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Bangalore, Karnataka [India]: Since the start of the lockdown from March 2020, a lot of things have changed in India and the real estate industry is no exception. One of many changes that the realtors have experienced during this period is the rise in the demand of farmlands, farmhouses and vacation homes. This is due to the fatigue people have experienced living in the cities with restricted movements. The ambitions of owning a bigger home, the aspirations of getting closer to nature are taking over.
This shift in the mindset and requirements of buyers quickly got the attention from the big players of the business as they started their journey with managed farming development. This change was helped by the relaxation in farmland ownership laws in a few states making it the perfect timing. In fact, this particular niche in the industry has seen around 70-80% year on year growth in the last year.
But there was one problem that people were facing. Despite the constant launches of projects in this niche, investors weren't able to find the right projects for themselves easily. They didn't know which concept or what type of land to choose or whom to trust.
Elegance Enterprises claims to have found the solution as they launched their online marketplace for farmlands, farmhouses and vacation homes. The platform is named as FARMLAND BAZAAR and you can visit it at www.farmlandbazaar.com and it will act as an online platform for managed farmlands, farmhouses, estate properties and vacation homes. This will make it easier for investors to browse, compare and choose from various projects and that too at one single platform.
The Company claims to foresee a sizable market share in listings in the coming few months. Notably, Elegance Enterprises has been in business for 9 years and has a fair share of hold and connections in the real estate industry. So, this website can turn out to be a great bridge between farmland owners and investors if things go as per predictions. The people at Elegance have themselves claimed that Bangalore is just a pilot city of the journey and by this time next year- the website would have a catalogue of around 1000+ projects. The website will offer services for farmlands, managed farmlands, farmhouses as well as vacation homes.
Moderated by Amit Porwal, a leader of the industry and Director of Elegance- the event of launch of the platform was in itself an epitome of the potential that the project has. Elegance is a member of CREA(I)- Confederation of Real Estate Associates (India)& NAR- National Association of Realtors and the support from both the organizations could be seen. Pradeep Joe, the founder and chairman of CREA(I) himself was the chief guest at the well-executed webinar.
What made the webinar an all-round success was the quality of discussions and facts shared along with the massive reach. 3700+ people had notably registered for the event and the peak attendance was around 2400. This is an achievement for the whole of the Indian Real Estate fraternity as such an event has never been recorded before where this many people came to learn about real estate.
Other dignitaries who spoke on the event were- Salman Khalid, Managing Director of Redifice Developers, Ravi Kant and Pavan Tripathi, the two founders of Elegance Enterprises and the four panelists namely- Amit Hardi, S.C. Tripathi, Veena Krishnan and S. Sunil Kumar. All of these people shared their valuable insights and experiences. Ravi Kant & Pavan talked about their vision and ambitions related to the project while the panel answered the problems people face when it comes to anything related to farmlands.
Amit Hardi, CEO of Nukebox Studios- a gaming company shared how his experience as a farmland enthusiast has been being from a completely unrelated background. Veena, a Real Estate Lawyer with 20+ years of experience in real estate laws spoke of the legal rights and wrongs of farmland deals. While Mr.Tripathi and Mr. Kumar shared their grassroot level knowledge of developing, managing and nurturing a farmland being an agricultural scientist, and a managed farmland developer respectively.
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text: Date: Tue, 12/21/1999 12/22/1999 With 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt...Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New MillenniumWith 40 Years Of Conservation Work Under Our Belt . . .Trout Unlimited Outlines Goals For New Millennium Contact: 12/22/1999 -- -- Over 100,000 volunteer members of Trout Unlimited (TU) are reflecting on 40 years of conservation commitment to local rivers and streams while looking ahead to the challenges of the new millennium. Trout Unlimited is the nation's largest coldwater conservation organization dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. "Trout Unlimited has always believed that if we take care of the rivers, then the fishing will take care of itself," said TU President Charles Gauvin. "With 40 years behind us, TU has a long legacy of volunteer fundraising, habitat restoration and policy involvement across the nation. We are anxious to meet the conservation challenges of the new millennium and restore quality fisheries throughout the nation." Founded in 1959, Trout Unlimited has championed a variety of conservation accomplishments in 1999, including: The July 1st 1999 removal of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine, opening 17 miles of prime habitat to over 10 native species. The successful 1999 negotiation of the Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement breaking a five-year stalemate over harvest of salmon between the United States and Canada and yielding substantial conservation bases harvest reductions. This year, TU's Embrace-A-Stream initiative hit an all time high raising and distributing $270,000 over 49 on-the-ground conservation projects in 20 states. Helped to negotiate the precedent-setting agreement with Avista Corp., which has put millions of dollars to work for bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout restoration on the Clark Fork River in Montana and Idaho. The agreement marks the first time that a utility asked a conservation group to cooperatively help relicense a dam. Participating in Bring Back the Natives is a collaborative effort to restore rivers and native species on public lands in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation. Establishing TU's Home Rivers initiative pulls private and public donations together to restore rivers that have high trout fishing values to their surrounding communities, including the Kickapoo River in Wisconsin and the Beaverkill-Willowemoc in the Catskills. "Over the past 40 years TU has grown from 16 to over 100,000 committed, volunteer members," stated TU President Charles Gauvin. "TU's National Resource Board has outlined an ambitious list of priorities for the New Year which span the conservation spectrum from Pacific to the Atlantic coast. Projects like these don't complete themselves. TU will continue to rely on our legions of dedicated volunteers to get the job done." Trout Unlimited's national agenda for the year 2000 and beyond includes: Gaining emergency federal protection for Maine's Atlantic salmon. The breaching of the four dams on the lower Snake River identified by over 200 scientists as the last and best opportunity to save endangered Pacific salmon. A national campaign to educate the nation on the importance of maintaining basic water levels in our rivers and streams in order to avoid the drying up of our riverbeds and ensure living rivers for our trout and salmon. Ending the lethal acidification of trout streams along the entire East coast caused by acid rain. Continued research and volunteer field support in the fight against whirling disease which is plaguing many of the West's finest trout fisheries. A strengthened campaign pressing for small dam removal to benefit rivers and communities. Addressing water pollution problems posed by the nation's rapid influx of factory farms. Improving protection of delicate trout and salmon habitat in our National Forests. July 1999 marked the 40th Anniversary of Trout Unlimited's founding, on the banks of the Au Sable River near Grayling, Michigan. The 16 fishermen who gathered at the home of George Griffith were united by their love of trout fishing, and by their growing disgust with the state's practice of stocking its waters with "cookie cutter trout"-catchable-sized hatchery fish. Convinced that Michigan's trout streams could turn out a far superior fish if left to their own devices, the anglers formed a new organization: Trout, Unlimited (the comma was dropped a few years later). Date: 12/22/1999

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What are the dimensions of the folded and unfolded BABYZEN YOYO?
Like the size of an airplane cabin luggage: 52 x 44 x 18 cm (20.5 x 17.3 x 7.1 in). Needless to say it fits very easily in the trunk of a small car, but also under a train seat and, of course, in the overhead compartment on the plane*.
Its unfolded dimensions are the same in the newborn pack, bassinet, and 6+ versions: 106 x 44 x 86 cm (41.7 x 17.3 x 33.8 in).
How much does YOYO weigh?
6.2 kg (13.6 lbs) for YOYO in 6+ version.
6.6 kg (14.5 lbs) for YOYO in newborn pack version.
8.1 kg (17.8 lbs) for YOYO in bassinet version.
A record for an all-in-one city stroller that can be upgraded from birth onwards.
What is the capacity of the YOYO basket?
The basket on YOYO can carry up to 5 kg (11 lbs) and its shape makes it very accessible from the front and the rear.
Is BABYZEN YOYO comfortable?
Very comfortable, thanks to its Hytrel® elastomer suspensions on all 4-wheel, offering unparalleled flexibility and cushioning. YOYO offers:
- in the newborn pack version, a two-position pop-up canopy, a fully flat reinforced mattress, a soft headrest and a fluffy footrest.
- in the bassinet version, a ventilated shell and canopy, with a comfortable, breathable 4.5 cm double mattress.
- in the 6+ version, a well-padded seat with a multi-position recline, a covering hood with window and a footrest.
Is BABYZEN YOYO easily manoeuvrable?
Ultra handy, with its patented 'Soft Drive' system, there's no need to lock the front wheels even on rough terrain. Steering with one hand, your YOYO goes everywhere, allowing you to hold an umbrella or your child's hand with the other.
Is BABYZEN YOYO practical?
YOYO is THE stroller that makes life easier for parents around the world. With its record dimensions, YOYO can be stored anywhere. It knows how to disappear in a restaurant and to fit in a small elevator. Fold the handlebars, and YOYO can go under the metro turnstiles, with its armrests designed to make it easy to hold when climbing stairs. When YOYO is folded, it can be carried on the shoulder, travelling with you around the world!
Is it difficult to fold and unfold YOYO?
It's pure magic! With one hand, it folds and unfolds in an instant, even when your child is in your arm.
What is the maximum weight supported by YOYO?
YOYO+ is designed to accommodate a child weighing up to 18 kg (39.7 lbs).
YOYO² is designed to accommodate a child weighing up to 22 kg (48.5 lbs).
Are the fabrics washable?
Yes, all YOYO fabrics, including the basket and 6+ seat cover, are very easy to remove and are machine washable at 30°C.
The fitted sheet, mattress, foot cover, and canopy of the bassinet are also machine washable at 30°C.
* Since 2012, the YOYO strollers (folded dimensions 52 x 44 x 18 cm / 20.5 x 17.3 x 7.1 in) are accepted or recognized as cabin luggage by most airline companies. However, cabin luggage standards may vary according to the airline and we therefore recommend checking with your chosen airline before travelling for the latest applicable cabin luggage allowance.


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She was 9 when it happened. She says she was at school, in the school yard at recess, standing by the fence, when a thought passed through her "like the barest shadow of a mood." All of a sudden, and for no clear reason, she found herself thinking of her "Papi," her father, who'd been drunk, self-destructive and difficult for as long as she could remember.
It turns out, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor found out later, that as she was having that thought, her Papi, lying in a nearby Bronx hospital, was dying. He died that same afternoon. "Deep down," she writes in her autobiography, "I'd known for awhile that this is where Papi was heading." Drink killed him, and perhaps, the hint of him in her head was his "saying goodbye." When she got home, she says she "ran down the hall and threw myself on the bed. I was sobbing, pounding my fists, when [her aunt] entered the room. 'Sonia, you have to be a big girl now. You have to be strong ... ' " For her, that was a turning point. Without a father, with a mother numb from grief, she writes, "the only way I'd survive was to do it myself."
There's a similar story in The New York Times this week. This one is about Bill de Blasio, now running to be mayor of New York City. His father, Warren Wilhelm, was also an alcoholic, also difficult. From him, de Blasio says, "I learned what not to do." His father was constantly drunk, often angry. The two didn't get along. When Bill graduated high school he changed his last name from Wilhelm to de Blasio-Wilhelm, to honor his mother's side of the family. Then, when his dad killed himself at a motel in Connecticut (Bill was 18), Bill dropped his dad's name entirely.
'Eminent Orphans'
Losing a parent is one of the most devastating things that can happen to a child. The world goes topsy-turvy. The psychologist Felix Brown reports that prisoners are two to three times more likely to have lost a parent in childhood than the population as a whole.
But for some people, Malcolm Gladwell points out in his new book, the death of a mother or father is a spur, a propellant that sends them catapulting into life. Because they are on their own, they are forced to persist, to invent, to chart their own way — into a curious category Gladwell dubs "eminent orphans."
There are, he reports, a lot of them. Historian Lucille Iremonger discovered that 67 percent of British prime ministers from the start of the 19th century to the start of World War II lost a parent before the age of 16.
Almost A Third Of Our Presidents
Twelve presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — lost their fathers while they were young.
A psychologist, Marvin Eisenstadt, poured through a number of major encyclopedias, looking for people whose biographies "merited more than one column" — and of 573 people, Gladwell reports, "a quarter had lost at least one parent before the age of 10. By age 15, 34.5 percent had had at least one parent die, and by the age of 20, 45 percent. Even for the years before the 20th century, when life expectancy due to illness and accidents and warfare was much lower than it is today, those are astonishing numbers."
Cause Or Correlation?
Gladwell doesn't come out and say that losing a parent early increases one's chances of success later. But in study after study, among those who have succeeded, the incidence of "eminent orphans" is oddly high. The correlation shows up for scientists here and here. It shows up in a study of "father absence" among eminent poets here.
This is a touchy subject. Nobody wants to say that catastrophe is a career booster; common sense says the opposite, that children with intact families get more love, protection and support, which ought to be an advantage later on. But it's also true that kids with missing parents need extra muscles, grit and self reliance — also ingredients for success.
The surprise here is the proportion of highly successful people who lost a parent early. Their achievements, of course, may have little or nothing to do with how many parents they had at home, but looking through Gladwell's footnotes, it is puzzling to see so many of them at the top of their professions. This suggests, ever so slightly, that pain trumps love at the start of the race. That's a notion that makes me wince.
Is later eminence worth such a price? Because the price is high. Gladwell ends his book with a short sketch of a remarkable French war hero, Andre Trocme, who refused to turn Jewish refugees over to the Nazis during the occupation, who defied them openly, to their faces, even when he was under arrest. His refusal to lie, to back down, to even bend a little is a puzzle, but Gladwell offers this hint of explanation.
'It's Because You Left Me ... '
When Trocme was 10 years old, he was in a car accident. His father drove too fast, the car spun out of control and his mother was thrown through the air and landed, lifeless, 30 feet from the wreckage. Andre saw the body and suffered a hurt so great, the pain, the unfairness of it all, gave him a dark, almost black courage. He had seen the worst. After that, nothing frightened him.
Many years after the accident, he wrote a letter to his dead mother, a confession:
"If I have been a fatalist, and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day, and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly, if it's because you left me that June 24th upon that road.
"But if I have believed in eternal realities ... if I have thrust myself toward them, it is also because I was alone, because you were no longer there to be my God, to fill my heart with your abundant and dominating life."
Parents, we all know, can hurt. But losing them hurts more. The hurt is there. It's how we handle it that makes the difference.
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To enroll in the program you will complete a confidential homebound reading interest form. You may select the genre(s) you like and library staff will select materials to match your tastes. You may also request specific titles. These items will be checked out on your library card. Volunteers from the library will deliver items to your door at no cost. Homebound delivery volunteers are carefully screened to ensure privacy and safety. They will deliver new items and return your previous items to the library. As part of the Homebound Program the library offers you the ability to maintain a permanent list of items you have borrowed. If you choose to activate this option, library staff can avoid resending anything you have already read.


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Foreign Affairs
Expert Roundup: Will WikiLeaks Hobble U.S. Diplomacy?
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia,
Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies,
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Robert Danin, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
Thomas W. Lippman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies,
Deborah Jerome, Deputy Editor
How will this week's release of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.org impact U.S. diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Pakistan, and elsewhere? Six CFR experts are unanimous in cautioning that WikiLeaks' latest data dump could hurt sensitive relationships and make open exchanges more difficult. Robert Danin notes that some contacts have already refused to meet with U.S. diplomats in the Middle East. He also points out, as does Thomas Lippmann, that the documents prove that concerns about Iran's nuclear program are not simply Israeli but shared by much of the region. Daniel Markey says the United States could lose valuable insights on Pakistan from its neighbors Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, as well as cooperation from Pakistan on counterrorism. John Campbell suspects African leaders will find some of the leaks "hurtful," which will affect their response to U.S. requests for African support in multilateral organizations like
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia,
The latest WikiLeaks data dump undercuts U.S. policy in Pakistan in at least two important ways.
First, on the political front, the cables detail critical comments made about Pakistan's civilian leaders by Saudi King Abdullah and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Zayed. The perspectives of two of Pakistan's most influential neighbors do not come as a surprise. But because these leaders have a window into Pakistani politics quite unlike our own, and because they enjoy significant leverage in Islamabad, their blunt and candid statements represent valuable indicators of regional sentiment. Post-WikiLeaks, it could be some time before these leaders -- and others -- are again willing to share similar views with U.S. officials. That would be a big loss. When the next Pakistani political crisis hits, Washington will sorely miss these regional sources of information and authority.
Second, by unveiling U.S. efforts to reclaim enriched uranium from an aging Pakistani research reactor and by offering details on how U.S. Special Forces have been embedded in Pakistan's own military operations, WikiLeaks may have permanently killed small U.S. nonproliferation and counterterror programs. Because so many Pakistanis believe the United States is out to eliminate their nuclear program and invade their country, Islamabad has always been skittish about this sort of cooperation with Washington. Now Pakistanis -- from conspiracy theorists to run-of-the-mill nationalists -- have new justifications for those concerns.
More damaging, the Pakistani army officers who hold the nuclear codes cannot help but doubt Washington's capacity for secrecy in the future. At best, they will accept U.S. security and counterterror assistance, keeping U.S. officials at arm's length from the arsenal as they have in the past. At worst, they will retreat from engagement with American counterparts and rely more heavily on a seemingly more trustworthy ally in Beijing.
At the same time, the WikLeaks' release reveals to the public that U.S. officials are concerned about Pakistani motivations and actions in most of the ways they ought to be. On issues related to Afghanistan, civil-military relations, and nonproliferation, we see that the U.S. government is quietly doing its best to grapple with a huge range of challenging and sensitive matters.
In short, the WikiLeaks' release offers Americans relatively few reasons to doubt the efforts of their own government, and plenty of reasons to doubt the value of seeing these documents released to the world.
Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies,
I doubt that WikiLeaks' disclosures will have a major impact on U.S. foreign policy, but what impact they have will be negative. At a minimum, these leaks will make our officials even more reticent than they already are to put their candid thoughts down on paper -- always an important step in formulating sensible policies. They will also make foreign governments more leery of trusting us -- especially governments in places like Yemen and Pakistan, which provide vital assistance to the United States in the "war on terror" but do not want their role publicly acknowledged for fear of inflaming radical sentiment. Worst of all, in some cases the publication of these memoranda could lead to violent retribution against those who have shared sensitive information with the U.S. government. That was more of a concern with the publication of the military documents, but it is not out of the realm of possibility with the diplomatic cables either.
Weighed against these deleterious consequences, what is the benefit of publication? For WikiLeaks and its media enablers -- the
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seems to revel in the harm he is doing to the United States. Are the editors of the Times, the Guardian, and other supposedly reputable news organizations also happy about this? Or do they just not care?
John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
WikiLeaks' release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic documents will set back U.S. foreign policy goals. Effective diplomatic partnerships require free communication and trust. WikiLeaks undermines both. At least in the short term, WikiLeaks likely means that U.S. diplomats will find their partners more guarded and less willing to share ideas and information. In particular, African leaders place special value in their personal relationships with leaders and diplomats from other countries. The personal assessments of African leaders contained in the WikiLeaks' documents are likely to be hurtful and will influence their response to bilateral U.S. requests for African support in multilateral organizations such as
That diplomats are "spies" or "hypocrites" is an old saw. Much of the press commentary on WikiLeaks alleges U.S. diplomats engaged in "espionage-lite" activities, such as collecting cellphone numbers and assessing the personalities of international actors. Because the WikiLeaks provides little or no context for the released documents, and because casual readers are unlikely to be familiar with what diplomats actually do, these canards are likely to become more widespread, especially among those who do not wish the United States well.
Some Americans dislike "secret diplomacy," seeing it as antithetical to an open society where transparency and accountability are national values. Yet, our diplomacy's ultimate purpose is to advance the interests of the United States and preserve our national security, as defined by a freely elected government. Those who leak classified documents are asserting that they know better what is in the United States' collective interest than the government that was elected by the American people. WikiLeaks is truly unaccountable.
Not that diplomatic secrets continue forever. The U.S. government publishes a series called The Foreign Relations of the United States that is an exhaustive compendium of diplomatic documents. But these records appear in public only after thirty years when their appearance has little impact on current diplomatic activities. In a world deformed by Tehran, Pyongyang, or Khartoum, and dependent on multi- and bilateral negotiation, that is as it should be.
Robert Danin, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
U.S. diplomats throughout the Middle East have already felt the immediate effect of the release of some quarter-million diplomatic cables: their regular contacts are refusing to meet them.
Embarrassing revelations that emerge in the days and weeks ahead will further silence America's contacts and make them even more reluctant to talk to U.S. officials. If private exhortations by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah for Washington to "cut off the head of the (Iranian) snake" cannot be relied on to remain in confidence, then lower-ranking Middle Easterners are not going to risk engaging in candid discussions with U.S. interlocutors. This will rob the United States of critical insights into the leaders and societies about which national security decisions must be made. In a region where the United States is already at war, and where further military action may not be far off, the stakes could not be higher.
While no "smoking gun" revelations about the Middle East have surfaced so far that fundamentally alter our understanding of the region, the leaks highlight two fundamental and stark Middle Eastern realities. First, Arab leaders' comments in private are fundamentally different from what they often say in public. Officials' memoirs often say this. Now we have ample proof that it is true. Some commentators claim that what Arab leaders say in public is all important, and that these private messages are flourishes tailored to please their audience. Yet, were these confidences mere flattery, would so many Arab leaders throughout the Middle East urge the United States to employ force against an ascendant and intrusive Iran? There is a reason that U.S. officials put considerable credence on those confidences and why these documents were labeled secret.
This points to the second reality: Middle Eastern leaders genuinely see Iran as the greatest strategic threat to the region today, even if their publics do not. The WikiLeaks' revelations put a stake through the heart of conspiracy theories that posit that a nuclear Iran is largely an Israeli conceit, promulgated in the West by a nefarious pro-Israel lobby. We now know that from the Atlantic to the Gulf, Arabs and Israelis alike are looking to Washington for firm leadership to handle the growing Iranian challenge. As a result of these leaks, the willingness of leaders in the region to have candid conversations about Iran and other critical threats will be enormously diminished.
Yet, the greatest damage from WikiLeaks will likely be in the way that U.S. officials will share sensitive information with each other. Cables will be denuded of anything controversial (and possibly important) before they are dispatched. Information in the national security bureaucracy will become further stove-piped, with the most sensitive and important information channeled into highly restricted person-to-person classified emails. The ability of our public servants to hold informed internal debates about a part of the world which we already poorly understand, yet are so deeply involved in, has been rendered infinitely more difficult.
Thomas W. Lippman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
In one of the diplomatic documents made public by WikiLeaks, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Smith, informed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last February that King Abdullah had told the
That would seem to be a definitive answer to the question that has hung over the Gulf for the past several years as evidence mounted that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons: What would Saudi Arabia do if Iran, its historic and religious rival, acquired nuclear weapons? But it should not be taken at face value, or as a policy statement that reflects a consensus among the king and senior princes. The cables show that the king had been ratcheting up his rhetoric for some time in an effort to persuade the United States to take a stronger posture on the Iran issue, even urging that the United States "cut off the head of the snake" in Tehran. The cables reveal sharp divisions over Iran policy within the Saudi leadership, and in reality Saudi Arabia would face powerful disincentives and probably insuperable obstacles if it were to succumb to the nuclear weapons temptation.
Already short of electricity and committed to an ambitious industrial expansion that will exceed its hydrocarbon fuel outputs, Saudi Arabia is banking on nuclear energy for its future. Lacking the engineering and metallurgical expertise to pursue nuclear power unassisted, the Saudis are counting on help from their friends, especially U.S. suppliers. They know that any suspicion that they were flirting with nuclear weapons would preclude a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States. The $60 billion weapons purchase agreement recently negotiated with the United States would be cancelled. As a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Saudi Arabia would face international sanctions that would undercut its economic aspirations. Now a member of the G20 group of wealthy nations and of the
As advocates of a Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction, the Saudis have refrained from pursuing nuclear weapons even knowing that Israel had them and that a hostile, threatening Iraq under Saddam Hussein was seeking them. They are extremely uncomfortable at the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, but despite Abdullah's comments they are more likely to continue their reliance on U.S. protection than to seek a nuclear arsenal of their own at such great potential cost.
Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies,
The WikiLeaks' exposure of secret U.S. foreign policy cables for public view is an embarrassment that will make it harder for dedicated foreign service professionals to do their job. For instance, the knowledge that private conversations on sensitive issues such as Korean unification have been made public will inhibit future conversations on a serious issue that will require careful advance coordination. Interlocutors will be more circumspect, and fears of public exposure may chill written assessments. The majority of revelations show U.S. foreign service officers doing their job.
The national security damage from the leaks lies less in the contents than in the fact of the release, which dramatizes the difficulty facing all governments of ensuring secrecy while conducting foreign policy in a globalized, open information environment. It means that there are few true secrets contained in a trove of documents that usually await the scrutiny of historians a generation removed from the issues at hand.
Aside from its impact on U.S foreign policy, the WikiLeaks' revelations will pose challenges primarily for authoritarian governments less acclimatized to an open information environment. The exposure of assessments by diplomats from those countries may have direct career consequences. U.S. assessments of authoritarian leaders may yield potential grist for political opposition. Revelations from countries where private views are at odds with public positions will receive greater scrutiny; for example, Saudi private vs. public views on how the United States should handle Iran's nuclear efforts.
The specificity of some leaks will serve as a striking indictment of the failure of some governments to respond to U.S. entreaties, and may be used as impetus for new policy judgments. For instance, U.S. intelligence information to China regarding transfers of sensitive technologies between Iran and North Korea banned under
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The first audio advertisement for a soda. A vaudeville act about sneezes. A home "exercise tape" from the 1920s, featuring a man giving calisthenics instructions accompanied by an orchestra. One of the first live music performances recorded, a 4,000-person choir in London singing Handel. A 1913 recording where a scoutmaster demonstrates all of the patrol calls used at the time by the Boy Scouts (you will not believe how well this man could imitate a bird).
For the past year, we have been working at our podcast, The World According to Sound, looking to archives like the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library to dig up and curate old recordings like these. We are making an experimental audio show that celebrates sound recordings made before 1923, many of which have not been listened to in decades by more than a handful of people.
Many of these recordings have been lost. Others are buried in archives. But as of January 1, several hundred thousand are going to enter the public domain.
This is a major change in the world of audio.
It's a big moment in history for sound archivists
Until recently, sound recordings were not covered by federal copyright laws in the same way as film, literature or photographs, which all enter public domain after a set of time. Then in 2018, the federal government passed the Music Modernization Act. The law changed copyright laws for recorded sound and, among other things, it mandated that every commercial recording made in the US before 1923 enter the public domain on January 1, 2022.
This is a huge amount of material. The Association For Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) estimates that some 400,000 recordings will be entering the public domain.
In anticipation of this event, archivists around the country have been digitizing and uploading commercial audio, as well as eccentric and amateur recordings, making it all more accessible and available to the public. It's their big moment to showcase the recordings they have preserved for all these years, and to share them with individuals and media outlets, who can now take this material, remix and re-release it. This is making new projects possible, like the show we are working on about the origins of recording sound.
At The World According to Sound, we make a series of live listening events. Each show has a different theme and a collection of work made by us and other radio producers, musicians, and sound artists. The audio is spatialized for headphones and streamed live to people listening all over the country. We mail attendees an eye mask and an invitation to settle into a meditative evening of intentional listening.
This trove of very old recordings entering the public domain seemed like a perfect fit for one of our evenings. For the past year, archivists have been sharing sounds with us from their collections, some of which are about to enter the public domain, and others that are historical gems they have been working on for years to digitize.
The Library of Congress has one of the largest collections. For years, it has been uploading recordings online to its National Jukebox. Their archives hold a lot of historically significant musical works, like early recordings by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, a group that popularized Spirituals and is still active today. This is a 1909 recording of Little David, Play On Yo' Harp.
There's a lot more than music in the Library of Congress collection. There are children's stories, dramatical performances, vaudeville acts, how-to records, and other genres that companies were experimenting with as consumer commodities at the turn of the century. One of those experiments is this recording, which might be the first ever home "exercise tape".
The Jukebox has an entire section dedicated to spoken word and recitations. This is a poem by Edgar A. Guest titled The Old Wooden Tub. It was recorded in 1929, when much of the country still lacked electricity and telephones, yet the speaker in the poem is yearning for a simpler time.
Not only could the Edison home phonograph play back recordings, it allowed people to make their own. People would record on blank wax cylinders, or take a commercial cylinder, shave it down and make their own recording over the top of it.
Archivists estimate that Americans made several hundred thousand home recordings over the first few decades of the 20th century. Most are lost. The UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive has more than 650. This is one of our favorites. In it you can hear a man calling for his dog Mugsy, who also accompanies him on a musical number.
The cylinder archive has more than 10,000 wax cylinders, which were the recording medium for devices like the Edison home phonograph. Curators have created thematic playlists of everything from Tahitian field recordings to popular songs from World War I.
For our live show, The New York Public Library digitized a record of a scout master demonstrating patrol calls. It is the first time this record has been digitized. We'd share it with you here, but the audio can't be made public until January 1.
The New York Public Library also let us listen to a trove of recordings made by Lionel Mapleson, who was one of the first people to try to systematically record a series of live musical performances. He was the librarian at the Metropolitan Opera House and from 1901 to 1903 he made recordings of the opera. We made this story about Mapleson's recording endeavors for Radio Diaries.
Archivists have been essential to preserving these old recordings. The media is fragile, and without protection from the elements, the wax cylinders and records can crack and become unplayable.
At the same time, many of these recordings were first saved by private collectors and then acquired by archives. That is the story with the Mapleson cylinders, which the New York Public Library got from a private collector, Mr. Herbert Bretnall. The same is true for the home recordings and some of the other cylinders at the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive. Many were donated by David Giovannoni, who has set up his own online repository for sound recordings that he has collected.
Online you can find lots of old cylinders and records that individuals have uploaded. Archivists at the Library of Congress told us about what is believed to be the first ever audio advertisement for a soda. They did not have it in their collection, but we were able to find a version online. Someone with an old Edison phonograph had taken a video of the cylinder being played, which is an ad not for Coke or Pepsi, but a favorite soda brand from the state of Maine.
Archivists also told us about the existence of an early advertisement for the Edison home phonograph. In it, you can hear the hopes companies had for recorded sound to be a major commodity.
This advertisement actually became the narrative backbone for our live show, which we're streaming on January 6. For the show, we remixed lots of old audio like the pieces above, added some new recordings of our own, and sprinkled in a little context here and there to help you sink into all these old recordings.
The whole show would have been impossible if the Music Modernization Act had not put these recordings in the public domain. If you want to listen to some of the other sonic gems that will become public on January 1, you can check out this list of recordings put together by the ARSC.
Sam Harnett is a co-founder and co-host of The World According to Sound, and a former technology and labor reporter. Chris Hoff is an independent audio maker based in San Francisco.
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Ex climate sceptic' Muller's latest BEST stuff is the worst so far
Non-partisan' group abandons pretence of neutrality
Posted in Energy, 31st July 2012 10:14 GMT The Register
Analysis Richard Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project, which began with goodwill from all corners of the climate debate, has made a series of bold announcements (without benefit of peer review) to the effect that global warming is definitely serious and definitely caused by humans. This has aroused derision among formerly supportive climate sceptics, caused an eminent climatologist to abandon the project, and even drawn criticism from generally alarmism-sympathetic media commentators.
Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley, is often regarded as a climate sceptic because he has frequently criticised the techniques used by climate scientists in the past and because he accepted funding for BEST from libertarian oil billionaire Charles Koch. When BEST launched in the wake of Climategate, it vowed to be "an independent, non-political, non-partisan group", with Muller promising that "there will be no spin, whatever we find". Critics of the existing temperature establishment, including well known sceptics Anthony Watts and Doug Keenan, welcomed it.
BEST renewed its science-by-release offensive last week, including an ambitious assertion that Prof Muller could attribute warming to the specific cause of carbon emissions by curve fitting (capturing the trend in the data by assigning a single mathematical function across the entire range).
Now an independent expert who peer-reviewed one of the four new BEST journal submissions has published his comments. The BEST team stated that the paper had not been rejected by peer review and no major flaws had been discovered. This does not appear to be true: the Journal of Geophysical Research ended up rejecting the BEST paper on UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects.
Last September, Ross McKitrick - an associate professor of economics - was asked by the geophysical research journal to review the BEST heat-island paper, which had been submitted to the journal. McKitrick is the economist whose statistical analysis, with Steve McIntyre, of a well-publicised temperature reconstruction led to Congressional hearings in 2006. These hearings endorsed McKitrick and McIntyre's work and raised serious questions about the conduct of the paleoclimate science community.
McKitrick was asked last year to review BEST's approach to grappling with the UHI (Urban Heat Island) effect. It's fair to say he wasn't impressed.
McKitrick said he had discovered "serious shortcomings" in BEST's methods and said "their analysis does not establish valid grounds for the conclusions they assert." He continues: "I suggested the authors be asked to undertake a major revision."
The second comment is worth taking the time to read, as new research using a much more comprehensive classification system puts the lack of rigour in dealing with the UHI effect in the spotlight. BEST appears to replicate the lack of rigour, and worse, appears not to care overmuch:
In their Journal of Geophysical Research submission, the BEST team writes:
"We are not asserting that surface temperature data are unaffected by urbanization, but that a global average based on data that includes stations that may have warmed due to urbanization is not significantly different to one based only on stations that are assumed not to contain urban effects."
McKitrick comments, rather acidly:
I suspect that any reasonable reader, upon completing the paper, would be startled to learn that the authors did not intend to assert that surface temperature data are unaffected by urbanization. I think the above sentence was meant to say something like: "We are not claiming there are no contaminating influences in individual locations, only that they are too small and isolated to affect the global average."
Unfortunately the whole issue is whether their methodology reliably supports this conclusion, and in this draft they have done nothing to deal with the evidence that it does not, instead they simply assumed the problems away.
Muller also made the claim that he was a former climate skeptic, which was rapidly disputed.
"If [Al Gore] reaches more people and convinces the world that global warming is real, even if he does it through exaggeration and distortion — which he does, but he's very effective at it — then let him fly any plane he wants," Muller told climate activist website Grist in October 2008, rather undermining his claim to be sceptical or even impartial at that point.
All this leaves much of the press, including the New York Times - which indulged Muller by giving him an op-ed space last week to announce his latest results - with some explaining to do.
This seems to have been acknowledged even by the New York Times Malthusian-in-Residence, Andy Revkin, a very widely read environment columnist who is generally sympathetic to the warmist position. Revkin wasn't impressed with the Mullers' "PT Barnum showmanship".
Meanwhile, the most distinguished co-author of the early BEST papers last year has declined to be involved in the latest. Dr Judith Curry, Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN), describes the work as "oversimplistic and not at all convincing in my opinion".
There's a critical analysis by two early participants in BEST, writing in a personal capacity, on Curry's blog, here.
The BEST team uses some interesting techniques, such as kriging – estimating values at locations which haven't been sampled by using a weighted average of neighbouring samples to estimate the 'unknown' value at a given location, so named for geostatistics pioneer Danie Krige – to compensate for sampling biases in station coverage.
The team also examines more stations than existing temperature series. However, BEST fails to use the latest, and more comprehensive, WMO standard for station quality, which results in low quality data. And it's limited, by design, to ignore satellite and sea readings – thus ignoring most of the Earth, which is mostly covered by water.
All in all, it would seem that BEST's stated goal - to produce absolutely undisputable climate data and science, for all that this would mean a regrettable absence of simple, clear soundbites - has been abandoned.


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Reader Carolyn recently asked, "How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!"
This is a common problem, and one that has several parts we should look at separately:
1. Being achievement-motivated.
2. Being a workaholic.
3. Learning to relax and de-stress.
4. Learning to feel good about it.
Let's start by saying that there's nothing inherently wrong with work — it can be fun, exciting, fulfilling, rewarding. I love my work in a way I never did for most of my life, until a few years ago, and work is one thing I live for, that I jump out of bed each morning to do.
However, the reader recognizes that there's more to life than work, and that relaxing is important, and that stress is a major problem. When work takes over your life and causes problems — with your relationships, health, happiness — then it's time to step back and figure out a better way.
Each person needs to figure out what that better way is, and I can't offer one solution to fit all, but here are some thoughts on the four parts of the problem outlined above.
1. Stop being achievement-motivated.
There's nothing wrong with achievements or being proud of them — it's a natural thing to feel good about what you've accomplished. But it shouldn't be the only thing that motivates you.
What's a better motivation? Doing things you love, creating something great, being with people you love, doing things that are exciting.
If your work is something you love, something that excites you, that's great. You're better off than most, actually. But there's gotta be more — what else gives you joy? Do you have hobbies you love? Do you like doing anything outdoors? Do you have family members or friends you love?
Figure out 4-5 things that truly make you happy and excite you — at least one of them should be a person or persons, and one of the others must be non-work-related. You need some balance in your life.
Get excited about these things, and be motivated by your love for them. If you have a spouse and kids, for example, let your life be motivated with the thought of spending time with them.
2. Stop being a workaholic.
What's a workaholic? Someone who overdoes work — long hours, can't stop working even at night, obsessed with work, to the detriment of other parts of his life.
If this is you, you might need help — beyond the help I can give you in an article. You might need to reach out to family members, to a therapist, to a group (online or off). There's no shame in this — sometimes this is what's needed to conquer an addiction.
But if you aren't so far gone, you might be able to implement a few steps to stop from working so much.
First, stop working after a certain time — say 5 or 6 p.m. Make this a hard line: tell your office not to call you after this time, and don't take your work home. Once the clock hits this time, you're done for the day. The rest can wait until tomorrow.
Second, don't check email or do other work-related communication after this point. Turn off the Blackberry or iPhone, even turn off the computer at home, and do something else. Also don't take your mobile devices to non-work events such as vacations, your kids' activities, family parties and so forth.
Third, schedule other things into your life. Exercise with a friend after work. Make dates with your partner. Take your kid to soccer practice. Set aside time for a beloved hobby. These things will stop you from working.
This should be good to start you out. The other steps are below, but for now, focus on these three things and be firm about them with yourself. No exceptions!
3. Learn to relax and de-stress.
This should be the easiest step (it's fun, after all) but for many people it isn't. There are many ways to relax and de-stress, but we'll just touch on a couple of points.
First, take it in small steps. If you have a hard time relaxing, you don't need to take a whole week or a month to do it at first (later, you might want to try this). For now, just try it in 10- or 15-minute increments. You'll get used to it, and be able to do it for much longer.
Second, schedule a physical activity just about every day. This could be walking or running or cycling or swimming or playing basketball or soccer or whatever. As long as you're doing something, preferably outdoors if weather permits. Again, just start out with 10 or 15 minutes a day. It might take some experimenting to find an activity you enjoy, so feel free to try out different things.
Third, schedule some solitude. This could be 10 minutes of reading alone, or walking quietly, or relaxing with a hot bath, or meditating. You should do it in silence, alone, with no distractions. A peaceful setting is best, without clutter or people knocking on your door. Ask your co-workers (if it's at work) or family members (if at home) to please help you out and respect this time of solitude. Slowly stretch it from 10 minutes to 15, 20, 30 and so on until you have 45-60 minutes a day.
4. Learn to feel good about it.
This step is hard to comprehend for those who love relaxing, but for those who have a workaholic mindset, feeling good about relaxing can be tough. This takes a change in mindset.
We have to stop thinking that hard work is the only virtuous way. Sure, hard work is good, but so is being lazy, so is relaxing. We need to give ourselves permission to do this, and to feel good about it.
Relaxing and being lazy are necessary to good health and happiness. Our bodies and minds need to recuperate each day and week, and if we don't have this downtime eventually something will go wrong: we'll burn out, ruin our relationships, have deteriorating health. So think of it as a necessity, and a good thing.
Do things that are pleasurable. Forget about all the things you have to do and really be in the moment as you do them. Focus on how enjoyable the activity is, and how great you feel. Breathe deeply and feel the tension leaving you.
Give yourself time. It takes time to learn to enjoy relaxing. You'll adjust, slowly, gradually. But you need to do it, in small steps, and block out negative thoughts and thoughts of work. Let those thoughts go, and focus on what you're doing now.
This transformation won't happen overnight, but it can happen. And it'll be great.


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During Great Lent, and the other fasts of the Church Year, it is customary for all Orthodox Christians to go to confession to their priest. Properly this should be done several times a year, the exact frequency depending upon how often one is blessed to receive the Holy Mysteries and on the counsel and blessing of one's spiritual father. As a preparation for this sacramental confession and to help one examine one's conscience before coming to confession, the following questions are sometimes distributed in parishes and, although of course the list is not exhaustive, it may be a help to those of our readers who are Orthodox Christians.
Sins Against God
Do you pray to God in the morning and evening, before and after meals?
During prayer have you allowed your thoughts to wander?
Have you rushed or gabbled your prayers? or when reading in church?
Do you read the Scriptures daily? Do you read other spiritual writings regularly?
Have you read books whose content is not Orthodox or even anti-Orthodox, or is spiritually damaging?
Have you pronounced the name of God without reverence, joking? Have you asked God's help before starting every activity?
Have you made the sign of the Cross carelessly, thoughtlessly? Have you sworn? Have you murmured against God?
Have you sinned by forgetting God?
Have you been slack in attending church?
Have you consecrated even part of the feast days, particularly Sundays and the Twelve Great Feasts, to God?
Have you tried your best to attend church on these days? or have you spent them more sinfully than ordinary days?
If unable to attend church for some reason, have you nonetheless tried to devote some part of these days to prayer and spiritual reading?
Have you joined with people not of the Faith in prayer, or attended their worship services?
Have you kept the fasts?
Have you behaved irreverently in church, or before the clergy and monastics?
Have you laughed or talked in church, or moved about unnecessarily, thus also distracting other people from prayer?
Have dressed modestly and in a becoming manner when in church?
Have you tried to pay reverent attention to the readings, hymns, and prayers in church?
Have you striven to pray with the service, crossing yourself, etc., or have you rather simply stood and day-dreamed?
Have you prepared for the services beforehand, looking up the Scriptural readings, making sure you have the texts to follow the service etc., especially if the service will be in a language you do not readily understand?
Have you ever left church after the Divine Services, and particularly after receiving the Holy Mysteries and immediately engaged in light talk and thus forgotten the blessings and graces you have received?
Have you been ashamed of your Faith or the sign of the Cross in the presence of others?
Have you made a show of your piety?
Have you used your Orthodox Faith or its teachings merely to browbeat others or belittle them?
Have you used it as a shield or excuse for your own inadequacies rather than humbling yourself?
Have you believed in dreams, fortune telling, astrology, signs and other superstitions?
Do you give thanks to the Lord for all things?
Have you ever doubted God's providence concerning yourself?
Do you at least try to perceive His purpose in all the things that come upon you?
Sins Against Your Neighbours
Do you respect and obey your parents?
Have you offended them by rudeness or contradiction?
(These two apply also to priests, superiors, teachers and elders.)
Have you insulted anyone?
Have you quarrelled or fought with anyone? Have you hit anyone?
Are you always respectful to old people?
Are you ever angry, bad tempered or irritable?
Have you called anyone names? Do you use foul language?
Have you derided any that are disabled, poor, old or in some way disadvantaged?
Have you entertained bad feelings, ill will or hatred against anyone?
Have you forgiven those who have offended you?
Have you asked forgiveness from those whom you have offended?
Are you at peace with everyone?
Have you left the needy without help when you could have helped?
Have you attended the sick or elderly when they have asked you to do so?
Have you shown kindness and attention to all, remembering that God is expecting just such an attitude from you?
Have you hit animals without a cause or been cruel to them, or neglectful of those in your care?
Have you stolen anything?
Have you taken or used other people's things without asking?
Have you kept money or things that were lent you without returning them?
Have you wasted your employers' time or resources? Have you taken things from work for your own use, used the firm's phone or other facilities for your own purposes without permission or repayment?
Are you obstinate, and do you always try to have your own way?
Have you been inconsiderate of other people's feelings?
Have you tried to have your revenge against those who have offended you?
Have you harboured resentment? Have you deceived people?
Have you gossiped?
Have you told untruths?
Have you judged and condemned others?
Have you taken pains before approaching for confession to be reconciled with all?
Sins Against Yourself
Have you been proud? Do you boast of your abilities, achievements, family, connections or riches?
Do you consider yourself worthy before God?
Are you vain, ambitious? Do you try to win praise and glory?
Do you bear it easily when you are blamed, scolded or treated unjustly? Do you think too much about your looks, outward appearance and the impression you make?
Have you sinned in thought, word or deed, by a look or glance, or in any other way against the seventh commandment? (Adultery, fornication, all extra-marital sexual relationships with others, masturbation, engaging in unnatural sexual acts, fantasising, pornography, etc.)
Have you envied anyone anything? Have you been over-sensitive?
Have you been lazy? Have you done your duties heartily?
Have you wasted your time, energy or abilities in things that do not profit the soul?
Have you become obsessive about anything? Have you been despondent or listless?
Have you had thoughts of committing suicide?
Have you brought a curse on yourself or others or ill-wished them, being impatient?
Have you a weakness for alcohol? Have you drunk too much, or become dependent on drink?
Have you taken drugs, other than necessary medicines? Have you smoked?
Have you watched television too much or indiscriminately? Have you given yourself up to any other similar pastime which wastes your time and energy and might have harmed you?
Have you been greedy, either with regard to food or to possessions?
Have you indulged in comfort-eating? Have you become accustomed to eating between meals?
Have you been picky about your food, or wasteful of foods, forgetting that so many people are without proper nourishment? Have you been extravagant? Have you been wasteful?
Do you care for and seek first the salvation of your soul, the spiritual life and the kingdom of God, or have you put earthly considerations in the first place?
Is there any other sin, which burdens your conscience, or which you are ashamed to tell?
Anyone preparing for confession must ask God to help his resolve to tell all his sins. A penitent should prepare for confession and collect his thoughts regarding his sins at least a day before confession. The most valuable thing in the eyes of God is the confession of the sin which weighs most on the conscience.Continue reading


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6 Steps to Enter the Flow
April 17, 2009 by Quantum Publisher
Filed under BEST POSTS, Life Mastery
You've heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, or how a painter becomes one with his painting. Time stops, and only total focus on the activity remains.
This is called *being in the flow,* an experience that is both demanding and rewarding… and perhaps the most enjoyable and valuable experience you can have.
Hungarian-born psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, the father of the flow concept, describes the experience as being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
He determined that flow occurs when we are totally absorbed in some activity that is neither too easy nor too difficult for us. If the activity is too easy, we fall into boredom — while if it's too difficult, we become anxious or stressed.
But it the activity is just right we find ourselves in the state of flow, just like children at play.
Build Flow Mind Power
Learning how to enter into the flow has the potential to immediately improve the quality of your life and build your mind power. Csikszentmihalyi found that being in the flow actually increases your brain power, and that the longer you remain in flow, the more complex your mind power becomes.
The easiest way to understand how flow increases mind power is this: When you perform a task that is too easy, your mind wanders from your work, and you have low mental focus. When something is overwhelmingly too difficult, on the other hand, anxiety and frustration set in.
Neither boredom nor anxiety lead to good mental focus.
Most often we move in and out of flow without realizing it. Any stimulating activity that completely fills your conscious attention can put you there. But the minute you feel worry, boredom or insecurity creeping in, you are out of the flow.
Here's a reliable step-by-step method to create a state of flow in your life:
Step 1. View your task as a game. Like any serious game, you need feedback to keep yourself challenged, and the most basic form of feedback is keeping score. Establish the objective of your selected task as an actual goal, recognize the challenges to be overcome, and decide on any rules and rewards.
Step 2. Decide on and focus on your purpose. As you play your game, constantly remind yourself of the underlying purpose that is driving you. This goes beyond the goal, it is the reason for the goal.
Step 3. Strengthen your focus. Become aware of your thoughts. If you find your mind drifting or filled with anxiety, you have moved away from the zone. Refocus on the task at hand, and adjust the difficulty until you become fully engaged in the details of the task.
Step 4. Surrender to the process. This is perhaps the greatest mystery of the flow process. As you practice Step 3, you will find yourself enjoying the process of simply focusing completely on the task without straining or undue efforting. As you do, you will begin to experience periods of timelessness.
Step 5. Embrace ecstasy. The most interesting part of this process is the natural result of the previous four steps. You are going to be suddenly hit by surprise with a feeling of ecstasy. You'll recognize it. When it happens, you are solidly in the flow.
Step 6. Enjoy peak productivity. The state of ecstasy is actually a whole brain phenomenon in which your entire cortex vibrates at one coherent frequency. It is unmistakable. You will have the sensation of creating without thinking, and your productivity will attain unheard of heights.
Flow and The Zone
The state of flow has direct ties to the state of being athletes call *the zone,* and also to the desired end state of Zen Buddhism. But the experience applies equally well to any endeavor, however simple or complex. Think of the minute complexity of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and the intense mental focus required to perform it correctly.
Increase Your Probabuility of Entering Flow
An excellent way to increase your probability of entering into the flow is to train your brain to release stress — since only then can you achieve the required clear focus.
Regular visits to the Quantum Brain Gym for brainwave training will get you into the FLOW painlessly. Join and spend 10 to 15-minutes a day with brainwave training. Try it! You'll be amazed at the differences in your mental clarity and focus. Click here!
posted by Jill Ammon-Wexler
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text: The dos and don'ts of airport travel 18 June 2019 Mark Johnson Data The beginning and end of most international journeys, whether short business trips or longer overseas assignments, involve spending time at airports. As an International Data Researcher (IDR), I do this more than most – and it is often the most complicated and frustrating part of an overseas data collection trip. Indeed, I have visited or travelled through over 500 airports in my many years as an IDR. More often than not they are the huge international airports that most of us are used to, but I've also been through my fair share of less advanced airports that are often the only way to get to and from many developing nations. This blog post will look at what I have picked up from my years travelling through airports across the globe and will hopefully offer some helpful tips that may be of use to those who find themselves going abroad to a new destination in the near future. It may sound obvious, but to help make the airport experience as smooth as possible it's always best to plan ahead! First of all, ensure well in advance that you have the correct visas, up-to-date passport and other essential paperwork because many airlines will not let you board a flight without them. Also, ensure that your vaccinations are up to date. Many countries require an official yellow fever certificate before they will let you enter. This is something I once found out to my chagrin when flying from Paris to French Guiana in South America as I was unaware that the Air France flight would not let me board without an original yellow fever certificate. I even had a colour photocopy, but this wouldn't cut it. Fortunately, I had enough time to spare at the airport to visit a doctor and have another vaccination to get approval to board the plane. Needless to say, I now carry my original certificate with me everywhere I go. Getting to and from the airport is one of the most important things to consider for us IDRs, especially in more remote locations where transport infrastructure may not be what you're used to back home. I've had a few 'near misses' in my time where I've managed to get to the check-in counter seconds before they close. The most stressful experience for me was several years ago on the Caribbean island of St Maarten. All was going well, and I got to the airport in plenty of time only to scan the departures boards in vain for my flight. After asking around it was apparent that my flight was leaving from the much smaller airport on the other side of the island! Luckily a local taxi driver was up to the challenge and got me there in the nick of time. He got a hefty tip too! Another important aspect of getting to and from airports is security. It's often necessary to travel through less secure areas of a city to reach the airport from your hotel or vice versa, and when arriving in many locations it's imperative that you plan ahead, arranging for someone to meet you at the airport. In Lagos, for example, it is not recommended to drive to or from the airport in hours of darkness and in Lae, Papua New Guinea, IDRs are even collected at the airport in an armoured van to avoid being attacked by local gangs. My colleague, Hugh, previously wrote a blog on his various taxi experiences throughout his time as an IDR, and offered some useful advice on the different ways of approaching these situations around the world. Once you've got yourself safely to the airport, that is often when the frustration really sets in. Over the last 20 years, many aspects of airport processes have been speeded up with the help of technological advances such as ePassport gates – gone are the days of queuing for hours when all you want to do is get to the coffee shop. However, over the years I've had a few experiences of a more serious nature than just having to queue. One that stands out is when I was going through the security process at Nouakchott Airport in Mauritania. I was taken in to a closed-off area where a man with a rifle proceeded to seize my wallet and demand a cash bribe. I felt really uncomfortable with this as it was an airport where presumably those with guns should be professionals. I told my new acquaintance as such, grabbed my wallet back and fled into the safety of the departure lounge. Luckily, the man didn't follow me but nonetheless I would recommend caution if you ever find yourself in a similar situation! Upon landing in a new and alien place it's best to know beforehand the basic procedures for navigating the airport successfully and what your onward transport options are. Fortunately for a monolinguist like myself nearly all airports in the world have directions and signs in English as well as the local language, so that's always a help. The arrivals hall can often feel like a chaotic maelstrom of crowds and disorder, but I always try my hardest to avoid looking 'out of place' as much as possible. International airports can attract those looking to take advantage of new arrivals unaccustomed to their new surroundings, no matter what country you might be arriving in. Once you've collected your luggage (always keep the baggage tag as in many countries they won't let you take your luggage without it!) the next step would usually be to source the local currency. If ATMs are not available, then hopefully you've planned ahead and brought foreign currency to exchange (USD and EUR are normally the best to have) but always know the exchange rate in advance so that you don't get ripped off. After that, you're about ready to start exploring your new environment. However, one final piece of advice would be to download offline maps. Speaking from my own experiences, these can often prove indispensable in the more remote places where you need to be able to check you're heading in the right direction to your hotel without internet access! FIND OUT MORE If you're preparing to live or work in another country, whether short-term, long-term or on a permanent basis, ECA's Country Profiles are in-depth briefing documents that provide essential information for over 125 different countries around the world. As part of our Country Profiles subscription, we have also introduced a new flight times app showing the shortest flight time between two destinations. 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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- PREFERRED_NETWORK option for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Enabling support for NAT clients in NetBackup
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Deployment Management
- Deployment Management
- Adding or changing schedules in a deployment policy
- Deployment Management
- Section VII. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
The NetBackup Database Administration utility is a standalone application (NbDbAdmin.exe) and is located in the following directory:
To use the utility, you must be an administrator with administrator privileges.
When you start the NetBackup Database Administration utility, enter the DBA password. The password is set to a randomly generated password upon installation. Use the nbdb_admin command to change it to a known password if you have not done so already.
The NetBackup Database Administration utility displays the following information:
Table: NetBackup Database Administration properties
Property | Description |
Database name and status | Select either the NBDB or the BMRDB database to administer. The list of possible databases is derived from the vxdbms.conf file. The vxdbms.conf file is located in the directory that is specified in the bp.conf file or in the Windows registry parameter VXDBMS_NB_DATA. The database must reside on the same computer where the NetBackup Database Administration console runs. One of the following status reports display for the selected database:
Stop | Shuts down the selected database. |
Start | Starts the selected database. |
General tab | Contains information about database utilization. See About the General tab of the NetBackup Database Administration utility. |
Tools tab | Contains a variety of tools to administer the selected database. See About the Tools tab of the NetBackup Database Administration utility. |
| Displays the amount of free space and used space on a drive. If the database files are on multiple drives, this view is useful to see which drive has more free space available. The Drive Space dialog displays the following information:
| Closes the Database Administration utility. |
| Provides additional assistance in the console. |
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