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How To Dye with Kool Aid: Dyed Wool, Fabric & Yarn, Dyeing Hair
Kool Aid Dye
Almost everyone loves Kool Aid. It has been around since long before I was born so of course over the years someone has found other uses for it.
Kool Aid has stood the test of time, and even has a funky mascot that has been parodied in all types of TV shows such as Robot Chicken, Family Guy and many others.
Kool Aid is not just for drink and frozen treats anymore!
You can dye all sorts of things with Kool Aid and it is non-toxic as a bonus!
Try dying these fun things with Kool Aid:
- Hair (my favorite!)
- wool
- clothing
If you have never tried to dye things before, this is a perfect opportunity.
Dying with Kool Aid is the quickest, safest, and easiest way to introduce you to dyeing hair, fabrics and yarns than anything I have seen on the market.
How to dye Wool with Kool Aid
Kool Aid contains citric acid so no chemical additions are needed.
Kool Aid's acid reacts with the protein fibers to set the dye into the wool.
What You Need
Un-dyed wool – protein based fiber. For better absorbency and to keep the wool from felting, buy the super wash type.
- · Kool Aid (100g packs)
o 3 packs of Strawberry Kool Aid creates Scarlet Red
o 6 packs of Lemon Lime Kool Aid creates Green
o 4 packs of Orange Kool Aid creates Orange
o 4 packs of Grape creates Dark Purple
o 4 packs of Berry Blue creates Turquoise Blue
o 4 packs of Pineapple creates Golden Yellow
- A stainless steel pan, large enough for your yarn
- A plastic or metal stirring tool
- Rubber gloves
- Salt (25g for every 100g yarn) if you want a slower absorption to give an even color.
- Soak your yarn in hot water for at least 20 to 30 minutes.
- While it is soaking, make your Kool Aid mixture based on the math above.
- Heat the dye to just shy of boiling.
- Remove the yarn from the hot water and squeeze out any excess water.
- Now add the yarn to your Kool Aid dye mixture, making sure to completely submerge the yarn. Add more water if necessary to cover the yarn. Adding water will not affect the final result.
- Let simmer for around 40 minutes or until you see that the color is all gone. Be sure to rotate the yarn every now and then in the Kool Aid dye mixture so that the color is absorbed evenly. Turn off the burner once your water becomes clear or milky (the outcome depends on the Kool Aid you used).
- Once cooled to the point of safe handling, remove the yarn and rinse thoroughly with water the same temperature as the Kool Aid solution, add a bit of dishwashing detergent while you wash and clean as you would when cleaning store bought yarn.
- Hang the freshly dyed yarn and let it air dry.
Kool Aid
Dying Hair with Kool Aid
Oh wow do I love to dye my hair. When in high school I learned this little trick for Kool Aid and it was a great way to get the funky colors that were popular without destroying my long hair.
If you have ever wanted to experiment with a rainbow of colors but don't want to spend the money on the non-toxic varieties of Manic Panic hair dye, Special Effects hair dye, or use the toxic variations of salons, this is for you. Non-toxic and washes out easily if you dislike the outcome, Kool Aid hair dye has been around for years.
Just note that if you have darker colored hair you may have to bleach it first. Manic Panic does create a lightening kit that works great, but it does sort of beat the point of using Kool Aid to keep from using chemicals in your hair.
- Get your hair wet.
- Put gloves on to avoid the bright dyed skin that Kool Aid can give and work the powder into a thick coating on your wet hair.
- Wrap your head in Saran wrap and leave on for around seven hours minimum (Overnight is best). The longer it sits the brighter and more vibrant the color will be.
- Rinse well.
Here's a great example of how to dye Mermaid Hair from A Stash Addict.
A Video Tutorial
Kool Aid Playtime
In the end, there are many things you can do with Kool Aid besides drink it or freeze it. Dyeing your hair or wool for knitting is just two of many other ways you can have fun with the rainbow powder. You can even Tie-Dye with Kool Aid! The possibilities are endless and it is safe for the kids to use. Make up a pitcher of Kool Aid drink and make an outdoor play date this spring and summer for your kids and their friends.
Dye Wool Yarn with Kool Aid Tutorial
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Red heart super saver yarn is 100% acrylic, and cannot be dyed with the methods you are describing.
If only I was brave enough I would have red hair. Red is my favorite color. So I'll probably stick with the wool dye. This is so much cheaper and a whole lot more fun. Voted beautiful.
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Better Than Wrinkle Cream? Travel's Anti-Aging Effect
July 24, 2014 by Travelpro Staff · Leave a Comment
Here's a sobering statistic: In a study of 2,300 American workers who get paid vacation, only 25 percent said they take advantage of every day they're allowed. Sixty-one percent said they continued to work even while on vacation.
There are plenty of other blog posts — books, even — that could be written on American work culture and why we don't take advantage of the benefits of our jobs. This blog post is a plea to consider traveling more.
Travel Keeps You HealthyWhy? A recent article in the Dubai Chronicle documented the results of a survey several existing studies on leisure travel's health effects and found that it actually boosts cognitive and cardiovascular health, particularly in middle-aged people or older.
One study, for example, followed women from 45 to 64 years old for 20 years; women in the study who took vacation twice a year were at much lower risk of having a heart attack or dying of a heart-related disease than those who traveled every six years.
If you've encountered significant delays and other frustrations during your travels, you may feel the exact opposite. But I think that to reap the anti-aging effects of travel, you have to flip the old adage around: It's the destination, not the journey.
My Own Experience
I can personally attest to this, actually. My wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to travel to the Caribbean a fair amount, and it's absolutely essential for helping us relax.
A big part of the relaxation for me is shaking up my routine and immersing myself in a totally different environment and culture, away from my everyday lifestyle. Vacation is an opportunity to shake yourself out of your deepest ruts.
I am, unfortunately, often part of that 61 percent of workers who continue to work while on vacation, but it's for self-preservation. I go through my emails once a day and flag the important ones for my attention when I return. It only takes a few minutes and makes coming back to work the following week a lot less stressful.
I'd love to hear whether you connect with the findings of this survey. Do your vacations alleviate your stress levels? How do you cope with the stress of returning to a full inbox? Share your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.
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The Vacation Nation: Unlimited Paid Time Off
February 21, 2013 by Travelpro Staff · 1 Comment
One of our favorite business blogs is Spin Sucks, written by the PR company Arment Dietrich and its founder and CEO, Gini Dietrich. They frequently feature guest bloggers who are experts in their line of work, and we especially loved a post about paid time off (PTO) by Lindsay Bell, a relatively recent hire at Arment Dietrich.
Not that Lindsay is an expert in paid time off, but she's an expert in being a working stiff (in a former life, of course) and living among the ranks of "no vacation nation," otherwise known as professionals in the United States.
Of course, American workers have paid time off, but what little they do have is often eaten away at by life's little nuisances: sick kids home from school, a busted sump pump. Suddenly, those vacation days in your PTO bank are gone, and you're as pale, pasty and stressed out as you were before it ran dry.
Her post is about unlimited paid time off (UPTO), and we're rather intrigued by the idea. We've written about one company's revolutionary vacation policy , but there are less-extreme versions, too.
These company policies recognize that most American workers never actually stop working; it lets them strive for a greater work/life balance; and it implies a real sense of trust on behalf of management in the company's employees. Companies monitor the amount of time taken and still require notice for longer periods away from the office, but in offices with UPTO, employees no longer need to ask for a half-day just to go to the doctor or run an errand in a neighboring town. They just do it.
Our take: Whether you have five days or an unlimited amount, use your vacation time, for heaven's sake! And if your days are numbered, so to speak, don't just use those days off to run errands, pay bills or paint your house. See the world. Make it count.
We love the idea of unlimited time off, though it may not be practical for every industry. It's going to be hard to implement and monitor universally — we urge caution and careful thought for companies considering it — but we'll agree with Lindsay that times have changed, and it's time to start reevaluating policies like PTO at companies whenever possible.
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Travel Shows We Like
July 7, 2011 by Karen Amin · Leave a Comment
Travel enthusiasts are rarely asked about their favorite television shows. After all, who wants to sit in front of the TV when there are countless destinations to explore?
But, when the subject of favorite travel shows comes up, that's a different matter. There are a number of excellent programs available that enable frequent travelers — as well as committed couch potatoes — to vicariously experience exotic locales worldwide. Here are some of our favorites (with descriptions from each show's website):
- andiamo!: An award-winning travel series with a mission: to open the minds of individuals who want to experience life to the fullest, and enjoy all the finer things that life has to offer. As the series' host and travel expert at-large, Donna Perkins accomplishes this with a style and exuberance which can best be described as perfect. Travelpro is a co-sponsor of andiamo! which airs on all NBC-owned local stations, R & R, Family Net HD, Colours TV, America One and AMG.
- Samantha Brown: In her 10 years at Travel Channel, Samantha has visited dozens of countries, hundreds of cities and countless hotels around the world. She takes you to all of her favorite places and her go-to hotels, restaurants and activities. Plus, she shows you to her secret, off-the-beaten-path discoveries.
- No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain: As he continues to explore every corner of the globe in his Emmy Award winning Travel Channel series, Anthony Bourdain encounters the weird, wild and downright outrageous personalities and places that help define the international cultural landscape. It's the foreign food, however, that best captures the host's attention. In the world of a cook, an understanding and appreciation of how others eat is akin to discovering secret societies and cryptic subcultures.
- Rick Steves: Rick Steves advocates smart, affordable, perspective-broadening travel. Over the past 20 years, Rick has hosted over 100 travel shows for public television, and numerous pledge specials. His Rick Steves' Europe TV series is carried by over 300 stations, reaching 95 percent of U.S. markets.
- Rudy Maxa's World: Rudy Maxa is one of America's premier consumer travel experts whose writings and radio and television shows have helped save thousands of travelers both time and money. Rudy hosts a series of public television shows that are broadcast throughout North America on local PBS stations as well as in the United Kingdom, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and India on Travel Channel International.
- Peter Greenburg: Peter Greenberg is America's most recognized, honored and respected front-line travel news journalist. Peter is Travel Editor for CBS News, and appears on The Early Show, Evening News with Katie Couric, and across many CBS broadcast platforms.
So, if your next trip is months away, don't despair. You can see (and often taste) the world from your couch through these outstanding programs.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson had been working in secrecy for months when she finally got an opportunity to play footage of her new film for a fresh-eyed viewer — Beyonce.
The London-born director is making one of the most anticipated movies of 2015, an adaptation of E.L. James' bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy that ignited a guilty-pleasure publishing phenomenon in 2011 and exposed its mostly female audience of more than 100 million readers to an eyebrow-raising erotic storyline.
Last year, Taylor-Johnson brought scenes from the film to Beyonce's home in Los Angeles so the pop star could see how her music would underpin the steamy drama about a mousy recent college graduate, Anastasia Steele (played by Dakota Johnson), who enters into a sexually submissive relationship with an enigmatic young billionaire, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan).
"As the scene opened there was no context," Taylor-Johnson said, recalling the footage she shared with Beyonce. "There wasn't the slow meeting and the interview and the coffee shop. It was just, here's a hardcore sex scene, hey, nice to meet you. … I suddenly felt myself recoil. I suddenly thought, 'This is really explicit, and I don't even know this woman.'"
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Taylor-Johnson is going to be sharing those scenes with a much larger audience soon, when Fifty Shades of Grey arrives in theaters Feb. 13.
Like Star Wars and countless comic book movies, the film has an ardent and particular audience to please. Originally self-published as a piece of "Twilight" fan fiction, the book sprouted from the world of avid fandom, and, in a sign of how much those fans are hungering for the film, the trailer was the most watched of 2014, racking up 93 million YouTube views since its debut in July.
Coming out of 'Nowhere'?
Taylor-Johnson comes to the project with a distinct artistic vision, particularly about the film's sexual politics, and some valuable experience with devotees — her previous feature was the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. But with just one independent feature under her belt, she isn't the most obvious candidate to helm a big commercial studio film.
"I remember one of the Fifty Shades producers saying to me, 'Can you handle making a movie with such a big fan base?'" she said. "I reminded him I did make a movie about one of the Beatles. And it was a similar situation as soon as the casting began — everyone pitches in with 'you have to do this' and 'you can't do that.' So there must be some sense of needing a challenge that I throw upon myself."
Petite, with a bit of punk-rock pink in her hair, Taylor-Johnson, 47, is soft-spoken but direct. She projects a calm — perhaps it comes from her practice of Transcendental Meditation or perhaps it's that she's spent a lot of time in dark rooms recently taking executives' notes about thrusting.
A visual artist before she became a filmmaker, Taylor-Johnson has a knack for capturing men at their most vulnerable. She is perhaps best known as a photographer for "Crying Men," a 2004 series of actors weeping, including Robin Williams, Laurence Fishburne and Dustin Hoffman. Commissioned by London's National Portrait Gallery to film a video portrait of David Beckham, she opted to photograph the soccer star sleeping.
After directing short films, she made Nowhere Boy, which depicts how Lennon was shaped by two powerful women in his life, his mother and his aunt.
By contrast, Fifty Shades depicts an almost primitive male-female relationship, with a powerful man seeming to control a young, impressionable woman. At the height of the book's popularity, a Today show segment explored whether it promoted violence against women, and a Newsweek article suggested that empowered women were reading it because being a breadwinner was getting boring.
Taylor-Johnson's goal was to find the nuances in the relationship.
"The book appealed to me because it was a dark and tragic love story," she said. "I had a distinct approach to feeling that she was empowered even though she was in a place where she could be seen as a victim, and even though this relationship is about dominance and submission, to have it be an equal journey.
"It's pretty complex, and I'm constantly feeling like I'm on a knife's edge."
Moving to L.A.
Taylor-Johnson's own personal life reflects a willingness to flout convention — in 2012 she married Aaron Johnson, the English actor whom she cast as Lennon in Nowhere Boy when he was 19 and she was 42 and who now goes by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. She has four daughters, two with Taylor-Johnson and two from a previous marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling.
She moved her family of six from London to Hollywood while making Fifty Shades. "There's space and big skies and sunshine," she said of living in SoCal. "I have a much calmer lifestyle here, 'cause I can't have a mad life and work on a mad film."
Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades ride had an abrupt start. She had been haranguing one of the movie's producers, Michael De Luca, about another film he was planning when he asked her to come in for a meeting about directing the James novel, at the time among the hottest properties in town.
She assumed she was a long shot for such a high-profile project — other directors Universal Pictures was considering included Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Steven Soderbergh.
"My agent said it would be good practice for me," Taylor-Johnson said. "It was a room full of 15 people. It was really intimidating. I had cut together a mood reel. I had music ideas, boards of lighting. I really worked to make sure I was taken seriously.
"The next day they called me at 8 in the morning and said, 'You've got the job, and we're announcing it at lunchtime.'"
James was a hands-on producer. The author was in the room when Taylor-Johnson first made her pitch for the job, and she had approval over the script by Kelly Marcel, the casting and the wardrobe, which led to heated discussions, Taylor-Johnson said.
For one scene, the director wanted to modify a tight dress described specifically in the book.
"I said it's not right for this scene 'cause she wouldn't be able to dance in a dress that tight," Taylor-Johnson said. "And everyone goes to their panic stations." (Ultimately she won out, and the flowy dress is in the film.)
To cast Anastasia, she had actresses read, somewhat improbably, an intense four-page monologue from the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film Persona before settling on Johnson, an actress and model who is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith.
"Considering the world in which she grew up, Dakota has a very sweet, naive sensibility, but she has this inner strength and power which exudes onscreen," Taylor-Johnson said of her leading lady.
After a previous actor, Charlie Hunnam, fell through, Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan, known mainly for his television and modeling work, was cast as Christian Grey on the strength of his chemistry with Johnson.
With a roughly $40 million budget, Taylor-Johnson set about re-creating Grey's lavish lifestyle, including his personal helicopter, tailored gray suits and the red room where he deploys his whips and paddles.
Getting an 'R'
A final challenge was to secure an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board without sacrificing any of the heat that helped make the book a hit.
"We've edited it in a way where I feel proud," Taylor-Johnson said. "It's dirty but classy."
The studio has not announced whether it will make the second and third books, and Taylor-Johnson is mum about whether she'd participate. Mostly she's eager for audiences to finally see what she's had to keep hidden from nearly everyone but Beyonce.
"When the scene finished, Beyonce just went, 'Wow, that was hot,'" Taylor-Johnson said. "So I thought, 'OK, that was fun. That was a good day at the office.'"


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Every now and then we hate a software product, we hate it so much it gets our geek juices flowing and wanting us to write about it. Hence this mini essay-let on the 2wire DSL modem we have here in the apartment. Warning: Geeky rant.
I'm staying here in the "corporate apartment," and life couldn't get much better. A place to crash in the evening, pervasive wireless connected to high speed Internet, basic kitchen with essentials, a TV with a DVD player attached, company's own water (h. & c.), gas heater that manages to heat up the whole apartment, in short, if you had caught me in the clutch of winter, storms passing over the bay area, temperatures dropping to the 30s, and wondered aloud how I managed to have such a sunny disposition and still had a light step and a song on my lips, I would have been hard pressed not to divulge that while I would not go so far as to describe life as grand it was certainly not without its perks.
And yet in this lovely garden of Eden, we must have a snake-bitten curse, and here it is in the form of the DSL modem. To be fair, one assumes a product manager thought long and hard about a very real problem and probably believed he had found a fair solution to a pressing problem. But really? This was the best you could do?
Here's what happens: Every now and then, the DSL connection gets dropped. Why this should happen, I don't know, my DSL connection in India hasn't dropped for months on end, but this one does go away quite periodically, about a couple times a day in fact. But that's ok, it comes back fairly quickly also so one can't really find too much fault. But mark the effect on those of us using the Internet. Here you are, one minute twittering away on the facebooks, and what should you have but a web page returned to you saying: "The DSL connection is down."
The first time that happened, I thought, "Oh cool." After all who hasn't endured the little spinny thing on the browser go spinny, spinny, spinny while it says in the status bar "Looking up facebook.com…" and we're sitting there wondering what could be up with facebook all of a sudden, only to realize it's our Internet connection that's down, manifesting itself as an inability to look up hostnames. And suddenly all hostname lookups are returning ugly pages on the browser suggesting a variety of possible causes for the Internets being down when all along the modem could just have told us what the problem was: we've lost DSL. So, at a somewhat superficial level, it looks like 2wire took a real problem of flaky Internet connections and found a neat way to tell the end-user not to worry, it was just their DSL. But then you look carefully and realize what just happened. The DSL modem which is your DNS provider on noticing that the DSL is down just returns a CNAME of "gateway.2wire.com" for every hostname lookup, and "gateway.2wire.com" always resolves to 192.168.1.1 which is your local modem, which helpfully runs a web server that serves up the sad page.
At first blush this all looks very well, until the Internets start working again. Oh, now did you dig yourself into a hole. Your browser, helpfully caching DNS lookups for you, now has facebook.com CNAMEd to "gateway.2wire.com" in its local cache and keeps taking you to the silly modem, and the modem is happy to tell you that the problem has been resolved you should quit your browser and restart it to go online again. Quitting the browser presumably being their way of killing the DNS cache. But, Goddamn you 2wire, quit my browser? Are you fucking kidding me? Quit my browser? I never quit my browser. I live in my browser. My browser comes up when my machine comes up and doesn't go down until a few weeks later when I have to reboot to apply updates. I have a million tabs open. Do you know what it takes to quit my browser? Are you out of your fucking mind? Quit my browser, my foot. Tchah! And dare I say it, Pshaw!
The fundamental problem here is that you idiots hijacked a lower level symptom, i.e. DNS not working and attempted to resolve it via a higher level solution: i.e. a web page with buttons. But, what of non-browser applications? Will they all now try to connect to your silly modem? And how do you respond to them? What if I were trying ssh and it reported different keys and man-in-the-middle and all of that? What if someone were trying to VPN to work, and the modem had somehow been hacked? Have you morons never heard of the end to end argument in system design? You never, never try to solve a lower level problem at a higher level. Issues at a given level must be solved at that same level. Not higher. And God forbid, not lower. (Of course, Cisco has built an entire business breaking that exact principle, but we are here not to praise Cisco but to bury 2wire).
What really galls is that there are surely many other ways out there to solve this problem. A web proxy running on the modem, for instance, that hijacked all web requests and sent back a useful page when the modem was unable to connect to the Internet. Firefox-level application problem solved at the web-application layer. Perfect! And yet here we are, stuck with the silly 2wire solution, hijacking browsers around the world and screwing them over, asking them to quit their browsers. Quit your browser, indeed!
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In Which We Hate on the 2wire DSL Modem
Posted by anandrr on April 28, 2009
Every now and then we hate a software product, we hate it so much it gets our geek juices flowing and wanting us to write about it. Hence this mini essay-let on the 2wire DSL modem we have here in the apartment. Warning: Geeky rant.
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Three out of the six women nominated for Best Comedy Actress at the Emmys last year are now out of the race: Amy Poehler ("Parks and Recreation"), Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie") and Lisa Kudrow ("The Comeback") are all off the air now. That leaves three returning contenders: Amy Schumer ("Inside Amy Schumer"), Lily Tomlin ("Grace and Frankie") and four-time defending champ Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Veep"). So who will join them?
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Tonbone: I think it is a given that Ellie Kemper will be nominated for "Kimmy Schmidt" as long as the academy continues liking the show. I could see Tracee Ellis Ross being nominated for "Black-ish"; she is great. Lastly maybe Jane Fonda could be nominated alongside her "Grace & Frankie" co-star Lily Tomlin.
eastwest: I think one of the "Broad City" girls could surprise.
Rooney Moore: If Anna Faris misses again with these many slots, you know they just don't care about "Mom." I'd say Gina Rodriguez ["Jane the Virgin"] might be in the top 10 as well. She's been everywhere since the laat year. And sometimes it takes a year or two for Emmy voters to catch up on something.
sturnc: I know it won't happen, but Aya Cash should be nominated, and win for this past season of "You're the Worst."
leothescorpio: I feel like Gina Rodriguez has a legitimate shot this time around. Yes, her show is on the CW, but "Jane The Virgin" season two continued its acclaim and praise for Rodriguez, plus she made it back in at the Globes and Critics' Choice (not that these are an indication, but it only helps her case).
jhaddad: Tracee Ellis Ross and Ellie Kemper, obviously. For that sixth and final slot I am going back and forth between two actresses with history in this category: Lena Dunham ["Girls"] and Martha Plimpton ["The Real O'Neals"]. I could easily see either getting if no other competition arises.
John Kubicek: For some reason I feel like Gina Rodriguez could have a shot this year. She doesn't have the same buzz as last year, but with these three openings, anything is possible. Besides, I just keep thinking about how Tatiana Maslany had all the buzz in the world for the first two seasons and was snubbed, then got in for season three after most people had written her off.
TerenceFletcher: I have Constance Wu ["Fresh Off the Boat"] sneaking in and I'm wondering if this has any chance at all of happening or if I would be smarter to just put Melissa McCarthy ["Mike and Molly"] getting back in. Wu deserves it so much; she is consistently the best part of a very good show.
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@aaronpk Agree. At least when it (Twitter, Facebook, whatever) operates on such a massive scale.
@aaronpk But is this not a "problem" of any business? Like FB thinking about a proper user's timeline where sites have to pay for to be seen. Hmm, wait, I think I have to think about this and your post again.


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Composer/improviser of electronic music since 1989, after acquiring his first music computer, an Atari 1040st. Playing music for eleven years till then as a member of various bands playing mostly rock music. In 1988 he moved from the stage to the studio and started getting involved more in the composing and recording end of things. He has performed his music live at the Ambient Live festival, in Toronto. Right now his musical output easily falls into the "dark ambient" and "noise" genres. He aims to create music with intricate structures and abstract harmonies that distract consciousness by creating series of sonic backgrounds. According to his own words, he is able to conjure up both pastoral soundscapes and thrilling astral journeys. Among the people who have influenced him the most are: Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, Klaus Schulze, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, just to name a few.
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I am very jealous of this guy. Also, I start doing tech at my "new" church tomorrow. Yay? We shall see how it goes :-) I'm very excited to see what I can learn from working with a new system and under the tutelage of Scott T.
Contained within these pages are various and most likely random thoughts or ideas that may prove to amuse. I like to laugh at myself, and I hope you do too. However, I also hope that you are encouraged to think hard and think well (thank you, WorldView Academy!) May my life's purpose extend to this blog...I want to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
I am very jealous of this guy. Also, I start doing tech at my "new" church tomorrow. Yay? We shall see how it goes :-) I'm very excited to see what I can learn from working with a new system and under the tutelage of Scott T.
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Sometimes you don't even realize what you had until what might have been is no longer. "Could be" becomes "can not be." What do you take for granted?
I tend to take relationships for granted. This became glaringly apparent when I moved. I had the honor of witnessing two individuals unite in matrimony today, and was contemplating how that relationship would change every other relationship in their lives. Lifestyle changes have affected many of my friendships.
How grateful I am that my relationship with God will always be changing--for the better!
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Over the past few days, I've realized something. Growing up seems to involve growing hard and cold, jaded by the world's connivery. Did I just make up a word? Possibly...
I don't remember the first time I ever read I Corinthians 9, but I've held it up as a guideline for creating a Christian lifestyle. If I could describe my character, I'd use the word "flexible." I try to fit into most circumstances, befriend most people, for the chance I may be able to demonstrate the gospel to someone.
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.What is "character?" I decided today that character is defined by lines. Moral lines that delineate good from evil. Defensive lines that protect oneself from people of ill intent. Lines that show one's past. Lines leading to possible futures. These lines build on each other, forcing one's character into an increasingly rigid form. This process is certainly not harmful, but why do we have so many lines? Are certain lines necessary to be "grown up," "mature," or "attractive?" Should I constrain myself to appear more acceptable to others? Sometimes it seems I cannot remain "myself" while continuing to grow up in the world's eyes.
~I Corinthians 9:19-23
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Here are couple of thoughts when it comes to paid media and why it should be used as a part of a communication mix. Paid leads to earned It can be argued that it's the other way around, but again it has to do with the quality of the idea behind it
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Couple of Interesting stats on LinkedIn and their users in the Norwegian market. Norway has 1,7 million LinkedIn members The top 3 industries represented are Oil&energy, IT and government administration 290.000 members are decision makers They are in average 1,7 times more active compared to the average LinkedIn member in
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Global Social Media Marketing – Can You Afford Not to Think Globally?
Judging the 2016 UK Social Media Communications Awards
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Dem Rep. Massa Will Resign After Allegations of Sexual Harassment …Update: Says He's Guilty
Today's news from the Swamp…
Rep. Eric Massa (Democrat- NY) will resign from Congress following allegations that he sexually harassed a male staffer.
The Politico reported:
Democratic Rep. Eric Massa is expected to resign from Congress on Monday, only days after reports first surfaced that the freshman New York lawmaker was under investigation by the House ethics committee for allegedly sexually harassing a male staffer.
A House staffer with knowledge of the situation says Massa is preparing to announce his resignation and will break the news in the Corning Leader, his local newspaper, but several media outlets were already reporting the news Friday afternoon.
Massa, who was elected in November 2008, announced earlier in the week that he would not be seeking a second term following a cancer scare in December. He initially dismissed as "unsubstantiated" a POLITICO report that he was being scrutinized for improper advances to a junior aide in his office.
But the ethics committee formally announced on Thursday night that Massa was under investigation by the panel, although Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the chairwoman and ranking member of the committee, did not announce the reason for their probe.
More… Rep. Massa says he's guilty:
(Massa says) he does not know who reported him to House leaders or what was said.
"I can't subject my family and staff to a full investigation," Massa said. "It would tear us apart … It's not that I can fight or beat these allegations, I'm guilty."
…Massa is one of seven retiring House Democrats who represent districts won by McCain in 2008.
UPDATE: a Massa aide told POLITICO that Massa — who is married and has children — has been engaged in inappropriate behavior "for eight months."
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| Zaza
|9-10 years
|Assistant of the hostess at the Snoring Dragon Inn
| Jennyline (mother)
Zoria (stepsister)
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Audrey Pic (season 1) Catherine Desplaces (season 2)
Zaza is Jennyline's youngest daughter. She resides at the Snoring Dragon Inn as an assistant.
Also she has her own pet-friend – the giant pig, named Leopold.
It is known that Zaza's father's name was Roger; however, when she was a babbie, he escaped and never appeared in the tavern anymore. Instead of him there settled Lian-Chu and Gwizdo, and this has had a significant impact on her upbringing. This plucky little girl idolizes kind-hearted giant and has dreams of becoming a Dragon huntress when she grows up, like her elder stepsister Zoria, of which Jennyline disapproves.
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This little girl is very inquisitive and sometimes she retains only the vision of the obedience to her mother. In fact, Zaza is ready to go for any trick, to see the Dragon hunt with her own eyes. She spends most of her time at the inn, but occasionally joins the hunters on quests, often through her own means and sometimes successfully learns something new about how to deal with the Dragons. In the journey or at home, she is pretty able to be useful, thanks to her uncommon resourcefulness. As her mother, Zaza is illiterate for the present but is friends with the logic and occasionally acts as the voice of reason in a difficult situation, in the absence of other applicants.


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Apple is blowing in on the iCloud.
The term "cloud" has been over-used in the past year, and often used in the wrong meaning. But Apples iCloud will offer anywhere access to users' own media, documents and apps, which meets the requirements of the term "cloud".
iCloud is SWEET, sync all your iPhones, iPods and iPads!
As the future of mobile devices will be developed around the platform of personal access to users' own media over internet services. We are hearing rumors that iOS 5 will integrate iCloud. Users will be able to sync and store much of the same information they currently can with the company's existing MobileMe service, such as bookmarks, email, contacts, and iCal events, music, movies and apps.
Apples competition is running strong with their version of streamed bring – your-own-music services, and will have to offer more to internet – based media storage than Google and Amazon. They both have launched their cloud services within the last month and both offer pretty nice looking packages. You may want to look at all that is offered where Google allows participants to upload up to 20,000 songs to stream anywhere. Amazon is handing out 5GB (about 700 songs) free to everybody, but purchasing a single album, granted the user 20GB for a year at no extra charge.
Apple has been working on iCloud as far back as 2009, when it bought Lala, a business with strong technology and rights deals in the streaming music area. iCloud is preparing its services and holding-off on their launch, where Amazon does not have express written consent of the music industry's legal department. This will ensure a smoother launch. This may also mean fees and restrictions on storing your already purchased music.
Movies are presenting problems of security, where the door for ripped DVDs and pirated movies is wide-open. The movie industry is calm at the moment, because the cost of storage alone is prohibitive. Since movies files are huge and come wrapped tightly in the latest content security, Netflix streamed model is very popular. This would give users access to video without having to carry it around.
So the agenda of iCloud is music, video and apps, emails, contacts. The apps are easy for Google's whole Chrome platform is based around the idea of web-based software. Personal storage and back-up is thrown in the mix so everyone has a "locked safe" for your stuff. To round off that agenda, we might see more from the utilities that provide Internet access. They really need to perfect internet connectivity as there's more reliance as we shift to the clouds.
Some of the top features:
Notification Center – A single place that combines all notifications, by swiping your finger down from the top. Uh, a lot like Android.
Improved lock screen – Notification details appear on it. Swipe finger across the particular message to drop straight into that app. Text message? Swipe and you go right into the conversation.
Newsstand – Dynamic newspaper and magazine delivery system.
Twitter – Single sign-on, configured for Twitter for all apps you download from the App Store. You're logged in, and don't need to log in every time. As expected, you can Tweet photos right from Camera; also pages from Safari, maps from Map app, videos from YouTube, etc.
Mobile Safari – Safari Reader gives smarter views of stories, such as single page scroll for multiple-page stories; better page emailing. Reading List is a way to save stories you want to read, synced across Safari on Mac and Windows and all your iOS devices.
Reminders – Set up reminders, not just on time, but on place: "Remind me to call wife when I leave campus." As soon as you wander off, your notification appears.
Camera – Access from the lock screen, even if you have a passcode. You can now take pictures using the Volume Up button. Red-eye remove, crop and other edits right on the phone. Auto-focus lock for taking pics of squirrelly kids.
Mail updates – Indents, address dragging, flagging, searching entire contents of messages, swipe to inbox. Split keyboard for iPad.
PC Free – "We're living in the post-PC world." Customers want iPad as only device. Ready to go out of the box. Software updates are over the air, so you don't have to plug in. And now updates will be smaller: you'll just download what changes. And in apps, you can create and delete calendars, edit photos etc., all without a computer.
Games – More downloads, support for turn-based games. 50 million Game Center users.
iMessage – New messaging across all iOS 5 users: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (but apparently not Mac). You can send text, photos, video, and create groups. You can even get delivery receipts. Pushed to all devices. Works with Wi-Fi-only devices. Encrypted over-the-air. Even has an IM-style conversation mode, where you see when someone's typing.
Other features – Wi-Fi sync to iTunes, AirPlay mirroring for wireless TV viewing of content. New multitouch gestures, so you can flick between apps
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How do we keep the cost of medicines down?
On August 18th, 2014 In General
Treating diabetes swallowed up over £800m from the national NHS budget last year. It's a significant number that is, unfortunately, likely to rise again before it falls.
In our area more people have diabetes than the national average; 6.4% of people in North East Lincolnshire are diagnosed, costing us 10% of our annual budget. So many people in the area are affected by it, but do you know what it is?
Diabetes is a long-term condition where the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. There are two types; type 1 and type 2. Without going into the medical details of the condition all you really need to know is around 10% of people have type 1, while more and more people are being diagnosed with type 2. But 80% of type 2 diabetes cases could be avoided, or delayed through early detection.
The NHS needs to bring the amount of money it spends on treating diabetes down. One of the best ways to do this is to educate and support people to make simple lifestyle changes, so they can manage their condition better, and prevent people from developing diabetes in the first place.
We've teamed up with Care Plus Group and North East Lincolnshire Council to develop a pre-diabetes education and awareness programme that has been funded by the Health and Wellbeing Board. With the support of the pre-diabetes collaborative, members of the community are visiting local groups and employers to ask people a few questions about their lifestyle, family history and measure their waistlines.
Since the programme launched two months ago, 38% of people taking the pre-diabetes risk assessment were found to be in the moderate to high risk category. More recently, 16 people out of 31 were advised to go and speak to their nurse at an assessment session in Cleethorpes. There is help and advice available for people that want to improve their heath and ultimately do their bit at keeping the cost of unnecessary medication down.
If you're interested in finding out if you are at risk of diabetes, why not come along to one of the monthly 'time to measure up' group meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at Centre4, Wootten Road, Grimsby from 5pm. Local business can also request pre-diabetes risk assessments in their workplace too just contact Rachael Ogley on 01472 232266 to book a place.
In September we'll be introducing pre-diabetes sessions at my surgery too (The Roxton Practice in Immingham). This could be the start of big changes which could see us bringing the cost of diabetes medication down.
Dr Arun Nayyar
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Today what I want to do is to give my view on programing for flexibility. We can talk all day about the ins and out of flexibility, some tricks to better the stretches but, without getting into programing, most of this information will never become actuality.
First, let's talk about what "flexibility training" includes. For me, flexibility covers 4 areas:
- Structural balance: Stretching is needed to balance different muscle groups in which some are stiffer than others.
- Postural alignment: Stretching is used to maintain the correct length of muscles needed for good posture.
- Suppleness: Stretching is used to explore the mental aspect of it. You get into challenging positions, get a glimpse into your mental barriers, breathe, negotiate with your body, and get deeper. For some, this might be therapeutic on a very physical level, for others it might be even spiritual, as it points to the connection between your body and your mind. Working with things like trauma is included here.
- Range of motion: This is how most people think of flexibility: you get the splits, more shoulder flexion, etc.
I deeply believe all these areas are relevant and interconnected, and that they can be worked on by people who aren't stretching all day. I am a law student with many hobbies, and I think I can relate to people who can't seem to find time for all of this. Here's how to do it:
What you need to understand is that, whenever we have various goals and limited time, we need periodization. This is a fancy way of saying organization, on how you spend your energy at different places and times. Here are some key periodization insights by Jujimufu:
"First, the more you've done something, the easier it is to regain if you lose it, and the harder it is to lose. Second, the harder something is, the harder it is to keep. Third, the more experienced as a trainer you are, the more rapidly you can regain things you used to have but lost… because it's easier to regain something you once had than get it for the first time. Fourth, you can maintain two contradictory, intermediate things simultaneously in the absolute sense. But you cannot maintain two contradictory, difficult things simultaneously in the absolute sense."
Now, what this will mean is that you need to establish some priorities. Only when you know what you want, can you bring organization. I have talked before about The 7 fundamental stretching positions, which are the Pike, Pancake, Bridge, Front split, Side split, Shoulder extension and Squat, so I will talk around these areas.
Can you work on these 7 areas all at the same time? I bet most people can. What you need to do is to divide you training in things to maintain, and things to focus on. For the maintaining part, read the first two rules by Jujimufu. I for example can maintain the squat without barely training it, but for the front split I need a minimum of once a week of frequency. You need to figure out the minimum amount of work required to maintain any position, and this might shift not only between positions, but also as you get into more advanced stages in them.
Once you have done that, you have your base. This is your standard training, the things you are doing every week. If it isn't something sustainable, it means that it isn't part of your base, and that you aren't ready to train at that level just yet. So for example, things might look like this:
Example #1: A person who trains 3 times a week. The stretches are done in the cool down.
Day 1
Side split and Pike.
Day 2
Front split, Shoulder extension and Squat.
Day 3
Bridge and Pancake.
I program two daily stretches and on day 2 three of them, because the shoulder extension and the squat are relatively easy compared to the others.
Example #2: A person who trains 2 times a week. The stretches are done in the cool down.
Day 1
Side split, Bridge and Pike (rest between stretches in a Squat).
Day 2
Front split, Shoulder extension and Pancake (rest between stretches in a Squat).
As you can see, the less frequent you train the more you have to do each day, so you are faced with the decision of what to sacrifice. If you need to take stretches out, I would do it in the order of first the Front split, Side split, Pike, Pancake, Bridge, Shoulder extension, and only last the Squat (in that order).
Example #3: A person who trains 6 times a week. The stretches are done in the cool down.
Day 1
Side split and Pike.
Day 2
Bridge and Pancake.
Day 3
Front split, Shoulder extension and Squat.
Day 4
Bridge and Pancake.
Day 5
Side split and Pike.
Day 6
Advanced flexibility.
In this one, you get the chance to devote more time to certain stretches, which should be the ones that are hardest for you. As you have more time, you can explore more, so the Advanced flexibility is used as play time in which you try anything that you want, like the standing splits or yoga backbends.
As you see, programing is all about priorities. But don't worry, there are times in which I am the first example, and others in which I am the third. The important thing is to figure out a way of training what matters through a long period of time, however that looks like. This requires a system flexible enough to adapt to whatever life requires.
So once we have that base, we can take one or a maximum of two stretches and focus on them. You don't have to be doing this all the time, but doing so its what will improve your game. This focus periods should last a minimum of a month, and there really isn't a maximum, but I would put a threshold to it of 6 months. The only tip I would give is to change it periodically, so your body doesn't set into one adaptation.
How do we do this? We differentiate between Maintaining stretches and Accelerators. The first one are the positions per se, so your attempt on the front split or your chosen shoulder extension stretch. You can stay with these compound stretches and do them in what I have called here "The base", and you will get flexible.
But, just as in strength, isolation can really be helpful when integration is there. If you are doing all the time auxiliary exercises for all of your stretching positions, your body will never know what to prioritize. So if you have 100% energy for change, it has been divided into 7 positions, so only 14% for each one. You see the problem? The best thing is to keep a base you can maintain, and in times in which life provides more energy or time, you need a certain position quickly or are motivated to get it, prioritize a maximum of two stretches. At other times, just keep with your base, specially when training isn't a priority. These would be a example:
Example #1: A person who decided to prioritize for one month the Pancake and the Bridge. He is using any of the training splits given in the last examples, and does his focus or auxiliary stretches at times different than the cool down.
A1. Pancake good morning (5x10r, with a 10 sec hold at the end)
A2. Pullover (5x10r, with a 10 sec hold at the end)
B1. Butterfly pulses (3x20r)
B2. Downward dog pulses (3x20r)
This is done twice a week. When? Here's the thing: you can divide your auxiliary, isolation or focus stretches (let's call them Accelerators) by the time of the day in which they can be done, in this way:
Early morning: Ballistic stretches done before breakfast.
Warm-up: Mobilizations and Dynamic stretches done just before you train.
Training session: Loaded or Isometric stretches done while you train.
Cool down: PNF stretches done just after you train.
Late night: Passive stretches, myofascial releases and massages done before going to bed.
So, according to your disposition, just choose some stretches in these categories around one or two stretching positions (like the pike and shoulder extension) and really improve them for a month or two. After you do this, those positions will have been bettered while the others would have been maintained. After a number of times doing this, you can get to really good levels in all of the stretching positions, without loosing your mind trying to chase everything at the same time. It may all take more time, but it will be sustainable, meaning its forever there, and not a "30 day splits challenge" that makes you suffer and forever hate stretching.
So that would cover the range of motion part of stretching, but what about the others? I won't get into mayor details here, but I basically leave the suppleness portion for some pm sessions, and structural balance and posture I just do it through the day when I feel the need to. But this would be different for a person who is in a great need of those things.
For now, I believe these ideas of four areas of flexibility training, the logic behind periodization, the seven fundamental stretching positions, the division between Maintain and Focus, the use of a Base and Accelerators and between categories to organize your auxiliary stretches, are all good tools that I hope give you ideas on how to program your flexibility training. Remember this: no matter what the tools are, they are measured just by their capacity to provide the goals for you. So, in other words, use this or any programing guide you need to, but figure out a way to put in the works that matters.
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Over 363 million rubles for Yakutia to reconstruct the Cancer Center
- Published in Economy
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree approving the targeted allocation of subsidies to 22 entities for co-financing capital investments in 24 health facilities, the press service of the head and government of Yakutia reports.
In 2018, 363.8 million rubles will be allocated to Yakutia for the reconstruction of the radiological department for 30 beds of the republican oncology dispensary.
In total, the volume of distributed subsidies in regions of the Russian Federation is 16.4 billion rubles in 2018, almost 8.4 billion rubles in 2019, and in 2008 - 3.1 billion rubles.
The allocation of subsidies from the federal budget to the budgets of 22 entities for co-financing capital investments in state-owned objects of regions is provided for by the federal law "On the Federal Budget for 2018 and for the Planning Period 2019 and 2020" within the state program Health Development.


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Stories of Jesus evolved!
The episodes of the Reasonable Doubts podcast aren't being produced fast enough, so now I'm listening to 'back issues.'
This one, titled "Which Jesus?" presents straightforward "redaction criticism" with respect to the gospels in the modern New Testament canon.
As the speaker, Jeremy Beahan, explains, the gospels are not merely inconsistent with each other. Each gospel is unique in terms of how it depicts Jesus.
- The gospel of Mark has unique content that depicts Jesus as a misunderstood messiah.
- The gospel of Matthew has unique content that depicts Jesus as the son of God.
- The gospel of Luke has unique content that depicts Jesus as a rejected prophet and the savior of the world.
(Mark, Matthew and Luke are known as the synoptic gospels. There is strong evidence that Matthew is derived from Mark, and that Luke is derived from Matthew, with gaps of approximately 15 years between editions. )
- The gospel of John, which developed separately from the synoptic gospels, has unique content that depicts Jesus as God incarnate, "the Word of God," "the Lamb of God," etc.
Such discrepancies are typically shrugged off as just showing different facets of a complex person. But an objective study reveals the extent to which these depictions conflict with one another, as well as patterns in the ways that they conflict. For example, Mark shows Jesus as continually striving to keep his identity a secret, but Mark shows him as freely declaring his identity and shows others (Jesus' family, his disciples and even the wise men) as acknowledging it. A person may have a 'private side' and a 'public side,' but it seems far-fetched that the same person would seek to be as famous as a governor and as anonymous as a government-protected witness.
If Mark came first and Matthew and Luke show signs of being knockoffs, then it would be reasonable to conclude that Mark is closest to the truth — however close or far that may be.
More important, the mere possibility that any of the gospels is a rewrite of an earlier gospel calls into question whether the modern Bible really must either be accepted in its entirety or be rejected in its entirety. Does the whole Christian belief system really fall apart if one allows that some (or even all) books of the Bible may have been selected in error? If so, then I'd really like to know how the church (or, rather, the churches) got by for the first 330 years!
Posted on August 28, 2012, in Better explanations, Christian doctrine, Logic. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Orlando Massacre Latest in String of 'Lone Wolf' AttacksJune 13, 201602:16
The red flags that checkered Omar Mateen's life — a pair of FBI investigations, alarms raised by family and former colleagues — stacked up over the years.
And yet, Mateen was able to legally buy an AR 15-style rifle and a 9mm handgun just days before he carried out one of the deadliest shooting massacres in modern U.S. history.
There was a disconnect between the warning signs in Mateen's recent past and the ease of his ability to buy powerful weapons. It deepens the tragedy of his shooting spree at an Orlando gay night club over the weekend, which claimed the lives of 49 innocent people and wounded 53 more. But even in hindsight, few barriers would have likely prevented the gunman from carrying out the attack.
In this new era of homegrown terrorism and mass shootings, there are glaring gaps in the United States' model used to combat the full spectrum of extremism. Federal authorities frequently keep tabs on a network of individuals identified as potential terrorist sympathizers. Yet there's no universal approach toward de-escalating extremism outside of the criminal justice system. Short of catching a person actively conspiring to break the law, options are limited for families or even law enforcement to intervene before it's too late.
Federal agents launched a 10-month investigation into Mateen in 2013 for espousing Islamic propaganda at work. They opened a second inquiry just months after the previous one concluded, probing a potential link to an American citizen-turned suicide bomber in Syria. The FBI's conclusion: 29-year-old Mateen, born in New York, did not pose as a violent threat.
Related: Portrait of a Killer: Who Was Orlando Nightclub Shooter Omar Mateen?
FBI Director James Comey said on Monday that while he stood behind his agency's preliminary assessment into Mateen's past, it's exceedingly difficult to predict who among the many individuals on their radar would actually turn to violence. Mateen's own motivations appear contradictory and not purely faith based — the gunman once claimed to be linked to two radical groups that violently oppose one another.
"We're looking for needles in a nationwide haystack. But we're also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might someday become needles," FBI Director James Comey said during a press conference on Monday. "That is hard work."
How US compares to rest of world on gun lawsJune 13, 201603:53
The case exposes the pitfalls in combating "lone wolf" attacks on U.S. soil, tactics that, while encouraged by ISIS leaders, may or may not have direct ties to terrorism overseas. It becomes a slippery slope for policy makers when the potential perpetrators of attacks are American citizens.
Federal authorities have charged 88 people on terror-related offenses over the last two years, a significant rise in arrests unlike anything seen before. The vast majority of those charged were U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
In an exhaustive study of American recruits lured by terrorist groups, Seamus Hughes, an expert in homegrown extremism at George Washington University, found there was no clear profile to predict which individuals were likely to act on their extreme opinions and which were merely making a cry for help.
Related: Dealer Who Sold Orlando Massacre Guns: 'I Don't Make the Laws'
This creates a minefield of difficulties for law enforcement trying to walk a very fine line between taking an aggressive approach to counter terrorism and respecting the rights and civil liberties of American citizens.
"Our law enforcement are put into this untenable position of trying to prevent every single attack when you're never going to know what's in someone's mind," Hughes said. "How do you traverse those very difficult issues, especially in a country with a free society?"
Intertwined with the policy shortfalls is a contentious political debate over how to combat terrorism and gun violence. Suspected terror sympathizers can be placed under federal surveillance or on a no-fly list. Still, virtually nothing prevents them from legally obtaining a gun.
The Senate failed to pass an amendment in December that would have excluded suspected terrorists from buying guns and explosives. The stalemate mirrors other failed legislative efforts to strengthen background checks in the wake of equally devastating shooting tragedies in recent years.
Gun Store Owner: Orlando Nightclub Gunman 'Passed a Background Check'June 13, 201601:25
President Obama has used the waning days of his second term to sharpen his criticism of policy inaction on gun violence, repeatedly raising the risk that existing gun laws did little to prevent suspected terrorists from loading up on legal firearms.
In fact, earlier this month, Obama came eerily close to predicting the exact circumstances that led up to Orlando's mass shooting.
Asked about gun control at a PBS town hall, Obama recounted a scene inside the Situation Room from just earlier that day. The FBI had identified a number of people, including U.S. citizens, who were active on websites associated with terror groups. Yet their hands were tied in ensuring those individuals could not become more dangerous.
"This is somebody who is a known ISIL (ISIS) sympathizer," Obama said. "And if he wants to walk into a gun store or a gun show right now and buy as much — as many weapons and ammo as he can, nothing's prohibiting him from doing that, even though the FBI knows who that person is."


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I wanted to throw in my measurements that I took yesterday!!!!
Weight: 193
Chest: 39″
Waist: 33″
Lovehandles: 42″
Hips: 39.5″
Thighs together: 38″
Left Thigh: 26″
Right Thigh: 25.5″
Left Arm: 13″
Right Arm: 13″
Pants: 10
Shirt: Large
Bra: 36C
I'm testing a theory.
I've realized that perhaps me not having a definite goal in mind…that perhaps I'm not making myself push towards something.
At this point I've got this whole mindset of "I don't care when I lose the weight by…I just want to lose the weight.
Which, honestly, is good thinking…. in some senses. If I don't have a goal (further than one week) then how can I expect myself to actually lose weight? Don't get me wrong, I want to…. definitely want to…. but I think that if I were to actually set monthly goals… then I might actually be more hard on myself to lose weight.
Because right now…it's a case where eating bad foods isn't really a thought in my mind. I just kind of hit this point where it's all like…. "well at least I'll lose weight"
Which hasn't been working out for me these last month or so…. so I'm going to put some goals that have expiration dates on them. Even my goal poster… I just have "Hit 180 pounds" which is a great goal (not trying to be concieted) but as long as I git that goal I'll be happy. I need to push myself a little bit more, just so that I'm not "fat" forever. You know?
So I think that I am going to do monthly goals.
Realistic goals. At this point I'm thinking 6 pounds a month. That is 1.5 pounds a week. Seems reasonable to me. Especially since I can healthily lose closer to 2 a week.
So this is kind of what I'm thinking for myself.
It's going to be kind of strange at first because it's going to be in 4 weekgroups…. so it isn't going to be March 1st, April 1st, May 1st… that kind of thing… strictly going with Weeks…. I'm kind of 1/2 way through the week so my first week will be next week… got it???
March 7th – 191
April 4th – 185
May 2nd – 179
May 30 – 173
June 27 – 167
From here I'm only going to try to lose 4 pounds every 4 weeks (1 per week)
July 25 – 163
August 22nd – 159
September 19 – 155
October 17th – 151
November 14th – 147
So… right around November… I should hit my goal weight. Hopefully. It leaves room for weeks that I lose less than what I'm hoping….or weeks that I lose more.
So… I'm hoping to do really good.
I need to be accountable to what I'm putting into my mouth, and how much I am working out.
We'll see how it goes.


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Update January 21, 2016: This post is part of the WPMU DEV Blog archive and contains information that is out-of-date, but we're keeping it on the blog for posterity. For all the latest WordPress news and resources, check out our latest posts.
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A couple of years ago we actually released an (much) older version of the theme on the free site – but were then inundated by issues with it being used for splog sites (hence putting it on Premium this time).
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More cool CMS / Frontpage themes will be coming to WPMU DEV Premium soon, too.


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Digging through the the Mac OS X Lion beta, Consomac found strings for "Castle", which looks to be the codename or the next generation MobileMe.
Complete your Castle upgrade
Click OK to open System Preferences and complete your upgrade from MobilMe to Castle
"Castle" could be the placeholder for iCloud, if Apple chooses to go with that name, but given the "upgrade" language in the string, it looks to be more than just a name change at least. We've already conjectured about what could be included in the next generation MobileMe, and that WWDC 2011 in June could be when the announcement is made.
What remains to be seen is how Apple will tie sync with cloud storage, and what if anything will bridge it's still disparate social services including Ping and Game Center?


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After serving 12 years as a U.S Army infantryman, Stephen Walsh had quite an adjustment when he started at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University last fall.
The 30-year-old's world went from fighting in war zones on two deployments in Iraq and another two in Afghanistan to attending classes with 18-year-olds who were the same age he was when he enlisted.
"The year I joined the Army is the year they were in kindergarten. It's an odd feeling," said Walsh, now 31, and an Aeronautical Science major studying to become a commercial airline pilot.
Dan McCabe, 30, who served in the Army for almost seven years as a mechanic, had a similar adjustment period when he left military life in April 2013. He was deployed to Iraq and additional duty stations working on Humvees and other vehicles.
Following service, McCabe spent three years at various jobs before enrolling at Embry-Riddle in January 2016 in the Homeland Security degree program. When he first started, he went to class, did his homework and went home. It felt almost like a job, he said, until he joined the Student Veterans Organization (SVO) on the Daytona Beach Campus with students who have his same military experience.
Both McCabe and Walsh also found camaraderie at Embry-Riddle's Veteran Student Services, which provides a host of assistance from helping veterans apply for benefits to tutoring, counseling and textbook lending. Now McCabe, who is president of the Student Veterans Organization, and Walsh, the veteran representative on the Student Government Association, are helping other veterans adjust and spreading awareness of services on campus.
"When you get out of the military, it's a different mindset and lifestyle," McCabe said. "We always had direction and we had a purpose. That can be difficult to find when you leave. We try to aid with that."
The veteran leaders not only believe veterans can benefit from being more involved in the college experience, but hope the general student population will interact and participate more in activities with veterans to help bridge the age gap.
"Anytime there's a veteran's event, I want to try to get everybody involved. Everybody is an Eagle first," said Walsh, who is also now in the Army National Guard.
Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus has 710 students who are veterans, active duty, dependents of veterans or selected reservists, which makes up 12 percent of the student population on campus. The university has repeatedly been designated as a top Military Friendly School for its commitment to embracing military students and dedicating resources to ensure their success in the classroom and after graduation.
To help reach more veterans and the overall student population, the Student Veterans Organization is participating in more activities on campus from tailgating at sporting events to helping with campuswide activities, including most recently helping to sponsor the True to the Blue 5K during Homecoming. The event benefited the Ashley Guindon Memorial Scholarship. A Marine Corps veteran and alumna, Guindon died in the line of duty on Feb. 27, 2016 - her first day as a Police Officer in Prince William County, Va.
On Nov. 6, the Student Veterans Organization is sponsoring a free public showing of the movie Almost Sunrise at 7 p.m. in the Willie Miller Instructional Center Auditorium. The documentary about resilience and recovery follows two Iraq veterans, who struggle with depression upon returning home, and their journey on a 2,700-mile walk across America. The student organization hopes veterans and other students will see that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is manageable. One of the veterans in the film, Anthony Anderson, will also share his experiences at the event.
At Embry-Riddle's Veteran Student Services, where the Student Veterans Organization has an office, both McCabe and Walsh have received various services. Veterans are provided assistance in receiving their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits along with Embry-Riddle's Yellow Ribbon Scholarship, which combined provides for 100 percent of tuition and fees for those who qualify. Veteran Student Services also provides students with private study areas, tutoring by fellow student veterans, use of computers and printers, a snack area and notary public services.
"The people who work there are great," Walsh added. "They are very patient and spell everything out for you since the paperwork can be complicated."
In addition to providing advisory counseling and referrals, Veteran Student Services also monitors the progress and eligibility status of students; assists them in resolving problems that may arise at the university or the Department of Veterans Affairs; fosters peer connections and coordinates university and community support.
A new program is lending textbooks and calculators to veterans. Career help is also provided once a week, assisting with resumes, cover letters, internships and other resources.
Dawn McGowan, director of Veteran Student Services, who teaches a course for veterans, tells the students to "Take advantage of everything the university has to offer. Don't become isolated."
A Veterans Ambassador Program, made up of student veterans, provides peer mentoring while a Faculty-4-Veterans group of faculty across campus gives students professional and academic guidance. Speakers from various organizations in the community also come talk to veterans, including the Daytona Beach Vet Center and Daytona Beach VA Outpatient Clinic.
"Veteran Student Services gave me the opportunity to talk to other veterans which made the transition from military life smooth and manageable," said Steven Singleton, who started at Embry-Riddle in the fall of 2013 after 23 years in the Army. He received assistance with applying for Vocational Rehab & Employment benefits and other services.
Singleton, who worked on OH-58D helicopters, was in the Gulf War; spent three separate one-year tours in South Korea; and two combat tours in Iraq. He received his bachelor's degree this past spring in Aerospace and Occupational Safety and is seeking a Master of Science in Aeronautics specializing in Aviation Safety Management Systems.
Tyler Warner, 25, a junior majoring in Computational Mathematics as well as Computer Science, works as a student assistant in Veteran Student Services answering questions and processing paperwork. He was in the U.S. Marine Corps serving in an artillery unit as a surveyor/field meteorologist for four years before enrolling at Embry-Riddle in 2015.
"I want to pass on to the other veterans the smooth transition that I was able to receive," Warner said.
Going back to college in his 50s was also an adjustment for U.S. Navy veteran Mark Angiolillo. He started at Embry-Riddle in Fall 2016 majoring in Aviation Maintenance Science after raising a family and holding various jobs since his military service. Angiolillo served in the Navy for seven years until 1989, including as a flight deck director moving aircraft around the flight deck, preparing for launches and receiving aircraft. Veteran Student Services has been "invaluable," he said, not only coordinating his benefits, but referring him to Embry-Riddle's Disability Support Services, which assisted him with a desk that allows him to stand and sit because of medical issues.
"The veterans at Embry-Riddle are a close-knit group of people who respect one another and support one another and I feel that is partly due to the comfort level felt at Veteran Student Services. They are amazing, friendly and personable," Angiolillo said.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the world's largest, oldest and most comprehensive institution specializing in aviation, aerospace, engineering and related degree programs. A fully accredited university, Embry-Riddle is also a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. A nonprofit, independent institution, Embry-Riddle offers more than 100 associate, baccalaureate, master's and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts & Sciences, Aviation, Business, Engineering and Security & Intelligence. The university educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., through its Worldwide Campus with more than 135 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia, and through online programs. For more information, visit erau.edu, follow us on Twitter (@EmbryRiddle) and facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity, and find expert videos at YouTube.com/EmbryRiddleUniv.