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I'm not entirely sure the level of interest among Android users out there wishing to run Windows 8 on their tablets but according to Splashtop developer interest is high. As such, they've gone ahead and released Win8 Metro Testbed, which will allow you to simulate a Windows 8 environment on compatible Android tablets.
There is a few constraints with the app you'll need to be aware of though. First, you'll need a copy of Windows 8 installed on a PC or Mac to make use of but you can get that from Microsoft for free right now. Then, you'll need the Win8 streamer app installed available from Splashtop. Finally, you'll need to hand over $25 for the Win8 Metro Testbed app available on the Google Play Store.
Sounds all rather complicated but it's really not if you're already checking out Windows 8. Splashtop did do up a great video showing how to use the app so go ahead, have a look at Win8 Metro Testbed in action below.
Splashtop Launches Win8 Metro Testbed for Android Tablets
Splashtop's Win8 Metro Testbed turns an Android tablet into a Windows 8 device with native Metro UI touch gestures for app developers and technology enthusiasts
June 6, 2012 – San Jose, CA – Splashtop Inc., the worldwide leader in cross-device computing, today announced the release of "Win8 Metro Testbed – powered by Splashtop," for Android, a remote desktop app that allows software developers and technology enthusiasts to simulate a Windows 8 environment on a tablet.
Splashtop's Win 8 Metro Testbed for the iPad has been popular with developers and users alike. In the Apple App Store, Win8 Metro Testbed has been the #1 grossing iPad app overall in 4 countries, the #1 grossing iPad app in utilities in 72 countries, including the US, Japan and China and the #33 top-grossing iPad app overall in the US.
Now by popular demand, Splashtop is delivering a developers solution for Android tablets running Android 3.1 and up, with a target screen density of 600dpi (1280x800) and screen sizes of seven or ten inches. Using Splashtop's new Win8 Metro Testbed solution, developers can test native Metro UI touch gestures on an Android tablet to code and compile new apps on their Windows PC.
"In response to the high demand from Splashtop fans and the developer community, we have provided a Windows 8 development platform for Android tablet owners," noted Mark Lee, Splashtop CEO and co-founder. "With Windows 8 Metro both iPad and Android developers can now turn their tablets into a development testbed to evaluate touch gestures and functionality of their app in a Windows 8 environment."
With Splashtop's Win8 Metro Testbed for Android, Windows 8 app developers can use their existing Android tablets to test their apps and keep them current with new releases of Windows 8 Preview without having to purchase a costly Windows tablet.
Win8 Metro Testbed enables native Windows 8 Metro touch gestures, including the ability to:
- Swipe from the right to view the Charms menu
- Swipe from the left to switch apps
- Swipe left/right in Internet Explorer to move between pages
- Swipe down to bring up additional menus
- Swipe down on an item to select it
- Pull down from the top to close an app
- Swipe slowly from the left to run two apps side-by-side ("snapping")
- Swipe from left-and-back to show running apps
- Pinch to navigate files, folders, apps and data with Semantic Zoom
- And more
View a short video of Win8 Metro Testbed on an Android tablet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6DW7bIcMKw
Win8 Metro Testbed can be downloaded for a special launch promotion price of $24.99 USD (regular price of $49.99 USD) from Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splashtop.remote.pad.win8.
About Splashtop Inc.
Splashtop aspires to touch people's lives by delivering the best-in-class remote desktop experience – bridging tablets, phones, computers and TVs. Splashtop technology empowers consumer and business users with high-performance, secure, interactive access to their favorite applications, media content and files anytime, anywhere.
Splashtop's products are top-selling apps on Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore for Android, Nook Apps, BlackBerry App World, HP App Catalog, Lenovo App Shop and others. More than 7 million people have downloaded Splashtop products from app stores, and more than 100 million devices from HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Sony, Asus, Toshiba, Intel and other partners have shipped with Splashtop.
The consumerization of IT and proliferation of mobile devices is leading to adoption of Splashtop by businesses. The Splashtop Bridging Cloud ensures reliable, secure and high performance connectivity across multiple devices, while offering IT, system integrators and service providers policy-driven control.
Splashtop has won the prestigious "Most Innovative Product" award from PC World, the "Best of What's New" award from Popular Science and the "Best of 2012 CES" award from LAPTOP Magazine. The company is headquartered in San Jose with offices in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo. For more information, visit https://www.splashtop.com/.
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Are You Investing Your Best Resources in the Wrong People?
by: Michael Hyatt
It is easy to see other people making this mistake. It is more difficult to catch yourself doing it. I've been guilty plenty of times.
Leaders often make this same mistake in various areas of their lives.
What can you do if you are in this situation?
Make sure you are investing your best resources—including your time and energy—in your best people. Here's how:
- Acknowledge that your resources are limited. Your time, money, and energy are finite resources. It's easy to forget this and overcommit. But it's a zero-sum game. Every time you say "yes" to one person, you are saying "no" to others.
- Become aware of where your resources are going. It's easy to think the situation is temporary or an exception. But is it? This is the little lie that keeps us stuck if we aren't careful. Look back over your calendar and make an honest assessment. It will reveal the truth.
Read the rest of the article from Michael here.
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There are a few fundamental strategies that any gentleman can apply towards gaining his wife's love back. And of course that depends on your specific situation and circumstances. First and foremost, you are going to have to discover why your spouse has stopped loving you or why she says that she does not love you any longer, even if there is a slight possibility that might not be the true.
Here I mention a number of 5 common reasons for this
1.- While I was having an affair my wife found out and that is how I have lost my spouse's love.
2.- My spouse found somebody else she thinks is way better than me.
3.- I did not keep my promises and agreements. I have told her that I was going to change my attitude for good but I haven't done so. This has lead to disappointment and loss of hope on her part.
4.- I have abandoned my partner in her eyes. I did not give her the love and attention she needed.
5.- I always tried to control everything my wife did. I did not allow my spouse sufficient liberty and room to accomplish what she wanted.
Once you have recognized the reason or combination of reasons, you can start working on the problem to try and fix it. A lot of marriages that do not succeed it's because they cannot identify what the real problem is. Communication is a huge part of making the marriage work and yet many men think in a different way than women do, so even if you believe you know how your wife feels about something, chances are you almost certainly don't. So talk to her.
Without the true communication, it's very difficult to resolve and kind of disagreement or problems you may have. The right kind of communication will allow your relationship to start improving and later to prosper if you provide your spouse the chance to share everything with you.
If your wife has agreed to try in the matrimony once again, do not go back to how things were. Maintain things interesting, do small things to demonstrate to your partner how much you love and value her or do something nicely unexpected. Surprise her.
Maintaining your promises is another essential part of the equation. If you haven't been able to keep your promises in the past, start doing so now. Your history of broken promises has with no doubt ruined the trust in your relationship but you can begin repairing that now. Finally, provide your wife with the space and time she needs. Let her know that you are there for her but don't suffocate her.


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With every single release Sarah Close is proving herself to be a pop star in the making. Already this year this budding pop icon has dropped two bangers that wouldn't look out of place at the top of the charts. First we had the infectious pop anthem You Say about an ex partner of Close's and this was soon followed up by Crazy Kind which she wrote after a spontaneous trip to Barcelona.
Now however Close is trying her hand at Christmas music with her latest offering and it can only really be described as magically festive. This Christmas starts of with a magical piano melody that immediately puts you into the festive mood which the lyrics delivering a story of love during the holidays filled with little things we fantasise of doing with our partners in this festive season. All of this is perfectly paired with the gorgeous vocal of Close who manages to capture both the tender loving moments surrounding holidays as well as those big moments we all hold dear all within her vocal.
Christmas might not be for a few more days but Sarah Close has given us the perfect gift with a ribbon on top. Get in the festive mood with this song.
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Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, announced today that there will be an algorithm update targeting low quality exact match domains. He also noted that this update is not related to Panda/Penguin. I can only assume we will see some shifts in the search rankings this weekend, but Matt's assured everyone this should only affect 0.6% of the the English/US search queries out there. A small number, but this update will surely affect a handful of keywords I watch to try and keep a pulse on certain niches.
This is a welcome update over here. There is nothing more infuriating then having all your hard work beaten by someone burning through domains like exactkeywordmatch-aaa.com, exactkeywordmatch-aab.com, etc. Now only if Google will stop ranking irrelevant websites that are cloaking based on user-agent, like they did many years ago.
Update (10-1-2012): Some reports show that this update happened over the weekend. Dr. Pete over at SEOMoz suggests that a small sample had been affected. While the data may indicate that's the case, it is still not possible to prove that the rank dropping in certain sites was directly caused by this algo. update. Consider this fact. One of my favorite niches to monitor Google's web spam updates is the 'payday loans' search. Affiliate marketers in this space pull no punches here. When I started to learn what actually works here, I started using these searches as my first test when Google rolls out an update. You will see me frequently go back to this search to test the effectiveness of an algo. update. This small sample solidifies at least one statement Matt made: this should only affect 0.6% of the English/US search queries.
The above screen shot is page one of today's search results (minus the local results). The only legitimate sites in there seem to be the ftc.gov link and EEGInfo. But wait a minute, when you visit EEGInfo's website, it's about Neurotherapy? How is that related at all to payday loans? Are they looking for extra funding on the quick? I must know more.
I was already in Firefox, so the first to do is switch your user-agent. I would like to add here, I found it necessary to switch my user-agent to GoogleBot for many years, but old tricks somehow seem to be working again. And whaddaya know! The HTML title and meta description changed on the site. How could that possibly help though? The content and site structure didn't change at all, what possible benefit could this be to a black hat?
Well, I had clicked on the search result in Firefox. I tried it in IE and Chrome next. Got completely different results this time. In those two browsers, without switching my user-agent, I got this page:
So 'tactics' that were supposedly obsolete years ago suddenly work again. I see this website over and over again in my spam tracking. They burn through domains on a monthly if not weekly basis. But the site design & template never changes. A theory of mine is this type of stuff starting popping up when Google Instant came onto the scene. They were so focused on getting the results to the user so quickly, that flaws in the algo. started getting exposed. Or some of their rules just cannot be processed that quickly. I mean, Google is trying to index all knowledge on Earth. Massive amounts of data we're talking about here.
That's why we get Panda/Penguin type refreshes, and that's why affiliate marketers who run sites like the screenshot above burn through so many domains. Panda and Penguin are not real time (yet), so whenever those jobs are run against Google's indexed data, a lot of these sites disappear from the search index. Then, in a matter of days, the exact same sites come back, just under different domain names, Penguin update happens again, rinse and repeat. That's why I think the Google out ran it's kick coverage with Google Instant, and we get spam clean ups every 6-8 weeks (guesstimating) the timeline). And now, they are trying to work their way back to having cleaner results.


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One morning this past spring semester, Kathryn Wisniewski, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), opened her campus email to discover that her major in English was on the chopping block. It was among 13 majors, she read, all in the liberal arts, that the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs proposed cutting in order to help cover the university's $4.5 million deficit. By cutting 13 liberal arts majors, such as sociology, philosophy and history, UWSP would also create and expand several other majors in business, engineering and science to attract new students and revenue.
Wisniewski was shocked. So were many of her peers. As co-editor in chief of the student newspaper at UWSP, she started interviewing students and staff about the proposal.
"I think the overall response is heartbreak because students in these majors recognize the value of them," she says. "Saying, 'Oh, there's not going to be a philosophy major,' or 'There's not going to be a Spanish major,' it doesn't make sense. A lot of the discussions that I think we had were – where is this coming from?"
Cuts to the liberal arts aren't isolated to the UWSP campus, they're happening across the country. Jon Marcus, higher education editor at The Hechinger Report, says it's due to a number of factors, including a steep decline in students choosing liberal arts majors.
In 1967, one in five students enrolled in a U.S. university majored in the liberal arts. Today, that's down to one in 20 students, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Marcus wrote about this decline in a recent article for The Hechinger Report.
In many states, like Wisconsin, the decline of liberal arts majors is also the result of broad cuts to state higher education funding. Under Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, the University of Wisconsin System has seen major budget cuts. In the 1970s, the UW System received about 75 percent of its instructional budget from state taxpayers. Today, it receives about 17 percent of the core instructional budget from taxpayers.
Marcus says similar scenes are playing out at public universities in many states with Republican governors.
"And this is quantifiable, not political," Marcus says. He says the decline is most acute in, "states with Republican governors who question the value of allocating budget money toward higher education for majors in fields they don't necessarily believe are connected to the economic needs of their states."
Marcus says universities are struggling to sell a liberal arts degree as a means to a job, and the financial stakes are too high for today's college students. Telling people that "college is not just about a job" doesn't cut it anymore.
"You cannot charge people the the amount of money that colleges and universities charge people now and expect them to walk away accepting that answer," Marcus says. "You have to show them what they're getting for their money."
Listen to the Educate Podcast to hear why universities are getting rid of their liberal arts majors, and the students in Wisconsin who are fighting to keep theirs.


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Big Issue Invest
The Big Issue Invest Social Enterprise Investment Fund II LP (SEIF II) is the successor to SEIF I, our first social impact investment fund launched in 2010, and now having invested over £8 million into 21 social enterprises.
SEIF II supports social enterprises and charities with sustainable business models looking to grow and extend their social impact. The Fund offers repayable finance of between £250,000 and £3 million for growth, working capital and capital expenditure purposes.
SEIF II provides a range of loans and investments, including secured and unsecured loans, equity, and loans with performance-related repayment terms. You can apply for investment from SEIF II if:
• You are a high growth social enterprise or charity;
• You have a proven business model and can demonstrate an ability to repay investment from trading activities;
• You have a strong track record of generating positive social impact;
• You are a well-managed organisation with good governance;
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Website: labs.mwrinfosecurity.com
|Rafa works in the UK as a Security Consultant and Security Researcher for MWR InfoSecurity. He enjoys testing "out of the ordinary" technology and is particularly interested in embedded devices and hardware hacking. He has previously presented innovative research on topics such as USB drivers exploitation and Smart card hacking at various well known security conferences.
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About the Workshop
The piRNA pathway is an RNA-silencing pathway involving small non-coding RNAs and specific Argonaute proteins, the PIWI proteins. This pathway was discovered a decade ago as a defense mechanism against transposons. The field is progressing rapidly and in recent years, studies on piRNAs have broadened from transposable element regulation to post-transcriptional gene regulation, roles in stem cell biology, and in somatic tissues and cancer biology. The aim of this EMBO Workshop is to discuss the latest findings on all the different aspects of piRNA biology, and thus to cover the entire field. There will be a particular focus to support scientists in early career stages to foster discussions and collaborations. This workshop is the second of the EMBO Workshop series specifically dedicated to piRNA biology.
Topics include:
- piRNA biogenesis
- piRNAs/PIWI proteins in genome defense
- epigenetic regulation
- regulation of endogenous gene expression programs
- stem cell biology
- genome rearrangements
- somatic tissues and cancer
About EMBO Courses and Workshops
EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender).
Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.


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Design-Build Process
Care Guides
Throughout the Twin Cities, Southview Design landscaping customers are enthusiastic about referring us to friends, neighbors, and family.
Landscape designers and architects from Southview Design share their knowledge and expertise with ideas, news, knowledge and trends.
This homeowner loves to entertain. With an eye toward creating spaces for family gatherings and entertaining, Southview created a landscape design for an entire renovation – from front entry, to side yard steps and deck, to backyard patios. The project is a winner of the 2015 NALP Merit Award and a 2016 MNLA Landscape Design Award.
Before: Hazardous Approach to the Front Entry
After: Substantial Update to the Front Entry Makes Getting There Easy
A DIY project gone wrong, the front entry and steps were not only dangerous but didn't fit the home. Driveway was cracked, unsightly asphalt, and not wide enough. Front of the house was flat, dull, and dangerous.
Our Design-Build Process
Before: Lawn (yawn)
After: Major Curb Appeal
At the top of the homeowner's wish list: Give the front of the home major curb appeal. To do that a new, wider driveway, a renovated front entry, an arbor in front of the garage, colorful window boxes, and new gardens were added in phases.
Driveway: Belgard Urbana pavers
Refurbished Deck and an Added Arbor/Window Boxes Create Colorful Drama
Stone Steps: Side yard access required stone steps and flagstone (also Fond du Lac) with organic outcroppings. Columns and pergola add dimension and architectural interest to the home's facade.
Natural Stone Walls Draw Visitors to the Front Entry Steps
Front Entry/steps: Phase one included new steps (colored concrete) and easier access to the front door with two landings on the approach.
Front Retaining Walls: Fond du Lac stone; matched existing walls on the right side of the driveway.
Covered Entry, Concrete Steps with Bluestone Inlay Provide a Focal Point
Upgraded Entry: A covered front entry with fiberglass columns, a new front door, and new aluminum railings was added during Phase 2.
Before: Dull Backyard
After: Outdoor Rooms with Style and Color
Back yard had no entertaining space – just a large expanse of lawn. Award-winning design features three primary spaces: the hot tub and water feature, a dining patio, and a fire pit. As in front, the primary hardscape materials are New York Bluestone and colored concrete.
Great Spot for Meditation & Morning Coffee
Water feature: Simple fountain with New York Bluestone caps; underwater lighting. A charming little water feature, lit from below, gurgles quietly by the back window. Pergola & Arbor: Fiberglass columns, Cedar timbers, and wood beam rafters.
The "Freedom" of an Outdoor Shower
An outdoor shower just before jumping in the hot tub or rinsing hands and feet after gardening.
Shower: Fond du Lac outcropping with custom plumbing fixtures and frost footings using steel rebar.
S'mores Around the Fire Anyone?
Patio is New York Bluestone with colored concrete border and a Fond Du Lac stacked stone fire pit. Audio speakers "planted" in the beds nearby bring music to the outdoors.
Flagstone Path and Lighting Connect Neighbors' Landscapes
The homeowner's close family friend lives next door. During phase two, a garden path connecting the two yards was added.
Added Gardens, a Stone Mailbox Pillar with LED Lighting Adds to Curb Appeal
Mailbox: Fond du Lac outcropping with custom detail; drilled mailbox opening; column top cut off and raised up on a metal plate; LED lighting inside the column shines on the underside of the upper piece - making it a piece of art.
In the News! This project was featured in Lake Minnetonka Magazine, August 2016.
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Front yard landscape design in Eden Prairie sculpts hill using modular retaining wall materials to create classic look and curb appeal.
Designers and crews had to carve out a portion of a hill to create a level space for a swimming pool and hot tub in this backyard.


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About Us - Our Story -
About Todd Wenzel Buick GMC of Grand Rapids, MI
Sales: Closed | Call us at: (616) 426-9780
Todd Wenzel | Dealer Principal, CEO
To say automobiles are in our DNA is an understatement. Todd Wenzel was raised in West Michigan, where his father was a GM employee and UAW member in the Wyoming, Michigan plant for 35 years. Growing up within the strength and solidarity of this GM community made a lasting impression, and laid the foundation for a lifelong commitment to the brand.
When he was 18, Todd began working at a GM dealership in Grand Rapids. His knowledge of and passion for the auto industry was evident, and he was quickly promoted to Finance Director. It was during this time that he set his sights to one day own his own dealership.
Fast forward to 1995, when the story of Todd Wenzel Automotive was just beginning in Portland, Maine. As a new dealer, Todd's vision of reinventing the customer experience was taking shape. Success quickly followed, and soon Todd became New England's largest volume Chevrolet dealer. Around this time he met an 18-year-old named Pete Ferris. A meeting that would have a profound and unwavering impact for the next 28 years.
Like Todd, Pete had also grown up in a GM family. His father owned a successful Chevrolet dealership in Maine, and from a young age Pete couldn't get enough of the car business. Time after school and summer vacations were spent helping out at his father's dealership. In fact, he sold his first vehicle when he was just 15. So it's no surprise that when Todd met Pete he saw potential in the young salesman, giving him the same opportunity he had been given at 18. Under Todd's leadership, Pete quickly rose through the ranks from Salesperson to General Sales Manager, becoming a trusted and respected partner in the business. Twenty-eight years later, Todd says his biggest success was hiring and building a life-long relationship with Pete, who is now our COO and President. But while Todd's dealerships were thriving, one thing was missing: living and doing business in West Michigan. It was time to return home.
Pete Ferris | President, COO
Every day we go to work with a customer-first approach-from offering the largest inventory selection and a staff that truly knows their stuff, to bold rewards after the deal. We work to make sure our customers actually enjoy, rather than dread, buying or servicing their vehicle. This vision took hold in Maine, was true when we opened our first dealership in West Michigan, and remains true today.
From our commitment to representing the finest products in the industry, to the way we serve the families in our communities - we make sure we do everything with a sense of honesty, honor, and humility. Get More is not just a tagline, it's how we approach our business every day.
In 2001 we had a GMC dealership in Grand Rapids with 65 employees. From this single store, Todd Wenzel again proved that his vision of giving customers great service would result in great rewards.
Today we have four locations in West Michigan, one in Davison, and one in Metro Detroit. Our staff of nearly 450 employees know our customers are at the heart of our success. We are the largest Buick, GMC dealer group outside of Metro Detroit and in the North Central Region. Our Chevrolet dealership in Hudsonville is the second largest Chevy dealership in West Michigan.
I want our customers to experience, and our employees to deliver, a much better approach than our competitors at every level.
The customer comes first, they are everything. It doesn't matter how successful you are, you need to have this attitude with every single interaction."
- Todd Wenzel | Dealer Principal, CEO
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Cheap cycling tools | Cut-price workshop and roadside essentials
Save money on tools, and then save more by doing your own maintenance
No matter how nice you are to your bike, at some point it will likely need some maintenance. While you can take it to the bike shop, in the long run, it will likely be cheaper (and more satisfying) to learn how to maintain your bike yourself.
There are a few key tools you can invest in or you can go the whole hog and get a complete tool kit.
Below are some great deals on essentials such as cheap tyre levers, puncture repair kits, Allen/hex keys, multi-tools, a track pump and a basic cycling tool kit.
Related reading
- 6 everyday bike hacks every rider should know
- How to clean your bike in 7 simple steps
- How to pump up a bike tyre | everything you need to know about pumps, valves, pressure and more
- Make sure your bike is safe to ride with the M check
- Best hybrid bikes 2020: find the perfect hybrid for you
- Best road bikes 2020: how to choose the right one for you
- Best mountain bike 2020: how to choose the right one for you
Pedro's Tyre levers – £5.99
Tyre levers are an essential part of any rider's tool kit. While there may be cheaper levers out there, we really rate Pedro's tyre levers.
With a fat wide lip, they'll be able to wrestle off even the most stubborn tyre. They'll hardly break the bank either, and come with a lifetime guarantee.
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Weldtite Puncture Repair Kit – £3.45
Here's a roadside and workshop essential that will give you change from a fiver.
Each kit comes with eight square patches, sandpaper and glue. A bargain staple that should be in every saddle bag.
Bondhus Ball End Allen key set – £10.97
You're not going to get far without a set of Allen keys – they are indispensable for the vast majority of bike maintenance tasks.
Bondhus actually makes hex keys for Park Tool, so rest assured that you'll be getting a great quality set of hex wrenches here.
For the importance of investing in a quality set of hex keys, you can read more here.
LifeLine X-Tools Pro ratchet wrench tool set –
£14.99 £5.99
If you're looking for something a bit more portable than the Bondhus keys, this little ratcheting multi-tool from Wiggle house brand Lifeline looks like a good shout for just £5.99.
With 12 different replaceable bits, this nifty little tool should cover you for most eventualities.
Joe Blow Sport III Track Pump —
£39.99 £29.99
The Joe Blow Sport is a legendary track pump that strikes a balance between quality performance and a sensible price.
The Sport is now onto its third iteration, with a rotating connector, longer lever and 3in gauge, and you can get 25 per cent off this workshop essential at Wiggle.
LifeLine X-Tools Performance 39-piece tool kit – £124.99
We appreciate that not everyone can afford premium tools, and if you're just getting into tinkering then you may not want to invest too much.
While it may not be as durable as more expensive options, this compact X-Tools tool kit has just about everything you need to work on a modern road or mountain bike and will serve you well for occasional maintenance tasks — ideal for the budding home mechanic.
X-Tools does produce slightly cheaper tool kits, but the extra cash gets you a few more tools that could be very valuable down the line, and buying them as part of a kit will be much cheaper than picking them up individually.
Latest deals
Halfords Advanced 150-piece socket and spanner set –
£190 £121.60
If you're looking to expand or start building a home bike workshop from scratch, or just need a general tool kit, you could do much, much worse than this heavily discounted ratchet and spanner set.
Taken from Halfords' Advanced lineup – which offers a lifetime guarantee on all tools – this 150-piece set has a whopping £68.40 saving currently.
Park Tool MK-278… everything tool kit –
£6,999.99 £5,998.50
Okay, so this tool kit, which could quite literally outfit a professional bike shop, isn't cheap, but with £1,000 off the RRP, Freewheel definitely takes the biscuit for the biggest discount here.
Muc-Off Ultimate Bicycle Cleaning Kit – £44.99
Preventative maintenance is just as important to consider, so while we're at it, let's avoid any further mechanicals and give that bike a good scrub.
While a bucket and sponge will work to a certain extent, a decent cleaning kit makes life a lot easier, and this all-in-one solution from Muc-Off is among the best out there.


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AHR announces appointment of new Bristol-based BDM
AHR have announced the appointment of Natasha Spooner as business development manager.
Spooner will be based at AHR's Bristol office serving the South West, South Coast and South Wales.
Spooner will work across the firm's architecture and building consultancy practices.
Natasha brings more than ten years of experience working in the property and construction industry with a particular expertise and knowledge base within the residential and commercial sectors.
Natasha said: "I am looking forward to developing new opportunities and enhancing client relationships across a range of target sectors. I believe that my knowledge of the Bristol and South West property and construction market will be a long-term asset to the business."
Karle Burford, AHR director, said: "Natasha is already full of great ideas and the Bristol team is keen to start working together. We are sure she will bring new connections and help us to win even more work, in what has been a strong year so far."


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Shopping is the next big thing after sightseeing in Gwalior. The markets of this city are not just shopping destinations but a showcase of the royal era. If you wish to shop endlessley , head towards Rajwara, Patankar Bazar and Laskar market. These three are major shopping points, well known amongst tourists.
From hand made wall hangings, jewellery, dolls, lacqer ware, chanderi saris, dokra figurines, tribal jewellery, hand woven saris, shoes and many more. While shopping dip in some of the most exquisite Indian recepies at well known food joints of India including Moti Mahal, Silver Spoon and Indian Coffee House which offer refreshing food at appropriate price.


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Carlos Gomez may be remembered this season for scoring the game-winning run in Game 5 of the NLDS, but its clear that his defense is what made him such an asset to the club.
While we'll probably always shake our heads and wonder why he can't figure out patience at the plate, necessitating that he be played in a platoon, we have to be thankful for every game that Gomez was our center fielder.
Gomez's UZR for 2011 in CF was 12.0. That's good for 10th best in the majors.
For reference, Nyjer Morgan's UZR was 9.2. Corey Hart's UZR for 2011 was 1.9. Ryan Braun's UZR for 2011 was -3.8 . Mark Kotsay's UZR in CF was also -2.3.
Gomez started the season as the everyday center fielder - he started 46 games from April through May, but just 17 from June til the end of the year. By June he and Morgan were in a pretty strict platoon.
Because of his infrequent playing time, some of Gomez's amazing plays really stand out in the memory of 2011.
Though we will mostly remember Gomez for the amazing defense he provided the club, we can't forget what an asset his speed is. He showcased it early with this inside-the-park home run at home against San Francisco.
The Brewers didn't end up winning this game, but Gomez put on a defensive show, making two catches at the wall to keep the game in reach. First was this one in the fifth, followed by this catch in the seventh.
On June 12, he saved a run and probably the game against St. Louis with a great catch at the wall in the 9th that gave the Brewers 1st place in the NL Central.
Maybe it was inevitable with the way he sacrifices his body for catches, but Gomez broke his collar bone on July 20 against Arizona. He didn't return to the major league roster for six weeks.
Contract Status: Gomez signed a one-year $1.5 million contract before last season, a $400,000 raise from the year before. He is arbitration eligible, so the Brewers would have to come to terms with him or take him to an arbitration hearing.
Best Game: It has to be NLDS Game 5, right? I mean, we talked about some of his incredible defense, but it was Gomez's speed that put him in the position for Nyjer Morgan to plate him to win the game in the 10th. Gomez had just 14 post-season at-bats, but he made the most of his pinch-hit in NLDS Game 5. He had been put in the game in the 8th inning as a defensive replacement for Corey Hart. Batting second in the 10th inning he put a single in left field. He then stole second base. He raced home from second on Morgan's single, giving the Brewers their first post-season series win since 1982.


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Bernake As Greenspan
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- But What do I Know?November 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
What is interesting is the willingness of several Fed governors to throw BB under the bus--the latest being Kevin Warsh. I think the Fed as an institution is becoming wary of shouldering the burden of producing a recovery (and placing themselves squarely in the path of blame when it doesn't work), and Mr. Bernancke's theories about how to prevent the Great Depression are about to meet political reality. The elected government has absolved itself of all responsibility for Recovery--given the nature of the new Congress it is almost impossible to see anything stimulative coming on the fiscal front--so now the Fed finds itself in the frontlines of battle with a poor choice of weapons and sniping from behind. The Fed as an institution must realize this and have different priorities than BB, who will after all be headed back to Princeton in a few years. Those fault lines are starting to show.ReplyDelete
Success has a thousand fathers, but Failure is an orphan.
I couldn't agree more. The "real economy" is the way to go. Unless people earn real money by producing real wealth we won't get out of this quagmire.ReplyDelete
What if any "intervention" is there to produce higher wages and salaries, how is it sustained and can you provide me real world examples of this.ReplyDelete
QE2=Gold thru the roof! >1,400ReplyDelete
Bernanke: "Increased spending will lead to higher incomes..." What is he talking about? Rather, increased spending will lead to higher debt levels!ReplyDelete
In March 09 Bernanke was on 60 minutes and he said what he intended to do. And he did it, even more than announced.ReplyDelete
Now he is writing op-eds in the Washington Post. Any wonder the markets get loopsided ?
And the willingness of other Governors to throw him under the bus is not proven so far. It is safer to assume that they will go on with this and they will signal in spring 2011 early on that they will not stop in June 2011.
Who wants to short anything? BB told us to go long stocks. If markets correct, he might even increase his program. 2011 promises to be another crazy year.
- But What do I Know?November 9, 2010 at 7:40 PM
I guess I'll take the other side of that trade. QE will not be renewed, IMHO. BB is running out of friends in Washington. . .
Here's the problem: the only sustainable prosperity is attained through production of real and desirable products that others buy. The manufacturing base in the US has been eroding for decades. Even some of our agricultural leadership has given way to foreign producers.ReplyDelete
Until we get back into production not much is going to change. An economy based on consumption is doomed to failure. It must be based on production.
That is what will be interesting this coming year. Will anyone in Washington point to the man behind the curtain?ReplyDelete
I doubt it. The problem is the first person to crack down on "crazy Bennie" will be blamed for the temporary destruction of the markets. The necessary medicine of default before we begin to get better.
QE3 anyone? Let's try $6-9 trillion to re-float the real estate market. 3% 30 year mortgages and buy all the garbage assets of Freddie and Fannie. That should get the "consumers" buying again.
"His prices are insane"
camabron said...ReplyDelete
Bernanke: "Increased spending will lead to higher incomes..." What is he talking about? Rather, increased spending will lead to higher debt levels!
I agree! That's good only for the businessmen and entrepreneurs but what about us?
@ But What do I Know?ReplyDelete
.. QE will not be renewed, IMHO. BB is running out of friends in Washington. . .
I hope you are right and I do not have the QE trade on for lack of fundamental conviction. But my reading of Wall Street and Washington is different from yours. My reasons are the typical cynical ones you can read everywhere.
I find your comments in many places and they are well thought out. Furthermore I would like to change my opinion here. Have you any other leads but a few Fed Speeches and Ron Paul as subcomittee chief - or is it more intuitive ?
- But What do I Know?November 11, 2010 at 2:44 PM
@Hubert--Thanks for your kind words. I have nothing to go on other than my past experience with the workings of institutional infighting. I'm not sure that anyone in Washington gives a shit about Ron Paul (this is not an assessment of the veracity of his claims, BTW), but if the Fed can be made the scapegoat for economic problems then they surely will be.ReplyDelete
Of course, I've been wrong before--and many times at that. But since everyone seems to assume that the Fed can perform QE ad infinitum in the face of considerable political reasons to the contrary, leaning against the consensus could shake out some profits down the road.
Their methods are only helping the stick market. I am an investor in the market yet my stocks are still in the toilet. People needs jobs before they are able to spend money. They also need a break on their interest rates on their credit cards. So they can feasably start paying off their debts and see a light at the end of the tunnel.ReplyDelete
For your consideration from the SLV prospectus:ReplyDelete
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My mom often comments on how buying lipsticks has become a hobby for me. I love to try out new shades, new textures and that's why I am always ready to buy new lip colors. ELLE 18 is one of the most affordable brands for students; when I was in school, I used to purchase only ELLE 18 products and they have a huge collection. ELLE 18 recently launched the 'Color Pops Matte Lipsticks' range in India with 20 beautiful shades. From this range, I have picked up 8 shades. Actually, I was really confused about the shades, so picked up the shades randomly. Today's review is going to be on the shade 'First Love' and it is quite a unique shade. Read on for more details.
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Elle 18 matte lipstick comes in a cute black packaging with a lovely girl's face printed over the cap. But the packaging is common to all lipsticks by Elle 18, so it is quite difficult to identify and pick one range or shade. The cute tube is easy to carry around, though. It is such a fun and girly packaging. But, the packaging twist mechanism isn't very sturdy. Other than that, I really like this super affordable lipstick.
This new matte lipstick range has 20 shades but I could find only 13 shades in my local market and I chose only 8 out of them. This range has a huge variety of shades like red, orange, pink, mauve, and brown. 'First Love' is from the purple range and it is a vibrant pinkish purple shade with a neon touch. It looks so bright and neonish on my lips.
It looks nice on my medium skin tone, but the shade would suit fair skin tones the best. I find it a fun color to try especially during the summer. It looks very fresh and very poppy. It washes out darker skin tone and is not a mature shade at all. But I really like it! Also, the shade is decently pigmented and needs maximum two to three swipes for the true, perfect color to show up.
They call it a "matte lipstick" but I prefer to call it a creamy-matte lipstick. Its smooth and soft texture glides so easily on the lips and it provides an even application. The finish is not exactly matte; it is more of a creamy-matte with a velvety finish. It has a non-drying finish which keeps the lips soft and moisturized for long. But, after a few hours, it settles down to a nice semi-matte stain. After that, it might feel a little dry if you have really chapped lips. Otherwise, it is a really a hydrating lipstick which doesn't highlight dry patches.
It doesn't contain any shimmers which is really nice. It does transfer just after the application but not too much like any creamy lipstick. Other shades in this range do not settle into the fine lines and don't crease. But this particular shade slightly settles into the fine lines after many hours of application. I am really happy with the quality. But it is not a proper matte lipstick.
It doesn't stay on the lips for as long as other matte lipsticks; it stays for around 4-5 hours. After 4 hours, it starts to fade and then it leaves a nice pink stain on the lips. It can't survive lunch amazingly but, after lunch, the pink stain looks pretty on the lips. A reapplication is needed after 3-4 hours.
According to its price, I have no complaints about it. It is really worth the money as it gives a very poppy shade and also has a nice quality. I was expecting it to have a perfect matte finish which it can't exactly provide. This shade is really good for teenagers who like to sport fun shades.
Pros of Elle 18 Color Pops Matte Lipstick First Love:
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• First Love is a bright pinkish purple shade
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• Has a creamy-matte finish
• Non-drying texture
• Good staying power
• Leaves a nice pink stain
Cons of Elle 18 Color Pops Matte Lipstick First Love:
• Not exactly a 100% matte lipstick
• Transfers a little
• This shade can wash darker skin tones out
• Reapplication is required
• Fades after a meal
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Would I Recommend/Repurchase Elle 18 Color Pops Matte Lipstick First Love?
I already have lots of shades but I really enjoy this range and you should try this range too. But, I feel, this shade is particularly meant for fair to medium skin tones.
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Fr.: photométrie à bande large
Photometric measurements carried out through filters with a band-width (about one-tenth the central wavelength) in the range 30-100 nm. Typical examples are Johnson photometry, Krons-Cousins RI photometry, and the six-color system.
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Fr.: région à raies larges
The inner region of a → quasar or an → active galactic nucleus exhibiting broad → spectral lines which indicate ionized matter moving with speeds in excess of 10,000 km sec-1, probably due to the presence of an → accretion disk surrounding a → supermassive black hole. Also called Type I AGN. See also → obscuring torus.
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UKRAINIAN VILLAGE — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for the largest school consolidation in American history left Ukrainian Village photographer Jessica Rodrigue both fascinated and confused.
"I've always been interested in how space is utilized, and these school closings became this huge conversation about how school space is utilized or underutilized," Rodrigue said. "Whether space is used thoughtfully or not is something that I like to investigate with a camera. If I'm confused about something, the way I learn is to make pictures."
So, she hopped on her single-speed Schwinn and set out on an adventure that became something of a mission to capture a new perspective on the school closings by documenting the emptiness they leave behind.
Over 26 days, Rodrigue pedaled hundreds of miles to take portraits of the 50 affected schools — focusing closest on the shuttered school buildings where the opening day bell won't ring on Monday. "Closure" — that's what she's calls the collection.
Rodrigue, 32, grew up in Lewiston, Maine, a textile mill town. Her mom stitched at the mill. Her father worked construction.
"I grew up in a town that's been sort of dying and economically depressed for a long time," she said. "I figured this was a similar dynamic. People don't want to live there anymore because there's nothing there."
Her journey into decaying Chicago uncovered so much more than that.
She found that locals paid special attention when they spotted her — a pale-skinned gal feigning fearlessness as she pedaled, ponytail bouncing on her backpack, into the heart of gang turf just before sunset.
Outside Emmet Elementary in Austin, an older gentlemen sitting on a porch with a buddy protected Rodrigue when a guy high on something or another headed her way.
"He said, 'You leave her alone.' And he said it forcefully," Rodrigue said. "He said he was watching my back."
And the children she encountered, they just loved her.
"Every kid I met wanted to ride my bike. They wanted to know why I was there. And when I told them, they wanted me to take their pictures," she said. "They were sweet kids, just playing with their friends."
At Wentworth Elementary, two brothers — one was 5, the other a third-grader — told Rodrigue that their older sister would walk them to their new school, but they weren't sure where that would be, exactly.
"They wanted to do cartwheels," she said. "And they were excited to see the pictures afterward."
Rodrigue's photos show the two boys mugging for the camera, their hands twisted in weird shapes — gang signs.
"I didn't know what that meant," she said. "They were just playing. They were sweet kids."
At Pope Elementary, Rodrigue met an especially curious boy named "PJ." He pointed out that the school's sign had been boarded up and painted black.
PJ, of course, asked Rodrigue to take his picture, so she snapped a few of him smiling on the sidewalk and after he climbed up on a brick column near the entrance to the school playground.
"After I showed him the pictures, PJ asked me if I was going to show them to the police. That was bizarre to me," she said. "Why would it matter anyway. He was just playing with his friends. I still think about PJ all the time, more than any of the other kids for some reason. When he walked away it was almost as if he thought his existence was somehow criminal. He's just a nice kid."
She did encounter a few people who seemed to fit the profile of a criminal.
The guy who greeted Rodrigue as she neared Ryerson Elementary in East Garfield Park — a building that will be used to house a school of a different name when the school year starts — offered up his black market services.
"He asked me what I was l looking for. If I needed something," she said. "I'm describing it in a much more polite way than it happened. I'm pretty sure he thought I was looking for drugs."
There was a crowd at Ryerson. They seemed agitated. Rodrigue decided not to stop. Seconds later, that same guy started throwing bricks.
"I don't know if they were thrown at me," she said. "I just looked back and pedaled away."
Rodrigue suffered another scary encounter — a man ripped off his shirt while complimenting her body — outside Fermi School in South Shore. She'd rather not talk about the details. She pedaled away fast — scared, shaken and without taking any good photos.
That was the worst of her days on the street documenting the buildings once used to educate so many Chicago school kids. It wasn't the norm.
"I went to supposedly bad areas where people's lawns were perfectly manicured. I met more kind people in Englewood, Garfield Park and Austin than I do going to work in River North," Rodrigue said. "I rode my bike because I thought it was important to spend time in these places and not just getting out of a car taking a picture and getting back in a car. Not that me spending time there doesn't make me an outsider. I'm still an outsider. I was just there observing."
Ultimately, what Rodrigue saw — what she captured in her photographs — was the growing emptiness in the heart of what once were Chicago's thriving middle-class neighborhoods.
"I've seen a lot of Chicago, but not like this," Rodrigue said. "A lot of it is so vacant and empty and vast. And it's nowhere near as unsightly as it may seem in the media. You read that all the closing schools are in African-American communities, but then to see it is so overwhelming. Seeing it for yourself is so different."
The bitter battle to save those schools — all the failed protests and lawsuits — ends on Monday when kids will make their way to new schools.
I asked Rodrigue what story she hoped her photographs would tell.
"I guess I'm thinking about the kids. I want to make artwork accessible to them and something that they can understand," she said, pausing for a moment. "So much brick. Literally, so much brick. You see some of these schools had portable classrooms. So, at one point there wasn't enough room for all the students and now … now there's not enough kids to fill them."
Rodrigue's pictures could never tell a school's life story — they only captured their closure.
Rodrigue's journey isn't over. She hopes to photograph the interior of all 50 closed schools.
You can find more of her photographs on her website, jessicarodrigue.net.


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A team of researchers has demonstrated that Intel's SGX technology can be abused to hide an advanced and stealthy piece of malware that could allow attackers to steal data and conduct activities on the victim's behalf. Intel says its technology works as intended and it's not designed to block these types of attacks.
Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser and Daniel Gruss of the Graz University of Technology in Austria have conducted an analysis of Intel SGX and the practicality of enclave malware. It's worth noting that Schwarz and Gruss were also involved in the discovery of the notorious Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) is an isolated execution technology present in Intel processors. It's designed to protect code and data against disclosure and changes – even if the system has been compromised – by allowing developers to partition their applications into hardware-protected memory regions called enclaves. The technology is advertised for cloud environments, digital rights management (DRM), secure browsing, and other applications.
While the technology can be highly useful, it can also be leveraged for malicious purposes. SGX enclaves can be ideal for hiding a piece of malware as they prevent antiviruses from inspecting code running in them, and cybercriminals could develop ransomware that stores encryption keys inside an enclave to make file recovery impossible.
Researchers demonstrated in the past that enclave malware can use side channels to steal sensitive information, but it has been assumed that there are serious limitations to what enclave malware can do. Some previously developed enclave malware relied on an application running on the host to perform malicious activities.
However, researchers from the Graz University of Technology have now shown that enclave malware can be practical and it does not necessarily need support from a malicious host application. They demonstrated how a piece of malware can bypass SGX restrictions and stealthily exploit a benign host application.
In the attack scenario described by the experts, the victim uses a trusted and secure system. The attacker delivers a benign application that uses a malicious enclave when executed. The host application communicates with the enclave through an interface that should not allow the enclave to attack the app.
However, despite serious restrictions, the researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to escape the enclave and achieve arbitrary code execution with host privileges even without exploiting any hardware flaws in SGX. The attack can even bypass exploit protections such as ASLR, stack canaries, and Address Sanitizer.
Theoretical attack scenarios described by the experts involve criminal threat actors delivering the malware as computer games requiring the execution of a DRM enclave, a messaging app that runs an enclave for security reasons, and a special decoder that allegedly needs an enclave to provide an interesting feature. In attack scenarios involving a state surveillance agency, the enclave malware is delivered via state-endorsed applications, such as digital signature tools.
Hackers could steal or encrypt files for ransom attacks, or they could perform actions on the victim's behalf, including to send out phishing emails or launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, experts said.
Sophisticated threat actors may find this method useful as it can help them ensure that the zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in their attacks are not exposed if their malware is discovered. The method allows an attacker to trigger the exploit at a specified moment to prevent discovery before execution, which can be useful for large-scale synchronized threats such as botnets and ransomware.
"[Hiding] malware in an SGX enclave give attackers plausible deniability and stealthiness until they choose to launch the attack. This is particularly relevant for trigger-based malware that embeds a zero-day exploit, but also to provide plausible deniability for legal or political reasons, e.g., for a state actor. Possible scenarios range from synchronized large-scale denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks on individuals," the researchers explained.
"We conclude that instead of protecting users from harm, SGX currently poses a security threat, facilitating so-called super-malware with ready-to-hit exploits. Our results lay ground for future research on more realistic trust relationships between enclave and non-enclave software, as well as the mitigation of enclave malware," they noted.
Contacted by SecurityWeek, Intel has thanked the researchers for their work and for coordinating disclosure of the method. However, the tech giant says the research is "based upon assumptions that are outside the threat model for Intel SGX."
"The value of Intel SGX is to execute code in a protected enclave; however, Intel SGX does not guarantee that the code executed in the enclave is from a trusted source. In all cases, we recommend utilizing programs, files, apps, and plugins from trusted sources," Intel said.
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"One of my passions at Saybrook is to keep the humanistic and existential traditions alive for future generations."
There is a quote from a great humanistic legend that Dr. Louis Hoffman likes to share with his students who are still trying to find their way.
"Rollo May once said, 'If you want to see the new innovations in understanding what it means to be human, don't go to the psychology department; go to the literature department'," explains Dr. Hoffman, director of the Existential, Humanistic, and Transpersonal (EHTP) specialization within Saybrook's College of Social Sciences. "Poetry, for example, is one legitimate way of understanding what it means to be human that has been helping people heal for thousands of years."
Dr. Hoffman says students sometimes come to Saybrook with a preferred way of seeing the world. Their opinions are set, and their "way of knowing" is restricted. But with Saybrook's interdisciplinary approach to psychology education, those predispositions are disassembled, examined, and then put back together again with a fresh, integrative perspective.
"What we do at Saybrook is create a place where it is safe to explore different viewpoints—to break outside of mainstream psychology to see how religion, spirituality, creativity, and other ways of knowing are connected in a humanistic perspective," he says.
One of Saybrook's faculty luminaries in the field of existential psychology, Dr. Hoffman is the author/editor of eight books, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Janus Head, PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books, and The Humanistic Psychologist. He is also past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology and a co-founder of the Zhi Mian International Institute of Existential-Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman has been recognized as a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Humanistic Psychology, and APA Division 52 (International Psychology) for his contributions to the field.
As co-director of certificate programs at Saybrook—one in International Psychology and the other in Socially Engaged Spirituality—Dr. Hoffman takes pride in giving psychology education at Saybrook a much-needed interdisciplinary lens.
"I enjoy fostering interest in different areas of thought and helping students figure out how they can connect them," explains Dr. Hoffman, who also teaches in both Saybrook's Creativity Studies specialization and Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health specialization. "Saybrook has a long history and many would say that we are the leading school in the world in the existential-humanistic psychology tradition. But there are other views, and we want to make sure students are exposed to those as well."
This approach sets Saybrook's culture apart from other psychology schools.
"Some individuals enter psychology enthusiastically but leave feeling disheartened because there was no soul in the program," he says. "Our students find their heart here. They find what they are passionate about. That's what defines us as an institution and makes us different."


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Reverb10 – Day10 – Wisdom
December 10 – Wisdom. What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how did it play out? (Author: Susannah Conway)
"They want to know what wise decision I've made,"
I laughed, melting into the couch,
"Tricky question. I've made no decisions."
Every autumn as the air cools the irritation of August
and the leaves shed green costuming and flash their scarlet underclothes
a single insect chewing stops, sniffs the air,
declares itself fat enough,
and lurches into the sky.
It waves orange wings to orange leaves turning,
Without passport or flight plan
The insect aims its tiny breath of self
Orients across vast space
Empty of meaning, full of danger
To a small distant point it has never seen
The journey calls the butterfly
The butterfly attends
When the wind comes,
A giant roar ripping through the journey's path
the insect stops, perches, waits.
When ballistic rain slams the leaves,
Rattles the air,
Creates soup from sustaining lift,
the insect stops, goes beneath, and waits.
The insect travels without company,
No V-formation to switch the lead,
It does not slice the air to carve a path
But tumbles over it;
As the insect finds its way closer
(to the small distant point)
Others join beside, and there, and another,
Flashing orange and black at each other
They become a gust, and then a torrent.
Together they arrive
A great cyclone of colour and wings
They set down on a tree, covering it,
A tree with a million leaves added, creaking with strain,
Hefting bodies and journeys along its weight
The insect opens and closes its wings,
A tiny breath in a gale.
The journey calls,
the moment attends.


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The Valley of Baca
October 4
"Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion" (Ps 84:5-7).
There is a spiritual law in the Kingdom of God. Every great leader in the Kingdom will pass through the Valley of Baca. Baca means to weep. It comes from the Hebrew word, bakah (baw-kaw'); a primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan.
However, Baca is also a place of springs. There is nothing better on a hot day when you're thirsty and weary than to drink water from a mountain spring. It refreshes. It renews. It gives you a second wind to continue your journey. Those who commit themselves to a pilgrimage with God will experience the Valley of Baca. But in the midst of Baca they will discover that in this valley they will also drink from a very special spring that refreshes with a different kind of living water.
It becomes the source of "secret things in hidden places" described by the prophet Isaiah (Isa 45:3) reserved only for those willing to journey on the Great Pilgrimage with God. Once you drink from this spring you will be energized in your spiritual man from strength to strength. Each Valley of Baca will result in a new spiritual spring from which you will drink. It is handmade just for you by God. But know this?it will be used to provide a refreshing drink for others you will encounter who are also on their pilgrimage.
Ultimately, Baca leads to the presence of God. There is something about being in a place with God that results in our weeping and crying out to Him. Do you find yourself in this place with God today? If so, know that His springs are also available to you. Ask him today to give you a drink from His spring only available in the Valley of Baca.
For more from Os Hillman and T.G.I.F., visit todaygodisfirst.com


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Over the last five years, North Carolinian instrumental trio Ahleuchatistas has made four albums' worth of music that proudly avoids repetition and repose. Almost always through-composed, and frequently played at bewilderingly fast speeds, their songs rarely let an idea last for more than 45 seconds before it is steamrolled by an entirely different idea. It's a challenging sound, to say the least. It doesn't shock me that experimental music legend John Zorn was fond enough of Ahleuchatistas to reissue their second album, 2004's The Same and the Other, on his Tzadik label. Zorn's endorsement should expose the band to thousands more listeners, the kind who don't flinch when suffixes like "prog-" and "math-" are attached to their rock music. Everyone else, though, should probably steer clear.
After a three-second intro of blast beats straight out of a death metal record, opener "Cracked Teeth" runs through at least five distinct sections in less than three minutes. At the beginning of the song, drummer Sean Dail crams so many snare rolls and hi-hat trills into his rhythms that he almost falls out of sync with the rest of the band. At another point, the song takes a 12-second detour into funk before launching into a series of false endings. The song peaks when guitarist Shane Perlowin and bassist Derek Poteat start wrenching abrasive screeches and diddles from their instruments. Their ability to make such a racket is pretty impressive, considering that both Perlowin and Poteat play sans effects.
The most approachable songs on The Same and the Other are those in which the band either allows ideas to repeat themselves, or bridges them smoothly enough to imply some sort of linear progression. On "Imperceptibility", the trio runs two central riffs through every possible permutation it can think of – adding and subtracting notes, applying odd syncopations, shoehorning them into odd meters – without letting its skittishness disrupt the song's momentum. "Good Question" boasts a long, unaccompanied guitar solo in which Perlowin wanders up and down Middle Eastern scales in a way that would make Sir Richard Bishop proud. During the mid-section of "Lee Kyang Hae", the band jams on a melancholy four-chord riff for such a surprisingly long time that I wonder if their beers were spiked with Adderall when they recorded it.
The reissued version of The Same and the Other appends the original album with five bonus tracks from the same sessions that find the band engaging in full-on improvisation – which, frankly, isn't their strong suit. These tracks basically sound like Perlowin and Poteat strangling their instruments while Dail practices paradiddles. The original album was already an exhausting listen at 28 minutes; increasing the running time to 46 turns it into the kind of ordeal that only Trumans Water completists would enjoy in its entirety.
The members of Ahleuchatistas are outspoken about their political motivations: the first part of the band's name comes from the famous Charlie Parker tune, the second from the infamous Mexican revolutionary group. I suspect that the band's music is intentionally designed to imitate the tumult of modern life. If so, then it may be a bit TOO successful. Just as watching a news anchor tell tales of violence and turmoil for a half-hour can compel me to seek refuge in even the most insipid sitcom, if only to remind myself how to laugh again, listening to The Same and the Other could compel many listeners to reach for the nearest Rihanna CD, if only to remind themselves how to dance and sing along to music again.


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system freezes 5-30 s during browser session
luko357 last edited by
Hey folks, I need some help...!
on a Win 7pro NB (HP8760W 16GBRAM, 256GBSSD +750GB HD7200rpm) with Opera 22.0 sometimes the complete system freezes for a few -more or less- 15 seconds during the use of the browser only. No specifid sites, no specific actions are necessary to cause the error. To me it seems to happen randomly... No Mouse, no sound, no streams, no motion ... frozen...!
Hardware is tested and good, system is clean, fast and healthy. Benchmarked 7.9/8
It seems to happen time after a HDD crash and shortly after the installation of Spotify... if that helps you ..
Is there anyone with an idea ...?
Google does not help
No PN, pls answer here or send me an email [Mod Edit: Email address removed, for obvious reasons]
Thanks a lot
- nice rgds Andreas
Opera user since Opera Ver 3.5
A Former User last edited by
Never put your e-mail address openly in forum posts!
It's a gift for spammers.
pe73 last edited by
It seems I suffer from these intermittent freezes on Vista Business 32 too. Having observed the same symptoms as you and I also don't have a pattern for freezes occurrence.
luko357 last edited by
The only thing helping would be something like an event recorder.
I cant do anything during the stoping of the system, but would like to monitore, what happens to my system, and what makes it stopping.
Noboby with an idea ...??
Thanks for reading and taking care ..
linuxmint7 last edited by
Certain versions of Windows have an 'Event Viewer' build-in, it's found in 'Control Panel / Administrative Tools' which logs events for 'Applications', 'System', 'Security' and 'Set-up' etc.
Noboby with an idea ...??
Come on, give people a chance, you only posted your comment 10 minutes ago.
blackbird71 last edited by
As @linuxmint7 suggests, check in your event viewer, especially right after one of the "hang" episodes. Look under 'Windows Logs', especially the 'Application', 'Security', and 'System' categories for errors at, during, or immediately preceding the time of the 'hang'. You're particularly looking for events with a red "Error" icon, though even the yellow "warning" icon can sometimes give clues; even unflagged events right at the moment of the hang at times can offer clues to something starting up or shutting off that is involved in the problem. Note that not all warnings and errors will necessarily be related to the problem or even represent a genuine problem of any other kind, but any flag raised within a few minutes of, or during, the hang deserves special examination. Also, any kind of event (flagged or not) immediately after the 'hang' ends can sometimes offer a clue to a resumption of whatever was hanging. Click on a particular entry to see a general explanation of what was going on that flagged the system as a possible abnormality.
Also, you may wish to do this from within an admin account to be able to see the full range of messages. Sometimes, the data available from within a limited user account is restricted in various ways.
luko357 last edited by
Spotify and some other recently installed SW has been removed, temporarely, before I got your replies.
Thanks fine, I found the event viewer and will go thru the errors and warnings listed there.
btw. My thread started June 26th.
Thanks for the detailed instruction. This will hopefully help me to finding the reason for Operas bad behavior. I will not forget to post you my results ( even if there are none)


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Christopher Nolan is what we would call a triple threat. He is an amazing writer, producer, and director. Looking at most of the films he's been involved with over the past 15 years, all have received praise from both the critics and the fans. His movies are considered instant classics or cult classics. Bringing Nolan on to direct the next film in the James Bond franchise is, without a doubt, a slam-dunk. What Sam Mendes did with Skyfall and Spectre was great, but it is time to get a fresh take on the gentleman spy. Hiring Nolan to direct Bond 25 would benefit his career, the studios, and of course, the many fans of the series.
His Film Portfolio
Christopher Nolan has directed some great films. Both the critics and the fans enjoy his films. While some of his themes are consistent throughout his films, the films themselves are very different. He likes to work in various genres and time periods within the films he writes and directs. He started with the psychological thrillers: Memento and Insomnia. Then, he moved into the superhero genre, with The Dark Knight Trilogy, where Heath Ledger won his posthumous Academy Award for best supporting actor. Nolan had a mystery thriller in The Prestige, and then he ventured into the sci-fi realm with Inception and Interstellar. His most recent film, Dunkirk, was his first stab at a war film. A British spy film would be something new for him, and we now know that it's something he is interested in doing, based on his interview with Playboy.
"A Bond movie, definitely…I've spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I'm always excited to see what they do with it. Maybe one day that would work out. You'd have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they're getting along very well."
Academy Awards & Box Office
Nolan's nine films have garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations with seven wins. The Dark Knight won an academy award for best supporting actor, and best sound editing, but many thought it should have also won best picture at the 81st Academy Awards. Inception won big at the 83rd Academy Awards, taking home Oscars in the categories of cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects. Lastly, Interstellar took home an Academy Award for best visual effects at the 87th Academy Awards. His films have also grossed over $4.2 billion USD worldwide. He has yet to experience a "box office flop," and at the rate he's going, it doesn't look like he ever will.
His Rotten Tomatoes Scores
Speaking of critical praise, all of the films that Christopher Nolan has written or directed are certified "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes. Clearly, he knows how to speak to both critics and fans, as there is seems to be no disconnect between the groups on rating his films. The studio needs a director like that to carry on the James Bond franchise. Many moviegoers consider a film's score on Rotten Tomatoes before deciding to go see it in theaters. Having a director like Christopher Nolan attached to a 007 film almost guarantees a large quantity of people will go see it.
The Daniel Craig Curse
Daniel Craig is universally loved as the best James Bond since Sean Connery. Yet, his 007 films have a strange pattern of approval in that every other film is not well received. When Casino Royale came out, everyone had high praise for the film and was excited about the new franchise, but when Quantum of Solace hit theaters, it was met with lukewarm reviews. The next film in the franchise, Skyfall, hit big, being the first of the 007 films to make over $1 billion USD. The latest film, Spectre, even though it made a lot of money, unfortunately, did not hit the billion-dollar mark, and was considered unable to capitalize on its potential. If the series continues with this trend, then Bond 25 should be a well-received film. Nolan would join the franchise during the trend's upswing, gaining more attention from superstitious fans that have been following this well-known pattern in the series.
Hopefully, Christopher Nolan will decide to make Bond 25 his next film. It will be a change for him to take on a franchise that he did not start, but I believe he could handle it. Each new film in the series is a new mission, so even though Nolan would have to adhere to some of the continuity that was set up in the previous films, he has a lot of wiggle room to make it his own. I'm sure he would want to be involved in the writing of the script to make sure some of his ideas and themes are expressed. Also, I think he would add some of his regulars, including Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine, to the already stellar cast of the current franchise.
What are your thoughts on Christopher Nolan directing a James Bond film? Leave your thoughts below.