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NEW GENRES: Domestic Fabulism or Kansas with a Difference
Let's coin a phrase: let's name a certain kind of fiction that creeps and crawls and sometimes does backflips among its respected realistic brethren. Let's call it domestic fabulism. Just the phrase is new, mind you (and it is; I Googled it); the genre itself has been in use for years.
But what is it? William H. Gass (not a fabulist but certainly an alchemist) claims,
"Readers begin by wanting to be anywhere but here, anywhere but Kansas,"
but in domestic fiction we find ourselves back in the noplacelikehome — and yet. It's Kansas with a difference.
To explain further requires some exploration of the terms. Fabulism, often interchangeable with magical realism, I'd suggest incorporates fantastical elements within a realistic setting — distinguishing it from fantasy, in which an entirely created world (with constructed rules and systems) is born. These fantastical elements are often cribbed from myth, fairy tale or folk tale. Strange things happen and characters react by shrugging: animals talk, people fly, the dead get up and walk around. Time operates sideways, nature behaves mysteriously;
fabulism feels like the kind of dream in which you look down and realize reality has forgotten its pants.
And because of these things, fabulism tends toward the exotic, the historical, the once-upon-a-time, the far-flung. Saramago and Rushdie create worlds where the unthinkable has happened; Dinesen reports back from centuries and countries ago, from castles, counts and courtiers; Angela Carter gives us new-old fairy tales from long ago.
But domestic fabulism takes the elements of fabulism — the animals that talk, the weather that wills itself into being, the people who can fly — and pulls them in tight, bringing them home. Domestic fabulism uses elements like a magnifying glass, or rather, a funhouse mirror. It simultaneously distorts and reveals the true nature of the home, the family, the place of belonging or, in many cases, not belonging at all.
The definition of domestic fiction is interesting, is slippery: Google it and you get results like "women's fiction," or "sentimental fiction.'" One must accept, of course, that women are traditionally linked with hearth and home — if absent, that absence is also notable. However, these fictions are, like any insightful writing that involves family, usually anything but sentimental. A.M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven, Paula Bomer's Baby, or Yates' Revolutionary Road all come to mind, not to mention most anything Jonathan Franzen — who I'm guessing would chafe at being called a sentimentalist — has written.
But of course the "sentimental" label springs from the source: the home. Because the home, that square roof and smoking chimney the hero returns to, is women's to keep: the home is where the mother, sister, daughter, wife waits patiently in traditional literature. Women many hundreds of years ago told stories to each other: instruction, warning, entertainment — and mostly male scholars listened in, took those stories, transformed them — and created fairy tales. But of course the domestic is not some special place or province of the woman, not anymore, and certainly not in my definition. In Roald Dahl's books, for example, while the stories are often about family, the children are the focus of the transformation, the domestic magic — in ways that often have nothing at all to do with mothers or sisters or wives, present or absent.
In short, I think of the domestic more as fiction about the family and the home, and how it shapes or transforms us.
This is not a new concept — it started with folk tales and later fairy tales themselves. And indeed, from the start, domestic fabulism vs. what I'll call adventure fabulism were separated. Folk tales gave birth to domestic fabulism — they're about the married couple, the peasants, the simple farmer. They often do not end happily, since they echo and foreshadow real life, and real life was nasty and brutish for medieval women and their families. Fairy tales, the precursor to adventure fabulism, were literary, were written, were about travel and kings and princesses and evil fairies, about far off lands, battles and trials and nearly always (but not guaranteed until Disney) contained a happy ending. Of these two, domestic fabulism is by far the more grim. Adventure fabulism may be deadly serious in subject matter, but it's still escapist by way of abandoning the familiar landscape. In Oz, Dorothy may encounter doubles of her farmhand friends, but she doesn't face the feelings she has, or doesn't, for the rundown Kansas farmhouse and the dreary tornado-torn earth. She may learn valuable lessons, but from magicians! From witches! From lions and tin men and flying monkeys and the magic of Cinemascope!
There is horror and wonder, but it's once upon a time — it's not lurking on our doorstep. We can shut it out.
Domestic fabulism, on the other hand, is immersion, an exploration of self and situation — of the dread that lives and lurks at home, where we cannot escape it. It creates a double existence, an anxiety that ends, if it does, in a sort of forced catharsis — we must confront the thing that lives in our house, in our marriage, in our family, in our town — the succubus that sits on our throats when we dream. Domestic fabulism, it seems to me, is also on the rise. And that makes sense — that in an age beyond the age of exploration, in an age where the exotic has become the familiar — we might once again look to the fabulous in the small minutiae of our daily home lives. We live in an age of dread and anxiety — harm can come to us at any moment; we live in absolute awareness, where domestic stakes are higher than they've ever been. It's a perfect time to turn ourselves inside out by turning the world around us outside in. As Jack Zipes says: "the very act of reading a fairy tale is an uncanny experience in that it separates the reader from the restrictions of reality from the onset and makes the repressed unfamiliar familiar once again."
But how does domestic fabulism operate? How does it create this tension, this deeper exploration of the places and people we are from? Kate Bernheimer refers to something that Dryden called "the fairy way." She adopts this phrase for her use and looks at it something like this:
"The fairy way is a non-representational way; it is a short cut between experience and knowledge."
(Bernheimer makes the distinction between the fabulist and the fairy tale, and of course I agree, but I use her useful writing here on fairy tales since I think the fairy way is largely the fabulist way, or at least a stream running into the same river.) "In his books about the art form of fairy tales," she continues, "my aesthetic and ethical guru Max Luthi extolls the virtues of fairy tales through the techniques by which a dynamic universe is constellated to such a heightened degree that all things inside of the story exist on a plane so grammatically balanced — so symmetrical, so mirror-like to itself — that its contents are sublimated into a vapor of bliss. From this sort of story no reader can escape unchanged back into the world outside of the story, which to the story — and thus to the reader — does not really exist. "
In other words, these stories leave us on the other side of the looking glass — only, in domestic fabulism, Alice never leaves that interior room, the mirror image of her own small universe. And neither do we — trapped, claustrophobic, we must live shoulder to shoulder with the uncanny. Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" is a brilliant example of this sometimes miraculous, sometimes terrifying mirror world, as is Bruno Schultz's The Street of Crocodiles. Blake Butler, in There is No Year, devotes an entire book to the idea of the uncanny copy family. And Kafka's The Metamorphosis might be the most nightmarish example of all, with a narrator trapped in his home, reduced to beetle form and forced to relate to his family as an estranged, alienated stranger. Aliens among us, indeed.
Many domestic fabulists focus on the ironies and horrors of modern domestic life, conveyed flatly through the use of almost deadpan magic or bent reality — think Joy Williams' "Congress," where a lamp with deer feet takes on the job of closest kin, or Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox, where female characters spring off the page and, alarmingly, charmingly, into the middle of a marriage. Matt Bell's Cataclysm Baby reflects the anxieties of modern childrearing through a series of moving stories about otherworldly children and parents. And George Saunders, who seems the king of domestic dystopic fabulism, gives us "Sea Oak," which uses a rotting re-animated corpse to viscerally illustrate the sad breakdown of the American blue-collar home. Furthermore,
Can Xue seems to me in some ways one of the purest inheritors of the Bruno Schultz/Kafka surreal strain, where the uncanny vibrates like a plucked violin string with every story told, every relationship examined, every cat and married couple and home swimming in fantastic uncertainty.
Sometimes Kansas is just that — a city or a town, beyond the scope of just one family. Some domestic fabulists, like Louise Erdrich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mo Yan, or Isabel Allende, hold the mirror up better when it's large enough to reflect back a village. Sometimes the soul of a family is in the soil they stand upon.
Sometimes the domestic crosses rivers and continents with the diaspora, bringing home and family to new lands, redefining the terms. Some of the best new writers are working that angle, bending the immigrant family story through a fabulist lens, like Salvador Plascencia, Porochista Khakpour, and Junot Diaz. Even Karen Russell is writing the domestic fabulist immigrant story in her tale "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," which despite its wild trappings is a story about a longing for family and for a real home.
And perhaps one of the most interesting things happening in domestic fiction is the subversion of that term "women's fiction," of that original domestic space. Joyelle McSweeney writes phantom babies and revolution babies and salamander babies, subverting expectations of motherhood. Aimee Bender takes that traditional women's space, the kitchen, and endows it with power and danger, gives her book a narrator who tastes emotion in food. Molly Gaudry, in We Take Me Apart, plays with fairy tale tropes and stands them on their heads. Kate Bernheimer, the maven of the contemporary fairy tale, reexamines the role of women and their happy-ever-after expectations in her trilogy about the sisters Gold. Sarah Rose Etter's twisted, surreal tales drop koalas from the sky like storms, but not for the sake of just weirding us out. Like all of these tales, they seek to tell us something about family — in Etter's case, it's often about daughters and fathers, flipping the filial sense and yet making it filigree beautiful.
More and more young authors seem to be using fabulism freely in their domestic fiction, probably in part due to the growing distaste for genre snobby and the blurring of firm genre lines.
Perhaps it also reflects the unease of our own unsolid times, surrounded as we are with unwelcome reminders of what we were and will someday be — like in one of Calvino's Eusapia, where the city of the dead so exactly imitates the city of the living that the residents can no longer tell who is living, and who is dead.
Indeed, there's no place like home, but these domestic fabulisms help us mirror home so carefully we're sure to see and shudder at the slowly spreading cracks.
Where to Start: There are way too many books and stories to list here in full — including many of the examples I've given here — but these are a good starting point to get the flavor of the genre in its purest form.
- Bruno Schultz The Streets of Crocodiles
- Kelly Link Magic for Beginners
- Mo Yan The Garlic Ballads
- Blake Butler There is No Year
- Matt Bell Cataclysm Baby
- Kate Bernheimer The Gold Family Tales (trilogy)
- Molly Gaudry We Take Me Apart
- Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox
- Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
- Can Xue Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories


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Scott Ponder, CFP®
Senior Wealth Manager
With over 30 years in the financial service industry as Founder and Principal of Ponder Financial Group, Scott joined SVWA in October 2019 bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to the firm.
Scott was an entrepreneur at an early age with a thriving lawn mowing business at 10. After college, a career in Aerospace exposed him to world travel – an education in and of itself. He began his career as a Wealth Advisor in 1988 with Cigna's financial planning group. Two years later he founded his own firm – Ponder Financial Group. Financial Planning balances (he is a Libra after all) his love of research with the joy he gets from helping people.
Scott is an active member of the Financial Planning Association and served as a past Co-Chair of the NorCal Financial Planning Association Conference for programs as well as serving on the conference board for several years. Scott has also conducted numerous Investment and Financial Planning classes and seminars for various organizations and corporations.
Bitten by the winemaking bug in 2005, he has gone on to craft numerous award winning wines. He keeps healthy and fit with daily hikes with the dogs in the coastal hills, loves cooking (you can count yourself among the blessed if he makes you one of his steaks), skiing, travel, and attending the Monterey Jazz festival every year (28 years and counting). Scott lives on the coast in Montara with his wife, Erin and their 3 dogs.


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Successful participation in EQA!
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully participated in the External Quality Assessment (INSTAND, survey of March 18, 2022), being involved in determination of Cystatin C.
Please find the Certificate in Docs.
Sandwich ELISA, HRP-labelled antibody
Serum, Plasma-EDTA, Plasma-Heparin, Plasma-Citrate, Urine, Cerebrospinal fluid
Sample Requirements
10 µl/well
At ambient temperature. Upon receipt, store the product at the temperature recommended below.
Store the kit at 2–8°C. Under these conditions, the kit is stable until the expiration date (see label on the box).
Calibration Curve
Calibration Range
200–10 000 ng/ml
Limit of Detection
0.25 ng/ml
Intra-assay (Within-Run)
n = 8; CV = 3.4 %
Inter-assay (Run-to-Run)
n = 5; CV = 6.9 %
Spiking Recovery
95.0 %
Dilution Linearity
97.8 %
- bovine Non-detectable
- cat Non-detectable
- dog Non-detectable
- goat Non-detectable
- hamster Non-detectable
- horse Non-detectable
- mouse Non-detectable
- pig Non-detectable
- rabbit Non-detectable
- rat Non-detectable
- sheep Non-detectable
- chicken Not tested
- human Yes
- monkey Yes (recommended dilution 1:400)
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by Kristin Casagrand
Sorry for being MIA last week, y'all. Final exams got the best of me. In honor of summer and trying to beat the heat, this week will be a special on everybody's favorite cold treat: ice cream. As I mentioned in my introductory post and as anyone I know would attest to, I have a huge sweet tooth. My go-to dessert is almost always ice cream, especially while in Walt Disney World, since there are so many delicious treats to pick from.
I will be focusing on my favorite sundaes from around Disney property. In terms of regular ice cream treats in the parks, honorable mention goes to the classic premium Mickey ears and the homemade cookie ice cream sandwiches on Main Street.
My absolute must "go to" place for dessert has always been Ghirardellis at Downtown Disney. After also visiting the original Ghirardellis in San Fransisco, I would have to claim Ghirardellis as possibly my favorite ice cream place of all time. It is worth the long, out-the-door lines and mass chaos of fighting through the crowd to get your order when it is called. I love the smell of chocolate and waffle cones and the old-time feel of watching the staff make my sundae. Here is my top five list of sundae choices and the components of each so you can make them at home!
- Mint Bliss Sundae- Dark chocolate lovers, you should be all over this one. It includes a scoop of mint chocolate chip, a scoop of chocolate, dark chocolate hot fudge, whipped cream, and topped off with a Ghirardellis intense dark chocolate square. By far my favorite.
- The Cable Car- This is their version of a rocky road sundae. Rocky road, chocolate chip, and chocolate ice cream. Topped with marshmallow cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, chopped almonds, and a Ghirardellis milk chocolate square. A while back, they used to top this sundae with a mini chocolate cable car and I always thought it was an awesome little touch.
- Treasure Island- Two scoops of vanilla with warm double brownie, hot fudge topping, whipped cream, and chopped almonds. You can never go wrong with a classic brownie sundae.
- The Gold Rush- Did I mention I also have an addiction to peanut butter? This sundae comes with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, melted peanut butter throughout, chopped almonds, and whipped cream.
- Sea Cliff- Vanilla cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and chopped almonds served on top of a massive warm chocolate chip cookie.
Located at the Beach Club Resort, Beaches and Cream is also a great choice for sweet treats. To take a break from the parks during the day or at night, my family will often catch the boat or walk from Epcot or Hollywood Studios. They have sundaes and milkshakes that certainly score high on my list.
Are you bringing a large party or the whole family? You might want to think about getting a family style sundae. There's a few on property that I know of that have something for everyone.
- The Earthquake – Served at Ghirardellis. This sundae comes with 8 flavors and 8 toppings of your choice with bananas, whipped cream, chopped almonds, chocolate chips, and cherries.
- The Kitchen Sink – Served at Beaches and Cream. This sundae also has 8 ice cream scoops including coffee, chocolate, mint chocolate chip, and strawberry ice creams. It is topped with all kinds of toppings such as pineapple, strawberries, Oreos, hot fudge, snickers, and a whole can of whipped cream. Not to mention, it is literally served in a mini kitchen sink. I've witnessed my cousin (yes, singular, not "cousins") attempt to eat the whole thing by himself. I think he was successful, but he regretted his decision shortly after….
I hope next time you are at WDW, you all will be able to try some of these sundaes! Or if your next trip isn't for a while, I would highly suggest replicating these treats at home (not the same I know, but it will give you a small taste of Disney from home). Enjoy everyone! 🙂
Kristin Casagrand is a student currently studying physical therapy at Bellarmine University. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Kristin has taken many a family vacations as a child driving 24 hrs, cramped in the back of the car and fighting with her sister to get to Disney (definitely worth it though). She looks forward to sharing "A taste of Disney" with everyone each week.


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I just love your words! Following you on Snapchat has definitely added to my reading of your blog because now I hear it in your voice haha! I normally skip right passed other bloggers outfit posts, as they're usually not for me, but you manage to make them so funny and readable! You're by far my fave snapchatter too (out of the 10 I follow haha!) - bloody love those ridiculous chickens. You've even made me think of getting some but it seems like a big commitment...ReplyDelete
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Homily for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 2019 at St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta, 22 September 2019
Readings: Amos 8:4-7; 1Tim 2:1-8; Luke 16:10-13
Putting God's justice for the poor above personal gain
Dear friends,
In 1983, after he had recovered from his gunshot wounds, Pope John Paul II did something that showed the depth of his humanity. He went to prison and visited Mehmet Agca, his would-be assassin. They had a long private conversation and emerged as friends.
The Pope stayed in touch with Agca's family during the latter's incarceration, and in 2000 requested that he be pardoned. The request was granted. Mehmet later converted to Christianity while in prison and was finally released in 2010. In December 2014, he returned to Rome and laid two dozen white roses at the tomb of the Pope who had been canonised a few months earlier.
The readings this 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time also remind us of our duty to imitate the God of utter magnanimity, graciousness and forgiveness. In the first reading, the prophet Amos sternly cautions the people about the unjust practices that go against the heart of their religion: the lowering of the bushel, the raising of the shekel and the tampering with the scales et cetera are some of them.
By acting unjustly, the Israelites betray the very purpose of the Exodus, which was their liberation from slavery and oppression. They betray the very God who freed them and formed them into a new society of justice, solidarity and equality. Amos warns Israel that a society that is not aligned to God's purposes is not sustainable.
The Northern Kingdom where Amos ministered was particularly susceptible to undue foreign influences, including religious and moral malpractices. Amos urges them to follow the dictates of God's law. He calls them not to conform to imperial pressure but to become an alternative society under God's rule, a community of hospitality, compassion, justice and neighbourliness.
The Gospel confirms this message, albeit in a way that may not be so obvious to us. Jesus tells the Parable of the Dishonest Servant who has failed his duty of stewardship. He faces the prospect of unemployment, reduced status and even ridicule. He has one more roll of the dice and he does it shrewdly. He calls the master's debtors and writes down their debts.
In other words, he banks on his master's generosity. By writing down the debts, he actually makes the claim that his master cannot fault him: that the master forgives those who owe him, that he is generous and magnanimous. For banking on this defining virtue of his master, the dishonest servant was praised.
The Word of God thus challenges us about our relationship with God and with one another. If God is so generous and forgiving to us, we too must be generous and forgiving with one another. We cannot be the disciples of Jesus and think and act merely in terms of the raw justice of the world. None of us could be saved if God applied the strict justice on the basis of our merits.
The parable is actually designed to prod at our sense of entitlement and merit. It challenges to think and act in the way that God in Jesus has shown us, which is not a raw justice of the world but the justice of the Kingdom and the very mercy of God.
Dear friends,
"You cannot be the slave of both of God and of money." The Word of God today lays bare the radical demands of Christian discipleship. Jesus makes it clear that following him has to do with an alternative mode of existence where we prioritise the common good and reflect the divine goodness instead of self-interest.
We live in the world in which people amass wealth and place self-interest as the number one priority, even at the cost of the common good of humanity and planet earth. This week has seen a global demonstration, galvanised from the grass-roots level, against political indifference and inaction in regards to pressing environmental concerns.
The Gospel calls us to responsible stewardship of what we have been given in trust. We must safeguard and foster the diverse life forms that the Creator God has entrusted to us.
The early Christian community showed us the way. They negotiated between self-survival and stewardship, accumulation and distributive justice. They abandoned the default position of self-interest and embraced radical communion. They shared their possessions and made sure that no one was left behind. They formed an intentional community of sharing in common with each other and looking after the most vulnerable.
This is what faithful discipleship looks like. It is a journey that demands courage because it forces us to abandon security in favour of vulnerable trust, self-interest in favour of passion for justice and preferential option for God's poor.
Let us pray that we may prioritise the common good and reflect the divine goodness instead of self-interest. May the teaching and example of Jesus guide us as we endeavour to build relationships and communities that mirror the Reign of God. May we reflect the largesse, magnanimity and compassion of God revealed in Christ.
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Published on Thursday, July 27, 2017
NASA has recently shared a flyover video of Pluto that was made by using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models. The video starts off by showcasing Pluto's highlands and moves towards the southwest, across the nitrogen ice plain also known as Sputnik Planitia. The western margin of the Sputnik Planitia borders the Cthulhu Macula, which consists of a dark and cratered terrain. And within sight are some of Pluto's blocky mountain ranges. As the film heads northward, we see the Voyager Terra's rugged highlands and the Pioneer Terra, which consists of wide and deep pits. The flyover comes to an end over the eastern hemisphere of Pluto, where we get a glimpse of the bladed terrain of Tatarus Dorsa.
Mission scientists have been using the New Horizons data and models of Pluto and Charon (its largest moon) to create these eye-opening films. They give viewers a better sense of the Pluto system and how we might see it if we could orbit around Pluto in a spacecraft. Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston completed the digital mapping and rendering of the flyover film project.
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How do we keep air clean, our carbon footprint low, the population healthy and the environment 'green'? Queried E&T in their Quest for a 'Smart' City definition has exposed the damning evidence of energy and environmental dangers . . .
A rapidly growing global population means that we will need to exploit a space's potential, whether it is taller sustainable buildings, innovative waste management, or better renewable processes. One of the biggest priorities when creating a smart city is to keep it eco-friendly and for us to work towards a cleaner, greener future. We need to look at sustainable buildings – according to interactive platform Urban Hub, about 250 million new housing units will be required before 2030 in the 12 most populated countries, which account for 61 per cent of the global population.
According to TechRepublic.com there are key technologies that make a smart city work.
Here are the top 6 :
- Smart Energy
- Smart Transportation
- Smart Data
- Mart Infrastructure
- Smart Mobility
- Smart IoT
In the meantime, in the light of the above and in the spirit as it were of the new Gulf countries cultural trends, steps are taken to provide affordable housing within the framework of the concept of Smart City.
Al-Barayeh, a smart city project in Kuwait won first rank in Gulf region as reported by the local media and KUNA back in February 2016. This smart city environmental project, designed by Kuwaiti engineer Faisal Al-Jehaim, won first rank in the best environmental project prize in the Gulf region. The prize was offered by the 19th Gulf Engineering Forum, organized by Kuwait Society for Engineers in Kuwait.
It works in decreasing energy consumption rates as well as using its alternatives, and works in fulfilling a high quality of life that cherishes sustainability elements, including the social and economic environment, he said.
This city will be ready to be inhabited in three years, to welcome a total of 85,000 people and will server all of their daily basic needs and means of transportation as it will reduce usage of cars, including a metro station. – KUNA.
Gulf Business published this article written by Robert Anderson on the latest news on Smart City development and it is reproduced here for the benefit of our membership and readers generally.
Kuwait reveals plans for smart, environmentally friendly city.
Kuwait has unveiled plans for what is claimed to be the first smart and environmentally friendly city in the Middle East.
South Saad Al-Abdullah city has been designed to accommodate 400,000 people over an area of 59 square kilometres with more than 30,000 housing units, according to state news agency KUNA.
The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Land and Housing Corporation to conduct a feasibility analysis of the project and form a joint company with the Public Authority for Housing Welfare for design, construction and operation.
The new city will be 40km west of the centre of Kuwait and is estimated to cost $4bn, according to reports earlier this year.
It is described as including an internet network that will connect all of its inhabitants with public services.
Solar cells are also being considered to power the project and the overall design is described as avoiding 'visual pollution' by forcing inhabitants to use specific colours for buildings.
Restrictions on building design and construction materials may also be imposed.
Implementation is expected to begin in February 2017.
The Kuwaiti government plans to provide 120,000 housing units for citizens annually over the next decade, according to KUNA.
Other major projects include South Mutla, which will house 400,000 citizens with 30,000 housing units. Building of infrastructure and roads for the project is expected to cost KD 288m ($954.7m).


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School is a little less scary now that Mitchy's around. But even with a friend by her side, Grumbalina isn't exactly excited about class today. The two of them "forgot" to practice their spells last night like they were instructed to. She knows that Ms. Plume will be testing some students in front of the class, and with her luck, she'll be the first one up. This isn't the first time Grumbalina has had to "wing" her spells, but she's not sure her skills are going to hold up for her again.
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MarketResearch.biz delivers in-depth insights on the global coconut flour market in its upcoming report titled, "Global Coconut Flour Market Trends, Applications, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast: 2017 to 2026". The global coconut flour market is estimated to register a CAGR of X.X% in terms of value during forecast period 2017–2026. The report offers in-depth insights, revenue details, and other vital information regarding the target market, and the various trends, drivers, restraints, opportunities, and threats till 2026. The report offers insightful and detailed information regarding the various key players operating in the market, their financials, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, apart from future strategies, acquisitions & mergers, and market footprint. The global coconut flour market report has been segmented on the basis of type, form, technology, application, and region.
This report is based on synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of information gathered regarding the target market from various sources. Our analysts have analyzed the information and data and gained insights using a mix of primary and secondary research efforts with the primary objective to provide a holistic view of the market. In addition, an in-house study has been made of the global economic conditions and other economic indicators and factors to assess their respective impact on the market historically, as well as the current impact in order to make informed forecasts about the scenarios in future.
Coconut flour, a by-product of the virgin coconut oil industry is a substitution to wheat flour. The coconut flour contains approximately 21.7% protein, 10.5% fiber, 59.8% carbohydrates, and 8.4% fat. The manufacturing of coconut flour involves two processing methods namely dry process and wet process. Dry process involves drying of grinded coconut meat, oil extraction and pulverizing the meal. Dry process helps produce high protein coconut flour (33%) which can be used as wheat substitute.
With increasing health-conscious consumers driving up demand for coconut flour, the manufacturers are focusing on making it available easily through retail stores and other options. Coconut flour is trending in heavily influenced by consumers' interest in health and wellness, and availability of by-products such as ready-to-eat snack foods that are gluten-free. This has also increased opportunities for key players in the bakery products sector worldwide as coconut flour provides high fiber. Moreover, the cost of production is economical, which is another factor driving growth of the global coconut flour market. As the raw materials for the production of coconut flour is collected from the leftover of the coconut milk and the process and equipment used in the production is simple and reasonable, the manufactures get the value added income and it offers healthy diet and nutritional value to consumers as well.
The market in Asia Pacific is expected to dominate the global coconut flour market, followed by Latin America market. China market is the one of the leading producers of coconut flour, followed by markets in Poland, Germany, Chile and Austria. In Europe market, the Western Europe region dominates in terms of consumption followed by North America, owing to factors such as increasing consumer shift towards high fiber bakery products coupled with high consumption of gluten-free food products.
Global Coconut Flour Market Segmentation:
Segmentation on the basis of type:
- Conventional
- Organic
Segmentation on the basis of form:
- Whole Full Fat Flour
- Low Fat High Fiber Flour
- Medium Fat Flour
Segmentation on the basis of technology:
- Fresh-Dry Process
- Wet Process
Segmentation on the basis of application:
- Baked Products
- Snack Foods
- Extruded Products
- Animal Feed
Segmentation on the basis of region:
- North America
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Latin America
- Middle East & Africa
- The coconut company Ltd.
- Connecticut Coconut Company
- Klassic Coconut
- Arrowhead Mills, Inc.
- Ceylon Coconut Company (Pvt.) Ltd.
- Franklin Baker Company of the Philippines
- Asia Botanicals Sdn. Bhd
- Smith Foods (Pvt.) Ltd.
- Hodgson Mill, Inc.
- Nutrisure Ltd.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Brooklyn in Film Screening November 29th, 2007 at Brooklyn Historical Society
Ferry Entrance at Montague Street, Brooklyn, circa 1911. Photo: Brooklyn Historical Society archives.
Brooklyn in Film Screening November 29th, 2007 at Brooklyn Historical Society
The Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival are pleased to announce a screening of documentaries about Brooklyn and the people of Brooklyn on November 29th, 2007. This program of Brooklyn focused documentaries is titled, "Brooklyn on Film, 1899-2007" and will include some very early documentary footage including Edison Studios motion picture records of Brooklyn in the 1890s, and Sarah Bernhardt addressing a crowd in Prospect Park in 1917, will be shown.
The screening will also include short documentaries about Brooklyn's diverse neighborhoods and people.
One of which, Brooklyn: Among the Ruins directed by Suzanne Wasserman, introduces audiences to Brooklyn born and bred Paul Kronenberg. Paul is a 60 year-old subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman's subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
A documentary by Maggie Hadleigh-West titled "Player Hating" illuminates the lives of young Brooklyn aspiring rap artists striving to develop their musical careers while struggling with the constraints of every day life in the housing projects of Brooklyn.
"Brooklyn Matters" by Isabel Hill is a documentary that address the changes being planned for some of Brooklyn neighborhoods through planned development projects. Isabel Hill is historian and urban planner and her exploration of the timely issues of large-scale building in Brooklyn helps convey the challenges faced by many Brooklynites in a time of change.
The audience will get a rare glimpse of an ougan, or Vodou priest who is possessed by the spirit of Gede in a basement in Brooklyn in "Vodou Brooklyn" by Stephanie Keith. This extraordinary photo-essay with narrative is a compelling insight into the spiritual journey taken by these members of Brooklyn's Haitian community.
Several other short documentaries about Brooklyn and the people of Brooklyn will also be presented as part of this screening.
Location:The Brooklyn Historical Society,128 Pierrepont Street,Brooklyn, NY 11201
Date & Time: November 29th, 2007 at 7:00 pm.
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June 2014 Monthly National Housing Survey
Consumer confidence in the housing market has trended upward significantly during the recovery but continues to be less than needed to return to "normal" housing levels, according to results from Fannie Mae's June 2014 National Housing Survey. On average, consumers' 12-month home price change expectation remained in positive territory in June at 2.4 percent but dipped slightly from the previous few months, likely in response to a lackluster housing picture in the first half of the year. Additionally, the share of respondents who expect mortgage rates to go up in the next year increased six percentage points to 55 percent in June following a gradual decrease since February. While consumers appear positive overall and are trending in that direction, some survey and market indicators reflect a more subdued housing market, underscoring that the recovery continues but is not yet robust.
"Since we began collecting monthly National Housing Survey data in June 2010, we've seen substantial progress in consumer home price expectations and other key attitudinal measures as the housing recovery gained its footing," said Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae. "Still, we do not expect to see 'normal' levels of new residential construction, in the region of 1.6 million new housing units per year, before the end of 2016, our original projection. Such a feat would require a pace of growth in housing starts not seen in decades."
"The uptick this month in the share of consumers expecting mortgage rates to go up and the accompanying decline in home price expectations reflect the pause of activity in the housing market so far this year," said Duncan. "Despite recent improvement, we now expect an annual decline in existing home sales due to weak volume in the first four months of the year associated with the rise in mortgage rates mid-last year and the current dearth of supply of lower-priced homes. On the bright side, the share of employed consumers who expressed concerns about losing their job dropped to an all-time survey low in June, consistent with last week's upbeat jobs report. This may encourage potential homebuyers to enter the purchase market in 2014, helping to offset some of the weakness in sales activity."
Fannie Mae's monthly national consumer attitudinal survey report provides indicators offering a window into the opinions of Americans across the country. These behavioral insights convey what consumers think about the outlook for owning and renting a home and about their household finances, and may serve as key inputs for determining the future course of investment across housing types.
On this webpage you will find a news release with highlights from the survey results, the June Data Release highlighting 12 consumer attitudinal indicators, a podcast containing highlights from this month's survey, month-over-month key indicator data, technical notes providing in-depth information about the survey methodology, the questionnaire used for the survey, and a comparative assessment of the Fannie Mae National Housing Survey and other consumer surveys.
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The Carriageworks Action Group and our work to bring about the redevelopment of this long derelict site has received a write up in the prestigious Urban Design Journal (issue 140).
The author is Rowan Mackay, a Bristol based urban designer and researcher, who has been tracking our progress for some time.
Rowan sets out the national and local context of dereliction, redevelopment and the difficulties that communites often face in engaging with major proposals.
He sees three key events in the success of CAG's work to date.
- Firstly the creation of the Community Vision and CAG's ability "to communicate technically and knowledgeably, ….to form trusting relationships with major stakeholders and in doing so, to negotiate local interests on an equal footing".
- Secondly the Planning Committee's instruction to Fifth Capital in October 2015 to work with CAG and improve their proposals.
- And thirdly, the efforts of Fifth Capital to engage with and understand the issues faced by the local community.
The role of the City Council is praised for facilitating the Community Vision,
building the capacity of local representaives on equal terms with major stakeholders, and
pursuing conflict resolution through closer stakeholder partnerships.
But as the article concludes, if we are to secure our rights to the city "it is the responsibility of us all to demand more". That's our challenge in the coming months.


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Michael Valentino
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Valentino has served as Chairman of the Board since July 2011 and brings over 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including a broad range of critical leadership positions at both major pharmaceutical companies and venture-backed start-ups. In June 2003, Mr. Valentino successfully built start-up Adams Respiratory Therapeutics into a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with more than $490 million in annual revenue and leading OTC brands such as Mucinex® and Delsym®. Under his leadership, Adams completed its initial public offering in July 2005, which was ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the No. 1 Health Care IPO in 2005, and in December 2007, the Company entered into a definitive agreement under which it would be acquired by Reckitt Benckiser, a world leader in household cleaning, health, and personal care, for approximately $2.3 billion. Previously, Mr. Valentino was President and Chief Operating Officer at Alpharma, a leading global generic pharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Alpharma, he served as Executive Vice President, Global Head Consumer Pharmaceuticals for Novartis AG. He earlier served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Novartis Consumer Healthcare, North America. Mr. Valentino was also President of Pharmacia & Upjohn's Consumer Products Division. Throughout his career, Mr. Valentino has been at the forefront of 7 major prescription-to-OTC switches, including such well-known consumer brands as Benadryl®, Rogaine Extra Strength®, Motrin Jr.®, Nasalcrom®, Lamisil®, Voltaren (EU), and Mucinex®. He currently serves as a Board Member of Assisted4Living Inc. (ASSF: OTC), a post-acute provider of healthcare from birth through end of life. Mr. Valentino has also served as Chairman of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.


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Obstacle Capsule
An obstacle capsule is a capsule-shaped obstacle that is detected and bypassed by other objects during pathfinding. The obstacle capsule can be added, for example, for the capsule-shaped nodes (trunks, columns, chimney shafts and so on) that are placed inside a navigation area and should be bypassed.
An obstacle capsule and a fur
The obstacle capsule is set by radius and height, where:
- radius is the radius of the cylinder and hemispheres of the capsule.
- height is the height of the cylinder of the capsule.
See also#
- The ObstacleCapsule class to manage capsule obstacles via API
- The PathRoute class to create 2D and 3D routes among obstacles
- The article on Creating Routes
- A set of articles on Navigation Areas
- A set of samples located in the data/samples/paths folder:
- obstacle_00
- route_01
- route_02
Adding Obstacle Capsule#
To add a capsule obstacle to the scene via UnigineEditor:
- Run UnigineEditor.
- On the Menu bar, click Create -> Navigation -> Obstacle Capsule.
- Click somewhere in the world to place the obstacle.
A new obstacle capsule is added to UnigineEditor and you can edit it via the Parameters window. See also the example on obstacle usage.
Editing Obstacle Capsule#
On the Node tab of the Parameters window, you can adjust the following parameters of the obstacle box:
|Obstacle Mask
|The obstacle mask of the obstacle capsule must match the obstacle mask of the route that is calculated during pathfinding. Otherwise, the obstacle is not taken into account during pathfinding. Also by using the obstacle mask, you can specify obstacle capsules that should be ignored during pathfinding.
|Radius of the obstacle capsule, in units.
|Height of the obstacle capsule, in units.
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'Walking Dead' Producer -- Tyreese and Father Gabriel Are Still Family
'Walking Dead' Producer Tyreese and Father Gabriel Are Still Family
It's been a tough week for "The Walking Dead" stars Chad L. Coleman and Seth Gilliam ... but show producer Scott M. Gimple still has their backs, and says society can learn a lesson ... from one of them.
Gimple was at LAX when he told our photog that Chad -- whose character Tyreese has already been eaten by zombies -- made a good point when he questioned humanity. Granted, he could've done it without screaming on a packed subway train.
As for Seth ... Gimple gave us his prediction for Father Gabriel's future ... on the show -- and in the legal system. He also has some tasty zombie apocalypse tips for folks in L.A..
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Former first rounder and top 100 prospect, Aaron Hicks will begin the season as the Minnesota Twins starting center fielder. Obviously this will grab the attention to any fantasy owner who follows prospects closely, and in this day and age of the internet and couch scouting, who doesn't?
Hicks's hype train isn't to the level of Tampa's Wil Myers, or Baltimore's Dylan Bundy, but that won't stop some fantasy owners from spending big or reaching early for the youngster's service in their upcoming fantasy drafts. Don't be the person in a 12 to 14 team mixed league who drops an established big leaguer for the upside of 2013 Aaron Hicks. I guarantee you will regret it and he'll be back on the waiver wire or riding fantasy pine in no time. Meanwhile your discarded, proven player, will help your competition to fantasy glory, I see it all too often unfortunately.
That's not to say Hicks will not be rosterable in certain formats. For more on Hicks's background see Craig Goldstein's write up here. In a 10 to 12 team AL only league Hicks will make a perfect 4th or 5th outfielder, especially those leagues that use OBP in place of BA. While Hicks still strikes out too much (over 20% the last two years in A and AA ball, a number likely to increase in the big leagues) he has shown a decent approach at the plate, which should allow him to reach base and provide fantasy owners with the category he's most likely to succeed in this year. Stolen bases. Last year in AA Hicks swiped 32 bags in 129 games. In 122 games the year before he was able to steal 17. He'll need to improve his success rate to be a player you can really rely on in that department, but for a later round pick or $5 in an AL only auction, his stolen base potential is worth the gamble.
That $5 figure is exactly what I paid for Hicks in a 10 team AL only auction I completed yesterday afternoon. In looking at both LABR and Tout Wars, he was auctioned off at $4 and $6, respectively. As we all know, a secured role for any young player will bring out the worst in some fantasy managers and as such I'd expect that number to increase this coming week in AL only auctions. Stick to a number you feel comfortable with, and don't go the extra dollar unless you're really in a gambling mood. In an AL only keeper, I suppose you could go the extra dollar, but more than likely you're just handcuffing his future value at that point, while also removing 2013 money from your pocket.
Let's remember, Hicks has not played a game above AA in his professional career. While the Twins did trade away both Denard Span and Ben Revere this offseason, they could still turn to Darin Mastroianni if Hicks struggles too much at the big league level. Assuming he does play close to a full season, a Will Venable type power/speed/BA season is what I'd expect. As I mentioned above, this does not exactly scream mixed league relevant. Lastly, a decent chunk of Hicks's real life value comes in the form of defense which won't help the 5x5 fantasy player, and the upside of his hit tool. Keep expectations in check for 2013.


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Electric scooter riders do these 3 things to virtually never get a flat tyre again
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An in depth tutorial on electric scooter Li Ion batteries and how to prolong the life of your electric scooter battery.
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How to prolong your electric scooter battery life. A typical Lithium Ion battery pack last between 1.5 -2 years.
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To promote safe riding, we feature Arief, an Inokim rider of 2 years who shares his multiple accidents while riding his electric scooters and why he feels safe riding is important.
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Advertisements A recent spate of accidents involving electric scooters (or PMDs for short) have stirred up negative public sentiment on whether these electric scooters should be allowed on the pedestrian pathways. Some of these incidents have resulted in near fatal collisions so the level of public concern is not entirely misplaced. Other than the risk to public ...
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As a pediatric pathologist and Medical Director of Laboratories at Louisiana State University, Dr. Randall Craver's entire practice is based around taking care of children.
"Giving information is most of what I do," says Craver. "I don't treat, but I provide doctors the diagnosis for them to treat children, or information for the doctors and the families for how to make plans to deal with the child's illness."
Working as a pediatric pathologist is not for the faint of heart – Craver has to deal with the deaths of children on a daily basis. Despite the seemingly grim job description, he loves his line of work.
"So much of the disease in adults is self-inflicted from bad habits, but the children didn't do it to themselves. When a child becomes ill, everybody in the family is involved with their care, from the parents to the grandparents. You want them to get well. That's what you expect – for them to grow up."
Craver explains that when a child is sick, the concern also extends to the child's siblings if the disease has a genetic component. There is always the matter of how the child's illness might affect the brothers and sisters, as well as the possibility that it could affect subsequent pregnancies.
Part of Craver's job as a pediatric pathologist includes looking at the deaths of newborns or stillborns in order to provide information as to what lead to the baby's death, either in utero or soon after birth.
Craver brings up a specific instance of a case where the mother-to-be had a viral infection that was transferred to the baby in utero. The virus didn't manifest in the baby until a day or two after birth and the baby didn't handle it as well as the mother.
"Cases like that are hard because you're dealing with a perfectly normal baby all of a sudden dying," says Craver. "Where I come in is [telling the family] – this is the information, it's this type of virus, the likelihood that this is going to reoccur in the next pregnancy is very little."
"Those are hard – meeting with the parents to discuss the death of a child and trying to give them information at a time when they're still mourning to make plans for the future pregnancy. There's a lot of denial, there's a lot of wanting somebody to blame, and people that don't know me think I'm defending the doctors … and that's a natural concern. But I'm trying to give them and the doctors information so that during the next pregnancy, the chance of success is better."
Craver considers this particular case a success story. Although the first baby didn't survive, the mother became pregnant again two years later and the doctors knew what to watch out for. The mother was able to deliver a healthy baby.
Craver says that one of his hardest cases occurred several years ago when he was working with a world-famous orthopaedic surgeon who was preparing to amputate the leg of a child. After the operation, he ran tests on the amputated leg, but it didn't fit any typical disease process that he or the other doctors could classify. "All the soft tissues were turning into bone – hard bone. We didn't have a good name for it."
After working with another researcher in Pennsylvania who collected a few other similar cases, the doctors coined a new term: Progressive Heterotopic Ossification.
Craver explains that rare and unusual diseases that are sometimes completely unheard-of in the medical world cannot simply be diagnosed together under one common name. "If you lump them together, they can have different causes. Part of what our job is, is to separate these out – collect them – so that when we study them, genetically, they may make more sense."


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In 1973 the president of the World Bank, Robert McNamara, claimed we would "end poverty within a generation." We didn't even come close. Not even in the ball park. Only 15% of the world's population lives in an advanced, prosperous society. 70% of the world lives on less than $10 per day, 40% less than $2, 17% less than $1. We've had our hopes dashed before when it comes to development and democracy, which we should keep in mind as we consider democratization today.
Marshall Plan produced optimism
Let's review some history. After World War II and the success of the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe, there was great optimism that the advanced countries could help the rest of the world catch up to us in terms of development and democracy, which is why Robert McNamara made that statement. Foreign aid programs, like the Alliance for Progress, which was described as the Marshall Plan for Latin America, were launched. The fact is, these programs never really worked.
The Independence Movement didn't lead to much progress
Then came the independence movement, as country after country in places like Africa and Asia shed their old colonial masters and set off on their own course. Many people felt that these countries, unburdened of the yoke of colonial oppression, would naturally move toward freedom and prosperity. Most did not.
The Democracy Movement led to Dysfunctional Democracy
Then came the Democracy Movement, as an unprecedented wave of countries in places like Asia, Africa, and Latin America, embraced the ideal of democracy and held elections. Surely this would lead to freedom, development, and prosperity. It didn't, not really. The result was just poor countries with big corruptions problems who happened to hold elections (i.e., "dysfunctional democracy).
Post-communism performance has been mixed, at best
Most recently there came the end of communism, which would surely allow countries burdened by a bad system, to soar. Most of them did not.
China is actually one of the few bright spots
Lastly, I'll mention that, along with the Asian Tigers of Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore, China is the best development story of the last fifty years, yet it receives way more criticism than congratulations. You don't have to like recent political developments in China. But given our history of disappointment and failure when it comes to spreading development and democracy, isn't possible China is making more progress than we are giving them credit for? Isn't it possible we should reconsider how we evaluate countries like China and India, and rethink how development and democracy actually happen?


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Yoga Gear Refresh
After four weeks of weight training and a full week in Nantucket my body needs a break! I dialed up a practice yesterday morning with one of my favorite apps, Yoga Glo (Beachbody has some awesome streaming practices too!), and it was glorious! It reminded me just how much I need balance in my workouts. I tend to get focused and concentrate on one program but really I need weights, cardio, AND yoga to feel my best.
I also realized I REALLY need to get some new yoga duds. I am constantly in workout gear, so obviously I like it to be polished enough to wear out for errands… Which is no problem with all the options out there!
See below for my picks for some new yoga gear as well as my favorites that I already have!
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- Lululemon Wild Tank – Super cute lightweight tank with a built in bra, yes please!
- Lululemon Wunder Under Special Edition Scallop – In my opinion, Wunder Under's are some of the best yoga (or really any work-out) leggings out there. These are extra special with the scalloped hem!
- Lululemon Align Crop – Because I am a sucker for camo…
- Lululemon Fringe Fighter – Best headband ever! Stays in place and really keeps my hair back!
- Lululemon Cool Racerback Tank – I have a bunch of these and they are so comfortable for yoga!
- Lululemon Vinyasa Scarf – I know we are no where near scarf weather, but I have one of these and get complimented on it every single time I wear it!
- Lululemon Short Notice Tee – Because sometimes you want a little something to throw on over that tank! How cute is the front?
- Lululemon Love Knot Bra – Perfect bra under that Cool Racerback Tank.
- Alo Moto Legging – These are just too good to not mention again… I wore these on repeat all last year!
- Alo Heatwave Muscle Tee– Perfect for this heat. Light weight and airy.
- Alo Moto Sweatpant – For to and fro or a relaxed practice. These have been on my list for a while.
- Alo Troop Crop Tank – I am not really a crop top wearer but if I were…
- Manduka Pro Mat- Mechi – I LOVE my Manduka mat and this one reminds me of the ocean.
- Reehut Yoga Blocks – Blocks are great props for a good practice, I love these!


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What do you think about 1%?
Its tiny isn't it? Minuscule even. I mean…1% of a a dollar is 1 cent. 1 measly penny. Who cares about pennies these days?
A 1% increase in salary is a slap in the face to many employees. Most argue that they'd rather not get anything than be given a 1% raise. For someone making $75K a year, a 1% raise equates to $750 a year which is $62.50 per month before taxes. Not exactly a lot of money…but I've never seen the people complaining about their 'small' raise actually give that raise back either 🙂
Sure…1% of something 'small' is small initially, but over time, something small can grow into something big.
Let's take a look at saving money. Let's assume the above salary increase of 1% on $75K. Each year you get another 1% raise. If you take your annual salary increase each year and save it and get a 1% annual return, you'll save $11,181 over 20 years. Thats not a lot. If you increase the savings 1% more, you end up with $22,361 after 20 years (double your money…not bad. Increase your savings 1% per year over 20 years (for a max of 16% savings) and your savings go from 11K to 120K (source). Note: in the chart below, savings are shown in today's dollars, assuming inflation is 3 percent per year.
Take a look at this chart to see the magic of 1%:
That's the magic and mystery of 1%.
On small scales, 1% is small. On large scales, 1% is huge. That's the magic and the mystery of 1%.
Let's take a step away from the savings world and look at things that are more easily understood and applied.
The Magical 1% in the Real World
Let's take a look at an area that most of us are familiar with.
Assume you are a project manager in charge of a large enterprise software implementation. You have a budget of $350,000 to complete this project.
After the first month, you realize that your project is slipping. This slippage will create a budget hit of roughly 1% for the first month because you've got to bring in an additional person to cover this slippage.
You go to your project sponsor with this information and she tells you "don't worry…what's 1%…I never worry about this type of stuff till it gets to 5 or 10%". Note: I've actually had project sponsors tell me this. Many times.
You shrug your shoulders and go about your day. You look for ways to bring in this slippage and get the project back on track. You realize that the slippage is from your project team members not giving you their full allotted time to your project. You ask around and are told that there are other projects 'just as important as yours' so you'll just have to manage your project with the resources you have.
You take your issue up the chain of command. You talk to the VP. You talk to the CIO. But…they both tell you that every project is important and you need to do what you can with what you have. Besides…they say…what's 1% slippage really going to cause anyway…its small so don't worry.
You resign yourself to having to pay this additional person every month you can figure out how to get more in-house hours. So…you are seeing a 1% budgetary hit per month.
But…1% is small, right? Nothing to worry about, right?
Wrong of course.
For the sake of argument, let's just say that this is costing you 1% per month of your $350K budget . You are getting hit for an additional $3500 per month that you weren't expecting to have to spend.
1% is small. $3500 isn't.
After 3 months…you've spent over $10K that you weren't planning to spend. After 12 months, you've spent $42K. Now…THAT is a lot of money.
But its only 1% they said. Its small. But its not.
That's the magic and mystery of 1%. Don't ignore it because its small. Don't overlook it due to its size. 1% is small and large at the same time.
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Welding training MIG / MAG
Name of the in-service training institution: OÜ A1koolitus (a1koolitus.ee).
Curriculum title: Welding training MIG / MAG – 160 ac.h.
Curriculum group and basis for compiling the curriculum: 521 Mechanics and metalworking.
Level 4 Welder Professional Standard Competencies.
Levels : In-service training for adults.
Languages of instruction: Estonian, Russian or English.
Duration : All year round, 20 study days.
Training registration information: Registration on site or electronically.
Target group and conditions for starting studies: Adults (from the age of 18) who have so requested will be admitted to the training of a welder on the basis of an application. All applicants who are at least 18 years old and who meet the requirements for starting studies and pass an on-site test will be admitted to study. The test tests make sure that the person who has started their studies has understood what the discipline is and whether he or she is able to perform the given tasks.
Placement in groups : The division of students into groups takes into account the level of existing knowledge and spoken language.
Total study volume (academic hours) :
160 academic hours, of which:
- 40 ac.h. is a theory that is conducted in a classroom,
- 116 ac.h. is an internship carried out in a school welding workshop,
- 4 ac.h. is professional advice in preparation for the exam.
Teaching methods : Theoretical lectures. Practice training in an individual welding place consists of performing various tasks of an instructor.
Independent work: Processing of materials obtained during theory lectures (30 ac.h), independent work is not included in the study volume (160 ac.h).
Online learning : None. It is possible to apply the theory to a part if contact teaching is not allowed.
Aim of the study : At the end of the course, the welder welds with the MIG / MAG method according to WPS.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the training welder:
- Uses working drawings, work instructions and technology card (WPS).
- Chooses the right tools and welding tools.
- Organizes a safe working environment (ventilation and grounding).
- chooses means of self-defense (mask and clothing).
- Prepares and assembles parts and assemblies according to drawings.
- Welds MIG / MAG
- Selects welding modes according to the set task.
- Selects welding materials (welding wires, shielding gas).
- Performs visual inspection using weld templates and measuring tools.
Learning content:
- Workplace organization, selection and preparation of production and auxiliary equipment.
1.1 Familiarization with the work drawing, work instructions and technological map (WPS).
1.2 Selection of tools and instruments.
1.3 Selection of welding tools.
1.4 Setting up welding equipment.
1.5 Organizing a proper workplace.
1.6 Selection of personal protective equipment.
- Preparation and inspection of parts and assemblies.
2.1 Preparation and compilation of the part.
2.2 Assembly and inspection of assemblies for welding.
- Material teaching.
3.1 Properties of the metal.
3.2 Steels. Features and their use.
3.3 Labeling of metals.
- Semi-automatic MIG / MAG welding and post-processing.
4.1 The nature of MIG / MAG. MIG / MAG principle. Welding of metals using MIG / MAG technology.
4.2 Welding equipment. Burner construction.
4.3 Welding materials. Shielding gases according to EN-ISO 14175. Welding wire according to EN-ISO 14341 and EN-ISO 17632.
4.4 Welding technology. Welding arc, welding modes and their selection.
4.5 Welding equipment. The right angle of the welding torch.
Movement of the welding wire in the welding bath.
4.6 Welding of steels and protection of weld roots.
4.7 Welding in positions PB, PD, PE, PA, PF, PC.
- Quality control and repair of defects.
5.1 Checking the composition.
5.2 Inspection of welds and repair of defects.
5.3 Carrying out the final inspection.
- Exam preparation.
6.1 Test work in real exam conditions: welding of two parts by MIG / MAG method in the presence of an instructor.
6.2 Analysis of the results of the pilot work.
Description of the learning environment: Both the theoretical and practical parts take place at Pae 29, Tallinn. Safety and health requirements are guaranteed in the theory auditorium and workshop. We have 4 classrooms to study the theory, depending on the subject being taught, each class can accommodate 30+ people. The theoretical part is issued at home to record knowledge electronically (on memory sticks). We also issue both personal protection and tools for practical training.
List of study materials: DVS study materials. T. Karaganova "Welding idea"
and A. Laansoo "Welding".
Requirements for graduation, including assessment methods and evaluation criteria:
Participation in at least 80% of theory and practice classes is a prerequisite for graduation. In addition, a theoretical final test must be performed and the two parts welded together by MIG / MAG according to WPS.
Evaluation method: Theory tests and MIG / MAG welding of two parts .
Formation of the final result:
Knowledge and use of professional terminology, successful completion of the practical part of the planned study. Passing the theoretical exam test and performing a practical task using the welding method MIG / MAG according to WPS.
Evaluation criteria:
At least 60% of the correct answers to 20 questions. Welds two parts by MIG / MAG method according to WPS.
Documents to be issued: If all the conditions set out in the assessment criteria are met, the school will be issued a certificate of successful completion of the curriculum. If the goal is not achieved but the student attends at least 80% of the hours, he / she will be issued with a certificate of participation in the course. If desired, the student can pass a professional exam according to EN ISO 9606-1 after successful completion of the curriculum.
Short description of the content: The course is intended for workers in the metal industry who are exposed in their daily work and need high-quality and precise welding work. The course is aimed at acquiring professional theoretical and practical knowledge. After completing the course, the student is able to apply the acquired knowledge, namely to weld various materials and details in connection with the performance of their daily tasks using tools and welding equipment. A student who has passed the course and passed the final exam is ready to work or do an internship.
Requirements for the competence of the trainer: Technical or production education, applied education or continuous welding work for 10 years. 2 years of experience as an adult educator.
Theory teacher: Tatiana Karaganova.
Practice teacher: Leonid Žhilyaev.
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The English Dept. will feel the loss of an influential professor
next fall. Madeleine Kahn, an English professor at Mills since
1989, has resigned.
Kahn said she came to Mills 15 years ago because she "wanted to
teach at an institution that still valued teaching as well as
publishing and the national reputation that is now required of all
Being a women's college was an added bonus for Kahn. "I truly
believe that if women can learn to think analytically and to write
and speak persuasively, then they have the most important skills
they need to go forward in life."
"She has an intense passion for literature and scholarship that
is infectious," said Erin Blomstrand, an MA candidate in creative
writing. "She has pushed me to be a better thinker and a better
writer, while at the same time, reminded me to have fun with the
process of analyzing literature."
Kahn has been a photographer, a technical writer of computer
manuals, and a high school teacher of English and French. She grew
up in San Francisco, and did her graduate studies at Stanford where
she was finishing her dissertation on narrative transvestism in the
18th century novel and saw an opening at Mills for an 18th century
specialist. "I lived in the same apartment in San Francisco the
whole time I was in graduate school and for about the first ten
years I taught at Mills."
She said she treasures the memories of being surprised by her
students, "by their honesty, by their passion, by the way they
caught fire about issues in supposedly dry and boring
eighteenth-century literature."
Known for more than sharing her name with a famous actress, Kahn
has received numerous fellowships and awards for her work in 18th
century literature. She completed groundbreaking studies on which
she wrote a book, Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in
the Eighteenth-Century Novel, which Kirsten Saxton, assistant
professor of English and women's studies, said she regularly
assigns in some of her classes.
Saxton, a Mills alumna, first met Kahn when she was a new
professor and Saxton was a student in her 18th century novel
"Her insistence on our active articulation of the implications
of our ideas, both in class and in our papers, at first had me
quaking," Saxton said. "Her pointed 'so what?' series of questions
turned out to be invaluable for me and others. We learned to
unravel the assumptions and often unformed claims so that we could
craft clear and cohesive arguments and become better critical
Repeatedly challenged in her "assumptions about literature and
criticism; about classrooms; about the ways women learn and work
together," led Kahn to write a book about her experiences at Mills
titled Why Are We Reading a Handbook on Rape?: Teaching and
Learning at a Women's College.
Delighted to be heading into the unknown, Kahn said that
spending more time with her young son and waiting to see what
develops next in her life feels like a great luxury.
"Madeleine's generosity – as a teacher, a scholar and a
colleague – her commitment to excellence in herself and others, and
her dry wit and grounded presence," Saxton said. "She will be
sorely missed."
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I honestly figured that the goofy loopy hat that the one princess wore at the royal wedding not long ago would be the strangest hat I would ever see. It seems I was wrong about that. Apparently the woman in the picture below was spotted wearing what I would describe as an already crazy hat only to have an Apple iPad attached to it. Whoever this is was spotted wearing this bizarre hat at the Royal Ascot, which is apparently some horse racing event in the UK. I knew that big hats were a thing at horse races here in the states but I think this is taking it a bit too far.
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Florida's got a very good cheerleading squad, and a prominent one: Senior captain Tarin Moses is dating starting quarterback Jeff Driskel, fellow senior Morgan Palmer did work for Scout, and the Twitter presence of the team as a whole is not insignificant. So when, on late Friday, they broke the news that the University Athletic Association's marketing department had banned stunts and tumbling from their cheering, it made headlines.
It also made no sense.
Florida is ostensibly reacting to the ugly fall Orlando Magic Stunt Team member Jamie Woode took earlier this week, one that showed the very real peril of cheerleading. The recency and physical proximity of that incident likely played a role in the decision, with the decision-makers concluding that the risk of injury outweighed the benefit of doing stunts.
My question: Did someone just now realize that cheerleading is dangerous?
Florida's cheerleaders understand the risk of stunting and tumbling, and they were certainly aware of the dangers associated with it before this week; they've been aware of it for most of their lives, probably, as the majority of them have likely had a decade or more of experience in cheerleading.
It's always dangerous to be raised into the air, regardless of the surface the stunt is taking place on, and that's why cheer teams practice as often as they do, and have spotters all over the place in case something awful should happen. Florida's cheer teams, the Blue first team and the Orange second team, are also larger and more practiced than the Magic Stunt Team, which is a group contracted for performances, and they don't do particularly dangerous stunts on hardwood, while an illegal one was what ended tragically for Woode.
But cheerleaders who remain in the sport accept those risks willingly, and always have. They're bold, maybe fearless in some respects, but they're not stupid, and to take away a thing they have practiced to do for years because of one freak accident is thoroughly unjust.
This is unreal. This is unreal. This is not happening. This did not just happen.— Morgan Palmer (@MorganLPalmer) November 16, 2012
After the Orlando Magic cheerleader accident, UF cheerleading is now "grounded", meaning we can't stunt or tumble anymore. #UngroundUFcheer— Tarin Moses (@TarinMoses) November 17, 2012
UF cheerleaders are no longer allowed to stunt and tumble..first we aren't a real sport now we are too dangerous? #what #UngroundUFCheer— Liz Garcia (@lizzeygarcia) November 17, 2012
I hope people realize that every UF football advertisement has cheerleaders in a stunt..not on the ground #UngroundUFCheer— Liz Garcia (@lizzeygarcia) November 17, 2012
We know what we do is risky and that there is a "one in a million chance we might get hurt" but that's why we practice. #UngroundUFCheer— Morgan Palmer (@MorganLPalmer) November 16, 2012
Other Florida athletes weighed in with their own opinions, too.
@morganlpalmer That's like telling us we can't tumble in our floor routines LOL. Cheerleading is all about stunts and tumbles!— Marissa King (@TheBritRiss) November 17, 2012
@tarinmoses So Football players shouldn't tackle anymore either, right?— Mandy Perkins (@mandyperkins) November 17, 2012
@mandyperkins It's "different" because they "generate revenue" #NotKidding— Tarin Moses (@TarinMoses) November 17, 2012
On its face, this looks like a short-sighted decision — but it looks even more rotten the deeper it goes. The easy way to explain a decision like this is to cite safety concerns, but it's probably got more to do with Florida cheerleaders lacking the same sort of insurance the university provides for scholarship athletes, making the financial risk the UAA is taking an unbearable one.
That makes this decision more understandable (though the long-term solution is buying insurance policies for cheerleading, not grounding them), if not acceptable. But the way in which it was sprung on the cheerleaders is well beneath the standard for behavior of the UAA: I was told on Friday night that there was no full team meeting called to inform the cheerleaders of this ban, just a transmission of information to the Orange team (and any Blue team members that could make it) that this policy was going into effect.
And given Moses' and Palmer's backgrounds in telecom, I would trust that "one in a million" and "generates revenue" are direct quotes; if so, they suggest that this is a decision that places economic well-being over physical well-being, and the bottom line over school spirit.
Worst of all, this is happening before Senior Day, the last time Moses, Palmer, and a slew of other cheerleaders will suit up and rev up the crowd in The Swamp, and they were given less than 24 hours' notice. This stinks of a rushed decision made by middle management before a full review could be done, and I doubt highly that there is any chance of it being reversed before the game by anyone other than Jeremy Foley himself.
I trust that Foley, who understands virtually everything about college athletics very, very well, understands that this is a bad look for Florida; somehow, the school has managed to look both paternalistic (protecting cheerleaders in this case means protecting stunters, which means protecting women, but there's virtually no chance this decision was made by a woman, and so it's a dude thinking he knows what's best for women) and heartless (the day before Senior Day, really?) at the same time. And this could well anger Bull Gators that pour money into the program, too: Cheerleaders are an vital part of the Florida football experience for some people with a lot of money.
And so I suspect that providing insurance to cheerleaders, something that should always have been done, will happen before long, allowing for the reinstatement of stunting and tumbling. I don't think the decision-maker(s) realized that this decision inadvertently gave Florida's cheerleaders a bigger megaphone than the ones they use at games, and will likely lead to better long-term outcomes for Florida cheerleaders. That doesn't make it any less wrong in the short term.
Woode, thank goodness, is expected to make a full recovery. So should Florida cheerleading.
#UngroundUFCheer and let 'em fly.


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- GENI Site Installation
- Login to GENI Portal
- Click on Manage Accounts tab under your username on the right side of the page
- Click on Manage Wireless Account
- Choose a project to enable and click Enable Project. This allows the GENI portal to share your username and SSH public keys with the Orbit Login service
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<Name> Your GENI WiMAX account on ORBIT testebed has been created with username: <username> and with your GENI portal password. You can use it to reserve a ORBIT domain (testbed) of your choice for experimentation by using the SCHEDULER tab on the ORBIT GENI wiki at http://geni.orbit-lab.org. In the process of account creation, your ssh keys were also transferred to ORBIT infrastructure allowing you to ssh into all domains once your reservations are approved. Please note that your GENI account will only work with geni.orbit-lab.org site (and not with other ORBIT wiki pages that require login). Also, please * DO NOT * edit your profile/password/keys on the control panel that is available on the ORBIT GENI site. This will result in multiple sets of credentials and potential loss of access to either ORBIT GENI wiki or GENI Portal. Please USE the GENI portal http://portal.geni.net to edit any user preferences. You can find a collection of documentation as well as tutorials by visiting http://geni.orbit-lab.org. Also, as part of the registration process your were subscribed to the ORBIT user mailing list; it is a place to hear announcements, ask questions, and read about other users' experiences. If you have any trouble with your account or if you have any questions, please feel free to send us an email at email@example.com. Sincerely, The ORBIT Team
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What does Tamarah mean?
Tamarah as a girls' name is a Hebrew name, and the meaning of Tamarah is "date palm". Tamarah is an alternate spelling of Tamara (Hebrew): Russian variation of Tamar.
VARIANTS Tamora, Tammara, Tamera▼, Tamary, Tamarra
RELATIONS VIA TAMARA Tama, Tamar, Tamma, Tamra▼, Tamrah, Tamryn, Thamar, Thamara, Thamarra, ThameraCREATIVE FORMS
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How popular is Tamarah?
Tamarah is an uncommon first name for females. Tamarah is an equally rare last name for all people. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
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Tama, Tamar, Tamara (#1797 FROM RECENT DATA), Tamera, Tammara and Tamra are the popular related forms of Tamarah (OUTSIDE TOP 2000). Usage of these forms of Tamarah was more pronounced among parents 5 decades ago (USAGE OF 0.3%) and has become much diminished since, with versions such as Tamra becoming less in vogue. (TOP 2000 NAMES, 2018)
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'Klamath' first proper solo album of new original material since 2001 Invisible Man on Matador. UNCUT Magazine calls it his best solo album ever.
Written and recorded in a log cabin in the middle of the woods - by the Klamath river, California. Mark says about writing the album:
"I wandered around for a couple of weeks in this untouched forest and decided I would make a record that included the stillness - the vicious beauty - I heard there. I had not felt this way for a long time. I should have made another American Music Club record for the label - but didn't hear drums and big electric guitars. Klamath is a simple record. I am a simple man. Or I wanna be. It's the kind of record i would want to listen to."
Eitzel producing with Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady and Marc Capelle from American Music Club and Dave Douglas (who drums with Kelley Stoltz) guesting on the album. The pastoral – laid back, late night sparse feel to the album harkens back to Eitzel's folk influences of Nick Drake and John Martyn and earlier work with AMC.
1.Buried Treasure
2.Like A River That's Reaching the Sea
3.The Blood on My Hands
4.I Miss You
5.I Know There Is Someone Waiting
6.What Do You Got For Me
7.The White of Gold
8.I Live In This Place
9.Why I'm Bullshit
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Cruising teaches self-reliance. In this spirit (and the need for morning toast), I eagerly read the recipes for bread. Forbidden Planet has a 2-burner pressurized alcohol stove and no oven. Regular bread is out, but on the 'net, I found some recipes for pressure cooker bread. One land friend looked blankly at me when I explained this saying, well take a bread maker. This might be an option on a larger boat, but not for us. I have no where to plug it in, they suck up way too much power and most important, they take up space. We're living in something not much larger than a minivan.
But who needs a bread maker when I've got my all purpose pressure cooker? While in the comfort of home, I embark on my quest for a delectable loaf. I read, I knead, I punch, I rise, I fill the garbage can and in the end I produce a loaf that's edible (if there's no land in sight). I happily stow my pressure cooker with visions of warm bread while at sea.
A lazy day at anchor arrives and I think to myself, a perfect day for bread making. In goes the flour and yeast, it bubbles away and I produce a dough. Pop it into the pressure cooker and pump up the stove. Here's what I learnt. A pressurized alcohol stove has about as much heat as a bic lighter. And it's in the center. At home with a turn of a dial, a 12″ circle of blasting heat turns on. The alcohol stove just didn't get quite hot enough. I steamed away for 2 hours and produced……fish bait. Thinking this through, the problem seems to be that the pressure cooker isn't a great one, and doesn't conduct enough heat. I have since invested in some really good quality pots and can get the temperature up high enough. I also found some great tips and recipes on making bread from sailing vessel Destiny Calls (thanks guys!). Yeast is back on my shopping list. If at first you don't succeed, pour yourself a sundowner, think about it, and try again.
No, it wasn't pita bread. But the fish loved it.