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Actually cyber criminals are developing various malware to attack Mac and steal our ID. I believe ESET could better protect me from hackers than other Mac users. Therefore, others will be hacked first. In that case, ESET's security team will also update in time to stop the threats. So use security program!!! For your important devices, otherwise….
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Motherwell FC began their pre-season matches with a comfortable 3-1 victory at League One outfit Albion Rovers on Saturday.
The Steelmen - with new signings Ben Heneghan, Richard Tait and Jacob Blyth all making their debuts - had their first goal attempt after 10 minutes when Blyth's left footed effort from an angle went beyond the far post.
Dom Thomas then shot straight at Rovers keeper Ross Stewart before Marvin Johnson produced a great piece of skill during a fine run but was eventually stopped.
Blyth hit Rovers' left post from Louis Moult's pass but he was adjudged offside, before Moult wasted a great chance to score when blasting over.
And 'Well paid for this miss on 22 minutes when Stephen McManus was dispossessed on the touchline by Calum Ferguson, who passed inside for Paul Willis to shoot past Craig Samson.
Johnson - Motherwell's best player - sent in two dangerous crosses in quick succession but there were no takers.
And it was the English winger who set up Moult's 36th minute headed equaliser at the back post. 1-1 and game on.
Johnson put the Steelmen 2-1 up soon afterwards when he collected Keith Lasley's pass on the edge of the box, turned and rifled in a low shot which Stewart got a hand to but couldn't keep out.
The second half featured a succession of substitutions and it was Rovers sub Ryan Wallace who wasted a great chance straight away when he shot wide after being put clean through.
Fellow replacement Chris Cadden had a great run down the right for Motherwell at the other end but his cross was blocked.
The goal of the day came on 71 minutes when 'Well skipper Keith Lasley brilliantly volleyed home from 18 yards after a corner on the left had been headed clear.
Lionel Ainsworth (one of eight Motherwell subs) had a low shot saved late on and it finished 3-1.
Albion Rovers: Stewart, Reid, Turnbull, Fisher, Gilmour, Dunlop, Shields, Davidson, Ferguson, Willis, McBride.
Motherwell: Samson, Tait, Hammell, Heneghan, Campbell, McManus, Thomas, Blyth, Moult, Lasley, Johnson.
Referee: Andrew Dallas
Crowd: 445

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A former sex worker who spent time in jail is urging the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to interview other Aboriginal women who are languishing behind bars.
Sharon Acoose says she was a victim of childhood abuse – and she believes the majority of Indigenous women who end up in provincial jails or federal prisons have also endured emotional, physical and sexual violence.
Sen. Kim Pate, the former executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, says about 91 per cent of Indigenous women in penitentiaries are abuse victims.
Pate says many of the issues that lead to a life on the streets or behind bars are the same as those that lead to missing or murdered women.
The inquiry has not responded to requests for comment, but during Senate committee testimony last month, chief commissioner Marion Buller said it has already heard from prisoners and women in the sex trade who want to testify.
She said a statement-taker could be used to meet with the women in safe locations in order to collect their testimony.


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Three days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Pakistans official agencies could be involved in Mumbai terror attacks,the US on Friday said that Washington doesnt want to accuse anyone without evidence.
US ambassador David C Mulford said,I dont think we want to take a view that we make accusations against certain parties without the usual evidences,proofs. He said this while responding to a question whether the US agrees with the PM that Pakistans official agencies could have had a role in the Mumbai attacks.
Mulford,who was speaking at a farewell luncheon meeting organised by the CII,said the US was determined to work non-stop and as long as it takes to ensure that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks are brought to justice.
When Americans are killed anywhere,we pursue those people and that is what we are up to in Pakistan, he said.
The US has been pressing for deeper understanding of the roots of the problem of terrorism in Pakistan,he said. Like India,we have a common agenda we want to see Pakistan succeed,not fail,not become a serious problem,
not become a failed state.
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Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook are the world's largest companies by market capitalization. The United States is also, by many measures, the leader in university research in basic science. From this perspective, American innovation seems alive and well.
But it's a different story when it comes to actually making things. Apple, as is well known, manufactures its products abroad. The same is largely true for other U.S. corporate giants, such as Amazon. In fact, with the supplier base and knowledge required for manufacturing centered in Asia, the United States no longer has the technological prowess to manufacture many high-tech devices domestically. When it comes to applied research and downstream "process innovation," America lags behind its competitors.
The reasons for this decline are complex. It is partly ideological: for a long time the consensus belief in economics was that advanced countries should specialize in advanced R&D while outsourcing manufacturing to others. Financial short-termism has played a key role too, as has the way free trade with China has played out in practice.
But some of the failings are technical and institutional. Corporate research labs that once developed and commercialized breakthrough technologies have been eliminated. And critically, the United States, unlike Germany or Japan or South Korea, lacks key institutions focused on applied research and innovation. In other countries, such organizations help translate new ideas in science and technology into practical applications in manufacturing.
The United States needs to create a new set of institutions to overcome America's deficiencies in applied research and innovation, particularly when it comes to manufacturing. Such applied research is critical in translating scientific breakthroughs into an increase in middle-class American employment. Restoring this missing link in applied innovation is a necessary step toward restoring the shared prosperity of America's past—precisely what has been lost in the present.
The Deindustrialization of the United States
U.S. manufacturing employment has fallen 30 percent since 2000. Deindustrialization, which in the 1980s was centered in the heavy industry sectors of the Northeast and Upper Midwest, moved to the Sunbelt after 2000. As U.S. factories closed, the locus of manufacturing moved to Asia.
U.S. manufacturing currently stands at about 12 percent of GDP, compared to 18 percent in Switzerland and 22 percent in Germany. Wage differentials do not explain this disparity: U.S. manufacturing workers actually make less than their counterparts in these countries: $35 per hour in the United States compared to $47 per hour in Germany and $60 per hour in Switzerland.1 (These numbers also show that manufacturing employment is a well-paid activity compared to minimum-wage service jobs.)
The conventional explanation for the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment is not that America has lost its way in applied research and process innovation. Instead, it's the opposite: America's factories are just too good. AI and automation have led to a shedding of marginal, low-value jobs, while output remains strong. Adam Davidson, writing about "Making It in America" in the Atlantic, perfectly encapsulates this conventional wisdom:
In the past decade alone, output from American factories, adjusted for inflation, has risen by a third. . . . The still-unfolding story of manufacturing's transformation is, in many respects, that of our economic age. It's a story with much good news for the nation as a whole . . . [as] mills were able to replace their workers with a new generation of nearly autonomous, computer-run machines.2
Yet a more compelling, though less upbeat, explanation of what is happening in U.S. manufacturing is that the output statistics are misleading—if not entirely wrong. Virtually all of the alleged expansion in U.S. manufacturing output has taken place in one sector: computers and electronics, with other sectors contracting. The growth in this sector, however, is in part a function of the way government statistical agencies calculate output: improvements in computer power show up as increases in computers produced. The reported increase in physical computers produced is therefore illusory. Once this statistical approach has been adjusted, overall U.S. manufacturing output actually fell after 2000, along with employment.3
The story of the supposed transformation of American manufacturing also cannot explain why manufacturing makes up such a low percentage of GDP in the United States compared to Switzerland or Germany, to say nothing of Japan, Korea, or China. One soothing refrain is that what's left of American manufacturing is still the best in the world. According to this argument, the United States has retained high-value activities while outsourcing low-value activities to other countries. If this were true, however, then one would expect American industry to be making the high-value machines used in foreign factories. In reality, the United States barely has a machine tools industry to speak of. It is about the size of Italy's. America's largest import from China is electrical machinery, followed by general machinery. Its largest exports to China: grains, seeds, and fruit.
The idea that America is building the factories of the future is further belied by the actual use of robots in manufacturing. The United States lags behind global leader Korea in terms of robots per person by two-thirds. The intensity of robot usage in the United States is actually behind that of the Czech Republic and Slovenia.4
In fact, labor productivity in many U.S. manufacturing sectors is declining. Of the fifty-one durable manufacturing industry sectors surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, thirty-four experienced productivity decreases in 2017, led by the transportation equipment industry's 11.5 percent decline. In nondurable manufacturing, productivity fell in twenty of thirty-five industry sectors.5
Not only is America shedding low-value, blue-collar manufacturing jobs, it is shedding white-collar manufacturing jobs too. Remarkable—yet rarely remarked-upon—statistics show the difference between America and other advanced countries when it comes to jobs in manufacturing. The economists Bart Los, Marcel Timmer, and Gaaitzen de Vries found that low- and medium-skilled manufacturing jobs declined across Western countries in the manufacturing global value chain. This is where the similarity between the United States and other advanced countries ends, however. The authors write: "whereas in Europe and Japan, high-skilled job opportunities have increased, they have declined in the United States since 1995."6
These statistics present a very different picture from the conventional narrative in which an essentially healthy manufacturing industry is automating blue-collar employment away. Instead, the reality is one of an eroding industry, with both low- and high-paying manufacturing jobs leaving the United States. The statistics don't explain why these trends are taking place—both trade and decline in competitiveness are complementary explanations—only that they are real and alarming. But they do represent another indication that the United States is falling behind the frontier of applied research and innovation in manufacturing—far behind.
Two Types of Innovation
"Innovation," beyond its warm and fuzzy overtones, can mean many different things. Analysts often distinguish between advanced or upstream R&D and applied R&D. Political economists Dan Breznitz and Peter Cowhey have sharpened this analytical framework. They differentiate "novel-product innovation," in which "the creator conjures an entirely new technology or product," from "incremental and process innovation," which represents "improvements in how goods or services are designed, produced, distributed, and serviced."7 Breznitz and Cowhey note that process innovation has the larger impact on economic growth, particularly when it comes to growth in jobs.
Historically, the United States excelled in both types of innovation, but this is no longer the case. While America remains a global leader in upstream R&D, applied research and its supporting corporate ecosystem have withered if not vanished, or have moved to sites of manufacturing outside the United States. Well-paying jobs in U.S. manufacturing have also vanished as a result. This loss of applied innovation could be the overlooked cause of the mysterious stagnation in American productivity growth.
The Disappearance of the Corporate Innovation System
Corporate laboratories were once a critical part of the American innovation ecosystem. Maintained by large, vertically integrated corporations, these labs created scientific breakthroughs and also found ways to apply and commercialize innovations. Their absence haunts current attempts to revive U.S. manufacturing.
Henry Kressel, former director of RCA Labs, offered a definitive history of corporate research laboratories in the Winter 2017 issue of American Affairs.8 He notes that RCA Labs invented the core technologies used in color television (for example) as well as the necessary manufacturing methods. RCA Labs can take credit for numerous other scientific breakthroughs, such as liquid crystal flat-panel displays, high-power silicon transistors, and semiconductor lasers. Kressel himself developed an efficient manufacturing technology for these lasers, enabling them to go from a "laboratory curiosity" to a commercially useful product in just two years.
But starting in the 1970s and '80s, American corporations stopped pursuing these long-term research projects. Kressel poignantly describes the demise of lab after lab. These losses include Westinghouse Research Labs, which created the foundational technology for flat-panel displays; Hughes Research Laboratories; the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; and his own RCA Labs, which was spun off. Kressel writes of this loss: "There is a great deal of innovative work in the United States . . . but where are the institutions that will foster the next generation of breakthroughs in process technologies, new materials, or infrastructure technologies?"9
There is a financial side to this story—indeed the whole story behind the demise of corporate research labs and the decline of process innovation in general. As financial markets began playing a larger role in the U.S. and global economy, short-term market pressures and the search for "shareholder value" pushed companies to outsource manufacturing and to cut corporate R&D, regardless of the long-term consequences.
Activist investors have had an outsized role in killing off the remaining corporate research labs. One of the main activist strategies is to demand the breakup of large, vertically integrated corporations. Because conglomerates are out of style in the stock market, their individual business units are typically worth more as separate entities than as part of a whole. Breaking apart large corporations "unlocks value" for the shareholder when financial markets value the shattered remnants of the corporation at higher multiples than the original conglomerate. Central research labs are almost always a casualty, eliminated as a result of the breakup of the corporate parent.
Indeed, activist investors seem to have a special enmity for central corporate labs. The handful of remaining research labs in the United States, such as the lab at DuPont, have come under fire from activist investors. Following the activist-engineered merger of Dow and DuPont (and vast layoffs at DuPont's central research and development organization), Trian Fund Management's Nelson Peltz turned his attention to Procter & Gamble. Here again, the activist sought a "lean holding company," meaning cutbacks in R&D. According to Procter & Gamble's CEO, Peltz said that corporate research should be viewed as no more than "a hobby."10 Harvard Business School professor Dan Lorsch said, "If it was up to the activists there would be no [central research labs]."11
It is unfair to blame activist investors alone for the reduction in long-term corporate R&D, however. Corporations often follow the activist playbook of their own accord—spinning off noncore business units, outsourcing manufacturing and most of the value chain supporting it, as well as cutting both advanced and applied R&D. Stock market pressures (which often affect executive compensation) are driving this strategy.
Stock markets may undervalue central labs because they produce positive "externalities"—benefits that accrue to the country or economy as a whole rather than just to the company itself. The share price doesn't reflect this common good. Or maybe stock markets are excessively short-term and don't value the patient research undertaken by the labs and the long-term benefits they provide.
Regardless, as large, vertically integrated corporations and conglomerates have been broken up and their central research labs eliminated, more and more of their formerly internal processes have been taken over by external suppliers. But outsourcing production activities to the supply chain has been devastating to manufacturing innovation. Suppliers lack the resources to pick up the slack in research formerly conducted by central research labs. Small and medium-sized manufacturing suppliers typically undertake no formal research, nor do they have the resources to take advantage of university research, much less to find ways to commercialize and apply it.12 Further, the U.S. corporate approach has been to squeeze suppliers on the basis of cost, rather than working collaboratively to create new, innovative manufacturing processes. The functions of the central research labs have not been recreated in this new, disintegrated system.
Because the dominant financial market attitude treats corporate R&D as frivolous, corporations are no longer investing in applied research on any scale. Is it really surprising, then, that U.S. business sector labor productivity growth for the last quarter of 2017 was 0.0 percent?13
University Basic Research and Its Limitations
The United States has a second source of innovation, and that is government-funded basic research, mostly conducted at universities and often funded through darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Here, the United States has been more successful. Basic research has been the cornerstone of America's ability to achieve scientific advances that expand the frontier of knowledge, build America's defense capacities, launch new industries, and lead to the creation of entirely new fields.
But there are drawbacks to relying upon this system as the sole source of innovation: it largely excludes the late-stage, applied research needed for the mass deployment of new technology. Although universities may commercialize some of their research through licenses, they can play only a limited role, or more likely no role at all, when it comes to production.
Universities and defense agencies are not a perfect substitute for the vanished corporate system, which combined both advanced and applied research. Universities may create new ideas and technologies, but someone else has to apply those ideas and manufacture the products—and that increasingly takes place abroad. And this portends dire consequences for American jobs and the future dynamism of the U.S. economy.
Economic geographers Jennifer Clark and the late Susan Christopherson found that commercial spin-offs of technological innovations stemming from universities were unlikely to lead to large scale local job creation, at least without a skilled local labor force or venture capital system. Only a handful of U.S. regions, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have the capabilities to absorb university innovations and build sizable industries around them.
Christopherson and Clark write that the "research on the commercialization of patents produced in universities shows that while universities in the periphery may be producing innovations, production is likely to migrate to the coastal centers." They conclude, "If we examine the potential economic contributions of the university in regional economic development . . . we see that universities can play only a limited role."14
Entrepreneurs who commercialize university (and government-funded) research to create new products can profit handsomely. But the bulk of the jobs, both blue collar and middle class, go to where the product is manufactured, which might be in China. All that is left in the United States, aside from the financial and entrepreneurial overclass, is a servant class of private chefs and personal trainers; the middle-class jobs are located elsewhere.
The resulting inequality that stems from this winner-take-all approach to innovation is not politically sustainable. And since consumer spending accounts for the vast majority of U.S. economic activity, this lack of middle-class job growth is not economically sustainable either.
The Kindle as a Case Study:
Loss of Production Knowledge Impacts Advanced Innovation
A case study of Amazon's Kindle illustrates these problems. At present, the United States lacks the technical ability to manufacture the Kindle domestically, despite the fact that most of the core innovations behind the Kindle, such as electronic ink and LCD flat-panel displays, were invented in the United States. Flat-panel technology, for instance, was first proposed at GE and later developed at Westinghouse, but almost all manufacturing of LCD products has now moved to Asia.
Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih has found that only Asian companies currently have the capabilities to make the advanced glass technology used in the Kindle. His conclusion is stark: "the Kindle can't be manufactured in the U.S."15
One might argue that this loss of production capability doesn't matter. The United States, and of course Amazon, still capture some value from the production of the Kindle, even if the bulk of the components are made in Asia. In addition to concerns related to job losses or the trade deficit, however, Shih writes that "a more substantive cause for concern is when innovations can't be manufactured in the U.S., the locus of innovation in that area frequently shifts to the countries that can manufacture them."
In other words, because the production of many goods no longer occurs in the United States, America is losing out on future new products and entire industries stemming from discoveries associated with manufacturing. Shih adds, "sometimes when you let your capabilities get away, you give up not only one industry but all its progeny." Ignoring downstream innovation and manufacturing has upstream consequences: America's lead in advanced in R&D has been eroded by its neglect of applied R&D.
A Solution: Innovation Intermediaries
American policymakers and economists seem at a loss to explain, much less stem, deindustrialization. "Education, education, education!" is the commonly offered solution, but it is a vague one, and shopworn too. After all, the collapse in American manufacturing during the 1980s, '90s, and 2000s did not coincide with a decline in educational levels. In fact, the opposite occurred.
Actual, concrete policy solutions are thin on the ground. The typical set of policy choices is tightly focused on tax. Tax cuts are too often seen as the cure-all for whatever is ailing America, regardless of the cause. A more regional approach is to use tax incentives to lure manufacturers, but this only leads to a zero-sum race to the bottom.
And none of these alternatives represents a plausible solution if the American weakness in manufacturing is related to institutional deficiencies in applied research and innovation (as well as trade and financial short-termism). Rather, this institutional failing calls for an institutional remedy: an innovation intermediary.
An "innovation intermediary" is an institution that brings together academia, industry, and the government to foster applied research. Its goal is to translate advanced R&D, developed in universities or government labs, into actual processes that can be used in factories. These institutions could also help to improve workers' skills in using new technology, and they could share technological advances with small and medium-sized manufacturing suppliers that do no research at all. Ultimately, these institutions could overcome the key deficiency in the U.S. innovation system: the lack of applied R&D.
Although an innovation intermediary sounds like a theoretical construct, these organizations actually form a core part of other nations' manufacturing ecosystems. For instance, Germany has Fraunhofer Institutes, which are application-oriented research organizations. They are independent from business and government but are funded by both. Fraunhofers are critical for translating basic research into commercial products. They adapt advanced R&D into applied processes that can be used in manufacturing. They are therefore integral to the German model of innovation, "which applies science, technology, and engineering to drive incremental but constant improvements in processes and technologies."16 Similar institutions are found in other industrialized countries, such as the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan or the Public Industrial Technology Institutes (Kohsetsushi) of Japan.
Innovation intermediaries do exist in the United States as well, mostly on a pilot basis. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), which has its origins in the Clinton administration, targets smaller to medium-sized enterprises, offering advice about how to deploy technology. More recently, Manufacturing USA, which was established during the Obama administration, has created national institutes focused on developing commercially applicable new technologies in 3-d printing, photonics, and lightweight materials manufacturing. And there are a handful of German Fraunhofers undertaking contract research that operate in the United States.
But the scale and imprint of these U.S. institutions is not comparable to what exists in other countries. In the first place, the American institutions' budgets are tiny: MEP's budget in 2009 was $110 million. The German Fraunhofers' annual budget, by contrast, is €2.3 billion, for a country much smaller than the United States. Furthermore, continued federal funding for U.S. innovation intermediaries is uncertain, to say the least. Federal funding for Manufacturing USA is designed to sunset, and MEP's funding was nearly cut altogether in President Trump's initial budget proposal. The United States will likely have to find funding sources outside the federal government to support late-stage, applied research.
Meanwhile, Germany has announced "Industrie 4.0," a national initiative designed for smart factories and the manufacturing of tomorrow. This is merely one of ten similar German high-tech manufacturing initiatives. Industrie 4.0 envisions a new industrial revolution, building on big data as well the "Internet of Things." It aims to integrate small to medium-sized enterprises into the world of digital manufacturing. Here too, much of the underlying digital technologies, such as the platforms used for the Internet of Things, was developed in America, but the actual manufacturing will take place in Germany. Industrie 4.0 will tap many sources of funding, including up to $80 billion in innovation research from the EU.
Can anyone imagine the United States launching something similar today?
Political Barriers to Creating Innovation Intermediaries
Everyone claims to love the idea of innovation. Creating new institutions to restore applied research and, with it, manufacturing in America should be a bipartisan project. In reality, however, the efforts necessary to accomplish these goals are out of step with the ideological commitments of both parties.
The Democratic Party should be a natural advocate for such a mission. The Democrats were traditionally the party of the industrial working class and represented the interests of the "the workingman." But today the phrase "workingman" is more likely to be considered a microaggression by party leaders.
Instead, the main ideological thrust of the current Democratic Party is identity politics. The theory of "intersectionality," which examines intersecting structures of oppression, underpins this approach. This total politicization of everyday life along tightly prescribed lines, however, has nothing to say about the causes of the decline in manufacturing innovation and its effects on U.S. workers. And that's because intersectionality has no real intersection with economics at all.
Intersectional theorists do pay lip service to the importance of class, and some mention of it is usually de rigueur in any discussion. Yet even when intersectional theorists acknowledge that deindustrialization has occurred, they are typically more interested in its disparate impacts, rather than in how to reverse it. Structural economic decline is simply not a galvanizing issue for student protest groups. This sidelining of economic and class concerns can be seen in the way tech and finance billionaires, once they embrace intersectional language and ideology, are embraced by "social justice" movements.
Edmund Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, characterized the rhetoric of the Democratic Party this way:
When Hillary Clinton gave her first campaign speech, she spoke only of social justice for marginalized groups. She focused on groups she judged had no interest in the economy. There was no sense that the nation's economy had largely lost the sustained growth it had been generating.17
Aside from offering lip service to redistributive policies, Democrats have largely ceded most discussions about how to revive economic growth to Republicans. And unfortunately, while Democrats can be accused of indifference to important economic issues, Republicans actually harbor deep ideological opposition to the institutional reforms needed to revive U.S. manufacturing innovation.
One might expect the Republican Party to be a natural home and advocate for such a mission. The first item on the GOP platform is "rebuilding the economy and creating jobs." But any discussions about active economic development are deeply taboo in mainstream Republican thinking.
The dominant conservative belief is that industrial strategy means picking winners. In fairness, this is a justly discredited strategy. Picking winners means picking losers: privileging politically connected yet economically incompetent businesses or sectors. But there are other strategies besides this "vertical" type of industrial policy. Building missing institutions, such as innovation intermediaries, is not the same as this discredited approach. It is a "horizontal policy" that has benefits across companies and sectors, supporting the economy as a whole. Yet even this approach would be at odds with the market fundamentalism that is characteristic of much of the modern Republican Party's economic thinking.
Market fundamentalism does not acknowledge the role of the military and government in developing America's advanced technology and our most successful industries. It seems to believe that technology develops by itself, as if by magic. It also does not acknowledge that there may be a tension between what is good for an activist investor and what is good for the economy as a whole. Market fundamentalism has no opinion, aside from the market's, on whether corporate R&D should be more than "a hobby."
In both parties there are countervailing trends to these dominant themes. The handful of innovation intermediaries in the United States are products of the Clinton and Obama administrations. Trump was elected in part because of his manufacturing agenda and his promise to restore good blue-collar jobs. His campaign rhetoric offered a different approach from the market fundamentalism of mainstream Republicans. But when it came time to create actual policies, it was back to the Paul Ryan agenda, with tax policy as the principal lever for economic development.
This is a mistake. Improving U.S. applied innovation and creating the jobs that come with it will require much more than tax incentives. The success of manufacturing in Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea, among others, demonstrates that there is an entire set of policies beyond taxation necessary to foster growth through reindustrialization.
On a more optimistic note, state and city policymakers typically don't have the same ideological qualms about active economic development as Washington ideologues. On the contrary, local policymakers are often explicitly charged with finding ways to attract new businesses and good jobs—to find things that work. Thus states and cities, rather than the federal government, might be the best sites for experiments (and funding) aimed at fixing the U.S. weakness in applied R&D.
The Radicalism of Incremental Advances
America risks becoming a low-skill, low-wage nation. The country is filled with rage, but the rage is misdirected: this downward economic trajectory isn't being addressed by social justice activism or market fundamentalism. Sadly, an entire set of solutions related to restoring innovation in manufacturing seems ideologically off-limits in both parties.
But perhaps the biggest problem is that the problem itself remains largely unknown. It is simply inconceivable to most Americans that the United States is not the best in the world when it comes to applied research and innovation, or that the country lacks key institutions that could better support advanced manufacturing. These topics are almost never discussed in the media. Sophisticated political economists and regional planners may be aware of these issues, but mainstream macroeconomists are not, preferring instead to model general equilibrium dynamics.18
Building new institutions like innovation intermediaries is hard. Adapting models that have worked well in Germany or Japan or Korea to the United States is harder still. But it is no more difficult—and probably much easier—than correcting the abuses of "free trade" by mercantilist competitors, or taking on short-termism in financial markets—the other leading causes of U.S. economic deindustrialization.
America has faced technological challenges in the past and overcome them. The defense agency darpa, for instance, was created in response to Sputnik. "Darpa explicitly reaches for transformational change instead of incremental advances," according to the agency, with the goal that the United States "would be the initiator and not the victim of strategic technological surprises."19
The United States should not abandon the advantages that darpa and other institutions have secured in upstream, basic R&D. But now America needs the equivalent of a new darpa—with an expanded, and not just a military, mission—to focus on the less glamorous world of "incremental advances" in process innovation. America needs to be the initiator, not the victim, of strategic technological surprises when it comes to actually making things.
This article originally appeared in American Affairs Volume II, Number 2 (Summer 2018): 80–95.
2 Adam Davidson, "Making It in America," Atlantic, January/February 2012.
3 For a discussion of the statistical controversies around U.S. manufacturing output, see David Adler, "The Real Challenge for U.S. Industry," City Journal, March 29, 2017.
4 Koen De Backer, Timothy DeStefano, Carlo Menon, and Jung Ran Suh, "Industrial Robotics and the Global Organisation of Production," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 2018/03, February 27, 2018.
5 "Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing and Mining Industries—2017" (news release), U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 19, 2018.
6 Bart Los, Marcel P. Timmer, and Gaaitzen J. de Vries, "How Global Are Global Value Chains?: A New Approach to Measure International Fragmentation," Journal of Regional Science 55, no. 1 (January 2015): 66–92.
7 Dan Breznitz and Peter Cowhey, "America's Two Systems of Innovation," Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 127–54.
8 Henry Kressel. "Edison's Legacy: Industrial Laboratories and Innovation." American Affairs 1, no. 4 (Winter 2017): 115–29.
9 Kressel.
10 Peltz's comment has been reported widely. See for instance, Wendy Lea, "Peltz's Proxy Fight with P&G Misguided," Cincinnati.com, October 6, 2017.
11 Lorsch is quoted in the article, Stephen Gandel, "How DuPont Went to War with Activist Investor Nelson Peltz," Fortune, May 11, 2015. Note that this article was written before DuPont lost the war.
12 See also Susan Helper and Howard Wial, "Strengthening American Manufacturing: A New Federal Approach," Brookings Institution, September 27, 2010.
13 "Productivity and Costs, Fourth Quarter and Annual Averages 2017, Revised," Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 7, 2018.
14 Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark, Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (London: Routledge, 2007), 131–32.
15 Willy C. Shih, "The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle and That's a Problem." Harvard Business Review, October 13, 2009.
16 This definition is from the National Academy of Sciences and nearly matches the textbook definition of "process innovation." For more about Fraunhofers and innovation intermediaries across the world, see National Research Council, 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2013).
17 Edmund Phelps, "America's Policy Thinking in the Age of Trump" (speech at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, January 2018).
18 There is a growing literature in political science and economic geography focused on the links between innovation and production, and America's weakness in downstream R&D. See, for example, Production in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014); Dan Breznitz, Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); and publications from the American Association of Economic Geography Specialty Group, and the Industries Studies Association.
19 "About darpa," Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.


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Santa Clara Pueblo Brownware Sgraffito Design Wedding Vessel
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- Category: Contemporary
- Origin: Santa Clara Pueblo
- Medium: clay
- Size: 5-½" height x 4" width
- Item # C4125i
- Price: $750.00
Paul Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo is known for his brownware pottery with sgraffito designs. It seems that there are some misunderstandings about Paul's birth and death dates. Some websites show those to be 1960-1993, 1950-1993, and 1957-2002. The latter dates were obtained from an online obituary and are the dates we have selected to use. Names of relations mentioned in the obituary were confirmed with a Santa Clara native as being related to Paul, so we are confident that he passed away in 2002 as indicated.
Paul received awards at Santa Fe Indian Market every year from 1988 to 1992, including a Best of Division award.
This brownware small wedding vessel is one of his signature styles. The body of the vessel is decorated with a deer and doe on one side and an Avanyu water serpent on the opposite side. The Avanyu wraps around the vessel body, intersecting with the deer design. The spouts and arch were rendered in a polished brown finish.
The wedding vase is signed with the name of the potter and pueblo, but not dated.
Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Brownware Sgraffito Design Wedding Vessel is in very good condition
Provenance: from the collection of a client from Maryland
Recommended Reading: Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni by Hayes and Blom
- Category: Contemporary
- Origin: Santa Clara Pueblo
- Medium: clay
- Size: 5-½" height x 4" width
- Item # C4125i
- Price: $750.00
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Linkedin is a bit of an overwhelming platform. There is so much you can do, and so many different features and aspects of the site.
That is why I wrote a How to Guide on Linkedin Lead Generation a while back which has helped so many people in terms of generating more leads on Linkedin.
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Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Sequel Is Headed For Television
Nearly 50 years after its original theatrical release, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey remains both one of the best science fiction movies ever made, and one of the best movies ever made, full stop. The epic scope, the sense of wonder, the jaw-dropping visuals, all ensure that the film still holds up perfectly, even all these decades later. While Kubrick was never a sequel kind of guy, Clarke did continue the story in several sequel novels, one of which was adapted into director Peter Hyams' 2010: The Year We Makes Contact in 1984. (And my love for that flick is well established given how often I find excuses to reference it.) Now the world of the mysterious labyrinths will be returning to the screen…but this time it will be the TV screen.


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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep
A now-adult Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) must protect a young girl with similar powers as his from a cult known as the True Knots in this sequel to Stephen King's The Shining. Directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Gerald's Game, Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House) and adapted from King's novel.
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Kadir López
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Kadir López graduated from the Provincial School of Arts in Las Tunas (1986), the Professional School of Arts in Camagüey (1990) and the Superior Institute of Art in Havana (1995). Since the '90's, his work has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and group shows worldwide. In addition, he has participated in several prominent international events and art fairs, including the Havana Biennial, the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), ArtMadrid, the Miami International Art Fair, and Art Palm Beach. He received the Prize of the Contemporary Cuban Art Salon, organized by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana in 1995. Other awards include the First Prize of the Provincial Salon (Las Tunas Art Center, Las Tunas, 1992 and 1989), and the First Prize of the Guernica Salon (Las Tunas Art Center, Las Tunas, 1991). López has lectured at conferences at universities and museums worldwide, and has served as a juror in numerous national art contests in Cuba. His work can be found in several major museums collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; the Arizona State University Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, California; the Museum of Finest Cuban Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as in many private collections internationally.


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The following County Bord na nOg notes were published in this weeks local newspapers:
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On Saturday last we held our penultimate championship finals of the year with the staging of the U 14 Hurling finals in Boherlahan. The weather played a trick or two prior to the throw time of 11am. Dark cloud coupled with rain appeared to be the order of the day ahead, but surprisingly it all faded away to reveal some well appreciated sunshine accompanied with the occasional breeze.
The C final between north champions Portroe were up against west champ[ions Cashel King Cormacs in the opening action of the day with referee Eddie Costello getting proceedings under way at the appointed time.
Portroe were first into attack mode with the Cashel keeper Ross Whelan being called upon for two brilliant saves inside the first nine minutes. He was being well assisted by defender Ethan Gayson Molloy on many occasions. During this Portroe had Captain Brian Keating, Ben O'Connor and Shane Keating in particular making things difficult for the Cashel defence.
The opening score came from a free on the tenth minute from Portroe's Peter Rainsford and from the puck out Sonny Dower had the Cashel men stunned with a cracker of a goal. During the next six minutes Portroe were enjoying supremacy courtesy of Brian Keating, James Ferris, Peter Rainsford, Sonny Dower and company, but saw many opportunities go a begging with some from placed balls. For Cashel only one opportunity presented but failed to register on the board. On the nineteenth minute goal number two for Portroe when Patrick Finn had the Cashel net rattled. For the remaining six minutes of the game Portroe added a further four points coming from Ban O'Connor, Shane Keating,Oisin O'Connor and Patrick Finn while holding a defensive clear sheet for a score reading of 2-05 to 0-00. Cashel were being under severe continuous threat but were well assisted by Eoghan Murphy, Ross Minogue.
After the restart Cashel went into attack but their shot went off target. Fabien Ryan was doing well for the west side and only for a great save by Portroe keeper a goal appeared certain. On the fifth minute the Cashel side were rewarded for their effort when Dylan Foley had the Port net shaking. Four minutes later Portroe replied with a point from James Ferris, which was again responded too by a point for Cashel by Eoghan Murphy to put the score reading Portroe 2-05 Cashel 1-01.Unfortunatelt for the west side no further additions were made to their tally while the north men added a further 2-02 with Patrick Finn accounting for 1-01, a goal from Peter Rainsford and a point from Sonny Dower for Portroe who bridged a five year gap in claiming the title.
In his presentation speech chairman Tom Dawson praised both teams and especially to Cashel despite being overpowered never gave up. He congratulated Portroe on their victory and prior to presenting the cup to victorious captain Brian Keating he thanked referee Eddie Costello, his officials and also all concerned in the host club Boherlahan Dualla.
Portroe victorious panel Adrian O' Halleran , Niall Helebert , James Finn, Sonny Dower Brian Keating , Ben O' Connor, Shane Keating, James Ferris, Sam Madden, John Moroney, Peter Rainsford, Patrick Finn, Robbie , Creamer ,Luke Creamer,Oisin O'Connor, Andrew Ferris, Evan Rainsford, Conor O'Riordan, Eoin Quinn, Mark Madden,Oisin Keating, Barry Conaughton.
Next on the program was the B contest between south champions Grangemockler Ballyneale and mid champions Gortnahoe Glengoole. Gortnahoe went into immediate attack which yielded a free and was pointed by Oisin Cleary. The Grangemockler response went wide but they were being well assisted by the efforts of Shane Corcoran, Mark O'Meara and Ben Comerford up front. Mark O'Meara was inch perfect with his free taking all day and during the first period had accounted for six points from frees ,one from play accompanied by one from play by Mikie Lyons from play to hold an interval lead of 0-08 to 0-04.Tom Brett was also keeping the pressure on the Gortnahoe defence . The entire defence line of the south men were proving very difficult for the mid boys to comprehend. Gortnahoe were being served well by captain
Brian Maher, Jack Atkinson, Oisin Cleary, Jack Doheny .Oisin Cleary pointed his second free with two points from play coming from Dillon Butler and Jack Doheny. From a neutral perspective the south men were able to get the upper hand of proceedings in almost all areas of the pitch and always looked very threatening when they went on the attack.
Upon the resumption it was the south side first on the attack but the opening addition to the score records came from Gortnahoe by point from Jack Doheny on the two minute mark. The Grange response was immediate with a point from Tom Brett. Both sides had opportunities going amiss. Great defence roles were being displayed by both outfits but on the fifteenth minute the Grange pressure yielded a goal and moments later they had another by Shane Corcoran to hold a very commanding lead 2-09 to 0-05.During the remaining five minutes of the game both sides added a point to their respective tallies. Darragh Maher pointed a free for Gortnahoe and likewise Mark O'Meara for Grangemockler to clinch the title and bridge a four year gap for the south men on a concluding score line of Grangemockler Ballyneale 2-10 Gortnahoe Glengoole 0-06.
Prior to the presentation of the cup to the Grangemockler Ballyneale captain James Daly chairman Tom Dawson thanked both teams on a game of great hurling and commiserated with the mid men on going down. He congratulated Grangemockler Ballyneale on winning a hurling title to accompany their football one earlier in the year.
He acknowledged the service of referee Pat O'Mahoney and his officials and also host club Boherlahan Dualla
Victorious Grangemockler Ballyneale panel
.Brandon Brunnock ,Luke Sheehan ,Zach Ellis
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The program was concluded with the A decider between two strong traditional urban clubs. Representing the mid was Durlas Og and from north it was Roscrea. . Fergal Horgan got the action under way with Durlas Og first showing their power of attack.Cathal Hayes, Joe Dwan and Cian Stakelum were on the prowl for the mid representatives. Roscrea keeper was forced into action on the minute after a great strike from Durlas Og Joe Dwan. Gavin Meagher the Roscrea fullback was holding his area very solidly. On the sixth minute Jack Lanigan pointed a free to put Durlas On the score board. Both sides were playing very tenaciously not giving an inch to their opponents coupled with missed chances that were becoming available.Eoin Purcell Paddy Creedon were showing very well around the mid field area for the Thurles team while Roscrea were backed up greatly by Dylan Hogan, Jack Lee, Kevin Moore, Calin Byrne to mention but a few. Jack Lanigan pointed for Durlas on the fifteenth minute to put his side two points up. Four minutes later Dylan Hogan opened the Roscrea account and was quickly accompanied by another by Jack Lee to level affairs at two points apiece. Roscrea were now looking the more dominant side but scores were hard to come by. They took the lead with a pointed free from vice Captain James Synott on the twenty fifth minute. With the game now in injury time Eoin Purcell pointed for Durlas Og to level affairs but it was short-lived as James Synott pointed a .65 to put Roscrea one point up at the interteval 0-04 to 0-03. Eeventhough the score count was on the low scale it ad produced a very action packed opening period and spectators were eagerly waiting to see what the next chapter in this contest would produce.
When the action resumed the first opportunity went to Durlas Og going off the intended spot. Jack Lanigan repeated his opening performance in pointing a free for the opening score of the period.Eoin Purcell added another to put Durlas ahead once more. James Armstrong and Kieran Costello were being very active for Durlas on numerous occasions. On the fourth minute the Roscrea men were rattled with a goal from looping free dropped into the net. Roscrea responded when Jack Lee scored his second point to put the score reading Durlas Og 1-05 Roscrea 0-05. Both sides had .65s yielding nothing within the next moments of the game. Kevin Moore reduced the Roscrea deficit with a pointed free but this addition was neutralized by Durlas point from Joe Dwan with ten minutes gone and the score reading Durlas Og 1-06 Roscrea 0-06. Captain Cian Stakelum pointed for Durlas Og and once again the Roscrea response was swift with a pointed free from James Synott for a score reading 1-07 to 0-07 in favour of the mid side. As it was to transpire Roscrea were to make no further addition to the score record.
Similar to the opening period a stalemate regarding scoring occurred as both defenses' were in top flight. Jack Lanigan pointed a Durlas free on the seventeenth minute. The Roscrea net was shaking with a second Durlas Og goal on the twentieth minute. Within the closing five minutes Durlas Og closed off any threat with another Eoin Purcell point and a second Jack Lanigan goal which he followed up wit a point to put Durlas Og claiming the title on a concluding score reading Durlas Og 3-11 Roscrea 0-07. to accompany their back to back titles in 2005 & 2006..
Chairman Tom Dawson was full of praise to both teams on a splendid contest. He cited that the final score reading didn't do justice to the quality and closeness of the game.. He thanked referee Fergal and his officials. He thanked all involved in the Boherlahan Dualla club for having everything in top condition here in Boherlaan.He te presented the John Flanagan Memorial Cup to winning Durlas Og captain Cian Stakelum.
Durlas Og victorious panel Darragh Stakelum,. David Mawe, Patrick Stakelum , Conor Stapleton, Jordan Fahey , Kieran Costello, Cathal Hayes, Paddy Creedon , Eoin Purcell,
Oisin O Brien ,Cian Stakelum (Capt.) Joe Dwan , James Armstrong , Jack Lanigan,Dean Fanning , Sean Collins, Henry Fogarty,Conor Fogarty,Sean Madden, DeanO'Halloran,Jack Kelly, Luke Fogarty,Aaron Mulcaire,Stephen Donovan,Eoghan Ryan, Luke Beresford
Mentors: Paddy Kenny, Aidan Ryan, Conor Lanigan,Jim Dwyer, Paul Ryan,Declan Costello, Ritchie Stapleton, Dara Purcell
Results Saturday September 12th
UNDER 14 HURLING FINALS in Boherlahan
Under 14 "A"
Durlas Og 3-11 v Roscrea 0-07 Referee Fergal Horgan
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Internet Use of Fertility Patients: A Systemic Review of the Literature
Journal für Reproduktionsmedizin und Endokrinologie - Journal of Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology 2011; 8 (4): 281-287
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Keywords: Information, Internet, Kinderwunsch, fertility patients, Information, internet usage, online
Patients undergoing infertility treatment often satisfy their information needs by using the Internet. The objective of this study is to compile the main reasons for and the impact of different forms of Internet usage in case of infertility. A systematic review of literature was carried out including 19 distinct studies in English language published in peer-reviewed journals from 1999 to 2009 identified from PubMed, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Sociological Abstracts and by using snowball sampling. According to the examined studies, the main reasons for the use of the Internet by infertile couples are the availability of a great amount of diverse information, the emotional, social and psychological support offered, and to seek self-help. The consequences are perceived improvements in knowledge, emotional state, relationships and self-efficacy. However, concerns about the quality of information and possible negative impacts are reported, too. Further research is needed concerning the effects of fertility patients internet use.


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Yummy AND Healthy Carrot Cake For The Whole Family
If you're like many people, one dessert that you can't get enough of is carrot cake.
But yet, since you started your diet, carrot cake may have fallen off your radar.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to. With a few smart ingredient substitutions, you can easily serve up a delicious, moist carrot cake that will satisfy those cravings while giving you the nutrition that you need.
This recipe is full of high quality protein thanks to the whey protein powder it contains, will offer some healthy fats due to the walnuts added in, and will also pack in a good dose of fibre due to the carrots and flaxseed meal in the recipe.
Try this next time you need to bake up something delicious to take to an event or to simply finish off a gourmet home-cooked meal.
You can also ice this recipe using the icing recipe noted below, which will add even more protein to the mix, all while keeping the total calorie content down.
Additionally, if you prefer, you can also add in some raisins if you enjoy that in your carrot cake. Just note that if adding in raisins, this will increase the total sugar and calorie count per piece.
This is one dessert you don't have to feel guilty eating.
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Sugar Free – Yes
Gluten Free –Yes
Dairy Free – No
Grain Free – Yes
Protein – High
Carbs – Low
Fats – Medium
Carrot Cake Recipe
¼ cup Almond Flour
¼ Ground Flaxseed Meal
¼ cup vanilla protein powder
1 Egg
¼ cup Egg Whites
¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
¼ cup grated carrots
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
3 tbsp. Splenda/Stevia
3 tbsp. Sugar Free Pancake syrup
¼ cup unsweetened almond milk (vanilla)
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
4 tbsp. fat free cream cheese
¼ tsp. vanilla extract
4 tbsp. Splenda
1 tbsp. almond milk
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine the muffin ingredients into a bowl and mix until well blended. Next, pour into baking pan and then bake for 35 minutes.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the fat free cream cheese, vanilla extract, Splenda, and almond milk and then smear over muffins.


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$1.1B in Payments Missing From Physician Payment Site
CMS' recently launched physician payment website is missing $1.1 billion in payments made by drugmakers and medical device manufacturers to health care providers, according to a CMS factsheet. CMS said it would not publish information regarding 9,000 payments that had been disputed by doctors or hospitals during the physician review period. In addition, CMS said it would withhold data on 190,000 research payments for drugs and medical devices that have not been introduced to the market, as is required by the law.
- "$1.1 Billion in Drug, Device Payments to Doctors Not Included in New Federal Database" (Ornstein, ProPublica, 10/6).


text: He says at one point that he was afraid of being brought into the upper-echelon literary fold because people would wonder "who let the barbarian in the palace." I based by illustration on his feeling of being judged by the greats (pictured below are Shakespeare, Bronte, Balzac, and Dickens). I'm thinking about going back in and including their names (duh). Originally, I didn't want the text to become what people focused on.


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Anthony Miranda is our community liaison pastor. He currently leads one of the largest food pantries in the city of New York. Through his leadership, our ECC pantry and volunteers serve over 3,000 families each month. Pastor Tony has been able to start up a number of soup kitchens and pantries all over the city throughout his ministerial life. He is a living testimony and willing to share with anyone who is willing to listen. Through the Biker Church Services he holds on Thursdays, he has made everyone feel welcomed to the house of God just as she/he is. He dedicates his life to helping others and plays a big role in teaching and pastoral care among our church family.
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Tonight I got a little bit carried away with my inktober sketch and worked on it way too long on it, but I'm pretty happy with the result. :) Maybe its the creepy ads for a Victorian horror film that keep playing on my Hulu but focused on the creepy other worldly side of the Victorian era this time!
Here's the photograph that inspired it--old photographs--so creepy, so cool!


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The New Zealand dollar has come back into the fray recently, as it looks to be making a push higher on the back of a weaker USD. This has been led in part by the USD weakening as the US Congressional Budget Office has forecasted that by 2020 the budget deficit will be $1 Trillion. This has further compounded the already weaker US dollar position in the market, which continues to show no signs of letting up. However, any flight in the markets is causing USD rallies and lifts in safe havens (JPY, CHF). For the most part though it's likely that markets will continue to hammer the USD as it posts sub-par economic data and also republicans put pressure on the current fiscal position.
Looking at the NZDUSD it continues to look higher from its current position. And with two major trend lines at play in the market, it could certainly be the case that we see it look to jump higher in the lead up this week. At the top level we have a long term bearish trend line which will obviously be a factor for traders looking for levels to exist at. On the bullish side we have a short term trend line which is likely to come into play, but not at present. Today's push saw the bulls touch on resistance at 0.7323 and it's likely we could see further touches after support at 0.7171 was able to hold off any further movements lower. In the event the bulls do drive things forward I would expect strong resistance at 0.7405, which also coincides with the bearish trend line coming down from above. If we did see a breakout here then I would most certainly see it as a very bullish signal.
The Canadian dollar has been making big waves on the markets and has been one of the most volatile in the Monday trading session. I'm not surprised given the great technical patterns we are seeing and of course the NAFTA talks adding further pressure that things will improve once some uncertainty is taken out of the equation. Adding further spin to the mix was the Business Outlook Index showing a lift to 16 (8 prev) which seems to show that things are improving and we could see the Canadian economy pick up more as NAFTA looks to get sorted, and potentially may event benefit more from any trade wars the US has with China.
On the chart the USDCAD has shown a strong head and shoulders pattern which I touched on last week, as the bears took control on a strong CAD. After crashing through the neck line traders have pushed down to support at 1.268, and there is a real battle here between the bulls and the bears. The 200 day moving average is probably the next level in this fight, with the potential to even go lower to support at 1.2548. The question now remains how much more fight do the CAD bulls have in them, as to me it looks like they may be getting stronger.
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Great body shaping Edmonton
First of all, identify your body contour, if it is cherry, slim, curvaceous, apple, rectangular, or whatever it is, you are not alone! There is a great deal of helpful fashion hints which we'd get assistance of the net or style magazines. The body shape fashion tips are excellent since they help to pay up your defects and help highlight and highlight those fantastic resources you have. Rectangular Body Form – the rectangular women are pretty right around, though some might have the boyish chest. Many girls would kill to your shape although there is actually no principal region of your body that actually stands out. In case you have got little flat torso, put on a high-necked shirt; a nicely structured coating with cinches in belt will cause you to look curvier that you are. Keep away from anything with perpendicular layout or routine and close-fitting sheath dresses.
Pear Body Shape – Vast majority of the girls are in this group. The pear women are bottom heavy and rounder round the buttocks, legs and thighs compared to the top. Wear bright tight shirt with large sleeves or collars that are fancy. Look amazing in A-lined Colours with span below the knee. Dark colour directly legged legs will be acceptable for pear shaped body. Keep away from tubing or pencil shaped skirts. Do not outside on anything that is fitting tight to the bottom. Hourglass – This Body contour is a typical of pear body form along with the rectangular body form. They have fuller breasts and bottom, with contrast little waist, their shoulders and buttocks are equivalent in proportion. Three quarter length or total length skirts work well on you. Proceed with V-neck shirts and extend Denim jeans to highlight your little waist.
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Coming in 2019-2020 is our New Raw Arctic Cod Protein Powder. We are very excited about this revolutionary product and we want the world to know what is coming. This will be the first Raw Protein Powder on the market. Completely raw, unprocessed, and predigested. This means it is extremely easy for the body to assimilate. It has shown to be more powerful and bioactive than Whey or Soy-based protein! While keeping up with our Gold Standard in sustainability, we use the fresh, wild-caught cod from our Extra Virgin Cod Liver Oil to make this raw, powerful fish protein.
We at Rosita Real Foods take FRESHLY CAUGHT ARCTIC COD from the deep cold waters in Norway and we remove the insides (livers used for extra virgin cod liver oil). EVERYTHING ELSE (skin, fillet, bones, fins, WHOLE head) are chopped up into small pieces. We then add special microbial enzymes to the chopped fish which break down the whole mass (by a process called hydrolysis) releasing Collagen from the skin and fins, and breaking down bone and proteins (which make up the fillet) into smaller peptide chains as well as single amino acids. It also releases lots of minerals and fatty acids including omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA.
When the enzyme digestion is complete we have a slurry of nutrients (especially minerals), peptides and amino acids. This is then dried. We at Rosita Real Foods wanted this product Raw so it is similar to what the Vikings did when they used to hang up their cod to dry for a month or more resulting in STOCKFISH which was a dried raw Codfish full of nutrition. So we dry it using a long process that lasts up to a month! And we dry under vacuum which also helps to inhibit microbial growth. Temperatures never exceed 50°C. These are low temperatures for a fish protein powder. However, such low temperatures require long drying times of up to a month. The result is a powder that is raw and predigested (this aspect differs from stockfish because stockfish is not predigested) and so easy to assimilate by the body. The smaller peptide chains behave like switches, turning on healthy physiological processes.
Fresh Wild-Caught While Others Use Byproduct
It differs greatly from other fish protein powders because it is the only one that is raw and so the proteins and peptides retain their biological activity. It also is produced using FRESH wild Codfish. Most companies use marine fish-derived proteins and peptides obtained from chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis of fish processing by-products or waste products. We use fresh fish. This is an important distinction to make a note of. This makes ours a very expensive product to produce. Finally, ours smells and tastes of fish (and has a darker appearance) because eliminating the smell of fish involves refining which can have a detrimental effect on the proteins. So this is REALLY a RAW and BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE product. It is also a perfect protein supplement and rich in minerals and fatty acids.
What happens when we make it our way?
It also contains bone components and is an amazing source of highly bioavailable organic calcium with other bone supporting substances. It is also rich in collagen, and organically bonded minerals including Iodine, selenium, zinc, copper Iron, and fatty acids DHA and EPA. Also rich in all the essential amino acids and especially GLUTAMINE (GLUTAMIC ACID) and TAURINE which if you look up have a host of benefits. For example, Taurine functions as an antioxidant and is also said to improve mental and athletic performance. It is often prescribed to treat congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, liver disease, high cholesterol, ADHD etc. Other high level amino acids present include Glycine, Arginine, Lysine etc.
Our protein will also probably contain rare substances found in the fish brain and eyes which are good for the nervous system.
More Powerful and Bioactive than Whey or Soy-based protein.
It is also a perfect protein and much more powerful and body ready than whey protein or soy based proteins. Fish has been called THE PERECT PROTEIN, especially when raw and predigested. Great for health and fitness/body building. Can also be used as a meal replacement when you have no time to cook fish.
As we said, the proteins are hydrolysed using natural bacterial derived enzymes with the aim of generating smaller peptide chains and these smaller peptide chains have been shown to have physiological beneficial effects (lots of research in Norway).
Just to elaborate more on proteins:
Marine fish provide a rich source of bioactive compounds such as proteins and peptides. The bioactive proteins and peptides derived from marine fish have gained a great deal of interest in nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and cosmeceutical industries, because depending on their structures and amino acid sequences, they exhibit a wide range of biological activities including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, antiaging, anti-photoaging activity, immunomodulatory, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, and anti-diabetic activities.
Capsules and Dosage
Capsules are made of fish gelatin (1g predigested fish per capsule). Basic recommendation is 2 capsules morning and 2 capsules evening. Body builders can take up to 8 per day (4 2x per day). Children 2 per day.
Note: 4g (4 capsules) is equal to around 20g of fresh raw wild Cod fish. However, those 4g are predigested making it likely to be a whole lot more beneficial than the non-digested fish.
Health Benefits from Chooing Our Raw Fish Protein
STUDIES SHOW THAT COD FISH PROTEIN CAN IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE PEOPLE, including the work of Aslaug Drotningsvik, Iselin Vildmyren and Oddrun Anita Gudbrandsen, who say it can prevent and treat lifestyle diseases. Their message is: FISH IS A LOT MORE THAN OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS. Their studies show beneficial effects for inactive elderly with muscular atrophy as well as adults that build muscle and inactive adults. These researchers believe that fish proteins reduce the storage of fat in the muscles, reduce inflammation in the body and improve the regulation of sugars.
Other studies suggest that predigested fish protein may help to prevent and treat injurious effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other ulcerative conditions of the bowel. It may also be beneficial for symptoms of occasional diarrhea and constipation, and reduction of bloating. It may also support gut integrity. Glutamine may be a contributing factor to this.
Tested to be Pure
Our product is a perfect protein. It has been extensively tested and is free from all harmful levels of contaminants and microbial/bacterial growth.
A Few Excerpts from Norwegian Research into Fish Proteins
1. Training and fish proteins
The amino acid profile of Norwegian fish proteins, combined with bioactive and effective absorption in the body, makes fish proteins very valuable for training and fast recovery and effective fat burning. Leucine, Valine, Isoleucine and Taurine are some of the important amino acids that are required for exercise. These are particularly important for muscle building and restoration, and "loved" by those who exercise muscle groups and are keen on a firm and muscular body. Furthermore, studies show that when consuming fish proteins, the amount of fat decreases and you get a good balance with a tighter and more muscular body.
Whole fish proteins are generally known for maintenance and strengthening of the skeleton, which is also an important aspect of exercise and muscle building. Calcium is one of the minerals we need daily to be fed through food or supplements. Both diet and physical activity affect the skeletal system, creating a whole new life throughout the life. Calcium is the most important building block in bone structure and skeleton, but also important for the muscles, heart and nervous system to function normally. Adults and elderly, youth-minded, and children- and adolescents in growth and development must pay particular attention to the regular supply of calcium.
The recommended daily dose is intended for most people. However, those with active lifestyles and those that exercise can increase the intake of Norwegian fish proteins according to their own needs. Norwegian fish proteins contain only pure wild fish, and intake of this dietary supplements has only positive effects (unless you are allergic to fish).
Exercise and muscle building is a process where Norwegian fish proteins are the optimal protein source. Far more than the current products on the market including whey proteins.
2. Strengthens legs and builds muscles
More muscle and less fat with fish proteins
In a Norwegian study at NIFES (National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research) in 2010, the test participants received a reduction in fat content after 4 weeks, and increased muscle mass by steady supply of fish proteins. The participants were overweight and received between 3 and 6 grams of cod protein each day. In addition, LDL cholesterol was reduced and they increased blood sugar tolerance. This change came completely without changing the diet or training habits of the subjects.
Strengthen bone building and muscle while at the same time preventing lifestyle diseases.
This shows that some fish each day can make a big difference, especially in obese. And this is also the ingenious idea of Norwegian Fishery Proteins: Regular daily intake of whitefish provides the desired results with strengthening of the leg and muscles, while at the same time preventing long-term lifestyle illnesses.
There is also a great deal of research on the effects of fish proteins on healthy, active and elderly people, and many suggest that you will see the good effects of fish proteins in these groups as well.
Studies show that fish proteins contribute to more muscle and less fat
From experiments with mice and rats in a Norwegian / Danish survey, if you reduce milk protein in the food for the benefit of fish protein, this helps to reduce the fat tissue. The rats in the test also increased muscle mass. The good effects are attributed to the optimal amino acid composition in the fish proteins. Researchers from the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Iceland have also shown that the amino acid composition in fish proteins can contribute to more muscle and less fat in which fish are included in the diet.
Exercise, muscle building and fish protein
The amino acid profile of Norwegian fish proteins, combined with bioactive and effective absorption in the body, makes fish proteins highly valuable for those who want to build muscle and rely on fast recovery and effective fat burning. Leucine, Valine, Isoleucine and Taurine are some of the important amino acids that training needs. These are especially important for muscle building and restoration.
Get even supply of calcium
Norwegian Fish Proteins also give you a lot of calcium every day. Calcium is the most important building block in our skeleton. Strength training and muscle building not only strengthen the muscles but also the skeleton, so it is important to get enough calcium to take full advantage of your workout.
Calcium helps in preventing osteoporosis, bone loss, and degenerative bone disease. The primary component of human skeletons is calcium phosphate.
Calcium is one of the minerals we need daily to be fed through food or supplements. Both diet and physical activity affect the skeletal system, creating a whole new life throughout the life. Calcium is the most important building block in bone structure and skeleton, but also important for the muscles, heart and nervous system to function normally. Adults and elderly, fitness professionals, and children and adolescents in growth and development must pay particular attention to the regular supply of calcium.
3. Prevents cardiovascular disease
Fish can prevent and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The Food Safety Committee in Norway, as well as the Swedish Food Administration, concludes after several meta-analyses that fish and fish fat intake reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, especially heart attack and strokes. (Directorate of Health documentation of the value of eating fish).
Fish protein from lean fish gives great health benefits.
We are indoctrinated by the fact that oily fish and cranes are the source of prevention against lifestyle disease, but several studies now point to major health benefits from eating lean fish.
Eli Kristin Aadland has researched what happens when replacing meat as a protein source with lean seafood in a research project. The effect was great!
Reduction of fatty substances
In those who ate lean fish, there was a significant reduction in the triglycerides, or fat, in the blood. High levels of such fats increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The lean fish diet also gave positive effects on several of the drugs that are markers for diabetes.
We were hoping for an effect and were very pleased that it became so big. This shows that more lean fish can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and improved cholesterol and blood glucose control.
Another research project from the University of Bergen showed that if you eat a lot of lean seafood, you can get improved cholesterol and fat levels in the blood after just four weeks. In addition, the markers also lowered lactate and C-peptide in the blood, which may indicate that intake of fish proteins from lean fish provided better blood glucose control.
The results of the study were so good that the researchers concluded that high intake of lean seafood could prevent cardiovascular disease and prevent a deterioration of the cholesterol profile, even in healthy people.
The effect lies in the fish protein
Most interesting is that the cause of this effect is probably in the fish protein and not in the omega-3 fatty acids. This is because the participants received as much omega-3, while the protein came from different sources.
Fish protein and obesity
Over the world, more people are still struggling with obesity and overweight. Did you know that in Norway one in five men and women have obesity, and between 14 and 19 per cent of Norwegian children are overweight?
It is no secret that with excess weight there is a greater risk of developing lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer.
A little fish every day gives lasting changes.
Fortunately, a lot of research is being done on how to prevent negative development and what measures can be taken without intervention measures. A study conducted with a group of obese in 2010 shows that subsidies of fish proteins can provide overweight assistance on the way to a healthier lifestyle. The study showed that participants improved both the sugar metabolism and the fat composition in the blood. They made no changes to their usual diet and activity level, but ate 6 grams of fish protein in pill form every day.
4. Other Benefits:
• Hair and skin care
• Prevent disease
• Heart and cardiovascular system health
• Weight loss and weight control
• Endocrine health
• Build muscle mass
• Healthy skin, bones, cartilage, joints
• Firms and tones body
• Renew red blood cells
• Contains an ideal nutritional balance that increases cognitive skills & abilities