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Teens actually think less about future than adults
Washington, February 7: A new study has confirmed the popular stereotype that teenagers are short-sighted, and, consequently, prone to poor judgement and risky decision-making when it comes to issues like taking drugs and having sex.
Published in the journal Child Development, the study shows that children aged 16 and younger actually think less about the future than adults.
However, the study also suggests that the reasons may have less to do with impulsivity, and more to do with a desire to do something exciting.
A team of researchers from Temple University, the University of California, Los Angeles, Georgetown University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Colorado looked at more than 900 individuals ranging in age from 10 to 30, and from an ethnically and socio-economically diverse group to determine how people of different ages think about the future consequences of their decisions.
The researchers revealed that they used a new questionnaire and an experimental task called delay discounting, which measures the extent to which people prefer immediate but smaller rewards to delayed but larger ones.
They said that in comparison with adults, teenagers were found to consider the future less, and preferred immediate rewards to delayed ones-for example, 700 dollars today versus 1,000 dollars a year from now.
The team, however, insisted that it might not be impulsivity that guided their lack of forethought.
According to them, teens were short-sighted more due to immaturity in the brain systems that govern sensation seeking than to immaturity in the brain systems responsible for self-control.
The researchers pointed out that brain systems governing sensation seeking are very active between the ages of 10 and 16, while brain systems governing self-control continue to mature beyond age 16.
They revealed that their study showed few changes in teens'' concepts about the future after age 16.
"Those who wish to use research on adolescent decision-making to guide legal policies concerning teenagers'' rights and responsibilities need to be more specific about which particular capacities are being studied-sensation seeking or self-control-since they don''t all mature along the same timetable," concludes Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Temple University and the study''s lead author. (ANI)


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We fine art photographers, for a generation now, have been all a twitter about the archival quality of our prints. More recently, we've been just as concerned about the long-term storage of our digital images and the media they are stored on. I have some thoughts about this.
For just a moment, I'll set aside all those discussions about whether or not it's a good thing for our prints to be around for a while and just assume it is. I must admit, I have a difficult time taking all of this too seriously because my ego is just not large enough to think my work will be that important for generations to come. But, you never know, so . . .
I would propose that the concept of preservation is far more important than whether or not a print or digital file is archival. Perhaps I'd best illustrate what I mean by this.
Any medium we store them on is subject to degradation. Every medium — paper, magnetic media, optical media, and, yes, brain cells. There is no such thing as an archival medium. Period. Time to face facts. Everything deteriorates. It's not an if, but rather a when. Attention to the archival nature of our materials simply kicks the when can down the road a bit further.
If you want your work to be around for, well, at least your life and perhaps beyond, it's important that you develop a strategy of preservation in addition to the attention you give to the archival properties of the medium. Sure, we should use so-called archival materials, but materials alone will not ensure longevity of our artwork.
What is preservation? Well, it includes these ideas . . .
Any preservationist worth their salt will tell you that the most important characteristic of all, if you really want your work to survive into the long-term is . . . the number of copies there are in existence. Not the medium, but the volume. Doesn't this just make sense? If there is only one copy of something, it clings to existence by a thread. Have a hundred copies and there is a much greater chance that 100 or 500 years from now that one or more of them will still be floating around somewhere. To be unique is to be at great risk.
I have only one copy of each negative I've made. I worry about them. I have half-a-dozen copies of every digital file I've made (not an exaggeration). My working copy files are on a RAID 5 network area storage system that has real-time protection against hard drive failure. All master files (RAW files from the camera) are stored on a back-up hard drive in my office. They are also on CD or DVD optical media, also stored in my office. They are on another back-up hard drive I store offsite and update every month. And finally, every digital master file is stored as both RAW and DNG files that I store at an online backup service. I sleep comfortably at night. Safety in numbers.
When it comes to prints, I'm always amused by photographers who are fastidious about the archival properties of their materials in printing but at the same time limit their work to an edition of, say, five prints. What a ludicrous conflict of objectives. I'm serious about this. If you really want your work to survive, the best thing you can do is make lots and lots of prints and get them out into the world, in diverse places and in diverse hands. There is no better way to insulate against fire, natural disaster, indifferent caretakers, regional environments, or the whims of history. To work so hard to make archival prints and then limit them to a very small number of copies is only to stroke the ego of the owner/purchaser without really serving your needs, as the motivated maker, to preserve your work for the future. I cringe when I see the needs of marketing trump the value of wide-spread distribution.
Update Attention
Returning to digital files, isn't it obvious that storage media will continue to evolve? Remember 8" floppy discs? Remember magneto-optical drives? And then there are format changes, too. Remember the BMP format? DCS and EPS? JPEG 2000? (Come to think of it, I don't remember JPEG 2000, either.) Formats change about as often as physical media do. Today I'm using optical media (CD and DVD, somewhat fragile) and hard drive media (better, but still subject to breakdown) on which I store RAW, DNG, and finished PSD files. I have no doubt all of this will seem as quaint as floppy discs and the BMP format in a few short years when they are all replaced by something better. So, my preservation strategy will be to simply adapt and convert my files to the new media and the new formats when the time comes to do so. Just as I did when I converted and moved all my EPS files from ZIP drives to PSD files on CDs and then to DNG files on hard drives. There is no substitute for the attention that is required if we want something to be preserved — and that is true whether it's our digital files, our prints, or both after we are gone into — as Ansel Adams called it — the final wash. Or the Recycle Bin.
Personal Attention
Just as important as Light Impressions boxes is the need for our own personal Berenice Abbot. Remember how she rescued Eugene Atgét's negatives from destruction? Luck plays a part in the future of our work. Similar stories infuse the biographies of Weegee, Lewis Hines, Robert Capa, and many others. If you and I — who are far less famous than any of these, ahem — have intentions that our negatives or digital files are preserved, we need to find someone, somewhere, who will accept the responsibility to do so as we have done during our four-score and ten. Without naming names, I personally know of a dozen offspring of famous and nearly-famous photographers who have sought for years for some institution or museum to take their dearly departed's archives — only to discover that others often balk at the gift because they don't have the money to care for the archives unless the family ponies up. Attention takes effort and materials, which requires money, of which fine art photographers, I hear, are prone to be lacking. Yes, indeed.
Which leads me to the vagaries of chance and the market. Personally, if I'm forced to bet on the future, I'd rather bet on the long-term survival of my prints in the hands of lots and lots of buyers than a few limited prints in the hands of my offspring. My kids are responsible adults, but why should I burden them with the challenge in my post mortem to find some benefactor for the care of dear old Dad's hobby? Part of my preservation strategy is related to my pricing strategy. The last thing I would wish for my work is to reside in the closet, carefully preserved in archival storage bins, until I'm room temperature — after which they will be sold in the estate sale for fifty cents. Per box. Yikes.
For artwork to live, it must be loved. It's hard to think of artwork being loved when it is jailed in a box in the closet. To be loved, it needs to be caressed, in the light, where it can be seen and appreciated every day. I'd rather have my work fade into oblivion on an admirer's wall than stay in perpetual fidelity in a cold, dark, temperature controlled and humidity regulated coffin-like vault in some desiccated museum. I prefer to see my artwork living in a relationship of passion in someone's home rather than preserved as a curiosity in some dusty institution.
And that sums it up for me. Preservation is about a caring relationship whereas being archival is about the wispy potential of a nebulous future.


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Deutsche Telekom Unveils NFC 'Mobile Wallet' Service, Coming to U.S. in 2012
BARCELONA - Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile, will launch a near-field communication (NFC) service known as "mobile wallet" in Europe this year, with a planned roll-out in the U.S. and beyond next year, the company announced here at Mobile World Congress.
With NFC, cell phone users can turn their devices into a virtual wallet. The technology encrypts data for short-range transmissions; usually a few inches. The idea has been in the works for years, but got a boost last year in the states with the introduction of ISIS, a national phone payment system spearheaded by T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T.
It will be through ISIS that Deutsche Telekom brings its "mobile wallet" service to the U.S. via T-Mobile, the company said today. It will launch in Germany and Poland in 2011, and in the U.S., the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic in 2012. In Germany, Deutsche is working with Vodafone and O2 on the joint payment system known as mpass, which will be used for ticketing during the European Football Championship in 2012, among other things. In the Netherlands, Deutsche is working with two unnamed operators and three banks on mobile wallet.
NFC phones will be available from Apple, Samsung, Research in Motion, and LG this year, according to Phonescoop.
"Mobile wallet" will allow for payment on Deutsche services, as well as those from third parties, like banks, travel companies, and event organizers. Buy a coffee, subway pass, or tickets to a concert without every pulling out your physical wallet.
"Customers will not accept isolated solutions," Thomas Kiessling, chief product and innovation officer at Deutsche Telekom, said in a statement. "They want to be able to pay as they could in terms of cash or credit card. And with the 'Mobile Wallet' we can offer our customers convenient and secure mobile payment."
On the security front, Deutsche promised solutions that are protected across the device - to the SIM card and mobile transmission technology. There will also be the option to lock apps and data in the case of theft or loss.
For Deutsche, the move comes after the company's 2010 acquisition of Internet payment system Firstgate.
Also on Monday, Deutsche Telekom announced that it will offer a flat-rate data roaming package in the European Union. Customers access the Internet throughout the region for 1.95 Euros per day or 14.95 Euros per week starting this summer.


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MADISON -- State Assembly members shared impassioned family stories before approving three bills to restrict abortion rights.
All Republicans voted yes and all Democrats voted no Thursday, as the house sent Gov. Scott Walker a bill to make abortion candidates get ultrasounds so they can see the fetuses they want to give up.
Opponents say the bill would shut down the Planned Parenthood clinic in Appleton, because it forces abortion doctors to have admission privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of their clinics. The Appleton clinic does not have such doctors.
Walker has said he would sign the measure.
Assembly Republicans also sent two other abortion bills to the Senate. One would let religious groups opt out of requirements to include contraceptives in their employee health plans. Democrats said it's wrong to equate contraceptives with abortion, saying the drugs work to prevent babies from being conceived in the first place. That bill also prohibits the use of tax money to pay for abortion coverage in public employee health plans.
The Assembly also agreed to ban abortions for women who simply object to the unborn child's gender.
During Thursday's debate, Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer twice ordered the spectator galleries to be cleared, after visitors broke house rules by applauding Democrats' speeches.
Tougher domestic abuse bill passes Assembly
MADISON -- Alleged domestic abusers could have more of their past used against them under a bill approved by the Wisconsin Assembly Thursday.
It's one of three domestic violence measures that received bi-partisan support, and were sent to the Senate on voice votes.
One bill would let juries hear about a defendant's domestic incidents dating back 10 years - even if the person was not charged in all of them. De Pere Republican Andre Jacque said victims endure an average of six physical abuse incidents before they call police - and those incidents can provide solid evidence against an alleged abuser.
Milwaukee Democrat Fred Kessler, a former judge, said the bill allows hearsay evidence without proof of an arrest - and that could violate defendants' Fourth Amendment rights. Jacque said his bill would give judges leeway in deciding what evidence gets admitted. He also authored the other bills which were approved.
They would establish statewide police training standards for handling domestic abuse cases - make police file reports to prosecutors about all domestic violence calls, even if no arrests are made - and keep restraining orders in place in cases where new judges are assigned.
All the measures are designed to address the aftermath of the Radcliffe Haughton-Brookfield spa murders from last fall. Haughton killed himself, his estranged wife, and two other women after police refused to make arrests in over two dozen domestic abuse calls at his family's home in Brown Deer.
UW Platteville student's Regent appointment rescinded
Governor Scott Walker says he never routinely checks to see whether his state government appointee candidates signed the 2011 recall petitions against him.
The Republican Walker refused to confirm-or-deny yesterday that Joshua Inglett had his appointment as a UW student Regent withdrawn because he signed the petition.
The governor simply said he had other candidates, and would name a replacement soon. Inglett, an engineering physics student at UW Platteville, was named Monday by Walker to a two-year term as a student member of the university's policy-setting body.
Right Wisconsin.com reported on Wednesday that Inglett signed the recall petition. Later on Wednesday, Inglett said a Walker aide called to ask if he signed.
He said he did, and a few hours later, he was told his appointment was rescinded.
Inglett said he was questioned extensively before his nomination, and the subject of the recall never came up.
GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he should have brought it up anyway. Inglett said he answered every question he was asked by Walker's people, and he objects to being portrayed as someone who was not forthcoming.
"I felt my character had been attacked," he told a reporter.
Platteville chancellor Dennis Shields defended his honor student, and said he was still proud of him.
Moderate Senate Republican Dale Schultz of Richland Center and Senate Democrat Jon Erpenbach of Middleton both asked Walker to reconsider, and appoint Inglett anyway. Erpenbach said it looks as if the governor keeps a black-list in his office "It's McCarthyism."
Sauk County farmer fined for raw milk sales
Sauk County dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was fined $1,000 Thursday for violating a holding order on raw milk made at his Loganville farm.
State prosecutors asked a judge to fine Hershberger $3,000 with a year of probation but the judge decided the probation was not necessary.
At a recent trial, Hershberger was found innocent on three charges of processing and selling milk without the proper state licenses. He was found guilty on one count of violating a holding order, after he was told not to move raw milk that inspectors found and did so anyway.
Hershberger said he did not break state laws against selling raw milk, because he only gave the product to members of a private buying club. The case was watched nationally.
Raw milk supporters saw it as a referendum on the product's health benefits. Prosecutors said it was no such thing.
The state said the only pertinent issues were the lack of licenses and the holding order violation.
Justice investigating another police killing
The state Justice Department is investigating a second shooting death this week that involved police officers in far southern Wisconsin.
Walworth County officials said 39-year-old Jeremiah Krubert of Elkhorn entered his mother's house early Thursday and beat her boyfriend with a pipe.
A sheriff's deputy saw Krubert trying to leave with the man's truck and Krubert ended up stealing the deputy's vehicle, which he crashed after a short chase.
He then reportedly took a shotgun in the squad car, and walked toward three other deputies. All three fired their guns, and Krubert fell to the ground and died. His mother's 54-year-old boyfriend, suffered extensive skull and facial damage.
He was taken to an Elkhorn hospital before being transferred to a Milwaukee unit. None of the four deputies were hurt. They're on administrative leave, pending the outcome of investigations.
Both state and Walworth County officers are looking into the incident.
It happened two days after police in nearby Beloit shot a 23-year-old man to death. Authorities said he drove toward officers who boxed him in while they had him under surveillance.
Golf course worker killed by when tree branch falls
A maintenance worker at a Racine County golf course was killed Thursday, after a large tree branch fell on him.
The accident happened at the Ives Grove Golf Course in Yorkville.
Sheriff's deputies said 83-year-old William Cieszynski of Caledonia was on a riding lawn mower when the branch came down, and he was pinned between the tree branch and the steering wheel.
A preliminary investigation shows that a large roll-bar on the mower struck the overhanging branch, causing it to fall onto the operator.
Cieszynski was employed by a company that's hired by Racine County to run and maintain the golf course.
Follower's mourn end to baby's struggle with leukemia
A central Wisconsin baby who touched thousands of hearts around the world died Thursday.
One-year-old Treyden Kurtzweil of Stratford spent most of his life battling lymphocytic leukemia, which destroys bone marrow cells.
Almost 25,000 people followed Treyden's story on Facebook, where his mother Cassie wrote almost every day about her son's accomplishments and struggles.
Last Friday, doctors said there was nothing else they could do to help the child. On Monday night, about 500 people gathered outside Treyden's hospital room in Marshfield for a candlelight vigil which marked his first birthday. Hundreds of others around the country also lit candles.
He died about 3:30 yesterday afternoon.
In announcing the death on Facebook, the Kurtzweil family thanked people for their prayers and support. They said "Treyden received his wings today ... he was surrounded by nothing but love." Within hours, more than 700 followers posted condolences.
Monroe teen is newest Wisconsin FFA leader; Clear Lake boy on leadership team
Logan Wells of Monroe is the new president of the Wisconsin FFA, and the Waupaca FFA is the state's top overall chapter for the last school year.
Both honors were presented Thursday during the final day of the 84th state FFA convention in Madison.
Membership is at a 29-year high for Wisconsin's largest agricultural education group. Wells says he wants to make it 30.
He was a state vice president during the past year. Besides being named the top overall chapter, Waupaca received two other awards for student-and-community development.
The Walworth Big Foot FFA was honored for its chapter development. As president, Wells will work with a 10-member statewide leadership team.
They are Connor Anderson of Clear Lake, Tom Olson of Menomonie, Emma Heser of Tomah, Alison Wedig of Darlington, Jon Jennings of Milton, Alexandra Klapoetke of Westfield, Jenessa Friedhof of Colby, Reba McClone of Bonduel, Justin Schwahn of Reedsville, and Kaitlyn Freeman of Fort Atkinson.


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Pistachio-crusted Moroccan Rack Of Lamb with Israeli Couscou
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- 1 x rack of lamb
- 2 tspn ras el hanout
- 2 tspn spanish smoked paprika (pimenton)
- 2 Tbls olive oil
- 1 Tbls pomegranate molasses
- 1/2 cup pistachio nuts
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 1/2 x onion, chopped
- 1 Tbls butter
- 1/2 cup israeli (pearl) couscous
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 handful mint leaves
- 1 handful flat leaf parsley
- 1 handful cilantro leaves
- 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1/2 x preserved lemon
- 10 x dried apricots
Rinse rack of lamb under cold water and pat dry. Using a sharp knife, cut a few slits between the bones and into the meat. (This will allow some of the spice blend to penetrate into the meat) Brush with olive oil. Sprinkle with Ras el hanout and paprika. Allow to stand at room temperature while preparing the couscous.
Rinse cilantro, parsley, and mint leaves. Dry in paper towels, then roughly chop. Remove the pulp and seeds from the preserved lemon and thoroughly rinse under cold running water to remove the salt. (This is the standard technique for most recipes that call for preserved lemon.) Also roughly chop preserved lemon and dried apricot.
Grind pistachio nuts and combine with bread crumbs.
To prepare the Israeli couscous, melt butter in saucepan and sauté chopped onion until soft. Add the couscous and cook with the sautéed onion, then add the stock. If you do not have chicken stock, use water. Bring to boil, then reduce heat. Cover and continue simmering about 8 minutes, until couscous is soft. Not all of the liquid will be absorbed. Empty contents into a fine-mesh strainer and rinse with cold water, rinsing off the starch that was released during simmering. Return the rinsed and drained couscous back into the saucepan and reheat slightly.
Prepare your lamb: Preheat oven to 375. If your pistachio nuts are unsalted, sprinkle rack of lamb with salt. (If your pistachios are salted, there is no need to add salt to the lamb before searing it.) Using an oven-proof skillet, heat olive oil over moderately high heat. When oil is hot, sear the lamb rack until browned, about 5 minutes per side.
Remove pan from heat. Slather both sides of lamb rack with pomegranate molasses. Then with meaty side of lamb rack up, pack nut crumb mixture on top. Place skillet in oven and roast until internal temp reaches 140 degrees F for rare, about 15-20 minutes. Then allow to stand a few minutes before carving.
Combine couscous, preserved lemon, slivered apricot, pomegranate seeds, and chopped mint, cilantro, and parsley. If desired toss couscous with a splash of olive oil and a small amount of lemon juice.
Carve rack of lamb into 8 chops. Spoon couscous onto plate and arrange chops on top.
* Ras el hanout is a Moroccan spice blend that can contain as many as 100 different ingredients. You can find my own blend on this site:-)) Although you can purchase it already prepared, I would guess that any blend that you prepare yourself is better.


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You've probably heard the story of "Footprints in the Sand." It's all about a person who looked back on her life and saw two sets of footprints in the sand as God walked beside her. But then, she noticed that when she went through the toughest times, she only saw one set of footprints. When she questioned God about it she was informed that there is only one set of footprints because in those times God carried her. Well, that is pure, unadulterated hooey! It's not the way it works at all.
Beyond a doubt, the lowest time of my life came after my marriage ended and I moved to a new city to begin again. On a Tuesday I was in court finalizing my divorce, and then on Saturday of that same week, I loaded a Ryder truck with all my earthly possessions and moved 500 miles away to a city where I knew no one. I soon discovered that although I had moved to a new location, I was not yet ready to move on to a new place in my life.
The losses in my life were considerable. I left my son, who would be entering his senior year of high school, and he understandably opted to move in with his father, so my nest suddenly became empty. I was alone for the first time in over twenty years. I left dear friends who had been my support system in both the best and worst times of my life. I left a church I loved so much that I had hoped to stay there until I retired. And then, of course, there was the matter of my marriage ending. Even though it had been harmful to me on so many levels, I still felt a loss. The future I had dreamed of would never be. I had to let it all go.
Trying to figure out how to navigate this wilderness time of my life, I only seemed to find myself more lost in the thick of it. I engaged in self-destructive behavior that just made matters worse. I hated myself and felt like I had become such a miserable failure that what I wanted most was simply to disappear from the face of the earth.
Although I had always prided myself on standing on my own two feet and solving my problems without help from anyone else, I had reached a time in my life when I realized that I couldn't do it anymore. As I prayed, "God, help me!", I trusted that God would empower me to get my act together so that I could put all this messiness behind me and go on with my life.
As is usually the case, God answered my prayer in a way I hadn't expected. I thought it was all about God and me. But I learned that God doesn't come to me in a vacuum. He always comes to me through other people. In fact, that's the way it works for all of us. It's why God gives us the gift of community, so that we can be conduits of his love for one another.
Looking back over my life, I can see that during the worst times there are so many sets of footprints in the sand that it would be impossible to tell where one starts and another stops. They are the footprints of family members, supportive friends, an insightful therapist, and a loving faith community, all people God placed in my life to help me through the roughest times. They are the answer to my desperate prayer, "God, help me!"
One set of footprints? Never!


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|Gareth Cliff
Responses to Cliff's "Letter to the government" on his website have exposed that most South Africans cannot decode white supremacists' texts and actions.
Cliff, the Radio 5 DJ, has written an anti-black manifesto which ironically is celebrated as a statement for clean government.
He has achieved what the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and other right-wing racists groups have failed achieve -- normalising white supremacy.
He dresses it up as humanist concerns for good governance and service delivery. Cliff is the new paternalistic white liberal Biko so despised.
Unconscious racist
What makes Cliff so effective is that he is not a conscious racist. A basic mistake is the misreading of white supremacy as the preserve of neo-Nazi lunatic elements and not part of the whole reality that naturalises white privilege at the expense of blacks.
This is written into our history of slavery, colonialism and apartheid. White supremacy is taken as a given and the unearned privileges it bestows on whites are never seen or questioned.
Cliff's genius as an effective agent of racism is in his usage of "the truth".
When Manto Tshabalala-Msimang passed on, Cliff used the "truth" of the ANC's murderous HIV/Aids denialism to launch a brutal, racist attack on her. He wrote: "Manto is dead. Good. A selfish and wicked bungler of the lowest order. Rotten attitude and rancid livers -- all three of them …"
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Helping Hands, the TV series documenting the work of the "Michael & Son Cares Program", is returning to the air, Saturday, May 10th at 10 a.m. on NBC4, with more inspiring stories of a local business and their passion for community service. With a focus on helping the families of children with disabilities and illnesses, the Michael & Son Cares Program helps families with essential home repairs and remodeling that they otherwise could not afford.
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In order to give Rebecca mobility and the freedom to move between floors, an elevator was installed in the family's home. Unfortunately, the contractors who built the elevator did not properly install the sump pump, causing frequent flooding in Rebecca's play room.
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SQL Azure officially becomes paid service
Customers can now upgrade their CTP accounts to new paid subscriptions of Microsoft's cloud-based database service.
It didn't take long for the New Year to bring about changes on the database front. As expected, Microsoft's SQL Azure Database officially became a paid service on Monday. Users with community technical preview (CTP) accounts can upgrade to the paid service via the Windows Azure platform page.
Pricing for Azure varies by selected packages, though a Microsoft blog post states that those who upgrade before the end of January will not be charged for services during that month. Customers who choose not to upgrade can continue using Azure through March 1, 2010, before their accounts are deleted. Those who go this route will only be able to access their preexisting databases.
SQL Azure is a cloud-based database service built on SQL Server technology and is a part of Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. The database is designed to provide pay-as-you-go availability, scalability and data protection for the enterprise.
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Can Holding Your Kids Back a Year Give Them an Academic Advantage?Parents have been "redshirting" their children in record numbers. But will this actually help their kids in the long run?
A 2006 study which found that older kindergartners had an academic advantage over their younger, less mature peers created a new trend called "redshirting." The study noted that kids held back in kindergarten were 12% more likely to go to college. Armed with those numbers, parents began holding their kids back a year in an effort to give them a better start on life…hoping that being the biggest, smartest kids in class will lead to advantages, and a leg up, throughout their academic careers.
However, as this trend continued to grow, researchers began looking more deeply into this phenomenon. A more recent study found that other factors play a much larger role than simply the child's age, in determining his or her future academic success. The most important factor by far is parental involvement — children with involved parents excel by significant margins regardless of age. Other influencers include a family's socio-economic status and the school's resources.
So what can you do to give your child the right opportunities for success? First, don't wait for parent-teacher conferences. Check in with teachers regularly and ask what you can do to help at home. Second, spend dedicated time on homework with your child each night. Keep it positive, and reward strong focus and attention to detail. And finally, get a sense of your child's strengths and weaknesses in the following areas: attention span, motor skills, socialization, overall behavior, independence, and interest in learning. An attentive, involved and loving parent is the biggest advantage a child can have.


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On February 2nd 2009 there was a massive outcry in the media, from Liverpool fans and football fans in general at the return of one Robbie Keane to Spurs. This move was maybe not a surprise given the apparent unprofessional way that Rafa dealt with Keane. Benching him for key games even when Gerrard or Torres were injured and there was a position he could fulfill.
Even when playing him, he was typically placed up front on his own, a position that Keane is arguably not effective in, previously benefiting as a co-striker in behind the hole. The striker crisis is not a new problem for Liverpool, although this Keane move could arguably have cost Liverpool the title as Rafa shipped Keane out with no adequate replacement for an injured Torres.
This whole issue has been a problem for Liverpool ever since they solved the recent absence of a great striker with Fernando Torres. Since El Nino arrived at the club, Liverpool have been struggling to find him a partner. Perhaps playing Gerrard behind Torres, a partnership which has been so deadly, is the best way to go? Well, in that case it's important to consider what happens when Gerrard is injured like he has been recently.
It is debatable that Keane would have been ready made for a Gerrard-esque role, although no one can say for sure as he was never given the chance. One possibility that has recently captured the eye of many is the recent form of Yossi Benayoun, the Israeli international has netted important goals for the reds recently alongside some talismanic performances; particularly those against Real Madrid away, Fulham away and at Anfield v Arsenal this past Tuesday.
Benayoun seems a highly underrated player as he was key for West Ham in his tenure there, earning him a move to Liverpool. Yossi is very effective when he comes off the bench, though he was even better on Tuesday when he started.
Maybe Benayoun could be cover for the Gerrard role in future and perhaps, as has been suggested by Barry Glendenning of the Guardian, Liverpool have been suffering due to the lack of playing time Benayoun has garnered this season. In the games which he has played he has been prolific, even chipping in with the occasional hat trick, such as the ones against Besiktas and Havant and Waterlooville last season respectively.
Though maybe this isn't Liverpool's key problem as Gerrard has been fit most of the season, most of their trouble this term has been with the fitness of Torres.
Perhaps with more appearances from Torres, Liverpool would have gained a few more points and not have been stuck with a collection of uninspiring draws. Particularly given that due to this, the deadly Torres and Gerrard combination has only played together twelve times this season.
In terms of prolific strikers, it could be argued that given his decent goalscoring record for Pompey and previously at Liverpool, they should have kept Crouch. He scored frequently when given the chance and performances such as his hat trick v Arsenal in the 06/07 season certainly back up this point (although Crouch only left due to not being guranteed first team football) Further it would appear Benitez never gave much of a go with a Torres and Crouch partnership, which may have clicked and been the best front two partnership at Anfield since the days of Owen and Heskey.
What is particularly baffling is why Rafa didn't acquire adequate cover before selling off Keane. N'Gog is clearly too young and inexperienced to have stepped up to the plate in a title race, maybe Babel should be given more chances to prove himself a striker?
Andriy Voronin has been on good form on loan at Hertha Berlin, however he categorically ruled out any return to Liverpool. He has a better chance than the reds of acquiring a title this season (combined with first team football), so why return to them?
This may seem like a crazy shot, but sometimes moments of unexpected inspiration can prove a masterstroke. Why didn't Rafa consider taking a chance and bring in Hernan Crespo on loan? Crespo is largely a reserve man at Inter Milan, now wanting to leave due to being snubbed by Mourinho. Why not bring him in as cover for Torres?a Sure he may not be a spring chicken, but with that comes years of experience, I would bet for him scoring rather than N'Gog anyday.
Though I understand maybe he doesn't want to return to England, it is just a suggestion of what could have been done, I'm sure there's other loan moves or frees Rafa could could have brought in as cover.
Of course this is all speculation from yours truly, but what is for sure is Liverpool maybe could have and should have done a bit better, in this season where they finally put up a decent title challenge.


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History has been evident that (the now) developed countries once strived and established strong governing bodies to regulate the systems working to strengthen the pillars of their economy and society. There are several examples that prove the fact how the establishment of a centralized system like federal reserve banks has helped these economies thrive. Fuad Ahmed today, in contrast to the struggle of developed nations, advocates the case of developing states that still are suffering from menaces and evils of corruption and do not have any strong central system to monitor the financial transactions in an economy. Mr. Ahmed argues that except a few strong nations in the world, the ill of corruption is prevalent in almost all parts of the world, eating nations from within like a termite. He proposes that a solution like Blockchain can do wonders in digging them out of the pit these countries are falling due to their unreliable decentralized financial system.
Fuad Ahmed explains quoting the idea of Don Tapscott, the co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, that because of the development in the technological sector, there are several threats that are being posed to the financial systems in the shape of hackers and terrorists. The destruction caused by such a theft can be severe and have a domino effect in the worldwide economic system, whereas the use of blockchain technology which is immune to any theft and hacking because of its devolutionary properties can safeguard economic systems of volatile economies from facing a blow and emerge to be with flourishing nations.
Blockchain for Emerging Markets Explained
Initially introduced as an underlying technology for to monitor the transactions of bitcoin, the system of blockchain was later explored to be serving the longstanding needs of other industries in the world.
The blockchain is a decentralized and continuously growing system that consists of numerous blocks, with each linked to the previous one. The blockchain is a hyper ledger, publicly available and has the capacity to store information related to money, bonds, assets, contracts or anything that holds any value.
The technology was first begun to be used by Nick Szabo, a Canadian, who introduced it as a back-end system for Ethereum. Since then, it has been widely used by all the developed nations and has been incorporated into the system of big MNCs too. However, the emerging markets are still striving to learn about the benefits and usages of the technology. As the world is becoming a global village, the export and import markets are expanding too, making a room for bourgeoning middle class to become buyers of finished products and lead their economies to jump from being under developed to developing. The countries that are buying finished products are also becoming big-time importers of quality goods hence giving way to a multiplied amount of trade for these countries.
With the influx of trade, these volatile economies also become needful of a system that can guarantee the maintenance of a strong network to document every transaction that's taking place. The third world economies being politically fragile tend to be economically volatile too, the reasons for it are several that include corruption as one of the top causes. The system of blockchain that records everything on the block is more secure and free of human intervention, therefore less susceptible to corruption or engineering in the data. Transparency in blockchain is synonymous with less corruption in the system. The problems of the land registry to land grabbing in developing states can easily be resolved with blockchain, and as these economies are agrarian in nature, the issues related to farmers can also be addressed with more transparency in the system. No false contracts can be given out and no documents can be doctored if blockchain is properly incorporated in the system of these economies.
Financial Inclusion of the Unbanked
Recently India drove a demonetization campaign across the country to urge the citizens go and get their money banked, however, the effort proved to remain futile in many areas. The reason for the drive was to document all the money and include it in the financial sector. Since the effort couldn't give desired results, emerging economies like India and Brazil could use blockchain to record all the data that had been missing as, if not banks at least internet is available to almost 80% of the population in India, even in remote areas.
The other way developing nations can generate good profit from blockchain is by using it for the transfer of remittances. These nations thrive on the economy that is made of share put in by immigrants sent money from abroad. Blockchain in these circumstances can be a major help for these states as with each transaction that is sent through the Western Union or a bank, a huge chunk of money is being deducted from the transaction. This situation can be easily avoided with the use of a decentralized system like a blockchain that operates on equal grounds globally and can be controlled with an app or just a plain internet connection.
Final Word.
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that pledges to change the fate of developing nations where lack of accountability and corruption is weakening the state structure from within. This system promises to keep every single piece of information documented on the network along with the insurance of security of all data. The developing nations that take immense benefit from this technology and emerge to stand among the developed ones in a very limited time.


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We love food! When JB and Renee of Will Fly For Food suggested breaking down some of their favourite Hawker Stall in Penang, we knew this was the post for us. Malaysia is one of our favourite countries to visit and now we can't wait to go back to eat!
Hawker Stalls in Penang
There is much to discover in Penang. We visited this Malaysian island city not too long ago and became enamoured with its labyrinth of heritage houses and street art. Walking along its narrow streets, there was always this feeling that around the corner, hidden behind a wall, was something surprising and colorful.
I remember getting up early on our first morning in George Town to explore the back alleys around Muntri Street. Few people were awake at that time and the city was still cast in a dreamy, bluish haze. I was lost in the time warp of colonial era buildings feeling completely transported, when I turn the corner to find a two-story mural of an old man rowing a boat, staring down at me. Apart from a few scratches left perhaps by motorbikes, it looked fairly new.
A modern statement juxtaposed against an historic backdrop, it's this intriguing blend of cultural heritage and contemporary street art that makes Penang so much fun to explore.
Penang Food Stalls
Finding these urban canvases became a game for us, something we would play while seeking out the best examples of what we truly came to Penang for – its food.
Like its heritage houses and street art, Penang is renowned for its street food. It was recognized as one of Asia's top street food cities by CNN and a top culinary destination by Lonely Planet. In 2004, it was proclaimed by TIME magazine as having the best street food in Asia.
You are never far from a hawker stall in Penang.
No matter where you are on this island, you'll never be too far from hawker stalls dishing up the most delicious street food. Local favorites like curry mee or char koay teow can be heard (and smelled) sizzling on woks at the front of long queues of eager customers. Traveling on a shoestring? Not to worry, many of these dishes can be had for less than two dollars a plate.
Though there are countless street food vendors to choose from in Penang, not all bowls of asam laksa are created equal. Taste may be subjective but if longevity is any indicator of quality, then these 7 stalls should satisfy even the most exacting of palates. They've all been serving their signature dish for no less than 30 years.
If you're like us and food is every bit as important to you as heritage houses and street art, then these are 7 legendary hawker stalls in Penang that you absolutely cannot miss.
1. Kheng Pin Café
Uncle Lau of Kheng Pin Café has been frying up some of Penang's best lor bak for almost 40 years now. Lor bak is a dish consisting of different types of meat, seafood, tofu, and vegetables. They're seasoned with five-spice powder and rolled in a thin beancurd skin before being deep-fried and served with a duo of sweet and spicy sauces.
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Address: 80, Jalan Penang, George Town
Expect to spend: Around $1.60 for two people
2. Sister Yao's Char Koay Kak @ Macalister Lane
This humble pushcart along Macalister Lane has been serving some of Penang's most delicious char koay kak for over 40 years. Char koay kak is stir-fried radish cake with bean sprouts, eggs, and preserved radish drenched in a thick black soy sauce. The Eoh sisters inherited their father's business about 30 years ago and have kept his recipe largely unchanged.
Essential Information:
Address: 94C, Macalister Lane, George Town
Expect to spend: Around $0.75 per order
3. Seafood Popiah at Gerai Gerai Padang Brown
Popiah is a type of fresh spring roll. It's made by filling a thin, paper-like crepe with a mix of ingredients like finely grated turnips, carrots, bean sprouts, fried tofu, pork, seafood, peanuts, fried shallots, and omelette strips. What makes this stall at Gerai Gerai Padang Brown so special is that it's one of the few places in Penang that makes it with crab meat. Soft and savory sweet, they've been making their delicious rolls of seafood popiah for over 60 years.
Essential Information:
Address: Medan Selera Padang Brown food court (Dato Keramat Stalls)
Expect to spend: Around $1.50 for 2 rolls
4. Ping Hooi Coffee Shop
Char Koay Teow is arguably Penang's most iconic street food dish. It's made by stir-frying flat rice noodles with soy sauce, prawns, cockles, fermented shrimp paste, bean sprouts, chives, and egg. The Yeow family has been serving a sinfully delicious version made with duck eggs at Ping Hooi Coffee Shop for 3 generations now.
Essential Information:
Address: 179, Carnarvon Street, George Town (corner of Lebuh Carnarvon and Lorong Carnarvon)
Expect to spend: Around $2 per order
5. Air Itam Asam Laksa
Asam Laska is another of Penang's most popular street food dishes. Unlike coconut-based curry laksas, asam laksa is made with tamarind so it tastes more sour than creamy. Air Itam Asam Laksa, a hawker stall at the foothills of Kek Lok Si Temple, has been serving some of Penang's best bowls of asam laksa for over 30 years.
Essential Information:
Address: Ayer Itam, Jalan Pasar (corner of Jalan Pasar and Jalan Paya Terubong, beside Air Itam Market)
Expect to spend: Around $1 per bowl
6. Sister Curry Mee
If longevity is the only criteria, then Sister Curry Mee has to be one of Penang's most legendary hawker stalls. Run by two sisters, they've been serving some of Penang's best bowls of curry mee for over 70 years now. Known as curry laksa anywhere else in the world, curry mee is an egg noodle dish typically made with bean curd puffs, bean sprouts, cuttlefish, shrimp, and cockles in a coconut-based curry soup.
Essential Info:
Address: Jalan Air Hitam, Pekan Ayer Itam
Expect to spend: Around $1.10 per bowl
7. Mr. Por's Duck Koay Chap @ Restoran Kimberly
One of Penang's most popular hawker stalls, you'll always find a long line of people waiting for Mr. Por's duck koay chap at Restoran Kimberly. Duck koay chap is a noodle soup made with flat, wide rice noodle rolls. It's served in a dark soy sauce broth filled with ingredients like duck, pork, offal, fishcakes, vegetables, and hard-boiled egg. Mr. Por has been making all the components for his koay chap in-house for the past 30 years.
Essential Info:
Address: 137, Lebuh Kimberley, George Town
Expect to spend: Around $1.80 per bowl
For more street food recommendations in Penang, check out our video of 15 delicious things to eat in Penang and where to try them.
15 delicious things to eat in Penang
About the author:
JB and Renee are the Traveleaters behind Will Fly for Food, a travel blog for the gastronomically inclined.
Food is a major reason why they travel so they've made it their quest to try every country's national dish.
Traveleat with them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest.
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Morrisons is expected to confirm this week alongside a third quarter trading update that it will launch a family clothing brand called Nutmeg next Easter.
Morrisons is the last of the major supermarket groups to launch its own clothing brand, a part of the industry that has thrived following George Davies' launch of George at Asda in the 1990s.
The supermarket group has hired former Peacocks managing director Tim Bettley to become its director of clothing and is building
an internal buying, merchandising, and design team of about 50 staff.
The Nutmeg staff will this week move into a new headquarters in Coalville, Leicestershire. Nutmeg will go on sale in about 100 Morrisons' stores next March. Initially, Morrisons plans to focus on children's clothing and adult essentials.
"We want to offer a different approach from other supermarkets with simple hard-wearing fashion that is easy for customers to pick up while they are doing their food shop," Mr Bettley said.
"This is a great opportunity because Morrisons' shoppers are looking for a fresh approach to supermarket fashion."
Morrisons held talks with Mr Davies about the former Next boss creating the company's clothing brand. However, it is understood that chief executive Dalton Philips wants to build his own internal fashion team and maintain control of the brand.
The clothing project is one of a string of initiatives by Mr Philips designed to expand Morrisons' non-food business. He has also launched a wine website and is exploring whether to sell food online.
In addition, Morrisons is rolling out a convenience store format and a greater focus on fresh food.
However, third quarter figures this week are likely to show the retailer is under pressure. Philip Dorgan, analyst at Panmure Gordon, is forecasting like-for-like sales will decline by 1pc.


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Hi, my name is Emily, 34, single and looking . I live in central Arizona, near Sedona, but looking to move;). My interest in tracking comes from a 15+ year struggle with chronic fatigue, so you could say I specialize in health and labs, bloodwork, functional medicine, herbs and supplements etc. I've learned so much about it, I'm writing a small e-book to help others with choosing, acquiring, and interpreting tests, including costs.
Influences include Ben Greenfield, Joe Cohen, Jack Kruse, Dave Asprey...
I am NOT a huge tech person. I don't record anything with my phone (gasp!) I still do most of my data with pen and paper and like it that way, but when the technology gets more advanced for compiling and correlating data to look for trends that we may miss, and when I can put in anything from anywhere, not just a few select devices or apps, I will be interested. For example if the computer can flag that most every time I eat beets I don't sleep 2 nights afterward or other obscure patterns. I am also interested in up and coming consumer testing services and gadgets, like pills you swallow to look in your guts and machines to scan your blood/ urine/ saliva for pathogens at home.
Also interested in PEMF devices, vibrational medicine, light and energy medicine. I spent some time using a Biowell GDV camera if you have any questions about that. I ultimately sent it back because the tech support was bad and it was hard to get my questions answered about it, but it was fun while it lasted.
I AM a huge experiment person. Some of the parameters I track daily:
-use Rescue Time to track total screen time. Not for activity reasons but for EMF exposure.
-use Cronometer to track food. Have particular interest in nutrient density, fiber, and macronutrient ratios. Currently eating only 15 foods due to food allergies, so I watch for reactions to foods. Tracking has helped me nail down a safe baseline diet that allows me to go through every day headache 100% free.
Currently investigating fat/carbs and anxiety relationship. Tracking helped me understand that low carb/high fat ketogenic causes greater insomnia and anxiety for me. Slowly working my way higher carb while lowering fat and somewhat protein.
-Use labs to track health. Have multiple CBC, CMP, vitamin D, lipid, thyroid. Currently obtaining Quicksilver blood metals, DUTCH hormones, LRA food allergy, Doctor's Data stool, 23 & me genetics. May repeat some in future depending on results. Arizona is a direct access state, no requisition needed for anything, and basic bloodwork is cheap, which is awesome. Tracking has allowed me to see that most of my off bio-markers have been off for many years, the same ones, but I have yet to improve them or really try to target specific ones. I have some resources for functional lab ranges for conventional blood work those who are interested.
By hand I use a combination of a paper journal with spaces for notes on specific subjects daily and a paper calendar where i make my own daily bar graphs with colored pencils to see trends at a glance. It could be easily converted to numbers and transferred online if I just gave the height of the bar a number, but I also write notes all over my calendar and there is no exact software mimic for the whole layout that I am aware of . And besides, I am wary of wireless and screens. Add that to the list of tech that DOES interest me: non-toxic/low EMF/healing EMF tech.
On the calendar I track 9 main things with colored bars, including1)computer hours2)if i ate a suspicious food, like a known or suspected sensitivity or just something unusual3) chemical exposure and severity and triggering because i have mild multiple chemical sensitivity.4) daily symptoms and total symptom severity, headaches, pain, etc.5) mood. i basically track the extent and brand of the negativity, as I am rarely in an exceptionally good mood. But hopefully some of my supplement and diet tracking and labwork will be able to turn that around. 6 and 7) good and bad synchronicities, luck, flow. I probably differ from everyone else on here in that this is one of my most important parameters. I believe strongly that consciousness/vibrations influences the events around us like the power going out, or getting surprise money. Both can happen in one day, hence separate bars.8 and 9) good and bad dreams. I track the general tone of my dreams as I feel they add a bit of extra insight into my waking day and further underscore trends in mood, diet, flow, etc. For example last night i dreamed of snakes. That always means something is not okay in my waking life. I would give any snake dream, say, 8/10 on the bad dream scale. I also have a symbol for if I did not sleep through the night. If I start using one phone app again it will probably be a sleep motion tracker.
Other things I note on the calendar are exercise. I only hike/walk for exercise and usually in a different place each time, so each day is labelled by where I went so I can pull the whole day up in my memory easily. If I didn't go anywhere the day is labelled by something else notable that day like today might be "Quantified Self" if I spend a lot of time researching QS stuff.
-I note if I took a bath in epsom salts with a "B'. For awhile I thought this was giving me better dreams, but not so sure anymore.
-I note ovulation and menses with a blackened or empty moon symbol. Menses and they day or two before has obvious effects on everything else, ovulation or other times of cycle not so much. But good for not getting pregnant (If I wasn't single).
-I note if changed diet or supplements.
Sounds like a lot of stuff but it only takes 5 or 10 minutes to fill in. The calendar is my "at a glance" shorthand collator of the data from my two apps plus my journal. In my journal take notes throughout the day and I keep the more extensive observations, ruminations, to-do lists. I do write down foods in each meal on here as well as cronometer because I can't flip through cronometer easily and see my meals on the same page as everything else that day, like...
-...bowel movements. frequency, texture. I have a lot of gut issues and do a lot of poop tracking, including bowel transit time.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS-watching effects of hydrocholoric acid supplementation on digestion (mostly looking at poop texture). will add enzymes when I have a good idea of what acid does or doesn't do. The enzymes in turn were added to oxbile which didn't do much, which in turn were added to sauerkraut which does A LOT to firm up loose stools for me (various brands work the same, probiotics on the other hand do not make a difference). -soon starting medicinal mushrooms to see if they raise sub-optimal white blood cells on CBC. -body temperature. Pretty much established it is optimal, but now checking into the circadian rhythm pattern.
Lots More to Come when I get my latest labwork back. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
This is what I mean by doing things the old-fashioned way. Yellow for example is symptoms. The symptoms are high all January because of a stomach issue. The pros of putting this data on the computer would be that it wouldn't be lost or destroyed, and that you could switch views, turn the bars into lines and whatnot to look at monthly and weekly trends. The cons are I'd need specialized software to recreate the exact same view and capabilities of my paper exactly and that I would spend more of my life looking at a screen.
But if anyone wants to invent me this program where I can add any parameter I want rated on a scale of 1/10, assign it a color, and put notes on top of it, and add symbols and titles to each day, and drop sticky notes with lines to specific days on the side, and be able to see it all at once without having to hover over anything or zoom in, go right ahead! I'd give it a whirl.
If you end up repeating the Quicksilver testing, I'd be really curious whether the epsom salt baths seem to influence your magnesium levels. I'd been considering testing that myself just to have some independent confirmation of the only study I'm aware of.
Yeah, same study I've seen. I'll let you know, although honestly if mag comes out low, I'll probably just take oral mag since i have that around, and it will be getting hotter soon and I won't be interested in baths anymore.
What I will be able to see right away is if I have still have low blood magnesium despite taking epsom salt baths with x lbs of salt x number of days per week all winter and consuming x mg of magnesium in my diet daily. If so, it could be an indicator that for a chronically ill person, more aggressive magnesium measures could be in order, or something else needs to be fixed to retain magnesium. I could also just run an RBC mag. Last time I tested last summer (no baths) it was 5.5 on a 4.2-6.8 range which is perhaps sub-optimal but totally reasonable. Dr. Caroyln Dean the magnesium maven/junkie suggests aiming for 6.0-6.5mg/dL, but I think on a wellnessFX panel it would be in the green.
Welcome Emily. Thank you for writing this intro, and thank you also for including a picture of this notebook. At the conference in Amsterdam somebody gave a talk, with photos, about his late father's diabetes notebook, made long before there were pocket phones, never mind pocket computers. Those images had some of the same seriousness and visual power as your photo. I think these documents are very important, they say a lot. My intuition is that some of the most important qualities in a handcrafted journal like this remain unrealizable on screens.
On electromagnetic radiation, Bob Trioa has been doing some interesting work on this. I don't think he's posted about it yet but here's a video of a talk he gave at a New York meeting: http://quantifiedself.com/projects/821
Thanks, Gary - actually, I have written about electromagnetic radiation:
EMF and Radiation – Measuring My Indoor Environment
This is a very impressive introduction. Can you comment on your BioWell experience? I was not favorably impressed by the information that it relied on Chinese meridians.
Best wishes.
Supposedly the inventors of the biowell tested and corrected the traditional meridian meanings by taking thousands of scans of sick people with specific diseases and correlating their finger readings to their diagnoses. So they do ascribe specific fingers and regions of the fingers to specific parts of the body but it isn't exactly the same as TCM. If you are into the idea of GDV and the electron transport chain and all that but not into auras and chakras and meridians, you can just look at the joules of energy of all the fingers as your biomarker. And there are some basic patterns in the display relating to health, apparent health (where most people are, normal but not healthy), and disease.
The biowell did often seem to reflect my impressions of what weakens and strengthens me. I had VERY good readings after going to my chiropractor/applied kinesiologist and getting manipulated, and also after getting nutrient IVs. I had very bad readings after strenuous exercise, and hot baths, or cold water immersion, which because I have adrenal fatigue issues does indeed tucker me out. So you could say it was a confirmation, but made me more inclined to just listen to my body, actually seeing how many hours afterward it made my energy go down, and not try and force myself into doing cold immersion or whatever just because it's supposed to be good.
Similarly you can do all the healthy stuff you want, get acupuncture or a massage, but if you are getting hungry and hypoglycemic because you left the house and didn't bring any food, it isn't going to help. You'd be better off staying at home. Again, common sense, but seeing the display helps.
Unfortunately the only other person I tested it on was my roommate. But this was interesting because I always had better readings than him even though I have much worse health problems. But I also live a much cleaner lifestyle. So perhaps my lifestyle is helping me.
I heard about this device from one of my professors, Beverly Rubik. She is a biophysicist who got into energy medicine. One of those IONS people. She is very grounded, and uses the biowell as an adjunct in most of her research, so I trust that there is some merit to it. I hope that such devices do become more common, cheaper, better accepted. I think there is something to it.
I just didn't like that it was Russian and hard to get information and answers to my technical questions. And then my mild electrohypersensitivity thing where I'm not so sure using electronic devices to track my health is better for my health than just avoiding devices.
I also own/use a Biowell unit and have found it super insightful. It has correctly detected several things that matched up with my physical well-being as well as lab tests (organs/systems).
Something to keep in mind is that the human body is constantly changing, so if you were to take 2 different readings 10 minutes from each other, overall you will probably see some different results. So the trick is you need to take a ton of readings over time, so you can establish some baselines and see which things hold constant/stick out (i.e., lower back or liver) and determine a course of action. Think about how athletes use HRV as a measure of readiness/recovery each day - they must first establish a baseline.
Did you go through all of their training? I've literally spent 20+ hours going through training videos and "practicing" by taking hundreds of scans, and I am still only scratching the surface. It's fascinating stuff!
Nice Aura Bob! Very solid. My energy was usually higher than 47 but much choppier :). I did watch some of the training videos. Didn't do any workshop training. I only had it for a month, but did do hundreds of scans in that month to get an idea for the baseline. So the observations I mentioned above were the most extreme ones. I didn't really look too hard for things that were always off, since I have so many multisystemic health issues nearly everything is always off.
Indeed, magnesium is not looking good on this test despite epsom salt baths several times weekly (say 2-4 times) in the winter months leading up to the test. Say 2 cups or so per bath. I wouldn't rely on it for magnesium repletion. May be useful for other reasons. Magnesium chloride might work better. I'm just going to take oral magnesium for awhile. 870mg /day divided. It won't be a clean experiment because I'm on adrenal supplements that could prevent magnesium wasting, even in absence of additional intake, but we'll see what that does.


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Abstracts of the presentations given on Wednesday, 25 July 2007, in Session 11 of the UCOWR Conference.
The purpose of the Agricultural Chemical Removal Project was to remove pesticides and other chemicals from the McKenzie and Middle Fork Willamette Watersheds in order to protect a critical drinking and groundwater resource. The project was designed to allow growers in these watersheds to dispose of old pesticides, fertilizers, waste oil, and other chemicals at no cost or risk to themselves.


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OK, so Glenn marked an item off his "honey-do" list. It's so fine to have a man around the house! We got busy late in the day yesterday and really productive.
Since our great two day ice storm of 2004, and the death of an enormous pine very near the house, the worrying sentry is now down, riddled with termites and looking like lacy paper: the reason Glenn could throw such a large chunk over his shoulder.
Living alone here then (how did I do that?), my insurance company and FEMA spent a lot of money on all the damage that was done here. "Nature's pruning" did a job on us and we cleaned up around here for years. Hired men to go through the woods with chain saws and cut fallen trees into pieces that I could pick up to burn.
But many dead things still stood with potential energy. For nine years the tall pine stood, or almost so. New friends came out soon after the storm, one the famous Gene Eidson of "The Intelligent River" project.
I was in the middle of the renovation of this house. We three, along with Doug Rabold, my art dealer in Aiken sat on the back porch of the new house, then the front, then at the pool. I loved it and questioned it at the same time! Why were we three old farts deriving so much pleasure from sitting and contemplating vistas?
Anyway, Gene, the superman of interdisciplinary thinking and much more than that, commented that surely I knew that the pine would not be as heavy as it is now when it finally fell. And that it would fall down in chunks. I had never thought that far and that logically, not being Gene Eidson.
And so nature responded just the way Gene predicted. And Glenn got the tree safely down last night.
Something else was said that day by the other genius, Doug. I spoke about enclosing the area under the roof by applying a fascia board to the tails supporting the roof of the house. That of course would hide the tails. Doug said he always found that they looked like a string of pearls. He is right.


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Recipe Of The Week – Chicken, Vegetable & Barley Broth
Nov 27, 2018
This chicken broth is delicious, light yet filling and the root vegetables are interchangeable according to season and availability.
If you don't own a slow cooker, there are a number of guidelines you can work with to ensure this dish comes out just as well from the oven:
- Use about a third more stock than this recipe states
- For step 2, preheat the oven to 163 degrees Celcius. Cover the food with a lid, put in the oven and leave to cook for 1 hour. Once you have removed the chicken, cook veg and barley for a further 15 minutes
Serves 4
- 350g mixed root vegetables e.g. celeriac, swede, sweet potato, parsnip and turnip
- 1 celery stick, thinly sliced
- 1 leek, halved lengthways, and thinly sliced
- 2 bay leaves, tied together with a small bunch of parsley springs
- 2 chicken quarters, skin removed
- 2 tbsp barley
- 1000ml chicken stock, boiled
- freshly ground black pepper
- fresh chives, snipped to serve
- Put the root veggies, celery, leek and herb bundle into the slow cooker. Add the chicken quarters and barley, ensuring to tuck the barley between the chicken pieces. Pour over the boiling stock, adding extra to cover the barley If necessary. Season with freshly ground black pepper.
- Pop on the lid and cook on HIGH for 2 hours or until the chicken is cooked through. Remove the chicken from the cooker and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Replace the lid back onto the cooker and cook for a further 30 minutes until the veg and barley are tender.
- Once the chicken is cool enough, remove the meat from the bones and wrap in foil to keep warm.
- Once the vegetables and barley are tender, return the chicken to the slow cooker and heat through if necessary. Once heated through, remove and discard the herb bundle and serve the broth immediately and sprinkle with freshly chopped chives.


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We have had an early week of summer. In fact it has been warmer this week than it is sometimes during the summer. I went to town without a coat. I put away my good snow boots, and resurrected my crocs..I will wear them with socks if it gets cold again. My down parka is still hanging at the ready..I might need it yet this spring. No one has dared to carry the snow shovel away yet.
I have not seen a Robin in our yard yet..Far Guy saw one..but by the time I made it outside with the camera it flew off..most likely to "She who see Robins first" house. Everyone in the entire neighborhood will see one before me. The Juncos are here now resting and eating before they head north. I am waiting for the Goldfinches to come and the Grosbeaks. Our usual Chickadees, Nuthatches and Woodpeckers frequent the feeders. We brought in the peanut butter feeder..it was all melty and might attract a bear. All the bird feeders may have to go in the garage at night very soon. Bears usually don't wake up until late April or early May, but with this warm weather they may be waking up hungry soon.
The Swans and the Geese are flying overhead. The June bugs are still hitting the windows at night. I heard spring peepers the other day when were near a swamp. Skunks are out and a few have met a happy demise on the highway.
A few farmers can be seen working out in the fields.
Someone must be spreading a little hay for Joes horses. We went up and watched the horses one afternoon..Chance likes to watch them too:)


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I know, it's sort of a mouthful to say. But it's also a mouthful of deliciousness. It also might be the best banana bread I've ever made.
I'm firmly under the opinion that chocolate should always be a main ingredient in banana bread, even though it sorrrrrrta makes it a tad less healthy. But I say... use dark chocolate, which is an antioxidant and you'll feel much better about it.
Unless you eat a whole loaf. In one sitting. (Which has been known to happen with this delicious banana bread). It's. That. Good.
It's sort of like a banana bread version of my favorite ice cream, Cherry Garcia. (which, you should for sure make with any leftover cherries and chocolate you might have after making this delicious bread).
The mini versions work great for gifts or to prevent yourself from eating a full-sized loaf in one sitting. :) Happy banana bread making!
Oatmeal Cherry Chocolate Banana Bread
Cook Time: 60 minutes
Keywords: bake breakfast snack bread banana bread cherry oatmeal
Ingredients (1 loaf or 2-3 mini loaves)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup oatmeal
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg (and/or cinnamon)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/3 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 cup coarsely mashed ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
- 1 cup pitted, quartered fresh cherries
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and lightly flour an insulated loaf pan (or mini loaf pans).
- In a bowl, stir together the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the flat beater, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy...about a minute. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each additional and stopping the mixer occasionally to scarpate down the sides of the bowl.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in two additions, alternating with the yogurt and beginning and ending with the flour. Beat until just combined, scraping the sides of the bowl if necessary.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold in the banana. Mixture will be slightly lumpy. Fold in the cherries and chocolate.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan, filling about 3/4 full. If using a regular sized pan, bake for 60-65, if using the mini pans, you will likely only need to cook for 30-35 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean and edges will be slightly brown and pulling away from the pan. Let the bread rest in the pan for five minutes and then turn loaf out onto a wire rack and let cool completely. Slice and serve!
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For US Parents a Junior Moment
By Phil Taylor.
I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family six years ago when my son, Ben, finally said the words I had been expecting, and dreading for years. He had played basketball, baseball and soccer almost from the day he could walk, and my wife and I were beginning to think that at 14 and nearing the end of his freshman year of high school, he had decided those three sports were enough. But just when we dared hope that Ben would never force us to make the Big decision, our luck ran out. "So," he said between forkfuls of spaghetti, "I want to play football."
Those were the words Ben used, but at the time they seemed to pass through some sort of internal parental translator. What I heard was, "I'd like to subject my brain to repeated trauma and expose my body to increased risk of broken bones, arthritis and paralysis."
My wife and I needed time to process Ben's declaration, which didn't surprise him. "I thought you would probably say no right off the bat, and then I would have to give you all the reasons you should change your mind," my son, now a junior at Oregon, said recently when he granted his old man an exclusive interview. "I figured it was going to be more than one conversation."
He was right. For some parents, the question of whether to allow their sons to play football is an easy yes, for others it is a don't-even-think-about-it no. I know one dad who ripped up his son's football parental consent forms the first time the boy brought them home, then put a second set in the shredder when his son tried again a week later. But most of us lie between the extremes; we need to wrestle with the issue for a while deciding. The potential downside of saying yes grew even darker with the news that ALL-Pro linebacker Junior Seau, 43, had committed suicide, an act that may well have been related to the constant cranial pounding of his 20-year NFL career.
My wife and I considered Ben's request, I thought about parents' obligation to protect their children but also to prepare them. I wanted to keep my son from undue risk of injury, but I didn't want to coddle him so much that he'd never learn how to take a hit, literally or figuratively.
And so, we have allowed him to play football. And I think every parent should consider about this matter for their children.
The author is a senior writer with Sports Illustrated, US.
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Mushrooms provide many of the nutrients similar to vegeatbls, as well as the nutrients more commonly found in meat, beans or grains. Mushrooms are low in calories, fat-free, cholesterol-free, gluten-free, and very low in sodium, yet they provide important nutrients, including selenium, potassium, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin D and more.
They are versatile, they cam go in your quiche, your pie, in your pasta, as a curry or simply sautéd.
This version of sautéd mushrooms are my new favourite….absolutely delicious! They make for the perfect side dish with your pasta or bread, I even like them as a snack. They are a great stuffing for your pita bread pockets as well.
Easy, simple and quick..make them and devour the tangy flavour!
200 gm Button Mushrooms ( cut the big ones into half, keep the small ones as such)
1 tbsp Butter
1/2 tsp olive oil
A generous helping of fresh ground pepper
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp Parsley
How to make it
Heat the butter and oil in a wide base fry pan. Add the mushrooms and sauté till the water from the mushrooms dries up. Add the pepper, salt and parsley. Sauté for 30 seconds. Add the vinegar and sauté on high flame till the mushrooms develop a golden brown colour. Splash with lemon juice and serve immedietly!