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The Science of the Brain: A Beckman Perspective
Whether it involves "mental fitness" or "brain training" or developing a healthy mind, the general topic of cognitive health is a trendy one these days. It's an area where science and popular culture overlap, and Beckman Institute researchers have been thrust into the middle of this timely discussion.
Advances in technology, such as improved imaging techniques, are providing exciting new insights into brain function and physiology. The topics of how we can improve cognitive functions such as memory and learning, maintain cognitive processes as we age, or even reverse cognitive loss due to disease have become as widely discussed in the popular culture and media recently as they have been in the scientific community for the last decade or so.
Sometimes the news stories, headlines, and product ads don't always carry the caveats and cautionary notes sounded by researchers. Beckman faculty members have been leading researchers in the areas of cognitive health and neuroscience for many years, and are often called upon by the national media for their expertise.
Some of the media spotlights have shone on so-called brain training programs, while others have taken an overall look at what the current scientific literature is telling us about our brains, cognition, and health. We asked several Beckman faculty members whose research is highly engaged in these areas for input on what the research tells us about what is known, what is suggested, and what is not yet proven regarding cognition and neuroscience. We looked at four (sometimes overlapping) topics: the growth of new brain cells (neurogenesis), the cognitive benefits of exercise, brain training, and transfer of skills (whether improvement from training on one task transfers to improvement on other tasks), and issues surrounding the loss of cognitive function due to aging and diseases like Alzheimer's.
For many years, science told us that the growth of new brain cells was a finite process – once we reached our 30s, neurogenesis stopped. In the past decade or so, the evidence (much of it coming from Beckman researchers) has tilted toward a theory that new neurons can be formed in certain regions of the brain.
Along with the change in thinking about neurogenesis, Beckman neuroscientists have produced research on brain plasticity suggesting that brain morphology and, consequently, cognition can actually be shaped by activities like exercise or environmental factors such as culture. Research involving exercise or fitness has become paramount to both discussions.
"There are very few studies that examine fitness training effects on human brain structure and function. Most of them have been done by us," said Beckman's Art Kramer, a leading researcher with colleague Ed McAuley in the area. "They do suggest positive effects, both in terms of how well the brain functions and in brain structure – how much of it you have using measures of change in brain volume."
Kramer, a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Beckman, said there is also a large and increasing literature on research done with animals that shows both learning and memory improvements and neurochemical changes in the brain with improved fitness.
"Both the animal and human research is pretty solid with respect to fitness effects on brain structure, brain function, neurochemistry, learning and memory, and cognition," Kramer said.
Exercise has become an important tool for researchers studying its effects on neurogenesis and cognition. In March, Newsweek magazine reported on a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it said took exercise-induced neurogenesis found in animals and "extended that principle to humans for the first time."
Kramer said the study's results are narrower than that description.
"What this study showed was that a measure of cerebral brain volume which has been related to neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus in mice as a function of improvements in aerobic fitness is also associated with fitness improvements in a small, middle-aged group of humans – that is the measure of cerebral blood volume, not neurogenesis," Kramer said. "So, we still do not have a direct measure of exercise-induced neurogenesis in humans."
William Greenough, Co-chair of Beckman's Biological Intelligence research initiative, has been publishing peer-reviewed papers showing experience effects on brain plasticity since 1972 and was the first to show in a 1985 paper that more new glia (non-neuronal brain cells that provide protection and support for neurons) were formed in animals in enriched environments. He said the results reported in the PNAS paper confirmed what has been shown in animals for many years by a co-author of that paper (Fred Gage) and others.
Greenough said rather than thinking that exercise creates new neurons, exercise should be thought of as a mediating factor in neurogenesis.
"Exercise can tweak the rate at which some brain areas make neurons," Greenough said. "What is still up in the air is whether, with the right exercise, you can turn on a region that's not normally making neurons."
Even though neurogenesis has been correlated with improved cognitive function, a causal relationship has not yet been shown. NeuroTech group member Justin Rhodes is creating multi-generational mice models for future research efforts that will, among other projects, test whether exercise can produce learning improvement without the production of new neurons.
"We know that there are areas of the brain that continuously generate new neurons throughout adulthood and one of those areas is the (hippocampal dentate gyrus)," Rhodes said. "It turns out that exercise produces a tremendous increase in the number of new neurons that are found in that area."
Rhodes' research will try to isolate the neuronal factor by blocking the formation of new neurons, and then exercising the mice to see whether they still show learning improvement.
"If you exercise the animals and they're not able to produce neurons and they still show the improvement in learning, then that shows that new neurons are not necessary for new learning improvement," Rhodes said. "But if it blocks the learning then you know that they are necessary. That's a way that we can really test a causal mechanism."
Research has shown where neurogenesis takes place in the brain: in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and in the olfactory bulb.
"Every (other area) is highly debatable. But those two areas, not debatable," Kramer said. "And those new neurons are born as a function of exercise."
The effects that exercise can have on cognition has blossomed into such an important area of study that Newsweek magazine featured "Exercise and the Brain" as the cover story for its March 26, 2007, issue. A series of "Health for Life" articles led off with a story on how exercise can boost brainpower. Kramer, Greenough, and Beckman colleague Charles Hillman were quoted, with Hillman's study of grade schoolers adding another answer in the affirmative to the question of whether exercise benefits mental performance.
"People have been slow to grasp that exercise can really affect cognition, just as it affects muscles," Hillman said.
Of all the research results on cognitive interventions, the effects of exercise on cognition have proven most compelling. That's according to Kramer, who has been researching and reporting on this and related issues for many years, and is often called on by media such as Newsweek and CBS for his expertise.
Kramer has led several investigations that have strongly suggested beneficial cognitive effects from exercise. Kramer and colleague Stanley Colcombe did a meta-analysis of 18 intervention studies involving the cognitive effects of aerobic fitness on older adults that was published in in 2003. Kramer said that paper and other analyses of various types of studies, including epidemiological ones, point to the positive cognitive effects of aerobic exercise.
A report by Kramer, lead author Colcombe, and others in 2006 titled Aerobic Exercise Training Increases Brain Volume, found that "cardiovascular fitness is associated with increases in the volume of brain tissue in aging humans. Furthermore, the results suggest a biological basis for the role of aerobic fitness in maintaining and enhancing central nervous system health and cognitive functioning in older adults."
Those benefits, Greenough said, are good only if exercise is maintained.
"Many of the effects of exercise that appear to be beneficial require that exercise be continued," Greenough said, adding that animal research shows that while exercise plays a role in forming new neurons, the brain's ability to keep them also has a lot to do with environment.
"It's been shown that if the animals are where they can be in either an enriched environment or not, or where they can have access to exercise or not, exercise seems to control more of the production of neurons," he said. "The retention of neurons seems to be better explained by the enriched environment. It's as if they are produced on speculation. If things work out right they get used and they get incorporated into the wiring diagram and stay."
Kramer said much of the research in this area began with work done by Waneen Spirduso at the University of Texas at Austin, who was reporting as long ago as 1975 on the topic of fitness and cognitive function.
Rhodes said the research line is still a young one. But, thanks to the continuing development of imaging techniques, increased knowledge of genetics, and more funding, the literature is growing rapidly as to the impact of exercise on cognition.
"There are many things that change with exercise," Rhodes said. "That's why it's so difficult to find out which one of those changes is actually casually related to the enhancement of cognitive performance. Of course, that's what everyone wants to know, because if we can figure that out we might be able to figure out therapies that can enhance learning in a more direct way."
Thanks to research led in large part by University of Illinois faculty, researchers are learning more about the effects of exercise and fitness with each new study.
Kramer said this much is already known: "The fitness literature is pretty clear that you get fairly broad effects on different aspects of cognition from fitness training with fairly modest amounts of improvement in fitness."
Computer programs and other materials promising improved brainpower through "brain training" techniques are increasingly popular. But do they, in fact, increase general cognitive functions such as decision making and memory processing through "brain exercise" programs that can costs hundreds of dollars?
For Kramer, the research so far isn't convincing.
"The question is, can people really transfer cognitive skills learned in the laboratory or from commercial computer-based training program to skills and tasks in everyday life such as remembering a shopping list, driving an automobile in traffic, and rapidly learning a set of new skills in a job setting. And the answer, for the most part, is such transfer of training has not been convincingly demonstrated," Kramer said.
It turns out that researchers can see improvements in the specific tasks people are tested on. But that is different than taking specific improvement on task performance and generalizing to overall improvement in cognitive skills.
One study cited as answering the question in the affirmative and published in the Aug. 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tested the program from the Posit Science Corporation.
The PNAS paper contains a conflict of interest statement that said all of the paper's authors had a financial connection to the company. The company's founder, chief scientific officer, and paper co-author, Michael Mezenrich, is a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, a member of the National Academies of Science, and a well-respected researcher into the neural origins of higher brain function.
The company's Web site states that its program is "proven to improve memory and processing speed" but Kramer says claims about transfer of improvement in cognitive function from a commercial program or laboratory training experiment to everyday cognition have yet to be convincingly shown.
A large clinical trial called Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) was designed to train groups of participants between the ages of 65 and 96 in cognitive skills like memory, speeded processing, and reasoning while a control group received no training. The overall goal of the trial was to "link specific cognitive and perceptual interventions to broader behavioral outcomes."
The research, reported in the Dec. 20, 2006, issue of JAMA found that some of the subjects, trained on specific skills such as identifying and locating visual information quickly, showed long-term cognitive improvements on those specific tasks as much as five years later.
Beckman researcher Elizabeth Stine-Morrow said the results on the long-term effects were surprising, but the evidence for transfer of those skills outside the lab was limited.
"What's interesting about that finding is that it's very provocative to show that you have this little modest training–that is very, very narrow–and then five years later you're still showing effects," Stine-Morrow said. "From our point of view it must have changed something about the way those individuals have engaged experiences or have done things in their daily lives to retain these skills.
"The investigators did show some transfer, but the transfer was to self-reported ratings of difficulty in performing everyday activities. What they showed the five-year gains on were the very task specific performances."
Stine-Morrow said the ACTIVE study is valuable for showing plasticity and for adding to the literature on skill or task improvement.
"You can change mental abilities and can change how older adults perform in these different tasks," she said. "All the effects are very narrow and we see that in the literature on expertise. If you look at what experts can do, expert chess players, expert bridge players, expert pilots, they can do exactly what they've been trained to do and what they practice every day."
Denise Park studies how different interventions could improve cognitive health as Co-director of the Center for Healthy Minds at Beckman. While transfer of skills is not yet borne out by the research, Park says that interventions such as learning new skills have shown the potential to improve cognitive performance.
"Acquisition of new skills is important," Park said. "The brain is based on connections. Novelty forges new pathways."
One of the most exciting potential benefits of exercise-induced neurogenesis is the possibility of slowing or even reversing cognitive loss due to aging or diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Greenough said more neuroscience research is going toward alleviating diseases like Alzheimer's.
"More and more work is going to be directed to clinical problem areas like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's," he said. "We've done a pretty job of doping out, and by we I mean not my group but the collective wisdom in the field, situations under which neurogenesis either occurs or can be made to occur. The real question now is can we take advantage of it."
Taking advantage would mean targeting neurogenesis toward certain areas of the brain so that new neuron growth would slow or perhaps even reverse cognitive loss due to disease or aging. Since new neuron growth has been shown to take place almost exclusively in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation and the olfactory bulb, new methods for targeting the "right" regions for neurogenesis would be crucial for more widespread effects on behavioral ability.
The hippocampus is central to memory processing, so increasing neurogenesis in that region could lead to improved memory. Greenough said there are many other brain regions and functions that could potentially be important in fighting disease and cognitive loss.
"There is some data, and this is really very important, saying that the corpus striatum can make new neurons under some conditions but not under resting conditions," he said. "That has enormous implications for Parkinson's disease because that's the principal structure where you have secondary cell loss underlying Parkinson's disease."
Greenough said researchers should also look at the potential found in glial cells, which serve to protect and support neurons.
"My attitude is we shouldn't ignore the other cytogenesis that's going on," he said. "Number one, there is the possibility that certain kinds of glial cells, under some conditions, seem to be able to change themselves into neurons. In addition, the glial cells and other cells actually put out trophic factors that can help the survival of neurons."
Greenough said enough research exists to show that intervention strategies targeting disease could work.
"There are two ways you can look at a therapeutic intervention for disease," Greenough said. "One is that it provides resilience so that the disease has less impact once it comes. So you're sort of getting the nervous system ready in advance. The other is more of a repair mode, that is, take the diseases as they are, and do something that will fix it. There is enough evidence in the literature to suggest that both modes exist and have a reality with regards to exercise as an intervention in the Parkinson's arena."
Again, the fitness factor appears to play a key role in lessening the effects of cognitive loss.
"What the research suggests, not uniformly but very consistently, is that if you're fit at time 1 with everything else being equal – equal education, socioeconomic status, many, many other factors – that you will have better cognition, better memory, better decision making at time 2, and the probability of you being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or vascular dementia will be diminished," Kramer said.
This article is part of the Spring 2007 Synergy Issue, a publication of the Communications Office of the Beckman Institute.


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Some of us may have overindulged this Thanksgiving weekend. It may have you thinking about how you're going to get back on track before the Christmas season starts. Maybe you are already looking for your quick fix. Perhaps you are looking on the Internet to find a detox diet that looks pretty tempting. It promises you that you'll feel and look healthier and you'll shed X amount of pounds.
Cleanses seem good for you in theory, right? Detox diets give you a schedule of juices, laxatives, lemon water concoctions and strict diets of only veggies or fruits to eat over a certain number of days. So you're eating only foods that are low calorie so it has to be good for you.
The idea is based off the fact that you are cleansing all the "toxins" out of your body from eating badly by eating only certain items to eliminate them. However, I urge you to reconsider before you start. The FDA does not regulate marketing for detoxes and other supplements. This means companies can tell you anything they want about them to make it seem like you will lose weight.
Additionally, manufacturers do not have to hold clinical trials to test for harmful effects on people before they sell them and the FDA cannot stop sale of a product until it is proven harmful. Also, they don't give a straight answer to what they are supposedly ridding your body of and how, so why do we need them and how would a cleanse be helpful if it doesn't tell us?
Your body is made to "cleanse" itself. The liver and kidneys are built-in machines that help filter and excrete unwanted substances in the body. Though detox diets claim they remove the toxins from your body, there are no hard facts on this and most results from detox diets can be achieved by simply avoiding foods that are processed or high in fat or sugar for a few days, without having to fast or only drink juices.
Many detox diets ask you to eliminate an entire food group for a few days or up to a week. This can deprive your body of essential macro and micronutrients needed from each food group. With this lack of nutrients, your body is losing sources of energy so it then tries to conserve it by lowering you basal metabolic weight. This actually makes it harder and takes longer for you to lose weight.
Weight loss using these systems is usually from fluid loss. Diets that have you take a laxative or drink a water concoction are just flushing you out. As soon as you stop your detox diet you will gain all the fluid weight right back.
However, when you are trying to get your body back on track after a day or two of bad eating you can, and should, continue to eat each food group. Drink plenty of water, make sure you eat plenty of fiber from fruits and veggies to give your body the essential vitamins and minerals it needs to excrete any bad substance and consume products that contain probiotics like yogurt and kefir that help the good bacteria in your gut.
Lastly, though they have been made out to be bad, we need fatty acids in our diet from protein and other food sources like dairy. We just have to train ourselves to be mindful of what's in it and how much we eat. We need to fix our eating habits to be consistent with healthy eating, not going to extreme measure for a quick fix.
This is part of the nutrition world that is miscommunicated. There are many articles out there written by people who are not actually certified to be giving accurate nutrition information. If you really feel a detox diet will be beneficial to your health you should talk to you doctor.

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R6, 2017, GWS 11.9 (75) d Western Bulldogs 9.19 (73) at Manuka Oval
1PF, 2016, Western Bulldogs 13.11 (89) d GWS 12.11 (83) at Spotless Stadium
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R9, 2015, Western Bulldogs 16.17 (113) d GWS 11.2 (68) at Etihad Stadium
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Game notes: Probably the match of the round, this clash between fierce adversaries has plenty riding on the outcome. The Giants returned to form by dismantling Melbourne, and in doing so, enhanced their chances of finishing in the top four after just recording one win in their previous five matches. The loss of Shane Mumford to suspension is big blow, but the return of star forward Toby Greene from a two-week ban is a huge inclusion. After a stuttering start to their premiership defence, the Bulldogs have finally found something close to their best form by winning four games on the trot. Needing to win at least two of their remaining three games to qualify for the finals, the Dogs are back to their manic best around the contest and have superstar Marcus Bontempelli back in devastating form. The match looms as another classic in the clubs' growing rivalry.
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How to create a macOS Installer which doesn't need bootloader kext injection (FakeSMC in pre-linked kernel), bypass High Sierra firmware and MBR checkBy fusion71au
This is a brief guide on how to create a vanilla El Capitan (also same process for Sierra) OS X Installer USB with an updated prelinked kernel containing FakeSMC.
It is tailored for those users who want to understand the "nuts and bolts" of how to create an installer and also to help brush up on their terminal skills (rather than have one made for them with the numerous automated "tools" available or even Apple's createinstallmedia) :
Specifically, it is also a "Proof of Concept" which shows that installation is possible without even having to rely on boot loader kext injection.
Existing Yosemite installation (or Mavericks - see post#4 for steps 7,8) "Install OS X El Capitan.app" downloaded to the Applications folder Pacifist FakeSMC.kext - Slice or Kozlek branch Bootloader - Clover or Chameleon 8GB or larger USB drive (16GB recommended), formatted HFS+ (MBR or GUID) named "Installer"
1. Boot into Yosemite with the kext-dev-mode=1 boot flag
2. Open OS X terminal and type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line.
The image restore and file copying may take a while to complete, and at the end of the process, the Installer volume is renamed to "OS X Base System"....
sudo -s hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg asr restore -source /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/Installer -erase -format HFS+ -noprompt -noverify rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/Packages cp -av /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation cp -av /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System diskutil unmount /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD exit 3. Right click on the "OS X Base System" Volume and click "Get Info"
4. Click on the lock icon and untick "Ignore ownership on this volume"
5. Extract/Copy the El Capitan Kernels folder into /System/Library/ of the USB with Pacifist. NB It is found in the "Essentials.pkg" in /System/Installation/Packages
6. Delete or Rename the original /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel —> OG.prelinkedkernel
7. Copy FakeSMC.kext and other necessary kexts (e.g. VoodooPS2Controller.kext for laptops) into the /Library/Extensions folder of the installer USB using Finder.
8. Back in terminal, type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line to rebuild the prelinkedkernel…..
sudo -s chmod -R 755 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Library/Extensions chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Library/Extensions touch /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Library/Extensions kextcache -u /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System exit Any errors should be noted but the output below is normal e.g.
9. Install your Bootloader targeting the OS X Base System volume
10. Boot your system with the USB without injected kexts into the OS X Installer GUI....
Post Install
The original prelinked kernel in a fresh install of El Capitan will also lack FakeSMC ie it will only be linked to Apple signed kexts. In order to boot into El Capitan the first time around without boot loader kext injection, the PLK needs to be rebuilt for the El Capitan volume like we did for the installer:
1. Boot into Yosemite with the kext-dev-mode=1 boot flag
2. Delete or Rename the original /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel for the El Capitan volume —> OG.prelinkedkernel
3. Copy FakeSMC.kext and other necessary kexts (e.g. VoodooPS2Controller.kext for laptops) into the /Library/Extensions folder of El Capitan using Finder
4. Back in terminal, type the following lines, followed by <Enter> after each line to rebuild the prelinkedkernel. In this example, the El Capitan volume is named "El_Capitan" - change if you have named it something else...
sudo -s chmod -R 755 /Volumes/El_Capitan/Library/Extensions chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/El_Capitan/Library/Extensions touch /Volumes/El_Capitan/System/Library/Extensions kextcache -u /Volumes/El_Capitan exit 5. Install your Bootloader targeting the El Capitan volume. This step is only necessary if you are installing El Capitan on a new drive without existing boot loader (not required if installing on a disk with existing boot loader beside Yosemite).
6. Reboot your system without injected kexts into El Capitan!
Other links
The All-In-One Guide to Vanilla OS X for beginners
Updates for Sierra and High Sierra Custom Prelinkedkernel Generator Tool I have made a custom prelinkedkernel generator "PLK.tool" for Sierra + El Capitan. Instructions: 1. Download and extract the attached BaseSystem_PLK.tool.zip into your ~/Downloads folder. 2. Copy any extra kexts necessary for booting your hack to ~/Downloads/BaseSystem/ExtraKexts (e.g. FakeSMC, VoodooPS2Controller), making sure SIP is disabled. 3. Copy BaseSystem.dmg to ~/Downloads/BaseSystem 4. Open terminal and run the following commands... cd ~/Downloads/BaseSystem chmod +x PLK.tool ./PLK.tool ---> supply your admin password ---> will place your new custom prelinkedkernel on the desktop. macOS High Sierra bypass Firmware and MBR checks in post#13.
BaseSystem_PLK.tool_Mojave.zip (need to run in Mojave to avoid dependency errors)
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I made a plugin SMIMonitor for FakeSMC in 2014 but it was 32bits and was not working. Only now I made it to be 64bits (as darkvoid did with kozleks branch) and got positive results
and after heating
So I have monitoring of 4 additional temperature sensors (CPU Proximity, GPU, DIMM, and Motherboard) and a CPU fan which initially stay at 0 rpm and start rotating after heating with 2882rpm.
Moreover I implemented a function for brave people to control fans
sudo SMC_util3 -kF0As -w2 The last digit 2 is a FAN speed you want to set
0 = Off
1 = Low
2 = High
If you have more then 1 fan then you can manage other one by choosing next key F1As, F2As etc.
Precaution! Writing the fan speed is dangerous and may cause a computer damage. Do this at your own risk!
Note. SMIMonitor.kext will work only with FakeSMC v3 provided with HWSensors3 in my signature.
Official release at sf.net contains SMIMonitor without write possibility.
Please test and report your successes and fails.
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I have installed Hackintosh on to my System, but the CPU cooler is obviously louder then on Windows.
I am using right now VirtualSMC.kext, but since FakeSMC provides temperature measurement tools, and VirtualSMC not, I asked my self if that might be a hint for my loud cooler?
My question, has somebody tried maybe both and even compared them? And is FakeSMC maybe less noisy?
Is it enough to just mount EFI partition, and delete the VirtualSMC.kext and put instead FakeSMC.kexts ? Without any fancy kext installation tool or terminal commands, just replace files and restart in enough?
My System:
Mainboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra
CPU: Intel i9 9900k
CPU Cooler: BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4
GPU: Vega 64
Ram: 2x16GB Corsair 3200
SSD: 1TB Adata M.2
The Tutorial i have used - https://github.com/cmer/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-hackintosh/blob/master/STEP_BY_STEP.md
Really works like a charm besides, the more noisy cooler, which i bought because it is extra quietly.
I asked first at tonymac's forum, but they deleted the post because I haven't used their tool, really disgustig.. I really hope to never use their tools, and I hope here the information freedom is more respected.
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HWSensor Features
Control temperature of Intel and AMD CPU Control temperature of AMD, Intel and NVidia cards Control temperature of motherboard Control FANS Control Voltages Control HDD/SSD state (SATA & NVMe) with S.M.A.R.T. monitoring Control frequencies Laptop Battery Monitoring Different applications support High Sierra compatible Installation to /S/L/E or in the ESP (Clover only)
Supported languages:
English (base), Russian, Italian, Korean and semplified Chinese
Source code: at https://sourceforge.net/p/hwsensors/hwsensors3/code3/HEAD/tree/
Bugs report at https://sourceforge.net/p/hwsensors/hwsensors3/tickets/
Topic for discussion at: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299861-hwsensors3/
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DON NOVAK Owner of Hal's Bar & Grill in Venice
DON NOVAK, owner of Hal's Bar and Grill in Venice, California with a Mark Andrew Allen original purchased for his art collection.
Located in the heart of Venice on Abbot Kinney, Hal's is known as a popular watering hole for local artists. Ed Moses, Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, and Joni Mitchell have works hanging on the walls and are known to hang out there. I had a studio and gallery on Abbot Kinney for three years in the 90's and the first time I went into Hal's, there sat Joni Mitchell sitting in a booth all by herself smoking one cigarette after another. (back when Keny was tending bar and telling jokes - before he went back to Scotland and came back!) I've spent a few thousand evenings there since that first time. Many many fun times and great memories. I have met a lot of wonderful people there over the years... Sadly it is closing. I am SO bummed!
"VENICE SUNSET" 24" x 24" - 2014 (Limited edition prints of this piece are available to my Hal's friends... hand signed, 24" x 24" - $95 - normally $375)
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Dec 2012: The best gifts of all around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in one another. | family | Merry Christmas
Nov 2012: Happy Thanksgiving
Oct 2012: Happy | Halloween
Aug 2012: Happy Anniversary | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4
Jul 2012: HAPPY | BIRTHDAY
Jun 2012: Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. -Denis Waitley
May 2012: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
Apr 2012: "Carry laughter with you wherever you go." -Hugh Sidey
Mar 2012: "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France
Feb 2012: "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." -H. L. Mencken
Jan 2012: "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney | Though you grow before me, you're still my baby girl.
BC: the END | Created especially for you by the people who love you the most. Here is to a wonderful new year full of promise and joy. Merry Christmas and thank you for all you do to hold us all together. Your love, devotion, and smile bring us all great happiness and we wanted to make you a calendar to remind you every day of all the amazing memories we share. We love you! Love, Victor & the Kids


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It absolutely amazes me that more retailers are not actively concerned about their liquor bottle security. When I say, "actively concerned" I am really talking about a lack of any visible type of liquor bottle security. It doesn't just have to be hard liquor, but expensive wines as well.
I was out at my local liquor store this evening. As I walked up and down the aisles, I noticed that this particular retailer had shelves absolutely jam packed with bottles. They had such a variety, it was almost overwhelming. I think I saw wines from every corner of the world.
What I didn't see however were liquor bottle locks. Not a single bottle had a liquor bottle lock for liquor bottle security. I had to wonder to myself that maybe this retailer was over saturating their inventory with a huge variety of SKUs to attempt to make up for their shrink losses. It would make sense. That wouldn't be the first time I have stumbled across a store trying desperately to out run their shrink.
I sometimes forget that not everyone knows how much difference a device like a liquor bottle lock can make. Many retailers and small business owners don't know that there are solutions for preventing inventory losses. It's just a matter of looking in the right places.
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With grateful acknowledgment to the New Interpreters' Bible, I'd like to begin with a story from rabbinic folklore:
A man once caught stealing was ordered by the king to be hanged. On the way to the gallows he said to the governor who escorted him that he knew a wonderful secret and it would be a pity to allow it to die with him. He told the governor that he would disclose the secret to the king. He would put a pomegranate seed in the ground, and through the secret taught to him by his father, he would make it grow and bear fruit overnight. The next day the king, accompanied by the high officers of state, came to the place where the thief was waiting for them. There the thief dug a hole and said, "This seed must only be put in the ground by a man who has never stolen or taken anything which did not belong to him. I, being a thief, cannot do it." So he turned to the Vizier who, frightened, said that in his younger days he had retained something that did not belong to him. The treasurer said that dealing with such large sums, he might have entered too much or too little. Even the king confessed that he had kept a necklace of his father's. The thief then said, "You are all mighty and powerful and want for nothing and yet you cannot plant the seed, whilst I who have stolen a little because I was starving am to be hanged." The king, pleased with the ruse of the thief, pardoned him.
This story is clever and engaging, and yet it is still somewhat ambiguous. The thief, fighting for his very life, acted wisely and swiftly. He engaged top officials and made them look at their own humanity. But the thief never ceased to be a thief. And in telling the story of the pomegranate seed, he may not have been being completely truthful. Yet, he is rewarded with the thing he values above everything else, his life.
This story of the thief and the magic seed is an ambiguous story. We don't know what to make of it. Not unlike the parable we heard in today's gospel, usually called "The Dishonest Steward." If, while hearing this parable you struggled to understand why Jesus would tell such a story, you're in good company. One commentator wrote: "Jesus may have used this parable to make a particular point, but no one is sure exactly what it is."
Ambiguous may be the most positive thing we can say about this story. I want to suggest that it is in its complexity, in its confusing nature, that the redemptive message about God's kingdom and God's love for us is to be found. For this is the question that we need to ask about all of the parables: what is Jesus saying about the kingdom? What is Jesus saying about God's love? What must we do to be saved? Is this not, honestly, always the question? What must we do to be saved?
The dishonest steward has the same question. What must he do to redeem himself? How can he preserve that precious gift from God, his very life? There is much that is not said in this parable. There is a backstory that includes the economics and business practices of the day, that suggests that the master was not much more honest than his steward. The steward's behavior appears utterly self-serving and not to be commended. But in the parable, his zeal and resourcefulness is commended.
The steward in this story is on a mission. We, too, are on a mission. Each one of us. The word mission comes from missio—to send. Mission literally means our having been sent. For what have you been sent? What is your mission?
How can you use your zeal and resourcefulness to carry out your mission? What God asks of us is to be zealous, resourceful, and—in a perfect world—honest in our mission.
Some weeks my mission feels like a big important thing; other weeks I'm not so sure. How can we be faithful in little things and also in big things? The wonderful preacher and teacher Fred Craddock has written:
Most of us will not this week christen a ship, write a book, end a war, appoint a cabinet, dine with a queen, convert a nation, or be burned at the stake. More likely the week will present no more than a chance to give a cup of water, write a note, visit a nursing home, vote for a county commissioner, teach a Sunday school class, share a meal, tell a child a story, go to choir practice, and feed the neighbor's cat. "Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much."
In this place, the litany of little things might include: welcome a visitor, share your hymnal with someone, bring a plate of cookies to coffee hour, pull some weeds in the courtyard, change lightbulbs, help with a parish mailing. Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much.
The story about the dishonest steward's belated attempts to be faithful shows a God's-eye view of a person. You know how when someone we love is close to death, or has died, suddenly all of their most annoying qualities either evaporate completely, or become loveable? This is what I mean by "God's-eye view." This is how God sees us all of the time. Even when—as I said last week—we are at our very worst.
What must we do to be saved? Our faith teaches us that we were saved long ago, by Jesus' one act of self-giving love on the cross. And we are saved anew each day. We don't earn salvation, we receive it and, to the best of our human ability, live it.
God adores us. God loves us even when we are misguided and confused, using God's gifts of wisdom or prudence to serve ourselves instead of the kingdom. God's tolerance for ambiguity and confusion is so much greater than ours. We cannot begin to understand the dishonest steward from God's perspective any more than we can understand our own story in God's eyes. God can sift through the complexity of how we live our lives and pick out what we have done right and where we have been faithful. Our job is not to run away from God, but to offer to God our own stories, our own mixed motives and best efforts, our divided loyalties and our confusion, and to bring them to this table, to share in this holy feast of our redemption.


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Celebrate the return of spring during this three-week story time session featuring stories about birds, flowers, and bunnies. A craft will be included. Perfect for preschoolers and their parents/caregivers.
Little Chute Public Library, 625 Grand Ave, Little Chute, WI
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The Pocket Rabbit
The Pocket Rabbit has two strong independent motors, fits in any size travel bag and offers extreme cuteness all wrapped into one powerful USB rechargeable package. You can take this pleasure with you anywhere! Designed with extra-long ears for faster vibration and clitoral stimulation, this little Pocket Rabbit will offer pleasure to all erogenous zones.
- Two powerful independent vibrating motors in the shaft and clit stimulating rabbit ears
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"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
As CCF continues to grow, it is important for us to check if we are on the same page. Do we all share the mission, vision, and values of CCF?
To honor God and make Christ-Committed Followers who make Christ-Committed Followers.
To see a movement of millions of committed followers of the Lord Jesus Christ meeting in small groups, transforming lives, families, communities and nations for the glory of God.
S—sacrificial love for God and others
E– evangelism and equipping (discipleship)
R– reliance on the Holy Spirit and prayer
V– volunteer lay leadership
A– authority of the Scriptures and leaders
N– nurture family relationships—husband and wife ministry teams
T- truthfulness and integrity
S– small group discipleship
1 Peter 5:2 says " shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness". Volunteer lay leadership is an important core value we practice and encourage. We may ask ourselves — what is so important about volunteer lay leadership? Just imagine if we get this right, God can unleash an incredible army of people who can make an impact for Christ in the workplace, in the homes, in the schools and wherever it is that He has called us.
We look at the story of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:3-4). He was serving as a cupbearer to a king in another city, but when word reached him about the condition of his country, his heart was broken and he felt a need to do something about it. He did not wait to see if someone was going to do something, but rather he took up the challenge and the responsibility. And even though it was a risk for him to go to the king and share with him his plans, he did. And because he had the courage and the desire to step up and get involved inspite of the opposition, God did amazing things through him.
So why volunteer? Volunteers have gifts and abilities that paid staff and pastors don't have and they have a different level of commitment than paid professionals. More importantly, when we volunteer people realize that we are different because of Jesus. And God is glorified not because we are exceptionally capable, but because of His work in our lives.
The bible tells us " But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." I Peter 2:9-10
We are a chosen people — chosen priests. Priests are chosen to bring people into the presence of God. In the old testament, there were only a chosen group who could do this, but Jesus changed this giving each and every one of us the capacity and the capability to bring people to God. We have all been called to serve.
How can we do this? The answer is in DISCIPLESHIP.
We start by being discipled in a small groups. This is the most important volunteer role in CCF — to help make disciples who will make disicples!
CONNECT to people through bridging events
BELIEVE—make the choice to follow Jesus
GROW—we grow in a Dgroup
MENTOR—as we lead our own Dgroup
MULTIPLY—as we continue to develop Dgroup leaders


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It's New Years eve and many of you will be celebrating the arrival of 2013. If you will be drinking alcohol, there are many natural ways to prevent or ease the effects of the morning after hangover. As soon as you wake up, drink 2 large glasses of water to undo the dehydration. Even better […]
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How to Stop Sugar Cravings
Do you feel like you're constantly giving in to your sweet tooth? Are your cravings so constant that they're hard to ignore? Like any other habit, turning to sugar can be a tough one to kick. It seems like the more sweets and desserts you have, the more you are waiting for the next hit. […]
Homemade Fire Pit From an Old Washing Machine
Backyard fire pits are a popular way to spend a relaxing evening at home. They can be recycled from common materials around the house–even the metal tub from a washing machine. The washing-machine tub or drum makes a delightful and fully functional fire pit; its many drain holes provide good ventilation and produce a pretty […]
Healthy Benefits of Comfrey
For thousands of years, herbalists have used the perennial herb comfrey, with its thick grey-green leaves and bell-like white pink and mauve flowers, to help speed the healing of broken bones. Which is why it is commonly known by its nickname, "knitbone". Comfrey salves, ointments and oils are best known for the topical treatment of […]
Here is a delicious and festive casserole your family and friends will love. Made with fresh ingredients, you can make it the night before and bake it the next morning. 8 eggs, slightly beaten 2 c. 2% milk 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 tsp. dry mustard 1 1/2 c. grated cheese (ie: cheddar, […]
How Poinsettias Became The Christmas Flower
The story of the poinsettia is an inspiring tale that speaks to the true meaning of Christmas and demonstrates that Christ accepts us as we are, with what we have—no matter how much or how little it is. Originating in Mexico, the legend is about two children. Maria and Pablo were siblings, and they were […]
It's Beginning To Smell A Lot Like Christmas!
Don't you love scents that make your home smell like the holidays? These recipes are wonderful for just that! They make great humidifiers as well and you can create your own scents based on the season. Put the ingredients into a saucepan and let it simmer on the lowest heat setting. Add water as needed throughout the day. If you have […]
Alternate Words Used For MSG
Here is an easy to use list of other names you may see for MSG (monosodium glutamate) in the ingredients label. Simply print and carry it with you on your next shopping trip! • Calcium Caseinate • Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) • Textured Protein • Monopotassium glutamate • Hydrolyzed Plant Protein (HPP) • Yeast Extract […]
Why MSG is Toxic to Your Health & What Can You Do to Avoid It. Part 2 of 3
One of the biggest dangers of MSG is the lack of regulation. Despite extensive findings by government agencies and health institutions, the FDA refuses to take any action that would prohibit the use of Monosodium Glutamate. As with many uncontrolled substances, it all comes down to money. The sale of MSG is BIG business. Despite […]
What Exactly Is MSG & Where Did It Come From? Part 1 of 3
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)is a man-made chemical and has been around for more than 100 years. It is well known as a seasoning or flavor enhancer for Chinese food. Due to the many negative symptoms people were having after eating it, "MSG symptom complex (MSC)" was originally termed as "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome (CRS)". Unpleasant reactions to […]
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Readers may recall that about two months ago the Thalea String Quartet (TSQ) gave a groupmuse "house concert" at the Joe Goode Annex in preparation for a run of shows based on their collaborating with the Joe Goode Performance Group. Team Groupmuse has now announced their next event under groupmuse auspices, and this time it will be a Massivemuse. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, a Massivemuse is an "extra big, extra special" groupmuse performance, usually presented in a venue that will accommodate a larger audience.
Brady Anderson is still serving as interim cellist; and he will be performing with TSQ founders Luis Bellorin on viola, Kumiko Sakamoto on second violin, and Christopher Whitley on first violin, shown below in left-to-right order:
courtesy of the Thalea String Quartet
The program will, appropriately enough, be a massive undertaking. The ensemble will play Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 130 quartet in B-flat major in the version the Beethoven originally intended. In other words they will play the first five movements of the quartet in the version in which it was published; but the work will conclude with the Opus 133 "Große Fuge" (great fugue), rather than the much shorter Finale movement that Beethoven wrote at the request of his publisher to replace that fugue. Those who follow either TSQ or groupmuse regularly know that the group played Opus 133 by itself as part of the groupmuse recital they gave at Joe Goode Annex.
TSQ is not the first string quartet to explore this approach. When the Cypress String Quartet recorded their complete cycle of the Beethoven quartets, the CD for Opus 130 had the "Große Fuge" follow the fifth movement, while the Finale movement that was subsequently written was relegated to a "bonus track" as an "Alternate finale." However, TSQ's decision is still a major undertaking, as much for those who give Beethoven seriously attentive listening as for the players themselves.
This performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, August 25. The venue will be the atrium of Z Space, which is located in NEMIZ (the NorthEast Mission Industrial Zone) at 450 Florida Street (not far from the Joe Goode Annex). Admission will be $20 with a $5 discount for supporting Supermusers. The Web page for this event includes a map showing the location of Z Space and a hyperlink for advance purchase of tickets. However, Web-based transactions require creating a Groupmuse account, which will be password-protected. Finally, Z Space has a bar in its atrium; so drinks at this particular event. Because there will be alcoholic options, all ticket-holders must be aged 21 or older.


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Guatemala held national elections amid record violence in 2007, with more than 50 candidates, activists, and their relatives killed during the campaign. The voting was nevertheless considered free and fair by international observers. Businessman Alvaro Colom won the presidency in a runoff against former general Otto Perez Molina, and former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who was wanted in Spain on genocide charges, won a congressional seat and its attendant immunity from prosecution. Also in 2007, violent crime continued unabated, and environmental and human rights activists, as well as union leaders, suffered threats and attacks. The highly publicized murders of three Salvadoran congressmen in Guatemala in February, and the subsequent killings of the perpetrators in a Guatemalan prison, called international attention to the existence of death squads within national police forces. Separately, the government approved the creation of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, intended to expose corruption and organized crime in public institutions and civil society.
The Republic of Guatemala, which was established in 1839, has endured a history of dictatorship, coups, and guerrilla insurgencies. Civilian rule followed the 1985 elections, and a 36-year civil war, which claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people, ended with the signing of a peace agreement in 1996. The peace accords led to the successful demobilization of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) guerrillas and their legalization as a political group. A truth commission mandated by the peace accords began receiving complaints of rights violations committed during the conflict. However, in a May 1999 referendum, voters rejected a package of amendments to the constitution that had been approved by Congress a year earlier and prepared in accordance with the peace plan. The general consensus was that the government had failed to implement substantive reforms addressing social and economic inequalities, including ending military impunity, fully recognizing the rights of the Maya Indians, and reforming taxation to pay for health, education, and housing programs for the poor.
In July 2003, the Constitutional Court ruled that retired general Efrain Rios Montt—who used the army to employ brutal "scorched earth" tactics against the URNG during his 18 months as ruler of Guatemala in 1982 and 1983—could run for the presidency. Before the decision, violent demonstrations were staged in Guatemala City, as the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) brought armed supporters to intimidate the court's justices and critics. Rios Montt was later chosen as the FRG's candidate. In the first round of the presidential election, Oscar Berger of the Grand National Alliance (GANA), a former mayor of Guatemala City, received 34 percent of the vote. Alvaro Colom of the National Unity for Hope (UNE) obtained 26 percent, and Rios Montt came in third with 19 percent. In the runoff election, Berger won the presidency with 54 percent of the vote.
Violent crime, which had been escalating for several years, fell slightly in 2007 to an estimated 14.5 murders per day, down from 17 murders a day in 2006. Approximately 5,292 homicides were committed in 2007, marking a notable decline from a total of 5,886 homicides in 2006, which represented a 10 percent increase from the 5,338 homicides in 2005, which had in turn been a 15 percent increase over the total in 2004. Nevertheless, Guatemala continues to be one of the most violent countries in Latin America, and murder rates are highest in areas associated with drug trafficking and gang activity, including the departments of Escuintla, Peten, Izabal, and Guatemala City. The murder rate in the capital reached about 108 per 100,000 people in 2007. Meanwhile, the continued practice of lynching, mutilation, torture, and political assassinations—carried out by plainclothes security forces, angered mobs, gangs, and other groups—has shocked the country. The upsurge in violent crime has been exacerbated by the proliferation of arms, continued economic ills, and weak criminal justice institutions. The national police force has a limited ability to combat crime, and has allegedly been infiltrated by organized criminal groups and death squads that perform extrajudicial killings. Private security officers outnumber the police in Guatemala.
The United States partnered with the Guatemalan government in 2007 to carry out the New Horizons military exercise, which focused on combating drug trafficking and illegal immigration on the Guatemala-Mexico border in San Marcos. In 2006, Guatemalan authorities eradicated poppy plants in that department, seized 120 kilograms of cocaine, and destroyed 80 clandestine drug-trafficking landing strips in the northern department of Peten. Progress in combating drug trafficking has been hampered by police corruption. Police officers were presumed to have been responsible for the theft of 475 kilograms of cocaine from a police warehouse early in 2006.
The country came under international scrutiny when three Salvadoran congressmen were killed by Guatemalan police officers while traveling through Guatemala in February 2007. The perpetrators quickly confessed and were sent to a maximum security prison, but they were killed in custody four days later. The police blamed the killings on prison riots, while inmates claimed to have seen men in military clothing enter the cells and execute the four incarcerated officers. The case created a diplomatic conflict between El Salvador and Guatemala, exposed the existence of death squads within the police force, and generally called national attention to the corruption and lawlessness that plagues the Guatemalan justice system. Security Minister Carlos Vielmann, national police chief Erwin Sperisen, and the head of the prison system, Victor Rosales, offered their resignations in March in connection with the scandal.
The 2007 presidential, congressional, and municipal elections were the bloodiest in Guatemala's recent history, with more than 50 candidates, activists, and their relatives slain during the campaign period. Candidates and staffers from several parties were targeted. Electoral violence has been fueled by the drug trade, gang activity, and armed groups including rogue soldiers and paramilitary forces; some of the killings surrounding the elections were not overtly political, forming part of the broader pattern of violent crime in the country. Despite the violence, the September vote was regarded by international observers as largely free and fair. In the presidential contest, Colom of the UNE led the first round with 28 percent of the vote, followed by former general Otto Perez Molina of the Patriot Party with 24 percent. Colom then defeated Perez in the runoff, capturing 53 percent of the ballots amid a relatively high turnout of 45 percent. The congressional elections yielded a legislative seat for Rios Montt, the former dictator. In 2006, a court in Spain had issued arrest warrants for eight former military leaders, including Rios Montt, for crimes against humanity; the congressional seat gave him immunity from prosecution. In the municipal elections, former president Alvaro Arzu was reelected mayor of Guatemala City. The electoral success of the traditional political elite at all levels of government dampened hopes for major reform in the near term, and rural and indigenous Guatemalans remain largely disenfranchised.
Guatemala's economic difficulties mounted in 2007, with the price of corn, a staple of the national diet, increasing by 78 percent in the first third of the year. The poverty rate had increased by 5 percent in 2006, despite the enactment of the Dominican Republic–Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)—which linked five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic to the United States—in July of that year. Critics of the treaty said it would harm Guatemalan interests, and the country in 2006 experienced its first trade deficit with the United States in nine years. However, the pact's supporters maintained that it would eventually boost U.S. investment in Guatemalan industry and lead to overall economic growth. Approximately 100,000 young people join the workforce each year, but formal sector jobs increased by only 0.43 percent in 2006. About 75 percent of Guatemala's economically active population works in the informal sector.
Guatemala is an electoral democracy. Though the campaigns were marred by intimidation and violence, the 2007 presidential and legislative elections were regarded by international observers as generally free and fair. The 1985 constitution, amended in 1994, provides for a four-year presidential term and prohibits reelection. The unicameral Congress of the Republic, consisting of 158 members, is elected for four years. Elections take place within a highly fragmented and fluid multiparty system. Two traditional parties are the FRG and the National Advancement Party (PAN). Newer parties include the URNG, formerly a guerrilla movement, and the UNE, founded in 2001 and led by the 2007 presidential victor, Alvaro Colom. The GANA coalition, which had supported outgoing president Oscar Berger, included the Patriot Party, the National Solidarity Party (PSN), and the Reformist Movement (MR) party.
Indigenous activist and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum ran for president in 2007 as the candidate of an alliance between the Winaq indigenous movement and the Encounter for Guatemala party. While her candidacy earned attention abroad, where she is well known for her human rights work, it failed to garner votes within Guatemala's heterogeneous indigenous communities. She finished in sixth place, with just 3 percent of the vote. The reasons behind Menchu's failure to rally indigenous Guatemalans around her candidacy are complex and may be contributed to the disunity between the 19 Mayan linguistic groups in Guatemala, negative reactions to a female candidate among older, more traditional voters, and her reputation among many low-income voters as a rich outsider who has lost touch with the poor, resulting from her well-publicized investment in a chain of pharmacies.
Efforts to promote transparency and combat corruption have made little progress. Guatemala was ranked 111 out of 180 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index. Corruption within the police force is particularly pronounced and led to the dismissal of 2,500 officers in 2005. Police were allegedly responsible for the disappearance of 475 kilograms of cocaine in early 2006. Corruption concerns have also surrounded the reconstruction effort stemming from Tropical Storm Stan, which struck in late 2005.
While freedom of speech is protected by the constitution, those who stridently condemn the government or past human rights abuses can face persecution. The press and most broadcast media outlets are privately owned, and media ownership is extremely concentrated. A Mexican businessman, Angel Gonzelez, owns a monopoly of broadcast television networks and has significant holdings in radio. Newspaper ownership is concentrated in the hands of moderate business elites, and most papers have centrist or conservative editorial views. Six dailies are published in the capital, but only two of those circulate in other parts of the country. Violence against journalists continued in 2007 and was exacerbated by the year's elections. Staff members of the television station Cable Guatevision received death threats after covering the high-profile murders of three Salvadoran congressmen on Guatemalan territory. The journalists were reportedly photographed by security forces while covering the story. Several journalists were attacked in 2007, at least one fatally, and the incidents increased in the run-up to elections. Two installations of Radio Nuevo Mundo suffered armed attacks in September, while Cable Star Channel reporter Erwin David Hernandez was kidnapped that month and ordered not to say anything about a local mayor. The government does not restrict internet access.
The constitution guarantees religious freedom. However, members of indigenous communities have faced discrimination for the open practice of their Mayan religion. The government does not interfere with academic freedom, but scholars have received death threats for raising questions about past human rights abuses or continuing injustices.
While the constitution guarantees freedom of association, human rights groups are the targets of frequent death threats and acts of violence. The Guatemalan human rights prosecutor's office pushed for a UN-appointed commission to deal with the problem, resulting in the 2004 creation of the Commission for the Investigation of Illegal Bodies and Clandestine Security Apparatus. Nevertheless, human rights, labor, and environmental activists were attacked in 2007, often fatally, and sometimes with members of their families. Many more community leaders and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) received threats during the year, and even international agencies and their employees faced intimidation and office burglaries. At least three organizations involved in exhuming mass graves or legal work related to past massacres received threats or suffered assaults and intimidation of employees. Freedom of assembly is guaranteed and generally respected in practice, but police often use force to break up demonstrations, which has resulted in the injury and death of several protesters.
Trade unions are subject to intimidation, physical attacks, and assassinations, particularly in rural areas during land disputes. Workers are frequently denied the right to organize and face mass firings and blacklisting, especially in export-processing zones, where the majority of workers are women. In January 2007, Pedro Zamora Alvarez, leader of the Quetzal Port Company Workers' Union (STEPQ), was killed in front of his children. Marco Tulio Portela Ramirez, a leader of the Izabal Banana Workers' Union, was killed in September 2007.
The judiciary is plagued by corruption, inefficiency, capacity shortages, and violent intimidation of judges, prosecutors, and witnesses. According to the U.S. State Department's human rights report, there were 125 cases of threats against judicial-sector workers reported in 2007, compared with 71 in 2006. While the constitution provides a litany of procedural rights, the ineffectiveness of the judiciary restricts these rights in practice. Approximately 44 percent of those incarcerated are awaiting trial; pretrial detention is legally limited to three months, but inmates often spend years in jail before trial. Prison conditions are harsh, and the facilities are rife with gang- and drug-related violence and corruption. The indigenous population continues to be shut out of the national justice system. Although indigenous languages are now being used in courtrooms across the country, Guatemalan authorities mostly dismiss traditional justice mechanisms.
Police regularly employ lethal force, in many instances without justification. Police officers abuse and torture detainees, corruption is pervasive, and some officers engage in extortion and kidnapping for ransom. Human rights groups have accused the police of carrying out extrajudicial killings of suspected gang members as a reaction to the growing level of crime. During the first eight months of 2007, only 52 of 922 police officers investigated because of complaints against the National Civilian Police (PNC) were removed from duty; 870 were exonerated. The government's use of the military to maintain internal security remains controversial, since the 1996 peace accords placed limits on the practice.
In a positive step, the Guatemalan Congress voted in August 2007 to create the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which will examine the extent of corruption, violence, and organized crime within public institutions, political parties, and civil society. The commission had been jointly proposed by the United Nations and the Guatemalan government in December 2006, and is seen as a historic advance in strengthening institutions and fighting Guatemala's culture of impunity.
Roughly 80 percent of the population lives below poverty level and does not benefit from social security. Guatemala also continues to rank high on inequality indicators, with some 63 percent of gross domestic product concentrated in the hands of 20 percent of the population. Unemployment and underemployment levels remain high. Infant mortality rates among the Maya are among the highest in the Western Hemisphere, and discrimination against the Mayan community continues to be a major concern. The government in recent years has approved the eviction of indigenous groups from areas of development, particularly where there are mining and hydroelectric projects.
Violence against women and children is widespread. Street children and women, especially those believed to be engaged in prostitution, are the most common victims of murder. Women and children are drawn into prostitution both locally and in neighboring countries. The number of women murdered has risen consistently for four consecutive years, with over 2,500 women and girls slain since 2001. Between January and October 2007, the NGO Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres reported that 341 women were killed. According to Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman, 70 percent of all homicides are not investigated, and in 98 percent of cases in 2006, no arrests were made.. Transgender women and gay men also continue to be targets of violent attacks.
Guatemala has the highest rate of child labor in the Americas, with one-third of school-aged children forced to work on farms or in factories. As much as 20 percent of the workforce consists of children, with 70.5 percent of those children working in agriculture. Guatemala is a source, transit point, and destination country for women and children trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation and child labor. International adoptions became increasingly controversial in 2007, as unethical and profit-driven practices within the unregulated system were brought to light. President Berger announced that they would be suspended as of January 1, 2008, due to alleged abuses. The United States processed approximately 5,000 adoptions from Guatemala in 2007.
Sexual harassment in the workplace remains legal. Young women who migrate to the capital for work are especially vulnerable to harassment and inhumane labor conditions, and women overall earn 60 percent of what men in the same jobs earn. Nearly 75 percent of workers in the textile industry are women.


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suggest calendar app for wife that allows her to color coordinate things
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My wife uses an old Palm. I got her an IPOD Touch, but she doesn't use it yet because the Calendar that comes with it doesn't allow her to color coordinate her schedule. I have searched through the apps and know that there are a lot of choices. Need one that is fairly simple and allows her to color coordinate items of her choosing. Anyone use one like this or can suggest one for me to buy?
- 11-04-2009, 02:10 PM #2todd51Guest
You can color-coordinate events in iCal, you might have to do it from the computer first though. Then sync it to the iPod.
EDIT: Or, if she doesn't like iCal, you can always try out Things. It's a FANTASTIC application that also has an iPod application to sync with the desktop version. Unfortunately, the iPod app isn't free, I believe it's around $10 and the desktop app is about $50. However, I think they are worth the price.
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Thanks. iCal only colors different calendars, right? It does'nt give you the option of choosing a color for a certain event, does it? If it does, that would be great. Anyone walk me through that if it does?
11-04-2009, 02:48 PM #4todd51Guest
Well, I'm not that well experienced with iCal, but if I run it and create a new event or whatever, it appears in the left pane. Then I can right click on it and choose "Get Info" and it will allow me to choose a different color from there.
Does this help?
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Tried that, but under get info, it only allows you to pick a color solely on the calendar you choose. She would have to have a different calendar for every type of event she wanted.
11-04-2009, 04:26 PM #6todd51Guest
Ohh ok, I got confused between the calendars and events.
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2011 Women's Soccer News
Two From Soccer Earn NSCAA All-New England Region HonorsDecember 13, 2011BOSTON, Mass. – For the first-time in the history of the University of Massachusetts Boston men's and women's soccer programs each team had a player named a NSCAA Division III All-New England Region selection, with Stefanos Galouzis (Watertown, Mass.) earning first-team honors and Samantha Place (Newton, N.J.) earning fourth-team honors.
Three Earn NEWISA Division III All-New England HonorsDecember 06, 2011BOSTON, Mass. – For the first time in their careers, seniors Samantha Place (Newton, N.J.) and Kristin Mulry (Holbrook, Mass.), and freshman Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) were named NEWISA Division III All-New England selections. Mulry and Place were named First Team All-Region honorees, while Ledin was named a Second Team All-Region selection.
Place Named to NEWISA Senior Bowl GameNovember 23, 2011BOSTON, Mass. – Senior women's soccer player Samantha Place (Newton, N.J.) has been selected to compete in the Division III NEWISA Senior Bowl Game on Sunday, December 4 at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. With the selection, Place becomes the first player in the program's history to be invited to compete in the annual senior game, which will feature the top women's soccer players from New England.
Worcester State Sneaks by Women's Soccer in ECAC Semi-FinalsNovember 12, 2011WORCESTER, Mass. – With an unassisted goal from Danielle Clifford in the 75th minute the top-seeded Lancers of Worcester State University (14-5-2) edged fourth-seeded women's soccer (14-7-2) by the final score of 1-0, Saturday afternoon at Coughlin Field in the semi-final round of the 2011 ECAC New England Tournament.
Women's Soccer to Face Worcester State in ECAC Tournament Semi-FinalsNovember 10, 2011BOSTON, Mass. – Following their 3-1 win over Endicott College yesterday afternoon, the fourth seed Beacons (14-6-2) will travel to first-seeded Worcester State University to face the Lancers in the semi-final round of the ECAC New England Region Tournament on Saturday at noon.
Women's Soccer Advances in ECAC Tournament Behind K. Ledin's Hat TrickNovember 09, 2011BOSTON, Mass. – With her fifth hat-trick of the season, freshman forward and 2011 Little East Conference Rookie of the Year Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) carried women's soccer (14-6-2) to a 3-1 win over Endicott College (12-9-0) Wednesday afternoon in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC New England Tournament.
K. Ledin Earns Conference Rookie of the Year HonorsNovember 08, 2011NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – For the third-time in the last four seasons, women's soccer has had a player earn Little East Conference Rookie of the Year honors. This season, that major award went to the conference's leading goal scorer and point earner Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.). The freshman was also named a First Team All-Conference selection as announced by the conference executive office.
Men's and Women's Soccer Earn Bids to ECAC New England TournamentsNovember 07, 2011BOSTON, Mass. - For the first time in the history of University of Massachusetts Boston soccer both the men's and women's soccer programs will be competing in a postseason tournament in the same year. Both teams not only earned a bid to the ECAC New England Region tournament, but they were also selected as the fourth-seed. Women's Soccer will host #5 Endicott College on Wednesday at 2 p.m., while men's soccer will travel to #5 Norwich University for a 1 p.m. match, which will also be played on Wednesday.
Keene State Sneaks by Women's Soccer in PK's in Tournament Semi-FinalsNovember 04, 2011
Women's Soccer Prepares for Semi-Final Showdown at KeeneNovember 03, 2011
Women's Soccer to Host UMass Dartmouth in LEC Tournament First-RoundNovember 01, 2011
Four from UMass Boston Earn LEC Weekly HonorsOctober 31, 2011
Women's Soccer Ties Plymouth State in Regular Season FinaleOctober 28, 2011
Women's Soccer Blows Past Framingham StateOctober 25, 2011
Beacons Rally Falls Short Against Western Conn.October 22, 2011
K. Ledin's Hat Trick Leads Women's Soccer to Non-Conference WinOctober 18, 2011
Eastern Connecticut Edges Women's Soccer, 2-1October 17, 2011
Women's Soccer at Eastern Connecticut Moved to Monday at 6 p.m.October 14, 2011
Location and Time Change Announced for Women's Soccer vs. EmersonOctober 13, 2011
Women's Soccer Wins Fifth StraightOctober 13, 2011
K. Ledin and Sanz Earn LEC Offensive Player of the Week HonorsOctober 11, 2011
Women's Soccer Blanks UMass Dartmouth, 5-0October 08, 2011
Women's Soccer to Host Breast Cancer Awareness Game on SaturdayOctober 06, 2011
Three Late Second Half Goals Push Women's Soccer Past Salve ReginaOctober 05, 2011
Three From Soccer Earn LEC Weekly HonorsOctober 03, 2011
Cristoforo Lifts Women's Soccer to Double OT WinOctober 03, 2011
Mulry Earns 100th Career Point in 4-0 Win over Southern MaineOctober 01, 2011
Women's Soccer Drops Heartbreaker to Wheaton in Double OTSeptember 27, 2011
Krista Ledin Named LEC Rookie of the WeekSeptember 26, 2011


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For those who visited a few decades ago, Vancouver is a town reborn. Industrial zones started giving way to trendy artists' districts and bohemian neighborhoods about 20 years ago, and the transformation was contagious. Today Vancouver has multiple shopping and dining districts, each with their own unique style and selection.
Whether it's shopping in Yaletown, perusing the outdoor markets of Granville Island or heading underground into the shopping malls on Robson Street, there's no end to the city's burgeoning commercialism. And with the diverse dining options in Chinatown, Little Italy or Punjabi Market, a dining tour of Vancouver is an international experience.
Outdoor enthusiasts have more activities to choose from than time permits. The surrounding ski resorts draw millions in the winter, while hikers are just as spoiled for choice in the summer. Water-based activities like kayaking, beach-going or simple walks on the seawall are ideal in the summer.
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The central district is the heart of commercial Vancouver. This is where the city's most exclusive hotels, restaurants, shops and clubs are planted. Yaletown, a warehouse district turned trend-setter, is often thrown into the mix because it's also centrally located.
Granville Island
Granville's roots are in industry, but this city underwent a renaissance and emerged a sublime entertainment district. It's more peninsula than island, with outdoor markets, artists' studios, boutiques, outdoor terraces and a brewery. Granville Island's many festivals give locals and visitors reason to stop by in any season.
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North Vancouver is the place to be based for those planning outdoor activities to the north. The local shopping scene features antique shops and hip boutiques that cater to the outdoor crowd. On the outskirts of North Vancouver, Grouse Mountain is a popular all-season destination.
West Vancouver
Vancouver has three districts vying for the title of 'West'. Oddly, this one is adjacent to North Vancouver and hosts one of Canada's most affluent residential communities. The commercial venues fit right into the upscale atmosphere. Here on the North Shore, you're likely to see seals sprawling on coastal rocks.
West End
West End is part of the downtown district and hosts part of Robson Street, Vancouver's eminent shopping thoroughfare. It's east of Stanley Park and home to Denman Street, a local hangout with reasonably priced dining and shopping options.
The oldest neighborhood in Vancouver, hip Gastown is as relevant today as it was at its founding. Historic homes, fashionable boutiques and quaint cafés characterize Gastown, and visitors come in droves for the free summer Jazz Festival.
East Van
East Vancouver picked up its trendy moniker as it blossomed from a mere working-class district into the bohemian hub it is today. Here you'll find ethnically and culturally diverse neighborhoods like Punjabi Market and Commericial Drive (aka "The Drive"), with their own dining and shopping districts. East Van also has a prominent art district with galleries, trendy cafés and thrift shops.
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You may recall that last season, I served as PR Director and play-by-play announcer for the Florida Flight, a minor-league professional basketball team here in Central Florida.
We did very well last season, and we're back for our sophomore campaign. This year, we are playing in the Continental Basketball League (CBL) and will be playing our home games in East Orlando … specifically Avalon Park.
We're cranking up our pre-season in style next Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 pm. That's the night that the And 1 Live Tour makes its way to Avalon Park, where their team will square off against a team of "Free Agents" (not Flight players) who were selected by Flight personnel during an open tryout earlier this month. Giving a youth basketball clinic prior to the game will be former Duke University and NBA standout Christian Laettner.
If you are unfamiliar with the skill sets of these And 1 players, you owe it to yourself to do a Google search on "And 1 Mixtape." It's street basketball at its very best; the very same playground legends who brought their games to ESPN in the famed "Streetball" series a few years back. Think conventional basketball meets the Harlem Globetrotters, except nothing is scripted … and the unconventional is encouraged.
We are just a couple months from the start of the regular season, but for now please come out on April 6 if you love the thought of watching one highlight-reel play after another. For ticket info, go to the Florida Flight website at http://www.flighthoops.com – or just ask me.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Two Great New Printable Coupons: $1 Carmex Moisture Plus & $1.50 Tone Body Wash
$1.00 off one Carmex Moisture Plus™ Lip Balm
$1.50 off any (2) Tone Body Washes
12 comments:
- Cheryl said...
Strange, I cannot get the Carmex one to print. Has anyone else had success?
- November 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Kelly F said...
I can't find the carmex coupon, what zip code?
- November 9, 2011 at 3:28 PM
I was able to print it. I dont want to buy it until it goes on sale though... lol I refuse to buy full price items even with rebate and coupons
- November 9, 2011 at 3:29 PM
- Cheryl said...
I found it under 90210--tried to print twice, didn't print. Disappeared. I refreshed the page--it was there again, and still wouldn't print. Not sure what is going on. I took a screen shot of it so I know it was there. lol
- November 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Cheryl said...
Thanks, Sobeida, I'll go try again. I have held onto the rebate waiting for a sale and then missed the sale. lol I figured when I increase my extra bucks Black Friday I'd use some to buy it.
- November 9, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Cheryl said...
Wahoo! I finally was able to get it to print!
- November 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM
I went to my CVS just to check the price, $3.79, now i am really going to wait, i was tempted to buy it because i am 4.25 away from my next beauty reward, is this considered beauty?
- November 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Cheryl said...
Sobeida, I believe it is considered beauty. I know the price is higher than the rebate. A couple weeks ago it was on sale and I missed it. But at least the $1 coupon would cover postage and the extra (I think--I can't remember exactly the rebate $ now).
- November 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM
Does anyone have an extra .30 cent off Carmex lip balm coupon they would be willing to send me? I need one for the black Friday sale. I would be willing to trade for a coupon you need! email me at jmosher3@u(dot)rochester(dot)edu Thanks!
- November 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM
I did this rebate about a month ago. I mailed it out October 6th and got it about Nov 6th. It was pretty quick. :)
At the time I noticed CVS in one location was about .20 cents higher than another location just a few miles away.
- November 10, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Cheryl said...
That was quick, Deal Seeker. Strange on the price.
- November 10, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Jen, Do you realize the stamps for mailing is .44c? is more than the discount with the coupon... .30c, you will be actually wasting 14c if you do this
- November 10, 2011 at 4:03 PM


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All appropriate weapons and shields and a Renedra plastuc base for each figure.
Rules for the Bretons may be found in SAGA: Age of Vikings
Figures supplied may vary from those illustrated (except the Warlord).
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