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The Compassionate Equestrian
When Caring for and Working with Horses
by Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. & Susan Gordon Purchase at Amazon.com
I am pleased to announce the release of my new book, The Compassionate Equestrian.
This book, born out of a unique collaboration with a long-time trainer and competitor Susan Gordon, introduces the 25 Principles of Compassionate Equitation: a set of developmental guidelines that encourage a profound level of personal awareness during not only interactions with horses, but with all sentient beings.
By developing deeper compassion for our horses—and for ourselves— equestrians take the first step on a path to transcending differences and disagreements, learning instead to empathize and connect more closely with the "global collective" of horses and horsepeople.
Discover the simple changes any horseperson can make that will ultimately have a vast impact on the rider's relationship with the horse, the state of the horse industry, and the world as a whole.
This is a book for those who seek a mutually satisfying relationship with their horses. The Principles provide a road map…we should read them carefully and often.
–Hilary Clayton
BVMS, PhD, Dipl. ACVSMR, MRCVS
The Compassionate Equestrian is both ahead of its time yet remarkably ancient in its wisdom and fundamental teachings. Based in art and proven modern science, the 25 Principles are a priceless collection of universal values, methods, and techniques that will greatly improve the mind and body of both horse and rider. This impactful book is loaded with valuable lifelong lessons that place compassion and empathy at their core. It will enable readers to develop and sustain meaningful, respectful, and successful partnerships with their horses
–Philip E. Richter
Treasurer, United States Equestrian Team Foundation
I would highly recommend this book for anyone who loves animals—not just horses—and wants to gain an understanding of them on a deeper, more intimate level. The authors offer us numerous, often profound insights, through their own varied experiences and backgrounds, regarding the integration of compassion into all areas of our lives. With deeper reading, one begins to appreciate more fully, how the immutable relationship between human health, animal health, and that of our environment—a world of One Health—is the real basis for improving the life of our entire planet.
–Ted Cohn, DVM,
President, American Veterinary Medical Association
Dr. Allen Schoen is an innovative, compassionate, and thoughtful veterinarian whose book emphasizes the responsibilities that attend the human-equine relationship. The Compassionate Equestrian provides practical information derived from a lifetime of caring for sport and pleasure horses. Dr. Schoen has a keen eye for animal and human behavior, and his book has value for the novice and the experienced equestrian alike.
–Michael Kotlikoff, VMD, PhD,
Austin O. Hooey Dean,
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Dr. Schoen is an innovator in combining conventional medicine with holistic therapies. In The Compassionate Equestrian, he charts the rise of a unique field of veterinary medicine whose foundation rests on a profound respect for all life, and specifically for horses. This is compassion in its purest form, and it's revolutionary. Meticulously researched, The Compassionate Equestrian enlightens any reader on the benefits of applying sympathy and empathy to the core of all equine training and care. Practicing compassion is the essence of the bond between rider and horse, and of course between any two people.
–Arriana Boardman,
Member, ASPCA Board
Dr. Schoen has always lead by example, and lives a lifetime of connected joy with the horses that he treats and their owners. We will continue to benefit from his kindness and guidance through his new book, The Compassionate Equestrian. From backyard ponies to trail horses to show jumpers, it's 'all about the horse.'
–Paula Kennedy, LVT,
Dean's Advisory Board, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine
This book challenges us, to 'slow down,' take a deep breath, and examine our relationship with ourselves and with our horses. Using storytelling and personal experiences, combined with scientific research and a good dose of spirituality, these pages offer something for all readers. Whether you are a seasoned horseperson or someone who just loves horses and wants to share in the journey, the book promises discovery for all.
–Mary Ann Simonds,
Author, Founder and Director of the Whole Horse and Equestrian Science Institute
The horse just happens to be the perfect animal to help us understand ourselves better. He's far more physically powerful than us, but also more perceptive in many ways. Horses can see right through us, and they reflect our deeper selves back to us in a way that is undeniable.
This much-needed book asks us to not only try to become better observers of our horses, but to think about that which we notice in a new and deeper way. Most importantly, it asks us to watch ourselves as we are interacting with our horses.
The authors give us a path to follow, challenging us to use the powerful tools of self-awareness or mindfulness, and meditation (QFI in the book) to change our own behaviors and become better stewards of the horse, and then extend that to our interaction with other beings.
Learning these tools takes work, but with effort it can become an integral part of our behavior. I know this because I have been on a similar journey myself, and the rewards gained in all aspects of my life—from my relationship with horses and people, to my ability to function in my businesses—are profound.
–Doug Thal, DVM, DABVP,
Creator of The Horse Side Vet Guide
I very much enjoyed reading the Compassionate Equestrian by Dr. Allen Schoen. Reading this well-written book allowed me to better understand, both conceptually and scientifically, the feelings of our equine patients. The information in the book will hopefully improve my ability to "listen" to my equine patients and become a more compassionate veterinarian and person (see quote on page 320).
–Tom Divers DVM, ACVIM, ACVECC, and
Professor of Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y.
Dr. Allen Schoen and Susan Gordon provide a thoughtful, provocative reminder that horses feed off our personal health and well-being. The rush of our daily lives, work schedules, and pressures to succeed can weigh heavily on veterinarians, trainers, and riders, and can influence our approach to the horse. The horse can sense this tension or stress. The book reminds us that personal mental/emotional well-being is important to ourselves and those (both horses and people) we interact with daily.
– Ryland B. Edwards, III, DVM, PhD, DACVS,
Fairfield Equine Practice, Newtown, Connecticut
Kindred Spirits
How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans
and Animals Can Change the Way We Live
by Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. Purchase at Amazon.com
Kindred Spirits shares the transformative power of Schoen's remarkable methods and his vision for a society in which we cease to be owner and pet, human and animal, but are simply respected companions connected by an inimitable bond–Kindred Spirits. Treating animals just as any healer would treat human beings, Schoen draws on his extensive experience in veterinary practice and the latest research in animal neurophysiology to show how humans and animals can mutually benefit from heightened awareness and respect. Along the way, he explores how natural healing methods are revolutionizing his profession, and, in the tradition of James Herriot, shares heartwarming, fascinating stories of animals and their caretakers who have deeply enriched each other's lives. Through moving scenes–such as the cancer-stricken dog that helped its guardian cope with diabetes, or the ailing German shepherd, King, who fights to stay alive so he can assist and comfort his ailing human companion–Kindred Spirits details the many ways in which the human-animal bond can provide a wellspring of love and support, and help us all lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
Kindred Spirits also outlines Schoen's special prescription for improving the care we give our animals and deepening the kindred connection between us. He shows us how to ensure the well-being of our animal companions through adopting simple healing practices at home, such as providing them with the most nutritious foods and performing a "natural pet scan" weekly to identify any major health concerns.
Through simple techniques such as co-species meditation, kindred relaxation, and sharing mindful moments, Schoen shows us how we can enhance our relationship with our animals and our connection with the world around us. Creating a new synthesis of conventional veterinary and natural medicine, and offering a timely vision for all creatures great and small, Kindred Spirits will touch and enlighten anyone seeking deeper levels of awareness and uplifting stories of true love.
"Animals are a gift to the human race–a gift that humans seldom fully appreciate. Only now are we even beginning to understand what a marvelous blessing animals truly are."
Kindred Spirits is an eloquent, moving exploration of a belief I have long held–that animals and humans are intimately connected, and that we do ourselves and our animal friends a disservice when we underestimate the special bond that exists between us. Allen's call for us to embrace and respect our fellow creatures who share this planet is a powerful prescription for life in the twenty-first century.
–Dr. Jane Goodall, author of In the Shadow of Man and
Through a Window: My Life with Chimpanzees
I cannot imagine life without my dogs, and I've long known that patients with pets do better than those without. The bond between animals and humans can improve both physical and mental health. In Kindred Spirits Allen Schoen explores the nature of that bond and shows how the techniques of natural medicine can help both pets and their owners. I learned a lot from reading it.
–Andrew Weil, author of Eating Well for Optimum Health
As an animal lover and a firm believer in nonviolence and animal rights, I know that we are all endowed with the divine light of Buddha nature. We are all Kindred Spirits. This is the profoundly meaningful message of Allen Schoen's wonderful new book, chock full of heartwarming stories of how our spiritual and emotional connection with our pets and animals can bring us closer to the love, connectedness, spiritual wellness and deep sense of oneness and belonging that we all seek.
–Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within
Kindred Spirits will touch the depths of your emotions and beliefs, and in doing so, will change the way you live. Read, learn, and open your heart to the animals with whom we share a kinship, and whose stories are shared so beautifully here.
–Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine &
Miracles and Prescriptions for Living
Kindred Spirits is a blessing of a book, honoring the powerful spiritual and intuitive connection between humans, animals, and all of life.
–Judith Orloff, M.D., author of Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide
to Intuitive Healing and Second Sight
Like a modern day James Herriot, Allen Schoen evokes the wonder of the human-animal bond and illustrates how animals anoint our humanity by providing companionship, unconditional love, protection, and nurturance. Animals touch our souls, share our lives, and are our link to becoming better children of God.
–Gregory K. Ogilvie, DVM, diplomate ACVIM and Professor of
Veterinary Oncology, Colorado State University
Love, Miracles, and Animal Healing
A heartwarming look at the spiritual bond between humans and animals.
by Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. and Pam Proctor Purchase at Amazon.com
I love this book so much that I read portions of it aloud to friends.
–Richard Gere
Allen Schoen performed miracles on my animals for a very long time. Yet I never fully understood what he did until I read this fascinating book.
–Mrs. Sascha Rockefeller
A Compassionate and deeply moving book by a veterinarian with a rare understanding of the emotional as well as the physical needs of his patients. Anyone who loves animals will find it absorbing and educational.
–Henry Kissinger
Love, Miracles, and Animal Healing is a ray of hope for all creatures under our dominion,and is a major contribution to the art and science of veterinary medicine. This wonderful book should be read by all who love animals and keep them as companions.
–Dr. Michael W. Fox, Vice President, The Humane Society of the United States,
author of Understanding your Cat and Understanding your Dog
In his groundbreaking and moving book, Allen Schoen reveals how he has taken veterinary medicine to the level of his soul. He is a true pioneer.
–Martin DeAngelis, board certified veterinary surgeon
Love, Miracles, and Animal Healing is filled with love and empathy that all veterinarians feel toward animals when they dedicate their lives to helping them. At a time when acupuncture and other forms of natural medicine are now being recognized and accepted by many medical professionals, this book should offer new hope to animal lovers when conventional medicine fails to solve their animals' problems.
–Robert B. Hilman, D.M.V.; Senior Clinician,Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Love, Miracles, and Animal Healing shows how veterinarians have the opportunity to see beyond the conventional facts of health and disease and to gain new insights into the art of healing. Compassionate, open and honest, this book will be uplifting to veterinarains and animal lovers alike.
–Sebastian E. Heath, Vet. M.B., Dipl. ACVIM,
Purdue University,College of Veterinary Medicine
Complementary & Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice
by Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. and Susan G. Wynn, D.V.M. Purchase at Amazon.com
Book Review by Dr. R.H. Bradshaw
The field of complementary and natural medicine is rapidly expanding in both human and veterinary medical practice. This North American text seeks to cover the current state of the art in the veterinary profession. It is a lucid and highly informative book suitable for both students new to the field and established practitioners. I am sure it will remain a definitive source of information on these issues for the foreseeable future.
"Complementary and natural medicine" should be viewed as an umbrella term encompassing an array of very different conceptual approaches and techniques. Thus, for an comprehensive text in this field, the sheer volume and diversity of subject matter that needs to be addressed can present a problem. In order to tackle this diversity, the editors systematically divide the book into nine Units (each comprising a number of chapters) and seven Appendices (which list further sources of information). This successfully allows each topic to be viewed within its broader framework and allows easy reference to specific subject areas.
The first introductory chapter (in Unit 1 Fundamentals) covers some of the underlying philosophy and history from a Western perspective. The diverse group of therapeutic systems involved unfolds, and care is taken to point out some of the complexity of these different approaches. The Units that follow (Units 2 to 6) cover the following: nutrition (from preventative to cancer therapy); physical medicine (including acupuncture, Chinese herbs, chiropractic care and massage); energetic medicine, botanical medicine (including Western herbal, Chinese and Ayurvedic); and homeopathy. A "Miscellaneous Therapies" unit then covers environmental medicine, aromatherapy and Bach flower remedies.
Because of public perception (and attitudes in current veterinary practice), there is a tendency for complementary and natural medicine to be seen as irrelevant to the more conventional small animal veterinary practice, is particularly important.
In the final unit, a diverse number of issues are tackled including bioethics, the human-companion animal bond (a branch of anthrozoology), euthanasia, and ethnoveterinary medicine. All units follow a systematic approach and give a highly informative overview of the state of current thinking and practical application.
In the final sections of the book, a helpful series of appendices provide information on many different aspects of the field (from suppliers and Web sites, to periodicals and diagnostic software). This additional material will allow any students or practitioners to pursue specific topics in greater depth.
In conclusion, this is a very interesting and informative book. It successfully tackles a rapidly expanding field by providing a comprehensive and lucid account of the diverse array of available therapeutic systems while emphasizing the need for an integrated approach. This major new text deserves to be included in the reference library of all serious students and practitioners of veterinary medicine.
Dr. R. H. Bradshaw, D. Phil.
Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine
University of Cambridge
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 OES
United Kingdom
Veterinary Acupuncture: Ancient Art to Modern Medicine
by Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. Purchase at Amazon.com
A trusted reference, Veterinary Acupuncture traces the evolution of acupuncture and details it's applications in modern veterinary practice. It includes the latest research, laws of point selection, the longitudinal muscle-channel system, equine biomechanics, and veterinary manipulative therapies.
The volume includes extensive acupuncture atlases for many species, including an expanded canine atlas with all-new detailed anatomic drawings. Clinical Significance boxes are provided to help the reader apply principles to clinical practice.
Dr. Schoen, D.V.M., M.S. is uniquely qualified to edit a book about veterinary acupuncture. He is a graduate of Cornell College University of Veterinary Medicine and received a Master's degree in neurophysiology and behavior from the University of Illinois. He is certified in veterinary acupuncture by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) and in veterinary chiropractic by the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association. He established the department acupuncure at the Animal Medical Center in New York City in 1982.
He has been teaching and practicing both equine and small animal acupuncture since 1981 and currently has an equine and small animal acupuncture and natural therapy referral practice. He also received advanced training in Chinese herbal medicine and homeopathy.
Dr. Schoen has lectured at veterinary schools throughout the United States, and the world. He is an affiliate faculty member at Colorado State, University College of Veterinary Medicine and is on the faculty at the Chi Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has published numerous articles on veterinary acupuncture and coedited another professional reference, Complimentary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice, published by Mosby. He cowrote Love , Miracles and Animal Healing, published by Simon and Schuster. His latest publication is Kindred Spirits: How the remarkable bond between Humans and animals can change the way we live. Published by Broadway / Doubleday Books.


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10 Intriguing Research Paper Topic Ideas From A Professional Writer
When you are in the writing business, you have a good idea of what topics you would write about if you were back in school. If I was writing a research paper, I would choose one of these intriguing topics. It is necessary to make sure that when you are choosing a topic, that you choose one that is intriguing. You want to make sure that your reader wants to continue reading it. This way it will also be entertaining for you when you are writing it. Here are ten intriguing topics to get you started.
- Should advertisements promoting unhealthy products be banned?
- Are children better off than adults because of their access to computers at such a young age?
- What has to be done to halt childhood obesity?
- Does overworking your employees lead to less productivity?
- Do violent video games cause problems for children?
- Should schools use tablets in school?
- Is the new health care reform a failure?
- Do men and women feel differently about family responsibilities?
- Were individuals who fall in love with the same sex born that way?
- Should online degrees be taken more seriously than traditional degrees?
So, you got your topic and now you have to start your research. To keep organized, the first thing you want to do is make a sheet for all of your references. Write the references in the right format so that you don't forget any of the information or have to worry about it later. Write yourself a short summary about what the article is about as well so that you can make sure that you have a supporting direct quote or back up information for each supporting fact. It will also make it easier to find if you remembered reading something that would work great in your paper when you start writing.
Create a thesis statement which will represent the main part of your paper. Look at it like a one sentence summary of your paper. Every word, phrase, and sentence in the paper will be used to prove that thesis. If you aren't talking directly about the thesis, you are getting off track and taking away from your paper rather than enhancing it. Create an outline as well to keep on track. It is a great way to stay organized and to focus on proving that thesis.

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There are hundreds of sketches all over the house of dresses, tops, trouser suits, skirts, shoes, handbags, dog clothes, cat clothes, children's clothes and she does have a couple of verbal orders for wedding dresses, so I do think that she will one day live her dream and keep me in the manner in which I'm sure I could get very used to very quickly! The problem is when you are on a tight budget and you have a fashionista for a daughter, you can rarely keep everyone happy. Luckily I do manage to hunt out a few bargains to keep Tops happy and she loves using accessories to complete her outfit. At the moment that is mainly hats and boots and she and Big Boy will walk happily team up to expand their own collections of hats!
M&M Direct often send me emails with different products on offer and by chance an email from their PR Team had a pair of boots in that caught Top Ender's eye, Cutie Patent Chelsea Boots. So I asked if they would like Top Ender reviewing them and they agreed and sent a pair out. To say Top Ender was thrilled would be an understatement, she has been wearing them almost non stop since they arrived and with a variety of outfits and making me take pictures so that she can keep a record of what her outfit choices look like!
As you can see the boots are a cute ankle boot and shiny (they are patent) which Tops loves, as do I really as it means I don't have to polish them only give them a good wipe. Tops wasn't used to not having a close fit around her ankles to start with but she quickly got used to them. The sole of the shoe is quite thick, but light at the same time which is great as they will last a while but aren't too uncomfortable for Tops to wear for long periods.
Top Ender loves the boots and at £19.99 they are a price that even Top Ender could save up her weekly pocket money with the intention to buy the boots without getting too despondent about how long it was taking and even Santa might agree to add a similar pair to his Sleigh this year
We were sent a pair of boots to review.
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Occultation by (87) Sylvia and its Satellites Romulus and Remus, 2019 Oct 29
This is one of the occultation highlights of the year.
The triple asteroid system (87) Sylvia will occult a 10.1 mag star around 23:38 UT on October 29. The European continent is located inside the path.
The predictions below are based on calculations by Steve Preston, IOTA, on 2019 Oct 15
Details of the event.
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Upcoming Occultations by New Binary Asteroids across Europe: (9474) Cassadrury on 2019 Oct 25, 21:49 UT and (2000) Herschel on 2019 Nov 08, 01:09 UT
The CdR-CdL Team leaded by Raoul Behrend reported the discovery of 2 new close binary asteroids (1 certain, 1 still provisional). On Raoul's request, I've looked for events in Europe for the coming weeks.
Have a look!
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One more Occultation by (3200) Phaethon in Europe and North Africa
On the 25th of October (3200) Phaethon will occult a 12th mag star for Europe and Northern Africa. Detailed informations about the event can be found
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Two Occultations by (3200) Phaethon in Europe and North Africa
On the 12th and 15th of Octobre 2 occultations by Phaethon will happen for Europe. Detailed informations about these events can be found
Tutorial about Using Occult for (Total) Lunar Occultations by Dave Gault and Dave Herald
A new tutorial with the title " Tutorial - Using Occult for (Total) Lunar Occultation prediction, reporting and analysis." by Dave Gault and Dave Herald has been added to our guideline section.
Have a look!
Call for Observation
(34339) 2000 QH218 Occults Naked-Eye-Star on 2019 February 05 in Europe
In the late evening of February 5th, the 11-km minor planet (34339) 2000 QH218 will occult HIP 48455 (3.4 Vmag). Observers in the occultation path will see a disapperance of 1.4 sec.
Read more!
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(90) Antiope occults 10.8 mag star on 2019 January 04 in Europe
In the late evening of January 4th, the double minor planet (90) Antiope will occult TYC 1868-00281-1 (10.8 Vmag) for an expected duration of 8.4 sec.
In Europe the centre line will cross Romania (~23:17 U.T.), Hungary, Austria and Germany (~23:18 U.T.) and France (~23:19 U.T.).
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ESOP XXXVIII in Paris Observatory
The 38th Symposion on Occultation Projects will be held in Paris. Hosting place is Paris Observatory. Paris Observatory is the oldest astronomical observatory with research activities (construction started in 1667), the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centres in the world.
The scientific meeting will be from Friday 30th of August to Sunday 1st of September 2019. In keeping with ESOP tradition, post conference excursions will be proposed.
Have a look!
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(1756 ) Giacobini Occults HIP 7358 in the Morning of 2018 Nov 10
The Brightest Occultation for Germany in 2018!
In the morning hours of November 10th the small minor planet (1756) Giacobini (diameter 10 km) will occult HIP 7358 (6.7 Vmag) for a maximum duration of 1.9 sec.
Have a look and observe!
Total Lunar Eclipse ... Shortly before Centrality
One of the most prominent examples of occultations is a lunar eclipse. The longest lunar eclipse of this century takes place just now! The image with a conventional DSLR camera has been taken from Munich. Copyright W. Beisker, IOTA-ES (2018)
Successful observation of the occultation by Himalia of 10m5 star!
Observed from stations in Poland and Ukraine.
Positive chords from the Himalia event are to be reported. Two with the double system Max and Moritz operated by Anna Marciniak (Moritz)) in Poznan and 100km away the other by Eberhard Bredner near Konin (with Max) and a third, very short occultation (~2 sec) observed by Roman Hirsch (Astronomical Observatory Institute) in Borowiec. Also positive observtions in the Ukraine. More news will follow!
Call for Observation >>> Update 17th of May!
Himalia (J-6) Satellite of Jupiter Occults Bright Star (20th of May 2018)!
Himalia, an irregulate satellite of Jupiter will occult a 10mag star on the 20th of May 2018 around 22h 16min UTC for northern and eastern Europe. The occultation track has moved about 180 km north!
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Occultation by minor planet (130) Elektra successfully observed in Europe
Over 30 stations participated in the most successful observation of an occultation by (130) Elektra ever. Never before has the shadow profile of minor planet (130) Elektra been so accurately measured. More than 30 observers from Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Great Britain measured the occultation around 00:30 U.T. on April 21, 2018.
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GRAZPREP-software for 2018
Find and prepare grazing occultations in detail
Grazing Occultations of stars by the moon are local events and thus require an individual selection according to personal observation preferences. The GRAZPREP-software assists in all aspects of finding individually interesting events as well as selecting the best observing stations promising the most contacts between the star and the lunar limb in high resolution. GRAZPREP can be downloaded and installed, including a step by step operation tutorial.
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2002TC302 Occults UCAC4-593-005847 (15m8) for Europe. New astrometric update!
On 28th of January 2018, around 21h55min UTC, the TNO 2002TC302 occults a 15m8 star. This is a relatively easy to observe event, because of the low speed of the TNO relative to the star of only about 5km/sec. Give it a try! Even instruments with less than 30 cm diameter should do it. And you don't need a high speed camera for this slow event. With 1 or 2 seconds exposure time you can do valuable science! A new update of the prediction has been issued by J. Desmars.
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(8) Flora occults TYC 1341-00957-1 on 2018 Jan 13
A campaign has been set up for this event.
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Haumea, the most peculiar of Pluto companions, has a ring!
From a press release of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC)
The trans-neptunian belt contains four dwarf planets, among which Haumea stands out for its extremely elongated shape and rapid rotation.
A stellar occultation revealed the main physical characteristics of this heretofore poorly known body – among which the most surprising presence of a ring. Researchers around Jose-Luis Ortiz and Pablo Santos-Sanz published a paper in Nature, that showed a ring around Haumea. This is the first trans-Neptunian object with a ring.
"One of the most interesting and unexpected findings was the discovery of a ring around Haumea. Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise. Now we have discovered that bodies even farther away than the centaurs, bigger and with very different general characteristics, can also have rings," says Pablo Santos-Sanz, a member of the IAA-CSIC team. Also members of IOTA-ES, professionals and amateurs as well, contributed to this research. It has been published by
J. L. Ortiz et al. "The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea from a stellar occultation". Nature, (2017) DOI: 10.1038/nature24051
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Transcontinental Occultation of a 12m4 star UCAC4 410-143659 by Triton on the 5th/6th of Oct 2017 around 23h50 UTC.
Visible from USA and large parts of Europe
Many stations throughout Europe have recorded the event with telescope of different sizes ranging from 20cm to more than 1 meter diameter. An example of the central flash recorded near the central line in Elvas, Portugal is shown in the following picture. It as been taken with a 27cm telescope and a 12 bit digital CCD camera.
--> A very preliminary lightcurve shows the occultation with the central flash. Exposure time 0.3 seconds. No filter. Copyright W. Beisker, IOTA-ES, 2017
The updates of the predictions of this campaign can be
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Actual Predictions for 55 TNOs and Centaurs
In the frame of the European-funded Lucky Star project, a webpage with actual predictions of occultations 55 TNOs and Centaurs had been developed by Josselin Desmars from Bruno Sicardy's team. Occultations can be selected by date, magnitude range and name of the occultation object.
Have a look!
Minor Planet Occultations of Bright Stars
Occultations by stars brighter than about 9th mag will be presented in this blog.
Grazing Occultations of Stars by the Moon
A field of professional astronomy between science and beauty
Among all occultation phenomena in the sky grazing occultations of stars by the moon have a very unique character. The observation of these spectacular events ... read the
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Asteroid TU24
recorded from Munich around 1h 10min UT on 30th Jan 2008. Fast motion (5x). Near miss of 11m9 star TYC 4140-520
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Information about running TNO campaigns
Information about running campaigns for TNO occultations you can find
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Inauguration of IOTA-ES 0.5m portable telescope.
It has been named "m2"
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These conclusions are an evidence of the fact that the size of the market shares is not the only element which should be taken into account in order to evaluate the potential effects of a merger, as it has been concluded today by the Romanian Competition Council today, 18 December 2013, further to the first ex-post monitoring of a merger in Romania – the Lidl/Plus case.
Although the market shares of Lidl and of the Plus chain of supermarkets were as high as 40-50% on certain local markets, thus being above the alert level, it has been demonstrated that, subsequent to the merger, prices did not increase more than the average on the market, except for a few products – bread, milk, oil – for which the demand is generally rigid.
The ex-post monitoring is used frequently and is useful to the competition authorities in order to "fine-tune" their methods for analysing the effects of a merger.
Mr.Valentin Mircea, who will take over the position of Senior Partner of Mircea and Partners, from January 2014 declared:
"I am glad to hear these conclusions because I took part in the clearence of this merger and I proposed to make the ex-post analysis, so that the doubts which still persisted at that time, regarding the potential price increases, is submitted to a proper evaluation methodology. The ex-post anaysis cannot result in any change of the authorisation decsion but if in a certain case the results are negative, the competition authority has the possibility to investigate the existence of a possible abuse of dominance, in addition to learning the necessaary lessons for aproaching similar situations in the future."


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Over the last day or two, reports have appeared on the Internet about the High Court Ruling on the legal action taken against Simon Singh by the British Chiropractic Association by the Judge, Sir David Eady.
As usual, one of the most comprehensive descriptions and assessments in on Jack of Kent's Blog.
The passage in Singh's original article which caused most difficulty is:
"The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organisation is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments."
The judgement revolved around ruling whether the passage was a "comment" or "statement of fact", Singh's lawyers arguing the former and the BCA's lawyers arguing the latter.
The Judge ruled that, although the passage in Singh's article was a comment piece and published on a comment page, it was a statement of fact.
Jack of Kent writes that this ruling did not even refer to the fact that Singh's use of the word bogus is actually set out in the following paragraph in the original article:
"I can confidently label these treatments as bogus because I have co-authored a book about alternative medicine with the world's first professor of complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst. He learned chiropractic techniques himself and used them as a doctor. This is when he began to see the need for some critical evaluation. Among other projects he examined the evidence of 70 trials exploring the benefits of chiropractic therapy in conditions unrelated to the back. He found no evidence to suggest that chiropractors could treat any such conditions."
That is fair enough, if it is fully substantiated, though would still be better couched in less emotional terms, science is supposed to be objective after all. However, not finding evidence that chiropractors could treat such conditions is not proof of anything other than that inability to find evidence; it might suggest something else, it may be possible to tentatively infer something else, but it is not proof of anything else. It is certainly not proof of the treatments being bogus; they may be, they may not be but no evidence was brought to bear to prove that they were bogus.
In any case, I have read and wrote a review of Singh and Ernst's book, "Trick or Treatment" and it is certainly not a good science book; a populist book but not science book, certainly not in the textbook sense. Although, of course, many of Singh and Ernst's supporters laud it as science as it confirms their prejudices. "Trick or Treatment" contains no references and an extremely limited bibliography, while I would expect a book of science to have at least references, preferably references and bibliography; science is about providing evidence, after all, or at least it is supposed to be. "Trick or Treatment" is peppered with the word "lies", in the "untruths", "falsehoods" sense of the word, though I did not come across any proof that anyone was telling lies. The book has only one page on the knowledge, area, of "Spiritual Healing" and makes numerous errors in just a few hundred words, displaying a complete lack of understanding of the subject, wrongly describing the procedures involved and failing to give an accurate definitions of Spiritual Healing, quite an achievement for supposedly competent sceintists, let alone Ernst who has specialised as a Professor in a field that includes Spiritual Healing for fifteen years. I reviewed the Spiritual Healing section of "Trick or Treatment" separately as I practice it and, clearly, know more about it that either Ernst or Singh.
Then there is the matter of definitions. Although, as Jack of Kent wrote, the ruling did not refer to Singh's use of the word bogus being set out in another paragraph of his article, there seems no pressing reason that it should need to do so. Surely an intelligent man and experienced writer like Simon Singh is aware of language and tat it is wise to check definitions. There seems little point in having a language and dictionaries if anyone who wishes to can simply come up with their own definition. I am probably too pedantic but I tend to write on my word processor with dictionaries to hand, both usual and technical, with several browser windows open to check definitions, references, etc. No-one is perfect but it does reduce errors somewhat.
Bogus: counterfeit, not genuine, spurious
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
1. An apparatus for counterfeit coining
2. adj. Counterfeit, spurious, sham 1852
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
The statement made by Simon Singh seemed fairly definitive and the way I was brought up to learn and practice science, along with engineering, which uses science at times, as well as life in general, if you make a definitive statement you provide the evidence to back it up, or have the evidence to hand if asked for it. If there is not enough evidence to make a definitive statement, you make a qualified statement commensurate with the strength, weight and reliability of the evidence.
It is a matter of thoroughness, completeness and precision which seems to have gone out of science in recent years, decades, even to be replaced by a juvenile howling down and name calling. Never mind the quality of the evidence, if any at all for their positions, feel the juvenile bile and weight of numbers.
"Trick or Treatment" comes over as very much in that vein. So, recent utterings and writings by both Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst being even stronger in that sense have come as no great surprise.
It is not just the language that is juvenile, much, most, of the so-called science brought to bear is of a similar level.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Simon Singh, the British Chiropractic Association and the High Court Ruling by Sir David Eady
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How the Piano Changed Music
The concept of using dynamic markings (which indicate the relative loudness of different sections in the music) in sheet music came about around the same time as the piano — for good reason. Before the invention of the piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1709, most composers were confined to writing most of their pieces for either the harpsichord or the clavichord; neither instrument had the capability to play both soft and loud sounds easily.
The reason for this is that the basic internal design of both the harpsichord and the clavichord follows the design of a stringed instrument. However, instead of having one's fingers in direct contact with the string, as with a guitar or a fiddle, harpsichords and clavichords are fitted with a plucking mechanism inside the instrument itself. When a certain key is pressed, the corresponding internal string is plucked by the mechanism. No matter how hard or soft you press the keys of either instrument, the resulting volume is pretty much the same. Therefore, clavichords were used for quiet pieces of music that required lots of vibrato (quavering quality to notes that usually comes from a stringed instrument), whereas harpsichords were used for louder, brighter-sounding pieces.
Although the piano looks a lot like these two other instruments, it's really very different. The piano incorporates a hammer-and-lever mechanism that strikes each string with the same force as the human finger on the piano key did; this is why the piano is considered a percussive instrument. The piano made both quiet and loud sounds possible on the same instrument, and, therefore, in the same musical piece. This is why the piano was originally named the gravicèmbalo col pian e forte, or "harpsichord with soft and loud." The name was later shortened to pianoforte and, finally, to piano.
Since its inception, the piano has been the universal tool of choice for composing music, because almost every note you would ever want to work with is present on the keyboard, right there in front of you. Most pianos have at least 7 octaves to work with, and concert pianos can have more than 12 octaves.
You want to compose music for an oboe? The lower registers of the piano work quite nicely. Pieces written for strings can be easily hammered out in the middle and upper registers. And unlike most other instruments, you can hit chords and multiple notes simultaneously on a piano, which works well for trying to figure out how that multi-instrument orchestral piece you're writing will eventually sound.
You can blame the fact that the piano was invented by an Italian for the bulk of tempo and dynamic markings being Italian words. From day one of the piano's release to the initially Italian market, composers were finding new ways to write music on this spectacularly flexible instrument.


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A newborn has very poor vision due to weak eye muscles and a brain that is not accustomed to receiving visual stimuli. Over time, both the eye muscles and the pathways along the ocular nerve strengthen, and the child's vision improves. If a problem prevents the timely strengthening of the vision, there is a chance that it never occurs, leaving the child's vision limited to varying degrees.
To prevent minor and perhaps temporary problems from developing into major vision issues, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) recommend early, as young as one month of age, and regular, vision screenings for every child. This increases the chances of vision or eye problems being caught early enough to prevent permanent damage.
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Is she born with it? Or is it Maybelline? Do you remember those commercials? The obviously beautiful woman, a professional model, in makeup applied by a professional makeup artist, with the wind blowing perfectly through her flawless hair. Are they still doing those? There is another thing I remember clearly: the first time I ever saw Stevie Ray Vaughn play the guitar. I had often heard his songs but never really thought much of them. Half-listening, I had heard his guitar playing in the background in lots of coffee shops and on random radio stations as I was driving. But one late night, I was flipping through the channels and came across his appearance at Austin City Limits on a public TV station. In all honesty, my jaw dropped as I watched this man with a grin on his face, his head tilted back and eyes closed, move his hands and fingers effortlessly over the frets and strings with suchprecision, speed and accuracy. I honestly questioned if he were really playing. To actually experience the complexity and hear the number of notes he was generating absolutely baffled me; the subtleties like his strumming high up on the neck to get one kind of sound or right up against the bridge to produce another, how he'd hammer-on the strings as they were being plucked or how he'd slyly turn the tone knob, the volume knob or pull up on the tremolo bar all while playing. And never once did he look down at his hands. The only word I could use to describe it was "effortless."
Now, I actually can play the guitar and, I can assure you, it never has and never will come close to being "effortless." Never! I don't care how much talent you're born with. But what is talent anyway? The best definition I could find is: "A special creative or artistic aptitude, or ability." Aptitude is a capacity for learning, inclination or tendency. Personally, I think most people mistake "skill" for "talent." Like I said, talent is a special capacity for learning. "Skill," on the other hand, is the learned capacity to carry out predetermined results, often with the minimum outlay of time, energy or both. So do you need talent to attain a skill? Do people think I was born knowing how to draw? Was Stevie Ray Vaughn born knowing how to play the guitar? Of course not. We—and that includes everyone on the planet—aren't able to speak, walk or even keep from pooping our pants when we're born. It's not talent that impresses people, it's the skill, the learned capacity or ability to do something and make it look easy.
Talent, at least in my life, has generated a seed of resentment for many of the people with whom I come in contact. "I wish I had your talent," they say to me. What they mean is, "I wish I had your skill" or "I wish I were able to do what you do and make it look easy." Well, I truly believe that just about anyone can "make it look easy," if they really want to. Being "talented" or, in other words, inclined to learn quickly and easily, would obviously get people to their goals faster, but it's not the speed at which you attain something that is the most important thing. In fact, that can actually take away from one's credibility and respect. Compare someone who worked her entire life to attain a great skill to someone who came to the same skill level quickly and with very little effort. Which one are you going to respect more? You'll respect the one who worked hard for it and you will, by nature, suspect the other. Unless I miss my guess, I assume that anyone would rather be "respected" than "suspected."
Whether or not she was born with it or whether she uses Maybelline, that doesn't really matter to me as much as whether or not she is intrinsically beautiful. You may be extremely talented and things come to you easily (and you can't help that) or you may be one of the lucky ones who have to work hard for your accomplishments. I envy the latter. Nothing feels better than accomplishment. Especially accomplishing something that's difficult. The trick is, once you're there, make it look easy.
R.I.P. Stevie Ray Vaughn. I'm sure you worked harder than any of us will ever know.
Remember, work hard at it.
—Jeff Gogué
After teaching my seminar, "Gut Level Tattooing," for the past three years at tattoo conventions all across this the U.S., I have come to begin by asking this question: "What do you want?" I do this because it is the "hinge" on which all of one's actions turn. You see, I can't relate to people with little or no ambition. If you don't have any ambition, little intention, or just don't care, with me, the conversation quickly comes to an end. You may have completely different goals than I do. You may want the exact opposite of what I want. I can totally relate to that, as long as you want something.
We can all relate to "wanting," especially those of us who grew up poor as hell, always having to make due, or simply going without. These conditions, I feel, make the most ambitious people. So, if you grew up with little or nothing, be grateful. You have an advantage.
Take my childhood: It was early summer and a few months prior I was playing in the snow with my friend and got my shoes wet. I set them on what I thought was a safe part of the wood stove and waited for my mom to pick me up. But I lost track of time and they melted. My mom was mad, of course, but not at me. Bottom-line, it was the fact that she didn't have the money to get me new shoes. I remember walking that night into Safeway in socks, in the snow, which she made me do, to learn to take care of my stuff. I got a pair of nine-dollar plastic shoes from the grocery store. I had to wear those weird, plastic, non-brand shoes the rest of the school year.
I was a "free lunch" kid, which always bugged me. The kids who couldn't afford lunch got a different color meal ticket at my school, so it was no secret, but it was the shoes that really screamed "poor!" So, I took matters into my own hands, found a job pulling weeds and got a pair of three-striped, gray Adidas. It took a while. By then, I was out of school for the summer. I proudly wore them and, after a few days, went swimming with a different friend. When we came up to our bikes and clothes after swimming in the creek, all of our things were gone. Bikes, clothes… and, you guessed it, my new shoes. I later discovered that my other friend, the one with whom I got my shoes wet in the snow, was the culprit. He eventually admitted to stealing our stuff, throwing my bike in the creek and doing whatever with our clothes and shoes.
The irony of it all, and the resulting metaphor, is quite profound to me. First, that no matter how hard you work and no matter what you accomplish, you are vulnerable to people and situations outside of your control and, second, what you want is absolutely dictated by what you need. So, be honest with what you need. For example, we all need to matter. We all need validation that our existence has a purpose. If you don't acknowledge that, you're lying, and if you don't believe it, you're in denial. We find it in the things we do, whether it's earning degrees, helping people or raising kids, or dogs or a goldfish, for that matter.
Accomplishment is the best place to find fulfillment. That's why tattooers and artists have such a great job. You want be a great tattooer? You want your art to move people? You want to travel the world? You want make good money? You want win awards? You want to teach? Write books? You want to be famous? It's all valid, if that's what you need to feel like you are contributing to society, that is. Hey, if it makes you feel good about yourself, then don't let anyone hold you back. I wanted to be heard and here I am writing for my favorite magazine. What do you want?
Remember, work hard at it.
―Jeff Gogué
Here's a response to Jeff Gogué's column, "As I See It with Jeff Gogué," that was posted a day or two ago.
Hey guys: Although Gogué does make a couple of good points, he should be thankful that he doesn't shake so bad that he can't hold a machine (after spending years learning), that he has some talent to get the following he has and to make $$$ at something he obviously loves. But he is NOT alone in his affection for the game. The term "remora" [any of several marine fishes of the family Echeneidae, having on the head a sucking disk with which they attach themselves to sharks, whales, sea turtles or the hulls of ships] is a little rugged and may apply to some, but not all. We have been collecting tattoo art probably longer than some could draw a flower. We started this labor of love long ago, knowing that we would be soon out of enough skin to honor and support the artists whom we loved, to see art that we wanted get done and share it. We've never made a profit and given plenty to food banks, vets and foster kids. We support and defend the art as much as, if not a little more than, most and have smacked more than our fair share of F-ing punk scratchers. I shouldn't have to say it, but not all fit your mold. We are collectors of fine art, maybe even patrons (been called that).
—Mr. P
P.S. Keep up the nice work. We'll hope the arthritis never hits you!
Where are we? I guess the answer depends on our age. I don't mean how old we are; I mean how long we've been into tattoos. I think we all start off considering what we can get out of it. Then, we look to the future and where we can take it. Eventually, we look back and reminisce about what we did with it. So where are you? Are you attached like a remora taking the scraps from the current feeding frenzy? Are you an entrepreneur, capitalizing on the gold rush of tattoos, selling your lotions, your sunscreen, your pigments, your T-shirts? You know that, in 1851, during the California Gold Rush, people were selling common, everyday items for astronomical prices. Consider the cost of one, single chicken egg: $3.00. That would translate to $83.94 in today's money. Eighty-four bucks for a single egg. A pound of cheese would cost you nearly seven hundred bucks at today's currency rate―$699.53 to be exact. A shovel would set you back $36.00, which equates to $1,007.33 in today's money. It doesn't seem possible, but people wanted to be a part of it so badly that they'd pay almost any price to stay in the game. Did you also know that today, in 2010, you can get your very own Horiyoshi III, long-sleeved T-shirt from Yellowman for a mere $888.00? Some things never change. Guess that would be human nature.
You might be like me, excited about where things are and wanting to steer toward higher ground. I figure if we don't, some TV producer or cheesy promoters will. If you don't think some corporation is gonna take our culture and exploit it, you are kidding yourself. I had a friend request me for―if you can believe it―"America's Next Top Tattoo Artist." Un-fucking believable. Three choices, folks: (1) Sit back and watch, (2) join in and start blowing holes in the bottom of a sinking ship or (3) build bunkers out of whatever we can get a hold of and fight. Why not rebel? I'd rather be a part of the uprising than a victim of circumstance. Where do you draw the line? Good question. Sure, I sell stuff: tattoos, paintings, prints and DVDs of my work. In the past, I've even had some T-shirts, but I draw the line when my integrity demands it, when I can still feel good about things, when I am consciously contributing to our culture. Pushing things forward. Raising the standard. Inspiring you to do the same.
Am I saying I have it all together and always live in a perfect Eden of pure intentions, raking my Zen garden on the highest plane of consciousness? Of course not. Yes, a man's got a living to make, but I never forget that I play a small part of a bigger picture. Don't get me wrong, I' not trying to make tattooing into some noble calling that changes lives but, to be honest, it sure has changed mine. Ten all-consuming years. And I love it.
I'm not there yet, but I'm working at it. I just hope to look back with my friends and have some good things to say, and not a bunch of grumpy complaints about how the "man" ruined my precious little oasis. I want to talk about how we quietly led the rebellion through the years, under the radar, and every once in a while, like this column, out in plain sight for everyone to see.
Remember, work hard at it.
―Jeff Gogué


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2. Video can now played sequentially, and quick scene access has been added.
So much for the firmware, then move on to live with playstation, it's the new version of folding@home, it added the ability to access google news. Other than that, it's the same as the older version, but somehow I cannot see molecule folding now...
Next is the home beta, got it on my PS3 yesterday. After experiencing it with 1 night, I think it's utterly crap... First if you use component cable, you're screwed with 480p only. Then it asks for 3G of space... After going into the home beta, I found that it's just a virtual community, kind of like the one on wii. You can currently access four places (mall, home theatre, bowling, central plaza) outside of your home, and none of these are really appealing or even functioning; stores in mall don't seem open yet, home theatre - you got to watch socom free video, the same video all day long, and not to mention the subpar video quality, bowling - you can play some small games, all generic games just to wasting your time, and central plaza has nothing going on unless you want to socialize with people. Basically, home is just a big advertisement environment for SONY.
And lastly, yesterday afternoon, I just experienced BD Live, which is another disappointing experience. I got Kung fu Panda from paramount, and Wall-E from Disney. These are the two big animation features from summer this year. I watched Wall-E first, which turned out to be mediocre at the best, better than cars and the incredibles. (forgot to mention that upon inserting the disc, it wants to download a 21MB update... I think it's mandatory, so if you don't have Internet, you might be not able to watch the disc, at least for BD Live machines??) As for the BD live Disney provided, you have to go to www.disneybdlive.com to register first, which is so hard to register, took me about half an hour to finally go thru, turns out that I have a bad screen name... After registering, I found nothing interest... Plus using a remote control chatting? Way too absurd! Next, I watched Kung fu Panda, which turns out to be a way better movie. As the BD live features, it's a lot easier to use, you don't need to register... It's more like what they provided on HD-DVD. You download some content to your local storage, then view it. Currently there are only two features, and the downloads are so small, less than 2MB, which wonders me why the f*ck they just include all the stuff on the disc, it's pointless to download!!!


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I tried something new this week. I bought a whole pork loin, which was $1.49 per pound when you bought the entire 20 pounds. They cut it for free into center cut and bone in pork chops. So now I have 20 pounds of delicious thick cut pork chops at an incredible price! They also have different chicken deals each week when you buy 10 pounds at a time, so I take advantage of those. I also do a lot of the other things you mentioned, such as using less meat in meals. Combining buying in bulk with using less seems contradictory, but it can last a very long time that way for us!
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Great advice! I am typically making a menu based on what is on sale. If the meat is on sale, I buy more and freeze it for the next times. It works out great 🙂
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Great ideas here! I like to shop the manager's special on the day they do most of the big markdowns (Friday at my store) and I'm looking into buying a whole cow and splitting it with family this year!
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For those who can't afford to buy a whole cow, here is how I used one pound of cooked ground beef.
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Steven E. Weinberger, MD; Lawrence G. Smith, MD; Virginia U. Collier, MD; for the Education Committee of the American College of Physicians*
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I am working with a fantastic company, The Berrison Group, and they talk a lot about the 'work mask' and how it can affect us at work. Not sure if you've ever experienced this but as an ex manager in a fairly large company I can see where they are coming from.
Sometimes I had to act differently with members of my staff as opposed to members of the board, but essentially, I regarded myself as the same person. Strangely though this was something I was expected to do, be different with the board, maybe that's because they were tossers?
The only places I can see and where there seems to be a big hoo ha is social channels, I never call them platforms, to me that sends out all the wrong signals for what it's meant to be, but that's another story.
Take Facebook, I keep hearing, from so called 'gurus', that this channel is for friends, family, having fun and catching up on that none important stuff that's all sort of soft and fluffy and doesn't have anything to do with the hard nose of business.
LinkedIn on the other hand is for business and the soft fluffy stuff isn't for posting, if you do the LinkedIn police get in touch and threaten all sorts of nasty things.
I joined Facebook 2008 and not once has any of my friends come back to me and said "Keith, what's all this business crap you're posting? Stop it immediately you sponge". But post anything other than a pitch for business, a job or anything remotely non-business related and LinkedIn goes nuts. Why?
To me it's a conversation channel, just like any other, it's no different from the rest, if you are there to do business, fine, but don't dress it up as something else.
At the end of the day if you are an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or the CEO of a major company, business is business and fun is fun, there's no difference it's all the same, or is it?
Imagine walking into a business meeting and the person says "Hi Keith how you doing today, how's the family?" And you say, "Sorry numb nut I'm only here to talk business, don't ask me how I am or how the journey was to get here or the weather or my family, and FFS don't ask me about my kittens." I can just see how that meetings going to turn out.
We are all human, well most of us, and we love the interaction, we love telling stories and we love to chat, or at least I do and the people I work with do to, or I wouldn't work with them.
We still have to do business admittedly, but you wouldn't shove your tongue down someone's throat on the first date would you? So why would you go anywhere just to talk business, unless you're a dull shit.
The same gurus are now telling us that we have to do business like humans and that people, you lot, don't want to interact with a faceless machine that only talks in riddles, have you ever had a PPI call…WTF is that all about?
Hello, we have been doing that long before social channels appeared.
We are now h2h and not b2b or b2c we are all in the shit together so be honest, transparent and true to your word. Great advice but why separate everyone and everything into categories, maybe that's how some like it, it's easy to manage that way, like having kittens in a box, once you let them out all hell breaks loose. Don't know why I keep mentioning kittens, I hate cats, I love dogs…
I remember reading a business self-help book years ago and the person who wrote the thing said that he had his morning routine, (so far so good so do I), and that first thing after rising he had his shower, (still all good), and that the last thing he did was put on his 'power suit' and he was ready to face anything…WTF!!! Is this superman, has he got x-ray eyes? Come on…self-help, more like self-harm.
As far as I know people have always done business with people. You meet someone and if you like them then you decide if you can work together and you take it from there, the rest comes naturally.
So why should we separate and categorise social channels? Why should we be expected to act differently on one channel than another? I don't know about you but I like to think I don't wear a mask, unless it's Friday night, but that's another story, I like to think I am the same person wherever I go and that's why people like me and want to work with me.
The work mask is a fascinating concept and if the guys over at Berrison are reading this maybe they will explain in a less confusing way than I am attempting.
What's your take on all of this do you think that social channels should be categorised and used purely for pleasure and business?
Do you wear a 'mask' to work?
Wow…this could be a real can of worms…


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An aspiring superpower's ego stood somewhat hurt when India woke up to the news of the possible return of the hyphen between India and Pakistan vis-a-vis the two countries' relations with the US, earlier this month. National Security Adviser, Shiv Shankar Menon, clearly expressed his reservations, saying, "It looks like a re-hyphenation of the India-Pakistan equation that is not in our interest..."
So, what exactly does re-hyphenation mean? What it implies is putting India and Pakistan in the same basket vis-à-vis Washington's relations with both these countries. If such a decision were to go through, the possibility would amount to the re-merger of the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) with the Bureau of South and Central Asia (SCA) that handles India. Such a decision would significantly enhance the prospects of Washington's meddling in India-Pakistan relations, given the likely increase in the same diplomats and officials frequenting Islamabad and New Delhi, and officiated from a common State Department regional node. The present state of de-hyphenated India-Pakistan relations allows for a bilateral resolution of the mutual problems between the countries without any mediation by a third party.
Re-hyphenation implies putting India and Pakistan in the same basket vis-à-vis Washington's relations with both these countries.
There are two theories explaining the potential return of the hyphen. First, the dilution of the SRAP by an all-encompassing SCA found consonance with the irrelevance that SRAP represents in the aftermath of international troop pullout from Afghanistan, and, second, a lame duck President scrambling to leave a legacy in his Asia policy for the next administration in Washington.
Arguments against the likelihood of re-hyphenation, on the other hand, are premised on the argument that Washington has come a long way from the Cold War days when it viewed its relationship with India and Pakistan through the same lens as a zero-sum game. Today, indeed, the US-India relationship is in a different league altogether. By separating its relations with both New Delhi and Islamabad from each other, Washington has stood to gain a lot since 2008, as have the two countries in question.
Thus, it is not surprising that the US officials soon confirmed that there would be no merging of the India and Pakistan desks at the State Department.
The SRAP desk was created in 2009 soon after the Obama Administration took over, with a view to focussing on the Afghan problem and the spokes that connected it to the state of Pakistan. Washington views India's understanding of de-hyphenation as skewed. While India has traditionally viewed de-hyphenation as being linked to the 2009 decision to create SRAP to deal with Afghanistan-Pakistan effectively, some in Washington have objected to any understanding of de-hyphenation based on institutional linkages, stressing that it has viewed India and Pakistan through different prisms much before the formation of the SRAP. For instance, Alyssa Ayres, former assistant deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs, traces the 2005 nuclear deal between India and the US as the hallmark agreement that ended all possibilities of any further hyphenation in the US's relations with India and Pakistan.
By separating its relations with both New Delhi and Islamabad from each other, Washington has stood to gain a lot since 2008, as have the two countries in question.
However, such assessments are almost entirely eclipsed by doubt on the back of recent reports that the US might be considering signing a similar nuclear deal with Pakistan. Arguments about better and more efficient management of the region under one principal head of the regional bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in the State Department also fail to convince in the face of the continuing Afghan conundrum and a growing desire in Washington to tighten screws on Pakistan to compel it to act more effectively against terrorism. A separate watchman in the State Department in such circumstances is likely to deliver more promisingly than a joint India-Pakistan desk. Moreover, the US would like to continue building on the gains made through the current de-hyphenated model of its relationship with both India and Pakistan.
A re-hyphenated India-Pakistan relationship in the US's scheme of things is not desirable for India because it is likely to affect India's Afghanistan policy. India's Afghanistan policy could be tweaked to support some of the US's own policies in the region. Already, there is a growing appreciation of India's steps in Afghanistan by the US. Recently, the US hailed India's donation of three helicopters to Afghanistan. A hyphenation of the SRAP and the SCA could also fill the growing gap that has come about by dwindling US footprints in Afghanistan and arguments that go on to suggest that Afghanistan might well be turning to India.
Conjectures aside, the larger picture still seems to coincide with former US ambassador Teresita C Schaffer's assertion, "US policy is still 'de-hyphenation' -- trying to manage the important and very different relationships with India and Pakistan without making one dependent on the other."
It remains to be seen if the status quo apropos de-hyphenated relations between India and Pakistan continues with the next President of the United States.
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