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1. I didn’t really observe specific strategies for opening and closing the lesson. The classroom was exceptionally well-behaved and didn’t really need to be herded into anything. The transition from work time to the lesson was seemingly very well-established and ingrained into the routine. I did notice that during the lesson the teacher had the students filling in their notes on pre-made sheets made to go along with the lesson on the smartboard. This ensured that the students could follow along easily and the teacher could cover a wider range of material.
2. Again, I didn’t really see any active implementation of “strategy’ – the management of the classroom was largely accomplished by the strong establishment of an existing routine that everyone knew to follow. From the ringing of the bell to study time, study time to lecture time, and lecture time to the end of class, students took to the orderly transitions as a given. Mostly I would just say the teacher managed her time well to be able to cover the material in the time allotted.
3. The closed notes sheets she used seemed really helpful, if a little time consuming to prepare. I don’t typically do a whole lot of lectures, being an art teacher, but I have found that my lectures are a lot more focused when I have something like that for everyone to follow along with.
– This is a quick video about a teacher named Brian Van Dyck, who talks a little bit about his strategy for relating to students by focusing on one positive element of their personality that interests him. By letting them know that this trait interests him and encouraging them to emphasize it, supposedly it discourages more negative behaviors.
– This is an entry on the Panorama Education Blog about a study regarding common interests between teachers and students. In several groups, the teacher and students were given surveys about their hobbies and goals and varying degrees of the commonalities between both parties were shared with each group: In one, the students knew what they had in common with the teacher and the teacher did not, the next group was the reverse, then both, then neither. Unsurprisingly, both of them knowing they had common ground helped, although it seems in the case where only the teacher knew, it resulting in certain students maybe scoring higher, which is a little sketchy.
– A page on the American Psychological Association about positive teacher-student relationships. The information is divided into several tabs that tackle one aspect at a time. There’s a rather interesting one about halfway through devoted to “Theoretical perspectives to explain student behavior’ – about different theories on what motivates certain students to behave in certain ways and how they perceive teachers and their peers.
Very enlightening article. Kind of wish I didn’t read it in case I end up teaching in a rural community after I get my initial license. I certainly don’t want to feel like I’m helping to perpetuate a practice of forcing natives to supplicate themselves before the white people who’ve taken it upon themselves to help them. I can totally believe Dr. Alberts’ assertions that social service programs intended to help Natives might have adverse effects such on their autonomy – it actually kind of reminds me of a Kenyan economist named James Shikwati who has spoken out against foreign aid to combat poverty in Africa on the grounds that it actually destroys their farming economy by making it impossible for local farmers to compete. White people can’t solve everything!
Hopefully the changes planned for the Alaska Native’s education system can accommodate all these non-Natives whose careers depend on the current system staying the way it is, because otherwise I feel like it’d be hard to make those changes. People are going to fight for those jobs. Cutting them out of the loop completely might make it hard for them to empathize with the Natives’ situation and support their goals, and that’s if all of these Alaska Native organizations actually can get politicians to go along with eliminating an entire industry in the first place.
Four rules that I would post in my classroom:
1. Return materials to their appropriate place at the end of class
2. Start cleaning up 5-7 minutes before the bell
3. Be respectful during critique
4. Never attribute artistic ability to innate talent
The fourth rule is mostly a gentle reminder about how I want students think to about their ability to do classwork. A lot of kids tend to labor under the misapprehension that they’re either born with artistic talent or not and they limit themselves by deciding right away that they’re incapable of reaching a particular level of skill. I want to purge this notion from the class atmosphere as quickly as possible.
It’s an article on a website called Education World. It’s written by a clinical psychologist named Dr. Fred Jones who has done a lot of research on effective teaching methods and written a book called Tools for Teaching. He generally seems to promote the practice of laying a lot of groundwork in establishing rules early on to provide a foundation for an orderly classroom throughout the semester. The rest of the website offers articles on various topics and current events in the world of teaching.
Hi! My name is Matt Ferguson! I’m originally from Tennessee, but I’ve lived in Kenai, Alaska off and on since about 2004. I went to college at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, where I received a BFA in animation in 2012. As a teacher, my goal is to develop an art class where students can learn fundamental skills in design and drawing that will help them in their ongoing artistic development, as well as to help them articulate the essential components of their personal aesthetic and learn respect for artwork and creators coming from cultural backgrounds wholly unlike their own.
My education program will focus heavily on technical drawing skills, drawing from life, basic design principles and compositional techniques, and articulating art criticism. My students will be exposed to the work of many famous historical artists, but they will also be encouraged to seek out artwork that inspires them, both so they can develop their aesthetic sensibilities and so I can learn a little about their interests. I also want to teach them to articulate criticism so they can better understand their thought process toward developing their own work.
I enjoy making comics, and I’m also an avid fan of Japanese monster movies. I’ve actually been watching every Godzilla movie in chronological order over the past couple of weeks (almost halfway through!) | <urn:uuid:a28e0831-ae7a-4ede-b712-18c24eeb6dc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edsc658-458.community.uaf.edu/author/jmferguson3/ | 2022-08-18T16:22:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573242.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818154820-20220818184820-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.971843 | 1,427 |
“And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months…and the woman took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son….”
Exodus 2: 2, 9, 10
King James Version
“Jochebed – A Mother’s Strength”
“There are people fond of saying that women are the weaker vessels. I don’t believe it! Physically they may be, but spiritually, morally, religiously and in faith, what man can match a woman who is really convinced?”
Joseph F. Smith
As a woman, what areas of strength do I feel God has implanted in me?
“We are women, and my plea is, ‘Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.’”
“A woman is like a teabag. It’s only when she’s in hot water that you realize how strong she is.”
My grandfather was what used to be called, “a small-town doctor.” I can’t tell you how many times, when I was visiting my grandparents, that a patient would call grandpa and grandma’s house (yes, they had a listed phone number) and grandpa would grab his medical bag and hop in the car, sometimes driving very dangerous dirt roads out into the desert to some remote house where he’d deliver a baby or load a sick patient into the backseat of his car and take them to the hospital.
Everyone in town not only knew “Doc,” but loved him as well. He was part of the family – in some cases delivering three generations of babies. So it wasn’t surprising that when a patient got into a personal problem, they were just as quick to bring their dilemma to grandpa.
Years ago, when grandpa first opened his office, it didn’t take long before young girls, who were unmarried and pregnant, would be brought by their families to him with the question, “What are we to do?”’
Firm believers in the gift of life, my grandparents decided to open their home to girls who were “in trouble.” Over time, my grandmother was able to set up a network of relationships with organizations around the country who arranged for babies to be adopted if this was what the “birth mothers” chose. I’ll never forget being at my grandparents one summer when a young woman, only 5 years older that I was decided to live at grandpa and grandma’s house until her baby was delivered and adopted. One day this young woman called me into the cheery bedroom grandma had for her. She was sitting in a rocking chair knitting a pair of baby booties. As I watched, I remember how sad I felt. She must have noticed the look on my face for she smiled and said, “These are to be a gift for my baby. I hope that someday my child will look at these and know I really loved them and made a tough decision based on what I believed was best for their life and their future.” My reaction to her words was to think to myself, “What a strong girl!” For to be very honest, I don’t know if I would have had the strength she had to give up a child I loved as much as I believed she loved her baby.
We see this same strength exhibited in the life of Jochebed, Moses’ mother. Knowing that her little baby boy faced certain death if found by Pharaoh’s soldiers, Jochebed had the strength to let another woman raise her child in order to protect him from the murderous hands of an Egyptian ruler.
Jochebed wasn’t just Moses’ life-giver – the mother who carried him inside herself for 9 months –she was also the woman who was his life-protector. Moses had a future because of a mother who had the strength to give him a future. In the case of Jochebed, this wasn’t just a mother who delivered a baby and then laid him in another’s hands. For the Bible says, Jochebed nursed this child.
As I have thought about the unselfish strength Jochebed exhibited, I’ve asked myself, “For the sake of my child, could I do what this woman of God did to give her son a future?”
Some historical legends about Moses infer that he was a very beautiful and very special child and that Jochebed recognized this fact the moment he was born. Maybe, down deep inside, this mother – this Godly woman – sensed that at last, the deliverer of God’s people had arrived and this was part of the reason she used all her God-given strength to save her child and see that he had the opportunity to be all God wanted him to be.
The Psalmist David wrote: “The Lord is the stronghold of my life.” I can imagine Jochebed relying on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as she mustered all her strength and laid her precious child in the arms of an Egyptian princess, trusting that the God of her ancestors would protect her son wherever his life’s journey took him.
Jochebed understood that, “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4: 13
PRAYER FOR MY CHILDREN
“Thank You, Father, for the gift of children. They are a delight and a joy. They teach us much about Your unconditional love and acceptance.
I pray that as my children grow older they will also grow in their desire to seek after You. I pray that they would hunger and thirst for You and that the hunger and thirst would not be quenched until they have an intimate love relationship with Jesus Christ. Please develop in them a bright light that others may see. May their lives touch hundreds of others because of their love for You and a desire to glorify You. I pray that You would bind Satan from their lives and give them the power and strength to resist temptation. Please bless them with Your wisdom and guidance. I pray that they would marry a mate who truly loves You and desires to honor You. Gracious Father, please be with them and strengthen them through the rough bumpy roads as well as the smooth ones. May they see Your hand daily and experience the peace that can only come from You.
Please guide me daily so that I can be a Christlike example for them. Help me to impart Your wisdom and love to them. Please give me patience and understanding when I do not feel I have it to give. Keep a humble heart in me. O Lord. Please give me the discernment to know when I should ask for forgiveness from them. Help me to be the parent you want me to be so that they can be all you desire them to be.
In Your Blessed Name.”
Dorothy Valcarcel, Author
When A Woman Meets Jesus
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Reginenstraße 8, 20539 Hamburg
KünstlerIn: Ramaya Tegegne
Titel: Welcome to My Rectangle
Datum: 30. Juni - 8. Juli 2018
Fotografie: Courtesy the artist and VIS, Hamburg | Foto: Fred Dott
Ramaya Tegegne’s work addresses the processes by which the field of art is constituted. It focuses on those artistic practices which, from the 1960s on, began to make visible art’s social, economic and cultural determination, in this way problematizing dominant mechanisms within the field. Tegegne frames this issue through an examination of the social preconditions of art’s production, presentation and reception under present conditions. When she cites and appropriates historical artistic material, transposing it into a broader context, she does so in order to open up access to existing material, and in this way to open it up to experience.
In Hamburg, Tegegne shifts her focus to feminist and queer artistic practices, which in the 1980s confronted society with its silence towards patriarchal hegemony and heteronormative regimes. She appropriates Barbara Kruger’s image Your Comfort is My Silence, which straightly attacked the hierarchy of gender roles, as well as the distribution of activity and passivity and thus of speech and silence. Likewise, the graphic design Silence = Death, which the artists’ collective Gran Fury used on posters and illuminated signs, bringing the AIDS crisis into public consciousness. In a similar way, Our Bodies, Ourselves has a place within this exhibition: first released in 1970, it was among the earliest publications to offer instruction on female health and sexuality while taking social relations into account. Tegegne’s reflection on art-historical, sociological and economic contexts cuts to the heart of ideological constructions. Her practice forms part of a critical tradition which resists cooptation and rejects ascriptions of value, undermining categories of authorship, originality and singularity. Even the title of the exhibition enquires into the conditions where art can have the potential to change existing social representations. The phrase Welcome to My Rectangle is taken from a text by Jack Smith, appropriated by A.L. Steiner: it formulates an appeal to overcome the “nice neat rectangles,” and challenge predominant systems of order. Or, Adorno put it, “to resist everything merely posited, that justifies itself with its existence.”
Ramaya Tegene was born in 1985, and lives and works in Geneva. She has had solo exhibitions at the Park View off-site at Bureau des Realités, Brussels (2018), at Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich (2018), at First Continent, Baltimore (2017), and at the FRI ART – Kunsthalle Fribourg (2015). Tegegne has staged performances at, among other venues, the Kunsthalle Basel (2018), the Kunsthalle Bern (2017), and in the Swiss Institute, New York (2016). She is also co-founder of the curatorial project and bookshop Oraibi + Beckbooks in Geneva. In 2017, she launched the campaign Wages For Wages Against, which takes a position toward working conditions in the field of art. | <urn:uuid:6789cc57-0396-4a7e-b5bb-9e83401236f3> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.parnass.at/ausstellungen/ramaya-tegegne-bei-vis-hamburg | 2020-08-09T13:51:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738555.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809132747-20200809162747-00336.warc.gz | en | 0.91266 | 685 |
In the news today…
American Energy Innovation Act:
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a press release containing his remarks before Congress in favor of the American Energy Innovation Act.
- WV Metro News covers the progress of the American Energy Innovation Act.
- Utility Dive reports the American Energy Innovation Act will include provisions for carbon capture.
- E&E Greenwire reports coal production and demand have decreased even with the lifting of the coal leasing moratorium.
- Beaumont Enterprise and Mining.com report FERC’s change to the pricing rule will unfairly favor coal plants.
- Montana Public Radio reports NorthWestern Energy, Montana’s largest utility, has warned the public of potential blackouts if coal plants continue to close.
- S&P Global reports coal deliveries to U.S. power plants fell 6.7 percent in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- E&E Energywire reports advocates filed a lawsuit over FERC’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) change. | <urn:uuid:bbbddca0-ee90-4815-b889-6bfaecb96eef> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://leadinglightenergy.com/morning-news-round-up-3-4-20/ | 2020-03-31T22:43:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370504930.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331212647-20200401002647-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.88218 | 216 |
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome- Symptoms And Causes
Polycystic ovarian syndrome or PCOS is a hormonal disorder that can be commonly found among women of reproductive age. As per the experts in our free womens clinic, women suffering from PCOS can have prolonged or infrequent periods or can also have increased levels of male hormone levels. The ovaries of these women will have many small collections of follicles and will not release eggs regularly.
The medical field has not yet found the exact cause of the syndrome. Finding the problems at an early stage and getting proper treatment, together with weight loss can help reduce the risk of other complications like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Symptoms Of PCOS
Women’s health experts in many low income health clinics opine that the signs and symptoms of PCOS develop at about the time of the first period. There are also situations where PCOS can develop at a later stage, for instance, due to substantial weight gain. A PCOS diagnosis will be made when you have at least two of the below signs.
Excess Androgen Levels: Increased levels of male hormones in the body can lead to physical signs like excess body and facial hair, male pattern baldness, and severe acne.
Irregular Periods: Irregular, prolonged, or infrequent menstrual cycles will be common if you are suffering from PCOS. For instance, if you have PCOS, you will have less than nine periods a year, abnormally heavy periods, and more than thirty-five days between periods.
Polycystic Ovaries: if you have PCOS, your ovaries will be enlarged and can contain follicles surrounding the eggs. Due to the presence of these cysts, your ovaries can fail to function regularly.
Causes Of PCOS
As said above, the exact cause of PCOS is not yet found, but there are a few factors that can lead to PCOS. These are:
Low-Grade Inflammation: The term low-grade inflammation is used to describe the production of substances by white blood cells to fight infection. Studies show that women with PCOS have a type of low-grade inflammation stimulating the ovaries to release androgens.
Excess Insulin: Insulin is the hormone that helps our body cells to use sugar to get energy. If your body cells become resistant to the hormone, your blood sugar levels can increase and your body will produce more of the hormone. Excess levels of insulin in your body can increase the production of androgen, leading to ovulation problems. | <urn:uuid:3c626944-9897-4a92-b6dc-c7f54c06781d> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://ccchclinic.com/polycystic-ovarian-syndrome-symptoms-and-causes/ | 2022-12-04T09:29:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710968.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204072040-20221204102040-00424.warc.gz | en | 0.935611 | 522 |
Our sights are set on SXSW Interactive 2014 and we’d love your help to get us there! Organizers for this year’s competition received 3,000 submissions but are asking for your help to narrow it down to the best and brightest.
Thirty percent of the speaking selection process is based on community voting, and there’s been a two-day extension through Sunday, September 8 at 11:59 pm CT, so please help us by casting your vote for our distinguished Adobe Digital Marketing speakers and their proposed sessions listed below.
You’ll need to create a quick SXSW login and password in order to cast your votes and give these sessions a thumbs up.
- Search & Social Tie the Knot: Tips for Marketers – here
- Your New BFF: The Super Fan – here
- Faster Than Real-Time: Predictive Marketing – here
- Haters Beware: TV is Everywhere – here
- Creativity in Education: A Call for Transformation – here
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According to a tweet by Variety’s Marc Graser, Joss Whedon will begin filming ABC’s S.H.I.E.L.D pilot this January. The show will be based on the fictional government agency that was featured prominently in The Avengers. But despite its ties to the movie, we’re still unsure if we’ll ever see Samuel L. Jackson or Cobie Smulders make an appearance during the series.
We also don’t know much about the cast or the plot of the show, other than the fact that Ming-Na and Clark Gregg will both star in it. Gregg, of course, is reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson from the Marvel movies, even though his character was killed off during Avengers. With a January shoot planned, it’s possible that we’ll see our first episode of the show much sooner than expected, maybe for a late spring preview or a fall 2013 premiere. We’ll have more information on S.H.I.E.L.D as it comes available. | <urn:uuid:b1b5e36a-4ea4-4d89-8502-1c4d1146cbd9> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/11/find-out-when-joss-whedons-shield-tv-show-will-begin-filming | 2020-08-14T00:48:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739104.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813220643-20200814010643-00430.warc.gz | en | 0.96835 | 224 |
Scurrying and scraping noises from the attic not only cause distress and anxiety but are also a strong indication that rodents or other wildlife have taken up residence in your roof space. In particular, attics are the perfect environment for squirrels and rodents. Rodents can do significant damage to items stored in your attic while their constant gnawing can damage the fabric of your home and can even be a fire hazard if electric cabling is gnawed.
The cause of the noise should be investigated as soon as possible because the nests and droppings of these pests become ideal breeding sites for insects which then carry disease into your home.
The first step is to inspect your attic and look for visible signs of habitation by rodents or other wildlife. The most common sign of habitation is their droppings.
If not treated, mouse problems can quickly take hold.
The first line of defense is to proof your attic against their re-entry. Rentokil provides a professional service to get rid of mice on your premises.
It is an extremely serious situation if rats are getting into your home, even if not in a direct living area. Any rat problem inside the home must be treated urgently.
Rentokil can provide you with advice on the use of a wide range of rat control products available in stores for amateur use, but also offers the services of our fully trained pest control technicians. Proofing your roof space again re-entry is an effective way of preventing rats from returning to your attic, although you need to eradicate the infestation first and get rid of rats in the first place.
If squirrels get into your roof, they can cause significant damage by chewing and gnawing wood and electrical cables.
Squirrels can be removed from your property by catching them in squirrel traps. It is possible for the amateur to do this, although take great care when handling cages with live squirrels as they are likely to bite and scratch. However, professional pest control is generally recommended to deal with squirrels in the home.
Professional treatment of squirrels may also involve the use of mechanical traps or baiting with rodenticides. These are very effective methods but must be applied by appropriately trained technicians. As well as removing squirrels, it is essential to proof your home against squirrels to stop them from re-entering. This may include cutting branches of trees that overhang your property that squirrels use to access the attic.
If you would like further advice about squirrels in your loft or to arrange a visit from a Rentokil pest control technician, call us free on 0800 117 852 or email us.
Pigeons or other birds in the roof are a problem because of the mess and health risks their droppings cause, as well as the noise of cooing and flapping wings.
Make use of bird proofing methods to deter birds from entering. Entry points into your loft should be proofed using spikes, wire systems or bird netting.
It may be possible to get rid of pigeons and birds on your property, but bird removal is likely to require professional bird control methods such as trapping or baiting.
Rentokil are the bird control experts, so if you would like further advice or to arrange a visit from a Rentokil pest control technician, call us free on 0800 117 852 or email us.
Whilst Bats are a nuisance in your roof - and their droppings can attract insects - it is an offence under South African law to poison bats and transgressions can be punished by up to six months imprisonment or a R40,000 fine.
If you are aware that bats are roosting in your attic, you should consult with the Bat Conservation Group (BCG) before carrying out remedial timber treatments, insect control or rodent control that may cause harm to bats. The BCG is dedicated to the conservation of the approximately 65 species of insectivorous bats and the seven fruit-eating bats found in southern Africa. Contact the Bat Conservation Group on (011) 486 1102 or email them at firstname.lastname@example.org
While bats do not cause damage themselves, their corrosive droppings can damage wood and encourage insects.
Bats can be removed by a professional pest control technician and the entry points into the loft can be proofed to stop them from re-entering. We would only advocate this work being done at the end of the Bat breeding season so that we can ensure that no bats are left inside the roof when we seal it up.
If you would like further advice about a bat problem or to arrange a visit from a Rentokil pest control technician, call us free on 0800 117 852 or email us.
An insect infestation in your attic is likely to be caused by them attacking something stored in your loft such as food, textiles or wood or they may be living off the droppings of another pest in the loft such as those listed above.
Deep cleaning and the use of amateur insecticides will help to keep insects under control but you may require professional pest control treatment to eradicate the infestation.
Rentokil has the right solution for you. Find out more about how to deal with particular insects you may find in your loft:
No other company can match our expertise in dealing with any pest problem in the home. We deal with the problem and help to ensure it does not reoccur.
With our scale, we are always local to you. Our pest control service is fast, effective and offers the highest level of safety for your family and pets.
If you are concerned that you may have a pest problem and would like to arrange for a free survey from your local Rentokil technician or would just like further advice, please call us on 0800 117 852 or email us and we will customize an integrated pest management solutions tailored to your needs.
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Flourishing in Career Practice
How are independent career practitioners building thriving practices in today’s competitive market? 5 established practitioners will share their business and professional development journeys.
Tuesday September 24th 8.00am to 10.30am.
Columbo Centre, Vermont St., Ponsonby
The event will offer existing and emerging independent practitioners an opportunity to hear from a panel of speakers who are experienced and successful practitioners. They all work in career development but differ in the ways they do business, what they are known for (brand) and their models of practice.
The facilitator will be Janet Tuck of Career Clinic and will involve the following practice owners: –
- Jo Davies of Career Sense
- Julie Crawley of EAP Works
- Lee Brodie of Career Dynamic
- Kaye Avery of CareerEQ
- Frances Harre of Forte Careers
Janet’s facilitation will draw out answers to the questions we all want to know about; how they started, their market and income management approaches, their own professional learning and the future goals they have for their business. This will be followed by a round table discussion that will give attendees the opportunity to explore the questions and ideas gathered from the panel discussion.
We want this event to provide an overview of the diverse ways of doing business in our industry and the real challenges and opportunities for people in private practice.
Hosts: The Career Specialists group
Over the last few years, Career Specialists have held some very successful PD events designed specifically for private practitioners. These have been well supported and appreciated by many people in our industry. After a year in recess we are delighted to announce that we are now revitalised and ready to fulfil our mission which is twofold: –
- 1. Our primary focus is toprovide quality development opportunities and resources that are specifically designed to help independent career practitioners to be successful in their practices;
- 2. We are motivated to elevate and promote the professional profile of independent career practice throughout NZ.
To register email Judi Lubetski email@example.com who will send you a tax invoice.
Or phone any of the Career Specialist for more information:
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Don’t Act Your Age
My diet used to be simple; I was only allowed to eat until it hurt once per week. You know, the meal where you end up on the floor with your belt buckle undone moaning in pain. That was my diet. When the holidays hit, it wasn’t uncommon for this to not only occur more than once per week, but on those big eating days like Thanksgiving and Christmas it could happen more than once on the same day.
It is widely believed that Americans gain between 7-10 pounds between the months of October and January. The research actually shows it’s probably closer to 1-3 pounds. The problem is this weight doesn’t come off for 5-6 months and for many not at all. Over a few years this weight can really add up. For triathletes that are used to super high calorie diets to keep up with their training it can easily push closer to the 7-10 pounds if they take a few months off from structure during the holiday eating season. Trying to gain strength, power and endurance while operating at a caloric deficit to get the weight back off is very difficult.
So what do you do?
If you plan to take some time off from structured training try to remain consistent. Make a goal for the number of hours per day or number of days per week you plan to train. It could be as simple as getting in 1 hour of exercise per day, 5-6 days per week.
Focus on Running
This time of year is extremely busy. We have guests coming to town for the holidays or we are planning trips to visit family. Pools are often closed for big chunks of time or you simply can’t find one while traveling, and your better half thinks the Pack ‘n Play is more important on your holiday travels than your bike. Psst…unfortunately he or she is probably right. Running is the one thing you can squeeze in just about anywhere and offers more bang for your buck. Running has the biggest fitness returns and the highest transfer of training for the amount of time you put in. A run focus block can accomplish a lot with 4-6 hours per week and you do not have to worry about bike routes or pool schedules.
If you’re like us, the holidays means much less down time. The kids are home from school and require a lot more time making any workout that much more complicated. Think of ways to include them. They can ride their bikes with you while you run, you can push them in a baby jogger, or do hill repeats by pulling the kids up back up the local sledding hill.
Wake Up Early
There is so much going on during the holiday season that it’s tough to carve out time during the day for workouts. Whenever possible wake up and get your workout done first thing. I have learned that if it doesn’t get done early, it likely will not happen. “The early bird gets the worm.”
Water and Apples
A little trick I like to employ during the holiday season is to drink 1-2 cups of water and eat an apple before big meals. This just takes up space that I would otherwise fill up with mashed potatoes and gravy. Numerous studies have shown that drinking water before a meal results in consuming less calories in that meal. In another study published in the journal Nutrition, scientists found that instructing participants to eat an apple or a pear before meals resulted in significant weight loss.
Put your Fork Down
I may not win every race, but when it comes to finishing my dinner quickly I’m always on the podium. Try putting your fork down between bites. This forces you to slow down, eat more slowly and chew your food better. It also allows more time for satiation to set in so you’re less likely to go back for a second plate.
Increase Scale Time
Try stepping on the scale every day. Just knowing that you’re going to be checking your weight every day this time of year can make you a little more conscious of what you eat.
Increase spontaneous physical activity
Typically this time of year when training volume is the lowest it’s a good time of year to increase spontaneous physical activity, which technically includes activities of daily living, changing posture, and fidgeting. The “pros” talk about maximizing their recovery with afternoon naps and a sedentary lifestyle outside of their training, but that’s a recipe for disaster for the rest of us who train ⅓ as much. It’s too easy to blame age or genetics for age-related weight gain, but a lot has to do with the big picture of your activity level. Have you ever measured the steps of an active kid? The past couple weeks, Sullivan has been wearing a Suunto watch and he consistently racks up over 20,000 steps per day on a school day, without any structured training, and excludes taking the watch off for his 2 hour basketball practice. The kid can’t sit still. So get off your butt and do 10 squats, a few lunges, or run to the mailbox. Play with your kids or your pets. Whatever you do, don’t act your age.
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Patriots’ Martin Victim of Home-Invasion Robbery During Championship Game
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police haven’t identified any suspects yet in the home invasion robbery at the Colorado home of New England Patriots defensive back Derrick Martin.
Two masked men forced their way into Martin’s home in the Denver suburb of Aurora on Sunday night when he was with the team at the AFC championship game.
Police spokeswoman Cassidee Carlson said Tuesday that the men held an adult woman and some children at gunpoint but wouldn’t confirm whether they were members of Martin’s family.
Police don’t have good descriptions of the two men and aren’t sure yet whether Martin was targeted.
Carlson said the men took some valuables but left other items behind. She wouldn’t describe what was taken.
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The global Electroretinography market was 33 million US$ in 2018 and is expected to 56 million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% between 2019 and 2025.
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Geographically, the consumption market is leading by North America and Europe, sales in Asia Pacific regions like China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India will see significant growth in a future period. In terms of the year 2017, Europe holds the largest market share, with about 645 Units sales volume and 43.03% market share, followed by North America, with about 629 Units sold and 41.96% market share. North America and Europe will keep playing an important role in the Global market.
Global leading manufacturers are mostly based in the USA and European countries like Germany, France, Italy and etc. CSO Italia and Diagnosys LLC are the biggest two players in Electroretinography market, with about 24.71% and 19.26% market share separately in 2017. Other leading market players in Electroretinography market include LKC Technologies, Inc, Electro-Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., Diopsys, Inc., etc. the market competition may become more intense with more innovation products, acquisitions, and improvement of raw material cost control and etc.
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Tioman Island, Malaysia
It’s while I’m scrambling over rocks, jumping between boulders, that I wonder if this was a good idea. I’m in the middle of the jungle, I haven’t seen anyone else the whole time, and I’ve lost the path. The compass on my phone tells me I’m walking the complete different direction to what I thought.
As I grab onto a narrow tree for support, I feel a sharp pain on my hand. I swear under my breath (instinct – there’s no one to hear me) and hope it’s not one of the spiders I’ve had to brush aside as I crashed through their webs. I look at my fingers and see a large ant on there. I shake it off and see some blood where it had been. Bloody hell.
This is supposed to be a relaxing place – that’s what Tioman Island is known for. So how have I ended up in this situation, lost and alone, worried that if I slipped down one of these rocks I would only be found by spiders who would slowly eat me alive.
I guess I thought a jungle hike would be like it was on the Perhentian Islands where I was a few days ago. But the paths here are not nearly as well-trodden or as easy to navigate.
I guess it makes sense. Although there are a lot of similarities, this is a very different place.
Tioman Island is off the east coast of Malaysia and it takes about two hours to get here on a ferry from the mainland. But, unlike the Perhentian Islands, it’s also accessible by plane (although there are currently no regularly-scheduled flights). There’s a small airport at the main city of Tekek for those who don’t want to spend too much time getting here. There are also roads – another big difference. Around Tekek, cars drive between different parts of the town. In some of the smaller developed parts, the roads are only wide enough for motorbikes. But it’s enough to change the connectivity of the island. When you can get around some parts with a vehicle, the walking tracks are a lot less important.
From Tekek, there’s a short coastal path to the area where I’m staying, which is officially called Air Batang but is colloquially called ‘ABC’. Everything is within about 50 metres of the coast, along which stretches a long beach, occasionally broken up by rocky outcrops. There are some houses for locals who live here but most of the buildings are bungalows for tourists or casual restaurants, shops and a few bars. Like much of Malaysia, the bars are limited because of the predominance of Islam – there’s even a large sign near the jetty warning Muslims that if they buy or sell alcohol they could face three years in gaol or six strokes.
A lot of the shops are offering snorkelling tours and there are also a few dive centres here. It’s a popular spot for those who like to spend their time under the water and I notice a pool at one of the centres where people are learning how to use the equipment. Boats take people to other parts of the island or to spots offshore where there are good diving and snorkelling sites.
There’s a fair amount to see right off the beach, though. When I get back from the jungle (yes, I did make it out alive) I go for a dip to wash off the sweat from the humidity under the trees. I have my goggles with me and, as I swim around, I see all sorts of colourful fish in the water.
The accommodation at Tioman Island offers something for every type of traveller. Even here at the ABC beach there’s a range from backpacker dorms to luxury chalets. At other parts of the island you can find even more exclusive resorts. Some of the travellers I meet are hardcore divers who are here for a week to focus on that. Others just want to have a few days of fun or relax in the sun away from the country’s big cities.
I’m starting to realise that Malaysia’s islands are one of the big drawcards for a trip to the country. It sounds like something that should be obvious but I had always thought about the culture and the nature on the mainland. But places like Tioman Island offer a tropical getaway that has the best things of the islands in somewhere like Thailand, without the negatives. It doesn’t have the overdevelopment and the hordes of tourists – and everything they bring. That’s not to say it’s not busy and certainly a lot of people come here. But you don’t find the large hotels, the chain convenience stores, the constant offers of massages.
Instead you get a genuinely relaxing experience with just enough infrastructure to make things easy and just enough isolation to feel like the rest of the world is a million miles away.
Perhaps I should be grateful I got lost in the jungle. It was a real adventure that’s hard to find on other Asian tourist island. But at least I had a bungalow and a beach to come back to.
How do you get to Tioman Island?
At the moment, there are no scheduled flights to Tioman Island so the only way to get there is by ferry. The ferries leave from the pier at Mersing (you can see the location on a map here). The schedule is different for each day because of the tides and the ferry company is terrible at making these times available online. You normally have to rely on one of the dive centres posting the schedule. Tioman Scuba should have the latest one here. The ferry costs 75RM return.
There are lots of buses that go to Mersing from different parts of the country. I would recommend booking a ticket in advance with Bus Online Ticket.
Where should you stay on Tioman Island?
Quite a lot of the budget accommodation options aren’t online and you’ll find them once you arrive on the island. But here are some places you can book in advance, for peace of mind.
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For one of the most popular places at ABC Beach, I would suggest the lovely ABC Chalet.
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- Dental Science, 5 Year(s) Full Time, Closing Date: 01/FEB/2015
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- Dental Science, Closing Date: 01/FEB/2015
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This five-year programme is designed to ensure that graduates can safely and effectively deliver the full range of primary dental care, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of oral and dental diseases. Treatment involves areas such as the restoration of damaged teeth, the correction of irregularities, the replacement of missing teeth and surgical procedures such as the removal of teeth. After qualifying there is no mandatory intern year, unlike medicine, although some graduates undertake vocational training either in Ireland or the UK.
Is this the right course for you?
Yes, if healthcare interests you and if you would like to specifically focus on oral healthcare and its impact on individuals. The nature of dentistry makes it essential that you also have an ability to build a caring and professional relationship with patients, co-workers and the wider community. You should also enjoy undertaking clinical practice that is physically and mentally demanding as it requires considerable attention to detail with small margins for error. The course is long (five years) and intense as the academic year is much longer than for students of other courses.
Why study at Trinity?
This course is based in the Dublin Dental University Hospital at Trinity. The clinical facilities are of a very high standard with emphasis on the use of information technology. The class sizes are small, ensuring that students receive considerable staff input into their progress throughout the programme. The course is very practical throughout with lots of hands-on experience treating patients. Students commence treating their own patients (under supervision) in the second year and by the fifth year are expected to have completed a wide range of treatments similar to those provided in general dental practice. Graduates of the Trinity School of Dental Science and Dublin Dental University Hospital are highly sought after due to the extensive clinical exposure obtained during this programme.
Problem-based learning (PBL)
The curriculum is delivered in a problem-based learning (PBL) format, which aims to provide you with the skills to continuously evaluate and update your knowledge and clinical practice through your professional career. PBL is designed to encourage students to learn subjects such as chemistry, biochemistry and physiology in an integrated manner and in a context that is relevant to the future clinical situations in which the knowledge will be applied. Structured problems are set to meet specified learning objectives and students organise themselves (under supervision) to undertake research to find out how to achieve the learning objectives. PBL also encourages students to engage in self-directed learning and aims to provide graduates with the skills necessary for life-long learning which is a requirement for all health care professionals.
The course is delivered mainly through small-group tutorials (PBL) that consist of student-led discussions on topics and problems presented and facilitated by staff. These topics tie in with the development of the practical and clinical skills that you will develop in laboratories and clinics. Lectures, demonstrations, simulations, audiovisual and e-learning opportunities are also provided as appropriate.
You will provide patient care under the strict supervision of qualified dental staff from the second year onwards.
First year modules:
Personal and professional development, Human biology I, Physical science.
Second year modules:
Basic dental care, Human biology II, Oral biology and introduction to pathology, Public dental health.
In second year you will develop communication skills with particular reference to patient care, learn how to interpret and explain the clinical signs and symptoms of systemic and oral disease with particular reference to dental practice, and begin to practice the clinical skills necessary for the treatment of patients. Courses in the second year are complemented by knowledge of the relevant elements of the biological and medical sciences appropriate to the needs of a practising dentist.
Clinical training begins in the second year with students learning the vital basic skills of history taking, examination and diagnosis. Approximately half way through the year you will start providing very simple treatments for patients.
Third year modules:
Clinical medical sciences, Fixed and removable prosthodontics, Comprehensive patient care I.
Fourth year modules:
Comprehensive patient care II; Advanced restorative dentistry I; Child dental health; Oral medicine, oral surgery and oral pathology I; Public dental health.
Fifth year modules:
Comprehensive patient care III, Advanced restorative dentistry II, Public and child dental health, Oral medicine, Oral surgery and oral pathology II, Evidence-based dentistry.
During the later years (3-5) of the course you will be encouraged to take an approach to the management of oral health and disease which is based on the best available scientific evidence. In tandem with this, you will also need to be aware of related general healthcare issues for individuals and communities. In these three years you will provide more complex patient care.
In keeping with the PBL-style curriculum, a wide variety of assessment methods are used in all years. There are end-of-term integrated written assessments, practical tests, skills tests of competence, clinical examinations, written reports and oral/verbal presentations. The written assessments include short essays, short answer and multiple choice type questions.
Students in the fourth year can participate in an English-speaking Erasmus exchange programme with dental schools in Norway, Sweden or the UK. Between the fourth and fifth dental years, some students undertake voluntary placements in a wide variety of international locations.
There is a wide range of career options open to qualified dentists. New graduates usually find themselves deciding whether to work in general dental practice providing both state funded or private dental care, or in the salaried public dental service. Many graduates choose to continue their education with the aim of becoming a specialist in one area within dentistry. Dentistry does give scope to work and travel worldwide. Citizens of the EU who graduate from an EU dental school may practice anywhere in the EU and there is currently demand for dentists all over Europe.
Your degree and professional practice (B.A., B.Dent.Sc)
The degree Bachelor of Dental Science (B.Dent.Sc) conferred by Trinity entitles EU citizens to register immediately after graduation as a dentist on the Register of the Dental Council of Ireland and they may also register with the regulatory bodies of other countries in the European Union (such as the UK, France, Germany, etc.).
Graduates who wish to practice in countries outside the EU such as the USA or Canada may be required to pass specified examinations. There is a mutual recognition agreement between Ireland and Canada whereby dental graduates from Irish dental schools can practice dentistry in Canada without the necessity to complete an additional two years in a dental institution in Canada.
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Conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, put the Caribou-Targhee National Forest and J.R. Simplot Company on notice they could be sued for allowing selenium pollution at the Smoky Canyon Mine in southeast Idaho. Earthjustice is representing the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
A 60-day notice letter sent by Earthjustice says the open dumping of waste rock at the phosphate mine illegally contaminates the underlying aquifer with toxic levels of selenium. Selenium is a mineral that is prevalent in the southeast Idaho phosphate mines. Phosphate ore is primarily used for fertilizer and agricultural chemicals.
The Trouble with Selenium
Selenium at trace amounts is not harmful. But at higher concentrations, selenium can trigger serious toxic effects in fish, livestock, wildlife, and humans. Reproductive failure, severe deformations both at birth and in adults, and even death can occur. Once released into our land and water, toxic levels of selenium persist for hundreds of years, threatening the health and prosperity of future generations. Selenium also builds up in the food chain with increasing concentrations in plants, fish, and animals - including trout, deer, and elk that are eaten by local hunters and anglers and their families.
Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans said, "The mine and the Forest Service are breaking the law by polluting the water of one of the most beautiful regions in America. We intend to do something about it."
The Forest Service and the company are violating the open dumping prohibition of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). A waste rock dump in the active portion of the mine is contributing selenium to the groundwater at levels above the RCRA regulatory standard. The Smoky Canyon Mine is one of 17 phosphate mines in southeastern Idaho that have been designated as Superfund sites as a result of serious selenium contamination. Current and past phosphate mining in the region has resulted in ongoing widespread selenium contamination of streams, groundwater, vegetation and soil. Despite the ongoing environmental damage, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management have just released a final environmental analysis that will lead to a 1,300-acre expansion of the mine into the Sage Creek and Meade Peak roadless areas.
"Selenium pollution from phosphate mines in southeast Idaho has caused over 500 documented livestock deaths, untold numbers of wildlife deaths, and depleted native trout from streams in southeast Idaho," said Marv Hoyt of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.
"Not a single phosphate mine in southeast Idaho has ever been fully cleaned up after mining," said Johanna Wald of Natural Resources Defense Council. "These mines continue to pollute the land and water long after mining ceases."
In September, Edgar Imhoff, a retired federal hydrologist and environmental clean up expert, released a report documenting the decades-long cover-up of toxic selenium contamination in southeastern Idaho by federal agencies and the phosphate mining industry. The industry together with federal land managers have claimed publicly the harmful effects of elevated selenium concentrations were not known until after a 1996 incident when several horses had to be euthanized after becoming poisoned by selenium in a pasture downstream from the Maybe Canyon phosphate mine.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request made clear that mining companies and federal agencies have colluded for years to cover up knowledge of potential harm from selenium contamination. It is clear that, in 1982, Simplot and the Forest Service knew of the connection between the disposal of waste rock and selenium contamination of the environment. Also, the Forest Service and Simplot must have been aware of the extraordinarily high concentrations of selenium in the ore at Smoky Canyon Mine -- the highest in southeast Idaho -- and the highest ever found in the history of sampling selenium in the United States.
Read a fact sheet on the Smoky Canyon Mine
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Zhu Yao felt she had crossed over into another world, and it all happened without warning. Just a moment ago, she was still chatting with her friend on the computer, discussing about the loophole in the new online game her company developed. In the next instant, she was already inside this thatched house, while still holding onto the white mouse.
For a full ten minutes, she did not react at all. She looked at the mouse in her hands, and subconsciously looked for the CPU and the monitor which suddenly disappeared. However, she could do nothing but stare at the worn-out table in front of her. What computer? What monitor? She could not even find her freaking keyboard.
“Stinky brat, why are you still sitting around here for?” Someone pushed open the door, and a hand came hitting towards her. She subconsciously dodged, the mouse that was in her hands was slapped away. It then rolled onto the floor and disappeared without a trace.
Zhu Yao then raised her head and looked at the person beside her. She was a very skinny woman, the creases on her forehead was deep, and the deep-coloured clothes she wore was greyed out, as though the colour faded after being washed many times. Her entire body was emitting out a ‘I’m a peasant woman’ atmosphere. The main factor was the ancient-styled clothes she was wearing.
“Who are you?”
The woman instantly flared up. “Who am I? Have you become muddled from sleeping too much!? I’m your mother! Hurry up and boil some water, the sun is already shining so bright it’s burning my buttocks, and you’re still lazing around in the house! Do you want to get smacked?”
The woman’s first strike missed, but with her other hand, she picked Zhu Yao up, and pulled her out of the room without giving any explanations.
Zhu Yao felt that she had to explain to her, unfortunately, she could not find the opportunity, and when she returned to her senses, she had already been thrown into the kitchen.
Looking at the firewood which was stacked up to half the height of the wall, and the clay furnace, Zhu Yao felt that there was definitely a problem with her world transmigration method. She was still wearing her own pyjamas, with not a single change. This proved that she crossed over with her own body, then how did that mother of hers appear? Even though she crossed over with her body, it used the setting of a soul crossover. Was this really alright? The most important thing was, she did not even know how to start a fire, let alone boil water!
Although she knew world transmigration was like buying groceries recently, a very trending phenomenon, she never expected there would come a turn for her. She was nothing but a technology geek, after all.
Because she was interested in computers ever since she was young, after graduating, she had been working in jobs related to developing games. With a bunch of single friends, they came together and developed a game. The game 《Deity Royal》 which they created became one of the hottest games in the country, and as the game matured, safeguarding the game became her main job in her company.
Investigating the loopholes and bugs that existed in the game, coming up with fixes, etc. She was one of those legendary GMs. There’s not even a single benefit to having a person like her crossing over, is there? Just which bastard made me cross over into another world? Come out! I promise I won’t beat you to death!
Three months went by in a flash, Zhu Yao had crossed over into this world for three months now, and she had gotten a better understanding of the situation around her. The place she was living in was a small village, and because most of the people living in the village had the surname ‘Zhu’, it was called Zhu Village. Her name was also Zhu Yao, and the middle-aged woman back then was her mother. She was one of the widows in the village, and according to what she found out, the mother and daughter had relied on each other for decades.
She had once tried to explain her origin to this mother-in-name of hers with hand-drawn pictures. Unfortunately, she did not believe it, and Zhu Yao was even forced to visit Doctor Wang near the village entrance, saying she needed a few jabs.
Looking at the kind-looking middle-aged doctor stroking his beard as he took out dozens of needles with the thickness of a thumb, Zhu Yao instantly threw aside her integrity, hugged onto her ‘mother’, and burst out crying. “Mother! You’re my biological mother!”
“Your mind is finally clear now? Don’t ever spout such nonsense again.” With a pained look, ‘mother’ wiped away Zhu Yao’s tears, and did not forget to give Doctor Wang a word of praise. “Doctor Wang is really a genius doctor. The moment your needles came out, my daughter instantly recovered.”
“You flatter me!” Doctor Wang laughed really proudly, as he spun the needle in his hand. “Mrs. Zhu, you’re too courteous. As insurance, allow me to jab Yao-er two more times, to prevent relapses.”
“…” Your sister will relapse.²
In short, Zhu Yao threw her past away, and from then on, she never dared to bring up the topic about her crossing from another world, and lived peacefully in the Zhu Village as an old missy! That’s right, she’s an old missy. When she crossed over, she was twenty-eight, and in this world, not being married even at the age of twenty-eight, she was extremely old for a missy.
As to why she did not marry, her ‘mother’ never brought it up, and Zhu Yao had it easy. She was extremely afraid that a husband would somehow appear out of nowhere, and if that were to happen, even if Doctor Wang were to stab her with a wooden club, she would not care less.
“Yao-er, you’re heading off to wash your laundry?” As she was about to head to the riverside, she met Doctor Wang along the way, and he was giving her a smile like a sunflower, which smelled like chrysanthemum.³
“Un… Uncle Wang!” Zhu Yao instinctively took a step back, afraid that he would pull out a needle from somewhere.
She blocked her chest with the wooden basket filled with clothes. “Mother said the sun is good today, so she wants me to wash the beddings.”
“Is that so!” Doctor Wang laughed, and then sighed. “What a diligent girl. If not for…” He paused mid-way through his sentence, and as though he had brought up something he should not have, he looked at her a little apologetically.
“Is there something you need of me, Uncle Wang?” Seeing his hesitant look, Zhu Yao had no choice but to take the initiative.
Doctor Wang smiled apologetically, and pushed the little boy next to him. “It’s like this. I heard there’s deities coming to the city to select disciples, and everyone is allowed to try it out. I wanted to have my child test his luck, but my wife just happened to be ill, and I can’t leave, so…”
Zhu Yao looked at the boy he was holding onto. He looked about seven or eight years old, and had a pretty delicate-looking and tender little face. Currently, his cheeks were inflated, and he was looking at her with pouted lips, which made Zhu Yao feel like pinching him.
Zhu Yao raised her head and looked at Doctor Wang. They evidently did not look alike at all.
“Uncle Wang, you want me to bring him over in your stead?” Uncle Wang nodded, and became even more embarrassed. “I know this might interrupt your work, but these deities only come once every ten years. Although the number of people they select each time never amount to more than a handful, there is still a possibility. If one were to be selected, that person can become a deity, after all.”
Becoming a deity? Zhu Yao had always been allergic to these unscientific things, as though she was able to faintly smell the scent of frauds.
But after all, she and Doctor Wang both lived in the same village, and it’s not like she was able to return back to her own world any time soon. And since both of them frequently met each other, it’s not a problem to help out from time to time. Hence, without saying another word, she accepted his request.
After Doctor Wang gave her plenty of thanks, he took over her basket, saying that he would return them in her stead, and pushed the kid, who was evidently angry, to her. Then, he left happily.
After he walked a couple of distance away, the little boy suddenly flung her hands away, and with a pout, he looked at her with contempt. “Let me tell you this, even if you help me, I will not marry you.”
Zhu Yao was startled, and was momentarily amused. She could not help but pinch his pink and tender cheeks. “You little wimp, you’re not even that old yet, what nonsense are you talking about?”
“I’m not speaking nonsense!” The little boy dodged her hands, and rubbed his aching cheeks. “I have already heard all about it. No one in the village dares to marry you, so you’re not married even at the age of twenty-eight. All men must stay away from you, otherwise, if they were to be depended by you, their lives will be ruined.”
No matter how desperate she was, she would not lay her hands on a kid, right? “Tell me clearly. How will I ruin their lives?”
The little wimp became even more haughty. “You can’t give birth to any kids, whoever marries you will have their lineage cut off, you will obviously ruin their lives.”
Infertility! Zhu Yao was stunned by this shocking revelation. That’s impossible. Even though she was a technogeek, she would still go for check-ups every year. How would she not know about being infertile? Even if God planned on rationalizing how a twenty-eight year old unmarried woman could cross over to this world, he should not have the need to do it this badly, right?
“I’m the only son of my family, I will not marry you, so give up!” The little wimp placed his hands on his hips, and once again emphasized with a serious tone.
“Ay! What haughty attitude is this!” As expected of a spoiled brat, three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to strip the tiles!⁴ He’s basically asking for a beating! Rolling up her sleeves, she scooped up the little wimp with a single arm, and with her other hand, she gave his buttocks a sound smacking. “This is what you get for having no manners! This is what you get for spouting nonsense! This is what you get for calling me infertile! You’re infertile! Your entire family’s infertile!”
The little wimp finally knew of fear, and desperately began to struggle. But, he was but a child of seven or eight years old, how could he compare to Zhu Yao, who was a twenty-eight-year-old adult (unmarried)? A dozen of slaps came smacking down, the little wimp’s snow-white buttocks had already puffed up and turned bright red.
He had also begun to cry out loud after his initial struggle, and finally, he gave up on resisting as well. Come on, cry out loud, cry louder. Doctor Wang had already walked pretty far away anyway, even if you were to cry your lungs out, no one would come and save you. Wakakakakakaka… kuh… There seems to be something wrong with this scene?
Only after about half an hour, did Zhu Yao finally release the boy, whose face had already been utterly tear-ridden. She looked at him as he wiped off his tears while he pulled up his pants. The feeling of teaching a spoiled brat a lesson, is simply incomparably refreshing.
“I will let this one time slide, if you were to show such an impolite behaviour one more time, I will…” Zhu Yao dragged out her warning, satisfyingly looked at the trembling spoiled brat, and laughed even more happily. “I will make sure you won’t be able get off your bed, understand?” Eh? This line sounds a little strange? Ah, I don’t care anymore. “Let’s go. We’re going to the city. Make sure to follow me!”
Zhu Yao took the lead as she walked over to the main road. After walking a distance of about five steps, the spoiled brat then limped after her, and it looked as though a kettle could be hooked onto that pouted lips of his.
- This title came from a saying. In the ancient days, a girl’s dream is to become a peasant woman, live by the river, and have a small little field.
- ‘Your sister will relapse’ – It’s like how people say, ‘Your momma’s fat’.
- ‘Smile like a sunflower, which smelled like chrysanthemum’ – There’s hidden intentions hidden beneath his smile.
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Guest blogger, Dr Natalie Schmitt, a biologist researching the humpback whale turns her focus and skills to snow leopards. She shares her journey with us here.
“In biological terms, a “rare” animal is one that is in low abundance or restricted geographical distribution or both, whereas an “elusive” animal refers to one that has a low probability of detection. As a conservation geneticist, documentary film maker and presenter I’ve always had a deep fascination with these mysterious and intriguing animals, particularly apex predators, as they offer insight into the health and wellbeing of our planet’s ecosystems. These ‘keystone species’ play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms and helping to determine the types and numbers of various other species within the community. Without them, an ecosystem can collapse. These species however, prove tremendously challenging to study and it has taken science many years of visionary development to enable us to begin to understand and monitor these important animals.
From whales to Tasmanian devils to snow leopards
Whilst filming a documentary on the Tasmanian Devil in 2004 and 2005, I discovered the usefulness of video camera traps in understanding the behavioural parameters of individuals and populations in cryptic species.
However, I really wanted to find a method or a tool that could permit us to study many more aspects of these animals that are key to their conservation; methods and tools that can continually evolve to unlock more of the mysteries that enshroud them. Welcome to the amazing, ever-evolving and useful world of noninvasive genetic sampling!
Why do wildlife biologists need this technique?
This type of sampling has become particularly appealing to wildlife biologists studying rare and elusive species, as they are able to obtain critical data without capturing, handling or even observing an animal. Using hair, faeces or skin samples and the DNA that can easily be extracted from them, this method has the power to assess genetic diversity, population structure and social structure, estimate abundance, track an animal’s movement, identify where populations are mixing, determine sex and today we are very close to being able to estimate age. And these are not the limit of the applications! Given the endless utility of noninvasive genetic sampling, I jumped at the opportunity to study these methods through a PhD with the Australian Antarctic Division, using the humpback whale as my model species; a highly mobile, migratory animal that is largely inaccessible, is wide-ranging and their populations are not easily distinguishable.
With the development of new molecular techniques such as the polymerase chain reaction, we are now able to look at variations in DNA sequences and use those variations to identify species, populations, individuals, sex and now reconstruct age; these are what we call molecular markers. Which marker we use depends on how distinguishable the entities are that we are studying. For example, using maternally inherited mtDNA, I was able to look at broad genetic differences between humpback whales that breed around Australia and the South Pacific, as this marker is highly variable among whale populations as well as species.
To detect fine-scale structure however, when you’re trying to distinguish between or track individuals or genetically similar populations, biparental nuclear markers such as microsatellites are used, as sequence fragment lengths vary considerably. Through the combination of both these powerful markers I discovered that humpback whales breeding along eastern Australia mix with a genetically similar endangered South Pacific population on their Southern Ocean feeding grounds. This discovery will help us determine the true impact of whaling on breeding populations as well as how we should manage these populations in the future.
From whales to snow leopards……
Snow leopards are also highly mobile, rare and elusive creatures that are extremely difficult to study simply because they are so rarely seen….and they happen to be one of my favourite animals! However, the same genetic markers that helped me understand humpback whales can also help fill in the knowledge gaps for snow leopards. Using hair follicle and scat samples combined with genetic markers, we can now start to understand their migration and dispersal routes, their social and population structure, population size and food habits, age structure and even track snow leopards in the illegal trade in wildlife parts, at a relatively low cost. My hope is to work with members and researchers of the Snow Leopard Network to help turn this dream into a reality!”
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Gas cylinders are manufactured from metal and are often pressurised. Most gas cylinders may be coated in paint for identification purposes, instructions on use and return contact details. They are used for a wide range of applications and products, either purely for gas or as a gas propellant - for example fire extinguishers. They are of varying quality, size and markings to suit the type and pressure of gas, its function and the supplier. Most gas cylinders purely for gas may be returned or collected by the original supplier, including liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed gas - refer to BCGA and UKLPG in further reading.
Usage & Probable Locations
Unwanted and unidentifiable gas cylinders (orphaned cylinders) are regularly found on derelict sites and in buildings. They may have been used for operational processes such as fuel for plant and equipment, or for functional activities such as cutting, welding, fire fighting or specialist equipment. They may be found in stairwells, fire fighting stations, hanging on wall brackets, inside cages, within store rooms, on a rack, in facilities management areas or in maintenance rooms.
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Gas cylinders purely for gas are generally stored in a cage, a cradle, a rack, on a trolley or in a specialist holder designed specifically for that purpose. Fire fighting cylinders may be fitted to a fire station, hang from a wall bracket or stand in a molded well. Wall brackets may be fixed in place with expansion bolts, nuts & bolts, screws or studs. Some gas cylinders and those used outside for storing propane or butane, will be of a higher grade and design for use in harsh environments which may include farms, factories, processing plant, sewage works and maritime areas.
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Join our discussion of how to raise healthy, happy eaters this week on The Feed
Photograph by Adam Sachs
Dear Obsessivore Jr.,
Son, we are alike in many ways. Both of us get cranky when we’re not fed on time. We pound the table in anticipation and make quick work of whatever’s put in front of us. When we’re done, we crane our necks in every direction, searching for more. Like junkies, we eye those around us suspiciously, trying to figure out who’s holding out on more yummies. We are junkies of yumminess, you and I. And when we hit the bottle, things tend to get drooly and messy.
We have our differences, of course. You like bananas. Whereas I, with my giant evolved daddy brain, see that yellow mushy-stick for the cloying fruit of hell that it truly is. That’s okay. You squeeze them in your fists and mash ’em around in (or sometimes just near) your mouth and flash a crazy grin of approval.
You’re nine months old this week and you are a very good eater.
When Bon Appetit asked me to muse on the subject of my anxiety about raising a good eater, I said sure, because being a parent means that no anxiety will be left behind. But there’s reason to believe you will not be finicky or troubled in matters of digestion. In the nature-versus-nurture sweepstakes, being the child of two eager, interested, sometimes-professional eaters, the odds of your having a healthy appetite were always in your favor. I am quite familiar with the range of your tastes: I’ve peeled, pureed, mashed, and steamed nearly every semisolid bite you’ve eaten. You took easily to broccoli, apples, peas, sweet potatoes, parsnips. Shards of baguette and tiny torn shreds of the sticky almond croissant I have with my coffee. And that piece of turbot you swiped off your mother’s plate at Osteria Morini when she looked away for a moment. You like, basically, everything except avocados, but especially apples, and most of all whatever anyone else is eating in front of you.
Of course there is anxiety, always anxiety. I don’t want you to develop allergies or jerky tendencies. I’d prefer it if you grew out of your desire to eat shirt buttons. What do I want for you as a little consumer of food? I want you to be an open and eager and engaged consumer but not to be consumed by the subject. To give thought to how you fuel that chunky little body of yours, but not to take it all too seriously. I want you to not be distracted down the road by any form of dining didacticism, be it militant macrobiotics or hard-core hedonism. I’d like you to know where our food comes from. That a hamburger is from a cow, and a cow isn’t just a barnyard cartoon that says “moo” in the books I try to read to you (while you try to eat the book). I’d prefer it if you didn’t rebel too much against your well-meaning dad and decide on a diet of only TV dinners or feedlot fast food. Or, God forbid, only bananas.
But those bananas are good for you (so I’m told), and they obviously give you pleasure. And that’s what I guess I want most: that in addition to staying healthy, you find joy in preparing and sharing and eating your food. There’s not much else in this world as dependable as the pleasures of eating and drinking (and drooling and grinning) and being at the table with the people we love. So, my little friend, for as long as I’m feeding you and long after, may all of your meals be (emphatically lowercase) happy meals. –Adam Sachs (a.k.a. The Obsessivore) | <urn:uuid:a08dbf05-b027-402f-9248-eb19731e918c> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/article/the-obsessivore | 2016-09-26T21:01:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660887.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00158-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945484 | 871 |
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This Week in Payments 8-29-2014
By John Heggestuen via Business Insider
NFC, a technology already used in apps like Google Wallet, allows people to pay with their phones by tapping a payment register at a store. But this is an unfamiliar shopping behavior, and even if it has advantages (like helping shoppers rack up loyalty points for repeat purchases), it is unlikely to see mass adoption without a catalyst.
But that catalyst cas arrived. Contactless cards, which interact with readers that are NFC compatible, will act as a bridge for getting consumers to pay with their phones, especially as more public transit systems adopt them instead of traditional tickets and fare cards.
By Cat Zakrzewski via TechCrunch
Although it’s easy to make online purchases or order food on your phone for delivery, the way you pay for a meal when you’re inside a restaurant has relatively stayed the same. But with its iOS app that launched today, Downtown allows you to make in-store orders and purchases directly from your iPhone.
By Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley via Bloomberg
Hackers burrowed into the databanks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and deftly dodged one of the world’s largest arrays of sophisticated detection systems for months.
The attack, an outline of which was provided by two people familiar with the firm’s investigation, started in June at the digital equivalent of JPMorgan’s front door, exploiting an overlooked flaw in one of the bank’s websites. From there, it quickly developed into any security team’s worst nightmare.
The hackers unleashed malicious programs that had been designed to penetrate the corporate network of JPMorgan — the largest U.S. bank, which had vowed two months before the attack began to spend a quarter-billion dollars a year on cybersecurity. With sophisticated tools, the intruders reached deep into the bank’s infrastructure, silently siphoning off gigabytes of information, including customer-account data, until mid-August.
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DID YOU KNOW…
Anxiety is driven by many
things. For those whom think they suffer from
anxiety they must first ask themselves if they can
recognize that they are experiencing it. Then the
next thing is to ask is if they know what is causing
I recently read up on what
causes anxiety, mainly because I have been
experiencing it. One of the things that cause great
anxiety with me is being asked questions as to what
I am doing, why I am doing it and what I think
should come next. I am constantly feeling like I
have to move 100 miles per hour, my mind freezes and
I become forgetful of the order of protocol. The
reasoning behind this anxiety is I fear that I am
being thought of as not doing my job or costing the
company money by what I am doing. I constantly feel
as if my co-workers have issues with me and gossip
behind my back- this all adds up to my performance.
So the next thing on the list is what I can do about
it. I have come to the realization that I need to
step back and breathe and try not to read
something into a situation that isn’t there.
For those of you who suffer
from anxiety let me tell you I totally get it. Find
a coping mechanism-- I know I am still searching for
mine. The stress of anxiety is unhealthy and if we
want to live a long life, we must try to show this
disorder that we are in control and are able to
overcome such feelings. So on that note…Live Long
and Prosper my Friends.
March - 19 April)
Feeling restricted in your ability to defend what
you have wanted to do, has you feeling defeated,
while trying to find the mid-point in which to
accomplish your goals. Find the harmony in that
which binds you to your loved ones. Then look to
tempering your moods so that you can accomplish what
needs to be done.
The stone of Fire. It is an element that fuels your
sign. You can thrive amidst adversity. Transform
what needs to be by taking action accordingly.
TAURUS (20 April
- 20 May)
This month for Taurus you will
need to be prepared for some unwanted information.
Although it may have felt like a great idea at first
it may prove to be more than you had expected. You
must make peace and a truce with yourself so that
you can find that center of self you seem to have
done battle with. There are some legal issues that
are pending and this has you feeling restrained as
well as jumping through hoops to make things work.
Turn yourself over the great Universal energy so
that you may take flight and soar beyond at a
greater pace then what you had been.
The stone of Moon. It is in the grace of your better
intuition that can tap the needed resources. Listen
to your dreams and do not let those who are around
you stop imagining your possibilities. Open yourself
to change and your situation will improve.
GEMINI (21 May -
You can expect some legal
information to head your way this month. Although
you may find that territory looks bleak. You will
find that by remaining persistent in your efforts
you will gain the upper hand. A loved one will help
you to hold your ground and put an end to what is
childish by others.
The stone the Eclipse. Although things may be
surrounded in darkness or shadow, they are still
able to be revealed. So trust in your skills and
know that you possess the ability to make things
work. Also accept all that you have achieved for you
will be able to capitalize from them.
CANCER (21 June -
There is some controversy in
what you want to do and what you are waiting to
hear. Find your spiritual connection to help with a
recent separation. You must find temperance in
certain issues that surround the home. Find an
agreeable solutions in communicating your
understanding of the issuse and the burdens that you
are trying to break free from.
The stone of Jupiter. This stone offers you the
success to make things work. There is a new
beginning that waiting to dawn from darker times.
LEO (23 July - 22
There are some new doors opening
for you, however, you will have to battle for them.
By staying connected to your higher self you will be
able to temper what isn’t fair. Use your instincts
as they are your strongest asset. You may feel as if
you are building in unprofitable territory and find
that you must separate yourself from the task at
hand. This just might be what gives you a brighter
outlook and a future filled with hope.
The stone of Venus. You explore your creative side
and indulge in your passions. Share your immense
love so you may receive it in return.
VIRGO (23 August
- 22 September)
Your financial stress is
now starting to dissipate. You are able to gain
optimism with the hope that it brings. You finally
feel that you are able to gracefully emerge from the
barriers that had restricted you. You feel the
harmony and peace that it brings. It allows you to
find the determination to protect your loved ones
and all that you see as stable in your life this
month. So enjoy the rewards.
The stone of the Vessel. It is the Philosophic Egg
that you have set in motion. Now you must patiently
wait and evaluate that which will help you to know
when to act accordingly.
September - 22 October)
One door doesn’t
close without another one opening up somewhere, even
if it is toward a blind misconception. Although
things may have looked fruitful, it is good chance
that many of your assets have been laid to rest. You
are learning as well as teaching with in a
relationship about strength, patients and learning
to curb certain foolish acts.
The stone of the Black Crow. Things for you have
been reduced down to the bare essentials and you are
finding that your concentrated efforts are being
strained. Find to time to recuperate from the issues
at hand, so that you can gain back your inner
October - 21 November)
You’re just a
bundle of stress and emotions this month. You must
find ways to deal with it. You have had some foolish
ideas that you really need to lay to rest. Take time
to connect with the Universal energy and seek out
information that will help you grow. You are moving
out of some devastating times and are able to now
feel pleasure in all that surrounds you. So stop
The stone of the Furnace. Now is a great time to
pump up your energy level and get things done that
need to be done. There are many protective forces
that surround you so know when to act and do it with
November - 21 December)
This month you
have some self-reflection to do. You need to seek
out the path that will offer you the most in which
to gain from. There is some movement in your chart
therefore you must decide on the course you need to
follow. There is nothing wrong with testing the
waters in moderation, how else are you going to
break free from the confines that surround you. You
must open yourself to some new ideas and thinking by
doing so you will be able to gain a future. Don’t
battle against growth. Be willing to seek out the
adventure in learning something new!!!
The stone of Saturn. It is time to get the lead out
of your pants and discard that which is no longer
serving your highest of good. Allow yourself to move
past the chaos. You have much potential to offer.
December - 19 January)
With the new
separation that is in your life you not only find
that you are filled with emotion about the situation
but you now must decide what is next. Although it
may seem as if your world has come crashing down and
is trying to silence you, there is much love and
support surrounding you. Find some time to find the
Divine guidance that lives with in and listen to
what it has to offer you.
The stone of the Sun. There are sunny days ahead and
with that you are able to find the strength that you
need. Look to the warmth that is being offered by
those around you and let their light help to bring
you into a well-lit place.
January - 19 February)
This month looks
like there are some deep-rooted issues that will
need to be addressed. Although you are moving
forward from a devastating situation, you have
learned to brush aside, and have built a wall to
defend yourself against those that have afflicted
you. You may even find that you can dismiss certain
memories in order to mover on. But don’t be
surprised if the past pops up every now and then as
a reminder. You are determined to make a better
future for all involved. There are some issues in
your work environment that opens way for some
discussion. You will have to decide which path to
take and what you want to do. Look to what is most
harmonious and offers you the most success. This
will help lift the veil of question.
The stone of Mercury. Mercury plays a volatile roll
that allows you to bring new idea into play. These
can offer some great results in certain situations.
However, there are some changes coming your way and
you must be prepared for them. Be sure to
communicate and negotiate with those that are in a
position to help you gain success.
February - 20 March)
You are content and
feel the graceful flow of satisfaction this month.
You are comfortable about the course you have taken
and now see how your world has evolved from it. You
found the determination to get past life’s regrets
and are able to benefit from the bounty that is
around you. Your patients has paid off.
The stone of the New Moon. You have followed your
natural path even when it seemed dark with no light
in sight. Now is a great time to seek out a new
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Babies are such a nice way to start people—Don Herold
It’s true what they say. Grandmother hormones materialize in much the same way maternal ones do–even 30+ years later. Babies born in one’s own family are the most miraculously perfect creations in the world. Parents [and even grandparents] check out other newborns to confirm this nuance of nature. Gradually it is understood to be a “Universal Truth”. We all simply feel this way.
The good fortune to dust off my pediatric nursing and maternal memories arrived with the birth of our first granddaughter. I reflected on the gift of “presence” my mother gave me after our son and daughter were born. It’s a gift that gives both ways.
First, an [experienced] pair of hands in the early postpartum weeks gives new parents time to focus on the interplay of relationships that are suddenly right there. Baby inside, baby outside. Everything has changed. All three, mother, father and newborn, enter a timeless dance that begins with a new song.
A distinctive aura hovers over first time parents, beginning in their own relationship. Helplessly charmed by the miracle they created, they now exist inside a bubble of enhanced love and new responsibilities. At the same time, bonds between mother and baby, father and baby unfold daily, even hourly. My presence [teaching rigorous burping techniques [!], offering parental napping time, having my own cuddling and singing time] opened a bit of space for these relationships to settle and strengthen in the first month.
The second gift of being present was entirely personal. Watching my first-born baby [now a 34 year old man] tenderly hold, and croon to, his tiny, perfect daughter overwhelmed me with wonder. That “circle of life”, as clichéd as the phrase may be, sideswiped my heart with a flush of love and emotion. I’m all in now.
At night, I mulled over the randomness of dominant and recessive genes forming this beautiful baby’s eye color [murky grey to clearly blue–overnight!], the turned up button of a nose, the rosebud mouth, the one dimpled cheek, and the movable face of so many expressions [skeptical, smiling, hesitant, observant, and sometimes cross-eyed]. Even though it was too early for spontaneous social smiling, we gathered expectantly, eagerly, with each facial movement, hoping to be the first to receive that important human recognition, “I’m happy to know you.”
One day I had a flashback of maternal “déjà vu” when my daughter-in-law said, “I’m overwhelmed by how precious she is to me. I didn’t know I would feel this way.” None of us do. But almost every new mother is eventually overcome by the feelings of her own power to nurture and love her baby. That’s universal too…
I observed parents and babe develop their rhythms–for communicating, comforting, handling, and, of course, feeding. The dance changed by the minute, the hour, and the day. Flexibility is key with babies. But, in less than a week, my daughter-in-law blossomed from tentative new mama to an instinctively confident one. My joy was seeing this unfold.
Newborn nourishment is where everything begins. Breastfeeding rituals gradually establish themselves. Then, suddenly, they fall apart with a day of feeding frenzy or a night of longer sleeping intervals. It is an ebb and flow of constant change in the early weeks.
No less important is the nourishment of parents. Emotional swings as a result of sleep deprivation, new responsibilities, and sweetly swaddled newborn love leave not-so-much-time for meal preparation.
We planned and cooked together as a team. Daughter-in-law, knowledgeable of her protein needs, prepared the meat or fish. Son stepped up to roast veggies on the grill. I offered carbohydrate rich side dishes and green leafy salads.
Leftovers were used creatively for other meals. A big batch of brown rice became the base for protein breakfasts of eggs on rice*. Two eggs cooked over easy then cut up into a bowl of rice with freshly chopped tomato on top nourished mama with easy effort.
*Detailed recipe for “eggs on rice very nice” can be found in blog story Comfort Food for Cal: https://atasteofmind.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/comfort-food-for-cal/
Grilled eggplant, peppers, onions and mushrooms from the night before became a hearty side dish the next day when combined with whole-wheat penne, sautéed garlic, fresh spinach, and a sprinkle of grated Parmesan.
One night I made an old family favorite, Mujaddarah, a Lebanese lentil and rice casserole. The addition of chopped up bacon made it not purely vegetarian. Still, it was smothered with very slowly sautéed onions that made a delicious caramelized topping.
Extra lentils [the tiny green French kind] became the basis for another day’s cold salad with green onions, carrots, cucumber, parsley, and homemade vinaigrette. However, after two days of lentil eating by nursing mama, Babycake’s reddened bottom required some open airing sans diaper.
The family food tradition I used every day and wish to pass on to my granddaughter is the simple 1-2-3 of dressing a salad. Any salad, any day, any time. With ingredients found in most kitchens.
So, with arms opened wide to embrace Leila Alisa into our family’s love, care, and nurturance, here is my simple wish:
May you grow up healthy and wise and become an interesting person. And may you always make your salad dressings from scratch.
DUB’S [W’S] DAILY DRESSING
Ingredients: Amounts will vary according to how large the salad, so all are approximations. Taste testing necessary. Stick your finger in and adjust.
- Dijon mustard, if you have some [optional]
- Good quality vinegar of choice [balsamic, wine or champagne]
- Good quality olive oil, extra virgin
- Salt & Pepper
- Dried basil [optional]
- 1 clove garlic, minced or pressed [optional]
- Seed mixture–like sesame, poppy, sunflower, pumpkin, almond, walnut or whatever [optional]
- Place a small amount of Dijon in the bottom of a bowl. [¼ to ½ tsp.]
- Measure about 2-3 spoonfuls of vinegar over mustard. Add the garlic, seeds and basil, if using.
- Sprinkle in S&P.
- Then, very slowly, pour in a thin stream of olive oil, blending rapidly with a small spoon. There is no exact amount of oil. You simply taste with your finger and adjust proportions of vinegar to oil, as you prefer. Adjust salt.
- Pour dressing over prepared greens and veggies. Toss together.
- Grind of fresh pepper over all and serve.
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I was weaving through the maze of cars and traffic, trying to remember where my car was, when out of the blue, a man zipped up behind me in his little black BMW and blared down on his horn.
To say that I was startled would be inadequate. He nearly scared my lunch back out of me.
The noise resounded throughout the concrete walls and pillars. The sound knocked the wind out of me and my pulse raced. It’s not like I was barely shuffling to my parking space. I’m young, healthy, and I was in a hurry. I was shocked, scared, and ANGRY.
Can I just say that I was pissed? Well, I was pissed.
WHO DID HE THINK HE WAS?! Was it really THAT important if it took me two seconds or three to walk in front of his vehicle? Apparently it was to him. He was beyond impatient and I was more than aggravated. I had a few words I wanted to share with the gentleman, and I wanted to teach him some sign language as well. (I do know quite a few signs that would have been appropriate.)
But then there’s Grace.
Grace for the impatient businessman. Or was it grace for the father, hurrying to see his little girl before surgery? I will never know. Either way, he deserves grace for his erratic behavior, just like I deserved grace when I was looking for my car.
The same grace that has always been afforded to me is afforded to every impatient so-and-so who drives us all crazy in traffic. And that same grace calls us all to freely give away what we have been given.
Grace isn’t blind. It’s not cheap, and it’s most certainly not easy. Grace is the strength I had to forgive my abuser. Grace is the strength you have when you give your drunk spouse a second chance. Or your cheating spouse. Or your deadbeat dad. Or your addicted mother.
Grace is more messy than beautiful. It isn’t blind or stupid. Extending grace to someone does not mean you excuse what they’ve done. It means you choose to recognize the brokenness of another in light of the grace you have been given. Grace is sometimes as simple as taking one more second to say, “I don’t know the spot they’re in,” taking a deep breath, and just moving on. Moving on, when you’d really like nothing more than to obsess over a fault.
Grace means seeing the person in front of you as a human being. Not just a horn honker. Not just a red light-runner. Not just an addict, or a cheater, or a liar. A person. We see the person in front of us as a human being, and then we respond in light of God’s attitude toward us, not the actions we’ve observed. In a world full of quick judgements, where hearts and minds are filled with thoughts of fairness and our own selfish agendas, Grace chooses to see it all and love the person in front of us anyway.
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Choose a pan that is large enough to cover your eggs completely with water. Be sure you choose a pan that has a lid.
Place eggs in bottom of a pan. Cover completely with cool water. Place on burner and bring to boil over high heat. Cover. Reduce heat. Simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Drain water. Run eggs under cold water for several minutes until mostly cooled. Drain. Store eggs in refrigerator until ready to dye. Be sure that your eggs are completely dry before dying.
To make your own dye:
You will need:
8 ounce cups (one for each color)
Pour about 2/3 cup of warm water into each cup. Add 1 tablespoon white vinegar to each cup. Add food coloring to desired darkness (this may take up to 15 drops or 1/4 teaspoon of food coloring). Stir until color is well-blended. | <urn:uuid:260c19e3-9ce4-4079-aa80-d86f4842d20b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reading-with-kids.com/eastereggs.html | 2022-08-08T12:35:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570827.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808122331-20220808152331-00529.warc.gz | en | 0.932233 | 191 |
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We need something inexpensive and new to replace the metal cover above our front door. We don't have a lot of experience or money, so we are limited in what we can do. We will be having our roof re-done within a month and are thinking we will need to do the porch cover at the same time. Any ideas? What is the right word for the cover anyway? Thanks to any suggestions! | <urn:uuid:7cde5370-bef9-4e17-8540-0b0ec784bbc3> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | https://advice.thisoldhouse.com/showthread.php?5090-front-porch-cover&p=19432&mode=linear | 2015-03-05T22:38:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936464876.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074104-00299-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971224 | 83 |
Twinsburg -- Students won't be the only ones receiving letter grades, as the Ohio Department of Education plans to change the school report card system from labels to letters beginning in the fall.
The A through F designations will be phased in over the next two years, and the first state report card with an overall grade will be issued in 2015. Districts will be issued letter grades on specific criteria, as opposed to the current labels of "excellent" or "continuous improvement," beginning in August.
Twinsburg schools were rated "excellent" on the 2013 state report card, which would, under the new system, translate to an overall "A" in performance indicators and a "B" in performance index, according to the Ohio Department of Education. The district would have received an "F" in the value added category for students with disabilities. Board of Education member Steven Shebeck said the district is struggling to keep up with rising standards in this category.
"The part we struggle with is this value added component," Shebeck said. "[State officials] want students to make extra progress. That's what we're struggling with, is how we can jump-start our value added component. From the preliminary data, that looks like where we're probably the most deficient."
Superintendent Kathryn Powers said the new system will benefit the Twinsburg City School District by placing a more specific focus on individual students, as opposed to the generalized current labeling system.
"The importance to the district would be the focus on individual students," Powers said. "What happens with the [new] report card is it's not the district painted with a broad brush about academic success. It's really paying attention to individuals and groups of children and making sure that they're making progress over the school year. That's really the significant difference over what we currently have."
Grades for six individual student measures -- achievement, progress, gap closing (how well a school or district is narrowing gaps in reading, math and graduation rate according to socioeconomic, racial, ethnic or disability status), graduation rate, kindergarten through third-grade literacy and whether graduates are prepared for college or work -- will be used to compile one overall grade for the school or district.
The Ohio Board of Education will work with educators and communities in the coming months to determine how to award letter grades in the categories. Beginning in August 2013, schools and districts will receive letter grades for nine specific measures, though no overall grade will be issued until 2015.
The two-year transition period is intended to give districts time to adjust to the new system and direct their efforts toward the new criteria, Powers said.
"I think it's just trying to align everybody and give the schools and the district a letter grade similar to what the students would get," Shebeck added. "Once they get the bugs all worked out ... I think districts will have a better feel for it."
A key addition to the new assessment process is workforce or secondary education preparation, Powers said.
Powers said the Ohio Achievement Assessments, which students in grades 3 through 8 currently take, will be replaced by the online "Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers" tests.
"What you'll be seeing in our school district is really making sure that we are strong with our infrastructure," Powers said. "That's why [technology coordinator] Matt McGing's going to do the wireless initiative this summer. That's the beginning of making sure we have the technology to support these new assessments."
Students in their sophomore years of high school will take a College and Career Readiness Assessment and an End of Course Exam, the latter of which will replace the Ohio Graduation Test. Powers said this will allow students time to plan in their junior and senior years for college and/or the workforce.
"That will diminish the need for students to have to take remediation courses at the college level or when they enter their careers," Powers said.
Under the new system, "value added," a measure of how much a student has advanced academically in one year, will be broken down more specifically under the "growth" category, which now has separate categories for gifted students, students with learning disabilities and students in bottom 20 percent achievement group. Powers said the new report card will assess gifted students as a specific group so that the group’s progress can be determined and curriculum can be catered toward it.
"We've never really been given a grade on how well the gifted population that attends our school district is doing," Powers said. "That will add another group of children that we need to make sure we are accelerating them." | <urn:uuid:ea67d8d5-1198-4859-95f2-0f3ad5b1afef> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.twinsburgbulletin.com/news%20local/2013/04/25/ohio-school-district-report-cards-to-switch-to-letter-grade-system | 2015-05-27T03:50:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928869.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00010-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968188 | 948 |
I can't believe the deer have not eaten my virbirnum blooms yet. I am torn between letting them have what they want because we are encroaching more and more on their way of lives and my poor plants!! Oh well.
The pinks on this are the best. I wish I could recreate these colors and I would love to paint my bedroom shades of pink. Not sure how wonderful my husband would think it is. He's pretty easy going so it wouldn't be that hard of a sell.
I have been indoors today working on reorganizing my studio. Today I have decided to stop calling it my "craft room" and bumped up in the world & it's now my "studio". I guess since I have sold many of my art pieces I can begin to call myself an artist. I feel funny saying it though. No formal art education and still learning so I quietly call myself that & roll my eyes when someone else calls me an artist. Being an artist is so vunerable and scary. I think that is why "crafter" is so much more forgiving. | <urn:uuid:c414e9c7-4d09-4c98-8e0c-362c54a079b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://kathrine-folieadeux.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-wonderful-here-in-northwest.html | 2017-04-26T21:21:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121665.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00153-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980691 | 225 |
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Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa Makes Meeting Planning Easy, Affordable, And Rewarding!
2010 Meetings And Events Promotion
February 02, 2010
COSTA MESA, Calif. - Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa Hotel is offering their best promotion yet when you book a qualified meeting or event by December 31, 2010. This new simplified promotion hopes to entice meeting planners by offering a 10% discount off their master account plus a selection of additional rewards to choose from based on the total number of guestrooms contracted. And because Hilton knows that a meeting planner works hard, he or she will be rewarded with a 60 minute Mino Flip Video upon signing the contract.
Hilton Orange County/Costa created a one minute video promo featuring their new 2010 offer which can be seen on the hotel’s YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/user/hiltonorangecounty).
“With so many of our customer’s organizations already using social media sites, we hope that our meeting planners will use their Flip Video to easily share video clips on their company’s social media sites,” says Dan Fitzgerald, Director of Sales and Marketing.
This exclusive offer expires on December 31, 2010. Qualified meeting or event must be held on or before December 31, 2011. Rules and restrictions do apply. Please contact Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa Sales Department at 714-540-7000 for full details regarding this promotion.
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For nearly a century, Hilton Hotels & Resorts has been proudly welcoming the world's travelers. With more than 570 hotels across six continents, Hilton Hotels & Resorts provides the foundation for memorable travel experiences and values every guest who walks through its doors. As the flagship brand of Hilton, Hilton Hotels & Resorts continues to set the standard for hospitality, providing new product innovations and services to meet guests' evolving needs. Hilton Hotels & Resorts is a part of the award-winning Hilton Honors program. Hilton Honors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to instant benefits, including a flexible payment slider that allows members to choose nearly any combination of Points and money to book a stay, an exclusive member discount that can’t be found anywhere else, free standard Wi-Fi and digital amenities like digital check-in with room selection and Digital Key (select locations), available exclusively through the industry-leading Hilton Honors app. Begin your journey at www.hilton.com and learn more about the brand by visiting news.hilton.com or following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | <urn:uuid:795a9c2e-e127-4b2a-818f-e5e2876c34e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://hiltonglobalmediacenter.com/index.cfm/news/hilton-orange-countycosta-mesa-makes-meeting-planning-easy-affordable-and-rewarding | 2017-12-15T08:14:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948567785.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215075536-20171215095536-00013.warc.gz | en | 0.888874 | 759 |
Vintage Beatrix Potter Books
Lovely 1980s hardback editions of classic Beatrix Potter stories.
Some small signs of age but all in nice condition.
Each book is approx 11 x 14.5 cm. Choose the one(s) you want!
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In times where young students and graduates are trying to crack on with their careers, there are too many job boards and job information pages on the web. One of the things that has always dismayed me is the lack of dedicated job board and careers information websites for different industries.
UKSP is not one of those websites! UKSP is a pleasant surprise for those looking for jobs in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries.
… encourage and promote continuous training – creating an environment where employers have access to the right skills and qualifications for their businesses and employees benefit from rewarding career opportunities.
And, by improving the skills of people working in the industry, we’re well placed to maintain the UK’s status as a superior visitor destination!
“UKSP was developed by People 1st – the sector skills council for hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism.”
“All the information on UKSP has been developed through our intensive consultation and collaboration with employers and training providers across the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industry.”
For hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism jobs, UKSP is a good resource, but what caught our eyes were their careers and skills test tools.
UKSP Careers Map
For those of you wondering what positions are available in the tourism, hospitality, leisure and travel industries UKSP have pulled together a very good and effective resource.
The interactive Career Map illustrates the huge variety of opportunities within hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism. Once you select the path or position, it gives you more information on that respective job.
What Skills Are Required To Do A Job?
Students and graduates often ask questions about what skills are required for a job, or more information on particular positions. UKSP’s interactive Careers Map gives extensive information for positions and skills required to get a job in the travel, leisure, hospitality and tourism industry, too, which is a great feature for those interested in that sector.
UKSP Personality Test
The personality test is a quick survey-oriented quiz in which you answer questions based on your work ethic, work preferences and personal tastes. At the end of the test, UKSP gives you a list of the jobs best suited for your personality type. My test showed I am best suited for a Kitchen Manager, and I must admit, the test was pretty fun to try and very useful to get more information.
UKSP Skills Assessment
The Skills Assessment test is aimed towards people within the industry already who maybe want to know what other jobs they can apply their skill set to. Or graduates and students who want to find out more about the skill set required in order to get a job in the travel, tourism, leisure and hospitality industries.
UKSP Is #RECOMMENDED
To summarise, coming across UKSP was a worthy experience, having surfed around the website and enjoyed the careers tools that can help graduates and students in finding jobs in the travel, leisure, tourism and hospitality industries.
So why not head over to UKSP and sign up to receive more information and careers insights related to those industries.
Have a look around and do let us know what you think about UKSP in the comments below!
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Our opinion: Guns and the primary problem
‘Better than nothing’ bill highlights an ugly political reality
What do the Parkland shooting, the constitutional revision commission, Bill Montford and Andrew Gillum have in common?
There is no punch line here. Just a thread that connects the recent news and the state of politics in our fair state and country.
We are prompted to ponder this question in the wake of this week’s Florida Senate passage of a post-Parkland gun bill, and the subsequent intra-party dustup between Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and longtime state Senator Bill Montford, both Democrats.
Montford provided one of the key votes that led to a 20-18 passage of the bill. Gillum immediately criticized the Montford vote and some sparring ensued.
The tiff reveals the difference between legislating difficult issues and campaigning in a primary. The two have very little in common.
Gillum is doing what he needs to do to win his race – run to the left.
His (narrow) path to victory is to woo enough African Americans and Bernie Sanders’ progressives, all the while hoping he can somehow remain relatively unscathed by the ongoing FBI investigation in Tallahassee.
When running hard to the extreme of either party, compromise is not only of peripheral interest, it can actually be anathema. Those on the far right aren’t interested in compromising Second Amendment rights and those on the far left aren’t interested in compromising gun control policies. If one is focusing one’s campaign on those types of constituents, it isn’t likely that compromise is going to be on the agenda.
Montford, however, is in a much different spot. As a moderate (conservative?) Democrat, his lack of primary opposition is tied not to extremism, but to status and seniority. And as a respected member of a minority party, when the majority is split, he occasionally can find himself casting crucial votes. For someone in this position, compromise is everything. And so, the question he faced on the current legislation was NOT: “Is my ideal bill better than this bill?” His ideal bill wasn’t an option. Instead, the choice was “is this bill better than nothing at all.”
We agree with him that it is.
The bill doesn’t go as far as we’d like, but isn’t that in keeping with the grandest traditions of American politics? Did anybody on the far left really think that all automatic and semi-automatic weapons were going to be banned? And did anybody on the far right really think there were going to be zero additional regulations on the purchase of guns?
We’re concerned about the school marshal program (now apparently renamed a “guardian” program). But we are heartened that sheriffs can choose to not participate or to “deputize” a school employee and would encourage Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil to decline to participate.
But shy of that provision, the rest of the bill contains a lot of stuff – raising the age for buying certain types of weapons, banning bump stocks, more funding for schools, etc. -- that moves the ball down the field. Again, it may be a first down, not a touchdown, but that’s better than another punt.
So, what does all this have to do with the constitutional revision commission?
Measure 62 – open primaries.
One reason we are in this ever-divisive polarized political climate is that moderates and those not affiliated with political parties are frozen out of the process. Gillum and his right-wing equivalent would be much more interested in compromise and coming together if they knew the primary electorate was more ideologically diverse.
And remember, just 9 percent of American voters cast a primary ballot for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. With more open primaries, would that have really been the choice for the American people?
As it stands, Republicans and Democrats run hard to the right and left, respectively, during primaries knowing that
a) that’s the easiest path to winning a nomination
b) often, all that’s left is token opposition, at best.
Then we all wring our hands and wonder why “nothing gets done” in our legislature.
We don’t blame Gillum for this political strategy – under the current rules, it gives him the best chance of winning.
And we don’t blame Bill Montford for his yes vote on the gun bill. It was better than no bill at all.
We do blame the political parties for continuing to freeze out so many people from the primary process.
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Maybe because they are from the Mediterranean, the outdoors are one of the areas in which Bover is best known.
Thanks to their decorative look, the Bover's Outdoor collections can equally be placed both in exterior and interior environments.
In addition to design, their durability also make them perfect for commercial spaces.
This collection’s common denominator is the combination of resistance and sensitivity.
Resistance since it is designed to be able to live comfortably outdoors, and sensitivity expressed in the delicacy with which it sifts the light and the general warmth of the lamp.
These features mean that both the inside and outside of an architectural space help to create a sense of continuity.
Name of the product (shown on the main image): Amphora
Designers: Alex Fernández Camps & Gonzalo Milà
Materials: Aluminum, Stainless steel, Polyethylene, Synthetic fiber.
Colours: Light Beige, Rattan Brown
Dimensions: 3 op. 77,5 cm, 123 cm & 137 cm (height)
In 1996 Joana Bover founded BOVER in Barcelona. After 20 years of market development, what began as a sketch on a napkin for an architect friend's project has evolved and grown to become one of the leading companies in the contemporary lighting sector, with its own subsidiary in the United States and a presence in countries worldwide. | <urn:uuid:0a11daea-67bd-4251-958b-bf4578acfceb> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.v2com-newswire.com/en/newsroom/categories/design-d-eclairage/press-kits/3342-01/bover-launches-its-outdoor-collection | 2019-02-20T11:00:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247494741.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220105613-20190220131613-00227.warc.gz | en | 0.935817 | 283 |
Last month, Aretha Franklin and her legal team set into motion a halt on a documentary called “Amazing Grace” which documented the preparation and concert of her 1972 performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The concert was turned into a live album that is still the best-selling live Gospel album of all time with 2 million copies sold solely in the U.S.
Franklin’s lawyer Arnold Reed called the doc’s release an infringement on Franklin’s brand. "What we have here is a case of individuals who are hell-bent on exploiting the name and likeness of a world-renowned musical icon, at all costs,” Reed said in a statement. Reed and Franklin won a similar legal action back in 2011.
Well, it looks like they succeeded: Producers have withdrawn the film from the Toronto Film Festival in order to avoid a looming legal battle if they proceeded to the show the film.
The Toronto Film Festival said in a statement Tuesday that it is “extremely disappointed that Toronto audiences will not be able to see this extraordinary piece of art.”
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Yuki Kuroda is a rock climber based in Squamish, BC Canada. She started climbing in 2009 in Red Rocks, Las Vegas, NV. Her strongest climbing style is crack climbing, but she does any style including traditional climbing, sport climbing and bouldering to improve her skills. She enjoys traveling around to gain more climbing experiences and meet inspiring people.
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IMF approves KSh 257 billion global loan to Kenya ▷ Tuko.co.ke
– The loan will help the country to support COVID-19[female[feminine respond to and respond to an urgent need to reduce urgent debt vulnerabilities
– IMF says Kenya’s debt remains sustainable despite being at high risk of debt distress
– Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani said the country approached the IMF amid the global pandemic and asked for its support
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a Ksh 257 billion financing plan for Kenya amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The loan will help the country to support COVID-19 response and respond to an urgent need to reduce urgent debt vulnerabilities.
In a statement, the Washington-based lender said its board of directors approved the 38-month financing plan under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and Extended Finance Facility (EFF).
“Kenya was hit hard initially by the Covid-19 pandemic,” the IMF said.
According to the IMF, with a strong policy response, the economy recovered from 2021 after likely registering a slight contraction of 0.1% in 2020.
“Even with this recovery, challenges remain in returning to sustainable and inclusive growth, and past progress in poverty reduction has been reversed,” the statement read in part.
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Kenya’s debt remains sustainable, even though it poses a high risk of debt distress, according to the IMF.
ECF provides financial aid to countries with protracted balance of payments problems.
It was created under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Fund (PRGF) as part of a broader reform aimed at making IMF financial support more flexible and better suited to the diverse needs of developing countries. low income, including in times of crisis.
For its part, the EFF is extended to a country facing serious medium-term balance of payments problems due to structural weaknesses that need time to be addressed.
Loans under an extended agreement have a longer repayment period and are mainly used to help countries implement structural reforms in the medium term.
Treasury cabinet secretary Ukur Yatani said it was the country that approached the IMF amid the global pandemic and asked for support to deal with budget deficits.
“The three-year financing plan will support the next phase of the authorities’ COVID-19 response and their plan to reduce debt vulnerabilities while preserving resources to protect vulnerable groups,” the IMF said in a statement.
“Public health facilities have 16% of the gas they need,” Kagwe said.
He further indicated that while the state had 73 oxygen plants across the country, some of them produced gas with concentration levels that were “significantly different” from the government’s own standards.
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ITep Travel is dedicated to providing high quality travel experiences that preserve the fragile lands we visit. By working closely with our customers, we are able to design unique vacations that match their interests and schedule. In addition to customized private tours, our specialty, we also offer pre-set departures.
In 2007, William Escalante Taipe from Cusco, Perú founded Inka Trail Expeditions Perú, South América Tour Operator, with nothing more than a strong desire to create an authentic Peruvian Agency, the rich diversity of tradition, adventure and mystery makes Peru a fascinating country to visit. Many Foreing Operators take advantage of this, but this Travel Agency was born in Cusco, Peru land of the Incas.
Itep Travel Company There is something for everyone and more of what you're looking for .... discover lush landscapes in a sustainable tourism experience like nothing else in the world had ever seen. We offer an alternative adventure travel for cruises and bus trips are used to, not only want to change the way how the people look for adventure holidays time, but also show that travel within Peru, are unforgettable and will mark lifes forever through our social projects (SmileTerra) that these are full of Energy and Natural adventure. is an inherent belief to the core values that inspire our being and business today.
We employ a staff of knowledgeable travel professionals at our Lima headquarters and have long-standing contractual relationships with our logistical specialists in Peru who help develop and coordinate our tours. All have traveled extensively or lived and worked in our destination countries and share a common business philosophy and environmental ethic.
Lares Trek limit the size of our tour groups to eight travelers, except on Galapagos Island cruises and tours where yacht capacity determines occupancy and on the Inca Trail where twelve travelers is the maximum. This policy offers several benefits. It minimizes our environmental impact, allows us to travel to areas less visited and makes the sightseeing experience more personal. It allows our guides sufficient time to attend to the individual needs of each visitor. Traveling in small groups also increases the likelihood of encountering wildlife in areas such as the Amazon.
We thoroughly research each destination before including it in a trip. Through our knowledgeable staff, we have established strong business relationships in all of the areas we visit which make for unique itineraries of ecological and cultural significance for our travelers and to while providing for their utmost safety and security. We augment our planned trips with an extensive list of optional tour extensions, ranging from a few hours to a few days, to enable our passengers to pursue their interests in greater depth.
Lares Trek, We personally inspect the rooms and amenities of all potential hotels and lodges in each tour location and select only those that meet our rigorous standards for cleanliness, comfort, convenient location, safety, customer service and ambiance. We give the same scrutiny to the safety and quality of the yacht services we contract with to conduct our cruises. We support lodges and hotels that employ sustainability practices and are owned and operated locally.
We contract with guides who are native to the destination and are licensed and/or certified in accordance with the government regulations of their country. All are fluent in Spanish and English and some also speak the indigenous language of the region. Many are medically trained and some have received additional wilderness medical training in the United States or other locations. To ensure the safety of our travelers, our guides are linked with outside services 24 hours a day in most locations to provide assistance when necessary. Ours is a team of knowledgeable and congenial guides whose priceless insights into the true nature of their homelands add immeasurably to the enjoyment of the trip.
To provide passengers the most authentic experience possible, we contract with local travel services in the countries we visit. Central to this goal is our policy of hiring regional guides instead of assigning the same guide or a western tour leader to accompany passengers for the duration of the trip. This ensures that our passengers are always in the hands of knowledgeable guides who know their destinations intimately.
Through memberships and donations, we support the efforts of local, national and international organizations working in South America to preserve ecological stability and to better the lives of the people.
For many travelling abroad opens our eyes to a world that is very different from our own and inspires us to help make a difference in the lives of people and communities that we have visited. Whether you have recently returned home from travelling, or you just genuinely wish to help make a difference in the world around you, you can help by making a contribution to our (Social Proyect Smile terra), the non-profit founded by Lares Trek.
Lares Trek, Our company and all those who represent us abroad practice environmental stewardship based on the Leave No Trace philosophy. We travel in established National Parks and conservation areas, leaving only footprints and taking only photographs. We select camping locations with the most benign sanitary systems, pack in gear and foods with the least waste feasible and properly dispose of all rubbish. We design all of our trips to minimize travel times and take full advantage of local hikes and walking routes. In this way, we decrease reliance on motor transportation, and enable our clients to become more intimate with places they travel. We donate to organizations dedicated to the conservation of the ecosystems in which we operate to carbon-offset the use of natural resources that our trips cause. Because we believe sustainability applies to economic and social well-being in addition to environmental health, we make sure our tours directly benefit the locations to which our clients travel. We support local organizations, non-profits, and schools to improve the quality of life in the areas through which we travel. We employ native guides, porters, and logistical members of our staff, as well as supporting locally owned and operated hotels, lodges and restaurants. We also ensure fair wages for all with whom we work and contract. This commitment has created enduring relationships with members of our international team and greatly added to our clients' experiences abroad.
At our Seattle headquarters, we employ best environmental practices in our daily work. Our energy-efficient office is purposely located within walking distance to all of our major needs to minimize trips by car during our workday. We encourage our employees to use alternative forms of transportation, and some bike or walk to work daily. We have made efforts beyond simply using recycled paper products by making our company nearly all web and computer-based. We mail only the essentials to our clients, communicating predominately by waste-free email and phone. Additionally, we email newsletters and rely on our website to notify travelers of updates instead of mailing brochures that are paper intensive.
Each year, Itep Travel hosts a Christmas Party in Cusco. committed to sharing the spirit of Christmas giving and participates in activities distributing presents, meals, hot chocolate to children.. We continually seek new ways to actively support sustainable tourism.
Itep Travel based in Cusco
The Lares Trek is one of the main alternative treks to Inca Trail to reach Machu Picchu.
The Lares Trek is considered a moderate hike. It's not a technical hike but the altitude may affect some individuals
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This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.
It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!
I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.
Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.
Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.
Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.
The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.
The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.
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Plea for Plankton
AT the end of June my exhibition, Plea for Plankton, will open at The Vault, a unique art space in Bundaberg Regional Gallery. Many of the works in the show will be made from the pellicle, the fleshy growth on the top of the Kombucha culture, that cultured drink now on sale in many Health food outlets. My point in using this material is that it is in fact a Bio-plastic, being fed at intervals on sugary tea, a rich carbon source. If I can make a bioplastic in my kitchen, what could industry do with some effort and research? We would no longer need to use polluting petro-plastics that are now contaminating our lands and seas.
To make these works, most of the kombucha pellicles are placed in plaster moulds that I have sculpted in the forms of Coccoliths, microscopic exoskeletons of phytoplankton, the basic building block of the ocean food chains. Other works in the exhibition use common weeds to make rope, also intended to highlight the fact we don’t need to use plastic for ropes or nets. For milennia humans successfully used fibre plants for rope, sails and nets. Now damaged plastic rope and nets form a major proportion of the debris washed up on beaches and entangled around many unfortunate marine animals and birds.
One of the points about my art practice is that it is interwoven with the seasonal cycles of work in the garden, with fibres used from garden plants and vines like choko and loofah to make twine, and other plant trimmings made into botanical paper. I even made buttons this year when I had to prune some branches from my carob trees! This exhibition opens on June 28 at Bundaberg Regional Gallery with distinguished ecologist Sue Sargent as guest speaker to open the show. | <urn:uuid:5230a7ca-ec42-404a-868b-b3782e26b846> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://zela.com.au/plea-for-plankton/ | 2021-10-17T23:10:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585183.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017210244-20211018000244-00101.warc.gz | en | 0.949362 | 400 |
2015 Toyota Corolla S 50th Anniversary Edition
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Doris Thelma Nielsen Rose, 83, of North Little Rock, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. She was born Friday, Dec. 5, 1930 in North Little Rock to the late William and Nettie Simmons Nielsen.
She was a graduate of North Little Rock High School, a homemaker and a faithful member of First Assembly of God Church in North Little Rock.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Rev. James Rose.
Left to cherish her memory are brothers. William Nielsen (Dorthy) of Benton and Frederick Nielsen (Nancy) of Little Rock; niece, Judy Barclay of Hot Springs; nephew, Robert Nielsen of Benton; and great-nephew, Matthew Nielsen of Benton.
Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 9 in the Roller-Owens Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Randy Jumper officiating. Visitation will begin one hour prior to service in the funeral home chapel. Interment will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park in Alexander.
The family would like to express thanks to the staff of Madison Health & Rehab and Arkansas Hospice for their care of Doris.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorials to Arkansas Hospice Foundation, 14 Parkstone Circle, North Little Rock, AR 72116.
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How can I tell if my newborn baby is getting enough milk?
By: Anne Smith
One of the biggest concerns that new mothers have is wondering if they will have enough milk for their babies. This concern is the most common reason for starting formula supplementation, and also for early weaning .We live in a society that puts a lot of emphasis on measuring everything, and many of us (and especially our mothers) were bottle-fed, so you knew exactly to the ounce how much milk the baby took in at each feeding.
You can be assured that nearly all mothers can produce an adequate milk supply for their infant. The human race would not have survived for millions of years if this was not the case. There is a very small percentage of women who just “don’t have enough milk”, but this is highly unusual, and is most often connected to some sort of medical problem, (for example, breast reduction surgery, maternal medications such as birth control pills, or maternal hypothyroidism). Many of these medical problems can be corrected.
Women have two breasts instead of one so that they can nurse twins. It stands to reason that the average mother with two breasts will be able to produce enough milk for one baby (at least).
Since breastmilk intake can’t be measured without using sophisticated scientific equipment, it is important to know how to tell if your baby is getting enough.
Here are some guidelines to help you assess your baby’s milk intake:
---Your milk should “come in” 2-5 days after your baby is born. Your baby is born with extra fluid in his tissues, which is excreted during the first 48 hours after birth. This weight loss usually averages 7-8 ounces. His immature kidneys are not equipped to handle large amounts of fluid during this time. The small amount of colostrum (the sticky yellow fluid that comes out of the breast before the milk “comes in”) is perfect for his newborn system to digest, and provides important antibodies. During the first 24 hours after birth, you usually produce about 37 ml of colostrum (30ml is an ounce). The baby will get 7-14ml at each feeding, 1/3 to 1/2 ounce each time you nurse.
Usually on the second or third day, your breasts will start to feel ‘different’: warmer, fuller, and heavier. You will begin to produce transitional milk at this time – a combination of colostrum and mature milk, which will look yellowish. If you don’t feel these breast changes and your baby seems hungry after feedings, consult a health care professional and have your baby weighed.
---Your baby should latch on and suck rhythmically for 10-15 minutes on each breast. He may pause periodically, but should nurse vigorously for most of the feeding. He should seem satisfied after nursing, and will often fall asleep at the second breast. If he falls asleep and will not take the second breast, try to divide the sucking time between the two sides. If he is sleepy, he will get more milk by nursing for 5 minutes on both breasts rather than 10 minutes on one. You should hear him swallowing regularly while he is nursing.
---Your newborn should nurse at least eight times in 24 hours. Many newborns will nurse 10-12 times or more. This includes longer feedings as well as shorter snacknursings. Nursing every 1 ½ - 3 hours during the day, with one 4 hour stretch at night (if you’re lucky!) works well for many nursing couples. Don’t expect your baby to be on a 4 hour schedule – the average newborn will not gain enough weight that way. You may need to wake your newborn up for feedings – newborns will often not demand to be fed often enough, especially during the first week or two. (See article on "Waking Sleepy Babies" for more information).
---Once your milk is in, your breasts should feel fuller before feedings and softer after you nurse. You may see milk dripping or squirting from one breast while your baby is nursing on the other side. This is a sign that your milk is “letting down”. Your body doesn’t know that you’re not nursing twins, so your milk will let down on both breasts at once. You may or may not feel a distinct sensation associated with the milk ejection, or let-down reflex. Some mothers feel a very strong physical sensation, sort of a tingling, tightening, or pins-and needles response as the milk begins to flow. Some mothers never notice a distinct sensation, and some don’t feel it until they have been breastfeeding for several weeks.
---Keep track of your baby’s wet diapers and bowel movements. Other than weight gain, these are probably the best indicators of how much milk your baby is taking in.
For the first couple of days after birth, your baby will pass dark, tarry meconium stools. This is the stool the baby has been storing since before birth. Within a day or two of your milk coming in, his stools will change in both color and consistency. These early transitional stools may be brownish or greenish, and will be loose and unformed (kind of a pea soup consistency). By the time your baby is 4 or 5 days old, he should be having “milk stools”: Yellowish and seedy, sort of like a mixture of mustard and cottage cheese. He should have at least 2-5 substantial bowel movements in each 24 hour period, and may pass a stool every time he nurses during the first few weeks of life. If he is stooling less frequently, it may mean that he is not getting enough milk.
During your baby’s first couple of days of life, he will probably wet only once or twice a day, since he is receiving only colostrum. After the milk comes in, he should wet 6-8 times in 24 hours. It is often hard to tell whether a super-absorbent disposable diaper is wet or not, since the gel inside acts like a wick to draw the moisture away from the surface. You can put a piece of toilet tissue inside the diaper the help you be sure. The urine should be pale, colorless, and mild smelling. Dark, concentrated urine may mean that the baby is not getting enough milk.
---Most mothers experience some nipple tenderness during the early days of nursing. The discomfort is usually worst when the baby first latches on, and eases off during the feeding. If the pain is severe, lasts all the way through the feeding, if your nipple tissue cracks or bleeds, or the pains persists beyond one week, it may mean that your baby is not latching on correctly. This can not only cause you extreme discomfort and makefeedings unpleasant, but can also cause your baby to not obtain enough milk. Check yourbaby’s weight, and consult a breastfeeding specialist who can evaluate your nursing technique. Latch on problems can often be easily corrected.
The only way to be absolutely sure that your baby is getting enough milk is to check his weight regularly. Remember that it is normal for him to lose 5-7 % of his weight in the first couple of days (doctors often become concerned when weight loss approaches or exceeds 10%). For the average baby, this is close to a half a pound weight loss (often more for larger babies). You need to ask what your baby’s discharge weight is when leaving the hospital, because that is the figure you will be calculating his weight gain from, not from his birth weight. For example: your baby weighs 7 lbs 8 oz at birth. 48 hours later when you leave the hospital, he weighs 7 lbs 1 oz. Once your milk comes in, your baby should gain about an ounce each day for the first several months of life. Most babies will regain their birth weight within 2-3 weeks . Many doctors are pleased if the baby has regained his birth weight by 2 weeks , and will do a weight check at that time. I like to see babies regain their birth weight by 10 days, and most babies will do that if breastfeeding is progressing smoothly. Some doctors check the babies weight around the third day of life, and then make a follow-up appointment for 2 weeks to see if he has regained his birth weight. I strongly encourage mothers to check the weight at about 1 week - at that point, her milk should be in, the baby should have good urine and stool output, he should be gaining weight, and any breastfeeding difficulties can be addressed. Breastfeeding problems are much easier to remedy if recognized and treated early. Most doctor’s offices will offer free weight checks, since the doctor does not actually have to see the baby at that time (just ask the nurse to put the baby on the scale). The information you get will be invaluable – either you will know that breastfeeding is going well, and you can relax, or your will know that there is a problem that needs to be addressed and you can take care of it before a little problem develops into a big one.
One last note on this topic:
Every mother’s nightmare is that she won’t have enough milk and her baby will become dehydrated. Horror stories abound, and unfortunately, this has (rarely) occurred. There is absolutely no reason for this to happen if you follow the above guidelines. True dehydration is an extremely uncommon medical occurrence, and there are warning signs which indicate that your baby needs more fluids immediately. If you notice any of the following symptoms (especially if they occur concurrently with other “red flags” such as low urine and stool output), contact your doctor ASAP.
- weak cry
- dry mouth or eyes
- the fontanel (soft spot) on the baby’s head is sunken in or depressed
- the skin loses its resilience (when you pinch it, it stays pinched looking)
Anne Smith is an IBCLC – International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and La Leche Leader since 1978. More importantly, she is a mother to 6 breast fed kids with twenty plus years experience of counseling nursing mothers. Her site, www.BreastfeedingBasics.com , provides expert advice and solutions to breast-feeding problems and gives basic information on how to breast feed. Anne also features her recommended breast feeding products and breast pumps. | <urn:uuid:625bd125-5a91-4895-aff3-1d87c8f52c4f> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://www.familyresource.com/pregnancy/breastfeeding/how-can-i-tell-if-my-newborn-baby-is-getting-enough-milk | 2018-08-19T15:45:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180819145405-20180819165405-00316.warc.gz | en | 0.965002 | 2,158 |
Penn SRP Center News Archive
" . . . Our study has clearly shown that serum HMGB1 is not a biomarker of systemic disease . . ."
Could Statins Ease Deadly Heart Condition in Rare Neuromuscular Disease?
Penn study shows that cholesterol drug may help Friedreich’s ataxia patients
Penn Superfund Research Program (SRP) Investigator, Anil Vachani, MD, FCCP, Receives Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) Designation
CHEST 2017 may be over, but congratulations are still in order for Distinguished CHEST Educator Class of 2017 The American College of Chest Physicians is pleased to announce the inaugural class of Distinguished CHEST Educators.
Director of the Penn SRP receives the Founders Award during a Symposium in his honor on August 20, 2017 at the ACS National Meeting.
Ian A. Blair has won the 2017 Founders Award from the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Blair has made outstanding contributions to the field of Chemical Toxicology. He has pioneered the use of mass spectrometry to identify biomarkers for carcinogenesis, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegeneration.
The Hill Blog: Reagan's Superfund research must get back to Bush II funding levels
Congress should continue to support President Reagan's Superfund Research Program (SRP) in the fiscal 2017 and 2018 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bills and restore SRP funding . . .
Research Features: Protect and serve: community-driven superfund science takes aim at asbestos exposure
As a direct response to local community concerns, Dr Ian A Blair and colleagues at the Penn SRP Center are using federal funds to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to asbestos-related diseases. Dr Blair hopes to identify biomarkers of asbestos exposure with the aim of assessing an individual’s risks of developing asbestos-related diseases . . .
Penn Superfund Research Center Studies Asbestos from all Angles
Penn's Superfund Research & Training Program (SRP) studies asbestos from all angles. University of Pennsylvania program addresses aspects from environmental containment to health effects. Ads in which a lawyer talks about compensation for asbestos exposure and mesothelioma have been a television mainstay in the U.S. for a long time. Watching those, one might assume that the science of asbestos—how it’s formed, how it’s transported in the environment, and how it causes lung cancers—is a closed book. It turns out, however, there’s still lots to learn about the long, thin fibrous material. | <urn:uuid:943bbba0-6937-4115-b4ac-f01e0accf53b> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://www.med.upenn.edu/asbestos/news/ | 2018-08-14T19:03:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209562.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20180814185903-20180814205903-00014.warc.gz | en | 0.900171 | 535 |
NetScout is making a major move into enabling service provider big data strategies with two solution releases scheduled for July. The aim is to give operators to tools and means to be able to develop services that can underpin and take advantage of the IoT world.
The vendor will release a service called BI (Business Intelligence) for Service providers, along with another release called Custom ASI (Adaptive Service Intelligence).
Jim McNiel, CMO, NetScout, said, “BI for Service providers is the big data technology stack, that allows you to extract, transfer and load [network state] data into any analytics tool.”
“Custom ASI is the data structure that we patented that enables us to manage all this data.”
The two releases will “enable customers to assemble their own interpretation of their data using our tools,” said McNiel.
NetScout sits over a great deal of network data, captured through its probes and network instrumentation products. It has previously used that data to feed Performance Assurance applications.
The Big Data vision it has is to be able to take that data, and combine it with other data such as user, service or application information, to enable operators to do much more with the data. That can include designing more efficient operational processes as well as informing new services for customers and third party partners.
In fact, it’s like a much grander, more outward-facing, implementation of the underlying vision for the Tektronix Communications-Arantech deal of a few years ago. (TekComms/Arantech is, of course, now subsumed within NetScout following NetScout’s acquisition of Danaher’s comms portfolio last year.) TekComms’ original vision for buying Arantech was to be able to use Arantech’s analytical capabilities to turn very techie network operational data into useful business insights.
However, NetScout’s 2016 push into Service Provider big data will see it go much, much further, providing feeds of data into either its own analytical engines, or into operators’ big data platforms or, in fact, both.
It will also offer customisable data monitoring and analytics adaptation, such as its deal with Oracle, announced in October last year. On an earnings call in May, NetScout said the following about its ASI technology: “We are opening ASI to a broad range of non-wired data sources, including server data, synthetic data and Wi-Fi networks, and we are making ASI data available to third-party applications and analytic engines.”
“Telcos are going to have two major value propositions in the connected IoT world. The first is obvious – backhaul [connectivity] to all IoT devices. The second piece is managing that network of devices in the aggregate”
McNiel said that if telco’s customers can be presented with data in more interesting ways, then they can start to extract more value. This includes the finding more relationships in data, as per the Graphic Database model.
“Telcos are going to have two major value propositions in the connected IoT world. The first is obvious – backhaul [connectivity] to all IoT devices. The second piece is managing that network of devices in the aggregate,” McNiel said.
BIG DATA STRUCTURE
McNiel said that operators must be able to provide more contextual services to to the market. Examples he gave included targeted geo-specific marketing (for instance dyanmic billboards that change adverts to target specific users nearby) and presence validation for users of credit cards.
Can you imagine what would happen if AT&T tried to use Splunk to manage their subscriber data?
Phil Gray, Product Manager at NetScout, said that big data strategies must start with the quality of the data feeding the engines.
“It has to be well-structured, well-understood, it has to be a quality data source. At the heart of what we do is make sure we take disordered and disparate data sets and structure them. In the old world that was for Performance Management and now all those data sets are being offered to all the other apps you can run on top.”
McNiel added, “Can you imagine what would happen if AT&T tried to use Splunk to manage their subscriber data? They’ve have to build another seven super-data centres… That’s why Splunk is not going to work in the service provider space: as people become more dependent on digital info te boil the ocean approach to discover some little nugget of data is not going to work.”
THE VIRTUAL APLIANCE ALLIANCE
As well as expanding from its Performance Assurance beat to a wider brief as a Big Data enabler, NetScout has been on a mission to transform itself into a company aligned with the strategic transformation of networks from hardware-specific appliance to virtualised instances running on COTS hardware.
Again, from its results call in May: “Supporting customers with their virtualisation and cloud-based infrastructure initiatives is just one area where ASI tips the scales in our favour… NetScout ASI technology will play an important role in positioning us to win this technology turn and even potentially accelerate this transition for our customers as we have been able to do multiple times during the last two decades.”
That means that its aim of introducing new data analytics capabilities, and the ability for operators to customise the service intelligence they are offering, is allied to its ability to deploy its instrumentation software in virtualised form.
Gray said, “If you have been in the tools business for any length of time you will know that people want to deploy tools in exactly the same way as the services environment, so virtual appliances and software is the only model that follows the desire customers have to deploy services that way. NFV-SDN are real and our expectation is our tools need to go same way.
“The big change is that we are not just saying we are all-software but that we can offer software live in that service provider environment, allowing our customers to spin up and down resources for instrumentation to grow with traffic load as they want to. We never had a reliance on custom hardware, never made a card with acceleration or anything, so it’s very easy for us to do.” | <urn:uuid:b3e151b8-5b0a-46e3-a742-808f7bec4678> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | http://the-mobile-network.com/2016/07/netscout-to-move-into-big-data-analytics-with-dual-july-launch/ | 2019-04-24T05:52:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578633464.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190424054536-20190424075559-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.954525 | 1,341 |
Find cheap flights from Fez to Brussels at Uniticket.com.ng in just 5 minutes. On the site you can compare flight prices on this route, buy airline tickets costing from ₦ 117 291 and see the aircraft schedule.
The cheapest flight ticket from Fez to Brussels was found 1 day ago. Its one way cost starts from ₦ 117 291, the departure date is 25 November 2023. The minimum price for a round trip flight starts from ₦ 339 372. This flight fare was found 3 days ago, with the following departure dates: Fez on 12 October 2023 year, and back from Brussels on 15 October 2023 year.
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The cost of a round trip flight on the Fez - Brussels (Belgium) route. The cheapest ticket was purchased 3 days ago, its price was from ₦ 339 372. It flies to Brussels on 12 October 2023 year and returns to Fez on 15 October 2023 year.
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It takes 03:13 minutes to fly from Fez to Brussels excluding transfers. The distance between the cities is 2024 km or 1257 miles. The earliest morning plane from Fez leaves for Brussels at 02:50. And the latest evening flight departs at 22:15.
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The fastest Fez - Brussels flight ticket is provided by Air Arabia Maroc, the flight number is 3O 117. It is in the air for 02:00 mins, departing from Fes-Saiss Airport at 09:00 and arriving at 11:00 in Brussels Airport. This flight is carried out on a modern Airbus A320 airliner.
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The cost of the cheapest one-way flight from Fez to Brussels starts from ₦ 117 291. The departure date of that flight is 25 November 2023.
Round trip costs start from ₦ 339 372, with the departure date there being on 12 October 2023 year, and back on 15 October 2023 year.
There are 3 airlines flying directly from Fez to Brussels: Jetairfly, Air Arabia Maroc, Ryanair
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Case Study: Crunch Time (Snack Food Trends)
The product innovation team at a major food and beverage company recognized an opportunity to capitalize on the growing trend towards hybrid snack foods which fuse two traditional snack products together (i.e. pop chips, pretzel chips, etc.). The company was evaluating the revenue potential of this promising new product trend and how it could affect their internal product development efforts, but had no previous experience with hybrid snack foods.
New Product Category Lack of In-House Expertise
The product innovation team contacted their Maven Community Manager who recommended using the Maven platform to identify and engage with individuals with experience in hybrid snack foods product development. Within a few days the customer was presented with over a dozen qualified candidates, including a new employee at their own company who had recently worked for a company manufacturing hybrid snack foods. The customer actually knew this individual but didn’t realize that they had relevant expertise until the Maven system highlighted it! After a short introductory Telephone Consultation, their colleague joined their team to assist with the remainder of the project, which included additional Consultations with three outside experts from Maven’s Global Knowledge Marketplace. At the conclusion of the project, the customer presented their findings to their executive management, who funded an initiative to begin development of a new hybrid snack foods product.
“We had no idea where to begin, but our Maven contact took charge and knew exactly how to get us the insights we needed. We couldn’t believe it when she told us that what we were looking for was sitting right down the hall from us! The insights we gained gave us confidence to move forward with our new line of products.”
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C2ES Welcomes GE as New Strategic Partner
Company to Support Former Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) announced today that GE has become its fourth Strategic Partner, with a substantial multi-year commitment of support for the newly launched nonprofit.
C2ES is an independent nonpartisan organization promoting strong action and policy addressing the twin challenges of energy and climate change. Launched in November 2011, C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which was widely recognized in the United States and abroad as an influential voice on climate issues. A University of Pennsylvania survey recently named the Center the world’s top environmental think tank.
“We have long valued the Center’s first-rate analysis and its unique ability to engage all sides in the search for sensible and effective actions,” said GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. “Meeting our critical climate and energy challenges requires the kind of independent, pragmatic thinking that C2ES brings to the debate. GE’s support for C2ES reflects our deep commitment to delivering solutions that work for both our economy and our environment.”
GE joins Entergy, HP and Shell as Strategic Partners of C2ES. Other major contributors to the organization include the Alcoa Foundation, Bank of America, The Energy Foundation, Duke Energy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
“We’re very pleased to have GE among the diverse group of supporters who’ve made our transition from the Pew Center to C2ES such a success,” said C2ES President Eileen Claussen. “There’s greater need than ever for common sense and common ground in tackling our climate and energy challenges. Through its investments and actions, GE exemplifies the kind of corporate leadership we need to get the job done.”
GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company with products ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, and water processing technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, and industrial products. It employs 300,000 people and serves customers in more than 100 countries.
GE has worked closely with C2ES, and previously the Pew Center, since joining the organization’s Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) in 2005. That same year, GE launched its ecomagination initiative, with goals to reduce its environmental footprint while aggressively bringing to market new technologies helping its customers meet pressing environmental challenges. Eileen Claussen serves on the ecomagination Advisory Board.
In its first five years of the ecomagination initiative, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 24% from a 2004 baseline and its energy intensity by nearly 35%. In 2010, GE Energy Financial Services hit its multiyear target of investing $6 billion in renewable energy, and nearly 30 percent of the business unit’s overall portfolio is now in renewable energy, up from about 6 percent in 2006. The company is also on track to achieve its goal of $10 billion of clean technology R&D investment from 2010-2015.
C2ES, based in Arlington, VA, works to promote climate and energy solutions by:
C2ES’ predecessor organization, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, was founded in 1998 with the support of The Pew Charitable Trusts. As part of its transition from a private foundation to a public charity, The Pew Charitable Trusts has largely phased out its grant-giving to external organizations, which was the primary impetus for the Pew Center’s reconstitution as C2ES.
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4 Person Team Relay!
Marathon running can be a team sport! Gather your friends, co-workers, or family members to form a 4-person team, with each member running approximately 6.5 miles. We only have room for 100 teams to participate, so sign up early to ensure your team's spot in this awesome and fun event!
Dressing up is highly encouraged.
The Marathon Relay begins at 6:45 AM together with the individual Marathon runners at Horseshoe Lake. At specified and well-marked exchange points (shown on the map as R1, R2 and R3), runners will meet with the next team member and send that new runner off on their leg of the race. Buses will take relay runners 2, 3, and 4 to their start locations and will bus runners who have finished their legs to within 1/4 of a mile from the finish line. Relay teams will meet their buses at Woodland middle School the morning of the race. Buses leave promptly at 6:45 AM; make sure you are on time (no transportation for late arrivals).
755 Park St, Woodland, WA 98674 (this is less than a 1/2 mile from Horseshoe Lake Park)
Click below for descriptions of each leg of the relay and for a simple breakdown of the relay.
All team members are encouraged to run in with their team and finish together. A special staging area will be located near the finish line where team members can wait for their finish runner! Please do not interfere with the other individual runners who will be finishing at the same time. To that extent, we prefer that relay teams be aware of anyone trying to pass them as they work to get to the finish line. No "human chains" are allowed.
Want to do the relay, but can't get enough people together?
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Panama Pro, woven using glass-screen technology, positively contributes to a buildings thermal and visual comfort. It's low light transmittance, means the fabric remains transparent and allows contact with the outside world, while ensuring that glare control and internal building temperature is well managed.
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This week I bought two items for the kitchen, the first is a Little Ark Grain Mill that I went halves in with my sister. We paid $40 each for it which was an awesome price since they retail for $200. I can't wait to try it out but am still trying to source some good quality, reasonably priced grain.
The second piece is a Spirooli. I have wanted one for ages but have been wanting to buy local and as luck would have it when I was in our local organic store today, there was one on the shelf. I made the most amazing sweet potato noodle pasta for tea tonight, two of the kids had a taste and asked me to make them some too which I gladly did.
Here is the machine, it comes with three blades and is so quick and easy to use. As you can see I just finished using it and hadn't cleaned it as yet.
Darren caught a small shark last night so it was fish and chips for him and the kids for tea, well Sophie and Lachie had two teas including my pasta LOL. I didn't have time to make breadcrumbs so Darren coated the fish with polenta, I had a taste and it was yummy and crunchy.
On the weekend I made pizzas, meaty ones for my family and vegetarian for me. To make the dough, I just used my everyday bread dough and the garlic bread was made from a leftover loaf I had made a couple of days before. I think if I let them the kids would eat pizza every night. | <urn:uuid:d1bc408f-7c85-4308-9d6b-8a0572fb4032> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://sue-brown.blogspot.com/2013/10/ | 2019-10-20T17:35:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986717235.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20191020160500-20191020184000-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.992351 | 320 |
MUSE HAIR AND BEAUTY IS CLOSED AS OF 19 FEBRUARY 2017
Thank you from the Muse Hair & Beauty Team
We would like to extend one final thank you to all of loyal clients over the past 5 years – each one of you have left a special mark on our hearts!
But don’t fret, your favourite stylist won’t be far – please find contact details for Bianca, Tracey, Megan, Janeske and Unathi below.
We are trading until 18 February so be sure to book your final appointment now!
Please note, we will be having a clearance sale on Friday, 17 February and Saturday, 18 February (our final trading day) – come and get your favourite products at a discounted price! First come, first served so please get here early! | <urn:uuid:521b46ca-28bf-40d3-9b07-a205d6f601f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.musehairandbeauty.co.za/ | 2017-04-27T22:26:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122629.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00027-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911009 | 170 |
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Along the west coast of Calabria overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea the mountain backdrop is home to several old towns, including Belvedere Marittimo, situated between Scalea to the north and Amantea to the south.
An hour’s drive from Lamezia Terme, Belvedere is just 2km from the seaside resort of Belvedere Marittimo.
Close to the castle in Belvedere old town, we have a 55 sqm property which requires minor renovation and upgrading. The townhouse is accessed through a charming arched portal and down a few steps. The front door opens into a hallway. To the left is the bathroom. Down a few steps and again on the left is the kitchen. To the right there is an entry way into one of two large rooms, both of which have balconies and great views of the mountains and sea. Parking is close by and the main old town is a few metres walk. Belvedere’s main piazza is reminiscent of Ravello on the Amalfi. With lots of narrow streets, bars and local shops, Belvedere is a traditional Italian Centro Storico. If you are looking to acquire a piece of Italian history, this is an affordable option.
Entry hallway – 8 sqm
The hallway accesses the bathroom and down a small flight of stairs to the kitchen. At the bottom of the stairs entry to the two large rooms is on the right.
Bathroom – 3 sqm
Here we would remove the current studded wall and enlarge the bathroom space by a few metres. This would give enough space for shower, toilet and sink.
Kitchen – 9 sqm
The kitchen’s light source is via a window. Large enough for a modest kitchen, with all the usual kitchen appliances.
1st room – 18 sqm
A rectangular room with large balcony doors and Juliet balcony to enjoy the stunning mountain view. This room requires re-plastering, the balcony doors replacing and a new door to the second room. The original floor tiles are in very good condition and could be buffed up to their former glory.
2nd room – 19 sqm
This room includes large balcony doors and Juliet balcony with both sea and mountain views. The balcony doors require replacing and this room will need re-plastering. There is a false wall to the rear which we suggest removing to reveal a rock wall. This would make a tremendous feature. There are also ceiling beams which can be restored.
The property requires new electrical wiring and plumbing.
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The 2021 Spartan Hall of Fame class was officially inducted at the Clara Bell Smith Athletic Center this afternoon to be eternally recognized for their achievements as student-athletes at Michigan State.
The 2021 class members are wrestler and Olympian Franklin Gomez (2006-10), runner Anthony Hamm (1987-1992), dual-sport standout Carol Hutchins (1976-1979), golfer Lynn Janson (1968-1970), women’s basketball all-time leading scorer Elizabeth (Shimek) Moeggenberg (2002-2006), field hockey All-American Floor Rijpma (2006-2009), wide receiver Charles Rogers (2001-2002) and hockey goalie Ron Scott (1980-1983).
The celebration brought the former standouts and their families together to celebrate their athletic accomplishments in the Green and White.
“When I got that call, it was so rewarding,” Hamm, a four-time All-American in cross country, said. “I remember all the hard work I put in as a student-athlete at Michigan State, and I feel like it's paid off, sort of the icing on the cake on a solid student-athlete career.”
The former athletes beamed with pride in their black-tie attire looking back fondly about their time in East Lansing. The induction was a trip down memory lane for many of them who had not been back in the area.
Gomez reminisced about times he spent in study rooms in South Campus with his former teammate Rex Kendle cramming for a biology exam. Hamm said he and his wife have been walking the same paths on the Red Cedar river when they first started dating when he was an undergraduate student and his wife was studying at MSU as a graduate student 30 years ago.
“It's just a lot of memories,” Gomez said. "A lot of great memories and memories of hard work and struggles too.”
For Janson, the first men's golfer inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame, the induction was the accomplishment of a lifelong dream. The East Lansing native grew up within "a drive and a 7-iron" from the athletics building on Center St., two houses down from Harrison Roadhouse and spent his entire childhood and college years at or around Michigan State. Janson, now 73 years old, wishes his parents were still around to be there today.
"My parents have been gone for a little while now, but I would have loved to have them see it," Janson said. "My dad graduated from Michigan State. I have two sisters that graduated from State, one brother, and another brother that attended State. I got two grandkids here going to school now and so that makes it really very special."
Not all of the inductees were there though to celebrate. Cathy Rogers, the mother of Charles Rogers, was there on behalf of her son to receive the plaque and be recognized on his behalf. Charles died in November of 2019.
She wore a button of Charles' team picture from his last season at MSU on the strap of her dress while talking about her son’s legacy. She let two of Charles’ friends, Jeremiah McLaurin and his cousin Ali Smith, who were there with her, talk about his legacy and impact at Michigan State while she listened and wiped tears from her eyes.
“As football players, we commit ourselves every day to what our legacy is gonna be so what Charles wanted to do is set the bar high,” McLaurin said, “He just wanted to play hard for his family, for his mom, his cousins. As a best friend, I just wanted to make him better and to reach our goals. I mean he'll be ecstatic for this honor. It couldn't be any sweeter.”
When asked what Charles would say if he were here at the ceremony, Smith gave a simple, “we made it, we made it baby.”
The answer forced a laugh from Cathy and McLaurin, lightening the mood of the remembrance of the late wide receiver. Cathy repeated him, “We made it. Yes.” with a smile across her face.
The celebration ended with a plaque ceremony to commemorate the inductees in the Hall of Fame room inside the Smith center before going to a celebration dinner.
The induction ceremony was a part of MSU Athletics’ annual “Celebrate” weekend, celebrating Michigan State athletics. The weekend included a Varsity Jacket Award Ceremony Thursday night. The Hall of Fame class will also be honored during the Michigan State v. Nebraska game Saturday night.
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Friday, 6 June 2008
What do you get when you cross a purple-podded pea with a yellow-podded pea?
Well the answer is mostly GREEN podded peas, actually. That's something I hadn't predicted and I don't quite know why it's happening.
You also of course get some yellow podders and purple podders as the genes segregate out. The photo above shows some Golden Sweet x Desiree F2 plants ... these are siblings from the same batch of seeds and have segregated into yellows and purples (as well as greens).
And then this suddenly shows up:
This is one of my Golden Sweet x Carruthers' Purple Podded F2 plants. I noticed it had slightly different colouring from the others when the flower buds appeared. The sepals were cream-coloured which is a sure sign that yellow pods will follow, but they were also liberally flushed with pinky red.
When the first flower died off and the pod emerged, it was indeed yellow. But when it was a day or two old it started to develop a peachy blush down one edge. The colour seemed to be darkening by the hour and I wondered how far it would go. Would it stay peachy and localised, or fill in the whole pod?
The next day it had turned fiery orange.
I mentioned in my Yellow Sugarsnap post (below) that one of the joys of home plant breeding is the unexpected new phenotypes, unique traits created by the great gene lottery. But this is not just a new phenotype, it appears to be a completely new colour break. I don't know of any other peas this colour anywhere in the world. How exciting is that?!
It may be a colour I've never seen before, but it's easy enough to explain how it came about. Purple podded peas start off green, with the purple developing gradually after a few days. Sometimes the purple fills the whole pod, sometimes it retains a bit of the green. But essentially you don't get true purple pods, they're always green pods with a purple overlay. The purple colour is made by a common and naturally occurring plant pigment, anthocyanin. It can create pinks, reds, violets, purples, blues and blacks, in various parts of the plant.
All that's happened here is that the gene for yellow pods has met up and made a harmonious partnership with the gene for anthocyanin-in-the-pods. In other words, it's a normal purple podded pea but instead of having the usual green base, it has a yellow base. And the yellow shines through from underneath and makes it go red instead of purple.
And when I say RED ...
I bloody mean it. No Photoshopping here. These pods are deep, rich, blood red!
I hope this illustrates how incredibly worthwhile garden plant breeding really is. I was put off plant breeding for years because I'd always read that you need to grow thousands of plants to be in with a chance of getting anything useful out of it, and that it takes years and years and years of work. But that's bollocks, as you can see. Carol Deppe changed all that with her radical claim that you can do plant breeding on any scale and it really isn't difficult. She's absolutely right. This amazing pod colour has emerged spontaneously from a project which I started barely 12 months ago. All I did was a single round of hand-pollinations, and saved and grew the seed for two generations (all in the space of a year). And I didn't have to grow thousands of plants ... in fact I only have sixteen.
I've made two previous posts with instructions for hand-pollinating peas, if anyone wants to give it a go ... here and here.
If this doesn't get you reaching for your pollinating scalpel I dunno what will ... !
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If you are amongst the few who still give a damn about Orkut, you might have noticed something fishy going on over the past few hours. A large number of users are randomly flooding their friend’s scrapbooks (Orkut’s equivalent of Facebook Wall) with the following message:
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the “Bom Sabado!” messages are automatically generated by a script. However, it is not clear if this is simply a script exploiting vulnerability in Orkut, or have the accounts sending the automated scraps been compromised.
If you are amongst those affected, it’s highly recommended that you follow the steps highlighted below:
- Switch to the “older version” of Orkut.
- Log out of Orkut.
- Clean your browser’s cache and cookies.
- Log in and change your password and security question.
If you haven’t been affected yet, it is strongly advised that you avoid Orkut until the issue has been resolved. I managed to trigger the same exploit while researching this article. Recently other high profile websites like Twitter and YouTube also fell victim to XSS attacks.
This is a developing story; we will update this topic as soon as we learn more. In the meanwhile, stay tuned to Techie Buzz and don’t forget to share your experience, if you have also been affected.
Update 1: The worm appears to have originated in Brazil, where Orkut is still exceptionally popular. Many of the affected users are noticing the Brazilian flag on their status messages. Additionally, the word ‘Bom Sabado’ means ‘Good Saturday’ in Portuguese, which is the official language of Brazil. We are still awaiting an official response from Google.
Update 2: ‘Bom Sabado’ is now trending on Google.
Update 3: Google has finally responded. An update posted on the official forum claims that the ‘Bom Sabado’ bug has been contained.
We’ve contained the “Bom Sabado” virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it.
We’re currently working on restoring the affected profiles.
However, we are seeing new variants of the worm (such as ORKUT 3XPL0!T5) appear, which suggests that the underlying vulnerability is yet to be plugged.
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A recent story in the Orlando Sentinel about German Cockroaches infesting Orange County Public Schools prompted Massey Services to take action.
As soon Massey Services heard the news, the company connected with the district to offer our help and expertise to eliminate this problem as quickly as possible.
Several Massey team members volunteered their time on a recent weekend to complete thorough inspections on 12 of the 22 schools with a reported infestation to find the source and determine a treatment plan to rid these schools of roaches. Additionally, other team members worked evenings to inspect the final 10 schools.
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You served your country, and in the process you were injured. It could be a bad back. It could be loss of limb. Or maybe you're not sure if you're entitled to any government benefits. American Legion service officers file thousands of VA claims each year on behalf of America's veterans. And the Legion's Benefits Calculator can help you prepare to file a claim.
The American Legion shared its concerns about the effectiveness of VA-operated Vet Centers at an April 5 field hearing before the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health in Modesto, Calif. Bruce Thiesen, past national commander of The American Legion, appeared as a witness and submitted written testimony at the hearing, held at American Legion Post 74.
Chiefly, the Legion voiced concern that there are substantially fewer counselors who are veterans at the Vet Centers, which are community-based facilities funded and operated by VA to provide counseling, outreach and referral services. The Legion wants VA to hire more veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to serve as qualified peer counselors.
In its testimony, the Legion said, “Initially, Vet Centers allowed veterans to receive ‘peer to peer’ counseling from (veteran) readjustment counselors who offered personal experiences, giving the counselors the ability to relate to the veteran’s daily struggles; however, as time passed, many Vet Centers were unable to keep up with the increased amount of clients and were unable to hire strictly veteran counselors.
“An emphasis should be placed on hiring Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation New Dawn (OND) veterans.”
Founded in 1979 to help Vietnam War veterans readjust to civilian life, Vet Centers now serve all wartime veterans.
According to the Legion’s 2009 System Worth Saving report on VA health-care quality, the need for increased funding and staffing at Vet Centers has become a significant issue. In many rural areas, Vet Center staffs are tasked with covering large geographical areas; some centers serve as many as 23 counties.
The Legion noted that Vet Centers “currently offer counseling service for MST (military sexual trauma) for male and female veterans; however, it is not noted in any VA literature that veterans may receive counseling for MST not incurred in a combat zone.”
VA needs to update its literature so that veterans who are victims of MST understand clearly that they can use Vet Center counseling services, even if a sexual assault did not take place in a combat zone.
The Legion offered several other recommendations to the subcommittee in its testimony:
Because Vet Centers are planning to expand their services to active-duty, National Guard and Reserve personnel, the Readjustment Counseling Service (operated by the Veterans Health Administration) should conduct a needs assessment to ensure that proper staffing and protocols are being adhered to, in terms of wait times and availability of appointments. | <urn:uuid:dd8bd818-cea0-47d4-a254-b89ae1838bbc> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.legion.org/veteranservices/benefits/162915 | 2015-05-24T12:14:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928015.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00184-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964042 | 590 |
With strawberries now ripe for picking, this summer’s pick-your-own season has officially begun. Now, if you’re wondering why anyone would drive over an hour to pick fruit that is available right down the road at the grocery, then you’ve likely never had fruit picked right off the tree. It’s an entirely different species.
Lucky for us, there are numerous farms and orchards just a short drive from our home. We try to make the trip to Thompson’s early summer, cherry picking in Door County and apples in the fall. A day trip can mean enough fruit to last for weeks or even all year!
Thompson’s Strawberry Farm in Bristol, Wisconsin, just over the border. Strawberries are ripe mid-June through July 4 and raspberries are ripe in late August. | <urn:uuid:868d2da2-2479-42c1-90de-f6d527ec2499> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://granoladox.com/2012/06/19/fresh-picks/ | 2021-01-19T20:58:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703519784.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210119201033-20210119231033-00639.warc.gz | en | 0.95736 | 175 |
Optic Nerve makes some rad sunglasses, and the Bender cycling sunglasses are some of the best. With three interchangeable lenses and some tough as nails neon yellow frames, they'll keep your eyes safe and your face lookin' good.
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High Desert Adobe 9x12 Oils on canvas panel
I made a watercolor painting (a sad thing) and liked the subject better than the watercolor painting. So I made a painting with oil - in my comfort zone.
It needs "something" but I'm not sure what. I'll put it aside and the "fix" will come to me - I hope.
March 17, 2010 Update
I stared at the "original" painting and came to the conclusion that the roof was crooked in relation to the building - so I fixed the roof! I also darkened the building shadows and glazed the distant mountains & any shadow with Cerulean Blue. I'll keep this! | <urn:uuid:447ec4df-c7c8-43ba-aa40-5764be399f68> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://avocaken.blogspot.com/2010/03/high-desert-adobe.html | 2018-07-20T03:19:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591481.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720022026-20180720042026-00360.warc.gz | en | 0.972335 | 150 |
Tutorials for 3d and Web
There are currently over thirty tutorials for 3d and Web at 3dcognition.com. Current tutorials focus on 3ds Max, Flash, and Unity, with tutorials on WordPress and Drupal coming soon.
3ds Max is probably still the most popular platform for modeling and animating game assets, and the second-most popular solution for movie-related modeling and animation. A few quick lessons is all you’ll need to get started to modeling, texturing, and animating whatever you can imagine.
Drupal is an open-source content management system that handles large and complex web sites well and is not much harder than WordPress to use; definitely worth a look. Get a feel for how it works by checking out these tutorials.
Flash is still the best way to create complex, web-based animation, interactives, and 2D games, primarly because of the blend of powerful graphic features and the AS3 programming language that helps you manage the graphic assets.
HTML and CSS are the key components of everything on the web. I only have a few tutorials on this subject at the moment, but more are on the way, so check back.
Unity is my favorite game engine and in these tutorials I show how to import assets from 3ds Max, and cause them to be controlled by the game engine. Note: The Unity game engine is free – that is, the independent developer version, which is very slick and very powerful. If you have a little time and some good ideas, this is worth a look. | <urn:uuid:0b42f93a-33a4-42b0-b829-52f8d5302cbb> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.3dcognition.com/tutorials/ | 2014-07-26T13:09:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997901589.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025821-00189-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951867 | 321 |
Video Length: 3 m 50s
The video belongs to the Art in a Hurry Series. This video features Edward Much's The Scream. The narrator is Monica Hunt.
If you want to DONWLOAD the video, you can do it from my site HERE
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As July 29 gets closer and the free Windows 10 upgrade offer reaches its final days, Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in order to convince users to upgrade. It’s even willing to give you a new laptop.
As spotted by Neowin, Microsoft retail stores are offering to install Windows 10 on any compatible machine for free. If the store’s technicians don’t complete the upgrade by the end of that business day, they’ll give you a free 15-inch Dell Inspiron notebook.
The offer runs between now and July 29.
There is, of course, plenty of fine print. The free installation offer only applies to a single PC that’s capable of running Windows 10 (If it isn’t, you may be eligible for a $150 credit toward a new PC). You also need to check in your computer by noon for the offer to be valid. It’s also limited only to the US and Canada, so customers of the Microsoft Store in Sydney are out of luck.
The story behind the story: This free PC offer is the latest in a series of highly aggressive moves Microsoft has made to get its users onto Windows 10. Its deceptive, malware-like pop-ups in Windows 7 and 8.1 effectively trick users into installing Windows 10, whether they want to or not. Windows 10 spiked in market share in June, seemingly as a result of these forced updates, but the company has since admitted that it likely won’t hit its goal of having Windows 10 on one billion devices by mid-2018.
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UK debate has become heated, as parents who pull their children out of school to holiday during term are now liable for fines. These restrictions are further exacerbated by the new findings on car holiday prices shooting up as much as 30 percent during the weeks immediately preceding the start of the summer holiday and often doubling by holiday season.
Granted, all car hire prices are not “doubled”; however, Which? Travel found many car hire rates to be significantly inflated. The highest price discrepancies came through Barcelona airport. A small car hire averaging £50 per week in June for a 50-year-old driver, jumps to nearly triple that amount, driving up 176 percent in August to £138 per week.
Dramatic price increases were found at Málaga airport as well, increasing by 152 percent from June to August, starting at £49 and jumping to £123. Portugal’s Faro airport sees a 109 percent increase in a small car hire from £64 in June to £134 in August.
A large car price also rose significantly from £148 in June to £280 in August, an 89 percent increase. Holiday car hire prices in the United States are also notable, though not nearly as dramatic. Which? found that August car hire prices in New York rose from June’s prices by £26 (14 percent) on average for a small car, and £31 (16 percent) on average for a large car. New York’s car hire prices are high year-round, so this makes the average August car hire cost for a small car to clock in at £205, and for a large car around £223.
This research shows that the UK’s fines for an unauthorized absence during term (which amount to £60 per child per unauthorized absence) may be lower than the inflation in car hire costs during the summer holiday. An analysis of the weeks preceding the 2014 summer holidays in England showed Which? that even after paying the strict fines, 11 out of the 12 holidays researched were cheaper during term time.
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A man who saw where we are headed
Several years ago I was able to be briefed on a doctoral dissertation dealing with the long-range effects of deception upon people – mainly in the area of psychological, sociological, political and economic matters.
Josef Martensohn’s study was written in the early 1930s. He came to the conclusion that ultimately, based upon historic precedences and continuation of relevant trends in human affairs, in approximately 15 to 35 years “truth” would be labeled falsity and fiction “truth.”
The author further stated that at one point in the future deception would cause more civil and familial conflicts and also eventually, levels of worldwide confusion bordering on madness. Therefore, those that would be cynical, suspicious and paranoid would have a better chance of survival over people who failed to “reality test” beliefs and perception, liars would ultimately control destinies and common folk would be manipulated without realizing their enslavement.
His voluminous work was branded “heretical and seditious” by the university. The university rejected his ideas because they constituted an alarmist view and held natural human development in contemptuous fashion. He never received his doctorate. Eventually he left Germany before the start of World War II and moved to England. He then migrated to America and eventually joined our government as a “consultant.” He died in 1985, continually frustrated over never being able to openly forewarn humanity of the madmen which came during his long lifetime.
As history showed since then, he was describing this present time of 2014. I believe that his dissertation was absolutely correct. We are living in the time that his theorem is very much operative today.
As the world grows more confused, and the world becomes more totalitarian, and America is pursuing this path, Josef Martensohn has much to teach us from his outstanding dissertation. | <urn:uuid:d6f79414-2d1f-4b06-b68d-4c2176778766> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.journal-news.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2014/04/a-man-who-saw-where-we-are-headed/ | 2016-10-22T19:42:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00050-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985433 | 391 |
With the ability to perform numerous procedures with greater precision, flexibility and control, robotic surgery or robot-assisted surgery is at the forefront of the surgical profession and holds significant promise for even the most complex of cases. Currently, robotic surgery is associated with minimally invasive procedures and offers benefits such as less blood and scarring, reduced risk of infection and faster recovery times. Using miniaturized instruments and devices that are under the direction of the physician, robot-assisted surgery allows physicians to carry out delicate surgeries with greater dexterity and range of motion.
For gynecologic conditions that affect one’s health and quality of life such as pelvic pain, abnormal bleeding, endometriosis, fibroids, cancer or pelvic prolapse, robotic surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System has changed the surgical experience of millions of women around the world. Given the long recovery times associated with open gynecologic surgery, the revolutionary approach of robot-assisted surgery provides patients with a smooth and comfortable experience and a quicker return to activity.
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As a state of the art robotic operating system, the da Vinci Surgical System is a welcome technology for the treatment of gynecologic problems such as hysterectomy and ovarian cancer surgery. What’s more is that the precision of the da Vinci System allows for even the most complicated procedures to be performed with success. These include radical hysterectomy for gynecologic cancer and sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse.
The da Vinci Surgical System is comprised of two interactive robotic arms, a camera, three-dimensional (3D) image processing system and a remote control unit. Every movement is guided and manipulated by the primary physician. Yet, a second surgeon is located next to the operating table, and assists in exchanging instruments on the robotic arms.
When it comes to robotic hysterectomies using the da Vinci Surgical System, surgeons are provided better visualization of a patient’s anatomy, as well as the ability to dissect and remove lymph nodes or adhesions while navigating around delicate structures.
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I've been wondering for a while whether it is possible to compensate for uneven frequency response in a pair of monitors or headphones.
For example: I use the KRK Rokit 6's during my mixing as well as the AKG K701 reference headphones. If I knew the frequency response of my monitors/headphones, I figure I could correct the unevenness with an EQ on the master track, and mix with that EQ, only removing it before I bounce to audio for mastering. That way the response of my monitors/headphones would be flat during mixing (hypothetically) and I could get a better mix.
If I could use a compensatory EQ on the master that boosted the low end, lowered the low-mids a bit and lowered the 6k-9k range, would I not potentially be hearing a flat mix?
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In response to my post asking for reader opinions on why Chinese food in the US is so cheap, I got some amazing, intelligent responses.
They ranged from Big Think’s Lindsay Beyerstein‘s hypothesis that it was cheap overhead and ingredients, to Boston food writer’s MC Slim JB‘s observation on different cultural perceptions of what makes a good restaurant. Friend Sam Jackson and Jimmy Li thinks it’s a marketing/image issue. Serious Eats intern Leah Douglas cites her history class and the economic class of immigrant foodways. Another SE intern, Aaron Mattis postulates it might be lack of restaurant culture.
But no one quite tackled the issue quite as thoroughly as my friend and Chowhounder/Chinese food expert Sam Lipoff who emailed me a 1,000 word treatise on the topic.
I’m posting it here, with some minor editing for conciseness and flow. Definitely worth a read if you’re interested in the topic.
Why is Chinese food so cheap?
By Sam Lipoff
In the modern world, how does food become haute?
Typically by applying French technique to the traditional ingredients.
Conceptually, Chinese food doesn’t follow this rule, one possible reason why the American-Chinese version is inexpensive. The other line of thinking is sociological.
The sociological reasoning would say that since the first Chinese restaurants in the United States were started by very poor people, and served inexpensive food, this “register” for Chinese food is what the American public became accustomed to. By contrast, by the time Japanese immigrants came to the United States, post-Meiji restoration Japan was a wealthy and powerful country.
I’m sure there is some truth to this, but I don’t buy this explanation.
I think the major reason is more fundamental to the nature of the cuisine itself. Contemporary restaurant culture has a French conception of high end food. Modern, Western menus are protein-centric, so that you can order by saying “I’ll have the beef” “I’ll have the pork” or “I’ll have the salmon.”
Modern haute cuisine tends to feature artisanal, high-quality proteins, cooked in a simple method to bring out the natural flavors of the protein, often with a simple sauce that pairs well with those flavors, and some accompanying vegetables to balance those flavors.
However, Chinese cuisine is based on different principles. Chinese food often uses protein less for flavor and more for texture, and utilizes extremely complex cooking methods and involved sauces to provide the flavor. You might have better luck on a Chinese menu ordering by cooking method than by protein.
This doesn’t mean at all that Chinese food is inexpensive, but it means that expensive Chinese food isn’t just a matter of purchasing the kind of expensive proteins reared in the West for Western-style meals.
I have had extraordinarily expensive meals in China (by any standard) and while some have been in relatively shabby surroundings, most expensive (and terrific) meals in China, were in palatial surroundings with excellent service. Occasionally, one has expensive meals in China that are expensive because of rare ingredients (think bear paw, birds nest, and tiger penis) but those are exceptions, and are usually restaurants intended to impress business clients by how much you are spending.
More often, high-end food in China involves delicate and creative preparation of classical dishes with a bit of a unique twist, where every constituent ingredient is carefully selected and precisely arranged, which is not inexpensive, even if Niman Ranch pork isn’t involved. Lung King Heen, the three Michelin star restaurant in Hong Kong, is obviously Chinese, even if it occasionally incorporates Western ingredients, such as fois gras, into dumplings. I think that because high-end Chinese food is high-end in a different way than the normal process by which a cuisine becomes high-end in the United States, expensive Chinese food hasn’t yet taken hold in the US.
There also may be a slight mismatch between what “restaurants” mean in different cultures. In many Chinese restaurants in the United States, you can order a $6.25 lunch plate during the week. But you can also host your wedding banquet there, and the same restaurant will be transformed with white linen, and $200+ a person food, from abalone to geoduck clam. Try getting Per Se to serve you lunch for $6, or try getting a McDonalds to provide black-tie clad table service and Filet Mignon for a banquet.
Finally, I think there is something else going on too. It is extraordinarily difficult to get Chinese restaurants to produce authentic food for non-Chinese patrons. By contrast, it is extraordinarily difficult to get (real) Japanese restaurants to produce inauthentic food to cater to foreign tastes. I think this has something to do with deep ways in which these cultures define themselves. To Japanese it is obvious that foreigners should like authentic Japanese food, because Japanese food is obviously the best, so why wouldn’t everyone like it? To Chinese, however, the boundaries of the authentic are circumscribed by what foreigners can’t appreciate. If a foreigner says that he likes something, that thing must not really be truly Chinese, because only a Chinese could appreciate the subtleties of something truly authentic. Obviously I’ve made some major generalizations here, but I didn’t pull these out of thin air either — I’ve experienced this attitude many times, in both the US, China and Japan, with respect to food, literature, films, history, and other spheres.
There is another theory, advanced by Tim and Nina Zagat — due to the arcanity of immigration law, it is apparently next to impossible for restaurateurs to secure visas for talented chefs from China to come to the United States. Because there are also very few Americans who go to culinary school in China (while many go to France), this amplifies the shortage of well-trained Chinese chefs.
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Our primary goal is that our clients lead successful, law-abiding lives. We provide them treatment, services and support to facilitate their rehabilitation. Our aim is that they will not recidivate.
At the same time, we recognize that some clients persist in criminal behavior. Therefore we do everything we can to detect any unlawful activity as early as we can so that we can intercede before something worse occurs – such as violent crime. Field searches of homes and vehicles are important "early detection" tools for the probation officer because they sometimes reveal instruments of violence – guns, knives and other weapons – that are illegal in the hands of felons and could later be used to victimize others.
To be sure, our primary aim is that our clients not illegally possess weapons. Again, the avoidance of recidivism is always our first goal. But for those clients who continue to break the law, we should try to detect that law-breaking behavior as early as possible. As we know through experience, we want to catch any felon in possession of a firearm before he uses it.
The impact of this early-detection work is enormously important. Removing illegal weapons from the hands of felons immediately eliminates a terrible risk to our community. The National Institute of Justice states that gun recovery strategies that target felons have a high impact on crime reduction.
So while we continue to provide supportive services and treatment programs with the goal of helping our clients to lead successful crime-free lives, we must continue to complement those efforts with home visits and compliance checks that keep illegal weapons out of circulation.
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Where are you from? I was born in Gardena California on September 24, 1957. My parents went back to Mitchell, South Dakota, three months after I was born, for my grandfather’s funeral. They stayed, and this is where I was raised. I’ve spent the last twenty-two years here in Fremont, Nebraska, about forty miles northwest of Omaha, raising a family of seven children.
Tell us your latest news? I’ll be at Next Millennium in Omaha, Nebraska, in April, May, and June for book signings. I’ll also be giving tarot readings. I’ll be posting more information on this, including dates/times at my Facebook author page. You can also find this information at my website, The Witch’s Corner: ladyamythyst.webs.com
When and why did you begin writing? I’ve been writing since I started my first journal when I was 12-years-old. I was inspired by Anne Frank, and I wanted to record my life and times in order to relish everything and to forget nothing.
When did you first consider yourself a writer? It finally dawned on me that I was a writer when I stood in the middle of my kitchen staring at a check in my hand that I had received for a short story I submitted to a magazine in Colorado. This was in the early/mid 1990s, when I was still in the process of having babies and running a very busy household. The idea that someone would actually pay me for something that I had written was mind-blowing.
What inspired you to write your first book? I believe that it was the enlightenment and love of my spiritual path that inspired me to write my first book. The path of the pagan is so inspiring and so misunderstood by so many. I decided to write this book after a very dear high school friend, someone I thought I would be friends with the rest of my life, ended our friendship when I finally revealed to her that I collect tarot cards.
There was dead silence on the other end of the phone, and then in a very small voice she said, “That’s very dark.”
Well, no, divination and the tarot are not dark at all. The tarot is such an inspiring tool, not only for divination, but to venture into your psyche through meditation and magick. I wanted people to know this. I wanted people to understand the process of divination, how it works, when it can actually be useful in unexpected ways, and how enlightening life’s journey can be with it.
I realized that the way to do this was through a book.
Do you have a specific writing style? I’ve been told by readers that my style is very ‘chatty and natural’. Basically, I write pretty much the way I speak– well, for the most part. The formality of style depends on who I’m writing for, what the subject needs in order to be understood; and how entranced, inspired, or magickal I feel.
How did you come up with the title? For my last book, “Tarot: A Witch’s Journey”, it was really pretty easy…I’m a professional tarot reader, it’s been a long round-a-bout route getting to where I am today, and I’m a witch. There ya’ go!
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life? The experiences in my book are all real events from my life and the people/circumstances that I’ve encountered over years of professionally reading the tarot for the public. You meet all different kinds of people seeking answers to life’s questions, and their expectations of the tarot reader and a psychic reading are very diverse and sometimes unexpected.
In my book I’ve actually included real tarot readings I’ve done for clients, publishing them anonymously of course, to give an idea of exactly how this process works and what the end results will be like.
What books have most influenced your life most? When I was a teen-ager, the book that most touched me and influenced me was, “The Diary of Anne Frank”. I was twelve years old the first time I read it, and I just naturally assumed it would have a happy ending…it didn’t. I was stunned. I re-read it then without the haze of innocence to shade the harsh reality.
Years later I discovered another ‘Anne’…Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her series of diaries and letters. Again, there was a tragedy included in the author’s life and these books, the kidnapping and murder of her infant son in 1932. But this time I got to read past the tragedy to see how the author learned to live with her sorrow and to rebuild her life. Anne’s books contained very poignant insights on life and how we cope so as to be able to live.
If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?Definitely Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I lent a friend one of Anne’s books once, and when my friend had finished reading it, her amazed response was, “This lady is pure thought.” I also greatly admire Ann Moura, as well as Ly de Angeles and her beautiful literary style.
What book are you reading now? I’m doing research now for my third book, “The Book of Magick” (working title), so my reading consists of books on topics relating to my research; books on crystals, stones, correspondences, animals, herbs, and such.
What are your current projects? I recently finished my second book, “The Gray Witch’s Grimoire”, and have it under submission with a publisher at this time. This book deals exclusively with magick from the perspective of the gray witch, which might rattle a few chains. I believe the modern witch of today, greatly influenced by a mostly Christian society, has lost site of the true wise-woman of ancient times. This book includes information on not only magick that falls in the shady area of witchcraft, taking advantage of a darker and often misunderstood energy, but it also deals with touchy Wiccan subjects, such as self-initiation.
I intend to write a companion book to “The Gray Witch’s Grimoire” sometime in the very near future, most likely a study guide..
Right now, as I’ve said, I’m working on “The Book of Magick”, which attempts to gather correspondences for all types of magick, from a variety of paths, to make it easier for the magickal practitioner to coordinate their spell work and gather the items they need to make their magick a reality.
Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members. The Mother Goddess…it’s the strength, resolution, and peace I find as a practicing witch and member of my coven that inspires me.
Do you see writing as a career? I have a feeling that very few writers, except those who’s novels are destined for movies, can depend on a writing career as their sole income. As a free-lance writer, with no other source of income, you will also run into issues and concerns such as health insurance and retirement plans.
If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book? Overall– no. I think my editor, Starr Price, did an amazing job at creating a wonderful book from my piles and piles of manuscript pages, coordinating all the information I presented into a magickal experience. I think an artist or writer would never stop tweaking their work if someone didn’t gently take it from their hands and say, “Okay, it’s done now.”
Who designed the cover? The cover for “Tarot: A Witch’s Journey” was designed by Starr Price. I had no idea what she was going to do. She phoned me one day, saying that the cover was finished and she wanted me on the line when I looked at it for the first time for feedback– it blew me away! My girls were behind me squealing in delight. I can’t tell you how many comments and compliments I’ve received about the cover to this book. I tell these people I take no credit for this, it was all Starr Price’s artistic talent and magickal muse.
What advice would you give aspiring writers? I’d tell them to keep writing, keep writing, keep writing. It’s so easy to come up with a million ideas that you never put down on paper. Don’t just dream about being a writer, but actually do it. This requires determination, discipline, and perseverance, but the rewards are worth it in the end. | <urn:uuid:f9a692e6-d259-4643-8b07-06a3c1ca4a4a> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://wytchymystique.com/tag/writing/ | 2021-07-25T00:23:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046151531.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724223025-20210725013025-00109.warc.gz | en | 0.974562 | 1,887 |
After ten years of research, award-winning chef Marc Vetri has finally released a pasta bible, and we're ready to become is sauce-ciples. It has over 100 recipes, straight from the master himself, that cover more than 30 different types of pasta dough, from easy-to-make egg yolk dough to complex flavored pastas. You'll also be privy to Vetri's stories of travel and discovery in Italy as well as info on gnocchi, risotto, and the ideal method to sauce.
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2,662 views 6 comments Game Trailer, added on Dec 14, 2012
RealU and gamigo have released a new video developer diary that focuses on character classes to be deployed in Otherland, a new MMO in development based on the novels by Tad Williams. In addition, the second beta even has been scheduled for December 14-17th that features some key improvements over the first event.
5,396 views 11 comments Game Trailer, added on Sep 03, 2012
Gamigo has released an awesome new trailer featuring in-game footage from the ongoing closed beta test of Otherland. Footage reveals locations and game play from Otherland. Check it out and let us know what you think! Enjoy!
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Tad Williams and developer RealU are using the latest installment
of their Otherland Making-of clips to present a new world simulation:
Five Isle is a world comprised of five floating islands, each of which
represents one of the five Chinese elements.
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The team behind Otherland has a new "making of" video to share today. In the latest episode, the team shows of EightSquared where the White and Red Armies are mired in an endless war against one another. "Green fields, Victorian architecture and gigantic chess pieces floating in the sky dominate this world created by Tad Williams."
6,047 views 29 comments Game Trailer, added on Feb 28, 2012
Gamigo and the Otherland team has released a brand new game play trailer from the upcoming MMO based on the best selling book series by Tad Williams. The video shows off a lot of the game's environments and character models. Check it out and enjoy!
2,173 views 9 comments Official Movie, added on Feb 21, 2012
The Otherland team has sent out a new video featuring the process behind making the Lambda Mall, the game's central hub. Lambda Mall will allow players to buy a new look in the Metamorph Shop or take advantage of the Hacker Zone deep beneath the central area.
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These are some of the projects I've been working on recently.
This is the famous cake We made for Captain's final.
Harvey and I made these paper heart chains for Valentine's Day. He enjoyed handing me the paper strips and stapling the hearts together.
He calls them "trees." I have no idea why.
This is the thing I'm proudest of at the moment. Do you remember that big long list of things I wanted to finish over the summer? Well this was one of them. I knew it needed to wait till Cecilia was old enough to hold her head up. I did take some artistic liberties with the shape of Harvey's hair. If I had gone with what was really going in in the photo it would look like he had dinosaur spikes coming of the back of his dome. Anyways, I just printed out photos of the kids and traced the edges. Then cut them out of black cardstock and glued it to paper.
Also, I would love to get input as to what color to paint the frames. Captain likes them the way they are. I originally was thinking white, but now I think maybe a bright color like red or yellow would be better.
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Core Client Habit: 5+ Servings Of Vegetables Each Day
Question: Did I Consume 5+ Servings Of Vegetables Today?
How To Know You’ve Done This: Use your fist to measure servings of vegetables and consume 5 each day.
Vegetables reign supreme as the base and foundation of the “health” pyramid. If you shoot for 5+ servings each day and eat a wide variety of in-season veggies, you’ll nourish your body, keep your immune system active and thriving, and create an environment conducive to a lean, healthy body and mind.
Why Is This A Core Habit?
Stress in the right amount is good and makes us robust, healthy humans. Exercise (in the right amount and intensity) and having to think through challenging problems in our work are great examples.
But other stress is harmful. Over-exercise, eating inflammatory foods, and unhealthy coping mechanisms for problems at work or home are detrimental to our health.
This sort of stress creates free radicals in our body. Free radicals are unpaired electrons which run berzerk and cause mass confusion and chaos within us. They are sneaky and we may not feel the effects of their damage until it’s too late.
How can we combat free radicals? Antioxidants.
Antioxidants are like a psychological counselor for the aforementioned, berzerk, free radical. They take the place of lost electrons and bring order and calm to our body.
Vegetables like artichokes, kale, cabbage, and spinach are extremely high in antioxidants.
Veggies allow us to cope with the side effects of living in a stressful world.
At Village, we don’t advocate for any specific “diet”. We teach our clients to fill their bodies with foods which are high in nutrients and avoid toxic foods. Nutrient-dense food tells our body that its environment is healthy. Vegetables, as a group, the most nutrient dense food.
How To Make This Habit Happen?
Make a fist. Take a peek at it. That’s the size of one “serving” of vegetables. Throw a few handfuls of spinach in your eggs, have a big salad for lunch and you’ve met your total for the day!
Does this need an explanation? Make sure your salad contains actual vegetables and not just iceberg lettuce and GMO tomatoes. Look for baby spinach, kale, and arugula. Sorry, spring mix doesn’t count! Most commercially available salads are just vehicles for PUFA containing salad dressings. You might as well get the fries you really want instead of that drive thru Caesar salad.
You can throw basically anything in a stir-fry, which is why they are so gosh darn popular for a quick family or solo meal. Use a high quality, high heat fat such as coconut oil. Make sure you time which ingredients you add when. Carrots and onions take longer to cook, so add those first. Wait till they’ve cooked a little before you add in broccoli and bell peppers (If your broccoli is the same color as the dirt it grew in, its overcooked!) Finally add more tender veggies like bean sprouts for a quick seer at the end. Essentially you want your vegetables to be about the same color they were before you cooked them to preserve nutrient content.
Carrot sticks I’m looking at you! If a mid-morning or mid-afternoon snack is part of your mental game to get through long work days, getting a few veggies is highly strategic. If you don’t like veggies that much and don’t want them besmirching your plate of steak on Friday night, be preemptively-lazy and eat them earlier. Skip the lousy PUFA laden salad dressings (cough ranch cough) and bring some salty olive oil. Dunk away!
Nothing says family dinner like a microwave-steamed bag of frozen vegetables. Go organic, and as always, don’t be afraid to use a healthy fat and high quality salt to make these a winner on yours and your kids’ plate.
The Less Obvious:
Cook with fresh herbs. You know those funny looking bundles of plants in the produce section? Buy them. If the sprinklers in the coolers scare you, bring a poncho- they’re worth it. Fresh herbs like cilantro, basil, thyme and oregano can seriously elevate your plate in looks, taste, and nutrition. Give them a rinse, a quick chop, and put them into your salads, breakfast eggs, and on top of entrées. My new year’s resolution this year was to use more herbs, so I started putting them in jars on the countertop near a window to make them extra accessible for cooking.
Buy better spices. Have you ever thought about what spices are? Did you know that black pepper is actually a fruit? It’s a little mysterious when our most common association with spices is that paper tin of McCormick all-purpose seasoning you’ve had since the Reagan Administration. Believe it or not, spices were once fruits, vegetables and seeds (in the 90s and 00s they were also a girl group). As such, they are tastier and more nutritious the fresher they are. If you are new to the spice game, start your adventure with the highest quality peppercorns you can find and a decent grinder (or just repurpose that sea-salt grinder from Trader Joe’s everyone has…). Grind it liberally on to everything savory.
Get to Love Garlic. And for that matter, ginger. Both of these can give your savory meals powerful flavor and nutrition. The next time you are making a stir fry, before you do anything else, take a clove of garlic, crush it with the side of a metal chef’s knife, peel back the papery skin, and chop up 4-5 cloves. Throw it in a pan with your healthy fat and let it heat up while you get the rest of your ingredients ready. As for ginger, buy pieces from the store that have less fingery-nubs. Less nubs = easier peeling. Peel with a hand-held potato peeler or even a small spoon. You don’t have to get all the skin off, but try to get most of it. Thinly slice or chop it and add it to your healthy cooking oil while the pan is heating up.
Make curry paste. Curry paste is amazing because it contains concentrated herbs and veggies in a paste that is versatile and freezable. Lots of recipes are available online! I would start with a green curry, which makes beautiful green broths the color of springtime and happiness. Basil, cilantro, garlic, ginger, shallots, and lime (zest and juice) all go into a blender or food processor and come out ready to be scooped into your next soup, stir-fry or more traditionally, coconut cream broth, and then frozen for later meals. A little goes a long way!
Go to the farmer’s market. Believe it or not, there are real humans who are mind-blowingly passionate about things like soil, ecosystems, and vegetables. And they live in little tarp covered booths in Claremont village every Sunday from 10am to 1pm. Okay okay, they live in regular houses (sometimes farm houses). Go talk to them. Ask them what you should buy and what you should cook. Ask them how you can make better decisions about produce. These agricultural heroes are treasure troves of knowledge and if we don’t get to know them and buy their stuff they will go away and we will be left with endless fields of genetically modified cash crops.
Get a nice knife, a sharpener, and a big bamboo cutting board. I asked Head Coach Chuck what his biggest vegetable barrier was and his reply? Preparation. My second question: Do you have a nice knife?* You don’t have to spend a fortune on Damascus Steel. My knife of choice cost $60 on Amazon. Keep the knife sharp and your SKILLS sharper (Gordon Ramsay does a great tutorial on knife work).!
The Even Less Obvious
Pickled and Fermented vegetables. Sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers and kimchi are all great ways to add a HUGE new dimension of flavor and nutrient profile to your cooking. Add them to salads, sandwiches, broths, soups, or even just eat them on their own. As with most foods, you’re going to have to spend a little extra money to get the good stuff. Bubbies is my favorite brand because their sauerkraut and pickles are made without vinegar, elevating the probiotic content significantly.
Grass Fed Meat. Yup. A recommendation to eat meat in the core habit about vegetables. It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn, it’s a new life… and I’m feeling good! Sorry, channeling my inner Michael Buble for a second there. When animals eat grass and nutrient dense vegetation, that stuff gets in their bodies. You can get the benefit of it from milk, eggs, skin, bones, and meat without ever touching a plant yourself. Just be sure your meat is 100% Grass Fed/Free Range/Wild Caught, etc. But still eat plants. ;)
Bottled Juice. Most expensive bottled juice is made with high pressure processing or cold pressure processing. Unfortunately, anything that can kill the bad bacteria that causes foods to spoil kills the good stuff too. You just can’t get away from it- living food is for the living. If your food won’t die, its because its already dead. However, bottled juice provides a whole lot more nutrition than other beverages and is a good substitute if convenience is a high priority. Look for juices that feature lots of leafy greens and herbs and contain minimal fruit juice (check the Village fridge). You’re looking for a sugar content on the nutrition label of less than 5g of sugars per 8 oz serving.
The Big Idea
Don’t compartmentalize. Most people never consider that quality produce benefits them without ever being on their plate. Why? Fruits and vegetables are symbols of our land, and our land is our livelihood. When you allocate your resources towards quality produce you create economic demand for healthy soil and balanced ecosystems. When our land is well cared for, everything (including people you’ve never met) are better off. Don’t be fooled by false frugality! Investing in healthy environments across the board pays dividends for generations to come. And… its tasty.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Why More Veggies And Less Fruit?
Fruit tends to be higher in sugar than vegetables. Sugar, just like any carbohydrate spikes insulin inside our bodies. Insulin is the primary hormone responsible for weight gain.
If you have weight-loss aspirations, eating a diet high in fruit could hold you back from progressing towards your weight loss goals.
A few thousand years ago, fruit was only available in season and locally. Today, you can walk into the supermarket, get any fruit you want and have it in abundance. The morning breakfast of a banana, orange juice, and a cup of fruit is a far-cry from what our ancestors ate.
When our ancestors were lucky enough to find fruit, they ate as much of it as they could stomach. We’ve been programmed to crave sweet foods because they’re loaded with energy that we can store as fat. Today, with high calorie, high-sugar foods available all-year-round, most consumers simply can’t resist and stop the eating.
Our hope is not to give you the impression that fruit is bad. Rather, our hope is to get you to think critically about what you put in your mouth. A Banana can certainly fit into a healthy diet now and then, but eating one every day in the midst of other high-sugar fruit consumption could be holding you back from losing weight, decreasing inflammation, and reaching optimal health.
Are some veggies better than others?
Not all vegetables are created equal.
Characteristics of non-starchy vegetables are:
Low in calories
Low in carbohydrates
Low in sugar
High in water
High in fiber
High in nutrients
These are all great. When we talk about communicating well with our body, we should think of adding a wide nutritional bandwidth and a plethora of nutrients. Vegetables, because they're relatively low in calories and carbohydrates are not going to fill us very quickly, but they're loaded with nutrients, fiber, and communicate amazingly with our body. This is especially true for non-starchy vegetables.
Let me go as far as to say that having a serving of non-starchy vegetables at every single meal could be the one habit you need in your life to lose weight, be healthy, and have the body you want.
Examples Of Non-Starchy Vegetables:
All “Leafy Greens” (Spinach, Kale, Romaine, etc.)
Cabbage (all kinds)
Onions (Yellow, Red)
Peppers (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green)
Feel free to eat as many of these non-starchy veggies as you would like. Because they're low in calories and high in nutrients, you really can't overdo it.
Higher in calories
Higher in carbs and starches
Higher in sugar
Moderately high in nutrients
High in water content
Starchy vegetables, on the other hand, need to be eaten in moderation. Although we would certainly not put these in the category of a “bad” food, they are loaded with carbohydrates and thus should be in moderation to keep total carbohydrate count low.
Examples Of Starchy Vegetables:
Squash (Butternut, Acorn, Spaghetti)
Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes
Corn (not actually a vegetable but a grain, yet most people count it as a vegetable, so that's why it's listed here)
How about Organic?
All tomatoes are not created equally. A tomato which is shipped from a different country, picked well before it is ripe so that it can make it to our door and sprayed with toxic pesticides will communicate something far different to your body than one picked yesterday from a local farm or your backyard.
Your best bet when picking veggies is to grow your own. After that, go for local and pesticide free. Try out a farmers market. The next best bet would be organic from the grocery store.
Some veggies, like those with a delicate skin are more prone to contain pesticides. These are especially important to get organic.
The Dirty Dozen: (choose organic)
12. Sweet bell peppers
Plus: Hot peppers
The Clean Fifteen (OK to get non-organic)
2. Sweet corn
6. Sweet peas, frozen
11. Honeydew melons
How About Juice?
Dried fruit and fruit juices are a no-no. They provide too much sugar without enough fiber and bulk. This means you consume a lot of carbs, calories, and sugar without feeling full. They also miss the boat when it comes to communicating with your body in the way this food was meant to communicate. Green juice, cold pressed, can be a great way to get nutrients and solid nutritional communication without having to do any cooking. However, many green drinks are still loaded with sugar and calories. The trick is to find one that and it’s relatively low in sugar and calories. Think less than 50 calories per bottle. This lets you know that it has more vegetable than fruit. Some green juices don’t have nutritional information as they’re made in-house. In this case, you need to read the ingredient labels and go by taste. If you see fruits like apples, pears, or oranges near the top of the ingredient list, it’s probably sugary. Then you can go by taste. If it tastes sweet, there’s probably some sugar in it. You have to read ingredient labels. Don’t become a victim to the marketing of health food companies. Pick the product up, turn it around, and question every ingredient.
Release Yourself From Societal Conventions
A vegetable cooked in a healthy fat should make its way to your plate at each and every meal. Broccoli cooked in bacon grease, kale sauteed in butter, and asparagus roasted in avocado oil are all excellent examples of cooked vegetables.
Pam, a client of ours at Village, has a heaping plate of vegetables cooked in a healthy fat for breakfast every day. Yes, breakfast!
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Lights…Camera…Action – You Need Videos!
Written by: Marcia L. King
All social media marketers will tell you that you can’t ignore the power of video. YouTube – just one example of a video platform – is used by 100 percent of the top brands in the world, generating millions of views each day. So, you need videos! Mauricio Belgrano is here to help.
In this presentation, Mauricio will discuss creating stories that your audience will love, the best ways to tell your stories using video production techniques, and how marketing your videos is more than just posting them on your social media sites.
Mauricio Belgrano is a film producer who started Name Sake Pictures (NSP) in 2009. NSP helps non-profits tell their stories and present their messages in short film formats. Using the techniques found in motion pictures and documentaries, NSP improves the visual quality to entertain and engage their clients’ audiences for the purpose of fundraising, recruiting volunteers and advocacy.
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Rumsfeld To War Critics:
PAULINE JELINEK / AP 26oct2006
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that anyone demanding deadlines for progress in Iraq should "just back off," because it is too difficult to predict when Iraqis will resume control of their country.
During a Pentagon news conference, an often-combative Rumsfeld said that while benchmarks for security, political and economic progress are valuable, "it's difficult. We're looking out into the future. No one can predict the future with absolute certainty."
"You're looking for some sort of a guillotine to come falling down if some date isn't met," Rumsfeld told reporters. "That is not what this is about."
His comments came less than two weeks before an election for control of Congress in which the Bush administration's conduct of the war has become a defining issue. They also came two days after a timeline was first announced by U.S. officials in Baghdad and underscored strains that have emerged between the two countries.
Bush administration officials said Tuesday that they and Iraqi leaders had agreed to craft guidelines toward progress in the country. The next day, Iraq's president disavowed them, saying the benchmarks merely reflected campaign season pressures in the U.S.
Noting that this is the political season, Rumsfeld also complained that critics and the media are trying to "make a little mischief" by trying to "find a little daylight between what the Iraqis say or someone in the United States says."
Rumsfeld often spars with reporters at Pentagon briefings, but Thursday his criticism of journalists seemed more pointed than usual.
"That's a rather accusatory way to put it," he said in response to one question about reducing troop levels.
Members of both parties say next month's congressional elections have become a referendum on the war in Iraq. Control of Congress could hinge on whether voters believe the Bush administration is on the right path or if there should be a change in course and significant reduction in U.S. troop levels there.
Rumsfeld's comments on the benchmarks further muddied the waters on whether there is agreement between the Iraqis and the U.S. on how quickly progress must be made there.
"They're still in discussions," he said.
U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad announced in Baghdad on Tuesday that Iraqi leaders had agreed that by the end of the year, they will have a plan that roughly lays out the times by which they want certain things accomplished.
The next day, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected Khalilzad's announcement and said his government had not agreed to anything. President Bush responded that al-Maliki was correct in saying mandates could not be imposed on Iraq, but said the United States would not have unlimited patience.
"You ought to just back off, take a look at it, relax, understand that it's complicated, it's difficult," Rumsfeld said regarding deadlines. "Honorable people are working on these things together. There isn't any daylight between them."
On Thursday, veteran U.S. diplomat David Satterfield told foreign reporters in Washington that "there is not a significant disagreement" with al-Maliki. "No one is imposing benchmarks," said Satterfield, who is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's coordinator for Iraq.
In fact, he said, the timelines, which apply also to economic progress, were worked out over a long period of discussions with Iraqi officials and they essentially are Iraqi benchmarks.
Echoing the tone used by President Bush on Wednesday, Rumsfeld also said it is "an enormously challenging process to defeat the terrorists" in Iraq. Bush had expressed disappointment with the progress in the war.
In other comments, Rumsfeld said the U.S. is considering whether it should speed up money planned for recruiting, training and equipping Iraqi security forces. Officials have said training Iraqis to take over security is key to withdrawing U.S. and other coalition forces.
Since 2004, the U.S. government has earmarked $11.3 billion for assistance to the Iraqi security forces.
"We intend to increase their budgets" as well as their capabilities, Rumsfeld said, and officials will help make the improvements more quickly. He did not cite any figures, however.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
How I did It: Art Journaling
You might have noticed that I have a "Big Idea Festival" badge on the left side of my blog. The Big Idea Festival, Words to Live By, is a free, 12-day workshop where each day, a different instructor gives a word of the day, and the participants use that as inspiration for their pages. Most participants are scrapbookers, but some, like me, are treating it as an art journalling class.
I've been getting some VERY sweet compliments on my pages in the gallery section of the workshop, and one person asked if I could elaborate on how I create my pages, the layers etc. So I took some still photos of the page and also shot a very amateurish video on Dwight's iPod, to walk through the steps. I seemed easier than typing it all out here.
Before I get into it, though, I do have to give a shout-out to Christy Tomlinson, a crazy-talented mixed media artist and creator of the She Art Workshop (and other workshops) where I learned a lot of the techniques I use. If you have any desire to do mixed media work, I highly suggest Christy's classes. She's incredibly generous with her talent and is just darling.
Now on to the show.
Here's a still of the complete page along with a shot of the supplies (most of them, anyway). I've labeled each supply and the place it's used on the page.
1. Acrylic paint
2. Roller stamp with more or less illegible script, perfect for texture
4. Book Paper from Chronicles of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (my favorite in the series)
5. Scrapbook paper, used on bottom right
6. Stylized flower stamp
7. Starbucks brochure
8. Flower border stamp
9. Gear stamp
10. Punchinella (sequin waste)
11. Plastic thingy I found at a craft store. You weave on it or something.
12. Permaball pen for doodling
13. More scrapbook paper, used at top of page.
14. More book paper, from an old anthology of Shakespeare works. Page is from Much Ado About Nothing.
15. Bubble wrap
16. Martha Stewart butterfly stamps (found on sale at Michaels - score!)
Here are some detail shots of the page.
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Alert Logic is actively investigating a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, within Java logging library Apache Log4j 2. Log4j 2 is an open-source Java package that can be used for logging in many applications such as Apache Solr and Apache Struts, as well as many SaaS services, such as Steam, Apple iCloud, Twitter, and Minecraft.
Since the discovery of CVE-2021-44228, three related vulnerabilities of lower severity have been announced: CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105, and CVE-2021-4104.
It is recommended for customers running Log4j 2 versions 2.0 to 2.16.0 to upgrade to version 2.17.0 to mitigate these vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-4104 affects an older version of Log4j (1.2) and will not be patched. For more information about mitigation, refer to the Recommendations for Mitigation section in this article.
Alert Logic products, including appliances and agents, are not affected by these vulnerabilities. Additionally, Alert Logic internal infrastructure has not been impacted.
Dubbed as Log4Shell, CVE-2021-44228 can exploit any application that is utilizing Log4j 2 if it allows a remote connection to supply arbitrary data written to log files. Log4Shell can be exploited easily and without authentication by malicious attackers. This vulnerability impacts a wide variety of applications and services that use Log4j 2 for logging. Additionally, any products that are bundled with Log4j 2, such as Apache Solr and Apache Struts, are also affected.
This vulnerability has been given a maximum CVSS score of 10. Alert Logic has published a blog post with a deeper dive into this vulnerability and how attackers exploit it. Additionally, more information on this vulnerability can be found on the National Vulnerability Database page for CVE-2021-44228.
Since the discovery of this vulnerability, the following additional vulnerabilities have been announced.
- CVE-2021-45046: Under specific non-default configurations of Apache Log4j, this vulnerability allows an attacker that crafts a JNDI lookup using malicious input data to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or achieve RCE on a vulnerable server.
- CVE-2021-45105: Also in non-default configurations, this vulnerability allows an attacker to send a crafted request that contains a recursive lookup and cause a DoS condition.
- CVE-2021-4104: This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2021-44228 but occurs in an older version of Log4j – version 1.2. Version 1.2 is not vulnerable by default, and requires some very specific local changes to exploit. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can be detected by the same signatures designed to detect exploitation of CVE-2021-44228.
More information about these vulnerabilities is available in Apache's security vulnerability documentation.
Alert Logic Coverage
Vulnerability Scanning: Alert Logic has released authenticated scan coverage to identify this vulnerability in protected assets. Additionally, Alert Logic has released unauthenticated detection through PCI scanning.
Network IDS: Alert Logic has deployed over 100 signatures designed to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability. These signatures are designed to catch:
- Initial attack traffic targeting the vulnerability
- Evasions in the attack traffic
- Initial indications of a successful attack, including cases where the targeted system reaches out to the internet
- Post-compromise activity associated with the attack
- Suspicious behavior associated with hosts known to be involved with the attack
Web Application Firewall: As this exploit continues to evolve, Alert Logic has taken the following actions:
- Standard signatures have been updated to include detection for CVE-2021-44228.
- A new signature has been developed to detect CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2024-45105 that can be applied to your device upon request. If you are concerned about DoS attacks due to these vulnerabilities, submit a ticket to the Alert Logic Security Operations Center to request this signature.
Log Management: Alert Logic has released telemetry signatures to help our Security Operations Center monitor customer environments for exploitation of this vulnerability.
Recommendations for Mitigation
Alert Logic recommends that all customers upgrade to version 2.17.1 of Apache Log4j 2, which will mitigate both these vulnerabilities and the newly CVE-2021-44832 being released. If customers are unable to upgrade, customers should follow the guidance from Apache based on their version.
For more information, refer to the guidelines in Apache's security vulnerability documentation.
This section will be updated with new information about this vulnerability and related Alert Logic coverage as it becomes available. To follow updates for this vulnerability, click FOLLOW at the top of this article. You must be signed in to the Support Center using your Alert Logic product credentials to follow this article.
12/11/2021: Alert Logic released authenticated scan coverage to identify this vulnerability in protected assets.
12/14/2021: On December 13 and 14, Alert Logic released several specific IDS signatures to detect attacks targeted at exploiting this vulnerability.
12/14/2021: Apache has updated their guidance for mitigating this vulnerability. It is now recommended to update to Apache Log4j 2.16.0. More details are available in Apache's security vulnerability documentation.
12/14/2021: Alert Logic released unauthenticated detection through PCI scanning.
12/18/2021: Apache has updated their guidance for mitigating this vulnerability. It is now recommended to update to Apache Log4j 2.17.0 due to related additional vulnerabilities. More details are available in Apache's security vulnerability documentation.
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Firms must also be willing to invest in and market their inventions, despite the absence of intellectual property rights. It turns out that investment patterns also vary by industry. In some fields, custom or first-mover advantages enable firms to reap adequate returns without the need for additional incentives, as Justice Stephen Breyer ’ Book Summary: The book presents a comprehensive treatment of Intellectual Property concepts and its applications in Indian industry. Now, in its Fourth Edition, it includes a new chapter on IPR in Biotechnology and numerous cases/caselets in most of the provides a strategic framework for IP management, leading to competitive advantage for a business enterprise.
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While visiting China to speak at an arts festival last month, I also filed a GigaOM story on HiPiHi, a start-up founded by one of the country’s top Internet entrepreneurs. Thanks to Om’s reputation, the article is easily the highest profile coverage yet for the upcoming “Chinese Second Life”, sure to be of great interest to investors and tech executives, most especially in China.
After it ran, however, I noticed one small problem with the piece. It can’t even be accessed in China.
I first noticed this in the business office of a hotel atop the legendary Huangshan Mountains. The story, along with all of GigaOM, was being blocked by The Great Firewall. Not only GigaOM, as it turns out, but apparently every WordPress-driven blog has been banned in China starting in 2005. So if you’re in Shanghai, you can’t read Scobleizer. You can’t even visit I Can Has Cheezburger, for God’s sake. (Im in ur Interwebs, censoring ur LOLcats.)
Since I couldn’t post in China, I had to e-mail the article out of the country as a Word doc so Om and Carolyn could publish it — an extra hit to GigaOM’s resources directly attributable to the Chinese government. But even if I wrote the HiPiHi story on a non-prohibited blog system (I could access TypePad from China just fine) it would have gotten blocked anyhow, because it briefly mentioned the Falun Gong, China’s brutally repressed meditation sect.
I was expecting some level of political censorship when I went there, of course. At times, it’s pathetically obvious and inept. While watching a hotel broadcast of CNN International, for example, the anchorwoman mentioned an upcoming story on a Chinese dissident — and seconds later, the channel went black. The next night, CNN and all other Western channels had been replaced by CCTV (China State TV) programming. Other times, it’s more insidious. While reading Yahoo! News in the lobby of our Beijing hotel, my girlfriend Jennifer noticed that one of Yahoo’s top stories was about AIDS activists in China. But before she could even click on the link, the page auto-refreshed, and after it reloaded, the story was gone.
But the thing is, when interviewing HiPiHi’s execs, I didn’t even pursue the subject of Falun Gong for political reasons. It was first broached by Jen, who was there to take photos, but I was already planning to pose the question as an essential part of my business coverage. Since HiPiHi is competing with Second Life and other upcoming user-created metaverses, the issue of just what opinions its users can express is a basic matter of market distinction. And so now, a couple dozen high-tech/venture funding blogs are discussing the GigaOM article — but none, as far as I can tell, are based in China. Thanks to their own government, which claims to promote the nation’s burgeoning technology sector, the Chinese digerati are simply kept out of that conversation.
Much has been written about how Internet censorship, actively abetted by Yahoo! (YHOO), Google (GOOG), and other top companies in the tech industry, is bad for the Chinese people. Less has been said about how it’s bad for the tech industry itself. As my HiPiHi experience suggests, it prevents investors and executives in the country from getting the full range of information they need to discuss and make good decisions in a transparent and timely matter. (A couple Net-savvy Chinese friends were able to read the article, they told me later — but only after they’d run it through the EFF’s indispensable firewall breaker. And would they have even found it, had they not already known what to look for?) As a consequence, China’s participation in the global high tech economy is crippled and incomplete, and in any partnership with the free world, threatens to hobble us all.
At the same time, this also gives me great optimism that the Great Firewall is ultimately doomed. (Even if the government exploits U.S. accusations of hacking as a “national security” rationale to thicken it even further.) China continues to be rocked by disastrous trade scandals that might have been prevented, had their corporations and investors gotten fuller access to outside reports of internal corruption and mismanagement. For all the heroic efforts of Chinese free speech dissidents (ably reported by Rebecca MacKinnon and others), it may be China’s business people who push forward the final, irresistible demand: To make our country the global power it’s destined to be, the Wall must finally come down.
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
MIDLAND CITY PLANNING COMMISSION,
TO TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY,
AUGUST 30, 2011, 7:00 P.M.,
7:00 pm – Welcome, Introduction of the topic and people– Mead, Baker
7:15 pm – NMT Committee Input – Waite, Irons, Andrews
7:30 pm - Options discussion – McManus, Dearing, Baker
· Looking at Swede
o Phase I of plan only
o Other streets with pavement markings are too dissimilar
· Show and review data chart
· Show and review “Options” chart
7:45 pm – Public Input
- Limit to 3 min. per person
8:15 pm – PC discussion of options, questions regarding data – Mead
- Identify the pros and cons of options, are there others?
- Prioritize objectives. Safety? Give neighbors parking options? Promote the NMT Plan?
- What else do they need to know to evaluate these options?
8:50pm – What happens next - Baker
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There are some books, that lend themselves to good movie versions, but Lady Chatterly's Lover is not one. A good movie requires characters whose emotions are easily externalized in action. If you cannot show how a person feels, then you are out of luck. On the screen internal plight must be translated into concrete action.
Lady Chatterly's Lover is essentially the story of one woman's emotional fulfillment through a crudely elemental sexual experience. To make convincing Constance Chatterly's transition from a cold machine to a responsive human being, D. H. Lawrence felt compelled to describe her reactions to specific sexual experiences in detail. For this reason, Lady Chatterly's Loverwas a controversial book-and for this reason, it probably can never be made into a successful movie.
Without the narrative voice to give glimpses of Lady Chatterly's feelings, what remains? Only the bare plot outline: the story of a rich woman's affair with a gamekeeper. This has been put on film with relative case and with assured financial success. But it is not D. H. Lawrence's story. The movie version is not a tender love story, or the portrait of a woman being re-awakened to life, but merely a chronicle of fortuitous mutual lust.
Since some of the Lawrence dialogue (expurgated, of course) has been retained, the discrepancy between the characters' appearances and their fervent avowals is very great indeed.
The acting doesn't help things. Leo Genn, as the gamekeeper Mellors, seems able to do little more than expand his massive chest and leer. Danielle Darrieux, playing Lady Chatterly, is only a slight improvement. She doesn't leer, but she does manage to convey a disquieting coldness even when running off with her lover.
In other respects, the movie is badly done. The visual euphemisms employed are of the most common and unimaginative sort. When Mellors first seduces Connie, we cut to a shot of lumberjacks felling a tree; quite rightly the audience hoots and hisses.
The present film version of Lady Chatterly's Lover, stripped of the psychology of the book, becomes just another trashy little story. It isn't tender, it isn't provocative, it isn't interesting. There is certainly no reason to see it.
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Making the leap from scorned stepsister to Cinderella is no easy feat in the corporate world, and there's always that anxiety about what might happen when midnight rolls around.
But for the moment, at least, Westell Technologies Inc. is enjoying its evening in the limelight at the royal ball of high-technology performers.
In the past 12 months, Aurora-based Westell has seen its stock value jump an eye-popping 506 percent. The stock took a beating early this week, as did many other high-flying technology stocks, plunging a combined $9.37 a share on Monday and Tuesday. But Westell stock regained some lost ground on Wednesday, closing at $25.75 on the Nasdaq composite market, up $3.25 a share.
The key to Westell's success, said Chief Executive Marc Zionts, is its pioneering role in developing digital subscriber line technology that converts ordinary copper phone lines into high-speed Internet connections.
DSL is hot right now as phone companies scramble to compete with cable TV systems to bring high-speed Internet service to . residences. San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc., Ameritech's parent, is spending $6 billion over the next three years to put DSL into its network, for example.
"We've been talking about DSL for a long time," Zionts said, "and early on nothing much happened and we lost credibility. Now that DSL is finally here, we've regained credibility. We're getting recognition that's reflected in our stock value."
A Westell competitor, privately held Charles Industries in Rolling Meadows, isn't as impressed with Westell's story as the market appears to be.
"Westell is mostly riding on DSL buzz," said Joseph Charles, chief executive of Charles Industries. "There are lots of pressures on margin in our industry. To survive you have to keep coming up with new products and keep reducing your costs. Buzz alone won't do it."
Like many firms benefiting from high-tech buzz, Westell hasn't been profitable for years. But Zionts said rapidly growing revenue should return his company to profitability later this year. He sees Westell as combining high-tech potential with old-fashioned profitability.
Telecommunications infrastructure in general is a very strong sector right now, said Polina Ialamova, a Chicago-based analyst with Advanced Equities.
"Most analysts believe there will never be too much broadband infrastructure," Ialamova said. "Carriers are racing to build out networks, and the companies that provide equipment to make those networks operate have prospered."
But while many infrastructure companies are solid and somewhat boring, a few, like Westell, have sought to add some high-tech gloss to their image.
Westell, which was founded in 1980 as an unglamorous maker of nuts-and-bolts telephone infrastructure equipment, branched into DSL in the early 1990s under Gary Seamans, who preached the potential of turning puny old copper phone lines into broadband "information pipes."
Seamans' vision was to use phone lines to carry video so telephone companies could offer customers interactive television. He made deals with AT&T Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. to develop the technology, but plans nosedived when market support for interactive television collapsed.
Seamans repositioned Westell as cashing in on the growing popularity of the Internet by turning the "World Wide Wait" into an information speed demon. The money Seamans invested in developing DSL hurt Westell's profitability, but it also established the firm as a potential market leader.
After taking the company public in 1996, Seamans saw Westell's stock soar. Soon, however, the stock price declined, as the promised DSL boom failed to materialize. After Seamans experienced health problems, Zionts was brought in.
Last year, Zionts merged Westell with Teltrend Inc. of St. Charles, another phone equipment supplier, which has helped to shore up Westell's fundamentals, he said. But the real spark in the firm's stock successes has been its DSL position.
Another Chicago-area phone equipment supplier uninvolved in DSL, Orland Park-based Andrew Corp., saw its own share price rise a relatively modest 85 percent in the past 12 months. Floyd English, Andrew's chief executive, said the DSL boom is definitely behind Westell's current success.
Andrew, which specializes in infrastructure for wireless phone systems, is working to develop products to carry so-called broadband wireless signals that could one day compete with wireline DSL.
The key to Andrew's own recovery with investors has been a general rebound of economies in Asia and South America. As a global firm, Andrew was hurt in the recent past recently by problems in foreign economies, English said.
The firm also suffered from the decision by several wireless phone companies in the United States to sell their towers to third parties to operate. That along with consolidation among wireless operators caused a slowdown in infrastructure buildout that hurt Andrew.
English said it was difficult for investors to understand his firm's sagging revenue at a time when wireless growth among consumers was booming. But those problems apparently are over for now and Andrew expects many more months of growth. Even so, the firm also sees margin pressures mentioned by Charles.
"Sometimes you'll have one company now that a few years ago was four different companies," said Andrew Chief Financial Officer Chuck Nicholas. "To that company, the order it's making is four times as big as it was and they expect a volume discount. But to us, there's no increase in business because we had that business before, spread around over more companies. So we have to cut our costs to survive."
And Westell's Zionts agrees that while tech buzz is nice, in the end, taking care of fundamentals is essential to long-term success.
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Today another damning report was highlighted.
FDI Outflow at Record High... reads the news in malaysiakini.
Not many days ago... now I can't seem to find the article.. if anyone has please notify me. There was an article that our PM Abdullah claimed that Anwar was speaking rubbish when he claimed what Anwar claimed was untrue... Anwar had claimed there was huge investment outflow from Malaysia. That was dismissed as rubbish and if I am not mistaken Abdullah also claimed that what Anwar had said was destabilising the nation... that was what I remembered, but I am trying to locate the article but can't seem to find it... anyway.. this news came about today... and the excuse was that.. hey! now Malaysians are "investing" abroad...
Zainal Aznam Yusoff, a member of the Malaysian Economic Council, told a the press conference held after the report’s release that the net outgoing was caused by Malaysians investing more of their money abroad.
"Malaysia is actively integrating and going into Asean and beyond," said Zainal, adding that a sizeable chunk of the off-shore investments made by Malaysians went into countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, China and Middle-East.
Building infrastructure, such as telecommunications, agriculture, manufacturing, finance and mining were favoured investments. "We are quite diversified," Zainal said.
He said another reason for the greater outflow was because many Malaysian firms had partaken of cross border acquisitions - a stance in keeping with the government’s call to invest abroad.
"The overall balance of payment is fairly healthy, despite the sizeable outflow," said Zainal when quizzed about the figures.
"So you can’t generalise. You must look at the second and third round effect of the benefit you get from the repatriation of money that comes back here and what you use it for," he said.If that is true then we should be a very rich country in that we are "moving out"... but is it the case? He (Zainal) did not give any statistics to support the statement!
Abdullah called Anwar a liar on this, but who is the liar now?
Further the report said, This took place despite the fact that the Southeast Asian region recorded its highest ever FDI inflow - which leapt 81.1 percent to RM209.2 billion in 2007 from RM115.5 billion in 2006.
FDI inflow leapt 81.1%! From the graph, FDI inflow into Malaysia was up less than 40%.
The report also noted that our outflow surged 81.9%. I wonder who is sending out the money.. hmmmm... | <urn:uuid:f3c1c743-d6f4-4e0b-9946-ef04fe9ca32b> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://malaysianjoe.blogspot.com/2008/09/net-fdi-outflow.html | 2017-12-11T02:07:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948512054.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211014442-20171211034442-00628.warc.gz | en | 0.98716 | 563 |
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