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It's a hot day in Washington, DC.
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Even if our politics is murky at times, our songful expression is always loud and clear.
The towel over the head keeps the perspiration from overflowing and the music fluid to the masses.
We are a sophisticated country--full of culture, diversity, and heartfelt soul.
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|I saw this oval shape bright light travelled in my bedroom. Heard a sound too. It was moving bright light. Seemed like someone try to communicate, but I got scared and made myself hide in my blanket. And it went away.
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By BRENT STUBBS
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AFTER the debate over the absence of some of the athletes from the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations' Scotiabank National Track and Field Championships last month because of injuries, the Bahamas Olympic Committee has selected all but one of those attaining the qualifying standards for the 2012 Olympic Games.
In a joint press conference on Friday, the BOC released the names of the 23 athletes, inclusive of 10 female and 13 males, who will represent the Bahamas in London, England when the games take place from July 27-August 12.
The team, which features just one swimmer, comprises of a cross section of veterans and eight first time competitors from track and field. There should have been nine first timers, but even though Nivea Smith qualified in the women's 200, she was injured during her collegiate season for Auburn University and withdrew from further competition this year.
Roy Colebrooke, the chef de mission, said the team represents the core of the athletes who performed to the level where they were selected to compete in their respective events. He noted that he's disappointed that cycling, under which he serves as the president of the Bahamas Cycling Federation, has not yet reached the Olympic qualification.
But there should be some concern for the other disciplines like tennis and boxing, the latter of which is represented by BOC's president Wellington Miller, with no competitors qualified this year.
As for the track team, BAAA's president Mike Sands said the selection process was a smooth and transparent one.
"You either had to make the A standard or the B standard. All of the athletes met the A or the B standard," Sands said. "If you have one athlete who makes the A standard and any additional athletes who want to compete in that event, they must make the A standard. In the case of the B standard, you can only have one athlete competing in any event."
There were some concerns about the absence of athletes from the Nationals and although all of them that have qualified have been named to the team, Sands said their performances are being monitored closely by the IOC and the team doctor, Dr. Rickey Davis.
"This is why we're asking that all of them be in camp by July 16th so that they can be closely and properly monitored," Sands said.
For those athletes who have qualified for multiple events, Sands said a decision will be made in consultation with the coaches and the athletes in terms of which events they will compete in before the technical committee meeting takes place in London.
The one swimmer selected is Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, who will compete in both the women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle races in her second appearance at the games. She will be coached by her Auburn University head coach Brett Hawke, assisted by Lionel Moreau.
On the women's side for track and field, are three competitors - Sheniqua 'Q' Ferguson, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Anthonique Strachan, - who all qualified for the 100 and 200 metres as well as Shaunae Miller, who doubles as a qualifier in both the 200 and 400.
Veterans Chandra Sturrup and Christine Amertil didn't qualify in any individual events, but they will join Ferguson, Ferguson-McKenzie, Strachan and rookie V'Alonee Robinson in the women's 4 x 100 metre relay pool.
As for the men, three sprinters - Derrick Atkins, Warren Fraser and Michael Mathieu - along with three quarter-milers - Demetrius Pinder, Ramon Miller and Chris 'Fireman' Brown - will head the list.
Wesley Neymour and Andrae Williams have been added to the men's 4 x 400 relay pool that will include Mathieu, Pinder, Miller and Brown.
The other athletes named to the team will either compete in the technical events like the high hurdles - Ivanique Kemp and Shamar Sands; the long jumps - Bianca Stuart and Raymond Higgs; the men's triple jump - Leevan 'Superman' Sands and the men's high jump - Trevor Barry and Donald Thomas.
Historically, the Bahamas would have just selected a head coach with a cadre of assistant coaches. This year, for the first time, there will be a head coach for the men in David Charlton, while Dianne Woodside will serve as the head coach for the women. The assistant coaches are Ronald Cartwright, and Henry Rolle. The chaperone is Tonique Williams-Darling.
Charlton said it's a honour for him to be selected as a member of the coaching staff.
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to work with these athletes and to represent the Bahamas as a coach," he said.
As a coach, Charlton said he took exception to the claim during the trials for the United States team that the sprinting event at the Olympics will come down to a contest between the US and Jamaica.
"All of our athletes are going to go out there and give it our all," he said. "Given the fact that we have been able to make the A standard and a lot of our athletes are in the top ten in the world. So we're going to be very competitive in all events. I'm confident about that."
With just the men's 4 x 4 relay team to work with, Charlton said he's even more eager to see how they respond to the challenge this year. He said he's confident that the team have the ability to win the gold medal.
Woodside, who made history when she was selected as the first female coach at the IAAF World hampionships in Daegu, South Korea last year, said she's hoping that the experience gained will help her in executing her duties as the female coach in London.
"The women, of course over the years have have been very strong as far as track and field is concerned," she said. "I'm honoured to be a part of this team as a woman and as the head coach. We're going to go down there and do our best because I know they will be happy to know that they will have a woman assisting them."
Although they have a mixture of youth and experience, Woodside said with the assistance from Williams-Darling, who won the gold medal in the 400 at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, she knows without a shadow of a doubt that the team will be well prepared when they step out on the track.
BOC's president Wellington Miller said they are working closely with the Bahamas High Commission in London to ensure that the athletes will feel right at home. He noted that they have set up a house not too far from the Games Village where the athletes will be entertained in Bahamian style.
"Kerzner International have agreed to give us one of their best Bahamian chefs so that our athletes will have Bahamian food when they come to the Bahama House to sit back and relax," he said. "The Bahama House will be a gathering point for athletes to meet their friends and relatives who come to celebrate the Olympic Games."
Here's a look at the athletes selected and they events they qualified or were named to compete in:
Christine Amertil - 4 x 100 metre relay.
Sheniqua Ferguson - 100, 200, 4 x 100 relay.
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie - 100, 200, 4 x 100 relay.
Ivanique Kemp - 100 hurdles.
Shaunae Miller - 200, 400 metres
V'Alonee Robinson - 4 x 100 relay.
Anthonique Strachan - 100, 200, 4 x 100 relay.
Bianca Stuart - long jump.
Chandra Sturrup - 4 x 100 relay.
Derrick Atkins - 100 metres.
Trevor Barry - high jump.
Chris Brown - 400, 4 x 400 relay.
Warren Fraser - 100 metres.
Raymond Higgs - long jump.
Michael Mathieu - 200, 400, 4 x 400 relay.
Ramon Miller - 200, 400, 4 x 400 relay.
Wesley Neymour - 4 x 400 relay.
Demetrius Pinder - 400, 4 x 400 relay.
Leevan Sands - triple jump.
Shamar Sands - 110 hurdles.
Donald Thomas - high jump.
Andrae Williams - 4 x 400 relay.
Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace - 50 and 100 metres freestyle.
Chef de mission - Roy Colebrooke.
Administration - Mike Sands, Algernon Cargill, Dianne Miller.
BOC Executives - David Morley, Larry Wilson.
Swimming coaches - Brett Hawke, Lionel Moreau.
Track and field coaches - David Charlton, dianne Woodside, Ronald Cartwright, Henry Rolle.
Chaperone - Tonique Williams-Darling.
Special coach - Shaun Miller.
Medical team - Katrice Robisno (Physio Therapist); Jenn Davis (Chiropractor); Rickey Davis (Chief Medical Officer); Philip Clausen (Chiropractor).
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Mental Health Monday: Shame on You
- At March 4, 2013
- By Susan
- In Faith on Friday, Mental Health, Orthodoxy, Psychology, Spirituality
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Last night I did a "late" Faith on Friday post about the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Part of the post contained some strong words criticizing my church, or at least my experience at church yesterday morning. Later last night I deleted the post, although my subscribers received it by email. This morning I woke up pondering what it was that made me delete the post. And then I read the next chapter in Brené Brown's book, Daring Greatly, and it hit me—I was feeling shame about what I wrote. (My earlier posts about Daring Greatly are here and here.) Or more about how people might respond to what I wrote, since shame is integrally connected to anxiety about how others perceive you.
Chapter 3 of Brown's book, which I read this morning, is titled, "Understanding and Combating Shame." There way too much to "review" in a short blog post, so I'll just hit a couple of highlights, and encourage everyone to get this book and read it!
"Shame is the fear of disconnection—it's the fear that something we've done or failed to do, an ideal that we've not lived up to, or a goal that we've not accomplished makes us unworthy of connection."
I could go on and on about how shame affects relationships with other people—spouses, children, friends, co-workers—but for this post I'm going to focus on my relationship with God. As a Christian, fear of disconnection with God is as real as fear of disconnection with other people. Every religion, every church, has its own way of dealing with our failures. The Orthodox Church offers the sacraments of confession and communion as healing for those failures. I get that. But sometimes—like yesterday—the message can come across a little tangled.
Guilt and shame, according to Brown, aren't the same thing. I am guilty of sin, that's for sure. And when I sin and own that failure, I should have guilt. I should acknowledge that I did something bad. But shame, again according to Brown, tells me that I am bad. There's a huge difference. Guilt can have a positive influence in changing behavior, but shame "corrodes the very part of us that believes we can change and do better. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders and bullying…. When we experience shame, we feel disconnected and desperate for worthiness."
That's what I was feeling when I went to church yesterday morning, for the first time since January. I was desperate for worthiness. I was also exhausted, having just spent several days hostessing my daughter and ten-month-old granddaughter, who were visiting from Denver for a funeral. It was a stressful time for my daughter, and I was able to find the strength to help in her time of need. After they flew back to Denver on Saturday, I crashed and slept for hours. Then I got up on Sunday morning, hungry for a connection to God. I wasn't feeling guilt or shame. I was just tired and hungry. I needed some warmth and encouragement. So now I'll share part of that post I deleted last night, tweaked slightly.
Yesterday was the Sunday of the Prodigal Son in the Orthodox Church. It's the first of three Sundays leading up to the beginning of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Calendar. Kind of a warm-up for serious repenting and aesthetic struggle. I say "warm-up" because our faith can get cold when we aren't actively massaging it, and it's a shock to suddenly jump into Lent without some preparation… like muscles that we don't use for a long time and then suddenly we try to run a marathon.
But here's the thing—the preparation didn't feel helpful to me yesterday morning. I knew what Sunday it was, and I tried to prepare my heart to enter into the service—to let the music, the prayers, the sacraments warm my faith. Somehow it didn't happen.
The theme for this Sunday is repentance, and that's pretty much the only message I heard yesterday morning. I felt like a child who had been away and upon arriving back home, gets fussed at. My heart was already sad because of a death in our family. I had been working hard and doing good deeds and I was exhausted, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. I had been away from Church for several weeks, and I needed the Church to be the father in the Prodigal Son story. You know, the one who ran out to welcome his son when he returned? The way I understand it, the son had already repented—that's why he returned home, right?
We have a large print of Rembrandt's beautiful painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son," in our home. I love this painting. My favorite part is that the father is bathed in light—he is the warmth, the love, the life of the event pictured. The emphasis seems to be on welcoming. It's a fairly dark painting, except for the father, who is full of light and love. And his light pours out on the son.
I'd like to see the Church—and especially its leaders—welcome all comers with open arms and words that will warm their faith. Not with constant reminders to repent. I'm sure that many people reading this (especially if any pastors are reading it) will take issue with my words. The Orthodox Church calendar sets the agenda for each Sunday. The priests don't have a choice about what scriptures to read. The choir director can't decide to have us sing something other than the hymns prescribed for the day. The Gospel reading is set. The homily will be preached on that Gospel reading. What else would I expect?
To have a healthy reaction to my experience at church yesterday morning, I need to learn what Brown calls "shame resilience—the ability to practice authenticity when we experience shame, to move through the experience without sacrificing our values, and to come out on the other side of the shame experience with more courage, compassion, and connection than we had going into it. Shame resilience is about moving from shame to empathy-the real antidote to shame."
There's a lot to unpack in that definition, but for my purposes in this post, I'll just say that it was shame that caused me to delete my blog post last night, and resilience that enabled me to repost part of it here this morning. I'll share more about this chapter on shame in a future post, but I'll stop for now and let this much sink in. I'm still processing it myself.
And Church? I'll probably keep showing up. But as we enter Great Lent, I will draw on what I'm learning about shame resilience. I hope it will help me sort out what is and isn't mine to own. I hope it will help me draw closer to God—to the loving Father who runs out to greet me with open arms.
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Susan, I am not often inclined to comment, but your Faith on Friday post resonated with me so strongly that I did write a response. And then I thought about people reading my comment and I cut and pasted it into a FB message. Then I sat there looking at it and thought "who cares what you think, Diana?" So I did not send it.
Let me say that I bonded with you over that post (It didn't matter to me that you might not feel the slightest inclination to bond with me since you wouldn't have known whether I even read the post).
I'm going to be a big girl and send you a few lines in a message.
Thank you–for the FOF post and for today's, too!March 4, 2013
Thanks SOOOO much, Diana. It really helps to hear that my journey sometimes reaches others. (And I appreciate the FB message, too:-) These big girl panties are feeling pretty comfy, aren't they?March 4, 2013
Same here Susan. I've often deleted more than I post, whether on FB or on my blog or as a reply to someone somewhere. Ranting and venting on any issue is healthy for the soul, of course, and some things need to be for only a few eyes. I never want to intentionally hurt anyone. On the other hand, what I've learned over the past few years about sin, repentance and redemption has done wonders for my soul. Shame has been a guiding force in many of my responses to people and circumstances in my past life.No longer so. Shame has taken a long train to Timbuktu. I've not invited the culprit back. What I believe is that we are saved once and for all for all our wrongdoings …. not like a collect $50 when you pass Go or a Free Pass out of jail, but more a self-realization that we are created innately Good. Yes, I do things wrong and I sin. On the other side of that is the acceptance that I've done whatever it is and get on with living and try, with God's help,to not do the thing again, as well as to not dwell in the deed or the shame. That's all between me and God. What I do not accept is the public humiliation (or level of shame) that we are scum. There's a level of humility and self-acceptance in between that I live in quite a lot of the time.March 5, 2013
Encouraging words, Emma. I knew you would understand. Hope your visit to NOLA is refreshing. Let's get together when you get back to Memphis. Thanks for reading and commenting. Lots of hugs to you.March 5, 2013
This is great, Susan. I have felt similar feelings before during some of the more "stinging" homilies. The church should be a place to go home to, not a place to where I fear another guilt trip. I like what you said about the difference between guilt and shame. I do think shame latches on deep in the soul and is hard to let go of once it's there. Kudos to you for your resiliency!March 7, 2013
Don't know if it's "resiliency" or not, Karissa, but I'm trying to "dare greatly" and resist the shame. Thanks so much for reading and commenting.March 7, 2013


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Captain Awesome is awesome.
Ang 3D/2N escapade sa Boracay ay talagang bitin. I was with Brian, Jet and his girlfriend Anna. We stayed at Casa D'Estrella which is a quite nice place and the attendants are really accommodating. It was thanks to Cash Cash Pinoy deal that we got this cheap deal.
We spent our first afternoon walking along the shore. Trying to burn what we ate and our skin as well. That night we tried to look for an appetizing buffet meal. We walked from Station 2 to the farthest end of Station 3 to check all the restaurants. We ended up walking back to Station 2 and we chose the restaurant that served a lot of talaba.
Then we drunk at Guilly's in Station 1. The DJ is ridiculously great. He has played silly OPM songs but I thought it was actually cool because it did not sound off. And then came Captain awesome after we had 3 pitchers of weng weng.
Captain awesome is awesome. He can climb trees, walk on water, fly and jump over big gaps.
The following day, Saturday, we woke up at 11. Worst hang over. I dont know what to eat or drink. Swam for an hour then had an epic phone call. I was also able to try chori-burger. We went to Grotto at Station 1 then had a massage at Haplos. After the massage, all I can say is. "Thus the name indeed is Haplos". We had mozzarella-filled burger for dinner. Then tried to party at Cocomangas but the music wasnt that great so we came back to Guilly's which to our surprise was just across the street.
The following morning, I set my alarm at 6am so I can check the stores for pasalubong but we all woke up at around 8. So we had no time to shop anymore. We had our lunch at Kalibo, in a restaurant across the airport.
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By Lily Kaar
This week's object is a straight razor, also sometimes called a cut-throat razor. I was very excited to find a razor in the collection, as I had never seen one outside of Rube Goldberg drawings before.
This particular razor was made by "Theo A. Koch," a manufacturer out of Chicago in the 1910s. The handle is ivory or bone, held together with two pins, and the blade is a full hollow-ground razor with a square point, which was popular in the United States. Engraved on the tang of the blade is the word "Marcella," likely the manufacturer's name for the particular model of razor. The blade retains a highly polished finish; mirror-finishes were expensive, and often applied only to one side.
While people were shaving with straight-edged blades for centuries, the direct development of the modern straight razor started in the 17th century; the earliest known folding razor was manufactured in Sheffield in 1680. At the time, most razors were wedge ground—the blade had a continuous taper from the dull edge to the cutting edge, which sacrifices flexibility and sharpness in return for strength. By 1740, Sheffield's Benjamin Huntsman was producing folding straight razors of superior quality. The hollow grind—a grind that left the blade concave when viewed from the end and provided a sharper cutting edge—had been introduced to razors, and Huntsman was producing higher-quality crucible steel. The inventor of the crucible steel process, Huntsman actually spent several years exporting his entire output to France, as local cutlers and razor manufacturers refused to use it. It wasn't until the 1770s and later that the steel was incorporated into English manufacturing, due to competition from imported French cutlery.
Overall, the design of straight razors would change very little. The handles, or 'scales', gained a curve in the mid-1800s, which was also when the extended tang of the razor, or 'monkey tail', began to feature more prominently. "Sheffield silver steel," known for its high-gloss finish, began to replace Huntsman-style cast steel in the 1830s. By the latter half of the 19th century, manufacturers had begun to produce a greater variety of razors, varying the blade width, degree of edge grind, and point style. Razors with a square point were generally popular in America, razors with a rounded point were generally popular in Europe, and different manufacturers might create variations on slightly rounded corners in order to provide a non-square point capable of finesse. Throughout the century, manufacturers decorated razors with more embellishment than simple maker's marks, including brand slogans, acid etching, and even gold leaf.
Unfortunately, the introduction of the safety razor in 1880 and its combination with the disposable razor blade by King C. Gillette in 1903 made a sizable dent in the market for straight razors, and by the mid-20th century, straight razors had mostly been obscured by the disposable razor market. Straight razors are still produced today by specialty companies, although it may cost over $100 for razor and strop together. A modern alternative is the "shavette", a straight razor that takes specialty disposable blades and as such does not require skillful honing and stropping to maintain the edge.
Interestingly, there was a boom in interest in straight razors following the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, due to its shaving scene, with modern manufacturers noting anywhere from 50% to 400% sales increases. While I was unable to find if this boom continues today, the trend for nostalgia certainly influences the continued sales of straight razors.
E.B. "James Bond and male grooming: Getting stroppy." Economist.com. The Economist magazine. 08 Nov 2012. Web. 12 Aug 2015.
"Razor : shaving implement." Britannica.com. Encyclopaedia Britannica. N.d. Web. 12 Aug 2015.
"Razor Emporium Presents Razor Archive: Gillette Collector's Reference." Razor Archive. Razor Emporium, LLC. 2009. Web. 12 Aug 2015.
"Straight Razor History." The Invisible Edge. The Invisible Edge Ltd. N.d. Web. 12 Aug 2015.


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D2 Technologies Shows WiMax Mobile Phone Design
Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies, a developer of embedded communications software for the VoIP market, announced Monday that the firm is showing a new reference design for WiMAX mobile phones. The firm said the new design allows manufacturers to quickly develop and deliver WiMAX handsets and other portable devices. D2 Technologies develops embedded software used by manufacturers to more rapidly create their own mobile phones; the new reference design is based on Linux running on a Texas Instruments processor. D2 said it is planning on Google Android and Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile platforms in the future.


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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Turning Grief into Action
One thing I do for the group is keep track of the names for the Southeast Missouri heroin memorial quilt. There are about 950 names on the quilt -- all people who died due to heroin or other opiate/opioids.
For Coffin Hop this year, I wrote Riding the Black Horse, a story about the horrors of heroin...and what it does to a young woman and her family. I hope you'll take the time to read it.
Although it was tragedy that brought me to the group, I am thankful. Hopefully my involvement will help some kids make the decision NOT to take that first step on the pathway to death.
It's Thankful Thursday? What are you thankful for? Join the blog hop.
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PepiSmartDog: excellent post! Thank you for bringing such an important subject to our blog hop. its tragic that your friend lost their life to heroin but very good that you are honouring them by trying to help others not to travel the same path.ReplyDelete
I hope many people read your story - I am going to read it and share it as much as possible.
Thank you for joining our Thankful Thursday Weekly Blog Hop.
Great to have you back on-board,
Hope to see you in the hop next week too. *waves paw* :=o)
Thanks, Pepi! It's great to be back in the blog hop. Hopefully this week too.ReplyDelete
I'm swinging by again...keep joining the blog op and eventually comments will start coming in. Took forever to get comments and I host the blog hop. BOL!!ReplyDelete
So glad you can join us again and I look forward to your posts. (((HUGS))) xoxox


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Missing The Boat-2 of 2: The College Is Killing the Country
editor's note: this is the second of two pieces that deal with the media's misplacement of focus within issues of critical import. The first piece can be found here.
These past few days I've read a number of expected and predictable pieces about the Electoral College. I've also read a number of pieces on the notion of two Americas.
I didn't read anything that made a connection between the College and the rupture.
The Electoral College is what keeps Sarah Palin from coming to NYC for anything but a Saturday Night Live appearance. If New Yorkers and Californians aren't in play for her, and she comes from the relatively isolated and insulated background that she does, it makes it easy for her to see the citizens of these and other deep blue states as two dimensional, unpatriotic Americans.
And if Barack Obama doesn't have reason to go to blood red states because there's nothing to be gained in his election bid, how are the people there supposed to see him as anything but an alien, discomforting being? And how is he going to absorb the feelings and orientations of people with whom he truly doesn't, at present, have much in common with?
I just received an e-mail from the Obama campaign urging me to "Help Barack Win Battleground States". I'm sure I'll be getting something similar from the McCain campaign shortly.
States shouldn't be battlegrounds. That only further polarizes an already divided nation.
The founding fathers created a provision for flexibility in the face of changing circumstances. It's called a constitutional amendment. Most of the calls for abolishing the Electoral College have to do with giving every individual the right to make a difference in the presidential election.
This call is motivated by the desire to begin to close the chasm that's been widening over the last 8 years.
The Electoral College, once a protector of state's rights, now threatens the existence of the nation it helped midwife. It's having the increasingly insidious effect of pitting brother against brother.


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The crew of a containership helped rescue a man from his disabled sailboat off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina more than 60 days after he was reported missing.
At approximately 1:30 p.m., the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth, Virginia received notification from the 1,085-foot German-flagged MV Houston Express that they spotted a man aboard a disabled boat approximately 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and took him aboard.
A helicopter crew launched from Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina at approximately 3:40 p.m to meet the Houston Express. Once on scene they hoisted the man and transported him Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk.
The man, 37-year-old Louis Jordan and the sailing vessel Angel were initially reported missing by his family on January 29, exactly 63 days ago.
In a phone call with the ship's Captain, Frank Jordan, Louis' father, thanked him and the crew for rescuing his son and for "the system we have in place".
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Munich Monday--Garmisch Rodlbahn
My niece spent two weeks with us last month and what a blast we had. Madison is a happy girl, she laughs a lot and she made us laugh! One of the things she wanted to do was hike in Garmisch, so we traveled down to hike through the Partnach Gorge, but the girls spotted the rodelbahn first and there was no way I was getting them to hike after that, so we rode the rodelbahn again and again and again! I think they rode it 4 times.
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Address: Karl-Und Martin-Neuner-Platz 3 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Cost: €2/kinder. €2.50/adults
Hours: 10am-6pm
Tip: You can easily combine a hike through the gorge with the Rodelbahn, the parking lot is the same for both. Walk through the Olympic stadium to find the path up to the gorge. Garmisch makes a fun day trip for families.


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NewsNovember 18, 2012 - Updated on January 20, 2016
Crime reporter shot dead in Tehuacán, as reign of violence and impunity continues
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learned that freelance reporter Adrian Silva Moreno was shot dead while covering an army raid on a warehouse containing stolen fuel on 14 November in Tehuacán, located in the east-central state of Puebla about 110 km southeast of its capital. Advised by soldiers to pull back from the warehouse, Silva had begun driving away when two pickup trucks suddenly appeared and their occupants opened fire on his car, killing him and Misray López González, a former municipal policeman who was accompanying him. Aged 34, Silva worked for the daily newspaper Puntual and the news website [email protected] México. "We urge the authorities to rapidly identify those responsible for Silva's murder, which was apparently linked to his work as a journalist, and to pursue the case with determination until justice is done," Reporters Without Borders said, offering its condolences to his family and friends. "We have repeatedly urged the Mexican government to launch an all-out effort to combat impunity and end the slaughter of media personnel that has gone on for years. Mexico is now the western hemisphere's deadliest country for journalists, with 100 killed or missing in the past decade. Reporters Without Borders added: "Five media workers have already been killed in 2012 and four others have disappeared, the latest being Adela Jazmín Alcaraz López, a TV presenter who has been missing since 26 October. Puntual's editor told Reporters Without Borders that Silva had continued to supply the newspaper with stories about police operations in the region ever since it employed him in 2010 and 2011 to cover local elections. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Puntual journalist who had worked with Silva on crime stories told Reporters Without Borders that his murder may have been ordered. Known for always being the first reporter at the scene, Silva was present during a federal police operation two weeks ago that led to the arrest of a person for the theft of a car from the company Coppel and the discovery of a container with several other stolen cars inside. The same Puntual reporter also said that, on going to the morgue where Silva's body had been taken, he learned that its employees and relatives of Silva had received threats from unidentified persons. On being notified, the police immediately sent 40 officers to protect the morgue. Silva, who also worked for two other dailies, Punto Noticias and El Mundo de Tehuacán, leaves a wife and two children. After his body was handed over to his family on 15 November, it was taken to the town when he came from, Orizaba, in the nearby state of Veracruz.


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The Vegetarian's Foe
At one time or another, whether due to fear and guilt over the state of modern farming (big "Eeeeeyoooo!" factor) or guilt over the state of the modern midriff (big "Whoooooa!" factor), or both, it's likely you're going to consider eschewing delicious meat products and turn to the green section of your local grocer, and I don't mean the Mountain Dew aisle.
Friend, I've been there. I've tried. I told myself that it was better for my health, that I was no longer contributing quite as much to the eventual demise of planet Earth and I was helping nature and mankind by decreasing by one the number of people wasting the planet's resources because we all need one more leg of chicken, one more hunk of pork, or one more juicy, delicious, ever-so-satisfying slice of steak with foie gras and a Cabernet reduction.
But I'm here to tell you friend, that there's one big enemy in the way of your hoped-for success in this area. And now you can wear a T-shirt to remind yourself when you look in the mirror exactly why you're heading out the door to your rendezvous with death…
May 1, 2007
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Too funny. It sums up my problems with going vegetarian exactly. Also, want to let you know I found your blog a few days ago and really enjoy it. the French Laundry review was excellent!
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Harrogate College celebrated the success and achievement of it students at the Further Education Awards ceremony in the newly refurbished facilities at recently.
Following a £6m redevelopment, Harrogate College has impressive industry standard facilities that students have been working in all year, making the perfect venue for an evening of celebration.
Bistro on the Park, Harrogate College's training restaurant, was packed with family, friends, tutors, and of course students, as well as support from special guests including local employers and societies.
Performing Arts students Izzy South, Tiggy Fagan and Courtney Harper performed an outstanding and exciting selection of hits from Grease.
Harrogate College Principal Debra Forsythe-Conroy welcomed students and guests to the award ceremony and presented each nominee with a certificate of achievement, with rounds of applause for each individual.
It was then onto the special awards. Winners in each category were:
Age 16-18: Kai Haynes studying Uniformed Public Services and Leah Carr studying Beauty Therapy
Age 19+: Sophie Atkinson studying Health and Social Care and Helen Clarke studying Bench Joinery
Head of School Awards: Lucy Tyson, studying Business, Marketing and Management and Joshua Clare studying Electrical Installations
Apprentice of the Year: Ashley Richardson, Intermediate Brick Work Apprenticeship
Principal Award: Joe Harris studying Art and Design
Harrogate Fine Art Society Travel Bursary: Lily Fining studying Foundation Diploma Art and Design
Nidd Valley Fine Art Society Award: Hollie Belford studying Foundation Art and Design
Lilly Reid Catering Award: Emily Salt
Francesca Lyn Hairdressing award: Megan Geddes
AoC Enterprise and Innovation Award: Joe O'Sullivan, studying Sport
Employers of the Year award: Harrogate Borough Council and Leeds City Council Construction
"Our annual Further Education awards are an opportunity to showcase the talent we have at Harrogate College and it's lovely to see the transformation in the students as they grow in confidence throughout the year," said Debra.
"Each year, we come together at this wonderful event to celebrate their success and achievements!
"A massive congratulations to all students nominated and a thank you to all staff, family members and students themselves for making the evening so special.


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I really enjoyed the first 4 Rocky movies. Rocky 5 was OK. Rocky Balboa was meh. I have Creed on DVD and have only watched the first half of it. It was kinda boring.
Nothing against Michael B. Jordan, but I don't really like the character he plays.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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Sing it, SISTER: Edna Turnblad (John Travolta, left) and Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) trip the light fantastic in 'Hairspray.'
Big Girl Now
'Hairspray' grows up to be a fast, funny movie
By Richard von Busack
Within its limits—the limits of a showbiz musical—Hairspray is a masterpiece. It is the kind of exuberant, fast and funny musical that has seemed extinct since the 1950s. The color is vibrant, with clouds of aerosol hairspray acting like dry-ice smoke to take the edge off them. The costumes are streamlined and deliciously shiny. Based on John Waters' semiunderground comedy film and the Broadway musical it spawned, Hairspray has the age-old plot of the young girl who longs to be a star. In 1962, the chunky Tracy Turnblad's aims are as small as her frame is big; she (newcomer Nikki Blonsky) and her best pal, Penny (Amanda Bynes), long to be on The Corny Collins Show, the TV dance program. Tracy muscles in on the popularity of the queen of the show, Amber (Brittany Snow), and her evil stage mom, Velma (Michelle Pfeiffer, who delivers a delicious speak-singing Eartha Kitt–style song about her days as "Miss Baltimore Crab").
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What should be agrexeable piffle begins to grow more serious when Tracy uses her popularity to call for the end of racial segregation on the show. "Negro Day" is one day a month, and Tracy claims soulfully, "I wish every day was Negro Day." She meets Seaweed (Elijah Kelly) and his sister, Little Inez (Taylor Parks), whose mother is Motormouth Maybelle, Negro Day's host. And what started as a story of personal ambition turns into a gently satirical look at the Civil Rights movement. The musical celebrates how the 1960s tackled the idea that there was just one way to be beautiful. Director/choreographer Adam Shankman carries out Hairspray in what could be called a neoclassical style. After the fidgety, exhausting camerawork of purported knockouts like Moulin Rouge!, Chicago and Dreamgirls, Shankman does what Stanley Donen would have done: he hangs back, occasionally adjusting the angle with a crane shot, and shows us the dancers and singers we came to see.
It will be easy to critique Hairspray as yet more feel-good nostalgia for the age when there was still some optimism about an end to racism. Hairspray includes a but-seriously-folks number, when Queen Latifah's "I Know Where I've Been" is staged with chorus and a candlelight processional. The number hits you right in the brisket, and yet it's not really a love song in this version that is as devastating Toussaint McCall's "Nothing Takes the Place of You" in the original Hairspray. Today's musicals, even the neoclassical ones, don't have good torch songs, but they do have candlelight-processional ones. The closest thing to a serious love ballad comes with the comic duet between Tracy's parents, a fat-suited John Travolta (as mom Edna) and her dad, the splendid Christopher Walken. As for Travolta, his is a transformation more than a performance. The fat suit is 2007's equivalent to blackface, and he's straitjacketed by the makeup. Still, Hairspray shines up the neglected machinery of the Hollywood musical while remaining plenty underground. The emphasis on social justice is all there, but the lusciously thick layer of eye and ear candy is all that most people will notice. In Blonsky, Hairspray has the advantage of a girl who has something to shake; and once audiences see this kind of fat, they may never go back.
HAIRSPRAY (PG; 107 min.), directed by Adam Shankman, written by Leslie Dixon, John Waters and Mark O'Donnell, photographed by Bojan Bazelli and starring Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta, plays countywide.
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How I won them: By Tweeting like, 350 times! Yes, seriously! Luckily I can multitask (or should I say, multi-Tweet?!) and I did it whilst working over about three hours. And Mr Kandee chose the winner - ME! YAY. They arrived a week later and are utterly fabulous and came with a gorgeous dust bag, a small packet of popping candy and a fab business card holder. YAY.
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- Knicks vs. Pacers: Series Hub
INDIANAPOLIS – A year ago, Lance Stephenson was comic relief and the Indiana Pacers' resident knucklehead. Twelve months later, he is as serious as a flagrant foul and the single biggest reason the Pacers eliminated the New York Knicks in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Last May, Stephenson was the Indiana deep reserve, all raw talent and immaturity, who got caught by the cameras making a choke sign when LeBron James missed free throws in Game 3 of the teams' playoff series. James ignored him, in the moment and when asked about him later. But a couple of his Miami teammates weren't so detached; Juwan Howard got into a verbal confrontation with Stephenson before Game 4 and backup big Dexter Pittman seemed to be on the floor late in Game 5 for the express purpose of flattening him (Pittman winked to the Heat bench after the hit across the young Pacers guard's throat).
Now, it's Stephenson doing the flattening. Not quite all growed up but making a mad dash in that direction, the 6-foot-5 kid from Brooklyn – from the same Lincoln High that produced the likes of Stephon Marbury and Sebastian Telfair – did New York's NBA team wrong. He grabbed the game at both ends – grabbed it by the throat, one might say – and scored nine points in the first quarter to ignite Indiana in a game it couldn't squander, then nine more (in not quite seven minutes) in the fourth when it mattered most.
His 25 were a career playoff high but then, just about everything Stephenson does this postseason is a career high, given how unused he was previously. Twice in the first half, Stephenson snagged rebounds and raced downcourt, going end to end through New York's defense for buckets.
In the fourth, he picked off a pass by Carmelo Anthony and finished with a three-point play that broke a 92-92 tie. Next time down, he drew Tyson Chandler's sixth personal foul and hit two free throws. After an Anthony jumper made it 99-94, Stephenson backed his way first through J.R. Smith, then through Anthony for another layup. It wasn't over, except that it was.
"Unbelievable," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "He's got no playoff experience whatsoever, but he's got some of the best basketball instincts I've ever been around. There's an old phrase – he's a gamer.
"He's not always going to look good. He's not always going to be in the right spots defensively. … But you put him in a situation like this – Game 6, closeout game – the kid's got a lot of guts and great basketball instincts."
Said New York's Iman Shumpert, Anthony's only reliable sidekick (19 points) as their season ended: "You never want anybody else to be more aggressive than you."
Stephenson, obviously, wasn't alone. Heck, he wasn't even alone in talking about the performance – Indiana delivered all five starters to the postgame podium, rare and symbolic in a couple of ways. Few teams thrive with their starting five the way the Pacers do and scrape when the subs take the floor. And few teams (Denver is another) go ensemble to the degree these guys do. In this six-game series, for instance, each of the starters led his club in scoring at least once.
It's never just scoring with these guys. Paul George pestered Anthony all night – not entirely successfully, given the Knicks scorer's 39 points and 15-for-29 shooting – but George got 23 back at the other end and did it all with only three fouls. Roy Hibbert scored 21 mostly finesse points but went grimier with 12 rebounds and five blocks, meeting Anthony at the rim on a dramatic turnaround late that could have put the Knicks up four.
Forward David West had a seemingly ordinary night yet found George and Stephenson with slick interior passes on smart cuts for layups, each exploiting a Smith snooze. Then there was George Hill, the point guard who came back in 48 hours from a concussion diagnosis. Hill aced the NBA's protocol tests to get cleared to start, shot cockeyed for much of the night, but logged 42 minutes and was 7-for-7 from the line, including four to ice it late.
And still, Stephenson was the first among equals in this one. The Knicks played hard, particularly in the third quarter when Shumpert nailed three 3-pointers in a streak of four that erased a 12-point Pacers lead. No one can quibble with Anthony's drive or concentration to get his team and the series back to Madison Square Garden for one more shot.
But while the Knicks played with elimination hanging over their heads, Stephenson played with humiliation gnawing at him from his Game 5 outing (1-for-7, four points and a low impact game on the court New York kids dream about). Stephenson couldn't even muster a nightmare afterward. "I couldn't sleep," he said. "I couldn't wait for this game."
Vogel, the coaches and his teammates tried to snap him out of it in real time Thursday, then talked with him some more Friday and Saturday. By tipoff, he was in control, yet unleashed.
"That sort of came out of nowhere," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
Said West: "All year, when he plays well, we win. We understand he's one of our main cogs in terms of improvement this team has made. When he's aggressive as he was in the beginning of the game – most nights he's bigger than the other '2' guards, physically stronger, especially this series – and he took advantage from start to finish."
For two years, the Pacers worked with Stephenson and trusted in Larry Bird, the former Pacers exec who drafted him at No. 40 in 2010 and had his back as an occasionally troubled but supremely gifted player. In 2012-13 Stephenson's emergence as the starting shooting guard eased Indiana's loss of veteran forward Danny Granger (knee surgery) essentially for the season and fueled George's Most Improved Player season at small forward.
Now he and the Pacers are bound for a best-of-seven rematch with Miami. If he keeps his cool, and the defending champions aren't fully prepared for his transformation from the punk they smacked and laughed at last year, just who knocks down whom might be very much in play.


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Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence
- Robert C. Feenstra
CiteWeb id: 20150000052
CiteWeb score: 2268
Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of knowledge in the field and prepares students to undertake their own research. In Advanced International Trade, Robert Feenstra integrates the most current theoretical approaches with empirical evidence, and these materials are supplemented in each chapter by theoretical and empirical exercises. Feenstra explores a wealth of material, such as the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, extensions to many goods and factors, and the role of tariffs, quotas, and other trade policies. He examines imperfect competition, offshoring, political economy, multinationals, endogenous growth, the gravity equation, and the organization of the firm in international trade. Feenstra also includes a new chapter on monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms, with many applications of that model. In addition to known results, the book looks at some particularly important unpublished results by various authors. Two appendices draw on index numbers and discrete choice models to describe methods applicable to research problems in international trade.
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For AngularJS applications that use the standard ngRoute facility for navigation between multiple pages, a common issue is that while the ng-view directive allows the main body of the page to vary between routes, the surrounding template is frustratingly static. Even something as simple as updating the main page title is not supported natively.
Many applications have worked around this by having the controller manipulate state -- either setting window.title directly, or writing data into $rootScope -- but that can often lead to presentational concerns bleeding into the controller.
This article explores some techniques for allowing the view's template to interact with the site's chrome, and thus allowing these concerns to be solved in a more appropriate layer.
Route-specific Title
When navigating between views in an AngularJS application, it's desirable for the HTML <title> element to be updated so that a user with multiple tabs open can quickly understand the context of each of them, or so that a browser bookmark will recieve a sensible name.
A trivial way to accomplish this is to simply update the title in the route's controller:
function controller($scope, $window) { $window.title = 'An Awesome Page'; // ...other controller logic }
However, the precise formatting of the title, much as with other aspects of how the content is presented to the user, is rightfully the concern of the template layer rather than the controller layer.
What if we could express the title as part of the view's template?
<view-title>An Awesome Page</view-title>
An Awesome Page

 ...and other template stuff...

AngularJS directives allow us to support additional elements in templates, but this one is unusual in that it ought to have no affect on the rendering of the body of the document. Instead, we simply want to make the contents of the view element available for use in the page title.
This unusual behavior can be achieved simply by removing the element from the DOM during linking. The directive remains active in spite of its element being detached, and any interpolations within it will work as expected since watchers are attached to scopes rather than to DOM elements:
module.directive( 'viewTitle', function ($rootScope) { return { restrict: 'E', link: function (scope, iElement, iAttrs) { // Remove the element from the main DOM tree so that // it won't be rendered. iElement.remove(); // Watch the contents of the element and reflect them // into the 'viewTitle' variable on the root scope. scope.$watch( function () { return iElement.text(); }, function (newTitle) { $rootScope.viewTitle = newTitle; } ) // Remove the view-specific title when the view scope // is unloaded. scope.$on( '$destroy', function () { delete $rootScope.viewTitle; } ); } } } );
Here we just reflect the text content of the view-title element into the viewTitle variable, so that we can use it within the title element in the application's main template:
  <title ng-bind="viewTitle ? viewTitle + ' - Awesome App' : 'Awesome App'"> Awesome App </title>   ... etc, etc ...
Watching the element's text content is a tricky way to automatically benefit from Angular's existing interpolation of the body, but performance-concious applications will probably want to avoid traversing DOM in a watcher by manually interpolating the text in the element at compile time.
Don't Repeat Yourself
Since the "view title" is often present inside some visible element on the page, we can avoid repetition by extending the directive to also support use as an attribute on an existing element. This is a simple matter of adding A to the restrict key in the directive definition, and then only conditionally removing the affected element:
var tagName = iElement[0].tagName.toLowerCase(); if (tagName === 'view-title' || tagName === 'viewtitle') { // We're being used directly as an element, so hide the element. iElement.remove(); }
The view title can then be "borrowed" from another element in the view template:

An Awesome Page

 ...and other template stuff...

Since the view-title directive is originally encountered by angular inside the ng-view directive, references to variables remain relative to the view scope even though the title is presented outside of it.
This technique, along with a related technique for adding metadata elements to the document's head, is implemented in my AngularJS library angularjs-viewhead, which includes a working example.
Enthusiasts for the alternative ui-router implementation of routing often criticize the limitations of the stock ngRoute, but with some creative use of directives and scope one can achieve some more advanced capabilities without switching away wholesale from Angular's standard routing.
The fact that directives "own" an HTML element but are managed within the scope tree allows for such elements to be moved arbitrarily around the document or removed from the document altogether while still retaining their connection to their original declaration context. This creates some powerful possibilities and I'm excited to see what other techniques can come from this capability.
All code snippets within this article are released into the public domain in the hope that they will be useful, but it is presented only as prototype code and has no warranty of any kind.


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Implementing infection control practices in a workplace can break the chain of infection and minimise illness in the office, creating a better working environment.
Over time, globally, there has been an increase in awareness of natural disasters and the importance of being prepared in times of crisis. History has shown us that Pandemics come in waves as we have seen with Pandemics of the 20th Century however no-one can predict when the next Pandemic may occur. Australia has not yet experienced an Influenza Pandemic at such high levels.
Businesses have a duty of care to their employees to provide a safe and healthy work environment. Have you thought about what your organisation would do in the case of accelerated illness in the workplace?
St John is now educating businesses about preventative measures that can be used to manage business continuity, by reducing workplace infection.


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Carbohydrates and fat are your body's primary sources of fuel for long-distance running. The amount of each nutrient you use depends on duration and exercise intensity. As long as your body has a steady supply of oxygen and carbohydrates, fat will be used as the preferred fuel source to keep you running.
Aerobic Respiration: The Fat Burner
Your body doesn't automatically break down large amounts of fat immediately when you start your 30-minute run. It uses different amounts of carbohydrates and fats during different times in your run, which is similar to how your car changes gears as it accelerates or decelerates. Although your body uses fat as the main fuel source during a 30-minute run, it needs energy immediately to power your muscles and nervous system during the first couple of minutes of the run. Therefore, carbohydrates in the form of glucose are used as the main fuel source. As you continue to run, your body gradually increases the amount of fat used. According to ExRx.net, it can take between 20 to 30 minutes of continuous aerobics for an average person to use 50 percent of his energy expenditure from fat and 50 percent from carbohydrates. People who are more conditioned usually take less to time to achieve this state of energy use.
Percentage Used
The amount of fat used during a 30-minute run can vary, depending on your heart rate, running method and fitness status. During low-intensity exercise for 30 minutes, such as walking or jogging at 20 to 25 percent of your maximum heart rate, a majority of your energy comes from fats, usually about 60 percent. As exercise intensity increases, your body relies more on carbohydrates for energy, which can get as high as 60 percent at 50 percent or more of your maximum heart rate.
Lactate Threshold
When glucose is converted to pyruvate during fat metabolism, it enters your cells' mitochondria -- the energy generators of your body -- to initiate the breakdown of fats. However, when running intensity increases, your body relies more on carbohydrate metabolism to produce more energy. Instead of converting to pyruvate, glucose converts to lactate. When the rate of lactate accumulation in your muscles exceeds the rate of lactate removal, you have reached the lactate threshold. Once this point is reached, your muscles reduce their contraction rate and fatigue settles in, forcing you to slow down or stop to catch your breath. If you're not conditioned in running, your body is more likely to use more carbohydrates than fat for energy. However, a study performed at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, showed that untrained subjects can improve their fat metabolism significantly by about 60 percent after six weeks of high-intensity interval training three days a week.
Exercise Afterburn
Your body continues to burn fat after exercise, not just during the 30-minute run. After a bout of exercise, your body enters a condition called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption -- or EPOC -- in which energy from fats and carbohydrates is used to heal damaged tissues and restore your body to its pre-exercise state. This can last between 15 minutes to 48 hours, according to exercise physiologist Len Kravitz. In a study performed at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, researchers measured the number of calories burned after 10 male cyclists completed 45 minutes of high-intensity cycling. The subjects sustained a high metabolic rate for 14 hours after the exercise session was completed. This concept can be applied to all exercises, including running.
- ExRx.net: Substrate Utilization
- Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism: High-Intensity Aerobic Interval Training Increases Fat and Carbohydrate Metabolic Capacities in Human Skeletal Muscle
- Montana State University: When Is Each Fuel Used During Exercise?
- University of New Mexico: Lactate Theshold Training
- University of New Mexico: Exercise After-Burn: Research Update
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise: A 45-Minute Vigorous Exercise Bout Increases Metabolic Rate for 14 Hours


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The kalmstrom.com team has a new Member, and I am happy to introduce you to Vijayant Rimza, our new junior developer. After taking his Master of Computer Application exam Vijayant started as trainee with us, and what we saw made us believe that he will eventually be as good as his older brother, our Lead Developer Jayant. Vijayant already has the ambition and the dedication, and he is very intent on improving his skills. Therefore he continues to study in his free time, both English and programming. We give him a warm welcome to the team.
Right now Vijayant is working with the implementation of the new design for HelpDesk OSP, the application for publishing to a SharePoint site via Outlook. His work at kalmstrom.com will be very varied, so it will give him excellent experience and a good opportunity to grow.
Vijayant has a gift that we were not aware of until I asked about his interests for this blog ‒ he paints and does pencil drawings, and very good also! Above you see him looking at one of his comic figures. This means that we suddenly have two artists in the company, even if only graphic designer Jitendra Joshi makes his living from the talent. I wonder how this will affect kalmstrom.com in the future? We surely have a very interesting time ahead of us!


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This text was also published in German in ZEIT ONLINE on December 23 as part of the op-ed column "Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen".
Germany's widespread social inequality is real – but politicians are still in denial.
"The people may get most facts wrong, but their feelings are mostly correct," wrote Kurt Tucholsky, with a dash of irony, on the political manipulation of Germany's citizens. Though the quote is from 1931, it still holds true today. Significant portions of Germany's population are feeling … [continue reading]Read more


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If for any reason Algebrator doesn't do what we say, we insist on giving you a full and prompt refund within 60 days of purchase! The guarantee extends to download version of the software as well.
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That's not just the title of an Oscar-nominated song Michel Legrand wrote in 1982, it's a question he has been asking all of his life.
Born in loneliness, raised in strife, the 77-year-old musician survived a painful childhood to write some of the most hauntingly lovely melodies of our time.
Torontonians will have an opportunity to hear many of them up close and personal on Nov. 13 and 14, when Legrand will make a rare appearance at the Winter Garden Theatre, along with dynamic Quebec vocalist Mario Pelchat.
Legrand has won three Oscars and been nominated on 10 other occasions for songs like "The Windmills of Your Mind," "The Summer Knows" and "I Will Wait for You." He has worked with everyone from Jacques Brel to Barbra Streisand and Nadia Boulanger to Miles Davis, but his sound has always remained uniquely his.
And what is it? The fading shadows of a Saturday afternoon in November? Someone waving goodbye from a distant train? The fleeting scent of perfume reminding you of a love lost many years ago?
"We carry so many things inside us," he says from a Montreal hotel room. "So many tragic scenes, so many brief moments of happiness. We never know which ones will last."
But for Legrand, it's easy to tell that the images that endure are the hurtful ones from his youth.
He was born in a Parisian suburb in 1932. His father, Raymond, a popular musician, walked out on the family when Michel was 3, leaving him with his mother and his older sister, Christiane.
"I hated the world of adults, which was, `Sit down, go to bed, we have no time for you.' And I hated the world of children, which was so cruel, always finding where you were weakest and striking there."
He was miserable until, one day, he noticed an old piano in the corner. "It was one of the few things my father forgot to take when he left. I sat down and put my two hands on the piano and began playing, trying to recreate a song I had heard on the radio.
"It became my only friend, my only love and, very quickly, my mother realized it was all I could do with my life."
Legrand began taking lessons at the age of 4 but, for the next five years, life was difficult as he struggled with his peers. His voice rises as he recalls that time. "The world of little boys is always cruel. It is to fight. It's always about, `I am stronger than you.' I detested my life."
The minimum age for admittance to the Paris Conservatoire was 13 but, in Legrand's case, they made an exception, letting him enter at 9.
"My life started then," he says, sighing with relief at the memory. "The only thing was music. Not who was weaker or stronger. Just music. It was happiness."
His guiding light was Nadia Boulanger, the legendary teacher whose pupils form an extraordinary list, including Philip Glass, Ned Rorem and Aaron Copland.
"She did not just teach me about music, but about philosophy, about life, and how all three should be connected together."
Legrand won numerous awards at the Conservatoire for his classical studies but his heart was already turning towards another master: jazz.
"It entered my life very early and I loved its rhythm," he says, "but during the years of the German occupation, American jazz was forbidden, so it really only came alive after the war.
"I remember that I went to hear Dizzy Gillespie in 1947. He gave two concerts in a row in Paris. I attended both and felt I had discovered another world, another planet."
A hit 1954 Legrand album called I Love Paris brought him to America and he finally began recording with the greats of the jazz world.
"I was recording with Miles, Coltrane, all the giants there in New York. I was lucky. But after a year or two, I was sick and tired of just doing arrangements and orchestrations, and I came home to France to compose."
His American jazz credentials made him attractive to the New Wave filmmakers in his native land and he wound up scoring seven films for Jean-Luc Godard, whom Legrand recalls as "marvellous! I would give him 10 themes to choose from, he'd say he loved them all, then play 16 bars from one theme a dozen times and somehow it would all be fantastic."
But his real breakthrough was with director Jacques Demy, who asked him to compose the score for a quirky romantic film called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in which every single line of dialogue would be sung.
"Everybody was so miserably against it," Legrand remembers. "No one wanted to release it but Jacques and I believed in it."
So did the moviegoers of the world when it was released in 1964. Its major love theme, fitted with English lyrics to become "I Will Wait For You," was Legrand's first giant success and made him a hot ticket in Hollywood.
But his next few projects failed and it was only when director Norman Jewison, working with Legrand on The Thomas Crown Affair, introduced him to the lyric-writing team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman that things really clicked.
For that film, they came up with "The Windmills of Your Mind" and, in the 42 years since, they've written dozens of hits together.
"(In) 99 per cent of the cases," Legrand says, "the music comes first and it always is inspired by what I have seen in the movie."
But, sometimes, the inspiration goes even deeper. When Legrand and the Bergmans worked with Barbra Streisand on Yentl, both the composer and the star brought their past lives to the table.
Streisand's father died when she was an infant; Legrand's father abandoned him. Working together on the song that would become "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" stirred profound emotions in both of them.
"We carry our memories inside us for so many years," he says, "and then, one day, perhaps, we let them go forever in a song."
Legrand has no idea if a tune of his will become a worldwide hit or a quickly forgotten failure, and he thinks that's as it should be.
"I never ask a melody to go into the world and be embraced by it. If it fits the story that inspired it, that's all I ask it to do."
Michel Legrand and Mario Pelchat will perform at The Winter Garden, 189 Yonge St., on Nov. 13 and 14. For tickets go to www.ticketmaster.ca


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More than seven years of experience includes software development and architecture, system debugging and leading teams to successfully deliver high-quality software on time working in WW multicultural environments. He is a customer-oriented, self-driven professional, adjusting quickly in dynamic environments and always ready for new assignments. As a team leader, his strengths are team establishment, execution and motivation, ensuring timely deliveries with the right quality and bringing new members up to speed quickly and efficiently.


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Sabrina Carpenter
by Amy Marie Slocum
Within five minutes of talking with the singer/songwriter and Girl Meets World actress, the cat is completely out of the bag: Sabrina Carpenter is that weird homeschooled girl and she doesn't hide it. I mean this in the most complimentary way. Not only was this old soul not born yesterday, but she is the sharpest tool in the shed. The top brass. She is playing with a full deck of cards and she holds her royal flush close.
We sit outside on a comfy patio below lanky palm trees which twinkle like fierce jazz hands in the mid-afternoon breeze. Not far from us is the 17-year-old's label, Hollywood Records, which released her second album – EVOLution – handily premiering at #28 on the Billboard 200.
It's Wednesday, a school day. Today's lesson? The matters of the heart. Specifically their physiology and how they break. We hit the ground running. Our interview casually turns into an intimate two-person book club and we dive for a classic: Plato's Symposium. I begin to tell her about the plot of the text and each man's understanding of love. Together, we dismiss Pausanias' pedophilia and arrive upon a mutual agreement that Aristophanes' tumbling theory is fantastic. Possibly because we're both three-hanky saps and fangirl together over a good romantic myth.
These heart-in-mouth sentiments are present in her song "On Purpose" off EVOLution, the video for which features home-video-style footage of Carpenter mugging hilariously for the camera (and an unseen camera operator) all over London. "You're scared, I'm nervous/ But I guess that we did it on purpose," Carpenter sings over exuberant pop-house beats.
When I ask her to deliver her own encomium to the Symposium, she says, "Jesus, how am I supposed to top Aristophanes?! That is pure poetry." I tell her there is no wrong answer, that philosophers and poets have been wrestling the idea since time immemorial. She pauses and ponders, "I like the idea that love governs all, like Eryximachus said, but I would add that true love is comfort with someone as well as comfort in silence."
She continues, "feeling comfortable with someone is a big thing. You can feel excited, you can feel embarrassed, even giddy, but feeling comfortable with someone else is extremely difficult," she says. "Right now, I feel most comfortable with myself." You can see it. For our interview, she is wearing velvet sweat pants, furry slippers, and a baggy Beyoncé Lemonade t-shirt – there is no façade. "I guess I haven't gotten to the point where I feel that way with someone else. Besides family – but that's a very different type of love."
After getting down to the brass tacks of love, I can finally ask her if she's ever had her heart broken. Before meeting Carpenter, I expected her to dispense a saga about a failed Mickey Mouse Club fling, but she is much more sagacious.
"Well, let's think about this," she laughs and I know she is about to make a monkey out of the question, "I'm 17, so I wouldn't say that I've experienced it to the point to be satisfied in calling it heartbreak."
Continuing our book club of classic and over-analyzed texts, I bring up Romeo and Juliet. "I think there is something so beautifully heartbreaking about what Romeo and Juliet share at such a young age," she says. "I wish I could have had that type of love. It would have made me a more interesting person. But I think we live in a different, less hopelessly romantic time."
There are, however, other ways for hearts to be broken besides ewwy-gooey-gushy-mushy love. Like Gil Pender in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), Sabrina yearns for the honeyed nectar of glamour that drips from the Jazz Age of the 1920s. The timeless language in The Great Gatsby broke her heart when she first read it in her self-paced homeschool curriculum. More recently, her heart's been broken by Lana Del Rey's song "Young and Beautiful," from the film adaptation of Gatsby. On her Instagram, she shares photos of her beloved journal renovated with the words of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Cummings. "Write hard and clear about what hurts." Hemingway urges. Sabrina Carpenter, for one, is listening.
Written by Miles Griffis
Photographer: Zackery Michael
Stylist: Mui-Hai Chu
Hair: Jamal Hammadi for Art Department
Makeup: Allan Avendaño for Starworks Group
Styling Assistant: Britton Litow
Location: Good Times at Davey Wayne's


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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Idaho is the state that gets the most sleep
I saw a May 3rd article in the Idaho Statesman titled Idaho is the best-rested state in the nation according to sleep survey which said that:
"In Idaho, if you snooze, you win. The state was ranked number one in the nation for best-rested, according to a recent survey by Sleep Number.
Idaho residents sleep about 7.12 hours a night, and though that's lower than the recommended 8, it still comes out far ahead of the nation's average of 6.7 hours a night, according to the survey.
Idaho was just above New Hampshire and Vermont for best sleep. Neighboring states Oregon and Montana also made it into the top-five for super-snoozers. The state with the least sleep was Georgia where residents only got 6.09 hours of sleep a night, according to the survey."
The May 1st Business Wire press release about that survey is here. Inflatable mattress maker Sleep Number did some extremely clever marketing by doing both a national survey of about a thousand people and a set of of surveys of about a hundred people in each state (and the District of Columbia). Their press kit included a Infographic and Fact Sheet Gallery covering every state, so it was very easy for newspapers and radio stations to find relevant numbers and mention the Sleep Number name. Except for a hyphen between best and rested, the title of the Idaho Statesman article is identical to that for the Infographic on Idaho.
How do the states compare? The bar chart shown above lists the 25 states (and D.C.) with the most sleep. (Click on it to see a larger, clearer version). Idaho was first with 7.12, Vermont 2nd with 7.06, Montana 3rd with 6.95, Oregon 4th with 6.94, and Kansas 5th with 6.9. Another chart, shown below lists the other 25 states with the least sleep.
But, we weren't really the best rested state. The survey also listed the average number of hours for restful sleep. The bar chart shown above lists the 25 states (and D.C.) with the most hours of restful sleep. Delaware was first with 6.47 hours, followed by Utah with 6.45 and Idaho with 6.36. Then came Texas with 6.33 and New Mexico with 6.16. Another chart, shown below lists the other 25 states with the least hours of restful sleep.
Each infographic for a state opens with a statement that:
"Americans average 6.7 hours of sleep a night, much lower than the recommended eight."
But, the current recommendation from the National Sleep Foundation actually is a range from seven to nine hours, and that 6.7 hours is just 0.3 hours (a mere 18 minutes) lower than recommended. The National Sleep Foundation has also done a series of annual Sleep in America surveys. Page 18 of their 2015 one about Sleep and Pain said of adult Americans:
"They reported sleeping 6.9 hours on work days and 7.6 hours on free days resulting in an average of 7.1 hours across the week."
Also, page 7 of their 2005 survey on Adult Sleep Habits and Styles reported similar averages of 6.8 hours per night on weekdays, 7.4 hours on weekends, and 6.9 hours overall.
I looked elsewhere and found a May 11th post by Jeff Davidson on his Interruption Management blog which mistakenly claimed that in 2012 Travelodge had done a study about different professions. But, his web address for it contains a 2007 date, which is confirmed by the original May 1, 2007 press release from the UK. Curiously Jeff's June 7, 2007 post on another blog got the date right.
The image was adapted from a painting by John Everett Millais at Wikimedia Commons.
Posted by Richard I. Garber at 5:53 AM
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New Ohio Plan Aims to Retest Teachers in Failing Schools
Ohio is pioneering a plan to force teachers in the bottom of 10% of schools, as ranked by the Performance Index (a measure of student test performance), to retake licensing exams if their subject is included in a list of 'core subjects'
The unusual measure is a result of a provision in Ohio's budget law. Governor John Kasich defends the plan despite pressure from teaching unions.
Re-testing teachers, Gov. John Kasich has said, will hold them more accountable and give districts and charter schools the ability to move ineffective teachers out.
"Struggling schools need to be sure teachers are competent and fully capable of teaching their assigned curriculum,"
Unions believe the measure is a waste of time as new teachers already take licensing tests before starting work in Ohio.
It's like telling a longtime college student to retake the ACT or SAT, said Michele Prater, spokeswoman for the Ohio Education Association.
There are also significant financial concerns, as it is currently unclear whether Ohio will pay for the tests of make districts fund them from existing funds. With an estimated cost of $2.1m a year to test about 6,000 teachers and a cost of around $120 per day per teacher to provide substitute teachers in the affected schools, this is a plan that unions also consider to be a waste of money.
The Governor rejects these concerns:
"Limiting this provision to poor-performing schools will minimize costs and avoid unnecessary burdens on quality schools," Kasich said.
There are also concerns that this measure is unhelpful in that it will end up specifically targeting the poorest schools and further exacerbating the budgetary pressures these schools are under. Although the final ranking list will not be available until September the preliminary rankings show that virtually all the schools on Ohio's lowest 10% list are located in poor neighborhoods. The current iteration of the plan broadly targets all core-subject teachers at a 'failing' school for mandatory re-testing and there are concerns that this will discourage better teachers from staying at these schools or applying to them in the first place
"How is that going to make any (teacher) want to go to those schools?" asked Julie Sellers, president of the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers. "We have good teachers in those schools now. They're all going to want to transfer out. That will destabilize their staff."
03 12, 2012 Julia Lawrence