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2017 ACEC national leadership conference – a resounding success
Over a hundred leaders and emerging leaders from the consulting engineering sector, along with major clients and stakeholders, gathered in Ottawa from October 22-24 to learn of the latest industry trends, challenges and opportunities, and to network with peers and national decision makers.
Driving business / shaping policy
The business program, tailored to the task of driving business for future success, featured trend forecasts from business experts, discussions on industry challenges and opportunities with major clients and industry leaders. The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities was our closing keynote. He provided an update on the status of the federal government's Infrastructure program Investing in Canada.
ACEC's Parliament Hill Day was in full swing on the second day. The day, designed to shape policy for a positive business environment for the sector, kicked off with a morning address by the Honourable Michael D. Chong, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Communities and Urban Affairs. Throughout the day, delegates made their way to the offices of Members of Parliament to discuss opportunities for the consulting engineering sector.
The conference closed with a celebration of engineering excellence at the 2017 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards gala. Over the course of the evening, 20 Awards of Excellence and 5 Special Achievement awards were presented, as well as the Beaubien Award and the 2018 Allen D. Williams Scholarship.
The event was a resounding success with the support of the following partners and sponsors:
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In the market for an iPhone? Here's a breakdown of all the currently shipping iPhones from Apple.
iPhone and iPad Remain Popular With Teens, Interest in Apple Watch Tepid Ahead of Unveiling
67 percent of surveyed teens owned an iPhone, compared to 61 percent in the Spring survey, and 73 percent of teens expect their next phone to be an iPhone. Much of Apple's gains in ownership came from Android, which lost five percentage points over the last several months. iPhone usage among teens may jump significantly in the next few months, as the survey was conducted just before the introduction of the larger-screened iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
While iPad ownership remained high at 66 percent, there was no growth compared to the Spring survey. Android tablets also saw ownership numbers drop, and of customers planning to buy a tablet in the next six months, 60 percent plan to choose an iPad Air or iPad mini.
As for the upcoming Apple Watch, interest among teenagers remains relatively low. Only 16 percent of teens said they would be interested in purchasing an Apple Watch for $350, down slightly from the Spring survey where 17 percent expressed interest. Munster's survey was, however, conducted before the Apple Watch was announced, so interest numbers may shift in the next Spring survey.
Younger customers have always been important to Apple as it gives the company a chance to create lifelong customers. Apple's recent acquisition of Beats Electronics, for example, may have partially taken place as an effort to remain relevant among teenage users. In a survey of 10,000 students, a quarter believed the deal would make Apple more "cool," while 50 percent believed the acquisition would increase Apple's popularity among students.
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Looks like it's INCREASING in popularity to me.
17% in Spring '14, 16% in Fall of '14.
That, my friend, is what we call a decrease.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years in terms of sales now that Google is basically forcing phone makers to produce much higher quality builds.
That 16% jump from nothing in the Microsoft category for "planning on buying a new tablet". Can't ignore that.Also own a tablet computer, Windows 10%, cant ignore that either. I've got both iPad Air and original Surface, the Surface is now running faster than my iPad due to IOS 8.
I'm not too surprised that youngsters don't crave an iWatch. So far, it doesn't have (enough?) must-have cool features for them - which is not to say I know what that'd be. My guess is that those who are most enthusiastic are older types, like me, of the Dick Tracy generation, who felt that the Wrist Radio Watch was the cat's pyjamas. Unfortunately, we'll probably not be big buyers of the watch, either, because you can't, so far, call, let alone FaceTime, over it. But when that arrives ...
Thats what I'm saying, go for it, saves us wasting our money, $350 to be a Beta tester seems a bit much to me. If you feel comfortable go ahead.
I'm not usually one to hold back, but this time I'll wait.
"Waste our money", "beta tester"... There sure is a lot of hate for a product you've never used before.
Thankfully, $350 is not a big deal for me. I'll be glad to be a part of what looks to be history in the making. Even if it turns out to be "beta" as you say, the novelty alone is worth it for me... and even if everything about it sucks, I'll still have a gorgeous timepiece to boot.
Wish I could say the same for Google Glass.... Now *that* is what you call an expensive beta with little upside.
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In an internal memo, NASA has stated that it will suspend all interaction with the Russian government, in response to Russia's violations of Ukraine's territorial independence. Fortunately for US astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson, both currently orbiting on the International Space Station, the two agencies will still cooperate to transport supplies and personnel to and from the ISS.
As The Verge reports, the internal memo states that NASA will suspend all travel to Russia, teleconferences, and US visits by Russian government officials. In other words, all employee contact between NASA and Russian space officials is banned, so long as it doesn't affect ISS operations. Such a move has been speculated since the turmoil over the Crimean territory began, but today gives our first indication they plan to act on it.
Currently, all personnel transported to the ISS travel on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. It's been this way since the US's space shuttle program was shuttered in 2011, while NASA works with private companies like SpaceX to fast-track a US alternative to the Soyuz.
NASA administrator Charlie Bolden is not happy about the US's reliance on Russian spacecraft, a point he made very clear in a strongly-worded blog post published the day US astronauts Mastracchio and Swanson boarded a Soyuz for the ISS.
So it's lucky that the US and Russian agencies are so far continuing to cooperate on ISS missions. It sure would be nasty if the two agencies stranded the six people currently living on the ISS (three Russian, two American, one Japanese) during this political wrangling. Here's an excerpt from the internal memo obtained by The Verge:
Given Russia's ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, until further notice, the US Government has determined that all NASA contacts with Russian Government representatives are suspended, unless the activity has been specifically excepted. This suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian Government representatives to NASA facilities, bilateral meetings, email, and teleconferences or videoconferences. At the present time, only operational International Space Station activities have been excepted. In addition, multilateral meetings held outside of Russia that may include Russian participation are not precluded under the present guidance.
We've reached out to NASA for comment and will report back with any updates.


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Resources from, A Chance to Say Goodbye
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." ~Seneca
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Download the questions that appear at the end of my book, "A Chance to Say Goodbye".
Caregiver Support
Jacobs, Barry J., PsyD. The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent. New York: Guilford Press, 2006.
Rosenberger, Peter. Hope for the Caregiver: Encouraging Words to Strengthen Your Spirit. Brentwood, Tennessee: Worthy Inspired, 2014.
Karnes, Barbara, R.N. My Friend, I Care: The Grief Experience. Pamphlet edition: Barbara Karnes, 1991.
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth and David Kessler. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. New York: Scribner, 2014.
Kumar, Sameet M., PH.D. Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss. Oakland, California: New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2005.
Wolfelt, Alan D., Ph.D. Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart. Ft. Collins, Companion Press, 2003.
Organizing/Dealing with Clutter
Becker, Joshua. The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own. New York: Waterbrook, 2016.
Becker, Joshua. The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room to a Decluttered, Refocused Life. New York: Waterbrook, 2018.
Carver, Courtney. Soulful Simplicity: how living with less can lead to so much more. New York: TarcherPerigee, 2017.
Green, Melva, Dr. and Rosenfeld, Lauren. Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home. New York: Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2014.
Hall, Julie. The Boomer Burden: Dealing with your Parent's Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012.
Jay, Francine. The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2016.
Kingston, Karen. Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.
Kondo, Marie. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2014.
Kondo, Marie. Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2016.
Magnusson, Margareta. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter. New York, Scibner, 2018.
Shultz, Lisa J. Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify. Breckenridge, Colorado, High Country Publications, 2019.
St. James, Elaine. Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter. New York: Hachette Books, 1994.
The Dying Process
Kalina, Kathy. Midwife For Souls: Spiritual Care For The Dying. Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 2006.
Karnes, Barbara, R.N. The Final Act of Living, Barbara Karnes Books, Inc., 2012.
Karnes, Barbara, R.N. End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets [Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience, The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death, A Time to Live: Living with a Life-Threatening Illness]. Amazon Digital Services, 2012.
End-of-Life Issues
Anderson, Megory. Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life. New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003.
Butler, Katy. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. New York: Scribner, 2014.
Butler, Katy. The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life. New York: Scribner, 2019.
Byock, Ira, M.D. Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Byock, Ira, M.D. The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life. New York: Avery, 2013.
Byock, Ira, M.D. The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living. New York: Atria Books, 2014.
Doughty, Caitlin. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2015.
Feldman, David B., PH.D., S. Andrew Lasher, Jr., M.D. The End-of-Life Handbook: A Compassionate Guide to Connecting with and Caring for a Dying Loved One. Oakland, California: New Harbinger Publications, 2008.
Gawande, Atul, M.D. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Hebb, Michael. Let's Talk About Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life's Most Important Conversations. New York, Da Capo Press, 2018.
Jenkinson, Stephen. Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul. Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2015.
Landry, Roger, MD, MPH. Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging. Austin, Texas, Greenleaf Book Group, LLC. 2014.
Marcus, Erin. Talking about the End is Only the Beginning: Conversations Every Child Must Have with Their Aging Parents. Evanston, Illinois: MHP Publishing, 2015.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death-Revised. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Puri, Sunita. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. New York, Penguin Random House, 2019.
Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Safer, Jeanne, Ph. D., Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life-For The Better. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Shultz, Lisa J. A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent. Breckenridge: High Country Publications, 2017.
Smith, Fran and Sheila Himmel. Changing the Way We Die: Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement. Berkeley: Viva Editions, 2013.
Volandes, Angelo E., M.D. The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-Of-Life Care. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2015.
Webb, Marilyn. The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life. New York: Bantam, 1999.
Williams-Murphy, Monica, M.D. and Kristian Murphy. It's Ok to Die. MKN, LLC, 2011.
Windrum, Bart. The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying. Axiom Action, 2018.
Zitter, Jessica Nutik., M.D. Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. New York, New York: Avery Publishing Group, 2017.
Dupree, Ulrich E. Ho'oponopono: The Hawaiian Forgiveness Ritual as the Key to Your Life's Fulfillment, Forres, Scotland, Earthdancer Books, 2012.
Hawkins, David R. Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender. Carlsbad, California: Hay House, Inc., 2012.
Newton, Michael, PH.D. Journey of the Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1996.
Newton, Michael, PH.D. Destiny of the Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 2000.
Ostaseski, Frank. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017.
Rushnell, SQuire. When GOD Winks at You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006.
Singer, Michael A. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself. Oakland, California: New Harbinger Publications/ Noetic Books, 2007.
Tuttle, Will. The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. New York: Lantern Books, 2016.
Wyatt, Karen, M.D. What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying. New York: SelectBooks, Inc., 2011.
Wyatt, Karen M.D. The TAO of Death: The Secret of a Rich & Meaningful Life. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
Miscellaneous Books
Bava, Rick. In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation. Motivational Press, 2015.
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005.
Brown, Brené. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. New York: Avery, 2015.
Buettner, Dan. The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons For Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Partners, 2012.
Cohen, Kerry. The Truth of Memoir: How to Write About Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity. Blue Ash, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 2014.
Cowley, Lisa and Westgate, Victor. Pack Lightly: Making Sense of the Second Half of Your Life. Guilford, New York: Wood Turtle Press, 2020.
Lesser, Elizabeth. Marrow: Love, Loss and What Matters Most. New York: Harper Collins, 2016.
Williamson, Marianne. Tears to Triumph. New York: Harper Collins, 2016.
End-of-Life University Book Lists
Goodreads End-of-Life Book List
End-of-Life Issues
www.agingwithdignity.org ~ Aging with Dignity is a national nonprofit organization with a mission to affirm and safeguard the human dignity of individuals as they age and to promote better care for those near the end of life.
www.bkbooks.com/blog ~ Something to Think About: a blog on end of life by Barbara Karnes.
www.changingthewaywedie.com ~ Website about the book, Changing the Way We Die, with additional resources.
www.angelovolandes.com ~ Physician advocate for end-of-life conversations.
www.theconversationproject.org ~ The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
www.theconversationbook.org ~ Video link advocating conversation and the three options of life-prolonging care, limited medical care, and comfort care.
www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath/~ Ask a Mortician, videos from a mortician who wants to answer your questions.
www.deathcafe.com~ Death Cafe, "At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'."
http://deathoverdinner.org/ ~ The creators have gathered dozens of medical and wellness leaders to cast an unflinching eye at end of life and created an uplifting interactive adventure that transforms this seemingly difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight, and empowerment.
www.irabyock.org ~ Dr. Ira Byock is a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care through the end of life.
www.karenwyattmd.com ~ Her book, What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying, details her experiences as a hospice physician. Her book, The TAO of Death: The Secret of a Rich & Meaningful Life provides reflective wisdom and spirituality of the dying process.
www.eoluniversity.com ~ Resources and inspiration for the end of life.
www.oktodie.com ~ Their mission is to create conditions in which people: plan ahead, make their peace, understand that it is okay to die naturally, and make educated choices, which allow them to pass away peacefully and comfortably surrounded by those who love them most.
www.prepareforyourcare.org ~ A website that assists with making medical decisions for yourself and others, talk with your doctors, and get the medical care that is right for you.
www.codaalliance.org ~ The Coda Alliance is dedicated to helping you comfortably deal with one of life's most difficult situations—starting your end-of-life conversation. Check out the "Go Wish Game."
Forms/Planning for Death
www.mydirectives.com ~ MyDirectives makes it easy to create a state-of-the-art emergency, critical, and advance care plan.
www.caringinfo.org ~ CaringInfo, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, provides free resources to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis.
Palliative Care and Hospice
www.getpalliativecare.org ~ Information and resources for palliative care.
www.nhpco.org ~ National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 800-658-8898
www.aarp.org/families/end_life ~ AARP End of Life Resources
Grief and Loss Resources ~ 888-687-2277
Funeral/Celebration of Life Information
www.funerals.org ~ Funeral Consumers Alliance, 800-765-0107
www.nfda.org ~ National Funeral Directors Association, 800-228-6332
www.homefuneralalliance.org ~ National Home Funeral Alliance: This is the place to find information about home funerals, including directories for where to find home funeral guides, home funeral education programs, home-funeral-friendly funeral directors, celebrants, clergy, and groups who will help families when needed.
www.funerals.org/greenburial ~ Green (or natural) burial emphasizes simplicity and environmental sustainability. The body is neither cremated nor prepared with chemicals such as embalming fluids. It is simply placed in a biodegradable coffin or shroud and interred without a concrete burial vault. The grave site is allowed to return to nature. The goal is complete decomposition of the body and its natural return to the soil.
www.cremationassociation.org www.cremationassociation.org/page/CremationProcess~ Cremation Association of North America. Provides information on flame-based cremation and water based cremation/alkaline hydrolysis.
www.funeralwise.com/plan/cremation/cremation-process/~ Funeralwise describes the cremation process in detail.
www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/alkaline-hydrolysis-laws-your-state~ Describes alkaline hydrolysis and gives information about what US states offer it.
www.greenburialcouncil.org ~ Green Burial Council believes burial is "green" only when it furthers legitimate environmental and societal aims, such as protecting worker health, reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and preserving habitat.
www.greenburialnaturally.org ~ Green Burial Naturally: State-By-State Where, How, and Why to Choose Green Burial.
www.celebrationsoflife.net ~ Their mission is to provide a meaningful Legacy Journey® experience to help individuals and families live their lives with intention and share their values, wisdom, and generosity with loved ones and future generations.
Caregiving Essentials: What You Need to Know to Keep Seniors Safe at Home
Information online about Falls Prevention by the National Council on Aging
National Council on Aging Care's fact sheet
How to request a credit freeze for the deceased
Virtual book club that explores death and the afterlife through books-monthly book suggestions, includes teleconference with author at end of month
Perhaps a few of these resources called to you. To read a more in-depth review of each book, visit and follow Lisa on Goodreads. If you have found or read any books or articles that you believe would be good additions to this list, please contact me. This resources list is ever-expanding and updated thanks to the suggestions of my readers and further research since the book's publication.


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Thanks for sharing your idea @Saminella! We agree and are working on adding the due date and minimum payment amount to the app. As soon as we have more information, we'll be sure to share with the community! Thanks, JohnS
I would like to be able to see the due date as well on the app to pay the visa. I have a couple cards due and I'm constantly having to call and ask when is my due date.
Thanks for adding your support @Kellyan1215. We're working to make this a reality! Have a great weekend. JohnS


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More Fun With the AllPixel and TinyTiM
As a follow-on to our previous article on the TiM and TinyTiM displays from WyoLum, I wanted to demonstrate some of the flexibility of the AllPixel in terms of how well it can pair with already existing products. The TinyTim is an as-yet-unreleased product from WyoLum, but it will be dropping soon. It's really a slick board, consisting of 64 WS2812 LEDs arranged in an 8x8 grid. There are plenty of connections on the back of the PCB to easily wire together multiple displays, in either parallel or serial data transfer configurations. For this build, just one was used, and it was turned into a stand-alone USB LED Matrix.
The innards of the device are, of course, a TinyTiM and an AllPixel. The enclosure is a cheap shadow box-style frame I picked up from a local crafts store for a few bucks. Behind the glass front is a sheet of regular printer paper. This worked very well as a diffuser, even on the rather low max brightness setting used in the code. Taped to the sheet of paper is the TinyTiM/AllPixel "assembly." Sorry I don't have a picture of that, but I used clear packing tape on the four corners of the TinyTiM to attach it to the paper. There's some cardboard and a paperboard backing that hold the paper/assembly pressed against the glass.
One of the optional features of the AllPixel is the ability to add a protection diode, which enables the connected LEDs to receive power directly from the USB port. Obviously, you are limited to a few hundred milliamps of current. This translates to a small number of LEDs running at full brightness or a slightly larger number running at lower brightness. I've opted for the later on this build, with the max brightness fixed in code to 1⁄4 power (64 out of 255).
I first used an external power supply to test the animations so I could get a precise reading of the current drawn. It peaked at about 300mA for a second or two. Everything else was well below that. The AllPixel itself only draws a few milliamps when running, so I was well within the limits for a standard 500mA USB port. Once I was happy with the current draw, I removed the external supply, installed the protection diode to enable USB power, and closed the box up.
So basically what your left with is a slick-looking 8x8 USB LED matrix. Using the BiblioPixel Python library, which directly supports the AllPixel, coding up animations is not to complex, even for a non-Software Engineer such as myself. Since it's Python-based, it can run on a wide variety of platforms. I happened to pick up a Raspberry Pi A+ not too long ago, and I figured I'd give it a whirl driving the display.
Many thanks to the folks at WyoLum for letting us test drive the TinyTiM. I'll definitely be picking up a few more once it goes on sale to the public.
If you're interested in the AllPixel, our Kickstarter has ended, but to be notified as soon as it is available for purchase, follow us on Twitter and sign up for our newsletter.
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Our 100 day goal workbook provides the foundation for planning your goal and tracking progress. Regular reviews allows you to track and adapt your activity to keep you on target.
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The 100 Days programme consists of three core components:
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
basically a closed system -
complex, not infinite,
Our biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth, a closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system. From the broadest biophysiological point of view, the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. The biosphere is postulated to have evolved, beginning through a process of biogenesis or biopoesis, at least some 3.5 billion years ago.
Biosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> whats up: Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 | Downwinders | Nuclear Law: DOWNWINDERS | BIOSPHERE
Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
i just thought to throw this in here as its from same page where i have previously posted the BIOSPHERE bit on WHATS UP nuclear blog - - - an example of our arrogance, ignorance, and paranoia - and of our impact on the biosphere!
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
more > whats up: Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 | Downwinders | Nuclear Law
From left: U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud at a reception for Operation Crossroads, November 6, 1946. LIFE Gallery
The "Baker" explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on july 25th 1946. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
more > whats up: Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 | Downwinders | Nuclear Law
see also > whats up: Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
whats up: RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG
see also: what next: deep ecology
Deep Ecology is the belief that the world does not exist purely as a resource for man's benefit. The world exists for its own sake. We are a part of this wonderful and diverse creation but we do not own it.
whats up: RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG


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So we thought we would set up the ability for our repeat customers to have easy access to reorder some of the products we sell on Trade me. Please bare with us as we refine the site to make it real easy and quick to complete any purchases you make. Do not hesitate to contact us on the Contacts Page.


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She sits naked on the bed, her back to me, looking out the window.
It is a dim and hazy morning, window open, a warm wind does blow.
She might turn into a bird, ash grey like heaven, flutter up and go.
The morning filled with the calls of birds, commuters, hangmen.
She could see the end of the world where every death will begin.
If her wings come through her shoulder blades, the devil will win.
I kiss those same shoulder blades, those sharp faces, special dispensation.
She is in another world, enjoying her Friday Feast, registers no sensation.
My meal of cold fish cannot pour out enough love to absolve her resignation.
Feathers are sharp, fine wire, taking bits of flesh as they cut down the strings
of the most holy and indifferent stars, falling to earth and all the confusion it brings.
The sweetness of that first kiss as I sit here, sharing breath but not intimacy, stings.
She could be in Cleveland by sundown, or Pompeii before they'd miss her in the store.
She watches the world wake, and time the revenge of a friend she lost in another war.
She is gone, and I count the wounds her sharp and disinterested talons leave in the floor.


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From now on you'll be able to look up your user page from anywhere!
You can see your latest matches, achievements, friends and more.
We'll probably improve it further in the future but it should be a good start.
Click on a match to open a specific match page which you can share with your friends and foes.
If you encounter any issues or if you have feedback please let us know on the forum.
As with the private chat, leader board etc the avatar displayed is the one you've uploaded to the forum.
Profile pages can be found at: curvefever.io/user/{username}.
Match pages can be found at: curvefever.io/match/{id}. (Currently not yet possible to search for matches)
For example http://curvefever.io/user/rojoss
Or check the tournament match: http://curvefever.io/match/1700631/
what does the match page do? I went on it and i wasnt sure what to do
It's just a page where you can see the results of a match.
Useful for sharing with others.
For example for tournaments you can now post the match link so it's easier for tournament moderators to validate matches etc.
Can share it with friends etc…
Another use is to check profiles of people you've played with easily because the names are all links.
You can see how much rank everyone gained/lost etc.
You've done a great job with introducing the statistics, leagues and stuff - makes the game more competitive, transparent and fun, just like CF2 was!
Looks nice.
Needs privacy options.
Great job, but I see a little problem with time of last matches - for example when a match ended 3 minutes ago, it shows that it was 57 minutes ago.
Yeah the times are offset by -1 hour I'll fix it later.
lol i started spamming the left click on the link and now its at 160+
aww it resets after u reload the page T-T
Just a small thing but I added a % to the user page for rank and if you hover over it you'll see the amount of players that have a higher (or equal) rank.


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|Horseradish and Cockscomb Sauce
Photo by: Lord-Williams
The plant has white flowers blooming on hills in May and broad rough leaves. Today, it is planted throughout the year and collected year round. In medieval times, the leaves and roots were eaten for their fleshy, slightly pungent flavor.
Horseradishes were used medicinally and as condiments. As a medicinal it is used as an antiscobic, as an appetitive and a digestive to stimulate the mucus secretions in the stomach and as a diuretic and to combat dropsy, rachitic and scrofula, alone or mixed with iodine.
There is a 14th C manuscript providing a recipe for horseradish preserved in syrup. The leaves and roots had the virtue of moving and warming. Eaten with vinegar, horseradishes eliminated kidney stones. The heated root thinned the phlegm and helped the boiling process in the stomach. It was eaten to elongate the stomach. It was consumed raw with salt at the beginning and end of meals and served with any dish and as a sauce as Nola's Horseradish and Wild Clary Sauce. Chaucer warned cooks not to make sauces. without horseradish stating: "Woe to his cook, unless the sauces were poignant and sharp. . . "
[Alonso, Martín. 1994:III:N:4110;
Chirino/Herrera. 1973:239;
ES: Carroll-Mann. "Food." Sep 1, 02; ES: Chaucer. Aug 23, 03:353-354; ES: Lord.
"gallo cresta." Aug 10, 14; Font Quer. Plantas.
1999:143:254-255; Gázquez. Cocina. 2000:114;
Henisch. 1976:97; Hieatt. Ordiance.1988:97;
Nola 1989:l-4; Sass.1967:21; and Wilson.1973:205]
See blog titled "gallo cresta" dated Aug 10, 14 for Nola's recipe for Sauce of Horseradish and of Clary Sage.


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Call it the Imagine Diet. You wouldn't have to count calories, track food points or memorize rules. If, say, some alleged friend left a box of chocolate truffles in your home this holiday season, you would neither throw them away nor inhale them all. Instead, you would start eating imaginary chocolates.
You would give yourself a few seconds to imagine tasting and chewing one truffle. (If there's a picture on the box, you could focus on it.) Then you would imagine eating another, and then another and another...until at last you could open the box of real chocolates without making a total pig of yourself. And then you could start on fantasies of other vices you wanted to eliminate.
So far, the Imagine Diet exists only in my imagination, as does any evidence of its efficacy. But there is some real evidence for the benefits of imaginary eating from experiments at Carnegie Mellon University reported in the current issue of Science. When people imagined themselves eating M & M's or pieces of cheese, they became less likely to gorge themselves on the real thing.
This form of mental dieting — I think, therefore I'm full — sounds bizarrely counterintuitive, because we're all familiar with the opposite phenomenon: thoughts of food that make us more eager to eat it.
Indeed, there's a well-established phenomenon called sensitization, or sometimes the whetting effect: if you picture yourself eating chocolate, your desire for it increases, and such thoughts can cause you to literally salivate.
Similarly, imagining the sight or the smell of a cigarette will increase a smoker's craving to light up. And when you actually smell or get a taste of something, that initial sensation can also increase your desire for it.
But eventually that effect is counterbalanced by another well-established phenomenon called habituation. Just as you adjust to bright lights and stop being bothered by bad smells, you get habituated to a food as you eat it.
"After you eat the first little cheeseburger at White Castle, your craving is probably greater than it was before you started your meal," says Carey Morewedge, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon and the lead author of the Science article. "But your craving is probably going to be lower by the time you start your eighth."
At that point, you may stop ordering sliders and think you've lost your appetite for any food. But habituation is quite specific to the food you're eating, as has been repeatedly demonstrated both by researchers and by pastry chefs. Restaurant patrons may feel they can't eat another bite after going through the entree, but they suddenly feel peckish when the dessert cart arrives.
The experiments at Carnegie Mellon are the first to show that habituation to food can occur simply by thinking about eating, according to Dr. Morewedge and his colleagues Young Eun Huh and Joachim Vosgerau.
The habituation occurred as people imagined eating 30 M & M's or 30 cubes of Kraft Cheddar, one at a time. They were shown photos of each M & M for three seconds, and each cube of cheese for five seconds.
The habituation effect didn't occur when people imagined eating just three M & M's or cubes of cheese. Nor did it occur when people imagined moving M & M's one at a time into a bowl or doing other mental tasks, like feeding quarters into a laundry machine.
The effect required lots of mental eating, and it was specific to each food: the people who imagined eating chocolate didn't lose their desire for cheese.
The imaginary eating didn't make people feel any fuller, and it didn't change their overall opinion of M & M's or Kraft cheese cubes. They just didn't feel like eating as much of it at that moment.
"Our desire for food has two components: liking and wanting," Dr. Morewedge says. "We may very much like ice cream but not want to eat it for breakfast. Imagined consumption didn't affect how much people in our experiments liked M & M's, but did reduce how many they wanted to eat. Habituation is generally considered to be a motivational process."
The importance of mind over stomach was demonstrated in 1998 in a striking experiment with two men whose mental functions were normal except for a severe form of amnesia. They were unable to remember an event for more than a minute. Their eating habits were studied on several days by researchers, led by Paul Rozin at the University of Pennsylvania, who created a rather extended lunch period.
After each man ate his lunch, the food was cleared. In a few minutes, a researcher appeared with an identical meal and announced, "Here's lunch." The men always ate up without any complaint about feeling full. Then, after the food was cleared and another few minutes passed, a third lunch was served, and the men always dug into it, too.
In fact, one of them stood up after his third lunch of the day and announced that he would "go for a walk and get a good meal." Asked what he planned to eat, he replied, "Veal parmigiana" — the same food he had just had for lunch.
When the researchers tried the same experiment on a control group with normal memories, the people all refused a second lunch. They, unlike the men with amnesia, consistently felt less hungry after eating, but the sensation apparently wasn't just coming from their stomachs, as the researchers concluded.
"Nonphysiological factors seem to be of major importance in the onset and cessation of normal eating," Dr. Rozin and his colleagues wrote in Psychological Science. "The results suggest that one of the principal nonphysiological factors is memory for what has recently been eaten."
Now it looks as if even memories of imaginary foods can affect people's desire to eat. Dr. Rozin says he is impressed with the new Carnegie Mellon study, and so is Leonard Epstein, an expert on habituation to food. Dr. Epstein, a psychologist at the State University at Buffalo, says the results raise intriguing questions for further research.
"Can you reproduce the effects over time, or do they only work once or twice?" Dr. Epstein said. "Obviously for this to be useful clinically, it is necessary to work repeatedly. Does it work for everyone, including obese people? Does it work for all foods, or just snack foods?"
Dr. Morewedge agrees that it's too early to know how long-lived or useful this effect will be, or whether it will work at all with addictive substances like tobacco.
He hopes to study what happens when people imagine smoking cigarettes. But the results so far, he says, offer some hope of eventually diverting people to healthier diets.
For instance, if you had a bag of carrots and a bag of potato chips in your home, you might try mentally consuming the chips so that you'd be more inclined to reach for a real carrot. And then, assuming that worked, perhaps you could try habituating to other vices.
If you wanted to curb your lust for someone, would it help to envision an erotic encounter in exquisite detail? (In which case pornographers could call themselves providers of therapeutic materials.)
To cut your credit card bills, could you embark on imaginary shopping expeditions? Would fantasizing about goofing off help you stop procrastinating? If you imagined watching "Jersey Shore," could you avoid the real show?
Dr. Morewedge doesn't yet have answers, although he does allow that "habituation processes seems to be similar across a variety of modalities and stimuli." Habituation is inhibited by variety, he says, so for it occur with activities other than eating, you'd presumably have to keep imagining the same act being performed in precisely the same way. And to habituate to a food, you'd have to do more than have vague thoughts about it.
"Our results suggest that you have to engage in the mental activity simulating actual consumption," Dr. Morewedge says. "You can't just imagine a whole steak or a whole bar of candy — you have to imagine eating a piece at a time."
That was easy enough to do in the Carnegie Mellon experiments, which showed people pictures of each piece of food for a few seconds. But what if you want to try this at home? Clearly, there's a need for an Imagine Diet smartphone app, or at least a book filled with lush illustrations of the planet's most fattening foods.
No one has any plans for the Imagine Diet Book — not yet, anyway — but Dr. Morewedge and his colleagues have been joking about introducing a new format to the diet genre.
"It would be all pictures," he says. "The first diet flip book."


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By: Stefan Hök
Cint is an exchange for market research, and so we have both buyers and sellers active in the platform. Both are equally important with both being dependent on each other for a successful model.
There is one large difference between running an exchange in market research, and, for instance, one in the financial markets – and that is the perspective of the respondent. Just imagine how different stock markets would work if stocks had a say in how trading was executed.
Last year Cint took the decision to prioritize the respondent perspective with the simple rationale that happy respondents help Cint retain and attract the best panel partners, which in turn helps us to fulfill our clients' demands.
So what does this mean? We want to be open, transparent, fair and respectful with regard to time and incentives for all respondents that engage on our platform. Survey respondents should of course be aware of incentive levels and study length before deciding to take the survey. Once the participant has accepted the invite, we minimize any time spent outside of the survey (such as pre-screeners) and maximize the likelihood of completing the survey. All this helps to provide a better respondent experience, which will hopefully increase the chances of that respondent continuing to engage with our clients' surveys.
Cint Optimizer is a practical example on how we prioritize the respondent perspective. Cint Optimizer is an internal router meaning that we use all our knowledge about a certain respondent (usually gathered over many months or even years) to match them to a suitable survey, should the first survey not be suitable. If a respondent is screened-out from a survey, we want to offer a new survey opportunity as quickly as possible. When there are multiple surveys to choose from, we provide the survey that is a perfect match as the first option. If there are no perfect matches, we prioritize the surveys where we need to ask as few qualifying questions as possible, which minimizes respondent time spent outside the survey. Any surveys with high drop-out rates are being pushed down in priority and if they hit a certain threshold, the door is closed.
In all the respondent communication within Cint Optimizer we are transparent with any survey data that we have, what the incentives will be and are clear that respondents can skip any profiling question if they want to – and we will still try to match the respondent to a suitable study.
Isn't this obvious you might ask? In our experience, we have learned that other routing systems prioritize everything but the respondent. Unnecessary questions are being asked over and over again, surveys with the highest CPI are prioritized, and so on.
Hand to heart, we are not perfect but we have taken a conscious decision to improve. There are many things to do around behavioral or contextual targeting for example. More and more of our clients are running web-cam studies, UI testing, etc. rather than traditional surveys, which puts new requirements on devices which must be considered when optimizing the respondent experience. Furthermore, we learn every day about the preferences of research participants in terms of study types, length of studies and when they like to spend their time on surveys.
Our goal is to use all this data, understand it and build systems that make the experience as good as possible for respondents. If Cint succeeds in all this, I am certain that our exchange will blossom. If all research companies succeed in this, I am confident that this industry will flourish!


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"Knowledge and connections to make any dream trip a reality."
Travel + Leisure
Further Afield
* Easy to get to, but takes a bit more effort.
** Perhaps a bit out of your way, but worth it.
*** Strap up your boots. But MUCH easier than Nepal or the Machu Picchu Trail.
**** Not necessarily easy, but places like this are where dinner party stories are created.
**** Alpujarras
The Vibe – Mountainous area of tiny stone villages reminiscent of North Africa.
Where – Sandwiched between Granada and the Mediterranean.
Why Go – Everyone thinks the Moors left Spain in 1492 after the fall of Granada. In fact, they ran a small kingdom up in these mountains for another 100 years.
For – Casual hikers, romantics, lovers of historical footnotes.
Insider's Tip – An old-fashioned handloom in one village creates high-quality products from local wool.
*** Aragon and Cinco Villas
The Vibe – Full-on fairytale grandeur.
Where – Central Spain, a three-hour drive from Barcelona, Madrid, or San Sebastian.
Why Go – To marvel at perfectly intact medieval villages and castles.
For – Your inner marquis or countess.
Insider's Tip – Sos del Rey Catolico (the town where King Ferdinand was born) is our favorite.
*** Asturias and Picos de Europa
The Vibe – Idyllic, untouched, mountain scenery.
Where – Northwestern Spain, between Bilbao and Santiago de Compostela.
Why Go – Landscape, raw beaches, and of course, the food (in particular Spanish bean stew, known as fabada, and arroz con leche, or rice pudding). Culturally, this area is very different from other parts of Spain and has its own language (Bable).
For – Hikers and outdoors enthusiasts.
Insider's Tip – The sacred cave of Covadonga occupies an important place in the Spanish psyche because it was the site of the first battle in the Catholic Reconquest of Spain was fought against the Moors. It took the Spaniards almost eight centuries, but they won.
**** Extremadura
The Vibe – Remote, oft-overlooked, slightly rugged region, ripe for exploration.
Where – Southwest Spain, a three-hour drive from Madrid or Seville.
Why Go – The well-preserved town of Caceres, the longest existing Roman bridge in the world (it's a half-mile long), or the cherry-blossoms (in spring).
For – The intrepid. This is the land of the Conquistadores, after all!
Insider's Tip – If you love architecture – ancient or modern – don't miss Rafael Moneo's stunning Roman ruins museum in Merida.
*** Galicia
The Vibe – Serious Celtic roots – just ask the kilted bagpipers.
Where – The northwest corner of Spain, surrounding Santiago de Compostela and the final stretch of the Camino.
Why Go – Breathtaking coastline, crisp Albarino wines, and great seafood, especially scallops.
For – Daredevils who can't resist names like the shipwreck-strewn Costa da Morte (Coast of Death) and Finisterre (End of the Earth).
Insider's Tip – The town of La Coruna is stunning. And a boat trip on the saline estuary of Ria de Arousa is a great way to explore the most productive fishing area of Europe.
** Salamanca
The Vibe – A gorgeous little town with cobblestoned streets.
Where – Northern Spain, an hour and a half west of Bilbao. Despite its deceptive name, it's inland.
Why Go – It's adorable, frankly, and there are pretty and drivable areas all around it.
For – Those who just can't resist the pull of a town so cute that it was actually declared one of the most beautiful towns in Spain.
Insider's Tip – A favorite Spanish saying of ours goes, "Santillana del Mar is the town of three lies: It is not a saint (santo), it is not flat (llana), and it is not by the sea (mar)."
** Ubeda and Baeza
The Vibe – Two stunning towns chock full of Renaissance architecture and quaint cafes.
Why Go – Two hours north of Granada and an hour and a half east of Cordoba.
Why Go – For the palaces, streets, and squares of two very pretty and highly walkable cities.
For – The inner romantic looking for a town too pretty for words.
Insider's Tip – Visit the castles at Sabiote (northeast of Ubeda) and Canena (northwest of Baeza).
* Zaragoza
The Vibe – Town is not our favorite. There is only one reason to go – the astonishing Palacio de la Aljaferia.
Where – On the main AVE (high speed train) line between Madrid and Barcelona.
Why Go – After the Alhambra and the Mezquita, the Palacio de la Aljaferia is the greatest Moorish monument in Europe.
For – People who seek a little jewel of the Alhambra without the crowds of Granada.
Insider's Tip – Stop here on your way from Madrid to Barcelona. See the cathedral and the Aljaferia, then leave town.


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Calculate the size of your share/what do I get?
The two most frequently asked questions asked by somebody considering our CSA is what size share should I get and what do I get? We've dedicated this entire section to answering those questions.
The spring and fall/winter shares are one size. The summer share comes in two sizes large and small. Here's a nifty little quiz we lifted from Terra Firma Farm's web site in California (we don't think they'll care).
Box size quiz:
How many people are in your household?
How many nights a week do you cook?
How many vegetarians in the house?
How many vegetable haters (count this as a negative number)?
Add it up! If you scored:
- Between 1-4 we recommend our small box.
- Between 5-9 your on the fence, probably small with purchases from the store.
- Ten or more give the large box a try.
Keep in mind we operate an extensive on-line store in addition to the boxes. You will be able to shop and add produce as you see fit.
What do I get?
CSA is an odd product. There are no rules, every farm is able to determine for itself what it's members get. The idea is that distribution perfectly mirrors production, meaning that when things are cranking the boxes should be heavy, when the season is just beginning chances are the boxes will be light. We encourage you to shop when buying a CSA share; it's a big decision. During the 2010 season we published a weekly newsletter and listed all the produce in the shares. If you want to know what you get, access the newsletter archive; it's a great way to follow the farm through the season.


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You are walking down a trail. The woods are quite stunning. They rise and fall like the waves on the ocean, but they look a bit different. Uh oh! It looks like you are in an unfamiliar area! You are lost in the woods. Every year in the United States, 2,000 or so people get lost outdoors. Many of them return to civilization, but a fair amount do not.
If you are going to be one of those who makes it home, then it is important to know this guide, so you can make it to your friends and family safely.
The Top 5 Tips When You are Lost
If you are looking to get a basic overview of everything you need to know, then these 5 tips will be sure to help you. I skim articles too so I understand, but the rest of the article will go into more depth.
- Let someone know your plans. It is fun to go hiking on a whim's notice. Sometimes I do that too. Just let someone know you are going on a hike and where you will be going. It will take less than five minutes. It is the number one thing you should do to stay safe. When you tell your plans to someone you care about, then you know they will do the right thing if you are not back in time.
- Wear proper clothing and bring supplies with you. In a previous article, I wrote about Hiking Basics and the gear you will need to carry with you. In general, you want water, a rain jacket, backpack, multi tool, hat, whistle, compass, flash light, topographical map, and proper footwear. That article will explain everything in greater detail.
- Stop, sit, and think. It can be quite frightening to find out you are lost, so there is a tendency to rush off in one direction or another. Sit down and slow down. You do not want to get yourself deeper into trouble. Take a bit of time to calm down and make a plan of action. What would Bear Grylls do to get out of this situation?
- Make observations of the area. Listen for sounds. Is that the noise of a car engine? Look for worn paths. Maybe someone took that way before. That tree you see looks familiar. If you see something familiar, then you can help yourself get back home. Even when you are starting on your hike, it helps to take note of major landmarks.
- Learn how to navigate. If you want to save yourself, then it helps to be able to navigate terrain. This can be as rudimentary as a map and compass or something more complex like a portable GPS.
Important Skills You Should Know
When hiking by yourself or with others, the best person to save yourself is you. As such, if you know these skills listed below, then you are a lot more likely to be found.
Navigation Tools, a Way out of the Forest
Many people get lost because they do not trust their compass. It is a time tested tool. You can rely on it though. In combination with a proper topographical map, you can create and follow a path to lead you out of the forest. If you want to learn how to use a pair, then check out some classes at your local REI or search up a YouTube video.
If you do not want to deal with a map and compass, get a GPS and bring extra batteries. Extra batteries will save you if you leave it on and the battery drains out. Set a way point where you started. If you get lost, then a GPS will take you back home in no time flat.
Know how Search and Rescue Works
If you do get lost, it is essential to understand the thinking behind professional rescuers. Firstly, there is only so far a person can travel in a given day. They will not transverse 30 miles if they do not think you can do it. The sooner you are reported lost, the smaller the search area. The later you are reported lost, then the larger the search area.
Secondly, there is no time threshold for calling in a search and rescue team. If you are late home, then you are seen as an overdue hiker. It happens all the time. Law enforcement likes to give about 24 hours of missing time before sending in search and rescue, so time is of the essence.
Thirdly, every search and rescue is situational. They plan out their operation based on what they know. When you are aware of your own situation, you can plan out your actions to increase the liklihood of you being found.
Learn how to Make a Quick Campfire
If you get caught overnight, the temperature can drop like a rock. A campfire will help you keep your core warm. Consequently, be sure to bring waterproof matches or, at the very least, a lighter with you. There will be plenty of materials to burn as needed when out there. Remember that dry wood burns best.
Learn how to Create or Find Shelter
Personally, I always carry an emergency tent when I go hiking. It sets up in less than a few minutes and is inexpensive. If you find yourself without one though, then you will need to either find or make shelter. Your best bet will be to make some shelter. You do not want to wander too far.
Accidents to Worry About
When lost in the woods, there are three big accidents to worry about. If you are stuck overnight, then you have to worry about staying warm. When it comes to water, you have to find some, disinfect it, and conserve all you can. If you are not careful, you can break a leg. Avoiding all these fates could mean the difference between coming home or not at all.
If you fall into the water, stay out in the cold for too long, or sleep on the cold ground, then your core temperature can drop like a rock. To stay warm, keep your torso warm as much as possible and cover the top of your head. Both those parts of your body are the key places to keep you warm. Your head is a major point of heat escape.
If you have extra room in your backpack, then it will help to have some emergency hand warmers. They may seem like a frivolous purchase, but you will be sure to thank your future self. When your hands are cold, warm fingers feel like quite the luxury.
Your body can only go three days without water. If there is one thing that is key to your survival, it is water. Without it, you will shut down. In response to this issue, be sure to bring plenty of water and a means for disinfecting water like a filtration system, iodine tablets, or a boiler. If you forget a disinfectant, then you can use your clothes as a filter. It does not work as well as one of those listed above, but your t-shirt will work best when you have nothing else.
Injuries are quite commonplace when out in the wild. When I run on trails, I have to watch where I place my next step or else I could sprain my ankle. The same could happen to you too, so be sure to take care when you hike. It could be the start of how you get lost. You also put yourself at increased risk of dehydration of hypothermia when it happens.
Become Obvious
When you are lost, you become unlost as soon as people find you. For them, it's a game of "Where's Waldo?" The good news, though, is that you can boost the game in your favor by being loud and knowing hand gestures.
Bring the Noise!
People are only going to find you if they can hear you, so make plenty of noise. When hiking, be sure to bring a whistle; 3 whistle blows is the universal noise for a call to help. If you forgot a whistle, then use your voice. Scream, shout, and do all you can to get the attention of others.
Know the Double Wave Arm Gesture
I read a story about a man who got lost in Alaska and was seen by a plane. He ended up dying out there because he only used the one hand wave on the plane, indicating that he was alright. If you see someone, do a double arm wave above your head. It lets people know you need help.
Final Thoughts
The woods can be quite the scary place if you are lost in them. It feels like everything is closing in around you and your world is spinning. Now though, you are prepared. When it feels like you are in the wrong place, you know what to do so you can get back on the trail and be homeward-bound.
If you have any thoughts, questions, or think I missed anything, do not hesitate to comment below and please do share this article. Thank you so much and I hope you make it a great day!


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The Shadow-a-Student Challenge Returns
Last year, I participated in more Twitter chats than I can count. I co-hosted 2 Edcamps and went to a national conference. I even traveled to Australia to present at a conference! But, there was one professional development experience that surpassed any of those events by far; and it didn't cost me anything. I participated in the inaugural Shadow a Student Challenge!
In my work with design thinking, the foundational premise is based on the concept of gaining empathy to understand how best to help others and solve the right problems. As a result, School ReTool, IDEO, Stanford'sd.schools, and the Hewlett Foundation combined forces to create a movement to excite school leaders in spending a day shadowing a student to provide powerful insights and experiences in better understanding the world we are creating for our students, and how we can make it even better.
Even though we could all say we went to school when we were younger and are surrounded by students all day, shadowing a student, as a student, provides a whole different context. It took time to blend in and remind myself of the pace of the day and true shifts in the uplifted cognitive rigor in our classrooms.
Last year, I accepted the Shadow a Student Challenge and wrote a blog in my preparation for the empathy experience: Shadow a Student: Challenge Accepted. I replaced the suit for jeans and a flannel,and spent the day shadowing a high school student along with my friend and educational leader, LaVonna Roth.
After the experience, I wrote another blog to help me reflect on the invaluable insights from the experience: My "Shadow a Student" Ah-Ha's
I still draw upon this experience in my leadership at the district level. Our district embraced this Challenge last year, and we had many of our principals and district office leaders participate. We had amazing conversations to target student groups or programs we wanted to gain better insights with, and we had great conversations after the experience to reflect on how we can collectively use our learning to help our schools.
So, I challenge everyone to Shadow a Student this year!
Choose a student and find a day between Feb 2-17 to join colleagues from all over the world!
To get more information on how to begin the shadow experience, check out: The Shadow Journey. Make sure to register at the Shadow a Student Challenge website to put your school on the map and get access to valuable resources.
Also, join me and leaders from the event organizers to co-moderate a Twitter chat #ohedchat on Wednesday, January 25 at 9 PM EST | 8 PM CST | 6 PM PST to learn from one another on the power of empathy as a school leader!
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I did this last year as well and it was a powerful experience!! Seeing the world through the eyes of a third grade student was incredible. I'm hoping to convince at least one of my colleagues to join me this year as I do the shadow challenge again. Thank you for promoting this wonderful experience!
We had most of our team do it – it was helpful to come together to process and reflect on our views to make actionable change. Go for it!
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You've probably heard by now that you shouldn't be looking at screens too close to bedtime. Not only can they be unnecessarily stimulating before bed, keeping your brain awake long after your body should be sleeping, but the blue light your computers, phones, and tablets emit also affects your melatonin production, and therefore the quality of your sleep. And if the quality of your sleep is poor, then you're at a higher risk for obesity, heart disease, and various chronic conditions.
Experts recommend shutting off devices, as well as dimming any bright blue-white lights, at least an hour before you plan to get into bed…but that's not always possible. Maybe you needed to send a few last emails before bed. Maybe you wanted to be sure to send your friend the perfect happy birthday gif before you forgot. (Or maybe you did forget and you now have to find the perfect "I'm sorry" gif.) Maybe someone is just wrong on the internet. We're pretty attached to our screens, and all the good advice and self-awareness in the world probably isn't going to change that very much.
But we can control the damage. Special blue light-blocking glasses do exactly what it sounds like: they keep the blue light that negatively affects our sleep from hitting our retinas while allowing us to continue using our devices, with reduced (if not fully eliminated) side effects.
Some of these glasses use yellow- or amber-colored lenses to filter out the blue light, while others use special coating to block the UV rays that make blue light so harmful to our sleep cycle in the first place. Neither is necessarily better than the other, although if you're particularly near- or far-sighted and you want a prescription pair, the best blue light blockers for iPhone or Android use (really the best blue light blockers for computer screens, whatever the size) will almost always feature the clear, UV-blocking coating rather than the orange tint.
But maybe you're one of the admirable few who has managed to get better about putting your phone down and picking up a book at night, there's a good chance that you're reading by blue lights anyway, so there's no harm in using some special specs with your book, too. There isn't any need to get a separate pair for analog versus digital reading: the best blue light blockers for reading will be the same ones you use for your screens.
As a matter of fact, you can wear your blue light-blocking glasses for almost any nighttime activity, with one major caveat: if you wear yellow- or amber-colored blue light blockers, do not wear them for nighttime driving. Despite many claims to the contrary, wearing this type of glasses at night may actually do more harm than good, according to experts. Though yellow and amber lenses may help with hazy or foggy conditions, if you're looking for something you can wear behind the wheel after dark, the best blue light blockers for driving—and in fact the only blue light blockers you should ever consider wearing if you're driving at night—are the clear, UV-protectant coated ones.
The cost of these glasses can range widely, depending on what features you're looking for in both your lenses and the frames that hold them. Prescription lenses will always be more expensive than non-prescription, wire frames generally more expensive than plastic, etc. So now that you know how blue light-blocking glasses work and how you should use them, which are the best blue light blockers for you? It depends on what you're looking for.
|When you don't have a lot of money but need something that fits over your eyeglasses, try these Uvex Skyper Blue Light Blocking Computer Glasses. These are actually the glasses my therapist recommended to me as the best blue light blockers to fit over glasses. I have to admit: they look totally silly when I'm wearing them over my everyday frames…but they definitely do the trick when it comes to preventing the blue light from getting into my eyes. So much so, in fact, that I've had to put a few apps into "colorblind" mode in order to continue using them at night.
|When you want something that blends in without standing out, the Cyxus Blue Light Filter Computer Glasses promise to block blue light without letting everyone know you're seeing orange. Cyxus's frames come in many different colors and styles, but I chose this particular pair because it looks the most like my regular glasses, so if I wear these over contact lenses no one will be the wiser.
|When you want a sturdy pair of blue light blockers that looks like fancy sunglasses, these amber-lensed Premium Blue Light Blocking Glasses by Essential Living Products will cost you a bit more than the last few pairs we mentioned, but their metal frames should outlast their plastic peers, and they're stylish enough that everyone will think you chose to wear your sunglasses at night. (Unless, that is, you're driving. Like I said above, night driving with glasses like this can be dangerous.)
|When you're looking to kill two birds with one stone, the Spektrum Prospek Premium Computer Glasses look and act just like a pair of reading glasses. Though you can get the glasses magnification-less if you like the look of them, the true benefit to this pair is that they help with the eye strain caused by blue light and the eye strain caused by too-small text, up to +3.00 magnification.
|When you want the blue light blockers the gamers love, the Gunnar Optiks Intercept Computer Gaming Glasses frequently top lists amongst console game-lovers. If your game is gaming, your glasses might be Gunnars.
|When you want blue light blockers that can do it all, EyeBuy Direct's proprietary Eyezen lenses can be made to accommodate almost any prescription and fit in several dozen frame options. Not only do these lenses block a lot of the blue light our devices emit, but they also feature added magnification toward the bottom of the lens (think of them as bifocals for people who don't especially need bifocals) to help boost your vision when you're looking at small screens.
|Hate the idea of wearing glasses to block blue light? You can still make changes that will make at least a little difference. Putting amber-colored bulbs, like the Sleep Ready light bulb, in your fixtures can help make sure that the blue light around you is at least reduced, and you can block the blue light being emitted from your screens through apps or screen protectors, filters, and covers.
But whatever works best for your lifestyle, make sure you're doing something to limit your bedtime blue light. Your sleep cycle (and your long-term health) will be better for it.
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