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Vitamin K for newborn babies
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What is Vitamin K?
Vitamin K occurs naturally in the body and helps to clot the blood and is essential to prevent serious bleeding.
Why is my baby given Vitamin K?
After a baby is born it takes a few months for their bodies to make enough Vitamin K to ensure their blood can clot properly. By giving your baby Vitamin K it makes sure they will have enough to clot their blood and can prevent a rare disorder, known as, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN). HDN can cause bleeding into the brain and could result in brain damage or in extreme cases even death.
How will Vitamin K be given to my baby?
Vitamin K can be given to your baby by injection or orally. Only one injection is required, however, oral dosage is more complicated. To give your baby Vitamin K orally you will need to make sure your baby has one dose at birth, one between three and five days after birth and another one in their fourth week of life.
There are a few reasons babies may not be able to have Vitamin K orally including if they are ill; if they are born prematurely or it their mum has had medication during pregnancy for epilepsy, blood clots or tuberculosis.
How long does the dose of Vitamin K protect my baby?
One Vitamin K injection is enough to last your baby for months. They will only need one injection or one course of oral treatment.
Can all babies be given Vitamin K?
Yes. All babies can be given Vitamin K.
Does Vitamin K have any side effects?
No. Vitamin K has been used in Australia for more than 25 years without any apparent side effects and has eradicated HDN. There was one study that suggested there could be a link between Vitamin K and childhood cancer, but this study has since been disproved.
Do all babies have to be given Vitamin K?
No. It is your choice if your baby is given Vitamin K. However, medical experts in Australia agree that babies are given Vitamin K to prevent the very serious disease of HDN.
When is my baby given Vitamin K?
Your baby will be given a Vitamin K shortly after birth.


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Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech
Marrakech, Morocco
With the Atlas Mountains as a backdrop and a series of serene ponds as a centrepiece, Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech lies nestled in 20 hectares of olive groves and landscaped gardens, beautifully scented with jasmine, night-blooming cestrum and over 100,000 fragrant roses. Only 10 minutes from the city's famous Medina, this elegant, contemporary resort feels a world away in terms of serenity, with just 54 luxurious villas and 9 spacious suites, a world-class spa and excellent dining overseen by celebrated local chef Meryem Cherkaoui and Ling Ling by Hakkasan Group.
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Phone: +212 524 29 88 09
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Website: mandarinoriental.com/marrakech
Oriental Pool Villa
Square footage: 1,388
Nightly rate: $1,850
Designed around a stunning central courtyard, these magnificent two-bed villas are the most spacious accommodations at the hotel, offering the ultimate blend of Moroccan style and discreet luxury. Offering a contemporary take on a traditional Moroccan riad in which the outside space is as important as the inside, the accommodation is spread over a spacious ground floor. A stunning pool and jacuzzi take centre stage, around which lie lanterns, an open fireplace and various sitting, sunbathing and eating areas. In addition, an external kitchen and dining area features a table for al fresco entertaining, whilst a curtained alcove festooned with embroidered white cushions is the perfect place to escape the sun.
Lying at the heart of the villa, a sumptuous master bedroom combines a rustic, yet sophisticated décor with glass doors opening straight out onto the Jacuzzi and the latest in modern technology such as discreetly hidden televisions and a lighting control pad. To one side lies a comfortable living area with a working desk and sofa, whilst to the other, a huge light-filled bathroom features a circular bath, a powerful walk-in steam shower, vanity areas and a large walk-in closet. A second bedroom with ensuite bathroom lies to the other side of the courtyard, offering the perfect accommodation for families.
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Ling Ling provides a creative twist to the renowned Hakkasan DNA, resulting in an experience that encompasses cocktails, dining and dancing in no particular order.
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Steps for Creating a Website
This article is going to show you how to create a website in ten simple steps.
Figure Out What Type of Website You Want
There are numerous website types to choose from. You can start a blog, an ecommerce site, or a simple small business website, just to name a few. It is your decision as to what type of site you need yet before you even begin creating the website you want. You have to know how you want the website to look in addition to what you are expecting to achieve from the website before you move forward to other steps.
Find a Website Builder
If you are a beginner, you could create a website without the assistance of a website builder yet using one will make the process easier. When you go with a website builder, you will find it is easy to create a beautiful website that looks like a professional made it in a short amount of time.
Select Your Domain Name
When choosing your domain name make sure that you do so wisely as it plays a large part in the success of your website and SEO. Depending on the website builder that you go with, they may want their name in your URL too, but this should not affect your SEO.
Choose a Template
When you use a website builder, they will offer you the option of using a template. This will allow you to make your background color an imaging selection easier. The template is already designed for you so all you have to do is change the titles and texts, which greatly reduces the time that it takes you to create the website.
Create Content
Once you have a template chosen and have followed the prior steps it is time to add in some content. You should add in important details and images too so when your first few visitors start rolling in there is something for them to see.
Test Your Website
After you have your content uploaded, you want to view your website as though you are a visitor. Make sure that all of your links work and there are no mistakes on any of your pages. Despite the fact that you designed your website yourself, you do not want it to appear this way to your customers.
Social Media Sharing Time
Let your friends and family know about your website via your social media channels.
Update Your Website
You have to make sure you update your website frequently so it does not fade from the search engines. It can be something as simple as a short blog post or even a picture, just make sure you are updating the website at least once per month.
Know Your Options
If you built your website with a website builder make sure you know all of the options available, such as how often customer support is available. Knowing the options you have will help you enhance your website even more.
Enjoy Your Website
Now that your website is created enjoy what you have done on your own. Do not sweat over your results yet because they will come with time as you find out what your target audience wants to see.
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Newness: Finishing Powder and New Foundation Shades
Pop some champagne, do some cartwheels and karate kicks and buckle up for our newness (maybe just stick to champagne... no one needs to get hurt attempting a cartwheel)!
We are so excited to announce the latest in Osmosis Makeup. We pride ourselves on listening to our loyal clients and we heard your requests! You now have three new shades to compliment our ever-popular Pressed Base and Long Wear Liquid Foundation. Our three new shades round out your foundation choices perfectly. So, with-out further ado, we are pleased to introduce you to Fair, Olive and Beige Dark! Check out our color matching chart (featuring our favorite celebs) to find out if one of them is right for you!
We also can't wait for all of you to get your hot little hands on our NEW Finishing Powder! This will certainly become a staple in your makeup bag. This new pressed, talc-free formula helps control oil and shine all day long with a matte finish. Your skin gets a treat from soothing Honeysuckle extract and antioxidant-strong Green Tea Extract. We love using the Dome Powder Brush to set our Liquid (or even our powder) Foundation and the Blender Brush to set our Age Defying Treatment Concealer and eye makeup! The best thing about this powder is its translucent coverage, that's right; there is no color to this powder, just pure oil-absorbing mattifying power!
Makeup artists around the globe have a long used trade secret when it comes to finishing powders... and we are going to let you in on it! Before you apply your mascara, use the Blender Brush and tap a good amount of Finishing Powder onto your lashes, follow with a coat of Mascara. Sprinkle a little more finishing powder onto tacky lashes, then apply one more coat. You now have the next best thing to false lashes. Now you are in on the secret, use it wisely...er... everyday! We can't wait to hear how much you love these new additions to the color line!
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A reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay specific for identifying avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) in poultry vaccines, and the serological response to IBV induced by the inoculation of chicks with a Newcastle disease vaccine spiked with the Massachusetts strain of IBV, were compared for their ability to detect IBV as a contaminant of avian vaccines. The sensitivity of the IBV-RT-PCR assay provided results which were at least equivalent to the biological effect produced by the inoculation of chicks, allowing this assay to be considered a valid alternative to animal testing in the quality control of avian immunologicals. This procedure can easily be adapted to detect a number of co
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Hi everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I finally had a few days off, but unfortunately those days were spent packing and getting ready for this move. I knew I had to pack away most of my warmer clothes, "fall" bags and shoes, as most everything is going into storage for a few months until our house is finished (we are staying in my folks winter home because we sold our current home too quickly and have to close at the end of the month). I want to say it's normal that I had a moment of panic packing all those pretties away ha – I mean, what if I need a random burgundy or leopard print accessory?! 😂 And you know in July I'm going to want to start "planning" fall outfits and won't be surprised if I scour through the storage unit ripping open boxes. 😜
Below are my outfits from this past week I've shared on Instagram. Here goes Monday!
olive lace tee | triad earrings | black ankle pants | leopard flats (similar) | bracelet


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The newly-renovated SEPTA entrance by Philadelphia City Hall is an eye-catching gem.
It's equipped with modern touches including new turnstiles.
The station is designed not for the present — but for the future.
SEPTA riders at the Dilworth Park entrance paying with tokens or cash may be surprised to learn that the machines don't accept them.
Instead, riders have to hand them to a cashier and they may have to wait in line to do so, especially during rush hour.
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"We're hoping as we roll out 'SEPTA Key,' lines at the token booth or cashier booth will become a thing of the past." said Leslie Hickman, SEPTA's deputy chief officer for new payment technology integration.
Hickman said the station's machines are set up to accept the smart cards that SEPTA plans to start using later this year.
"Dilworth is actually another entrance to our 15th and City Hall and trolley stations. So it's just one more entrance and we thought it prudent once we opened this new station, that we would put in all of the new SEPTA key turnstiles," she said.
Hickman said a lot of riders know that if they pay with a token they'll have to give it to a cashier at the Dilworth Park entrance.
"Typically, at that station we don't collect too many tokens because it is predominantly an exit station."
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Here are a few our favourites this week that we wanted to share with you all.
Naomi White shared this fantastically festive photo of her family at Elveden; we particularly loved the jumpers!
Ruth Maiden's son was photographed at Whinfell Forest graduating from Elf Academy. The four-year-old's ceremony was the highlight of Ruth's family break.
Stephanie Horwood certainly had a busy time during her break to Elveden Forest; she told us on Facebook she had taken more than 150 photos during her Winter Wonderland break. This photo of Stephanie and her family was taken on their way to visit Santa.
Bridie Hiscox says that the highlight of her break was seeing her son receive his yellow skateboard during Breakfast with Santa. She described her break to Woburn Forest as a "truly memorable experience for us all."
We loved this family photo that Stacey Gibson sent us during their break. Certainly one for the photo album!
That's all for this time! Thanks to everyone who sent us their #CPfestive photos.


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Millions of Americans are working overtime and not getting paid for it. That's because overtime rules—which require employers to pay workers for time beyond 40 hours a week—have been severely weakened since 1975.
This is easy to fix. The Department of Labor just proposed a plan to protect an estimated 5 million additional workers from overtime abuse. And now they need to hear from you.
The Department of Labor will use your comments when deciding to boost overtime pay, so it's important that they hear from you.
The new proposed overtime rules will guarantee that you will receive overtime pay if you earn a salary of less than $50,440.*
What's your annual salary?
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Back in April, Slack released a cool new feature that allows you to set a status message on your account. Some of the examples they provide are:
- In a meeting
- Commuting
- Out sick
- Vacationing
- Working remotely
"This is awesome!," I thought. "Now I can do what did on AIM in 1997!"
Slack did sprinkle this status in various places in the UI, but it's still a pain to go searching for it, especially if you haven't chatted with a person in a while. Plus, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to see a compiled status for a group (e.g. @engineering-team).
Enter: Staatus
I built Staatus on a PHP framework called Silex. It's a microframework based on Symfony that provides the guts for building simple single-file apps. Here's an example:
require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php'; $app = new Silex\Application(); $app->get('/hello/{name}', function($name) use($app) { return 'Hello '.$app->escape($name); }); $app->run();
Staatus allows you to see a compiled status of an individual, a particular team, or everyone in a channel. The code is over on our Github.
I have to hand it to the devs at Slack. The API was super-easy to work with. I made use of these REST commands:
With that, I was able to display both status emojis/messages, but also a blue diamond if the person is online:
The Code
Coding this up was very straightforward. I'd say the only quirk I ran into is that the calls take too long, and Slack does not like that. If your plugin doesn't return within a few seconds, you get an error message. My plugin is hosted on Heroku, so between the lag of Heroku waking up instances and the time it takes to run all the API calls (which can amount to many, especially when Staatus is run against a team name), I needed to figure out a way to return a delayed response. Normally, in a single-threaded language like PHP, that's not easy. Most frameworks follow a very "serial" manner of generating a response:
- A request comes in (possibly with parameters).
- A response is generated.
- The response is returned and the request dies.
So if step 2 was taking too long, how was I going to work around Slack's request time limits? The answer comes in Silex's $app->finish() method. It is documented as:
A finish application middleware allows you to execute tasks after the Response has been sent to the client (like sending emails or logging)
Here's how I used it:
$process = function(Request $request) use($app) { // first, validate token $token = $request->get('token'); if (empty($token) || $token !== VERIFY_TOKEN) { $app->abort(403, "Invalid token."); } $response = [ 'response_type' => 'ephemeral', 'text' => 'Gathering staatus...']; // just return; the rest of the processing will happen in finish() return $app->json($response); }; $app->get('/', $process); // for testing $app->post('/', $process); $app->finish(function (Request $request, Response $response) use($app) { ... }
As you can see, my $process method returns immediately and I do the rest of the processing in a finish() method. This allows me to take as long as I'd like (give or take) to return a response back to Slack using a one-time response URL they provide. (Technically, you can't take as long as you'd like to respond. Slack has a hard limit of "up to 5 times within 30 minutes"):
$response = [ 'response_type' => 'ephemeral', 'text' => $text]; $client2 = new Client(['base_uri' => $responseUrl]); $response2 = $client2->post('', [ 'json' => $response, 'verify' => false ]);
And that's all, folks. So, go ahead and download Staatus, deploy it on Heroku, and you'll be partying like it's 1997 all over again. BOOYAH!
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Honorary Chair Miep Gies, 97: "I Was Privileged to Have Known Anne…Help Us Honor and Celebrate Her Life and Legacy"
NEW YORK, NY (February 2, 2005)
The Anne Frank Center in partnership with David Clark, announced today a global commemoration to celebrate the life and legacy of Anne Frank, on her 75th birthday. Miep Gies has agreed to serve as an Honorary Chairperson for the landmark event. Unknown to many, Miep Gies, 94, is the woman who hid Anne and her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of Holland, and later found Anne's Diary.
"I was privileged to have known Anne, and believe there is no better person to reach out to the youth of the world to promote tolerance and understanding. Anne's writing and life promoted human rights for all," said Miep Gies who still resides in Amsterdam. "I'm honored to serve as an Honorary Chairperson for Anne's 75th birthday and urge people everywhere to stand up and take notice of this historic event, and help us honor her life and legacy."
The remarkable life of Miep Gies similarly represents courage and sacrifice. During the occupation of Holland Miep Gies risked her life daily to hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. For more than two years she helped the Franks and four others evade the Nazi's by secretly bringing food, comfort and news of the outside world to them in their tiny attic hideout. Following the tragic day when the family was discovered, Miep Gies again risked her life by trying to buy their freedom from the Gestapo, and it was Miep who found Anne's Diary, and kept it so she could return it to her friend. When it was obvious Anne had perished in the notorious Bergen Belsen Concentration camp, Miep gave the Diary to Anne's Father Otto, the only person of the eight in hiding to survive the camps.
Since that time, Miep has dedicated her life to keeping the memory of Anne Frank alive, and is the only person mentioned in The Diary of Anne Frank who is still alive.
"There is no other young person in history who has such global recognition and appeal, and whose circumstances so poignantly highlight the cause and effect of hatred – than Anne Frank," said Elisabeth Feerick, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center USA. "Anne's diary has served as an inspiration for many generations of ordinary and extraordinary people. It is our hope that this celebratory event will build on Anne's legacy and continue to inspire each of us to uphold her ideals and to be steadfast in promoting moral courage when we combat discrimination. It is a fight and cause to which she gave her voice and her life."
In addition to raising global awareness of Anne Frank's legacy of tolerance and understanding, 100 percent of the event's net proceeds will be donated to the Anne Frank Center so Anne's message of hope and tolerance can continue. For additional information regarding the event or supporting the work of the Anne Frank Center, information can be found by visiting www.annefrank.com
"We are both proud and honored to be a part of this extraordinary project, and to promote the tapestry of Human Rights that Anne Frank championed during her short life. We firmly believe that the youth of the world will stand up and take notice, as Anne speaks to them – uniquely as one of their own. People understand that Anne did not champion Human Rights when it was easy or convenient", said David Clark, CEO of EPOP Productions, "rather, she promoted these ideals when it was hard, when she was imprisoned in an attic for years, simply because she was Jewish. I have no doubt that her message of hope and tolerance will continue to resonate, and believe the world will get involved with her Human Rights event, perhaps as never before."
Since its publication over fifty years ago, The Diary of Anne Frank has been published in 67 languages, and has sold an astounding 31 million copies. Her message of tolerance has inspired generations, including world leaders, such as President John F. Kennedy who said of Anne – "Of the multitude who throughout human history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank".


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The Panorama shows the inner courtyard of the new townhall in munich with market stalls. The shot was taken in the evening at the advent season 2011.
Munich is the capital of the German state of Bavaria and is Germany's third largest city, located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Black and gold - the colors of the Holy Roman Empire - have been the city's official colors since the time of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.


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The activities listed below provide a link to other areas in the curriculum.
- Write a class play about the brain. The class can focus on several functions of the brain or zero in on one or two. Students can then perform the play for other classes in the school.
- Make a class bar graph illustrating how many emotions students experience each day. Have the x-axis represent different emotions and the y-axis represent the number of students. Each bar can represent just 1 day or the average of a week's emotions. Or you can make different graphs for each day, and then compare them at the end of the week.
- Have students make a booklet focusing on the senses. Tell them to create one page for each sense. The page can include only drawings or a drawing and a sentence about what the sense does. If students would like to include writing and need help, make sure an adult is available to work with them.
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Somewhat lost among all the commentary about what the Pope had to say about homosexuality in that press conference, is his passing reference to another 'lobby' that may or may not be at work in the Vatican.
"The problem is not that one has this tendency; no, we must be brothers, this is the first matter. There is another problem, another one: the problem is to form a lobby of those who have this tendency, a lobby of the greedy people, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of Masons, so many lobbies. This is the most serious problem for me," he said.
The idea that there is a lobby (or to be more accurate, a secret society, which is what the Italians intend by their use of the word) of masons at work in the Vatican, is an old one. At one time or another several leading persons in the Vatican have been denounced as masons, including Cardinal Villot (Paul VI's Secretary of State) and Mgr Annibale Bugnini, the famous liturgist. When one points out that there is no shred of evidence that these men were ever masons, the very lack of evidence is supposed to be decisive. After all, the masons are experts at covering things up.
A few years ago, when a famous churchman in Italy was cleared by a court of the charge of being in collusion with the Mafia, the popular reaction was that this was 'proof' he really was a Mafioso. After all, only people not protected by the honoured society are ever sent down. The real Mafiosi are too powerful to touch.
Italians love conspiracy theories, and with some justification. Italy is a land of mysteries. No one knows who was behind the bombing of Piazza Fontana, or the massacre of Ustica, for example, and we are never likely to know now. But are there really freemasons in the Vatican?
Most English people would laugh at the idea of a masonic mafia at work in the Vatican. I am not sure, though, that we should. Masonry is far from harmless. There is a strong belief – on what evidence is not clear – that Continental masonry is markedly different from the British variety. While the British masons are supposed to be well represented in the police and the courts, Italian masonry is strongly identified with big business and banking, and the powerful secretive elites that are supposed to be the 'real' government of the country. Masonry is also seen as strongly anti-clerical; thus a masonic lobby in the Vatican would be opposed to virtually everything the Church stands for, and a real enemy within.
What are the beliefs of the masons? Masonry has its roots in the Scottish Enlightenment and the first masons came to England in the train of King James VI and I. The claims that masonry has its origins in the medieval guilds or in the builders of the Temple of Solomon are not historically sustainable. The programme of masonry, if it can be called such, is nothing more than Deism, the belief that while God exists, He does not intervene in the world, and the well-being of the world is not dependant on grace (the existence of which is denied) but on human rational progress and "science".
The opposite of "science" is of course "superstition" or organised religion in its current forms. Masonry seem to me to have a close relation to the Whig theory of history, the belief in the inevitability of progress. Such beliefs, of course, completely deny the existence of sin, and the need for grace and repentance. Oddly, much of what the freemasons seem to believe is close to the neo-atheism of many of our contemporaries – except of course the masons believe in the Great Architect of the Universe – though why they bother themselves with this retired architect, I am not sure. After all, he is not bothered with them, is he?
If there is a masonic lobby in the Vatican, it could mean that there are Deists in the Vatican – people with a watered down version of the Church, religious indifferentists, people who no longer believe in the efficacy of the sacraments except as pieces of theatre, certainly not outward signs of inward grace. These sort of people would see the Church's utility as that of an NGO like the UN. It is to be noted that the Pope has constantly warned of the desacralisation of the Church, and its turning into an NGO. Is he warning us against the agenda of the masonic lobby?
Secondly, the masonic lobby, if it exists, could be the lobby of Italian big business and Italian banking. As such it might have an interest in the way the Vatican bank is run; or it could be trying to undermine the Church's social teaching. It could – historically – have been steering the Vatican away from compromises with the Italian left, the traditional enemy of the masons.
There again, the lobby could be a combination of both of the above. That is a truly frightening thought. Let us hope and pray that there is no masonic lobby in the Vatican. But the very fact the Holy Father has mentioned it, makes one wonder.


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Advocating ideas and policies that result in untold wealth and human happiness since 2006
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
State of the Union: Horrible
In short, nothing has changed.
I went to Wikipeida and looked up a pie chart of the federal government budget. By my 30 seconds of reckoning, you could cut the budget by about 75% in one day by limiting the government to its proper function, the protection of individual rights. The Department of Defense is 19% of the budget, the Department of Justice is 1.5%, and the interest on the national debt is 5%. Ok, 74.5%.
Problem solved.
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My reaction was that this man has utterly no intellectual rudder, and that he's damned expensive. He's a committed altruist, but he's not even principled enough to be a very "good" one.
It's going to be quite the circus watching politicians trying to cut benefits.
This morning I heard protesters in Ohio complaining that proposed cuts would impact the poor disproportionately. Well, duh.
There's a slight difference however, between the weathly (sometimes) complaining about keep their rights, and the poor complaining about not being able to violate the rights of others. Just a bit.
- January 26, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Perplexio said...
I actually enjoyed last night's speech. Paul Ryan did a great job.
Oh, wait, you mean that other monstrosity before Ryan's speech?
- January 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- The Rat Cap said...
I think Ryan was going in the right direction, but I was not that impressed - and I say that as an admirer of Ryan.
Consider that the guy who is considered to be the most radical guy in the Congress, Senator Rand Paul, just came out and proposed cutting $500B in one year (http://www.fox41.com/story/13911626/rand-paul-proposes-500-billion-in-federal-budget-cuts)
$500B is only 1/3 of the deficit for 2011! It's only about 10% of total spending!
So the most radical guy is proposing something that is a drop in the bucket and he will be laughed at. Bachmann had a pretty good speech on behalf of the Tea Party, but very few are serious about tackling this are even on the radar screen. Scary.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Perplexio said...
I think my perspective on Ryan was a little "rosier" considering I had just sat through the entire state of the union address. Even a mediocre speech after THAT State of the Union would sound excellent by comparison.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- The Rat Cap said...
Funny, I had the opposite reaction. I was disgusted and cynical after his speech that if Ayn Rand had delivered the rebuttal I may have accused her of being middle of the road.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- Josh Kaib said...
I completely agree. Obama's speech was just a bunch of empty rhetoric. I just found your blog and I really like it. It's nice to find other blogs like mine!
In case anyone is interested, here's my blog address. http://americantruthmachine.wordpress.com/
- January 26, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Ryan's speech carefully towed the line between altruism and egoism. BTW I actually wish he had said what krugman said in his NYT article:
"the suffering of the unfortunate isn't a proper concern of government, and alleviating that suffering at taxpayer expense is immoral, never mind how little it costs."
- January 26, 2011 at 10:31 PM


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The job of an app developer isn't different, no matter where you are on the planet. The smartphone industry has grown so much in the past couple of years that there is more demand than there is a supply, and the services offered on the smartphone in the form of applications are ever changing, ever growing and getting better with each year.
The app developer works really hard to make his and his client's idea blossom. This context is about the App Developers from UK, who have made some of the best apps to dominate every market in this world.
Contributions of UK app developers in the world
The UK app economy was more than 4 billion pounds in the year 2014. It steadily grew to a hefty 7 billion pounds by Q1 2016.
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The Wolverine, Psychosynthesis & Athletic Performance
Wed, Apr 3 2013 09:53 | Adult Development, Athletic Performance, Imagination, Integral Practice, NFL, Prayer, Psychological Development, Psychology, Spirituality | Permalink
Roberto Assagioli and his system for personal development called Psychosynthesis. His system rests upon leveraging the power of creative imagination to cultivate, refine and establish a more integrated self. Instead of the self being taken over and controlled by "subpersonalities" this more integrated self can control, regulate and mediate how the various subpersonalities find expression, or not.
After class last night I found myself swimming laps and doing some agility work in the pool when I was visited by a story I had watched years ago on NFL.com. The story was on NFL safety Brian Dawkins and how he prepared for his games. Dawkins played at the highest levels for 16 years while being selected to the pro bowl 9 times. He's considered one of the top safety's to have played the game of football. Needless to say, he's worthy of some our attention and study if you're interested in consistent high level performance.
To cut to the chase, Dawkins undergoes a transformation of sorts as he takes the field. He transforms from his normal self into the Wolverine, modeled after the Marvel comic character, who embodies intensity, fortitude and an unbreakable spirit that, regardless of the situation, brings a warrior spirit to the game.
He even goes to the lengths of having two lockers, one for his normal clothes and conventional persona and a second filled with action figurines, posters, images and other reminders of the characteristics of the Wolverine as he knows it. Above this second locker "Weapon X" is listed instead of his name "Dawkins."
The intersection between our Italian psychiatrist who's famous for challenging Freud's model of psychoanalysis and Brain Dawkins can be found in the creative imaginative faculty of the human being. Dawkins is not a likely future hall of fame athlete because he was playing with imagination and participating with a realm of fantasy. Instead I would venture to guess he was leveraging this powerful human faculty to connect and participate with an energy, consciousness and will that in many ways transcended his everyday self.
Assagioli points to a process called Spiritual Psychosynthesis which is his advanced stage of adult development following the completion of Personal Psychosynthesis. Dawkins was knowingly or unknowingly participating with many of these features. First, Dawkins was making contact with the imagery, symbolism and energy that was in many ways beyond his every day personality. Competition often requires this of us. We cannot be inside our preferences, anxieties, fears and doubts if we are to compete at our highest levels. This contact creates a transformation of sorts.
The transformation Dawkins appeared to participate with was not into a make-believe action hero as our less nuanced understanding of his actions and behavior might suggest. The Wolverine for Dawkins exhibited a few interesting characteristics. First, there was integrity. He would not swear. The Wolverine abided by high standards for his personal conduct. This illustrates greater control, and from my vantage point more integrative maturity.
Secondly, and more importantly this warrior he transformed into game in and game out was also a figure who prayed to himself, his team and even prayed to the football as he crouched down on elbows and knees looking at a single football resting on the field. He even spoke in tongues all as a means of entering into and participating with the energy, consciousness and will of the Wolverine. Dawkins outside of the game of football is a devoted religious man off the field. Again, we see features of the wolverine appearing not to be merely a pretend character but instead a living integration or synthesis of dimensions of himself that are beyond his conventional self. By going beyond himself, he naturally included what was most important off the field.
I find this interesting as perhaps this is what sport is about. Sport is most certainly about conflict, fierce competition and the drive to win. However, inside of these conventional aims we can find how sport can be used to grow and develop athletes. Perhaps sport is a powerful integral practice than can cultivate and refine the many facets of the self. In Dawkin's case perhaps sport elicited a synthesis of personhood and the enlivening dimensions of human experience that stretch beyond conventional personhood.
Interested in watching this video on Dawkins? Check it out here.
Author, The Elegant Self & Strength To Awaken
The New Performance Paradigm
Wed, Mar 27 2013 10:46 | Athletic Performance, Development, Integral, Integral Practice, NFL, Performance, Power, Psychological Development, Strength To Awaken, Strength Training | Permalink
Observable measurable statistics are absolutely essential. If a football athlete is aiming to join an NFL roster, his 40 yard dash time, vertical jump height and broad jump distance are essential metrics. If he cannot demonstrate an adequate physiological benchmark, he simply cannot play at the next level. It is as simple as that. Or, as we are about to see in the coming weeks with the NFL draft, shaving off or adding on 3 tenths of a second on a linebacker's 40 time can be the difference of gaining or losing tens of millions of dollars.
These measures are what I like to call the tangibles, because they are more easily measured, grasped and observed.
In strength training we can measure tangibles such as starting power, progressive acceleration and total power output. These all provide measures to performance metrics relevant for just about every sport on the planet. Our above NFL aspirant is wise to grow these metrics as efficiently as possible if he is serious about that contract and the opportunity to play at the highest levels.
But we cannot stop at the tangible metrics, there are also what I like to refer to as intangibles.
Intangibles are subjective and intersubjective capacities that are not separate from the tangible dimensions of performance. These subjective facets of training and performance are also measurable capacities that are just as essential to performance assessment.
What is the complexity the self-system is capable of managing? What is your mental fortitude for pain tolerance? What is our NFL hopeful's level of emotional resiliency under stress? How efficient can a person's conceptual framework integrate coaching cues? These all point to subjective, yet measurable, dimensions to performance. Just like starting power, these are essential measures of capacities required for high level performance.
Strength to Awaken integrates the split between tangible and intangible, between what is objectively measurable and what is subjectively measurable.
We need both because the highest levels of performance are integrative in nature.
Myopically focus upon one, either one at the exclusion of the other, and you will never see your highest performance capacities, period.
While Strength to Awaken is high-grade rocket fuel for developing the all to commonly neglected intangibles, I want you to consider carefully who is training, developing and refining your intangibles? Who has the requisite experience and skill? Who demonstrates the "inner" mastery and who can guide you toward your "outer" mastery?
If you're interested in an example, see one of the top athletes on the planet rigorously working both the tangibles and intangibles: Trevor Tierney. Carefully study what he does and says.
These are essential questions if performance is something you really want to devote yourself to.
Become curious about how intangibles integrate into the full spectrum of tangible performance metrics. Be careful though, many people who love tangibles (at the exclusion of the many intangibles) are not even seeing the whole picture of the tangibles clearly and thus leaving out essential parts.
Whatever you leave out ultimately stunts performance, regardless of whether it is tangible or intangible.
When considering growing aptitudes for performance the following manual guides you into how to consider the full territory of the human being and its capacities.
One of the ways I like to frame strength training as is it can become a training ground for this integrative approach to refining your tangible and intangible abilities to perform. Learn it in the gym and apply it in any area of your life.
Anything less than this integrative embrace of your full complexity is bound to conceptual limitations (itself an intangible that can be measured) that itself closes down your greater possibilities.
Get curious. Keep your mind nimble and open as you refine the tangible and intangible dimensions of yourself. And, get suspicious of yourself and how you are approaching performance and training. You are practicing something, rehearsing something whether you are aware of it or not. There are likely hidden limitations to your methodologies and approaches. Curiosity can lead you toward greater performance capacities.
Rob McNamara
The Elegant Self & Strength To Awaken
When you Should and Shouldn't Train for Size
Thu, Oct 11 2012 11:05 | Athletic Performance, Muscle Gain, Neurological Development, Psychological Development, Speed Development | Permalink
Size, it's a major focus point in the field of strength training. Unfortunately size is not properly understood so I am going to chime in on a few things.
1. You need more muscle mass.
If you haven't followed my blog on why - you need to read it here. Muscle mass generally makes you smaller until you have gotten your body fat down to fairly low levels. So for most people, training to gain more muscle mass means you'll trade very dense muscle tissue for very dispersed adipose tissue (this is especially the case when you refine your nutrition to support muscle growth and fat loss). Get bigger muscles & you get smaller. This is the kind of size that's good for most people.
2. Athletes, slow down!
If you happen to be a aspiring athlete who wants to get bigger and stronger... slow down!
I remember coming back my senior year in college and telling my lacrosse coach that I had gained 10 pounds of muscle. He was sitting in his office studying game tapes and here was his two year captain rolling in telling him that I gained 10 pounds of muscle since last season. What do you think his response was?
He got angry.
He knew all too well what this typically means. To him, I was telling him something along these lines, "Hey coach, I trained really hard and got slower for you... but I look good on the beach."
What was my response?
I said, "Coach, I gained 10 pounds of muscle and...I got faster. I am faster than last season."
That's when he got excited.
Gaining muscle in the conventional sense typically slows you down. Training methodologies that are designed to just build muscular size (these have become the most popular and wide spread) are not the exercises that likely you should be doing. You want to build muscular power, joint integrity and your ability for something I was talking about yesterday with a young athlete - progressive acceleration.
If you gain muscle, make sure you're doing it in a way that builds more starting power, better joint integrity and higher measures of progressive acceleration. If you're doing this your coach will be happy with what happens come competition. Athletes, whenever possible consult with seasoned experience working with athletes at the highest levels of your discipline. Learn what they are doing and employ these methodologies strategically.
In most cases you will find out that you want to avoid size like the plague, unless size is also making you neurologically more powerful, explosive, dynamic, flexible and more insulated from possible injury. If size is slowing you down, chances are you're training yourself out of being competitive.
3. The real size everyone needs.
Here is what 99% of the discourse on size is missing. While you may or may not want more physical size, you should be training to inhabit more of your psychological size. That's right you want your sense of self to be bigger, broader, more inclusive and integrative.
You need a bigger self.
Training can grow your sense of self such that you are larger than culture. This means that you are bigger than social conventions. Social norms don't drive you, your larger intelligence directs you. The self that's smaller than culture is directed by culture. The self that's larger is the one doing the directing that stems from a larger integrity. This self is big, but to be perfectly honest it's not big enough.
If you're interested in training to become larger my book Strength To Awaken is perhaps the most nuanced discourse on the subject matter. I show you how to cultivate a self that is bigger than polarities. A self that is larger than the dualities of pain and pleasure is a massively large self that is capable of an elegance that smaller, less integrative selves can not even dream of.
The next time you dive into your training I recommend focusing on what size of self you are training. Are you "exercising" your self that is smaller than your socially constructed habits or are you training the self that is larger than your habituation? Are you playing inside the conditioning of pain and pleasure or are you playing in a self that is outside of this conditioned box?
And for those of you who are worried about having a big self, or a "big ego" as it might be referred to... relax. We are not talking about inflating the ego's sense of self importance to monumental proportions. We are instead talking about growing your ego functions to massively powerful and refined levels such that you can regulate social pressures, personal habits that may hold you back as well as unresolvable polarities. These become facets that you participate with, manage and regulate instead of being managed and regulated by them.
Expand your sense of self, train to grow a larger more capable self and you will likely be served in every other facet of life.
Big Love
The Evolution of You & Integral Practice
Thu, Oct 4 2012 10:53 | Integral Consciousness, Integral Practice, Meditation, Psychological Development, Strength To Awaken | Permalink
In my book Strength to Awaken I outline a system and philosophy of practice that steps beyond much of the current formulations around integral practice.
The old school model, whether you're talking about Ken Wilber's ILP (integral life practice) or Michael Murphy's ITP (integral transformative practice), they are both rooted in a sequential engagement of all of your major faculties. Both approaches totally rock and they have been robust approaches that are genuine strides forwards in the technology of evolving human complexity. And one of their central limitations is that neither explicitly in a rigorous way engage the integral nature of who you are in the immediacy of this moment.
How do you train this?
That's what my book is all about.
Sequence is an inherent part of life, and the natural unfolding of your schedule takes care of the sequential nature of practice. Pick up an integral framework and take it to heart and you will find an integral practice much like Wilber and Murphy propose organically forming in your schedule. Whatever you genuinely value, you will see it showing up in your schedule.
However, If you're like most people then you are likely in need of an upgrade from a sequential approach to integral practice to the robust discipline of the full unmediated participation with this immediacy.
This my friends is where your mature integral consciousness resides and as long as you temporally project your aliveness and complexity through time - or sequence - you're playing in the integral minor leagues.
From what I can tell we need more people inhabiting, embodying and participating with the honors curriculum of human development and this brings me to the maturation of integral consciousness and ultimately the maturation of...You.
Following yesterday's post - the vast majority of people relate to integral practice and state training from a conventional stage of complexity (or below). Let's look at some of the meaning making around these conventions.
"I am meditating"
"I had a non-dual experience"
"I am working on stabilizing my Witness"
These are just a few brief examples of conventional stages of interpretation regarding state-training and in the context of integral practice we might find someone saying,
"I am going to work on my body line tonight in yoga and I've got a shadow session tomorrow afternoon with my therapist and I'm going to try to meditate tonight before I go to sleep."
"I am doing a surrender practice following my strength training session, then I am going to do some journaling. This evening after work I'm working on my cognitive line of development by studying this amazing author's Blog. It's Rob McNamara, ever heard of him?"
Shameless promoting, I know ;-)
This kind of discourse happens all the time in the integral community and it is likely to happen within your own private narrative as well.
This is all conventional because it presumes that you - your sense of self - is distinct, whole and complete from the various objects that you are negotiating. Meditation times, contemplative states of consciousness, the physical, emotional, relational, and mental parts of an integral practice. This is through and through conventional.
Ok, I'm going to let you in on a little secret… ok so it's a BIG secret. Mature Integral Consciousness has an entirely different relationship to Integral Theory and Practice than the vast majority of people are participating with. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.
…. that was exciting wasn't it?
Ok, now that we had our exciting secret you can tell anyone you want :-)
The vast majority of the integral movement has been enveloped by conventional stages of meaning making, I know… take it easy - it's OK. Ask yourself this question, Have you used integral theory to "evolve" or "develop" a more distinct, more distinctive, more complete sense of self?
Next, look around your integral circles and take note, Are they using integral theory to create, establish and fortify a more distinct, separate and complete sense of self? Are the constantly yearning to grasp the whole of integral theory by reading all the books, taking the advanced trainings and coaching with the supposed brightest minds?
This is often the landscape… Chances are you're doing this on some level and so is just about everyone else around you. For those of you who are sympathetic to the whole integral notion of being lonely in your developmental vantage point, float your rib cage gently forward, allow your crown to lift, soften your belly and allow this to penetrate through every facet of you.
Part of this is true, good and beautiful & the part virtually nobody talks about (because few people see it as an object in their complexity) is that your perceived isolation stems from your conventional stage of development. Yep, that's right, this felt sense largely stems from your conventional stage, not from your post conventional stages. Think of it as a symptom of "Integral Infancy."
The job of your conventional stage of development is to cultivate and establish a separate, distinct, complete self that is functionally autonomous. You can set your own boundaries, take stands for what you value most, clearly communicate, be loyal to who you are or who you can become depending on the circumstance. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
You are a complete, distinct self that interacts with the world. Oh, and if you do this really well with a high degree of competence, you feel alone, isolated and wondering how to bridge the gap between where you are - you "separate, discrete" self and those other people over there. Take this implicit conventional drive and jack it up on something like AQAL and of course you're going to feel even more "isolated" and hungry for community.
If you happen to have already established some sense of mastery over the "autonomous, discrete and distinct self" then it's time for the "honors track" as Robert Kegan calls it.
Right now your greater emergence is embedded in participating with the larger complexity that is here holding you and working you. Feeling isolated is only one pole of the larger truth that participates you. The dialectic of separateness and connectedness is fluid in your novel emergence into your larger more beautiful maturity. In fact, the interconnectedness of the immediacy of this moment is interpenetrating throughout you in an alive dynamic way. While your separateness and distinctness flowers into an even greater fullness, this is no longer a fixed consolidated position but an open interpenetrable incompleteness that's born from an uncommon intimacy with everything.
Your sense of self that embodies your larger complexity is not distinct, not separate, not complete. Your search for greater wholeness - when not ejected into transcendent states of consciousness - actually inhabits your unconditioned incompleteness. The larger complexity that is holding you, working you, co-creating you is fundamentally incomplete, partial, open and a unique flux of interpenetrating unresolvable dialectics.
...as always, more to come :-)
Big Love
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The Future of Spiritual Praxis
Fri, Sep 28 2012 02:59 | Adult Development, Development, Integral, Integral Consciousness, Psychological Development, Spirituality, Transcendence | Permalink
Spiritual Praxis is, by and large, a progressive exploration of more and more subtle and transcendental states of awareness leading up to the simple, direct, unmoving dynamic that is your unmediated and obvious liberation. The vast spectrum of paths, practices and discourses around the world are an investigation into ever more expansive states of consciousness. Throw away the many labels and the differing value systems that rest upon divergent states of consciousness and you have one massive tradition, one broad lineage of human beings that are yoking their awareness from their habituated identities that consolidate limitations where liberations belong.
Let us all give a huge, wide open bow to the billions of human beings that have carved forth these groves of wakefulness. Both those who are here, alive in practice today and the many that are no longer animating their known and unknown forms. Whether you're alive, died 5000, 2000, 100 years ago or if the great Cessation raptured you yesterday - there is a Silent Space beyond all habituated movement that shines a calm simple gratitude. That's for all of us :-)
There is a new form of spiritual praxis that is emerging. By new, I mean an explicit supra-developmentally-organized-practice picked up with an explicit developmental aim. Implicitly we have been participating with this since our origins, but it is only very recently that we have begun to pick up these novel forms of spirituality to explicitly participate with our evolving developmental complexity.
This new praxis is not the investigation, stabilization and realization of greater states of consciousness, rather it stems from the investigation of structure stages of consciousness. This has largely been born through modern Western psychological research methodologies, but more specifically it stems from an even more rarified specialization into studying the highest known levels of developmental maturity. So while childhood developmental psychology might not be disclosing these novel spiritual practices, the study of the highest levels of complexity of adult development is disclosing something profoundly new for spiritual practice.
These maps of our most privileged stages of maturity (development is a privilege, one of the central ones) can be used as a type of pointing out instruction. They point to novel ways of relating to everything. These maps disclose new subjective world spaces of self-organization with greater functional capacities for engaging life. They can tell most of us about our own developmental future and our larger ability to respond to the complexities of life. It takes what is called the "emergent unconscious" and points the spot light of wakeful attention into this area of the unconscious. What happens is stunning.
What I have been doing is inviting people to participate with their larger complexity by providing developmental injunctions that yokes them out of their embedded structure stages and invites them into their larger aliveness, elegance and authenticity.
Something powerful often happens when this occurs and it is very different than the more known and practiced explorations of states of consciousness. I brought some of this teaching to my instruction at the Integral Spiritual Experience a couple of years ago and I had a number of people telling me that my sessions were the most significant of their experience of the entire event. I've been leveraging this technology with coaching and psychotherapy clients, in my classrooms with my students and in my own practice life and my sense is there is something deeply vital, cutting edge and pragmatic about this approach.
Translating our highest known levels of maturity into practice injunctions appears to facilitate development dramatically and from my vantage point is a different form of spirituality.
So what does this mean? I've got a few thoughts for us here.
1. Spiritual teachers are wise to pick up developmental injunctions to shape and refine their own teaching methodologies and to refine the complexity with which they interpret the states of consciousness their traditions explore.
2. Spiritual practitioners (who has more or less stabilized conventional adult stages of development) are served by picking up injunctions in both state training and structure-stage training.
3. Integral spiritual teachers should be required to rigorously study these developmental maps with an expert who has access to at least some of the highest known forms of meaning-making. Reading about these maps on your own is a great start, but it is not sufficient just as reading about states is no substitute for actual state-refining practices. Teachers need developmental structure stage transmission and the continual re-organizing of experience into their larger complexity. Without this spiritual teachers are extremely susceptible to consolidating their meaning making, teaching and practice injections around levels of complexity that lack the larger elegance that evolution is demanding.
4. Spiritual teaching, instruction and practice is most effective and efficient when the rigorous state-training methodologies are being translated through some of the most privileged stages of maturity. We need novel systems, new traditions, and a larger methodology for holding the most privileged developmental stages as a new requisite for spiritual instruction.
Finally, we need ongoing open inquiries and a full, unmediated participation with the mystery of developmental complexity amongst our genuine leading edge. What does this practice community look like? How do we support one another? How do we challenge one another? There is no terminus to development, and one of our most important responsibilities that is co-creating us moment to moment is our unknowable evolutionary possibility. We must Submit to this participatory-immediacy.
The practice injunctions I speak of are to follow. I'm developing a course to teach at The Integral Center here in Boulder CO. I just met on this last week so I'll be sharing some of this with you in the coming weeks. If you're hungry for some of it now, tear into my book Strength to Awaken as it's littered with developmental injunctions to yoke you into your greater embodiment.


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This is the second article in a three-part series. For more, read "Leveraging quality control sampling for your business," (Part I of III) and "A primer on lifetime of loss reserving: Preparing for FASB" (Part III of III).
In an earlier article, "Leveraging quality control sampling for your business," we discussed how a lender could leverage existing quality control procedures to monitor trends in defect rates and manage future potential repurchase risk. In this article, we focus on how predictive analytics can be used to identify and correct defects before closing.
By using an approach as described in this article, sellers could significantly reduce their future repurchase exposure.
Data requirements
All lenders selling loans to the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, have the data available to complete this type of loan defect analysis, which uses historical data collected through the self-assessment quality control reporting process. The data should be loan-level and include underwriting characteristics of the loan (e.g., FICO, documentation level, self-employed borrower flags, origination channel, etc.), geographic data, appraisal data, and a flag indicating if the loans reviewed had a defect. Sellers must also have developed or subscribe to a data warehouse that keeps track of quality control review outcomes over time.
Understanding the GSE target review process
Based on public documents and interviews from the GSEs, the targeted sampling process for loan defects and underwriting violations is based on statistical selection criteria and models. The models are developed using historical repurchase data (similar to that described above), and they identify the loan characteristics of files that are more prone to defects. The requests by GSEs for loan files are skewed toward loans that statistically have the highest incidence rates for potential defects and represent the highest potential loss exposure to the GSEs.
Note that many lenders perform some kind of targeted pre-funding sampling. The methodology typically involves reviewing loans with certain key characteristics, such as cash-out refinance, self-employed borrowers, etc. However, it is our experience that the probability of defect depends on "layered risks." For example, a self-employed borrower with a low FICO score has a higher level of defect risk than one with a high FICO score. It is important to consider the compounding effect of risk factors when ranking loans by defect probability.
Managing your risk
Freddie Mac recommends that sellers establish a quality control review both at pre-funding and post-closing in its "Quality Control Best Practices" document. Sellers can proactively reduce their repurchase risks by incorporating a pre-funding sampling process to identify loans with the highest risk of defects and take corrective actions before loans are sold.
The effectiveness of a pre-funding review process depends on the ability of the lender to identify two critical outcomes:
Using data collected from internal quality control reviews and historical repurchase requests from the GSEs, lenders can use predictive modelling and "big data" techniques to "score" applications by their repurchase risks prior to closing. Applications above a certain threshold could receive a second underwrite or additional loan quality reviews to check for errors or omissions in the application pre-funding. A recent study performed by Loan Logics on quality control (QC) reviews performed in 2012 and 2013 found that approximately 40% of all post-funding defects could have been identified and potentially corrected through a pre-funding audit. Using targeted sampling to identify high-risk loans has the potential to increase this hit rate.
Assume lender "XYZ Mortgage Company" developed a scoring algorithm that segments its production into three levels of defect risk: low, medium, and high. The table in Figure 1 demonstrates how the process described above can reduce XYZ's repurchase risk on 1,000 loans delivered to the GSEs. We assume 40% of potential defects are cured through a pre-funding quality control review.
Figure 1: Reducing Repurchase Exposure
In the above hypothetical example, XYZ would be able to significantly reduce its repurchase exposure by targeting high-risk loans pre-funding. Specifically, a random pre-funding review would correct 12 defects while a targeted approach would correct 25 defects while reviewing the same level of 10% of the loans. Assuming an average loan balance of $200,000 and a severity of 30% for a repurchase, this would result in a reduced repurchase exposure of $780,000 for 1,000 loans originated by XYZ for a savings around $780 per loan (see Figure 2 below).
Figure 2: Savings From Pre-Funding Review
Benchmarking production
In addition to targeted sampling for pre-funding reviews, a defect scoring model can also be utilized by sellers to evaluate and consistently compare the quality of loans being originated by different offices, underwriters, and channels. For example, assume that a seller has developed a network of correspondents for GSE production. The seller will want to monitor the quality of production from correspondents. There are two approaches to this:
While the first approach will identify high-risk lenders only after losses are incurred, the second approach will identify high-risk lenders during the production process. The advantage of the second approach is the sooner a seller can identify quality problems, the sooner these problems can be addressed and mitigated.


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Everyone's been asking for LulaRoe size measurements, so I made an easy chart based off of the one on the LulaRoe clothing website. These measurements are based on women's sizes in the United States.
All measurements are in inches and some of you may have measurements that overlap between two sizes. If you're not sure which size to order then consider how clothes usually fit you. LulaRoe clothing is very forgiving, therefore most people can do down a size in shirts but should stay true to size in dresses.
LulaRoe Size Measurements
Click here for the basic LulaRoe Size Chart!
How To Measure:
To choose the correct size for you, us a body tape measure as follows:
Bust- Measure around the most full part of your chest.
Waist- Measure around your natural waistline.
Hips- Measure 20cm down from your natural waistline.
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14 Responses to LulaRoe Size Measurements
Meagan says:
Hi!!! I've been looking into buying an Amelia but have concerns about the arm opening. I've run into a few issue with this. I wear a Medium Carly and my arms fit perfect all any of the fabrics. I bought a Perfect Tee and this was not the case. It was like the stitching on the arm wouldn't allow any give… do you happen to have arm opening sizing for these items too? Thanks a bunch!!!!
Debra McCoy says:
What is the length of the LulaRoe maxi skirts?
Jo says:
Hi, I just bought a Nicole 3xl and normally wear an 18/20 22/24 because of my hips. This dress fits so tight that I would say it is a 16 maybe 18 and so tight. I ordered the larger size for a loose fit. No luck. Help. The perfect tee 2xl fits nice and 3xl is very big.
When i finally caved and bought a few things from my LulaRoe friends…I treated it the same way I do when I'm shopping in the store or online.
So many women struggle with choosing the right cut to flatter their shape. It's all about knowing what works for you and how you feel when you wear it. I have a lot of dresses that are similar, and I bought them because I know they would look great and fit well. Those times that I get a "wild hair", decide to go for it, and purchase a dress that's out of my norm…I regret it. Every time!
Why do I make this same mistake over and over again? It's often because I found a really great deal or it's just soooo cute that I literally cannot help myself.
Go to the LulaRoe website and view all of the styles available. You will know which styles you're going to love, and which styles you'd probably impulse buy because the print is just amazing! Don't click on those….just don't…wait for the perfect print in a dress that's perfect for you 🙂
Erin says:
Hello! I so appreciate your chart! I was wondering if you know where I could find the lengths of LLR items for someone who is very tall (me!). In particular, things like Sarah and the Maxi (well, all things really!). I own a Large Sarah but sometimes thing I could fit into a Medium better, but it might be too short looking. This applies to the Lindsay as well. Thanks for any input!
I'm 5'9″ and I haven't had much luck with LulaRoe…my legs are so long and their clothing is based on average height.
I LOVE these websites for my favorites in "Tall" or "Long" sizes:
Gap.com *Here's my favorite dress!
VictoriasSecret.com *THE best leggings!
Amazon.com *Baeleaf Leggings…I have every color…
Brittany Wood says:
I'm usually in a size large tshirt. They are form fitting; how i like. I ordered a size L Randy. Will it fit? I'm 5'4 & 160 lbs.
Sarah says:
I need some advice on sizing. My bust measurement is 35, waist is 28, hips are 37. It appears that I should be a small. I fit into an xxs classic tee, so obviously not all styles are designed to fit tightly to those measurements. I don't know the clothes that we'll yet, so I want to hear other people's opinions. In the Amelia and Nicole styles, what would you recommend I try? Is it pretty true to size if I got my regular small? Would I be able to go up or down a size if there was pattern that I really wanted? Anyone with similar body types who owns those styles that can help?
What's your dress and pants size? Most people go down a size in LulaRoe!
Ashley Kelly says:
What are your thoughts on a girl's size 14 maxi (discontinued style) on a grown woman? I found a really cute one on eBay, but the seller has it listed as a woman's skirt. Maybe she doesn't realize it's actually a child size (in the spirit of giving her the benefit of the doubt…)
Any experience with this style and how the sizing runs? Ty!
I think it would work if you're petite. This maxi is definitely shorter than a womens maxi LulaRoe skirt.
I'd estimate that a petite woman, narrrow size 8 down to a wider size 2 could wear a girls size 14 maxi!
Alana Jones says:
Can I use this sizing chart graphic?
Yes, of course! Just link to this post and/or credit this webpage as your source with a link.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
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7 For All Mankind Trench (similar here, budget-friendly options here and here – under $65!) | tee | jeans (c/o A Pea In The Pod, non-maternity version here) | sneakers | bag | beanie | sunnies
A classic trench is definitely a staple piece in any closet – it can be worn in so many different ways, and if you invest in a nice(r) one, it will last a very long time. I've had this one for over 5 years, and it still looks new. I love a trench dressed up, or dressed down – I'm currently crushing on this one, and think I need to add it to my spring wardrobe, I love the modern look. Last weekend, I paired mine with sneakers and a baseball tee for a super casual look to run some errands around the city. These sneakers are so comfortable, I want a few more pairs for spring and summer. I've been living in this beanie (if you hadn't noticed), and think it's time to find another one I love as much – it's hard to find a great hat.
Hope your week is going well! I've got a busy day ahead with a few meetings and tons of errands. xx
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Those who venture 1.d4 2.c4 must reckon with the mighty King's Indian Defense. As GM Forintos observed, the K.I.D. typically inspires a "Man Or Mouse" decision, as White usually either wagers his King's safety in order to overrun Black's queenside, or plays like a mouse. The so-called "Hungarian variation" ("Kramer System" sounds weird to me, and "Attack" too promotional) in the King's Indian Defense starts with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nge2, intending 6.Ng3. It may seem odd to move the KN twice by move six, but the knight supports a potential h4-h5 rush, defends the e4-pawn against knights on f6 and c5, and eyes the critical King's Indian square, f5. Most importantly, the knight's presence on g3 means that a Black pawn won't be arriving there to supervise a Bxh3 sacrifice.
Interested persons may also wish to purchase the favorably-reviewed book on this variation for less than Two Dollars (< $2.00) from Strand.