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Happy 12.12.12, make a wish if you happen to be a 13 year old girl, or someone who is creaming his jeans for some Stone release. For those of you who are knee deep in trade bullet casings, ducking in the trenches and lobbing Cable Car grenades, you know about 7venth Sun. You know about their 30 bottle runs, you know they have those banging Berliners that Funky Buddha and Wakefield had been pumping in the streets; but what about their Saisons? We already looked at Swamphead to see what the business is, but what about an even smaller brewery that is burning up the underground like Mike Jones? Let’s see if Florida can slang hot beats in today’s review: Get your Ecto Cooler and Gogurt, this is gonna get exxxxtreme Get your Ecto Cooler and Gogurt, this is gonna get exxxxtreme 7venth (Seventh) Sun Brewery Florida, United States Saison / Farmhouse Ale \| 8.50% ABV A: First off, I had this in both the growler and in one of the (~30?) bottles, but I sent one of those bottles to a solid homie, so this is ONLY a growler review, ya dig? Well, I cannot say that this is extreme in the saison world, it actually seems refined and gentle like a John Updike novel. Run Farmhouse Run. The carbonation was still pretty generous considering the cross-contiental journey. The color was a light copper bordering on dark gold with nice lacing that streaked the glass like so many BIFs that I have seen. This beer is refined and yet savage at the same time. This beer is refined and yet savage at the same time. S: The nose was extremely spicey and had a light touch of fusel elements, YOU KNOW ABOUT THOSE DAMN FUSELERS. There’s some white pepper, clove, and a touch of that sweetness you smell in Djarum smokes. There is a bit of musk but it really made me wish that I had the Brett version of this, BRETGERS CANT BE CHOOSERS. T: This is a fairly standard execution in that it presents a nice wheat grist to it, a bit of lavender in a way, the clove and honey aspects are preserved, and this deep floral aspect like I just made love in a pastoral thicket to a woman or a confused young man. However you like it. It is tough to really pick this apart because this is essentially the Nissan Altima of saisons in that it presents all of the things that are required, doesn’t go apeshit on ABV or extremely lactic, no barrels were involved, no one has a black eye or torn Juicy Couture sweat pants. All is well. Ehhh...noooo....Mr. Saison no es home... Ehhh…noooo….Mr. Saison no es home… M: This is slightly dry but there are enough residual sugars to sustain the day. The floral aspect lingers on but not in a hoppy manner, just a sort of hibiscus dipper in agave nectar sort of execution. Reviewing this beer is tough because it is like when someone goes “Was Wicker Park good?” and you be like “ehhh, it wasn’t bad, but I don’t see it landing on AFI’s top saisons list” and the metaphor gets all diced up. D: This is exceptionally drinkable and masks the ABV well, despite the slight tinge of heat on the nose. There is a variety of the old saison favorites, with a subtle twist, like the difference between No Strings Attached and that other movie that was exactly the same, released the same year. It is not like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Observe and Report where one is clearly shittier, this is a solid saison that would warm your heart if only 1) you could find it and 2) you weren’t such a jaded beer ticking asshole. Theft never gets anyone anywhere. Theft never gets anyone anywhere. Narrative: Adelbrecht Herjj was having a hard time adjusting to his contemporaries in Jacksonville, Florida. For starters, he was a pasty white obese Belgian man who looked not unlike Tintoretto. For seconds, he was not a Jaguars fan, nor did he even understand the basic tenants of the violent American past time. Santaesque or not, he moved to Florida clutching the American Dream, knowing that Florida was one state where liberty reigned and Deomcracy was truly pure. Adelbrecht wished to move to the Sunshine state and start his very own farmhouse, complete with apiary and meadery. Things started off rough when the corrupt Jacksonville government fined him for unlicensed zoning, water usage, and reindeer breeding. The last item was largely overlooked, but the problems still remained. Adel set out his koelship tanks and exhaled in dismay, “THINK ADELBRECHT, what do the Americans like…” he looked askance and saw a CornNuts package with a menacing character on the label, questioning his extremeness. “EXTREMENESS! That is IT!” The sleepy Belgian brewery overnight became an X-Games sensation when he let BMX Legend Dave Mirra carve hardcore in his Brite Tanks. His saisons were also XXXTREME when he decided to serve them IN A ROLLERBLADE. In summer months, partons were free to climb the grain silos and base jump off the roof into spent grain. Things became distinctly EXTREME and Belgian at the same. Damn. Time. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	[]
Learn about The Battle of Ortona The Battle of Ortona, fought between 20 and 28 December 1943 by Canadian and German forces was one of the most important events of the Italian campaign between July 1943 and May 1945. By the end of 1943, Allied forces had arrived in the Abruzzo region on the Adriatic coast. Here they faced the formidable Gustav Line defences. The Gustav Line was the main Axis line of defence and stretched across the entire width of Italy. In November 1943 British forces managed to cross the Sangro river and penetrate the Gustav Line on the Adriatic coast. This was a major success but soon the Allied forces would face heavy fighting again, this time at the town of Ortona. Ortona is located on a high ridge overlooking the Adriatic sea and the Moro river valley. The town was an important tactical junction and its capture was necessary for the continuation of the Allied advance on the eastern shore of Italy.The job was given to the 1st Canadian Infantry Division supported by tanks from the 1st Canadian Armour Brigade. Taking Ortona proved to be very costly The fighting on the approach to the city and then the Battle of Ortona itself between 20 and 28 December caused heavy casualties and led to the destruction of the city. It took bitter house to house fighting to clear the city of German forces. The combined losses of the Allied and German forces and the civilian population are estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,000. The Battle of Ortona was one of the most important and tragic events of the Italian campaign. Churchill himself, in his volumes on the Second World War, pointed out that “It was the first great battle in the streets of an inhabited centre, and we learned a lot from it”. The Battle of Ortona	[]
Reacting To The Attack On The World I already shared this video by Tucker Carlson, but it was a fairly important bit of information, so here’s JP Sears reacting to it and his take. In the West, we think it’s a catastrophe if we lose the internet for a day like Canada, or are told we should not use hot water like Germany. It’s worse than just that there, they’re planning on turning the traffic lights off at night, and what’s causing this “dramatic situation” that’s already destroyed third world countries? Leonard (21) from Friedrichshain: “That sounds like a good plan. I can’t imagine it being much more dangerous.” Try a bit harder to think, if you are actually a real person and not an actor hired by propagandists. A good plan you say? Retards, just herds of retarded, brainwashed, mind controlled idiots, or people who don’t want to kick up a fuss about anything. People who say that sounds like a good idea, turn off the traffic lights, let’s take cold showers, rather than burn some more coal or whatever. They say it’s due to Putin, but my view is he’s one of them, a young global leader of the WEF, and it’s all part of their plan, they could fix it if they wanted to. Petra Springer (55) from Strausberg: “I like the idea. It’s about time not only to talk, but also to do something. If we all drive carefully, it can also work in a city like Berlin.” I’ve had my suspicions that anytime you see anyone agreeing with these scum, they aren’t even real people, but actors, state puppets, hired to act like they believe the crap the media puts out, but the vast majority of people don’t believe it anymore. For example, I heard on a recent High Wire episode that the uptake of the death shot in children under 5 is 2% and it’s been out for months and there’s never been a larger campaign of misinformation saying it works and you need it. That’s how many people actually poison their kids if they’re not forced to by scum saying they can’t go to school otherwise. People get it at this point, the information is out there, it’s proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that these people, these corporate criminals are at a minimum corrupt and ruthlessly greedy, and at worst psychopathic monsters, which is not much different anyway. I never even seen a gun that wasn’t on a cop, and neither have most of the people in my country. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea to get armed and ready, if you can. Simple logic says if they doubled the population through the use of nitrogen fertilizers and cheap long distance travel, if they stop doing that, it halves the population as they all starve to death, and that’s what they’re trying to do. It’s already happening, I guess it won’t be happening so much in richer countries, but the stated goal is ending beef production, and ending fossil fuels, and the alternative is basically eat bugs or plant burgers if you can afford food at all. It’s openly insane and brutal, it’s the kind of thing that makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist for saying what they said, but they said it, and they’re doing it. Anything else happening in the news is not as important as everyone waking up to this fact, that if we don’t successfully resist them and turn this in the right direction, we will either be dead or enslaved. Sure, oil runs out in fifty years, if you can trust the oil company doubling the price based on the idea of scarcity, but that isn’t a reason to do what they’re doing, at least not in the way they’re doing it. I was myself calling for the government to provide subsidies for hybrid cars, even to make them locally, and that’s still a good idea that would work if there is a good source of electricity like hydro, but they can’t kill half the world with that idea. Buy a t shirt or check out the product pages for more. I understand this mindset, I am myself constantly calling for the death of all these horrific elite scum, for very good reasons, but that’s based on the fact they’re killing millions right now and will literally kill billions if they aren’t stopped. There is of course the environment and the animals to think about, but if we don’t have a society with good people in charge, they’re not going to fix that, they’ll just make it worse for them, so like I said, kill them all, but I don’t expect anyone actually will. Please share, subscribe, buy something or donate to support my work. Thank you! The Last American Vagabond 3 thoughts on “Reacting To The Attack On The World 1. I agree with you and completely we need to stand up as one we are the majority we are the power and if people do not wake up and look outside of their TV screens and get out of their self pity mode because someone said something that they didn’t like we are completely screwed. People it’s called resilience and you need to get over your identity crisis and name calling see the world for what it is and take a stand . Thank you for this article Liked by 1 person 2. Okay: we can not keep following/allowing those in decision-making power AND defeating their or whoever’s agendas. So they must have their power TO make all decisions reduced or removed. Who do I mean? Well, Americans wouldn’t take orders from even Justin Trudeau, would they? Nor from any corporate CEO, not directly. They follow those they Perceive As Their Protectors You may consciously realize what a sham the notion of ‘Government’ is when all politicians are in the pay of corporations. The problem we’re facing here is that most people fear acknowledging this fact to themselves & would rather pretend than admit to themselves they believed something incorrect. So yeah, this guy is 100% right, but being so isn’t going to change how the majority lives in denial. This is a problem, for how can we force changes through without the participation of the Decision-Makers In Charge or enough of the public to overwhelm them? & those in charge can not change the structure at their own level without mass public support either. Speak Truth & watch the public turn on you. So… the public’s way of viewing the world, government, its role in society & their own relationship TO it has to change. & that is actually a lot easier than people think. Hi, I’m an indirect thinker. You can wait for “enough” of the public come around to your way of thinking despite feeling terror at the mere notion of Standing Up To Their Perceived Protectors, or we can organize to create for them a forum that gives them a feeling of security OUTSIDE OF thinking in line with what the politicians want & watch as they join that with relief. The legal ability to hold All Politicians accountable exist: it IS ONLY the terror of actually facing up to authority figures that frightens the public. You know what happens when that fear ISN’T present? Tiny movements with no media coverage or even names can pressure corporations to back down on their support of GMOs without ever having to attend a single protest. & that carries over into every realm in which the public doesn’t have to confront their Perceived Protectors in political office. Even this realization doesn’t give me the power to snap my fingers & bring this about. There are ways to present ideas to the public that they will accept, but a Lone Voice ain’t one of ’em. People terrified of Divine Retribution from A Group may follow something larger, like a movement, but not an individual. So, how to go about 1) CREATING the movement that will give enough of the public the confidence to shift some of the trust they normally only give TO government onto it, then 2) how to go about attracting the public to it? Unless you can find a way to stop the policies those people vote in without removing them from having the power TO do so. Do you see ANY WAY to end the harmful policies you’re trying to end WITHOUT removing or at least greatly reducing the powers of Mitch & Co. to vote everything in? If I’m wrong about anything, by all means… SHOW me. Liked by 1 person 1. I think that it’s now a majority who not only question government but totally understand they lied on purpose knowing it would kill us and millions of other people not just one time but all the time, over and over again. The alternative media is crushing it calling out their corruption and has them so scared they’re trying to censor all of it, all free speech that isn’t government propaganda, and if they manage to do that, or to take the guns away, that’s when you absolutely have to go to war to protect the constitution, whether you win or lose because you don’t get your freedom back ever at that point. Once they take your rights, which they’re trying to, they don’t ever give them back, and if you’re not prepared to kill or die for the freedom which America was founded on, (not perfectly executed by any means), then you don’t deserve it. There’s a line, and they already crossed it, but calling them out isn’t just important for the idea of freedom, what they’re doing is killing people, hence why they want to silence the truth. It’s a war. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:	[]
TV Review: ‘The Girl From Plainville’ Is a Paint-By-Numbers True Crime Drama Audrey Fox reviews The Girl From Plainville, a true-crime series from Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus starring Elle Fanning, Colton Ryan, Chloe Sevigny, and Norbert Leo Butz. User Rating: 7 An inexplicably cruel horror show of teenage manipulation, the story of Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy was equal parts fascinating and repellent. When the news broke of the tragedy, first of Roy’s death by suicide and then later the chilling revelation that his girlfriend Michelle had egged him on in his pursuit of death, it quickly became one of the most talked-about true crime stories of the decade. So it was only a matter of time that a streaming service like Hulu would turn it into a melodramatic miniseries, as we see in The Girl From Plainville. The show’s strengths are undoubtedly its two lead actors, with both Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan putting in vibrant, nuanced performances. Still, it’s occasionally listless and often makes you wonder why this story needed such a by-the-numbers dramatization in the first place. When Michelle Carter (Elle Fanning) tearfully tells her family that her boyfriend Conrad has taken his life, they’re completely shocked. Not because he’s killed himself – but because Michelle has never even mentioned him to them. Despite her secretive relationship with him, after his death Michelle throws herself into the performance of grief, even watching clips of Glee where Rachel mourns Finn for inspiration. Her way of coping with his death is aggressive, and Fanning brings to the role a sort of weaponized doe-eyed expression of emotional fragility. She makes herself the center of attention at his funeral and subsequent memorial fundraisers, displacing his own friends and family. Conrad’s mother (Chloe Sevigny) does her best to take this all in stride. After all, the girl is heartbroken, and some allowances must be made. But everything changes when she sends a text to one of her friends in a rare moment of guilt, admitting that, after he called her mid-suicide attempt while having a change of heart, she encouraged him to get back into the car. In a second, she goes from a grieving girlfriend to a sociopathic murderer. The Girl From Plainville does a good job of bringing to life the strange, codependent relationship between Conrad and Michelle. By depicting their text exchanges as in-person conversations, it visually creates a sense of closeness between the two that more accurately reflects the intensity of their emotions. The couple only met in person a handful of times in real life, but it’s hardly compelling from a narrative perspective to show an endless series of texts on screen. So this choice is a clever workaround, both dealing with that potential issue of storytelling and presenting commentary on the artificial intimacy that relationships conducted entirely via text can create. In these moments, the show takes liberties with the reality that it’s most successful. A clear highlight of The Girl From Plainville is not one of the court sequences or a dramatic argument between the two unstable lovers but an impromptu musical number. In a fantasy sequence after Conrad’s death, Michelle is on a jog by her house, and she imagines a Glee-style duet with Conrad where they sing “Can’t Fight This Feeling” together. Let’s be honest; it would be a mistake to have Broadway star Colton Ryan in your cast and not let him sing. But more importantly, this sequence provides valuable insight into Michelle’s psyche: She has tremendous difficulty differentiating reality from fantasy and is so caught up in the idea of the tragic love story that she thinks nothing of the damage she causes as she tries to achieve it. If The Girl From Plainville had more creative sequences like this, which step outside the box of what we’ve come to expect from true crime miniseries, it might have justified its own existence. But it too often plays it straight, presenting us with little more than a dull recounting of the events that led to Conrad Roy’s death. It’s interesting because the actual real-life story almost beggars belief, but the show does little to add anything that couldn’t be found in a true-crime documentary or podcast. Still, the performances from Fanning and Ryan go a long way in making us care about these two tragic teenagers, and there’s something about it that is compulsively watchable. The Girl From Plainville is now streaming on Hulu. Written by Your Vote 0 0 Lost Password	[]
S3:E7 The Soft Touch! There’s more to bartending and serving than pouring drinks and just smiling more. We have laws we have to follow even when people come in and think bars are places without rules. Cutting someone off usually requires a “Soft Touch.” This is a beefy episode with lots of info. We dive into a lot about our experiences and of course a dumb review. And finally, Samantha gets her Happy Hour Revenge! Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/3starspodcast/message	[]
Odishatv Bureau Beirut: Lebanon's prime minister stepped down from his job on Monday in the wake of the disastrous Beirut port explosion that triggered public fury, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in Lebanon is bigger than the state. In a brief televised speech after three of his ministers resigned, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that he is taking a step back so he can stand with the people and fight the battle for change alongside them. I declare today the resignation of this government. May God protect Lebanon, he said, repeating the last phrase three times. It follows a weekend of anti-government protests in the wake of the August 4 explosion in Beirut's port that decimated the facility and caused widespread destruction, killing at least 160 people and injured about 6,000 others. But the ruling oligarchy has held onto power for so long since the end of the civil war in 1990 that it is difficult to find a credible political figure not tainted by connections to them. Diab blamed corrupt politicians who preceded him for the earthquake that has hit Lebanon. I have discovered that corruption is bigger than the state and that the state is paralyzed by this (ruling) clique and cannot confront if or get rid of it, Diab, who was a university professor at the American University of Beirut before he took the job. I hope that the caretaking period will not be long because the country cannot take that. Lets hope a new government will be formed quickly, Public Works Minister Michel Najjar told reporters. An effective government is the least we need to get out of this crisis. The weekend protests saw clashes with security forces firing tear gas at protesters. The result was a disaster Lebanese blame squarely on their leadership's corruption and neglect. Losses from the catastrophic blast are estimated to be between USD 10 billion to USD 15 billion, with nearly 300,000 people left homeless. I wrote a report in the morning the explosion happened in the evening, Najjar said. Asked why he only learned of it the day before, Najjar said, I don't know. Truly I don't know. On Sunday, world leaders and international organizations pledged nearly USD 300 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Beirut but warned that no money for rebuilding the capital would be made available until Lebanese authorities commit themselves to the political and economic reforms demanded by the people. More Related Stories: NASA Maps Beirut Blast Damage In High-Precision Image Beirut Blasts: India Seeks Damage Assessment For Extending Assistance, EU Releases 39mn Euros Emergency Aid	[]
Salmon Fishing in Scotland Logo Salmon Fishing Spey Line Salmon Fishing Sink Tips Monteith Salmon Spey Lines Scottish Salmon Flies Copperass Salmon Flies The Silver Stoat How To Select A Salmon Fly Line Sink Tip Professional career based advice on how to select a sink tip when salmon fly fishing for salmon in Scotland. Learn Essential Salmon Fishing Skills > Learn Essential Salmon Fishing Skills > How To Select A Salmon Fly Line Sink Tip What sinking tips do I need for salmon fly fishing This is a seldom openly discussed but important part of salmon fly fishing set up so here's my own analysis of the facts as far as I see it on weight and length of salmon leaders, sink tips and which leader material will never let you down. To fully grasp the basics of the below professional career based information on all that is written below consider booking salmon guide in Scotland on one of our famous salmon rivers. Are salmon leader shy Firstly I think it's very important to understand that if a salmon is seeing your leader after fishing down through a pool then the fish has already ignored your offering! Our game isn't like trout fishing where a trout can come to the fly from any angle therefore able to get a good look at the leader. The weight or bulk of a salmon fly leader is of little relevance in Scottish salmon fishing unless you're in exceptionally difficult low clear warm water conditions with stale and edgy resident salmon in the pool where using the tiniest of lightly dressed Summer salmon flies is your only chance. Only in that situation would I ever be using a 10lbs or 12lbs leader only so I can thread the eye of the fly and pare the presentation down for subtlety reasons. In normal fishing conditions with normal sized flies an 18lbs leader does the trick even when fishing a fly down to a size 12 in the lower water conditions of late Spring & Summer. Also, never underestimate the potency of a size 11 or 12 salmon fly from mid May onwards as many anglers fish far too big a fly at that time of year which salmon see too much of. What weight and length of salmon leader do I need To Use The bulk and weight of a salmon fly leader should be selected based on the bulk and weight of the salmon fly being used. The art of effortlessly 'turning over' a salmon fly is 100% to do with energy transfer to the fly after the forward delivery power stroke of the cast has been applied. In other words a very light or limp leader will struggle to make that energy transfer effective all the way to a salmon fly if the leader has not been selected with the bulk and weight of the salmon fly being used. The length of the leader should be dictated by the depth you're trying to fish the fly at. In other words you don't want to be fishing with a 10ft leader if you're fishing a sinking tip as the tip will certainly do its job however the fly will be riding higher in the water column. In this situation a shorter leader will keep the fly down where you're really intending it to be in the water column when using a sink tip. Personally I like 18lbs test for the majority of my fly fishing when normal sized 7's, 9's or even 11's are the order of the day. With heavier tubes I'll move up to 25lbs test (for 'bullet like' turnover even at range) or with much smaller flies I'll seldom go below 12lbs test on the bigger Scottish rivers where there's always a fair chance of a heavyweight interception as you don't want to have to wait until spawning time for a chance with the net! what length of salmon leader do you need for heavy flies For sinking tips or full sinking fly lines I'd shorten my leader right down to as little as 3ft with a very heavy 'type 7' (or heavier) tip or to a 4ft to 5ft leader length with a regular 'type 3' tip as again you don't want your sink tip down and the salmon fly riding higher which it will do with a longer leader. Keeping different leader weight material coiled up in your fly box is wise so you know you've always got spares if you lose your leader as forgetting a leader spool is easy but its unnecessary to carry the entire leader spools about with you. A few neatly coiled spare leaders of varying breaking strains sit perfectly and look at home in any fly box. Why you should think carefully about the depth of your salmon fly There's far too many water condition permutations to consider for there to be a right or wrong on this topic. A little common sense however goes a long way once you understand where salmon are to be found in the water column throughout the different seasons and whether they're playing hard to get or not and they can indeed often be in either either frame of mind! A keen fish will come several feet or more for your fly which might falsely give you the impression your fly was close to it when it took. Stubborn 'educated' salmon will usually completely ignore a fly unless you're able to swim your fly within a few inches of their noses to force a territorial attack. This usually occurs in the warmer water Summer or later months of the year and that's when you can often need a heavy & long tungsten impregnated tip to get your fly right down into their strike zone! Where to use different sink tips When salmon fly fishing Although I've previously designed excellent 'elegantly flying' Spey lines that were purposely built for turning over heavy & long sink tips of different sink densities I do have my own personal sink tip favourite that I used to fish with all year round on the deeper River Tay. That special friend is a braided core type 3 ips (inch per second) tapered tip in a 15ft length. This tip works a treat with a longish rod in the cold Spring water when you're primarily searching the slower moving water with slow fly presentation targeted at approx 2 ft down into the water column. In the warmer water of Summer where you're primarily looking to the faster, often shallower and better oxygenated streamy water for salmon to be in it also works well assuming you're able to dictate the depth and speed of your fly by mending or via extended rod angle positions through the fly's swing (or both). This tip is fine on the deeper River Tay but you wouldn't get away with it too easily on the shallower Scottish rivers like the Dee or the Spey where you'd most certainly mainly need to be on the floating tip or intermediate sink tip equivalent. What Is The Best brand of salmon fishing leader Since I started salmon fishing back in the early 70's I've never strayed away from Maxima Chameleon leader material. The reason for this can be summed up in one word and that word is 'reliability'. The link between your rod and the hard earned hook hold in a salmon's mouth needs to be as good as you can get as if there's a weak spot anywhere in your fishing line a salmon will undoubtedly find it! This timeless monofilament product even has a 'degradation' feature built into it will start to turn pink from its dark super fresh original colour when it's had too much UV. I've seen so many expensive leader materials break just due to the normal strain of a salmon battle or due to an unnoticed wind knot but when you're fishing with Maxima you've got absolutely nothing to worry about! Related Answers	[]
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Online Retail Trends: The Rise of End-to-End Customer Experiences What do you get when you combine the power of personalization and customization with a multi-channel marketing and inventory strategy? A complete end-to-end customer experience (CX) that helps your brand compete in the growing, saturated online retail market. The increased need for end-to-end customer experiences across all channels is not new. Yes, the pandemic pushed more businesses into upgrading digital customer experiences quicker, but the trajectory was always the same: • Meeting customers where they are and guiding them smoothly through the online journey to after-sales services to increase loyal, repeat customer segments for longer sustained growth. And if you’re not investing heavily in end-to-end customer experiences? Revenue and long-term customer growth loss. Even if you are an established online brand with high return customer rates, 80% of your customers would likely abandon you after three bad experiences. So, how do you capitalize on this fast-growing online retail trend? We’ve got you covered. In this guide, we will take you through the top end-to-end customer experience strategies and trends for online retailers, including: 1. Increased Competition as Brick-and-Mortars Go Digital 2. More Complex Shopping Journeys 3. Evolving Customer Expectations of Connected Shoppers 4. Integrating Marketing KPIs into Logistics Strategies 5. Customer Loyalty and Lifetime Value Increased Involvement in Retail Growth But first, let’s quickly talk about what end-to-end customer experiences are in terms of eCommerce, how CX differs from UX, and the benefits of investing heavily into customer experience and satisfaction. (Feel free to jump ahead to end-to-end customer experiences strategies and trends, here.) What Is End-to-End Customer Experience? End-to-end customer experience is about looking at all customer touchpoints as a whole, instead of separate experiences. Think of it as the “bigger picture,” which includes every step to customer loyalty, from thought to purchase to after-sales support and feedback. For instance, let’s say you’re an online fashion retailer. Your end-to-end customer experience would consider your online store, marketplaces, social media shops, digital marketing strategies, and email marketing as one immersive customer journey. End-to-end customer experience is about more than just satisfying your customers throughout their entire journey. It’s about meeting your customer where they are (channel), with the right experience (personalized product, service, or answer) at the right time. Not just to make the journey to checkout as smooth as possible, but to increase customer loyalty beyond each sale. Or, more simply put, it’s the sum of every touchpoint, thought, feeling, or action that is exchanged between the customer and your brand. User Experience (UX) vs. Customer Experience (CX) While customer experience encompasses everything that happens between your customer and your brand, user experience is the function that helps users perform specific tasks at various touchpoints. Think of it like this: UX vs CX [Source: Digital Gov] UX is an integral part of the overall CX and is measured by important KPIs such as cart abandonment and bounce rates, while customer experience (CX) includes every interaction a customer has or will have with your brand, from discovery to delivery. Benefits of Creating an End-to-End Customer Experience With the blurring of lines between off- and online channels, as well as between fast-growing digital channels, creating this streamlined end-to-end experience is becoming increasingly necessary. Without being able to optimize, innovate, and customize in real-time, you risk losing even your most loyal customers to your competitors. You also need to consider each customer’s experience as a whole (not just at specific touchpoints) and make them as personalized as possible —, you risk losing even your most loyal customers to your competitors. A holistic end-to-end customer experience helps brands: 1. Increase perceived value 2. Drive average order values and increase purchase frequency 3. Build trust and loyalty 4. Increase profits through resulting cheaper acquisitions Now let’s look at the most significant online retail end-to-end customer experiences trends. End-to-End Customer Experiences: 5 Online Retail Trends and Strategies 1. Increased Competition as Brick-and-Mortars Go Digital Your biggest competitor is probably still offline! Despite the rise of eCommerce, you’re still competing with brick-and-mortar brands. While the pandemic has dramatically sped up offline stores' digital integration, the bulk of sales is still being done offline. According to Statista, in 2020, a whopping 82% of the $23 trillion in total sales occurred in physical locations. In fact, the pandemic went a long way to improving omni stores' end-to-end customer experiences by forcing big retailers to invest hugely into digital UX, marketing, and customer support. As the lines between off- and online channels blurred, many retailers were pushed to pivot when it comes to including digital strategies in their end-to-end customer experience. And this was before the pandemic. According to a 2019 report, two-thirds of shoppers were already checking their phones in-store for product information. Here’s a breakdown of what they were searching for: US shoppers searching for online while in store So, what does this mean for online retailers? Main Takeaway: To compete with on- and offline retailers, you need to work harder at not only creating a better end-to-end experience, but finding ways to the awareness stage to push shoppers online, especially if your audience includes older, more traditional shoppers. A good place to start is to look at the top reasons shoppers still prefer to shop on location and gear your CX around creating a similar experience. Here are two examples: 1. Touch, feel, or look of products. Yes, it’s crucial for online retailers to use good quality product images and videos; however, it’s not enough. By offering generous return policies and easy return logistics, you can help offset customer concerns by making it easy — and free — to send back a product after touching, feeling, or seeing a product in person. 2. Shipping fees. Shoppers often opt for in-store shopping as a way to avoid additional shipping fees. You can offset this by offering shipping promotions to loyal customers or free shipping above certain thresholds. 2. More Complex Shopping Journeys The more complex the sales journey is, the harder it is for brands to streamline their end-to-end customer experience strategies. And thanks to a boost in new digital channels, it’s even more challenging. According to Salesforce, by the end of last year, brand websites and apps, retailer websites and apps, and online marketplace transaction share grew by nearly 40%. Additionally, new emerging delivery apps, social media channels, and messaging platforms also saw their transactions increase. where shoppers prefer to shop [Source: Salesforce] Add that to the fact that each new channel brings with it its own retail trends and potential. For example, the rise of channels like Twitch and TikTok has been the driving force behind new live commerce shopping trends, which are now being incorporated into other channels such as Instagram or on-store, if your platform allows for it. Why is this important? As many as 73% of shoppers have reported using multiple channels throughout the customer journey, and a growing number of channels means more and more complex journeys. These channels include: • Social media channels • Online marketplaces • Brick-and-mortar stores • Web stores, shopping carts, and apps Regarding shopping apps, here are the leading shopping mobile apps on the Apple Store in 2021, according to Statista: leading shopping apps [Source: BigCommerce] And it’s not just about channels, but devices as well, with 98% of US shoppers reporting switching between devices on the same day. Main Takeaway: More shoppers are spending more time on a growing variety of channels, and online retailers need to meet their expectations at each and every one. This means focusing on building relationships, at every touchpoint, by honing in on what a customer expects from you on that channel at that point in time. The advantage of ensuring you use every available channel to create a streamlined CX is that it allows you to also: • Increase revenue while building customer loyalty • Leverage the power of third-party channels and marketplaces to increase reach to new potential shoppers • Target and engage with potential consumers at different stages of the buyer’s journey 3. Evolving Customer Expectations of Connected Shoppers As we discussed above, complex shopping journeys and increased channels mean shoppers are active on an increasing number of channels and platforms. However, with growing channels comes growing expectations. Not only are they on more channels, but shoppers expect brands to be able to meet them where they are, regardless of what stage of the shopping journey they are on. As salesforce research defined it, customers want brands to meet them “at the edge.” This includes three stages: 1. Discovery. During discovery, they found that social media, influencers, and messaging apps are the most popular methods for discovery, followed by Livestream and voice assistant. 1. Buying. The top digital destinations for shoppers to make a purchase include social media, email, and mobile wallets, followed by voice assistants and messaging apps. 1. Service/support. Shoppers expect to get service from self-service channels such as on-store chat and social media. best platforms for each touchpoint ecommerce [Source: Salesforce] What does this mean for online retailers? Main Takeaway: It’s becoming increasingly important for eCommerce brands to incorporate a wider array of channels to compete for customer attention. However, retailers need a unified marketing and communications strategy to ensure an end-to-end experience. This means taking touchpoint navigation and personalization to pro-level when it comes to cross-device navigation and investing in hyper-personal marketing and product discovery content that translates across all channels. 4. Integrating Marketing KPIs into Logistics Strategies Online retail merchandising and inventory management play a huge role in boosting the overall end-to-end customer experience. And the more channels a retailer manages, the more important it becomes. Therefore, when it comes to not only converting customers but retaining them, it’s more than just strategic inventory planning. Online retailers need to balance marketing KPIs, such as personalization, with important retail KPIs. Not only do you need to ensure inventory is updated in real-time, but every discovery touchpoint — onsite or via marketing channels (such as email or PPC campaigns) — should be tailored to each specific shopper. And even that is not enough. You also need to factor in important retail KPIs to ensure you are not only creating a personalized product discovery experience but to ensure revenue and growth targets are hit. And it needs to be down at every touchpoint, channel, or buying stage. Main Takeaway: Ultimately, you need to include advanced merchandising and inventory management into your overall CX strategy, whether it’s a customized experience for new customers searching your product pages or advanced product suggestions for stock up emails to existing customers. The best way to do this is by harnessing the power of advanced AI tools such as Kimonix. 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50 Must-Read Books About Tudor England Tudor England. Undoubtedly one of the most intriguing historical time periods in European history. Books about Tudor England conjures images of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I as Gloriana, the Spanish Armada, and, last but absolutely not least, William Shakespeare. But as always, there is so much more to any historical time period and to any society of the past than a few infamous personalities and events. So, too, with Tudor England. In fact, within the phrase “Tudor England” we find not one royal dynasty, but two—the Tudors (in power 1485–1603) and the Stuarts (in power 1603–1688). We find not only one geographical region—England—but several other, some nearby (Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), some further away (the Ottoman Empire), and some across the globe (the Americas, Africa, and India). Tudor England encompasses a time period of religious conflict and religious encounters. Tudor England sees the breaking apart of the Catholic Church and the birth of Protestantism. This period sees the first lasting diplomatic contacts between representatives of the Christian and Islamic worlds. But also, the beginnings of colonialism, racism, and trans-Atlantic slavery. Tudor England is the time period of incredible female empowerment. At one point there were three women—Mary I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I—who fought for supreme power. At the same time, it is the time period of immense misogyny, and its perhaps most cruel manifestation—the witch craze. Here are fifty must-read books about Tudor England that cover all its contradictory glory of racism, conviviality, homosexuality, female friendship, childbirth, witch trials, antisemitism without Jews, encounters with Islam, conflicts with Spain, and, last but absolutely not least, Shakesqueer. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandRifa’at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. This book reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia. Pompa Banerjee, Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India. In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travelers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of “Eastern barbarity.” Emily C. Bartells, Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, Lust’s Dominion, and Othello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors. In Speaking of the Moor, Bartells sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England’s historical record—Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth’s letters proposing the deportation of England’s “blackamoors,” and John Pory’s translation of The History and Description of Africa. The book uncovers the surprising complexity of England’s negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandAphra Behn, OroonokoWhen Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality. This new single-volume edition of Oroonoko includes a carefully modernized text accompanied by an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading. Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Alan Bray’s Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a milestone work. Examining the image of the sodomite in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and polemic, Bray demonstrates how widely that image differed from the everyday occurrences of male homosexual behavior in ordinary households and schools. Widely considered the best study of its kind, Homosexuality in Renaissance England clearly shows why the modern image of “the homosexual” cannot be applied to the early modern period, when homosexual behavior was viewed in terms of the sexual act and not an individual’s broader identity. Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a must-read for anyone interested in sexuality during the early modern period. Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II vol. 1 and vol. 2. The focus of Fernand Braudel’s great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel’s scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy. Jonathan Burton & Ania Loomba, Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion. This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings on religion, skin color, sexual and marital practices, geography, and the human body are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories. Jorge Cañizares-Esquerra, Matt D. Childs & James Sidbury (eds.), The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. By shifting focus away from plantations, this volume poses new questions about the nature of slavery in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, illustrating early modern urban spaces as multiethnic sites of social connectivity, cultural incubation, and political negotiation. David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life cycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Using fascinating first-hand evidence, Cressy shows how the making and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England. Claire Cross, Church and People: England, 1450–1660. This book provides readers with an account of the rivalry between the two kingdoms of Church and State between the years 1450 and 1660. England inherited, from medieval times, two systems of authority: the Church, governed by Pope and Bishops; and the State, ruled by Monarch and Lords. However, from the late fourteenth century onwards, this division was increasingly challenged by the laity’s insistence on their right to choose not only between different systems of Church government but also between different forms of religious belief. The author charts the rivalry between clergy and laity’s and shows how political and social developments between 1450 and 1660 were decisively influenced by this conflict. This second edition includes updates throughout the text in the light of recent scholarship and a new bibliography. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandEamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor. The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to re-impose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. In this controversial reassessment, the renowned reformation historian Eamon Duffy argues that Mary’s regime was neither inept nor backward looking. Led by the queen’s cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, Mary’s church dramatically reversed the religious revolution imposed under the child king Edward VI. Inspired by the values of the European Counter-Reformation, the cardinal and the queen reinstated the papacy and launched an effective propaganda campaign through pulpit and press. Only the death of the childless queen and her cardinal on the same day in November 1558 brought the protestant Elizabeth to the throne, thereby changing the course of English history. Elizabeth I and Leah S. Marcus, The Collected Works of Elizabeth I. This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch’s later years. The editors’ copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well. Cheryl Fury (ed.), The Social History of English Seamen, 1485–1649. This book provides an overview of our knowledge of English seamen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the tumultuous world in which they lived. Subjects covered include trade, piracy, wives, widows and the wider maritime community, health and medicine at sea, religion and shipboard culture, how Tudor and Stuart ships were manned and provisioned, and what has been learned from the important wreck the Mary Rose. Bernard Glassman, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews: Image of the Jews in England, 1290–1700. Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews offers an exploration of English history, 1290–1700, tracing the growth and development of these attitudes. It demonstrates that it is possible for prejudice to thrive even in the absence of a scapegoat group. Following the expulsion in the year 1290 until 1656, although there was no real Jewish community in England, the molders of public opinion kept a shadowy image of the Jew alive through sermons and religious tracts, travelogues, folklore, religious and secular drama. Despite their theological differences, Anglican, Puritan, and Catholic clergymen concurred in the negative images of Jews presented to their congregations. Anti-Semitic sentiments are seen here as reflecting deep-seated, irrational responses to the Jewish people, rooted in the teachings of the church and exploited by men who needed an outlet for religious, social, and economic frustrations. Lara Gowing, Gender Relations in Early Modern England. This concise and accessible book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. Amidst the political and religious disruptions of the Reformation and the Civil War, sexual difference and gender were matters of public debate and private contention. Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux, through sources ranging from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640, to the dreams of Archbishop Laud and a grandmother describing the first time her grandson wore breeches. Examining gender relations in the contexts of the body, the house, the neighborhood and the political world, this comprehensive study analyses the tides of change and the power of custom in a pre-modern world. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandImtiaz H. Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible. Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time, Habib collects the scattered references to black people in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed. Imtiaz H. Habib, Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period. Shakespeare and Race is a provocative new study that reveals a connection between the subject of race in Shakespeare and the advent of early English colonialism. Citing generally neglected archival evidence, Habib argues that a small population of captured Indians and Africans brought to England during the 16th century provided the impetus for Elizabethan constructions of race rather than existing European traditions in which blackness was represented metaphorically. He explores Tudor and Stuart dramatic representations of black characters, focusing specifically on how race affected Shakespeare personally and historically over the course of his career. Using postcolonial paradigms combined with neo-Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic insights, Habib discusses the possible existence of a black woman that Shakespeare knew and wrote about in his Sonnets and examines the design of his black male characters, including Aaron, Othello, and Caliban. Shakespeare and Race represents a significant contribution that will fascinate scholars of literature as well as those interested in the cultural impact of colonialism. Nick Hazlewood, The Queen’s Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls. Throughout history, blame for the introduction of slavery in America has been squarely placed upon the slave traders who ravaged African villages, the merchants who auctioned off human lives as if they were cattle, and the slave owners who ruthlessly beat their helpless victims. There is, however, above all these men, another person who has seemingly been able to avoid the blame due her. The origins of slavery—often described as America’s shame—can actually be traced back to a woman, England’s Queen Elizabeth I. In The Queen’s Slave Trader, historian Nick Hazlewood’s haunting discoveries take you into the mind-set of the men who made their livelihoods trafficking human souls and at long last reveals the man who began it all—and the woman behind him. Halil Incalik, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600. Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. This distinctively Eastern culture, with all its detail and intricacies, is explored here by a pre-eminent scholar of Turkish history. He gives a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial and land policies. The definitive account, this is an indispensable companion to anyone with an interest in Islam, Turkey, and the Balkans. Halil Inalcik & Donald Quataert, An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire vol. 2: 1600–1914. This major contribution to Ottoman history is now published in paperback in two volumes. The authors provide a richly detailed account of the social and economic history of the Ottoman region, from the origins of the Empire around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War One. The breadth of range and the fullness of coverage make these two volumes essential for an understanding of contemporary developments in both the Middle East and the post-Soviet Balkan world. James I, King of Great Britain, Daemonologie. In 1590, 300 Scottish ‘witches’ were tried for plotting the murder of their King, James VI of Scotland (soon to be James I of England). James is known to have suffered from a morbid fear of violent death, and the trial heightened his anxiety over this apparently treasonous ‘un-Christian’ sect, and stimulated him to study the whole subject of witchcraft. Daemonologie is the result of this royal research, detailing his opinions on the topic in the form of a Socratic dialogue between the skeptic Philomathes and witch-averse Epistemon, who reveals many aspects of witchcraft. The book consists of three sections, on magic, on sorcery and witchcraft, and on spirits and ghosts, and ends with a lurid account of the North Berwick witch trials, based on the evidence of Dr John Fian, the alleged head of the coven, whose ‘confession’ was obtained with the aid of thumbscrews, the Boot, and by the ripping out of his fingernails. Mehrdad Kia, Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire. This book provides a general overview of the daily life in a vast empire, which contained numerous ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. The extensive bibliography provides rich and diverse sources of further reading. An index provides quick reference to the individuals and places mentioned in the text. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandMiranda Kaufmann, Black Tudors: The Untold Story. From long-forgotten records, remarkable characters emerge. They were baptized, married and buried by the Church of England. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. Their stories, brought viscerally to life by Kaufmann, provide unprecedented insights into how Africans came to be in Tudor England, what they did there and how they were treated. A ground-breaking, seminal work, Black Tudors challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically. Kathy Lavezzo, The Accommodated Jew. English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton. In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England’s rejection of “the Jew” and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings—tombs, latrines and especially houses—that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. David Loades, The Tudor Queens of England. From Elizabeth of York—wife of Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch—through to Elizabeth I, her granddaughter and the last in the line, this book explores some of the most colorful and dramatic women in British history. Queen consorts were central to the Royal Court but their role has rarely been examined or contrasted with the better-known ruling queens. How did they behave (in and out of the bedchamber)? How powerful were they as patrons of learning and the arts? What religious views did they espouse and why? How successful and influential were they? Ania Loomba, Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. Did Shakespeare and his contemporaries think at all in terms of “race”? Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare’s plays, Loomba considers how seventeenth-century ideas differed from the later ideologies of “race” that emerged during colonialism, as well as from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. Accessible yet nuanced analysis of the plays explores how Shakespeare’s ideas of race were shaped by beliefs about color, religion, nationality, class, money, and gender. Ania Loomba & Martin Orkin (eds.), Post-Colonial Shakespeares. Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism. This unique volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the growing field of Shakespeare studies and is the most authoritative collection on this topic to date. This study explores the colonial and racial discourses emerging in early modern Britain; how the Shakespearean text later became a colonial battlefield; how Shakespeare circulates in our post- and neo-colonial world today. This collection of new essays traces the connections between early modern and contemporary vocabularies of colonization, ‘race’ and nationhood. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandGerald MacLean & Nabil Matar, Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713. MacLean and Matar examine the place of Islam and Muslim in English thought, and how British monarchs dealt with supremely powerful Muslim rulers. They document the importance of diplomatic and mercantile encounters, show how the writings of captives spread unreliable information about Islam and Muslims, and investigate observations by travellers and clergymen who reported meetings with Jews, eastern Christians, Armenians, and Shi’ites. They also trace how trade and the exchange of material goods with the Islamic world shaped how people in Britain lived their lives and thought about themselves. Randall Martin, Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England. This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership. Jeffrey Masten, Queer Philologies. Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time. In Queer Philologies, Masten studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare’s time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender—terms such as “conversation” and “intercourse,” “fundament” and “foundation,” “friend” and “boy”—that described bodies, pleasures, emotions, sexual acts, even (to the extent possible in this period) sexual identities. Analyzing the continuities as well as differences between Shakespeare’s language and our own, he offers up a queer lexicon in which the letter “Q” is perhaps the queerest character of all. Nabil Matar, Islam in Britain, 1558–1685. This book examines the impact of Islam on early modern Britain. Christian-Muslim interaction at this time was not, as is often thought, primarily adversarial; rather, there was extensive cultural, intellectual and missionary engagement with Islam. Matar investigates the impact of the Qur’an and sufism on the people of Britain, showing that the British interacted widely with Islamic religion, culture and people through travel, in London coffee houses, in church, among converts to and from Islam, in sermons and in plays. Nabil Matar, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. In Turks, Moors, and Englishmen, Matar vividly presents new data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. Rather than looking exclusively at literary works, which tended to present unidimensional stereotypes of Muslims, Matar delves into hitherto unexamined English prison depositions, captives’ memoirs, government documents, and Arabic chronicles and histories. The result is a significant alternative to the prevailing discourse on Islam, which nearly always centers around ethnocentrism and attempts at dominance over the non-Western world, and an astonishing revelation about the realities of exchange and familiarity between England and Muslim society in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. Nabil Matar, Britain and Barbary, 1589–1689. Matar examines the influence of Mediterranean piracy and diplomacy on early modern British history and identity. Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the international context of Anglo-Magharibi encounters. Before there was the British encounter with America, there was the much more complex and destabilizing encounter with Islam in North Africa. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandMadhavi Menon (ed.), Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Madhavi Menon, Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex—often transgressive sex—in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language. Elizabeth Norton, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women. The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth’s wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Onyeka, Blackamoors: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status, and Origins. Onyeka’s book is about the presence, status and origins of Africans in Tudor England. In it Onyeka argues that these people were present in cities and towns throughout England, but that they did not automatically occupy the lowest positions in Tudor society. This is important because the few modern historians who have written about Africans in Tudor England suggest that they were all slaves, or transient immigrants who were considered as dangerous strangers and the epitome of otherness. However, this book will show that some Africans in England had important occupations in Tudor society, and were employed by powerful people because of the skills they possessed. Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent King. A New Life of Philip II. Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. Annabel Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England. Patterson explores the effects of censorship on both writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies and connections with France during the same time. The result is an original account of the interpretive and communicative systems we call culture. Patterson’s work will interest anyone concerned with the relationship between art and politics. A new introduction by the author underscores the relevance of a historical perspective on censorship to contemporary culture. James Pettegree, Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588–1611. This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays—Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline—to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandMelissa E. Sanchez, Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature. Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love. Rather than dismiss such assumptions as mere conventions, Sanchez uncovers the political import of early modern literature’s fascination with eroticized violence. Melissa E. Sanchez, Shakespeare and Queer Theory. Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews. Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves—in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Elizabethan England and sheds new light on The Merchant of Venice. James Sharpe, Witchcraft in Early Modern England. This book provides an introduction to the fascinating topic of witchcraft, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject. Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the legal persecution of witches. Contemporary views of witchcraft put forward by judges, theological writers and the medical profession are examined, as is the place of witchcraft in the popular imagination. Sharpe also looks at the gender dimensions of the witch persecution, and the treatment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Supported by a range of compelling documents, the book concludes with an exploration of why witch panics declined in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century. Gustav Ungerer, The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavery. An essay about the importance of the English merchants in Spain for the early development of the British slave trade in the sixteenth century. Adrian Wilson, Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England.. This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy—the violation of the marital norm—it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the “ceremony of childbirth,” the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focusing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period. Garthine Walker, Crime, Gender, and Social Order in Early Modern England. Walker reveals that women were not treated leniently by the courts and that beliefs about gender and order impacted on real legal outcomes in early modern England. She demonstrates that the household role had as much to do with the nature of criminality as the individual in this period. Challenging hitherto accepted views regarding gender stereotyping, this book illuminates the complexities of everyday English life in the early modern period. Graham T. Williams, Women’s Epistolary Utterance: A Study of the Letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575–1611. Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575–1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular collections may increase our understanding of early modern letters as a particular type of handwritten communicative activity. The book also adds to our understanding of these women as individual users of English in their historical moment, especially in terms of literacy and their engagement with cultural scripts. Throughout the book, analysis is based on the manuscript letters themselves and in this way several chapters address the importance of viewing original sources to understand the letters’ full pragmatic significance. Within these broader frameworks, individual chapters address the women’s use of scribes, prose structure and punctuation, performative speech act verbs, and (im)politeness, sincerity and mock (im)politeness. 50 Must-Read Books about Tudor EnglandMichael Young, King James I and the History of Homosexuality. James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favorites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. Persons acquainted with the history of sexuality will find surprising premonitions here of modern homosexuality and homophobia. General readers will find a world of political intrigue colored by sodomy, pederasty, and gender instability. For readers new to the subject, the book begins with a helpful overview of King James’s life. What are your favorite books about Tudor England? Other Must-Reads on Book Riot that might be of interest: 100 Must-Read Books about the Middle Ages. 100 Must-Read Books about Ancient History. 100 Must-Read Books about Witches. 100 Must-Read Books about the History of Medicine. 100 Must-Read YA Historical Novels. 100 Must-Read Historical Romances. 100 Must-Read Titles About Women’s History.	[]
Everything You Wanted to Know about GameStop Posted: December 04,2022 Everything You Wanted to Know about GameStop You woke up this morning and it’s all over the headlines: the stock market has gone bananas over GameStop, the chain of shops that still enthusiastically sells physical copies of video games in a dying market. Every market expert would’ve told you this company was destined for bankruptcy. Until now. You want to know what’s going on, but you’re not into stock, investment, hedge funds, and short-selling. Worry not - we’ve got you covered. In a nutshell, this is a poignant paradigm about ordinary people who have managed to outsmart fabulously wealthy and greedy hedge fund companies. Who’s the loser in this historical battle? Hedge funds. Here’s why. What big hedge companies such as Melvin Capital Management and Citron Research are doing is short selling: borrowing shares of a company, then manipulating the stock market into believing that the company is going to go bankrupt. They keep forcing down the price, investors get scared, the stock price keeps going down, then eventually the big players can pay back these shares and make a bunch of money. It’s a tale as old as time. But this time the story has taken an unexpected - and frankly satisfying - turn. The hedge funds we’re talking about got too greedy. Shortening GameStop from $20 all the way to $4 - and in the process making millions of dollars while almost bankrupting this company - wasn’t enough for them. They ended up borrowing 140% of all the shares available, more than actually exist. That’s a key detail. This is where our modern-day heroes step in. Someone from the WallStreetBets subreddit realized this and spread the word. Redditors started to buy and hold shares via the Robinhood trading app, driving the price up like crazy. Why would they get involved in such a risky game of chicken? First of all, many of these Redditors used to be huge fans of GameStop back in the days when purchasing physical games was cool. On top of that, most of them are millennials whose lives were deeply affected by the Global Financial Crisis in 2008; a disaster that destroyed the prospects of millions, just not those who actually created it. These Redditors saw that the time for revenge had come. In just a couple of exciting days, GameStop stock prices skyrocketed from a miserable $4 up to a mesmerizing $469. Even Elon Musk stepped in, ballooning the percentages with a single tweet in favor of Redditors over short-sellers, who had tried to cripple Tesla so many times. Even though it seems dodgy and is perhaps on the verge of being illegal, this game does have rules. At one point, hedge funds eventually have to buy all those shares back, at whatever price they can. They got played this time, leaving Melvin Capital asking for a bailout and others on the brink of bankruptcy. But are we really witnessing the death of giant corporations and the victory of the middle and upper-middle classes? Well, it’s not that simple. Hedge funds have no intention of backing off; they’re asking for the government’s help and calling for legal action against Reddit forums. What’s more, the well-known Robinhood app - which has been marketed as an attempt to democratize finance for all - curbed the purchase of GameStop shares on Thursday. The restrictions resulted in a price plunge of 55%, causing people to accuse Robinhood of stealing from the poor to give to the rich. The irony is palpable. With GameStop’s price currently $193.60, the situation is precarious and is likely to have a ripple effect on the market. In this pushback against the establishment, the house of cards might crumble and people might lose millions. But it was never just about the money; this movement was about sending a message. Fed up with increasing inequality, amateur investors are playing Wall Street at its own game and doing a mighty good job of it. Think of the GameStop saga as a modern fairytale. This story has it all: the greedy villains, the heroes, and even Robin Hood (or perhaps his polar opposite). The heroes might not win the overall war, but they’ve certainly won the battle and caused some major concern for the villains. And even if it doesn’t last, this one victory has surely been cathartic for all those millennials behind their keyboards. Leave your comment Your email address will not be published. With a degree in humanities and a knack for the history of tech, Jovan was always interested in how technology shapes both us as human beings and our social landscapes. When he isn't binging on news and trying to predict the latest tech fads, you may find him trapped within the covers of a generic 80s cyberpunk thriller. Selected 1 items Clear All	[]
Defend the Facts Support ProPublica Head to Head: Compare Voting Records Compare the voting records of Blaine Luetkemeyer and Raja Krishnamoorthi in 2017-18. Blaine Luetkemeyer and Raja Krishnamoorthi are from different parties and disagreed on 65 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18). Agree: 35% Disagree: 65% But they didn't always disagree. Out of 1187 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 418 votes, including 9 major votes. Here are the votes they agreed on Current site Current page	[]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Not seen in the wild locally since the 1950's, the Southern brush-tailed rock wallaby (info) is being brought back from extinction by a unique breeding program being undertaken by a collaboration between the Tidbinbilla nature reserve in the Australian Capital Territory and the Adelaide zoo in South Australia. By a process known as 'cross fostering' the breeding program allows for female wallabies to have up to six or seven Joeys in the one year. Bred at the Tidbinbilla breeding facility, fifteen animals have already been released into the Grampians (info) and more are planned to be released into area's once populated by the marsupial soon. Video from TamsACT YouTube channel: "David Dobroszczyk, Senior Wildlife Officer at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve discusses the Southern Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby program. The Southern Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby is a critically endangered species. Share - 1. Excellent! There should be more of this going on. I love to hear of this sort of programme being successful, but there are so many more native animals near extinction, areas where once species were prolific now have none and they have been driven into small areas elsewhere. Good post, thank you. 2. I blame feral animals mostly for the declines in small marsupials Keith. Wild dogs mostly but cats and foxes also play their part. Like I have said before 'better dispatched with a musket'. Tidbinbilla plays a major role in the survival of the Southern rock wallaby and the Corroboree frog and maintains a wonderful nature reserve which is only 15 minutes from Canberra's suburbs. Locals and visitors alike would enjoy a visit. Cheers History lost through lack of funding	[]
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Monday, November 18, 2019 Trials and Tribulations pwtilton’s place, stilton, political, humor, conservative, cartoons, jokes, hope n’ change, jury duty, schiff, impeachment, trump, hearings, hearsay, parody, fishing In all seriousness, today we'll find out if we're being called in for jury duty here in the great state of Texas, where we've Made Capital Punishment Great Again. On two previous occasions, we've almost served. During questioning for the first, we were asked if we'd had any negative experiences with lawyers and, because we were under oath, we had to testify truthfully that we'd been lied to and screwed by pretty much every lawyer we'd ever met, with the exception of our maternal grandfather whose tombstone accurately describes him as the "Last Honest Lawyer." Oddly, we were dismissed. The next time, we were actually seated in the jury box and ready to go...but the defendant took one look at the 12 good and true citizens waiting to pass judgment, perhaps noticing the tiny bit of anticipatory drool on our personal chin, and decided to cop a plea with no testimony. Whether we make the final cut this time remains to be seen, but per the cartoon above, we really do wonder if lawyers should ask potential jurors whether they've been watching the Schiff hearings. Because if they have, they'll either have a complete misunderstanding of how justice is supposed to work, or they'll know exactly how justice is supposed to work but will have come to the conclusion that the system is too corrupt to actually function. Still, we believe in the jury system and won't do anything to get out of doing our duty. Because first and foremost, this is a nation of rights...and if we weasel out of serving, we'll lose our precious right to bitch about the cesspool of modern Justice. igor said... Let's hear it for jury nullification, Stilt!! Velveeta Processed Cheese Food said... I've long entertained the idea of professional jury members.In my notion, being one would require a bachelor's degree, with emphasis on procedure, rules of evidence, the Bill of Rights, civil law, and whatever else they do in court. Hopefully, such a jury would be able to see through lawyer tricks. I could be wrong about this, but as I understand "a jury of one's peers," it means a jury of citizens in good standing, so that would be a requirement as well. I'm sure there are legal reasons this can't be done. And, like the TSA employees, you'd end up with a bunch of people who didn't already have better jobs, which might not be the best material. So there's that. Mike aka Proof said... Last time I was almost called to jury duty, during voir dire, they asked me if I knew any cops, and I told him my nephew, now a FiBBIe, was a New Orleans homicide detective. They asked me what I did for recreation and entertainment and I told them I was a political blogger. The defense attorney asked me what position I took when I write, I told him I lean forward slightly in my chair! A couple of rounds later and they decided I wasn't jury material! Just tell them you're an outspoken blogger. And if the attorneys are in on the joke, they'll ask "Outspoken by whom?" MAX Redline said... I'm probably overdue, as it's been a while since I was last summoned to waste half a day or more cooling my heels in the juror pool. I once made it into a courtroom, where prospective jurors were questioned by attorneys. The problem there arose when the defense attorney asked prospective jurors if they wanted to serve on the jury. All of them answered affirmatively. But when he asked that of me, I answered honestly: no. That stunned him; I wasn't following the approved script. So he asked why I was there, and I replied that I'd received a summons that threatened penalties if I didn't show up. Stunned him again. Apparently, honesty gets you removed from jury selection. Geoff King said... I do not make an acceptable juror. The prosecution does not want me because I am a Libertarian and therefore believe there is no such thing, by definition, as a "victimless crime". On the other hand, the defense will disqualify me because I not only believe in Capital Punishment, but wish it to be extended to the automatic castration of rapists and child molesters. Jim Irre said... I sat in a jury box once. It lasted for about 5 minutes, then I was dismissed. In Virginia, because I am a sole proprietor, I am always released from jury duty. bocopro said... I've been called for jury duty so many times I can't remember. Counting 2 SPCM boards while in the Navy, I've actually sat on 7 juries, 5 guilties, one hung, and one which never went to deliberation 'cuz the defendant took a plea deal after the first day's testimony. One of the guilties was a vehicular manslaughter, one was a drug pusher, and one was a DWI/Evasion/Resisting/Drug possession case. The hung was a local cop accused of brutality (victim lost an eye resisting arrest), and had already been tried twice and came out hung. This time it was in federal court for some unexplained reason, and we weren't even told about the two previous trials. While I was teachin at the university after USN retirement, jury duty could have really disrupted a lotta stuff for me, especially around mid-terms and finals week. So I began answering the voir dire questions dancing around politics with, "Well, I voted for George Wallace, twice" and the defense always sent me back to the waiting room. Donno why my name came up so many times (at least 8 since I moved here to Pensacola in 84). Some guys never EVER get called. But now the city has an age cut-off . . . don't call people older than 75. Bummer, 'cause now that I got so much time, I'd kinda like the opportunity to go have some fun now and then. TMay said... For jury duty, I have heard that if you carry a Bible that you get rejected because you are considered some sort of religious nut. I live in California. M. Mitchell Marmel said... Last time I was on a jury, we just walked into the courtroom, the lawyers got one good look at me and decided to settle. Go figure. ;D Anonymous said... Go dressed as Exidor (Mork and MindyTV show), casting glances about the angels flying around your head. That would worth a shot if trying to avoid. But if you are attempting to serve, that should probably be avoided. Fred Ciampi said... If 'A jury of your peers' means equals, then the jury should be those like the defendant. So if a person is being tried for, say, bank robbery then the jury should consist of bank robbers. Or something..... When can you tell if a lawyer is lying? When his lips are moving!!!! Average Joe said... The last time I was called to jury duty I was immediately elected foreman because "the white boy was reading a book so he must be smart." Five minutes into being sequestered after hearing all the testimony, one of the others (a guy in a thousand dollar suit) told us all that he would go along with anything we agreed to as he had to get back to work. Immediately another business man-type and a woman said the same thing, so the young single parent mother on trial was down to the remaining nine of us to decide her fate. Her crime? Shoplifting two (2) pairs of brightly colored socks that had been in a large bin of kid's socks on display in a Sears store that were at kid level so as to catch a child's eye. She had several purchases she had paid for but Sears decided that she was a criminal because of $3 worth of kid's socks found in her bag that weren't on the receipt store security examined. Once we had heard all the testimony and were sequestered, as quickly as I could convince the others that it was HIGHLY likely the kid, not her, had picked them up while she was shopping and dropped them in the bag she carried when she wasn't looking. We came back with a not guilty verdict, the Sears security guard that had testified against her looked at me and shrugged, and we all went home - her included. I was so disgusted with a system that would put this woman in jail over a $3 item before she could explain what happened I've avoided jury duty as much as I could since then. Oh, and before anyone thinks this was somehow racial or prejudicial instead of simply stupid, the woman in this case was in her early twenties and caucasian. Liberty Card said... I always answer the question "Can you be fair and impartial?" with, "of course, I believe every criminal should be given a fair trial before voting to hang the guilty b@s@rd", Don't know why the don't like that answer....... Murphy(AZ) said... This ALWAYS works: wear the same shirt for three days prior to going to serve. Don't use any deodorant the day of service (or longer if you can stand being with yourself,) eat a can of pork and beans the night before serving. Your fellow jurors will do all the work convincing the judge you NEED to be excused. TrickyRicky said... I have only been called 3-4 times, and never made the final cut. Like you Stilton, I consider it my duty to participate, for the same reasons that I believe in being informed and voting in every election for which I am eligible. It's part of making our democratic republic function and survive. Kay said... I was one of two alternates on J.D. They released the first, a teacher. I was fascinated by the process. Case was a negligent landlord (a lawyer). No front door knob, a fire started in the adjacent unit going through the wall into the defendants unit. She could not get out. Baby died and she was terribly scarred. Anyway I believe one juror was a plant. He was the only one not in agreement about ANYTHING. I was not alowed to speak at all. We voted and voted and came up 11 to 1 every time. During lunch break I mentioned to our foreman (mucky muck at UCSD) that in this case we only needed 9 of 12 jurors to convict. We returned to the jurors room, voted right away and that was that. You should have heard the ONE rant and rave and give me dirty looks. A few other jurors were laughing at him. We all walked back into the courtroom, the defense now had 4 more lawyers in the room. We got word that we were excused as they were going to settle. Sortahwitte said... I served on a rape/attempted murder case here in Oklahoma. The defendant was a low life that rode the high tide up here after the New Orleans hurricane. The foreman was great. As we went into the jury room, he asked is there anyone that believes that guy didn't do it. Silence. He then said: "Let's show them how we do it in this county." We were not in total agreement on the punishment, but settled for 40 years with no parole. The judge agreed and signed off on it. About a year ago, the perp woke up dead in the state pen. He fell on a sharpened broom stick while he slept. His three victims ranged in age from 15 to 19. All three young ladies gave witness. Bobo said... Best method I observed to avoid jury duty was an Asian women, who most likely spoke fluent Chinese and English, speak to the judge in very broken English saying “she not good in English language.” Pees excrus me. Dan said... We had a great clerk of courts in our county. He gave a briefing/education session before jury selection. During that, he reminded us that of all the people we'd hear during the trial the only two not sworn to tell the truth would be the prosecution and defense lawyers. mamafrog said... I got called twice, for a town a two hour drive away. It took about an hour of telling the clerk I didn't drive, was caring for two handicapped people (well, technically, my husband was and he was my driver at the time, and I was the full time caregiver for my BIL) and no, I was not getting up at four o'clock in the morning to catch the bus for a two hour ride and a thirty minute walk to the courthouse. It was Washington state and our home was in the absolute middle of nowhere (Grand Coulee). Bus service ran twice a day. For some reason all the court cases there were in the one town, probably because population was sparse in that part of the state. Haven't been called in Oklahoma yet. John the Econ said... Jury Duty: It wasn't until I was well into my 5th decade that I not only managed to see the inside of a courtroom, but actually managed to get seated on a jury, and even then I only made it as an "alternate" who was no longer needed once deliberations began. It was a welfare fraud case on behalf of our municipal housing authority against a woman who along with her boyfriend were sub-letting her taxpayer-subsidized apartment. It was an eye-opener as to what a scam this whole paradigm is against the taxpayer and community. First, there's this: There's a 5+ year waiting list to get a voucher for an "emergency" housing subsidy. Let that sink in. If you are willing to put yourself on a 5-year waiting list for "emergency" housing, then I think it's pretty clear that "poverty" isn't something that just happened to you, but is actually your life plan. I'd like to think that if something were to happen in my life that would render me homeless, that I'd be working on a plan that would have my situation restored in far less than 5 years. But then again, perhaps that attitude is why I don't worry about ever being homeless. After the closing statements, my involvement was over. IMHO, it was a pretty open-and-closed case; I honestly don't know why this thing went to trial at all other than the defendant had other prior issues that we weren't privy to during the trial (previous fraud cases and a DUI) and was looking at jail time if/when found guilty. So I was somewhat shocked to learn later that deliberations for the guilty verdict took a day instead of the <60 minutes I had assumed it would take. Probably a good thing I was an alternate and wasn't involved in that. As for the Schiff-show, I think one would have to be astoundingly clueless to have any illusions as to how this is supposed to be how justice works. Even Democrats are having their doubts that this is working for them. As for your willingness to do your civic duty, we salute you, fellow citizen. John the Econ said... @Velveeta Processed Cheese Food said "I've long entertained the idea of professional jury members..." I've long agonized over this. I've had this discussion with friends overseas where this is the norm. I've long been uncomfortable with the notion of a "jury of peers" that very often means people who have tons of free time because they're unemployable, have comfortable and undemanding jobs that will pay them either way, or aren't otherwise clever enough to get out of jury duty. Which is why I take the opportunity to serve with upmost seriousness. As someone who is self-employed, every minute I spend in the process represents time not being spent generating income. But I see it as a responsibility of being a citizen, so I am more than willing (if not totally thrilled) to do it. The problem is just how does one qualify what makes a proper "professional juror"? A bachelor's degree in and of itself is pretty meaningless anymore. Your average college graduate these days can't differentiate between the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the menu at Starbucks. Today, I'd expect that any specific curriculum designed for a professional juror would be more pack with "social justice" nonsense than "procedure, rules of evidence, the Bill of Rights, civil law, and whatever else...". MAJ Arkay said... I was called twice to courts-martial. Each time, the defense lawyer saw my Military Intelligence brass, asked if I was Counterintelligence, and when I said yes, was immediately dismissed. In Virginia, they exempted law enforcement, so I never got called there. Home in Texas, I've been called three times so far. I know, and they know, that no lawyer ever wants a current or retired LEO on a jury, yet I still have to sit through the whole rigamarole before being sent home at the end of the day. Thing is, I'd love to be on a jury. But the lawyers absolutely do NOT want trained investigators seeing through their BS. Sigh. mamafrog said... @John the Econ--maybe a mix of retirees and younger people? But would that make an impartial jury, which is supposed to be the ideal but probably never happens. Who knows unless you could guarantee people who would never be swayed and would always give careful consideration. A paid jury might be apt to rush to judgement to get more work done for more money? Don't see it as a good choice either way and what is have is what is working. Perhaps the better option would be not charging everyone for petty shit, lol, and get of prisons for moneymaking enterprises, a whole other discussion. Velveeta Process Cheese Food said... @John the Econ: Although this isn't a point that had occurred to me, I suspect you are right about what a degree in "jury science" would devolve into. Joseph ET said... I was called for jury duty just before I moved out of San Jose, California. It was a civil case with seven lawyers representing contractors and the city and was to last 30 days. They brought in 100 people trying to find 12 that didn’t hate, the lawyers, the contractors or the city. I was released after two days of lost income. When I gave my document to the clerk she said: “You’ve been released. They won’t call you again for at least two weeks.” Oh my God, I almost lost it! But I kept my mouth shut. Sure enough, two weeks later here’s the card again. Millions of people live in that county. Enough is enough! I marked on the card “moved” and gave my Mom’s address in a different county. Stilton Jarlsberg said... @igor- If the gloves don't fit, it don't mean shit. @Velveeta Processed Cheese Food- An interesting notion, definitely. Hard to put together in a fair way, but it could reduce the odds of having shiftless morons making important decisions. @Mike aka Proof- I wouldn't personally raise my blogging out of the blue, but if asked what you were asked, I'd have to say. @MAX Redline- I don't really see why NOT wanting to serve would necessarily mean you wouldn't do a good job. But if the Defense attorney already knew he had an iffy case, he probably didn't want a juror who was already a bit pissed off. @Geoff King- I'll be honest in answering any questions. Whether or not people like the answers is up to them. @Jim Irre- I'd have a hard time arguing that I'd suffer significant business losses from being on a jury. Why the hell am I not charging money for people to read this blog?! (Kidding! I'm kidding!) @bocopro- Wow, those were some pretty heavy cases. I would hope I wouldn't have to deal with anything that serious, but who knows? @Tmay- I'm sure that's true in California. Less so in Texas. And I'm not actually looking to duck jury duty - although I do hope to escape it! @M. Mitchell Marmel- You probably had that "hang 'em high" look in your eyes. @Anonymous- I'm just going to dress like I always do, which may be off-putting enough. @Fred Ciampi- I agree about the "peers" thing. By giving me a summons to serve, isn't the state declaring that they consider me a potential felon? @Average Joe- Wow, that's one heckuva story. You did the right thing, but I'm offended by the attitude of some of your fellow jurors. Despite my treating very few things seriously, if put on a jury I'll treat the responsibility very seriously. @Liberty Card- It's like Freedom of Speech counts for nothing, right? @Murphy(AZ)- And here I thought you were going to suggest I break my usual routine. Stilton Jarlsberg said... @TrickyRicky- Good for you. My feeling is that if I were ever on trial (God forbid) I'd want someone like me on the jury. That being the case, I won't try to skip out. @Kay- Holy cow. Great story...albeit not altogether reassuring. Good job on your part! @Sortahwitte- Damn. But good for you and the rest of the jury. And for whoever sharpened that broomstick. @Bobo- I doubt I could get away with it, but I'm sure the court gets a lot of that around here. I live in a very culturally diverse area, and it's like the Tower of Babel with all of the languages. @Dan- BOOM! What a great piece of advice that was! @mamafrog- I think the sort of travel you were talking about really would be unreasonable. @John the Econ- I'm semi-stunned (and yet not surprised) by the "I'll still have emergency status in 5 years" mindset. And I agree about the challenges involved in empaneling "professional jurors." I sure as hell wouldn't want to be on trial and see a bunch of pajama boys and pussy hat wearers sneering at me from the jury box. @MAJ Arkay- You're clearly too hip for the room, and the lawyers want no part of it. @mamafrog- Interesting suggestions, and I don't have any answers. @Velveeta Process Cheese Food- I can tell by the goosebumps on my arms that I don't like the idea of "jury science" degrees either. @Joseph ET- Okay, at the point I'm told the trial could last 30 days, I'm going to pull a sock over my hand and start having animated conversations with it. If a judge needs proof I'm nuts, all of you will back me up - right? Ron said... Couldn't agree more, Stilt. Despite having a multitude of acceptable excuses I've never missed showing up for jury DUTY. All of us right thinkers should do so as well. If I'm ever a defendant I'd certainly hope for the likes of this motley crew to decide my fate! Sadly, I've never been selected either. Anonymous said... Served on a grand jury in Northern Virginia, hearing not a single case but close to a hundred cases over two days. Confessions had been obtained in all except one, so it moved along quickly. Most of the cases involved fraudulent use of stolen credit cards. By the end of the first day, most of the jurors swore they'd cut up all of their credit cards as soon as they got home. Also was called as a witness in a courtmartial in the Aleutian Islands years ago. A sentry had shot another sentry in the neck at point-blank range, playing John Wayne with his .45 forgetting he'd earlier chambered a round (in violation of regulations). He tried to persuade the sentry he'd shot to testify he'd been posted improperly (ie, with a round in the chamber), but he retorted, "I already stuck my neck out for him, I'm not going to stick my ass out for him!" NVRick said... One time, I was the arresting officer and sitting at the prosecutor's table. When the panel was brought in, I was surprised to see my mother. The judge asked the usual questions as to whether the jurors know anyone involved in the case, and my mom admitted to knowing me (thanks mom!). She was asked if she would give my testimony more credence, and she said 'no'. Knowing her honesty, I believed her, but apparently the judge didn't, and dismissed her. Out here in semi-rural NV, we get to complete jury questionnaires on line. Regarding whether I can be unbiased, I answer truthfully that after 30 years in law enforcement, I believe that if someone is arrested, I believe he is more likely guilty than not. I also mention that my 72 year old eyes and ears aren't what they used to be and I might have to use the restroom more often than the usual recesses. I never get a summons for some reason. igor said... Duty - that's the important word in all this. I don't shirk J.D., but neither do I look for it. Served on three juries, (no Capital cases), been an expert witness in two. If I don't serve, some low-brow will take my place, and I don't want that in a jury! Boligat said... I've been called a few times. But, I always managed to have my duty moved into the summer because I am/was a school teacher. I have never tried to dodge the duty. One of the cases that I would have liked to sit on wound up being postponed. It was a domestic violence case and everyone was wondering if the victim would appear as she was deathly afraid of the accused. Well, the accused was young, fit, angry. . . and stupid. His public defender was a young lady, fresh out of law school. The accused made the mistake of declaring that he was "gonna get that b****" (talking about his lawyer). He said it in an elevator headed back to the jail, surrounded by bailiffs. His defender was so rattled that she was on the phone for many, many minutes with the bar association asking to not have to defend this guy. We saw him once in the court room surrounded by the bailiffs and a few extra sheriff's deputies, the biggest bad arses they could find. I never did find out exactly what happened as all of us were released. They had picked the jury and the judge was telling them why there would be no trial, but that they had satisfied their legal and civic duties. Those of us that were not picked heard everything the judge said as we walked passed them to leave. judgeroybean said... Tell them that if you absolutely would not want one of your children marrying the prosecutor or the policeman, defendant is innocent. I you would never want your children seen with defendant, Mofo is guilty. Cragzop said... Many years ago I found myself in a cavernous hall in lower Manhattan where jury pools waited to be summoned to a courtroom. I was called up, chosen first through voie dire, and became foreman by default. The case was about an elderly Hispanic man who allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover cop. As the hour grew late, we were sequestered. The City bought the jury dinner, and we were escorted in several vans to a real sleazy hotel on the extreme West side of midtown Manhattan. Being the foreman I was given a room by myself. While waiting for our court officers to register us for our rooms, I noticed a group of around 5 very tall, transvestite hookers. They were dressed in everything from hot pants, to a formal gown. I spoke with some of them, and watched as our jury's 5 white women skulked away at this surreal drama unfolding at the registration desk. The jury consisted of 5 white women from the upper east side of Manhattan, considered to be an enclave for rich, professionals; 2 black men in their 30s, an NYU psychology professor, 1 white male who was a denizen of an area known as Hell's Kitchen, an area rich with a history of Irish American crime and violence fostered by an Irish American gang known as the Westies, of which my fellow juror was once a member, 3 nondescript white males, and myself, a 27 year old white male with a couple of graduate degrees. The next morning we congregated in the dining room for breakfast. I noticed murals on the walls that depicted couples in different positions of copulation. The women refused to eat when they saw the murals, so we grabbed cups of coffee and got in the vans to head back to the courts. The trial went on for a few hours, and it was time for us to deliberate. The NYU professor kept complaining about the money he was losing having to cancel appointments with his patients. He said he was willing to flip a coin to decide the defendant's fate. The former Westie kept sitting on the top of chairs, and the professor ordered me to have him take a seat. When I refused, saying he had a right to sit wherever he wanted, the prof threatened to tell the judge. I told him that would be fine with me, but I didn't think the judge would appreciate hearing how this NYU professor wanted to flip a coin to determine the poor man's fate. He backed off. The 5 upper middle class ladies said that NYPD detectives would never lie, and when I asked the 2 black jurists if they believed this, they looked at the cabal of 5 ladies and said they knew nothing about their world, where the police lied on a regular basis. The cops claimed when they bought the drugs from this old man, he wore an orange windbreaker. The arresting officer, 3 blocks away, wrote in his book that the defendant had on a blue jean jacket. We found the old man guilty of possession, since he admitted to smoking a "bazooka," which is a joint laced with cocaine. Best education in human behavior and the shortcomings of juris prudence I ever got. REM1875 said... Anonymous igor said... Let's hear it for jury nullification, Stilt!! How I wish more Americans knew about that .........they think the judges instructions are law and as we have seen lately (Rodger Stone for one) many judges are not about justice .... REM1875 said... Does being the reason a jury is being impaneled count ??? Bruce Bleu said... Ok, so you've twisted my arm to tell my Jury story... years ago I was called for the 5th time for jury duty on a capital trial... murder in the first degree. Each prospective juror was taken back to the judges chambers, during the peremptory portion of jury selection, for joint interviews with the prosecuting and defense reptil... LAWYERS. The prosecutor asked many questions about my life and attitudes on relevant issues. Last question was "Why do I want you on my jury?", and I answered, "If the defendant is guilty, and you present a cogent case showing him to be so, I will find him guilty." The defense attorney likewise asked me a number of questions ending with, "Why do I want you on my jury?", and I answered, "If the defendant is innocent, and you present a cogent case to illustrate that fact, I will find him innocent." BOTH lawyers wanted me kicked off the jury. Anyone hazard a guess WHY? Personally I think it's because lawyers don't give an "airborne coitus" about justice, but rather winning cases, ergo, they spend more time in psychology classes than law classes. Kent Neal said... I suppose my jury story is apropos... I am a retired prosecutor and have stood in front of many juries on my hind legs and pleaded the case for the State of Florida, but when I was called for jury duty in North Carolina, I figured my former profession would make me unacceptable to any defense attorney as a juror. During voir dire (means speak the truth), defense counsel asked me what I did for a living. I told him I was retired. When voir dire was finished, I was still sitting in the jury box. The judge, who had read my jury questionnaire (apparently defense counsel had not),and realizing that any conviction obtained with me on the jury would successfully be appealed on the basis that the defendant was represented by incompetent counsel, intervened and asked the question that defense counsel had failed to. When I told him what profession I had retired from, the defense immediately excercised a preemptory challenge and I was excused. I was kind of disappointed, but the judge did the right thing. Fish Out of Water said... Voir dire brings back memories of My Cousin Vinny, which a lawyer once told me is used in some law schools. Stilton Jarlsberg said... @Ron- After 5 pm yesterday, I was notified that I didn't need to show up, but thanks for playing! So, no jury duty this time around, which is something of a relief. But you're right, the word "duty" isn't one with a lot of alternate interpretations. @Anonymous- Holy crap! I'm impressed anyone catching a .45 in the neck was able to testify at all! @NVRick- Good for Mom! They should have let her serve. Regarding your 30 years of law enforcement, I'm not sure your "likely presumption of guilt" amounts to bias or simply experience (actually, yes I am - and it's the latter). And I, too, was a bit worried about how well my hearing aids might function in a courtroom setting. They're fine most of the time, but in certain acoustic environments it's difficult for me to understand what's being said. And not just because it's legal bullshit (grin). @igor- Once again, the golden rule applies. @Boligat- See, it's "young, fit, angry, stupid" guys that I wouldn't want glaring at me in the jury box while memorizing my face. @judgeroybean- Justice is less complicated than I thought! @Cragzop- Wow, a great story and well told! @REM1875- You're absolutely right. And yes, you can usually be excused from a jury if you're the defendant. @Bruce Bleu- Sounds like they knew anyone throwing around the word "cogent" was a threat. @Kent Neal- Smart move by the judge, indeed. But if it wasn't for that "instant appeal," I wish you could have served. @Fish Out of Water- I'm about due to watch "My Cousin Vinny" again. Fun movie! John the Econ said... I enjoyed reading all of the stories above. If jury duty is good for anything, it's exposing you to aspects of society that you normally don't get to see or understand first hand. Navyvet said... I was called for jury duty a couple of years ago. NFW was I going to waste my time on a farce like the US justice system. ie spend countless hours listening to the judge, the lawyers, and witnesses lie their asses off, try to come to a no brainer verdict with a bunch of low IQ idiots, and then have the judge throw the verdict out in order to earn his stipend. I searched the rules and found a loop hole which I used and was told to "never mind". I havent been called since. Hurray. Anonymous said... During voir dire for a civil case where an individual was suing my county, I explained that I was apt to find the defendant not guilty simply because my taxes would go up in the plaintiff prevailed. Half a dozen folks raised their hands and said they agreed. Normally, my sure fire solution to avoid being selected is to argue with the attorneys. It has worked every time I tried it. Your story about the defendant seeing the jury and then immediately copping a plea happened to me once when I lived in Bastrop county, Texas, many years ago. 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Which Quintessential Quintuplet Are You? Five identical airheads, five wildly different personalities. It’s a small wonder that Fuutaro can remain sane while handling the Nakano Sisters and their shenanigans. Try having Miku as your study buddy, for instance. After brushing up for a quiz at the library, you run into her in the hall and ask her for some notes, only it’s actually Nino, and she tears you a new one for daring to speak to her. You pull out a phone to catch up on your favourite talk show and find Ichika as one of the guests live, except she’s outside in the sports track, juggling a soccer ball and basketball at the same time. Although the quintuplets are practically each other’s mirror images, it’s clear that each girl has her own style. From their choice of beverage to their favourite school subjects, Ichika, Nino, Miko, Yotsuba and Itsuki all have their personal flairs. So then, which of the Nakano quints matches your style the closest? Which Quintessential Quintuplet are you? Find out for yourself with this quiz. Enjoy! ⬇ Scroll Down & Take The Quiz ⬇ Which Quintuplet Are You? How do you prefer to start your day? Your favourite school subject is… You dream of landing a job as… What sort of drink would you like from a vending machine? Which type of show do you usually watch? Your signature color is… At a carnival, you decide to snack on… If you were to pick an animal to pet, you’d choose… Pick your favourite breakfast food What’s something you secretly can’t do? Do you have good handwriting? Are you soft-spoken or loudmouthed? Which Quintessential Quintuplet Are You? You are Ichika! Share your Results: Ichika has an older sister complex and feels that it’s her responsibility to look after the rest of the Quints. As disorganized as she can be with her personal life, she’s calm and collected, and acts as the crutch that her sisters can lean on. She tends to keep a smug and playful demeanor in public. You are Nino! Share your Results: Nino is the most socially adept sibling, highly conscious of how she appears to other people. However, she’s also the haughtiest and most outspoken sister. She tends to act rude, and sometimes even rebellious, but she hides a more caring side. Out of the girls, Nino is the most fixated with romance. You are Miku! Share your Results: Miku is quiet and introspective. She’s usually content with tucking into a comfy corner with her headphones and a dusty book on the famous battles of the Sengoku Period. Her mannerisms can sometimes match an old lady’s, especially due to her love for hot matcha, or green tea. Although she’s mostly reserved, she’s not afraid to cut into the heart of a difficult conversation. You are Yotsuba! Share your Results: Yotsuba is an overactive carrot, brimming with energy and vitality. She’s the most athletic Quint. She’s also altruistic, carefree and quite comfortable with acting like an idiot. Her cheerfulness conceals her true depths, however. When nobody’s looking, she tends to be self-critical and feel inferior compared to her siblings. You are Itsuki! Share your Results: Stubborn and strait-laced, Itsuki can come across as the boring Quint. She’s a diligent and pragmatic girl, responsible to a fault, and the one who prefers sticking to the rules, often acting as the most mature out of her sisters. For all her seriousness, however, she happens to possess a voracious appetite. About our Quintessential Quintuplet Personality Quiz The Quintessential Quintuplets is a psychological battle series in which five rich and equally beautiful quintuplets – the Nakano sisters - lie, swindle and sabotage each other to gain the affections of their impoverished tutor, Fuutarou Uesugi. Alright, it’s actually a wholesome romantic comedy. Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba and Itsuki are all lovely and kind-hearted girls. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be pretty bright in school, so they end up getting tutored by one of the highest-ranking students in Japan, who is himself hooked to the job to help his father pay off the family debt. Fuutarou must contend with a five-hit combo of smugness, tsundere sociopathy, introversion, hyperactivity and stubbornness to help the Quints get good grades and pass their exams. As the series goes on, however, the Quints each gradually end up falling for Fuutarou in their own ways. Unbeknownst to anyone but a few secretive souls, however, the Quints’ relationship with Fuutarou seems to go many years back to when Fuu befriended one of the girls on a trip to Kyoto. The show also frequently does a flash-forward in which one of the Quints becomes his bride – and so the show’s main mystery is set. Who does Fuutarou marry? And who is the mysterious girl from Kyoto? Can Fuutarou Tell The Quints Apart? The Nakano sisters are each illustrated with different hair colors and are voiced by different actresses so that anime and manga fans can easily distinguish the five apart. In-universe, however, the sisters are mirror images of each other, to the point that they commonly dress up as each other to trick people and get away from awkward situations. Even after spending about six months studying with the girls, Fuutarou couldn’t identify the girls if they wore identical clothes and did their hair in the same way. Neither could he tell, say, Miku apart from Yotsuba if they wore each other’s clothing. Fuutarou’s inability to identify the Quints becomes a significant plot point later in the series. Is Nakano Miku a kuudere? A kuudere is quiet and reserved, rarely showing affection. Miku definitely appears to act like a kuudere early in the series, although as she falls for Fuutarou, she quickly melts into a dandere. Instead of being too cold and timid to speak up, danderes are simply too shy to express their feelings openly to their love interests. Miku still tends to be subdued around Fuutarou, but don’t let that distract you from the things she’s willing to commit to preserve her claim for Fuutarou’s love in the manga. Why does Itsuki eat so much? Itsuki devours food like a starving beast. She is often called “Eatsuki” among the series’ fans for her tendency to have second, third, or even fourth helpings to a meal. Negi Haruba, the series’ author, has not given an explicit reason for why she eats so much, and it doesn’t appear to be caused by stress. Itsuki simply enjoys the taste of food much more than her sisters. Surprisingly, this omake page reveals that the girls have a combined weight of 250 kg. The series’ official Twitter also places Itsuki’s weight at 55.6 kg. By running some simple math, Itsuki is revealed to be roughly 7 kg heavier than her sisters, so all that food is going somewhere. Despite the added weight, Itsuki is well within the healthy range for her age. Leave a Reply Made with • English • Español • Italiano • Deutsch © 2022 GoforQuiz. All rights reserved.	[]
The Power of Practicing Forgiveness The Power of Practicing Forgiveness Establish a new beginning with a refreshed outlook that can help you in your quest to release the past and embrace forgiveness. Have you ever spent sleepless nights tossing and turning continuously reminding yourself of something that has happened in the past? Holding onto feelings of anger, hurt, resentment and sadness can take both a physical and mental toll on our bodies. Although, cliché the power of forgiveness is not for the other person’s satisfaction it is for yours. According to the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, psychologists generally describe forgiveness as a, “conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.” Some of the harmful effects aligned with being unforgiving of others are depression, high blood pressure, muscle tension and an increased heart rate. It can also deeply affect our ability to enjoy and be present in the moment as well as striking down our confidence and creating a false sense of self. But possessing the strength and willpower to embrace forgiveness will not only reduce these harmful traits it can also create a renewed sense of hope, inner peace, gratitude and happiness. The practice of forgiveness is one of many crucial components to fully living a happy healthy lifestyle. Even if you were never offered the apology you once hoped for it maybe time to move forward but the only way to do so, is by letting go. Here are some ways to establish a new beginning with a refreshed outlook that can help you in your quest to release the past and embrace forgiveness. Don't go to sleep angry. To dwell on something for too long, often times grows into something much larger than it actually is. It’s important not to allow negative emotions to eat you up inside because receiving an adequate amount of uninterrupted sleep is necessary to your physical health. Acknowledge your growth from the experience. Consistently journaling your most coveted thoughts can aid in the process to grow, thrive and heal because the most essential relationship you can have is the one with yourself. Live in the moment instead of staying in the past. The power of forgiveness is a more energy-efficient alternative than the drain of holding onto a grudge. Although, letting go, is not easy in the end it is worth it to have peace of mind and the abundance to live, love and laugh without limitations. When you think of maintaining good health it is not solely limited to the body but also the mind and the power of forgiveness adds to the cultivation of positive emotions. By practicing and encouraging forgiveness as a daily habit it opens a clear path towards personal growth, emotional fulfillment, a positive outlook and serves as one of the key elements to a long lasting, well-balanced life. Another point to consider is that you may find yourself on the opposite end of the spectrum as the one seeking forgiveness. If you feel strongly about something you may have done or said to someone the best thing to do is speak up with sincerity, admit your wrongs with integrity and without making excuses. As the apologizer owning responsibility for a regrettable act is the most critical part of an apology. Coupled with a detailed explanation of what happened, expression of regret and a sincere promise or intention of some sort for the person you caused pain. In hopes all will be forgiven this will make for an authentic genuine apology. But at the end of the day, immediate forgiveness is not always guaranteed and just as you, others have the right to forgive in their own time. Enjoying this content?	[]
Infertility Overview Tips Infertility Overview Tips has been rated 3.1 out of 5 based on 117 ratings and 1 user reviews. How do hormones impact infertility? Hormonal Causes of Infertility • Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone (GnRH) • Follicle stimulating Hormone (FSH) • Luteinizing Hormone (LH) • Estrogen • Testosterone How are sperm and eggs produced? Stages of Conception Related to Infertility In both men and women, there are stages of conception which, if completed appropriately, lead to fertility and conception. These stages are distinct and precise, so if there are any anomalies, missed steps or interruptions, infertility can occur. In men, the stages of conception include: 1. Sperm is produced in the seminiferous tubules, which are lined with approximately 13 rows of baby sperm cells, in different stages of development. These baby sperm cells are called "stem" cells. 2. These stem cells being to divide to create "daughter" cells which will eventually mature into spermatocytes (sperm-at-oh-sites) or something like "toddler" sperm. This is in response to testosterone. 3. The "toddler sperm" will continue to mature to become spermatids (sperm-ah-tids) or "teenage" sperm. 4. The "teenage sperm" continue to mature to become adult sperm or spermatozoa (sperm-at-oh-zoh-uh), though they are not very mobile at this time. 5. The adult sperm are carried to the epididymis - tubes where they will develop defined heads and tails, and where they will be stored until needed. They can hold approximately 440 million sperm. 6. There are 6 distinct parts to that maturation of sperm, which take a total of 74 days to complete. In women, there are also specific stages in conception: 1. Women are born with all of the eggs or ova that they will ever have, these eggs are stored in the ovaries, in an immature state, and number approximately 400, 000 at time of puberty. 2. In response to a hormone called "follicle-stimulating hormone" or FHS, the ovary begins to mature about 20 ova, inside small follicles in the ovary. This process stimulates the production of estrogen. 3. As the estrogen level rises, it signals the uterus to begin reproducing the cells in its lining, in preparation for receiving an ova. 4. A third hormone, called luteinizing (loo-tin-eye-zing) hormone or LH, then encourages the ripening of the follicle, and stimulates it to rupture, to release the mature ova. 5. The mature ova travels into the fallopian (fuh-lo-pee-an) tube, where it hopes to become fertilized. Fertilization must occur within 72 hours of release, or the ova will die. 6. If fertilized, when it reaches the uterus, it will attach to the wall of the uterus and being to divide, creating a fetus. If it is not fertilized, it will reach the wall, the wall will recognize the hormonal signature of non-fertilization, and the lining of the uterus will shed, causing a "period." As you can see, the stages of conception involve many complex steps that, if one step is altered, can result in infertility. Your Infertility Specialist can evaluate you to determine if there are errors or alterations in your stages of conception which are preventing pregnancy. Why do I feel inadequate because I have fertility problems? Psychological Impact of Infertility Common feelings associated with infertility can include: • Guilt • Depression • Frustration and anger • Feelings in inadequacy Emotional Contributors to Infertility There are myriad contributors to infertility, and some of them can be effectively managed with medications and surgical interventions, however there are some causes of infertility that cannot be addressed with a pill or a scalpel. Emotions play a huge role in our overall well-being. Whether we are angry, depressed, anxious, exhilarated or content, our bodies respond to these feelings with internal changes that can include: • altered blood flow • constriction or relaxation of muscles • constriction or relaxation of blood vessels • release of hormones and regulatory chemicals • changes in brain wave patterns What causes infertility? Causes of Infertility There are a myriad of medical conditions that can contribute to infertility - a common condition that affects both men and women. For women, health conditions such as poly-cyctic ovarian disease - a condition where the ovary grows cysts which interfere with normal ovary function, history of sexually transmitted diseases and structural problems within the female organs, can prevent conception. In men, low sperm count, structural problems within the male organs, hormonal problems, and the inability to achieve erection contribute to male fertility problems. In some cases, it is both the man and the woman who have medical conditions that are contributing to the difficulty in conception, and it is the role of the medical practitioner to assess each of the potential causes, and find ways to overcome them. What is the definition of infertility? Defining Infertility In the medical community, the term "infertility" means the inability to conceive children within one year if the woman is under 35 years of age, or within 6 months of the woman is over 35. It does not define whether the inability is related to the man or the woman. It also does not explain the reason for the infertility, only that conception is not possible. There is, however, a concern among health care professionals who treat infertility, that there is no consistent definition. Some reference it as a "condition," while others refer to it as a "disease." Practitioners in the field of treating infertility feel that the most reasonable definition must include 1) infertility is a disease of both men and women and 2) that it results in the inability to conceive a child, or to carry a pregnancy to term. Regardless of how you define it, infertility affects both men and women, and impacts not only physical health, but also psychological well-being of those affected by it. How does the structure of my reproductive organs impact fertility? Structural Causes of Infertility For women, some structural causes of infertility can include: • blocked cervix - prevents passage of sperm into the uterus • missing testes - impairs ability to produce sperm What are some external causes of infertility? External Causes of Infertility Since infertility affects both men and women, it is reasonable that there are many different causes. The majority of these causes are internal, such as structural problems within the reproductive organs, while others are related to external factors. Some of the more common external factors related to infertility include: • trauma to the genitals or pelvis • surgical complications or incidents • acquired infections • chemicals or medications Trauma to the genital organs or pelvis can be caused by straddle injuries, car accidents or falls that result in pelvic fractures, kick injuries to the groin, assaults and even sports injuries. Injuries that can occur as a result of trauma, include, but may not be limited to: • torn or crushed ducts • bruising, swelling and edema of the scrotum and testicles • nerve injuries from crushing of the groin tissues • lacerations/tears of the external genitalia which can cause scarring and impede sexual relations • lacerations/tears of the fallopian tubes or uterus • stab or bullet injuries to the scrotum or uterus Surgical complications which can decrease fertility include: • accidental severing of pelvic nerves • accidental tearing or severing of blood vessels in the pelvis, leading to the reproductive organs • surgery related scarring (adhesions) which cause blockages in tubes and ducts • post-surgical infections of the internal genital organs • hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding) which results in emergent removal of reproductive organs Acquired infections can include: • sexually transmitted diseases: chlamydia, syphilis or gonorrhea which can cause scarring, inflammation and tissue death • peritonitis - infection in the abdominal/pelvic cavity usually following surgery or rupture of an organ (appendix) • pelvic inflammatory disease, in women, which can cause scarring of the fallopian tubes • urethritis - infection of the urethra usually in men, which can cause erectile problems Chemical or medication causes of infertility can include: exposure to heavy metals or environmental poisons, and some prescription medications such as high blood pressure medication, antidepressants and narcotics, all of which can effect libido, erection, sperm and ova production and the ability to carry a fetus to term. Though the internal causes of infertility may be more numerous, we cannot forget to examine the external causes, as well, to best assess and address infertility. Talk to your Infertility Specialist about other causes of infertility and the best way to treat them. Why do people questions couples who don't have children? Social Perceptions of Infertility Within most societies, there is an expectation that when people marry, or become a couple, children will soon follow. Society, in general, expects couples to reproduce in order to maintain both population and social status. In many countries, children are needed to help support the family, assist with farm labor and, sadly, to replace children who have died due to prevalent disease. When couples do not have children, those around them may question their relationship, or motives, for not conceiving. For couples who wish to have children and cannot do so, due to infertility, the situation becomes more than simply a social one. Questions by friends, family and others, produce not only pain, but embarrassment, as if infertility were a choice, rather than a medical disease. And these questions are sometimes hard to respond to, with understanding and without anger or frustration. Though community education about infertility, and the growing societal awareness about the disease, is making strides in limiting the sometimes prejudicial impressions voiced by those who cannot understand the pain of infertility, it still requires the couple dealing with infertility, to provide education to family and friends about the impact of the condition, and of the questions. Guru Spotlight Phyllis Serbes	[]
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Worked in Ireland, UK, Germany, Austria or Netherlands? Transfer your social and health contributions U1/E104 form to certify your social and health insurance in Ireland and the UK u1/e104 form to sertify social and health insurance icon The U1 Form certifies the periods of social insurance and employment in the UK and Ireland and the E104 Form certifies the periods of health insurance when transferring health contributions between these countries and any other country in the EU or EEA (or Switzerland). Under EC Regulations, if you leave any of these countries to live and/or work in another country, you may be entitled to receive unemployment, sickness or maternity benefits in any EU, EEA country (or Switzerland) you are moving to. This will be taken into account when calculating your unemployment benefit in your destination country. It is also an excellent way to protect your social and health contributions and connect them to your country of permanent residence. Important: If you wish to apply for a U1/E104 Form for the UK or Ireland, you must have ceased employment and left that country. During the past three years you were employed in the UK for 12 months. So long as you were insured (employed) in an EU member state for an additional 12 months, social Insurance shall, on the basis of form U1, acknowledge the period of insurance abroad. The total period of insurance is thus two years. You can apply for the U1/E104 Form for Ireland or the UK as long as you have ceased employment and left that country. We will secure your U1/E104 forms for only €48 Get Started	[]
Back-To-Back Life Sentences Definition and Legal Meaning On this page, you'll find the legal definition and meaning of Back-To-Back Life Sentences, written in plain English, along with examples of how it is used. What is Back-To-Back Life Sentences? (n) The term ‘Back To Back’ is used to represent imposing of two life term punishments on a person for different crimes committed by him, where by one punishment takes away any leniency available in the punishment term of the other. Eg Parole possible on one punishment term is stopped by the act of the other concurrent punishment.	[]
“moroumo” is the name of a famous street food from my hometown, but not the official name, just created by me. I have worked as software development engineer for years in some big (really big) companies. I’m creating my projects and trying to fulfill my experience and knowledge. Hope the project list can get longer. Nobody knows.	[]
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The evolving arsenal against mosquito-borne diseases August 2, 2022 - 8 minutes Image/Elena Resko This article was originally published in November 2020 and has since been updated with the latest in biotechs fighting mosquito-borne diseases. Genetic engineering is breaking new ground in the control of mosquito-borne diseases. However, a genetic engineering approach isn’t the only option, as many biotech companies aim to prove. As the global climate continues to warm, disease-spreading mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti are expected to establish themselves in the U.S. and Europe. This could result in explosive outbreaks of debilitating mosquito-borne infections such as dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya. At the same time, some of the most effective control methods, chemical insecticides, are starting to lose the fight against insecticide resistance. The U.K. company Oxitec, owned by the U.S. firm Third Security, is making big headlines lately for its efforts to prevent mosquito-borne infections. Earlier this year, the company launched the next phase of U.S. pilot studies studying the effectiveness of its A. aegypti mosquito strain that is designed to reduce wild populations. Oxitec does this by releasing genetically altered males into the affected area, which mate with wild females to produce offspring. If the offspring is male, it survives to mate again. But if the offspring is female, it dies straight away, reducing the wild population while also limiting the spread of the death-causing gene. This is just part of Oxitec’s strategy though. Of the surviving male offspring, one half carries the lethal gene, while the other half carries genes that make the insects vulnerable to insecticides. So not only can the wild mosquito population contract, but it could also become less resistant to common chemical control methods. Content continues below Related Content “This is the first insect-based solution built specifically to provide targeted mosquito suppression with simplicity, scalability and economic sustainability, further unlocking the benefits of biological public health solutions for governments, communities and other end-users,” said Nathan Rose, head of regulatory affairs at Oxitec. According to one trial in Brazil, these mosquitoes delivered in egg form cut local mosquito populations by 95%, so they could go a long way in tackling the problem of dengue and other diseases. But one of the snags of this technology is that it relies on using genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In Europe, the use of GMOs is strictly controlled, so companies using this approach would have a hard time complying with the regulations. In regions more open to GMOs such as the U.S., there are still vocal opponents. Oxitec has often worked amid negative publicity from activists, with occasional comparisons made between Oxitec’s project and the classic science fiction movie Jurassic Park. To get around this drawback, many organizations and companies aim to control mosquito-borne diseases without the use of genetic engineering. Keeping the insects, losing the diseases One key example of a non-GMO approach in controlling mosquito-borne diseases is the global non-profit World Mosquito Program. The program produces and releases into the wild a strain of Aedes mosquito that is infected with a bacterial genus called Wolbachia. Mosquitoes infected with these bacteria — which are harmless to humans — don’t die; the insects simply transmit fewer common mosquito-borne infections such as dengue. Recently, this Wolbachia approach seems to have made a major breakthrough. In 2021, researchers revealed that the approach had sliced dengue transmission by 77% in regions of the city Yogyakarta in Indonesia. Content continues below Related Content oxitec dengue “This is a conservative estimate as the reduction would likely have been greater if the whole city had received the intervention,” said Nicholas Jewell, a biostatistician at the University of California, U.S., who carried out the statistics of the study. “The result is extremely promising for reducing or eliminating dengue across the world.” A bonus of this approach is that Wolbachia are transmitted from mother mosquitoes to their offspring, and it could remain in the mosquito populations for at least a decade. In contrast, common insecticides usually need reapplication at least once a year. Though promising, a drawback of this approach is that the researchers have to inject the bacteria into mosquito eggs, a process that isn’t easy to scale. To help with this, the initiative aims to bring in assistance from the private sector. “Scaling up production of enough mosquitoes to meet demand is our biggest challenge,” said Dale Amtsberg, senior media & PR advisor at the World Mosquito Program. “We have partnered with French insect production startup InnovaFeed to help take our mosquito production to an industrial scale.” Releasing sterile males without genetic modifications Our neighborhood hero Wolbachia has other applications besides simply reducing the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. The U.S. company MosquitoMate specializes in using the bacteria as an effective insecticide. To do this, MosquitoMate releases Wolbachia-infested male Aedes mosquitoes into the target region. Here, they mate with wild females, which don’t naturally carry Wolbachia bacteria and can’t produce offspring with the Wolbachia-infested males. This thus reduces the wild population. “Essentially it punishes any female insect in the population that doesn’t have the bacteria,” explained Stephen Dobson, the founder of MosquitoMate. The Israeli company Forrest Innovations is using a method called gene silencing to control mosquito populations. The firm sterilizes mosquitoes using RNA molecules that block specific genes involved in fertility. It then selects the sterile male mosquitoes and releases them to compete with wild males and reduce the population numbers. According to a 2021 study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Forrest Innovation’s males, which were released in a trial area in Brazil, reduced dengue cases by a factor of more than 13. “Most importantly, when the mosquitoes are released into the environment, they have no detectable residues of treatment and are therefore ‘natural’ and sterile,” said Nitzan Paldi, CEO of Forrest Innovations. While the sterilization approaches of MosquitoMate and Forrest Innovations may be palatable for GMO opponents, Oxitec noted that they require laborious preparations for release. Oxitec’s latest GM mosquitoes are designed to be delivered in egg form, which may be easier to handle, deliver and release. “Both also rely on complex and expensive mechanical sex-sorting technology to separate female mosquitoes from male mosquitoes before release,” said Rose. “This is likely to make these technologies more expensive and hamper accessibility in areas not in the vicinity of large adult mosquito production units.” Pumping up a mosquito’s appetite and sex drive Instead of releasing its own mosquitoes, the Swedish startup Molecular Attraction aims to manipulate the behavior of insects that are already in the wild. One of the company’s programs for controlling mosquitoes is a chemical cocktail that makes a liquid completely irresistible to female mosquitoes. This kind of chemical is called a phagostimulant. According to one of the founders of Molecular Attraction, Lech Ignatowicz, this cocktail uses similar chemicals to what malaria parasites use when they are in the human bloodstream and want mosquitoes to take them to another human host. “Our co-founder — Noushin Emami — discovered that the malaria parasite releases a new type of phagostimulant — HMBPP — and a mix of volatile smells to attract and enhance feeding on malaria-infected individuals,” Ignatowicz explained. “Thanks to HMBPP and the accompanying smells, we can force female mosquitoes to drink a water solution containing a trace amount of toxin.” Another chemical blend under development by Molecular Attraction fires up the mosquitoes’ sex drive, which could speed up mosquito-release projects like the ones run by Oxitec, MosquitoMate, Forrest Innovations and the World Mosquito Program. A key advantage of Molecular Attraction’s approach is that it could be a more specific weapon against mosquitoes than conventional insecticide techniques, and leave other insects unharmed. The firm aims to have its products tested and approved in the coming years. Mosquito-borne disease control going forward While there is a wide variety of biotechnology in development to tackle mosquito-borne diseases, it’s mainly at an early stage of development, or at a small scale. There is a comparative lack of big trials showing the effect of non-insecticide mosquito interventions, such as Oxitec’s high-profile technology. “It can be very effective,” said Ignatowicz. “That said, we don’t really know how cost-effective and safe it will be. It’s an ingenious technology, but without large-scale trials it’s hard to predict the outcome.” In the next decade or so, many company leaders in this field see the anti-mosquito toolbox growing, and GMOs could be part of it. “The key thing is that we, as human beings, need new tools,” Dobson said. “The insecticides, the chemicals that we’ve been using; the insects are developing resistance to them… Actually we’re getting fewer chemicals because many of them are being pulled off the shelves.” It remains crucial to focus on limiting the potential ecological damage of new treatments. New biotech methods, both GMO and non-GMO, could prove better than insecticides at preserving insects that aren’t the intended targets. Additionally, even the mosquitoes themselves will need protection in many cases. “What we need to remember is that mosquito populations should not be completely eliminated just because they carry diseases,” noted Ignatowicz. “Mosquitoes are an important part of the ecosystem and they act as pollinators and food sources. They have their rightful place in the ecosystem.” You might also be interested in the following:	[]
Well, this is the first time I’ve played a broken game this year, with that game being Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising. The game launches and plays just fine, up until I get into the actual gameplay. Once in control, the fps stutters and makes the game unplayable for me, hovering around 2-5fps, sometimes shooting up to 15. It also constantly freezes whenever I move the cursor. I tried downgrading my graphics drivers (I use beta drivers), but that didn’t solve anything. I even updated my BIOS, as that had solved an fps issue in MW3 back in the day. I see that others are able to play, but I’m just not able to and cannot pinpoint the cause. The game’s concept is nice, although the graphics are dated, but its a port of an old game, so that should be expected. This also applies to the animation and character models, which are actually quite amusing.	[]
Skip navigation Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Full metadata record DC FieldValueLanguage dc.contributor.advisorMassey, Douglas- dc.contributor.authorGuerci, Eric- dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates how the United States public education system responded to the historic disruption that the coronavirus pandemic posed when it arrived on American shores in the spring of 2020. I do so by asking what experiences school systems provided when they transitioned away from brick-and-mortar classrooms in spring 2020, and how they operated their learning enterprise in the fall 2020 semester. I then try to discover why districts across America exhibited different levels of success transitioning to spring virtual learning and fall in-person reopening by probing the relationship between the opportunities that school systems afforded their students in the pandemic’s aftermath and various dimensions of school quality before the pandemic. To frame these questions, I review the existing evidence on previous uses of virtual learning to reveal mixed outcomes that point towards the potential for innovative programming but mostly uphold advantages for high-achieving students while failing to meet the needs of their underperforming peers. I then introduce the District Transition Score (DTS) as a novel index of virtual learning quality in school districts during the spring semester. I find that districts that are urban, less impoverished, and offer more student supports demonstrated significantly more success when transitioning to spring online learning. Finally, my outcome of interest shifts to whether schools remained fully online, opened fully in-person, or offered a hybrid model when they began the fall school year—with a particular eye towards political influences on this choice. Results suggest that more poverty, higher achievement, more resources, higher proportions of white residents, higher proportions of registered Republicans, and rural status all significantly increase the odds that a district opened with some in-person components. The thesis concludes with a brief policy framework for how schools can return to America’s students what the pandemic stole from them.en_US dc.titleReady or Not, Here It Comes: American School Districts’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemicen_US dc.typePrinceton University Senior Theses pu.departmentPrinceton School of Public and International Affairsen_US Appears in Collections:Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, 1929-2022 Files in This Item: File Description SizeFormat GUERCI-ERIC-THESIS.pdf1.14 MBAdobe PDF Request a copy	[]
How To Make Homemade Laffy Taffy If you’re looking for a delicious and fun treat, look no further than homemade laffy taffy! This recipe is easy to follow and only requires a few simple ingredients. Laffy taffy is perfect for parties or any other special occasions. How To Make Homemade Laffy Taffy 1. Combine sugar, corn syrup, and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until the sugar dissolves. 2. Raise the heat to high and bring to a boil. Do not stir. 3. Insert a candy thermometer and cook until the mixture reaches 248 degrees F (120 degrees C). 4. Remove from the heat and let cool for 1 minute. Add the flavoring and food coloring, if desired. 5 The ingredients you will need for Laffy Taffy are: corn syrup, sugar, water, food coloring, flavoring (optional), and salt. You will also need a candy thermometer to make sure the mixture reaches the correct temperature, wax paper to wrap the taffy in, and a sharp knife to cut it. • Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil. do not stir • In a saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and water. cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved Some things you will need in order to make your own laffy taffy include: -A candy thermometer -A large pot -A spoon -Parchment paper -A baking sheet -A wire rack -A small bowl -Laffy Taffy wrappers (optional) The first step is to line your baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside. Next, combine the sugar Frequently Asked Questions Is Laffy Taffy Safe? Laffy Taffy is a type of candy that is made from corn syrup, sugar, water, artificial flavors, and food colorings. It is generally considered safe to eat. However, it may not be safe for people with food allergies to some of the ingredients. What Ingredients Are In Laffy Taffy? Laffy Taffy is a chewy, sweet candy that is typically made with corn syrup, sugar, water, gelatin, citric acid, flavorings, and food coloring. What Makes Taffy Chewy? The sugar and starch in taffy make it chewy. To Summarize Laffy Taffy is a fun and easy candy to make at home. The recipe is simple, and the ingredients are affordable and easy to find. Laffy Taffy can be customized with any flavors you like, and it makes a great gift or party favor. Leave a Comment	[]
Last of the Irin - CoverIn ancient Aramaic, the word, Irin, either means 'guards' or 'watchers', and generally signifies 'the angels' that were left behind to keep an eye on us until our masters returned. Or should I say, until our Gods returned? Well, to find out, please check out the following QnA I had with the author, Wildfry, who's written an epic online graphic novel, called… 'Last of the Irin'. TFAW comics, subscriptions, service 1) Name three words that best describe who you are? I'd say, seeker, lover, and fool. Last of the Irin - 1 2) What inspired you to write, 'Last of the Irin'? I have a desire to wrap life's bitter truths in a sweet coating of sex, violence, humor, and excitement. 3) In your own words, please tell us about this story? Well, in simple terms, this story attempts to answer one very important question... why did the Gods leave us? When it was previously documented that they were going to be present in the Old World until the 6th century BC, and then in the New World until the 15th century AD! I mean, what's keeping them away? Will they ever return? And what's going to happen to humanity in the meantime? I would also like you to know that 'Last of the Irin' is a contemporary adventure that revolves around a beautiful, young Messiah who's trying to save us from ourselves. Saying so, while keeping in mind that the overall narrative is steeped in historically accurate data and set in a sci-fi interplanetary landscape. Last of the Irin - 2 4) What song best represents this saga and why? To answer this question, I'd like to select the Peter Gabriel song, 'Solsbury Hill', because as the song and my story suggests, the truth is sometimes hard to believe, but it can set you free by casting you aside. Last of the Irin - 3 5) If you could get a celebrity - either living or dead - to promote your wares, who would you choose and why? I'd like to choose the 'uncelebrated engine' behind that drunken self-promoter, Alexander the Great. His name was Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemy, and he was an ancient Greek mathematician that's largely been forgotten by history, despite building an empire, a religion, and a storehouse of knowledge. He also managed to defeat his enemies by turning them against each other, just like the heroine of 'Last of the Irin'. Whereas Alexander, on the other hand, died in an alcoholic spiral of jealousy and hate, but for some strange reason, currently remains an idol of history. A false idol of history. 6) During your time in this field, what is the one thing that has kept you in good stead? I always try to collaborate with good, creative, people who are very different from myself, because I believe the 'creative tension' born between two opposing ideologies can produce great and enjoyable work. And on that note, I'd like to thank Wildfry for telling us about his online graphic novel, 'Last of the Irin', before encouraging you to check out his official Website, Facebook, and Instagram pages in order to find out about his printed editions (the first pages of the third volume have just been released). LAST OF THE IRIN - WHERE HAVE ALL THE GODS GONE? LAST OF THE IRIN - WHERE HAVE ALL THE GODS GONE? Reviewed by David Andrews on September 01, 2021 Rating: 5 No comments: Comic Books Section TV Store Online Powered by Blogger.	[]
Trying to reduce gas consumption? Drivers of the 2010 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids will be assisted by a Smart Gauge that screams instructions like a panicked driver’s ed teacher shows, among other things, multiplying green leaves as drivers drive more fuel-efficiently. Ford will also improve how far the cars can go on electricity alone, estimating that they could cover some 700 miles on a single tank of gas.	[]
This Sunday’s poem of the week is: Go There I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “Go There”. Go There When hurt and sorrow rise and the news of the day inveigles with its scandalised dispairs, I retreat to my lair, where the tall trees sway in waiting for me, brushing the sky with their leaves; where the stream breaks over the stones, knowing how to flow without straining forward in fear; where above me, secret stars, veiled in the light of day, know just how much we need nighttime to see. There, in the greening spirit of trees, under the blue dream dome of the sky, by the winged babble of water, I hear myself sigh, as I fall into grace, and fly free. To receive award-winning poetry hot off the presses, become a poetry patron on Patreon (just £2 a month). Register here.	[]
BY answering a simple How To Respond A Wedding Invitation RSVP (Parte Two) Wedding Stationery Etiquette Normally Cheap Wedding Invitations should cover this information: Who is invited Type of event, in this case, a wedding Who the wedding couple is Date and time Location and map or instructions if needed Response manner and the time limit, such as by return mail, phone call or email, by a certain date. Write a annotation to accept or decline if there is no response card. It is composed on nice, giant plain paper in ink. In this case, it could say something to the effect: Mr. and Mrs. Happy guest except with pleasure your Wedding Invite for Saturday, the twelfth of March at one o’clock in the afternoon. Know that response cards are usually pre-printed and begin with wording similar to this: The favour of a reply is requested before the ninth of April. Then there will be a capital letter, “M,” followed by a long blank line; and on another line, the words: I will attend, or will not attend. For example: M_________________ ___ will attend ___ will not attend. Fill it in like this: The M is the beginning of the word “Mr. and Mrs.” so begin with the “r” and then add your Mrs. or Ms., your husband’s first name and your last name. For example: M(r.) and Mrs. James Jameson. If you are a very modern couple, you can write: M(r.) Thom Jones and Ms. Anika Jones-Hillary. And finally, add a check to either the accept, or decline line. 36 1	[]
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clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile Filed under: Pro Football Focus Review: Giants vs. Jaguars Let's take a closer look at the latest laugher through the lens of Pro Football Focus Rob Foldy/Getty Images There were, surprisingly, some good things to be taken away from this game. Of course, the overarching matter was that the New York Giants have just lost their seventh straight game to the lowly 1-10 (well, now 2-10) Jacksonville Jaguars. We knew the season was over before this game. At the very least, we see some players emerging. No snark or salt from me this time. I'm trying to look at the bright side here! I Only Played 15 Snaps, But I Played Them Like A Boss (Offensive MVP) Henry Hynoski (+2.4) - That's right, he played only 15 snaps but he made them all count. In the early going, at least, Hynoski was blowing up holes for Rashad Jennings to run through. I thought I had seen him miss a key block on one run, but other than that, I agree with PFF's assessment. He played quite well. You Have Nothing To Fear (Offensive Contributor) Will Beatty (+2.1) - To the surprise (and probably disagreement) of many, Beatty had yet another good game. He allowed only three hurries on the day and he was a big reason for the run game succeeding going to the left. With each passing week, it seems like 2013 was the anomaly for him, not the other way around. It's why I simply don't understand calls for moving Beatty to the right side or worse, just replacing him altogether. His overall +12.5 grade on the season places him ninth among ALL tackles, left or right, in the league. The Repulsive Right Side Replacements (Offensive GOATS) J.D Walton (-5.9) John Jerry (-4.9) James Brewer (-3.2) Dallas Reynolds (-2.6) I'm putting all of these guys together because as a unit, once Geoff Schwartz (who had a positive PFF grade and was perfect in pass protection) went down, it became a complete and utter massacre. Together, these four guys played a total of 108 pass blocking snaps combined and allowed three QB sacks, a QB hit, and nine QB hurries. Walton was the biggest culprit but it went to show just how awful all were. Even worse, Walton and Jerry combined for a -7.5 run blocking grade, which at this point, should not be a surprise to anyone. I know Justin Pugh has been inconsistent, but anybody really want to disagree with the point that had Schwartz and Pugh been healthy for the game, the Giants win easily? Other Guys Who Stunk Up The Place (Offensive Villains) Larry Donnell (-2.0) - It's the same story with him. Fumbles and poor run blocking. There isn't much mystery to him. Great route runner, really soft hands, will make the occasional "wow" catch, but can't run block and can't protect the football. Preston Parker (-1.8) - A drop to go along with a line of 3 targets, 2 catches for 6 yards and a TD. Not exactly all that inspiring. 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Some Unusual Names (Defensive Villains) Chykie Brown (-2.5) - The newcomer struggled with Jaguar wide receivers Marqise Lee and Cecil Shorts II. Overall he allowed five catches on 8 targets for 41 yards and missed a few tackles, which explains his poor grade. Didn't do anything to stand out as a run defender to help his grade out, either. Robert Ayers (-1.8) - This one I think will change because I don't get it. He scored mostly negative for his pass rush, yet PFF has him down for five QB hurries on 26 pass rush snaps. He has a torn pectoral muscle which will end his season as one of the few bright spots on this defense. He ends his first season in New York with a final grade of +17.6 (4th in the league) and atop the NFL in pass rush productivity as a 4-3 DE nailing 46 pressures on only 235 total pass rush snaps. Spencer Paysinger (-1.1) - No surprise here as his run defense comes under fire. A lot of the successful runs that the Jaguars made came from Paysinger's side. 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Debate brawl: Rubio and Cruz go hard after Trump Posted at 5:39 PM, Feb 25, 2016 and last updated 2016-02-25 23:34:46-05 Brawling from the get-go, a fiery Marco Rubio went hard after Donald Trump in Thursday night's Republican debate, lacerating the front-runner's position on immigration, his privileged background, his speaking style and more. Ted Cruz piled on, too, questioning the front-runner's conservative credentials, as the two senators tag-teamed Trump in a debate that reflected the increasing urgency of their effort to take down the billionaire businessman before he becomes unstoppable. It was a rare night where the bombastic Trump found himself on the defensive. The two-hours-plus debate played out as a raucous night of tit-for-tat insults, with candidates shouting over one another so much that it was hard to follow at times. The showdown came just days before the Super Tuesday 11-state round of mega-voting that could all but lock up the nomination. When Trump faulted Rubio on a deal to buy a $179,000 house, the Florida senator shot back that if Trump "hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan." In another rough exchange, Rubio accused Trump of shifting his position on deportation, hiring people from other countries to take jobs from Americans and being fined for worker violations. Joining in, Cruz criticized Trump for suggesting he alone had "discovered the issue of illegal immigration." The candidates were pressed on why they haven't released their tax returns as promised. The GOP's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, suggested this week that Trump was holding back because there was a "bombshell" that would be revealed. Trump said he's been audited by the IRS every year and can't release his returns while that's going on. Rubio and Cruz both promised to release more of theirs in the next two days. Rubio was the principal aggressor of the night, and he held nothing back. Taking on Trump's declaration that he'd build a wall on the Mexican border, Rubio declared: "If he builds a wall the way he built Trump Tower he'll be using illegal immigration to do it." Trump, for his part, insisted that even though officials in Mexico have said they won't pay for his planned wall, "Mexico will pay for the wall." And he said that because Mexico's current and former presidents had criticized him on the issue, "the wall just got 10 feet taller." Trump, known for his frequent use of coarse and profane language on the campaign trail, scolded former Mexican President Vicente Fox for using a profanity in talking about Trump's plan for the wall. "He should be ashamed of himself and he should apologize," declared Trump. After Trump mocked Rubio for his "meltdown" in a previous debate when the Florida senator repeated rote talking points, Rubio swatted right back, scolding Trump for spouting the same five things over and over: "Everyone's dumb. He's going to make America great again. We're going to win, win, win. He's winning in the polls." Trump was hardly silent, responding to both Rubio and Cruz: "This guy's a choke artist and this guy's a liar. ... Other than that I rest my case." While Rubio was loaded for bear from the start, Cruz ramped up his criticism as the night wore on and argued that Trump wouldn't be an effective opponent against Hillary Clinton in the general election. The finger-pointing extended to foreign affairs, with Cruz saying of Trump's plans to negotiate a solution to the Mideast conflict, "He thinks Palestinians are a real estate deal." Making light of Cruz's repeated attempts to diminish him, Trump said: "Keep fighting, keep swinging, man, swing for the fences." There was this back-and-forth after one particularly heated exchange: Cruz to Trump: "Donald, relax." Trump to Cruz: "I'm relaxed. You're the basket case." The debate's location in Houston gave a nod to the primacy of Texas in the Super Tuesday voting: There are 595 delegates at stake, 155 in Texas. The debate audience included former President George H.W. Bush, 91, and his wife, Barbara — who missed out on the chance to see their son Jeb take part. He dropped out of the race after a poor showing in the first states to vote. The other two remaining candidates, Ben Carson and John Kasich, were largely left to watch the fireworks flying overhead. At one point, as the top three candidates mixed it up, Carson spoke up: "Can somebody attack me please." Later, he complained, "I didn't get asked about taxes, I didn't get asked about Israel." When all five were asked about North Korea's president, he said, "We should make sure that he knows that if he ever shoots a missile at us it'll be the last thing he does." Kasich, for his part, said he would try to find a way to effect regime change in North Korean but "perhaps the Chinese can actually accomplish that." Nancy Benac reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman in Washington, Will Weissert in Houston and Steve Peoples in Las Vegas contributed to this report.	[]
Gravity is not influenced by popular opinion. It just exists. Our preference has no effect on its properties. Many other principles in life hold true whether we like them or not. If we plant watermelon seeds we will not harvest corn or tomatoes. How we live our lives today determines to a great extent the quality of life we experience tomorrow. The Bible declares, “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7). Often that statement has ominous connotations, but the opposite is true too. If we sow love, peace, kindness, and gentleness into those around us, we will receive a beautiful crop in return. Prayer: Dear Lord, help is to be aware of what we are planting each day. Give us the grace and strength we need to consistently sow the right things. Devotion by Bonnie Peacock Comments are closed.	[]
I Stand with Alecia Pennington I Stand with Alecia Pennington February 11, 2015 I have spent some time reading Alecia Faith Pennington’s story. First, I watched her short video, which you can see below: For those of you who didn’t watch the video, Alecia explained that she doesn’t have a birth certificate or social security number, and can’t get either because her parents are refusing to cooperate. She further explained that without these documents she can’t get a driver’s license or a job, much less attend college or vote. I’d like to say I’m horrified, but I’m not, because I know people who have gone through similar situations. I know people who have had to work for years to get a birth certificate and social security number even with their parents’ help. My parents obtained the standard documentation for me, but I had friends for whom this was not the case. The parents of one girl I knew reversed course and got her her social security number when she was seventeen so that she could get a drivers license. I think they must not have realized how much not getting their daughter a social security number would curtail her options as she grew. Another girl I knew had to spend a year after high school getting her social security number, GED, and drivers license, but in her case, I’m pretty sure she started with an actual birth certificate. After watching Alecia’s video, I went to her mother’s blog. Oh boy. Alecia is nineteen and is the third of nine homeschooled children. Her two older siblings still live at home with her parents. When she left home last September and moved in with her grandparents, her mother wrote this on her blog: On Wednesday, September 24th my life was changed forever. My 18 year old daughter left home. She gave us no warning, no signs that it was coming. She didn’t try to talk to us about it or work with us. She, with the help of my parents, just left. And with her she took pieces of my heart that had been torn to shreds. I cried harder that day than I ever knew was possible. So hard that it scared my little boys and I had to go in my closet and put a pillow over my face to muffle the sobs. We have spent the past 11 days trying to make head or tails out of what happened. Why did she leave? How can we help her? What will happen next? We got no real answers. Only more confusion as some of the circumstances unfolded. We discovered that my parents had been planning this with her without telling us (as you can imagine, an additional part of my grief is not only the loss of my daughter but the total end of the relationship with my parents). We also learned that she has been telling exaggerated stories about what is going on inside our home to a godless woman who has been giving her foolish counsel and encouraging her to deceive us and get out. These decisions our daughter has made are unimaginable to me and completely out of character from the girl I know. The more I read of Alecia’s mother Lisa’s blog, the more familiar it all felt, down to the line about Alecia’s actions being “completely out of character from the girl I know.” The truth is, my mother thought she knew me, but she didn’t, because she only knew what I showed of myself, which is what she wanted to see. And when I started to stake out for myself who I was, she clung to a me that was gone, sure that it was the real one, unable to see that what she was holding onto was an echo. The sense of entitlement is there, too. My own mother believed that I was bound to obey my parents even after turning 18, because 18 was a made up number never imbued with any significance in the Bible. And besides, to my mother, “honor” meant “obey.” I wish I could tell Lisa that it is common for children to move out after they finish high school, and that her expectation that Alecia continue living with her is unreasonable. But then, I don’t think she’d listen. And besides, she likely places more importance on what she considers “godly” than on what is normal—normal is “worldly,” after all. As I read the comments on Alecia’s youtube video, I noticed a young man defending her parents, arguing that they are willing to give her the documentation she needs to prove citizenship . . . if she is willing to be respectful and cooperative, of course. Here is an excerpt from a post Lisa wrote last April on teenagers and privacy: The thing about teens needing privacy is…..it’s bunk. This is a “rule” of life that the teen just made up. Then society and psychology feeds it by telling them that they deserve it. I’m sorry, but it simply isn’t true. Yes, we all need times that we can be alone with our thoughts to figure out problems or rest or help a friend occasionally. But the idea that we should be able to keep secrets about what we are doing or planning or that kids should be allowed to hide their texts from their parents is pure craziness. . . . I know this seems harsh. I do think that a responsible, respectful teen should be able to have some private areas, as long as he knows that he is subject to being asked to share those places if a problem arises. The main point is that YOU decide where privacy is allowed and not. A young person does not yet have the wisdom, no matter how smart they are, to understand when that is necessary. They also do not carry the weight of the financial, emotional, legal, physical or spiritual responsibility if something serious happens as a result of their actions. You have every right to know what they are doing. As long as my children are doing their work, taking care of their things, being respectful and kind….I give them privacy. Although what’s funny is they don’t really feel the need for it as much if they aren’t trying to hide anything, which leads to me being happy to give it to them….the beautiful circle of trust. As I read that post, I got stuck on Lisa’s use of the word “respectful.” What does it mean for a child to be “respectful”? In my parents’ home, it meant to be subservient and obedient. Anything that was interpreted as “backtalk” or “sass” got you in big trouble very quickly, and that meant you had to be careful—and always ready to apologize and admit fault, even if you felt blameless. You get good at lying, because you have to—being honest about your feelings isn’t exactly an option. And since you’re homeschooled, there isn’t much space away from your parents. In another post on her blog, Lisa outlined her top parenting tips. They included this: 4. You Are in Charge Remember, you are the adult and you have wisdom and knowledge that a child does not have. If you allow them to manipulate you and convince you that they know better, you are doing them no favors. You are not perfect, but God has given you wisdom and your child needs to learn to trust that. Proverbs 22:15 “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.” And this: 9. No Arguing There is no time when arguing is acceptable. If you tell your child to do something, they should do it. If you say, “No, you may not buy a candy bar,” then they should accept that completely. Older children can appeal respectfully, as long as it is not too often. But begging, whining, complaining, moping, mumbling are all unacceptable. No exceptions. Proverbs 1: 8-9 “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” Don’t forget to read the verses listed under each point. I get that parents have more knowledge and life experience than their children, but this idea that they always know better than them is flat out false. There have been times when Sally tells me I need to stop yelling, or to stop bothering her, or what have you, and she’s been right. You know, those moments where her words prompt me to lift my head above the trees and reevaluate or reset my perspective for a moment. The idea that parents always know better than kids is horribly toxic. And yes, there are times when I as a parent have to be firm on a given issue—no, we are not going to the ice cream store after the library this time, we haven’t had supper and have to get home—but this idea that children should never be allowed to question something, or to say “I’ll be there in a moment, let me finish what I’m doing”—this idea is so incredibly harmful. As a child, I was very precocious, and not being allowed to speak my mind or at least give input, or explain why I disagreed with something—let’s just say I spent more of my childhood feeling gagged than any child should have to. And again with the undefined and incredibly loaded word “respectful.” Lisa says she has no idea why Alecia left home after turning 18. To me, that suggests that she didn’t listen, that she didn’t know Alecia, that she wasn’t open to knowing her. It suggests that she didn’t give Alecia the room she needed to explain, or to be herself, or to breathe. Ironically, in a post about mothers and daughters, Lisa’s number one tip is to listen. But then, all of that listening is to a purpose—preparing daughters for godly womanhood. While I do teach my four daughters the womanly arts (cooking, sewing, etc.), this is only the tip of the iceberg of womanhood. To be a godly woman requires understanding submission, being meek, courageous and feminine. . . . God gives clear direction in His Word about who women are and we should embrace that. My girls understand that they can have dreams and visions of their own based on the talent God gave them. But they also need to be prepared to merge those dreams with a husband’s dreams someday and learn ways to adapt. Spend time helping your girls learn to serve others and sacrifice their needs without losing hope. And what if one of her daughters wasn’t content with that? What if one of her daughters didn’t want to embrace submission? What if one of her daughters wasn’t happy embracing the role she was laying out for her? Did Lisa even consider that? Listening doesn’t do much good when it’s a tool to an end, and not an end in itself. How is it that women like Lisa, or my own mother, can be so convinced they are showing only love and acceptance—and listening—while children like myself or Alecia feel smothered and unheard? Do they not realize that listening isn’t going to work if they make only one set of feelings and ideas acceptable? Do they really think their daughters will be comfortable voicing dissent from the family line when being “respectful” means being obedient—and being “respectful” is mandatory? Oh, and there’s something else, too. Lisa claims that she is willing to listen to her daughter, but that Alecia refuses to tell her what’s really going on. I wonder if Lisa realizes, first, that she’s still not actually listening, and second, that it can be difficult to speak your mind after years and years of knowing that disagreeing with the party line will only getting you in trouble. In other words, simply declaring that you are open and listening is not enough. And furthermore, your child is not obligated to speak just because you declare you are listening. In a situation like this, saying you are listening does not de facto give you the high ground. Indeed, in a situation like this, saying you are listening is often a way to gain sympathy and support from other likeminded parents as you portray yourself as the good, self-sacrificing parent, and your young adult child as wayward and misled. Think Chris Jeub for a moment. The parent’s claims that they are ready and willing to take the child back are often nothing more than a way to grab at that high ground and portray the child as ungrateful and rebellious. In situations like these, being taken back always comes with conditions—and those conditions are rarely, if ever, worth it. And yet, in this way we are portrayed as the unreasonable ones. But we are not unreasonable. We are free, thank you very much. Note: The relevant Pennington Point articles appear to be disappearing as we speak. Thank goodness for the wayback machine! Also, it appears that Alecia’s father has bought www.helpmeproveit.com to ensure that she can’t use to raise awareness of her situation. Alecia’s mother commented on a facebook share of her video, claiming that the video was “untrue.” But when other commenters asked her what facts the video had wrong, she failed to respond. "Lol I’m trying to convince her." A Blogger’s Farewell A Blogger’s Farewell A Blogger’s Farewell "DRONE RIOTS! Production has ceased." A Blogger’s Farewell Browse Our Archives Close Ad	[]
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The healthcare industry is a prime target of hackers. The importance of cybersecurity in healthcare is an essential consideration for all organizations handling patient data. Be aware of the latest numbers; read our article on the latest Healthcare Cybersecurity Statistics. Healthcare Cybersecurity Statistics from breaches on medical and healthcare organizations Healthcare Data Breaches, By the Numbers 1. 89% of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach in the past two years. Despite the sophisticated measures put in place by providers to prevent data breaches, they are still common. (Source: Dizzion). 2. A Mid-Horizon study concluded that approximately 100 percent of web applications connected to critical health information is vulnerable to cyber attacksNetwork penetration results also showed that hackers could easily access domain level admin privileges of most healthcare applications. As a result, the use of advanced technologies such as block-chain and cloud computing is necessary to ward off such attacks in the future. (Source). 3. It is estimated that the loss of data and related failures will cost healthcare companies nearly $6 trillion in damages in the next three years compared to $3 trillion, in 2017. From a statistical point of view, it is the most significant transfer of wealth in human history. If proper security measures are not taken, experts believe that cybercrime can have a devastating financial impact on the healthcare sector in the next four to five years. (Source). 4. 82% of surveyed healthcare organizations agree that digital security is one of their foremost concerns. (Source: Health IT Security) 5. 55% of healthcare companies in the United States faced cyber attacks. Almost one-fifth confirmed that they had been attacked in the last 12 months. (Source). Note: Learn more about data breaches in our guide What Is a Data Breach. Healthcare Ransomware Statistics Ransomware has brought many a healthcare organization to its knees. It is likely to remain one of the most prominent threats of 2019 and beyond. Despite increasing awareness among healthcare professionals, the number of ransomware attacks continues to grow. 6. Ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector will quadruple by 2020. Attackers like to attack the healthcare sector due to the potential value of such data. The healthcare sector is prone to paying the ransom because the disruption, lost productivity, and damage to the data can be more expansive than preventing the loss by paying the ransom. (Source: Herjavec Group Healthcare Report) 7. As of 2018, the number of ransomware families dropped from 98 to only 28. However, there were 350 different variants of ransomware observed in 2018 compared to 241 in the previous years. It means that ransom-takers are using more sophisticated tactics to hack into vulnerable systems. (Source) 8. Healthcare organizations are more willing to pay ransom to avoid downtime and gain access to critical patient data. It is estimated that 23 percent of healthcare organizations paid some form of payment to the attackers. The healthcare industry is vulnerable because it uses legacy systems that are mostly out-dated and vulnerable to attacks. (Source: Infosecurity Magazine) 9. Organizations that handle healthcare data that fail to update their systems may face grave consequences in the future. The majority of healthcare ransomware attacks were malware related. Of the 2,600 incidents reported, 36 percent were malware related followed by accidental disclosure in 26 percent of the cases. (Source: Beazley Breach Briefing) Implementation of Advanced Security Technologies To Fight Back 10. The nature of cybersecurity spending in the healthcare sector varies significantly due to the specific requirements of organizations. A majority of companies are spending their budgets on network security and investing in mobile protection measures. Another 51% are also spending on advanced technologies that will make data on the move more secure during data transfers. (Source: HIPPA Journal) 11. A large number of healthcare firms are migrating to a cloud-based solution. Despite the safety as their prime concern, 25% of the firms suggest that they are not encrypting their information during data transfer to the cloud. 38% of firms that have data in a multi-cloud environment such as Amazon Web Service does not use encrypted technology. (Source: Hytrust) 12. 60% of healthcare organizations globally have introduced IoT devices into their facilities. The Internet of Things has seen an exponential rise in the use of IoT enabled devices in a range of fields. Wearable and implantable IoT devices are already widely used in healthcare, including insulin level monitors to pacemakers. (Source: Statista) Cybersecurity IT Talent: Human Weakness We tend to think of cybersecurity as a system of digital checks and balances. But while this is important, organizations should still consider the human component. Even if you’re spending heavily on automated systems, it means little if you don’t have the right people to implement and manage them. 13. 42% of healthcare organizations leave their cybersecurity in the hands of a vice president or C-level official (Source: Chime). 14. 39% report their biggest challenge when it comes to implementing cyber defenses is the lack of qualified employees (Source: HIPAA Journal). 15. 37% say that less than 1 in 4 candidates are skilled enough to keep their companies secure (Source: Health IT Security). 16. Cybersecurity requires specific knowledge and skills to secure and combat attacks. Often, these skills are not easy to find as 27 percent of healthcare firms reported that they are unable to find suitable candidates to fulfill cybersecurity roles. Another 14 percent suggested that they are not sure if they will be able to fill vacant positions. The ISACA State of Cyber Security Report also concluded that 45 percent of firms don’t think that their applicants understand the nature of their job (Source). 17. If the budget doesn’t restrict healthcare firms to improve their security, the complexity of the system does. 53 percent of the healthcare firms surveyed revealed that complexity of healthcare systems is the major issue holding them back. Healthcare systems can be complicated as lack of experienced and knowledgeable staff to handle such complex systems is another significant concern, cited by 39 percent of firms (Source: Thales Data Threat Report). 18. For small and medium-sized healthcare firms, cloud adaption is a haven from cyber attacks. Despite the early adaption of cloud-based technology by the healthcare sector, nearly 40 percent of these organizations do not have a dedicated staff that can deal with cloud-based problems. Without a dedicated team, small healthcare organizations can face threats while operating in a cloud environment. (Source: HIPPA Journal) 19. The most significant internal cybersecurity threats to healthcare are often high-ranking officials and senior staff who have deep access to the system. A whopping, 61 percent cited senior-level executives as a potential security loophole that can be vulnerable to cyber threats. Similarly, privileged users, such as executive managers, contractors, and service providers, are potential targets for hackers and cybercriminals. (Source: HIPPA Journal) 20. 59% of healthcare organizations get at least five applications for each cybersecurity job, while 13% receive 20 or more. While these healthcare security statistics make for sobering reading, there is some good news. The right candidates do appear to be out there. (Source: Health IT Security). 21. 54% of healthcare associates say their biggest problem is employee negligence in the handling of patient information (Source: Ponemon Study). Healthcare Companies are Fighting Back 21. Healthcare organizations are taking cyber security seriously as 62 percent of companies have reported that a Vice President is in charge of cybersecurity issues. 41 percent of organizations are in the process of implementing a fully functional security program to address critical problems. (Source: Health IT Security) 22. Recent attacks on healthcare have prompted healthcare companies to increase their cybersecurity budgets from a maximum of 10 percent to almost 25 percent, in 2018. The increase in the budget is correlated to an increase in hiring staff for a specific purpose. In 2016, eight percent of the healthcare companies had more than 10 employees dedicated to the task, which increased to 11 percent, in 2017. (Source: Health IT Security) 23. In 2018, 60 percent of these firms put particular emphasis on cybercrime by increasing their staff, adding new technologies, and training their employees on such issues. Cybersecurity budgets continue to grow as 81 percent of U.S. firms indicate that they will improve their resources to keep critical systems safe. (Source: Healthcare IT News) 24. 57 percent of companies are ensuring that they meet local and global compliance standards of Internet security required in the healthcare sector. Of these, 34 percent confirmed that they are already looking to implement cybersecurity best practices for employees. (Source: HIPPA Journal) 25. Security breaches caused by the loss of sensitive items, such as laptops and other devices, have decreased sharply. While loss or theft of items accounted for nearly 90 percent of the losses in 2010, it has reduced to only 15 percent, in recent years. This is a clear sign that educating employees to take care of their data devices is critical to preventing incidents of theft. (Source) 26. 54% of healthcare organizations believe they have technologies in place to effectively prevent or quickly detect unauthorized access to patient data. An improvement over the 49% reported in 2015. (Source: Ponemon Institute) 27. 19 petabytes of data across 29,000 instances of databases are exposed. This is a finding of 2021 research that looked into database security. (Source: Cybernews research) 5 Largest Healthcare Cyber Security Attacks & Breaches Here are some of the most significant healthcare data breaches. What can your organization learn to avoid being the next victim? 1. LifeBridge Health This Baltimore-based healthcare system experienced a malware attack last March. The attack potentially breached the data of around 500,000 patients. Investigations showed that the hackers first gained access to the system back in September 2016. 2. Health Management Concepts This ransomware attack fast became a full-blown data breach. Hackers were mistakenly provided with a file containing the personal data of over 500,000 patients. The organization has not disclosed how or why hackers got this information, but the file contained Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and patient names. 3. CNO Financial Group Between May and September of last year, hackers gained access to the credentials of CNO employees. This information was then used to access company websites, compromising the data of over 566,000 policyholders and applicants. Data accessed included dates of birth, insurance details, and partial Social Security numbers. 4. UnityPoint Health UnityPoint suffered two security breaches last year. The second compromised the data of 1.4 million patients. A series of phishing emails had been made to look like they were from a top executive within the company. When an employee fell for the scam, it gave hackers access to private email accounts. 5. AccuDoc The data breach of billing vendor AccuDoc was the biggest of last year. The North Carolina-based vendor prepares patient bills while managing Atrium Health’s billing system. The investigation revealed that while hackers could view the data, they were unable to extract it. Don’t Become a Healthcare Security Statistic From these healthcare statistics, it is apparent that there has been an increased awareness among healthcare companies regarding cybersecurity. Despite the response, more needs to be done. All types of hacking attacks are also becoming more sophisticated and the data loss more costly. Solutions start with awareness, updating and maintaining critical systems, and emphasis on security during data transfer. Work with our team of security professionals and ensure that your employee and patient data is secure.	[]
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Show simple item record Funktionelle Genomanalyse bakterieller Erreger, assoziiert mit der Europäischen Faulbrut von Honigbienen dc.contributor.advisorDaniel, Rolf Prof. Dr. dc.contributor.authorDjukic, Marvin dc.titleFunktionelle Genomanalyse bakterieller Erreger, assoziiert mit der Europäischen Faulbrut von Honigbienende dc.title.translatedFunctional genome analysis of bacterial pathogens associated with European foulbrood of honey beesde dc.contributor.refereeDaniel, Rolf Prof. Dr. dc.description.abstractengPaenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius cause American foulbrood (AFB) and European foulbrood (EFB) on honey bees, respectively. Three typical strains of M. plutonius were isolated from a Swiss EFB outbreak. The genomes of one atypical and 13 typical strains were analyzed. For the first time, potential virulence and fitness factors of M. plutonius were detected and, subsequently, analyzed. M. plutonius is able to cause infection and kill the honey bee larvae with the detected and analyzed virulence factors. These virulence factors are bacteriocins, tyrosine decarboxylase, enhancin, a putative PlCBP49-homolog, cell surface proteins, collagenase, one Enterococcal polysaccharide antigen (Epa)-homolog, capsule-forming proteins, proteases, glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases, and one toxin called Melissotoxin A. Melissotoxin A and one matrix binding protein are plasmid-encoded (pMP19). In former studies it was shown, that typical M. plutonius strains lose their virulence after several cultivation steps. Loss of virulence is putatively associated with the loss of the virulence plasmid (pMP19), which was detected in the genomes of typical strains only. Atypical strains remain highly virulent even without the virulence plasmid. Thus, it is assumed that typical and atypical strains established different virulence mechanisms. Atypical M. plutonius strains putatively consume sugar rich resources in the honey bee larvae’s gut much faster than typical strains. Furthermore, detected surface protein-coding genes of the atypical strain differ from their homologs found in typical strains. Additionally, different grades of virulence were predicted for typical strains based on the presence/absence of genes coding for an endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase, tyrosine decarboxylase and the virulence plasmid pMP19. Additionally, it could be shown that three virulence factors were transcribed in vivo during EFB pathogenesis (endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase, enhancin and Melissotoxin A). A general EFB infection and -pathogenesis model was proposed. New P. larvae virulence factors were detected by using genome analysis of two strains (belonging to genotype ERIC I and ERIC II, respectively). These virulence factors are bacteriocins, NRPS- and NPRS/PKS-biosynthesis gene cluster, enhancin, hyaluronidase, immune inhibitor A, bacillolysins, toxins, cell surface proteins, and proteases. A general AFB infection model was proposed. Furthermore, the genomes of bacterial honey bee symbionts Lactobacillus kunkeei EFB6 and Fructobacillus sp. EFB-N1 were dc.contributor.coRefereeHoppert, Michael PD Dr. dc.subject.gerAmerikanische Faulbrutde dc.subject.gerEuropäische Faulbrutde dc.subject.engEuropean foulbroodde dc.subject.engAmerican foulbroodde dc.subject.enghoney bee diseasede dc.subject.engvirulence factorsde dc.subject.engcomparative genomicsde dc.affiliation.instituteBiologische Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologiede dc.subject.gokfullBiologie (PPN619462639)de Files in this item This item appears in the following Collection(s) Show simple item record	[]
Sunday, June 26, 2011 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Supreme Court Justices shouldn't go around physically attacking each other. Just when you thought the state of things in Wisconsin couldn't get any uglier or more divisive, we hear that one justice allegedly attacked another, putting his hands on her throat. (To some, it probably seems even worse because the allegation is that a man put his hands around the neck of a woman.) Are we going to be resorting to duels soon? I hope they keep the physical assaults for conferences and leave the poor attorneys out of it. 1 comment: Jeff Gamso said... It was about 20 years ago that two justices of the Ohio Supreme Court got into a fight. One broke a couple of the other's ribs. The folks who sit on the US Supreme Court all claim to get along famously - no matter what they say about each other in the opinions. Whether they do get along well now or not, it's certainly true that they didn't always. Blog Designed by : NW Designs	[]
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens – Book Review and Discussion I was gifted this book on my Kindle by a good friend. I see the aim of the author as two fold that he wraps in a narrative of a road trip and personal communications that he had with the late Christopher Hitchens. I will speak to his motives later. One – to lay out the current ‘battle lines’ of the atheistic vs. theistic arguments in Western society. Two – to try and give a personality/character sketch of how the author viewed Christopher and why he believes he became what he was, its validity supported by a friendship the two had. For the first aim, if you go and listen to the debate in Montana that he details in the book between him and Christopher you will hear exactly what position he argues from. I quote: “Not only does socialism require a wholly unjustified confidence in human government, but also it begins with a premise that is antithetical to Christianity: that there is no God. Fyodor Dostoevsky observed this connection between atheism and socialism long ago: “Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth, but to set up heaven on earth.”22 In other words, socialism is much more than an economic or political question. It is a spiritual question if only because it denies the very existence of the spiritual.” In the biblical worldview, the state is a temporal institution meant to serve man, an eternal being. In the socialist model, this is reversed: man, a temporal being, serves the eternal state. To put it more succinctly, socialism is atheism masquerading as political philosophy The answer actually goes back to the Enlightenment, where he staked his ultimate flag. The French Enlightenment—of which his hero, Thomas Paine, was most deeply affected—was essentially an anti-Christian movement. Part of the strategy in de-Christianizing Western culture was to praise other religions over and above Christianity. As the Enlightenment morphed into Romanticism, Islam was lifted up for veneration above Christianity. When this is viewed through a Marxist lens, Islam is interpreted as a peaceful religion that has resorted to violent means in order to defend itself against the fundamentally violent, oppressive, and imperialistic Christian West. That is pretty much the bulk of his position – Look at history and all government systems where atheism or non-theism played the major role and they are arguably the worst human institutions that killed and tortured the most people. Modern atheism is using the same tactics and expecting different results. For the second aim the author gives a fairly detailed analysis of Christopher and how his childhood, particularly his parents and his schooling contributed ultimately to his worldview and philosophical position. He bases his credibility on their friendship what there does seem to be some evidence for. Maybe Christopher said this on camera disingenuously but that does not seem to be the type of person he was (or was he?). The question is how much of what the author says and speculates about Christopher is true? How much did he talk to him about his childhood, his mother, his brother? Also, would he have written this book when Christopher was alive to allow himself to defend himself. If he really was a friend of Christopher would he write? Christopher saw himself as a champion of the poor and the oppressed, but he had no desire to be one of them or really even to keep their company. This attitude—“the more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular”14—is a common feature of socialism and liberalism Many were the times that I saw Christopher speak abusively to waiters, receptionists, bartenders, makeup artists, and the like, unless, that is, they recognized his celebrity or were attractive. He simply ignored their existence or, if they displeased him in some way, he assailed them with a torrent of profanities. Or that he had stiffed him on bar tabs and some speculate that is why he is writing this book to recoup some of his loses since he is a type of promoter for these types of debates. I didn’t get the impression that the Author particularly liked Christopher but rather ‘loved’ him out of Christian duty. From telling us all about his vices and sexual appetites and a sordid detail about him making out with some various tramp you get the impression that most of the time they hung out he was rolling his eyes or saying ‘Gross, I would never do that’ in his head. The nicest thing he said about him was: Christopher loathed intellectual frauds that didn’t really believe their creed, but instead preyed on the innocent for selfish gain. Which, of course, is a very admirable quality, for Christians or Atheists . It seems to me that the author uses this quality in Christopher as proof to the reader that he wasn’t an intellectual fraud himself and that Christopher did believe that he was the real deal. A ‘true’ Christian who tried his best to live out the Christian ideal. To me that seems antithetical since the whole point of the book was to outline that Christopher really was duplicit and kept ‘two books’. How was the author certain that the book Christopher kept with him the real one? Having said that… Maybe Christopher and the author did have a heartfelt friendship and with terminal cancer maybe Christopher did open up. Look at the debate between them at 50.51 and you can see a look on Christopher’s face that I think reflects this sentiment. Maybe Christopher put some chips down on Pascal’s wager or maybe he didn’t. If you are an atheist it really doesn’t matter, though, does it. And that is something I can never understand about the atheist position – why do they care so much of what believers think? I understand Christopher’s take on it. He got extremely rich out of it and is exactly what I would expect anyone to do who truly believes that there is no God. But he was writing books not for Christians but for Atheists wasn’t he? Why do atheists care so much that theists think that they are going to hell? Or that it is a crutch to believe in some fairy sky daddy to help them through life? Life is hard for almost everyone, if you need to believe in a fairy sky daddy who loves you and cares for you by all means do it. Why should it bother you? ‘Well, because you believe that if I don’t believe in the fairy sky daddy then he will be mad at me and send me to a bad place’. Well, so, who cares? If you are so convinced that the fairy sky daddy doesn’t exist then why even argue. Yet, argue and argue and try and convince and mock and spend so much time and energy when you could be out making your own existential meaning. Why try so hard to convince everyone? Unless, of course, it makes you money. For the Christians who truly believe I would expect them to argue and try and convince you because that is what they believe makes all the difference. If they truly believe it then they would be crazy to not want to share it. That is what you have to decide about the author whether you like him or not. Does he really believe and did he really want Christopher to go to heaven and would do whatever he could to that end? – I think he did. Did he do it out of vanity – to say ‘he was the one that bagged the biggest, baddest atheist’? Or did he do it on the hope that someone on the fence might read the book because of its provocative title and might just open their heart to God (the mind can only get you so close). I think, he had to take that opportunity. Judge him on the same criteria you would judge a hypothetical Christopher Hitchens if he happened to spend a concentrated amount of time expounding the benefits of atheism to a dying Billy Graham and wrote a book about it after Billy died. Just maybe the rabbit hole Christopher went down as the minutes of his life ticked away was that if there is nothing after I die then I have nothing to lose so why not ? And if he did would you blame him? If atheism is right it makes no difference either way so relax for goodness sake. Anyway, at least he used a pre-cancer picture of Christopher on the cover. One response to “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens – Book Review and Discussion” 1. Chuck D Avatar Chuck D This is a link to a video about the book with Larry Tauton.	[]
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Are you an angel? I was ten years old when I saw Mrs. Goldthwaite's dog die. Everybody had gone to the school, but I was sick so I stayed at home. Liza was feeling sick too, and she was old enough to be home by herself, so Daddy said we could take care of each other while he was off at work and we should call the neighbors if anything bad happened. He said I could work on my pictures and Liza could try out some cooking recipe if she didn't use the stove, but she decided to sleep instead. She slept most of the day, so she didn't hear when the car screeched and then the dog too. But I was in my room with my sketchbook, so I did. I looked out my window and I saw a car driving off in a hurry, going much faster than it was supposed too, leaving a trail of red behind. I saw that beautiful Golden Retriever, the one that sometimes ate food out of my hand and always seemed to be smiling at me, now collapsed in a bloody mess in the middle of the road. I remember feeling my hand tighten. 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As much as I want to blame her for Roger's death, I remember that scream and know that what happened next was not what she wanted. She was so terrified...even more so than Roger and myself, perhaps. Her hand began to blister. She stared at him, her rage dissolving into terror – and I ran at her, knocking her arm away just enough for a burst of fire to sail past my beloved and blast the kitchen table. She couldn't stop. I remember her screaming as she instinctively moved her hand to her mouth to silence herself, I remember as her hand shot another burst of flame and suddenly she too was engulfed in it, her head blazing like she was some demented torch, I remember as she stumbled into the curtains and those lit up too. I tried to drag Roger out. I remember thanking whatever god was out there that I could lift him at all, and I remember realizing that I, too, could attempt to harness the Eve inside me, that perhaps I could pull him out that way, if I could keep enough control. But I couldn't. I ran outside, I reached out with my mind and my arms, I tried desperately to reach my darling, my Roger, my everything, and the fire raged and the smoke rose and the night fell. On my twenty-ninth birthday, I found my angel. Daddy took care of the two funerals. Ayako had burned to death in the fire, had been reduced to mere ashes. Liza still has them in an urn at her home. Roger had not burned to death. The fire had not reached him, because I dragged him far enough away. It was the smoke that killed him, that saturated his lungs until he could no longer fill them with oxygen. The doctors also said that his arm had been crushed. They are not able to explain why, but I think I know. I tried to keep myself as composed as I could, but it was difficult. My life had no meaning any longer, or so I felt at the time. My dear father consoled me as best he could, and of course I had my sisters, but nothing seemed the same anymore. I asked my father what this thing inside me was, this power that both Ayako and I shared. It was then that he told me about Eve. I remember nothing of that conversation except the name – Eve, Eve, wife of Adam. The funeral came. Daddy had planned everything perfectly, as he always did, save for one seemingly minor detail. The priest spoke, and Roger's family spoke, and then it was my turn to tell the people gathered there how my husband had been the best person to ever walk the face of this earth. I stood up and walked towards the front, and then I froze. I could see him, dead in his coffin. Had Daddy told them that the coffin must be closed? Had someone carelessly chosen to open the front half, so that I could see my husband's face, his mouth forever unsmiling, his eyes forever closed? My heart begged me not to. I felt a whimper rise in my throat, and then a sob, my vision blurred as tears filled my eyes. But even so, I had no choice but to walk forward, no choice but to stand before that corpse. There was nothing at hand. I remember thinking that. I wanted my needle, I wanted something sharp, I wanted anything. And when I found nothing, I used my own fingernails; if I could not pull the Adam from him, then by god I would RIP it out of him, he would bleed and it would be a mess but damn it all the Adam was all that mattered the Adam was why I was born if I'd had the Adam I could have saved him but at least I could use his Adam to save another the Adam would make everything better the Adam the Adam my beloved angel I felt a million arms on me, and I passed out. When I was twenty-nine years old, I learned that the worst master a slave can have is herself.	[]
Brief Thoughts On Geotagging Images March 18, 2019 37°54'26.6"N 122°37'02.5"W So this photo itself is kind of lame, but it did get us thinking about how the OMD-EM1X is the first camera1 we’ve owned with a built-in GPS that actually works.2 We’d never really thought such a thing could be useful, but now that we’ve got a bunch of photos that are accurately tagged, it opens up a lot of possibilities such as allowing search by location on this site or even finally clicking on the “maps” module in Lightroom which up until now has been naught but a gimmick3. There’s debate in the photography community about whether geotagging images is a good or a bad thing - on the plus side, it helps people discover and appreciate the incredible beauty of nature. On the other hand, geotagging coupled with the viral nature of instagram and other social media have led to the rampant destruction of nature and trampling of previously pristine and beautiful locations by disrespectful swarms of tourists “doing things for the ‘gram” and not giving a crap in the process4. So personally, we wonder if it really is a good idea to add GPS coordinates for where we take our photos5. But we also really hate selfish photographers - the kind that never share the unretouched images with models6, never talk about their post-processing7, never reveal their shooting locations8. The democratization of information and techniques is one of the most wonderful things about the internet and we feel that just as we have all learned from others sharing with us, so too is it our responsibility to share back to our peers and the next generation as well. Anyway. No conclusion overall, but given that Mount Tam is already a well-known location, for those curious here’s the coordinates to this shot and the one from yesterday. Happy shooting.9 1. Other than the iPhone. Talking pro DSLR/mirrorless bodies here. 2. Many years ago we owned the Canon EOS-1DXM2 which had many positive things going for it (at the time) one of which in theory was a built-in GPS. Only thing is, we could never get it to work no matter what we did (wide open field on the top of a tall hill with nary an obstruction in sight on a bright sunny day? Nope, doesn’t work… sigh), which was pretty frustrating for a $5000+ plus camera. Our subsequent cameras such as the Sony A9 all required janky smartphone app connections10 to enable GPS tagging of photos, which of course never worked so we all-but gave up on GPS in a camera. 3. Don’t get me started on the facial recognition/people tab - if you ever wanted to blow up your CPU for no useful purpose whatsoever, this is the tab for you. 4. It reminds me of assinine drone owners who don’t care to learn the rules and ruin things for the rest of us. We were resting near a stream in Yosemite last year when suddenly we hear the unmistakable sound of a Mavic Pro flying overhead. Not only are drones prohibited in National Parks, but there were also dozens of kids and families playing in the stream - you’re never supposed to fly drones over people. We told the couple flying the drone to stop, but they just brushed us off. Jackasses. Similar situation at the top of Takao San in Tokyo last year as well - two tourists from overseas just randomly stopped in the middle of the walkways filled with people, unpack a drone and start flying it over the crowds. What. In. The. F*** ? 5. To say nothing of the privacy implications. We obviously would only turn on GPS for outdoor/nature/sports shots, not for studio shoots, etc. 6. For non-client TFP shoots, we always share a SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) dump of all images with the models right after the shoot for them to choose the ones they like which we’ll later post porocess - we can’t count how many times we’ve heard them say “oh my god, I get all the photos?! Thank you so much!” - so many photographers act like their SOOC shots are these precious mysterious things that must never be seen by human eyes - only their perfectly-edited uber retouched final picks should ever see light of day. Which would be okay if it didn’t take them weeks or even months to process photos and even then they only share like 4 or 5 shots out of 1000. Bro, we get it, you shoot RAW and under-expose to avoid blowing highlights just like the rest of us, and yeah, it can suck sometimes if a model shares an unprocessed, deliberately under-exposed image with the world when it would look better with retouching, but that’s life. And more importantly, that’s what TFP means. 7. Few things irk us more than photographers who post highly-retouched and edited shots pretending they came straight out of camera like that. “Oh yeah, I just cropped a little in PS but that’s it.” My arse. How about the 20 layers of curves, vibrance, dodge/burn, clarity and so on? That, or folks who clearly drop a few presets on there but won’t admit to it. We all use presets, there’s no shame in that, why won’t y’all admit it? 8. For model shoots on IG when there’s clearly no ecological impact and it’s just a random pretty shooting location, but they want to keep ish secret for no reason other than they are sponges who will gladly suck up information but never share it back out. The community only works if people both give and take 9. This is one of those posts where the footnotes are longer than the entry itself. That, and unneccessary hyphenation have always been two of our greatest literary failings. 10. Why do all camera smartphone apps suck so very, very badly? And don’t get me started on the near-universal lack of iPad support. 11 11. Yes, we just did a footnote inside of a footnote inside of a footnote. We need to go deeper Keep Reading Related Posts ⤒ Back to top	[]
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The Hoard Facts Blog archive The Dictatorship of BYOD CIOs are no strangers to high-pressure jobs. They are used to the pressure that comes from trying to keep up with the demands on their IT organizations. But now the pressure is ratcheting up even higher as they find themselves relentlessly challenged by the consumeration of IT and the proliferation of BYOD environments. According to a new study of 150 North American enterprise CIOs done by Mezeo Software entitled "2012 CIO Enterprise Cloud Data Mobility & Security Survey," the new CIO bottom line is simple to describe and exceedingly difficult to remedy: "In a turbulent business environment, how can the CIO protect company data assets and ensure employees have the real-time infrastructure required to succeed?" Survey results clearly indicate the criticality of protecting company assets. In response to the question "How worried are you about public cloud (i.e. users using consumer-based tools to store corporate data)?," more than 80 percent of respondents rated their concern as eight or higher on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest level of concern. Digging deeper, the survey targeted respondents who answered five or higher on the previous question to describe their biggest concerns, and the two overwhelming answers were "loss of control (e.g. employee leaves data on public cloud)", and "data loss (via lost encryption keys, etc.)." In response to the question "What causes data leaks onto public clouds," the answer was a predictable, "BYOD and personal decision-making by employees." It should be noted that not a single person checked off the box for "There is no data leakage onto public clouds." Despite the seemingly imminent malaise, only 42 percent of respondents said they were actively preventing data from being stored on public clouds, which prompted the study to ask why is it that even though there is so much concern about data leakage, only 42 percent of respondents are taking action against it? Reason one for this apparent apathy is that respondents can't find an option that keeps data behind their firewalls, and reason two is the inability to mandate that users stop using consumer tools and public clouds. Reason two comes across as the elephant in the room. Just as massive amounts of PCs slipped in the back door unabated some 30 years ago, so again another technology tsunami is rolling in unchecked, and it is clearly represents the future of personal and professional communications. Mezeo, of course, has the solution to this runaway rout, saying, "You can implement a secure file sync and share a solution that gives your users what they want and need to remain mobile and efficient, but puts IT in control." Posted by Bruce Hoard on 08/06/2012 at 12:48 PM	[]
A black hole is finally giving up its secrets. Dinner Time Apparently, you can learn a lot by watching a black hole eat. In 2014, astronomers spied a supermassive black hole nearly 300 million light-years away gobbling a star, an event known as a tidal disruption flare or TDE. Given the rarity of such a spotting, they've kept a close eye on it ever since. The hope was that it would teach them something new about how black holes feed. But it ended up teaching a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology something else: a new way to measure how fast a black hole is spinning. Strange Signal The MIT team describes its discovery in a paper published in the journal Science on Wednesday. While looking at TDE data collected by three different observatories — XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Swift — the MIT team noticed a strong burst of X-ray radiation pulsing every 131 seconds for at least 450 days straight. "At first I didn’t believe it because the signal was so strong," MIT researcher Dheeraj Pasham said in a news release. "But we saw it in all three telescopes. So in the end, the signal was real." Next, the team set out to determine the cause of the X-ray signal. Based on their observations, they believe a bit of the star the black hole was eating remained outside its event horizon where it came in contact with a white dwarf that was also circling the black hole. Alone, this dwarf would be invisible to telescopes. But combined with the stellar material, it produced the kind of X-ray radiation the MIT team detected. Each pulse of the signal was the pair completing another orbit around the black hole. New Method By combining what they already knew about the black hole's mass and size with what they learned from this signal, the team was able to determine that the black hole was spinning — at around 50 percent the speed of light. "That’s not super fast — there are other black holes with spins estimated to be near 99 percent the speed of light," Pasham said. "But this is the first time we’re able to use tidal disruption flares to constrain the spins of supermassive black holes." READ MORE: X-Ray Pulse Detected Near Event Horizon as Black Hole Devours Star [MIT News] More on black holes: Physicist: Black Holes Could Be Portals for Hyperspace Travel Share This Article	[]
Are You Serious? There are three good questions to consider before selling your business. First, “Do you really want to sell this business?” If you’re really serious about selling and have a solid reason (or reasons) why you want to sell, it will most likely happen. Second, “Do you have reasonable expectations?” You increase your chances of selling if you can answer “yes” to this second question. This can include your expectations about the selling price, the time it will take to sell your business, and the amount of seller financing you are willing to offer. Third, “What will you do once your business sells?” The time to consider this is before you place your business on the market. This may seem obvious, but many transactions fall through because the business owner did not consider what he or she would do once the business was sold. A “yes” answer to the first two questions plus having an answer to the third question (other than “I don’t know”) means you are serious about selling.	[]
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You can unsubscribe at any time. Like the Refs the only thing consistent is their inconsistency!!! In the final, Tuchel's side will be looking to lift the League Cup trophy for the first time since 2015. As reported by Footy Headlines; Chelsea are wearing the FIFA Club World Cup badge in the Premier League match against Burnley this afternoon. We have enough to deal with and enough to improve. This is not something that occurs in other European nations, with Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona all recently wearing the badge in their respective domestic leagues. And therefore, they have altered the rules. "Win game after game, start winning consecutive games. , (Video) You can say its a penalty. READ MORE:Liverpool 2022/23 pre-match shirt leaked and backs up leaked home shirt for next season. More info. It is what it is," Tuchel said of Liverpool earlier this week. I will not tell you that it is impossible to catch them, but there's no other way than to improve our game and style. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. We were permitted one game, as well as wearing the badge in the Champions League, but no more celebration of the worlds best team was allowed. Liverpool were only allowed to wear it once and United were refused permission to wear it back in 2008, after they beat Chelsea in the Champions League final to reach the Club World Cup. Chelsea will be allowed to wear the Club World Cup badge for the rest of the Premier League season despite rivals Liverpool and Manchester United having been denied the honour previously. Chelsea beat Palmeiras 2-1 in the final two weeks ago after a Kai Havertz penalty and a Romelu Lukaku opener. It was the first time in their history that they had claimed the trophy after losing 1-0 to Corinthians at the same stage in 2012. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Express. But whilst the two north west teams not allowed to emblazon the badge showcasing their successes upon their return to the Premier League, Chelsea have been allowed to do so. I don't know the results, but they look strong. Liverpool won the same tournament in 2019 after beating Monterrey 2-1 in the final, whilst United won it in 2008 after a gruelling 1-0 win over Ecuadorian side LDU Quito in Japan. Liverpool were crowned Club World Cup champions in 2019 but were not permitted to wear the winners badge in the Premier League. There's no point in looking to City or Liverpool or looking behind. As with other clubs such as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, the holders usually wear the gold badge on the front of their shirts until the trophy switches hands. From there we start.". But we will not give in. The report states that after requesting to have the badge adorned upon their shirt, FIFA accepted Chelsea's demands despite both Liverpool and United having failed in their previous attempts. However, Premier League chiefs believe that Chelsea's argument of displaying English football as a huge success to the rest of the world is a fair one. 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Yet Chelsea have broken the mould, according to the Sun, with Thomas Tuchel's players being granted permission to wear the badge until the tournament's finale next season. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. The Blues wore the badge in what they thought was a one-off in the last-gasp win at Crystal Palace on Saturday. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. #Ep37 of The Red Nets Podcast: European Super League 2.0, the impact of the League Cup win and more! The badge's next outing will be away at Burnley on March 5, with the Blues facing Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday but unlikely to have it on their chests then. They will do so until the end of the Premier League season.. It was a shame that the Reds couldnt wear the badge with pride but now it feels even more strange, given the decision to allow Chelsea to wear the badge during their reign as champions. Whatever the reasoning, it just means that we will have to win it again to ensure we receive the celebration we deserve. "Unfortunately, we don't play them again [in the league]. Just goes to show the double standards of the FA and EPL. In the past, Liverpool and United have been denied the opportunity to do so. 404 Not Found 1. HOME 2. 404	[]
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Parameter Changes & Thread Safety So I have some heavyweight objects (convolution engines & IIR filters) that need to be updated in the event of a change to an oversampling parameter. This involves resizing some auxiliary buffers (though I’ve made sure to allocate enough memory for the maximum possible size in the constructor of the AudioProcessor), passing a new ProcessSpec to the appropriate objects, and running some further updates to make sure the impulse responses being used by the convo engines are running at the correct sample rate. Essentially I’m running into two possible scenarios, neither of which is ideal and they’ve both generated issues. First, there’s updating the appropriate objects in my APVTS Listener callback (parameterChanged) and using an atomic flag to check whether we’re ready to call the process method of these objects. I’ve never experienced issues with this, but some users have reported crashes pertaining to the oversampling switching. Additionally, this consistently fails pluginval during the parameter thread safety test. My guess as to the reason is: since the atomic flag might be switched in the middle of the process callback, there’s no way to guarantee that the objects doing the processing will have the new ProcessSpec passed on a parameter change in the middle of the audio callback, thus resulting in some bad memory access / data races. Second, there’s doing the resizing and ProcessSpec passing in processBlock, which is a big no-no. On Windows, it works just fine for me, and passes pluginval with flying colors, but on my (old and slow) Mac running Logic, switching the Oversampling always results in an error where Logic halts playback to inform you that the audio couldn’t be processed in time. Makes sense, since I’m doing all that resizing and preparation in the processBlock with no reason to be there. So my main question is: given the above, what would be a better way of ensuring thread safety of updating parameters? You could use the objects from the process through a pointer, create the new objects on another thread, set a flag to update them in the next process callback, then switch pointers there. The new objects can be allocated while the old ones still exist. Still, if you’ve reserved memory for the maximum buffer sizes, they should be safe to resize in the audio process, and it shouldn’t be that heavy, unless you also need to clear the buffers and they’re really large. 1 Like Thanks, I’ll have to try your suggestion re: creating new objects and switching pointers. Right, and it seems that it’s mainly updating the processors via a custom prepare function that’s causing the slowdown rather than the resize. in my last project i made it so that when processBlock starts it checks if the oversampling-order should be changed atm. if yes i manually call prepareToPlay, which reallocates everything ofc, and then leave processBlock without processing the block. this often makes the audio discontinuous at that point cause there are so many reallocations and sometimes even a new latency sent that there’s just no way for that to be smooth. it is thread-safe tho since we are definitely not using all those buffers while resizing them. in situations like that i think it’s ok to have a crappy transition in sound, because people never automate the oversampling-order, they just set and forget and then go on with the smooth operations Don’t forget that you always can call // do something in the processor code to avoid any processing while loading something. 1 Like why didn’t anyone ever tell me about this powerful feature before? :o 1 Like The best is, that you can call it from every thread. I actually was using suspendProcessing but was still getting crashes… Seemed like in the time it took to get the processing to actually suspend, it would still run into some access issues. I should add that I was doing this before I switched to the atomic flag method, since I figured checking a boolean would be faster than the method to stop audio callbacks. maybe you could do something like so it just spins for those ms where you wait for it to take action. a cleaner solution would be if a suspended processor had an alternative method that is called then to show you that the suspension started. maybe that’s what releaseResources is for. i haven’t used that method yet You’re saying to wrap the process block in that? Wouldn’t that make it loop over the same buffer indefinitely until processing is suspended? Or am I misunderstanding something about your suggestion? I don’t think there’s need to call suspendProcessing() from processBlock() -you’re already there, it’s blocking itself. You call suspendProcessing() from another thread, so that if processBlock() is running your thread will have to wait, and if processBlock() needs to be called while it’s suspended, it won’t be called and the buffer will return cleared. Right, I was calling it from parameterChanged. Still ran into thread safety issues, however. That being said, I’ve just had some luck by essentially using the method of doing resize/prepare in the process block but then returning immediately after. Passes pluginval on Windows, now I’ll just have to see if it’s still too much for Logic to handle… UPDATE: It didn’t work in Logic. Kept triggering assertions in my dry/wet mixer, which for some reason never occurred on Windows… My previous method of just doing resize and prepare in the process block and then pushing right along now works flawlessly… I’m thinking the system overload issues may just have been a result of it being a debug build. I swear I tested it as a Release build, too, but alas. You may have different places where it still can crash. It can not crash in the processBlock method while suspendProcessing(true) is active unless it is a JUCE bug. I’m using this method for years now and it works without any problems. You should not do this in the processing block. It looks like your method allocates memory and does time-consuming things. This may lead to audio dropouts. Keep in mind that people use the plugins in sessions with dozens of plugins. You also should not do it in the UI thread. I would use the JUCE ThreadPool with one thread size and do the following steps: void prepareAsync() threadPool->addJob([this, param] { prepare(param) }); void prepare(int param) // do your work You may have to make sure that this isn’t called all the time when you have a slider or something. You may need to use some throttling mechanism. You could do this with a timer that checks for changes every 0.2 seconds or so. depending on the work amount you have to do. Suspend processing may cuts out audio for some processing blocks and this also isn’t welcome. As a second step you may do something like this to avoid this and keep the suspendProcessing interval as short as possible: void prepare(int param) // prepare new buffers // swap pointers I think there needs to be some good consideration before resorting to new threads. It’s not free either, and if the job is not that heavy it may end up being worse. For me, the first option is always setting a flag to do the stuff in the audio thread. There are ways to avoid allocations: you can preallocate buffers and vectors, you can use polymorphic containers. If the audio thread can’t deal with it, the second option is moving the heavy stuff to the message thread. If the UI gets unresponsive, then I can consider spawning threads. Whether you delegate to the message thread or another one, there’s no need to call suspendProcessing(). Take a look at this talk and this code. For passing large objects to the audio thread, you need what they call a non-realtime mutatable object (in the current version, RealtimeObject<T, RealtimeObjectOptions::nonRealtimeMutatable>); for the other way around, a realtime mutatable object. Both use a CAS loop in the non-realtime thread. For small structures, I use triple buffering -it spends more memory, but it’s wait-free for both sides. template <typename T> struct TripleBuffer auto& read() const { return buf_[r_]; } auto& write() { return buf_[w_]; } bool acquire() int changed{ ready_.load (std::memory_order_relaxed) & 4 }; if (changed) r_ = (r_, std::memory_order_acquire) & 3; return changed; void release() { w_ = (w_ \| 4, std::memory_order_release) & 3; }; T buf_[3]{}; int r_{ 1 }, w_{ 2 }; std::atomic_int ready_{}; You write through write(), then release() when it’s done. On the other side, you acquire() and then read(). acquire() also tells you if there’s been a new release() since the last call.	[]
Stability and Strength Training a la Maffetone This post continues a little saga I have going on about the aerobic system and fat-burning in relation to other aspects of training, mostly due to my continuing work with Phil Maffetone and MAF Fitness. People often ask how—or whether—strength training fits into the MAF method, particularly during times of aerobic base building. My answer, of course, is YES. (Provided, of course, we usefully define what “strength training” means). The MAF method prescribes exclusive aerobic exercise—defined as exercise that has a virtually nonexistent anaerobic component—in 3 different situations: • When ill, injured, or overtrained. • When recovering from any of the three. • When doing a period of sports-specific aerobic base-building. In all other situations, we recommend that 80% of all athletic activity be aerobic, while the remaining 20% (which includes competition) can be anaerobic. But this post I want to talk about how strength training fits into situations 1-3. The foremost problem with asking how (or whether) strength training fits into these situations is definitional. Strength training, broadly defined, is training which allows the body to exert more force into its environment. And based on this definition, some, but not all, strength training is accepted. The big question is this: what kind of training is aerobic? For that, we have to look at why the body recruits the anaerobic system for certain activities. The answer is twofold: (1) because it needs to produce a lot of low-end torque—a relatively high amount of power in a short amount of time—and (2) because that activity is going to last for a few seconds—before anaerobic channels exhaust themselves. This rules out one particular kind of activity: heavy strength training where the body fatigues itself after a few repetitions. Here is your benchmark: if you can only do 5-8 repetitions before exhaustion, it is because you have recruited anaerobic channels. This holds regardless of whether the heart rate is “low enough” to be aerobic—or hasn’t climbed enough to “be anaerobic.” So, my suggestion to people is to do strength exercises of more than 12 repetitions. But there’s another caveat: exercises of more than 15 repetitions are not necessarily aerobic. (For example, a 100 yard sprint consists of 65 repetitions—65 steps—at best). So, for these high (15+) repetition exercises, it’s important that the heart rate reflect that the body is working overwhelmingly aerobically—at what Dr. Maffetone describes as the MAF Heart rate. Good examples of strength exercises with the potential to be aerobic are: proprioceptive (very light load) deadlifts and squats, push-ups, pull-ups, etc. I also often recommend stability training as an acceptable supplement for periods of “exclusive” aerobic base training. However, this comes with an important caveat: while stability training is very low-intensity work—which means that it very rarely interferes with aerobic base building—strictly speaking, it is an anaerobic exercise. Stability is achieved and maintained by very quick, continuous movements of the small muscles of the body, in order to counteract tiny losses of balance before they become serious. Providing stability is therefore largely the responsibility of extremely fast-twitch Type IIX muscle fibers, which rely primarily on anaerobic uses of sugar in order to produce energy quickly enough. Whenever we are training stability, we are training the anaerobic system. Is this a problem for aerobic-only training? Not in most cases. If you think about it, “aerobic-only” running has a massive stability component: the entire body must be stabilized every step through constant use of Type IIX muscle fibers. But these stabilizations are small enough in comparison to the primarily aerobic work of running, that anaerobic debt doesn’t rack up in a way that transforms aerobic running into “anaerobic exercise.” The point at which stability training becomes anaerobic is when it starts raising the body’s stress levels—when it asks the body to exceed the aerobic threshold (a.k.a. the MAF heart rate). Whenever you want to do stability or strength training without hindering your aerobic base-building, take your heart rate monitor with you. It’s (almost) as easy as that. 22 thoughts on “Stability and Strength Training a la Maffetone” 1. Hi Ivan, I find this post a little confusing. I was under the understanding that say 20-30 push ups, or body weight squats would always be anaerobic regardless of heart rate. I have done low rep weight training and my HR has not exceeded MAF. From reading Dr Maffetone books he states that high weight/low reps weight training is less likely to interfere with the aerobic system. 1. James: I’m surprised he would say that, unless he’s referring to something very specific. High weight produces a lot of lactate (even when the heart rate doesn’t get up there) just because there’s no choice but to use fast-twitch muscle fibers—which are anaerobic. But when you’re doing full-body work-outs that extend for more than 12-15 reps AND don’t go over the MAF heart rate, that’s when the body recruits the aerobic system. There’s very little difference in principle between running, push-ups, or bodyweight squats: from an exercise type perspective, running is a series of alternating plyometric bodyweight lunges. If anything, because of the increased stability requirement, running under the MAF heart rate would have a far greater anaerobic component than high-rep bodyweight squats under the MAF heart rate. (For example, there’s NO difference in the type of exercise—meaning, the system used—between running 1,000 steps and say, doing 1,000 continuous (low-height) box jumps if both activities remain under the MAF heart rate.) It’s important to frame high-rep exercises under the MAF heart rate not as “exercises which don’t interfering with aerobic development” but as “aerobic training,” which is for all intents and purposes what they are. In other words, what makes running under the MAF heart rate aerobic isn’t a property of running, but due to the fact that it satisfies the conditions I (but really Phil) outlines: high reps and remaining under the MAF heart rate. All this said, circuit training that goes above the MAF heart rate (high reps with an anaerobic component) would wreak a lot more havoc to your aerobic base-building than high-weight, low-rep exercises. Perhaps that’s what Phil was talking about. And by all means, I’d love if you could put Phil’s comment in a little context for me—do you remember what he was talking about? 2. Hi Ivan I think I read about this in the ‘Big book of health and fitness’ published 2012 and also in this article and this one High reps would cause quite a lot of fatigue wouldn’t they even if HR doesn’t exceed MAF. For example doing 30 push ups or 50 squats, I wouldn’t call that an aerobic workout even if my HR didn’t go above MAF. I think Phil said that weight training and calisthenics are always anaerobic regardless of HR. There is only a very small percentage of people that would be able to do enough reps at a low enough HR to call it an aerobic workout. Do you not think for someone completing regular aerobic workouts that there is too much of a crossover doing high reps exercises? 1. James: There wouldn’t be anaerobic crossover if they stay under the MAF heart rate. (Nothing in the articles you mention, and certainly nothing I’ve discussed with Phil, would lead me to think that he’d disagree with my post.) Let me tell you for sure that there is no way to have a high level of anaerobic function while maintaining a low heart rate (without it climbing quickly) and there is no way to have a low level of anaerobic function at a very high heart rate: the hormonal responses that create a high heart rate are the same ones that activate the anaerobic system (and ditto with a low heart rate and the aerobic system). Here’s an article I’ve written on this particular topic, in case you’re interested. Running MAF (for 30-45 minutes at a time) is an extremely high-rep exercise. There’s no difference in principle between running and most calisthenics: they are all high-rep bodyweight hybrid movements. For high-rep exercises, the heart rate that is “low enough” to be aerobic is the MAF heart rate. If (1) your body isn’t beginning to fatigue after 15 reps, you know that you’re using primarily oxidative pathways. And (2) if your heart rate doesn’t go above MAF, you know that it is almost certainly ONLY using oxidative pathways. Any exercise that fulfills those requirements can be called aerobic because you are getting all the signs that (1) you are using the aerobic system and (2) not the anaerobic. That said, what would happen to a lot of people during calisthenics is that they’d have to make a choice: once they started to do push-ups, intending to go high-rep, they’d see that their heart rate starts climbing extremely quickly (because they weren’t using aerobic channels in the first place). In other words, perhaps it’s possible that 99% of people wouldn’t be able to do high-rep push-ups or pull-ups as an aerobic workout because their aerobic fitness isn’t nearly high enough (so they have to use the anaerobic system). But if they COULD stay under the MAF heart rate throughout, it would be aerobic. Some people could do high-rep bodyweight deep squats, and others could do high-rep shallow squats with minimal weight (for example) and call both exercises aerobic if they fulfill such requirements. 1. Do you think that low rep high weight (avoid significant fatigue) is the way to go for strength training? For an endurance athlete and the ‘average’ person? 2. I think that it all depends on what system you want to train, and why. Low rep high-weight is only going to help you for running depending on how well you integrate it: if you do gait-based strength exercises (Staggered Romanian Deadlift, for example) and you use running-specific plyometrics you’ll see pretty good crossover from your strength gains. A good athlete (even a “pure” endurance athlete) needs to be well rounded. For example, I’m training for an ultramarathon in May and I’m developing my own lower-leg course (similar to what Bruce Lee wanted for his forearms) because the more strength and mobility I have in my lower leg, the less likely it’ll be that I’ll get leg cramps, knee pain, and the less likely that my heart rate will shoot through the roof in the later stages of the race. It’s a combination of slow strength, odd-impact plyometrics, all-around mobility, and eye-foot coordination. Will that training slow down the development of my aerobic base? Almost for certain. But while the overwhelming majority of my training is in fact MAF base training, (and the most important system in my body is my aerobic base), training these other systems (lower-leg plus knee) will make me a more resilient running machine. 3. Yeah I know all about being aerobically in great shape but being not well rounded at all. About 9-10 years ago, I used to do a lot of road cycling, it was the only exercise I did at the time, barring a small amount of walking. I had zero upper body strength and not great leg strength either and poor posture/imbalances etc. I remember one day I went on a mountain hike with a fair amount of elevation gain with friends, I found it way easier than they did going up the mountain and I felt great at the top. However coming back down the mountain was a nightmare for me, my legs and feet not used to weight bearing exercise gave me all sorts of trouble and I was struggling as much as the others who were a lot less ‘fit’ than me. My shoulders and back were also hurting from carrying a rucksack that I wasn’t prepared for. Ever since then I’ve tried to make my fitness more rounded – not always successfully – but I’ve never fell back into that trap of my fitness but being only specific to one are at the expense of all others. 1. That’s good. You’d be surprised how many people never realize that. And if you’re in any sport that is a little bit hybrid (like trailrunning) you’re going to be a far better performer if you’re well-rounded. 1. I’m not sure. Could be, depending on context. Typically, he draws the line at exercises that have some anaerobic component (even if they’re a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic). So, in a way, he first divides exercises into substrate utilization categories (whether you’re above or below the maximum rate—not percentage–of fat-burning) as the first and most important indicator, then the presence or absence of lactate (the point really being the creation of H+ or not), and finally whether the alactic anaerobic system is active or not. (Usually, the first 2 converge). In other words, he’s asking “which systems are in play” before asking “which systems are dominating activity.” In a (very small) nutshell, the reason why Phil cuts up the pie that way is because it’s the simplest way to “first do no harm” (primum non nocere). Having a choice between health or performance (or having the choice of betting one way or another), Phil will bet the way of health every time. 4. I remember you mentioning in another comment you were curious on the effect of psychological factors on the effect of stress. If we consider the contribution of a particular energy system an ‘effect’ of the level of perceived (and actual) stress by the brain as you suggest on this blog, then someone doing a run that should be technically ‘higher intensity’ but who does not believe that this run is harmful and who is enjoying the run, would experience less general and metabolic stress than a person who is running closer to MAF but who is fretting about the damage it may do him and who is not enjoying the activity. We know there are more stress hormones produced in the bodies of people who don’t enjoy exercise. So a high intensity session done (and genuinely enjoyed) may in some scenarios have the potential to cause less stress on the organism than a ‘hated’ low intensity activity. If our brains perceive a stress – even if imaginary – it will trigger a real physiological stress response (distress to use Selye’s term). MAF definitely plays into this because it introduces running to the body at a ‘safe intensity’ which is most likely to be perceived as ‘pleasurable’ and ‘non-threatening’ but of course this is not a strict rule. A few exceptions that would break it is: – Doing a MAF run with a compensation pattern due to injury which would still be interpreted as a threat – pace would likely be very slow because heart rate would be elevated because of the increased stress response which would be the way to recognise the metabolic manifestation of this – Doing a MAF run but hating the activity (i.e. you are the type of person who hates running – especially slow running). You may still get a stress response because your brain is antagonistic towards the activity (what Dr Romanov would call a failure of energy at the spiritual and mental gates – i.e. lack of genuine connection to the activity being performed) 1. Rene: Sorry for the late response. I completely agree with all of your points, to the extent that there is very little left for me to say. Your point about high-intensity being enjoyable is, I think, an extremely important caveat, or rather consideration, to keep in mind when discussing the MAF Method and low-intensity training. I know that I need a lot of stimulation (tiring hill running), for example. When I started doing MAF training, I stopped training high-intensity cold turkey, and I began to get a little depressed. In fact, I find that during the deep winter, I do best training comparatively little but having a 1:1:1 ratio of high:medium:low intensity training. I think that this is because I need the stimulation, as per your point above. I think that a discussion of these subjective components of stress, as well as our attitudes towards certain types of training and how they stack up with (or against) physiological stress is a topic for at least a few blog posts. I think I also want to speculate on how this experience may be different for people, say, who have different distributions of muscle fibers. Will someone with a huge ratio of Type I to II(x) fibers have the same preference as someone with a higher percentage of II(x) fibers? Does this even factor? (I believe it does). Do you know of any research to this effect? This also reminds me of the “big monkey, small monkey” theory of movement—where some people are just wired to move more. I wonder if the “big monkeys” (big movers) are such because they happen to have greater distributions of Type I muscle fibers, and therefore the necessary neurological machinery to run them. (I make no argument as to which is the cause and which is the effect—the muscle fibers or the neurological machinery). And I said that I had very little to say… I hope this doesn’t overwhelm you, but it is a very interesting can of worms you opened with this discussion. 5. Hi Ivan Wondered if you could answer this one. So yesterday I did some bodyweight exercises (squats, lunges, push ups etc) and I wore my heart monitor, It never exceeded 138 (my MAF HR is 154), the most reps I did of any exercise was 30. I did this for about 15 minutes (including rest periods). I have muscle soreness from this (DOMS). I never get muscle soreness (unless its a long workout) from say a 1 hour MAF run or bike ride or elliptical/rowing machine workout. However in an earlier reply you said if you can do high rep bodyweight exercises without your HR elevating above MAF then it is aerobic? 1. It’s because you were using new muscles in new ways, and creating novel stability demands (which are met by using Type IIX anaerobic fibers). To use squats as an example, the hip, knee, and foot range of motion you are using in high-rep squats is probably twice as big as when you run. Doing those movements over and over probably got you using sections of muscle that you don’t use a lot, creating stability demands that you don’t often see, which require anaerobic function of particular muscles to be met. But the overall experience of the body—predominantly which fuel and which system you’re using—was undoubtedly aerobic. If it had been anaerobic (meaning that the body had to switch into anaerobic mode) you would have seen your heart rate rise above the MAF threshold. So, while the DOMS you are feeling correlates quite well with the places and extents that you were using anaerobic muscle fibers for stability, your heart rate throughout the workout is telling you that the main training response produced by the workout will be aerobic. (If you had been using anaerobic muscle fibers to power your body’s primary movement, your heart rate would have gone through the roof). 6. Hi Ivan & James I loved this conversation. I find it very confusing though. I’m sure I read somewhere in the big book that all weight bearing exercise is anaerobic regardless of heartrate? I can’t get my head around all the info. Liked by 1 person 1. Sarah: Yes, that may have been written in the book. But consider this: what is the difference, in principle, between someone running with 25 extra lbs body fat and someone with 25 lbs in a weighted vest? In other words, what “weight-bearing” can mean in the sense used in the book is very narrow. Let me give you another example: some the biggest reductions in running economy are caused by wearing heavier shoes. Does that make a MAF run in ultra trail runners “weight-bearing” as compared to a barefooter? What about a MAF run with one 1.5-lb weight on each hand (a.k.a. two 16 oz water bottles)? What if you are wearing a light running backpack? The kind of weight that would be allowed by the constraints I set out in this article would be probably a little more than what you would carry in a MAF run (but not an overnight aerobic run), but far less than your average strength training session at the gym. Under these parameters, you’d be doing majority bodyweight (bearing) exercises, and perhaps stuff such as very light-duty overhead lunges. 7. Good information. We are embarked on Primal Endurance from Sisson/Kerns but still want to keep some strength training during the aerobic period. If we use HR to stay at or below MAF would that be the key to stay below during this period, as my HR spikes during strength even at 12-20 reps. Any further advice would be appreciated! 8. Hi Dennis, I’m in the same boat. Wanting to be a strict MAF adherent with my endurance projects (swim,bike,run) and to stick with my 2x weekly in the gym. Sounds like the starting place is to first pay attention to HR during resistance training work outs and see where I fall MAF wise. I’m really surprised that this subject is as “slippery” as it seems to be. If you stumble across any more helpful info either from your own experiments or other sources please share. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	[]
Dear Snarky – Mean Moms Are Taking Over the Pool! Dear Snarky, There are a group of mean moms that have taken over the pool. They have one mom stay after morning swim practice and save 16 pool lounge chairs. Then when the rest of the moms show up they hang out for hours at the pool gossiping and judging all the other moms that aren’t them. I’m so sick of it! They don’t even care if anyone else can hear them making comments about so and so’s swimsuit or cellulite and a whole lot of other what I’m going to call body observations. It’s making me not want to take my kids swimming and we paid for a pool membership that was sort of expensive so please don’t tell me to go somewhere else to swim. How can I get these women to back off and shut up? Signed, Sad Summer Mom Dear Sad Summer, Sigh, It seems like I get a letter like this every summer. So, here comes some vintage advice. As in any hostile situation with enemy combatants you need to take a direct attack. No wishy-washy maneuvers will get this job done. I strongly suggest you begin a campaign of cannon balls off the side of the pool that will create a tidal wave worthy splash back on these moms. Then make sure to invest in some XL Super Soakers and engage in a very robust game that results in all of you accidentally on purpose hitting the not so charming ladies with water. Finally, enjoy teaching your children and their friends how to master their flutter and butterfly kicks and smile proudly as they joyfully churn epic amounts of water out of the pool and onto these catty lounge lizards. Will all this make the mean pool moms cease and desist? Probably not, but you’ll be happy and that’s exactly what I was going for. You know what would make me happy? If you guessed buying my latest book EMPTY you would be correct.😍 It’s a fun and fab summer read ⛱ and for a peek-a-boo at it just click on the link. If your thumbs are weary after a hard day of scrolling then just scoot down this page a smidge and read about the adventure that awaits you.	[]
Is Haruhi Suzumiya coming back? Is Haruhi Suzumiya coming back? The reprint of the previous novels will appear starting in January 2021 with the return of the first book, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. What does the SOS Brigade stand for? The literal translation of SOS Brigade is “Haruhi Suzumiya’s Brigade to greatly enliven the world”. In some versions, the SOS Brigade stands for Saving The World By Overloading It With Fun Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade. Is there a season 2 of Haruhi Suzumiya? Season 2. The second season was aired in Japan as part of a re-airing of the whole series, with the new episodes mixed in with the first season’s episodes based on their chronology. In what order should I watch Haruhi Suzumiya? If you want to watch Haruhi the way that fans saw the show in 2006, the original broadcast order is: 11, 1, 2, 7, 3, 9, 8, 10, 14, 4, 13, 12, 5, 6. Season 2 follows chronological order, except it’s an interquel for season 1. Is Haruhi Suzumiya coming back? – Related Questions Will Haruhi Suzumiya ever end? They are not officially over. The author wrote a new novella which, along with two short stories, were released as The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya late last year. Why did Kyon kiss Haruhi? Haruhi is jealous about Kyon and Mikuru’s relationship. At night, Haruhi accidentally brings Kyon with her into a new world she created. Kyon, understanding the truth, manages to get Haruhi and him out by kissing her. After the events, it is not told whether they are in the old world or the new world. Why is Haruhi Suzumiya out of order? Unusually, it broadcast its episodes not in chronological order, but in a mixed order, but for good theatrical reason; the series comprises a main plot arc, and various self-contained episodes which chronologically occur after it. Will there be a season 3 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya? “It is regrettable that such an anticipated series won’t be coming out,” said Funimation representative Spike Vincent. “But we can just license one more isekai and call it a day, no harm done.” What is the difference between Haruhi 2006 and 2009? The 2006 one is told in artistic order. You probably want to see that one first. The 2009 one is told in choronological order (following Kyon’s personal time in case of time travel) and includes a few new episodes. Watch it afterwards, and feel free to skip episodes. Does Haruhi Suzumiya have powers? Powers. Haruhi has the ability to create reality (or “data”), but the power is unconscious and she is unaware of it. Just by thinking, she can alter reality. Is Haruhi Suzumiya God? Koizumi said that Haruhi has the power to create a new world (destroying the old one in the process) and the “current world” came to exist as a result of Haruhi’s power. As a result, some of the ‘Agency’ believes Haruhi to be a “god”. Why was Haruhi Suzumiya Cancelled? Conversation. TOKYO, Japan — Animation studio Satelight has announced that the third season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a recent… Is Haruhi Suzumiya ending? It ended on Decem, and was compiled in twelve volumes. The first bound volume was released on , and the last on . Yen Press licensed the Haruhi-chan manga series for an English release in North America and released the first volume on Octo and the last on . Is Kyon the actual God? Kyon was a god in his original world, but he stopped believing in the supernatural, his world became utterly mundane, and he grew bored so he subconsciously looked out into the multiverse and saw Haruhi’s universe, he went to the universe thus becoming Haruhi’s slider, he still has an innate ability to warp reality but … Why did Haruhi choose Kyon? It was not directly stated in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya that Haruhi has feelings for Kyon but it can be assumed that she had because of her attitude towards him (like trying to fix her hair in pony-tail since Kyon told her before that it suits her, or having Kyon the only person with her when she subconsciously … We will be happy to hear your thoughts Leave a reply	[]
5 Strategies for Successfully Outsourcing Shipping Logistics Quote: Successful outsources can also bring talent and technology inside your company Often in my work in the C.H. Robinson Green Bay office, customers will ask us how they can improve the odds that their logistics outsource will be a success. Over the 15 years this office has been open, I have developed expertise in how to best outsource businesses’ logistics. In this post, I outline five key tactics you should follow to ensure your outsourcing is smooth and successful. 5 Strategies for a Successful Logistics Outsource For starters, a logistics outsource engagement depends on a number of factors. Some items are within your control, and some are not. Here are five outsource logistics best practices that hopefully can help you bypass the school of hard knocks. 1. Understand expectations from multiple influences within your company. Basically, this helps the team work together instead of pointing fingers. The supply chain touches almost all departments, and each looks at the business through its own lens. Include strategic team members from all of these functional areas for a 360-degree view of the supply chain. At the same time, each team member will gain a first-hand understanding of your supply chain strategy, and will be able to implement their portion of the plan and measure outcomes. Companies with the best success tend to choose team members based on strategic inclination, as opposed to title or seniority. 2. Measure outcomes, not activities. Measuring the provider for activities—such as the number of shipments executed, quantities of pallets moved, or total miles traveled—won’t get you very far. Instead, measure the outsource provider on how they perform the activity against key performance indicators (KPIs) that improve productivity and increase efficiencies. Outsource models and solutions may look similar on the surface, but the level and quality of the activities performed will have an impact on other parts of the organization beyond transportation. 3. Grade your current technology against emerging needs. This is particularly important for companies that rely on IT staff to lead the innovation process. Be prepared to discuss your desired metrics and future expansion plans. This helps you know what will be needed for smooth integration with the provider. You can evaluate your existing transportation technology with these three measures: • Does your current technology provide you with the real-time dashboards or reporting capabilities you need to monitor the KPIs you select? • Are you willing and able to provide accurate data to your provider? • Does your current technology offer the scalability, accessibility, and low deployment and maintenance costs of cloud computing? 4. Carefully choose what to outsource and what to retain. You can retain strategic control and still have a successful logistics outsource. In traditional outsource relationships, you typically turn over an entire process or department to a third party, which manages “activity.” But successful outsources can also bring talent and technology inside your company, leaving your organization in strategic control of its transportation network. If your provider has a cloud computing model, your internal team can monitor real-time dashboards and receive customized reports based on KPIs. 5. Build an informed risk profile. There are a number of built-in risk factors shippers face in transportation and logistics. Each area has associated costs. Not all risk is equal. And not all providers have the ability to fulfill all obligations related to risk. How you assess these risks can impact a logistics outsource. Understand that not every organization takes on risk the same way—and the cost of assuming, or passing along, these risk factors could make a difference in the outsource relationship you have with your selected provider. Make sure you evaluate the operational, financial/legal, and brand reputation/service risk. Final Thoughts How you approach these factors and vet potential outsource providers can make or break the outsourcing engagement. In a more global world, success requires both cost reduction and value creation. This makes outsourcing—with its low- or no-cost integration of talent and technology—an appealing transformational strategy for shippers of all sizes. Outsourcing your logistics requires expertise from an expert. Learn how outsourcing consultants can further streamline the processes. Related Article: James Santy Vice President Sales Operations Stay up to date with our latest blog posts	[]
Ken, You Could Always Just Move… I guess Ken’s Tin Foil Hats just don’t provide the protection they used to. 5 Responses to “Ken, You Could Always Just Move…” 1. Ken Summers says: For the record, I am not now nor have I ever been a resident of Sackatomatoes. 2. Mr. Bingley says: I notice you are avoiding the Tin Foil Issue, though? Hmm, are you too busy chewing on human flesh??? 3. Ken Summers says: Did you know that HUMAN FLESH WRAPPED IN TINFOIL makes a darned good mock pigs-in-a-blanket? 4. Isn’t piggy in a tin foil blanket what the guys in Los Alamos used to simulate charred human flesh? 5. Ken Summers says: I wonder what Sheila’s doing today… Image \| WordPress Themes	[]
Random Musings: Why I read Why do we choose to read books? Perhaps we wish to learn, to gain empathy, to escape. As a reader it is possible to climb inside the pages of a book and imagine ourselves living a different life in a place beyond our dreams. There we may find love, become somebody elses hero, enjoy the adulation that will never be experienced in reality. I have read that when the ‘Grey’ books were first published they proved particularly popular amongst middle aged women. There was speculation that these readers wished to live out fantasies when their own sexual lives had gone stale. Despite being a member of this demographic the phenomenon is beyond my comprehension. Having watched the film (I have not read the books) I cannot understand why anyone would desire such experiences. I understand that desires are as individual as each person and would not wish to limit or condemn whatever others choose to read. When I am offered books to review I will always state that I do not enjoy romances. I try to avoid stories which involve a woman requiring a man for fulfilment, or a man using a woman as arm candy and to service his physical cravings. A romantic plot thread can be written with depth, humour and originality without descending into lengthy detail. As ‘Pride and Prejudice’ demonstrates, suggestion can be a powerful device. My antipathy is not towards the background to a mutual attraction but towards the reason for the intimacy and the way it is described. I have written of my dislike of gratuitous detail before, here. Yet this was not always how I felt. When I was in my late teens I devoured easy to read romances by the dozen. Through my twenties I read books involving peril and rescue which often ended with the handsome hero taking his beautiful conquest to bed. The stories have not changed but I have. My life experiences have darkened my views and I now look at that couple and extrapolate their future. In my eyes, happy ever after is Icarus before his fall. If books are an escape from reality then perhaps our choice of book reflects the place to which we each wish to travel in our dreams. Some look for the heady excitement of a new romance. As a mother of teenagers I fantasise about being held in some regard rather than contempt. I enjoy books involving strong characters who can hold their own against attacks on their being, to read of relationships founded on mutual respect rather than outward beauty. My heroes can stand alone against the world; they do not require another for fulfilment. When their life presents a trial they do not blame others or look to them for a fix. They appreciate their moments of happiness but can move on. Books offer a window to the world and I choose to avoid voyeurism. I seek out varied settings that I may expand my learning of other cultures, the characters thoughts enabling me to empathise with why people think as they do. I read more fiction than non fiction because I also wish to be entertained, to immerse myself in a story as if I were there. I rarely travel and have few people interested in conversing with me so perhaps this is my way of experiencing life. What do you choose to read and why? Book Review: Tokyo TOKYO_FINAL_ARTWORK_1602 for print Tokyo, by Nicholas Hogg, is a story of loss and of the anchors that are grasped when a life is cast adrift. The writing demanded pauses for appreciation. It was a pleasure to read. Social psychologist Ben Monroe studies group behaviour: the power of community, an individual’s desire to fit in, the benefits and drawbacks of crowd co-operation, and cults. Through his interest in the latter he meets his wife, Lydia. She is a strong willed woman who dismisses her husband when their toddler daughter, Mazzy, nearly drowns whilst in his care. However much Lydia may blame Ben for his momentary lapse it is nothing compared to the blame he heaps on himself. Rejected by Lydia, Ben leaves her and Mazzy in California, traveling first to England and from there on to Japan. Whilst exploring this teeming yet fragile country he meets a beautiful young woman, Kozue, with whom he has a brief affair. Conflating good sex with love he struggles to forget her when he returns to England: “this woman could bring me back to life” Ben writes a book which will make his academic name and is subsequently offered the chance to return to Tokyo as a visiting professor. He persuades Lydia that Mazzy, now aged fifteen, would benefit by joining him there for six months. On her flight out she meets a young Japanese man, Koji. They speak only briefly but, unbeknownst to Mazzy, Koji becomes obsessed with her. It is not his first obsession. Ben struggles to see his daughter as the beautiful young woman she is becoming. In trying to deal with his superficial perception he misses that underneath she still needs care. He takes to leaving her to pursue his will-o’-the-wisp of Kozue, a distraction that, once again, puts Mazzy in danger. The style in which this book is written reminds me of Japanese authors I have read with its slightly surreal plot development and imagery. Characters are introduced but remain opaque. The reader is offered only glimpses of their depth, shadows emerging briefly as from behind the paper screen doors of the houses in which they live. Suggestion is powerful and no more is needed. Japan is brought to life. I loved the observations on the irrelevance of so much that is valued by man: “The earth moved […] oblivious to the act played out upon its surface” When Ben visits the Fukushima exclusion zone he observes: “In a shopping arcade grass shoots up from the steps of an escalator. How quickly the earth reclaims its space from our feeble endeavours.” From “the safest country in the world”, despite the earthquakes, tsunamis and radiation, the descriptions of Japan darken as the tale progresses. The historical sex trade, where the geishas have morphed into hostesses, is explored alongside the attendant drugs and extortion. As the tension builds this distasteful side of Tokyo is offered up in contrast to the previously lauded order and honesty. The plot of this story is compelling but it is the psyches of the protagonists that drew me in. The author captures the weaknesses of the middle aged man, the truculent teenager, and the let down wife with brutal honesty. He also takes the reader inside Japan, a country that I have never visited but, having read this book, feel I now know just that little bit better. My copy of this book was provided gratis by the publisher, Cargo.	[]
Spelt Pound Cake One of our favorite recipes here at Small Valley Milling! Elaine's spelt pound cake will be a recipe that your whole family will love! Write a review Cook Time 1 hr 15 min Cook Time 1 hr 15 min 1. 1 c. butter (warm to room temperature) 2. 3 c. granulated sugar 3. 6 whole eggs (let them come to room temperature) 4. 1 1/2 c. organic whole spelt flour 5. 1 1/2 c. organic white spelt flour 6. 1/4 tsp. baking soda 7. 1/4 tsp. salt 8. 8 oz. sour cream 9. 2 tsp. vanilla extract 10. 1 tsp. almond extract 2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Mixture should be a light lemon color. 3. Mix flour with salt and soda, add to butter/sugar/egg mixture, alternating with sour cream. Mix thoroughly. 4. Blend in flavorings. 5. Bake in butter greased and flour Bundt pan for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees F. 6. Chill, slice and serve with whipped cream or fresh fruit. Small Valley Milling https://smallvalleymilling.com/ Order Online:	[]
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Blood-Stained Snow Blood-stained snow resembled shaved ice flavors. I seem to have startled you as I worriedly approached. My concern mistaken for desire without favor. A topic you wrestled with but refused to broach. Coagulated gore flows red from my veins. Deep wounds left alone refused to heal. Your vivid, dark fear pierced like poison dart pain. Yielding paralyzing passion only feelers could feel. You whispered so fiercely: Wrap my pain with your being! But your grief had no name and was locked up so tight. Yet your soul still persisted while my gaze peered unseeing. Take my pain! Take my pain! But stay out of sight. I saw only red as it filtered through. That cold snow melted into a broken heart shape. You sauntered away while the blizzard consumed. As I reached for redemption with my gift of self… raped.	[]
Know Your Customer – Gain The Advantage The business marketing has seen a shift in paradigm in the past couple of ears, moving away from traditional advertising towards a more direct and personal customer interaction. There is a focus on finding new and better ways to engage with clients and establish customer loyalty. This is no easy task, especially if you are unaware of your customer base interests and preferences to begin with. Even if you do have access to such information it is most probably dispersed between multiple sources and databases. A Better Way to Manage Customer Relationships Companies today are fully aware that they must truly know their customers in order to manage relationships and even attempt to compete in the market. One way to do that is through the notion and discipline of Customer Profile Management (CPM). CPM has become an important advantage for companies today since it provides a common platform and approach to managing multi-channel marketing campaigns and ongoing customer loyalty strategies. Brand leaders like Disney, Nike and Southwest Airlines all use Customer Profile Management as an essential process driver for their success. A Broader View The key benefit of CPM is the ability to collect and comprehend customer information, in ways that let you better interact with your audience. There are many categories and characteristics that you need to take into consideration, when devising a customer relationship strategy, such as demographic, geographic, purchase history and the list goes on and on. It pretty much depends on the type of product or service that you are selling. The biggest challenge for most organizations today is not so much the obtaining of data, so much as collecting it from a dispersed array of systems in a single synchronized and cohesive archive. Maximize Customer OpportunityKnow Your Customer 366 Degrees Once a customer profile has been established, each interaction with that customer presents an opportunity to learn more, and make adjustments and decisions that maximize the overall lifetime value of each customer. Collecting, adding to, and constantly reevaluating customer profile data is a powerful tool and activity for improved marketing, decision-making and profitability. Analytics and Action Customer Profile Management is quickly becoming a necessity rather than a convenient technique for customer analytics since it enables more accurate forecasting of buying habits and lifestyle preferences that can have a very real bottom line effect on organizational performance. Such data management activities can incorporate a magnitude of aspects and elements from simple like credit card purchases to magazine subscriptions. The use of these categories can create a cohesive profile of a customer, containing actionable data that can be utilized when making a business-decision.	[]
Home Weird News Young Lady Had Sex With A Dolphin Who Then 'Killed Himself'. Young Lady Had Sex With A Dolphin Who Then ‘Killed Himself’. A young woman had sex with a dolphin who’s naughty, who subsequently seemed to commit suicide when their romance ended. Margaret Howe Lovatt negotiated her way into being a member of a NASA-funded study to communicate with dolphins in the early 1960s. Given that dolphins have brains at least as large as ours, the theory was that by studying how intelligent animals “speak” to one another, we may create ways for communicating with extraterrestrials. Particularly close were Margaret and Peter. image credits : BBC/The John Lily Estate Margaret, then 20, persuaded project head Gregory Bateson to allow her study with the dolphins kept on the Caribbean island of St Thomas by neurologist John Lilly. Three dolphins had been there called as Margaret stated, Peter, Pamela and Sissy. She subsequently said, “Sissy was the largest.” “She was bossy and noisy, and she kind of ruled the show.” Pamela was a shy and scared young woman. Peter was a young man at the time. He was sexually maturing and a little naughty.” Margaret and Peter had a special relationship. If she spent too much time with the other dolphins, he got envious, and the emotion was mutual to some extent. When the experiment came to a close, Peter was heartbroken and split from Margaret. image credits : Youtube / BBC Margaret told the BBC, “That connection of having to be together morphed into actually loving being together, and wanting to be together, and missing him when he wasn’t there.” Although certain phrases were more difficult than others, Peter, more than his two colleagues, became fairly adept at creating English words by pushing air through his blowhole. “‘M’ was a real challenge,” she recalled. “Hello, my name is. Greetings, ‘M’argaret. He ultimately rolled over to bubble it through the water as I focused on the ‘M’ sound. He put a lot of effort into that ‘M.’” Peter and Margaret became closer and closer, and the bond became physical: “He was really fascinated by my body. He would come up to me and gaze at the back of my knee for a long time if I was sitting here with my legs in the water. He was fascinated by it and wanted to know how it worked.” According to an infamous Hustler magazine feature, Lovatt used to provide Peter sexual relief anytime he grew too sexually stimulated to engage in her experiments. Since she was a small child, Margaret had adored animals. image credits : Youtube / BBC “She explained, “It was just easier to embrace it and let it unfold.” “It was really valuable, and it was extremely gentle. “Peter was aware that I was nearby, and Peter was aware that I was nearby… It was sexual on his side, but not sexual on mine — albeit pleasant. “It’d simply become a part of what was going on, like an itch, and we’d just scratch it off and move on.” “It appeared to me,” she said, “that it strengthened the relationship.” Not because of the sexual activity, but because you won’t have to break as often. “And there was the end of it. I went to meet Peter and learn more about him. She explained, “That was a part of Peter.” “[The sex] wasn’t secret,” she said, “because everyone could see it.” However, NASA ultimately dispatched a young astronomer named Carl Sagan to report on John Lilly’s progress, and the tests were soon abandoned. When she began working with John Lilly and his dolphins, Margaret Lovatt was 20. image credits : BBC Margaret and Peter’s odd relationship came to an end with that. Peter drowned in what looked to be a suicide shortly after being separated from Lovatt. He appeared to stay submerged until he drowned, despite the fact that dolphins must surface to breathe on a regular basis. This is not an isolated occurrence. Dolphin Project: “Dolphins are not automatic air-breathers like we are, as Ric O’Barry of the Organization for animal rights. It’s a conscious effort to each breath. “If life becomes too intolerable, the dolphins breathe and fall down. The next breath you don’t take.” For Peter, life was obviously too unpleasant. “He’s not going to be unfortunate, he’s simply gone,” Margaret remarked. “And that’s all right.” Let us know your opinions in the comments. - Advertisment - Face Mask That Fogs Glasses Like A Bowl Of Hot Noodles It doesn't have to be dull to wear a mask — how about half a bowl of ramen on your face? Long... 18 Really Interesting Things About Conjoined Twins Abby And Brittany The Conjoined Twins Abby and Brittany, who are originally from the United States, are Siamese sisters. These conjoined twins have gained fame... Does Your Partner Check Your Phone? 8 Hidden Reasons Why. Does your partner check your phone? Getting a sneak look at your life partner's texts can be truly enticing, particularly on the... How Would Disney Princesses Show up in Real Life? When you're watching a cartoon, you might be curious about how the characters might appear in real life. And who better to...	[]
Online surveying tools Brian Boyer Columnist View Comments Online surveys are not new. They seem to have been around since the beginning of the internet. But what has happened is that they have matured quite a bit. A Google search for “online survey tools” results in 351 million results. There are more options and they are more powerful. So which one might help you with a particular problem? SurveyMonkey is a brand name many are familiar with. You have probably taken a survey generated by SurveyMonkey at least once in the past. The free version is fairly powerful and can help pretty much any organization. The reason it is so popular is because they really have the whole taking a survey thing down. You will find dozens of templates for surveys from customer satisfaction to instructor evaluation. Many of these templates even have benchmarks and best practices built right into the template. Same goes for adding questions to the survey. Industry standard questions with benchmarks from other organizations can help you develop a survey that actually provides valuable information. For those who want to get more advanced, you can even add logic to your survey, such as randomization of questions, skip logic and set answer quotas. Of course there is also a paid version that gives you more in-depth analytics, reporting and even data protections such as if you have concerns about HIPAA. Google Forms is starting to gain in popularity. If you use pretty much any Google service, then you already have an account for creating a Google Form. You can find it as part of Google Drive (same place you create Google Docs). Google Forms is just plain simple. Create a set of questions and send it out. It has minimal options, but that is part of Google’s charm — it is easy. I have seen it used not just for surveys but also for things like signups and general data collection. You can hook it into other Google products such as Google Sheets to instantly have the data in a spreadsheet to perform calculations or other work. Qualtrics was built for the professional and data nerds. It is for when you want to conduct more scientific surveys. You can create all kinds of advanced logic including creating special question paths based on how users answered previous questions, randomizing all or certain parts of the survey, etc. You can create demographic filtering questions to target just the group you want to target. Like SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics includes tools for specific types of surveys. The main difference is, they aren’t just templates, they are basically whole products of themselves. They have “four core experiences and applications” which include customer, employee, brand and product. Additionally, Qualtrics allows you to tap into advanced statistical capabilities including artificial intelligence and machine learning to create predictive and automated decisions. Of course there are many other tools aside from these three. You may also want to look at GetFeedback, Qualaroo, SurveyPlanet or Typeform. Even some platforms like Google include survey tools including Zoho and Constant Contact. They can range in price from free to very expensive. The point is, you have a lot of really good options for conducting surveys online. View Comments	[]
‘Belt and Road’ advances: Beijing fills void in Argentina created by American ambivalence Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler For nearly a decade now, China’s “Belt and Road” commercial infrastructure initiative (BRI) has been expanding globally. Usually, and most notably, countries which sign up are poor or unduly dependent on Beijing’s largesse and bulging coffers. Places like Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have willingly joined the dragon’s embrace. In Africa many states predictably signed on; Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania. But when the BRI initiative reached Greece and linked up with the port of Piraeus, people began to focus. Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, left, meets with Chairman Xi Jinping in Beijing. As the world waited apprehensively for Russian actions in Ukraine and watched the Beijing Winter Olympics unfold, an unlikely Latin American political player visited both Moscow and Beijing. Argentina’s peripatetic socialist President Alberto Fernandez landed in Moscow and lunched with Vladimir Putin to give thanks for Russia’s Sputnik vaccine distributions in Covid ravished Argentina. Offering pleasantries to Putin’s ears, Fernandez declared that Argentina has to “stop being dependent on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States.” Then he flew to the storied Middle Kingdom. President Fernandez visited Beijing seeking gifts and commemorating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Buenos Aires. The Argentine president dutifully kowtowed to Chairman Xi Jinping and enrolled the Argentine Republic in China’s Belt and Road initiative. With a theatrical sweep of the hand, Chairman Xi offered “billions and billions of dollars coming Argentina’s way, US$23.7 billion from BRI loans and investments alone plus the proposal to broaden the currency swap with Beijing (already around half of Central Bank reserves),” according to the respected Buenos Aires Times. Since 2013, BRI has emerged as a singular if controversial commercial influence buying plan of China’s communist regime, coming through lavish development loans, promoting infrastructure projects, and “judgement free” political policies, yet often to the backdrop of staggering debt entrapment. BRI offers Beijing a unique geopolitical policy edge. Fernandez gushed on social media, “I had a cordial, friendly and fruitful meeting with Xi Jinping, President of China,” after which “we agreed to incorporate Argentina into the Belt and the Silk Road.” Beijing’s geo/commercial game plan is stunningly simple; encourage Chinese imports, direct investment and debt. Otherwise known as the Silk Road, BRI looks to match resource rich countries and strategic ports to China’s interlocking system of commerce and promoting interdependence and often political alignment with China. Significantly in a joint statement, Argentina reiterated its support for the One China policy that forms the cornerstone of Beijing’s claim to democratic Taiwan. Equally, China voiced its support for Argentina’s claim to what the statement called “the Malvinas,” aka the sovereign British Falkland Islands. Later to the chagrin of London, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson reiterated Beijing’s position in no uncertain terms: “China firmly supports Argentina’s legitimate claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.” Why is this so important? Already 18 other Latin American countries are in Beijing’s BRI. Argentina is a resource rich and bountiful land graced by natural beauty but sadly saddled by the enduing socialist legacy of Peronism which Fernandez proudly embraces. Argentina has amazing food production and raw materials which China views with envy. Argentina’s enduring cult of Peronism dating from the 1950’s remains a toxic mix of political populism, profligate government spending, and high-octane nationalism, still maintaining an emotional grasp on at least half the population. Nonetheless Argentina’s chronic economic mismanagement, inflation and currency free fall make the country ripe for Beijing’s blandishments. When we visited Argentina a few short years ago, there were 36 Pesos to one US$ Dollar; now there are 106 to 1$! The People’s Republic of China already operates a huge satellite tracking and telemetry complex in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region. The station is on a direct line with Washington DC and it’s widely believed to be used for eavesdropping on American communications. The facility was set up during the presidency of leftist leader Christina Kirchner Fernandez (no relation to the current president) and was approved by a deeply divided Congress in 2015. On a more earthly matter, China is intent on providing the Argentine Air Force with modern JF-17 jets to replace its phased out French Mirages. The Argentine Defense Ministry has budgeted nearly $650 million for new fighter jets and China wants to do the deal. At the same time Russia is recommending its supersonic multirole Mig-35 aircraft. American ambivalence towards Latin America for over a decade is reaping dangerous unintended consequences as China fills the gap. Before leaving China, Fernández told Xi that had he been an Argentine citizen, he “would be a Peronist.” Perhaps so… You must be logged in to post a comment Login	[]
Which Are The Biggest Rottweilers In The World? Last Updated on September 10, 2021 by Marco C. What is the size of the biggest Rottweilers in the world? We will look at how big this breed can grow and learn a few things about Rotties. The Rottweiler inherits its features from their early ancestors – a heavy, thickly muscled body. Males are bigger and heavier than females, with the largest weighing up to over 130 pounds and measures up to 27 inches at the shoulder. The Rottie is a strong true dog with a big loving heart to its owner. It makes a good guard dog and is successfully used in military, police, and customs work. It also makes a good pet and family dog who loves to play with children and protect its owner. Training your Rottweiler provides it with the leadership he can respect and trust without resorting to anger or physical force. Rotties are not for everyone, but the pet lovers who have reared this dog can swear by it. Some cities ban this breed from their area, which is unfortunate for those who want to keep it. Let’s look at how much this dog can grow What Are The Biggest Rottweilers In The World? This is a question asked by most pet owners since the breed is famous. The answer to this question varies based on how one defines the Rottweiler breed. What we all need to understand is there is not a single breed of dog. A series of dog breeds were used to create the Rottweiler. Rotties are raised for various purposes – show dogs, training purposes, guard dogs, or even friendly pets at home. American Rottweilers show dogs are bred purposely for shows and can be enhanced to grow bigger than their pet friends at home. The Biggest Rottweilers Breed In The World The biggest Rottweiler breed is the Roman Rottweiler. This breed has a commanding physical presence, and its height is classified as large or giant size. Roman Rottweilers can grow very big and attain the considerable size of a giant dog. The Roman Rottweiler is regarded as one of the biggest dog breeds existing on the planet. The male Roman Rottweiler has a minimum height of 23 inches, but some can grow up to the giant size of 30 inches. The female Roman Rottweilers do not grow as large as the male ones. They have a height ranging from a minimum of 24 inches to a giant size of 29 inches. How Much Do Roman Rottweilers Weigh? A Roman Rottweiler can weigh 95 pounds on average, but the female Roman Rottweilers are generally lighter than the male ones. A male Roman Rottweiler weighs from 95 pounds to 130 pounds, while a female usually weighs from 85 to 115 pounds. What Does A Roman Rottweiler Look Like? Roman Rottweilers have either black and tan or black and mahogany coat colors. They are powerful, robust, muscular, and appear fierce depending on their pose. They have a broad and muscular head that includes the upper and lower jaw. Their eyes are almond-shaped, well-spaced, dark brown, and deep. Their lower and upper jaws are broad with scissor bite teeth. They have long ears, triangular, curvy and broad that point downwards, extending to the midline of the head. They have muscular and slightly arched necks that look huge in that chain or leash. They have an attractive but stout body with a straight forearm and muscular hind legs giving them a balanced stance. How Long Does This Breed Live? The Roman Rottweiler has a lifespan ranging from 10 to 12 years on average. However, the female can live up to 14 years, which is longer than the males. Compared to other smaller or regular-sized Rottweilers, these giant-sized ones have a shorter lifespan. This is because they are prone to common health Issues that affect big canines due to their size. The size of a Roman Rottweiler affects both their general well-being and their lifespan. Some of the common health issues affecting this breed include Roman Rottweilers are prone to overeating and getting obese very fast. Due to their large size, they tend to eat a lot of food. If you do not walk your dog or have it exercise, it will eventually get overweight. Hip Dysplasia This disease affects the hip joint, causing arthritis and pains that renders it immobile. It is caused by the head of the thighbone and the socket in the pelvis not growing together. One tends to grow faster than the other, giving your dog problems in walking. To prevent this problem from happening, have your dog maintain an average body weight and exercise regularly. Osteochondritis Dissecans This common health issue affects Roman Rottweilers. The bone disease occurs when a joint detaches from the bone due to little or no blood supply entering the bone. This commonly affects the shoulder bone and may affect other joints like the hip, knee, or elbow. This disease affects its eyes, making the eyelids roll inwards, affecting the dog’s vision. ACL Tear This disease affects the joints causing them to become dislocated at the joint and causing immobility. Taking Care Of The World’s Biggest Rottweiler To keep your dog healthy and in good shape, you must ensure that you take proper care of it. Let’s look at the kind of care the Roman Rottweiler needs. Roman Rottweilers require many physical exercises every day because they have many calories to dispel. This breed naturally loves to move because they are brilliant in nature. They happily engage in exercise and runs because it stimulates their cognitive abilities. Provide moderate physical exercises for about 30 to 40 minutes each day, whether a walk or a run for your Rottie, and it will grow healthy and happy. Use the fetch game to stimulate it mentally, mostly in the afternoons. Proper Diet A healthy diet includes proteins, multivitamins, and other essential nutrients recommended for this breed’s well-being. Ensure that the snacks you give your Rottie are healthy and have the right nutrients to avoid overfeeding it with an improper diet. This breed adds weight very fast; it is, therefore, important to provide proper food and scheduled feeding times. Where Can You Find The World’s Largest Rottweilers In The World? The German Rottweilers are slightly bigger than the American Rottweilers, making them the world’s largest. They have broader heads than their American colleagues do. world's biggest rottweiler Despite the German ones being taller, the American Rottweiler has slightly longer legs. Overall, both of these countries have the largest Rotties across the world. It is important to take care of your furry friend to ensure they live a long healthy life, less susceptible to health problems. You will both enjoy your friendship and have many long walks and fun together. Read more about: The Oldest Rottweiler On Record Leave a Comment	[]
Are You Tired of Being Stuck at Home during the Pandemic? Try Cycling. The global pandemic has closed down or suspended public spaces, including those where people can do regular physical activities, such as gyms, parks, and recreational centers. This problem has led to physical inactivity. And it has serious health repercussions. Boredom is also a common problem for many. Being stuck at home for almost a year now may not be as fun as you imagined. And while the internet offers several types of content, staring at a screen all day isn’t good for your health. If you want to go back to being active and have some fun, try cycling. It’s a relatively easy activity that can offer several benefits, especially during a pandemic. Helps in Losing “Quarantine 15” Being stuck at home, you may have put on a few pounds, which is dubbed by many as “Quarantine 15.” Cycling is a form of cardio exercise, so it’s a great way to lose weight. A person who weighs 155 pounds can burn 298 calories after one 30-minute biking session. And one study found that after biking to work for six months, overweight people reduced their body fat by 4.2 kilograms. Many shy away from cardio exercises since they can be painful and tiring. Some examples include walking and running. But cycling is less intensive than those two. It involves less joint loading. As a result, cycling is an ideal form of exercise for many, especially those with weak ankles or knees. Improves Respiratory Health If you haven’t done any cardio exercises for a long time, starting can be difficult. Many shy away from cardio exercises like cycling because it makes them breathless for a short period. But this is a good thing. If done regularly, cycling can strengthen your lungs. Besides, you can start small. You can go for a short distance and do it for 30 minutes or less. Or you can do it with other tasks so that you don’t feel like you’re exercising. For example, ride a bike when you buy groceries, pick up an item you bought on sale, like an Obermeyer women’s ski jacket or a new gadget, or pick up prescription meds. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease. So having strong lungs due to regular cycling can give you an extra layer of protection against the novel coronavirus. Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases There is scientific evidence that cycling can make your heart stronger. Since biking is a cardio exercise, it can strengthen your heart muscles and improve your blood circulation. A healthy heart keeps your pulse at lower resting levels. And this can reduce your risk for heart attacks, hypertension, and other cardiovascular problems. Prevents Other Serious Illnesses Cycling can improve respiratory and cardiovascular health, as discussed earlier. This also means that this form of exercise can help you prevent other serious illnesses. Regular cycling can lower the risk of colon cancer and breast cancer. And because this activity helps in weight management, your risk of diabetes is also lowered. Improves Mental Well-being Biking not only improves physical health but mental health as well. Like other forms of exercise, cycling can help in lowering your risk of anxiety and depression. Also, you can improve your mood by cycling since exercising is known to release endorphins. With these effects, biking regularly will help you manage your stress more effectively. Cycling Safety during the Pandemic Many states laid out shelter-in-place orders, but they allow solo outdoor activities. You just need to follow the proper protocols. Always wear a helmet when you go out for a ride. Wear a mask if you’ll be passing through crowded places. And consider bringing one or two extra masks to replace what you’re wearing when they get wet from sweat. Also, it’s okay to take off your mask if you’re alone and won’t encounter anyone else in your biking route. Like and Share Scroll to Top	[]
Wes and I should never be left alone in a respectable place of business. With a camera. Unsupervised. We just shouldn't. Now you know why. Sorry Jessica. Every month around here we have a pot luck lunch where we can all hang and eat a ton of food. So our lovely business manager Jessica puts up friendly little flyers around the office so everyone knows when they are, and what food theme is this month. Well we messed with those flyers. We're like, 5 years old. More From KFMX FM	[]
Delivering Government Services Like a Digital Native Related Expertise: Digital Government, Digital Products, Data and Digital Platform Delivering Government Services Like a Digital Native By Neveen AwadJonathan BriceSantiago FerrerHeidi Kim, and Taylor Stuart Few public agencies match the private sector on digital experiences—and the public expects, and needs, government to do better. The key is to take the same customer-centric approach digital leaders have mastered. That means agencies need to: • Focus on journeys—such as the birth of a child—and integrate all relevant services so that they are easy to access and use. If the services span multiple agencies, creating an independent agency to design and manage them is a great way to bake in coordination and consistency. • Leverage human-centered design to view—and create—experiences from the customer’s perspective, whether that customer is a resident, business, or government employee. • Get to value quickly by steadily building out services instead of waiting for a grand “kitchen sink” unveiling. Embrace low- and no-code solutions to speed the process, but also identify where you can tap or repurpose existing systems and resources. By combining these practices with agile ways of working, a culture of collaboration, and the right metrics, governments can deliver services that are more accessible, have a greater impact, and spur economic—and individual—growth. Public agencies rarely match the private sector in online experiences. By taking a customer-centric approach, they can even the score—and serve people better. A government may be of the people, by the people, but its digital services aren’t often built around the people. Approval ratings are low: just 63% of respondents to BCG’s 2022 Digital Government Citizen Survey reported satisfaction with online services. That’s a score that, in the private sector, would trigger board meetings and blood pressure screenings. An unfair comparison? Not anymore. When users log in to a government website, they aren’t comparing their experience with what Finland or the State of New Jersey delivers. They’re comparing it with Amazon and JPMorgan Chase. They expect interactions on par with commercial sites and apps. And largely, they aren’t getting them. That can change. When governments get digital right, they see—and trigger—a cascade of benefits. Services have a greater impact and are more accessible. Better experiences mean increased trust in government. Satisfaction scores rise, but so do job creation and economic growth. When a small enterprise has a simple path for filing documents and obtaining licenses, it can get down to business, and expand its business, faster. How to get there? It starts with looking at the user—whether a resident, small business, or government employee—as a customer. A big part of digital transformation is building services and journeys with customer needs, preferences, and behaviors always top of mind. By taking a customer-centric approach, public agencies can deliver intuitive and efficient experiences. And they can better support, and empower, those they serve. Transforming the Customer Experience The COVID-19 crisis put digital services on the marquee, giving them a starring role in how we work and live. But for many government services, waiting in line has been replaced by waiting online, with users searching through a myriad of outdated agency websites. BCG’s survey—which comprised 28,200 participants across 41 countries—found that 71% of respondents had encountered issues online, including technical glitches, lengthy process times, cumbersome navigation, and, simply, an inability to find what they needed. (See the exhibit.) Already, countries like Singapore and New Zealand are pursuing a more customer-centric approach, designing experiences around life events like the birth of a child. The idea is to make the journey—not the agency—the focal point. A new parent shouldn’t have to access different platforms run by different agencies using different interfaces to do the things new parents need to do, such as registering a birth or scheduling vaccinations. They shouldn’t risk missing an important service simply because they didn’t know it was available to them. Instead, parents in these countries use a single app or site that incorporates all components of the journey. This kind of integration is a key tenet of an executive order President Biden issued in December 2021.1 Notes: 1 For details, see, December 13, 2021. The order calls for a customer-first focus in delivering services and gives agencies a to-do list of near-term projects, including a new online passport renewal experience and new tools to simplify the payment of taxes. But long term, the ambitions are greater. The order notes that life events, like turning 65 and planning retirement, often find residents “navigat[ing] services across multiple agencies.” In such instances, the order directs, “agencies should coordinate their service delivery to achieve an integrated experience.” That’s no small ask. Public agencies typically operate in a siloed fashion, each with its own processes, data, and IT infrastructure (often composed of legacy systems that don’t play well with others). So how do you bring together the services that the journey, or the life event, requires? There are a couple of options. One idea is to create a digital front door—a jumping-off point for related services run by different agencies. The advantage here is that you can create a sort of one-stop shopping fairly quickly. But that speed comes at a price. With each service still under the purview of its “home” agency (with its own IT environment and design choices), it’s hard to ensure seamless, consistent experiences across the journey. A second option is to create an independent agency that takes ownership of service delivery. This new organization doesn’t replace the home agencies, but it’s responsible for designing, managing, and supporting their services (or at least a subset of them) across digital and physical channels. In essence, you bake in the coordination and integration. Users see the same interface and even the same terminology throughout the experience. They navigate quickly and fluidly across the steps of their journey, even when that means accessing services from different agencies. Not surprisingly, we think this second approach has the edge. But it’s a much more ambitious undertaking than a digital front door, and as the saying goes, ideas are easy—execution is everything. Lessons from Oklahoma That caveat about execution is what makes a multiyear transformation in Oklahoma so instructive. The Sooner State is looking not just to improve consistency and efficiency across channels but to create an experience on par with best-in-class private sector players. Anchoring this effort is a new service agency that will take responsibility for omnichannel delivery of services. From the start, Oklahoma has followed a customer-centric approach, the fruits of which are taking form in a new digital hub for government services.2 Notes: 2 For more information, see While the hub is beginning with drivers’ licenses, identification, and motor vehicle services, it ultimately will include services related to vital records, business licenses and permits, corporate filings, boating and fishing, housing and property, legal matters, health, and other areas. The hub also will integrate with physical channels, such as telephone support and in-person locations, to provide a seamless experience for customers who wish to use a combination of channels. Oklahoma’s effort is built around five design principles that accelerate the benefits of the new-agency approach but also recognize—and tackle—its challenges. These principles don’t work in isolation. They fuel one another. For government organizations looking to transform their own service delivery, these are best practices that work best together. View the experience through the customer’s eye. Digital leaders know the lesson well: to make the customer experience your focus, you need to understand your customer. Human-centered design (HCD) involves users closely in product development, helping you generate key feedback and insights—regarding needs, preferences, behaviors, and limitations—and incorporate them in your design. Whether your customer is a resident, employee, or business, HCD techniques like ethnographic research (including interviews and observations) and iterative testing allow you to view experiences, pain points, and solutions through that customer’s eyes. Using this lens, you can ensure that you are building the right solution to the right problem. In Oklahoma, for example, designers discovered that there were times when customers wanted to interact in real time with agency employees, but other times when they preferred to perform the process on their own schedule. To give customers this flexibility, Oklahoma prioritized support for synchronous/asynchronous services. Get to value quickly. By steadily building out the central hub, you steadily create value for both agencies and residents instead of waiting years for a grand unveiling. The idea: think big but start small (focusing on a few high-volume services) and scale fast. Quick wins also demonstrate, often quite visibly, the power of the customer-centric approach, boosting buy-in from stakeholders—support that helps fund the journey. Developing services incrementally lets you apply the lessons you learn with each wave so that your process (and ideally, your speed and efficiency) continually improves. It also lets you build your internal capabilities—the skills, data, and other elements required to deliver the target experiences—steadily, as well. This is particularly important in the public sector, as government agencies typically can’t hire all the necessary talent as rapidly as private sector companies. It’s faster, and more realistic, to develop just the capabilities you need to launch the current wave of services. Then, in the next wave, you expand that foundation, adding any capabilities your new services require. Let technology accelerate, not hinder, your progress. None of this works without thinking carefully about technology. That’s because tech can cut two ways. It can facilitate the rapid development of customer-focused experiences but can also encumber it. Many organizations—and government agencies tend to top the list here—have an IT infrastructure based on older, less flexible (or completely inflexible) legacy systems. To build the best customer experience, using HCD, you need to design features and journeys without worrying about how the final product ties into your back end. You need to separate your journey decisions from your technical decisions. And, in keeping with the private sector’s mantra of speed to market, you need to launch new experiences quickly. How do you avoid compromises and delay? In Oklahoma, the answer has a couple of components. The first is to embrace low-code and no-code solutions. Using drag-and-drop interfaces, developers can create applications—whether web services or mobile apps—with minimal (or even zero) coding. That fosters speed: rapid cycles in which designers can seek and incorporate user feedback for works in progress. Meanwhile, the simplicity of low- and no-code solutions means that nonengineers can be developers, too, enabling those well versed in HCD but perhaps less proficient in programming to play a key role in getting services and journeys off the ground. The second part of the equation: make the most of what you already have in place. Savvy agencies will take a close look at their IT portfolio before embarking on new initiatives. They’ll identify where they might tap or repurpose systems and resources that they already possess. Many organizations, particularly in the public sector, have technology they don’t fully use. Leveraging these assets, where possible, can lower the costs—and technical debt—incurred by new projects, while accelerating the pace of development and deployment. Embrace agile and a culture of collaboration. Speed and flexibility are boosted further via agile ways of working. In our experience, agile can deliver a 10% to 20% increase in customer satisfaction, two to four times faster delivery of new products, and 15% to 25% reductions in development costs. The public sector can reap these same rewards, too, which is why agile principles—including cross-functional teams, frequent iterations, and continually seeking out and applying feedback—are at the heart of Oklahoma’s public services project. Agile is about more than processes. It’s also about building a mindset: a test-and-learn culture where collaboration and continual improvement are ingrained in the organization’s DNA (and evangelized from the top). A key lesson from Oklahoma is how collaboration—particularly in the form of co-creation—can help a public agency develop its in-house talent. By mixing external partners and internal staff on development teams, Oklahoma initiated a two-way knowledge transfer. The outside experts gained insight on how processes worked and what customers needed. But just as crucially, the state’s personnel saw key techniques and methodologies in action and developed their own skills. So when the outside experts leave the field, the internal talent can run with the ball, ready and able to lead subsequent waves. Focus relentlessly—from the start—on outcomes and metrics. Finally, how do you know that the experience you’ve built is working for your customers? The right KPIs can provide valuable insight on outcomes and improvements: how initiatives are faring and where to focus follow-on work. But it’s important to think about those metrics right from the beginning and understand your starting point as well as your goal. By developing a baseline, you create alignment, upfront, on what you’re trying to fix and what success looks like. Oklahoma’s approach was to baseline performance, efficiency, and satisfaction. This meant looking at KPIs such as the number of credentials issued, backlogs, wait and service times, and customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores. The right metrics will vary across organizations, but there are some rules of thumb. KPIs should align with the outcomes you seek (in the private sector, many organizations look at CSAT and net promoter score to gauge the overall effectiveness of the customer experience). They should also be timely and accessible. The goal is to get a snapshot of performance in as close to real time as possible. That insight becomes a guide. You may have built an excellent customer experience—but it can always be an even better one. Digital can be a great enabler, simplifying and enriching interactions between government and those it serves. But public agencies need to take a new approach if they are to match the private sector on the customer experience. This means focusing on needs and journeys, and building a foundation for speed, flexibility, and continual improvement. It’s an approach that pays its first dividends quickly and creates more value over time. 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What does it mean when a woman pierce her nose? A woman with the nose piercing is all about showing her feminine and women’s power. Some of the men even opt for the nose piercing but the difference comes around either they are doing it on the right side or the left side. The left side of the nose will be releasing more of the feminine power as you will pierce it. >> Click to Also question is, what side should a straight girl get her nose pierced? Left side Consequently, what does it mean when a girl gets her nose pierced on the left? The left nostril, in one way or another, relates to the female reproductive system – more to parturition. Thus, getting the left nostril pierced is ‘said’ to help ease out the labor pain during parturition (child birth). Additionally, what does a nose piercing symbolize in Christianity? If you pierced but felt that God was wrong, repent and ask God for forgiveness. … The nose piercing is also found in the Bible, more specifically in the Genesis of the Bible (24:22), where we read that Abraham gave a golden hoop nose piercing (Shanf) to his son’s future wife. What does the Bible say about nose piercings? Most people on the side against body piercing use Leviticus as an argument that body piercing is a sin. Some interpret it to mean you should never mark your body, while others see it as not marking your body as a form of mourning, as many of the Canaanites did at the time the Israelites were entering the land. Does piercing your nose on the right side mean anything? Right Side What side do Indian females get their nose pierced? In India the outside of the left part of the body is the preferred position of the piercing. This is followed by some orthodox folk also because Ayurvedic medicine associates this location with the female reproductive organs. How do you know if nose ring will suit you? What does the Bible say about piercings? What does a nose piercing mean spiritually? God blessings continually be upon your ministry. People used to put their nose piercing for religious and aesthetic purposes, but nowadays, for many young people putting a nose piercing means rebellion, and a nose piercing means resistance or a way to counter the rules and norms of the society. What woman in the Bible wore a nose ring? Leave a Reply	[]
Realism matters • Oscar I may eventually move this thread to Physics or epistemology, but I bet it would be helpful for someone coming across this to have a quick and dirty explanation for what "magical thinking" means. Is the context of this discussion whether a "supernatural" exists, or is this more of a mathematical / logical theory discussion? • Love it, Oscar! The weeds of magical/idealistic thinking are hard for people to get off their feet. I would love to find a way to do that-- to free people from getting stuck in them. • Interestingly enough, Mettrie has quite a few quotes on the subject, decades before Darwin. "The first generations must have been very imperfect. Here the esophagus will have been lacking; there the stomach, the vulva, the intestines, & so on. Obviously the only animals that will have have been able to live, conserve, & perpetuate their species, will have been those who have been provided with all the parts necessary for reproduction, & which in a word no essential part will not have been missed. Conversely those who have been deprived of some part of a necessity absolute, will be dead, or shortly after their birth, or at least without reproducing. Perfection was no more the work of a day for nature than for art." "People say that all eyes are made optically and all ears mathematically! How do they know that? Because they have observed nature; they were astonished to see that its productions were so equal, and even superior, to art. They could not do otherwise than suppose that it had some aim or enlightened purposes. Nature thus existed before art, which was created following in her steps and came from her as the son comes from his mother. And a chance arrangement, providing the same privileges as an arrangement made on purpose by all possible hard work, earned our common mother an honor which is due only to the laws of movement." "By what an infinite number of combinations matter must have passed before reaching the only combination which could result in a perfect animal, and through how many others before reproduction reached the degree of perfection it enjoys "Everything doctors & physicists have written about the use of the parts of the animated bodies, always appeared to me unfounded. All their reasoning on the causes finals are so frivolous that if Lucretius had refuted them so wrongly then he must have been a bad physician as he was a great poet" "The elements of matter, by dint of twitching & mingling, having managed to make eyes, it was impossible not to see, as not to see oneself in a mirror, either natural or artificial. The eye has found itself the mirror of objects, which often serve them in turn. Nature did not think more of eyeing to see, than water, to serve as a mirror for the simple shepherdess. The water is found suitable for returning the images; the shepherdess saw there with pleasure, her pretty face. This is how the author of the Machine Man thinks." Mettrie made sure to reject all of the supernatural and to stay firmly within a naturalistic and material view of the world, often conceding to Lucretius and disagreeing with his former Cartesian colleagues . • We probably need a separate forum on theories about the mechanics of evolution. I will set one up and link here. This comes to my mind because there are no doubt lots of interesting theories on how far things go by "chance" combination until something else kicks in. For example a 1969 Dodge Charger, or a Great Pyrenees dog, doesnt just spring out of the ground by chance. Something happens at early stages without any guidance at all, and then at some point (in at least some parts of evolution) intelligent selection takes over. I am by no means up to date on all the various theories about how gradual things are, or how "leaps" take place, but I bet over time some people will want to post about things like that. Edit: Well duh, that's exactly where we are, aren't we? :) I was thinking we were in one of Charles' threads on pas Epicureans but i see we are in exaclty the right place. Although, if someone expands to far on the mechanics of evolution, it would be a good idea to start a separate thread in this same forum. Origin of Life / Development of Life / Evolution	[]
If you've ever felt exhausted, lost, or like you’re just going through the motions every single day, you are not alone. Many of us search for purpose and happiness. But what we do not realize is that achieving a meaningful and happy life requires that we lead an intentional life. Living an intentional life means that you must learn how to make better decisions for yourself, in which you are consciously aware of the actions you are going to take and why. Your actions must be aligned with your goals. Before taking any action, it’s essential to reflect first on your intention. Once you zero in on this, all your decisions will be made in alignment with it and you will be able to see clearly what distracts or steers you away from what you want to build. These 10 questions can help you live intentionally and empower you as you embark on a new phase of your life: 1. What is your intention for the year or this period of your life? Think of a positive and empowering word that can anchor your intention. Some examples are Power, Growth, and Faith. 2. How do you plan to live that intention? Now that you’ve verbalized your intention, think about the steps you will take to help you stay true to it. How will you embody this word? Are there things, situations, and people that are holding you back from living your intention? 3. How do you want this year or period to be different? If you keep doing the same things, the result will always be the same. The change you want lies in how much you’re willing to go out of your comfort zone and stretch yourself. Be open to new possibilities and allow yourself to dream again. When you are clear about what you want, the steps you have to take to get there become clearer, too! 4. How do you want to improve your life? Think of how you want to improve your life in terms of yourself, your work, and your relationships. Do you want to be more confident? Are you ready to pursue a different career or passion? Do you want to be more present with your loved ones? You might have been on survival mode for the past years – claim that this year or new phase will be your time to spread your wings and thrive. 5. What changes are unfolding in your life? Become more aware of the changes, both big and small, that are happening in your life by listing them down. This will help you realize how far you have come and will remind you that you can adapt and adjust. 6. How will you adjust to these changes? Once you’re more aware of the changes happening in your life, think about your reaction to them. Are they met with openness or resistance? How would you feel if you simply allowed them to happen? What if you loosened your grip or simply let it go completely? When you let go of how you think things should be, you make space for what’s trying to come into your life. 7. What limiting beliefs are holding you back from living your best life? Have you ever stopped and questioned why you believe in certain things? Examine if these beliefs are holding you back from being happier, more abundant, and more at peace with yourself. Believe it or not, I had limiting beliefs that were holding me back from becoming financially abundant! I was literally giving my money away because I had the idea that money was evil and that having a lot of it will make me evil! Through my training and mentors, I was able to pinpoint where they were coming from. The key is to identify what your limiting beliefs are and create affirmations that will help you reverse them. 8. How will you reframe these limiting beliefs? Think of affirmations that can counter your limiting beliefs. Write them down and repeat them to yourself as many times as you need in a day to reframe your mindset. Affirmations can help you stay calm and positive even during moments of fear and self-doubt. Think of this as a tool to help you grow into the person you want to become! 9. In what way do you want to deepen your spiritual life? We sometimes get too busy that we don’t have time to stop, reflect, and nourish our spiritual lives. Just like our minds and bodies, we also need to take care of our spirits. Spirituality can mean different things to different people – what does it mean to you and how will you nurture it? 10. In what way do you want to deepen your relationship with yourself and others? This is a question that’s meant to examine your relationship with yourself first and your relationship with the people that are most important to you. Too often, we focus more on our relationships with others, but we can only nurture those when we have nurtured the one we have with ourselves. Answering these questions will allow you to get to know yourself deeper and tell you what you need to work on internally. I hope this list helps you live the life of your dreams!	[]
\| PR Facts According to the Public Relations Society of America, the official definition of public relations is, “a strategic communications process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics”. If that doesn’t mean much to you, you’re not alone. PR professionals often joke that we have no idea how to explain what we do to our friends and family. PR is a vital but often misunderstood promotional tactic, which boils down to “persuading an audience”. If you’re considering hiring a PR firm but you’re not sure if it’s worth it, or if you already have a PR team but don’t know what they actually do all day, here are five basics to know. Public relations isn’t advertising. If you’re looking for a magazine ad, a radio jingle or a TV commercial, at most PR firms you’d be out of luck. All of that falls under advertising. Instead, PR is centered around “earned media”; the process of developing an interesting story and convincing reporters to cover it without paying for the exposure. As consumers grow more skeptical of traditional advertising, earned media plays an important role in your marketing mix because it’s verified by the media and, therefore, more trusted by consumers. Plus, PR is typically much less expensive than paid advertising. PR professionals have many tools at their disposal. If we’re to believe movies and TV shows, PR professionals must spend their time schmoozing with celebrities and planning parties, right? While there are some PR pros who might spent some of their time doing those things, the vast majority of PR jobs are much broader (and much less glamourous). In a typical day, a PR pro might write a press release, conduct research, develop a blog post, reach out to reporters or create a social media strategy; ultimately with the goal of generating positive publicity for clients. PR relies on the media. Earning media coverage is the cornerstone of PR. And according to public relations pro Robert Wynne, the only two ways to make it into the news are to create a story or follow a story. No matter how much you beg, plead or bargain with a reporter, in the end it’s up to them (and their editor) if they want to write about you. So when your PR team shoots down your story idea or says that making the cover of the New York Times is a little too lofty of a goal, it’s nothing personal. It’s actually a good thing; it means that your PR rep understands what kind of stories pique reporters’ interest and successfully make the news cycle. PR isn’t just social media. While social media can play an important role in PR, it’s not going to replace traditional media anytime soon. Your PR team can help you develop a social media strategy and manage your online presence; however, it shouldn’t be their only focus. Instead, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram should be used to enhance other PR activities and expand the reach of media coverage. PR is measurable (even if it’s not perfect). Most CEOs don’t have the time to understand the nitty gritty of what their PR team does, and that’s O.K.; so long as the results are measurable and positive. While measuring the impact of PR can be tricky, it is possible. And it certainly doesn’t mean that businesses should skip PR in favor of marketing tactics that are easier to track. Measuring something intangible like positive sentiment will never translate into numbers easily. However, you can get a good idea through press clips, media impressions, surveys, website traffic and social media mentions.	[]
Generally, when we discuss liposuction, what we actually mean is traditional liposuction surgery. While Smartlipo is a form of liposuction surgery as well, it differs greatly from the traditional method in many ways. Smartlipo is the faster and the less physically taxing version of traditional liposuction which most doctors prefer nowadays. Nevertheless, it only makes sense to be at least aware of the differences and advantages which Smartlipo enjoys over traditional liposuction, so that one can make an informed choice in between the two. Traditional liposuction is an invasive and very hands-on process which involves the utilization of a cannula and direct manipulation of the fat in the body. The fat is sucked out from under the skin with the cannula, while pushing and prodding the hard fat manually, as necessary. Smartlipo on the other hand, makes use of a medical laser to make the fat more soluble or completely liquefy it under the skin, before sucking it out with a cannula. As you can imagine, the lack of physical prodding and the ease of removing liquefied fat makes Smartlipo surgeries much less damaging, as well as faster than traditional methods. This is also the reason as to why patients undergoing Smartlipo end up with less bruising on their skin than the ones who go through traditional liposuction. Loose Skin When all that fat is removed artificially from under the skin in one sudden action, loose skin is an obvious and unavoidable side-effect. However, Smartlipo sessions leave way less saggy skin on the patient than traditional lipo surgeries because the laser used for softening the fat actually tightens the skin as well. Traditional liposuction surgeries have no such benefits unfortunately, so you will need to go for a lot of skin tightening sessions post procedure. Note that one may need to opt for added skin tightening sessions even after a Smartlipo surgery, but the number and the intensity of those sessions should be far less. Finally, recovery is the biggest advantage Smartlipo has over traditional lipo. A patient will take a maximum of 2-3 days before he/she makes a complete recovery post Smartlipo. Compression clothing will likely be needed for a week, but that’s about it in almost all cases. The old school liposuction surgeries, on the other hand, put a lot of stress on the patients and depending on the particular surgery, it may take a month or even more for them to completely recover from the procedure. In any case, compression garments might be necessary for as long as 6 weeks in some instances. As can be seen, Smartlipo is the obvious choice, even though in most cases, it costs more than traditional liposuction surgery. The extra money is well worth it, though, considering the advantages it brings with it. The only thing to make sure is that you choose a resourceful and renowned facility such as the London Medical and Aesthetic Clinic for the procedure. Effective and safe as Smartlipo may be, it is only so in the hands of experienced and talented doctors.	[]
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San Martín on victory Si hay victoria en vencer al enemigo, la hay más cuando el hombre se vence a si mismo. [If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself.] —José de San Martín Quoted in the original, because the Spanish has a poetic grace and snap and style that does not come through in the translation. But then, generals and poets have more in common than the poets would care to admit. Speak Your Mind	[]
How and How Not to Compute a Relative Error The relative error in a scalar y as an approximation to a scalar x is the absolute value of e = (x-y)/x. I recently came across a program in which e had been computed as 1 - y/x. It had never occurred to me to compute it this way. The second version is slightly easier to type, requiring no parentheses, and it has the same cost of evaluation: one division and one subtraction. Is there any reason not to use this parenthesis-free expression? Consider the accuracy of the evaluation, using the standard model of floating point arithmetic, which says that fl(x \mathbin{\mathrm{op}} y) = (x \mathbin{\mathrm{op}} y)(1+\delta) with \|\delta\| \le u, where \mathrm{op} is any one of the four elementary arithmetic operations and u is the unit roundoff. For the expression e_1 = (x-y)/x we obtain, with a hat denoting a computed quantity, \widehat{e_1} = \displaystyle\left(\frac{x-y}{x}\right) (1+\delta_1)(1+\delta_2), \qquad \|\delta_i\| \le u, \quad i = 1, 2. It follows that \left\| \displaystyle\frac{e - \widehat{e_1}}{e} \right\| \le 2u + u^2. Hence e_1 is computed very accurately. For the alternative expression, e_2 = 1 - y/x, we have \widehat{e_2} = \left(1 - \displaystyle\frac{y}{x}(1+\delta_1)\right) (1+\delta_2), \qquad \|\delta_i\| \le u, \quad i = 1, 2. After a little manipulation we obtain the bound \left\| \displaystyle\frac{e - \widehat{e_2}}{e} \right\| \le u + \left\|\displaystyle\frac{1-e}{e}\right\|(u + u^2). The bound on the relative error in \widehat{e_2} is of order \|(1-e)/e\|u, and hence is very large when \|e\| \ll 1. To check these bounds we carried out a MATLAB experiment. For 500 single precision floating point numbers y centered on x = 3, we evaluated the relative error of y as an approximation to x using the two formulas. The results are shown in this figure, where an ideal error is of order u \approx 6\times 10^{-8}. (The MATLAB script that generates the figure is available as this gist.) As expected from the error bounds, the formula 1-y/x is very inaccurate when y is close to x, whereas (x-y)/x retains its accuracy as y approaches x. Does this inaccuracy matter? Usually, we are concerned only with the order of magnitude of an error and do not require an approximation with many correct significant figures. However, as the figure shows, for the formula \|1-y/x\| even the order of magnitude is incorrect for y very close to x. The standard formula \|x-y\|/\|x\| should be preferred. 2 thoughts on “How and How Not to Compute a Relative Error 1. Nick, Thank you for delving into this. Your result is certainly far from obvious and I find it very helpful. In my own work, I don’t recall computing the relative error using 1–y/x (though I cannot be certain), but I have sometimes used the latter expression in writing. After reading your note, I can see that such usage could mislead a reader into using that expression for computation, so I’ll be mindful not to use it in the future. Raúl Martínez 2. For interested parties I converted Nick’s gist above to Python: # Based on the code by Nick Higham # Compares relative error formulations using single precision and compared to double precision N = 501 # Note: Use 501 instead of 500 to avoid the zero value d = numpy.finfo(numpy.float32).eps * 1e4 a = 3.0 x = a * numpy.ones(N, dtype=numpy.float32) y = [x[i] + numpy.multiply((i numpy.divide(N, 2.0, dtype=numpy.float32)), d, dtype=numpy.float32) for i in range(N)] # Compute errors and "true" error relative_error = numpy.empty((2, N), dtype=numpy.float32) relative_error[0, :] = numpy.abs(x y) / x relative_error[1, :] = numpy.abs(1.0 y / x) exact = numpy.abs( (numpy.float64(x) numpy.float64(y)) / numpy.float64(x)) # Compute differences between error calculations error = numpy.empty((2, N)) for i in range(2): error[i, :] = numpy.abs((relative_error[i, :] exact) / numpy.abs(exact)) fig = plt.figure() axes = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1) axes.semilogy(y, error[0, :], '.', markersize=10, label="$\|x-y\|/\|x\|$") axes.semilogy(y, error[1, :], '.', markersize=10, label="$\|1-y/x\|$") axes.set_ylabel("Relative Error") axes.set_xlim((numpy.min(y), numpy.max(y))) axes.set_ylim((5e-9, numpy.max(error[1, :]))) axes.set_title("Relative Error Comparison") Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	[]
‘Digital TV must overcome its contradictions if it wants to attract more ad dollars’ If you talk to a young person about linear TV, they may snigger at the idea of checking listings in a print newspaper, writing out a schedule or remembering to tune in at exactly the right time. They might think it baffling that revellers used to get home from the pub and ‘see what’s on’. These are the same youngsters who post on social media about spending half an hour finding something to watch on Netflix and then ignoring the show to stare at their phones. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a wistful article about the value of serendipity, but it is about contradictions; namely those in over-the-top (OTT) and video-on-demand (VoD) advertising. Ad growth lags user growth OTT services (which viewers access over the internet, sometimes via their TV sets) have seen rapid growth. Lees deze opinie op Marketingweek	[]
Choosing the best tomatoes for the most delicious dishes Tomatoes can maintain their properties for several days, depending on their condition. The right thing is to store them with the stem down, so it prevents air and moisture from entering the place where the fruit was plucked at the time of its collection. Cutting Tips Cutting a tomato is not as simple as it may seem at first. If not done properly, the slices can be undone or it may be difficult that all parts of the slice remain in place. There are three ways in which you can cut a tomato correctly and it depends on the recipe you want to prepare. Eat 3-5 days after purchase During this period, tomatoes keep all their physical and nutritional conditions to the fullest. Away from direct sunlight It is advisable to keep them away from direct sunlight, unless we want to dry them because the sun affects tomatoes’ skin as this fruit is 95% water. Tomatoes come from sub-tropical climates so they do not tolerate the cold well, so cooling them makes them lose flavour and properties. In the refrigerator There is only one case in which it is advisable to keep tomatoes in the refrigerator and that is when they have gone beyond maturity. In this case, they should be placed in the refrigerator in a plastic or paper bag with holes to reduce water loss. They should be removed from the refrigerator an hour prior to consumption in order to help them adapt to room temperature and recover the delicacy of its original flavour. At the store, you must choose pieces at their optimum point of maturity as it is when they have a higher content of vitamin C. In order to do this, choose tomatoes with smooth skin, without bumps or spots. Hard tomatoes are best suited for salads and soft ones may have their place in sauces, creams, soups and juices. Tomatoes are also an excellent seasoning. They have a very versatile culinary behavior and can adapt to the most varied dishes, both hot and cold ones. Tomatoes taste really well either roasted or grilled. It is excellent when battered and fried. It is great when used as a recipient of numerous fillings, both to eat raw or roasted. It works as a side dish and entree. I works perfectly when preserved and it can be packaged raw or fried. Tomato combines perfectly with all types of meat and fish and finds in garlic, onion, oregano, mint and olives some extraordinary flavour complements. In order to make the most of tomatoes’ nutritional benefits, they are best taken raw, in salad or juice, since they can lose up to 50% of their vitamins when cooked.	[]
Capital city Helsinki Surface 338,424 km² Population 5,457,000 Road network length 78,168 km Length of highway network 1,012 km First highway 1962 Motorway name Motorcycle riding Traffic drives Right License plate code FIN Finland (Suomi) is a country in Northern Europe. The country has more than 5.4 million inhabitants and the capital is Helsinki. The country is usually considered part of Scandinavia. According to ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Finland is located in northern Europe, and is often considered part of Scandinavia. The country is located on the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, and has land borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia. Estonia is located on the other side of the Gulf of Finland. Finland measures a maximum of 1,100 kilometers from north to south and 525 kilometers from east to west. Finland is largely flat, higher hills and mountains are only found in the north of the country. In addition, Finland is very densely forested, there are no large open areas, only the southwest and western coastal regions have fragmented open areas. As a result, little agriculture is possible in Finland. The country is known for its tens of thousands of lakes, which are connected by canals and rivers. Both the coastline and the lakes are very jagged, with numerous peninsulas and islands. land, which belongs to Finland, is located between Finland and Sweden. The largest lake in Finland is Saimaa, the highest point is the 1,365 meter high Halti. The mountains are therefore not very high, but the tree line in Northern Finland is very low so that the mountain range appears higher than it is. The country has a predominantly continental climate, with quite warm summers and cold winters. The country is close enough to the Atlantic Ocean to be affected by the Gulf Stream, but its dampening effect is much less than in Norway, so winters in much of Finland are cold to very cold. The southern coastal region has little snow in some winters, especially when the sea does not freeze over. The average maximum temperature in Helsinki ranges from -1°C in January to 22°C in July. In Finland, winter temperatures regularly drop to -30°C, occasionally to -40°C in mountain areas. Summers, on the other hand, are quite warm, temperatures of up to 30°C are even found in Lapland. Finland is one of the most prosperous countries in the world and generally scores high on socio-economic indicators such as income, human development, health care and low corruption. About two-thirds of the economy is made up of services, but the country is also somewhat industrialized. Until the 1950s, Finland had a low-developed agricultural economy, but has quickly developed into a modern country. Forestry, mining and shipbuilding are important industrial sectors. Due to the extensive forestry, the paper industry is also large. In addition, Finland has a developed high-tech sector, especially in relation to the population, the production of high-tech goods is extensive. Well-known Finnish companies are Nokia, ISS and Neste. The Kehä I near Espoo, a large suburb of Helsinki. Finland has approximately 5.5 million inhabitants, most of whom live in urban areas. See Finland population density. About a fifth of the inhabitants live in Helsinki or the suburbs. Other major cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants are Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä and Lahti. Espoo and Vanta are two suburbs of Helsinki, both of which have more than 200,000 inhabitants. Espoo is even the second largest city in Finland and one of the largest suburbs in Europe. Finland’s population has grown relatively little since the Second World War, from 4 million inhabitants in 1950 to 5.4 million in 2010. Population growth has also occurred mainly in the suburbs of Helsinki, especially from the 1960s onwards the region became urbanized around Espoo and Vantaa at a very fast pace. There are relatively few non-Western immigrants in Finland compared to Sweden. Finland is formally bilingual Finnish and Swedish. Finnish is more or less the national language spoken by 90% of the inhabitants, while Swedish is mainly spoken in the coastal areas. In Lapland, Sami has official status. In Finland, municipalities can be monolingual Finnish, bilingual Finnish-Swedish or monolingual Swedish. Swedish-speaking Finns make up only 5% of the population and only a few municipalities in the southwest of the country are monolingual Swedish. From the 12th century the area belonged to Sweden. In the early 18th century, a distinct Finnish identity began to emerge between Sweden and Russia. In 1809 the area became part of Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, but enjoyed a large degree of autonomy. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its independence. In 1918 a short civil war ensued between the Whites, supported by Germany, Sweden and Poland, and the Reds, supported by Russia. The Whites won the conflict and Finland became a republic. During World War II, the Soviet Union attempted to recapture Finland, leading to the 1939-1940 Winter War in which the Soviet Union failed to occupy Finland. It ended in a peace treaty where Finland lost the eastern part (particularly the Karelia region) but retained independence. After World War II, Finland took a neutral position and became a member of the United Nations in 1955. Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and adopted the euro in 2002. Finland industrialized late by European standards, until the 1950s the economy was oriented towards agriculture, with a little developed economy. In the 1960s and 1970s, the country modernized at a rapid pace and introduced a welfare state. It has since been regarded as one of the most stable countries in the world. Finland Location Map	[]
Bing Ads vs Google Ads: where is your audience? When thinking of paid advertising, your mind probably goes straight to Google ads and Bing ads. Whether you’re an Android or an Apple user, ads are everywhere. But which platform is right for your business? The answer depends on where your audience is. Google Ads For businesses with a majority of Apple users, Google ads may be the way to go. Like its counterpart Bing, this platform is focused on delivering the right messaging at the right time. Google ads use a search network and a display network to deliver ads to people looking to make a purchase. These two networks allow your business to have Google text ad and video/photo ad placements on Google search engine results and a variety of partner sites. One of the biggest benefits of Google ads is the network capabilities. Not only can you advertise on the Google search engine, but you also have the ability to advertise on the second most popular search engine, YouTube. The YouTube platform alone also receives more searches a month than Bing, Yahoo, AOL and combined. Your business has access to ads before, during, and after videos as well as on banners throughout the site. This allows you to quickly reach a larger audience that fits your target customer. Bing Ads Bing ads, also known as Microsoft ads, appear on Bing, Yahoo, and AOL search engines. This allows businesses to advertise on the three different search pages at the same time, while also having access to any other AOL-owned sites. The biggest benefit behind Bing ads is the ability to reach an older and more educated audience. Not only are their 5.4 billion searches exclusive to Bing, but one-third of the demographic on this page are over 35. If this is your target audience, Bing ads may be a great tactic for your business. Using Bing, you can get the most value for your ad budget while increasing your chances of making a sale. Although there are benefits of using Google ads and Bing ads separately, combining these efforts can maximize the results of your advertising. Because their networks do not overlap and you can target with keywords, advertising on both platforms will help you reach the largest portion of your ideal audience and ensure you have no targeting gaps. megaphone50% of people that click on paid ads are ready to immediately make a purchase. Not sure where to begin? At KWSM, we develop a powerfully targeted digital advertising campaign that will expand your reach and generate leads and more potential customers. CONTACT US to learn more about developing a digital advertising campaign that will generate awareness, traffic & leads. Brianna's signature Follow Brianna Zambrano:	[]
Tag: oh kb reverse lunge Overhead Reverse Lunge The Overhead Reverse Lunge. In most circumstances, it’s best to teach the reverse lunge before the front lunge, as it’s a bit more joint friendly and a little easier to learn. Additionally, the reverse lunge targets the posterior chain (glutes & hammies) better than a forward lunge, and for most people, people lack muscle development in the ‘ol money maker. Remember that the leg that moves back is the one with the kettlebell overhead. Also, keep that shoulder firm and stacked in the joint.	[]
Understanding Polyps, Their Symptoms, Causes and Treatment • linkedin • twitter • facebook • pinterest Polyps are very common and can form on any part of the body. Are all polyps precancerous or worse? Should I be worried about them? Let read our article to get more knowledge about it. What are Polyps? A polyp is a clump of cells that grows within your body. Most of them appear as small, flat bumps or miniature versions of mushroom stalks. Although uterine and colon polyps are the most common, polyps can develop in a variety of locations, including the: cervix, stomach, nose, and throat. Some polyps are benign and will not develop into cancer. Others, however, are capable. The difference is their location, the cause, the size, and the length of time they’ve been there. Types of Polyps, Symptoms, and Causes Colon polyps They are quite common, and many people have them, especially if you are a man, over the age of 50, obese, or a smoker. Mostly, they are not dangerous. However, some colon polyps can develop into colon cancer over time. There are two main kinds: Hyperplastic polyps: They are small and form near the end of the colon and do not progress to cancer. Adenomatous polyps: They affect more people and likely to become cancerous if they are large, but this usually takes years. The vast majority are noncancerous. Colon polyps often don’t cause symptoms and you might not know until a screening test is conducted. However, when symptoms do occur, they may include: • Blood in your poop, in the toilet bowl, or on toilet paper when you wipe: This is rectum bleeding. • Unexplained anemia or weight loss due to iron deficiency. • Change in normal bowel movement pattern: constipation or diarrhea that lasts more than a week • Pain. A large colon polyp can partially obstruct your bowel, leading to crampy abdominal pain. A polyp is the result of genetic changes in the cells of the colon lining that affect the normal cell life cycle Lifestyle factors can increase the risk of these changes. It includes: • Smoking. • Drinking too much alcohol • Not exercising. • Being overweight. • Eating processed foods and too much red meat (instead of a mostly plant-based food plan). Aural Polyps An aural polyp is a growth in the outside or middle ear canal. They are frequently red and bleed easily when touched. They can occasionally be cancerous. The most common symptom is bloody ear drainage. Hearing loss is another possibility. Aural polyps can be caused by any of the following: Nasal Polyps They are soft growths on the lining of your nasal passages or sinuses. Most are noncancerous. Chronic sinusitis with nasal polyps is characterized by the following signs and symptoms: • A runny nose • Stuffiness that persists • Postnasal dripping • Reduced or non-existent sense of smell • Taste sense impairment • Headache or facial pain • a feeling of pressure over your forehead and face • Frequently occurring nosebleeds These form when the mucous membranes that line the nose or sinuses become inflamed for an extended period of time or repeatedly. The inflammation causes small growths filled with fluid. Those growths then turn into polyps. Uterine Polyps These grow in the lining of your uterus and are also known as endometrial polyps. These polyps are usually noncancerous (benign), but some can progress to cancer. Uterine polyps are most common in women who are going through or have completed menopause, but they can occur in younger women as well. Signs and symptoms of uterine polyps include: • Menstrual irregularities • Bleeding in between menstrual cycles • Menstrual cycles that are abnormally heavy • After-menopausal vaginal bleeding • Infertility The exact causes are unknown, but fluctuations in hormone levels may play a role. Estrogen, which causes the endometrium to thicken each month, appears to be linked to the development of uterine polyps. Vocal Cord Polyps They typically form on one-half of your V-shaped vocal cords in the throat. Hoarseness, breathiness, multiple tones, loss of vocal range, vocal fatigue, or loss of voice can all be symptoms of vocal cord lesions. Overuse or misuse of the voice, such as excessive singing, screaming, cheerleading, and talking (such as that by a teacher, coach, salesperson, or radio personality) can injure your throat and result in polyps. It can also be brought on by a single incident of verbal abuse (such as yelling at a sports event). Smoking also leads to having polyps in the vocal cord. Stomach Polyps They develop on the stomach lining. Most stomach polyps are not cancerous, but some have a higher risk of developing into cancer. Stomach polyps usually do not cause symptoms. However, when stomach polyps do cause symptoms, a person may experience indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn, stomach pain, feeling full quickly, gastrointestinal bleeding. According to Mayoclinic, the most common causes of stomach polyps are: • Chronic stomach inflammation, also known as gastritis • Familial adenomatous polyposis: This rare, inherited syndrome increases the risk of colon cancer and other conditions, including stomach polyps. • Regular use of certain stomach medications: Fundic gland polyps are common in people who take proton pump inhibitors on a regular basis to reduce stomach acid. These are typically small and do not pose a threat. What is the Polyp Treatment? Some polyps, especially those that are mild or very small, may not require treatment. Treatment for various types of polyps would be determined by factors such as their location, size, numbers, and whether or not they are cancerous. In the case of colon polyps, the doctor may recommend removing it via colonoscopy to reduce the risk of colon cancer developing in the future. In some cases, the doctor may also recommend a specific medication to help remove them naturally. How are Polyps prevented? It’s not always possible to prevent polyps, but knowing and avoiding some risk factors may help prevent some types of them. Preventive steps include: • Eating a nutrient-dense diet that includes plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain cereals • Limiting your alcohol consumption • Avoiding tobacco use • Exercise regularly to maintain healthy body weight. • Consult your doctor about additional steps for prevention especially if you have a family history of polyps. • Take health screening regularly. About MaNaDr MaNaDr is best known as the healthcare ecosystem, which provides: • A trusted healthcare platform for each patient for life; and • A revolutionary healthcare business platform for doctors, practice and providers, etc. Using MaNaDr, you can also consult a doctor online or make an online appointment booking for your clinic visit if you are showing any symptoms or having any concerns about polyps Download ManaDr for patient at: Reference: Mayoclinic, CDC, Celevelandclinic Related Articles: High Blood Pressure: Symptoms, Causes, Prevention, and Monitoring Get A Teleconsultation With Our Trusted Doctors Fatty Liver: Symptoms, Causes, Types, Diet and Treatment Gout: Everything You Need to Know Connect with our top doctors online Consult a MaNaDr Provider	[]
Helpful tips What is a journal style essay? What is a journal style essay? What is the difference between a journal and an essay? When writing an essay, a writer’s purpose should be to inform readers about a specific topic. An academic journal’s purpose is to present the analysis of many different writers on one subject within the academic field the journal explores. How do you write a journal paper? Writing a journal articleThink about the four A’s: aims, audience, awareness, and articulation. Get to know the journal you want to submit to. Stick to the point. Create a logical framework. Don’t be afraid to explain. Clarity is key. Be aware of the other literature in your field (and reference it) Make your references current and relevant. What are examples of journals? Here are some different kinds of journals that many writers find fulfilling.Travel Journal. Are you planning a trip sometime soon? School Journal. A school journal can work like an ongoing, in-depth “to-do” list. Project Journal. Diet Journal. Therapy Journal. Dream Journal. Gratitude Journal. Family Journal. What do people write in journals? If you want your journal to be about something specific, brainstorm ideas to write about. You can write a bible journal, a dream journal, cooking, work, school, anything you want! Feel free to start writing down ideas of what you are interested in or feel you should be writing about. What do we mean by Journal? What is Journal and its features? Features of Journal Entries Double Entry System: It is a dual entry system where every transaction is equally entered on both debit and credit sides. Original Entry: The journal is the first books of account where a transaction is recorded, and therefore, its originality and authenticity can be maintained. What is Journal and its importance? What is Journal and its advantages? Journal records all business transactions in one place on the time and date basis. All transactions which are recorded, are supported with a receipt or bill, so we can check the authenticity of each journal entries with their bills. What are the advantages of journal? Journal provides records of all business transactions in one place on the time and date basis. All transactions are recorded on the basis of receipts or bill, so we can check authenticity of each journal entries with their bills. What are the uses of journal? What Is the Difference Between a Journal and a Ledger?Basis for ComparisonJournalPurposeUsed in preparation of ledgerTransactions recordedJournal entries are made in chronological orderDebit and creditColumnsNarrationRequired3 How many types of accounts are there? What is the 3 golden rules of accounts? What are the 5 types of accounts? The 5 core types of accounts in accountingAssets.Expenses.Liabilities.Equity.Income or revenue. What is a real account example? Is cash a real account? What are the 4 types of accounting? Is capital account is a real account? What is capital account with example? The capital account is part of a country’s balance of payments. It measures financial transactions that affect a country’s future income, production, or savings. An example is a foreigner’s purchase of a U.S. copyright to a song, book, or film. Its value is based on what it will produce in the future. What are the types of capital account? Difference Between Fixed and Fluctuating Capital MethodsFixed Capital MethodFluctuating Capital MethodTwo accounts are prepared: Capital Account and Current AccountOnly a single account is prepared: Capital AccountThe capital balance remains unchangedCapital balance fluctuates3	[]
Signature check, plaid, and tartan spice up your holiday table. Photography by Tiffany Schmidt Conjure feelings of nostalgia and tradition as you summon family and friends to the table this year. Tartan has become synonymous with American heritage and Christmastime. This pattern is perfect to create a contrast or a playful touch. Couture burlap flatware holders add an artisanal touch that keeps this scape feeling casual and friendly. Finally, scatter textured glass votives around the table for a cozy touch. Items sourced from The Schaefer House. Celebrate the moment with bright, fresh, royal red roses, fragrant cedar and eucalyptus, and clusters of berries. For another botanical touch, add a sprig of berries or greenery into each bow for an elegant twist. Arrangement designed by Busch’s Florist and Greenhouse. Full set of Gingko Linden cutlery \| $20. Plaid dinner plate \| $12.50 per plate. Plaid luncheon plate \| $10 per plate. Cutlery Couture silverware pouch \| $36.50 for eight-piece set. Hensel plaid runner \| $21. Printed paper coasters \| $12.50. Hobnail glass \| $7.	[]