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I seem to be in that Friday night crystal window of thought between Gin & Tonic #3 and Gin & Tonic #4 so thought it just the time to have a root through the giant brain of Philip Blond, "high priest" of the so-called Red Toryism, who was profiled in the New Statesman yesterday.
I have been meaning to write about him for some time because he's a fellow medievalist, and there's nothing that causes me to cast off political allegiance so quickly as a jolly good chat about fourteenth-century constitutional change.
Blond shares my belief (and that of the famed Idler, Tom Hodgkinson) that medievalism is a surprisingly useful body of knowledge to bring to bear on the modern world. And its appeal is not limited to any one party or direction. Consider the ten medieval values (with my notation) outlined by Hodgkinson:
ANTI-CAPITALIST: Lending at interest, or usury, is at the basis of the capitalist system. And usury was quite specifically proscribed by medieval ethics… Very much the mood of the moment, as Tom pointed out again in the wake of the bank crisis.
ANTI-WORK: According to historian Jacques Le Goff, the medievals were opposed to hard work, because, he says, to put in long hours displayed a lack of faith in Providence. Theologically, medieval Catholicism was closer to an almost Taoist Oriental fatalism than today's Protestant culture. And hard work might give you an unfair advantage over your brothers. Political movements do not lend themselves to fatalism for obvious reasons, but there is something here that smacks of the "equality of outcome" beloved of the left.
ANTI-COMPETITIVE: Craftsmen organised themselves into a system of Guilds. Guild members mutually agreed to keep quality high and prices uncompetitive. They instituted the notion of a "just and fixed price" for their wares… Classic leftist protectionism.
ECO-FRIENDLY: In the era before electricity, coal, gas or nuclear power, the medievals heated themselves from sustainable sources: ie, wood. They used water and wind power to grind corn. The UK was covered in eco-friendly windmills. All vegetable production was necessarily organic, and everyone "shopped local"… Liberal localism and environmentalism.
SELF-SUFFICIENT: Even the meanest medieval peasant grew vegetables and herbs and kept pigs and chickens. And the giant yeoman class became very prosperous. Chaucer wrote of his Franklin: "It snowed in his house of mete and drynke." Again, liberal localism.
HOSPITABLE: Just as indigenous people today would share their last crust with you, so the medievals emphasised the importance of good hospitality. The monasteries would take in wandering men and give them beer, bread and bacon, and indeed, the (later) problem of homeless, in the Elizabethan age, was a direct result of the destruction of the monasteries. A touch of Tory paternalism here, anti-welfare state.
CHARITABLE: In the days before charity had become just another institutional mega-business, it really did begin at home. The importance of charity was constantly insisted upon and there were plenty of wandering beggars and other mendicants who were ready to receive your alms. There was no disgrace attached to poverty: in fact, it was a state to be celebrated, because the apostles were poor. We had the example of St Francis of Assisi who became voluntarily poor. As above, plus true liberal individualism in the co-existence of the two ideals of wealth and poverty.
PARTY-LOVING: The medieval calendar was absolutely studded with feast days and festivals. Of course, we all celebrate Christmas now, but Christmas then was celebrated for 12 days, during which no one was allowed to work. Every three or four weeks there was some excuse for a party. May Day was for having sex and every three of four weeks there was a long break. Liberal permissive social values and communitarianism.
CHIVALROUS: It was the medieval knights and specifically the great Troubadours of Southern France who invented the custom of courtly love. Chivalry, respect and courtesy towards women was constantly insisted upon, and there were great female patrons of these poets, such as, for example, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Good manners were important. Tory social values.
NEIGHBOURLY: Christ had conceived of the world as a "brotherhood of man" and civility to your neighbour was paramount. This is because the medievals had a sense of collective responsibility: we are all in this together, so your well-being and my well-being are one and the same thing. Liberal localism and communitarianism.
Blond, of course, prefers the Tory and some of the liberal elements as his medieval building blocks. But he offers an extra insight which I think is spot on: the post-medieval state centralisation project. I've discussed this before myself. Blond:
[Oliver] Letwin led the way by giving a historical account of how bureaucracy first arose through the creation of the state by the monarch, who, in wishing to assert and codify his control over the realm, inaugurated a vast centralised system of state control to regulate and direct his subjects. He then concluded that this has led to its modern correlate: a managerial and bureaucratic state wholly unresponsive to its citizens and indifferent to their needs.
… a medieval network of a predominantly horizontal communal and social order, exemplified by the church but also including guilds and agrarian communities organised around differential property relationships, was destroyed by the new vertical "secular monarchs". From the 14th century on, they asserted their power and corrupted a pre-existing highly plural and reciprocal community with demands for top-down allegiance, authority and control.
The only point I'd make here is that he and Letwin are pegging the change too early – the kind of centralist "vertical monarchy" he's talking about only really took off with the Tudors a hundred years later.
He goes on to say that it is the task of the Tories to return to the bottom-up and pluralistic medieval model in a "post-bureaucratic age". A lot of liberals will find resonance in that, and not just when the state is under discussion. Looking back over the eighteen-month history of the People's Republic, I find a pattern of frustration with big systems that affect to serve all and end up serving no-one in both the state and private sectors, and an inclination to localism, efficiency and self-organisation. It's my belief that a simpler and more individually tailored way of life would bring greater economic and social benefits than all the monolithic systems ever could that makes me a liberal. There can be little better training for the liberal life than a solid grounding in medieval history.
So what on earth, I asked a fellow who has chatted with Blond, is the difference between Red Toryism and liberalism? All this business about localism, autonomy and community sounds dashed familiar. "I think he's moderately socially conservative," was the reply, "He finds liberalism too permissive – he thinks that there are virtues of community which should occasionally cause us to subvert our individualism to the common good"
Thus at the end of the same piece:
the real escape from bureaucracy occurs when communities are formed that reconstitute traditions across time and place such that all relationships within that community become practised and no formal account of their nature and fulfilment is required.
Instead actions and behaviour are the subject of unconscious agreement and completion. So conceived, an ancient conservative communitarianism can be married to a hyper-modern network of trade and exchange to the mutual benefit of all.
Yup, pure social conservatism. The NS characterises Blond's critique of liberalism like this:
liberal autonomy entails the repudiation of society, and no vision of the common good can be derived from liberal principles. The atomised dystopia of 21st-century Britain, the "broken society" overseen by a highly centralised bureaucratic state, turns out to have been the historic bequest of Locke and Mill.
Liberals are, in Blond's view "fatally indifferent" to social obligations of the sort that the Tory tradition values. These social obligations, to his mind, are the only effective building blocks of society. Liberalism, far from being a prerequisite for successful communitarianism, is in fact damaging to it.
First, the case for the defence. Liberalism is a prerequisite for the communitarian future because only pure liberalism positively requires that power be handed back to communities, and only pure liberalism provides that individuals have the inborn and inalienable right to self-organise. Tory paternalism does not, Labour centralism certainly does not. That much, I think, is very supportable.
Moreover, most liberals would be extremely surprised to learn that they "repudiate" society. Implicit in Blond's take on liberalism is his belief that "society" consists solely in traditional relationships. Now, unless history is static, that's seems to me to be a belief with no meaning. One age's traditional relationships are another age's dangerous social innovation. But here's a shock. In another sense I agree with Blond. There are, indeed, times when individualism needs to be subverted for the common good.
There is a critical caveat, however – it's simply not necessary for either legislation or artificial cultural pressure to force individuals to do this. Because we do it all by ourselves. The fact that social obligations are long-standing effective societal bonds should alone tell Blond that. Human beings are, on average, naturally good at social conservatism. They literally self-select for it. I'm an abberation (and so, in other senses, is Blond) – but we're here because society can bear the cost of abberations; they're worth it for the innovation they bring.
Still, no permissive liberal should be in any doubt about this: if the most extreme gun-toting libertarians took over the world tomorrow and set everybody "free", a sizeable chunk of the population would instantly organise itself into socially conservative, strictly regulated communes.
It's the liberal's job to let them get on with that. It's not the liberal's job to impose their own permissiveness on others any more than it's the social conservative's job to impose their conservatism. Either would interfere with a perfectly natural and effective permissive/conservative balancing act that has kept human society from self-destructing in too regular and wanton a manner for thousands of years. Social liberalism does not preclude social conservatism.
The social conservatism that Blond sees as so central to his thesis is, in fact, a bolt-on, just as permissiveness would be another sort of bolt-on. A true localist liberal must be prepared to countenance both sorts of society, if both can prove their worth by surviving.
In short, what Blond has to say is eighty per cent a liberalist and localist creed, not undermined in its essentials by the twenty per cent that is influenced by social conservatism. And what Cameron chickens out of implementing, we can chew on for ourselves. I am looking forward to the book.


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BOE and ECB keep rates on hold as markets focus on Non Farm payroll figures
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The pound showed a delayed reaction to the BoE's announcement that they will not extend stimulus, and made its strongest daily gains against the US dollar for the week. However, sterling remained neutral against the euro despite a lot of volatility in the session.
The Bank of England kept its asset purchase target unchanged in its April meeting, as the UK PMIs signalled the economy may return to growth in Q1 and actually avoid a triple dip recession. The Monetary Policy Committee decided to keep the interest rate at 0.50%, as was expected.
In March, calls to raise stimulus were outvoted by 6-3 in the MPC. BoE Governor King was one of the losing votes calling for a 25 billion Pound raise to the asset purchase target. There were worries in March that further stimulus could lead to an unwanted drop in pound, which could weaken local demand on higher import prices. The UK's 2.8% annual inflation rate, which is well above the 2.0% BoE target, has discouraged further quantitative
The euro hiked the most in months against the dollar after the European Central Bank held interest rates at 0,75% and ECB President Mario Draghi said policy makers are "ready to act" if the region's economy declines further.
At the past several meetings, Draghi emphasized that the eurozone economy would recover later in the year, but as several key PMI readings – especially those in Italy, France, and Spain – have plunged to multiyear lows , so the ECB's tone has changed to top the downside with a weaker outlook for the second half of the year.
In the absence of a rate cut, President Draghi's stance was much more dovish. He said that policy would stay accommodative as long as needed, implying that rate cuts down the line shouldn't be ruled out. It is very possible that the ECB cuts rates in either May or June, as eurozone inflation risks remain broadly balanced.
Today euro region GDP is the main figure to be released, with both consensus and previous releases showing a -0.6%, accompanied with the Retails Sales with an expected -0.2% from a previous 1.2%. Another important figure is the German Factory Orders with an expected 1.2% from a -1.9% the month prior; if the German numbers do not make consensus then we can expect the euro to come under pressure.
The dollar index climbed yesterday in the earlier London session to an 8‐month high after BoJ Kuroda announced the unprecedented economic stimulus measures of doubling the easing program that tend to devalue the currency. During the trading day it lost half its earlier gains after the ECB President said it will be ready to act if further economy sinking.
US economic data releases this week have been mixed, with disappointment from both the manufacturing and non‐manufacturing ISMs, the ADP employment and from yesterday the Job initial claims, which jumped slightly; however factory orders, vehicle sales and construction spending all proved reasonably strong.
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A search for heavy long-lived charged R-hadronsis reported using a data sample corresponding to 3.2fb(-1)of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The search is based on observables related to large ionisation losses and slow propagation velocities, which are signatures of heavy charged particles travelling significantly slower than the speed of light. No significant deviations from the expected background are observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are provided on the production cross section of long-lived R-hadronsin the mass range from 600 GeV to 2000 GeV and gluino, bottom and top squark masses are excluded up to 1580 GeV, 805 GeV and 890 GeV, respectively.
ATLAS Collaboration, for complete list of authors see http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.111802
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An important hotfix package has been released:
An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
"This article describes a hotfix rollup for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1-based computers. This hotfix rollup contains 90 hotfixes that were released after the release of SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These hotfixes improve the overall performance and system reliability of Windows 7 SP1-based and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1-based computers. We recommend that you apply this hotfix rollup as part of your regular maintenance routine and build processes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers.
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Hello everyone! The weather has been so cloudy and rainy lately, it's been incredibly hard to post regularly the last few weeks because of it. It is still very cloudy today, but no rain as of yet!
I have so much to show you, so weather permitting, I'll be posting lots in the next week or so! :)
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by Ali Valdez
We live in a complex world of increasing disillusionment, hopelessness, and pressures to achieve and consume. Somewhere between skipping stones on a glassy water surface with bare feet in the mud as a kid and the fancy car or big house whose empty rooms you try to fill by over-working on goals that you yourself did not define for yourself there is a gaping hole we are all seeking to fill. Personal achievement, fulfillment in life, and family gets us partially there, and yet, there is still something missing. The finish line remains elusive. What is it?
Santosha, or contentment, is one of the five niyamas of the eight-limb path. This is the art of being sweetly wedged between everything going the way you want and the daily disappointments and frustrations that come when everything is falling apart and not caring either way. This is not about pre-dispensation towards things going our way, it isn't about our personal agendas. Santosha is less about the external oceans of life flowing in and out on our schedule; it is more about taming the raging waters within whereby our consciousness and spirits through yoga, breath, and meditation become that very glassy water surface that no stone of the outside world can skip and ripple.
Taking this lens, we don't require a rose-hued glass, nor do we require any particular desired outcome. We just learn to maintain a symbiotic relationship with ourselves. The greatest abundance of all is not needing anything to feel happy and free.
We can use yoga as a platform and a tool to come into our own understanding of self. The philosophy provides a framework; the practice paves the road.
As you examine your year in retrospect, focus on the blessings, the times of gratitude, and the friends and family that bring you joy. Looking forward, continue your yoga, adopt a daily gratitude practice, anticipate that life will throw you the occasional curveball but stay resolved on finding the friend within to help you navigate the waters of life. Alter your mindset focusing more on what you can give, rather than what you expect to receive. Set goals that feed your spirit and benefit others. Set aside your valuable time to things that help you achieve your personal best. Less is more in 2017, a cycle of new beginnings. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Want to learn ways to apply yoga philosophy and principles to support your goals and bring you increased contentment? Check out the Sattva Yoga Studios 40-Day-Challenge starting Tuesday, January 10th.


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Pumping Breast Milk and Weight Loss
During pregnancy women gain weight, which they can later use for breast milk production after giving birth, according to La Leche League International. Breast-feeding, or pumping in a way to simulate breast-feeding, can help you lose weight faster due to the extra calories your body uses to produce breast milk. A mother who does not breast-feed must rely on diet and exercise to lose weight.
Caloric Needs
To produce breast milk, your body will use an extra 500 to 700 calories each day, according to Baby Center. A woman should consume between 2,000 and 2,700 calories each day while breast-feeding or pumping. Avoid counting calories though. Instead, eat a healthy meal or snack each time you feel hungry. Your body will guide you to consume the proper number of calories. If you fail to lose weight by following your hunger, you may need to work with your physician to develop a healthy diet plan that will work for you.
Fad Diets
Fad diets often require you to limit your calorie intake dramatically. However, losing weight quickly while you pump or breast-feed can cause toxins, such as PCBs and pesticides, to enter your milk supply, explains Susan Condon, a lactation consultant at Baby Center. Your body often stores these toxins in body fat and releases them when the body breaks down fat. Aim to lose less than 1.5 lbs. a week. Never consume fewer than 1,200 calories each day while pumping or breast-feeding, advises Dr. Abaz Sosic, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Healthy Diet
While pumping or breast-feeding, your daily food requirements include five servings of vegetables and fruits, three servings of low-fat milk or other low-fat dairy, three to four servings of whole grain or enriched breads and cereal and three to four servings of protein-rich foods, according to the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Drink milk or water when you feel thirsty to keep your body from dehydrating. Limit your intake of caffeine to less than four servings a day and avoid drinking alcohol. Also avoid high-calorie, high-fat foods such as chips and cookies, which only add extra calories to your diet without much nutritional value.
Physical Activity
Exercise can increase your energy level and improve your health. Even moderate increases in your physical activity level will help you burn extra calories and increase your weight loss potential. However, too much exercise or extremely strenuous exercise can cause lactic acid to enter your milk supply, according to the Ohio State University Medical Center. When you offer a baby pumped milk containing lactic acid, she may refuse to drink it. Pump prior to exercise to reduce the amount of lactic acid in your milk.
Do not try to lose weight during the first two months after delivering your baby, advises Sosic. During this time, your body needs to recover from giving birth and develop a good milk supply. Mothers who breast-feed or pump regularly usually lose weight during this period by eating their normal diet. Reducing your caloric intake or exercising excessively during this time can delay your recovery or reduce your milk supply.
- Dr. Abaz Sosic; Bradford Regional Medical Center; Bradford, Pennsylvania
- La Leche League International: Weight Loss While Breastfeeding
- Baby Center: Diet For a Healthy Breastfeeding Mom
- Baby Center: Is It Safe to Try to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding?
- Ohio State University Medical Center: Healthy Eating While Breastfeeding
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Nutrition for the Nursing Mother


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✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions over the past 12-plus years. ✶
Friday, December 13
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From: Bali DiscoveryLong Visa Lines at Bali's Airport Prompt Calls for Urgent Change from Law Makers and Tourism Leaders.
(2/20/2010) Bisnis Bali reports that despite a total of 26 visa on arrival counters at Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport, long delays of as much as two hours are being encountered by those landing during peak traffic hours.
Between the hours of 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm when as many as 1,200 passengers land appears to be the time slot worst affected. Assuming an average of 2.5 minutes to process each visa on arrival and the full operation of 26 visa counters, this translates into lines that can take almost two hours to clear just to complete the visa purchase process.
This calculation of possible delays was put forth by a member of Commission B of the Badung House of Representatives (DPRD-Badung), Wayan Puspanegara, who said: "With this condition, the tourists will certainly be bored. This is like a bad dream, not in keeping with the happiness the tourists seek."
The legislator from the Golkar party also pointed to the small area allocated to issuing visa-on-arrival and the impossibility of adding any more service counters. This may require the widening of visa-on-board to more flights, beyond the current limitation of incoming flights by Garuda from Japan.
Puspanegara also said that other services at Bali's airport were below standard, pointing to the lack of even handedness by Customs officials in dealing with imported goods carried by tourists. He said that the process of passing through customs need not be prolonged for tourist visitors not bringing contraband items into the country.
The over abundance of money changers and the proliferation of travel brochures are also areas of concern.
Visa On Line
Concerned that the long lines at Bali's airport may deter visitors from coming to Bali, the Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Travel Agents (ASITA) for Bali, Al Purwa, called on the government to allow tourists to purchase their visa on line. Pointing to other destinations which have extended such a service to visitors, such as Cambodia, Purwa has written to Bali's governor, the chief of Bali Tourism Service and the General Manager of Bali's Airport Authority requesting that his visa-oin-line proposal receive serious consideration.


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Dear Readers: Just a reminder that I will be attending the "Stand UP for Religious Freedom" event today. The Anchoress has an awesome roundup related to the nation wide event. For San Diego, here are the details about the push-back on the Obamacare mandate:
Time: Noon – 1 pm Date: Friday – March 23, 2012
Location: San Diego County Administrative Building; 1600 Pacific Highway.
As I haven't done so in awhile, here is a science and technology news roundup.
Nanopatches: A High-Tech Band-Aid for Broken Hearts:
But none of these treatments fix damaged tissue to heal the heart itself, says Biomedical Engineer David Stout of Brown University. The inadequacy of current treatments is reflected in some daunting statistics: scarred and damaged heart muscle results in heart failure for millions of heart attack survivors worldwide each year, and over half of heart attack survivors will have another heart attack within five years.
A new treatment option may be on the way, however. Stout and his graduate advisor, Biomedical Engineer Thomas J. Webster, have created a new material that could one day patch–and help restore–healthy heart tissue.
The Rise of Antibiotic Resistance -Consequences of FDA's Inaction: By allowing big food to self-regulate when it comes to using antibiotics as a growth promoter in animals, the FDA is setting us up for disaster.
As a reminder to how vital anitbiotics effectiveness to all of this, at all levels of society, I offer this take in the era before them. President Coolidge lost his son to a simple injury, plunging him into a grief that impacted his effectivness:
On June 30, Coolidge's two sons, eighteen-year-old John and sixteen-year-old Calvin Jr., played tennis on the south grounds of the White House. Young Calvin had worn sneakers but no socks. A blister developed on one of his toes but he ignored it. When he fell ill on July 2, White House physician Joel Boone discovered red streaks running up the boy's leg. Laboratory tests soon showed that Calvin Jr. was suffering from pathogenic blood poisoning. In less than a week, the boy was dead.
THAT, my friends, is what we return to if our current crop of antibioics fail AND we drain pharma companies of their incentive and abilities to develop new ones.
Hantavirus detected locally, RivCo health officials issue safety reminders : Two deer mice collected last month near the Sage area southeast of Hemet have tested positive for Hantavirus, the California Department of Public Health announced today.


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Warm Ups are the activities and the time period spent before exercise to prepare the body, both mentally and physically for exercise. Warm Ups can be general or specific and generally consists of some form of pulse raising movement, some form of stretching, and in many cases (more recently) foam rolling.
Typically in my own warm ups I incorporate;
Foam Rolling or trigger point release,
Followed by Dynamic Stretching
Then a movement specific warm up.
(The dynamic stretching and the movement specific elements act as my pulse raiser and stretching combined)
Foam Rolling (AKA Self – Myofascial Release)
When we exercise what we are actually doing is creating damage to the muscles in the form of tiny tears. These tears recover and grow stronger each time we use them, however sometimes that stress can cause tightness and therefore more significant damage to the muscle. Historically this damage has been countered with Massage, however foam rolling has boomed over the last decade in offering people a readily available and cheap substitute for expensive treatments. Foam Rolling, or Self-Myofascial release, is the release of this tightness in the muscles and the stimulation of certain areas towards that recovery process. It is traditionally done with a long cylindrical roller with varying degrees of firmness of 'knobbly bits' on them. However the more experienced users often move onto special trigger point balls and even sometimes onto golf balls! So onto the Science! Foam Rolling has a number of proven benefits to athletic performance. These include:
Increased range of motion in joints (1) – vital for almost all exercises (just think about your squat depth)
Improved athletic performance (2)
Reduction in DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) (3) – When performed post exercise
Improved Recovery back towards optimal performance(3) – When performed post exercise
Stretching Static vs Dynamic
Primarily, Warm ups, or lack of, are often linked with increased risk of injury. However, that may not be the case. Actually, based on the literature (4, 5) no significant relationship has been found between warm ups (particularly the stretching element) and a reduction in the number of injuries occurring. Which means that those who do not stretch are actually at no more risk than those who do warm up!
It's not all about injuries though! Warm Ups are about being as prepared as possible before exercise. The more prepared you are for something the better you handle it, right? Well turns out there is a right way and a wrong way to skin the cat after all… Research has shown that STATIC stretching before exercise can REDUCE performance (6, 7) (although conflict exists when considering type of contraction and duration of stretching )(5) and DYNAMIC stretching pre-exercise can IMPROVE performance(5, 6). Based on this research then I always incorporate Dynamic Stretching into my own workouts. Using Primarily 4 stretches which I know as: Inchworms, Grasshoppers, Scorpions and Kick-outs (also known as leg swings). I also often incorporate Calf stretches and Back/Chest stretches into the routine depending on my planned workout.
Specific Movement Drills
These are any movements which are a deliberate and similar practice to what you intend to do within your session. For instance this would include Squats with no weight or an empty bar before heavy work, Or Deadlifting a light weight before going heavy. Consider these drill the mental warm up in partnership with the previous work which could be classed as the physical warm up (Although these also do a bit of that too!). Limited research exists to confirm the benefits of a specific warm up in itself (I also cannot find any concise literature from my own studies to back this up so I will need to come back to this another time). However it is widely recognised that practiced routines (when form is good and kept strict) develop our habits in lifting and moving, and good practice therefore will improve muscular economy, power output and also reduce the risk of injury through poor force production impacting negatively on joints.
So that is the key elements of my warm ups discussed! I am studying towards a heavily scientific degree at the moment and so my writing can be a bit heavy on the science (I'm a bit of a nerd). If you have any questions about anything I've mentioned or just want me to basically simplify it a bit more next time and not waffle so much then please let me know! These blogs are a learning curve for all of us right now! If you are interested in learning more I have referenced all of the articles I have used (below) or if you ask me I can dig out a hell of a lot more!
Thanks for reading!
MacDonald, G.Z., Penney, M.D., Mullaley, M.E., Cuconato, A.L., Drake, C.D., Behm, D.G. and Button, D.C., 2013. An acute bout of self-myofascial release increases range of motion without a subsequent decrease in muscle activation or force. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 27(3), pp.812-821.
Peacock, C.A., Krein, D.D., Silver, T.A., Sanders, G.J. and von Carlowitz, K.P.A., 2014. An acute bout of self-myofascial release in the form of foam rolling improves performance testing. International journal of exercise science, 7(3), p.202.
Pearcey, G.E., Bradbury-Squires, D.J., Kawamoto, J.E., Drinkwater, E.J., Behm, D.G. and Button, D.C., 2015. Foam rolling for delayed-onset muscle soreness and recovery of dynamic performance measures. Journal of athletic training, 50(1), pp.5-13.
Thacker, S.B., Gilchrist, J., Stroup, D.F. and Kimsey Jr, C.D., 2004. The impact of stretching on sports injury risk: a systematic review of the literature. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 36(3), pp.371-378
Andersen, J.C., 2005. Stretching before and after exercise: effect on muscle soreness and injury risk. Journal of Athletic Training, 40(3), p.218.
Hough, P.A., Ross, E.Z. and Howatson, G., 2009. Effects of dynamic and static stretching on vertical jump performance and electromyographic activity. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 23(2), pp.507-512.
Simic, L., Sarabon, N. and Markovic, G., 2013. Does pre‐exercise static stretching inhibit maximal muscular performance? A meta‐analytical review. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 23(2), pp.131-148.
Behm, D.G. and Chaouachi, A., 2011. A review of the acute effects of static and dynamic stretching on performance. European journal of applied physiology, 111(11), pp.2633-2651.
Martin, P., Pavol, P., Zuzana, P., Martina, T. and Juraj, M., 2014. Effectiveness of static and dynamic stretching prior to speed and speed-strength load. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 4(4), p.455.


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The results of a 2013 "backyard experiment" in a new rice-growing method by "weekend farmer" and physician Dr. Apolinar Tolentino Jr. has astounded his friends and colleagues.
From the control plot of 540 square meters using conventional methods, he got 12 cavans, or 220 cavans/hectare – quite high by Philippine standards. But from the experimental plot of 1,035 square meters using a new method called system of rice intensification (SRI), which he was trying for the very first time, he got 35 cavans, or 338 cavans/hectares – 54% higher than his control plot and more than four times the national average!
Successful physician, frustrated weekend farmer
Dr. Tolentino, whose specialty is family medicine, has been a medical officer of a government corporation for more than 20 years. He is married to another doctor, who enjoys a successful medical practice as pediatrician. Their children study in the best schools in the country.
Despite these marks of success, "Doc Joey" remains engaged in a search to improve income – his farm income, that is. In addition to his successful career as a physician, Doc Joey is also a "weekend farmer," as he calls himself. He farms, he says, not only for himself and his family, but for all farmers in the country. If he can make his farm operation viable while keeping to "natural methods of farming", then his approach might serve as a model for other farmers.
On weekends and some weekdays, Doc Joey's son Percival Jerome ("PJ") drives him from Quezon City to the six-hectare family farm in Laur, Nueva Ecija that his deceased mother and five other aunts and uncles inherited from their parents. Doc Joey took on the responsibility of managing the rice farm, with son PJ on his side, to try out various ideas that can make rice farming a viable operation.
In between his visits, his paternal cousin Benny Tolentino takes over and implements his "remote" instructions. Eventually, they managed to raise the farm's yield from 60-80 to 100-120 cavans/hectare. The national average is only slightly below 80 cavans/hectare. Still, he was far from satisfied with the yields they were getting and the costs they were incurring. The margins were frustratingly low, he says.
"I won't even factor in the cost of driving from Quezon City to Laur and back, or the time I spend managing the farm and travelling," he adds.
A viable option emerges
Doc Joey's search for viable farm options led him to the system of rice intensification (SRI).
SRI is a method of growing rice developed in the 1980s by Fr. Henri de Laulanié, a Jesuit priest stationed in Madagascar, a big island off the African east coast.
SRI went viral in the 2000s when Dr. Norman Uphoff, a Cornell University scientist studying irrigation systems, came across it, picked up the torch from de Laulanié, and started promoting SRI evaluations worldwide.
Before he did so, however, Uphoff spent years quietly evaluating the method. "For a long time," Uphoff told a Filipino audience when he visited the country in 2002, "I couldn't even mention SRI in my public talks, lest I associate Cornell's name with what might turn out to be a false claim."
But after three years of joint evaluations and demonstrations with Association Tefy Saina, the non-government organization which de Laulanié organized with local colleagues and left behind (he died in 1995), Uphoff was convinced that SRI benefits were real. He saw how smallholding farmers raised their yields from 2 to 8 tons/hectare just by changing the way they took care of their rice fields.
Having taught rural development for more than 30 years at Cornell, which hosts hundreds of foreign students a year in its agriculture program, Uphoff had a worldwide network of former students to tap. Also, Cornell received a steady stream of visitors engaged in agricultural and rural development. As director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) from 1990 to 2005, he travelled abroad regularly and had the opportunity to visit many countries.
Doing so, he started a campaign of encouraging everyone he met, including his former students of course, to "evaluate SRI scientifically." SRI's critics characterized Uphoff's efforts as "missionary zeal" to question his credibility. "He has become an SRI advocate," they charged. But Uphoff responded that what he was advocating was "the evaluation of SRI within the scientific community." If scientists and farmers were satisfied with the results, they could decide themselves what to do with their new knowledge.
The establishment strikes back
Uphoff's detractors, some of them based at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), went so far as to label his reports on SRI as based on "unconfirmed field observations (UFOs)" in articles published in scientific journals – an ultimate insult to a scientist. Some wrote that the SRI results reported by Uphoff exceeded what they calculated to be the theoretical maximums based on their agronomic models, implying that the top yields with SRI methods must be false. "Perhaps it is their current theories that need revision," Uphoff suggests. "By focusing on the top yields, they diverted attention from the large increases in average yield achieved with SRI management – increases which were well within any concept of 'biological maximum yield'," he adds.
This early, highly-publicized opposition to SRI by IRRI scientists could be a major reason for SRI's relatively slow spread in the Philippines, where IRRI is based. Local agriculture experts and government agriculturists look up to IRRI and they echoed these early criticisms of IRRI scientists, though much of these criticisms later turned out to be unfounded.
Many of these early critics are now silent, but they've never published any retraction of their unfounded criticisms, nor apologies for their insulting labels. Even today, some government agriculturists, especially those who are not updated about recent research, still cite arguments echoing these early critics.
To review the state of SRI research in the Philippines and other countries, the Central Bicol State University for Agriculture (CBSUA) is hosting an SRI research roundtable and lecture series on June 4, 2013 at the CBSUA campus in Pili, Camarines Sur. With Dr. Lucy Fisher, CIIFAD staff and a colleague of Uphoff, as guest speaker, the occasion will provide SRI researchers from CBSUA, UP Los Banos, Central Luzon State University, Visayas State University and other schools the opportunity to share and discuss their results.
Doc Joey picked up bits and pieces of the SRI debates, as he browsed the Web and explored YouTube for information, reading all he could about SRI. But he was really after knowledge he could use in his farm.
Eventually he came across SRI Pilipinas, the local network that promotes SRI in the Philippines. This network of SRI trainers conducts free trainings and seminars to farmers' groups and provides free text/SMS lessons as well as primers to individual farmers. It is launching a "friendly contest" in 2013 and 2014 among SRI adopters to see who can get the most benefits from these methods. Doc Joey attended one of its seminars.
Case for SRI now overwhelming
By this time, as Doc Joey realized at the seminar, the case for SRI has become overwhelming.
For one thing, it has been tried successfully in more than 50 countries. (SRI's phenomenal spread – often without support from government or agriculture authorities – has so confounded the agriculture establishment that the Gates Foundation funded Wageningen University researchers to study SRI as a "socio-technical" phenomenon.)
In November 2011, five farmers in Bihar, India – all using SRI which they had learned three years earlier – had matched or exceeded the world record for palay (paddy rice) yield of scientist and hybrid rice developer Dr. Yuan Long-ping of China. The best of the five SRI farmers, Sumant Kumar, now holds the new world record: 20.03 tons/hectare (22.4 tons – 448 cavans – before drying). The average yield in the Philippines is less than 4 tons/hectare (80 cavans).
Then, in August 2012, Dr. Yang Saing Koma of Cambodia received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, in large part because he convinced the Cambodian government to adopt SRI as an official program nationwide and helped it implement the program. As a result, Cambodia doubled its national rice production within eight years, from 3.82 million tons in 2002 to 7.97 million tons in 2010. Earlier, the Philippines had announced that they had signed a memorandum of agreement with the Cambodian government to import rice from Cambodia in the next two years.
Several Indian states have, for years, promoted SRI as part of the official government rice program, accounting for significant increases in their rice production. In the Nalanda district of the state of Bihar, where Sumant Kumar made his record-breaking harvest in 2011, 90% of farmers already use SRI. When India's 2012 rice export statistics came in, they showed India's rice exports jumping to 10.3 million tons, up from 4.8 million tons in 2011, thanks in part to this early focus on SRI. This doubling of exports has made India top rice exporter for 2012, ahead of Vietnam (7.7 million tons) and traditional leader Thailand (7.0 million tons).
Trying SRI for the first time
In the first cropping season of 2013, Doc Joey made up his mind to try SRI.
On his request, SRI Pilipinas assigned its Nueva Ecija-based trainer and Luzon coordinator, Venancio Garde Jr. of Gabaldon, to help him out. The two were distant relatives, it turned out.
With Jun Garde's help, Doc Joey started his first SRI trial during the 2013 dry season, on a 45-meter x 23-meter plot. His Facebook entry called the 1,035 square-meter trial "a backyard experiment with lots of limitations." A modest description of an experiment whose objective was "just to give my farmer-cousin a hands-on training in SRI and to find out if the technique will work in our rice farm." He would have been satisfied with "anything above 150 cavans/hectare," – roughly double the national average.
For seed, Doc Joey used a high-yielding Indonesian inbred rice variety he got from a trophobiotic practitioner he met in Facebook.
In his desire to convert his entire six-hectares into an organic rice farm quickly, Doc Joey stopped chemical applications immediately and applied the following on his six-hectare farm, including the 1,035-sqm plot where he was testing SRI for the first time:
|Organic input
|Green manure
|20 kg/ha munggo (mung beans) broadcast before land preparation, then harrowed at the flowering stage
|5 bags/ha on last harrowing and an additional 2 bags as top dressing for the SRI plot only
|Chicken manure
|15 bags/ha
|Goat manure
|Unknown amount, "I just gave instructions to dump all goat manure on the SRI plot during land preparation."
|Indigenous micro-organisms 2 (IMO-2)
|Sprayed on the field after the first harrowing, at a rate of 30ml / 16L sprayer and 5 sprayers/ha to speed up decomposition
|6 kg of vermi-cast in 100ml water with 3 kg molasses, brewed for 48 hours and used to dilute the NF concoctions (see below)
|Natural Farming (NF) concoctions
|IMO, Fish/Kuhol Amino Acid with seaweeds, Fermented Plant Juice, Fermented Fruit Juice, Oriental Herbal Nutriet, Calphos, calcium from eggshell, and Lactic Acid Bacteria Serum
|Vermi-tea with NF
|Sprayed every week starting 7 days after transplanting
After listing them all, Doc Joey himself expresses amazement at the amount of organic inputs they put in.
They transplanted the seedlings with care when they were just 10 days old, putting one seedling per hill, and observing the recommended distance of 25 x 25 cm. The fields were alternately flooded and dried, to encourage profuse and deep root growth. Finally, Doc Joey bought two rotary weeders from a Gabaldon specialty shop for the mandatory shallow cultivation every 7-10 days, required by SRI to aerate the soil and control weeds.
No chemical inputs were used at all.
In a separate 27-meter x 20-meter control plot, Doc Joey planted the same variety, using the conventional methods of growing rice: broadcasting directly into the field and fertilizing with a mix of organic and chemical inputs.
Korean Natural Farming, Filipino-style
Under the supervision of Doc Joey and with Jun's advice, resident farmer Benny Tolentino and his wife Teodora also learned to make compost and various "concoctions," as they are known in organic circles.
The concoctions are fermented mixes made from commonly available materials, which can hasten composting, enhance growth, add more nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, or calcium, and generally provide the same things that chemical treatments provide, but in an organic way. This system of making concoctions is separately known as the "Korean Natural Farming System" (KNFS), because it was developed by scientist Dr. Han Kyu Cho of Korea. Although not part of SRI, KNFS complements it perfectly and is taught together with SRI by SRI Pilipinas in its seminars and trainings. Doc Joey calls the system "NF," for "Natural Farming".
While doing all these things, Doc Joey shared every step of the way, as the trial went along, with his online friends, all natural farming enthusiasts.
He also shared tidbits of information gathered from the local SRI network that were useful to farmers. For instance:
On attacks by the Golden Kuhol (a common criticism of the SRI method): "in our experience using SRI, kuhol was not a problem despite wide infestation in our area [because we plant] the seedling in mud instead of submerging it in water, [and they] cannot move well in mud; the spacing is so wide [that the] kuhol senses that it is not worth their effort to go for a very small plantlet and have to travel wide to get to the next; we collect kuhol including the eggs to make it into fertilizer."
To control rats: some SRI farmers roast raw rice [and] then mix it with some cement, using plastic gloves to prevent human smell from giving the mixture away. The fragrant aroma of roasted rice attracts the rats. The powdery cement quickly turns solid in the rats' gut, leading to their death.
Doc Joey's online friend Eddie Canuto, also an SRI adopter, shares another technique: wearing plastic gloves as usual, get some "is-is" leaves ("takinis" in Ilonggo, often used in scouring pots or as native sandpaper; scientific name, Leucosyke capitellata). Put some sardine sauce on them and leave them where rats tend to go. When the rats lick the sauce, the "hair" of the is-is will stick like needles to their tongue, impairing their eating ability and eventually killing them.
Thus, vicariously, Doc Joey's online friends shared the excitement, the challenges, the joys and disappointments of growing rice with their fellow natural farming practitioner.
Success on first try
The SRI result astounded everyone – 338 cavans/hectare, more than four times the national average, using no hybrid seeds or chemical inputs, and on Doc Joey's first try at SRI and first season of organic conversion at that!
Encouraged, he will now be trying SRI in the coming planting season on a half-hectare rice field, to make sure that SRI will also work on a larger scale. If he succeeds, he says, he will try SRI again in a full hectare. "If the results are still convincing, then SRI will be my sole method of rice planting in the six-hectare farm."
"The real significance of Doc Joey's feat," Dr. Mely Cervantes, researcher and head of extension services of CBSUA explains, "is that it shows how farmers can improve their yields quickly, without using expensive hybrid varieties which they can use only once or similarly expensive chemical inputs that poison not only soil organisms but also the farmers themselves as well as their families."
When SRI Pilipinas learned about the results, the group immediately suggested to Doc Joey to ask a Department of Agriculture representative to double-check the harvest and certify their findings. Unfortunately, the entire SRI crop had been harvested. "Actually, it was furthest from my mind that the outcome will be like this," Doc Joey tells his online friends.
Doc Joey says he will try again on a larger scale – a 0.5-hectare rice field. And this time, he will be "more particular about documentation," he says.
SRI Pilipinas also asked Doc Joey to join their 2013 contest, but the doctor demurred.
"I don't like pressures," he reasons. "My blood pressure might rise uncontrolled if I join," he laughs.
"Pressure is good, Doc," counters one of his online friends.
"Join the contest not to win, but to test yourself," the group's coordinator suggests. "Like some marathons, our contest is a competition among friends, and for most participants, finishing it is victory enough," he adds.
Government support needed
Venancio Garde Jr., the SRI trainer who advised Doc Joey and who serves as the SRI Pilipinas coordinator for North Luzon, explains that they are using the contest format to promote knowledge of SRI more widely among farmers. "What we really need, though," he says, "is for the government to promote SRI officially among farmers, like what the governments of Bihar and Cambodia have done." With SRI, Cambodia doubled its national rice production in eight years. Bihar, a state in northeast India, was previously one of the most depressed areas in the country. With SRI, it is moving today to overtake Punjab as India's top rice producer.
Garde thinks that an administration which adopts SRI as a government program will bring the country rice self-sufficiency within its term.
And it will make rice farming a viable operation for farmers, Doc Joey might add.
[To get free lessons in SRI, farmers can text their name and complete address to the SRI Pilipinas Hotline: 0939-117-8999.]


text: Share: Comments Print October 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM "Scarfing the Sound" is back Posted by Jose Romero This just came in from the team: The Seattle Sounders FC encourage fans to demonstrate their spirit this week in support of the team's first playoff match against the Houston Dynamo on Thursday, October 29 at Qwest Field. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. (PT). Fans can show their passion and support for the team by wearing Sounders FC attire or colors to work and school throughout the week. The team will be staging 4,000 Sounders FC scarves in neighborhoods throughout Seattle for fans to "scarf" their homes, cars or workplaces. Oversize scarves will be displayed on area bridges, overpasses and a 3,000 square foot scarf being flown around the region on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fans can download printable Sounders FC scarves or upload scarf photos at www.scarfseattle.com. Each Conference Semifinal is a two-game, aggregate goal series with the higher seed hosting the second game of the two-game series. The second leg will be played on Sunday, November 8, at Houston's Robertson Stadium. Comments


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The Korkers White Horse Wading Boot replaced the Metalhead for 2014. Korkers has made several improvements to these boots to make them even better than the Metalheads. The White Horse is lightweight and strong. They have heightened the sides of the boot a bit to better protect the front sides. The Korkers White Horse incorporates the new M2 Boa lacing system that allows you to tighten your shoes without laces. It has two stop positions and is incredibly strong. The internal drainage system on these boots will keep water out and allow these wading boots to remain light. The Korkers White Horse Wading Boots use the OmniTrax Interchangeable Sole System that allows you to use multiple soles on the same boot. These boots come with a Plain Felt Sole and a Kling-On Sole. If you are going to be fishing on rocks then you need to add the Studded Kling-On Sole (sold separately). Korkers White Horse Wading Boots are as durable as they are comfortable!
Korkers White Horse Wading Boots are black and tan. They are available in sizes 8-15.
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I was able to get it done over the weekend.
I'm thinkin' I might transfer it into the wine barrel that the fountain was in.
I maaaay have hit a couple nurseries this week.
And I maaaay have come home with some new things.
And I maaaaay have spent the last three days completely ignoring the inside of my house, just so I could play in the dirt.


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You know la, my hair is always so straight and I am so damn jealous with those girls who have a very nice curl at the bottom of the hair root, which i tried to curl myself before and FAILED. Back to story, so my first intension was to try to roll my bang just like the video i watched one night before. And here goes:
I sent this foto to ahboon, and he just cant stop laughing @.@


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Online Community, Authenticity & Accountability
The world of online social networking is vast and ever changing. Online communities exist in every shape and form, for every group, sub-group, and counter-sub-group that one can think of. Church leaders today find themselves wondering how this world of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, blogs, etc., could ever be relevant to their ministry, much less even qualify as "community".
This conversation eventually becomes a discussion of authenticity versus accountability in ministry. Most pastors will tell you that in order for spiritual growth to occur, a measure of accountability must exist. Opponents of using social networking tools for ministry claim that the lack of accountability in online interaction is detrimental – that the ability to contribute and discuss anonymously subverts the spiritual growth process.
Individuals can easily lie, be abrasive, and even abusive with little or no repercussion. People can hide from the truth that is their own personal mess.
On the other hand, proponents for online community argue that anonymity brings with it an openness that otherwise would not exist. Someone can participate in a conversation or interaction and unashamedly ask questions that would never be asked in a physical setting. Questions on topics like sex and marriage may be difficult to ask a pastor or counselor directly, but when this interaction occurs online, the cloak of anonymity allows a certain freedom from the perception of judgment.
My personal opinion falls in the latter argument. More often than not, I see participants in online communities willing to bare their souls in ways they never would, were they standing in front of another human being. For example, recently one of my favorite bloggers, Carlos Whitaker ( www.ragamuffinsoul.com ) posted a snapshot of himself in a moment of sorrow – he was grieving over the loss of a dear friend and shared this intimate moment with the world. Anne Jackson ( flowerdust.net ) regularly shares her struggles with depression, a condition that most people are ashamed to admit they suffer from.
Now for the kicker.
Both of these bloggers are staff members of large influential churches in their respective cities. They choose to share with the world their struggles as well as their triumphs, and as a result, thousands of people read and discuss what they have to say every day.
Why would someone wish to take such intimate moments and share them with the world? The answer is simple. Relatability.
Isn't that the core of ministry?
It all really comes down to our ability as humans to connect with each other at a relational level, whether we do this through personal interaction or by carrying on a discussion in the comments of a blog post, in a thread of a forum, on a Facebook wall, or by Twittering our thoughts out loud for all to hear. We're really looking for someone to connect with us on our level- someone to understand where we're coming from. To be honest, sometimes accountability can be an inappropriate yardstick for measuring spiritual growth. Sometimes "accountability" is a facade for intolerance.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should do away with accountability. I'm merely saying that as ministers, our job is to recognize that accountability is not exclusive, that it is one component of a toolbox that helps us and others understand our purpose and relationship with our Creator. The bottom line is that as ministers, our call is to be inclusive – to always take it to the next step. From relatability to relationship. From relationship to reformation. From reformation to restoration through prayer, counsel, the application of God's word, and the tangible workings of God's spirit. From restoration to replication, and so on.
And all of this can be done online.
Sure there will be those who are malicious in their online interaction, but it is likely that the state of their spiritual condition would not translate to a productive personal encounter, either. Experience also shows that these online provocateurs make up a very small percentage of community participants.
So how do we take advantage of these tools to do ministry? First, we must understand that our goal is to connect with people. Second we must learn the tools. Sign up for a Facebook account, get a Twitter account and see what all the fuss is about. Start a blog and tell the world what you think and what you are doing. Comment on other blogs and join the conversation. Lastly, be authentic. Only through the truth of authenticity can relationships form. Social networking is merely a toolkit for building these relationships and thus growing the larger community.
We must engage in the art of conversation in whatever form it may be, and let God do the changing.


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Quick Takes: Security devices and identity management
New security products have been released by InfoExpress and Business Layers.
Info Express releases security device
Network appliance provider InfoExpress of Mountain View, Calif., released its CybergateKeeper server appliance at the NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas. The Cybergatekeeper is a device that provides security policy enforcement for remote and mobile desktop computers as well as the applications running on them.
Business Layers updates e-provision software
Access and identity management firm Business Layers of Rochelle Park, N.J., released version 3.0 of its eProvision software. This release promises to offer network managers more control in assigning corporate systems to employees, partners, and consultants.
Spherion bags customers
Recruitment and outsourcing provider Spherion of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has chosen software maker SMARTS of White Plains, NY., to automate its business processing systems, European network operations center and multiple data centers. The $1 million deal will allow Spherion to expand support for its corporate customers.
Visual network develops monitoring product
Visual Networks of Rockville, Md., a firm that produces network management software announced the release of Visual UpTime v7.1. The new application offers enhanced IP application monitoring and a high-speed IP transport solution for private IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
Avaya sets up big converged network
Telecommunications equipment maker Avaya Inc. of Basking Ridge, N.J., set up one of the world's largest converged voice-and-data networks for the upcoming 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament in Korea and Japan. The network will allow journalists, players, volunteers and other participants to use Avaya's combined voice and data systems to communicate between tournament sites and worldwide.Kurt Ringleben, assistant news editor


text: This is the second time that my 6400M as shut itself down after a very loud and high speed fan with flashing (two red alternating flashes) red start and stop button. Then it shuts down and restarts on it's own with a message that it is disconnecting and then to wait for start. Anyone know what s going on?


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Have a look at the latest Ban.do fall/holiday 2012 collection filled with look-at-me goodies, choose your favourite eye-catchers and get ready to sparkle!
Need help to accessorize your holiday combos? Well, if you're on
the hunt for some seriously lovely goodies to complete your
outfits, just have a nosey at the latest Ban.do fall/holiday 2012
collection packed full with some very special handmade
eye-catchers. Describing the Ban.do girl, Jen, one of the label's
designers, said in an interview with stream.fidoo.com that the
brand's customer is "smart… super smart, sexy, isn't afraid of
color, willing to take a risk." "I would say the Ban.do customer is
a fresh, modern consumer that wants a fashion forward accessory,"
Jamie added.
Imagine metallic pom pom flowers, boom boom flower combs, drinking the stars combs, to-die-for bobbi pins, pop rock headbands, double trouble headwraps, flurry poufs, smooch brooches and pins, cosmic collars, metallic scarves, heart shoe clips. Boy oh boy, we're completely hooked!
Okay, so these pieces are in fact real conversation-starters.
But, what does 'bando' mean? "We were kind of all over the place
just trying to come up with something clever, we were going to be
the 'Kleenex' of hair accessories, and the French name for headband
is bandeau, so we thought it would be cool to sort of play on
that," Jamie said in the same interview with stream.fidoo.com.
The newest Ban.do fall/holiday 2012 collection is filled with uber-cool and chic goods that guarantee to spice up any outfit. Besides, the uniqueness and awesomeness of these accessories are undeniable. Still, what is the duo's main source of inspiration? Do they follow the trends when designing?
"I don't think that's really where we are driven, it was a very organic thing from the get-go. We are acutely aware of what's going on in fashion, but I think it's more so about what we like and what fits. Jamie and I are both fashion risk takers – clearly – and when we started it was really more personal, we were making one-of-a-kind vintage pieces, and we try to keep it more individual but at the same time having a bit more mass appeal," Jen explained.
As on the signature heart that can be seen on lots of pieces, she said that, "As it turns out, people love hearts. Our sequin heart, which is a big part of what we do, was an accident. We were describing something else to our manufacturer and we got this, and it ended up selling really well."
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With flight prices getting lower and lower, airlines are cutting out more and more services, either charging a premium to access them or not offering them at all. One of the services which used to be expected but one which has now become a luxury is checked baggage. In fact, there are many airlines who offer cheap tickets with the provision that you can't even pay extra to take your luggage on board!
When you hear this news you are probably thinking that you can never go on a vacation again because you can't take your entire shoe collection with you! However, I am here to tell you that despite your love for shoes, there is a way. You just need to know which shoes to pack for the type of destination you are traveling to.
Taking Advantage of the Low Season?
Many of the travel deals that you will see come across your inbox are for travel dates outside of the regular peak period for the destination. This often means that you can expect to see less sun and to experience more rain. However, this isn't to say that you can't enjoy an awesome adventure in the rain! When you are considering your shoes, here is what we suggest:
- A good pair of hiking boots (waterproof)
- A pair of sneakers
- A pair of dress shoes
- A pair of flip-flops
While it may seem strange, you will see dress shoes on each list in this article because it is also advisable to travel with one pair of dress shoes and an accompanying outfit.
Into the Tropics!
Tropical countries and hiking through jungles are synonymous. And with good reason; it's an amazing experience! However, it can also prove to be a dangerous and painful one if you don't pack the right shoes. We recommend:
- A pair of good quality hiking boots (again, waterproof)
- A pair of sneakers
- A pair of dress shoes
Did you notice that flip-flops aren't on the list? The reason for this is that they can be dangerous in tropical environments because of the constant moisture and algae on the ground as you walk. As for the hiking boots, it is important that they are good quality sot hat they don't break under pressure. If yours have seen better days, grab a new pair from the Groupon Coupons page for Clarks before you head off on your adventure.
Get Ready to Fall Over!
If you are lucky enough to be heading to the snow then it is obvious that you will be packing your snowboard boots. However, with limited day light, much of your time will be spent away from the slopes. With this in mind, we recommend:
- Snow Boots (regular shoes with snow grip on the bottom)
- Good quality sneakers
- Dress shoes
The reason why your sneakers need to be good quality is that they will be exposed to low temperatures, which can often cause damage to lower quality sneakers which use plastic, as it can crack when exposed to constant cold temperatures along with ice and water.
There you go! Your worries are unfounded! The tips in this article can help you to pack the right shoes for the adventure and still leave you with enough room to pack your clothes and accessories.…