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A large dose of caffeine causes a short-term spike in blood pressure. It may also cause your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to go into overdrive. Instead of coffee or energy drinks, try green tea. It has less than half the caffeine of coffee and contains healthy antioxidants, as well as theanine, an amino acid that has a calming effect on the nervous system.
^ Trost W. and Vuilleumier P., Rhythmic entrainment as a mechanism for emotion induction by music: a neurophysiological perspective. In The Emotional Power of Music: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Arousal, Expression, and Social Control, Cochrane T., Fantini B., and Scherer K. R., (Eds.), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2013, pp213–225.
Transparent Corp's Research Area is arguably the most comprehensive resource for collated brainwave entrainment research. Update: the main research area on Transparent Corp's website is currently being updated, so it is offline. However, you can still access their peer-reviewed research paper as a PDF here: "A Comprehensive Review of the Psychological Effects of Brainwave Entrainment".
Binaural beats must be listened to using headphones. You definitely should not use them while driving or operating heavy machinery as you will be in an altered state of mind. Brainwave entrainment is a form of meditation and designed to be very passive, in fact, all you need to do is sit back, put on your headphones and let the technology do the work for you. It is best to find a session that you find soothing to listen to, as binaural beats on their own are a very strange sound that can be disturbing to some listeners. This was actually what inspired me to invent Trypnaural as a way for brainwave entrainment to be more bearable to listen to for long periods of time.
Aside from Brain Evolution, this is another good resource for brainwave entrainment products that I recommend. They have binaural beats and isochronic tones for many different applications. The nice thing is that they are inexpensive, so you can experiment with different types and find ones that work for you. They also have a membership plan that makes experimenting even more affordable. It's probably the best bang for the buck that I can find for brainwave entrainment.
For our ancestors, stress was a survival skill during brief, life threatening situations. Once the danger passed, their stress levels lowered. However, in today's world, we are constantly bombarded by stressors, such as work deadlines, traffic, and family obligations. We rarely get a break long enough to relax and relieve the stress. The over-activation of our stress hormones have been linked to high blood pressure, heart attacks, lower immunity, depression, anxiety, and more.
"Binaural beats are not very noticeable because the modulation depth (the difference between loud and quiet) is 3 db, a two-to-one ratio. (Isochronic tones and mono beats easily have 50 db difference between loud and quiet, which is a 100,00-to-1 ratio). This means that binaural beats are unlikely to produce an significant entrainment because they don't activate the thalamus."
Anyone who has sought out different methods for enhancing cognitive ability will probably have come across a technique known as Brainwave Entrainment. However, it is a fairly niche area of brain training, meaning that this form of stimulation is often overlooked in favour of more mainstream methods. The following outlines what Brainwave Entrainment actually is, how it is used, and some of the benefits attributed to it.
Binaural beats are acoustically generated frequencies that match the frequency bands of brain waves and are therefore considered a means to inducing neurophysiological relaxation. There is, however, large dispute on the scientific quality and validity of extant research on binaural beats. Thus, the effect of a binaural 10Hz (Alpha) stimulation on subjective and physiological parameters... [Show full abstract]
♥ I found the Binaural Beat Machine to be my #1 focus tool. I have ADD/ADHD and am too easily distracted when I really want to focus. I turn on the binaural beats using the 16b preset for focus and turn down the volume so it's just barely present to my ear. I couple it with some classical music and am able to focus on what I want for extended periods. This literally has changed my life. Thank you!!
Delta (3hz – 0.2hz) – Deep, dreamless sleep. Intuition. Empathy. Brainwave expert Judith Pennington calls it the doorway to Universal Consciousness and "A radar that scans the environment and psychically picks up information and energy." According to British physicist C. Maxwell Cade "There have been reports that delta waves appear at the onset of paranormal phenomena." (More information can be found in Cade's book The Awakened Mind)
Binaural beats are an auditory illusion where two oscillators, slightly detuned from each other, are played simultaneously with one perceived by each ear. The human brain mixes the audio from each ear, and the listener perceives a "beating" effect that isn't actually there. This is a well-studied phenomenon that has gained the interest of audiologists and neurologists, but it's most famous for being picked up by the alternative medicine community as a way to get high.
Theta waves are associated with ➤ Increased sense of inner peace and emotional stability ➤ Deep relaxation ➤ Improved memory ➤ Heightened intuition and inspiration ➤ Calms the chatter of your mind ➤ Increased psychic abilities and sense of spiritual connection ➤ Speed healing, improved physical healing ➤ More restful sleep ➤ Release beneficial hormones related to health and longevity ➤ Reduce mental fatigue ➤ Reduction of anxiety and stress
A study published in Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology by Paul Williams and Michael West in 1975 examined the brainwave states of people experienced in meditation while using photic stimulation, and another study by Leonard, Telch, and Harrington in 1999 examined the successful use of brainwave entrainment techniques for attaining meditative states in subjects.
Reading can be a wonderful (and healthy) escape from the stress of everyday life. Simply by opening a book, you allow yourself to be invited into a literary world that distracts you from your daily stressors. Reading can even relax your body by lowering your heart rate and easing the tension in your muscles. A 2009 study at the University of Sussex found that reading can reduce stress by up to 68%. It works better and faster than other relaxation methods, such as listening to music or drinking a hot cup of tea. This is because your mind is invited into a literary world that is free from the stressors that plague your daily life.
In the 1980s, a researcher in Japan, Tsuyoshi Inouye described how light stimulation creates synchronization of brain hemispheres. Since then, other researchers have detailed the positive effects of hemispheric synchronization including a 1984 study by researcher Dr. Gene W. Brockopp stating that hemispheric synchronization resulted in improved intellectual functioning as well as improvements in long-term memory, and these effects are cumulative over time.
Really great stuff here, man. Well done! Without taking anything away from the article it would have been great to have under one "roof" similar information about hypnotherapy and subliminals. I invested quite a lot in buying binaural cd's but after reading your material I think that for short term effects isochronic tones rather than binaurals are the technology to go for now. For longer lasting and possibly permanent effects I'm not sure whether I should go for hypnosis or subliminals (or both). An article as well written and comprehensive as yours but focusing on hypnosis vs subliminals would have completed the circle for me. The stuff I've read so far on binaurals vs isochronics hasn't really done it for me. Any chance you could give it a shot?
Think about it for a moment...your mind is at work all day, every day. Every decision you make, every challenge that you face, every moment you go through in life, your mind is your constant companion, and it can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Your mind is something you need to take good care of, because your quality of life is directly related to your "quality of mind".
In addition to potentially boosting sleep-promoting hormones, binaural beats may also reduce our perceptions of pain. A 2017 study found binaural beats used in combination with visual stimulation led to reductions in patients' perception of acute pain. Other recent research showed binaural beats helped improve pain perception in patients with chronic pain.
Hi Sahil, it's hard for me to speak about other people's tracks and videos, as I don't know how they created them either. If you're interested in a particular track/video and unsure about it, try asking the creator a question or two about the track, what frequencies were used and for how long, what software they used etc. Then make your own judgement based on how they reply to you. Jason
Aletheia Luna is an influential psychospiritual writer whose work has changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide. After escaping the religious sect she was raised in, Luna experienced a profound existential crisis that led to her spiritual awakening. As a spiritual counselor, diviner, and author, Luna's mission is to help others become conscious of their entrapment and find joy, empowerment, and liberation in any circumstance. [Read More]
If you can't spend a full hour in meditation, try the 30 minute Theta Standalone Meditation. This track takes you a little deeper into exploring the Theta frequency than the first Theta track, so it can also be a progression if you have used the first Alpha/Theta combination. If you do have a full hour for Theta, use the 60 minute Theta Standalone meditation.
Research: the authors stated that qualitative electroencephalogram signatures needed to be developed for different disorders and tested using standard validated methods of psychological assessment. Larger RCTs were needed with clear inclusion criteria for participants. The RCTs should measure qualitative EEG, hormone levels and the time of day of the intervention. Interventions protocols should be clearly defined and the relationship between session frequency/ duration and outcomes should be explored. More studies of auditory stimulation were needed, as well as studies comparing different types of stimulation, monaural, binaural and isochronic beats and use of white noise versus music.


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The Homing Beacon: Full Moon in Cancer and Winter Solstice 2018
Full Moon in Cancer | December 22, 2018
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Full Moons fall right in the middle of a lunar cycle. While New Moons are what we associate with beginnings and Full Moons are usually culminations, for several reasons this Full Moon has eked out its own title not only as a culmination but as a good beginning as well.
Taking place shortly after the Winter Solstice and at 0 degrees of Cancer, this Full Moon signals a moment of birth: the opportunity to nurture in new and previously unexplored ways, and to redefine the way in which we come home.
This is a time of year when we ritually reflect on the previous cycle and look to new beginnings, but this Moon lends the Solstice a particularly powerful spaciousness, as though the unknown is hungry to reveal itself and the most pertinent work for us is to caringly witness the shapes coming through the night.
Cancer, whose landscape we'll be exploring under the light of this Full Moon, cares unconditionally. Her mother archetype shows us how to get curious about what goals will actually nurture us at the basic level where soul meets body and ancestral lines are healed. Nurturance will remain a critical theme for a good 18 months to come, because this Moon also brings in the themes of the new nodal axis: Cancer and Capricorn. While the Moon is too far away from the Node in Cancer to eclipse now, she still flags us onward into the evolutionary theme that the next year and a half of eclipse seasons will unravel.
That theme is the polarity between home and work, Cancer and Capricorn. Between inner life and how we give of ourselves to the outside world. Between fertile self-nurturance and community-improving industry. As we approach this Solstice and Full Moon, it will come easily to molt old habits of mind that have held us back from most effectively translating our inner lives into something truly world-building, thanks to lucky Jupiter and Mercury conjunct in Sagittarius.
Saturn sits within range but at a healthy distance from the Sun, sharing his medicine without necessarily indulging his fondness for the tactics of the extremophile. His maturity here graces us with structure as we approach Cancer's watery intuition. And he's right, a structured approach to the molting process is necessary at some point. To do this properly we need to get clear on two questions: "How does my home life feed my work?" and "How does my work feed my home life?"
If home is the safe space from which you can care for yourself, what is home to you? Start with your abstract awareness as home and extend outward to your body and headspace. How can you make them feel safe to you? And from there, home becomes a shapeshifting display of an individuals' feathers. "A house isn't a home" necessarily. Is it your daily practices, your family? Is it your house, your garden, or the open road? Cave swiftlets create their nests from their own saliva. Give yourself an open field to define what home is to you. What does it need to serve your self-nurturance best? Does it need new spacial or energetic dimensions, more or less of other people's energies?
And work? If your work is the gift you naturally give to the world excluding the question of money, acknowledge it. What do you do like its your job, like you were put here to do it? Write poetry? Metalwork? Impeach the president, or offer acts of kindness? If you've got nothing you like doing industriously already, then fantasize about it. What would make you eager to get to work, what are you good at? And how do you want to get paid for it? In recognition, praise, money, or skill trade? What kind of pay do you need to create a mutually symbiotic relationship between this work and the home explored above?
You'll want to workshop these ideas from the privacy of safe home space so you can make a sustainable plan to move forward without rushing into it from fight or flight impulses. Remember this is Winter Solstice and Saturn's eye is upon us. It's a time to be internal. From here you mark your start line, but be sure to take ample time to warm up in your dream space. Getting your ideas clear now will give you excellent and timely material to work with over the next year and a half. A 0 degree Moon signals no rush.
A good note to make in your introspective hours is that Mars is edging into conjunction with Chiron in Pisces, urging us to discover how we best defend and care for our wounds within ourselves and our societies. Check in and see who actually needs resources and has gotten none. Start small and remember that this goes for your inner child or inner parent, as well as your friends and neighbors with less privilege than yourself. If you can go there, whatever fire was lacking will ignite.
Neptune in Pisces and Venus in Scorpio are sextiling Saturn and trining one another as well, so we have a nice current of energy flowing into acts of creativity that require us to translate our inner worlds into a 3D one. The Jupiter-Mercury conjunction gives the mind extremely rich tools with which to create new realities, so look within for how you're going to make your new world. With the Moon peaking in fullness from her own domicile Cancer, our lunar functions of creativity and connection are flowing and can easily gather momentum now.
May you meet yourself with the magic of a love ethic this Solstice, and may the Full Moon in Cancer guide you home. Blessings.
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[VIDEO] Sometimes, Methods Students Are So Smart, That They're Dumb…
Students aren't dumb. In fact, they're incredibly smart. Really, they have to be, because complex questions in Maths Methods are almost as certain as death or taxes.
They're an absolute necessity, and it wouldn't really be Methods without them.
Students quickly become accustomed to dealing with complex ideas, challenging problems and mind-bending worded scenarios.
But there can be a problem with that, and it's a problem that comes up frequently; especially among the higher level Maths subjects such as VCE Methods or Maths B/C.
Students forget how to do the easy stuff.
There's only so much space in a student's brain
And, most of the time, it fills up pretty fast! With such complex ideas floating around on a near daily basis, it can get a little tricky.
Students often struggle because they're so used to dealing with complex questions, that they forget how to do the simple stuff.
So smart that they're dumb
The results of this can often appear in some strange ways.
I've had students who didn't realise that they could calculate the area of a rectangle using height times width.
And I've had other students who didn't realise that the gradient of a straight line was a formula learnt in Year 8.
But they can solve differential equations…
So how do you get past it?
Unlike many subjects, Maths is NEVER restricted to only the content learnt in that class or that year.
In Year 12 history, you aren't likely to need the history you learnt in Year 10.
In Year 12 Maths, you will absolutely need the Maths you learnt in Year 10.
Once you get used to this idea, life gets a little easier.
The most important thing to remember is you can use ANYTHING that you have ever learnt in Maths if it will get the job done.
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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested, and a written solicitation document will not be issued. This solicitation is a request for quotations (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular FAC 2019-01 (effective 01/22/2019). The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 811219, with a small business size standard of $20.5 million. SB registration will be verified in System Award Management (SAM) and Small Business Administration (SBA). Quotes will be considered non-responsive and rejected if the Contracting Officer is not able to verify and view contractor registrations.
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Blades servers and virtualization channel opportunities: Q&A with Barb Goldworm
Virtualization and blade servers can offer channel professionals like yourself both space and power-saving business opportunities. Consider these technology options for your customers. Industry analyst and author of the book Blade Servers and Virtualization, Barb Goldworm discusses the options and implications.
What are the main benefits of working with blade servers and virtualization technologies?
Blades and virtualization have become very hot topics within IT organizations and the data center as strong foundational building blocks to address issues that have been challenging IT for years. A lot of users are out of, or running out of, space in their data centers. Many are maxed out on their power consumption. Both blades and virtualization address these challenges in different ways.
One of the top projects that a lot of users are dealing with is consolidation: For example, they have a large number of servers, many running only one application to create separation and isolation, so if they have a failure it doesn't affect other things. Each of those servers tends to have a very low-utilization rate, so they are running 5 or 10% CPU utilization. They have a lot of hardware, very poorly utilized, taking up a lot of space and using a lot of power.
IT organizations required to do more with less are saying why do I need this? Can't I consolidate into fewer servers, take up less space and use less power? When blades and virtualization are used together as part of a revamping implementation project, they deliver a lot of value, both for the effort required in the implementation and for the hardware and software dollars spent.
For example: I take this large number of underutilized servers, I consolidate them using server virtualization – so now I can run four to 20 virtual servers on one physical server. I can implement those on blades, which gives me very high density for the physical servers that I do have, plus the sharing of all of the components that blade servers offer. I am now providing the same, or more horse power to run my business applications, in less space, with less power, less cooling, shared, modular components, providing high availability, and a flexible and agile infrastructure. Now if I need to move things around for availability, maintenance or load balancing, I have strong management tools offered both by blade server systems and virtualization software. And I have modular hardware components with a lot of hot swap, redundant, high availability capabilities built into them.Where are blade servers a good fit?
If you have a geographic location that has one physical server, blades are not a good candidate. Blades by their design go into a chassis and to implement blades you first need to buy the chassis. You then populate the chassis with some number of blades. If all I have is one server, it costs more to deliver the chassis and put one blade in because I have to spread out the cost of that chassis across multiple blades. In general if you are running less than five servers in one location, it is probably not cost effective to go to a blade architecture.
If you have more than five servers in a location, it's worth taking a look at blades for the high density and modularity benefits we've already discussed. In addition to enterprise data centers, there are some nice things about blades in an SMB environment, particularly if you have similar remote offices. I can configure a chassis to have some number of blades in it, running a variety of servers: Web servers, application servers, email servers and database servers, for example. I can put all of those inside my blade chassis and have it as a preconfigured mix. I might have that in different branch offices and make them identical. IBM sells these types of offerings as "retail center in a box," or "data center in a box," or "branch banking in a box."
Also, remote locations with no IT staff can be a good fit for blades because of their strength in remote lights-out management capabilities. Blade manageability was designed from the outset to be a part of blade server systems. There are redundant management modules designed as a part of the blade chassis, for out-of-band management: Let's say I'm running a number of blades and my operating system crashes on one blade. I can still get to that blade, even though the OS is down. I can do everything to that blade system remotely that I can locally, except for physically popping out the blade. I can power them on and off; I can reconfigure them; I can do my operating system-level maintenance on top of that. They are well suited for remote management: disaster recovery, availability, failover and anything else that could go wrong. Because of the modularity, someone who is not an IT professional can look at the lights that are flashing or not flashing on the display, pop out a blade, pop in another blade, stick the broken blade in a Fed-Ex box and ship it off.What misconceptions do people have about blades servers and virtualization?
As with any technology, in early product releases there are horror stories, and they get stuck in peoples' minds. People heard the early stories of blades and virtualization and they still believe those issues exist today. They decided that they can't implement blades because they are low-power, specific-function servers that don't give them the capabilities that rack servers do. That used to be true; it's not anymore. The newer blades systems are now designed with all the capabilities available in rack systems, dual-core and quad-core processors with high memory capabilities, high-speed IO options and high-speed IO switches inside the chassis. When users say, 'Well, I can't look at blades because I need heavy horsepower and it's not available,' they are dealing with old information. These days, anything that the major systems vendors deliver in rack servers, they now deliver in blades. Hewlett-Packard (HP) calls it their Blade Everything strategy, IBM has the same concept.
In addition, today's blades are designed with high-speed interconnects within the chassis; and all of the blades systems support a much higher number of network interface cards than early blades. I've yet to run into a user who has encountered an IO bottle-neck, even implementing virtualization on blades.
In fact, one of the misconceptions has to do specifically with implementing server virtualization on blades. For example some people have had concerns about VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3, on blades. These concerns are based on the old data that blades don't have the high-end capabilities of rack servers – it's just not true today. I have talked with lots of users who have standardized on VI3, running on blades. Again, I have yet to run into anyone who has had an IO limitation. If you do a good job of workload planning, as you do your virtual-server-implementation plan, you can create workloads that are balanced across different blades and blade chassis to fit within the IO capabilities and processor and memory capabilities; which by the way they are essentially the same limitations as those in a rack-mounted environment.How can channel pros encourage end customers to adopt blade servers and virtualization technologies? Can you discuss the main selling points?
The selling points for blades start with significant value from high-density. The number of servers that you can fit in the same footprint in your data center is substantially higher. If I'm in a tight space, implementing blades is going to allow me to pack more servers in the same footprint. But the important selling points have to do with bottom-line dollar amounts: It may cost more upfront to move to a blade architecture because you have to purchase the chassis, but the benefits include more efficient power-utilization, more efficient cooling capabilities and components sharing. From a simplicity standpoint, blades offer significant benefits because everything is prewired inside the chassis. We have a picture in our book of a server room with wires running all over the place, and then we show a picture of a populated blade system and the wiring is perfect looking and not just because of a good IT guy. Prewiring and modularity also translates into less time to provision new servers. If I -- as an IT professional -- need to deploy a new server out to my end users, both blades and virtualization can make that provisioning very simple; all I have to do is pop in a blade (if I even need to do that) provision it and bring it up live. If I'm using VMware or a server virtualization tool, then I can provision it virtually. I might not even need to add a new piece of hardware.
What we hear from users is that with blades and virtualization, the time to provision -- the time from when they get a request until they can bring the users up -- has been dramatically reduced, sometimes from weeks down to hours.How has the adoption of server virtualization technologies impacted the channel?
Server virtualization is changing the business model for hardware vendors. It's changed some of the compensation strategies of what they are doing through the channel. If you are selling servers, and the user is now looking at server virtualization, suddenly they can run 10 virtual servers on one physical server and you are no longer selling 10 servers. It changes the revenue model to one based on selling software versus hardware.
The licensing aspects of server virtualization also make it interesting. Now software might be licensed for virtual environments as individual instances, by CPU or by core. Staying current on all of this information and understanding the implications within the channel can be challenging.
My sense is that over the next two years, server virtualization is going to become almost ubiquitous, certainly in the enterprise and to some extent moving down to the SMB space. Hypervisors (the underlying piece of server virtualization software) will be everywhere. It's very important for the channel to understand what that will do to the industry. Some hardware platforms are now coming with hypervisors directly on them (i.e. bootable from the firmware). From a channel perspective, in order to survive the business and move into the next decade of technology implementation, it is imperative to understand server virtualization technology and the impact it will have on the industry as a whole.Your company, Focus Consulting, seems to provide a broad range of consulting services to vendors and channel professionals, from business strategy to product expertise. What's the most common request for help you get from the channel?
The thing we see is that there is still a lot of confusion out there. This world has changed so much and so fast in the past five years; five years ago there were no blades and there essentially was no server virtualization software. There was virtualization software on mainframes, and there were blades in the networking world, but they were very different. Both technologies are fairly new and have changed dramatically. It has been very difficult for the channel and for users to stay current on either technology, let alone both, and to understand how they fit together. Mostly what I hear from the channel is that they need help educating users -- through webcasts, white papers, seminars, etc. Many folks within both channel organizations and IT shops may know one of the technologies, but not the other. Or they don't know about the interactions between the current versions and how to best implement them. We provide a lot of education to the channel and to their end users. Do you have any other advice for the channel?
Two more things - For users going through this process and trying to understand both technologies, we have a book called Blade Servers and Virtualization that just came out from Wiley. It's a soup-to-nuts discussion on both technologies; it will give you a basic overview of both as well as advance planning tips – it includes what these technologies are, what the architecture options are, who the venders are, the strengths and weaknesses of the various architectural approaches and the vendors in the mix and user case studies to help users understand what it means in the real world. There's also a section in the book that gives a matrix of all of the different features of both blades servers and virtualization solutions. It gives you a snapshot of all the products there today and a framework for all the features that people will need in RFIs and RFPs. From a channel perspective, it's a great starter.
For channel folks who are want tools to help users understand the reasons for implementing these technologies, as well as how to plan for them, the Server Blade and Virtualization Summit will have an ROI lab on the show floor. It will have tools from various venders available, which will help you understand the ROI/TCO issues related to consolidation and virtualization and blades - space and power and cooling savings, etc. And of course, it will be an opportunity to see the latest and greatest in these areas from the virtualization and blades vendors and partners. We hope to see you there.You're also charged with heading up plans for the Server Blade Summit. What are the must-attend sessions for channel professionals interested in working with blades and virtualization?
If you are new to either one of these technologies, there are tutorial sessions called "essentials" -- one for blades and one for virtualization -- that are designed for people to start at the ground level; if you've never had anything to do with blade servers, the Blade Essentials tutorial will take you from knowing nothing to having a pretty good sense of what blades do, why they are important, what value they deliver, the ROI implications, how to select a vendor, and so forth. If you are dealing with blades but haven't dealt with server virtualization, there's a server Virtualization Essentials tutorial that does the same thing: What is virtualization, what are the different options and why should anyone care?
If you are a channel professional who doesn't want the technical details of the technologies, but wants to understand the ROI and TCO implications, there is a Business/Strategy track that speaks to these issues. So if you're selling to IT management and need to know the points where these technologies are going to hit that IT manager in ROI and TCO, than you'll want to focus on that track.
Oh the flip side, if you're a technical person who will go out and help people implement, there's a technical track for you. For example, there's a half-day tutorial on consolidating with VMware VI3 on blades. That will start from the beginning with questions like, how do I lay out an implementation plan? What does that mean in terms of the virtualization software? What does that mean in terms of the blade hardware? The tutorial will show how to bring up a VI3 system from scratch in a blade environment.
Drawing on the experience of TechTarget experts, there is also an Ask the Experts session with site editors Jan Stafford from SearchServerVirtualization.com and Matt Stansberry from SearchDataCenter.com., as well as experts Andrew Kutz, Anne Skamarock and me. It will include a presentation of recent research survey results on blades and virtualization. Then participants will be invited to ask questions of the expert panelists. That will be interesting for people who follow TechTarget sites because it will give them a chance to ask us questions and for us to interact and give a broad perspective answer.
The focus of the Server Blade Summit is "Blades and Virtualization: The Perfect Marriage." IBM's keynote presentation will be a joint talk from the VP of BladeCenter and the director of virtualization strategy. You will hear about what IBM is doing and where they see these technologies going as enabling building blocks, taking IT to the next generation of data centers. VMware and Microsoft are also doing keynotes. In addition, we have a major user --Countrywide Financial -- who has gone through a very successful implementation virtualizing on their blade infrastructure; they will talk about what it has meant to them in the real world. We also have a CIO panel talking about their experiences from a business perspective and a user technical panel talking about their technical successes and difficulties.What can channel professionals expect from blades servers and virtualization in the future?
There are a couple of interesting areas. At the component level, there are improvements going on at the chip-level from Intel and AMD like quad-core and beyond. Virtualization assist is now happening at the hardware level, which is making the next level up -- the server virtualization software -- run substantially faster. We are also seeing continuing improvements in the power and cooling efficiencies and capabilities. When you start packing this much density into a smaller footprint, you have to address the heat output. The newer generations of blades systems have improved substantially, to the point where a blade server generates less heat and is more efficient from a power-utilization standpoint than its counterpart rack server. But when you pack them into a small footprint, the power and cooling requirements for that footprint are greater. We've seen a tremendous improvement in both power utilization and cooling capabilities. And we continue to see significant enhancements.
There are interesting things going on with virtualization inside the blade chassis. There are a number of innovative vendors in the blade space that did this early on, like Egenera. Recently, HP announced a product called Virtual Connect which is virtual IO inside a blade system. We are just seeing the beginnings of that in the channel. There are a lot of really interesting things happening in the virtualized IO space, coming from the chip and hardware platform vendors, and being utilized by the virtualization software vendors. We're going to talk about all of this at the conference.
There's another interesting place where server virtualization and blades intersect: People who want alternative ways to deliver desktops to their end users. If I'm running in a traditional environment, I have servers running on the backend and I have users running PCs in the front. They have old hardware. They are trying to figure out what to do next. They are looking at Vista and saying, 'Do I need to do that; what kind of hardware will I need?' One of the interesting areas in which these things come together is the whole virtual desktop infrastructure. This allows someone to leverage the server virtualization software and a blade backend infrastructure, along with some of the things that Citrix and Microsoft have been doing with terminal services to create an architecture or an infrastructure that lets you deliver what the end user needs, whether it's a physical box, a virtual desktop, or a shared set of applications. At the conference, there will be a variety of sessions on virtual desktops and virtual infrastructure. We've got folks from IBM, VMware, Citrix and Microsoft talking about it.From a channel perspective, it will be important to understand what these technologies are, how they fit together and what it means in terms of options to offer end users as they look at next-generation desktop delivery. It raises questions such as, should I be upgrading everybody to hardware that runs Vista, or does that apply to some portion of the user base? Maybe some of them should be on PC blades? Some of them should be running virtual clients that are running on some backend set of blade servers. Should some of them be running Citrix terminal services applications? How do I figure out which users should do what? It becomes a much more strategic view. The channel will have a lot of opportunity to look at this as they deliver out to the community and help users understand their options. Can you briefly describe the steps involved with preparing for a blade server and/or virtualization deployment? Or, how should channel professionals prepare to take on such a project?
If your users have already made a decision on a hardware vendor then they don't have to go through a bake-off process. However, a lot of users are reexamining those relationships and looking at alternatives - and then doing a bake-off is a good idea. We have talked to a number of users who have brought in blades from multiple vendors and run them through a bake-off process. I highly suggest that if you are considering server virtualization, that you run your tests using server virtualization software. It essentially becomes the operating system level functionality -- the kernel that's running on the hardware. I suggest to people if you are running a bake-off, and you know you are going to be running VMware with guest operating systems underneath it, then do it running VMware with those guests.
As you do that, it's important to consider things like power efficiencies and power and cooling savings over rack servers, and power and cooling issues comparing vendors. Modularity and architectural specifics between different blades systems should also be considered.One of the interesting trends in blades is that a lot of folks are starting to implement blade servers with no local storage. There is a very high attach rate of blades servers to SANs -- 70 to 75% -- higher than the attach rates for rack servers to SANs. Because of the way the blades are architected, you have the option of going diskless (not using local storage). You can also have storage blades within the chassis. You can attach to SANs, you can attach to NAS. You have a variety of options and there are different reasons to look at diskless or stateless blade implementation and/or storage blades. The reasons to go diskless have to do with provisioning capabilities, flexibility and manageability. If I have no disk on that blade, it becomes more replaceable. If that blade fails I can very easily go to another blade and I don't have to worry about having access to the right storage.
People should consider what things the blade architecture offers users in their shop; see what advantages blades might give me in each user environment. HP just released a storage blade that allows you to have local storage, but a lot more of it. All blades have the ability to connect to SANs and NAS and have the ability to boot from the SAN and completely eliminate local storage.
For people who are deploying a blade-server environment as a consolidation project, it's very clear that virtualization and blades together are very strong components for any consolidation project. When you are consolidating and virtualizing, the first question is which workloads should be virtualized and which should not. Secondly, which ones should be virtualized together; it's important to understand the workload mix. There are a number of vendors who are working with channel partners to deliver services to help users through this planning. There are opportunities for channel partners who want to deliver those services, and channel partners who are working with their vendor partners to fill services that those vendors are providing directly. The benefits of consolidating with both technologies across the data center are significant. The ROI and TCO numbers and savings potential are phenomenal. The channel has a tremendous opportunity here.


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Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) imaging shows promise for guiding surgical treatment of skin cancers. Recent technological advancements such as the introduction of the handheld version of the reflectance confocal microscope, video acquisition and video-mosaicing have improved RCM as an emerging tool to evaluate cancer margins during routine surgical skin procedures such as Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS). Detection of residual non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) tumor during MMS is feasible, as demonstrated by the introduction of real-time perioperative imaging on patients in the surgical setting. Our study is currently testing the feasibility of a new mosaicing algorithm for perioperative RCM imaging of NMSC cancer margins on patients during MMS. We report progress toward imaging and image analysis on forty-five patients, who presented for MMS at the MSKCC Dermatology service. The first 10 patients were used as a training set to establish an RCM imaging algorithm, which was implemented on the remaining test set of 35 patients. RCM imaging, using 35% AlCl3 for nuclear contrast, was performed pre- and intra-operatively with the Vivascope 3000 (Caliber ID). Imaging was performed in quadrants in the wound, to simulate the Mohs surgeon's examination of pathology. Videos were taken at the epidermal and deep dermal margins. Our Mohs surgeons assessed all videos and video-mosaics for quality and correlation to histology. Overall, our RCM video-mosaicing algorithm is feasible. RCM videos and video-mosaics of the epidermal and dermal margins were found to be of clinically acceptable quality. Assessment of cancer margins was affected by type of NMSC, size and location. Among the test set of 35 patients, 83% showed acceptable imaging quality, resolution and contrast. Visualization of nuclear and cellular morphology of residual BCC/SCC tumor and normal skin features could be detected in the peripheral and deep dermal margins. We observed correlation between the RCM videos/video-mosaics and the corresponding histology in 32 lesions. Peri-operative RCM imaging shows promise for improved and faster detection of cancer margins and guiding MMS in the surgical setting.
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Eileen Flores, Oriol Yelamos, Miguel Cordova, Kivanc Kose, William Phillips, Anthony Rossi, Kishwer Nehal, and Milind Rajadhyaksha, "Peri-operative imaging of cancer margins with reflectance confocal microscopy during Mohs micrographic surgery: feasibility of a video-mosaicing algorithm," Proc. SPIE 10037, Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery, 100370B (Presented at SPIE BiOS: January 28, 2017; Published: 6 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252440.


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Jerry Del Colliano
July 16, 2012
Yesterday, HomeTheaterReview.com's content coordinator Pierce O'Toole and I headed down Wilshire Boulevard to a restaurant we call "the triple C" (aka: California Chicken Café) for a late, healthy lunch. En route, both of us noticed the huge "RELOCATION SALE" banners flying from the roof of our local Santa Monica Magnolia AV store. This store is the full, standalone Magnolia store, with all of the top products that they sell. Compared to a Magnolia inside a Best Buy, the standalone stores have more boutique components, better demo rooms and quieter environments for conducting business. A call over to the Magnolia AV store yielded some good news, as nobody is losing their jobs with the relocation/consolidation of the full Magnolia store and our local Best Buy. The boutique store is gone, but then again, hundreds of other boutique AV stores have folded, everything from Tweeter to audiophile salons and more.
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There are many,
including me
, who think Best Buy has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. The latest critic is Larry Downs at Forbes.com, who also thinks that big box behemoth Best Buy is in big trouble and takes a very serious look at the company's issues in
this insightful article
. There is no question that Best Buy has big challenges in today's market. Forget their CEO being run out on a rail for less-than-CEO-like behavior. They have other problems, including that they don't routinely use highly-trained commissioned sales people, while opting for more clerk-level "blue shirts." Their bean counters are jamming on the brakes at a time when they could be growing and taking back market share that has been up for grabs since the housing market went down the toilet in late 2007. More worrying still is the fact that Best Buy sells consumer electronics that are becoming much more like white goods or commodity-driven products, which results in tiny profit margins that allow for more profit from online retailers like Amazon.com than stores with actual brick and mortar overhead. Lastly, Best Buy's own name implies that they are the place to get the best deal, yet anyone with a smart phone and a bar code scanning application can determine that Best Buy could easily be renamed "worst buy," as they charge upwards of $35 for a Blu-ray title (or $50-plus for 3D titles) when these can be had for 20 to 33 percent less locally and at even lower prices from the Internet.
Generation Y customers, the biggest demographic in United States history, love music and media more than any group before them, but they are careful consumers. Student loan debt, under-employment and their overall young age keep them from being big spenders. Even with the frugal nature of today's youth, there is quite a bit of market share out there for the taking. Circuit City is long gone, as are the 33,000 jobs that were lost with the chain. The Good Guys went out of business.
Ultimate Electronics also folded
The demise of national mid-fi and custom installation chain, Tweeter,
has been well documented
. Regional chains like Meyer Emco have vanished, along with countless other, more local outlets. Best Buy, with their noted problems, isn't picking up the slack in the marketplace the way they should with Magnolia AV stores, Magnolia stores inside of Best Buy and Best Buy locations alone. The big winners are the likes of Costco, Wal-Mart and online retailers like Amazon.com. On price, Costco and Wal-Mart are willing to sell flat HDTVs as if they were a $2,995 box of Cheerios. For Amazon.com, they have spent the better part of 20 years earning the goodwill of consumers who now buy freely on the Internet.
I wouldn't argue with you if you wanted to suggest that Best Buy's days are numbered. If they went the way of Circuit City and the others before them, who might fill in the empty hole in the market? Is there no room for specialty AV in the marketplace, or could Magnolia return to its roots and be its own relevant, standalone chain? Amazon.com and other online stores will clearly pick up a good chunk of the market share if/when Best Buy finally tanks out. The interesting question is: could specialty retailers ever grow from the ashes of a Best Buy flameout? Do consumers want the special experience and the sales expertise, and could these upstart dealers offer enough value to consumers to make buying products for a fraction more money make more sense? Apple stores get premium prices for everything that they sell, resulting in very high profit margins, but they also deliver a fantastic user experience. Could a new-growth specialty AV dealer deliver the same value proposition? If/when Best Buy goes the way of the dodo bird, we might get a chance to find out, but it won't be without fallout. The brands currently selling to Best Buy may or may not be ready for this market leader to croak. That's yet another ripple in the pond that has yet to hit and, for many, the ripple will be like a tsunami.
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Meanwhile, in Melrose Cop Shop, Isa was quickly established as the wrangler and Tom from the Mountain Rescue next door took on the duties of Wayfinder; all the properties on the citerior, North side of the Bypass appeared to undamaged, while to the South, the new Eildons had obliterated everything! but Tim , also Mountain Rescue, had already sent a couple of drones up – Eagle 1 and Eagle 2, and the live feed was displayed on two large monitors in the Operation Room; it was hard to make sense of it – it seemed so higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy, tapsell-teerie, and just plain wrong; they all knew what they should be seeing, but apart from a chimney-pot here or there, the appearance of a wall or a roof, on the lower slopes, everything had gone: "can we get a visual on the hilltops?" asked Isa, and Tim, obligingly, sent Eagle 2 up to hover above the second North Hill, and scan the second Mid Hill: "look," said Milly, excitedly: "it's got the Trig Post and the Cairn, it's not just some hills, they are exactly the same as the real ones, the old ones, like they've been cloned, even the sheep-tracks are the same, and the broom!" and she was right; and then Tom pointed to something moving on the Western side of the new Mid Hill: "do you see it? a whole section of the broom slid under the are next to it, it's the entrance to a cave, or Cavern, zoom in on it, Tim," and the image grew on the screen and it really did seem like an entrance to a large Cavern and then . . . . . "Oh My God!" gasped Milly, as two men came into view, one carrying a kind of scroll, which he unrolled and showed to the other – they seemed to be looking at a map and comparing what they could see with what they expected do see from the map; then the first man ripped the map in two and shoved the second, hard, causing him to lose his footing and roll down the steep slope, while the other strode back into the cavern and, almost immediately, the entrance was hidden by the broom which had slid back into place; Tim made Eagle 2 swoop closer to the man who had rolled down the hill – he seemed to have hit his head against a rock and lay motionless, as if was unconscious: "Tom," said Isa, can you and Milly get up there on a Quad, while I call the Air Ambulance? whoever that guy is, and whatever state he's in, we need to bring him here so we can find out what's going on!" and Tom and Milly didn't need any second asking, as they hurried next door to get one of the Quad Bikes: giving Milly a helmet, Tom took the opportunity to say: "hold onto you hat, Kid, this could be a bumpy ride!"
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As many of you may have seen, there have been a spate of posts on social media from a now inactive member of the Jersey Garrison indicating that we will not be attending certain events. Unfortunately, we no longer have access to those pages which were once our public pages, these have now been used misleadingly to suggest that they continue to speak for the team, they do not. We take this matter very seriously.
We are sorry that this has happened and that you, our supporters and fans, have been hurt by this.
But we need your help to rebuild our page so we can keep on supporting local charities, community events and our antics out and about around Jersey.
Please give our new Official Page a Like and a Share, help us help Jersey and keep the magic alive.
The Jersey Garrison is dedicated to supporting Jersey charities and community events, we are proud of our fans and the Jersey community and grateful for their support over the years. We continue to be proud to bring a little bit of a galaxy far, far away to our island and bring a little bit of laughter, for great causes and a great community.
May the Force be with you, always.
Chewie, R2D2 and a Tusken Raider were happy to lend a hand to supporters, Falles Bagot Garage, who are official partners for the "Solo" movie. Not sure it'll make it past light speed but Chewie was impressed with the leg room!
A few members of the Garrison assembled for a photo shoot with Vince Thorne today, which is for a feature in"Sci-Fi Now" magazine, a global publication. This is to promote the "Galaxy Sci-Fi" event in Jersey 22-24th June 2018. Ticket details from the Opera House Jersey or Prestige Events
Tickets have now arrived and are available at Bean Around the World and JSSK, as well as the Jersey Garrison and Premier Brass. Please make sure you choose the showing you want and get the correct ticket!
We are delighted to announce that the Jersey Garrison are once again teaming up with the mighty Jersey Premier Brass for our third Star Wars in Concert. This year we are delighted to announce that we are able having a Saturday matinee as well as and evening concert on Friday. Ticket details for the evening and afternoon shows wil be available soon. Please keep an eye on our usual social media feeds.
The Garrison will be in attendance during this new family friendly music festival. Come say hi and grab a selfie with us. "We'd be honoured if you would join us..."
The Jersey Garrison teamed up with Comic Relief and British Airways this March alongside huge celebrity Vernon Kay! Great fun was had by all, especially R2D2 Jersey!
The Garrison were more than happy to meet lots of new fans at the annual Battle of Flowers Christmas Parade through town.
Thank you so much to all our sponsors and wellwishers who supported the Garrison during the Friends of SCBU 5K walk on September 18th. It's not too late sponsor us, you can do so by clicking on this link and we will update with a total sum raised over the course of the next week.
The Jersey Garrison was set up to bring the ever growing number of Star Wars costuming fans in Jersey together under one umbrella organisation, which closely aligns itself to the code and ethics of the 501st Legion, the largest costuming society in the world.
The Legion is an all-volunteer organisation formed for the express purpose of bringing together costume enthusiasts under a collective identity within which to operate. The Legion seeks to promote interest in Star Wars through the building and wearing of quality costumes, and to facilitate the use of these costumes for Star Wars-related events as well as contributions to the local community through costumed charity and volunteer work.
We operate on a donations basis for attending a variety of events, or if the event is already raising money for a recognised childrens charity, we never charge charities or people that benefit from them.
To date, several charities have benefitted from our fundraising. To date (as at 2018) we have raised nearly £13,000 for Charity as well as bringing the magic of Star Wars to life for countless children you and old, across the Island.
We are also here to help with costuming enquiries if you wish to join the members in our ranks. We adhere to the 501st Costume Reference Library guidelines and have a wealth of knowledge within the Garrison to aid you with building a costume, from the parts to buy to fitting it to your body shape.
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All our wines are made from grapes grown at our wonderful south-facing site in East Sussex. We make 3 different styles of still rosé each reflecting the individuality of the grape varieties we grow. Our labels are inspired by the hedgerows that border the vineyard which contain an abundance of dog roses and rose hips growing wild.
You can order wines directly from us through our online shop here or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 01435 812661.
We can deliver to the UK mainland at a cost of £9.00 for up to 6 bottles. Delivery is free for orders of 6 bottles and over. Local deliveries are free and orders can be collected from the vineyard.
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Around the Tri State Area
- The Yankees beat the Orioles for a third time. Gleyber and Gary have insane numbers vs them.
- CC to the injured list with knee inflammation
- The Mets win their third straight game. A pitchers duel between deGrom and scherzer turned into a route when the nationals bullpen blew it. Lagares and Davis with the big hits.
- Jeff McNeil and Robinson Cano both got sent to the injured list. McNeil with a low-grade quad strain and Cano with hamstring tightness.
- The Jets won't be hiring a search firm/consultant to help them in their general manager search like they did for the previous two GM hires. However, they have told others that television personality and sideline reporter Peter Schrager could be contacted for assistance on prospective candidates.
- The league eliminated the so-called "singleheader rule," meaning that every market will get three games broadcast on Sundays.
- Drake is getting backlash for his courtside antics
- Juwan Howard your new Michigan head coach!
- Tiger playing memorial
The REAL News
- Hand-drawn vehicle inspection sticker doesn't fool police
- Burglar steals cash register, cash and egg rolls from market
- Louisiana woman demanded oral sex at gunpoint, fired shots at man as he fled the apartment
- Fake Papa Johns and Burger Kings are Springing up around the country of Jordan, which is kind of beautiful
- Police in Turkey blast pride parade with water cannons, 'accidentally create rainbow'
- A robot dog just pulled a 3-ton plane
- Teen gets penis stuck in drainpipe and has to be freed with circular saw
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Fantasia Barrino
Label: J Records
7.0 out of 10
By Norman Mayers
Fantasia is arguably the most impressive singer to win the American Idol competition and probably the only winner that didn't need the show. Her gritty vocals are strong enough to garner comparisons to Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige yet original enough to allow her to create her own sound. On her debut, 2004's Free Yourself, Fantasia struggled to balance her R&B roots with her pop stardom. The album was watered down by several pop elements aimed at securing her more mainstream acceptance. On Fantasia, the singer delivers an album that is 100% contemporary soul and the work is better for it. Gone are the cheesy Idol references, replaced by dancefloor anthems, bass heavy midtempo soul, and quality throwback love songs. The result is a solid soul release that will please Fantasia's fan base and appeal to listeners of R&B and dance pop.
Fantasia is most definitely an aggressive album, with many of the best tracks being club banging R&B anthems. The album opener "Hood Boy" featuring Big Boi of Outkast stands along any Beyonce track with its blaring horns and Supremes sample. Many of the album's best cuts follow this template fusing 60s vibes with hip-hop beats. "Baby Makin' Hips" is all cascading percussion and bottom end, fronted by Fantasia's furiously sexy vocal. The beats keep coming on tracks like "Not The Way That I Do" and "I'm Not That Type" with both tracks aiming to secure club diva status to Fantasia. Of the up-tempo tracks one of the most delightful and original is "Bore Me (Yawn)" with its handclapping 60s vibe. The track brims with classic Motown energy and has crossover hit written all over it. Despite all the dance tracks, many of the albums memorable moments are the slower tracks, most notably the midtempo "When I See U", with its pulsing groove, simple piano keys, and assured performance. The song is quite simple yet succeeds because of Fantasia's strong presence, which adds a layer of complexity and emotion to the evocative production. Ballads like "Two Weeks Notice" and "Nominate U" work because of their clever lyrics with the latter equating bedroom prowess to an Oscar nominated performance and the former describing a break-up through the terms of quitting a dead-end job. Some of the tracks are not as dazzling as others but overall the album remains very consistent in quality.
With her second release Fantasia steps further away from her American Idol roots and becomes more of a competitor in the contemporary soul genre. What she ends up with is another solid release that once again validates the genius of the machine that is American Idol.
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A new report on cardiovascular disease in women provides important information for all of us. Read this post
What we need to know about cardiovascular disease
Can you get enough exercise without 'exercising'?
You're not into gyms, exercise classes or personal trainers. You don't want to put on a special set of clothes and take time out for those things. But you're happy to move, especially if you can slot it into your daily routine. The good news is you can largely stay fit by making your days more active. Read this post
Why a house with stairs can be a bonus
How often are older people encouraged to move into a house that has no stairs? Simply because they're older. That mightn't be good advice. Read this post
Exercise or drugs? Where to start in reducing blood pressure?
High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for heart disease, stroke and dementia, so keeping it healthy is vital. But where should you start? Read this post
How to help yourself when you're recovering from injury
Whether you did it in grand style traversing the slopes on your skiing holiday or pulling weeds in the garden, at some stage we all manage to hurt ourselves and need to recover. There are a few basic things we can do to help that along. Read this post
Is the hare or the tortoise better at burning body fat?
The moral of the Aesop fable is that slow and steady wins the race. In recent years though it's been high-intensity intervals that have won all the accolades. But are intervals more effective when it comes to fat loss? Read this post
A cardiologist's formula for keeping a young heart
ABC radio's Amanda Smith recently interviewed American cardiologist Ben Levine who outlined his method for keeping our heart and blood vessels 'young'. A young heart is a supple heart. Read this post
10 commandments of keeping a healthy weight when we're older
Sydney-based fitness writer Michael Jarosky recently wrote an article for the boot camp set using the 10 commandments idea. I've stolen it and rejigged it for middle-aged and older women. Read this post
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Three years ago I wrote a post asking 'Does your bottom look like a pikelet?' The importance of keeping a strong bottom as we get older is one of those messages that can't be reiterated too often. Read this post
You can be 'fit' and still lose muscle
Jane Brody's been a health writer for the New York Times since 1976. At age 77 she does two physical activities a day — alternating between walking, cycling and swimming — plus exercises for her back. But she was recently diagnosed with sarcopenia, i.e. the loss of muscle and strength. Read this post
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Draupadi Loved Arjun, But He Loved Someone Else. 10 Secrets From The Life Of Draupadi That Will Shock You!
According to Mahabharat, Draupadi was the daughter of Drupad, the king of Panchal, and emerged out of a yagya fire. As the wife of five Pandava brothers, she was renowned for her beauty. She reduced her enemies to the ashes after she being insulted by Duryodhan and other Kauravas in front of everybody. This fiery princess bent on vengeance could be compassionate and generous, too.
All the above is popular and known to almost everyone. Today, we bring you some interesting snippets about Draupadi's personal life, which are still a secret to many.
Her personality was one of lightning and thunder. This unforgettable heroine was in no way less than Bheem or Arjun in strength and spirit, valour and virtue. Her story is a saga of suffering and disgrace but she took everything in her stride and vanquished each one of the perpetrators of her humiliation and agony.
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The Violet Vanquisher/
When it comes to building starfighters these days, the stranger the better, as demonstrated here by dark-purple fan Chris Perron. Thanks to LEGO's Nexo Knights series, we have had several new curved elements introduced to the ever growing collection of our favorite plastic pieces. Several newer parts are used throughout this spacecraft, for example the dark purple curved panel elements that work miraculously well as...well...panels on this ship's body. Another great and unique starfighter to showcase here on BrickNerd, and I can't wait to see some more designs from Chris in the future!


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Search Intent
Search Intent. Every page on your website should have a goal. When writing for your website you should know your audience, know their search intent, and match your content with their search intent. This is important because Google has made search intent a big part of its latest algorithm. Google's current algorithm bases search results […]Continue reading


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Chapter 1
Introduction to Revenue Management
Revenue management has been an area of practice for about 25 years, though it has made few inroads to the general management literature or particularly into the accounting and finance arena. This book brings together much of the work on revenue management to date and discusses it from a management and financial analysis perspective. Revenue management should be a part of the focus of any executive; the analysis techniques should be in any financial manager's toolkit.
One common approach to achieving revenue growth is to buy it—that is, via mergers and acquisitions. Indeed, growth by acquisition has been the strategy of a number of major companies. Although acquisition is a valid approach, it is not ...
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