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Recently, I wrote about the anxiety that we live under in Fall River regarding the landfill, and I mentioned that the City Council and the mayor would use this issue for grandstanding because they all want to be the heroes in this very important matter. Well, it did not take too long for a battle to start, and sparks started flying.
After we were told that the council had no say in it, Councilor Daniel Rego gave a tremendous speech stating that privatization of trash collection would not happen on his watch and, of course, that drew a standing ovation from DPW workers, who filled the council chambers. Here is our hero who did not even consider other options that were on the floor.
How can privatization of trash collecting be detrimental to Fall River? Negotiations have to take place first and questions like what would happen to the actual workers? Will they be hired by the new company? Would they maintain their actual wages and benefits? What would happen to the equipment that the city owns?
Does the council have all the answers to these questions? I don't think so. How could they if no discussion on the matter was allowed? The council let anger get the best of them.
I agree that no one on the council should be blindsided by the mayor's decision to privatize trash collection, but what can we expect from a mayor who gets used to making his own decisions? Remember the money allocated to fix up handicapped bathrooms on the first and second floors of city hall?
A good portion of that money was used improperly to beautify his bathroom and another portion to also beautify the Law Department. How many loan orders went through the City Council and were approved by them, and now they cry wolf?
This is the same mayor who claims that city councilors lack backbone and that they were obstructionists.
But the fact is no one is more obstructionist than the mayor, considering that more than two years ago, he formed a solid waste task force that apparently was there for the name and nothing else. Whatever happened to that task force?
I also agree with the former council president that it is about time that Fall River's charter should be reviewed to reflect today's needs, which are very different from 200 years ago.
If my memory does not fail me, there was a councilor elected a few years ago on these same pretenses and after a few years occupying that position, there is still no charter change.
Let's face it, most politicians say one thing and do another, and Fall River politicians are no different from any other city.
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Dakota Wesleyan University will host the 22nd annual South Central South Dakota Regional Science and Engineering Fair on Tuesday, March 25, in the Christen Family Athletic Center.
The competition includes students in grades six through 12, from 30 schools in 18 South Dakota counties. Projects will be on display for viewing by the public from 2 to 5 p.m.
Students participating in this regional event will bring projects that have already won in science fairs at local schools. This year's fair includes 180 projects produced by 299 students from the following areas: Andes Central, Armour, Avon, Corsica, Dakota Christian, Lakeview (Neb.), Littleburg, Marty Indian School, Mitchell, Mount Vernon, Plankinton, Spring Creek, Stickney, Wagner, Wessington Springs and White Lake.
At last year's International Science and Engineering fair held in Phoenix, Ariz., Justin Krell, from Plankinton, presented his "Motor Vehicle Concussion Force Impact Detection System." Chesney Nagel and Ariana Oorlog, both from Avon, showed a way to extract maximal liquid from a variety of hand-pumped bottles. A group project from Brant Blaha and Jacob Reeves, also from Avon, came with a geothermal unit that could be used in conjunction with a common clothes dryer.
"While these efforts were ingenious, we believe that the projects at this year's fair will be even more so," said Dr. Michael Farney, math professor at DWU and the regional science fair director. "Look for a new type of automobile fuel called hydroxyl, a floating magnet at -320 degrees Fahrenheit, a project that sends high voltages through clouds, growing antlers, a promising start in cloning cancer cells, and a method to keep track of cattle by telemetry. While we are currently encouraging interesting projects, we also want projects that collect lots and lots of data so that there can be little doubt as to the worth of the findings. If our fair runs true to form, you'll see well-written science fair boards that are well-organized and have enthusiastic researchers standing before them. Come and see the best science that our young South Dakotans have to offer."
More than 77 judges will select the winners, including three projects that will advance to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair May 11-16 in Los Angeles. One project will advance to I-SWEEP April 30-May 5 in Houston, Texas, and another project will compete June 15-20 in Oswego, N.Y., at the GENIUS Olympiad.
Awards to be given to participating students include cash, certificates, plaques, medals, trophies, major industry recognition, and recognition by a variety of military branches. There will also be DWU scholarships awarded, including $10,000 to the senior grand award winners.
In addition to DWU, sponsors include The Daily Republic, Your Touchtone Energy Cooperatives, Sixth District Medical Society, Twin City Fan Companies, LTD., Corey and Lisa Thelen, Davison County Implement, and Logan Luxury Theatres.


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This guide is designed for History 262 and should enable the user to locate primary and secondary reources related to the destruction of the European Jews. The guide is divided into four sections:
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is housed in the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. It was established by Steven Spielberg, originally as a private foundation, after he completed the film Schindler's List.
The VHA allows users to search for and locate whole testimonies of relevance and to find specific segments within testimonies. Each testimony consists of a survivor or witness speaking about his or her life before, during and after the Holocaust. After completing a 'Pre-Interview Questionnaire' (PIQ), the interviewers are able to formulate questions appropriate to each interviewee's experience, age, education, social and religious background. At the end of the video testimony, the interviewee is given the opportunity to display artifacts, such as photographs. Family members also are given the opportunity to speak at this time.
The Archives also include testimonies from survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide and the 1937-38 Nanjing Massacre.
Some videos are stored locally and can be viewed immediately; others stored at USC can be ordered and usually arrive (with email notification) for viewing within a few hours (not more than 48 hours). Off-campus access to this resource is not available. Off-campus users can search the archive at the Holocaust Museum website in order to identify testimonies for viewing on campus later. Users are asked to create a log in and password in order to use the resource. Help with this resource
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5 Seemingly Innocent Ways You've Screwed The World Today
#2. Your Toilet Paper Murders Rain Forests (For No Reason)
We think (and also hope) it's safe to say that pretty much everyone reading this wipes their asses on a regular basis. Hell, even Zooey Deschanel probably gets the occasional attack of taco poops. It's just life -- shit happens, and toilet paper is what happens next.
Above: The 2012 spokeswoman for Taco Cabana and Charmin Ultra.
The Horrible Downside:
Do you use nonrecycled toilet paper? Maybe a brand made from virgin wood? Well, that makes you almost as bad for the environment as every Hummer-driving frat boy spending his trust fund money on extra-leaded gasoline.
No, sorry, we're telling a lie. Your taste in toilet paper actually means you have a much bigger impact on global warming than Captain Hummerjock.
"I need the extra space for all the dead baby seals I have to haul."
Delicate American bottoms prefer plush, bleached white, multi-ply paper with all the toppings. We also use three times as much paper per person as, say, Europeans. In fact, the 36 billion rolls our nation goes through every year is 27 percent of the world's total TP wood harvest.
The thing is, only 2 percent of the toilet paper used in the U.S. is made from recycled wood. For the rest, Big Buttwipe does use manageable, Earth-friendly tree farms whenever they can. However, these can only meet about 25 to 50 percent of the quota set by our needy, needy butts. The rest comes from irreplaceable North American virgin forests. You know, the same forests we rely on to trap greenhouse gases and act as heat sinks, so we can keep the pace of global warming down to a light sprint.
"Well, this is breathtaking and priceless. Let's turn it into ass wipes."
Sure, there are options. We could just use water to clean ourselves, like 75 percent of the world's population. Sadly, this is such an alien idea to us that even usually media-invincible Will Smith got sideways glances when he bought a paper-free bidet toilet. Increasing the volume of toilet paper made from recycled cellulose doesn't work, either. They've tried. We just won't buy it, even though we'd save 425,000 trees per year if every household in the country would replace a single roll of triple-layered Charmin with a recycled alternative.
But it's brown and scratchy and we, as a nation, are huge wussies.
#1. We Waste Fuel on Things Nobody Cares About
We are slowly but steadily running out of fossil fuels, and the various alternative energy sources are still facing a crapload of issues. And then there's the whole carbon footprint issue.
Most of us know the usual ways to save gas: get a smaller car, ride a bike, take the bus. We also often have pretty damned good reasons for not doing those things (we need a car that can hold three kids, we live 20 miles from work, the bus is full of smelly hobos).
On the other hand, that SUV won't fondle your package.
And maybe we do common sense things to save electricity around the house -- for example, we don't leave lights on in rooms we're not in. Hell, maybe we even start unplugging devices that drain that vampire electricity we mentioned earlier. That's about all you can do without trying to read in the dark or sweating out every summer without air conditioning, right?
The Horrible Downsides:
What we tend to forget are the little things. Do you always remember to put your gas cap back on after you refuel? A lot of people don't, and gasoline evaporates. That trivial brain fart amounts to 147 million gallons of wasted fuel per year. And that's small potatoes compared to the 1.2 billion annually wasted gallons caused by driving around on underinflated tires. A further addition to the Pissing Away Fuel score are the 838 million gallons wasted by commercial trucks left to idle overnight to keep them warm.
In their defense, few things are less appetizing than cold meth.
But what about our houses? Say we use air conditioning sparingly and have decent insulation. Short of installing our own solar panels, it doesn't get much greener than that. Yet despite our best efforts, our homes still leak energy like a beached oil tanker.
For instance, not many people know that insulation degrades over time. As your house gets older, your insulation gets leakier, up to the point where all the minuscule fractures amount to the same effect as having a hole the size of a basketball in your living room wall.
After replacing your insulation, the old stuff is a decent cotton candy substitute.
But the main reason our houses are energy sieves is one you'd never guess in a million years: roof color.
Most houses have dark roofs, because they're often proofed with black tar and we have grown to think dark colors are the way to go. However, you know from elementary school that black absorbs light and heat -- it's why people wear light colors in the summer. A black roof absorbs heat, which your air conditioner has to fight to keep up with.
Bards will sing of their glorious battle for generations.
The problem could be fixed by painting our roofs white, a color that can reflect 85 percent of sunlight. But until we get around to that, we're stuck with a completely pointless annual waste of 14 power plants' worth of energy, not to mention absolutely insane greenhouse gas emissions.
Why don't we paint all of the roofs white, then? Because they're ugly. But the time is coming when we might just have to get over that.
The homeowner's associations of the world aren't going down without a fight.
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I'm looking for a method (or at least anything any wrote about this topic) which uses icons or symbols for note taking. So for example, I will be taking notes in class and want to "tag" certain things such as "idea", "key point", "good", "bad", etc. I find that coming up with symbols that are meaningful and easy to draw is hard to do. I was hoping that there is already a repository of such icons somewhere.
The reason I want icons rather than text tags is to make the notes more appealing and less verbose. That way when it comes time to study, I'm not just staring at a bunch of text and I can visually understand what many of the sections mean just by looking at the icons.
Some examples I have come up with:
- Light bulbs are easy to draw. I use them for new ideas.
- Crossed out arrow is used for "does not lead to" (or something along those lines), while an arrow can be used to mean "leads to".
- A home icon is used for homework (idea from OneNote, see below).
- I am currently looking for something to be used to represent good/bad. I was thinking of using a thumbs up/down image, but find it difficult to draw. Happy/sad faces, on the other hand, are easier to draw, but don't have clear meanings.
- Similar to how OneNote has three different colors for some of the icons, I can do the same with only one color of ink by having one shape not filled in, another filled in with dashed lines, and the third completely filled in.
I was thinking of getting ideas from Microsoft OneNote, but many of these icons are difficult to draw by hand:
I'm hoping someone has already come up with something like this so that I don't need to reinvent the wheel. Any ideas that can help?


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A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Genealogical Treasure Hunt
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Photographer's Name and Location
Check to see if the name of the photographer's studio, its location, or a date is on the back. Was the photograph taken near where your family lived, or was the studio far away?
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No. 1 Louisville slugs UConn
HARTFORD — Put the four of them on the court together for some two-on-two and there might not be much difference between UConn guards Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright and Louisville guards Russ Smith and Peyton Siva. Add the particular pieces to each team and the differences become obvious.


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May 16, 2009
Cube 2 - New fun "quake-clone"
I just downloaded and ran Cube 2 and its very fun.
Apparently its a new game-engine written from scratch and its really nice.
Some maps are made after popular CS-maps and Quake-maps and its a very simple but fun FPS-game.
They have native clients for MacosX, Windows and Linux and it works just great.
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I'm considering purchasing the nadir adapter even though it's pretty expensive to get it here in France.
I'm wondering about something: looking at how it mounts, it doesn't seem that it would require changing the camera position settings on either the lower or vertical rail, but I've read a quick test somewhere which pretended that the top rail settings have to be changed. This doesn't seem logical to me as I don't see why the higher position would demand a setting change, as the camera is still rotating around the same point anyway.
Can anyone confirm?


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I have put an a Facebook like button on my page.
To the right of the like button, is a Tweet button.
I've set the data-width of the like button (with the send button) to 101px, which seems about right.
The problem is that the like button generates an iframe that is 150px wide. This means there are about 49 pixels of the iframe overlapping over my Tweet button.
You can't see this overlap, but it means I can't click on Tweet!
It looks like the iframe is generated with inline styles, so I can't override them with css. I've also tried playing around with the z-index.
Any help would be great!


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The Food World's G-20
At the annual MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, international tastemakers convene to eat, drink and be mindful.
ON THE EDGE of Copenhagen, a calico pig hung from its hind legs under an enormous red tent. Some 600 off-duty chefs and their groupies watched from the bleachers as operatic butcher Dario Cecchini, in from Panzano, Italy, grabbed a knife. "This is the stomach of the world," he said, pointing to the pig. He cut a vertical slit down the belly of the beast and removed the heart, lungs, liver and intestines. "We are carnivores," he said, "but we must be conscientious carnivores. We have to have respect for the gift of meat the animal has given us. And that begins with the stomach, that begins with the guts." When he'd finished disemboweling the pig, Mr. Cecchini took a bow. The audience went wild with applause. The third annual MAD Symposium had officially begun.
A food movement is brewing in Denmark, and it's got nothing to do with the foraged berries and herbs the world has come to associate with New Nordic cooking. At the MAD Symposium ("mad" is Danish for "food"), tastemakers from around the globe convened in Copenhagen last month, as they had the previous two summers, with one goal: to move the conversation about food beyond the pampered search for pleasure. For marquee chefs and the writers who cover them, the yearly gathering has fast become the must-attend event of the year. It's a party with a sense of purpose, a place to learn from big thinkers, a bacchanal pushing world-changing views. You might say it's become the Davos of food.
The theme this year was "Guts"—in every sense of the word. Co-curated by New York-based chef David Chang and MAD founder René Redzepi, chef-owner of Copenhagen's Noma, the two-day event boasted a packed roster of speakers. Most shared stories of courage. Somali chef Ahmed Jama spoke of the challenges of opening a restaurant in a war zone. To thundering applause, African-American food historian Michael Twitty talked of reviving slave cuisine. The audience heard from a novelist and a climate scientist, an Indian "seed activist" and an aboriginal guide, and haute-cuisine legend Alain Ducasse—iconoclasts who've all forged their own paths.
"Where are all the women chefs?" wondered chef Margot Henderson, wife of Fergus Henderson, the British nose-to-tail pioneer. And 10-year-old Martha Payne, too terrified to utter a single word, stood with her dad as he told the story of her viral blog, NeverSeconds, which turned the sorry state of the British school lunch into a world-wide cause célèbre. "We love you, Martha!" screamed the crowd.
MAD is a new kind of food festival, open to anyone who can swing a ticket—it sold out immediately this year—but designed by and for chefs. Unlike most high-profile food shindigs, there are no corporate sponsors and no cooking demos. MAD is about exchanging ideas.
"We wanted it to be more of an inspirational thing," said Mr. Redzepi, "not just, 'here are my latest seven creations.'" The idea began four years ago with a conversation between Mr. Redzepi and Mr. Chang, after a long day together at Cook It Raw, another, much more exclusive chef gathering. "We were saying, 'Why do we go to all these festivals, get shoved around for big sponsorship deals?'" recalled Mr. Redzepi. They dreamed of an alternative, a sort of independent clubhouse where they could meet with their peers.
'For marquee chefs and the writers who cover them, it's the must-attend event'
Baseline funding came from a new government agency, Branding Denmark, established to rehabilitate the country's image after the furor over political cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad (a portion of the agency's budget was earmarked to promote Danish gastronomy). At this year's symposium, which cost some $600,000 to produce, local brewer Mikkeller donated six different beers made specially for MAD. Twenty women from Souk el Tayeb, a Beirut farmers' market, made lunch for 600 the first day, while Danny Bowien and his crew from the Mission Chinese Food restaurants in San Francisco and New York prepared the feast on the second. If Branding Denmark's mission is to promote a more cosmopolitan and tolerant image of the nation, its investment in MAD would appear to be a sound one.
With Mr. Chang and the editorial team from his quarterly food journal, Lucky Peach, helping out, the latest MAD became a referendum on celebrity chefs and their responsibility to do something worthy with their spotlight. Chris Ying, the magazine's editor in chief, organized a study on the restaurant world's carbon footprint, which inspired Mr. Redzepi to convert Noma to renewable wind power.
And the MAD mandate is expanding. The new MAD Feed blog will explore big ideas in food year round. And MAD Mondays, a lecture series launched last year, will continue to bring the spirit of the symposium to the Copenhagen public. There's talk of hosting simultaneous talks in other countries as well. "Our trade is changing," said Mr. Redzepi. "Chefs are invited to do TED Talks, they're invited to the White House. MAD is an attempt to make sense of all that."
A Year of Food Festivals
January // Madrid Fusión, Madrid, Spain The year's calendar of events kicks off with this food conference, founded in 2003, that focuses on avant-garde cooking.
February // Food & Fun, Reykjavik, Iceland Talented chefs from around the world, using only local ingredients, duke it out in perpetual darkness in a sort of Battle Iceland.
March // Charleston Wine & Food Festival, Charleston, S.C. The Southern food renaissance has its own big-ticket week of demos and dinners.
April // Terroir, Toronto, Canada Last year Mr. Redzepi headlined this North American MAD, just as wide in its focus on the whole culture of food.
May // Mesamérica, Mexico City, Mexico This two-year-old event is pushing high-end Mexican food onto the international stage and redefining it as more than tacos and moles.
June // Food & Wine Classic, Aspen, Colo. A celebrity chef blowout, now more than three decades old, it features lots of TV tie-ins.
July // Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, Oxford, England This gathering of bona fide food geeks boasts presentations from food writers, academics and chefs.
August // MAD Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark The thinking chef's conference.
September // Mistura, Lima, Peru Many of the same faces you'll see at MAD descend on Latin America's gastronomic capital to eat, drink and discover new tastes.
October // Gastronomika, San Sebastian, Spain Spain's other, more academically-minded food festival explores a particular theme each year (this year, the London food scene).
November // Worlds of Flavor, Napa, Calif. The Culinary Institute of America brings far-flung cuisines and their top practitioners to its Napa campus.
December // Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, Palm Beach, Fla. The food-festival circuit, for the most part, takes a break in December, but celebrity chefs grab some sun and time on the links here.


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I know that:
1) A function $f:\mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}^2$, when differentiable at a point, has a $2\times 2$ matrix as a derivative, which is a linear transformation from $\mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}^2$ best approximating the function linearly in some neighbourhood.
2) There is a ring homomorphism $\mathbb{C} \to Mat_{2x2}(\mathbb{R})$ as $a+ib \longmapsto \left[\begin{array}{11}a & -b\\b & a \end{array}\right]$
3) For a function $f:\mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$, I can define complex differentiabilty as the best $\mathbb{C}$-linear approximation of the function locally at a point, i.e., $f'(z_0):h \mapsto f'(z_0)h$
Now, I want to combine these three observations, so that the Cauchy-Riemann equation falls out by considering a complex differentiable function as a function from $\mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}^2$ and connect the jacobian with the $\mathbb{C}$-linear transformation via the homomorphism.
I am having trouble even formulating a proposition that I can prove. Do I define something called 'Complexfying an $\mathbb{R}^2$-operator'? Any help will be appreciated.
The upshot will be that I can then 'shift' the proofs of some of the basic results of holomorphic functions (such as the fact that if the partial derivatives of the co-ordinate functions exist and are continuous then the function will be holomorphic, etc) to that of multivariable calculus.


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I am interested in examples of crackpots coming up with correct results in physics.
Why do mainstream physicists look down so much upon "crackpots"?
I am interested in examples of crackpots coming up with correct results in physics.
Why do mainstream physicists look down so much upon "crackpots"?
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There's some nice articles on crackpots who were right at viXra blog:
http://blog.vixra.org/2010/03/06/%E2%80%9Ccrackpots%E2%80%9D-who-were-right-1-boris-belousov/ http://blog.vixra.org/2010/03/12/%E2%80%9Ccrackpots%E2%80%9D-who-were-right-2-alfred-wegener/ http://blog.vixra.org/2010/03/17/crackpots-who-were-right-3-ernst-stuckelberg/
Reading through the list they all appear to have been highly educated in their particular field anyway and so more likely to succeed compared to the majority that are uneducated and deluded, yet think they're some new Einstein.
I think there is a genre of physicists writing on the internet, where good manners mean not using four letter words, who use the term "crackpot" to describe physicists who disagree with their beliefs about physics current orthodoxy. It is as if a consensus model of physics is sought rather than an exploration of truth.
There exist true crackpots in physics, people who think they have proven Einstein wrong with two lines of incoherence, people who have found a perpetual motion machine etc. They are like all those Napoleons in the asylums, just not so deep in the delusion. It is easy to look down upon such claims.
It becomes more difficult if the candidate for crack pottery is well versed in mathematics, because they develop convoluted mathematical arguments that one has to spend time with to really dismiss. That is why in physics candidates for the crackpot label are theoreticians. I would draw the line there.
To call crackpots people seeking alternative quantum field theories for gravity, or different ways of describing quantum mechanics, is abuse of the concept. It displays the herd mentality, of which mammals partake and physicists are mammals.
Progress in physics happens at the fringes . If the researchers are well versed, sincere and hard working they should be allowed to develop their theories on equal footing with mainstream science, to be tested and rejected if necessary by experiments. Otherwise physics will become fossilized.


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UnitedHealthcare – with the support of Care Improvement Plus, AARP, Ameriprise Financial and the National Family Caregivers Association – is hosting hands-on educational events in Greensboro as part of National Medicare Education Week (Sept. 15 – 22, 2012). The event is designed to help baby boomers, Medicare beneficiaries, their families and caregivers learn more about Medicare and how to find the coverage that's best for them. Attendees can also participate in a hands-on computer workshop to learn about online Medicare resources and how to use popular social media sites to connect with family and friends. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required. To RSVP, call Rob Jones at 919-443-1560. More information is available at NMEW.com.
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The Nebraska Association of Emergency Management and National Weather Service are sponsoring a severe weather poster contest for the springtime.
Fourth grade students are encouraged to make posters with the themes of tornadoes, lightning or flooding by Feb. 22.
Winners will receive cash prizes and an all-hazards weather alert radio from Saline County Emergency Management.
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The price is okay and I like it. Thx
This brings this set into the range of something near reasonable.
The original Tie Fighter and the 2005 reissue were $20 sets:
Though to be fair, this is 413 pieces vs. ~160 with the original TIE.
This also has 4 minifigs vs. 2 on both the previous versions.
Yikes, price is now $59. No deal there.
Price is 57.89 now!!! No fair! I wanted to get this for someone for Christmas!!
It's $34.99 now.
Price is still wrong. This deal ended last night.


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CHARLESTON - The Bears are two steps closer to defending their title.
Oak Glen earned two wins on Friday during the West Virginia Class AA State Volleyball Tournament at the Charleston Civic Center.
The Bears (39-6) defeated James Monroe and Frankfort to advance to today's 10:30 a.m. championship match against Ritchie County, a winner over Philip Barbour in the other semifinal.
Despite dropping only two games on the day, Oak Glen coach Ethel Riser said she wants her team to play more consistent.
"We were doing fine and then all of a sudden we stopped passing, serving, hitting," she said.
"Nothing went right for us for a while. Then, we turn around and kill them the next game.
"We've got to quit losing focus and be really consistent all the way through. We can't afford those kind of lapses. We've got to be consistently good."
Against James Monroe, Oak Glen came away with a 25-15, 25-8, 16-25, 25-12 victory.
In their second match of the day, the Bears beat Frankfort 25-18, 20-25, 25-18, 25-15.
On the day, Sydney Kell finished with 28 points, 130 sets, 25 assists, two spikes, two kills and five blocks, while Vanessa Hissam added four points, 27 spikes and nine kills and one block.
Morgan Poling had 16 points, 14 spikes, 23 kills, 11 blocks and six digs, and Lacee Porter had 18 points, 13 spikes, seven digs and 21 kills.
Abby Tice finished with 7 points, 7 spikes, six digs and two kills, while Jessica Stivason added 15 spikes, 15 kills and 11 blocks.
Jessica Hutton had 13 points, three aces, one spike and one kill, and Caitlyn Smith had 16 points and 13 digs.
Carissa Williams finished with 63 sets and seven assists, while Madison Juszczak added nine points, two spikes, three kills and two blocks.
Oak Glen whipped Ritchie County last week 25-20, 25-10, 25-21 to win the Region 1 tournament
A win today would be the fifth state title for Oak Glen.


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Strengthening Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Adolescent Sexual Health and Youth Empowerment by Effectively Addressing Relationship Violence
Adolescent relationship abuse is prevalent and associated with poor sexual health outcomes. This presentation will review research on relationship abuse and discuss implications for adolescent pregnancy prevention and sexual health promotion. One potential mechanism linking adolescent relationship abuse with unintended pregnancy is male partners' control of women's reproduction (reproductive coercion) through active interference with contraception (birth control sabotage), behaviors to promote pregnancy (pregnancy pressure), and attempts to control the outcomes of a pregnancy (pregnancy coercion). This presentation will review qualitative and quantitative studies on partner violence and reproductive coercion, including data from a pilot intervention study in family planning clinics and school health centers. Implications of research findings for both clinic-based interventions and prevention of adolescent relationship abuse and unintended pregnancy will be discussed. Learning objectives:
- To describe the dynamics of adolescent relationship abuse and reproductive coercion and impact on adolescent sexual health
- To discuss clinic and community-based intervention strategies to promote healthy relationships, improve adolescent sexual health, and reduce unintended pregnancy
- To identify opportunities for relationship abuse prevention and intervention in clinical and community-based settings
Intended Audience:This program is designed for program directors and direct service staff who work with adolescents (both young women and young men). It will provide a framework that is new to southwestern Pennsylvania, but has proven effective in other regions. About the presenter:Dr. Elizabeth Miller is Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Trained in medical anthropology as well as Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Miller's research has included examination of sex trafficking among adolescents in Asia, teen dating abuse, and reproductive health, with a focus on underserved youth populations including pregnant and parenting teens, foster, homeless, and gang-affiliated youth. Her current research focuses on the impact of gender-based violence on young women's reproductive health. She has participated in numerous legislative hearings related to protecting adolescent confidentiality, adolescent reproductive health, and dating abuse. Her work on reproductive coercion and birth control sabotage has been featured in the New York Times, and she was also on the Oprah Winfrey show as a national expert on teen dating violence (at the time Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna). She has conducted research in partnership with Planned Parenthood in Northern California (funded by the National Institutes of Health), pilot testing a brief clinical intervention to address partner violence and reproductive coercion in reproductive health care settings, which has led to a large NIH-funded randomized trial in Western Pennsylvania. In addition, she is conducting a study of a sexual violence prevention program entitled "Coaching Boys into Men" which involves training high school coaches to talk to their male athletes about stopping violence against women, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also involved in projects to reduce gender-based violence and improve women's health in India, Japan, and Kenya.


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6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting
#3. Your Opponent Knows What's Coming
Did you ever play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out? Remember how the game used to help you out by making each fighter do this really obvious animation a second before he threw his punch so you'd know it was time to dodge? In a real fight, that's called telegraphing, and you do it whether you know it or not.
The point is, when the guy opens his mouth three times and drops his shorts, swing big.
Telegraphing is your body's natural reaction in a fighting situation. In other words, your DNA is literally conspiring against you in a fight. You can't help it, any more than you can help that sharp intake of breath before a sneeze. Before you strike, or do anything, your body automatically goes through a series of giveaway preparatory motions. What exactly these motions are vary on the individual and the attack. Some of them just throw the opponent a tip about what's about to go down, such as cocking your arm back before a punch or shifting your weight before unleashing a kick. Some are actual, Punch-Out level "attack me now, I'm all open!" ticks, such as tensing your shoulders, taking a sudden, noticeable deep breath or even widening your eyes and raising your eyebrows, comic-book-villain style.
The overall effect amounts to the opponent being able to easily avoid or counter your blows, if they are paying attention to the situation at all (and once you start throwing punches, it's a safe bet that they are). Even if they've never been in a fight in their life, it doesn't take Bruce Lee to see that your sudden, aggressive, full-body convulsion is an indication that it's time to dodge. You might as well scream, "I'M PUNCHIN'!"
Thanks to telegraphing, being the aggressor actually puts you at a disadvantage in a fight. Again, it doesn't take a fight expert to know that fortune is going to favor the person who gets to react to a missed punch. Once that Honeymooners style haymaker that you thought was going to end the show misses the mark, you're basically in optimum "punch me in the face" position, even if only for a second. That punch, unfortunately for you and your overly aggressive fight plan, is far more likely to land squarely on your soon to be bloodied face.
"Wait, no, that's not how I planned that at all!
By this point you might be a little confused, because by debunking every little technique, we're making it sound like fighting isn't even a thing, like fights don't even occur in the real world. And of course they do, you've seen YouTube videos of them.
But what we're trying to say is ...
#2. It Takes a Very Specific Type of Person to Win Fights ...
There's a whole breed of people who excel (insofar as such a word can be used) in street fights. They're called "criminals."
The reason is that most of fighting is being willing to fight. The good fighters are not necessarily big and strong -- size and strength are in fact far less important in a real fighting situation than we commonly believe.
"Are you ready to die tonight? Because I've already made dinner reservations with Satan."
And they're not martial artists and MMA fighters -- although skilled and technically well-equipped for a fistfight, those guys tend to find it extremely difficult to adapt to an actual fighting situation because they're used to restraining themselves. When you've spent years mentally preventing yourself from axe kicking your annoying neighbor through the drywall he keeps drilling on Sunday morning and have only unleashed your skills in controlled dojo and competition environments with strict rules, it's pretty hard to tap into your primal rage all of a sudden when a real-life self defense situation arises.
"I've HAD IT! As soon as we go over some ground rules, I'm going to kick your ass!"
We say primal rage because that's what it's about, deep down. Real fighting is a lot less about skill and talent and more about attitude. Ferocity. The will to fight when a rational man wouldn't, the ability to flip on your brain's fight-or-flight instinct and act without hesitation.
See, while even the most inexperienced layman has a primal fight-or-flight response at their disposal, enabling them to "wake the beast" when the situation arises, there is a problem. The fight-or-flight response is such a huge deal in everyday life, triggered by so many trivial aspects of modern culture from traffic to technology and manifesting in so many ways, that we're pretty much unable to use it as the "Hulk-out mode" it is designed to be.
"Hulking out" isn't very useful when your day-to-day is server maintenance.
So it takes a certain type of person to circumvent this psychological block in order to unleash their berserk ferocity and win by any means necessary. They are the people "winning" street fights, but also the people who are constantly instigating them. They're the kind of people who actually think fighting is a god damned good idea and are therefore losing in all other aspects of life.
#1. ... and You'd Be an Asshole to Want to Be One
Now, there is one way for an inexperienced fighter to release the beast within without actually having other, bigger beasts bash your face in for years first. Sorry, did we say "inexperienced" fighter?
We meant intoxicated. Because that's what it takes. You'd need to get drunk.
But please, please read the rest of this article before filling up on liquid courage and unleashing bare-knuckle hell on your neighborhood bully.
"Man, that plan sounded much more solid when I was shitfaced."
Because most humans aren't full-on sociopaths, alcohol and drugs are pretty much the only way a regular person can override their inhibitions and become an effective fistfighter, whatever that term is worth. It's happening somewhere right now -- guys get wasted, release their inner pit fighter for whatever reason and decide to deal out damage, Fight Club style.
Only in real life, your opponent isn't able to take an Edward Norton-issued barrage of blows, no matter how weak said blows are and no matter how much your face would be messed up afterward. The damage of such fearless, drunken, all-out punches is nothing like the wary bitch slaps you'd throw while in your right mind. And the damage those blows can do is way beyond superficial, especially with inexperienced fighters who don't have the training to block, avoid or absorb a punch. Or, as the case may be, with people who are taken by surprise because they suddenly are taking a punch to the face right in the middle of what they thought was a peaceful Trivia Night at the pub.
"I told you the answer was Matthew Perry! You're a DEAD MAN!"
And if said drunken fighter does know what he's doing? Watch out. Just take a gander at this story about an MMA instructor who was charged with murder after a bar fight got out of hand and he just straight up killed someone.
Everything we said about martial arts experts controlling their inner beast means dick when everybody involved is hammered. At that point, it's not you against a professional fighter; it's you against a fellow drunken imbecile who could remove your spine with his bare hands. And even if the dude tells you he breaks bones for a living, you'll probably be too drunk to be bothered by it. And then one of you dies and the other goes to prison.
Where, ironically, you'll learn quite a bit about fighting, whether you want to or not.
Of course, you won't remember any of these warnings when you're in that drunken deathmatch state of mind. So really we're just leaving this here so we can say "We told you so" later on.
For more things glorified by Hollywood, check out 5 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do and 5 Things That Aren't Nearly As Dangerous As Hollywood Thinks.


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Former Warren County Attorney Mike Caudill pleaded guilty to two counts of theft in Warren Circuit Court on Wednesday morning.
Caudill, who served as County Attorney for more than 25 years, admitted to illegally transferring $56,100 from the County Attorney's bad check collection account into his personal business account. He also admitted to transferring $8,000 from a personal injury client's account into his personal business account, as well.
As part of a plea agreement, Caudill will be sentenced to two one-year prison sentences, set to run concurrently with each other and a federal sentence to be handed down soon. Caudill and his attorney, David Broderick, have filed a plea agreement in Federal Court as well.
In the federal plea, Caudill pleads guilty to charges he paid himself $15,000 from the County Attorney's child support account for work he never performed.
Caudill, appearing ill and struggling to speak, appeared alongside Broderick to enter his plea before Circuit Judge John Grise.
Caudill will begin paying restitution to the county for the $56,100 in $300-a-month payments beginning January 1.
"That's something he and I counseled about for a long time. This is an acceptance of responsibility on his part, so one chapter of his life he can close, and hopefully successfully get through what is a significant medical problem at this time," Broderick said
"We're pleased that it's resolved, and I think the people of Warren County can be satisfied that the matter was looked into, it was investigated thoroughly, and we're pleased with the resolution of the case," said Assistant Attorney General Scott Crawford-Sutherland.
"Mike's health condition is very serious, and I guess for Mike's well-being it's a relief, and for the citizens of Warren County we've come to a conclusion of the matter," Broderick said.
Broderick says Caudill is awaiting open heart surgery, which may affect the timeline of his sentencing in both federal and state courts.
When asked if Caudill felt remorse for his actions, Broderick responded "Absolutely, I think you could tell by seeing him."


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With the arrival of the New Year you might be nearing graduation or looking for a summer internship http://bit.ly/OracleCampusUS .
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Tip #1 Whether it's LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ keep the party pics for you and your friends. This leads us nicely into Tip#2: Adjust your privacy & visibility settings on Facebook to select what content (posts, photos, tagging) can be seen and by whom. To see how your profile appears to certain connections, click the Activity Log then View As option on your profile page.
Tip #3: Get on LinkedIn - it's a great way to establish yourself and make connections in your industry. Optimize your profile using relevant keywords to ensure you "pop out" when recruiters are searching for talented people with your expertise! Tip #4: Leverage that Twitter bio - it's one of the first things a potential employer sees when they view your profile. Keeping it lighthearted and including what you are passionate about is fine but steer clear of offensive content or wording.
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Last but not least Tip #8: Incorporate both online and offline methods into your job seeking. Go to networking events and open days for the chance to meet potential colleagues and employers face to face and stand out from the virtual crowd!
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How did you get the manager pictures?
Have you been sacked from England? It'd be intresting if Danny took the job in the future.
Im out people Thanks again for making this such a wonderful thread ..
Next update is tommorow ...
Danny has made an offer for David Mitchell ... I signed this kid from him when he was at VIlla for 26m .....
Guilleme Ballague interview and more tommorow ..
Have a brilliant Saturday night people...
Think you should just get yourself 'knighted' thru the nickname function for your achievements (many titles, WC won, bringing Mohiddin Jr into the game). Sir Mohammed Mohiddin.
Then set a target for Jr - if he accomplishes a treble of EPL (done), La Liga and Serie A titles, or if he wins the WC with England, 'knight' him too.
When are you looking to retire Mohammed Mohiddin, FMAnderson, and what will happen when you do?
Epic thread, have read all the way through it This have made me want to play FM more than normal to get a son. Keep up the good work with Newcastle and the thread :P
i can see it now....newcastle vs sevilla
father vs son....
on the grandest stage of them all.....
the champions league final....
only if you make it that far elder mohiddin
I really really hope that when you eventually have a son, you name him Danny, hahaha
Epic. Keep'um coming
I think that has cropped up a few times before.
Put some screenshots of what your football world looks like in 2050! Rich list, Hall of Fame, Cup winners ect...
Haha @_
Next update tonight , Man Thank yu everyone .. :P
Just read all of that
And im inspired
Can't wait for the next update. Well done on creating the best thread I've ever read on these forums FMAnderson
if there is a "best topic ever" list this should be topping the list in my opinion
been following it for some weeks now and i must say FMAnderson this truly is inspiring
i would suggest everyone that is getting bored of FM to read this and your right back hooked again
amazing thread
makes me want to start a patch 3 game as soon as it starts!
Soz about the picture sizes lol the next one will be resized..
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Loving the update.
Hmm I had a feeling Sevilla is 3rd. :P
:P maybe 4th
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Sevilla have Real Madrid on the last game of the season .. I have to go out but i will be back later tofinish the update.. Not bad from Danny ....
I also have Man Utd which could be vital in deciding where the premier league goes ....
Next Update in an hour and Big Update Tommorow
Thanks to everyone for making this a successfull thread ..
Raul's still going strong in 2050! Could you post a screenie of Yuce?
Loving those praises beetwen you two guys.
I am signing Jesus :P
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you need to sign kadir....since his manager is your son, im sure you can get him for a bit cheaper than 50m
and grab raul if youve got any change left afterwards
Movin to Seville for free in the summer
Need help people ..
Do i sign this kid for 7m
Or jesus ( above ) slighty older
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Next update on Tuesday people .. Tommorow is workday ..
Juan Carlos
IMO go for him. He is awesome for his age.
wat fabio said
always listen to fabio....
Danny to leave Sevilla and make a shock return to the Premier League with Manchester United win everything then goto Togo in search of a small job. Sounds realistic to me
drop 40 million for kadir
lol My strikers have been improving as well so i want to give them another season but damn i might be tempted if i get about 50m to spend in the summer ...
I hope Danny comes back to the prem before i retire .. lol
So after everything Danny only thinks the two of you could be friends? Even after you gave him a player you paid 28.5 million for, for 14.5 million...must have a short memory. Little sh*t. Lol. As his father, I deeply hope you take no offense.
On a side note...go for Juan Carlos. Great stats for such a young player and for only 7 million, he's a steal.
Would be great if other managers could get sons in game, but I'm afraid those never stay at one club long enough to make it happen?
Well, I had mine at the start of the 2nd season in my first game of FM08. And my in-game age was like 31. He was 16 so you do the maths.
yes now i want a son ..... good lick with England
I would go with juan carlos if the scout says he has good potential. It depends whether he'd be any better than your present strikers though.
I got a son like da second season one time.....its funny cuz my manager was 32 years old.....and my son was 15
oh yea my son was white (my nationalities were american and nigerian)
I didnt even know he was my son.....i didnt know we could have a son.....
The Season starts and the transfer window is going to be crazy i have a feeling ...


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I have great difficulty stopping to think of things I'm doing at bedtime. Whenever my night's sleep is bad, my day is much less productive. I try to compensate by drinking coffee, but this only works for a few hours.
Here's my bedtime routine that works really well
Taken from my article: The most important thing you suck at: sleep
Reduce caffeine intake, especially in the afternoon. Caffeine has a ~5 hour half-life and can affect your sleep even if when you don't feel wired.
Finally, start a bedtime journaling habit. Go over what you've accomplished that day, what problems you've had and make your to-do list for the next day. This puts your mind at ease, ensuring a worry free rest.
It can be very helpful to get things out of your mind and in to somewhere that you trust you'll see them later, so you can forget about it now. For me, that means keeping a pad and pencil next to the bed, and writing down anything that I keep thinking about instead of sleeping. The next morning, I take that list and transfer the notes to wherever I'll find them most useful in the future, whether that's a calendar, a to do list, or somewhere else. It takes a little time to learn to trust your system, but it does work.
Black. When you are trying to sleep: Simply think all the time about the color black.
If any other thing than the color black pops up - think about black again.
If you're imagining a black object - think about the color black again.
That's my trick. This is so boring you will fall asleep in no time. Every other thought has no chance.
Start reading book.. nothing else is required.
I have found in the past that unless I am exhausted, it is difficult to get to sleep in the silence. This can be easily remedied by listening to white noise. I find that the white noise provides just enough noise to drown out my thoughts, and is uniform enough to allow me to fall asleep. It may also help to spend 10-15 minutes before bed every night quickly reviewing your thoughts. This "purging" of thoughts may calm your mind somewhat and you may feel more comfortable that you have already done your thinking.
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First off, coffee is definitely not a solution (well, technically it is, but...never mind) - it makes it difficult to sleep by stimulating various areas of the brain.
So a couple of viewpoints:
Try simple meditation like focusing on your breathing. Whenever you wander away from focusing on your breathing, gently push away the thoughts and focus on your breathing again. Rinse and repeat.
Look into the source of your endless thoughts. If you are trying to remember everything you have to do tomorrow, capture it all on paper or other media (like someone already suggested). If there are other reasons why you can't stop thinking, try to figure out what they are and how you can alleviate the problem (may be go see a mental health professional, asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness).
Exercise/regular sleep/healthier diet usually helps.
Here's the best technique I know when I have trouble falling asleep, because I keep thinking about the day's events, or tomorrow's plans.
STOP thinking with your left brain, and switch to your right hemisphere!
For example, I'm a computer programmer, and usually code or design right up to the point I go to bed. But I keep thinking about new ideas or solutions to problems I am having. This can go on for more than an hour. And even if I'm actually very tired.
Once I realize this, I start thinking more emotionally, not logically. I think about what I plan to do tomorrow or the weekend (but not about programming!). Or, what I just did last weekend. Or, anything that involves simply 'being' in the situation without thinking about details. Try remembering a nice experience you had. It usually only takes a few minutes then I'm fast asleep.
Or try clearing your mind of the usual 'clutter'. (that voice that just wont shut up! Or is that just me? :) ) Start your mental training by either counting (as others have suggested), or concentrating on your breathing (my favorite!). Ideally you should be able to train yourself to think of 'nothing' (except maybe an occasional 'hey! I just thought of nothing for 10 seconds!' Dang inner voice!) All of this is to attempt to calm your inner dialog.
Good luck, and good night!
Avoid reading Office emails before sleeping.
Otherwise you will keep thinking about stuff.
Read THE PROMISE OF SLEEP by William Dement (prominent sleep researcher). His advice: at 7:00 pm (no later) take 30 minutes to write down every worry, every fear, every agitative thought. Then, go to bed. Very similar to David Allen's trusted system when the brain lets go once it understands that the ideas have been written down. I have a friend who got into GTD and wrote all the open loops on 3"x5" cards. After 3 weeks she emailed me and said "I'm dreaming again!"
The rest of the story was before she wrote her open loops on 3"x5" cards, the last thing she would do before falling asleep was review everything that she could not afford to forget. Then she fell asleep, then she dreamt about her open loops. Once her open loops were out of her head via 3"x5" cards, she started having "Normal person dreams" again.
If this is not enough to get you to sleep, try another of William Dement's recommendations which is to talk to your doctor, ask for 30 days of a non-habit forming sleeping pill that you won't refill without re-talking with the doctor. My doctor gave me Trazadone which s/he (first it was a she, currently it is a he) is not worried will be a problem. When the boss is too invasive, take a pill, sleep when you have the time to sleep.
Dement also explains in his book that the stereotype of habit forming sleeping pills comes from the 1960s when sleeping pills were habit forming. Today's pills are completely different and much safer.
Hope this helps!
The hardest part for me was committing, and absolutely committing, to not having any electronics in the room. No phone, no iPad, no computer. It sounds silly but it took me about a week of this to be able to easily go to sleep without any distraction. Now it's very easy for me....but that first week was brutal!
I want to describe what I'm doing in such case:
First let's feel me fresh and guarantee that immediately fall in sleep when reach a bed. Second doesn't allow me to forget about beautiful things in this my life and bring motivation for work.
One way to induce sleep is with Melatonin supplements. It is a chemical naturally released by your brain when it is dark out, but can be inhibited by caffeine, stress, etc. It is a cheap drug you can get in the vitamins section of a grocery store.
I personally find listening to the radio helps me get to sleep.
I don't find music helps but listening to BBC Radio 4, 4extra, or BBC World Service has enough voice that helps me drop off.
I think it moves my heads focus away from thinking about the day to listening to the programme, and with it not being particularly engaging (like counting) it just helps you drop off.
A piece of advice: If you often have difficulty to sleep, I would stop consuming caffeine. Even if you are pretty sure it is not the reason why your sleep is bad, you should understand that caffeine stimulate the brain for a varying period of time. Therefore, you can become very tired but still your brain stay very active.
First thing today...giving up my evening cup of coffee. Second, take my bible, read a chapter or two, and pray...giving all my worries & concerns to God, who, in my convictions of my faith is big & powerful enough to handle it.
I believe in white noise also, in prior times, the humming sound of a fan helped.
Lately, I've taken Melatonin, it hasn't kicked in. If I'm not asleep after a certain time I will take a rx sleeping pill, which does the job...but, don't want to depend on them.
I want to emphasize the "global" solutions too in the sense of "how do I make my day so that I have a clear mind before I go to sleep".
I've found counting works.
It's a variant on the old counting sheep.
I change it by counting down from 100 or 200 in 3's or in 4's. Maybe down from 300 in 6's. I'm always surprised that it works but it often does. I guess it is:
Try it!
This might seem like a small, simple thing, but I've found that it really has helped me in the long run: don't go to bed until you're tired.
I originally got this advice from a very good article about getting up early, but I think it's a valuable bit of advice for going to sleep, too. If you aren't tired, not only will it take far longer to fall asleep, but sleep will probably be less restful. When you are tired, it becomes harder to focus on trains of thought, making it easier to let them go and fall asleep.
Another piece of advice I can offer you, if it suits your tastes, is to have a drink before bed. A beer, a glass of wine, whatever drink you prefer. 15-30 minutes before you go to bed, have one drink. Alcohol is a depressant, and that little bit of anti-stimulation can be enough to take you from pondering the whole universe to mellow enough to let thoughts go.
(Good thread is helpful. Here is my mantra.) When I was little and would complain to my parents that I could not sleep my mother would simply say: "If you can't sleep, you're not tied." By the time I had thought about it for a while it was usually morning.
Obviously as an adult we are slightly more complex beings, but for me the truth is usually a lack of exercises. If I can't sleep I get up, do some gardening and/or some taichi and then sleep is usually much easier.
If television or Interneting is part of your evening then you could try replacing part/all of it with any type of physical exercise.
Sweet dreams.
Do not go to sleep with your laptop. That's all. Or, alternatively find a good wife a let her to decide when to go to sleep and how to sleep.
What helps me to sleep and feel healty:
In some cases, when my regular habits are not enough:
I thought that meditation was all about suppressing all external thoughts. After reading a bit more about the different types of meditation, I found that you can also do the following:
Workout everyday. (At least 30-40) mins
You can also do do normal Exercise or play outdoor sport.
You can also do some stretching exercises just before getting into bed. Also,
Take almonds and milk.
Follow the 4-5-7 rule.
4 seconds inhale.
5 seconds hold.
7 secs, let go.
This seriously gonna work. Have a good night's sleep buddy.


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(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -Columbia College's Development, Alumni and Public Relations team recently welcomed two new administrative assistants. Addie Burr will provide support the alumni relations department and Kathleen Twenter will assist the public relations department.
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"It really stressed in facts and data that we do have issues with injuries in crash. And it does cost money. And therefore we need to look at our highways."
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"Those young people in vehicles particularly 16 to 17 to 18 are the ones receiving the most injuries."
"There's an opportunity for us to intervene particularly as it relates to males or all teenagers. Particularly in high schools."
Results of the study show seatbelt usage could have prevented many fatalities and incapacitating injury accidents. That's another area they are trying to reach out to.
"Specifically for the target groups where the data shows those individuals experienced the greatest injuries and more fatalities."
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7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked
#3. Robert Fortune: "Chinese" Tea Thief
The Hoax:
In the mid-1800s, Great Britain was still buying most of its tea from China. This was a problem for the British government and merchants, because they could have been producing it in British India, thus growing it wholesale and passing the savings on to themselves. The problem is that the general consensus was that Chinese tea was better because of a manufacturing technique that was being kept secret from the West.
"It's probably got lots and lots of 'chi' in it."
So in 1848, the real life supervillains in charge of the British East India Co. sent botanist Robert Fortune into China to learn the secrets of growing and manufacturing Chinese tea. However, foreigners were not allowed in certain parts of China at this time, so Fortune had to pretend to be one of the locals and con his way into a tea factory. Simple, right?
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
Robert Fortune was the whitest-looking person in the world:
"Your move, Keanu Reeves."
In what sounds like a movie premise good enough to bring Dana Carvey out of retirement, Fortune had to dress up like a Chinese guy in order to infiltrate the Chinese tea industry. He didn't just need to pull this off with giant gray sideburns, but also with a Scottish accent, which he was only able to explain by saying he was from a "far province." You have to ask, could they actually not find even a single Asian guy in Britain to help them out here?
"Yeah, and the big fake teeth. This will totally look legit."
Somehow, he pulled it off. And not only did he rip off the Chinese for their tea secrets -- he also discovered that they were coloring their teas with poisonous dyes. The combination of cheaper tea and knowledge of poisonous tampering quickly ended the Chinese tea industry in Britain and helped inspire a century of being suspicious of Asians.
#2. General Electric Returns Its Tax Refund
The Hoax:
In April of 2011, General Electric was the focus of a scandal in which they were reported to be receiving a $3.2 billion tax refund. Soon after, the company apparently released an incredible press release stating that they would be returning the entire tax refund back to the United States Treasury, and that they would be doing so in order to "secure its position as a leader in corporate social responsibility."
Several news outlets, most notably the Associated Press, picked up the story and ran with it, which resulted in GE's stock falling by 0.6 percent, which, on a company worth over $42 billion, is more than $250 million.
"So what we have learned is never to be nice. Fetch the sack of kittens and the big stick."
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
The bombshell press release was the work of the group US Uncut (with some direction from activists The Yes Men), a self-proclaimed "grassroots movement taking direct action against corporate tax cheats and unnecessary and unfair public service cuts across the U.S."
The tax refund hoax was never meant to be taken all that seriously; in fact, it reads kind of like an Onion article, with GE's "CEO" announcing that "All seven of our foreign tax havens are entirely legal," and "While we owe it to our shareholders to use every legal loophole to maximize returns -- we also owe something to the American people. We didn't write the laws that let us legally avoid paying taxes. Congress did. But we benefit from those laws."
"And Congress benefited in ... other ways."
In addition, a simple call to the phone number provided on the press release would have resulted in a rather ridiculous phone runaround, much like that which CBS News experienced:
The first time CBS News called the number, the call went to voice mail with this recording: "Hey, you've reached Andrew and his prone-to-fail but nonetheless handy-dandy iPhone."
The second time CBS News called, the recording was of a computerized-sounding British woman's voice claiming that the caller had reached GE media -- which was closed.
Then someone called back claiming to be "Samuel Winnacker."
He asked for Jacques Strap and just breathed down the phone for 20 minutes.
In addition, the press release wasn't actually posted on GE's news website, genewscenter.com, but on the domain genewscenters.com, which had been registered only a week prior.
AP was forced to retract the story soon afterward and issued a public admission that they "did not follow its own standards in this case for verifying the authenticity of the news release."
And then GE returned the money anyway. No, we're totally kidding.
#1. The Cottingley Fairies
The Hoax:
Back in 1917, two little girls in Cottingley, England, cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, took a camera down to a nearby stream and took a bunch of photographs of themselves playing with fairies. Although their parents were initially skeptical, the photographs soon found their way into the hands of genuine fairy believers, because in those days, there was such a thing as genuine fairy believers.
And sanitariums, so thank goodness for that.
The story really took off when Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publically declared them to be legit. Doyle was an avid spiritualist, and his opinion on the matter came with a lot of clout. The biggest puzzle that the skeptics had to solve was how the children could have faked the photographs -- there was no Photoshop at the time, and photography experts analyzed the images again and again in an effort to find signs of tampering.
Why No One Should Have Bought It:
Let's take a look at one of these photographs and see how long it takes you to figure out how they did it. We'll wait.
We're not going to come right out here and say "People in the past were idiots," but come on now. If you look closely enough, you can almost see the pins holding the obviously two-dimensional cartoon fairies to the branches behind them. And that's exactly what's going on here -- the girls cut a bunch of fairy illustrations out of a popular children's book and attached them to tree branches using hat pins.
And also a goblin, but everyone agreed that went too far.
Of course, people will believe anything if they want to believe badly enough. The real mystery is how it fooled the creator of the world's greatest detective. This is part of the reason why the girls kept their mouths shut for so many years -- once Sherlock Holmes had verified their story, they knew they had gotten themselves in too deep.
It would be 1983 before the girls, now very old women, would finally admit to the hoax. By that time, the photographs had been analyzed again and again, looking for signs that Tinkerbell was real, and if she was, why she was so flat.
"The better to slip underneath your skin, humans."
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The Diagenesis and porosity of the mixed deposits of the Azagador Member (U. Miocene) in the Turre Area, Almeria, Spain
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Deformation bands in porous sandstones, their microstructure and petrophysical properties
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Deformation bands are commonly thin tabular zones of crushed or reorganized grains that form in highly porous rocks and sediments. Unlike a fault, typically the slip is negligible in deformation bands. In this dissertation ...
Fracture-generated permeability and groundwater yield in Norway
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The transport of groundwater in bedrock is largely determined by interconnected fractures and their apertures. The conditions by which fractures become interconnected are thus of primary importance in understanding ...
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Hovedformålet med denne oppgaven har vært å få bedre kunnskap om tilbaketrekningen av Norskerennaisstrømmen gjennom siste deglasiasjonsfase, samt ulike sedimentasjonsmiljø og prosesser knyttet til dette. Studien er basert på ...
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Variability of precipitation in complex terrain and the investigation of representativeness of a single point measurement for the Matre Hydro System, Western Norway.
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Seismicity in Pakistan during 2008 and Local Site Response in Muzaffarabad and Islamabad, Pakistan
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Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate variability seen in palaeo-observations: Similar variation of Iceland-Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
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You are divine at centre, human in appearance – at a certain range.Seeing Who you really are doesn't mean you are no longer aware of your appearance, no longer self-conscious – that's impossible as well as undesirable. So you still respond to your name, still recognize yourself in the mirror, still take responsibility for your actions. Of course. But you are now aware that your humanity is like a disguise, an incarnation you have taken on to be here in this world. Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person – a unique person with a special contribution to make. Instead of thinking you are just that person, that appearance, you are awake to the Power behind you, the Safety within you, the Source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.
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