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Feeling Empathy for Others: It's Not Enough!
By Shlomo Maital
In a recent blog, I recounted NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof's story about his high school chum, Kevin, who died recently after sinking into poverty and despair:
In his Op-Ed piece, Nicholas Kristof mourns the death of his school chum Kevin Green. They grew up together in Yamhill, Oregon, and ran cross-country together. Kevin lost a good job, went on welfare, got divorced, became obese, lived on food stamps, got diabetes, and died at age 54. Tea Party Republicans say he "had it easy because he got government benefits without doing anything". Kristof notes that Kevin collected cans and bottles by the roadside, to make $20 a day for subsistence. Easy? Want to trade places? Did Republican wealth "trickle down" to Kevin and help him get a good job? Not a chance.
Kristof, in a later column, reports that he got immense flack from readers for this column. They said, it was Kevin's own fault. He brought it on himself. Those hard-hearted readers lacked empathy, he notes.
So do our leaders. It's no wonder. Did you know that half of all members of the U.S. Congress (House and Senate) are millionaires? How can they feel our pain, our middle-class pain?
We need leaders with empathy. Empathy – feeling the pain of others – is built-in to our physiology. We have 'mirror neurons' that enable us to feel what our counterpart is feeling at a given moment, not just pain, but joy, embarrassment, grief, happiness. But over time, we can easily turn off those empathy neurons, and rationalize them away.
But even strong feelings of empathy, I feel, is not enough. I found David Brooks' NYT column, written over three years ago, in Sept. 2011:
Empathy orients you toward moral action, but it doesn't seem to help much when that action comes at a personal cost. You may feel a pang for the homeless guy on the other side of the street, but the odds are that you are not going to cross the street to give him a dollar. There have been piles of studies investigating the link between empathy and moral action. Different scholars come to different conclusions, but, in a recent paper, Jesse Prinz, a philosopher at City University of New York, summarized the research this way: "These studies suggest that empathy is not a major player when it comes to moral motivation. Its contribution is negligible in children, modest in adults, and nonexistent when costs are significant." Other scholars have called empathy a "fragile flower," easily crushed by self-concern.
In other words: It's not enough to feel empathy toward others. You have to ACT on your feelings and do something about it, even something small and symbolic, at least once in a while, so that your empathy muscles do not wither.
In our recent book Cracking the Creativity Code, we list 10 brain exercises to develop creativity. The first of the 10, and most important, is "Act, Don't Gripe". If you see something wrong, injustice, try to fix it, take action, at least once in a while. I know a friend, who always, as a matter of principle, gives small change to homeless and those who beg on the streets, even ones who are clearly running a scam.
I wish we had political leaders who were middle class working people. We really don't. Until we do, it's up to us. Sharpen your feelings toward others. Develop your empathy. But don't leave it at that. Try to act on it. If more people did that, maybe we wouldn't even need to bother with those millionaires in Congress.
McDonalds: The Price of Falling Asleep
By Shlomo Maital
McDonalds, the $87 b. global fast food chain, is in trouble. The world has changed and its senior management team missed the bus. The price for this is heavy. The newly appointed CEO Steve Easterbrook, an accountant, will have to deal with slumping sales and falling stock price. For years consumers have been opting for healthier food. McDonalds simply failed to meet or recognize the trend.
Here is how Bloomberg Businessweek describes McDonalds' decline under its previous CEO: "The rocky two-and-a-half-year tenure of Don Thompson, Mr Easterbrook's predecessor, was marked by flagging sales as the company's key low-income customers continued to struggle in the wake of the financial crisis. It also coincided with the rise of upmarket burger chains such as Five Guys and Smashburger, and the explosive growth of fast-casual restaurants such as Chipotle. …. Last year, McDonald's recorded its first annual decline in global same-store sales in a dozen years. The US, where McDonald's is the target of criticism for its contribution to the obesity epidemic and wage inequality, is not its only tough market. Operations in Germany, Japan, Russia and China are also struggling. Consumers are no longer interested in food that is simply fast — they need to be convinced that it is, among other things, healthy, fresh and natural."
McDonalds is an exceptionally arrogant organization, I am told. The global economic downturn began early in 2008; McDonalds could have seen that its customers would be pinched and less able to dine out. The trend toward healthy fresh fast food has been ongoing for years; Wendy's and Subway have leveraged it with great success. People simply get tired of the same Big Mac.
To me, McDonalds proves a core dilemma in management. McDonalds has great operational discipline in its franchises; it has to, to survive. But the same discipline destroys creativity, flexibility and innovation. Somehow, McDonalds has to revive its agility, its ideation, without ruining its fabled discipline and cost management.
Let's see if Steve Easterbrook, who played cricket in a British private school, will adopt a strategy that isn't precisely "cricket".
A Deep Contrite Apology to the people of Greece
By Shlomo Maital
Greece's new prime minister Alexis Tsipras has been sworn in and vows to lead an anti-austerity coalition. He could possibly lead Greece out of the euro and back to the drachma. This would be unspeakably painful for Greece, in the short run, but possibly best in the long run.
Meanwhile, we economists all owe Greece an apology. We have caused immense suffering, needlessly, to 11 million innocent Greeks. According to Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, economists drafted the 'troika' agreement in May 2010, under which the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission lent Greece money, in return for extreme austerity. Greece had no choice in the matter.
This document assumed Greece would suffer only a small contraction in 2011 and by 2012 would be recovering. Yes, unemployment would rise to 15 per cent (Would Merkel's Germany ever accept such a scenario??) in 2012, but then it would fall rapidly. Why? Because austerity would work quickly, heal Greece's economy, and restore growth.
Really? Did the troika economists ever find a single (just one! One!) example in history where austerity worked?
No. There are none.
Instead, Greece suffered a depression, 28 per cent unemployment, its young people migrated abroad, learning German for instance, and youth unemployment reached nearly 60 per cent.
Greece kept its part of the bargain, slashing public spending by 20 per cent. But the promised benefits of austerity turned out to be disaster. That is why Tsipras won the election. And it is why the euro has dived. The EU and its economists brought it on themselves.
It isn't complicated at all. To heal a budget deficit, you need a growing economy, because when the GDP grows, tax revenues grow much faster, 1.5 times faster. To get a growing economy, you need spending and demand. If people can't spend, because they have no jobs and their wages are falling, only the government can take up the slack. But if you slash government budgets, the economy will shrink, not grow, and the debt problem will become even worse. That is what 'austerity' does. It's pretty simple.
On behalf of my fellow economists, I would like to apologize to the people of Greece. We screwed up. And worse of all — none of those responsible seem willing to admit it.
Whatever Happened to the U.S. Middle Class?
By Shlomo Maital
The middle class is the bulwark, the core, of every nations' democracy and economy. It provides the labor, the capital and the stability that nations need. This is why we should worry, when the middle class is disappearing, as it is in the U.S. (Middle class is defined as a household with income from $35,000 to $100,000.)
A report in today's Global New York Times by Dionne Searcey and Robert Gebeloff, based on their study, reveals these facts:
- 53 million middle class households, nearly half of all households, are aging; many are headed by those over 65. Why? Older Americans have the safety net of social security, which is politically safe and linked to the cost of living. While middle class income has declined (median household income fell 9 per cent since the year 2000), income of households headed by elderly adults has risen by 14 per cent. Problem is, that elderly safety net is going bankrupt.
- In the late 1960s, 60 per cent of middle class households were comprised of two married adults with children. Today? It is just 25 per cent.
- In the Great Recession, 2008 – ??, "we lost a lot of middle-income jobs and we gained a lot of low-paying jobs", says an expert from the American Enterprise Institute. That is why the strong job figures lately are misleading. They are Wal-Mart and McDonalds jobs.
- The middle class deludes itself. A NYT survey shows 60 per cent of people who call themselves middle class think that if they work hard they will become rich. But this is an illusion. Social mobility in the U.S. has greatly declined. To get rich and richer, you need to be rich already.
I think the article fails to make a key and obvious point. America's political leaders were accomplices in shifting America's manufacturing to Asia. This destroyed millions of high-paying jobs (as in auto production). It was done both by Democratic and Republican Presidents. Nor is Congress even trying to get those jobs back. Apparently, you cannot have a strong stable middle class unless your country makes things other than hamburgers. Is that obvious? America is now paying the price for its leaders' blindness.
Meanwhile, the U.S. middle class has not disappeared, it has simply migrated; middle class families in China and India are booming, thanks in part to well-paying jobs.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called the middle class the "foundation of the American economy". Really? Then, why have you, Obama, and other leaders allowed the middle class to decline so drastically? And what are you doing to reverse the trend?
Story-Driven Policy: Worth a Try!
By Shlomo Maital
Nicholas Kristof and friend Kevin Green, Yamhill
The latest buzzword in professional and academic circles is "evidence-based". As an adjective, it modifies 'psychology', 'medical care', 'policy'… everything. Everything has to be evidence based. That usually implies a large data base mined for correlations. Problem with that is, G-d is in the details. Truth is in the details. By using data, especially Big Data, we miss the stories about the "little" people… forgotten people who struggle daily with illness, poverty, crime, drugs and other afflictions. The Talmud says, If you save a single soul, it is as if you saved the whole world. The point, of course, is to treat every single person with huge respect and massive importance.
Today's New York Times has two seemingly-unrelated stories that make this point perfectly.
In his Op-Ed piece, Nicholas Kristof mourns the death of his school chum Kevin Green. They grew up together in Yamhill, Oregon, and ran cross-country together. Kevin lost a good job, went on welfare, got divorced, became obese, lived on food stamps, got diabetes, and died at age 54. Tea Party Republicans say he "had it easy because he got government benefits without doing anything". Kristof notes that Kevin collected cans and bottles by the roadside, to make $20 a day for subsistence. Easy? Want to trade places? Did Republican wealth "trickle down" to Kevin and help him get a good job? Not a chance.
In Binyamin Applebaum's piece on Washington, "Three stories illustrate Fed's power and its limits", he covers Janet Yellen (Fed Chair) and her first speech. Instead of an academic bore, quoting data, citing equations and analysis, Yellen, who is brilliant, told the stories of three Chicago residents struggling to recover from the recession. She used their stories to explain why she will be very very slow and cautious in ending the Fed's low-interest policy, despite Republican pressure to do so. I wonder if she chose Chicago, because that is where President Obama lived and worked.
All three 'heroes' in Yellen's speech are struggling, but gaining ground. Jermain Brownlee, 40, got a job building bus seats, though he makes less than he once did in construction. Dorine Poole lost her job, then got a new one as a full-time office manager. She makes $20,000 a year, far less than the $32,000 she once made before the recession, as a claims processor. Vicki Lara, 62, lost her job in the recession and a year later, is serving food samples in a supermarket two days a week, six hours a day. She wishes she could work more hours. She owed $1,200 when she lost her job, and that debt has now ballooned to $3,700, with interest. If she worked more, the companies to whom she owes money would simply garnish her wages. So she had to decline a full-time job. She told the NYT, "When I walk home to catch the bus, I see five homeless people freezing in this weather…I wish I made enough money to help them."
Lots of people do make enough money to help them. But if you believe it's their own fault, why bother? Surely, they LOVE being homeless, outside, in the freezing cold. Who wouldn't?
I would like to see story-based policy. If you want to cut welfare as a policy, tell me a story about a real person and real events, to back up what you claim. When I was a professor, I wrote papers based on data. I always felt that the REAL story was in the story itself. But when I told stories, my papers were rejected, often with biting comments – because in Academe, "story" is a swear word. Single cases, it is claimed, prove nothing.
Wrong. They prove everything. They help us understand real people, real events, real problems. When the U.S. Congress is populated by elected representatives, half of whom are millionaires, how in the world can they understand people like kevin, Vicki, Jerome or Dorine? They can't.
Shawn Leibowitz Retires Undefeated
By Shlomo Maital
Last Thursday 15-year-old Shawn Leibowitz completed a 2 km. race. He got a special medal, awarded in a podium ceremony. Big deal, you say? Marathons are 21 times longer. For Shawn it was a big deal. Shawn was abandoned as a baby, because he suffered from infantile paralysis. He trained for the race for months. His adopted parents live in a Moshav, Kochav Michael, in the South of Israel. His friends and coaches applauded him as he waved from the podium.
Yesterday Shawn passed away. His heart simply stopped. Was there a connection with the race? No one knows. Whatever the case, completing that race made Shawn immensely happy. It's a cliché, but – he definitely died happy.
The race was held in memory of members of Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, on the Gaza border, who died in battle.
When I jog today I will think of Shawn. For many, running 2 km. is effortless. For a few it is an enormous challenge. Perhaps someday, Shawn will have a race named after him, with a special effort to enrol those who have a physical handicap.
Why ISIS has humiliated the West – and why it matters
By Shlomo Maital
ISIS (Islamic State, known as Da'esh in Arabic) is a radical Islamic organization whose goal is to establish a Caliphate in Syria, Iraq and the rest of the Mideast, based on Islamic law. ISIS seeks to do this through a tiny well-organized and well-funded military force that at its peak comprised some 25,000 fighters. After ISIS gained control of a huge swatch of land in Syria and Iraq, some 56,000 sq. kms. (about 16,000 sq. miles), three times the size of Israel ('67 borders), a coalition of some 60 (!) mainly Western nations organized to attack ISIS, mostly from the air.
Here are 21 countries of this 60-nation coalition, whose representatives met on Thursday Jan. 22 in London to take stock of the results of their joint action against ISIS:
Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. And of course, the United States, represented by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Here is the total result to date. The U.S. claims that 6,000 ISIS fighters were killed, a casualty rate of about 25 per cent. Mainly Iraqi Army forces have taken back one percent (that's 1 %) of the land captured by ISIS.
And that's it. That's the whole result of the whole operation. President Obama, in his State of the Union address, said the 60-nation operation has "halted Islamic State's advance".
If I were a taxpayer in any of these 60 nations, I would demand my money back. If this is the best the West can do against a small murderous band of terrorists who claim to act in the name of their religion, who slaughter hostages and civilians brutally and challenge Western culture — to "halt the advance", with aircraft carriers, F-16's, drones, smart bombs, and all the rest of the West's technology —
I'm reminded of the first Rocky film, starring and written by Sylvester Stallone. The main achievement of underdog Rocky was simply to last 12 rounds against the world champion Apollo Creed. Simply by staying in the fight, and holding the vast armoury of the West to a stalemate, ISIS will find an almost infinite number of recruits worldwide among impressionist young people, who see it as "Rocky". By letting ISIS fight it to a stalemate, the West is handing victory to ISIS, and the price in future will be extremely heavy. Recruits worldwide will flock to ISIS to be part of the modern "Rocky" story, and already have.
It leads one to wonder whether the soft fat West is able to defend itself against the barbarians at its gates, or whether it will fall as Rome did in rather similar circumstances.
A report just issued report claims (unverified) that one of the two Japanese hostages held by ISIS has been executed.
The End of Moore's Law? Why It Matters
By Shlomo Maital
In 1965 the (later) co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, published a scientific paper, in which he made the following claim: "Over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years." This was quite amazing, because integrated circuits were very new and there was not much history of 'computing hardware'. And how right he proved. (See the diagram). In 1971, around when Intel was born, there were 2,300 transistors on a single chip. Today? With 10-core microprocessors, there are some 2.6 billion! That is almost exactly 21 doublings, in the 43 years since 1971. How in the world did Gordon Moore know???
This powerful exponential curve, which presumes a 42 per cent annual compounded rate of growth (of the number of transistors on a chip), has completely changed our lives, placing a cell phone device in our hands that has the power of a major computer. It has placed chips into cars, refrigerators, and nearly everything. It has greatly reduced the price of electronic devices, because the same exponential curve that expands the number of transistors per microprocessor, also lowers exponentially (negative exponential) the cost, very rapidly.
In "Tapeout", the magazine of the Israeli semiconductor industry, the latest issue asks whether Moore's Law is about to "exit" (R.I.P., die, stop)? In a sense it already has. Intel's 10 core microprocessor is impressive (basically 10 microprocessors in one) but the truth is, many of those 'cores' do not operate at any given moment. Intel simply shifted its marketing from "hey, count the megahertz" to "hey, count the number of cores".
However, if microprocessor technology truly does 'hit the wall', like a marathon runner, and a limit to packing transistors onto a chip is reached, then an entire industry will be in crisis. It will have to find a new technology, to restore the exponential growth, on which profits and revenue are built. And shifting to an entirely new silicon technology – perhaps chips based on cell biology? — will be expensive, risky, difficult and will lead to a major shakeout in the industry, as small disruptive startups rise to the fore to replace big lumbering established firms.
In "Tape-out", the experts are divided about the alleged end of Moore's Law. After all, its 'end', demise, has been predicted now for decades. But as the technology approaches and passes 10 nanometers, it may be true that a physical limit is being reached.
Watch the semiconductor industry closely. Repeal of Moore's Law will affect all of us, in so many ways.
"Moore's law" is the observation that, over the. The observation is named after Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corporation, who described the trend in his 1965 paper. His prediction has proven to be accurate, in part because the law now is used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development.[4] The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: quality-adjusted microprocessor prices,[5] memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[6] All of these are improving at roughly exponential rates as well
How the U.S. Govt. Helped Smash the Oil Cartel
By Shlomo Maital
With the price of oil below $50, and likely to remain low for quite some time, with $100 oil unlikely to return, it is interesting to discover why. The main reason? America is now the world's biggest oil producer, topping Saudi Arabia, because of fracking and frantic drilling – and the Saudis choose not to fall on their swords and slash their production.
But WHY has America been able to produce so much oil? The answer is in Eduardo Porter's piece in today's Global New York Times ("Behind drop in oil prices, the hand of Washington"). It is: U.S. government policy and funding, dating back to Nixon, Reagan and the elder Bush. "Facing years of a broad energy shortage, in the shadow of an embargo by Arab oil producers [in 1973], Nixon..and Congress laid the foundation of an industrial policy that over …four decades developed the technologies needed to unleash American shale oil and natural gas onto world markets". Porter cites a scholar who notes, "public investments in technology innovation [e.g. energy] can bring a huge benefit for both the economy and the environment".
Congress approved the Prudhoe pipeline from Alaska just weeks after the Arab embargo. The 1974 Energy Act, creating the Dept. of Energy, kick-started a period of heavy government investment in R&D to recover gas from shale. This agency provided the funds to develop 'horizontal drilling' and polycrystalline diamond compact bits to cut through the shale, and performed the first big proof of concept hydraulic fracking, while Energy Dept. labs created a multi-well fracking site. The inventor of shale fracking, George Mitchell, got a lot of help from the government. And, the Reagan Administration, earlier, abolished price regulation, to remove a major barrier to unconventional development of gas deposits.
Of course, bold entrepreneurs who took risks and invested in fracking deserve credit. But as in many new technologies, the hand of government, in regulation and investment, was highly visible.
A key point is that even if rock-bottom oil prices drive oil shale producers out of business for now, the ability to quickly revive oil shale output will put a ceiling on oil prices that is far below the record $111 peak. Saudi Arabia can produce oil at a marginal cost of $5 to $8 a barrel, enabling it to smash prices lower. But America's ability to produce virtually infinite amounts of fracked shale oil at a marginal cost of around $58 will help keep crude oil prices reasonable in the near future.
Let's keep in mind, however, that persisting low oil prices will bankrupt countries like Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and others. This may not be good news. Russia is already looking for creative ways to make trouble for America, in Yemen and in Iran, out of spite for America's lead in imposing sanctions on Russia. The world will remain unstable, despite low oil prices and in part because of them.
Health Insurers & Pharma Benefits: The New FDA
Will Kite Kill Cancer (Affordably)?
By Shlomo Maital
My university, Technion, is one of the few science universities with a President who is both a world-class scholar and successful entrepreneur. Prof. Peretz Lavie is a pioneer in sleep research, and his 10 patents have helped build two or three successful companies that treat sleep apnea, a common disorder that afflicts millions. In a guest talk to my Entrepreneurship class at Technion, Prof. Lavie explained that agreement by health insurance companies to pay for drugs or treatments is a more crucial obstacle for companies and inventors than perhaps even the FDA. Your drug may prove effective in Stage 3 clinical trials and pass the FDA, but – if it's too expensive, insurers won't pay for it and it is therefore doomed. As an entrepreneur, Lavie successfully dealt with this problem. By carefully collecting sleep apnea data, he was able to show the insurers why treatment was cost-effective.
Recently, we saw a great example of why insurers are the "new FDA". Gilead Sciences developed Harvoni, a Hepatitis C drug that costs $94,500 a year. It competes with AbbVie's $83,319 drug Viekira Pak. The FDA approved Harvoni. But America's largest pharma benefits company (which provides drugs as part of health insurance) removed Harvoni from its approved list, saying it was more expensive than AbbVie's drug Viekira Pak and not much more effective. Gilead's stock plunged; it fought back and slashed its prices.
The key role of insurers came to the fore in recent days. Kite Pharma and its Israeli-born and educated CEO Dr. Arie Belldegrun has developed an experimental cancer treatment, a very expensive one, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The complex diagram shows how it works. Briefly, here is how:
Cancer cells are removed from the patient's body, treated – and then put back. The treated cells (unlike untreated cancer cells) trigger a powerful immune response.
To explain: Cancer cells cleverly shut down the body's immunse system response; but Kite's genetically engineered autologous T cell therapy fights back, tricks the cancer cells and restores the immune system's ability to recognize and eradicate tumors. "In August 2014, Kite Pharma announced findings from its ongoing clinical trial: 12 of 13 evaluable patients with advanced B-cell malignancies had complete remissions (8 patients) or partial remissions (4 patients) resulting in a 92% objective response rate. The results support Kite Pharma's plan to file an Investigational New Drug (IND) application in the fourth quarter of 2014 to initiate a clinical trial of Kite Pharma's lead CAR-based product candidate, KTE-C19, in patients with DLBCL."
Kite has a powerful strategic partner: Amgen, a huge biotech company. "In January 2015, Kite Pharma and Amgen entered into a strategic research collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize the next generation of novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapies based on Kite's engineered autologous cell therapy (eACT™) platform and Amgen's extensive array of cancer targets."
But the hitch is: will the health insurance companies and pharma benefits companies pay for this hugely expensive though lifesaving therapy? Kite is aware of the problem and is trying to deal with it.
Stay tuned.


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Get Organized Seminar
When: 10 a.m. to noon and 7-9 p.m. Monday, March 19
Where: Comfort Suites, 1755 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville
How much: $20
Contact: 800-835-8463, www.denieceschofield.com
Where most folks view a coffee filter as a one-trick pony, Deniece Schofield sees endless possibilities.
"Coffee filters are wonderful for polishing shoes. Or, you can use them to wash your windows and they won't leave a speck of lint," said Schofield, author of five home management and organization books.
"I always put one inside the bottom of my potted plants. It lets the water drain out, but the soil doesn't. The filters are also wonderful for serving hot dogs, tacos and popcorn."
Having spent the last three decades honing her craft, Schofield is full of useful tips.
On Monday, she'll share her knowledge with the attendees of her Get Organized seminar at Comfort Suites, 1750 Browns Bridge Road in Gainesville. The seminar costs $20 per person and there will be two, two-hour sessions, one beginning at 10 a.m. and the second one beginning at 7 p.m.
Although there are two sessions, attendees shouldn't worry about trying to attend both. Schofield will be sharing the same information at each. Participants also don't have to worry about pre-registering.
"For the first 30 minutes, I'm going to talk about finding more space in your home without throwing everything away. Organizers are famous for saying, 'Get rid of this. Get rid of that.' Well, some people can't do that," Schofield said.
"We'll talk about finding space even if you aren't willing to get rid of everything. Next, I'll be sharing specific ideas for organizing your home. The last half, we'll talk about
managing time and getting rid of the floating pieces of paper that clutter up your home."
Even though she's prepared a pretty thorough agenda - complete with handouts - Schofield is also leaving room for audience participation.
"There will be plenty of time for questions," Schofield said.
"And this is a self-contained seminar. You don't have to buy anything to learn something. You'll literally leave armed with hundreds of ideas."
Some of those ideas will include her unusual uses for common household items.
"Before I go out and buy (a specialty item), I look around my house to see if there's something I can use instead," Schofield said.
"It saves money. It lets you be creative and it keeps things from ending up in a landfill."
For instance, old pantyhose filled with cat litter make convenient deodorizers for shoes and other smelly areas around your home, Schofield says.
And those ponytail holders with the little plastic balls on the end? They make a great in-house substitute for bungee-style bindings used to organize loose electrical cords. Manual can openers an be used to hull strawberries, while non-glazed terra cotta pots can be use to store cleaning pads.
"They're wonderfully absorbent, so they help to keep your scouring pads from rusting," Schofield said.
Those plastic lids that no longer have their mates? Try using them instead of cardboard to create patterns for crafts.
"They don't fray, they're more durable and they're easier to use," Schofield said.
"The large lids from ice cream buckets make wonderful holders for flimsy paper plates. It gives your guests something sturdy to carry around.
"They're also good for mini cutting boards."
Schofield says her creative housekeeping and organization skills weren't her birthright.
"I wasn't born organized. I was horrible as a kid and hit bottom after our third child was born," Schofield said.
"This was before organizing was an industry. I made a list of all the problems I had and worked on them one at a time.
"It took a lot of trial and error. Eventually I got to the end of my list and turned that into a system."
She finished writing her first book, "Confessions of an Organized Housewife," in 1982. She followed that up with books about time management, getting your children organized and bringing order to your kitchen.
"If you're looking to organize your home, the kitchen is the best place to start," Schofield said.
All of her books are available for purchase through Amazon.
Although she's gotten the hang of things now, Schofield says her seminars are meant to be a "shot in the arm" not a sermon from a know-it-all.
"Getting here wasn't easy. We all need motivation to do the same things today that we didn't want to do yesterday," Schofield said.
"Getting organized is a lot like dieting. You do well for a couple of days, then you mess up. You have to keep starting over, but eventually you'll get there."


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Ring Of Honor Wrestling review – Airdate: 8/30/14
By Nathan Neumann @Headliner5 on Twitter
This week's show had three matches even though in my opinion it should have only had two. The main event was for the ROH World Title and one of the three matches that took place on this show should have been cut in order to give the world title match more time. Anyways, enough of my rambling. Let's get to it, shall we?
Match 1
Match 1
War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) vs. The Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay)
Result: No Contest
Thoughts: I really liked this match, as it was very hard hitting and all four guys seemed to have brought their A game. In the early moments of the match, Rowe sets Mark Briscoe up in the corner and hits him with a running clothesline, which was followed up by a broncobuster variation by his partner Hanson. I really liked that sequence as it flowed really well, Hanson and Rowe work great as a team. When they first put them together I thought I wouldn't like it but I was pleasantly surprised with how well they actually fit with one another.
I do like Rowe a bit more than Hanson but my only true gripe with Hanson is in his finishing move. For those who may not know or are reading one of my reviews for the very first time, Hanson is a big 265LB guy and he does a spin kick for a finisher and it doesn't fit him at all. At one point in the match, Hanson dives out of the ring though the top and middle ropes and takes out his partner and both Briscoes. Later on in the match, Hanson went through a table thanks to a top rope double foot stomp from Mark Briscoe. The finish to the match came when Paul Turner threw the match out shortly after Hanson went though the table at ringside due to losing control over the entire match.
I really liked this match and I would normally frown upon a match that ends the way this one did. However if this matches finish leads to more matches between these two teams and a possible feud, I'm all for it. The tag division isn't lacking in any way (in fact it's probably the best tag team division in all of wrestling at the moment) but it could use some freshening up and Hanson and Rowe are the perfect guys to do it with.
Match 2
Adam Page and Tadarius Thomas vs. Moose and RD Evans
Result: RD Evans and Moose defeat Adam Page and Tadarius Thomas after a spear by Moose.
Thoughts: This match was okay for what it was but I wasn't a big fan of it to be honest, Moose is atrocious an Adam Page has only had one match that I've enjoyed seeing him in. The one thing I happened to like about this match was a spot between Tadarius and Moose where Moose went for a choke slam early on in the match but TD flipped out of it. Other than that one spot this match was lacking, and Thomas and Evans never even touched each other. The finish came when Moose hit a spear on TD to allow RD to get the win.
Main Event – Match 3
Cedric Alexander vs. Michael Elgin ©
ROH World Championship Match
ROH World Championship Match
Result: Michael Elgin defeats Cedric Alexander via referee stoppage after a stretch muffler and kicks to Cedric's head to retain the World Title.
Thoughts: This match was good but it wasn't great like I expected it to be, it seemed like they were a little off and had a bit of miscommunication though out the match. As soon as the bell rang the challenger Alexander jumped Elgin and rolled him up to try and score an early victory.
Later on in the match, Elgin swung Alexander from the ring apron head first into the guardrail on the outside of the ring. Moments later, Alexander hit Elgin with a springboard lung blower for a near fall. The champion responded by hitting the challenger with a sit out dominator for a near fall of his own. Cedric would get another near fall and his last of the match after hitting Elgin with two top rope splashes from opposite corners of the ring. The first one was to Elgin's back and the second was to Elgin's chest to which a near fall occurred this would be Cedric's last near fall of the match. The finish came when Elgin locked Alexander in a stretch muffler and proceeded to add insult to injury by kicking Alexander repeatedly in the back of the head until Alexander was unresponsive. This forced the referee's hand as he stopped the match and awarded the decision and the title retention to the champion Michael Elgin.
Final Thoughts: This show was decent although not as good as last week's show. The opener was really good while the second match was just okay in my eyes. The main event was decent enough but like I said they seemed a bit off in parts of the match and they had a better match at ROH's flying high event in Dayton Ohio. Anyways that's all I have for you this week so until next week ROH fans I am Nathan your ROH Reviewer saying so long for now and keep your eyes locked on that ring for some great content at eyesonthering.blogspot.com


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The International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Nigeria, has condemned series of reported cases of rape and violence against innocent women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, allegedly perpetrated by men of the Nigerian Army.
National President, FIDA Nigeria, Hauwa Evelyn Shekarau, who described the impunity with which women and girls are daily raped, defiled and violated in the country, as unacceptable, urged the leadership of the Nigerian Army to investigate and ensure that the perpetrators of the dastardly act are fished out and made to face the wrath of the Law.
"FIDA Nigeria is worried at the seeming silence, nonchalance and outright complicity of law enforcement agents in addressing the high rate of violence against women, especially rape, assault, sexual harassment as well as defilement of young girls even as these acts are crimes already codified in our law books such as the Penal and Criminal Codes.
"It is quite sad and ironic to see people who are paid from state coffers and charged with the responsibility of protecting citizens and maintaining law and order being the same people that are perpetrating crimes against the same citizens. A situation where the bodies of women and girls are seen as objects to be acquired willy-nilly by men without their consent leaves much to be desired," Shekarau noted in a statement.
She lamented that the increasing rate of sexual violence in society further reiterate the need for the National Assembly to speedily pass the Violence against Persons Prohibition Bill that is currently before the National Assembly.
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If you read it without knowing who the writer is, you might just conclude that he is writing about Singapore's PAP liberal FT policy but he is not. Joseph Chamie is a demographer who is expert in population issue and was director of the United Nations Population Division for 12 years. Please read on and you will have a better idea of why PAP is selling the "More is Better" solution to us in terms of liberal FT policy.
|Globalist Analysis > Global SocietyIs Population Growth a Ponzi Scheme?
By Joseph Chamie | Thursday, March 04, 2010
The basic pitch of those promoting population growth is straightforward in its appeal: "More is better." Joseph Chamie, who has spent a lifelong career as a demographer, including 12 years of service as the director of the United Nations Population Division, finds that more is not necessarily better.
ernie Madoff's recent Ponzi scheme has drifted out of the world's headlines. However, there is another even more costly and widespread scheme — "Ponzi Demography" — that warrants everybody's attention.
While it may come in many guises, Ponzi demography is essentially a pyramid scheme that attempts to make more money for some by adding on more and more people through population growth.
While more visible in industrialized economies, particularly in Australia, Canada and the United States, Ponzi demography also operates in developing countries. The underlying strategy of Ponzi demography is to privatize the profits and socialize the costs incurred from increased population growth.
As has been noted by Nobel laureate economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen as well as many others, current economic yardsticks such as gross domestic product (GDP) focus on material consumption and do not include quality-of-life factors.
Standard measures of GDP do not reflect, for example, the degradation of the environment, the depreciation of natural resources or declines in individuals' quality of life.
According to Ponzi demography, population growth — through natural increase and immigration — means more people leading to increased demands for goods and services, more material consumption, more borrowing, more on credit and of course more profits. Everything seems fantastic for a while — but like all Ponzi schemes, Ponzi demography is unsustainable.
When the bubble eventually bursts and the economy sours, the scheme spirals downward with higher unemployment, depressed wages, falling incomes, more people sinking into debt, more homeless families — and more men, women and children on public assistance.
That is the stage when the advocates of Ponzi demography — notably enterprises in construction, manufacturing, finance, agriculture and food processing — consolidate their excess profits and gains. That leaves the general public to pick up the tab for the mounting costs from increased population growth (e.g., education, health, housing and basic public services).
Due to population aging, government-run pensions and healthcare systems will become increasingly insolvent, according to advocates of Ponzi demography, thereby crippling the economy, undermining societal well-being and threatening national security.
Low birth rates, especially those below replacement levels, are considered a matter of national concern. Without higher fertility rates and the resulting population growth, the nation, it is claimed, faces a bleak and dreary future.
So Ponzi demography calls for pro-natalist policies and programs to encourage couples to marry and to have more children, which will lead to the promised sustained economic growth.
In addition to financial incentives and other benefits for childbearing, appeals are also made to one's patriotic duty to have children in order to replenish and expand the homeland: "Have one (child) for mum, one for dad and one for the country."
In addition to measures to increase fertility levels, Ponzi demography also turns to immigration for additional population growth in order to boost companies' profits. The standard slogan in this instance is "the country urgently needs increased immigration," even when immigration may already be at record levels and unemployment rates are high.
Among other things, increased immigration, it is declared, is a matter of national security, long-term prosperity and international competitiveness. Without this needed immigration, Ponzi demography warns that the country's future is at serious risk.
"Economic growth requires population growth" is the basic message that Ponzi demography wants the public to swallow. No mention is made of the additional profits they reap and the extra costs the public bears.
Attempts to question or even discuss Ponzi demography are denigrated and defamed to such an extent that concerns about population growth become radioactive. Politicians, journalists and environmentalists, for example, choose by and large to sidestep the entire issue.
When confronted with environmental concerns such as climate change, global warming, environmental contamination or shortages of water and other vital natural resources, the advocates of Ponzi demography typically dismiss such concerns as unfounded and overblown.
And they claim there is no scientific basis, or they obliquely stress "innovation," ingenuity and technological fixes as the only appropriate and workable solutions.
Many are complicit with Ponzi demography or at least tacitly support its goals. Few politicians, for example, are able to resist promises of campaign financing, the appeal of increased numbers of supportive voters, prospects of increased tax revenues and the political backing of pro-natalist and pro-immigration lobbyists and special interest groups.
Despite its snake-oil allure of "more is better," Ponzi demography's advocacy for ever-increasing population growth is ultimately unsustainable. Such persistent growth hampers efforts to improve the quality of life for today's world population of nearly seven billion people as well as for future generations.
Moving gradually towards population stabilization, while not a panacea for the world's problems, will make it far easier to address problems such as climate change, environmental degradation, poverty and development, human rights abuses and shortages of water, food and critical natural resources.
Fortunately, most couples around the world have chosen — or are in the process of choosing — to have a few children rather than many and to invest more in each child's upbringing, education and future well-being. Nations need to make the same vital transition with respect to their populations.
The sooner nations reject Ponzi demography and make the needed gradual transition from ever-increasing population growth to population stabilization, the better the prospects for all of humanity and other life on this planet.


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Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.
The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.
Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on 'Big Brother' society.
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'One nation under CCTV': CCTV (pictured top right) failed to catch Banksy
Yesterday the scaffolding gang returned to remove all evidence – again without the camera operator stopping them.
The work, above a Post Office yard in Newman Street near Oxford Circus, shows a small boy, watched by a security guard, painting the words: 'One nation under CCTV.'
Andrew Newman, 35, a businessman from Dulwich, who works locally, said: 'It was only on Sunday morning that the Post Offices guys realised what had happened.'
You're being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive grafitti artist Baksy managed to create his latest – and biggest – work to date under the cover of darkness
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"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. " – Mother Teresa. This quote perfectly defines what I view as a good citizen. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun, who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. In 1931, Mother Teresa traveled to India, originally working as a teacher. While she was there, however, the widespread poverty of Calcutta made a deep impression on her; and this caused her to start a new order called "The Missionaries of Charity".
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7. I have decided to move to Cape Canaveral, North Korea and never talk sports again.
6. Ricky Ricardo should have been president of Cuba for the last 50 years. [Mas…]
It's easy to spot people from another country by the way they mix and match their clothes. If someone is wearing dress shoes and a jogging suit, chances are they are from anywhere but here.
A word of caution here: If an OG writer can figure this out, so can the Migra. [Mas…]
Many drivers feel compelled to hang eclectic things from their rear view mirrors as a personal statement of identity, like a moniker or family crest. They painstakingly choose a little symbol that transforms their mass-produced faceless production vehicle into an expression of self.
In any discussion of how Latinos choose to label themselves, maybe researchers should check out someone's ride before they fill out a questionnaire.
Back in the day and several years before my time, it was vogue to hang fuzzy dice from your rear view mirror, indicating you considered yourself a wild rebellious playboy gambler and wanted everyone to know. [Mas…]
It's time to pay whatever we owe to Tio Sam. In case you're having trouble with your return, here are eight potential tax-deductible expenses you should consider, however briefly:
8. Chupacabra repellent
7. Corrective toe surgery for participation in Cumbia Olympics
6. Buzz cuts to cut down on Carbon/Cabron footprint [Mas…]


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Frugal Friday -Food and wine deals abroad
My online recommendations for this week:
Acclaimed sommelier and wine critic: Natalie McLean
Funny eHow – How to remove red wine stains
My frugal wine deal of the week: Vina Robles 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon. For those that are unacquainted with Paso Robles, it is the largest and most diverse wine region in California with many micro climates and is considered the fastest growing AVA in California. The wineries of Paso Robles produce some great Cabernet Sauvignon and some have even achieved cult status with wait lists to receive some of their shipments. The wineries are typically small and family owned with limited distribution, unlike Napa and Sonoma wineries.
Paso Robles wineries are also known for its premium Syrah, hence giving this area of California the name of the "Rhone Zone". Winemakers swear the climate of Paso Robles mimics the southern Rhone area of France where the producers of Syrah blends are fondly known as the "Rhone-Rangers".
I had this little Cab from Paso Robles and while not an exceptional wine-didn't knock me over, it is well worth the $15 bottle price to share with friends and family. A little tight upon opening, a bit more nose after 1 hour in the glass. Nice hints of chocolate and cherry. Not a pop and pour wine, but needs a good hour or more to open up. Enjoy with a nice grilled meal, but nothing too elaborate. This is one of those "go to wines" if you just don't know what to bring to dinner and not sure about the crowd.
Would I buy this bottle again? yep, at $15 but at approaching $20, I would think twice.
View more Paso wines at a bargain
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Home / Word on Wax / Volume II
Makhafula Mushrooms
"Ang'hlose ukumbulala umadam, ngifuna ukumthatha ngebomvu ibhathu, ngizume emva kwesibuko erobhotini, ngimsikaze ngehlo elimdaka, ngimkhumule amaketanga, ibag namagadgets kube ngakimi, ngimvonce, ngikhethe ezemali yami endleleni, ngimshiye enqunu emakuleni, avuke elazi usizi lok'phelezela abantwana abalambile es'kolweni ….." Makhafula Vilakazi
When we say an artist's work is life-changing, it can also mean that we do not want to imagine life before encountering their work. It's not because we want to indulge in the erasure of everything we knew before, but because we cannot comprehend how someone had not gone "there" before them.
Such is the uniqueness and force of their voice that it is as primordial as creation itself.
Makhafula Vilakazi conjures entire worlds, not mere words, when he spits. The fact that his persona (his birth name is Matodzi Gift Ramashia) grew from a poem he wrote goes some distance in explaining how much he embodies.
I first encountered his work through the crackle of a cellphone speaker, held to my ear by fellow wordsmith Common Man.
How was it possible for someone to relate the bottomless pit of township life with such cinematic clarity, and yet emerge unscathed to tell yet another tale?
What shortcut had he taken? Whose style had he bitten? Which of his gents had he sold out? How much was he keeping to himself?
Makhafula shatters the myth that we should celebrate township life because it is life as we know it. "I think the fact that some people make the best of it should not be seen as anything positive in the greater scheme of things," he says. "I try not to cast judgment in my writing on things that might be perceived as wrong, because wrong in that environment might be different to wrong in a normal environment."
The fact that people can sometimes evade and circumnavigate systemic oppression does not normalise it. For Makhafula to consistently foreground this is not an act of madness but of deep "love for society".
Makhafula Mushrooms is, in some sense, a self-portrait of the artist. The location (Spruitview), the live recording, and the presence of an audience, is, to some degree, a returning of the gaze that forces a heightened air of responsibility on both the artist and audience. It increases the tension between the performed and written aspects of his craft. There is a sense that all of history depends on this, while at the same time this recording could only be a curated snapshot of a moment.
Over solemn dirges such as Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 5, Moses Molelekwa's Bo Molelekwa and Rachmaninov's Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Makhafula draws from an existing body of work while threading a theme (titled Isicathulo Esibomvu) throughout the recording.
Iscathulo Esibomvu, is a tale of a robbery gone awry told in real time. Because Makhafula has set up the environment and the circumstances of the protagonists in the beginning, by the time one of the robbers meets his demise in the backseat of the getaway car – with dreams of wedding his baby's mother in heaven in a three-piece Versace suit and with a hollow-point ring – our sympathies are with him and our condolences with his seed. As Peter Tosh probes in Equal Rights, Makhafula is asking us to consider who the real criminals are in this society.
Ngifuna ukuba infecta, delivered here to Rachmaninov – Prelude in C Sharp Minor, works in reverse. We do not get to fully understand the justification for the protagonist's vengeful rage until the end. In the beginning, we are merely told, "You don't know me. Ungangijaji ujahile bhuti angizanga ne AIDS."
The variations in pacing and structure suggest a man versed with the emotional impact of storytelling beyond flashy phrasing and punchlines.
In this recording, Makhafula uses both tsotsitaal and English but his proficiency is clearly in the former; the polyglot lingua franca of South Africa's mass concentration camps.
"With English, my writing could only be as good as much as I had read, but in tsotsitaal, it became more of storytelling," he says. "My only obligation now is how creative my storytelling is."
Meeting Botsotso Jester Ike Muila (the featured artist in Scamtho Shrooms) in 2004 signalled Makhafula's "breakaway from English". What was a loss for Glen Dlamini's Queen Elizabeth, was a baton safely passed from jester to township chronicler.
The cohesion of this set is startling; the overall solemnity suggesting that instead of Sophiatown, it is these dastardly locations that we have gathered to see demolished. But for now, we struggle on, for Jericho did not fall in a day.
Kwanele Sosibo
Recorded live at the Votos Logos Car Wash in Spruitview on 1 November 2014
On the Word : Matodzi Ramashia aka Makhafula Vilakazi
On the Wax : Radio Robert
Vocals : Nosisi Ngakane and oNe:Drous oNe*
Host: Kool oNe Ebony
Audio recorded and edited by Bobby Quick
Audio mixed and mastered by Tshepang Ramoba
Liner Notes by Kwanele Sosibo
Cover Design by Rasik Green
Live Graffiti piece by TMac1632
Photographs taken by Akona Kenqu
De La Rey
Filmed by Naledi Chai & Mpumelelo Mcata
Film edited by Nhlanhla Mngadi
Features footage from a documentary released in 1938 titled "Die Bou van 'n Nasie"
Spruitview Nile
Filmed by Naledi Chai & Mpumelelo Mcata
Film edited by Naledi Chai
Additional editing by Nhlanhla Mngadi
Features an excerpt from the track "White Nile", by Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy.
Curated by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi
This show is dedicated to the eternal life force of Tonderai Makoni ……. aka Kingpinn ……. we holding that torch, Brother….
- Extract from Peter Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 5 in E [Major]
- Roland Kirk – The Inflated Tear (Atlantic, 1968)
- Lester Bowie – Lonely Woman (Muse Records, 1974)
- Nina Simone – Dambala (RCA, 1974)
- Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy – White Nile (Captcha Records, 2010)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Seasons : a. One Mind Winter/Summer and b. Ninth Ghost (Atltantic, 1973)
- Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor (Blue Note, 1964)
- Duke Ellington – The Single Petal of a Rose (Pablo, 1976)
- Moses Molelekwa – Bo Molelekwa (B+W Music, 1996)
- Serge Vassilievich Rachmaninov – Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2, performed by Ilana Vered (Decca, 1974)
- Jean Wiener – L'enterrement de Ferrier (from the film soundtrack for "October Revolution") (Philips, 1967)
- Extract from Maxim Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 2 ("October Revolution"), performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Igor Blazhkov (His Master's Voice, 1967)
- Extract from Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" (orchestrated by Ravel), performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and conducted by Herbert Von Karajan (Columbia)
- Extract from Saint-Saens' "Symphony No 3", performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (RCA, 1960)
- Extract from Max Roach's "Prayer/Protest/Peace" (Candid, 1960)
- Extract from Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain" (Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans) (Coronet Records, 1960)
- Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" (Orchestrated by Eumir Deodato) (CTI, 1973)
- Donny Hathaway – I Love the Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II) (ATCO Records, 1973)


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Ideas Beach Cottage Bedrooms
Beach cottage bedrooms can be turned into your own private haven by using the ocean and natural surroundings as inspiration. You can choose decor items that celebrate your home beach location, pamper yourself by choosing soft cotton linens in ocean-inspired shades and decorating with sky and water colors that make it hard to distinguish where your bedroom ends and the beach begins. Paint bedroom walls a water-inspired shadow. Choose a fresh green shade or soft turquoise color reminiscent of the Caribbean Sea. The refreshing walls will set the stage for other beach-themed furniture and decor.
Buy whitewashed furniture, which seems to have a natural age after being outdoors in salty sea air. Choose a matching headboard, chest of drawers, desk and bookshelf set. Choose a nightstand with a glass or marble top for an elegant look. Many types of wood can be whitewashed, like oak and lighthouse. Hang floral white curtains from bamboo rod cottage bedrooms. Sheer curtains will catch the soft ocean breezes and allow the sun to shine in. Install linens or blinds under curtains that can be pulled down for extra privacy.
12 Picture Gallery: Ideas Beach Cottage Bedrooms
Buy comfortable beach-inspired cottage bedrooms. Choose a casual spokesman featuring stripes of soft coral, blue, ivory, pink and gold. Increase the bed with decorative pillows that show mussels, starfish, coral reefs and sand dollar designs. Decorating with shellfish accessories. Hang a chopped elegant chandelier featuring dangling seashells, freshwater pearls and pieces of living ocean glass. Replace plain dresser knobs with shellfish-shaped versions. Dress up a regular wall shelf by gluing mussels and starfish around the perimeter of it.
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WSS Adapter webcasts/videos
BizTalk 2006 RTMd last month, and the BizTalk Betaplace has been closed for a few weeks now. Many people have asked me for access to the WSS Adapter videos that were shared on the betaplace and finally, here they are.
The videos are shared on this SharePoint site: http://wssadapter.members.winisp.net/default.aspx, in the Shared Documents document library, WSS Adapter Webcasts folder.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included videos are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm. Some of the content was developed for the BizTalk Beta builds, but it is still generally applicable to the RTM version.


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Posted: Jun 26, 2018
WATERVILLE, Maine -- Cam MacDonald, fresh off leading the Colby College men's hockey team to a league title and a trip to the NCAA Frozen Four, has signed a contract with the East Coast Hockey League's South Carolina Stringrays.
South Carolina is an affiliate for the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals.
"It has always been a dream of mine to continue playing after college. I am extremely fortunate to have signed a contract with South Carolina and I'm very thankful for the opportunity they are giving me," MacDonald said. "Training camp starts on Oct. 1, so I will spend most of my time this summer preparing. I'm on the ice about four times a week."
MacDonald is the second Colby player in two years to sign a contract with an ECHL team. Jack Burton '17 had three goals and eight assists on defense for the Indy Fuel this past season.
MacDonald had a team-high 16 goals and added 10 assists for 26 points in his senior season. He and the Mules won the New England Small College Athletic Conference title and then won two NCAA games to make the national semifinals.
"Cam has had the good fortune to play with great teammates at Colby and in a great league that develops players to be their best," said Colby head coach Blaise MacDonald, who is Cam's father. "He has made the most of his opportunities and now gets a chance to prove himself at the next level."
MacDonald was an impact player for the Mules since his opening season. He had 77 career points on 33 goals and 44 assists in 103 games.
South Carolina won 48 games, finished second in the ECHL South Division, and made the league playoffs. The Stingrays open the season in Jacksonville on Oct. 13 and have their home opener against Greenville on Oct. 20.
"It will be a challenge going against older players who have been playing professionally for years, but it's a challenge I'm looking forward to," MacDonald said. "I have learned so much from my Colby teammates and coaches both on and off the ice. Nothing will compare to putting on the Colby jersey and playing in the Alfond, but it's a new chapter I'm looking forward to."


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Myotherapy in Richmond
Myotherapy focuses upon alleviating pain and restoring the muscles to their optimal movement and mobility. Your myotherapist assesses muscle injury and dysfunction to identify, treat and eliminate the source of the pain.
Techniques used during a myotherapy session may include deep tissue massage, dry needling, stretching, trigger point therapy and cupping. After the treatment you may receive some strengthening / stretching exercises to further assist in recovery.
Myotherapy is ideal for treating:
- muscle strains
- back pain
- shoulder injuries such as frozen shoulder
- chronic overuse syndromes including RSI
- tennis elbow
- carpal tunnel
- shin splints
- assists in rehabilitation
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[Meeting Report] #130 November 7th
Post date: Nov 15, 2015 11:39:05 AM
Hello everyone. After three weeks since the last meeting, we had the #130 meeting at Nakahara Shimina-kan.
With more than 25 members and 3 guests, the meeting started with president D.K' president remark and the introduction of 'word of the evening' by TM B.L. The word was 'shape'. It's a simple and familiar word for us but it has a variety of meaning and use.
After the opening part, TM R.S. led the table topic session. It was his first time to take the role but he did a very nice job and asked some intriguing questions: he shared a quote and asked the speaker's idea on it. One quote he introduced was 'imagination is more important than knowledge' (by Albert Einstein) Umm.. it's not easy to answer in general, but to be a good toastmaster, imagination is much more important than just knowing something, isn't it?
In the prepared speech session, there were three speeches and two of them were advanced projects. The first speech, named 'Not ideal but optimal' was delivered by TM S.K. It was about his experience to secure a seat on a bullet train (Shin-Kan-Sen) ticket in high season. He introduced the story in humorous way with visual aids :) The second speaker, TM K.T made a speech for CC#6 project (vocal variety.) The speech title was 'Life is Choices' and he talked about how he broke up with a girl friend.. It was a bitter story but nice topic to practice vocal variety. The third speaker was TM Y.S and he gave the speech named 'How I Learn English.' The speech content and way of delivery is surely a keynote address speech, and actually the speech will be addressed as a keynote speech at his alma mater. It was a rare opportunity to listen and see a practice of that kind of speech.
If you are interested in our club, please contact us on: email@example.com
Next meeting information:
Time : 18:00 – 20:00, November 21th (Sat)
Place: Nakahara Shiminkan in Musashi-kosuzi
[future meeting schedule]
#132 meeting: Dec.4th
#133 meeting: Dec.18th
#134 meeting: Jan. 9th(*1)
#135 meeting: Jan. 23rd(*1)
@ all meetings above will be held at Nakahara Shiminkan
(*1)the meeting dates are NOT 1st and 3rd Saturday in January.


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We utilize the services of a professional designer and stager to help our clients who are listing their home for sale to present what the home offers in the best possible light. The way a home appears should change immediately once the owner switches from living in the house to putting the house on the market. In other words, the home should switch from reflecting how the owners live, to how someone would imagine themselves living in this home!
As a professional team of realtors, we put these concepts into action, based on our experience in viewing the Rockland County real estate market.
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Access control systems can now be installed in East Anglia to allow access to buildings and individual rooms using single door or multiple door network systems. Sonata Security can offer a full access control design and installation tailored to your specific needs from mechanical digital locks to full PC based system.
Access control to buildings has always caused a problem for security. This right of access to a building – whether an airport, hospital, hotel, office or factory can now be controlled through Access Control Security Systems. It used to be a matter of trust that keys to premises were issued. However, with access to the internal monitored rooms as well as the entry and exit to the buildings.
We can also offer full test, commission and maintenance on all types of access control systems as well as Intruder Alarms & home security, fire alarms, CCTV systems or automatic gates.
Progression from mechanical locks to electronic locking systems can be from simple keypads through to biometric recognition. Keypad Systems work on the basis that a four-digit code is entered which, if correct, will unlock the door. These systems are usually used on low security doors. The next progression is to stand alone Proximity Based Systems which use a unique proximity device for each user; this can be in the form of a token, card or key fob. These systems are for higher security doors and doors that need higher control of entry.
Readers range from basic fingerprint readers, to full hand readers, through to iris recognition. These are for high security sites where total lock-down is required, such as laboratories, power stations, banks or government offices.
Intercoms allow the control of a range of doors, from single entry doors to a full apartment complex. These systems allow communication from the main entrance door to individual handsets at reception desks, or in apartments.
An intercom system can be a simple audio system, or a full colour video system with night time illumination. Keypads and proximity readers can also be added to the intercom system to allow ease of access for staff or residents.
GSM mobile phone systems can be installed for remote locations or off-site access control and for more difficult installations, wireless intercoms can also be installed.


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Every year, 35,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK, making it the most common type of cancer in men.
But according to the Prostate Cancer Charity, two thirds of British men don't actually know what their prostate does.
Understanding the basic functions of the prostate gland and learning about the symptoms of prostate cancer can help to catch it early, when treatment success rates are at their highest.
Read our 10 essential facts about the prostate gland, prostate cancer and preventiontips, with Dr Tom Stuttaford, vice-president of Prostate UK.
1. What is the prostate gland?
Only men have a prostate, a muscular gland that produces some of the ingredients of semen. The role of the prostate is to make seminal fluid, which is mixed with sperm to make semen.
2. What does the prostate gland look like?
The prostate is a walnut-sized gland situated just below the bladder between the root of the penis and the anus.
In older men with prostate problems it may swell from the size of a walnut to that of a plum. If the prostate grows too big, urine flow may be weaker, but prostate size is not related to prostate cancer.
3. Is my prostate gland normal?
Symptoms to look out for are needing to urinate more during the night, dribbling before or after urinating, and a weak urine flow.
Less common symptoms include pain in the testicles, problems getting an erection, pain when ejaculating, pain when passing urine and blood in the urine.
Prostate cancer doesn't always affect the urinary stream until the disease is advanced, so urine flow isn't a reliable indicator on its own. There are a variety of reasons for a change in the pressure of urine flow, such as a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostatitis – inflammation or infection of the prostate. If your once normal urine stream has dwindled to a trickle, visit your GP.
4. Is age a factor?
Prostate cancer usually affects men over 50 and approximately half of this age group also show signs of prostate enlargement. According to Cancer Research UK, the largest number of cases is diagnosed in those aged 70 to 74.
One in 25 men (3.8 per cent) will die from the disease and around seven in 10 newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients now survive beyond five years. Prostatitis can affect men of any age.
5. What is a PSA test?
To rule out prostate cancer, your GP usually suggests that you have a PSA test. This is a blood test that measures the level of a protein called Prostate specific antigen (PSA). PSA is produced in the prostate gland and found in small amounts in the blood.
A raised PSA level can be a warning sign of the presence of prostate cancer. It can also indicate other problems that aren't cancer - three out of four men with a raised PSA level will not have prostate cancer. However, the higher the PSA level, the greater the likelihood of a cancer being present.
6. Is prostate cancer genetic?
Look at your family tree. Has your father, grandfather, uncle or brother had prostate cancer? If this is the case, then you do have a higher risk of developing the disease.
Tell your doctor if any family members have had the disease so you can be given regular blood tests to monitor your PSA.
7. Does diet affect the prostate gland?
To maintain a healthy prostate gland, try to eat six portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Include three portions of oily fish a week, such as salmon, herrings, mackerel or sardines, which are rich in vitamin D and essential fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6.
There is evidence that selenium, a trace mineral, helps lower the risk of prostate cancer by combating cell damage. Selenium is found in broccoli, Brazil nuts, seafood, asparagus, brown rice and onions.
Selenium can also be taken in supplement form and works best when combined with vitamin E and zinc.
Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean men have a lower prostate cancer rate and this is believed to be down to a diet rich in fruit and vegetables, garlic, olive oil, fish and tomatoes.
Tomatoes contain a bright red pigment called lycopene, a powerful carotenoid antioxidant, which helps to repair damaged cells.
According to an American study of 47,000 men over six years, those who had at least 10 servings a week of tomato-based foods were up to 45 per cent less likely to develop prostate cancer, so eat your tomatoes!
8. Does obesity affect prostate cancer?
There is also a clear link between obesity and cancer – putting on those extra cuddly pounds around your waist doubles your cancer risk.
To maintain a healthy weight, reduce your fat intake and replace saturated fats with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Saturated fats are found in meat, some margarines, crisps, chips, and many processed foods.
It's also advisable to lower your salt intake and drink moderately. Avoid too much cured meat such as smoked dishes, or processed hams, as they may contain carcinogens, a substance that may promote or aggravate cancer.
9. Does hydration affect prostate health?
Japanese and Chinese men have very low levels of prostate cancer and green tea is thought to be one reason why. This is because it's rich in polyphenols, which have antioxidant properties.
Alcohol and fizzy drinks are rich in sugar, which can pile on the pounds. Instead, try to drink six to eight glasses of water every day to help flush out the kidneys and keep the body hydrated.
10. Does keeping active impact prostate health?
Exercise helps to balance hormone levels, prevent obesity and boost the immune system. And it's never too late - studies have shown that exercise is still beneficial for men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and are receiving treatment for it.
Scientists in Boston found that maintaining a healthy weight and diet helps cancer sufferers live longer. Results of the trial, involving over 900 men, showed that overweight men with prostate cancer doubled their risk of death in the five years after the study, compared to men who maintained a healthy weight.
Other people also read: Prostate cancer – the most common cancer in men. Prostate cancer: what are the symptoms?Testicular lumps and bumps: conditions that can affect the testicles or scrotum. FAQS on ED: Dr John ET Pillinger, GP, provides answers to questions.


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This is the soap I made today. It has red palm oil in it. I used it to make the yellow. Orange is the contrast color! I used a scent called lemon drop. It also has one of my favorite ingredients in it...... goats milk! This soap will be ready in approximately four weeks. I will cut it tomorrow and I will post a picture of what the inside looks like!
March 31st, 2017
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Hi! I'm Staci from Staci's Homemade Soap! I LOVE making soap and I love the way my skin feels. Unlike store bought soap, my soap does not dry the skin! A natural product of soap making is glycerin! And skin loves it! Also goats milk is good for your skin. Goats milk has minerals in it and is loaded with vitamins .Goats milk also contains lactic acid, which is an alpha hydroxy acid....Goats milk soap is wonderful. I encourage you to try some! My goats milk lotion is a soothing moisturizer for dry skin. Since goats milk has selenium and vitamin A in it your skin will be happy and nourished.