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Cybercriminals will find it "very hard" to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the London 2012 Olympic Games website, according to the Olympic Games CIO.
Gerry Pennell, CIO at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), said: "The advantage is we are mostly about pushing data out.
"We can use a content distribution network, so it is very hard to launch a DDoS on us, because our front end is so dispersed."
Other information security precautions that London 2012 are taking include keeping mission critical systems, such as those dealing with management of athletic performance, separate from any web-facing systems.
Pennell was speaking at the official launch of the London 2012 Technology Operations Centre (TOC), which monitors and controls the IT systems that deliver the results from all the sports events during the Games. It is in the process of running test events and has so far completed 18 out of a total 42 test events.
"Whilst we are not done yet, and there are still tweaks, there have been no fundamental changes to the technology after the test events, about which I'm very pleased," he said.
London 2012 Olympics will cope with cyber attacks, says CIO
Following the completion of the test events, the TOC will be preparing for two technology rehearsals, taking place over three days in March and in May 2012. During these rehearsals, the TOC will experience hundreds of different scenarios, from cyber attacks to physical attacks such as someone unplugging cables and turning off boxes.
Around 450 staff - comprising London 2012 Technology team, staff from major IT partner Atos and other technology partners - have been employed to manage and monitor the IT, and during the Games period, 180 staff will work on each shift to provide a 24/7 service.
Meanwhile, for next year's Games, a number of new technologies will be delivered for the first time. For example, all 26 Olympic sports and five of the Paralympic sports have been added to the Commentator Information System (CIS), which delivers results to commentators and journalists in real-time, and can also be accessed remotely from laptops.
There will also be a number of mobile applications, for platforms including iPhone, Android and Blackberry, which will focus on the delivery of results, and information to help visitors enjoy the Olympic Games experience.


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I've been watching too much Letterman lately, so I've put togther a Top Ten List; Top ten reasons its good to be an Atheist. So bear with me, here we go:
10. We can sleep in on Sundays
9. We don't have to spend an hour out of our weekend sitting on a cramped wooden bench in a stuffy room with about 100 other people
8. We have better sex lives since we can do it outside of marriage and no positions are off limits
7. We can eat and drink whatever the hell we want
6. If someone asks what we yell out in bed, we can just say, "Ask your wife"
5. It's amazing how much you save on gas when you don't have to got church once a week for an hour and then wait in the parking lot another hour to get out.
4. Three words: WE GOT POTTER!
3. Our copies of the bible serve multiple purposes (I've used bibles to prop up the kitchen table, as a coaster, when I'm out of toilet paper, etc.)
2. The money we save by not putting it in the collection plate can go to pimping our rides
1. We're smarter and we tend to be right
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#2 is a huge one. I've heard of people tithing 25%, then talking about investing and money management. If you got back freaking TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT of your income, how much better off would you be in life?
Twenty-five percent better off.
25%? You are forgetting the power of compound interest!
They can keep my money if they give back the valuable time I spent listening (or daydreaming) through all of those boring sermons.
I particularly miss sitting in a crowd of sneezing, coughing, spitting, lunatics who would kick you in the balls if you disagree with ANYTHING. Of particular importance is keeping your mouth shut for an hour while some dink with a high school education tries to give you a prescription for your life when he/she doesn't know the first thing about life. Unfortunately most religious lunatics are so addicted to their groupie life they couldn't kick it if they tried.
Two excellent books entitled "Prisoners of Ritual" and "Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male" will give tremendous insight to those who are still questioning the relative importance of religious bullshit. We still have the "right" to be "left out" of the religious crap that keeps people enslaved to a system of ignorance and strife.
Oh yes, position #6...When a woman stands on her hands and feet, and her lover mounts her. At this time everything that is ordinarily done on the bosom should be done on the back.
How about:
11: Our brains work better because we haven't dulled them with a bunch of 2,000-year-old myths and superstitions.
Just a thought. Oh, and I seriously DIG the Radcliffe quote!
"1. We're smarter and we tend to be right"
When I was in school, we were separated into groups of religion and sent to a class. My atheist parents sent me with a note excluding me from any religious activities. I spent my time in the library reading history and astronomy books. I was the only one in the entire school and I was very very lucky. This was the best thing about growing up as an atheist child.
How could you attend a religious school if your parents were atheists? I attended a christian school but no atheists were allowed?
it was a public school in Australia during the '70's. We were only separated into groups just for religious classes, I think once a week.
Both my daughters attended a Catholic high school (husband's request...) and yet they were not baptized or christened.
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Ramadan: A Holy Month of Self Control and Tranquility
by: Hassina Obaidy on July 23rd, 2012 | 6 Comments »
It's 4:15 a.m. as I get out of my cozy bed, do my daily morning ritual (brush teeth, wash face, etc) and make my way to the kitchen. Opening the refrigerator, I rummage through gallons of milk, containers with leftover foods, fruits, and vegetables trying to figure out what I should eat before starting this auspicious day. Scrambled eggs with bell peppers, mushrooms and toast it is! I finish off with a cup of sheer-chai (milk and tea) and a few glasses of water, so I remain hydrated throughout the day. The time is 4:51 a.m. and Ramadan has begun.
I'm sure many of you know what Ramadan is, but I want to make sure that there are no misconceptions and misunderstandings about this holy month. So here's a little crash course on Ramadan.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the lunar Islamic calendar and is one of the five pillars of Islam. The other four pillars are daily prayers (salah), charity (zakat), pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), and believing in one God and the Prophet Muhammad (shahada). Ramadan, or ramazan is 30 days of fasting, prayer, peace, and self-control. Muslims fast during this month to learn self-control from our daily essentials and a chance to ask for forgiveness.
From dawn to sunset (maghrib), we cannot eat, drink, smoke, or have sex. If we accidentally swallow water, or a piece of food, we can still continue our fast because Allah knows it's unintentional. We cannot gossip, speak in an ill manner, lie to each other, or behave with a negative attitude. If we break any of these rules, our fast breaks for the day. This is a time to repent our sins, become closer to Allah through prayer and dhikr (devoting to remembering God), and give zakat. If we miss a day, we must make it up. We must remain at peace and relaxed, and clear our mind from negative thoughts.
Living in the United States, we are always on the run and we need to fuel ourselves for energy (especially difficult for a coffee-loving, caffeine addict like me). But this is a good way to learn self control from our needs and desires. We are constantly surrounded by sex, drugs, and violence whether it's in the media, on the streets, or in our own home; it's hard to escape. This is the kind of challenge that God put us in. My mother, and I'm sure many other older Muslims say, "God put us on this earth as a test for our next life."
Ramadan is not about starving ourselves throughout the day. It's a time where we should treat each other compassionately and a time to bring people together. Usama Canon, co-founder of Ta'leef Collective and Islamic speaker once said that during Ramadan, we should invite at least one person, or family to our home for iftar- the breaking of our fast. This shows our respect for others and a sense of community that should always exist within all of us. During iftar, many Muslim families come together and feast on homemade, Middle Eastern, or other ethnic foods. We break our fast with a date because Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) would do the same.
Until about two years ago, I never really understood the purpose of Ramadan. I celebrated Ramadan because I knew I had to and it was the rule. But during one of my many journalism adventures, I realized the true purpose behind it and what it means to me. While I was attending community college, I wrote for the campus newspaper, The Monitor. For my first feature, I wrote about students celebrating Ramadan during the school year and its challenges that came along with it. As I interviewed Muslim students on campus, I was astonished by what they were saying and realized that I wasn't taking it as seriously as I should be. When we fast, we must do it wholeheartedly. We have to constantly remind ourselves the purpose behind this and what it means to us to actually enjoy it and feel this sense of spirituality within us.
For years, I knew that I wasn't the most religious person and I always believed that someday I will live up to the Islamic expectations of praying five times a day, finishing the entire Qur'an, and to not commit any sins, whatever they may be. But the only way I can actually reach these goals is through action, not just thoughts. Ramadan is a life-changing, spiritual time that can transform a person for the better. And I look forward to it every year.


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The Texas Cattle Feeders Association (TCFA), the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and the Livestock Marketing Association of Texas have established the Cattlemen's Disaster Relief Fund. The fund will assist cattlemen affected by wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, as well as similar disasters in other areas of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Even as fires continue to burn, cattle producers are dealing with dead and displaced cattle, destroyed fences and buildings and the loss of their land and livelihood. Estimates are that upwards of 1 million acres have burned and thousands of cattle and other livestock have died or been injured. Similar to the Cattlemen's Hurricane Fund established last year, the groups will use the funds to help cattle producers begin to put their lives back together.
In addition, hay and feed donations are being accepted. Staging areas for donated hay and feed have been established at several locations in the affected areas.
To make a donation, send a tax-deductible check made out to "Cattlemen's Disaster Relief Fund" to 5501 I-40 West, Amarillo, TX 79106. For info on hay donations, contact Burt Rutherford at TCFA at (806) 358-3681. -- Burt Rutherford, TCFA news release


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Location: Amelia County
Campaign: Appomattox Campaign (March-April 1865)
Date(s): April 3 1865
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. George A. Custer [US]; Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee [CS]
Forces Engaged: Brigades
Estimated Casualties: 75 total
Description: Description: Rearguard cavalry action. A brigade of Union cavalry under Col. William Well's (Custer's Division) attacked Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry near Namozine Church on April 3. Confederate Gen. Rufus Barringer was captured nearby. Result(s):
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Delphi's White Collar Workers: Collateral Damage for the Auto Bailout?
Published: Tuesday, 6 Mar 2012 | 11:47 AM ET
Scarborough Capital Management, Inc
President Obama rightfully assumes credit for the auto industry bailout, a political victory that saved 1.5 million jobs and likely prevented another depression. Unfortunately, over 20,000 non-union salaried Delphi workers were left behind, their pensions sacrificed at the altar of forgiveness.
Injustice is rarely assembled in an instant; this did not happen overnight. Delphi was spun off from GM in 1999, and unable to function without its main parts supplier, agreed with the unions to "top off" the hourly workers' pensions should Delphi ever file for bankruptcy, making them whole for any future shortfall.
The salaried, or white collared workers, were not afforded such luxuries, a striking development when Delphi filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and all but stopped making contributions to the pension plan. As the company accelerated layoffs, benefits were paid out earlier than actuarially expected and exacerbated the pension deficit.
Once Delphi emerged from bankruptcy in 2009, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, an independent government agency that insures retirement incomes, terminated the underfunded defined benefit plans for both hourly and salaried personnel. But unlike hourly workers, whose shortfall between PBGC payments and promised benefits were accommodated by a deal struck 10 years earlier, non-union members suffered a 30 to 70 percent haircut, while the health and life insurance benefits of retirees were also discontinued.
Years of bad deals had essentially coagulated to form inequitable distributions. The expedited auto bailout of 2009 saw the government rescue General Motors, who in turn honored its agreement with the unions, albeit with taxpayer funds. Salaried workers had no such arrangement, and even though they worked for the same company, sustained hardships their union brethren were spared.
In retrospect, the president was assailed by his political counterparts in 2009 for his efforts to save the auto industry, as leading Republican figures believed GM should be left to market forces despite the absence of private financing. The notion that white collar pensions could have been subsidized in the face of such vociferous opposition seems unimaginable. It's also worth noting that had GM's deal with the unions been scrapped (it may not have survived normal bankruptcy proceedings), Democratic support would have evaporated.
Throughout it all, the Delphi Salaried Retirement Association (DSRA) believes the government picked the winners and the losers, choosing to indirectly finance union benefits with no regard for salaried workers. One could reach the conclusion that union and non-union members were treated differently by virtue of inaction, the treasury department fearful of setting a costly precedent for other unfunded pension plans.
What we do know for sure is that GM is now the number one automaker in the world and the economy did not collapse as some had feared. That there's a price to pay for everything, and a portion of the bailout's success was exacted from the flesh of Delphi's engineers, secretaries and floor supervisors, collateral damage for the greater good of economic growth.
Lo and behold, GM white and blue collar employees are slated to get $182 and $332 million in bonuses respectively after record 2011 profits. How's that for irony? To suggest that no solution exists would be disingenuous. After all, if the government can save an auto industry that represents three to four percent of the economy, one would think 20,000 workers can receive their full pension.
Ivory Johnson, CFP, ChFC, is the director of financial planning at Scarborough Capital Management, Inc. and has over 20 years of investment experience. Mr. Johnson attended Penn State University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance. He can be followed on www.IvoryJohnson.com.


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Lets do some philosophy now to music
Jan 26, 2015
two new poems by Norman Fischer, at Talisman Magazine.
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On first reading Adorno
Jan 05, 2015
"I can see the necessity for applying a negative dialectic to all religious thought and practice. It's necessary to keep things honest. In order to have some faith, you absolutely have to doubt. You have to wonder whether yesterday's truth still applies today. You have to ask if it does or not. Be willing to tear down today's truth to find something, if anything, behind it. This makes life—and religion—alive."
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Year End Letter 2014
Dec 31, 2014
"It is easy enough to practice generosity and kindness, not to speak act or think in ways that are harmful to and disrespectful of others. This is something I have been committed to for a long time and work on every day. But it is more difficult to know what to do about suffering in the world. Racism, sexism, national and religious hatreds. Terrible social injustice which seems ingrained in the economic and political systems we are living under. Environmental uncertainty and dread. A general sense of hopelessness prevails, underneath our frenetic shopping and doing. We can't ignore this..."
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on stories
Dec 22, 2014
"When you study a koan you make it your own, see it personally - and yet not personally. That is, you have to take it personally and seriously - not see it as abstract or theoretical - and yet the whole point is that you see past yourself and your concerns to deeper realms of existence without, at the same time, ignoring your story, your own human problems that are the occasion for the deeper point to arise. This seems to be the whole trick of zen practice - to stay with your actual experience, your own personal story, and yet to see through it at the same time to something more."
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On the Death of Peter Muryo Matthiessen
May 08, 2014
"I was at sesshin at Mar de Jade in Mexico when I learned of the death of Peter Matthiessen. I knew him as Muryo, Zen priest. Sad. I am sorry I won't see him again. As always you think 'why didn't I call or write or visit that one last time?' Now I can't. But Peter was 86, had had a good full long life, had cancer, was battling with it, knew what was in store for him and was OK with it. So as these things go, he was lucky, and there is nothing to regret.
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"I guess the past is interesting exactly because it's a mystery. Uncovering new facts and new perspectives toward clarifying what will essentially remain unknown (the past) is a quixotic pursuit that is fascinating and compelling—all the more so given that we all instinctively know that the quest for the past is a quest for ourselves."
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McHale's Navy
Mar 14, 2014
"The other day while I was exercising I found a TV channel that was showing 1960's sitcoms. McHales's Navy was on, a show I remember well from the early sixties. Starring Earnest Borgnine, who was famous for his role in the movie Marty, it was one of those light comedies about World War II. Yes, that's right, light comedies about World War II, a genre common in those days. There were several such shows. Their basic promise of all of them was that the War was loonie and lots of fun."
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My Promised Land
Mar 14, 2014
"Read Ari Shavit's My Promised Land, the book about Israel that has been all over the American press in recent months. It's the first book I know of in English - and widely available here (outside of Benny Green's early historical works) - that is brutally honest about Israeli history."
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No halfway measures will do
Feb 07, 2014
"Acting is interesting, very much like practice in that in both cases you have to project yourself imaginatively into your life, be fully committed to the truth of who you are, what you are about, at any moment — be willing to open up your life completely, no halfway measures will do. Ritual is like acting— in fact theater comes from ritual — in which you heighten your presence in order to perform a non-ordinary imaginative act."
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Feb 02, 2014
You don't need a dramatic story of ascent and descent - even a quiet modest life ends in total loss. Awakening is letting go of self and world - that's liberation. Letting go you find something else. Not a new identity, a new self, a new belief system. Something completely different. Letting go itself. I am arguing that Lear does finally let go - but he has to be beaten into it.
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Read the full article from the Portland Tribune here.
Mayor Charlie Hales may try to tap Portland's green-minded voters to get more greenbacks for the city.
Hales teamed with the Oregon Environmental Council to poll Portland voters on a possible "carbon tax" on motor vehicle fuel, electricity and natural gas.
Portland voters were asked in the recent poll whether they'd support a 3 percent tax on their gas and electric bills and a 4.5 cent-per gallon tax on gasoline. That could raise up to $27 million a year for public transportation, improving sidewalks, reducing air pollution and energy efficiency programs.
Carbon taxes are designed to reduce use of gasoline, coal, natural gas and oil by making them more expensive, because burning such fossil fuels is a leading source of carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming.
Environmentalists and economists view carbon taxes as the best available scheme to counter climate change, given lagging political support for a cap and trade system for carbon credits.
But the tax level being analyzed by the city might be more effective at raising extra money for city coffers than causing a noticeable shift in Portlanders' use of fossil fuels.
"It likely wouldn't have a large impact on consumption patterns," says Tom Potiowsky, the former state economist who teaches at Portland State University.
Hales promised to look for new sources of revenue for street and sidewalk projects when he ran for mayor. His spokesman, Dana Haynes, says the results of the poll will help determine how hard the mayor pursues the idea.
"If the results come back a resounding 'no,' then he won't go forward with something that doesn't have a chance of passing. But if the results show support for a carbon tax, then he'll start talking to the other elected officials in the building about it," Haynes says, referring to Hales' peers on the City Council.
Potiowsky suggested the tax at the level being discussed by the city might be a way to "test the waters" or introduce a new tax at an acceptable level, "rather than passing a carbon tax that would have a lot of teeth."
The Northwest Economic Research Center at Portland State, directed by Potiowsky, published a study in March analyzing a prospective statewide carbon tax. His team calculated it would require a 27 cent-per gallon increase in gasoline prices, plus equivalent taxes on other fossil fuels to reduce current statewide greenhouse gas emissions 2 percent by 2015. A 55 cent-per gallon increase would lower emissions by an estimated 12.5 percent, PSU economists estimated. They calculated it would take a gas increase of about 94 cents a gallon to achieve the state goal of cutting greenhouse emissions to 10 percent below the 1990 level, by 2020. However, the state wouldn't reach that goal until 2030, 10 years late.
The Oregon Environmental Council paid for the poll, Haynes says.
"There's a national discussion going on about ways to reduce carbon emissions," says Jana Gastellum, the OEC's climate protection program director. "Economists agree the best way is to increase the cost of carbon."
Polling was conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates. Pollsters asked voters to respond to a prospective ballot title, which is the measure description that would appear first on the ballot. Similar polls are routinely used to gauge support for statewide ballot measures.
Haynes says public hearings will be held on the idea if Hales decides to pursue it. No election date has been set.
State clean air fee
The idea of a carbon tax is gaining favor in Oregon since PSU's study was released, and based on favorable early results of British Columbia's carbon tax. The PSU study concluded that a state carbon tax would also help diversify the state's revenue base, perhaps providing more money for public schools and other services.
A bill to create a statewide carbon tax, supported by the Oregon Environmental Council, failed in the 2013 legislative session. But lawmakers approved Senate Bill 306, which requires the state Legislative Revenue Office to prepare a report for legislative committees by December that evaluates how a "clean air fee" would be structured, how it would affect low-income residents, businesses and communities around the state, and its impact on jobs and greenhouse gas emissions.
It's unclear if many Portlanders would drive less with a new 4.5 cent-per gallon tax on gasoline, or use significantly less electricity and gas if rates go up 3 percent. Such increases occur regularly due to market conditions.
For gas prices, consumers are "relatively insensitive to price increases," Potiowsky says. However, sometimes when prices reach a certain high level, people are more open to changing their behavior, he says.
Reporter Jim Redden contributed to this story.


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Release Date: August 29, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A small molecule developed at Yale University to limit damage done by ischemia – restricted blood flow – during heart attacks or surgery has been shown to reduce by 40 percent the amount of heart muscle damaged by myocardial infarction in animal studies by University at Buffalo pharmacologists.
Published last month in Circulation and online in June, the translational medicine research conducted by the UB-Yale team signals a new approach to limiting ischemic injury and possibly reducing the severity of heart attacks in the elderly.
The team has been collaborating since 2007, when Ji Li, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was on the faculty in Yale's Department of Medicine.
Together with Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, of Yale, who led the current study, the UB-Yale team had previously published in Nature that the regulatory protein, MIF, (migration inhibitory factor) activated AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) to initiate a key cardioprotective pathway in the heart. The Nature study, performed in the laboratory of Yale professor of cardiology Lawrence H. Young, demonstrated that this signaling cascade was under genetic control and could be pharmacologically targeted for ameliorating the severity of ischemic heart disease.
In 2010, the UB-Yale team also published work that MIF action decreases in aging, hypothesizing that aging is associated with a decline in the ability of the heart to activate the MIF-AMPK signaling cascade in response to ischemia.
"That work showed us why myocardial infarction is so common in the elderly, after age 70," Li explains. "Myocardial infarction occurs most commonly in this population."
The UB and Yale researchers continued their work when Yale chemists led by William L. Jorgenson, identified a small molecule, MIF20, that was shown by the Bucala group to increase MIF action through its receptor. Yale has filed patent applications on small molecule MIF modulators to facilitate their pharmacologic development.
"We can't easily increase the level of protein in the elderly, but we can use this molecule to enhance AMPK activation," Li says. He explains that the small molecule, MIF20, acts to increase the binding between MIF and its cardiac receptor to optimally activate the cardioprotective pathway.
Li's group performed the key animal studies to demonstrate the utility of the small molecules discovered by the Yale researchers.
"Our data clearly show that in mice treated with MIF20, there was a 40 percent reduction in dead myocardium when compared to mice that hadn't been treated," he says.
The research shows that the small-molecular MIF agonists may offer a novel approach in selected clinical settings to compensate for age-related or genetic deficiencies in the way that the AMPK responds to ischemic injury, the researchers conclude.
"These pharmacological interventions that restore MIF-AMPK signaling in the aged heart may be a useful means to reduce cardiac damage caused by ischemic injury in older individuals," says Li.
The next step will be to replicate the findings in larger mammals.
UB co-authors on the paper, all of whom worked in Li's lab, include Jingying Wang, PhD, Chao Tong, PhD, Changxing Ma, PhD, Xiaoyan Yan, PhD and Eddie Yeung. In addition to Jorgenson and Bucala, Yale co-authors are Lawrence H. Young, MD, Sunilkumar Gandavadi, PhD, Alissa A. Hare, PhD, Xin Du, MD, Lin Leng, PhD; other co-authors are Yibang Chen, PhD, and Huabao Xiong, MD, PhD, of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
The research was funded by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the Brookdale Foundation.
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President Barack Obama sought to undermine Mitt Romney's key rationale for his presidential candidacy, sharply attacking his Republican challenger's background as a venture capitalist and arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House.
"His main calling card for why he thinks he should be president," Obama declared Monday, "is his business experience."
It was Obama's most expansive argument yet against Romney, and the president delivered it from a world stage in his home town.
On the sidelines of an international summit in Chicago, the Democratic incumbent attempted to dismantle his Republican rival's business pedigree while declaring it an insufficient rationale to lead the nation. In so doing, Obama left no doubt that Romney's business background as founder of Bain Capital, perceived by many as a political strength during a weak economy, would be a recurrent target of his campaign.
Romney responded swiftly, saying Obama was attacking the free-enterprise system. He made it clear that the issue would remain a point of contention for the remainder of the race.
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Obama made the comments in response to a question about Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker's weekend criticism of the Obama campaign's attack on Romney's private equity background. Booker, an Obama supporter, called exchanges by the campaigns over Bain "nauseating" and a distraction from issues that interest voters.
"This is not a distraction," Obama said pointedly at a news conference filled with international media that marked the end of a NATO gathering. "This is what this campaign is going to be about."
Obama argued that the priority of private equity enterprises such as Bain's is "to maximize profits."
"And that's not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers," he said.
Obama's comments came as his campaign has been doubling down on Romney's tenure at Bain, a private equity firm he helped found in 1984. In ads and in web videos, the campaign has drawn attention to companies that Bain took over only to close them or let them fail, costing jobs and hurting communities. Obama also has dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to battleground states — and specifically economically struggling areas filled with white blue-collar voters — to assail Romney on the matter.
The president on Monday was careful not to criticize private equity or profit making in general. But by standing by the Bain criticism, Obama also risked feeding a story line that he is anti-business and eager to restrain and tax the private sector in pursuit of his vision of fairness.
The line of attack illustrates Obama's complicated relationship with the business community. He has used populist language to attack Wall Street executive and bankers as "fat cats," and called for an end to tax subsidies of oil and gas companies, but he also expanded the government's rescue of the auto industry and has promoted tax breaks for small businesses.
While some of his Wall Street support has waned, he still draws a significant amount of campaign contributions from major investors, retaining a good relationship with, among others, billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
At the news conference, Obama acknowledged that businesses that seek to turn a profit by investing in struggling companies often succeed in creating new jobs and new industries — an argument Romney himself has made in pointing to his accomplishments at Bain.
"When you're president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm," he added, "then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot."
Romney's campaign has welcomed the election-year debate on jobs, arguing that the former Massachusetts governor generated tens of thousands of jobs in the public and private sector.
"President Obama confirmed today that he will continue his attacks on the free enterprise system, which Mayor Booker and other leading Democrats have spoken out against," Romney said in response. "What this election is about is the 23 million Americans who are still struggling to find work and the millions who have lost their homes and have fallen into poverty. President Obama refuses to accept moral responsibility for his failed policies. My campaign is offering a positive agenda to help America get back to work."
The back and forth illustrates how both sides recognize that the economy is an Obama vulnerability.
While the economy has begun to recover under his presidency, the turnabout has been slow and marked by high unemployment that remains above 8 percent. For Obama, his challenge is persuading voters to stick with him as he tries to help the economy rebound while withstanding criticism from Romney that the president's policies have hindered the recovery.
"The idea that people are walking around with less of a paycheck or higher gas prices because of something Bain Capital did 20 years ago is absurd," said Romney senior aide Stuart Stevens
But in the days since Obama put Bain back in focus, Romney has struggled to follow a consistent playbook for what's become a sustained attack on multiple fronts. The campaign at times dismisses the criticism as a distraction, other times as an attack on free markets, and still others as an attempt to divide the nation.
Asked about Bain's closure of a Kansas City steel plant that the company acquired in 1993 when Romney was Bain's CEO, Romney last week told a conservative radio host that it wasn't his problem: "Their problem, of course, is that the steel factory closed down two years after I left Bain Capital. I was no longer there. So that's hardly something which is on my watch," he said.


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World media did not talk about it, but France was recently shaken by another polemic about the Islamic veil. A woman was caught driving while wearing a veil almost completely hiding her face and fined – rightly so, in my opinion – for dangerous driving. The government, who had just lost the regional elections by the largest margin ever, escalated, threatened to revoke the woman's husband's citizenship because because he had several wives, then, discovering it was not legally possible announced it would vote a law to make it so, retroactively. The whole thing degenerated into political bickering out of which, we can be pretty sure, nothing will come out. This polemic may sound quite absurd, especially in a time when most governments in Europe are struggling to avoid bankruptcy. In many way it is. It highlights, however, an important aspect of the energy descent : migration, culture shift, and the reaction of locals to both.
Many authors have predicted the energy descent will result in mass migrations, leading to large scale population replacement. John Michael Greer has thus stated he considered an Arab conquest of Europe a distinct possibility, and his e-novel Star' Reach describes the Old World as the place "where the Arabs live now". There is certainly an American bias here. America experienced a large scale population replacement in the last three centuries, with natives being progressively swamped out by immigrants from the other side of the sea. This hasn't happened in Europe for five millenniums.
Of course, there have been a lot of invasions and culture shifts, but the population has remained the same as it was during the neolithic. In the area I live, people first spoke some kind of pre-indoeuropean language, then shifted to Celtic, then to Latin, then to another brand of Celtic, then to a romance local dialect, then to standard French. They will probably shift to something else at some point of the future. Most of them, however, directly descend from the mesolithic hunter-gatherers who claimed this land after the end of the last ice age.
The invasions which marked the end of the Western Roman Empire have had a surprisingly small impact. Germanic warlords seized political power and set up often short-lived kingdoms but they and their men were too few in number to really influence the genetic make up of the population or do more than introduce a few specialized loanwords in their language. As a rule, immigrants, even high-status sword wielding immigrants, quickly assimilate, not because they have a moral obligation to do so but because it is the best way to advance in society. Of course, in the long run, it means forsaking the web of ethnic solidarity which helped them to survive when they first arrived, but most of the time it is a price worth paying.
There are exceptions, however. Transplanted peasant communities, settling en masse on a relatively virgin land can resist assimilation a very long time, even if they are completely surrounded by natives. This is what happened to the Arvanites of Greece or to the, now gone, German speaking populations of Russia or Romania. This has, of course, little relevance for the energy descent age.
The second exception – the English – is, however, far more interesting. Far right ideologues and anti-immigrations activists don't like to talk about it, but the English are the one example in reasonably recent history of an immigrant – not conqueror – group who managed to take over their host country. Indeed, when the Roman Empire left – or was expelled from – Britain in 410, the bulk of the population was Christian and spoke Latin or what would become Welsh, Cornish or Breton. Two centuries later Latin was gone as a spoken language, Celtic tongues and Christianity were restricted to the western highlands while the remainder of the country was held by pagan Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, a rather unusual fate, one must say, for a former Roman land.
The traditional interpretation of this rather troublesome turn of event, based upon the contemporary but biased account of Gildas, holds that the soft and decadent Britons were obliged to hire Saxon mercenaries to defend themselves. Those mercenaries revolted, slaughtered the natives and seized their lands. This is a very compelling story, one which fits very well the apocalyptic mindset so common in some sections of the Peak Oil movement. The only problem is that it doesn't fit the facts.
To begin with, many early "Anglo-Saxon" rulers wore unmistakably Celtic names. Most of the battles they fought took place, not on the shores, as would have been expected but on the old tribal borders. It was on these very same tribal borders or around major cities that their earliest settlement were first located. Moreover both British and old English borrowed very little from each other which suggests they had, at least at first, a reasonably equivalent status. Sub-Roman Britons doesn't not seem to have been weak and decadent either : the picture modern archeology reveals is one of powerful tribal militias, fortified hilltops and hundreds of kilometers long defense dikes.
This has led a new generation of searchers, such as Stuart Laycock, to suggest another scenario : after the Romans left, the old British tribes recovered their freedom and fought among themselves. Following late Roman practice they imported Germanic mercenaries they settled in strategic locations, not necessarily because they lacked trained manpower, but because hired swords, not being embroiled in local politics are generally more reliable in the short term.
The end result was that the culture and language of the newcomers prevailed, albeit not necessarily their dynasties. After all, the kings of Wessex, who ultimately unified England had an obvious, even if not very much publicized, Celtic ancestry.
What is particularly interesting for the fate of our own society during the energy descent is that the immigrants, despite being relatively few in numbers, assimilated the natives rather than the other way around. Outright military conquest certainly played a role in this process but certainly not everywhere and certainly not in the West Country. My own guess is that mercenaries Germanic war bands were more open that the British aristocracy. Ambitious but low status youths, such as perhaps Cerdic of Wessex, had therefore every reason to join them, learn their language and worship their gods – after all, if Paris has been worth a mass, Venta Belgarum and Old Sarum may very well have been worth a sacrifice to Woden.
The result was that when rubble stopped bouncing and warlordships coalesced into reasonably sized kingdoms, the ruling elite of what had been the core of Roman Britain had become pagan and Anglo-Saxon speaking, even though a significant part of it was probably of British ancestry.
Could such a thing happen in today's Europe ? If present conditions continue to prevail, certainly not. There is absolutely no way an immigrant culture, associated with poverty and marginality can win over the elite or even the middle class. In fact, immigrants have every incentive to abandon it, with the possible exception of religion, provided it is practiced the European way, that is privately.
Peak energy makes things more complex, however. As the net energy available to society decreases, so will its capacity to support complex hierarchies. We can count on the ruling elites to pressure everyone and his dog to stay at the top, but ultimately they will fall. In the meantime, however, it will be the lower and middle classes which will be hit the hardest. What that means for immigrants is that they will no longer be able, except for a few lucky individuals, to advance in society and will be permanently locked in underclass status. They will then have no reason to abandon the very real advantages of community solidarity for a more and more empty promise of integration.
Impoverished natives may and will then join immigrant culture – or rather what it will have become since it will quickly grow quite different of what it was at home – for protection and some form of advancement. This process is clearly at work in French society, even if it is marginal – racism and scapegoating is still the most common reaction.
As the crisis deepens and the middle class slips into permanent poverty, we may have a rather interesting "culture war" between whatever emerges from urban ghettos and a racism which in France may put on the mask of secularism – those who read French and will have look at this supposedly left wing blog will understand what I mean.
At some point in the process of decline, this is bound to generate a deep fracture in European societies, fracture which may take a territorial form, as it did in Britain, with an immigrant-based cultures prevailing in some areas and more native ones holding on in some others. Islamic polities may very well emerge in some French regions and large parts of Germany may very well become Turkish-speaking after the ultimate collapse of today's European states and of the elites which draw their power from them.
This is not necessarily a bad outcome. These futures societies and polities can become as rich and cultured as England did despite its rather troubled origin. The problem is that this process, probably inevitable at this point, will meet with a lot of resistance from natives, and more specifically from those authorities who will draw their legitimacy from today's polities. Racism and ethnic cleansing are bound to show their ugly head and make the unraveling of our civilization far messier and bloodier than it needs to be.
Ironically, it is the very refusal of the native majority to make place to immigrants and to integrate a part of their culture into their own which make this outcome all the more likely. This means, of course that ethnic regions – the Celtic Fringe for instance, but that is only an example – may be less vulnerable. Whatever polity emerge from them will likely draw its legitimacy from a supposed – even if often more fantasized than real – resistance to the state it is a part today. This may enable them to integrate large section of immigrant culture, as a part of a necessary culture change, without endangering themselves. An emirate of Britanny may exist in the future and, even if I'd prefer a Wiccan democracy, it would be as Breton as today's French region.


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Andrew Delbanco recently attended Sundance Film Festival where he participated in a screening of Ivory Tower, a new documentary on the spiraling costs of higher education and the impact this has on students and their families. The director of the documentary is Andrew Rossi, who rose to prominence thanks to his earlier work Page One: Inside the New York Times. Delbanco is featured quite a bit in the movie which hopefully will have a greater distribution soon. In the meantime, to bone up on the challenges universities and colleges face, please check out College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be.


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Flip the last one?
Second is favorite and as to the bent walls, I just figured it was old and failing.
...I'm a little surprised that nobody on LuLa has complained about the verticals not being vertical.
Maybe, Slobodan. Reads better L-->R?OTOH I like how the original opens L-->R.
The flipped version doesn't work as well as the original, which I like a lot.


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Monday, December 12, 2011
Don't let the pictures fool you...
Before I get into my topic, I want to caption the pictures by letting you know that they are of a new pillow featuring a new block design inspired by this photo.
OK. Here goes.
Decker Challenge. This particular half marathon is considered one of the hardest around and that's primarily because of the hills that surround Decker Lake. I'm not going to lie to you, there have been a few times, especially in the last couple weeks, when I thought about skipping the event. I worried about whether or not I could deal with the hills and the infamous bad weather that has historically accompanied this race.
Those of you familiar with the course out at Decker Lake know that mile 10 features a long, steep hill which is made longer and steeper because it is so late in the race. I got to the hill at mile 10, ran up, and knew that I was about to finish the best race of my life.
I realize that my story is just about a run and that, in the scheme of things, it's not exactly monumental, but I do think there might be a bigger point here. Maybe that point is about not pre-judging a situation and bringing your whole self to an experience? Maybe it's also about how lucky we are to have a given experience and that we never really know whether the next thing we do may be truly magical?
Whatever the "point", whether I know it or not, I hope I bring these ideals along with me to the next race, the next project, the next moment.
22 comments:
- GerryART said...
Most of the race is your state of mind.
Sounds like yesterday was your day.
Not only physically, but your mental state was good for go.
- December 12, 2011 at 2:31:00 PM CST
- Lynn said...
Congratulations on a great race and on having the vision to really enjoy it! I loved your description of your day! May you have many more wonderful eye opening days.
- December 12, 2011 at 2:39:00 PM CST
- Patchwork and Play said...
Great story! Congratulations on your achievement and the spirit to accomplish it! Inspiring!
- December 12, 2011 at 2:44:00 PM CST
- Poppyprint said...
Wow, that sounded fantastic! Thanks for sharing - it's a great lesson.
- December 12, 2011 at 3:57:00 PM CST
- Pat said...
WOW! Congratulations on an amazing race! Thanks for sharing.
- December 12, 2011 at 4:13:00 PM CST
- stitchinpenny said...
Best times were the requirement for the bloggers I read this weekend. All of you had best times and all took the inspiration as a call to do more in some way. Overachievers all of you. Congratulations. I hope that the confidence and insight stay with you.
- December 12, 2011 at 4:40:00 PM CST
- Marty's Fiber Musings said...
Well said.....well done!
- December 12, 2011 at 5:16:00 PM CST
- CaraQuilts said...
Congratulations!! I think you really have described the whole enjoy the journey while on the way to the destination.
Beautiful description! And inspiring commitment to a goal.
- December 12, 2011 at 8:13:00 PM CST
- kelly said...
well done!!! i want to start running, and maybe run a race someday. i'm just scared to start.
- December 12, 2011 at 10:10:00 PM CST
- Mims said...
congratulations on the great run. i really enjoyed hearing about it even though it wasn't about quilting!
- December 12, 2011 at 11:48:00 PM CST
- Esch House Quilts said...
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing such a wonderful story.
- December 13, 2011 at 6:58:00 AM CST
- em's scrapbag said...
Congrats on a great run! Thanks for sharing your story.
Love the pictures you put with it.
- December 13, 2011 at 9:10:00 AM CST
- house on hill road said...
congrats on a pr! that's awesome and inspiring. way to go, malka!
- December 13, 2011 at 1:59:00 PM CST
- Hollie said...
Congrats on your PR! I love it when you hit that sweet spot with a run. Congrats!
- December 13, 2011 at 5:48:00 PM CST
- Shocking Hocking said...
i was looking for the 'like' button! great post - well done to you
- December 14, 2011 at 6:31:00 AM CST
- sybil said...
I LOVE your work. It inspires me so much. I'll go back and read about your run later. :o)
- December 14, 2011 at 3:28:00 PM CST
- Cheryl Arkison said...
That all sounds great! Profound and celebratory.
- December 15, 2011 at 8:44:00 AM CST
- Wendy said...
I am a runner too and I appreciate your inspiration to the rest of us. Thanks and congratulations. Here's hoping our next project will be magical.
- December 15, 2011 at 10:03:00 AM CST
- Sybil said...
ok - so I can't get your drunkard's path blocks off my mind..... :)
Do you freehand cut them? Are they in your book (which is on my Amazon list)?
I think I need to head out to my little house and play with this concept.....I just LOVE it! I'm thinking to use left over Japanese taupe fabrics....
- December 15, 2011 at 2:40:00 PM CST
- Letterpress said...
Congratulations! I remember my running days, and loved that exhilaration of completion. Bravo to you (and lovely illustrations as well!).
Elizabeth E.
- December 17, 2011 at 11:59:00 AM CST
- Lanlizzy said...
Wow, fantastic effort, Congratulation! to be in the moment for any length of time is a difficult thing too do. You have clearly acieved more than just a PB in the race. Thank you for sharing and being an inspiration in more than one way!
- December 27, 2011 at 4:55:00 PM CST
- Rachel said...
I read your blog all of the time and, in fact, did not know that you are a runner - or that you peek around Ravelry - both part of my passion. I don't sew (much) but I love looking at your lovely stuff. Congrats on the run and Happy New Year!
- December 29, 2011 at 8:53:00 PM CST


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This Methi Mushroom Curry curry is sort of a mish-mash of global flavors and things left over in my fridge, but it worked so well, I thought I'd post it for you.
The base for this curry is a lot like a Spanish sofrito– onions, bell peppers and tomatoes. I used canned, pureed tomatoes, but be sure to dice the onions and bell peppers really small. I also had a bunch of methi (fenugreek) leaves crying out to be used, so in they went.
To spice up my Methi Mushroom Curry, I used a mix of garam masala and chipotle chilis in adobo sauce, my favorite Latin American product– its smoky, sizzling-hot richness gives just that hint of added mystery and oomph, I think, to some spicy Indian dishes.
Methi, for those who are not familiar with it, is one of the best greens you can eat for your health. Its pleasant bitterness is said to work wonders for diabetics and in reducing cholesterol levels. The small, oval, dark-green leaves and bitter flavor distantly resemble watercress, although methi is tougher and needs more cooking time to make it reach its full delicious potential.
And delicious it is. One of my favorite ways to eat methi is just to saute and cook it down with onions and potatoes and a few spices. Make sure you caramelize the onions and potatoes with a touch of sugar and you have an ultra-delicious subzi that's perfect with any dal.
This recipe's more of a gravy, though, and there are no potatoes here, although you could certainly add them– they'd be great in here.
Here's the recipe. Enjoy, all!
Methi Mushroom Curry
- 1 bunch methi leaves (about 3 cups chopped). Clean the methi, which is usually quite gritty, by swirling it in a large pot of water 3-4 time. The grit will all fall to the bottom of the pot. Cut off the thick stems and roots and chop the leaves and more tender stems fairly fine (my mom would use only the leaves and remove all the stems, but I like keeping in the smaller stems which cook up very tender).
- 1 bell pepper (I used a yellow pepper I had on hand but feel free to substitute with green or red)
- 1 medium onion , finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic , grated or crushed
- 1 tbsp finely grated ginger'
- 1 8- oz package of button mushrooms , sliced
- 1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce , minced, with 2 tsp of the adobo sauce (Use more or less per your taste-- this much is quite spicy)
- 1 cup crushed tomatoes
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup coconut milk (for a delicious variation, try substituting with 3 tbsp cashew pieces, soaked and ground up with 1/4 cup of water into a fine paste)
- Salt to taste
- Heat the oil in a skillet.
- Add the onions and bell peppers and saute until they start to turn golden brown.
- Add the ginger and garlic and saute for a minute, then add the tomatoes and the methi.
- Let the mixture cook down until the tomato starts to express the oil and is a few shades darker.
- Add the chipotle chili and the mushrooms and 1 cup of water. Cover and let it cook about 10 minutes or until the methi is quite tender.
- Add the coconut milk or cashewnut paste and salt to taste. Turn off the heat.
- Garnish, if you like, with some coriander leaves.
- Serve hot with rice or any Indian flatbread.
Next, try this Easy Mushroom Pepper Stir Fry.


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admin Dining room, 2018-04-14 03:21:50.When you relate a secondhand table with farmhouse dining table, it can be in close relation. Sometimes you find this farmhouse design with weathered effect because it is secondhand. The secondhand effect is good because it can make a unique effect that will be very good to look. You can add more features if you want. Though this is secondhand, but this is very suitable for family use with children or relatives.
admin Bedroom Decoration, 2018-04-13 18:40:23.For the walls of lake house decor, the color scheme should be neutral or nature-hue. Follow the colors that the nature provides and paint your walls using a color that resembles water. Hues like the blue of a robin's egg are considered perfect for lake house interior design. As an alternative, you can give your room a backdrop that is fresh for the remaining design by choosing neutral walls. The focal point of the room or any space you are decorating will be the scenery instead. Colors such as cloud white, latte tan, and stone gray can be your choices as they will not compete with the views that are often seen from a lake house. They will also help to put an emphasis on the outdoors with the highest appeal visually.
admin Bedroom Decoration, 2018-04-12 18:15:20.You may be interested with bringing a little essence of Italian Tuscan countryside into the decor of your house but you lack the budget to make it come true. Tuscan decor has nature and food as its central themes and is therefore one of the easiest and most popular styles that you can replicate. If you add more creativity to the process, it can also be the cheapest. Therefore, you should not worry about lacking budget if you have really dreamed about the decor. It is possible to achieve them without spending a lot of money.Tuscan decor turns nature, food, and wine into art. The theme is easiest to incorporate to the kitchen compared to the other rooms in a home. By using earthy, deep colors similar to the terra cotta, deep reds, browns, yellows, greens, and oranges you will instantly feel the touch of Tuscan design.With further additions of elements of Tuscan style such as iron, copper, aged wood, stone, exposed wood beams, and tile, you will almost feel like you are in Tuscany just from the effects of the Tuscan decor. For the food and wine part, you can throw in wine bottles, olives, and grapes and all of the elements that will make you feel in Tuscany complete.Full of texture is a characteristic of Tuscan decor, and this is especially true for the walls. Venetian plaster is a good choice if you want to give a textured look for your walls. However, it can become expensive if the room you are decorating is large. It will also be quite time consuming.The simplest way to add a bit of texture to the walls for your Tuscan decor is by using regular latex paint with a texture additive. The additive can be bought in different intensities of texture, ranging from light texture to heavy texture. Through the mixing process, you can also control the amount of texture you have. The more additive you use in your mixture, the heavier will the texture be. The mixing process is easy. The additive is usually in a bag and it looks very similar to sand. All you have to do is pour the additive to the paint. Using a separate bucket for the mixing process instead of just pouring the additive to the can of your paint is suggested in order to keep your can of paint from getting ruined should you pour in an excess of additive by accident.Start with only a little of the mixture and as you progress you may want to keep adding a little more until the effect you desire have been achieved. Paint your walls afterwards. A few pieces of wooden beams can be added after the painting process. If you want to incorporate wood but you are looking for something cheap, you can use scrap wood. The best area for the wooden beams is on the ceiling. If you are open to changing your flooring, go for hardwood floors as they are the natural option for Tuscan decor.Laminate flooring that imitates the look of hardwood is the solution to small budgets. Tuscan decor does not require you to spend a lot of money. As long as you choose accessories and pieces of furniture well and they give the Tuscan look and feel that you desire, you are good to go. Old pieces of furniture can also be easily found cheap because they are secondhand and if you go exploring on garage sales you should be able to have great finds. Make use of your inner creativity as much as possible. With the right accents, colors, and accessories, you will feel like you are in your Tuscany only from your own decor. Check out Tuscan décor catalogs for more ideas.
admin Kitchen Design, 2018-04-13 03:35:22.Indeed, you will use kitchen faucet for almost every time you are in the kitchen. Even, you may use it several times every time you are in the kitchen either to cook or just to get relaxed while enjoying your meals. You will use faucet to wash your hands, fruits, or vegetables that you want to cook, including washing the kitchen appliances. You will use faucet for high frequency in a day. So, when it is not made from the high quality material and excellent design, you will be disappointed.
admin Bedroom Decoration, 2018-04-12 18:41:02.A large family room which is decorated with western style is also fantastic. The use of western home decor in this family room does not only make the room elegant but also makes the people feel comfortable when they are talking each other. Chic decoration of the family room creates harmony of the family. A soft white sofa faces to the two arm chairs are used to decorate the family room. Another side of the family room is decorated with a brown rectangle wooden table. Some arm chairs are surrounding this table.
admin Interior Design, 2018-04-14 03:31:29.There are many ways that we can do to create the beautiful living room in our house. We can paint the wall with some colors that we like; we also can complete the furniture inside with modern furniture. Talking about the modern furniture, probably you are not strange to hear about acrylic coffee table. Yes, the table which is designed by the transparent material like glass is one of the best ways that we can do to decorate our living space. So, how to decorate your living room with this acrylic coffee table square?Smart Tips in Acrylic Coffee TableMatch with the theme of your room is the first thing that you have to know. If your coffee table is designed in modern concept, acrylic coffee table with modern style will be good idea. We also need to match it with the size of the living room for coffee table we have. Therefore, size of the table must be in good preparation so the concept design of the acrylic table is suitable with interior design of living room that you have.
admin Bedroom Decoration, 2018-04-12 18:15:25.Moroccan architecture and Moroccan decor shows the diverse history of the country through its texture, geometry, and detail. Influenced by a number of religions and cultures, the style can fit both modern and traditional homes. Luxurious, exotic, and rich, the style features colors and shapes that are bold and is the favorite of a lot of interior designers. You can try incorporating Moroccan design elements to your home if you want to bring a bright and warm style to your life.Firstly, you have to get the architectural details from Moroccan traditional architecture that is the result of hundreds of years of influences that are both religious and cultural. Curved doorways and beautiful archways are two elements that you may want to add to your Moroccan decor. If you decide to get the look, try adding the details with paint finishes that are less expensive and less permanent. Simply tape off your design on a canvas, bookshelf, or wall, and paint over them with the color that you have chosen.Privacy is usually kept in mind during the design of traditional Moroccan décor ideas. Therefore, they do not have any backyards or front yards. The homes were instead built around a courtyard on the center, usually decorated with pools or fountains. You can also add comfortable and colorful seating to the courtyard, and any other accessories you feel is appropriate for your Moroccan decor. Most homes will not have the opportunity to have its footprint changed to add a new courtyard on its center. If this is true for you, remember that you can still add Moroccan elements to your outdoor spaces. Colorful pottery, low bench, and fragrant flowers are items that you can add as they are affordable and subtle Moroccan elements.Go for choices of colors that are bold because these are the types of colors that are embraced in traditional Moroccan decor. The color scheme is often reflected upon ocean or desert hues. Seeing brilliant colors dominating the decor with color-washed or neutral background is really common in Moroccan style houses.Paint is not the only way to add color to your house. Colorful rugs and pillows will do as well to your Moroccan decor. Moroccans are the ones behind the most distinct rugs available out there. These rugs were traditionally used as blankets or bedding. The design mainly focuses on geometric and abstract patterns with both neutral and colorful palettes. Getting the vintage rugs can cost you a lot, so you may want to recreate the look instead using a jute or sisal rug, outdoor paint, and tape. The staples of Moroccan decor are plush and upholstered pieces together with furniture that are delicately carved. You can contrast them with chests, coffee tables, side tables, and carved seat bases. It is easy to get these ornaments and add it to your home in order to achieve a Moroccan look.Moroccan fabrics such as gauzy textiles and silks can be utilized as draperies, furniture protectors, or room dividers. To get the textiles, visit your nearest fabric store and pay attention to textiles that are gauzy or intricately patterned and colorful. Mix and match these patterns and colors in order to get a Moroccan decor that is eclectic. These fabrics can always be turned into floor cushion or pillows.Moroccan decor also incorporates tiles that are focused. A lot of Moroccan patterns can be found and retailers of tile. Their bold and classic look will look great in both modern and traditional settings. Try adding some to the floor, fireplace, or a backsplash. Look at pictures to get more Moroccan decoration ideas and get a better understanding of Moroccan design.
admin Dining room, 2018-04-11 18:15:13.Try rustic wall decor for your home if you are eco-conscious and looking for something unique. Recycling can be a lot a more than just simply sorting the newspapers that you have. Homeowners and interior designers bring materials that are once used into houses and give them a new life, and this has increased in trend.The trend itself connects to the current concern over environment which have driven people to create a more sustainable living. People are also now striving for aesthetics that are more about originality rather than perfection. The most well known example of the trend is how reclaimed wood have grown in popularity. Reclaimed wood is abundant and inexpensive while delivering a dose of natural texture. It is also the key component of the look of modern rustic wall decor that has lately became prominent.The idea of adding character to a space by using reclaimed wood as flooring have become accustomed to everyone. However, it can actually transform the feel and look of a room with rustic home décor when applied to cupboard doors and clad walls for rustic wall decor, or to make bedheads and bookshelves. The look will appear authentic and grounded rather than designed and sleek, as it features a hint of the Scandinavian style which is earthy and also the log cabin which is traditional.Designers who are conscious about the environment have been working with reclaimed wood for both commercial and domestic interiors for quite some time. Piet Hein Eek, a Dutch designer, utilizes it to make furniture with an aesthetic of patchwork. He makes chairs and dining tables from woods that are taken from a number of sources and some are only varnished while the others are painted. James plumb, a design team, are famous for its furniture pieces which are assembled using found objects and reclaimed wood. You can look up their furniture if you are interested in rustic wall decor.Oliver Heath is a designer who is known for being the advocate of sustainable architecture. For him, there are a lot of benefits to rustic wall decor. He says that using reclaimed wood to clad a wall adds a sense of creativity, character, and scale. He also says that it brings into a space a warm feeling, and also texture that eyes will quickly relate to. Most of all, the home will be connected to nature. Cladding so much of your walls with wood that it turns to looking like a sauna is not what you want to do. Soaking up a lot of lighting, the wood is best if combined with surfaces that are pale.If you are going for paneling for your rustic wall decor, be sure to use it only as a feature and not on every wall. You should mix between colors and textures. You also have to be patient, as the wood you desire may not be directly found in your first trip for sourcing. The journey also matters because it takes time to achieve something that is unique but at the end everything will be worth the effort. Wood is a material that is long-wearing, and impressively improves as it ages. Every dent and knock that is visible on the wood will tell a story by itself, adding even more uniqueness to the home.You can extend your rustic wall decor with a rustic canopy, which looks especially attractive in master bedrooms. You can look for rustic wall decor ideas online in order to find the best cabin style decor for your home. This kind of home decor can be installed by professional but DIY projects for this decor is also popular.
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Good relationships with gays mean less binge drinking. Here's an unexpected way to keep heterosexual teens from binge drinking and passing out: start a gay-straight alliance in their school. A large study of Canadian teens (it followed over 21,000 of them) showed that schools that had policies or organizations that eased the integration of homosexuals into the student body had fewer problems with alcohol use, such as family troubles, blacking out, and getting into car accidents. This applied to almost all students; oddly, the exception were gay and bisexual boys, who saw little benefit.
Plants send messages on a fungus-net. We tend to think of plants as pretty static (well, aside from the whole "growing" thing), but they actually engage in a lot of chemical communication. They emit volatile compounds that can drive off predators, attract insects that eat what's eating the plant, or warn their fellow plants when they're being eaten. But what happens if the chemicals can't easily spread on the wind? Well, for those cases, the plants send their messages via a fungus-net.
The roots of many plants are associated with soil-dwelling fungi that can extend to the roots of neighboring plants. If a bean plant is attacked by aphids, its neighbors normally start producing compounds that ward off aphid attack. But, if you cut the fungal connections between them, the neighboring plants never gear up their defenses.
Submissive males are really girlie-men (in turkeys, at least). If your early years of schooling occurred in the US, then you undoubtedly did some drawings of a Thanksgiving-time turkey, with a bulging chest and large fan of feathers. That, it turns out, would be the dominant male. There are typically other males in a flock, but the submissive males don't develop many of the characteristics of the head male. Someone's now looked into what's going on at the level of gene expression and found that these submissive males look a bit female. In terms of the genes they express, the smaller males are clearly male, but there were a set of genes that were expressed at levels that are more similar to those seen in females. "Males with less manifestation of sexual dimorphism in phenotype were both demasculinized for male-biased genes, as well as feminized for female-biased genes," the researchers conclude. Lots of small changes seem to add up to a very different appearance.
Dogs find their owners boring. Well, probably not, but they are more likely to yawn at their owners. That's because yawns are socially contagious, meaning that, if we see someone else yawning, we're more likely to do so ourselves. This sort of social contagion appears to have deep evolutionary roots, as yawns can spread among other groups of mammals, including dogs. But dogs tend to bond socially with specific humans, and this apparently influences how easily social contagions can spread. Dogs will yawn along with just about anyone, but do so more often with people they have bonded with.
August is a fine month to kill off all your family members. Here's a happy bit of research: a grand survey of what are termed "family annihilators," or people who attempt to kill off all members of their immediate family. It's generally a male crime, with over 80 percent of the killers having a Y chromosome—but most violent crimes are committed by males, so that's not unexpected. What might be unexpected is that over 20 percent of the murders take place in August, and about half happen on weekends. The authors manage to make sense of that by noting that, in many cases, family problems that include loss of custody of the children trigger the murders. Often, the males only have custody of their kids on weekends and over school holidays, so that's when the killings are possible.


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- The report seems to be concerned with protecting existing businesses rather than encouraging new entrants to markets;
- The report is focused on the needs of business not the needs of the public
- ISP's should see opportunities as well as threats
- DAB – What standard? Report needs to be specific
- Report should recognise that uploading is a majority activity e.g. flickr, facebook
- Consumer rights need to be championed
- tech that is good for consumers
- The public are not CONSUMERS but PARTICIPANTS
- Get people included in conversation, not just businesses
- ISP's should see opportunities as well as threats
- Networks should be key in conversations about DIGITAL INCLUSION
- Producers at grassroots need fast UPLOADS as well as downloads
- Require ISPs to charge proportionally for up and down stream. Don't penalise uploaders by charging them for fast uploads: this effects creative SMEs
- Parity for urban and rural communities in connectivity – support for rural creative and cultural industries who need access to good network infrastructure
- Web on TV especially in areas we can't get networks to
- Pre-empt demand for bandwidth
- is 2Mbps really enough?
- is 2Mbps a minimum, if so what should most of the country expect
- how was the minimum chosen?
- An overview of Birmingham & West Midlands
- Lots of support activity from AWM, 4ip to accessible funds are good
- WM are ahead of the game in terms of funds
- The public support for creative & cultural and digital business in West Midlands attracts further investment (from private sector) and creative talent to the region
- What sort of funds and investment?
- Grants or investments?
- is government looking to support for digital industry? Or creative industry? Or Cultural industries?
- How do we help creativity (not just chasing funding)?
- Government commitment to projects in digital content e.g. Wellness agenda – in establishing digital content, as key purchases of services
- Universities need investment for knowledge transfer and research
- Opportunities for Birmingham and West Midlands:
- Longbridge as another digital cluster
- Attract organisations like building societies who would bring infrastructure investment as well as jobs
- IT businesses and their concerns are part of this discussion too
- Its broken: Start from scratch
- Some ideas for the carrot (encouraging legal behaviour) as well as the stick (policing IP)
- Commitment to alternative models of IP within the discussion
- Education for businesses not just consumers: they need to know opportunities not just threats from digital and its effect on IP
- Copyright laws and rights agencies seem to be already moving ahead based on old models: how do we make them stop?
- Free up old media products: media as culture. If content isn't being used to generate revenue anymore, then it should be freely available
- Some acknowledgment of consumers position not just media companies
- What do artists/producers want? People to consume their products! They don't want their audience to be criminalised
- IP roles need to work for all types of media
Public Service/Broadcast production
- Opportunity for independent producers
- A clearer vision: Producers can't see more than 12 months ahead, so show them there is a longer term strategy and get them to invest time in that
- Independent producers should be more innovative in approach to IP and to co-working with both their peers and their audience
- Clarity is needed as to what Public Service means in a digital age.
- Ad inventory: why is this a problem?
- In a free market new companies should be able to enter the market and sell advertising space
- Concerns over ad inventory contradicts references to ensuring "competitiveness" in the report and seem protectionist
- Ad models need to change: recognise Google as an innovator
- Recognise small producers in these policies
Education & Skills
- Links between industry and education: report asks what there should be – so what should there be?
- Training vs. Education: training has limits education will produce flexible digital media literacy and workers.
- Beyond online tutorials: proper education
- Education for the cultural role of digital media, and for digital citizenship
- Move the debate beyond business and technology
- Open up general debates around role of digital media in society: more away from "facebook rots your brain" (Daily Mail) angle of mainstream media
- Lets not throw away pedagogy it's still education: don't get distracted by the kit
- Meaningful and accessible training for the kit that people have and use
- Birmingham: we need to shout about what we do already.
Skills for delivery of public services and interface with government (?)
- Talks about mechanics of e-government but not about underpinning ideas of citizenship, e-democracy
- Define universal service provision – who for? – how does it work?
- We need a digital media literacy not just the ability to use a computer
- Education policies that work towards wider educational goals, that aren't barriers to other learning.
- Open access to internet in schools and public places NOT locked down
- Government sees www as broadcast: government should open up information and let third parties utilise it
- But we need a conversation about how transparency might work
- Clear REWARD to encourage engagement otherwise people won't be interested
- Access to data encourages innovation and creativity


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