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To train your new kitten, you need an understanding of how she thinks and behaves.
Cats are not like dogs. Dogs are pack animals who want to please their 'leader' (you). Your kitten will be more interested in pleasing herself!
That said, with a bit of understanding and patience, there's no reason why you can't train your kitten. And it's important that you do. After all, how will you groom your kitten or keep a close eye on her health if you don't train her to be handled? And do you really want her padding about on your kitchen counters?
The basic principles
The first thing to realize is that cats do not understand punishment. Encouraging good behavior is much more effective. Sound tricky? Just remember the three 'R's' - respect, reinforcement and rewards.
Let's take respect. It's important that you behave in a 'cat friendly' manner. Did you know for example that cats dislike being stared at, or that they can't abide sudden noises or movements?
Reinforcement just means consistency and repetition. If your kitten does something you wish to discourage (like jumping on the kitchen counters), always gently and firmly say no. If she does something you want to encourage, be sure to always make a big fuss of her.
Which brings us neatly on to rewards. There are two types of rewards - praise from you and a tasty treat. Both are very motivating to your kitten.
Training your kitten to be handled
Most cats don't like being picked up, and the earlier you get your kitten used to it the better.
A lot of people unwittingly teach their kitten bad habits. They pick their kitten up, she struggles and they immediately put her down again. Thus, the kitten learns that if she struggles, she gets her own way.
A better approach is to pick your kitten up and then, if she struggles, continue to hold her gently but firmly. When she settles, lavish lots of praise on her and set her down.
Can you train your kitten not to scratch? No. Kittens love to scratch - it's a natural form of territorial marking that also gives the muscles a good stretch. Does this mean you have to accept ruined furniture? No. You just have to train your kitten to re-direct her scratching.
Buy your kitten a scratching post (rough surfaces are particularly appealing so you might want to choose one covered with something like rope). Play with your kitten near the scratching post and then, when she uses it, reward her with praise and maybe a treat.
If she does scratch an item of furniture, she'll mark it with her scent and cleaning it with an anti-odor product may discourage her from going back there. Some people find putting something like polythene on the item of furniture helpful as kittens generally aren't so keen to scratch slippery surfaces.
Discouraging biting
Play biting is natural kitten behavior. If your kitten bites your hand during play, end the session immediately. Whatever you do, don't jerk your hand away. This just makes the game even more fun! Toys and balls are safer objects of prey.
Clicker training
Clicker training is a modern, kind and scientific way of training animals. You use all the same principles already discussed but your kitten also gets a 'click' to mark any good behavior. More information on clicker training.


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On the first morning of 2013, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm David Greene.
The party went until the morning hours here in Washington. We're talking about the gathering on Capitol Hill. Senators were voting around 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
INSKEEP: They approved an agreement to alter the higher taxes and spending cuts that become law today. The House would have to agree to these changes to become reality. And after the plan passed the Senate overwhelmingly, 89-8, the House resumes business today.
GREENE: The agreement has the backing of the White House. It would shield all but the very wealthiest Americans from automatic tax increases. Across-the-board spending cuts would also be postponed for at least two months.
INSKEEP: Here's NPR's Scott Horsley.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: The tentative deal was hammered out with numerous telephone calls between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. The two men have years of negotiating history in the Senate. By midday yesterday, they'd come to terms on the most contentious issue, agreeing to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the vast majority of Americans.
At the White House, President Obama surrounded himself with middle income supporters, calling on lawmakers to finish the job.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: For now our most immediate priority is to stop taxes going up for middle-class families, starting tomorrow. I think that is a modest goal that we can accomplish. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have to get this done, but they're not there yet.
HORSLEY: Even as he tried to win over reluctant Republicans, Mr. Obama also had to contend with defecting Democrats. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says if the Biden/McConnell plan is meant to be the rescue package, he'd rather take his chances with the fiscal cliff.
SENATOR TOM HARKIN: As I've said before, no deal is better than a bad deal, and this looks like a very bad deal the way this is shaping up.
HORSLEY: Harkin complains the White House went too far in accommodating Republicans, making Bush-era tax cuts permanent not just for the middle class, but for households making up to $450,000. That's a windfall for the wealthy, who Mr. Obama has long said need to pay more in taxes. Even the president's preferred cut-off of $250,000 is more than generous enough for the Iowa Democrat.
HARKIN: If you make $250,000 a year, you're not middle-class; you're in the top two percent of income earners in America. Have we forgotten that the average income earners in America are making 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 thousand dollars a year? That's the real middle-class in America.
HORSLEY: The tentative deal, which also includes higher estate, dividend and capital gains taxes, would raise an estimated $620 billion in new revenue over the next decade. That's less revenue than the president wanted and less than he could collect automatically from wealthy households by simply going over the cliff.
In exchange, the White House did win a one-year extension of unemployment benefits and a five-year extension of several tax credits that benefit the working class. Mr. Obama acknowledged this deal falls short of the grand deficit-cutting bargain he was trying to negotiate with House Speaker John Boehner. But he says he's willing to tackle the problem one step at a time.
OBAMA: We're going to still have more work to do. We still have deficits that have to be dealt with. We're still going to have to think about how we put our economy on a long-term trajectory of growth.
HORSLEY: In addition to a deal on taxes, negotiators struggled with how to avoid big spending cuts also set to take effect this week. Neither party likes those cuts which hit nearly every area of government, except health care. But they disagreed on how to replace them. At one point yesterday, McConnell argued for merely pocketing the tax deal and saving the spending discussion for another day.
SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL: Let's take what's been agreed to and get moving. We all want to protect taxpayers and we can get it done now.
HORSLEY: Instead, McConnell and the White House agreed to postpone the spending cuts for a mere two months. That means Congress could be wrestling with the cuts again right around the time the government is bumping up against the debt ceiling. Mr. Obama insists he won't negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt limit. But critics complain his concession on taxes will only embolden the GOP for a showdown that could do far more lasting damage to the economy than the fiscal cliff.
While Republicans say any increase in the debt ceiling must be matched by equivalent spending cuts, the president says he'll continue to push for more tax revenue.
OBAMA: If we're going to be serious about deficit reduction and debt reduction, then it's going to have to be a matter of shared sacrifice - at least as long as I'm president, and I'm going to be president for the next four years...
HORSLEY: As 2013 begins, it appears those could be four more years of fiscal brinksmanship. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Coronary artery disease pathogenesis and treatment urgently requires a paradigm shift. Despite popular belief among doctors and the public, the conceptual model of dietary saturated fat clogging a pipe is just plain wrong. A landmark systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies showed no association between saturated fat consumption and (1) all-cause mortality, (2) coronary heart disease (CHD), (3) CHD mortality, (4) ischaemic stroke or (5) type 2 diabetes in healthy adults.1 Similarly in the secondary prevention of CHD there is no benefit from reduced fat, including saturated fat, on myocardial infarction, cardiovascular or all-cause mortality.2 It is instructive to note that in an angiographic study of postmenopausal women with CHD, greater intake of saturated fat was associated with less progression of atherosclerosis whereas carbohydrate and polyunsaturated fat intake were associated with greater progression.3
Preventing the development of atherosclerosis is important but it is atherothrombosis that is the real killer
The inflammatory processes that contribute to cholesterol deposition within the artery wall and subsequent plaque formation (atherosclerosis), more closely resembles a 'pimple' (figure 1). Most cardiac events occur at sites with <70% coronary artery obstruction and these do not generate ischaemia on stress testing.4 When plaques rupture (analogous to a pimple bursting), coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction can occur within minutes. The limitation of the current plumbing approach ('unclogging a pipe') to the management of coronary disease is revealed by a series of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) which prove that stenting significantly obstructive stable lesions fail to prevent myocardial infarction or to reduce mortality.5
Dietary RCTs with outcome benefit in primary and secondary prevention
In comparison with advice to follow a 'low fat' diet (37% fat), an energy-unrestricted Mediterranean diet (41% fat) supplemented with at least four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil or a handful of nuts (PREDIMED) achieved a significant 30% (number needed to treat (NNT)=61) reduction in cardiovascular events in over 7500 high-risk patients. Furthermore, the Lyon Heart study showed that adopting a Mediterranean diet in secondary prevention improved hard outcomes for both recurrent myocardial infarction (NNT=18) and all-cause mortality (NNT=30), despite there being no significant difference in plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol between the two groups. It is the alpha linoleic acid, polyphenols and omega-3 fatty acids present in nuts, extra virgin olive oil, vegetables and oily fish that rapidly attenuate inflammation and coronary thrombosis.6 Both control diets in these studies were relatively healthy, which make it highly likely that even larger benefits would be observed if the Mediterranean diets discussed above were compared with a typical western diet.
LDL cholesterol risk has been exaggerated
Decades of emphasis on the primacy of lowering plasma cholesterol, as if this was an end in itself and driving a market of 'proven to lower cholesterol' and 'low-fat' foods and medications, has been misguided. Selective reporting may partly explain this misconception. Reanalysis of unpublished data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and the Minnesota coronary experiment reveal replacing saturated fat with linoleic acid containing vegetable oils increased mortality risk despite significant reductions in LDL and total cholesterol (TC).7
A high TC to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio is the best predictor of cardiovascular risk (hence this calculation, not LDL, is used in recognised cardiovascular risk calculators such as that from Framingham). A high TC to HDL ratio is also a surrogate marker for insulin resistance (ie, chronically elevated serum insulin at the root of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity). And in those over 60 years, a recent systematic review concluded that LDL cholesterol is not associated with cardiovascular disease and is inversely associated with all-cause mortality.8 A high TC to HDL ratio drops rapidly with dietary changes such as replacing refined carbohydrates with healthy high fat foods.
A simple way to combat insulin resistance (chronically high levels of serum insulin) and inflammation
Compared with physically inactive individuals, those who walk briskly at or above 150 min/week can increase life expectancy by 3.4–4.5 years independent of body weight.9 Regular brisk walking may also be more effective than running in preventing coronary disease. And just 30 min of moderate activity a day more than three times/week significantly improves insulin sensitivity and helps reverse insulin resistance (ie, lowers the chronically elevated levels of insulin that are associated with obesity) within months in sedentary middle-aged adults. This occurs independent of weight loss and suggests even a little activity goes a long way.
Another risk factor for CHD is environmental stress. Childhood trauma can lead to an average decrease in life expectancy of 20 years. Chronic stress increases glucocorticoid receptor resistance, which results in failure to down regulate the inflammatory response. Combining a complete lifestyle approach of a healthful diet, regular movement and stress reduction will improve quality of life, reduce cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.10 It is time to shift the public health message in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease away from measuring serum lipids and reducing dietary saturated fat. Coronary artery disease is a chronic inflammatory disease and it can be reduced effectively by walking 22 min a day and eating real food. There is no business model or market to help spread this simple yet powerful intervention.
Contributors AM wrote the initial draft with further revisions and edits from RFR and PM.
Competing interests RFR served as a consultant for one day in May 2015 for Amgen. AM is a co-producer of the documentary The Big Fat Fix.
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Hiring a guide is an excellent way to discover the best skiing, gain confidence off piste and be given invaluable tips, especially if you are lucky enough to ski with Jean Marie Olianti (see last paragraph). A guide can take you to places in the mountains that you never knew existed and where it would be unwise to explore alone. Your guide also knows where the best snow is and has priority in lift queues.
If you want to explore a large ski area such as Chamonix, hiring a guide and splitting the cost between a few of you is an excellent way to discover the best skiing. This way you can avoid wasting time looking at piste maps and working out which lifts will take you where. Your guide will know where the best snow is and the best route for the weather conditions of the day. Add to this the fact that you will be able to jump the lift queues as well and the advantages are obvious.
Skiing with a guide will improve your skiing, especially if you are stuck on an intermediate plateau. In Chamonix vast new areas then open up to you and the mountains just get bigger........
Ski Touring or Ski de Randonnée
The glaciated mountains of the Mont Blanc Massif and the Chamonix Valley provide a wonderful area for ski touring. This involves travelling over the mountains on skis, the terrain varying from very steep to flat, with the skier's heels free to achieve a walking motion when ascending and traversing. It demands a high level of fitness and allows one to escape the crowds and experience spectacular skiing.
Booking a Guide and Guide Fees
All your guiding can be booked through our office and at certain peak periods advance booking is strongly recommended. The fees per day are approximately 490€ per day and 350€ per half day, depending on the itinerary and numbers in the group.
Of course we have our in-house professional mountain guide, Jean Marie Olianti, who has enormous experience in the mountains (winter and summer) and what's more, in the kitchens of various Michelin starred restaurants as a chef. Ask him about the Roux brothers next time you ski with him! Some of his stories are told in the EasyJet magazine. If you would like to contact Jean Marie Olianti about guiding he can be reached by email on
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Imagine a wildfire charging toward you at more than 50 miles an hour. Now imagine a swarm of them. That's what happened yesterday in Kansas. And as Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports, that wasn't even the strangest part of a storm that knocked some million customers across nine states off the power grid.
FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: On the high plains yesterday, gusts topping 100 miles an hour drove power lines to the ground, igniting bone-dry grass, trees and crop residue, touching up dozens of fires that raced across the prairie. Even seasoned first responders like Kathleen Fabrizius were amazed.
KATHLEEN FABRIZIUS: It was absolutely crazy.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Inaudible).
FABRIZIUS: OK. I'll have him check on it.
MORRIS: Fabrizius is the Trego County, Kansas, emergency manager and a volunteer firefighter there. Today, she's still out battling flames and fielding reports of new hot spots.
FABRIZIUS: Right. Yeah. Pulling up and telling me that I've got, you know, poles on fire or, you know, different things going on. So...
MORRIS: It's work that takes a personal toll.
FABRIZIUS: I mean, basically, you know, a big chunk of my county was on fire. And, you know, I personally know everybody who lost houses last night. So it's hard.
MORRIS: Hundreds of thousands of acres burned in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas - all this happening in a thick shroud of dust, lifted by the wind.
FABRIZIUS: It was everything going on, all at the same time. It was crazy. It was like it was dark in the middle of the day.
MORRIS: Trucks tipped over, power was knocked out. All the major highways were shut down. It was like a blizzard but worse.
MATTHEW ELLIOTT: This is one of those events that, honestly, as a meteorologist, you know, we will think about and remember for our careers.
MORRIS: Matthew Elliott watched the storm unfold from the bunker-like Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
ELLIOTT: It's an unprecedented event. We have people who've been working for us for 30-plus years, and they had not seen something like this before.
MORRIS: The storm didn't stop in Kansas. A long, thin line of intense thunderstorms marauded about 700 miles across the prairie from there, racing at an average 65 miles an hour.
ELLIOTT: You know, these storms are moving faster than cars are technically allowed to drive by law. And that's quite a phenomenon there.
MORRIS: And Elliott says the storms swept into Minnesota, sprouting what may turn out to be an unprecedented midwinter tornado there - three months earlier than any on record. The storms were still packing enormous power when they blew into Stanley, Wis., at night, decimating buildings, tossing insulation and twisted metal through the streets.
MORRIS: Crews are cleaning up in Stanley today, and 75-year-old Richard Washburn is coming to terms with his storm-ravaged house.
RICHARD WASHBURN: There's a big tree in my room, so - and then the power pole broke off in front of my house. And that was leaning toward the house.
MORRIS: Meteorologist Matthew Elliott says yesterday's storms were too strong and hit too far north for this time of year. He says that climate change may well have been a driver but that it's too early to say that conclusively. That's partly because the sample size of storms like the ones that raked the plains yesterday is incredibly small.
For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.
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Richard Marr remembers his first car. It was a used Austin A40, bought shortly after the war, and it made the teenager a star on his block.
"It didn't go very fast, but it ran really well. And it was the cutest thing," says Marr, who lives on Vancouver Island. "I think I would've had it to this day if my mother hadn't messed it up when backing out of the garage."
Marr, 72, still drives every day.
In the coming decades, a virtual grey gridlock is expected to emerge on our roadways as Canadians work — and commute — into their 70s and 80s. Even now, debate over bumping the eligibility for Old Age Security from 65 to 67 has many seniors sweating their retirement, or outright postponing it.
The challenges are evident.
Traffic-injury research shows seniors account for the second-highest proportion of road deaths, behind only 15- to 24-year-olds. And based on kilometres driven, the Canada Safety Council reports that older drivers have more collisions than any other age group.
But the transportation industry is working to ease the transition, from bloated fonts on street signs to car seats embedded with heart monitors and vehicles that practically drive themselves. Because people who've driven their entire lives can't be expected to just surrender their car keys.
"If I became ill and someone said I couldn't drive, it would be a major learning curve for me," says Elizabeth Hamblett, a 73-year-old from Victoria. "I've had elderly (male) friends who've lost their licences and it was like they lost their manhood. They went downhill really rapidly after that."
When her own time in the driver's seat is up, Hamblett hopes she can "give up gracefully." For future generations of commuters, however, that may not be required.
Darren Scott, an associate professor in the Transportation Research Lab at McMaster University in Ontario, says automation is among the options being explored.
"We may see the driver become increasingly disassociated with the actual driving process," says Scott. "The car will just do the driving, based on sensory technology embedded inside it. Almost like science fiction."
Google, for instance, has come out with a fleet of vehicles that can do 120 kilometres an hour, with no human involvement, on a busy public highway. BMW, General Motors, Mercedes and Toyota are working on similarly autonomous, or semi-autonomous, vehicles that leverage data and robotics to relieve drivers from having to actually drive.
"That's what engineers would like to see," says Scott. "(A system) where you take everything out of the individual's hands and let computers do it for them."
Data from a national survey on time-use show that in 2005, urban seniors age 65 to 69 spent virtually the same amount of time driving per trip as 45 to 64-year-olds. Furthermore, between 1992 and 2005, travel time per trip for older seniors (age 70 to 74) increased by almost 22 per cent — a change far greater than that experienced by their younger counterparts on the road.
McMaster University's Antonio Paez says the seniors who continue commuting by choice aren't likely a threat, as they tend to be physically able. By contrast, Canadians obligated to remain in the labour force, despite declines in their health and mobility, are cause for concern.
"For someone who is 75, can't drive as they did before, is living in the suburbs, and working to make ends meet, there's no easy fix," says Paez, who studies travel behaviour.
To accommodate the silver sea change, recommendations set forth by highway administrators include more legible typefaces on signs (a font called Clearview, for instance, makes text visible to elder drivers from 16 per cent farther away), more flashing green arrows at left turns, better pavement markings at intersections, roads that intersect at angles no less than 75 degrees, and longer acceleration lanes for right turns onto high-speed roads.
Indeed, McMaster's Scott says it's indeed "almost unimaginable" what our infrastructure will look like just 30 years from now.
At the most basic level, vehicle-navigation systems are expected to lead to greater reliance on computer-recommended routes, which typically involve main thoroughfares. Scott notes this represents a departure from the past, with older drivers having historically favoured alternative routes that avoided traffic and left-hand turns.
Auto manufacturers, for their part, are doing what they can to ensure seniors won't have to change their driving habits solely because of declining health.
Ford, for example, is already testing technologies such as biometric driver's seats, which use electrode-sensing equipment to monitor heart activity. The company is also developing remote services that will allow people to manage chronic illness from their cars, tracking everything from glucose levels to asthma risks, as well as placing younger engineers in "age suits" that allow them to experience driving as a senior might.
"The goal is to address issues of aging through universal design," says Sheryl Connelly, Ford's in-house futurist. "A reverse-sensing system in a camera will help you navigate your vehicle, whether you're 61 or 16."
Other innovations expected to be standard on cars in the future include auto-braking, curve control (prevents a driver from going too quickly through a turn), blind-spot alerts, heated seats with lumbar support, and larger instrument panels.
Because even if every effort is made to offer elderly workers alternatives to driving, it's unlikely they'll find many takers with life expectancy continuing to stretch.
"If I think I'm going to live to 85, I may be more willing to surrender my keys at 83," says Connelly. "But what happens if I live to 105?"
Jack Purkis, an 81-year-old retiree from Victoria, says he relies on his car to visit his wife in the care home, to run errands and to go to places unreachable by public transit. To give all that up, he says, "would be a very great loss."
The good news is that older drivers are becoming increasingly road savvy, with evidence from the past eight months suggesting things aren't "going to hell and a hand-basket" as the industry once predicted, according to a Canada Safety Council spokesman.
"New seniors are more competent," explains council general manager Raynald Marchand, noting that a lifetime of driving experience and more stringent licensing rules appear to be combating previously observed perils. "There's still room for improvement, but things aren't looking as bad as we expected."


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Studying Politics and Policy at Simmons University
The field of political science is divided into four subfields: American politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory. Collectively, courses in these areas introduce students to the study of the institutions of government, the processes of decision-making (domestic and international), the content of these decisions (public policy), and their impact on society. The field of political science is also concerned with questions of how governments should be constituted and how politics should be carried out.
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The study of politics and policy has traditionally provided a solid foundation for careers in government (national, state, and local), diplomacy, law, and business, as well as in teaching and journalism. Recent Simmons alumna currently work in the Massachusetts State House, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American Cancer Society, CENTRA Technology, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United Nations, Dewey Square political consultancy, the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, Physicians for Social Responsibility, as well as the United States armed forces. In the past few years, alumna have been accepted at leading law schools, including, BU, BC, George Mason, Notre Dame, George Washington, Suffolk, and University of Southern Maine. Simmons students have also attended the leading Master's programs in International Relations, including the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA). Other programs grads have gone on to attend include Columbia University's School of Journalism and other graduate programs such as Simmons SLIS, the University of Belfast, and the University of Texas at Austin.
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We all dream of a good life, even it's subjective, most likes to experience to live, breathe and spend what the few elites fortunately receive. We dream to live in a mansion, taste delicious and sumptous dishes and to have our own yacht. Now, everything is possible, to experience and it's just two hours away from Manila.
Subic Bay Yacht Club for years was a membership only facility. If you don't have the 6 digits for the fee, the luxury and exceptional experience that only those few blessed with fortunes, these will only be limited to them. Well, good news, the premiere marina is extending their membership to non-members to feel, enjoy, eat, experience and well, try to be an elite even just for a day or two. Thanks to the Subic Bay Yacht Club management and stakeholders for sharing the paradise.
According to its official website, http://subicbayyachtclub.ph, the SBYC is located North West of Manila, the Club is set with Zambales Mountain range on the Eastern part and the tranquil Subic Bay that opens to the South China Sea on the west. A perfect paradise with safe harbors and pristine flat waters. A vacation destination with elegant design. An exquisite service and warm hospitality. Experience us, Experience Subic Bay Yacht Club.
Here's 5 things why you need to experience Subic Bay Yacht Club:
1. It's a paradise.
In the hustle and bustle of city life, whether you're from Manila or in any parts of the world, Subic Bay Yacht Club offers the million dollar view of the bay and surrounded by mountains. We love to escape stress and just to look at the pristine and relaxing view gave us that moment that we all need, the feeling of rejuvenation.
2. Accommodation.
The different choices of rooms with the options base on your budget and need comes in handy from as low as 6,000.00PHP. According to its website. The variety of accommodation at Subic Bay Yacht Club shares an inviting and functional space. All are spacious and elegantly designed to satisfy the discriminating taste of every member and guest. Each room and suite offers a balcony, with selected suites having a marina vista.
3. Food.
Breakfast is always grand at Subic Bay Yacht Club. The variety of dishes in a buffet set-up makes one likes to go back and to start the morning right.
4. Pool and Jacuzzi.
The elegantly designed swimming pools are just part of the complete package. Everyone who checked in can use this facility. You can just relax in this place while checking out the different yachts over the bay which is just 20 feet or less away from the pool.
All rooms are equipped with a jacuzzi. One thing that makes SBYC different from the rest.
5. Hospitality.
The moment one steps in the facility of Subic Bay Yacht Club, you can feel how friendly, professionally trained and naturally accommodating all the personnel from the bell boy to the managers on duty.
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Wheeled sports include riding scooters, skateboarding, and inline skating. These can be fun and great exercise for your athlete. But these sports can also be dangerous. When done incorrectly, they can lead to injury and sometimes even death. This sheet gives tips for keeping your athlete safe.
Safety Tips for Inline Skates, Scooters, and Skateboards
- Your athlete must wear safety gear—including a helmet—every time he or she rides. Make a firm rule that your athlete cannot ride without it.
- Equipment should be kept in good shape. For instance, before each ride, your athlete should check the wheels, brakes, and other equipment. (If your athlete is young, check the equipment yourself.)
- Be sure your athlete understands and obeys all traffic signs and signals.
- As a rule, athletesunder 10 years old should ride on the sidewalk, not on the road. Before allowing your athlete to ride on the road, make sure he or she has good riding skills and knows how to stay safe.
- Your athlete should never wear headphones while riding. He or she needs to be able to hear oncoming traffic.
- Allow your athlete to ride only during daylight (never at dusk or at night).
Inline Skating Safety
To keep him or her safe while inline skating, be sure your athlete:
- Wears protective gear that fits properly. This includes a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads, and knee pads.
- Does not hold on to moving vehicles while inline skating.
- Always skates at a speed in which they are in control.
- Considers taking inline skating lessons when learning to skate. Also, make sure beginners skate only at an indoor or outdoor skating rink. (Helmets should be worn even at a skating rink.)
- Uses skates of an appropriate type and fit for your athlete's size and skill level.
Scooter Safety
Supervise athletes riding scooters, especially kids under 8 years old. To keep him or her safe, be sure your athlete:
- Wears protective gear that fits properly. This includes a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. Wrist guards should be avoided because they can make it hard to grip the scooter's handlebars.
- Wears sturdy shoes when riding a scooter.
- Rides only on smooth pavement. Dirt, sand, gravel, and wet pavement should be avoided.
- Does not ride a scooter in traffic.
- Does not allow passengers on the scooter. Scooters are designed to carry only one person.
Skateboard Safety
Only athletes age 5 years and older should be allowed to skateboard. Be sure to supervise skateboarding athletes especially those younger than 10 years old. To keep him or her safe, be sure your athlete:
- Wears protective gear that fits properly. This includes a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads, and knee pads.
- Wears sturdy shoes when riding a skateboard.
- Does not skateboard in traffic. Instead, bring the athlete to a skate park.
- Does not hold on to moving vehicles while skateboarding.
- Uses a skateboard with wide wheels and a short board (deck) when learning to skateboard.
Helmets for Wheeled Sports
A helmet can greatly decrease your athlete's chance of a head and/or brain injury from a wheeled sport incident. Multi-sport helmets are best because they give extra protection to the back of the head. This is the part of the head most likely to be injured during wheeled sports. To keep your athlete safe, be sure to do the following:
- Make sure the helmet is appropriate for the size and/or age of your athlete, and fits well. It should be level on top of the head, about two finger-widths above the eyebrows. It should not rock back and forth or side to side. The strap should be buckled and snug under the chin.
- If you can, take the athlete to the store to try on the helmet before you buy it. This helps you find one that fits well. It's also helpful because an athlete who chooses his or her own helmet may be more likely to wear it. If you can't bring your athlete to the store, measure his or her head before going to the store.
- Make sure there is a CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) sticker on the helmet. This means the helmet meets the CPSC standard for safety.
- Don't use a helmet that has been in a crash. A damaged helmet may not protect the head. Discard it and buy a new one.
- Set a good example—wear a helmet yourself!
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CVS Repository | Downloads | Versions | Bug Reports | Linux VME HOWTO
How to help this project. |
Be a user |
Be a Tester (very important) Try an experimental version of VMELinux and report bugs to the Bug Reporting System so the developers can continue refining the development version - currently 1.3.x |
Be a Programmer (C and C++) |
This project's primary offering is the Kernel Level Linux Device Driver that interfaces between the Unix Shell environment and the VMEbus. The driver is compatible with the Tundra Universe PCI-VME bridge integrated circuit. Thus, our driver only supports VMEbus boards with a PCI local bus. Testing was accomplished with boards from Xycom, Dynatem and SBS-Or.
The VMELinux Device Driver is maintained by a team of engineers and from folks in the embedded computer industry. We wish to make VMELinux useful to many people and projects. Thus, all the programs you can find on this site are governed under the GNU Free Software Foundation license.
What the tools are:
What they need:
All of these are available within a single tar.gz package. Download the available files in the download directory.
Plenty of help is available in the VME Howto. This is still the old Howto. We are updating it regularly. Much of the instructions found in the VME Howto still apply to the latest version.
Significant time and effort are at work to make Linux work well in the VMEbus world. Our thanks go to the following:
There are others out there working on VMEbus/Linux solutions for various boards and different VME interfaces. The VMELinux Project does not have anything to do with the development of these resources. However, it would be incomplete not to mention them. They are:
If you know other projects that should be listed here
let us know.
For more information about VMELinux(tm) contact:
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Warrenton, Virginia
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cpulimit is a small program written in C that allows to limit CPU usage by Linux process. Limit is specified in percentage so it's possible to prevent high CPU load generated by scripts, programs or processes.
I found cpulimit pretty useful for the scripts running from cron, for example I can do overnight backups and be sure that compression of 50GB file via gzip won't eat all CPU resources and all other system processes will have enough CPU time.
In most of Linux distributions cpulimit is available from binary repositories so you can install it using commands:
sudo apt-get install cpulimit
sudo yum install cpulimit
If it's not possible in your distro then it's extremely easy to compile it:
cd /usr/src/
wget --no-check-certificate https://codeload.github.com/opsengine/cpulimit/legacy.tar.gz/master -O cpulimit.tar
tar -xvf cpulimit.tar
cd opsengine-cpulimit-9df7758
ln -s cpulimit /usr/sbin/cpulimit
From that moment you can run commands limited by CPU percentage, e.g. below command executes gzip compression so that gzip process will never step over 10% of CPU limit:
/usr/sbin/cpulimit --limit=10 /bin/gzip vzdump-openvz-102-2012_06_26-19_01_11.tar
You can check actual CPU usage by gzip using commands:
ps axu | grep [g]zip
Btw, the first command contains 'grep [g]zip' to avoid the last line in common output:
root 896448 10.0 3.1 159524 3528 ? S 13:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/cpulimit --limit=10 /bin/gzip vzdump-openvz-102-2012_06_26-19_01_11.tar
root 26490 0.0 0.0 6364 708 pts/0 S+ 15:24 0:00 grep gzip
Using cpulimit you can also allocate CPU limit to already running processes, e.g. below command will allocate 20% CPU limit to process with PID 2342:
/usr/sbin/cpulimit -p 2342 -l 20
It's possible to specify process by its executable file instead of PID:
/usr/sbin/cpulimit -P /usr/sbin/nginx -l 30


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MUNICH: January 12, 2010 Nativity Epistle of Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany
Christ is born, glorify Him!
And the Word was made flesh (John 1:14)
The Mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God is beyond comprehension to the feeble intellect of mankind. Exactly how this was manifested is unknown even to the angels, archangels and other heavenly bodiless powers. The Holy Fathers say that for man, who has not yet finally healed himself of the sin of pride, it is risky to study the depths of the Divine, in which the Mystery of the pre-eternal Council of the Three-Sun Divinity is hidden. But at the same time, Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition clearly open for all of us the reason why the Son of God was born of the Most-Pure Virgin Mary in Bethlehem. The Divine Word, the Second hypostasis of the Most-Holy Trinity, the Divine Logos, was incarnated for no other reason that for our sake and for the sake of our salvation.
The Lord Almighty, "upholding all things by the word of his power" (Hebrews 1:3), the all-creating Word, by Whom "were the heavens made" (Psalms 33:6), and by Whom "all things were made" and "the world was made" (John 1:3, 10), chose us, the fallen, weak, foolish, poor, in order to enrich us with Himself. He, upon Whom the many-eyed Cherubim and burning Seraphim dare not gaze, descended to our extreme poverty, in order to become father and brother and friend to us, the rejected. He became the Son of Man, assumed the flesh of mankind in order to make us communicants and heirs of His unutterable glory and His Kingdom. The Son of God entered our nature, which is infected and rotted with sin, in order to heal it from within. He, the all-wealthy, became poor, in order to enrich us, the impoverished.
Out of all of creation, mankind is closer and dearer to the All-Merciful Savior. Not other creature does the Lord nourish with His most-pure Flesh and His life-giving Blood. No other creature is created in the image and likeness of God.
Let us ponder, dear brothers and sisters, why of all the names in the tongue of man, did the Son of God choose the name "the Word." Was in not so that we, His disciples and followers, would cherish the gift of speech which separates us from all the earthly creatures?
Since we are created in the image and likeness of God, our language itself must reflect the image of the word of God and its power. Used in accordance with its Divine purpose, it creates everything for the good, similarly to the Word of God. The word of God's saints heals and teaches, it soothes the savage beasts and consoles the suffering, it lifts up the fallen and raises the dead. The word of man, given wings through prayer, passes unimpeded through the heavens and reaches the Divine throne. It has been thus in ancient and not-so-ancient days, and so, by the grace of God, should it be in our day.
Yet many today do not believe in the constructive power of the word, and carelessly dismiss this gift of God, using it for lowly, fleshly purposes. Sinful filth has rendered the word of mankind powerless. The world, as never before, is choking and dying from idle, empty and false words—those very words for which we will be obliged to answer for on the Day of Judgment. If the word is not sanctified by prayer, if, having been given to us to communicate with God, it becomes an instrument used to achieve purely temporal goals, it will become a destructive and soul-dooming instead of a positive force. There are more than enough examples of this in the contemporary world.
But we, as children of the Church of Christ, no longer belong to this world, which had rejected the Word of God at its peril. The Lord Himself has "chosen" us "out of the world" (John 15:19), as He once selected His first disciples. We, the chosen ones, Orthodox Christian, know that the Word of God did not only at one time become Flesh, but has remained with us forever in the Church, in His Body. It has remained with us, illuminating our word, our human word, and preserves its divine power when we use it for prayer, and, correspondingly, in our service: the pastor in his words of edification and denunciation; the teacher in his words of wisdom and reason; students and the flock—words of humility, meekness and obedience in the image of the our Lord Jesus, "meek and lowly in heart" (Matthew 11:29).
The world today needs the word of truth no less than in those times, when the "light of wisdom" first shone from the Bethlehem cave. In the Church of Christ this light shines eternally from the Heavenly Bethlehem, in the Church, the Word of God resounds, illuminating and sanctifying the speaking flock of Christ. The Lord came to earth not to doom fallen mankind, but to save it. If our word is like the Word of God, our minds and hearts will be filled with His Spirit, the Spirit of truth, and we will be true children of God Almighty and lanterns unto the world, even if "the whole world lieth in wickedness" (1 John 5:19), yet seeking salvation. Amen.