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Was half tempted to post this under 'tips and tricks' forum, but figured it was morally more apt here
If you have the nuts and bolts upgrade, the auto-repair is triggered upon entering crash's pre-mission shop. If you then back out to the briefing room and return to the title screen, the game saves your health post-repair, but it looks like it doesn't save the fact that the repair has been applied. If you then 'resume' from the title screen, you will be given another repair when you re-enter the pre-mission shop. You can keep doing this until you're good as new
obviously I feel pretty bad for discovering this by accident just before my first attempt at 3-5... I would never have managed it on my 2 legit hp! I don't deserve my victory
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Visit to University of Tokyo to further collaboration
A delegation from Stockholm University, headed by the Vice-Chancellor, recently visited University of Tokyo in Japan to further collaboration activities and to discuss joint future projects.
A strategic partnership project with University of Tokyo, Stockholm University, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Karolinska Institutet on interdisciplinary and cross-departmental research/educational activities was discussed at the meeting with at the University of Tokyo President Gonokami and Executive Vice President Haneda on 22 February.
Joint workshops and deepening of cooperation
"University of Tokyo, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet and KTH will in September jointly organize a workshop in Stockholm on the theme of "Ageing Well". We aim at deepening the cooperation between our four universities, which will include an annual workshop - hopefully next year in Tokyo, the year of the celebration of 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Sweden", Stockholm University Vice-Chancellor writes in her blog.
Stockholm University delegation
The Stockholm University delegation included Vice-Chancellor Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Anders Karlhede, Professor Gia Destouni, Professor Håkan Fischer and Professor Christina Nygren and Head of International Affairs Maria Wikse.
Visiting institutions
A group from the delegation also met with the Swedish the Ambassador Magnus Robach and on Friday 24 February, Vice-Chancellor Astrid Söderbergh Widding and others participated in a tour of the Kashiwa Campus and visited the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI) and the Institute of Gerontology (IOG), for discussion about future collaborations and a visit of their facilities and project works.
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Alvin Ailey review: Technical prowess over lackluster offering
Tuesday evening was not the most auspicious opening night for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. A longtime staffer, beloved by all, had passed away suddenly on Sunday, and the current tour, of which Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall was the 15th stop, has taken its toll on the dancers; substitutions were rife in this Cal Performances engagement.
All the more reason to marvel at the sheer technical prowess and professional attitude of these 30 dancers who rocked the hall even when what they were dancing seemed of negligible quality. In these initial three years of his tenure, artistic director Robert Battle has striven to aerate the repertory with some success (if the decor had fit the Zellerbach stage, the company would have brought us their version of Wayne McGregor's "Chroma"). But Battle has also been smart enough to retain what had been right about the programming before him.
And nothing had been more right than the contributions of choreographer Ronald K. Brown, who was brought into the company by Battle's predecessor, Judith Jamison. "Four Corners," Brown's fifth essay for the troupe, is a fusion of West African and street dance; and it celebrates both in a way that approximates a kind of religious ecstasy. The 11 dancers in this Bay Area premiere caught the spirit in a frequently extraordinary performance.
The arresting opening - the ever wondrous Matthew Rushing and his male colleagues edging onstage, bent over with their backs to the audience - looks ungainly but tantalizing. Soon, the women, dressed in turbans and printed fabric skirts, led by Belen Pereyra and Linda Celeste Sims, present a panoply of hunched bodies, rolling shoulders and feet slapping the floor. Men respond with deep plies and unison dancing in square formation (which may explain the title of the dance).
Brown transforms these bodies so that they seem to be vehicles of racial movement history. The men traverse the stage like upright crabs, the women's torsos swivel so much that they seem to churn. And out of this, the choreographer fashions an almost religious procession.
The score, principally by Carl Hancock Rux, proposes a vocal and guitar-accompanied counterpoint. There are a couple of duets (Sims and Glenn Allen Sims, most prominently), but this is a community ritual more than anything. The company's visit may not offer anything to compare for sheer excitement and grandeur.
Aszure Barton's "Lift" looks mildly synthetic in company with "Four Corners." The Canadian choreographer's women arrive in fussy tops and skirts; they crouch and feet hit the floor. The men, after a dramatic opening, wave their arms a lot. Curtis Macdonald's jazz score doesn't do much, but it never gets in the way. There's a group hop near the end. The key duet, with Akua Noni Parker's face buried in Jermaine Terry's bare chest as they wind across the stage, is ungainly and irrelevant.
The by-now obligatory performance of Ailey's "Revelations" highlighted Antonin Douthit Boyd's electrifying "I Wanna Be Ready" and Jacqueline Green's sashaying rendering of "Wade in the Water." Yet, the performance sometimes seemed to drift where it should have soared.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Through 3 p.m. Sunday. Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley. $30-$92. (510) 642-9988; www.calperformances.org.
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Whether you add a spoonful to your tea, drizzle some over oatmeal, or use it as a sugar substitute, honey is an indispensably sweet staple in most kitchens. But, if you're used to buying honey that comes in the cute plastic bear bottle, you're not getting the best quality honey.
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Best Practice and Good Practice
Often in business we hear about Best Practice and Good Practice, but what does it mean? Where and when should we use it?
Definitions – Practice
To do or perform habitually or customarily; make a habit of: practices courtesy in social situations.
To do or perform (something) repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill: practice a dance step.
To give lessons or repeated instructions to; drill: practiced the students in handwriting.
To carry out in action; observe:
Definition – Good
Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor: a good experience;
Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing
Serving the desired purpose or end;
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Definition – Best
Surpassing all others in excellence, achievement, or quality; most excellent: the best performer
Most satisfactory, suitable, or useful; most desirable: the best solution
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Best Practice is considered by some as a business buzzword used to describe the process of developing and following a standard way of doing things that multiple organizations can use for management, policy, and especially software systems. This is often true within the public sector.
What are the benefits of Best Practice?
A best practice strategy is one where the organization strives to copy those deemed to be proficient in a given activity. This can help your organization to:
- Respond more quickly to changes or innovations in your market space
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There are several business tools that you can use to achieve management best practice, including:
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The road to Hawthorne's future started with a planning intern with an idea.
During a six-month internship with the city, which has a population of roughly 1,400, University of Florida student Chris Dougherty organized a series of visioning meetings to assess residents' goals for Hawthorne.
Ideas abounded, and the city is now working to create a community foundation to harness the energy that came out of the meetings. Early goals for the Hawthorne Area Community Foundation include creating a farmer's market, providing school support, spurring downtown revitalization and preserving green space in the area.
"This group came together for the visioning, and had all sorts of positive ideas for what it wanted to do for Hawthorne," said City Manager Chad Shyrock.
"Then, we kind of hit a brick wall of, 'Well, how do we make it happen?' A community foundation is pretty aggressive for a city of our size, but we thought, 'Well, let's give it a try.' It has just taken off. It's been an empowering tool for a segment of the population that wants to get involved and volunteer but doesn't necessarily go to Rotary Club or Chamber of Commerce meetings."
The group is applying for not-for-profit status, and is taking other early steps to get organized. But its goals are already lofty.
The group hopes to launch its new farmer's market on Oct. 13, to coincide with the annual Hawthorne Hog Fest. Longer-term goals include extending the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail to Palatka.
Foundation member Candice David said the organization is a vital part of keeping Hawthorne's character intact amid explosive residential growth - conceptual plans call for more than 2,100 new homes to be built in several subdivisions in Hawthorne within the next several years.
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Video: The Origin of Spiderman
Yesterday, Marvel posted an episode of the original Spider-Man cartoon from 1967 entitled The Origin of Spiderman.
We highly recommend this episode for young Spidey fans.
We were surprised that this turned out to be Episode 21 in the series rather than the first episode.
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A Piece of the Puzzle
The Art Seen by S. P. Kerce
Do you remember those plastic sliding piece puzzles? I had one that was black, with white sliders that had black letters on them. I spent hours putting together words that I "recognized" in a kind of Scrabble solitaire. I've never seen another one like that, I guess since most of these puzzles have images on them where the idea is to scramble the pieces as much as possible and then try to reassemble the image. Of course, it's probably more fun if you don't know what the image is.
These puzzles are what I think of when I look at Gary Simpson's extraordinary new piece on display at the Joseph Wise Gallery in Laguna Beach.
This 4'x 4'piece is constructed in two layers, one to be reconfigured playfully like a puzzle, and one to be discovered as part of the game. The first layer is composed of fifteen 12"x12" panels assembled like the sliding pieces of a puzzle. This construction is the latest development of Simpson's penchant for assemblages of multiple pieces, ranging from diptychs and triptychs to his monumental work-in-progress CommonGround191, a polyptych with 196 pieces. (See "It's a Ptych of His" [m1] .)
This is also Gary's first interactive piece, although any of his abstract ptych-pieces could be considered potentially interactive, since they can be disposed in any arrangement that is pleasing. In this new work, each piece is fitted with a knob, a kind of joystick, that invites the viewer to move the pieces around. However, unlike the free-hanging pieces of a triptych that can be arranged on the wall any which way, this piece is a ptych in a cage and the possible positions are fixed.
Just as this piece is not quite like Gary's other ptychs, it is also unlike the typical toy puzzle where there is only one way to reassemble the image. In this case, there is no "correct" arrangement of the pieces that can be disturbed to initiate the game or put back together to end it. In fact, there are 16 factorial possible configurations, and that is over 20 trillion! One can play with the arrangement of these pieces to find different pleasing compositions, but one will never view them all.
This first layer, then, certainly could stand alone as an engaging work of art. However, it is mounted over another 4'x 4' cement fresco that presumably is like those typically presented by Gary as a single coherent composition. Except that this composition can hardly be seen, since all but one square foot of it is concealed at any one time by the layer on top of it.
In fact, this second work of art will never be "seen" again, except in the mind of its eventual owner. And that, I believe, is the point of the whole (or the whole point): that a "work of art" is ultimately constituted in the mind or perception of the viewer. The construction creates a tension between one composition that is completely visible but almost infinitely reconfigurable and another composition that is coherent and fixed, but invisible except as it is revealed one square at a time to the mind's eye.
This situation inverts the puzzle characteristics of the moving pieces. In the toy puzzles, the pieces themselves are the puzzle to be solved and there is no background image, that is, nothing more behind it. In Gary's work, the sliding pieces represent no puzzle at all, but become the puzzle viewer, with the missing square functioning as a lens through which to explore what is underneath it. It is more likely that the re-arrangement of the sliders will be driven by the exploration of the underlying unified and coherent image, and that the discovery of a particularly pleasing juxtaposition of pieces will be serendipitous.
The two layers form a folded diptych [m2] , concealing what is inside, and "inside" there is yet another "layer" to this puzzle, for inscribed in the fresco cement of the concealed layer are seven letters disposed so that no letter is completely visible in the opening of the puzzle viewer. In themselves, the straight lines, curves, and angles that might be seen at any one time under the lens are reminiscent of visual elements common to Simpson's frescos that often suggest mysterious but potentially meaningful signs.
Interrupted by the edges of the sliding pieces, the scratches and streaks in the puzzle are never visible as whole letters. In time, the letters may be assembled in the mind by moving the pieces around, but they are not arranged in a sequence or on a line according to the reading conventions of right to left and top down as in a text. With more time, perhaps, the letters can be gathered in memory and construed as words. But what words? How many words? The seven tokens of five types of letters, must they all be used at once? May each be used only once? What sequence should they follow?
Ultimately, when the letters have been lodged in memory, one, two, or three words will emerge because the mind cannot resist extracting them or creating them, just as a child I could not stop rearranging my alphabet puzzle into new spellings. But did I "see" those words or just imagine them? What those words will signify, individually or in their interplay, or what that hidden image "is", and what the puzzle solves, will be in the mind of the who has the patience to curiosity to discover it.
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Adrenal Fatigue has been around forever. It was first described in the medical literature by a French Doctor named Emile Sargent in 1898. This was after an epidemic of influenza. Most MD's however have forgotten this disease state. They know of the extreme Adrenal exhaustive state referred to as Addison's Disease only. This extreme state is when there is very little output from the Adrenals and that person will die unless aggressive efforts such as fluids, minerals and cortisone are given immediately. Today most MD's are oblivious to the common human condition of Adrenal Fatigue. It was not until 1974 that non academic doctors even started paying attention to the fact that this might be a real disease, after the naturopathic physician, James Wilson PhD, wrote about it in nonscientific literature.
In all the other Endocrine Glands, there can be too much (hyper) or too little (hypo) function, but with the Adrenal Gland only too much activity, (Hyperadrenalisim or Cushing Disease) is well established. No function (Addison's) is recognized, but not low function, which is much more common and easily documented is ignored. When an additional sudden burden of stress is added to our already over taxed system, the Adrenals cannot shove that extra bit of Hormone to get us over the bump and we slump. Actually this is only part of the problem, the other element is the down regulation of the hormonal receptors from being inundated with excess hormone for extended periods of time. Additional aches and pains also often start to show up because of the inability for our soft tissue to degrade these hormonal excesses. That is why these patients may present with fibromyalgia symptoms and if too much of them exist then the overlap disease Fibromyalgia is often diagnosed.
ANATOMY/PHYSIOLOGY: Simply put the Adrenals are a paired grape size gland sitting on top of the Kidneys. Although most know them as a single secreting cell mass, they are actually four glands in one. The most interior tissue or the MEDULLA secrets "Adrenalin" which is a combination of Norepinehrine (mostly) and Epinephrine (some) on demand from the brain which has been stimulated unconsciously by stress via mostly specific pathway of nerves referred to as the Sympathetic Nervous System and slightly from other chemicals in the blood. The outer three layers, are the CORTEX which functions as a true endocrine gland and is stimulated by chemical messengers secreted into the blood stream from the "Master Gland", which is called the Pituitary. There are more than 50 specific hormones and many more cell types in the Cortex. These give us the needed advantage of either fight or flight. These mechanisms have been finely tuned for survival in a hostile environment over mankind's existence.
The Pituitary gland drives the Adrenal who itself takes direction from the Hypothalamus, (which is a small portion of our brain) and is located between the cortex and the Pituitary. The Hypothalamus gets its signals from our sensory neurons as well as the thinking part of the brain. It then secretes its chemicals to the pituitary through a special route that tells the "master gland" to release whichever hormone it thinks is best for the person at that moment. However, there are other influences that come into the equation. One is that the Pituitary does not gradually release its hormone, but pulses it according to according to the circadian rhythm as well as the strength of the stimulus it's responding to. there are actually 350 pulses a day with the peak at 8 A.M. and their done at 4 P.M. In addition, it also gives a boost with meals. A special carrying protein, Serum Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) is superimposed on these activities and it has a life of its own, but generally increases during times of stress or "special events" such as Sex. This stress chemical transports the Adrenal Hormones to various body parts of diverse need for them to operate at a higher level. To make matters even more complicated, there is a "free" Adrenal Hormone that acts on the receptor of that targeted tissue and the "bound" that is just the transporter of the hormone.
INCIDENCE: Our lifetime response to stress is accumulative as well as additive. Therefore, the more stressful events, the longer the episode, and the more intense the stress is the more the Adrenals burn out. At times, they have no reserve for even menial tasks such as staying awake after meals. Adrenal Fatigue can run in families because certain genetic types are more prone to it. Our ancient ancestors were also exposed to stress, but compared to our modern life it was only a small fraction. Life was not as complicated centuries ago. Sure there were natural disease, but life was basically food, clothing and shelter. Whereas the average person living in today's society is exposed to artificial light, violent entertainment as well as complex current events, the internet, highly refined diets, and the insecurity of tomorrow add up to Adrenal Fatigue.
SYMPTOMS: The most all-encompassing is Fatigue, Brain Fog, and Poor Concentration. However, a decrease in Sex Drive and Performance, Sweet and Salt Cravings, poor sleep patterns, Low Blood Sugar Spells, Light Headed on standing, an increase in PMS or Menopausal symptoms, Irritability, rapid Heart Rate or Heart Palpitations, Swollen Ankles in the evening, frequent Sighing and easily Confused. Also more Allergies, both airborne (Cedar Fever), but also food such as Food Sensitivities, Gluten Intolerance, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity are more common with Adrenal Fatigue. Also noted is more Infection from minor colds to very serious like pneumonia. Heart Disorders from the benign Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome to the malignant (Heart Attacks) occur more with the Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome.
There is often a specific pattern of Fatigue in which the individual wakes up tired-even more than when they went to bed, gradually gains energy around noon only to crash around 2P.M. The person then limps through the rest of their day and early evening and when everyone else is getting tired, they start getting their "second wind". They find themselves up at midnight still "energized" and living off tomorrows energy. There is a subtle difference between FATIGUE and simply TIRED. Whereas both have a lack of energy in common, in the latter, a person would state, if "I could only get some sleep, I would feel better. With the fatigued person that is not the case. Also, both the tired and the fatigued person would not want to run around the block, but the tired one would be able to do it with some encouragement. The fatigued person would simply be unable no matter what was offered them. A common symptom is the need for more caffeinated beverages as well as the need to lie down after a psychological or physical incident. Even something pleasant like socializing with friends or family cause fatigue. Less productivity at work and at home is also a common complaint and burnout is not uncommon.
PHYSICAL FINDINGS: The Vital Signs are revealing in that the Systolic Blood Pressure is low, frequently under 110. The Temperature is also low, often less than 98 degrees. Upon standing, there is normally a 5 to 10 mmHg increase in Systolic Blood Pressure compared to sitting, however, with Adrenal Fatigue it will stay the same or even go down a few points. Moreover, the Pulse will go up more than 10 on standing from the sitting down pulse rate. There is also a difference in Pupillary Size compared to normal people. The pupil is the black circle inside the blue or brown surrounding iris. In the normal person, when a light is shined into the eye from the side, the pupil will get smaller for as long as 20 seconds. However, with Adrenal Fatigue, the pupil will start to dilate sooner and the faster it dilates, the worse the Adrenal Fatigue is. Additionally, the Deep Tendon Reflexes (Knee Jerks to a rubber hammer) are very brisk compared to normal persons. If a light scratch is made with a pin on the skin, it turns reddish-pink within 30 seconds in a normal person, however, not so with this problem. It will remain white for over a minute which is called the Sargent's White Line. Another physical finding is the Rogoff Sign, this is tenderness when the back is tapped just beneath the ribs, adjacent to the spine. Rogoff is the doctor who first discovered this tell tale sign.
LABORATORY STUDIES: The most common tests done are the salivary (sputum) assays for CORTISOL and DHEA. However, they are not routinely performed by the physician's usual labs and not paid for by insurances. Some specialty labs such as Doctors Data (doctorsdata.com) or Great Smokies (greatsmokies.com) do these for less than $200 a study. We do them as part of our hormone panel which measures adrenal function on a full 24 hour cycle. Also for around $200 but we are able to gain the actual free levels of the hormones also.
In a normal person, when the graph of the above labs is reviewed, there is a peak of the CORTISOL at 8AM and lower values for the rest of the day. Not so for the Adrenal Fatigued who has relatively low values in the AM and higher later in the day. Also the DHEA-S, which is a precursor of CORTISOL is lower than normal indicating there is not enough of this pre-hormone to make adequate amounts of DHEA. Unusual physical or psychological stress that day which includes vigorous exercise, excessive caffeine, acute allergy and the consumption of certain supplements (licorice) or medications (steroids) will invalidate the test results. Surgery, trauma, and acute depression could also give false readings.
TREATMENT: Most illnesses are related to the mismatch of lifestyle on what the human body needs and can adapt for. Adrenal Fatigue is one such condition. Absolutely no stress is bad for the human mind and body. Whereas, light stress is healthy, but like most things too much of even a good thing is ultimately BAD. To really be cured, one has to stop the process which for most of us means changing our lifestyle. Some people thrive on excitement, but sooner or later it will wear them out. Interestingly, most Adrenal Fatigue cases want help when they are burning the candle at both ends, they simply want more wax! The proper treatment is not to give more wax, but to simply light and burn one end of the candle. Do less, think smarter and most importantly make better life choices. Lifestyle change is not only the cornerstone, but is actually the keystone for successful recovery. Decreasing stress, improving sleep, making good food choices, staying in a positive way of thinking and prayer or meditation are all part of a strong foundation for recovery. Additionally, moderation is the key phrase when it comes to the intake of caffeine, alcohol and even spices. Extreme negative emotions like getting angry is bad for the Adrenals. Be optimistic, laugh often, give everyone in your life (especially yourself) the benefit of a doubt. Be kind to everyone and be willing to give and receive lots of Love. There is no easy fix, unfortunately, the longer and more severe the Adrenal Fatigue has existed, the longer it will take to heal. Although, with good therapy, patients start feeling better in just a few days, it often takes weeks to months before they are greatly improved with a lasting cure taking years to accomplish.
Luckily, we here at the Center for Health and Healing have been dealing with Adrenal Fatigue for years and have found the best and quickest path to success is in addition to the necessary lifestyle changes is the use of Bio-identical Hormone Replacement therapies. We start with an adrenal support base and bio-identical hormones compounded specifically for the patients based on their test results. Since the Adrenals via the Pituitary is impacted upon as well as modulates other endocrine glands, often the Thyroid and the Gonads (ovaries/testes) need to be evaluated also.
In some cases of poor adrenal response, we find heavy metal toxicity such as the "silver" teeth fillings (which is 35% mercury). Also drugs, vitamin and mineral deficiencies should be considered in non responders. The supplements that heal the Adrenals are Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Homeopathics and Glandulars. The most important Vitamin is "C" with dose as high as the bowel will allow, usually between 6 and 15 grams daily. B vitamins including B12, (methlycobalamine), B5, B6, Folic Acid, and Vitamin D3 at 5000 to 15, 000 mg daily are also recommended. Other relaxing herbs such as Valarian Root, Kava Kava, Ginseng, Rodiola, and Hops are directed. Relaxing supplements such as daily 5HTP or GABA are sometime used.


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Travelport Limited and Travelport LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company have announced the consummation of the Company's comprehensive capital refinancing plan, including the successful completion of the previously announced refinancing transactions relating to the Company's existing senior notes, subordinated notes and second lien notes and new second lien secured credit agreement and Travelport Holdings Limited's unsecured payment-in-kind notes.
"Our goals in undertaking this refinancing plan were to extend our 2014 debt maturities, eliminate the debt at Travelport Holdings Limited and to simplify the Company's capital structure. We are pleased to announce that we have met these aims in full," stated Gordon Wilson, President and CEO of Travelport Limited.
"The successful execution of these transactions allows Travelport's management team to continue to focus on growing our business through the continued execution of the Company's strategy, which is gaining some real traction." Added Wilson.
The New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities law and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The offers and sales of securities pursuant to the Restructuring Transactions were made only (i) in the United States, to "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act and (ii) outside the United States, to certain non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.


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Semester Done, School-year Done
The fall semester is in the books. I am now about two-thirds thru the required credits for a master's degree in computer science. With chipping away at the degree in a part-time manner, when complete, it will have taken me around four and a half years to finish an otherwise two-year degree.
This year, the courses I took involved HCI – Human Computer Interaction. For those who did not click on that Wikipedia link, HCI is an area of computer science that looks at (observes) how people use computers and associated technologies, as well as the creation (design) of technologies that let people computers in interesting ways.
For the spring semester, the course I took was titled, Collaborative & Social Computing. It explored, from a fairly high-level, the many aspects of HCI. We looked at Wikipedia, Zooniverse, Mechanical Turk, a host of dating sites, as well as Chris McKinlay's gaming of OkCupid (
there's also a book on this, too). The class ended with a two person project – my partner and I implemented a very crude Wikipedia-of-CompSci-course-work. Think of this as a free and open platform to obtain questions and their answers for computer science coursework. This was to be an instructor-centric platform where instructors could share with other instructors their courses' questions. We called it AssignmentHub.
This course was a bit of a gateway-drug for HCI. Little samples – gets you hooked, gets you interested – convinces you that the next level, HCI & UI Technology, should be a great course.
The name, HCI & UI Technology, is a bit of a catch-all and does not clearly state what my fall semester's primary course was about: research methods within the context of human-computer interaction. What's that I just said? The gist of the course was look at a research paper from the HCI-world and look at the methods of research used. Grounded theory method, surveying of individuals, was there a statistical process applied, and so on. We read a lot. Thirty-eight papers or chapters, likely many hundreds of pages.
Many of the papers and chapters have blended together in my mind. Which ones were on Facebook? Which ones used mturk? Which ones were about designing technologies and which ones were about evaluating perceptions of technologies?
There is one paper that stands out a bit in my mind. It is likely that it stands out because I had to co-present it to class. The paper was Project Ernestine: Validating GOMS for predicting and explaining real-world task performance.
It's a 74-page paper, published in 1993, that chronicles the scientific effort to compare work-times of telephone operators using two different workstations at NYNEX. Those with a keen mind for remembering late 1960s television might realize that Ernestine was the name of one of Lily Tomlin's characters on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Ernestine was a sarcastic telephone operator.
The paper also draws on work from Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their efforts to measure worker performance and study motion in a more scientific manner.
After all the readings, the term was rounded out with co-authoring a research paper. The paper was modeled after Understanding User Beliefs About Algorithmic Curation in the Facebook Newsfeed. Instead of Facebook, we looked at Reddit and people's perceptions of Reddit's Best algorithm.
And, that's it. Lots of reading, three research projects (including the research paper). Social and Collaborative Computing was certainly gateway-drug to the more hardcore HCI & UI Technology (HCI Research Methods in disguise). It was interesting to learn more about the inner-workings of a sub-area of computer science, but I have definitely had my fill for a while.
Below is a table of nearly all that we read this term. Enjoy.


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New quotes – A Gentleman's Dignity, Arang and the Magistrate, Bridal Mask…
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Dramas in this post: A Gentleman's Dignity, Arang and the Magistrate, Bridal Mask, Bull Fighting, Dream High, Hana Kimi (Taiwan), K.O.3an Guo, Mother, Winter Sonata, Wonderful Life
A Gentleman's Dignity
"When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily." – Do Jin
"What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things." – Mi Sook
"Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't." – Do Jin
Arang and the Magistrate
"It's not my taste, but somebody told me that… in front of a man, I should be soft and gentle. That way he will grant your wish." – Arang
"There are so many things that you can't calculate in this world." — Jade Emperor
Bridal Mask
"Even if I die, I can't quit." – Kang To
"Because it seemed like you saw me, who'd chased so desperately after success and power, you always weigh on my mind. Whether you're doing this because it's what you truly want, or perhaps it's what your adoptive father wants, and you're living as his puppet on a string — think it over carefully. I believe you'll choose the right path someday." – Kang To
Bull Fighting
"Do you know that the sky is always very clear just before a storm comes? I hope I can shelter you from that, and make the sky clear again, So, Yi Sheng Xue… you've got to always keep your smile because that's my source of courage. For the sake of your smile, I can also climb the volcano. I can do anything for it." – Ruo He
Dream High
"That's right, it's because of Jin Gook that you're crying. That's because he debuted first, and you're crying out of jealousy… there's no other reason, right?" – Sam Dong
Hana Kimi (Taiwan)
"Hey! What you doing? When boy and girl talking, no touching, you understand?" – Xiu Yi
K.O.3an Guo
"Let me ask you, tomorrow or the future, which one comes first?" – Ah Xiang
"I think the love small children give to their parents is unconditional. Even if children are abandoned or nearly killed by their parents, they will still love them. No matter what. That's why parents shouldn't let their children go, no matter what. She betrayed my love. I don't want to see her." – Nao
Winter Sonata
"I wanted so much to call his name out loud. Whenever I missed him, I wanted to call out his name. But if there were no answer, I'd feel that he was really dead, that he was really gone. So, I couldn't. I didn't want to believe he was gone, because he couldn't be dead. He was supposed to meet me. He wouldn't break his promise." – Yu Jin
Wonderful Life
"In life, there will be many times when you want to give up. But you get married so you have someone to get through the tough times with!" – Jae Kyun
"Ahhh… where is the Fiery Food Cart? Maybe it burned down?" – Seung Wan


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Happiness Pursued Was Never Caught
I hold these two. Contentment comes when sought,
While Happiness pursued was never caught.
But, sudden, storms the heart with mighty throes
Whenceforth, mild eyed Content affrighted goes,
To seek some calmer heart, less danger fraught.
Bold Happiness knows but one rival—Fear;
Who follows ever on his footsteps, sent
By jealous Fate who calls great joy a crime.
While in far ways 'mong leaves just turning sere,
With gaze serene and placid, walks Content.
No heart ere held these two guests at one time.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dear Darling,
What makes you happy?
Are you happy right now? Am I? Is happiness even the goal? Are we sure it even should be. What would make you happy right now? What would be your second choice?
What is happiness? What do you call happy, and when is it? Can it truly be found this side of heaven, and if so, where and how? Is happiness absolute, or on a spectrum? Does it grow because of circumstances or in spite of them? Is it a choice, or serendipity? What causes it? Do we deserve it? Is it selfish any time we pursue our own happiness at the expense of others? Is there a reward for pursuing the happiness of others at our own expense?
Is it better to be easily pleased, or should one derive greater meaning? How much happiness does it take before its pursuit produces diminishing returns, or diminishes the cause of the kingdom?
Good evening Darling, and yes, another fusillade of futility tonight, an inquisition into the depths of inquiry long since probed and plumbed out. If you'd rather find answers than more questions, stay with me, there are some here towards the end.
In asking these questions, one looks to the people around to see what their answer is, and how it is. Of course, it is seldom easy to discover "happy" people in a job dealing with suffering. The slow and grinding years of absorbing pain and sadness do seem to take a toll on people — there's a lot of talk of burn-out, and I believe it. And I've told you before how different it is from than the lives of the people I see around me. The mid-30's, buying houses and rings and bassinets.
I recently helped a friend move, finding it encouraging to see so many people set aside their evening to help. But it seemed strange to see a single woman who has lived with her parents rent-free for years move into a house with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, as we carried a plethora of couches, exercise equipment and a massage chair into her house. One person who helped worked at an "experiential center" and conducted "horse yoga." Yoga. On horseback.
I try not to let envy take root Darling, and I've no use for a massage chair. Rather, it's peculiar to see people self-absorbed with their own amusements and pleasures. They're far up the pinnacle of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, flirting with self-actualization and esteem, while I'm spending more time in life just trying to get by with safety and productivity, with employment and bills and my studies. People buying houses with more rooms or space than they need and customizing their dwellings, like their lives, to suit their whims, is just a little out of reach. It's anathema to me. I'm a knight at heart. My dwellings are humble right now. As much as I'd like a nice house, a very nice house, I don't know that I find great satisfaction in a customization of opulence. I do see these conditions as temporary. And given that these types of people are several years older than me, it's still easily believable I'll overtake them, if one were to draw the comparison.
And aren't we commanded to have joy? Is it happiness we seek, or peace? Contentment or fulfillment? Ease or Purpose?
Well Darling, being as how I've been a bit glum of late, perhaps it will serve you well to hear some of the things that please your Beren's heart.
What makes me happy? The smell of leather. A cool winter wind, with hints of smoke and snow. The first winter's fire or the smell of lilac on the first mild spring night. Turning the heat on for the first time, and the first time you grab a jacket for a nippy autumn evening. Driving with the windows down, the wind blowing, and the perfect music playing. Finding a perfect new song or poem that describes exactly how I feel.
I'm happy with live jazz and nature. With bookstores and quiet churches or chapels. A busy but fulfilling night at work. Classic rock songs, or a perfectly wistful melody on a melancholy evening. A deep, intellectual conversation filled with thoughtful reflection, mutual listening and agreement. A gentle nap on a sleepy afternoon. Weekends. Paydays. The satisfaction of nailing a perfect photograph. A glass of orange juice in the mornings. That moment at the end of your workout when you feel the satisfied fatigue of aches and exertion; catching sight of yourself in the mirror and recognizing progress.
A tune played through adequately on piano. Those rare times when someone actually seems to understand, and offers wisdom that actually applies. Timid wild animals that are unafraid. Black and white movies, and old songs. A long walk. A passage of scripture that reaches out and touches you. Walking with Christ in the Bible. Actually finding the words you want to use in prayer.
Making a dinner. Making a difference. Every piece of equipment I buy, skill I learn, or training I receive to be more prepared against calamity and trouble. And, the times when having it on hand actually makes a difference. An achievement or triumph; an article finished, an interview snagged, a debate won. The kind, unrepayable gratitude of patients or the weak.
I don't think man was ever meant to be naturally happy absent his better half; I don't know that I'll ever be content or fulfilled or at peace until we're together. But if you ask me whether or not there are times when I am happy, yes.
And so, I hope and trust that you too can find happiness without me. It may be that our time together, as sweet as it is, will be short, and one of us must learn how to be happy again without the other. If that's so, we're on great training grounds now, are we not?
Live, and pray and laugh, my love. Let not all of these years of absence be years of silence and famine.
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(AP) — United Airlines is seeking government approval to run nonstop service from San Francisco to Chengdu, China, starting next year.
The airline plans to use the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for the service, if it is approved by the Department of Transportation.
The flights to Chengdu — China's fourth-largest city — would be available three times a week. United said Thursday that the nonstop flight would be almost four hours shorter than the typical travel time between San Francisco and Chengdu.
This would be the ninth location in the Asia-Pacific region to have United nonstop service from San Francisco, if approved.
United started its mainland China nonstop service in 1986.
Shares of United's parent, United Continental Holdings Inc., added 79 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $28.72 in midday trading. The stock has traded in a 52-week range of $17.98 to $36.74.


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Early November. I painted my fingernails blue. I went to the mall and bought myself a blazer, a white one to honor the suffragists who fought for my right to vote one hundred years ago. I wore it proudly on Election Day. I refreshed FiveThirtyEight obsessively, as I'd been doing for the past several months. I told myself that Hillary Clinton would triumph – no matter the Comey letter or the emails (EMAILS!) or any other charge brought against her – and vanquish her opponent, thus proving that decency, optimism and progress would persevere.
Election Night. I gathered with friends, happy tears in our eyes as we contemplated the night ahead. One of my friends was celebrating her birthday: "All I want for my birthday is the first female president!" she joked. "You'll get it!" we agreed.
Then the results started coming in. A pall fell over our celebration. Our hope slipped away with each return. What happened? we wondered. What's going on? We parted that night in a cloud of disbelief and shock. I went to bed before the election was called, although I woke up a few hours later and loaded the New York Times. I saw the headlines and I cried, huge gasping sobs in the middle of the night.
Here we are, a few weeks later. I'm still crying. But this is more than me mourning the loss of my candidate. "Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?" ask Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt in today's New York Times. This question has been rattling around my head ever since the early hours of November 9. Because I agree with what they say – we might muddle along for the next few years, but the informal norms and internal checks to our democracy are severely weakened. Our democracy is at risk.
In the past weeks, we've seen threats to religious freedom, to our freedom of expression, to our right to assemble, to artists, to our right to vote, to the freedoms of the press. We've seen the ugliness of overt racism and sexism pretend they've been normalized. (They will never be normalized.)
As a writer and librarian, I make my living in the views, opinions and ideas of others. I make my living in facts. I teach students how to find a variety of information and how to evaluate the information they find. We have to move beyond "agreeing to disagree" and into actual conversation with each other – and with whatever history and science and other disciplines teach us about various issues. We have to stop believing fake news. We have to stop demonizing the other for having views that are different than ours, as Levitsky and Ziblatt outline, and instead remember our common humanity.
We've a decent run so far, America. We've never fully lived up to our ideals. But I still stand by and believe in those ideals, of freedom and equality, of the pursuit of happiness. I stand by freedom of expression and our first amendment rights. And I will defend everyone's rights, even if I don't agree with the individually personally.
So can we make that promise, America? To defend each other's rights, even if we do not agree with each other? Can we stop demonizing each other and instead work toward a society where we can all pursue happiness? Can we work towards a better future together?
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Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, affecting an estimated 1 million Americans. A study suggests group singing appears to relieve some of the symptoms not currently targeted by existing treatments.
The symptoms of Parkinson's include tremor, particularly in the hands, arms, legs, face and jaw. It causes a slowness in movement, problems with balance and emotional changes.
These symptoms are often the prime focus of research, but they are not the only life-changing difficulties that Parkinson's disease presents.
Impairments in breathing and voice are also substantial hurdles that cause a significant drop in quality of life.
Voice impairments impact 60-80% of Parkinson's patients. Their voice can become monotone and display less variety in volume; there may also be a reduced vocal intensity and pitch, and a harsh, breathy voice.
Standard Parkinson's treatments do not target these aspects with the same level of success as the motor symptoms. Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, which relieves many of Parkinson's classic symptoms, can, in fact, make voice alterations worse.
Parkinson's voice therapies
Although there are various interventions designed to improve voice and breathing deficits, they do not tend to address overall quality of life, and, as symptoms progress, drop out rates of these therapies are often high. This means that even the most beneficial therapies do not always have the opportunity to take full effect.
Researchers at Iowa State University, led by Elizabeth Stegemöller, set out to investigate whether group singing could help relieve some of the voice symptoms of Parkinson's disease and, at the same time, increase quality of life and whole health measures.
Singing is a culturally universal pastime that improves bonding and produces a sense of belonging that traditional therapies often cannot match. Additionally, singing can be considered an elongated type of speech with particular emphasis on rhythm, tempo, tonal changes and respiratory control.
Parkinson's therapy involving singing has been trialed in previous studies, but findings have been mixed. This study is the first to test whether improvements in symptoms can be affected by "dosage," in other words, can two singing sessions a week be more effective than one?
Can singing relieve the symptoms?
The trial consisted of 27 Parkinson's patients who attended group singing sessions either once or twice a week. Before and after the 8-week trial, swallowing measures and voice measures, such as the patient's vocal range and how long they could hold a note, were recorded.
Therapy sessions involved vocal exercises, followed by renditions of popular songs, including "You Are My Sunshine" and "Show Me The Way To Go Home."
The researchers found that, after 2 months of singing, there were significant improvements in pitch duration, vocal loudness and swallow control.
Both groups (one session per week and twice per week) demonstrated a significant improvement in maximum inspiratory and expiratory pressure, as well as phonation time. Other voice measures improved, but not to a statistically significant degree.
Importantly, questionnaires that assessed the impact of voice changes on their quality of life (and their overall quality of life) showed significant improvements. Interestingly, there were no differences between the two groups; both benefited equally.
Stegemöller says:
"With people who have Parkinson's disease, what you're hoping for is maintaining these skills - because it's a progressive disease. If we can improve the voice, then maybe there's hope to maintain that function a little bit longer."
'Singing addresses social and emotional aspects'
This research was just a pilot, and the team plans to expand the investigation once funding has been secured. Medical News Today asked Stegemöller about the type of study she would conduct in a perfect world; her aim is to produce a large-scale project measuring more parameters, including "voice, swallow, respiratory, quality of life, social network, depression and anxiety." She continues:
"I would also like to examine the associated brain changes. Finally, I would like to develop methods to bring this music therapy-led intervention to as many persons with Parkinson's disease as possible."
Stegemöller has a passion for music, how the brain responds to it and its use in therapy. It is a fascinating topic that spans scientific fields as diverse as human evolution, sociology, psychology, endocrinology and neuroscience. MNT asked Stegemöller how she thinks singing might have evolved in human culture, and she said:
"I believe that music evolved as an initial method of communication before formal language was developed."
It seems oddly satisfying that a primal social activity like singing might be used to treat such an intractable disorder that modern medical science is still battling against. Stegemöller says "something like singing is not only addressing the physical needs but also the social and emotional aspect."
MNT recently covered research showing that attending a music concert reduces levels of stress hormones.


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Ken Thomas was a little over-exuberant in predicting bank failures in 2013, but he says that is because some institutions avoided going under only by opting for "shotgun mergers" with stronger banks.
A year ago, Thomas, a well-known banking industry expert and economist in Miami, forecast 25 to 40 U.S. banks would fail in 2013, with up to eight of them in Florida.
By year end, however, only 24 banks had collapsed across the country, and just four in Florida, which had been one of the leaders in bank failures during the recession and its aftermath. It was the state's lowest total since 2008.
"If you were a bank officer or director of a troubled bank that was destined to fail, you would do anything possible to avoid a failure by merging with, or selling out to, another bank to avoid your reputation being ruined and later being sued by the FDIC," Thomas said.
"So, in reality, we had many more failures than the numbers show, but these 'closet failures' were reported as merged or sold banks," he said.
For 2014, he believes 15 to 25 failures will occur nationwide, though fewer than five of them will be in Florida.
"Considering there are some 70 problem banks in Florida, it is not unreasonable to assume that 5 percent of them will fail," he said.
Thomas also expects to see 15 to 25 conventional bank buyouts in Florida this year, far surpassing the 13 deals that took place in 2013.
"We will see more 'mergers of equals' as banks try to get to the Holy Grail size of $1 billion, where the general industry view is that economies of scale at that size allow increased regulatory and other costs to be spread over a larger asset base, so a bank can make a reasonable profit," he said.
"Also, with so many bankers out of work from failed and merged banks, I further predict we will se our first new bank charter this year."
The weakest players in Florida banking have largely been weeded out since the collapse in 2007, and the improving economy -- especially in the housing market -- has helped revive the industry.
"Florida is a real estate state and as goes the real estate market, so goes our banking industry," Thomas said. "Both the real estate and banking industries are in the recovery phases, but have some way to go."
A total of 376 banks were doing business in Florida in summer 2007, before the recession took hold. Just 279 were in the state at the end of 2013.
"That means 100 chief executive officers, 100 chief financial officers, 100 chief loan officers, and about 1,000 board members are out of a job in banking since then," he said. "Can you think of another industry in Florida that has been hit this hard by the Great Recession and financial crisis and burst housing bubble?"
But while Florida was slammed harder by the downturn than other states, it also is recovering more quickly, and that may increase demand for additional banking franchises.
"Because of the attractiveness and prospects for growth of our economy, many troubled Florida banks have been successful in bringing in outside capital to make them stronger, but this has not been the case in Georgia and other states with many troubled banks," Thomas added.
"Just as Florida banks fell faster and harder, I believe they will recover more quickly than those in other states, especially because of the improving real estate market and their ability to attract outside capital."
Credit unions growing still
Credit unions in Florida continued to add members and grow their loan portfolios in 2013.
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Florida's 159 credit unions added 36,000 new members in the third quarter, as well, lifting their roster of customers to 4.69 million. Those lenders hold $47.1 billion in assets, with $1.5 billion added in the quarter.
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Happy 18th Birthday hope u have a great day, and what ever u are gonna do
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