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Comparing Dog Walking Harness to a Collar
A dog walking harness is a simple yet effective tool that you can use for training purposes as well as when taking your dog for his regular daily walk.
If you are considering choosing a dog harness over the traditional collar and leash combo, there are many considerations to keep in mind.
What breed and size is your dog? Does your dog tend to pull? What are the benefits of using one product over the other?
While both collars and harnesses are meant to keep a dog under control and abide to local leash laws, it is also true that they both work differently and some dogs may benefit more with one versus the other.
Using a Collar and Leash
There are many different types of dog collars on the market and many different materials are used to make them. The most common type is the buckle collar which is often made of cloth, nylon or leather.
The collar goes around the dog's neck and its main purpose is to control the dog. However, the collar is also useful for displaying identification tags and medical information. Some collars are also considered fashion accessories.
Following are some pros and cons of using a collar and leash:
Pros of Using Collar and Leash Combo
- Easy to find, available in most pet stores and affordable
- Identification tags, medical tags and proof of vaccination tags can be easily attached to the collar
- Collars are quite straightforward and easy to wear
- Some collars are meant to embellish the dog
- Some collars are made in such a way to prevent dogs from slipping out of them
- Some collars are made in such a way to reduce pulling
Cons of Using a Collar and Leash Combo
- Collars may cause damage to the trachea of certain breeds
- When misused, a collar can be uncomfortable, painful and may even cause a serious injury
- Some collars cause coughing and gagging when the dog pulls
- Dogs with slim necks are capable of slipping out of certain collars
- Some dogs may react with fear and escalated aggression when forced to wear a collar
Using a Dog Harness and Leash
A harness, unlike a collar, wraps around the dog's body with straps encircling the neck, in front of the shoulders and behind the front legs. When worn correctly, a harness makes it more difficult for the dog to slip out.
There are different types of harnesses on the market. Some harnesses may actually encourage pulling, while a dog walking harness is made in such a way to discourage it.
Following are some pros and cons of using a dog walking harness and leash:
Pros of Using Harness and Leash
- Does not put strain on the dog's trachea
- No more coughing or gagging when the dog pulls
- A dog walking harness discourages pulling
- When worn correctly, a harness makes it difficult for a dog to slip out
- A reflective dog harness helps make dogs visible in the night
Cons of Using a Harness and Leash
- Some harnesses actually encourage pulling due to the fact that dogs have an opposition reflex. Indeed, if we look at sled dogs, we will see that most of them wear harnesses!
- It may take a bit of time for the dog to get used to wearing a dog walking harness
- A harness is a little more complicated and time consuming to put on than a collar
- Requires some measurements to get the best fit
- A harness is not suitable for holding identification tags and may need to be worn with a collar
- The harness may cause rubbing and chafing in short-haired dogs
Types of Harnesses on the Market
Once you have decided that a dog walking harness is the right choice for your dog, you need to learn about the different types of harnesses on the market. Let's take a look at some types of harnesses so to distinguish a dog walking harness from a regular one.
Regular Harnesses
A regular harness has a ring on the top side right behind the dog's shoulder blades where the leash attaches. These harnesses come in different materials: leather dog harnesses, fabric harnesses and nylon harnesses are a few examples. Because these harnesses put pressure on the front of the dog, this elicits an opposition reflex in dogs.
This type of harness, therefore, is not recommended for large dogs that pull a lot. They make a better choice for small breeds such as Yorkshire terriers, poodles and Pomeranians that are prone to tracheal problems.
Dog Walking Harnesses
This harness is characterized by a front-attachment ring that is located in between the dog's chest where the leash attaches. Because no pressure is put on the front of the dog's body, no opposition reflex will take place. When a dog pulls on this type of dog harness, pressure is distributed evenly across the body. With a front-connection harness and some training, even a large dog can learn loose-leash walking.
There are many varieties of dog walking harnesses with a front-connection attachment on the market. Some popular ones are Premier's Easy Walk harness and Soft Touch Concepts' Sensible harness.
How to Use a Harness Properly
Getting a dog used to wearing a harness takes some time. Not rushing and rewarding for cooperation will make the process less stressfull.
For the first walks, it helps to initially have the dog wear a collar along with the harness so to attach the leash to the collar and the top of the chest ring. This allows better control in case of unexpected behaviors.
Following is a step-by-step guide on teaching loose-leash walking with a dog walking harness:
- Attach the leash to the collar and front ring of the harness.
- Move away facing the dog.
- Remove the slack out of the leash.
- Take 2 to 3 steps backwards.
- Encourage your dog to follow you and reward for catching up.
- Walk a few more steps back and make sure you reward your dog for catching up. When your dog catches up, the leash becomes loose and your dog learns to associate the loose leash with rewards.
- Practice walking normally with your dog slightly behind you and remove the slack out of the leash.
- Encourage your dog to catch up and reward when the leash is loose and your dog is next to you.
- Continue practicing for brief sessions.
- Gradually move to more distracting areas. If your dog pulls ahead, stop walking and reward only when your dog turns towards you and the leash is loose.
Here is a brief video that demonstrates how to put on a dog harness.
Final Thoughts...
If you are planning to invest in a dog walking harness to stop a dog from pulling, consider that it's not the harness per se that stops the pulling, but the actual training. It may, therefore, take some patience to actually see results after using a dog walking harness for the very first time.
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Obi (strip) – The small paper strip covering the spine of most CDs when in their original packaging. It contains a good deal of information about the CD itself. Some CDs do not come with an obi strip, if it is a used CD, if not disclosed in the description only research will tell you if it should have one or not.
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It's official! Five days to go until Christmas day! I know most of you are excited and happy for this most-awaited season of loving and giving, right? I wish I am, too. So many things happened this whole year to me but God is always with me. I am so much blessed with His love.
What are your plans this Christmas? Have you bought gifts for your friends and loved ones already? Have you planned your menus for Christmas eve? If not, I would suggest you plan them NOW. It's harder to be on RUSH on Christmas rush. Haha!
But above all, NEVER forget to thank God for all the things He has done for you and all the blessings that you received (visible or not). Your life alone is GREAT GIFT. Whatever had happen this whole year to you, KEEP the faith in HIM.
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I have been treated to a really fantastic first gay pride weekend here in Amsterdam. My friend Huw invited me to join him on his friend's boat for an unparalleled view of the parade, which (this being Amsterdam after all) is completely on boats, making their way through the canals. After the parade, we met up with Xavier and several new friends for a night of drinks and dancing which ended at about 5am this morning. We grabbed a few hours worth of shut-eye and then had a relaxing picnic in the park with a group of about 17, including just about everyone I know here. One of the things I have found to be so great about Amsterdam is how much more seems to happen in groups here, and how open-hearted and friendly everyone seems to be. My friends have been trying to convince me that I ought to move here, and I have to admit to be very tempted indeed by the treatment I have been receiving. Amsterdam is really one of my favorite cities anywhere.
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It isn't exactly a gay picnic here
It just so happened that my trip to Belgrade coincided with gay pride week here. But this isn't like gay pride in New York or other western capitals. The numbers attending events here are quite small, but it is heartening to see some activists take up the cause of equal rights, often at great personal danger to themselves. Serbia is a country with intense anti gay hatred. The gay pride march was supposed to happen today in the center of town, but the government canceled the event citing security issues. The last time a march was permitted was in 2010, and it was marred by intense clashes between quite well organized neo-nazi groups opposed to equality and the police. Serbia is attempting to join the EU, but it will need to respect the rights of LGBT citizens if it wants membership. It was widely expected to allow the march to go ahead and provide police protection, but at the last minute they caved. Fortunately, a smaller group of a few hundred quickly organized gay rights activists spontaneously marched instead last night, without incident.
Quietly proud
Some years, I just don't really put a lot of energy into gay pride. I am of course aware of it all around me, but the previous brouhaha seems missing somehow. It is not that I am any less passionate about my equal rights and fighting for them. It is just that after 20 or so years of being out and experiencing numerous pride parades, celebrations, dance parties, and events over the years it falls a little flat. Still, I went to a sweet pre-pride cocktail party last night and met some nice people, some of whom invited me to a large brunch with a bunch of strangers, so I will probably attend that today. I love the opportunity for random encounters with new people. I guess depending on the number of brunch cocktails, we will see about approaching the throngs of the proud…
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As you might have guessed, yesterday was Gay Pride in NYC. This was my first time in the city for the event. I have to say New York really does it big. Josh and I started the day with a brunch (what else? It is the gayest meal there is) and then headed over to walk along the parade route a bit. I was amazed at how long the parade stretches here, from 52nd street, all the way down 5th avenue and then east over to Christopher and Greenwich. That is one LONG route, with every group imaginable related to gayness, and tons and tons of people all along the route watching. I don't think I have ever seen as many at a pride event, and I used to live in SF, where there would be tons. As we passed through the Village we stopped in to see my friend John and his crew at Cowgirl before continuing on to the water. We ended the day with a dance party on the pier, which was much cooler with the breeze off the water, and the music was really danceable, even if we were hemmed in by hordes of the shirtless and the sweaty. I left before the end and took a pleasant summer stroll back to my new apartment and went to bed.
Now to finish setting up my new room and work space, and get back to website making…
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What a gay ole time we had yesterday. It started off with the Buenos Aires gay pride parade at the Plaza de Mayo. As is the trend with this sort of event, it was pretty similar to any gay pride event anywhere else in the world, except the parade part was kinda small and one of the largest individual groups seemed to be the communists. That (according to my friend Guillermo) is because the communists crash any and all demonstrations or parades here and insert themselves into the happening, germane or not to their cause. I wasn't sure if I admired their tenacity or was annoyed at their egocentrism, but fortunately it did look as if several of them were gay. After hanging out with the homos all day (and taking advantage of some free hugs, see below), we finished off the evening in what had to be the most appropriate way: We went to see a musical about Eva Peron. No, not that one. This is a new musical, called simply "Eva", with all new music and with a somewhat different focus than the Broadway production. While I only understood about 50% of it, the staging and music were still a treat.


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Ajax all the buzz at Eclipse conference
Attendees at EclipseCon 2006 are taking a cautious, yet enthusiastic approach toward Ajax.
Santa Clara - Ajax isn't the most prominent technology on display at EclipseCon 2006 this week but it's there sort of sneaking around the corners of the Santa Clara Convention Center like an unexpected guest at a party.
It may seem odd for a conference drawing upwards of 1,500 mostly Java coders talking mostly about Web service applications to not be focusing more openly on the hottest technology idea of the past year, but the Eclipse Foundation is just getting to know Ajax as it mulls over proposals for bringing it into the framework.
One of those proposals comes from IBM, the Eclipse progenitor and major contributor of expertise and money. When John Kellerman, IBM strategy manager for Eclipse Initiatives, is asked if there is room for Ajax in Eclipse, he says, "The answer is yes, most definitively yes." But having worked with Eclipse since 1999 when it was just a gleam in Big Blue's eye, he explains that the Ajax proposals now being considered are very new, dating back only to the first of this year.
The main IBM proposal is the Ajax Tools Framework, which Kellerman said has drawn interest from other vendors including BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp.
"The idea is to present a set of extensible framework tools to allow you to build Ajax applications in Eclipse," Kellerman said. "That project was created in the past month."
So Ajax fans will have to be patient while the proposed Ajax Tools Framework and other initiatives work their way through the Eclipse process.
BEA another big contributor of expertise and money, is equally enthusiastic about Ajax, says Pieter Humphrey, one of the company's chief advocates for a blended approach to open source and proprietary software. Yet he is also cautious about jumping into Ajax without considering security issues, how much weight it can put on a once-thin client and the fragility of JavaScript, which may be more prone to performance and reliability problems than advocates are willing to acknowledge.
Among the attendees and speakers at EclipseCon there are ambiguous feelings about Ajax.
On the exhibition floor, only Innoopract Informationssysteme Gmbh is openly promoting its "Rich Ajax Platform" (RAP). Innopract announced this week a proposal to put RAP into the Eclipse process.
Others were enthusiastic but more cautious.
In his presentation on "Rich Client vs. Rich Internet Apps," Robert Buffone, a developer at Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., talked about the killer apps that are being built on Ajax. But he also argued the Ajax is just a more marketing savvy name for DHTML. Dynamic HTML also is technology to use JavaScript along with Cascading Style Sheets to produce some of the same desktop drag-and-drop look and feel for Web pages that is the Ajax claim to fame. But DHTML was a less than dynamic name,and Buffone argued that renaming it Ajax helped create the current buzz.
"Whether or not it's a good solution is yet to be seen," he told his audience.
Other EclipseCon attendees were heard to muse that Ajax may be a "transitional technology."
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GeForce Experience Introduces Dynamic Super Resolution: 4K-Quality Graphics On Any HD Monitor
A new version of GeForce Experience is ready to download through the application itself and from GeForce.co.uk. Released simultaneously alongside our new GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 Maxwell-powered graphics cards, GeForce Experience 2.1.2 adds an innovative new feature that greatly increases image quality, and enables 4K capture in GeForce Experience's ShadowPlay gameplay recorder. For details of these and other new GeForce Experience 2.1.2 features keep on reading.
Dynamic Super Resolution: 4K-Quality Graphics On Any HD Monitor
Our new Maxwell architecture introduces a raft of innovative, exciting technologies that make your games better in dramatic ways. Of these new features, Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) is most immediately impactful, enhancing any game that supports resolutions above 1920x1080. What does DSR do? Simply put, it renders a game at a higher, more detailed resolution and intelligently shrinks the result back down to the resolution of your monitor, giving you 4K-quality graphics on any screen.
Enthusiasts with compatible monitors and technical knowledge refer to this process as Downsampling, and for some time they've been applying a basic version to improve fidelity in games. DSR improves upon this process by applying a high-quality Downsampling filter that significantly improves image quality, by making Downsampling compatible with all monitors, by removing the need for technical know-how, and by integrating DSR into GeForce Experience, enabling gamers to apply DSR Optimal Playable Settings with a single click.
To make DSR easy to use we've incorporated it into our GeForce Experience Optimal Playable Settings: if your GPU has the performance to play a game at 4K, DSR will be recommended. One click-optimize applies the setting and you're good to go. If the game has a user interface that does not scale correctly with the resolution, we won't recommend DSR.
If you still want to enable DSR manually for a game, you can enable it by selecting the DSR resolution in the Optimal Playable Settings customiser dropdown:
You can also use the NVIDIA Control Panel to fine tune DSR and filtering smoothness.
As of today, DSR is only supported on new GeForce GTX 900 Series GPUs, but in the future we'll be rolling out this incredible new feature to other, similarly powerful NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics cards. For more information on the inner workings of DSR, please check out our dedicated Dynamic Super Resolution article.
4K ShadowPlay Recording
GeForce GTX 900 Series GPUs, like the newly-released GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970, include an enhanced H.264 hardware encoder, further reducing the already-minimal performance of GeForce Experience's ShadowPlay gameplay recorder. This improved hardware also enables the recording of footage at Ultra HD resolutions, beginning with 3840x2160, commonly referred to as "4K".
Recording at up to 60 FPS, at bitrates of up to 130 Mbps, ShadowPlay 4K gameplay captures are the best way to get your favourites moments onto YouTube in Ultra HD resolutions, with the absolute best quality possible. And as with 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 captures, all ShadowPlay recording modes, features, and options are available, letting you tailor your recordings to your personal preferences.
For an example of 4K ShadowPlay, check out the downloadable example below.
PC Support For SHIELD Wireless Controller
If you bought a SHIELD Wireless Controller for your SHIELD tablet or SHIELD portable, you can now use it on your Windows PC to play all your favourite games. Simply connect SHIELD Wireless Controller to your PC or notebook using a Micro USB cable, wait a few seconds, and then jump into any XInput-enabled game to start playing.
For more info check out the SHIELD Wireless Controller PC FAQ, and to buy your own controller, head on over to the SHIELD website.
Improved SLI ShadowPlay Performance
SLI GeForce GTX gamers who install GeForce Experience 2.1.2 and GeForce driver 344.11 WHQL will benefit from improved framerates when capturing footage in ShadowPlay. This is the result of half a year's work, and will benefit all SLI systems.
GeForce Experience 2.1.2: Download Now
To get your hands on all of GeForce Experience's new and exciting features, simply download GeForce Experience 2.1.2. through the in-app updater, or from GeForce.com. Be sure to also download the new GeForce 344.11 WHQL driver via GeForce Experience to enable DSR and the aforementioned ShadowPlay SLI optimisations. For the latest SHIELD and GameStream updates, download the new SHIELD Hub software, which is detailed in our dedicated SHIELD Hub 3.3 story.
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Rutgers University has several payment methods for students, corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations
Credit Cards
The university accepts the following credit cards for online payment of tuition and charges:
- American Express
- Discover
- MasterCard
- Visa
All credit cards will be processed via the ScholarChip payment site. At the end of the registration process when a student goes to check out of the "cart," you will choose the option "pay by credit card" and you will be directed to a site to process the credit card charge. On the ScholarChip site, the you will enter in the credit card information, then select "submit." Processing will take a few moments. Please do not click on the "submit" again until prompted.
Once the credit card has been processed, the student will be taken immediately back to the "cart" portion of the registration process.
If you wish to pay for a course via a check, you will need to register through the mail. You will need to contact the unit offering the course directly and work the registration staff to enroll in the course. Most noncredit units have online registration forms that you can download, complete, and mail in with the check. You can refer to the Continuing Education unit for more information.
Purchase Orders
Several of the continuing education units work directly with corporations, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies to accept a purchase orders for course registration. The non-credit online registration system has the capability to accept registrations via purchase order if the associated branch allows. Please check with the branch that is sponsoring the course prior to registering. Most noncredit units have online registration forms that organizations and students can download, complete, and mail in with a copy of the organization's purchase order. You can refer to the Continuing Education unit for more information.
Workforce Development Grants
Many units accept workforce development grants as a form of course payment. Students and organizations will need to contact that unit directly and work with unit's registration team. Most noncredit units have online registration forms that students and unemployment offices can download, complete. and mail in with the student's workforce development grant paperwork. For more information on workforce grant-eligible courses, visit the Lifelong Learning website.


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Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and others have all composed music that expresses nature or emotions - common experiences that we all share," says Hilton, I believe that music can express more eloquently than words allow." Set for release June 8th, 2010, Hilton's 12th stateside recording, Nuance, is a varied collection of 12 tracks of new and previously released material, originals and covers, all newly recorded/arranged specifically for solo piano. There have been some great songs that I have done with the band, that I have wanted to do as solo arrangements too," Hilton continues, It was good to revisit some of my favorite tunes again."
Expanded versions of the upbeat Twilight," the angular Just for Fun" and Melt Down," the latter which was featured with the band on NPR's Morning Edition; the ever-popular romantic ballad, So This Is Love," and the former #1 World Wide Jazz track, Malibu," intermingle seamlessly with the moody Early Morning Impressions," bluesy Blue Reflections" and the lovely Stars." Covers of Thelonious Monk's Off Minor," Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends," and the iconic blues tune, The Thrill Is Gone," round-out the collection.
Although she's been favorably compared to Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck and Brad Mehldau, Hilton's own sound shimmers naturally throughout. My desire is always to communicate and touch others, in a relaxed and authentic style. Technique is about ease of expression, not for saying, 'hey look at me'," says Hilton, I hope listeners hear their lives reflected in these tracks."
While Hilton had been thinking about doing an album of this nature for many years, it finally came about as a response to requests from Lisa's many fans. Nuance is really a gift to them," explains the critically- acclaimed composer, pianist, educator and bandleader. I love our band" (which currently includes members Lewis Nash on drums, Larry Grenadier on bass, Jeremy Pelt on trumpet and J.D. Allen on sax), We have a lot of fun together and the musicianship is very high. But I had promised to do a solo piano album for years now and really enjoyed returning to that format".
Hilton's first recording, the solo Seduction, was recorded in late 1997 at a time when solo piano had very little chance of finding an audience. Terrestrial radio loomed large at that time, when Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey ruled. I sold like 2 copies I think and my distributor, The Orchard, had its own problems as well then. I was devastated, but forged ahead." Hilton continued recording solo but in 2000, she just gave up and started working with a trio, and later her band. I moved into a new home in 2001 and I remember just dumping the large analog piano masters in the dumpster feeling that I had to give up on solo piano."
This wasn't the first time Hilton had left behind the music that she was passionate about either. Growing up in a very musical household, (her great uncle, Willem Bloemendaal was a well regarded Dutch pianist), she voraciously studied music in the small southern California town where she went to school, studying classical, twentieth-century music, playing show tunes for school productions and writing blues and jazz riffs. College in San Francisco put her with a piano instructor known for his talent, and his exacting temperament. I left the piano because I believe music is an art not a science, and after my experiences in college, I didn't foresee a musical future anymore." Hilton earned a degree in art instead, forgoing the piano until she returned to playing in 1996. It was difficult to leave music, my first love, but it did enable me to study art," responds Hilton. Now my art is my music; now my passions are combined."
Since 1997 Hilton has recorded and produced an album every year of her own compositions and arrangements for solo piano, trio, and as a leader for her band. Hailed by JazzReview as a lioness of jazz," she works with some of the greatest musicians in music Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, Bobby Militello, Larry Grenadier, Jeremy Pelt, Reggie McBride, J.D. Allen and Tal Bergman just to name a few, and her current band is comprised of all Down Beat Magazine Critics' Choice Award Winners. Hilton has produced six of her twelve releases with the legendary, twenty-time Grammy award winning engineer/producer, Al Schmitt, and as one of the few women producers working in jazz, she also runs her own publishing company to oversee 130+ recorded tracks.
I agree with Quincy Jones, that music saved my life," Hilton muses, but I'd also have to say that iTunes did too!" Shortly after it's inauguration in 2001, Hilton, like millions of others, began selling her music on iTunes and the internet and suddenly found a whole new market for solo piano. Here I had dumped my masters in despair, and the following year the world changed for musicians. Fortunately my mastering house had kept their masters!" Today Hilton's solo piano tracks continue to sell well with fans globally, elicit favorable nods from reviewers, and she has seen huge growth in the last several years. Hilton's music is played on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S., Canada and around the world.
Based in Malibu, California, Hilton's fluid, expressive playing style has a blues inflected and refreshing Pacific Coast vibe that has been influenced by other one-time Malibu residents: Miles Davis, Horace Silver and Stan Getz. She has received various awards and nominations for her compositions. Lisa has been featured on CBS Television/Boston and WGN Television/Chicago. A published author, Hilton has written for Jazz Times and Jazziz magazine, and is currently working on a book about musicianship. An interview with Hilton will be also be included in the upcoming Random House book, The New Face of Jazz," by Cicily Janus.
Due to the challenges in her own music education, Hilton is now very committed to music programs for children, teens and college students. Lisa also enjoys working with people who are blind or visually impaired, such as programs at Perkins School for the Blind near Boston, the Junior Blind of America's Camp Bloomfield in Malibu and The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired.
Nuance is available June 8th, 2010, and will be accompanied by tour dates throughout the U.S. Nuance is distributed by SuperD, SDCD.com. Free mp3's will be available on LisaHiltonMusic.com.


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While playing, press [CTRL] [SHIFT] [ALT] C, then type the following codes:
#import - Read in behavior tuning constants from Tuning.txt
#export - Write out behavior tuning constants to Tuning.txt
auto_reset - Toggle automatic object reset feature
all_menus - Toggle display of unavailable interactions in person control menus
allow_inuse - Sets whether menu items appear for in use objects
assert - Force an assert for testing
autonomy (1-100) - Set free thinking level
auto_level - Architecture tools automatically set the level as needed
browser_failsafe - Prevent web browser crashes
bubble_tweak (z offset value) - Set z offset for thought bubbles
crash - Crash game
core_dump - Dump entire memory to core_dump_[date:time].txt
cam_mode - Toggle camera mode
cht (filename) - Execute "file.cht" file as a list of cheats
(directory path) - Sets the neighborhood directory to the path
draw_all_frames off - Draw all animation frames disabled
draw_all_frames on - Draw all animation frames enabled
draw_origins - Draw colored dots at each person`s origin
draw_floorable off - Floorable grid disabled
draw_floorable on - Floorable grid enabled
draw_routes on - Selected person`s path displayed
draw_routes off - Selected person`s path hidden
dump_happy - Dump selected person`s most recent list of scored
interactions to a file dump_mc - Dump selected person`s motive contribution curve to a file
debug_social - Enable debug flag to show outcome choice dialogs for social interactions
edit_grass (number) - Set grass change value
edit_char - Create-a-character mode
fam_test (opcount) - Run series of random operations on unhoused families
files shrink_text (font_size) (text) - Create shrunk_text_#.bmp
flush - Completely flush app to VM file when running Windows NT
grow_grass (0-150) - Set grass growth
history - Save family history file hist_add - Add new family history stat
to the current family
house (house number) - Automatically load indicated house, no questions asked
html - Toggle web page creation
interests - Display personality and interests
import (FAM file) - Automatically import and load indicated FAM file
klapaucius - 1000 Simoleons (unpatched game version)
log_mask - Set event logging mask
log_animations - Log animations in the event log window
lot_size (number) - Set lot size
map_edit off-Map editor disabled
map_edit on - Map editor enabled
music - Toggle music
memview - Show memory view window in debug builds of the game
move_objects on - Move any object
obj_comp - Toggle object compression in save file
porntipsguzzardo - Say "porntipsguzzardo"
plugh - Say "plugh"
prepare_lot - Check and fix required lot objects
preview_anims off - Preview animations disabled
preview_anims on - Preview animations enabled
quats - Toggle quaternion transformations
quit - Quit game
rosebud - 1000 Simoleons (patched game version)
rebuild_cp - Rebuilds entire control panel/UCP from scratch
refresh_faces - Refresh the BMP_ resources for all people whose IFF files are writable
refresh_textures - Rematch dependent textures and regenerate bitmaps for all user characters
restore_tut - Restore tutorial
rotation (0-3) - Rotate camera
route_balloons off - Routing debug balloons disabled
route_balloons on - Routing debug balloons enabled
reload_people-Total reload of people skeletons, animations, suits and skins
report_assets - Toggle assets report
save - Save currently loaded house
set_hour (1-24) - Set time of day (unpatched game version)
sim_limit (milliseconds) - Set maximum milliseconds to allow simulator
sim_speed (-1000 - 1000) - Set sim speed
sim_log end - End sim logging
sim_log begin - Start sim logging
sim_speed (-1000-1000) - Set game speed
sim_peek - Toggle calls to PeekMessage within sim loop
soundevent - Trigger sound event
sound_log - Toggle sound log window
sound - Toggle sounds
swap_houses (house number) (house number) - Swap the two house files and updates families
sweep off - Ticks disabled
sweep on - Ticks enabled
tile_info - Programmer stats
tutorial off - No tutorial object generation when tutorial house is loaded
tile_info on - Tile information displayed
tile_info off - Tile information hidden
visitor_control - Toggle allowing visitors to be controlled using the keyboard
write_destlist - Appends the route destination list to AllRoutes.txt every time a route is found
write_routes - Write out an RTE file every time a route is found
water_tool - Create moat or streams
xyzzy - Say "xyzzy"
Building a Castle in the Clouds
Large second - floor extensions to a house, or even an entire house in the air, can be built totally unsupported by the following method. First, lay out a complete ground layer of pillars. You`ll need lots to form a surface to build on. Next build your second-floor home on top of these pillars. It`s important that you do ALL the structural work at this point; get all the walls placed and floors put in. Don`t forget the stairs! Next, simply switch to the ground floor, and delete all the pillars. The house will remain standing, completely unsupported by anything except thin air! Voila! A castle in the clouds for your Sims!
Bring up cheat mode and enter the "klapaucius" code. The bring up cheat mode again and enter "!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!:!;!" (you can add up to 60 total).
Garbage Bag of Holding
In the early stages of The Sims life time is often wasted emptying the trash and bringing it to the curb. I found that if you fill the cheap 30 simolian trash barrel you can order your sim to empty it and just as they remove the bag cancel the order. Then order them to pick up the mess that they just made and they will return the full bag to an empty barrel, which will now be empty. Do this every time it fills and trash need never be brought outside to the curb again. This saves a lot of time.
Paying the Bills
Simply keep a bill, unpaid, until the mail carrier delivers the next set. When your flag is up (your mailbox being full of-- what else, more bills), pay the first one (i.e., bring it out to the mailbox.) When you do this, the newer bills disappear. Using this cheat, you will only have to pay every other bill, instead of every one.
Raise Sims Mood Bars
When using the move_object cheat you can restore your Sims mood bars by getting your Sim to sit in a chair, pausing the game and deleting the chair that your Sim is in. Your Sim will disappear. Unpause the game and click on your Sims face icon and your Sim will reappear with some restored bars.
Don`t Pay Bills:
If you don`t want to pay the bills all you have to do is go to `Buy mode` and then pick up the bills. Then move them to a place where they cannot be put down like a chair and then press `Escape`. the Bills will disappear and won`t need paying.
Leftover food?
Why let it go to waste? Before going to work or bed, simply have your sim
"grab a plate", and cancel the eat action as soon as it pops up. He/she will put the plate down on the ground. This will restore the life of your food allowing it to last for another six hours. Your sim will wake up and the food should still be edible whereas the plate from where it was served is now crawling with flies. Sims don't have a problem eating from a plate
served off the turf and it'll save you money and precious time.
Beenie - email@example.com
once u have entered the cheat move_objects on, if u delete your sim, and then click on its face at the bottom of the screen, then all stats will have reached top bar. WARNING: your sim will lose its job and any experience points(eg body points) after doing this.
10/11/02 - email@example.com
Nude Sims:
Enter the cheat "move_objects on" then when your sim is in the bath go to buy mode and pick them up and put them somewhere else. When they have finished their bath they will not change in to their cloths and will walk around nude.
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Pear of Anguish
The Pear[edit]
The Pear of Anguish is a medieval torture device created by Oscar Wilde in 123 A.C. to torture Wikipedians.The Pear of Anguish consited of A pear-shaped like metal instrument, with a rotating device on its top. It can be introduced in the victim's ass, mouth, nose, ears, vaginas, eyes and belly botton, but the PENIS is the most popular target. The Pear is divided in four lobules,And when the rotating device is...uh...rotated, The Lobules spread, one in each direction, opening the cavity, thus making its removal impossible. Even though the Agony is worse than being roundhouse kicked in the nuts by Chuck Norris, some perverts love it. That's why they created the PLA (Pear Lovers Annonymous).
The Pear of Anguish was first used by Uncyclopedia's army,but then everybody started to want it.So they started to producing Pears(As it was nicknamed)to the population.The Pear was a world-wide success and It was massively produced.Soon Everybody had a Pear to call its own.Pearings were just a part of everyday life.You neighboor's dog pooped in your garden?Pear them both!A guy steped on your foot?Pear the bastard!You want to have fun?Pear a nun! The Pear started then to evolve.First there was the Pear with 8 lobules.Then the motorized rotation Pear,Followed by the 20 yards ass opening Pear.The most advenced Pear is now the Mecha-Pear,the Pear that's also MP3 player,DVD player,has internet connection,a cofee maker,a bubble gum maker machine,a teleporting device,Pig's fat producer and a Skimpy outfit.Unfortunately someone was dumb enough to try to Pear God.The Dumb guy failed miserably.God then banned the Pear from the bible,which made a lot of christians to change their religion.But then The Pearer came along and Peared Everybody,forcing God(He also hates masturbation and sex,so we don't care)to unban the Pear.But God still hates the Pear(He also hates masturbation and sex,so we don't care).Now you can buy the Pear on E-Bay.
Pearing At School[edit]
After the unbanning of the Pear,Pearing became a mandatory school subject,and later,a course in the university.So now you can go ahead and graduate in Pearology.
Pearing Manual[edit]
Here we teach you how to Pear.
Pearing Other People:
- 1:Grab the Pear
- 2:Choose the victim(If you are a begginer,It's strongly recommended to Pear Emos or Goths)
- 3:Tie the victim
- 4:Laugh at the victim's face and fuck the victim
- 5:Choose a hole(The ass is strongly recommended by professionals)
- 6:Introduce the Pear into the victim's hole
- 7:Laugh a lil more
- 8:Open the Pear.
Congratulations,you just Peared someone!
Pearing Yourself:(For the homos that enjoy this stuff)
Congratulations,you just peared yourself!......freak (clawless)
Collateral Effects[edit]
If you've been Peared there are some Collateral Effects:
- Your peared hole will hurt
- You'll get a headache
- If it's in the ass, you won't be able to contain your poop
- You'll be depressed
- You may get addicted
- You may sing "It's Raining Men" for no reason
- You may lose your soul
- You will get stoned
- Higher voice
- You will lose your balls
- You will die in a couple days. Bummer.
- Your pet will hate you. If you don't have a pet, Everybody will hate you
- You will fail at life
- You will pour melted cheese from your ass
And there's nothing you can do about it.
How can I protect myself from the Pear?[edit]
You can't.The Pear is too Powerfull.
The PLA[edit]
The PLA,Pear Lovers Annonymous,Was created by Adolf Hitler in 1940.He loved to take the Pear and wanted to spread the love all over the world.All of the Nazi's were Pear Lovers.
Current Pear Lovers Annonymous Members:
- Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva(Brazil's Prez)
- Steve Jobs
- Micheal Moore
- Chewbacca
- Ronald McDonald
- All of the Smurfs
- Tony Blair
- Daffy Duck
- The Pope
- Harry Potter
- Chuck,The Killer Toy
- Britney Spears
- All of the Power Rangers
- Sponge Bob Square Pants
- Pacman
- richard bennett
- Hello Kitty
Saddam Hussein(Since He is hanging somewhere in Middle East,we scratched him from the list) Osama Bin Laden(Since He is the Persian Gulf,we scratched him from the list)
People and the Pear[edit]
Here are lists of How people interact with The Pear of Anguish
People that are immune to the Pear
People that are afraid of the Pear
- Everybody else except for PLA members
See Also[edit]
- Furbies(They are the only thing in the world worse than the Pear)
- Castration(I did it and i strongly reccomend)
- Oscar Wilde(He is the creator of the Pear for Oscar's sake!)


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This post is brought to you with a giant *SIGH*
I have post holiday blues.
We didn't go anywhere exotic, there was no lying on a beach getting
No deadlines to worry about (I left that until our return hence a little bit of stress right now..) no laundry to do, a house that needs cleaning and guilt about not getting round to cleaning it..
Having quality time to spend with my family without the other stuff in life getting in the way. You know that boring stuff like work and bills and everyday chores.
Cant wait until we win the lottery already
Did you all have a relaxing Easter break? xoxo


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This was my yesteday's spring look for some business meetings. I will tell you all about my new projects when the time is right but until them I want to tell you all about my outfit that you may think is pretty decent, but it's actually not. :))
I had a small funny incident while shooting these pictures because an old lady stopped and shouted at me that I am too naked and the next thing is to show my underwear. Now, it is for you to decide if my brown retro pleated skirt from Larmoni is decent enough. I was wearing a lot of nuances of brown in this look and had to wear again my Jessica Buurman booties and the vintage suede jacket with the most beautiful basic white shirt from Stefanel.
I was wearing:
Larmoni pleated skirt
Stefanel shirt
Vintage suede jacket
Jessica Buurman booties
Free People hat
Tory Burch clutch
Photos shot with Canon 6D and Sigma 85 mm f1.4 lenses


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The new Section 199A deduction requires taxpayers to identify the individual trades or businesses they receive income from.
The reason for this identification? The 20% deduction you calculate looks at trades or businesses individually.
Example: You own four businesses: a pet food factory, a trucking company, a consulting firm and online retail store. Probably in this case, you make four separate Section 199A calculations for the four separate businesses.
Why the Internal Revenue Service Even Cares
The IRS makes business owners "break down" operations into individual trades or businesses for two reasons.
First, specified service trades or businesses (hereafter SSTBs) lose part or all of the Section 199A deduction if the owner's taxable income gets high enough.
Note: SSTBs include doctors, lawyers, accountants, consultants, investment bankers, financial planners and a handful of other potentially high income high "personal service" businesses like performers and athletes.
Second, all businesses potentially see their Section 199A deduction limited based on the business's wages and depreciable property if the business owner's taxable income rises high enough.
Note: For more information about how the SSTB or wages or depreciable property phase-out rules work, click here.
In any case, as a result of the way the formula works, businesses need to "break apart" their activities into individual trades or businesses.
Now This Bit of Bad News
And here's the bad news about all this: The identification rules get complicated.
Some business owners might treat a pet food factory, trucking company, consulting firm and online retail store as a single trade or business. (This would be unusual but could occur as I'll discuss below.)
Other business owners might appropriately break these activities into two, three or most likely four separate businesses.
Accordingly, businesses need to learn the rules the IRS has already provided. And then, frankly, businesses need to make some educated guesses about how to identify each individual Section 199A trade or business for those situations where the IRS hasn't provided rules.
Fortunately, the recent proposed regulations (from August 2018) provide quite a bit of useful guidance.
De Minimis Rules Says Sideline Specified Service Trade or Business Ignored
Helpfully, the proposed regulations say "ignore" stuff that's minimal.
For example, if some business does a tiny slice of consulting (an SSTB) as part of some larger business, you ignore the tiny slice.
Example: A pet food factory generates $4.9 million of revenue manufacturing vegetarian organic pet food. The owner also provides about $100,000 of consulting to other similar businesses. In this case, consulting services get ignored. And the pet food factory business and the consultancy get treated simply as a pet food factory.
The proposed regulations, predictably, specify what counts as de minimis, or "tiny":
For trades or businesses with $25 million or less in sales, de minimis specified service trade or business activity means less than 10%. For example, a $25 million pet food manufacturing and consulting business that includes $2 million of consulting, simply counts as a pet food business.
Note: $2 million represents only 8% of the $25 million combined revenues.
For trades or businesses with more than $25 million in sales, de minimis specified service trade or business activity means less than 5%. For example, a $30 million pet food manufacturing and consulting business that includes $2 million of consulting counts as two trades or businesses: a $28 million pet food business and a $2 million consulting business.
Note: $2 million represents nearly 7% of the $30 million combined revenues.
Ignore Ancillary Embedded Consulting
A related point: If your non-SSTB business provides some consulting to customers when selling its products or other services, that doesn't count as consulting.
The one wrinkle here: The firm can't separately bill for consulting, and the customer can't separately purchase the consulting.
Example: A college kid works at the big box store selling high definition televisions. His name tag identifies him as a "sales consultant." Theoretically, he (sort of) provides "consulting services" to customers. But that advice, as long as it's not separately billed or purchased, doesn't count as consulting for purposes of Section 199A.
Example: A office equipment manufacturer sells giant photocopiers and printers to medium-sized businesses. Its sales representatives also consult with customers about reducing costs with automation. Again, however, as long as it's not separately billed or purchased, that advice doesn't count as consulting.
Incidental Business Lumped with Specified Service Trade or Business
Another simplifying rule: If a non-SSTB trade or business is incidental to another larger SSTB, you lump the two businesses together.
This "lumping" rule gets a little complicated. The rule says the incidental business and the SSTB need to share 50 percent or more common ownership. It says the incidental business and SSTB need to share either wage or overhead expenses. And it says the incidental business's revenue must equal 5 percent or less of the "total combined gross receipts of the trade or business and the SSTB in a taxable year."
Fortunately, a handful of examples makes things clearer.
Example: A $1 million firm provides $975,000 of management consulting services to the pet food industry. The firm also operates a prototype pet food factory, and the factory generates an additional $25,000 of revenue. The firm gets treated as a single trade or business engaged in the SSTB of consulting. Note that the $25,000 of pet food revenue equals 2.5% of the $1 million of combined revenues.
Example: Assume the following year, the business revenue mix changes. That year consulting revenues equal $900,000 and pet food revenues equal $100,000. With the pet food revenue equal to 10% of the combined revenues, the business owners break the operation into two separate trades or businesses. The consultancy counts as one trade or business. The pet food manufacturer counts as the other.
Finally, this important note: The incidental trade or business doesn't need to be part of the larger SSTB entity. It only needs to share 50 or more common ownership and then wages or overhead expenses.
Example: An attorney practices law as a single shareholder S corporation and generates $475,000 in revenue. She also earns $25,000 as a freelance author operating as a sole proprietorship. To write, however, she uses her law office computer. The writing sole proprietorship gets treated as an incidental business that's part of the law firm. Why? The two firms share a common owner. The two firms share overhead. The $25,000 of writing royalties equal 5 percent of the total combined $500,000 of gross receipts.
Looking Beyond Specified Service Trades or Businesses
And now an awkward way station in this discussion: Everything discussed in the preceding paragraphs comes right out of the Section 199A proposed regulations–and mostly out of the Regulation Sections 1.199A-4 and 1.199A-5.
But beyond this point, things get a little murkier–at least to me.
For business operations that are neither SSTBs or nor de-minimis-type situations, the IRS hasn't provided much guidance.
Arguably, however, businesses and their tax advisers can look at the IRS grouping rules in proposed regulation 1.199A-4 to figure out how to identify and separate individual trades or businesses. But let me share what I'm thinking. And then see if you agree.
Those grouping rules say someone who owns separate non-SSTB businesses can aggregate the businesses if any two of the following three things is true:
- Products and services are the same or customarily offered together,
- Operating units share facilities or share "significant centralized business elements, such as personnel, accounting, legal, manufacturing, purchasing, human resources, or information technology resources,"
- Trades or businesses coordinate or rely on each.
Some nit picky rules exist when you do an aggregation. You'll want to confer with your tax accountant about making an aggregation election. Or carefully read the regulations yourself.
But if you're trying to identify individual trades or businesses, I think you can channel the logic of the aggregation rules.
Examples of Identifying Section 199A Trade or Business
Say, for example, that you own interest in an S corporation or partnership. Further suppose the firm really does operate four businesses: a pet food factory, a trucking company, a consulting firm and an online retail store.
In this case, you treat the consultancy as a separate business because it's an SSTB (unless you can use the de minimis rule described earlier.)
And then probably the pet food factory counts as one trade or business. Ditto for the trucking company. Ditto again for the online retail store.
As stand alone businesses inside the S corporation or partnership, these individual operating units have the same ownership. They surely sell the same stuff to the same people. They use the same resources. And probably each business operates as an integrated unit.
But here's the other weird thing to observe. The pet food factory, trucking company and online retail store may also be the same business.
If all three business activities share ownership, resources and a supply chain, they arguably should count as a single business.
For example, obviously the pet food factory makes the pet food. But then say the trucking company transports some of that pet food to large retailers. And then say the online retailer sells the some of the pet food directly to pet owners.
In this situation, bingo, the fully integrated operation should work as a single trade or business.
And continuing with this logic, if you can't make a grouping election? Gosh, doesn't that strongly suggest you shouldn't treat the various operations as a single trade or business? I think so. Even if you've lumped them all together into a single S corporation or partnership.
Fake Trades or Businesses Don't Pass the Giggle Test
A quick warning to people with a creative flair: An SSTB cannot carve off a chunk of its operation, place that chunk into another entity (an entity purportedly operating a "different" trade or business), and then generate qualified business income in the process.
Here's why: The Section 199A proposed regulations say that if any trade or business provides 80% or more of its property or services to an SSTB and if that other trade or business and the SSTB share 50% or more common ownership, then that other business is an SSTB too.
Note: The above gambit was an early idea some tax nerds came up with to avoid the SSTB disqualification stuff. Predictably, the tax nerds at the IRS easily foiled this maneuver.
Cost Accounting Rules for Section 199A Trade or Business
A final quick point to end this discussion: With multiple trades or businesses, business owners will also probably need to do good cost accounting by individual trade or business.
In other words, if a business owner needs to worry about the whole "multiple trades or businesses" thing, the business owner needs to worry about doing good cost accounting for individual trades or businesses.
The reason for this gets back to very heart of the matter. Some business owners will need granular income, wages and depreciable property information for each individual business in order to calculate the Section 199A deduction.
And this observation: All this cost accounting and fiddling mostly explains why the Internal Revenue Service estimates the average pass-through entity tax returns will now take about an extra three hours to prepare.
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Come back in time with me to a period a long time ago (well, 1980) in a galaxy far, far away, in Star Wars V (The Empire Strikes Back)…
The other day, like a zillion other people, my son was working his way through watching the original Star Wars trilogy in preparation for seeing The Force Awakens, when I walked into the room and witnessed the following dialogue:
"I'm looking for a great warrior," says Luke to Yoda.
"Ohh, great warrior? Wars not make one great," gently retorts the little green giant of wisdom, in inimitable Yoda style.
A few weeks ago the media and especially social media were awash with anti-war sentiments as Parliament debated, voted and agreed on the decision to unleash air strikes in Syria.
Protests followed, mostly peaceful ones, by those genuinely concerned about the impact strikes would have on innocent people, not to mention the disingenuousness of spending millions on war while austerity measures at home are depriving the most vulnerable and driving more and more people to food banks and homelessness.
One of the anti-war campaigners, Helen Pattinson, asked: "How come they can find money to drop bombs on other countries to create refugees… but they can't find money for health, for education, and for young people to have a decent future?" This sentiment has been a common thread running through public opinion.
There was and is understandable anger at Government policy over these issues. It is absolutely right to be outraged at injustice, at an adamantine Government that seems hell-bent on hurting the vulnerable and making them pay (even with their lives, in some cases) for the greed of bankers and tax-evaders.
There were apparently some who expressed their anger through abusive phone calls and letters to Stella Creasy and other MPs. But these seemed to be the exception rather than the rule.
Mostly, peaceful expressions advocating peace inundated the streets, the internet and conversation.
What surprised me was my own internal response. As I concurred with popular anti-war statements and 'liked' memes opposing airstrikes, I became acutely aware that none of this will do much to change the warmongering minds of western Governments or eastern terrorists, and yet I can effect peace where I am.
I found myself more motivated than usual to proffer grace to people I sometimes find difficult; to overcome potential, minor, everyday conflicts with expressions of compassion; to promote peace through words of kindness in my own networks of friends, family and community, in my own limited way. I can start where I am. And I can hope and pray that others may do the same.
An old saying goes something like: I can't change others; I can change myself; others might change in response to the change they see in me.
And who knows what difference our own interpersonal efforts at peace might make across the globe, in a butterfly-effect kind of way? Genuinely.
Over recent years I've been enthralled by Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. I've read their biographies, watched films about their lives, and been deeply inspired by their passionate embrace of nonviolent resistance. All of them were themselves inspired by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, whether or not they all embraced Christianity.
Gandhi famously (or infamously) declared: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Jesus (not Christianity) was their teacher and example.
In a similar vein, the first step in my walk towards Christ was a reading of the Sermon on the Mount[1]. There I was quietly minding my own business, taking a look at the Bible for the first time, just out of curiosity, when I was blown away by Jesus' audacious ideas about forgiving people who hurt us, about loving enemies and praying blessings on them. Looking back, I know something began to shift spiritually deep inside this (then) atheist. I would never be the same.
But how hard it can be to live this out, right? Who can forgive those who commit atrocities against us, our neighbours, or even our loved ones? How can we love enemies?
Well, my answer is: Christ in me.
Christ in you, too?
All I know is that when Christ started to live by his Spirit in me, my whole attitude started to change on the inside.
That same passion that lived in King, Mandela and Gandhi, lives in me. That passion to overturn war with peace; to overcome hatred with love.
It's one of the reasons I will never insult our politicians, however horrified I am by their policies, however strongly I might speak out about the impact their decisions make on our society.
Christ in me energises me, motivates me, continues to shape my heart. And I find that it's through wars, rumours of wars, injustices, or more often just my own everyday relational challenges, that he spurs me on to strive in his strength for peace.
War and conflict only serve to make me more determined to pursue the way of peace.
Some of the more 'religious' Christmas cards remind us that one of the names given to Jesus by his followers over the years is 'Prince of Peace', and he calls his followers to be like him:
"Blessed are the peacemakers (yes, that's right, peacemakers, not cheese-makers, you Python fans) – for they shall be called children of God", explains Jesus in his 'Sermon on the Mount'. Wars do not make one great; rather, making and promoting peace reflects the great heart of God.
This Christmas, next year and every year, maybe together, in our own little ways, you and I can help restore peace and justice to the galaxy.
[1] Gospel of Matthew: chapters 5-7: worth a read!
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Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets of specific enzymes. Not only the chemical properties but also the shape of the pocket determines if a molecule fits or not.
Just as a left glove doesn't fit onto a right hand, only one of the mirror images normally fits into the binding site of the enzyme. Molecules that are mirror images are called enantiomers. Rolf Breinbauer, Wulf Blankenfeldt, and Matthias Mentel at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, the University of Leipzig, and the Technical University of Graz (Austria) report a previously unknown binding variation in the journal Angewandte Chemie: for the first time, they have discovered a drug whose two enantiomers can both dock in the pocket of an enzyme at the same time.
In most cases, only one enantiomer of a pharmacon is effective; the other is simply unnecessary ballast. Occasionally, the mirror-image molecule can even inhibit the activity of the pharmacon, produce counterproductive effects, or cause other undesired side effects. In isolated cases, these can turn out to be dangerous, as was made painfully evident by the thalidomide scandal: Whereas one enantiomer of thalidomide is a well-tolerated, effective sleep-inducing and sedative drug, its mirror image led to severe deformations in the unborn children of pregnant patients.
Consequently, legal regulations today require that only enantiomerically pure medications be brought on the market. In the screening used in pharmaceutical research, mixtures of the two mirror images are first tested together. Subsequently, the binding properties of both forms with the target protein are examined to see which of the two forms is the active one. These experiments have led to the understanding that only a single enantiomer fits into the binding site. In rare cases, it has also been observed that both enantiomers can individually bind to the enzyme, but never at the same time. The scientists were surprised to discover entirely different behavior from enantiomers: Both of the enantiomers of an inhibitor being tested were bound simultaneously in the pocket of the enzyme.
The discovery may open up interesting new possibilities in pharmaceutical research, for example in fragment-based approaches. In this technique, small bioactive molecular fragments are initially sought for use in combination with other fragments to construct effective pharmaceuticals.
More information: Rolf Breinbauer, The Active Site of an Enzyme Can Host Both Enantiomers of a Racemic Ligand Simultaneously, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, doi: 10.1002/anie.200902997
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Mohammed Mourhit explains his success
Mohammed Mourhit has been an almost instant success for his adopted country. For his first major championships in a Belgian vest in Seville last year he finished third in the World Championship 5000m. Today, he went on to win gold and end Paul Tergat's extraordinary winning streak.
How do you explain your success today?
I think confidence was the key. I trusted in my ability because I knew that I had run 26:52 for 5000m last year in Brussels and also finished second in the World Championships. I worked a lot on my preparation and just wanted to stay at the front for the whole race. I let the Kenyans do most of the pace-making, also because I could shelter behind them from the wind.
I saved all my speed for the last 400m. I was a little surprised to win though. But I am also very happy as it is my first world title. I was the best-placed European in the last three championships but now I have won. Because I am currently working on my speed as preparation for the Olympic 10,000m this course suited me because it was pretty fast.
Tell us about your past?
I started athletics as a young man in Morocco. At first, I trained with Said Aouita and he was very kind to me. He told me he thought I had a lot of talent and could break world records at distances from 800m to 10,000m. But unfortunately, I also had a lot of injury problems. By 1996, the Moroccan federation were keen to bring through a new generation of talent. I was too inconsistent and there were many great athletes in my country. Things improved for me when I went to Belgium to stay permanently in 1994. I discovered that I have one leg that is 20mm longer than the other, and this was responsible for a lot of my injury problems.
Why Belgium?
The main reason was that my brother had been studying there from the middle of the 1980s. I used to visit him at times. Then in 1994, as I said, I went there to live there permanently. In 1997, I got married to a Belgian woman - Beatrice.
In Seville, your wife watched your performance in the Stadium. Was she here also today?
Unfortunately, neither my wife nor my four year-old boy are here today. I only arrived on Friday in Vilamoura directly from a training camp at altitude. But I am looking forward to seeing them soon. We usually travel everywhere together.


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Are you thinking about training for the next upcoming triathlon? If you're serious about it, why not give yourself time to train and improve your fitness before the season sits. Not only will your body thank you, but you will also gain plenty of health benefits when you train. In this guide, we will discuss the top advantages to training as a triathlete.
Here are 4 benefits you get when you train for the triathlon.
Lose fat
When you train for a triathlon, there is virtually nothing more fat-burning that a wide range of exercise and physical fitness. The combination of running, cycling, and swimming will make your body fitter than it might have ever been. Additionally, you will burn a large amount of fat in every part of your body. This three-day event will push your body to the limits. This means you will need to eat well, sleep well, and follow healthy habits to keep your body in its best shape.
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In addition to losing weight, your health will improve and help you reach the fitness level you need to join a triathlon. Each portion of the triathlon provides its own share of benefits that will help sculpt your body into a lean shape as swimming creates upper body definition while improving flexibility.
Boost of Energy
The increase in exercise and a healthier diet will improve your energy levels. As a result, your natural productivity will improve and help you get through each training session. Not only will you also be able to focus clearly, you will be able to push through the barriers and move on to the next goal.
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When you start to improve your physical health, your mind will also follow. You will begin to notice just how much you can achieve once you put your mind to it. You will also increase your self-confidence and motivate yourself to train for harder tasks.
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I've just got back from China. Like most other regular visitors, I am amazed at the lightning speed of the changes in that country. My last visit was not that long ago and yet this time I noticed further enormous changes. This is what happens when a giant economy grows by 10 percent every year.
I visited China for the first time in 1978, when its economic reforms were just being introduced. Cars were rare and the streets were packed with swarms of cyclists, all dressed in a uniform of either navy or olive green. Today those same streets are lined with skyscrapers with the world's boldest architecture, crammed with cars, and people are dressed in every color and style imaginable. On my first trip, China's economy was only 40 percent of that of the Soviet Union. Today it is four times larger. While it remains to be seen how sustainable China's economic boom ultimately is, some of its consequences will endure.
The most fundamental change is that millions of Chinese have escaped poverty, thus joining a middle class that while much poorer than in Europe or the United States, has for the first time the means to consume more food, medicine, electricity, cell phones, or toys. While an economic crisis or a slowdown will shrink it, it will not wipe it out completely.
This is not a China-only phenomenon: the expansion of the middle-class in fast-growing poor countries is a global trend. India, Turkey, Vietnam, and Brazil are just a few in a long list of nations that now have a middle class larger than ever before. But will the ascent of the new middle class come with unbearable environmental and social pressures?
There are three ways to answer this question. The first was offered by Thomas Malthus. In 1798 he argued that if the population grows faster than food production, inevitably famine, disease, and wars will "rebalance" the situation. A 1972 book titled The Limits to Growth predicted that oil would be exhausted by 1992 and a major Malthusian catastrophe would occur around 2000. Obviously, Malthus and his followers underestimate the impact of new technologies. The green revolution in agriculture, for example, meant that grain production in poor countries doubled in just 20 years. In general, more food per capita is produced today than ever before and more technologies enable the exploitation of natural resources that until recently were inaccessible.
The second answer is that the problem is not about production but distribution. A minority consumes far too much and the majority of the world consumes too little. For example, the United States, with only 4.6 percent of the world's population, consumes 25 percent of the yearly global energy output. Each German uses nearly nine times more energy than every Indian, and 30 times more than a Bangladeshi. From this perspective, Marx was right: consumption should be more equitably distributed and the state has to intervene to ensure that this happens.
The third is a market-based response: prices and incentives will solve the problem. If there are shortages, prices go up and consumption is thus forced to go down as less people can afford the same quantities as they did when prices were lower. Moreover, higher prices create incentives to both be more efficient and to invent technologies that enable more production at a lower cost. If the price of oil continues to rise, wind, sun, and sea can compete with hydrocarbons for the generation of energy. If cotton prices go up, more farmers will be stimulated to plant more cotton. This, in fact is already taking place and in many areas we have witnessed almost miraculous growth of supply. And new technologies are creating more efficient and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. The problem, however, is that market adjustments are brutal and are a threat to the poorest consumers for whom any decrease in consumption (forced by higher prices) means going hungry. Neither does it solve the problem of global market failures: the oceans are deteriorating at an unprecedented rate due to overfishing and their indiscriminate and largely unregulated exploitation. And we know what is happening with the CO2 emissions warming up the planet. Markets alone will not solve these problems.
Neither Malthus nor Marx nor the market give us adequate answers to the difficult questions posed by the explosive growth of countries like China, the expansion of the middle-class in many of them, and the resulting increase in global consumption. Technological responses stimulated by the market may be too late to avoid serious social and environmental damage. Excessive state intervention to correct inequalities can end up fatally distorting markets and stifling the innovations we badly need. And, without state intervention, market failures may make the planet unlivable.
Rigid ideological attachments will not help us find the solutions. We must draw on all the ideas, invent new ones, and give free rein to pragmatism and experimentation. In the past, humans managed to find solutions to unprecedented problems. There is no reason to assume that we will not be able do it again.


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Those children lucky enough to live in warm climates all year long can play anytime during the year.
These kids outdoor play ideas let them enjoy a fun swimming race in the pool in the hot summer sun, plus relay and tag entertainment.
With adult supervision younger kids will find these activities a good way to cool off on a hot day.
Water and fun go hand in hand - especially when lots of their friends are joining in on the fun!
Kids who cannot swim - or can't swim very well - should always stay in the shallow part of the swimming pool.
Safety first.
Always supervise young children when they are near water.
Never let them alone.
Most of these ideas can be played in the shallow part of pool, so don't worry if you're not a very good swimmer.
Get your friends together and have fun passing the hot days of summer.
These are fun outdoor games for kids and team building games for kids.
Water, summer and fun go hand in hand.
Parents can even join in and play these in the pool with the kids.
These will hone in on and strengthen kids agility, concentration, coordination and listening skills.
Some of these involve one of the kids being "it", and this will involve stamina as he or she may be swimming around the pool quite a bit trying to catch other players.
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