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"It (an idea), comes like on a TV in your mind"- David Lynch
If you can stretch to the 2 minutes and 12 seconds this video takes then you won't regret it. It's a fascinating insight into how acclaimed director/creator, David Lynch, cherishes ideas. Seen here in conversation with Paul Holdengraber, Lynch gives a playful account of how he visualises ideas and where they come from.
We don't do anything without an idea, so, they're beautiful gifts. Desiring an idea is like a bait on a hook… if you catch an idea that you love, that's a beautiful, beautiful day.
But he also explains how more often than not, applying patience, incubating, and working with small "fragments" ,as he puts it, can often lead us to us building something more substantial.
You write that idea down so you don't forget it. And that idea might just be a fragment of the whole, whatever it is you're working on. But now you have even more bait. Thinking about that small fragment, that little fish, will bring in more… and more and more will come in and pretty soon you will have a script. Or a chair. Or a painting. Or an idea for a painting.
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I've heard through the grapevine that Taser International is facing several high profile lawsuits in the coming year. These are cases where 8-figure judgments would seem perfectly reasonable.
In my personal opinion, I believe that Taser International's use of "the science" (their use of the word makes me want to gag) as a blunt weapon, and their too-clever-by-half use of Daubert motions has probably run its course. No informed attorney will be caught out, and no reasonable court would truncate an interesting case based on Taser International's interpretation of the state of "the science" (gag).
2010 should be a good year.
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While the European Union plays pat-a-cake with the world's financial future, and the markets continue trading on rumours of rainbows, smiles, and hugs, an incredibly frightening and potentially generationally-and-globally devastating economic crash and disaster looms on the horizon. I know I've written more-than-my-fair on this topic, but let's look at the impeding Greek default in the form of a simple analogy: imagine a driver's fallen asleep at the wheel, and in the backseat are 2 passengers, who, instead of seizing the wheel and changing direction, are instead arguing with each other about whom should do what and who, should a crash (inevitably) occur, will take the blame.
Ergo, while I realise I've sounded like a broken record the past few months, the frustrating fact remains that both policymakers and the markets believe that each other are going to magically solve the Euro-crisis.
Most interestingly, at least from where I philosophically sit, has been the absolute divergence in expectations (and, frankly, analysis) on the situation. What do I mean by this?
Let's take a look at two key opinions put out the past few days, regarding recent news trickling out of Europe that the E.U. is looking to write down as much s 50% of Greece's debt (in a move that threatens, at least at its core, the very survival of Deutsche Bank).
Bloomberg outlines expectations post-debt solution in EU Said to Consider 50% Greek Writedown:
The Greek bond losses may be accompanied by a pledge to rule out debt restructurings in other countries that received bailouts, such as Portugal, to persuade investors that Europe has mastered the crisis, said the people, who declined to be identified because the negotiations will run for another week.
In turn, let's look at John Mauldin's latest on Ireland:
Others truly believe they will be offered a haircut when Greece and Portugal get theirs. They fully expect it.
In a meeting with an establishment-insider economist (off the record), who was at the table when the first deal was done, he said there was an implicit understanding with the IMF (and ECB) that whatever was offered to Greece, et al. would be available to Ireland.
That's right – look at these opinions/expectations. Could they be any more diametrically opposed? Now, as many of my faithful readers have pointed out, I'm less-than-intelligent and wrong on nearly-every-issue-of-the-day, but this gaping (and growing) chasm between these two opinions terrifies me.
Specifically, these opinions reveal a few underlying issues driving the EuroCrisis:
1) The European Union needs to get its act together and come together with an actual, sustainable plan to deal NOT just with Greece, but with the impending defaults coming down the economic pike (i.e. Portugal and Spain, anyone?). Economic sunshine and rainbows (aka Euro-unity) aren't going to solve the problem, and the longer this goes on, the worse the impending crash and corresponding global economic turmoil.
2) The markets need to take an educated look at the "news" coming out of Europe and really read between the financial lines. To whit: a few weeks, Angela Merkel came out and basically stated, "Look, it's possible countries will default on debt." Instead of reading the financial writing on the wall, the markets shrugged and waited for the next blip-and-flip of good news (i.e. "Hey, we're going to try and figure something out at some distant date in the future – all's good!"). Once again, guys, please understand there's no happy ending to this economic story.
3) Ireland poses a dangerous and impending threat to the European Union (regardless of the markets' belief that once the "Greece problem" is addressed, all will be right in the economic world). What makes the financial world think that, given all the care, concern, and attention paid to Greece, when the Euro-economic dust settles, that Ireland – that country once dubbed the Celtic Tiger – will say, "Well, them's the breaks." No. Instead, easy money rides on the possibility that, within the next few years, Ireland's going to stage an economic coup and demand new, more favourable terms from the E.U. In short, get ready for a constant stream of assaults headed toward the E.U.'s economic and political assaults about to assail the E.U.
So there we have it. While the economic and political worlds debate, dither, and decide on what news from Europe portends the future, the E.U. is slowly, yet deliberately headed down the path of financial destruction. Even worse? No one on either – or any – side of the issue seems to understand the dimensions or scope of the the threat. I just hope we all get our intellectual acts together in time to check the impeding disaster.
Margaret Bogenrief is a partner with ACM Partners, a boutique crisis management and distressed investing firm serving companies and municipalities in financial distress. She can be reached at [email protected]
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What are you doing? What, what, what are you doing? I've decided that you are the one to blame for what is now the Redskins' biggest problem because you're head coach. For years, the biggest problem has been not converting on third downs, but I hereby proclaim that this is no longer true because NO ONE CAN FREAKING CATCH A FOOTBALL.
First, Carlos Rogers couldn't catch, but no one really expected him to suddenly start doing his job, so this wasn't enough to elevate the issue to Threat Level Orange. But then it wasn't just him. Everyone started missing catches and dropping balls until I had to seriously consider the possibility that all the players' bodies have been inhabited by football-repelling aliens. I'm still deliberating.
At least the offense used to be able to catch, but Donovan McNabb insists on throwing a few balls towards Joey Galloway whose motto should be, "Don't throw the ball to me; I'm not even supposed to be here!" because he's not supposed to be there. He should be sitting at home, watching the game on TV beneath a crocheted blanket, muttering to anyone who walks through the room that he could play better than "those young whippersnappers." Because he's old. Did you all catch that?
Anyway, Mike Shanahan, please fix this. Immediately. Santana Moss isn't sucking completely, so maybe get McNabb to keep throwing his way. After this game, please work on catching drills--and I don't mean drills where the players practice catching the football. I want them to literally have to catch power drills and the like (chainsaws, hammers, wrenches, and ballistic missiles are also acceptable). They're never going to get better if you baby them.
Now I'm going to go back to watching the game. You may resume coaching. If you can call it that.


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One significant creative revolution in the workplace over the last decade has been the relentless advance of what's called "tone of voice". Led by brand-focused colleagues, employees are implored to word all their communications with corporate guidelines in mind, so as to reinforce core values in all forms of stakeholder engagement. In worst case scenarios personnel may also be invited to enrol in a day of Tone of Voice training, where minions read from scripts imploring the adoption of transparently on-brand phrasing going forward. I am well glad to be out of that.
London's online media outlets invariably embrace a characteristic tone of voice. Often that tone of voice is chirpy and concise, especially in puff pieces promoting goods and services, with excitable language and a very positive slant. Here's an example.
"Who needs the bare necessities when there are giant 'Jungle Book' cakes in the world? That's right: a huge Kipling (Rudyard, not Mr)-inspired cake will be on display at The Mall in Walthamstow this weekend, featuring all the iconic characters in sponge form."I like to call this tone of voice Evangelical Consumerism. Its practitioners pen upbeat hymns of praise for the purchasable experience, affirming the creed that Anything You Can Buy Is Exciting. It may be crass hype, but it's precisely what you'd expect to see in pseudo-advertorial, so nothing out of the ordinary.
"If you were having palpitations a week or so ago when the supermarkets were struck by a houmous shortage (#middleclassproblems), you can make up for lost time this weekend. Because Saturday May 13 is 'International Hummus Day', a worldwide celebration of chickpeas smushed to perfection."But more recently I've noticed a new tone of voice that sets my teeth on edge, in which the author pretends to be one of the readership, and lays down a definitive seemingly-shared point of view. Here's an example.
"Labouring the point perhaps, but London LOVES gin. This is a given. It's classy, complex and, given the inevitable slosh of tonic mixer, medicinal. It's basically good for you, and come summer we'll be drinking it daily."A key signifier of this new approach is use of the word "we", as in "we all think this don't, we?"
"Hands up if you're a 'bit of a foodie'? You? All of you? Wonderful. Well, that means you're as excited about the opening of Highbury's Westerns Laundry as we are (and yes, it used to be a laundrette)."I've decided to call this tone of voice Sidekick Empathy. Sadly there's a lot of it about.
"So we love a retro Rice Crispies fix in the morning. But rice brunch? That's a new one on us."Pretending to be one of the 'in' crowd plays well with a resonant audience, inspiring readers with the stated lifestyle choice to think "yes, that's exactly what I think, so what should I be buying?"
"It's no secret that mobile internet coverage in London can be shocking. We've all had to hang out of our bedroom window or walk down the street to try and pick up 4G at some point, right?"
"You know what most yoga classes are missing? Beer. Yeah, you heard me. You might expect to round off your yoga class with a green smoothie or vegan energy ball, but that's all about to change thanks to the arrival of beer yoga in London."
It's an age-old quandary: you want to down a bottle's worth of Berlusconi's tears (that's prosecco, FYI) to yourself, but you're damned if you're sloshing back that many calories in half an hour with summer just around the corner.But Sidekick Empathy is also a risky strategy, simultaneously excluding those with alternative viewpoints, and potentially turning off as many as it turns on.
"Love stuffing your face with fried chicken? Of course you do. Want to win a year's worth of the good stuff from the team behind five-star-rated rulers of the roost Chick 'n' Sours? YUH-HUH!"Food and drink stories are often given the Sidekick Empathy treatment, because they're marketing's bread and butter these days. But other aspects of modern life also get a look in, as the creepy journalist again claims to know exactly what you're thinking.
"Remember when the Piccadilly line was in absolute chaos at the end of last year? Yeah, we're still not over it either."I should say that all of these are genuine examples lifted from one particular well-known London-based magazine/website. Moreover they're drawn from a range of their contributors, suggesting that the prevalence of this new tone of voice is no accident.
"Let's face it, dogs are great. Whether they're fetching you a stick or begging for a treat, there's no better companion to spend the day with. But if you've ever struggled to find things to do with your canine companion in London, a new dog-friendly guide book is hoping to change that."
"Love a kimchi hotdog? Us too! So we've gone and nabbed the kimchi hotdog recipe from flash celeb hangout Le Caprice."Note how often a question is asked, to which there is a 'correct' answer seemingly shared by all right-thinking folk, and if you have the misfortune to think otherwise you're a loser.
"Pão de Queijo. 'What's that?' I hear you cry. A wheat-free Brazilian cheese bread, duh: a staple snack found across the country, made from cassava flour and cheese, a crunchy outside giving way to a cloud-like interior. Sounds ace, right? Right."At its worst, Sidekick Empathy can be quintessentially appalling.
"There are few things we enjoy in life more than good, old-fashioned melted cheese, so it was about time we went to visit Grill My Cheese at Leather Lane Market. They're cooking up some seriously gourmet cheesy goodness — you'd brie mad not to try it. Like this (who wouldn't?)?"Who wouldn't want to slap the smug 'journalist' who penned that particular paragraph? Or employ some other less violent form of rebuke, obviously... and until I added that extra clarification, I was just as guilty myself.
"'Cut me open,' you announce dramatically to your gal pals, 'and I bleed prosecco.' You may know the ailment well, when the fizz becomes your life force. When you're all about that bubble. Once you've popped, you literally can't stop."If you genuinely are the person described in the last extract, you have become one of capitalism's victims rather than one of its successes. Ditto the home delivery addict described here.
"You know the scene: it's 1am, and your 'I'll just have one' post-work drink has beautifully snowballed into a full-on, 'back at ours' paaaarrrrrrtaaaay. But there's one thing standing between you and your night of hedonism: you've made it home only to discover that your flat is dry. There's not even a dusty bottle of value vodka lurking in the back of the cupboard."Forewarned, you'll hopefully now be more aware of this emergent tone of voice, and keep your eyes peeled so you don't fall under Sidekick Empathy's devious spell. Because we'd none of us want to be that kind of person, would we...?
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has a new orchard
We've put down roots in Birmingham as its biggest hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, becomes home to the very first Helping Britain Blossom community orchard in the city.
We joined forces with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), as part of the Big Tree Plant, and planted over 120 new apple, pear, plum, and cherry trees in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham's (QEHB) Community Orchard and Gardens helped by over 50 green-fingered volunteers.
The Community Orchard and Gardens at the hospital are the brainchild of Antony Cobley, senior HR manager and equality and diversity lead at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust which runs QEHB.
Members of the local community, hospital staff, university students and generous volunteers from across the city came along to help plant the new fruit trees in a number of groups at the hospital grounds on Saturday 21 February, and Sunday 22 February.
It will bring together a variety of community groups and organisations to take ownership of unused areas on the Queen Elizabeth site to improve the land for all. By using the land in more creative and sustainable ways, the orchard will not only benefit staff and patients but the wider community.
"The idea for the project is to give people somewhere to get away from it all for a few minutes of peace and quiet, whether they are staff or patients," said Antony.
"We have purposefully planted British fruit varieties and those which are from the Midlands." he added.
"This is a long-term project. It will be four or five years before we start cropping decent amounts of fruit, but the beauty of it is that a well-managed orchard will then go on for decades helping patients at the hospitals and local people."
The produce coming from the orchard will be used to help people in the local area, to teach them how to grow, tend, cook and prepare food and it will all be donated to benefit the community.
Rob Tilling, regional project manager at Helping Britain Blossom for Birmingham, said:
"For some communities in Birmingham, there's little or no access to green space. Orchards are a great way of bringing locals together. A community orchard isn't just a collection of trees, it's a community of people working together to make the local area a better place to live, work and enjoy."
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Singapore, 24 July 2015: Pune, India-based architect Prof. Christopher Benninger, 72, was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Singapore-based Business Excellence and Research Group. He was awarded for designing landmark projects in India. Currently, he is designing the Institute of Technology at Hyderabad and Bajaj Institute of Technology near Nagpur.
In his acceptance speech he thanked BERG and said, "It is a great honour to receive this lifetime achievement award in a country like Singapore which we all look up to. It is a country which is very good at urban plans and designs." Prof. Benninger added that Indian authorities should ideally focus on making 100 existing cities smart instead of building 100 new smart ones. He argued that India has about 300 cities, each with more than half a million population and that he was in favour of making 100 of these 300 cities smart.
The Chairman of BERG Advisory Board Thomas McMahon in his address said, "The (Indian real estate) sector plays a critical role for managing India's rapidly urbanising population. BERG aims to provide an international thought leadership platform in this process."
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TOKYO -- The plug-in hybrid vehicle is coming into its own in the Japanese market as carmakers from Japan and Germany aim to make these vehicles their mainstay eco-friendly offerings.
Plug-in hybrids use an electric motor when at low speeds and gasoline engines when traveling at higher speeds, such as on expressways. Conventional electric vehicles, which have suffered in sales due to low mileage potentials and other performance issues, use quick chargers located at designated stations. Plug-in hybrids can be charged through home outlets. Some models are already available that can travel more than 800km on a single charge.
The rise in popularity of plug-in hybrids will also likely boost the charging infrastructure network for electric vehicles. Toyota Motor, Nissan Motor, Honda Motor and Mitsubishi Motors are planning to develop jointly a charging network with support from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The effort is expected to double the country's current number of charging stations to 4,000.
Toyota has on its own started demonstration tests for a contactless charging system.
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According to market research company Fuji Keizai, the Japanese plug-in hybrid vehicle market is expected to swell to 1.94 million units in 2030, and the eco-car market, including hybrids and electric vehicles, to 13.64 million units.
A sales clerk at a Mitsubishi Motors dealership says that more than half of the customers who buy the Outlander, the company's flagship SUV, choose the plug-in hybrid model. Mitsubishi has focused on developing electric vehicles, positioning them as the future of eco-friendly cars.
"Electric vehicles have not achieved results we expected," Mitsubishi Motors President Osamu Masuko said. "Instead, plug-in hybrids will be the core (eco-car) in the future."
Mitsubishi uses the term PHEV, for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, as a way to make it clear that their plug-in hybrids compensate for the weaker performances of its electric vehicles. Mitsubishi has plans to introduce plug-in hybrid versions of its SUVs -- the Pajero and the RVR.
The Japanese market is led by the Outlander PHEV and Toyota's Prius PHV. Honda's Accord plug-in hybrid is third.
Germany's biggest carmakers are also aiming at the Japanese market. BMW plans to release the i8, a plug-in hybrid coupe. Volkswagen is to launch a plug-in hybrid version of its Golf compact. Audi plans to introduce a plug-in hybrid of its A3 family car. And Daimler will release a plug-in hybrid version of its high-end Mercedes-Benz S-Class.


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Senator Spark M. Matsunaga of Hawaii, a longtime proponent of peaceful resolution of disputes and Soviet-American cooperation in space exploration, died of cancer early yesterday in Toronto General Hospital. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Matsunaga, a liberal Democrat who served 14 years each in the House and the Senate, announced last January he was being treated for prostate and bone cancer. He flew to Toronto last week for accelerated treatments, his press secretary, Edward J. Greaney, said yesterday.
Senator Matsunaga cast his final Senate votes from a wheelchair on April 5 in support of extension of the Clean Air Act. He espoused many measures to replenish the environment, including planes fueled by hydrogen in place of petroleum-based fuel and the development of wind power for commercial ships, a concept being pioneered in Japan.
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Mr. Matsunaga, a Japanese-American, was the main Senate leader for passage in 1988 of a $1.25 billion bill to give $20,000 and an apology to all Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps in World War II. Addressing the Senate, Mr. Matsunaga, who was wounded twice in Italy during the war, recounted an incident of an elderly internee who crossed a fence to retrieve a ball for his grandchild and was machine-gunned to death.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mr. Matsunaga, though a second lieutenant in the American Army, was detained in a Wisconsin camp. He and other internees, after petitioning President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were allowed to form the 100th Infantry Battalion, which became one of the most highly decorated in history.Continue reading the main story
The Senator lobbied for 22 years before persuading Congress in 1984 to establish a peace academy program, which awards graduate degrees for helping to settle disputes within and among nations.
In a statement yesterday, Gov. John D. Waihee 3d of Hawaii hailed Mr. Matsunaga's ''humanitarianism'' and added: ''He will be remembered most for his vision of peace and his faith in the human spirit. In his memory we will carry on his quest. In his spirit we will strive for the highest of principles and the brightest of worlds.''
Agnew Incident Recalled
Mr. Matsunaga, a diminutive, convivial man known to longtime associates as ''Sparkie,'' had less impact on legislation than the state's senior Democratic Senator, Daniel K. Inouye, also a decorated war veteran, but he fought hard for goals he cherished.
In 1968, he criticized Spiro T. Agnew for calling a reporter on his Vice Presidential-campaign tour of Hawaii ''a fat Jap.'' Mr. Agnew apologized but expressed regret at what he viewed as a decline in the American sense of humor.
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga was born on Oct. 8, 1916, on the island of Kauai to a poor Japanese immigrant family. He worked at many jobs through high school and the University of Hawaii, where he earned many honors, including election to Phi Beta Kappa, and studied at Harvard Law School under the G.I. benefits bill, graduating in 1951.
He was then successively a Honolulu prosecutor, member and majority leader of the Hawaii territorial House of Representatives. He went to Washington in 1962, serving in the House for seven consecutive terms. In 1976, he was elected to the Senate.
Surviving are his wife, the former Helene Hatsumi Tokunaga, who lived with him in Kensington, Md., and Honolulu; three daughters, Karen Hardman, of Kensington; Diane Segars, of Mississippi, and Merle, of Thailand; two sons, Keene, of Anaheim, Calif., and Matthew, of Honolulu; three brothers, Andrew, Satoru Ikeda and Yutaka Ikeda, all of Honolulu; two sisters, Dorothy Hironaga, of Honolulu, and Mitsuko Ueno, of Hanapepe, Hawaii, and three grandsons.
The body will be flown this week to Honolulu for a state funeral and burial.Continue reading the main story


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The SpamBlocker settings on webmail for Cox.net default to "Delete incoming junk email automatically." While this initially sounds like a good idea, you really have to trust the spam filter is never wrong. If it is wrong, you'll never know.
I highly suggest using a lower setting which sets up a SPAM folder. Under this lower setting, incoming mail believed to be spam skips your inbox and is delivered to this new folder. At least this way you can double check the filter to make sure you aren't losing anything important.
Step #1 – Log in to your Cox.net webmail account. Visit http://www.cox.net. Along the right side of the page is a sign in box. Look for the "Webmail" link and use it to log in. You'll need to use your Cox.net email address and password.
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Irma came ashore on September 10th, 2017 for her second time in Florida at Marco Island. She was a Category 3 by that time, but we were expecting a much stronger hit...we were so blessed to not get that Category 5 that she was just the day before. Cheerful Heart Academy is located in an area of Napl…
I posted the below message in the week before Irma hit our beloved SW Florida area. To update, Irma came ashore on September 10th, 2017 for her second time in Florida at Marco Island. Please see my Blog Post for the details of how we fared.
Cheerful Heart Academy is still in business. Please remember that this is a one woman show and that woman still homeschools her own child and has a family - I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can. If I don't get back to you within two weeks after you've contacted me, (unless it's an emergency) please try again. Some of our services are still not working properly here and it's very possible that I may have just not seen or heard your message.
Again, thank you all for your patience - and please keep praying for all of us in the state of Florida. Many of us have a long road of recovery ahead of us.
~Lynda Rowley, Owner/Administrator of CHA
Cheerful Heart Academy is in the current 'cone of uncertainty' of Hurricane Irma. The physical location of the school records is located in Naples, Florida, which is on the Southwest coast of the peninsula. All records have been backed up on a computer, an external hard drive, and a USB memory stick and will be taken with the owner if evacuation occurs.
If you are trying to reach CHA, or have been trying to reach CHA over the past few days, we have been in hurricane preparation mode. Please understand that it may be next week before I'm able to get back to you, but I will get to every email and phone call at some point within the next two weeks. If you have contacted CHA via phone or email and have not heard from Lynda at CHA by September 21st, please contact again.
Thank you all for your patience.
Please pray with me for protection for all of us in the state of Florida.
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Whew. What a year 2014 has been. As I write this, we are preparing to head to Abilene next week to celebrate Christmas with Chris's family and our new (and first!) baby niece. I'm so ready for two-week-old baby snuggles. I'm wrapping up some projects and going to do my best to keep the laptop closed for the next two weeks... Time to enjoy some rest and relaxation, and meditation on the birth of our Savior.
But before I sign off, I've written you a bit of a love letter. I'd love to start 2015 off right by saying...
Thank you!
Thank you to all of our friends and family who've been with Chris and I for our 2014 journey. Chris and I learned so many things from you and value the time we've had with each of you. Whether it's in the form of an occasional text or an in-person conversation that lasts hours, we love to continue learning and wouldn't be where we are today without you.
January... A Refresh.
TPA started off the year with a facelift and a new vision. It went through a transformation this year with a bio video, portfolio content, and other details that help tell my story. Before this, TPA was a women's lifestyle blog with a variety of content, but it didn't hold a message that was true to who I am. After praying over the blog last fall (including multiple times when I asked Him to let me know if I needed to let this dream die), God started gently pulling me in the direction where maybe, just maybe, I let Him be in control of the blog. Over the course of 2014, TPA became a home for deeper, more authentic conversation and what came out of that was incredible... here are a few: #TheRubyProject was born. I met so many sweet readers through the comments on the blog and on social media. Freelance design projects started lining up, and that's been such a sweet mission field for me. I love getting to serve people one-on-one and make their dreams (visually) become reality. I had several of you refer to the blog as one you loved (still can't get over that). The profits created from my freelance work enabled Chris and I to more freely give. That alone makes me so teary, because this time last year I would've never thought our budget would allow room to give outside of our church tithe. God has made himself and his provision so evident to us this year, and a large portion of that happened through That's Pretty Ace.
I would share stats about page views and unique visitors to the site or perhaps the number of followers TPA now has on Instagram, but I honestly stopped looking. This blog has become more than a possible source of income and instead has become a piece of my heart placed lovingly (and with risk) out on the internet to serve you.
The branding refresh has served you and I well, and I've continued to do updates here are there. It's no longer the girly-girly, let's host a party lifestyle blog I had imagined and is literally a life blog. You'll notice the About page has been simplified and re-written, and now includes a fancy bio sheet (if you happen to be looking for one). The services page has gotten a bit of a facelift, and colors and details throughout the site are a fresh shade of blue (my very favorite, and so soothing for you). My goal for the branding of TPA is to tell the story – God's story that He's woven in my life – the best and most honest way it can.
This year has held a lot. God has rattled our hearts and our lives in ways we never would have expected. Chris and I became members of The Village Church this year. Taylor and I created and ran a series of workshops. I ran a 5K... and a half-marathon (WHAT). We celebrated our first wedding anniversary. We celebrated the first anniversary of this blog. Chris had the pleasure of working at two amazing firms this summer. Our circle of real, Christ-like community widened. We went to California and spent time fasting and praying together. I met precious little Jennie Allen. I started a monthly dinner group with some incredible ladies. We grew so much closer to God, and in turn, closer to each other. I've never had friends like this before. I've never given like this before. I've never lived like this before.
I've had the honor of working with some amazing people this year. I can't list everything and everyone, but I would love to share some highlights... #TheRubyProject, art directing the Goodness Gathering, mentoring three wonderful women this summer, teaching several ladies how to use Illustrator and Photoshop, running the TPA shop, designing several incredible branding projects, and photographing a fundraiser for missions in Haiti are at the top of the charts for me. Each of you who contributed your hearts and your skills, or simply reached out to me – I'm so humbled by your generosity. Thank you for blessing me and my family, so that we could bless others.
And A Glimpse Into Next Year
Next year will be an adventurous year for Chris and I. I've been dying to share all of this with you, and now that all the important people know, I finally can!
We're Moving...
To Austin! Chris has accepted a one-year-long clerkship under a Judge, and I'm beyond proud of him. This is such a huge honor! God has really given him a gift for mentally processing law and for desiring knowledge. I've loved seeing him learn how to use his gifts to serve. His clerkship will begin in September of 2015, and we are expecting to move at the end of August.
...And Coming Back.
Chris has also accepted a position for after his clerkship finishes, and it will take us back to DFW – Fort Worth, specifically! Chris will be working for the appellate department at one of the firms he worked at this past summer. We were so honored that they extended him an offer, and even in the department Chris was most excited about. We love the city of FW and have made such wonderful friends there. Accepting this offer means we would be settling down in cowtown in July 2016! We also know that, often, our "plans" don't go as expected, and sometimes the Lord leads us on surprising journeys... so we are being open-handed with all of this and doing our best to prayerfully listen where God is calling us to be.
AND... I'm heading back to school.
A complete surprise to me this year was the Lord leaning into my heart to consider attending seminary school. He had whispered it in the back of my mind, but I kept thinking maybe that would be nice in the far-off future. Over Labor Day weekend, Chris asked me if I had ever thought about it (I had.) and he said he had looked into it financially and asked around about several schools, and highly encouraged me to think about it. We spent a few weeks praying about it on our own, and then slowly began asking friends and family to pray over the decision as well. I applied to Dallas Theological Seminary with the request to be considered for the fall 2015 Master of Arts in Biblical Studies program. AND I GOT ACCEPTED! It's a two-year long program that goes through every single book of the Bible, with a basic theological education, and a bit of teaching on writing and speaking. DTS has an extension campus in Austin, and this degree is the only one they offer almost entirely online. I will go through my first year of school while we are in Austin, and my second when we come back to DFW. My heart might burst, I'm so excited.
More than anything, I just want to know the Lord better. If that pours out and leads others to know the Lord better... that's the giant cherry on top. He has truly made Himself my desire, and though I repeatedly fail and seek other things, He has firmly rooted the things He wants in my heart... which is mostly more of Him.
I'm planning to work part-time during school, and will continue taking on freelance projects. With that said, if you have any dreams you'd like to see come to life, please let me know!
For 2015 we have so many adventures on the horizon, and I can't wait to see where the Lord is taking us. I'm choosing to meditate on these verses for the coming year...
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire."
- Hebrews 12:28-29 -
We're ready to continue sharing joy in new and more adventurous ways. Bring it on, 2015!


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Assuming you haven't been sleeping under a rock, you have probably heard that a Nature paper came out on an F1 Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid. The major new science in my opinion from the results of the genome itself is to be found in the figure above. It confirms that there was a lot of population turnover among Neanderthals, as this individual's mother is more closely related to European Neanderthals who flourished ~40,000 years later than conspecifics from the same region 30,000 years earlier. This is not surprising in light of what we know about the genetics and paleoecology of this group, though it confirms what we know and increases our confidence.
Rather, what is surprising is that this paper was published because they found an F1. From their conclusion:
It is notable that one direct offspring of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan (Denisova 11) and one modern human with a close Neanderthal relative (Oase 1) have been identified among the few individuals from whom DNA has been retrieved and who lived at the time of overlap of these groups…In conjunction with the presence of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in ancient and present-day people…this suggests that mixing among archaic and modern hominin groups may have been frequent when they met.
The number of ancient genomes from these species/groups/lineages is literally in the range a handful. And among the early finds is an F1! This seems highly unlikely. It could be a fluke. Or, as inferred above, F1's may have been very common when different hominin lineages met.
But that makes one ask: how is it that Neanderthals and Denisovans remained some genetically distinct over hundreds of thousands of years? The two reasons offered are that the lineages were geographically very distant from each other on the whole, and, that hybrid individuals had very low fitness. I think the former is the primary dynamic to focus on.
For my assertion to make sense, consider some context in the published literature and theory. From 2004 and 2011 respectively, Modern Humans Did Not Admix with Neanderthals during Their Range Expansion into Europe and Strong reproductive isolation between humans and Neanderthals inferred from observed patterns of introgression.
From the first paper:
…we estimate that maximum interbreeding rates between the two populations should have been smaller than 0.1%. We indeed show that the absence of Neanderthal mtDNA sequences in Europe is compatible with at most 120 admixture events between the two populations despite a likely cohabitation time of more than 12,000 y. This extremely low number strongly suggests an almost complete sterility between Neanderthal females and modern human males, implying that the two populations were probably distinct biological species.
And the second:
Recent studies have revealed that 2–3% of the genome of non-Africans might come from Neanderthals, suggesting a more complex scenario of modern human evolution than previously anticipated. In this paper, we use a model of admixture during a spatial expansion to study the hybridization of Neanderthals with modern humans during their spread out of Africa. We find that observed low levels of Neanderthal ancestry in Eurasians are compatible with a very low rate of interbreeding (<2%), potentially attributable to a very strong avoidance of interspecific matings, a low fitness of hybrids, or both.
Models are models, and they have assumptions. Don't have the player, hate the model assumption and revisit your priors.
There are 22 ancient genomes from 40,000 years ago or before. One of them is an F1 between Neanderthals and Denisovans. And another, Oase 1, has a Neanderthal in their very recent ancestry. The sampling locations may not be totally representative. The Denisova cave is likely to be special because it's at the nexus of the ranges of the two Eurasian archaic lineages. But with that out of the way, it seems very unlikely to me that very low fitness or very low likelihood of mating when it close contact is the reason that the lineages remained distinct. After less than half a dozen samples from Denisova, cave researchers hit on an F1. What are the chances?
And yet, if matings between the lineages occurred when they were in close contact, and they were genetically distinct nevertheless over such long periods, then that demands an explanation. Denisova hominins and Neanderthals were genetically closer than modern humans are to either. At the time that F1 was conceived the two lineages had been distinct for ~300,000 years. This is not qualitatively much longer than some modern human groups (e.g., Khoisan vs. everyone else) have been diverging. And yet, like the Denisovan-Neanderthal split, modern humans have a lot of population structure and evidence of isolation (also, note that modern humans show no evidence of reduced reproductive fitness from offspring and purification of admixture, as has been inferred for Neanderthal genomic regions in modern human genomes).
All this leads me to conclude that in Pleistocene hominins allopatry and metapopulation dynamics are the solutions to this quandary. The population density of archaic hominins was on average low, but you need to go beyond average. The distribution was possibly highly patchy and with large zones of little habitation. Gene flow across populations may have occurred, but they would run up to a wall of emptiness equivalent to the Atlantic ocean. Additionally, both Neanderthal and modern human ancient indicates a recurrent pattern of location population extinction and replacement. My hypothesis is that populations which were liminal to the range of both lineages, and so likely to have a higher load of admixture from the other lineage, were also in a marginal territory and most likely to go extinct and leave no descendants. Then, less admixed populations with larger numbers close to the core of the lineage range would repopulate the liminal region.
If the model is correct, I think the Altai was resettled by Neanderthals from the west after the Eemian interglacial.
A contrasting method to maintain genetic separation from allopatry (physical distance and barrier) are group cultural identities which maintain very strict endogamy. We see this over 2,000 years in India, where populations are co-localized but almost totally unrelated in any way you'd predict from geography. But 2,000 years is a blink of an eye geologically. The explanation for why Neanderthals and Denisovans, and various African human lineages, remained separate for hundreds of thousands of years as coherent populations despite some gene flow on the margins, has to be geology, geography and ecology. Domains where hundreds of thousands years of stasis on quite possible.


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It seems that the media are making much over Mitt Romney's win in Michigan, proclaiming that it is his first victory and that the race for the GOP presidential nomination is further muddled in confusion. While the latter portion of that statement may be true – despite being a purely subjective statement – it can be undeniably confirmed that the former part of the statement is false.
It wasn't even two weeks ago that the Wyoming Republicans held their county conventions and handed Mr. Romney a "victory" of 8 delegates and 5 alternates in the unabashedly conservative state. Thus Michigan, while an interesting symbolic win for Mr. Romney, is nothing more and is certainly not the first victory for him.
We pray it will be his last.
HRC won the symbolic vote for the Democrats in Michigan, which was stripped of its delegates after the Democrats in that state moved their primary into January. Other articles can offer further insight – I need to have lunch.


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"I don't want to be a Mum anymore!" I screamed at my husband: the defining moment of a row we were having about something insignificant, but had blown out of proportion.
This sentence was the catalyst for my Post Natal Depression recovery journey. Those were the words that gave my husband, Shaun, a window into how I was really feeling about being a mum to our nine month-old son. He stopped still, embraced me, and gently told me that we needed to seek professional help.
From as long as I can remember, the thought of being pregnant; or anyone else being pregnant was just horrific, I suffered with what psychologists call, Tokophobia, fear of birth or pregnancy. I have no idea where this phobia came from.
Although I understood that it was the most natural thing in the world, it just seemed so alien to me; growing a human inside your body? How does that make sense? However, my want to have a child after we got married gave me the push to deal with the phobia through therapy.
So before trying for a baby, I sought help in the shape of Emotional Freedom Therapy (EFT) and it worked! I felt more comfortable with the idea and I had the psychological tools to control my thought process surrounding it.
Shaun and I tried for a year and a half to get pregnant and after being diagnosed with Polycystic Ovaries, my local fertility clinic put me on Clomid, a drug that forces your ovaries to release eggs on a regular basis, something my body wasn't doing on its own. Within two months of being on it, I was pregnant. We were, understandably, over the moon and excited for the journey that lay ahead.
I had, what would be classed by most, as the perfect pregnancy: no complications, nothing out of the ordinary and other than being uncomfortable, it was all fairly simple. Simple, apart from the fact that I didn't really 'get involved' with my growing baby. By that, I mean that I didn't enjoy feeling him kick or move, I didn't look at my bump or stroke it with loving thoughts, I just detached myself from the growing life inside me and went about my life as normal. I read the books and knew what was happening with my body, but I didn't enjoy pregnancy, it just felt like a huge inconvenience. And as my friends and family know, I'm not a woman who is used to having restrictions on what I am able to do. With hindsight, I should have known that I would struggle. It was even at those early stages of being a mum – pregnancy – that I hated losing my own power of decision and independence.
My birth was, (and when I say this to other women they look at me like I'm crazy) wonderful. I'd had been listening to hypnobirthing CDs and reading the accompanying book and felt more than ready for this huge feat. Although from the start of contractions to our son being born was 33 hours, it was relaxed and calm. I made cakes in between contractions and had a fish and chip dinner, Shaun with me the whole time being amazingly supportive. I then spent the last 6 hours in the birthing pool where our son, Fletcher, was born.
The midwife quickly scooped him onto my chest for me to hold. And that's when it started: I had no emotion towards him at all. I was just lying in the water overcome with relief and self pity. I was looking at him and all I was thinking in that moment was "I can't believe I've just done that, I am in pain and exhausted, thank god it's over". I wasn't thinking, what a lot of mums do: "I'm so happy to meet you, I love you so much".
We had put in our notes that we didn't want the midwives to tell us the sex of our baby, as we wanted to look and discover for ourselves. It took a good 5 minutes and prompting from the midwife for me to even find out. We then named him and I quickly past Fletcher to Shaun to look after whilst I got out of the pool and was checked by the birthing centre staff.
Fletcher and I went home 15 hours later. This was a decision I now regret, I wish I had stayed in overnight and had that extra support for his first day, and mine. Who knows, it could have made a difference. In the next few days and weeks we had lots of visitors, as you do when you've had a new baby, and each one would say things to me like: "Isn't he lovely?", "I bet you're loving being a mum?" "It's just such a magical time". And I would sit there, nod and smile and agree whilst secretly , I just assumed that this was the 'baby blues' and I could just 'fake it until I made it.'
But weeks turned to months and I still didn't feel bonded to Fletcher or enjoy being a mum. And I should have, he slept through from 4 months and although he had colic to begin with, a change of milk sorted that. But he was a good baby. He has always been a very active child, making noise and wriggling around from the moment he could, but in my mind, he was a nightmare.
I hated that he needed me so much, I hated losing my independence, I hated that I no longer felt like 'me'. I started to feel a huge amount of resentment towards him; this of course led to a massive gap in understanding between Shaun and I. We couldn't begin to grasp how each other was feeling or why, and we would fall out over tiny, insignificant things that escalated into full-blown arguments, which, before Fletcher, just didn't happen. This was something else I blamed my son for. In my head, he had caused me pain, discomfort, loss of identity and now a wedge between me and the love of my life.
But life goes on and I truly thought that at some point I would settle into it and start to love him. I just assumed it was sleep deprivation and just generally getting used to be a parent. I did everything I could to bond; skin to skin, baby wearing, baby massage classes. Unfortunately he didn't take to breastfeeding because of a tongue tie, but I felt fine with giving him formula because I knew we had both tried our best and quite frankly I was happy to be able to give him to visitors as soon as they would arrive. I even once, offered him to the postman. He was born in November so the first few months were spent in a small village with no one my age around, in the depths of winter. Most my friends and family were living 20+ miles away, I was lonely. I was also the first of my closest friends to have a baby, so to speak to other recent mums about how I was feeling meant leaving the house, finding women I had something in common with and becoming close enough to talk to them honestly. I found one mum friend who was a great support to me, without her even knowing it, because she was honest about parenthood. But even then, I just couldn't summon the courage to tell her the extent of how I was really feeling. I knew that the thoughts I was having were horrid. I couldn't possibly say them out loud.
There is a misconception that with PND, mums or dads want to harm their babies. This isn't the case for the majority of women. I certainly didn't. I didn't want to hurt myself either, but I did want to leave Shaun and Fletcher. I would watch the clock all day until Shaun was due home, and on many occasions I would think "Shaun is back in ten minutes, if I go now I know that Fletcher will be fine and then they can get on with life without me." I thought that it wasn't fair for Fletcher to have a mum around that regretted having him and couldn't love him as much as Shaun could. One of these times, I actually packed a bag, but as Shaun drove up to the house I hid it. I stayed because I couldn't imagine my life without him. I'd just have to get used to Fletcher. But the darkness was terrible, people call depression 'The Black Dog', and he was biting at my feet, just waiting to swallow me whole. Some days I wanted him too, it seemed easier to submit to it rather than fight it.
We moved from the cottage when Fletcher was eight months old and bought a house in a nearby town, but to get the size house we wanted we had to buy a renovation project. We moved and I was happier, in the village we had some neighbours who made our life there very stressful, so having new, friendly neighbours it helped removed that strain. But with the amount of work we we're doing on the house coupled with work and parenting, the stress levels of both Shaun and I rose and with that the arguments started again.
After my admission of not wanting to be a mum I couldn't reign it all in. Everything that I was feeling and thinking came pouring out. Shaun called my health visitor and she came to see us a few days later. She asked me to fill out a test of ten questions with multiple-choice answers about how I was feeling, if you score ten or over you are diagnosed with postnatal depression. I scored 20. She asked me to commit to doing a hobby that I enjoyed before motherhood for an hour each week, she also booked me an appointment with a doctor that she had carefully selected to ensure I got the support I needed. So I started swimming for an hour a week and the doctor put me on Serotonin based medication. I told the rest of my family and some close friends, I felt supported, lifted and hopeful.
On Fletcher's first birthday, I had a 'light bulb' moment. I looked at him and I saw not a baby, but a toddler that was growing into a boy. He had become a real character, he was becoming independent (fiercely so, I wonder where he got that from?!) and I realised that he didn't need me to do everything for him. I had gained some of my independence back. I had survived the first year, and I had stayed. But most of all, I had started to love him.
I now understand the science behind PND, my body had an imbalance of hormones that had blocked my mind the natural instinct to love my child. But through the help and support from medical professionals and my family, I was fighting against that. I don't think I would have ever have made it out of the darkness without the shoulders that I had to lean on. I was so lucky to have a health visitor that was so brilliant at understanding and knew exactly what to say. And beyond fortunate to have a husband that gave me the time, space and love that I needed. We discussed alll it recently; we both feel that going through that experience has made us more aware of each other's needs as parents and individuals, which is an unexpected bonus.
And now, just before his second birthday, I can't find enough words to explain how much I love and adore him. He has turned into such an amazing little man, he's funny, caring, silly and independent. I just love watching him learning each and everyday. Sometimes I find myself staring at him and crying, completely overwhelmed by my love for him as if my mind and heart are making up for lost time.
I've also come to the realization that I am a good mum. And although I don't think I will ever say that parenting is easy, I can't ever imagine my life without him. I now have two loves of my life.


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Data and methods
Data, and the methods used to analyze them, are the foundation for evidence-based research. Articles in this subject area discuss the value of different types of data collection, and explain important statistical and econometric methods that provide ways to summarize and present information, and to identify and quantify correlation or causality.
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Intergenerational income persistence
Measures of intergenerational persistence can be indicative of equality of opportunity, but the relationship is not clear-cutJo Blanden, January 2019A strong association between incomes across generations—with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults—is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such "intergenerational persistence," or lack of intergenerational mobility, measure the strength of the relationship between parents' socio-economic status and that of their children as adults. However, the association between equality of opportunity and common measures of intergenerational persistence is not as clear-cut as is often assumed. To aid interpretation researchers often compare measures across time and space but must recognize that reliable measurement requires overcoming important data and methodological difficulties.MoreLess
Do workers work more when earnings are high?
Studies of independent contractors suggest that workers' effort may be more responsive to wage incentives than previously thoughtTess M. Stafford, November 2018A fundamental question in economic policy is how labor supply responds to changes in remuneration. The responsiveness of labor supply determines the size of the employment impact and efficiency loss of progressive income taxation. It also affects predictions about the impacts of policies ranging from fiscal responses to business cycles to government transfer programs. The characteristics of jobs held by independent contractors provide an opportunity to overcome problems faced by earlier studies and help answer this fundamental question.MoreLess
Big Data in economics
New sources of data create challenges that may require new skillsMatthew HardingJonathan Hersh, September 2018Big Data refers to data sets of much larger size, higher frequency, and often more personalized information. Examples include data collected by smart sensors in homes or aggregation of tweets on Twitter. In small data sets, traditional econometric methods tend to outperform more complex techniques. In large data sets, however, machine learning methods shine. New analytic approaches are needed to make the most of Big Data in economics. Researchers and policymakers should thus pay close attention to recent developments in machine learning techniques if they want to fully take advantage of these new sources of Big Data.MoreLess
Measuring employment and unemployment
Should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?Andrea BrandoliniEliana Viviano, August 2018Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real labor markets and policy agendas challenge these traditional conventions. Boundaries between different labor market states are blurred, complicating identification. Individual experiences in each state may vary considerably, highlighting the importance of how each employed or unemployed person is weighted in statistical indices.MoreLess
Defining informality vs mitigating its negative effects
More important than defining and measuring informality is focusing on reducing its detrimental consequencesElizabeth Ruppert Bulmer, August 2018There are more informal workers than formal workers across the globe, and yet there remains confusion as to what makes workers or firms informal and how to measure the extent of it. Informal work and informal economic activities imply large efficiency and welfare losses, in terms of low productivity, low earnings, sub-standard working conditions, and lack of social insurance coverage. Rather than quibbling over definitions and measures of informality, it is crucial for policymakers to address these correlates of informality in order to mitigate the negative efficiency and welfare effects.MoreLess
The usefulness of experiments
Are experiments the gold standard or just over-hyped?Jeffrey A. Smith, May 2018Non-experimental evaluations of programs compare individuals who choose to participate in a program to individuals who do not. Such comparisons run the risk of conflating non-random selection into the program with its causal effects. By randomly assigning individuals to participate in the program or not, experimental evaluations remove the potential for non-random selection to bias comparisons of participants and non-participants. In so doing, they provide compelling causal evidence of program effects. At the same time, experiments are not a panacea, and require careful design and interpretation.MoreLess
The labor market in Israel, 2000–2016
Unlike most OECD countries, Israel experienced a major increase in both employment and participation rates over the last 15 yearsTali LaromOsnat Lifshitz, January 2018Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these trends during the last 15 years. This was accompanied by a substantial decrease in unemployment. New labor force participants are mostly from the low end of the education distribution, and many are relatively old. They entered the labor force in response to cuts in welfare payments and increases in the mandatory retirement age. Net household income for all population groups has increased due to growth in labor income; however, inequality between households has increased.MoreLess
Replication in labor economics
Is there a reproducibility crisis in labor economics?W. Robert Reed, December 2017There is growing concern that much of the empirical research in labor economics and other applied areas may not be reproducible. Correspondingly, recent years have seen an increase in replication studies published in economics journals. Despite this increase, there are many unresolved issues about how replications should be done, and how to interpret their results. Replications have demonstrated a potential for clarifying the reliability and robustness of previous research. Much can be done to encourage more replication research, and to exploit the scientific value of existing replication studies.MoreLess
What is the role for molecular genetic data in public policy?
There is potential value from incorporating genetic data in the design of effective public policy, but also some risksWeili DingSteven F. Lehrer, October 2017Both the availability and sheer volume of data sets containing individual molecular genetic information are growing at a rapid pace. Many argue that these data can facilitate the identification of genes underlying important socio-economic outcomes, such as educational attainment and fertility. Opponents often counter that the benefits are as yet unclear, and that the threat to individual privacy is a serious one. The initial exploration presented herein suggests that significant benefits to the understanding of socio-economic outcomes and the design of both social and education policy may be gained by effectively and safely utilizing genetic data.MoreLess
Relative deprivation in the labor market
The choice of reference group crucially determines subjective deprivation and thus affects labor market behaviorPaolo Verme, June 2017Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to the status of their peers—the reference group. One way to test this hypothesis in the labor market is to measure individual differences in labor status while controlling for characteristics that define population groups. This measure is called "relative labor deprivation" and can help policymakers to better understand how labor claims are generated.MoreLess


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Vision 2020 Nov 4 to 6, 2016 Conference Exhibition Workshop Tutorial
After a long gap in the popular VISION series held by ISLE-Karnataka State Center, the next event will be held from November 4 to 6, 2016 at the NIMHANS CONVENTION CENTER, Hosur Main Road, Bengaluru.
The three day event caters to all tastes.
Exhibition will be for the three days. The ever increasing range in Lights, Light fittings, Lighting Controls, related integrated systems of Energy, Renewable sources have become so complex, during the past five years, that even the professionals in the lighting field require exchange of information and knowledge updation. The exhibition selectively caters to this requirement in all areas of LIGHT and good living.
Conference will be for two days — on Nov 4 and 5.
The conference with the theme Smart Light will bring the latest in Lighting as well as the welfare influence of Light on Human beings and takes a look at what to expect by 2020. No doubt the conference will cover the associated 6Es — Energy, Environment, Efficiency, Economy, Education & Entertainment in the context of lighting.
With the growing interest from the new generation and to cater to the large number of student members there will be a workshop on Nov 6. Today Light & Lighting provides an excellent opportunity to the hobbyist, college (or school) project work in disciplines as varied as illumination, the eye & vision, health, electronics, architecture, education. entertainment, electronic controls, While LED by itself is a capital intensive product, its application for innovative uses is today affordable to bring it the hobby garage.
The lighting systems are changing fast and this requires updating the knowledge of the skilled professionals who install the lighting systems and service them. A special Skill upgradation tutorial will be held on Nov 6.


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A ripple effect happens when something or someone takes the place of God in our lives. Our lives get out of line. It's like getting the top button on a shirt wrong. You get that one wrong and then all the others are off. But if you get the top button right all the others line up. Call it alignment. When God is not in His rightful place in our lives, then the rest of the buttons in our lives are not aligned. Jesus put it this way, "Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well" (Matt. 6:33 NCV).
When anything takes the place of God in our lives – a venture, a career, ambition, a relationship, our plans – a ripple effect occurs. When our venture and plans are up we're up, but when they're down we're down. And in that roller coaster ride a clue can be found about one's identity. A person's entire identity may be founded on that venture or career or relationship. That's one of the problems with idolizing. It leaves a person emotionally spent and insecure.
The challenge is to die to self. Here's an idea to help us keep God first in our lives: Periodically pause and close our eyes and reflect on the moment of our salvation. Think about where you were, the prayer you prayed, and how God has changed you. Then walk through some Bible verses in your mind reminding yourself of who you are in Christ. You are not who others think you are; you're who God says you are. You are His child. You are loved, secure, and accepted through Christ. You have God's Spirit living within you. You're a conqueror through whatever you go through because of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross which has provided for your forgiveness and new life which lasts forever. You are called, set apart, and chosen. You really can do everything He calls you to do.
Make this little routine a habit and it will have a huge effect on how you see everything and how you live. A consistent life of prayer helps us keep our eyes on Christ and off of the approval of people. And that helps us get the top button right.


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Ardmore House
In a quiet area just off the N71 road to Killarney, Ardmore House is surrounded by farmland with beautiful views of the Caha Mountains just a 3 minute walk from Kenmare's centre. Free parking is available, and full Irish breakfasts are served each morning.
Each with an en suite bathroom, the light and airy rooms at Ardmore House all have a TV and free tea and coffee facilities for you to relax with. Free Wi-Fi is available in the public areas.
The idyllic scenery of Killarney National Park can be reached in less than 15 minutes by car. Kenamre Golf Club is only a 2-minute drive away, and the famous Ring of Kerry driving route on the N71 can be joined just outside the house. There is a leisure centre just 300 metres away.


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Freeform Apps
Apps that might be fun to use in a freeform. Not apps that have been written for freeforms specifically, but other apps that might be of interest to freeform writers.
Enigma Simulator
This app turns your smartphone or tablet into an Enigma device (one of three models). With a couple of these apps you can sent undetectable settings to each other. You don't even need to worry about "unauthorised" personal copies of the app being in the game, as the app is extremely configurable.
The photo to the right is the Android app. There are several iOS apps. I have no idea if they are all compatible with one another.
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I can't believe it's been over a month since my last blog posting! Since we've been back I have been quite busy with getting the house ready for Christmas, sent out Christmas cards, shopping and wrapping presents, getting ready for the Last Chance Christmas Sale and doing a few photo shoots of families and babies...yes I said babies. Who knew this landscape/wildlife photographer would be taking pictures of babies and having a blast doing it!
Here's some of the pictures and fun I've had with these photo shoots. First up was Erin, Pete and PJ - I photographed them about this same time last year and was pleased to be asked to do it again for them. The weather was absolutely perfect for this time of year, really no wind to speak of and even though the sun had set there was still enough light. PJ is a gorgeous little girl and very serious so it was difficult to get a picture of her smiling but thanks to her mom being silly we caught one.
Pretty in Pink
Pete, Erin and PJ
PJ and her mom Erin
My second family shoot was with the Potter Family, I first photographed this lovely family when baby Gavin was still in his momma's belly. He's such a handsome little guy and he was pretty good for his Baby's First Christmas pictures.
Since I am photographing more people and because I do not have a studio I am learning how to use digital backgrounds and overlays. It's been fun learning these new techniques and trying to perfect them.
Jane, Brandon and baby Gavin
Cutest little Santa ever!
Being photographed is tiring work
The last family that I photographed before Christmas was Mallory Ehaloak, her baby Zane and her niece Tia Jayne. Zane is about 10 months old and is such a cutie pie with a million faces. Here's some pics from her Baby's First Christmas photo shoot.
Mallory and her daughter Zane
Tia Jayne and baby Zane
Such a beautiful baby
Having fun with some Christmas sparkle
He is real!!!
The sun will be rising again on January 11th for a grand total of 28 minutes and 34 seconds. We have been in a warm spell up here for the last week or so with temps sitting around -20'c to -30'c much better than -50'c and it's supposed to continue. Here are some pictures of what the light looks like at this time of year.
Cloudy this day but the Martin Bergmann was sitting pretty in the bay
Love when there are clear skies as we get these
gorgeous horizons
Jeffery Sather made this ice sculpture and I just
had to ask him to pose with it for me...it's pretty cool.
Even though the road is blocked with snow to get to
the bridge we took a walk to get a picture.
A blooper of a Christmas photo
Waiting for Santa to arrive
Christmas 2016
The Thursday before Christmas the skies lit up with some Aurora Borealis. What a show that night and it lasted a long time. I keep an eye on a website that shows the forecast and kept on looking out our window but with the street and Christmas lights I couldn't see any. Then I received a text from Marg telling me to get out with my camera, so I met her and Athlyne out of town. Mind you we didn't have to go far out of town to see them, here's what we saw that night.
They swirled and danced
Here's Marg and Athlyne watching them
You can see some pink, yellow and bright green
They covered the sky and we didn't know which way to look
This looked like the eye of the storm
So much activity
As you can see we didn't have to go far from town to see them
Here's another of Marg and Athlyne watching them
Talk soon!