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Emory oak occurs in many communities along diverse elevational and moisture gradients from pine-oak (Pinus spp.-Quercus spp.), Madrean evergreen, and open oak woodlands to interior chaparral, semidesert grasslands, and savannas [15,32,67,78,123]. Emory oak is a codominant or subdominant species in all community types of the pine-oak woodlands of higher elevations [8,27,85]. It is an indicator species in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Apache pine (P. engelmannii), and Chihuahua pine (P. leiophylla var. chihuahuana) habitat types and border pinyon (P. discolor) community types [1,76,82,116]. In pinyon-juniper (Pinus spp.-Juniperus spp.) woodlands, Emory oak is a codominant or an indicator species [17,47,51,74,80]. It is an important understory species in pinyon-juniper stands [94]. Emory oak is dominant or codominant with Arizona white oak (Q. arizonica), Mexican blue oak (Q. oblongifolia), and juniper in Madrean evergreen and open oak woodland series [6,16,42,79,85,98]. Emory oak is the most characteristic tree of encinal or oak woodlands in the border region of Mexico and the United States [57,64,66]. In the Chihuahuan Desert, Emory oak is codominant with gray oak (Q. grisea), Graves oak, and Mexican pinyon (Pinus cembroides) [24,46,116]. Emory oak is occasionally present in the interior chaparral as a subdominant shrub or as one of the taller evergreen oaks. These interior chaparral communities occur discontinuously and extend into the wetter Madrean evergreen woodland [40,58,59,91,124]. Emory oak, gray oak, and Chisos oak (Q. chisoensis) form savannas at the periphery of grama (Bouteloua spp.)-bluestem (Andropogon spp.) associations [30,32]. Emory oak is a minor species in open savannas of velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina)-turpentine bush (Ericameria laricifolia)-burroweed (Isocoma tenuisecta) associations [122]. Emory oak is known as an upland species but also occurs in riparian associations. It is a codominant to infrequent tree in Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii) and Arizona walnut (Juglans major) community types [61,65,112,115]. Emory oak occurs in mixed broadleaf community and vegetation types with Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica) [98]. Some of the publications in which Emory oak is listed as a dominant or indicator species are: (1) Classification of the forest vegetation on the National Forests of Arizona and New Mexico [1] (2) Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of Arizona south of the Mogollon Rim and southwestern New Mexico [6] (3) Forest habitat types south of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona and New Mexico [31] (4) Classification of mixed broadleaf riparian forest in Tonto National Forest [61] (5) A forest habitat type classfication of southern Arizona and its relationship to forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico [82] (6) Plant communities of Texas (Series level): February 1992 [116]. Succulent species associated with Emory oak but not previously mentioned in Distribution and Occurrence include Echinocereus ledingii, Mammillaria viridiflora, and Opuntia spinosior [56].
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Ramp up marketing now to capitalize on recoveryPosted on Written by Wanda Kenton Smith
Wow! Good news for a change. I've heard positive reports from exhibitors at major boat shows in four different parts of the country – Newport, R.I.; Annapolis, Md.; Long Beach, Calif.; and Fort Lauderdale. I'm treating this encouraging show buzz as a sign we may be turning a corner.
Why so much credence in boat show reports? It's because I've found that in these tough times, most company executives have abandoned puffery and spin and become more candid in their assessments of business conditions.
Like others, I temper my optimism with caution. I'm just not certain whether what we're seeing is a short-term anomaly or the emergence of 18 months of pent-up demand. Time will tell.
Whether it's a brief microburst or something more substantial, companies that want to cash in whenever the recovery comes must be aggressively active.
All it takes is a glance at the skinny sizes of the leading marine magazine titles to determine that advertising budgets have been slashed. From my perspective, too many marine businesses have been in hibernation mode. The time to reawaken your marketing activities is now.
A few companies have continued to aggressively market through the sales drought and some of them were recognized during the Marine Marketers of America Neptune Awards program at the Fort Lauderdale boat show.
I was impressed by the high-quality work submitted by 19 companies and agencies. From ads to newsletters, product literature, e-blasts and examples of marketing innovation, there was evidence that marketing has continued to thrive in some pockets. Bravo to those firms that have kept their marketing efforts on course. I bet they're among the first to see the benefits of a turnaround.
In addition to the awards, NMMA chief marketing officer Carl Blackwell delivered a superb keynote presentation, explaining how the NMMA is using social media in its overall marketing activity and as part of the Discover Boating campaign.
I've often been a Monday morning quarterback when it comes to our industry's consumer campaign – both in its creative aspects and its funding priorities. I've staunchly championed the outreach, but I've argued that more emphasis should be placed on attracting former boat owners and less on the wider population.
What I heard from Blackwell, however, was inspiring. The NMMA deserves a standing ovation. Its skeleton crew has done an awesome job of juggling multiple balls and figuring out how to convert a limited amount of money into some high-impact, economical marketing activities.
Blackwell made the case for NMMA's leap to social media, noting it has emerged as the top-ranked activity on the Internet. Some of the data he shared:
- Facebook has more than 250 million users (equivalent in numbers to the fourth-largest country in the world).
- The 44-plus age segment represents the largest growing demographic.
- YouTube runs several billion videos monthly.
- Twitter is growing at a rate of 1,300 percent a year, and has 20 million viewers.
- Technorati, the largest portal of blog content, reaches 13 million viewers monthly.
These are mind-blowing numbers.
Among the things NMMA has done right on its limited budget is to host a terrific "I Discovered Boating" contest on several populated sites. The contest produced an avalanche of original video and photo content from boaters across the country. For a measly $30,000 in prizes, the NMMA was able to cobble together four emotionally powered TV spots that, in my estimation, are better in many ways than the slick "boating wave" and "spot the dog" messages produced by a big-bucks agency.
Granted, these new TV spots are homespun and lacking professional polish, but they ring with authenticity, warmth and honesty. Two of them really struck an emotional chord with me, and I am not alone. I believe they will engage prospective boaters with a message about how the boating lifestyle has positively impacted lives and relationships.
I was also delighted to see four different boating segments showcased: sailing, fishing, water sports and general interest. Dollar for dollar, this was a very clever promotion that delivered an excellent ROI. I look forward to the integrated and viral marketing campaign scheduled to launch in 2010.
Other smart initiatives launched recently include a new social room with a daily boating blog on DiscoverBoating.com, as well as Twitter and Facebook updates, Boat TV with Boating Guy videos, an advice archive with most-frequently-asked questions and a Discover Boating channel on Technorati. The channel has already generated 5 million impressions, 124,000 visits during the contest and 3,200 DiscoverBoating.com visits, with 2,468 of those visitors using the boat selector tool.
NMMA also is using social media to promote its boat shows. Its Facebook site claims 7,000 opt-in fans already. It is also delving into other new frontiers like wikiHow, where it recently enjoyed "rising star" home page positioning for "best new article" – a piece on boat maintenance.
While I'm an avid user and devoted student of social media, Blackwell shared several new apps and a wealth of resources.
What really blew me away, however, was a quick chat with NMMA honcho Thom Dammrich at the conclusion of the event, when he let me steal a peek at his hand-held, which revealed literally dozens of tweets that had exploded about Blackwell's presentation … several before he was even done, courtesy of Twitter alerts. Talk about being in the moment – that was amazing.
While the presentation was packed with positive strategies, Blackwell cautioned marketers to use care in these social media applications and platforms – especially in the use of blogs and forums. He demonstrated what can happen when companies "don't pay attention" by showing a YouTube video excerpt from Domino Pizza employees, in which two pizza-makers add their own gag-inducing ingredients to the dough. Ugh. The company CEO had to make a somber apology in an attempt to quell the cyber firestorm.
I couldn't agree more about the need for vigilance in protecting your brand's reputation online. The NMMA has already been the victim of a cyber masher who sabotaged the online Discover Boating video with inserts of disturbing war images.
As for capitalizing on a boating business recovery, every marine company needs to carefully analyze its marketing activities and strike now while we're feeling the first bite. There are plenty of media and marketing firms hungry to earn your business. Even if your budget is tight, allocate a sufficient amount to target your top-tier customers. Find out where they go to get their information and drop your marketing anchor there. If you don't know, ask.
None of us has time, resources or energy to waste. The clock is ticking, and sales are starting to turn. Can you really afford to miss the boat?
Wanda Kenton Smith is president of Kenton Smith Marketing (www.kenton smithmarketing.com) and president of Marine Marketers of America (www. marinemarketersofamerica.com). For information and future topic suggestions, e-mail her at wanda@kenton smithmarketing.com.
This article originally appeared in the December 2009 issue.
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My favorite kind of cookies are typically the unassuming ones. The cookies that look on the plainish side. If they are all sprinkles and shine then I'm probably not all that interested.
Cookies like these chocolate chip ones have nothing to hide. They are what they are.
Okay. That's not totally true. What they are hiding is hot sauce and cayenne pepper that will smack your taste buds into tomorrow.
The combination of chocolate and spice is and oldy but a goody and you'll find these totally addicting thanks to it.
Chili Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 3/4 cups unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon Sriracha
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips
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1) Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large bowl, use a hand mixer or a stand mixer with the paddle attachment to cream together butter and sugars until they are light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla and sriracha hot sauce.
2) In a small bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter base and mix until the flour disappears. Try not to overmix the dough.
3) Fold in the chocolate chips with a large spatula.
4) At this point you can chill the dough for later if you want or bake them immediately.
5) To bake, portion out heaping tablespoons of dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Give the cookies plenty of room. I like to do 6 per sheet.
6) Bake the cookies at 325 degrees F. for 12-15 minutes until they are lightly browned around the edges. Let cool for 5-10 minutes before eating.
Spicy Dough!
I love making cookie dough so much. It's practically a food group for me this time of year.
The base for this dough is pretty standard.
To the flour and baking powder base, I added some cinnamon and a small spoonful of cayenne pepper. I used 1/4 teaspoon of spice and I think I would up it to 1/2 teaspoon next time. I could've handled more heat in my cookies.
You can easily make this dough using a stand mixer or a hand mixer. Even though I have a stand mixer, I used the hand variety just to mix it up.
Just cream together the butter and sugars until they are a light, fluffy consistency and then add in the eggs. You should do them one at a time, but I forgot.
Then add in the vanilla and a big squirt of sriracha.
To be honest, I didn't measure this. I just eyeballed it at about a tablespoon. You could use any hot sauce really (because I guess there is now a sriracha shortage). I would stay away from hot sauces that have very strong flavors like habanero or probably even tabasco. Something on the milder side (for hot sauces) works well.
Then mix your dry ingredients into the wet and fold in the chocolate chips using a spatula or big spoon.
Baking the Cookies
You can refrigerate the dough if you want, but I just made them right away in this case.
Scoop heaping tablespoon-sized balls onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Give the cookies plenty of room to expand. I only do 6 per sheet.
If you wanted to be really finicky you could weigh your cookies, but unless you run a bakery that's probably not necessary.
Bake these bad boys in a 325 degrees F. oven for 12-15 minutes until they are just browned around the edges. I like mine still on the chewy side.
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These had a great chocolate flavor and the spice kind of snuck up on you. You might not get much of it on the first bite, but by the end of the cookie it will be tickling your tongue.
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VALPARAISO | An attempt to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed the building at 204 Lincolnway will have to wait until demolition of the east wall of the building is completed.
The demolition began Thursday and is expected to take several days, city officials said. The proximity to the Sievers Insurance building next door means it will have to be dismantled almost brick by brick. Assistant Fire Chief Dan Lamb said he probably will be able to begin digging for the building's boiler by Tuesday.
"I originally thought (the starting point of the fire) might have been on the first floor, but it's turning out to be the basement," Lamb said. "I learned in interviews with (firefighters) on the first run of heavy fire in the basement."
He had workmen for G.E. Marshall, the company doing the demolition, move most of the debris away from the boiler, but the wall will provide a new layer of rubble to dig through.
"It's really a mess over there," Lamb said. "I kind of feel insignificant with all the debris lying around. The boiler has flooring on it. I didn't want it all off because they will be throwing bricks down."
The fire was called in at 1:30 a.m. Monday, and firefighters were at the scene dousing hot spots until about noon Tuesday, when Lincolnway was reopened to traffic. Michigan Street remains closed for the cleanup.
Lamb said insurance investigators were warned to get away from the scene Thursday because of the danger of falling bricks and the presence of two feet of water in the basement. Gas and electric service reportedly was back on for the surrounding businesses by Thursday.
"The snow didn't help because it covered things up," he said. "I wish we could get through one winter without a big fire."
According to fire department records, the city has had at least one major fire every winter dating back to at least 2009 with the Central Elementary School fire. That one was reported at 9:41 p.m. Jan. 23, and the temperature was 10 degrees. Other winter fires included:
- Dec. 30, 2009 - a fire in an apartment building at 1808 Chicago St. burned through the roof. Reported at 8:42 a.m., the temperature was 28 degrees.
- Jan. 13, 2010 - an overheated fireplace at 4413 Masters Road caused a fire that was called in at 9:22 p.m. with 26-degree temperatures.
- Feb. 20, 2011 - a busy day that started with a fire at 1:15 a.m. at 297 W. Joliet Road. The temperature was 28, and the house was destroyed when the fire went undetected for some time. At 9 that evening, a second fire was reported at 502 Union St. in the basement of an apartment. The temperature had dipped to 25.
- Nov. 16, 2011 - winter hadn't started yet but the temperature was 36 when firefighters were called at 12:47 p.m. to a fire in a condo at 2923 Foggy Glen.
- Dec. 20, 2011 - on winter's eve, the Applebee's restaurant at 670 Morthland Dive was damaged by fire that started about 11:45 p.m. The temperature again was 36.
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Growing up in a community of Jewish astronomers and scientists in Pasadena, Calif., meant searching for God while exploring the heavens
Shortly after Thanksgiving, on a crystalline November morning, I drove up the 210 freeway and into the wild valley of the Arroyo, past La Cañada High School, and onto the heavily guarded JPL campus. Cradled by the mountains, dotted with pine trees and paved courtyards amid its cluster of beige multi-storied buildings, JPL bears a misleading resemblance to a lower-end state university. I had come to JPL to meet with Bonnie Buratti, senior research scientist on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. She was also the host of that Seder my friend Elana had recounted for me.
"Quite often, a matzo ball or two ends up very dense," Buratti had explained to me. "I refer to these duds as 'neutronium balls,' after neutron stars. These are very dense stars, at the end stage of stellar evolution, made up almost entirely of neutrons, rather than hydrogen and helium atoms."
We met in the visitor's center, where a small gift shop hawked astronaut ice cream alongside JPL-branded lip balm. Before taking me to her office for a chat, Buratti led me to a sort of operating theater, where we looked down on workers covered in baggy white jumpsuits building a peculiar six-wheeled buggy. "That's the Mars science lab," Buratti said. "It's going to go to the surface of Mars and look for evidence of life and the water cycle."
Buratti grew up in Bethlehem, Pa. Her father worked for Bethlehem Steel, and she was fascinated as a girl by machinery large and small, the oilier and dirtier the better. "I've always been a tinkerer, interested in math and science and how things work," she told me. She studied at MIT as an undergraduate and got her doctorate at Cornell. She was drawn to astronomy by the sheer wonder of it and the beauty of math, and she came to JPL in 1983 as a post-doctoral fellow to work on data from the Voyager mission. She has found astronomy to be a comfortable fit with Judaism and likens the scientific process to the Talmud, each with their evolving models of interpreting data, drawing on and correcting the work of previous generations. On the day we met, she was wearing a small silver pin from the local synagogue's Torah fund.
Buratti's work taps into mysteries hidden in the farthest reaches of the solar system, yet she does not believe that astronomy can ever fill in the complete picture. "Science is a process where you keep asking, and you keep expanding," she says. "But I definitely think there's something beyond what science can answer. It's never going to answer the why—why are we here?"
She sees a spiritual connection between her life as a scientist and her life as a Jew. "You could get kind of corny and say that the feeling of scientific discovery is the same awe that you experience from religious awe," she says. "I think there is some truth to that. It's this ineffable sense of modesty that we have, that we are just one little part of creation, and just to be in awe at our part."
She notes, however, that the more militaristic culture of JPL is often a harder place for Jews than academia. "It's mission-oriented, so you have to get these things done. That isn't as conducive to Jewish culture and the Jewish style of questioning and having many ways of looking at things."
From my parents' front yard, on a clear day, you can see the white towers of the Mount Wilson observatory rising up amid the pines and chaparral of the San Gabriel Mountains.
The Carnegie telescopes, brought up the mountain roads by mules nearly a century ago, delivered the evidence for two of 20th-century cosmology's most startling revelations. In 1924, Edwin Hubble discovered through the 100-inch Hooker telescope that there were other galaxies in the universe beyond the Milky Way. A few years later, Hubble presented that evidence showing that the other galaxies were rushing away from us, meaning that the universe was expanding. These discoveries profoundly affected our understanding of the cosmos, calling into question the static model of the universe endorsed by Newton, and clearing the path that led to the idea of the Big Bang.
Wendy Freedman's work at the Carnegie Observatories draws on Edwin Hubble's discoveries to probe some of the grandest mysteries of the universe. She came to Pasadena from Toronto in 1984 as a Carnegie post-doc studying the formation of stars in nearby galaxies. "If you wanted to do optical astronomy, then the place where essentially all of the history of astronomy in the 20th century had taken place was the place to come," Freedman tells me. "This was just the center of that universe." She was the first woman to join the observatories' permanent staff, a position she held when my mom was there. In 2003, she became the director of Carnegie.
Freedman grew up in what she calls a "culturally Jewish" family in Toronto, and she deeply values the traditions that bind her to her parents and grandparents. "I think the reverence for learning is very conducive to a scientific process and career," she says, noting that she has a lot of Jewish colleagues. "It's an openness and curiosity, a desire to study and to question."
Much of her career has been spent pursuing a totemic number called the Hubble Constant, which describes the expansion rate of the universe. This figure holds implications for the age of the universe, its origins, and perhaps its future.
In 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Rising high above the distortions of the earth's atmosphere, Hubble sent back dazzling spacescapes that looked like watercolor paintings from a fevered Jules Verne devotee. It also sent back clear data from stars that were once unthinkably remote. As one of the three principal investigators on the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project, Freedman used the telescope's findings to calculate the Hubble Constant to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever been possible before. In 2001, Freedman and her group announced the project's final measurement of the Hubble Constant as 72 kilometers per second per megaparsec, suggesting that the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
"The fact that you can test a theory and that you can make measurements with a telescope that actually allow you to gain greater insight into the nature of the universe that we live in, it's something for me that that has made this a very rewarding career," Freedman says. She is continuing to work refining the certainty of the Hubble constant, as well as examining the mysterious repulsive force called dark energy, which is pulling the universe apart and causing its expansion to accelerate.
Like Marshall Cohen, Freedman marvels at the notion that human beings can perceive and understand something on so vast a scale. "People will sometimes say oh, well, we're so insignificant compared to this vast universe," she says. "And I think it's actually more miraculous that here we are on this planet earth and we've evolved as a species to a level of consciousness where we can ask questions about the universe and make measurements.
"I put science in the same category as music and art: uniquely human endeavors. And there's something about us as a species—we're curious and we're moved by beauty. And I think science is something that often seems remote to people but it is as beautiful as any of the other activities that we do. You don't have to understand mathematics to understand the overall story—and it's a fascinating one."
My family used to go on camping trips every year just before Thanksgiving with a group of other Jewish families from our neighborhood. The group always included at least one JPL scientist, often more.
A tradition developed over time of taking a constellation walk at night. We'd set out on an easy, level hike, turn off our flashlights, and look up at the stars, shining more clearly in the dark of the desert or the mountains than they ever did at home. It was always a little scary at first, being out there in the wilderness with nothing but those tiny lights flickering at us from billions of light years away. But then someone would point out the constellations, and you'd start to see the structures of galaxies coming together in a haze. The longer you looked, the more stars you would see and the brighter they seemed to burn.
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In 2004, Natalie Portman—likely to win a Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan this weekend—spent a year at Hebrew University. So did I, and it's her fault I started smoking.


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(Awful Announcing)
Our resident TFP Hockey Expert Frank Dapolito explains what he's learned from the repeated NBC Sports Network Premier League advertising.
I'm not going to lie to you readers, I never was much of a soccer man. Played it for two seasons as a kid, scored one goal, and walked off in a blaze of glory after that. So when NBC announced they were going to be broadcasting the Barclays Premier League, I figured that if I'm going to ever get around to watching it, I would brush up on how this little game works. Lucky for me, NBC Sports decided to tweet this little quip to appeal to the unwashed masses like myself.
Lets start with #1: Teams that win their match are awarded three points.
Okay, so I can draw some similarities from hockey to this one. Pretty self explanatory here; you do well, you get points. The ultimate goal of any team in a system like this. Get the points, and you have a shot at whatever the trophy for this league might be called.
# 2: Teams that tie are both awarded one point.
Ah, so you guys have the whole "charity point" problem like we do in hockey, too, huh? That's alright. I can go along with that since I'm pretty much used to it by now.
But here's where things start to get really watered down.
#3: No points are given for a loss.
(NBC, Ironic right?)
WHAT A FREAKIN' CONCEPT! I never would have assumed that in a grown man's league that there are no "everyone's a winner" points just so the losers don't have their feelings hurt. Thanks NBC!
#4: Team with most points at end of season wins the Premier League.
Apart from this being worded like a text message sent by a caveman, this is another thing I could have figured out for myself. I don't need you to hold my hand through this, NBC. Maybe instead of releasing these gems, you could have released a picture explaining the rules of offsides for the people like me who are footy newbies that are going to be very confused when play keeps getting called dead right when the exciting bit is about to happen!
(Editor's note: Sorry Frank, nobody exactly knows what offside is. We think it's as cut and dry as this, but then refs go and inexplicably ignore it sometimes. )
And finally…
#5: There are no playoffs, or finals.
Really? REALLY?! No bracket? No seeding? No chance of an underdog team with the last seed to come up and beat the odds? And how can you not have a finals game? That's where the legends are born and miracles happen. You're telling me that once every team plays their games, the leading team could have won it already and have to play an unimportant game just because? Where's the gauntlet? The struggle?
C'mon, man. (The Wire)
Maybe I'm a spoiled American used to egregious celebrations at season's end, like the Super Bowl. Or maybe I'm just not used to tradition. But at least I will know how things tick in the Premier League if I stumble across it on TV.
-Frank Dapolito


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3)An offshoot of the first point is that during my very early attempts at running(class 3,4), rather sprinting, I used to be the last finisher. Consistently. 8th out of 8 participants. Either I used to start after everyone had started and never catch up, or I used to get scared mentally thinking "all these guys are also trying so hard, this is tough for me" and give up somewhere. I remember being happy about coming 7th in one of the heats and enjoying the feat with my mom. She was kind enough to "shaabash" me on that. As an adult, I run to practice improving that mentally-weak kid and not worry about others who are also racing and competing. I run to improve my mind.
4) I have been a smoker of 5 years before I started running seriously(long distances). There was an overlap when I was both running mildly and smoking not-so-mildly, and that phase was terrible. I was living in guilt. The guilt after the run used to be worse that the one after the smoke. I quit smoking for some medical reasons as well, but deep down I knew that I had just done a sub-2 half-marathon at the Delhi half-marathon in 2009, and wanted to better that. I chose the activity that provided me with a daily dose of "negative-guilt". I have never smoked in the last 4 and a half years.
5)My wife picked up running to lose weight, and I am sure my visits to cubbon park every day for training and other running events inspired her to do so as well. 1 year later, she had lost around 12kg and gained some speed and love for running as well. She did a sub-53 10k in the recent Pinkathon Bangalore event. I fear somewhere that if I stop or reduce running, she may too. And that is not a good thing. I run so that we both keep on running and going to running events. One after the other.
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7) Over the last 5 years, my wife and I have planned most of our vacations around running events and that has enriched our trips. The ideal way to do this is to first finish the run and then enjoy your vacation. I have done the opposite as well and although the vacation part had been smooth, the run not so much!
8) During my teenage years, I had a sudden surge of ambition to become a cricketer. I have inherited my love for sports (both as a spectator and a player) from my dad, and was good in sports in school. The cricketer angle was not encouraged too much because I had not proven myself by 16, and that was a crucial time to "study" too. Sometime before that, I wanted to become a table-tennis player. Actively running and training for running events regularly helps me to live those dreams every day. A little bit at a time!


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Share Your Music in a Better Venue – 5 Steps
Know how to speak about yourself, about your strengths, and about your assets –says Eric Maisel
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If the NHL lockout comes to an end this week,
we may have seen the last of Sean Couturier in
Glens Falls. If so then what a swan-song! The
20-year-old blasted home a one-timer from the
right circle in overtime to propel the Phantoms
past the Connecticut Whale on Saturday night.
A large and boisterous crowd of 4,634 enjoyed
the intense match.
What a night. And what a win. When Couturier's
10th goal of the season was blasted home after
Danny Syvret slid it right over to him it triggered
a massive celebration for the Phantoms beginning
with a pretty hard tackle from Tye McGinn.
"It was a big power play for us late in the
game," Couturier humbly stated. "We
haven't been too good on the power play this season.
But when we have a chance to create something
we have to capitalize and it was a big goal in
a key situation.
Head Coach Terry Murray was pleased with his team's
composure in the dramatic finish. "It was
a good set-up. The guys took their time. They
won the face-off right away. That's obviously
the critical thing at the start of it. You move
the puck around and get some movement and shoot
the puck."
The game was the 2013 home debut for the Phantoms.
And comes just one day after the big announcement
that the Phantoms would return to Glens Falls
in 2013-14 for a 25th season of American League
Hockey in the North Country. The fans responded
to the news and the big Saturday night game by
coming out in full-force to watch their Phantoms
tangle with the AHL affiliate of the New York
It was perhaps the last game of the Lockout-era
version of the AHL in which the fans have enjoyed
the highest caliber of hockey ever seen in the
North Country due to the influx of so many current
NHL players on the Phantoms and all of their opponents.
Adirondack played well throughout the contest
and picked up big saves from winning goalie Cal
Heeter when they needed him in the clutch. For
the rookie out of Ohio State, it was his first
win in Glens Falls and he was most deserving after
is 30-save effort.
The Phantoms almost won the game on a few earlier
chances. Danny Syvret's blast from the right point
rang off the post. And late in the third-period,
Couturier slid a shot from the left ring that
clanged off the base of the far-post and stayed
"I thought we had some good looks tonight
just putting pucks to the net," Murray said.
"There was some really good recovery of pucks
and we moved our feet well. We stayed hungry and
stayed after it."
Couturier wouldn't miss on his next big chance
though as Adirondack improved to 2-1 in overtime
games this season and 4-2 in games decided after
regulation (overtime or shootout).
Adirondack was especially strong on the boards
and won many puck battles from the Whale. Through
much of the first and second periods, they appeared
to have Connecticut on the ropes with lots of
continuous puck possession while the Whale struggled
to get the puck out of their zone.
The Phantoms kept on coming and coming. But they
could not push past their 1-0 lead which they
enjoyed since the three-minute mark of the game
when Tye McGinn wristed the night's opening tally
from the right circle after an intercept by Rob
Bordson. It was McGinn's 9th of the year.
Murray frequently emphasizes the importance of
getting a good, quality start right from the drop
of the first puck. That goal three minutes into
the game came not long after a new line-combo
provided an early spark. "The energy line
gave us a good start with (Ian) Slater, (Tyler)
Brown and (Zac) Rinaldo. I thought they did a
nice job with their purpose and what they needed
to do for the team here tonight. To get pucks
in and get after it, recover pucks. And give us
high energy and I thought everyone followed up
with that."
For center Ian Slater, it was his Adirondack Phantoms
debut following a reassignment from Trenton (ECHL).
The Western Michigan University product had a
couple near-misses to scoring a goal in his first
AHL game.
Connecticut hung around in the game thanks to
some nice stops from Cam Talbot. They broke through
late in the second period with a goal by Chad
Kolarik on the rebound to the left of the goal
that needed to be confirmed via video-review.
Cal Heeter's best stop of the night happened in
the second period when Tommy Grant received a
chip up the ice and was clear for a breakaway.
Heeter slid to his left to go with the shooter
and got a leg-pad on the attempt in one of his
several fine stops on the game.
"Heeter was good. I thought he was much better
tonight than last night although I liked his game
last night," Murray said. "Obviously
I came back with him for back-to-back games which
was the first time for him this year. He was a
little more under control, more composure, and
maybe it was because he played in back-to-back.
It demanded that he stay in better positions and
be more composed in those situations."
It was a nice way to kick-off play at home in
2013 for the Phantoms. With a great crowd truly
enjoying the moment and perhaps the last games
in the North Country for some talented NHL players
like Couturier and Schenn.
And if it truly was the swan-song for those players
and perhaps a few others in Glens Falls if the
lockout does end? "I was reading before the
game it looks like things are pretty positive,"
Murray said. "That's good for hockey. We
need to get back and play at the NHL level. We'll
see what happens from there and hopefully the
deal is going to be done really soon and it's
going to be a long time before we see this again."
The Phantoms don't play again until next Friday
and Saturday when they travel to the Binghamton
Senators and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins back-to-back.
Adirondack's next home game is Friday, January
18 against the Albany Devils presented by Glens
Falls Plastic Surgery for a Time Warner Cable
Cup rivalry game. Friday, January 25 is Pink in
the Rink Night featuring pink jerseys and a post-game
auction. Call the Phantoms for tickets at 518-480-3355.
Pictures courtesy of Andy Camp.
The game-winning goal from Couturier! You can
barely see the puck above the knob of the goalies
stick. And the water-bottle on top of the goal
has moved. Great pic, Andy!
The Phantoms celebrate the first goal of the night
by Tye McGinn.
Photographic proof that the video-review was indeed
correct on the only goal that Connecticut scored
in the game. That distance between the puck and
the line was precisely how close Cal Heeter came
to his first career pro shutout.
Connecticut Whale 1 at Adirondack Phantoms 2 (OT)
- Status: Final OT
Saturday, January 5, 2013 - Glens Falls Civic
Connecticut 0 1 0 0 - 1
Adirondack 1 0 0 1 - 2
1st Period-1, Adirondack, McGinn 9 (Bordson),
2:57. Penalties-McIlrath Ct (fighting), 2:59;
Lauridsen Adk (fighting), 2:59; Kolarik Ct (cross-checking),
3:46; Ford Adk (interference), 8:53; Parlett Ct
(roughing), 19:02; Bordson Adk (roughing), 19:02.
2nd Period-2, Connecticut, Kolarik 14 (Segal,
Newbury), 16:25. Penalties-Haley Ct (fighting),
8:06; FitzGerald Adk (fighting), 8:06; Zolnierczyk
Adk (slashing), 9:17; Segal Ct (slashing), 9:20;
Pyett Ct (interference), 10:56; Collins Ct (tripping),
3rd Period- No Scoring.Penalties-Jean Ct (roughing),
11:04; Lauridsen Adk (roughing), 11:04.
OT Period-3, Adirondack, Couturier 10 (Syvret,
Schenn), 3:08 (PP). Penalties-Haley Ct (slashing),
Shots on Goal-Connecticut 9-9-11-2-31. Adirondack
Power Play Opportunities-Connecticut 0 / 2; Adirondack
1 / 5.
Goalies-Connecticut, Talbot 12-15-0 (36 shots-34
saves). Adirondack, Heeter 5-10-1 (31 shots-30
Referees-Darcy Burchell (42).
Linesmen-Mike Emanatian (69), Steeve Lemay (64).
Monday, January 7 (7:00) -
Phantoms Power Hour returns LIVE on Q101.7 This
week we welcome player guest Zack FitzGerald!
Friday, January 11 (7:05) -
Adirondack Phantoms at Binghamton Senators
Saturday, January 12 (7:05) -
Adirondack Phantoms at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
Friday, January 18 (7:00)
- Albany Devils at Adirondack Phantoms
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Simpler form to file bugs in Bugzilla 3.4
In my previous post, I talked about the new front page which will be used in Bugzilla 3.4 (it will very likely change again in Bugzilla 3.6 to look something like this). Now I'm going to talk about the new form to file bugs. Technically, it's the same page as before, but we now hide some fields by default which we don't consider to be critical when reporting a new bug.
The form to file bugs in Bugzilla 3.2 and older looks like this:
There are many fields which advanced users probably love to see when reporting a new bug, but they may look too complicated for newbies. With the idea that newbies know mostly nothing about the internals of Bugzilla, and that they probably won't know what to set, we know display important fields only, by default:
The information requested here seems small enough to not frighten new reporters. We could even imagine hidding the OS + hardware fields, as well as the component field, but I suppose the form would then look a bit too much like Hendrix. Anyway, it's still a big improvement over what Bugzilla 3.2 displays to the user. And before you ask: yes, you can display all fields if you want to. Simply click the "Show Advanced Fields" link at the top of the page. Bugzilla will store your choice in a cookie so that you don't have to worry about it in the future. Cool, isn't it? :)
In my next post, I will show you how administrators can configure Bugzilla 3.4 to display some fields under certain circumstances only (for instance, on a per-product basis, or only for a given severity/priority, etc…) Another cool feature. ;)


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OK, I know I already got married, but this just caught my eye! It'd be the perfect dress for the right lady….so pretty!!! :D
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For Immediate Release: July 25, 2012
Thruway Authority: More Than 1,400 Motorists Ticketed During "Operation Work Brake"
The New York State Thruway Authority today announced that 1,400 tickets were issued by New York State Police Troop T to motorists for speeding violations during "Operation Work Brake," a five-day enforcement campaign. The campaign was held July 9 through July 13, when Troop T stepped up enforcement efforts on the Thruway.
"As we are in the prime highway construction season, improving our roads and bridges, we remind drivers that with the construction comes an important warning: please slow down through work zones," said Thruway Authority Executive Director Thomas J. Madison.
In 2011, there were numerous work zone crashes in New York State on the Thruway. The Thruway has been very proactive in maintaining the safety of the motoring public and the construction workers.
"It is crucial that all motorists understand the importance of remaining alert and driving safely through work zones – not just for the men and women working on the roads, but for the safety of all motorists," said Sgt. Thomas Ferritto. "We can't say it enough. Slow down through work zones."
"Operation Work Brake" was intended to "put the brakes" on crash-causing behaviors, and to save lives. During the five-day work initiative, additional members of Troop T, were dedicated solely to conducting speed and aggressive driving enforcement, were positioned daily along the Thruway.
For additional information on work zone safety, please go to http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/safety/workzonesafety.html.


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The Amazing Trip of Technology Development in this Last Century
In this development of technology era, everybody feels that they can do a lot easier and better in everything with some gadget in their hands. Let's take Smartphone, for instance. You know that cell phone had a bombastic effect to humankind's life about 10 years ago. It told that everybody can reach any people they want to talk just push a "green" button in his or her cell phone easily during any activities without having to stay in same position just like when we call someone with regular cable phone. Besides talking in wireless, technology drag to other simple world which is talking with syllable or we always call it by texting. I don't know why, but I'm more amazed with texting invention than talking in cell phone because sometimes express something with writing is more speakable and giving more courage than speak with our tongue. But trust me I don't agree with some people who ask break up with their boy or girl friends via SMS. Oh my god, chicken for ones who do that.
Back to Smartphone topic, this kind of gadget is like answer the prayers or such people who can't live with internet access in even just one day. Yes, we can't forget that internet is the biggest invention ever for this last century. For information source, you can get everything from putting particular key word in your search engine. For social needs, you can make as many friends as you can by having facebook account or any social network sites. To check plagiarism error of a writing you read, you can check easily with plagiarism checker provided some websites.
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When I was 19 years old, right after high school, I started working for Dominos. The interview was not long, just general questions about any work history I had, what available hours and if I had reliable transportation.
I was given the option to work in the store, making pizzas and answering the phone. They also gave me the option to deliver the orders. Knowing that I would probably make more money with tips including my salary I decided to be one of the drivers delivering pizza.
How much do you make delivering pizza? Well, I worked for minimum wage at $7.25 per hour, $1.00 per delivery charge and tips. Between tips and the delivery charges on a good day I could make $100. On a really busy weekend night I have made as much as $200.
Once I started working I was able to use my mother's Ford Explorer. It wasn't too bad on gas and had plenty of room if I had multiple orders to deliver. On an average day I would go into work at about 4pm, it wasn't too busy at that time.
Usually we would have 4-5 drivers because of the area that we covered. Until about 6pm we folded boxes, cleaned the back of the store and made sure any dished were washed and put away. The employees in the front focused on the orders and cooking so a lot of times the drivers would help out in the back.
It wasn't a bad job and it helped to pay what bills I did have at that age. I worked 20-25 hours per week. The actually checks were never more than about $150, but the rest I received in tips paid in cash by the customers.
I liked working for Dominos for the most part, except for when it was raining and freezing cold. We had customers that did not want to go out in that kind of weather. We didn't like it either but we always seemed to make the most tips though, so it definitely made up for it.
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When I get MS attacks, or just sick in general, it really debilitates my whole way of life. I don't clean my room, I don't do my laundry, I don't exercise, I don't cook, I don't socialize, and for the most part…I barely get out of bed. Unfortunately, being hit with one thing after the other for the last four weeks has taken a harsh toll on every other part of my life besides being in bed.
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Sustainability: The Five Core Principles
A New Framework
By Michael Ben-Eli
"If you wish to fly and want to successfully construct an aircraft in order to do so, you need to understand the basic principles of aerodynamics. Similarly, if we are serious about ensuring a sustainable future, we need to be guided by a set of principles which underlie sustainability as an enduring state."
— Michael Ben-Eli
Testing the Gossamer Albatross by Paul MacCready- NASA Photo Dryden Flight Research Center ECN 12604 © 1980
The concept of "sustainable development," as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development and with it, the term "sustainability" itself, have been gaining increasing recognition in recent years all around the world. Wide-spread use, however, has been followed by growing ambiguity so that today both terms are employed within a very broad spectrum of meaning often, to the point of trivialization.
The set of five Sustainability Principles proposed below is offered in order to advance and restore some rigor to the underlying ideas. Its development was informed by a number of existing frameworks and was inspired, in particular, by the work of R.Buckminster Fuller.
The principles are articulated in a general fashion but can receive a specific operational meaning in relation to particular sectors of the economy, development issues, business strategies, investment guidelines, or initiatives taken by individuals.They are expressed in relation to five fundamental domains:
- The Material Domain: Constitutes the basis for regulating the flow of materials and energy that underlie existence.
- The Economic Domain: Provides a guiding framework for creating and managing wealth.
- The Domain of Life: Provides the basis for appropriate behavior in the biosphere.
- The Social Domain: Provides the basis for social interactions.
- The Spiritual Domain: Identifies the necessary attitudinal orientation and provides the basis for a universal code of ethics.
The result is a set of five core principles, each with its own derived policy and operational implications. The set is fundamentally systemic in nature, meaning, that each domain affects all the others and is affected by each in return.
This systemic aspect is fundamental. It reflects the interdependent nature of reality itself. It has far reaching implications for policy and for any competent attempt at strategy for change. It implies that in seeking a transition to sustainability as a predominant planetary state, no piece-meal approach -- emphasizing some aspects while neglecting others -- is likely to yield effective, lasting results.
Definition of Sustainability
Transforming society and the world's economy to a sustainable basis presents the most significant challenge to the 21st century. This challenge is unprecedented in scope. Its context is the planet as a whole.It requires a fundamental shift in consciousness as well as in action. It calls for a fresh vision, a new dream and new approaches for shaping an evolving new reality.
Earth is exquisitely configured to accommodate life abundantly. We have consistently compromised, however, every vital component of its intricate fabric. This trend must be reversed and a lasting balance restored.
The ultimate objective of establishing the concept of sustainability as an organizing principle is to foster a well-functioning alignment between individuals, society, the economy and the regenerative capacity of the planet's life-supporting ecosystems. This alignment represents a particular type of balance in the interaction between a population and the carrying capacity of its environment. It is this specific balance which must be the focus of a meaningful definition of sustainability.
The currently prevailing definition of sustainability emphasizes cross generational equity, clearly an important concept but one which poses difficulties since it is not always easy to determine future generations' needs. Anchoring an alternative definition to the relationship between a population and the carrying capacity of its environment offers superior operational leverage since it contains a number of key variables, all potentially measurable. For example: population numbers, rate of consumption of resources, impacts on absorption capacity of sinks, a measure of well-being, and the like.
Hence, in general, but more importantly in the specific context of human activity on the planet, the following is offered:
Sustainability: A dynamic equilibrium in the processes of interaction between a population and the carrying capacity of an environment such, that the population develops to express its full potential without adversely and irreversibly affecting the carrying capacity of the environment upon which it depends.
The principles which follow are grounded in this definition, and the five domains in relation to which they are expressed represent key dimensions of the underlying interaction.
The Five Core Principles
I. The Material Domain
Underlying Premise:
All the physical processes which provide the basis for human existence are subject to the primary laws of thermodynamics -- the First Law, which addresses the fundamental conservation of energy in universe and the Second Law, which stipulates the direction of energy events.These laws prescribe the ultimate limits of possibilities in physical systems and, therefore, underlie the productive potential in the use of resources.
The Second Law underscores the ultimate increase of entropy and disorderliness in all physical systems. At the same time, even inorganic, but in particular life processes and consciousness, are able to create, maintain and increase order, seemingly, at least temporarily. Such order is manifest in both individual and complex networks of specific embodiments: molecules, organisms or eco-systems.
Consciously disciplined intelligence, applied to the design of universally advantageous configurations of energy and matter -- arranging and rearranging components of the physical domain -- provides the essential tool for creating the wealth infrastructure required to ensure lasting abundance. Contrary to the potential immanent in aware, superior design for creating order and delaying the proliferation of entropy, our current industrial infrastructure is wasteful, destructive, fragmented and grossly inefficient. With the appropriate intention, it could be reinvented, redesigned and reconfigured to deliver and enhance an enduring, regenerative advantage for all.
Policy and Operational Implications:
- Strive for highest resource productivity
- Amplify performance with each cycle of use
- Employ "income" rather than "capital" sources and continuously recycle non-regenerative resources
- Affect an unbroken, closed-loop flow of matter and energy in a planetary productive infrastructure conceived as a whole
- Control leakages and avoid stagnation, misplaced concentrations or random diffusion of chemical elements during cycles of use
- Establish a service, "performance leasing" orientation for managing durable goods
II. The Economic Domain
Underlying Premise:
Economies consist of markets where transactions occur and guiding frameworks by which transactions are evaluated and decisions about commitments are made. Often treated as though they reflect an independent, objective reality, such frameworks ultimately represent human constructs, rooted in values, biases and dominant interests and concerns. These latter factors determine adoption of the underlying economic perspective: short term, narrow, linear focus, or long term, comprehensive, eco-sensitive cycles of return.
The accounting framework used at present to guide our economy grossly distorts values. It systematically ignores important cost-components, for example, depletion and pollution. Economists are beginning to reflect on the inadequacies inherent in the narrow concept of growth that dominates measurement of national economies, and some even highlight the basic absurdity of counting consumption as if it were income, a common practice in the way we treat natural resources.
Inadequate measurements, with regulations and subsidies which often accompany them, drive markets and continue to fuel the destructive effects of the economy as a whole. The prevailing conventions of our accounting framework exacerbate such effects and limit the scope of individual initiatives seeking better practices. This self-reinforcing pattern is clearly one key dimension requiring radical change.
Policy and Operational Implications:
- Employ a comprehensive concept of wealth related to the simultaneous enhancement of five key forms of capital: Natural, Human, Social, Manufactured and Financial
- Align the world's economy with nature's regeneration capacity and incorporate critical "externalities" in all cost and benefit accounts
- Embody a measure of well-being and human development in economic calculations
- Design regulation and taxation policies to accentuate desirable and eliminate adverse outcomes, optimizing the whole
- Rely on transparent market mechanisms, calibrated to reflect "true" costs, for allocation of capital assets
III. The Domain of Life
Underlying Premise:
The adaptive success of the human species and its quick propagation almost everywhere on planet earth comes at the continuous expense of many other forms of life. The destruction of individual animals, species, habitats and whole ecosystems, a trend now reaching ominous proportions, is a deep cause for concern.
Complex, self-organizing, living systems: brains, societies, ecosystems -- rainforests, coral reef communities, and industrial economies alike --depend on their very complexity, their internal variety," for long term viability. Lasting stability in all such systems is in fact, science tells us, a direct function of complexity, of inherent redundancy which allows for emergence and re-emergence of different configurations in response to changing underlying events. Monocultures are brittle in principle, the antithesis, in this context, of vibrant life.
On this point contemporary science seems to be joining with many of the world's ancient traditions which insist on the uniqueness and fundamental sacredness of all forms of life.
Policy and Operational Implications:
- Assume a responsible stewardship for our planet's web of biological diversity
- Harvest species only to regeneration capacity
- Conserve the variety of existing gene pool
- Shape land use patterns to reduce human encroachment on other forms of life and enhance biological diversity in areas of human habitat
IV. The Social Domain
Underlying Premise:
Work of early 20th century scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers of science brought to the fore the fundamental fallibility of human knowledge. This suggests that, in a true ecological fashion,myriad expressions and species of truth should be allowed to coexist without any particular one seeking to aggressively dominate others.
Societies, like ecologies, depend on diversity and internal redundancy for robustness, long term viability and health. This alone underscores the importance of encouraging variety and plurality in social forms. At the same time, modern genetics and the sequencing of the human genome indicate that the underlying genetic differences between the many ethnic groups on the planet are insignificantly small, rendering arguments for an inherent superiority, of any group, baseless.
All these thoughts reinforce the still fragile idea that open processes, responsive structures, plurality of expression, and the equality of all individuals ought to constitute the corner-stones of social life. As we enter the twenty first century, however, society continues to operate predominantly by the worn-out assumptions, concepts and structures of yesterday.
Policy and Operational Implications:
- Foster Tolerance as a cornerstone of social interactions
- Enshrine Universal Rights within a framework of planetary citizenship
- Provide for Inclusion and effective Democracy in governance
- Ensure Equitable Access to life nurturing resources
- Establish Cooperation as a basis for managing global issues and planetary commons
- Outlaw War and Trade in weapon technologies
- Promote sustainability literacy through education at all levels
- Embody Sustainability Enhancing Concepts in an effective planetary framework of legislation
V. The Spiritual Domain
Underlying Premise:
The human spirit has consistently sought to transcend material, biological, physiological, psychological, and technology limitations. This constant drive for touching a "beyond," for taking progressively more into the field of vision and integrating an increasingly broader "reality" has a huge practical significance. With its intuitive reach for wholeness and completion, it fuels the development and evolution of individuals and societies alike.
The extent to which this deeply rooted drive is actually allowed to manifest in the daily affairs of society, affects the choices we make and the quality of our actions in the world. Ultimately, it underscores the difference between a greedy, ego-centric, predatory orientation and a nurturing, self-restrained, inclusive approach which honors the larger system of which we are a part and on which we depend for our very existence.
The essential quality of the spiritual domain, recognized, as it is, by all known wisdom traditions, is not easy to pin down. In the English language, the term spiritual carries opposing connotations: sacred, exalted, virtuous, divine, but also, insubstantial and occult. It is meant here to evoke a sense of a deep, underlying essence -- a combination of inspiration, meaning, purpose, and a motivating, all encompassing value. The fundamental imprecision which is involved is manifest in the more elaborate way in which the fifth principle is expressed.
Policy and Operational Implications:
- Acknowledge the transcendent mystery that underlies existence
- Seek to understand and fulfill humanity's unique function in the Universe
- Honor the Earth with its intricate ecology of which humans are an integral part
- Foster compassion and an inclusive, comprehensive perspective in the underlying intention, motivation and actual implementation of human endeavors
- Link inner transformation of individuals to transformations in the social collective, laying foundations for emergence of a new planetary consciousness
The Five Principles as an Integrated Whole
Deeper reflection on the concept of sustainability and the five core principles which together prescribe it reveals that the spiritual dimension, the spiritual principle, is fundamental to the quality and coherence of the whole. It is rarely incorporated, however, in the conventional calculus of practical affairs.
As a guiding principle, the spiritual dimension does not carry the connotation of conventional religion. Rather, it evokes the soul-focused integration of mind and heart in realization of the essential oneness at the center of being.
By anchoring the essence of human motivation and intention, the spiritual principle acts as the causal root which sets the tone for the whole. It drives the integration of the other four principles, those related to the material, economic, life, and social domains. If integrated in a balanced way, it can infuse a common purpose, provide a common foundation, and stimulate common resolve. Lacking the ethical commitment implied by the spiritual principle, considerations of questions related to the four other domains, no matter how elaborately expressed, are reduced to mere technicalities.
By their very nature language, logic and action force separation, discrimination and choice. A balanced and full integration of all five principles is essential, however, for conceptualizing and realizing sustainability as a state. The whole set has to be integrated into a single unity in which the five principles come together as one.
The five domains underlying the principles interact and co-define one another and, as in a holographic image, each embodies the whole general scheme in its own sphere. When the principles are thus integrated and seamlessly inform choices and actions, a state of sustainability, which otherwise appears as a difficult, distant goal, can be realized spontaneously and completely.
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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Diabetes and Driving
Patients who are treated with insulin or tablets (particularly sulphonylureas or glitazones) the main potential danger of diabetes and driving is the possibility of hypoglycaemia (a hypo). In order to avoid hypoglycaemia, people affected by diabetes are advised:
If symptoms of hypoglycaemia occur, you are advised:
Diabetic drivers should know that if they have an accident attributable to hypoglycaemia they render themselves liable to the charge of driving under the influence of drugs.
You should also abstain completely from alcohol when driving.
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Car Insurance
Diabetes must be disclosed either at the start of a new policy or at the time of diagnosis.
For car insurance to be valid, the patient must inform their insurance company as soon as they develop diabetes. This is required whether patients are treated with a diet only, tablets or insulin. It is always worth shopping around for quotes from a number of insurers, as there can be a big difference in premiums. Some companies may refuse cover, impose special terms or an increased premium if their statistics show drivers with diabetes to be at a higher risk. If this happens, challenge the insurer, especially if your diabetes is well controlled.
Diabetes UK services have a motor insurance quote line on Freephone 0800 731431. Although these insurers are very sympathetic to people with diabetes, they cannot be guaranteed to be the cheapest in every case.
Visual Standards
Visual standards relating to driving are those applied generally. You should be able to read a number plate (7.9cm) at a distance of 20.5 metres and have a visual field of at least 120 in the horizontal axis and at least 20 in the vertical axis. This approximates to an equivalent Snellen Chart corrected acuity of 6/12. If in doubt, refer to the Ophthalmology Clinic requesting formal assessment.
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Lighter Goods/Smaller Passenger Vehicles
In January 1998 the second EU driver licensing directive came into force in the UK. Insulin treated diabetic drivers lost their entitlement to drive lighter goods and smaller passenger carrying vehicles. This includes vehicles in the C1 category (between 3.5 and 7.5 tonnes) or C1+E (7.5 tonnes with trailer) subject to an annual medical examination. If they are new to insulin they will not be able to make this application until their diabetes has been stabilised for one month.
Applying for a C1/C1+E Licence
In order to apply for this licence, the patient must ensure that they meet the following qualifying conditions
Taxi Licence
Gestational Diabetes
A patient must notify the DVLA if insulin has been commenced during their pregnancy, no change will be made to their licence unless the patient remains on insulin six weeks after delivery, the patient must contact the DVLA again to inform of this. If the post-natal OGTT is positive, the patient should inform the insurance company and/or DVLA as above.
The content for this webpage is adapted from the Tayside diabetes network patient information leaflet on driving.
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In an exclusive interview with FutureGov, Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist, US Cyber Consequences Unit describes the common pitfalls governments make in fighting cyber crime.
Governments invest time and resources on activities that do not help prevent cyber attacks. Many agencies mount massive scans and surveillance in search of malware, but according to Borg, sophisticated and targeted malware attacks cannot be found through these efforts.
"Really damaging cyber attacks would employ small volumes of very sophisticated malware that is extremely difficult to detect," he said. "The malware could be sent in separate pieces that assemble themselves at the destination. The malware could be mutating, changing shape or features, encrypting and decrypting itself. With this kind of malware, monitoring huge amounts of traffic is useless."
Borg added, 'When we are searching for this malware, it could move to an area where we have already scanned, and erase itself from where we are scanning now.' Malware can go undetected even with a line-by-line code review. "An industrial system has lines of programme that control many variables, such as switching something on or off, turning up or down the heat, releasing or increasing pressure and so on. Creating a malware attack could be as simple as reversing the instruction at a critical moment, or activating the control at the wrong time," he elaborated.
According the Borg, the most important thing governments need to do now is to be clear about their missions. He identified six government cyber security missions:
This is not easy, continued Borg, because these missions are conflicting. "Critical infrastructure are heavily dependent on their supply chain, and today, that is almost always international. If you want to help them defend themselves, you release information on plugging vulnerabilities and lose advantage in building offensive cyber capability," he said.
Many government leaders today are not informed and familiar with technology, observed Borg. "This leads to wrong decisions, such as investing in technology solutions that are useless, or financing research that will never produce results. Moreover, leaders often confuse the six roles: they have the same people or organisation perform all these roles at the same one, and that normally results in failure to do any of them well. This is true for both small and big governments."
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You are almost certainly not going to be hardcasting Pyroblast as Hot Streak still exists, so all you'd have to do is cast Flamestrike at some point, and honestly it is unlikely that the addition of a flamestrike DOT to Combustion will be worth the cast time outside of AOE situations where you would be casting flamestrike anyway.
Also you can cast it when ignite is present and ignite no longer procs exclusively from crits but from every fire spell you cast excluding Scorch so it's not like you actually have to do either, you'll just do more damage if you have Pyroblast up too.
With that in mind, Combustion has actually barely changed at all. The only difference is that Living Bomb is not affected and Impact does not require a proc (it seems pretty unlikely that you will be spamming Inferno Blast on cooldown).
In a situation where you would want the tiny extra damage provided by Flamestrike to multiply it by spreading it to adds, you would already have Flamestrike down to AOE said adds, it is pretty much the same spell we are casting now.
The mana change... shouldn't really affect you at all? It's more a healing thing and all it means is that Arcane doesn't have the silly double-benefit from Intellect that it has at the moment.
Blizzard are going to balance you so that you don't have to worry about Mana anyway, hell there's even a talent that means Evocation has no cooldown at all.