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Welcome to our blog! Thank you for keeping us so busy this last year and a half! We have been working steadily to share our work with you and are so excited to do so through this outlet. We can't wait to share what we've been up to with you. Stay tuned for our "before and after" transformations, our favorite product finds, and how-to styling posts. We can't wait to inspire you!
For out first blog post, we want to share one of our most dramatic before and afters. This client was so much fun to work with and put so much trust in our vision. We had the opportunity to work on her whole house and will be sharing her project room by room. Here is a look at her living room transformed from a disco-tech to a mid-century bohemian dream!
We can't even believe this is the same space! A coat of Benjamin Moore Simply White paint was in need along with an abundance of different textures and finishes to balance the concrete floors. We loved using West Elm's shag rug with a rich navy blue velvet streamlined custom sectional sofa. We paired the warm wood chevron media console with a marble top with the natural grain of the Chamcha wood coffee table and its acrylic base. We added a leather element in the chair draped with a baby alpaca thread throw blanket. Heather Taylor Home mustard striped pillows were a must paired with funky Loloi black arrow pillows. An over-sized mirror was the perfect reflective element topped off with a Fiddle Fig tree to give the room some life. Check out our full gallery here! Chamcha wood products are available for purchase through Refinerie. Please contact us for assistance!


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Strategic Finance magazine had a great article last month about Continuous Risk. And it got me thinking about how that relates to my clients.
First, what is continuous risk? Continuous risk isn't a set event like market price fluctuations, data breach, cyberattacks, employee fraud, or some other specific event. This article reported that continuous risk "enables 20% of (business) earnings to evaporate in the form of avoidable, low-value activities performed by highly paid knowledge workers." Right. So what does this mean to my clients?
How many of you offer services to a business, and the President/CEO is your contact? Is this the most effective use of their time? If they're small enough, they generally do everything, and that may be OK. But you don't find the CEO of a Fortune 500 company handling the accounts payable, or calling their customers about delinquent accounts! They hire competent staff to delegate that to.
So what about my clients? Often times, they're just starting to evolve from a one-man shop and start hiring staff. Depending on the nature of their business, they may hire a marketing person, an admin assistant, or someone to help with the technical aspect of the job. But they're still spending a great deal of time handling the day-to-day work, including their accounting. And as often as not (OK, probably MORE often), the accounting is seen as a necessary evil, and they put it off, and procrastinate getting anything done until it's grown to a mountain of paperwork and they're overwhelmed. They then spend many late nights agonizing over it just to make a tax deadline. They swear they'll do better starting in January… and January comes and they're still bogged down in the details of running their business, and get sidetracked and again the accounting falls by the wayside. No matter what though, this cost of wasted time is not a metric a business usually has any way of tracking on their reports as there is no cost deviation to see. All of this sounds familiar (or more than familiar!), right? So what is the solution?
- Hire someone! The cost of hiring an outside person to manage this detail for you will FAR exceed the money lost by focusing on it yourself.
- Second to that, make sure you hire someone competent. Get referrals. Your CPA will be your first referral source as he will only refer someone who's work he respects, and who's style will mesh with theirs so there is no conflict, but more importantly, someone who's work he understands and there will be fewer questions, and thus cheaper in the long run.
- Automate your system. If hiring someone is just too far out of your league right now, find a way to automate your accounting. Xero and QuickBooks both offer online solutions that work on bank feeds to manage your books. In both, you can set up reoccurring bills to your clients so if you work on a flat fee, it eliminates the work of billing the client.
- Some still aren't comfortable with this level, and for you, I say get envelopes and get religious about putting ALL receipts into those envelopes. Mark it by month, mark it by expense (preferred), and at least make the work easier for yourself at the end of the year. [hint: before I automated, I sorted my receipts on the floor while watching the evening news.] Use the voice-to-text or voice recorder on your phone to walk and take notes on invoicing your customers. Then six months down the road when you remember to bill, you're not relying on your memory for job details.
Find a solution, put in the work to implement it, and free yourself to focus on the other million and one things you have to do as a small business owner. Eliminate the "risk" of losing profits doing what you don't really want to do anyways.

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Oatmeal Raisin Muffins
Breakfast truly is one of the most important meals of the day.
Oatmeal raisin muffins are a delicious way to make sure your kids get started on the right foot.
Non-stick cooking spray
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup uncooked rolled oats
1/2 cup raisins
1 egg
1 cup skim milk
1/3 cup applesauce
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray (or use paper liners).
In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon. Stir in the rolled oats and raisins. In a separate bowl, beat together the milk and egg. Add applesauce to milk mixture. Pour milk mixture into flour mixture, and stir only until dry ingredients are wet. Batter will be lumpy. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full of batter.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins. Serving size 1 muffin.
Nutrition Information (per serving)
140 calories, 4 g protein, 1 g total fat, 29 g total carbohydrate, 0 g saturated fat, 2 g dietary fiber, 312 mg sodium


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Much as I love my mother, I've often been convinced that perhaps, just perhaps, I might actually be adopted. I thought maybe I was switched at birth with Chastity Bono, but now I'm just a wee bit convinced that my real mother is actually Delta Burke. From her acceptance speech of an award from the Human Rights Campaign:
And I too dream of a perfect world. And in my perfect world there will no longer be the need to give Equality Awards, because equality will simply be. Now, don't think I'm giving this back, because I love awards…and tiaras…and homosexuals. Thank you very, very much. This means so much.
Not that my mother doesn't love homosexuals, or even awards...it's the tiara part that she just doesn't get. Bless her heart.
If you need a laugh (and who doesn't with that monkey in the White House playing Monopoly with our money), check out Miss Delta in her funniest work since Designing Women, and probably the funniest movie of the last ten years, Sordid Lives. Based on a play by Del Shores, Delta plays a jilted trailer-dwelling housewife as part of a cast that includes her cheating amputee husband (Beau Bridges), an asylum-bound Tammy Wynette impersonator (Leslie Jordan of Will & Grace), a gum-snapping honky-tonk singer (Olivia Newton-John), and a host of other brilliant character actors in a movie that bills itself as "A black comedy about white trash." And it's less than $8.00 on Amazon.com.
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★ Ted Alexandro (through Saturday) Mr. Alexandro has long been a gem of the New York City club scene, an intelligent, socially active stand-up with an appealing stage presence that succeeds with all sorts of audiences. Here, he performs an hour each night as part of the free Week at the Creek series. At 7 p.m., the Creek and the Cave, 10-93 Jackson Avenue, near 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-706-8783, creeklic.com. (Elise Czajkowski)
Leah Bonnema (Monday through June 6) Ms. Bonnema remains one of the city's most consistently excellent young comics. Here, she performs an hour as part of the free Week at the Creek series. At 7 p.m., the Creek and the Cave, 10-93 Jackson Avenue, near 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-706-8783, creeklic.com. (Czajkowski)
Rob Delaney (Wednesday) Mr. Delaney became a global sensation with his never-ending stream of wry, smutty tweets; onstage, he's a likable storyteller with an affinity for silly filth. At 10:30 p.m., the Bell House, 149 Seventh Street, at Second Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 718-643-6510, thebellhouseny.com. (Czajkowski)
'Myth & Beauty' (Thursday) The avant-garde comedian Julio Torres brings the classic stories of antiquity into modern times with this night of what the Ant Fest describes as "magical, mythological sketches." Other performers at this festival event include Dan Chamberlain, Lena Einbinder, Cole Escola, Ana Fabrega, Beth Hoyt, Joe Rumrill and Max Wittert. At 7 p.m., Ars Nova Theater, 511 West 54th Street, Clinton, 212-489-9800, arsnovanyc.com/antfest. (Czajkowski)
★ 'Amy Schumer Live at the Apollo' (Friday) Ms. Schumer has become one of the biggest stars in comedy with her raunchy, feminism-inflected stand-up and her brilliantly confrontational sketch show, "Inside Amy Schumer." On this night she records her new HBO special at this historic theater. At 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com; sold out. (Czajkowski)
'Serious Matters' (Thursday) Kevin McCaffrey hosts this profound comedy show, which features stand-up from Sasheer Zamata and Sean Donnelly and presentations on critical issues from Josiah Madigan and Brock Mahan. At 8 p.m., Union Hall, 702 Union Street, at Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, unionhallny.com.(Czajkowski)
★ 'Adrienne Truscott's Asking for It' (Saturday) Ms. Truscott's bold, award-winning show is an adventurous, hilarious examination of rape jokes in the modern stand-up scene, which she performs naked from the waist down. At midnight, Joe's Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, 212-967-7555, joespub.com. (Czajkowski)
★ 'Vulture Festival: Comedy Night' (Sunday) As part of what Vulture calls its city-wide "pop culture extravaganza," it presents this jam-packed night of comedy, with performances from Kevin Barnett, Wyatt Cenac, Jermaine Fowler, Brett Gelman, Cyrus Ghahremani, Chris Gethard, Jared Logan, Colin Quinn, Max Silvestri and Michelle Wolf. At 8 p.m., the Bell House, 149 Seventh Street, at Second Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 718-643-6510, thebellhouseny.com. (Czajkowski)


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US President Donald Trump on Friday announced a six-month delay on imposing steep tariffs on vehicle imports, seeking to pressure Europe and Japan into bargaining-table concessions on trade.
The decision marked a temporary reprieve from what would have been a sizable escalation in Trump's multifront trade wars.
Trump's threat targets a major chunk of global economic activity with profound disruptions. Hundreds of billions of dollars in vehicles are manufactured, shipped and sold internationally every year.
In a proclamation, the president directed US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to update him within 180 days on the outcome of negotiations with the EU, Japan and "any other country" Lighthizer deems appropriate.
By leaving the threat of tariffs hanging, Trump's move raises the temperature in European capitals already angered by the imposition of punishing US duties on steel and aluminum last year.
Trump's decision also preserved a truce declared last year with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in which both sides agreed to cease trade hostilities while efforts continued to resolve the trade dispute.
Despite the decision, the US president continued his attacks on the EU's trade policy.
"The European Union treats us, I'd say, worse than China — they're just smaller," Trump said at an event.
"They don't want our farmers, they don't want our cars... They send Mercedes-Benz here like they're cookies," Trump said, adding that "they take advantage of us on trade."
"We all love Europe, but it's not fair," he added.
In response to the US metal tariffs, the EU last year imposed stinging duties on US exports like motorcycles, orange juice, whiskey and blue jeans, and threatened to retaliate further should the vehicle tariffs be imposed.
European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom confirmed an existing offer that "the EU is prepared to negotiate a limited trade agreement including cars."
The six-month delay had been expected this week, as industry sources had confirmed media reports that Trump would hold off — delighting markets, which had feared sharp economic consequences of such a move.
In his proclamation, Trump described the US vehicle sector as facing decline due to unfair foreign competition.
A report by US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross concluded that the US' shrinking share of the vehicle market jeopardized its research, development and manufacturing — all "vital to national security," according to Trump.
In a conclusion likely to invite challenges from manufacturers and industry analysts, Trump said that the US' defense industrial base relied on the domestic vehicle sector for technological advances essential to US "military superiority."
Citing Ross' conclusions, Trump pointed to a doubling of US imports over the past 34 years, but accused Europe and Japan of raising "significant barriers" to accepting US exports in return.
In that same period, the domestic market share of US-owned manufacturers fell to just 22 percent, from 67 percent, he said.
"In light of all of these factors, domestic conditions of competition must be improved by reducing imports," Trump said.
Reacting to the announcement, Federation of German Industries president Dieter Kempf said that "cars do not threaten the national security of the United States."
Japanese automaker Toyota, which has factories and research centers in the US, also strongly rejected the notion.


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Veggie Lasagna Florentine
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- Cook lasagna noodles in a large pot of lightly salted, boiling water for 10 minutes, or until al dente. Rinse with cool water, drain, and set aside.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the chopped onions, mushrooms, garlic, and zucchini in the oil until soft. Stir in both cans of crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano, brown sugar, and salt to taste. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, microwave frozen spinach until cooked. Cool, and then squeeze out excess water. Drain cottage cheese. Using a mixer, blend spinach, cottage cheese, eggs, and 2 tablespoons basil until smooth. In a separate bowl, combine shredded mozzarella cheese and grated Parmesan cheese.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spread 1 cup sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Layer 1/3 of the noodles, 1/3 cottage cheese/spinach mixture, 1/3 of remaining sauce, and 1/3 cheese mixture. Repeat layers with remaining ingredients. Sprinkle top with remaining 1 tablespoon of dried basil.
- Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
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- Reynolds® Aluminum foil can be used to keep food moist, cook it evenly, and make clean-up easier.
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Oh yes! This one tasted great and we just loved all the veggies! Do be aware, though, that it will take MUCH longer than 20 minutes for the prep time. I made the sauce one evening and then re...
I'm sorry I don't like to give negative reviews, but I didn't care for this recipe. The spinach filling was too sparse, and the tomato sauce was overpowering. Maybe cooking it longer than 15 min...
Oh yes! This one tasted great and we just loved all the veggies! Do be aware, though, that it will take MUCH longer than 20 minutes for the prep time. I made the sauce one evening and then re...
I really found all the other reviews of this fantastic recipe really helpful in adapting it to the way we like to eat. Some advice ... 1) Triple the amount of garlic. Come on, let's live a l...
I have been looking for a good vegetable lazagna recipe for a long time, and this one was great. The homemade red sauce is a little time consuming but definately worth it. I added an additiona...
This is a great recepie if you are not afriad to tailor it to your tastes- I did away with the "Sweet" in the sauce and replaced the sugar with red pepper flakes, and I used yellow squash as wel...
This proved to be a very tasty recipe. However, it only makes 12 servings at best, not anywhere near 24 servings as the recipe states. I substituted 15 oz of ricotta cheese instead of cottag...
My first attempt at a meatless lasagna and it was delicious. I made a few small changes - like others I did not cook the noodles I used pre-cooked no boiling required (the only way to go). I ha...
Made this recipe for a vegetarian friend of mine right after she had a baby. Her family loved it and asked for the recipe. I made it in two 8x8 pans and then froze them. Once frozen, I put th...
Excellent! I was looking for a healthier alternative to my 1000+ calorie original lasagna recipe, and this one was no disappointment. I was afraid that the spinach or zuchini might over power ...
Very tasty recipe. I used at least double the garlic and substituted green pepper for the zucchini as that is what I had on hand. You may want to drain some of the juice off one of the cans of...


text: lizzy holbrook June 4, 2015 exo fifty shades of love me right lizzy holbrook June 4, 2015 I thought the teaser for exo's new song love me right sounded like x rated song. So feeling inspired I paired it up to fifty shades of grey. For this I chose to use the song crazy in love as I felt that this went well with the rhythm of the clips. I originally wanted to use the chorus as I felt the words would of gone well. However when I added the song to the timeline I found that the beginning went really well. So I chose to use that instead. When it came to editing the clips I started by adding all the clips I wanted to the time line. This was a lot of fun but also hard as most clips were no longer than 5 seconds; so I had to use the arrow keys to get the clips precisely right. Once I had them all on timeline I moved them round to fit the music. This was were I found a few of my clips didnt work so they had to go. I also found I had gaps and that some clips worked but not next to some clips. So I had to go back threw the exo video to find clips that would work. towards the end I was starting to struggle as I didnt want to re use clips but I was running out of exo clips that worked. In the end I reused a few clips just to make the video work the way I wanted. I think this is only noticeable with one of my clips. Once I had finished putting the music and clips together I made all the clips black and white as I felt that this made the video have a more x rated feel to it. I also felt that as the original colours were strange vibrant and grungy colours that they didnt go with the tone of this music like it did love right. I also feel that black and white adds to fifty shades of grey side of the video as those seems to be the tones used for the branding of the film fifty shades of grey. I feel turning all the clips black and white has enhanced the look of the film. over all I had a lot of fun doing this even threw all its hardships. I really enjoyed editing like this as It felt like I was editing videos liked I used to a few years ago. When I used to just sit in my room making stories out of different songs and videos or drama's. I want to be able to make more videos like this over the next year.


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Information on our past productions
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Since its founding in 2007, Serious Productions has produced two award-winning feature films, The New Twenty and Test, as well as numerous short films, including From the Beginning, Do You Love Me?, Michael's Dance and Letter to Tennessee. Under the direction of Chris Mason Johnson, Serious Productions has risen to be a strong player in the independent LGBTQ film market, with distribution throughout North America, South America and Europe.
Films produced by Serious Productions have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including top tier festivals such as Berlin (Panorama), Palm Springs, OutFest Los Angeles, Seattle and Taipei Golden Horse, among others, and have received strong reviews from both the mainstream press, including The New York Times, as well as LGBTQ and cinema-specialized press such as The Advocate, Out Magazine, Film Comment and Indiewire.
Collectively, films produced by Serious Productions have been awarded Grand Jury and Special Prizes from OutFest Los Angeles (Best Actress, Nicole Bilderback, The New Twenty; Best Screenplay and Best U.S. Feature, Test), FilmOut San Diego (Best Screenplay, The New Twenty), Ft. Lauderdale Int. Film Festival (Best First Feature, The New Twenty), Calgary Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Best Actor, Colin Fickes, The New Twenty) and Tampa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Emerging Filmmaker Award, Chris Mason Johnson, Test). In 2015, Test was nominated for an Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Produced for Less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars).
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Here it comes. Another Uber for everything, but this time it's for finding detectives.
Trustify, from Washington, D.C.-based company FlimFlam Investigations, is a service that matches users to a private investigator. Trustify was recently rebranded from FlimFlam, which was initially released in March, and was re-released on May 29 following a successful $1 million round of funding from angel investors.
The service takes you to a brief survey that identifies what you're looking to investigate. Then it puts you into contact with a vetted private investigator to sign on for as little as one hour.
People who use it are all across the board, said Ray Glendening, spokesman for Trustify. The cases they handle range "from potential employers looking for background checks, parents examining the quality of those who would be looking after their children, to the person looking to find an old friend," Glendening said.
Danny Boice, Trustify's CEO, told the Washington City Paper that the idea for the app came from a bad experience with a PI. He paid $1,500 for a retainer, was given the runaround for a week, and came out with nothing he could use in a court of law. In the meantime, he tried others that ended up being more expensive but still ended up with nothing usable. The problem, he said, was with paying retainers: PIs had to be paid handsomely for any amount of work, large or small.
Trustify at least has a safety net against that: pay $59 to get connected with a PI and if they decide they can't help you, the money goes back to you. The company promises to match users up within 48 hours of receiving their case. Base rates start at $59 per hour, of which PIs are paid $30. This works like any sharing economy service: workers hired can justify lower hourly wages in exchange for higher exposure to customers.
So essentially, they hand the marketing off to the app.
"While an investigator on his/her own can make a higher fee through their own marketing, they will not be exposed to the level of demand that Trustify can put them into," Glendening said.
So is this something worth looking into? Maybe. Uber disrupted a $12 billion industry in the US, and the PI industry clocks in at $5 billion for a service that's not nearly as frequently used. It certainly makes it more accessible to people with more than $59 to toss around for background checks.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said PIs are paid $35; they are paid $30.


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Throw it back to the old times with the Habitat Celluloid series. Featuring character illustrations by artist Tyler Abner, these decks all have a classic animated motion picture theme.
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Managing your VR while away from home
Most of us travel at some point - squeezing in that vacation or for our regular employment! What do you do to ensure that you have everything you need to continue responding to inquiries, taking bookings and marketing your VR?
In the beginning
Originally, I used simple email templates to respond to inquiries in MS Outlook and a simple Microsoft Access database to record reservations. This meant that I needed to ensure that my own computer with all of this information was always with me.
It became a little more awkward when my wife and I both wanted to process the inquiries and do any reservation maintenance at the same time (it took a long time to get everything done each day). We ended up using Microsoft Exchange so that we could use 2 separate computers on the same email account (avoiding duplicating emails). Also, by this time I'd automated email responses within the Access database itself so this database became quite critical for us. We shared the database at home on our network and needed to take it with us when traveling (using a portable USB drive for convenience). We also had to be sure that it was backed up often enough and when traveling we needed to also make backups in case something happened then too.
Even if you only have one computer to take with you with all of your reservations and emails on it then you need to prepare for the time that your computer is stolen or broken, so make sure you have your data backed up regularly and have a means to do this when traveling too.
This became quite a chore so we looked at better alternatives.
Going online
I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my data. I didn't like the thought of handing my data over to an online system for a number of reasons:
- It is my data and wanted to keep it from being stolen
- What if I wasn't online - how would I get my data and deal with inquiries
- I didn't want to pay for a service when I had all the hardware I needed already
It didn't take too long to realize:
- Even if someone did steal my data, there's not a lot of gain to be made from it. Online security is also quite good these days.
- If I wasn't able to get online then I couldn't get email inquiries in any case. Handling other things is not as time-critical so could wait if needed.
- I had lost and replaced so many disk drives already that a small service fee would actually be cheaper over time and at the same time more reliable (online disks are of higher quality and usually have some redundancy to disk errors - using RAID).
In addition to these issues, I was having pain keeping my online calendar up to date and wanted this linked to my reservations directly.
I soon was converting my Access Database to on online system (now called myvrzone.com) and have never looked back on this transition. I now have full integration with my websites, emails and reservations (including online payments).
Traveling is now so easy:
- All I need is access to a computer with internet access (I usually bring my own laptop)
- No data to take with me and back up
In addition to that:
- Multiple people can work on my inquiries/reservations at the same time from anywhere in the world
- No backups to worry about at all (the online system does it for me). I can print out reports for paper records
- Bookings can be completed online at any time and a new reservation recorded - I get notified by email
- Payments can be made online (Credit Card/PayPal) and entered into the reservation automatically - I get notified by email
Phone Calls
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Let me know how you are dealing with traveling - is there anything else that you need to deal with that is not covered here?


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Are Politicians Actually Becoming Less Corrupt?
Americans are not satisfied with politics as usual, but perhaps things aren't as bad as they seem. Data from the Justice Department shows that — contrary to public opinion — corruption in government has been lower in recent years.
Public approval ratings of Congress are at record lows, and Gallup reported that Americans perceive political corruption to be on the rise. Perhaps this is due to several scandals that have unfolded or continued unfolding in the past year, including those concerning NSA leaks, Veteran's Affairs, and the IRS, or perhaps what appears to be a constant slew of individual politicians' corrupt actions — from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's Bridgegate to last week's indictment of Gov. Rick Perry (Texas) for abuse of power. But is public perception really accurate?
According to a Gallup poll, 79 percent of respondents in 2013 answered "yes" when asked if corruption was widespread throughout the American government. This is quite a leap from 59 percent answering "yes" in 2006. People certainly are concerned about corruption in the government being on the rise, but, according to FiveThirtyEight, it's not.
Using stats from the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department on corruption case, it found that corruption has waxed and waned, but in general been less frequent over the years. In 2012, there were 1,078 people — federal officials, state officials, local officials, and private citizens — charged with corruption offenses. This amount is the least of the past decade, with the last significant peaking being in 2008 with 1,304 cases individuals charged.
Of course, there's always the possibility that officials have become better at concealing corruption, but by the data available to measure instances of corruption, it does not appear to be on the rise.
Even though the numbers don't show an increase in corruption, it's easy to see how Americans draw these conclusions. In January, the government led a Gallup poll for "what Americans consider the most important problem facing the country." With Congress in constant gridlock, a lack of positive, productive work makes it easy for people to focus on the scandals they see.


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Sounds great. That gsoc link describes how to create jira for project ideas so students can find them, could you add that? Any other ideas? They can be quite small things, a lot of students are complete beginners so take a while to get going. ...ant On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Eric Yang <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > We have a small project for monitoring Hadoop metrics using machine > learning algorithm to predict possible abnormal activity in the cluster. > This can be a potential GSoC project. > > regards, > Eric > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:00 AM, ant elder <email@example.com> wrote: > >> Can you think of any GSoC projects for Chukwa? Need to be relatively small >> simple things that a student who likely knows little about Chukwa or >> developing open source projects could pickup and complete over a couple of >> months. It would be a way to help encourage some more activity and perhaps >> help engage some of the less active committers. >> >> For more on the ASF GSoC program see here: >> http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >> >> ...ant >> >
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Global Risks Report: Only Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters are More Likely than Cyber Attacks
We're all aware of the threat of hurricanes, but many aren't aware that the threat of cybersecurity attacks lurch just behind weather risks and natural disasters when you stack rank threats by likelihood.
The Global Risks Report 2018 report compares a slew of wide-ranging global risks from war and climate change to water crisis, terrorist threats, and cyber attacks. It shows us where our biggest risks lie and reflects the perceptions of hundreds of experts in the World Economic Forum's constituencies.
While the report is a deluge of frightening facts, this update is arguably the scariest:
The threat of cyberattacks is rising to the top of the Global Risks Landscape and now ranks #3 on the list in terms of likelihood. Only extreme weather events and natural disasters now outrank cyber.
Source: The Global Risks Report 2018
The truth is that cyber threats--much like weather events--are likely, uncontrollable, and inescapable. Governments, businesses, organizations, and citizens in most parts of the world face all the same dangers. Cyber threats cross all organizational boundaries.
But what's even scarier?
As cloud services and the Internet of Things continues to connect and multiply the complexities of our technology infrastructure, isolating cyber threats becomes ever more challenging.
The Cascade of Effects are Difficult to Escape
Cyber dependency is a global trend in a world where digital businesses reside in increasingly connected, smarter, and more automated environments. That means that an entity's risk is increasingly tied to that of other entities and systems, making it harder to fully protect information.
Global system interconnections increase risk as the report explains: "When a risk cascades through a complex system, the danger is not of incremental damage but of "runaway collapse"—or, alternatively, a transition to a new, suboptimal status quo that becomes difficult to escape."
Heighten Your Defenses
Other top officials are echoing the Global Risks Report. During a 2018 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, the U.S. Government Director of National Intelligence followed suit, putting cyber on the top of the list of threats facing the country--outpacing even terror attacks. He warned senators of cyber as an instrument of power shaping societies and markets, international rules, and crossing all institutional boundaries.
Experts are sounding the alarms, creating a call to action to raise your defenses. This year, concerns are increasing, and businesses, organizations, and citizens across the world are elevating the issue.
While awareness is a good, improved preparedness to face these attacks is needed. If there's a sliver of sunshine in this scary story, it's that defenses can be improved.
Three Areas of Improvement for Every Entity
It's unlikely that every organization can prevent every cyber attack, but companies should emphasize methods to identify and effectively mitigate them by streamlining mechanisms for:
- Security assessment
- Early detection
- Rapid response
For most enterprises, CISOs and security leaders need to make additional investments to cover all three of these initiatives effectively. Managed security service providers can help expand the depth and breadth of your defenses with an integrated set of security systems as well as 24/7 monitoring for a more comprehensive approach to security.
Security Assessment: Security improvement plans depend on tools and tasks that assess risks and fill security gaps. Key strategies include comprehensive security audits, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and outside security teams that can expand personnel resources. Virtual CISO programs that address compliance and risk management are particularly effective at making strategic advances in your overall security posture.
Early Detection: Effective Managed Security services unite man and machine to thwart threats before they do extensive damage. Machine learning and behavioral analytics are critical components in strengthening proactive security strategies, because they help correlate data to recognize today's sophisticated attacks more quickly. Cloud workload protections should also be part of a comprehensive managed detection and response strategy to help defend virtual machines, cloud operating systems, and containers.
Rapid Response: Accelerating your reaction time often requires the help of managed detection and response services including certified security experts who offer 24/7 network and security monitoring and provide actionable intelligence to mitigate threats. Keys for success include using best practices for incident response and well-defined processes customized to work with your unique requirements.
It might be a scary world, but your enterprise is a lot safer with the right protections and partners in place.
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Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Group
Dr. Huseyin Arslan
Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) Group, formed by Dr. Arslan in 2002, has been expanding its knowledge in wireless communications/networks and digital baseband signal processing areas to take the forefront lines in the formation of future technologies. With diverse offering of courses introducing the knowledge from fundamentals to the state-of-the-art developments in the field, our aim is to develop highly competitive undergraduate/graduate students who are well educated in multiple areas of wireless communications. Through our diversely sponsored research, we approach the problems in the field from various aspects to resolve the bottleneck by developing innovative techniques and contributing in standards related to wireless communications such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), wireless regional, local, and personal area networks. In our research, we emphasize the necessity of the development of pioneering wireless communication systems, by which we took attention of various organizations such as National Science Foundation and private research labs to fund our research. On the other hand, we are collaborating with companies to enable the commercialization of our knowledge and experience in wireless communications and digital signal processing.
Current research interests are design of advanced waveforms for future communication systems, development of digital baseband signal processing algorithms, cognitive radio and software defined radio for opportunistic access to the spectrum for increased spectral efficiency, testing-measurement-modeling for algorithm design and evaluation, heterogeneous networks for the enhancement of the available resources to enable advanced applications, and interference management/cancellation to overcome collisions for intelligent approach to heterogeneous/overlaid systems. Additional interests are multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) Systems, UWB communications, power line communications and smart grid.
The USF Surface Science Lab
Dr. Rudy Schlaf
The Surface Science Lab, led by Dr. Schlaf, focuses on the investigation of phenomena at interfaces involving macro-molecular materials. Macro-molecular materials range from nano-crystalline semiconductors and metals to bio-molecules and electronic polymer materials. These materials are crucial for the development of advanced devices such as molecular transistors, plastic solar cells or bio-sensors. The Surface Science Lab uses photoemission spectroscopy integrated with in-vacuum sample preparation methods such as electrospray thin film deposition. Photoemission spectroscopy gives direct insight into the electronic structure of materials. Combined with its high surface sensitivity, detailed information of the interaction between materials at interfaces such as electrical contacts or exciton separation layers in solar cells can be investigated. Such insight is crucial for the development of novel devices and the synthesis of new materials. Other current projects at the Surface Science Lab include the investigation of spray processes for the rapid fabrication of biosensor substrates, the development of a patterning device for macro-molecular materials and the investigation of atomic layer deposition processes. Most projects at the Surface Science Lab are of interdisciplinary nature, and involve collaborations between engineers, chemists, biologists and physicists. Dr. Schlaf's research is currently funded through several National Science Foundation grants. Recent graduates of Dr. Schlaf's group found employment at companies like Solvay Inc., Diehl Defence, or National Instruments. The surface Science Lab also offers opportunities to undergraduate students to work as research associates within the framework of the College of Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
iWINLAB In vivo Wireless Information Networking Laboratory
Dr. Richard Gitlin
The iWINLAB group focuses on studying novel in vivo channel models and signal processing that will facilitate the creation of new communications protocols accommodating the limitations of implanted devices, which are more restricted, from a communication and computing standpoint, than any devices that have ever been networked by human-created means. This knowledge will be useful to improve the design and implementation of the wirelessly controlled and communicating Miniature Anchored Robotic Videoscope (MARVEL) video system (i.e., a camera) and other embedded devices that are expected to create a paradigm shift in minimally invasive surgery. Another area of research is high throughput and robust wireless body area networks (WBANs) that enable information from in vivo devices such the MARVEL camera to be reliably transmitted to external devices through packet-based nodes/ gateways that are located on the human body.
RF MEMS TRANSDUCER Research Group
Dr. Jing Wang
We are working to explore new physics at the nano-scale, and to apply this knowledge to realizing advanced tools for the biomedical and life sciences. Our group's efforts span from very systematic nanodevice engineering for practical applications, to biological investigations enabled by novel devices, to quantum measurements with nanosystems at ultralow temperatures.
RFID Center for Applied Research
Dr. Ismail Uysal
The USF RFID Center for Applied Research is situated along the I-4 corridor which connects key cities and world class universities of the Central Florida High Tech Corridor. The expertise of the research faculty and staff of the RFID Center for Applied Research concentrate around the applications of RFID in transportation, supply chain (cold chain and perishables), and pharmaceuticals. Our people have backgrounds in electrical and computer engineering, agricultural and biological engineering, biosystems engineering, food engineering, mechanical engineering, and business. The completed and current ongoing projects involving various government agencies such as the Department of Defense and United States Department of Agriculture, as well as the industry partners, all fall within one of these categories. We see the RFID Center for Applied Research as the perfect realization of the vision of USF, where academics and industry work together in a collaborative research and teaching environment.
In addition to research projects, RFID Center for Applied Research also provides learning opportunities with undergraduate and graduate level courses. "RFID and NFC Technologies" course was first offered in Fall 2011 under the Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) program and will be offered every Fall semester. The curriculum under development for an undergraduate degree in Engineering also includes courses such as: "Identification Technologies and Applications", "RFID Technology: Theory and Certification", "Object and Component Oriented Programming for RFID Application Development", "Data Mining and Processing for ID Technologies", and "Economics and ROI for RFID Applications". For more information on programs, please contact the center director.
Smart Grid Power Systems Lab
Dr. Lingling Fan & Dr. Zhixin Miao
The Smart Grid Power Systems (SPS) lab, including faculty members Lingling Fan and Zhixin Miao, has focus areas of modeling and control of wind and solar energy systems, high power electronics applications in smart grids, microgrids and wide area measurement applications. In renewable energy grid integration area, our research provides analytical tools and power electronic control based solutions to achieve fast and flexible power routing. Our research also tackles potential dynamics which could lead to system blackouts. We are currently working on setting up supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for solar PV and battery systems. In wide area measurement applications, our research has the potential to enhance electric system monitoring by real-time dynamic system estimation using state-of-the-art computing hardware and techniques.
The smart grid power system lab is equipped with the state-of-the-art power system computer simulation tools, including PSCAD/EMTDC and Matlab/SimPowersystems, on two Dell servers, a digital control (dSpace) based electric drive set with a variety of electric machines, National Instrument data acquisition and real-time control systems and hardware-in-the-loop test beds based on an Opal-RT real-time digital simulator. Our lab is a member of OSIsoft pioneer program, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory university program and JMAG. The donation from the industry includes a $250K PI enterprise system capable of real-time monitoring and archiving, JMAG finite element analysis software packages and SEL transmission/distribution protection devices, etc..
Our current research projects are funded through National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, etc.. Our collaborators include utility companies (Progress Energy and Tampa Electric), transmission organizations (Midwest ISO), manufactures (Beckwith), and R&D institutes (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Draper Laboratory and Alstom China Center).
Our students are highly demanded by the industry and R&D institutes. Recent graduates found employment s and internship in consulting firms (Pwr Solution at Dallas TX) and PNNL.
USF Defense and Intelligence Research Laboratory (USF:DIRL)
Dr. Sal Morgera
The University of South Florida Defense & Intelligence Research Laboratory (USF:DIRL) conducts research and development in areas of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) in support of the defense of the United States of America. Relevant training for careers in the military, military defense industries, and the Intelligence Community is also a key element of our mission.
Although USF:DIRL participates in basic investigations in many C4ISR areas, the research conducted is generally applied in nature. That is to say, it is oriented toward providing a solution to a particular problem, or toward development and demonstration of a desired new technology or capability. In pursuing this mission, USF:DIRL places a strong emphasis on experimental work, data analysis, theoretical modeling, simulation, prototyping, and field demonstrations.
iCONS (interdisciplinary communications networking and signal processing)
Dr. Ravi Sankar
The iCONS research group, led by Dr. Sankar, conducts research and development in the areas of communications networking, wireless communications, and signal processing and its applications. The group members, comprising of 4 visiting research faculty/post doctoral researchers and 12 Ph.D. students, in collaboration with local, national, and international researchers are currently involved in projects from the design, development, and performance study of wireless networks, to applying networking and signal processing for telemedicine, to processing, coding, and recognition applications in speech, image, biomedical and other signals and to integrating intelligent techniques including the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in the simulation, modeling, and design of high performance and robust systems.
Some of the current projects include: (1) the investigation of opportunistic scheduling in multi-hop wireless relay networks, (2) the development of wireless social sensor networks in which we investigate how the information gathered by data mining of social networks to collaborate and verify data collected by the traditional wireless sensor networks, (3) the investigation of method(s) that can defend against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in wireless ad-hoc or sensor networks and detect compromised nodes, (4) the exploration of new signal processing techniques to detect the source(s) of atrial fibrillation (AF), one of the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, (5) the development of signal processing and speech recognition algorithms for brain-computer interface (BCI) and man-machine interface, respectively. As implied in the name of our group, all these projects are of interdisciplinary nature, and involve collaborations between engineers, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, speech scientists, and medical doctors. The group's effort is sponsored by several industries, local, state, and federal agencies.
AMBIR Advanced Materials Bio & Integration Research Laboratory
Dr. Sylvia Thomas
The AMBIR laboratory is focused on investigating advanced materials that can enhance structures/devices used for alternative energy sources, sustainable environments, aerospace aircraft, or bio-applications from the micro to the nano scale. The interdisciplinary research efforts in the AMBIR Lab explore the use of inorganic and organic thin films and synthesizing and integrating advanced materials into nanofibers. The laboratory collaborates with the USF Nanotechnology Research and Education Center (NREC) to fabricate, characterize, and test research materials and structures.
Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Sytems (WAMI Center)
Dr. Larry Dunleavy and Dr. Jing Wang Co-Directors
The Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Systems (the WAMI Center) started at the University of South Florida in 1997. For over 20 years the Center has pursued excellence in research and education across many areas of wireless engineering, with a dual focus on advanced hardware technologies and communications systems. The fields of application are diverse and include collaborators in marine science, medicine, transportation, materials science, computer science, mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering. Among its notable achievements the Center has:
- Produced over 400 refereed publications and 50 U.S. patents in just the past 7 years
- Supported approximately 40 Ph.D. and M.S. students per year on a continuing basis
- Created two internationally-recognized instructional laboratories with support from the National Science Foundation
- Established the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), an international event hosted in Florida each year that averages ~150 attendees and ~25 industry exhibitors
- Helped bring the IEEE International Microwave Symposium to Tampa in 2014, with Center Co-Director serving as the General Chair, attracting an attendance of approximately 8,000 delegates and exhibitors
- Spun-out Modelithics Inc., the world's leading provider of microwave CAD models and now in its 15th year of operation
- Secured a $120K gift from Mini-Circuits for a series of Fellowships and other support
- Helped to secure a $250K donation from Mini-Circuits to establish the Design for X Laboratory in the USF College of Engineering, now used by students across all departments within the college
- Secured the largest in-kind donation in the history of the University of South Florida (Keysight Technologies) resulting in a renaming of the "WAMI Lab" teaching space to the "Keysight Wireless Lab"
Current center activities support a strong research curriculum in wireless , microwave and electromagnetics disciplines , while faculty members are pursuing a wide range of research activities that include advanced antennas , novel 3D printed circuit and system solutions, microwave semiconductor modeling , advanced microwave measurement techniques, digital wireless communications for 5G and IOT, among many other areas.
Associated Faculty Members Include: Drs. Larry Dunleavy, Jing Wang, Gokhan Mumcu, Sourabh Khandelwal (research faculty), Huseyin Arslan, Stehpen Saddow and Ismail Uysal.


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Arson Suspected In Vail Blaze
At least two buildings on Vail Mountain were destroyed by fire and others were damaged early Monday. Forest Service officials suspected arson.
Firefighters were called in from throughout Eagle County to battle the blaze. They were hampered by snow, rugged terrain, and a lack of water as they struggled to put out the flames.
The origin of the fire, which broke at about 4 a.m., had not yet been determined, according to Paul Witt, a Vail Resorts spokesman.
But Ed Nesselroad, from the U.S. Forest Service's regional office, said the cause "is suspected arson."
"The fire spread along a mile of mountaintop in a number of specific locations and there was no lightning last night," he said. "If you can rule out natural causes you look pretty quickly to human."
Vail topped the country with almost 1.6 million skiing days during the 1997-98 season. Overall, the ski industry pumped more than $4.1 billion into the Colorado economy, according to figures from the 1996-97 season, said Barbara Jennings, director of communications for Colorado Ski Country USA, a nonprofit trade association.
Today, the patrol headquarters building, located at the top of Vail Mountain, and the Camp 1 skier day shelter, located at the top of the China Bowl ski area, were destroyed by the fire, the ski resort reported.
The Two Elk Restaurant, also located at the top of China Bowl, was heavily damaged.
Vail Fire Department spokesman Jeff Atencio said the fire burned at least three or four acres. Firefighters were having trouble combating the flames, in part because of a lack of water and rugged terrain, he said.
Chris Buckman, assistant area coordinator for U.S. Forest Service, said access was also being limited by snow.
The Vail Valley Medical Center reported no casualties linked to the fire.
Vail last month cleared a key hurdle in its bid to become even larger when a federal judge dismissed a suit by environmentalists who claimed the resort's planned 4,100-acre expansion could harm the lynx.
Six environmental groups claimed in June that the U.S. Forest Service, which owns the land that would be used for the expansion, had not considered the project's impact on wildlife.
But U.S. District Court Judge Edward W. Nottingham said in September the issue had been covered extensively in the Forest Service's environmental impact statements. Vail has agreed to take steps to preserve lynx habitat during the expansion.
The lynx hasn't been seen in the region since 1973, but environmentalists believe the area would be the best place to reintroduce the animal. The lynx has been proposed for the federal threatened species list.
Today, environmentalists immediately denounced the suspected arson.
"My clients would deplore any illegal activities that result in destruction of any facilities on public land," said Ted Zukoski of the Land and Water Fund, a Boulder-base public interest law firm that represented the groups challenging the expansion. "Arson is a serious offense and there is no way my clients would support any of that kind of activity. It's deplorable."
Vail is scheduled to hold the World Alpine Ski Championships from Jan. 30 to Feb. 14. The 1999 event will mark only the third time since the creation of the event in 1931 that the United States has played host to the international competitions.
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Dangerous animals in Tanzania
It is estimated that more than 200 Tanzanians are killed each year by lions, crocodiles, elephants, hippos, and snakes, and that the numbers could be double that amount, with lions thought to kill at least 70 of those.
Man-eating lions (adapted from Wikipedia)
Animal researcher Craig Packer has documented that between 1990 and 2004, lions attacked 815 people in Tanzania, killing 563.
American and Tanzanian scientists report that man-eating behavior in rural areas of Tanzania increased greatly from 1990 to 2005. At least 563 villagers were attacked and many eaten over this period—a number far exceeding the more famed "Tsavo" incidents of a century earlier. The incidents occurred nearSelous National Park in Rufiji District and in Lindi Province near the Mozambican border. While the expansion of villagers into bush country is one concern, the authors argue that conservation policy must mitigate the danger because, in this case, conservation contributes directly to human deaths. Cases in Lindi have been documented where lions seize humans from the center of substantial villages.
A man-eating lion was killed by game scouts in Southern Tanzania in April 2004. It is believed to have killed and eaten at least 35 people in a series of incidents covering several villages in the Rufiji Delta coastal region. Dr Rolf D. Baldus, the GTZ wildlife programme coordinator, commented that it was likely that the lion preyed on humans because it had a large abscess underneath a molar which was cracked in several places. He further commented that "This lion probably experienced a lot of pain, particularly when it was chewing." GTZ is the German development cooperation agency and has been working with the Tanzanian government on wildlife conservation for nearly two decades. As in other cases this lion was large, lacked a mane, and had a tooth problem.
The "All-Africa" record of man-eating generally is considered to be not Tsavo, but the lesser-known incidents in the late 1930s through the late 1940s in what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania). George Rushby, game warden and professional hunter, eventually dispatched the pride, which over three generations is thought to have killed and eaten 1,500 to 2,000 in what is now Njombe district
Man eating on the increase in African lions
An increase in man-eating behaviour among lions could endanger wildlife as African villagers suffer increased losses, says author Robert R. Frump, just back from a darting expedition in Tanzania. 'Each year, more than 200 Tanzanians are killed by lions, elephants, crocodiles and hippos,' Mr. Frump said. 'Until conservationists and environmentalists understand the consequences of this terrible toll, wildlife will be seen more as a negative than a positive by African villagers and so will be endangered in the long run.'
More dangerous animals in Tanzania
- Although hippos are not carnivorous, and therefore not hunters, they aggressively protect their territory and often attack boats or people who encroach on their space. Despite their harmless appearance, hippos kill nearly 100 people per year in Tanzania, according to Mary Fitzpatrick, author of "Lonely Planet Guide: Tanzania."
- The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is the largest venomous snake in Tanzania, averaging 8 feet in length. Because of its aggression, speed and the toxicity of its venom–which has a 100 percent fatality rate without proper antivenin–the black mamba is one of the most feared animals in Africa. In Tanzania, the black mamba is second only to the puff adder in causing human fatalities, according to Johan Marais, author of "Snake Versus Man: A Guide to Dangerous and Common Harmless Snakes of Southern Africa.
- Most frequently found in dry grasslands and open savanna, the common puff adder (Bitis arietans) is a major hazard for those living in Tanzania. Because of their natural aggression, toxic venom and high numbers, the common puff adder is responsible for more deaths than any other snake in the country. Most fatal bites occur when individuals accidentally step on a resting adder, since they are incredibly difficult to see when lying still.
- By far the most dangerous animal in Tanzania is the mosquito, which causes 100,000 to 125,000 deaths per year


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Automakers canceling summer production stops to feed truck boom
Next month, tens of thousands of U.S. autoworkers will continue working instead of taking their usual summer vacations as demand for pickups, large SUVs and crossovers shows little sign of abating.
"We are working straight through the month of July and currently we have five Saturdays scheduled through the summer," said Brian Hartman, president of Local 2209 of the United Auto Workers, which represents about 4,000 workers at the GM truck plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. "We have the capacity to produce 505 trucks per day, and we're right at the brink of that most days."
For years, General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler pushed and eventually convinced the UAW to have its members all take vacation during the first two weeks of July. The companies could save on utilities, shrink inventories and employ a small crew of skilled trades workers to install new tooling for the next model year during the stretch.
That was back when GM and Ford each had four or more U.S. assembly plants churning out large pickups. They have fewer such plants today.
Tim Shoup, a worker in the paint shop at GM's Flint, Mich., truck plant, said he's going to be off the first week of July but will be back when production resumes with the third shift on July 10.
"They've also added a Saturday in July, but they've said we may be working 42 Saturdays over the next year," Shoup said.
Some of the high-demand SUVs are made at GM's Arlington plant, including Chevrolet Tahoes and Suburbans, GMC Yukons and Yukon XLs, and Cadillac Escalades. The plant employs about 4,200 workers.
In the big picture, this is good news. Both management and the UAW benefit because bonuses and profit-sharing are tied to profitability in North America. The bonuses and profit-sharing for this summer won't be paid out until next summer, however.
So in the near-term, there's not a big income gain. The UAW has agreed to more flexible work schedules. Three shifts, which most of the pickup plants and SUV plants are running, enable around-the-clock production. That also minimizes overtime for individual workers, although Saturday work can earn the overtime premium in some cases.
Under UAW contracts, workers can take their vacation weeks at other times of the year and those who can take one or two weeks in July will be paid.
Full-size pickups are selling for an average of more than $40,000 and large SUVs for about $60,000 each.
In a world where GM is promising Wall Street it will have a pretax profit margin of 10 percent or better, these vehicles are the all-stars of the Detroit Three's lineups. The three automakers are much more dependent on those segments than their Asian and European competitors, and they don't want their hot streak of sales to end.
GM sold about 62,700 Chevrolet Silverados and GMC Sierras in May. Not bad, but when compared with year-earlier numbers, those sales represent a 13 percent decline for the Silverado and a 7 percent slide for Sierra. The combined total fell short of the 67,412 F-Series pickups Ford sold.
So this month, Chevrolet began offering up to $8,250 in rebates, or discounted financing, on Silverados. It also unleashed an aggressive ad campaign attacking the durability of Ford's aluminum-body F-150.
This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.


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Connect Again with These 3 Spa Retreats
Because beauty is more than just skin deep, it is important to continue the quest for mindfulness and inner peace. Partaking of therapies is meant to not only bring enlightenment, but introspection, and personal awareness. Spagoers can benefit from results such as increased productivity, stress reduction, deeper sleep, and better focus.
Look for these 3 spa retreats to help you regain that connection with yourself:
Six Senses Spa: Samui, Thailand
Dotting a tranquil island headland overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, the 66 villas at Six Senses Samui artfully stir the senses. In the same vein, the resort's graceful spa conjures relaxation, borrowing from regional traditions and exemplifying the laid-back Thai way of life. Help your prana (life energy) flow freely with the Thai Healing rite, which loosens blockages in the body's energy lines, reducing anxiety. Virtuoso guests can ease into peace with a complimentary massage.
Spa Montage: Deer Valley, Utah
Nestled amid northern Utah's Wasatch Range, the 220-room Montage Deer Valley, built in the Craftsman style, melds into its mountainous landscape. With panoramic windows, Spa Montage brings the vista – and its meditative quietude – indoors. Aspen resin and propolis from Park City's bees are among the local ingredients used in the spa's house-made products. Choose a mind calming Art of Breath tutorial as a prelude or finale to holistic therapies, such as the 90-minute Earth & Water ritual.
Spa Botánico: Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico
Tapping into the folklore and curative traditions of Puerto Rico's village healers, known as manos santos, the spa offers a menu brimming with herbals and botanicals. An Apothecary Portal holds shelves lined with oils and balms made from village-grown herbs and plants, each providing specific mind, body, and spirit support. An authentic manos santos launches every treatment with a prayer and suggests ingredients based on the results desired. Try the Body Soak, Herbal Compress, and Massage ritual, which employs eucalyptus, lemongrass, and garden-grown ginger to infuse a sense of vitality. Or unwind to the rock-a-bye rhythms of a hammock massage, performed in one of two tree house style treatment rooms.


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By Imen, Tunisia I took these photos in the lovely Medina of Tunis, my favorite place in the city. In these photos, you can see a young Tunisian guy who is working hard at a traditional job, which he inherited from his father. He's doing it with love and passion, and he was … Continue reading Traditional Tunis
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Tunisia, my home by Siwar Terboubi, Tunisia – Photo Essay –
Here you will find pictures of Tunisia and some of its traditions. What can I possibly tell you about the country I'm proud to call HOME? Most of us dress like in Europe, we do, however, have a lot of beautiful traditional clothes that we wear on special occasions. We have, what I can judge … Continue reading Tunisia, my home by Siwar Terboubi, Tunisia – Photo Essay –


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Wow! Sweet like a delectable piece of pie,
a serving of validation with awesome sauce,
is the appreciation expressed in the Leibster Award nomination from Kim @ Simply Filled.
I have heard of some bloggers not accepting or responding in tradition, to this award, and I want to kindly address that here in a short story:
I once knew a young adult man very well. I knew him to be kindhearted and sensitive. He did not excel in academics, but he did seem to shine in his caring and interpersonal relationship skills. I complimented his mother on this strength that I observed, and she smiled and shared with me that when he was in kindergarten, he received the "kind heart award."
It was a humble piece of paper from his teacher. His mother cherished it all these years. Did the humility of its origins, coming from a single person's nomination, lessen this child's character? Of course not. This person was a kind caring individual in early childhood, and through out life, which truly is something to celebrate, and appreciate.
Therefore, in all humility, I accept my nomination from Kim. My blog is what it is, and this nomination does not change what my blog is, but with this award, I have the opportunity to shine a light of appreciation on a few others, and have some extra fun in my journey!
So thank you Kim! I needed some encouragement today, and the note and nomination that I found from you, cheered my day!
It is a great pleasure to perpetuate the positivity and nominate the following. I hope you will visit and explore over at these blogs:
*Rita @ Revival Rain, is creative and also theologically knowledgeable and grounded. Her writings range from creative poetry and imaginative fiction, to doctrinal Bible based dissertations. I will go back again and again, and I am grateful to think of her as my friend! Oh, and she recently published a BOOK!
*Shayndel @ Challah and Cherry Blossoms has a blog like none other I have ever found. Her posts beam with exquisite photos reflecting her rich Judaeo- Christian heritage, being a Messianic Jew living in Japan! Artwork, recipes, and spiritual and cultural inspiration are a bit of what you will find if you visit Shayndel there. Go see what I mean!!
*Chavon @ New Beginnings with Me is dedicated to encouraging and uplifting women towards being their best self for Christ. She is a special education teacher but somehow finds the time to build this beautiful resource for kingdom building through building up the sisters, with scripture studies, posts for Christ, and videos that are a pleasure to watch and listen to.
*Emily @ Splashes of Joy got on my radar when I discovered that she is a voice for orphans (ministry closest to my heart). In her blog, she addresses all matters relative to fostering, adopting, motherhood, and orphans. She does link-ups, and guest posts, and any woman who visits her blog is bound to find reason to stay for a while, and leave with a smile in her her heart.
* Melissa @ humblefaithfamilywellness.com writes to build and equip families, including foster/adopt families. She promotes wellness, healthy interpersonal relationships, self esteem, growth and healing using her expertise as a professional mental health therapist, and Bible perspective insights. Her sensitivity, kindness, understanding and grace shines brightly from the pages of her blog! SHE RECIEVED THE LIEBSTER NOMINATION AT THE SAME TIME I DID, also from Kim, SO I MENTION HER HERE SIMPLY AS A FAVORITE!!!
If you choose to accept this award, according to tradition, here are some questions for you to answer from me, so that others may get to know you better:
* What do you like to do for stress relief?
* Who was the greatest spiritual mentor in your life while growing up (or later)?
* Do you ever go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink?
* Do you make your bed everyday, or figure it's not worth it?
* What is the coolest thing you ever made with your hands?
* What is one thing that you learned to do after much work and practice or trial and error?
* What is the most daring thing you have ever done?
* Tell three things on your bucket list.
* At potlucks, what dish do friends or family ask you to bring? Would you do a post on the recipe and link it here in the comments?
* What is your top love language?
(Thank you Kim, for nominating ME ! ) I hope you visit her, @ Simply Filled. She is like the all American country girl next door, blogging for Jesus Christ on faith, homesteading, wellness, and marriage. Her blog is beautiful, as is her big chocolate Labrador dog, and her golden hair.
Now it will be my delight to answer questions posed from Kim:
*Where do you find inspiration for what you blog about? Loosely speaking, I rely on God. It is not uncommon for one week, me to have NO CLUE what the next post is going to be about, and then, an idea comes or grows. Often LIFE, something I have experienced, or observed, or read, seems to plant the seed.
*How did you come up with your blog name? I came up with the name kind of in my sleep, because I knew that I didn't want to hide my age, and I identify with Jesus's lady friends Mary and Martha. I am good mix of the thinker listener and the busy doer, so "Grandma Mary Martha."
*Please share the mission of your blog. Grandma Mary Martha's mission is to be a friend and encourager, to share creativity, kindness, fun sharing, sunshine and Sonshine (Jesus and scripture).
*If you have a profession other than writing, what is it? My blog is a hobby and ministry. I am a teacher by profession.
*What is your favorite food? How can I choose a favorite? Watermelon.... German Chocolate pie.....lush blueberry muffins...Can't choose a favorite.
*Are you a dog or cat person? There was a time (pre-marriage and pre-children) when I was definitely a dog person. My vet who knew me well (always bringing in strays) he told me that the dogs in my little town went around spreading the word, "The lady in that house will take care of you....."
*Busy city life, or quiet country life? Quiet country life for sure! Honestly, 3 hours of shopping in a city and I am ready to head for my country home in the hills again. I get a feeling of anxiety, like a scared country mouse in the big scary hustling city.
* Favorite place you ever traveled to? Hmm. I have seen some spectacular sights in the continental United States of America, which I treasure in my memory, but the scenery along the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon side touched my heart and soul. We went in November, and the apple orchards on the rolling hills looked like a patchwork quilt, and the gorgeous and tasty variety of apples available at roadside fruit sale barns was outstanding. I kept thinking about my grandmother, a great quilter and apple pie maker...........and the cascading water falls that were our diamonds to discover on our family hikes in the Cascade Mountains there were splendid indeed.
*What is the best book you ever read? That is a super hard question. I have to answer generally. There are two books that I have bought as gifts or shared more than any other: Joshua by Joseph Girzone, and 5 Love Languages, by Gary Chapman.
* One important thing people should know about you? I would not want to live, with out my faith, and God's word (the Bible) in my life.
* What is one skill you wish you possessed that you currently don't? I admire people with musical talent and skill. I seem really dumb in that department, but I think if I could choose (write my life the way I wanted it) I would have chosen to be a gloriously skilled dancer!
In Kim's Nomination post, she included 10 tidbits about herself, which I enjoyed very much. I always enjoy getting to know my blogger sisters, a little better........but I feel like I have said enough about me here already. I will say, if you want to read more about me, here are the links to some pages in my blog about more of such.
Thank you Kim, for nominating me, and thank you to my nominees for the amazing work you do on your blog. You have been a blessing in my life. May this Liebster award nomination be an encouragement for you toward many more years of wonderful blogging!
Blessings in Christ,
Tammy @
Grandma Mary Martha💜


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Many potential applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) rely on the size and nature of the available free volume or pores within the framework structure. These include use for gas storage or capture and catalysis. Tuning of the pores is typically achieved by variation of the metal ions or organic ligands. Lengthening the organic chains can lead to increased pore size but is often limited by a decrease in stability of the framework. A new paper by Yan-Zhen Zheng and colleagues at Xi'an Jiaotong University and the University of Arizona reports a new method of structurally modifying MOFs by insertion of alkali metal ions.
In a series of experiments, a heterometallic MOF with O-containing ligands was modified by the insertion of alkali metal ions into the coordination environment formed by two bridged lanthanide centres. Initially, 2D or 3D Cu-Pr MOFs were formed with bridging isonicotinate ligands, by reacting isonicotinic acid, CuI and Pr(NO3)3 in a range of organic solvents. The reaction producing one of these MOFs, {[Pr3(Cu4I4)3(ina)9(DMF)4](DMF)}n (where ina is isonicotinato and DMF is N,N-dimethylformamide), was then repeated with the addition of NaCl, KCl, RbCl or CsCl.
In the NaCl and KCl reactions, new MOFs were produced incorporating Na+ or K+ ions, with void volumes of 53% and 61%, respectively (compared with 10% for the alkali metal ion free MOF).
Reaction involving the next largest ion, Rb+, produced an unstable MOF which could not be studied further. However, reaction with the larger Cs+ ion produced a new MOF which didn't contain this ion, but with a void volume of 59%.
The authors suggest that their method of inducing structural variation using appropriately-sized alkali metal ions should be extendable to other ligand systems for the production of a variety of MOFs with novel structures and functions.
For more information, read the full paper at:
An alkali-ion insertion approach to structurally transform metal–organic frameworks
Yue-Qiao Hu, Mu-Qing Li, Teng Li, Yan-Yan Wang, Zhiping Zheng and Yan-Zhen Zheng
CrystEngComm, 2016, Advance Article
Gwenda Kyd has a PhD in metallocarborane chemistry from the University of Edinburgh. Other research work includes the spectroscopic study of the structure of glasses and organometallic electron-transfer reactions and the preparation of new inorganic phosphors. She published a book, 'Molecules, Medicines and Mischief', in 2014, on some of the chemicals found in plants and is currently working on a follow-up.


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It is already possible to obtain an injunction against patent infringement covering the whole of the United States. In a couple of years from now – and for the first time ever - it should be possible for patent owners to obtain a similar injunction, in court action, covering most of Europe. In theory, patentees will be able to remove a competitor's product from these two markets by means of two court actions.
Jason and Rebecca will be discussing:
- the changes that are being introduced
- the likely timing of the new regime's entry into force
- the circumstances in which patentees should obtain Unitary Patent protection
- how to obtain Unitary protection
- how the new Court will work
- the potential benefits and disadvantages of the new system; and
- the issues patentees should be considering now to decide whether or not to opt their existing European Patents out of the new litigation system when it comes into force.