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System administrators need to keep an eye on their servers to make sure things are running smoothly. If they find a problem, they need to see when it started, so investigations can focus on what happened at that time. That means logging information at regular intervals and having a quick way to analyse this data. Here's a look at several tools that let you monitor one or more servers from a Web interface.
Each tool has a slightly different focus, so we'll take them all for a spin to give you an idea of which you might like to install on your machine. The language and design they use to perform statistic logging can have an impact on efficiency. For example, collectd is written in C and runs as a daemon, so it does not have to create any new processes in order to gather system information. Other collection programs might be written in Perl and be regularly spawned from cron. While your disk cache will likely contain the Perl interpreter and any Perl modules used by the collection program, the system will need to spawn one or more new processes regularly to gather the system information.
The tools we'll take a look at often use other tools themselves, such as RRDtool, which includes tools to store time series data and graph it.
The RRDtool project focuses on making storing new time series data have a low impact on the disk subsystem. You might at first think this is no big deal. If you are just capturing a few values every 5-10 seconds, appending them to the end of a file shouldn't even be noticeable on a server. Then you may start monitoring the CPU (load, nice values, each core -- maybe as many as 16 individual values), memory (swap, cache sizes -- perhaps another five), the free space on your disks (20 values?) and a collection of metrics from your UPS (perhaps the most interesting 10 values). Even without considering network traffic, you can be logging 50 values from your system every 10 seconds.
RRDtool is designed to write these values to disk in 4KB blocks instead of as little 4- or 8-byte writes, so the system does not have to perform work every logging interval. If another tool wants all the data, it can issue a flush, ensuring that all the data RRDtool might be caching is stored to disk. RRDtool is also smart about telling the Linux kernel what caching policy to use on its files. Since data is written 4KB at a time, it doesn't make sense to keep it around in caches, as it will be needed again only if you perform analysis, perhaps using the RRDtool graph command.
As system monitoring tools write to files often, you might like to optimize where those files are stored. On conventional spinning disks, filesystem seeks are more expensive than sequentially reading many blocks, so when the Linux kernel needs to read a block it also reads some of the subsequent blocks into cache just in case the application wants them later. Because RRDtool files are written often, and usually only in small chunks the size of single disk blocks, you might do better turning off readahead for the partition you are storing your RRDfiles on. You can minimize the block readahead value for a device to two disk blocks with the blockdev program from util-linux-ng with a command like
blockdev --setra 16 /dev/sdX. Turning off a-time updates and using writeback mode for the filesystem and RAID will also help performance. RRDtool provides advice for tuning your system for RRD.
The collectd project is designed for repeatedly collecting information about your systems. While the tarball includes a Web interface to analyse this information, the project says this interface is a minimal example and cites other projects such as Cacti for those who are looking for a Web interface to the information gathered by collectd.
There are collectd packages for Debian Etch, Fedora 9, and as a 1-Click for openSUSE. The application is written in C and is designed to run as a daemon, making it a low overhead application that is capable of logging information at short intervals without significant impact on the system.
When you are installing collectd packages you might like to investigate the plugin packages too. One of the major strengths of collectd is support through plugins for monitoring a wide variety of information about systems, such as databases, UPSes, general system parameters, and NFS and other server performance. Unfortunately the plugins pose a challenge to the packagers. For openSUSE you can simply install the plugins-all package. The version (4.4.x) packaged for Fedora 9 is too old to include the PostgreSQL plugin. The Network UPS Tools (NUT) plugin is not packaged for Debian, openSUSE, or Fedora.
The simplest way to resolve this for now is to build collectd from source, configuring exactly the plugins that you are interested in. Some of the plugins that are not commonly packaged at the time of writing but that you may wish to use include NUT, netlink, postgresql, and iptables. Installation of collectd follows the normal
./configure; make; sudo make install process, but your configure line will likely be very long if you specify which plugins you want compiled. The installation procedure and plugins I selected are shown in the below command block. I used the init.d startup file provided in the contrib directory and had to change a few of the paths because of the private prefix I used to keep the collectd installation under a single directory tree. Note that I had to also build a private copy of iproute2 in order to get the libnetlink library on Fedora 9.
$ cd ./collectd-4.5.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/collectd \
--with-perl-bindings=INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
--without-libiptc --disable-ascent --disable-static \
--enable-postgresql --enable-mysql --enable-sensors \
--enable-email --enable-apache --enable-perl \
--enable-unixsock --enable-ipmi --enable-cpu --enable-nut \
--enable-xmms --enable-notify_email --enable-notify_desktop \
--disable-ipmi --with-libnetlink=/usr/local/collectd/iproute2-2.6.26
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ su
# install -m 700 contrib/fedora/init.d-collectd /etc/init.d/collectd
# vi /etc/init.d/collectd
daemon /usr/local/collectd/sbin/collectd -C "$CONFIG"
# chkconfig collectd on
If more of the optional collectd plugins are packaged in the future, you may be able to install your desired build of collectd without having to resort to building from source.
Before you start collectd, take a look at etc/collectd.conf and make sure you like the list of plugins that are enabled and their options. The configuration file defines a handful of global options followed by some LoadPlugin lines that nominate which plugins you want collectd to use. Configuration of each plugin is done inside a
<Plugin foo>...</Plugin> scope. You should also check in your configuration file that the rrdtool plugin is enabled and that the DataDir parameter is set to a directory that exists and which you are happy to have variable data stored in.
When you have given a brief look at the plugins that are enabled and their options, you can start collectd by running
service collectd status as root.
To see the information collectd gathers you have to install the Web interface or another project such as Cacti. The below steps should install the basic CGI script that is supplied with collectd. The screenshot that follows the steps shows the script in action.
# cp contrib/collection.conf /etc/
# vi /etc/collection.conf
datadir: "/var/lib/collectd/rrd/"
libdir: "/usr/local/collectd/lib/collectd/"
# cp collection.cgi /var/www/cgi-bin/
# chgrp apache /var/www/cgi-bin/collection.cgi
If you want to view your collectd data on a KDE desktop, check out kcollectd, a young but already useful project. You can also integrate the generated RRDtool files with Cacti, though the setup process is very longwinded for each graph.
With collectd the emphasis is squarely on monitoring your systems, and the provided Web interface is offered purely as an example that might be of interest. Being a daemon written in C, collectd can also run with minimal overhead on the system.
Next: Cacti
While collectd emphasizes data collection, Cacti is oriented toward providing a nice Web front end to your system information. Whereas collectd runs as a daemon and collects its information every 10 seconds without spawning processes, Cacti runs a PHP script every five minutes to collect information. (These time intervals for the two projects are the defaults and are both user configurable.) The difference in default values gives an indication of how frequently each project thinks system information should be gathered.
Cacti is packaged for Etch, Fedora 9, and openSUSE 11. I used the Fedora packages on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine.
Once you have installed Cacti, you might get the following error when you try to visit http://localhost/cacti if your packages have not set up a database for you. The Cacti Web site has detailed instructions to help you set up your MySQL database and configure Cacti to connect.
you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'
When you first connect to your Cacti installation in a Web browser you are presented with a wizard to complete the configuration. Cacti presents you with the paths to various tools, SNMP settings, and the PHP binary, and asks which version of rrdtool you have. Although Cacti found my rrdtool, I still had to tell it explicitly the version of rrdtool I had. While this information was easy to supply, a button on the wizard offering to execute rrdtool and figure it out from the
--version string would have been a plus.
After the paths and versions are collected Cacti will ask you to log in using the default username and password. When you log in you immediately have to change the admin user's password.
The first screen you are taken to is the console tab. In the main section of the window you are offered three options: create devices, create graphs, and view your graphs. This might lead you to believe that there are no graphs already created. Clicking on the graphs tab you should see that you already have a small collection of graphs: Memory Usage, Load Average, Logged in Users, and Processes. The graphs view is shown in the screenshot below.
Additional information-gathering scripts available for Cacti let you expand what information Cacti can monitor. For example, they let you collect the load and input and output voltage of UPS devices.
Most of these projects' Web interfaces allow you to view your statistics using predefined time intervals such as hour, day, and week. Cacti goes a big step further and allows you to specify the exact interval that you are interested in through the Web interface.
Cacti offers the most functional and polished Web interface among these projects. It lets you select the time interval displayed on your graphs from more predefined settings, and it also lets you explicitly nominate the start and end time you are interested in. Cacti is the only one of the tools that lets you nominate a custom time range for your graph.
Next: Monitorix
Monitorix shows you system information at a glance in three graphs: a central one on the left to give overview information and two smaller graphs on the right to give related details. It includes a Perl daemon that collects the statistics for your systems and a CGI Web interface that allows you to analyse the data.
There are no Monitorix packages in the Fedora, openSUSE, or Debian repositories. The Monitorix download page offers a noarch RPM file as well as a tarball for non-Red Hat/Fedora-based distributions. I used version 1.2.1 on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine, installed from the noarch RPM file. If you are installing on a Debian-based system, in the monitorix-1.2.1 tarball there is an install.sh file that will copy the files to the correct path for your distribution, and an un_install.sh file, should you decide to remove Monitorix. You need to install Perl bindings for RRDtool (rrdtool-perl on Fedora 9, librrds-perl on Debian, and rrdtool on openSUSE 11) in order to use Monitorix.
Once you have the files installed in the right place, either by installing the RPM file or running install.sh, you can start collecting information by running
service monitorix start. You should also be able to visit http://localhost/monitorix/ and be offered a collection of graphs to choose from (or just nominate to see them all).
Monitorix doesn't include a plugin system but has builtin support for monitoring
CPU, processes, memory, context switches, temperatures, fan speeds, disk IO, network
traffic, demand on services such as POP3 and HTTP, interrupt activity, and the number
of users attached to SSH and Samba. A screenshot of Monitorix displaying daily graphs is shown below. There are 10 main graph panels, even though you can see only about 1.5 here.
You can configure Monitorix by editing the /etc/monitorix.conf file, which is actually a Perl script. The MNT_LIST option allows you to specify as many as seven filesystems to monitor. The REFRESH_RATE setting sets how many seconds before a Web browser should automatically refresh its contents when viewing the Monitorix graphs. You can also use Monitorix to monitor many machines by setting
MULTIHOST="Y" and listing the servers you would like to contact in the SERV_LIST setting, as shown below. Alternatively you can list entire subnets to monitor using the PC_LIST and PC_IP options, examples of which are included in the sample monitorix.conf file.
our @SERV_LIST=("server number one", "http://192.168.1.10",
"server number two", "http://192.168.1.11");
Having each graph panel made up of a main graph on the left and two smaller graphs on the right allows Monitorix to convey a fair amount of related information in a compact space. In the screenshot, the load is shown in the larger graph on the left, with the number of active processes and memory allocation in the two smaller graphs on the right. Scrolling down, one of the graph panels shows network services demand. This panel has many services shown in the main graph and POP3 and WWW as smaller graphs on the right. Unfortunately, the selection of POP3 seems to be hard-coded on line 2566 of monitorix.cgi where SERVU2 explicitly uses POP3, so if you want to monitor an IMAP mail service instead you are out of luck.
Monitorix is easy to install and get running, and its three graph per row aggregate presentation gives you a good high-level view of your system. Unfortunately some things are still hard-coded into the CGI script, so you have a somewhat limited ability to change the Web interface unless you want to start hacking on the script. The lack of packages in distribution repositories might also turn away many users.
Next: Munin
The Munin project is fairly clearly split into the gather and analyse functionality. This lets you install just the package to gather information on many servers and have a single central server to analyse all the gathered information. Munin is also widely packaged, making setup and updates fairly simple.
Munin is written in Perl, ships with a collection of plugins, supports many versions of Unix operating systems, and has a searchable plugin site.
Munin is in the Fedora 9 repository, Debian Etch, and as a 1-Click for openSUSE 11. Again, I used the version from the repository for a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine. The project provides two packages: the munin-node package includes all of the monitoring functionality, and the munin package supports gathering information from machines running munin-node and graphing it via a Web interface. If you have a network of machines, you probably only want to install munin-node on most of them and munin on one to perform analysis on all the collected data.
The main configuration file for munin-node, /etc/munin/munin-node.conf, lets you define where log files are kept, what user to run the monitoring daemon as, what address and port the daemon should bind to, and which hosts are allowed to connect to that address and port to download the collected data. In the default configuration only localhost is allowed to connect to a munin-node.
You configure plugins through individual configuration files in /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d. Munin-node for Fedora is distributed with about three dozen plugins for monitoring a wide range of system and device information.
When you visit http://localhost/munin, Munin displays an overview page showing you links to all the nodes that it knows about and including links to specific features of the nodes, such as disk, network, NFS, and processes. Clicking on a node name shows you a two-column display. Each row shows a graph with the daily statistics on the left and weekly on the right. Clicking on either graph in a row takes you to a details page showing that data for the day, week, month, and year. At the bottom of the details page a short textual display gives more details about the data, including notification of irregular events. For example, in the below screenshot of the details page for free disk space, you can see a warning that one of the filesystems has become quite full.
To get an idea of how well a system or service is running on a daily or weekly basis, the Munin display works well. Unfortunately, the Web interface does not allow you to drill into the data. For example, you might like to see a specific two-hour period from yesterday, but you can't get that graph from Munin.
The plugins site for Munin is quite well done, allowing you to see an example graph for many of the plugins before downloading. A drawback to the plugins site is the search interface, which is very category-oriented. Some full text search would aid users in finding an appropriate plugin. For example, to find the NUT UPS monitoring plugin you have to select either Sensors or "ALL CATEGORIES" first; just being able to throw UPS or NUT into a text box would enable quick cherry-picking of plugins.
A major advantage of Munin is that it ships as separate packages for gathering and analysing information, so you don't need to install a Web server on each node. The additional information at the bottom of the details page should also prod you if some statistic has a value that you should really pay attention too.
Final words
Of these four applications, Cacti offers the best Web interface, letting you select the time interval displayed on your graphs from more predefined settings, and it also lets you explicitly nominate the start and end time you are interested in. By contrast, in collectd, the emphasis is squarely on monitoring your systems, and the provided Web interface is offered purely as an example that might be of interest. Given that collecting and analysing data can be thought of as separate tasks, it would be wonderful if collectd and Cacti could play well together. Unfortunately, setting up Cacti to use collectd-generated files is a long, manual, error-prone process. While both Cacti and collectd are useful projects by themselves, I can't help but think that the combination of the two would be greater than its parts. Monitorix and Munin are easy to install and offer a quick overview of a host, but Monitorix's three graph per row aggregate presentation gives you a better high-level view of your system.
Which one might be best for you? If you spend a lot of time in data analysis or if you plan to allow non-administrators to get a glance of the system statistics, Cacti might be a good project to look into first. If you want to gather information on a system that is already under heavy load, see if collectd can be run without disrupting your system. Munin's support for gathering information from many nodes using different application packages makes it interesting if you are monitoring a small group of similar machines. If you have a single server and want a quick overview of what is happening, either Cacti or Monitorix is worth checking out first.


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Pictures from my hood Tøyen, Oslo. A never ending project.
Svalbard 2017
Some work and some play. Longyearbyen and Barentsburg juli-august 2017.
Afghan refugees in Belgrade
Young, afghan refugees stuck in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade.
Kenya 2017
A wedding in Nairobi and a safari in Amboseli National Park, february 2017.

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I wrote this respectfully, intending to post it in a particular recently-created thread, but decided I could not quite pull off the appropriate level of respect and relevance...A series of primarily textual articles, inherently not connected with one another but made to appear so through the magic of some underlying integrated database. A thread, if you will, just like so many others created, not only here, but all around the world. You know it should have no real value, purpose or significance--just a pseudo-location where generally like-minded participants toss together off-the cuff, sometimes even somewhat random, thoughts and observations.
And yet this particular series of inherently unconnected primarily textual observations seems to convey something of overwhelming personal significance.
Thanks Ashie.
So I didn't think to check if my suits fit before a wedding I'm going to next week.
I've put on like 25-30lb since last wearing one.
Not even close.
I had an incident with a stripper today. Came on my face. It burned.
I should clarify Im talking about paint stripper. Splashed a little on my face and almost into my eye when I was opening the gallon. Burned like a motherfucker, had to furiously wash the shit off my face.
Heavy duty industrial grade stuff. Was sizzling when I poured a little bit into a metal tray.
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Pop quiz: Patriotism involves (a) giving your life for your country; (b) flying the flag on national holidays; (c) shopping till you drop. If you answered (c), you'll be well prepared to follow this intriguing, oblique look at the recent American past by Bancroft Prize–winner Cohen (Making a New Deal, 1990).
Mass consumption, whether of canned soup, laundry detergent, or cookie-cutter houses, already had a long pedigree by WWII, the author writes; the 1920s in particular saw a huge growth in mass-market advertising and national brand-building. But the war and its immediate aftermath gave American consumers an ideology to justify their acquisitive habits, argues Cohen (History/Harvard): Americans of the time "saw their nation as the model for the world of a society committed to mass and what were assumed to be its far-reaching benefits." In this democracy of the checkbook, spending was perceived as a duty, and the Consumers' Republic became even more ideologically charged during the Cold War, when propagandists contrasted the overflowing aisles of American supermarkets with the bread lines and empty shelves of the Soviet bloc. Cohen links such postwar policies as the GI Bill and the restructuring of collective-bargaining procedures to this national marketplace; elsewhere she couples African-Americans' dawning awareness of their purchasing power with the rise of the civil-rights movement. She examines the growth of suburbs and other features of "the landscape of mass consumption," together with the social tensions resulting from changes in gender, class, and economic dynamics as everyone increasingly ate the same burgers and bought the same soap. Cohen's arguments are dense, her tone academic, but the narrative is always accessible and enlivened by telling asides: "Department store profits reached a new peak during 1941," she notes, "with the bombing of Pearl Harbor casting only a small shadow over Christmas gift-buying that December."
A fine work of history, showing how we came to live in a world of things, fat if not necessarily happy.


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HIGH NOON Jackson Noon Optimist P.O. Box 615 Jackson, MO 63755 Meetings held on Wednesday - 12:00 PM - Delmonico's February 2015 Volume 5 President's Message—Buzzes from Emily Promise Yourself... To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. What a wonderful start to 2015! Greeted new members into club, plans underway for the 5k Hope For Kids Run, oratorical and essay contests scheduled and fun fellowship and great programs have been presented. We are a BUSY club doing great work!!! We had business meeting first week followed by terrific program by Doris Dace the next week. Learning to make beautiful cards was lots of fun. Our fellowship meeting was another success. We brought socks, gloves and underwear for children at Jackson R2. We brought it to Meridith (not FOR MERIDITH! ) Several members told a little history about themselves as part of fellowship , very interesting. Hopefully some of the other members will participate later by sharing about themselves. Our last program was by Anita Sievers. She gave us an insight into the history of Optimist International and our local club and the different levels of the organization. It was very informative . To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Anita Branscum will be presiding while I am on vacation . To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. Thanks for a great month and lots of participation from all of you. Pat has done a good job with the Saturday helpers for basketball and she is much appreciated. Please help her when possible!!!! To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. Optimist International Yours in Optimism Emily Collins MEETING SCHEDULE February 04 Noon Meeting Delmonico's Business FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS 4—NORMA YOST 5—RHONDA SIEVERS 18—MALARIE BARNHART 19—CLARINDA UNGER "We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. " Angelina Jolie A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path -Agatha Christie "Where there is love, there is life"-- Mahatma Gandhi February 10 Essay Banquet: Men's Club KC Hall 6:45 p.m. February 11 No Meeting February 18 Noon Meeting Delmonico's Fellowship, Anita Branscum February 24 Oratorical Contest: Men's Club KC Hall 6:45 p.m. February 25 No Meeting My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. Jack Layton February 2015 Sunday 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 5 Norma Yost Board Meeting 7 p.m. 8 9 10 Thursday Friday Saturday 6 7 13 14 Rhonda Sievers Noon Meeting Delmonico's Business 11 12 BINGO No Meeting Essay Contest 15 16 17 18 Malarie Barnhart 19 23 24 25 No Meeting Oratorical Contest 21 Clarinda Unger MEN'S BINGO Noon Meeting Delmonico's Fellowship 22 20 26 27 28 Scholarships Each year our club budgets money for scholarships to be given to selected graduating seniors who are planning to continue with post high school education. Preference is given to sons or daughters of club members, but other applicants will be considered. If they are a student at Jackson High School they must complete and submit the General Scholarship Application that will be available from the Counselor's office. The deadline for that submission is March 6. If any club member has a graduating senior this year and you would like to have them considered for a scholarship, please contact Debra Hoffmann, Merideth Pobst or Clarinda Unger. We will need the student's name, contact information, name of school they plan to attend and its contact information. We need this information no later than April 1, 2014. April 11, 2015 Jackson City Park Legion Field The committee has been busy. We have chosen the art work for the T-Shirts. The Jackson community has been very generous to provide ads for the tshirts. The necessary paper work with the Cape Road Runners has been turned in. Paper work for the City of Jackson has been turned in and we are hoping for approval from them. Debbie Leoni sat us up with www.active.com so we could get our registration online. Lauri Spain put us on Facebook so we could have our Noon Optimist on it. Thanks Lauri. We are asking for volunteers to help on race day. It will take only 2 to 3 hours and volunteers will be stationed throughout the 5K path to ensure that participants follow the proper route. We are putting together a place where a $20.00 or more donation can be made and the donor will receive a Tshirt. There is lots more to be done and we hope our Optimist members will step up and help. Just hope we have a lot of runners and have a great day. Pat Abernathy January 7 The Jackson Noon Optimist Club Board of Directors met on Tuesday, January 6 at 7:00 p.m. January 14 Action taken included: 1. Set dates (some tentative for: *Essay Contest—Tuesday, February 10 *Oratorical Contest—Tuesday, February 24 *NOW Meeting—Sunday, March 22 *Respect for Law—Friday, March 27 *Hope for Kids Run—Saturday, April 11 2. Approved presenting T-shirts to new members at their induction into the club. 3. Discussed upcoming meetings in February and March. There will be no Wednesday meetings on February 11 or February 25. Business Meeting Program Doris Dace demonstrated and helped members make beautiful cards. January 21 Fellowship Pat Abernathy led an activity for the group: "What actress would play you in a movie of your life?" Members brought donations of socks, underwear and gloves for the Jackson R2 Kids fund. January 28 Program Anita Sievers spoke to the club about the history of Optimist International, its structure, and its various activities. She also explained a little about the Optimist International Foundation. The Jackson Noon Optimist Club and The Optimist Club of Jackson sponsored a table at the annual Jackson Chamber of Commerce Banquet on January 16. Each gift bag contained the following Optimist items: coffee mug, key chain, stylus pen, creed card and membership application. Thanks to Patty Turner and others for doing a great job decorating our table at the Bavarian Hall. Optimist Girls' Basketball is underway. Games began on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Orchard Elementary, Jackson Middle School and Jackson Junior High gyms. Kelly Waller (a club FOO—Friend of Optimist) is the coordinator this year. Other committee members are Pat Abernathy, Emily Collins, Lori Fowler, and Anita Sievers. Optimist volunteers manning the gyms in January were: Orchard—Pat Abernathy each Saturday assisted by Emily Collins and Anita Branscum. Middle School—Lauri Spain, Lori Fowler, Jodi Stafford, Carol Rohlfs, and Anita Sievers. Junior High—Clarinda Unger each Saturday assisted by Patty Turner, Janell Hinkebein, and Bobbie Vrooman. There will be three more Saturdays with games in February. Volunteers for Middle School and Junior High are still needed. Call Pat Abernathy at 243-2525 to get your name on the list! Games are done by 12:00. Anita Sievers The 2015 Optimist Oratorical Contest is scheduled for Tuesday, February 24, 2015, as a joint venture with the men and will once again this year be held during their evening meeting. We will not then meet the following day for our regular meeting at Delmonico's. Students will speak on the topic "How My Optimism Will Help Me Press on to Greater Achievements of the Future". Please come to this evening meeting and support the students who choose to give their speeches. It is always delightful to hear the final fruits of these young people's labors as they have worked hard to prepare themselves for their presentations. There will be a sign-up sheet at our club meeting or you can let Lesa know if you will attend (5795889). We will need to give a head count to the KJC Hall for the meal. Members will be responsible for the cost of their meal. The winners from the club contest will then compete at the Regional Oratorical contest at the Osage Center on March 22 at 2:00 p.m. Lesa Weiss Oratorical Chair It's that time of year again! The date for our NOW Event is Sunday, March 22, 2015 from 2-4 pm at Anita Sievers' Home (Thank you so much, Anita!). As of February 1st, we are seven weeks from the date of the party. It will fly by and be here before we know it. My goal for each club member is to turn in at least three new recruits. I don't think that's too much to ask since we really need new members. At the 2013 NOW Event we signed up six members. We didn't have a NOW Event last year so we need to press forward and try to sign up 12 or more ladies. It's a huge task, but I have faith we can do it! 2015 NOW Event Committee: Esther Bohnert Sandy Graham Mary Kiehne Donna Rushing Anita Sievers Patty Turner Connie Werner Emily Collins, President Janell Hinkebein, NOW Chairperson I am excited to work with such a great group of women! As our President Emily Collins says "If it is to be, it is up to me." Let's see what we can do together! Optimistically Yours NOW, Janell Hinkebein, Chairperson Dear Ladies, Please help us recruit new members by filling out the Sponsor Guest List provided in this newsletter (or get one at a Wednesday meeting). We need you to give us three or more prospective ladies names so we can contact and invite them to our NOW Event. These lists are due by Sunday, February 22. You may bring them to any meeting before the deadline; email them to [email protected] or call (or text) with the information at 573-450-6131. This is our single most important event to bring in new members. We need YOU to help make this a success! NOW is the time for you to help the Jackson Noon Optimist Club grow, so we can serve even more youth in our community. Thank you, Janell Hinkebein, Chairperson [email protected] 573-450-6131 Who's on your list to make a good Optimist? Aerobics Instructor Alumni Association Book Club Members Business Associates Church Friends Clients College Friends Co-Workers CPA Daughters Dentist Doctor Dog Groomer Financial Advisor Former Teachers Friends Gym Members Hair Stylist High School Friends Insurance Agent Knitting Circle Friends Lawyer Neighbors Parents Personal Trainer Professional Association Members PTA Members Realtor Relatives Siblings Sibling's Friends Social Clubs/Groups Supplier for your Business Teachers Travel Agent Veterinarian JACKSON NOON OPTIMIST CLUB 2014-2015 OFFICERS PRESIDENT Emily Collins—243-7613 VICE PRESIDENT/President Elect Anita Branscum—243-7345 VICE PRESIDENT Lauri Spain—243-7345 PAST PRESIDENT Lori Fowler—651-3161 SECRETARY Anita Sievers—243-5489 TREASURER Patty Turner—243-8273 DIRECTORS: Nancy Collier—243-2562 Heidi Duckworth—421-5504 Sandy Graham—204-0513 Janell Hinkebein—243-3367 Mary Kirn—243-7094 Kathy Roth—243-3486 OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL: O.I. 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Let S = {3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}. Someone gives you six numbers a1,....a6 from S.
Let P = {{x,y}|x,y € S and x+y =15}.
i) If f: {a1,....a6} --> P is defined by f(ai) equals the set containing ai, explain why f is not one-one.
ii) If ai does not equal aj, but f(ai)= f(aj), show that ai + aj = 15.
iii) Explain why, if 6 numbers are chosen from s, then the sum of some pair of them is 15
Sorry if I've typed it out in a confusing way, the € means "is an element of" lol


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From the John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute:
In the true spirit of Thanksgiving, then, which George Washington looked upon as a time to unite in prayer and beseech God "to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed," here is a list of things about this emerging police state that I am not thankful for and will never remain silent about as long as the government remains the greatest threat to our freedoms.
Police shootings of unarmed citizens. No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. This trend originates from a police preoccupation with ensuring their own safety at all costs, with tragic consequences for the innocent civilians unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, consider the 16-year-old teenager who skipped school only to be shot by police after they mistook him for a fleeing burglar.
SWAT team raids. On an average day in America, at least 100 Americans have their homes raided by SWAT teams (although I've seen estimates as high as 300 a day), which are increasingly used to deal with routine police matters: angry dogs, domestic disputes, search warrants, etc. Unfortunately, general incompetence (officers misread the address on the warrant), collateral damage (fatalities, property damage, etc.) and botched raids (officers barge into the wrong house or even the wrong building) tend to go hand in hand with this overuse of SWAT teams, with tragic consequences for the homeowner who mistakes a SWAT raid for a home invasion, such as the 107-year-old Arkansas man killed after a "shootout" with a SWAT team or the 19-year-old Seattle woman who was accidentally shot in the leg by police after she refused to show her hands.
Arresting Americans for altogether legal activities such as picking their kids up from school, holding Bible studies at home, and selling goat cheese. Unfortunately, our government's tendency towards militarization and overcriminalization, in which routine, everyday behaviors become targets of regulation and prohibition, have resulted in Americans getting arrested for making and selling unpasteurized goat cheese, cultivating certain types of orchids, feeding a whale, holding Bible studies in their homes, and picking their kids up from school. This last incident actually happened in Tennessee, when Jim Howe, a father of two elementary school-aged kids, was arrested and jailed after insisting on walking his son home as soon as school let out rather than waiting 35 minutes for carpoolers to get their kids first.
Whitehead continues a long list of abuses.
Liberty is dying before our eyes… and it's all so reasonable.
Many of these decisions appear well-meaning—and no doubt many of the law-enforcement officers applying them sincerely believe they're doing good and right things—but when foundational liberties are infringed we are all in danger.
As the wise saying goes, before you remove a guardrail it is best to carefully consider the reason it was erected in the first place. Otherwise, we may all be going over the cliff together.


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A physicist supports sound climate physics
From Professor Fred Singer
To the Institute of Physics, United Kingdom:
I am an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and a co-organizer of a Petition drive to the APS Council to modify or withdraw the published APS Statement on Climate Change [see Nature 460:457, 23 July 2009]. Some 250 members and Fellows of the APS have now joined in signing this Petition, including members of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Nobelist, and many other prize winners.
I urge you to ignore all of the insubstantial criticisms leveled against your submission to the House of Commons? inquiry into ClimateGate. All scientists should applaud your call for openness and sharing of data ? even without the legal requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, and regardless of one's position on the causes of global warming. To echo Margaret Thatcher?s admonition to President George Bush: ?Don't go wobbly!?
It is strange that such fierce criticism of the IOP submission has come mainly from avowed promoters of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) myth, who have attacked the IOP as ?misinformed and misguided.? (Some have even advocated breaking the law by ignoring the ?Freedom of Information Act.?) But why should there be any connection between the sharing of scientific information and the cause of GW?
Your submission criticized the practices of the climate scientists at the center of the Parliamentary inquiry. These include primarily Dr Philip Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University. The submission of the Royal Society of Chemistry says ?that a lack of willingness to disseminate scientific information may infer that the scientific results or methods used are not robust enough to face scrutiny.? So what are they trying to hide? We have yet to discover just how Jones et al managed to produce a substantial surface warming [between 1979 and 1997] when satellites showed practically no tropospheric warming ? a disparity which is in conflict with every greenhouse climate model.
You state that the Institute ?has long had a clear position on global warming, namely that there is no doubt that climate change is happening, that it is linked to man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, and that we should be taking action to address it now.? However, I know of no valid evidence to support such a position and would urge you to carry out an independent investigation. In due course we may learn how the temperature data underlying the IPCC conclusions have been manipulated. In the meantime, I would caution you against relying on the IPCC.
I am aware that the UK Meteorological Office has published a review of the latest climate-change science. Their report says it is ?very likely? that man-made greenhouse-gas emissions are causing the climate to change and that the changes bear the ?fingerprint? of human influence. But as far as I know, the fingerprints point the other way and suggest that the human contribution is only minor. In other words, the empirical evidence contradicts both the IPCC and the Met Office. [See here the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, 2008 and 2009, at www.NIPCCreport.org]
The most direct way to resolve this obvious disagreement might be for the IOP Science Board to arrange one or more debates and scrutinize the evidence presented by both sides. I have no doubt whatsoever that they will agree that Nature rules the climate, not human activity.
Sincerely yours,
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Another beauty! This is the image Sea Sunrise. I have played around with 3 of the June New Releases from Fabrika Fantasy 😊 This is the 2nd I publish.
I played around with several pencils in yellow, orange, red, blue, green, turquoise, brown, and the list goes on. I'm convinced that I could smell the salty ocean while coloring this (knowing it was all in my head). I kept the card simple, but I'm pretty sure it will get some more features when the time comes😊


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I first felt it in the shower. Nostalgia. Creeping up my leg and resting on my shoulder. Bony fingers caresses in that sickeningly sweet way nostalgia often does. It was the end of September or the beginning of October... That night in the shower when I remembered an old October, reading poetry at a wine factory; with sandwiches as big as your face. And I remembered two tables. Friends and a girl. And it was October. The sealing of fate. 2008.
Days passed but not before the memory of darkness and a knife. The surgery that changed me... And it was October. October or go to Heaven. 2007.
Time passed and so did my expectations. Fluctuations in blood flow in the head causes heart to flutter for another. Infatuation of the highest order. The beginning of tears and sighs of "it's not fair" and the wandering nature of soul; I'm done, turn me over. And it was October. All my queries I vowed to shelve. 2012.
And Sunday. When I threw the scroll and claimed I was done, setting up the mind for anything to come. It happened here, in October. Where you try to decide what you mean... 2015.
And there it is, the truth, in the end.
The strangest numbness calls me, friend. And all I could think, all I could muster is that truly this is the haunting month, October.


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Kulturens Medialisering > Aktiviteter i 2012 > Efterår 2012 > New models for the new...
New business models for the news industry - seminar
20. november, kl. 13-15:30, lokale 27.0.17.
Organized jointly by Creative Media Industries and Mediatization of Culture
For several years, the traditional business models of news organizations have been under pressure; news organizations' earnings from advertising or subscription have decreased as a lot of the public's news consumption has moved from print to online sources, and the financial crisis has weakened revenue possibilities further. As such, news organizations have had to rethink their business models, and their conclusions and strategies for monetizing the online audience vary. Even so, it remains an open question what the business models for the future of the news industry look like and how they become economically sustainable.
This seminar, organized by the strategic research area Creative Media Industries and the research group The Mediatization of Culture at the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen, presents state-of-the-art research into the evolving business models for the news industry as well as contributions from those practitioners that work with them on a daily basis.
The research seminar will be in Danish and Norwegian. Admission is free of charge and registration is not necessary.
Presenters: Aske Kammer (MEF, KU), Jens Barland (Oslo Universitet), Pernille Tranberg (redaktionel udviklingschef, Berlingske) og Stig Kirk Ørskov (koncerndirektør, JP/Politikens Hus).


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June 17, 2009
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
c/o Stamp Development
U.S. Postal Service
1735 North Lynn St., Suite 5013
Arlington, Virginia 22209-6432
Dear Committee Members:
The purpose of this letter is to request the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) consider the issuance of a postage stamp commemorating the life of Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. While I am Admiral Zumwalt's sole surviving son and, obviously, have a personal interest in seeing him so honored, I would respectfully submit that his lifetime achievements clearly justify such an honor, regardless of the fact this request emanates from a family member. Allow me to briefly share some of those achievements.
While US postage stamps have been issued over the years commemorating men and women achieving great accomplishments, few exist recognizing those who have dedicated so much of their lives to leveling life's playing field for others unable to do so for themselves. A military man by profession, Admiral Zumwalt would prove himself not only to be of such an ilk, but a tremendous innovator and great humanitarian as well.
Admiral Zumwalt enjoyed an immensely successful naval career which involved a meteoric rise to the US Navy's top position. At the age of 44, he was the US Navy's youngest Rear Admiral; at 47, its youngest Vice Admiral; and at age 49 its youngest Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). During a 37-year career, during which he fought three wars, Admiral Zumwalt committed his life to achieving equality for all serving in his beloved Navy. While his life as a junior officer was spent practicing this belief on a local command level, it was not until he became CNO that he was able to implement such beliefs on a service-wide basis through a series of very creative leadership initiatives. As reported in the December 21, 1970 issue of TIME Magazine featuring him on its cover, Admiral Zumwalt's initiatives brought the US Navy, "kicking and screaming into the 20th Century." The article went on to hail him as "the Navy's most popular leader since World War II."
While the beneficiaries of many of the changes Admiral Zumwalt implemented in the Navy were members of minority groups whose professional growth within the service had been stymied by overly restrictive regulations, he worked diligently to improve service life for all wearing the Navy uniform. What had prompted his selection in 1970 by civilian superiors over 33 more senior admirals was his advocacy for rapid and drastic changes in the way the Navy treated its uniformed men and women. And, once selected, he made such advocacy a reality, undertaking numerous initiatives that included: improving living conditions in the Navy; promoting the first female and first Afro-American officers to flag rank; allowing females to become naval aviators; opening up ratings for Filipino sailors whose service had long been limited to a steward's rating; eliminating demeaning and abrasive US Navy regulations that negatively impacted on a sailor's attitude without providing a corresponding positive enhancement of professional performance; etc. The positive impact of his changes was tremendous, as evidenced by the effect on re-enlistment rates. These rates were at an all-time low when he took command of the Navy in 1970; when he retired four years later, re-enlistment rates had tripled. Admiral Zumwalt's personal papers, on file at The Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, include numerous letters from sailors written over the years expressing their personal gratitude for changes he made that impacted so positively on their decision to stay and make the Navy a career.
When Admiral Zumwalt retired from the Navy in 1974, it did not end his service to country. He continued in numerous capacities to fight for the oppressed. As Commander of US Naval Forces in Vietnam during the war, he was of the belief a commander's responsibility to his men survived the battlefield, prompting him to fight for US Government benefits for Vietnam veterans suffering from Agent Orange exposure.
By way of background, Admiral Zumwalt had ordered the use of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange during the war to reduce the high casualty rate his sailors were suffering. Heavy jungle concealment provided the enemy with the element of surprise in ambushes against US Navy boats operating in Vietnam's narrow waterways. The sailors onboard these boats stood a 72% chance of being killed or wounded during a twelve month tour. The use of Agent Orange improved survivability, reducing the casualty rate twelve-fold--to 6%. It was not known at that time, however, what the long-term health impact of Agent Orange would be on those who were exposed. In a bitter irony of the Vietnam war, one of those so exposed, later succumbing to Agent Orange-related cancers, was Admiral Zumwalt's namesake and my older brother--Elmo R. Zumwalt III. A book, entitled "My Father, My Son," tells the story of the love and devotion existing between the two men as, together; they fought the unsuccessful battle for young Elmo's survival. In 1988, the book became the basis for a made-for-TV movie of the same title which, interestingly, starred a CSAC member in the role of my father--Mr. Karl Malden.
Until Admiral Zumwalt led the charge for benefits for Vietnam veterans afflicted by Agent Orange exposure, not a single cancer had been recognized by the Veterans Administration for having a causal relationship. Appointed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pro bono study on the linkage of Agent Orange to cancers, Admiral Zumwalt analyzed hundreds of medical studies--studies that had found no correlation--until he showed how such studies were flawed--a phenomenal undertaking for someone with no medical background. He also found the US Government's medical review board, responsible for determining if such correlations were supported by existing medical evidence, lacked credibility as its members included physicians with personal ties to the very chemical companies that had manufactured Agent Orange.
Today, medical evidence has established that more than a dozen cancers are linked to Agent Orange exposure. And, as a direct result of Admiral Zumwalt's tireless efforts, Vietnam veterans are now receiving medical benefits.
Admiral Zumwalt's sense of duty and responsibility to his fellow human beings spurned him on to other great achievements. He was founder of The Marrow Foundation, which raised funding to undertake the matching of bone marrow donors and recipients. He served briefly as a US ambassador to the American Red Cross in Geneva. In the years after the Vietnam war, he worked diligently to successfully win the early release of his good friend and South Vietnamese counterpart in Vietnam during the war, Commodore Tran van Chon, from a communist re-education camp.
During his lifetime, Admiral Zumwalt gave extensively of his own time and energy to pro bono efforts. These included serving on the Board of Directors of charitable organizations such as the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Presidential Classroom for Young Americans Organization, National Marrow Donor Program, and Vietnam Assistance to the Handicapped Foundation; serving as the Chairman of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the National Council of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, and the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation; serving as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation. One of Admiral Zumwalt's last contributions was to establish the National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats at Texas Tech University, which later was named after him. This is a multidisciplinary academic research program that today conducts cutting-edge work to investigate and develop new strategies and technologies to protect military operating forces from such threats. Based on the terrorist threat facing 21st century America, his foresight in identifying such a threat and doing something about it was once again evidenced by his actions.
Tragically, years later, after having led this fight, Admiral Zumwalt would succumb to a service-related "environmental cancer" of another sort--asbestos--to which he had been exposed as a result of his naval service. In the early morning hours of the new millennium, at the age of 79, he passed away on January 2, 2000.
It was no wonder then, at his funeral on January 10, 2000, in addressing a standing room only Chapel service at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, President Bill Clinton described him as truly being a "Sailors' Admiral."
Among the numerous tributes made after the death of Admiral Zumwalt was one entered into the January 24, 2000 Congressional Record by Senator Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin who said: "Admiral Zumwalt crusaded for a fair and equal Navy. He fought to promote equality for minorities and women at a time of considerable racial strife in our country and at a time of deeply entrenched institutional racism and sexism in the Navy...Admiral Elmo Zumwalt was a great naval leader, a visionary and a courageous challenger of the conventional wisdom. We will not see the likes of him again. We mourn his passing and salute his accomplishments."
Because of Admiral Zumwalt's commitment in life to improving the lives of others, a number of awards bearing his name--recognizing his accomplishments as a humanitarian and a visionary--exist today, not only in the US Navy, but in the private sector as well. The positive impact Admiral Zumwalt had as one of this Nation's great military leaders and humanitarians was recognized by two major events--one occurring during his lifetime and one following his death.
In 1998, Admiral Zumwalt was presented the Nation's highest civilian award by President Clinton--the Presidential Medal of Freedom--for service both to his Navy and country. And, in July 2000, six months after his death, the Navy announced a new class of warship--a vessel unlike any other ever built which represents the greatest technological advancement in the history of ship-building--would be named after my father, with the first ship of the class to be named USS ZUMWALT. (An artist's rendition of this unique looking surface ship, which, due to its stealth technology looks more like a submarine, is enclosed herein.) Construction of that ship is now underway. While I believe honoring my father with a stamp is warranted on his own merits alone, I would submit the Committee may want to consider issuing a stamp commemorating both the man and the ship. For when USS ZUMWALT is christened in 2013, it will usher in a whole new era in US Navy history. Future ships of the 21st century will be capturing many of the design features and unique capabilities for which the USS ZUMWALT has broken new ground.
One of my father's favorite quotes was Edmond Burke's admonition, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." My father lived his life by this creed. Not a minute of it was wasted doing "nothing." His life was dedicated to helping his fellow man. In my request that consideration now be given to issuing a US postage stamp in his name, it is my humble opinion such a man who lived such a life should now have that life commemorated by such a great honor.
Very respectfully submitted,
James G. Zumwalt
LCOL, US Marine Corps Reserves (Retired)
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Yesterday in the online Wall Street Journal:
MICROSOFT agreed to buy internet phone company Skype Technologies for $US8.5 billion ($7.8bn) in cash -- the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment.
The deal will let Microsoft "be more ambitious, do more things," chief executive Steve Ballmer said in an interview.
The software giant was motivated to acquire Skype because communication technologies have been "the backbone" of Microsoft's growth in recent years and that Skype has "built a real business" in the communications field, said Mr Ballmer.
In a joint phone interview with Skype chief executive Tony Bates, Mr Ballmer said Microsoft sees an opportunity to expand Skype's reach by blending it with technologies across Microsoft's vast portfolio of products, including the Xbox videogame console, Windows Phone software and Lync communications product for businesses.
Our book club has used Skype to speak with authors of the book we are currently discussing and just finished reading. It has been fun and informative and definitely influenced our members to read more of the same author. They felt they had gotten to know them, felt a strong connection to them, like they had become their friend. This is what made Blogs grow in popularity. Blogging put the author/writer in touch with their reader. Allowing a reader to comment on the writers article or book review helped develop relationships.
Please share with us how you as an author or writer have used Skype to promote your books and writing or how you think you might in the future.
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Update: This blog has moved! You can check out this post here.
We have been living it up at the Cape of Dreams this weekend, celebrating the mothers in our lives. We invited my mother, her husband, my brothers and sister in law to spend the weekend with us. Then, we decided to go all out and invite a bunch of friends as well. It was a blast but a lot of work. In the end, the work was worth the fun we had, especially for my mother. It was her day after all.
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Orly Khon: Dress The She-Village Pink
Join Orly Khon Floral and the She-Village, October 18th through October 21st from 12:00pm – 6:00pm in creating a community-built, pink floral installation to bring Breast Cancer awareness and spread love. With the purchase of a $3 pink flower, participants will not only get to help in the making of this public floral install with a cause, but they will also be helping raise funds to donate to the MGH Cancer Center. Each night the installation will be represented by Megan Daniels, Director of Development for Breast Cancer Center at Mass General, to share the mission and impact of the MGH organization


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The master of framing the moment within a gut-felt emotion is back, providing clarity beyond the crystal clear. Take a listen to Chuck's response to the natural and federal disaster of Katrina, the Children of Eris remix, "Hell No We Ain't All Right"
Chuck D's rhymes flow so natural and powerful they take form within your psyche while you latch onto his beat. That's because Chuck doesn't twist to the beat of a loop; Chuck's direct, unflinching words twist a beat of their own.
Can't you feel him in this latest drop?
I follow his words, like "the new world is upside down and out of order" as a flip from the past, as back then he was taken aghast, as the polar opposites were set-up, the Axis of Evil corrupt…
I often wonder if the 17 to 23 year-old crowd nowadays gets the same dose of reality in the Hip hop nation.
Sure, the crew of Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def and The Roots bring consciousness to each of their narratives on multiple levels. Underground hip-hop, like Head-Roc, sticks to the grimy reality, and J-Live lives and keeps it real as a teacher in Brooklyn, but where is the channeled anger of this generation?
Maybe he/she/they are out there and the gray in my chin is talking all of this junk—if so, feel free to let me know. To the extent that Chuck D and Public Enemy pumped out perspective and knowledge in the late 80's to the mid-90's (along with KRS-One and Brand Nubian), I just don't hear the same form of consistent passion in these modern day cats.
Yes, Mos Def was crazy conscious with his tabulations in Mathematics, and has kept 'em coming leading right up to the in-the-moment response and drop of Katrina Klap. Artists such as Kanye West have proven to have a conscious, yet even Kanye still goes back and forth with club songs chock full of faux diamond dissing, gold-digging lyrics.
Chuck D earned the lead Public Enemy #1 tag with his straight up, hardcore responses to social issues of the time; I'm talking about consistent responses to real-time events, like:
- dropping "By the Time I Get To Arizona" when Arizona refused to honor Martin Luther King's birthday
- or when Chuck tried to shut down the malt-liquor industry in "1 Million Bottlebags" for targeting young black males with their poison
- even in their twilight, in 2002 Public Enemy dropped "Son of a Bush" at a time when political commentary in hip-hop was ripe for the picking, but rare due to the climate of blind patriotism. Only Eminem made any Bush accountability waves, but he waited until a safer year of 2004 to drop his Mosh video, pre and post 2004 elections.
Enough. Like that dude on Enter the 36 Chambers said, "Ah yeah, again and again!"
Bring the noise, Chuck.


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(Mothers of Preschoolers)
Here at MOPS, we are on a mission to celebrate motherhood.
We build circles of women who love each other like family, because raising humans is beautiful and hard, and having each other to lean on is life-giving. That's why we connect moms all over the world to a community of women, in their own cities, who meet together to laugh, cry and embrace the journey of being a mom.
This is motherhood, and together we can change the world in all the best ways.
Hutchinson MOPS
In Hutchinson, the needs of mothers are primarily met through local meetings. The Hutchinson MOPS group meets on the first and third Fridays of each month, from September through May, from 9am to 11am at the First Church of the Nazarene. Childcare is provided in a Sunday school type setting (Bible story, craft, snacks, playtime) so moms can be nurtured without distraction. Meetings usually consist of a time of informal conversation with snacks, a speaker who covers topics dealing with the physical, emotional, or spiritual health of the mothers, their children and their families, a structured discussion group or a creative activity. For more information on MOPS please go to mops.org.
MOPS International requires an enrollment fee, which provides you with Mom Connection Benefits. Ongoing annual benefits include: weekly Mom e-mails, the MOPS magazine, and more. In addition to the enrollment fee, our local group collects dues also that cover the materials and supplies needed to keep the meetings going! There are some changes this year to our dues from MOPS International.
Local dues: $50/full year or $25/semester
One year membership: $31.95
This charge is the same for each mom, regardless of the number of children you have enrolled in MOPS kids (the children's program). We want every mom to be able to receive the benefits that MOPS has to offer. If you plan to attend this year, please register online! This way we will know how many moms and children to plan for.


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Working out is hard. We all know it.
What's even harder is finding the motivation to work out when there's so many hurdles in your way.
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How do I get an effective workout in when i'm traveling?" "
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Working out may not be the easiest thing in the world, but who said it couldn't be fun? Mokfit provides you have all the motivation you'll need, all at the tip of your finger! Get ready to start clearing your workout hurdles like a track star! Coming to the Google Play store soon!
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Tom Gormally
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Tom Gormally (Seattle) has been exhibiting his sculpture for forty years, including at The Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO), Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY), Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, IA) Ulrich Museum (Wichita, KS), Heidi Cho Gallery (NY, NY), Marcia McCoy Gallery (Santa Fe, NM) and Morgan Gallery (Kansas City, MO). Gormally has created site-specific installations for sculpture invitationals in the United States and Belfast, Ireland. Locally he has exhibited at Cornish College of the Arts, Bellevue College Gallery, Bellwether Sculpture Exhibition, Solomon Fine Art and Lead Gallery. Method Gallery (Seattle, WA) will host a solo exhibition of Gormally's work in February 2016.
Tom Gormally received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and also attended California College of Arts and Crafts. He earned his MFA from Wichita State University, and he is a NEA grant recipient for sculpture.
I am grateful for receiving the Artist Trust Fellowship, both for the recognition and the financial support. It comes at an opportune time, as it will help in the creation of my work for my solo exhibition at Method Gallery in Seattle in February 2016.
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What is wrong with sexists these days? No sodding imagination, that's what. No creative spark. It's because they're all emasculated. I blame all these women going around doing stuff. It's enough to put any red-blooded male off launching a serious, vaguely credible hate campaign.
Back in the day, when it was still legal for husbands to rape their wives, you didn't get Rod Liddle whining about monthly cycles, or someone by the intriguing name of Swayne O'Pie penning badly-referenced diatribes explaining Why Britain Hates Men. Yes, we had Neil Lyndon and his nevertheless ludicrous No More Sex War. But with Lyndon, you at least sensed that the man was making an effort. He had an air of professionalism. He didn't just want to be that random sexist in the pub, ranting away bitterly in the corner. Good for you, Neil. I look at today's leading misogynists and frankly, I'm disappointed.
I can't help thinking that if I were a misogynist, I'd at least make a bloody effort. I'd at least try to bring the same enthusiasm to my misogyny that I bring to my feminism. And I'd be really good at it, despite being a woman and therefore, in this context, totally shit. Look, I'll be honest: I can't help thinking that if I were a misogynist, I'd totally rock.
If I were a misogynist, here are some of the things I would and wouldn't do (O'Pie, I hope you're taking note):
- I would actually read some feminist literature. Most of it's quite good, which can be annoying, but to be honest, you can quote anything out of context. In this very post I've written "any male […] is […] shit". See? How misandrist is that?
- I would not explain the words "misandry" and "misandrist" every single time I used them. Yes, I know it fills space when you're trying to write an "academic-looking" book, and it also implies that you're extra-discriminated against because no one even knows the name of the prejudice you face. But really. It's just irritating now. Why not act as though everyone knows what the words mean? Why not act as though your movement is strong already? Fake it to make it, that's what I say (I read that in the Louise Mensch column in Glamour. MRAs really ought to get with the Glamour programme).
- I would stop referring to feminism as an "industry". First, it makes you look like a paranoid idiot, what with it not being true, but second, and more importantly, you're suggesting women might be good in business. They're not. They're crap, always going off to have babies and change tampons during board meetings and shit. Only I wouldn't say that, either. I'd just ask the odd pointed question about how much Andrea Dworkin really earned last year (NB I'd pretend Dworkin was still alive for as long as possible, ideally inspiring Elvis-style sightings. I feel this could be useful).
- I would pretend all of the following were invented by feminists, just to make the lot of women in Britain appear worse than it actually would be if all these things did not exist (except they do): Femail; David Cameron; Special K; Nadine Dorries; the pay gap; lack of representation of women in politics and the media; SPUC; F4J; KFC*; rape apologism; Closer magazine; MRAs (apart from me).
- I'd give up the pretence that all working women are Bridget Jones and all working men are coal miners. Nice contrast, but sod all basis in reality (and alas, everyone's spotted this already).
- I'd avoid The Random Use of Capitals in order to suggest that something I've just invented (Forever Feminism, for instance) is in fact a Recognised Sociological Phenomenon. It just isn't very Convincing.
- I wouldn't bother making my own crazy adverts, à la F4J. There are plenty of real adverts which are extremely succesful at making women look like stupid, vacuous idiots. I'd just leave Lynx, Carlsberg and Virgin to it.
Above all, though, I'd articulate what I actually wanted. I'd say what rights I didn't want women to have, what choices they shouldn't be permitted to make, and what objections they shouldn't be permitted to raise. Not being a real misogynist, I have no idea what these actually are. So in fact, I probably wouldn't be all that good at this misogyny lark after all. That's probably why I'm a feminist; it's not because I'm ugly or rejected by men (although obviously I'm those things as well). But above all, I seriously lack those essential woman-hating skills.
* KFC is not an instance of me getting carried away with the acronyms. "Mum's night off" has not been forgotten or indeed forgiven.


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Singapore's adoption of smartphones puts them on the leading edge of a worldwide cultural shift.
Google conducted a survey of 30,000 people in 30 countries. Their research uncovered some surprising facts about the global adoption of smartphone technology. Google's Ryan Hayward delivered the findings with XK9 and asked to create an animated infographic to share the results. Armed with a bullet-riddled PowerPoint and a list of statistics- we delivered this video. In 48 hours.
For this kind of information to have an impact it needs to be effectively presented. If it isn't engaging, it won't stick. Our goal was to reveal this extraordinary information in a well-designed, memorable way. This video became on of a series that detailed findings by specific countries.
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So now with Step 1, home maintenance, and Step 2, clutter clearing (starting small), under our belts, it's time to focus on Step 3 of how to start the year off right. In truth, I often tell people to start with this step but I also have found that this is the one people can have the hardest time with defining.
It's about your intention. In my school of feng shui, Instinctive Feng Shui™, we have a mantra shared with us by our teacher and school founder Denise Linn. (My school is Interior Alignment®, which includes studies in feng shui and space clearing.) The mantra goes like this: "where intention goes, energy flows." Simple enough, but you may be asking yourself, what does that mean?
It means that as we focus on the things we want in our lives, we will build energy toward achieving those goals, and in fact attract more energy to achieving those goals. From a psychological perspective, it makes perfect sense. If we stay focused on our wants and desires, all while taking action toward them, we will be better able to achieve those goals.
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In Feng Shui, we think of it on an energetic level because we know that by working with the energy or chi in our homes, we can better support achieving those goals or intentions in our lives. In the simplest terms, we support this by making sure there is a good flow of energy in the home (consider how easy it is to walk through your home and walk into every room) and make sure that everything in our home makes us feel good (creating positive, supportive energy).
OK, so let's think about intention. Start by asking yourself what you want out of this New Year. Are you striving for a new job? Or maybe just more money? Perhaps this is the year to find the love of your life? Do you want to start a family? Travel to exotic places? Maybe you're just looking for life to settle down a bit for you?
There is no wrong intention. The most important thing is to just be honest about what it is you would like – no judgment, just accept it. Once you have this, you need to take it one step deeper. Consider not just what you want, but what it will feel like to actually achieve. This is critical. You need to be able to truly get a sense for this feeling. Take a moment to imagine yourself having reached your goal. What is it like? Are you excited? Filled with joy? Satisfied? Confident? Secure? Loved? That feeling is where the "magic" is. THAT is what makes all the difference. Feel it, own it, and hold on to that feeling more than anything else. Now let go of any expectations for HOW you will achieve it.
It's not as easy as it sounds. We often throw up road blocks of doubt and insecurity. But if you use your intention, and more importantly the feeling behind it, as a regular reminder for your own happiness, you can knock those self-imposed blockades out of the way.
So with your intention in hand, now you can create your own Feng Shui enhancement in your space to help you stay focused on your intention. For instance, if you want to travel because it makes you feel alive and free, you can focus on the travel space in your home (every home has one, as does every room), and put up pictures of where you want to go or, even better, a representation of how it would make you feel (e.g., simply hanging the word freedom in the room).
You also can use this intention as you focus on Steps 1 and 2. Changing a light bulb? As you replace it, be thinking about attracting more "ideas" around achieving your intention. Clearing out a junk drawer? As you create order, know that it is allowing you to get more organized and prepared for making your intention a reality. Since Steps 1 and 2 are ongoing efforts throughout the year, you are creating opportunities all the time to reinforce your intention.
There you have it. Three simple steps for starting your year off right – and such good timing – not only have you just gotten through the first month of the Western calendar year but the Chinese New Year just kicked off on Friday, Jan. 31st.
And as always, if you have questions, feel free to reach out to me.


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To continue our posts for National Physical Fitness & Sports Month, we're featuring another LZX employee's thoughts and stories on physical activity. Today's post is all about Michelle. Michelle is new to the LZX team, and we are thrilled to have her.
She works in both our Customer Service and Shipping Departments and does a fantastic job. Here's what she has to say about sports and activity. Enjoy!
What was your favorite sport/activity as a kid and why?
I enjoyed playing softball and basketball growing up. I grew up watching baseball and basketball with my dad. I enjoy the fast pace of basketball and the fact that it truly is a team sport. Softball is also a team sport but is a little more individual when it comes to hitting and fielding.
What is your favorite sport/activity as an adult and why?
Softball and volleyball. I enjoy getting together with friends one night a week to compete doing something that we love. It's a good way to interact with others as well as stay active.
Tell us your favorite sports/activity memory.
Playing with the marching band on the 4th of July in Washington, D.C., in front of the White House. We were also able to tour the White House, and you are not allowed to do that anymore - definitely one of my favorite memories.
Did you play sports in High School? College? Tell us about it!
In High School, I was in marching band. I didn't start up softball and volleyball again until after I finished school. I then joined the adult leagues.
What are your thoughts on the importance of physical activity and sports?
I feel physical activity and sports are very important not only for the benefits of staying active, but also all the lessons that you can learn when it comes to being a team player, how to get along with others and how to handle each situation whether you win or lose. The social part as well as the physical part are very important.
Great thoughts from Michelle! Stay tuned for more featured LZX team members.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Nov. 5, 2013 – New findings from a retrospective study conducted at Burke Rehabilitation Center has found that post-stroke apathy and hypersomnia negatively affected patients' acute rehabilitation outcomes. The researchers published their findings in the October issue of Translational Stroke Research. This is the first U.S. study that has focused on apathy and hypersomnia as contributors to post-stroke recovery.
"People don't typically look at apathy and hypersomnia as factors affecting outcomes, despite 35 percent of post-stroke patients being diagnosed with apathy" said Andrew Goldfine, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at Burke Medical Research Institute (BMRI) and attending neurologist at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital. "Rather than addressing apathy, patients are often diagnosed as depressed and treated with anti-depressants. However, previous studies have found that these drugs don't help."
Dr. Goldfine, also an assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College, collaborated with Jessica Elder, Ph.D., instructor of biostatistics and epidemiology at BMRI and Cornell; Nicholas D. Schiff, M.D., professor of neurology and neuroscience at Cornell; Jonathan D. Victor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology at Cornell; and Ari L. Harris, M.D., neurology resident at Alpert Medical School.
Dr. Goldfine and his team retrospectively studied 213 stroke patients who were admitted to the stroke-specialized unit at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital who had no dementia or dependence on others pre-stroke. The team reviewed the standardized documentation provided by Burke treating therapists to diagnose apathy (lack of initiation) and hypersomnia (low arousal) in patients and how those factors influenced rehabilitation.
The team found that 21 percent of patients had persistent apathy and 5.6 percent had persistent hypersomnia. Taking account the patients' overall impairment, age, time since stroke and stroke type, they found that patients at all stroke severities who had either apathy or hypersomnia exhibited less cognition and attention span. At discharge, patients with apathy were 2.4 times more likely to go to a nursing home and scored 12 points lower on Burke's overall impairment measure (FIM) than those without apathy or hypersomnia. Patients with hypersomnia were 10 times more likely to go to a nursing home and scored 16 points lower on the FIM.
"This study confirms that there is a problem and we need further research to learn more about these conditions so that we can find treatments for them," Dr. Goldfine noted.
Dr. Goldfine and his team are following up this retrospective review with a prospective study using formal research scales and serial measurements of impairment and participation. If the new study confirms what the retrospectively study has found, further studies would then focus on targeted treatments for apathy and hypersomnia.
"Adequate treatment at an early stage could potentially improve the patients' response rate and give them better outcomes," Dr. Goldfine added.
Funded by grants and private donations, Burke's Medical Research Institute is academically affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College and engages in cutting-edge basic, translational and clinical research to bring about new knowledge that can become the basis for future rehabilitation therapies in the areas of stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions. The institute strives to assist patients to recover more fully, not just decrease disability, which has been the focus of mainstream rehabilitation research historically.
Burke Medical Research Institute is part of the Burke Rehabilitation Center, which also comprises the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital. The hospital is a private, not-for-profit, acute rehabilitation hospital that is the only hospital in Westchester County dedicated solely to rehabilitation medicine. It offers both inpatient and outpatient programs for those who have experienced a disabling illness, traumatic injury or joint replacement surgery. The hospital's world-renowned doctors and therapists, and the institute's scientists share the Burke mission to ensure that every patient makes the fullest possible recovery. For additional information on Burke Rehabilitation Center, please visit burke.org.
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Ideas For A Bedroom
Ideas For A Bedroom | People nowadays want one thing distinctive and special especially for their living place. That is why trendy homes look thus distinctive and in all probability even weird. Modern homes are extremely distinctive within the means they appear, and it's somehow confusing to spot. However, ideas for a bedroom don't seem