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Costa Rica Itinerary 7 days
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Costa Rica itineraries
To reach most regions you have to start your Costa Rica Itineraries in San Jose, which is the center of public transport. It is often easier to return to San Jose to go visit another region, to try to go directly to it from wherever you are outside of San Jose. Nevertheless, depending on what part of the Costa Rica you are in, there may be local transportation centers to which you can bring there to reach another village in the same region.
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Most Costa Ricans do not have own car. Thus public transport is very good for your itineraries and you can find buses to reach anywhere in Costa Rica. remote villages or small can have one bus service a day, but the key is that you can always get to the place in question. Please note that even though these buses do not seem to have a very strict schedule, it is not. They come on time and leave you even back when you bought your ticket in advance.
The car hire is very common if want a Costa Rica itinerary of 7 days / 6 nights, because a car allows you to reach places that can not be reached by public transport also give you the freedom to travel when you want and where and when you want. Because the buses do not often travel to remote areas, the car lets you learn more in less time. Nevertheless, traveling at night, especially in the mountains, it is very dangerous given the large trucks and narrow roads with many corners in which not see who is coming. We do not suggest that you opt for this option unless absolutely necessary.
The other alternative is to fly
This alternative you can save time if you have the money to pay it and not need a car when you arrive at your destination. If you are traveling to remote areas, flying is better to drive or to spend 8 or 12 hours on the bus to reach your destination. Depending on where you're staying, you can arrange for a private charter flight to more remote airports. Ask at the hostel or hotel where you are staying for more information.
As mention the areas previously for Costa Rica
Cahuita is 30 minutes from Puerto viejo and is so close and you can visit both cahuita beaches are quieter, less crowded. Puerto Viejo is more area but you can find surf beaches like gandoca, grape tip are quieter. The summer of this area is September and October but this area is unchanged during the year, so the months that you are can find good weather, as also in July and August is a small summer in winter throughout Costa Rica, if you find rain, not all day but times.
Bocas del toro not recommended place to add in your Itineraries
As for Bocas del toro you would not recommend it because it would be 2 nights minimum, one to get the other to be there, but once you say that can not happen rental cars and tortuguero Bocas del Toro are about 5 hours As the Pacific, I tell you that the Pacific is very large with many beaches and nice, you can visit the North Pacific where you will enjoy beaches as montezuma or if you want you can go south Pacific and visit Uvita, whale marine park, and if you come this area during that time you can watch whales and dolphins as it is high for viewing season, and if you like you can do it from the heights flying in an ultralight, you can also visit corcovado and also you can enjoy the beaches. If you ask me I recommend area, I would recommend the South Pacific, for the other areas already have planned sounds good but also a high recommend place is sarapiqui for adventure or celestial river near the Arenal Volcano.
A wonderful way to enjoy the nature of this beautiful country.
Starting the route from tortuguero
Starting your itinerary from Tortuguero, where we visit the Tortuguero National Park, canals and Conservation Center sea turtles. We continue on to the Arenal Volcano, where we expect varied excursions. Next stop: Monteverde, to visit the Cloud Forest area and we can make several optional tours. The last point of the trip will be a few days relaxing on the beaches of Manuel Antonio, and for those who want to continue the adventure, can make diving, snorkeling, fishing, jet skis


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some thoughts on hypnotism
Today I want to write about a subject I know bugger all about but which has always fascinated me – hypnotism. The first encounter with it that made an impression on me was as a schoolkid coming home for lunch, as we did every day – our parents were both at work – and catching some of the midday variety show, which regularly featured a bearded and mildly exotic hypnotist who, with nothing more, apparently, than snappings of fingers, intense gazes and a voice of calm command, got ordinary people to crawl on all fours and bark like dogs, or some other form of mild humiliation, to the incredibly complacent amusement of the studio audience – or so it seemed to me.
This was all very flummoxing to my nascent scepticality. Could this really be real? If so, the consequences, it seemed to me, were enormous for a person's autonomy, or sense of self-ownership. More important, could this ever be done to me? My impulse would be to fight such an outrageous invasion of, indeed takeover of, what I held to be more dear to me than anything else – my independence of thought and action.
So I drew two conclusions from these observations. First, that it couldn't be real – that there must be at least some fakery involved. Second, that if it was real, I, if not the entire human population, needed to be protected from such outrages, by law. If we could be made to bark like dogs, why couldn't we be made, by an evil genius, to rip out each others' throats, to murder our loved ones, to fly planes into buildings or to press nuclear buttons? In fact, if this power to control minds was real, no human law could prevent it from being abused. It followed, according to the Law of Wishful Thinking, that this power couldn't be real.
But as life went on, the urgency of this issue receded, though the questions raised were never resolved. A lot of nasty things happened, people ripped each other apart, either physically or psychologically, and people murdered those they loved, and flew planes into buildings and declared wars that slaughtered thousands, but the motives seemed all too clear and basic and perennially human. No evil geniuses needed to be posited. Manipulation might be suspected at times, but of the common and garden type. Hypnosis appeared surplus to requirements, so much that I never really considered it.
The old questions resurfaced on listening to Brian Dunning, of skeptoid.com, presenting a podcast on hypnosis, which provided some interesting historical background, for example that the term 'hypnosis' was coined by an English surgeon, James Braid, in the 1840s. Braid became obsessed with the practice after seeing a stage performance, and worked on utilising it for medical purposes. He even wrote a book about hypnotism which, according to Dunning, still stands up well today.
Dunning also addresses an issue that has always vexed me – that of susceptibility to hypnosis. In the 50s, Stanford University developed a rough measure of susceptibility which they named the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales. Here's Dunning's description:
It's a series of twelve short tests to gauge just how hypnotized you really are, scored on a scale of 0 (not at all) to 12 (completely). They are responses to simple suggestions like immobilization, simple hallucinations, and amnesia. Most people score somewhere in the middle, and nearly everyone passes at least one of the tests. There's even a script you can follow to hypnotize anyone and put them through the scales, with a little bit of practice.
Not only do people score very differently, there's been little progress made in predicting what types of people are most susceptible. Subjects' suppositions about their own susceptibility don't correlate at all with test scores. Supposed predictors like intelligence, creativity, desire to become hypnotized, and imaginativeness also have no correlation. Most likely, you yourself are a decent candidate who will score near the middle of the scale, regardless of whether you think you will or not.
These findings are not reassuring. Maybe it's a male thing (and one of the reasons males are less willing to visit the doctor), but I've always wanted to be, and so felt myself to be, 'in control' of my physical and mental health. For example, I didn't need a doctor to tell me I was creeping up in weight towards obesity, with all the attendant health issues. I realised it myself, took control, reduced my general food intake, introduced an exercise regime, and brought my weight back to normal. Similarly, with issues of getting older, such as the possibility of dementia, I reckon that keeping mentally active, learning new things, firing up new pathways, is the self-help solution, and with hypnotism, the defence is a strong mind and a profound unwillingness to be hoodwinked by any evil geniuses out there. But I'm not silly, and I've always known that I'm at least partially kidding myself, and that I can't fully bullet-proof myself against cancer, dementia, or even mind control. So maybe I should subject myself to the above-mentioned susceptibility scales, and face the facts.
For the susceptible ones, there are certainly medical benefits in the application of hypnosis, in relieving stress, in pain management, and in preparing patients for, and managing them through, surgery. Attempts have made to use hypnotherapy, and to analyse its success, in weight loss programs and in treating addictive behaviour, with mixed results.
But what of that worst-case scenario, where the susceptible are manipulated into performing dastardly deeds? Dunning's conclusions on this seemed reassuring. The susceptible clients certainly reported losing their memory of actions performed under hypnosis, and they certainly did perform those actions, or 'see' things they were commanded to see, but, according to Dunning 'only so long as they were consciously willing to go along.' He ends with a recommendation to try hypnotism, saying 'you can't lose control' and that 'you might just have a really wild ride', two statements that might seem to contradict each other.
But these reassurances were all blown away by Derren Brown's program on hypnotism, one of a series he presented on how the human mind can be made to believe things and do things that aren't always in its best interest. Brown is a thorough-going sceptic and an atheist, and so on the side of the angels. I was primed for a dose of debunking, but, frankly, was left with far more questions than answers. I have to rely on my memory here, but the program began with some references to Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Robert Kennedy in the sixties. Sirhan's lack of remorse over the years has told against him at parole board hearings and the like, but since he bizarrely claims to have no recollection of the act, his lack of remorse would in that sense be consistent. Without going into too much detail about the assassination (conspiracy theories abound), Brown plants in our minds the germ of an idea that this could've been a mind-control event. The rest of the program involves an elaborate set-up in which Brown hypnotises a susceptible subject into 'killing' Stephen Fry, with a gun, while Fry is performing onstage, and the hypnotised subject is in the audience. Fry, who's in on the act, plays dead, and the audience – well, here's where my memory fails me. I seem to remember shock and confusion, but I don't recall any heroes grappling with the gunman, or reacting as the gunman stood up and took aim at Fry. Maybe that's just the behaviour of well-primed security guards. After all, shooting someone when they're onstage, though theatrical, is hardly a real-life scenario. In fact I don't recall it ever having happened.
More importantly – in fact far more importantly – the scenario, if we're to believe it, completely disproves Dunning's claim that you can't be persuaded to do something entirely uncharacteristic when under hypnosis. The young man who 'shoots' Fry seems to be a pleasant, gentle soul. In an after-event interview with Brown, at which Fry is also present, he has no recollection of firing the gun, though he does remember attending the show (if my memory serves me correctly).
I was really shaken by all this. I tried to wriggle out of the conclusions. Obviously the shooter was using a toy gun – or maybe a real gun with blank bullets. Could it be that he wouldn't have gone through with it had it been a real gun? That didn't make sense, really – the gun was in its own case, and looked real enough to me, inexpert though I am (I truly loathe guns). It was no water-pistol or cap-gun. But maybe the whole set-up was a sham? In this and in other Brown shows I found it incredible that subjects could be so easily put into a hypnotised state. In fact 'ludicrous' is the word that springs to mind. There's a part of me – quite a big part in fact – that just wants to dismiss the whole thing as arrant bullshit, a kind of sick joke. How can the human brain, the most complex 1300g entity on the planet, be so easily hijacked?
Well, apparently it can. One has to accept the evidence, however reluctantly. And of course it's not accurate to say that the entire brain is hijacked. Or rather, just as you don't have to have complete control of every aspect of a plane in order to hijack it, you just have to control the pilot, so hypnotism must involve control of some kind of consciousness-controller in the brain. Something like what we describe as 'the self', no less. A big problem, especially when some psychologists, neurologists and philosophers deny the very existence of the self.
But I'll leave an exploration of how hypnotism works from a neurophysiological perspective for another post. I suspect, though, that not much progress has been made in that area. Meanwhile, I'm left with a much greater concern about hypnotism than ever before. As if there wasn't enough to worry about!


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Gene Upshaw, (born Aug. 15, 1945, Robstown, Texas, U.S.—died Aug. 20, 2008, near Lake Tahoe, Calif.), American professional gridiron football player and labour union director. Upshaw was a Hall of Fame offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) before serving as the executive director of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA; 1983–2008).
Upshaw played only one year of high school football, but he earned an athletic scholarship to Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M University–Kingsville) after an impressive tryout for the football team. Following a successful collegiate career, he was chosen by the Raiders in the first round of the 1967 NFL draft. In Oakland, Upshaw formed a dominant left side of the Raiders' offensive line with tackle (and fellow Hall of Fame member) Art Shell, and he was a member of two Super Bowl-winning squads (1977, 1981) and was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection (1968, 1972–77).
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3) Because the Trust serves as what is essentially a "Will replacement" as to the property that the Trust owns, it will avoid probate of the real estate property and the property will pass to the beneficiaries that you designate in the Trust document – without having to go through the long and expensive probate process (as with a revocable living trust, you will specify in the Trust document who you want to receive the property or proceeds upon your death and the successor trustee will be bound to carry out your wishes and make the distributions as you've specified in the Trust). The Nevada Real Estate Trust won't interfere with your other estate planning measures that you may have for your personal assets.
Unlike an LLC or corporation, the Nevada Real Estate Trust is not registered with the secretary of state's office and it has no government registration requirements. As such, you will not have to pay any initial or annual filing fees to the secretary of state or to a resident agent, as you would with an LLC, Corporation or Limited Partnership. This fact alone can save you thousands of dollars over time.
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8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Dear rich people: drastic inequality is bad for everyone, even you.
By Alex Henderson
AlterNet, July 14, 2016
Asher Edelman, the former Wall Street tycoon who was the model for Gordon "Greed Is Good" Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, shocked the financial world earlier this year when he endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. The multi-millionaire explained that when "the average American has not had an increase in pay in over 15 years," it is terrible for the U.S. economy because businesses need more than the top 1% to keep them afloat—they need a strong, robust middle class.
Edelman's assertion was not groundbreaking: President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the same argument 80 years ago during the Great Depression. FDR realized that maintaining a strong middle class and reducing poverty were beneficial for the rich, even if they had to pay higher taxes, because glaring inequality is often synonymous with unrest, violence, instability and upheaval. History bears that out, from the French Revolution to WWII.
Too many Americans—and too many Republican politicians—have not learned the painful lessons of history and cling to the failed ideas of Reaganomics, neoliberalism and trickle-down economics. If they took an honest look around the world, they would realize it's much safer to be rich in social democracies like Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden than in Honduras and other countries where they are surrounded by widespread desperation.
The U.S. is at an economic crossroads: does it move more in the direction of social democracy or continue to decimate its middle class and suffer all of the problems that go with severe inequality?
Below are eight countries where inequality is having violent, painful results.
1. Brazil
Brazil, in some respects, is an economic success story, or was: the Portuguese-speaking country is the largest economy in Latin America and the sixth largest economy in the world, and it won the right to host the Summer Olympics. But that has turned out to be a looming disaster, with the country's police telling tourists they can't protect them.
The growing incomes at the top just never trickled down in Brazil, where the richest 10% control about 44.5% of the country's overall income (according to the Institute of Geography and Statistics), the minimum wage for full-time workers amounts to about $287 a month in U.S. dollars, an illiteracy rate of 9% remains (according to the CIA World Factbook), and favelas (shantytown slums) are plentiful in Rio de Janeiro and other major cities. While life is hard and terrible for the poor, the rich are also affected by the country's extreme inequality; kidnapping is common and millionaires and billionaires typically hire armed bodyguards and ride in bullet-proof vehicles in order to avoid being abducted. In fact, some plastic surgeons in Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo earn a very good living restoring the appearances of rich Brazilians who have been mutilated by kidnappers.
The Mexico City-based Center for Public Security and Criminal Justice reported that in 2015, the murder rates in Brazilian cities included around 60 per 100,000 residents in Fortaleza, Natal and Salvador. According to the U.N., Brazil had an overall homicide rate of 25.2 per 100,000 residents in 2012.
2. The Philippines
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines' new right-wing president, campaigned on a get-tough-on-crime platform and has vowed to restore the death penalty. Supporters of outsourcing like to pretend that corporations are being benevolent when they open call centers in the Philippines and other developing countries, but there is nothing benevolent about paying the type of slave wages they couldn't get away with in Germany, Switzerland or Denmark. Taking advantage of cheap labor will not encourage true economic development in the Philippines, which, like many developing countries, has an ultra-wealthy 1%, a weak middle class, widespread poverty, and an abundance of violent crime (including kidnappings and carjackings).
The harsh disparity between the haves and have-nots has also led to extremist insurgent movements, ranging from the New People's Army (a Maoist guerrilla organization that has been active since 1969) to Abu Sayyaf (a jihadist/radical Islamist group with ties to Al-Qaeda). The Philippines does not need more low-paying dead-end jobs, sweatshops or a strongman president, it needs real economic development, which it won't get from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
3. Mexico
Mexico is one of the largest economies in Latin America and the 14th largest economy in the world. Neoliberalism, however, has not served Mexico well, and so-called free trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement have encouraged Mexico to be treated as a source of cheap labor rather than encouraging the growth of the country's middle class. NAFTA was not only bad for the U.S., it was also bad for Mexico, as thousands of small farmers unable to compete with giant agribusiness lost their livelihoods. With so many campesinos unable to stay afloat financially, poverty became more widespread in rural Mexico, and drug cartels took full advantage of the desperation by offering illegal work to the poor.
Drug trafficking is nothing new in Mexico, and it has more causes than just inequality, including our own failed drug war. But violence skyrocketed when rival cartels in post-NAFTA Mexico stepped up their battle for turf: Human Rights Watch estimates that over 60,000 people were killed in cartel-related violence in Mexico between 2006 and 2012. Mexico's affluent class lives really well; upscale areas of Mexico City resemble Manhattan's Upper East Side. But way too many of Mexico's poor have little or no hope for a decent life.
4. Guatemala
Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica, all known for having a vibrant middle class, are three of Latin America's economic success stories. The vast majority of Uruguayans are neither ultra-rich nor ultra-poor, they're middle class. That is quite a contrast to Guatemala, which has a long history of extreme inequality as well as some of Latin America's worst crime rates.
When Guatemala is described as the poorest country in Central America, that doesn't mean it is devoid of millionaires or billionaires. Guatemala has an ultra-rich minority that lives very well. What Guatemala lacks is a strong middle class; about 54% of Guatemalans lived in poverty in 2011 (according to the CIA World Factbook), and in 2011, economist Branko Milanovic described Guatemala as the second most unequal country in the world. In 2012, Guatemala had a homicide rate of 39.9 per 100,000 people compared to only 3.1 per 100,000 that year in Chile. In 2013, Mexico's Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice analyzed crime rates and compiled a list of the most dangerous cities in the world: Guatemala City came in at #12.
5. South Africa
Economically, life remains difficult for most people in South Africa, where the homicide rate was 32 per 100,000 people in 2013, according to U.N. data. The apartheid system was an economic cancer in South Africa, and the country is still suffering from apartheid's lingering effects. South Africa's black middle class grew by 78% between 1991 and 1996, yet the country continues to be plagued by brutal income inequality; in 2011, 61% of economic consumption in South Africa came from the top 20% of wage earners. And about 48% of South Africa's population, according to Statistics South Africa, has an income equivalent to about $58 per month.
6. Honduras
Honduras has a reputation as a "business-friendly" country where it is easy to open a call center or a sweatshop. But any corporatist who believes neoliberalism is serving Honduras well should take a close look at the country's crime rates.
In November 2013, a study Jake Johnston and Stephan Lefebvre conducted for the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that income inequality and unemployment in Honduras had increased considerably since a coup in 2009, and it is no coincidence that violent crime has also been soaring in the Central American country. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras had a murder rate of 84 per 100,000 in 2013 compared to less than 0.9 per 100,000 that same year in Italy. In Pedro San Sula, Honduras' second largest city, the homicide rate was 169 per 100,000 in 2012. Gang violence is pandemic in Honduras, which is a textbook example of how badly neoliberal economics can fail in Latin America.
7. Jamaica
In 2015, Charlotta Mellander, a professor of economics at the University of Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, took a look at the relationship between inequality and violence. Mellander, who analyzed U.N. data and 178 different countries, found that the world's most unequal countries, from Mexico to South Africa, also tended to be the most violent.
Jamaica is a country where one finds a strong contrast between the haves and have-nots. According to WorldBank.org, Jamaica's poverty rate decreased by almost 20% in recent decades only to increase by 8% during the Great Recession. The Statistical Institute of Jamaica, in October 2015, reported an overall unemployment rate of 13.5% and a youth unemployment rate of 30.3%, while the CIA World Factbook has reported that 19% of Jamaica's population now lives below the poverty line. According to the U.N., Jamaica's homicide rate reached 45 per 100,000 people in 2015.
8. Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is one of the most unequal countries in the Asia/Pacific Region; while the rich minority prospers, 37% of its population lives on the equivalent of less than $1.25 a day and 60.3% of its population lacks access to safe drinking water. Violent crime is prevalent, and the homicide rates include 66 per 100,000 residents in Lae and 33 per 100,000 residents in the National Capital District.
In recent months, student protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill over corruption allegations have been turning violent, and in June, a Papua New Guinea court issued an injunction barring those protests from college campuses. But in a country where illiteracy is around 37% and about half of the population of the largest city, Port Moresby, live in shantytown slums, violent crime and unrest come as no surprise.
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text: St. Augustine said: "Return to your heart, O you transgressors, and hold fast to him who made you. Stand with him and you shall stand fast. Rest in him and you shall be at rest. Where do you go along these rugged paths? Where are you going?… Why then will you wander farther and farther in these difficult and toilsome ways? There is no rest where you seek it. Seek what you seek; but remember that it is not where you seek it. You seek for a blessed life in the land of death. It is not there. For how can there be a blessed life where life itself is not?"


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We ended up eating two of our meals in Tokyo in department stores. Which isn't nearly as odd or as sad as it sounds; the department stores there are little worlds unto themselves, and very elegant ones at that, complete with a selection of fine and casual dining restaurants on their upper floors, and elaborate food courts/markets in the basements. We had intended to go to one of the latter, but they turned out to be take-away only, which isn't very convenient for visitors in a city with little in the way of public spaces. So we ended up at one of the top-floor restaurants, where we had soba (which comes with a pot of the water they cook the noodles in, for you to mix with the sauce when you're done and make a soup), and tempura of the sort that I searched all of San Mateo for and never found. (Sorry, San Mateo; Japan wins.)
On the way back down, we decided to take the escalators, to see a bit more of the store. It went something like this: women's clothing. . . men's clothing. . . scarves and accessories. . . giant crowd of people mobbing around a bunch of booths with signs we couldn't read. . .
We got off at that floor.
It took a while, but eventually we figured out what was going on. It was a market where the students from various universities were selling the wares they produced in their schools. Which seemed to be largely sake and sochu, proving that, no matter where you go, the basic nature of college students remains constant.
So we fought our way through the teeming mass of people who were teeming, massively, and made a couple of purchases. First, a couple of ice cream treats, in ginger and spinach*. (They told us we had an hour to eat them, which seemed optimistic, until we discovered they have been packed with a chunk of dry ice. Fun for the whole family!) Then, after a break in front of a sochu booth where a somewhat tipsy local wanted to learn about our travel plans, be assured we were having a good time, and exchange business cards (with Cameron; I hadn't brought any), we found a booth that was selling, of all things, Japanese wine. Which was not particularly good, but it was hardly bad, and so unusual that we had to get a bottle.
There was lots more to see, but the claustrophobia was starting to set in, plus we were worried about the ice cream, so we decided to let the rest of the fair remain a mystery, so we went to the store's rooftop garden** to have our treats. I had the ginger.
*The young women who were doing the selling couldn't think of the English for spinach, and attempted to convey the flavor by repeating a word that we eventually figured out was "Popeye."
**Of course it had a rooftop garden.


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I went to a day of sessions last Wednesday at OSCON. Here are the session I went to:
## Shtoom
First, I went to talk by Anthony Baxter about [shtoom](http://divmod.org/projects/shtoom), a SIP stack written in Python. As he explained multiple times, VOIP and SIP are complicated. Which makes writing a complete stack by himself even more amazing. It also shows that Python and other interpreted languages are good enough (and much easier) to write demanding applications.
I definitely agree with his goal of having open source, interoperable VOIP so we can talk to anyone and do what we want. On one hand, we have Skype which is free but proprietary. On the other, we have the hardware phones which use SIP but can be locked down to certain providers and have proprietary extensions.
I saw Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, at the talk.
## Big Databases
The next session I went to was by Josh Berkus and Joe Conway talking about large data warehouses in PostgreSQL. This is exactly what we do at work so the casen studies were quite useful.
The main thing I learned is that we should upgrade to Linux 2.6 and PostgreSQL 8.0 for x86_64. It sounds like there is a big performance advantage.
I am really looking forward to PostgreSQL 8.1 which is going to have advances in table partitioning.
I was hoping for more useful stuff out of the talks I went to after lunch. Especially since I learned later that there were other more interesting talks going on at the same time.
## Subversion
I went to "From CVS to SVN" by Brian Fitzpatrick. He mainly talked about the general issues of managing the migration. He talked about the experiences of some projects, open source and commercial, in doing the migration. I was hoping for more details about the technical aspects. It did inspire me to move forward on getting my workplace to do the migration. And what political issues to work on.
## Perl & Unicode
The next talk was Dan Kogai talking about Perl 5.8 and Unicode. Unfortunately, it was a pretty boring talk. It covered material which I had already gleaned from the documentation. He did show some examples including actual code. At work, we have been suffering doing Unicode with Perl 5.6. Moving to Perl 5.8 sounds like the right solution.
## MapReduce
Then I went to a talk by Doug Cutting talking about doing Scalable Computing with MapReduce. The [Nutch project](http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/), is a search engine based on Lucene, written in Java. They swiped the Gogogle File System and Map Reduce processing ideas to experiment with scalable indexing. I originally though the presentation was going to be by someone from Google. Seeing that an open source project had implemented Google's ideas was just as interesting. I was hoping to see more info on MapReduce but I guess I will have to read the Google papers.
## Rails History
Finally, I went to a talk by the creator of Ruby on Rails talking about Extracting Rails from Basecamp. It was mostly about the history of Rails and lessons learned about promoting and growing a project. I was hoping for more technical details and a little humility about his limited experience. Rails is exploding right now and it was useful to hear how he developed it as his first Ruby and open source project.


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The new Japan Transport Minister Seiji Maehara will summon Japan Airlines CEO Haruka Nishimatsu on Thursday. Nishimatsu will present JAL restructuring plan (again).
Maehara dismiss the expert panel set up by the previous minister so HE can get involved with the restructuring...This is why JAL CEO has to explain the plan over and over again...
According to Nikkei.com
Besides Nishimatsu and other senior officials of JAL, personnel from the Development Bank of Japan and the vice minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism are expected to attend the meeting.
JAL is set to stipulate in the plan that it will lay off some 6,800 group employees between fiscal 2009 and 2011, eliminate a total of 50 domestic and international routes and withdraw its flights from seven airports in the country.
This is the first time I have heard about 50 routes being eliminated. According to JAL website, there are 429 routes (including code sharing ones) in JAL network (cargo + passenger). Eliminating 50 of them is roughly 11.7% of its network. I guess the number (percentage-wise) matches the ones seen in all those rumor reports :(


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Sola Oguntoye: The Blame Game & The NIS Recruitment Fiasco
"About half-dozen people dead, many critically injured."
That summarizes the Nigerian Immigration Service's recruitment event at the National Stadium, Abuja earlier this Month. But that's old news, right? We have new massacres from the Northern Region to titillate our fancies and provide meat for our social media conversations.
What remains is the recrimination, the blames – that spurred myths which are wrong, unhelpful, and even distasteful.
The most popular myths are these:
The Victims Are at Fault For Being Unruly
This is a very popular sentiment, one that even an insensitive government minister had the idiocy quotient to spew out. What could be wrong with this: if those stubborn applicants had behaved in neat and proper fashion, the stampede that led to the deaths would not have happened. Very simple logic; except it's as logical as saying "if only a mango had many small seeds in it, it would taste like an Orange." These applicants are not foreigners or aliens from heaven- they are our brothers and sisters, people who know how to run after a danfo while elbowing out others to get a cheap fare to their destinations, they are the ones who ignore queues at banks and ATMs. We grow up in a culture that ridicules order and dismisses anyone who attempts to follow rules as a fool who wants to be cheated out of his/her due. We denigrate the gentleman, scorn the civilized woman, and press our grievances with violence – our youth have grown up in such a dysfunctional culture, do we then expect them to understand the profit of orderliness?
To complicate matters, less than 5000 positions were advertised while millions of young people applied; immigration officers of various ranks were running scams to benefit those who are connected or those who could pay: playing nice and law-abiding would cost you a golden chance. Would you too, in their shoes, not try to enter the mainbowl to make a chance for yourself – to meet and pay officers who can connect you to the job?
A broken system like ours demands the combative and the rules-disregarding to step up to be rewarded – and the Immigration Service is a typically broken Nigerian institution; a cursory browse through their Facebook page will reveal how ludicrously messed-up they are – self-described immigration officers advertising their employment scams even as many applicants laid dead in the morgue, status updates showing aching mediocrity as simple English sentences could not be composed correctly!
The recruitment efforts of the NIS were so incompetent that even being aware of the population of applicants coming (hence the use of the National Stadium), they could not be bothered to prune down the number of applicants through online-tests (as done by modern organizations) to a manageable size, before a face-to-face assessment. It is probably part of their inability to think outside an outmoded sense and determination not to have a meritocratic recruitment process that ensured they did not see the options available. To top it off, they refused to utilize crowd-control measures that would put some order in the process; instead they used police officers who are untrained in crowd management and would, at the first sign of disorder, start firing (as some reports confirmed) and worsen an easily corrected situation.
They Were Not Forced To Attend – It Was Voluntary
This perception goes something like this: Those applicants were adults, who understood that they had responsibility for their actions and voluntarily entered the stadium. This would make some kind of weak, perverted sense if they were attending a music concert by some overcompensated Pop star. They weren't, they applied for a job, and expected, while applying, that such recruitment would be conducted in a fashion that their lives wouldn't be at risk – for crying out loud, they were not auditioning for an episode of a "Who wants to die" show!
Even risky adventure shows like "Gulder Ultimate Search" where physical risk is clearly implied go to great lengths to ensure the contestants are safe and return whole to their loved ones. The applicants would expect that the Immigration Service would pick safe processes and venues for the recruitment exercise – preferably an air-conditioned Interview room in the Service's Abuja HQ.
But at the end of the day, attending the assessment was voluntary, right?
No! Voluntary suggests you have the choice not to attend and have no adverse effect. But in a nation where 60% live below the poverty line and the young people below the age of 40 make up more than 70% of its population, with a sizable number being officially unemployed, missing a job opportunity is not voluntary, it is a mega-catastrophe. Compound this with the fact that while many graduates with good grades (1st class, distinction etc.) are unemployed, the many without such grades are disqualified from most jobs, so when a job opportunity without such a precondition and job-security arrives, the rush for it would be maddening.
Adding a third layer, the jobs being contested are not just good jobs in the Nigerian context– they are excellent jobs. A job in Nigeria that gives you a uniform and some form of paramilitary training is highly coveted in a society where might is right. Since immigration officers have their posts in airports, seaports, borders where the chance of making money through very corrupt but societally-accepted means to supplement your meagre official pay is extraordinarily high. Pragmatic young Nigerians know these truths, they see the benefit of corruption around them and the impermanence of a conviction (a la Alameseigha), and they know getting into that service is the closest equivalent in Nigeria to winning a lottery jackpot without being politically affiliated. Who would consider this chance, in all good faith, voluntary?!
The alternative is a low-paying, menial and esteem-ruining job that would see your loved ones suffer and wait vainly to reap the fruits of their efforts on you in this country where social mobility is impossible without corruptly gaming the system.
Start A Business Instead of Searching For a White Collar Job
Yes, yes…start a business. These lazy, unimaginative youths who cannot conceive a lucrative idea and turn it into a profitable business. True, our youth must become entrepreneurial, build the next Facebook and stuff, but wait, are we not talking about Nigeria?
Not that Nigeria cannot create the next big thing, the potential is there– just not the way it is now. It's too sick to do anything useful; it cannot even fight for its own life, as Boko Haram keeps confirming.
The way Nigeria is now, means that its educational system which is a stifling piece of archaic, rote-learning scam is oppositional to creative entrepreneurship. Killing individuality is a teaching principle, just like the smothering of spontaneous brilliance and innate genius. The school system is not made to cater to the best of our abilities-the curricular is very limited than it ever was and is getting even thinner; young people are being herded to get certificates, not to develop the magnificent potential in them into greatness. The occasional science fair is to fleetingly tease our imaginations and whatever sharp ideas are shown by the students is discarded immediately after.
The tertiary system is a sad caricature of what can be – scores are, at best, earned by memorizing recycled lecture notes, as opposed to critical, lateral, original thinking. Now, I could go on listing the ills but we all know them, we know only few survive that experience completely: it's like soldiers who return from war with PTSD. The absolute majority of these mentally-scarred youths cannot build businesses, especially in the business-suffocating climate of our dear nation.
If you disagree, try opening a business. Deal with the cost of energy, and of transportation, multiple government taxes (you've paid your state land-use charge, but there is a forgotten, buried tax called tenement rate revived by unscrupulous local government staff for your special pleasure, now pay that!), the logistics (do you think the traffic jams are harmless distractions?), the dearth of qualified, responsible personnel (your accounting may never balance if you try delegating anything serious or money-involving), the opposition to innovation (if you try to bring in an innovative style of business to something old, your competitors will accuse you of 'spoiling market for them' and try their hardest to sabotage you, including using the pay-per-use police force – emphasis on force), and if you are lucky enough to locate the business in a market/mall, well, the unions would force you to either join or close up shop. Contracts are make-believe nonsense that you have no resources to enforce (care to spend N1 million and five years of your life on a N100, 000 24hrs-valid contract in our overburdened courts?).
The whole affair is sad and tragic, not just the NIS recruitment (which is worse than tragic), but the country we are bequeathing our young ones.
Blaming them for the descript-ness we have forced them into is just low, and poorly thought.
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X-Plicit: details of "Like A Snake" unveiled
Sneakout Records & Burning Minds Music Group are glad to announce the details of "Like A Snake", official debut album of Italian hard rockers, X-Plicit. Founded by guitar-player Andrea Lanza after the great feedbacks received with his first studio project, Skill In Veins (which saw a line-up of respected musicians including the likes of Alessandro Del Vecchio, Nik Mazzucconi, Francesco Jovino & Gabriele Gozzi), and influenced by the likes of Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Aerosmith and Badlands, X-Plicit shows the quality and tight musicianship of a smart four-members combo. The band is completed by Sa Talarico (Aeternal Seprium) on bass, Giorgio Annoni (Longobardeath, Homerun) on drums, and frontman Simone Zuccarini (Generation On Dope, Razzle Dazzle, Norimberga, Torque, The Wetdogs).
Andrea Lanza quotes: "I'm very excited about this album. We can't wait to finally present to fans the music included in 'Like A Snake', which is perfect to be played live by this line-up of great friends. The deal with Burning Minds Music Group can be then considered the icing on the cake: I love the passion and knowledge shown by them for this kind of music, it's cool to be part of this brilliant rock 'n' roll family".
"Like A Snake" is set for release on May 24, 2019 via Sneakout Records / Burning Minds Music Group, and is available also a special Ltd. Personalized Edition created by Outward Styles (available exclusively on the label's online shop, Rock Temple). CD cover art have been designed by Silvano Ancellotti, while graphics have been developed by the talented Aeglos Art (Airbound, Raintimes, Michael Kratz, Wheels Of Fire, Alchemy), who included in the booklet some charming photo shoots provided by Davide Giuliani. Completing this captivating package are nice introductory liner notes, written by Sandro Lo Castro (GiornaleMetal.it, Black Night Radio).
Simone Zuccarini: Vocals
Andrea Lanza: Guitars
Sa Talarico: Bass
Giorgio Annoni: Drums
01. Hell Is Open
02. The Great Show
03. You Don't Have To Be Afraid
04. Shake Up Your Life
05. Deep Of My Soul
06. I'm Original
07. Free
08. Angel
09. Don't Close This Bar Tonight
10. Like A Snake
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July 29, 2015
At this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, where 672 young scientists from 88 countries came together, five students from Jacobs University participated. One of them was Amanda Amoah from Ghana, who just completed her M.Sc. in Molecular Life Science, supervised by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Springer. She is particularly interested in the human immune system and in the evasion strategies pathogenic germs develop, to outsmart human defense mechanisms. She aims to contribute to a better understanding of these evasion strategies, which is the prerequisite for developing more effective medications and vaccinations against diseases and infections.
In an interview with the ARD television station, she talks about her research and the differences between Accra and Bremen. Take a look!
In an interview with the ARD television station, she talks about her research and the differences between Accra and Bremen. Take a look!
About the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Once every year, some dozens of Nobel Laureates convene at Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists: undergraduates, PhD students, and post-doc researchers from all over the world. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings foster the exchange among scientists of different generations, cultures, and disciplines. The Meetings focus alternately on physiology and medicine, on physics, and on chemistry – the three natural Nobel Prize disciplines.


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17% of County Voter Roll Exhibits Wrong Addresses
(LAS VEGAS, NV.) – August 5, 2020: The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today released a research brief detailing mail balloting return figures for Clark County, Nevada, during the June 2020 Primary.
Almost 1 in 5 ballots were returned undeliverable by the U.S. Postal Service, according to Clark County figures released to the Foundation this week. A stunning 42 percent of undelivered mail was addressed to "active" registrants.
"These numbers show how vote by mail fails. New proponents of mail balloting don't often understand how it actually works," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said. "States like Oregon and Washington spent many years building their mail voting systems and are notably aggressive with voter list maintenance efforts. Pride in their own systems does not somehow transfer across state lines. Nevada, New York, and others are not and will not be ready for November."
|Undeliverable Addresses by Status
Access the full research brief, here.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation is leading the nation in enforcing election integrity laws and the National Voter Registration Act, having brought cases in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and Maine and filed amicus briefs in litigation across the nation.
Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm dedicated to election integrity. The Foundation exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections. Drawing on numerous experts in the field, PILF seeks to protect the right to vote and preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections.


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ALARIC: Cast Of Punk Veterans To Release Debut LP Via 20 Buck Spin
Featuring alumni of Noothgrush, Enemies, Cross Stitched Eyes, Dead & Gone, UK Subs and more, the members of ALARIC joined forces several years ago, and have existed without much visibility until now. Far from resembling a stew of the band's previous acts in any way, ALARIC resemble more of the late 80's dark post-punk, with elements of Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, Christian Death, Joy Division and Amebix, their plodding songs flowing cohesively as animate entities of their own, yet wholly bearing a sorrowful, pained overtone. The immediately infectious songs and revamped classic/retro nature of the album sets ALARIC's sound apart from any other contemporary act under the banner of punk rock.
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You can now watch my talk about THE鍵KEY at the International Shakuhachi Festival Prague 2021 Symposium
A full programme for the symposium can be found on the festival's website: "Meeting of Worlds: Traditional Instruments and Their Role in Contemporary Composition".
In my talk, "Japanese & Western Art Forms in "THE鍵KEY": an Immersive Opera", I will shed light on why particular instruments were chosen, the results of their combination, and the effect this had on the creative process. I shall also share footage from the Tokyo and London performances.
Talk date: Thursday 9th September 2021, 14:00-14:30 UK time, online/Prague
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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
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Synopsis: The camera follows Justin Bieber (1994- ) during the ten days leading up to his August, 2010, sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Footage of these ten days of concerts, rehearsals, and down time with boyhood friends, his mom, and his entourage is inter-cut with home movies, old photos, and interviews showing a musical prodigy who loves to perform, comes to the attention of an Atlanta agent via YouTube, impresses Usher, and rockets to international stardom soon after his 15th birthday. His manager emphasizes the importance of social media and of Justin's work ethic and personality in making him a star; the camera emphasizes Bieber's look. His mom and grandparents shine.
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Mike LoRusso: Tech & IT Logistics in the Time of Coronavirus
This episode of QuickConversations was recorded on March 30, 2020 in New York City – the current epicenter of the coronavirus. Depending upon when you're listening to this program, the virus' hot spots will likely be somewhere else. But wherever it's traveled to, one thing is for sure: COVID-19 not only represents an acute, sometimes dire health concern, but also an unprecedented impact on our global supply chains as we know them. After all:
- How do you move business-critical high-tech components across borders when you can't move cross-border?
- How do you manage just-in-time deliveries when the airline routes you depend on change – even be cancelled – at any moment?
- And of course, how do you keep your own workforce safe and active during a global pandemic?
Those are just some of the challenges that Mike LoRusso is facing and solving every day. Mike is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Quick Specialty Logistics. He has worked on the financial and logistics management side of the business, so he knows how to keep processes operational during challenging situations – supporting the needs of businesses ranging from the financial services sector to healthcare, high tech, automotive to hospitality and beyond.
Mike took some time today to talk with host, Chris Riback, about how he and his team are working during this crisis - focused on keeping business and life moving, even when it seems the whole world has stopped.
Today is March 30, 2020 – and we're recording this podcast in New York City – the current epicenter of the coronavirus. Depending upon when you're listening to this program, the virus' hot spots will likely be somewhere else. But wherever it's traveled to, one thing is for sure; COVID-19 not only represents an acute, sometimes dire health concern, but also an unprecedented impact on our global supply chains as we know them.
After all:
• How do you move business-critical high tech components across borders when you can't move cross-border?
• How do you manage just-in-time deliveries when the airline routes you depend on can change – even be cancelled – at any moment?
• How do you keep your own workforce safe and active during a global pandemic?
Those are just some of the challenges that Mike LoRusso is facing and solving every day. Mike is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Quick Specialty Logistics. He has worked on the financial and logistics management side of the business, so he knows how to keep processes operational during challenging situations – supporting the needs of businesses ranging from the financial services sector to healthcare, high tech, automotive to hospitality and beyond.
Mike took some time today to share how he and his team do it – keeping business and life moving even when it seems the whole world has stopped. As you will hear from time to time in the background, we caught up with him in Quick's active NY warehouse.
Chris Riback: Mike, thank you for joining me. I really appreciate your time.
Mike LoRusso: Thanks for the invite.
Chris Riback: I hope that you and your family are staying safe and doing as well as possible during these very challenging times.
Mike LoRusso: Thank you. Yes, they are. Hopefully, the same with yours. Everyone's taking those precautions, right?
Chris Riback: Yes. It's 24/7, and we're all doing it. I know for you, you're doing it not only at home but also with Quick and at the office, and that's what I would like to talk with you about today. Tell me about your role. Why is that role front and center during this pandemic?
Mike LoRusso: Well, we have four divisions at Quick International. Two are on the medical side and one is on aircraft on ground, our Sterling division. I run Specialty Logistics, which is a little bit different. There are some similarities in terms of the services we provide, which is next flight out, deferred shipping, chain of custody. We do onboard couriers and charters, but we're not specifically in an aircraft on ground, let's say, or just specifically medical. So if there's something that's kind of outside the box, it would probably roll to my division. I have a team. The managers who work for me are pretty experienced, and they've done some things outside the box and are able to plan and do special projects and move freight differently.
Chris Riback: Yes, I'm sure that they have, and I'm looking forward to getting to talk with you about some of those specifics. At the highest levels, how has your role and how have the roles of the folks on your team changed since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak?
Mike LoRusso: I think things where we may have had some repetitive business, where it was consistent and we kind of knew the destinations where our freight was going to, we knew the lane segments where the pickup and delivery, and if there was any type of connecting flights, we knew those and had them in place. With the environment we're in now, those things are ever changing. Aircraft lift is changing. There's cancellations, not just internationally in certain regions like APAC and Europe. Now we're starting to see that in the US.
Mike LoRusso: So we're a little bit more cognizant of that, and we have to be on our toes because routings can change in an instant. Where we may have had something set on a particular lane with a particular aircraft and it could have been skidded material or it's palletized, and all of a sudden, that aircraft is now downgraded from a wide body to a smaller aircraft. So a 300 plus passenger aircraft is now 120 or 150 passenger aircraft. So that limits the ability to put freight, palletized freight on that aircraft. So we may either have to break down that freight and send it in smaller shipments or find another alternative. So our guys are constantly working that, making sure that we're satisfying our customers based on the destinations that they need to get freight to but finding different ways to move that freight.
Chris Riback: While most of us are working at home, you're actually in the office right now, aren't you? I can hear activity going on back there. Things are moving 24/7 at Quick.
Mike LoRusso: Yes, they are. Not just our office but the other divisions, the medical divisions as well as our aircraft on ground divisions are also 24/7. We have people that are on staff and on site. Where we have the ability to have people work from home, they're doing that, but there's certain logistical needs of our clients that we need to have personnel here at our location... We're at a warehouse location... to support that. So we're very careful about what we're doing, and we can probably get into that a little later, but we do have staff here and we need to have them here to support our client.
Chris Riback: It goes without saying, first of all, the warehouse noise that I'm hearing – keep operations moving. Secondly, if anything comes up and you've got a logistical emergency that you've got to go deal with, you just let me know and we will hit pause and we'll pick the conversation back up. I know that's what you're worrying about 24/7, and what everyone there is worrying about 24/7. Mike, you're a creative guy, I'm sure, by nature. Have you ever had to be as creative as you surely have had to be right now?
Mike LoRusso: You know what, at times we have. 9/11, that comes to mind where we had to be creative in what was happening. We'll have instances just on a particular project that we're working on with a client when something outside the box happens where we have to react to it, we have to put a solution in place, satisfy the customer, advise the customer how we're tackling that situation, and then moving forward. So this is challenging. Having a challenging environment like this is having the personnel who are experienced that can navigate these changes that are consistently happening, and they're able to come up with solutions. It's nice to be able to work with your customer where they may think there's no solution or how are we going to do this, and we're able to come back to them and give them two or three different scenarios on how we're going to accomplish what they need to get accomplished.
Chris Riback: It sounds like those one-off, unbelievable, you're never going to believe what happened with this client stories that might happen... I don't know how often... once a week, once a month, once a year, it's sounding like that's the continual business as usual right now. Like, "Oh, my gosh. You can't believe what we're going to have to try to figure out right now."
Mike LoRusso: Yes, and you know what? In this environment too where we're in a situation where it's not so much a financial issue, it's not so much an issue where there's other reasons why we're not able to move freight a certain way, this is a medical situation where it's impacting human lives and people who are getting sick. Some of the things that we are doing is helping mitigate some of those issues and be able to help our clients to navigate and keep their employees safe. So there's another extra added kind of thought process. It kind of gives us an extra step, and we'll bounce in our step when we're putting these things together, knowing that we have a small impact on helping people that are out there.
Chris Riback: Let's talk about, if we could, geography. I fully imagine that the locations you're focusing on now, they're the areas that have, as of today, been hit the hardest by the pandemic. Tell me what you're seeing geographically and maybe some of the requests that you've been fielding.
Mike LoRusso: Yes, so initially, we were seeing an impact naturally in APAC and China at first. We have freight throughout all our divisions that move in and out of China, also in APAC, Shanghai, Singapore, looking at Hong Kong as well, Malaysia. So we started seeing an impact a couple months ago out of Shanghai when we started seeing that the lift capacity was diminishing and then came to zero where we weren't able to get freight out of Shanghai. We saw capacity and we saw lift moving over to Singapore and Hong Kong and Malaysia. We started seeing our customers in those regions really start pumping out product. Normally, product that would go on cargo aircraft, we were seeing on an expedited basis because they needed to get as much production out the door as possible because they felt eventually they may see what happened in China impact their region.
Mike LoRusso: So we've seen that in APAC. We've seen that slow down where all of a sudden flights were canceling going into Europe, going into now the US. So we had to navigate that. Now, it's come full circle. We see it here in the US. Locally, I'm located in New York, so we are seeing the impact naturally of this virus in New York, being pretty much the epicenter now of where the virus is located and who it's impacting.
Chris Riback: So those realities that you were seeing in Asia just a few months ago, was that almost a canary in the coal mine for you globally? I mean, were you sensing or were maybe your clients and through their behaviors sensing that, "Wait a second. We see what's going on here. We see the impact. We better start doing prep action elsewhere around the globe." How effective were those preparations?
in healthcare, life science, aviation and technology logistics.
In this special episode of QuickConversations we're joined by a guest speaker from our parent company, Kuehne+Nagel: Robert Coyle, Senior Vice President of Pharma & Healthcare Strategy. He joins QuickSTAT's Scott Ohanesian, Senior Vice President Commercial Operations, Clinical Trial Logistics, for a conversation about the pharma/healthcare global supply chain—which has become even more urgent and complex in our global pandemic world. Robert and Scott explore the strategic steps needed to go from clinical trials to the final delivery of drugs into the marketplace. From critical logistics planning to planning for the unexpected, it's a fascinating conversation about this life-changing and life-saving global supply chain.
Mike LoRusso: From IT to FI – global logistics solutions for mission-critical logistics needs
Quick's Senior Vice President of Marketing sat down with host, Chris Riback, to talk about the launch of the QuickConversations podcast. Marie shares how the Quick team of logistics leaders came together to share their stories, solutions and secrets behind making the impossible happen every day – where shipments are always urgent and time-critical.


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Electrocardiogram Screening in Athletes: Athletes who collapse secondary to cardiac causes: typically do so suddenly, may demonstrate seizure activity secondary to ventricular tachycardia, and may have shockable rhythms (either ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation) when an AED is attached.
These are conditions you want to look for on ECG especially if history of sudden syncope (no prodrome of weak, dizzy, diaphoretic).
See below or attached PDF for clearer images (Electrocardiogram Screening in Athletes)
Also See Sport Medicine ECG quiz (Sports Medicine Quiz)
ECG findings in keeping with potential Sudden Cardiac Death:
ECG: ST elevation > 2mm in in V1-3 followed by a negative twave …. athletes with brugada syndrome may require an implantable cardioverter defribillator (ICD).
Figure 1 – ST elevation in V1 and V1 with downslope (www.ecgpedia.org)
Figure 2 – Close-up of downsloping ST elevation in V1
Figure 3 – ECG with Brugada ST changes in V1, V2
ECG: a simple way of estimating whether prolonged QT is long is comparing the QT to the RR interval. If QT is more than half the distance of RR – you have a prolonged QT.
Figure 5- Prolonged QT syndrome close up of lead II
Figure 6 – Prolonged QT syndrome 12-lead ECG
4. Wolff-Parkinson White (WPW) – It is an accessory pathway that allows preexcitation.
ECG: Delta wave – Delta waves are seen as a slow sloped beginning to an R wave. WPW is also associated with a shortened PR interval (<120).
Figure 7- Delta wave (www.ecgpedia.org):
Figure 8 – shortened PR wave and delta waves
5. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) – also known as arrhtymogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Can lead to PVC's and Ventricular tachycardia.
ECG: Epislon wave – wave occurs after QRS complex, and is a sign of ARVD
Figure 9 – ECG: Epislon wave – wave occurs after QRS complex, and is a sign of ARVD
Figure 10 – epsilon waves after QRS interval:
6. Short QT syndrome – Characterized by a shortened QT length. Although there is no consensus on a single QT interval for diagnsosis, a QTc of <330 ms should be diagnostic for males and a QTc of < 340 ms in females. It can lead to atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.
Figure 11 ECG with short qt syndrome:
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I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system. Education is among the most important problems we face, because it's the ultimate "gateway" problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too. So in fact, I started Knewton not just to help fix education but to try to fix just about everything…
Okay, yes, that's crazily ambitious. But we have a vision of how it will happen and a plan to get there. It won't be easy and maybe we won't accomplish all of our goals. But whatever progress we make will be extremely positive.
So if I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: aim big. Go after a giant problem, one of the great problems of our time, a problem that, if solved, would usher in an era of large-scale transformation across industries and nations. It won't be easy. The really BIG PROBLEMS, like education, are big problems for a reason. But there are already too many entrepreneurs and venture capitalists going for the easy and obvious stuff.
The venture capital industry in the United States is the envy of the world, and rightly so. But it's been getting a bit stale of late. As VC ranks have swelled with recently-minted MBAs over the last 10-20 years, venture capital has become more financial and less inspirational. These new VCs are obsessed with de-risking venture investing. Reducing risk, all other things being equal, is obviously a good thing. But they are taking it too far. They focus so much on models and metrics that they have stopped focusing on big ideas and vision.
There are notable exceptions, both among entrepreneurs and investors. Knewton is lucky enough to be working with some of these investors. Our newest investor, Founders Fund, has made it their mission to find companies with these kinds of enormous visions. Take SpaceX. The idea of funding a company whose long-term mission is to colonize the solar system and whose early goals were merely to compete with the Space Shuttle, was something that maybe no other VC would have found appetizing. Today SpaceX represents America's only domestic launch capability and is producing phenomenal revenue.
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
Founders Fund and just a few other funds prove with their actions that they really are looking for entrepreneurs with huge ideas that will change the world for the better. Peter Thiel sums up their philosophy with a wonderful quote: "People do the same old thing because they think it's less risky. We think it's actually riskier to do the same thing as everyone else. It's risky to be a lemming."
It was at Davos last year that Knewton met Founders Fund. They subsequently led a $33m investment alongside education giant Pearson to help us achieve our big vision for education. I'd love to see many more investors, entrepreneurs and big corporations embrace that spirit exemplified by Davos: think big and change the world!
This post originally appeared at the World Economic Forum.


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"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing."
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing." Babylonian Proverb
Welcome to the Hans Weilenmann
Flytier's Page
4945 patterns by 267 tiers, fully illustrated & described.
Lots of Video links to You Tube: Fly Tying.
Click the pictures for the Videos.
My name is David Cammiss and I would like to take this opportunity to share with you my passion for tying fishing flies.
I have singled this fly tyer out because he teachers fly tying on you tube and now on his own web site in a very simple way, discussing the materials has he goes along with an easy going style great for someone just starting out. This is a must site for beginners or someone just wanting to brush up on technique.
One of the crucial parts of the fly is the wip finish; this video is the best I have seen on the net for using the wip finishing tool. The Whip finishing tool is probably the most difficult tool for anyone new to fly tying to learn. The Tool is used to finish off a fly and tie a knot at the head. This way the fly does not unravelled when fly fishing with it. There is a technique to using the whip finish tool, follow the video and practice on a bare hook first!
"I look into... my fly box, and think about all the elements I should consider in choosing the perfect fly: water temperature, what stage of development the bugs are in, what the fish are eating right now. Then I remember what a guide told me: 'Ninety percent of what a trout eats is brown and fuzzy and about five-eighths of an inch long."
-Allison Moir
A good selection of fly tying videos from YouTube bought together, both for the beginner or professional Tier.
I think the Frank Sawyer Pheasant Tail video created quite a stir, the other great fly of Sawyers the Killer Big! I have found a perfect substitute for Chadwicks 477 used in this fly, details below of the person who found it and the testing he did. If interested use the contact form I have ordered some.
Sorry there will be a wait for 477 substitute while I order some more!
An article I found interesting by Phil Anderson
I have little of the original Chadwick's 477 it must be 25 years old and have tried over many years to find some more to no avail. I have sample after sample of yarn that is sold has Chadwick 477 Substitute, but all are too thick and a darker shade. So this article intrigued me have a read.
I have long been intrigued by Frank Sawyer's Killer Bug and the mystique of Chadwick's 477 yarn. I've gone through phases in recent years of buying various
yarns in an attempt to find a good substitute, but then giving up after not succeeding. I bought or was given (thanks Tom!) many different yarns, including most of those discussed on the Internet as being Chadwick's substitutes. The colors, though, were always disappointing when compared to online photos of authentic Chadwick's. But online photos of 477 vary quite a lot in color, and I was never sure exactly what the correct color was.
Then, about a year ago, I stumbled across a card of original Chadwick's 477 and bought it for the princely sum of $5. Sometimes an angler just gets lucky! A lengthier account of this windfall is described here.
In photo, I've worked hard to make the color balance in my photography and on my computer monitor as close as possible to the real item. Your monitor may vary. The most useful photos are those in which both the Chadwick's and substitute yarns are in the same photo. That eliminates potential differences of camera settings, lighting, exposure, etc.
Perhaps the most convincing demonstration of the substitute yarn's color match to Chadwick's 477 is this photo:
Article by Phil Anderson:
Full Information here.


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Windows are a major part of any building let it be home or office and when we think about windows first thing that comes in our mind is curtain or blinds depending on the necessity. Blinds are the best option for the rooms to give a different look and there are lots of patterns and designs of blends. Normally, blinds are used as per the requirement like is it for decorative purpose or for blocking light or to give professional look.
Block out blinds are usually used in conference rooms of an organisation to block the light when there is any kind of presentations. It comes in different size and various designs and colours. If the blind colour matches with the floor and if the light patterns are good then it can definitely turn the room into a fantastic and relaxing experience.
Whether you use curtains or blinds, changing it never takes much effort and at any point of time you can change to alter the look of the room. As the name suggests block out blinds are used in the room where there is need to block light and air. These blinds are really very advantageous because it can be used for decorative purpose and also can be used to block the lights when needed. When it is used in conference rooms, it gives the required professional and standard look, which should be maintained in the office.
Author Bio: Jacob Mackey is a professional interior designer and works as a consultant architect. He has written many blogs related to various topics related to interior designing and block out blinds.


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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Rhino + Grasshopper: Modulation
Tutorial shows how to use a conditional statement to vary the tile patterning on a surface according to a variable such as sun angle. Definition here.
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PLATINUM BOARD AWARD (Work Director Numbers)
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After 0501Z December 15, 2006 contacts must be made in the American 75 Meter Extra band between 3.600 and 3.700 Mhz.
Work 500 Directors Award serial numbers for the Platinum Board Award certificate.
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In re: ONE2ONE Communications — bankruptcy — reversal — Greenaway
A company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Over one creditor's objections, the bankruptcy court confirmed the reorganization plan. The creditor appealed to the district court, which ruled that its appeal was equitably moot. The creditor then appealed to the Third Circuit, urging the court to overrule its prior adoption of the equitable mootness doctrine.
Today, the Third Circuit reversed. The panel could not overrule prior circuit precedent, but the court held that the district court's application of the doctrine was an abuse of discretion.
Joining Greenaway were McKee and Krause. Krause filed a long and thoughtful concurrence urging the en banc court to abolish or at least reform the "legally ungrounded and practically unadministerable" equitable mootness doctrine. Arguing counsel were Courtney Schael for the creditor and Michael Sirota for the debtor.


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In the final poster for Stephen King's sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is confronted by his younger self.
The previous poster released paid homage to The Shining's theatrical posters with the face cutout and vibrant yellow background. In this moody red scheme, which kind of reminds me of the river of blood scene, Danny returns to the Outlook Hotel ready to face his demons.
We'll find out soon next month.
Doctor Sleep opens in theaters on November 8.
Doctor Sleep Official Synopsis:
Doctor Sleep continues the story of Danny Torrance, 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, and newcomer Kyliegh Curran star in the supernatural thriller, directed by Mike Flanagan, from his own screenplay based upon the novel by Stephen King.
Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the "shine." Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.
Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abra'sinnocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before — at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.
Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III, T2 Trainspotting) as Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson (the Mission: Impossible films, The Greatest Showman) as Rose the Hat, and Kyliegh Curran, in her major feature film debut, as Abra. The main ensemble cast also includes Carl Lumbly, ZahnMcClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis.
Trevor Macy and Jon Berg produced the film, with Roy Lee, Scott Lumpkin, Akiva Goldsman, and Kevin McCormick serving as executive producers.
Flanagan's behind-the-scene creative team was led by director of photography Michael Fimognari (The Haunting of Hill House), production designers Maher Ahmad (Get Hard) and Elizabeth Boller (Hush), and costume designer Terry Anderson (Den of Thieves). The music score is composed by The Newton Brothers (The Haunting of Hill House).
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, An Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment Production, A Mike Flanagan Film, Doctor Sleep. Slated for release in North America on November 8, 2019, and globally beginning on October 30, 2019, Doctor Sleep will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.


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4 Music CD Discs & Sleeves PSD Mockup
This is a version of paper pocket CD Sleeve Mockups, this package contains cd sleeves with plastic window and the one with no window, you can choose which one that suits your needs. This cd cover is commonly used for a software cd that contains a single disc. For you who sell your application and software for online, this CD Sleeve Mockups is great to showcase your cover design on your website.


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A member of the mid-'90s cluster of Memphis, TN, rappers affiliated with the extended Three 6 Mafia collective -- Hypnotize Camp Posse, Prophet Posse, Tear da Club up Thugs -- Indo G quickly established himself as one of the city's most talented MCs, examplified with the Juicy "J"/DJ Paul-produced Angel Dust (1998). Yet just as quickly, he found himself ostrocized from the Three 6 camp; without the aid of the Three 6 members and their major-label affiliation with Relativity, his second album, featuring the efforts of the Ghetto Troopers, Live & Learn, appeared to an indifferent audience.
Before hooking up with Juicy "J" and DJ Paul, Indo G had recorded with Lil' Blunt as part of a duo in the mid-'90s.


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Opus88 Jazz Fountain Pen - Transparent colour
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Harga @ IDR 1,875,000
Masterfully engineered to serve both form and function, Opus 88 pens transcend mere communication to reflect the artistry that is the written word.
For over two decades, founder Michael Hsu has personally and painstakingly crafted each pen to exacting standards, selectively building his Opus 88 label for discerning clientèle. Those who recognize the power and beauty of an exquisite writing instrument appreciate his work. Since 1988, as an OEM/ODM supplier, Michael has earned a reputation for excellence. He invite you into the world of Opus 88.
Cap diameter: 15.8mm
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