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This section covers some tips that will help you write more complex implementations of the library:
- Using Your Own Servlet
- Defining Capabilities
- Customizing the Flow of Events
- Passing Parameters to
- Implementing a Non-servlet Data Source
Using Your Own Servlet
The simplest data source implementations inherit from the library's
DataSourceServlet class.
To inherit from a class other than
DataSourceServlet, implement
a data source as follows:
- Implement the
DataTableGeneratorinterface and override
- Call
DataSourceHelper.executeDataSourceServletFlow()from within your servlet's code to run the data source flow. This method takes the following parameters :
- An
- An
- Your implementation of the
DataTableGeneratorinterface from step 1 above.
- A boolean to specify restricted or unrestricted access mode.
- An
For example, if you want to inherit your servlet from another servlet
class, called
AuthServlet that provides built-in authentication,
you can rewrite the
SimpleServletExample to inherit
AuthServlet rather
DataSourceServlet as follows:
- Implement the
- Move
generateDataTable()from your
DataSourceServletimplementation to your
- Override
getCapabilities()in your
DataTableGeneratorimplementation to return
- Call
DataSourceHelper.executeDataSourceServletFlow()from within your servlet code (
doPost()), and pass your
DataTableGeneratorimplementation. This method runs the entire flow of the datasource, including rendering the data source results into the servlet response.
You can use the same technique if you are using a servlet framework
in which you normally inherit an abstract class provided by the framework.
For example, if you are using WebWork you might want to inherit the
ActionSupport class.
Defining Capabilities
If your data store contains a large amount of data, and you want
to increase the efficiency of your data source, you can use the querying
capabilities of your data store. For example, suppose that your data store
is a database, and the database has a large number of columns. If a visualization
requests only a few of those columns, then running a
SELECT operation
within the database is more efficient than retrieving all the columns and
using the library's querying capabilities to perform the
To implement
SELECT capabilities, you write code
to run a
SELECT operation within the database and to return
a data table.
Use the
Capabilities enum
to define the querying capabilities that your code
provides. Available options are:
NONE: the default, your code provides no query operations.
SQL: your code provides SQL query operations.
SORT_AND_PAGINATION: your code provides both sort and pagination query operations.
SELECT: your code provides a select operation.
ALL: your code provides
SORT_AND_PAGINATION, and
Note: In all cases the library handles any query operations that are not provided by your code.
To implement a capability other than
NONE, override
DataTable.generateDataTable() to query the data
store and return a data table.
Three of the examples illustrate how to implement capabilities:
AdvancedExampleServlet2, and
All are in the
example package.
AdvancedExampleServlet2 is
discussed in Defining Capabilities and the Flow of Events.
Customizing the Flow of Events
The default flow of events is defined in
The default flow is as follows:
- Extract and parse query parameters.
- For restricted access mode only, verify that the request originates from the same domain as the servlet.
- Parse the request to create two query objects: the data source query
and the completion query. Pass the data source query to your implementation
- Your implementation of
generateDataTable()generates a data table.
- Run the completion query on the data table generated in step 5.
- Render the data table into the format specified by the visualization and set the servlet response.
To specify your own flow of events, call the
helper functions in
datasource.DataSourceHelper. See
Defining Capabilities and the Flow of Events for an example
Passing Parameters to
You can use the
HttpServletRequest.setAttribute to pass
data that is not part of a query or
HttpServletRequest object
DataTableGenerator.generateDataTable. Example code is provided
In your servlet's code, put the object you want to pass into the
HttpServletRequest as
request.setAttribute("my_object_name", myObject); DataSourceHelper.executeDataSourceServletFlow(request, response, dataTableGenerator);
In your
dataTableGenerator interface implementation, get the object from the
HttpServletRequest as follows:
public DataTable generateDataTable(Query query, HttpServletRequest request){ Object myObject = request.getAttribute("my_object_name"); // Add your code to manipulate myObject here }
Implementing a Non-servlet Data Source
If you implement the library without using a servlet, you can
use only those classes and helper functions that do not require
a servlet environment. These include the
Query and
classes and some of the
DataSourceHelper functions
such as
validateQuery and
You can use these classes and functions to do the following:
- Parse a visualization query.
- Split the query into a data source query and a completion query.
- Run the completion query to generate a data table.
- Return the data table to the visualization in
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How BBQ brings South Africans together
Rebecca L. Weber | 4/17/2014, noon
CNN Barbecued zebra anyone?
How about warthog with peri-peri sauce?
Along with more traditional fare, these are the kinds of things you might find on a "braai," a specialized barbecue born of South Africa and over the last couple years seen around the world, thanks to a TV series.
South Africa's braai (barbecue) culture is one of the few things that truly cuts across racial and economic lines -- just about every circle of friends here has its own "braai master."
In much the way cupcakes went from being a humble, if beloved, food item to the focus of TV shows, blogs and books, so too the braai has escalated in prominence and caught the imagination of the country in a new way.
"The Ultimate Braai Master" -- a reality/game show that's an African mash-up of "MasterChef" and "The Amazing Race" -- is gearing up for its third season in September.
The Travel Channel broadcast the first season to more than 100 million people around the world, including in the UK, Australia, India and China.
It's slated to be part of Vibrant TV's lineup in the United States in 2014.
All you need to make your own braai is a 40-gallon steel oil drum cut in half lengthwise to hold firewood, with a piece of tight cross-mesh burglar bar to support your meat and veggies.
Commercial kettle grills, gas grills and instant charcoal are often used these days, as well.
Chill, braai
Like all good barbecues, a braai in South Africa is a leisurely affair.
Nobody braais on time; drinks and snacks are taken for a few hours while the fire is assembled.
Since 2005, Heritage Day, a national South African holiday, has been dubbed National Braai Day by Jan Scannell, aka "Jan Braai," whose braai cookbooks are domestic bestsellers.
Archbishop Doctor Desmond Tutu supports the initiative.
Elaine Ensor-Smith, a contestant on the first season of the TV show, says the show "heightened people's perceptions of what you can do" at a braai.
"Fire is a leveler," says the show's host, Justin Bonello. "It's not like you can turn it on to 180 [350 F] and walk away."
What can't you cook?
In one challenge featured on the program, teams had to use every part of a sheep to prepare a tasty dish, including brains, snout and offal.
"It was a really interesting challenge. I would probably do it again," says Ensor-Smith, adding that she "almost dry heaved when cracking the brains."
Traditionally, all parts of animals are eaten on a braai, but modern urban life has had its impact on the food chain here.
Chops, chicken and boerewors (literally "farmer's sausage," an incredibly long coiled sausage made of beef, lamb or pork mixed with herbs) are ubiquitous.
Different regions have their own spice mixes and specialties: peanut butter and apricot jam on chicken wings; peri-peri sauce on just about anything; springbok loin with anchovy butter; and "walkie talkies," or chicken feet.

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I love stories with a magical element that takes place in the "real" world. Perhaps that's why "magical realism" appeals to me so much – writers like Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. So when I told our local librarian this, and she pulled The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue off the shelf, I was pretty excited to find new writers in this style (can it be called a style?).
The book tells the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old boy who is stolen by the changelings (faeries, hobgoblins – pick your name of choice) and replaced with one of their own who has made himself look just like them. The book is structured with alternating chapters, one from the perspective of the changeling made boy living in Henry Day's life and one from the perspective of Aniday, the boy who becomes changeling. The intertwined perspective allows the reader to develop sympathy with both boys while still scorning each "world's" view and interaction with the other.
I really enjoyed Donohue's use of the changeling myth to explore the ways we all – at least I think we all – feel unlike everyone else around us. I can distinctly remember thinking that the reason I felt so alone, even in the midst of my family and friends, as a child was because right now I was just watching my life on a big projection screen, God at my side, while everyone was else actually living theirs. Soon, I would get to come to earth and then I could change what I wanted and really be connected with everyone. I never did really think through whether or not those other people would then just be watching a movie of their own lives then. All I knew was that this idea seemed to help me feel less alone.
The story of these two boys also does a wonderful job of blending together myth and reality while giving us believable, culpable characters who we love even when they are distant. Henry Day's father, for example, is complex and deep, even though we never learn his name.
The other element of this novel that strikes me as well-developed and articulated is the way that these two characters' stories start out very intertwined and then spread apart before finally resolving again into an intimate connection between the two boys who are neither who they are or who they were (again, here, magic recreates reality.)
I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and hope to read more by Keith Donohue. His latest novel, Angels of Destruction, is a Washington Post Best Book of 2009. Guess I"ll be hunting that one down next.
– The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue.
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AFTER HOURS: Episode 3 is now LIVE over on Crossing Zebras. Check it out!
Episode 4 will be out next week and Episode 5 was recorded yesterday, so things are moving right along. I spent some time and re-did the opening a bit, I think you'll like the new one. You'll hear it on Episode 4 next week.
I hope someone is enjoying these, because I'm having a blast doing them. I hope to continue to bring great guests along and explore the community even more in the coming weeks and months. If you happen to have an idea for a guest you'd like to see, just let me know.
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Great podcast Rixx keep them comming.ReplyDelete
Great Stuff really like it. Maybe you could try to get Lord Maldoror of RnK as a Guest. I think people generally like listening to him.ReplyDelete
Anyway keep it going.
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Stephen R. Porter. Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 296 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4856-2.
Reviewed by Branden Little (Weber State University)
Published on H-Diplo (October, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
There's No Place Like Home: Refugees and Their Discontents
Few historical studies could be more applicable to today's political turmoil than Stephen R. Porter's Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed. Porter's monograph examines the myriad responses of Americans to refugee populations in the twentieth century and beyond. Benevolent Empire features seven chapter-length case studies that explore refugee-related developments from the era of the First World War to the aftermath of Vietnam. Special emphasis is placed on Jewish resettlement to the United States in the 1930s, the relocation of displaced Europeans after the Second World War, Hungarian refugee programs in the mid-1950s, and Cuban asylum seekers in the decades thereafter. The epilogue pushes the story to the cusp of the present-day Syrian cataclysm.
Porter persuasively demonstrates that favorable admissions policies have provided no panacea to distressed populations seeking new homes in the United States. Resettlement in American communities proved extraordinarily complicated. In many instances, Americans eagerly exploited new immigrants who were unwittingly trapped in sharecropping and other forms of servitude. Depressed labor markets that offered no substantive opportunities for employment further undermined refugees' integration and bids for self-sufficiency. America's mistreatment of the very peoples US officials and aid workers purported to be helping elicited justifiable criticisms. Sharp attacks on US policy and practices resulted. Critics included the peoples transplanted to the United States, other "displaced persons" who were abandoned in camps in Europe once American interest in their relocation waned, and foreign governments keen to indict as a sham American claims to being a beacon of liberty.
This chronicle of unpleasantries raises the question: in what ways can such ugliness be construed as benevolent? Porter makes a compelling case that the moniker "benevolent empire" fits because, promises and pitfalls aside, Americans energetically endeavored to extend mercy to the dispossessed. More than one million refugees entered the United States in the period Porter investigates. Many more millions of displaced persons overseas also received emergency aid services from a mixture of US and private American agencies. Certainly millions of dispossessed peoples would have perished without receiving American aid.
The "imperial" edifice that undergirds Porter's Benevolent Empire comprised the swirling constellation of private- and state-initiated activity that attempted to reduce suffering in war-ravaged lands. American humanitarians customarily prioritized the projection of relief and reconstruction initiatives into a beleaguered nation. Resettlement in the United States, however, did not necessarily eliminate a refugee's hardships. Benevolent Empire reveals that the Americans who mobilized to mitigate the misery of the dispossessed inadequately appreciated the complexities involved in fully transplanting refugees into American life. American aid organizations, moreover, expected that once a refugee had entered the United States and settled in a particular community the humanitarian duty to help had mostly ended.
The universal condition of many dispossessed peoples was one of enduring distress despite the relative tranquility of American life compared to existence in many refugees' fractured homelands. Benevolence, therefore, was at best a palliative measure. The American dream did not universally extend to all refugees who relocated to the United States. Porter documents that some refugees (in camps overseas as well as those living in the United States) became so dismayed with American hostility and ineptitude that they returned home even when faced with persecution. Dozens of despondent victims committed suicide.
The richest chapters in Benevolent Empire interweave in-depth biographical treatments of refugees, humanitarian activists, and American officials. Porter's narrative illuminates fascinating details, for example, about such obscure figures as James Becker, a Jewish American graduate of Cornell University. Becker served as a US soldier in the First World War, participated in Herbert C. Hoover's postwar American Relief Administration, and then joined the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). As Becker was confronted by atrocity—chiefly pogroms in the Ukraine—his altruism evaporated and he yearned for revenge. Porter notes that Becker returned to the United States in the 1920s but drops the storyline. One wishes Porter's biography of Becker's "benevolence" would have continued. Becker's later service on the JDC's national council in the 1940s-50s easily could have been tied to the later periods in Benevolent Empire.
Awakened to the humanitarian catastrophe triggered by the First World War, American society and the US government invested extensively in relief and reconstruction. After the war, the federal government relied on private agencies to prescreen refugee dossiers and sponsor refugees by financing their resettlement. Porter establishes that American interest in helping overseas victims of war and discrimination never seriously waned despite virulent xenophobia and popular disenchantment with global affairs in the 1920s-30s. Once the welfare state enlarged during the New Deal and in the Second World War, the appetite of government to regulate private charitable activities enlarged substantially. Increasingly in the aftermath of the Second World War the state arrogated the power to perform humanitarian functions.
The decades-long pattern of refugee aid that Porter portrays is one in which a multitude of private agencies initiated relief projects that government institutions eventually absorbed or regulated. Porter observes that the federal government vigorously encouraged the centralization of relief services by ever larger and more powerful agencies—public and private. He aptly describes the ascendancy of government and its collusion with powerful relief organizations as "regulatory Darwinism" (p. 85). This bias toward wielding federal power through regulatory control, however, undercut the variety of relief initiatives that Americans traditionally embraced. Greater efficiencies and economies of scale resulted from this process, but it also weakened the American public's activist sensibility, which was accustomed to providing limited aid to the downtrodden with little government support.
Porter uncovers shocking developments in the ostensibly humanitarian US Displaced Persons Program developed in the late 1940s. Avaricious scheming by southern planters ensured that Latvian refugees would be admitted to the United States as sharecroppers. A refugee's debt peonage in the Mississippi Delta was soon replicated in other farmlands across the United States. Farmers actively sought cheap foreign labor and shielded their reputation from criticism through the benevolent guise of helping the victims of war. Porter highlights an audacious resident of Milwaukee and president of the Latvian Association of Wisconsin, Lauma Kasak, who raised money to purchase the freedom of several hundred immigrant sharecroppers trapped in Mississippi. Porter discovered headstones with Latvian surnames in a local Mississippi cemetery where the sharecroppers labored. Clearly some unfortunate souls never escaped this form of agrarian bondage. Even as it illuminates the underbelly of American humanitarianism, Benevolent Empire does not deeply penetrate the motivations of the Americans who endeavored to acquire European refugees as "stoop laborers" and domestic servants (p. 119). It is unlikely that the paternalistic American sponsors of refugee resettlement thought they were doing their wards any injustices.
Unsurprisingly, even as the Soviet Union blasted the United States for mistreating minorities, it remained silent about its own oppressive, long-term captivity of hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers. Another scholar, Andrew E. Barshay established in The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956 (2013) that the Soviet Union's punitive forced labor of Japanese veterans continued upwards of a decade after Japan surrendered. The vulnerability of certain populations to the abuses by others in positions of preponderant power constitutes the common theme in Porter's and Barshay's investigations of this tumultuous postwar era. Resettlement in new lands and repatriation to homelands remained chronic challenges for millions of peoples whose experience with war did not simply end in 1945.
Displaced persons put into sharp relief the intimate relationship of civil and human rights to the ideological struggles of the Cold War. Benevolent Empire thus builds on the pioneering scholarship of Mary L. Dudziak (Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy [2000]) and Thomas Borstelmann (The Cold War and the Color Line [2009]) by connecting refugee rights advocacy to geopolitics. Porter shows that American programs for refugee aid overseas and resettlement in the United States affected America's international reputation and relations. Done well, relief and resettlement could enhance America's stature; done poorly, America's image suffered—at least temporarily. Demonstrating little introspection and willingness to recalibrate programs for resettlement to address chronic problems, US government and private agencies continued to facilitate the relocation of the dispossessed. And apparently unwitting refugees remained convinced that starting a new life in America was a worthwhile endeavor to pursue.
A central feature in Porter's, Dudziak's, and Borstelmann's studies is the contested definitions of citizenship. At precisely the same time that the United States admitted European refugees to the United States with the assumption they would be put on a pathway to full citizenship, the federal government energetically suppressed aspirations for Puerto Rican independence, while also denying full voting rights to the island's inhabitants who were nonetheless US citizens. Yet just a few years later, in 1959, statehood was conferred on Hawaii, another American island possession. The rights of citizens within the "Greater United States," as Daniel Immerwahr has recently dubbed these insular territories, varied considerably.[1]
Oftentimes the express limitations on rights emanated from racial discrimination in the continental United States toward peoples perceived as inferior. Porter emphasizes that even Europeans, including Hungarian revolutionaries who were branded as ardent anti-Communist heroes, were often treated no better by American society than most other minorities in the 1950s. Disadvantaged "second-class" Americans were incapable of wielding power effectively—this was, of course, a major theme of Martin Luther King Jr.'s crusade for economic justice. All chronically "dispossessed" Americans encountered hardships. Refugees, however, have been routinely left out of the standard civil rights narrative. Porter helps to establish their place in this important story. Despite the wide array of resettlement initiatives for refugees, Benevolent Empire intimates that many of the transplanted peoples simply enlarged the ranks of minorities and the poor. And as they competed for scarce social welfare benefits and charitable aid with other longstanding claimants, the refugees discovered blatant hostility. Clearly there were serious stress fractures in the foundation that comprised America's Benevolent Empire.
Benevolent Empire interweaves a vast and growing literature on humanitarian relief, the international dimensions of American civil rights reform, immigration, and American political development. It would serve advanced undergraduate and graduate students well in any number of courses on these themes, in addition to American foreign relations and "America and the World" seminars. The book repeatedly demonstrates that there is no easy differentiation between domestic and foreign relations. Global affairs were always of intimate interest to Americans, Porter correctly insists.
Porter's well-crafted study underscores the common feature of the refugee experience: misery. Customarily uprooted by violence, a refugee may remain vulnerable even after being transplanted by a benevolent empire. Undeniably many Americans wanted to help the dispossessed and downtrodden. The question of what constitutes genuine help endures.
Benevolent Empire should stand as a potent reminder that refugee resettlement and aid proved exceedingly difficult to orchestrate. In his epilogue, Porter sagely warns that the seemingly intractable problems associated with mass migrations from North Africa and the Middle East today cannot easily be solved. Relocation alone, he has shown, is no comprehensive solution to alleviating a refugee's distress; humane resettlement has required expansive commitments that were rarely envisioned by communities that accepted newcomers. If there is any moral in Porter's account, it would be the imperative need to more fully awaken the humanitarian sensibility among host-nation populations to admit extensive and long-lasting responsibilities for those unfortunate peoples whose homelands have been torn asunder.
[1]. Daniel Immerwahr, "The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History," Diplomatic History 40, no. 3 (2016): 373-391.
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Branden Little. Review of Stephen R. Porter, Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed.
H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews.
October, 2017.
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UK capacity auctions set up stack transition
The two capacity auctions in Q1 will change the structure of the UK supply stack, peak pricing dynamics and margin capture for flexible assets.
The two capacity auctions in Q1 will change the structure of the UK supply stack, peak pricing dynamics and margin capture for flexible assets.
January 15, 2018
The UK power market is preparing for two capacity auctions in Q1 2018. There is no shortage of competition to provide capacity. The outcome of these auctions will be key to determining how the capacity mix will evolve over the next 5 years.
In today's article we look at auction dynamics. We also consider what a changing capacity mix means for the supply stack, price formation and prompt margin capture of flexible assets.
Capacity market balance & pricing
This month's T-1 auction for the 2018/19 capacity year looks very well supplied against a demand target of only 4.9GW. This points to a single digit clearing price, potentially low single digits.
The auction will be fought out at the margin between the older CCGTs (e.g. Peterborough & Corby) and 36% efficient coal units (e.g. Fiddler's Ferry, West Burton) that missed out in the 18/19 T-4 auction. Bidding will be driven by complex end of asset life economics. At least 2 or 3 large grid connected units are likely to miss out and may close as a result.
The Feb 18 T-4 auction for the 2021/22 also features a large surplus of existing and prequalified capacity over the 49.5GW demand target. Key drivers to watch for in this auction are:
Marginal price setting in the T-4 auction is likely to be dominated by competition between new gas engines, new CCGTs and older coal units. Unit economics suggest bids converging around the 25 £/kW level. But growing investor enthusiasm, and in some cases under-pricing of risk, is driving down project cost of capital. This opens up the risk of another downside price surprise e.g. to 20 £/kW.
Supply stack transition & peak pricing
The UK supply stack is set to rapidly evolve over the next 5 years as older coal and gas units are replaced by renewables, interconnectors, gas engines and batteries. Chart 1 shows a simplified view of the 2021/22 supply stack.
Some observations:
So while the capacity market is currently well supplied, the energy market is likely to see increasing peak price shape & volatility over the next 5 years. A growth in renewable output is gradually eroding the load factors of CCGTs. But rising peak prices and volatility have a positive impact on CCGT margins.
Prompt and Balancing Mechanism returns
A higher volume of system intermittency is going to manifest itself in higher prompt price and Balancing Mechanism volatility. Marginal prices may swing from low or negative levels in periods of low net system demand, to being set by 70-90 £/MWh peaker costs when there is high net system demand. This is going to significantly increase the emphasis for flexible asset owners on optimisation of unit flexibility against prompt prices.
Ofgem's cash out price reforms are also set to drive more volatile cashout price behaviour. Gas engine owners are targeting this volatility by 'chasing' cashout prices i.e. spilling when the system is short and turning off when the system is long. Developer enthusiasm about returns from this strategy does not always properly account for:
Some engine and battery developers are 'pricing for perfection' i.e. assuming that BM returns will only improve. This may be setting up some painful writedowns in the 2020s.
The other interesting dynamic looming on the horizon is longer duration energy storage. The economics of 4-6 hr duration batteries do not yet support large scale rollout. But the pace of battery cost declines suggests that load shifting arbitrage will start to feature from the mid 2020s. The combination of grid scale and distribution connected storage arbitrage may be a game changer.
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I haven't done one of these in forever, but since I just filled a sketchbook, I thought I should share some of it before I start on my new book. If anyone cares, I use Canson Universal Sketchbooks in nine by twelve inch size. Each book has a hundred pages, though I usually tear out a few and quite a few never get onto the blog, since I do some drawing that isn't paper doll related. I like the Canson books, because they are fairly inexpensive and they take both ink and pencil well.
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Does Anyone Really Want to Deny Anyone Else Healthcare?
July 1, 2014 2 Comments
This whole mess called Obamacare could have been avoided if common sense prevailed. That said, common sense is in short supply in DC. DC is full of corrupt politicians.
If the insurance companies were mandated to insure people with pre-existing conditions, people with insurance would pay more. How many people would object to it? Not me. How about you?
Unless, of course, we added some competition. If we could shop for insurance anywhere and we were allowed to save the money we didn't spend tax free (HSAs and FSAs) without putting ridiculously low limits on savings accounts.
If the government had developed their plan to insure the poor received adequate healthcare and left the private sector to their own devices, would that be untenable? It's called Medicaid. Single payer, government run healthcare. Instead we have a poorly crafted 20,0000 page law and regs to do that but they wanted more. No. They wanted to control private sector healthcare, too.
So they cancelled your policy and taxed you, too. Check out The Obamacare Report Card.
Why mess with an entire industry for 4 million uninsured? Does anyone want to deny anyone healthcare? Not me. How about you?
The simple solution is to use your vote in the upcoming elections to throw the corrupt politicians out! K.I.S.S. them all goodbye!


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Found this really great article over on Logo Design Love the other day.
It's by a guest contributor Tim Lapetino (of US branding agency Hexanine) and he starts a fantastic conversation about the things we should be doing as logo designers/branding agencies with regards to getting the information we need out of clients to help formulate the best possible brief before starting work on any identity projects.
For designers, it's never enough to merely follow the design brief a client gives you. In identity design, we view our projects as opportunities to dig deep, mining the best parts of an organization to get at the heart of what makes each client unique. It's these nuggets that are essential when attempting to distill a company's essence into a logo.
Gathering these insights requires a crucial bit of give-and-take — not as easy as it sounds. Like being a good investigative reporter, a great designer is dogged and determined, yet pleasant, empathetic, and challenging. I've come to believe that the best creatives are equal parts artist, therapist, and journalist: generating ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and communicating the results well.
The client interview (which is a part of the larger creative brief) is a necessary piece of every successful project. This is especially true when crafting identity systems, as few projects hinge so directly on the ability to listen, ask questions, and process the answers. The info a designer gathers will be boiled-down (hopefully) into a single sentence that guides all design decisions throughout the process.
Whether this interviewing process happens in-person (the most effective), on the phone, or via Skype, getting a client to talk freely and helpfully about their organization is more art than science. So here are a handful of ways to get the best from this mutual exploration with your client.
It's about listening
As obvious as it sounds, few people are truly great listeners. The words that one person utters may mean something vastly different another. Without realizing it, most of us get distracted, focus on what we'll say next, or add our own feelings and associations to what we hear.
Use "active listening skills" to avoid such communication breakdown.
Often employed in counseling settings, this is a simple process of rephrasing another person's words as a clarifying question, in order to develop more accurate understanding. After you rephrase an important point, the client has the opportunity to make corrections or clarifications. An example might look like this:
Client: "We really want our new logo to be bold and attention-grabbing."
Designer: "So, it sounds like you want this logo to have bright, strong colors to catch the eye. Is that right?"
Client: "Well, not necessarily. I guess what I really meant is that I'd like it to stand out within our industry."
Ask the right questions
As you listen, be on the lookout for key words and phrases. What are the main goals of the project? Are there points your client keeps repeating? Those are probably important. As you gather data, ask yourself questions about what you've heard. What is the narrative thread of the organization? Is there some story or big picture that emerges from everything you've gathered? Is there a way to tell this story using metaphors and symbols that could make their way into your designs?
Be sure to get these crucial questions answered. Start by covering the elements of any good design brief (goals, audience, parameters, content needs, etc.) and then venture into the more intangible aspects like feelings, emotions, "personality" of the company, and the like. But remain focused on your goal. Guiding an interviewee isn't about confirming your own beliefs or agenda, but truly seeking to get at the story of the organization.
"True contentment comes with empathy."
Finally, any interviewer worth their salt needs to step into the client's shoes. How do things look from the other side of the table? Seek to see the person as they see themselves — crucial when you're trying to translate an organization's essence into something visual. It's essential to find out what drives your client and their company.
What is their reason for being? How will you take that mission and turn it into a great mark or identity system?
Only by asking and answering these questions will you be able to find out.
If you're not already a follower of the Logo Design Love blog, I can't recommend it enough. I regularly find top quality posts on there such as the above that can only help develop skills and improve my ability as a designer.
Check it out at Logo Design Love


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Homecoming 2012 kicks off with gala and awards banquet
The Homecoming 2012 celebration begins on Thursday, Nov. 1, with the first Homecoming Gala and Awards Dinner at the Holliday Alumni Center and runs through Sunday, Nov. 4, with on campus church services that are open to students, families and visitors.
Here's the complete schedule:
Thursday, Nov. 1
|6 p.m.
Homecoming Gala Reception and Awards Dinner (CAA members only), Holliday Alumni Center. $50 per person. Coat and tie. RSVP by Oct. 26 at citadelalumni.org/gala
|Friday, Nov. 2
|8:30 a.m.
22nd annual Homecoming Golf Tournament, Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, S.C.
|10 a.m.
Annual Meeting (Members Only) of The Citadel Alumni Association and presentation of Gold Star Club Awards: Holliday Alumni Center.
|1-5 p.m.
|Sale of football tickets
McAlister Field House and at etix.com
|1:30 p.m.
|Alumni Information Center opens
Ring resizing/reordering and sale of luncheon tickets
Holliday Alumni Center
|2 p.m.
School of Business Administration alumni reception
|2-4:30 p.m.
Book signing: Ted Childress, '62, will sign copies of his book "As You Were: Citadel Cadet Stories from the Past" at the Campus Bookstore in Mark Clark Hall. Joining him will be Rod Engard, '68, and author of the previously published "The Citadel Cadet Stories 1964-1994."
|3 p.m.
Herb Day Memorial Dedication: Northeast corner of Summerall Field.
|3:30 p.m.
|Performance by the Cadet Chorale and Alumni Memorial Service
Summerall Chapel
|5:10 p.m.
|Memorial Parade
Summerall Field
|5:45-7 p.m.
Citadel Young Alumni (CYA) Happy Hour for Classes of 1998-2012
|7-11 p.m.
Alumni Jamboree
|Saturday, Nov. 3
|8 a.m.
|Annual breakfast for past presidents of The Citadel Alumni Association
Holliday Alumni Center
|8:30-11 a.m.
Alumni Information Center and Visitors' Coffee
|8:30-10 a.m.
Barracks and facilities open to visitors
|8:50 a.m.
|Summerall Guards Performance
Summerall Field
|9 a.m.
Sale of football tickets
Himelright Scholarship presentation
|11 a.m.
|Homecoming Review
Recognition of Arland D. Williams Society inductees and 2012 CAA award recipients. All alumni to take review
Summerall Field
Homecoming Luncheon. Cost is $10 (free for cadets), Coward Hall
|School of Engineering Alumni Luncheon
Behind Grimsley Hall
|Noon - 2 p.m.
|Pre-game Tailgate Party
Holliday Alumni Center
|12:30 p.m.
|Stadium gates and stadium concessions open
|2 p.m.
Bulldogs vs. Elon University
|Sunday, Nov. 4
|9 a.m.
|Protestant Service: Summerall Chapel. Reception to follow in Mark Clark Hall.
|10:45 a.m.
|Catholic Mass: Summerall Chapel. Recption to follow in Mark Clark Hall.


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Aiming to create the experience of seeing sounds, Fake Love created PLAY, a sonic interactive experience for Sonos wireless music systems.
Taking place at the Hohner Building on Broadway in New York and at the Sonos studios in Los Angeles, PLAY was conceived by the experiential agency to bring to life Sonos' tagline Fill Your Home with Music.
A Sonos system is designed to enable users to wirelessly control any song in any room of the house. In collaboration with installation artist Aramique, Fake Love conceived and created an experiential installation that combined digitised colour washes, inventive lighting, bold fabrication and art direction and the latest wireless sound technology, to demonstrate how Sonos works.
Fake Love created pure white representations of a typical bedroom, bathroom, dining room and living room, each with a Sonos wireless music system and an iPad loaded with the Sonos app for visitors to try out.
To create the experience of seeing sounds, Fake Love constructed a custom algorithm to transcribe the audios into visuals.
Upon entering into a room, each visitor chose a music track and watched as audio-generated colour washes and vibrant animations were projection-mapped onto the walls and furniture of the room – creating a completely immersive music colourscape.
Additionally, visitors were allowed to change the colours of each room by touching the customised Sonos speaker. They also had the opportunity to hashtag Instagram photographs of themselves enjoying the experience; which then appeared within the picture frames inside the installation.


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Monday, April 16, 2012
Weekend Snapshots
This weekend I...
1. Found these cute cone shaped appetizer things at TJMaxx! I see home made french fries or spiced nuts in the near future.
2. My good friend Mel from www.labellemel.com came over for a mini potluck dinner. I made shrimp burgers using a recipe from Cook's Illustrated which turned out to be SO GOOD that I'm actually making them again today. Mel made fried avocado rolls with a mango chutney dipping sauce that was equally delicious. I imagine that mango chutney would also taste good on chicken...mmmm. Trading recipes with my girlfriends and sharing the food we cook makes me happy.
3. Stopped by the Hermes store on Saturday to "visit" an accessory piece I've been eyeing since last year. The Hermes store has a strict store policy where you can't return an item once you buy it. My SA said that she would hold the piece for me until Monday so that I could think about it more over the weekend because I want to be 100% sure about the purchase. After much thinking, I decided I'm going to get it. I'm going back to the store today to make the purchase. So excited--will share soon.
4. Did some spring cleaning for my place and couldn't resist buying some gorgeous peonies (one of my favorite flowers) I saw while running errands for my freshly cleaned home. When peonies bloom, they're full, lush, and simply gorgeous.
5. Ordered sushi to go and stuffed our faces silly...story of my life.
6. Enjoyed the beautiful warm weather we had this weekend by basking in the warmth on my patio, drinking a glass (or two) of wine, and finding inspiration from my food and fashion magazines.
How was your weekend?
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Susan Eisenhower
|Susan Eisenhower
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Susan Eisenhower in 2009
Susan Elaine Eisenhower
December 31, 1951
|Consultant, author, expert
|Roald Sagdeev (divorced)
John Eisenhower
Barbara Thompson Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower (grandfather)
Mamie Eisenhower (grandmother)
David Eisenhower II (brother)
Anne Eisenhower (sister)
Mary Jean Eisenhower (sister)
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (sister-in-law)
Jennie Eisenhower (niece)
Alexander Richard Eisenhower (nephew)
Melanie Catherine Eisenhower (niece)
Susan Elaine Eisenhower (born December 31, 1951) is a consultant, author, and expert on international security, space policy, energy, and relations between the Russian Federation and the United States of America. She is the daughter of John Eisenhower, and the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[1][2]
Eisenhower is President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc, which provides strategic counsel on political, business, and public affairs projects. She has consulted for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies doing business in the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union and for a number of major institutions engaged in the energy field.[3]
She is also Chairman of Leadership and Public Policy Programs and Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. and in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, owned and operated by Gettysburg College. Eisenhower served as the president of the Eisenhower Institute twice, and later as Chairman. During that time, she became known for her work in the former Soviet Union and in the energy field.[3]
In January 2010, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu appointed Eisenhower to serve on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which has been asked to develop a long-term solution for safely managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.[3]
Over the years, Eisenhower has served on many other government task forces. In 2000, she was appointed by United States Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson to the Baker-Cutler Commission, a blue-ribbon task force, to evaluate U.S.funded nonproliferation programs in Russia. Since that time, she has also served as an advisor on two other United States Department of Energy studies; one on the threat of nuclear terrorism and the other a blue-ribbon panel on the future of nuclear energy. In 2001, after two terms on the NASA Advisory Council, she was appointed to the International Space Station Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force, which analyzed ISS management and cost overruns. She currently sits on the Nuclear Threat Initiative board, co-chaired by Senator Sam Nunn and Ted Turner, the Energy Future Coalition, the US Chamber of Commerce's new Institute for 21st Century Energy, and the Air Force Academy's Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies.[3]
In academia, she is a current Governing Board Member of the MIT Energy Initiative. She has also served as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, as director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as an advisor to Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advance International Studies.[3]
Eisenhower testified before the Senate Armed Services and Senate Budget Committees on policy toward the region. She was also appointed to the National Academy of Sciences' standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control, where she served for eight years.[3]
Susan Eisenhower is also active in the corporate world, serving on the advisory boards of Thorium Power, IxReveal, and Foolproof. She is also a Senior Director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based international consulting firm headed by former national Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger and former Senator Warren Rudman.[3]
She has provided analysis for CNN International, MSNBC, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Fox News, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball with Chris Matthews, One on One with John McLaughlin, the BBC, and three network morning programs. Over the years, she has appeared on many other programs, including Nightline, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, This Week with David Brinkley, and CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt.
Eisenhower has spoken at many diverse types of gatherings: from the nation's most distinguished institutions such as Harvard to countless World Affairs Councils and corporate gatherings. She has also spoken to many expert audiences. For instance, she gave the Commandant's Lecture at the Army War College in Carlisle, the Harry S. Truman Distinguished Lecture at Sandia National Laboratory, and she delivered the 2008 Rose Lecture at MIT. She has also given full speeches, by invitation, at other prominent places, such as the National Press Club, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, the Hollywood Bowl, the French National Assembly, the Rotunda of the Capitol, and the White House, on two recent occasions.[3]
Eisenhower has also been seen as a "talking head" on many TV programs and documentaries, including Oliver North's War Stories, Sony Pictures Why We Fight and, most recently, Sputnik Mania.[3]
She has received four honorary doctorates, most recently from the Monterey Institute, where she was cited for her work on nuclear nonproliferation. Eisenhower received the 2008 Dolibois History Prize from Miami University.[4] She was a keynote speaker at the 2012 Washington & Jefferson College Energy Summit, where the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index was unveiled..[5]
Eisenhower has written extensively on nuclear and space issues. She is the author of three books: Breaking Free, Mrs. Ike, and Partners in Space: US-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War. She has also edited four books on regional security issues; the most recent – Partners in Space (2004) – was also published by Nayuk, the publishing house of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, she co-edited a book, Islam and Central Asia, which carried the prescient subtitle An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat?[4] She has written chapters for a number of collected volumes, and penned hundreds of op-eds and articles on foreign and domestic policy for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, United States Naval Institute's Proceedings, The Spectator, the National Interest, Politique Americaine, USA Today and other Gannett Newspapers.[4]
Susan Eisenhower also actively maintains a blog on her personal website, addressing various issues in foreign and domestic policy, national security, and politics.
Endorsement of Barack Obama
Although a lifelong member of the Republican Party, Eisenhower endorsed Barack Obama for president of the United States in 2008.[6][7][8] Eisenhower announced on August 21, 2008 that she was leaving the Republican Party and becoming an Independent.[9] She spoke on the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Her speech was delivered at INVESCO Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, and began with, "I stand before you tonight not as a Republican or a Democrat, but as an American." [10] The full transcript of her remarks as delivered is on her website.[10]
On October 29, 2012, she re-endorsed Barack Obama[11] for a second term in the 2012 presidential election.
Her father, John Eisenhower, had similarly left their family's traditional party in 2004 to become an Independent; he endorsed Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry for president.[12]
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial controversy
Susan Eisenhower, along with the rest of her family, has stated her opposition[13] to architect Frank Gehry's proposed design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. She objects to the negative symbolism associated with the 80-foot-high metal curtains and takes issue with the design's overall depiction of President Eisenhower as a young boy rather than a man. In her testimony to Congress on the matter, she said, "The Eisenhower Memorial can and should be a reflection, not only of Eisenhower's lifetime achievements, and the challenging and dangerous times in which he led us; it should also be anthem to our national purpose."[13]
Personal life
Eisenhower was married to space scientist Roald Sagdeev,[14] formerly the director of the Russian Space Research Institute, Hero of Socialist Labor, and pro-democracy advocate.[15]
Family tree
- ^ Biography of Susan Eisenhower. – Save America's Treasures
- ^ Susan Eisenhower. – National Public Radio
- ^ a b c d e f g h i http://susaneisenhower.com
- ^ a b c Susan Eisenhower, Chairman Emeritus. – The Eisenhower Institute
- ^ "Eisenhower and Clift Headline first W&J Energy Summit" (PDF). W&J Magazine. Washington & Jefferson College. Summer 2012. p. 11. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
- ^ Susan Eisenhower – Why I'm Backing Obama. – Washington Post
- ^ Julie Nixon and Susan Eisenhower back Barack Obama. – Daily Telegraph
- ^ Ike's Granddaughter Calls Obama 'Future of America'. – Washington Independent
- ^ Reflections on Leaving the Party. – The National Interest
- ^ a b http://susaneisenhower.com/
- ^ http://susaneisenhower.com/2012/10/29/why-i-am-endorsing-president-barack-obama/
- ^ Eisenhower, John (2004-09-28). "Why I Will Vote for John Kerry for President". The Manchester Union Leader. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ a b http://susaneisenhower.com/2012/03/20/my-testimony-to-congress-on-the-proposed-dwight-d-eisenhower-memorial/
- ^ "Leadership in Conflict". – Samford University
- ^ Sagdeev, Roald (1994). The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars. Wiley. ISBN 0471020311.
External links
- The Official Website of Susan Eisenhower
- Appearances on C-SPAN
See also
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The first day of the Interstellar Workshop featured the Starship Century and Breakthrough StarShot groups. On Thursday the Tau Zero Foundation took center stage. The Tau Zero group aren't as wedded to a single goal or mission profile. Instead they've put a lot of effort into identifying key technologies which will benefit any interstellar exploration, and have tried to support research in those directions.
The opening talk was by Marc Millis, chairman of the Tau Zero Foundation, explaining their modus operandi, and discussing some of the motives for interstellar voyaging and how those affect the specific mission plans — if you want to colonize other star systems, you'll have to work on extremely long-duration missions, but if you want bragging rights for the first interstellar probe, you should work on a StarShot-style flyby.
One obvious key technology for any space exploration is launching things off Earth and making use of resources in near-Earth space. So Jonathan Barr of United Launch Alliance gave a talk about their new Vulcan booster and the adaptable ACES upper stage, which could become the workhorse of cislunar space. ULA wants to sell more rockets, so they're trying to come up with ways to increase the number of people in space; the goal is 1,000 humans living and working off-Earth by 2050. Amazingly, Mr. Barr managed to get through the entire presentation without ever uttering the dread syllables "SpaceX."
He was followed by Jeff Greason, the Chairman of the Tau Zero Foundation, formerly with XCOR and now the head of Agile Aerospace. He had an amazing presentation about the possibilities of plasma sails, inspired by research done by John Slough of the University of Washington. With only 10 kilowatts of power, a spacecraft can gnerate a "virtual" magnetic sail to capture the charged particles of the solar wind. In the inner solar system, this allows for some remarkable velocities — up to 400 kilometers per second, which is 20 times faster than the New Horizons probe to Pluto. The chief drawback is that like all sails, the thrust only goes away from the Sun — so you can use a plasma sail to zip over to Mars in a week, but you can't stop when you get there!
But the prospects of a drive allowing such tremendous speeds for a relatively low power requirement and no propellant at all are still incredible, and everyone including Mr. Greason was astonished at how the plasma sail technology has been overlooked.
After a coffee break we saw some presentations about antimatter. Marc Weber of Washington State discussed how to store antiparticles (answer: with great difficulty, that's how). Then Gerald Jackson, late of Fermilab, talked about how to make antimatter in commercial quantities. The current goal is to get production up to 2 grams per year of anti-Carbon; over 8 years that would generate enough to launch a probe to Proxima Centauri.
George Hathaway finished up the batting roster for the morning, with a discussion of all the issues involved in testing "advanced propulsion concepts" — in other words, busting frauds and crackpots. Proper testing of radical new technologies means the testers have to be obsessively methodical, considering and compensating for everything from seismic vibrations to the tides.
After lunch I attended some shorter talks. The first was a presentation about alien life and how unlikely it is that even a life-bearing planet with an oxygen atmosphere would be ready for settlement by interstellar pioneers, simply because of chemical incompatibility.
The second short talk was by Ore Koren, a grad student from the University of Minnesota, who discussed some important issues about minimizing social strife aboard a "generation starship" traveling for centuries.
And finally Dr. Giancarlo Genta spoke about some experiments he and his team had done in creating computer simulations of a spherical laser-sail interstellar probe, to investigate potential issues of stability and dynamics. Professor Genta was careful to point out that his work was still preliminary, more of a proof of concept for the computer modeling than a definitive answer about the ideal sail configuration. That headed off what looked like a scientific slap-fight brewing among partisans of other sail designs.
The rest of the afternoon was devoted to my Working Track group, brainstorming museum-exhibit ideas. At the end of a couple of hours we had covered half a dozen large poster-pad sheets with potential exhibit items. I hope at least some of them eventually get built.
That evening, all of us carpooled over to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center museum for what has to be the most "Huntsville" event possible: Biergarten Night at the Saturn V exhibit. A good-sized crowd gathered to enjoy bratwurst, schnitzels, red cabbage and potato salad, along with some excellent beer — all served up underneath the hanging bulk of the museum's historic Moon rocket.
As a finale to the long day we gathered in the museum auditorium for a lecture by Dr. Andrew Siemion about SETI research, especially the Breakthrough Prize Foundation's "Breakthrough Listen" project he's connected with.
And so to bed. Tomorrow: the final day!
It's October, and that means it's the right time to read about scary monsters — so buy my new ebook Monster Island Tales!


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- Expect an increased integration amongst Google Docs and Apps.
- The Docs team seem unphased by Microsoft's and Apple's plans for online collaboration tools.
- Google Docs will add features to satisfy most users. The app will get bigger, but not so big that it becomes confusing to use (unlike Office 2007).
- Google Docs will continue to be free.
- It will probably be a beta product for most of 2009
To see the full article, click here. 2009 looks like its going to be exciting for Docs users.


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Just a quick outfit post! I wanted to see how the quality of my iphone would hold up for times I forget to bring my camera out and about. It isn't a bad substitute! Life lately has consisted of work work work and chaotic madness sorting out some other stuff. I'm trying to blog more here but I update my instagram several times a day if you want to follow me there - my username is frenchforcupcake!
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The Boeing 757 had just arrived from Boston with 184 passengers and crew. But the bridge was empty when it collapsed, and there were no injuries. Airport authorities don't yet know what caused the collapse.
The bridge extends from the concourse to the plane. The one that collapsed is a new type that extends over the wing so passengers can use both the front and rear exits of the plane. Denver is one of the first airports to use the over-the-wing bridge.
The plane had been scheduled to fly to New York, but that flight has been canceled and United says passengers were booked on other flights.
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Seasonal allergies, hay fever, and seasonal allergic rhinitis are all referring to the same thing— the sneezing, runny nose, scratchy throat, and irritated eyes that you may experience during summertime. These reactions are in response to your exposure to pollen and mold that are more common this time of year. The exposure sets off an immune response that causes the annoying symptoms. Pollens are the tiny granules that fertilize plants. In addition to the symptoms described, you know it is pollen season when you see your car or outdoor furniture covered in the dust looking material. The pollen powder is easily spread by the wind and covers such objects. The early spring is mostly from tree pollens, while grass pollen is the culprit in the summer. If it is warm most of the year where you live, you may have pollen exposure all year long. Mold spores tend to cause symptoms as the summer warms up and are spread through the air just like pollen. Mold spores live in soil, on plants, and in rotting wood. They occur at their highest levels in late summer and early fall as temperatures rise and can be found year-round in warmer climates. What Can I Do For My Seasonal Allergies and Asthma As with most triggers, the best option is avoidance of the allergen. You can try a number of these strategies to limit your exposure this summer: Use air-conditioning. The filters in your air conditioning unit clean the air, while the drying and cooling of your air are also beneficial for your asthma. Additionally, keeping windows closed will prevent pollens aerosolizing into your home.Keep car windows closed. Just as you don't want pollen flying into your home, you do not want pollen in your car when traveling.Check out pollen counts. If you are able to stay indoors on a 'bad air day,' you will have fewer symptoms. If you are not able to do this you may want to consider wearing a mask that filters the air.Change your clothes. If you are outside when pollen counts are high, you will bring the pollen home with you. To decrease exposure change out of clothes as soon as you return home and put the clothes worn into the wash. You may want to also consider taking a shower to wash off any pollen and mold that you were exposed to.Don't do the lawn. If you are not an asthmatic gardener, avoid raking leaves and cutting grass. These activities stir up pollen and molds and increase your risk of developing asthma symptoms. What If These Conservative Measures Lead To A Suboptimal Result You've tried these suggesting but am still having watery, itchy eyes and a scratchy throat. What are your next steps? Treatments are both over the counter and by prescription. Over the counter, treatments include salt water nasal sprays. many of my patients love this treatment because, unlike prescription nasal inhalers, you can use them as much as you want without side effects and there is nor concern about dependence. A common brand you may see in your drug store is Ocean Spray. Another over the counter treatment for the runny, itchy and watery eyes of summer allergies are antihistamines. This medicine (e.g. diphenhydramine or Benadryl) helps relieve itching, sneezing, and runny nose symptoms. However, be careful as the most common side effect of this over the counter product is fatigue and sleepiness. Pseudoephedrine is an over the counter product, often combined with antihistamines, that reduces nasal symptoms such as your stuffy nose. Many patients also try alternative therapies such as butterbur, rinofed, or cinnamon bark. While there is some evidence for efficacy, users need to be aware of side effects such as liver problems with butterbur or rinofed. Medication treatment options that require a prescription include: Nasal steroids- one of the issues that I find with this medication is a lack of communication between doctor and patient. 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I saw a cartoon recently in which a butterfly and a caterpillar (stay with me) are sitting at a table, having a drink together, when the caterpillar says to the butterfly, "you've changed". To this, the butterfly responds "we're supposed to".
It caught my attention because recently I've seen, "you've changed" being levelled at people as the worst insult possible, as if no offence could be graver than daring to change.
We see this a lot with those in the public eye; as I mentioned in last week's column, we demand a certain level of authenticity from our favourite celebrities, we watch them closely, looking for proof that they have remained 'real', that they are, beneath the expensive clothes and perfectly toned abs, 'just like us'.
And while it goes without saying that celebrities are mere human beings and are no more special than any of us, (except for our saviour, Beyoncé), it seems almost ludicrous to demand that they remain completely unaffected by, say, performing in front of 100,000 people, screaming their name, or having their start-up valued at twenty billion dollars.
It doesn't excuse someone turning into a tantrum-throwing monster but wealth and success on that kind of massive scale is such a rarefied occurrence, how could it not change you?
All major life changes have a similar impact — the unexpected death of a loved one, for example. A long-term chronic illness. Enduring a traumatic event such as sexual violence, abuse, or a near-death experience. Even with the help of a good therapist and the support of friends and family, how could you expect to emerge exactly the same as you had been before? Such incidents shape us, subtly shifting our futures, creating new selves in which to inhabit, and that doesn't have to be a negative thing. It's just different.
I find it interesting that people seem to be simultaneously terrified of change — viewing it as a disruption of their desire to see the world as something they can control, and disasters as something they can safeguard against if only they try hard enough —while still striving to become a New You, a Better You.
New Year's Resolutions are predicated on the desire to change your life; to earn more money, to find a partner, to stop losing your temper with the kids, drink less, go to the gym more.
(As an aside, I don't believe this to be true. True, sustainable happiness comes from within, it cannot be maintained from external markers such as your appearance.)
It appears to me that we have a culture of people who are afraid of change but who secretly want to change — and then, just to make matters more complicated, don't actually believe that change is possible at all.
It takes a huge amount of cognitive dissonance to A) tell others they've changed, and mean it as an slight, B) write down 'lose weight' as your resolution every January 1st, and C) shrug your shoulders and say "a leopard never changes its spots" when someone repeats a certain pattern of behaviour, over and over again.
Of course, we are capable of real change. (Even on a physical level, we essentially become a new person every seven years because in that time, every cell in our bodies is replaced by a new cell. Isn't that wild?!) I have seen this is in my own life.
The events that others might assume would have enacted the greatest change — books being published, film rights being sold, etc — have been lovely, but the shift in consciousness that has had the greatest impact on my day to day has been my recovery.
Sometimes I look at my life now and I am stunned by how different it is to even two years ago. I've reclaimed so much free time because I'm not using up hours of my day to engage in eating disorder behaviours, I have more energy, I am capable of radical honesty in my relationships because I'm don't have to lie about my eating.
I go to the gym as a way of managing stress rather than burning fat, I eat dessert when I'm out for a meal with my boyfriend and think nothing of it afterwards except that it was delicious, I make a snack for myself when I am hungry and I move on with my day.
To most people reading this, what I've described will seem simple, every day. For me and for others who have suffered from disordered eating, they are acts of revolution. For the first time in my adult life, I feel free.
Yet, for all that, I am essentially the same person.
Before, I thought that recovery would mean a metamorphosis of the sort experienced by the aforementioned butterfly, a St Paul of the Road to conversion into someone entirely different. I have begun to wonder if, perhaps, real change happens when you become more of you really are, inhabiting fully who you were put on this planet to be. Maybe the only thing we need to do is take a deep breath and say, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference".
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RIO VISTA (CBS SF) – A minimum-security inmate who escaped from a conservation camp in Solano County Sunday night was captured in Rio Vista late Thursday night, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Nathan Simpson, 30, was captured by special agents from the CDCR and arrested around 10 p.m. and taken to California State Prison-Solano in Vacaville, the department said in a statement.
Simpson will be transferred to the California Correctional Center in Susanville, according to a spokesman at the Susanville facility.
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Simpson was sentenced in May 2010 for vehicle theft and had prior convictions in Siskiyou County, according to the CDCR.
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What an idiot, he was doing time in a minimun security camp, due to be paroled in Sept. Now he will do the rest of his time in high security at Susanville, and he can kiss his parole goodbye.
He scammed me and damaged my life. He was trying to framed me for that vehicle theft. I'm one of his victims.
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