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Entrance: Houtkampweg 9, Otterlo
Opening hours
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From train station Ede-Wageningen: 108 (Apeldoorn), stop: Otterlo
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- Louis L'Amour -
A man with nothing to lose...yet, ends up becoming involved in a range war.
This book has the classic 'recipe for action'. A man thinking he is going to die, a conflict involving some hard working farm owners (one being a beautiful and single lady), and some mean men who like to shoot first and not ask questions later.
There were numerous gun battles, a stalk and prey situation, a knuckle to knuckle boxing match, even some dynamite thrown in there!
Not much to say, it was similar to many other L'Amour books. In other words, another great read by our fav western story teller Louis L'Amour.
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Now there's one more possible solution to add to the list: they're called "Shuella" and they're kind of like a cross between galoshes and wellies. Unlike wellies, though, they go on over your regular shoes, and unlike galoshes, they can be worn with any height of heel, so there could be anything from a ballet flat to a pair of stilettos inside that bright pink boot. (Also available in bright yellow, bright green and black).
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Jane Fountain, Ph.D.
Dr. Fountain joined NINDS in 2005 as a Program Director in the Neural Environment Cluster. She currently oversees the brain tumor, tuberous sclerosis, and glial biology portfolios. Dr. Fountain received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan. After postdoctoral training at M.I.T., she became an Assistant to Associate Professor in the Institute for Genetic Medicine, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, at the University of Southern California. While there, she performed research focused on identifying and characterizing tumor suppressor genes involved in sporadic and familial melanoma. As a graduate student, she was part of a team that localized and identified the von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF1) gene. Prior to joining NINDS, Dr. Fountain was a Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for five years where she oversaw large, multi-disciplinary, translational [Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE)] grants on brain tumors, gynecological cancers, and skin cancer. Her interests lie in promoting interactions that facilitate the translation of basic discoveries into clinical applications and encourage collaborations between investigators with diverse expertise.


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INLEPS 2013 International Seminar
Granada, Spain, December 16th & 17th, 2013
The International Seminar INLEPS2013 "Global perspectives on Language Eduaction Policy" will be hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada on December 16th and 17th, 2013. INLEPS targets all the professionals in the field of language policy and language teaching, as well as other professionals and students interested in the study of language policy and language teaching. The International Seminar will focus on the analysis of language policy models in various countries and contexts with the goal of stimulating debate about current issues concerning language policy models currently implemented and their impact on education systems and on society. The seminar also aims at proposing possible areas of development and cooperation among the different countries and researchers in the field.
Conference themes
- Analysis of language education policy, laws, regulations, and practices in various contexts
- Language policy and planning processes (personnel policy, resourcing policy, curriculum policy, evaluation policy) and their contribution to the enhancement of our understanding of how such practices impact language learning and teaching
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma, hosted his world famous Xin philanthropy conference in Hangzhou, China this past weekend. The conference was a one-of-a-kind event as no other philanthropic meeting of this caliber has ever been hosted. What made this event unique was its goal of synergizing local philanthropists and chinese experts in an effort to improve the infrastructure and future of China.
Ma, looks to achieve this goal by utilizing the 1 million plus Chinese millionaires currently living in their home country. The conference acted as a motivational and informational tool for philanthropists from all over. Ma, himself being one of the most influential people of the 21st century lead the conference and handled the structure and content. Since founding Alibaba, Ma has paved the way in philanthropic responsibility by creating many foundations and dispersing generous donations throughout the world.
In attendance were over 1,000 of the most well known philanthropists in China. Some notable names included Salman Khan (Khan Academy), Yao Ming and Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. During the conference there were 5 panels that discussed current issues involving health care, education and many other current events and how they may relate to philanthropic causes.
The overall attendance of this event was a catalyst to the philanthropic growth that is necessary in the years moving forward for China. Over the past few years, Jack Ma has expressed his concerns with the lack of philanthropy in China even with the current abundance of millionaires and more to come in the future.
He utilized this conference in such a way that shows how important philanthropy actually is to the Chinese Infrastructure in hopes of jumpstarting a philanthropic movement. During the conference many different donation methods were discussed that businesses can utilize in order to donate a portion of their sales to charitable causes. If utilized this system can one of the most effective tools in improving Chinese infrastructure.
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Book pick: 'Supernaturally' weak sequel to 'Paranormalcy' September 25, 2011Posted by Diana McCabe in News, Releases.
Tags: Evie, Kiersten White, Paranormalcy, Supernaturally
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Turns out writing the second book in a series isn't as easy as you'd think. — Kiersten White
That should have been my first clue that author Kiersten White was going to have a tough time following up her wildly funny and creative first book — PARANORMALCY — about Evie, a 16-year-old girl who can see through the glamours of paranormal creatures. That makes her a valuable asset of the IPCA — the International Paranormal Containment Agency — where she uses her pink "rhinestone-studded Tasey" to bag and tag paranormals, who are later made into useful members of society. (Read my review of that book HERE.)
But SUPERNATURALLY is just so totally different in characters, tone and plot that I felt like I had to force my way through this book — which I read on a cross-country plane trip so I was a captive audience.
The sequel picks up with Evie after she has left the IPCA and starts her normal life. But — her normal life is too normal for her. She misses feeling special. Then her boss from the IPCA Raquel — through a series of totally weird events — comes into her life again and offers a position at IPCA. Evie jumps at the chance, even though her boyfriend Lend (invisible boy) isn't going to be thrilled.
And this is the really annoying part of the book. Evie is so quick to go back to work for the IPCA after everything that occurred in PARANORMALCY that it's a little tough to believe at first. But — Evie is a teen — and we know how teens change their minds — that after a bit, her return — on her own terms — seems plausible. However, forget the wise-cracking "what the bleep" Evie of old. She is a big whiner in SUPERNATURALLY. OK — this is a YA book and you expect some teen-age angst but this was boring. Her boyfriend is in college and so can't always spend time with her. She can't seem to focus — even when she's back at work. She's turning into a Twilightesque Bella. Where the heck is her backbone? She's turned into a wimp. And she's boring. Not the kind of main character you want to like or care about.
The best parts of the book:
- One of Evie's missions is to bag a troll community but she ends of finding out they aren't the bad guys. It's a vampire. And this vamp finds that drinking paranormal blood makes him stronger. He'll be back. And I liked these scenes because the real Evie returns.
- The new character Jack. Jack is weird. He's like a kid. A hyperactive one. But at the same time there's something ancient about him. He's spent time with the Fae and can travel through their paths. You sense he wants to be good — but he leaves Evie in a bind every time. And there's something so odd about him that we don't know yet if he could turn out to be a villain — or if he really is a good guy. But I liked his escapades.
- We find out who Evie's father is. It's not really a "best" part because it's so dorky. Let's just say NASCAR is involved. And he's a paranormal. But is he really her Dad?
- Reth. He's back and creepy as ever. What's he up to? Not sure. But left me wanting to know more about why the Fae seem so determined to snag Evie.
- The back stories on Vivian and Arianna.
I will say the last 80 or so pages of the book lived up to the pace of PARANORMALCY. The majority of the book, however, was mainly Evie feeling sorry for herself. You can't help but wonder if an editor could've helped White focus a bit more because there were elements of this book that could have been sharpened into a much faster, fun read that would have made this a stronger sequel.
Let's just hope the snappy, funny, smart Evie turns up in the final book, and that the editing is better for ENDLESSLY. (Here's what White posted on GoodReads about the final book:
The final chapter of Evie's adventures. Old friends, new ones, all wrapped up in impossible decisions. And some ball gowns. Because what's a life of normal and paranormal drama without a ball gown or two?
(Note: I was given a copy of SUPERNATURALLY to review for my news site — which I haven't turned in yet! So you're getting my disclosure notice here and a look at my rough draft before I turn it in!)
Dinklage thanks dog sitter but not GRRM in Emmy win for 'Game of Thrones' September 18, 2011Posted by Diana McCabe in Emmy nominations, HBO, News.
Tags: Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Peter Dinklage
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Peter Dinklage won an Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama for his role as Tyrion Lannister in HBO's GAME OF THRONES. GOT was shut out in the other three categories it was nominated for, including best drama series, but that's typical for a brand new series going head-to-head with old faves like MAD MEN.
Dinklage — who is superb playing the GOT imp, — seemed surprised that he won. In his acceptance speech he thanked David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for offering him the role. He thanked HBO for "letting artists create." He even thanked his dog sitter. But he forgot to thank A GAME OF THRONES author George R. R. Martin, who was in the audience. I mean — geesh! We know he didn't think he was going to win and didn't prepare an acceptance speech — and as everyone is reporting — he was sooooo surprised. I don't doubt it. But without GRRM, there would be no Tyrion, a fave GRRM character.
Guess we'll just chalk up Dinklage's glaring omission to nerves.
Photos and comments from 'Game of Thrones" panel at Comic-Con
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Movie trailer: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 September 13, 2011Posted by Diana McCabe in Entertainment, News.
Tags: Breaking Dawn, movie trailler, twilight
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And here's the first full movie trailer for the next Twlight flick, due out Nov. 18 ….
Season 4 of 'True Blood' ends with a big whimper September 11, 2011Posted by Diana McCabe in HBO, News, True Blood, Vampires.
Tags: Season 4 finale
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It's Halloween in Bon Temps (or Samhain if you're one of the witches) for the season 4 finale of True Blood — and we get lots of tricks and treats in "And When I Die." But seriously — what was Alan Ball and his team of writers thinking? This was a total snoozer of a finale. Here's why: (Spoiler note — don't read if you haven't watched the show!)
Marnie takes over Layfayette's body and forces Jesus to give her his magic. And then she kills him. No shocker there.
Then she somehow (we never see this) finds Bill and Eric, binds them with silver to a pyre and proceeds to burn them to death. Just as the vamps are in flames, Sookie, Holly and Tara arrive (they figured it out) and chant a spell that calls the dead to help them. Antonia and Gran and a bunch of deadskies show up. Gran pulls Marnie's spirit out of Layfayette's mouth (kind of gross) and then Marnie is persuaded to shuffle off into the night with the other dead to her rightful place. I thought this whole ending to the Marnie storyline totally weak, given the buildup in the previous shows. I was disappointed this is how the writers concluded the major story arc of the series. (Sigh — and it started out so well, too!)
Lafayette seems to be OK. I wondered for a minute if Alan Ball would really kill him off — but then thought — NOT. (Later, Jesus shows up while Lafayette is trying to sleep and says goodbye.)
Sam lays Tommy to rest. Sookie gets her job back. And ohhhh — I wondered if Rene would show up, and he sure does. (Remember, it's Samhain — when the dead are closest to the living — and Sookie, Holly and Tara cast that spell to bring dead spirits around!) He
warns Arlene about Terry, saying the dude is bad news and that his ghosts won't remain quiet for long. He says she should run from Terry. Meanwhile Terry's Marine buddy Scott Foley — who has this creepy look on his face when he finds out Terry is married — also comes to town. Seems like Terry saved his life twice. Terry thought the guy was dead …. just saying …. but is he a bad ghosty? Not sure where this is going but might be interesting. Again — another big foreshadowing for the next season. Alan Ball likes to just drop new stuff in at the last minute.
Thinking he's doing the right thing, Jason tells Hoyt he slept with vampy Jessica. Guess what? Hoyt doesn't take the news well and gives Jason a pretty good pounding. That night, Jessica — dressed as a naughty Little Red Riding Hood — shows up at Jason's house, and yeah — big sex scene follows. But afterward, she tells Jason she just wants to be friends — with benefits — but nothing more. Puppy dog Jason agrees. After she leaves, the Rev. Newlin shows up on Jason's doorstep and he's sporting fangs. (Trick? Is The Rev. really a vamp or is it a Halloween gag he's pulling on Jason? Anyway — he can't come into Jason's house unless Stackhouse does something stupid — like invite him in.) This part of the series is still fun and entertaining. You want to see what happens next season with these folks.
Sookie — after feeding crispy critters Bill and Eric at the same time — decides she can't choose between them because she loves them both. So, she won't be with either of them. Glad she's dumping them both — although it took her forever to get her lovey-dovey lines out. Personally, Bill in the HBO series is more likeable than in the book — where she kicks him to the curb for some time. But Eric is just plain sappy in the TV series. He has a lot more edge in the book and I hate the "nice" TV Eric. Blech on both of 'em. (And what was with the matching ugly robes?) Now, there is some good news. Don't forget Alcide. He dumps Debbie Pelt and makes a pitch to Sookie. Could get interesting. At least he has a pulse and fab abs. Since the TV series is veering away from the books, why shouldn't she hook up with the hunky Alcide. (Ummm — not sure how he's gonna take the news about Debbie — see below.)
It appears the evil Debbie Pelt. The she-wolf comes at Sookie with a shotgun but winds up hitting Tara, who leaps in to save Sookie. Ummm — shot to the head. Sookie gets the gun from Debbie and — after hesitating for just a sec — blows off Debbie's head in the kitchen. She's a goner for sure. (Sookie also offs her in the book series.) But Tara — I'm thinking it would be mighty hard for her to recover from that head wound unless one of the vampires gives her a ton of blood. Now — wouldn't that be ironic. For once, a vampire could help Tara? But I think she's a goner. Remember, they foreshadowed her death earlier in this episode when she and Sookie talk about growing old and sitting on the porch together. So not going to happen.
I did enjoy watching Bill and Eric team up to kill vamps. They get rid of Nan, who was fired from her position as spokeswoman for the American Vampire League. She came to kill Bill and Eric but then started to talk about teaming up. But her fatal flaw? Shooting off her mouth about Sookie and her fairy blood. So, the vamp boys offed Nan. Yup — she wound up as a sticky patch on the King's floor. Let's see if they can stick together in season No. 5.
–Is Marcus really dead? Or is that him snarling at Sam at the end? Or is it another wolf from the pack, bent on revenge for their leader's death?
–What is with the goofy Andy and Holly scene at the end? He gives her a big hug. I'm wondering when nympho Fairy with the ET finger will show up? Remember she made him promise to protect her — always? (OK — and where are the Fae? We open up the series in their land but then — that's it. Hardly a mention of 'em.)
–No big surprise to see that Russell Edgington has managed to claw his way out from his concrete prison. Can't wait for him to get back into the storyline.
Might be me but if Sookie started to cry one more time I was gonna whack her. That's not the Sookie we know. Good grief, the last scene was of her wailing for help with a mortally wounded Tara in her arms on the kitchen floor. Get a grip girl! And while I thought season 4 was good overall — really funny and witty in so many places — I can't help but feel the pacing of the last two shows was off. It was much slower and — frankly — not all that surprising. Doesn't mean I won't tune into season No. 5. In fact — can't wait. But I hope they pick up the pace and lighten up a bit. And please turn off the faucet Sook!
Jesus to Marnie: "You can't trade magic like f****** Pokemon cards."
Pam to Ginger: "I'm so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her stupid name."
Eric to Sookie/Holly/Tara: "Excuse me, we are feeling a little crispy here."
OK — so what did you think?
True Blood: Which regular dies in season 4 finale? September 7, 2011Posted by Diana McCabe in Entertainment, HBO, News, True Blood, Vampires.
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I've been on vacation — even from vamp blogging — but am back and am getting ready for the season 4 finale of TRUE BLOOD this Sunday. Here's the official description of the finale from HBO:
SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 "And When I Die" (Season Finale)
It's Samhain, Wicca's greatest holy day, and spirits of the dead surface in Bon Temps, giving Sookie valuable allies to combat Marnie's newest incarnation. Lafayette's latest medium encounter imperils his relationship with Jesus; Jason finds confession good for the soul, but not the body; Alcide makes a heartfelt appeal to the woman he loves; Terry receives an unexpected visitor at Merlotte's; Sam and Luna envision a storybook ending, for once; Nan wears out her welcome with Bill and Eric. Debbie confronts Sookie and Tara with deadly consequences, and the denizens of Bon Temps brace for a new crisis with a familiar face.
If you don't want to read any spoilers, stop now!
Michael Ausiello, editor of TVLine.com, says "By the end of the hour, the show will be down at least one series regular."
TV Guide Magazine, in its Aug 29-Sept. 11 edition says Sookie "finally chooses between her vamp lovers when the war against Marnie the witch gets bloody deadly."
TV Guide also says not everyone survives Halloween clash between vampires and witches in the fourth-season finale:
"There is a body count by the end," says creator Alan Ball. "It's more than one death – people we know and love – and it's pretty shocking." Alan also says that Antonia is the toughest foe that Bill, Eric, Pam and Jessica have ever fought; that Sookie's decision choosing between Eric and Bill is her toughest decision she's ever had to make and two major past characters return. (Says Alan, "One is beloved, the other despised. One reveal is terrifying, and one is emotional and powerful.") And finally, Alan says, "A lot of things that seemed like they were happening outside of the witch story find their way into it. You're going to think things are finished when they are not."
So, who does Sookie choose? Who dies? Who are the two past major characters who return?
Is Russell Edgington — the King — coming back? That would seem a logical answer. But The Hollywood Reporter says an HBO spokesperson says actor Denis O'Hare doesn't appear this season.
Do we lose Lafayette, who in the Charlaine Harris series dies in the first book? What about Tara?
Several websites, including WetPaint.com, have reported that in the last show of season 4 we'll meet Patrick Devins, 35 to 45, tough, and ruggedly attractive, he served in the military with Terry, and they share a serious history: Terry saved Patrick's life twice. Does he return the life-saving favor(s)? Do we get a reprise of Rene?


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I wouldn't categorize this book as STEAM (or STEAM) but I might consider it a proto-STEM book because it places value on knowledge of geometry and on the ability to use ideas and invention to solve problems.
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My husband is a complete carnivore. He loves his meat and insists on eating it at almost every meal. Personally, I'm not a huge meat fan. It's not that I have any moral objection to eating it or that I don't like the taste. I just don't really care whether or not I eat it. I could easily go vegetarian and for the past few months I've been contemplating an experiment…spend 15 days eating a 100% vegan diet. As you can imagine this has Lord Monkeypants up in arms and fearful that I'll either turn into a hippie or try to make him give up meat.
Needless to say, while doing research on what foods are considered vegan and what aren't, I discovered that there are a ton of foods I never thought were vegan that actually are! Among those foods are Smarties, the yummy sugary candy that I've been picking out of our trick-or-treat bowl for the past few weeks. Lord Monkeypants was, admittedly, surprised and slightly disappointed to find out Smarties were a vegan food.
ME: Did you really expect there to be animal products in Smarties?
LORD MONKEYPANTS: Well, I was hoping…
On Easter weekend this year Lord Monkeypants and I adopted a pit bull puppy named Bunny from a local shelter. She's a character and that's putting it mildly. Bunny's favorite activities include running around like a crazy dog and flipping herself upside down on the couch. She's always getting herself into some sort of trouble which has caused my father to start calling her "the little terrorist" which has caused Lord Monkeypants to call her "Osama Bin Bunny."
In September we adopted Cesar, a hybrid pit bull from Bombshell Bullies Pit Bull Rescue as a companion for Bunny. He's big and scary looking. I'm not going to lie. But our hearts melted when we saw his butt wiggle in excitement and he rolled over on his back for belly rubs. Cesar is definitely an alpha dog. At the rescue (which is also home to No Bull Dog Style Dog Training) he was one of the pack leaders.
Cesar has been in shelters almost all his life so it's taken him a while to adjust to living in a home. He's scared of the camera. He thinks the swiffer might eat him and an unopened can of soda holds too many horrors to count. Yet he loves playing in the pile of freshly raked leaves (after he marks it of course) and chasing the leaf blower. So we thought he would be alright with the vacuum.
Bunny hates the vacuum and, like with the yard rake, constantly tries to kill it. Cesar could care less about the rake and seemed to want to play with the vacuum. When I finished cleaning the floors I rolled up the cord and left the vacuum in the dining room for Lord Monkeypants to take downstairs. A few moments later Lord Monkeypants calls to me from the living room.
LORDMONKEYPANTS: Honey! Your son has decided to make the vacuum his bitch!
I went to go look and sure enough, Cesar had "marked" my vacuum cleaner. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!
LORDMONKEYPANTS: I've got it! A coyote/pit bull mix! It doesn't get anymore awesome than that!
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Guatemala News Wrap Up
January wrapped on an odd note, with cell phone companies promising congress to do more to track the use of stolen cell phones and the US stepping up to say that its antiterrorist agency would investigate recent bombings of Guatemala City inner-city buses. Meanwhile the grandmother of the women accused of the most recent bombing was taken in for questioning by police. Neither the president nor the head of the Health Department turned up to a meeting set up to investigate why medicines prohibited for sale in the US were being resold in Guatemala and Lake Atitlán hit the news again, this time for an ugly floating red patch, supposedly caused from a spill of weaver's dye that occurred in Panajachel.
Another politician joined his buddies in prison – this time it was ex-Finance Minister Manuel Maza, accused of diverting Q120 million from the army's budget. Thousands of motorcycle riders converged on Esquipulas, as part of the annual "Caravana del Zorro", a rally which recently gained status as an event of "Intangible Cultural Heritage".
One of the country's strongest foreign income earners – money sent home by migrants – recovered slightly, mirroring improvements in the world economy and politicians took part in a very symbolic ceremony where they promised to campaign for upcoming elections cleanly and without smear campaigns or dirty tricks.
Shock (not really) as the continuing trial against ex-President Alfonso Portillo revealed that senior members of the military were aware of dubious financial transactions during Portillo's time as president.
Guatemala City's transport system took another step in the right direction as the TransMetro extended out to zones 17 and 18. Local gangs (who make money extorting bus drivers under the old system) warned that there would be reprisals against the new vehicles. Later in the month the police managed to round up 19 people accused of being involved in such extortions.
The killing of a judge in El Petén lead to a repeat of calls for greater protection for judges. It seems likely we'll be seeing a raise in gas prices as the Municipality of Puerto San José (home to the country's largest working port) announced that it would levy a tax of 30 centavos for every gallon of gas that passed though its territory. The State of Emergency that was declared in the gang-ridden Alta Verapaz region came to an end with locals wondering exactly what had been achieved by the two-month crackdown.
The good news? Guatemala's most famous musician, Ricardo Arjona, was again nominated for a Grammy in the best Latin Pop album category. Arjona won a Grammy in 2007 for his album "Inside".


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Public inquiries are failing to restore public confidence and have "little impact" on reforms, according to the former chairman of the Soham inquiry.
Lord Bichard, whose report into child protection matters arising from the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley cost up to £10m, said he found the way that most inquiries are treated by the government "deeply depressing".
"One of my concerns is whether a great deal happens as result of the inquires made," Bichard told a debate in London. "The truth is that they have so little impact the reality is that they have nothing near the sort of impact one would want."
Bichard, the former chair of the Legal Services Commission, said: "I find it deeply depressing. Particularly when you remember many enquires into issues like child safety come to the same conclusions regarding procedures. Why is it that we seem to be so bad in learning the lessons of these inquires?
"I regret that there seems to be a remarkable reluctance to learn and adapt to the changes identified by these enquiries, in so many professions."
The crossbench peer criticised the government for setting up inquiries without giving them sufficient powers to demand that witnesses appear and give evidence, or that local authorities and other public organisations hand over important documents. He said inquiries are often hampered by confusion over the terms of what they should be addressing.
Bichard told the Gresham College debate he had resorted to personal lobbying of politicians and public servants to force his inquires' recommendations into action. "I struggle to get entirely reasonable recommendations accepted. I have been able over the last six years to quietly have discussions with ministers or senior civil servants. My willingness to lobby and negotiate is why we have a police national database."
Lady Justice Janet Smith, who chaired the report on British serial killer Harold Shipman, agreed: "If the success of public inquiries is judged in terms of changes in regulations and legislations then we cannot often claim to achieve that.
"Positive proposals can be very slow to emerge and even if they eventually do they are often diluted. It's an issue of great regret to me.
"The thing I console myself with is that even if no concrete legislation appears, at least an inquiry will have stimulated discussion and I think that may have an affect in changing professional cultures."
Smith, whose Shipman inquiry cost £21m, added: "But looking at enquiries as a whole, are they worth the time and money and resources? I would like to say yes but I think it's often a close-run thing."


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SteelRush – Through the night (Ep 2016)
Digital release available on their bandcamp page.
"SteelRush" got together with a motive to bring back the melodic 80's rock – A great influence on their music.
With their melodic guitar solos and catchy hooks (think Def Leppard, Europe, Journey, Winger, Survivor….) SteelRush intends to give the listener a taste of classic melodic rock in all its glory, while maintaining a characteristic sound that is truly theirs.
The band technically started in 2011 when the guitar player Aham Saxena met singer Apoorv Chouhan. Fueled by a mutual interest in 80's rock,
the two began recording original material at their home studio. It became clear right away that they had something worthwhile after the first few demos,
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After an array of lineup changes, SteelRush decided that it was best to continue writing their music as a two-piece band, while performing with session players when they went live.
The band is already working on new songs so be sure to watch out for these guys in the near future !!!!
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Santa Clara, Calif. -- Who would have thought the Japanese underworld would get involved in the fight against climate change?
Micron Technology earlier this year bought a company called Numonyx, which specializes in a fast and super energy-efficient type of computer memory called phase change memory (PCM) that has been delayed for years. Early PCM adopters have included computing companies, who use it in internal systems to speed up their prototype development process, said Ed Doller, who runs the advanced memory group at Micron, during a meeting at the Flash Memory Summit taking place in Santa Clara this week.
Another major early application, he added, was in gaming devices, specifically, "Pachinko machines," he said. A compulsive staple in the entertainment world of Japan, Pachinko machines have had long connections to shady characters.
Over the next 18 months, expect to see a few more PCM applications. Some companies are looking at inserting the technology into phones or DVD players for rapid boot-up. (Side note: Micron formed a solar joint venture earlier this year, so expect to see the name pop up more frequently in green circles.)
Memory and data storage will likely be one of the major topics in green IT over the next few years. That is, after better air conditioning systems. Storage can account for a large percentage of the power consumed by data centers. Startups like Schooner Information Technology and Nimbus Data Systems have started to market all-in-one storage devices based around flash drives and their own software. Meanwhile, Lyric Semiconductor, Fusion I-O and Sandforce have come up with components that boost the performance of the actual flash drives and chips.
In notebooks, meanwhile, a major notebook manufacturer will introduce a notebook that will not accommodate a regular hard drive, according to Micron Technology vice president Dean Klein. It will only come with a solid-state flash drive. Right now, most of the major manufacturers sell notebooks in which consumers can order a flash drive instead of a hard drive, but an all-flash notebook would be novel.
Who will do it? Apple is a candidate. The company already offers solid-state drives on its notebooks: it could just kill off the version of the MacBook Air with a regular drive and claim to have accomplished something significant. The obligatory obsequiousness would be deafening. Then again, Lenovo caters to the corporate types that would get the most use out of a notebook with an extended battery life.
Conventional flash memory will likely be the technology that starts to erode the dominance of drives. Alternatives may not be needed in large numbers or quantities until the second half of the decade. And the leading one is PCM, which has a long and interesting history. (And if history is any guide, a strong chance exists that it will never replace flash altogether.) PCM stores data differently than flash or even hard drives. It is made from a material similar to the stuff DVDs from which are made. To write data to it, heat is applied to a memory cell. When the cell cools, the bit re-solidifies into one of two crystalline structures, depending on how fast the cooling takes place. The two different crystalline structures exhibit different levels of resistance to electrical current. Those differing levels of resistance are ultimately read as '1s' or '0s' by a computer.
Stan Ovshinsky is the original inventor of phase change. Ovshinksy is the celebrated yet controversial inventor who played a major role in amorphous silicon solar panels and nickel metal hydride batteries (he is also the founder of Energy Conversion Devices).
PCM has been heralded as the next big thing since the early 1970s. Gordon Moore himself predicted in Electronics Magazine that computer users might see it in that decade.
The memory, though, actually only started coming out recently. (Don't feel bad for Moore, though. The same issue of the magazine included an article titled, "The Big Gamble in Home Video Recorders.")
Another PCM side note: Brian Harrison, the new CEO of Solyndra, used to run Numonyx.


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What is obesity?
Obesity is usually defined by using the body mass index (BMI). BMI is a simple and effective calculation. A person's weight is divided by the square of their height. A person is overweight if their BMI falls in the region between 25kg/m² to 29.9kg/m² and a person is obese if their BMI exceeds 30kg/m².
Now comes the scary stuff…
According to the latest figures from the British Health and Social Care Information Centre, 67.1% of men and 57.2% of women are overweight (including obese). In 2013, just over a quarter of all men (26%) and a quarter of all women (25%) were obese. In 2013, 19.1% of children aged 10 to 11 were obese. In the United States, obesity affects one third of the adult population (Flegal et al 2010)
Health risks of obesity
The main health risks of obesity, according to an American Department of Health and Human Services website, are as follows:
Heart disease
High blood pressure
Type 2 diabetes
Abnormal blood fats
Metabolic syndrome
- – and more.
In addition to these physical problems, obesity can both cause or exacerbate psychological problems such as low self esteem, low self-confidence, negative body image, and depression.
Causes of obesity
Bleich et al (2012) carried out a survey of primary care physicians in the USA to obtain perspectives on the causes of obesity. This interesting survey identifies three different types of cause:
- Individual Behavioural Factors
- Individual Biological Factors
- Physical / Social Environment Factors
Among the physicians surveyed there was widespread agreement concerning individual behavioural factors. They were almost unanimous in attributing over-consumption of food and insufficient physical exercise as causes of obesity. 90% or above of those surveyed thought that restaurant / fast food eating and consumption of sugar sweetened beverages were causes of obesity. 88% identified lack of will-power as a cause. There was slightly less agreement concerning individual biological factors. 75% identified genetics or family history as a cause, 44% attributed obesity to metabolic effect and 25% to endocrine disorder. Three physical / social environmental factors were identified. 83% of physicians surveyed thought that "cultural factors" were a cause of obesity, 69% thought that lack of information on good eating habits is a cause of obesity and 52% attributed obesity to lack of access to healthy food.
These results reveal a number of striking features. The causes identified in this survey are almost entirely physical causes, and this is hardly surprising as the participants in the survey are practicing GPs. Sugary drinks are mentioned but alcohol isn't, which is rather surprising. And I would suggest that this survey reveals two main causes to which the other causes are subsidiary: Overeating and lack of exercise.
Whatever the physiological condition of your body, whatever genetic or historical factors may contribute to obesity, the fact remains that obesity is still caused by ingesting more food than the body can burn off. Lack of information about healthy eating and lack of access to healthy food still amounts to the same thing – too much intake of weight-inducing food.
Cultural factors are not clearly defined in this survey and yet, however they may be defined, they still boil down to overeating and lack of exercise. In Britain, great social change has occurred over the last 50 years or so. People work longer and more irregular hours. Cost of housing has soared to unprecedented levels which means that both cohabiting partners need to work and they may simply lack the time to cook and prepare healthy food for themselves or their children. Simple lack of time can cause an over-reliance of fast or processed food.
Increasing levels of road traffic and concerns for safety mean that children rarely play unsupervised outside of the house. For children today, "play" is more likely to involve staring at the screen of a computer, laptop or tablet than anything physically active. Thus, bad habits are formed early and, consequently, childhood obesity continues to rise.
The only psychological factor mentioned in the Bleich survey is lack of will-power. I would suggest that the main psychological cause of obesity is comfort-eating. This is hardly a straightforward issue as people may comfort eat for a whole variety of reasons, such as stress at work, anxiety in general, low self-esteem, bereavement, lack of confidence, and a whole host of other such personality issues.
All of which means that obesity is very difficult to treat effectively. An obese person may know what they should be doing about their condition but they may feel prevented from doing so by any combination of personal and practical factors. Yet the search for short-term solutions continues. Diets and weight-loss plans abound and public appetite for them is huge. The problem with diets is that they may be fairly effective in the short term but are often too unbalanced or restrictive to be of any use in the longer term. Weight is lost and then gained as soon as the diet is abandoned. People are resorting to diet inhibiting medications, but use of these without proper medical guidance can literally be fatal.
Demand for a simple, safe and effective treatment for obesity has led to increasing use of surgical treatments. Of these, the most popular, safe and effective seems to be in implanting of an adjustable gastric band (AGB). We have also seen the rise of "virtual" gastric band treatments using hypnosis. I will discuss each of these in turn.
Treatments for obesity: adjustable gastric band surgery (AGB)
In 1974, L H Wilkinson experimented with a number of approaches aimed at reducing the size of the stomach. Among these was a treatment which involved wrapping the stomach in a mesh. Four years later, Wilkinson and Peloso refined the treatment by wrapping a polypropylene mesh around the upper part of the stomach. Non-adjustable gastric banding was first tried on animals by G Szinicz and his team (Szinicz et al 1989) in the mid-1980s and by 1986 L Kuzmak was implanting adjustable silicone gastric bands into humans. The development of laparoscopy in the 1980 has meant that silicone adjustable gastric bands can now be inserted with minimal invasive surgery and a rapid recovery period.
From the results given in Snyder's paper, AGB is certainly effective in reducing "excess weight". The average excess weight loss in the first 6 months following surgery is 35% and this rises steadily over the following years to reach a peak after four years of surgery, when the average excess weight loss reaches 64.3%. After that, there appears to be a steady decline. The average excess weight loss after ten years following surgery falls to 38.5%. Again, according to statistics in Snyder et al (2010), there appears to be a significant increase in "quality of life" for the first six months following surgery followed by a steady decrease over the next 18 months.
So – AGB treatment is an effective method of weight loss, with patients losing, on average, around half of their excess body weight. But, during the first six months after surgery, monthly follow-up operations are required for band adjustment. Thereafter, band adjustments may take place every three to six months. In addition to these inconveniences, dietary and lifestyle changes are also required.
(N)utritional education and dietary compliance are likely to be the most important elements for achieving successful weight loss and maintenance.
Banding requires that a patient make dietary and behavioral adjustments to cope with their changed gastric ability.33 High-risk eating habits such as grazing, and emotional or mindless eating should be avoided because these behavior traits will hinder weight loss.34 The patient must be an active participant in helping to create a proper stoma size by monitoring the volume of food they consume…
Snyder et al (2010) p 59.
Volume restriction can put AGB patients at risk of vitamin deficiency. Use of vitamin supplements is recommended. Dietary advice recommends avoidance of "soft foods" such as yoghurt, chips, ice cream and cream soups. Cream and butter sauces should be avoided along with fatty or greasy foods. Grazing, snacking and comfort eating should also be avoided.
So – the findings of Snyder et al may be summarized as follows:
- The success rate is high, but around 15% of patients fail to achieve 25% of excess weight loss.
- Longer periods tend to reveal significant weight re-gain.
- Dietary and / or lifestyle changes remain fundamental to success.
Do note that last point. AGB surgery does not take away the need to make dietary and lifestyle changes. Without them, while there still may be some weight loss owing to restricted stomach volume, the weight loss will probably not be sufficient to lift the patient out of obesity.
Treatments for obesity: virtual gastric band hypnotherapy.
Virtual gastric band hypnotherapy involves the induction of hypnosis and the offering of suggestions to convince the "unconscious mind" of the client that a gastric band has been surgically fitted. I have made no secret of my views about this procedure (see my previous article on this subject) but I have decided to revisit the subject to see whether there was any scientific evidence that the procedure is successful. I consulted the following academic journals:
- International Journal for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
- American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- Cotemporary Hypnosis
None of these publications had any scholarly articles about any aspect of virtual gastric band hypnosis. So far, then, there is no hard scientific evidence to suggest that virtual gastric band treatments are successful.
When I wrote my earlier article in 2012 I was shocked at the amount of money some "therapists" were charging for VGB hypnotherapy. Research I conducted at the time suggested that the average cost of VGB was around £850 for anything between one and four sessions. One of my own clients told me that she paid £1300 for two sessions of VGB, and the treatment had no effect upon her weight whatsoever.
Cost-wise, the situation seems to have improved a little. It seems that the cost of VGB (up to 4 sessions) these days comes to around £550. A lot depends upon the area. Treatments in London are likely to be far more expensive than in other parts of the country. I think that there are two reasons for the fall in price. The first is that there are a number of very cheap VGB products available for purchase, such as CDs, DVD, podcasts and the like. The second reason is that the credit crunch and subsequent recession has had an impact upon the practice of hypnotherapy. People are less prepared to spend money, and if they do spend money they want some reassurance that their therapist is effective, properly qualified and registered. The recession has purged hypnotherapy of some of the "get rich quick" chancers who are only in it to make as much money as easily as possible and in the quickest possible time.
Losing weight requires significant lifestyle changes. We have seen that effective AGB surgery requires the patient to make permanent and significant changes to diet and exercise routine. While the patient may still lose some weight owing to less stomach size, if the patient sticks to a diet of high sugar and fat then they are unlikely to lose sufficient weight to escape obesity.
The same must therefore be true of VGB clients. For VGB to be effective, the client must make changes to diet and exercise routine. VGB cannot have any lasting beneficial effect unless the client makes the necessary changes. If a client is responsive enough to hypnotic suggestion to accept VGB suggestions then they will also be responsive to suggestions to alter their diet and lifestyle.
But if clients are able to respond to orthodox weight loss suggestions, why bother with VGB in the first place? I have never said that VGB can never work. My point is that the people for whom it works are people who would respond to orthodox hypnotherapy for weight loss. The whole pretence of surgery is reduced to the status of a gimmick, a selling point to convince would-be purchasers of the possibility of a magic-wand type of quick fix.
My advice to people who are overweight or obese is as follows. Firstly, see your doctor. If you are seriously obese then AGB might be recommended. If so, I would suggest you consider this recommendation. AGB is a safe and reversible procedure. Along with dietary and lifestyle changes it can lead you out of the trough of obesity. If you have trouble making those changes, or if you wish to avoid surgery, then consider hypnotherapy for weight loss. But do so on the understanding that hypnotherapy does not offer a magic wand solution. If you're overweight then lasting changes have to be made. If they are not made then you will stay where you are. Hypnotherapy can help you to make those changes. It cannot make the changes for you. And if you do decide to try hypnotherapy click here to ensure that the therapist you choose is properly trained and registered, and is interested in lowering the weight of your body, not your wallet.
Bleich S. N.; Bennett W. L.; Gudzune K. A.; Cooper L. A., National survey of US primary care physicians' perspectives about causes of obesity and solutions to improve care, BMJ Open. 2012; 2(6): e001871
Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL, et al. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999–2008.JAMA 2010;303:235–41
Garrow, J. S., Treating Obesity: The first law of thermodynamics still holds, British Medical Journal, vol 302, 6 April 1991.
Kuzmak LI. A review of seven years' experience with silicone gastric banding. Obes Surg. 1991;1:403–408.
Lifestyles Statistics Team, Health and Social Care Information Centre, March 2015.
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Snyder, B. et al, Past, present, and future: Critical analysis of use of gastric bands in obese patients, Journal of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy, Dove Press, 2010.
Szinicz G, Mueller L, Erhard W, et al. Reversible gastric banding in surgical treatment of morbid obesity – results of animal experiments. Res Exp Med (Berl). 1989;189:55–60.
Home versus Clinic
April 23rd, 2015
As I have been in practice since 1998 my advice is sometimes sought by trainees and people thinking of taking up hypnotherapy. A question which often arises is: where is it best to run my hypnotherapy practice from – a clinic or my home? The simple answer is that it depends upon your circumstances. Here is a brief summary of the advantages and disadvantages of either option.
Practising from a clinic.
- Support from colleagues and other therapists. For a new practitioner, engagement with the public can be very daunting. Your fellow therapists may be able to offer advice and help. They may be able to offer you the benefits of their own experience.
- Referrals from other therapists. You may find yourself in a clinic working alongside people who offer treatments to the body – osteopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists etc. They might be happy to refer their clients to you for hypnotherapy for, smoking cessation, weight loss etc.
- Advertising network. The whole issue of advertising can be very daunting and confusing for the newly qualified therapist. When I qualified, advertising was a simple matter. It was a choice between Yellow Pages and the local paper. Few therapists had websites. But now, any clinic worth its salt will have its own website and you, as a new member of that clinic, may benefit from exposure on the clinic's website. You will also be allowed to display your own advertising leaflets on the premises.
- Degree of privacy guaranteed. Any reputable clinic will organize a room for you to practise in and will make sure that you can do so undisturbed by visitors, people walking in at random, and so on. This is a most important consideration for hypnotherapists. The last thing your clients need is to be disturbed by someone entering unannounced.
- Cost. The above advantages don't come for free and sometimes the cost can be heavy. Many years ago I approached a local clinic in Horsham and was told that although I would only be practising there for one day a week I was nevertheless required to offer a £500 deposit and pay one month's room rental in advance. You may also be asked to contribute financially to advertising, the cost of employing a receptionist, and other such costs. Furthermore, if you rent a room on a Thursday, for example, you will be expected to pay for that room every Thursday, regardless of whether you are on holiday or ill, or whether a bank holiday such as Christmas day happens to fall on a Thursday. If you rent a room on Thursday you will do so 52 weeks of the year.
- Client cancellations. Clients sometimes cancel at very short notice. Some therapists attempt to impose a cancellation fee. In my experience, this is counter-productive. If the reason for the missed appointment is genuine then the client will resent the charge and may take their custom, and future recommendations, elsewhere.
- Restrictions on practice hours. Some people work long hours. Some clients might not be able to see you until, say, 8 pm. A clinic might not remain open that late. It may shut on a Saturday afternoon. Or, if it does open during late or unsocial hours, it may end up costing you more.
- Restrictions of session time. Clinics usually work on the assumption that a therapy session lasts no longer than an hour. You might wish to spend longer with a client but your ability to do so might be restricted by the clinic you're practising in.
My experience:
Several years ago I rented a room in a local GPs surgery in Horsham. The atmosphere was brilliant, the people were most welcoming and the room I was given was light and spacious. The problem was that I was renting the room on Thursday mornings and was therefore trying to shoe-horn my clients into seeing me on Thursday mornings. Often this was simply not possible. I remember having a couple of busy weeks but no clients at all on Thursday mornings. Sometimes I would have only one client, and sometimes that client would cancel. Hypnotherapy is not dentistry. A hypnotherapist is not an optician. Clients are fewer in number and, therefore, as practitioners, we have to work around them. We cannot expect them to come and see us at our convenience.
My practice room was situated right above a car park and was not well sound insulated. Furthermore, although the GP practice team were welcoming and sympathetic, they also had long-established referral routes for clients with stress, habit or personal problems. For me, practising in a clinic was not the answer.
Practising from home.
- No rent! Your only overhead is your advertising.
- Control over your own environment. You can organize your practice room to suit yourself, or even to reflect something of yourself. My practice room is also my study. I am an Open University lecturer in Classics and therefore my practice room is very book-lined.
- No restrictions on practice hours. You can see clients whenever you wish and for however long you wish.
- There needs to be a spare room in your house specifically for the purpose of your practice (and possibly your other work). It is not a good idea to see clients in the family living room – that would create a very unprofessional image.
- You may be at risk from interruption. Your landline might ring. Someone might ring the doorbell. Other family members might barge in unawares. A family pet might put in an unwanted appearance, or make their presence felt in some way or other.
- Some therapists might feel vulnerable if they are on their own in their own house with a complete stranger.
- Your house might become classified as a business premises, and this could have financial implications. You might not be entitled to free cavity-wall insulation. It might impact upon your buildings insurance.
My experience:
Home practice works for me. You don't need total silence for hypnotherapy – but the quieter it is, the better. My practice room is quiet and peaceful. Of course, there are occasional exceptions. Road or building works sometimes take place, but practitioners working from clinics face the same problems. Family members know when I am practising and interruptions are avoided. The practice environment I offer is peaceful, quite and discreet. It is also located conveniently near the centre of Horsham, very near Horsham station, which is useful for visitors from Crawley.
Not everybody has a spare room or can offer a quiet environment. For new practitioners, sometimes a clinic is the best way into forming a lasting therapy practice. The above pros and cons are by no means exhaustive. Maybe the best way is to try both and make a choice on the basis of personal experience?
The Use of Ideomotor Response (IMR) in Hypnotherapy
March 26th, 2015
As someone who has been in practice as a registered hypnotherapist for many years I am sometimes called upon to give advice and lend support to newly qualified or trainee therapists. From this experience I gather that the technique of ideomotor response, or IMR for short, is no longer taught as part of a hypnotherapist's basic training.
When I began training as a hypnotherapist some twenty years ago, IMR was one of the first techniques we were taught. The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy offered a basic hypnotic induction technique which included IMR as part of the process. While IMR is not suitable in all cases for all people, to abandon it altogether is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Ideomotor responses are elicited and employed when a person has already been hypnotized. Using the method that we were taught, a suggestion is offered to the hypnotized person that their unconscious mind will completely take over the control of one the fingers of the person's hand – whichever hand is nearest to the person doing the hypnotizing. The unconscious mind will show that it has taken over the finger by allowing that finger to feel, and become, increasingly lighter and lighter until it actually rises up from where it is resting. When such an IMR response has been established it can then be used as a way of communicating with the unconscious mind directly. Simple "yes or no" questions are asked and the unconscious mind can "choose" the answer by allowing the finger in question to float upwards from where it is resting.
As trainees, we were encouraged to use this technique with most clients and for most presenting issues. For example, someone who smokes may do so for a variety of reasons. They may smoke simply because it is an unfortunate and dangerous habit they have picked up, they may smoke because they identify with the "image" it creates, or they may smoke to comfort some underlying problem or anxiety, and so on.
It is, perhaps, more useful with eating problems. Suppose a person knows what dietary changes they need to make and is responsive to hypnotic induction and suggestion. But the changes still don't happen. Then maybe there is some deeper issue that the client hasn't disclosed, simply because they're not aware of its possible significance with regard to the present issue. IMR can sometimes lead the arrow straight to the target.
I think that IMR is a very useful technique for trainees to learn. Having said that, I don't use it myself very much these days. The reason is that when you have been involved with therapy for quite a while you tend to develop an intuition about whether the problem of the person sitting in front of you is being driven by "deeper" motivations. A properly conducted initial non-hypnotic consultation will often tell you as much as you will get from the use of IMR. Another problem is that not everyone responds to IMR suggestions in the same way. Some inner defensiveness may inhibit ideomotor response, the finger may fail to rise, and then the client might feel that they themselves have failed in some way. Also, you can never be sure as to whether the "yes" and "no" answers you elicit through IMR are absolutely truthful. The unconscious mind doesn't lie consciously – that is a contradiction in terms. But it may be operating in a way which is not immediately apparent to the therapist.
Sometimes I use IMR as a handy shortcut. I might ask a hynpotized subject to wander through an imaginary room and look at miscellaneous objects, and if the unconscious mind regards one of those objects as significant to let me know by an IMR. The applications are many and manifold, especially in past-life work. It is a useful tool. Not for everyday use, perhaps. But it should certainly be taught to hypnotherapy trainees.
The Father of Hypnotherapy?
March 18th, 2015
This latest concern with stage hypnotism (see previous three posts) reminded me that our modern ideas of hypnotism, and our use of it in hypnotherapy, actually emerged from something rather similar.
Modern interest in hypnosis can be traced back to the illustrious Franz Mesmer and his famous theories of "animal magnetism". Mesmer (from whose name we derive the word "mesmerism") had some medical training but became more interested in what we today might call "alternative" methods of treatment. He became convinced that within the bodies of mammals, both human and animal, there was some sort of special magnetic force which could be harnessed to produce strange and wonderful phenomena. In the early stages of his experimental research Mesmer got his subjects to ingest magnetized iron and attributed his results directly to internal magnetism. He soon came to realize that actually swallowing magnets was not necessary in order to get the required reactions. Read the rest of this entry »
No – I didn't see You're Back in the Room. Personally, I find stage hypnosis at best boring and at worst deeply irritating. Maybe I'm an old stick-in-the-mud but I take very little pleasure when people are made to look foolish for the entertainment of others. To me, it seems to represent one of the lowest traits of human nature. Stage hypnosis is rather like my other bête noire, the prank phone call. I detest these with a passion, especially if the prank caller is some smug radio DJ. But it is just harmless fun, isn't it? Tell that to the family of Jacintha Saldanha. Read the rest of this entry »


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Lila's Ferret Sitting
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- Services are available in Minooka, Morris, Channahon, Shorewood, and areas of Joliet and Plainfield.
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SMBKitchen Archives: Managing Click to Run Office
Posted by Amy Babinchak on 25 February 2015 11:24 AM
Managing Office 2013 Click to Run
Click to Run is Microsoft's newer way to deploy Office licensing. First starting with the Office 2010 retail skus, it is now included as an option with Office 365 Office deployments. With Office 365 volume licensing in fact, you have the choice of deployment via Click to run or deployment via the traditional MSI code. The major difference between Click to Run deployments and traditional Office deployments is in how the updates are deployed. In Click to run an App-V streaming method is used so that you get the entire Office image deployed to you as a whole. The next time there is an update, you'll get the entire upgrade of the deployment. Traditional Office, you get your updates via Microsoft Update.
Click-to-Run is available for the following products from Office 365:
· Office 365 ProPlus
· Visio Pro for Office 365
· Project Pro for Office 365
· SharePoint Designer 2013
· Lync 2013
· Lync 2013 Basic
The products that are available to you depend on your Office 365 subscription.
Click-to-Run is also available for the following retail products:
· Office Professional 2013
· Office Home and Business 2013
· Office Home and Student 2013
Traditional Office updating
First a bit of background on traditional Office deployments. Office updating is controlled by Microsoft update, not Windows update. Windows update only offers up Windows updates only, that is, only updates for the operating system itself. On standalone unmanaged systems you must flip the machine over to Microsoft update in order to receive Office updates. Typically at the end of an install of Office the machine will ask you if you wish to stay up to take with Office updates. Saying yes at this step will do several things. Firstly it will opt you into Microsoft updates, secondly it will enable automatic updating.
If you have ever been convinced that your windows update settings spontaneously changed from what you set it to be, chances are you said yes at this user prompt and didn't realize the impact of saying yes. Patches for traditional office can also be managed by third party patching engines such as WSUS
Click to Run
Beginning in 2010, Microsoft started deploying certain retail versions of office using their "features on demand" or "app-v" deployment. When you first start installing a click to run Office version, it will start to install the entire image to the machine. You will see indications of what it is doing in the background. You have to make sure you do not turn your computer off during this time otherwise you may need to remove the Office install and reinstall it. Click to run does not get updates via Microsoft update and thusly every patch Tuesday you will not see Office updates being offered up. Rather an entire new install will be streamed down to the workstations typically a day or two after the second Tuesday of the month.
Rolling back
But invariably the question comes up, what if there is an incompatibility with the streamed version of Office and some line of business add in? How can you roll back to a prior working version of Click to Run? It's not as difficult as it might seem and also points out that in a domain or network setting, Click to Run can be centrally managed as well. In the case of the unmanaged workstation, you can roll back to a prior working version by doing a repair install.
The process to How to revert to an earlier version of Click-To-Run Office 2013 is as follows:
1. Disable Office 2013 updates. In Outlook Click File, Office Account, Office Updates and click Disable Updates.
2. In your Outlook calendar add an appointment reminder for a date in the future to remind you to re-enable updates.
3. Open an elevated cmd.exe (right click on "Command Prompt" and choose Run as administrator)
4. Change Directory to the path of integratedOffice.exe
In the command prompt type the following syntax depending in you are running 32 or 64 bit Office:
cd %programfiles%\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX64\ For the 64 bit version of Office
cd %programfiles%\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX86\ for the 32 bit version of Office
5. Run the following command to revert to September 2013 version of Office 64 bit:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX64>integratedoffice.exe REPAIRUI RERUNMODE version 15.0.4535.1004
Or for the 32 bit version of Office
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX86>integratedoffice.exe REPAIRUI RERUNMODE version 15.0.4535.1004
*Note*: Available versions are listed here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/office-2013-click-to-run
You will need to determine the last working build of Office and roll back to that version.
6. This brings up the Online Repair dialog. Choose *Online Repair*
Once complete you can check your version to verify it updated properly.
Network customizations
In a domain or network setting you can control this process even more.
To customize Click-to-Run for Office 365 installation settings for an on-premises deployment of Office 365 ProPlus, administrators who have signed up for Office 365 can use the Office Deployment Tool. You download the Office Deployment Tool from the Microsoft Download Center site. The download includes a sample Configuration.xml file. To customize a Click-to-Run for Office 365 installation, you run the Office Deployment Tool and provide a custom Configuration.xml configuration file. The Office Deployment Tool performs the tasks that are specified by using the optional properties in the configuration file.
You can specify the following Click-to-Run installation options in the Configuration.xml file:
Product and languages to install or remove
· Source path
· Level of user interface to display
· Logging options
· Product updates behavior
Download the Office customization tool from the Microsoft download center.
Click to extract the contents.
Accept the EULA
You will note you have a setup.exe and a configuration file.
The setup file has several switches
To begin the customization process open up the configuration file in notepad and edit the variables as follows:
<!– <Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="\\Server\Share\Office\" /> –>
In the first line you indicate where the click to run installer files will be located.
<!– <Add SourcePath="\\Server\Share\Office\" OfficeClientEdition="32″ >
Make sure that the user has read rights to that share location in order to install Office. Indicate the edition of Office, either 32bit or 64 bit.
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
Edit the name of the product you are deploying in the network.
<Language ID="en-us" />
If you download Office Pro Plus from Office 365 (e.g. E3 plan) and use the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run (http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=36778 ) and use the scripts i.e. 'setup.exe /download' and 'setup.exe /configure' as per Technet articles for the tool (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219422.aspx , http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2013/08/08/how-to-deploy-office-365-proplus-from-an-on-premises-web-portal.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219422.aspx )>, from an on-premises location, i.e. network share, the Office 2013 apps are NOT set to automatically update.
Open any Office app, click on File – Account, look under "Product Information" and click on the "Update Options" button to enable them.
Either use group policy or set the updates element to automatically update or point to a network location:
* GPO (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35554 ) and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179176.aspx
* Utilize the "Updates element" within the Click-to-Run configuration.xml file (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219426.aspx ) and set up a local network share for an "Update Path" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219420.aspx )
Switching back to MSI deployment
Be aware you can flip Click to run back to a traditional deployment by downloading the msi file. In Office 365 you can find this msi download easily. Even if you are a retail customer you can log into the account portal and download the Office 2013 msi from there.
How to switch back to MSI (old fashioned MU updates) deployment
Managing retail Office 2013
Currently I can find no way around the need for a Microsoft account for a retail or keycard deployment. There are two means of managing these accounts.
One master account.
Using this method one master Microsoft account is set up for the entire firm. A manual spreadsheet must be maintained of which user has which product key assigned to them.
Each user gets a Microsoft account.
The second way is each user in the firm gets a Microsoft Live ID that matches their business email account. Each product key is then set up in each separate Live ID. You can rename and re-alias this account as the person leaves the firm. https://account.live.com/names/Manage Log in with the Microsoft account credentials to manage the information there.
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Protecting Merchant Point of Sale Systems during the Holiday Season
Posted by Third Tier on 13 November 2014 08:27 AM
One of the services that we provide to members of the SMBKitchen ASP at Third Tier are classified documents prepared by various government agencies relating to IT security. Being aware of the current threats can give you a leg up on protecting your clients. Having access to the research let's you understand the threats in a way that your competition simple won't. When you know more, you can provide more value to your clients. It really is that simple.
We've never before been able to share this information with the general public but recently this document came to us and was declassified for public consumption. Below is the first page and link to document the full document.
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Recording Posted
Posted by amy on 27 January 2014 11:42 AM
I recently gave a talk at the Tampa IT Pro group's 10th anniversary. It was about my local small business IT firm, Harbor Computer Services, and the direction we need to head given all of the changes that are happening in technology. We're in a real critical moment where 80% of small business IT firms are going to go out of business if they don't know who they are and have a plan. I don't intend to be part of that statistic. I hope that you don't either. It's been what the whole SMBKitchen Project was about and 115 firms participated and don't plan to be part of that statistic either.
Honestly the recording is lousy and the evening was plagued with technical issues and the recording captured the presenters view of PowerPoint rather than the full screen view, anytime I turned my head away from staring at the laptop screen you'll hear my voice fade (I tried to be my very best statue) but hey we were on our second laptop to try to get this thing going so it was par for the course of this particular evening. Several people have asked me for a recording so here it is. If you were at the SMBTechFest in October, this talk is very similar to that one and they have a much better recording but it's for attendees only.
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Presentation: Transforming a Small IT Firm
Posted by amy on 13 January 2014 11:15 AM
Back in October I gave a presentation at SMBTechFest on how I am transforming Harbor Computer Services to survive well into the future without losing the core of what has driven us to succeed in the past. This amounts to an attempt to distill in to about 90 minutes or so what has taken many, many pages of written documents in the SMBKitchen Project to describe. Here you can learn what that looks like in action for a real firm.
Live remote access to this presentation is available. Please join me in Tampa (remotely).
Vision of the Future
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Near Tampa?
Posted by amy on 09 January 2014 11:56 AM
If you haven't been part of the SMBKitchen Project then you may have missed out on the papers and discussion surrounding consulting in the new era. Amy is going to attempt to bring together a lot of pages on the future of consulting in small business published there into a single presentation. If you are near Tampa next week stop by for the presentation that Amy is giving at the local usergroup. It's about how she has transformed Harbor Computer Services from an infrastructure company into one that plans to survive into the new era of Cloud computing without losing their mission, and desire to excel in small business IT services.
80% of small IT firms will go out of business after losing 60% of their revenue if they don't change with the times. We're already seeing the decline. We're going to deep dive into how to survive. Amy will lay out exactly what Harbor has been, is today and plans to become for it's clients.
Wednesday January 15th
Mosaic Dealer Services, 1310 W Carmen St, Tampa FL 33606
Presentation starts at 6:30pm but come at 5:30pm and join us for food and drink!
If you are coming from Kennedy Blvd, there's a traffic light at the corner of Kennedy and Willow Ave. Turn north on Willow St, proceed to the 5th street on left (Carmen St). Turn left on Carmen St, and then pull into the parking lot on your left.
If coming from the Interstate, take the Armenia/Howard exit, and head south on Armenia Ave. About 5 streets down, turn left (east) at the traffic light onto Cypress St. Proceed past the 4 way stop at the corner of Cypress and Rome. Proceed to the traffic light at the corner of Cypress and Willow. Turn right onto Willow, then turn right at the next street (Carmen St), and then pull into the parking lot on your left.
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We're more than just tech support
Posted by amy on 18 December 2013 12:56 PM
Thanks Joe! Joe got these insights though his subscription to the SMBKitchen Project. We've been talking about the future – business, hyper-v, non-Microsoft solutions, essentials server, monthly patching directions, exchange, and more. If you didn't subscribe you aren't too late. You can still gain access to all of the information that we published as part of the project. We'll be published additional documents through February. So join up!
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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- In a recent poll on Navy Personnel Command's website, 63 percent of 5,049 respondents did not believe that what they say to a chaplain is confidential, and 65 percent of 2,895 respondents believe that Navy chaplains are required to report certain matters to the command.
In light of these results and other anecdotal evidence, Chief of Chaplains Rear Adm. Mark L. Tidd saw an opportunity to roll out an official campaign to help educate service members, leadership and families across the Navy and Marine Corps on SECNAV Instruction 1730.9: Confidential Communications to Chaplains.
This policy was established on Feb. 7, 2008 to protect the sacred trust between an individual and a chaplain.
Per Navy policy, service members and families have the right and privilege to confidential communication with a Navy chaplain; Chaplains have the obligation and responsibility to protect and guard the confidential communications disclosed to them; and commanders honor and support the unique, confidential relationship between an individual and a chaplain.
Chaplains cannot be compelled by the command, medical professionals or others to disclose what a service member or family member shares in confidence.
"What you say to us stays between us, unless you decide differently- You hold the key," said Tidd. "That being said, chaplains will always assist in guiding an individual to the appropriate resources and will not leave an individual alone when the individual or others are at risk," Tidd added.
Chaplains serve as advocates to help individuals get the support needed to overcome the challenges they face before matters escalate. "This unique relationship between an individual and a chaplain can serve as a valuable safety valve to the commander to facilitate increased morale and mission readiness," said Tidd.
Given the continuing stigma service members associate with seeking help, chaplains offer Sailors, Marines and their families a safe place to talk, without fear or judgment.
"Confidentiality can be particularly important when a Sailor or Marine may feel they have nowhere to turn during a personal crisis, or if they're concerned about command involvement or an impact on their career," said Tidd.
In addition to a Message to the Fleet on confidentiality, the Chaplain Corps has established a resource page devoted to confidentiality on its website: www.chaplain.navy.mil. This page includes frequently asked questions, a fact sheet, a flyer, as well as a link to the policy.
"The Chaplain Corps is committed to caring for all with dignity, respect and compassion, regardless of an individual's beliefs, if any. One of the ways we do this is through confidentiality," Tidd said.
Contact your command chaplain today! Don't know who your chaplain is? Contact Navy 311 for support in your area: 1-855-NAVY-311 or text to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Logging ban = no job losses
In general most of the native forest clearfell logged in the Melbourne catchments goes to two large ASX listed companies.
These are two key players are:
- About 70% of felled trees go to Australian Paper (parent company is PaperlinX) for pulp. Under business as usual, the catchments are projected to supply about 5% of total Australian Paper woodchip input.
- About 30% of felled trees are ash sawlog. Most of these sawlogs go to the Futuris (soon to be named Elders Ltd) owned sawmills at Heyfield. Under business as usual, the Melbourne catchments are projected to provide about 12% of total state-wide sawlog supply.
Hence ending clearfell logging in the Melbourne catchments will not create job losses for these large corporations as the catchments contribute only a small % of their overall raw material input.
Other minor users of catchment forests include Dormit, a pallet manufacturer in Dandenong and McCormack and Demby sawmill in Morwell (needs to be confirmed that logs for McCormack mill come from the catchments).
In the short to medium term, demand for native forest wood based products is declining due to the world wide recession. This reduced demand means logging in the Melbourne cathchments could end immediately as current market commitments for native forest wood can be met from other areas and other sources such as plantations.
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