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I typically recommend to most of my patients that they eat a high protein, high-fat breakfast, which is better suited to providing them with a stable energy source throughout the day. Most of the time these range from foods like eggs and vegetables, to fish or meat, but sometimes these foods are too heavy or warming. This recipe is a nice alternative to my typical recommendations, and is ideally suited to the summer months when the fire element tends to become over-balanced, requiring foods that are less heating in nature.
1 cup whole grain, e.g. brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat (fermented, p. 142)
2 cups water
¼ tsp. salt
1 quarter chopped, medium cucumber
2 handfuls of sprouts, e.g. alfalfa, broccoli, onion
1 finely grated carrot
2 handfuls chopped leafy greens, e.g. arugula, romaine, radicchio
2 tbsp. tahini
1 tsp. tamari
hemp hearts (hulled hemp seeds), as a garnish
Add fermented grain, water and salt to a medium pot, bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook the grain for the required amount of time. Chop all the vegetable ingredients and place into a bowl. When it's done add the hot, freshly cooked grain over top of the raw vegetables. Mix up the tahini and tamari in a measuring cup, and pour over top of the grains, mixing well. The hot grains help cook the raw vegetables, making them more digestible. Garnish with hemp hearts to boost protein and fat content. Serves two.


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For a nice change of pace, XLGirls thought that Gia Johnson would look as sexy by poolside as she does indoors. We asked her to bring a bikini and the result was a giant boner at first sight. Don't you just go nuts over these well-packed lovelies in bikinis and swimsuits? The pigtails added an extra-touch of babe-next-door to Gia's already GND look. We also tried some different poses using the pool railing and had Gia jump so we could freeze her tits in mid-flight. All in all, a beautiful mermaid worthy of your heavy load. "I don't get out to the beach very often but I do like to go to a pool for a few hours. I like outdoor pools better than indoor pools. Yes, I get plenty of stares and guys saying hello to me. That always happens to me if I'm not with a date...and sometimes when I am!" In a bikini like that, Gia's gonna turn lots of heads. What can we say? We're dogs, right? Boob hounds, to be exact.

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an aspect of Warren Buffett's finances not ordinarily discussed:
Warren Buffett's comment that the rich should pay higher taxes, now enshrined by President Barack Obama as the "Buffett Rule," is drawing much applause. What is not being discussed is the billionaire's support for anti-Catholicism. First some background information.
Over several decades, Buffett has spent a fortune funding radical abortion organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood; he has lavishly given money to train a new generation of abortion physicians; he has spent millions to help RU-486 (the abortion-inducing drug) to win FDA approval; and he gave his pro-abortion, population-control friends at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation nearly $31 billion in 2006 for more of the same. There's nothing anti-Catholic about any of this, but when he intentionally seeks to subvert Catholicism by dishonestly funding pro-abortion organizations that have hijacked the Catholic name, that's another story.
To be specific, Buffett has given hundreds of millions over the years to anti-Catholic front groups like Catholics for Choice (formerly Catholics for a Free Choice) and its sister organization in Latin America, Catholics for the Right to Decide. In 2010, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation alone gave $759,822 to the former, and almost $1.7 million to the latter. These letter-head organizations wouldn't exist if they depended on donations from members—they don't have any—they exist because of the likes of Warren Buffett.
If Buffett, or someone like him, were to throw millions upon millions funding Jews for Jesus, what would the Jewish community call him? Now you know why Warren Buffett has earned the tag anti-Catholic.


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Real estate deals may not have impoverished the Northcoast Environmental Center, but they sure didn't help
By now we've all heard plenty of stories about people who bought houses they couldn't afford, at the top of the market and with no money down. Those luckless homeowners, many of them foreclosed upon long ago, will forever be a symbol of this decade's great financial collapse.
Still, there haven't been many stories quite like the Northcoast Environmental Center's. Earlier this month, the legendary Arcata institution underwent a dramatic downsizing, laying off its executive director, moving offices and cutting back production of the Econews, its monthly newspaper. Now it's coming to terms with the fact that it made the same bad real estate decisions so many others did in recent years -- and, worse, that it did so on the backs of its supporters.
On Friday, Pete Nichols, chair of the NEC's board of directors, sounded pleased that the organization is moving past having to worry quite so much about balance sheets, asset management and foreclosure.
"We're using this as the opportunity to get out of the real estate business, and back into conservation," Nichols said.
However, the NEC isn't quite through with its real estate troubles yet. Some local people are a bit on edge right now, wondering when and how they're going to get back the money they loaned to buy the organization its headquarters at 1465 G St. back in 2006.
The Northcoast Environmental Center borrowed a total of $550,000 to finance its purchase of the G Street office, according to deeds of trust filed with the Humboldt County Recorder's Office. All of the money came from local individuals and nonprofits. And though two creditors were paid off with the sale of one of the NEC's two downtown parcels last April -- leaving a total of $350,000 loaned against the G Street property. As of this writing, the NEC has missed payments on the outstanding loans.
"I just have to play it day by day and tell myself it'll work out," said Arcata resident Don Tuttle Wednesday. Tuttle, the county's former director of public works, and his wife Andrea, former head of the California Department of Forestry, loaned the NEC $50,000 in 2006 toward the purchase of the office.
Tuttle said that he first heard that the NEC was seeking money to buy new office space sometime in 2006, while at a fundraiser for a different institution at Baywood Golf and Country Club. Tuttle said that the money requested was "a pretty good chunk of change" for his family, but that he felt it was important that the NEC should survive. After thinking it over, he went to a lawyer's office and signed papers.
"We didn't want to see it completely disappear," he said. "It was the voice in the dark up here in the era when timber was king."
Felicia Oldfather of McKinleyville, who loaned the NEC around $100,000 at about the same time, said last week that she was not concerned about the possibility of the loan going south. "Of course, one likes to get ones money back," she said. "But it's not a loan I would have made, if I was going to be out on the street if I didn't get it back."
In addition to Oldfather and the Tuttles, four other families or individuals and one other nonprofit institution loaned the NEC money for the G Street property. They are Bette and Milt Dobkin ($100,000), Duncan Ralph ($50,000), Bob and Mary Gearheart ($50,000), Steve Gompertz ($100,000) and the Redwood Region Audubon Society ($100,000).
The loans from Gompertz and the Audubon Society, which were packaged together in one note, were paid off in April of this year, upon the sale of one of the two lots that comprised the old NEC offices at Ninth and I streets in Arcata. According to Martin Swett, NEC treasurer, that note was partially secured by the property that was sold, and so had to be paid off in order for the sale to go through. A building at the site was the home of the organization until it was destroyed by fire in 2001.
Right now, the NEC -- which will be moving offices to the Jacoby Storehouse next month -- is looking at ways of getting the other creditors paid back. Swett said that the organization's board of directors is looking to meet with the remaining creditors in the upcoming days to work out an acceptable solution. One positive note: Despite the market crash, the G Street property seems certain to have at least $350,000 of equity remaining in it, which theoretically should be enough to pay back all of the outstanding creditors.
Swett -- who, like Nichols, was not on the organization's board of directors at the time the loans were made -- said that the organization felt a deep obligation to pay them back as soon as possible. "It's not a position we want to be in long term," Swett said. "They've taken care of us, and we want to be sure they're taken care of."
The deal to buy the G Street property didn't look so bad to the board of directors at the time, Swett said. The mortgage payments on the property were slightly less than the rent that the organization was paying on another downtown Arcata temporary location, the former Angelo's pizza parlor on H Street. What really hurt, Nichols said, was the fact that donations and grants dried up dramatically with the onset and deepening of the recession, a situation he doesn't expect will improve anytime soon.
Things may look rough in the short term, both Swett and Nichols said that the organization's mid-term financial stability looks very healthy indeed. The NEC still holds unencumbered title on one piece of property -- the other downtown lot, which used to house half its headquarters. Though the site is badly polluted, Nichols said that the organization is very confident that it will soon secure grants to clean it up.
"Right now, living lean and mean is good for us, but when this property is cleaned up -- say in 2012 or 2013 -- we're going to have damn good reserves," Swett said.
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New Business Models Driving Creative Software Monetization Strategies
2017-09-13 Terry Gaul
"The next generation of software monetization is not just about IP protection nor limited to licensing alternatives (perpetual versus term), but rather about enabling business models that provide additional opportunity for monetization to drive growth."
I found this statement to be a key takeaway from a recent Gartner report, Disruption in Software Business Models Creates New Opportunities for Monetization. This notion is based on several recent trends in the industry:
- The transformation of software licensing models from upfront cost with an add-on maintenance contract to more recurring revenue models, like time-based or feature-based subscriptions.
- The enablement of new pricing scenarios that are more end user friendly and easier for the publisher to manage entitlements.
- The granular ability to track application usage, which paves the way for attractive consumption-based pricing models and provides developers with valuable analytics and insights for next generation products.
Gartner highlighted several assumptions that will drive these future transformations:
- By 2018, 50% of independent software vendors (ISVs) will use concurrent licensing (based on users) as the primary licensing strategy compared with the majority using node-lock models today.
- By 2019, 80% of ISVs will use multiple licensing models (such as consumption/metered services, capacity, node lock and concurrent) for software monetization.
It's interesting to note that similar dynamics are driving transformations in the embedded system market segment as well. According to Gartner, embedded developers should consider that:
- By 2019, 20% of intelligent device manufacturers (IDMs) will move from no protection for embedded software to a node-lock model as the primary software licensing strategy for monetization beyond the hardware.
- By 2020, 15% of Intelligent Device Manufacturers will be exploring/piloting concurrent (based on users) and consumption (metered services) software licensing strategies in order to further monetize on embedded software.
With these industry shifts occurring, embedded device developers are realizing the potential benefits of recurring revenue models for themselves as well. Gartner points out that, for example, a medical device manufacturer, can offer hospitals and medical centers with flexible pricing options that alleviate the high upfront capital equipment cost with a subscription-based model that is more manageable. As a result more customers can access the medical equipment they otherwise could not afford.
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, is a good case in point. The company's digital computed radiography system encompasses the most cutting-edge technology in clinical research, but many small laboratories, orthopedic doctors, and other facilities were hard pressed to afford the upfront investment for hardware and software. To accommodate the needs of the vast low-end market, the company rolled out a time-based licensing model that allows the user to only pay according to the imaging volume they needed, which made the solution more affordable for providers and their patients who could benefit from the state-of-the-art technology while opening up new markets for the company.
As these transformations continue to alter the software licensing and monetization landscape, the next question is what tools are needed and how best to implement these new business models. Do the software publishers and embedded device manufacturers develop and rely upon their own expertise to manage the process or partner with an expert in the field to help them commercialize these models? In the case of Agfa Healthcare, they chose to utilize CodeMeter, Wibu-Systems' proven software security and licensing solution, to help them fulfill their business vision. You can read the full story here.
Terry Gaul
Vice President Sales USA
Terry Gaul is a sales and business development professional with extensive experience in the software and technology sectors. He has been involved with software protection and licensing technologies for more than 20 years and currently serves as Vice President of Sales at Wibu-Systems USA. When he is not helping customers with software licensing, Terry typically can be found coaching his daughters' soccer teams or camping with his family on the Maine coast.


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Formula DRIFT Announces Schedule Change for the Pro Am National Championship;
Event will now be held on November 21 at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale
Long Beach, Calif. – October 1, 2009 – Formula DRIFT has announced a schedule and venue change for the 2009 Pro Am National Championship. The event will now take place on November 21 at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
The top amateur drivers from the United States and Canada will meet at the infamous "House of Drift," at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. This will be the first time that a Pro Am competition of this level will take place at this location. The rising stars of drifting will be discovered and compete for their chance to earn a Formula DRIFT Pro Championship license. Current professional drivers that made their way up through the Pro Am circuit include Justin Pawlak, Ryan Tuerck, Joon Maeng, and Matt Powers.
"Bringing the FD Pro Am National Championship to Irwindale is not only very cool, but very symbolic as well," said Jim Liaw, president and co-founder of Formula DRIFT. "Never has a Pro Am competition of this magnitude and importance been held at Irwindale before. And to top it off Irwindale is the birthplace of American professional drifting, back in 2003 when Ryan and I brought D1 outside of Japan for the first time."
Tickets for the Pro Am National Championship will go on sale on October 17, the same day as Round 7: Judgment Day the final event of the 6th season of the Formula DRIFT Pro Championship. Online tickets can be purchased on the Formula DRIFT website. For more information, visit: www.formuladrift.com.
Formula DRIFT Pro AM National Championship Invited Drivers List
Driver Name / Series Qualified From
Brian Peter Formula DRIFT Atlanta
Dan Willie Formula DRIFT Atlanta
Jason Jiovani Formula DRIFT Atlanta
Tom Barnhart Formula DRIFT Atlanta
Forrest Wang Formula DRIFT Las Vegas
Johnny Kanavas Formula DRIFT Las Vegas
Roland Gallagher Formula DRIFT Las Vegas
Andrew Coomes Formula DRIFT Las Vegas
Cyrus Martinez Formula DRIFT Seattle
Victor Moore Formula DRIFT Seattle
Ian Fournier Formula DRIFT Seattle
Trent Stromkins Formula DRIFT Seattle
Kohei Nakamura DMCC West
Chris Scremin DMCC West
Robert Parsons DMCC West
David Briggs DMCC East
Ryan Lanteigne DMCC East
Claude Poirier DMCC East
Russell Walker HIN Texas
Ameen Rizvi HIN Texas
Gary James HIN Florida
Charlie Thompson HIN Florida
Derek King HIN Chicago
Mike Pollard HIN Chicago
John Johnson HIN Chicago
Note: In addition to the listed drivers, all current Formula DRIFT Pro License holders that do not meet the minimum points for automatic renewal will be invited to this competition. Alternates and additional drivers will be added to the list pending the results of upcoming Pro Am events.


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The nation of Israel is galloping blindly toward Bar Kochba's war on the Roman Empire. The result of that conflict was 2,000 years of exile
By Shabtai Shavit | Nov. 24, 2014 | Haaretz
From the beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel has been growing stronger in terms of demography and territory, despite the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. We have succeeded in doing so because we have acted with wisdom and stratagem rather than engaging in a foolish attempt to convince our foes that we were in the right.
Today, for the first time since I began forming my own opinions, I am truly concerned about the future of the Zionist project.
I am concerned about the critical mass of the threats against us on the one hand, and the government's blindness and political and strategic paralysis on the other. Although the State of Israel is dependent upon the United States, the relationship between the two countries has reached an unprecedented low point. Europe, our biggest market, has grown tired of us and is heading toward imposing sanctions on us. For China, Israel is an attractive high-tech project, and we are selling them our national assets for the sake of profit. Russia is gradually turning against us and supporting and assisting our enemies.
Anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel have reached dimensions unknown since before World War II. Our public diplomacy and public relations have failed dismally, while those of the Palestinians have garnered many important accomplishments in the world. University campuses in the West, particularly in the U.S., are hothouses for the future leadership of their countries. We are losing the fight for support for Israel in the academic world. An increasing number of Jewish students are turning away from Israel. The global BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel, which works for Israel's delegitimization, has grown, and quite a few Jews are members.
In this age of asymmetrical warfare we are not using all our force, and this has a detrimental effect on our deterrent power.
The debate over the price of Milky pudding snacks and its centrality in public discourse demonstrate an erosion of the solidarity that is a necessary condition for our continued existence here. Israelis' rush to acquire a foreign passport, based as it is on the yearning for foreign citizenship, indicates that people's feeling of security has begun to crack.
I am concerned that for the first time, I am seeing haughtiness and arrogance, together with more than a bit of the messianic thinking that rushes to turn the conflict into a holy war. If this has been, so far, a local political conflict that two small nations have been waging over a small and defined piece of territory, major forces in the religious Zionist movement are foolishly doing everything they can to turn it into the most horrific of wars, in which the entire Muslim world will stand against us.
I also see, to the same extent, detachment and lack of understanding of international processes and their significance for us. This right wing, in its blindness and stupidity, is pushing the nation of Israel into the dishonorable position of "the nation shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the nations" (Numbers 23:9).
I am concerned because I see history repeating itself.
The nation of Israel is galloping blindly in a time tunnel to the age of Bar Kochba and his war on the Roman Empire. The result of that conflict was several centuries of national existence in the Land of Israel followed by 2,000 years of exile.
I am concerned because as I understand matters, exile is truly frightening only to the state's secular sector, whose world view is located on the political center and left. That is the sane and liberal sector that knows that for it, exile symbolizes the destruction of the Jewish people. The Haredi sector lives in Israel only for reasons of convenience. In terms of territory, Israel and Brooklyn are the same to them; they will continue living as Jews in exile, and wait patiently for the arrival of the Messiah.
The religious Zionist movement, by comparison, believes the Jews are "God's chosen." This movement, which sanctifies territory beyond any other value, is prepared to sacrifice everything, even at the price of failure and danger to the Third Commonwealth. If destruction should take place, they will explain it in terms of faith, saying that we failed because "We sinned against God." Therefore, they will say, it is not the end of the world. We will go into exile, preserve our Judaism and wait patiently for the next opportunity.
I recall Menachem Begin, one of the fathers of the vision of Greater Israel.
He fought all his life for the fulfillment of that dream. And then, when the gate opened for peace with Egypt, the greatest of our enemies, he gave up Sinai – Egyptian territory three times larger than Israel's territory inside the Green Line – for the sake of peace. In other words, some values are more sacred than land. Peace, which is the life and soul of true democracy, is more important than land.
I am concerned that large segments of the nation of Israel have forgotten, or put aside, the original vision of Zionism: to establish a Jewish and democratic state for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. No borders were defined in that vision, and the current defiant policy is working against it.
What can and ought to be done?
We need to create an Archimedean lever that will stop the current deterioration and reverse today's reality at once. I propose creating that lever by using the Arab League's proposal from 2002, which was partly created by Saudi Arabia. The government must make a decision that the proposal will be the basis of talks with the moderate Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The government should do three things as preparation for this announcement:
- It should define a future negotiating strategy for itself, together with its position on each of the topics included in the Arab League's proposal.
- It should open a secret channel of dialogue with the United States to examine the idea, and agree in advance concerning our red lines and about the input that the U.S. will be willing to invest in such a process.
- It should open a secret American-Israeli channel of dialogue with Saudi Arabia in order to reach agreements with it in advance on the boundaries of the topics that will be raised in the talks and coordinate expectations. Once the secret processes are completed, Israel will announce publicly that it is willing to begin talks on the basis of the Arab League's document.
I have no doubt that the United States and Saudi Arabia, each for its own reasons, will respond positively to the Israeli initiative, and the initiative will be the lever that leads to a dramatic change in the situation.
With all the criticism I have for the Oslo process, it cannot be denied that for the first time in the conflict's history, immediately after the Oslo Accords were signed, almost every Arab country started talking with us, opened its gates to us and began engaging in unprecedented cooperative ventures in economic and other fields.
Although I am not so naïve as to think that such a process will bring the longed-for peace, I am certain that this kind of process, long and fatiguing as it will be, could yield confidence-building measures at first and, later on, security agreements that both sides in the conflict will be willing to live with.
The progress of the talks will, of course, be conditional upon calm in the security sphere, which both sides will be committed to maintaining. It may happen that as things progress, both sides will agree to look into mutual compromises that will promote the idea of coexisting alongside one another. If mutual trust should develop – and the chances of that happening under American and Saudi Arabian auspices are fairly high – it will be possible to begin talks for the conflict's full resolution as well.
An initiative of this kind requires true and courageous leadership, which is hard to identify at the moment. But if the prime minister should internalize the severity of the mass of threats against us at this time, the folly of the current policy, the fact that this policy's creators are significant elements in the religious Zionist movement and on the far right, and its devastating results – up to the destruction of the Zionist vision – then perhaps he will find the courage and determination to carry out the proposed action.
I wrote the above statements because I feel that I owe them to my parents, who devoted their lives to the fulfillment of Zionism; to my children, my grandchildren and to the nation of Israel, which I served for decades.
The author is a former director general of the Mossad.


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Since Dr Malcolm Peet, a consultant psychiatrist at Sheffield swallow court hospital released his findings about the effects of Ethyl Epa and its effects on people suffering from depression and low moods, many other studies have been performed using Ethyl Epa to help treat depression and related disorders. The vast majority of the studies that have been performed consistently confirmed that Ethyl Epa, a natural substance found in omega 3 fish oil, helps relieve depression and low moods.
The idea that high grade omega 3 EPA could be used to help combat depression and other related disorders came from the late Dr Horribin, who as early as the 1970s was a pioneer in lipid research involving the brain and central nervous system. Since the findings at Sheffield, studies have been conducted round the world, Harvard university 1999, London Hammersmith hospital 2001 and Israel Ben Gurion University 2002 to name but a few.
EPA As Part Of A Healthy Diet
EPA is part of the Omega 3 chain of ecosanoids and is most commonly found in fatty fish such as fresh salmon, mackerel, pilchards and sardines. Over the past 100 years the diet patterns of most people in the west has shifted dramatically to include far more hydrogenated oils and Trans fatty acids (bad fats) this is largely due to the increased consumption of fast food and ready made meals. Even people who think they eat a healthy diet consume way too much omega 6 and not enough omega 3.
Researchers have recently found that a diet high in Tran's fatty acids could affect the mood stabilizing hormones within the brain, this is thought to be due to the saturated fats slowing down the messaging system within the brain, should this happen then the onset of depression could occur.
How Does EPA Work?
While the benefits of high grade EPA have been well documented, the scientific community still don't know exactly how EPA works on the brain, one theory released by Dr Basant Puri is that it eases the passage of the signals over the tiny gaps in the brain called synapses. Another theory was that the high Grade Epa actually worked similar to lithium and had anti depressant properties of its own.
Until recently it was widely accepted in the medical community that once a human reached maturity that the adult brain could not grow anymore, in a recent paper just released by Dr Puri his findings show other wise. Dr Puri scanned a 21 year patient before treating him with high grade Pure Epa, after the course of treatment he rescanned the young man only to find that the grey matter of the brain had increased in size.
Click here for more information on 6 Steps on How to Pick the Perfect Website Hosting for your Business needs. Or click here if you're looking for information on Best Teikametrics Review 2022As well as EPA being very good for helping to balance mood it has other well documented effects on the body, these included:-
Blood thinning properties
Decrease risk of heart attack
Decrease growth rate of atherosclerotic plaque
Slightly lower blood pressure
There is also some limited scientific evidence to show that high grade EPA has helped people suffering from:-
Bipolar disorder
Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME
Huntington's disease
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Although more research needs to be done in these areas, the current evidence looks very promising.
EPA Versus DHA
Omega 3 fish oil contains another omega 3 nutrient called DHA, there is a currently a controversial argument as to which omega 3 nutrient is the more beneficial in dealing with depression and related disorders. This Argument is born from doctors who have used high grade Epa , Horribin, Puri and Peet They claim that the higher the ratio of Epa to Dha the more effective the results have been, just recently Dr Andrew Stoll has also come out in support of this theory.
EPA From Food
Any good doctor or nutritionist will tell you that the best way to get any nutrient is to eat a very balanced diet of the correct amount of carbohydrates , protein and omega essential fatty acids. In the case of Omega 3 epa this would be in the form of fish, unfortunately due to the high concentration levels of epa needed to obtain a therapeutic dose you would have to consume a large amount of oily fish daily and sadly due to the pollution levels found in our oceans today this is not advisable.
Omega 3 Epa can also be found in high doses in certain fish oil supplements, when choosing a fish oil supplement you should choose only the fish oil of the highest quality it should also have as high an EPA to DHA ratio as possible,for maximum therapeutic effect.
The large majority of scientific trails using high grade Omega 3 Ethyl Epa point towards this natural oil being very beneficial for many conditions. The argument about the DHA rages on and probably will until some solid scientific evidence is presented to us .In the mean time a product with a high EPA to DHA ratio is considered more beneficial by some leading UK doctors.


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300,000 People Could Lose Their Obamacare If They Don't Prove Their Residency
Individuals have until September 5 to send complete information to the government.
More than 300,000 Obamacare enrollees have yet to provide information on their legal residency or citizenship, according to the government . Those individuals have until September 5 to send complete information to the government before losing coverage on September 30.
Where residency information is still needed. (Note: the data only includes federal exchange states.) Via HHS
According the data provided by the government, in May 970,000 people had citizenship data errors in their Obamacare applications. As of August, 450,000 of those cases have been resolved, 210,000 are in progress and 60,000 new documents arrive every day. The 310,000 remaining applicants will receive two more phone calls and one more email.
In June the Associated Press reported that 2 million enrollees were missing information on immigration, citizenship and income that could jeopardize their subsidies and insurance plans. At the time the Department of Health and Human Services expected that most the of inconsistencies would be cleared up by the end of the summer.
Critics of the health care law have noted that the government doesn't have a system in place to verify information it receives from consumers. Last month the Government Accountability Office was able to gain subsidized health insurance for 11 out of 18 fake accounts . The government has argued that a data inconsistency doesn't mean there's a problem with the application. As The New York Times noted earlier this summer, consumers often run into problems uploading files to Healthcare.gov, or are asked to send in files they've already sent.


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I discovered there is a small muscle that lays buried behind your knee, the popliteus. This little guy gets pissed off on the trails of Texas hill country. It put me out for 2 months. Lesson learned? don't run in Texas.
I discovered that doing planks daily gives you a cute little 4-pack. I like 4-packs. Maybe one day I'll have a sixer :)
I discovered that Leadville iiiiiiiiiiis...something. What word am I looking for here?...oh, yes, a beeyotch! But it was the best training of my life thus far. Lesson learned? train in fear, and even if you don't achieve your first goal, you'll find a second goal and totally rock it.
I discovered that I didn't actually need to be wearing orthotics. Cool. That saves me $500!
I discovered that I can handle elevation quite well. I just couldn't handle Hope Pass a second time, this time around.
I discovered my love for Geof only continues to grow more everyday. And that's a pretty neat thing. Turns out, he feels the same way and on November 19th he decided he wanted to ask if I'd like to spend the rest of my life with him. Sweet! Of course!! So now we can go ahead and assume that 2011 is going to be even more rocking than 2010. I can't wait to start our lives together, officially!
I discovered that La Sportiva is my favorite shoemaker in the wide world. For now. I seem to be fairly fickle in my shoe love, but my Sporties managed to capture my heart for all of 2010, and that's pretty amazing.
The discovery of, and continued adoration of, a few of my Favorite Things has left its mark on my 2010. Wilderness Running Company is my favorite trail running resource, both for gear and for information. They rock. Atayne continues to be the apple of my eye. The future looks bright for Atayne and I'm looking forward to their continued growth as a company that makes good and does good in the world. La Sportiva Wildcats are the love of my shoe closet life. *Long contented sign* My recent discovery of Icebreaker has shaken my world. IB is something every runner/active person needs in their closet :) RecoFit makes top notch compression and it's the only sleeve I'll wear. Susan (the brains behind RecoFit) is a seriously awesome lady with a really amazing product. Nuff said. And what Favorite Things List can be complete without Drymax? Happy feet make a very happy runner :)
Let's see, oh, yes, I discovered how awesome a gal fellow blogger Gretchen is. I was honored and stoked to have her along to crew and pace me at Rio Del Lago 100 this year and couldn't be happier with the whole experience. I still have yet to lose those two toenails, by the way. The new nails have already started to grow in and push the old ones up, so it's just lots of trimming for now. I'm a huge whussy and refuse to rip them off :) Nice visual, eh?
I learned some things about myself this year, too. Like that I was (WARNING: very dramatic statement follows!) terrified of dying climbing back up Hope Pass, and terrified of the failure that came with such a demise. I didn't die, obviously, but I was such a sobbing slobbery mess that at the moment my wristband was snipped off I sorta felt like death was more appealing. I did learn, however, that in the face of failure I can rise above and extract the silver lining. Of course, that didn't come without a short spell of total self-pity first (and a lot of snot).
I learned that failure lights a serious fire under my ass and that I could probably solve all the world's problems if I was a constant failure. Thank goodness that's not the case; how stressful would that be?! ;)
I've learned that all good things come in good time. Being a good person and believing in the basic goodness of others makes you feel really warm and fuzzy. Suddenly the world doesn't seem so scary when you decide that it isn't. It helps to not read/watch/listen to the news. Actually, that is a very vital part of this equation :)
Amazing Grass's Berry SuperFood makes my world go 'round. A couple months ago, Geof and I decided to give it a try, and now we have it in our fruit smoothies most every morning. I notice it on days we have missed it (when we're out of town...but they do have little travel packets for those occasions!). I love the stuff. I'm learning the value of a truly balanced diet, and incorporating more whole foods and fresh foods.
I learned that I am an overly cautious person in my running. Not every little ache and pain is a limb about to fall off, a bone about to snap, or a tendon about to explode. When you get to the point that you'd actually consider inviting your chiropractor and sports medicine doc to your wedding, you know you have a problem. I had to cut myself off and tell myself to stop being such a candyass. "Suck it up!" I am happy to announce that it has been over two months since I've gotten any ART treatments :) Thank you, thank you.
One of the many wonderful gifts of 2010 has been the friendship of two very awesome people. I met Brian and Kelly, aka the "Brelly", when I joined the CHUGs back in early 2009. This year there was hardly a race run, experience shared, or laugh had without the Brelly. We traveled to Rocky Raccoon together in February, had the honor of attending their wedding in May, experiencing Leadville in August, and the absolute stoke of sharing in Brian's conquering of the 100 mile distance in September (and those are just some highlights). I'm looking forward to all that 2011 holds and sharing all sorts of new and different life experiences together. Life is so much better with amazing friends to share it with.
Well I believe I started my 2010 with a mileage goal in mind. It was a tad lofty for me, but I also wasn't intending on missing out on over two months of running due to injury (some of February, March and April). Ah well, life, lemons, lemonade and all that. I came back much stronger, and lots more balanced :)
After tallying it all up I come away with a new personal best, surpassing my 2009 mileage by a bit: 1,341.5 miles...precisely 259 hours of wonderful time spent doing nothing but running. Only 340 of those total miles were race miles, which is a HUGE change from 2009 (which had something like 800 or so miles spent racing of ~1,314 total miles for the year. Wow). So, that means I spent waaaaaaaaaay more time training this year...and that is a very good thing for this lady :)
Goodness, what a truly incredible and exciting year 2010 was. But seriously, 2011 is going to trump it. I can tell you that now!
And now for a quick shot of one of my favorite pictures from the year:
2011, you look good!


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Me, at present
I'm presently working for CMGdigital hacking on a truly massive Django app. I've been at CMGdigital since I graduated from SPSU with a Computer Science degree in May 2011.
Before studying at SPSU, I spent 2008 working full time in IT and self-studying lisp at night.
Some of the reasoning behind that decision is here.
Prior to 2008, my academic history includes a semester at Southern Polytechnic State University in Fall 07 studying CS and three years at Oglethorpe University studying Literature and Economics. I'm an Oglethorpe Kid at heart.
Other Things I Do
I write a blog, discussing a curiously strong blend of poetry, music, software, and my personal life.
I write code with the hopes of really understanding programming one day. These days my code exists on github where I contribute to others' open source projects as well as my own.
I listen to tons of music and enjoy working on crazy playlists. I've even had a few of my proper mixtapes played on WREK 91.1fm public radio.
I maintain a twitter account that I check fairly frequently.
I even have one of those silly Facebook accounts.
I started a LinkedIn account a while back which is completely unmaintained. I do, however, have a resume if that's what you're after.
I enjoy playing blues guitar and occasionally even doodle a little in my "studio".
What about this moth-eaten stuff?
Before leaving for SPSU, I was causing trouble at Oglethorpe reading all the books in the library that weren't assigned reading and generally using up huge amounts of bandwidth. I maintain that OU is a really good place to be and I frequent the campus a lot.
I'm a very diligent worker and I get really excited about computers.
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended North Atlanta High where I was generally miserable and causing trouble.
If you want to know about anything before that, you're definitely going to have to take me out for coffee to get it out of me.


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Proper agile project planning and management is the foundation of agile analytics. Unlike conventional project management methods, agile requires a highly adaptive and evolutionary approach that delivers chunks of value to the business every few weeks for feedback and acceptance. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Agility calls for planning for what you know today and being prepared to adjust in the face of change and uncertainty.
Agile analytics planning is a highly collaborative process that includes long-range BI/DW road mapping to establish future vision; short horizon planning of near-term delivery projects; and detailed iteration planning so the team will know how to get started.
This course will walk you through typical collaborative BI program road-mapping, project chartering and planning sessions to introduce you to a set of effective practices for facilitating collaboration between technical team members, end users, and management stakeholders.
You Will Learn
- Chartering and planning an agile BI/DW project using the agile project management framework
- The agile project community, including roles and responsibilities
- Coordinating an effective and collaborative program road-mapping session
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- Estimating and prioritizing agile BI/DW projects onto a program backlog
- Limiting the number of projects in process for faster and better delivery of each project in the backlog
- Writing effective user stories for agile BI/DW projects
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The kids at Fairview High do a noble job of singing and a much more ambitious job dancing than a lot of other high schools I've seen do "September" on Youtube. But, as the Grand Pooh Bah of Kitsch, the standout for me is the performance by the horn section. Either someone didn't do their homework before they came to band practice or they're just plain tone deaf. What it really sounds like to me is that the horn players got the big riffs down after the choruses and just figured they could coast through the single note accents. Which would have been fine had they managed to find the key. Far be it for me to not encourage someone to go farther in music because they're un-schooled. I still don't know how to read, notate or play a note of music, including "September" and anything else I've written, so I'm all in favor of doing it just for the love of it. I'm just sayin', the horns are a standout, wayyyyy stand out.
For a more through exploration of my "365 Days Of September" mission as well as details of how the song was written, go here. Until tomorrow, ba-de-ya!


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1. Wash 250g of sushi rice in cold water, and drain, next cover the washed rice with cold water and leave to stand for 20 minutes, drain and rinse then add the rice to 400ml of cold water in a pan and bring to the boil.
2. Reduce the heat, and cover, simmer for ten minutes, or until the water has been absorbed, remove from the heat and cool, (not under water). When cool flavour with two tblsp rice vinegar and two tblsp sugar. Keep cool until needed.
To make the sushi:
3. Make a small ball of rice in your hands and then squeeze on to two fingers, then place the prepared fish thinly sliced on the top.
4. For a slightly toasted flavour on this Nigiri singe the rice with a blowtorch before placing the prepared fish on the top and smoking it in the apple wood.
For the Mackeral:
5. Take your very fresh and humanly killed Mackerel, washing the outer skin well in cold running water.
6. Place the whole fish on the board and with a sharp filleting knife lift the pectoral fin just behind the gills, then cut down to the bone and twist the knife so it is parallel with the board, holding your knife at a slight angle, (preventing the knife digging in) in one swift movement cut to the tail; removing the fillet, turn the fish over and repeat.
7. Once both fillets have been removed lay the fillets skin side down and remove the belly bones then cut small strips from the fillets 1cm by 3cm, place these in the mild vinegar to marinade for 1 hour before placing it on the top of the chilled sushi rice.
For the Pea Veloute:
8. Melt the butter in a heavy-based pan.
9. Dice the shallot as small as you can and cook it without colour in the butter slowly for about ten minutes until it is translucent.
10. Add milk, stock and cream and bring to the boil.
11. Once boiling then add the frozen peas and blend the soup until silky smooth.
12. Pass through a fine sieve and season with salt to taste. Chill the soup in a bowl over ice to retain the vibrant green colour.
To finish the dish:
13. Place the smoked Nigiri in the centre of the bowl; and surround this with the light pea Voluté drizzle with sage oil and the sour cream sprinkle with pea sprouts and top with caviar. And a little cepe dust ro finish.


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Rites in honour of Tiberinus and Gaia — not a lot is known about these rites; Tiberinus had a temple on the Tiber island and presided over the Tiber (of course); Gaia seems to have originally given the Campus Martius (a.k.a. Campus Tiberinus) to the Roman people.
65 B.C. — birth of the poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)


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These sessions feature channeling from sources who identify themselves as members of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. Unlike the Ra sessions, these sources are channeled in the conscious state. They include Q'uo, Hatonn, Latwii and others. The content is metaphysical and spiritual in nature. The format is often Q&A, where the source responds to questions from the group.
A library of over 1,700 transcripts, here you will find the vast majority of L/L Research's channeling, a service that continues to the present day.


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Many of the photos I've taken in the past few years have been posted to Flickr. Here are some of my favorites of those. You can go to Flickr to see the rest.
Some other things I like: Neon Signs
You might also be interested in my video series David's Pointless Minute.
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So today I started making a list of things my own kids (Gomer and Adolpha) say. Of course, they weren't their normal hilarious selves once I started keeping track. Luckily, my friend's kids (Clarence, Boris, Malachai, Eugenie and Olympia) came to the rescue.
As always, this is a work in progress so be sure to add the sh*t you've heard kids say to the comments.
1. Mommy, I can't walk any further. My legs are out of power.
2. What is a chicken nugget? Is it chicken or cow?
3. Mommy, your hair looks like fur.
4. Mom, could you even see me? 'Cause I was running like a firebolt!
5. Mommy, can't we please have another baby? I promise I'll be nice to this one!
6. Who wants to play puppy tag? What's puppy tag? Y'know, it's like tag only we're puppies.
7. Gomer, what did you learn at school today? Nothin'.
8. I'm too dizzy to clean up my room.
9. Dagnabbit is for kids to say. Goddammit, is just for you, Mom. That's right, Boris.
10. Do any of your parents use the bank drive thru to get money? No, but that's how we get our fries!
11. Mommy, can you sing the ABCs for me and I'm going to write them while you sing? A, B, C, D, E, F, G - Wait, wait a minute, too fast. Did you say A?
12. MOM! Yes, Malachai? My friend Adolpha's grandma was our mystery reader and she gave us Chinese New Year candy. It was so good and mom did you ever talk to Adolpha's mom about the chicken and rice she gave us? It was so good. I want you to cook that. Oh mom, I told her it was my favorite. Oh mom, can you go find that? Oh mom, can I go play with Adolpha one day and John can play with Gomer? He's Adolpha's little brother oh I mean maybe he is her big brother. OK, goodnight.
13. Adolpha and I were thinking. You should get some Pajama Jeans and a Forever Lazy - you would like both of those things. Or the Wonder File, it would really clean up your desk if you had one of those.
14. Daddy, is Nationwide on our side? Nooo. Oh, so we must have a good neighbor like State Farm. Time to turn off the TV, Gomer.
15. We're rich, because we're a little nerdy and Daddy says nerds have all the money.
16. I like to fart in the car and gross everyone out because it is funny.
17. Dad, I'm not playing games with you...now send mom up to tuck me into bed.
18. Mom, did God make us in China?
19. Mom, the laundry basket looks like a volcano. I think it's time to do some laundry.
20. Hey Mom, you know the word "duck?" Yes. If you take the "d" and make it an "f" you get "fuck." OKayyy. Where did you learn that, Gomer? The kid across the street told me. He said it's bad though and I shouldn't say it. Whoops. Is he right?
21. Mom, I have a new rule for the house: I will help you. I will undress Eugenie every day and you will pay me for it.
22. You don't have to worry about how you look, Mom. Everybody is a little fat.
23. When I'm five I can have beer. Five means beer. Says who, Clarence?
24. Mommy, your china has a mustache.
25. Mommy, is that what you're going to wear to my school when you pick me up?
26. Daddy, you're HUGE! (5 year old boy to his naked father. Needless to say, Dad felt pretty good for the rest of the day.)
27. Daddy, why is his so much bigger than yours? (Same 5 year old boy in the locker room at the pool.)
28. Umm....don't you think you should wear something else? You always wear that hat!
29. Hey Mom, you know Reginald, that kid in my class who's always bugging me? Yes. Well, today he said Your mom thinks I'm a jerk. What did you say? I just said, Ummm...kinda.
30. But Mommy, why can't I wear this to school?
The real Gomer in an outfit inspired by Vikings, Ninjas, & Pirates topped off with a fishing hat. |


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Paul Eugene GILLMOR, Congress, OH (1939-2007)
GILLMOR Paul Eugene , a Representative from Ohio; born in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, February 1, 1939; graduated from Old Fort High School, Old Fort, Ohio, 1957; B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1961; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1964; United States Air Force, 1965-1966; lawyer, private practice; member of the Ohio state senate, 1967-1988, minority leader, 1978-1980, 1983-1984, and president, 1981-1982, 1985-1988; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Governor of Ohio in 1986; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred First and to the nine succeeding Congresses, served until his death on September 5, 2007. (January 3, 1989-September 5, 2007).
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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Using an iPod
The iPod is a well-designed device that is easy to controlonce you understand its controls and how they work. Because the iPod is likely quite different from other devices you have used, it can take a little time to get totally comfortable controlling one. That's where this chapter comes in. Whether you have an iPod or an iPod mini, you'll learn about the iPod's controls and how to use them. You'll also come to know (and love) the iPod's menu structure and the major screens with which you will deal. You'll get into the details of using all these controls and screens in subsequent chapters.
In this chapter, you'll learn the specific controls on each type of iPod that you use to perform certain actions. Throughout the rest of this part of the book, I'll refer to the action in general and expect that you know which control to use for your model of iPod. For example, I'll explain where the Play button is on both types of iPods, but in later chapters, I'll just write that you should press the Play button without telling you where it is on each model.
In this chapter
- Connect an iPod to headphones or speakers so you can hear its music.
- Turn an iPod on and learn about its controls.
- Do the same for an iPod mini.
- Tour the iPod's menus and screens.
- Light up your iPod's world with the Backlight.
- Turn an iPod off.
Getting Ready to Play
In order to hear the music that is stored on your iPod, you must attach a sound output device to it. The most common one you might think of is the earbud headphones that were included in the package.
To use these, you connect the mini-jack on the earbud cable to the Headphones port located on the top of the iPod (see Figure 3.1). When you do so, you'll hear any sound coming from the iPod through the earbuds.
Figure 3.1 The top of an iPod is where you plug in headphones, speakers, or other audio output devices.
Although you are likely to use earbuds or other headphones with an iPod, those are certainly not the only audio output devices through which you can play an iPod's music. Following are some other devices you might want to use to play your iPod's music:
Powered speakersYou can connect a set of powered speakers to the Headphones port to play your iPod's music on those speakers. For example, you can use any set of computer speakers to create a mini stereo system.
FM TransmitterYou can connect an FM transmitter to the Headphones port to broadcast your iPod's output over FM. You can then tune into your iPod's music on an FM tuner, such as the one in your car or home stereo system. You'll learn about these devices in Chapter 7, "Rocking Your World with iPod Accessories."
Home or Car StereoYou can use various cables and connectors to connect the Headphones port to an input port on a home stereo receiver, a car stereo, or boom box to play your iPod's music over one of these devices. You'll learn how to do this in Chapter 8, "Using an iPod with a Home Stereo or Car Stereo."
If you connect a set of unamplified speakers, you aren't likely to hear very much if anything. The iPod doesn't put out enough power to drive a set of unpowered speakers.
On the top of the iPod, you'll also see the iPod Remote port in which you connect a remote control (you'll learn about these in later chapters). And, you'll also see the Hold switch, which you'll learn about later in this chapter.
If you have an iPod, read the section "Controlling an iPod" on this page. If you have an iPod mini, skip to the section "Controlling an iPod Mini." If you have both, well, read both of these sections.


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I managed to find a Starbucks, but I swear it's following me everywhere I go!! To be honest, I don't like Starbucks because I think their coffee tastes like someone burned the beans. However I do like Seattle's Best and I managed to find one in Seattle - just across from Pike's Place Market. I also managed to reacquaint myself with the great Microbrewries that Seattle has. I also like the small glasses you can get so you can try all of the various offerings and still remain upright.
Anyway, on to the technical part of our show. I managed to run around the show floor a bit more on this last day! I stopped by the AMD booth which is a great way to see what people are doing because AMD's booth consists of a whole bunch of other companies showing their AMD specific stuff in the booth. Lots of fun!! I also stopped by the Verari and Penguin booths which I'll summarize more below.
AMD Booth
AMD had a number of companies in their booth. They had a neat pillar with a bunch of motherboards from various companies. Some of the boards had HTX slots (Hyper Transport eXtension) and some had dual sockets and quad sockets. One also had lots of DIMMs slots per socket (up to 8 in one case) which screams lots of memory.
PSSC Labs was showing a liquid cooled 1U server node that was very quiet. The key is that they are using small fans that run at about 6,000 rpm (the usual 1U fans run at about 12,000 to 13,000 rpm). Very sweet. Should be out later in 2006.
Penguin Computing was showing THE BEST bar none, desktop cluster I've seen. They have taken their Blade Runner 4U rack mount and turned it vertical and slightly repackaged it. In the AMD booth they had a 12 node, dual socket, dual core machine with GigE running Fluent. That makes, 48 cores in a single box that can fit underneath your desk. I'm not sure of the power or cooling requirements of the box, but this machine is simply amazing!!! I'll write more about in an SC05 wrapup article and I hope to have some picture if Penguin will let me publish them. :)
Verari had one of their blades on display in the AMD booth as well. It's a very nice blade that takes a COTS motherboard and turns it vertically along with a hard drive and power supply. Their rack then takes the blades and connects them to power and communication. Very nice setup I must say.
It's a quick blog I know, but I want to save more of the details for the SC05 wrapup. :)


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Warner's American Sniper grossed $5.02 million on Tuesday to lead the daily box office for a twelfth consecutive day. The blockbuster Clint Eastwood directed film starring Bradley Cooper was up 20 percent over Monday and down a sizable 49 percent from last Tuesday. American Sniper has grossed a massive $209.60 million after twelve days of wide release. That places the film an extremely impressive 58 percent ahead of the $132.53 million twelve-day take of 2013's Gravity. Given the magnitude of its grosses and its continued strong holding power, American Sniper looks like it will have no problem remaining in first place over the upcoming weekend.
The Boy Next Door held steady in second place with $1.22 million. The Jennifer Lopez led thriller from Universal was up a very healthy 49 percent over Monday. The Boy Next Door has grossed $16.95 million in five days, which is towards the higher end of pre-release expectations and represents a good start, especially with the film's low production budget in mind. The Boy Next Door is running 20.5 percent ahead of the $14.07 million five-day take of 2010's The Back-Up Plan.
Sony's The Wedding Ringer took in $0.973 million to remain in third. The modestly budgeted comedy starring Kevin Hart and Josh Gad was up 42 percent over Monday and down 43 percent from last Tuesday. The Wedding Ringer has grossed $41.04 million in twelve days. The film is currently running 4 percent ahead of the $39.42 million twelve-day take of last year's About Last Night.
The Weinstein Company's The Imitation Game was up one spot and an impressive 54 percent over Monday to take fourth on Tuesday with $0.749 million. The Best Picture nominee starring Benedict Cumberbatch was up 4 percent over last Tuesday. The Imitation Game continues to display strong holding power and has grossed a healthy $61.69 million to date.
Fellow Weinstein Company release Paddington was down one spot from Monday to round out Tuesday's top five with $0.669 million. The well received family film was up 27 percent over Monday and down just 34 percent from last Tuesday. Paddington has grossed $41.13 million in twelve days. That places the film a slim 1 percent below the $41.58 million twelve-day take of last year's The Nut Job.
Lionsgate's Mortdecai and Disney's Strange Magic continued their poor starts with respective eighth place and ninth place grosses of $0.404 million and $0.304 million. Strange Magic has only managed $6.03 million in five days, while the five-day start for Mortdecai stands at an even softer $4.88 million. Both films will obviously disappear from theatres quickly.


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By Sir James George Frazer
From The Golden Bough [1922]
THE READER may remember that we were led to plunge into the labyrinth of magic by a consideration of two different types of man-god. This is the clue which has guided our devious steps through the maze, and brought us out at last on higher ground, whence, resting a little by the way, we can look back over the path we have already traversed and forward to the longer and steeper road we have still to climb.
As a result of the foregoing discussion, the two types of human gods may conveniently be distinguished as the religious and the magical man-god respectively. In the former, a being of an order different from and superior to man is supposed to become incarnate, for a longer or a shorter time, in a human body, manifesting his super-human power and knowledge by miracles wrought and prophecies uttered through the medium of the fleshly tabernacle in which he has deigned to take up his abode. This may also appropriately be called the inspired or incarnate type of man-god. In it the human body is merely a frail earthly vessel filled with a divine and immortal spirit. On the other hand, a man-god of the magical sort is nothing but a man who possesses in an unusually high degree powers which most of his fellows arrogate to themselves on a smaller scale; for in rude society there is hardly a person who does not dabble in magic. Thus, whereas a man-god of the former or inspired type derives his divinity from a deity who has stooped to hide his heavenly radiance behind a dull mask of earthly mould, a man-god of the latter type draws his extraordinary power from a certain physical sympathy with nature. He is not merely the receptacle of a divine spirit. His whole being, body and soul, is so delicately attuned to the harmony of the world that a touch of his hand or a turn of his head may send a thrill vibrating through the universal framework of things; and conversely his divine organism is acutely sensitive to such slight changes of environment as would leave ordinary mortals wholly unaffected. But the line between these two types of man-god, however sharply we may draw it in theory, is seldom to be traced with precision in practice, and in what follows I shall not insist on it.
We have seen that in practice the magic art may be employed for the benefit either of individuals or of the whole community, and that according as it is directed to one or other of these two objects it may be called private or public magic. Further, I pointed out that the public magician occupies a position of great influence, from which, if he is a prudent and able man, he may advance step by step to the rank of a chief or king. Thus an examination of public magic conduces to an understanding of the early kingship, since in savage and barbarous society many chiefs and kings appear to owe their authority in great measure to their reputation as magicians.
Among the objects of public utility which magic may be employed to secure, the most essential is an adequate supply of food. The examples cited in preceding pages prove that the purveyors of food—the hunter, the fisher, the farmer—all resort to magical practices in the pursuit of their various callings; but they do so as private individuals for the benefit of themselves and their families, rather than as public functionaries acting in the interest of the whole people. It is otherwise when the rites are performed, not by the hunters, the fishers, the farmers themselves, but by professional magicians on their behalf. In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practises charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies. But a great step in advance has been taken when a special class of magicians has been instituted; when, in other words, a number of men have been set apart for the express purpose of benefiting the whole community by their skill, whether that skill be directed to the healing of diseases, the forecasting of the future, the regulation of the weather, or any other object of general utility. The impotence of the means adopted by most of these practitioners to accomplish their ends ought not to blind us to the immense importance of the institution itself. Here is a body of men relieved, at least in the higher stages of savagery, from the need of earning their livelihood by hard manual toil, and allowed, nay, expected and encouraged, to prosecute researches into the secret ways of nature. It was at once their duty and their interest to know more than their fellows, to acquaint themselves with everything that could aid man in his arduous struggle with nature, everything that could mitigate his sufferings and prolong his life. The properties of drugs and minerals, the causes of rain and drought, of thunder and lightning, the changes of the seasons, the phases of the moon, the daily and yearly journeys of the sun, the motions of the stars, the mystery of life, and the mystery of death, all these things must have excited the wonder of these early philosophers, and stimulated them to find solutions of problems that were doubtless often thrust on their attention in the most practical form by the importunate demands of their clients, who expected them not merely to understand but to regulate the great processes of nature for the good of man. That their first shots fell very far wide of the mark could hardly be helped. The slow, the never-ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others. The views of natural causation embraced by the savage magician no doubt appear to us manifestly false and absurd; yet in their day they were legitimate hypotheses, though they have not stood the test of experience. Ridicule and blame are the just meed, not of those who devised these crude theories, but of those who obstinately adhered to them after better had been propounded. Certainly no men ever had stronger incentives in the pursuit of truth than these savage sorcerers. To maintain at least a show of knowledge was absolutely necessary; a single mistake detected might cost them their life. This no doubt led them to practise imposture for the purpose of concealing their ignorance; but it also supplied them with the most powerful motive for substituting a real for a sham knowledge, since, if you would appear to know anything, by far the best way is actually to know it. Thus, however justly we may reject the extravagant pretensions of magicians and condemn the deceptions which they have practised on mankind, the original institution of this class of men has, take it all in all, been productive of incalculable good to humanity. They were the direct predecessors, not merely of our physicians and surgeons, but of our investigators and discoverers in every branch of natural science. They began the work which has since been carried to such glorious and beneficent issues by their successors in after ages; and if the beginning was poor and feeble, this is to be imputed to the inevitable difficulties which beset the path of knowledge rather than to the natural incapacity or wilful fraud of the men themselves.


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'File 3/8 Affairs of Sh. Khaz`als sons.' [223v] (446/508)
The record is made up of 1 file (252 folios). It was created in 15 Mar 1942-17 Aug 1948. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This file relates to the heirs of Shaikh Khaz'al [Khaz'al bin Jabir bin Merdaw Āl Ka'bī], the late Arab Shaikh of Mohommerah [Khorramshahr], and their requests for British assistance.
The first few items of correspondence concern Shaikh Khaz'al's eldest son, Shaikh Chassib bin Khaz'al [Shaikh Chassib bin Khaz'al Āl Ka'bī], who is now living in Iraq and who is reported to have requested permission from the British Embassy at Baghdad to enter Iran (most of the correspondence in this file refers to Iran as Persia), for the purpose of personally pressing his claims to property belonging to his father, which had been sequestered by the late Shah [Reza Shah Pahlavi].
The remainder of the file relates to Shaikh Chassib's brother, Shaikh Abdullah bin Khaz'al [Shaikh 'Abdullāh bin Khaz'al Āl Ka'bī], and his wish to return to live in Persia, apparently peacefully, which is treated with suspicion by British officials. Much of the correspondence discusses whether Shaikh Abdullah, who has taken refuge in Kuwait after an unsuccessful attempt to return to live in Persia, should be given a British pension or an allowance, in order to prevent him from attempting to return to Persia, since it is deemed unlikely that he will receive any compensation from the Persian Government for the loss of his father's property.
Also included in the file are a copy of a document from the Combined Intelligence Centre, Iraq, entitled 'The Sheikhdom of Mohammerah A Short History' and a Foreign Office report entitled 'British Relations with Khazal, Sheikh of Mohammerah'.
The principal correspondents are the following: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the British Consul, Khorramshahr; the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. ; the Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; His Majesty's Ambassador, Tehran; His Majesty's Ambassador, Baghdad; the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmed al Jabir As-Subah [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; Shaikh Abdullah bin Khaz'al.
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Circled serial numbers (red for received correspondence; blue/black for issued correspondence) refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 254; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Additional foliation sequences, one of which is written in pencil and not circled (between ff 3-131 and ff 143-224), and one of which is written in pencil and circled (between ff 1-253), have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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