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Quantification of Neurocognitive Changes Before, During, and After Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in a Case of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most common nonhereditary cause of mental retardation, with deficits in general intellectual functioning, learning, memory, attention, and problem-solving. Presented here is the first case in which measured neurocognitive abilities were determined before, during, and after hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a case of FAS involving a teenage male patient. Memory, reaction time, and visual motor speed assessments were compared. After 40 hyperbaric treatments with 100% oxygen at 1.5 atmospheres absolute, the patient's performance in 6 of 6 categories of the computer-administered test battery improved. Word composite (verbal) scores improved from 55% to 73%, memory composite (visual) scores improved from 38% to 55%, reaction time composites improved from 1.03 to 0.53 seconds, impulse control composite scores improved from 8 to 5, and visual motor speed scores improved from 18.6 to 19.03. The patient's subjective symptoms diminished 94%. Six months after these treatments, the patient's verbal memory was maintained at 73% without any other interventions; impulsivity continued to improve, whereas other indices did not. Thirty-three additional treatments continued to improve test performance, with verbal memory at 95%, visual memory at 57%, and a 100% reduction of subjective symptoms. This patient, with 15-year-matured FAS, benefited from a short course of low-pressure hyperbaric oxygen therapy, sustained durable cognitive improvements, and continued to exhibit improvement with another short course of treatments.
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders (ARND) are the leading causes of nonhereditary mental retardation. FAS is caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, with growth deficiencies and a characteristic set of minor facial traits that tend to become more transparent as the child matures. In addition to deficits in general intellectual functioning, individuals with FAS/ARND often demonstrate difficulties with learning, memory, attention, and problem-solving skills, as well as mental and social impairments. Children with ARND do not have the characteristic facial defects and growth deficiencies. The prevalence of FAS in the general population of the United States is thought to be between 0.5 and 2 cases per 1000 births, and the prevalence of FAS and alcohol-related birth defects combined is at least 10 cases per 1000 births, or 1% of all births.1 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is now the accepted general term describing the range of effects that can occur among individuals whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy. Other than supportive services, there is no treatment; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FAS is considered irreversible and incurable.
It has been a decade since Harch et al2 first used hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder in North America, after making the observation that patients with neurologic conditions who were treated with standard HBOT for chronic wound problems experienced improvement in their neurologic problems. Several years earlier, Neubauer et al3–5 reported several cases of single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) brain imaging before and after HBOT for stroke, near drowning, and natural gas poisoning, with recovery of neurologic function. Subsequently, Harch et al2,6,7 performed the same sequence of SPECT scans/HBOT/SPECT scans for commercial divers with brain decompression sickness (DCS) and obtained results similar to those of Neubauer et al3–5 for patients with acute, subacute, or chronic carbon monoxide poisoning, patients with acute, subacute, or chronic brain DCS, and patients with chronic ischemic, hypoxic, traumatic, and/or hypoxic brain injuries.
Commercial divers with DCS of the brain or spinal cord were flown in comatose and/or paralyzed condition from the oil and gas fields of the Gulf of Mexico. These injured divers showed neurologic improvement far exceeding published reports and current expectations. The notable improvement was attributable to a protocol that treated beyond the medical standard of a few HBOT treatments. Some patients required as many as 100 treatments before reaching a clinical plateau. Minutes to hours after the onset of DCS, tissue damage continues to develop because of persistent occlusion of blood vessels by bubbles or secondary damage to blood vessels caused by passage of bubbles. This situation is virtually identical to the pathologic processes that occur in the brains of people during and after a stroke. Although not widely known or used, HBOT is now considered an important stroke treatment strategy and proved successful in several animal and human stroke studies.8 The journal Stroke published a double-blind study showing that stroke patients who had received HBOT had less disability and better neurologic function 1 year later than those who did not receive HBOT.9
Treatment of acute focal cerebral ischemia with HBOT has been reported for animals and humans. In general, the results of research in animals have suggested a promising role for HBOT. Hundreds of cases of human ischemic stroke treated with HBOT have been reported. In approximately one half of the cases, improvement in status was claimed on clinical or electroencephalographic grounds.10
It seems that HBOT may play a role in the repair or reconstruction of injured lower motor neurons as well.11 On the basis of the available literature, it has been suggested that HBOT may provide an effective strategy for the prevention and treatment of numerous neurologic handicaps that plague many children.12 The senior clinicians involved in the largest randomized trial of HBOT for children with cerebral palsy,13,14 as well as the McGill pilot study,15 have been unequivocal regarding the benefits of HBOT for children with brain injuries.16
I adapted successfully17 a computerized neuropsychologic test battery, which was developed originally to evaluate sports concussions at the Center for Sports Medicine Sports Concussion Program of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,18,19 to evaluate victims of carbon monoxide poisoning before and after HBOT. The software evaluates and documents multiple aspects of neurocognitive functioning, including memory, brain processing speed, reaction time, and postconcussive symptoms. Furthermore, unlike standard neurocognitive testing modalities, ImPACT (Immediate Postconcussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) has shown itself to be a reliable evaluation tool with virtually no practice effect influence on score stability.20 This computerized evaluation was administered in this first documented case of HBOT for a child with FAS.
The child was found abandoned in a train station in Rustov, Russia, as a toddler and subsequently was adopted and brought to the United States. When the patient entered school, numerous problems arose that led eventually to the diagnosis of FAS (category II, because the patient was without confirmed maternal alcohol exposure). Although the patient's exact age was not known, his legal birth date made him 15 years of age at the time of the evaluation, in which he still exhibited several key features of FAS, including classic facial anomalies and neurodevelopmental abnormalities of the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is of interest that, because of his neurocognitive state, the patient was found incompetent to stand trial for an alleged offense in the court system in New Mexico.
The patient was given the aforementioned, computer-administered, test battery, which consists of 7 individual test modules that measure aspects of cognitive functioning including attention, memory, reaction time, and processing speed (Table 1). He took a baseline test, a test midway through his HBOT, and a retest as he completed his initial block of HBOT at treatment 40. The patient was retested 6 months after HBOT and again after completing another 33 treatments.
On the basis of normative data for his age, the patient's baseline scores placed him in the impaired range (Figs 1–5; Table 2). The patient was treated with low-pressure HBOT 5 days per week, for 60 minutes at depth for each treatment (100% oxygen at 1.5 atmospheres absolute [ATA], which is equivalent to the pressure at 17 feet of seawater), in a multiplace chamber with a hood to administer the oxygen. After his 20th treatment, he was retested and demonstrated a precipitous decrease in reaction time and the beginnings of improvement in memory. As is often the case when reaction time improves, impulsivity scores increased initially. By the end of treatment, 5 of 5 composite scores of neurocognitive function showed improvement, although the patient's verbal and visual memory scores still placed him in the borderline impaired range. Impulsivity control and reaction time surpassed the high school mean, and subjective symptoms reported during the evaluation decreased 94% from baseline values.
After 6 months with no additional treatments or interventions of any kind, the patient was retested. His verbal memory score was maintained at 73%. His impulse control composite score continued to improve by decreasing to only 2; however, his visual memory score decreased and was only 13% better than the baseline value. His reaction time was still 36% better than the baseline value but was >0.1 second worse than his 40-treatment exit score of 0.53 second. The patient reentered treatment and, after 33 additional exposures to HBOT, his verbal memory was 95% (pretreatment: 55%), visual memory was 57% (pretreatment: 38%), reaction time was 0.64 second (pretreatment: 1.03 second), visual motor speed score was 20.1 (pretreatment: 18.6), and all previously reported symptoms resolved.
In 1992, Rockswold et al21 reported a study of acute traumatic brain injury. Conducted from 1983 to 1989, the study enrolled 168 patients with Glasgow Coma Scale scores of ≤9. The overall mortality rate was reduced significantly, by 50%, in the HBOT group (57% in the group with increased intracranial pressure). In 2001, Rockswold et al22 reported that HBOT improved the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen, decreased cerebrospinal fluid lactate levels (a marker of damaged brain cells), and reduced intracranial pressure. Those authors showed the ability of HBOT to recouple blood flow with metabolism. This is relevant because it is time to revise the old concept that brain injury is a condition for which there is no treatment other than supportive measures.
Furthermore, the axiom that old injuries are static or irreversible is untenable. It is now recognized in neurology that deterioration attributable to brain damage at birth may take place over 28 years.23 This mirrors the adult situation.24 Furthermore, stem or progenitor cells have been found in the adult brain in the past decade, and they can result in neural regeneration.25 This recovery process is oxygen dependent and, on first principles, is much more likely to take place in a youngster than in an adult. There is now conclusive evidence from altitude studies that the capillary density can be increased even in the adult mammalian brain.26
However, there is trepidation in using extra oxygen to treat children with neurologic problems, because of ingrained concern regarding retinopathy. Tissue hypoxia is compounded by the intravascular sequestration of leukocytes, which release oxygen free radicals. These mechanisms, which constitute the inflammatory response, seem to be activated inappropriately in reperfusion injury and are stimulated by hypoxic signaling produced by increased levels of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α,27 which also upregulates the production of vascular endothelial growth factor. Therefore, it seems to be hypoxia, created by abrupt reduction of incubator oxygen levels, and not oxygen toxicity that is responsible for neovascularization in retinopathy of prematurity.28,29
The computer assessment used in this case seems to be a very useful tool for monitoring changes in neurocognitive function after a brain injury and has application beyond the evaluation of sports-related concussions. HBOT may be useful in the treatment of neurologic injury even if applied in the nonacute period,30,31 as it was with this patient. Patients with DCS sometimes needed to be treated 100 times before a clinical plateau was reached, and the block of 33 additional treatments continued to improve this patient's neurocognitive function when given at a later date (7 months after the end of his first block of treatments). On the basis of previous experience with DCS cases, this patient might have maintained some of his gains better if he had received additional treatments in the 6-month period after his initial treatment ended, as the continued improvement in his neurocognitive test results with resumption of therapy 7 months later indicates. No conclusion should be drawn from this case regarding how to use HBOT to treat a newborn with evidence of fetal alcohol exposure, because the pathologic features of a more acute exposure to alcohol may not be like those of an old exposure. The lack of appreciation of the pathologic differences in acute versus chronic brain injuries and how to treat such injuries has produced a legacy of equivocal results. Dosage matters with HBOT, especially in treating chronic brain injuries. Pressures used for treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (2.4 ATA) or acute DCS (2.8 ATA) probably will not produce the desired healing of mature brain injuries.
In any situation in which application of appropriate measurements gives concrete evidence of changes induced by treatment, the significance of limited numbers of patients is increased. In a sense, this FAS patient acted as his own control, which was facilitated by the level of documentation that the computer-generated neurocognitive evaluation was able to provide. Low-pressure HBOT is a therapy with an extremely low risk profile and relatively low cost, with potential benefits that seem to be significant and measurable for a condition considered incurable, with no treatment at our disposal. In this case, a youth with 15-year-matured FAS benefited from a short course of low-pressure HBOT and sustained durable cognitive improvements. Given the implications, these results should receive consideration for broader study as soon as possible.
- Accepted April 14, 2005.
- Address correspondence to Kenneth P. Stoller, MD, 404 Brunn School Rd #D, Santa Fe, NM 87505. E-mail: hbotnm{at}netzero.net
No conflict of interest declared.
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Christmas Party - Taylors 3 Rock Sunday 18th @ 3pm/
DSD younger athletes Party (from Little Athletics up to U13) this Sunday 18th at 3pm to 5pm in Taylors 3 Rock (beside Marlay Pk). All invited to enjoy some treats, music and games – let's see your Limbo skills, how much cash you can grab, how fast you can change a tyre on a F1 car or who can make an explosive win with the Bomb Squad? We look forward to seeing you in Taylors 3 Rock on Sunday.
Please note the older athletes party on Saturday 17th in Rathmines is strictly from U14s upwards.

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Ben Watches Television : Mr. Robot, Season One (2015)
* spoilers, I guess *
Television had a good thing going for a couple years. The success of shows like The Sopranos and The Wire turned the medium into a haven for original thinkers and creative powerhouses that didn't fit Hollywood's big money system: Vince Gilligan, Damon Lindelof, Matthew Weiner, Graham Yost, author television was a thing for a while. That was before the vultures of capitalism began circling television studios and flooding the airwaves with opportunistic crap and ruining this blissful hiatus from the throes of consumerism. I've been actively avoiding television in 2016, looking to find THE series that would help me recapture the elating feeling of watching great television.
I gave the first season of Mr. Robot a run during my vacation since it garnered such unilateral praise and...yeesh...that thing broke my heart harder than entitled 15 year old girls seeking validation through romance used to.
If you didn't already know, Mr. Robot is the story of Elliot Alderson (played by Rami Malek), an incredibly skilled computer programmer with anxiety issues who hacks into everybody's personal life as a mean of social interaction, which leads him to play vigilante when the situation demands it. He's contacted by the head of an underground hacker group (played by Christian Slater himself) in order to take down "Evil Corp", the series stand-in for Enron, and destroy the credit information they hold on their customers. Pretty rad, huh?
That's the frustrating thing about Mr. Robot. It's supposed to be rad, but it's like watching a vintage Ford Mustang rip-roaring to life, glide down the road and head right into a fucking wall. Seriously, it's the best way I can describe the experience of watching this show. It has great elements. For starters, Elliot is a tremendous protagonist. He's got a particular set of skills, like Liam Neeson would say, yet he NEEDS other people to function and, perhaps the best thing about him, is that he's always caught between a rock and a hard place.
What makes Elliot Alderson endearing to me isn't his hacking skills. It's the fact that he's caught between a soulless desk job and an abusive father figure who wants to use him to further his own agenda. Elliot is far from being helpless, yet he has relatable problems which make him endearing. He's a badass hacker on his way to change the world, yet struggles to find someone who gives a shit to connect with on a personal level. What I'm trying to say is that Elliot Alderson is an empowering character. An average Joe in real life and a deadly sniper in cyberspace. He's well-written and well-written characters are becoming a scarce commodity in this new era where television screenwriters are trying to "sell people what they want to see." Whatever it means.
Another thing Mr. Robot is doing life-affirmingly well is writing antagonists. Take the cartoonishly evil Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) for example. He's a character that thrives in context. He'd be a terrible main antagonist, but show creator Sam Esmail uses him like a Joker in a set of cards. He's violent, inhuman, unpredictable and perhaps the best thing about him is that he's just a pawn in the bigger picture and it's driving him insane. Wellick is a control freak. He NEEDS to be "the man" and yet he keeps being denied that opportunity. He's not the only antagonist in Mr. Robot though. The majority of characters are being shitty to Elliot in that show. Perhaps the most underrated bad guy is Angela (Portia Doubleday), Elliot's childhood friend, who seems ready to torture and kill whoever it takes if her pay check depended on it.
There's a lot to like about the first season of Mr. Robot, yet it unfortunately doesn't amount to more than the sum of its parts. The problem is with storytelling. There are these great characters interacting with one another, yet Sam Esmail doesn't seem to know what to do with them. After three or four episodes, Mr. Robot starts telling you: "hey, we're really influenced by Fight Club" and after six or seven : "we kind of have the same exact plot as Fight Club. We're sorry if we lead you to believe there was anything more to it." The show doesn't have any qualms about turning into a cheap knockoff halfway into its existence either, playing an instrumental version of the Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" during the last episode. As if they couldn't be any more obvious.
Now, I love Fight Club to death, but the "plot twist" wasn't the interesting part of the movie and swiping it because you don't know what the fuck you're supposed to do with your characters is pretty goddamn cheap. Perhaps Mr. Robot's worst transgression though is its finale. The toughest thing to write has always been an ending, whether it's open-ended or not and Sam Esmail couldn't have missed his mark any worse: hey guys, you know that kickass event we've lead up to all season? Well, it's going to happen off screen and nobody's going to remember anything about it, really. Plus, we're not going to resolve anything because we really need to sell season two to the network. Ugh.
I really wanted to like Mr. Robot and I sporadically did up until episode 9. It began as a creative triumph and slowly, slowly drifted as the season chugged along into easy decisions and infuriating clichés. The painful irony of Mr. Robot is that the capitalist concerns the show claims to expose gradually infect it and undermines its quality. Wisecrack's Jared wasn't lying when he said capitalism was great at cooptation: you can be a productive part of the system while claiming to fight it at the same time and it's exactly what Mr. Robot does by bending over and creating artificial drama in order to better sell a second season. Don't think I'm going to even bother with season two, really. There's only so much heartbreak your homeboy can take.


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California's gas prices have been surging in the last week thanks to supply disruptions and regulatory requirements. They hit an all-time high on Saturday.
Econbrowser's James Hamilton points us to two maps.
The first is GasBuddy.com's gas price heatmap. California clearly sticks out in terms of price. Hamilton notes that the Golden State also faces much steeper gas taxes.
The second map is of U.S. energy pipelines via the World Factbook. This speaks to the supply issue. When California's refineries are disrupted, there's not much relief that can come from outside sources because pipelines into California are lacking.
Late Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown said he would be taking emergency action to suspend certain regulatory requirements to get cheaper supply on line. Analysts expect this move to relieve prices by up 10 to 15 cents per gallon within days.


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The Best Way to Listen
I was laughing the other day as I listened to Ken Bole's Baby Sally podcast. I was chuckling because what he said rang true for me too. We need to shut up more.
Here's the scenario. You are at a function, and you find yourself speaking with a few people. You are excitedly sharing an entertaining tale when something happens.
As you are about to share the ending of your story, another person approaches and joins your group. The other people turn away from you and welcome him. Suddenly, they are talking with the new guy. Your story has become a cliff-hanger, but nobody cares.
I laughed at Ken's telling of his story because it has happened to me too. Has this happened to you?
Have a listen below, but be warned of strong language. ;)
Back at the Party...
Miffed, you rush to ruminate on how you can share the conclusion of your riveting story with your disconnected audience. It's usually too late.
The moral of the story is to ferme la bouche. Instead, be the one who asks for their stories. Become a better listener. The quieter you become the more you hear.
Check out the full episode and more of Baby Sally Talks in iTunes.


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'Phantom Sensation' Device Being Developed To Improve Sense Of Realism In Video Games [Video]
The tech uses vibrations of different strengths to simulate an object passing through you.
This video from DigInfo TV shows a demonstration of a device the Kajimoto research group are developing at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. The device uses a phantom sensation (an illusion which occurs when two points on your skin are stimulated at the same time, making it feel as if the space between them is being touched) to simulate the sensation of something going through your hand. A device such as this could be used to improve realism in a fighting game or first person shooter, to simulate the feeling of being stabbed or shot.


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Intel Termino
Intel Termino is a side-scrolling Flash game where players control Termino, a mighty robot powered by Intel's Core i7 chip. Armed with his lasers, shooting discs, and fists of fury, the player must take on an army of invading aliens.
Client: Intel
Agency: Momentum
Studio: RandomBlowup
Account / Concept / Design: Momentum
Account / Direction: William Hwang
Charcter Animation / Effects Design / Effects Animation / Audio Edit: Jason Chow


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Newborn Jaundice
You may have had a wonderful pregnancy and delivery. Your baby was born normally and healthy, and you were relieved because you know from reading the pregnancy books and websites there are so many things that can go wrong. But after a few hours, your baby turned yellow. The doctor says that jaundice is normal in newborns –just to keep an eye on it. What, exactly, does jaundice mean for your newborn, and could it become dangerous at any point? And what, exactly, is jaundice?
Is Newborn Jaundice Normal?
Doctors say that it's normal for babies to have jaundice. Jaundice is caused from an increased level of bilirubin in the blood right after birth, causing the skin to turn a bit yellow. During pregnancy, the placenta takes the bilirubin from the blood naturally, but after birth, the baby's liver takes over and starts processing that bilirubin. Sometimes the infant's liver doesn't work fast enough to keep up, causing that level of bilirubin to climb until the liver can catch up. Because of this, it's natural for babies to have an increased level until the liver starts working normally. It's only when the bilirubin has been high for too long does jaundice become a problem.
What is a Normal Amount of Time for the Baby to be Jaundiced?
Newborn jaundice usually develops for a child that is 2-4 days old and may last for as long as two weeks, decreasing gradually over that time. It's important to keep an eye on this because if the level of bilirubin is increasing instead of decreasing, the infant may have hyperbilirubemia, a serious condition that leads to Kernicterus –a condition that may cause more serious damage.
What is Kernicterus?
Kernicterus is when the levels of bilirubin climb so much in the blood that it starts pooling in the brain, thus causing a brain injury. Some consequences of Kernicterus can be slight, but others can be as serious as intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, loss of hearing or sight, or even death. Alert your doctor to the baby's jaundice within the first 24 hours and the doctor will be able to test the baby to see if your baby has normal newborn jaundice, or if the baby has a number of special circumstances that could lead to Kernicterus.
What Special Circumstances Could Lead to Abnormal Jaundice?
Some causes of jaundice have less to do with the liver overcompensating for its new job and have more to do with your infant's special circumstances. Special circumstances that your child may have include: abnormal blood cell shapes, blood type mismatch between the mother and the baby, bleeding under the scalp due to a difficult delivery, higher levels of red blood cells (common in twins and under-sized babies), infection, and enzyme deficiencies. Your child may even have normal newborn jaundice, but the jaundice may get worse if the child is struggling from a number of other special circumstances such as: infection or taking medications due to related infection, congenital diseases, hypoxia, or other genetic or inherited disorders.
What is the Treatment for Newborn Jaundice?
The first thing that you must do is to consult your doctor related to the jaundice. Most newborn jaundice will go away on its own without treatment in 1-2 weeks, decreasing gradually on its own. You may have to monitor the jaundice through a number of seemingly extreme demands such as increasing how often you're feeding the baby, a nurse may have to come home with the child to monitor his or her progress, and you may be expected to count the number of wet or dirty diapers. When it comes to treatment, there isn't a lot that a doctor can do except to replace hyperbilirubemic blood with normal-celled blood, so your child may be required to have a blood transfusion.
What is the Prognosis for Jaundice?
If your newborn's jaundice has escalated to Kernicterus, there are a number of severe long-term consequences ranging from learning disabilities and ADHD to more severe intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or death. However, most normal newborn jaundice goes away at a gradual rate, leaving no lifetime long term effects on the child.


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The debate about the validity of internal cloud implementations has raged on for some time now, with some claiming that cloud computing and wholly owned infrastructure don't mix, and others pointing out that applying "on demand," "at scale," and "multitennant" to enterprise IT data centers offers unique advantages to those who have already made that investment. It has been difficult, however, to do an objective comparison of the two approaches--until now.
The announcement on Thursday of Amazon's new Hadoop-based Elastic MapReduce service, combined with the introduction of a commercial Hadoop distribution from start-up Cloudera, means that we finally have a reasonable means of watching which directions enterprise IT prefers. Let me explain.
Amazon's service is a simplified, prepackaged Hadoop implementation that can be leveraged by anyone with an Amazon account. The Amazon Web Services blog describes it as follows:
Today we are rolling out Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Using Elastic MapReduce, you can create, run, monitor, and control Hadoop jobs with point-and-click ease.
You don't have to go out and buys scads of hardware. You don't have to rack it, network it, or administer it. You don't have to worry about running out of resources or sharing them with other members of your organization. You don't have to monitor it, tune it, or spend time upgrading the system or application software on it.
You can run world-scale jobs anytime you would like, while remaining focused on your results. Note that I said jobs (plural), not job. Subject to the number of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances you are allowed to run, you can start up any number of MapReduce jobs in parallel. You can always request an additional allocation of EC2 instances here.
Processing in Elastic MapReduce is centered around the concept of a Job Flow. Each Job Flow can contain one or more steps. Each step inhales a bunch of data from Amazon S3, distributes it to a specified number of EC2 instances running Hadoop (spinning up the instances if necessary), does all of the work, and then writes the results back to S3.
Each step must reference application-specific "mapper" and/or "reducer" code (Java JARs or scripting code for use via the Streaming model). We've also included the Aggregate Package with built-in support for a number of common operations such as Sum, Min, Max, Histogram, and Count. You can get a lot done before you even start to write code!
Cloudera, on the other hand, provides a Hadoop build that you can deploy wherever you wish:
Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop is based on the most recent stable version of Apache Hadoop. It includes some useful patches back-ported from future releases, as well as improvements we have developed for our support customers.
Cloudera's Distribution includes everything you need to configure and deploy Hadoop using standard Linux system administration tools.
Here's what I'm thinking: enterprise IT is looking at an entirely new class of applications that take advantage of MapReduce to process very large sets of both structured and unstructured data for things like predictive analysis, sorting/sequencing, and data mining. Both commercial Hadoop offerings meet the demand for a platform to simplify the development and operation of these applications. The primary difference is the where, not so much the what.
That is exactly what will make the competition between the two offerings so compelling to watch. Let me break it down for you:
Will the requirement to own and operate hardware work against Cloudera? What makes the Amazon offering so groundbreaking (and it will prove to be historic, in my opinion) is that it is now possible for anyone with a need to analyze large data sets to do so simply for the cost of data storage plus processing time. (Note that the use of Elastic MapReduce adds a nominal cost to the server instances that host the instances.)
Where "grid computing" was once the playground of large enterprises and academic institutions that could afford the hardware to justify the cost of building them out, Amazon makes it possible for even individuals to run such jobs for a few tens or hundreds of dollars.
Cloudera, on the other hand, requires that the hardware be available to install it on. That either means existing server capacity, new hardware (which greatly adds to the cost, and can only be justified for continuous Hadoop use), or leased capacity. The latter starts to look a lot like Amazon's service.
Will Amazon's requirements to use S3 work against it? There are three reasons why I see it might:
- The commonly cited concern about data security outside of corporate firewalls. (Even if the perception is wrong, the perception exists.)
- The cost of data transfer to and from the S3 service--currently as high as 17 cents per gigabyte a month.
- The cost of storage of both the raw data and the aggregate results--currently as high as 15 cents per gigabyte a month.
It should be rightly noted that if you already rely on S3 to store your data sets to be processed, this is a great deal. However, if you have to upload terabytes or even petabytes of data to be combed through by MapReduce, then this could get quite pricey on its own, and existing infrastructure might serve the purpose well. If you are going to leave the data up there permanently--and update it regularly--the cost of Amazon's service should be weighed against the cost of owning and operating that storage yourself in your existing facilities.
Will the so-called "barrier of exit" stand up? I'm not even arguing that the choice will be based solely on the comparative costs to the business. In fact, what I am interested in is the extent to which business units and departments will simply bypass IT altogether to build and run their own jobs in Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
If IT maintains a valuable service using existing facilities and computing investments, then Cloudera will likely do fine. If not, then Amazon stands to be the overwhelmingly dominant commercial Hadoop implementation.
I should also note that running a Hadoop instance is not the same thing as cloud computing in and of itself. An internal Cloudera implementation is not necessarily an internal cloud, though if operated "on demand," "at scale," and with multitenancy, it certainly qualifies as a cloud.
I will be watching this space closely for the next year or two. I have a feeling that Amazon will do fine, regardless, as there are many possible implementations that would benefit from a completely public cloud implementation. The real test is probably how much opportunity Cloudera finds within enterprise data centers.
Cloudera also has much more competition from the free downloads of Hadoop than Amazon has, in my opinion, as it faces a more traditional open-source competitive landscape.
Is your company looking at MapReduce for a new generation of data-mining applications? If so, what will you choose: the public, external cloud implementation of Hadoop from Amazon Web Services, or the wholly owned, internal implementation of the same from Cloudera?


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How to Run a Bar: Basic Bar Tools
Every professional uses the proper tools to do her job well, and a bartender is no exception. If you stumble on used versions of the following supplies and they appear to be in good condition, go ahead and buy them. Don't spend your time looking for used ones though, because the small savings you get isn't really worth the time.
Bar rail and service mats: A bar rail mat is a rubber mat that lies on the edge of the bar. Bartenders place in-progress cocktails on them as they pour, mix, and garnish drinks. The mats catch small spills and clean easily as you run them through the dishwasher. Service mats are thin, rubberized mats placed on the service bar counter, where bartenders place completed drinks ordered by waitstaff.
Bar spoon (1): This is simply a long spoon for stirring cocktails. Classier than straws, these are good to keep handy so bartenders aren't tempted to use their fingers. Bartenders can also pour liqueurs slowly over the back of a spoon into a shooter glass and show off pretty layers of liqueurs.
Blender (2): Blenders can be used for frozen drinks.
Ice tongs (3): Metal or plastic tongs are recommended.
Ice scoop (4): Metal or plastic scoops are recommended.
Ice bucket: You need at least one large plastic bucket to carry ice from the ice machine in the kitchen out to the bar to restock your wells. Consider using the rolling version if you can because these large buckets (5 gallons or more) get heavy.
Wine buckets (5): You need wine buckets only if you're serving bottles of white wine and champagne that you want to keep chilled at the patron's table. If you're selling wine by the glass only, you can skip this particular tool.
Jigger (6): A jigger is a metal, double-ended measuring cup. Typically it measures up to ¾ ounce on one end, and up to 2 ounces on the other.
Knives and cutting board (7): At least one sharp paring knife and a cutting board behind the bar specifically for cutting garnishes.
Muddler (8): Use this small wooden bat or pestle to muddle, or crush, herbs and fruit (like mint and limes for Mojitos) for cocktails.
Pourers (9): These plastic pitchers are handy if you don't have juice on your soda guns. Keep backups of OJ, Bloody Mary mix, and cranberry juice handy in these in the reach-in cooler behind the bar. In coauthor Heather's bar, she keeps limeade ready to go in pourers as well, because she's known for terrific margaritas.
Glass rimmer (10): This tool helps you add decorative and tasty garnishes to the rim of your cocktail glasses.
Bottle openers: Choose wall-mounted (with a catcher) or handheld openers to open beer bottles quickly.
A waiter's wine opener, can also be used to open beer bottles, but it's not nearly as fast as either a flat or wall-mounted opener.
Garnish caddy: A garnish caddy is a divided tray that holds several different types of garnishes, such as lime wedges, olives, and onions.
Shakers: These must-have tools let you thoroughly mix cocktails and give them a little foam. Most bartenders use one of two basic styles of shakers:
Boston shaker: These shakers have a glass piece and a tin piece. The roughly 16-ounce glass fits into the tin, which is shaped like a cone, and you shake the drink.
Standard cocktail shaker: These shakers usually have a tight top and a strainer that's fitted onto the bottom half. They come in many types of designs. There must be at least 1,000 different styles, from planes to birds, and they make great collector items.
Sinks: You need a few sinks behind the bar — three to set up a dish-washing system, a dump sink next to the ice well, and a fifth exclusively for hand washing.
Soda gun system: Your soda gun connects to your bag-in-the-box (BIB) system. Soda syrup is mixed on demand with soda as the bartender makes the cocktail.
Speed rails: Speed rails are metal trays that hold many of the commonly poured liquors. Many bars use speed rails, in addition to their wells, to keep more liquors within reach. Speed rails are usually set up on the opposite side of the bar and in the area where most cocktails are made.
Strainers: Strainers are handy if you serve cocktails up, or without ice To use the Hawthorn, just place the strainer over the end of the shaker containing your shaken cocktail with the coil facing into the shaker. Pour the drink into your serving glass, through the strainer, and catch the ice.
Wells: A well is a dedicated area where (usually) a single bartender works to make drinks. A well should have liquor, ice, garnishes, mixers (often in the form of a soda gun), and easy access to glassware.
Wine openers: Wine openers come in many varieties these days. If you serve a lot of wine, consider getting a counter-mounted version. If you only have the occasional oenophile (or wine lover), a pocket-sized version like the waiter wine key will do you just fine.


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I am going to be honest with you. I am probably going to get hate mail for this. ... please send me some kind of mail! haha!
Banh Mi, whether it is banh mi chay (vegetarian), Banh mi thit ngon (roasted pork), etc, is the best hoagie that you can ever have. Take that Philly cheesesteak, meatball sub, etc! It has the savory, the sweet, sour, and fresh flavors all packed into an airy bun. As in my previous post, where I went to pursue my project in Elmhurst, Queens, I went to this really great banh mi shop up there. So I decided to make one for myself at home.
Banh mi is, like pho, one of the most common street food that you can find on the streets of the major cities in Vietnam. Probably on the countryside too. Sometimes when a vendor is out of bread, they would run to their neighbor and buy some from them... even if they are direct competitors. At least that is what I saw when I was in HCMC, Vietnam. I mean it could be that I ran into sisters selling their hoagies at different locations, but this one that I went to ran out of bread so she ran to the cart 5 ft from me to get some bread. I uhh... bought seven of them.
So Sunday, I didn't have time to run to the Vietnamese market to buy the right kind of bread so I just used the leftover loaf of bread that I had from Whole Foods Market. The bread is, as written, light inside and crispy on the outside. This is actually pretty simple to make.
- Bread (for the right bread, go to a Vietnamese market they make them fresh in the morning like every other bakery.)
- Cilantro
- Sweetened pickled carrots and radish
- roasted meat
- cucumber (sliced length wise)
- mayo
- crushed black pepper
- fried egg (optional)
Depending on what kind of meat, or vegetarian item, that you use you will need to make that first. For the roasted pork, for example, A blog of salt has pretty accurate recipes. Go check out Thuy's.
Slice the bread and spread the mayo onto both sides. Line the bread with the meat/tofu/soy/etc. Then layer in the sliced cucumbers, put in a helping of the sweet pickled carrots and radish. Once you do that, put a piece of the cilantro on top and then sprinkle a pinch of crushed black pepper on top.
If you choose to add in a fried egg, which I think you should, add that in right after the main meat.
Eat it and then tell me that that isn't the best hoagie that you have ever had!


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Lanai Weekly: May 1 - 5, 2017/
Dear Families,
What a full week at Lanai: Marathons, Testing, Catalina, Volunteers, Recycled Art! We started off Monday morning with so many awesome runners earning their Morning Laps awards: marathons, double-marathons, 75 miles, 100 miles…and beyond!
For our third graders, it was SBAC testing in English Language Arts. Next week they'll be working on the Math component. Our third graders proved to be very comfortable accessing the testing platform and using the Chrome books. Thank you for having your children well-rested, on time, and with full tummies!
On Tuesday, our teachers and staff honored our fabulous volunteers at our Volunteer Tea! The vast enrichment in the arts and depth of parent support through funding, events, classroom support, and lessons are unsurpassed; Lanai just wouldn't be as awesome without them. The following volunteers were recognized for their contributions to our school: Volunteer of the Year Awards went to Elham Emrani, Katie Elinoff and Ali Perdigao. The Jeannie Kamm Leadership Award went to Julie Weinstein and President's Volunteer Service Awards to Farnaz Simantob and Jennifer Wexler.
Our fourth graders set sail on Wednesday for Catalina and had an awesome time! They snorkeled, hiked, kayaked, dissected a squid and studied the adaptations of fish, invertebrates and algae along the rocky reef of Catalina. All good! All fun! All amazing!
Today, Friday, our students displayed and presented their own recycled art and toured the entries in our annual Recycled Art Contest! There were so many creative projects including a chandelier, a Jeep, a dinosaur, coffee maker, Pac Man game, jewelry, a pet adoption booth, bird feeder, a recycling student, a Memory Tree, the Eiffel Tower and even our Lanai Lion mascot wearing spirit wear! So many clever, creative uses for common, everyday items—it's DIY at Lanai!
Finally, please remember that if your child is injured and has a cast, sling, brace, bandage, etc. when he/she returns to school, a note is provided by your doctor permitting his/her re-admittance and includes any physical restrictions.
Wishing you a great weekend!
Lisa Elan
MONDAY, May 1 Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week begins Recycle The Vote takes place all week - bring in your plastic recyclables 5th Grade Panoramic Photo - 8:30 am
TUESDAY, MAY 2 Bring a flower for your favorite teachers Israeli Culture Day - wear white tops and blue bottoms
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 Make a card for your favorite Lanai staff members. This includes TA's, office staff, nurse, librarian, cafeteria, and custodial staff Character Day - Citizenship - wear purple!
THURSDAY, May 4 Bring a piece of fruit or vegetable for your Teachers AND bring a sweet treat to any Lanai Staff members. Laps 4 Lanai - Grades 3 - 5: 5th Grade from 8:30-9:15, 4th Grade from 9:30-10:15 and 3rd Grade from 11-11:45
FRIDAY, MAY 5 Make a card for your teachers Laps 4 Lanai - Grades K - 2: Kinder from 8:30-9:15, 1st Grade from 9:30-10:15, 2nd Grade from 11-11:45
SATURDAY, MAY 6 Spring Movie night on upper yard - doors open at 6:45 pm (bring a towel or chair)
May 8-19 4th Grade SBAC Testing Window, Rooms 13 & 20
May 8 5th Grade Trip to Pali Camp (returning May 10)
May 11 Principal's Awards and Lunch with the Principal
May 11 Incoming Family Meet & Greet - 7 to 8pm (off-site)
May 14 Mother's Day
May 15 CPK Restaurant Fundraiser (all day with staff participating from 5 - 7:30pm)
May 17 - June 2 5th Grade SBAC Testing Window, Rooms 12, 21, 28
May 17 All Parent Team Meeting/Coffee with the Principal @ 8:30
May 18 ELAC Meeting @ 8:30, Parent Center
May 18 SEEDS Musical Theater Performance, "Lanai Lessons", 3 & 4th
Grades @ 6pm
May 19 SSC Meeting @ 1:30, Parent Center
May 19 Incoming Kinder Play Date in Room 2, 3 - 4:15 pm
May 19 SEEDS Musical Theater Performance, "Leavin' Lanai", 5th Grade @
6:30 pm
May 20 SEEDS Musical Theater Performance, 3rd Grade @ 11am, 4th & 5th
Grade @ 2pm
May 22 Student Council Speeches
May 23 Open House from 5 to 7pm
May 26 Student Council Spirit Day - Patriot Day, wear red, white and blue
May 26 Student Council Election Results
ALL PARENTS - Please notify the office immediately if your child will not be returning in the fall. This includes all students who have accepted a call-up from a magnet school wait list. We want to make sure that your child's academic records are forwarded to their new school in a timely manner. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with any updates or questions.
Laps For Lanai Class Participation Results - Congratulations to these classes with 100% fundraising participation: Ms. Manolos' class, Ms. Verdin's class, Ms. Penuela's class, Ms. Stephan's class, Ms. Colon's class, Ms. Rodriguez's class, Ms. Bryan's class, Mr. Snyder's class and Ms. Besser's class. And, a special congratulations to Mrs. Bryan's class for raising the most funds!
Recycle the Vote - For our spring movie night on Saturday, May 6th, the kids will be voting through the recycling program. Please bring in all your plastic bottle recyclables to school starting Monday, May 1 until Friday, May 5th. The films they will vote on are: SING, MOANA and THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS.
Spring Movie Night - Lanai PTA presents Spring Movie Night sponsored by Camp Keystone, Saturday, May 6th at Sundown (approximately 7:40 p.m.) Doors open at 6:45 p.m and food & treats will be sold. Students will vote on the movie through our recycling program (see above)
Team Lanai Care's Seniors Tea Event Thank You - Last Saturday, a group of Lanai families hosted a special event at a homeless shelter in Sylmar for 24 senior ladies. We would like to thank the following families for their contributions: the Asher family, Gezerseh family, Luchs Struber family, Kotch family, Greenstone family, Kahn family, Elie family, Schwartz family, Urban family, Carpenter family, Nargizyan family and the Alinaghian family. Special thanks to Principal Elan and Vina Penuela for their yearlong support of TLC.
Party Books are still available! Wasn't able to attend the Lanai's Vegas Nights Gala? Forgot to check the online auction before it closed? Lady Luck is on your side! Party books are still available for all grade levels, moms and parents! We've got everything from scavenger hunts, sports and videogames to baking and cupcake wars! Moms can sign up for a Hip Hop Funk class or Yoga and Mimosas and for the couples who like to do things together, we've got a Cocktail Class, Margaritas, a Night at the Roxy and more! See Parent Square for a complete list.


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Creating Vegan & Vegetarian Yumminess with Nasoya & Lightlife
**This is a sponsored post. All opinions shared in this post are my honest thoughts.
Did you know March is National Nutrition Month? Well, neither did I. Logically everyone knows that nutrition should be their priority, however, we can all come up with examples of how we fall short in this area. One of my constant nutrition-based struggles is getting my daughter to willingly add more vegetables to her diet.
Convincing my teenage daughter to eat healthy all the time can be a challenge. You see I'm a vegan, she's not. I became a vegan then vegetarian when she was seven years old.
Read more about my vegan journey here.
Transitioning to a vegan lifestyle when you're child's in love with chicken nuggets, hot dogs and grilled cheese sandwiches can lead to some comical situations.
Whenever I cook Chickpeas, I get massive eye rolling from her, teeth sucking and sighs as she gives an incredulous look that screams "Chickpeas again".
No matter how fragrant the food, when she comes into the kitchen and realizes I'm cooking veggies, there's a twinge of disappointment in her eyes. She doesn't even like green smoothies or oatmeal no matter how delicious the concoction.
Come on, who doesn't like oatmeal?!
But the experience hasn't been all bad. She has willingly eliminated meat from her diet and considers herself to be vegetarian, a decision she made on her own. As long as I use vegan substitutes for her favorite foods or cook some kid-friendly options she slowly agrees to try more and more vegan food.
This weekend I made some of her favorite vegan and vegetarian foods using Nasoya & Lightlife products. I've used Nasoya's egg roll wraps when I was a vegetarian. I stuffed the egg rolls with spinach, mushrooms, cabbage and carrots and my daughter loved it. Since that was such a big hit, I decided to make fried wontons for her this weekend.
Check out my recipe below.
Fried Veggie Wontons with Dipping Sauce
2 cups Coleslaw mix
1/2 package Nasoya wonton wraps
1 tbsp grapeseed oil
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp diced garlic
3 tbsp puréed ginger
3 green onions chopped (Reserve 1 tablespoon for dipping sauce)
1 tbsp black pepper
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1. Heat grapeseed oil in frying pan. Sautée garlic and green onions for 1 minute. Add coleslaw mix, 2 tablespoons of ginger, 1 tablespoon black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon cayenne.
2. Cook until vegetables have softened.
3. Put 1/2 cup of water in a small bowl.
4. Place 1 tablespoon of sautéed vegetables in the middle of wonton wrap. Dip your finger into the water bowl and wet the perimeter of the wonton wrap. Fold wrap in half. Wet finger again and fold again. Repeat steps until all coleslaw mix is finished.
5. In a separate pan, heat the olive oil. Place wontons into oil and fry on each side for 1 minute.
6. Place fried wonton on paper towels to remove excess oil.
I made a dipping sauce using 1/3 cup of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of maple syrup and 1 tablespoon of puréed ginger. Place ingredients in bowl, stir mixture and add remaining green onions as garnish.
Barbecue Tempeh Strips
According to Wikipedia, tempeh is a soy product originating from Indonesia. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into cake form.
At first glance, tempeh looks blah and tasteless but when paired with the right seasonings and/or sauces, tempeh transforms into total deliciousness. Tempeh is a great source of protein and is the ideal meat substitute for anyone interested in transitioning to a plant based diet.
Barbecued tempeh is one of my daughter's favorite dishes. She recently reminded me of that and of the fact that I haven't made tempeh in months. This recipe is simple, easy to make, a real treat for your tastebuds.
Using Lightlife Tempeh, I made these saucy barbecue tempeh strips.
1 8oz package of Lightlife Tempeh
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 onion powder
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1-2 cups barbecue sauce (I used Whole Foods 365 barbecue sauce; its only $1.99 and it's delicious.)
When making barbecue tempeh, it's common practice to boil tempeh to soften the product.
1. Boil 8oz package of Lightlife Tempeh for 10 minutes in a broth consisting of 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne, 1 tablespoon of onion powder and 1 teaspoon of garlic powder. Sprinkle seasoning and soy sauce on tempeh, then add water.
2. In a shallow dish, marinate the tempeh in a 1/3 cup of the broth for 20 minutes.
3. Preheat oven at 375 degrees.
4. Remove tempeh from marinade. Cut into thin strips; should yield 11-12 strips.
5. Place tempeh on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush barbecue sauce onto tempeh. Bake for 15 minutes. Flip tempeh (use tongs). Brush barbecue sauce onto tempeh and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
By Monday, I was a riding a cool mom high. My daughter was thrilled that I made two of her favorites, instead of the usual dishes I have to convince her to eat. Now, I need to come up with more of her favorites to cook and keep her veggie enthused. Wish me luck!
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Microservices – evolutionary approaches for building systems of systemsMicroservices Arkitektur & Design
Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together" was accepted 40 years ago yet we have spent the last decade building monolithic applications, communicating via bloated middleware and with our fingers crossed that Moore's Law keeps helping us out.
Microservices. In this tutorial we will discover a consistent and reinforcing set of tools and practices rooted in the the Unix Philosophy of small and simple. Tiny applications, communicating via the web's uniform interface with single responsibilities and installed as well behaved operating system services. Based on advances in Domain Driven Design, Continuous Delivery, Evolutionary architecture and event driven architecture, microservices bring together the better practices that have emerged over the last decade of innovation is software development
In this course we will explore the following topics:
- Principle-driven evolutionary architecture
- Capability modelling, domain driven design and the town planning metaphor
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Hebrews 13:5 (GWT)
Don't love money. Be happy with what you have because God has said, "I will never abandon you or leave you."
Galatians 1:10 (NIV)
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Romans 5:6-8 (The Message)
Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
Proverbs 22:7 (NASB)
The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender's slave.
Proverbs 23:12 (NASB)
Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Proverbs 28:26 (NKJV)
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV)
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Proverbs 14:15 – May 14, 2009 (The Message)
The gullible believe anything they're told; the prudent sift and weigh every word.
Proverbs 14:23 – May 14, 2009 (The Message)
Hard work always pays off; mere talk puts no bread on the table.
Proverbs 13:20 – May 13, 2009 (MSG)
Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.
Isaiah 55:9 – May 8, 2009 (NKJV)
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Matthew 6:34 – May 4, 2009 (The Message)
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
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Proverbs 3:25-26 – May 4, 2009
25 Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.
Revelation 12:10-11 – April 30, 2009
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Philippians 4:5-7 – April 29, 2009
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 26:2
You have as little to fear from an undeserved curse as from the dart of a wren or the swoop of a swallow.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 Cor. 1:8
He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Don't let this year's slow planting pace allow you to draw too many comparisons to last year.
Corn planting was back on track, as of May 11. USDA estimated 59% of the corn crop was in the ground in its Planting Progress report released on May 12. That's one percentage point ahead of the five-year average and 33 percentage points ahead of this time last year.
Frigid temperatures and downpours stalled fieldwork in many parts of the country during the past week. As of Friday, the Plains were under freeze warnings and/or frost advisories. Rain showers accompanied unusually cold temperatures in the Corn Belt, according to USDA's agricultural weather highlights.
Yet, the forecast shows improving conditions. By early next week, a shift in the weather pattern will result in much cooler weather in the West, along with a warming trend across the central and southern Plains and the Midwest. The National Weather Service 6- to 10-day outlook for May 21-25 calls for near- to above-normal temperatures nationwide.
Weather Conditions Weigh on Markets
New-crop corn prices slipped this week. "What's hurting the corn market is that there's an open window for a lot of corn planting to get done the last week of May," says Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group. "We did it last year."
But, Gulke says, farmers shouldn't think 2014 is a repeat of 2013. "We were going gangbusters at this time last year," he says. "Then it got warm and wet where Iowa couldn't plant very much until later in June. This cold and wet weather is causing a standstill. We've grown a big crop of corn under late conditions, but I wouldn't want to bet my farm on it."
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Following the May 9 USDA reports, Gulke says the markets did a key reversal down to a favorable report. "That is a negative signal when the markets react negatively to what would otherwise be a positive signal," he says. "The market is trying to react to world fundamentals when the crop in the U.S. is not getting off to a very good start."
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On May 15, Informa Economics released revised acreage estimates, reflecting developments through early May. Gulke says that because of the weather and slow planting progress, Informa reduced corn acres from USDA's March corn acreage estimate by about 110,000 acres. Now Informa's corn acreage estimate sets at 91.58 million acres.
Other revisions of note, Gulke says, are Informa increased soybean acres and reduced corn acres in Iowa, and prevent planting acres in North Dakota were increased by 500,000. Also, Informa kept the national corn yield average at 163.5 bu./acre (not adopting the 165 bu./acre estimate from USDA).
In mid-March, The Gulke Group estimated 2014 corn acres at 90.07 million acres. "We had that lower acreage number long before we knew it would be cold and wet this spring or Ukraine was going to have a problem," Gulke says. "Our figures show the farmers hadn't intended to plant as much corn this year. If you are going to plant your corn, you better have a good marketing plan in place."
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Since 2004, I have studied the aesthetic work of media practitioners in the US and postcolonial Global South. In addition to my book and films based on my five years of fieldwork in the Mississippi Delta,I have conducted study in Richmond, Oakland, Senegal, the Caribbean.
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1) We completely remodeled and moved into our first home (yay!). No more wasps stinging Rhitt in the the night (true story) or pipes freezing in the middle of January. So happy the renter days are behind us.
2) Became owners of some farmland we had been leasing for the last five years.
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Lately the Hamiltons have been trying to loose the baby weight. Rhitt decided to skip breakfast for two weeks....and lost ten pounds. Since skipping breakfast for me would only result in gaining ten pounds I've been trying to cook a little greener lately. One of my coworkers brought this recipe to work and it was a hit. I've adapted it to my liking (she used turkey, and since the use of turkey on a beef ranch is sacreligious, I substituted it for beef.) Use whatever you prefer!
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Can I just say how much I love my boys! Truly I do, they make me laugh constantly. They are silly and crazy. I love it! But often times I wonder WHAT GOES THROUGH THEIR LITTLE MINDS! This mornings events totally explain this. So before I left to take Addy to school I told the boys I wanted them dressed and their beds made by the time I get back. Both happily agreed! Upon my return I find Dawson dressed and Ky still in his PJ's. I asked why Ky was not dressed to which Dawson replied, "Oh he just got done going poop." To which I said, "OK, so why isn't he dressed?" "Well I had to wipe him but we were out of toilet paper and he was scared to go get more." As Dawson is talking I'm thinking to myself, if he was going to the bathroom how could he go get toilet paper. So I asked that very question. Dawson responded, "well I had to go too". So then I asked the dreaded question, "So what did you guys use?' Dawson calmly and almost proud of his quick decision said, "we had to use a clorox wipe." UM WHAT?!?! I was not sure how to respond! Was he really serious? You bet he was, 100% serious!!! As this is sinking in part of me wants to burst out laughing! The other part is so grossed out!!! So after I educated them on the fact that using Clorox wipes is not ok. I gave them a list of reasons why and Dawson chimes in saying, "Yeah it kinda made me itch!" YA THINK!
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Southern League Premier Division: Dunstable Town 2 Hitchin Town 1
Dunstable Town finally ended their terrible run of form at Creasey Park as they defeated local rivals Hitchin Town 2-1 on Saturday.
The Blues had not triumphed since September 20, taking one point from a possible 36, drawing once and losing 11 in that time.
However, the hosts fielded new signing Danny Talbot, who had joined from Chesham United, but Hitchin went close early on through Nat Peacock.
However, it was Dunstable who took the lead on 19 minutes when Ben Walster brought down Charlie Henry in the box and Chris Marsh converted the penalty.
Six minutes later, Hitchin were level though when Michael Noon and Peacock combined for Luton Town loanee Ian Rees to score.
Talbot saw his free kick tipped over by keeper Charlie Horlock as Dunstable's on-loan Hatters midfielder Charlie Smith was fortunate not to see red for kicking out at Lucas Kirkpatrick.
In the second period, the visitors' Callum Donnelly chipped on to the roof of the net, but Adam Watkins began to influence the midfield battle, winning challenge after challenge.
The Blues had the lead again on 61 minutes when Shane Blackett's instinctive shot was parried by Horlock only for Jemale McKenzie-Lowe to score his 12th goal of the season.
Henry then fired into the side-netting, before Dunstable keeper Charlie May's clearance rebounded off Brett Donnelly for Kirkpatrick to level, but the goal was ruled out for offside as the hosts held on for long overdue victory.
This weekend, the hosts visit Truro City.
Dunstable Town: Charlie May, Danny May, Charlie Smith, Steven Gregory, Shane Blackett, Danny Talbot, Adam Watkins, Charlie Henry (Garry Jones, 85), Jemale McKenzie-Lowe, Terry Dixon (Elliot Bailey,77), Christopher Marsh.
Subs not used: Tony Fontanelle, Kai Gardner.
Hitchin: Charlie Horlock, Lewis Rolfe, Kane Smith, Alasan Ann (Brett Donnelly), Ben Walster, Lucas Kirkpatrick, (Saul Williams), Jon McNamara, Callum Donnelly, Nat Peacock, Ian Rees, Michael Noone.
Subs not used: Stuart Pearson, Simon Martin, Michael Johnson.
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Meet Lauren. The wonderful owner behind The Gemma Shop, an online only boutique with pop up shops around Columbus.
I had been following Lauren on social media, for awhile before getting the chance to meet her in person and I am so glad our schedules lined up so we could grab dinner. It was around three hours of talking business, family, motherhood, and everything in between. Lauren has such a wonderful energy and a passion for her business and her family. She took a huge leap when starting The Gemma Shop, and it's her dream come true. She is passionate about the Columbus community and providing one of a kind choices when it comes to apparel, accessories, and items for your home to her customers.
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