster in writes. Here the persistent memory started at 162,642 IOPS with a latency of 8.9μs and peaked around 980K IOPS at about 60μs latency before dropping off.
Switching over to sequential workloads, in 64K read the Optane DC PMMs started at 106,739 IOPS or 6.67GB/s at a latency of 31.9μs and went on to peak at 1,055,634 IOPS or 65.98GB/s at a latency of 57.2μs. Again NVMe drives performed well with peak scores of 431,252 IOPS or 26.6GB/s at a latency of 721.5μs but nowhere near that of the persistent memory.
In 64K sequential writes the persistent memory started at 52,472 IOPS or 1.64GB/s at a latency of 78.8μs. The persistent memory modules went on to peak at 255,405 IOPS or 15.96GB/s at a latency of only 121.8μs. This is in contrast to the Intel P4510 group that spiked in latency as the drives were brought up to and over their saturation point.
Next up are out SQL VDBench tests including SQL, SQL 90-20, and SQL 80-20. For SQL the persistent memory started at 547,821 IOPS at 6.4μs latency and went on to peak at 5,095,690 IOPS at a latency of 10.7μs. The NVMe drives again had strong performance with a peak performance of 188,170 IOPS and 170µs.
For SQL 90-10 the two comparisons were a bit closer in throughput though there is no question on latency, the persistent memory hands down has lower latency. The persistent memory started at 169,874 IOPS at a latency of 8.1μs and went on to peak at 1,911,900 IOPS with a latency of 27.1μs compared to the NVMe’s peak of 1,612,337 IOPS with a latency of 189.8μs.
For SQL 80-20 the persistent memory had better peak latency, 65.3μs, but much lower throughput, 668,983 IOPS, versus the throughput of the NVMe drive, 1,482,554 IOPS at a latency of 206μs.
Our final batch of tests for this review is our Oracle workloads, Oracle, Oracle 90-10, and Oracle 80-20. The Oracle test showed the persistent memory to peak early at 453,449 IOPS with a latency of 103μs. The NVMe drive was able to go on to peak at 1,366,615 IOPS with a latency of 225.8μs.
For Oracle 90-10, the persistent memory started at 181,455 IOPS with a latency of 7.8μs and went on to peak at 2,080,543 IOPS with a latency of only 16.9μs. Once again crushing the performance of the NVMe drive that peaked at 1,357,112 IOPS with a latency of 157.1μs.
Finally for our Oracle 80-20 the persistent memory started at 225,492 IOPS at a latency of 8.5μs and went on to peak at 1,146,229 IOPS at a latency of 30.4μs. The NVMe drive had a lower throughput, 1,265,479 IOPS, but also a much higher latency, 165.9μs.
The Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TN10RT is a dual-socket system with 10, 2.5” NVMe drive bays it fits in a 1U footprint. Aside from the 2.5” NVMe drive bays, the server can be configured two M.2 storage slots as well, one SATA and another NVMe. The server is designed for virtualization, databases, and cloud computing, amongst other use cases that leverage a dense form factor with high compute power. Speaking of compute, the server supports the newly released second generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs. By the CPUs are 24 DIMM slots. Aside from packing this server with lots of DRAM, the support for the new CPUs means support for Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory modules.
Looking at performance, the Intel persistent memory modules were able to hit a level of performance not yet seen in our lab. Since Intel is more or less the only game in town at the moment with persistent memory
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..eating healthy food is now a disorder?? really? who invented this disorder, General Mills?
Do they spend more than 3 hours a day thinking about healthy foods? When they eat the way they're supposed to, do they feel in total control? Are they planning tomorrow's menu today? Has the quality of their life decreased as the quality of their diet increased? Have they become stricter with themselves? Does their self-esteem get a boost from eating healthy? Do they look down on others who don't eat this way? Do they skip foods they once enjoyed in order to eat the "right" foods? Does their diet make it difficult for them to eat anywhere but at home, distancing them from family and friends? Do they feel guilt or self-loathing when they stray from their diet? If yes was answered to two or more questions, the person may have a mild case of orthorexia.
So if I plan my meals in advance and become stricter about the food I eat in order to seek better health, I am a candidate for orthorexia. In fact, the entire set of questions probably fits virtually every fat person attempting to go on a diet. Note also how the article originally linked made an incredibly broad connection between restriction of various foods and anorexia/emaciation. If I avoid wheat, I'm an orthorexic even if I don't become anorexic or emaciated ever, even if I gain weight afterwards because I had a mild gluten sensitivity that was screwing with my intestines.
If the term was restricted merely to the mental disorder of eating yourself to death (veganism, etc), then it would have some value. But as it is, virtually anyone who cares about what they eat for any reason is a suspect orthorexic.
If orthorexia were tied to a negative health outcome - measureable health decline or something like that - then it would be a perfectly valid and useful term to describe someone who lets their zealotry about the "right way to eat" lead them to harm. But right now it describes literally anyone who attempts to eat in a way outside the mainstream view, which is totally useless and seems designed to find a way to further medicalize things which don't need to be.
Bratman describes orthorexia as an unhealthy fixation with what the individual considers to be healthy eating. The subject may avoid certain unhealthy foods, such as those containing fats, preservatives, man-made food-additives, animal products, or other ingredients considered by the subject to be unhealthy; if the sufferer does not eat appropriately, malnutrition can ensue. Bratman claims Orthorexic sufferers have specific preferences about the foods they are eating and avoiding. Products that are preserved with additives can be considered dangerous. Industrial products can be seen as artificial, whereas biological fruits and vegetables can be seen as healthy. Bratman asserts that "emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such as rawfoodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa."
Attempt to follow a diet that cannot provide adequate nourishment?
Constant hunger and the resulting cravings for forbidden foods?
An extreme fixation on food?
Obsessions with feeing pure and natural?
Symptoms consistent with obsessive-compulsive disorder?
If you are suffering from these due to your diet you have a problem no matter what you eat.
Seriously, eating healthly does not make you an orthorexic any more than someone who is overweight going on a diet to lose weight makes them anorexic.
Its not a defined mental illness, it is a description of people who srew up their lives with obsessions over their particular definition of healthy food.
Of course there are people who appear to take paleo eating to the level of unhealthy obbsession, as with anything in life.
I dont think its the commitment to a diet or a strong interest in it that makes it an eating disorder. I believe it becomes an eating disorder when someone becomes obsessive compulsive and they develop an unmanageable fear around certain foods. If that is coupled with a need for control and a feeling of powerlessness to gain control, followed by strict limits you put on your life due to this, then I believe you should further explore if you have an eating disorder.
I have an eating disorder and these are things I deal with. I think if you have an eating disorder and you read up on other eating disorders, you will know very quickly if you should feel concerned for yourself. I think if there is a need for concern, you will likely already feel it within yourself as well. Typically people with eating disorders are extreme in their obsession about diet, food, image and may take great lengths to make it appear as a healthy dedication to other people.
You may also want to read the questionnaire on the Overeater's Anonymous site as Compulsive eating is a recognized disorder. There are a lot of similarities to this disorder you mentioned. There are also a lot of similarities to Anorexia. There is a lot of cross over between various seemingly opposing eating disorders, but the common threads for all of them is an unhealthy, unmanageable obsessive behaviors with regards to food and body image. Even if you look fit, with an eating disorder, you are in turmoil in some level to get a grip and do what in your mind is the perfect and right thing for your body.
I agree that some people can become fanatical about what they eat and go completely OCD over it. This can be true with any diet, it really depends on the person. But you must remember our diet seems extreme to people, as we are going against the conventional notions of nourishment that have prevailed for the past 10,000 years. Because we are going against conventional norms we seem obsessive when compared to those who eat whatever is in the SAD. Paradigm shifts can and do occur in society but it takes time and paleo is somewhat new concept to most people. I was a vegetarian for 4 years and found that most people accepted it as it is seen as more mainstream today as opposed to vegetarianism in say, the 1950s. I always tried to be non-judgmental of those who weren't vegetarian, as I figured what a person eats is there own choice and i'm not into converting people for any reason. I got plenty of grief from both vegans and SAD meat eaters alike as a vegetarian.
Now as a paleo eater people are mostly shocked at my diet. However when I inform them that I have cured my fibromyalgia, severe allergies and IBS while losing 20 lbs. in the past 6 weeks, they become awe struck and usually very interested. So I guess if this is disordered eating its working wonders for me.
As is probably apparent from many of my posts, I do believe that people can easily become fanatical with this or any other diet. That said, it is important to remember that the leaders of Modern Inquistions are nowadays not usually priest but psychotherapists and psychiatrists who can miraculously turn any behavior into a disease by giving it a name (usually a polysylabic name with Greek-Latin roots) and placing it into the modern-day "Malleus Maleficarum": the DSM IV.
The above is not a slight against all psychotherapists or psychiatrists, only against those who confuse the word "different" with "pathological".
I said it earlier today, I'll say it again. We need a word for fear of orthorexia.
I think that there could very well be people that follow any type of diet that fall into this category - but there's always going the be OCD types that do anything. I definitely don't think that we all are orthorexic.
If taken out of context I might be considered with an eating disorder.
Like the doctor who mentioned eating disorder after I had told him about my weightloss due to digestive issues and that I avoided junk food because of it (I didn't even mention the grains, just junk food). Apparently, if you feel nauseous and you've lack of appetite because food just looks repulsive and you lose weight when you don´t really need to the problem is you. It was me that didn't have enough willpower to eat, the loss of appetite didn't seem relevant. This is the worldview of so many people, if you undereat and you are slim (like in my case) you must be obsessive, if you overeat and you´re fat you lack willpower.
Thankfully people that know me don´t think I have any disorder. I´ve always been a picky eater, so the change for them is very minor. I´ve started to eat things I didn´t eat before, and I´ve stopped eating other things I ate before. Makes little difference for them.
I ENJOY eating again, that´s such a relieve for me, I hated when I was just eating because I had to. So I won't make excuses for why I don't really cheat, it took me a long time to get to this point and I'm still recovering. I do use dairy ( stopped for few months, made no difference) but it's mostly cream, butter and kefir and I make sure I'm moderate carb not low carb. I don't feel restricted, there's too much of good food out there to enjoy!!
My conclusion, feeling miserable wrecks my social life more than my eating habits.
I'd like to believe that Othorexia Nervosa would apply only to folks who have significant health consequences or current negative impact on day-to-day functioning as a result of their food obsession. One does not diagnose Anorexia, Bulimia, or Binge Eating Disorder (a disorder worth investigating
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and the northwest corner of the United States, Multiple District 19 began its tenure as District 19 of Lions Clubs International in 1922. MD19 is a multi–national organization comprised of 9 Lions Clubs International districts serving 12,000 Lions, Lioness and Leos in 450 clubs in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and the States of Idaho and Washington in the United States.
Founded in 1917, Lions Clubs International is the largest and most active community service organization in the world. There are now more than 1,400,000 Lions and 46,000 Lions Clubs in 210 countries and geographic areas worldwide.
District I Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Cec Specht, 1st VDGE Jane Beddows and 2nd VDGE Terry Bain on their elections at the District 19–I spring conference in Port Angeles, Washington, April 13, 2019.
District C Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Pat Burch, 1st VDGE Donna Murr and 2nd VDGE Luis Montes Gonzales on their elections at the District 19–C spring conference in Tacoma, Washington, April 13, 2019.
District A Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Bob Nordland, 1st VDGE Hans Wong, and 2nd VDGE Syrus Lee on their elections at the District 19–A spring conference in Burnaby, British Columbia, April 6, 2019!
District D Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Bostock on her election at the District 19–D spring conference in Penticton, British Columbia, April 6, 2019.
District B Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Mike Lally and 1st VDGE Vilma Fernandez on their elections at the District 19–B spring conference in Bothel, Washington, March 30, 2019!
District F Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Ken Allan and 1st VDGE Ray Fujiara on their elections at the District 19–F spring conference in Yakima, Washington, March 23, 2019!
District H Election Results — Congratulations to DGE Patty Allen, 1st VDGE Orson Christensen and 2nd VDGE Ken Ball on their elections at the District 19–H spring conference in Chilliwack, British Columbia, March 16, 2019!
NEW MD19 EMAIL ADDRESSES — We know. It is hard to break a tried and true routine. But the MD19 staff email addresses have been updated, so the time has come to update your contact list to conform. You can find the new addresses on this site's Contact page, but just to make it as easy as we can, here they are: Executive Director Peter Anderson's new email address is: [email protected] (the capitals on the E and D are optional, just for looks). You can now reach Michele Barrie at [email protected]. To reach Forrest Gust at the front desk, and for general correspondence, use [email protected]. Other than E.D. Peter's new email address reflecting his new job title, these changes are subtle (the change is that they now end in ”.org”, not “.com”), so look carefully. And if you mess up and happen to send something to one of the old “.com” email addresses? Well… they will still work… for awhile… but one day they won't…. So, make the changes now before you forget and get a surprise down the road!
Milan Parade Uniform — The new, MD19, LCICON parade uniforms are now available for order! What's that, you say? New… MD19… parade uniforms? Yes. It is true— at least for the 2019 LCI convention in Milan. No white cowboy hat, red vest, white pants, white belt, white sox, and white shoes for Milan. The idea is to make international travel for our MD19 convention roadies a little easier by offering up a parade uniform that is packable, affordable, visible (as in bright, distinctive, unique), and suitable for non–convention wear. The main component of the new uni's are the shirts, pictured above, which are available in either unisex or ladies cut, in sizes from XS to 4XL, reguar and tall— Silk Touch Performance Polo, moisture wicking, snag reistant and, “thanks to PosiCharge™ technology, hold onto their color for a professional look that lasts.” Just what color is that? Officially, the new shirts are “Neon Pink Raspberry”— or as we say here in MD19, just “raspberry”, for short. Pricing is $3000 US ($4000 CDN) for sizes up to 2XL, $3200 US ($4200 CDN) for 3XL, or $3300 US ($4300 CDN) for 4XL, which includes the MD19 and the Milan 2019 logos. Order yours today— just email your size, desired quantity, and contact information to the MD19 office, and someone there will follow up with you regarding payment and delivery details. For those heading to Milan, pack khakis (pants or skirt), which you likely already have, to complete the Milan parade ensemble waist–down to comfortable shoes of your choice. And No, you don't have to be going to Milan to own and wear one of these fabulous new shirts— the 2019 Milan parade shirts are serving double–duty as the “official” 2019 MD19 shirts as well. How special is that!
Milan Convention Room Sharing — Do you want to attend the LCI Convention in Milan? Want to share lodging expenses? Need a roommate? Have a place to stay that has extra rooms? Just let MD19 ED Peter Anderson know and he will try to connect you with other Lions from MD19 who are looking for someone to share expenses with.
The Border Crossing — The March/April, 2019 edition of The Border Crossing, MD19's official newsletter, has hit the newsstands! Just click here to view or download the current or past issues, or click here to cut to the chase and download the current issue now!
District 19–E — April 26-28, 2019, Red Lion Hotel, Post Falls, Idaho. Want more details? PDG Bob Yeoman and Lion Sandy Flood are the District 19–E conference co–chairs. PDG Bob can be reached by phone at 509-994-8419 or by email to [email protected], and Lion Sandy can be reached by pnone at 509-990-3555 or by emain to [email protected]. Click this link to download a registration form now, or click here for online registration.
District 19–G — May 17-18, 2019, Red Lion Hotel, Kelso, Washington. Want more details? PDG Terry Sutfin and Lion Wendy Chord are the District 19–G conference co–chairs. PDG Terry can be reached by phone at 360-696-9162 or by email to [email protected], and Lion Wendy can be reached by phone at 360-263-1968 or by email to [email protected]. Click this link to download a registration form now.
Northwest Lions Leadership Institute — The next Northwest Lions Leadership Institute, hosted by the MD36 Lions in Oregon, is scheduled for April 26–29, 2019 at the Quality Suites, 5188 Wittenberg Lane, Keizer, Oregon U.S.A. Click here for more information and to download the application forms.
Spring Council Of Governors Meeting — The Spring Council of Governors Meeting will be held Thursday, June 13, 2019, at the Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham, 9 North 9th Street, Yakima, Washington U.S.A.— Pre–counsel meeting Wednesday evening, June 12, 2019.
2019 DGE, VDGE and ZCE Orientation — The 2019 District Governor Elect, Vice District Governor Elect and Zone Chair Elect Orientation will be held Thursday, June 13, 2019 through Saturday, June 15, 2019, at the Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham, 9 North 9th Street, Yakima, Washington U.S.A.
District GAT Town Hall Meeting — A “Town Hall” meeting for District Global Action Teams (District GLTs, GMTs and GSTs) will be held following the Spring Council Of Governors Meeting, Thursday, June 13, 2019, at the Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham, 9 North 9th Street, Yakima, Washington U.S.A. This meeting replaces the regional planning meetings (aka, the Kickoff and Half–time meetings) of past years and will be an important part of the DGE, VDGE and ZC orientation. A $200.00 stipend is available to help defray travel and lodging expenses— no complicated applications, no receipts, no reports, just attend to qualify. Contact ED Peter Anderson for details or (after the event) to claim your stipend.
HELP WANTED — The 2019 (Spokane) USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum Committee needs your help! The 2019 Forum will be held in Spokane September 19–21, 2019. Contact host committee vice chair, PZC Ed Brandstoettner, email to [email protected] phone 509-467-0360, or host committee chair, PDG Laura Wintersteen–Arleth, email to [email protected] phone 509-999-6282, for
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INGDOM mirror– proving that you NEVER KNOW what is on the other end of a Craigslist ad.
After spending four hours in an unheated building.
After ripping apart a wall with a toothpick.
Paul told me to stop looking on Craigslist for a while.
He said I had reached my quota.
I nodded and pretended like he was the one who made such decisions.
Then I went and looked on Craigslist.
1. I have a totally ill-advised fondness for anyone named Rocky.
2. Even I can see that a FIFTEEN foot-tall mirror may be too large for our house.
3. It’s probably total junk.
There are lots, and lots, and lots of mirrors in the antique-listings on craigslist. Half of them are junk. The other half aren’t even old. Plus, a posting with no photo is USUALLY a guarantee that it’s not worth your time.
So I closed the tab… and told myself it was nothing.
I certainly didn’t say anything to Paul about it.
But a few weeks later, I saw it again… and the primordial-mirror-troll that lives in my head said: you should find out what that is.
A. Paul’s head will explode.
B. How could I get a 15 FOOT mirror into the house?
And the mirror-troll said— What if it’s fancy? Why are you slacking off?
So I emailed the guy.
Did you read it closely?
Is there any description that could possibly be more appealing to me than something that looks like a KINGDOM?
The mirror-troll was like— S.C.O.R.E.
And I said— hold on, twelve-feet is still WAY TOO BIG.
The mirror-troll said—I bet it’s not that big.
I bet they didn’t even measure it.
I BET YOU SHOULD GET IT.
So on Saturday morning, I said to Paul, casually— do you want to go look at something?
I think his hair actually stood on end.
No! No, I do not!
I was like— oh, okay, well… we could go this afternoon… if you wanted to.
That silence USED to make me insane. But now I see it as a stage in the Kübler-Ross model of acceptance.
Not even twenty-minutes later, he said—what is this thing you want to see?
To you, this sounds like a question. To me, it sounds like defeat.
So. You can see that this is the smallest house ever.
Which did not at ALL bode well for what I was hoping.
We rang the bell, and the guy came out… He walked past us, down the front steps and started down the sidewalk.
Paul said—should we follow you? Where are we going?
And the guy said— it’s in the alley, under a tarp… it doesn’t fit in the house.
I really wish I had a photo of the look on Paul’s face.
Paul said— what? Excuse me? How big is this?
The guy said—about 12 feet.
I could hear him gritting his teeth.
Sometimes? When Paul is giving me his best stony silence? I just pretend I don’t notice.
I said cheerfully—that’s NOT twelve feet tall!
Paul acted like this was somehow not of utmost importance.
He said—why did you bring me to look at a mirror that was advertised as 12 feet tall?
It was advertised as 15 feet tall.
But I thought they might be wrong.
I guess Paul is jealous of the way the universe is my personal shopper, because he didn’t even acknowledge that it’s pretty amazing how I psychically knew this.
To cheer him up, I told him—the guy says it looks like a kingdom.
Paul said— I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I was like—a KINGDOM. Kings? Castles? Have you seen the Vatican?
I was like– I think I’m going to have a seizure.
The mirror-troll said—I TOLD YOU SO.
I said—yup. For sure. I will DEFINITELY be needing that.
Paul said— are you kidding me? Are you even seeing the same thing I am?
And I was like—look at me. Look me in the eye. Do you really believe I am leaving here without this? Because I’m not.
If I have to go on steroids for the next six months? And get a trainer to teach me to dead-lift 1,000 pounds so that I can move it myself?
Paul has this look that he gets. Where CLEARLY he would like to kill someone. But now he is totally inconvenienced because he CAN’T.
Because he has to move a giant mirror.
Obviously, I’m fine with murderous-irritation… it’s a small price to pay for my everlasting happiness.
Besides, it’s not my fault that the universe WANTS ME TO HAVE THESE THINGS.
In fact? It is OUTSIDE MY CONTROL.
We went home to get Brian’s truck… and on the way, I texted a photo to my mom.
She said— WOW! I cannot WAIT to see it in your house!
I told Paul—my mom loves it!
Paul said– that’s because everyone in your family is an insane enabler with no concept of reality.
Which is true. And also why I love them.
You’re thinking this does not look totally reasonable?
All we had to do was lay it on the bed of the truck. And then use the magic straps which, for about five dollars and a lot of irritation, will do everything including hauling giant bookshelves up three flights of stairs.
Then we drove home on I-95, which is 14-lanes wide… There is nothing like transporting a Kingdom down a freeway, at 60 miles-an-hour, while tractor-trailers blow by you.
You have not experienced the meaning of FUN. Until you have done this.
Especially since everyone got to listen to me say 47,984 times—OH MY GOD I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE GETTING THIS. CAN YOU BELIEVE WE ARE GETTING THIS?
OH MY GOD I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
Everyone really enjoyed that part.
Yes. Correct. That IS another one in the foyer.
The guys who helped us get it in the house (and will never help us move anything again, because it weighs at least 800 pounds) were like—what are you going to do with it?
And I’m confused by what that question means.
I’m not going to DO anything with it.
It exists. Therefore it is mine.
I’m like Liberace… but with more flair. My people… If I could lock you in my basement, I would.
Hysterical story, hysterical life! Right on to the mirror, it rules!!
I am extremely amused, I thank you!
I LOVE this story and I totally wish I had a mirror topped with a kingdom.
OMG, you are KILLING me! You are so hilarious and wonderful! I started reading your blog about an hour and a half ago, and I haven’t been able to stop. Between this post and the one about the built in wardrobe, I was laughing so hard, my husband actually though I was crying from the other room. I’ve been reading all of your home renovation posts because you’re just so GOOD. I already know I will never ever renovate a house with my husband. We have a hard enough time moving from one house to another with each other. It usually involves him expecting me to conjure up some brute strength I don’t possess to help him move something ridiculous. The last time we moved, he wanted help moving the ginormous old heavy tv that I had already almost dropped when trying to help load it. I declined and said we should wait for someone with beefier arms than my own. After failing to convince me (because he was seriously ready to be done with that crap), his rage helped carry the other side of the tv for him. I’m sure moving is just the tiniest taste of what renovating a house with him would be like. Kudos to you and Paul for still being married.
Too funny!! Great story… I was laughing the entire time I read this story, but the fact that you actually made it home via I95 makes it even better!!! Great story telling and great husband!!!
LOVE this story and your amazing sense of humor!
I laughed so hard, I cried. Then I read it out loud to my husband, and I managed to make it intelligible through my tearful laughter. Why was I laughing so hard? Because my husband is the California version of Paul! God bless them both.
OMGoodness, FANTASTIC~! So glad my husband owns a moving company~ I get stuff moved easily but that’s if/when you can find it~ That is the MOST beautiful mirror I’ve ever seen ~ Good Job~!
Writing tips for English 101: Who wouldn’t want a “kingdom”?
Ok first things first….I totally love the story of the “Kingdom” mirror. I was giggling the whole time. This
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February Learn How to Build a Video Conference App (and not die trying)!
Real-time Communication is quickly becoming a “must-have” feature in many types of applications. From customer service to telehealth, video conferencing is rapidly integrating into different industries’ workflows. If you are reading this, chances are that this phenomenon caught your attention and you are now asking yourself: How do I build a video conference app?
However, building such an application can be a complex task without the proper guidance. You may end up with an app that “kills” your business as it cost twice its value or you may have an app that barely satisfy your requirements because it doesn’t have the features you need.
In this article, we will provide you some guidelines that will aid you in building a successful video conference application with the help of our core building block: WebRTC.
So you have your million-dollar-idea for an app and you’re ready to begin development?
Ok, hold your horses a minute and let’s discuss some of the things you might want to look at before getting your hands dirty.
The first thing to consider when building a video conference application is the target platform, as this will determine both the tools needed to build the app and the budget you’ll need.
So before starting to build your app, ask yourself: Where do you want your application to run? Smartphones? Tablets? Laptops or desktop computers? ALL OF THE ABOVE??? Yes, this is also possible.
Using WebRTC you don’t need to select a specific platform as you can offer to support all of them.However, you should select the approach that best matches both your requirements and the resources you have at hand.
Available options are: web-based and native.
Initially, you may want to develop a web-based application. WebRTC APIs are already included in all major browsers so any device that has one of them installed, can be used to access your app.
Many popular video conference applications offers its web-based application as the default type of application for the desktop platform, that is, laptops and desktop computers in general.
Although this generally works for this platform and SHOULD work well on the mobile spectrum, sometimes you may want to use something more optimized for that specific platform.
Hence, give your app more power.
In this case, a native may make more sense. Also if you want to support legacy devices which don’t support WebRTC APIs, native is the road to take.
For native applications, you should take into account which mobile platform you wish to support.
According to WebRTC.org, Android and iOS are officially supported through their respective programming languages: Java and Swift/Objective-C. However, that means that in order to support both operating systems, you may need to build a different application for each. Or you can use frameworks like React Native which allows to build native apps that runs on both Android and iOS devices.
A technology that is recently gaining popularity is the concept of Progressive Web App (PWA), as it combines the good things of both worlds: web and native. This is something that you might want to check out when considering a strategy to build your application.
Many popular video conferencing applications like Hangouts or appear.in offers a web based application for desktop and a native application for mobile devices. You should consider what suits best to your needs and adopt a strategy that allows you progressively support your desired target platform(s).
Step 2: Define Your Features.
After you have selected the platform for your application, you need to define the features your app will offer. Depending on your business requirements you might want to prioritize and focus your efforts and budget toward these.
For example, being able to use filters or funny icons during a call is a nice touch, but it might not be suitable for a technical support app or a customer service one, instead the capability for recording the calls can be an useful option, especially when you want to implement quality analysis or be compliant with some regulation.
Below is a short list of the most common realtime features offered by some popular video conference apps out there.
Popular apps like Hangouts allows the user to check the camera before joining a call and then provides option to disable it if the users wish to. I personally found this really useful, especially when joining business calls at 5AM and didn’t want to scare anyone with my ‘just-woke-up’ face.
Written communication is a “must” in most video conference applications as it provides an additional channel for the users to communicate during a call.
Allowing call participants to exchange files is a convenient feature. For example, in a telehealth app, it will allow a patient to send test results or any previous medical record to the physician. Just note that you must take in count the measures needed to securely store and transport these files.
Allowing more than two users to join a call is one of the most complex tasks to accomplish, as it has to do not only with the application, but with the underlying infrastructure that hosts it. Having a clear idea of the number of users you want your application to be able to support in a call is the key to choose an appropriate strategy later.
The ability to share the content of the screen during a call is helpful in areas like remote technical support, where a specialist can guide users to achieve an specific task on which they’re having trouble, by giving instructions based on what the user sees.
Many apps allow recording calls for several different purposes. If you want your application to be able to make calls, among the things you should consider are the type of storage, the format of the recordings and the security measures to prevent unauthorized users to access them.
A lot of popular social media applications are allowing users to add funny filters or icons to its media streams during a call. This is something that can be fun and can serve different purposes but it will depends on your own business requirements to add this capabilities.
This is a valuable feature for educational applications, in which a user needs to teach something to other users. It gives the “teacher” user a tool to express an idea graphically to his “student” users.
Live streaming is another feature that has been popularized thanks to social media. It allows a user to stream video and audio to other users in real-time. Outside of the social media context it can be really helpful in Disaster Control Applications, where a rescue worker with access to disaster zones can give feedback about a situation to government or rescue organizations in real-time, so that they can perform the appropriate necessaryactions.
Step 3: Know the Stack.
Now that you have a well defined idea of the platform where your app is going to run and the features that it will offer, it’s time to know how you are actually going to build it.
From the technical point of view, WebRTC is nothing more than a group of standards and features comprised in APIs that can be used to gain access to media devices and establish a peer-to-peer connection with other clients. These APIs used in conjunction with a signaling process and a bunch of other elements, are used to initiate a video/audio call between two or more users.
The signaling process is not defined as part of the technology and the developer is free to use any of the well known signaling protocols such as SIP and XMPP, or implement its own solution using a full-duplex communication technology like Websockets.
There are two ways to develop and run a video conference application using WebRTC: On-premise and using a CPaaS (Communication-Platform-as-a-Service) provider.
On-premise means that you are responsible for both developing the application and managing the required server infrastructure.
On the other hand, using a CPaaS means that you only take care of developing the app while using the infrastructure of a provider, usually paying a monthly fee for it.
Let’s briefly discuss these options below.
On-Premise – Peer to Peer Approach.
WebRTC is peer-to-peer by nature. This means that most of the time, there will be no intermediaries in a WebRTC call. The communication will be direct, browser to browser or device to device. This added to the fact that it encrypts the media transport by default, makes it a secure solution for real time communication.
However, client devices typically reside behind NAT configurations and/or firewalls restrictions, which makes difficult to establish a direct connection between them, and sometimes they completely prevent it. In order to surpass this issue, servers known as STUN/TURN are used to help with the establishment of a peer-to-peer connection or to rely media to the other user in case such connection is not possible.
When building a web conference application on-premise using this approach you’re on charge of building the actual application and also setting up both the signaling layer, whether developing an in-house solution or using something like SIP or XMPP, and the STUN/TURN servers.
The main advantage of this approach is that you own full control over the performance of your application. The downside is that you need to provide and maintain your infrastructure.
One important thing to consider is that due to the peer-to-peer nature, some features, such as enabling recording a call, manipulating the streams or adding multi-party capabilities, may not be implemented that easy, at least not without having to add additional burden to the application. This can lead to the call failing under certain circumstances. In these cases, you may want to add a media server to do the hard work.
On Premise – Media Server Approach.
A media server sits in the middle of the call participants and send and receive streams to and from them. This approach provides you a central point for manipulating media streams, allowing you to
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Another service that a professional plumber offers you is dealing with blocked drains. Such an issue is very common for a lot of homes. Blocked drains happen for a lot of reasons. One of the most common reasons is having objects get flushed and being stuck in the drain. Drains may even be cracked and blocked because roots from plants always look for water. For leaves that fall down from your trees, they have the potential to block your
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sidebar at the side of his WordPress site, but also have a dedicated page for people to visit to sign up – so that he could share the link to the page on Twitter, Facebook etc.
Now, Campaign Monitor make it pretty easy to create a sign-up form, but by default the form will take you off your original site, onto a Campaign Monitor “Thank you for subscribing” page. I wanted to see if I could improve on that a little, so, having worked with the Campaign Monitor API before for a Joomla! / Campaign monitor integration I sat down to see what we could do.
The result is the Ajax Campaign Monitor Forms plugin for WordPress.
The result is a mini-form in your sidebar, that submits the request via Ajax without the user leaving your site.
If you like the free plugin, then you’ll love the Premium version, including list stats in your WordPress dashboard, spam protection, and automated social media links. Check it out today.
This is really nice. Translation is very important. Here are the two places I would like to see it. In the Greet Box WordPress plugin. Especially with a mobile version of WordPress. And in the pop-up over plugin from WPMUDEV.
Can the plugin be expanded to multiple lists? If so, can it (at the webmaster’s option) display a check-box for each list?
Can the plugin be improved to allow a custom confirmation message?
News of the WordPress plugin is very timely for me, because I’m now working to add a newsletter option to my website, which is accessed mostly in Japan, and therefore is bilingual.
I’d like to know if the widget can be set up so that “Country” can be seen in the signup box, along with Name and Email.
Hi – the plugin doesn’t currently support custom fields I’m afraid.
Do you know any way to fix this?
– Detailed steps of how you’ve configured the plugin and/or a login to your WordPress dashboard.
Would you be able to ‘score’ a Google Analytics goal using this form? That’s one benefit of having the url redirect on submission, that you can use GA to monitor/track how many times a form has been completed by setting the redirect url as a goal.
Update: IE8, Safari 5.0.3 and Firefox 3.6.8 only display the short code [cm_ajax_subscribe id=1]. Chrome displays the HTML Form.
Yea, this one is strange because I understand that and can’t see any reason why a choice of browser would make any difference either.
Cool plugin.. haven’t actually installed this yet but I know I will get a lot of use out of this plugin as I add Campaign Monitor sign up forms to nearly every website I do and I hate the Contact Form 7 plugin. Is there a way to add this to my templates with a template tag? I don’t tend to use widgets.
You can then add it to your template using the do_shortcode() function. e.g.
I’m attempting to do as you describe here, but can’t quite get it to work.
Unfortunately, when I add to my footer.php file, nothing shows up.
Am I missing an obvious step here? Anyway, thanks for the plugin. I’m excited to get it working because it’s a HUGE improvement over what I had there.
Ah – yes. I did mean to use an underscore.
and it didn’t show up.
That said, it could be that my theme (which is one I customized by modifying TwentyTen) is somehow causing the problem. In case it’s not obvious by now, I’m not an expert in this stuff, but trying to learn.
I will send you login details, and I GREATLY appreciate your time. Thanks!
I have been tinkering with it to try to make the form disappear when the subscription is successful and only display the success_style. What would be the best way to do this.
You didn’t say whether you’re using a widget – or a shortcode. I’ve assumed widget below – the changes will be similar for a shortcode – just in a different file!
Thanks for your quick response, i added something to the code you posted so it would still display the successful subscription text.
Great idea, but I’m getting the following error message: “Sorry, we weren’t able to sign you up. Please check your details, and try again.” I’m on hostgator running PHP 5.2 so I don’t think that’s the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated… would love to use it.
Hi, just installed your widget and it works great. One question though, is there a way to edit the confirmation message? I am using a single confirmation and getting a few people who aren’t aware there’s an email that needs to be approved before they’re actually subscribed.
Not currently, without editing the string in cm-ajax-widget.php or cm-ajax-shortcode.php.
I’ll look at making this either filterable, or translatable so that you can make a local configuration without having to change it each time you upgrade.
Great widget 🙂 I’m just having a problem with presentation of the web page that should be displayed after someone completes the subscribe form. I set up a link to the subscribe confirmation page in CM and with the normal CM subscribe function in a page the subscriber is redirected to the page after subscribing. Using your widget just gives the subscribe confirmation message but no automatic redirect to the confirmation page. Any ideas?
The whole point of this widget is that it doesn’t redirect the user, just submits an AJAX request and handles it all from there. If you want to take users to the confirmation page, you should use the standard CM subscription forms.
Yup, that makes sense – thanks for the quick reply 🙂 While I have your attention, can I ask on an unrelated issue, if it would be possible to change the submit button title to read something other than Register as it currently does and if so, where/how to do it?
It’s in cm-ajax-shortcode.php and/or cm-ajax-widget.php.
Excellent, all solved, many thanks.
Not currently no. Creating the UI for adding form fields is quite a big job, so it’s unlikely to make it into this free version. My “WP e-Commerce / Campaign Monitor” plugin includes a filter so that you can add custom fields programatically, e.g. if you always want to add a fixed value, but not sure if that would meet your need?
It does not check if the email address is already in the list. Is there an option you will add this in the future?
I hadn’t planned on it – there’s no real need since re-adding someone isn’t an “error”, and should fail silently? Is there some other issue it’s causing you?
this is the nice plug in ….. can we adjust pop-up massage on success & failed massages?
I’ve not used the WPMU plugin so don’t know exactly how it works. However, my plugin can show the form either as a widget, or as a shortcode (and also via template tag-like syntax, by using do_shortcode()).
So there’s quite a lot of ways of generating the form. If none of the above work in the WPMU pop-up plugin then I’d ask them to provide support for either shortcodes, or publishing widgets into the popover, there’s nothing else I can do to make this happen, but seems like it would be sensible if their plugin supported shortcodes and/or widgets in the content.
I do not seem to find a CSS and be able to style the plugin?
You don’t need a separate CSS file – you can add any styles you want to your theme’s CSS file.
Great Plugin. Is there anyway to make the name a required field?
I’m keen to integrate CM into the WPEC checkout experience.
Have you tried this / any thoughts?
Currently the ‘fail’ message is wrapping my content.
There’s no easy way to change the messages in the free version. In the "pro" version, all of the strings are translatable – so if you’re used to working with standard WordPress language files then you can just create a translation for the string you want to change.
That said – the various outputs all have CSS IDs/Classes so you should be able to easily target them with CSS to change the layout.
Awesome. Pro version it is!
Much better! Squared those messages right away.
and include a no-repeat scroll.png for the hover? I’m sure most people wind up doing something similar, but it’s sort of weird the plugin adopts the style.css hover style.
At any rate, thanks again. Love the plugin.
is not evaluating to true even though the request was successful.
Any idead where the extra space could be coming from?
No idea, could be anywhere in your theme, or one of the plugins you’re running.
Maybe a failsafe jQuery.trim or indexOf can be added to the plugin, to make sure you catch this?
I was getting this same issue. The fix for me was to modify to return 1 rather than use SUCCESS. This way I can then use a boolean if(data) in the ajax response.
Love the plugin. Works great. Unfortunately I’m getting hit hard by spam. Is
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The physical Internet backbone that carries data between different nodes of the network is now the work of a number of companies called Internet service providers (ISPs), which includes companies that offer long distance pipelines, sometimes at the international level, regional local pipe, which ultimately links in households and businesses. The physical connection to the Internet can only happen through one of these ISPs, players like degree 3, Cogent, and IBM AT&T. Each ISP operates its own network. Internet service providers Exchange IXPs, owned or private businesses, and sometimes by Governments, make for each of these networks to be interconnected or to move messages across the network. Many ISPs have agreements with suppliers of physical Internet backbone providers to offer Internet service over their networks for “last mile”-consumers and companies who desire to get Internet connectivity. Internet protocols, followed by everyone in the network makes it possible for the data to flow without interruption, in the right location at the right time.
While none of these organizations “possesses” the Internet together these businesses determine how it functions, and recognized rules and standards that everyone stays. Contracts and legal framework that underlies all that’s happening to ascertain how things work and what happens if something goes wrong. To get a domain name, for instance, one needs consent from a Registrar, which includes a contract with ICANN. To connect to the Internet, your ISP must be physical contracts with providers of Internet backbone services, and suppliers have contracts with IXPs from the Internet backbone to connect to and with her. Concern over security dilemmas? A working group is formed to work with the problem and the solution developed and deployed is in the interest of most parties. If the Internet is down, you’ve got someone to phone to get it repaired. If the issue is from your ISP, they in turn have contracts in place and service level agreements, which govern the manner in which these issues are worked out.
The advantage of cryptocurrency is that it uses blockchain technology. The network of nodes the make up the blockchain isn’t governed by any focused business. No one can tell the miners to update, speed up, slow down, stop or do anything. And that’s something that as a devoted advocate badge of honour, and is identical to the way the Internet operates. But as you comprehend now, public Internet governance, normalities and rules that govern how it works current built-in difficulties to an individual. Blockchain technology has none of that.
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Since among the oldest forms of earning money is in money financing, it truly is a fact that you could do that with cryptocurrency. Most of the giving sites currently focus on Bitcoin, some of those sites you happen to be required fill in a captcha after a particular time period and are rewarded with a bit of coins for visiting them. You are able to see the www.cryptofunds.co web site to locate some lists of of these sites to tap into the money of your choice. Unlike forex, stocks and options, etc., altcoin markets have very different dynamics. New ones are always popping up which means they do not have lots of market data and historical outlook for you to backtest against. Most altcoins have fairly poor liquidity as well and it is hard to come up with an acceptable investment strategy.
Cryptocurrency is freeing people to transact cash and do business on their terms. Each user can send and receive payments in a similar way, but they also participate in more sophisticated smart contracts. Multiple signatures enable a trade to be supported by the network, but where a specific number of a defined group of people consent to sign the deal, blockchain technology makes this possible. This permits advanced dispute arbitration services to be developed in the future. These services could enable a third party to approve or reject a trade in the event of disagreement between the other parties without checking their cash. Unlike cash and other payment systems, the blockchain constantly leaves public evidence a transaction occurred. This can be possibly used in an appeal against companies with deceptive practices.
Bitcoin is the primary cryptocurrency of the internet: a digital money standard by which all other coins are compared to. Cryptocurrencies are distributed, world-wide, and decentralized. Unlike conventional fiat currencies, there is no governments, banks, or some other regulatory agencies. As such, it’s more immune to wild inflation and corrupt banks. The advantages of using cryptocurrencies as your method of transacting money online outweigh the security and privacy hazards. Security and seclusion can readily be achieved by simply being intelligent, and following some basic guidelines. You wouldn’t put your entire bank ledger online for the word to see, but my nature
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UD 8540.The alignment of its LEDs ensures high intensity and homogenous light distribution, which is of utmost importance for display bonding. The LED Spot 100 heads can be mounted together without gaps to match the size of the display being bonded.
After curing Vitralit® UD 8540 is very soft with a hardness in the Shore 00 range. Thermal stresses between dissimilar substrates can be neutralized without causing delamination. The cured adhesive is transparent and non-yellowing.
Panacol has developed a new potting compound with medium viscosity and small filler particle size: Structalit® 5894-1 is the perfect choice for large-volume potting or glob top sealing of power electronics.
Panacol has developed a new epoxy-based underfiller. Structalit® 8202 is a low viscosity one-part adhesive with a high capillary flow filling the narrowest gaps.
Panacol has developed an extremely flexible adhesive, which adheres particularly well to hard to bond plastics including PEEK: Vitralit® UV 4802 is a one-component acrylic system that cures very fast when exposed to light.
Panacol adds epoxy-based adhesive Structalit® 8801 to its portfolio of medical grade adhesives. The biocompatible adhesive was specially designed for bonding temperature-sensitive substrates as it cures quickly at low temperatures.
Specially designed for attaching SMDs on circuit boards, Panacol has developed new fast curing epoxy adhesive Structalit® 5610. Due to its high viscosity the adhesive is well-suited for screen printing. The new adhesive will be first shown at this years’s Productronica in Munich.
For more information visit us at Productronica in Munich in hall A4, stand 465!
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The new preeflow® eco-SPRAY precision volume dispenser from ViscoTec makes for even and fast application of Panacol maskings and conformal coatings. The new technology yields perfect results with exceptional edge sharpness whether spraying low- or high-viscosity UV adhesives.
Spraying high-viscosity adhesives from Panacol onto large surfaces at more than 10,000 mPa becomes child’s play with the eco-SPRAY from ViscoTec: the new dispenser makes short work even of highly viscous and stable materials, such as Panacol’s liquid seal Vitralit® FIPG 60102 or masking compound Vitralit® MASK 20102, which is specially formulated for temporary coatings. The purely volumetric dosing of the eco-SPRAY system uses the endless piston principle to precisely meter and apply exact amounts regardless of their viscosity and supply pressure.
To achieve the required layer thickness, the applied amount can be changed simply by changing the air pressure, the adhesive volume, the distance to the substrate or the speed of application. The eco-SPRAY is intuitive in use and can be adapted to different materials and dosing processes with a range of supplied needle diameters and air caps.
Capable of handling viscous adhesives, the eco-SPRAY has also proven suitable for spraying and vaporizing low-viscosity conformal coatings. The two products used here were Vitralit® 2004 F and Vitralit® 2007 F – both dual-curing epoxy resin based adhesives. With the eco-SPRAY, both of these adhesives can be applied as surface coatings with high edge sharpness and cured in a continuous process with UV flood lamp, for example from Hönle’s UVAPRINT range. Here, the arc length can be ideally adapted to the PCB’s width.
Panacol introduces newly developed structural adhesive Structalit® 8801 T, which cures rapidly at low temperatures. The epoxy adhesive was specially formulated for temperature-sensitive applications in electronics, as well as automotive and aerospace industries.
Specially for the consumer and general electronics industry, Panacol has developed two new adhesives with a low halogen content: Vitralit® UD 8050 and Structalit® 8838 provide encapsulation of electronic components on PCBs.
At the BondExpo in Stuttgart/Germany Panacol presents a new solvent free UV-adhesive. Vitralit® VBB-2N LV features low viscosity and is ideally suited for bonding elastomeric materials.
For use in medical applications Panacol can provide an alternative product with similar properties that meets the requirements for USP Class VI and is compatible with sterilization by autoclaving, gamma irradiation and EtO.
Panacol-Elosol GmbH, a member of the global Hoenle group, is an international supplier of adhesives with a broad product range that includes UV curable adhesives, structural adhesives, and conductive adhesives. Panacol is also a reliable provider of UV processing systems, supported by Dr. Hoenle AG. Hoenle is a global technology leader and manufacturer of industrial UV curing devices and systems. At BondExpo in Stuttgart, Panacol presents its high tech products for various applications.
Panacol introduces a newly developed UV adhesive, which is specially formulated for bonding plastics and will be available in three different viscosities.
Vitralit® 7311 cures in seconds with ultraviolet or visible light. For excellent curing results high intensity LEDs at 405 nm wavelength are recommended. This wavelength also permits the bonding of UV blocked materials like polycarbonate. Vitralit® 7311, as an example, can be utilized for needle bonding in medical device manufacturing. Cured with a Bluepoint LED eco light source from UV manufacturer Hönle, Vitralit® 7311 achieves high bond strength in less than a second, providing reliable and durable bonds.
At the Medtec show in Stuttgart/Germany Panacol presents a new adhesive from its successful Vitralit® UV 4050s series: Vitralit® UV 4050 MV features medium viscosity and is best suited for bonding plastics, especially for medtech applications.
Vitralit® UV 4050 LV is a newly developed adhesive with extremely low viscosity and thus the perfect choice for very tight bond gaps. It provides excellent adhesion to most plastics like PC, PVC, PS, ABS, SAN as well as to metals like stainless steel, steel or aluminum and glass. If at least one assembly material is transparent, Vitralit® UV 4050 LV will cure very quickly to produce a strong and reliable bond. The ability to cure with visible light (>400nm) permits the bonding of UV blocked materials like polycarbonate. Vitralit® UV 4050 LV is currently being tested according to USP Class VI and DIN ISO 10993-4/-5 standards for use in medical applications.
Vitralit® UV 4050 LV cures in seconds with UV-A and visible light. Both gas discharge lamps and LEDs are suitable to use for curing. High intensity gallium doped gas discharge lamps produce excellent curing results.
Vitralit® UD 2018 is a thixotropic epoxy adhesive with extremely low shrinkage. It can be dispensed very precisely with accurate bead dimensions, making it the perfect choice for micro dispensing in electronic applications, such as fixing SMDs or transceivers on PCBs.
Typically, Vitralit® UD 2018 comes in a pink and fluorescent version. It cures with traditional UV-A discharge lamps or 365 nm LED-light. Any shadowed areas can be post cured thermally.
The adhesive offers all the benefits of epoxy resins: It is highly resistant to environmental stresses, and can better withstand the effects of wide temperature excursions and moisture. This makes Vitralit® UD 2018 the perfect solution for bonding SMDs and electronic components which are frequently subjected to temperature variations and thermal shock.
Adhesive Structalit® 5893 is Panacol’s latest addition to its portfolio of medical grade adhesives. The black epoxy potting compound has been specially formulated for bonding metals and stainless steel. Structalit® 5893 has already proved successful as a black encapsulant in electronic applications, as well as for bonding and encapsulating injection devices for veterinary medicine. The adhesive is based on epoxy resin with excellent resistance to moisture and thermo-shock.
Germany-based Panacol-Elosol GmbH, a member of Hoenle Group, is a leading manufacturer of industrial and medical grade adhesives.
Visit us at Medtec Europe from 21 to 23 April 2015 in Stuttgart at stand no. 7C 28!
Panacol-Elosol GmbH presents new medical grade adhesive Vitralit® 7041 MV at this year’s Compamed in Duesseldorf, Germany: Panacol’s latest addition to its medical grade adhesives portfolio is Vitralit® 7041 MV.
The adhesive has a USP Class VI-certification and has been successfully tested in needle bonding applications. Vitralit® 7041 MV is an acrylate which shows very high adhesion to polycarbonate and is thus very suitable for needle bonding, reservoir assembly, bonding dialysis filters, and bonding of connectors and IV tube sets.With a viscosity range from 200 to 400 mPas, Vitralit® 7041 MV can be used in a variety of bond gaps and joint configurations. For an optimum process control, the adhesive is also available in a fluorescent version, Vitralit® 7041 MV F, which is also certified USP Class VI. Vitralit® 7041 MV can be cured with either UV- or LED-light. The quickest curing results were achieved with 405 nm LEDs.
Panacol presents its LED-curing epoxy adhesives at this year's BondExpo trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. Thanks to the development of new photoinitiators
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? They just couldn’t let him go and who could blame them?
They made up their minds. The family finally decided to make the squirrel a part of their life by officially adopting him. The next step was to decide a name for their furry little guy.
What name would be best suited for a squirrel do you think? Maximus? Arthur? Maybe even Daniel? They decided to go with Arttu, “pretty much the Finnish version of ‘Arthur.'”That name ended up fitting him so well. Big things were in store for little Arttu.
Once they decided on a name, the next step was to make sure Arttu was nice and comfortable at his new place of residence. Much like when a friend comes to visit, you want to make sure that he or she feels good during their stay.
Since this was a permanent stay, and because he was an animal that usually isn’t domesticated. It wasn’t long before they found out that Arttu had quite the personality.
Who would have thought that squirrels could be so funny or have a sense of humor? Clearly, no one, but Arttu was such a jokester according to the family. He would do things that you wouldn’t expect animals to do.
“He liked to have playful ‘fights’ with our hands (you know, like cats do) and he was smart enough not to bite too hard,” his new family said. You just have to love an animal with a playful side.
It was like a dream come true for Arttu and his human family. He had a blast all day and every day. The family loved his presence as much as he loved playing with them.
In the moments when Arttu wasn’t climbing all over the humans, he would make the most out of their hoodies. One thing he would do is nestle into them and make temporary nests so he could be nice and warm.
Not only was Arttu a funny guy, he had a tremendous appetite. When you’re spending most of your time wasting energy climbing up people five times larger than you, you will be hungrier than the average squirrel.
To solve this, the family tried many different snacks to see which he would like the most. They were pleased to find out he liked to eat well. They gave him a diet of nuts, fruits, berries, and mushrooms.
This little guy just loved being around everyone. It was like he was meant for domestication. He liked munching on his snacks outside with the rest of the family while they enjoyed each other’s company.
Obviously, he couldn’t spea, but he made it clear with his presence that being around his humans was something he did enjoy very much. He loved every minute spent with them and the family loved every minute with Arttu.
Wild animals and humans don’t normally blend that well. It just isn’t in their nature to be buddies with people and that’s common knowledge. However, the exact opposite could be said for Arttu and his family. He had become extremely comfortable with them.
Comfort became instinct with Arttu. No matter where or when, Arttu was able to transform any place into a cozy resting nest that was perfect for his next nap. The hoodies are where it started, but that soon became cupped hands too.
It’s unfortunate that Arttu couldn’t roam around the great outdoors like the rest of his species. Climbing huge trees, finding food, and jumping from branch to branch wasn’t in his daily life anymore. However, his family helped with that issue.
They really enjoyed taking him outside so that he could climb around as nature originally planned for squirrels to do. As long as he had the proper supervision, everything was fine. Look how happy the little guy looks!
Imagine being stripped away from your native country but accepted elsewhere wholeheartedly. As good as it is to be accepted, there will always be a part of you that might miss where you came from. Arttu’s family wanted to make sure this didn’t happen with him.
Whenever it was time for Arttu to come back inside after playing, they let him feel close to his home. That’s right, Arttu was allowed to bring back in something from nature. His favorite was pine cones!
Can you imagine having a little furry tree climber roam around your house during Christmas time? There’s no telling what he might do around the Christmas tree! That’s why whenever that holiday came around, the family ensured that the tree was extra protected.
It was only a matter of time before Arttu would climb to the top of the tree! That was just in his nature as a wild animal. What else would you expect?
As it turns out, Arttu was smarter than your average squirrel. That’s something you might never hear in your life, but it could be said for this little guy! Although he liked climbing, he soon began to realize something important.
Trees inside the house were way different than the ones he found and loved outside. And he may have realized this, but that didn’t stop him from appreciating the ornaments found on the Christmas tree.
A cat or dog is usually the standard type of pet to keep. That means animal stores and groomers are better suited to tend to those kinds of animals than, say, a local squirrel you found on the side of the road.
A squirrel has a special set of challenges that come along with the unique joys they bring. Arttu needed to have his nails regularly trimmed due to not living in the outdoors. That itself was quite a task.
Have you ever seen those videos on YouTube where the owner is attempting to groom their cat, but the cat just isn’t cooperating? That happens with a lot of pets and it’s expected. Don’t expect it with Arttu.
Many other animals act out of character while they are getting special treatment, but Arttu takes it like a real trooper. He understood the better he acted, the sooner it would all be over with and he could get back to acting like is playful self.
From 2007 until 2013, Arttu lived with his human family. That is a long life considering all that he has been through for such a small animal. The day came where he ended up passing away due to old age.
The family found him curled up in a nest looking like he was sleeping. Once they realized he wasn’t alive anymore, it was difficult for the family to come to terms with the fact their unexpected family member was gone.
No matter how short his life was, Arttu certainly had one for the ages. Neither he or the family could have ever predicted that they would be living under the same roof in unity like they were. It was like something out of a Disney movie.
The family did something touching for the little guy. “We fed other squirrels all the food we had stored for him before he died,” they said. They even gave Arttu a little tombstone.
Keep going to read the incredibly touching story about why a cat would only take food in bags.
Making a difference in the lives of animals can be a heartbreaking chore. That was true for one unnamed Korean woman who made it her job to feed all the feral cats in her neighborhood. As a volunteer at a local shelter, she had access to food, and she decided to put it to great use.
For five years this volunteer would hand out food in bowls to every homeless cat who would accept her offer. For the most part, all of the cats happily took the free meal. One cat, however, stood out from the rest for one crazy reason.
The cat, which was named Dongsuk, would show up every day for food with the rest of the cats, but would never take any. Instead, the furry feline would turn away, choosing to find a way to survive by other means.
Still, Dongsuk showed up every day, proving she wasn’t averse to getting a free meal. She just didn’t like the food she was being given. Or, as the volunteer began to think, maybe it was about the way the food was being presented in the first place. Was there a reason Dongsuk refused to eat from bowls?
The Vounteer’s first instinct when she discovered Dongsuk refused to eat was to switch the kind of food she was giving the cat. Cats tend to be very picky about their diets, even refusing good food when it’s not the type they prefer.
To test if Dongsuk was this kind of cat, the volunteer tried several types of dry food. Dongsuk refused every brand and every variety. Then she tried wet food in a can. Dongsuk remained stubborn, forcing the volunteer to go back to the drawing board.
Maybe Food In Bags Will Do?
Desperate to solve the mystery of why Dongsuk wouldn’t eat, the volunteer began to think out of the box. Like we said, if Dongsuk didn’t want the food, she wouldn’t show up to feeding time everyday. It was up to her new friend to learn how to feed Dongsuk so she wouldn’t starve.
With so many questions, where would the volunteer find the answers?
The volunteer was ecstatic that Dongsuk was finally taking the food. Every day she would make sure there was a special bag of cat food ready for the felines. And every day, Dongsuk would come to visit, take the bag of food, and run off.
This odd behavior, however, only made the volunteer more curious about where Dongsuk was going with her bag of food. She already thought it was odd the cat would only accept food
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German-speaking world, Austria, was the center of the multinational Hapsburg Empire. It was Roman Catholic and was continually intruding into the predominantly Catholic regions of the rest of Germany, particularly Bavaria. The French were constantly poaching in the Rhineland and manipulating the balance of power among the German states. Russia was always looming to the east, where it bordered the major Protestant German power, Prussia. (Poland at the time was divided among Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary.) Germany was perpetually the victim of great powers, a condition which Prussia spent the roughly half-century between Waterloo and German unification trying to correct.
To unify Germany, Prussia had to do more than dominate the Germans. It had to fight two wars. The first was in 1866 with the Hapsburg Empire, which Prussia defeated in seven weeks, ending Hapsburg influence in Germany and ultimately reducing Austria-Hungary to Germany’s junior partner. The second war was in 1870-1871, when Prussia led a German coalition that defeated France. That defeat ended French influence in the Rhineland and gave Prussia the space in which to create a modern, unified Germany. Russia, which was pleased to see both Austria-Hungary and France defeated and viewed a united Germany as a buffer against another French invasion, did not try to block unification.
German unification changed the dynamic of Europe. First, it created a large nation in the heart of Europe between France and Russia. United, Germany was economically dynamic, and its growth outstripped that of France and the United Kingdom. Moreover, it became a naval power, developing a substantial force that at some point could challenge British naval hegemony. It became a major exporting power, taking markets from Britain and France. And in looking around for room to maneuver, Germany began looking east toward Russia. In short, Germany was more than a nation — it was a geopolitical problem.
Germany’s strategic problem was that if the French and Russians attacked Germany simultaneously, with Britain blockading its ports, Germany would lose and revert to its pre-1871 chaos. Given French, Russian and British interest in shattering Germany, Germany had to assume that such an attack would come. Therefore, since the Germans could not fight on two fronts simultaneously, they needed to fight a war pre-emptively, attacking France or Russia first, defeating it and then turning their full strength on the other — all before Britain’s naval blockade could begin to hurt. Germany’s only defense was a two-stage offense that was as complex as a ballet, and would be catastrophic if it failed.
In World War I, executing the Schlieffen Plan, the Germans attacked France first while trying to simply block the Russians. The plan was to first occupy the channel coast and Paris before the United Kingdom could get into the game and before Russia could fully mobilize, and then to knock out Russia. The plan failed in 1914 at the First Battle of the Marnes, and rather than lightning victory, Germany got bogged down in a multifront war costing millions of lives and lasting years. Even so, Germany almost won the war of attrition, causing the United States to intervene and deprive Berlin of victory.
In World War II, the Germans had learned their lesson, so instead of trying to pin down Russia, they entered into a treaty with the Soviets. This secured Germany’s rear by dividing Poland with the Soviet Union. The Soviets agreed to the treaty, expecting Adolf Hitler’s forces to attack France and bog down as Germany had in World War I. The Soviets would then roll West after the bloodletting had drained the rest of Europe. The Germans stunned the Russians by defeating France in six weeks and then turning on the Russians. The Russian front turned into an endless bloodletting, and once again the Americans helped deliver the final blow.
The consequence of the war was the division of Germany into three parts — an independent Austria, a Western-occupied West Germany and a Soviet-occupied East Germany. West Germany again faced the Russian problem. Its eastern part was occupied, and West Germany could not possibly defend itself on its own. It found itself integrated into an American-dominated alliance system, NATO, which was designed to block the Soviets. West and East Germany would serve as the primary battleground of any Soviet attack, with Soviet armor facing U.S. armor, airpower and tactical nuclear weapons. For the Germans, the Cold War was probably more dangerous than either of the previous wars. Whatever the war’s outcome, Germany stood a pretty good chance of being annihilated if it took place.
On the upside, the Cold War did settle Franco-German tensions, which were half of Germany’s strategic problem. Indeed, one of the by-products of the Cold War was the emergence of the European Community, which ultimately became the European Union. This saw German economic union and integration with France, which along with NATO’s military integration guaranteed economic growth and the end of any military threat to Germany from the west. For the first time in centuries, the Rhine was not at risk. Germany’s south was secure, and once the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no threat from the east, either.
United and Secure at Last?
For the first time in centuries, Germany was both united and militarily secure. But underneath it all, the Germans retained their primordial fear of being caught between France and Russia. Berlin understood that this was far from a mature reality; it was no more than a theoretical problem at the moment. But the Germans also understand how quickly things can change. On one level, the problem was nothing more than the economic emphasis of the European Union compared to the geopolitical focus of Russia. But on a deeper level, Germany was, as always, caught between the potentially competing demands of Russia and the West. Even if the problem were small now, there were no guarantees that it wouldn’t grow.
This was the context in which Germany viewed the Russo-Georgian war in August. Berlin saw not only the United States moving toward a hostile relationship with Russia, but also the United Kingdom and France going down the same path.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who happened to hold the rotating EU presidency at the time, went to Moscow to negotiate a cease-fire on behalf of the European Union. When the Russians seemed unwilling to comply with the terms negotiated, France became highly critical of Russia and inclined to back some sort of sanctions at the EU summit on Georgia. With the United Kingdom being even more adamant, Germany saw a worst-case scenario looming on the distant horizon: It understood that the pleasant security of the post-Cold War world was at an end, and that it had to craft a new national strategy.
From Germany’s point of view, the re-emergence of Russian influence in the former Soviet Union might be something that could have been blocked in the 1990s, but by 2008, it had become inevitable. The Germans saw that economic relations in the former Soviet Union — and not only energy issues — created a complementary relationship between Russia and its former empire. Between natural affinities and Russian power, a Russian sphere of influence, if not a formal structure, was inevitable. It was an emerging reality that could not be reversed.
France has Poland and Germany between itself and Russia. Britain has that plus the English Channel, and the United States has all that plus the Atlantic Ocean. The farther away from Russia one is, the more comfortable one can be challenging Moscow. But Germany has only Poland as a buffer. For any nation serious about resisting Russian power, the first question is how to assure the security of the Baltic countries, a long-vulnerable salient running north from Poland. The answer would be to station NATO forces in the Baltics and in Poland, and Berlin understood that Germany would be both the logistical base for these forces as well as the likely source of troops. But Germany’s appetite for sending troops to Poland and the Baltics has been satiated. This was not a course Germany wanted to take.
We suspect that Merkel knew something else; namely, that all the comfortable assumptions about what was possible and impossible — that the Russians wouldn’t dare attack the Baltics — are dubious in the extreme. Nothing in German history would convince any reasonable German that military action to achieve national ends is unthinkable. Nor are the Germans prepared to dismiss the re-emergence of Russian military power. The Germans had been economically and militarily shattered in 1932. By 1938, they were the major power in Europe. As long as their officer corps and technological knowledge base were intact, regeneration could move swiftly.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and its military power crumbled. But as was the case in Weimar Germany, the Russian officer corps remained relatively intact and the KGB, the heart of the Soviet state, remained intact if renamed. So did the technological base that made the Soviets a global power. As with Germany after both world wars, Russia was in chaos, but its fragments remained, awaiting reconstruction. The Germans were not about to dismiss Russia’s ability to regenerate — they know their own history too well to do that.
If Germany were to join those who call for NATO expansion, the first step toward a confrontation with Russia would have been taken. The second step would be guaranteeing the security of the Baltics and Poland. America would make the speeches, and Germans would man the line. After spending most of the last century fighting or preparing to fight the Russians, the Germans looked around at the condition of their allies and opted out.
The Germans see their economic commitment as being to the European Union. That binds them to the French, and this is not a bond they can or want to break. But the European Union carries no political or military force in relation to the Russians. Beyond economics, it is a debating society. NATO, as an institution built
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the privatization of television production and distribution in particular. Meanwhile, cultural enterprises also shape the way in which Chinese citizens conduct themselves. In such domains as leisure and consumption, operators of theme built environments such as theme parks, theme shopping malls, and even residential communities deploy spatial planning and engineering techniques to subtly train their users to behave in a particular way to become proper citizens. This type of business through real estate development, a dominant sector of the Chinese economy, contributes to the national project of managing social risks in China’s neoliberal process. To illustrate how media and leisure companies engage in cultural production appropriate to China’s neoliberal development, this paper examines both a television production of news about ‘ordinary people’ and a theme park operation of ethnic festival by focusing on the relationship between media convergence, business synergy, and affective work.
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that employees do not leave the workplace wearing any protective clothing or equipment that is required to be worn during the work shift.
(A) The employer shall provide shower facilities, where feasible, for use by employees whose airborne exposure to lead is above the PEL.
(B) The employer shall assure, where shower facilities are available, that employees shower at the end of the work shift and shall provide an adequate supply of cleansing agents and towels for use by affected employees.
(A) The employer shall provide lunchroom facilities or eating areas for employees whose airborne exposure to lead is above the PEL, without regard to the use of respirators.
(B) The employer shall assure that lunchroom facilities or eating areas are as free as practicable from lead contamination and are readily accessible to employees.
(C) The employer shall assure that employees whose airborne exposure to lead is above the PEL, without regard to the use of a respirator, wash their hands and face prior to eating, drinking, smoking or applying cosmetics.
(D) The employer shall assure that employees do not enter lunchroom facilities or eating areas with protective work clothing or equipment unless surface lead dust has been removed by vacuuming, downdraft booth, or other cleaning method that limits dispersion of lead dust.
(A) The employer shall provide adequate handwashing facilities for use by employees exposed to lead in accordance with section 1527.
(B) Where showers are not provided the employer shall assure that employees wash their hands and face at the end of the work-shift.
(A) Employers shall establish regulated areas, where feasible, for work areas where employees are exposed to lead at or above the PEL or performing the tasks described in subsection (d)(2).
(B) Regulated areas shall be posted with signs as described in subsection (m)(2).
(C) Employers shall restrict access to the regulated area to employees authorized by the supervisor, to representatives of affected employees, as described in subsection (o) and to persons authorized by the Chief or NIOSH.
(D) Each employee authorized to enter the regulated area shall be provided with and be required to wear protective equipment required by subsections (f) and (g).
(A) The employer shall make available initial medical surveillance to employees occupationally exposed on any day to lead at or above the action level. Initial medical surveillance consists of biological monitoring in the form of blood sampling and analysis for lead and zinc protoporphyrin levels.
(C) The employer shall assure that all medical examinations and procedures are performed by or under the supervision of a licensed physician.
(D) The employer shall make available the required medical surveillance including multiple physician review under subsection (j)(3)(C) without cost to employees and at a reasonable time and place.
3. For each employee who is removed from exposure to lead due to an elevated blood lead level at least monthly during the removal period.
(B) Follow-up blood sampling tests. Whenever the results of a blood lead level test indicate that an employee's blood lead level is at or above the numerical criterion for medical removal under subsection (k)(1)(A), the employer shall provide a second (follow-up) blood sampling test within two weeks after the employer receives the results of the first blood sampling test.
(C) Accuracy of blood lead level sampling and analysis. Blood lead level sampling and analysis provided pursuant to this section shall have an accuracy (to a confidence level of 95 percent) within plus or minus 15 percent or 6 µg/dl, whichever is greater, and shall be conducted by a laboratory approved by OSHA.
2. The employer shall notify each employee whose blood lead level is at or above 40 µg/dl that the standard requires temporary medical removal with Medical Removal Protection benefits when an employee's blood lead level is at or above the numerical criterion for medical removal under subsection (k)(1)(A).
3. As medically appropriate for each employee either removed from exposure to lead due to a risk of sustaining material impairment to health, or otherwise limited pursuant to a final medical determination.
6. Any laboratory or other test relevant to lead exposure which the examining physician deems necessary by sound medical practice.
b. To conduct such examinations, consultations, and laboratory tests as the second physician deems necessary to facilitate this review.
b. The employee initiating steps to make an appointment with a second physician.
3. If the findings, determinations or recommendations of the second physician differ from those of the initial physician, then the employer and the employee shall assure that efforts are made for the two physicians to resolve any disagreement.
b. To conduct such examinations, consultations, laboratory tests and discussions with the prior physicians as the third physician deems necessary to resolve the disagreement of the prior physicians.
5. The employer shall act consistent with the findings, determinations and recommendations of the third physician, unless the employer and the employee reach an agreement which is otherwise consistent with the recommendations of at least one of the three physicians.
f. All prior written medical opinions concerning the employee in the employer's possession or control.
2. The employer shall provide the foregoing information to a second or third physician conducting a medical examination or consultation under this section upon request either by the second or third physician, or by the employee.
d. The results of the blood lead determinations.
b. Advise the employee of any medical condition, occupational or nonoccupational, which dictates further medical examination or treatment.
(F) Alternate physician determination mechanisms. The employer and an employee or authorized employee representative may agree upon the use of any alternate physician determination mechanism in lieu of the multiple physician review mechanism provided by subsection (j)(3)(C) so long as the alternate mechanism is as expeditious and protective as the requirements contained in this subsection.
(A) The employer shall assure that any person whom he/she retains, employs, supervises or controls does not engage in prophylactic chelation of any employee at any time.
(B) If therapeutic or diagnostic chelation is to be performed by any person in subsection (j)(4)(A), the employer shall assure that it be done under the supervision of a licensed physician in a clinical setting with thorough and appropriate medical monitoring and that the employee is notified in writing prior to its occurrence.
1. The employer shall remove an employee from work having an exposure to lead at or above the action level on each occasion that a final medical determination results in a medical finding, determination, or opinion that the employee has a detected medical condition which places the employee at increased risk of material impairment to health from exposure to lead.
2. For the purposes of this section, the phrase “final medical determination” means the written medical opinion on the employees' health status by the examining physician or, where relevant, the outcome of the multiple physician review mechanism or alternate medical determination mechanism used pursuant to the medical surveillance provisions of this section.
3. Where a final medical determination results in any recommended special protective measures for an employee, or limitations on an employee's exposure to lead, the employer shall implement and act consistent with the recommendation.
b. For an employee removed due to a final medical determination, when a subsequent final medical determination results in a medical finding, determination, or opinion that the employee no longer has a detected medical condition which places the employee at increased risk of material impairment to health from exposure to lead.
2. For the purposes of this section, the requirement that an employer return an employee to his or her former job status is not intended to expand upon or restrict any rights an employee has or would have had, absent temporary medical removal, to a specific job classification or position under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
(D) Removal of other employee special protective measure or limitations. The employer shall remove any limitations placed on an employee or end any special protective measures provided to an employee pursuant to a final medical determination when a subsequent final medical determination indicates that the limitations or special protective measures are no longer necessary.
1. Removal. The employer may remove the employee from exposure to lead, provide special protective measures to the employee, or place limitations upon the employee, consistent with the medical findings, determinations, or recommendations of any of the physicians who have reviewed the employee's health status.
b. If the employee has been on removal status for the preceding eighteen months due to an elevated blood lead level, then the employer shall await a final medical determination.
(A) Provision of medical removal protection benefits. The employer shall provide an employee up to eighteen (18) months of medical removal protection benefits on each occasion that an employee is removed from exposure to lead or otherwise limited pursuant to this section.
(B) Definition of medical removal protection benefits. For the purposes of this section, the requirement that an employer provide medical removal protection benefits means that, as long as the job the employee was removed from continues, the employer shall maintain the total normal earnings, seniority and other employment rights and benefits of an employee, including the employee's right to his or her former job status as though the employee had not been medically removed from the employee's job or otherwise medically limited.
(C) Follow-up medical surveillance during the period of employee removal or limitation. During the period of time that an employee is medically removed from his or her job or otherwise medically limited, the employer may condition the provision of medical removal protection benefits upon the employee's participation in follow-up medical surveillance made available pursuant to this section.
(D) Workers' compensation claims. If a removed employee files a claim for workers' compensation payments for a lead-related disability, then the employer shall continue to provide medical removal protection benefits pending disposition of the claim. To the extent that an award is made to the employee for earnings lost during the period of removal, the employer's medical removal protection obligation shall be reduced by such amount. The employer shall receive no credit for workers' compensation payments received by the employee for treatment-related expenses
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glide on smoothly. i can’t ever go back to using any other brand of eyeshadow! other makeup artists can surely agree.
this palette has shades of glittery brown, metallic pink, pearly pink, metallic plum, matte light brown, deep matte brown.
this palette has shades of: glitter gold, glitter mint green, matte beige, metallic warm brown, matte light brown, deep matte brown.
simply apply two coats of the rich chocolate shade to your nails, then apply the glitter polish to the tips the perfect diy manicure. it’s like having a glass of champagne with some dark chocolate truffles.
these pearly glow ons are like the rest of shu uemura glow ons: perfectly smooth and finely milled so they create the most natural glow. you can wear these shades alone (i particularly love using apricot shades of blush on deeper skin tones) or wear them together. i suggest applying the raspberry shade to the apples of the cheeks then softening buy applying the apricot shade over top.
of course, to complete the collection, a pair of dainty partial lashes with golden detailing. these lashes are so easy to apply and make lashes look instantly fuller because of the feathery finish. when eyes are open, it adds fullness to the edges of the eyes and when you blink, there a glimmer of gold – so pretty!
the chocolat-donna collection is perfect for creating simple daytime looks that easily transition to glamourous evening looks. i love this collection because it’s extremely wearable and i absolutely love that all of the palettes come with a lighter and a deeper matte brown eyeshadows which is perfect for contouring. i’m also a sucker for collections, so the fact that the palettes are reusable/refillable with the regular shu uemura pressed shadows is a bonus! this collection is available as of august 2012 in holt renfrews locations across canada so pick it up before it’s gone!
i’ll be creating some looks on myself using the palettes and lashes; remember to check back!
at age 30, i feel like my skin has been acting up lately like when i was a teenager! i’ve been chatting with several of my girl friends and reading some articles and it seems very common that our skin tends to become more acne-prone when we enter our 30s even if our skin was fine after our teenage years. it’s either this, or because i’ve been traveling more lately so the change in environment, diet and rhythm have been irritating my skin. my skin has been getting little bumps although it’s not oily at this moment. everyone’s skin is different, for myself, my skin tends to break out in little bumps when i’m stressed or not getting enough rest. i get occasional cystic pimples when i have hormonal fluctuations. how sad… although i can’t avoid these things, i have found ways to manage my skin issues (i have a couple of previous blog posts about my skin care regime).
currently, because i’ve been getting a lot of clogged pores that causes little bumps, i’ve begun using the new shu uemura porefinist gentle foaming cleanser. i’ve been using it for about 2 weeks now and it’s really helped to calm my skin. because it contains salicylic acid, which helps to eliminate dead skin cells, i find that it’s helping the clogged gunk (causing bumps) to come to the surface and to come off. i normally go for facials, so i’ll be going in a couple of weeks to get a good pore cleaning now that the dead skin is starting to shed off.
salicylic acid – this is the key ingredient for me personally. it eliminates dead skin cells so my skin looks brighter and it prevents gunk to clog my pored which causes bumps.
dragons beard extract – this is a moisturizing agent. this is what i feel makes the product better than other acne cleansers because my face doesn’t feel tight after cleansing. it feels fresh.
depsea water – i’ve talked about this in previous blogs, as it’s the key ingredient in all shu uemura skin products including foundation. it’s patented by shu uemura and was discovered by mr. shu uemura himself when he was in japan by the sea. he noticed a nurse who brought some children to swim in the sea water near moroto cape and asked the nurse what she was doing. the children had eczema and she said the water was healing their skin. after researching, he learned that the water circulating with the currents deep under the sea to the polar regions had picked up lots of mineral and nutrients which naturally heals and moisturizes skin. to read more about the history, click here.
it can be used dry or wet (so you can wet your face first, or not). i’ve been using this instead of my cleansing oil lately, just because my skin has been bumpy. so like i always say, choose to use products based on your skin’s needs at a particular moment.
at night, i use 2-3 pumps on dry skin so that i can remove my makeup.
in the morning, i find i just need one pump, since there isn’t anything on my skin.
when it lathers, it feels soft and has a slight silky texture. scent is not strong – it’s more fresh and not floral.
that’s what the pump looks like. this product was also designed to be eco-friendly.
just in time for summer! shu uemura has released two new great products that are both waterproof. great for the humid summer months and outings to the beach.
shu uemura stretch xtreme mascara. this mascara is a fibre mascara that’s waterproof. you can paint on layer after layer to achieve the desired volume and length for your lashes! the wand is also slightly curved so it fits nicely onto the lash line. this mascara was actually designed with asian lashes in mind, so that bristles on the wand grab onto the smallest of lashes and builds volume for sparse lashes.
shu uemura brow manicure. i have been waiting for shu to come out with a brow gel! it’s finally here! it’s sweat-proof and waterproof. it comes in two colours: honey glaze and ash brown. it has a handy wand with bristles designed to create the perfect brows. one end has shorter bristles to paint each brow (brushing the hairs upward) and the other side has longer bristles to brush the brows into place. i like to use this product in combination the the shu uemura hard formula (brow pencil – i use colour seal brown). i soften the colour using brush 6OB (angled badger hair brush designed for brows). My brows are quite sparse so I draw in the shape with the hard formula pencil, then paint my brows with the brow manicure to really give colour to my brows and to put them into place since my brows, like most asian brows, grow downwards. i don’t like to trim them because i don’t have very many hairs as it is, so i prefer to brush and place them aside using the brow gel.
here’s a photo with my right eye’s lashes curled using the shu uemura lash curler and coated with stretch xtreme mascara (3 coats). i also coated my bottom lashes (2 coats). my right brow is also done with the hard formula brow pencil and hairs painted and set in place with brow manicure. a very natural finish.
what a big difference it makes! for more length, i could’ve continued layering the mascara for a more dramatic effect.
try it! it really opens up the eyes.
i love traveling. i absolutely have the travel bug! but the one thing that i dread most about traveling is break outs. because of the change in environment, diet and time zone, my skin tends to get quite bumpy whenever i travel. the worst is when i get those big pimples deep under the skin that take forever to heal.
good news is, i FINALLY found a way to prevent travel break outs! during my visit out west for shu uemura, my skin began to get bumpy as soon as i landed in vancouver – the airplane tends to do that to my skin; i’m convinced it’s all the bacteria! but i could be wrong lol – but luckily, national trainer for shu uemura lori lucas shared with me a simple trick to heal the skin so quick and prevent break outs. lori is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to shu skincare!
use LOTS, i mean LOTS of toner! i used to try to limit what i put on my face because i was scared it would irritate my skin, but actually, it really calms it down. i used two cotton pads of toner morning and night.
use shu uemura award winning hydrability alnight quench SOS moisture essence. it’s basically an instant facial mask. i call it a face mask for lazy people.. lol.. because you just smooth it all over your face before bedtime and you don’t need to wash it off. it’s got a high concentration of our famous depsea water (glacial water extracted from polar regions containing lots of natural minerals from deep in the ocean). don’t be afraid to put lots on! your
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for many years the only auction during the Monterey week. Rick’s auction features a very Ferrari-heavy offering including 275 GTB/C “Clienti Competizione” s/n 7477; 250 SWB s/n 3735 and 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport s/n 0592 CM, an eight figure Ferrari and easily the “headliner car” when announced.
Gooding and RM usually vie for the most spectacular headline Ferraris and this year was not a disappointment. In our Ferrari-focused world, RM’s announcement of Ferrari, 250 LM s/n 6045 is a headliner and will be another eight-figure Ferrari, while Mecum has 375 MM 0362 AM which will assuredly be yet another eight figure Ferrari. Gooding is expected to announce they have 365 P 3-Posti s/n 8971, yet another eight-figure Ferrari. RM is also expected to announce they have 275 GTB/C s/n 6701, one of three 275 GTB prototypes built for FIA homologation. It will be yet another eight-figure Ferrari. It will be a wild and crazy week with no lack of heavy iron and some stunning new market prices.
This year’s biggest surprise, however, was the announcement on 30 June that the ex-Violati 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT will be offered at the Bonhams Quail at no reserve!! There’s no question that 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT will re-set the high-water-mark for the most expensive car ever sold at auction, putting Bonhams firmly in the auction house spotlight, (more on that later). Equally as enticing, nine more yet-to-be-identified Ferraris from the ex-Violati collection would also be at Bonhams Quail at no reserve.
We begin with a quick history lesson. Fabrizio Violati was born in Rome in 1935 as the youngest son of the wealthy Ferrarelle Mineral Water empire. He quickly developed a taste for speed, running in multiple Italian hill climbs. In 1965 he was offered a very used 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT and paid the then-princely sum of 2.5m lire or about $4k, the then market correct price for an obsolete race car. Over the following years Violati expanded his collection while expanding the family mineral water empire and racing America’s Cup yachts.
In 1976 Violati purchased his second Ferrari, 250 GT SWB s/n 2025 GT, and soon became a serial collector, buying up dozens of used race cars. By the late 1980s the collection included about fifty Ferraris and several dozen Abarths in multiple garages and farm houses in and around Rome. Violati also ramped up his racing, running his team Scuderia Bellancauto 512 BB LM s/n 35529 under Ferrarelle Mineral Water sponsorship in multiple FIA 1000km enduros and at Le Mans in 1982 and 1984, both DNFs. Additionally his Scuderia Campidoglio vintage race team became a familiar sight on tracks across Europe throughout the 1980s, with Violati winning the 1985 FIA Historic championship in his much modified and very fast 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT.
In the late 1980s Violati moved his collection to San Marino, an interesting story in itself. San Marino is Europe’s smallest and oldest independent republic, a tiny 24-sq-mi. independent city-state of 26,000 people atop rocky Mount Titano, a short drive off the Adriatic coast near Rímini. As a separate micro-country within Italy San Marino has many tax advantages, making it a great place to store and display a very valuable car collection outside control of the Italian tax authorities. San Marino also offers tax free shopping and sightseeing around the old town’s castle and attracts about three million tourists per year. San Marino is also known to F1 fans as the host of the Formula One Grand Prix of San Marino, which is actually held on the Italian circuit of Imola, sixty some miles from San Marino. Only in Italy!
The Violati Collection, officially the “Maranello Rosso Collection”, opened in 1989 and moved into the current building on the outskirts of the micro-state in 2000, safely tucked away from the Italian tax authorities. The ground floor housed the majority of the Ferrari collection which included 195 s/n 0151 S; 250 MM s/n 0312 MM; three 250 LWB TDFs, s/n 0539 GT, s/n 0619/-805 GT and s/n 1461 GT, a Series I Cab s/n 0759 GT; two 250 SWBs, s/n 2025 GT and 3615 GT and, of course, 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT. In the mid-engined group were 330 P s/n 0818, 330 P2/3 s/n 0828; 512 BBLM s/n 35529; 312 T3 s/n 033; F40 s/n 89460 and 166 F2 Formula car s/n 008. Also in the collection was a long list of other Ferraris including a 250 GTE, a Lusso, a 330 and 365 GTC, a pair of 365 GTB/4 Comp conversions and many others for a total of thirty-three very collectible Ferraris.
The open second floor offered a view of the Ferraris and showcased a variety of Ferrari related memorabilia. The basement held the Abarth Museum covering Abarth’s complete history from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. Included were multiple 1960s Fiat-Abarth 750 and 1970s Simca-based GT racers and multiple 1970s sports racers and Formula Abarths for a total of forty racing Abarths. Included were several of the later “Osella” Abarths created after Carlo Abarth sold the company to Fiat in 1971 and multiple Abarth World Rally Championship winning rally cars, making for one of the best Abarth collections on the planet.
Tax problems began to surface in the early-1990s with the entire collection first offered to us in 1994. Over the next twenty years the Violati collection has been offered on the dealer circuit endless times, but always with the complications of Italian tax liens, Violati’s former wife, three adult children and the General Manager of the collection, an imbroglio that has kept a small army of lawyers busy for the last two decades.
When Violati died on 21 Jan., 2010 the dealer chatter ramped up and has remained “the” hot topic on the dealer circuit since. The price has been a moving target, starting at an “ask” of 50M €uro, it had moved to 100M €uro and by last year had hit 110M €uro. In the last year the collection has been offered by most of the market’s major players at prices up to 160M €uro! Included were the museum building in San Marino plus an “offshore” tax free San Marino company, a potentially very valuable European asset.
By May–June the rumor mill proclaimed that the collection had been sold to an English consortium, included were all thirty-three Ferraris and forty Abarths. That consortium had offered to sell the 250 GTO and nine more of the highest profile Ferraris at the upcoming Monterey auctions. Two major auction houses were in the initial negotiations with the headliner package of ten Ferraris going to Bonhams for Monterey. Adding to the politics of the auction world, in June it also became public that Bonhams had enlisted London bankers to prepare debt financing packages of up to 200M £’s Sterling or $335M USD to back a potential sale of Bonhams. Adding further to the auction world news, on 03 July, Bonhams announced they were jumping into the Amelia Island scene in 2015 with a sale in Fernandina Beach, FL, the small town at the north end of Amelia Island, a few days before the Amelia Island Concours d′Elegance.
Bonhams is no stranger to major collection purchases, with its major backer, Evert Louman having bought the Rosso Bianco collection of three hundred Ferrari, Alfa and Maserati sports and race cars in 2006, selling many off at Monaco in May, 2006. Bonhams also currently holds the record of the most expensive car ever sold at auction, the ex-Fangio 1954 Mercedes W196R F1 car sold at Bonhams Goodwood in July, 2013 for a then-world-record $29.7m USD!
The Violati 250 GTO s/n 3851 GT, 330 P s/n 0818 and 330 P2/3 s/n 0828 were all crashed heavily in period and the GTO is the only GTO that was crashed and the driver, Henry Oreiller, died at Montlhery in 1962. Reality is that almost every GTO (excluding s/n 4219 GT) was crashed in period and many were crashed multiple times. After the crash at Montlhery in 1962 the Violati GTO was rebuilt and raced in over a dozen hill climbs in 1963. These were race cars and like all race cars they did crash, sometimes often.
Further on Evert Louwman, he is not only the major backer of Bonhams, he is also the Dutch importer for Toyota, Lexus and Suzuki. He is also the owner of the Louwman museum, over two-hundred cars in the planet’s oldest private museum (also open to the public.) Evert is a shrewd businessman and certainly a GTO
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ie Shoals, and finding more gas to supply an LNG development.
This week the Federal Government awarded major project facilitation (MPF) status to MEO Australia's Timor Sea LNG Project and the 5000 tonnes-a-day Tassie Shoal methanol project which already have environmental approvals.
The Tassie Shoal announcement is a piece of deja vu because it received MPF status in December 2001 at a time when the Australian Government believed there would be a rush to develop Timor Sea gas reserves in the aftermath of East Timor achieving independence.
Federal Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said this week the projects would further develop Australia's valuable petroleum resources and serve the rapidly expanding markets in the Asia/Pacific region.
MPF status meant the Australian Government's inward investment agency, Invest Australia, would work with MEO Australia to progress the projects through the approvals process and identify relevant government program that might assist the projects.
"Each project will generate approximately 50 local jobs during the construction phase, with both areas expected to create about 110 ongoing jobs when they are operational," Macfarlane said.
Even though both MEO Australia projects lie outside the Joint Petroleum Development Area north of Darwin, to some extent their progress has been hindered the lack of progress on JPDA development.
MEO's managing director, Chris Hart, noted this week that while methanol was originally the prime focus for the company, MEO had expanded its goals to include the exploration and appraisal of its 100 per cent owned exploration permit, NT/P68 as well as the development of an offshore 3-million-tonne-a-year LNG plant. MEO believes the permit could contain significant reserves of liquids-rich gas.
Based on the Heron-1 well drilled in 1972 (almost out of the Ark in terms of modern exploration technology) which encountered a 50m gas bearing zone, MEO has acquired new 2-D and 3-D seismic which is now being processed.
MEO calls the discovery Epenarra and believes it could contain significant quantities of condensate.
Hart said MEO Australia had committed to drill up to three wells in the permit beginning in the third quarter of this year.
Stockbrokers Tolhurst Noall in a research brief prepared for clients this week said MEO Australia offered a high-risk exposure to the development of two world-scale gas-to-liquids developments.
It said the key risks were securing sufficient gas supplies, securing necessary funding, and securing long-term offtake agreements and the project execution.
The brief said NT/P68 could provide a resolution to the gas supply issue with drilling success likely to go a long way to confirming the viability of the projects.
"We believe securing long-term LNG offtake agreements should be less challenging than investors appear to believe, as the demand for LNG in the Asian markets continues unabated, and the scale of the LNG project -- while very material to MEO Australia -- is modest enough to be readily absorbed."
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has unveiled plans to develop a generic floating liquefied natural gas production unit that will have capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per annum.
Jon Chadwick, executive vice president Asia for Shell Gas & Power, told the Gastech conference that the supermajor had devoted “substantive engineering hours to FLNG” and had come up with a design for a vessel that would be as much as 450 metres long and 75 metres wide.
The vessel will also have extra hydrocarbon liquids capacity.
He added that Shell intended to launch an interntational tender within about four months to selected consortia formed from shipyards in Japan and South Korea and international engineering, procurement and construction contractors to carry out work on the project.
Chadwick gave no further details on costs or time scales for the project, nor did he say where the supermajor might locate its first LNG production floater.
However, he said that the internal engineering work that the supermajor has carried out to date, which has included extensive evaluation and testing, shows that there are “no technical showstoppers for the concept”.
The design is also expected to be cyclone tolerant. That would make it suitable for waters off Western Australia where there are large quantities of natural gas waiting to be developed, as well as waters in some areas of Asia.
Offshore West Africa is another area where potential for floating liquefaction has been suggested, while Shell was recently linked to a reported proposal to locate an LNG floater off southern Iraq to process associated gas from Iraqi oilfields that is currently flared.
Shell has had a long interest in floating liquefaction dating back to the days when first attempts were made to commercialise the Sunrise field that is shared between Australia and East Timor.
Initially such efforts, which also involved it looking at other potential projects, such as Kudu off Namibia, did not yield fruit. Now though Shell is confident that things have moved on, with Chadwick arguing that: “we now believe that the time for FLNG has come”.
ExxonMobil said today that it expects liquefied natural gas capacity to climb 400% by 2030 to help meet the world’s growing appetite for natural gas.
“Global LNG demand is expected to increase from about 100 million tonnes per annum in 2000 to more than 500 million tonnes per annum in 2030,” said ExxonMobil’s power & gas marketing president, Andrew Swiger, at the GasTech conference in Bangkok today.
The five-fold rise, will change the way LNG is traded and require strong relationships between international oil companies, national oil companies and host nations, added Swiger.
Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil ventures are building four 7.8 million tonnes per year LNG trains in Qatar that are almost four times larger than trains built in the mid-1990’s. The companies are also building a new generation of LNG tanker with a capacity nearly double that of conventional LNG carriers of today.
Paul Henderson, the chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory, has held "high-level talks" with senior officials from Osaka Gas over a potential deal to sell the Japanese utility liquefied natural gas from the Darwin LNG project.
“The company has interests in several gas reserves north of the Territory, including Greater Sunrise and Evans Shoal. I emphasised the Northern Territory’s government’s support for the development of these fields," said Henderson.
The Darwin LNG project is operated by ConocoPhillips, which is trying to build a gas portfolio to underpin the construction of a second LNG train at Darwin.
Chief Minister Paul Henderson said Opposition Leader Terry Mills’ continued opposition to the second LNG plant is putting at risk the potentially biggest project ever seen in the Territory.
“We don’t have to choose between an LNG plant and a good harbour -- under my Government you can get both,” MMr Henderson said.
“I will protect the environment and our economy.
“We already have one LNG plant and a great recreational fishing harbour existing side by side nothing would change with aa second plant.
“Unfortunately the Opposition Leader wants to sacrifice the chance at a $12 billion project to try and get a cheap political headline.
“There is no other suitable site for the potential Inpex plant the biggest advantage we have over WA is that we have existing infrastructure.
“Another site without the necessary infrastructure - somewhere else in the Territory would kill any hopes we have of winning the project pure and simple.
“I’ve worked hard for us to get in the race for a second LNG plant and the chance for thousands of new jobs in Darwin.
CLP Opposition Leader Terry Mills’ confusion over gas is getting worse, as he continues to change his position.
Chief Minister Paul Henderson met representatives of Inpex in Perth today to argue Darwin’s strong case for a second LNG plant, while Mr Mills ran around in circles.
“We’re in the fight of our lives to get a $12 billion development and thousands of jobs for the Territory, while the CLP Opposition tries to scuttle the project,” Mr Henderson said.
“Enough is enough – Mr Mills should apologise to the people of the Northern Territory and let Government get on with the job of trying to attract projects to boost our strong economy,” said Mr Henderson.
“We already have one LNG plant and a great recreational fishing harbour existing side by side – nothing would change with a second plant.
“The previous CLP Government chose Middle Arm as the site for our original gas plant – and all the infrastructure is there for our second plant.
DON Voelte at the Woodside AGM in Perth last week again flagged that floating LNG might be the best option for developing the Greater Sunrise reservoirs in the Timor Sea.
Greater Sunrise is once more being touted as a development project after several years where the political situation in East Timor has limited Woodside, the project operator, in translating its enthusiasm into a commercial outcome. Floating LNG is an intriguing prospect.
Shell, one of the Sunrise partners, has work under way on a huge floating LNG processing vessel, which could commercialise gas reserves in the range of 1-5 trillion cubic feet.
The top end of the range is not out of kilter with the revised reported reserves at Greater Sunrise.
Floating LNG not only might solve some of the political issues surrounding development of gas assets in the joint petroleum development area of the Timor Sea, but also might substantially reduce the capital costs of Greater Sunrise.
Shell says floating LNG incorporates the replacement of three elements of a conventional LNG scheme, namely the production platform, the pipeline to bring gas ashore and all the onshore facilities for liquef
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, comprehensive biological analytics, technology and science would not have been possible a decade ago,” says Clive Svendsen, director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and co-director with Rothstein of Answer ALS.
At this point, a few words of caution seem advisable. Many senior scientists in ALS circles might well experience a touch of déjà vu when it comes to all the excitement surrounding recent discoveries. Back in the heady days of the 1990s, too, it seemed like important breakthroughs were just up ahead on the research horizon.
The first time ALS was linked to a genetic mutation was in 1993. The guilty party was a gene called SOD1, which, when normal, produces an enzyme that helps the brain stay healthy over time. That enzyme is missing when the mutation is present.
This discovery sparked a flurry of research activity, including the development at Johns Hopkins of a mouse model for the SOD1 mutation. That model soon became the testing ground for lots of promising new medications, including the aforementioned riluzole, which was derived from research done in Rothstein’s lab and became, in 1995, the first ALS drug to win FDA approval.
No one would have predicted two decades would go by without a major treatment advance.
Thomas Lloyd was earning his M.D. and Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine in those years. He is now a Johns Hopkins neurologist who studies ALS in Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly.
“I can remember being in seminars where people at the front of the room were saying things like, ‘Now that we have this gene, it’s just a matter of time before we have a treatment,’” Lloyd recalls.
In the years that followed, however, scientists learned that the SOD1 mutation comes into play in just a tiny number of inherited, or familial, ALS cases. (The bulk of ALS cases are actually “sporadic,” not inherited.) In the two decades that followed the approval of riluzole in 1995, more than 100 other drugs have been tested in the SOD1 mouse model.
Only time will tell if Answer ALS gets the results Rothstein and his colleagues are hoping for, but thanks to a trio of recent advances, the excitement around the project certainly seems built on more than wishful thinking.
The first of these developments came in 2007, when Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka showed that skin cells taken from adults could be converted back into stem cells, which can in turn be repropagated and reprogrammed into various other cell types. Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for that discovery. Much of the attention paid to his advance involves hopes for regenerative medicine strategies that involve delivering healthy new cells to damaged organs.
In ALS, Yamanaka’s discovery plays out differently. Here, researchers are using induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells as a limitless supply of motor neurons that can be studied in the laboratory as a perfect genetic match for the brain cells in any given patient.
“This is such a big change for us,” Rothstein says. In other illnesses, he notes, taking a close look at what’s happening in the cells of patients is no big deal. “But it doesn’t work that way in neurological disease. I can’t do a biopsy. I’m not going to drill a hole in the skull and draw out tissue; you can cause epilepsy that way. Patients can lose memories or become paralyzed.” IPS cell lines have given neurologists a way around that problem.
A second reason for optimism came in 2011, when two groups of researchers, one at the National Institute on Aging and the other at Mayo Clinic, simultaneously announced the discovery of a mutation in a gene called C9ORF72—C9, for short—that is involved in nearly one-half of inherited cases of ALS, along with 10 percent of sporadic cases.
That adds up to perhaps one-third of ALS cases, an unprecedented development in the field. By comparison, the SOD1 mutation discovered with such fanfare in the 1990s is involved in only about 2 percent of cases. As an added bonus: The C9 mutation is also present in one-third of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) cases. FTD is the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer’s.
A third piece in this fast-developing ALS puzzle surfaced in the latter part of 2015, when a team of Johns Hopkins neurologists led by Rothstein and Lloyd reported in Nature that the C9 mutation is no garden-variety affair. For one thing, the mutation lies not in the coding message, where such things usually occur, but rather in a noncoding region, called an intron, which is spliced out of the C9 gene.
“Think about a string of pearls,” Rothstein suggests. “You might assume looking at it that the shiny pearls are where all the action is, right? But the string is important too. It’s holding everything together,” and that string in this case is the intron.
To make matters more interesting, the C9 mutation does not consist, as so many mutations do, of a single isolated coding error. Where a healthy gene might have a sequence of six DNA nucleotides repeating six times in a row, that sequence is repeated “500 times, or even more” in the unhealthy gene, Lloyd says.
Picture what that does to Rothstein’s string of pearls: It’s as if the space between two pearls stretches out over a length of feet or even yards, rather than the few millimeters of gap between pearls in a healthy string.
A long-standing mystery about ALS centers on the decadeslong time lag that allows a mutation present at birth to show up as disease only after 50 or 60 years. The Nature paper includes new twists on that piece of the puzzle.
Those tests pointed to RanGAP, a protein that normally acts as a sort of traffic cop, helping molecules move through “nuclear pores” and out into the cytoplasm of a cell. One reason the problems that arise in the C9 mutation don’t become an issue early in life is that pores become, in Lloyd’s words, “a little leaky over time.” Once that happens, RanGAP starts clumping up outside the nucleus, causing traffic tie-ups that prevent key bits of communication that it was able to facilitate back in its pre-leaky youth.
In Rothstein’s lab, researchers next looked for confirmation of Lloyd’s RanGAP clumping in brain tissue from an autopsy bank of brain tissue taken from ALS patients. They found it, fueling hope that the next research steps will lead to drugs or other therapies that can ease or bypass the clumping phenomenon and allow RanGAP to once again resume its role as the good traffic cop.
The Nature paper served up one more tantalizing, if preliminary, tidbit. In both fly cells and human stem cells, RanGAP clumping started to disappear when bits of RNA called oligonucleotides were added into cells with the C9 mutation. The oligonucleotides seemed to attach themselves to introns in ways that deactivated the problems on those elongated introns in the string of pearls.
“Between the genetic discoveries and using these cellular-based approaches to understanding the disease and developing therapies, it couldn’t be a more exciting time,” Rothstein says. The Lloyd and Rothstein labs have already set up a partnership with a pharmaceutical company interested in pursuing potential therapies, though any such development is still years away from human trials.
ALS clinicians often recommend that patients “lean into” the disease, preparing for its eventualities by taking proactive steps early on. It is much easier, for example, to get fitted for a wheelchair or motorized scooter before you actually need it or get used to technological options for communicating before the power of speech is altogether gone.
The Brands took this sort of approach. Late in 2014, they moved out of a stairway-filled house in Washington, D.C., and into a condo in nearby Arlington, Virginia, which they retrofitted with a number of special design features that are now coming in handy. Curtis has now lost the use of his hands, arms and legs. The Brands participated in the interview for this story over speakerphone because, while Curtis is still able to talk, it can be hard for a newcomer to make out all of his words without assistance from Judy.
Michael Tsun, too, is learning to seek out new ways to make the most of each day. He was devastated to give up his medical practice. It was nearly as difficult to give up golf. The interviews that Tsun did for this story were conducted by email, as he can no longer speak. Unlike Brand, Tsun still has pretty good functioning in his arms and legs.
He has found his way to new hobbies—photography, travel and cooking among them. Since his diagnosis, he and his wife have been to Hong Kong and China, visiting the home villages of family members. They have also been to Vietnam, Singapore and several countries in Europe.
“I really enjoy trying to capture local people in their environs” with the camera, he says. Both the Tsuns and the Brands follow the news on the latest ALS findings coming out of neurology laboratories, but neither is obsessive about it. Like most other patients, the two have also found their ways to strategies that, while still unproven, feel right for their individual journeys. Tsun gets regular acupuncture treatments. Brand followed a ketogenic diet when he was still eating on his own; he is now on a feeding tube.
As modern-day scientific endeavors go, Answer ALS has several unique qualities. It has more of a corporate aura than the standard academic endeavor, with ambitious milestones clearly laid out on a strict
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, but was instead "to see what... was going on" and because they "want in".
You can see it for yourself in the clip below - if you can manage to keep watching without ripping your own face off - but be warned that the video contains mature and, at times, offensive language.
Soon after this little discussion, Soulja Boy is asked whether or not Fortnite will be playable on his machine. He says, "yes, we’re working on it,” before quickly adding “not this one, on the next one you can”. Now, we'd understand why you might want Fortnite on your machine - it's still the world's biggest game and was even the most played Nintendo Switch game of 2018 in Europe - but it looks like that definitely won't be the case.
Now, please, will someone explain the concept of emulation to Soulja Boy and end this nonsense?
I'd love to understand what is going on inside this guy's head. Why os he doing this? How he plans to get away with it?
hes insane! you cannot sell something like this without it getting taken down.
Speaking of Soulja Boy, it’s pretty sad that the SiIvaGunner channel was taken down, in my opinion.
This all has to be an elaborate troll. It's the only sane explanation. There's no way an idiot can take it this far.
"If you're not caught up on your Soulja Boy video game console manufacturing news "
He did not manufacture anything, so this is misleading.
"actually just re-skins of Chinese emulators"
He did not even reskin them, so this is false. All indications are that he was just dropshipping them as is, with no other effort made on his part whatsoever (other than lying to promote them, if you can count that as "work").
So potentially if he finds a non-rooted Android device to dropship, the mobile version could run on it? Though he may need to get his store back online first, before considering what crazy mark up to apply to any such device.
Maybe now is the time to take Soulja Boy to a wonderful place filled with luxury rooms with padded walls, a nice comfy white coat with straps and most importantly - absolutely zero access to the internet, phone, camera or any other kind of communication with civilization.
He’s the rapper version of Del Boy except with none of the charm. He just flogs dodgy garbage. What a clown.
With all his money, he manages to look and sound so cheap.
@WarpSpawn U r soo rite! The whole thing is just lies throwing shade bc Soulja is making business moves. Haters gonna haters.
*The guy is trying to sell knock off consoles that have unlicensed roms on them.
What is Soulja Boy doing? Why's he doing it?
@G-Boy That's the guy that had all those video game OSTs right? How disappointing.
On the topic of This clown selling this hot garbage, I would've given him more credit if he actually manufactured and designed his own video game system. But nope just regurgitate hot chinese garbage like no tomorrow.
@WarpSpawn That's a bit harsh on @ryancraddock as I'm sure the "manufacturing" comment was just a joke. However, you are correct that none of the Soulja devices have been re-skinned. I believe one of the original Soulja handhelds received a sticker on the outside of the unopened box.. but everything else is just straight from China.
Whatever legal action that's been threatened, needs to take place. It's clear Soulja Boy doesn't care about/is too dumb to understand the law.
@JackEatsSparrows I am not sure if you read what I actually said there? I was in no way defending him, I was pointing out that he had made even less effort than the article suggested.
He is a blatant fraud and it is good that he has been stopped (for now at least). But if he finds something to dropship that can play a version of Fortnite (does such a thing exist?), he will no doubt be bleating about all the haters saying he could not "release" one that could play it.
@beazlen1 Couldn't have said it any better.
And Soulja Boy achieved again to be in the news cycle and become relevant for a couple of minutes.
Really, just stop giving this clown free promotion.
I am not sure of the sticker was a joke on the part of Madlittlepizel, as I have only seen that on one of his videos and it was comically badly applied.
"Soulja Boy Says His Next Console..." - why do these six words bring Hemingway of all people to my mind?
Seriously though does he need help? Like he can't be well mentally with all this.I am honestly worried about him.
He has been kissed by Toxic lip from Britney Spears.
@WarpSpawn I was pretending to be one of his twitter followers. I doubt Epic would ever take their products in the same building as Soulja after all this tomfoolery.
You tell ‘em Soulja Boy. Remember the blurred out Superman logos? Dude loves a good copyright.
When will this insanity end? I take it the legal big wigs are just making sure the case is airtight before serving him?
I'm hoping this is an episode from series 3 of Atlanta. Mainly because I want a series 3 of Atlanta.
@JackEatsSparrows Sorry, missed the joke.
I don't suppose for a second that they would ever collaborate with him or port it to a specific system for his sake, though I also doubt that they would be able to block it from being used on some random android device, that he might choose to resell.
But he still might need his store back up before that even becomes an issue.
@Bobb This is the mind of a psychopath.
No one outside USA knows this guy. This isn't news worthy.
Not everyone is as shallow as his fans.
@Tirza I had not heard of him as a rapper before this, though there is a fair amount of hilarity and eye rolling to be had with these recent events.
In a way he's clever because he's taken advantage of his fans and making money. Big lack in moral.
Or he is a moron and hasn't got a clue. He'll be on Big Brother in a few years.
I love how he's talking about "his dance" not being allowed in Fortnite due to copyright, but then he's talking about how Fortnite is going to be on his next console... and that's fine, right? Copyright only works one way, clearly. Words fail me.
It's usually smart but dishonest people who con idiots out of their money. Here we seem to have an idiot conning idiots out of their money. Well done.
@riChchestM Ooooh good shout. The accidental/fluke rap success turned "entrepreneur" would make a killer character. I would suggest you tweet this to DG but knowing his genius he's probably already knocking up an emmy award winning episode on just this topic. Im still getting over his "just because I can" Deadpool script excerpt.
Here's hoping Dreamcast Guy puts another hilarious rant video up on youtube about this.
The last one was hilarious because of how angry he got just to backtrack on everything in a follow up video.
I wonder if he went through with his threat to ban Soulja Boy on Twitter cause that would learn him!
Also Soulja Boy is an idiot and best thing to do is just ignore him.
@eltomo It is not clear whether or not he really is making much money out of this. I know he previously claimed revenue or unit sales (not clear which) in the millions but never substantiated this. When he did a video showing purported revenue of over $200k, one YouTuber spotted that the number of orders for the day he claimed he made this much was a paltry 7. So he probably placed one or more bogus orders to pad the numbers.
Can't we all just say no to Fortnite?
The Hard Times is a satirical website. That story was a joke.
This guy is f**king out of his mind.
Talk about being delusional or high beyond belief. You would think that his "friends" would tell him to stop talking about video games or better yet stop talking period.
Clearly Epic are just racist, doing all they can to stop a poor black businessman from succeeding.
Please stop giving this dude free publicity.
@Bobb Fame. Makes a man take things over. Keeps him loose, and hard to swallow. What you need, you have to borrow. Fame.
At some point Soulja Boy must have done some kind of dance move....Epic, steal that move and add it into Fortnite, or create a Soulja Boy skin and then swear that it's no relation to him!
Media should stop making news out of him.
It must be for attention.
The first words out of his mouth link all this to race by saying he's a black entrepreneur. What a horrible thing to try and taint people of colour with. There are lots of geniune black entrepreneurs out there, and they wouldn't recognise this venality as anything to do with them.
My guess is that he has an album coming out and is thinking of some strange ways to promote it and get
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a garnish—she referred to all of this as “James Gunn magic” to The Hollywood Reporter). As much as there doesn’t appear to be any outright conflict regarding the scripting timeline, the final WGA decision, or the ultimate prioritizing of Gunn’s authorship by Marvel, there is still plenty of murkiness regarding the authorship of the film.
This murky negotiation of writing credit makes writing about the film into a bit of a minefield. Take this Crave Online interview with Gunn as an example: as it was originally written, the story failed to mention Perlman at all, prompting an editor’s correction and apology. However, the correction itself almost goes too far based on what we know, as it suggests Gunn “wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman,” when the two never actually worked on the script at the same time. There’s no question the correction was necessary, as Perlman’s work on developing the concept for the film built a foundation for any work that followed (and was credited in a way that reflects this, if not even more), but at the same time would it be unfair to Gunn to create the impression that story and character material he personally developed and added to the story does not belong to him and him alone given that Perlman was not involved directly? And moreover, although Perlman and Gunn’s stories seem to overlap as it relates to their contributions to the end product, can we take Gunn’s word for it when it comes to which elements of the film belong to him exclusively, or is this just him consciously or unconsciously engaging in discourses of conspicuous authorship to ensure his contributions are foregrounded in coverage of the film?
I raise none of these points in an attempt to discredit Perlman; her status as the first woman credited on a Marvel film is enormously important, and will hopefully be the start of a trend for a company that has a production history problematically linked to broader narratives of gender and Hollywood. However, in writing about the film myself and reading writing about it—particularly Todd VanDerWerff’s review at Vox, where he takes pains to include Perlman in each nod to authorship—I found myself struggling with how to engage with the particulars of the film within these conversations. And this doesn’t even get into the larger question of how much autonomy any filmmaker—no matter how much they articulate their authorship—can have within the massive Marvel Cinematic Universe machine. Were the issues I had with the film’s structure a byproduct of Perlman’s original treatment that Marvel Studios insisted on maintaining even as Gunn took over? And do we then consider that to be outside of Gunn’s responsibility, or has his choice to take such strong authorship made any and all decisions into his responsibility as writer/director, even if their original authorship lies with Perlman’s contributions?
For a film that is often so enjoyable because of how uncomplicated it is compared to the overly-extended Marvel Cinematic Universe, reading about Guardians of the Galaxy has been a comparative minefield, albeit one that offers plenty of discussion of how we conceive of authorship in popular discourse around a piece of major studio filmmaking; it also makes a nice precursor for the Ant-Man conversation we’ll be having roughly a year from now.
If you think they film authorship question is a minefield have pity for those thinking about how to credit the authorship of the comic ideas it’s based on. The films credits have a line stating it’s based on the series by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, undoubtedly the most influential run conceptually, yet this was a series spinning out of an event where the first team up of Star-lord, Groot and Rocket was written by Keith Giffen (originator of the Rocket/Groot partnership though not “I Am Groot”), from an idea by Editor Bill Roseman. An idea that involved teaming up, dirty dozen style, disparate characters created over 5 decades by a myriad of authors and artists. Speaking of artists, both Abnett and Lanning are the writers no artist is credited specifically for the comics or designs, how do you credit them for influencing the films artists and pre-vizzers when each is tweaking and building on their predecessor or outsiders designs?
Also, the name originates from a completely different fictional comic team. Also, also, the characters in the film depart in many respects from those on the page.
I did notice a number of artists and writers given special thanks beyond the aforementioned “based on” credit but didn’t have time to see if everyone mentioned above or who i’d consider contributive was there. So I’m not surprised to see credit for the series or “Intellectual Property” (and thus authorship) given to the corporate owners Marvel in every review or article about this film by default, since it’s a lot more tricky than the usual Lee & Kirby(which has its own well-trodden popular discourse controversies).
The end credits do give a “special thanks” to a list of many comics writers and artists associated with the characters, including Jack Kirby (creator of Groot and Ronan, as well as most of the rest of the Marvel Universe) and Arnold Drake (writer on first Guardians comic book). The credits also note that Rocket Racoon was “created by” Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen and that Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and Thanos were “created by” Jim Starlin. The artists and writers who get a “created by” credit have reportedly reached some sort of legal agreement with Marvel/Disney whereas the others perhaps have not. The Kirby family especially is actively trying to assert Kirby’s authorship, most lately in a case they are trying to bring before the Supreme Court.
I’d like to throw this link here and suggest that figuring out the responsibility for any film script with more than one author is always difficult. I also think most people have very limited understandings of what different parties bring to a script.
And while I’m at it, it feels like screenplays in a different category. TV scripts are often written in a group fashion, with numerous people contributing at different stages, but also with those people more-or-less working together. Plays are mostly written by one or two people that retain a lot of control. Books can be written collaboratively, with drafts passed back and forth. But a screenplay will be written, and then given to someone else and rewritten (probably without a discussion). And then perhaps given to someone else, who rewrites it again. And then maybe it goes to someone who rebuilds the whole thing from the ground up. Scripts can go in a million different directions and it’s difficult to way what changes are minor tweaks and which are gamechangers. And this process almost without exception takes place out of public view, so that we only have self-serving and secondhand testimony afterwards to figure out what happened.
I don’t disagree with the premise of any of these observations, but one of the things that’s interesting to me about this situation is that we actually do know a fair bit because both parties involved have discussed it in so many outlets. Now, this is obviously self-serving to some degree, but there’s a pretty clear timeline established, and enough knowledge of Gunn’s personal style (and Perlman’s acknowledgment she doesn’t do comedy) that there is a space for delineation, if not clear delineation. More than in other cases where we see a shared screenplay credit (like with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, where Mark Bomback is credited alongside Rise co-writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver) with almost no context, the unique circumstances of the Marvel Writing Program mean that we have a clear line at which point the script became Gunn’s responsibility.
While we can take any specific claims with a grain of salt, I do think the sheer volume of information makes this a tougher case to just chalk up to “we’ll never know.” I say this not to try to discredit either writer, but rather to note that context shifts authorship, and we are not lacking in context in this particular case.
the only material relevant to any discussion of authorship of this, or any other film, are the scripts themselves, major editorial versions and the final distributed film.
Presumably these are what the WGA used to arrive at their determination.
Anything else, especially comments in interviews, are only speculation fuel.
That’s why, for me, this isn’t a discussion about whether or not the WGA decision is right or wrong: The decision is the decision, and allows both to claim authorship.
But that creates the court of popular discourse, which may be speculative, but is ultimately crucial to a film like this one. The fact is that authorship is a discursive construction and not a definitive fact, as evidence by Perlman and Gunn’s respective efforts to articulate their authorship, and by journalists writ large working to confront that authorship in often complicated ways. All parties’ respective choices in how to frame the authorship of this film are far more constitutive of “authorship” than the actual facts, at least for a larger viewing public, which is why there is on some level a conflict between the “And” as credited by the WGA (rather than “After,” for example, which would be more accurate but doesn’t fit into the logics of how screenwriting credits are given). But either way, it isn’t cut and dry based on the WGA arbitration, because that’s just one piece in the broader puzzle of shared and negotiated authorship.
I don’t think the ‘court of popular discourse’ has any real claim to jurisdiction in this matter – especially without any real evidence to
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with learning how to use the tools capably. I wanted to find a project that would require the students and the teachers to raise the bar. I wanted something that would require a combination of many of those skills that the students should be honing while at the middle school. I wanted something that the result of which, they would be proud to present to the public and something that would require a deeper awareness of local and world issues.. The activity should be self-directed enough that the teachers would serve as guides not as purveyors of information.
Enter Arthur Viens, team leader and social studies teacher for Team Vista at Kingswood Regional Middle School. Vista has always had a reputation for innovation but both Arthur and I had often discussed the fact that neither one of us had found that illusive ideal of computer technology integration. We agreed that video should probably be a part of it. We recognized that the subject matter would have to be something that the students would buy into and be interested in. We also wanted them to come away with an understanding of their chosen topic within the context of its importance on the world stage..
Serendipitously, we both received a flier for the C-Span Student Cam Competition. This appeared to be exactly what we were looking for. Was Arthur willing to go out on a limb and alter his curriculum in order to try something that looked like hard work but also appeared to be so promising? He was. Unfortunately, it became apparent that we would not be able do justice to this kind of unit in time to meet the contest deadline. We figured we could borrow the idea, create the curriculum and be ready to have our students participate in the C-Span contest next time around. We would have our own film festival this coming spring and show the final versions of the student videos there. We would also put them on the school website. The C-Span challenge was to create a video that each group of students felt was the most pressing issue that President Obama should address after taking office. Since we had started with this theme, we decided to stick with it.
First, we showed Arthur’s four classes the winners from past C-Span student entries. We discussed what video making techniques worked or didn’t work. We looked at the use of music to enhance the message. We showed the film “Stand By Me Playing For Change” as an example of this. We talked about the depth of research involved to create a compelling and coherent film. The students committed to subjects ranging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to abortion, gun control, animal abuse, and the war on drugs. We told the students that they would need to understand their subject thoroughly in order to persuade the president that their point of view was worth his attention. Once again we viewed more C-Span student entries keeping in mind that certain techniques were more effective than others. We also stressed the importance of works cited appearing at the end of their respective videos. Any pictures used in the videos would need proper permission or Creative Commons attribution. Flickr is very good source for images and the photographers are very easy to contact. No one had a problem granting permission to the students. Students could use C-Span Student Cam footage as well as video segments on United Streaming. We also encouraged the students to create their own footage. Music was either created in GarageBand or culled from free music sites that fit fair use guidelines. The final videos were edited in Windows Movie Maker. Sound tracks were also created in Audacity or Windows Movie Maker. Note Taking and script writing was done in Open Office. Conversion issues were pretty much solved by using the free program, Any Video Converter. As we progressed, it became obvious that YouTube also had a wealth of potentially useful programming.. The students were allowed to use YouTube on the condition that they could receive permission to use footage and/or music. Some students even contacted major recording artists to seek permission to use clips for their work. Some students did receive the go ahead. Using YouTube also presented us with some teaching moments. Not all YouTube content is following fair use guidelines. In such cases, the students had to learn to differentiate between what they could and could not use. They needed to also find out who actually held the rights to the material and proceed from there. Using YouTube actually provided the opportunity to discuss in depth the implications of fair use. Had we spoon fed the students with only pre-approved sources, these opportunities would not have presented themselves.
Dealing with the issues of what constitutes good research was perhaps the most important pedagogical outcome of this undertaking. We used the www. martinlutherking.org and Institute for Historical Review to acquaint students with examples of website that might not be what they appear to be. I am convinced that most of the students now understand that they need to carefully read any information they find on the web. As obvious as it may sound, this alone is a major accomplishment on the middle school level. My next initiative will be to encourage all of our teams to include instruction based on what Arthur and I have learned from the evolution of this project. As it turned out, the actual video editing, was the easiest part. By the time they started to use Movie Maker, they had planned their video in Inspiration and Open Office, accumulated their information, video clips, music, and works cited. The students did indeed work very independently. Arthur and I were kept very busy with questions and we were able to take on the role of guides. The questions were surprisingly good and the creativity and depth of the research were both impressive.
Most of the videos were very well done. Some followed our rubric more than others. The students can compare their video to the guidelines in the rubric to see where they succeeded and where they fell short. Evaluations did not stop there. Each class viewed their classmate’s work and, using the rubric, the students became film critics. Arthur and I also shared our thoughts in order to stimulate discussion. Some of the videos were of course better than others. What impressed us the most was that almost all the students were very engaged in the project. Most endeavored to truly increase their understanding of their chosen topic. Most used their creativity to give life to a multi-media presentation they could be proud of. The ability to design well-produced media may well be one of the most important skills that students can develop for future employment. In a recent article in the on line edition of “The Journal”, the results of a nationwide poll of registered voters was reported. Two out of three of the participants felt that students need to learn “computer and technology skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and teamwork and collaboration”. All of these were utilized in this assignment along with, reading, writing, organization, higher level thinking, and creativity. In fact, all of the thinking skills from Blooms Revised Taxonomy ranging from remembering, to understanding, to applying, to analyzing, to evaluating, to creating were used in the project. Aren’t these all abilities we should all be helping our students to cultivate?
Finally, we showed “Invisible Children” a very moving film on children soldiers in Northern Uganda. This was made by three amateur video-makers who were in their early twenties. Going to Africa and documenting the atrociousness that they witnessed was life changing for all three young men. The video progresses from an obvious niavite among the film makers into a highly moving series of interviews with the victims of daily violence in the Sudanese refugee camps. Our students were impressed both by the message of the video and by the fact that the boys, not all that much older than themselves, were able to create such an important piece of work. Judging from the student’s reflections, this film was life changing for many of them. They understood the power of visual media and they understood the need for involvement in global issues. Early on in the film, one of the video makers points out that,“media defines our lives and it shapes how we view life.” We will be doing a our students a great disservice if we do not provide them with the skills to understand and use technological media in an ethical, creative and meaningful way.
While watching the videos, I did pick up on two short comings. In some cases the students used acquired clips that should have been edited down. Perhaps next time we may need to consider putting a length limit on how long a clip should be. I also noticed that while the students were required to follow the MLA guidelines in creating a written works cited document, this information did not always appear as completely as it should have in the final credits in the video. There were occasional conflicts in the groups but in every case a solution was found and agreed upon.
Our final take. This project was worth the five weeks, off and on, that we devoted to it. The bar was raised and the students did themselves proud. It was hard work but this is what teaching and learning are all about. All of us, the students included, more than once lost track of time. That was because everyone was so engaged. We provided the tools and the time. The students took over from there. The ability to decipher and evaluate the vast amount of information on the Internet is crucial for success in the 21st Century. Last but not least, they now know how to save.
Equally important, video making, in this case, provided a hands-on, real world opportunity for the students to continue their mastery of social studies, language arts, and computer GLEs. Many of the skills stressed in those areas of study are needed in order to successfully complete a multimedia project such as this one. No less important is the mastery of visual literacy skills. As the film makers pointed out in “Invisible Children”, visual media is where we get much if not most of our information in the modern world. It also influences the way we think. In order to become informed citizens in the twenty first century students will need to know how to interpret and use visual media
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your book release!
Before we move on and take a closer look at "Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace", we'd like to introduce the driving forces behind this impressive volume to our readers.
How did the two of you meet, and how did the project come about?
Andi: I went to graduate school for jewelry design (no less) with a goal to create goth jewelry. I did do that and wrote a thesis on Baudelaire and melancholy and quickly realized I loved researching more than anything... researching 1980s goth to be specific. During my research, I felt that there wasn't enough on 1980s goth - there was plenty on 1990s through 2000s but the 80s seemed to be lacking. Why not do it myself? I then convinced Marloes, because of her blog "Now This is Gothic" to help me with the photo archive.
Marloes: Andi started talking to me on Tumblr about her interests in 80s gothic. We both had in mind we want to make a book about and we decided why not do it now? I’d not have done it on my own and thought of it as a good opportunity to use the research I already did out of own interest and for my blog.
When I unpacked your book, I was immediately impressed with the chosen format: In its size, the book looks quite similar to a vintage vinyl single record – literally an "outsider“ in terms of its look when being placed among its future fellows in one’s personal library, even though I have to admit I own quite the extensive collection.
Was this "musical“ size and vintage look intended from the beginning, or something that naturally evolved from the work-in-progress?
Marloes: We wanted a "luxury photo book"-size, but we slowly released that old photos can’t be spread out over 40cm by 30cm and that it wasn’t realistic. The publisher came up with this size without consulting us, it was decided for us, but I think the square actually was a suiting shape and size to work with. Also, because of the compact size the book is more affordable for customers. The choice for white and a minimalistic design were on purpose and a special wish of mine – I wanted the book to look very different from all those cliché black goth books with dark imagery.
Andi: My intentions when beginning the book was to make something as visually beautiful as Valerie Steele's Gothic: Dark Glamour as she is an inspiration of mine. However, it turned out differently and I'm happy with the result. The white contrasts well against other goth books.
With this book, your main focus remains set on the nursery ground of the post punk and goth movement, and follows its evolution from a kind of local community club phenomena in the late 70s to a commercial mass frenzy, "gothic for the masses", in the early 90s. More than 30 years later, many of the protagonists from this golden era have literally plunged into darkness or, in their extreme, disappeared into the other world.
Was it difficult to locate the last remaining witnesses of these times and places, get them to speak about the past and even convince them to open up the archives of their youth to you?
Andi: Yes, it was very difficult... this is one of the main reasons why the project took so long to complete. Gathering high quality images from the 1980s was no easy task. For every 10 requests we got one - needless to say, there were many dead ends with photo gathering. However, when we did receive an amazing photo, it was like a tiny miracle happened!! The strangest part, and perhaps a real show of age difference, was that many original goths didn't own or know how to use a scanner.
Marloes: Their goth youth are not their number one priority these days and even though they were interested and wanted to help and send you stuff, they didn’t get around to it. And yes, there were also some (obscure) bands that I was not able to trace back in time or via internet which is a shame.
You must have had hard times choosing which authentic materials to use in the end. Besides the first generation goths and their personal treasury chests, which sources did you use, which obstacles did you have to overcome on your way – and how long did it take you to compile it all in the end?
Andi: We also sourced photographers that had documented the scene, store owners such as Manic Panic's Tish & Snooky and NOIR Leather, authors, band members and even designers like Nettwerk designer Steven R. Gilmore. My life motto is "It doesn't hurt to ask" and in this case, it worked a lot of the time. It took 2 years of interviewing and about 6 months of writing to synthesize all the material I gathered. The way it came together was quite magical.
Marloes: Technical faith decides for you: lots of things don’t make it in the book because they aren’t high quality enough to get printed in that size.
The assortment of winklepickers on the last pages of the book appears like a cabinet of curiosities to me – you chose to present them like pieces of art in a museum, pictured prominently against a white background, while original clothing from that time isn’t staged like that and remains exclusive to the original photographs only.
Why did the shoes need have to have a chapter of their own?
Marloes: I never wanted the shoes to be at that prominent spot in the book, but only merged in a style/clothing chapter. That the photos were photographed like a catalogue type of way, was planned though. I like the minimalist way to display and I also think the shoes are so very typical 'goth' for the 80s version of goth there had to be more than 2 photos of them in the book for sure.
Andi: The idea of having mini sections was something planned for a while and the shoes were something we had obtained. Everyone loves winklepickers and I think it's one of the most recognizable attributes of original goth style but they are otherwise hard to see in photographs because they are on the feet!
With the dawning of the 80s, a vivid culture of goth-toned festivals, underground magazines and even music videos had developed. Why did you decide to only briefly touch upon these events (even early festivals like Equinox, London 1983), and remain focused on the club scene instead?
Andi: We touched upon a few aspects of the festival scene and included some pictures in as well. But I felt like, from my research, goths that I interviewed really found home in the club scene since it was a place to gather often. Clubs were the place where they found others to relate to... sure, some did mention festivals but there weren't festivals around the world like there were clubs.
Marloes: Decisions like this have to do with which material is available in a period of 2 research years. I planned a section on the "Dominion" video by The Sisters of Mercy, but that didn’t find its way through because it was hard to find photographs. The interview with the director of the video for this section also didn’t make the book because of shortage in supporting photo and fact-material. I wanted a photo section of Pandora’s Box festival (Rotterdam, NL) or Nosferatu Festival (Denmark) but these photos were hard to acquire. For British goths it might feels like that we left out so many of their events, but the book isn’t just about England.
The book is a marvellous montage; visual puzzle pieces of the part are set against the fragmented, spoken word. Taken from the visual richness of more than 200 pages, could you choose, name and describe one quotation and one picture that are your personal favourites from this volume, and why?
Marloes: Thanasis Zlatanos of Nekropolis, the man with the synth photographed at a greek temple – it kind of x-rays a more raw and down to earth postpunk style. At some point Zin-Francois from Madame Edwarda says their [Japanese] version of goth wasn’t different from the Western (British) version, except that they sung in Japanese. I disagree, since I believe that for instance the rhythm of your language already influences the way you compose.
Goth is dead, long live the Goth: When it comes to the music, looks and events of today’s goth community and its state of mind, what are your personal thoughts on these implementations of the original spirit, and do you think it will possibly be reborn somewhere, sometime?
Andi: From an American perspective, it's hard to see a lot of spirit from my personal experience. There is a small resurgence of bands and kindred spirits out there who love and live the music but there is a lack of DIY. In the final chapter of the book, I (and others) say that it's too easy to go to a store and find that "goth look"... however, I do know people who make the commitment to the subculture. Goth is a commitment and it's not quite prevalent in the US visually. I do see it more often in Europe and South America. Sadly, I do not think it will be reborn in the same way - our daily lives are way too busy and the internet has basically ended subcultures altogether. Many think that just wearing black constitutes one as a goth - hence the "healthgoth" trend.
Marloes: The original spirit - be cool, dress to impress and do-it
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during this period of waiting for a trial.
The Judge always asks each person if he or she wants to make a statement. Most decline to say anything. This past week one of the few women said, "Si, Yo quiero decir algo." I could barely see her from my seat in the back of the courtroom. She was soft-spoken and short in a black skirt and dark blouse. "It is not right that I am detained. I haven't seen my mother in fifteen years nor my three brothers (born in the USA) that I had never met." Silence and then, the judge asks her if she would like to change her plea to not guilty and ask for a trial. She hesitates and the judge asks her to confer with her attorney and to decide before the end of this Streamline session.
It is as the lawyer said, it is immoral. Why are we making this woman have a criminal record for entering the United States to see her family? Most of the people that I have met in Tucson - at detention centers, at shelters for women and children on humanitarian parole or at Operation Streamline - the majority are trying to reach their families. We are criminalizing family reunification and because there is no longer a temporary work program, men who travelled north years ago to work under the "bracero" program or who entered the country without documents when it was a civil offense, not a criminal one, now are stuck in the USA and cannot return home.
The photo below is of the CCA - privately run detention center in Eloy, Arizona. I visited three women there last Friday, March 20th behind the barbed wire and many check points. It appears to be a prison although it is called a detention center. I will write more in my next blog about the women that I met there and their heart-wrenching stories.
The Mexican woman who told the judge that it was not correct to have detained her - has somewhat of a happy ending. Her attorney explained to the magistrate that her mother was recently a U.S. citizen and had petitioned for her daughter to join her in the USA. The judge gave her a new date to appear before Operation Streamline in order to provide time to ascertain if she could stay. I will not be in the court to hear the outcome of this case, but at least her voice was heard and there is the possibility that she can remain with her mother and brothers.
All of the stories are heart-breaking or opening up my heart to understand why people come. Why? A friend asked, because they want to be with family. Despite the media attention to job seekers and economic reasons why people leave - all if that is true, but to me, the bottom line, is la familia.
"Mexico is our neighbor," Michael G.Ronstadt (younger brother of Linda) said at the Common Ground on the Border event last week. For my fellow Oregonians, look at this map. If we lived in Oregon before 1850 Mexico literally would have been our neighbor. Someone asked me recently, "Pat, what do you think about immigration or crossing borders?" Well, let me share a few quotes I heard this past week at the Common Ground event from a cultural anthropologist, Maribel Alvarez, University of Arizona..
"BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other." Ambrose Pierce.
Maribel Alvarez shared some interesting facts about the border - especially the relationship between immigration and the global economy.
FACT #!: Border is 2000 miles long including four U.S. states and six Mexican states. There are three natural barriers: the Rio Grande, Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts. In 1996 Operation Gatekeeper "militarized" the border crossings at El Paso and San Diego. That action de facto closing the borders in these two cities, created the "funnel effect" that pushed people into desert crossings. The rationale was that the desert would be a natural deterrent. One can imagine the conversation at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Who will cross the desert? Only desperate people without options or hope.
THE WALL DIVIDES NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO FROM NOGALES, ARIZONA.
FACT #2: USA/MEXICO border is the most frequently crossed international border. 12,000 trucks cross daily bringing food to the USA. 350 million people cross legally annually. Only one million cross illegally or without papers.
FACT #3: ECONOMY- USA is Mexico's number one economic partner. Mexico is the USA' number two economic partner. $795 million is traded daily between the two countries.
Migration, the act of moving from one place to another in search of a better life or even just for survival itself, is a natural part of the human condition.
A week ago Sunday I joined the Italian delegation and local/national folks to walk the migrant memorial trail south of Green Valley, Arizona. One of the local Samaritans led us on the walk. Several years ago she and her neighbors found human bones while out walking their dogs. Each time they called the Pima County Sheriff and Medical Examiner who came out to collect the bones and attempt to identify the remains.
One set of the bones was that of an adolescent - Laurie, the Samaritan and her partner and neighbor built crosses at each of the three sites. It was a rough climb - in fact, I took a very undignified fall but was helped up by a friend and continued to the memorial sites. It was very quiet in the desert, the wind blowing through the cactii and ocotillo and an occasional sound of a bird. We stood silently thinking of whose father or brother or mother might have lain undetected in the desert until only their bones remained. The cross says Presente which many Central Americans say at funerals as a way of remembering the person who is no longer with them.
At the comedor/cafeteria the next day in Nogales, Sonora I saw another cross hanging above the sink. It was covered with rosaries that the migrants had hung over the cross. I am not sure if this was for a blessing for a future border crossing or a thanks for having been found in the desert even though deported back to Mexico.
Not all Migrants are Roman Catholic but most from Latin America grow up in a Catholic culture. We are now in the season of Lent - a time of reflection and repentance. At a press conference for Rosa Robles, the Mexican woman living in Sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church, her pastor called on President Obama and the Head of Homeland Security and ICE to repent - or as she stated, "It is OK to change your mind and heart and to let Rosa go home."
Look at her work and think of all the migrants who left their clothing, food, rosaries, and shoes and yes, some of them their lives in the desert.
It is freezing cold in the open air shelter, El Comedor, a Jesuit run program on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexican border in Nogales, Sonora. It is a very small space with long tables for the “guests” to sit. A Jesuit novice explains that program. Two hot meals are served at 9AM and 4PM daily to migrants who either have just been deported or are waiting to cross. The “guests” come in, sit down and are served a meal by volunteers – No food lines here. It begins to rain hard outside – gusts of wind blow into the space through cracks in the heavy plastic walls. I move my feet to try to stay warm.
Volunteers from the Samaritans and No More Death groups come daily with cell phones for the migrants to call family members and provide health packets for the guests as well as engage in conversation. I ask our host if any of the Arizona Congressional delegation has visited this project. No, he replies. “Others who come to this place have their hearts broken wide open.” I think How do we help President Obama and others in Congress have their hearts broken open? When a heart breaks open, then something new can happen. How do I/we help others have these heart breaking open experiences?
I am working as a volunteer in service sponsored by the United Church of Christ (national office) and the Southwest Conference of the United Church of Christ. I am on this one- day visit to the border with a small delegation of international partners, national and local staff persons. The international partners are from Italy – the Protestant Federation of Churches in Italy and a professor from the Italian Waldensian Church, Massimo and Paolo. They recently opened a migrant program, Mediterrean Hope in Sicily and Lampadusca, a small island where migrants crossing the Meditarrean Sea are housed. http://www.globalministries.org/mediterranean_hope_newsletter_february_2015. Rev. Randy Mayer, pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd UCC in Sahuarita, Arizona and a long-time immigration activist has organized the trip. Rev. Linda Jaramillo, executive Minister of Justice and Witness Ministries from Cleveland, Rev. John Doerhauer of the SW Conference, Tyler Connolley, Immigrant Care Coordinator with the SW Conference of the UCC and myself are the other participants. http://www.ucc.org/immigration_immersion_italian_churches_03022015.
Next Stop: La Roca, a Central American migrant shelter run by a local FourSquare Gospel pastor and his church in Nogales, Arizona. It literally is built on a rock with cave-like separate dorm rooms for women and men
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there's an adaptation cost in acquainting yourself with all that's new. This is true when switching from a PC to a Mac, and also a Mac to an iPad.
Before the iPad Pro debuted in late 2015, transitions from Mac to iPad were extremely scarce. The iPad's hardware and software were both far too limited to compel many switchers. The software has advanced since that time – thanks to Split View, drag and drop, and Files, it's far easier to work on an iPad than before – but there's plenty more progress still to be made. The hardware, however, is where the iPad has shined most, especially with the newest iPad Pros.
Compare the iPad Pro's hardware to Apple's modern Mac lineup and the difference is striking. The iPad has Face ID, while Macs are stuck with Touch ID; the iPad has a Liquid Retina display with ProMotion, and Macs are still Retina only; the iPad Pro benchmarks comparably to the most powerful portable Macs; iPads can include LTE, while Macs cannot; and where Mac keyboards are vulnerable to specs of dust, the iPad's Smart Keyboard Folio can endure any crumbs you throw at it – plus, with the iPad you can choose the keyboard that's best for you. To top off all these advantages, the iPad Pro is also more affordable than most Macs.
Software limitations aside, the iPad clearly has a lot going for it; the iPad Pro is a more attractive Mac alternative than ever before. But moving to the iPad still involves some growing pains. The longer you've used a traditional computer, the harder an iPad transition can be. There are a few key things, however, that can help make your iPad adoption a success.
Cloud storage is the only sane way to maintain files on the iPad. While many apps can save data locally to your device, that method doesn't work at all like storage on a traditional computer – it's not the default, instead it's a niche, largely legacy feature. For the most seamless, pain-free file experience, the cloud is the way to go.
There's no shortage of cloud storage options on the iPad, and your only requirement should be picking a service that integrates with iOS' Files app. The default option is iCloud Drive, which comes built-in as part of iOS; alternately, you can download apps for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or any other storage provider you prefer. In some cases you may even want to mix and match services – as long as you use Files, separate storage providers essentially just act as folders in the overarching Files ecosystem.
Once all your documents are in the cloud, you can browse and search for them in Files just as you might in the Mac's Finder or Windows' File Explorer. The biggest difference to note between those systems is that the iPad doesn't offer much control of which files are stored offline. You can download documents on-demand in Files, and they'll stay offline for a time, but at any given point iOS may decide that it needs that storage space back, and suddenly those offline files are back to cloud-only. Many apps for third-party services have their own offline storage methods that are more dependable, but generally speaking, the iPad's file system is built to depend on an Internet connection.
The average iPad adopter benefits from a history of experience with the iPhone, providing a leg up when learning Apple's tablet because the vast majority of iOS works the same across both devices. There are, however, a few key iPad systems that are especially important to familiarize yourself with: the dock, multitasking, and Files.
The iPad's dock used to be just like the iPhone's: namely, a holding place for a handful of apps that's available across all your home screens. Starting with iOS 11, though, the dock on iPad became much more powerful. The modern dock can now hold up to 15 apps, depending on your display size; it can be accessed not only from the home screen, but also from within any app via a short swipe up from the bottom of the screen; and finally, it's the most convenient way to engage the iPad's multitasking setups. Your dock should be loaded with the apps you use most, and any apps you use in Split View often. Once your dock set up is complete, avoid the urge to constantly go back to the home screen to switch apps, and train yourself to invoke the dock first instead.
The iPad is a tremendous tool for focus, with its one-app-at-a-time philosophy a helpful aid in both work and leisure contexts. That said, there are definitely times when viewing a single app can be a drawback rather than a benefit. For such occasions there's the iPad's multitasking system, which enables working in two apps at once with Split View, keeping a third app close at hand via Slide Over, and watching video or making FaceTime calls using Picture in Picture.
The way you engage Picture in Picture is simple: just hit the PiP icon on compatible videos. Activating Split View or Slide Over, on the other hand, is a lot less obvious. Each mode requires physically selecting an app from your dock, then moving it elsewhere on-screen: either on top of your current app, which loads the new app in Slide Over, or to the left or right edge of your current app, which creates a side-by-side Split View. Neither of these methods are discoverable in the slightest, but once you get the hang of them, they feel more natural than you'd expect.
Slide Over and Split View are most easily engaged with apps from the dock, but you can also pull in apps for multitasking via the Search screen. A quick Command–Space keyboard shortcut activates Search, where you can start typing an app's name, then upon seeing its icon appear, simply touch the icon and drag it away – Search will immediately be dismissed so you can place the app in Split View or Slide Over.
If you're an iPhone user you likely already have Files installed on your phone, but chances are you've never used it. That will need to change if you want to get the most out of your iPad. As I alluded to when covering cloud storage providers, Files is the glue that can bind them all together. While it's possible to manage your documents from a cloud provider's native app, in most cases you're better off using Files because of the system benefits it offers.
Files enables accessing documents from different cloud sources all in one location, which you can't do any other way. It's also the only place you'll find data for apps that depend on iCloud Drive – such as Shortcuts, iWork, Pixelmator, and iA Writer. A growing number of apps base their entire user interface on Files by adopting its document browser, so choosing Files as your sole document source will make for a more consistent experience across the OS. All things considered, since you're almost guaranteed to need Files for some of your document management, it makes sense to just go all-in on the app.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when using a new computer is assuming everything will work like your old computer. Just as PC-to-Mac switchers face their own pain points – like using Command for keyboard shortcuts rather than Control – so are there challenging transition costs when moving to the iPad.
Being a master of the iPad's dock, multitasking system, and Files app will move you a long way toward getting the most out of your device. Nonetheless, additional frustrations will surely pop up that require adapting the way you work. For example, moving data between different apps is a common computing function, but you may need to change the way you do that on the iPad. There are a host of options at your disposal – drag and drop, the share sheet, apps' export functions, the clipboard, and more – but you'll need to discover through trial and error the best tool for each use. Additionally, certain tasks might be overly repetitive on iOS at first, but you'll discover that in many cases those make prime candidates for shortcuts. It's a learning process, and the more you lean into that, the quicker you'll feel at home on the iPad.
In the early days of your iPad use, you will undoubtedly be tempted to run back to a Mac for certain tasks. Don't do it. Part of embracing change on the iPad is resolving to stick with the iPad through its learning curve. When you hit a wall and don't know what to do, rather than jumping quickly to the machine that you're familiar with, stay on iPad and find the solution. Those early speed bumps will make way for a much smoother road in the future, but only if you push through. If you abandon the iPad every time a task seems difficult, you'll simply continue encountering those same frustrations over and over again. But if you stick it out and discover how to accomplish those tasks with your iPad, you'll be investing in an easier future for yourself.
The iPad isn't for everyone. Depending on your needs, it may not be the best tool for you. But there's no denying that it can be a successful Mac alternative for some – myself included.
An iPad Pro has been my primary computer for over three years, and the device has continually grown more capable during that time. There are still some things a Mac does better, but the iPad's trade offs are worth it for me. The more time you spend with the device, the more you may learn its weaknesses, but the same is true of its strengths.
As with any computer transition, moving to the iPad isn't cost-free; it requires a healthy dose of time, and the patient commitment to power through pain points. If you're willing to think different about how a computer should work, though, you may just
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to stay with the French and was told he would not but after he recovered he must live with the Delaware and become one of them. When he could get out of bed he made his way around with the aid of a crutch.
Meanwhile, General Braddock and his army had left Williamsburg following the road cut by the Virginians the year before. They were an impressive sight to behold. A long column of British regulars, 1,750 in all, dressed in bright red tunics, white helmets and sashes with steel bayonets flashing in the sun. They were followed by 450 Virgina Militia dressed in blue. Interspersed in the column were cannon and howitzers, 600 pack horses and 175 wagons carrying supplies and tools. All of this to supply the newly conquered fort and more.
The colonies were hemmed in by mountain ranges which made expansion impossible. But the British had ambitions to do just that and they had a plan. Braddock was to take Fort Duquesne and quickly move on to Fort Niagara. Sir William Johnson was to take Crown Point. William Shirley Sr., Governor of Massachusetts, was made a Major General and was to take Fort Beausejour. This all on the pretense that the French had invaded British territory. It seemed impossible that the plan should fail. The colonies had yet to see an army the size of Braddock’s and the English had population figures on their side. The total white population of New France, from Quebec to Louisiana, was just under 80,000. The British on the other hand had a population of 1.6 million including 200,000 slaves.
So Braddock headed for Fort Duquesne with his superior army and his arrogance intact. He had little respect for the colonial militia and even less for First Nation warriors. Benjamin Franklin, who was the postmaster of Pennsylvania at the time, came to see him at Williamsburg. He spent five days with Braddock and warned him of the forest warfare practiced by the First Nations suggesting that he should consider new battle tactics. Braddock replied “These savages may, indeed, be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia, but upon the King’s regular and disciplined troops, sir, it is impossible that they should make an impression.” Braddock was about to get the shock of his life!
By the mid 18th century the Ohio valley was a hotbed of activity. The population was made up of many First Nations villages and towns. They included many Delaware, Shawnee, Miami and Wyandotte communities with a few roaming Ottawa and Iroquois bands. The English called the Iroquois in the area Mingoes. British traders had set up trading houses at the larger First Nations’ towns. But the English had more in mind than just trade with the First Nations. They wanted their land for settlement.
They had signed the Treaty of Albany with the Iroquois in 1722 that marked out a line dividing their territory with the colony of Virgina. That line basically followed the Blue Ridge mountains. However, Virginian settlers soon began crossing the Blue Ridge and squatting on First Nations’ territory. Many paid with their lives and by the 1740’s the Iroquois were so frustrated with their allies, the British, that they were ready to declare all out war on Virgina. In 1743 the British paid the Iroquois 100 pounds stirling for any territory claimed by them in the Shenandoah Valley. The following year under the treaty of Lancaster the Iroquois sold the British all of the Shenandoah Valley for 200 pounds of gold. At the Treaty of Logstown in 1752 the Iroquois recognized English trading rights in all of their territory southeast of the Ohio River.
The French saw the Ohio River Valley as French territory by way of discovery by La Salle and by way of French presence in the territory for a hundred years previous. They saw all this British activity as a violation of the treaty of Utrecht, which at best gave the British only the right to trade with First Nations in their own territory. The British crown complained to the French court in Paris, but this was a long process.
Lieutenant-Governor Dinwiddie of Virgina believed the Ohio Territory belonged to the Colonies under Virgina’s original charter. The boundaries in the charter were more than vague so he extended the northern border to at least include the Ohio River and its tributaries. On top of all the activity around trade the English wanted this territory for settlement. In order to facilitate this settlement the Ohio Company was formed. It was an association given a grant of 500,000 acres in the Ohio Valley by the British crown providing they could establish 100 families, build a fort and maintain a garrison there within seven years.
The French were not about to sit idly by and let the British take over the territory. Officially the British Crown complained to the French Court at Paris. Unofficially the French were about to take action to reassert their ownership of the territory that gave them unfettered access from Quebec to Louisiana. Duquesne, governor of New France, ordered a French presence in the territory backed by a series of French forts.
The French landed an expedition at P’resqu Isle, today’s Erie, Pennsylvania, on the south shore of Lake Erie. It had a fine natural harbor so they build a fort here then cleared a roadway of only a few leagues to Riviere Aux Boeufs today called French Creek. They built another fort here calling it Fort Le Boeuf.
The First Nations of the territory saw an opportunity to play one European nation against the other. Although they had a trading alliance with the British they had always been more fully allied with the French. They all went out of their way to help the French move the large amount of heavy supplies to garrison two forts. The only ally the British had in the area that was fully committed to them were the Mingoes. Shortly after Fort Le Boeuf was built a Mingo chief named the Half King arrived and ordered the French to leave the territory. But the French were arrogant and haughty laughing the Half King out of the fort. He was mortified and full of rage against the French. They had made an enemy that were sure to hear from again.
In the fall of 1753 Legardeur de St. Pierre arrived to command Fort Le Boeuf. He had just settled in expecting a long and monotonous winter when a stranger arrived on horseback along with the fall rains mixed with wet snow. He was tall, young and brash a mere youth of 21 years. He was accompanied by a much older man, several others with the pack horses backed by the Half King and several warriors. He carried a letter from Dinwiddie introducing him and containing orders for the French to leave British territory immediately. His name was George Washington.
St. Pierre afforded the young Virginian Major every courtesy and after studying the document he had presented he replied by letter to Dinwiddie that he would forward his correspondence to Duquesne for consideration. In the meantime he could only remain at his post and follow the orders of his general.
Washington struggled through extreme winter conditions to return to Virgina. He finally arrived at Williamsburg by mid January and gave his report to Dinwiddie. It not only included St. Pierre’s letter of response but the information given him by some French soldiers at a French outpost at the mouth of French Creek that the French had every intention of taking the country by force and nothing would deter them.
By 1750 the Saulteax Ojibway living in the St. Clair region had expanded. The Ojibwa from Swan Creek expanded across Lake St. Clair and up the Thames River. They had established a village near present day London and one at the mouth of Kettle Creek on Lake Erie.
The Ojibway living at the mouth of the Black River, at the foot of Lake Huron, had expanded both east and west. They had established villages on Bear Creek as well as the mouth of the Au Sable River in Ontario. They also expanded west establishing villages at Nepessing Lake and along the Flint River in Michigan. Animikeence or Little Thunder was their leading war chief at this time.
Under the Treaty of Utrecht the English claimed they had gained the right to trade with the First Nation allies of the French from the upper lakes. Although the French contested this point if was a certain fact that it did not give them the right to set up trading posts in Ohio country. However, they did just that.
British traders moved into the Ohio Valley setting up posts along it as well as its tributaries. They did this under the pretense that it was Iroquois land and as sovereign over the Iroquois they had the right to expand into this new territory. The French claimed it as part of New France, discovered by La Salle and there had been a French presence there for decades.
None of this was really true. Ohio country was First Nations lands belonging to the Miami, Delaware and Shawnee nations. The French didn’t really discover the territory as it was never lost nor were the British ever the Iroquois’ sovereigns. Be this as it may the French forged ahead with a plan to oust the English.
Monsieur Celoron, major commandant at Detroit was to take a detachment of French soldiers supported by a large force of First Nation allies and clear the region of English traders. The idea was to arrest the traders, confiscate their goods and make the Miami understand that although they could go to Albany to trade with the English under no certain terms could they allow the English to establish themselves in French territory.
The plan failed miserably. The Saulteax refused to endorse it saying that because of
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provide a method for maintaining a phase-locked signal upon absence or interruption of an incoming reference signal.
a controller which calculates an average number of phase adjustments performed by the primary PLL circuit for a given time period and generates a secondary control signal in accordance with the average number, the secondary control signal being used by the apparatus to generate the synchronized output signal during a holdover mode.
the method generates a synchronized output signal in accordance with the secondary control signal during a holdover mode.
The PLL apparatus of the present invention includes a primary all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) circuit having a phase detector, a digital loop filter, and a DCO. When a reference signal is received (normal operating mode), the phase detector determines phase differences between the incoming reference signal and the loop output signal. The digital loop filter generates control signals based on such phase differences. The control signals from the digital loop filter cause the DCO to adjust the loop output by performing a phase-hopping operation. During this period, an accumulator monitors the phase-hopping events performed by the DCO. A series of consecutive phase-hopping accumulation values are stored.
An average of a predetermined number of phase-hopping accumulation values is used to generate secondary control signals which control the phase-hopping operation of a second DCO during both a normal operating mode and a holdover mode, or which control the DCO of the primary ADPLL loop during the holdover mode. In this device, the phase adjustments during the holdover mode are performed based on previous normal operating mode phase-hopping operations and thereby provide a stable output signal with minimal drift. Furthermore, all circuits of this PLL apparatus can be implemented with off the shelf digital components.
Further scope and applicability of the present invention will become more readily apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. It should be understood, however, that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart, according to the present invention, which illustrates a method for generating secondary control signals used to control a phase-hopping operation.
The present holdover mode apparatus/method is particularly applicable to an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) circuit such as that previously disclosed in co-pending applications Ser. Nos. 08/555,941 and 08/816,249, filed Nov. 13, 1995 and Mar. 13, 1997 respectively, which are each incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. Although described in the context of the ADPLL circuit set forth in these co-pending applications, the holdover method/apparatus described herein is equally applicable to other types of ADPLL circuits as will be apparent to one having ordinary skill in the art.
The previously disclosed ADPLL circuit illustrated in FIG. 2 includes four main components: a digital control oscillator (DCO) 20, a digital loop filter 30, a phase detector (PD) 40, and a /N counter 50. The /N counter 50 receives a loop output signal fout from the DCO 20 and adjusts the frequency of fout to correspond to the frequency of an incoming reference signal. The PD 40 receives two incoming signals, fin and fout /N, which respectively represent an input reference signal and the fed-back output of the DCO 20, and compares fin and fout /N to detect any phase differences. The PD 40 outputs signals UP and DN which signify phase differences between fin and fout /N.
As shown for example in FIG. 3A, when fin and fout /N are in phase the positive edges of these signals occur at the same time, thereby creating a zero level output from the PD 40. As illustrated in FIG. 3B, when the positive edge of the reference signal fin leads the positive edge of the fed-back output signal fout /N, these signals are out of phase, and the UP portion of the PD 40 output is pulsed to set the PD 40 in a state which signifies a positive phase error. As illustrated in FIG. 3C, when the positive edge of fin lags the positive edge of fout /N, these signals are again out of phase, and the DN portion of the PD 40 output is pulsed to set the PD 40 in a state which signifies a negative phase error.
The output signals UP and DN from the PD 40 are sent to the digital loop filter (LF) 30 which operates in conjunction with the DCO 20 to adjust the output of the ADPLL circuit. When the total pulse width of the UP signal output from PD 40 is greater than that of the DN signal, the frequency of the loop output will be increased (i.e., sped up). When, on the other hand, the total pulse width of the UP signal is smaller than that of the DN signal, the frequency of the loop output will be reduced (i.e., slowed down).
The digital LF 40 may consist of, for example, a K-counter having both an up counter and a down counter which together allow the k-counter to generate a "carry" output (CA) and a "borrow" output (BO). The CA and BO signals generated by the digital LF 30 are output and received by the DCO 20. When the DN output of the PD 40 is active, this enables the down counter of the digital LF 30 to decrease a count value maintained by the K-counter. When, on the other hand, the UP output from the PD 40 is active, this enables the up counter of the digital LF 30 to increase the count value maintained by the K-counter. Therefore, when the digital LF 30 is in a state of "underflow" as a result of the counting operations of the up and down counters, a "borrow" pulse is generated for signal BO. On the other hand, when the digital LF 30 is in a state of "overflow" as a result of the counting operations performed by the up and down counters, a "carry" pulse is generated for signal CA.
The DCO 20 receives the CA and BO signals from the Digital LF 30, and further receives a local clock signal fc. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the DCO 20 may be configured to include three main components: a delay line 24 having L delay stages, an UP/DN Counter 26, and a multiplexer 22. The delay line 24 receives the local clock signal fc and, in the example illustrated in FIG. 4, has sixteen delay stages D1 -D16 (L=16) which together generate sixteen phase-different clock signals C1 -C16. Each of the sixteen phase-different clock signals C1 -C16 is sent to the multiplexer 22. This series of phase-different clock signals C1 -C16 allow the DCO 20 to implement a phase-hopping action which compensates for phase errors detected by the PD 40.
As illustrated in FIG. 5, "borrow" pulses of signal BO cause the DCO 20 to select a phase-different clock signal among C1 -C16 to delay the loop output signal fout. On the other hand, "carry" pulses on signal CA cause the DCO 20 to select a local clock signal from C1 -C16 which advance the loop output signal fout.
In the specific example illustrated in FIG. 5, a BO pulse initially directs the multiplexer 22 to select a phase-lagging signal Ci+1 so that fout is slowed down. As a subsequent phase error is detected in the opposite direction, a CA pulse directs the multiplexer 22 to select phase-leading signal Ci so that fout is sped up. In this way, each time the BO pulse forces the multiplexer to select a phase-lagging local clock, the loop's output is delayed by 1/L cycle. Likewise, each time the CA pulse forces the multiplexer to select a phase-leading local clock, the loop's output is advanced by 1/L cycle. Accordingly, 16 phase hopping events in the phase-leading direction will cause the loop's output to advance by 1 Hz, and the same number of phase hopping events in the phase-lagging direction will cause the loop's output to be delayed 1 Hz.
The UP/Dn counter 26 of the DCO illustrated in FIG. 4 accepts the CA and BO signals from the digital LF 30 and outputs an address to multiplexer 22, to thereby select a corresponding phase-different clock from the set of phase different clocks C1 -C16 provided by the delay line 24.
FIG. 6 illustrates an apparatus, according to the present invention, for maintaining an in-phase output even when the incoming reference signal fin is interrupted or absent. This apparatus includes a primary ADPLL circuit 110 having components such as those illustrated in FIG. 2, and further includes components which maintain an in-phase output signal during a period when the incoming reference signal fin has been interrupted. Therefore, the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 6 is able to function accurately in both a normal operating mode and a holdover mode.
The primary ADPLL circuit which generates a phase-adjusted loop output signal fout is labelled 110 and includes a phase detector (PD) 116, a digital loop filter (LF) 114, a first digital control oscillator (DCO) 112a, and an N/ counter 118. The structural connection and operation of the elements in the ADPLL unit 110 have been described in detail with the regard to FIG. 2, and therefore a description of the connection and operation of these elements is omitted here. As will be detailed below, the loop output signal fout generated by the first DCO 112a is not output as the system clock, and instead is only used as a fed-back signal to the PD 116. Instead, in
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I do use Davines Alchemic Conditioner on the advice of my hairdresser (who I don’t see as often anymore) and it really works. It is expensive but once a week is usually enough. I also take Nutricap a supplement that Mireille Giuliano of Frenchwomen Don’t Get Fat fame recommended in one of her books through the winter and I think it helps, our winters (Canada) can be brutal and I am outside a lot.
I have been using minoxidil daily for the last 15 years and it has certainly helped hairloss. The few times I have become lax and not used it for a while, my hair has started falling out again. So, yes, minoxidil works for me.
Advice to Lesley and others is persist. Following Alyson’s example I grew out my brown dyed hair. It’s now two years since I had any colour. For a while it was piebald with whiter streaks around face. Not attractive. But the self-consciousness was all mine. I kept having the ends trimmed so overall shape was good and looked intentional. Now I’m really pleased I did carry on. And for the first time people complemented me on my hair which never happened previously.
Current hair texture is better than ever. And far less dry and hard to manage. I do use good quality shampoos for coloured hair still. French pharmacy brands. But I also am a big fan of Living Proof conditioners. I did use the Restore one as I grew out dye but am now using Perfect Hair Day one. One only needs a bit. And I restrict hair washing to every five or more days except when swimming regularly. I am fortunate not to have thinning hair.
Good luck to all making the transition to more natural hair.
Great article. My hair miraculously was revealed to be an expensive looking silver once I dared to stop colouring it. But oh so dry and fine. My,ost successful produce is Argan Collagen rejuvenating conditioner for very fine hair. Better than all the other expensive oils etc I tried. And even available in Waitrose!
How I envy all you lucky ones with thick hair! Mine is ultra-fine – (not thin, there’s plenty of it – and it’s in good condition) and with only a few wisps of grey which I rather like. I can actually make it look quite nice, first thing, but it’s pancake flat within minutes and a step outside the door into the merest breath of wind and I’m the Dulux dog. Not a good look. Sprays weigh it down and make it separate; too long and it’s witch-like; too short and I look like a chrysanthemum on the move. Lori (upthread) mentions wigs and I’m tempted to explore further.
Tell me about dry and fine, oh my goodness. It’s very depressing and affects my confidence big time. The trick is to find some sort of conditioner, oil or otherwise, that doesn’t immediately make my hair lank and I am still searching! Any tips, therefore, greatly appreciated. As for thinning I seem to be spending a lot of time looking at the hair of ladies of a similar age and gosh, it’s so common and usually all at the front, as opposed to the scalp area, as described by Vicci Bentley. My curls disguise the loss a little bit, but I do worry that it will continue. Sometimes I tell myself to get a grip, that all this hair concern is so vain, but we all now that if our hair isn’t ‘right’ the rest of us feels a mess. And if anyone else tells me that I am lucky to have curly hair they will be dead. What I wouldn’t give for thick, straight, stylish locks that are uniformly grey.
I am now going to work through Alison’s hair product suggestions, no doubt gulping at the cost of most, but hey, I’m worth it!
Alison your hair looks great.
I made the decision about 3 months ago, just to cut my hair short. Went to one of the many hairdressers available. I sat in the chair in front of the style director. He asked me what I wanted. I said ‘GO FOR IT’ He clapped his hands and said I had made him so happy.
So now I have short hair. I wash it every 2 weeks with a hair soap bar from LUSH give it a quick blast with the hairdryer and I’m good to go. In fact I’m due again in a couple of weeks for a trim, and I’m going to go even shorter. The only thing that is a no no for me personally is the shaving of the head, other than that my hairdresser has free rein.
I think because I work in radiology I’m not so hung up anymore on the length of my hair.
I always wonder when any of the ladies who have cancer that come in wearing wigs that are really terrible Alsion, whether Cancer charities could get hold a masterclass in all the fabulous ways you could use a tie a fantastic scarf around your head.
The hairdresser Trevor Sorbie has started a charity for women with hair loss. He gives free advice and also customises wigs for cancer patients to make them more flattering.
Oh that’s good to know. Thank you for sharing, Anna.
I went from thick, thick hair to thinning and awful pink scalp. Thought of shaving my head and having my scalp tattooed gray! Used Rogaine for a year with no results and other shampoos and things. Still an oily scalp that requires daily washing. Sob! Now don’t leave the house without a hat. Between the balding head and the occcasional long chin hair I think my balding, bearded husband and I will end up looking like twins!!
Alyson, L. J.s comments about chin hair has got to be a whole, new post! I live in terror of missing one and I’m sure that I’m not alone.
Leave it with me, Joyce!
I have had highlights on and off for 15 years on my dark., fine straight hair. My hair stylist (who owns her salon) suggested two years ago just to let the silver streaks through (prefer to call it silver rather than grey!!). as it would look great against my very dark hair, so took her advice and love it. I probably have 10% silver and am in my mid 70’s. I have worn my hair in a graduated jaw length sleek bob for more then 20 years. Try to wash it just twice a week now, or every three days, as it tends to get greasy. Have it trimmed every 6/7 weeks. A good cut is essential! Started using Paul Mitchell volumising products, also the volumising blow dry spray. None of my friends seem to want to embrace the natural look and were all surprised I had taken this route, but am happy with it.
I would offer a caution to any woman with thinning hair who has had estrogen-based cancers, breast and uterine etc. My doctors felt that adding this chemical to my system would be ill-advised, no matter my frustration with my hair.
So, solution? A fabulous wig wardrobe – I have two wonderful lightweight wigs that match my grey hair tones. I get compliments when I wear my ‘hair’ and frankly, finally have the hair I always wanted!
Yes it is frustrating to have this syndrome, and equally it is great to be able to create a new look with my new ‘lids’.
It is a big step to buy and wear a wig in public, with friends who will know and are kind enough not to ask. Where no one knows me, it is quite satisfying to not fret about the wind being unkind, revealing my very thin spots.
That is true – and I should have thought of that, Shell. I will amend it now.
REgarding CHIN HAIR. I hear this from my daughter,”MOM, YOU HAVE A FOREST ON YOUR CHIN!!!!” I used to protest then looked closely wearing half eyes and peering into magnifying mirror. Behold! It’s not quite a forest I wear but more beach grass on a small dune. I’m lucky because I’m oblivious without my vision tools and for the same reason not so lucky because my daughter and other critics have no such challenges. So what to do. Not much. I simply have other things to think about And will get to this daughter defined crisis in personal glamour sooner or later.
I can very strongly recommend getting an epilator. I’ve used one for several years on underarms and legs, and by now the hair has almost completely stopped growing. I convinced a friend with a mustache problem to get one, and she loves it!
Wish there was a perfect a solution for my thinning hair. It makes me sad every morning when I have to try fixing it; it’s changed so much over the past 15 years, going from thick and curly to thin and straighter. Nothing seems to help!
I too have a lot of super fine hair prone to explode into dandelion frizz at the first hint of damp. Frustrating to spend 20 minutes blow drying and have all that good work undone as soon as I go outside! Most oils and styling products are far too heavy and leave my hair lank. I’ve struggled with my unruly mop since my teens so I’m very happy to say I’ve found a solution (hurrah
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hold them accountable for it…can’t wait for the class-action against the entirety of the board and staff (sans Jelincic).
Whoa. Pretty disgusting. I’ve worked in some toxic work environments, where things like this happened – unsubstantiated claims/attacks, generalized attacks against someone where the substance of the attack is never revealed, etc. It’s very difficult to work under such conditions, but I’ve witnessed first hand how hard it is for someone who is honestly trying to work with people to clean house often has the tables turned and becomes the one who is accused of wrong-doing.
I’m glad that notice is taken and given about this situation, as I wish Jelincic well in his endeavors. This is very sobering news. Thanks for the post.
CalPERS really needs to clean house and clean up its act. They are “playing” with CA citizens’ money, and it’s been proven over and over that they’re doing a really poor job at this time.
Professor Black fails to mention that the former CEO of CalPERS, who most of the current top staff worked with, has been in FEDERAL PRISON since last May for misconduct at CalPERS.
While General Counsel Jacobs was brought in from outside after the indictment of the CEO and a former board member, it is clear that his job is to lead the cover-up and to make sure that no other staffers or board members join the former CEO in prison.
Board members engaging in a cover-up are the ones in violation of their fiduciary obligations. As a current beneficiary of CalPERS, if I had two quarters to rub together I’d sue Slaton, Feckner, and Mathur personally for violating their fiduciary duty to me as a beneficiary by placing protection of the “organization” over their duty to protect members and beneficiaries by transparently ferreting-out the damage done to our investments by this self-admitted and jailed CROOK. Instead, they chose to violate the First Amendment rights of a legitimately-elected board member who also happens to be an expert in finance.
Hey, this is how it works in the real world, just ask Richard Bowen of Citigroup. Or how about Neil Barofsky’s story about when one of little Timmy’s senior aides at the Treasury department told him not to do his job too well because it would enhance his job prospects in the private sector once he was one with government service. Hopefully a watchdog website like NC can help to make a difference in this case, but unfortunately this episode exemplifies how things really works in the country.
The (apparently deliberate) perversion of the term “fiduciary duty” is truly disgusting.
Thank you Bill Black for spelling out the wrongdoings of the CalPERS board against Jelincic with such clarity.
Given the excoriating of CalPers here at NC – taking direct aim at private equity, my read is that Jelincic’s great crime is his reading of NC and possibly asking questions in public meetings regarding PE deals and contracts. Basically, the board is trying to keep the public from knowing how much the GPs made while the LPs (that is, CalPers) made little if anything. This hypothesis, if true, suggests that either those numbers are truly hideous, or there is a conflict of interest on the board. I hope the CA AG’s office takes note. I smell a pony.
CalPERS board member JJ Jelincic has sent a letter to its chief executive, Anne Stausboll, criticising the pension fund’s support of private equity “propaganda”, according to the Financial Times...
Although that does exclude the University of California, which has equally questionable practices.
As a person with no experience in these matters I am horrified to see how ingrained this corruption is in so many financial institutions. I am in the process of rereading Jeffery Clements’ book from 2011 “Corporations are not People” and wonder how most Americans can consider they live in any sort of democratic country where the citizens have any power at all to influence those already in charge.
CalPERS’ corrupt culture is deeply rooted.
In New Zealand and Australia, “rooted” is a synonym for “f—ed”. It still parses quite well even with the unintentional(?) double meaning.
Wasnt Priya Mathur herself facing some ethics violations or something?
Not facing, she’s no longer chairing any board committees as a result of earlier sanctions.
Mathur, who is the principal financial analyst for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, has often been in trouble with the ethics agency for not filing campaign contribution reports and statements of economic interest.
Actually Mathur is currently Chair of Pension & Health Benefits Committee and Vice-Chair of Performance, Compensation & Talent Management Committee, Her removal only lasted six months.
New Chair and Vice-Chair elections will begin this month.
“Who is the client of the government attorney”, I believe this question also applies to CalPers.
I would ask can you clarify, link to or in any way help me to understand a very slippery question. “Who is the client of the government attorney”? I ask this question concerning an elected group like County Council, an appointed public board and a single elected official like a Supervisor of Elections. Also what obligation does the attorney have to other elected officials and members in the above situations?
Mayors assign attorneys to elected city councils and other elected officials send (assign_) attorneys to work with elected officials, an example being the supervisor of elections, school board, and to public boards. As a long time observer the attorneys act as their client is the person who sent or assigned them.
I have seen information on the public not being the client. I also have seen information on the question of confidentiality for the attorney in certain situations. I know there are statutes and ordinances about meeting not open to the public when concerning law suits but otherwise I believe the public should be able to hear or know the instructions of the client when charging the attorney about what actions to take. Is this correct?
I have not seen the question raised about an attorney who is assigned by a client to a county or city council or to another elected official who cannot have a client relationship with the attorney who is advising the official.
I have seen elected officials try without successes to have their own attorney but never hear the argument raised about the problem being the client relationship to another.
Can you point to any information about the legality of this and other questions or answers about this type of client relationship or lack their of?
I’ve seen major conflicts of interest arise in relation to election officials or boards of election, in which the state attorney (who represents state staff and officials) charged with wrong-doing, is somehow also in a position of making legal decisions to citizens who are trying to take a case against election officials. For some reason judges don’t take action to avoid conflicts of interest (in themselves or in other parties) in such cases. Ken Blackwell (OH 2004 Presidential Election) is a famous example but there are many others.
There are judges / officials who do their job with integrity, but it is not always the case.
A book published in Ireland 18 months ago lays out facts concerning the finances of Irish high court judges. (“Waiting for the Sheriff”) They apparently all have massive loans that cannot ever be paid (in the tens of millions and more). For some “strange” reason the banks have never called in those loans. In Ireland, one may not serve as a high court judge if they have been bankrupt. Thus the banks “own” the judges. No wonder the banks get off easy all the time, regardless of the evidence against them.
Thanks for the input. I can believe the whistleblowers. In the distant past when everything I turned over was concerning in a big way I looked at the FBI’s public corruption web site. It stated they do not overturn the people’s choices or language to that affect. The 60 day before the election was thing with Clinton was not there but it supports the facts that it seems most elected officials get a pass regardless of what they do even to extent of subversion of government (Democracy). I cannot remember if it was there on the site or where I learned that the FBI locally could not open an investigation on a politician unless they checked with higher ups. The only exception was dealing drugs. I personally think the only time a politician is indicted or prosecuted is when they piss of someone with more power.
As for attorneys they can only have only one client at a time and they must have a client relationship to act. I used to think this was like a safety on a loaded gun with the attorney being the gun. I have always believed but never heard a client who is an elected official should give instructions to the attorney in an announced public meeting or setting.
I have seen attorneys in government settings parrot anything to make what their client wants to happen by not acknowledging law and procedures. There can be a lot more said about this. It reflects the loss of We the Citizens Rights to seek Redress stated by the Constitution which can only be had by laws, regulations and parliamentary procedures being acknowledged and followed.
. “Who is the client of the government attorney”?
The People are the “client” of government. In CalPERS the clients are the recipients of the pensions. They are the ones owed a “fiduciary duty” by the Board. And any action taken that can impair the money to be paid to the CalPERS clients would be a violation of the Boards “fiduciary duty”.
Besides the dispute over PE, are there other disputes?
Let’s face it, CALPERs is underfunded and is letting financial ignoram
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previously announced pretax gain of $726 million on the sale of approximately $8 billion of real estate assets1,2.
For Core Consumer Operations, core earnings (a non-GAAP measure) for the quarter was $65 million, versus $48 million in the prior year quarter, and earnings per diluted share (a non-GAAP measure) was $0.57 for the fourth quarter versus $0.43 in the prior year quarter3,4. For the segment, full year core earnings were $238 million, versus $198 million in the prior year, and earnings per diluted share was $2.07 versus $1.92 in the prior year.
Consumer net finance receivables reached $3.8 billion at December 31, 2014, an increase of $666 million, or 21% from December 31, 2013, and 6% from September 30, 2014.
Consumer net finance receivables per branch were $4.6 million at December 31, 2014, up 22% from December 31, 2013 and 6% from September 30, 2014.
Risk-adjusted yield for our Consumer segment in the quarter was 21.99%, up 81 basis points from the fourth quarter 2013.
The company generated over $1.0 billion of total consumer origination volume in the fourth quarter including $160 million of direct auto loan originations. Direct auto loan receivables reached $238 million at year-end.
1 Real Estate segment and Other Non-Core reflect historical accounting basis (which is a basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP).
2 Gain from sale of real estate assets excludes restructuring, transaction expenses and provision adjustments.
3 Excludes the impact of charges related to accelerated repayment/repurchase of debt, fair value adjustments on debt, one-time costs associated with debt refinance, and earnings attributable to non-controlling interests.
4 Core Earnings income taxes assumes 37% statutory tax rate.
Consumer and Insurance pretax income was $64 million in the quarter versus $41 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, and flat from the third quarter of 20145.
Consumer net finance receivables reached $3.8 billion at December 31, 2014, an increase of 21% from December 31, 2013 and 6% from September 30, 2014, driven by the company’s focus on increasing personal loan originations through its branch network and diversifying its product offerings. Consumer net finance receivables per branch continued to grow, reaching $4.6 million at December 31, 2014, up from $3.8 million at December 31, 2013 and $4.3 million at September 30, 2014.
Net interest income was $208 million in the quarter, up 27% from the prior year quarter and 6% from the prior quarter. Yield in the current quarter was 26.95%. Risk adjusted yield, representing yield less net charge-off rate, was 21.99% in the quarter, up 81 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2013 as gross yield expanded while net charge-offs remained flat year-over-year. Risk adjusted yield declined 35 basis points from the third quarter of 2014 due primarily to the seasonal increase in charge-offs.
The annualized net charge-off ratio was 4.96% in the quarter, versus 5.16% in the prior year quarter and 4.68% in the prior quarter.
The annualized gross charge-off ratio was 5.78% in the quarter, up 29 basis points from the prior year quarter and up 32 basis points from the third quarter 2014. Recoveries continued to normalize in the quarter at 82 basis points versus 33 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2013, following the sale of a pool of previously charged-off accounts in June 2013.
The 60+ delinquency ratio was 2.82% at quarter end, versus 2.60% at prior year quarter end and 2.55% at prior quarter end.
5 Consumer and Insurance segment reflects historical accounting basis (which is a basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP). Pretax income excludes impact of charges related to accelerated repayment / repurchase of debt and one-time costs associated with debt refinance.
The Acquisitions and Servicing segment contributed $39 million to the company’s consolidated pretax income in the quarter6. The entire Acquisitions and Servicing segment, which includes non-controlling interests, generated pretax income of $51 million in the quarter7, with net interest income of $112 million and yield of 26.47%. Actual net finance receivables at quarter-end were $2.0 billion, down from $2.1 billion at September 30, 2014. The principal balance of the portfolio was $2.6 billion at quarter-end versus $3.2 billion at December 31, 2013.
The annualized net charge-off ratio was 5.56% in the quarter, versus 8.46% in the prior year quarter and 5.31% in the prior quarter.
The annualized gross charge-off ratio was 6.15% in the quarter, down 284 basis points from the prior year quarter and up 32 basis points from the third quarter 2014. Recoveries continued to improve in the quarter at 59 basis points versus 53 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2013.
The delinquency ratio for the Acquisitions and Servicing segment was 4.69% at the end of the quarter, a decrease of 42 basis points from the prior quarter end.
The Non-Core Portfolio (consisting of legacy real estate loans) and Other Non-Core activities generated a pretax loss of $71 million in the quarter8. The legacy real estate portfolio pretax loss primarily results from the impact of full year real estate sales on the segment’s interest earning assets. The proceeds from these sales have been allocated to the Non-Core portfolio, which resulted in a reduction to net interest margin.
6 Excludes impact of one-time items related to accelerated repayment/repurchase of debtand earnings attributable to non-controlling interests.
7 Includes impact of charges related to accelerated repayment/repurchase of debt and earnings attributable to non-controlling interests.
8 Excludes impact of one-time items related to the accelerated repayment/repurchase of debt, real estate sales (including restructuring and transaction costs), and one-time costs associated with debt refinance.
As of December 31, 2014, the company had $3.4 billion of cash and highly liquid investment securities. The company had total outstanding debt of $8.4 billion at quarter-end, in a variety of debt instruments.
1. Net Finance Receivables represents data as of December 31, 2014. All other metrics represent data for the year ended December 31, 2014.
2. Risk Adjusted Yield = Yield less Net Charge-off rates.
3. Excludes impact of charges related to accelerated repayment/repurchase of debt, fair value adjustments on debt and earnings attributable to non-controlling interests.
We report the operating results of our Core Consumer Operations, Non-Core Portfolio and Other Non-Core using the same accounting basis that we employed prior to 2010 when we were acquired by Fortress (the “Fortress Acquisition”), which we refer to as “historical accounting basis,” to provide a consistent basis for both management and other interested third parties to better understand our operating results. The historical accounting basis (which is a basis of accounting other than U.S. GAAP) also provides better comparability of the operating results of these segments to our competitors and other companies in the financial services industry. The historical accounting basis is not applicable to Acquisitions and Servicing since this segment resulted from the purchase of the SpringCastle Portfolio on April 1, 2013 and therefore, was not affected by the Fortress Acquisition.
Pretax Core Earnings is a key performance measure used by management in evaluating the performance of our Core Consumer Operations. Pretax Core Earnings represents our income (loss) before provision for (benefit from) income taxes on a historical accounting basis and excludes results of operations from our Non-Core Portfolio (legacy real estate loans) and other non-originating legacy operations, gains (losses) resulting from accelerated long-term debt repayment and repurchases of long-term debt related to Core Consumer Operations (attributable to Springleaf), gains (losses) on fair value adjustments on debt related to Core Consumer Operations (attributable to Springleaf), one-time costs associated with debt refinance related to Consumer and Insurance, and results of operations attributable to non-controlling interests. Pretax Core Earnings provides us with a key measure of our Core Consumer Operations’ performance as it assists us in comparing its performance on a consistent basis. Management believes Pretax Core Earnings is useful in assessing the profitability of our core business and uses Pretax Core Earnings in evaluating our operating performance. Pretax Core Earnings is a non-GAAP measure and should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for or superior to, operating income, net income, operating cash flow, and other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Springleaf management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss our fourth quarter and full year 2014 results and other general matters at 10:00 am Eastern on Thursday, March 12, 2015. Both the call and webcast are open to the general public. The general public is invited to listen to the call by dialing 877-330-3668 (U.S. domestic), or 678-304-6859 (international), conference ID 83319327, or via a live audio webcast through the Investor Relations section of the website. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available on our website or by dialing 800-585-
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: Which is Hinduism, right?
Eric Barger: Yes, very much so, but Hinduism and Buddhism both flow in those. Most Americans wouldn’t say I am a practicing Hindu but many have adopted those philosophies as a way of life.
Dr. Reagan: Would you put the teaching spiritual teachings of Shirley MacLaine, for example into the New Age category?
Eric Barger: Certainly, she is out on a limb just like her books says.
Dr. Reagan: I am god.
Eric Barger: It is also a spiritual experience without the cost of repenting of your sin, and probably the best definition I can give is: any system of belief that tells you to look inside of yourself, to yourself for enlightenment, wisdom and power is generically New Age. Now we look to the Holy Spirit who lives in us for enlightenment, wisdom and power. But we are not god. In the New Age, you look to the spark of god, the god force within you for enlightenment, wisdom, or power, it is a very close counterfeit. And this is across the board today, doctors, lawyers, scientist, PhD’s, Nobel Prize winners, people of politicians, people of high mental capability. Okay I guess we can take the politicians out of that group come to think of it. But people of high mental capability who believe in these philosophies because it works, and just because it works doesn’t make it right. New Age philosophies do work, because they are spiritually powered, they work, but by what spirit it works should be the question we ask.
Nathan Jones: It works in the here and now, but for eternity it doesn’t work.
Eric Barger: No, not at all and that’s the thing people want it now. Of course we live in a culture that if the one drive-thru across the street isn’t fast enough we drive across to the other one that is faster that is where we are as a culture.
Dr. Reagan: Well it seems to me that there is an overwhelming, the New Age Movement indicates an overwhelming need of people to have something spiritual in their lives. They want some sort of spiritual expressions but they want one that makes no demands on their life.
Dr. Reagan: I mean this is the Hollywood religion, owe yes I am very religious, I sit and I meditate, and I hum and I do all of this, but I don’t have any demands on my life in terms of morality or whatever.
Eric Barger: Jesus calls us to come to God through repentance. The New Age Movement doesn’t like that idea. Our culture doesn’t like the idea. We want a spiritual experience without the cost of repentance of our sins.
Dr. Reagan: Well that happens to be one of the most unpopular words in all of Christianity today.
Dr. Reagan: You flip on TV and you see ministers of some of the largest churches in American who would never mention the word repentance, because it might offend somebody.
Dr. Reagan: Or that they are sinners.
Eric Barger: Exactly those words are all left out in many Christian circles but that is, that is the core message of Christianity that is being cut off at the knees.
Dr. Reagan: So Christianity itself is being impacted by the New Age Movement.
Eric Barger: It is, it is and do you know why, because our culture has adopted the gospel of self as a religion.
Nathan Jones: How many churches are holding Yoga, that is what gets me. Yoga now is becoming a mainstream class offered in churches.
Eric Barger: That’s big in emerging circles. I heard Rob Bell and Doug Pagitt both recently speak about how Yoga is so transforming.
Nathan Jones: Empty yourself out, when we should be filling ourselves with the Holy Spirit and the Bible and thinking on these things. We are emptying ourselves so we don’t think of anything.
Eric Barger: Rob Bell went as far, and he is an emergent leader from Michigan to say that we should listen to the message of the Yoga masters. Now wait a minute, I know about that, and yet his congregation seems to buy into this because many of them have no church background. You can have a big congregation but it depends on what type of Gospel you preach when you get in there. I will take 10 people who will turn a community upside down for the glory of God, over a thousand who will sit there and do nothing and never, ever make it to Heaven. We want those 10 who will actually go out and evangelize with the Gospel not with a false counterfeit.
Dr. Reagan: Reminds me of a sermon that I heard here in this area by a Hispanic preacher who was talking about what is a live church. And he said, “We often think a live church is one that has lots of activities going on.” He said, “The other day I opened the newspaper and here is a major denomination in our city and they are offering Yoga classes, Transcendental Meditation classes and all kinds of Eastern, Oriental, Mystical things that have spiritual significance to them, they are not just neutral. And he says, “Lots of activities going on, but he says, “It is just spiritually dead.” He said, “Folks it reminds when I was a kid and living in Mexico once a week we went to Grandma’s house and we looked forward to it on Sunday because she had chickens and we got meat once a week. And she would go out to the back yard and she would grab a chicken and she would pop her wrist, and pop that chicken’s head off and it would run all over the yard. Said it was the liveliest and active chicken in the yard and it was the deadest.” Now brother that preached.
Eric Barger: That is great, that is great, let me write that down, new sermon title, dead chicken will preach.
Dr. Reagan: Dead chicken that is real active, you know. It is just, it is a lack of discernment that people just don’t seem to understand that something like Yoga and this sort of thing has spiritual significance.
Eric Barger: It most certainly does no doubt about it. And those who have brought this into our culture and now it has seeped its way into the church. Hey if a church doesn’t stand for good doctrine, if we don’t have a standard that is the Bible being the truth we follow, and the only truth we follow, this other stuff is going to make in the door, it is just that simple.
Dr. Reagan: And I am reminded of this I think, I guess it wasn’t a novel but it was a sort of self-help book, The Celestine Prophecy wasn’t that a New Age type of book? And I saw Christian everywhere reading this thing.
Eric Barger: Yeah, yeah. Well you take a look of the reading, I was in a well known national chain print shop recently, a whole book rack there of self-help books. And I went down through them and I went I can find one Christian there throughout all of these books and the rest of them every one of them I could name to you as somebody that has adopted Eastern philosophies and put it into a Western context as a New Ager. So this is the stuff that is being sold to us as the way to control the problems or the things in our life, to get what we want to think and grow rich ideas.
Eric Barger: The idea that we can, we are going to make it through life and be more popular people and be more powerful around people by using these techniques, so it works, yeah. But let’s never forget atomic bombs work, just because they work doesn’t make it right, you know.
Nathan Jones: That seems to be the theme that you have talked about – the New Age and the Emergent all these – everything seems to go back to the sin that Adam and Eve committed when Satan said, “You will be like gods.” Everything you have said about this replaces God with us.
Nathan Jones: And we buy into that.
Eric Barger: That is exactly right. I think the five major doctrines even though New Agers would never claim to hang the doctrine, but the five major belief systems inside the New Age coming right out of Genesis 3:1-5 the Fall of mankind, starting with the very first Trans channeling or mediumship or séance in history. The devil possessed the body of a serpent and spoke to Eve the same as a medium gives over the use of his body to a spirit to speak to people today. I mean that is the first séance that we have ever seen in recorded history and that is where the lie came from, just like the same lie is being perpetrated in New Age séance.
Dr. Reagan: Several years ago I read a New Age book that just astounded me, it talked about the fact that the masters of the universe have been channeling to New Age philosophers. And one of the things they’ve told them is that time is coming in the very soon future when those who live by faith will be taken out so that those who live by reason can continue in their evolutionary development and develop the world and the earth and all this. And I thought man this is going to be a New Age explanation of the Rapture.
Eric Barger: Oh, most certainly, the Devil reads the Bible, the Devil knows.
Dr. Reagan: And they will be able to say, “Hey we told you this back in 1970 we told you this in ’75 this is what happened.
Eric Barger: Yeah the Devil is a Bible expert no doubt about it.
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Mac provides an elegantly designed machine that complements your office space will giving you adequate power for your day to day workflow. The Mac mini provides a low cost solution as well as a small footprint to for businesses that have little to know power users and/or a large organization such as a law office.
The problem with these machines is that right out of the box these machines lack something that every other Apple computer in Apples current line has. A solid state hard drive. While spinning hard drives have their place in the business world Apple has taken the stance that Solid State Drives are the future of storage for computers. They provider faster speed, are less prone to failure, and have no moving parts making corruption due to drops far less likely.
Apple is also making Operating systems that leverage Solid State Architecture meaning that computers with older spinning hard drives like the Mac mini and iMac will not be able to utilize a lot of the additional functionality in the newer operating systems and have officially put an end date to computers with spinning drives as the primary drive.
Mac minis and some older iMacs came with what apple called a Fusion Drive. The Fusion Drive coupled the traditional spinning drive with the much faster and more stable SSD. At the time the Fusion Drive was announced It combined the speed of the SSD with the Hard Drive Capacity of the traditional Hard Drive.
There are some major problems with this system however. First it provides two points of failure for your data. Meaning if either one of the hard drives (solid state or traditional) fail data is lost for the computer. This makes backups extremely important when the computer is running a Fusion Drive. Additionally a fusion drive can not take advantage of the new APFS File System that apple is implementing in all of their newer operating systems. For more info on APFS Cult of Mac wrote a great article that can be found here.
As of now Apple offers SSD configurations in most of their computers up to 2tbs. For some users thats not enough and there is a need for more. We typically suggest a Raid system for situations like this. Raid arrays can separate the data over multiple drives while replicating that data at the same time insuring that one or two drives can fail while still retaining all of your data. It is important to note that you should be running your Operating system on a Solid State Hard Drive and when purchasing new units you should insure that new machines are being purchased with an SSD inside.
24/7 Monitoring: What is it and how is it good for your business?
MAPL employs a number of tools to monitor your office while you work or while your away. But what do they do and why should you want it? We wanted to take some time to answer these questions for you.
Traditional IT companies take a Reactive approach to issues that come up at the office. A typically scenario plays out something like this: You have an agreement with you IT company to resolve issues as they happen, That IT company sits around and waits for you to call them with an issue, they go out or remote in to resolve the issue and you then get a bill for the time they spent on that particular issue.
The problem with that is two fold first by the time they are being called to fix the issue it has already affected your office and on top of that you have know way of knowing how much you will be spending on IT in any given month.
We wanted to create a solution that answered these problems and we did. MAPL Monitoring is a combination of hardware and software tools installed in the business to help identify potential issues prior to them becoming a problem in your business.
Many cutting edge IT firms around the country are starting to employ software based monitoring tools in the business. It has been around in the windows world for years and about 5 years ago starting to really take off in the Apple world as well. With Software based monitoring tools we can determine when your hard drive is starting to fail well before it starts presenting noticeable issues. This allows us to reach out to you and work out a time that will impact the business less to replace the drive. We are also able to ensure that software is up to date, other hardware like ram is functioning correctly, your backups are being completed, as well as various other issues related to the individual computers.
This is all really important stuff that allow us to keep our clients up and running longer with limited downtime. We felt that that wasn't enough though. We wanted to be able to monitor our clients internet speeds and make sure that the internet was up. We didn't want our clients to call us first thing in the morning letting us know internet or power is out at the office so we employ a hardware based tool to do exactly that.
Now when our clients internet goes down in the middle of the night we are able to instantly respond and reach out to the service provider to ensure that someone will be at the office first thing in the morning to resolve the issue. We are able to call our clients and let them know whats going on so that they are not walking into their office in the morning and learning that their internet is out.
In addition to internet is also lets us monitor printers, network switches, and even external websites so that we have a greater understanding of whats going on with all the technology in our clients environment.
We feel that only a solution like this gives us the tools to provide proactive IT support and proved our clients with the piece of mind knowing that things in their office are running something and will continue to run that way for the foreseeable future.
What we have found is that when all of these tools are setup in an office IT costs go down because issues are caught earlier productivity stays up and the solutions to the problems are less costly. For that reason we provide customers with the option for us to provider services at a monthly rate per computer instead of billing by the hour per issue. This allows us to scale with the customer and provide a fair and easily predictable bill for services rendered.
With the introduction of High Sierra Apple has made some changes under the hood of the operating system to provide additional benefits to users with solid state drives (hard drives with no moving parts). It's almost like apple made an assumption that everyone who owns a Mac is also running on a solid state drive. Unfortunately for users of the Mac mini and the iMac Apple is still selling computers with spinning drives in them.
So how do you know if you are a prime candidate for the new operating system. Well the general rule of thumb is if your machine was made within the last 5 years and has a Solid State Hard Drive you should seriously consider it. High Sierra has brought some amazing changes to the way security is handled under the hood and has also improved the photos app for individual with larger photo libraries.
We have put together a simple guide to wether or not you should update.
Internet based phone systems have become increasingly popular in businesses today. However most businesses don't understand all the benefits they get when implementing these types of systems.
Its important to note that all systems are not created equally but in general there are three types of models when it comes to billing for sip based phone systems. They are unmetered, metered, and hosted sip. We typically don't recommend hosted sip as it is not extremely scalable and we will cover that a little bit late on.
In addition to the Sip providers themselves you need a system to actually run your phone system itself. We prefer Kerio Operator for this. Kerio sales their system in a hardware appliance as well as a virtual appliance. The hardware appliance typically sales for around $900 dollars for 5 users and the virtual appliance will sell for $400. Both come with a 5 user license and additional packs of 5 users go for $135. We will go over the benefits to a system like this a little bit later as well.
Internet phones work based on a sip trunk and within that trunk you have what providers call lines or channels. I tend to find channel to be a better word for describing it because it is different from a traditional telephone line. A sip channel is a way of transporting a single call you can have multiple channels in a trunk but only one call can be received per channel. Im hoping I haven't lost you yet lol.
The unmetered model will bill you based on the maximum number of calls you want coming into your office at any given time. This pricing is relatively cheap and should be around 15-20 dollars. It is important to note that while most companies in this market place will not bill you for long distance some local providers will so make sure that you ask when you are signing up.
The Unlimited per channel model allows for a level bill each month as you are not billed for the actual time you are on a call. This is perfect for someone who gets a lot of long calls or needs a consistent bill.
For someone who gets a lot of calls at a specific time of day that tapers down is better going with a bill per use model. This model allows for as many channels that are needed throughout the day and instead bills you based on the time you spend on the phone. You typically will have a 15 dollar a month fee plus $0.008/Minute or something around that number.
This allows for a lunch restaurant who gets around 20 calls during lunch but hardly any calls the rest of the day to not have to pay for 20 channels.
A hosted plan is good for a small office of less then 5 people. It provides the sip service as well as the system to run it but bills on a per user bases. Typically at $20 per user per month. While they typically offer unlimited channels and and unmetered setup the system doesn't scale appropriately. For instance an office of 10 users would pay 200 dollars a month and may only get a few calls a day.
Kerio Operator is a feature packed phone system that allows for Auto Attendants, Call recordings, Voicemail to email, and much more. Systems like these also provide analytics on how
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define a full path pointing to the file.
In general you should use only use require_once. Other forms are permitted (with a strong preferrence of require), but only in special cases like in templating, configuration loading etc.
Each line of the code can contain only one statement. The exception from this rule are logical statements, that contain execution and logic substatements. Still, in this case it is required to preserve as much clarity as possible. Also, the usage of time-consuming execution substatements is highly discouraged in logical statements.
The only acceptable way to break your code execution in the middle of the routine is by throwing an exception. Do not put return in the middle of the method / code.
If the method you have just written can accept a parameter to be a single value or an array of these values, you need to assure that the method will perform properly in both cases. To assure that check if the variable that represents the input parameter is an array. If not, wrap in into one and proceed like in the case of an array. This approach is meant to assure that there is only one processing code in your method.
Do not use the closing PHP tag. Ever.
Do not use improper language in your source code. Ever. It is advised to put in funny comments though.
This chapter describes general rules that didn't fit in previous chapters.
All files containing code or being inserted into PHP files / parsed by the PHP have to have a ".php" extension.
Introducing global variables is forbidden.
Always try to optimize your loops if operations are going on at the comparing part, since this part is executed every time the loop is parsed through. For assignments a descriptive name should be chosen.
Also, avoid using in_array() on huge arrays, and do not place them into loops if the array to check consist of more than 20 entries. in_array() can be very time consuming and uses a lot of cpu processing time. For little checks it is not noticable, but if checked against a huge array within a loop those checks alone can be a bunch of seconds. If you need this functionality, try using isset() on the arrays keys instead, actually shifting the values into keys and vice versa. A call to isset($array[$var]) is a lot faster than in_array($var, array_keys($array)) for example.
First make it work, then make it fast. Beware of premature optimization.
Optimize only the slow stuff.
This is a list of functions that are commonly mistaken to do something else. The list also includes the recommendation for function usage.
empty() - commonly mistaken due to different results with different content. Most of the time it will not be neccesary to use this function. Usage of this function is discouraged.
isset() - commonly misused to verify if the variable has a value. In case of standard variables check against a NULL should be performed. In case of array values, array_key_exists check should be performed. Do not use this function.
unset() - commonly misused to reset a variable. In case of standard variables assign a NULL value rather then unset it. Only use this function to remove an array value.
goto - that was introduced in PHP 5.3. Do not use it.
Proper naming convention is crucial to achieve readability of the code. If you don't create a proper name for the class/method/property, you can be sure that the next person trying to read your code will start asking stupid questions. Worst case scenario includes yourself analyzing your own source code and trying to figure out what you had in mind while writing this.
Remember, creation of naming convention is not only meant to increase code readability. It will ensure that the implementation is semantically correct and while the semantics match, our brains will be able to easily and intuitively understand the structures incorporated in the source code along with relations between different parts of the system. Also, when you switch the sides of this equation, you'll be able to base on your speech analysis to define and check the correctness of the source code.
You have to create names basing on the context in which the code is being implemented. This means that, you need to visualize a way the class, method or property names will be used and name them accordingly. Calls made using your names have to make sense in a semantical way. Also, since PHP is not handling namespaces, you need to carefully pick names that will fit both the design and that will be as much specific as possible (to prevent repetitions).
* Never repeat the class name in the names of it's methods. * Always write in English. If you don't know the proper English word, consult the dictionary or a native English speaker, both you and the code will benefit from it. * Name things precisely. If you can't think of a precise name, you probably need to rethink code design. * Avoid using more then 3 words to describe the subject. Again, if you can't do that, you probably need to rethink code design. * Class and property names have to be nouns and methods have to be verbs. * In method names don't be afraid to use prefixes (is, get, set) and suffixes (Max, Count, Value). * When describing a collection of entities, always use plural, in all other cases use singular version.
A common misunderstanding arises, when developers derive the name of the subclass directly from its parent. It's not a big issue, but decreases readibility of the source code and therefore is undesired. Imagine, that in the below example instead of naming the class "Message" we'd use "MessageDataObject?". It doesn't mean that you can't reuse part of the parent class' name in the child. Just think if it makes sense and another developer will know why did you have added a specific suffix/prefix to the class name. Remember, that class names should be self-sufficient and precise in describing the purpose of the class.
And above all remember: all names have to be descriptive and accurate in describing the purpose of the source code.
Always use camel caps to separate words in the name. Class names may only contain alphanumeric characters. Numbers are permitted in class names but are strongly discouraged. If you have a neat chance of using a "pro-abbreviation", skip it. Write all words capitalizing only the first letter.
* Class names: first letter should be uppercase. * Method names: first letter should be lowercase. * Field names: first letter should be lowercase. * Method arguments: first letter should be lowercase. * Properties (virtual): first letter is assumed to be uppercase.
All constants should be written using all caps. Words should be separated with underscore "_".
*..._PERCENT - meaning the scope is defined in range 0..100 with 0 meaning none and 100 all. *..._PERMIL - meaning the scope is defined in range 0..1000 with 0 meaning none and 1000 all.
If you find a situation when you lack a standard suffix for this use, contact with the content owner to expand the list accordingly.
Don't use them. Use named constants for any literal value other than obvious and special cases. Basically, you can check if an array has 0 elements by using the literal 0. But you should not assign a special meaning to a number and then use it everywhere as a literal. Also, accessing array value, you should use either a constant or a variable. The constants TRUE and FALSE should be used rather then literals 1 and 0. Typecast variables where it is needed, do not rely on the correct variable type (PHP is currently very loose on typecasting which can lead to security problems if a developer does not have a very close eye to it).
In the most unlikely event, when you will be forced to define a "for" loop you should use variables i, j, k for consecutive loop levels. This kind of variables should also be applied when using loop indexing in while and do..while loops.
If you happen to get over 3 levels of loops, you should seriously reconsider your code design.
* assert... - defines an assertion method that will check the correctness of the concept that is being asserted. For example to assert that the variable $field actually contains a field. A call to the assertField($field) will break the execution if the value passed in the parameter is not a field. Assertions always throw exceptions on failure. * assure... - defines a method that will validate and fix if neccesary the variable given by the parameter. It has to return a fixed value, or throw an exception if it is not possible to fix it. For example a call to assureFieldIsLoaded($field) should check if the field has all the data that can be loaded, if that is not the case load it and return a fixed $field variable. * is... - performs the check on parameters and returns a TRUE / FALSE result. Does not throw any exceptions or break execution. Using above example, method isField($field) will return TRUE if the variable $field contains a valid field object and FALSE otherwise. * get... - just make sure that the name actually corresponds to what is returned. For example if one needs an id of the user it can be either getUser()->getId() or getUserId(). * set... - just make sure that the name actually corresponds to what is being changed. * can... - returns a boolean result with answer to a question asked in the method name. For example: canAddField($field) will return TRUE if the field can be added to the object. * as... - this prefix should be followed by the type/class name that will define a format in which the data of the object will be returned. For example: asArray
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time with the help of her little brother Charles Wallace and new friend Calvin to try to save her father. Grades 5-8.
Peter and the Starcatchers (5 book series). This fast paced pirate adventure tells the story before the story of Peter Pan, filling in all the questions you never knew you had: where did pixie dust come from and how did Peter get to Neverland in the first place? Lots of swashbuckling action, humor, and a great story. Grades 5-8.
The House with a Clock in it’s Walls (and at least 10 other John Bellairs mysteries). All the Bellairs mysteries are deliciously creepy adventures set in places like haunted castles or mansions with secret passageways, and feature evil wizards, mummies, and more. Spooky and fun! Grades 6-8.
Tripods (3 book series). Huge three legged machines control the earth and nearly everyone on it. 13 year old Will Parker never thought he’d be the one to start the revolution, but that’s what he’s about to do. Grades 6-8.
The Last Apprentice / The Wardstone Chronicles (serie) : the story of a young boy that is chosen to became apprentice of an old man, whose job is to catch every evil creature around (ghosts, witches…) to protect people. Very well writen, very good illustrations (like stamped).
Children are found of this serie, but adults to! I’m a big fan!
Yea, how about Harry potter? That’s like, an epic series.
Absolutely, and it’s one of our favorite series EVER! The only reason I didn’t include it is that I figured most people have already heard about it already.
Please give Diana Wynne Jones a try. Her books are excellent. The Chrestomanci series (7 books) is about an eccentric enchanter; a kind of Minister of Magic. Howl’s Moving Castle and the two following books are fairy-tale turn-arounds. There are stand alone books too (my favourite of these is Archer’s Goon). Also Eva Ibbotson’s books are truly something special. She writes realistic, historical fiction (like Journey to the River Sea), and magical mayhem (I love ‘Not Just a Witch).
I love the chronicles of Narnia. They are very fin and enjoyable to read,I highly recommend them!
I LOVE the ‘Song of the Lioness’ Quartet by Tamora Pierce.
There is actually a new book in the Princess Academy series! Yay! Love those...
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull is perfect for this age group. A brother and sister go to visit their grandparents and discover that they are the caretakers of a nature preserve for magical creatures, both good and evil. They discover that someone is trying to loose the evil creatures and take over the world. Can they work together to keep the evil from overtaking the good?
The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane (9 books).
I teach fifth grade and these series rock, bi put most of my students are struggling readers and wouldn’t be able to read these series by themselves.
The Land of Stories series is great for this age and I believe struggling readers (though the books are large) will love them enough to read themselves if a parent reads the first 3 chapters to them. We read together & take turns with every other page.
YES! My daughter loves them!
I want to thank you for these posts. My 4th grade son is a voracious reader, and your list has helped me so much to keep up with his reading habits. Thank you!!!
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I suggest Susan Cooper’s “The Dark is Rising” series. The plots are riveting, and the addition of time travel is appealing to this grade level.
Thanks for this great list! I would add to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians set the other series by Rick Riordan: The Kane Chronicles, Heroes of Olympus, and Magnus Chase. My 4th grade son has learned so much about mythology (Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse) and just loved all those books. Other favorites are the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger and The Five Kingdoms series by Fablehaven author Brandon Mull.
Check out the database at this website. It is the collection of books curated by the AFrican American girl in search of 1,000 books about black girls. You can check the books based on reading level, and more.
Also my daughters and i have enjoyed books by Jacqueline Woodson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Patricia McKissak, The Pinkneys, Sharon Flake, just to name a few Af-Am authors. I can’t recommend authors of other ethnicities but will be on the lookout for them.
check out hornbook.com and search the blog. I found lists of POC books, especially in Blogs about Black History Month.
How about The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron? This is a 3 book series.
My third grade loves the Frog Princess series. We read together every night and I enjoy them as much as she does.
My 10 year old son loves the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan. He loved them more than the Percy Jackson and he liked that series.
My fifth grader loved the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series. There are 3. There are also 2 other series by the same author that wrote Warriors. One is called Seekers, the other is Survivors. My son loved all of them, but Seekers was his favorite.
The Wednesday Tales (3 Book Series) by Jon Berkeley.
I taught 4th grade for many years and 2 series that they always loved were The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (the boys especially loved this one). Thanks for all the great suggestions!!
Yes — my kid loves those. He also loves Story Thieves by James Riley.
I was looking for someone else who would suggest this series. One of our favorites! And if you haven’t, I HIGHLY recommend listening to the audiobooks. David Pittu narrates the entire series and does an absolute PHENOMENAL job!!! I can’t say enough about this series!
I suggest the Merits of Mischief series by T.R. Burns. My son who does not like reading, could not put these down. He also enjoyed the Spy School serie by Stuart Gibbs and the Candy Shop wars series by Brandon Mull. He read these all in grade 6. Age 11.
Thanks for the great list. Lots there I don’t know, I must check them out. I would include the Alex rider series, the witch baby series(very funny) and how to train your dragon series too.
Fablehaven series (5 book series). By Brandon Mull. Author of the Spirit Animal Series you listed. Totally awesome!!!! I read them first and am sharing them with my kids now! They love them! What I love is that at the end of the books there are discussion questions you can ask your kids. We’ve had some really good discussions from those questions provided by the author.
The Five Kingdom Series (4 books so far one yet to come). Also by Brandon Mull. Super awesome!!! Dare I say even better than Fablehaven??!!! Dunno but your kids will love them.
I really enjoyed the Beyonders series by Brandon Mull as well. There was one character that freaked me out a little. Ferrin was his name. Totally brilliant and cool concept for a character! But you should find him and read about his particular abilities and judge if you are ok with letting your kid read it.
You definitely have to add Percy Jackson Heros of Olympus (5 books) by Rick Riordin!!! They are even better than the first series of books. It ties in the Roman personas of the Greek Gods and introduces you to another camp of Roman demigods. Of corse Percy and Annabeth are still major players. Awesome!!!!
Kane Chronicals (3 books I believe) by Rick RiordinRiordin as well. About the Egyptian Gods told by a brother and sister who are always making snarky remarks while the other is speaking. Totally hilarious banter. The storyline is amazing.
Basically you can’t go wrong with Brandon Mull or Rick Riordin!!!!
The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley is a hilariously entertaining series! I also enjoyed the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull and the rest of Rick Riordan’s books like several others have suggested.
When my mother bought me the Charlie Bone series, she also got Artemis Fowl. I love them both! Artemis is a brilliant, rich criminal mastermind, but he may be in over his head when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and dangerous.
My fourth grader loves the Harry Potter series.
My fourth grader loves the Harry Potter series. She says that it’s amazing.
Anything by Stuart Gibbs! We loved the Spy School series, Space Case series & the Last Musketeer series!!
yes, we love these too~ and also the Wingfeather Saga (four books). I have read many of the ones you listed Autumn and loved them as well. Thanks for this list!
These are all wonderful series! One other
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would when he accepted Gov. Doug Ducey's (R) appointment, Rep. McSally would be in prime position for the next appointment.
In any event, the Arizona seat will be in special election mode during the 2020 regular cycle. Sen. John McCain (R) was re-elected in 2016, meaning this seat will again come before the electorate for the six-year term in 2022. Therefore, the appointed Senator must stand before the voters in the next regular election. Among Democrats, two names are quickly surfacing as possible candidates. Former Republican Attorney General Grant Woods, who is now a Democrat, and US Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Phoenix) are frequently being mentioned as possible special election contenders.
Florida: The recount deadline expired on Thursday, and 66 of Florida's 67 counties submitted new totals after completing the machine recount process. The one county not complying, Palm Beach, did not meet the time requirement because of machine malfunctioning. Their antiquated system can only count races consecutively and not simultaneously. Because of more than 174,000 ballots being mis-read or mis-counted and then the machines over-heating, all 600,000+ votes must be resubmitted. In addition to the US Senate race being legally within the recount guidelines, so are the Governor and Agriculture statewide contests. In addition, Palm Beach County has one state House of Representatives race that is also in political limbo.
Counting Palm Beach's original numbers, which were re-submitted at the deadline, Gov. Rick Scott (R) leads Sen. Bill Nelson (D) by 12,603 votes, an increase of 47 votes. The next step is constituting three-member canvassing teams in all counties who will review contested ballots and submit them to hand counting. Seven lawsuits have been filed regarding including or excluding pockets of ballots in the various counties, the largest vote cache in Broward County. Palm Beach is ordered to have its recounts submitted by 3 pm on Sunday.
Massachusetts: Sen. Ed Markey (D) announced this week that he will stand for re-election to a second full term in 2020, but it might not be without significant primary opposition. Though he claims to have no plans to challenge Sen. Markey, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Salem) is not completely ruling out doing so. Before winning a special Senate election after then-Sen. John Kerry (D) became Secretary of State and clinching a full term in 2014, Sen. Markey served in the House for 37 years. He would again be rated as a heavy favorite in both the ensuing primary and general elections.
California: The Golden State's voting system that allows voters to postmark their ballots on Election Day is again making California the last state in the union to call their races, and the process is likely to drag on for a much longer period of time. State and county authorities estimate that they have an astounding 3.4 million more mail ballots remaining to count. Adding to the approximately 8 million votes already tabulated would take the statewide voter turnout number to the 11.5 million range. In contrast, only 7.3 million voted in the 2014 midterm election. Almost 14.2 million participated in the 2016 presidential campaign.
CA-10; NJ-3: Two more congressional campaigns have been clinched. Both Reps. Jeff Denham (R-CA) and Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) have now lost their seats to Democratic challengers Josh Harder and Andy Kim, respectively. With these victories, it appears that the new Democratic majority could grow to as high as 235, meaning an increase of 40 seats. Five races remain uncalled, and Democrats look well positioned in at least three of the remaining undecided House campaigns, if not all.
CA-45 & 39: Though this race has not yet been officially called, it is appearing more likely that Rep. Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) will become yet another Republican casualty of the California vote. Now falling behind challenger Katie Porter (D) by just under 4,000 votes, the swing toward the Democrat has eclipsed 10,000 votes since the post-Election Day counting began. There could still reasonably be about 75,000 votes still to count, but the trends here favor a Porter victory.
If the open 39th District contest between Young Kim (R) and Gil Cisneros (D) also goes Democratic, although that election is still within 1,000 votes and Ms. Kim leading, the party will have converted six Republican seats in California alone when tabulations are finally completed at the end of the month.
CA-48: Though thousands of votes will be added to the final total, a projection was made in what should be the safely Republican 48th Congressional District, a seat fully contained within Orange County. Businessman Harley Rouda (D) defeated Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), ostensibly ending the Congressman's 30-year political career. Mr. Rohrabacher's strange ties to the Russian government and his many favorable comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin were a major reason for his defeat in addition to the national political climate.
ME-2: As expected, the Ranked Choice Voter system that allows people who vote for minor candidates to effectively have more voting power than those who support major party candidates changed the outcome of Maine's 2nd District campaign. Now, Democratic state Rep. Jared Golden (D-Lewiston) will be declared the victor by just under 3,000 votes, as the second and third choices from the voters who supported the two independent candidates were factored in to the major party totals. The incumbent, Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-Oakland/Bangor) has already filed a lawsuit against the instant run-off procedure.
MD-6: Democratic businessman David Trone (D) won the open district campaign last Tuesday, but just after his victory a federal court ruled that his congressional district boundaries constitute an illegal gerrymander. Should the ruling hold through the Appellate courts, the legislature will be forced to re-draw the seat, and any adjacent districts that the new boundaries affect. Thinking that the district may become more Republican, state Delegate Neil Parrott (R-Funkstown/ Hagerstown) announced that he is forming a 2020 congressional exploratory committee in order to possibly launch a federal campaign at a later date.
North Carolina: Democrats will end the decade again filing suit against the North Carolina congressional and state legislative maps, as they have done consistently since 2011. Even when they were successful in forcing a re-draw, the NC congressional map did not improve upon the 10R-3D split that Democrats have been attempting in vain to change.
Their chances are now considerably better. Armed with a new 5-2 majority on the state Supreme Court, the Democrats filed suit this week emulating the Pennsylvania strategy of challenging under the state constitution. The US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to such a Pennsylvania lawsuit last year, thus opening the door for other similar legal maneuvers. The North Carolina Democrats are the first to make the subsequent move.
NC-9: Another close congressional was called, this one in the Charlotte, NC area. Here, Baptist former pastor Mark Harris (R) looks to have clinched about a 2,000-vote victory over businessman Dan McCready (D). It appeared that Mr. McCready was well positioned to score an upset, especially immediately after the May primary when Mr. Harris denied three-term Rep. Bob Pittenger (R-Charlotte) re-nomination. In electing a Republican, it appears this district defied the national trend.
TX-23: The TX-23 campaign result has been the most difficult to read. On election night, Rep. Will Hurd (R-San Antonio) had been projected as the winner. Later in the evening, the projection was rescinded, only to be later reinstated. Now, with Democratic challenger Gina Ortiz Jones challenging some ballots, the race appears to be undecided once again. The current count stands with Rep. Hurd holding an 1,150 vote edge over Ms. Jones from over 209,000 votes cast.
UT-4: In a lead for congressional challenger Ben McAdams (D), the Salt Lake County Mayor, that had grown almost to 9,000 votes, Rep. Mia Love (R-Saratoga Springs) appeared in grave danger of losing the congressional seat that she has represented for four years. But, post-election counting from the rural areas has seen her storm back, and she is now within 1,229 votes of Mr. McAdams. At this point, Ms. Love is filing a lawsuit to halt the remaining counting so further signature verification can begin of each mailed ballot. Approximately 40,000 votes remain uncounted. Models are present suggesting that each candidate could ultimately win, but the more likely victor remains Mr. McAdams.
Florida: Continuing the Florida recount story (see Florida Senate above), the Governor's race is much closer to concluding. The statewide recount, sans Palm Beach County, now finds former US Rep. Ron DeSantis (R) leading Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) by 33,683 votes. Since this race did not fall within ¼ percent after the recount, the three-member county canvassing process will not occur. Therefore, after Sunday, DeSantis will likely be declared the unofficial winner pending lawsuit resolution.
Kentucky: Now that the 2018 midterm elections are behind us, potential office seekers are now turning their attention toward 2019. The Kentucky Governor's race will be on the ballot next year with Gov. Matt Bevin (R) presumably seeking re-election to a second term. He has already drawn opposition from Attorney General Andy Beshear (D
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to the floor, and their arms began flailing as each tried to pound their fists into the other. Joe pushed Frye to the right, and the man slid off of him. But Frye grabbed Joe’s arm and pulled his opponent toward him. Joe flipped himself over the man on the floor, landing on his back next to Frye. He quickly got to his feet and joined his hands together. As Frye began to rise from the floor, Joe threw his entwined hands into the man’s stomach, then jerked them upwards to hammer Frye just under the chin. Frye’s head snapped back and his body went limp. He collapsed to the ground in a heap and laid still.
Breathing hard and coughing a bit, Joe stood over the fallen man for a moment, making sure his opponent was down for good. Suddenly, Joe realized the air around him was becoming thick with smoke, and he heard an ominous crackle behind him. He whirled around and his eyes opened wide with both fear and astonishment as he saw the fire burning behind him.
The dried-out pine needles scattered on the floor gave the fire the fuel it needed to spread quickly. With almost morbid fascination, Joe watched as the flames raced along the wall toward the back of the building and then turned toward the make-shift stage that had been erected. The fire paused long enough to set the wreath leaning against the stage ablaze, and then continued its sprint around the edge of the floor. The fiery wreath ignited the wooden stage and soon flames were shooting from the platform.
Moving his head from side to side, Frye looked at Joe with glazed eyes. Then, Frye’s eyes suddenly cleared. Without warning, he jerked his arm upward, hammering the side of Joe’s head with his fist. Joe wasn’t expecting the blow, and the punch seemed to rattle his brain. He released his hold on Frye’s shirt and crumpled to the floor, hitting the hard wood with his head as he landed.
Stunned by both the blow and the fall, Joe laid unmoving on the floor. He heard a roaring in his ears and sparks of light exploded in front of his eyes. His arms and legs felt heavy, useless. A small part of Joe’s brain was urging him to move, but the rest of his body refused to obey. Joe knew he was on the floor and wondered dully how he had gotten there. For several moments, he simply laid still and watched the black smoke that was beginning to curl and thicken above him.
At last, the part of his brain that was urging Joe to move got a response. He blinked twice and tilted his head until it was almost resting on his shoulder. Expending what felt like an extraordinary amount of effort, Joe pushed himself up from the floor. He winced and gritted his teeth as head throbbed, but Joe continued to push against the floor until he was in a sitting position.
Joe sat for a moment with his head hanging forwarded as he waited for the pain inside his skull to abate. When the throbbing finally eased, Joe raised his head slowly and looked around.
The flames that had been licking the walls had found new fuel in the wooden tables and the row of chairs on either side of Joe. He could feel the heat as the fire burned its way from the perimeter of the building toward its center. Dark smoke swirled around him and Joe coughed as the smoke found its way into his mouth and nose. He could see nothing but flames and smoke all around him.
“Frye!” Joe called loudly. “Frye! Where are you?” He coughed the smoke out of his lungs and tried again. “Frye! Answer me! We have to get out of here!” Joe listened hard but heard nothing except the crackle of burning wood. Frye either couldn’t answer or had left, abandoning Joe to whatever fate the fire had for him. Joe knew it was too late to worry about Frye. He had to concentrate on saving himself.
Dazed and disoriented, Joe peered through the smoke, trying to figure out which way he was facing. He knew he had only one chance to find the front of the building and the doorway that led to safety. If he moved in the wrong direction, he wouldn’t have time to correct his mistake. Joe could see a sea of flames to his left, but wasn’t sure what was fueling the fire. If it was the stage, then the entrance was to his right. But if the chairs were fueling the blaze to his left, then the pathway to safety was in front of him.
Turning his body, Joe began crawling to toward the flames, hoping he could tell what was burning and which way to go in order to escape. He stopped and reached out his hand, but felt nothing, then began crawling forward again. Once more he stopped and reached forward but his outstretched hand felt only heat and air. He was beginning to think he was facing the stage, but Joe knew it was worth his life to be sure. Forcing himself to continue toward the flames, Joe crawled a few more feet before stopping. Yet again, he stretched his arm forward and this time his hand bumped into something hard. He touched the smoke-obscured object, moving his hand around until he felt the thin, rounded leg of a chair.
A small smile of satisfaction broke out on Joe’s face as he backed away from the flames. The row of chairs was in front of him, which meant the entrance to the warehouse was now to his right. Joe crawled rapidly backward until he was a good distance from the fire, then turned his body to the right. For a moment, Joe considered getting to his feet and trying to run out of the burning building. But he knew the smoke would be thinner closer to the floor and he could breathe what little air was left in the warehouse. Besides, his head was still throbbing and he felt a bit dizzy. Joe decided he was better off using four limbs to balance himself than just two.
Joe heard a loud crash behind him as some piece of burning material fell to the floor. He didn’t bother to look to see what it was. He could feel the heat of the flames intensifying and see the smoke thickening. Joe knew he had no time to lose. He began crawling forward, praying that the entrance to the warehouse wasn’t too far away.
As he moved on all fours across the floor, Joe came across pieces of debris, some smoldering and others bright with flames. Joe pushed these aside, even though the fragments singed his hands. He didn’t want to crawl around the burning pieces and take a chance on getting disoriented again. He knew his only hope was to keep moving in as straight a line as possible toward the door.
The smoke near the floor was getting thicker and Joe began to cough. His head was spinning, and the roaring had resumed in his ears. His arms and legs began to tremble as his strength started to ebb away. Joe wasn’t sure if the fire or the blow to head – or both – were the cause of his difficulties, but he knew it didn’t matter. He had to keep moving forward; he had to continue crawling and pushing himself toward the front of the building.
After crawling for what seemed a mile, Joe’s right arm gave way and he fell forward. He tried to push himself up again, but his arm felt as if it was made out of putty. Joe reached out with his left arm, trying to pull himself across the floor with that one limb, but his left arm didn’t seem to work properly either. The thick smoke enveloped him and the heat from the flames seemed closer than ever. His thinking confused by the fumes from the smoke, Joe decided it wouldn’t hurt to rest for a minute before continuing toward the door. He laid his head on the floor and closed his eyes.
And then, without warning, Joe felt a pair of hands taking a firm grasp on his left upper arm, followed by a second pair of hands grasping his right arm. He felt himself being dragged for a short distance and then pulled to his feet. His right arm was flung across a neck and shoulders, and then the action was repeated with his left arm. Joe felt two arms – one from the right and one from the left – wrapping themselves around his body. He was propelled forward, being pushed and dragged at the same time. In less than a minute, Joe felt a rush of cool, fresh air against his face. He breathed in deeply, sucking the clean air into his lungs, as he continued to be pulled forward.
Pulling his horse to a rather abrupt stop, Ben Cartwright jumped out of the saddle and hurried toward the door of the brick building in which Dr. Martin’s office was housed. The man who had ridden out to the Ponderosa from Virginia City to advise Ben to come to town right away had offered him little in the way of hard facts. He had only known that the warehouse in which the Christmas Dance had been held had somehow caught on fire, and Joe had been trapped inside. Adam and Hoss had pulled their brother from the burning building only minutes before it had begun to collapse. The last thing the man had seen was Adam and Hoss carrying Joe toward the doctor’s office.
The fear and anxiety Ben felt was evident on his face as he pushed open the door and walked into the doctor’s office. In the waiting room, Ben hesitated, looking around for someone from whom he could demand information. Then the door to the examining room in front of him opened, and Dr. Paul Martin emerged.
Ben’s body sagged a bit as he let out a sigh of relief.
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that slot. These were just down the aisle from the common pine.
First step of the process was to cut down the two 8’ pieces to the length of my workbench (a little less than 72”). The benchcrafted insert looks like it is several inches shorter than the workbench top, and I didn’t really like the look of that so I went with full length.
Once the pieces were cut to length, I was able to line them up, resting in the slot side by side, and mark the bottom dados that were needed to rest down over the leg stretchers.
My bench is about 5” to 5-¼” thick (it still needs to be flattened, mind you) and the width of these boards is 5 ½” so when resting on the leg stretchers in the slot, it sticks up above my bench surface about ¼”…perfect for a planing stop.
I measured how much board was sticking out of the bench at the tallest point and it was about ⅜” or so, so that’s how deep I marked the dados.
To get a nice clean saw line, I used a trick that I learned from Paul Sellers (though it’s pretty common hand tool practice from all the other woodworking teachers I see out there): Instead of pencil to mark your cuts, use a marking knife, which scores the wood fibers and prevents tear out, then chamfer a little bit from the waste side (the material you will be removing), right up to your knife line.
This gives the saw a nice little slot to sit in while you get your cut started, and a flat knife line to snug the saw against to ensure an accurate cut, most every time.
I don’t yet have a marking knife, and my utility knife doesn’t cut it most of the time (I know, I know, I am a cheesy punner…but I am a dad, so I get to use that excuse), so I just line a chisel up with the waste side of the pencil line, bevel towards the waste and hammer it one or two taps straight down into the wood. The flat side of the chisel goes straight down into the wood nice and square.
This cuts a nice ⅛” deep cut into the wood fibers, leaving a clean, square “knife line” to chamfer up to with my chisel.
I am going to be recording/filming a more detailed version of this method in the next couple weeks…keep an eye out for that too.
This short video is just to show the basic concept as I was making the cut for the tool slot dados…more on these later.
While chiseling away a chamfer from the waste side up to the knife line along the face, I ended up taking a bit too much waste out with the chisel (I was experimenting with paring with the grain, parallel to the knife line) as you can see in this photo.
No big deal, and I wouldn’t even have a saw cut starting there anyway, I was just playing with how the wood behaved.
Next up, cut the cheeks of the dado down to my knife line on the face and add a few saw cuts to make the paring easier.
take care now… don’t pare too deep!
ah, now flatten and smooth it to the final depth.
Repeat 3 more times for the other dados on the bottom of the insert boards.
At first, I had them evenly split between both pieces to create a tool slot in the center, but after thinking on it more, I moved the tool slot back so that the entire half inch slot would only be cutout from the back piece…essentially cutting the amount of work in half since I now only had to chisel out half as many dados in the center pieces.
Here I am marking the new half inch set back…notice the existing quarter inch line after previously laying this out.
After marking the lines on the top, I wrapped them around the sides I would be cutting (down the inside face and in a half inch on the bottom as well.
Now, to get the waste out of where I have marked, I tried a couple methods. The general idea is that you cut saw kerfs (the slot a saw leaves as it cuts) as deep as you need to remove (½” in this case) and then chisel out what’s left in between. I was experimenting with different ways to cut saw kerfs before chiseling.
The first attempt I just cut a big X across the waste.
This worked, but was a lot of work. Getting all the waste out with the chisel took a long time and made my palms sore from the pressure on the chisel. Perhaps that’s a sign my chisel needs sharpening…or there is a better way.
Naturally, I moved on to try another technique…cutting straight kerfs about every inch or two before chiseling out the remaining waste.
This resulted in about the same amount of work with the chisel. Next!
The final technique (final for good reason) is the more commonly taught method, and the method recommended in my Joints book. Cut a LOT more kerfs, about every ¼” apart before chiseling away the waste.
The advantage here is that you can chisel perpendicular to the grain and the wood just chips right off. With the other methods, too much wood would have needed to be split apart in one stroke for this to work with the larger patches of waste wood.
Once you chisel out most of the waste, you clean the bottom of the dado up with the chisel and possibly a rabbet plane (a hand plane that can plane right up flush to the edge). I just have a regular plane, so could only do so much with it before working on it with the chisel.
One lesson I learned was that for dados this wide, I really needed to be using a much larger chisel to clean up the bottom. My nicest (and sharpest) chisel is only ¾” and that’s the one I use to clean things up. I could have perhaps spent some more time sharpening my 1-¼” chisel to be suitable for working with pine, but didn’t really notice the issue until after I had completed the work.
Something I am coming to realize and learning is that the larger your chisel, the less prone it is to taking things out of square.
Imagine you are trying to flatten a 1” wide dado. If you are trying to do this with a ¼” chisel…you would have to take several passes and some may be deeper than others. It’s not likely it would be very flat. Now, if you had a ¾” or even a 1” chisel, it would take one or two passes to make it flat, and much less prone to errors.
For the nerds out there this is pretty much a real life application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle from quantum mechanics. I honestly never thought that little nugget of information would ever have some correlation to real life. Thanks engineering degree.
Now that the dados have been cut, I was ready to glue both boards together to mostly complete this insert.
Since I was pretty selective with the boards I picked out at the home store, these were pretty straight and true and didn’t need any preparation before the glue up. If they are bowed or cupped or anything, I would have needed to joint and plane them to get them square and parallel on all four sides.
I (again) forgot to snap a photo at this stage, but used a convenient glue roller I got from Rockler to evenly spread the glue on the inside face of the board with the dados. This helped me make sure that I didn’t have glue junk inside my tool slots and only on the mating surfaces of the wood.
I clamped it in between every dado to ensure a nice even fit and left it overnight.
The glue roller did a nice job of helping me avoid the massive piles of extra glue that you probably saw oozing out of my workbench top when I glued that up. There was very, very little glue that seeped out of the sides of this glue up. I was able to wipe off the little that did come out with a paper towel.
This meant glue cleanup was much easier than with the workbench top.
Pulling the insert out of the clamps the next day, I then clamped it to the front of the workbench and planed both sides flat to ensure that both boards were even with each other on top and bottom. I was not very concerned with how square it is given its application, but wanted it close anyway.
As I was planing the bottom, I decided I wanted the dados for the leg stretchers to be eased in a bit to make it easier to slide the insert on and off the leg stretchers when I wanted to raise it up for a planing stop. I chamfered the edges of the bottom of the insert about ¼” all the way around, and then did the same to the bottoms of the tool slots. I didn’t want any tools getting hung up on the bottom as I tried to pull them out of the slot.
Fitting the entire insert back into the workbench, I noticed that it was a bit proud of the rest of the workbench when it was resting down on the leg stretchers. I pulled it back out and shaved some more depth out of the two dados for the leg stretchers.
Plopped it back in the workbench and now it sits just below the rest of the workbench top. Perfect.
I can pull it up, slide it a few inches to
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the statewide average. Chad Fenwick, a district physical education advisor, said California’s largest school system had long lagged behind the state, in part because many students are low income, a socioeconomic factor correlated with lower fitness levels. Yet scores have steadily improved in the last seven years — 49.2% of ninth-graders passed five of six sections this year, the state target, compared to 26% in 2004, he said.
This year, scores dropped largely because of the section changes, he said.
Among other initiatives to improve children’s health, Fenwick said, the district has received a state grant for the last four years to send a credentialed physical education teacher to about 60 elementary schools to work with students and train classroom teachers. Although the state now allows districts to use that money to meet other needs, L.A. Unified has kept its physical education program, he said.
This year, the district also revamped its cafeteria menu, replacing such items as chocolate milk and French fries for more healthful fare.
But Fenwick said budget cuts in the last two years have hurt high school physical education programs, boosting class sizes to as high as 80. “Class sizes are up pretty dramatically, and it’s another thing that worries us,” he said.
Those concerns are shared statewide. A survey released last month by the California State PTA found that 75% of the 1,600 members polled said their school’s physical education and sports programs had been eliminated or reduced. Restoring such programs was the top health concern cited.
Torlakson’s new campaign, Team California for Healthy Kids, will encourage schools to apply for grants for salad bars, form partnerships with farmers markets, integrate physical activity into instruction and other activities.
The 2011 Physical Fitness Test results are available on the California Department of Education website under Physical Fitness Testing. Information on the Team California for Healthy Kids initiative is available under Team California for Healthy Kids — Initiatives & Programs.
I don’t know about you, but if I’m going to put in all that effort in the gym, I certainly don’t want my results hijacked by poor nutrition.
Here’s how it works. Your body gets energy from the carbohydrates you eat. Carbohydrates are converted to glucose, and unused glucose is then converted to glycogen, which is stored in your liver and muscles.
During intense exercise, your body uses up this stored energy. Not having a store of energy, your body can’t function at its potential.
Healthy pre- and post-workout foods provide your body with the glycogen needed to fuel your muscles during aerobic and anaerobic exercise.
Pre-Workout Fuel. Many people find that exercising first thing in the morning works best for their schedule. For some, this means heading to the gym on an empty stomach. Unfortunately, when you exercise with your body’s “gas tank” on empty, your body will start to take the amino acids from your muscles and convert them to the glucose you need for energy.
In order to burn fat, you need to fuel up with 150-250 calories of nutritious fuel 30 min to an hour and a half before working out. This gives your body enough time to digest the food and make the energy available for exercising.
You want your pre-workout meal to consist of both simple and complex carbs (the simple break down and burn down qucikly and the complex will take over afterwards as they break down slower) and some protein. Good examples of healthy pre-workout meals or snacks to give your body the energy it needs to exercise include high-fiber cereal with skim milk, a two- to three-ounce turkey breast sandwich, poached egg with whole-wheat toast and grapefruit, or a lean turkey burger. My favorites for longer workouts include peanut butter and banana sandwich (add honey for a long ride ro run), oats with protein powder and raisins.
Don’t have time to eat a meal before exercising? No excuse, You still need to eat something. A quick way to give your body immediate energy is to eat an energy bar like a clif bar. They are designed to be easy on the stomach and to be used for workouts! You can also in a pinch use a simple carbohydrate such as fruit or juice in a protein drink or shake 15 to 30 minutes prior to working out. And AVOID heavy meals before exercising, as these large meals may slow you down and make you feel sluggish during your routine.
Replenish Post-workout. The goal of post-workout nutrition is to help muscles rebuild and strengthen following the stress and loss of glycogen they experience during exercise. To replenish energy stores, your muscles need protein and carbohydrates within half an hour to 45 Min following exercise.
After a workout what you put into your body is as important as the workout itself. You want to stop the catabolic effect of your muscles searching for fuel and perhaps tearing your own muscles down for that fuel. So as soon as you can eat a meal that has simple carbs and protein. I know simple carbs are usually thought of as horrible, but immediately following exercise, they are great for quick fule for your muscles. A good ratio is 4 gram carbs:1 gram protein.
Examples of a post-workout snacks and meals include a four- to six-ounce turkey breast and brown rice, a pasta salad with grilled chicken, or a smoothie with fresh fruit and low-fat yogurt. Liquid replacements are always good to have after a workout. Since they are not a solid that takes a while to break down in your stomach, they will be absornbed quicker, stopping the catabolism of your muscles sooner and helping repair your muscles!
Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 119 calories, 1 fat, 336mg sodium, 10g carbohydrate, 3g fiber, and 15g protein.
Soup is a wonderful meal to enjoy when you’re focused on losing weight – with a few guidelines.
Never choose soups that have a cream base. These are filled with more calories and fat than you need.
Avoid soups that have noodles or rice.
Make sure that your soup has a lean source of protein, such as lean turkey or chicken breast.
Look for soups loaded with veggies.
If you’re not happy with your body then your workouts have lost focus.
If you don’t have a ready answer then chances are good that your motivation is low and it has resulted in a lack of results.
I know from firsthand experience that operating without a goal will get you nowhere. Sure, you may still be exercising regularly and eating mindfully but without that concrete goal your efforts will yield little results.
You want to be in “better shape” but that’s so vague. Dig deeper.
What specifically do you wish you had now that you don’t?
To drop 3 dress sizes.
To lose 2 inches of arm fat jiggle.
To melt 4 inches from your waist.
To be able to run 3 miles without stopping.
Now that you’ve determined exactly what part of your body isn’t up to par, tie that goal in with a specific timeline. When you have a timeline to measure your progress against, you’ll find that achieving your goal becomes an easier process.
To drop 3 dress sizes by August 20th vacation.
To lose 2 inches of arm fat jiggle by October 13th wedding.
To melt 4 inches from your waist by July 7th pool party.
To be able to run 3 miles without stopping by June 16th city 5k.
It’s time to take your motivation to the next level. Now that your specific goal is set and your timeline is clearly defined, let’s add a prize that you’ll receive once you’ve accomplished your goal. This prize shouldn’t be anything related to your unhealthy habits – so no junk food or extra large meals. Make the prize an item that will reinforce your slimmer body, like a nice piece of clothing.
A couple new outfits for your August vacation.
A sleeveless dress for the October wedding.
A new swimsuit for your July pool party.
A new pair of running shoes for your June 5k.
You know what you want, when you want it by, and the reward you’ll get by achieving it. Now spend time picturing your end goal. Find a comfortable, quiet corner, close your eyes and see a mental movie – starring yourself – enjoying your reward with your new and improved body. Play your mental success movie several times throughout the day.
See yourself enjoying an afternoon of your vacation, wearing your new clothes with confidence.
Imagine how you’ll feel walking down the aisle baring your toned arms.
See yourself lounging by the pool in your swimsuit, carefree and happy.
Imagine the feeling of accomplishment you’ll feel as you cross the finish line.
The steps that you’ve taken above have prepared you to mentally take on the challenge of motivating yourself through this transformation process. All that remains is a solid exercise and nutrition plan to push you through to your new body.
I’m fanatical about propelling each and every one of my clients through their own personal body transformation.
A growing body of research continues to confirm links between exercise and improved brain function. So in addition to making you stronger, leaner, sexier, and more confident, your time at the gym will actually make you smarter.
Following the anti-Monsanto activism launched by nations like France and Hungary, Polandhas announced that it will launch a complete ban on growing Monsanto’s genetically modified strain MON810. The announcement, made by Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki, sets yet another international standard against Mons
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your business.
• Total freedom in the amount of time you want to invest in the adventure. It can be 2 hours per week or full-time. It’s up to you.
• Recognition for the work you do by receiving commissions and bonuses from Young Living.
Getting paid for something that you love. Isn’t that awesome?!
Call, DM or e-mail me, so I can explain everything to you and you can get startet right away in the pace that you choose.
What are the advantages of working as an independent distributor for Young Living?
• You can work from wherever you want. From home or from a tropical island. As long as you’ve got wifi and a phone, tablet or laptop, you’re good to go.
• You’ll be assisted and guided by Team Oil up if you want to. If you’d rather figure it all out by yourself, that’s fine too.
• You decide how long and how often you work.
• You’re inspiring and helping others to live a healthy and happy life.
• You have the opportunity to gain a great income. See income disclosure below.
• You’ll have residual income. So even if you are on vacation for a month or when your ill, you’ll still receive your commissions.
• Do you have children? This is a great perk: the income you receive from Young Living is willable. Have you ever got a job where the pay goes on even after you die?
• You’ll have the opportunity to travel for free. Not just the flight is paid for, but also the hotel, the meals and tours are paid for by Young Living. If had the pleasure of going on a few free trips and they are awesome!
• FREEDOM! For me that’s the best thing. I feel free, because I can do whatever I want whenever I want. I’m my own boss. Love it!
That depend on a few things. To give you an idea you can check out Young Living’s income discloser below. There you’ll see what the income is for the several ranks. You can set your own goals. Will you aim for the highest rank and paycheck or are you aiming for just a few hundred bucks extra each month? It’s up to you.
No, it’s not difficult. Of course you’ll have to do the work. But I can teach you everything you need to know. Or your sponsor can teach you. We’re here to help you.
No, you don’t have to make large investments to become a business member. You can just start with buying a Premium Starter Kit for your own use. You will never be asked to invest in a big pile of product to start up your business. With just the Starter Kit oils and the diffuser you’re good to go. Of course it’s a good idea to buy some Young Living product every month for your own use, so you can get acquainted with the products. So every month you buy some from Young Living and every month you’ll receive the commissions for your efforts on your bank account.
It’s mostly time that you’ll invest. And it’s up to you how much time you want to invest.
Do I need a specific education?
No, you don’t need to. Being enthousiastic about the products and the will to learn and to take steps is much more important.
Kan I work from another country?
Sure! As long as you’ve got wifi, you’re good to go.
Ik stel hieronder graag een aantal van onze teamleden aan je voor.
Hoi, ik ben Marcia Hamelijnck, oprichtster van Oil up. Ik ben getrouwd met Dirk en samen hebben wij een dochter, Lieve van 7 jaar.
In juni 2015 zijn wij gestart met het inzetten van de oliën in ons gezin en inmiddels zijn we al goed gemarineerd ;-).
We zetten de oliën in op lichamelijk, emotioneel, mentaal en spiritueel gebied.
Maar het blijft niet alleen bij oliën. Ook de schoonmaakmiddelen en verzorgingsproducten zonder schadelijke stoffen van Young Living gebruiken wij dagelijks.
Nadat ik kanker heb gehad, zijn wij de dingen die we zoal aten en opsmeerden onder de loep gaan nemen. Bizar om te merken dat er zo veel troep zit in de dingen die we dagelijks tot ons nemen en aan onze kinderen geven.
Stap voor stap hebben wij ons eetpatroon en onze verzorging een make-over gegeven.
Geen pakjes en zakjes meer in de keuken, maar veel verse producten.
Geen reguliere verzorgings- en schoonmaakmiddelen meer, maar toxic-free varianten.
Het is mijn missie om zo veel mogelijk mensen te inspireren tot het maken van gezondere keuzes. Dit doe ik o.a. door hen te informeren over dit onderwerp en hen bekend te maken met the good stuff van Young Living, zodat ze goed geïnformeerd hun keuze kunnen maken.
Daarnaast ben ik teamleider van team Oil up! en begeleid ik anderen die hetzelfde werk doen of willen doen als ik.
Dit is veruit het leukste en meest waardevolle werk wat ik ooit gedaan heb en ik ben dus ook van plan om hier nog heel lang mee door te gaan.
Hi, my name is Signy, I’m 37 years old and I live in Harderwijk together with Jeffrey and our son Skip who is 5 years old. When I started using the oils my life has been transformed in a positive way on many levels. Besides the fact that the oils support me and my family on a physical and emotional level. It gave me an opportunity to gain an income despite the fact that I am limited because I have to work my way around the discomfort of Lyme disease. So now I can make my own money with something that is so much fun to do! It’s my mission to make the world a better and foremost a healthy place and to teach others how easy it is to do this. In my make & take classes I teach people how to make their own healthy personal care products which inspires them and that’s what gives me the energy to continue this mission. I’m working my way to financial independence with Young Living so I can open a farm with a horse shelter in the future.
My favorite oils are: Magnify your Purpose, Valor, Sacred Mountain, Clarity and Vetiver.
I am Annemarieke van de Koevering, 43 years old, married with three daughters of 17-13-12 years old. Since September 2015 I use the oils. I wanted to support my children and make more use of natures treasures. By now I am not only helping my children with the oils but also a lot of other people.
It’s so amazing to be able to help someone and get great feedback!
Sometimes it’s a bit of a search for the right oil, but once you’ve found it, you’ll never go back to your old ways.
That’s what I like about the oil, they just do what they should! And it brings people together. I really enjoy helping people and go on a quest to find out what combination can support them the best. Also I’m stilI learning every day. I love it!
I live in Den Bosch and I’m happily married to my sweet hubby. Blessed with three wonderful kids and since a few year I’m a fan of Young Living essential oils.
Every day I’m grateful that these oils have found our way to our lives.
I’m happy with my Starter Kit and very happy with al the great experiences we had after we started using the oils. I’ll never forget the first time I put the Peppermint bottle under my nose and I took a big sniff. Wow! Powerful stuff!!!
The oils have given me and my family a lot of relaxing moments and support in many many ways. The best experience was with my son. When he started using Lavender, StressAway, Franincense, Peppermint, Lemon, and later on Clarity and Vetiver, his life became so much easier and calmer. This combination of oils helped him manage stress and chaos in his head and body. His focus and concentration improved and he had more peace and space is his head. He turned to his happy self again! The oils keep surprising me.
That is also the reason that I want to share the oils with love and passion with everyone I know and want to hear about it. What these little drops can do….
Hallo, ik ben Marijke, 36 jaar, samen met mijn man Jasper hebben wij 3 kinderen. Bram 9 jaar en onze tweeling, Jasmijn en Tim van 6 jaar. Ik ben met de oliën in aanraking gekomen voor onze oudste. Hij heeft ADHD en is hooggevoelig. Sinds wij de oliën
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they uniquely stumbled into sequential crises of which they had no adequate comprehension and from which they have developed no plan of escape?
Finally, in the current circumstances, we must wonder how we are best to understand and perhaps to avoid future world-historical fiascos that threaten to be even more appalling whether the predicaments are political, military, economic, ecological... or educational.
While it would no doubt give some psychological relief to people who have been frustrated with their leaders—freely elected or ruthlessly imposed—to blame particular individuals and institutions for creating bad situations and then making them worse, the problems we face are larger than the failings of specific people and particular institutions. The crucial questions which nominal leaders seem incapable of understanding—much less answering—concern the general circumstances and contexts in which we (patricians and plebs alike) are compelled to function.
Once established and accepted as received wisdom, dominant patterns of belief and behaviour, attitudes and actions make rational, evidence-based decision making enormously difficult. Perhaps even more importantly, toxic ideologies render decision makers immune to new information, alternative explanations, competing interpretations and anything approaching a critical understanding of how their entire approach has, itself, become part of a global pathology in which all parties are implicated. Accordingly, they are left helpless in the face of immediate and decisive turns of events or impersonal yet irresistible forces that create such a climate of distress and dismay that apocalyptic thinking seems to be as rational a response to current events as any others that are available today.
However disheartened we may be at both the superficial optimism of the endlessly positive and up-beat “idealists” (the happy faces of global control) or the profoundly pessimistic and cringeworthy “realists“ (the harsher side of the coinage of social control), the fact remains that examining complexities with a combination of subtlety and sensitivity is not only more realistic, but also more honestly optimistic, than the standard fare offered by opportunists and careerists in positions of temporary power and authority.
In Disarming Conflict, Ernie Regehr undertakes a noble and formidable task. He addresses an entire range of issues that underlie what he refers to as “a quarter century of failed warfare” from 1989 to 2014. In focusing on this relatively short time period, he does not diminish the conflicts that preceded it. He presents no inventory of past abuse, but that is not his chosen task. He leaves it to us to remember.
Yet, we should not forget the two World Wars, the repression of postcolonial aspirations in Africa, Asia, nominally independent Latin America and what’s politely called the “internal colonialism“ of aboriginal populations around the world. In contemplating the larger context, it is also required of us that we recall the slaughter of somewhere between 500,000 and 2,000,000 Indonesians by President Suharto with the active assistance of the United States and its allies in 1965-1967 (Kurniawan, 2015) and the subsequent slaughter in East Timor with between 100,000 and 300,000 casualties beginning in 1975 (Jardine, 1999), the conflagration in Vietnam, the “killing fields“ of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, domestic terror in the Soviet Union and China, endless suppression and torture in any number of totalitarian countries and police states, the extermination of aboriginal communities and religious minorities, and clashes up to and including genocides that are now all but forgotten in the mindless, memoryless mass media. They are too often forgotten. They are “contextual“ items in an encyclopedia of human horror. In doing so, we can see Disarming Conflict as a summary text, a (desperately hopefully) final chapter in the narrative of human violence.
Ernie Regehr is here to make sense of the past, but more importantly to give a clear understanding of the present, and to help encourage redemptive steps to the future.
Regehr’s book deals with structural questions not only about how wars start, but also about how they end (not always as we might expect or like). He explains the limits of force and discusses the valiant, if not always successful, international efforts to prevent wars. He contextualizes the events in places such as Srebrenica and Rwanda and at least hints that moralistic assessments are inadequate to comprehensive, ultimately useful analyses.
Ernie Regehr offers a chapter on the control of the arms trade and he sensibly addresses nuclear armament. He explains how better to protect the most vulnerable people when prevention fails. Not only does he present a well-reasoned, well-researched and well-written report, but he does so in a way that calls to account the entire inventory of international relations experts and foreign affairs specialists in university departments of history and political science, in government, in self-serving lobby groups for self-promoting special interests that are often disguised as dispassionate and disinterested “think tanks,“ as well as in the military, the media and the arms industries that have been permitted not only to profit from, but also to guide civilian policies to date. When we are done, we will no longer be able to take seriously ruses such as Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s effort to create a “snitch line“ for citizens to report on “barbaric cultural practices“ while simultaneously selling $15 billion worth of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, which beheads over 100 people a year and refuses to allow women to drive automobiles.
Criticisms of militarists, civilian war mongers and their apologists (whether avaricious and conscienceless arms dealers, overt “imperialists,“ “liberal interventionists“ or remorseless “terrorists“ whose revolutions against injustice too often beget equal or greater injustices of their own) are not new. Partisans for various sides in civil and international wars have long exposed the cynical propaganda and hideous methods of the “other“ side. Peace activists have regularly constructed moral arguments in support of non-violence. And even sizable numbers of academics have done what they thought was possible to describe, analyze and explain local, regional and global violence in the hope that empirical studies would allow evidence-based policy making to prevail over prejudice, arrogance, cupidity and just plain evil (Rummel, 1997). None of this, however, seems to have worked especially well. What distinguishes Disarming Conflict is its rigorous argument about the abject futility of violence.
The idea that “war is hell“ is not new. Savagery and suffering in pointless battles are well enough known. What is different here is the strength of Regehr’s argument, which is rooted, perhaps, in C. Wright Mills’ attack (1956) on “crackpot realism,“ but which is applied more comprehensively and in greater detail by Regehr. Mills was among the first to identify the preference of leaders for the simplicity of a known catastrophe over the ambiguity of prolonged anxiety. Their mental set, he argued, made it possible for them to “still believe that ‘winning’ means something,“ even in the context of modern, technological instruments of annihilation. Mills was followed by brilliant, angry writers such as James R. Newman (1962) and others who were mainly engaged in the logic and perceived inevitability of nuclear war. They were, of course, confronted by the entire range of intellectual and political authorities who dismissed them as doe-eyed idealists.
Henry Kissinger (1957), for example, was able to use his prestigious academic credentials and political influence to steer US foreign policy toward the menace of mass destruction and, in one of the Nobel Prize Committee’s darkest exercises in humour, pick up the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his troubles (his co-winner Le Duc Tho of Vietnam honourably declined the award since, as he readily acknowledged, there was no peace). Kissinger and lesser members of the breed wrote forcefully and sneered openly at critics who, they insisted, simply did not understand human nature or, less grandly, the “reality“ of international relations in the modern world. Such warriors would do well to read Disarming Conflict. They, of course, will not. So, it falls to us to do so in order that the next generations of decision makers will at least have a well-informed opposition when they next choose (perhaps for the last time) to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Regehr brings irrefutable evidence to the conversation that mass conflict does not and cannot secure a lasting peace. Gore Vidal popularized the phrase “permanent war for permanent peace” as a way to encapsulate and satirize foreign policy in the middle of the quarter-century upon which Regehr concentrates. Regehr fills in the rest of the story. Ernie Regehr exhibits a measure of humanity that is absent from much of the thoughts, words and deeds that flow from our political leaders. Nothing less is required of a scholar and a public intellectual. Nothing less can be accepted, especially as our civilization is presented with the opportunity to open itself up to possibilities of constructive social change, but especially in the event that it does not.
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Kissinger, H. (1957). Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.
Kurniawan, E. (2015). Beauty is a wound. (Trans. A. Tucker). New York, NY: New Directions Publishing.
Newman, J. (1962). The Rule of Folly. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Mills, C. W. (1958). The causes of world war three. New York, NY: Simon &
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planning?
FISHER: It is investment management and research and our sell side, particularly Bernstein continues to win accolades in the quality of the research they provide.
RITHOLTZ: Now that business model is undergoing some pretty serious changes. At one point in time, that was a big profit center for the big banks, now it is the research department, they are in service of the rest of the asset management firm how to — how is that working these days?
FISHER: On the Bernstein sell side research group is incredibly well-regarded and well-positioned to gain marketshare in a world where pressures are indeed changing the nature of the business quite substantially.
RITHOLTZ: Yes, there has been a lot of decompression in that space and you mentioned the lack of liquidity on the bond side that half of the sell side business has changed dramatically also, but you guys are fortunate that your focus is pretty single-minded and that’s relatively unusual in this industry.
FISHER: I think it’s a real advantage to clients to have a firm that really does know what it’s doing and why it’s doing it.
RITHOLTZ: To say the least. So let me jump to my favorite questions, these are the questions I ask all of our guests, what’s the most important thing that people don’t know about your background?
FISHER: Well, you might have gotten the sense of a pretty disciplined person, I work a lot, I don’t — my young colleagues now I’m not in any social media.
RITHOLTZ: No social media, no Twitter, no Facebook.
FISHER: No social media at all.
RITHOLTZ: LinkedIn, not even LinkedIn?
FISHER: Makes me a bit of a Luddite, I admit, but the thing they are learning sometimes that I read lot about what’s going on so I am actually much more up-to-date on what’s trending than they would expect me to be. And the other really interesting thing for most of my younger colleagues is that I do believe that we are in the Golden age of television, I do think that the Sopranos unleashed the most amazing set of programs ever and so when I have any free time on long holiday weekends, I do binge watch everything that I haven’t seen, just like a teenager might.
RITHOLTZ: Okay, so give me some names I have my favorites, tell me what you’re watching and enjoying.
FISHER: Well, to keep it the nice and light, I did do The Crown over the holidays.
RITHOLTZ: One of the guys in my office loves, I can’t get into it.
FISHER: I think of people think it’s slow but I think it’s riveting because I’m a bit of an Anglophile, and I do love House of Cards and I will probably still love it without Kevin Spacey, I love Orange is the New Black.
So I could go on.
RITHOLTZ: Orange is the New Black is a tough watch, I find that is like a little gritty.
FISHER: I think men have a harder time with it than women do.
Have you seen the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon?
FISHER: I have read about it and I know she was the young woman on the House of Cards so I want to see that.
RITHOLTZ: My wife and I binged through the whole thing over the holidays and it it’s really tremendous. Tells us about some of your early mentors, you talked about what you’re doing at AB now mentoring women, who were your mentors?
FISHER: You know, I wish I could say I had a couple of incredibly important ones. I really didn’t and I regret that because I do think it’s so important. The one thing I did learn though is to make sure I got diverse opinions from people because everyone has biases and everyone has some blind spots so I have found it’s really good to ask multiple people questions over time to get help.
RITHOLTZ: What investors influenced your approach to asset management?
FISHER: One thing I love about investing is connecting the dots and everything is interconnected, everything can have unintended consequences, when I was young at Morgan Stanley, Barton Biggs was at — he has since passed away and Barton Biggs used to take a big trip every year and write about it. And the reason I’m highlighting that is that clients loved it because it reminded them of the big picture. It reminded them to keep focusing on the long term and recognized all these interconnected issues as opposed to being very, you know, focused on one particular stock or something that was really quite several as opposed to the longer-term.
So I gave him enormous credit for helping people think broadly.
RITHOLTZ: This is everybody’s favorite question, what are some of your favorite books be they investing or not investing related, fiction or nonfiction, what are you reading?
FISHER: I confess I’m not reading anything now. I tend to be in high work mode this time of the year, but I love books, again, that help connect the dots, a book that I read that I recommended to many people is Gotham, which is I think it’s Gotham History of New York to 1898 or so, I think it was written maybe 20 years ago, I forgot the author’s name but there is second version coming out but it is it is a very big book and the reason it’s so wonderful is it actually goes through the first 300 years of New York City and highlights both the — all the accidental forces that made New York become what it is today and the primary one is that the Dutch influence on New York is really what made it such a commercial center from inception.
We tend to think about the English influence but you know, the Dutch influence is really much more important to what the city became overtime.
RITHOLTZ: Gotham, A History of New York to 1898, Edwin Burroughs and Mike Wallace.
FISHER: Yes, and Mike Wallace has just — just done a second book which goes from I think 1898 to 1917 or something like that so it’s a much shorter timeframe but gets into the next period.
RITHOLTZ: Greater Gotham, a History of New York City from 1898 to 1919.
FISHER: Let me tell you another book that I recommend to everyone which used to be quite well known, I don’t think anyone under 15 knows of it, but All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, does that ring a bell with you? Yes.
RITHOLTZ: Sure, it was a movie also.
FISHER: Was but the book is much more important than the film and I think it was written in the 40s but it was written about the 30s, it was a little bit based on Huey Long, but more importantly, it’s about, it’s got so many themes but it’s about history, it’s about how you — you have to we have to accept and learn to accept you history but also change, unintended consequences of actions is a big theme of the book, it’s magnificent, and I it also reminds that geography and climate are something we don’t think about as much anymore but when you read that book about the South in the 30s, you feel the heat and the humidity and the dust and you realize how that affected the way people lived in ways that we are sort of immune from today.
So it’s a great American novel that brings in many important social themes.
RITHOLTZ: I just finished How We Got To Now and one of the six factors that led to modernity was simply air-conditioning.
FISHER: I would say air conditioning is the most important invention of the modern era.
RITHOLTZ: It has changed where people live, it has changed the political dynamic.
RITHOLTZ: Right, it’s really you don’t think about that, we take it for granted but that’s a huge innovation. So we talked earlier about how things have improved for women in the industry. Generally speaking, what you think is the most significant changes we’ve witnessed in finance over the past 25 years?
FISHER: You know, like with most industries, I think the power of the consumer is really a big trend, right?
FISHER: You see that on every industry, right? The consumer preferences have to be met, they have so many choices and that’s certainly true in private wealth management, right?
There are many different choices I think it’s really good for clients and that they are seeing a broad array of different models and every firm is therefore going to have to figure out what’s the model that works best for them and the clients they want to serve.
So given that, what you think the next shifts that were good to see are going to be?
FISHER: So I figure there’s technology coming sort of from the bottom and that the [robo] advisors have highlighted the opportunity to use technology to give clients quick information and let them do a little iterative work on their own but at the higher end, you’re seeing that there is actually more need for good advice than ever before. Tax code changes and lots of different issues as the investing landscape changes, all these things demand that good advice be available.
RITHOLTZ: Tell us about a time you fail and what you learned from the experience?
FISHER: You
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people are going to exploit the resource. And with the popularity of fishing currently at an all time high coupled with the huge increase in new people getting into the sport (especially baby boomers retiring and looking to spend more time on the water) it makes it tough for any fishery to sustain the pressure.
By taking so many different people out fishing over the years I have gained a lot of insight into the mentality of fisherman. I have fished with just about every different type of person that you could imagine from wealthy to less than middle class, experienced to novice, sportsman to meat fisherman, young to old, men, woman, white, black, asian and everyone in between. I have worked on commercial boats, sport boats, private boats, fishing resorts, inshore and offshore boats…my point is that I have fished with a lot of different people from very diverse backgrounds. The one thing that at least 90 plus percent of all fisherman that I have fished with all share in common is bottom line GREED and this is one thing that is very difficult to change. At least 30% of the people that contact me to go fishing are looking to kill as many fish as they can on a given fishing trip and the only thing that would keep them from killing everything is State and Federal fishing catch limits (by the way I only allow my clients to take a few fish for dinner and then we practice catch and release). I have gotten to the point where I turn down quite a number of fishing charters just because I don’t want to deal with this kill mentality even though I know that they will surely call another guide who will gladly take them out to put fish in the box. What really bothers me is the fact that even beyond the charter boats there are so many more recreational anglers who head out with this same mentality and the killing goes on all but unchecked. Unfortunately, most people have no clue or don’t care about how badly we are treating our fisheries. I was in the bait shop few years back and an old timer was kicked back in a rocking chair and chimed in while I was talking with the shop owner. He said “I remember when we used to go out fishing for specks and we didn’t come back until we had us a duffel bag full of fish”…my blood was boiling at this point but after about a 20 seconds pause he looked up to the ceiling and said “well I sure don’t understand why we don’t see fishing like that any more” and at that moment it clicked with me that these people really just don’t get the fact that you really can overfish a fishery. Along the same lines I had a guy call me to set up a fishing charter and when I informed him that I primarily practice catch and release he stated that “I usually practice catch and release on my local lakes but if I come down to the coast I want to take as many fish as I can to put in the freezer”. I was left near speechless and needless to say I did refuse the business. Once again we have a public resource that is being exploited by a huge number of people and at some point we are going to hit the tipping point.
As I stated earlier I am unbiased and my main concern is and always has been to have healthy fisheries so for me it really doesn’t matter who is taking all of the fish; the bottom line is that the fish are disappearing. There has always been a long standing struggle between commercial and recreational fisherman and the animosity will surly continue for years to come. Yes I have worked on commercial boats so I do know that side of the business but I am for all intensive purposes a recreational fisherman. That being said, short of commercial drag shrimpers (due to their by-catch) and gill netters I will tell you that most commercial fisherman are not causing the problems within our fisheries. Commercial fishing is very difficult and labor intensive work, most commercial fisherman are ethical and follow the rules and commercial fisherman are heavily regulated on both the state and federal level. Moreover, most commercial fisherman are professionals and conduct their business in such a way that does not upset the natural balance. Yes there are bad commercial fisherman and all commercial fisherman are greedy but due to fact that they have to sell, thus report their catches and surely don’t want to lose their licenses they tend to stay on the right side of the law. Moreover, it always gets me that on one hand people vilify commercial fisherman and then that same evening go out to a nice restaurant for a fish dinner…go figure! If you look at recreational fisherman our fishing practices are also regulated via gear restrictions, size limits and bag limits but the numbers of fish being taken go generally unreported. Minor efforts are made to see what recreation anglers are harvesting through boat ramp surveys, charter fishing logs and phone census reports but nobody really has a clue about the number of fish that recreational anglers are really harvesting and where this has the biggest impact is within smaller localized fisheries. Moreover, because recreational anglers are not professional in what they do many of them do more damage than what could ever be reported. Some examples would include: the amount of fishing gear (hooks and line) that is discarded in the waterways, entangled cast nets that are left to keep killing, damage to the grasses and shell beds due to props. Beyond that most recreational anglers have no clue of how to handle fish that are to be released; I don’t allow my client to handle fish that are to be released simply because they do so much damage to the fish simply trying to get the hooks out that the fish will die anyhow. On the other hand, recreational fisherman are generally on the forefront of fish conservation and I do believe that many of us are willing to make changes if it will help improve the fisheries. The bottom line is this: we all have a hand in this and for our fisheries to come back it will require both commercial and recreational fisherman to make substantial changes.
Thirty years ago there was no such thing as a 10 inch screen on the top of a boat console that could tell you exactly where you were in real time. There was no magic machine that could look deep into the bottom and tell you exactly what the structure looked like and also if there were a bunch of fish down there. We didn’t have 40 foot center console boats that could run at 50 MPH in a 3-4 foot sea or skinny water flats boats with a 100 mile range that could float in 5 inches of water. We didn’t have $400 sunglasses or reels with super slick drags and hair like fishing line and we surely didn’t have the damn internet! The advances in fishing technology has exploded over the past few decades and it has allowed even novice fisherman the ability to have a good shot at being able to catch fish and for those of us who were already pretty good at catching fish without technology we can go out and wreak havoc. We can run further, go faster, stay out longer and find areas that only a few years ago were untouched. And then came the internet! It used to be that most fisherman kept their mouth shut about their favorite fishing holes and a secret spot was just that…a secret spot, but with the internet there is no such thing as secret spots anymore. With a multitude of online fishing websites, weather websites, articles, you tube videos, social media, daily fishing reports, online forums and chat rooms you can sit at your desk at work and know exactly when and where fish are being caught in real time. And once it hits the net you better believe that everybody with a fishing rod will be heading out as soon as they can to get into the action. It has gotten to the point that the fish really don’t have a chance, they get beat on day in and day out with very few places left to seek refuge.
Throughout this article I have placed most of the blame of our shrinking fisheries on us as fisherman but there have been a number of uncontrollable influences as well. For starters it has been pretty well proven that global warming is real though some politicians seem to think that it some sort of a huge hoax cooked up by scientists. I am outdoors most everyday and I really can’t tell you exactly how/why things have been changing or what impacts they have had on our fisheries but every year I do notice that we are trending towards more windy days, more violent storms and consistently higher water temperatures. As for the impacts of global warming the jury is still out in regards to how it is impacting many local fisheries but I would imagine that where we will begin the see the impacts first is in the upper extremes of North America, coral reef areas and also in highly migratory fish. As far as localized weather impacts that have recently hurt our fisheries the freeze of 2010 had the biggest impact. This freeze killed many fish such as snook in the South Florida region and also did a good number on our speckled trout and redfish populations here in South Carolina. I do give the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission a lot of credit for the way that they handled their fish kills however. Within weeks of the freeze they closed down the snook fishery and only recently opened it back up…that was a nice proactive move on their part! Another issue that doesn’t really come to mind for many people when looking at fisheries management is economical influences and it is likely because it is extremely complicated. A quick example would be increase in fuel prices that we saw a few years back. I am sure that this alone had a multitude of affects on our fisheries but one of the main things that it did was cause guys to downsize their big gas guzzling offshore boats (offshore fishing closures influenced this as well) and buy more economical inshore and backwater boats. These guys are still going out fishing, they
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amount of possession in the attacking third. Without her speed and foot skills to target the goal mouth with quick-strike ability, Dayton’s best weapon on a weapons-challenged team is no longer available this year to hide other weaknesses on the field.
Dayton must also replace MF Sidney Leroy and D Nicolette Griesinger – both started 19 of 20 matches as seniors. MF Kaitlynn Kiehl started four matches while D Abby Wiegel also graduated after a career-ending injury erased her senior year entirely.
The good news is it wasn’t a huge senior class. The not-so-good news is 11 freshmen join the team, making for an even younger and more inexperienced group than last year’s 9-9-2 squad. And without an All-Conference scorer to pull rabbits out of hats, things may get worse before they get better.
Perhaps the best and brightest part starts with senior defender Nadia Pestell, a 2nd Team All-A10 selection last year who played more like a 1st Teamer. A terrific athlete with gifted speed, good instincts, and high-IQ reaction time to the run of play, Pestell has a chance to be the best defender in the league despite giving up several inches and 15lbs to most opposing strikers on a weekly basis. Her greatest strength however is affecting the Flyer offense; she loves to overlap with dribble-drives and cheat forward along the left touch lines for dangerous service in the box. She might be UD’s most important attacking player despite playing out of the back; her ability to transition the Flyers from defense to offense is invaluable. From what we saw in the lone exhibition at Baujan Field, it’s safe to say she may be the Flyers’ offensive and defensive MVP in 2018 – usually an unthinkable suggestion for a full-time left fullback. How many defenders led their team in assists (6) last year? Darn few.
Her skills to set up other players in the Flyer attacking third will be even more important this year with the lack of reliable game-changers in the midfield and offense. Junior MF/F Mikayla Livingston (7g, 5a) is the team’s leading returning scorer and has shown – at times – to be exceedingly dangerous with the ball at her feet. Best used on the touch lines, Livingston had the luxury of running with Alexis Kiehl however and Kiehl sucked a lot of attention from opposing defenses. Without that, Livingston must prove to be a capable goal scorer in more 1 vs 1 situations and command a dominating presence up top. It’s within her wheelhouse to be All-Conference, but consistency has wavered at times and the disappearing acts could spell doom this year for a team desperate for an All-League striker. In fairness, the same praise and criticism could be said for others. Sophomore Sara Robertson (4g) and senior Keagin Collie (2g, 5a) must also make significant strides rather than baby steps. No player from last year’s freshmen class made the A10 All-Rookie squad, making the sophomore class a vital one in 2018. They must get better and impact the game and Robertson is our pick to make that improvement.
Collie may be the key to the season – we said the same thing last year. Dayton hemorrhaged far too often with lack of ball-winning and possession in the central third. It cost the Flyers several results for sure, but more importantly it affected UD’s ability to exert influence within the matches. Far too often UD lacked speed, quickness, and toughness around the center circle to dis-possess, shed the first mark, and deliver weak-side service to teammates opening up space in transition. It’s all but impossible to finish in the upper third of the Atlantic 10 – or any conference – without an All-League central midfielder. Golz must impress upon Collie both her importance and ability to make this year the defining measure of her career.
Senior Quincy Kellett (0g, 5a) started 19 matches last year as a wide attacking player and brings a wealth of experience as a player that tasted success when the Flyers were A10 contenders in her first two seasons. Kellett can impact the game, but too often last year the impact was an absence of engagement. She must dig out more balls, get stuck into more tackles, and translate her odometer into touches of the ball rather than watching the match carry on without her. Those second efforts will change her game for the better and rub off on her teammates. She’s a senior and must lead by example.
Junior Caroline Mink (2g) abused #1 seed St. Joseph’s like a rented mule in the A10 title match of her freshman season -- they had no answer for her. Since then, Mink lost her groove and hasn’t quite rediscovered it. At 5-8 she gives UD good size along the touch lines and has a solid burst of speed after the first touch of the ball. She’s a better player than her sophomore form and fans want to see it. Mink can be a 5g/5a player, but she must trust her own skill set, think less, and just play what’s in front of her. She’s most dangerous when keeping it simple.
Juniors Madeleine Morrissey (1g, 1a), and Jordan Pauley (1g, 2a) also return and share 17 starts from a year ago. Like Collie, ball-winning and sustained possession are integral chores on their 2018 to-do list. If UD can finally get some possession and stop chasing the game, everything else will start rolling downhill.
Helping Pestell in the back line is senior Beth Kamphaus, an offensive player converted to defender with good size (5-8) and terrific fitness as a central back. She’s capable of eliminating angles and covering for other players with her speed and reaction times. She’s generally a good distributor out of the back line, but there are inexplicable moments where hospital balls put the Flyers in dire straits. Those lapses seem more mental than anything and a bit more consistency could land her on the All-Conference team with a strong senior year. She was one of just four Flyers to start all 20 games a year ago.
Hanna Merritt started five matches, appeared in 11 overall, and can also play the back line. Sophomore Kara Camarco played just 51 minutes as a true freshman but may be counted on this year to bolster the defense.
Megan Rack, Emily Trick, Emma Thomas, Dani Ruffolo, and Morgan Henderson saw limited action a year ago but have a chance to move up the pecking order. Olivia Brown was UD’s most-heralded 2017 recruit but saw little action a year ago and battled injuries in the preseason. Her status is unknown.
In goal once again is senior Kaelyn Johns, perhaps Dayton’s most talented player not named Pestell. A three-year starter with 61 starts to her credit, Johns has – at times – done God’s work in the goal box and kept the Flyers in matches they were otherwise overwhelmed. Part of that necessity came from a team defense that chased the ball far too much, resulting in minimal possession and unmarked opposing players challenging the Flyer goal mouth. Her teammates made her job more difficult than it needed to be and the repetitive bacon-saving circus acts led to several brutal injuries that might have ended the careers of other goalkeepers. Not that she did the wrong thing or made the wrong decisions, but her field players orchestrated the climate for far too many ugly situations with Florence Nightingale defending that forced Johns into dangerous spots where sheer bravery and bodily sacrifice kept a ball out of the net. She needs more help, she deserves more help. She might be the best overall goalkeeper in the league. Her GAA is not reflective of her talents. The Flyers must make her job easier this year to take a step forward.
It’s hard to tell which newcomers will see the field early in the season. Hannah Osland (5-10, Scottsdale AZ) started against Wright State in the preseason and earned quality minutes. Several others also saw the field with the intention of moving into the rotation for the season opener. Considering last year’s incoming class failed to poach anyone on the A10 All-Rookie team, the 2018 class must make an immediate impact. Dayton needs difference-makers on the field and with a couple exceptions, nobody’s job is watertight – that’s the reality on a team that struggles in the three basic areas of play – scoring, defending, and possession. There’s no better time to be a freshman at UD, but competition will force the vets to up their game as well. Everybody wins.
The Flyer non-conference schedule is challenging and road-heavy to start the season. Dayton opens up at JMU on Thursday, followed by William & Mary on Sunday Aug. 19. Dayton opens the home schedule on Aug. 23 vs Louisville then take a bus to Ypsilanti, MI, for a match at Eastern Michigan three days later. Four consecutive matches follow at Baujan Field against Butler, Akron, Florida Gulf Coast, and Xavier to finish the non-league schedule. The Flyers may be underdogs in all but Akron, EMU, and Xavier – and those won’t be “gimmes“ either. Anything close to.500 heading into the league schedule would be considered a huge success, but that’s a tall order.
UD opens A10 play at George Mason on Sep
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high quality and durable.
EZ Snap® Team - Glad to hear you are happy with your EZ Snap RV Skirting.
These work great. We live in a very windy region & they continue to perform very well.
I used the skirting on a 30' travel trailer following the directions, along with the helpful hints. It was installed in what we call the high desert in Eastern WA.
I installed the PVC frame and added 3 cross braces. After the complete installation I added concrete blocks on all the corners including the pop out.
I believe it increased the inside temperature of the trailer about 10 degrees or so. I am pleased so far. See what happens through the winter.
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First and foremost I want to tell you, GREAT WORK in designing an awesome RV skirting system!
I live in Wyoming and have for many years. Up until recently I was traveling all over the US working as a traveling Flight Paramedic. I got tired of being away from home and decided to change jobs to a paramedic job closer to home. I now work as a paramedic here for a County Emergency Medical Services, but it’s still two hours from my house. When I got the job my wife and I decided that I would need to get a new camper of some sort, to stay in, when I am in between my 24 hour ambulance shifts. We traded in our small 18’ travel trailer toy hauler and bought a used 40’ fifth wheel toy hauler.
This all went down over the summer and I really hadn’t thought about skirting.... that was until one night in September when the temperature dropped down into the 30’s! That night I really started thinking “this is gonna get BAD”! So I started looking around immediately for a skirting solution.
After a ton of research and some extremely scary pricing, I found your product. Initially I thought it wouldn’t be worth it, as there would be no way it could hold up to our winds and cold temperatures! I then did a ton of research and started to realize that not only would it work, but it also wouldn’t break the bank.
I sized out my RV on your website and ordered everything I needed. I also ordered the optional fifth wheel skirting kit with the trailer skirting.
I was really looking forward to getting it and installing it, because winter weather was coming! So when I got it delivered I was stoked!
Delivery was really fast and it only took like 5 days for me to get it. I followed the video instructions and installed all of the hardware first. I ordered the snaps with the adhesive and the screws, because I figured they would be the best for our insane winds here in Wyoming. This turned out to be the case, but I’ll go into that more in a minute. I was only able to get the hardware installed when I had a day off work, so I had to wait a day to install the trailer skirting.
On the day that I installed the trailer skirting it was a beautiful day with no wind. I got the the skirting sized and installed, however I didn’t have time to install the pvc pipes and pipe clamp system. I thought this wouldn’t be a big problem, because I was gonna finish it up two days later when I was off work. However.... not so much luck.
The day after I installed the skirting and was sitting at work, a sting cold front pushed through and the winds picked up to 70+ mph. I figured I was in big trouble. I figured this stuff had no chance of being attached still, because without the pipe system it would be flapping so bad that it break the pins. But there was nothing I could do but hope because I can’t leave work and leave an ambulance uncovered.
When I got back to the trailer I was floored! Only a very small section had come loose and as it turned out, it wasn’t the pins or snaps that broke but I fact a few caps had come loose. This allowed the material to come off of those pins in the wind. I don’t however believe this to be the fault of the product, I actually think I didn’t have the pins in the caps all the way. I reinstalled the ones that were missing and secured everything with the pipe and pipe clamp system it’s cement blocks behind it.
Now the thing is totally skirted in and with a small electric heater underneath the trailer running on low, the ambient temperature under the trailer is normally at least 30 degrees warmer than the outside temperature! I also use about a quarter the amount of propane every two weeks that I was using before. The trailer stays way warmer than it did before and there’s no drafts from the undercarriage!
I highly recommend the product to anyone looking for skirting that you can install yourself! It looks great, works great and is easy to install. Just make sure you don’t do what I did. If your gonna start the install, FINISH THE INSTALL. That way you don’t have to do things twice.
Thanks for the great product, that works excellently and as advertised! Bring on winter!
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This is a great product. I received my order very fast. EZ Snap fasteners are amazing.
I did not want to drill holes in my brand new camper so this was a game changer.
I followed the direction to the letter and had a flawless installation. Two people to install is a must; my son kept tension on the vinyl and aligned with our mark while I pushed it onto the studs.
They also included a vinyl trim tool with the kit that made trimming excess much easier than using a razor blade. I used a razor knife to ‘flare’ the bottom so it would fold under on the corners properly and the vinyl was difficult to cut which told me it is very durable, high quality material.
We built a frame with 3/4” PVC around the bottom and used the pipe clamps to secure it and it makes for a very clean, professional looking finished product.
I will recommend this kit to everyone!
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Our EZ Snap skirt arrived undamaged, no missing parts/pieces and on time.
The steps were very simple explained, the steps easy to follow, and the installation easy to complete. This was done with a two person team (my wife and I).
The total time was approximately 6-8 hours. We installed the skirt in the great state of Washington, just toward the end of the summer season.
The skirt has now been up for just a little less than a month, has been holding up well, and doing what it was designed to do.
EZ Snap® Team - Great feedback, thanks Derrick.
I am happy overall with the final result. I did paint my clips black so they matched. Everything else you can get different colors except the pipe clamps.
However it did take longer than advertised due to the amount of preplanning that you need to do in order to install correctly. The actual install only took a few hours but figuring out how to go around steps, bumpers, tongues and slide outside takes a while. Also pre plan where the snaps are going and where you want to double up for overlap and cut outs.
If you want to put your snaps closer together then the 10" max you will probably need to order more with your initial purchase... we have a lot of wind so I wanted them every 8".
EZ Snap® Team - Thank you Mr. Rusk for your review and photos. Very nice installation.
The folks at EZ snap were wonderful. They took great care of me and I received the exact kit I needed plus more. I couldn't have asked for a better transaction.
I'm looking forward to the winter to see the difference in my heating cost. For the last 2 years I've just about frozen to death in 20 degree weather for weeks on end.
All reviews told me it was good for negative 40 degrees so I'm hoping for the best.
The product quality was good and the ease of installing was pretty good. All of the agents were very good to lead me into the right direction of what I needed.
EZ Snap® Team - Happy to help. Thank you for your review Debra.
Thanks again for the wonderful product. Absolutely great quality and easy instructions... Would definitely recommend your product and next spring will be ordering your window shades.
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Now, if you follow the video that’s on their website, you’ll be just fine doing this. My son and I did mine. I have a little arthritis so I used pliers to put the pins on. The rest was fairly easy.
I’m very happy with this skirting!
I spent approximately, $840 on the whole project. That’s including the pvc pipe. If you have a skirting company come and do this for you, it will cost upwards of $2300 or more!
We’re not professionals, but I think it’s just fine.
Thank you, EZ SNAP for your product and your support.
EZ Snap® Team - Thanks for sending us your review and photos Tamara. Nice installation!
... Looks very nice after skirt was in place and my brother spent some extra time cutting and hanging the skirt around the stairs.
I live in trailer full time.
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The guys were great and full of
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answer to the autonomy question. And your other question was, what’s different about this book?
Julie: 07:01 There are a number of differences. I think the biggest reason for people to get this book is because every example is about little kids. If you get the original book, there are little kid examples are 10 examples. We, we just are offering you lots and lots of ways to use these tools from stories that were given to us by actual real life people, parents and teachers. And in my experience, the tools make sense to people. But when you’re in the heat of the moment, it’s hard to think of what to do. Yeah. And if you have somebody else’s example and when you have, when you can picture it in your mind, when you can sort of rehearse it a little bit ahead of time, that’s when you can pull up the tool more easily and use it in the moment. So I think that’s the biggest advantage of, of. I mean, I, I love the original book, obviously… People should read both probably, but if you have little kids that make sense to read a book, just about little kids.
Jen: 07:56 Yeah, that makes sense to me. I often find when I read books that the principles are aligned with what I’m thinking, but you know, the, the examples and the language they talk through, I’m thinking what would really happen if I said that to my two and a half year old when she really get that? Would you understand it? And so what you’re saying is that because the examples in your book are geared towards younger children, they’re more easy for parents to apply, is that right?
Julie: 08:22 And then there’s are several other differences. One of the, the differences that I think will be very helpful to parents is around the idea of taking action. So in the original book there’s a, there’s a skill called take action without insult and doing the workshops. What I found is a lot of parents get confused. Well, what actions should I take? How do I know what to do? I mean, I’ve tried acknowledging his feelings. You know, you’re in the mood to draw. I’ve given them information. Walls aren’t for drawing on; I’ve given him choices. You can, you can draw on this box, you can draw on this paper. But he still took the, took the Sharpies. One of my parents groups, you know, I don’t know why…and started drawing on the walls so, you know, so I felt like I had to say, no, I’ve told you, I’ve told you you can’t do that, you bad boy. I’m taking this away from you. You may not. Now you’re not going to get a chance to see. I’ve already told you that sort of language. And they’re like, well that’s taking action. Isn’t it? Well, the, and you’re nodding your head. Yes it is, and it’s, it’s also we want to offer an alternative, um, in which we protect ourselves or we protect property without attacking the child. So the action is going to look the same. I’m still going to take those Sharpies away, but, but what I’m going to say is I don’t like my walls drawn on. For now, the sharpies are going away and the child knows that I was drawing on the wall. Now I can’t, but you’re not doing it to me, the child. You’re not doing this to make me suffer. You’re doing to protect yourself and protect the walls. Right. So I think that’s, that’s. I think we explain that in the book in a way that’s a little easier for parents to figure out, okay, what do I do in this next situation?
Jen: 10:04 Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. I’m wondering if I can selfishly talk a little bit about situation that I’m having around acknowledging feelings. Yes, because I think that that’s, it’s a really central theme in the book and Joanna actually wrote that chapter and she described a scenario where she videotaped to show for a five year old and a three year old wants to know why she didn’t a tape a show for him when he had asked her to tape it and she says to her, a missed TV show doesn’t really seem as though it’s qualifies as being worthy of a meltdown. But to her son it really was because it was important to him, or, it had become important to you and so it seems as though the best way to help him get over it was to help him get through it is the advice that’s given in the book.
Julie: 10:47 And so, you know, when my daughter’s having that kind of meltdown, let’s just clarify, to get, to help him means to say, Oh, you LOVE that show! You would have liked me to tape that one for you too.
Jen: 10:58 Or a different show that wasn’t taped.
Jen: 11:01 Um, and so, you know, if, if my daughter is asking for ice cream at bedtime and I say you really, really want ice cream, she seems as though she gets kind of hopeful and it feels to me as though I’m sort of getting your hopes up and then, you know, sorry, you still can’t have ice cream and I’m, I doing something wrong when I’m doing that or…?
Jen: 11:18 Or partly no.
Julie: 11:24 I think the point is what you do after that? So when you, when you acknowledge the feelings that that child has for something that you can’t grant, like I can’t make that TV show rebroadcast. Right? So that’s in a way easier.
Jen: 11:38 Yeah, it is. I wish I could have, I wish I had known I would have done it. You really wanted me to record it? Oh that’s so disappointing. Yeah, it’s a natural limit. It’s not one that I have set.
Julie: 11:51 But she knows that there’s ice cream in the and you could get it if you wanted to. So that’s a different situation. And so we can’t just stop at, Oh, you really want to ice cream because I think, yes, I do. So could I have it? So that’s one. So that’s when you have to follow up with some of these other tools that we have in the book to have ice cream before bedtime. It’s not good for your body. It’s my job to help keep your body healthy. What’s, let’s make a, let’s make a plan for when you can have ice cream. How about tomorrow afternoon and when you get home from daycare or you know as a snack or whatever it is that would be acceptable to you so that she knows that you get it, that there’s, that she’s, she’s going to get it at some point, maybe you write it down on a piece of paper so she knows that there’s a plan and a commitment to her. And it’s not that any of these upper, you know, if you use any of these tools, she’ll say, oh thanks mom. It’s okay. She might, she may or may not still cry about it. It’s important that she knows that when you feel strongly about something you don’t cave just because she is distressed about it. Yeah. I think sometimes we get upset with our kids when they get upset with a limit and that’s just natural. I’m not getting what I want. I feel frustrated and we can empathize with that, with the frustration, without caving to what they did is they want. So in the ice cream case, you know, someday she will get ice cream and maybe it would help to know when that’s going to be. It is a lot easier to acknowledge feelings when you don’t have to also say sorry.
Jen: 13:19 Yeah, this is my limit that I’m putting on you. Yeah. So the second chapter of the book is on tools for engaging corporation, which seems to me to sort of be another way of saying how do we get our children to do what we want them to do. Um, and so this conversation I’m having with you follows hot on the heels of an episode that I recently recorded that was named exactly that, that was based on Alfie Kohn’s work, and the premise that the relationship with our children is really core to engaging cooperation and so I’m on board with that and with setting up the conditions that make my daughter want to cooperate with me. And after reading the book I use some of the tools that you described to get my daughter to stop playing and brush her teeth, you know, and she said she didn’t want to do it, she wanted to keep playing. And I said, well, do you want to walk or hop to the bathroom? And she said, I want to hop to the bathroom. I said, great, let’s go. But it just, it strains my brain every time she says no to something to have to think, oh, is it walk or hop now or is it, you know, what other creative thing can I come up with to make her
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she sued her station in Connecticut for discrimination and won $8.3 million, later reduced to $3.79 million is an inspirational tale perfect for the Oprah demographic.
The problem is, according to Channel 12's Cox, some of the story is untrue.
Cox insists that, contrary to Peckinpaugh's dramatic account, his former co-worker never was the legislative reporter she claims to have been; that when she returned to work after her accident, it never took anything like 45 minutes for her to make her way to the set; and, furthermore, that she wasn't the first woman in Richmond to anchor the news.
What' s more, Cox says Peckinpaugh fails to mention that the station held her job for her while she was recovering from her accident.
In the O article, titled "Janet and Goliath," Peckinpaugh says that while at Channel 12 she worked her way up to chief legislative reporter and then was critically injured in a car accident. After six months of physical therapy she returned to work, the article says. "It took me 45 minutes to get from my desk to the set," Peckinpaugh confides.
The article does much to credit Peckinpaugh with paving the way for women in broadcasting especially in Richmond in the early 1980s.
But Cox contends Peckinpaugh unfairly disparages Channel 12 in this account, and in others she has given.
Peckinpaugh politely dismisses any charge that she's puffed up her story and Channel 12's part in it. "It was 21 years ago this month that I returned to TV in Richmond after my accident," she tells Style via e-mail. "I don't remember if it took 30 or 45 minutes [to get to the set], but I do remember it was a long time."
She says she did cover the Legislature but concedes she "was not the chief legislative reporter." Lastly, Peckinpaugh acknowledges that Bernie Simmons "a smart, wonderful woman" was a weekend anchor, but insists she was the first female weeknight anchor in town. Moreover, she says she "loved working in Richmond" at Channel 12 and Channel 8.
But Peckinpaugh's apparent exaggerations, intentional or not, continue to vex Cox.
About the magazine article he says, simply: "I enjoyed it. Especially the parts that were true."
It is a dreary Wednesday. Muddy skies. Misty rain. Heavy, cold air. But the conditions don't deter three employees of the Maymont Foundation. Today they are on a mission.
In the group are Kate Peeples, Maymont's director of public relations; Mark Rich, director of Maymont's Nature Center; and Debbie Rea, a zoologist. They are accompanied by a news team from Channel 12. They wear caps, blue jeans and Maymont sweatshirts. All are fiercely determined.
They're going to rescue the Expressway Chicken.
delivery. And then the miracle: It fell off the truck, rolled across the road through traffic and scrambled to the median and to at least temporary safety.
For a weaker chicken that surely would have been the end. But the Expressway Chicken is strong. More than a month later it still lives on that median, touching the hearts of Richmonders with its will to survive.
Peeples, Rich and Rea begin their mission by piling into a pickup truck, driving onto the expressway and parking in the median crossover near the Sheppard Street overpass. The three get out of the truck and begin their search. They've come prepared. In the bed of the truck is a net with a handle, a roll of safety-orange plastic fencing and an empty cage to carry the Expressway Chicken. Nearby, a state trooper is posted for safety.
The Expressway Chicken can vanish into the median's underbrush when it wants to. And it can't possibly know that the three Maymont employees are coming to help, not return it to the chicken factory.
Rea, a petite, ponytailed 33-year-old, clutches a Hefty zipper bag full of cracked corn. She climbs into the wet brush. Her biggest challenge, she explains: "Finding it."
Today there's no sign of it. The thicket of abelia, holly and honeysuckle forms a dense mat, tightly woven together, that creates tiny crawl spaces or no spaces at all. The roar of passing traffic makes it impossible to hear chicken sounds, so they look for movement.
They know it's here somewhere. Aside from the feathers, Rea finds fresh chicken poop. And Peeples confirms, on her cell phone, that a frequent chicken-watcher has seen it. Recently. Suddenly, Rich runs up, excited.
"Where's Debbie?" he asks. "I found it!"
Rea crawls out of the thicket, her knees muddy, and takes off with Rich. A news cameraman from Channel 12 quickly follows. The group crouches down, peers into the dark brush, and sees it. A wet white plastic bag.
But Rea will not be dejected. "I know he's in there!" she says, pointing toward the area where the excrement was found.
The three look at each other. Silence. No one wants to call an end to today's search. But it's been about an hour. Peeples finally asks, "Are we done?"
"We gave it a pretty good shot," Rich says.
"Well," Peeples says, "we'll regroup and see what we can figure out."
The search is called off at 12:16 p.m. A few days later, the Expressway Chicken is spotted again. It is standing on the median.
In just a matter of weeks the city will start redistricting, a process that at the state level has fueled ire among legislators and caused more than a few to think about moving.
The city of Richmond has to rearrange its nine City Council districts to comply with the latest census data and the many rules of the U.S. Justice Department. So the city has equipped itself with a tool it hopes will prevent any trash talk and egregious gerrymandering: experienced lawyers.
The city has hired Henry L. Marsh a former Richmond mayor who as a state senator already is immersed in the subject and his firm, Hill Tucker & Marsh, along with the law offices of J. Gerald Hebert. Hebert is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches courses on voting rights, election law and campaign-finance regulation.
For developing a redistricting plan that meets the criteria of the U.S. Department of Justice, Marsh is charging $200 an hour, to be billed monthly. The city also will pay fees and expenses incurred by the attorneys on the city's behalf.
If litigation results from the proposed redistricting plan, Marsh's fee jumps to $300 an hour.
But Marsh's strategy is worth the price, he insists. "We are very excited about the opportunity to work with the city on this very important task of redistricting," he says. "And we have a lot of experience working on this issue."
Essentially, says Marsh, he'll work to provide City Council with the legal advice it needs before deciding how to redraw any of the city's nine districts.
City Council is expected to take up the task of redistricting next month, once it has approved the next biennial budget. Marsh says he's not sure how long the redistricting process will take because it "depends on public input."
Even so, Marsh adds: "We hope it's over before November."
The sun has just broken through on a recent rainy day, and in Carytown people are flooding the sidewalks and dawdling in the shops.
Some of them are stopping at Luxor Vintage Clothing but not necessarily for the racks of hats, well-worn tuxedos and rows of retro dresses. It's folk art they're after. "I see this picture I like," a woman tells her companion, and enters the store.
Standing outside, Tom Harte, the artist, can't help but enjoy the interest. A gaunt, gregarious man, he rents a room a small room in the back of a store in the Fan but spends most of his time on the street. He collected aluminum cans for six years to make ends meet.
This show is getting him some new attention, though he's been drawing, painting and sketching since 1975. "This has opened up a different crowd," Harte says. And that's the point.
The April show is a Christmas present to Harte from Laurence Lindberg, the owner of Luxor. He figured it would give Harte an audience beyond the coffee shops where he usually displays his work.
Not only are more people seeing his creations, more people will. The producers of a local public-television show, "Virginia Currents," plan to run a feature on him sometime this summer.
"When it rains, it pours," Harte says, smiling, his eyes squeezing into nothing.
Harte is a free spirit with a huge nest of white and blond whiskers bursting from his chin. As usual, he's chatting it up on the sidewalk.
"The second-hardest-working man in town," he says of a FedEx delivery driver who is making a stop at Luxor. A woman Harte has invited to see the show stops by to tell him, "I just haven't had time but I'll be back."
Harte was born in Oregon Hill. He
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The lush feeling comes from the tropical foliage plants. If you have a sheltered garden you may be able to grow the Dicksonia antarctica tree ferns as long as you protect them from frost. But anyone can put in leafy varieties like ferns, fennel, fatsia japonica, aspidistra and Euphorbia mellifera.
Students used a limited colour palette to create a relaxing cocoon feeling. Most of the plants are leafy green with orange tones in the wood and echoed in the low-growing tulips. Uncinia rubra black grass adds a subtle darker tone to the planting.
Students also hung tillandsia or air plants from the pergola. These amazing plants have no roots – they absorb water and nutrients from the air! Read more about air plants here.
Another great design element is the use of still water to create a feeling of calm. One still pool sits in slate gravel with colourful lights underneath. Above the decking is a long rusted steel water rill and square basin. This is made to feel lush with candles and pond plants.
The garden features succulents and alpines planted around the rill and into a vertical wall planter frame. These are great low-maintenance plants and ideal for adding colour up a bare wall.
Students also played with lines against the fence, with upright stems of yellow bamboo contrasting against the horizontal white fence slats. Create this bamboo screen by picking off all the lower leaves. Be sure to plant bamboo in a container to control its roots and runners, or it will take over the garden!
Find out more about Capel Manor College’s garden here.
Students from Shuttleworth College designed a Moroccan-inspired show garden. The blue colour is named after the country’s famous Majorelle Gardens.
The structure is a Chahar Bagh, a Persian style where the space is divided up into four areas. This is achieved by gravel separating four areas of cobbles. The same gravel is used to top-dress the containers, which helps retain moisture and stop weeds sprouting.
This courtyard garden is immensely versatile because the boxy planters are on castors, meaning they can be moved around. You could also bring them into a porch over winter, making them ideal for growing tender plants.
The garden features Mediterranean plants grown for their architectural silhouettes, such as phormiums and bay trees clipped into pyramids.
The design makes great use of Moroccan tiles on the back wall and table top. And it has a stunning fountain display. The students chose a range of furnishings and metalwork with intricate details to complement the theme.
The garden is run entirely on solar power, from the lights to the fountain. Solar panels are a cheap and sustainable way to power a garden and this is a great example of what they can do.
Solar light bulbs illuminate the garden, from decorative bulbs set into planters to flickering white lights buried in the borders.
The garden has an outdoor kitchen element too, including a wood burner and drinks cooler. Two clipped olive trees sit against the back wall between fire bowls planted with salads and herbs.
Find out more about Shuttleworth College’s garden here.
Chichester College students created a courtyard garden on the theme of maths, specifically the number three. Each side of the garden is divided into three raised beds, going up in height one side and down the other.
The classic hard landscaping includes dry stone walling and a spiral patio in natural sandstone colours. Students said they wanted the garden to feel elegant but uncomplicated.
The centrepiece of the garden is the rebar dome which covers the seating area. It creates privacy for the garden owner and could easily be used to grow climbers. And the rusted metal is echoed in the simple fencing, which creates a naturalistic feel.
The garden is designed to be low-maintenance for people who are too busy to maintain a demanding garden. This even includes the cast aluminium furniture, which can be left outside all year round without being damaged.
And the planting is full of hardy evergreens. Many plants have been clipped into spheres to create shape and balance, including bay trees and cryptomeria. Ferns give a lush green leafiness and purple alliums bring height and shape. Small bedding plants add pops of white and purple colour too.
The plants are arranged in groups of three and planted in mixtures of foliage for a subtle effect. And the soil is topped with bark chippings which help retain water and suppress weeds.
Lighting also has a striking effect in the garden. Spotlights in the beds pick out plant details and the path is lined with feature lights in the walling.
Find out more about Chichester College’s garden here.
Students at Askham Bryan College designed a contemporary woodland garden. Timber was a big feature with trees and shrubs including viburnum and prunus serrula (ornamental cherry).
The stunning fence was created by felling different varieties of tree. The trunks were cut to leave the bark intact and the tree name was carved into the side. It’s a great showstopper design feature.
The seating area is also on a wood theme. The decking is made with birch and balau, playing on the contrast in the timber colours. Black bamboo screening creates privacy and complements the rattan tub chairs.
The decking also has a sunken copper rill around the edge lit with rope lights, which would make a stunning feature on an evening. And spotlights pick out feature plants and decorative bark within the borders.
The garden is framed by large timber joists and features panels of stone walling dotted with moss. The whole garden has a contemporary black and grey colour scheme.
The planting fits with the woodland theme and is easy to recreate at home. It’s also perfect for a shady garden as woodland plants grow happily under trees. Pale whites and yellows bring light to the dark right-hand corner, while darker reds and purples on the left add colour to the seating area.
Ferns and euphorbia create a green backdrop to highlight the stunning hellebores in white and dark purple. Tulips, daffodils and cyclamen add more spring colour. Once these flowers fade you could simply fill in gaps with summer-flowering varieties.
The green walls are also a great feature. The students made square wall planters from wooden frames filled with compost. The front is covered with chicken wire or mesh and plants are pushed through holes into the soil. These planters featured leafy ferns alongside culinary herbs.
Nestled among these frames are insect hotels and bird boxes to make the garden a home for wildlife too. Make your own insect hotels with this guide.
Find out more about Askham Bryan College’s garden here.
Pershore College students created a garden based on the Fibonacci sequence, showing curves, spirals and patterns in nature.
Many plants were chosen for their intricate leaves, including ferns, lamium and euphorbia. Students also used succulents like sempervivums, which demonstrate a spiral pattern with their leaves. They were planted between the steps and into a spiral wall feature, as well as into the half-barrel table.
Wispy grasses add texture and movement and culinary herbs are mixed into the planting. Flower colour comes from the white arum lilies, with deep purple tulips and pink hellebores to contrast with the orange cladding.
This rusty corten steel cladding is the standout feature. The students made it by creating a rust layer on the surface of recycled steel panels. This gives it an industrial orange tone and will protect the metal from further damage.
The pergola is also made from steel with a roof based on fern leaf structures. It was designed to cast a pretty shadow on the ground below. Underneath it are steel hollyhock sculptures made from scrap metal.
There are lots of other industrial details in the garden, including the benches made from breeze blocks painted black and slotted onto wooden panels. Recycled glass squares were also made into a corner light feature. Many of the garden materials were found in reclamation yards.
Lighting comes from spotlights to pick out details, as well as glass lanterns hung with twine and hollow logs drilled with holes and filled with lights. Finally, hexagonal insect hotels filled with a variety of materials offer a home to wildlife.
Find out more about Pershore College’s garden here.
Students from Writtle College have created a basement garden to show what can be done with shaded or covered spaces. The green roof is topped with a meadow grass and planted with small trees.
Recycling and sustainability was a big design theme, with many elements sourced from around the college. The main structure was built with Ecojoists, which are web structures that use less timber than solid joists.
The most striking feature is the lighting, which is made from old silver birch logs and battery-powered lights. Larger logs with horizontal slats are dotted into the flower beds.
The decking is made with pale grey panels that complement the planters and cladding. It had gaps for plants including lawn alternatives like thyme, which is good at soaking up rainwater.
The modern seating area runs around a fire pit to make sure the garden is ready for entertaining. More seating space comes from a bench which slides out from under the shallow water trough.
The planting is simple, with greenery and foliage from ferns, grasses and bay. Students made use of feature shrubs including skimmia and a large pink
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-blogger attack obscures the real issue: the growing tension between bloggers and mainstream media.
So, Jason Calacanis is sparring with Wired today because Wired-reporter Fred Vogelstein refused to do an interview by email. At first glance, this might look like a silly, self-serving spat. Perhaps it is. But there's something else at play here -- the emergence of email as a medium for interviews.
Calacanis argues that email promotes transparency -- too many "journos" (hate that word) take liberty with quotations, and email creates a permanent record of the interview. But before we jump to the conclusion that newsmakers (versus news orgs) have the upper hand in this contest, allow me to point out that there are a number of journalists who are forcing email and other digital tools on their subjects. Not too long ago, Owen Thomas at Business 2.0 insisted (politely) that I ask one of my clients to do an interview by IM. I didn't ask why -- I was pretty sure I knew what this was about -- but I did explain that the medium was a bit weird for my client. He wasn't wrong to ask. But the lesson was important: email and IM may be more transparent than other media. But they aren't always acceptable. Social norms rule.
Am I alone in thinking that it's both hilarious and ironic that a bunch of bloggers are fighting -- in some cases, nastily -- over Tim O'Reilly's Blogger's Code of Conduct?
I'll be writing on this topic soon. But today I'm linking to Tim O'Reilly, who has just posted an important contribution. It's one for the archives, for sure.
What I like about this -- it puts much of the onus on the owner of the Web site/blog. Hard to instigate any kind of social change unless "citizens" -- the most active participants -- subscribe to the same general principles. And as landlords of real estate in this new world, site owners are the most influential citizens.
Is It Cool to Be Anonymous?
This is a "reprint" of a piece I wrote back in '05 (for Gelf Magazine), and it recently reran at the Center For Citizen Media. With all the talk about blogger behavior this week, I thought it would make sense to dust off this piece. The key thoughts are still timely, if I must say so myself.
APRIL 22, 2005 -- Recently, in a quiet, unassuming post on its well-trafficked website, the Electronic Frontier Foundation raised quite a few eyebrows in the blogging community. At a time when bloggers have been increasingly vocal about transparency, the EFF posted a how-to piece on anonymous blogging, complete with tools, tips, and tricks of the trade.
To many of us—particularly those of us in the business community, where transparency has become almost a matter of religion—it felt like an odd move. PR strategist Steve Rubel observed on his blog, "Anonymous blogs have the least credibility so I am not sure why they are advising people to go that route." It was as though the folks at EFF, who have earned a fair amount of Internet street cred over the years, were committing a social error by advising less-than-savvy newbie bloggers to go incognito; the EFF were asking people to do something that was not cool. Not just in the traditional sense of the word cool, as in "hip," but in the more evolved, contemporary sense, in which both youngsters and adults describe what's acceptable according to "peer-group related values."
Big-time bloggers have disagreed about the importance of transparency. In an email to Gelf, David Weinberger, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, the philosophical touchstone for the blogging revolution, bluntly presented the libertarian view on anonymity: "It's a personal choice. In my opinion, allowing anonymous speech is a requirement for an open society, and is essential in repressive societies."
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, who blogs at PressThink, told Gelf, "There's a mysterious kind of guarantee when a real name is attached to a weblog. Without it, everything is less real, more inconsequential."
I felt like the EFF was letting us down by encouraging folks to write anonymously, that anonymous bloggers' important stories would be washed away by a sea of reader skepticism. That was my bias going into this story, and I vowed to examine it.
I started by checking out a lively debate on the tech discussion site Slashdot about whether the right to privacy and free speech trumps the social convention of needing to disclose one's identity. A careful—and sometimes painful review of the Slashdot conversation offers up some clues. First, as a fair number of Slashdotters and bloggers have observed, the law-and-policy issues underlying the debate are serious, and any meaningful participation in this debate requires at least a passing acquaintance with those issues. Second, as recent experiments and adventures in blogging have shown, there's a lot more to transparency than attribution, and both known and anonymous bloggers are thriving on the Web by observing a few reliable—if not well-understood—social norms that I outline later.
for communication outlets without fear of repercussion from families and employers.
The EFF, says Newitz, has long advocated and defended our First Amendment right to anonymous expression, a civil liberty recognized in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission. But lately that liberty has come under attack. In an often-cited recent study on anonymity and the Internet, Karina Rigby at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology noted Justice Scalia's antipathy for McIntyre in a more recent decision, suggesting the Court might take a different direction in the near future. She also cited a California Supreme Court case that upheld a state law "prohibiting anonymous mass political mailings by political candidates." Rigby concluded, "The fact that this case involves limiting anonymous speech, which is strongly protected by the First Amendment, does not bode well for media such as on-line communications which would have inherently less protection."
According to Newitz, the EFF decided to publish the anonymity guidelines because of an even more recent threat: Apple v. Does, the December 2004 lawsuit that Apple filed against several anonymous individuals who allegedly leaked information on new Apple products to blogs. (The targets in the case didn't blog the alleged leak, but the EFF's interest in educating the public on the rights they have to anonymous communication under the First Amendment prompted the article.) Journalists and First Amendment activists have rallied against Apple because they're worried the courts might use the case to curtail the media's right to protect the anonymity of their sources. It wouldn't be a stretch for the courts to reach beyond the confines of this case to question the right to anonymous speech in more general terms.
It's not a coincidence that there are two books on the First Amendment and privacy climbing their way up the bestseller lists. There's a creeping feeling that we are living in an age where the potential for free-speech abuse is so great that we no longer have the tools to redress every instance. In a New York Times review of Floyd Abrams's Speaking Freely, Jeffrey Rosen concludes, "Abrams is surely correct that, as a constitutional matter, the law is almost always too crude and ineffective an instrument to provide a remedy for the genuine harms that speech can cause. (As a technological matter, in the age of the Internet, the harms are real and may continue to grow)." As Jay Rosen told Gelf, "Transparency and anonymity are in conflict." But the conflict may be impossible to resolve in the courts.
If the law is too crude an instrument to resolve this conflict, what do we have? Maybe there's a social remedy for what appears to be a social problem. After all, the blogosphere is built upon technology and tools collectively known as social media.
On the question of anonymity, citizens of the internet have already done a lot of thinking. In 2003, David Weinberger posted a concise and modest appraisal of the subject. "There's plenty of room for every gradation of anonymity," Weinberger wrote. By using any combination of true/false names and true/false biographical details, a blogger can participate in the blogosphere as a journalist, a source, a fictional writer, a ghost-written CEO, or a liar. He concludes that, beyond transparency, there are other ways for bloggers to demonstrate they have "skin in the game." In fact, in a number of blog genres, popular writers have earned the respect of their readers despite their anonymity. An interesting example is the increasingly diverse world of military blogging, where anonymous blogs command large and respectful audiences. In a post on anonymity, the anonymous author of Black Five wrote, "Military bloggers have a whole different set of issues to worry about...You don't have to do much to cross the line to get in trouble in the military."
He's right. In some worlds, revealing your name is not even an option. But what rules do readers follow for deciding whether a blogger is cool? Here are three simple questions that the would-be anonymous might ask before they get started.
This matters a lot. If you're a political refugee, a victim of domestic violence, or, as noted above, a military blogger, you may need to blog anonymously if you are going to blog at all. On the other hand, if you are a journalist, marketer, or PR person, you might as well give up if you're going to blog anonymously; it's hard to earn trust in these professions, and anonymity would quickly make you invisible.
Where it gets difficult is in the large number
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and prison reforms is generating a near giddiness among states and philanthropists eager to participate.
Social impact bonds allow foundations and private-sector investors to participate in funding programs aimed at easing social ills and earn a financial return if the programs are successful.
“Interest in social impact bonds is sweeping the United States,” said philanthropist Phillip Fisher, whose Mission Throttle organization in Southfield is at the forefront of this emerging social investing model here.
Michigan is among a handful of states that are in the process of developing projects that can be financed by social impact bonds.
“I’ve never seen anything move as quickly from concept to execution as I’ve seen with this social impact bond model,” said Joe Pavona, Gov. Rick Snyder’s special adviser on the project.
In September, Michigan was one of eight states chosen in a national competition to receive technical assistance from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in designing social impact bond projects.
Established with support from The Rockefeller Foundations, Harvard’s Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab conducts research on how governments can foster social innovation and improve results from social spending programs.
But social impact bonds aren’t really bonds. And there’s little evidence so far that they can alleviate social ills while earning profits for investors.
A government unit contracts with an intermediary that raises capital from investors. The intermediary then contracts with a nonprofit service provider to run a multiyear program that attempts to alleviate a social problem, such as homelessness or prison recidivism.
An outside adviser monitors progress and works with the nonprofit to make any needed modifications during the course of the program.
At the end of the contract, an independent assessor determines the results of the program and how much the government should repay investors.
The programs usually are judged on their ability to be replicated and expanded to serve a larger number of people.
Depending on how the deals are structured, investors can lose a portion or all of their money if program goals aren’t met.
Social impact bonds are such a recent invention that no one really knows how effective they can be in easing social ills and saving money for taxpayers, the two main goals of this financing structure.
“It’s so new that the jury is still out. We’re all just learning about this now,” said Gilda Jacobs, president of the Michigan League for Public Policy, which advocates on behalf of economically vulnerable state residents.
Social impact bonds were first used in Britain in 2010 to try to reduce recidivism rates in a prison there where 60 percent of prisoners released landed back behind bars within a year.
The six-year program, which provides housing and other support, has so far led to a 6 percent drop in recidivism, according to a government report.
New York City launched the first social impact bond program in the country last year, focusing on reducing recidivism among 16- and 18-year olds detained at the Riker’s Island jail.
The program is being financed by a $9.6 billion loan from the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs. A portion of the loan is guaranteed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable giving arm of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Goldman Sachs will be repaid if recidivism rates at the jail drop by 10 percent. The bank could make up to $2.1 million if the rates fall further, according to the New York Times.
Massachusetts is developing two social impact bond programs targeting juvenile justice issues and homelessness. The state also has established a $50 million Social Innovation Financing program to pay for positive outcomes in future programs.
In June, Goldman Sachs, Chicago investor J.B. Pritzker and the state of Utah announced a social impact bond program in which the two investors will lend $7 million to expand early childhood education for at-risk children.
Social impact bonds also have found a cheerleader in President Barack Obama, whose administration has proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal budget support over the past several years to implement them.
But so far, Congress has balked at approving the funding requests.
Philanthropic groups in Michigan are making a variety of similar investments under the broad umbrella of “impact investing” that includes social impact bonds.
In 2007, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek created a $100 million fund in which it invests in businesses aligned with its mission of improving the lives of vulnerable children and families.
Traditionally, foundations have made grants to communities and organizations that provide no financial return to the foundations.
“The main issue that everyone recognizes is that resources are tight in the public sector and that social impact bonds are one of the options for new opportunities in financing services,” said Rob Collier, president of the 350-member Council for Michigan Foundations.
“Our governor heard about this and is moving forward on it. Clearly, the foundation community needs to be engaged, as well,” he said.
But some are skeptical that social impact bonds can be scaled up enough to significantly ease social ills, such as illiteracy, homelessness or crime.
In Michigan, Pavona said the state likely will engage in two or three social impact bond pilot projects totaling about $5 million. It could be years before it is known whether the projects can be expanded.
Pavona said social impact bonds are designed to be most effective in preventive projects such as addressing homelessness, childhood development and women’s prenatal health.
Fisher at Mission Throttle is pushing the state to create a social impact bond pilot project to expand early childhood education in the state.
Some experts worry about the potential for corruption in social impact bond projects.
Others say that social media bonds look suspiciously like another form of privatized government services, which have had mixed results.
Investments in things such as early childhood education can take years to pay off. It’s unclear if investors would be willing to wait that long for a payoff, she said.
Fisher said social impact bonds could be a powerful lever to expand resources aimed at easing social ills.
The needs of communities are typically the greatest in economic downturns when government is under the most financial stress, he said. And philanthropic organizations are able to provide only a fraction of the money needed for social services.
Social impact bonds can help fill the funding gap by attracting socially minded corporate and individual investors, Fisher said.
“Historically, we’ve depended on government and foundations to solve our problems,” he said. “The governor wants to engage citizens in an opportunity to invest in their own communities.
This is the first I have heard of social impact funds so my comments are based on what is in the article. “A government unit contracts with an intermediary...” That suggests government is sub-contracting through a ‘middle-man’ for social services. Will this avoid current contracting protocols? “An outside adviser monitors progress and works with the nonprofit to make any needed modifications during the course of the program.” This indicates that along with the'middleman' there will be the added layer of an 'adviser'. I wonder why, is there a trust problem, is there a lack of know on the governments part to do a fair and accurate assessment? “The programs usually are judged on their ability to be replicated and expanded to serve a larger number of people.” It appears that the government is only interested in programs that can be used by others and how many people the program includes. It doesn’t appear the government has any interest in how effective a program is at changing the status of those being served. Why isn't there interest in measuring effectiveness?. “At the end of the contract, an independent assessor determines the results of the program and how much the government should repay investors.” Without results oriented citeria for the 'assessor' how can we expect to affect the programs to change the social needs in the community?
Finally, an L3C entity focused on Social Impact Bonds & pay for success financing of social impact projects! We're checking them out, are you?
Marvin, yes! I just checked out a FAQ document from Mission Throttle. It's nice to see somebody getting somewhere with the L3C concept. Duane, you raise cogent concerns about how programs for social good measure and evaluate their effectiveness. Those of us in the non-profit field grapple with those questions daily. Happily, the field of program evaluation is well-established and has good answers to those concerns. Over the years, we have learned that many program models can achieve good results on a small scale, but to be worthy of the investment of resources these programs require, they must be able to produce the same high quality results when others apply their model elsewhere. Otherwise, we cannot afford to keep reinventing the wheel each time a new request for grant proposals is announced. Thanks for your comments.
Jeannette, If you have proven measures why aren't they being shared boardly? Where could I go to see them? What do you use those metrics for? What is being measured, how are they being used, who are the audiences, how are they shared? I appreciate that metrics for social good are a concern. I wonder what you are concerned about. Is it finding value for the measures, is it knowing how to measure and what to measure, is it about how to present it to the audiences you feel will gain from them, is it about preventing them becoming a burdensome layer on the people involved in the process? In my limited experience with non-profits there was little interest to develop metrics. The one thing that has surprised me is whenever I have brought up the idea of metrics with non-profits I have never been challenge to demostrate how it might work, how it could be developed, how it would benefit the people, the organization, the
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have exposed any long-term negative side-effects.
If you buy a tub of oxiracetam powder and take a teaspoonful, it'll probably have the taste and texture of sugar. But buy it from a reputable source and you won't have been ripped-off. There is a patented method for manufacturing drugs in a form that resembles and tastes like sugar. Piracetam in powdered form tastes like nasty sugar, so try mixing it with chocolate milk or a citrus drink.
You may experience a slight buzz 30 minutes to an hour after taking your first high dose (2,000mg of piracetam), but this will soon go away. If you take piracetam regularly then this sensation will rarely ever return, even with higher doses. The real effect of the racetams is on learning.
Some users experience headaches while taking racetams, which can be eliminated by supplementing with Choline (described below).
Users have recommended taking a quadruple-dose 30 minutes before a study session, then taking regular doses every 2-4 hours afterward. Piracetam's suggested regular dose is 800mg (one pill, but check). I have not experienced any side-effects after doses of 3,200mg at one time, but remember that Aniracetam and other formulations are more potent and require lower dosages. The 'racetam family haven't been proven effective as a daily supplement, so their usage ought to be restricted to study sessions specifically.
A memory enhancer, and the most basic of a class of substances called cholinergics. Choline is an essential nutrient that you get in your diet already, particularly from eggs, fish and chicken. Your body uses it in at least two places: cell membranes and the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. The first role has been found important for pregnant and post menopausal women, since pregnancy and low estrogen levels can drain the body's choline reserves. Its second role in neurotransmitters is what makes it a possible nootropic, since a 1975 study found that increased choline intake resulted in higher levels of acetylcholine in the brain, and acetylcholine is believed to be involved in the formation of memories.
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter, it bridges the gap between synapses when they're ready to "fire"
Acetylcholinesterase is an enzyme that "cleans up" acetylcholine, removing it from the synapse to reset it. Ie: it's anti-acetylcholine.
Rosemary, sage and marijuana are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. For that matter, so is nerve gas and some types of snake venom. Mild inhibitors such as Huperzine A are being used to treat Alzheimer's disease, as it's suspected that the inhibition of the neurotransmitter stimulates nerve growth--a little bit like how you need to tear down muscle with exercize in order to make the body grow it back stronger.
Some users of the racetam family of drugs experience headaches that can be relieved by taking a choline supplement, and there is also subjective reports that it potentiates racetams (makes them more effective).
If you chose to supplement with choline, don't take too much of it or you'll soon have an embarrassing body-odor problem. Choline is also a precursor to trimethylamine, the chemical produced by decomposing fish that give them their distinctive smell. Your body has the ability to break-down trimethylamine when you consume choline in normal quantities, but overdosing on choline can overwhelm this process.
No, although choline can eliminate headaches caused by other nootropics such as piracetam.
Choline is naturally found at high concentrations in eggs. It's also found in an emulsifier called lecithin, which can be derived from either soy or eggs. Many processed foods use lecithin to prevent the oils in emulsions like chocolate and peanut butter from separating. Another popular form of choline is Choline Bitartrate, which is cheap, or CDP Choline, which is more expensive but better quality.
No more than 500 milligrams, taken as either a daily supplement (watch out for fishy-BO), or at the same time as your first dose of Piracetam.
Is bunk. It's still marketed as a memory enhancing herbal supplement, but its banner test case--Alzheimer's--turned up squat. Other findings conducted on healthy adults and published in JAMA also concluded that the supplement has no effect on long-term memory.
An IQ booster. Creatine is already very popular with bodybuilders, and this makes it extremely easy and cheap to obtain. There are dozens of manufacturers and it's sold everywhere that dietary supplements are. It occurs naturally in your body and improves the supply of energy to your muscles. It has been found safe in doses of up to 20 grams per day, but there are known problems in those with kidney and liver disease, as well as those with diabetes or hypoglycemia. Add to that its tendency to increase the production of formaldehyde with long-term use. Its popularity with bodybuilders comes from giving them the ability to do more in a workout, leading to an increase of muscle tissue.
Its nootropic effects come from its effect on the production of Adinosine Triphosphate--the chemical energy that drives cellular activity. This makes it a type of stimulant, and in studies it was found to improve results in tests of fluid intelligence, which is the ability to find meaning in confusion, draw inferences, make symbolic connections, and solve problems. This is compared to crystalized intelligence, such as when you learn how to add, or tie your shoelaces. These studies were performed on vegetarians in order to isolate the effects of the supplement with natural creatine in meat.
Creatine supplements come in two chemical forms: Creatine monophosphate and Creatine ethyl ester. The latter, CEE, is supposed to have higher absorption rates and half-life, but there haven't been any studies that bear this as true. In fact, the addition of the ethyl group appears to hasten its breakdown and instability, meaning that you're better off with the monophosphate variety.
You may notice that you have more energy when you exercise 30 minutes after taking a dose of creatine. If you're taking creating for nootropic effect, you should combine it with exercise such as walking or running in order to experience the stimulant effect.
Creatine is a supplement that can be taken daily. Take two 750mg capsules two to three times per day.
Is a stimulant as well as a memory enhancer. It's a chemical variant of vitamin B1, and the crucial difference is that it can cross the blood-brain barrier better than conventional B1 (thiamine). The B-family of vitamins tend to be stimulants because of their role in the metabolism of stored energy, and the more sensitive you are to stimulants such as caffeine, the more sensitive you're likely to be to the B vitamins, including Sulbutiamine.
It's sold over-the-counter in powder form. It's better to get it in pill form, if you can, for it has a bitter taste and is hard to mix with drinks without making them taste nasty.
Note: The nutritional supplement company Fast 400 has been selling Sulbutiamine as Sublutiamine, apparently a typo that they haven't fixed. It is the same substance, however.
You might feel more energetic, especially if you combine it with light exercise. If you take a dose higher than 500mg you may experience nausea or upset stomach.
I've noticed an increasing trend to pull pure Sulbutiamine off the market and retail it as a cocktail instead. The following are where I've purchased pure Sulbutiamine in the past, and Your Results May Vary.
As needed for a stimulant.
A memory enhancer first used to treat Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia in the elderly. There's been a rush to raid the Alzheimer medicine cabinet, lately, in the hopes that what will make the senile keep their memory will make the healthy get even smarter, Centrophenoxine is the poster child of this movement. The chemical itself is a compound made from one naturally occurring substance--dimethylaminoethanol (DMAE)--and one synthetic, which is parachlorophenoxyacetate (pCPA). Exactly how it improves memory isn't known, but there are two leads: 1) it's a precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and may increase levels of it in the brain, and 2) it removes lipofuscin deposits in the brain and skin.
Lipofuscin on the skin lead to "liver spots", while its build-up in the brain is suspected to be behind the "plaques" that are observed in brain tissue samples taken from Alzheimer's patients. The theory for Alzheimers is that the lipofuscin clogs ion channels on the surface of nerve cells, preventing the movement of potassium through these channels and degrading memory and cognition in the process.
Centrophenoxine gave the author mild nausea when it was taken on an empty stomach, but not when taken with food. Avoid it completely if you suffer from high blood pressure or epilepsy. It's available over-the-counter from nutritional stores, but usually only those on the Internet. Like with the racetams and Sulbutiamine, I have not seen it in main-street nutrition stores.
Centrophenoxine's benefit comes from preventative maintenance. Take 250 to 500mg per day in the morning with breakfast.
Now we're cooking with gas. Modafinil was first prescribed to narcoleptics to help them stay awake during the day, and then used by the Navy and Air Force to help pilots stay alert on long missions. Modafinil keeps you awake and alert, has an effectiveness that spans up to 8 hours, increases the
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that the SCNX group still had rhythmicity of salivary IgA secretion in both the pilocarpine (Fig. 2e) and NE (Fig. 2f) groups. However, the rhythmicity and amplitude, as evaluated using the cosinor method, were dampened in the SCN lesioned group compared to that in the sham group (Supplemental Table S2). These results suggest that the rhythm of salivary IgA secretion is highly controlled by SCN.
The circadian rhythms of salivary IgA secretion in SCN-lesioned mice. (a,b) Representative double-plotted actograms of locomotor activity for one sham mouse and one SCNX mouse after pilocarpine (a) or NE administration (b). (c,d) Representative Chi-squared periodogram analysis of behavioral data for one sham mouse and one SCNX mouse after pilocarpine (c) or NE (d) administration. Straight lines in each figure indicate statistical significance. (e,f) Salivary IgA concentration rhythms in non-SCN-lesioned (sham) and SCN-lesioned (SCNX) after pilocarpine (e) or NE administration (f) (n = 4–6). Values are shown as mean ± SEM. (f) $$p < 0.01, sham group (one-way ANOVA). **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 vs. sham ZT18. #p < 0.05 vs. sham ZT0.
It has been suggested that the submandibular gland responds to sympathetic nervous stimulation17 (Fig. 1a,d). Therefore, we investigated the relationship between the sympathetic nervous system and the regulation of salivary IgA concentrations. We administered agonists and antagonists of NE at ZT6, since the salivary IgA concentration peaks at this time point (Fig. 1a). The salivary IgA concentration increased significantly with agonist treatment, and decreased with antagonist treatment (Fig. 3a). Antagonists significantly blocked the NE-induced increase in salivary IgA concentrations. In addition, both α receptor agonist phenylephrine and β receptor agonist isoproterenol increased salivary IgA concentrations at ZT6 and ZT18. However, the observation that the salivary IgA concentration is highest at the light phase was also observed in both agonists-administered groups (Fig. 3b,c). Both phenylephrine and isoproterenol showed a circadian pattern of IgA secretion (Supplemental Fig. S4a,b, Supplemental Table S2) similar to NE-induced secretion. These results suggest that the sympathetic nerve activation-induced increase of salivary IgA secretion is caused by an activation of α, β, or both receptors.
Effects of sympathetic nerve agonists/antagonists on salivary IgA secretion. (a) Salivary IgA concentrations after application of the sympathetic nervous system agonist (norepinephrine 1 mg/kg) and/or antagonist (prazosin 1 mg/kg, propranolol 1 mg/kg, or 10 mg/kg) with pilocarpine. “+” indicates the reagent that was mixed and administered to mice, “−” indicates the reagent that was not administered to mice. (b,c) Salivary IgA concentrations when the α receptor (phenylephrine, 5 mg/kg; the numbers in parentheses are the number of samples) (b) or β receptor (isoproterenol, 5 mg/kg; n = 4–5) (c) were stimulated at ZT6 or ZT18 (n = 3–5). Values were shown as means ± SEM. (a) ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, vs. the NE(+)-Prazosin(−)-Propranolol(−) group (one-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test). (b) *p < 0.05, ZT18 group cont. vs. PE (Mann-Whitney test). (c) **p < 0.01, iso group ZT6 vs. ZT18 (Student’s t-test).
Clock genes, which are reportedly expressed in the submandibular gland, demonstrate circadian rhythms15, 20. We show that salivary IgA secretion rhythms appear to be controlled by sympathetic activation through the SCN. Sympathetic stimulation causes circadian fluctuations and resulted in a circadian change in salivary IgA secretion. To investigate the submandibular gland’s sensitivity to and the time frame for sympathetic stimulation, we administrated NE during the light phase (ZT4) or the dark phase (ZT16), and compared the phase shift for Per2 gene abundance in the submandibular gland. When NE was administrated at ZT4, the Per2 phase advanced in a concentration-dependent manner (Fig. 4b,c, Supplemental Table S2). However, when NE was administrated at ZT16, the Per2 phase was unaffected (Fig. 4d,e). In all groups, the circadian rhythmicity of Per2 abundance, as evaluated by cosinor analysis, was maintained in vehicle- or NE- treated mice (Supplemental Table S2).
Sensitivity of the submandibular gland clock to sympathetic nerve stimulation, as evaluated by IVIS in PER2::LUC mice. (a) Experimental schedule. White and black bars indicate 12 hours of light and dark. Triangles under the white and black bars indicate the time at which the reagents were administered intraperitoneally. Bi-directional arrows under the white and black bars indicate the period of measurement using IVIS. (b,c) Average peaks of phase of PER2::LUC rhythms (b) and PER2::LUC expression rhythms (c) in submandibular glands after mice were administered the reagent at ZT4 for 3 days (n = 3–6). (d,e) Average phase peaks of PER2::LUC rhythms (d) and PER2::LUC expression rhythms (e) in submandibular glands after mice were administered the reagent at ZT16 for 3 days (n = 4–8). Values were shown as the means ± SEM. (b) **p < 0.01, control vs. NE 2 mg/kg (one-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test).
Next, we examined whether NE directly affected the submandibular gland function. Under in vitro conditions, NE administration at the rising phase of Per2 rhythm significantly advanced the Per2 rhythm phase without affecting the amplitude (Supplemental Fig. S5a–c). NE administration at ZT4 in vitro caused an increase in Per1 gene abundance but not abundance of the Per2 gene in the submandibular gland (Supplemental Fig. S5d,e). These results suggest that the submandibular gland has a higher sensitivity to sympathetic stimulation through direct action during the light phase than during the dark phase. In other words, there is a time window during which the submandibular gland responds to external NE stimulation. Our results suggest that ZT4 is the approximate time during which the submandibular gland has the highest sensitivity to NE.
We investigated whether the rhythmicity of salivary IgA secretion is controlled by pIgR. The pIgR mediates transcytosis of IgA secretion; therefore, we investigated whether the abundance of the Pigr gene in the submandibular glands demonstrates circadian rhythms. We observed that Pigr abundance in the submandibular glands increased during the light phase, and peaked at ZT2.2 (Fig. 5a, Supplemental Table S2). To investigate the influence of the central circadian clock on Pigr abundance rhythms in the submandibular glands, we next performed a SCNX, which was compared with the sham group. In the sham group, there was a significant difference between ZT6 and ZT18, whereas no significant differences were observed among the SCNX groups (Fig. 5b). To determine whether the circadian rhythm of Pigr mRNA abundance is directly regulated by the Clock gene, Pigr mRNA abundance was examined using Clock −/− mice. The Clock mutation led to decreased Per2 gene abundance in the submandibular gland (Fig. 5c). The levels of Pigr mRNA increased and their rhythm was lost upon Clock mutation (Fig. 5d). These results suggest that the abundance of Pigr fluctuates with the circadian rhythm, and this may be controlled by the SCN clock and Clock gene. Therefore, the rhythm of Pigr in the submandibular glands may influence salivary IgA secretion caused by sympathetic nerve activation.
Circadian rhythm for Pigr gene abundance in submandibular glands in intact SCN-lesioned and Clock −/− mice. (a) Relative mRNA abundance rhythms of Pigr (n = 4) in the submandibular gland. (b) The relative mRNA abundance of Pigr in SCN-lesioned mice compared to that in sham-operated mice at ZT6 and ZT18 (n = 6–7). (c,d) The relative mRNA abundance of Per2 (c) and Pigr (d) in Clock −/− mice compared to that in wild-type (WT) mice at ZT6 and ZT18 (n = 4 for each group). Values are shown as means ± SEM. (a) *p < 0.05, ZT1, ZT5 vs. ZT13 (Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn post-hoc test), (b–d) *p < 0.05, ZT6 vs. ZT18 or WT vs. Clock −/− (Mann-Whitney test).
It is well known that cortisol secretion in saliva is rhythmically controlled via the SCN clock, and secretion peaks during the
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sacrifice is necessary and there is a cost to discipleship, who Jesus is and what he does for you is incomparable and far greater than what you give up. What you gain, in the place of what you give up, is infinitely better. The main thrust of this story is that when you come across a treasure, or something of value that is greater than what you currently have, you are willing to give up all that you have so that you could have that treasure. The picture here is of someone who is willing to give up everything if he could just have Jesus.
It is not about what you do, how often you do it, or how much you give up. The attention would then be on your sacrifice. The climax of this passage and the cause of joy is in what the farmer and merchant are getting not what they are sacrificing.
The Jesus who calls us to give up everything also promises that “everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my namesake will receive a hundred” in heaven.
Let’s count the cost, see the beauty of Jesus, and follow Him.
To follow Jesus is to give up control over your career.
J.D Greear a pastor and author gets this point across to his college students in this way.
Jesus in this passage appears to four fishermen and calls them to follow him. We don’t know much about how successful or unsuccessful, how rich or how poor they were as fishermen. What we do know is that based on their understanding of who Jesus was and what he meant by following him, their response was to drop their nets and install hired servants as their replacements. He approached many people and asked them to leave their post to follow him. Levi, a tax collector who more than likely made a lot of money by over taxing people, was told to follow Jesus while he was at his booth. Levi rose and followed him, just like that. Or at least as far as we know.
Do you feel that Jesus doesn’t have the right to call you to this? I believe that many of us can get so caught up in what we are doing that we don’t feel that Jesus can say drop what your doing and join me in what I am doing. Many of us think that we can choose our major, settle into a career and join Jesus in what he is doing insofar that it is comfortable and doable. As long as Jesus doesn’t get in the way of what is really important you will join him. Sorry guys, but to be honest I don’t think it works that way. There are 2 billion people with little to no access to the message of Jesus Christ. Jesus may call you to leave your job as an engineer, accountant, or teaching to follow him on his mission to the 6,000 plus unreached people groups. He may lead you to stay and be a marketer, computer programmer, or business manager. Both are equally important and needed. Some are to go to places where Jesus hasn’t been heard, and others are to fund the goers by sending them. All are to go and make disciples of Jesus. Some do it in reached places while others do it to the unreached. It isn’t an either/or its a both/and. If you stay you are still commanded to have a global perspective when it comes to the mission. One isn’t more important or of more value.
Again, this does not mean that every follower of Jesus is to quit their job go to some tribal location and tell the indigenous people of Jesus. Although I hope he calls many, he doesn’t call everyone to go overseas. In fact there are times where Jesus commands people he has had mercy on to go to their own people and share what Jesus has done. The point of this passage is not to quit your job, or sign out of your major. The point of this passage is to keep in mind that to follow Jesus it to be open to the fact that if he leads you to quit your job, you have a higher allegiance to Jesus and his mission that you do your career and your reputation.
To follow Jesus is to give up the closed fisted grip we have on our resources.
In these two passages Jesus speaks to his followers in general and then to someone in specific. But notice that one of the ways you can easily count yourself out as a follower of Jesus is by not being willing to part with all that you have. Notice that Jesus is not taking simply about money either, He says “renounce all”. That includes giving time, energy, skills and all that we have and could leverage for the mission of Jesus.
Jesus may call you to give generously of your time, skills, and money for his cause and for his mission. He may call you to give everything. Or he may call you to give out of what you can, with a joyful heart. The young rich ruler in Matthew 19 was to sell all that he had and give it to the poor. In another story about a tax collector named Zacchaeus, when he encountered Jesus he restores all the money he has taken from others and gave half of his possessions to the poor.
The call to renounce all things is not a command or demand to go pawn all that you currently have and go to the poor people of the world. But it does mean that everything that we own should be at the disposal of Jesus. We should leverage all that we have to make much of Jesus. Our clenched fist should open up and offer Jesus all that we have so that He would be known.
A lot of times songs drive truths deep into my heart. Matt Papa wrote a song called “Have I forgotten?” and in it he asks the question, “have I forgotten that your hands are pierced, when I hold on to this world?”. Jesus’ command to renounce all that we have is a call to freely part with what we have and follow him.
If Jesus were to budget your money, your time, how you use your gifts and talents, would he find that you itemize things that would make much of you and make life comfortable, or would it make much of Him and show a priority and urgency for mission?
It was April 4th and I was nervous beyond description. I had only thought of the day that I would get engaged to the woman of my dreams. The night before I set out clues everywhere. Her dad’s study, her car, her class and went to get other things I would surprise her with. The planning was awesome. The actual moment of it all coming together even better. I had only known her for about 8 months, but I knew this was it. 2 years later, I know I haven’t made a mistake.
Love, and specifically marriage, has been on my mind for the last 5 years. The more I thought about marriage, the more I looked forward to laying my life down, in sacrifice, for the good of my wife. I know that marriage, apart from knowing God, is the biggest decision I will ever make in my life. With that in view, I have chosen my decision carefully and hope to lay out the thought process behind the process of choosing you as the person I want to live life with.
For the last 9 months and 12 days my prayers for a wife have had a specific name to them. Before I tell you how I began those prayers, let me tell you what sparked those prayers for you. I heard about your character, love for others, compassion, and friendship from those close to you. I have to say that, the more I heard about you, the more I wanted to know you myself. I remember my meeting with Sylvie at Pistachio’s coffee shop off of Brink and 108 like it was yesterday. It was that Friday morning, before NEXT, when she told me… “You should consider Lindsay.” Wow…did she leave a pebble in my shoe….
You were in Ecuador loving the culture and language that makes me who I am. It was in Ecuador that God had you, even though I would have preferred you here, at least for a moment.
June 23rd marks the date that I first had an exchange with you. Although it was through an email, your love for the family that was hosting you, and for the people of Ecuador was evident. Let’s just say that August did not come fast enough.
On August 27th, I began my intentional pursuit of you. I walked you to your car and spoke to you in Spanish.
As you can see, I was very intentional.
Lindsay, I looked at this note and thought of our relationship, engagement, and our first year of marriage for most of today. This is only our third Valentine day together and it seems like it all flew by. Life with you has never had a dull moment. There is nothing better than knowing that you are that one person that knows every detail of my life.
I still have a lot to learn about you. In these past 3 years, I have loved getting to know what makes you laugh. How to help you when you feel like the world is on your shoulders. Reminding us that our conflicts aren’t a me against you, but a we against this. You have increased my joy and have made me a very very happy man. The pot holes we have navigated through make this journey a lot more interesting. There is no one I would rather experience life with than you. The memories we have made are forever in my heart. May our future make our memories pale in comparison. I love you, and will love you as long as I live.
Why should I follow another blog?
It seems like everywhere you turn now everyone is starting up a blog. There are blogs about clothes, style, theology, movie reviews, and just cool, hip, witty and artistic blogs.
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