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What do I wear when I snack? "Mushroom beret" by Oska, Marimekko blouse, Custo Barcelona long sleeve tshirt, vintage brooch, Illamasqua nail polish in "Rare."
My first childhood memory of heavy duty salt intake was eating a smoked Polish ham and cheese sandwich. After that "aha" moment, I developed a fondness for salt, which I preferred to sweets. I never threw a temper tantrum when my mom curtailed some sugar fixes. But when she wouldn't buy me a can of flavored Pringles, I had a meltdown and sobbed. It was as if she tossed my Tiffany doll with rotating scalp into the trash compacter. As a single parent overwhelmed and embarrassed by an annoying and relentless child, she finally gave in. Hence the origins of my salt cravings, enough to maintain sodium levels in Utah's Salt Lake.
From that pivotal day, I became addicted to salty snacks. Officially, I became a CHIPHEAD. I have daily snack attacks and usually satiate my need for salt with fistfuls of popcorn, potato chips, pork rinds or rolled up wads of cold cuts.
A couple of years ago I read about a business called Anchor Food Finds which sells uncommon potato chips from the US and offers a POTATO CHIP CLUB OF THE MONTH program. I was in such disbelief that I reread the article a couple of times. I shook my head and exclaimed, "Only in America." Faster than a tear into a bag of Wise, I clicked on their site and spent a good half hour studying all their potato chip offerings. The clean and enticing website design further convinced me to join the club. As a web designer, I am especially attuned to the way a business conveys its message through good design. They WOWED me!
The monthly subscription of $30 includes ten 1.5oz. bags of many varieties of chips. Most of the potato chips come from small independently owned companies who take an artisanal approach in creating their versions of this popular American snack food. Anchor Food sends your order so promptly, that delivery is often within two days.
This month's shipment contained many red colored bags, some with vintage labeling harkening back to a time when salt was not demonized. To begin my critique, I set a pitcher of Coconut water on my kitchen table along with pen and paper. Whereupon, I RIPPED into my first bag like a barbarian.
Here's my review of my sodium intake Bacchanal:
Ole Salty's regular salt – I love the Ole Salty weathered sea urchin mascot on the bag front. What is he hollering? "Heh, I lost my peg leg at sea in a drunken stupor, fell overboard and luckily was resuscitated by a mermaid. I am back ashore because I need more casks to fill with cheap bourbon." Medium crunch texture and disarmingly unsalty for a salt-flavored chip. They are your basic, no nonsense chip, fried in soybean oil. The soybean factor is not a selling point for me as it's another overly subsidized crop that winds up in too many food sources. Given the lack of saltiness for a salt chip, I would rename it "Ole Salty's Edema-free Salt Flavor Chip."
California Chips Honey BBQ – Don't you conjure up sunshine, healthy eating and Katy Perry? These all natural chips are without trans fat, gluten free, vegetable oils, no msg, artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Not too sweet and with a balanced smokey flavor which was not overwhelming. However, it skewed low on that singular important characteristic, crunch. In my opinion, I declare these chips to resemble Lay's® rather than an artisanal brand. They're fresh but also a bit too oily.
Good Health Kettle style Avocado Oil Chips – Now this is a great chip! A perfect weight, not oily, nice texture and the right amount of sea salt earns this chip a "Michelin Star Chip". But, what I love most is that Good Health used few ingredients to create a delicious chip. Ingredients: potatoes, avocado oil and sea salt. I love its simplicity.
Mrs. Fischer's Chips – Upon first glance at Mrs. Fischer's company logo and overall package design, it looks like she hasn't redesigned it since its initial launch in 1932. I find that charming and love its nostalgic appeal. I especially like that there is a illustration of a potato chip man with top hat dancing in a dizzying circle with some kids. I would love to bring that logo to life, hold his salty, hydrogenated oiled, hickory smoked hands, while doing a jig with him. Once I bid him farewell, I will remind him he needs to get rid of the MSG in the product he represents.
Tri-Sum potato chips -This isn't the perfect chip–a little too salty, oily, but the potatoes have a nice flavor. The best part of this chip is the nostalgic designed bag. I love the illustrated floating male head wearing a billowy chef's hat in the bottom right corner. Tri-Sum touts itself as "America's First Potato Chip" since 1908. The illustration on the top of the bag of a horse drawn buggy delivering chips to your front porch, makes me long for a time when horses were the main cog in our mass-transit system. Today, they can be found on a Hedge Fund Manager's Montana ranch or on our plate in a fast food restaurant near you. I do give this an "A" for package design.
Grippo's Chips – The taste is similar to the Tri-Sun chip. They are fried in hydrogenated oils and are a bit greasy, so I wouldn't buy them again. I do love the design of the bag, though.
Michael Season's Gourmet Kettle Cooked Jalapeno Chips – I was hesitant to sample these based on their 40% reduction in fat and sodium. Low fat anything is an affront to the senses and should be expunged from the salty snack industry. Food should be eaten full fat or not at all. In this country, there are too many choices in the food industry and consumers dictate what ends up on our plate. I wish Americans would lose their appetite for things they perceive as "low-fat, therefore healthy" where on the contrary, the absence of fat and salt compromises flavor and leaves us unsatiated. As for these chips, the Japlapeno flavor is medium with the right amount of lingering punch, but the crunch is lacking, perhaps from the lack of oil. For a fat reduced chip, they did a great job. However, I hope they won't explore the "baked chip" market–one that should be illegal or at least taxed at 90%, and ultimately thrown into an industrial size composter.
This month's samplings were a treat. I have 3 weeks remaining to rehabilitate myself from gorging enough salt to coat Madison Avenue's wintry black iced pavement (the salting prevents all the Platform-shoe-wearing-doyennes from skidding and cracking their skulls.)
A word of caution – don't eat all ten bags in a few days' span as I did. Luckily, I have good genes and don't wake up with spongy cankles. Coconut water is my saving grace and hydrates me to acceptable levels.
I found a quote from a new scientific study on potato chip addiction which substantiates my obsession:
"In a new study, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, California researchers have discovered that receptors in our mouths, upon coming into contact with fat, triggering a powerful addiction-type mechanism in our guts. Essentially it activates cannabis-like compounds in our body. Fat, therefore, makes us happy and we want more…" (From chron.com July, 2011.)
This post was a real pleasure to research, develop and write. I ingested more oil than the gas tank capacity of a Cadillac Escalade commandeered by a ponytailed, baseball-hatted- crazed uber-mother-self-righteous-texting-and-driving-in Bergen County, NJ. I anticipate a quadruple bypass by year's end if I continue taste-testing potato chips. Please, please, please help me find a new addiction! It'll be good for my health and yours!
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Acupuncture is the oldest continuously practiced medical system in the world and is used by one third of the world's population as a primary health care system. It is likely that more people have been treated by Chinese medicine throughout history than by any other formalized system of medicine. Because of its relatively low cost and its noninvasive nature, acupuncture has become a highly popular form of complementary health care in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed acupuncture treatment for over 40 conditions, including stress, digestive disorders, depression, allergies, sleeping disorders, addictions, headaches and menstrual disorders.
This highly effective system of medical care is based on natural laws which govern the movement of vital life giving energy, both in nature and in the body. This energy, called "chi", moves through the body in precise channels supporting functions of the body, mind and spirit. When "chi" is moving disharmoniously, imbalance begins to surface in the form of specific symptoms. To address the underlying cause of a condition, these symptoms are viewed in relationship to the totality of a person. The gentle insertion of hair thin needles at specific points along the channels of chi energy, help restore harmony. In the presence of this subtle yet profound intervention, symptoms often resolve and patients frequently experience renewed vitality.

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You can use ConsoleOne to create chat rooms for users to participate in.
In ConsoleOne, browse to and expand the Messenger Service object.
Select the Chat container.
Existing scope profiles are displayed in the right pane.
Right-click the Chat container, then click New > Object.
Select nnmChat, then click OK.
Type a directory ID name (this is the name that displays in eDirectory) and a chat room name (this is the name that users see), then click OK.
The chat room is created; however, you might want to change some additional settings after creation. For more information about editing chat room settings, see Section 6.2.1, Editing Chat Room Settings In ConsoleOne.
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Click Tools > Chat Rooms, then click Create.
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(Optional) Type a description and a welcome message for the chat room.
(Optional) Select the maximum number of participants.
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Athlete Profile: Jeb Stuart-Johnston
Name: Jeb Stuart Johnston
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Age: 35
Occupation: Hairdresser
CrossFitting Since: On and off since 2007
Favorite WOD or Movement: I love to deadlift.
Least Favorite WOD or Movement: Like everyone else, thrusters and wall balls make me sad.
What is your fitness background?
I grew up playing football mainly. My Dad had always made us box so that was also a big part of how I perceived training. As I reached my 20s and missed the contact sports I found MMA and trained in Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Western Boxing, Wrestling, Submission Wrestling, and later BJJ.
What were you doing before CrossFit?
I found CrossFit because a lot of MMA fighters used it as conditioning. We were already doing HIIT (high intensity interval) training and using things like sledgehammer strikes, tire flips, a ton of bodyweight work and barbell complexes so it was a natural fit.
I understand you do Strongman Competitions. How did you get into that?
I got into Strongman by accident (and a bit of arm twisting) really. I had just started getting more into lifting heavy and transitioning out of MMA because, let's face it, I'm getting older and my body just can't handle the punishment any more. Since I no longer was worried about staying at 145-155lbs, I started to love training to get bigger and stronger. When my wife Sarah and I moved to New York last January, a friend recommended I check out Global Strongman Gym. I went in and met the owner Hans and he had me lifting stones, log pressing, and doing yoke runs. I didn't think it was for me but he was rather convincing.
I had never really deadlifted from the floor but within the year I had hit 507lbs for a double. So something was working. When he announced his show here in New York I signed up (and somehow convinced Maillard to, as well.) Strongman training is brutal. It's painful and you are in constant risk of injury. But something about putting heavy weight on your back and running or lifting an awkward object overhead promotes crazy growth and strength. And then there are the other athletes. The guys I train with are 300lb monsters. And that's small for a pro. Watching a guy do an 800lb deadlift or 700lb squat is both terrifying and inspiring. At the end of the day, though, you aren't competing against anyone but yourself and I love that.
How is Strongman similar to CrossFit?
Well, I would qualify that, as it is similar to the sport of competitive CrossFit, it is a day (or 2) of 5-6 events of variety. There may be a max lift, lift for reps in a minute, lift or carries for max speed, and of course stone loading. In Strongman, though, we know the events ahead of time so we can train for each contest individually. The biggest similarity, I would say, is the community. It's a lot like CrossFit in that everyone helps and supports each other. When your competitor is beating your time you are in their face cheering them on.
As per my general personality dysfunction, once I decided to compete in Strongman I reached out and used every contact I had in the S&C world to help (I'm a bit Type-A, haha.) Through Jason Ferruggia, my first mentor in strength training, I was connected with Chase Karnes. Chase is a top amateur in the 200lb weight class and he has been coaching me on events and did all of my programming for Viking Battle. I also communicated quite a bit with the late Mike Jenkins, one of the World's Strongest Men and a CrossFit Box owner, and he was an exemplary model of both sports.
How has CrossFit helped you prepare for your competitions?
I am competing in April in the 175lb class (only select shows have 175lbs, usually 200lbs is the lightest) so I am utilizing CrossFit to get rid of my "powerbelly" (code for eating Five Guys 3 times per week.) CrossFit is also great to remind me just how unfit I am. Nothing is more humbling than a CrossFit WOD. I generally train to be really strong and fast for 60 seconds so by minute 4 of a WOD I am usually dying. Then George starts yelling at me, calling me names, and questioning my masculinity, so I have to suck it up and power through.
It's such a mental game and that mental toughness really transfers over to my Strongman training. Honestly, though, it's not the WODs that helped me most at my last competition, it was the CFV community. There were over a dozen CFV athletes who trekked up damn near the Bronx in arctic temperatures to come see Maillard and myself compete. In the max reps deadlift event, when I blacked out and went to one knee, it was voices from CFV that made me stand up and get that 28th rep @ 315lbs. It was one of those moments that made me realize just how much bigger CrossFit is than just us as athletes. It was really touching.
I also understand that you're in the CFV Coaches Program. What makes this program unique?
Where do I start? First of all, as an apprentice, we have such great access to the coaches at CFV. Beyond their general CrossFit knowledge, each of the Lead Coaches has some type of specialized area that they are passionate about so we learn about movement from many different perspectives. I mean, where else would an Apprentice/Intern have access to an anatomy/yoga expert, a CF Level 1 Trainer, a gymnastics/movement Jedi, two Weightlifting coaches with an athlete ranked 7th in the Nation, and a circus/dance/programming lunatic? And that's just the Coaches. We are also exposed more to the CFV athletes who are so good at so many things. It's kind of ridiculous when you look at a cross-section of CrossFitters, they are just so good at so much.
Now, as an athlete, I am becoming more cognizant of my weak points and my flaws in movement. I participate in a sport that values strength while in compromised positions so I have to spend all of my static training practicing better movement patterns.
Last, as an aspiring coach, I am learning so much about how to help people be better. Better in sport, better in health, better in life.
Why did you apply for the Coaches Program?
I have a passion for helping people find the best version of themselves. As a hairdresser, I get to see what can transpire in a woman's life from a simple makeover. What are the possibilities from a physical transformation? CrossFit has put a barbell in more hands than any training modality in modern history, so that alone makes it a progressive movement. Yet, as progressive as NYC and CrossFit may be, women still have to fight a little bit harder than men. CrossFit lets them express that strength without judgement and rewards them for it. My training partner Sean Hyson (who has a great book out, the 101 Best Workouts of All Time, buy it!) is the fitness editor at Men's Fitness and Muscle & Fitness and he pushed me along on the journey of becoming a trainer. Between his helpful contacts and my wife's support, I knew that this was my future. I also knew that the best hands on movement coaches I had ever encountered were the Lead Coaches at CFV. So it was a no brainer.
Any advice for people considering the Coaches Program?
Yes, it's a big commitment but it's totally worth it. If you want to coach CrossFit I think it really is a necessity. A Level 1 certificate is great but there is just no way that you can really learn what it takes to be an effective coach in two days. It's a learned skill and the coaching program gives you a safe place to harbor those traits under the watchful eye of experienced Lead Coaches.
Anything else? Good stories?
The main thing I want to acknowledge is just how great the CrossFit community as a whole is and how special CFV is in particular. When Sarah joined last year I tagged along to some social events and saw her quickly making some of the best friends she has had since college. From the first day I walked in everyone was so welcoming and cool. A year later, and I have such great relationships. The majority of my social circle are members of CFV. People at work often joke about how I just hang out at the gym and it's true, there is no place I'd rather be than CFV. Some people hang out at bars, we hang out at a Barbell Club.
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So thrilled to have both you and Sarah as part of our tribe. Thank you for being such an awesome student and aspiring coach. Having such high calibre trainees in the coaching program forces me to step up my game.
Keep kicking ass!
Jeb! You are a seriously bad dude!
This is one of the many reasons I love NYC. Where else in the world can you become fast friends with a strongman, hairdresser named Jeb. So happy and honored to call you and Sarah friends!
Awesome story!
Great interview. The pictures are what really drew me in to read the whole thing. I wanted to know more about such a stunning human being. I love you, thats not a joke.
Awesome, Jeb! Great interview and rad photos. Keep crushin it!
Great interview! Keep up the awesome and inspirational work!!
Jeb – what a well written and thorough report. I loved reading it! And, I love you and Sarah so much. Your intensity and ease are equal and powerful. Such motivation!!!
Some people hang out in bars and barbell clubs… Awesome work and well deserved recognition buddy


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1* [Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal garments and stood in the inner courtyard, looking toward the royal palace, while the king was seated on his royal throne in the audience chamber, facing the palace doorway. 2When he saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard, she won his favor and he extended toward her the golden scepter he held. She came up to him, and touched the top of the scepter.]
3Then the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even if it is half of my kingdom, it shall be granted you."a 4Esther replied, "If it please your majesty, come today with Haman to a banquet I have prepared." 5The king ordered, "Have Haman make haste to fulfill the wish of Esther."
First Banquet of Esther. So the king went with Haman to the banquet Esther had prepared. 6During the drinking of the wine, the king said to Esther, "Whatever you ask for shall be granted, and whatever request you make shall be honored, even if it is for half my kingdom."b 7Esther replied: "This is my petition and request: 8if I have found favor with the king and if it pleases your majesty to grant my petition and honor my request, let the king come with Haman tomorrow to a banquet I will prepare; and tomorrow I will do as the king asks."
Haman's Plot Against Mordecai. 9That day Haman left happy and in good spirits. But when he saw that Mordecai at the royal gate did not rise, and showed no fear of him, he was filled with anger toward him.c 10Haman restrained himself, however, and went home, where he summoned his friends and his wife Zeresh. 11He recounted the greatness of his riches, the large number of his sons, and how the king had promoted him and placed him above the officials and royal servants.d 12"Moreover," Haman added, "Queen Esther invited no one but me to come with the king to the banquet she prepared; again tomorrow I am to be her guest with the king. 13Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I continue to see the Jew Mordecai sitting at the royal gate."e 14His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a stake set up, fifty cubits in height, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go to the banquet with the king in good spirits." This suggestion pleased Haman, and he had the stake erected.f
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Twelve years ago, I gave up the search
for Mr. Right. After countless dates with frogs who never turned into
my prince, I'd decided I'd rather be single than endure another
night of listening to a man complain about his three ex-wives or brag
about how much money he made. Of course, that's when I got the
email that would change my life. Here's a snippet:
Hi Shelly,
My name is Jason and I live in
Milford. I hadn't looked at the Speed Dating site in a long time,
and then I received an e-mail that the site was shutting down. So I
decided to take a last look and found you there. I guess my profile
on the site is fairly accurate, but I never submitted a picture or
completed any essays. Just from your profile, you sound like someone
I would like to meet. So to fill in the gaps from the profile (and
convince you that I'm not some crazy stalker) let me tell you a
little more about myself. I also enjoy camping and hiking as well as
traveling, mostly the US by car, but someday a bit more. I am a civil
engineer and work in Ann Arbor.
Boris the dog and I have a house in
Milford, walking distance to downtown. We usually get a bunch of
exercise walking all over town, but this cold makes it a little more
challenging. He likes the cold much more than me. Or maybe the fur
coat makes him not care…I'll see if I can get a photo of myself
to send to you…
We spent the rest of the day emailing
back and forth. He didn't get a photo of himself, but he did send
me one of his dog, Boris and it was love at first site! Jason and I
set up a phone call for the following day, and it was in that
conversation, I learned his last name was Bell. My mother had told me
that when she .met my father, she'd heard "bells" and I would
too. I didn't want to get my hopes up, but I had a feeling he was
"the one."
A day later, we met in person. As soon
as I saw him, it was as if a piece of me recognized him as my soul
mate. We talked for hours and only ended our date because I had a
prior event. Rather than wait, he called me that night and we spoke
another few hours on the phone.
Five months later, we were engaged and
six months after that, we were married.
Then Boris…became my dog too.
A sucker for a happy ending, Shelly
Bell writes sensual romance often with a bit of kink and
action-filled erotic thrillers with high-emotional stakes for her
alpha heroes and kick-ass heroines.
She began writing upon the insistence
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Red Handed (A Benediction Novel)
An exhibitionist who's waited her
whole life to be seen …
After her stepmother is abducted,
Danielle Walker has no choice but to follow the kidnapper's cryptic
instructions. Under the guise of a sex slave trainee, she must
infiltrate Cole DeMarco's BDSM club and find evidence of his offshore
bank account … or she'll never see her stepmother alive again. But
Master Cole is no stranger, and despite the dark past they share,
Danielle cannot resist his magnetic pull.
The voyeur who's always been
watching …
As Danielle begins uncovering Cole's
secrets, the artistic voyeur arouses her deepest desires, and she
surrenders to a fiery passion she never expected. But with time
running out to save her stepmother, Danielle and Cole will face off
against an evil growing more ruthless by the day … and discover a
twisted web of lies, betrayal, and murder that neither saw coming.
The stupidest pick-up attempt I ever
heard was when I was in my early 20's working for a nonprofit
disaster relief agency on an out-of-town job in Pittsburgh raising
funds to help flood victims. After work a group of us from various
cities made plans to go out to dinner together. Everyone agreed to
go back to our rooms and change out of business clothes and meet up
in the hotel lobby in half an hour.
There was a particularly annoying guy
named Bob from the Cincinnati office who had been bossing me around
all day because he had been on many of these fundraising assignments
before, and this was my first. (Rule #1: If you are thinking about
trying to pick someone up later, it's not a good idea to be
condescending to them earlier in the day.)
So, he knew what room I was in
and as I was getting ready to go down to the lobby he knocks at my
door. When I open it Bob says, I thought we could walk down to
the lobby together. Ok, that's a little lame, but fine.
Then he stares down at his
hand as if he's just discovered he is holding his briefcase, and
pastes this surprised, sheepish look on his face. Oh, wow, says
Bob, whose own room is about five doors down the hall, I don't
want to drag this thing along to dinner. Can I just leave it here in
your room and pick it up after? (Rule #2: If you think leaving
your briefcase in a woman's hotel room is your only chance you'll
be invited in, you're probably right.)
Needless to say, Bob never had
a chance with me (See Rule #1), and I told him I'd be happy to wait
right there in the hallway while he took his briefcase back to his
own room. I'll admit, though, that I flirted with him a bit later
in cab on the way back from dinner, just so I could shut him down
when we got to the hotel. He deserved it.
Bob could take a few lessons
from Sam, the hero in my contemporary romance, THE MILLIONAIRE'S
UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL. When millionaire Miami lawyer Sam finds himself
alone in Las Vegas - and spots an elegant blonde also alone in the
hotel lounge – he knows he'd much rather the two of them spend
the evening together. But Camilla is as unapproachable as she is
Will Sam have better luck with
Camilla than lame-o Bob had with me? Well, he couldn't do any
worse . . .
One night together will change his
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Apparently trying to one-up President Barack Obama, who last month twisted American history and logic to equate US government mass spying with Paul Revere and other revolutionaries' actions to protect Americans from an oppressive government, House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is claiming President George Washington and the American founders would support Cantor's world-wide interventionist agenda.
Cantor made the laughable assertion a key theme of his "An America That Leads" speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute. The agenda Cantor proposes in his speech, and that we can expect the Republican leadership of the House to push, can be summed up as war, war, and more war. Here are some ways Cantor proposes America "leads":
• Cantor laments any easing of sanctions on Iran and suggests imposing new sanctions, as well as employing the "credible threat of the use of military force" in diplomatic talks with Iran;
• Cantor laments that the US has forgone a military attack on Syria and calls on the US to take action to "change the balance of power on the ground" in Syria;
• Cantor laments that the US military may soon exit Afghanistan and calls for the military presence to continue;
• Cantor laments the easing of US intervention in Libya and calls for the US to "bolster the capabilities of the Libyan security forces and, as necessary, be willing to engage in and support counter-terrorism efforts;"
• Cantor laments that North Korea has, despite US sanctions, "yet to pay a meaningful price" and calls for increasing the sanctions and conducting joint military actions with "regional allies;"
• Cantor laments the US government's failure to more aggressively challenge China regarding sea lanes in the vicinity of China and several other nations and calls for the US to provide "guidance, security, and coordination" in Asia;
• Cantor calls for "equipping security forces" in countries around the world for use in those countries and in their respective regions;
• Cantor laments that "we cannot continue to blindly reduce defense spending" (throwing aside the reality of a decade-plus of huge increases in military, intelligence, and "homeland security" spending) because the US needs to "project adequate military power in any theater, be it the Middle East, Latin America or Asia;" and
• Cantor calls on the US to "invest" in a "more lethal military" -- to "promote peace and stability," he says.
In the introduction of his speech, Cantor suggests that George Washington would support his foreign policy agenda.
Today, we celebrate our nation's first Commander-in-Chief George Washington. Since Washington led our armed forces and this nation, America has relied upon a strong military to defend our homeland and our freedoms.
America's military strength, global leadership combined with a benevolent purpose helped spread the promise of democracy to the oppressed, a message of hope to the destitute, and the blessings of security to the weak. In doing so, we have earned new allies, vanquished old foes, and further secured our own nation. But today, that formula that has served this nation and the world so well is very much in doubt.
This assertion by Cantor is as ridiculous as Obama's assertion a month before, at the beginning of Obama's mass spying speech, that the National Security Agency bureaucrats scooping up every bit of personal information they can find about us are the same as Paul Revere riding through the countryside to warn that an invading army of "redcoats" are coming. Today the NSA is the redcoats, exercising via intrusive, high-tech means the general warrant powers that the British redcoats used in a clunkier, old-fashioned manner in violation of liberty, property, and privacy.
The NSA is the redcoats anew. And Cantor is espousing the foreign interventionism that Washington terms in his farewell address "European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice," the embrace of which Washington said would endanger the "peace and prosperity" of the US.
Washington almost appears clairvoyant later in his farewell address when he ponders that his warnings against foreign intervention will likely not count for much in the long term and cautions against "Impostures of pretended patriotism" -- a spot-on description of Cantor's effort to turn Washington's foreign policy counsel on its head:
In offering to you, my Countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression, I could wish--that they will controul the usual current of the passions, or prevent our Nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the Destiny of Nations: But if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now & then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign Intriegue, to guard against the Impostures of pretended patriotism--this hope will be a full recompence for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
Five years later, President Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address, phrased the non-intervention maxim memorably with the succinct phrase "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Jefferson considered this principle so important that he included it in a short list of "the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration." This principle is diametrically opposed to just about everything Cantor's speech claims furthers the American founders' foreign policy.
Cantor, in the conclusion of his speech, says:
I strongly believe that if we champion the values this country was founded on and we embrace our role as a world leader, America won't just be a beacon of hope and freedom for the next 100 years, but for centuries to come.Of course, the values Cantor champions in his speech are not the values of the founding. Rather, as explained by Washington and Jefferson, the founding values explicitly reject Cantor's interventionist values.
The Republican leadership in the House appears poised to push a foreign policy agenda aiming to eliminate the remnants of the American founders' nonintervention principles. Yet, likely because this agenda is the opposite of what American public opinion supports, the leadership is advancing the agenda with a deceitful claim of sanction by the American founders. Time will tell if modern day George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, and Paul Reveres are able to alert the people and if a new revolution can reinstate values more in line with the peace and prosperity Washington endorsed in his farewell address.
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After one of the worst years ever for investors in 2022, we are quite happy to report that 2023 is off to a much better start. The S&P 500 is already up more than 4% for the year and flirting with the round number of 4,000. Optimism that the economy can avoid a recession (more below) and clear signs that inflation has peaked, thus forcing the Fed's hand on continued interest rate hikes, have led to a great first half of the first month of the year.
- 2023 is off to a great start for stocks, a welcome change from 2022.
- Many are calling for a recession in 2023, but there are clues they could be wrong.
- Various parts of the economy are still growing while the consumer remains quite healthy.
- Inflation continues to fall and likely will fall quicker than most expect.
China potentially reopening has sparked strong buying in various industrial metals, specifically copper. Copper is reaching new monthly highs, and we don't think this would be happening if a large global slowdown was coming. Historically, copper has been a good gauge for the global economy, and its strength is yet another clue the situation is different (and better) than 2022.
Lastly, strength in the first month of a pre-election year is nothing new. In fact, January is typically the best month in a pre-election year, up a very solid 4.1% on average. The first few months of a pre-election year also tend to be strong based on seasonality, which investors should be open to yet again.
Why is Everyone Predicting a Recession?
Most outlooks are forecasting a recession in 2023. In contrast, we on the Carson Investment Research Team believe the economy can avoid a recession this year.
The recession calls are all predictions and clearly not reflections of where the economy is right now. The NBER's preferred list of economic indicators, which is used to determine a recession, shows every single indicator grew over the past three months and year-to-date (2022). In fact, four out of the six indicators have exceeded their pre-pandemic growth rates over the past three months (comparing the yellow bars against the dark blue bars).
Of course, this is 2022 data and the question is what will happen in 2023. So far this year, inflation has fallen, and with relatively strong wage growth that means higher real incomes. Lower gas prices, lower energy prices (utilities), and lower food prices mean consumers will have more money in their pockets. Just as higher inflation is effectively a tax on income, falling prices are akin to a tax cut. And unless households choose to save this excess income, consumption will stay up.
In addition, 38 states have significant tax changes that took effect Jan. 1. As the Tax Foundation notes, most represent net tax reductions, which are the result of a wave of tax cuts over the past two years as state revenues surged and governors/legislatures looked to ease the impact of higher prices on residents.
Also, Social Security recipients are slated to receive a cost-of-living adjustment of 8.7% to their incomes in 2023, a function of last year's high inflation but coming just as inflation starts to pull back. Seniors will get another break from Medicare premiums, which are slated to fall this year.
These are all tailwinds for consumption, which makes up 70% of the economy.
So, Why the Recession Calls?
In short, forecasters are expecting the Fed's aggressive rate hikes of 2022 to hit the economy in mid-2023 and beyond. The idea is that monetary policy impacts the economy with "long and variable lags," as Milton Friedman said. Even Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have cited the uncertainty around the lagged impact of their rate hikes as a reason for stepping down the pace in December. They want to wait to see the impact of the 425 bps of rate hikes they implemented last year.
However, the reality is monetary policy impacts the economy through financial conditions. Higher interest rates can crimp household demand for mortgages, and tighter credit conditions can curb business spending, including hiring, capital expenditures, and mergers and acquisitions.
In fact, because of the Fed's forward guidance and other commentary (including leaks to the press), financial conditions can tighten well in advance of actual rate hikes, as investors anticipate future Fed actions. The chart below illustrates this point. Across 2022, financial conditions tightened well ahead of the Fed's rate hikes.
This means financial conditions can impact the economy sooner than most people expect. The steep falloff in housing activity is a good example of how tighter financial conditions can be felt almost immediately. Residential investment has been a significant drag on GDP growth since the second quarter of 2022, which is when financial conditions started to really tighten in anticipation of the Fed's aggressive turn. On an annualized basis, residential investment fell 18% in the second quarter of 2022 and 27% in the third.
So, we may be beyond peak negative impact of rate hikes on the economy. Most of the tightening in financial conditions occurred during the first three quarters of 2022. In fact, financial conditions have eased since October (coinciding with a stock market rally). That is even more positive for economic growth, as the drag from tight financial conditions declines.
Good News on the Inflation Front
We now have a trend! Headline inflation fell 0.1% in December, the slowest pace since May 2020. Inflation has now decelerated to 6.5% year-over-year, quite a pullback from the 9.1% level six months ago.
As the chart shows, the big driver has been falling energy prices. In fact, gas prices at the pump fell 9.4% in December and are 1.5% lower than a year ago. Even better news is inflation is falling more broadly now.
- Food inflation continues to decelerate, rising just 0.3% in December, the slowest pace since March 2021.
- Core goods prices, excluding food and energy, fell 0.3% in December, the third consecutive month of price declines.
- A big factor was used car prices, which fell 2.5% in December and are almost 9% lower than a year ago.
- New vehicle prices fell 0.1%, the first monthly decline in two years and a welcome one.
- Pandemic-impacted services, such as vehicle rentals and airfares, are also seeing less price pressures now.
- Housing is keeping pressure on prices. But housing inflation looks to have peaked, and the deceleration in market rents will be reflected in official data eventually.
The Fed will eventually have to acknowledge that price pressures are easing in a broad way, with the obvious implication that they need not maintain policy at such a restrictive level. This is what investors, at least in the bond market, are currently betting will happen, with rate cuts priced for the back half of 2023.
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The Global War for Internet Governance
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Release Date | 2014-01-14 |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Author(s) | Laura DeNardis (PhD, Science and Technology Studies) |
Summary | The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any one centralized system, organization, or governing body, a reality that has given rise to all manner of free-speech issues and cybersecurity concerns. The conflicts surrounding Internet governance are the new spaces where political and economic power is unfolding in the twenty-first century. This all-important study by Laura DeNardis reveals the inner power structure already in place within the architectures and institutions of Internet governance. It provides a theoretical framework for Internet governance that takes into account the privatization of global power as well as the role of sovereign nations and international treaties. In addition, DeNardis explores what is at stake in open global controversies and stresses the responsibility of the public to actively engage in these debates, because Internet governance will ultimately determine Internet freedom. |


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" | A ghost, as I trust that you are all aware by now, is the imprint of a departed soul left upon the earth... and of course, as Potter so wisely tells us, transparent. | " |
–Prof. Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
A ghost is the disembodied spirit of a once-living wizard or witch. Only magical beings can become ghosts. Many ghosts take up residence within Hogwarts Castle. These fleshless spirits were either afraid of death or have some extraordinarily strong connection to the locations they haunt.
Description[edit | edit source]
- Sir Nicholas: "Not everyone can come back as a ghost."
- Harry: "What d'you mean?"
- Sir Nicholas: "...Wizards can leave an imprint of themselves upon the earth, to walk palely where their living selves once trod... But very few wizards choose that path."
- — Sir Nicholas and Harry Potter discussing ghosts.[src]
In their paranormal state, ghosts are unable to have much physical influence. They are visible, and appear as a greyish-silver apparition of their former (living) selves. They pass through solid objects without damaging themselves or the material, but create disturbances in water, fire and air. The temperature drops in the immediate vicinity of a ghost. Their appearance can also turn flames blue.[1]
In passing through an object, they may impart a sensation of icy coldness. However, they are apparently moved by gusts of wind, as demonstrated when a petrified Nearly Headless Nick was wafted to the Hospital Wing by a large fan, although this may have been possible due to his petrified state. Ghosts are either capable of, or pretend to be capable of, almost being able to taste rotten food.
Ghosts also appear to celebrate their deathday, as Nearly Headless Nick did so on October 31st in 1992. They tend to be very sensitive concerning the circumstances of their death, often showing great hesitancy when asked by others how they died.
They are also weightless and may fly in any direction. Ghosts cannot be destroyed, however, they may be petrified with the gaze of a Basilisk. This can be reversed by a Mandrake Restorative Draught, although the method of administration is unclear.
In 1996, after Sirius Black's death, Harry had a conversation with Nearly Headless Nick in which he asked if Sirius could come back as a ghost like others and Nick himself. Sir Nicholas explained that only wizards who fear death are likely to become ghosts.
As ghosts are imprints of souls of the said deceased wizards and witches, they are unable to move beyond the veil, and are forever trapped in the world of living as intangible beings. Due to this, few would choose this path. Depending on the conditions of the person's soul, they may not be able to return, as Tom Riddle's self-mutilated soul is trapped in limbo for eternity and cannot become a ghost.
The Ministry of Magic seems to have at least a degree of power and jurisdiction over ghosts, as Moaning Myrtle was forced to return to her place of death, which was Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when she disrupted the wedding of the brother of Olive Hornby. The Spirit Division is the division of the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures deals with ghost welfare.
House ghosts[edit | edit source]
" | About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to one another and hardly glancing at the first years. | " |
–Harry's first experience viewing ghosts at Hogwarts., Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Each House at Hogwarts has a patron ghost. Each of these ghosts once belonged to their corresponding House. They apparently serve as a representative to their House, as well as serving the role of messenger or guide to those who are still unfamiliar with the House they were sorted into. It is unknown for how long they may retain this title.
Gryffindor[edit | edit source]
" | I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead... | " |
The Gryffindor house ghost is Nearly Headless Nick. He is known as a friendly ghost who was nearly beheaded, but the job was poorly executed, which was how he obtained the nickname of "Nearly Headless Nick". He prefers to be addressed as "Sir Nicholas". His real name is Sir Nicholas De Mimsy-Porpington.
Hufflepuff[edit | edit source]
The Hufflepuff ghost is the Fat Friar. He is known for being friendly and jolly to all. He also frequently suggests that Peeves should have a second chance, whether or not he deserves it.
Ravenclaw[edit | edit source]
The Ravenclaw house ghost is the Grey Lady, also known as Helena Ravenclaw. She was the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, making her the only house ghost to be directly related to one of the four Hogwarts founders. She is renowned for being instrumental in assisting Harry Potter in the search for the Horcruxes.
Slytherin[edit | edit source]
The Slytherin house ghost is the Bloody Baron. He is well known for being extremely unsocial and many students, including those of his own House, are known to be slightly afraid of him. The Baron is also the only one known to be able to control Peeves. The Bloody Baron is responsible for the death of Helena Ravenclaw as well.
Known ghosts[edit | edit source]
- Bloody Baron
- Professor Cuthbert Binns
- Fat Friar
- Helena Ravenclaw (a.k.a. the Grey Lady)
- Moaning Myrtle
- Lord Draben
- Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington
- Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore
- Edgar Clogg
- Wailing Widow
- Ghost at Gryffindor Tower
- Knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead
- Ragged man wearing chains
- Portly ghost
- Ghost of a highwayman
- Unidentified ghost (VII)
- Gloomy nuns
- Unidentified ghost horse (I)
- Unidentified ghost horse (II)
See also[edit | edit source]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- In the video game, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, a ghost named Edgar Clogg haunts the Quidditch pitch and provides coaching.
- Professor Amberose Swott may have become a ghost after death.
- According to W.O.M.B.A.T., ghosts may have the ability to move liquid or gas.
- J. K. Rowling used the term 'Ghost Plots' for the stories that never mentioned or yet published in any books.[2]
- The ghosts Edmund Grubb, the Black Knight and The Toad were cut from final drafts.[3]
- It is possible that while ghosts might be silver-greyish to the living, it is possible that through their eyes, they see themselves and each other the way they looked alive, as Nearly Headless Nick was able to read a Ghost letter that appeared to be transparent to Harry, meaning that he could not see any written text on it, even if Sir Nicholas could.
- Although Killing rips the soul, true remorse can heal it again. One example would be the case of The Bloody Baron as he killed Helena Ravenclaw, but felt remorse over her death, thus he was able to come back as a ghost.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
- Pottermore


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Excel has built-in tools for getting DDE data. All you have to do is specify the formula like this for a cell:
myserver - DDE server name;
mytopic - topic name;
myDDEitem - DDE item name.
Once the item is updated on the server, it will be automatically updated in Excel.
This method has a few drawbacks
- It is rather difficult to create the history of changes for the value of a DDE item. You will have to write VBA code for that.
- Excel will work very slowly in case of a large number of items.
Our program offers an alternative way to generate files that can be opened in Excel and that will contain the history of value changes.
1. You should add the necessary DDE items the way it is described in the "Writing DDE to MSSQL" section (fig. 1-3)
2. Enable writing the received data to a log file of the CSV format (fig. 1). By default, the program generates files in the Excel format. You can customize the format of the CSV file if you click the "Advanced" button.
Fig. 1 Configuring the log file
Note 1. You should take into account that the "C:\logs" folder must be available for writing. Do not try to write log files to the root folder of the C:\ drive, the "Program Files" folder of the "Windows" folder. Starting from Windows Vista, only the Administrator can write to them.
Note 2. If you use the program as a Windows service, by default the service will be run by the system account that has restricted permissions to create and write files.


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These are not great times for the battle against climate change. With America officially withdrawing from Paris Agreement, the global alliance lost one of its major champions. While this year's World Environment Day (celebrated each year on 5 June) was rather muted, the determination to continue with the momentum remains steadfast. What's important is that governments, academia, and industry need to work together to make a difference. It is naïve to believe that only industry and enterprises contribute to climate change. There is a great need for scientists to harness those elements of technology that have the potential to hasten our understanding not just of the drivers of climate change but also help illustrate relevant solutions so that requisite action can be taken
It's well known that while big data has had a transformative effect on academic research as well as business applications, its application in climate change has till now remained nascent. The good news is that a global data revolution is unfolding and accelerating decision-making around climate change. Using big data and analytics solutions, scientists are now analysing a wider framework of data including, for the first time, privacy-protected digital data — such as mobile data or credit/debit card transactions, for example — to get important insights into human consumption patterns that in turn can be correlated to climate risk. The resultant data streams are, therefore, providing an unprecedented opportunity to scientists, academia, and private enterprise to catalyse climate innovation and influence decision-making for the public good.
A promising initiative related to this is the United Nations Global Pulse programme called 'Data for Climate Change'. The UN Global Pulse is an agency that partners with data-rich organizations along with other UN agencies, governments and "problem owners" to grapple with challenges that could benefit from new insights that help discover, build, and test high-potential applications of this big data. The focus is on sectors such as food security, agriculture, employment, infectious disease, urbanization, and disaster response and others. Climate change is a new addition to this list. The 'Data for Climate Action' initiative launched in March this year is an 'open innovation challenge' to scientists and researchers from across the world to harness data science and big data from the private sector to fight climate change. The challenge aims to leverage private big data to identify revolutionary new approaches to 'climate mitigation and adaptation'.
This initiative stands apart due to two reasons. First is that the global challenge has attracted companies from across industries and countries to participate through acts of data philanthropy. Secondly, the data being generated is not as much around climate data as it is about human behaviour and its effect on climate change. The challenge offers researchers an opportunity to gain unprecedented access to national, regional, and global datasets — anonymized and aggregated to protect privacy — and robust tools to support their research. The results of this is expected to be made public later this year.
The issue from a policy and implementation perspective is to reduce the effects of global warming in a manner that is both cost- and means-effective. Scientists and administrators do not have the time or the resources to try out different approaches and then decide the best one. Big data, advanced analytic techniques, and algorithms are playing an important role in enabling this. For example, specific to a country or region, data can show where flooding is most likely to occur or the areas that are most prone to drought or other natural calamities and the timeliness of this information is a critical factor. This can enable the local government to make accurate resource allocation, thereby minimising wastage and over-spills. Agriculture is another area that has a significant cause-and-effect relationship with global warming. It stands to reason that everything we do directly correlates to furthering environmental impact with catastrophic social and economic effects. An analysis of global social media data on the issue of global warming and climate change is also proving very effective in terms of highlighting the various elements that country populations are sensitive to — whether it's energy, climate, the state of the oceans, agriculture, forests and natural resources, etc. This provides an important public perspective to policymakers and academicians.
While traditional sources of climate data help describe how and to what extent the climate is changing, they do not always illustrate the solutions that are likely to be most effective in reducing emissions and helping build community resilience. New sources of big data from different industries and geographies, can be applied to construct a more complete picture, thereby significantly enhancing the understanding of the deeply interrelated relationships between human action and climate change. Combine this with increasing amounts of computing resources available at a much lower cost than ever before plus the ability to process them on distributed platforms in the cloud and the potential to exploit data and analytics in an important area like climate change is more real than ever before. With these new adaptative or mitigation interventions, innovations can be developed and will lead to, it is hoped, the beginning of a new and enabling ecosystem.
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Rajesh Shewani heads Technology and Solutions at Teradata India. He comes with close to two decades of experience in the areas of Data Management, Advanced Analytics, Solution Architecture, Enterprise data warehousing and Business Intelligence to name a few.
At Teradata he is responsible for leading a team of experienced Business Analytics consultants, data scientists and solution architects focusing on Teradata Data Analytics solutions. Rajesh has worked in various areas of information management across different industries and functional domains, advising customers on devising corporate performance management and business analytics strategies that will help them achieve differential advantage.
Prior to Teradata, Rajesh was with IBM for over 14 years and performed various roles in technology leadership, architecture and consulting. In his most recent role at IBM he was Country Manager for technical sales for IBM Business Analytics portfolio that included Cognos, SPSS, OpenPages and Algorithmics, leading a team of analytics functional and technical sales architects. Rajesh is certified in technologies such as Cognos BI & FPM, SOA, WebSphere Application Server and DB2.
He holds a Masters in Business Marketing & Information Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies.
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Branding Guidelines
The Google Analytics API lets you incorporate Google Analytics functionality into your application or device. This page shows the icons and logos that you are allowed to use for adding Google Analytics-logoed branding to your application, device, or marketing materials for such applications or devices. It also explains rules and requirements for using Google Analytics logos.
You do not need special approval to use the Google Analytics API or to promote API functionality in your application. However, if you use the Google Analytics API to build an app that:
- Displays your Google Analytics data publicly, to non Google Analytics users.
- Displays Google Analytics data for accounts / properties / views you do not own.
- Is a commercial app that displays Google Analytics data.
You must include a Google Analytics logo and distinguish which data comes from Google Analytics. For example, if a page has 4 charts displaying Google Analytics data, you only need to include 1 logo for the page. In addition each logo must link back to the Google Analytics product page or directly into the Google Analytics product.
What logos or branding can I use?
You may use either the horizontal or vertical logo in your applications:
If your site's backgroud color is dark, use the following logos with white text:
You may resize the logos to an appropriate size for your application, but the horizontal logo that you display must be at least 154px by 50px, and the vertical logo that you display must be at least 132px by 100px. In addition, you cannot modify the colors of the logos provided and should present those logos on a single, solid background color that is complementary to the overall creative or surrounding.
Logo Placement
When integrating the API into your app, you should feature the appropriate branding logo on any page where the Google Analytics API has a presence. The logo should appear next to the location where the API implementation appears on the page.
You may never use the Google Analytics logo in conjunction with the overall name or description of your application, product, or service. Similarly, you cannot use the word Google Analytics or any abbreviation, acronym, or variant, in the name of your application, product, or service.
For example, you cannot call your application "Google Analytics for Enterprises". However, you may make reference to the fact that your app is for Google Analytics or works with Google Analytics by stating "Great App for Google Analytics."
Logo Linkbacks
All Google Analytics logos used within an application must link back to Google Analytics, or link to a page with the URL in which users can get back to Google Analytics.
For public applications you can link to: https://www.google.com/analytics
Additional Rules
In addition the following rules apply:
- Google Analytics API users may only use the logos shown above. Use of these logos is governed by the Google APIs Terms of Service and the applicable Google Analytics terms (together referred to as the "Terms").
- Never display a Google Analytics trademark on a site or app that violates the Terms.
- Ensure that there is sufficient contrast between the logo color(s) and the background color for the logo to be clearly visible.
- Do not change the logos in any way. Do not remove, obstruct, distort, or alter any element of a Google Analytics trademark.
- Make sure the logo is fully and clearly visible. It should never be altered or partially covered.
- Do not display the logo as the most prominent element on your web page.
- Do not use a logo in ways that (1) imply an association with or endorsement of any other product, service, event, sponsorship, or organization; or (2) suggest that you are representing the views or opinions of Google Analytics or Google Analytics personnel without prior written permission from Google Analytics.
- Do not adopt marks, logos, slogans, or designs that are confusingly similar to the Google Analytics trademarks or that imitate Google Analytics' trade dress, including the look and feel of Google Analytics web design properties, Google Analytics brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with Google Analytics.
- Do not register the Google Analytics trademarks as second-level domain names or incorporate Google Analytics trademarks into your own names for products, services, features or companies. Similarly, do not incorporate Google Analytics trademarks into your own trademarks or logos.
- Never display a Google Analytics trademark in a manner that is misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to Google Analytics.
- Never display a Google Analytics trademark on any web site or user interface that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, promotes violence, contains hate speech, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, violates other applicable laws or regulations or is otherwise objectionable.
Your use of these logos is governed by the Terms, so if that use violates branding requirements in these Terms, we may request that you modify your app or usage or that you cease to use the logos. In addition, remember that these guidelines supplement the rules in the Terms. Your application must comply with these branding guidelines and with the broader set of rules set forth in the Terms.


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From its opening sentence, every novel is an argument for its own reality. — Mark Kamine, Times Literary Supplement (35 March 2010): 20
any of us use the word "realistic"to mean little more than we approve of something. For example, when your uncle from Topeka, Chicago, or the Bronx advises you to "do something realistic and take a course in accounting," he implies that such a course of action matches his notion of the way things are. Be careful that when you apply the term to a work of literature you refer to the nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life.
Unlike Platonism and Philosophical Realism (or Idealism), Realism assumes that reality inheres in the here and now, in the everyday. It therefore emphasizes accurate descriptions of specific setting, dress, and character in ways that would have appeared entirely inappropriate to Neoclassical and earlier authors. Realism, which emphasizes the importance of the ordinarythe ordinary person and the ordinary situation, tends to reject the heroic and the aristocratic and embrace the pedestrian, the comic, and the middle class.
According to George Levine, "Whatever else it means, it always implies an attempt to use language to get beyond language, to discover some nonverbal truth out there." Changing notions of what is out there obviously affect these essentially problematic notions of realism. Levine also points out that, unlike the movement in France, Realism in England does not focus on
the dregs of society [or] on the degradations and degenerations of humans in bondage to a social and cosmic determinism. It belongs . . . to a "middling" condition and defines itself against the excesses, both stylistic and narrative, of various kinds of romantic, exotic, or sensational literatures. [At the same time] what is unconventional and most exciting about the [English] tradition of realism is its pleasure in abundance, in energy, and the vivid engagement, through language, with the reality just beyond the reach of language. . . . Realistic novels contain more than they formally need. The antiliterary thrust of realism can be taken either as an assertion of the power of the real over the imagined, and hence of a determined world, or as an assertion of the variety and energy against the enclosing and determining forms of art.
Some aspects of fiction, such as description or dialogue, often appear more suited to Realism than do others, such as plot, whose beginning and ending reveals its artificiality. Take each novel you have read in the course and determine which elements seem adequately described by the terms "realist" or "realistic."
Related Material
- Philip V. Allingham's Review of Harry E. Shaw's Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, and Eliot
- Realism and the Outer Life
- Eliot's Realism and Nineteenth-Century Historicism
Suggested Readings
Gilmore, Jonathan. "Pictorial Realism." Encylopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelley. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 4 vols. IV, 109-110.
Goldman, Alan. "Realism and Aesthetics." Encylopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelley. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 4 vols. IV, 106-109. [Just what it says: Realism from the vantage point of the philosophy of aesthetics.]
Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. 2nd ed. Bollingen Series XXXV. New York: Pantheon, 1961. [An essential book for anyone interested in realism in literature and the arts.]
Levine, George. The Realistic Imagination: English fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. [Start here: The best study for readers interested in Victorian fiction.]
Lukàcs, Georg. Realism in Our Time. Trans. John Mander and Necke Mander. New York: Harper, 1971.
Nochlin, Linda. Realism. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. [The best introductory study of realism as a movement in nineteenth-century painting, though it holds to a conservative art-historical view that places French art at the center of the universe.]
Shaw, Harry E. Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999. [Chapters 1-3 provide an excellent summary of contemporary theory of realism — and its fundamental flaws.]
Stern, J. P. On Realism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
Weisstein, Ulrich. "Realism [in poetry]." Princeton Enclopedia of Powetry and Poetics. Eds. Alex Preminger, Frank J. Warnke, and O. B. Hardison, Jr. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965. p. 685.
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RADAN 2014: Something For All
Sheet metal punching specialists RADAN Software have just released RADAN 2014, following a successful Beta program. The latest software version incorporates a host of new and enhanced functionality including 3D workflow improvements, safety measures to prevent tipping on flat-bed lasers, along with strides in common cutting on punches, and support for cluster and asymmetric wheel tools.
RADAN 2014 has been under development for over 12 months, and recent feedback from the Beta testers, reseller channels and a number of selected end users, shows it contains something for everyone.
Simulation and time calculation have improved considerably, by being moved away from NC verification to the area where sequences are defined. "Whether a defined sequence is used automatically, manually or interactively, the simulation now comes from there. In previous releases, the user had access to far less information than the software actually holds about the tools, the machine and the accelerations that are possible," says Product Manager Olaf Körner.
"Changing the location of these two functions means that every machine tool using the simulator benefits from the improved graphics, increased feedback and overall knowledge that the sequence mode has."
Enhancements to 3D Workflow dramatically reduce the time taken to get parts to the nest. Previously several manual steps were required including unfolding the model, saving as a part and adding the right quantity to the schedule. Now all sheet metal, whether single or assemblies, is unfolded and added to the nest area automatically. This reduces the number of mouse clicks for single parts from around 26, down to just three or four. "This gives a massive time saving, while also reducing the possibility of errors."
Support for cluster tools means they can now simply be added to the master tool file, and RADAN automatically ensures the best arrangements of cluster tools to punch a specific pattern. "Automatic tooling recognises the geometry and applies the right tool or combination of tools to punch pattern."
And there are similar enhancements for asymmetric wheel tools as they are becoming more popular in offering alternative strategies to secondary operations for both cutting and forming. "As soon as you purchase a wheel tool you can now look it up in RADAN, add it to your master tool file, and everything is then set up for it, including graphical feedback when it's applied."
Scrap internal profiles: This safety measure has been introduced to avoid head collisions on flat-bed lasers, and is achieved by cutting profiles that are in danger of tipping, into smaller pieces before cutting the final shape. Instead of cutting it in one go, RADAN now cuts a grid across it first, and the small parts of the grid simply fall away when the final profile is cut.
RADAN 2014 adopts the same common cutting strategy for punch presses as that used for profiling machines. It allows for common cut nests to be created automatically, meaning the user can choose, for example, how many parts form a common cut island, reducing the sheet's instability. Tagging for common cut parts has also been improved. "With the absence of a skeleton – which is inherent to common cutting – the tag placements have to be absolutely right," says Olaf Körner.
The nest project workflow has been brought in line with how it is taught by the experts on RADAN training courses. "RADAN has always informed users when a part isn't closed, when tooling is out of date, or what needs to be done to improve a nest – but now does it using the same sequence as the training, and uses graphical and interactive help when necessary."
In brief –
- A faster, more efficient and risk-free way of updating 3D translators is introduced
- Visualising geometry is made clearer by dividing the screen into two halves. The main geometry is shown on one side, while the other side summarises the topology of the part. For example, if all the bends are selected, the summary screen updates those.
- Drawing patterns: Where third-party geometry files may be over-complex and difficult to navigate, RADAN 2014 now displays information in a clear way, making it easy to work through the drawing. "The user can extract just the information that's relevant to the cutting process."


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For years, Newark, N.J., had the reputation of being a crime-ridden, low-income city. Former Mayor Cory Booker helped change that perception.
Thursday, the Democrat was sworn in as a U.S. senator, and it's unclear what that means for the city's future.
While Booker brought attention — and funding — to Newark, he couldn't completely tackle the violence that has persisted for years. As mayoral candidates begin making their cases, crime is a common theme.
'Now A City Of Hope'
Booker convinced companies that Newark was a good place to do business. This year he brought in $1 billion in economic development projects and another $350 million in philanthropic aid.
Booker says he will be remembered as an entrepreneurial mayor.
"Taking a city from decline to now a city of hope and promise, a city that's turned the corner — a lot more work to do, but clearly Newark now is on the road to success," he says.
Walking the city's downtown, you can hear the distant sounds of bulldozers and electric saws as workers build the first new office and residential towers in the city in decades.
Three grocery stores opened in neighborhoods that didn't have one for 20 years. He expanded farmers markets and urban gardens in an effort to address food deserts.
But unemployment in the city is still above 14 percent. About a third of the population still lives below the poverty line. And crime is on at the forefront of the minds of many Newark residents, including Jerry Minter.
"Killing in the South Ward, there's killing in the Central Ward, killing in the North Ward, West Ward," Minter says. "It's all over the city of Newark."
Debating The Violence
When Booker first took office in 2006, violence in Newark dropped sharply. But the number of shootings and gun injuries has been creeping back up in the past few years. There have been 78 murders so far this year — about half of them occurred in one of the city's wards.
Those hoping to become the next mayor of Newark are already campaigning around the issue.
The election to replace Booker isn't for another nine months, but hundreds of Newarkers are already cramming into auditoriums to hear how the candidates would combat violence.
The city cut its police force by almost half with the economic downturn. And still, crime overall is lower.
But mayoral candidate Shavar Jeffries says the smaller police force is part of the problem.
"You don't lay off 170 cops and then don't expect these consequences," Jeffries says.
Another candidate, Ras Baraka, a current City Council member, takes a stance that Booker has long taken.
"Police is not the answer to reducing this kind of violent culture that we have," Baraka says. "Ninety percent of the violent crime in the city occurs in the South and the West Ward, where the most poverty and unemployment exists, not because we have less cops."
'Newark Will Survive'
Baraka says you have to invest in people. But residents — and people outside of the city — worry Newark will get less money and attention now that Booker's gone.
Dan O'Flaherty, an economics professor at Columbia University, says that perception isn't good for the city.
"It's not good for the people who own businesses in the city," O'Flaherty says. "It's not good for the people who own houses in the city to have the rest of the world expecting a cataclysm to fall on them."
He says it prevents investors from seeing Newark as a good investment.
"Newark is the transportation hub of the East Coast," O'Flaherty says. "Newark has great universities. Newark has great people. Newark will survive after Cory Booker."
Booker is leaving Newark with another $2 billion in economic development projects set to be completed next year. All the companies on these projects promise to interview Newark residents first to fill the new jobs.
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