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This is a guest post by Dr. Erin Stair, M.D., M.P.H
During my training as a West Point cadet and Army officer, I was molded to function on no sleep. "Sleep is a crutch" was a common battle cry. Sleep was for the weak, and real soldiers aren't weak! During one outdoor infantry training exercise, I remember being so sleep deprived that I woke up on top of a large rock, completely delirious, with my rifle pointed at my own platoon. Then it hit me- sleep matters.
Now as a physician and public health consultant, I really know that sleep matters. I work with a lot of wellness clients who struggle with either falling asleep or staying asleep. In this country, good sleep is hard to come by. Approximately 50-70 million US adults suffer from sleep disorders, and insufficient sleep is shown to be associated with higher rates of both physical and mental illness. To address these issues, at least 9 million Americans have turned to benzodiazepines and barbiturates. That means 9 million people are willing to endure troubling side effects, such as drowsiness, headaches, stomach pains, nightmares, constipation, or even a burning feeling in the limbs, just to capture a few hours of "medicated" sleep. Most recently, a study published in The British Medical Journal showed that taking sleeping pills for a prolonged period of time is associated with a fourfold increased risk of death. Such an observation begs the question, "Is the cure better than the disease?"
My philosophy as a public health specialist is to always try the most effective and least invasive approach available for a specific ailment, before turning to the big-gun pharmaceuticals. That said, what is really effective? And wouldn't it vary from individual to individual? I have advised my wellness clients struggling with sleep issues to turn off all lights, phones and computers; to sleep in a cool room; to not drink coffee after 4 pm; to empty his or her bladder before going to bed at night; to sleep alone if need be; to not watch TV; to do deep breathing exercises, etc. Some of these tips were definitely helpful for my clients, but a lot of people wanted and needed something more- especially something that would calm them and free their busy minds of useless ruminations.
I have used different kinds of sound therapy programs before, mainly for people suffering from depression, PTSD and anxiety, and have had great success. I've used sound therapy personally and swear by it. But I never tried a sound therapy program for poor sleep. I had the software and a great team of scientists and consultants, so I figured, why not? Let's give it a shot! So I sent an email to some of my wellness clients and blog subscribers, asking them if anyone who had trouble falling asleep would be willing to listen to an auditory program for 2 weeks. I was really surprised by the plethora of responses. By the time I sorted through the emails, I had a solid 41 volunteers: 23 women and 15 men (and 3 that preferred not to include gender information), between the age range of 21 and 64.
For the first week of the sleep exercise, I asked the participants to sleep like they normally would each night, and then complete and submit a 20-question baseline survey the following day. (This was a very extensive survey, and if you are curious about what we asked, you can find the questions in our Sleep and Beats report.) During the second week of the sleep exercise, each participant was asked to listen to one of two auditory programs each night, and then complete and submit a 20-question survey the following day. The two auditory programs were slightly different, but both were 60 minutes in length and contained scientifically-selected sounds arranged in very specific sequence. The scientifically-selected sounds included isochronic tones at different frequencies, relaxing nature sounds and binaural beats. The science behind binaural beats is vast and fascinating and can be further explored in our Sleep and Beats report. A binaural beat does not actually exist in physical space, which is why the more poetically-inclined scientists call it a "phantom beat." In order for our brains to perceive it, two tones of varying frequencies must be presented via headphones to each ear. An integrated auditory signal (the binaural beat) is produced and will have a frequency equal to the difference in frequency between the two tones. It is theorized that when our brains perceive a binaural beat at a specific frequency, brainwaves with similar frequencies will be produced. This phenomenon is called entrainment. The latest research shows that in order to be most effective, the binaural beats should be presented in a specific sequence. In other words, the auditory stimulation should create an external frequency that is the same as the brain's current internal rhythm, and then subsequently create the desired frequency. This method of delivery is called in-phase stimulation. Long story short, my team of doctors and I used auditory programs that created binaural beats with a frequency between 2-8 Hz.
Because the right headphones are crucial for the auditory programs to be effective, my team of doctors and I offered participants specialized headphones designed to be comfortable while sleeping or resting. 18 participants chose to wear the specialized headphones and 23 participants opted to use their own headphones.
All of the survey answers were collected and analyzed in Microsoft Excel and the statistical software, SPSS.
Results showed that, on average, 54% of participants experienced improved quality of sleep after listening to the sounds. Even more impressive is that 64% of the participants who wore the specialized headphones experienced a significant improvement in sleep quality, compared to 46% of participants who wore their own. We also looked at "perceived energy" as an outcome. 41% of participants who wore the specialized headphones had improved energy level compared to 21% of participants who wore their own headphones. Even more encouraging is that 94% of participants said they would recommend this alternative method for improving sleep quality to a friend.
My team of doctors and I also recorded the participants' subjective comments throughout the entire exercise. The number one reason participants gave for trouble falling asleep was that they were worried about something. They also reported that the auditory program was very helpful for addressing that. The number one reason participants gave for having trouble staying asleep was that they had to use the toilet. Unfortunately, the sound program can't really address that issue, but perhaps not drinking so much before bedtime can. (We're not perfect.)
Since the results of the sleep exercise were so positive, the team at Blooming Wellness decided to offer the auditory sleep program with healing sounds, along with the specialized headphones, as a packaged deal through our website, Blooming Wellness. So far, the feedback has been great and, really, it is exceeding our expectations. Most importantly, we are thrilled to be helping thousands of people get a good night's sleep. As I said in the beginning, sleep matters.
Featured image courtesy of Sleep Phones (http://www.sleepphones.com/).
-- Important: The Sleep Blog does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Instead, this website provides general information for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care provider if you have questions or concerns regarding any medical condition or treatment.


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Scientists have found a massive galaxy in the early Universe creating stars like our sun up to 100 times faster than the modern-day Milky Way.
The team of international researchers, led by Durham University, described the finding as like seeing "a teenager going through a growth spurt".
Due to the amount of time it takes light to reach Earth the scientists observed the galaxy as it would have appeared 10 billion years ago — just three billion years after the Big Bang.
They found four discrete star-forming regions within the galaxy known as SMM J2135-0102. Each region was more than 100 times brighter than star-forming regions in the Milky Way, such as the Orion Nebula.
They say their results, published online today (Sunday, March 21), in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, suggest that star formation was more rapid and vigorous in the early Universe as galaxies went through periods of huge growth.
The findings, funded by the Royal Astronomical Society and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, provide a unique insight into how stars formed in the early Universe, the scientists added.
Lead author Dr Mark Swinbank, in the Institute for Computational Cosmology, at Durham University, said: "This galaxy is like a teenager going through a growth spurt. If you could see it today as an adult you'd find the galactic equivalent of the football player Peter Crouch.
"We don't fully understand why the stars are forming so rapidly but our results suggest that stars formed much more efficiently in the early Universe than they do today.
"Galaxies in the early Universe appear to have gone through rapid growth and stars like our sun formed much more quickly than they do today."
The scientists estimate that the observed galaxy is producing stars at a rate equivalent to 250 suns per year.
The findings support earlier research led by Durham University. In 2009 Durham scientists found that a galaxy — called MS1358arc — was forming stars more rapidly than expected when it was observed as it would have appeared almost 12.5billion years ago.
SMM J2135-0102 was found using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, which is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Follow-up observations were carried out by combining the natural gravitational lens of nearby galaxies with the powerful Submillimeter Array telescope based in Hawaii to magnify the galaxy even further.
Dr Swinbank added: "The magnification reveals the galaxy in unprecedented detail, even though it is so distant that its light has taken about 10 billion years to reach us.
"In follow-up observations with the Submillimeter Array telescope we've been able to study the clouds where stars are forming in the galaxy with great precision."
Carlos De Breuck, a co-author of the paper, from ESO, said: "The star formation in this galaxy's large dust clouds is unlike that in the nearby Universe.
"However, our observations suggest that we should be able to use underlying physics from the densest cores in nearby galaxies to understand star birth in these more distant galaxies."

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Why Billy Joel Toughened Up on 'Glass Houses'
Billy Joel closed out the '70s with two of the bestselling albums of the decade in The Stranger and 52nd Street. But instead of getting complacent after finally tasting success following years of hard work — and occasionally bitter disappointment — fame just added sharper corners and greater heft to the chip he had on his shoulder.
That was the impression given, anyway, by Joel's seventh solo effort, Glass Houses, which arrived in March 1980. Right from the cover, which depicted a leather jacket-clad Joel preparing to toss a rock through the front window of a very nice place, the album signaled a tougher Billy than the one who'd peered forlornly out at the listener from the cover of 52nd Street, wearing a tie and clutching a trumpet.
"I was taking quite a critical pasting by 52nd Street because of the commercial success that I had," Joel told In the Studio in 2010. "I was aware that there had been a great deal of, I guess we could call it, 'Billy Joel Saturation' for close to three years."
As he went on to explain, part of his shift in sound and image came from the knowledge that he had to prove he was more than the artist people recognized from his recent hits. "I could have come out with a record that would have guaranteed a certain amount of sales – just by repeating either The Stranger album or the 52nd Street album, by doing something similar," he said. "Frankly, I would have been bored to do that. I would have been a dead duck, career-wise. You have to discard an audience to pick up another one."
"It's a definite temptation to repeat a successful formula. But I have never done the same thing twice. I don't care what anybody says," Joel told Playboy in 1982. "After Stranger, I could have done Son of Stranger, but I've never done that. To keep me interested, there always has to be something new, something different."
In addition to audience and songwriting concerns, Joel realized as the '80s dawned that he'd graduated to a different level of venue as his sales skyrocketed, and he needed to come up with material more suited to bigger buildings and larger crowds.
"We'd had two or three years of playing in arenas and coliseums, and I recognized that I needed to write bigger music," said Joel in a 2011 interview. "Ballads don't always fly that well in an arena; you need big sound. So I started harder-edged songs, more guitar-based songs. ... It was fun to do. This was probably the most fun album that I ever made. It happened fairly quickly, the band loved playing it, the audiences loved the material that was on the recording and we were on a roll."
Part of the fun, Joel later pointed out, was willfully destroying his increasingly soft image — and not just by upping the guitar quotient on the record. As he revealed after Glass Houses was released, that photo of him holding a rock was something of an inside joke. "That's actually the house I was living in at the time," Joel noted of the cover shot. "I saw a photo and I thought, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones,' and the name stuck."
But there was also a subtext: "It was, 'I'm going to throw a rock at the image people have of me as this mellow balladeer,'" he explained to Playboy. "We had been doing rock 'n' roll before, but there happened to be more of it on this record. The old thing about people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones — I don't believe it. I think, 'Why not? Take chances.' I really wanted to throw a rock at my own house."
Watch Billy Joel Perform 'You May Be Right'
Some of the same critics who accused Joel of relying too heavily on ballads were just as quick to suggest that Glass Houses was an attempt to glom onto some of the trendier sounds he name-checked in "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" — particularly, as Playboy pointed out during their conversation, New Wave acts like Elvis Costello.
"I like Elvis Costello, but I have never tried to duplicate anyone," Joel explained. "If I consciously try to emulate anybody, it's the Beatles. I've tried to compose in a certain style — for instance, I was thinking of Ray Charles when I sat down to write 'New York State of Mind,' but that's different. I am inspired by performers, but I don't try to copy people. We didn't set out to make Glass Houses New Wave. We looked at it as a rock 'n' roll album."
As he argued in "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," Joel saw the new trends he was accused of chasing as little more than new versions of old sounds. "It's just a reaction to a rediscovered past, and a rejection of Emerson, Lake and Palmer using multi-deck synthesizers," he told Rolling Stone of punk and New Wave in particular. "The Sex Pistols' 'God Save the Queen' bored the hell out of me.
"If I go to a disco and hear one boom-sup-boom tempo all night, I get a headache and split. If I go to a New Wave club and all I hear is 'Fuck you!' and the guy spits on me all night," Joel added. "I'm sorry. I don't like it. If I go to a folk club and all I hear is some girl strumming a guitar, singing, 'Give me some wine and cheese, please,' I don't want it. I would rather go and hear a good Top 40 bar band — which is what we still are, basically."
Few bar bands ever taste the level of success Joel enjoyed with Glass Houses, which gave him his second consecutive No. 1 album, third straight Top 5 album, and netted two Grammys against four nominations on its way to selling seven million copies. Glass Houses spawned four singles in the states, with "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" hitting No. 1 and three more ("You May Be Right," "Don't Ask Me Why" and "Sometimes a Fantasy") reaching the Top 40. Billy Joel started the '80s the same way he ended the '70s — as one of the biggest rock stars on the planet — and his star would only continue to rise as the decade continued. But as he insisted in the wake of Glass Houses' triumph, he still felt like a blue-collar kid from Long Island.
"I'm not content. I'm content, though, not being content," Joel told Playboy. "I have a theory: I don't think you ever are really satisfied. I don't worry about being satisfied all the time. All I'm looking for is a little relief now and then."


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For years, we've walked past the Sur La Table cooking studio and thought we should take a cooking class there. The setup looks so professional, the chef looks so wise and the students all look like they're having a great time. Finally, Shira took matters into her own hands and actually signed us up. The result: last night we attended an Asian Noodle class.
I have to admit, things didn't start off so hot. We arrived about 10 minutes early, and they told us to wander around and give them more time to setup. No problem. After the requested 10 minutes we returned to find a full classroom. There were indeed two spots left, but at different cooking tables. I also couldn't help but notice that there were big chunks of beef on each table - not a great sign when I was hoping to cook vegetarian that evening.
Luckily, within a few minutes, we had things mostly resolved. An individual from one table switched with Shira, and that at least put us at the same table.
And then the class began. I was expecting thorough instruction, lots of demonstration and everyone at the table to be doing the same thing. Something like: "here, let me show you all how to dice up the garlic. Now, everybody grab their garlic and do the same." And that's exactly how it *didn't* work. The chef walked through a couple of recipes we had in front of us, and told our tables to get to work. This was definitely learning by doing.
At first we were all kind of hesitant about who should do what, but within a few minutes, we had some progress made. And by the end of the night, our table was a finely oiled cooking machine.
And that big chunks of beef on table? Yes, they got used two different recipes, but three others were vegetarian. And it just so happened that another person at our table was also a veggie.
All in all, the experience was quite good. The recipes came way too fast and furious for my brain to keep up, but it sure was fun to see that making something like Pad Thai or Lo Mein was actually doable by mere mortals. The team at Sur La Table was definitely top notch, as there were quite a few helpers around to clear dishes, provide us with any utensils or supplies we wanted and answer questions.
My big take aways:
- Ask questions. Our chef was glad to teach us, but he needed us to have the courage to ask. A question about cutting onions turned into a slick demonstration about how to neatly slice them. A question about ginger revealed that pealing the outside with a spoon is ideal instead of using a knife (less chance you'll cut yourself or damage the ginger). A question about noodles being ready taught me that breaking them in half and detecting a white core means they aren't quite there. It's no fun looking like an idiot in front of a room full of strangers, but asking questions definitely made the difference in getting real value from the clss.
- Your table mates matter. In our case, the strangers at our table were all quite nice, and wanted to learn (versus showing off what they knew). I could see some advantages of going as a group to one of these classes to insure that you had solid fellow cooking mates. But, it's also a nice to let serendipity happen, and just go with the flow. The class was definitely more of a team sport than I imagined.
- Enjoy! Like I said above, for me, this was all really overwhelming. Once I accepted I wasn't going to soak up every bit of information, I was able to relax and really enjoy it.
- Don't be afraid to go off script. When asked, they provided us with veggie broth and a separate wok to cook veggie dishes in. All we needed to do was ask. Of course, I'm sure there are requests that are beyond what they could meet - but I was impressed at how the chef was glad to think on his feat and adjust the recipe to meet what our table wanted to cook.
Of course, a few photos from the evening:
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The Exactitude of Attitude
The Exactitude of Attitude
How attitude is a good predictor of prospective employee success, and how you can identify those with the right attitude for your business.
by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions
The top challenge for CEOs according to a survey from the Conference Board (January 2013) is Human Capital – the ability to develop and acquire the right people, with the right skills needed to take to the business to the next level. But skills alone are not enough.
"Hire for Attitude, Train for Aptitude"
This is an old mantra which, if ignored, can be costly. Companies I have worked with have found that recruiting people with the right skills can be costly if they do not have the right 'attitude', where there is a lack of 'fit'. This is reflected in a study by Leadership IQ of over 20,000 new hires over 3 years which found that 46% of the people about to be hired will fail within the first 18 months on the job. And they won't fail for lack of skills but rather for lack of attitude.
Top 5 Reasons for Why New Hires Failed
The following are the top areas of failure (i.e., were terminated, left under pressure, received disciplinary action or significantly negative performance reviews):
1. Coachability (26%): the lack of ability to accept and implement feedback from bosses, colleagues, customers and others.
2. Emotional Intelligence (23%): the lack of ability to understand and manage one's own emotions, and accurately assess others' emotions.
3. Motivation (17%): insufficient drive to achieve one's full potential and excel in the job.
4. Temperament (15%): attitude and personality not suited to the particular job and work environment.
5. Technical Competence (11%): functional or technical skills required to do the job.
The key point from this is that when new hires fail, and 46% of them will, 89% of the time it's because of attitude and only 11% of the time because of skill.
As such, the key predictor of a new hire's success or failure is their attitude, not their skills. As such we need to be clear on what attitude we are hiring for. To do this requires two steps:
- Define the Specific Attitudes – what are the attitudes that make your business different from the rest. This is both in terms of what is good (which you want) and what is bad (which you want to avoid).
- Adapting the Hiring & Interviewing Process – you need to makes sure that you focus on these attitudes, so adapt how you do this as appropriate.
How Do We Do This?
1. Define the Specific Attitudes
Attitudes in themselves are not visible or tangible. Where they are made apparent is in people's behaviours. How people behave is an active display of their attitudes. Their behavior should also be a reflection of the business' core values which provides guidance to people in the business. A good example of how the core values are made tangible, and the expected behavior (and hence attitudes) is shown below.
The US Marine Corp
The US Marine Corps has Core Values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment. The concept of these core values runs throughout all aspects of Marine life, beginning in recruit training and continuing into combat. These "warrior ethos" provide guidance to Marines in difficult ethics situations and as a reminder to provide good order and discipline. These values are defined as:
- Honor – integrity, responsibility and accountability.
- Courage – do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.
- Commitment – devotion to the Corps and my fellow Marines.
2. Adapting the Hiring & Interviewing Process
Too often, when interviewing, we focus on prospective employees' technical skills and competencies. Why? They are the easiest to assess but, as we have seen, they are a very poor predictor of the success or failure of a new employee.
When you look at jobs being advertised the experience, skills and qualification that are detailed it can be seen that the business advertising the position has the expectation that a perfect candidate will apply. This is about as far from reality as you can get. Realistically, there is no 'perfect candidate' and, as such, there can only be attitudes that are right for your business – they will never be perfect.
Tests for Finding the 'Right' Attitudes
1. High Performers' Test – what are the distinguishing attitudinal characteristics of your top performers. List up to 10 responses that reflect your business. For example:
- They own the problem.
- They always see problems as opportunities.
- They are great listeners and communicators.
- Etcetera.
2. Low Performers' Test – what are the distinguishing attitudinal characteristics of your low performers. List up to 10 responses that reflect your business. These are not just the opposite of the attitudinal characteristics that make a high performer. For example:
- They avoid responsibility and are quick to blame.
- They focus on themselves rather than others.
- They do the bare minimum work required.
- Etcetera.
Once you've got your two lists, conduct a quick assessment to make sure every point is on target. This can be done by asking yourself the following two questions about each attitude listed:
- How does this attitude add value or competitive advantage to this organization? (If the attitude brings no benefit to the organization, it doesn't belong on the list).
- Who cares about this attitude? (If the attitude doesn't bring benefit to your customers, it doesn't belong on the list)
Doing this provides insight into both what you want and what you don't want in the terms of attitudes and the associated behaviours. It then helps you to prepare for the interview by focusing on how they respond to questions around both these areas. However, how the questions are phrased is just as important as what the question is. You need to develop the question with the kind of response that you are looking for in mind. But that is a separate article.
In summary, be clear on what values, attitudes and behaviours you want in your business, and which you want your new employees to exemplify in what they do and how they do it. Get clarity by distinguishing the attitudinal characteristics of both your top and low performers – this helps you to identify what you want from a potential employee, and what you don't want. Around this then adapt your interview and hiring process to ask the kind of questions that will help you elicit answers which will help you determine the prospective employee's values, attitudes and behaviours. Take this into account when you look at their technical skills, as it is their attitude that is a predictor of their skills – not their technical skills and competencies.


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If anyone is having trouble finding a replacement cap for your 1/2G - see your chemist. Heaps of bottle tops of all sizes & they're normally happy to help with those personal problems.
Over Christmas I was told not to bother trying to find a nice beer and just buy Monteiths, it'll be the same. So let me clear that up now. No it's not.
And I was mocked for refusing to drink Steinlager.
Sometimes a beer is just a beer,
ie something cool and wet, to quench a thirst
Not sure where the PM fits in here though or the Prince -
And I was mocked for refusing to drink Steinlager.
Try drinking Mac's Great White. 'What arrr' ya?' Belgian Witbier is not what the 'Real Kiwi Bloke' drinks, apparently. But then again I could always order a Hoegarden.
That's not any BBQ I've ever been too. Why cook slabs of meat instead of cutting to single serve size for the convienence of your guests.
BBQ etiquette seems to have been breached by the guest cooking the BBQ. This is strictly the role and responsibility of the host. -
No, that's wrong, there's another big set of beer ads with that trope in it: the drink driving ones.
And the Tui Blond ads where hype, hype, hype is followed by the bottle with a voiceover "its just a beer launch" - portay beer as beer, not beer as thought.
Did you know that Skoal is a chewing tobacco brand in the US?
And there's a beer called Skol?
The thing that gets me is the "West Coast Lager" thing.
When they redesigned the bottles they should have bit the bullet and changed it to:
Brewed in Auckland.
Owned by Singaporeans.
Get over it. -
Also, Steinlager describe their product as "the best beer in the world".
Do the Kirin multinational brewing business (who make Steinlager) accept that all their other products are inferior, and do they rank them in order? Waikato Draught, the 1513rd best beer in the world
That's not any BBQ I've ever been too. Why cook slabs of meat instead of cutting to single serve size for the convenience of your guests.
For some reason I was annoyed by the caption which said something about "steaks on the barbie". That's not "steaks on the barbie", that's about $300 of premium eye fillets "on the barbie".
(Presumably the fillets were oven-roasted in foil, bbqd to char/braise, and then sliced into manageable pieces for guests. I have actually been to BBQs where eye fillet is cooked, but yeah.. it doesn't happen often.)
Try drinking Mac's Great White. 'What arrr' ya?' Belgian Witbier is not what the 'Real Kiwi Bloke' drinks, apparently.
'Real Kiwi Blokes' get told to "get fucked" in our house.
'Real Kiwi Blokes' get told to "get f*&#@" in our house.
Sorry about the edit. I'm a bit sensitive. Yeah well ditto, mostly, but there was those builders working on the house for a bit who insisted on having Heineken, or Hagan, or some other green glassed faux Dutch sounding, but Khyber Pass brewed, beer.
Hang on, what was it someone said about builders? Mind you, if I had to pick between my builder mates or an ex-banker and a right regal royal, give me the builders any day.
That's not any BBQ I've ever been too. Why cook slabs of meat instead of cutting to single serve size for the convienence of your guests.
First time I encountered that was my first night in the USA, hosted by friends of my parents in Riverside California.
They cooked a big slab of meat, and then cut it up and it was delicious!
Particularly after living in the UK for 15 months where my desire to eat beef vanished for some reason (I never bought the tasteless offerings from my local supermarket - indoor not outdoor reared I think)
I think you probably get more tender, jucier, tastier meat cooking it whole and then slicing after resting, rather than cutting it into bits - easier to get medium rare rather the well done. Of course, if you prefer it burnt....
I'll be the first one to have a celebratory beer when NZ becomes a republic, but in the meantime that photo was all wrong.
If the PM's going to entertain royalty, at least he should do it properly, and getting the guest to cook the fillet steak isn't properly. Nor is drinking crap beer. They should have served something decent like Emerson's organic pilsner, 5000 litres of which (in other news) have just gone tragically to waste...
Coming back from parts unfamiliar I popped into Liquourland to swap-a-crate.
This Liquorland wouldn't do it. No worries on to the one closer to SuperL closer to home.
Who was thinking of the children, and our environmental impact?
The 'Good Bloke' only really exists now in commercials because of the beer the rest of us are drinking :-)
I've just read Feast: Why Humans Share Food and it has some lovely stuff about big showy displays of public food ("exocuisine") and private family food stewed up in pots ("endocuisine"). It puts the big slab of meat at the barbecue into a new light (apparently our distant ancestors would have traded food for sex right on site), and perhaps even sheds light on the bugger who brings sizzlers but eats three salmon kebabs.
Anyway, I think barbecue chef title goes to the top ranking male rather than the host, in this context.
Mac's Light - a really good real beer (and 1.5% alcohol.)
Collops (thick -venison in my whanau's case- roundels) are GREAT on a barbeque - especially if they've been marinated aforehand.
B. Jones - "Feast" is an excellent book.
Alaistair J - will be drinking right along with you (your lefty non-royal small p -atron raises - uurrrm - a Waipara Hills 2008 pinot gris to that happening, quite soon--)
We use scull, as in rowing, possibly due to the connections to sport and drinking culture.
WTF? There's no etymological connection between scull (drinking) and scull (rowing). The rowing term comes from the Middle English word sculle and ain't got nothing to do with the drinking word.
But it is possible that the spelling of the rowing term has influenced the spelling of the drinking term when it finally came time to write it down. I mean, it would be a bit morbid to skull a drink. Unless you were a pirate.
Incidentally, while skol is a common toast around the world, to scull a beverage is a unique Australasian term.
E. Partridge, "Origins"-
"scull= oar........sense-development shallow wickerbasket....ON skjola
a bucket-"-hmmm. Yes.
Yep, and there you have your semantic connection:
bucket= (large) cup.
The word sculle may have first been used in Middle English within the history of English, but that's no guarantee it wasn't borrowed or repurposed from elsewhere at that time.
Looking back and saying "there's no connection" is a bit like looking at current English uses of cup and saying "but there's no connection between 'an object used to drink out of' and 'an object used to hold breasts in place'." :-)
(In this case, the two uses are the same word etymologically -- but the connection with drinking played no part in this particular sense development.) -
I *so* love language!
...though similarly, the etymological connection between the uses of cup as 'a sporting trophy' and 'a protective item of cricket gear' is not their common relationship to sport.
Such a claim would completely justify Robyn's "WTF?" reaction above. -
the origin of 'cup' is a rounded cavity (as you v. well know.)
That was kind of my point (I'm just not good at getting to it).
We have to be careful to distinguish between "original meaning", and "usual meaning" at a given time , though.
[e.g. what is recorded in surviving Old Norse or Old English texts = evidence for the usual meaning(s) at that time, not for any single "original meaning"!]Today, "an object used for drinking out of" is the prototypical current definition of cup: it's what anyone will immediately say if asked to define the word -- even if it's not the historical centre of meaning developments for the word; the meanings instead are mostly based around the 'rounded cavity' shape.
We know skoal meant 'cup' on most occasions of use at the time it was borrowed into Old English. But we don't and can't know the ultimate origin and function(s) of skoal (yes, we have some early attested uses, but that's not ever going to be a reliable enough sample to establish the full functional range). However, as its attested meaning overlaps considerably with that of English cup, it's likely to have been susceptible to the same kinds of meaning shift, which just happen to include the same kind of connection that was being held up by Robyn as being unlikely.
As native speakers, we don't have enough evidence to judge whether meanings were ever etymologically related. Fortunately, the question usually doesn't matter to us as users of the language.
Staying in the same semantic field, consider mug: 'an object used to drink out of'; 'a person's head or face'; 'a foolish person'; 'the act of attacking someone, usually for personal gain'.
It is likely that most native speakers of modern English do not actually connect any of these uses, regardless of whether there are any historical relationships.
Nevertheless, the first three uses, at least, represent meaning developments that are actually very common: connections between words signifying "(empty) vessel", "head" and "stupid person" are attested in many languages, and arise through a fairly obvious "head=empty" metaphor. (And the fourth meaning listed is also related, as an example of "making someone look weak and foolish".)
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The Bible speaks of the wrath of God in high-intensity language. "The Lord Almighty is mustering an army for war. … Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. … See, the day of the Lord is coming—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it" (Isa. 13:4, 6, 9). Even allowing for the unusual nature of language in the apocalyptic genre, Revelation 14 includes some of the most violent expressions of God's wrath found in all literature. …
How, then, do God's love and His wrath relate to each other?
One evangelical cliché has it that God hates the sin but loves the sinner. There is a small element of truth in these words: God has nothing but hate for the sin, but this cannot be said with respect to how God sees the sinner. Nevertheless the cliché is false on the face of it, and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty psalms alone, the psalmists state that God hates the sinner, that His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible the wrath of God rests on both the sin (Rom. 1:18–23) and the sinner (Romans 1:24–32; Romans 2:5; John 3:36).
Our problem in part is that in human experience wrath and love normally abide in mutually exclusive compartments. Love drives wrath out, or wrath drives love out. We come closest to bringing them together, perhaps, in our responses to a wayward act by one of our children, but normally we do not think that a wrathful person is loving.
But this is not the way it is with God. God's wrath is not an implacable blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against His holiness. At the same time His love wells up amidst His perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at once. God in His perfections must be wrathful against His rebel image-bearers, for they have offended Him; God in His perfections must be loving toward His rebel image-bearers, for He is that kind of God. …
The reality is that the Old Testament displays the grace and love of God in experience and types, and these realities become all the clearer in the New Testament. Similarly, the Old Testament displays the righteous wrath of God in experience and types, and these realities become all the clearer in the New Testament. In other words both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax in the Cross.
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the Cross.
Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the Cross.
—D.A. Carson
"God's Love and God's Wrath" published in Bibliotheca Sacra
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Make a Bundle by Bundling Your Bank Accounts?
It's easy to evaluate whether one bank account is right for you, but what if a bank offers two or even three financial products, or accounts, together?
Bundling, which is the tactic of packaging a savings account or checking account with a certificate of deposit, credit card, individual retirement account or consumer loan, offers consumers a convenient way to streamline their finances and banks a quick way to up-sell their services. The catch is that bundling bank accounts isn't always the smartest money move. Here's what you should know before signing onto a bundle.
Is There an Advantage?
For consumers, bundling can mean getting more financial services at better rates, says Ryan Bailey, senior vice president of deposit products for TD Bank headquartered in Portland, Maine, and Cherry Hill, N.J.
"Institutions typically reward you for having multiple products," he says. For example, consumers who opt for TD Bank's high-yield savings bundle receive a tiny interest rate boost on their accounts over consumers who have unbundled accounts.
The bigger the financial products in the bundle, the more substantial the rewards. For instance, Citizens Bank in Providence, R.I., offers its student loan borrowers a small interest rate reduction if they automate online loan payments through a Citizens Bank account.
In addition, the longer you plan to hold the financial product, the greater the reward's financial impact, says Steve Lewit, CEO and founder of Wealth Financial Group in Buffalo Grove, Ill. For institutions that offer bundling rewards on longer-term products, such as discounts on mortgages or interest-rate boosts on CDs, rewards can be substantial over the years.
"Bundling of products and services can be a very profitable tool for banks and provide a valued service for consumers," Lewit says. "Care must be taken, however, not to let the attraction of the bundle and the ability to have a one-stop shop outweigh the loss of choice or restrictions that may come with the bundled products."
Bertrand Sosa, co-founder and president of Mango Financial, a company in Austin, Texas, that offers checking, savings and debit card products, says that opting for bundling bank accounts can help consumers establish a rapport with their bank.
"When somebody takes a bundle or is telling us that they're interested in more than just a transactional product, that means that they're trying to build a relationship -- and relationships are, in our opinion, for the long term," he says.
Still, establishing a long-term relationship with a financial institution also can open doors for consumers for loans and riskier financial products, Sosa says.
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Bundling bank accounts is convenient and in many cases offers substantial incentives. The catch is that consumers have to commit to the terms and restrictions of all products within the bundle. That can mean higher minimum balance requirements on accounts, lower interest generated on certain products and paying fees consumers may not pay on unbundled products.
"You've got to pull the bundle apart, take each component and say, 'Well if I get my credit card here, I'm going to pay 12% in the bundle and maybe outside the bundle, I can get it at 8%,'" says Lewit. "In the long term, those numbers mean a lot. In the short run, they don't mean much -- and it's human nature to look in the short run."
Before signing on to bundling bank accounts, Lewit advises consumers to read the fine print carefully and to think about why they're getting those specific products, what they need from them and how they fit their personal financial goals. Once consumers understand their own needs, such as whether they're more comfortable having a high savings account balance or storing their money in different investment vehicles, they can evaluate whether the package is worth it.
Lewit adds that consumers should always compare the price and terms of the bundled products to what they would pay, buying the same services a la carte.
"The savvy consumer is not going to be bashful and (will) ask the important questions: 'Am I better off with a bundle; what would I get without the bundle?'" he says. While you're at it, ask about fees and penalties if you violate account and bundling provisions.
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"Read the disclosure, and read what they're offering you and what you're paying for, to make sure it really meets the needs of how you're going to use the account," he says. "Everybody banks differently. I think that bundled products are great for some people, but if your basic transactions are writing checks and withdrawing cash, you probably don't need a bundled product."


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To make the ribbon twirlers I attached two long pieces of very fluid silver ribbon to two cardboard tubes, using sellotape.
Her reaction was as sweet as usual, with her new favourite exclamation making it even more lovely to watch. "Oooooo iss WONDERFUL!" (she says this about just about everything right now.) I can't wait for Christmas morning if she gets this excited about old material and cardboard tubes!
She spent some time asking what each thing was and examining the different textures then she set about deciding what she would do with them (always fascinating to watch!)
She loved the ribbon twirlers and took them for lots of walks, dragging the ribbons behind her and checking to see they were following her. It took her a while to try swirling them through the air and it was lovely when she realised she could "fly" with them and make them her wings. Hence many blurry photos!
Lots of dancing then followed, which I did think would happen as dancing and singing are her favourite activities at the moment! Usually she is belting out the chorus of Jingle Bells at the top of her lungs to complete strangers in the supermarket 🙂
After lots of what my dad would call "flouncing", she then remembered the other pieces of material and found that she could open them out to make them bigger (cue more Oooos and Wows.) She decided to set up a picnic on the floor.
Then she layered up all of the other pieces and got bored of that and moved back to the ribbons.
She discovered that the golden ribbon was incredibly long and that she could run all the way from the front door to the end of the kitchen (ie the entire length of our Victorian house) with it still trailing behind her into the distance. This produced quite a lot of hilarity for some reason and was repeated over and over again!
Meanwhile, Little Pop was all set up with her own heuristic play session, with all her treasure basket items (and a few Christmas tree decorations) stuffed into a stocking for a new way to discover them and explore!


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Capturing the nude body in photography is capturing what is beautiful and what is sensual. However, since beauty is sometimes elusive and can only be seen by trained eyes, it can be very difficult to take a stunning photo of a nude body. It requires patience and skills.
Like da Vinci in drawing the Vitruvian Man, the photographer must be familiar with proportions. Like Michaelangelo in sculpting David, the photographer must know the subject very well. And like Picasso in painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the photographer must see the sublime.
But you do not have to be a genius to take a great nude photo. Here are some simple tips that may help you deal with the challenges of nude photography:
Use digital camera
In order to save time, use a digital camera so that a picture can be taken again if you do not achieve the effects you are after (for example, the lighting is bad). This allows you to shoot hundreds of shots in a single session without having to change the film.
Make the model comfortable
The key to achieving a good shot largely depends on the model. This person should be proud of her body regardless of its size. He or she should be someone who sees nudity as a form of empowerment. A model who is anxious to show his or her nude body but is willing to pose must be made comfortable. Assure him or her that nudity is all about celebrating one's body and that you are shooting for art's sake. You can take photos of the model with clothes on first before you photograph him or her naked.
Aim for simple poses
Make the poses simple. Do not force the model to pose in such a way that he or she is uncomfortable. An overdone pose may not give you the best results. An effortless pose will look natural on the photo. In photography, the best and most dramatic shots are very simple shots.
Less is more
Less skin is more. This is one of the basic principles of nude photography. Try a few shots where your subject covers himself or herself up in different ways. For example, have his of her hands cover his or her torso or private parts. The subject can also make a pose in a way that some parts of his or her body covers the other parts. This works out the imagination of those who will view the photos.
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The power supply situation in Bangladesh remains as precarious as ever; with power outages becoming more erratic and load shedding persistently higher than the corresponding months in the previous year (see Figure). Bangladesh is currently experiencing unprecedented levels of load shedding nationally. Brought about by a shortage of generation supply capacity, load shedding is a last resort measure to prevent a collapse of the national electricity supply system. The risk of load shedding will remain high until at least 2013 if further actions are not taken to ameliorate the situation. Specific and immediate interventions were needed to minimize the risk of load shedding until the new peaking plant and base load electricity generating capacity being built comes online.
The government has taken initiatives to increase the generation capacity to 7,000 MW by 2013 through various technologies (fossil fuel and renewable) with both private and public sector participation. A large portion of this plan relies on quick rental power based on imported liquid fuels which are expensive, more than three times the cost per unit of electricity at which power is currently produced by large power plants.
Is it worth the money? The answer is overwhelmingly affirmative. If the rental contractors succeed in delivering power to the national grid, a major binding constraint on economic growth will be eased, yielding immediate dividends. There are other social and private benefits from more power—children can study and eat better at home, patients can be treated well in hospitals, particularly those in the Intensive Care Units, electricity based appliances will last longer, home entertainment will be more available and enjoyable and so on. However, there is consensus among those who have studied the power crisis in Bangladesh (the most important being the business community), that growth dividend alone justifies the expensive rental power. Expanding generation to close the power gap will help avert the two percentage point of annual GDP growth loss, thus making it worth more than the cost.
Success is not free. Rental power providers will have to be paid as they start supplying power to the national grid. Successful power provision will come with additional cost that will, at least initially, be borne by the government. Otherwise, the public intermediary – the Bangladesh Power Development Board -- will face financial insolvency. The current power tariff at the retail level is below the Long Term Average Cost of producing electricity, let alone the cost of purchasing it from rental sources. Electricity tariffs need to be aligned with the long term cost to be cost-reflective. This is also needed to ensure that electricity is used more efficiently and to discourage wasteful consumption. There are ways of protecting the poor from the adverse impact of tariff adjustment. The question essentially is about sharing the financial burden arising from the emergency response to mitigate the even costlier power deficit.
Life is never simple for the policy makers. There is one dilemma that will somehow need to be tackled to make price adjustment acceptable to all. The dilemma is akin to the classic chicken and egg problem. Which should come first - reliable power supply or price adjustment? End users say they will be willing to pay a higher price if the providers can guarantee reliable supply while the providers are unable to ensure reliable supply if they do not have sustainable financing. This is a deadlock situation where we cannot provide either because one lacks the other.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, after all. Take a little time out to think about how to solve the classical chicken-egg problem. Those who have thought about it suggest trying to understand the question first. They ask, what is meant by the "egg"? An obvious assumption is it is a "chicken egg" because the problem implies a link between the two. They ask further, what is meant by chicken egg? Another obvious answer is it is one from which a chicken can hatch a chicken. Using this definition, if we can find an animal that is not a chicken to lay the egg from which chicken can be hatched, we could say the egg came first. If on the other hand we define a chicken egg as one a chicken lays and find a chicken that already exists to lay an egg, we could say the chicken came first. There is a third option as well. If we can find a chicken and an egg that already exist, we could say the debate misses the point: they came together!
Yes, the point is to be open to all possibilities. In the context of the current power policy dilemma in Bangladesh, if the government can afford the financing to demonstrate, before making the public pay more, that it can indeed provide reliable power, we could say reliable power should come first. If it cannot find enough money then the option is to raise it from the end users or else we will not be able to sustain the provision of power from the short-term costly sources in particular and from any source in general for too long. However, it seems that we need to find both a chicken and an egg because we cannot depend on an animal that is not a chicken (money from other sources all the time) nor do we have a chicken that already exists (reliable power). The egg also has to be part of the solution. Foregoing the consumption of egg is part of the cost we incur for more chicken.
Bottom line: Reliable increase in the provision of power and cost-sharing must go hand-in-hand.


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Background: I have only recently begun programming GUIs in Mathematica, so I have a continuous need for custom controls. I needed a scrollable list control and with the help of Google I found a beautiful one in this MathGroup post (One of Sjoerd, if I am correct.) The point being: there is a lot of excellent Mathematica code shattered all over. Most matured languages have libraries of custom controls. I am not aware of any existing for Mathematica.
Question(s): What is the best managed collection of (open source) custom GUI controls for Mathematica that you know of? Where do you get your custom GUI controls? Should there be a collection of custom GUI controls for Mathematica?


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Hugh Jackman knows where his bread is buttered.
The 42-year-old Real Steel star graces the October cover of Men's Fitness, where the actor admits he wouldn't be nearly as in shape if it weren't for his career as an action hero.
"I don't really enjoy training. People say it's addictive, but I'm like, 'Not so much,'" Jackman says. "If I weren't getting paid or didn't have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy."
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As a management consultant, I was traveling about 100,000 miles a year and constantly frustrated by the lack of stylish, versatile travel apparel. While packing for a trip to Costa Rica, I dreamed up the idea of the Chrysalis Cardi, one piece that can be worn over 8 different ways AND unlike other multiway garments, actually looked like what it was (not a scarf tied into a dress).
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Healthy non-dairy muffins packed with carrots and topped with coconut whipped cream.
Spring is in the air (at least, here in Austin it is), and I've been getting non-stop carrots in my Farmhouse Delivery box. Which means one thing to us… carrot cake. This time, in muffin form.
I topped these with coconut whip lightly sweetened with maple syrup. It's airy, yet creamy… much less indulgent than a more traditional cream cheese frosting, but it was exactly what I was in the mood for this time. With a dusting of cinnamon on top.
carrot muffins with coconut whip
- 8 oz. carrots (chopped and peeled)
- 1 egg
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ¼ cup applesauce
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup all purpose gluten free blend (or all purpose flour)
- ½ cup whole spelt flour (or oat or whole wheat flour)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- can of full fat coconut milk, refrigerated overnight
- a few tablespoons of maple syrup or sifted powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a muffin tin.
- Place carrots in food processor and pulse a few times until they are grated. Add in the egg, sugar, applesauce, vanilla and coconut oil and blend until combined.
- In a separate bowl, sift & mix together together all dry ingredients (flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt).
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry and gently fold together. Don't over mix.
- Scoop batter into the greased muffin tin - approx ⅓ cup batter per muffin.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes, use a toothpick to check for doneness. Don't over bake.
- Let cool completely before frosting.
- Make the coconut whip by carefully opening the coconut milk can and scooping off the thick solidified part on the top. Don't move or shake the can too much, it's important that the solid and liquid parts stay separate. (save the liquid part for another use). Whisk the solid part vigorously by hand (or in a mixer). Add maple syrup or powdered sugar to make it as sweet as you like. Spoon a dollop on each muffin and sprinkle with a dusting of cinnamon.
or for cream cheese frosting, see this recipe


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Joe is among the respected evils in sports, then when I uttered these words on TuesdayWe love Kurt (Busch) the immediate reaction was certainly one of shock and disbelief. As with, What is is he thinking? Joe, right, have proven tremendous persistence with Kyle Busch throughout all his problems. (AP Photo) Thats what nearly everybody thought when asserted that I may consider employing NASCARs most questionable driver for his Sprint Cup team pick up. Despite reading through individuals words again and again again, the response for a lot of remains the same. What is is he thinking? is among the wisest evils in professional sports.
I have won three Super Bowls as coach of the Washington Redskins from mind. HES won 96 races and three Dale earnhardt jr. Cup titles together owner. A charming and popular inspirational figure speaker, is one among the finest minds in sports along with a guy who s broadly respected across many avenues. Do so is is what I thinking by attempting to be connected with NASCARs greatest troublemaker and also the reigning Bad Boy spots? Especially since hes spent five seasons attempting to tame the survivor motive force who had been formerly NASCARs greatest villainKurts more youthful brother, Kyle.
Within the last couple of years, Kyle Busch has triggered a myriad of headachesfrom run-inches along with other motorists, to some highly promoted speeding infraction (a public highway speeding infraction) for an embarrassing and harmful Dale earnhardt jr. suspension. But Kyle is really a choirboy in comparison to his your government, who s been proven the doorway by two elite Dale earnhardt jr. teams due to his behavior off and on the track and run-inches with a number of people, from TV reporters to sheriffs deputies to Dale earnhardt jr. motorists and authorities. MORE Dale earnhardt jr. Does COVERAGE: Front-row sweep: Aric Almirola takes Coca-Cola 600 pole teammate Teammate second competition?: Junior states I s not competition with Manley Hardheaded: Stewart hits mind while swimming in lake Hot commodity: Patrick valuable resource for Dale earnhardt jr.
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Certifications are not a new thing in the accounting industry. However, with new technology trends, accounting departments are faced with the challenge of taking courses in technology in order to carry out their tasks. Many businesses are ditching desktop-based accounting software and turning to cloud-based software. This requires that the users be well-versed with necessary skills to use the cloud accounting solution.
What is Cloud Accounting?
Among the cloud-based solutions that businesses have adapted is cloud accounting. Cloud accounting has all the functionalities of desktop accounting. However, in cloud accounting all processes are carried out online where the data is stored on cloud servers.
Cloud accounting offers businesses various benefits, such as the ability to access the system anytime and from anywhere as long as there is internet access. It also offers access to real-time information, online payments, latest software versions, easier compliance and scalability, among others. At the same time, cloud accounting solutions also allow remote working.
As businesses strive to gain from the benefits offered by cloud accounting solutions, a new challenge arises: lack of skilled employees. Hence the need to upskill.
Why it is Important to Have Cloud Accounting Certification
As cloud accounting becomes highly adopted, there is no doubt that there will be an increase in demand for certification for individuals as well as for organizations.
For individuals, this is important as it will indicate they have the competence to use the cloud accounting software. This is an added advantage to retaining a job or for individuals looking to take up jobs in the accounting field. Employers also could look for certification as proof that an employee already has skills on the type of cloud systems the business uses.
A certified employee will be able to set up the initial business data on a cloud accounting system. They also will know how to handle daily transactions online such as payments, receipts, and invoices, among other tasks. Other important transactions handled by cloud accounting solutions include bank reconciliations, reporting, payroll administration, and budgeting.
Since cloud accounting uses advanced technology like artificial intelligence, the employees will acquire more advanced skills, including financial analysis and cash flow forecasting.
Certified employees will have a better understanding of security levels in the cloud, considering that security is one of the most important issues to businesses.
Apart from learning new skills, certification will enhance workplace performance, as users will be required to complete courses and exams before getting certified.
Again, employees who upskill are less likely to worry about being replaced and, in any case, new knowledge gives employees a chance to negotiate higher pay.
When it comes to businesses, having certified employees means that they can handle projects or tasks successfully as they have a common understanding of cloud accounting systems. This ensures a business of efficiency and reduced operational costs as it can implement a standardized system. Furthermore, customers prefer working with qualified professionals – and this can be demonstrated through certification.
Since cloud computing is a core competency for businesses today, a certification is not only suitable for bookkeepers and accountants, but also for business owners, managers, CFOs and anyone who will be using cloud accounting solutions.
And with trends such as remote accounting and cloud-based accounting services, the certification helps to become future-ready.
The benefits offered by cloud accounting promise to transform the accounting industry through bookkeeping efficiency and streamlined financial administration, as well as provide real-time information. However, the success of these cloud-based systems depends on the users having the appropriate skills. As new technologies emerge, there is a fear of been replaced. But by upskilling, businesses can attend to clients while employees not only get to retain their jobs, but also offer more value.


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Ukrainian forces were reportedly advancing on rebel positions near the key eastern town of Donetsk on Saturday, as they try to retake the separatist stronghold.
Donetsk is the region where Malaysia Airlines MH17 was shot down on July 17, killing nearly 300 people. Pro-Russian rebels have been blamed for downing the plane and they have hampered international efforts to access the site of the wreckage.
The Washington Post says: "Government troops are currently battling rebels in the nearby town of Horlivka and have blocked all roads leading out of Donetsk to prevent the insurgents from replenishing supplies and fighters or escaping, said Andriy Lysenko of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council. Once Horlivka is under Ukrainian control again, he said, the army will move to retake Donetsk, a city where pro-Russian separatists have held sway for months while declaring it the Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukrainian military has ousted rebels from 10 surrounding villages and towns in the past week."
According to the AP, the move comes "as Ukrainian forces appear to have gained some momentum recently by retaking control of territory from the rebels. But Russia also appears to becoming more involved in the fighting, with the U.S. and Ukraine accusing Moscow of moving heavily artillery across the border to the rebels."
As we reported earlier this week, the U.S. has said it has "new evidence" that Russian forces were lobbing artillery across the border and that Moscow was planning to ship powerful multiple rocket launcher systems to the pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.
NPR's Corey Flintoff, reporting from Donetsk, says Ukrainian officials have been accusing Russian troops for days of firing across the border
"The allegations come as separatists appear to be losing ground in the face of a Ukrainian offensive," Corey says.
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If you don't remember, Choose Your Own Adventure books had bits of a story, then options for the reader to give them more of a feeling of control in their adventure: "If you want to walk through the dark tunnel, turn to page 16. If you want to take the bridge, turn to page 19."
I want to write a similar book, only a technical manual. My initial thoughts are to write it as a PDF with internal links to various pages, like
"If you already know how to engage the widget, go to page 60
. If you want to learn more about the history of widgets, visit page 1010.
So, two questions. 1) Can I write it in this style and have the links to pages change dynamically (say I add an entire chapter and it bumps up page 60 to 80 and page 1010 to 1030. 2) Is there recommended software for doing this? Sorry for the noob question, this will be my first venture into writing a book.


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Basics: Volume visualization: 5/9 Making a 3-d plot 'pretty' with lighting, shading, interpolation, etc…
I like his slow, clear, methodical presentation with great visualizations. It is the first time I have deeply understood some of the volume visualization techniques we have.
- 1 of 9 Definitions for scalar and vector fields.
- 2 of 9 Examples of scalar and vector fields (temperature in a room vs air currents)
- 3 of 9 Displays scatter3 and slice plots.
- 4 of 9 Displays contourslice and isosurface.
- 5 of 9 Making a 3-d plot 'pretty' with lighting, shading, interpolation, etc…
- 6 of 9 Displays quiver3 and coneplot
- 7 of 9 Displays and explains streamplot and streamslice
- 8 of 9 Displays and explains streamtubes and streamribbons
- 9 of 9 Unifying example
- Category:
- Format: Video,
- Level: Basic
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A campaign mailing received by a hundred thousand Florida voters today would seem to indicate that the corrupt, and apparently desperate U.S. Congressman from Oviedo, Florida, Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Abramoff), is willing to do everything within his power to lose his congressional race this year against challenger Clint Curtis.
"Don't send smut to my mailbox," the New Smyrna Beach, Florida. mother says in a video report at Florida's WFTV Channel 9, "It's not really something I want my 9-year-old walking out to the mailbox and bringing to me and asking me questions about."
The mailing, of dubious taste, is the latest chapter in Feeney's bizarre smear campaign against his former colleague, vote-rigging whistleblower turned Congressional opponent Clint Curtis.
We highly recommend the article at the WFTV Channel 9 website (which also includes a video of their coverage on tonight's evening news.)
In the mailing --- sent by Feeney to more than 100,000 voters in Florida's 24th Congressional district and featuring a poorly-doctored photograph of Curtis dressed as Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner --- Feeney claims he's attempting to "alert" voters that Curtis has been endorsed by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.
So far, Feeney's bizarre attempts to garner support have included a rudimentary smear website named "Crazy Clint Curtis," featuring doctored photos of Curtis and other dubious claims, and a blogsite repeating those claims citing "evidence" that actually seems to belie the strange assertions. (e.g., See our coverage of on Feeney's odd 9/11 conspiracy theory.) The smear blog, however, has no indication that it's paid for by the Feeney campaign.
The disingenous references to Hustler in the mailing, including a doctored cover from the salacious magazine, are in reference to an article of ours [PDF - WARNING: Includes graphic photos from death scene!] on the mysterious death of Florida Inspector Raymond Lemme, which the magazine ran some months ago.
Lemme, as we originally reported at BRAD BLOG, was found dead in a Valdosta, Georgia hotel room during the course of investigating Curtis' whistleblower claims against Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), an Oviedo, Florida, software firm with top-security state and NASA contracts.
Curtis had worked as a programmer at YEI while Feeney was their general counsel and registered lobbyist.
Feeney was also the Speaker of the Florida House at the time when Curtis claims YEI had employeed illegal Chinese aliens (spying on America), overbilled the state on contracts, and had requested that Curtis create a vote-rigging software prototype at the behest of the Congressman. The charges of Chinese spies and state overbilling have since been confirmed, by both state and federal investigations and reports.
Hustler ran a sidebar with our article written by someone named Mark Johnson. That sidebar, titled "Vote for Clint!" describes Curtis' early plans at the time to run for Congress and urges readers to support the effort at www.ClintCurtis.com.
Feeney's new mailer, however, looks like it may have done little more than succeed in angering Florida families and voters who had never even heard of either Feeney or Curtis before. The mother in the report indicates that it has led her to not vote for Feeney this November.
Adding to the poorly timed association of sex and politics --- in light of the recent revelations of sexual improprieties by Feeney's Florida GOP House colleague Mark Foley --- it looks like another triumphant disaster for Feeney.
From WFTV's report:
"Don't send smut to my mailbox," Dina said.
"She needs to know Clint Curtis is endorsed by smut-king Larry Flynt," Feeney said [in reply to the mother named Dina.]
"Voters in District 24 need to know," Feeney said.
But it all left a bad taste in Dina's mouth. Not only had she never heard Curtis's claims, she also had no idea who her congressman even was. Now she does and she isn't impressed.
"How about sending what a politician can do for someone and what you stand for, because now all I have is negative thoughts that stick in my head because of what I read," she said.
The article and video (both of which we couldn't recommend more!) go on to say that Feeney claims our Hustler article about Lemme's death charges that "Feeney was involved in a suspicious death in Georgia."
Since we actually wrote that article, we can tell you that no such allegation was made of involvement by Feeney in the death of Lemme. WFTV should correct that point for the record. (NOTE: We've contacted the WFTV reporter, Josh Einiger, who did an otherwise very good job on the story and he says he'll be attempting to correct the inaccuracy on their website shortly. Apparently, he was just repeating what Feeney, and the mailing, had incorrectly claimed.)
Hey Tom, in the next mailing, why don't you include photos of yourself posing with a bunch of Congressional pages? Voters in the 24th need to know how much you care about our nation's youth!
The Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
- A Quick Summary of the story so far.
- An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence in the series so far.
- Curtis is now running for U.S. Congress against Feeney.
To support or for more info, see: www.ClintCurtis.com


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Poplar tentmaker
Prominents and oakworms
Poplar tentmaker caterpillars (Clostera inclusa) are present from spring to fall. They produce two generations per year.
Groups of these caterpillars are found within "tents" of leaves tied together and lined with silk. Full-grown caterpillars, about 1.5 inches long, are mottled brown-black with four distinct longitudinal yellow lines on top of the body, and a bright yellow longitudinal line on each side of the body. On top of the first and eighth abdominal segments is a black tubercle. The body is also sparsely covered with light hairs. Preferred host plants are poplar and willow.
About the family
Prominents and oakworms belong to the Notodontidae family. Caterpillars have variable color patterns and body texture. Some species are smooth with fleshy humps or projections while others are hairy. Some are cryptically colored, mimicking the edge of a partially eaten, distorted leaf, while others are brightly colored and conspicuous. In some species, when the caterpillars are disturbed, they raise both ends of the body, holding onto the substrate with the four mid-abdominal prolegs and exposing glands that produce irritating acidic chemicals to ward off potential attackers. Caterpillars exhibit both solitary and gregarious behavior. Host plants include a wide variety of trees and shrubs.


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Sidebar Login adds a useful login widget which you can use to login from in the sidebar of your WordPress powered blog.
Once a user logs in they are redirected back to the page they logged in from, rather than the admin panel (this is configurable).
If you'd like to contribute code to the plugin you can do so via GitHub.
If you'd like to contribute a translation, the project is hosted on WordPress.org.
Simply go to Appearance > Widgets
and drag "sidebar login" to the sidebar of your choice. Within the widget are several options you can use for changing the titles or the links displayed to the user.
To use this widget in a template, use the the_widget()
function which WordPress provides.
Tags for titles + links
These tags can be used in the widget settings for titles + links and will be replaced at runtime.
– logged in users display name%userid%
– logged in users ID%firstname%
– logged in users firstname%lastname%
– logged in users lastname%name%
– logged in users firstname + lastname%nicename%
– user nice name%admin_url%
– url to WP admin%logout_url%
– logout url%buddypress_profile_url%
– Buddypress Profile URL%bbpress_profile_url%
– Buddypress Profile URL%avatar%
– User Avatar
Filter Reference
– return false to not include the CSS stylesheetsidebar_login_widget_logged_in_links
– An array of links shown when logged in.sidebar_login_widget_logged_out_links
– An array of links shown when logged out.sidebar_login_widget_display
– Return false to hide the widget.sidebar_login_widget_logged_in_title
– The widget title shown when logged in.sidebar_login_widget_avatar_size
– The avatar size – defaulted to 38 (thats in px)sidebar_login_widget_logged_out_title
– The widget title shown when logged out.sidebar_login_widget_form_args
– Arguments for the wp_login_form function.sidebar_login_widget_login_redirect
– Redirect URL after login.sidebar_login_widget_logout_redirect
– the redirect after logging out.sidebar_login_widget_register_url
– The URL for registration links.sidebar_login_widget_lost_password_url
– The URL for lost password links.sidebar_login_widget_wp_login_form
– The HTML of the Login form.
Action Reference
– Fired before the widget.sidebar_login_widget_{logged_in || logged_out}_content_start
– Fired before the widget content.sidebar_login_widget_before_{logged_in || logged_out}_links
– Fired before the links.sidebar_login_widget_after_{logged_in || logged_out}_links
– Fire after the links.sidebar_login_widget_{logged_in || logged_out}_content_end
– Fired after the widget content.sidebar_login_widget_end
– Fired after the widget.
- Due to AJAX not working across different domains (see same_origin_policy), AJAX logins will be disabled if your site it non-SSL, but the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN constant is set to true. Instead it will fallback to a traditional POST.
Contributors & Developers
"Sidebar Login" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors"Sidebar Login" has been translated into 24 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate "Sidebar Login" into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
- Fix – Fix rendering of additional links when using non-latin characters in the link text.
- Refactor – Rewritten majority of plugin using more up to date standards and namespaces.
- Refactor – Cleaned up the widget settings form to make functionality clearer.
- Refactor – Removed email->username conversion since this is supported natively.
- Tweak – Added %nicename% placeholder.
- Tweak – Improved default styling and included extra wrapping divs (.sidebar-login-form, .sidebar-login-account, .sidebar-login-links).
- Performance – Removed jQuery dependency and BlockUI script.
- Performance – Removed
filter – this is now true by default. - Fix – Prevent notices due to incorrect sizeof() usage.
- Tweak – %avatar% placeholder.
- Tweak – Removed translations due to WordPress.org language packs.
- Tweak – sidebar_login_widget_wp_login_form filter.
- Fix – Removed force_ssl_login which is deprecated in 4.4 in favour of force_ssl_admin.
- Feature – Added firstname, lastname, name tags.
- Fix – PHP4 widget contructors (https://gist.github.com/chriscct7/d7d077afb01011b1839d).
- Fix – Missing strings in localisation.
- Fix – Change email to username during wp_authenticate hook.
- Make rememberme show by default, without a widget save.
- Renamed textdomain from sidebar_login to sidebar-login.
- Moved translations to Transifex.
- Added Grunt.
- Removed deprecated sidebarlogin function.
- Option to show/hide the rememberme checkbox.
- Allow login using an email address – username will be queried based on address given.
- Support for Buddypress Profile URL via %buddypress_profile_url%. Thanks Tim Reeves.
- Support for BBPress Profile URL via %bbpress_profile_url%.
- Slovakian translation by Alexander Kriss
- Swedish translation by Tommy Wahlund
- Dutch translation by Bert Smulders
- Russian and Ukranian translation by Yarri
- Polish translation by Czeslaw Liebert
- Removed nonce check on frontend due to conflict with caching scripts
- Arabic translation by Mamoun Elkheir
- Brazillian translation by Marco André Argenta
- Italian translation by Adriano Calvitto
- Latvian translation by Lana Mangusa
- German translation by Klaus-Peter
- Wrapped response to prevent crap plugins breaking the response
- Filterable error classes
- Tweak to how SSL logins are handled.
- FR translation
- Fix $link_cap
- Rewrite and code cleanup – class based.
- Optionless – Moved all settings to the widgets themselves rather than having a settings page.
- Removed all localisations (these are out of date, and need re-doing)
- Removed JSONP/GET request – although this allowed logins between urls of different origin, it poses a security risk as GET requests are logged.
- XSS Fix
- Added classes to tags in widget
- Improved/filtered register and lost password links
- Removed the outdated openid/fb code. Hook it in if you want it.
- Removed markup in favour of wp_login_form()
- Sanitize REQUEST_URI/$pageURL
- Use jsonp to enable login from http to https
- Fixed remember me logic (in js)
- Sanitize redirect url
- Removed esc_attr from username and password to prevent breaking login
- Updated french and italian langs
- Added Swedish lang by Ove Kaufeldt
- SSL URL tweak
- Better handling for force_ssl_login and force_ssl_admin
- Removed a link after request from WordPress.org staff
- wp_lostpassword_url() for lost password link
- sanitized user_login
- Uses wp_ajax for ajax login instead of init functions
- Secure cookie logic change
- Login redirect fix
- Error loop fix
- Added filter for errors – sidebar_login_error
- Put the project on GitHub
- Added new localisations
- New options panel
- AJAX Login
- FORCE_SSL_LOGIN/ADMIN double login issue fix (Thanks to bmaupin)
- Only added openid styling if other plugin is installed
- Added more languages
- Further revised the |true / |user_capability code – only need to use one or the other now.
- Updated translations
- Support for https and style.css
- is_date fix
- Added option for headings
- Removed attribute_escape for esc_attr – therefore this version needs wp 2.8 and above
- USER LEVEL option gone – replaced with USER CAPABILITY instead – use a capability like 'manage_options'
- Headers sent bugs fixed
- Avatar display option
- More/Updated langs
- Moved settings to appearance menu
- Changed min user level to capilbilty 'manage_options'
- Fixed menu showing in wordpress 3.0
- Added %USERID% for links
- Fixed white space bug for link options
- Min level setting for links. Add user level after |true when defining the logged in links.
- Moved 'settings' from tools to settings.
- Encoded ampersand for valid markup
- Moved Labels about
- Fixed SSL url
- Reusable widget
- Added changelog to readme.
- OpenID Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/) Integration.
- %username% can be used in your custom links shown when logged in (gets replaced with username)
- WP-FacebookConnect (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/) integration (untested!)
- Minor fixes (worked through a big list of em!)


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New Caliente Festival Dishes Up Summer Fun at Arbor Day Farm
Nebraska City, Neb. (July 10, 2008) – Celebrate the hot days of summer at Arbor Day Farm's Caliente Festival on Saturday, July 19.
Visitors to Arbor Day Farm will be able to listen to live salsa music at the Tree Adventure attraction, enjoy foods from Latin America, and learn how to make salsa and sangria.
Nick Maloney, executive chef at the Timber Dining Room at Lied Lodge & Conference Center, will demonstrate how to make salsa using Arbor Day Farm fresh-grown produce from 1 p.m. until 3. Sangria demonstrations will take place at the Apple House throughout the day using Arbor Day farm win and farm-grown produce.
Fresh, pick-your-own produce will also be available.
"The Caliente Festival is a perfect way for the entire family to enjoy nature and celebrate summertime," said Bev Nolte, Director of the Tree Adventure attraction at Arbor Day Farm. "This is a perfect occasion for those looking to get away for a day of fun, affordable activities."
About the Arbor Day Foundation: The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation organization of nearly one million members, with a mission to inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. More information on the Foundation and its programs can be found at arborday.org.


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On the cookbook front, things are moving along nicely. I have shown the draft to my inner circle of 7th level vegans, and a friend from grad school is copy editing as I type. I have also received a kind offer for help with the cover photography. More on that later.
Things have been plenty busy around here, even without a book to finish. Much time has been spent shovelling the ludicrous amount of snow that has fallen. *sigh* And to think that winter has not even officially started.
I also baked up a bunch of lemon currant rolls for the Christmas bazaar fundraiser for the boys' school.
Business at the bakery is brisk, and I feel like I am honing my baking craft. I have also been trying to make soy yogurt. No success so far.And, I do have a few recipes to post. I will get to them this week.