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The column I wrote for the December issue of the Garland Rowlett Messenger caused quite a stir. But it's not wrong. In fact, it's so right it hurts. What do you think? Leave a comment!
Every year we, as Americans, gather around our dinner tables with our family, friends, or both, and we break bread in a tradition of being grateful for the people, opportunities, and possessions we have in our lives. Some families do not begin eating until each person has spoken briefly about what he or she is thankful for that year.
We consume an average of 4500 calories each, and watch football on the TV between rounds of green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie. With stuffed bellies and family gathered together, life is pretty good, right? That's what Thanksgiving is all about – being grateful for what you have. This couldn't be further from the truth in American culture.
Thanksgiving is a joke, and millions of people are in on it.
Thanksgiving is about the latest and greatest Black Friday sale. It's about carbing up the day before the big shopping marathon. We eat big meals to fuel our bodies so we can then trample over the weaker of our species when those glass doors at Wal-Mart slide open at 5am.
We spend one day together feeling thankful for what we have, and the next day clamoring for materials we simply cannot live another second without – and we'll hurt each other to get them.
The image at the top of this column is a screenshot of the current deaths and injuries related to Black Friday shopping excursions. It began in 2008 as a way to record the needless violence that occurs due to our need to have more stuff in our lives.
This is shameful.
This is the opposite of nourishing what matters.
This, of course, doesn't reflect the actions of everyone, but it does reflect a cultural pattern in this country, and it's not a good one, no matter how you look at it.
I challenge you to step back from all the commercialism of the holiday season, and genuinely reflect on your life for a moment. What are you grateful for this year? Who are you grateful for this year?
My invitation to you is to make this season about the gifts of gratitude, appreciation, and love – not making sure your loved ones have the latest electronics come Christmas morning. Spend a little more time showing them you care and less time making sure you have enough space on the credit card to get them a PS4.
It's time to treat the holidays like more than just a gift exchange party. It's time we Nourish What Matters.
What do you think? Leave a comment so we can connect.
I recently had a conversation with a client of mine regarding what he truly wants. He had so many things to say about what he wanted. And, he had even more to say about why it's too hard or impossible to make happen. There are all these "reasons" for how it just can't be done, or it's too scary, or what will happen if it doesn't work out – and every last one of them is made up.
We're all dealing with a myriad of lines we're afraid to cross. Taking the big leap of faith to start your new business venture, or having the courage to make that pretty girl your wife, or investing in yourself after years of investing in everyone else – these are lines we've drawn and need help, encouragement, and a good push to cross.
Consider this a little push. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is right now. You will regret every chance you didn't take when your life comes to a close. If at the end of your life, you met the person you could have been, would you regret not taking more chances?
Of course you would.
It's better to cross the line and manage the consequences than to stare at the line for the rest of your life.
What are your thoughts? What line do you wish you had the courage to conquer? Share in the comments below.
I write a column for the Garland & Rowlett Messenger in Texas, and with the paper coming out last week, I think it's only fitting to share the column with you all here. If you click the link here, you can see the photo copy I'm all kinds of proud of.
Faced with a seemingly insurmountable goal, nearly every last one of us quits the fight. Then there are the select few that reject the hand-me-down rules of what we are capable of. These individuals change the landscape of human achievement, and they don't do it for medals, awards, or recognition. They do it because they feel it in their bones as something they can do when the world tells them it's impossible.
Diana Nyad did the seemingly impossible over Labor Day weekend by swimming, without a shark cage, across the Caribbean Sea from Havana, Cuba to the Florida Keys. 110 miles of open water, hordes of box jellyfish, and the ever-present threat of sharks weren't enough to deter her from reaching her ultimate goal.
Nyad is no stranger to defeat and the pain of failure, having finally completed the swim 36 years after her first of five attempts. At 64 years old, she swam for 53 hours straight, fueled by unshakable vigor. It begs the question, what drives someone to do such a thing?
In her 2011 TED talk, she explained her commitment and drive, saying, "I want it to be difficult. I want it to take passion. I want it to take an unwavering commitment to be able to get to the other shore." She spoke volumes when the first few words out of her mouth after finally reaching that shore were, "we should never, ever give up."
This is a shining example of having a vision and commitment to making it become a reality, regardless of what obstacles come before you. In my workshops and personal coaching programs, I meet countless people with big dreams and big reasons for them, but not enough strength to keep forging ahead when it becomes difficult.
The great Roman philosopher, Lucius Seneca said it perfectly: "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." The journey is almost certainly going to be difficult at times, but you must keep pushing if you wish to shine.
You have within you the power to create an absolutely extraordinary life if you simply give yourself permission to do so. Since we were little, we've all had those voices telling us to be more realistic and practical in what we set out to accomplish. For some of us, the voices were those of our family members; others learned to aim lower from their coworkers, friends, teachers, or spouses.
This is the great lie of the human experience. Fear of aiming too high and failing was instilled in us based on the opinions and experiences of others. We carry around other peoples' assumptions about life as our own. One of my favorite questions to raise is this:
If you never learned failure – if you never learned to be realistic, what would your life look like?
Give yourself permission to throw out all the conclusions you've been given about life, and goals you've been told you can and cannot reach. The greatest innovators, athletes, leaders, and performers in the world share the same chemical makeup as you – they just don't believe the same things about life, and it allows them to create extraordinary successes.
If I told you a 64 year old woman was going to swim for 53 hours straight, 110 miles across the Caribbean Sea from Cuba to Key West, you might not believe it. You might think it couldn't be done. She, however, never learned that lesson.
My invitation to you is to examine your beliefs about what's possible for you in your life. Take a closer look at where you may have learned those beliefs and give yourself permission to throw out assumptions that no longer serve you. Focus on what you truly want to believe and experience, and notice what begins to happen when you do.
Until next month, stay brilliant.
Nourish What Matters – a monthly column of empowerment, clarity, confidence building, and challenges from inspirational speaker and coach, Blake Alexander Hammerton.
Lately it seems like all I've been hearing are assumptions and conclusions on how the world really works. When I pay attention a moment longer, I can hear the blaring battle cry of distorted thinking. Distortion is a cunning and seductive beast. If you don't give pause to your thoughts, you'll completely miss her sleight of hand. Here are 15 styles of distorted thinking:
You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. For example, let's say you blew a tire on the way to work, but after changing it you were given a free coffee for your troubles at the local coffee shop. You'll tell the story of the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day – completely forgetting the free coffee and smile.
Polarized Thinking
Things are black or white, good or bad, possible or impossible. You have to be perfect or you're a failure. There is no middle ground. You cannot compromise…on anything. You find all the options irrelevant because your mind is made up already… about everything.
You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once, you expect it to happen over and over again. This happens after broken hearts. "All guys are douchebags. I'm just going to get my heart broken." People are often quick to jump to conclusions after only one incident.
Mind Reading
Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine how people are feeling toward you. This is because you, much like the rest of the human populous, has a Ph.D. from Make Stuff Up University.
You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start throwing out "what-ifs" about it. What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to you? What if it's too risky and you die?!?!? Knock it off. Your blood pressure doesn't ever need to go that high on a what if. And yes, catastrophizing is totally a made-up word.
I get this question a lot. What exactly do you do? What can you do for me?
There is also an underlying question: What's the difference between coaching and therapy?
Check out my quick video and leave a comment below. What other questions have you got for me? What would you like a coach to do for you?
Stay brillant,
"Keep your head clear. It doesn't matter how bright the path is if your head is always cloudy." ~Unknown
This is an article I wrote for Tiny Buddha last year that was published January 1, 2013. If you've not heard of Tiny Buddha, I highly recommend venturing over there and taking in all the goodness.
Have you ever noticed that your biggest "aha" moment comes from someone asking a powerful question? Suddenly everything seems to make a little more sense, and you know what you need to do from that point forward, right?
That's exactly how it is for me. Someone will ask me a seemingly trivial question and bam! I'm suddenly overflowing with answers, emotions, solutions—I'm practically made of clarity!
I remember a friend of mine asking me over coffee one rainy afternoon a few years ago, "What are you avoiding, Blake?"
"What? Nothing. I mean, I guess I don't want it to fail." I eventually replied.
"Yeah, and…" She quips back. "What happens then?"
I came to her because her willingness to face challenges head-on amazes me, and I needed her to facemy challenge and give me that sage advice I knew she could. I wanted to leave corporate America and venture out on my own, and I wanted her to somehow make that sounds less crazy.
I wanted to throw caution to the wind and follow what I most passionately believed in.
I wanted to be my own success story.
I also wanted someone else to tell me it was going to work.
Calculating, weighing, analyzing—these things can only take you so far. I subconsciously needed something to get me out of my head and into some clarity. I needed that push.
We bounced back and forth for what seemed like eternity. When most people have conversations like this, one party inevitably snaps out of the pattern and either says something oddly profound, or simply gets frustrated and tells the other to bugger off.
I was lucky enough to receive the former rather than the latter.
"When do you stop calculating risk and rewards and just do it?" she asked. "Because it feels like you're building a magnificent ship you're too much of a baby to ever sail. What are more committed to, dreaming it or doing it?"
Holy cow, I was stunned. She was right. What was I more committed to? What a brilliant question.
As a coach (yes, I made the leap and ventured out on my own), I make my living asking these questions to help clients get out of their own way.
The beauty of these questions is there are no right or wrong answers. They are just meant to get your wheels turning, and maybe help you see the decisions you've been making, and the ones you'd like to make from now on.
These are 28 of my favorite questions:
1. We learn from our mistakes, yet we're always so afraid to make one. Where is this true for you?
2. What risk would you take if you knew you could not fail?
3. What is your greatest strength? Have any of your recent actions demonstrated this strength?
4. What are the top five things you cherish in your life?
5. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
6. When do you stop calculating risk and rewards, and just do it?
7. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
8. What do you most connect with? Why?
9. What one piece of advice would you offer a newborn child?
10. Which is worse—failing or never trying?
11. Why do we do things we dislike and like the things we never seem to do?
12. What are you avoiding?
13. What is the one job/cause/activity that could get you out of bed happily for the rest of your life? Are you doing it now?
14. When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
15. What are you most grateful for?
16. What would you say is one thing you'd like to change in the world?
17. Do you find yourself influencing your world, or it influencing you?
18. Are you doing what you believe in or settling for what you're doing?
19. What are you committed to?
20. Which worries you more – doing things right or doing the right things?
21. If joy became the national currency, what kind of work would make you wealthy?
22. Have you been the kind of friend you'd want as one?
23. Do any of the things that used to upset you a few years ago matter at all today? What's changed?
24. Would you rather have less work to do or more work you enjoy doing?
25. What permission do you need/want to move forward?
26. Really, what do you have to lose if you go for it?
27. How different would your life be if there weren't any criticism in the world?
28. We're always making choices. Are you choosing for your story or for someone else's?
Powerful questions can change the very fiber of our construction. They give us a chance to challenge our own ideals and perhaps shed some light on what we are and are not committed to.
It's important to understand that we're always committed to something. If it's not success out on our own, it's staying safe in the comfortable success of someone else. If we're not committed to creating our opportunities, we're committed to floating around, hoping, waiting, and wishing for circumstance.
Are you more committed to dreaming it or doing it?
Ask yourself some of these questions when you feel stuck. What comes up just might surprise you!
Peace, love, and a million successes to you, my friends!
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Guest Post by Greg Malouf of Epsilon Healing Academy
I came to a point in my life where I felt like something was not working the way I wanted it to. I struggled with addiction, stress and anxiety, and had to go through a painful divorce. Once I was finally ready to make a change in my life, the question became: How?
Having the desire to change was an important first step because it led me to begin a search for answers. One thing that is necessary to understand, however, is that in seeking change, we are embarking on a journey. There are answers, but there is no magic that will instantly fix everything in life. I had to learn to be patient and to be open as I moved through the process.
With that said, I'd like to share a few tips I used to get through making a life change that you can try right away that will offer a taste of what is to come as you progress through this work.
Shift your perspective
Try this exercise for one day of your life—just one!
Throughout the day, stop yourself—as best as you can—from criticizing, judging, attacking, or acting out behaviorally when a negative emotion or uneasiness is triggered within you. Focus on your thoughts, your emotions, and your actions as you encounter people, things, and circumstances that trigger those negative thoughts and feelings in you. When those feelings come up, and you are tempted to speak harshly or act out of anger and frustration, catch yourself and take a breath. Instead of the response you would instinctively make, on this day, make a conscious effort to shift your perspective from negative to positive.
Watch what happens when you make a conscious choice to see circumstances differently. As you choose positive responses over negative ones, you will certainly notice a shift in your perspective and your outlook. You will also notice a shift in those around you. Think about an argument you've had with someone. Typically, arguments start with something simple and relatively unimportant, but as heated words are exchanged, the hostility ratchets up until it seems there is no going back. But imagine if instead of fueling that fire, you step back, take a moment, and respond with openness and kindness. The situation would be resolved much quicker and without all the bad feelings.
Indulge only in loving thoughts and your day will be beautiful. Feelings that you have not felt in a long time will continue to surface – joy, peace, contentment, fulfillment.
Practice Forgiveness
The next step in the process is forgiveness. Forgiveness does not mean condoning bad behavior. It simply means that we choose to release any anger or bitterness toward the person we believe has caused our unease. That can be difficult to do, so here is a way to start.
When you feel resentment, anger, or grievances, replace these feelings with the thought, "I love you, (name), and I accept you as you are."
Repeat this each time you feel a change of mental state or an uneasy feeling.
Identify the thought and at whom this negative energy is projected. Forgive, using loving words and affirmations. Repeat the words above until you are free of any negative energy and unease.
Forgive yourself for your reactions—for carrying the shame of that past for so long. Recognize that you are now in control of your life!
Know that those who you reacted to have helped you recognize and release the part of your past that kept you prisoner within your mind and body. They helped liberate you, and you love them for it. This is true forgiveness!
Release negative feelings
As with any skill, learning to respond with love in potentially difficult situations takes practice. There is something you can do to help yourself be better prepared when you do encounter triggers.
At the moment you feel unease, take note of where you feel it in your body. It may be pain that you don't readily associate with an emotional issue, or it may be emotional distress that you can now associate with a physical manifestation, such as stomachache, headache, or tension in your neck. Either way, when you feel pain, be aware that it is a sign that you are out of alignment with your true values; you are disconnected to your inner you.
Sit quietly, and focus on your pain. Say what you are feeling—grief, anger, resentment, loneliness, and so on. Separate the feelings from the pain. Release the emotion and simply be aware once again of the physical pain. Breathe deeply in and out, and allow the breath to carry this pain with it. After a short time, your body will feel rested.
Now you have isolated the negative energy that fed your thoughts. As the thoughts come, simply observe them without judgment. Continue to sit quietly and breathe.
Ask yourself ––in the inner silence of Self, "What part of my past caused me to feel this way?" Remember that your negative thoughts stem from your past traumas, large and small. Recognize any resemblance between your current feelings and that past experience.
Use positive affirmations
Positive affirmations are an excellent way to remind yourself throughout the day to check your emotional state and redirect or reframe any negative thoughts or feelings. Here are a few examples:
"I am now in control of my life."
"I forgive those I now recognize for holding me in their shame, and I forgive myself for carrying it for so long. I send them love and offer myself love."
"I am okay in Self."
As you practice each of these exercises, keep in mind that the real miracle–– the major shift–– will come when you are ready to create your life consciously. Consider this a small miracle to enjoy, an opportunity to experience a mere taste of bliss, calm, and joy all around you.
Don't be afraid to give yourself a chance – after all, the primary beneficiary will be you! In this one day, you may feel what it is to liberate the soul.
Let go of your fear, and give it a try! If I was able to do this, you can too.
Please share your thoughts in the comments below. What resonates the most with you in your life? What do you focus on when you begin to heal? Please comment and share.
Greg Malouf is the founder of Epsilon Healing Academy where he works with students throughout the world to take a journey away from life as they know it, and into the inner world of the Self – where they ultimately find healing. His book, "Silent: The Power of Silence," was written to take readers on an inward journey to find the all-loving place and connection that is the silent connection to Self.
Today's video is about perspective and taking care of the lens through which you view and interact with the world around you. How come we clean our car windshields, camera lenses and glasses when they get dirty or smudged, but the lens through wich we see the world goes untouched? Check out this video on what it means to change your perspective to change your life, and let me know your thoughts.
What do you feel you would see differently if your lens was suddenly clean?
What would a different, potentially more positive perspective give you in your life today?
As always, if you liked this video, please comment and share!
Peace, Love, and a million successes to you all!
Psychology Today had a brilliant article in 2010 on America's culture of envy, and wanting be, do, and have more. Moreover, it's about our own judgements that we haven't accomplished enough – regardless of what incredible feats we have completed. It rings so true with me because I can hear the parts of my mind screaming at me about what I haven't done, and how I fail to measure up to people around me; but I also hear the voice that's amazed with the things I have done when I measure them against my ability as a human being to do them. It's about measuring your life against your internal dream – not against the celebutantes on TV.
"The Contender Syndrome is subtly different from envy. It's more a sense of not living up to the best you, rather than not living up to the best Albert Einstein. Some scientists say the feeling of not reaching your potential comes from a discrepancy between the 'actual self' (who you are), the 'ideal self' (who you'd like to be), and the 'ought self' (who you think others want you to be). Troubles arise when your actual self doesn't align with your other visions."
Anything from parents or teachers telling you things like, "You can do it. You're better/stronger/smarter than this." can start the process of either pushing you to achieve, or create the gap between where you are and where you'd like to be. This gap is the big pickle. Some people never learned how to build a bridge from here (actual) to there (ideal). Often this gap can seem too big to bridge, or simply impossible because the talent needed to live that dream aren't available. Hazel Markus, a Psychologist at Stanford University, disagrees with this.
"A lot of people think you need the talent. People who end up suffering, feeling like they could have been a contender, are those with the idea that talents are pretty much fixed, so they don't figure out how to get from where they are to where they want to be," says Markus. "They don't even really think it's possible, so they don't put the work into it."
How will you know you've achieved it? How do you know you haven't yet? How do you know you're not in denial about your achievement? A lot of people see the ideal self and hear the ought self, but can't get a clear view of the actual self. They may actually be very close to their ideal state, but they can't see the steps they've taken, and the successes they've had along the way. Their gap is still too big. One great way to bring your progress into light is to name the greatest pleasures in what you have or do, or the person you are. You'll see that your values are in some of your greatest pleasures. There's more to life than 'keeping up with the Jones family' and it involves celebrating your successes just as much as you celebrate other peoples'.
Take time to reflect on where you are now, and what you've done to get here. You may find that your actual self isn't far from your ideal self at all. Celebrate that! Follow what makes you happy, and do the work to get there and beyond. Often real, focused work is what separates the contenders from the victors. Success is subjective, my friends. One man's failure is another man's success. It's all about what makes you happy.
"If you're doing something positive in the world, if you're productive, if you're a player; then you're a success."
Peace, Love, and a million successes to you all,
Reference: "I Coulda Been a Contender" by Abby Ellin. Psychology Today. August, 2010
Today I'm sharing a little more of myself to you. I know I've been posting positive things, adventures, insights, and business-type stuff I've been up to, and it feels like a good time to share more of who I am as a human. When I'm not coaching, speaking, or trying to do one of the two more frequently (read: marketing), I'm writing and playing music.
I have been playing since a car accident gifted me with the ability to hear notes differently. Back in 2000, I was in a terrible collision with a school bus that caused my brain to shut off certain pieces. To compensate (as all brains do), other pieces started firing and growing. I suffered a TBI, or Traumatic Brain Injury – a contusion that essentially "killed" neurons in my brain from the force. Here's what happened:
I was very good at math, but musically inept. I could enjoy music, but not play it. I was analytical, impatient, rigid and controlling, and even neurotic.
Then I was hit by a bus.
In my recovery a few things have been discovered. I'm still good at simple math, but everything outside of memorized multiplication tables is a foreign language to me. I'm more laid back, patient, understanding, communicative, and adventurous. The biggest gift, however, is that I can now understand music. I can hear notes, progressions, patterns, and harmonies differently than I ever could. The sounds feel like shapes and colors I can see in my head. Strange as it may sound, that's the best way I can describe it.
So I play and write and enjoy it. The video above is me showcasing a song I wrote for my friends' wedding in 2007. They wanted a song to remember, and I wrote what came to me. I'll try to post more videos and songs to my YouTube channel so you all can come and go as you please. For now, enjoy Delaney's Song.
Peace, Love, and a million successes to you all.


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The Little Pocket Book of Mindfulness : Don't Dwell on the Past or Worry About the Future, Simply be in the Present with Mindfulness Meditations Paperback
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Many of us find it difficult to simply appreciate the present moment.
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When we are not being mindful, we miss out on small moments that are often incredibly valuable - be it a beautiful park that we walk through on our journey to work or the taste and texture of a delicious meal.
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Politics 25 September 2013 Andrew Mitchell: "Ukip are our cousins and we want them back" Andrew Mitchell talks to Jemima Khan about the NHS, nicknames, and what life would be like if his preferred candidate had beaten David Cameron to the Tory leadership. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML You are invited to read this free preview of the New Statesman, out on 26 September. Our Conservative party conference special features an interview with Peter Gabriel, essays by David Marquand and Peter Clarke, Rafael Behr's report from Ukip conference, Tom Watson on Grand Theft Auto and Richard Overy on the First World War. To subscribe, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe Why are you a Conservative? Freedom of the individual; it's in my bones! What attributes must a modern politician have? Boundless energy and a thick skin. How would the country look different if David Davis –whose leadership campaign you ran in 2005 – had won? The sun would shine every day and we'd all live healthily until the age of 100. Also the remote and faraway colony of St Helena would have a senior member of the current government as its governor! It is clear we would not have had a vote on military intervention in Syria. You resigned as chief whip over "Plebgate". When will you be reinstated? Surely it's only a matter of time? I am consulting my astrological chart. Do you regret leaving the Department for International Development (DfID), when you were so passionate about what you did there, to become chief whip? Of course. But if the Prime Minister asks you to do something, you should really say yes (if you cannot dissuade him). What was your biggest achievement at DfID? That is not really for me to say. But, hopefully, putting girls and women at the centre of everything we did. In particular, in 2011, we organised an international meeting to secure support for a massive increase in vaccinating children under five years old. Britain's contribution will be to vaccinate a child in the poor world every two seconds. In 2012, we organised a summit in London which should result in a hundred million more women in the poorest parts of the world, who want access to contraception but cannot get it, being able to do so by 2020. Should the government continue to increase aid spending after 2015? Aid spending has now reached 0.7 per cent of gross national income, as we promised. It should remain at 0.7 per cent. Should the National Health Service still be protected from spending cuts after 2015? Yes. It is essential because of the growing elderly population and increases in the cost and scope of medicine. I declare an interest, with a wife and daughter who are both doctors in the NHS. How can the Tories deal with the threat from Ukip? They are mostly our cousins and we want them back. Would you like to be the next commissioner of the European Union? It would not be compatible with being the member of parliament for Sutton Coldfield. What EU powers would you like the British government to repatriate? There are areas where national governments are better at responding to the wishes of those they serve than a supranational organ - isation can be. We should discuss the repat - riation of these powers with our colleagues in other national parliaments and try to reach a common understanding with other national politicians. Can the Tories win a majority in 2015? Yes. If there's a hung parliament, should the Tories form another coalition with the Lib Dems, or try a "confidence and supply" arrangement or minority government? Minority governments are not in the interest of economic stability and rising living standards. They make for weak government. Is the present government too elitist? No. We should ensure that the best people for a task undertake it and that there is a level playing field of opportunity for everyone. It is not where you come from that matters; it is what you can do to serve our country. You voted for intervention in Syria. To what extent? Why? Our main aim must be to bring this conflict to an end as rapidly as possible. While there is no military solution, the issue is whether limited, legal and specific military action against the capacity of the regime to use its chemical weapons would have been more likely to speed up that process. But events have moved on and we must all hope that the current diplomatic initiative by the Russians and Americans assists that process. The humanitarian catastrophe in Syria and the surrounding countries is worse than anything we have seen since two million people stampeded out of Rwanda at the end of the genocide in 1994. Its scale and threat for the future are not well understood. How relevant is the United Nations? How can it be made more relevant? When I visited the UN as a minister I always arrived with low expectations but left inspired and exhilarated. It was precisely the reverse with the EU: I would arrive with a determination to be optimistic and constructive and get back on the Eurostar in a state of acute depression. We need to build on the power, authority and legitimacy of the UN – not least in the areas of international law and the responsi - bility to protect, which is urgent, unfinished business. When the UN speaks with one voice it confers incredible legitimacy and authority. It is also important that its many agencies should be held to account for their results and value for money. Britain has led this process and it is increasingly being copied by other countries. Is the nickname Thrasher an invention by Private Eye, or were you really called that at school? I am very sorry to say that it is an invention by Private Eye! A piece appeared in 1987, when I was first an MP, which said: "Like Hitler [Douglas] Hurd, when at school, Andrew Mitchell was a stern disciplinarian known as Thrasher." Do you think the government is wrong not to have taken action against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain, a known terrorist based in London since the 1990s, and given a British passport in 2002? This case [involving a Pakistani politician] has always left me feeling extremely uneasy. Why is it important for this country to keep giving international aid, despite its own economic situation? British aid is not only aid from Britain; it is aid for the direct benefit of Britain, too. By investing in conflict prevention and security, as well as trade and economic development, we not only help poorer countries in which we are working, we are also investing in our own future security and prosperity. How do you avoid poor countries becoming client states, dependent on aid? 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To have cynically left it for [Justine Greening, his successor as secretary of state at DfID] to announce once the decision had been made so that she would have taken the brickbats for it would have been singularly uncollegiate. Do you support the new high-speed rail link, HS2? Should there be a cap on its budget? As a Birmingham MP, I strongly support HS2. This is about capacity, not speed, and about spreading economic development and wealth to all parts of the country and not just to London and the south-east. Do you do God? Politicians should leave God to the bishops and our religious leaders. Are we all doomed? We are the luckiest generation in history. Unlike our fathers, we did not face the Second World War and unlike our grandfathers we avoided the slaughter of the First World War. We will live to a much greater age and have the huge advantage of modern technology and modern medicine. If you hadn't been a politician where would you be now? 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I'm hoping that one of the cinemas here will have early screenings, as I will take an advantage of that.
Paramount is being exceedingly marketing savvy on how their rolling out this film. *The extended trailer in the Hobbit IMAX film - which no doubt drove additional $$ to the film and more specualtion about Into the Darkness *The App which now serves as a portal to purchase advance/advance tickets. *Ongoing speculation about the villain *The Superbowl ad *Two day advance - advance showing on IMAX only which no doubt will sell out months in advance by longtime Trek fans who will pony up any amount of extra additional $$ to see the film first. [and IMAX films charge more which in the end will drive up the box office totals] The only thing missing at this point is a Facebook game.


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[TCLI-5] Optionally allow unkown options Created: 25/Oct/13 Updated: 28/Jun/16 Resolved: 02/Jan/14 |
Status: | Closed |
Project: | tools.cli |
Component/s: | None |
Affects Version/s: | None |
Fix Version/s: | None |
Type: | Enhancement | Priority: | Major |
Reporter: | Hugo Duncan | Assignee: | Sung Pae |
Resolution: | Declined | Votes: | 0 |
Labels: | None |
Attachments: | allow_unkown_options |
Description |
When building a cli with subcommands, it can be useful to allow passing through unkown options as arguments, so they can be processed in a subcommand. The current API doesn't allow for passing any configuration to the `cli` command, so this adds an `allow-unknown-opts?` var, which when bound to true, will pass through unknown options. |
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Comment by Hugo Duncan [ 31/Oct/13 8:03 AM ] |
A patched version of tools.cli is available on clojars as `[com.palletops/tools.cli "0.2.4"]` |
Comment by Sung Pae [ 10/Dec/13 1:50 PM ] |
Hello, In the next version of tools.cli, parse-opts accepts an :in-order option to process arguments sequentially until the first unknown token. The README has an explanation: https://github.com/clojure/tools.cli#in-order-processing-for-subcommands This is not the same as passing through unknown options, but it is the convention I am familiar with in large programs with subcommands. Is this solution satisfactory for you? The only times I have ever implemented a pass-through option for an options parser was for programs that wrap other command line programs. In these cases, the wrapper had a possibly intersecting superset of options, and I wanted to provide access to the underlying command's options without specifying them in my wrapper. This worked okay, but the resulting options interface was complex, and since the relationship of the wrapper and underlying command was implicit, a bit fragile. A major problem with the superset parser was that all unknown options were assumed to require arguments. This is necessary because it is impossible to tell whether `-ab` is meant to be interpreted as `-a -b` or `-a "b"` without knowing whether `-a` requires an argument. We can work around this by requiring that pass-through options always specify option arguments with an equal sign, but now we have introduced subtle differences for different tiers of options. In contrast to all that, the subcommand options processing style of the git program and others like it allow many intersecting sets of options to be present in a single command invocation simply by following the easily understood convention: cmd [cmd-opts] subcmd1 [subcmd1-opts] … I hope you find this argument persuasive, but I am happy to discuss it further! |
Comment by Hugo Duncan [ 17/Dec/13 9:45 AM ] |
The new `:in-order` option provides a better solution. |
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Thank you for your thoughts on this. |


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After doing lots of experimentation and research I started to develop a sixth sense – namely, detecting bullsh*t claims by companies. Take a look at this supplement called Prevagen.
The studies that were done were terrible and I had no faith it would work. But I did get a free bottle that I ordered a year and a half ago and that I had never used. So I figured I should try it out.
For one, they mention the effects take time. Never a good sign. If something works you should feel it right away (within 45 min).
Second, they don't provide the full studies on their site (at least it isn't easy to find). If you look at what they do provide you see the results are clinically insignificant. What I see are graphs that are made to look significant but aren't.
The nicely designed site and an entertaining video with no information didn't help the matter. It seemed like this was all marketing.
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1) That a protein is taken orally can get into and affect the brain. Proteins are digested in the stomach and intestines, so it's likely this wouldn't even get into the bloodstream untarnished, if at all.
2) If it was able to get into the bloodstream intact, it probably wouldn't be able to cross the blood-brain barrier, especially proteins. This is why they had to drill a hole in a rat's skull and stick a microinjection needle in its brain to put the prevalence in there and get any kind of result in the rat study. The stuff is not getting into the brain of a living creature through any other route than the hole in skull/needle in brain route.
3) Even if it overcame these obstacles, aequorin is involved in calcium signaling inside the cell. in order to use aequorin in scientific applications relating to calcium signaling, it needs to be microinjected into the cell, because as you might imagine, a large protein molecule cannot cross a cell membrane either.
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I figured if this was to have any effect I'd need to take a large dose. I looked at the safety data and there was a huge margin for error, so I decided to take most of the bottle in one shot.
The suggested serving size is 1 capsule and it comes with 30 capsules. I took 20 capsules. I would've taken the whole bottle but I was more concerned with the excipients, like rice flour.
There was really no point in even experimenting but I wanted the empty capsules and I figured why not…I assumed there may have been some tiny chance that I would notice something…
Result: The only effect I noticed was slight fatigue, but that could've been because I had 4 hours of sleep the night before. Otherwise, I didn't feel anything.
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What I've learned in life is never to buy anything with extensive marketing – in any sphere.
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Instructions: Cut the chicken in half. Heat the water and leave aside. In a small bowl, mix the buharat, turmeric, cumin, and cardamom together and add to the mixture one teaspoon of salt. Sprinkle half of the spice mixture on the chicken halves. Heat oil in a large cooking pan, fry the onions until golden brown, then add to the pepper and the black limes - you MUST make a hole in each limes. Add the chicken to the onion mixture and turn it over a few times in the pan. Sprinkle on the chicken a teaspoon of cinnamon and the rest of the mixed spices. Turn the contents all together so the chicken is coated with the spices, cover the pan and let it cook on medium heat for 3 minutes. Add the garlic, chopped ginger, and tomato cubes to the pan and turn the ingredients in the pan a few times. Cover again for 3 minutes on medium heat. Sprinkle with the rest of the salt and pour on it water while its still hot. Cover the pan and let it cook for about 1 hour, or until the chicken is cooked. Add the copped coriander 5 minutes before you remove the chicken from the stock in the pan. While the chicken is cooking, wash the rice well and soak for 10 minutes in cold water, then drain. Remove the chicken from the pan and put on an oven tray, brush with some oil and sprinkle with the rest of the cinnamon powder and grill in the oven until the chicken is golden brown. Add the rice to the chicken stock, stir, then let it cook on low heat until the rice absorbs the stock and is almost done. Sprinkle rose water and lemon juice over the rice and place the butter pieces on the top. Cover the pan and cook on low heat for 30 minutes. Serve the rice on a large serving plate and place the grilled chicken halves on the top. Info: Bahrain's traditional food include fish, meat, rice, and dates. One of the most famous Bahraini dishes is machboos, which is made up of meat or fish served with rice. Another known food is muhammar , which is sweet rice served with dates or sugar. Bahrainis also eat typical Arabic food such as falafel (deep-fried balls of ground chickpeas served in pita bread) and shawarma (lamb or chicken carved from a rotating spit and wrapped in flat bread). Traditional snacks such as small fried potato cakes and sambousas, crispy pastry cases filled with meat, cheese, sugar or nuts, can be bought in the souks (markets). Another important part of the Bahraini diet is the fresh fish of the Gulf, of which the king is the Hamour (grouper), typically served grilled, fried, or steamed. Other popular local fish include Safi (rabbit fish), Chanad (mackerel), and Sobaity (see bream). Most of the time, fish is eaten with rice. A century of British rule in the Gulf has also made fish and chips popular in Bahrain. Qoozi (Ghoozi), which is grilled lamb stuffed with rice, boiled eggs, onions and spices. The traditional flatbread is called Khubz. It is a large flatbread baked in a special oven. Numerous Khubz bakeries dot the country. The drinking of coffee is a traditional part of the Bahraini welcome. Three cupfuls of water and a rounded teaspoon of coffee (gahwa) are poured into a saucepan and then boiled for about two minutes. After adding cardamom and saffron in rosewater, the liquid is poured into a coffee-pot, or dalla. The coffee is left to brew for five or ten minutes before being served in a small cup, or finjan. Courtesy requires guests to accept a second cup if it is offered, but afterwards, the guest may refuse a further serving by shaking the coffee cup from side to side. |


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Kelly Harrington, 49, of Folsom, has been appointed deputy director of facility operations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has been acting deputy director of facility operations since 2013 and served as associate director of high security and transitional housing from 2010 to 2013.
Harrington held multiple positions at Kern Valley State Prison from 2008 to 2010, including warden and acting warden, and held multiple positions at Wasco State Prison from 2003 to 2008, including chief deputy administrator and correctional administrator. He was a facility captain at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Community Correctional Facilities Unit from 2000 to 2003. He served in multiple positions at Wasco State Prison from 1997 to 2000, including facility captain and correctional counselor, was a correctional counselor at North Kern State Prison from 1995 to 1997 and a correctional counselor and officer at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi from 1987 to 1995.
This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $149,592. Harrington is a Republican.
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Family Dollar Stores (FDO) operates retaildiscount stores in 45 states of the U.S. Through more than 8,000 locations, the company offers general merchandise to mid- to low- end consumers at prices that typically range from less than a dollar to $10. Its main category is consumables, which accounted for 75% of total revenues in the first quarter 2014. The firm also sells home products, apparel and accessories, seasonal and electronics. Its average 7,200-square-feet stores are strategically located in urban, suburban, rural and small town markets. Tough Rivalry Family Dollar mainly caters for low-income consumers. The great recession, therefore, dragged many more customers to its bay, and while the retail industry was in a downward spiral Family Dollar, as well as its competitors Dollar General Corporation (DG), and Dollar Tree Stores Inc. (DTLR), thrived. During the recessive period, the company's operating margins increased from 5.2% to 7.5% and its comps jumped from a flat 1% to an average of 5%. Its competitors achieved similar results, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) showcased negative comps during this time. Nevertheless, concern arises from the fact that Wal-Mart has undertaken a roll out of its Express locations to compete with the dollar store concept. The scale of its business poses a considerable threat to dollar stores, given its huge purchasing scale and low distribution costs. General Dollar also pressures Family Dollar's margins, since the firm has a larger store base which is aggressively expanding and it also possesses greater brand recognition, market presence and financial resources. Macroeconomic Scenario An important part of Family Dollar's growth in the last years derived from the implementation of government assistance programs, since 40% of dollar store customers receive some type of government help. The U.S. Department of Agriculture informed that beneficiaries to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program increased from 26 million in 2008 to approximately 47 million in 2012. However, in November 2013, the government made effective its outlay cuts to SNAP, thus affecting customers' household budgets. A slow economic recovery with high levels of unemployment and household debt, as well as increases in energy and fuel costs, also continue to contract consumers' discretionary spending. Adapting Its Offer to the Market Needs In order to offset the economic downtrend, Family Dollar switched focus onto enhancing its consumables offer, which reported an increase of 4.7% in first quarter 2014, countering the decline in the sale of discretionary products. The addition of 500 private brand SKUs to its offer in fiscal 2013 and another 200 planned for fiscal 2014, is also expected to boost results. The expansion of its store base is also expected to improve sales as well as keep the company at pace with its competitors. Therefore, Family Dollar plans to increase its locations at a rate of 5% to 7% square footage growth in the next three to five years. Headwinds Blowing Profits Away In spite of its efforts to keep business afloat, the company reported soft first quarter 2014 results with a decline in comparable –store- sales of 2.8% in this period and 3% in December. Also, top line growth has been decelerating sharply in the last quarters reporting increases of 17.7%, 9%,5.8% and 3.2% for the second, third, fourth quarters of fiscal 2013 and the first quarter of fiscal 2014 respectively. Consequently, the firm has lowered its earnings expectations for fiscal 2014.Family Dollar stocks trade at 16.6 its trailing earnings compared to an industry average of 18.8.and showcases a dividend yield of 1.60 compared to its peers' 1.95 average. Investment guru John Paulson (Trades, Portfolio) recently reduced his holdings by 13.37% in accordance with my bearish feeling about Family Dollar's growth potential. Disclosure: Vanina Egea holds no position in any stocks mentioned. Stocks Discussed: FDO, WMT, DG, DTLR,
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should try it, as its dirt cheap
i've used single solid 18awg for my alpair5 and 10, works well. cheers |
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I use cheap(ish) 5 gauge wire designed for power car audio amps to hook up my speakers after doing high power testing of small transformers (10A -15A currents) and looking though a thermal camera and seeing 30c temperature rises in the wires that were about the thickness of normal cheap speaker cable (fractions of a mm). The wire says silly things on it and has 'directional' markings but is very substantial. Stuff like this:
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I'm powering them with a Tripath TA2024 based Class-D amp by Dayton. Perfect for desktop volume without taking up desktop space. I glued up the speakers today, and put a 6.5mm thick suprabaffle on the front, covering up the endgrain of the side walls, and making the driver flush mounted. Added some roundovers and I'm good to go. All I have left to do is paint it with a clear coat, since the birch finish nicely matches my birch veneered desk already. Not perfect routing, but good enough for me: Some endgrain on the back: Imaging on these things is pretty nice, I have them setup slightly wider than the typical 60degree stereo triangle, on some songs it sounds like instruments are coming from behind the speakers, that's quite startling. These are folded transmission lines, for which I adapted the plans from plans available on planet10's site, but I can't for the life of me find the original plans anymore. In anycase, pretty good speakers for 50 bucks a pop.
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The speakers I built were adapted somewhat by myself. I tried to stay fairly true to the original, comparing differences in HornResp (not an accurate sim, but it shows how much changing a dimension changes the response). Here's a Sketchup of the actual model I built: It's 12mm birch ply, with a 6.5mm thick baffle on the front (in addition to the 12mm thick front wall already in place, meaning total 18.5mm baffle) For the port divider I used two pieces of 10x30mm pine wood glued together, and sawed to length. Here are the exact dimensions: I'm pretty sure these dimensions are unambiguous and complete, considering they were all I had to use when I built the speakers, having lost the original plans. Perhaps if anyone would be so kind, they could model my speaker with the appropriate worksheets, to see what kind of output I should be expecting. As for what kind of output I get? They hit pretty hard all the way down into the 40s, before rolling off. Plenty loud for the ~60cm distance I have from ear to speaker, I'm very happy with them as desktop speakers.
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What about a caste style TQWT ?
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My clones of the black beauty design (page11) are finished apart from baffle step corection circuit which I am currently doing using EQ in software. I changed the external dimensions to 15x15x30cm with an 18mm baffle and 12mm sides. I also added an internal brace and plan on some changes to the baffle step circuit for my particularly close to wall situation.
I am very impresed by the frequancy range these speakers are capable of, bass exstension seems the same as my previous mission 760i's (about 80Hz). Imaging is superb especialy at close listening distances where two ways just wern't working corectly. They are also alot less 'boomy' than my previous speakers I presume due to the low group delay over the pass band compared with a ported design. Anyway I will do some actual mesurments at a latter date. Max volume is limited before distortion but more than loud enough for bedroom usage. Burn in time for the CHR-70 I found to be about 10hrs, sound was very harsh and lacking in bass slightly to start with but I left them running for a day and came back and all was well. apologies for the poor picture quality I only have a mobile phone (poor student). Many thanks to Henkjan for showing the capacitor equalised undersized boxes work well with this driver! |
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the beauties...
Kipman, what a clean desk! How do you do it? I can't even see the surface of mine!
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People are going to knock it but Floyd looks like he will be a beast in the pros. We do need a legit playmaker at the receiver beside Britt. This will take pressure off of him and give Locker weapons. Munch did say he wants to go defense in the first round though.
What weapons!? Has everyone forgotten what Washington did last year? The emergence of Cook and Williams showing promise? Why is receiver even remotely being talked about like its an major concern.
Maybe because Washington will be in his 8th season granted did have the best season of his career. Britt has yet to play a full season. Williams showed strides but is not a number 1 receiver and lets face it Washington isn't either.
OK, i got the joke guy, but i wrote about Cordy Glenn dude, it's only a prediction, i'm an Arky guy thats why i'm high on Sheppard, yesterday i mentioned DE Jake Bequette, ARE YOU THE THREAD COP ?.....and one more thing, Sheppard for prez.
Washington proved he can carry the load worse comes to worse. If everyone views Britt as a liability he should be gone but no one wants to admit that. You can't just ignore young guys like Williams because he hasn't put up Randy Moss numbers out the gate, these things take time. For once, we have a receiving corp that is not in the bottom 10 in the league, and people want us to spend a high pick on a receiver or spend a ton of money on one.:sad2: We have 2 maybe even 3 big needs on just the offensive line, 2 on the defensive line. Not to mention the fact we have no starting free safety and the only reason no one is talking about replacing Babs is because he sucks so much more less than any other safety on our roster. Wide receiver is our second lowest need outside the quarter back position.
People want to draft a WR every year. Even when Britt was going off people were trying to convince themselves that having Britt and Justin Blackmon was the only way to go. It's a flashy position, you can't blame them.
Seriously who is going to replace both our safeties and possible a corner in the draft? Every safety has big question marks. I'm not writing off Williams at all saying he needs to have Randy Moss numbers. We are a different team with Britt and if he can't stay healthy we need a play maker. Yes Washington broke 1000 yards but in a season with 16 games and us passing more 1000 yards is not what it use to be anymore.


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You should also try out AppZapper, it'll get rid of the things you cannot see that you're trying to remove.
There is a program out there called AppZapper, I use it and its great. But I think you have to pay... but my friend accidentally bought it for two computers (didn't know that one key works for multiple computers) and gave me his unused key for free! Great program, it even removes hidden files and terminal commands (if you want) related to that application you are removing. Ah.. jessica beat me to it by one minute
Plus it makes a cool zapping noise when you delete or "zap" stuff. That is what sold me (even though I got it for free)
AppDelete is pretty much the same thing, except you don't have to pay for it http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete
It's a shareware application ($13), but the devs are known for almost always offering discounts and free licenses. There's no one place to get one, you just have to look around. Recently, there was a blog post here that was raffling 5 licenses for AZ and Disco just for commenting on that post. Who knows, perhaps you win.