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High Vibrational Everything - The Philosophy of NYSM
In regards to people, there are some people who are vibrating on a higher frequency than others. Maybe you've felt this but haven't been able to really put it into words. You hang out with someone and you feel strange or down after you leave them. Some people who aren't making the effort to connect to their higher vibration can energetically bring us down.
In regards to food, some food contains a higher vibration or more "life force" than other foods. Take kale for example. Kale is fresh out of the earth, it is a leafy green and it grows up and out, which gives us the same energetic feeling when we consume it. We feel lighter when we eat kale as opposed to a snickers bar. A snickers bar has taken natural ingredients like chocolate, dairy, nuts etc and processed them so much that there is very little to no energy left in that food. In fact, nutritionally it's hardly a food at all. In the long run, after we eat snickers we feel sluggish and tired, we are brought down by the lack of energy in a processed candy bar.
When we are aligned with our higher vibration we are living our truth and we are able to see and think more clearly. We have more positive and powerful thoughts going through our heads and we can attract positive things to ourselves. When we are on that higher level, we have more energy, we feel inspired, we are happier.
Think about a downward spiral of energy. You hang out with someone who makes you feel bad about yourself, you go to the store and get a snickers bar, you feel crabby and pick a fight with a loved one, you start to spiral downward. But think about the opposite. When you treat your body with love and respect and feed it really high quality foods and you exercise your body and meditate to strengthen your mind, good things start to happen. This can be the case all the time. We just have to make the choice. It's up to us whether to spiral upward or downward. It seems like people have an obsession with control, with controlling their lives to look a certain way on the outside. But really, the only thing that we are in control of is our thoughts. We get to choose what we think about each and every moment, each and every day. When our inner world is peaceful, so is our outer world. It's really that simple. I like to keep a list of the things that bring me down and next to it make a list of the things that make me feel good. I try to do MORE of the things that make me feel good more often and LESS of the things that make me feel bad. We can catch ourselves before we start to spiral downward, we can literally stop in the moment and change our direction. When we are in tune with this idea of increasing our vibration and staying true to ourselves there is no other outcome than happiness and success. If we were all doing this, we would change the world. Outer peace starts with inner peace. If we stay responsible for raising our own vibration we will raise the vibration of the planet and heal ourselves and the planet. There is no other way.
What does this have to do with Not Your Sugar Mamas? The intention behind starting NYSM is all of this. The idea is to put a really high quality chocolate bar on the shelves infused with good vibes. We believe that the energy from the food infused with good vibes will actually transfer into the person eating it, and help, even if in a really small way, to raise the vibration of that person. Chocolate, particularly raw chocolate, is an incredibly high vibrational food with more antioxidants than any other. It also contains the bliss chemical that we release naturally in our brains, so we feel happy when we eat it. So when we say we are "spreading the love one kickass chocolate bar at a time," we are not kidding. We believe that by putting these high quality, superfoods into your body we are helping to shift the vibration. When we eat foods with more life force, we feel better. Food affects everything, even our thoughts. By eating better, we will become happier, healthier and more successful people capable of anything we put our minds to. We have unlimited potential as human beings. The only thing that sets us apart from the most successful people is the way we think. If you think you can, you can and if you think you can't, you can't. So try raising your vibration and why not start with some chocolate from NYSM?


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Been a while. This is just a short informal entry, anyway, getting back into the swing of things.
Went to a talk yesterday at my new haunt in the Toronto indie/art gaming scene: Electric Perfume. (Yes, the proprietress Daniele Hopkins is a friend of mine that I've promoted in this space before…but nobody's getting paid for this.) I'd been there on Saturday for the annual general meeting of the Hand-Eye Society . That got slightly dry, but I got the reminder for last night's boss event, so it was worth it.
What was it about? Well, it was Kyle Duffield (Hopkin's longtime artistic partner and EP Technical Director) and Ryerson's Walter Lai talking about video game bosses: what they're for, what characterizes them, the role of the boss within the game experience, how they reinforce a game's aesthetic, how they're often used to break the fourth wall, that kind of thing.
They pulled out loads of examples of bosses for this, everyone from Psycho Mantis to a few Colossii to good ol' Bowser. Duffield and Lai included a few that I'd never heard of, like the first "boss" character: the Gold Dragon from an ancient 80's Dungeons and Dragons game, or this big ol' UFO from an old Galaga-alike that looked like an early Atari version of the Tron fight against the MCP.
Weirdest part? Most of the fights were demonstrated using YouTube clips. It was effective, but maybe a bit too effective. For a lot of them, I found myself thinking "just let it play!" when they were skipping forward and back in the clip. It reminded me how invested we become in these conflicts. Players often tune out the regular mooks, but boss fights? Fully in the moment, especially if it's a good one.
I did provide a bit of a contribution myself. They'd asked about favorite boss fights. My answer? The Lich King. Definitely The Lich King. Blizzard has always been good at building shockingly elaborate bosses in their games, and the entire endgame of World of Warcraft basically serves as elaborate lobby for their baroque boss fights. But thanks to the combination of a near-decade of character history and Blizzard spending the entire game building him up as an omnipotent force, it was a big deal to finally take him on in a fight that was both mechanically complex and thematically appropriate. Even broke the fourth wall a bit with the resurrection gimmick.
(Plus, like all raids, it was massively co-op. Co-op makes any boss fight infinitely better. I think that's a law or something.)
Sadly couldn't stick around for their followup event where you recorded "boss taunts" for Hopkins and Duffields' own "Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol"—an honest-to-goodness real-world security laser-dodging game—but I was glad to come out.

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But instead of leaving them to collect dust inside family albums or have them lost in the digital limbo of computer files, she decided to turn them into fun pieces of art.
"I just wanted a fun way of showing baby pictures, something different and unique," Amber told BabyCenter. It had to be something simple and quick, but also that captured all the dreams she had for her baby boy.
Baby Ethan is only 2 months old, but thanks to his mom's whimsy imagination, he's already out there fighting crime, riding a bike, planting a farm and traveling to space. Talk about a busy baby!


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How to Read Proverbs
by Longman, Tremper, III•
IVP Academic 2002
In How to Read Proverbs Tremper Longman provides a welcome guide to reading and studying, as well as understanding and savoring the Proverbs for all their wisdom. While many proverbs speak to us directly, we can gain much greater insight by studying the book of Proverbs as a whole, understanding its relationship to ancient non-Israelite wisdom, and listening to its conversation with the other great voices of wisdom in Scripture—Job and Ecclesiastes.
In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you're looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.
Save more when you purchase this book as part of the IVP Old Testament Studies Collection.
Key Features
- Provides a welcome guide to reading and studying Proverbs
- Looks at how Christians can understand the Proverbs for all their wisdom
- Helps readers gain a greater insight by studying the book of Proverbs as a whole
- Why Read Proverbs?
- Walking on the Path of Life
- Woman Wisdom or Folly—Which Will It Be?
- What Exactly Is a Proverb—and How Does It Work?
- Are Proverbs Always True?
- Did Solomon Know Amenemope and Ahiqar? Biblical Proverbs and International Wisdom
- Proverbs in Conversation with Job and Ecclesiastes
- Proverbial Wisdom in Action: Joseph and Daniel
- Where Is God in Proverbs? Christ, the Treasure of God's Wisdom
- How to Study Themes in Proverbs: Money Matters
- On Loving the Right Woman
- Wise Words, Foolish Words
Product Details
- Title: How to Read Proverbs
- Author: Tremper Longman
- Series: How to Read
- Publisher: IVP
- Publication Date: 2002
- Pages: 174
- Christian Group: Evangelicals
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Proverbs
About Tremper Longman III
Tremper Longman III is an Old Testament scholar and the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to joining Westmont in 1998, Longman taught for 18 years at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He received his MDiv from Westminster and a PhD from Yale University. In addition, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular translations of the Bible, including The Message, the New Century Version, and the Holman Standard Bible.


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"CU50•The People" Jao Tsung-I (English subtitle)
25 Sep, 2015
Prof. the Honourable Jao Tsung-I, GBM, Wei Lun Honorary Professor of Fine Arts at CUHK is a world-renowned sinologist. To record his life story and achievements, and appreciate his great perseverance on the pursuit of knowledge, a video of Prof. Jao was made as one of the "CU50 • The People" video series.
Please click here to view Chinese subtitle.


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Welcome to my journal, and thanks for coming. This journal is now friends-only. I no longer post here much anymore, even though I have a perm account; I mostly use my journal for surfing ONTD and other communities. The content I used to post varied between my personal life (school, work, friends, more school), memes, music, civil rights issues, and intense geekery. Amazingly enough, this journal is now 10 years old. Thanks to all my old friends who still have this thing added. I love you guys.
27-year-old gal from southern Ohio, USA. neurodiverse secular humanist Jewish lesbian feminist. likes music (listening and performing), stories (reading/watching and writing), art (enjoying and creating). sleeps a lot, gets distracted, is perhaps judgmental. sort of lewd. cusses a lot. secretly very paranoid. loves making people laugh.
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This must be a new post, huh? I haven't seen this one yet! :P
This must be a new post, huh? I haven't seen this one yet! :P
It's sort of new XD; I made it a sticky so you wouldn't have seen it on your f-list. Maybe I should link it in a regular entry so more people will know about it in case they want to browse the links.
If you're into Jump series, there is some REALLY good fanart there, you should definitely check it out :)
If you're into Jump series, there is some REALLY good fanart there, you should definitely check it out :)
I should friend you tbqh
I would be happy to have you bb! And I would definitely friend you back :)
=D! Excellent. What could go wrong when we have Amuro love in common?!
add me back bb, this is xretrophysical ~
Your faves are <3
Sorry I didn't notice this earlier. :) Consider yourself added.


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Honduras: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Posted by U.S.Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Continued Political Unrest in Honduras, 10th Update, Thursday, July 9, 2009
To: All American Citizens
From: American Citizens Services Unit, Consular Section
Due to the current unstable political and security situation, the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa recommends American citizens defer all non-essential travel to Honduras until further notice.
The Embassy advises American citizens residing in and visiting Honduras to restrict travel to within city limits. The government of Honduras has imposed a curfew effective until further notice from 2300 (11:00 p.m.) to 0400 (4:00 a.m.). The Embassy strongly recommends American citizens abide by this curfew.
The Embassy has advised its staff to restrict travel to within city limits. Demonstrations both against and in favor of the new regime are expected to continue in the coming days throughout the country, including in Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, El Progreso and Roatan. Demonstrations to date have been generally non-violent and there have been few reports of injuries.
Post added to CNN.com, on Thursday, July, 2009
Mediator: No quick resolution in Honduran crisis talks
Story Highlights
- NEW: Talks "frank," but no sign of quick resolution, Costa Rican president says
- Interim President Roberto Micheletti announces plans to leave negotiations
- Costa Rica's president meets separately with Micheletti, Jose Manuel Zelaya
- Zelaya deposed on June 28; Micheletti says ouster was constitutional
Posted by Worldfocus.org, Peter Eisner, Thursday, July 9, 2009
Impoverished Hondurans caught up in battle of political wills
As ideologues from inside and outside Honduras weigh in on the fate of the country's ousted leader, Worldfocus contributing blogger Peter Eisner hopes that one group — the millions of desperately poor people in Honduras — will somehow benefit in the end.


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Firstly, much thanks to Ashiel for coming up with the alternate rules for Gunslinger, and for firearms. My DM is starting a new Pathfinder game tomorrow and I decided to roll a gunslinger, but he wasn't happy with the official rules so looked around and found the HoA rules, which he thinks look far more reasonable. I'm a bit confused by something in the rulesheet (v 1.2.6), though: in the table listing the various firearms, along with their costs, damages, crits, etc, it states that the critical for all firearms is x2. But I noticed that on the next page, under proficiency, it states the following:
"However, for anyone without the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Firearms) feat, firearms only threaten a critical on a roll of 20 and only have a x2 multiplier; regardless of the type of firearm being wielded."
So now I'm wondering if that implies that gunslingers, as well as characters with the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Firearms) feat, should get a higher crit multiplier when using the various firearms?


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Former Manchester United star David Beckham believes Sir Alex Ferguson's side are favourites to win the Premier League this season.
Beckham, speaking in Jakarta ahead of LA Galaxy's Asian tour, also played down Manchester City's hopes of winning the title, despite being five points clear of United.
City's unbeaten start to the season included a 6-1 demolition of Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.
Nevertheless, Beckham believes that United's experience during the title run-in would count in their favour.
"I don't think Manchester City have a chance," said Beckham.
"This season they have got a good team and have some good players, but Manchester United have more experience and know how to win a championship."
Beckham, fresh from winning the MLS Cup with LA Galaxy, said he had "a big decision to make" over his future. The 36-year-old's current contract expires at the end of December and he has been heavily linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain in the new year.
Galaxy will play an Indonesian Select XI in Jakarta on Wednesday, followed by a clash with the Philippines national team in Manila on 3 Dec., before they play Australian side Melbourne Victory three days later.


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Friday, December 16, 2016
The South Montgomery County Fire Department family is growing.
Today is an exciting day for our 9 newest firefighters. These men were all presented their badge and took their oath of office as a Firefighter for South Montgomery County. They will begin their rotations on shifts starting tomorrow at 06:00 as the District places Engine 11-6 in service to assist in providing emergency response to the growing east side of our District. This is the first addition of resources... in 4 years.
These men first started their application process over two months ago and competed against more than 50 applicants to successfully earn a position with our Department. They have spent the last two weeks learning the basics of our department. We wish them all the very best as they begin their career in the Fire Service.
Carlos Salazar C-1
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Austin Young C-4
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For Tax Year 2007, there were about 23.1 million individual income tax returns that reported nonfarm sole proprietorship activity, a 4.7-percent increase since Tax Year 2006. Reported profits for these sole proprietorships were $280.6 billion in 2007, representing a decrease of 1.8 percent (in constant dollars) since 2006. Profits also decreased 0.4 percent (in constant dollars) between Tax Years 2005 and 2006. This was the first time that profits (in constant dollars) have decreased for 2 consecutive years since before 1988.Interested readers may also find the article on S Corps (2006 data) interesting as well.
Professional, scientific, and technical services had the largest profits of any sector in 2007, at $71.6 billion, representing 25.5 percent of total sole proprietorship profits. The largest sole proprietorship industrial sector, based on business receipts, was construction, which accounted for 17.4 percent of receipts and reported a 2.4-percent decrease in 2007. Finance and insurance showed the largest percentage increase in both receipts and deductions, reporting a 14.1-percent increase in receipts and a 17.3-percent increase in deductions. Real estate and rental and leasing, which reported the largest decline in profits in 2006, at 18.5 percent, reported a 17.7-percent decline in profits in 2007.
Friday, August 28, 2009
A Look at the Self-Employed
Unchain the Office Computers!
Computers, like airplanes, can be dangerous things—they can breed viruses and other malware, they can consume enormous resources meant for other tasks, and they're portals to great expanses of procrastination. So why not lock down workplace computers?
Here's why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
[...] Indeed, there's no empirical evidence that unfettered access to the Internet turns people into slackers at work. The research shows just the opposite. Brent Corker, a professor of marketing at the University of Melbourne, recently tested how two sets of workers—one group that was blocked from using the Web and another that had free access—perform various tasks. Corker found that those who could use the Web were 9 percent more productive than those who couldn't. Why? Because we aren't robots; people with Web access took short breaks to look online while doing their work, and the distractions kept them sharper than the folks who had no choice but to keep on task.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Social Entrepreneurship: Water Edition
From social networking to social giving. When we caught up with Michael Birch last year, he and his wife had just made a handsome little profit selling their social networking site Bebo to AOL for $850 million. In the interview, Birch told us that he was looking to dedicate more time to social entrepreneurship. Turns out over the last six months, Birch and two others have been building CharityWater.org, the website for the popular non-profit charity:water, TechCrunch reports. Since its launch yesterday, the site has raised more than $7,000.Incidentally, I really liked this short update from Steve Case: So cool to be walking through "Water" exhibit at Field Museum and see @PlayPumps featured! http://bit.ly/2aUo9 http://playpumps.org
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Social Entrepreneurs in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
After disasters, how do social entrepreneurs and nonprofit groups affect rebuilding efforts?
That's the question the Mercatus Center at George Mason University asked four years ago, when we began a five-year project to learn from the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
In four years, we have interviewed over 450 people from Louisiana and Mississippi about the rebuilding process, learning what works in the nonprofit, commercial, and public sectors.
We are pleased to present Caring Communities: The Role of Nonprofits in Rebuilding the Gulf Coast which brings together scholarly analyses of work on the ground, journalists' overviews of trends in the nonprofit world, and inspiring accounts from people rebuilding their communities. Because this year's issue is available exclusively online, you can listen to these entrepreneurs tell their story in their own words through video interviews.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Some Links
- BusinessWeek's Small Business Blog offers up a slideshow of 20 entrepreneurship writers you should follow on twitter.
- The TaxProfBlog on donating and deducting gift cards to charity
- James Hamilton has a fascinating new paper looking at the Taylor Rule. In his blog post about the paper he finishes by looking at Fed policy before and after 2000 (Econbrowser):
We document two important changes in the perceived policy rule over time. After 2000, the market believed that the Fed would eventually have a stronger response to inflation than it had prior to 2000, but also that the Fed would take longer to implement those changes, responding to news more sluggishly than it had before 2000.
We study the consequences of these changes using a simple new-Keynesian model. We find that the first change (a stronger long-run response to inflation) would be something that would have made output less variable, whereas the second change (a smaller immediate response) would have made output more variable. According to these simulations, increased Fed inertia undid some of the benefits it could have otherwise obtained with its anti-inflation policies.
Our conclusion is that the measured pace at which Greenspan increased interest rates over 2004-2005 may have been counterproductive, and that economic performance might have been improved if the Fed instead had raised interest rates more quickly to the higher warranted levels.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Empowering Women
In general, aid appears to work best when it is focused on health, education and microfinance (although microfinance has been somewhat less successful in Africa than in Asia). And in each case, crucially, aid has often been most effective when aimed at women and girls; when policy wonks do the math, they often find that these investments have a net economic return. Only a small proportion of aid specifically targets women or girls, but increasingly donors are recognizing that that is where they often get the most bang for the buck.The authors are promoting their new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, due out September 8th. It includes generous coverage of Bill Drayton and Ashoka, and of the importance of microfinance. It should instantly become a must read.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
What to do About Systemically Important Institutions
Apparently someone at the Cleveland Fed's been reading Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin. For more see the site the Cleveland Fed has set up to document its ideas on this matter. Via the Browser.
Social Entrepreneurship Class
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Standardization of English in European Higher Education
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential explanations for the strong increase in its international orientation. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education transformed gradually to the American standard. Decreased communication costs are likely causes for this trend. This transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and French to English. Smaller language areas made this transformation earlier while there are also clear timing differences between research fields. Sciences and medicine tend to switch to English first, followed by economics and social sciences, while for law and arts only the first signs of such a transformation are currently observed. This suggests that returns to scale and the transferability of research results are important influences in the decision to adopt the international standard.It's gated, but here's a working paper version. It is part of a forthcoming book, American Universities in a Global Market. Chapter drafts are currently freely available, so be sure to check it out if you don't normally have access to NBER papers.
Call for Papers
You can find the CFP here, and more about GEM data through the consortium website. I assume that if you are working in this area you already know that the consortium does not like to make the latest data available online, but it's available elsewhere.
Monday, August 17, 2009
50 Most Important Economic Ideas
Perhaps he is missing something about economic sociology, or economic imperialism if you prefer? By this I mean the Becker, Murphy, Freakonomics style work that applies economic principles to every other social science, starting with Becker's work on marriage. Economic sociology is broader than that of course, but perhaps that would be one place to start.
What about science, technology and information economics? How well are those covered by his list? Thoughts?
All told though, he's done a great job. It's a great study guide for anyone looking for the major ideas of the discipline.
Forum on Biofuels and Green Energy
From 2008 to 2018, biofuel revenue is predicted to leap from $34.8 billion to $105.4 billion annually. Major market players have begun to invest significant capital in the sector. Exxon, for example, is investing $600 million in Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics, a company focused on developing biofuel from algae. Additionally, Boeing successfully tested several bio-jet-fuel blends in late 2008 and early 2009.If you don't happen to be in Santa Monica there will be a webcast and the event will be online afterwards, in case you miss it.
This Forum brings together a panel of biofuel experts to talk about the growth of this sector and its potential for creating a greener economy. They will discuss current energy trends, scientific advances, environmental impacts, regulatory constraints and the challenges and opportunities for investors and businesses.
Bubble in Microfinance?
Ex post, many people blame the Fed for not popping the housing bubble. Should the Reserve Bank of India raise interest rates to protect the poor from incoming funding or should they focus more directly on controlling inflation and worrying about the broader state of the economy? To the degree that this extends beyond India's borders, should we look for some global coordination to try to smooth out lending? Who would be the global organization best suited for the purpose? Should we beware of money flowing into microfinance that is not from private philanthropists and the government (i.e. stable donations)? Private equity has been known to move quickly from one lucrative deal to another, in some cases creating currency crises and the like. I have many more questions but no good answers. Thoughts, or additional questions?
Today in India, some poor neighborhoods are being "carpet-bombed" with loans, says Rajalaxmi Kamath, a researcher at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore who studies the issue. In India, microloans outstanding grew 72% in the year ended March 31, 2008, totaling $1.24 billion, according to Sa-Dhan, an industry association in New Delhi.
"We fear a bubble," says Jacques Grivel of the Luxembourg-based Finethic, a $100 million investment fund that focuses on Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia, though it has no exposure to India. "Too much money is chasing too few good candidates."
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Social Entrepreneurship Blogs
Alternative Governance Structures
- Paul Romer's Ted talk on Charter Cities is now online.
- Alex Tabarrok suggests Romer's idea is very similar to Patri Friedman's idea of seasteading.
- Robin Hanson writes about Futarchy for the BBC. Here is an earlier version of his ideas.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Sam Savage's Short History of the World
- Humans learn to read and write and can transmit information between generations.
- Humans invent machines and we get the industrial revolution. Primacy of math and physics. This is followed by the rise of engineering. Finally we get the field of industrial design, which gives everything handles and switches to make them operational (like your light switch).
- Machines learn to read and write during WWII. The birth of computer science and the start of the informational revolution. Unlike physics, which ultimately we grasp with our hands, information is understood through our mind. The equivalent of the industrial engineer is the informational designer.
To get a sense of what an informational designer does, I'd recomend this set of slides from Zach Gemignani of Juice Analytics. I don't think it's a stretch to say that effective use of data through analytics is the key driving force in Google's success.
Echo Chambers
In short, Greenberg identifies several mechanisms that can impair the ability of the scientific process to reach an accurate result. "Citation Bias" is the preferential citation of supporting evidence (whatever supporting is in your case) and the discounting or ignoring of critical evidence. This is particularly the case with critical primary (i.e. using data) research. "Citation Diversion" is the citing of papers that say something relevant to your claim, but which do not say precisely what you imply or state they say. Note that this is not lying about what the citation supports but more akin to stretching it through interpretation. "Invention" relates to the use of citations to introduce new material. Often this is an over-statement of what is contained in the cited article. So, for example, the article says, "We hypothesize that x is related to y" while the citation of that article reads, "So and so demonstrated that x is related to y". The newer, and much stronger, claim has essentially been invented. Finally, "amplification" emerges when articles that lack primary data (e.g. review articles) are cited as authoritative sources for demonstrating that some particular thing is true. In that these articles are effectively just recycling and collating earlier work, they provide a sort of echo chamber that lends additional legitimacy to a claim without lending it additional substantive support.I found the whole discussion interesting, but Ryan's our resident expert on science and citations, so I'll turn to him for the last word.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
It's Getting Better All the Time
Kenny is working on a book on development, tentatively titled, The Success of Development: Innovation, Ideas and the Global Standard of Living. You can read a synopsis at his blog and find a link to a full draft of the manuscript. He initially planned to leave the book up through early August - it's still up now, but may not be for much longer.
Via @auerswald, @bill_easterly, and @FP_Magazine.
Small Business Employment
One plausible explanation for the consistently higher shares of self-employment and small-business employment in the rest of the world's rich economies is that all have some form of universal access to health care. The high cost to self-employed workers and small businesses of the private, employer-based health-care system in place in the United States may act as a significant deterrent tosmall start-up companies, an experience not shared by entrepreneurs in countries with universal access to health care.Via Paul Krugman, who adds a couple of quick points. Jeff Cornwall weighs in with two posts [1, 2]. Cornwall offers some pretty good advice for would-be entrepreneurs:
First, when I advise entrepreneurs I tell them that they need to build a business that takes care of their needs. This includes income needs, wealth needs and lifestyle needs. Income needs includes the cost of your total lifestyle. If your business model is unable to give you adequate income to cover your expenses -- including healthcare -- then the model is not right for you to pursue. And for goodness sake make sure you can cover these expenses until your business is profitable through other income and personal savings.Finally, on the question of health care and job lock, see this good post by Tim Kane. Kauffman/Rand have done some interesting research into this area, and there are a few good academic papers, but I read the findings as mostly mixed. It's probably worth a seperate post so I'll write that up.


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Less than 2 weeks left to see "Splice: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine". The exhibit runs until December 1, 2012. Selections from BMC's historical art collection are featured at both exhibition sites: Blackwood Gallery at UTM: http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/Blackwood_exhibitionSplice.html, and University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC) at St. George: http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/current-exhibitions/275-splice-at-the-intersection-of-art-and-medicine At the same time, UTAC's […]
Class of 2012 Convocation
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France to 'make an effort' to lift anti-Russian sanctions if Russians give up champagne & cognac
In January French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said the country would make every effort to promote the lifting of anti-Moscow sanctions. But the announcement raised serious doubts among experts.
"It's still unclear what the words 'make efforts' stand for. They might be successful and might fail. But it was clear that France is eager to ban Russian producers using the names 'champagne', 'cognac' and 'calvados'," the Vice-president of Russia's non-commercial association of business Natlia Zolotyh told Gaztea.ru.
"I don't know how Paris can affect the lifting of sanctions. I think they just decided to seize the moment," said Igor Bukharov, the president of federation of restaurant-keepers and hoteliers. He added that the disputed terms do not misinform Russian consumers, as they do not associate the beverage with any geographical area.
The Russian federal service for intellectual property Rospatent plans to thoroughly analyze the alcohol market and possible introduce a ban. "After the in-depth study we'll be able to say whether the Russian alcohol market is ready to give up using the generic terms for product description," said the watchdog's deputy director Lubov Kiry. The possible effect on the economy hasn't been estimated yet.
According to the current agreement between Moscow and Paris, champagne, cognac and calvados exported from Russia are labeled as 'sparkling wine', 'brandy' and 'fortified cider'. Producers are using original generic terms in Cyrillic only for the home market; however France is demanding a ban on that as well.


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Today's debut of the T-Mobile G1 is the first public appearance of an almost fully-baked consumer "Googlephone" – a phone based on Google's Android operating system.
There's just one problem: There is no Googlephone*. And that's something Google must fix, and fast, if it wants its mobile operating system to succeed.
Granted, Google's Android operating system has a lot going for it. It's supported by a developer-friendly company, it's Java-based and it's open-source.
However, it's going to need a lot more than that if it's going to succeed as a smartphone platform. And by "succeed," I mean "beat the iPhone."
The iPhone has seen tremendous success in the market thanks to Apple's fanatic dedication to good user experience, its willingness (and ability) to strong-arm its carrier partners, and Apple's easy-to-use App Store, which gives developers instant access to millions of iPhone and iPod Touch users worldwide. Some developers have already used the platform to make serious money, to the tune of $250,000 in just a couple of months.
But Apple keeps tight reins on its developers. It has a slow and seemingly arbitrary process for vetting App Store software, it shackles developers with a restrictive NDA, and it charges $99 just to get access to the developer's kit.
It's a sure bet that many developers, given the opportunity, would flock to a less restrictive environment. And with dozens of carriers and many handset manufacturers building Android-based phones, it looks like there might be a large market of Android phone users to sell to.
There's just one problem: The carriers. A big part of the iPhone's success is due to Apple's clout, which enabled it, in effect, to tell AT&T to sit down and shut up about this or that feature requirement. Once other carriers saw the iPhone's success in the United States, they wanted in on that action, so Apple was able to dictate terms globally, just as it had a year before in the U.S.
That's a striking difference from the way carriers and phone manufacturers usually relate to each other. Carriers typically retain fanatic control over every aspect of the customer, from the menus on the phone to the applications that customers are permitted to download. Carrier feature requirements dictate the laundry-list of useless gewgaws that most phones sport. (Does anyone ever actually use the "calendar" app on a Nokia or Motorola phone?) And it's that dysfunctional relationship that means most phones are so horrible to use: They're doomed from the start by companies that care more about their own requirements than those of their customers.
That's why I predict that Android will soon have as many different flavors as there are carriers. Some carriers will customize it so that their phones can't install any applications other than the ones they authorize. Some will modify the operating system to work with one of their custom services or another. Some will no doubt cripple it, removing features that they consider threatening to their own businesses (like the ability to run VoIP apps).
And that's their right. Because Android uses the Apache license, anyone is free to take it and customize it to their heart's content, even if such customizations are appalling to the open source community.
(There's also no requirement that customizations be themselves open-sourced for the benefit of the whole Android community.)
In short order, "Android" will become meaningless to consumers, and most carriers won't even advertise the fact that their phones use the operating system. Instead, they'll advertise their phones' features, as they always have, and emphasize the benefits of those features to the users.
When that happens, Google might be happy to see that it's successfully kicked off a new operating system that will stimulate more mobile web use, ultimately driving some more people to Google.com. But it will have ceded the handset war to Apple, whose more unified, easy-to-understand and consumer-friendly handset will triumph as a brand name and as a platform.
Mark my words: Apple has been so successful in defining the smartphone market that you'll soon hear people referring to non-Apple smartphones as "iphones," the same way people call tissues Kleenex, photocopies Xeroxes and bandages Band-aids. (Or the way they call web searching "googling," come to think of it.) That leverage will enable Apple to corner other markets, from mobile music to mobile navigation – and even, if they want to, mobile search.
There's just one way Google can forestall this eventuality and triumph in the handset market. The company needs to set up an aggressive "Googlephone" partners program.
It should designate a few core applications that all Googlephones must have, including Gmail, Google Calendar and other Google apps, such as Google Maps. It should specify minimum requirements for processor capabilities, memory and wireless data access. Perhaps GPS and Wi-Fi support should be required, as well as a minimum 2 megapixel cameraphone (the better to interface with Picasa).
Then Google needs to set up a carrier/handset certification program to guarantee that phones in this program meet the requirements it specifies. Those that qualify gain the right to be called
"Googlephones," regardless of which carrier or handset manufacturer they come from. Qualifying phones may sport a Googlephone logo on the phone and in advertisements about it.
The result: Googlephones will become a trusted, branded subset of the Android phone marketplace. No matter what other features a phone may or may not have, consumers who buy a Googlephone from any manufacturer will know that they have guaranteed access to their mail, calendar, contacts and Google Maps. And that guarantee – which is based on the capabilities and benefits that consumers actually care about – will help drive the growth of the mobile Google market.
It will also help extend the dominance of Google's applications, by ensuring them a reliable and well-defined niche in the mobile universe.
If Google doesn't do that, Android will quickly disappear into the morass of poorly-branded smartphone operating systems that consumers don't give a damn about, alongside Symbian, Windows Mobile and the Palm OS. And Google will have lost the mobile game.
Read more about the Googlephone:
- Android: No VOIP For You (And Other Oddities With the New Google Phone)
- Android Today, Total Upheaval in Cell Phones Tomorrow
- Analysts: T-Mobile's G1 Android Phone Lacks Sizzle
- Annoying: Google Android-Powered G1 Leaves Out Standard Headphone Jack
- Photo Gallery: G1 Android Phone Up Close and Personal
- Google Dream Phone Makes Its Debut
* It's true: There is no Googlephone. The official Google Mobile blog says only that the T-Mobile G1 comes 'with Google' (their quotes). And when Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the Android project last year he said only that it is "more ambitious than any single 'Google Phone.'"
Photo showing the iPhone (left) and T-Mobile G1: Jonathan Snyder / Wired.com
Gadget Lab 2.0: Dylan Tweney's Twitter feed and Delicious bookmarks; Gadget Lab on Twitter and Facebook.


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At 7,073 yards, this par 72 offers players some of the most dramatic golf scenery in the Southeast, with nine holes coming into play along the shores of Lake Oconee. Great Waters begins with a parkland style front nine, through rolling hills and thick forests, with water in play on six holes. The back nine is a completely different experience, as the final eight holes are on Lake Oconee, including the par-3 14th, one of the most photographed holes in the Southeast. Click here for more details
The Great Waters clubhouse complements the stunning Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course at Great Waters with a gracious design and relaxing atmosphere. Here, you will find a golf shop, restaurant, adult pool, and a children's wading pool. The Great Waters swimming complex features a 60-foot lap pool, a children's wading pool, Jacuzzi-type spa, and a terrace where visitors can relax and enjoy dramatic views of the Great Waters course and Lake Oconee. There's a playground for entertaining little ones, and the community has a series of walking trails for exploring nature as well. At Great Waters you'll find the perfect setting for special events, such as the annual July 4th fireworks display, a perennial favorite for residents of Reynolds Plantation. Click here for more details on community.
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I knew the story of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's long before I saw the movie. As an avid baseball fan (Yankee fan since age 5, without apology), I followed the story of how informatics were used to bring a lowly $39M team to the brink of making the World Series, putting together the ultimate fantasy statistically successful baseball team. The methodology is now the business model of all of baseball. As I sat and watched the movie, I couldn't help but wonder why the same methodology couldn't be used to improve health care with mHealth technologies.
Informatics is defined in the Webster dictionary as "the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge treated both as a pure and an applied science." Informatics has certainly been used in medicine. The LACE index was developed in Canada to predict death and readmission rates after discharge from the hospital (Published in the Canadian Medical Assn Journal, 2010. However, yet another study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (2011,Volume 26, Number 7, 771-6), neither providers nor a published algorithm were able to accurately predict which patients were at highest risk of readmission. This type of informatics is known as Predictive informatics (PI), the combination of predictive modeling and informatics which is applied to healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences and business industries. Good evidence that PI works is found in hospitals which utilize the Web-based eDischarge™ software-as-a-service (SaaS). The readmission rate fell for the second straight year to 14%, significantly below the national average of 20% for hospitals of comparable size, according to the Curaspan Health Group. (http://connect.curaspan.com/content/curaspan-hospital-customers-cut-readmission-rate-below-national-average-and-saved-almost-260
The utilization of PI in the treatment or clinical pathways that would be part of an mHealth platform could significantly impact healthcare, by incorporating informatics as well as best practice guidelines. PI itself can determine which mHealth tools or platforms would be best for a specific patient at the time of diagnosis, discharge from the hospital, or post-procedure. The patient's cell phone or other device can be programmed automatically, activating one or multiple apps or meddis see http://davidleescher.com/2011/09/26/why-mhealth-apps-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-called-apps/ . The possibilities are endless. PI concerning behavioral patterns can be used to prevent or reverse obesity, smoking, non-adherence with medications or follow-up care, and more. This is not to say that computers will rule the world. But we don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to gathering or utilizing data. The use of PI has been utilized in the business sector for years and is the backbone of companies like FedEx, Google, and Amazon. There is more data out there than we will even know what to do with (a subject for another blog), and we need to harness it to digestible, beneficial forms. PI is certainly one of them.
Billy Beane was ridiculed. His ideas changed baseball. Mobile health is not toys or gadgets. It is serious technology that is easily usable. But to get to that point, we must step out of the box that providers are given in medical school. It no longer holds. There are over 2500 practice guidelines. Do we expect docs to know all of them? Do we expect them to know all of them in their respective specialties (cardiology has already almost too many to count)? No. So let's make medicine and mHealth a bit like the 2002 Oakland Athletics, built on predictive informatics.


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Las Vegas, NV. - The "Luck of the Draw" match is in the history books, and Winter is the new WILD World Champion! According to the rules, both WILD Warriors made their entrances, then watched as WILD Owner Travis Leland randomly drew a match type out of a hat.
The capacity crowd at Freak Show Wrestling laughed as the paper read "Dance Contest." Although Winter seemed upset by this, Tab Jackson was enthusiastic about it.
Tab began to dance first, even grabbing the FSW referee to join her. After a moment, Winter decided she had seen enough and clobbered Tab, then demanded that Leland pull a new match stipulation. Leland refused. "It's the luck of the draw! I can't!"
"Your Beautiful Nightmare" looked at Leland, gesturing, and he seemed to go into an almost trance-like state. He walked forward and handed her the hat. She pulled a new match out herself and was much more pleased with the result.
"No Holds Barred," she proclaimed to the audience, who cheered enthusiastically.
What followed was a match that was as hilarious as it was athletic. It was a see-saw battle, with Tab taking punishment outside the ring, then turning the tables and humiliating Winter by tricking her into dancing and, at one point, even riding her like a horse!
Just when it appeared that Tab had the upper hand in the match, a mysterious figure in a metallic red mask and black cape came through the curtain and distracted Tab long enough for Winter to recover and nail Tab in the head with the championship belt, recently vacated by "The Bloodthirsty Vixen" Amanda.
As Winter held her new title aloft in victory, Tab lay almost motionless on the mat.
Luck appeared to turn in Winter's favor last night. Will she be as lucky on Sunday at "Hardcore Justice" as she wrestles Mickie James for the TNA/Impact Wrestling Knockouts Championship?


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The Root's partner Slate.com has pulled together a photo gallery of images of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). The SNCC was central to the civil rights movement here in the United States. It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker and held at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., in April 1960.
Leaders who ushered SNCC through various philosophical changes — like John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Ivanhoe Dixon, Willie Ricks, Cordell Reagon, James Forman, Charles Cobb and Marion Barry — appear in the photos. SNCC members can be seen participating in various acts of resistance. There is even a photo of Frank Smith, Robert Pariss Moses and Willie Peacock the day before their Greenwood, Miss., SNCC office was firebombed in March 1963. Take a walk down memory lane with an organization that played an integral role in the fight for freedom in the United States.
Check out the photo gallery at Slate.com.
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- Cornstarch helps Apoxie Sculpt from sticking to you work surface.
- It works better than water for smoothing your Apoxie Sculpt, too.
- When looking for Cold Porcelain recipes, always use ones with some type of oil to prevent your work from cracking.
- Cold porcelain shrinks quite a bit. So sculpt your pieces at least 20 % larger than you want the finished piece.
- Soak your dishes imediately after making this stuff. It's really hard to remove once it's dried.
- Magic markers work great for adding color to small amounts of cold pocelain. But don't use your best markers. I ruined a couple. I used gouache to color a lot of it.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Cold Porcelain and a New Feltie
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- Fiver said... [Reply]
OMG Robin, you are seriously the best sculptor with needle felting that I've ever seen!!! That is the cutest, sweetest little burro!!!!! I just love her!!!! Best of luck with the auction.
- April 11, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- Gail Burton said... [Reply]
Oh Robyn, she is sooo sweet and so perfect! I can hardly wait to see what you come up with next, lol!
Gail x
- April 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- Meri Wiley said... [Reply]
Wow, Robin that is one of the most incredible sculpts I've seen in a long time. Maybe if I sell enough at my show this coming Saturday I can purchase one of your pieces.....oh how happy I would be! Awesome job!
- April 12, 2010 at 5:33 AM
- Heather said... [Reply]
You're stuff is just so darn cute!
Ok... so... cold porcelain... how sturdy is it? Do you think it would work ok for larger sculpts, or is it better for small delicate things? How hard is it to work with?
- April 12, 2010 at 5:50 AM
- Ascension said... [Reply]
Que preciosidad!!!!!
besitos ascension
- April 12, 2010 at 6:12 AM
- Robin Andreae said... [Reply]
Thanks everyone for the compliments :-)!
Heather, it's really easy to use. It thins down greatly. I would put it on par with polymer clay as for strength. However, it is water soluble. I've seen dolls made from this. But It takes a while to dry for thicker pieces.
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This one is adorable.
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It all began with a man called George, who opened his first shop way back in 1967, and we've learnt a hell of a lot since then! He wasn't happy frying any old fish, right from the beginning only the highest quality fish he could get his hands on would do. It's safe to say that we're still as obsessed with what we serve today as we were back then!
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Other than decorating Christmas trees and the lovely food, the only thing missing would be the presents under the tree! At YourStudio, we are always after innovative designs, and here we present to you a few wrapping papers that we found.
The Hamburger wrapping paper by GiftCouture – a graphic design project in New York by Sarah Fay and Justin Colt – consists of 5 elements – the bun, hamburger, cheese, lettuce and tomato, in high-quality photographic printouts to construct the 'hamburger' present. The aim of the project is to create unusual wrapping papers that fit together in specific themes and sets. Now we wonder what theme they would go for next...
A more convenient option for busy people – Wordless – a universal wrapping paper designed by Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti. Simply wrap up the gift and circle the occasion it is for out of a choice of 20 in the word search puzzle. Saves you the trouble to buy different wrapping papers for each occasion, wrap your presents in a clean and simple way as well as conveying your message.
Similar to the Hamburger wrap, this Fruit Wrap, produced by Swedish design agency Happy F&B, includes banana, orange and watermelon wrapping paper. Happy F&B also published a set of stickers along with the wrapping paper that allows the user to build houses and even a whole town with the presents!
The wrapping paper that incorporated the use of QR codes – QRistmas – has been designed by UK-based studio, the chase. When the QR codes are scanned, gift ideas are suggested – seeing as there is always someone on the list that we just can't think of anything to buy for them. Recipients can also scan the QR codes to take part in a twitter QRistmas quiz that might win them one of the gifts featured on the wrapping paper; other than that, the codes have been created in coloured versions to produce a visual seasonal poster.
Japanese artist/illustrator 'BAKU' Maeda, recently began an art project, Ribbonesia, with a more three-dimensional approach – using colourful ribbons and other fabrics to create expressions of a wide variety of animals. Perfect addition to a simply wrapped but important present for this Christmas!
Now go on, wrap your presents and enjoy a lovely Christmas with your friends and family!


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A Simple Green Hour: Choosing Puddles Over Playgrounds
When we first moved here a year and a half ago, Cragbaby and I were excited to discover that there were 3 different parks within just a few miles of our house – the perfect distance for sandwiching a toddler green hour in between a grown-up workout. Olde Providence Park is a family favorite, and it's been the scene of numerous green hours, two of which are documented here and here. Over the summer the playground was torn down, and was just recently replaced with all sorts of colorful apparatus to climb on, jump from, and scramble under. Last Wednesday…Read the rest of this entry →


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Environmentally Friendly Wastewater Treatment
Algae needs nitrogen and phosphorus to grow. Today we have a problem with releasing too much phosphorus and nitrogen causing eutrophication and dead zones in seas. All because too much algae are allowed to grow that cannot be handled by the natural ecosystem. This results in a lot of dead algae biomass that absorb large amount of oxygen when decayed, depriving sea living animals of the oxygen they need to live.
We want to use the algal efficiency in absorbing nitrogen and phosphorus to our advantage by creating controlled algal blooms with valuable algae before uncontrolled algal blooms is created in nature.
In this way our algae cultivation systems can be used for environmentally friendly wastewater treatment. Algae-based wastewater treatment needs less energy and chemical input during operation compared to conventional wastewater treatment solutions, which makes the system cheaper to operate. During the wastewater treatment process carbon dioxide is absorbed. The algae naturally work as a carbon sink. A valuable algae biomass that can be used in different sustainable industrial applications is also produced.


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Not long ago, we were chatting it up with a couple of students who had expressed interest in being youth pastors. Our conversation ran through various aspects of youth work when it hit us: youth ministry is a calling of extremes. If you're new to the gig, you might not feel it just yet – but ask anyone who has been doing it for a while and they'll tell you it is true.
Extreme schedule
In youth ministry there is no such thing as a typical week. Quite often every day is completely different from the last. This summer alone I (Kurt) ran from event to mission trip to vacation to camp to … I don't even remember what came next because the schedule was so extreme. It was even busier for Josh…in addition to all the youth ministry stuff, he had to schedule time play video games, watch Star Wars and snack on pretzels.
Extreme emotion
Youth ministry lives on both ends of the emotional continuum. I've (Josh) been sitting with students laughing my head off about something one minute, and get a phone call about one of my students being in a terrible car accident the next. Youth workers are there when things are extremely good and when things are extremely bad.
Extreme salary
Youth ministry pays extreme. Extremely little.
Extremely critical age
Youth ministry is focused on what may be the most critical age group in our churches – when students are figuring themselves and their faith out and parents are at the most challenging point in relating to them. We ask these students to give over total control of their life to Jesus . We invite students to be baptized, to demonstrate their faith to their friends, family and the world at the time when peer-pressure and image are the most crucial in their life. That's some extreme stuff!
Extreme expectations
There's a lot of pressure on youth workers – from senior pastors, staff, parents and largely from the person who is the hardest on you: yourself.
Extreme hours, extreme emotions, extreme work. Youth ministry pushes everything to the limit. So why in the world would anyone want to do it? Seems like a nice, safe, well-paying nine-to-five job in an air conditioned office is more what most people look for in life, not this.
Why? Because of the extreme fulfillment. We wouldn't want to do anything else. You?
This post was written by Josh Griffin and Kurt Johnston and originally appeared as part of Simply Youth Ministry Today free newsletter. Subscribe to SYM Today right here.


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Reviewed by Taylor C. (age 7)
I enjoyed this book because they both were sick and took care of each other. It reminds me of how my dog and I used to take care of each other. This book is one in a series of Henry and Mudge books. It is like the other ones because the characters are always nice to each other. This one is different because they get sick in this story.
I would recommend this book to kindergarten to second graders because it is a loving and caring story.


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Quickie Question: Get Any Crafty Loot?By Twistie
Here it is, the day after Christmas (known, also, as Boxing Day), and I'm dying to know what you all got from Santa or his equivalent gift giver this time!
Okay, as I'm writing this, it isn't Christmas yet, so I don't know if I got something crafty or not… though I'm betting I will from someone. Tell me about yours, and I'll tell you about mine when I can.
So… what did you get?


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Welness exams: All puppies should receive an exam after adoption. An exam by a veterinarian may reveal abnormalities that may not be apparent to owners
6-8 Weeks
DHPP (Distemper virus, Adenovirus, Parainfluenza virus, and Parvovirus) This vaccine should be given every 3-4 weeks untilt he puppy is 16 weeks old. Fecal examination to check for intestinal parasites like roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms, coccidia and giardia that can make your pet sick. Some of these parasites can be transmitted to humans. Children are at higher risk for picking these up. Deworming to treat for intestinal parasites
10-12 Weeks
DHPP Booster Deworming to treat for intestinal parasites. Bordetella (Kennel Cough) vaccine if puppy will be boarded or will be coming in contact with unknown dogs at the groomer or dog park.
14-16 Weeks
Welness Examination DHPP Booster Deworming to treat for intestinal parasites. Bordetella if needed Rabies vaccine is recommended for all pets 16 weeks or older. The first vaccine lasts one year and subsequent vaccines last for 3 years. Heart worm prevention is recommended monthly to help prevent heartworm disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, once bitten by a mosquito, the parasite will grow in the heart.
Yearly Exams
Welness Exam
Booster Vaccines as needed Heartworm tests every 2-3 years to make sure prevention is working Heartworm prevention
Geriatric Welness Exam
Annual Welness Exam Comprehensive yearly bloodwork including CBC, chemistry profile, electrolytes, and thryroid testing. These tests look for underlying diseases that, with early diagnosis, can help your pet live a longer, healtheir life. Urinalysis helps to evaluate how well the organs are functioning and diagnose some diseases. Vaccines depending on personal patient risks
Cannine vaccinations are beneficial in prevent sickness in your pet and
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Call of Duty United Offensive FOY map for RVS?
Does anyone have that ported CALL OF DUTY United Offensive - Foy or (MP) Foy map for RvS.
Its the one thats a winter map with the farm fields and hail bails and the town in the middle with the church etc.


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Jennifer Carusone
At PixieTwine, I create hand embroidered art on canvas and occasionally on fabric hoops. I began embroidering when my son wanted me to sew robots onto his jeans. From there, I moved onto experimenting on hoops, as I had never embroidered before, after playing around with it for a couple of years, I had learned enough stitches to venture onto embroidering on canvas. This was a natural progression as my other artistic passion is painting. My embroidery is a mix of gardens, word art, and other whimsical inspirations. I often mix vintage watch faces, gears, keys, buttons, and letters into my hand embroidered gardens. I am passionate about using vibrant colors in most of my work and continue to love using new techniques. I have sold over 150 pieces locally, nationally, and internationally.


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At least twenty people were killed and thirty others sustained injuries in an explosion triggered by a suicide attack in Peshawar city of Pakistan.
The incident took place late on Tuesday in Yakatook area of Peshawar targeting a leader of Awami National Party Haroon Bilour.
Peshawar Capital City Police Officer Qazi Jameel has said Bilour has been killed along with at least nineteen others in the attack and at least thirty others have sustained injuries.
The officials have not confirmed the type of the explosion however the eyewitnesses in the area have said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives when Mr. Bilour arrived in a gathering organized for the elections.
Bilour reportedly sustained injuries in the attack and later died in the hospital where he was underoing treatment.
Another senior police official Safqat Malik has said preliminary reports indicate it was suicide attack and the target was ANP leader Haaroon Bilour.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
A similar attack in 2013 left at least 15 people dead with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claiming responsibility behind the attack.


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Nothing makes the holidays more cheerful and brights then a wonderfully smelling house! And a wonderful holiday present for someone who loves to have a lovely smelling house. Febreze has a collection called Febreze Home Collections, with great holiday scents.
We received a few products from Febreze to try; No spill wood diffuser, soy candle and flameless luminary. I really love the Flameless Luminary. With an infant who is crawling and pulling up on everything she can, candles are not something that I can have on my end tables, so these add both decoration and great scents to our living room. I love candles and smelly stuff and having my house smell all pretty, these all definitely will be used at Christmas time because they sure do make me wanna start decorating for Christmas.
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For the record: TLM at Gesu e Maria to continue
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All I can say is, Thanks be to God and the the Discalded Augustines at this church may take up the mantle of the Eternal Faith once again and come to love the pinnacle of The Latin Rite in its expression of love and devotion to The Holy Trinity.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 9:38:00 PM GMT
- James Kohn said...
Fantastic News!
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 2:21:00 AM GMT
Actually ..it is thanks to Una Vox and to the cardinal that intervened in favor of the protest raised by the faithful. The Latin Mass there is celebrated by the priests of the Institute of Christ The King Sovrein Priest.
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 2:24:00 AM GMT
Wonderful news!
We attended a Solemn Mass there Nov. 4th after the Una Voce (and others) pilgrimage Cum Papa Nostro. It is a beautiful baroque church covered in multicolored marbles. The perfect setting for the EF. It is very important for the Institute of Christ the King, which has enough priests to offer Solemn masses every Sunday if they wanted to. An announcement that from Advent the mass would be in Portughese was posted at the door. Probably for this reason, there was no collection at mass. I asked my neighbor at the pew where the mass would be in future and he told me no one knew.
It is important that this 30-year old mass be kept. The Gesù e Maria is very close to Piazza del Popolo, with lots of public transportation direcly from the suburbs. Via del Corso is probably the main artery of Rome. While the FSSP has the Trinitá dei Pellegrini, it is not easily accessible, although also located in central Rome. The TLM should not be relegated to a ghetto of a few dedicated churches, but rather should enrich many parishes. The Gesù e Maria mass serves as training for other priests, and on Nov. 11 the second master of ceremonies of the Pope was offering a Solemn mass there. The cancellation of this TLM would have sent a terrible message because Pope Benedict XVI is the Bishop of Rome.
I would like to think that the post in Rorate Caeli did help this positive outcome. The Italian reader "mic" did a useful service, grazie.
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 4:24:00 AM GMT
Thanks to the Institute of Christ The Kind Sovereign Priest for celebrating the Mass. Thanks to Una Vox for intervening, and to the Cardinal for probably making a phone call or two.
No thanks to the Carmelites for (probably) trying to get rid of the Institute and the Mass.
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 12:27:00 PM GMT
- Sid Cundiff said...
Downtown Rome is really a shoe leather place. The FSSP church Trinitá dei Pellegrini isn't hard to get to. I thank all the same Gratias for his comment.
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 2:18:00 PM GMT
Thank you for sharing your experience. I use to read you with pleasure on "Rorate". We ask God to shed His blessings on our commitment for His church.
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 5:56:00 PM GMT
Well,well, Glory Be!
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 6:00:00 PM GMT
- Friday, November 30, 2012 at 6:39:00 PM GMT
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- Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 8:29:00 PM GMT
- Jeremiah Methuselah said...
Deo gratias.
- Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 4:41:00 PM GMT


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Description: Sauda Camping is a well-equipped camp site for tents and caravans, with 12 hyttes (cabins) for 4 people and 6 cabins with 6 beds. It is situated beside the fjord at Saudasjøen, which is 3 km south of Sauda in the Ryfylke area of west Norway.
It is popular with summer visitors to the area, as well as winter skiers. There is a shop, and also a lovely Bistro/Bar at the site.
Location description:: Sauda Camping is beside SaudaFjord at SaudaSjøen, which is 3 km south of the town of Sauda in the Ryfylke area of north Rogaland county in south west Norway. Sauda skisenter is just 5 km up the hill at Svandalen. It is about 2 hours drive from Haugesund and 3 hours or so from Stavanger.
Sauda Camping and Hytter
address: 4208 Saudasjøen
Directions: From Haugesund take the E134 road towards Oslo then take RV 46 to Ropeid, continuing towards Sauda with impressive views along the way. From Stavanger take the E39 north and join the E134 eastwards. In the summer, the FV 520 road from Røldal is popular. Check in at Sauda Fjord Hotel
Caravans etc: Caravans are popular on a seasonal basis through the winter (for the skiing) and touring caravans and camper vans (RVs, bobiler) are welcome in the summer season.
Camping: The tent camping area is flat, with short grass and with good access by hard roadways, just a few metres from the water of Saudafjord
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Jagga and Baliya — the twin brothers from Odisha who were joined at the head — are stable and recovering, doctors at AIIMS who recently separated the two said.
New Delhi : Jagga and Baliya are in the ICU and a large team of specialists and paramedical staff is looking after them. Jagga, doctors said, is on intermittent hemodialysis and his kidney function is improving. The vital parameters of Balia are normal, but he is yet to gain consciousness, they added.
According to Dr A K Mahapattra, chief of AIIMS' neurosciences centre, 85% to 90% of twins joined at the head die. "It was an achievement to separate them successfully. But there are many more potential complications to deal with and the next few days are going to be very crucial," he said.
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Teezy & Zeppy "MTP Riddim"
Poland has recently emerged as one of the hotbeds of exciting young European producers, and with this fierce funky collaboration from Krakow's Teezy and Zeppy, there's even more evidence of an electronic renaissance in the former Soviet bloc country. "MTP Riddim" features sick tribal percussion, electro-funk bass stabs, and a menacingly hooky melodic line. Both producers are also featured individually on Top Billin's now-available PL Funky EP—which includes tracks getting love from the likes of luminaries such as Bok Bok, Ikonika, and Jackmaster—and if you're digging these sounds, there's also an amazing mix of mostly Polish funky producers available for free download at the Top Billin site.
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Trespass British Skiercross Championships
The Trespass British Skiercross Championships started off a busy day as over 55 skiers charged through the start gates against the clock and on into the head to head qualifying rounds. In the women's final it was neck and neck out of the start gates until the second turn where Shelly Jones and Danielle Freeze collided, leaving Kate Williams and Teri Spencer to battle it out for first and second respectively. First to recover Shelly Jones dusted herself off to cross the line in third. In the men's final, more spectacular wipe-outs where witnessed. Stuart Riches and Paul Telling clipped each other but recovered well to see a tight race until 5 meters before the finish line where Robbie Debbage and Paul Telling collided allowing Andrew Longley to cruise home and take the title. Scrambling to his feet first local skier Robbie Debbage crossed the line next in second place, leaving Paul Telling to finish in an extremely close third.
In the afternoons Big Air Jam, the ladies were pushing the limits with switch 3's and 5's being thrown down. Shelly Jones landed a smooth switch 360 to take the women's title with Katie Summerhayes also opting for a switch 360 to take second place and with a big 540 Kate Williams took third. In the men's final the younger skiers were stepping it up, including 14 year old local Tom Coe, who landed his first back-flip and Chris Mavin who landed a sweet fakie front-flip, but it was James Woods who pulled out a massive 720 to take first. Second place went to Andy Bennett, who was landing rodeo 540's with text book precision, whilst Salomon's Josh Fawcett finished in third after he stomped a stylish rodeo 540.
1st – Andy Longley – Sheffield
2nd – Robbie Debbage – Norwich
3rd – Paul Telling – Guildford
1st – Kate Williams – Sheffield
2nd – Teri Spencer – Warmwell
3rd – Shelly Jones – Stoke-on-Trent
Big Air Jam
Big Air Jam
1st – James Woods – Sheffield
2nd – Andy Bennett – Newark
3rd – Josh Fawcett – Sheffield
1st – Shelly Jones – Stoke-on-Trent
2nd – Katie Summerhayes
3rd – Kate Williams – Sheffield
The schools tour team continued their quest to introduce and inspire new comers to skiing and snowboarding prior to the weekend by visiting two Norwich schools and over 600 pupils on the 20th and 21st September. Coming away from his free snowboard lesson, one young lad was heard saying to his dad: "its not that I want to come back… I am coming back!" good work….
The next event on the British Snow Tour calendar will be the Quiksilver British Snowboard/Freeski Big Air Championships and Quarterpipe Jam at Warmwell Holiday Park on the weekend of 29th & 30th September. For event timings and info please go to www.britishsnowtour.com


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Jessica Foster Race Report - May 25th
May 27, 2008
Last weekend was the opening CMRC Pro National round in St. Julie, PQ. Bow Cycle got my flights all ready for me so I had nothing to worry about. My father drove out from Sault Ste. Marie with my best friend Sarah and her father to help me out for the weekend. Joe/Robert Skidd from Superior Suspension Settings were kind enough to get my bike prepped for me and bring it out from Ontario. I am so thankful to all of them for helping my Direct Cash Bow Cycle Kawasaki make it to the East rounds.
The weather was amazing and track held up perfectly. The track got some gnarly ruts come time for our practice, something of which we don't see much of here in Alberta. At first I was floundering like a fish in them, than got back into the groove and felt much more comfortable.
I had some pretty embarrassing starts in both motos. Way back in the pack. The ruts actually helped out with passing cause we had lots of line choices.
Moto 1: I was able to catch up to Jocelyn 4th in moto one, where we then had a fun battle. Lappers/Yellow flags made it really hard to pass, as you're not allowed to when ones out. This actually made the race between Jocelyn and I a really interesting battle.
Results: 1-Sarah Whitmore, MI. 2-Jacqueline Ross, FL. 3-Heidi Cooke, NS, 4-Jocelyn Killough, 5-Jessica Foster, AB 6-Jolene Van Vugt, ON 7-Danaye Giroux, SK
Moto 2: Started from way back again. This time it took me a bit longer to get around some girls. By two laps to go I finally had Jocelyn and Jolene within sight. By the checkered they were about 10 secs ahead. Too bad, just a couple more laps. Cant complain though, the CMRC gave us 20 min + moto's and treated us so well.
Results: 1-Ross 2- Cooke 3-Whitmore 4-Van Vugt 5-Killough 6-Foster 7-Giroux
Overall: 1-Ross, 2-Whitmore, 3-Cooke, 4-Killough, 5-Van Vugt, 6-Foster, 7-Giroux
Killough, Van Vugt and I are only one point apart each. Looks like we will have some great battles this year. Overall I'm really happy and excited to be back out racing again after a long winter. I fell really confident going in to the next rounds with my speed and fitness level. (Thanks Schumlick!)
I was the first non-factory supported rider in the standings!!! Thanks so much everyone for helping me get there.
Next: I have ordered a holeshot device for next weekend. Hopefully that will help keep my front end down so I can be right there with the girls from start to finish, not trying to catch up. Rob and my brother have vowed to help me practice starts too. Anyone who knows them, knows they won't give in either. LOL
This weekend coming up- May 30th-June1st is the Gopher Dunes National. Can't wait to get in the good old sand again. This track is always our fitness tester. Looks like it may be a rainy weekend. Can't say I'll mind that in the sand.
I can't say thank you enough to everyone that is making this season possible. I'm having a great time.
Thanks so much to: Direct Cash ATM as well as Bow Cycle, Kawasaki Canada, Superior Suspension Settings, Amsoil, Troy Lee Designs, Oakley, OGIO, Hinson, VP Fuels, DC shoes, Weisco, PerformX, Transworld MX, Cometic Gaskets, Rude Girls, Mom and Dad.