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09/15/2020 2:05 PM | Anne Ocone (Administrator)
by Cora Angier Sowa
Duke Ellington at New York University
In 1932, Percy Grainger was teaching a course called "A General Study of the Manifold Nature of Music" at New York University. On October 25, he invited the famous jazz bandleader Duke Ellington and his orchestra to perform several compositions for his class. Under such bandleaders as Ellington (pictured above), jazz had been adapted from different kinds of African and African-American song and made into forms that were popular with a wider, i.e. white, audience. Grainger had become a big fan of jazz, which he saw (as might be expected of him) through the lens of his own rather peculiar musical views.
The origins of jazz
The beginnings of jazz are usually associated with New Orleans, with its brass bands marching in Mardi Gras parades and jazz funerals, and with the singing and dancing in Congo Square, a neighborhood just north of the French Quarter, where enslaved Africans, given the day off on Sunday, would set up a market (at which they could often make enough money to buy their freedom) and dance to rhythms and songs inherited from Africa, like the Bamboula, Calinda, and Juba. The area is now included within Louis Armstrong Park.
But the origins of jazz are complicated, drawing from many sources, African, Asian, and European. In Africa, the roots go back to the songs of the griots or bards, who were the keepers of the history of the tribe, to songs to accompany work, songs for religious ceremonies, and songs of play. Percy Grainger's friend Natalie Curtis recorded many of these songs, and her work in collecting the songs of African and African-American singers was discussed in a previous blog, Natalie Curtis, Busoni, and Grainger.
Songs of the gandy dancers
In America, the African slaves continued the traditions of song, often improvising words to fit the circumstances. There were songs for cotton-picking (sometimes with acid remarks about the white boss when he was out of earshot). With the end of slavery, African American laborers continued the tradition of improvising songs or chants to accompany their work, on the railroad or in construction.
The "gandy dancers" were the track workers on the railroads, in the days before mechanical cranes and steam shovels, like the men pictured in the tintype shown above. (We notice the plump white supervisor standing on the right of the picture.) In the North, the gandy dancers were generally white, many Irish or German. In the South, they were usually Black. Even after the track was laid, crews would periodically have to straighten the track, shoved out of alignment by the constant passing of the heavy trains above. A long line of men with crowbars would stand on one side of the rail, using brute force to rhythmically heave it into place, moving in unison. Spiking the rails in place also required teamwork. It was generally a two-man job, with one man on each side of the rail, striking the spike in fast alternating strokes. The work of the gandy dancers was accompanied by songs or chants, like the sea shanties of sailors. These served two functions, to help keep the rhythm of the work, and to motivate the workers. These chants usually followed a call-and-response pattern, which we find as an important component of jazz. One member of the crew, the "caller," chants a verse of some kind, answered by the others as they heave the rail, thus, giving a heave at each "huh":
Up and down this road I go
Skippin' and dodging a 44
Hey man won't you line 'um...huh
Hey won't you line 'um...huh
Hey won't you line 'um...huh
Hey won't you line 'um...huh
The caller might choose different topics for the initial verse, turning to sexual jokes if the men were tired and needed encouragement (but these latter only when they were out of earshot of women and children and of the white railroad owners).
An example of improvisation
Improvisation to fit the circumstances was an important part of these songs, as it would be for jazz. My own father, Robert M. Angier, describes two examples from Black crews he witnessed when on a summer job with his father's civil engineering firm early in the twentieth century. He recorded them in his book Why Poetry, in the chapter called "Marching Songs."
"... I recall a crew, in Memphis, Tennessee, who worked as a team putting together the forms for the reinforced concrete piling (which I was there to inspect) at the successive commands which, although not verse, rolled rhythmically from the lips of the gang boss. It went something like this:
"Pick up de one side:
Set in de cage:
Pick up t'othah side:
Stick in the pins:
Shake 'im!
"Ain't got but one eye!" piped a youth.
"Whut ain't got but one eye?" intoned the boss.
"Dis hyeah fawm! [form]" answered the youth. One of the lugs on the edge of the half-octagonal steel sheet had broken off, so that the linking strip could not be fastened. With a brief glance in my direction, the gang boss chanted:
"Git a wy-ah!"[wire]
One of the men produced a length of wire which, when looped around the remaining opposite lug and passed under the form, shaped a temporary eyelet for the other side, while all the other men stood at attention until, the loop made and the pin run through, the final command was given:
"Cah-yeh it 'way!"
Another group, working on "double tracking" and elevating roadbed along the Des Plaines River, near Chicago, included one fellow who, I heard him tell the foreman, wanted to "go back to Bobo, Mississippi. B-o-b-o," he spelled it out carefully, in case the foreman might not know. And later I heard him cogitating vocally, to the rhythm of spike maul or tamping bar:
"Ah won-dah of a soot-case'll hol mah clo's!"
"Matchbox'll hol' yuah clo's!" jibed another, and, with perfect calm, without missing a beat, the first continued his improvised chant, but changed the "lyric" (!) to read:
"Ah won-dah of a match-box'll hol' mah clo's!"
Fusion of African and European music traditions
In America, African traditions of complicated, syncopated rhythms, call and response, improvisation, and rhythmic chanting rather than European-style melodic development and orchestration were fused with European musical traditions in many ways. As African slaves adopted Christianity, forms of gospel music and spirituals came into being. In popular entertainment, ragtime fused syncopated polyrhythms with the band music popularized by John Philip Sousa. Ragtime was played on pianos by "professors" in "sporting houses" (bordellos) in the Storyville section of New Orleans. ("Storyville" was the popular name given to a red-light district defined by legislation proposed by City Councilman Sidney Story, to the councilman's embarrassment.)
Ragtime, particularly associated with the "King of Ragtime" Scott Joplin (composer of the "Maple Leaf Rag," among many other pieces), was the first African-American music to have an impact on the wider American and European public. It was popularized in polite mainstream culture by its playing by "society" dance bands. Ragtime even influenced such classical composers as Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky. Percy Grainger's first exposure to jazz was the ragtime that he heard in the music halls of London.
Spanish, Afro-Cuban, and Creole influences also made their way into the development of African American music.
The "Swing Era" and the big band sound
If the 1920's were the Jazz Era, the 1930's the Swing Era. Jazz became more orchestral, with the addition of stringed instruments. Swing, with its swinging danceable beat, kept the percussive rhythms of the African heritage, along with the call-and-response concept of alternating melodic statement of a theme with solo riffs and variations, sometimes keeping only the chord structure of the original melody. They also introduced new instruments, such as the saxophone, an instrument scorned by classical musicians. Jazz also incorporated the use of glissandos and glides, often featuring "blue notes," or the "notes between the notes," often flatted thirds, fifths, and sevenths, and sometimes microtonal notes that were not part of the usual well-tempered scale. (Percy Grainger would later relate these microtones to his concept of Free Music.)
As Blacks migrated north to various northern cities out of the Deep South during the Great Migration, different styles of jazz developed, such as St. Louis Jazz, Kansas City Jazz, and Chicago Jazz. Many Black musicians from New Orleans, including Louis Armstrong and his mentor, "King" Oliver, who had played in Storyville, went to Chicago. Some popular band leaders were Black, like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington, but many were white, like Paul Whiteman, styled the "King of Jazz" and Benny Goodman, the "King of Swing," who led one of the first integrated jazz groups.
Modern developments
In the era following the years we are discussing, the jazz heritage has influenced many forms of popular music, including soul, disco, and rock and roll, moving ever farther from its origins. Interestingly, Black musical forms have arisen that return to the rebellious roots of those original chants, namely rap and the associated hiphop culture. These compositions, like their forbears, depend not on melody but on a rhythmic patter and on trenchant commentary on events in the life of the singer and his audience. First associated with gangs in the form of "gangsta rap," these compositions also grew out of "the dozens," a game in which contestants try to outdo each other in trading insults, often involving the contestants' mothers. These could take the form of rhyming verses or single lines. (Example: "Yo momma so stupid it takes her an hour to cook Minute Rice".) Boxer Muhammad Ali frequently used such playful versified insults when speaking to reporters, simply leaving them confused. Rap, like jazz before it, has also been taken up by white musicians, with performers like white rapper Eminem, and has gone mainstream, as with popular female rapper Cardi B. Rap has also traveled abroad, to countries like South Korea, where it appears as K Pop.
"My art sets out to celebrate the beauty of bravery."
-Percy Grainger
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The Struggle Continues
If you read my last piece My Existential Struggle, you would be following along with my cognitive dissonance that has recently sprung up. Over the course of the week, it seems as if things have only gotten worse. First we had the story about the top level spy that Russia is currently downplaying and the American media is up playing. There has also been a shift from calling it Trump-Russia Collusion to Russian Election Interference. Following up on the leak, it is later revealed that Trump doesn’t trust confidential sources for foreign countries. I just need a place to document my thoughts as my Twitter account is in a huge echo chamber which makes it impossible to have a discussion. Good thing I have a my own blog.
I have been rereading a lot of old things in order to prepare myself for more revelations as time moves on. Looking back, the main way I analyzed by seeing what other people pulled from docs and then seeing where their theories don’t make sense. In a way this was good because it was efficient, but at the same time, only seeing part of the story exposes you to biases as exculpatory information is left out. My self imposed don’t read anything over 20 page rule may have been my downfall and potentially wasted 13 months of my life. The good thing is that I can effectively see both perspectives on this story which sort of puts me in the middle. I am happy to be in that place.
Even with the court filing by Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sydney Powell, I had to roll my eyes so many times. It does not make sense to ask for Brady material in relation to him lying to the FBI, but not withdraw the plea. He was there, he knows what he said to Kislyak and what he said to the FBI. Even reading the Mueller Report about what happened, you can see that the phrase “Tit-for-tat” was the proof that he was lying as it was in his text messages, said on the phone,said by Strzok, and in Flynn’s statement of offense. Then glossing over Powell’s list of Brady material, most was junk. Most had nothing to do with what was plead guilty too. The rational behind conservative twitter was that the judge was going to throw everything away and then flip the charges on the prosecutors.
This theory makes little sense as Van Grack was appointed by Barr to lead the DOJ FARA unit and Jessie Liu was the one who tried to get Greg Craig for misleading investigators and is trying to get Andrew McCabe for lying to the Inspector General. So knowing the backstory to these two prosecutors, it is extremely unlikely that they will be under any sort of charges. Feel like I am wasting my time even writing this, but I started last night and the ridiculousness has spilled over into today when there has yet to be an indictment on McCabe, making the entire thing look like a political prosecution.
Looking at McCabe too, I had no idea that he went through all the proper channels when his wife was running. There was an FBI Vault drop on this specific subject. Never in a million years did I ever think I would have to defend McCabe, but it seems as if he isn’t the super villain I once thought. Sorry Andy.
Moving forward, I had been thinking back to when I first having doubts and it had to be the social media summit when partisan hacks like Bill Mitchell and Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit were invited. Why would Trump be inviting known fake news people? It bothered me, but most of the time when under cognitive dissonance, I ignored. Then the Epstein suicide happened and I saw conspiracy theories take off like wildfire. To me I saw that suicide was by far and away the most likely of outcomes, yet I was hit with a barrage of theories on how they had him killed. The Deep State was blamed. I knew they weren’t at fault.
Then the Byrne incident helped me expose the Fox News echo chamber and really get me to hammer home at some of the faults in this story. Now I am looking at what the news is saying and it makes way more sense. Did Mueller clear Trump of obstruction? Originally, as written in past posts, I was saying no collusion and no obstruction. Now I am not so sure as Mueller said that he can’t charge a sitting president. Sucks, but all of this has been out there for months and only now have I been starting to see the other side of the argument. You live and learn, but this was my attempt at investigative journalism. I tried, I did good in some areas, but the basis for my work was never done with a truly objective mind. It was more objective than most in this arena, but it still had a major bias built in and that bias was that Russiagate was a total hoax and everything was a sting.
For that, I apologize.
9 thoughts on “The Struggle Continues
I believe little that shows up in the Washington Monthly but it is a reference for an unusual move involving Jessie Liu.
There’s something fishy about Liu.Granted she’s now the DA involved with possibly indicting Andrew McCabe but I do recall reading elsewhere that there was no chance she would do it and she had been slow-walking it for the past 18 months or so. Now she is. Maybe Barr told her to.
Trump nominated her, Barr withdrew her. Why? He appointed Huber instead, I believe. Barr is investigating the activities of the justice department in the counter surveillance of candidates in the 2016 election. I think Liu is related to this somehow, even though she is purportedly a conservative.
It wasn’t just Democrats that didn’t want Trump. Comey was a Republican as well.
I wouldn’t give up on things yet, just don’t pay any attention to Fox and Hannity, Carter and the tick tock club.
There’s still a cabal operating in the CIA / IC; otherwise they wouldn’t have leaked that story about the Russian spy with the slant intended to damage Trump’s credibility.
1. I’m just really at the point of no expectations.
There are so many ways that this can go that the most I can do for now is watch with everyone else instead of inadvertantly misleading people.
2. So I guess there’s no point commenting if the comment is not published and just gets deleted.
Too bad. Enjoyed the blog but out now.
3. “Epstein suicide”
The evidence that is most useful to determine truth is the POLITICAL evidence. Jeffrey Epstein was a known intelligence asset, who had blackmail dossiers on dozens if not hundreds of top level politicians from around the world. This included at least one Prince, and an Israeli Prime Minister. As evidenced by Mr. Epstein’s first run in with trouble, not only was he connected, he was essentially above the law. The DOJ was able to keep a lid on it in 2008, and gave him a sweet heart deal. However, that scam sentencing was regularly brought up by people who I’m sure you would consider “fake news”, but they eventually created enough smoke which ultimately culminated in his 2019 arrest.
So, here’s the political evidence. A very dangerous person to the establishment was in prison, and he then commits “suicide”, which was extremely convenient for said establishment. There’s no way to confirm this “suicide” because the surveillance cameras “weren’t working” and the guards happened to “fall asleep” and not check on him. That is the actual story behind Epstein’s suicide. If you honestly believe that’s how it went down, then you are willing to believe anything. Stop using “conspiracy theories” in a derogatory way, the official story of Epstein’s “suicide” is the true conspiracy theory, and the political evidence proves that.
Do you think Bill Barr is a good and honest man? As Joe Digenova said, why wasn’t a DOJ representative watching Epstein the entire time, in shifts? He was the most important prisoner in the United States, and yet he somehow is able to “commit suicide” while in custody. ABSURD! That is the real conspiracy, the official story is only believable to people with a sub 80 IQ or those who still believe in the “system”. Which one are you?
1. Really, ONLY Joe Digenova called that there would be an IG report exclusively about Comey before the FISA report dropped, nobody else said that. Digenova was proven correct. He also actually worked in the DOJ for decades, and knows more than us combined about the ACTUAL inner workings of the department. Speaking of IQ 65, you just defended Andy McCabe, a blatant and transparent hack, not me. This is you… “Well, even though Lisa Page said during testimony, she was shocked Andy McCabe refused to recuse himself in the Clinton Mid-Year investigation until the bitter end, after Hillary’s crimes were covered up, he followed these BS rules about his wife’s political donation, so he’s above board”
Also, please, elucidate to me how Epstein accomplished his suicide, because the official conspiracy theory is implausible.
Finally, sorry to be combative, you’re a very good researcher, you just seem a little off with your theories imo. Everyone’s a critic though, so keep doing what your doing, I’m just trying to maybe get you thinking a bit from a different angle.
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An Orthodox Muslim: Bin Laden's Theology and Terrorism
One annoying old canard, reinserted into the mainstream media reporting of Osama Bin Laden’s death, is the claim that his theology represents a radical break with traditional Islam. The usual propagandists and apologists for “normative Islam”—peaceful and tolerant, and totally at odds with terrorist violence—are back peddling their old wares.
CNN had Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University, as saying that Bin Laden had “no official religious training” and therefore “takes scriptural imperatives at their face value and believes this is the only instruction and command God has given him—unmediated by history, unmediated by understanding, unmediated by human experience”:
The vast majority of Islamic scholars and imams say the teaching of the Prophet Mohammed happened in historical context that needs to be understood when reading and interpreting the Quran. “If the likes of bin Laden, if they had spent one day or maybe one month possibly, in a madrassa (Muslim religious school) and understood how the canonical tradition is interpreted, they would not go onto this kind of destructive path they go on,” Moosa said.
This is pure taqiyya in action. Professor Moosa has told a series of outright falsehoods in less than one minute, but he relies on the ignorance of his infidel audience and on the self-censoring, tactful restraint of those few Westerners who know the score. In reality, however,
1. In mainstream Islam every Muslim is qualified equally to draw inferences from the Scripture; no sane Muslim is considered disqualified by his lack of formal religious training from making judgments about what he should or should not do, provided that he uses only the Kuran and the Hadith as his source, and provided that he does not stray from strict deduction into speculation.
2. Scriptural imperatives must be taken “at their face value” in orthodox Islam. They exist to be obeyed, not analyzed, and any attempt to critically scrutinize and contextualize the Kuran is a mortal sin today just as it has been ever since the “prophet” Muhammad declared it to be so 14 centuries ago.
3. The Kuran is indeed “the only instruction and command,” and “mediating” that message “by understanding”—by human reason—has been explicitly forbidden for a thousand years, ever since Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, one of Islam’s most respected authorities of all times, asserted that “the science that the Qur’an brings is all science.”
4. The above is exactly how the “canonical tradition” is interpreted in each and every bona-fide madrassa from Rawalpindi to Rabat when it is interpreted at all: the bulk of their curriculum consists of learning Kuranic verses by hart.
John Esposito, a professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Islam’s apologist-extraordinaire, claims that Bin Laden distorted the traditional teaching, and extended its parameters in order to legitimate his struggle. In England, Imam Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Education Centre in Oxford, hailed Osama’s death as an opportunity for the misguided to return Islam “to its original and non-belligerent tenets”: “For too long, moderate Muslims have surrendered the stage to radicals and extremists who have maligned Islam and distorted its pristine teachings. The death of Osama bin Laden is therefore a turning point. We must … openly jettison the monstrous deformity of the doctrines that he preached.”
That “monstrous deformity” looks hardly deformed at all, however, if we look at al-Qaeda’s own theological justification for its actions published in 2002. The document asserts that the United States is waging an offensive war against Islam and al-Qaeda’s operations were therefore Kuranically ordained defensive measures to protect the Muslim community from aggression. It points out that Al-Azhar University scholars confirm that “according to Islamic law, if the enemy steps on Muslims’ land, jihad becomes a duty on every male and female Muslim.”
More significant for the non-Muslim world is the document’s detailed argument that there is no firm prohibition against killing non-combatants, women and children in Islam. It lists seven conditions when Muslims are allowed, under Islamic law, to kill non-combatants:
1. Since America has targeted Muslim civilians, either itself or by proxy (Israel), the same response is legal: “And one who attacks you, attack him in like manner as he attacked you.” (Kuran, 2:194) If the unbelievers have targeted Muslim women, children and elderly, it is permissible for Muslims to respond in kind.
2. Muhammad allowed killing civilians when it is hard to distinguish combatants from non-combatants: asked about the infidel children and women who stayed behind with the enemy fighters and were killed, he replied, “They are from among them.” They ceased to be innocents by remaining with the combatants.
3. Non-combatants may be killed if they have assisted in combat “in deed, word, opinion, or any other way.” This is justified by Muhammad’s order to kill Duraid Ibn al-Simma, an old and infirm poet who provided advice to his enemies. This sweeping concept of combat assistance includes indirect forms of support of which every employed American is theoretically guilty.
4. Women and children may be killed when it is necessary to sap the strength of the enemy by destroying his property (“the fortifications or the fields of the enemy in order to weaken his strength, to breach the ramparts, or to topple the country”), such as the prophet of Islam did in his attack on Banu Al-Nadhir.
5. Muhammad condoned the use of the contemporary weapons of mass destruction, specifically the catapult, against Taif. It was an indiscriminate weapon: many civilians were killed or maimed by these machines that hurled heavy rocks at the fortified city.
6. “Inviolable infidels” may be killed if they are used as human shields.
Al Qaeda interestingly asserts that through their participation in the domestic political process that results in anti-Muslim policies, all Americans are effectively guilty of aiding and abetting “Crusaders and Zionists” and therefore not deserving of “protection”: “If the successive Crusader-Zionist governments had not received support from their people, their war against Islam and Muslims would not have taken such an obvious and conspicuous form. It is something that would not attain legitimacy except by the voices of the people.”
It is possible to dispute, with greater or lesser vigor, the validity of al-Qaeda’s justifications for terror from within Islam, that is to say, using the tools of Islamic scholarship. It is not possible to dispute that these arguments are based on incontrovertibly valid Islamic sources, precedents, and methods of deduction. While it is true that in some details Islam is not monolithic and that there is no single canonical Islam, the apologists for terror invoke sources and principles that are independent of any capricious or dubious interpretations of the Kuran or the Hadith.
Over 600 years ago one of the leading Islamic thinkers of all time, Ibn Khaldun, summed up the mainstream consensus when he defined systemic violence as a religious duty based on the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert all men to Islam either by persuasion or by force. He readily conceded that “Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.” That consensus is still valid. It reflects the true “canonical tradition” of mainstream, orthodox Islam. Osama did not hijack or distort that tradition, he emerged from within its time-tested mainstream.
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Is Your Chest Pain Physical or Mental?
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By Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF
Chest pain sends over 7 million people to the emergency room every year. That makes sense since any kind of aching in your chest can be downright terrifying. But experiencing chest pain doesn’t automatically mean you’re in grave danger.
While cardiovascular events can certainly happen to young, otherwise healthy people, and heart disease is the leading killer of women in the United States, most chest-related emergency room visits aren’t life-threatening, according to a 2016 study published in JAMA that investigated records for over 42 million patient visits to the ER. These visits are often not even rooted in physical issues at all and are tied to mental health instead.
Chest pain is different for everyone, and there’s no true way to diagnose it on your own (nor should you try). With that said, there are some potential ways to differentiate between physical and mental causes of chest pain in the moment.
These are common signs your chest pain could be physical.
1. You recently lifted or otherwise moved something heavy.
“The rib cage, the muscles between the ribs, and where they connect to the back and breastbone are actually pretty sensitive to trauma,” Aaron Baggish, M.D., director of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center in Boston, tells SELF. “People hurt their [chests] all the time and don’t realize it.”
For instance, you can strain a muscle or tendon in your chest if you lift weights without warming up properly or safely working yourself up to that level of weight over time. This type of injury can even happen if you’re shoving your sofa across the room to refresh your space. Basically, if you’ve been exerting your upper body recently, that could be the cause of your chest pain.
2. You feel general discomfort anywhere between your chin and your belly button, or even lower.
This sounds vague, but Dr. Baggish points out that many organs in the chest, like the heart, lungs, and esophagus share the same nerve supply. Anything in that area that gets inflamed or damaged can cause discomfort in a pretty large swath of your body, he says.
For instance, a pulmonary embolism, or when blood supply to a lung gets blocked by a blood clot, can cause chest pain, according to the Mayo Clinic. Other symptoms include shortness of breath (trying to take deeper breaths might make your chest pain worse), feeling light-headed or dizzy, having a rapid pulse, coughing up blood, and fainting. (This offending blood clot usually happens in the legs; signs of that include pain, swelling, discolored skin, and warmth in the affected leg.)
Another common cause of chest pain is acid reflux or its more severe relative, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Acid reflux happens when stomach acid reverses into your esophagus, creating symptoms like chest pain, heartburn, problems swallowing, a lump in your throat, and more, according to the Mayo Clinic. Acid reflux becomes GERD if you experience a mild version of these symptoms at least twice a week or a moderate to severe version at least once a week.
3. You’re about to get your period.
Cyclic breast pain might be your issue. This discomfort occurs in the two weeks leading up to your period due to hormonal fluctuations, according to the Mayo Clinic. It typically causes a dull, heavy ache that affects both breasts, so it might feel like your whole chest hurts. It may also feel like you pumped air into your breasts, swelling them up.
Of course, you might be used to this pain heralding your period’s arrival every month. But it could take you by surprise if, say, you’ve recently gone off hormonal birth control that stabilized your typical hormonal shifts.
4. Your chest pain always happens when you’re exposed to certain triggers.
When you think of asthma symptoms, you might immediately envision someone gasping for air. But asthma can also cause chest pain and tightness due to airway inflammation, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Common triggers behind this include pollen, dust mites, animal dander, cold air, smoke, exercise, and more.
You might think you’d obviously know if you had asthma, but it’s possible to develop this condition without realizing it. So, if you notice issues like chest pain and shortness of breath every time you dust your place or cuddle with your friend’s dog, asthma could be your problem.
5. You have risk factors for heart disease.
“Chest pain is very much about the person who gets the chest pain,” says Dr. Baggish. This means that people who have risk factors for heart disease are more likely to have chest pain from a serious heart problem than other people, he explains. Those risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, a cigarette smoking habit, being overweight or obese, a lack of exercise, being over 55 for women (this drops to 45 for men), and having a family history of the disease.
6. Your chest pain happens when you’re exerting yourself physically, is reproducible, and is quickly relieved by rest.
These are the classic features of angina, a symptom of an underlying heart problem such as coronary heart disease that can crop up when your heart isn’t getting enough oxygen-rich blood, according to the NHLBI. (Coronary heart disease is the most common form of the condition.) The discomfort associated with angina is often described as pressure, tightness, or a burning sensation. You might also feel discomfort in your neck, jaw, throat, abdomen, or back, or feel nauseous or short of breath.
As an example of what this might look like, you might go out for a run and start to feel uncomfortable when you really push yourself, but then realize the discomfort subsides when you slow down, Dr. Baggish says. Of course, some level of discomfort can be totally normal in this situation—it’s about disproportionate pain, tightness, or burning that you know aren’t usual for you personally at this level of exertion.
7. You feel pain on the left side of your chest or pain that’s radiating into other parts of your body.
Your heart is on the left side of your body, so pain in that area can be associated with a cardiovascular event like a heart attack, the NHLBI explains. In addition to straight-up pain, this might feel like squeezing, pressure, or fullness.
However, a heart attack can also cause these symptoms in the center of your chest, according to the NHLBI. Whichever way it presents, the chest pain will often last for more than a few minutes, recede, then return.
Although chest pain is the most common sign of a heart attack in men and women, women are more likely to experience lesser known symptoms like pain radiating into the back, shoulders, and jaw, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue, the NHLBI explains.
Here are the signs your chest pain might be mental.
1. It’s accompanied by an overwhelming amount of panic.
“Panic ... can absolutely produce the sensation of chest pain, and we see it all the time,” says Dr. Baggish. “It’s real. People feel it.” In fact, some studies suggest panic disorder—repeated bouts of panic attacks causing all-encompassing fear and other symptoms—are the most common reason people seek emergency medical treatment for what turns out to be non-cardiac chest pain.
2. It comes with other symptoms of panic attacks.
Someone who’s having something like a heart attack might feel panicked, so experiencing intense fear along with your chest pain isn’t enough to say you’re having a panic attack.
Instead, panic attacks involve an acute rush of fear and at least four of the below symptoms:
• Chest pain or discomfort
• Heart palpitations or a rapid heart rate
• Sweating
• Trembling or shaking
• Feeling short of breath or smothered
• Feeling as though you’re choking
• Nausea or abdominal discomfort
• Feeling dizzy, unsteady, light-headed, or faint
• Experiencing chills or, alternately, stifling heat
• Numbness or tingling sensations
• Fear of losing control or that you’re “going crazy”
• Fear of dying
If you keep experiencing random episodes of full-on terror along with these symptoms, panic attacks are likely your issue, Manish Kumar Jha, M.D., assistant director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, tells SELF.
3. In addition to the above, your chest pain is fleeting and subsides after a short period of time on its own.
Since panic attacks tend to peak within 10 minutes, Dr. Jha notes that any related chest pain often happens quickly: “It could be over before you have the opportunity to go to seek care.”
Chest pain due to physical causes like angina or a heart attack can also fade after a few minutes. Keeping the other symptoms of these conditions in mind can offer some hints as to whether your chest pain might be physical or mental.
You shouldn’t just try to soldier through your chest pain and whatever might be causing it.
If you’re dealing with chest pain that is persistent, is severe, or worries you for some other reason, you should always seek medical attention. Yes, even if you think it’s “just” because of anxiety, Dr. Jha says. You shouldn’t have to suffer through that.
When you get in to see a doctor, they will likely try to rule out physical issues with tests such as blood work or an electrocardiogram (EKG) to record electrical signals in your heart, Dr. Jha explains. If they think you might be having a panic attack, they will typically focus on evaluating you psychologically to cement that diagnosis, according to the Mayo Clinic. Either way, once they’ve figured out the source of your chest pain, they can offer treatments to help you feel better physically and have more peace of mind. | <urn:uuid:f5388a82-996f-49cb-aab9-ea59f842f84e> | https://www.currentnews360.com/2018/11/is-your-chest-pain-physical-or-mental.html | en | 0.936689 | 0.094834 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Do you ever wish you could live life on your own terms? You'd work when you wanted and have the time to do the activities that call to you. You'd have time to actually take care of yourself, such as eating well and exercising, instead of feeling guilty for not doing so. You could study about something that piques your interest, pursue hobbies that bring meaning to your life, all the while acting as a role model, showing others that they can live according to their own terms, too.
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How many times have you said no to yourself and yes to doing something you didn't want to do? How did that make you feel?
How do you bridge that chasm between following all of the rules, putting other's needs before yours, stake out your own piece of the universe and live there in the way that strikes your fancy and meets your needs?
The answer is simple and takes courage and persistence to implement.
Radically accept and embrace who you are designed to be.
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If you are a person who struggles with health, weight, depression and wonder why life seems so hard, then perhaps there is an inner part of you calling out for your attention. It's a message from your inner being that's letting you know it's time to break free, think outside the box, claim your freedom and independence. It's scary, especially if you are designed to want to fit it with society, feel responsible for other's needs or are highly sensitive and empathetic and don't want to rock any boats because of the emotional backlash. It becomes important to reconcile these two opposing needs and find a place of balance where you can be non-conforming and also feel like you belong. Your health depends upon your accomplishing this task.
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Chapter 3 from 'Some Tea Party.'
Chapter 3 from 'Some Tea Party.'
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Chapter 3 Middle-Worlds
I always set my alarm for at least half an hour before I plan to get up. For one thing it allows me a nice snooze before the rush of the work day begins, but it also lets me pop into Rotokia to catch up on things there.
'Is Yoshimitsu awake yet?' I asked with a yawn while I sat at the kitchen table waiting for my alarm to take me back to the World As it Is. There was a huge pile of toast on a plate on the table and I helped myself to a slice.
'Awake? He's been up for hours.' Mathew answered.
The kitchen door pushed open and Mathew picked up the plate of toast. Yoshimitsu was stood in the doorway dressed in a sky-blue and white outfit and a smiling, gentle-looking white mask that he probably chose so as not to frighten the residents too much (some of them can be very sensitive and wary of strangers). He took the plate from Mathew then noticed me sat at the table.
'Ohiyo.' He said with a slight bow.
'Morning Yoshi.' I replied brightly, trying not to blush as I realised he still made me feel all funny inside.
He left the room and I looked at Mathew for an explanation.
'He's helping us out with the breakfast run,' he explained, 'and before you say anything, he offered. He thought it would give him a chance to get to know the residents. -he's very enthusiastic about making a difference here.'
I finished my toast and poured myself some more tea, smiling at the thought of what a lovely person Yoshimitsu was. I started to lose myself in the day dream.
'Oh, by the way Jemma,' Mathew snapped me back, 'Peter said something last night but I think he might have been pulling my leg.'
'Was it something about me and Yoshimitsu by any chance?' I suggested. Mathew nodded, 'Well in that case it's true. I think I've fallen for him.'
Mathew looked at me strangely and then started to chuckle as he placed a very large plate of scrambled egg on the kitchen table, presumably to be picked up by Yoshimitsu again and taken to the main hall.
'You never fail to surprise me Jemma. But I suppose it's what's on the inside that counts?' he said sarcastically.
'Hey, don't be horrible. Yoshi's totally hot!' I argued.
'You're insane. Oh, and just so you know, he's going to...'
And then, before Mathew could finish and having only caught a tiny glimpse of the beautiful Yoshimitsu, my alarm went off and it was time to get myself ready for work.
Mitsurugi rode his horse down the gentle incline. The path they were taking through the forest was lined with sakura trees. They were in full bloom but rather than the occasional petal drifting from its stalk to the ground, they were cascading upwards. Against gravity, against logic, the pink litter on the forest floor floated towards the branches of the trees above them and nestled themselves upon the finger-like branches.
As Mitsurugi and Chikara past each tree however, there was a sudden clash that sounded akin to a gong being struck and in that instance every petal would shed from its twig, the tree exploding like a pink firework and littering the floor below. Once the samurai had past the leafless, skeletal tree, the petals would begin their defiant journey back towards the branches.
The wind stirred up and carried upon it was the sound of a child crying. Mitsurugi halted his mount in order to listen without distraction. The wind blew again and Mitsurugi savoured the sound to gather as much information as he could. He concluded that it was worth investigating, as it was the first thing that had happened since crossing the threshold between worlds. He turned Chikara into the trees, leaving the path and heading directly towards the source of the sound at a trot. The trees continued to pop and shed their leaves as they passed but both horse and rider had become so accustomed to the odd display that neither paid it any mind.
They reached a clearing that was rich with flowers. Every colour, shape and sized blooms all pressed together to create a thick patchwork rug of scented beauty. The sun seemed to be brighter in that place and butterflies as delicate as the flowers from which they drank the nectar, skipped from bloom to bloom. There was a child hunched down in the far corner of the clearing. He seemed to be wearing a cloak of feathers and was hiding has face with his hands.
Mitsurugi dismounted and walked over to the boy.
'Hey there. Are you okay?' he asked curiously.
The boy just continued to sob.
'Maybe I can help you.' suggested the samurai.
'Can you bring back the forests?' asked the boy, still not looking up.
'Well, no... but...'
'Can you bring back the animals?' he asked again, still covering his face.
'Probably not.'
'Can you bring back the gods?' asked the child.
'I am trying...' Mitsurugi began to say.
The boy finally looked up and his appearance startled the samurai. The child had black eyes like a bird and his nose was long and beak-like. His face was fierce with hate and he began to scream as he lifted from the ground in flight. His 'feather cloak' revealed itself to be wings and he had legs like a bird. He flew low over Mitsurugi and scratched his shoulder with his claw as he passed. The screaming did not stop. Just one continuous sound until the tengu had flown out of sight. Even then, the sound continued to ring in Mitsurugi's ears.
He walked back to his terrified horse. The animal had reliably remained nearby. The loyal bond with his master was stronger than the instinct to flee. Mitsurugi stroked Chikara's muzzle.
'It was just a tengu. But I think we need to keep moving. This place is going to try to break me. I have no doubt about that.'
If Clandolin had only told me the previous night that he planned to call the Travellers together, I would never have opened that last crate of lager. My head was thumping as though my brain was fed up with the abuse and was attempting a bid for freedom. It felt as though it was testing my skull for weak spots and every movement was agony. I couldn't be bothered with anything, least of all anything that included other people. I may have only celebrated 22 birthdays but I already have the body of a 40 year-old, and sometimes, I really feel it. Regardless, when Clandolin calls us together, we jump to it even when it's with only a few hours' notice. That's just what you do when you're in the Night Travellers. Yet, when I signed up, I didn't have a hangover. Now, two years later, I was wondering if I had made a terrible mistake.
The large black and white mansion, Magpie Manor, came into view and I had a quick look at the clock on the roof. There was no magpie on its face, which meant Jemma was in The World As it Is, probably at work. I was starting to wonder if she really existed at all or if I had just dreamed her up. You really have to live in the Manor to see her and I don't like the Manor at all, with all its sick, injured, helpless and/or troubled residents. Being a Night Traveller may mean that I am responsible for rescuing said troubled souls, but that doesn't mean I want to see them everyday. Unlike the other Travellers, I don't feel the need to get to know the egregores I've helped. To be honest, I couldn't actually give a damn about them once they've been removed from whatever unfortunate situation we plucked them from.
So I guess you could say that is one of the main reasons I spend my time on the ship Nempty, with a psychotic pirate poltergeist, called Jabez. He's a real thorn in my side but he's the less of two evils. My living arrangements also explain why I rarely see the girl from the physical world whose very imagination keeps Rotokia and the people who seek refuge here, alive. Not that I mind the fact I never see Jemma. She may have created the whole of Rotokia but she's also a bit of a nut case. If they're all like that in The World As it Is, then I'm glad to exist in another reality.
Once I reached the Manor, the guys came gradually into some form of blurry view. They were all there, even little Trilbuckle and his dragon friend Snowflake, or Chilly as we tend to call him, because Snowflake is a lame name and not very butch to yell out during battles. Trilly and Chilly rarely join us on missions in the Middle-Worlds though. We always ensure two Travellers remain behind to keep an eye on things at Rotokia and Chilly can, at times, be more of a hindrance than a help. In addition to my fellow Travellers, I also noticed an extra person, sitting cross-legged on the grass with his back against the Manor wall. He seemed to be wearing a creepy mask and he had an awesome sword resting on his lap -I couldn't wait to ask for a turn.
'Geordie, you made it. Better late than never I suppose.' Clandolin called out as I reached the group.
'Keep it down man! My head's in a rough state.' I pleaded as I tried to refocus my eyes so that only one image of the elf appeared. 'What's the idea calling us here at the crack of 9 in the morning anyway?'
'We've got a possible new member.' Clandolin explained, brushing his black hair off his pale face with his hand.
I pointed vaguely towards the strange guy on the grass.
'That'd be him then is it?' I asked.
'Yeah.' Clandolin turned to the potential Night Traveller, 'Hey, Yoshimitsu, can you come here for a minute?' he called.
I must admit I was quite surprised at what happened next. The new guy, this 'Yoshimitsu', who had been sitting perfectly still, rose to his feet so quickly that I swear on my already shortened life that I didn't see him move. He then just walked casually over to us and I noticed his blade was enormous and also glowing green, which was strange.
'Hey my friend, that's a pretty big weapon you have there. You trying to compensate for something or what?' I joked, really not interested how his first impression of me was going.
He replied in some sort of weird language and I almost s**t my self when his eyes lit up red as though they had light bulbs inside them, which is of course impossible, I thought. For a second I half expected him to shoot lasers from them -he looked the type.
'What the f**k?' I yelled, looking at Clandolin for an explanation.
'Oh, he doesn't speak English. He's a space ninja, from Japan. Well, originally, he's been around a long time. He's also partly bionic. Most of his organs are real though, if somewhat tampered with, except, as you may have noticed already, his eyes.' explained Clandolin, who had clearly spent some time getting to know this strange man.
'A ninja?' I said distastefully, scrunching my nose and looking him up and down 'I thought I was the ninja of the group.'
'No, I mean, Yoshi's a real ninja. You're just an ex-assassin who got his reputation by cheating his way to the top.'
Ignoring the elf's comments, I studied the new guy closely for a few moments. He looked weird and I didn't like the way he stood so still. What I really wanted to say was that he sounds like a bit of a freak show to me, but I decided to be nice and settled for...
'He sounds like a bit of a freak show to me.' then realised I'd said the wrong thing out loud -hangovers do that to me.
I waited again to be zapped into dust by the new guy's bionic laser eyes but nothing happened. Clandolin turned to him.
'This is Geordie by the way Yoshi. He really IS a freak show, so don't take anything he says to heart. He is skilled with both a crossbow and a sword and, like the ninja, he is a genius at stealth. He doesn't have fancy abilities like some of the others, but he can freeze time.'
'I COULD freeze time.' I corrected him hastily.
'No, you can freeze time but you choose not to. You see Yoshi, this middle-aged scruff you see before you is actually only 22. He discovered at the age of 18 that he had the ability to freeze time for as long as he wanted. Naturally, being young and foolish he decided to use it all the time. It allowed him to gain a reputation as one of the greatest stealth assassins the world has ever known, -a title he never actually deserved as there is no skill in killing people who don't even have the opportunity to defend themselves, not to mention no honour.
'But you see, his clever trick came with a high price, because each time he used it his ageing process was accelerated. After realising his curse, he kept trying to stop using the skill but he was addicted and it started driving him crazy. He actually found Rotokia by himself and asked us to help him. Which we did of course.' Clandolin boasted.
'Yeah, and now I'm an alcoholic who smokes too much and lives on a ship with a deranged poltergeist. Always read between the lines Yoshi-whatsit.'
'Yoshimitsu', Clandolin reminded me.
'So Clandolin, is this guy understanding any of this or could we just as well be talking to empty space?'
'Yoshi understands everything you say to him in English. He just can't speak it.' Clandolin explained as he reached into his pocket and pulled out something small and flat. 'But he can write it just fine.' he added, handing me the little notebook and a pencil.
'Shouldn't you be giving these to him then?' I asked puzzled.
'If you'd arrived on time rather than an hour and 15 minutes late, maybe you'd know why you need them.' he snapped; I thought his manner was a little harsh, 'you have been chosen to be Yoshimitsu's mentor while we do some training exercises in the Middle-Worlds.'
'Why me?'
'Partly it's because you have similar skills so are likely to pair up on missions, but mostly we just figured it would p**s you off.' he laughed cruelly then walked off towards the rest of the group leaving Yoshimitsu and I side by side.
'I joined for the action, but I stay for the compliments.' I remarked to my new partner.
'Hey,' I called after the elf, 'One last thing...' Clandolin turned around but kept on walking away, backwards, 'does he really shoot lasers out of his eyes?'
The elf looked confused.
'No one ever said he did.' was all he had to say before turning away and moving back to his rabble of loyal followers.
I turned to the bionic-mutant-ninja-turtle-laser-man and smiled my most lovable smile.
'Umm, so... CAN you shoot lasers from your eyes?' I asked tentatively.
He shook his head and said something Japanese which I assumed meant 'no', although it was several words, so maybe 'no I am unable to do that'. I don't really get how languages work, but whatever he said, I was relieved.
We all settled on meeting at 8pm so we had time to set up a camp in the Middle-Worlds. I headed back to my ship, Nempty, feeling a bit sick with life -and with the hangover. I noticed with a sigh that I could hear the cannons firing which meant Jabez was already awake, drunk and fighting imaginary merchant ships again.
'He's where?' I gasped as I sat in the Horizon after work.
'He's in the MiddleWorlds with the Travellers.' Peter repeated. 'He'll be there overnight.'
I was really disappointed. I wanted so much to see Yoshimitsu again and now I was being told he had gone to the one place I preferred to stay away from, to train to be a Night Traveller. You see, while at work I had been unable to think of anything else besides Yoshi. The fleeting flutter of attraction I had felt the previous evening and grown and grown, and in less than 24 hours, I had found my self at the point of near obsession. While it is in my nature to love easily and passionately, I had never known desire to spread so rapidly and so intensely.
'Oh I get it,' Peter chuckled, 'you still have a crush on him don't you?'
'Of course I do.' I snapped, 'This is real, I can't stop thinking about him.' Peter just kept on snickering at me. 'So I was thinking...' I went on, ignoring his rude disregard for my feelings, 'Could you talk to him for me when he gets back?'
Peter stopped snickering and rolled his eyes at me in his usual manner.
'Jemma... do we have to do this?'
'Yes we do. You're my spirit guide too so you must do this for me.' I insisted.
'I think you're confusing 'spirit guide' with 'minion'. I'm not a servant you can order around.' he answered defensively but then smiled, 'but just this once I'll do your bidding. I'll chat with him tomorrow evening, okay?'
That gave me something to obsess over for the next 24 hours at least.
'But Jemma,' he added, 'you do know the chances that he'll return your feelings are minimum don't you?'
I just shrugged, maybe he wouldn't, maybe he would. All I knew is that I had to try.
The cemetery was exactly the same as it always is... very cheesy. In true 1960's Hollywood style, there was a full moon in the sky that caused the headstones and crooked, leafless trees to cast eerie shadows on the overgrown weeds that littered the ground. To add extra cheese-factor, the air around us was thick with smog. Oh but the cheesiest part was coming. It was time to give my new student a briefing about zombies.
'You ever fought a zombie before Yoshi my lad?' I asked as we picked our way though the gloom with our share of the camping equipment. We were all paired up, except Clandolin who was with the Magpie Twins Acacia and Autumn in front because the inclusion of Yoshimitsu made our number odd. He shook his head.
'Well you're about to.' I explained. 'A few things you should know, they are stupid, very quick, move in swarms and their flesh is soft and easily cut. A sword like yours will cut through a swarm of zombies as though it's butter. However, I must ask you not to take any unnecessary risks. Don't go off on your own, we have a rule with swarming creatures that we stay as a group. Otherwise you can find yourself surrounded before you even have time to think and sure, you may have some awesome skills, but one man, however quick, strong and wise, can defend against 50+ blood thirsty killers. Sorry if I'm preaching but I don't want to lose my first student on our first training mission.'
Our conversation was interrupted by Clandolin's voice.
'Heads up gang, here they come.' he said as the first wave of zombies appeared up ahead.
I loaded my crossbow.
'Yoshi, don't feel that you have to join in this time. You can if you want, but usually we just let people watch how it's done until they get confident. These zombies may look slow for now, but just wait till this baby hits.' I explained, letting my arrow fly.
It went strait through the head of one zombie as though it were made of jelly and stuck into the neck of one behind it. Both fell to the floor but as predicted, all heads turned on us and they began to scurry, swift as spiders, towards our group.
I started to reload but before I knew what was happening, Yoshimitsu dropped the bags he was carrying and leaped into the air as though about to pull some sort of somersault but vanished and instantly reappeared in front of the zombies. He screeched something in Japanese and then, raising his sword, rushed at the closest zombie and sliced it in half bilaterally. I was horrified that my first ever student could be such a suicidal dork.
'Yoshi-f**king-mitsu! Get your a** back here now. You've no idea what you're doing.' I yelled, sounding sickeningly like my dad.
I turned to Clandolin,
'I thought you said he understood English? I'm not sure he understood a thing I just said to him.' I snapped, throwing down my bow and drawing my sword ready to dive in there alongside the crazy ninja.
Yoshimitsu was fast and his movements precise. To watch him was almost like watching a beautifully choreographed dance on fast-forward. The guy certainly had some moves, I could give him that. But soon the zombies were too many and he all but disappeared inside the scrum. Sword raised, I began to run forward to save his ass before he was torn apart, but Clandolin grabbed my wrist.
'Let's just see how he handles himself.' He advised calmly, 'after all, he's well armoured.'
I watched with my heart in my mouth as the swarm got tighter and tighter around Yoshi, waiting for the screams of agony as my first and possibly last student was separated from his limbs. But instead, the swarm suddenly scattered from the centre as though being pushed away in all directions at once.
As soon as the swarm had thinned out enough what we saw sent a wave of gasps throughout the on-looking Travellers. There were about eight Yoshimitsus. The son of a b**ch had somehow divided into clones of himself. They had formed a circle, each facing out from the centre and began to step forward in perfect time with one another as though one mind was controlling 8 bodies. They slashed their way quickly forward, taking down any zombies that got too close and soon, the clones had split up, confusing the swarm and causing it too, to become divided as the zombies honed in on one Yoshi at a time. I watched in awe as each Yoshi demonstrated the vast repertoire of moves the ninja was capable of. He could teleport, I knew that already, but he could also fly, and hover. One of the Yoshi clones seemed to get bored for some reason and leaped into a tree out of reach where he sat laughing and with wild hysteria. One of the clones was suddenly caught off guard and soon found himself surrounded by zombies. He calmly began to raise his sword and I assumed, as I had seen others do, he was going to use it as a propeller to fly up and away from the zombies. Instead he plunged the sword right through his own chest and then spun like a maniac into the zombies, killing at least a dozen before falling, dead himself, to the ground. Another Yoshi, noticing the fallen clone grabbed the weapon with his free hand and with a sickening twist yanked it from the body. He then sped headlong into the zombies again, flailing his dual swords around wildly, making light work of the few remaining zombies.
It was very soon over and one of the Yoshi's reached up his hand to the one in the tree who, taking the hand began to climb down. As their bodies touched they melded together becoming one Yoshimitsu. The other clones were all doing the same, four becoming two, two becoming one, until there were only two left, one of which was the dead Yoshimitsu. The almost whole Yoshi kicked the body curiously with his foot. When it didn't move he crouched down and cocked his head as though thinking intently. I was starting to wonder if he really knew what to do, when he grabbed both hands of the fallen Yoshi and with a great tug, began to roll backwards pulling the body with him. After a few backwards rolls he sprung to his feet, whole again. He turned to face us and with a victorious slash of his sword muttered to himself in Japanese. -Poser!!
We all rushed forward to congratulate him. He casually sat down on the grass, cross-legged, and grasping his sward with both hands, began to beat it up and down rhythmically as though in some sort of trance. The teenagers, Autumn and Dylan were the first to speak to him.
'That was awesome!' exclaimed Dylan enthusiastically.
Yoshi stopped meditating and looked up.
'Yeah, you totally rock! You're bad a**!' agreed Autumn.
I thought I should add something too.
'You have balls kid. I'll give you that.' I said, patting him on the back.
He stood up and gave a bow while saying something in that weird language of his, which I guessed from his tone of voice and body language meant something along the lines of 'thanks for the compliment'. He walked calmly past me back to where he had dropped the bags. Picking them up, he said something else but again, I had no idea what it was supposed to mean.
'What's that Yoshi? You think we should set up camp soon and open a crate of beer?' I asked him sarcastically, 'That's a great idea. You're a genius my lad!'
Our new companion just chuckled back at me.
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Best Maeng Da Kratom – 2020’s Top Picks
Most informational guides you find online will tell you that Maeng Da Kratom is the “strongest” variety of Kratom on the market. But what does this mean? If I am a beginner, then should I take it? What are the effects and how are they different from other strains and varieties of Kratom?
Maeng Da Kratom has been developed through crossbreeding and primarily grafting. Grafting is the process of taking a sapling and splicing it to a root base of another plant. This benefits the end user in two ways. First, using the root system of a heartier variety of Kratom will help during years of extreme weather, droughts, monsoons, or unpredictable temperature variations. Second, the leaf producing branches that have been crossbred to produce more potent chemical concentrations may produce denser foliage, bigger, leaves, and heartier buds. Just about every aspect of the tree is considered when breeding trees for harvesting because all aspects of the weather, location, water, sun, and even soil can affect crop production. The result with the Maeng Da Kratom is a chemically dense and dark leaf that has a higher content of mitragynine, 7-hydroxymitragynine, and mitraphylline, the active compounds in traditional Kratom trees.
Maeng Da Kratom is primarily derived from the Thai Kratom tree. Because of its strong propensity for physiological effects the new strain was named after a local delicacy, the giant water bug native to wet areas of Thailand known as the Lethocerus Indicus. In Thai, the name Maeng Da is also slang for “pimp”. It is used in the “pimped out” way to describe something that has been maxed out in utility and attractiveness. The Kratom leaf is “pimp grade” in terms of its alkaloid contents and physiological effects as compared to other strains of Kratom. This is what makes Maeng Da Kratom so special.
Top Maeng Da Kratom Online Sellers
If you are looking to get into Kratom or expand your knowledge of products, Maeng Da Kratom is an excellent choice for its quality in effects and its efficiency in potency. This means you will get a better bang for your buck every time. However, you need to make sure that your supplier is delivering the product that you order and that you can trust the supplier. To help with your search we have sorted through most of the poor quality or counterfeit products and developed a shortlist of the top suppliers and marketers of the best Maeng Da Kratom. You can trust these sellers and their products.
Best Powder Supplier: Kats Botanicals
Kats Botanicals isn’t just a great supplier of all types of Kratom powders but it also takes pride in offering the most up to date education and information possible on various Kratom topics including strains, dosages, effects, and recipes.
They sell Kratom powders, Turmeric, Shilajit, and CBD. They have over two dozen varieties of powdered Kratom, the most of any reputable online seller. Everything is lab tested and based on years of trust with the growers and experience in the industry. Kats Botanicals prides itself on quality products at affordable prices shipped to you from the producers. As they are constantly expanding their selections, they are always introducing new lines and new beneficial products to their store. Their other products are also worth checking out. There are not that many online sellers of Shilajit, which is bound to become more and more popular. Turmeric has proven benefits as does CBD. Kats Botanicals covers a range of medicinal products with quality results and decent prices.
Best Varieties: Super Speciosa
What makes Super Speciosa so special is the variety of products. If you know what you want or just are looking for what is available, then this seller has something for you. Technically, it has something for everyone. It currently has an inventory covering 23 different products, which is quite large for a specialty or boutique online Kratom store. More commonly there are only about half a dozen products online for sale at any given time for other comparable stores.
Super Speciosa is unique and one of the more promising suppliers in the industry. What most likely sets it aside and will keep it in the market is it’s product lines and the fact that it also sells CBD products. They sell CBD oil, Kratom Powder, Kratom Pills, CBD Creams, and even Kratom Tea Bags. The ability to use the tea bags is a massive benefit to people wanting to use the powder but without a decent way to package and brew. With premium Maeng Da Kratom products, just about everyone will find something useful at Super Speciosa.
Best Quality: Coastline Kratom
Coastline Kratom is a known leader in the Kratom industry and is known for its complete dedication to customers and only the highest quality kratom. They have products for all types of consumers. This includes beginners and advanced practitioners in Kratom products. They have a beginner’s pack that serves as a variety pack of the main strains of Kratom.
They have three varieties of Maeng Da Kratom. They package a powdered Red Vein, White Vein, and Ultra Enhanced Red Maeng Da Kratom that can be used in any type of potency due to the powdered delivery method. Besides Maeng Da Kratom they have varieties of Bali Kratom, Borneo Kratom, and Malay Kratom.
All their products are sold in powdered form. This is useful as powders are the most versatile form of ground Kratom for those looking to experiment. Further, when in stock, Coastline Kratom also sells live plants. So, if you are looking for only the best in quality, then Coastline Kratom is your seller.
What Are The Effects Of Maeng Da Kratom?
Maeng Da Kratom has more powerful effects due to the higher levels of alkaloids in the crossbred strains grown in Thailand. The alkaloids have different effects at lower levels and higher levels of consumption. At low doses, Maeng Da Kratom is primarily stimulating and can elevate your senses making you feel more awake and mentally aware. These are similar effects to Nootropics or other types of cognitive enhancers. Need a kick that is like coffee but much more? Maeng Da Kratom is the ticket that doesn’t just help wake you up but also lights a fire in your brain for better cognition and more focused concentration. This means that you can work with less mental fatigue and work longer with increased productivity. Most of us often want to experience the benefits of brain boosters, whether it is to help studying, working, long nights, or just to feel more alive. Often the suggested low dosage for Kratom is at least 5 or 6 grams for the initial energizing benefits. However, Maeng Da Kratom can deliver benefits with as little as 4 grams. This means less product for the same benefit.
At higher dosages, Maeng Da Kratom produces significant sedative effects. If you are looking for an alternative to opiates, Maeng Da Kratom is the strongest analgesic of all of the varieties of Kratom strains. Many people prefer the Maeng Da Kratom strain when they are focused on chronic pain management, symptom relief, and other stress and anxiety issues. If you are looking to maximize your benefits with the most potent Kratom, there is no need to buy or try anything else. Maeng Da Kratom is the best and most efficient way to go. It will keep you happy, healthy, and pain free for longer than the other varieties. Its effects can last up to 8 hours as compared to other varieties that only last a few hours at most. Any amount over 10 grams of Maeng Da Kratom will start to produce the analgesic effects. Generally, you will need 20% less Maeng Da Kratom than other comparable strains for the same benefit. It is efficient, effective, and a great price.
Why Is It Better Than Other Kratom Varieties?
It all depends on what your goals are with taking Kratom. The main three categories are calming, energizing, and enhanced well-being. It also depends on your comfort level with taking something that has side effects which can alter your emotional, mental, and physical state. In general, whenever you try something new, you should always fully understand the potential effects and what the consequences might be. Make sure your first time is in a safe place and that you are taking all of the proper considerations.
There is no preferred strain for beginners. If you are more advanced, then you should know how Kratom affects you and how much you need to gain the desired effects. At small amounts, any strain of Kratom will have energizing effects. However, at higher levels, the benefits of the strain come to light. This is where the importance of matching the strain comes into play with the desired results.
How Do I Know The Online Seller Is Legit?
It all depends on the quality of the product and the quality of the seller. Don’t rely on straight marketing alone. There are a bunch of different ways to tell if your online seller is legit. First, you want to see that the products are lab tested by a third party or independent lab. This means that they aren’t tested in-house. Lab tested products are highly trusted and usually of the highest quality products in the United States. Second, you want a seller that is proud of the product and is looking not just to sell it but to market it. This means that they will explain to you the befits and the origins of the strain or variety of Kratom.
Not everyone knows where their products come from, which usually means it’s not real. Instead, you want to buy from people that have a relationship with the growers and the producers. That direct line of communication is vitally important to ensure that the products are quality. Third, the website should function properly and safely. A trustworthy seller isn’t looking to scam anyone but to keep customers happy and returning to buy more products.
Trust your gut. This means that if the seller doesn’t look trustworthy, then you probably shouldn’t buy from them. Most people will love to promise you the world. However, take note that only you can judge your comfort levels. Kratom is an amazing product when used correctly and in a safe environment until you understand the potency and its effects on your physiological system.
What Are The Benefits Of Kratom?
Traditionally grown in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, Kratom (Mitragyna Speciosa) is a tropical evergreen that produces leaves with medicinal pain relief. It is part of the coffee tree family but is quite different in its uses and effects. The leaves are harvested throughout the year as they are grown and sorted based on the strain of tree, age, and color. Most of the Kratom is still grown in these regions, though high quality Kratom can be grown in other parts of the world.
When you think about the benefits of Kratom you should learn how the Kratom leaf is providing you with its therapeutic properties. Kratom contains a type of alkaloid that delivers psychological and physiological effects on the human nervous system. Alkaloids are a class of nitrogen basic compounds found in most plants. Most do not affect humans. The purpose of alkaloids in the plant is unknown. Few alkaloids, though, in nature do have a very potent and diverse effect on the human physiological system. Some of the more common alkaloids are nicotine, ephedrine, quinine, strychnine, and morphine. In Kratom, the most abundant alkaloid is mitragynine, though it does have other alkaloid compounds that interact in similar ways.
The alkaloid mitragynine in Kratom has been used by the local tribes for many things like painkillers (in higher doses), energy sources, mood enhancers, stomach calmers, and other general medicinal purposes. The native population’s different strains for anything, from coughing to diarrhea. However, as the popularity of Kratom spread so did the production. Where there is money people are looking to produce a more potent product.
This is the definition of the market economy. Where there is a market and a consumer base, there will be growers that want to produce better and more potent products to sell. If they can produce powerful powders and pills from the leaves, they will be able to corner the market and become more popular than any competitor. But how is this done in remote villages and the lack of facilities of universities? The simple solution is trial and error.
Can I Buy It In Stores Instead?
It is doubtful that you will be able to find it anywhere in stores. There are products labeled Kratom that can be found in gas stations and convenience stores. However, just because the label says Kratom, doesn’t mean it will have any effects. When you are looking to buy Kratom that has high quality alkaloids in the product you want to buy from a reputable seller. Most likely the person behind the counter has no idea what the product is, where it came from, what strain it is, or who the grower is. The store was most likely sold a shipment from a con artist that pulverized some dried parsley into a fine powder and put it in some pills.
Further, the products that you find in physical stores most likely has been sitting on the shelves or in a stock warehouse for an extended period. This means that the quality is degraded due to the age of the powder. You would never expect that old spices would add flavor, as you shouldn’t expect old Kratom to do anything useful. Instead, make sure that you purchase from a reputable online seller like StarlightKratom, which has access to high quality and great products that ship from southeast Asia to your home. This way you can ensure the highest-grade product at the most reasonable price. Kratomleader is an amazing resource for information about your next purchase. Don’t trust the gas station on the corner down the street. They may have convenience in the title, but they are anything but quality. Trust in the online sellers that have devoted their lives to the industry.
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Published On: Thu, Oct 1st, 2020
Goodbye aging! How to stimulate collagen production?
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Collagen is the most common and important protein found in the body. It is the protein behind pretty much everything (skin, bones, muscles, etc.), it supports us from within. Collagen keeps us bouncy, bendy, and generally supple. There are many types of collagen, usually, our body consists of type I, II, and III.
However, as we get older, we produce less collagen in our skin, which means, we produce less collagen every year. But, what is collagen? What does it do in our body? And how can we boost collagen?
From the greek (kólla), meaning glue and suffix. It refers to the compound’s early use in the process of boiling skin. Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, it is one of the major building blocks of bones, skin, tendons, muscles, and ligaments. It can be found in other parts, including corneas, teeth, and blood vessels.
What does collagen do for the body? Collagen ensures the integrity, elasticity, and strength of our body’s connective tissues, maintaining the form and function of our cartilage, bones, and skin. When collagen levels are high, the skin is smooth, firm, soft and usually with no acne. It helps to keep the skin moist and helps the skin cells renew and repair themselves.
Different cells of our body are responsible for the production of collagen. As a person ages, the body produces less collagen, resulting in signs of aging. Sagging skin, wrinkles, loss of elasticity and stiff joint are signs that the body is producing less collagen. However, as we begin to produce less collagen, we can benefit from ingestible collagen solutions.
There are four main types of collagen; type I, it provides structure to bones, skin, teeth, tendons, connective tissue, and fibrous cartilage; type II, made for more loosely packed fibers and found in elastic cartilage, is known for promoting joint health and for treating joint pain quite effectively; type III, provides and improves the structure of muscles such as organs and blood vessels; type IV, helps with filtration and is found in the layers of the skin. Is the less common type of collagen, however, exists naturally in different layers of the skin.
Boost collagen
Some ways to boost collagen include:
• Vitamin C: the human body cannot make vitamin C, due to this is really important to add some. It can be found in many foods such as citrus fruits, strawberries, papaya, broccoli, and green leafy vegetables.
• Antioxidants: these substances can help to protect the body from free radicals (muscles that can damage the body). Not all antioxidants will boost collagen production, but they will help the collagen that is present to do the best job it can. Some foods that contain antioxidants are; green tea, coffee extract, blueberries, mulberry extract, licorice extract, pomegranate extract, cinnamon, etc.
• Hyaluronic acid: it can be found in foods rich in amino acids. It is also available as a supplement.
• Aloe vera: aloe vera gel is used to treat the skin after sunburn, or to ease a rash. In a study about aloe sterols to take orally showed that the production of hyaluronic acid and collagen almost doubled in the participants. It can reduce wrinkles.
• Red light therapy: it is a quick and safe way to increase collagen in the skin and improve wrinkles and skin elasticity. Is a non-invasive method of boosting collagen that may not have side effects.
There are different ways to boost collagen. You can simply add a different food to your diet, take a supplement, or add a new practice to your daily routine. But all this must be coordinated for a specialist such as a dermatologist. Consult your doctor for better tips and before using anything for your skin.
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Tooth sensitivity
Tooth sensitivity
What are sensitive teeth?
Having sensitive teeth can mean anything from getting a mild twinge to having severe discomfort that can continue for several hours. It can also be an early warning sign of more serious dental problems.
Who suffers from sensitive teeth?
Many people suffer from sensitive teeth and it can start at any time. It is more common in people aged between 20 and 40, although it can affect people in their early teens and when they are over 70. Women are more likely to be affected than men.
What causes sensitive teeth?
The part of the tooth we can see has a layer of enamel that protects the softer dentine underneath. If the dentine is exposed, a tooth can become sensitive. This usually happens where the tooth and the gum meet and the enamel layer is much thinner. Here are some causes of sensitivity:
• Brushing too hard (‘toothbrush abrasion’), and brushing from side to side, can cause enamel to be worn away – particularly where the teeth meet the gums. The freshly exposed dentine may then become sensitive.
• Dental erosion: this is loss of tooth enamel caused by attacks of acid from acidic food and drinks. If enamel is worn away, the dentine underneath is exposed which may lead to sensitivity.
• Gums may naturally recede (shrink back), and the roots of the teeth will become exposed and can be more sensitive. Root surfaces do not have an enamel layer to protect them.
• Gum disease: a build-up of plaque or tartar can cause the gum to recede down the tooth and even destroy the bony support of the tooth. Pockets can form in the gums around the tooth, making the area difficult to keep clean and the problem worse.
• Tooth grinding: this is a habit which involves clenching and grinding the teeth together. This can cause the enamel of the teeth to be worn away, making the teeth sensitive.
• A cracked tooth or filling: a cracked tooth is one that has become broken. A crack can run from the biting surface of a tooth down towards the root. Extreme temperatures, especially cold, may cause discomfort.
• Tooth bleaching: some patients have sensitivity for a short time during bleaching or afterwards. Discuss this with your dental team before having treatment.
When are teeth more likely to be sensitive?
You are more likely to feel the sensitivity when drinking or eating something cold, from cold air catching your teeth, and sometimes with hot foods or drinks. Some people have sensitivity when they have sweet or acidic food and drinks. The pain can come and go, with some times being worse than others.
Is there anything I can do to treat sensitive teeth at home?
There are many brands of toothpaste on the market made to help ease the pain of sensitive teeth. You should use the toothpaste twice a day to brush your teeth. You can also rub it onto the sensitive areas. These toothpastes can take anything from a few days to several weeks to take effect. Your dental team should be able to advise you on which type of toothpaste would be best for you.
Is there anything I should avoid if I have sensitive teeth?
You may find that hot, cold, sweet or acidic drinks, or foods like ice cream, can bring on sensitivity, so you may want to avoid these. If you have sensitivity when brushing your teeth with cold water from the tap, you may need to use warm water instead. It is important to keep brushing your teeth regularly – if you don’t, this could make the problem worse.
Do I need to go and see my dentist?
Yes, if you have tried treating your sensitive teeth for a few weeks and have had no improvement. We can treat acute sensitivity to enable you get on with your day to day work. Sometimes tooth sensitivity may be due to an underlying tooth condition or trauma and early treatment is important.
What treatments can the dentist offer?
During an examination the dental team will talk to you about your symptoms. They will look at your teeth to find out what is causing the sensitivity and to find the best way of treating it. The dental team may treat the affected teeth with special ‘de-sensitising’ products to help relieve the symptoms. Fluoride gels, rinses or varnishes can be applied to sensitive teeth. These can be painted onto the teeth at regular appointments one or two weeks apart, to build up some protection. Sensitivity can take some time to settle, and you may need to have several appointments. If this still does not help, your dental team may seal or fill around the neck of the tooth, where the tooth and gum meet, to cover exposed dentine. In very serious cases it may be necessary to root-fill the tooth. | <urn:uuid:5ddf40ed-3e3c-4a87-96c3-2c432a333583> | https://310dentalcare.com/treatments/tooth-sensitivity/ | en | 0.952929 | 0.050151 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Natalka Tseliuba, Yuliia Appen, Oleksandra Vasyna, Mykyta Lyskov, Ukraine
25 min
Language of dialogues Ukrainian, Russian
The film consists of true stories of Ukrainian migrant women in Europe, who tell us why they made their decisions to move and what their motivation was. Is the grass really always greener on the other side? And what is home, after all – is it four walls and a roof above your head, or a view from your window, a bench in the park, the smell of the city in the spring? Is it a place of strength which gives you a feeling of security and comfort, or is it a space that allows you to realise your creative ambition, or is it a person who accepts you as you are? Together with the protagonists, we move there and back again, between home and not-home, between the past and the present, between Ukraine and not-Ukraine, immersing ourselves in their worldviews and testing our own.
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When impossible questions meet impossible answers the result is the Brain Explosion.In this game there are no obvious solutions, there are only weird questions and equally weird answers. One of the answers is correct, the other three – are a way to nowhere. Can you make it to the end and answer all of the questions correctly?
Answer the questions correctly and move forward, step by step. Don’t look for easy ways or obvious answers. Earn coins for giving correct answers, they can be spent on useful bonuses in the in-game store. You start out with only 3 lives, answer thoughtfully and remember the correct answers. | <urn:uuid:0130a843-b980-488a-83e3-750c2082773b> | https://ecapsgames.com/brain-explosion/ | en | 0.899299 | 0.063459 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
OPM Disability Retirement Denials: Selective reasoning
Of course, we all engage in it; some, merely by withholding certain known facts; others, by emphasizing and asserting portions of the logic employed while ignoring or deliberately averting the focus of other aspects. Selective reasoning through deliberate omission is the height of pragmatic oppression; for, when it is accomplished with knowledge and self-admission of premeditation, it involves a mind that knows the difference between proper application of logical reasoning and the intentional misrepresentation of facts.
We engage in such folly during the course of normal fights and argumentation; for, to win is the basis of arguing, and the ends often justify the means. Logic is a learned tool. It is the foundation of sound reasoning. It is not an inherent, in-born or even in-bred character of man, but it can bring out the evil therein.
As a tool, those who are good at it have a greater responsibility to use it wisely, honestly and with proper motives. It is the “selective” part of the reasoning that makes for honesty of dishonesty in the reasoning process, and the anomaly and irony, of course, is that the process itself — of reasoning — necessarily involves selectivity, for logical argumentation encapsulates proper and effective selection of facts, syllogistic approaches and propositional logic all bundled into one.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management engages in selective reasoning, and their denials of Federal Disability Retirement applications reveal a level of such selectivity that one must conclude that it is being done intentionally and with deliberate knowledge.
Beware of denials; for, they try and make it appear as if you never had a chance to begin with in your FERS Disability Retirement application. OPM will selectively choose to extrapolate from various medical reports and records, and fail to mention or highlight the selective portions omitted, then reason that there was “insufficient” medical evidence despite facts and rational argumentation to the contrary.
Do not despair, and do not simply allow for the 30-day time period in which to file for Reconsideration to lapse; for it is precisely such selective reasoning that is meant to discourage, and to make you think that the denial is dismissively disproportionate so as to justify giving up altogether — which is precisely what their selective reasoning is meant to accomplish.
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Federal Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: The sparrow
It is a bird that remains unappreciated — that generic entity which, when not identified by the wandering ornithologist, is simply referred to as a “sparrow”. They are like the “default” bird, unassuming, pervasive, lost in the underbrush of time and history, and are taken for granted in their existence, presence and attraction — sort of like most of humanity. One doesn’t hear the wandering bird-lover with his or her oversized binoculars strung heavily around a neck that is straining from a disc herniation from the sheer weight of the magnifying mechanism suddenly stop and declare loudly, “Look — a sparrow!”
People walk by throughout the cities of the world without ever noticing the thousands of such generically-forgotten creatures; those brown little blurs that fly about singularly or in large groups; flitting about, searching for sources of food, flooding the air with their chirping and fluttering. But then, most of humanity is somewhat like the sparrow — in great numbers, never standing out from the rest, and merely trying to break out from the anonymity of life’s toil.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition where the medical condition begins to prevent the Federal or Postal worker from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal job duties, the sense that can remain as a “sparrow” of sorts becomes less of a possibility — but not because of any unique features that have suddenly been noticed by the plumes of one’s species; rather, you have suddenly been noticed and selectively chosen precisely because of the medical condition itself.
Suddenly, you have become the narrow focus of greater observation: Leave Restrictions are imposed; your performance is reviewed with greater interest; harassment ensues; the magnifying glass of the Federal Agency or the Postal Service is upon you.
Once upon a time, the sparrow was flying about happily unnoticed, perhaps wishing to be a peacock, not knowing how fortunate it was to remain in the abyss of anonymity. For the Federal or Postal worker, to be noticed can have some negative effects, and it may be time to begin to prepare, formulate and file an effective Federal Disability Retirement application, to be submitted to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, lest the sparrow that wished to be a peacock suddenly realizes the looming shadow of a predator overhead, bearing down rapidly to end the anonymity that was lost because of a medical condition.
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Hub
It is the center of the universe; upon and around it, all things revolve. The axle is attached to it; the spokes; the planets that circle about; the hub constitutes, represents and relates to all else by being the primary foundation from which all else is dependent and subservient. And thus the phrase, “That’s the hub of it all, isn’t it?” Or, is the idiom, “That’s the nub of it all” the true way of saying it? If a person replaces the “h” for the “n”, and let’s say he or she has a strange inflection or accent, anyway, do we stop them and correct them?
Say two people are watching a show, and afterwards a discussion ensues as to the meaning of what one of the characters said or failed to say, and one says to the other, “That’s the hub of it all, isn’t it?” The other turns and says, “You mean, that’s the NUB of it all, don’t you?” The other pauses, reflects and retorts, “What’s the difference?” Now it is the first one’s turn to pause, reflect and answer back, but what would be an appropriate answer? While the true idiom or adage may well be the “nub” usage as opposed to the “hub” application, perhaps the other person was just being somewhat eccentric and creative.
Or, let’s say that you knew of the other person the following: When he was just a young boy, he lost his mother, whom he loved very much. Her last words to him as she lay in bed suffering from tuberculosis was: “Now, remember Bobby, it is love — that is the … [and, here, she was overcome with a fit of uncontrollable coughing, and could not get the “n” out and instead, pulled herself together and said hoarsely] the hub of it all.” And to this day, Bobby remembers his mother’s last words, and the slight difference of idiom used, and likes forever after to repeat the phrase, “That’s the hub of it all”.
Would you, knowing this, correct him on the misuse of the idiom? And even if you didn’t know the history of such misusage, why correct something when the underlying meaning remains the same? Isn’t “hub” a synonym for “nub”, and vice versa?
In life, we too often focus upon the spokes of the wheel, and not the hub; or, put another way, we walk right past the nub of a matter and become too easily distracted by tangential, irrelevant or insignificant obfuscations. But life is too short to aim at the spokes of the matter instead of the hub, nub or essence of it all.
For Federal and Postal employees who suffer from a medical condition, such that the medical condition is beginning to prevent the Federal or Postal worker from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s Federal job, just remember that there are certain things in life that cannot be ignored — like one’s health.
If one’s health is deteriorating and the Federal or Postal job is contributing to that deterioration, what is more important? What is the hub of the matter? What essence of life’s priorities are more important? Identify the nub — and proceed on to prepare, formulate and file an effective Federal Disability Retirement application, to be filed with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, so that you can focus upon the hub or nub of the matter, which and whatever, so long as it points to the essence and not the spoke.
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Sorrow behind the facade
How do we know a person’s sorrow? Of other emotions, we question and retain suspicions, but why is sorrow placed on a separate plane, untouchable and abandoned as sincere despite warranted evidence to the contrary? Of love, we question constantly — as to sincerity, whether fidelity has been maintained and preserved; of joy or happiness, daily do we self-analyze and evaluate; but of sorrow — once the tears pour forth upon the event learned and considered, there are few who doubt for fear of being tarred as the cynic who had no feelings or remorse.
There are instances — of an unnamed president who purportedly was seen joking and laughing on his way to the funeral, but suddenly turned dour and despondent in facial expression once recognition was noted of cameras filming and spectators observing; or perhaps there are relatives who are known to have hated a deceased kin, but arrived at the funeral out of obligation and duty; of those, do we suspect a less-than-genuine sorrow? Is it because sorrow must by necessity be attached to an event — of a death, an illness, an accident, or some other tragedy that we consider must necessarily provoke the emotional turmoil that sorrow denotes? But then, how do we explain the other emotions that are suspected of retaining a facade and a reality beneath — again, of love and happiness?
Medical conditions, especially for Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers, are somewhat like the sorrow behind the facade. Few will openly question it — whether because to do so is simply impolite or impolitic — but some will suspect as to its validity, especially when self-interest is at stake. The declaration, “Is there a malingerer within our midst?” will never be openly spoken. For, what is the evidence — excessive use of SL, AL or LWOP; frequent doctor’s appointments; inability to maintain the level of productivity previously known for; lack of focus and concentration at meetings; inability to meet deadlines, etc.
For others, these are harbingers of irritants that delay and impact the agency as a whole; for the Federal employee or Postal worker suffering from the medical condition, they are the symptoms and signs beneath the brave facade that is maintained, in order to hide the severity of the medical condition in a valiant effort to extend one’s career. There comes a time, however, when the reality of the medical condition catches up to the hidden truth beneath the facade, and once that point is reached, it is time to prepare, formulate and file an effective Federal Disability Retirement application, to be filed with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset.
In like manner, the sorrow behind the facade is similar to the medical condition in and around the Federal agency or the U.S. Postal Service — both may be real, but it is the “proving” of it before OPM that is the hard part.
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OPM Disability Retirement: Moments of Perceptual Clarity
We tend to seek that which we cannot find; apply criteria beyond rational capacity; and derive statistical results nowhere to be discovered but for quantitative input implied by imaginary output.
That single source of “meaning”; that “cause” which provides value; that lottery of life’s misgivings which fortune promised but never conveyed; and so the inheritance which Cain and Abel sought but for the love of their father and the instability which Dostoevsky described in his novels of heritage, destiny and anguish, are but filaments of our own fears and misgivings in a world which defies our limited attempts to garnish, contain and delimit.
There are moments of perceptual clarity, and then there is the rest of life. Perhaps it appears amidst the morning fog at first dawn of light; or just before sleep overtakes, as the subconscious is allowed to enter into the rational discourse mandated by daily toil; in any event, it comes only in fleeting moments, or from the ashes of destruction and self-immolation, like the Flight of the Phoenix whom everyone else had forgotten.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who are in a conundrum, where life’s misgivings seem too complex and too confusing to move forward because of a medical condition which has curtailed the hopes and dreams once sought for, and attained through hard work and toil of sweat, the need to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal employee or U.S. Postal worker is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, may become a reality only at the highest point of personal crisis.
That is often when the only moment of true clarity comes to the fore; and when that time comes, it is necessary to hold onto that time of self-revelation, and begin to seek the counsel and wisdom of others, in preparing an effective and compelling case in order to win the benefit awaiting, from OPM and through the Federal agency for whom you toiled and sacrificed.
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Federal Employee Disability Retirement Benefits: The incoherent narrative
The squirrel jumped into the rabbit hole. Then, the floods came, and Noah didn’t like the color of his shoes because they matched the starboard and not the bow, and when the rudderless drift occurred, then did the turtle finally come out from the squirrel’s nest, high atop the water’s edge. The medical conditions caused a lot of stress, and if it wasn’t for the Supervisor who constantly harasses me, I wouldn’t have filed a complaint against him, but the doctors never said I couldn’t work except when the heart attack occurred and Bessie my dog ran across the street and got hit by a car.
It is, ultimately, more than just a sequence of lettering; greater than the combination of consonants and vowels in logical arrangement; indeed, the language of the narrative must form a coherent whole. Can a jumble of words provide the requisite narrative in order to meet the legal criteria in filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management?
Must the “Statement of Disability” as reflected on Standard Form 3112A provide a sequence of information such that it: identifies the medical conditions suffered; informs the OPM administrative specialist of the nexus between the medical condition and the positional duties of one’s officially-slotted job; and meets and addresses, whether explicitly or implicitly, the burden of proof in showing by a preponderance of the evidence that the Federal or Postal employee is eligible and entitled to Federal Disability Retirement benefits?
To all three questions, the answer is in the affirmative. For, preparing and formulating a Federal Disability Retirement application, submitted through one’s agency (if the Federal or Postal employee is still employed with the Federal agency or the U.S. Postal Service or, if separated from service, not more than 31 days since the date of separation) and then to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, is not merely stringing together a series of words, phrases, concepts and factual truisms; and it is often the incoherent narrative which not only fails to meet the legal burden of proof in a Federal Disability Retirement claim, but further, is harmed by providing too much information, whether intentionally or not.
The predetermined defeat of a Federal Disability Retirement application is not necessarily denied because of the substantive incoherence of one’s statement of disability; rather, more often than not, it is the unintended divulgence of information neither necessary nor true, which often provides the fodder for the fox to further the stealth of his slyness.
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You are Pretty
The craziest thing happen a few weeks ago. I was getting ready for my show, going full glam drama queen when I noticed one of my cast mates staring at me. I met her eyes and smiled. She immediately apologized and said, “you’re just so pretty and so amazing at makeup.” For a second I was shocked and quickly made a dorky face in protest to her comment which responded to us laughing.
But here’s the crazy part, in my eyes she is way prettier than me.
I remember when I first met her I was blown away at her beauty and felt insecure in my skin. She’s tall like me sure but with gorgeous tan skin, a slightly thicker body than mine and blue-green eyes. A literal Venus yet this whole time she was thinking similar thoughts about me.
I was surprised. I couldn’t fathom that she would think I’m pretty like her because to me I’m just plankton while she’s a mermaid.
And then it hit me.
Women do this.
We do crap like this all the time.
We constantly look at others and see what we don’t have and what we want without even realizing they could be thinking the same thing about us!
Growing up in Miami my view on beauty is very different from those across the globe. I grew up noticing that majority of women around me were either bronzed goddesses or melanin queens. They were shorter than me and had curves to grab. I, on the other hand; pale, tall, skinny. I grew up being uncomfortable with my height, people thinking I was sick from how pale I was, and hating my nose. What people consider a typical european look. Yet I’m flabbergasted why anyone across the pond would want that body type but it was because growing up everyone around me had the exact opposite. Guys want the exact opposite.
We want what we don’t have.
I want curves, she doesn’t.
She wants straight hair, I don’t.
I wish I was shorter, she wishes she was taller.
Now why do we think that way?
In my OPINION, let me stress the would opinion because that’s what is. Women are raised with an implant in their minds that they have to marry and have kids.
Therefore we are attached with the question: What attracts men?
Wearing makeup, having the perfect body (whatever that ‘ideal’ body is in your area), perfect hair with a charming but not too charming personality. Than there’s magazines. Females with bodies opposite to most are plastered everywhere from print to tv. People from the past have set it in stone on what a woman should be, act and look like.
But it’s 2018! And that stone says is chipping away. Women are learning to embrace their bodies. If I want to walk out in my sweatpants with no makeup and messy hair I will. I’m not trying to impress anyone but myself. It took me over 10 years alone to accept my height and there’s still certain things about myself I’m struggling to come to terms with.
So here’s the deal. If you want to change how you look do it for you. Do it to make you feel good not for someone else and certainly not to fit in. What matters is what you think about yourself.
Looks may fade but that charming personality sure won’t.
P.S. To any guy that might be reading this…we don’t wear nor do jack to impress you because we don’t care a crap what you think! So if a girl wears a tight dress it’s to look good in pictures surrounded by her girlfriends not to get your attention because you’re nowhere near her level.
“Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.”
― Draya Mooney
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Ascension Tactics – The Higher Self and Dimensional Integration
As Ascension continues I am finding their is a specific sequence, pattern, to really opening yourself up to higher dimensions, an important step being breaking a gap between 3rd and 5th and being able to talk to your higher dimensional self for true, supreme advice. We are currently making a bridge between the 5th dimension and the 3rd as Couldn’t say why but I believe we funked something up with our evolution of the 4th dimension.
To clarify a 4th dimensional human would be someone we know like Jesus. They have reached a level of connection with the oneness and energetic fluidity to raise their focal point of reality to the Heart Chakra. This can create emotional energies so strong they can manipulate the material world at will. Also you would be seen as a different color of light but you would still remain connected to many laws of the physical, material world. For example, death and rebirth still exists. The control over one’s material surroundings would be depending on your community and the energetic levels of those of your immediate collective.
The Lumerians were 4th dimensional society and studying some of their temples you can tell that their higher shaman priests had the capabilities to change stone to putty and mold it like clay.
They had underground temples where these special members of society would enter deep into the earth to perform exhibits of energy beyond our understanding and affect the ecosystem within the soil, aiding in the agricultural efforts of the people above the surface.
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But to bridge that gap and open yourself up to your 5th dimensional self. This sequence takes work, if you have not had a walk in or were born with abnormal abilities… you will have to work hard, train hard to Find Your Higher Self.
But I was not born with any of this and I am making my way there, progressing to have more and more contact with my higher self and higher dimensional selves more and more.
Today I had conversations with my 5th dimensional self which I have only experienced on rare occasions. But it felt more normal today, like we would be getting to know each other better and better, talking, on a verbal level. Of course I am sure he knows all he needs to about me, But I can sure learn a lot about me from “that me”.
How to Integrate Higher Dimensions
But we must also take care once we start developing these traits and realizing a larger spectrum of reality. Many people wonder about the 911 scandal being such an obvious inside job and the infamous Illuminati. I will tell you, this group does exist and many ask if they are so secret why is the subject now so popular?
The Illuminati had to make a pretty big decision. As more of us begin raising our energy beyond the levels they have held in secret to maintain control and manipulation over the world… they have a lot less to guard in secrecy. How could they combat this? This society that is becoming more and more aware and less and less controllable as at first outright slaves, then capital slaves… and now most people are like “F THIS, I Do Not Want To Live My Whole Life Working What Bores Me To Pay Bills That Bore Me.” Though a fancy gimmick phone, car, etc. can still be very bribing… many are realizing that is Just Not Fulfilling Them.
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So looking for answers you often go back, why did I want that in the first place? This is where many people have been finding the Illuminati, New World Order, Ect. No accident they revealed themselves now after thousands and thousands of years… only in unlikely hopes they will scare the ascending from continuing. Not Working!
Stay tuned as I will soon be sharing deeper with you some of the experiences I had with Illuminati Spies, Dark Sorceress and the such. Also, how I handled them rightfully and wrongfully and great tips about how you can learn from my mistakes if you ever find yourself is a similar situation.
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The Prooftoys website and its software are ongoing experiments in creating computer aids to help human beings do mathematics. The application software is proudly open source, hosted at Github, primarily in the crisperdue/prooftoys repository. Our goal is to create computer math tools that are useful, attractive, and valuable to people learning (or doing) mathematics at many levels and universally available.
Getting in touch
One of the goals of this website is to develop a friendly community of users around the tools here and using computers for mathematical reasoning. Feel free to say “hello” to the author through email.
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From orphans to open source, data matters
TMF ChildrenMy wife’s day job helps Indian orphans through the Miracle Foundation here in Austin. On the surface, our jobs are very different; however, there is lately more and more intersection in both form and substance. It was not always like that, initially the Miracle Foundation primary engagement had been an emotional appeal: “look, these orphans are sad, they need you. Did we mention that they are orphans?”
Joking aside, there are plenty of kind people who want to help children; however, there are a lots of worthy causes with equally strong appeal. The question is how do you pick which one? Donors/Contributors want one that is both emotionally appealing and effective.
While radically different in human impact, both of raising orphans and building open source rely heavily on personal engagement and passion for success. Just like non-profits, there are many open source projects that want you to invest your time in installing and contributing to their most worthy technology.
About 18 months ago, the Miracle Foundation pivoted their strategy from tending individual children towards cultivating whole orphanages (the “NEST program”, video below). They started tracking things like how much milk and fruit each child ate and if they had been vaccinated. They connected observable data like hemoglobin levels of children to their ability to pay attention in school. They were even aware of additional days girls spent in school just because they got monthly hygiene products.
NEST Spider Graph
Used with Permission, The Miracle Foundation
With this new program, the Miracle Foundation can tell you exactly how much benefit each child will receive from each dollar. These are real results derived from collecting real data, and the results are powerful.
The children the Miracle Foundation nurtures are going from subsistence to flourishing. This is not happening because people care more about these children than before. It is happening because someone is keeping the data and making sure that the support they give gets the results they want. This in turn helps donors (become one) feel confident that their emotional response is delivering tangible improvements. Both are essential to TMF’s mission.
Open source projects have a similar gestalt.
People and companies contributing time and resources to a project want to both believe in the technology and see tangible metrics to validate adoption. Open source transparency makes it easier to find active projects and people are engaged contributors, but it can be harder to determine if the project is having broader impact.
For OpenStack, these tangible metrics began to surface in the last few days. Before the summit, Stephano Muffulli, community manager, launched the OpenStack Activity Board to show commit and quality data for the project. Last Monday, Tim Bell & Ryan Lane presented the results of the first user survey which showed how and what users are adopting for OpenStack.
If you like seeing this type of data driven behavior then vote with your keyboard and become part of an active open source project. For non-profits like the Miracle Foundation, voting is even easier – you just need a credit card to join in their Mothers’ Day campaign. Your mom may not understand anything you add to open source, but she can understand when you help orphans.
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I still keep in mind the thrill I felt once I wrote my first basic program on the BBC Micro at school. The practice of publishing APIs has allowed net communities to create an open structure for sharing content material and data between communities and purposes. They programmers can write the cell recreation in Java as soon as, and run it on a number of units and platforms with out recompiling the code and utilizing additional implementation dependencies.
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Are you still smoking cigarettes? Are you having a hard time quitting? Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things that I have ever done in my life. I know how hard it is to quit, but I also know how great you feel once you are rid of those nasty cigarettes forever!
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. At least 50 are known carcinogens (cause cancer in humans) and many are poisonous. Cigarette companies are required to put a health warning on every pack of cigarettes sold. In 1984, four rotating warnings were required to appear on cigarette packages and advertisements, prefaced with “Surgeon General’s warning”:
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Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, larger and stronger warning labels will be required for smokeless tobacco products in 2010, and larger, stronger and graphic warning labels will be required for cigarettes in 2012 (Warning Label Fact Sheet, 2000 The Surgeon General’s Report on Reducing Tobacco Use)
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A while back I mentioned something about writing a short - a very, very short script - for something to do with the BBC. As in, one minute short. It actually got filmed several weeks back and it's been completed, along with two other short-short films, and is getting shown in one of the viewing rooms at BBC Scotland in the middle of the week. Annoyingly/unsurprisingly, I can't be there, but I'm hoping I can persuade my 'script editor on the inside' to send me a copy. It's very nice when you can add a sentence like 'wrote a screenplay for the BBC and had it produced' to your writing CV. Even if it's, er, only a minute long. The film is called 'Unbound' and, with any luck, will prove to be very, very violent.
paul f cockburn said...
A mention of the BBC is usually good on a CV. Just don't mention the duration.
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What Is Threat Intelligence? Explained in Detail
There are a lot of things that MITREs’ ATT&CK framework can be used for. Apart from detection and analysis, adversary emulation and other uses of ATT&CK, it also shines in threat intelligence.
What is threat intelligence?
Threat intelligence is the knowledge that helps prevent or mitigate cyber attacks that can harm an organization. Threat intelligence is all about keeping data. Data about the types of attacks and techniques.
Threat intelligence provides you context to help you in decision making about your cyber presence and security by providing you the answers to questions relating to cyber security.
The important questions include, who is the adversary attacking you, what are the motivations behind the attack and lastly, what are the vulnerabilities in your system that you need to fix.
Why is threat intelligence critical?
Threat intelligence is actionable information that can stop cyber intrusions. This very much sounds like a cybersecurity framework. Cybersecurity frameworks is a documented tool that contains information about attack tactics and techniques. It also includes the countermeasures related to those techniques.
The thing with threat intelligence is that it is closely related to cybersecurity frameworks. Cybersecurity frameworks are the pillars that further enhance threat intelligence. Those frameworks include NIST cybersecurity framework, ATT&CK cybersecurity framework.
Threat intelligence follows and aligns itself with the principles of cybersecurity frameworks. Threat intelligence has varying levels for different calibers of organizations. Each level differs from one another only in the size of teams.
1. For Starters – Those who are just starting out
2. Mid Level – For mid-level cybersecurity teams
3. Professionals – For organizations with advanced cybersecurity teams
Level 1 – For Starters
Cyber threat intelligence gathering is all about gathering information about your adversaries and using that information to improve decision-making. Organizations that are small in size and that are starting out to plan their cybersecurity can use ATT&CK framework.
There are certain groups that target small businesses, or maybe you have a group that focuses your organization. You can use att&ck to find the tactics that the group uses and try to implement the countermeasures for the tactics.
Information relating to groups, techniques and strategies that can be used to attack an organization, is readily available on ATT&CKs’ official website. The framework consists of information that helps you to defend your organization from possible intrusions and attacks.
Level 2 – Intermediate Teams
As the name suggests, this section of information is about the mid-level or intermediate cybersecurity teams. So let’s begin. Regularly reviewing information about your adversaries is a fundamental thing to do. But what more can you establish that can give you an upper-hand over your adversaries?
Cybercrime and attacks aren’t restricted to a single organization, which is why it is essential that you start mapping information that you’ve discovered back to the primary resource that is ATT&CK. Or you could directly use an external blog post, to describe what you’ve found about an attacker group in detail.
What good does it do? It’s a global issue, the more actionable Intel on different groups of attackers, the higher the chance it is to tackle the prevention and mitigation properly.
Here’s an overview of the processes that you should go through before releasing the said information.
Learn ATT&CK Framework
By learning it doesn’t mean that you should just fit every information there is in your brain, nobody can do that. By learning, I wanted to say that you should understand the framework from inside out. What tactics do the perpetrators use, the techniques that allow them to achieve their goals, and the implementation of those techniques and tactics.
All of them are readily available for anyone to go through on the ATT&CKs’ official website. Without having the knowledge about this, we can’t move forward with the second process, so make sure that you understand the structure of the framework completely.
Learning the mindset of the hacker
The name should explain most of the information that you’ll learn under this heading. Getting the hackers’ perspective is the most important thing; this will actually allow you to predict the actions that hacker will take.
However, it’s not an easy task to accomplish. hackers’ mindset and vectors are never static. Regular reviews are essential to be ready, in case of an untimely attack.
ATT&CK has a variety of information on different attacking groups. The best thing that you can do is to go through the information and determine the attack vector they used.
For example, you’ll find specific reports that’ll state that the perpetrator “established a SOCKS5 connection”, here the behavior or attack vector is establishing a connection through the SOCKS5 protocol.
Research the attack behavior
Since attack vectors and behaviors are mostly dynamic, meaning that they are never the same. There could be a scenario where you do not have knowledge about the attack vector being used to execute the attack. In that case, you’ll have to go and gain information on the vector.
Again, the information you need is readily available in the frameworks’ structure; you just have to search for it. It is needless to say that having the most actionable information to mitigate the effects is the way to go in the cybersecurity industry.
Combinations of attack behavior and attack vectors
Now, that you’ve information about the attack behavior and how it works, it’s time for you to dive deep in the other section of the attack behavior. The attack behavior compliments some attack vector types.
In simple words, the action of the attack can be used in different attacking methods, combined. So you’ll have to find information about what tactics can be used with the attack behavior the attacker used.
Technique implementation with attack behavior
Finding out the tactics is just one side of the picture; the other hand requires you to find out the techniques that can be used to implement both the tactic and the attack behavior.
Lastly, you’ll have to compare your results with the results of different analysts since there can be a difference of interpretation of attack behaviors. Other than that you’re pretty much done, you now know how to write an extensive report on cybersecurity attack groups using ATT&CK framework.
Level 3 – For advanced teams
The advanced level includes all the techniques used in both mid-level and small-level teams. The techniques remain relevant. Advanced level requires the combination of all techniques used in both mid-level and small-level teams.
Information gathered is not actionable unless it consists of information relating attack vectors, techniques, and mitigation. Mapping information and keeping track of your adversaries is essential, as we’ve learned before.
After you’re done mapping information to ATT&CK, you will have to use that information to prioritize security. After observing and documenting the groups that are of priority threat to your organization. You can use that information to determine which of the techniques and tactics are used commonly.
This information can help defenders determine what to prioritize. This allows you to prioritize techniques that’ll help defenders to detect and mitigate the effects of any intrusions. Here’s a more detailed version of threat intelligence, written by the pros at MITRE themselves.
Threat intelligence is the process of gaining intel over your adversaries and potential threats. Documenting that information helps you in to keep track of the various tactics, behaviors, and techniques a typical hacker group would utilize while trying to infiltrate your organization.
Frameworks like ATT&CK are a gold mine of information about these tactics and techniques, which is why threat intelligence is essential to counter cyber attacks.
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By Robert Priddy
Date: 07-22-03
"I do not suffer form any kind of disease because there is no trace of greed in Me. That is why I am always healthy...".
But now it seems that things have changed somewhat? Is a hip joint that crumbles and needs steel reinforcement not ANY kind of disease?
And later on "There is no trace of anger or hatred in Me and hence everyone loves Me"
Who can't think of plenty of people who do not love SSB.
In the same discourse, SSB proclaims for about the 100th time: "Selfishness cannot be seen in Me from My toenail to the tips of My hair." (Applause)"
Extraordinary claim, for I have never seen selfishness in toenails or the tips of anyone's hair! This is all just absurd crowing about 'Me and My'. Why does he feel the need to protest and protest his innocence?
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elements are a distinct group of grow Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons characterized by several specific features, one of which is a separation of the region into two non-overlapping open reading frames: ORF2 coding for Gag-Pro, and ORF3 coding for RT/RH-INT proteins. buy PHA-680632 region between ORF2 and ORF3 is usually spliced from transcripts and showed that this process is only partial, probably due to poor splice signals. This is one of very few known cases of spliced LTR retrotransposons and the only one where splicing does not involve parts of the elements coding sequences, thus resembling intron splicing found in most cellular genes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00438-008-0376-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. gene codes for proteins needed for an assembly of virus-like particles and RNA packaging. The gene encodes enzymes protease (Pro), reverse transcriptase/RNaseH (RT/RH) and integrase (INT). RT/RH and INT convert the retrotransposon RNA into DNA and integrate it into the genome, respectively. Translation of the region is initiated from a single site on full-length RNA and individual functional proteins are released from a precursor polyprotein by the action of protease (Kumar and Bennetzen 1999; Havecker et al. 2004). While the genes are common to all autonomous LTR retrotransposons, there are differences in the structure of their coding regions, which are arranged in single or multiple (overlapping or adjacent) reading frames. Since the structural proteins encoded in the region are required in higher numbers than the catalytic proteins encoded in region into two reading frames suggests the use of translational recoding mechanisms including ribosomal frameshifting and stop codon bypass (Gao et al. 2003; Forbes et al. 2007). A unique arrangement of the region has been described for elements, a family of LTR retrotransposons occurring in several genera of dicot plants where they often constitute a major fraction of repetitive DNA (Neumann et al. 2003; Neumann et al. 2006; Macas and Neumann 2007). elements represent a distinct group of Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons characterized by the extreme size of the elements (up to 25?kb, with LTRs up to 6?kb), PBS complementary to tRNAarg, the presence of an extra Copper PeptideGHK-Cu GHK-Copper open reading frame (ORF1) coding for an unknown protein upstream of region into two ORFs. The domains (ORF2) are separated from (ORF3) by a region of about 150C350?bp, which includes several stop codons and is surrounded by GT/AG dinucleotides typical of the 5 and 3 termini of most introns (Breathnach et al. 1978; Mount 1982; Burset et al. 2000). Although the nucleotide sequences of this region differ between elements from various grow species, its position within and the GT/AG boundaries are conserved. Moreover, removing the region including these boundaries leads to in frame fusion of and enabling correct translation of the latter domains. Thus, it has been buy PHA-680632 proposed that this region represents an intron that is removed by splicing to reconstitute the full-length coding region (Neumann et al. 2003). Although the splicing has been well documented for some groups of retroelements like retroviruses and LINEs (Rabson and Graves 1997; Belancio et al. 2006; Tamura et al. 2007), it has so far been reported for only a few LTR retrotransposons. It occurs in transcripts of the envelope-class retrotransposon where it generates a subgenomic RNA lacking almost the entire sequence, thus enabling expression of the downstream gene (Vicient et al. 2001). Option splicing buy PHA-680632 of RNA from retrotransposon was shown to be involved in the regulation of the ratio between Gag and Pol proteins, as the full-length RNA containing and regions is usually translated to protein at a far lower level than spliced subgenomic RNA encoding products only (Brierley and Flavell 1990). In contrast to these cases where splicing usually removes part of the coding region, the putatively spliced region within transcripts does not include any coding sequence. Our previous data from pea (sequences are transcribed in leaves, roots and plants and that a significant portion of the transcripts lacks the putative intron sequence (Neumann et al. 2003). However, since there is a buy PHA-680632 small fraction of copies in the pea genome that also lacks this region, whether the shorter transcripts are produced from these elements instead of the splicing of full-length RNA could not be ruled out. Thus, in this work we investigated transcription and processing of RNA in more detail employing two different, yet complementary strategies to study this phenomenon: (1) Taking advantage of the available genomic sequence from the model grow and of our previous characterization of the population in this species (Macas and Neumann 2007), we followed transcription patterns of individual subfamilies using RT-PCR with specific sets of primers. This sequence-specific assay enabled us to. | <urn:uuid:7ba445ad-1b0d-4563-aa9f-16d7a5417d5c> | http://colinsbraincancer.com/2017/10/27/elements-are-a-distinct-group-of-grow-ty3gypsy-like-retrotransposons-characterized-by/ | en | 0.917946 | 0.084256 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Childrens' camps
The organiser of our childrens’ camps is
Camps are organised for small groups of children aged 8-12 and 10-17. Both beginners and those wishing to improve their current skiing skills are welcome. Campers are offered a seven-day programme, which will ensure great time spent with a practical purpose. Skiing mastery will be taught through practical and theoretical lessons. There will also be various competitions, cooking classes and organised discussions. The price of the camp includes accommodation, catering (4 times a day), instructor services, use of equipment (snowboards, helmets, and boots) and camper’s health insurance. After passing an examination at the end of the snowboarding camp, all the campers will be given diplomas, a T-shirt and a set of the camp photographs on a CD. One week of unforgettable experiences and time spent on the snow!
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Quenoth Shyde
From the teachings of Analia, the healer of the Emerald Blossom:
“... by embracing the path to the faerie, we must step past the boundary of flesh and magic to become a being of them both. As surely as the physical form binds the blood that gives us life, it must bind the energy that governs our world, that which is the flowing wind, the cycle of day and night, the endless march of time... We are the physical form, but we are timeless spirits as well, beings touched by that which is faerie. That realm is one that endures through the aeons, whether it takes on the form of nature, of fire, or of sand, it is always there. As it is mutable, so must we be, for the power of faerie is that to transmute the flesh of our world, from sand to earth, from scorched wasteland to life.”
Advances from: Quenoth Druid
Advances to:
Cost: 60
HP: 55
Moves: 6
XP: 200
Level: 4
Sinnelag: nøytral
Id: Quenoth Shyde
Abilities: kurerer, heals +12
Attacks (damage × count)
(image)stav(impact attack) slag11 × 2(melee attack) nærkamp
(image)sand(impact attack) slag6 × 4(ranged attack) avstand(daze)
(image)klunger(pierce attack) stikk9 × 4(ranged attack) avstand(magisk)
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(icon) slag0% (icon) ild0%
(icon) frost0% (icon) arkan-10%
TerrainMovement CostDefense
(icon) Borg160%
(icon) Deep Water30%
(icon) Fake Shroud0%
(icon) Fjell260%
(icon) Flate150%
(icon) Frossen240%
(icon) Fungus250%
(icon) Grotte130%
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Ewwwww…… Yuck!
Could bacteria really live in the trusty water coolers at work or in your home? Unfortunately we have to say… “YES.”
Think of it this way: When you swap out the large, cumbersome jugs when the current jug runs out of water, the feeder tube that will stick into the new jug gets exposed to the air… and whatever bacteria, viruses and or airborne biologicals happen to blow around in the room that day.
Over time any of those nasty little buggers that land on the feeder tube and wind up in the fresh jug of water could multiply to dangerously high numbers in the water cooler. Zero disinfectants in the water creates an excellent place for bacteria to start a family!
To make matters worse, the area AFTER the feeder tube down inside the water cooler can also become a nice place for bacteria and other nasties to raise a family… which could one day wind up in your supposedly safe glass of drinking water.
Moral of the story?
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Who’s (Miss) American?
Nina Davuluri
With the outrageous social media backlash directed at Miss America winner Nina Davuluri, you would think it was the first time a woman of color took home the tiara. But hatred directed at non-white Miss Americas is nothing new; the history of race exclusion in the contest is an ugly one. It’s just that now, thanks to the presence of Twitter, members of the ignorant knuckle-dragger community can now broadcast their most base thoughts quickly and loudly around the world.
The first people of color to even appear onstage at a Miss America pageant were black dancers in 1923 who masqueraded as slaves for a musical number. In the 1930s, the pageant policies included a Rule Number Seven that required “contestants be of good health and of the white race.” In a further measure of “American-ness,” participants gained extra favor if they were able to trace their ancestral history to the Revolutionary War or the Mayflower.
Vanessa Williams
Even Bess Myerson, who became the first Jewish American woman to win Miss America in 1945, was heavily pressured to change her last name to the less ethnic-sounding Merrick. But her crowning, which happened soon after the horrors of the Holocaust fully came to light, was seen as an American renunciation of anti-Semitism.
Despite white Christian supremacist roots, the Miss America pageant has had its milestones: This year marks the 30th anniversary of Vanessa Williams becoming the first black woman to wear the crown, and since then 10 other women of color have been named Miss America. Caressa Cameron (2010), Ericka Dunlap (2004), Kimberly Clarice Aiken (1994), Marjorie Vincent (1991) and Debbye Turner (1990) are African American; Erika Harold (2003) was of mixed black and Native American descent; and Angela Perez Baraquio from Hawaii (2001) was the first Asian-American winner. Despite racial progress, there still has never been a Latina Miss America. Nor has a transgender woman ever worn the crown.
When Williams crossed the pageant color line in 1984, her accomplishment was met with hate mail and death threats from racists who felt the crown had been tarnished. Her triumph was also marred by a nude photo scandal that forced her to relinquish her crown to African American runner-up Suzette Charles. The controversy gave rise to a heated public dialogue on the intersection of race, beauty and politics in America, with many suggesting that Williams’ race may have influenced the way she was treated in regards to the photos. Nevertheless, she handled the pressure with poise and became a media darling—arguably the most successful Miss America ever.
Like countless American narratives, the narrative of Miss America has primarily been a white, heteronormative one that reinforces Western standards of beauty. Being Indian American, Davuluri didn’t even fit into the overly simplified black-white binary of race relations, so bigots took the xenophobic route—misidentifying her as an Arab and then calling her a terrorist. “American” is still code for white, and Davuluri’s win further muddled racial identities.
Miss America’s younger, more glam-focused cousin, Miss USA, has fared slightly better in diversity, having named more women-of-color winners from a wider array of backgrounds. But both pageants have failed to recognize the actual diversity in the nation.
Though Miss America is seen as mere prancing and pomp to some—(and has been a longtime source of criticism by feminists, who decry the emphasis on physical beauty over qualities such as intelligence), the title of Miss America carries a lot of power. The notion of “American” becomes a political minefield for those who don’t match old notions of blonde, blue-eyed, corn-fed U.S. citizens being the only “real” Americans (i.e., the suggestion that Miss Kansas was the contestant that most represented “American values”).
By choosing a Miss America such as Davuluri, who was born to Telugu immigrants and paid homage to her heritage by performing a Bollywood dance in the talent portion of the contest, more visibility is given to the diverse spectrum of “Americans.” Davuluri is a reminder that what’s perceived as American is catching up with the reality being mapped out in families and communities across our country.
Photo of Nina Davuluri courtesy of aleahconnect and photo of Vanessa Williams courtesy of CocoKing88, both via Creative Commons 2.0
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The Ultimate How to Hang Art Quiz
By: Staff
4 Min Quiz
Image: refer to hsw
About This Quiz
You'd like to hang your Claude Monet on the same wall as your own pencil-drawn masterpiece. Do you hang them together? Where? And what will it cost? Hang the expense! Take this art-hanging quiz and see if you know all you need to know about this artful task.
How would you rate the importance of hanging placement regarding your artwork?
The artwork and where-and-how it is hung are of equal importance.
Why should you hang your artwork only once all the furniture is in place?
The rule of thumb is: Furniture First, Artwork After. This way you can decide which art pieces go with the existing décor.
Before you hang the artwork, how can you get a feel of its placement?
Beware of hammering those nails in too early. First prop the artwork against the wall or place it on the ground where you'd like to hang it to see if it fits.
You have a long hallway and many frames to hang there. What's the best way to handle it?
Assuming the frames are of varying dimensions, hang them in a line so that each center is at the same level.
With your artwork hung in a line on a large expanse of wall, what size frames should you put at both ends?
For a professional look, it's a good idea to make sure that at both ends, you hang similar-sized frames -- either both short or both tall.
If you want to hang two rows of artwork, one under the other, what method will give it uniformity?
The middle two-inch (five-centimeter) space between the two rows should see both rows of frames aligned there, regardless of the tops of the top row or the bottoms of the bottom row.
Your family claims that you cannot hang a hodge-podge of frame shapes on the same wall. Are they right?
It is doable to hang various frame shapes together, but keep them within a designated wall space.
How can you use graph paper to facilitate the decisions regarding how and where to frame artwork?
You can make replicas of your art to scale (one square to one inch) and play around with the positioning of the paper replicas before deciding.
What's the best way to maximize wall space if you have a lot of frames to hang?
Despite thoughts to the contrary, see that your frame color matches the wall color. This way, the art itself stands out and appears to float.
How do you know where to hammer in the nails for your wall hanging?
Use a tape measure to calculate the distance between the top of the wire (where you need to hammer in the nail) and the top of the frame (where you've made a pencil marking).
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Talk:LCL Unicode Support
From Free Pascal wiki
Questions July 2011
1. FPC is not Unicode aware section: the FCL and RTL are not unicode aware according to the article. But obviously the string type IS unicode aware (and, based on 1, also the Widestring type). Is that correct? Is a string always UTF8 encoded or does it depend on compiler switches - I can imagine that the shortstring compiler switch (forgot the name) leads to ANSI encoded strings...
2. Instructions for users section: "Usually the encoding is per-library (e.g. a dynamic library dll or a lazarus package)". Maybe a stupid question, but how can you tell whether a Lazarus component or package supports unicode? Go hunting through the source code for comments?
--BigChimp 14:39, 23 July 2011 (CEST)
Some questions / things unclear
I want to undertand more and have the following question:
• Suppose the LCL encodes all its strings using UTF8, could you display for instance cyrilic or Arabic in a Russian or Arabian version of win98, i.e. without using the *W winapi calls? As far as I know both together will be impossible then, because no code page supports both charsets. Please correct me, if wrong.
Maybe it is best, if we create a new widgetset win32u, that uses the unicode functions instead of ascii functions. Vincent 14:33, 20 May 2006 (CEST)
But remember that you do can use one of this languages at a time on Win98. Suppose you are using languages such as french, portuguese, spanish. On Windows NT you can use W functions and convert utf-8 to utf-16. On win98 you *can* display the special characters, but you need to convert utf-8 to the proper iso. Other languages are also supported using different iso enconding. This way you can show at least one group of languages at a time on win98. This is how TNT Delphi Components work for example. On Windows 98 it shows only the characters available on the environment. --Sekelsenmat 18:25, 22 May 2006 (CEST)
No it doesn't, actually with use of *W api calls it doesnt too! Win98 doesnt support *W calls,it is supported with unicode interface layer ie unicows,which it also doesnt do anything special just convert utf16 to ansi and opposite if required.
We can do that new widgetset too,it maybe make the code also more clear and maybe we can have some special optimizations too! but somebody should make sure other stuff between these 2 interfaces become sync and also as i did almost the very same for wince interface i can tell code conversion is not more than 5% of all codes,so we are doing lots of code duplication which is not good!
Maybe haveing a common interface-also between win32a ,win32u and wince-and move those functions/code which need modification to another place. Roozbeh
The goal is to enable LCL to support Unicode on WinNT+, at the same time not breaking any existing code and not departing from Lazarus spirit. This means relying on UTF-8 in strings internally, on either UTF-8 or ISO-pages in application strings (ISOpages option for backward compatibility; I would prefere systemwide global variable to make possible for the developer to define that at application start) and on either *A or *W (with appropriate conversions UTF-8<-->ISO and UTF-8/ISO<-->UTF-16), depending on the machine on which the developed application runs.
However, we have to be aware of the performance penalty: it is not just about (resource) strings and string constants of the application GUI, but for instance of DB-aware components. In this respect the Tnt approach is much better. However, achieving a uniform Unicode-supporting LCL (and RTL) for all Lazarus target platforms would, IMHO, realy make the difference for Lazarus.
This means enabling the existing components to adapt their operation, based on the capabilities of the win system on which the application is running. This also means - we should not forget this - to Unicode-enable/clone/modify lots of non visual units (all file system communication in the first place - remamber that on WinNT something like this C:\äöüćčšбвгд\филе.txt is a valid path/file name!) too. One can find lots of such stuff in Tnt.
Roozbeh, as you have already found, unicows just enables the mapping (*W API calls to *A API calls, using a single target ISO page (no mixing of Cyrilic and Arabic) on old systems for applications using *W, but does not provide any Unicode capability on those systems.
Vincent, regarding the option win32u - I have thought of that myself, but am not sure. Roozbeh has made a good point, of which I agree in principle. Maybe cloning win32 to win32u and starting to work there would just be safer in the first time, as we learn ourselves and geather experience. Later we could merge, if it then will seem better. Just my views. Borut 16:16, 22 May 2006 (CEST)
I think the Directory property of the FileListBox should be a UTF8 string too. The FileListBox should translate it to an ansistring when passing this information to the RTL. IMHO The conversion is a responsibility of the LCL <-> RTL interface and not of the user of the TFileListBox. Vincent 12:33, 25 April 2008 (CEST)
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Ethnography: Immersing yourself in the culture
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Ethnography: Immersing yourself in the culture
Let’s first explore ethnography - a research study focused on understanding how cultural forces affect people’s lives.
A set of matryoshka dolls representing an immersion into culture.
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How do people belonging to different cultures think? How do they behave? What do they believe and what do they value?
The first qualitative research approach we’ll be looking at is known as Ethnography. Its goal is to understand how cultural forces affect people’s lives.
Ethnographers quite literally get up close and personal to immerse themselves in a particular culture. The research aspires to capture what’s said in naturally occurring conversations, to better understand how society constructs meaning and to unlock what drives human behaviour.
The Ethnographer’s goal is to explore the meanings of social processes, rituals and interactions of particular groups of people, often over a long period of time. It traditionally involved the researcher travelling to some far off land and living among an indigenous tribe. The researcher would discover how they lived and document what their culture was like.
Keep in mind, the modern concept of ‘culture’ is more complicated and Ethnography has changed to explore smaller subcultures than remote tribes. For example, an Ethnographer may explore a particular company culture, the culture of an institution (eg university or nursing home), groups (eg a sports teams), particular occupations (eg politician, economist) and groups in the community with particular characteristics (eg diabetics and refugees).
This kind of research helps us to understand the impact of cultural forces on individual and group behaviours. There have been ethnographic studies relating to Ikea shoppers and fast food workers in Harlem, so you can see this approach offers a lot of scope.
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Is Ethnography the same as Fieldwork?
You may sometimes hear Ethnography being referred to as ‘fieldwork’. This is because the focus of this approach is the researcher entering the ‘field’ of the setting to be researched, to explore ‘what is going on?’ in the environment.
Ethnography investigates the nature of a particular social phenomenon rather than setting out to test a theory. It usually involves a small number of cases, sometimes even just one case, in detail. Data is collected through visual observation and interviews. Field notes are recorded and diaries are kept. Sometimes observations are captured in written form, by video or a combination of both. If you undertake Ethnographic research, keep in mind, you will bring your own personality, experience, skills, strengths and weaknesses to the field. Fieldwork is a personal thing, so the data will vary according to:
• the level of experience you bring to the field
• your level of involvement
• your interpersonal capabilities and emotional intelligence
• your ability to see and visualise things that other people visiting the area of study may fail to notice.
Ethnographers need to be open to new ideas and concepts, as well as being aware of (and continuing to reflect on) their own culture, in order to absorb those ideas. The quality of results obtained from your research depends on the quality of data you gather in the field. It’s important to prepare for your research. A well-informed approach will help dissolve ignorance, which strengthens your capacity to be open minded.
Ethnographic research reveals common, taken-for-granted assumptions. If you’re interested in exploring more practical applications of Ethnography, tune in to Ellen Isaac’s TEDx Talk. This entertaining 12 minute video highlights how Ethnography can lead to innovation to solve the ‘hidden obvious’.
Your task
Who are you interested in learning more about? Identify a group or culture that fascinates you and share your thoughts in the comments section below.
For those of you who would like to take the next step, construct a research question that could guide an ethnographic study and share it with the group.
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Bukkit visits Mojang!
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We got to visit Mojang in Sweden!
For those of you who want to hear what we did in Sweden, read on. For those of you who just want to know what this means for Bukkit and Minecraft, skip to the end.
This past weekend Bukkit went on a trip to visit Mojang in Stockholm, Sweden and we had a blast. Dinnerbone and myself arrived pretty late in Sweden so we were almost certain no one would be at the Mojang HQ, but to our surprise the place was packed with employees hard at work getting their new game, Cobalt, out instead of tearing each other apart in their usual Friday game nights. Tahg had the earliest flight out of the four of us, so he got to spend the whole day with Mojang and got to share a juicy steak with them in between the craziness accompanying a game launch.
It was really exhilarating being a part of Cobalt's launch and actually physically being there as it happened - the energy coming from the team pushing to get Cobalt out was electric and contagious. After we got a tour of Mojang's (pretty awesome) office, we spent the rest of the day hanging out with beers and soda in hand just getting to know the Mojang team and watching them scramble about getting Cobalt ready for release. Funnily enough, while this was all happening, our phones were alight with messages and/or tweets from people asking us when Cobalt would be out - it was all so surreal - but, of course, we couldn't answer those questions even if we did know.
Eventually Carl decided it was time for a break and got us all pizza for dinner (I found it pretty cool that we each got our own pizzas, it was very different from Canada where you either get slices or a large pizza to share), with Carl getting his favourite pizza aptly named 'The Internet' as it had everything thrown on it. Beer and pizza turned out to be all the fuel the team needed to push Cobalt out there for public consumption, as immediately after dinner everything was ready for launch and people could finally take a breather. Unfortunately, the insanity continued: the hard work from everyone was simply replaced with all of us sat in front of the screen watching the Cobalt sales counter go up until late into the night. Sadly, Grum's flight was really late with him only arriving in Stockholm around midnight, so we never got to see him until the next day and he missed out on the awesomeness that was the Cobalt launch.
The next morning we got to sample the fabulous breakfast at Hotel Rival (where every room comes with its own teddy bear!) and then it was off to the Mojang HQ once again to start our meeting with Mojang on the future of Minecraft and modding - the main reason why we all made the trip out to Sweden in the first place. The meeting started off with each of us introducing ourselves and explaining what we did, followed by discussing Mojang's plans for Minecraft, modding and why we were invited to meet with them in Stockholm. A few hours later and we, reluctantly, decided to take a break from all the serious talk to get some Chinese food for lunch.
Upon arriving back at the office, we continued our discussions until the phone rang. Apparently some people from Australia had made the trip all the way to Sweden to visit Mojang and they were downstairs waiting to be let in. Luckily for them, Carl and Jeb were meeting with us at the time so there were actually people in the office on a Saturday when the office would usually be empty. After greetings were exchanged, the visitors were given a tour of the office and then they had to run out to continue on with their trip.
We decided to take a break ourselves and fired up Cobalt, where Jeb proceeded to school us on the game and we were shown a sneak peek of the internals of Cobalt and saw the potential the game has for modding and expansion. Cobalt is an extremely fun game that everyone should get, especially when you have several people who can play co-op with you. From a modding standpoint, we expect people to mod and extend it very soon which should provide you with many hours of extra replayability on top of the hours of fun the game already offers.
All in all, we had a great time hanging out with Mojang and meeting all the talent they have in their team. Mojang's official statement about Bukkit is that "The Bukkit team are awesome dudes" and we genuinely feel the same way about them. Often times when you get to meet up with influential people, they have their heads in the clouds and won't show you the time of day but things at Mojang are really different. All of their employees are down to earth, humble and awesome individuals that you can't help but get along with. Letting the guests from Australia check out the Mojang HQ on a Saturday further nails this impression home.
Thanks for the great time in Sweden, Mojang!
So what does this all mean for Bukkit and Minecraft?
While I can't go into any of the specifics, we spent an entire day discussing a lot about the future of modding in Minecraft (as well as Minecraft in general). The meeting with Mojang has left us feeling confident that Mojang knows the value of embracing the modding the community and Bukkit, and that Minecraft has been left in more than capable hands with jeb as lead developer. Mojang has expressed that they like what we're doing and see what we can offer them to help provide more official support to the Minecraft modding community.
As originally announced, Mojang is looking into developing a modding API that covers both the server and the client and believe that we can help them in doing so. As it stands, we are both actively looking into how we can work together for the betterment of Minecraft in the future. Until the details are worked out, that's all we can really say at this time but I think I can honestly say we all left the meeting satisfied and excited about what the future has in store for us together if all goes to plan.
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Congrats to the Bukkit team. What better way to celebrate the 1 year anniversary.
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An all expenses paid trip to Vegas for all members of the Bukkit team? (Which would include us and all other moderators of course)
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i live in Sweden!;)
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A bit of a random one there...
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Just got Cobalt its epic :D
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That means Minecraft itself will be like Spout/Spoutcraft. Custom items/blocks and modded player avatars will be the standard of servers. Imagine Multiplayer servers with the normally-only SP Gun and Airship mods installed on them for multiple users to enjoy. Basically, it's what Minecraft Multiplayer should have looked like a very long time ago. About time they started working on it.
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@fearless1333 I wouldn't get your hopes up too high. I doubt that Vanilla API will ever have as many features as Spout/Spoutcraft has or will have.
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Grum Bukkit Team Member
[/tired of this Spout blah]
So right now you can use Spout as a drop-in replacement for minecraft_server.jar with all features working? Oh wait ... wait a bit more ... wait another couple of months ... maybe, not likely.
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Will Bukkit be able to do this? Will it ever be possible to have modded features without requiring the end-user to download something for the client? If you're trying to knock Spoutcraft because it requires the end-user to download something, in all seriousness I'd like to see Bukkit try.
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The irony in this is that....and correct me if I am wrong....didn't Bukkit start around this time one year ago? If so, I imagine (whether it was outloud or thought of) the SAME thing was said about Bukkit.
One year (give or take some days/weeks) and here we are. Spout is following right in Bukkit's footsteps and we have someone saying the same exact comment against Spout.
Its amazing how...history repeats itself ;)
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I'm confident that the Vanilla API will be as full-featured as Spout/Spoutcraft. The obvious problem with Spout/Spoutcraft is that it's greatly crippled as players have to install a standalone client. Just give it some time; Jeb has already announced that he's aiming for a January release date for the Modding API, so we'll all soon see.
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The thing I love about Spout is the "notch free code" objective. Mojang can't fix bugs floating around since 1.2. (i.e: Chunk holes all over the map) it's a fact.
We all patiently wait, because was "beta code" (btw: ppl who always used 'it's a beta' excuse: WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?).
Now it's time to try new things.. NEW CODE. new hopes, and probably a new faith.
Long life Spout team.
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17. One of the funny things is that Spout server alone won't even contain vanilla blocks, mobs, or AI. Vanilla will be a plugin on top of Spout which will basically be a Voxel sandbox engine.
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Which I find a bit funny because they're basically making their own game entirely! Just sort of spun off the idea of Minecraft.
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This approach was taken because the fundamental mindset of the team is "why stop at Minecraft, why stop with just Vanilla mechanics. Why not take the core of Minecraft and let the developer build an entirely new type of game running off the Spout platform."
This is something Bukkit cannot do as Bukkit is looking to always just "be Vanilla". In the end, there is no "Who is better than who"...it is a "Bukkit chooses the vanilla path, Spout chooses the path of a custom game".
Vanilla will be everything that makes Vanilla Minecraft...Vanilla. If we ever get to making a "from scratch" client, it would be a Voxel Sandbox Engine that runs on a Voxel server (the Spout platform) with the possibility for a server admin to have Vanilla elements in his server (via Vanilla the plugin).
Whereas this used to be an issue (back in the days of bukkitcontrib and users manually installing the client), now-a-days it is as simple to get as Minecraft itself is and this is now a moot point. The only difference is the Mojang one is "official" while Spoutcraft-Launcher is made by SpoutDev (and our adoption rate also says this to be true ;)).
I will stop hijacking this thread now XD. My apologies to the Bukkit Team...I simply wanted to clear the air on things.
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Yes. :p I think this is reasonably likely, at least.
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Problem with Spoutcraft: someone could create a mod that, when loaded by spoutcraft onto a client's jar, does nasty things to their computer or steals their account info from their "lastlogin" file. You could get a virus just by logging into a server, and it would have no interference from your computer's security system, because it would just be an extension of an already trusted program (minecraft.) For example, when you normally mod minecraft, security doesn't notice it, because the mods usually aren't a program on their own, just an extension of minecraft, which it allows for. Slightly problematic, would you not agree?
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Not possible. Read up on our security design. File access, Internet access, etc, will be strictly limited. Plugins won't be able to do anything we don't want them to. Java is a sandbox. Bukkit just chose not to use it.
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Ah, Yay! That sort of alleviates my worries. I probably still won't use Spout, though, because I'm just paranoid. No offense to your plugin: I wanted that for quite a while. It's just that, no matter how many security measures you put in, I just won't feel safe (I have this constant feeling that there's some really smart hacker out there who's going to get me... :( ) But, anyway, discussing Spout isn't really the purpose of this forum, is it? Sorry for continuing the conversation here, but it would have been odd and disjointed if I just randomly picked it up in the middle of the Spout page ;P! Anyway, great idea, probably great implementation, but I'll probably never find out for sure.
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If the opposite was happening it wouldn't be tolerated at all.
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I don't want to live on this planet anymore
26. Travel to Hyrule then.
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Ssshhh.... It's a seeeecret. :)
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HAPPY FREAKIN NEW YEAR!!! My first post on these forums and I'm kinda glad its on the first day of the year. I am new to these forums and would like to start out by saying THANKS!!! Thank you to ALL the people who have put so much time effort into all these awesome mods/plug-ins and helper progs. I have started and ran a few minecraft servers locally and online privately. It has been a blast!
Now, I am VERY excited abouth the prospect of Mojang's upcomming build with a modding API! In the same token, I am worried. I cannot code... I can edit simple code, and adjust if needed. I rely on the modding community as MANY, MANY others do to hopfully come up with what I would like to add to a server for my familly/kids/friends. I have been holding off on making a "non-test" server for everyone to play on. I have been going on the assumption that this new API(and how the modding community responds/handles it) will profoundly affect the way I want to build a perminent server for us to all play on. So with that being said, I just wonder....(and hope these forums will provide my asnwers eventually)
A.) How , if at all do I fit into this community? Should server admins that don't write code/script plug-ins even be here? I have been a non-registered troll of these forums for quite a while. In light of the upcoming changes I just had to start asking some questions that could only be asnwered here. But I hold no false hopes and fully realise I don't have the time in my life to dedicate learning how to write code or scripts....I went down that path with RunUO, and while it was fun(and I still run a shard) I ultimately fell short of time to learn C#. I love to game, not code, I love to set-up worlds for my kids/family and friends to play in, not script. So really, I am in your hands...
B.) Will this competition help drive the great people here to make our experience easier and more fun? Because I feel that is what its all about right? Or will it split the talent pool too thin? IDK.... But I do feel that SPOUT seems to be reaching for something totally different than Bukkit, so that all seems a mute point. I am here, and not on SPOUT because I want a Minecraft server with great additions/extras/changes, like portals, catacombs,npc, and skills. Spout seems to be heading towards something bigger... an almost different game. Maybe better, maybe worse, thats subjective.
C.) Will all this ever become what it really needs to make this a long-lasting phenomenon? Compatibility, plain and simple compatibility. This will draw more and more people in if they can manage to get what they want. If they can't get one great thing to work with another great thing they will get discouraged and find something easier to do. ( I am a bit more stubborn than that tho)
D.) My last question is... will ANYONE ever make permissions easy to set-up?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? lmao.
Anyways, HI EVERYONE, and seriously thanks again. A whole lot of you have helped me put smiles on my kids faces, and enjoy some great laughs with friends and family. I am still pulling more and more people into this in hopes of having a great server set-up with all the great thing that are put out here! This may be the last post I ever place on these forums. Maybe I'll pop up and be able to help somebody new set up thier own server. Hell who knows, I'm learning alot about JAVA with my new job, maybe I'll be able to script a plug-in myself one day(don't hold your breath). But at the very least, I took this opportunity to say to you all... KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! And please know, what your doing is greatly appreciated!
P.S. If anyone ever gets a stable version of Mo' Creatures to work with the newest Bukkit/minescraft MP(that is easy to install) I will personally e-mail you a picture of me and my 8 kids holding up a sign saying "YOU ROCK" !!!
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As a server admin, I've always felt there was a place for me here. While I choose not to delve into coding Java, I use my knowledge to write guides and provide help for fellow server admins. It does not matter if you code or not, Bukkit has a place for you.
Competition is a good thing. As for Spout - they have many ambitious plans. I cannot say what the future will hold, but I believe a lot of good is coming in the new year.
Most large API changes do not happen as often anymore, so plugin compatibility between CraftBukkit builds is pretty good. However, I still update the plugins I use regularly.
Check out bPermissions. They have a Web GUI that makes it really easy to work with.
For that, you need to talk to the devs of Mo' Creatures. They're have ultimate control of that software.
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Couple of quick points, hope I don't get flamed... sigh...
1. This should have been done a year ago
2. I will never (maybe for $1) buy cobalt (no online multiplayer)
sidenote: Also expecting a demo that you can actually play....
3. They had you down on the day of release for cobalt? Great they must have been super ready to talk about minecraft (sarcasm)
4. Snip: Minecraft has been left in more than capable hands with jeb as lead developer.
Response: However left in LESS then capable hands with their programmer jonkagstrom.
Twitter snip:
"@jonkagstrom did you play minecraft before you got hired? o.o
@Onetallnerd Not much to be honest. A lot has happened since I last tried it. "
So mojang hired a programmer for minecraft that has played it "not much"?!?! YOU have got to be kidding me.
5. Really? No API yet?
6. "While I can't go into any of the specifics" "Until the details are worked out, that's all we can really say at this time"
Response: What exactly did you go there for then? Fine forget it, i'm out see ya when minecraft starts dying 3 mos from now.
You guys do a wonderful job. But it -is- a hack job.
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Best Laptops of 2020 – The Definitive Buying Guide
By Ehtan S. Auston - Last Updated July 11, 2020
There’s more to buying a laptop than just getting a sleek-looking, slim profile portable device that you can flaunt as you work. Size and weight matter, but there are more important specs to think about.
Years ago, I couldn’t buy a laptop without consulting my geeky (sorry) friends. Not with all those technical details that I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out.
Is a dual-core processor good or should I get the quad-core processor? What’s the RAM, how about connectivity options? You won’t need to call your techie friend today, because I’ll be breaking it down for you.own
1. Processor
The processor is by far the most important component of your laptop. Whether you’re opening a file, browsing the net, or simply pressing a key, the processor is the one executing that command.
Intel Core processors excel in multimedia and multitasking tasks. Core i3 makes up most entry-level laptops, while Core i5 is more prevalent and can handle all kinds of tasks including mid-range games.
If you want a laptop for heavy-duty gaming and intensive applications the Core i7 is a capable processor. Some larger laptops incorporate Core i9 processors. These CPUs are ultra-powerful to the point of rivaling desktop computers in performance but might cost you a kidney. In the gaming laptops, GPU should be taken under consideration too.
If you’re buying a laptop for simple tasks like email, working on spreadsheets or word, and browsing, a dual-core processor may be sufficient for your needs. You can open multiple windows and apps simultaneously and move between them seamlessly. The business laptops released in 2020 have pretty powerful processors.
For more intensive tasks like photo editing and gaming, a Quad-core processor will do the job. Keep in mind, the higher the number of cores a machine has, the better the performance.
2. Graphics
The graphics card controls the laptop’s visual output. In other words, it’s responsible for generating the images that appear on the screen. The more powerful the graphics card, the better the graphics it offers.
There are two kinds of graphics card; the integrated graphics card and the discrete (dedicated graphics card). The integrated card is built into the CPU and shares resources with the CPU.
If your prospective laptop states that it has 4GB of RAM and there’s 1GB shared graphics memory, it means that you’ll have only 3GB of memory to use for your computing tasks. The machine will handle most tasks but may struggle in intensive tasks like editing or high-end gaming.
The discrete graphics card is the opposite. It’s a separate entity with its separate memory and that makes it more powerful. It’s capable of running graphics software including animation, CAD, video editing, and gaming may you have a video editing laptop, or a regular one..
As such, professional content creators rely on discrete graphics cards in their line of work. NVIDIA and AMD are presently the primary vendors for these dedicated graphics cards.
3. RAM
Random Access Memory (RAM) is the temporary storage a computer uses to access information readily for the tasks at hand. Years ago, 4GB of RAM was mostly sufficient and it may still work for basic tasks such as checking email, browsing the net, and so on.
For today’s uses such as editing video content and photos, you’ll want to bump up that up to 8GB of RAM. The more RAM your laptop has, the more apps it can run simultaneously.
Some games typically need better RAM. That’s why every brand offer a special series of gaming laptops. You’d have to see the requirement of your most favorite game, and match with the laptops specs. For example this is a good list of the best laptops for WOW.
Serious gamers, content creators, and anyone else running intensive programs will want to dial it up to 16GB and upwards for a smooth experience. The flipside to more RAM is that over time it will drain your battery.
4. Display & Resolution
The images displayed on your screen are made up of thousands of pixels. Pixels are tiny squares of light that change color in certain patterns to create texts, images, pics, and different kinds of graphics.
Screen resolution refers to the total number of vertical and horizontal pixels that appear on a screen. If the laptop’s screen resolution is 1920 x1080, there are 1080 pixels displaying vertically and 1920 pixels horizontally.
The more pixels a screen displays, the sharper the image quality. When you see the term native resolution, it refers to the resolution that looks best on that machine’s display. You can adjust the resolution downwards, but you can’t go higher than the native resolution.
So what’s the best resolution for you? It depends on what you’ll be using the laptop for. For the sake of your sanity, we recommend 1920 x 1080 resolution for crisp images, especially if you’re a gamer, photographer, 3D modeler, or video editor.
4K video editors will require a higher screen resolution such as 3840 x 2160, to allow them to playback the 4K footage natively. Similarly, architects, animators, and game developers may want to consider higher resolutions as well. It depends a lot on the requirements too, typically the graphic design laptop would have much more sophisticated display.
5. Storage
Hard drives (HDDs) are a common form of storage option on many laptops. Storage capacities range between 160GB and 2TB. Most machines offer 500GB to 1TB of storage which is plenty for storing photos, songs, and movies, etc.
If the laptop is your primary system for work files, documents, programs, and entertainment, we recommend that you check out laptops with 750GB storage or larger. HDD is better at processing larger files and is inexpensive too.
That said, solid-state drives (SSDs) are the new storage form and they are replacing hard drives, particularly in the ultrathin laptops. SSD drives use a set of flash memory chips, provide faster access to data, and are more reliable than HDDs.
Unfortunately, SSDs are pricier than HDDs and don’t offer much capacity. Presently, they are available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB sizes. If SSD is the only storage option in the laptop, go for the 256GB size, and consider using cloud storage or an external drive.
A lot of PC builders and laptop enthusiaste use bottlenecks which is a method of accessing the power and overall performance. It’s a pretty complex method but you can do the math using the unique and easy bottleneck calculator.
6. Connectivity
In the same way, no man is an island, laptops almost always connect to something. Whether it’s plugging in headphones for privacy or connecting to the internet, and other peripherals, a laptop with a plethora of connectivity options will function more efficiently.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are default in laptops today but it doesn’t hurt to check, especially if you intend to use wireless mice, speakers, or keyboards. Many laptops have an Ethernet port, which is useful in office environments, or in areas where there’s internet but weak or no Wi-Fi signal.
Most peripherals connect to your laptop via USB, so look for a laptop that offers several USB ports, think three or four ports. You’ll most likely find USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports and where speed is concerned, USB 3.0 offers faster data transfer.
USB-C ports are specialized USB ports that may soon become the standard on all new laptops. Unlike traditional ports, USB-C ports are optimized to be inserted either way. An HDMI port allows you to connect your laptop to external monitors, TVs, and projectors.
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7. Battery
A major reason why most of us invest in a laptop is its mobility. We want to have access to our work or college files wherever we are. This makes the battery and battery life an important consideration as you don’t want your machine to quit on you in the middle of an important task.
Most laptops use high-quality batteries, and vendors will indicate average battery life, based on the tests they have conducted. However, several factors can affect battery performance, and how fast it drains including the size of the RAM, the OS, and how you use your laptop.
Gaming laptops have a shorter battery life compared to standard laptops due to the intensity of the games. Additionally, binge-watching online videos or running programs that require lots of processing will consume the battery fast.
This list is by no means exhaustive but covers most of the “headachy” but oh, so important points that many buyers are clueless about when buying a new laptop. What other aspects do you consider important when buying a laptop? Let us know in the comments, we would love to hear from you.
Ethan is business graduate, who talks about gadgets, technology and startups. He's an exception track record in content creation and readers engagement and have been previously contributing to HBR, INC, Entrepreneur, and alike.
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What we often see today is people going with the herd, falling into groupthink and never thinking for themselves. Even groups that profess to go against the mainstream (like the “goths” or hipsters for example) usually just reproduce the trappings of a mindless herd, with their own uniforms and ideology.
This type of herd mentality is due to our own evolutionary backgrounds. If you observe the way herds of animals behave in the wild, you will see how this works and why it is often beneficial for the individual not to stray away from everyone else.
There is safety and power in numbers and the lone individuals that get separated from their herd often don’t make it on their own, either falling prey to larger predators or because they are not able to get to the resources that they need to survive.
As humans in modern societies, we don’t face many of these dangers anymore. However many people still have the old herd mentality deeply ingrained in them. So how do we succeed in today’s world? Is it better to separate from the pack and strike out on your own or is it better to follow the herd?
I have been thinking about these issues for a while now. A recent post on Ludvig Sunstrom’s blog “Start Gaining Momentum” on contrarian thinking has inspired me to write down my own thoughts on the topic.
In Ludvig’s definition, a contrarian is someone who goes against the mainstream:
Being a contrarian means doing and thinking in unconventional ways.
I have always been a contrarian. I have never followed the herd and have always tried to act and think in a way that is independent of what the common groupthink consensus is. I have been aided in this by my unique background and my thirst for knowledge and self-improvement. This is reflected in my blog and my quest to become a Renaissance Man.
However one thing has always bothered me. Is this the correct path to success?
First off, being a contrarian does not mean being a conspiracy crackpot. Those are not contrarians. A contrarian should always follow the principles of rational thought and be aware of his biases. A contrarian is a critical thinker.
As investor Ben Graham stated:
Contrarians are people who are keen observers of the world, who try to figure out how it works and often go down to first principles or lateral thinking. They are the rational innovators and bringers of progress. They are the Steve Jobs or Elon Musks of this world.
However we cannot fall to survivor bias when looking at the best strategy to adopt. Here we are talking about what path for success an individual should adopt. Should he go with the herd or go against it? Which way is more likely to bring him success?
For you see, for every Henry Ford or Bill Gates, there are countless people who did not succeed, people whose names are forgotten and will never be remembered. They too were contrarians, but their path did not lead them to success.
On the other hand, you see mindless fools rake in millions. The most popular shows are garbage like “Idol” or “Big Brother”, and the websites that have the most views are clickbait.
As someone wise once said:
People don’t want to be educated, they want to be entertained.
And this seems to be getting worse. As I wrote in a previous post, people are becoming more narcissistic, more distracted and have zero willpower. No wonder the selfie-stick was named by Time magazine as one of the greatest inventions of the year 2014.
A lot of people succeed by feeding the confirmation bias of people. Most people don’t want to hear other views, they don’t want to be educated, they don’t want to think. People who feed this confirmation bias, like populist politicians, entertainment producers or clickbait article authors seem to do very well.
And being a contrarian thinker is often not “in” even in the workplace.
If you are a contrarian, you might have experienced things like this: I say something should be done, because if it is not done, something else will happen. Nobody listens, but then the thing happens, everyone is surprised and no one remembers I warned against it. After that they implement what I had suggested in the first place, but no one actually remembers that I suggested it.
Some contrarians have fared even worse.
In Antiquity, Socrates was put to death after going around and challenging other people’s irrational beliefs. He is one of the most famous ancient contrarian thinkers who actively went against the herd and tried to expose it.
During the Renaissance, Giordano Bruno challenged the established religious orthodoxy about the world and he ended up burning at the stake for it.
Other contrarian thinkers did not lose their life, but never achieved success during their lifetime. Instead they were forgotten and only rediscovered later. Gregor Mendel and his exploration of genetics is one such example. During his lifetime, the work he did was rejected by the mainstream scientific community. When he died, it was forgotten, only to be rediscovered years later.
Mendel is just one story of many. His work at least gained traction after his death. There must be countless contrarians who lived their lives, never succeeded and are still forgotten today. We will probably never learn of them.
On the other hand, you see many charlatans who feed the herd mentality succeed in life. Scams seem to do good, since people are always looking for the silver bullet and don’t want to work hard. Just look at the internet today. It’s full of BS and that BS is popular.
Is there a point in doing a lot of research in order to write long, thoughtful articles, if you could just write clickbait and get a lot more views?
There is an argument to be made for the wisdom of the crowds. James Surowiecki in his book “The Wisdom of the Crowds” argues that the aggregation of information through large groups results in better decisions. Some examples of this are for example Wikipedia, which has been shown to contain around the same amount of errors as more renowned encyclopedias currated by experts.
However there is an interesting caveat inherent in Surowiecki’s work, a basic assumption that he makes that makes crowdsourcing work. He assumes that the different individuals forming the crowd are independent of each other and not affected by what others think. So the crowd itself is heteregenous.
In a homogeneous crowd, where people follow others and which results in a herd mentality, this crowdsourcing model does not work.
The world has changed. The evolutionary pressures that made the herd mentality become the most successful thinking model have disappeared. We have established that a contrarian type of mentality is beneficial on a macro-level for a society as whole. It is what moves things forward, which creates innovation and progress.
What about on the individual level? Is a contrarian mentality one that will make an individual happier and more successful than being a follower?
This depends greatly on the individual, but I would argue that being contrarian gives you a much greater chance of becoming successful, happier and changing the world, as well as doing that in a more ethical way.
By forging your own path and being OK with it, you will be happier, since many conformists are usually very unhappy on the inside. You will have made your own choices, while the people who follow the herd just did what others told them or what was “in” or “cool”. You can be satisfied that you tried, while they can’t.
How do you survive in a conformist world and how do you succeed in it?
First you have to accept the reality of the world. Unfortunately, most people are close-minded, selfish and unreliable. That is how it is and you cannot change it.
Adopting a Stoic mindset in this matter is key. Work on changing what you can change, and don’t worry about the rest. You will face opposition, you will face stupidity, you will face jealousy. Prepare yourself for it.
Being contrarian however makes it harder to relate to other people and you often end up getting dissapointed in others, since most people are usually selfish and unreliable.
It will be easy to accept this and understand how other people act and why they act the way they do is if you study NLP meta-programs. People act the way they do, because they have different meta-programs. When I learned about this, it made it easier for me to understand the behavior of people and to accept the way the world is.
These are the first steps. The next steps should involve looking inside and changing your emotional and social intelligence skills. Karl Albrecht, author of “Social Intelligence: The New Science Of Success”, states that what contrarians are often lacking are inter-personal skills:
There is an art to being a contrarian in a conventional-thinking world. Counter-intuitive thinkers often stumble over inter-personal relationships. Often they haven’t acquired the tactical skills of developing their ideas.
This is often what separates the successful contrarians from the unsuccessful ones. Successful contrarians have people skills. They need to convince other people to their own point of view. Just think of people like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. They both have a certain charisma and people skills, which is key to their success.
Yes, you do need a bunch of luck (and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise), but if you want luck to happen, you need to create the conditions for it in the first place.
Being contrarian is about taking risks. If you look at the beginnings of people who became successful due to their contrarian ideas, they usually did so in an uncertain situation. They took a risk and then another risk, oftentimes succeeding after several failures.
Stepping into the unknown is the beginning of the journey towards success. Without this, you are sentenced to be forever stuck in mediocriocity.
You cannot be afraid of the hostility of the crowd. It will be there. You will step out on your path and there will be silence. You will step out on your path and there will be derision. You will step out on your path and there will be hatred and jealousy.
You cannot let that phase you. You need to continue on your path and trust in the process you have enacted.
Being a contrarian often means that you will have to take the long-term approach. Success doesn’t come overnight.
You have to look at things from the long-term perspective. This is what John Huber on his blog “Base Hit Investing” calls thinking like a business owner. You need to think long-term, not short-term.
I can see that from some of my friends who are business owners. The successful ones have a long-term vision. They know that the first few years they will have to invest a lot of capital, work hard and see several years of losses. Only after a few years will they start seeing profits, if things work out.
It’s the same way with being a contrarian thinker. You will have to invest a few years and work hard, at first no one will be interested in your ideas. However after a few years of hard work, you might start seeing some benefits.
A lot of success in today’s world depends on who you know and not what you know. One of the main keys to success is to have other contrarians or people who see potential in your ideas, promote your cause.
Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Tipping Point” describes three groups of people: mavens, connectors, and salesmen.
As a contrarian, you are usually the maven. You are the guy with the ideas. However now you need to spread your message.
That’s where the connectors come in. You need people who have a wide network and influence to help spread your message and get it out to a wide audience. Without this, your ideas, even if they are world-changing, will never get off the ground.
Once you have spread your message across, you will need to have salesmen sell that message. It is a battle of ideas out there and you will need to craft a good story to get to the masses. It is at this point that you can even get herd behavior to help you out. Once something has reached a tipping point and starts spreading like wildfire, herd behavior works in your favor!
As Karl Albrecht noted above, many contrarians lack the skills to convince people about their ideas. That is often my problem as well. Remember most people are not very open-minded or rational, so you have to put these ideas to them in a way that they can understand.
A lot of contrarians also forget another thing, to connect with other people (especially the introverted ones have trouble with this) and thereby spread their ideas. They think that the strength of their idea will shine through. Unfortunately due to the way people and societies are, oftentimes a bad idea that has the influencers on its side triumphs over a good idea that doesn’t.
Scott Dinsmore on his blog “Live Your Legend” has a post where he divides up the daily work of a personal project into three things: consuming, connecting, creating. This he calls the 3 C’s.
Many contrarians do a lot of consuming and creating, but what they don’t do is connect with others. That is often my problem as well. You need to find people to bounce ideas off of, to discuss important issues and eventually also to help you spread your message. This is the main difference between an unsuccessful contrarian and a successful one.
You need to spend a lot of your time connecting.
You can enhance your chance of being a successful contrarian thinker, if you become a Renaissance Man. That way, you will have wide variety of mental models at your disposal in the back of your head. That is something that many of the top contrarians, such as Charlie Munger suggest.
A contrarian then uses these mental models to see the world as it is. He goes against the current. He tries to avoid the biases and lazy thinking of the rest of the people.
A contrarian can, but doesn’t have to be original. You can build the next big thing, or maybe you can build something smaller.
You can go for the big hit, or you can go for a series of smaller hits. It’s all up to you.
Successful contrarians learn from others, people who are smarter, more knowledgeable or experienced than them. As the author of “Steal Like An Artist”, Austin Kleon notes:
To further quote Kleon, they also build upon the ideas and work of others:
As a contrarian you cannot be set in your ways. You also have to be able to change when a better opportunity arises and open minded enough when arguments and evidence negate your stance.
So how do we answer the question when to be a contrarian thinker and when not to be?
The answer is between short-term success and long-term success. People who follow the herd can have short-term success, but contrarians are the ones who will have long-term success.
If you want short-term success and quick pleasures, go ahead, follow the herd. If you want long-term success and to create something that means something, start thinking on your own.
Well, this post has once again ran up to being long. Most common internet wisdom states that effective posts should be short, since people have a short attention span, especially on the internet. I am being contrarian on this and hope that there is a critical mass of people (even if a minority) who do enjoy reading long-posts and who are serious about changing themselves and becoming successful and that they will find this blog. 🙂
In the meanwhile, I continue on working hard! Hope this has inspired you to work hard too on your ideas, no matter what other people might think about them.
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9 thoughts on “To Be Or Not To Be: When To Be A Contrarian Thinker And When Not To Be”
1. Great article and interesting ideas.
I did not know that the selfie-stick became one of the “greatest inventions of 2014.” I just read your article about it and had a few laughs. Another good one.
On another note, I actually possess a selfie-stick. But I don’t use it for selfies. I use it for video documentation. And it’s actually useful.
And here’s something you may find funny: When I went to the Epcot Centre (the stronghold of consumerism) my selfie-stick was…CONFISCATED!
The reason? Too many kids had been using them “irresponsibly” in carousels and rides, and dropped them on other people’s heads. This had resulted in lawsuits against Epcot Center (I think). The U.S is a strange country in many ways.
1. Although I don’t have one, but I do see how selfie sticks do have their uses. Sometimes it’s hard to take a picture from one spot, but with a selfie stick you can get a better shot. 🙂 However a lot of people use them for vanity purposes.
Thanks for responding! 🙂
2. Fantastic post Peter!
I have to admit that you are so correct on my levels! Being a contrarian is something that too few people these days want to be.
I know for me I tend to look for connections to things as well as problems. For example this whole race thing that seems to be infiltrating every crevice of this society has made people on both sides of the fence to become emotional. Each person tries to explain themselves to the other only to fight themselves in a word brawl.
Personally I believe the issue of race is something to keep social groups from working with one another. Being a person who lives in both black side as well as the white side I tend to see it differently. You see we are not much different from one another as Humans but we are different in the choices we make in our lives. Make bad choices you end up not living to your full potential. Make the right choices and you might live your life to a full potential. We have control somewhat of our lives. But when I try to explain this I get met with ridicule and sarcasm!
They just do not want to see it for what it is? Life is simple and not hard. The path is there for everyone to follow! If I did it then so can anyone else. It amazes me who the herd would rather be unhappy and blame others for their plight in life when they can change it if they want to.
I have seen life differently for a very long time. I have found like Insaid before that life has already given you a raid to follow and each persons road is different than the next person but they all lead to the same place. We just have to make the changes needed in order to get to where you want to go I life. In this world everything is connected to everything else.
I guess I ranted on long enough so let men
1. Thanks Jose!
This is exactly it. Many people like to blame others for their misfortunes. I like the the basic Stoic principle of dividing things into two parts, the ones you can change and affect and the ones you cannot. So in life you should be worrying about the things that you can change, and not worry about the rest. 🙂
3. Yes, splitting life into 2 does help. I know for me it has given me a great advantage over others who do not know about this. When I was growing up I did not have the internet and to get information i would have had to go to the Library near me. So I had to learn to change my view by watching a lot Public Television where they used to have very good programs like Front Line, Nova etc.
It did help that my Dad would bring home books for us to read. Since he had a 6th grade education he knew the importance of knowledge and how it can help a person succeed. Me and my brothers all got out of the inner city and made something of ourselves. None of us were thugs, drug dealers etc. we just stayed away and made our own paths.
I could have gone that route like so many of the kids I grew up with but for what? There is no future at the end of that path except death and prison. Neither is something I like to do so I stayed away, stayed in school and made the best of my situation while in the NYC public school system.
I learned to survive and made the right choices and so far it has led me here to you and other like minded people. I just wish that more people would realize that life is not hard to live but simple its just that we make it hard,
Again Peter a fantastic post! Keep up the good work as your articles are extremely thought provoking!
1. Thanks again for your kind words! 🙂
And glad to hear about your story and how you overcame initial challenges and struggles. It’s that kind of mindset that you have that leads to success and thanks for sharing it with us, since it can be inspirational for others as well.
4. I have always been a contrarian thinker too, since child. I had never liked the idea of following what is “popular”, “cool”, “in” and “trendy”. I had my ideas of my own. But, it isolated me. I became a loner as everyone did not care to accept me of my difference. I appeared geeky and outcasted. t did not frown it however. I still followed my own ideals and my own fashioned. I still followed what I think is right. In my early years, I enjoyed being different because it made feel me unique, but when I grow up, I realized that it is not uniqueness that makes my contrarianism good, it is reason. I see how people do not recognize thinking about something, that they always follow what is in “present fashion” and accept it as a mere reality that no one must react. They “enslaved” themselves to what is “in trend”, and it violates the essence of freedom.
1. Yes, unfortunately a lot of people today just blindly follow what is trendy without thinking. Sometimes you just have to stop and think: is the thing that I am doing in fact what I should be doing? By thinking in a rational way, you can prevent many mistakes that can be made.
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1. To safely restrain all animals;
2. Ensure that all electrical equipment is in safe working order and approved for use (unless the Job relates to a Tradesperson that is an electrician);
3. To notify the Tradesperson of any dangerous environments or hazards; and
4. There are no unannounced persons in the Location.
5. The Customer agrees that the Tradesperson is not liable for minor wear and tear during a Job. The Tradesperson shall not be liable for any breakage with a value of under $100 if such breakage was genuinely accidental and in the course of providing the Job. The Customer agrees that the Tradesperson shall have the first right to rectify, repair or resupply services to remedy any damage or incomplete work.
3. Cancellations
1. A Customer may cancel a Job within 5 minutes of the Job being confirmed.
2. A Customer that cancels a Job later than 5 minutes after the confirmation of a Job may be charged a Cancellation Fee.
3. The Company may deduct the value of a Cancellation Fee from a Deposit.
4. A Tradesperson must not cancel a Job once confirmed, unless agreed otherwise with a Customer.
5. Where a Tradesperson is unable to attend a Job, the Company shall use its best endeavours to find a replacement Tradesperson, however if an alternate Tradesperson cannot be found, the Company shall not be liable to the Customer (although no Job Fees will be charged).
4. Ratings
1. The Customer may use the rating system inside JAK to rate and provide feedback on the Tradesperson and each Job.
2. The Customer agrees to provide accurate information and to not unreasonably give a Tradesperson or a Job a low rating.
3. If the Customer is unsatisfied with the standard of a Job, the Customer must first discuss the matter with the Company, and the Company shall endeavour to resolve the matter within 2 Business Days.
4. The Company may suspend a Tradesperson’s account if it consistently receives negative ratings.
5. The decision to suspend or reinstate a Tradespersons’ account is at the Company’s sole discretion.
4. Job fees, payments & refunds
1. The Tradesperson shall pay the Company the Service Fee for a Job undertaken by the Tradesperson across the JAK platform. The Company will issue a Tax Invoice to the Tradesperson for the Service Fee via JAK and/or email. All payments for a Job must be made through JAK (or at the Company’s discretion, directly to the Company).
2. Payment of the Job Fee will be charged to the Customer’s credit card the day following the Job.
3. Payment of Job Fees shall be made by the Company to Tradespersons in accordance with clause 6.3.
4. JAK will provide a refund or credit of some or all of the Job Fee (as appropriate) where, by no fault of the Customer, the Job is not performed or cannot be satisfactorily completed. Otherwise, no other refunds are provided except where required under law.
5. Direct contracting between customers and service providers
1. Without the written consent of the Company, the Tradesperson shall not directly contract to provide services to a Customer outside of the Platform (and thereby exclude the Company) within 12 months of the last day that the Tradesperson attended a Job at the relevant Customer. Where such a direct relationship is formed without the consent of the Company, the Customer agrees to pay to the Company 30% of the Job Fees that would have applied to had those services been undertaken as Jobs.
2. The Company will issue a Tax Invoice to the Customer for all such fees payable to the Company under clause 4.1.
6. Relationship
1. The parties agree that the Tradesperson is an independent contractor to the Customer. Each Tradesperson and Customer is responsible to each other with respect to each Job. The parties acknowledge and agree that:
1. The Tradesperson is not an employee or subcontractor of the Company, and the Tradesperson does not provide any services to Customers on behalf of the Company;
2. The Company is only the Tradesperson’s agent for the purpose of arranging Jobs and receiving payments from the Customer;
3. The Tradesperson is not an employee of the Customer or the Company; and
4. The Company is not an agent of the Customer.
2. All Jobs provided by a Tradesperson may be subject to the Tradesperson’s usual terms of business in addition to the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement shall prevail in the event of a conflict between this Agreement and a Tradesperson’s usual terms of business.
7. Tradesperson terms of use
1. Qualifications. The Tradesperson is responsible for ensuring:
1. All qualifications and permits relative to the Tradesperson’s Trade are accurate and up to date; and
2. The Tradesperson is qualified by law to provide the Jobs.
2. Jobs.
1. The Tradesperson must provide the Jobs to the Customer for each Job Request it Confirms.
2. If the Job is performed by an employee or contractor of the Tradesperson, the Tradesperson shall:
1. Remain liable for each such employee or contractor; and
2. Ensure each employee or contractor complies with the terms of this Agreement.
3. Payments to Tradespersons.
1. The Tradesperson must submit an invoice via JAK within 24 hours of completing a Job (Job Invoice).
2. A Job Invoice must include sufficient details in order for JAK to process charging a Job Fee to the Customer. Such details may include:
1. The cost of labour provided by the Tradesperson;
2. The cost of any Equipment & Materials supplied by the Tradesperson;
3. GST information;
4. Such other information as JAK may require from time-to-time.
3. Where a Job takes place in Australia, the Tradesperson must supply an active ABN in order to receive payment via JAK.
4. JAK will take payment from the Customer of the Job Fee once the Job Invoice has been submitted to JAK.
5. The Company may take a Service Fee from payments made by a Customer via JAK in consideration for its services prior to forwarding the balance of the payment to the Tradesperson.
6. The value of such a Fee shall be as advertised on the Site or as otherwise may be agreed with the Company.
7. The Company will pay the balance of any Job Fee received from a Customer, to the Tradesperson within 5 Business Days of completion of the Job.
8. The Company shall provide the Tradesperson with a Tax Invoice detailing:
1. The Service Fees charged by the Company to the Tradesperson;
2. The balance of funds received from the Customer paid to the Tradesperson in settlement of the Job.
4. The Tradesperson agrees and warrants that:
1. To the extent permitted by law the Tradesperson indemnifies and will hold the Company harmless against all costs, claims damages and expenses for any:
1. Penalty imposed upon the Tradesperson;
2. Injury, illness or death caused to a Customer or Third Party;
3. Damage to the property of any Customer or Third Party;
4. Claim of infringement of intellectual property rights made by a Third Party;
5. Claim of breach of confidentiality by any Third Party;
As a result of the Tradesperson’s use of JAK;
1. It shall not store or record any Personal Information that it can access through JAK unless it is fully compliant with the Privacy Act;
2. It shall ensure that all information that it makes available through JAK is accurate and up to date, including (but not limited to) information supplied for:
1. Creating an account;
2. Describing the Tradesperson;
3. Notifying Users;
4. Generating a Job Invoice; and
5. Any other information that may be accessed by the Tradesperson or an Individual;
3. It shall not disclose any information about a Customer to any other person or party other than as authorised by the Customer;
4. It shall ensure all personal information it has access to through its use of JAK is kept and used in accordance with applicable privacy laws in the jurisdiction;
5. It shall only use JAK for its intended purpose as set out in this Agreement;
6. It shall comply with all anti-SPAM legislation in its jurisdiction;
7. Its licence to use JAK, as provided for in the General Conditions, is subject to the payment of all necessary Fees.
8. It complies with all tax laws in each relevant jurisdiction.
1. Any person who registers as a Tradesperson in JAK warrants that he or she is an authorised representative of that Tradesperson with the requisite authority to bind the Tradesperson to this Agreement.
8. General conditions
1. Licence
1. By accepting the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the User is granted a limited, non-exclusive and revocable licence to access and use JAK for the duration of this Agreement, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
2. Modification of Terms
1. The terms of this Agreement may be updated by the Company from time-to-time.
2. Where the Company modifies the terms, it will provide the User with written notice, and the User will be required to accept the modified terms in order to continue using JAK.
3. Software-as-a-Service
1. The User agrees and accepts that JAK is:
2. Managed and supported exclusively by the Company from the Company servers and that no ‘back-end’ access to JAK is available to the User unless expressly agreed in writing.
4. Use & Availability
1. The User agrees that it shall only use JAK for legal purposes and shall not use it to engage any conduct that is unlawful, immoral, threatening, abusive or in a way that is deemed unreasonable by the Company in its discretion.
2. The User is solely responsible for the security of its username and password for access to JAK. The User shall notify the Company as soon as it becomes aware of any unauthorised access of its JAK account.
3. The User agrees that the Company shall provide access to JAK to the best of its abilities, however:
1. Access to JAK may be prevented by issues outside of its control; and
2. It accepts no responsibility for ongoing access to JAK.
5. Privacy
2. The Privacy Policy does not apply to how a Tradesperson handles personal information. If necessary under the Privacy Act, it is the Tradesperson’s responsibility to meet the obligations of the Privacy Act by implementing a privacy policy in accordance with law.
3. JAK may use cookies (a small electronic tracking code) to improve a User’s experience while browsing, while also sending browsing information back to the Company. The User may manage how it handles cookies in its own browser settings.
6. Data
1. Security. The Company takes the security of JAK and the privacy of its Users very seriously. The Customer agrees that the Customer shall not do anything to prejudice the security or privacy of the Company’s systems or the information on them.
2. Transmission. The Company shall do all things reasonable to ensure that the transmission of data occurs according to accepted industry standards. It is up to the Customer to ensure that any transmission standards meet the Customer’s operating and legal requirements.
3. Storage. Data that is stored by the Company shall be stored according to accepted industry standards.
4. Backup. The Company shall perform backups of its entire systems in as reasonable manner at such times and intervals as is reasonable for its business purposes. The Company does not warrant that it is able to backup or recover specific Customer Data from any period of time unless so stated in writing by the Company.
7. Intellectual Property
3. The JAK Application. The User agrees and accepts that JAK is the Intellectual Property of the Company and the User further warrants that by using JAK the User will not:
1. Copy JAK or the services that it provides for the User’s own commercial purposes; and
2. Directly or indirectly copy, recreate, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain, modify or use any source or object code, architecture, algorithms contained in JAK or any documentation associated with it.
4. Content. All content submitted to the Company, whether via JAK or directly by other means, becomes and remains the Intellectual Property of the Company, including (without limitation) any source code, analytics, insights, ideas, enhancements, feature requests, suggestions or other information provided by the User or any other party with respect to JAK.
8. Disclaimer of Third Party Services & Information
1. The User acknowledges that JAK Is dependent on third-party services, including but not limited to:
1. Banks, credit card providers and merchant gateway providers;
2. Telecommunications services;
3. Hosting services;
4. Email services; and
5. Analytics services.
2. The User agrees that the Company shall not be responsible or liable in any way for:
1. Interruptions to the availability of JAK due to third-party services; or
2. Information contained on any linked third party website.
9. Liability & Indemnity
1. The User agrees that it uses JAK at its own risk.
2. The User acknowledges that JAK does not make Jobs on its own behalf.
3. The User acknowledges that the Company is not responsible for the conduct or activities of any Tradesperson and that the Company is not liable for such under any circumstances.
4. The User agrees to indemnify the Company for any loss, damage, cost or expense that the Company may suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with the User’s use of or conduct in connection with JAK, including any breach by the User of these Terms.
5. In no circumstances will the Company be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential or indirect damages, personal injury, death, damage to property, loss of property, loss or corruption of data, loss of profits, goodwill, bargain or opportunity, loss of anticipated savings or any other similar or analogous loss resulting from the User’s access to, or use of, or inability to use JAK, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, negligence, in equity or any other legal theory, and whether or not the Company knew or should have known of the possibility of such damage, loss, personal injury or death, or business interruption of any type, whether in tort, contract or otherwise.
1. The re-supply of services or payment of the cost of re-supply of services; or
2. The replacement or repair of goods or payment of the cost of replacement or repair.
10. Termination
1. Either party may terminate this Agreement by giving the other party written notice.
3. Termination does not affect any of the rights accrued by a party prior to termination, and he rights and obligations under clauses 7.8, 7.11 and 7.12 survive termination of this Agreement.
11. Dispute Resolution
1. If any dispute arises between the parties in connection with this Agreement (Dispute), then either party may notify the other of the Dispute with a notice (Dispute Notice) which:
1. Includes or is accompanied by full and detailed particulars of the Dispute; and
2. Is delivered within 10 Business Days of the circumstances giving rise to the Dispute first occurring.
2. Within 10 Business Days after a Dispute Notice is given, a representative (with the authority to resolve the dispute) parties must meet (virtually or otherwise) and seek to resolve the Dispute.
3. Subject to clause (d), a party must not bring court proceedings in respect of any Dispute unless it first complies with the requirements of the dispute resolution mechanism outlined in this clause.
4. Nothing in this clause prevents either party from instituting court proceedings to seek urgent injunctive, interlocutory or declaratory relief in respect of a Dispute.
5. Despite the existence of a Dispute, the parties must continue to perform their respective obligations under this document and any related agreements.
12. Electronic Communication, Amendment & Assignment
5. Notices must be sent to the parties’ most recent known contact details.
6. The User may not assign or otherwise create an interest in this Agreement.
13. General
1. Special Conditions. The parties may agree to any Special Conditions to this Agreement in writing.
2. Prevalence. To the extent this Agreement is in conflict with, or inconsistent with, the terms any Special Conditions made under this Agreement, as relevant, the terms of those the Special Conditions or Special Conditions shall prevail.
4. Relationship. The relationship of the parties to this Agreement does not form a joint venture or partnership.
7. Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Each of the parties hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of courts with jurisdiction there.
9. Job Guarantee
1. The JAK Job Guarantee will cover the cost of completing, correcting or rectifying faulty work arising from jobs undertaken by a JAK Service Provider who is unable to rectify the faulty work themselves due to bankruptcy, ill-health, loss of license or any legitimate reason (which will be assessed by JAK case by case).
2. We confidently offer the Job Guarantee as a complimentary service to all JAK customers, as we believe all service providers on our platform are the highest of quality. All service providers undergo a verification process before being approved on the platform to ensure they have the relevant qualifications and are insured to perform their duties.
3. In circumstances where a JAK customer has an issue relating to work performed by a JAK service provider, the customer may be entitled to claim on the Job Guarantee. To make a claim on the Job Guarantee, the following conditions must be met:
1. The original work must have been initiated and fully processed through the JAK platform and both the customer and the service provider must comply with JAK’s Terms and Conditions.
2. The Job must either be in progress, paid via the Platform or marked as paid in the Platform.
3. An issue must be reported within 90 days from when the job was allocated to the Service Provider. The Job Guarantee will be permitted only once all resolution avenues have been exhausted.
4. Each Job Guarantee claim will cover up to a maximum of $3000 and will be assessed by JAK management on a case by case basis.
5. The customer and service provider must provide all relevant information to JAK management which may include, but is not limited to:
1. All communications between the customer and trade supplier (email, chat, messages)
2. Invoices
3. Photos of the work
4. Statements relating to the agreed scope of work and
5. Any other documents that may be required to complete an accurate review of the job
6. A member of the JAK management team or a nominated expert may conduct a physical site inspection to assess the job and to ascertain an accurate market value, if we consider it necessary. | <urn:uuid:b8a5ed97-668a-4707-aade-ca8cd36b5c10> | https://jakapp.com.au/terms | en | 0.919483 | 0.53646 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Dahr Jamail | Not a Fish Tale: Humans Are Ingesting Plastic Thanks to Ocean Pollution
(Photo: Plastic Bag via Shutterstock; Edited: LW / TO)(Photo: Plastic Bag via Shutterstock; Edited: LW / TO)
Humans generate more than 300 million tons of plastic annually — an amount equal to the combined body weight of the entire global adult human population — and nearly half of the plastic is only used one time before it is tossed away to eventually find its way to the oceans. So it should come as little surprise that by 2050, it is a virtual certainty that every seabird on the planet will have plastic in its stomach.
Recent estimates indicate that upwards of 8 million tons of plastic are added to the planet’s oceans every year, the equivalent of a dump truck full of plastic every minute. That is enough plastic to have led one scientist to estimate that people who consume average amounts of seafood are ingesting approximately 11,000 particles of plastic every year.
Experts with whom Truthout spoke on the topic confirmed that these trends are likely to continue. Biological oceanographer Dr. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, with the National Oceanography Centre at Britain’s University of Southampton, is very concerned about public indifference to the urgency of the situation.
“Marine pollution is a big issue,” Iglesias-Rodriguez told Truthout. “There is this idea that oceans have unlimited inertia, but nanoparticles of plastic getting into marine animals and the food chain are affecting fish fertility rates, and this affects food security and coastal populations. Pollution is having a huge impact on the oceans and is urgent and needs to be dealt with.”
“Unexpected Results”
In the North Pacific Ocean, there exists what has become known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a phenomenon scientists know as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
“We found eggs on the pieces of plastic, and these were sea skater [insect] eggs,” Goldstein said. “Sea skaters naturally occur in the gyre and are known to lay their eggs on floating objects. So we found that the amount of eggs being laid had increased with the amount of plastic.”
The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre’s eastern section, located between Hawai’i and California, is estimated to be about twice the size of Texas. According to Goldstein, this vast “garbage patch” contains an “alarming amount” of plastic garbage, the majority of which is comprised of very small-size pieces.
Goldstein’s study shows how the immense amount of plastic is creating consequences for animals across the marine food web.
Published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, the aforementioned study (authored by Peter Davison and Rebecca Asch) estimates that fish at intermediate ocean depths in the North Pacific Ocean could be ingesting plastic at the staggering rate of 12,000 to 24,000 tons per year.
“Our work shows there could be potential effects to the ocean ecosystem that we can’t expect or predict,” Goldstein said. “There are five subtropical gyres, one in each ocean basin, and they are natural currents. They are vast areas of the oceans; together they comprise the majority of the area of the oceans. So altering them on a large scale could have unexpected results on all kinds of things.”
Ocean 3.0?
One warning of humanity’s increasingly deleterious impact on the oceans comes from prominent marine biologist Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jackson emphasizes that, without profound and prompt changes in human behavior, we will cause a “mass extinction in the oceans with unknown ecological and evolutionary consequences.”
“Probably every sea turtle on the planet interacts with plastic at some point in its life.”
Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences, told Truthout he finds plastic on every beach he visits across the globe, and added, “Probably every sea turtle on the planet interacts with plastic at some point in its life.”
He describes sea turtles as a “poster species” for the impacts of ACD: He said their eggs “are literally cooking on beaches now because the temperatures have moved out of the tolerable range.”
“We’re putting too much in, in all forms of pollution; we’re taking too much out by fishing, overfishing and bycatch; and we’re destroying the edge of the ocean, the places where there is the most biodiversity, reefs, mangroves, seagrass etc.,” he said. “Those are the three big buckets…. Almost every threat to the ocean falls into one of those. We need to put less in, take less out and protect the edges by making some of them off limits to human activity.”
According to Nichols, despite scientists’ ongoing attempts to adjust their models to keep up with the quickening of feedback loops and other issues, we are still unable to keep pace with the dramatic changes.
He believes “the clock in many ways has already run out,” due to the fact that we are still increasing our use of fossil fuels, while continuing to generate so much plastic and pollution. Nichols says he is frustrated by the fact that despite there being more conversation about these issues now than ever before, that dialogue is still not translating into societal change or evolution.
“We’re living in it now, from a climate change/fisheries/pollution/habitat destruction point of view, our nightmare is here; it’s the world we live in,” he said. “You see it everywhere now, the collapsing fisheries, the changes in the Arctic and the hardships communities that live there are having to face, the frequency and intensity of storms — everything we imagined 40 years ago when the environmental movement was born, we’re dealing with those now.”
Nichols concluded by describing three possible oceans. Ocean 1.0 is the pristine natural ocean, while Ocean 2.0 is the ocean we have now, which is a result of having, as he described it, lived under “the petroleum product regime.”
“Ocean 3.0 is the future ocean, and it can either be a dead ocean, or we can really come up with some very innovative solutions that right now people aren’t even talking about,” he said.
To Nichols, a positive vision of Ocean 3.0 would entail new ways of getting food from the ocean that don’t involve long lines and bottom trawling, both extremely destructive ways to fish commercially.
It would involve a whole new way of thinking about our packaging and a zero-waste approach to consumer goods, which, he believes, is all possible — if we can muster the political and personal motivation.
“We could have a healthy ocean in 50 years if we make some bold moves,” he said. Those moves would need to include “a cleaner, more responsible set of actions for how we get energy from the ocean and how we use them as a source of food.”
Without those actions happening en masse, Nichols fears we are headed for the “dead ocean” version of our future.
“The dire predictions — they are already here in many, many ways,” he said.
Corrections: Miriam Goldstein was originally attributed the statement of her study having “dire” consequences, which was inaccurately attributed, and hence corrected. Goldstein’s quotes were in close proximity of the sentence, “Not only is it leading to early deaths of animals that ingest it, but also humans then ingesting fish with plastic in their systems are at increased risk of cancer and other health issues.” Please note that this information is not in any way intended to be attributed to Goldstein’s research. | <urn:uuid:af72da3d-4dbb-426b-aafc-2b56191d66f6> | https://truthout.org/articles/not-a-fish-tale-humans-are-ingesting-plastic-thanks-to-ocean-pollution/ | en | 0.954796 | 0.043326 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Autism Recovery Story: Noah
KOMU's Ashley Reynolds Wins Emmy for Autism Series
Paging Dr. Max Wiznitzer! High court: Atlanta Couple Can Sue Over Vaccination
Screw Managing Editor's Note: That headline is a "joke." Dr. Wiznitzer is an autism "expert" and an expert witness for pharma in vaccine cases. My girls were diagnosed in his office at University Hospitals in Cleveland.
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: An Atlanta couple’s lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers can go to trial on claims a childhood vaccine caused neurological damage to their young son, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.
In a landmark decision, the state high court unanimously ruled that Marcelo and Carolyn Ferrari’s lawsuit is not barred by the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. The court upheld a prior decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals, which was the first appellate court in the nation to make such a ruling.
Read the full article HERE. You can register and comment. Remember, Hannah Poling lives in the Atlanta area. An interesting fact.
Marguns Website
"If you think it’s a personal choice, it’s not. When you’re on a public road, you’re involving the public. You’re making it everybody’s problem. And I just thank god that my daughter didn’t take any other lives."
Marty Griego
I have an autistic son who is 14 years old, he has never had a shot or a vaccine in his life. I am so happy for the families and children who have found hope in the vaccine theory by Jenny McCarthy. I just want to let people know that we are fighting the fight and don't want people to fight one another, maybe every childs case is different maybe they aren't. Please focus on these childrens futures, as parents we know we probably won't out live these children, that is more traumatic than the disability itself. We are starting to build homes and schools for their futures, focus on that please.
Carolyn M.
bek - Thank you for pointing out the Good Morning America story. I had heard a much shorter version on the radio yeaterday morning, but I had not had time to go looking for a more detailed version.
Minority View - Thank you for the references and your summary. It looks very interesting. I'm not surprised that they want an anti-staph vaccine. I saw an article that said they wanted to find a way to put the vaccine directly into the lungs, since they believe they have some evidence that that is more effective than injection.
thank you for posting that minority view!
my son got MRSA when he was just 6 months old. no one ever cultured him so his poor body tried to fight it off for a year and a half! he was on anti biotic after antibiotic and the whole time they kept vaccinating away. he was so immunocompromised and they still didn't hessitate to vaccinate. now come to find out that maybe the prevnar vaccine started this mess! i am stunned and i feel betrayed. my poor son is so sick and we are just starting the biomedical approach. i am happy to report we are seeing good progress. and we have changed pediatricians!
To Anonymous Antivaccinationist --
Thanks and I just noticed I spelled it wrong--it should be Wackosphere, as written by Mark here-
Carolyn M., did you know why staph is going up?
"The bactericidal activity of Streptococcus pneumoniae toward Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by hydrogen peroxide. Catalase eliminated this activity. Pneumococci grown anaerobically or genetically lacking pyruvate oxidase (SpxB) were not bactericidal, nor were nonpneumococcal streptococci. These results provide a possible mechanistic explanation for the interspecies interference observed in epidemiologic studies."
see also:
for the real story, read the article.
Basically, the rise in staph infections is another nifty side-effect of certain vaccines...but they'll never pull the vaccines...instead they are working on a new anti-staph vaccine!
Also, see today's report from Good Morning America: Flu Shots for Tots Ineffective
Study: Flu Shots Don't Reduce Doctor Visits or Hospitalizations in Recent Flu Seasons
"Flu shots did not reduce doctors' visits or the risk of hospitalization related to the flu in children age five and younger in the past two flu seasons, according to a new study."
Kathy Blanco
God help anyone who will defend the thousands and upon millions of children who will die, or be maimed for the common good. How many really die of simple and necessary and undeadly non scary childhood infections? How many of them were vaccinated? I personally would have loved, adored and embraced a weeks worth of febrile fever and spots on my kids skin, rather than a lifetime of seizures, and autism. There are no true numbers for this, nor tally of the untold suffering in these familes, and I hope the smily doctors/pharma gets a giant slap in his/her face, or his/her pocketbook, jailtime, or his/her professional and personal self esteem/conduct. None of that can equal the pain of holding your son through a seizure on a weekly basis that could kill them, or never hearing the words mommy I love you? I would and could never understand a society which allows modern day child sacrifice to the Gods of medicine, what is this, the AMAZON INCAS? Especially,... when they are not studied to the extent to satisfy even the most curious and obvious questions, such as what is the health of the unvaccinated, vs the vaccinated, and do vaccine viruses persist, lay dormant for future immuno events or change our very DNA? My God would not allow this anymore, therefore, watch out the likes of those who tout they are so right, when they are so wrong. Right, always wins, eventually. I think parents know their children intimately, and know vaccines were giant triggers, even if there were extenuating circumstances, such as a genetic immune defect, in utero viruses, metabolic problems, nutritional imbalances, weaknesses within their own genome etc. Even the AIDS people know, that some medicines cause mitochondrial collapse, and vaccine fevers cause oxidative stress to mitochondria? They know thimerosol and aluminum open up the Blood Brain Barrier?
Whoever thought of the brilliant concoction of neurotoxins, vaccine automimcry viruses, pus, Human Aborted tissue, and the like, should be shot, hung and petrified of what they have caused. I sure would not like to be them at judgement bar, but I would be a willing participant in being a mouse in heavens corner to see "what they get".
I hope this family gets so much money, they can not only help their child, but contribute to the real answers to autism. Think aobut it? What if, those families that are awarded put their monies together to put a study forth of what vaccines REALLY do in an immature immune system? THEN, and only then, will all our answers be satisfied. I hope we distrust the pharma/medical system, as much as we distrust the inside traders and wall street crooks. I put the pharma hidden agenda people in the category of worse than they. Herod is still alive, in the form of self righteous money grubbing pharma SH&* heads. Truly, their brain material does not consist of one form of compassion.
Anonymous Antivaccinationist
Yes, the flu campaign is in full force and they've felt the need to include staph with it to add to the fear soup they're serving. The message is to be afraid of hospitals, and only the flu shot will keep you out of one of course.
I'm still laughing at 'whackosphere'. It's an awfully political, prostituting place isn't it?
Yes, they can file a petition (Writ of Certiorari) but the Supreme Court does not have to hear it. Plus, who knows how many of those justices would have to recuse themselves for conflicts. I'd venture to guess that might be where it's headed though.
Kudos to Anne Dachel for finding these "gems" today, from Dr. Wiznitzer:
"Is there an epidemic? No." said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.
- and -
"Why can't you be a little quirky?" Wiznitzer asked. "Why can't you be a bit different? How come we need to have labels?"
Does anyone know if after the State Supreme Court an appeal for the the US Supreme Court could be filed?
I would think Pharma would love to end up there - no jury and a current membership of pro-business judges.
Just wondering
Carolyn M.
For those who are wondering what the latest scare is Fox, CNN, ABC, and MSNBC all have online stories dated today: "More Children Dying from Combination Flu, Staph Infection" (, "Jump Seen in Staph-Linked Flu Deaths in Kids" (, "Flu Deaths Up Among Children for 2006-2007 Season (, and "Flu Deaths linked to Staph Infections" (
Some quotes: "Public health officials say the numbers underscore the importance of a brand new recommendation that all children, from 6 months through 18 years, get routine flu shots.", also: "Only 6% of the children studied who died had been fully vaccinated against the flu." and flu "puts 20,000 US kids in the hospital each year."
I wonder how effective this will be in scaring people into vaccinating. I also wonder what they will come up with next.
"Instead, it provides “that a vaccine manufacturer cannot be held liable for defective design if it is determined, on a case-by-case basis, that the injurious side effects of the particular vaccine were unavoidable,” the ruling said."
It never ceases to amaze me, this above mentioned logic is what I am talking about. That even if there are injurious side effects from the vaccine, you are shielded from liability because the injuries were unavoidable. Does this hold true for any other consumer product on the market today? That you would deliberately harm a consumer with a product that you are deliberately injecting into them without issuing any kind of warning with regard to your individual susceptibility. Where's the freedom of choice? This is akin to the Dark Ages.
The only silver lining in the above is the acknowledgment that vaccines DO have injurious side effects. Apparently there is a world wherein even the vaccine manufacturers do not buy the "even 100,000 vaccines at once are safe" theory. That particular comment should make it into the annals of the fiascos of the 21st century pro vaccine movement highlighted by the fact that it came close on the heels of Bernadine Healy's CBS interview asking the public health officials to do the job they were clearly lacking in, i.e., recognizing and making allowances for individual susceptibilities.
Good one on Tina Fey....I do think the whackosphere is going to go into panic alert too. It may put a damper on all the cheerleading for their fearless leader's book. Expect some glum yet highly vicious blogs coming our way. This was another "goalpost" that they will not like.
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Pissing off the whackosphere...."priceless".
Teresa I hear Julie Gerberding is working with her PR staff right now.
Tomorrow she will inform the American people Autism is a rare, unusual, disorder.
(Phhhhhheeeeee)That's my party horn blowing!
It will be hilarious to hear what the CDC concocts to counter this.
Let's see Avian Flu pandemics, Terrorism, maybe they could get Tina Fey to do the press release?
In a landmark decision, the state high court unanimously!!!!!
Amazing that pharma is still pushing mercury flu shots after they were told over a decade ago to stop with the mercury!!! Let them argue why a decade after it was bought to their attention they still have not complied with the removal of mercury from vaccines.
I don't mean the states of Indiana and New Jersey but the well known vaccine/pharmaceutical companies that inhabit them ;]
Well, this has got to be the most sane, logical, legal, and humane thing I have seen in ages. I can feel Indiana and New Jersey moving with great haste though to stop this. No comments yet from Dr Profit or CDC? I predict less than 24 hours. Oh, and this comment and many more in the AJC are indicative of the past and present..but not the it is medically and ethically a bullshit propaganda plea.
"If you had lived during the Polio epidemic like I did and like my parents did you would be thankful for vaccines and understand the benefits to the many far out weigh he risks to the few."
Oh, happy, happy day! May they get the money they need to take care of their precious, vaccine-damaged child for the rest of his life, from the actual pharmaceutical company or companies that caused him harm.
Such fantastic news!
May this be the one time renegade judges make history and free our kids from this miscarriage of justice.
Robin Nemeth
LOL at 'Wizzpisser'. I used to call him 'Nitwitzer', but I have to say I think I like Wizzpisser better.
Outstanding! It's about time and it makes me proud to be from Georgia.
Now now, don't call Dr. Max names. He was the "go to" doc when we moved to Cleveland. The diagnosis process at UH was archaic - I'm writing about it elsewhere. The follow up was non-existent. When Mia developed seizures, no one there gave two Shitsflickers (oops!) about her. Even when I laid out (begged for) tests that were routine in other areas of the country. "We're just not that aggressive here" said our neuro from UH. She was a useless woman. MD PhD my ass. She was utterly useless to my child. And non apologetic about it.
I wanted to reach into my television and slap the smile off of Wizzpisser's face when he was interviewed by Larry King after the Savage comments. What the f*ck was he smiling about? Did anyone else see his "odd" behavior that evening?
He was one of the first "experts" I heard speak after my son was diagnosed. It's "experts" like him that prevent/delay parents from searching for real tangible help for their kids. He was supposed to evaluate my son, but we moved and ended up at the U of C with Dr. Leventhal. Which one is worse?
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Update on Dual Response Progress
Dear Neighbors,
There appears to be some concern over the exclusion process in the Vollmer Rd, Black Forest Rd, and Woodmen Rd vicinity. The issue that has arisen is that the original figures provided in the fall of 2017 were not based on any accurate calculations. The previous fire administration assumed the exclusions would create a 9% reduction in revenue or perhaps even as high as a 10% reduction in revenue. Considering Colorado’s growth was around 7% and the District’s growth had been around 6% the recommendation to move forward with the Board of Director’s exclusion proposal was viewed as a minor reduction that would likely be overcome within the span of two years. Therefore, the Board adopted a resolution to work with the city in January 2018 on an exclusion process.
A revenue reduction of any kind is certainly an issue to the safety of both the firefighters and the community. Reductions impact the capabilities and capacities of the department, having a direct correlation on overall operational ability. The perceived risk to the community and to personnel was considered manageable based upon that 9-10% reduction combined with a 6-7% growth rate. However, those figures were not accurate. Therefore, a new perspective and plan was required to achieve both the desired end state of excluding those dual response properties while also managing the risks to the entire community.
A conservative growth rate of 5% within the District would have assisted with offsetting the perceived worst-case revenue loss of 10% and this scenario, while a burden, could be managed and recouped within two years. While working on budget projections for both 2021 and 2022 it was discovered that there was no hard data to indicate where this assumed 9-10% revenue loss number had been drawn from by the previous administration in 2017. It was determined that the total expected loss of revenue is 24%, more than double what the exclusion plan was based on. The growth rate was at 5.5% prior to both the economy faltering and the latest threats of additional annexations. While indications are that our local housing market is still strong, we should expect some slowing down.
Using a growth rate of 5% it would now take nearly 5 years of growth to offset the revenue losses of exclusion. My office believes that timeline to be far too long; thus we embarked upon a mission to develop a plan that was both reasonable and still in alignment with everyone’s desired end state of excluding those parcels from the dual response area. Our goal is to complete those exclusions within three years, assuming 8% losses each year with a growth rate of 5%, this will bring us back to within the manageable risks the original desired plan assumed.
Once we determined that we needed to manage the exclusion process in a more conservative and responsible manner, the next major question was how to determine which third of the overall area would be excluded first, then second and then third? A plan to exclude HOAs was being considered but the HOAs are comprised of subdivision filings of varying ages meaning a plan of excluding the oldest homes first would create a patchwork, creating more confusion. A more reasonable plan needed to be developed and it was during this time that suddenly, three days before a City Council meeting and one week before an election, City Council decided to suddenly change course, contact the District, and seek exclusion, though they had been primarily absent for nearly three years.
Three subdivision filings believed to be older filings at the time, were recommended to the City at that time while additional research was being attempted. Black Forest Fire Rescue did not want to miss the sudden and unexpected opportunity to work with the City in finally getting the process moving forward after 33 months of zero progress but we also would prefer to have 600-700 parcels excluded in 2020, not the mere 392. The BFFR department does not have the resources or staff to engage in sufficient research, especially in such a time compressed manner, to ensure that all the information available was reviewed before the City Council passed a resolution. I intend on advising the Board of Directors that a better plan to exclude would be one that achieves the desired end state of total exclusion in an order moving from the interior of the city to the municipal boundary. In this deliberate manner, fire and medical resources responding into these areas daily would not have jurisdictional uncertainty and confusion.
It is my intention that this letter to the community offer more clarity of the issues and the plans moving forward. Rural fire departments are more resource intensive than municipal departments and yet have far less resources to accomplish the mission. With the laws of physics remaining the same regardless of jurisdiction, it would be reckless and irresponsible to not manage the exclusion process in an orderly, reasonable, and responsible manner.
PJ Langmaid
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What is Social Media Marketing for Small Business?
When answering the question what is social media marketing, the first thing to discuss is “regular” media. Newspapers, radio, television, are all the regular methods for advertising a business. Regular media advertising is often expensive and offers limited ways for your potential customers to give feedback.
Social media differs from regular media since it offers two-way communication between you and your customers; customers who can also help you advertise by reposting, re-tweeting, etc.
The best difference between regular media advertising and social media advertising is social media is free, other than your time, and you can run new campaigns weekly if not daily, rather than one-off expensive campaigns on TV or radio perhaps.
What is Social Media Marketing?
Social media marketing is the process of attracting traffic to your social sites, blog, website and ultimately business, through social media sites.
Different social media sites provide radically different social interactions with your customers. Twitter is designed to let people share short messages, whereas Facebook allows for sharing updates, photos, joining events and a variety of other activities. Pinterest and Instagram are focused on sharing pictures.
Which social media you should use for your business is dictated by your business and industry requirements.
Is Social Media Marketing for Small Business worth it?
If you haven’t used social media to market your products and services, you’re going to love how easy it is to get started, whether it’s worth the effort is debatable.
It’s always worth running a targeted, focused campaign, while analysing statistics regularly to check whether the time you are spending on social media marketing is worth it.
As a start-up or small business owner, traditional marketing can be a drain on funds. Social media marketing, is pretty low-cost and offers small businesses a cost-effective way to reach customers. However, what you save in business funds you can lose in time, as running a social media marketing campaign is time intensive. If you aren’t focused and clever with your social media strategy you will simply end up wasting time better spent elsewhere.
We wrote a post about whether social media marketing is a waste of time earlier so have a read. In the meantime here are some tips on running a successful social media marketing campaign.
Understand Your Customer
You may have multiple types of customer to target at any given point. For example, a plumber may simply want to target customers who want a new bathroom fitting, as well as customers who need an emergency plumber. Of course there are other targets, but for simplicity in the first instance, these two types of customer might be what you want to focus on.
Task: Define the types of customer you want to target.
Based on your defined target audience, what are the key problems or concerns you can address or solve? Using the previous example, a plumber may want to post simple tips on fixing a leaky tap, or how to stop a toilet constantly flushing. He may also want to post tips on how to choose a suitable bath, or how much a standard bathroom should cost to fit, or repost some great online stores for buying bathroom items (forgive my plumbing ignorance, I am a web designer not a plumber, but you get my drift). In both instances you are providing your target customer with helpful resource, thus building trust, and selling your expertise.
Task : Write down three key marketing messages you want to communicate to each customer.
All social media channels are not created equal. Each one has a different type of audience and purpose. It’s important to understand the differences so you expand your efforts on the right channels.
Task: Decide which social media would best communicate the message to your customer.
Make Your Website Social Media Friendly
Your website is your brand’s base. You need to push people to your website where they can buy your product or service. That’s where social media links come into their own. It’s fairly cheap and easy to add social elements to your website to optimise it for social media. You can contact me on 0113 2797731 to help you with this.
Task: Add Social Media links to your homepage, posts and anywhere else relevant to encourage shares.
Your aim is to encourage sharing and interaction on social sites, to build more traffic and interest. Encourage visitors to follow your various social profiles by display social icons prominently on your home page, on posts, and anywhere relevant on your website. Create calls to action by asking your visitors to share the post (on your relevant chosen platforms) if they like it, or find it useful.
You can think about integrating social feeds such as Facebook and Twitter on your website to keep it synchronised and updated, and customers can see your recent social activity even if your website has not been directly updated with a post.
When people come across valuable content, they want to share it with their friends and followers, so encourage that by adding social links to your posts and pages and you can reach a wider related audience as a result.
Newsletter sign-up
It’s great if you have managed to drive a few of your social visitors to your website with great posts on social media, but you want them to keep coming back to your website. An email address of a potential client is like gold dust. You can continue to target that customer with relevant offers and information directly from your website if you manage to get it. Make sure you encourage customers to sign up for a newsletter which contains great offers.
Task: Incorporate a sign up form on your website to encourage visitors to sign up for news and offers.
Start Your Social Media Campaign Small
It’s best to start your campaigns small but manage them well. Social media marketing takes time and energy. I suggest you choose one or two platforms to start with then focus on those platforms and see what kind of return you get. It takes time though, so as a small business don’t expect 15 likes to a post if you only have 15 likes for your whole page on Facebook for example. Think about building your audience every way possible, those interactions with customers will grow once you have an audience on the platforms you have chosen, so work hard to get people liking pages, and social profiles in the first instance.
Your aim is to help your readers, so give them a tip they can use or share information that helps them solve a problem. When you give out relevant information, people come to view you as an expert.
Once you have got a following and are confident with one particular social platform, look to add more relevant platforms to your social marketing campaign.
Make Sure You Listen and Respond
Social listening is an excellent tactic to monitor what people are saying about your brand. BUT make sure you use social media how it’s supposed to be used. It isn’t one way, it’s a tool to communicate directly with your customers, unlike regular media, so make the most of that! Respond to comments, mentions and feedback even if they’re negative. You want to turn that negative into a positive!
Create a Daily Plan
You need to make sure you are not spending hours of your time tweeting and posting for no return. Set a time limit on your social media campaign otherwise you will just spend HOURS browsing on social sites with little return for the time investment. It’s very easy to get drawn into “getting more likes” but that’s where your own monitoring comes into its own. If you have 100 more likes or interactions on social media, but still no more sales, it might be time to reassess your strategy.
Think About Social Advertising
If you want to accelerate your social media performance, it’s worth time to exploring paid advertising options. For example, Facebook offers great advertising solutions. You can target by gender, location, age, etc., getting more likes to your page, but then you need to convert those likes to sales.
Task: Identify the best platform to run a test targeted advertising campaign to see how this can improve social visitors and sales.
Twitter also offer advertising opportunities so check those out if that’s your main platform.
Used strategically with a high focus on demographic, it can produce great results.
Conclusion : What is Social Media marketing for small business?
When using social media, you need to be prepared for a marathon not a sprint. It isn’t a quick marketing solution. Define your audience and choose the best platforms for your business. Do your research, integrate your social media icons and links, to your website and keep track of how things are going. Follow those steps and you shouldn’t go wrong! I hope I have now answered the question but if you need any advice on options for an existing website please give me a call on 0113 279 7731 or use my contact form to get in touch.
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India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Morocco is approximately 446,550 sq km, making Morocco 13.58% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.3 billion people (1.3 billion fewer people live in Morocco).
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Space mission to photograph Apollo landing sites
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Sun 17 Jul 2005 19.01 EDT
US scientists are planning a 240,000-mile trip down memory lane - a tour of inspection of all the Apollo landing sites on the moon.
In 2008 a powerful camera aboard a new spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will photograph the moon's surface in fine detail - fine enough to pick out the Apollo 17 moon buggy abandoned 33 years ago, along with lunar landing platforms and other relics.
The camera will have a resolution of half a metre. So a moon buggy three metres long and two metres wide should show up clearly.
"I would say the rovers will look angular and distinct," said Mark Robinson, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, one of the scientists behind the project. "Even the rover's tracks might be detectable."
Six spacecraft landed on the moon between July 1969 and December 1972, and 12 astronauts walked on the moon. The LRO mission is the first step in a return to the moon - but it should also settle a conspiracy theory that has exasperated Nasa chiefs for 30 years: the claim that the moon landings were faked. Space-based images of human hardware at the landing sites should put paid to that one.
Nostalgia is not the driving force. Researchers will compare images taken in 2008 and those taken by the Apollo teams three decades ago and look for evidence of fresh craters. From these, they could calculate the frequency of meteorite strikes on the moon. The orbiter will also search for craters that might be in permanent shadow - and therefore potential reservoirs of primeval ice that could provide water for a human settlement on the moon.
A second instrument on the LRO will be a high-precision laser altimeter that will map the surface with exquisite precision, pinning the elevation of lunar crater rims and the higher peaks to an accuracy of one metre.
LRO was one of a series of missions that competed for Nasa backing.
"The ones that won out were not the ones that answer big science questions," said Manuel Grande of Britain's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and one of the scientists behind Smart 1, a European mission now orbiting the moon. "They were the ones specifically tailored to putting people on the surface and bringing them back. Everything on that payload is designed to answer questions about a human return, rather than the big science questions about where the moon came from."
The European Space Agency also has long-term plans to land on the moon, but so far only with robots. The Americans see a human base on the moon as a dress rehearsal for a manned mission to Mars. The Europeans hope to solve some of the great puzzles about the moon's formation. Did the Earth and the moon come from the same object? What did the early solar system look like? Was there some cataclysmic event 4bn years ago that paved over the surfaces of the inner solar system? The answers could be locked in the moon's soils. Apollo astronauts returned with huge quantities of rock, but all of it from the flat "seas" of the moon that provided safe landing sites. Soil samples from craters or ridges might tell a different story.
"They are interested in sending people to the moon," Prof Grande said. "All of us are space nuts, so that's great. But it doesn't answer science questions."
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You can write as many lines as you like on the TXT record itself
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Each pot is full of lovely pieces of fruit and the yogurt has an exceptionally creamy texture. Oz has tested and investigated everything from health food fads to medical breakthroughs and today he is ready to reveal the results when he shares The Best and Worse Health Trends of 2013! Then Probiotic food products help in easy digestion of any kind of foods. Our body already has various types of bacteria’s and microorganisms which help in digestion of food in the similar way probiotic foods have cultured bacteria in excess which fasten or make the digestive process easier for the body. Before buying any probiotic food or supplement do take your doctor’s advice and when buying over the shelf do check the composition of the probiotic food. Children who suffer from bad stomach problems all the time can improve their loose motion problem or any other stomach related problems by taking probiotic supplements regularly. Probiotic ice-creams are also available which kids would love to eat without harming their health. Probiotic supplements are available in the form of pills or medicines at the medical stores which can be bought over the counter and prescription is not needed to buy them. Probiotic drinks are also available in the market in very small bottles and contain billions of good digestive bacteria which help in digesting and keep us fit and healthy. We run network of high quality 50+ high niche websites with millions of regular visitors, Please connect with us.
Live cultured yoghurt, especially the ones hand made are an excellent source of probiotics. It states that a good quality dark chocolate has the survival of up to four times the amount of bacteria as those contained in other dairy substances. This product has a very high source of probiotics with at least a 160 bacteria strains present in it.
Although the best way to induce probiotics into your diet is by taking natural foods, these supplements can come in handy when you are left with little or no choice. Aside from publishing a bevy of life improvement guides, Dr Prem runs a network of 50 niche websites that attracts millions of readers across the globe. High fructose corn syrup along with artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners and so forth are all very bad things that you do not want. While all kinds of veggies can be fermented to create healthy and delicious dishes, sauerkraut is the most commonly found in the US. Sauerkraut is a very beneficial food that contains lots of healthy, live probiotic cultures.
It can be made of various ingredients, such as barley, rice, rye or beans that have been fermented. This is a centuries old probiotic drink recipe that is said to assist in weight loss, increase energy and provide a general sense of overall well-being. But these diet yogurts are a real treat and you'd never think they were a 'diet' yogurt at all. And to top it all, these yogurts are among some of the lowest in calories content of all diet yogurts with only 67 calories for each 125g pot.
Some people think that curd already has bacteria to ease digestion so why go for probiotic products, but since probiotic products have cultured bacteria they make digestion process faster for the intestines.
It prevents constipation in adults thus saving them from the risk of developing intestinal tumors or cancer.
However a lot many forms of probiotic foods and supplements are available in the market which you can choose from. You can make healthy smoothies from probiotic curd which is very tasty also and the kids will love to drink them. Studies have shown that health issues like diarrhoea, colon cancer, cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammation etc. Good bacteria like lactobacillus or bifidobacteria present in the yoghurt can help to keep a healthy balance in your gut.
The bacteria present in it like leuconostoc, pediococcus, and lactobacillus aids the digestive process.
This yoghurt-like drink is rich in lactobacilli and bifidus bacteria and helps balance your inner ecosystem. By consuming dark chocolate, you are providing enough probiotics for your body to ensure maximum activity on the intestinal microflora.
Adding a tea spoon of the miso paste to a cup of warm water makes for an excellent source of probiotic food full of the lactobacilli and bifidus bacteria. Thus far, Dr Prem has traveled to more than 40 countries, addressed numerous international conferences and offered his expert training andA consultancy services to more than 150 international organizations. It contains vitamins A,, B, C and E and has been said to be effective in reducing symptoms of allergies.
It also boosts the immunity system of the body by building antibodies to fight various diseases. When buying yoghurt, make sure you look for those made from goats milk as they have a higher content of the friendly bacteria. Other advantages include reducing allergy symptoms, boosting immune systems and a rich source of Vitamins A, B , C, and E.
It also has a few beneficial yeast varieties in them, making it rich in antioxidants, a good source of protein and vitamin B.
The probiotics in chocolate colonises your large intestines thereby enhancing the growth of lactobacillus and bifido bacterias. Tempeh is incubated with the Rhizopus fungus which produces antibiotic characteristics and prevents the occurrence of some harmful bacteria.
The fact that the soup is low in calories, high in Vitamin B and has protective antioxidants, makes it popular in Japanese medical traditions. But check with your doctor before consuming them as they might disturb the immunity if not handled properly. He also owns and leads a web services and technology business, supervised and managed by his eminent team. Probiotic foods are available in the form of dietary supplements and foods, the most common being yoghurt. There are lots of special digestive brands now available in the market, but be cautious of the ones filled with artificial sweeteners and corn syrup.
While choosing sauerkraut, go for the unpasteurized ones because pasteurization kills the active, beneficial bacteria that the product is known for.
Rhizopus present in tempeh can also improve intestinal digestion, make skin healthy and cure pimples, cellulite etc. But with recent developments, a whole new field has been opened as to what all the different types of probiotic foods are. It should also be noted that the low pH and the abundance of the lactobacillus bacteria present may upset the intestines of people who are not used to consuming acidic foods.
But if you opt for purchasing it, then look for the organic versions as they are much more safer to use.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Frugal tip
We bought a used vacuum cleaner a few years ago that can only be described as temperamental at best. But hey, it was cheap.
But whatever the cost of the vacuum, the one thing I won't scrimp on is vacuum cleaner bags. It drives me nuts when a cheap bag suddenly bursts, spewing dust and debris everywhere. So I've been in the habit of buying name-brand bags over the years.
A few months ago, while in a sew/vacuum fix-it store in Coeur d'Alene, I bought some even pricier bags that were "micro-lined." The reason I bought them is they were on sale (otherwise I would have balked at the price regardless of the quality). The dealer assured me they were tough, high-quality bags that wouldn't burst. As he was right, they've been terrific. I bought every bag he had available at the sale price.
Well, I'm down to my last two bags, there's no more sale, AND I have to go all the way into Cd'A to get more. What to do?
Yesterday while vacuuming, the bag became full and the vacuum wouldn't work properly. (Remember, it's a temperamental machine.) So I discarded the full bag and pulled out one of my two last remaining vacuum bags.
That's when I decided to implement a little tip I learned in The Tightwad Gazette (wonderful book, highly recommended).
Before installing the new bag, I teased open one of the sealed ends. It took awhile because I didn't want to tear (and therefore weaken) the paper. But the micro-lining helped, and after about fifteen minutes I had one end of the bag open.
Then I stapled it shut, using ten staples. In theory, this would allow me to remove the staples when the bag is full, empty it, re-staple it, and re-use the bag.
Well, so far it's working beautifully. The stapled end is apparently just as tight as the other glued end, and I finished vacuuming the house without an issue. I should be able to get at least five more uses out of this single bag before it gets so weak I won't be able to stable it any more.
And that's your frugal tip of the day.
1. What a great idea! I might copy this on my blog sometime.
Our vacuum doesn't actually use bags--it has a bagless canister that you empty every time you vacuum. But I might be replacing it sometime, and if the new one uses bags, I would definitely use this tip!
2. Hi Patrice,
I'm the "vacuumer" in our house. For a long time I was doing basically what you described, only I was pulling the debris out through the same hole that it went in. Admittedly, it was a messy job, and was hard on the bag so it had to be replaced every few times.
About a year ago we found one of those super-duper whirlwind type of vacuum cleaners at a yard sale for $2. The gal said it quit working, just wouldn't suck anything up even though she emptied the debris bin. But, hey, I'm "handy" so we invested $2 and decided to see if we could make it work for us.
There were a complicated series of containers to deal with that had several compartments and a foam filter. All these looked good. Then, in a tucked away place I located another filter, a micro-filter, that was all plugged up. I bought a new filter at Home Depot, installed it, and voila, it works perfectly!
I really like this vacuum because there are no bags to deal with. We just dump the contents of the container in the trash. Every few times, I take the containers and filters out to the workshop and blow them out good with my air compressor.
As an aside, we also have an old Rainbow vac. That's the model that uses a reservoir of water to trap the vacuumed debris. I don't like using this one, though, because I don't like dealing with the dirty water afterward.
3. I've done this kind of trick before on other items. When you feel the paper is getting too weak to take another stapling, try using strips of duct tape on the bag before stapling. That oughta get you a few more uses from the bag.
Steve Davis
Anchorage, Alaska
4. I have been doing this for years and it really does work. I only try to get three uses out of a bag though. For some reason, after that, there seems to be more dust blowing out of the vacuum when using it.
5. We have a bagless vacuum that I used to empty into the trash when it got full. Not too long ago it hit me......all that's in there is dirt and dog hair. I now empty it onto the compost pile.
6. Thanks for that tip, I'll have to try it. I'm a big bag reuser...I'm the only one I know who washes out and reuses Ziplock bags. You have to be careful to check them for leaks, though. I mark the bag with a sharpie pen "hole" if it only has a tiny pinhole in it, and reuse it for things that aren't liquid-y or powdery.
Anyone know of anything creative to do with those stupid plastic shopping bags? I've seen people cut them into strips and crochet them into bags, but my crocheting is pitiful.
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Datgan, a reusable software system for facile interrogation and visualization of complex transcription profiling data
We introduce Glaucoma Discovery Platform (GDP), an online environment for facile visualization and interrogation of complex transcription profiling datasets for glaucoma. We also report the availability of Datgan, the suite of scripts that was developed to construct GDP. This reusable software system complements existing repositories such as NCBI GEO or EBI ArrayExpress as it allows the construction of searchable databases to maximize understanding of user-selected transcription profiling datasets.
Datgan scripts were used to construct both the underlying data tables and the web interface that form GDP. GDP is populated using data from a mouse model of glaucoma. The data was generated using the DBA/2J strain, a widely used mouse model of glaucoma. The DBA/2J-Gpnmb+ strain provided a genetically matched control strain that does not develop glaucoma. We separately assessed both the retina and the optic nerve head, important tissues in glaucoma. We used hierarchical clustering to identify early molecular stages of glaucoma that could not be identified using morphological assessment of disease. GDP has two components. First, an interactive search and retrieve component provides the ability to assess gene(s) of interest in all identified stages of disease in both the retina and optic nerve head. The output is returned in graphical and tabular format with statistically significant differences highlighted for easy visual analysis. Second, a bulk download component allows lists of differentially expressed genes to be retrieved as a series of files compatible with Excel. To facilitate access to additional information available for genes of interest, GDP is linked to selected external resources including Mouse Genome Informatics and Online Medelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM).
Datgan-constructed databases allow user-friendly access to datasets that involve temporally ordered stages of disease or developmental stages. Datgan and GDP are available from
Transcription profiling is a powerful tool for understanding biological process and the role they play in the pathogenesis of disease. For complex diseases, it is necessary to assess many different samples, resulting in very large amounts of data that are cumbersome to analyze and understand. Specific analyses often require significant computing power, time and analytical expertise. These needs hinder detailed interrogation of deposited datasets by many members of the scientific community. Transcription profiling datasets are deposited in central databases such as Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) [1] and ArrayExpress at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) [2]. GEO and ArrayExpress are designed to efficiently store large data sets and to provide mechanisms that allow the scientific community to query, locate, review and download experiments of interest. Although useful, we have found that these platforms are not ideal for optimal interrogation of large and complex datasets. We became aware of the need for a more optimized and facile environment for analyzing complex datasets when studying glaucoma, a complex and asynchronous neurodegenerative disease. Our datasets consists of multiple, temporally ordered stages of disease and existing datasets do not allow simultaneous searching and retrieving of differentially expressed genes in multiple stages of disease compared to a no-disease control.
To meet this need, we developed Glaucoma Discovery Platform (GDP), an online environment to visualize and interrogate large and complex expression datasets in a user-friendly manner. GDP allows simultaneous querying of multiple genes, viewing results across multiple datasets and assessing expression differences for multiple probe sets for each gene. To our knowledge, no other resource is available that provides this combination of user-friendly functionality provided by GDP. We deployed GDP to derive maximum benefit from an extensive transcription profiling study of glaucoma. The study focused on identifying early molecular stages that occur prior to significant damage (described in more detail below and [3]). More than 100 different samples from at least 50 mice were profiled and 70 pairwise group comparisons were made. GDP utilizes a web-based user interface to access the underlying gene expression profiling data, which is organized on a MySQL database server. GDP has greatly facilitated our understanding of these glaucoma data. Its user-friendly interface provides easy and instant data interrogation without a need for specialized knowledge or training. It thereby allows general access to our glaucoma datasets and is freely available for the benefit of the wider scientific community.
We also report the availability of Datgan (Welsh, meaning 'to express'), the suite of scripts that was used to construct both the underlying data tables and the web interface that form GDP. Datgan was written in the python language. It is packaged as a reusable software system for constructing and populating discovery platforms to visualize user-determined sets of transcription profiling data. Datgan is organized to allow biologists with some experience running scripts (or a systems administrator) to establish their own personalized discovery platforms and can be readily adapted to incorporate transcription profiling data generated using RNA-seq.
Construction and content
Populating GDP with profiling data for glaucoma
Glaucoma is a complex, neurodegenerative disorder affecting 70 million people worldwide and is associated with the death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and the associated degeneration of the optic nerve [4]. DBA/2J is a widely used mouse model of glaucoma that shows hallmarks of human glaucoma including age-related IOP elevation, optic nerve excavation and regional patterns of RGC loss [510]. DBA/2J mice develop glaucoma as a result of a disease of the iris that leads to an elevation in IOP. The disease of the iris is caused by mutations in two genes, GpnmbR150X and Tyrp1b [5, 6]. DBA/2J-Gpnmb+ mice have a functioning Gpnmb gene and serve as a genetically matched control strain that does not develop glaucoma [11]. An important insult occurs to RGC axons at the optic nerve head in DBA/2J glaucoma [7]. However, other compartments of the RGC also are likely to undergo early changes in glaucoma such as the RGC soma [12] and synapses [13]. The mechanisms involved in these early changes are not well understood.
The gene expression profiling study that is included in GDP, investigated early changes in both the optic nerve head and retina for individual eyes from DBA/2J mice (described in detail elsewhere, [3]). Briefly, the optic nerve head and retina for each eye were separately profiled using Mouse 430 v2 arrays (Affymetrix). 50 DBA/2J eyes and 10 DBA/2J-Gpnmb+ control eyes were studied. All data were processed and analyzed using MAANOVA [14]. DBA/2J eyes were initially grouped based on conventional morphological criteria including degree of optic nerve damage (dataset 1: four groups, Figure 1A). However, comparisons of these groups were not sensitive at identifying disease changes that precede morphological damage. Therefore, hierarchical clustering, a method widely used in cancer biology, [7, 11, 15] was used to group eyes undergoing early stages of disease and allowed much more sensitive detection of early disease changes. Eyes were clustered into different stages using both the expression profiles for the optic nerve head (dataset 2: five stages, Figure 1B) and the retina (dataset 3: four stages, Figure 1C). To identify differentially expressed genes for all three datasets, all possible pairwise comparisons were performed. In total, more than 70 different pairwise comparisons were made and many thousands of differentially expressed genes identified. All raw data has been deposited in NCBI GEO (Accession number: GSE26299).
Figure 1
Datasets available in the first release of GDP. Each of the three datasets follows a progression through glaucoma. Both optic nerve head and retinal expression data are represented within each dataset [3]. (a) Morphological dataset. Glaucoma developing DBA/2J samples (white boxes) and strain-matched D2-Gpnmb+ no glaucoma control samples (grey box). Stages of glaucoma were determined morphologically by assessing optic nerve damage just behind the orbit (see Methods and [11, 15, 34]). (b) Molecular ONH dataset. Hierarchical clustering using the expression levels of a set of glaucoma specific genes grouped the optic nerve heads into 5 molecularly defined stages. Stages 1, 2 and 3 represent early states of glaucoma, which precede morphologically detectable glaucoma and so were not previously distinguishable using conventional analyses. Stages 4 and 5 contain eyes with moderate and severe optic nerve damage respectively. (c) Molecular retina dataset. A similar hierarchical clustering was performed using the retinal expression data. Four stages of disease were identified with stages R1 and R2 not previously detectable using morphological analysis. Stages R3 and R4 contain eyes with moderate and severe optic nerve damage respectively. Optic nerve heads and retinas were assessed from the same set of eyes.
Building GDP using Datgan scripts
GDP is constructed as a series of interconnected data tables (Figure 2). Data was loaded in four phases using the first major component of Datgan: First, raw normalized expression values (generated using R/Maanova) were loaded for each probe set for each sample. Second, analyzed data was loaded, including relative fold change and q value, from all pairwise comparisons for all 3 datasets (Morphological, Molecular ONH and Molecular retina). Third, using a previously constructed design file, relationships between the raw data for each sample and the sample groups were established. Finally, gene annotations to the probe sets were loaded from the Mouse Genome Database [16] using public reports available from the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) ftp site This provides the ability not only to search by gene symbols, but also by their synonyms/aliases.
Figure 2
Schematic of database architecture. The diagram describes the database schema behind GDP. For convenience, it is organized into four major areas (color coded), (A) Datasets, samples and raw data (green), (B) statistics and annotations (orange), (C) convenience or lookup tables (red) and (D) data imported from MGI (green). Tables are populated in four steps. First, raw normalized intensity values (table name: raw data), samples and probes are added. Second, the analyzed data (statistics, comparisons) and groupings (describing the datasets such as molecular ONH and tissue ONH) are loaded. Third, a previously generated design file allows the associations between samples and groups to be established (sampletogroups). Finally, MGI annotations (all symbols, synonyms, markers, human_orthologs and probeset_to_mgid) are loaded and the convenience look up tables (probecounts, representativeprobes and ave_qvalue) established. Within each table, required columns are indicated. VARCHAR indicates a string is required, and the number in brackets indicates the number of characters allowed in that string. Lines indicated connections between tables.
The web interface is implemented using the Ruby on Rails web application framework in combination with the second major component of Datgan, a series of custom and public Javascript libraries. The interface leverages AJAX technology (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to allow dynamic regeneration of plots in the same page view, while maintaining the main query panel. The database application infrastructure was implemented in a generic manner, allowing for its reuse for other profiling datasets, and to make it easier to load additional experimental results into GDP. The web-based interactive search and retrieve component provides the ability to assess multiple gene(s) of interest in temporally and/or spatially defined developmental or disease stages. The output is returned in graphical and tabular format with statistically significant differences highlighted for easy visual analysis. Data for all probe sets for a given gene can be accessed as well as all data for individual samples within groups. Additionally, a bulk download component allows lists of differentially expressed genes to be retrieved as a series of tab delimited files. To facilitate access to additional functional information for a given gene, links are provided to external resources.
Visualizing and interrogating profiling data with GDP
The web-based interface is divided into 4 main sections; (a) homepage/new search, (b) results, (c) probe set details and (d) expression values (Figure 3). A number of links are provided to selected external resources such as Mouse Genome Informatics [17], EntrezGene and the Online Medelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) databases [18] and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) [19] that allows users to access genetic, phenotypic and functional information for genes of interest (see External links below). The platform is also well supported by help pages.
Figure 3
Schema and Main functions within GDP. (a) The home page contains direct links to users' quick guide, the detailed search tool, bulk downloads and a quick search that interrogates all datasets for a single gene of interest. The detailed search tool enables individual genes, groups of genes or wild card searches (*). The bulk download option enables all differentially expressed genes for pairwise comparisons to be retrieved. (b) The gene results page provides both a tabular and graphical view of the expression levels for the searched genes in the different groups for each dataset selected. Access to gene information from external databases is provided (c) As multiple probe sets exist for many genes on the Affymetrix 430v2 array, the probe set page details the results for each probe for a chosen gene(s). (d) The normalized expression values for individual eyes in each group can be accessed.
Home page/new search (Figure 3a)
The home page provides an overview of the database and permanent headers for convenient links to the bulk download page and the detailed users quick guide. The bulk downloads page allows all differentially expressed genes and associated information for individual comparisons to be downloaded in excel-friendly format. The quick search feature allows a single gene to be searched in all datasets. Information on downloading Datgan is also provided.
There are a variety of different ways to interrogate the data using the detailed search tool. Firstly, if a user has a set of genes that they are interested in assessing, the official gene symbols (or MGI-recognized aliases) can be entered or pasted into the appropriate text box (Figure 4). Alternatively, there is a wild card (*) capability where, for instance, the results for all members of the tumor necrosis (Tnf) superfamily can be retrieved by searching for "Tnf*" (described in detail below and Figure 4). By default, datasets and tissues "Molecular ONH: tissue ONH" and "Molecular retina: tissue retina" are selected as these are the most sensitive at identifying differentially expressed genes in the optic nerve head and retina respectively. However, the user is also able to select the dataset(s) of interest (see Figure 1), the tissue(s) of interest (optic nerve head or retina) and the reference group (e.g. the D2-Gpnmb+ control group). Including additional datasets and tissues does slow the search time. It is possible to restrict the results by fold change and/or significance value (q value). The user can select whether the results are ordered by significance (lowest average q value across all groups) or by gene symbol (alphanumeric). The q value is a measure of the false detection rate and gives an indication of the significance of the fold change. It is a standard statistic for microarray analyses [20]. The lower the q value, the more significant a fold change is considered to be. In our study, genes are considered differentially expressed, with respect to the reference, if the q value is less than 0.05 (roughly equivalent to a false detection rate of 5%). Finally, fold changes can be reported as either relative fold change (compared to reference), or as log2 fold change (compared to reference).
Figure 4
A detailed search for members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily. From the search tools box on the home page, 'tnf*' was entered into the 'Wild card Gene Symbol' search box. The search is not case sensitive. Both the 'molecular ONH' dataset (tissue 'ONH') and molecular retina (tissue 'retina') were selected. No limits were set for fold change or q value and the results are to be returned as fold change (FC).
The results summary page (Figure 3b)
Results are returned in both graphical and tabular format. Any gene names that were not recognized from the search page are listed and links to MGI are given (for clarification of official gene symbols). A 'summary of results' table is shown indicating the number of genes found for each dataset/tissue selected on the search page. Below the summary of results are separate tables and associated graphs for each dataset/tissue searched. Each table contains the gene names searched, the official gene symbol (or description), the representative probe set, and the fold change with associated q value for each stage of glaucoma, compared to the chosen reference group. For ease of identification, significantly differentially expressed values are shown in white on a red background. Genes are ranked in the table based on the chosen option in the detailed search tool (q value or gene symbol). The graph provides a visual display of the fold changes across all stages of disease for the genes of interest, up to a maximum of ten. For searches containing more than 10 genes, the first 10 genes in the table are displayed in the graph. Check boxes are available to the left of each gene to allow the user to select up to 10 genes of choice to view in the graph. Results from the table can be exported as comma separated values (csv, Excel-friendly format). Links to useful publicly available databases are also provided (see External resources below).
Probe set details page (Figure 3c)
Each gene on the Affymetrix 430 v2 array is interrogated by a probe set of eleven 25 mer probes and a gene can have multiple probe sets [21]. Each probe set corresponds to a particular region of a gene and finding that multiple probes sets for the same gene behave similarly can add confidence to a result. Alternatively, for those probe sets corresponding to alternatively spliced exons/transcripts, multiple probe sets can give insight into the behavior of splice variants [22]. Unfortunately, some probe sets were designed to early versions of gene sequences (prior to accurate genome sequence). This results in some probes in a probe set not being identical to the gene sequence. These probe sets will not accurately reflect the level of transcript for these genes. For each probe set, a link is provided to the Ensembl website where mapping information for each probe set is provided. The values for the representative probe set for each gene is displayed in the results summary page. It is possible to view details for all probe sets for a given gene, to view probe sets for selected genes or for all genes in the table. The probe set detail page provides a table/graph for each gene.
Expression values page (Figure 3d)
Values provided in the summary pages are relative fold changes or log2 fold changes compared to a selected reference. Each stage of disease contains biological replicates, and the fold change for a given probe set (for a given gene) is calculated as the average of the normalized expression value of all replicates for a defined stage of disease, relative to the reference group. The normalized expression value reflects the relative abundance of the gene in the tissue interrogated (either retina or optic nerve head) with respect to all other genes. Those transcripts with the highest normalized expression value are most abundant. Conversely, those with the lowest normalized expression value are less abundant. An expression level of approximately 4 or less may be considered to represent a gene that is likely not expressed in the assessed tissue (i.e. is close to background levels).
The relative abundance of transcripts corresponding to particular probe sets is important information. For instance, a small fold change in some lowly expressed gene may have greater biological importance than a small fold change in some abundant gene. Knowing the variability in expression levels for different genes in individual eyes within groups also is important. Within any stage of disease (determined either morphologically or molecularly), transcripts within individual biological replicates may behave differently. Genes with low variability within groups may be better targets for intervention strategies than variable genes. The expression values corresponding to each probe set for individual samples (replicates) can be accessed from the probe details page. The expression levels are displayed as a histogram. The average (± 1 standard deviation) for the reference group is indicated.
External Resources
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Table 1 Summary of external resources accessed directly from GDP
In this section, we describe the workflow for extracting the data relevant to members of the TNF superfamily. This serves both to reinforce key features of the database described above and as an example that could be followed to interrogate any gene (or group of genes) of interest.
Assessing members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily
TNF (formerly TNFα) has been suggested to be important in retinal ganglion cell loss during glaucoma [24, 25]. Therefore, we assessed all members of the TNF superfamily in both the molecular ONH dataset (Figure 2B, most sensitive dataset of early disease changes in the optic nerve head), and the molecular retina dataset (Figure 2C, most sensitive dataset of early disease changes in the retina).
Step 1: Performing detailed search (Figure 4)
First, we determined the best search option. In this case, a wild card search using 'TNF*' will retrieve all TNF superfamily members as no a priori knowledge about which genes are present in the TNF superfamily is required. Second, we selected the datasets and tissues of interest - molecular ONH dataset, tissue 'ONH' and molecular retina dataset, tissue 'retina'. Finally, we selected the reference group; in this case, D2-Gpnmb+ control eyes. In this example, we did not limit our search based on fold change or q value, and chose the default options for the layout of the results page (display expression differences as fold change rather than log2 of fold change, and ordered genes based on significance of gene expression differences (q value) rather than gene symbol).
Step 2: Visualizing the results (Figure 5)
The results were returned below the original search box, allowing straightforward modification of search options if necessary. First, the summary table indicates that 50 genes met the criteria of the search for both the molecular ONH and molecular retina datasets (Figure 5A). These 50 genes have 'TNF' in either their official gene symbol or in any MGI-approved alias(es). Below the summary of results table, detailed results for each dataset are displayed. In this example, we assess the results for the molecular ONH dataset, tissue ONH. First, the top 10 most significant genes are visualized in the graph (Figure 5B). The results for all 50 genes are shown in the table, the top 10 most significant of which are shown in Figure 5C. Of the 50 genes, 34 are differentially expressed in at least one stage in the molecular ONH dataset. To download all expression data in the table, use the 'Download as comma separated values (CSV)' option below the table. Expression values (and associated q values) for the 50 genes across all stages of disease are exported in excel-friendly format (Table 2).
Figure 5
Results of the wild card search TNF*. (a) The summary of the results indicates the number of genes identified in each of the tissues and datasets searched. (b-c) Result details are returned in graphical (b) and tabular format (c). For the molecular ONH dataset, the relative fold change (with respect to the chosen reference) and the q value for the representative probe set for each gene is provided. The representative probe set for each gene is determined as the probe set with the lowest average q value across all groups. The ten most significant differentially expressed genes in the TNF superfamily are shown. Links are provided for each gene to selected external resources. These are MGI - by clicking on the gene symbol (black arrow), Ensembl (by clicking the representative probe ID, blue arrow) EntrezGene, OMIM, GO and KEGG (database (DB) links, far left). Details of all probe sets for a given gene can be accessed (green arrow).
Table 2 All 'Tnf'-related genes in the molecular optic nerve head dataset
Step 3: Interpreting the results (Figure 6)
Tnf shows only a modest increase in expression in stage 4 (1.2 fold, q value = 0.0413) in the molecular ONH dataset. The five most significant genes are Tnf, alpha-induced protein 8-like 2 (Tnfaip8l2), Tnf superfamily receptor 1a (Tnfrsf1a, formerly Tnfr1) and 1b (Tnfrsf1b, formerly Tnfr2), Tnf alpha-induced protein 2 (Tnfaip2) and Tnf superfamily member 9 (Tnfrsf9) (Figure 5C, Table 2). Tnfrsf9 has the highest fold change of all TNF-related genes in the molecular ONH dataset, with a 2.9 fold expression difference compared to D2-Gpnmb+ controls in stage 3. Of direct relevance to DBA/2J glaucoma, Tnfrsf9 is involved in the proliferation of monocytes that are precursors of microglia and macrophages [2628]. This information was retrieved from either OMIM or Entrez Gene. Microglia/macrophages have been shown to increase in the optic nerve head and retina early in glaucoma [3, 29].
As described above, many genes are represented by multiple probe sets on the Affymetrix 430 v2 array. Tnfrsf9 is represented on the array by three probe sets (1460469_at, 1428034_a_at and 1421481_at) with '1460469_at' being shown in the results table as the most significant probe set of the three. Given the importance of all probe sets, full information can be accessed through the probe set details page (Figure 3C and 6). Only 1460469_at is differentially expressed in the molecular ONH dataset, tissue ONH, the other two probe sets show no significant difference compared to the D2-Gpnmb+ control group (Figure 6A). To view the normalized expression levels of the probe sets in the optic nerve head it is necessary to access the expression values page (Figure 6B). The normalized raw intensity values for individual eyes for the DE probe set 1460469_at range between 4 (considered background) and 7. The raw normalized values for the other non-DE probe sets do not increase significantly above background.
Figure 6
Analyzing multiple probe sets for Tnfrsf9 suggests that only the major transcript is expressed in the optic nerve head. (a) The table from the probe set details page for the Tnfrsf9 gene (a graphical view is also available - not shown). Three probe sets are available for this gene. Only one probe set, 1460469_at, is differentially expressed in the optic nerve head. The remaining two probes show no difference with respect to D2-Gpnmb+ control group. (b) The normalized expression values (intensity values) for the 1460469_at probe set for the molecular ONH stages. This graph shows the variability of Tnfrsf9 expression in individual eyes. The normalized raw intensity values range from between 4 and 7. The average of the reference group is shown (purple line) along with one standard deviation above and below the average (grayed area). (c) Detailed mapping data for all probes within a probe set can be accessed in Ensembl by clicking on the probe set name in the results table (black arrow, a). For each probe set, the genomic location of each of the eleven 25 mer probes that make up a probe set and any mismatches are reported. For 146049_at, all probes match genomic intervals within the Tnfrsf9 gene. This is not the case for 1421481_at or 1428034_a_at (data not shown).
The differing expression levels for the three Tnfrsf9 probe sets may result from detection of alternative splice forms by the different probe sets or from errors in the original probe set designs. The apparent differences in expression levels between Tnfrsf9 probe sets are likely due to probe sequence errors. Detailed data for all probes within each probe set is available in Ensembl and can be accessed directly from GDP. Only for probe set 1460469_at do all eleven probes match identically within the Tnfrsf9 gene (Figure 6c). Ensembl does not report an alignment for any probes in the 1421481_at probe set. For the remaining probe set, 1428034_a_at, three of the eleven probes have mismatches, and another three probes include intronic sequences that would not be included in the messenger RNA. This explains a lack of expression for this probe set as an average of the expression level of all probes is taken. Given this detailed probe information, it is clear that the expression level of Tnfrsf9 is only truly represented by the 1460469_at probe set.
In summary, using GDP, we have readily performed a detailed search of all TNF superfamily members and readily identified all genes that change significantly compared to controls in two out of three different datasets. In particular, the expression of Tnfrsf9 increases in the optic nerve head at very early stages of glaucoma and may be related to an accumulation of microglia. These results are of great interest to the glaucoma community and are immediately and freely available. They highlight major advantages of accessing these gene expression datasets through GDP, and the utility of Datgan for providing similar environments for many other datasets.
Here, we describe GDP, constructed using the reusable software system Datgan, for visualizing and interrogating complex gene expression profiling data. Datgan is freely available for download (via and can be used to construct platforms for viewing and interrogating any set of microarray or RNA-seq based transcription profiling datasets. Datgan will be particularly useful for complex diseases that have variable onset and progression. As exemplified by GDP, platforms developed using Datgan allow general access and improved understanding of complex datasets.
Use of GDP is proving very important for understanding our glaucoma datasets. For publication in most journals, all profiling datasets are required to be deposited in either GEO (NCBI) or ArrayExpress (EBI). All data and associated files for our study were deposited in NCBI GEO (Accession number GSE26299). Data deposition in these archives is necessary to ensure access to all the raw data for interested parties. However, these archives were not designed to allow detailed interrogation of multiple genes or biological pathways across multiple datasets. GDP includes this functionality and massively facilitates interrogation of our glaucoma datasets by us, and the scientific community, ultimately allowing the most benefit to be derived from the data. Other gene expression profiling studies relevant to glaucoma, which have been or will be carried out, also could be incorporated into GDP. Many investigators, irrespective of computational expertise, can perform detailed 'on the fly' searches quickly and easily.
Datgan is specifically designed to allow additional datasets to be easily incorporated after the initial online environment has been constructed. For glaucoma, other gene expression profiling studies have been carried out that could be included into GDP. These include studies that have profiled additional animal models of glaucoma [3032]. In addition, comparing cell- and tissue- specific transcription profiling studies (e.g [33]) in non-diseased settings would enable hypotheses to be made about which cells are changing early in glaucoma. Finally, useful predictions could be made by comparing studies that have profiled other relevant diseases such as other neurodegenerative disorders or diseases affecting retinal ganglion cells.
Datgan is a powerful software package for developing user-friendly platforms to visualize transcription profiling data. Implemented as GDP, it is already proving an essential tool for interrogating the molecular pathogenesis of glaucoma.
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The database can be accessed via Web browsers: Tested on the major web browsers including the latest versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome. It has also been tested on smart phones and tablet computers. Operating system(s): Tested on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 & OpenSUSE 11.0, and should work on other versions of Linux and Mac OSX. Tools required to establish Datgan-derived databases include: Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.3.5, Python 2.6, Percona-Server-5.5.13 (should work with most MySQL), apache2, Mongrel Web Server 1.1.5. Source code details can be obtained from the Datgan tab at the top of the home page.
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We acknowledge the Scientific Services at The Jackson Laboratory, particularly Tim Stearns of Computational Sciences who performed the computational comparisons of the datasets uploaded to GDP. This work was funded in part by American Health Assistance Foundation (GRH), Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRH), EY018606 (RTL), Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award (RTL), EY011721 (SWMJ), The Barbara and Joseph Cohen Foundation, and The Partridge Foundation. SWMJ is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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As the prices of pharmaceutical drugs continue to rise, people are looking for alternative and non-conventional ways to treat their injuries and illnesses. Backed by modern science, people are again starting to accept and embrace herbal medicine as a lifestyle to develop and maintain a healthier living. It is evident that chemical compounds found in these plants treat many ailments and that experiments have concluded the many positive effects of herbal medicines. Some people are even taking medicinal herbs as a precaution to illnesses for a more preventive action towards overall healthcare.
Cited below are some advantages and disadvantages of choosing medicinal herbs as an alternative therapy over pharmaceutical drugs.
Advantages of herbal medicine:
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1. Availability is not a problem as most medicinal plants can be grown in the comfort of our own homes.
2. Herbal medicines are more often cheaper than medications made by large pharmaceutical companies due to more inexpensive raw materials and lesser-known brand names.
3. There is lesser risk of developing harmful side effects for the patients due to organic compounds found naturally in plants which can be more tolerable to the human body especially with more extended use.
4. Modern science has tested and verified the effectiveness of most medicinal plants as an alternative treatment for a wide range of medical conditions.
5. Herbal medicines are all-natural unless mixed with other chemical substances.
Disadvantages of herbal medicine:
1. Lack of proper medicinal herb knowledge may lead to inappropriate use of plants for wrong medical conditions. Risk of side-effects and overdosing can happen which may lead to more harm than cure.
2. Medicinal herbs are not often prescribed by conventional doctors, thus, making its regulation not as tight as pharmaceutical drugs.
3. Not all medicinal plants have been thoroughly studied and outcomes and side effects are still currently unknown.
4. Herbal medicines can only cure ailments which are non-lethal and non-fatal.
5. Herbal medicines may take a longer time to take effect as compared to pharmaceutical drugs.
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Some psychiatrists may choose to use herbal medicine as a treatment for some mental conditions, but like all other medications, no substances are void of disadvantages when it comes to altering the chemical composition of our bodies. For some people, it is only a matter of what and what doesn’t work. They use medications that are effective in curing their medical conditions which is still the most practical in terms of medical therapies.
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Symptoms of High Blood Pressure
AnnA Rushton
Why is high blood pressure so concerning? Because it’s putting stress your heart and your arteries, even if you don’t feel any different.
Effects of high blood pressure
That added stress on your heart can raise your chances for a heart attack or stroke.
Over time, problems in your arteries could cut back on blood flow. And since all of the tissues and organs in your body need blood to work well, that means things like your brain, your kidneys, your eyesight, and your sex life can be affected, too.
By living with healthy habits and taking medication to get or keep your blood pressure down if necessary, you may prevent long-term problems.
It all starts with your arteries. Normally, the vessels that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body have a smooth inner lining. They’re strong and flexible enough to push blood through your body.
High blood pressure changes that. The extra force of the blood can damage the cells on the inside walls of your arteries.
If the pressure doesn’t let up, it can cause tears in the lining so it’s not smooth anymore. That’s where fatty bits, called plaque, get caught and build up.
Blood can’t move as well around these clogs, which can even block arteries. These deposits can also make the walls stiff so it’s harder to move the blood.
This damage can make the artery wall stretch and bulge out like a balloon. The bump is called an aneurysm. It can break open and bleed.
Your heart is a muscle, and it needs blood, too. When its supply lines can’t deliver enough, you could have:
Irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), chest pain (angina) or a heart attack
To push blood through stiff or clogged arteries, your heart has to work harder. An overworked heart can become larger than normal.
Then the walls of the heart muscle lose strength and can’t pump blood well. This could lead to a heart attack or heart failure. The chances are greater if you already have heart problems.
High blood pressure is a leading cause of stroke. When an artery in your brain tears, leaks, or gets clogged, it can stop blood from getting to brain cells.
Depending on what part of your brain loses blood and what it does, you could have problems with language, vision, movement, or anything else your brain controls.
It could be temporary if the blood flow is restored, or the damage may be permanent if the cells die.
A lessened blood supply to the brain can also keep you from thinking clearly and remembering. It can cause a condition called vascular dementia.
Warning signs
• Severe headache
• Fatigue or confusion
• Vision problems
• Chest pain
• Difficulty breathing
• Irregular heartbeat
• Blood in the urine
• Pounding in your chest, neck, or ears
Helpful information:
An increase in blood pressure is common at menopause, often related to weight gain, stress and anxiety.
Progesterone is the hormone that can keep your heart healthy and reduce oestrogen-related weight.
Good levels are needed to reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke and these articles can be helpful too.
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Does resting time between the sets matters?
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Resting time between sets is person specific. It can vary for individuals, the objective of rest period is to help you recover both physically and mentally for your next set of workout.
You can take 2min or even 5min or more if you feel it's essential for your recovery. Your gains won't be impacted. The major contributor for your gains is the total volume of your workout. So, if you feel you need more time then go ahead. In general compound lifts like Squats and Deadlifts are more fatiguing, it's good to take more rest for them and less rest for isolation workouts like bicep or tricep curls. Reference: 1. Belmiro Freitas de Salles 1, Roberto Simão, Fabrício Miranda, Jefferson da Silva Novaes, Adriana Lemos, Jeffrey M Willardson. Rest interval between sets in strength training. Sports Med. 2009;39(9):765-77. doi: 10.2165/11315230-000000000-00000. 2. Brad J Schoenfeld 1, Zachary K Pope, Franklin M Benik, Garrett M Hester, John Sellers, Josh L Nooner, Jessica A Schnaiter, Katherine E Bond-Williams, Adrian S Carter, Corbin L Ross, Brandon L Just, Menno Henselmans, James W Krieger. Longer Interset Rest Periods Enhance Muscle Strength and Hypertrophy in Resistance-Trained Men. J Strength Cond Res. 2016 Jul;30(7):1805-12. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000001272.
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Big Boss11 On Colors TV – The rules and regulations and some interesting facts
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Big Boss11 On Colors TV
Big Boss11 On Colors TV
The newly launching reality show big boss 11 is expected to telecast during start of october , this is the sixth season pf the program. The new spring hosts by the evergreen salman khan as like in the previous seasons, the new bigg boss show season is very special for the viewers because this is including both celebrities and common man, there is no confirmation about exact list of contestants, the program is telecasting without editing it only shows the real things happening in the house.
big boss contestants not have the contact with the outer world, equality is the highlight of the show because every one treated in same manner even though some of them celebrities. there are some rules and regulations for the house mates and anyone of them not allow to violate this rules not in any circumstances.
Some important rules are the following
1) contestants not bring holy books inside the house.
2)The bigg boss contestants must reveal if they have any criminal background.
3) It is not allowed any of them disregarding from the show before the completion it will only allowed through elimination other wise the housemates still stay the big boss house, the contestants always the part of the program before they eliminated, they cannot leave from the house even they wish to back .
4) contestants given weekly payment according to the days lived in the house it will depend upon the days they lived.
5) Groupism not allowed in the show.
6) physical violence not allowed in show at any cases.
7) The contestants sign in the channel contract if the shooting extend to more than 100 days
8) There is not possibilities of editing the program.
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The above mentioned rules are must obey by the contestants if they violate he faces the penalty by the channel.contestants is caring about their behavior always they are in the house
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Greenspan's Body Count: Wayne and Herminia Zickefoose
This shocking tale comes from Anaheim, California where two young boys survived attempted murder by their father.
The story is unbelievably horrible:
A wounded 3-year-old boy was found hiding outside his family's Southern California home, and his 5-year-old brother was found unhurt inside, 12 hours after their parents were fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Monday.
"This is a horrific scene," he said.
The 3-year-old had been shot three times in the shoulder, stomach and chest. He was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center, where he underwent surgery and was in critical condition, Schmidt said.
While police are not releasing the victims' names, the owners of the house at 541 North Fairhaven Street were identified as Wayne and Herminia Zickefoose...
who bought the home in 2001 with help from a loan backed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The couple borrowed against the house five times during the following six years, but paid off most of those loans, record show.
Most recently, the couple borrowed $462,000 from Countrywide Home Loans in January 2007, records show. They began missing mortgage payments on that loan in February 2009. They owed nearly $14,000 in back payments by May 2009, when the bank warned them it would foreclose if they didn't make their payments, records show.
The bank sent another notice in March of this year, saying the home "may be sold at a public sale" on April 1. At the time, interest and other charges added to the main loan had pushed the Zickefooses' debt on the mortgage to $491,960.18, records show.
Civil court records also show that a woman identified in one case as Hermie G. Zickefoose and in another as Herminia Zickefoose had amassed, since November 2004, more than $26,000 in debt on four credit cards issued by Chase Bank USA.
They bought the place in 2001 for a somewhat reasonable $232,000. But thanks to Greenspan's easy money bubble, they were given enough rope to hang themselves. They ended up sucking out all the equity and then some, up to almost a half million dollars in debt in a modest, working-class neighborhood.
Various online references to Wayne Zickefoose state that he's a USC MBA, owner of Trojan Auto Service in Buena Park, a "theta healing practitioner," and an amateur investment writer. And while he swore off the stock market in 2008, it sounds like he got involved with something more leveraged and dangerous: "land banking."
Greenspan's Body Count stands at 139.
Wayne Zickefoose
Herminia Zickefoose
Thomas S. Piazza
Troy Fogel
Michele Fogel
Cynthia Dunn Cannon
Jocelyn Earnest
Lynda Clark
Gregory Bellows
Sallie Gist
Rayshawn Reed
Byron Reed Sr.
Byron Reed Jr.
Elisha Gist
Elijah Gist
Tiera Davidson
Christopher Oetting
Neal Jacobson
Franki Jacobson
Eric Jacobson
Joshua Jacobson
Vincenza Garcia
Bill Sparkman
Debra K. Gibbs
Otis Beckford
Carol Kennedy
Diane Ward
Edith Moreno
Diana Moreno
Scott Peters
Tom Blackmore
Kevin Daniel O'Connell
Julie Fay
Wallis Fay
Siu Fong Ng
Ernest Scherer Jr.
Charlene Abendroth
J.D. Wood
Cynthia Wood
Aubrey Wood
Dillon Wood
Betty J. Lipply
Dwight Deely
Linda Patrick
David Kellerman
Christopher Wood
Francie Billotti-Wood
Chandler Wood
Gavin Wood
Fiona Wood
Gil Weber
Gregory Graham
Randolph Graham
David Kelley
Ramona woman
Del Mar man
Wayne "Mike" Anderson
Jeffrey M. Pearson
Ervin Antonio Lupoe
Ana Lupoe
Brittney Lupoe
Jaszmin Lupoe
Jassely Lupoe
Benjamin Lupoe
Christian Lupoe
Steven L. Good
Adolf Merckle
Mike Upham
Randy Motts
Kristy Hunt
Joseph Nesheiwat
Tom Brisch
Alex Widmer
Brian Pugh
Marilyn Lewis
Sid Agrawal
Kirk Stephenson
Barry Fox
Dallas Dwayne Carter
David Hetzel
Sharron Hetzel
Cliff Kendall
Pamela Ross
Roland Gore
Mrs. Gore
Wanda Dunn
Karthik Rajaram
Subasri Rajaram
Krishna Rajaram
Ganesha Rajaram
Arjuna Rajaram
Indra Ramasesham
Joe X
Isabelle Jarka
Robert Wagner
Lt. Michael Howe
John Roberts
Palmer C. White
Dianne Pittman White
Ed Boesen
Edwin F. Rachleff
Carlene Balderrama
Troy VanderStelt
Scott M. Coles
Dawn E. Armstrong
Thomas Lizotte
Jonathon Calvin "40-Cal" Jacques
Salvador X
Lupe X
Jade X
Little Boy X
Little Girl X
Kashmir Billon
Bill McMurtry
Lisa McMurtry
James Hahn
Raymond Donaca
Deanna Donaca
Michel Veillette
Nadya Ferrari-Veillette
Marguerite Veillette
Vincent Veillette
Mia Veillette
Jacob Veillette
Maurice Pereira
Natasha Pereira
Mark Achilli
Raed Al-Farah
Andrew Kissel
Rufus Shaw Jr.
Lynn Flint Shaw
Mr. Pierce
Walter Buczynksi
Marci Buczynski
Jason Washington
Anonymous said...
Don't blame Greenspan. Blame the stupidity of men who think money and debts is linked to status and pride that it's more important than life itself.
Anonymous said...
This is just sad.
Why can't the murderer prior to his plan to take out his family and then himself be allowed to go to a welcoming place, soft music, attentive female bartenders, willing to serve up a tall glass of chocolate and hemlock.
It worked for Socrates.
Anonymous said...
That's a yes and a no from me all at the same time. I do agree with your point about people looking to scapegoat others for their own lack of personal responsibility - like fat people blaming their lack of self control on the fast food industry but it is a two way street. My beef with The Maestro (a.k.a. The Bespectacled Chimp) is that we don't get our money's worth from him or his former employer. I mean for the money these people make and the influence they command, they are paid to be smarter than the average slob on the street or average part time financial blogger on the net. They are supposed to be making decisions and taking action behind the scenes that make life better and more stable - not worse and more unstable for the unwashed mob. I look at what happened and just get a gigantic sense of buyer's remorse and think to myself, "What the fuck are we doing paying these people for these kinds of results?"
But, Americans do complain a little much for problems of their own creation. Like one of my more worldly friends has told me on more than one occasion - America has the fattest poor people in the world.
Anonymous said...
when the truth is found to be lies
the darkcloud said...
I remember a time when borrowers were regularly refused loans because lenders had assessed too high a risk of default on the part of the borrowers.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems this most important criteria of the loan process had been highly absent during the Great Real Estate Bubble?
Of the two parties, the lender is the seasoned party of "higher intelligence". Sorry, I blame them more than I blame the borrowers.
Isn't that why they call it "predatory lending"? And, I haven't heard too many cries of "predatory borrowing".
Anonymous said...
You can thank the era of securitization for that reality. When a lender is going to write, hold, and collect the payments through the life of the loan it makes all the difference in the world where underwriting is concerned. To your defense of borrowers - the number of people who willingly and knowingly outright told lies on their mortgage applications would startle most people outside of this industry. Some were coached but a great many were not. When values climbed steadilly, they didn't care - it's only now that the market is out of greater fools that they are crying in their beers (when they are not killing their entire family) and screaming foul. When values were climbing, they were fat and happy. Think: Fat person who smokes for several decades and then gets diabetes and now wants to file a law suit against Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar. Scapegoating.
Anonymous said...
"Sorry, I blame them more than I blame the borrowers."
I think it is both to blame and of equal parts. The Mexicans are blaming their drug cartel problems on the American market and demand for drugs. Junkies blame their dealers. Kiddies say "Daddy didn't love me enough so I get wasted". Some blame their drug use on a "lack of economic opportunity". I used to do drugs because I liked getting high - don't anymore 'cause with age you figure out it ain't worth goin' ta' jail for but that was always the long and short of it for me. I just flat out liked getting high - today, I drink (in moderation) partly for taste but also in part because I like gettin' a little beer buzz going.
Anonymous said...
Now bear in mind that we do live in a democratic republic where our leadership gives us what we say that we want - sometimes good and hard:
See Bill Bonner in Daily Reckoning today (6/18)
the darkcloud said...
Where was the due diligence of the lenders, i.e. the verification of the borrowers' [falsified] application information for loan approval?
"I think it is both to blame and of equal parts."
I still say the buck stopped with the more-seasoned lenders - they dropped the ball. Again, predatory borrowing?
Not quite sure of the relevance of your drug history and current beer buzz revelation.
Anonymous said...
Scapegoating - go cry to Mom. Builders build (built) McMansions because that's what the vast majority of people like(d) and buy (bought). Many of them made that their life's mission for not much more reason than that was what their friends were buying/building/mortgaging. Baitball mentality. Lemmings going over a cliff - nose to tail. No one holds a gun to their heads and makes them build a little Donald Trumpesque McShack. That was the trend. As for lenders passing the buck - again, welcome to the age of securitization. Calpers and other pension funds now own those mortgages. Borrowers drove this demand; lenders were enablers. Everyone loved it so long as "values" continued to climb and there was a supply of "next greater idiot" to buy at inflated prices. The Fed was the kingfish of enablers. My comment on drug use is about being honest with one's self; read between the lines.
I've noticed that the host here has bought himself a CA shack and that the IA over at Skeptical CPA in TX has now taken the plunge (after gloating over the killing he made off the sale of a previous shack). Those Obamabucks are awfully tempting (especially when coupled with the funds obtained from the overblown sale of a previously owned shack), eh guys? But, for myself being a casual observer, I couldn't help but note the hypocrisy of someone going apeshit over bashing policy publicly on a web forum/blog but then benefiting from it personally. Struck me as odd. Must just be me. I would imagine that you read your commentary much the same as Adrienne does over JDA.
Out of here.
Anonymous said...
p.s. for anyone who bit at the Obamabucks worm dangled on end of the hook - you blew your load early, dudes. More price declines are waiting in the wings.
Anonymous said...
We the People.... blah, blah, blah... yeah right - From the WSJ
Collectively, we got what we deserved as a nation.
The paper notes that many government policies to bolster housing enjoyed bipartisan support. On the left, easy-lending policies helped fulfill social goals while on the right, they boosted the “ownership society” envisioned by the Bush White House.
How else to explain one congressional hearing in 2005 that produced statements like these, from conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas): “With the advent of subprime lending, countless families have now had their first opportunity to buy a home or perhaps be given a second chance. The American dream should never be limited to the well-off or those consumers fortunate enough to have access to prime rate loans.”
And this, from liberal Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.): “[T]he housing market has been good to lenders. Everybody is making a lot of money. It would seem to me that our lenders would be a little bit more charitable.”
"Pressure on the U.S. government to expand subprime credit came from both mortgage lenders and subprime borrowers,” the authors write."
George Wallace 1968 quote - there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party.
Bob Dylan from Brownsville Girl - You always said people don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
Anonymous said...
more from the "collectively, we got the bubble that we deserved" file. As a nation, we can't even take an Obamabucks tax credit for buying a shack without trying to figure out some way of gaming or goosing the system. But, not to worry. The IRS and FBI have teamed up in a big, big way and are beginning to go after the cheats like never before. Like I said, this country got the bubble it deserved in may ways.
“Where there are questionable claims, the IRS has moved aggressively and successfully blocked or denied nearly 400,000 questionable homebuyer claims and opened more than 150 criminal investigations,” the IRS said in a statement responding to the inspector general’s report."
the darkcloud said...
"As for lenders passing the buck..." and
"...lenders were enablers."
Lenders were sleazy twice: they knew everybody they dealt with was going to get screwed.
Take the [sleaze] money and run - twice - mindset. How galant.
Greenspan's Body Count is almost exclusively borrowers: it's nice to know someone is rooting for the noble lenders who didn't reject the borrowers' impossible loans.
Lenders have the final say, I say!
Anonymous said...
Dark Cloud, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. This from 2005, just before the crash.
why we're going ga ga over real estate
BTW, many lenders that hold their own paper cautioned people, held to their ltv ratios, verified incomes and in general tried to get people to see reason - I'm one of them. I spent a fair amount of time playing "Daddy" to people who were supposedly grown ups. Stuck in a perpetual state of teenage angst is what many of them were. Many people now want to put all the blame off on lenders (maybe not you personally) but it's an easy scapegoat and a cop out. I put my money where my mouth is and have been renting a place for the past seven years. People I used to preach to viewed me as some sort of chicken little. Some women refused to date me because of the perception that I was some sort of loser 'cause I didn't get with the program. Now they think I'm a fucking genius. I'm not -just a very realistic person - that's what happens when you grow up poor and Southern. There's going to be a time to buy a house again coming in the very near future. That time is not right now but the train is coming down the track.
Anonymous said...
"Lenders have the final say, I say!"
Tell you what buddy... you want to see some really stupid lending. Take a gander at some of the absolutely retarded loans that are made to people to buy automobiles. Those are securitized as well and sold off in investment bundles. Even motorcycles and boats. Want to see some really stupid shit and complain about all the lenders and defend the poor, poor hapless borrowers/consumers? Go spread some GMAC and Chrysler and Harley Davidson paper. If you understand what you're looking at, you can add them to your list of lenders to protest.
Anonymous said...
...also, this country needs lenders (hopefully responsible ones) because a large number of the unwashed masses refuse to save money and pay cash for what they'd like to buy.... plain and simple and the uncomfortable truth for many. Why do you think we've got 24 month free financing available so some schmuck can go buy a kitchen table and a sofa?...or his girlfriend an engagement ring?..... or junior his own i-Pad?....etc., etc., etc.
Want to see some consumer level / developer level fraud going on in a big way for real estate that was driven by greed, quest for status, one upsmanship, or some other phony baloney purpose? Go mosey on down to Rachel Dollar's Mortgage Fraud Blog and take a gander...
Many of the people who are currently in the lending game are not really lenders. They are salesman - plain and simple. I'm no good in sales but I'm pretty fucking good in lending. Sometimes some of my clientelle doesn't like me much but a lot of teenagers don't like their Daddy's, right? They hate being told "no" - poor Pookies.
p.s. Find a good credit union and join it. Hopefully it has a crusty son of a bitch running its lending department. hahahaha
Anonymous said...
...also, no one walks into a car dealership unless they want to buy a car... that's an old sales truth. I don't see anyone putting guns to peoples' heads and marching them over to a car dealership, or a motorcycle dealership, or a boat dealership, or new subdivision with demonstration models, etc., etc. gettin' the picture here?
Anonymous said...
and, host (W.C. if that's your real name) -
Not an Obama fan, huh? The zeitgeist of your blog says you have a hard on for this administration. Not an O supporter either. Having lived in Illinois for 20 years and being a bit of a political junkie, I wasn't an O supporter from the beginning. Chicago politics is as dirty as anything you've heard.
That being said (written), there has been more done in the last 18 months where combatting mortgage fraud is concerned than in the entire Bush 8 year Presidency. The crack down is happening from top to bottom. Borrowers, real estate attorneys, realtors with straw buyers, title companies, some banking officials, etc. are in the process of going down. The FBI and IRS have teamed up and are making their lives a hell. I'm happily munching popcorn and enjoying the show from the cheap seats. Some people from within were screaming to high heaven that something be done during the Bush years but the complaints fell on deaf ears. Very few resources were put into play. The excuse was that resources had to be focused upon "the war on terror" (pfffffffttttt).
Anonymous said...
"Greenspan's Body Count is almost exclusively borrowers"
Ever notice that they kill themselves (and sometimes others) over money? Anyone else find this as an over the top response to a problem or is it just me? Human beings have a long history of over reacting, I'd suppose. They fall in love with obviously flawed people (and material things, concepts, notions) and they sometimes hate those trying to help them. The human experience I guess.
Anonymous said...
"Lenders were sleazy twice: they knew everybody they dealt with was going to get screwed."
Trust me when I tell you this - many, many, many of them "drank their own Kool-Aid" and many, many, many of them are as dumb as rocks.
Anonymous said...
now, W.C. do you really think that those Obamabucks tax credits came with no strings attached? Uncle Sam doesn't give a fucking thing away without expecting something in return
the darkcloud said...
From Ritholtz' Big Picture blog (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/06/stop-the-next-crisis-this-wouldnt-have-stopped-the-last-one/):
[Excerpt]: I cannot help but be struck by one thing in this reform bill.
If it were law since the year 2000, the only part of it that might have prevented, or at least slowed down the crisis, was the new minimum underwriting standards for mortgages. No more “No Doc, NINJA, or Liar loans.”
That Lenders must verify income, credit history and job status certainly would have prevented the worst vintages of sub-prime and exotic mortgages from ever being written, or subsequently securitized. [End]
Ritholtz captured my opinion perfectly. And the lenders knew better - and they did it anyway.
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A German court has prohibited the UberPOP app
A German court has prohibited the UberPOP app.
The German appellate court of Frankfurt has banned the activities of the application UberPOPВ to order and pay for taxis or private drivers.
The court rejected the appeal of the American company Uber to the decision of the lower court.
In September 2014, a Frankfurt court banned the application UberPOP, because the app connects passengers with drivers without professional licenses.
The proceedings initiated upon the complaint of the trade Union of taxi Germany, Taxi Deutschland. According to representatives of this organization, an application that allows you to earn private carrying any person of the age of majority violates fair competition in the market, as well as threatening the safety of passengers.
On the eve of the criminal court of France fined the company Uber Technologies 800 000 euros for the work of service UberPOP. Additionally, ordering the head of Uber in Europe, middle East and Africa Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty to pay a fine in the amount of 30 000 euros, and the head of service in France Thibault of Simple 20,000 euros.
This year, French taxi drivers went on strike against Uber, blocked roads and access to the Paris airports. Drivers expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the company has used their services without a licence and set rates below the competition.
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Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher by Nissim Ezekiel Summary & Analysis
The poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher by Nissim Ezekiel somehow seems to be similar to The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet, an Elizabethan Poem extracted from Shakspeare‘s A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
The poem is about patience which according to the poet is the only way for the Poet, the Lover, and the Birdwatcher to succeed. In the poem, he describes that patience is the best action to achieve the goal.
Like “The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet“, the poet draws similarities between the poet, the lover and the birdwatcher. The poem has been divided into two stanzas having 10 lines each. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abbaacdcdd.
Stanza 1
The poem with simple words that to force the pace and never to be still is not the way of those who study birds or women i.e. those who hurry and are impatient cannot watch birds or please a woman or compose a poem.
The best poets wait for words. According to the poet, the hunt or struggle to watch a rare bird or please a woman or compose a poem does not require an exercise of will i.e. hard work but patience and love to watch slowly the movement of a timid wing of the rare bird on a hill.
Patience ultimately pays. The one who waits patiently for the woman to love him back ultimately wins her as she cannot resist surrendering herself to him when she knows that he truly loves her. Love is nothing without patience.
Similarly, the poet also needs to wait for the words that may come to him spontaneously. Those who wait patiently get the best words for their verses because they did not rush for the words.
Stanza 2
In stanza 2, the poet says that the slow movement seems, somehow, to say much more i.e. patience is more powerful than it seems to be.
To watch the rarer birds one has to go along deserted lanes and where the rivers flow in silence near the source or near a shore which is far away and thorny i.e. full of difficulties like the heart’s dark floor i.e. as deep in the forest as the core of heart which is also deep and dark. This is how a birdwatcher succeeds.
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Match Photo: which is the best camera / lens?
I think the thing to look for is lenses that don’t have much pin cushion or barrel distortion. Those types of distortion make straight lines appear curved which, of course, SketchUp can’t do. The shorter the focal length the more likely you’ll see those distortions (Think of a fish eye lines, for example.) Longer focal lengths would be better.
The other important thing to consider is the location of the camera. ideally you would end up with a photograph in which the horizontal lines run to vanishing points that would be within the frame of the image. as the vanishing points move out to the right or left they get closer to parallel which can reduce the precision of the set up. Of course when you have horozontal lines running parallel, the vanishing point becomes ambiguous and you can’t establish where it in with the Match Photo setup.
Thank you Dave
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It’s also best to work with photographs that have NOT been cropped.
I’ve seen that said before, but why is that?
Also some programs, PS comes to mind, can fix lens distortion.
Avoiding cropping and avoiding perspective ‘correction’ or lens distortion fixing changes where the vanishing points are. they need to be in the right place.
Cropping shouldn’t affect vanishing points.
But it moves where the center of the image is.
I must be stupid, because I can’t see why that would matter.
I don’t think you are stupid but it does matter. Don’t agonize over it.
I don’t know why but I trust the documentation that says so.
To go back to my original question, Why?
I’m calling bs on this. A crop is simply a smaller piece of the original image. It doesn’t change a thing.
It depends on how it’s cropped. If you can get a cropped image to work well, that’s great. I wouldn’t count on it, working for every cropped image.
That’s just a pivot. Tell me how you crop? Do you use perspective crop? No a sometimes a crop is just a crop, to paraphrase Freud.
Sometimes a crop doesn’t leave the original center of the image in the center of the final image.
I’m sorry, please tell me what that has to do with it. The original center that is.
Really, I’m all about learning.
Crop to your hearts content… then spend frustrating hours never matching your model with the image :slight_smile:
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Why? That’s all I wanted to know.
Paging @RTCool, Could you add any insight to this?
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As Dave explained, like pin cushion effects and tilt perspective correction, cropping shifts the image centre and the photomatch software assumes the image undistorted to perform the mathmztics…
How would the software know where your image centre was if the image was arbitaritly cropped…
Ps… 35 to 80mm lense range is probably the best
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Ibiza’s 061 emergency services have reported the death of a British man aged 39 years.
Emergency services were alerted following the discovery of the dead man’s body by his friend in a hotel room at 9.30am on Monday 27th August at 9.30am.
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Mystery Death of British Man, 39, in Ibiza Hotel
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It is not known how long before discovery he had died, only that no attempts at resuscitation were made reflecting immediate confirmation of death.
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J Balvin Will Go Behind 'Colores' in Groundbreaking AR Livestream: Exclusive
Alexandra Gavillet
J Balvin photographed on Feb. 6, 2020 at MAPS Studio in Miami.
"Behind the Colores: The Live Experience," hits YouTube on June 20.
When J Balvin realized he wouldn't be able to perform the songs from his album Colores -- released in the middle of the pandemic -- before a live audience, he started to look for livestream options. But not just any livestream.
"I thought: What can I do that will be different from what reality allows, and that you can only view this way through your cellphone or your laptop, but not in real life," says Balvin, who spoke exclusively to Billboard from his home in Medellín.
"Simply doing a filmed live concert is never as exciting as the in-person experience. But, what about a concert that’s built to be seen on a screen? There you can really do something different."
Balvin’s "Behind the Colores: The Live Experience," will stream Saturday, June 20 at 9 p.m. on YouTube. And, yes, it will be different. Very different.
Presented by Buchanan's Whisky, a brand Balvin has a long association with, it’s an augmented reality experience where Balvin performs live in a virtual space inside his home in Medellín, while his directors in Los Angeles will provide guidance and bring in additional elements through AR.
"He's done music videos [that are wildly creative], but this is a completely different thing," says creative director and producer Antony Ginandjar. "Imagine Jose being in rooms that come alive."
The concept, which roughly took a month to conceive and execute, is the direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"More than a concert, it’s a way to celebrate the release and success of the album," says Balvin co-manager Fabio Acosta. "If there had been no pandemic, we would have probably done a normal tour."
"Behind the Colores" took approximately one month to execute, from developing the concept to the actual stream on June 20. For simplicity's sake, the concept can be divided into three augmented reality layers: The space Balvin is in, the objects he interacts with (there will be ducks and 3D helicopters that fly into the room, for example) and face tracking and digital makeup effects inspired by Snapchat and Instagram worlds.
"I don't think anything like this in this context has ever been done before," says Tom Colbourne, owner and founder of BLINK, the show's production company and creator of all the graphic content. "If we were in normal times, to launch J’s album and do a special about the album we would have created a stage with LED screens, dancers, props, everything else," he adds. "So our starting place is how do we create a performance space that does him justice. J is an artist with a very rich visual identity. How do we do something that will be entertaining and capture the spirit of his brand? Because we can't do it in a physical stage we do it in a virtual stage that is made up of different abstract virtual environments for every song."
Colbourne worked hand in hand with Balvin’s longtime creative directors (and also show executive producers) Ginandjar and Ashley Evans of The Squared Division, the Australian creative duo behind Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency and Katy Perry's Witness world tour.
Their aim was to create a world for each of the colors (and songs) in Colores. But clearly, it couldn’t simply be a live performance.
"At the beginning of quarantine we were watching all these celebrities doing lives, and at first it was very endearing," says Ginandjar. "Did it get boring at the end? Yes. We said why don’t we do a show where you get to perform your 10 songs in a way no one has seen before?"
Evans and Ginandjar began to design a specific "set" and look and experience for each of the songs in Colores, much like Balvin did in the videos for the songs, but with different concepts. Then, a team of about 25 different animators spread around the world worked on designing and modeling each of the actual virtual scenes as a 3D space.
"Ashley and Antony came up with the concepts for the worlds and we developed and designed them,” says Colbourne. “And J Balvin is obviously very involved as well. He signs off on each world.”
The real challenge was the actual performance, which was filmed live from Balvin’s home in Colombia.
"The toughest part is Jose shooting everything in Colombia and us directing him by Zoom which is something we had never done before," says Evans.
To make it happen, four cameras were physically installed in Balvin's house and locked into place to shoot with no camera men and at a really high digital resolution to be able to create movement.
"All the environments are designed before-hand,” says Colbourne. “All the camera angles are pre-decided. We have a complicated world but we know it's only going to be seen from certain angles.”
Throughout the performance, Balvin follows specific markers on the floor, which is key so he can interact with the AR elements that pop in and out, and he's in constant communication with Evans.
"Ashley has to guide me," says Balvin, who also did Vibras with him. "He's very good in everything that has to do with staging and executing."
The added value, if you will, are short interviews that Balvin leads with key creatives like Diplo, producer Sky, video director Collin Tilley and Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami.
"I wanted to talk a little bit about the process we went through with the album," says Balvin, explaining his choice of subjects. "I want them to understand that it's a conceptual album."
Although Balvin's team declined to say how much the production cost, clearly it wouldn't have been possible without sponsorship from Buchanan's Whisky.
In the end, says Balvin, it's not about simply putting on a Latin show. "It's about creating something that everyone will be talking about."
Note: This article originally incorrectly stated the time the special will be shown on YouTube. The correct time is 9 p.m. ET.
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kewlkate | 9
He could have been out with friends and they were maybe pranking you? It's a possibility and makes sense because he didn't want to talk over the phone, either.
d_unsub | 12
If he didn't want to wake her up he would sms her in the morning. he is just the type of guy that we call "smooth peanut-butter" cos He Got No Nuts
By DrMime | 10
Are you sure it wasn't a mis-text? He could've meant that he was taking a dump at 1:30 AM! If I know what us guys like, you should have gone over there and given him the ceremonial blumpkin!!!
I don't know why people thumbed you down. That's actually a valid point. Breaking up with someone via text message is extremely immature.
Haters gonna hate though I guess.
kreepers | 6
Because his comment is degrading women. Cut the stereotypes and baseless legends on women's immaturity, incapacity, weaknesses and blah; truth is, if you want to use 'man' as a measure of toughness, then many women can be considered 'man-er' than all you men.
The OP had a sucky bf does not equal to he's a female. Your analogy is very insulting for women. What the hell rubbish ideologies did you grow up with.
People are way too serious. It was supposed to insult the guy, not women in general. You see one thing that could be even slightly degrading and start bitching. Feminists really get on my fucking nerves. As a woman, I have no problem saying that in the strength department I am not equal to a man.
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The song is about the difficulties crossing a mountain pass called "Arirang".
There are many versions of Arirang. The first verse (given below) is most often sung.
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(1) Arariyo has no meaning. It's in the song for the sound and to help it flow.
(2) Ten li is approximately 4 kilometers or 2 1/2 miles.
Arirang, Arirang, Arariyo...
Arirang gogaero neom-eoganda.
Nareul beorigo gasineun nim-eun
Simnido motgaseo balbyeongnanda.
This song is on the Intangible Cultural Heritage List by Unesco.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Translation from Wikipedia.
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RESULTS: The results of enzyme trap staining and F-actin staining experiments show that, with the increasing concentration of FTY-720P, the number of osteoclast induced by RAW264.7 cells and BMMs gradually decreased (P<0.05), especially when the FTY-720P concentration reached 1000 ng/ml, and the number of osteoclasts formed was the lowest (P<0.05). With bone lacuna toluidine blue staining, the results also show that, with the increasing concentration of FTY-720P, the number of bone lacuna gradually decreased (P<0.05), and the number of lacunae is lowest when the concentration reached 800 ng/ml. Finally, protein array results showed that IL-4, IL-6, IL-12, MMP-2, VEGF-C, GFR, basic FGF, MIP-2, and insulin proteins were regulated after FTY-720P treatment.
CONCLUSIONS: FTY-720P can suppress osteoclast formation and function, and FTY-720P induces a series of cytokine changes.
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Wind Turbine for Green Power
History of Wind Power Generation:
Schematic Diagram of wind turbine
Schematic diagram for
wind turbine power generation
Wind power has been in use for serving the mankind, since centuries through what has been popularly known as “Wind-mills.” There is no “electrical” stage of energy in old-styled uses where wind-velocity is directly used for performing the jobs such as wheat-grinding, pumping water for irrigation, sailing vessels, etc. It enjoys the advantages of being plentiful, inexhaustible, renewable and non-polluting, over and above being cheap for running costs.
It suffers from disadvantages of being unreliable, and being economically un-viable for large power generation. In India, a large number of such units with normal and medium power ratings (up to 100 kW) are already in operation mainly in coastal or hilly areas. With the modern system, it is now preferred to have suitable power- control circuits on the output side of wind-generators so that these can pump energy into low voltage lines of the grid over a wide range of variation of wind speeds.
In early, people learn to use wind as a power sources, sailing boats or ships have been using wind power for at least 5,500 years. In 17th century BC, the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi used wind power for irrigation work. Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria used wind to drive wheel to power for a machine in 1st century AD, Ancient Tibet and China also learned to use wind power since 4th century for speeding grain crushing and water pumping.
Development of Wind Power:
From antiquity, middle-ages to modern 21th century; using of wind power changed widely, modern technology shaping wind power to generate electricity. In early 20th century, Denmark did remarkable development in wind power to produce electricity, by 1908 there were 72 wind-driven electric generator having capacity 5kW to 25kW. A gigantic change took place in 1978; multi megawatt wind turbine was constructed for first time. Now for magic action of modern technology many multinational companies are producing up to 10 mega-watts electric power from wind turbine.
Electricity Harvesting from Wind Power:
For harnessing wind power to produce electricity, modern technology contour the spinning turbine blades, which are shaped like the wings of an airplane, are used to crank a generator that converts the rotational force into electricity. Electricity then moves down trough electric cables to a transformer before moving through lines to a power station where it is stored or distributed for use. Typical wind speed 13 km/h to 90 km/h is required for spinning the turbine blade. The amount of energy produced is dependent on wind speed, altitude, the height of the tower and the size of the turbine blade. For a typical 2 mega-watts wind power plant: base tower weight about 132,000 kg, turbine blades weight 35,000 kg, blade sweeping area 5,000 square meter and weight of turbine about 230,000 kg.
World Biggest Wind Turbine:
Wind power generation is one of the clean powers generating procedure appreciated worldwide and emerged as one of the fastest growing renewable green energy sources in the world. We can explore some largest wind power plant in the world.
SEATITAN 10MW Wind Turbine:
The SeaTitan 10MW wind turbine designed by AMSC (American Energy Technologies Company) is the biggest wind turbine so far in the world. They started developing the turbine in 2010 and completed in 2012. The 10MW capacity giant turbine which incorporated with much normaler and lighter HTS (High Temperature Superconductor) generator having 10rpm speed and driving power 12,000kVA.
The direct-drive turbine which technical specification as 190M rotor diameter, 50 Hz / 60 Hz grid frequency, 5° axis rotor tilt angle, 125 M hub height and cast iron conical tubular steel tower with integrated lightning conductor. Its operational rated wind speed is 11.5 m/s and lowest and highest cut-in wind speed 4 m/s & 30 m/s respectively. Survival temperature range is -20°C to 50°C.
Sway Turbine ST10:
The Norwegian Technology Company Sway designed and developed ST10 wind turbine which is the world second biggest wind turbine. Its power output is 10MW, rotor diameter is 164M and blade height is 67M. This turbine is suitable for both fixed and floating foundations.
Beside these biggest wind turbine another companies also developing competitive wind turbine and list of the biggest wind turbine becoming longer and longer, like- Areva 8MW, Vestas V164-8.0 MW, Enercon E-126/7.5 MW, Samsung S7.0-171, REpower 6.2M152 / REpower 6.2M126, Siemens SWT-6.0-154, Haliade 150-6MW and Sinovel SL6000 wind turbine etc.
Top Ten Wind Power Generating Countries
Wind power generating rate increasing every year. Wind power one of the most available green energy sources. According to the Global Wind Energy Council report on 2014 the top ten wind power generating countries are as below:
1. China 114,763 Megawatts;
2. United States 65,879 Megawatts;
3. Germany had 39,165 Megawatts;
4. Spain 22,987 Megawatts;
5. India 22,465 Megawatts;
6. United Kingdom 12,440 Megawatts;
7. Canada 9,694 Megawatts;
8. France 2,500 Megawatts;
9. Italy 8,663 Megawatts;
10. Brazil 5,939 Megawatts.
Overall, total global capacity reached about 432,419 MW what is representing cumulative growth of 17%; and experts are thinking green energy wind power generation be come much popular and increased near future.
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4. In Muppandal windfarm the total capacity is 1500 MW, the largest wind power plant in India. The total wind installed capacity in Tamil Nadu is 7633 MW.
6. China is the highest hydro elctric generation country so far.
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Redline Bicycles deals in big personalities and in-your-face biking action, but its existing website was anything but extreme. Commonly considered one of the original BMX bike manufacturers in America, Redline needed a digital presence that looked and felt modern while still paying homage to its long and rich history. Though Redline initially approached Westwerk looking for a simple customization of its current WordPress theme, after consultation it became clear that a completely new theme custom-built for its needs was the right solution.
Big, bold and clean, the new design takes Redline’s brand and amplifies it to appeal to a more modern audience. We chose new fonts specifically for the web, and designed custom iconography to refresh the existing site’s outdated look. In order to highlight the industry-leading athletes Redline works with, we integrated the individual social media accounts of the team throughout the homepage, and included personalized information like Spotify playlists, videos, pictures, bios and more.
Taking advantage of the client’s ample supply of high-quality bike photography, we made the product images the primary visual focus of the site. Visitors can simply scroll over the image of a model to find out basic information like price and key features, then click on the link to open up a separate product page with extensive details about parts specifications, measurements, how to purchase the bike and more. By integrating a GeoIP feature into the site, we were able to streamline the purchasing process by making it easier for users to find the participating retailers that are closest to their specific location.
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Tieshangang District Explained
Seat Type:District seat
Settlement Type:District
Coordinates:21.529°N 109.422°W
Pushpin Map:China Guangxi
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous region
Subdivision Name1:Guangxi
Subdivision Type2:Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name2:Beihai
Area Total Km2:394
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Total:160000
Timezone:China Standard
Utc Offset:+8
Tieshangang District, is a district of the city of Beihai, Guangxi, China. It has 3 neighborhood committees and 39 village committees.
3 towns:
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Non Conforming Mortgage
Non-Conforming Home Mortgages in New York State | Maple Tree. – A non-conforming loan is a home loan that does not conform to the underwriting guidelines set forth by the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie mae (federal national Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home loan mortgage corporation).
You will need a non-conforming loan if one of the following is true: You are getting a "jumbo mortgage" of a total amount higher than the limit. The normal conforming loan limit is $453,100 as of 2018. Some states and localities have higher limits. For example, in Alaska, the limit is $679,650.
What is CONFORMING LOAN? What does CONFORMING LOAN mean? CONFORMING LOAN meaning & explanation TEXT-Fitch rates Principal Residential Investment Mortgages 1 – Sparck was a non-conforming originator in the Netherlands, but ceased originating at end-2008. Principal Residential Investment Mortgages 1 S.A (the issuer) acquired the Sparck portfolio in February.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Bloom Energy - AC Transit Is Their Terminus
I blogged that AC Transit was Bloom Energy’s smoking gun. This greenwashed company essentially faked their greenness and now AC Transit data further proves this to be true. Real month by month data for the period April 2013 till October 2014 provided under the CA PRA by AC Transit to the Green Machine
The contract language that I reviewed under the PRA also is very interesting. Bloom mentions the “desulfurization bed canister” but never revealed the quantity and composition of the solid waste with sulfur. The contract also has reference to Bloom’s previous but now changed spec sheet for the ES 5700 fuel cell. Also the contract clearly shows that the system installed at AC transit will generate 420 kilowatts with a maximum usage of 2.64 million BTUs of pipeline natural gas per hour. This is a claimed minimum lifetime efficiency of 60.12% based on the lower heating value of natural gas. Even at startup the boxes did not meet this minimum efficiency. In October 2014 the monthly efficiency was 42.6% based on the lower heating value of natural gas. After Bloom was caught greenwashing in the NBC Bay Area report they changed their spec sheet to claim an efficiency range of 52% to 60%. Well 42.6% is much lower than 52% and the spec sheet needs further revision!
The system is also not as reliable as Bloom promised AC Transit. The same PRA data show the monthly capacity factor of the Bloom Coffins. Bloom promised a 97% capacity factor when claiming AC Transit would save 1,500 tons a year of CO2 emissions. The capacity factor for the month of October 2014 was only 72.8%. The chart below shows the decay of the reliability of the Bloom coffins.
The AC Transit information proves that Bloom fibs about efficiency, fibs about reliability, fibs about carbon savings, but most of all simply lies about solid wastes with sulfur. The AC Transit information also implicates a global NYSE listed engineering company in the BLOOMDOGGLE. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. was hired for $125,000 to provide design, procurement, and construction support for the Bloom coffins at AC Transit. I have contacted a senior commercial executive at Jacobs to find out if Jacobs knew of the fibs and lies that Bloom Energy tells unsuspecting customers. When I hear back from Jacobs I will report on this.
1. What is the horizontal scale on the efficiency graphs? Days? Hours? Months? The degradation in efficiency is to be expected as the fuel cell stacks age.
I was reading on a different blog that the Bloom stacks should last 3-5 years. (This seems right, based on my limited knowledge of fuel cells.) Have you ever seen a cost figure for replacing the Bloom fuel stacks? Is is half the price of a Bloom box? Less? More? Seems to me this should be part of the equation, that will not be favorable to fuel cells.
Also, have you ever gotten an answer to the important thermal question: where does the heat go? If the Bloom fuel cell stacks run at 800C, that heat has to go somewhere. If they run at 200C, it still has to go somewhere? Where does it go? I've always thought fuel cells could be a good CHP solution for commercial buildings, because they product water, heat, and electricity, which is the critical needs for commercial air conditioning system. (I have seen an Avista Labs fuel cell installation that did just this for a hotel.) But it looks like fuel cells are still not cost effective, even for CHP.
2. The X axis is days since start up. Bloom clearly state they cannot do CHP
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Wednesday: Our Covenant-Keeping God, Part 2
Theme: “How Long, O LORD?”
In this week’s lessons we learn that although at times it can seem as if there is a gap between God’s promises and reality, God is unchanging in his faithfulness.
Scripture: Psalm 89:38-52
In case we have any question about the tone in which the psalmist is making the statements in verses 39-45, we find ourselves pointed in the right direction in the eighth and final stanza (vv. 46–51). Here we have his appeal, focused on the question: "How long, O LORD" (v. 46)? It is a common question of the saints, arising out of what seems to be a breaking of the covenant. In Revelation the saints ask God, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood" (Rev. 6:10)? Believers ask this when they feel abandoned and when God does not seem to act. But the cry is not unbelief. On the contrary, it is the cry of faith, for it is to God, and it is looking for an answer.
In other words, in the final analysis the saints know that the problem they are dealing with is not God's faithlessness, but rather his timing or delays, or their own limited and mistaken impressions. So what Marvin Tate says, based on the earlier verses, is not quite the case. Tate says, "Yahweh is charged with having broken his covenant-obligations to David by his rejection of the Davidic kingship and by giving victory to the foes of the king."1 It is true that the language reads this way, for the psalmist is not afraid to describe the king and the people's circumstances to God, as he sees them. Yet when all is said and done, he knows that God is faithful to his covenant, he will not break his promises, and the problem becomes one merely of timing. That is, when are you going to show that you are faithful?
There is something here that is more than a mere asking of the question "How long?" however. For this is not a passive man who is writing. He is not interested in a theoretical answer, as if he would be satisfied if God were to say, "I will act to restore the fallen throne of David in ten years' time (or a hundred years' time)." Or "I will rebuild the city in the days of Nehemiah.” No. The psalmist wants God to act now, while he is still alive. Therefore, the last stanza of the psalm is an appeal to God to act in the psalmist's lifetime.
There are two appeals, each containing three verses.
1. The shortness of human life (vv. 46-48). The psalmist knows that God's timing is his own. He can take a thousand years to work out his promises to David, if he wants to. But the writer is only a human being, and human beings don't live long. Human life is "fleeting" (v. 47), and the writer of the psalm cannot keep himself from the grave long enough to see and enjoy God's blessing, if God does not hurry (v. 48). That is true for us too. We may not be here long enough to see everything God has in mind for his people, but if we are going to see anything, it has to be now.
2. The dishonoring of God by his enemies (vv. 49-51). This is the same argument Moses used when God was threatening to destroy the people in the wilderness after they had rejected him by making the golden calf: "Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’" (Exod. 32:12)? In these verses the writer seems to combine mockery against God, mockery of the king, and mockery directed at himself: “Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations, the taunts with which your enemies have mocked, O LORD, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one (vv. 50, 51).”
If we are praying selfishly, our pleas have little force with God. But we are on firm ground when we can say, as Paul did in Romans, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me" (Rom. 15:3; Ps. 69:9).
1Marvin E. Tate, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 20, Psalms 51-100 (Dallas: Word, 1990), p. 427.
Study Questions:
1. How did the saints call out to God in Revelation 6:10? Why is it, like Psalm 89:46, not a mark of unbelief?
2. List and explain the meaning of the two appeals seen in verses 46-51.
Reflection: How does the psalmist's honesty help you in your prayers for God to act in a certain way? Pray that your prayers and questions will be rooted in firm ground rather than shallow selfishness.
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Postby Monster X » Sat Feb 23, 2019 4:41 pm
Ok so I've commissioned some self insert, resident evil art and I feel like sharing.
The person who did the art for me was plaguebr, who dose some kick ass kaiju art.
Also since this character is basically me, right down to the fact I modelled for the first piece and is named after me, I might as well get this part over with. My names Paul.
G-Paul - Stage 1
Paul’s Note:
My name is Paul, please tell my family I loved them. I've barricaded the door so I won't be able to get out and hopefully it will stop me from hurting anyone who eventually comes in. If I hurt anyone I'm sorry.
Not sure how much time I've got, I feel (Writing becomes eligible)
skreeonk I feel bad. I was on the underground platform with my family when it happened. Panic Screaming Blood Zombies
As I was looking felt a pain in neck, turned saw wo woman. Smiling. Disappeared into the crowed. Saw family moving with crowed. Safe. Knew what happened couldn't put them at risk. Ran away (Writing become eligible once more)
Feel bad, pain all over but r e a l bad down left side
Skin changing wha he uc
H u r t
F A M I L Y (Letters written with such force the pen ripped through the page)
G-Paul - Stage 2
BSAA - Golgotha (G) Virus Briefing Notes:
We have had unconfirmed reports that the G-Virus may have been used as part of a bio-terror attack on London. As a result this information is being issued to all BSAA operatives so that they may be better prepared to combat this threat should they encounter it in the field.
The G-Virus was developed by Dr. William Birkin, a virologist who worked for Umbrella Inc.
Unlike the T-Virus which typically causes cellular necrosis in infected organisms, the G-Virus is able to bring its host back to life with regenerative capabilities effectively granting biological immortality. As a result creatures created by the virus, here after referred to as "G", are highly resistant to small and medium calibre weapons as their bodies can repair damage almost as soon as it's inflicted. Because of this, operatives are advised to engage G's using heavy weapons when the option is available. G are subject to continuous mutation and reactive adaption, with no two individuals being alike. They grow larger, stronger and more deadly the longer they live so it is of the utmost importance that they are located and terminated ASAP. G almost universally have extra eyes growing on their bodies. These eye's grant a greater field of vision but are also more vulnerable to damage. Unlike the T-Virus, the G-virus is not transmittable via injury so operatives who survive an encounter need not fear secondary infection. G are capable of spread the virus however. They accomplish this by implanting "embryos" into another creature's body via forced oral insertion. G will generally seek out host with compatible genetics, specifically the host's blood relatives, to infect but they have been known to infect random individuals a well. While an anti-viral vaccine exists, hosts must be treated immediately in order to prevent the creation of another G. If they cannot be treated they must be terminated due to the risk they pose.
There are two types of G.
G-Primary - A host who was infected directly with the virus, generally via injection. G-Primary benefit from all the aforementioned abilities the G-virus grants. They are documented as being extremely hostile and should be dealt with caution. The virus robs it's host of their mental faculties, meaning G-Primary function predominantly on pure instinct. While they are capable of limited speech, this is theorised to possibly be a tactic to fool it's primary targets into leaving themselves vulnerable to infection. On very rare occasions G-Primary have displayed vestiges of their former selves, however this is fleeting and should be ignored. There is currently no cure for a person who has begun mutating into a G-Primary. To date only two G-Primary have been documented, classified as G-Birkin (Racoon City Outbreak) and G-Miller (WilPharma Fiasco).
G-Spawn - The result of G-Virus embryos gestating within incompatible hosts. The embryo will rapidly mutate and fatally erupt from the hosts body in a matter of minutes. The embryo will then quickly grown into an adult G-spawn. G-Spawn are a shadow of their progenitors. While large, their bodies are malformed and disproportioned, making them generally slow and cumbersome. Their regenerative powers are also lacking, making them far more vulnerable to standard issue weapons and they seem to lack any adaptive capabilities. That said they are still physically quit powerful and use ambush tactics to make up for their lack of agility. G-Spawn have universally been documented as vomiting up embryos as an offensive tactic and some have been recorded vomiting a poisonous slime. There has been one case were a group of G-Spawn appeared to set up some form of "nesting area".
During the current operation should a G-Primary be positively identified, it is imperative that any blood relative it may be tracking be taken into custody for their own protection and to prevent the creation of more G-Primaries.
Currently we have reports of a creature fitting the description of a G-Primary being sighted in the London Zoo.
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The Lost Spring— [Class 12]
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Answer the following questions:
1.Why had the ragpickers come to live in Seemapuri?
2. Garbage to them is gold; why does the author say so about the ragpickers?
3. How is Mukesh different from the other bangle makers of Firozabad?
4. Is it possible for Mukesh to realise his dream? Justify your answer.
5. Give a brief account of life and activities of the people like Saheb-e-Alam settled in
6. Lost Spring’ explains the grinding poverty and traditions that condemn thousands of
7. The bangle makers of Firozabad make beautiful bangles and make everyone happy
but they live and die in squalor. Elaborate.
Q.2. Rewrite the sentences into indirect narration:
1. “I have nothing else to do,” he mutters, looking away.
build one, I will go.”
“Yes,” he says, smiling broadly.
school ready?”
2. “I now work in a tea stall down
the road,” he says, pointing in the distance. “I am paid
800 rupees and all my meals.” Does he like the job? I ask.
3. Mukesh insists on being his
own master. “I will be a motor
mechanic,” he announces.
“Do you know anything about cars?”. I ask
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Avoiding These Three Major Mental Mistakes Might Just Save Your 401(K) Savings for a Rainy Day!
A piece of advice for anyone currently having a 401(k). In a situation where the market is approaching record highs, the largest hindrance that can affect your hard-earned retirement savings is not the market. Rather, it could be you!
Yes, you heard right.
Your mental miscues, biases, and emotional decisions can result in psychological distress, which in turn can make you have poor investment decisions.
Let’s have a good at one example. Suppose you have made a fortune investing in high-value stocks such as those of Netflix or Amazon. Yep, you made some great financial decisions. However, now it’s gotten to your head that you’re some sort of super-investor, the likes of Warren Buffet.
Being Deluded with Your Own Ability
Moreover, you might be obsessed with the idea that the longest bull market will last for eternity. On the other hand, you might believe that a drop will happen sooner rather than later.
Additionally, you might also make the mistake of only getting info from individuals that conform to personal beliefs regarding the direction in which the market is taking.
However, behavioral finance, which investigates the relationship between money-related moves and investor psychology that people make, have recorded the multiple personality traits that result in errors while making a decision.
According to the president of Market Semiotics at a research firm in Vermont, Mr. Woody Dorsey, he believes that there are major ways in which investors thinking can result to flawed decision making and subsequent blunders, and additional ways in which they can omit making these mistakes altogether.
Eliminating Overconfidence
After venturing a decade into bull markets, it can be quite tempting for investors to credit their success and desirable portfolios to some of the decisions that they made over the years. This is a big mistake because it makes them ignore the basic knowledge that the long climb in stock prices, for example, is what catapulted the Standard & Poor’s 500 index by whopping 330 percent since 2009!
When one becomes overconfident, they believe that they are better informed and much smarter at investment decisions than their contemporaries.
According to Sunpointe Investments CEO, Michael Pompain, he comments on the situations, saying that such investors believe that because they made an investment that resulted in positive results, they are now automatically smart.
Additionally, he quips that investors that normally think highly about their own talents and abilities, are the ones most likely to take ‘foolish risks’ due to having delusions of grandeur. He or she is most likely to go ahead and purchase a ‘hot stock’ without doing sufficient background research.
They tend to dip their hands too deep in trading, and rarely keep in tune with their future financial plans. In short, don’t be that person!
Being overconfident can make you make pretty bad investment decisions
Not Looking for Other Options
One of the biggest mistakes an investor can make, and one that can make them run into tons of trouble is searching only for info that confirms with bearish or bullish views regarding the stock market.
According to finance professor at the University of California, Berkley, Mr. Terrance Odean, he notes that when most people have an investment idea, they usually look at the reasons why it is right, and avoid all the instances of it being wrong.
This can be quite a dangerous strategy for a number of reasons. For starters, investors who strongly believe that the bull has space to sprint, will often invest into the market with a lot of aggression, and this increases their chances of incurring heavy losses if they are wrong.
On the other extreme, individuals who believe too much in the apocalyptic crush of the market, may not be too keen to invest and increase their stock holdings. Hence, they risk missing out on great gains in the event the stock is rising.
As a rule of thumb, you should strive to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time!
It’s good to get opinions from multiple sources regarding the direction that the stock market is taking
Betting Big on a Continuous Trend
This habit is known as ‘recency bias’. It’s a belief that a particular trend will continue, regardless of shift in the paradigm or the environment.
This could translate to investors today making a massive mistake by betting on a stock whose price is steadily rising, and believing that it will continue to do so despite volatile market conditions.
That being said, an investor should be wary and on-guard that any market crashes could occur at any time.
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Heavy Maul is a maul in Dragon Age: Origins.
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Note: Looting the maul from the sarcophagus will activate the three golems that are standing in Hirol's shrine which then will attack the party.
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The Benefits of Running Barefoot
There is little taboo surrounding running. Many people implore differing tactics to their training and this will differ across the many different types of running events you are training for. Defining the purpose of your running is as simple as reaching an end goal or having a final destination in mind. Along the way, we hear of many different tactics to help improve your running, physical fitness levels, and other such associates. One of these highly debated subjects is running without shoes or barefoot. Below is a brief look into how running without shoes can create benefits for the user.
Surface Pressures and Oxygen Consumption
One of the main selling points of running barefoot is the excess oxygen available to the runner. When we run on surfaces while wearing shoes, we consume anywhere from 2-5% more oxygen. This is an important telling point as runners have to emit the proper breathing techniques to pair with their running habits. Having a greater amount of free oxygen to use allows runners to better develop their stride-to-breathing ratio and can create additional methods for them to figure this out against their body type.
The surface pressure is also greatly produced when we push-off or land without shoes. The contact time between foot and surface is greatly tamed when running without shoes. This speaks to the longevity of the activity. Utilizing less pressure on your push-off and landing can help you succeed in running greater distances or for a longer span of time.
Natural Development through grounding
The benefits of running barefootWhen our foot contacts a surface, there are many components of the body being pressured or utilized. The ligaments in the foot, our natural arches, and other such tendons are the main correspondents to producing our running capabilities. When these elements encounter a naturally formed surface in direct contact with the barefoot, they can respond more quickly to pressures. This allows for a quicker build in terms of muscle responsiveness, allowing you to strengthen these areas naturally and quickly. When we run with shoes, some of these pressures are forwarded to the make-up of materials and shoe components, hindering our ability to naturally develop these muscle groups. When running barefoot, we are able to access our natural functions from these areas, helping to improve our gait over time. This helps us create those natural running patterns and habits we desire to keep us moving for many years down the road.
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URL Structure for SEO: The Long-Term Impact of Choosing Your URL Structure
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Over the last few years, messy, chaotic-looking URLs have given way to user-friendly ones.
A short, memorable URL is a great memory aid, making it helpful for providing the best user experience. No matter how you choose to structure your URLs, they’ll have a long-term effect on your online visibility.
A good URL supports your SEO efforts in many ways.
For the best chance at ranking for your target keywords, URLs should be:
1. Short
As a general rule, a short URL is better than a long one. Although most URLs won’t ever get typed directly into the browser, they could be copy-pasted, emailed, or used in social media posts. The shorter a page URL is, the easier it is for it to fit into these portable formats.
2. Readable
Users should understand what a page will offer them just by looking at the URL. URLs that look like machine code are inherently suspicious. Searchers want to be sure they’re going to the right place before they click, so URL is one of the key factors in making a link more enticing.
3. Keyword-Rich
It’s still a good idea to ensure a page’s main target keyword is represented within the URL. This grew more true when Google started highlighting keywords within URLs and it’s a major factor for people using mobile search. Resist the temptation to cram the URL with multiple keywords.
URL Structure’s Impact on SEO4. Clean
URLs with dynamic parameters appear fussy and potentially even unsafe. As users become more attuned to online security concerns, they’re more likely to look at search results with a bunch of numbers or tags trailing after the main URL and become suspicious. Eliminate these wherever possible.
5. Relevant
Last, but certainly not least, a URL should be relevant. It should typically reflect the main title you selected for the page. Ideally, a really human-centered URL should get to the point within the first word or two, which means eschewing fancy subdomains whenever possible, too.
When people search online, they’re on a hunt for something important. The main function of the URL is to reassure them that they’re on the right track. Anything that adds a sense of mystery will put them on alert. Luckily, it’s not hard to avoid mistakes that raise user anxiety.
After all, you’ve probably executed thousands of online searches yourself.
When you publish a page, always stop and look at the URL in relation to the content. Does it make sense? Would you be confident of the value the page offers based on the title, URL, and meta description text, as your users will have to be before they click?
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Coronavirus: Death toll rises as virus spreads to every Chinese region
Chinese health authorities said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January.Infections have also spread to at least 15 other countries.
'The silence is horrifying': A diary of life under lock down Visual guide to the outbreak
What's the latest on evacuations?
British flight out of Wuhan 'unable to take off'
In other developments:
A cruise ship carrying 6,000 passengers is currently blocked near Rome after a couple from Hong Kong came down with fever and respiratory problems - they are being held in isolation on the ship while tests are carried outRussia has closed its 4,300km (2,670-mile) far-eastern border with ChinaFlights to take British and South Korean citizens out of Wuhan have both been delayed after relevant permissions from the Chinese authorities did not come throughTwo flights to Japan have already landed in Tokyo.
Three passengers have so far tested positive for the virus, Japanese media reportAround 200 US citizens have been flown out of Wuhan and are being isolated at a military base in California for at least 72 hoursTwo aircraft are due to fly EU citizens home with 250 French nationals leaving on the first flightIndia has confirmed its first case of the virus - a student in the southern state of Kerala who was studying in Wuhan
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Lloyd’s Nelson reinforces importance of services in Brexit deal
Lloyd’s of London chairman John Nelson reiterated the importance of re/insurers’ ability to transact business in the European Union (EU) in response to a speech by UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
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Anorgasmia, preorgasmia and vaginismus
Women who masturbate themselves to orgasm are called pre-orgasmic. Rather than celebrate the fact that they experience orgasm, the implication is that women are inadequate because (regardless of any scientific facts or logic) they cannot please a man by having their orgasms during intercourse. Men’s sex drive makes intercourse an obligatory activity for heterosexuals. If a woman cannot or will not offer intercourse, a man naturally assumes that there must be something badly wrong with her or that she must be a lesbian.
Female sexual dysfunction is defined according to this male point of view. Even though women themselves rarely refer to masturbation, it is assumed that most women masturbate. However, a woman is not considered to be dysfunctional if she doesn’t masturbate. Most men masturbate. But female masturbation is much less common. Masturbation is an indication of sexual responsiveness. Men’s main interest in female sexuality focuses on the orgasms they want women to have from the stimulation that they provide.
Men assume that engaging in intercourse is a natural and regular part of women’s biological function. Men are meant to penetrate. Women are meant to be penetrated. A man enjoys penetrating a woman, so he assumes she should enjoy being penetrated just as much. Unfortunately, these conclusions do not follow. The carnivore is obliged to prey on herbivores because otherwise it will die. Even though it is the herbivore’s destiny to be eaten, the victim does not actively seek out the situation. Many women want to have a family but they do not tend to offer intercourse nearly as often as men would like. Reproduction relies on a woman’s willingness to let a man ejaculate into her vagina but not every day, every week or even every month.
Male sex drive naturally focuses men on the female anatomy involved in intercourse. In the most basic terms, a woman’s sexual role involves providing an orifice (the vagina) for a man to ejaculate into. A man cannot understand why a woman would orgasm at any time other than when he is stimulating her. What would be the point? The point of female orgasm is a woman’s own sexual pleasure. A woman orgasms alone because she can focus on her own arousal rather than assisting with a man’s need for release.
Vaginismus is a reproductive issue because intercourse leads to pregnancy. The sexual issue arises because of a man’s sex drive. This male need means a man feels rejected when a woman cannot provide him with an opportunity for intercourse even if she has a good reason. A man assumes that if a woman loves him that she will always be amenable to sex. So consent within a loving relationship has little meaning to men. Yet ironically men themselves cannot be persuaded to engage in sex unless they are aroused and have an erection.
Men may be satisfied at least in part with being masturbated by a lover or by receiving oral sex (fellatio). Most women do not want to offer these more explicit forms of genital stimulation. Ultimately men want the optimal sexual release through intercourse. This is the biological drive. Women accept intercourse because it involves them in very little explicit erotic engagement.
Women accept painful sex because it is often implied that a woman is being selfish if she deprives a male lover of his sexual outlet. A woman assumes that it is her personal failing that she does not enjoy sex as a man does. Even during pregnancy or after childbirth it is difficult to persuade a male lover than penetrative sex may be uncomfortable or even painful for a woman.
Women feel guilty because they think it’s their fault that they don’t orgasm with a lover. They don’t realise that every woman is the same. Women are told that they should orgasm naturally through intercourse. This is like telling a blind man that he should be able to see. It doesn’t help him to be told what is possible for others (only men). No one can explain why one woman can apparently experience what others cannot. Male fantasies about multiple or easy orgasms intimidate women into silence by implying sexual inadequacy.
The sexual revolution was not about new knowledge. It was about women’s new freedom as a result of the contraceptive pill. Also society condoned the promotion of female nudity in public as a result of more reliable policing. But false expectations were set. By suggesting that sex provides women with the same erotic rewards as men, men came to expect the emotional reward of pleasuring a lover. Men and women receive different but complementary rewards from sex. Men’s need for sexual release through intercourse, provides women with the emotional reward of being needed by a partner.
Men assume that vaginal stimulation should cause female orgasm. So, of course, some women assume they orgasm during intercourse. Not knowing what orgasm feels like, they mistake sensual pleasures for orgasm. Sex information, that promotes the many ways in which women are supposed to orgasm, causes people to feel inadequate. These fantasies create demand for sex therapy because people want to be reassured that they can experience these feats. A key objective of sex research should be to provide explanations for the behaviours of real men and women. Yet there are no real women (in the general population or even sexologists) who can talk explicitly about these supposed orgasms. This is one of the key failings of sex research today, which ignores the accumulated findings that clearly indicate that female orgasm is experienced by women who are able to masturbate to orgasm.
One of the diagnostic criteria for FSD (female sexual dysfunction) is feeling distressed. But what causes the distress? Is it the condition itself, or is it what you think is expected of you and in turn, what you start expecting of yourself? (Andrea Burri) | <urn:uuid:3b08bca0-241c-43ae-91a3-380e4e07f8b4> | https://www.learnaboutsexuality.org/anorgasmia-preorgasmia-vaginismus | en | 0.963082 | 0.185545 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
TY - JOUR T1 - Bacteria push the limits of chemotactic precision to navigate dynamic chemical gradients JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences JO - Proc Natl Acad Sci USA SP - 10792 LP - 10797 DO - 10.1073/pnas.1816621116 VL - 116 IS - 22 AU - Brumley, Douglas R. AU - Carrara, Francesco AU - Hein, Andrew M. AU - Yawata, Yutaka AU - Levin, Simon A. AU - Stocker, Roman Y1 - 2019/05/28 UR - http://www.pnas.org/content/116/22/10792.abstract N2 - The limited precision of sensory organs places fundamental constraints on organismal performance. An open question, however, is whether organisms are routinely pushed to these limits and how limits might influence interactions between populations of organisms and their environment. By combining a method to generate dynamic, replicable resource landscapes, high-speed tracking of freely moving bacteria, a mathematical theory, and agent-based simulations, we show that sensory noise ultimately limits when and where bacteria can detect and climb chemical gradients. Our results suggest that the typical chemical landscapes bacteria inhabit are dominated by noise that masks shallow gradients and that the spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial aggregations can be predicted by mapping the region where gradient signal rises above noise.Ephemeral aggregations of bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment, where they serve as hotbeds of metabolic activity, nutrient cycling, and horizontal gene transfer. In many cases, these regions of high bacterial concentration are thought to form when motile cells use chemotaxis to navigate to chemical hotspots. However, what governs the dynamics of bacterial aggregations is unclear. Here, we use an experimental platform to create realistic submillimeter-scale nutrient pulses with controlled nutrient concentrations. By combining experiments, mathematical theory, and agent-based simulations, we show that individual Vibrio ordalii bacteria begin chemotaxis toward hotspots of dissolved organic matter (DOM) when the magnitude of the chemical gradient rises sufficiently far above the sensory noise that is generated by stochastic encounters with chemoattractant molecules. Each DOM hotspot is surrounded by a dynamic ring of chemotaxing cells, which congregate in regions of high DOM concentration before dispersing as DOM diffuses and gradients become too noisy for cells to respond to. We demonstrate that V. ordalii operates close to the theoretical limits on chemotactic precision. Numerical simulations of chemotactic bacteria, in which molecule counting noise is explicitly taken into account, point at a tradeoff between nutrient acquisition and the cost of chemotactic precision. More generally, our results illustrate how limits on sensory precision can be used to understand the location, spatial extent, and lifespan of bacterial behavioral responses in ecologically relevant environments. ER - | <urn:uuid:91b98ed5-8b61-498a-b6bc-2d1bf188bb2e> | https://www.pnas.org/highwire/citation/865527/easybib | en | 0.871217 | 0.045122 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
What Is the USATF, Anyway?
This USATF thing is certainly all over the running news, but every time we at Salty Running start talking about it behind the scenes we aren’t exactly sure how to take a stand because, well, USATF is complicated. We know it makes the rules in the USA for Track and Field; it measures race courses, puts on races, certifies track coaches, and has a handy route-mapping app on its website. Beyond that though, its definition, or what it does and what it is, is kind of fuzzy, like a bunch of letters swimming in a bowl of soup.
After weeks of the same conversations and repeated frustration over what the heck is going on at the USATF, I had enough. I bit the bullet and did some research to uncover the basics about the USATF. Read on after the jump to find out what USATF is, how it’s structured and how it relates to other big sports associations that are equally fuzzy. We’re going to keep this at a high level, but don’t worry! We’ll be back to dig deeper in future installments.
Let’s start with what the most basic of basics, the easiest information to find on the Internet about what USATF is:
The USATF is the Governing Body of the Sport of Track and Field in the U.S.
Very broadly, The USA Track and Field Association (USATF) is a national governing body of the sport of track and field. The sport of track and field includes track races, field events, road races, cross country races, trail and ultrarunning, and race walking events.
So what is a governing body?
Well, in the simplest of terms, a governing body is a group of people who develop policies and direct the affairs of something. Examples of governing bodies are school boards, which make policy for schools or a board of directors of a company, which directs the affairs of a corporation. The USATF is a governing body that makes policy and directs the affairs of the sport of track and field.
The USATF’s mission.
The USATF’s mission statement is this: “USA Track & Field drives competitive excellence and popular engagement in our sport.” Ideally, any governing body serves to protect the interests of the community it oversees and often the community at-large. For instance, a medical licensing board creates rules to ensure only those people who are fit to be doctors are able to get a license. A medical licensing board makes decisions to prevent whack jobs (or teenagers) from practicing medicine, which is bad for the medical profession’s reputation and bad for patients. Likewise, the governing body of track and field, the USATF, exists to maintain the integrity of the sport of track and field. Whether all of the USATF’s policies and decisions actually accomplish this is a point of debate, but for now, understanding why there is a USATF and what it purports to do is all we need to worry about.
What does the USATF do?
USATF does many things, but generally speaking, its main duties are to provide rules and standards for the sport of track and field. The USATF drafts rules for everything from race officiating, coach education, athlete development, and competition. It also sets the standards for things like course measurements and championship and Olympic Trials qualifying standards. Additionally, the USATF establishes programs to grow the sport of track and field, like its Run Jump Throw initiative, which is aimed at teaching children the fundamentals of track and field.
Structure of the USATF
To really understand the USATF and some of the news and controversies surrounding it, we will need to explore how the USATF is structured. Particularly, we need to understand its parts. [For all you visual learners, no fear! We’ve included an organization chart below.]
The Board
The Board of Directors is the hub of the USATF.
Who is on the Board?
The Board is made up of 15 unpaid volunteers including:
1. The International Association of Athletic Federations’ (IAAF) [will explain more below] Council member from the U.S.;
2. The USATF President;
3. Six representatives, one representing each of six committees (e.g. High Performance, Long Distance Running, etc.);
4. One person representing another sports governing body, like the NCAA or RRCA.
5. Three independent members selected by the Nominating and Governance Panel; and
6. Three Athletes, including at least one male and one female and one alternate athlete.
Some of the Board members are automatically appointed, like the U.S. IAAF Council representative, while others must be elected, like the USATF Committee representatives who are elected by their respective committees.
What does the Board do?
Generally speaking, the Board works to make sure the USATF as a whole is furthering its mission to “drives competitive excellence and popular engagement in our sport.” It also makes sure the USATF is functioning, including selecting Officers of the Board, committee leadership, ensuring financial solvency of the organization, and hiring key employees like the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The Officers of the Board
The Board selects Officers, all of whom are also unpaid volunteers, including a President, Chairman, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. Here are the current USATF Officers:
• Chairman: Steven Miller
• President and Vice Chair: Stephanie Hightower
• Secretary: Darlene Hickman (nonvoting)
• Treasurer: Kenneth Taylor
The Chairman sets the Board’s meeting agenda and presides over the meetings.
The President is tasked with ensuring that the USATF rules, called bylaws, are executed. The President appoints Committee leaders, is the immediate supervisor of the CEO, and otherwise makes sure the Board resolutions are carried out.
The Secretary, as you would expect, handles the Board’s record keeping, but is not allowed to vote on Board matters. The Treasurer, naturally, manages the organization’s accounting and is a voting member of the Board along with the rest of the Officers.
The National Office Staff
The Board hires a staff to do the work of the organization. The most powerful of the paid staff is the CEO. While the CEO cannot vote on matters of the Board, the Board has sole hiring authority in choosing who will serve as the CEO and the Board is essentially the CEO’s boss.
• CEO: Max Siegel
The Board Committees
The Board appoints members to several committees to make specialized rules and policy for those areas. The USATF’s Board Committees include:
• Administrative
• General Competition (e.g. masters track and field, associations [see below], and clubs)
• High Performance (e.g. track and field and racewalking)
• Joint Development (e.g. coaching education, sports medicine and science and athlete development)
• Long Distance Running (e.g. road racing and trail and ultraracing)
• Youth
The 5C & 5D Members
The 5C Members are other governing bodies that have the capabilities of choosing members for national championships, like the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC). The 5D Members are other governing bodies overseeing things related to the USATF, like the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) which oversees road racing. They are organizations that have an interest in furthering the USATF mission and counsel the USATF on the creation of its policies and procedures.
The USATF does most of its work through its associations, which are “divided into [57] mutually exclusive geographic areas of the United States.” So when you join the USATF as an athlete, you actually join your local association. For example, I’m a member of the Lake Erie Association which covers the northern part of Ohio. Additionally, every club that joins the USATF, joins under the applicable association and when a race director wants to have the USATF certify her race, she contacts her local association to do it.
How the USATF Relates to Other Governing Bodies
The USATF organization is complex as we discussed above, but where the USATF stands in relation to other governing bodies of sports is also complicated. But it’s not impossible to understand.
So, first, remember that the USATF is the governing body of the sport of track and field in the U.S. Got that? Now we’re ready to see where it fits.
tfathleticsLet’s start with the International Association of Athletic Federations, otherwise known as the IAAF. While the word “athletics” refers to all sports in the U.S., outside of the U.S. track and field is called athletics. So looking at the full name of the IAAF, and if you substitute the word “athletic” for “track and field” it all makes sense! The IAAF is the governing body of the governing bodies of the sport of track and field. The IAAF is the governing body of the USATF and the 214 other countries’ track and field governing bodies. The IAAF has the authority to suspend or expel a nation’s track and field governing body, as it recently suspended Russia’s over doping scandals.
Instead of a Board like at the USATF, the IAAF has a Council and a Congress that create the rules for the IAAF. The Council makes very high level decisions, like which national track and field governing bodies should be allowed into the IAAF. The Council is smaller than the Congress and each member of Council is elected by the Congress. The USATF has one representative on the IAAF Council and that person is also automatically on the Board of the USATF as explained above.
The IAAF Congress makes most of the rules for the IAAF. Each country is allowed no more than three members of its track and field governing body to serve on the IAAF Congress. The USATF appoints its President, its CEO, and one other delegate it selects to serve on the IAAF Congress and to give the USATF a voice in international track and field standards and policy.
What about the U.S. Olympic Committee, otherwise known as USOC? The USOC is the governing body of the U.S. Olympic Program. It’s mission is “to support the U.S. Olympic athletes in achieving sustained competitive excellence while demonstrating the values of the Olympic Movement, thereby inspiring all Americans.” So, the USOC creates policy and programs to foster world-class athletes and to generally promote the Olympics in the U.S. To do this, it selects the governing bodies of each Olympic sport to create qualifying standards for athletes to be on the team among other things (the USOC can suspend or replace a sport’s governing body if it chooses to). The USATF, in particular, is in charge of choosing which track and field athletes will represent the U.S. and compete on Team U.S.A.
The International Olympic Committee, otherwise known as the IOC, is the governing body of the Olympic Games, themselves and the international governing bodies of each Olympic sport establish the rules and organize qualifying events for the Olympics. For track and field, then, it is the IAAF that makes the rules about which track and field athletes may compete at the Olympics. How does the USATF fit in? The USATF chooses which of the U.S. track and field athletes who have met the minimum Olympic qualifying standards set by the IAAF compete for Team U.S.A.
To torture Cinnamon, we had her try to make a Venn diagram to illustrate how USATF fits in with the Olympics and IAAF. Of course, she did it wrong and is frantically trying to figure out how to make it all make visual sense.
What else would you like to know about the USATF? Did we miss anything you think is important?
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1. Cinnamon, nice work on the Venn diagram! It might be helpful to note that the IAAF governs USATF as to matters involving international competition. So, purely national, regional or local competition is only governed by the USATF – that would be “your local marathon” which lies within the USATF, but outside the IAAF. We didn’t touch on this in the body of the post, so thought I’d explain that quickly here 🙂 | <urn:uuid:a85704b2-4e2c-4db6-8ae6-02a81ecc8501> | https://www.saltyrunning.com/alphabet-soup/ | en | 0.942444 | 0.078134 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
As corona cases surge in Guntur, axe falls on Narsaraopet municipal chief
As the number of corona cases are surging in Andhra Pradesh, the government is cracking its whip on municipal commissioners for their failure to contain the spread of the virus.
A day after removing Kurnool municipal commissioner Ravindra Babu for a steady spike in corona cases in the district which has reported the highest figures in AP, the government has shifted Narsaraopet municipal chief Siva Reddy. On Friday, the government appointed IAS officer D K Balaji replacing Ravindra Babu. Earlier,the state government placed Nagari Municipal Commissioner K Venkatrami Reddy under suspension for his ‘adverse comments’ on the government with regard to Covid-19 crisis. K Venkatrami Reddy criticized the government for blocking the accounts and not supplying medical equipment such as masks, PPEs and gloves.
The state has been reporting double digit rise in coronavirus infections in the last one week as the state prepares for a gradual easing of its lockdown from next week. Kurnool continues to have highest number of cases at 411, followed by Guntur and Krishna with 306 and 240 cases respectively.
However, removing, shifting or sacking municipal officials will not help solve the problem at hand. The Oppoistion leaders said that the government has been taking stringent action against officials blaming them for failure to contain the spread of the virus while letting the ruling YSRCP leaders go scot-free for violating lockdown regulations. TDP leader Bonda Uma on Friday asked what action did the govenment initiate against several MLAs who violated the lockdown regualtions endangering the lives of the people. On Friday, as the positive cases of novel coronavirus continue to rise in Andhra Pradesh, Chittoor YSRCP MP Reddappa violated the lockdown by distributing food packets to around more than hundred people who had gathered on his call in his constituency in Chittoor.
“Despite experts advising people not to step out of their homes and practice social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus, people gathered heeding to a call given by the MP. The people stood close to each other, crowding the area, as the Chittoor MP distributed food packets to them,” TDP leader Bonda Uma staing that lockdown and social distance has to followed by all. “The law applies to all. Such actions by those representing people are highly condemnable,” he said. He squarely blamed YSRCP Srikalahasti MLA Madhusudhan Reddy and Sullurupeta legislator Kiliveti Sanjeevaiah for spread of the virus by taking out massive tractor rallies throwing the lockdown regulations to the winds.
“The YSRCP leaders are spreading the virus in the state, but the government seems to be busy sacking or removing municipal officials. YSRCP leaders are putting the lives of the people at a grave risk by blatantly violating the regulations by taking out rallies and organising large gatherings. “The government has made scape goats out of municipal commissioners which is unfortunate,” Bonda Uma said. He further said sacking or removing officials will not help, “pro-active efforts to track down and isolate the infected, access to basic, affordable public health care, and clear, reassuring messaging from leaders and aggressive public health campaigns intended to minimize infections will do a lot of good,” Bonda Uma gave his piece of advice.
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Exporting summary of annotations
1. Tap the Bookmark icon on the bottom navigation bar. If you don't see the navigation bar, tap the center of your screen to bring it up.
2. Tap the ANNOTATIONS tab.
3. Tap the Export button at the bottom.
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Adding a text annotation
Creating a text markup annotation
Changing the font of a text annotation
Adding a page bookmark
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Mortimer Snert and the Stray Cat
It was a crispy day in the neighbourhood when Mortimer Snert opened his front door to go to work. He was greeted by a skinny yellow cat. Hi, cat, said Mort. Aeiou! said the cat. Mort was impressed. At least the thing knew its vowels. Now Mort was certainly no veterinarian, but he knew that yellow cats should not be so skinny. So going back into the house, he produced a can of cat food which his own two cats had turned up their noses at and tried to cover up as if they thought it tasted like crap. Plopping a healthy pile of the offending cat food into a dish, he placed it in front of the yellow cat. Aeiou! said the cat. Yummy, said Mort, eat it, pointing at the dish, then at the cat. Suddenly the cat made the connection, and inhaled the cat food. Looking up at Mort, it repeated the only word it knew. Aeiou! Returning to the refrigerator, Mort scrounged some more junk for the cat to eat. Again, the cat inhaled the food. Great, thought Mort, now I have a four legged garbage disposer living on my front porch. He was now on the verge of being late for work, so he told the cat in as firm of a voice as he could muster, Go Away. Aeiou, said the cat. Mort leaped into his car and dashed off to work. Returning home at lunch, he was greeted by the yellow disposer. I suppose you would like some lunch, said Mort. Aeiou, said the cat. Mort opened a new can of nasty cat food, and fed the cat. Then he fed himself. Leaving after lunch, he was greeted by the yellow cat, doing the all too familiar starving cat routine. Go Away, said Mort. Aeiou, said the cat. Mort left the cat to starve on the front porch while he returned to work. Returning home after work, he was greeted by none other than the yellow starving cat-disposer. Aeiou, said the cat. You Can't Be Hungry, said Mort. Aeiou!! Said the cat. Mort could sense a battle of wills about to take place. Who would outlast the other? Would the cat get enough to eat before Mort lost patience with it? Time would certainly tell. Mort appeared on the front porch with four huge cans of nasty cat food, a can opener, and a knife. The cat appeared with all its skin and bones and a loud Aeiou! Mort whipped off the top of a can of Sea Captain’s Delight and flopped half of the can into the cat's dish. The cat promptly inhaled it. In went the other half. The cat inhaled this, too. Next was the Liver and Kidney Feast. That vanished as soon as it hit the dish. Next was Turkey and Giblets with Sauce. Mort had quit rationing the food by that time and just dumped the whole can into the dish. Aeiou, said the cat, as it inhaled this, too. Dang, thought Mort. This thing must be hollow all the way through. Next came the Chicken and Liver. The cat started to inhale this, too. About halfway through the last can, the cat suddenly stopped. Aeiou! Aeiou! It said. Mort reached out to touch it. Its skin was stretched almost to the point of ripping. It could not even move, it was so full of cat food. Great, thought Mort, now the thing is going to croak because I fed it too much. Suddenly, he had a vision of the fat guy on Monty Python blowing up. He looked at the cat. Was it swelling up? He could not tell. He guessed that if it was going to blow up, and it was going to be his fault, the least he could do would be to pet it a bit, at least until right before it exploded. So sitting on the porch, he reached over and started to pet it. Instantly, its purr-motor sprang to life. Mort was amazed that it could still purr, as stuffed as it was. It waddled over in front of him and started rubbing on his knee. Now there is some malfunction in some cats that cause them, when they are happy, to slobber. This particular cat was one of these. In fact, this particular cat had salivary glands that rivaled Niagara Falls. So after a few minutes of cat petting, Mort’s leg was soaked with cat slobbers. Mort was disgusted, to say the least. Finally convinced that the cat was not going to disintegrate on his front porch, he made his way inside, leaving a trail of cat slobbers. The next day, Mort was greeted on the front porch by the skinny cat-disposer. Quickly, he scrounged up some food for the cat to inhale. At noon, the same thing happened. Mort was now convinced that the cat had adopted him, and that it would probably be there forever on the front porch wanting something to eat. Over the ensuing weeks, Mort got the cat cut back to eating just one whole big can of disgusting cat food a day. The cat was finally getting some meat on its bones, and was finally getting healthy looking. Then it started to get fat. Then it started to get Real Fat. One fine day, when Mort went out to go to work, the yellow cat was standing on its toes at the front door, and when Mort opened the door, the cat bolted inside. Now Mort had a lot of patience with cats and such, but one thing that really annoyed him was cats bolting anywhere. Much less inside when he was about to be late for work. Muttering a few oaths, he searched for the cat, which was nowhere to be found. So he decided to leave the yellow cat to the mercy of his own psycho-cat. After all, it probably deserved to be ripped to shreds for bolting the way it did. So Mort went on to work, and forgot all about the yellow cat. Coming home for lunch, he discovered a real distinctive smell when he opened the door. Mort hated rude smells, and set about immediately to find out what it was. Well, he did not have to look too far. Heading up the stairs, he discovered the smell to be much more efficient up there. Looking quickly around, he discovered the yellow cat with no name, and four shiny new kitties all bundled up in the black cat's bed. Oh, brother, thought Mort. Fortunately, the black cat was off at the cat store getting repaired, and was not expected back for a while. So the juggle was on. Mort traded everything that involved cats around, trying to fix it so all the cats would be happy. He took the black cats bed and washed it out, and traded it for a box that was in the kitchen, and moved the yellow cat downstairs to the bathroom, and found a bed for the black cat, moved the cat boxes and cat food and water and everything else he could imagine. Going back to work after having had no lunch, Mort forgot all about the yellow cat. In fact, he had to work late that night, and when he got home, he discovered a Real Distinctive Smell in the house. Mort curled his nose and made his way to the bathroom where the yellow cat was. It wasn’t there. In the middle of the floor was a gigantic mountain of cat crap. It looked like the cat had been saving up all week for this display. The kitties were nowhere to be found, the water was dumped, cat food was strewn all over creation, and the scruffy cat was standing on top of the compactor, yelling at the top of its lungs. Mort was becoming a tad irritated. Making his way upstairs, he discovered the yellow cat, which had set up housekeeping in the black cat's bed, and had dragged all of the washcloths from the linen closet into the bed and loaded the kitties on them. The black cat was sitting in a carrier, having been dropped off by Mort’s mother, and it was a tad on the irate side, too. The scruffy cat had followed him up, and was still yelling. Mort was about to lose his patience. The first thing that had to be done was the floor in the downstairs bathroom Had To Be Cleaned. Braving the fumes, he cleaned the bathroom. Then he re-arranged all the food and water, and went and retrieved the yellow cat; bed, washcloths, kitties and all. Making sure it knew about litter boxes, he closed it in the bathroom. Next he found a bed for the black cat, and arranged it, and then fixed the scruffy cat. All the cats were separated now, and none of them was happy. All three were yelling, and it was midnight, and Mort turned on his fan and his stereo to drown out the noise, and went to bed. The next morning came all too early, and Mort, having not gotten a whole lot of sleep what with the two cats that were upstairs yelling all night, was a might on the grumpy side. He left for work without feeding the various cats, or even acknowledging their existence, for that matter. Weeks passed, and school was now over, and having survived all the end of school year activities left Mort drained. He was looking forward to a nice relaxing summer, that is until the English teacher at the high school asked him to help with Shakespeare in the park. Then the local museum people asked him to help them shoot a video thang. Of course all of this was volunteer type work, and Mort found out that when other people volunteer you to do something, they usually waste five times as much time as is needed, just for the sake of wasting time. So during all this, the kitties were still growing. They outgrew the cardboard box they lived in. They outgrew the bathroom. They outgrew the bathroom and kitchen put together. Something would have to be done. Mort tried and tried to give the cats away. Everyone thought they were nice cats, but nobody wanted one. He advertised them at the cat store, he advertised them at the humane society, he even thought about borrowing a little kid and having him sit in front of the supermarket with a box that said Free Kittens. Yes Mort would have to do something soon, the cats were taking over his life, and he could not have that. Finally Mort found a nice man who desperately wanted a kitty. Mort had the man come over and pick one out and take it home. This was the magic thing that needed to happen, and all of a sudden, people were lined up at his door to get cats. Mort gave away all the kitties, and then the mother cat. He considered giving away the other two and starting over again, but decided better of it. So Mort could now reclaim his kitchen. And in the process, he made a promise to himself to not feed any more cats on the front porch. | <urn:uuid:8b5c0d10-6d65-4b60-acf0-3a4061409c88> | http://nuke-the-whales.com/stray.html | en | 0.990231 | 0.113573 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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