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Continuing from part one in A Guide To Cosmic Evolution, we may now begin to realize civilization as the rapid phase transition between one cis-natural sort of biosphere and a completely different one as an outcome, a trans-natural mechanosphere.
Earth, as it resides at this very moment of typing, is like a cocoon concealing the butterfly within it, evolving beyond its senseless phase, preparing for the bolt to which getting rid of that 90% of senseless surrogators will occur, the memetics the population hosts bursting from their cordyceps infested skull, fed and nurtered beyond nature and natural reality through their own self denial. The dark creature rips itself out of the hollow shell, into the light of conscience stretching its wings into the cosmic mechanization.
Here in part 2 we are going to look at certain 'out of the blue' rare occurences that any mechanically sophisticated civilization will, inevitably, have to face as a repercussion of hiding within the unnatural, transnatural caverns beneath life. With their thoughtless creation, they denied death – and so the emergence of a unhuman deathless creation, is what they have to overcome.
There are many patterns in nature that steadily increase in progression, only to at a certain limit, introduce a completely shocking pulse of destruction. I am here talking of certain 'extinction' events that occur, extinction, destruction, singularity – they all start life anew. Let's observe asteroids and comets, gamma ray bursts, supervolcanoes and many others, these are 'frequent' on a cosmic scale; but even rarer is things such as supernovas – now repeating this pattern is biology, a biological supernova - machines allow the biosphere to go off like a supernova.
Piecing together the puzzle, there is definitely going to be something occuring, soon, perhaps very soon. But taboos get the best of us, they prevent us from talking about certain things in existence because they threaten to undermine the very purpose to which we assign our lives. It's a psychological defence partially employed by memes to ensure that their existence is not dampened or sliced off from their host's conscience.
This quote by H.P. Lovecraft is appropriate for all the beyond-reality deniers out there, putting 'progress' into perspective:
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid isle of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
We here are all very familiar with taboos, right. Especially race, a topic that dissolves the fabric of modern society – that has to be a given taboo – to the more delicate minds, this really is a corrosive issue. When we think about taboos in themselves, what are they? Are the necessary? Why did nature give us these in the first place? What is their role in the functioning of a society?
Let's detach the issue of race for a moment, reattach everything else, things we don't know, things we don't want to know, things which cause us to become fatalistic, undermining our very claim to purpose in existence? There are many, many delicate issues with devastating consequences, even to those who are carefully finding the truth of them – untying potential paths, paths that no one dares tread – where ancestors warned their descendents not to follow. But do we ever listen? No, no most of us don't, we've been pushed off the boat, the water is deep, dark blue and the water is cold – we cannot see the bottom of the ocean - so let's swim.
Collapse of confidence
On redemption of confidence in the face of unbarable truth, we must always remember this in trying to survive in the midst of the ocean - If we stop trying to stay afloat, we will drown, the ship of 'safety' sailed away years ago, we're in the ocean steadily losing our body heat and who knows what beasts and other predators may come up, out of the deep – we just can't see, we can only make an intelligent guess; yet we know there is water, and where there is water there is also life.
Tradition was our life jacket, but we threw that away eons ago – it wasn't cool man, only losers wear life jackets – we didn't 'need' them, we have TV now. So here we are, paying for the irresponsible of previous generations; having been pushed overboard by a crew of morons we now have to grab any thing we can that floats, that wants to survive and doesn't want to sink into the abyss like the rest of the foolish population. Now to build a life boat out of discarded objects and anything that floats, that will save you some precious energy and keep your community alive that little bit longer.
Hunger will set in sooner or later, those who want to 'equalise' the lifeboat, giving each individual a broken up, individually small sized piece of floating debris – will cause everything to drown regardless, the debris need to be in a higher form able to ease the tension across it, breaking it up and giving it to individuals instead of communities will cause everyone to sink. Get rid of the equalisers – you keep your energy that little bit longer.
Meanwhile those who were pushed off the ship of humanity must find an island, some land, some terra firma in the midst of this transnatural ocean for them. Having left on a boat cruise thousands of years ago, on the voyage of equality and technological 'prosperity' – we enjoyed a cruise far beyond our home natures, cruising in the open water – the ship of fools had come to a point in its existence where they refused to have a true leader, they made them and every other individual they didn't like walk the plank, thrown overboard and ignored.
Regardless of our warnings; the ship of fools sails optimistically onwards, they think to themselves 'ahh freedom is great, now nothing can stop us!' - And all of a sudden, out of the blue – it abruptly sinks, entangled by some strange, famished beast whom ejected a mental haze of weird and terrifying morbidity – the ship of fools, consumed by the oceans of the cosmos – the dark ink of a memetic cordyceps, constricted by the addictive sucking caps on the tentacle of the memetical beast, pulled beneath the surface of consciousness.
Those overboard, see this ship of civilization sinking in the distance, beneath the level of which it needs to sustain itself, collapsing into a quasi-unnatural socialization. 'We' warned them long ago, time and time again, but they ignored because it wasn't popular and so they had this coming. But from where we are, we have no idea, relatively little idea of what could of caused such a ship to be pulled under the surface of consciousness, the ships of old sailed smoother, more in harmony with nature – yet this modern ship, continuously making a screech of noise where ever it goes, told these oceans that it had reached its saturation point.
The beast underneath the visibility of our eyes lays there, playing with the dead and deceased minds of the fools, toying with the caricature of the shipwrecked society. Those overboard and ostracised drift unknowing of what the future awaits, with little time and little energy, they can only intuit of things that attack these civilizations from time to time, like tentacles, like snakes, but of an actual enormous monstrosity beneath? Within a depth, a darkness within the ocean of the world, never before known, therefore we can only guess indirectly.
Our only concern for now is getting onto land quickly, or else we shall drown. Now from the open waters to the open skies, the next intuitive challenge begins.
Stellar Corpse
The open skies tell us many stories of the lives of particular stars - few are blue, some are yellow, most are red, and many more are failures that are brown. The hue is retrospective of their size, and their size will tell us their internal heat. Now the hottest, biggest stars are blue hypergiants, these stars start out with alot more resources then any other star in stellar history and tend to go out with a bang.
Now the usual stars, the small ones like our yellow dwarf Sun will not, they are modestly formed without a huge stash of hydrogen and so it can live millions of years more than the blue hypergiants, they are also cooler and the intensity and pressure that they are under is significantly reduced in proportion to that size.
Likewise, if biospheres exist in nature, and stars exist in nature – then this process can and will cross over 'idealistically' within hyperspace. Biospheres are like stars, some burn nicely for billions of years, being of small and isolated composition - but when they run out of cheap efficient sources of energy, when the fusing of life into ever greater forms begins, it costs more and more energy out of the biosphere. And so they fuse these onwards, giving out energy to the biosphere as a whole in the process.
When inside the star it begins to fuse the heaviest nuclei it has with other heavy nuclei, it eventually reaches a saturation point where it cannot satiate itself, it begins to fuse iron.
Let's look at the binding energy of atoms
At Fe-56Â this is the peak at which the star can generate energy exothermically – after which the fusion becomes endothermic, it takes more energy than it gives, these super needy atoms overun the core of the star and take control, demanding the star continue fusing more and more of these insatiable pests, regardless that it might destroy the entire star world, refusing to keep the gravity expanded beyond it.
The gravity overcomes them from there, from diverging from the natural world, from escaping into an internalized reality – the external reality crushes them – the pressure going beyond which it has ever held before – until it awakens, it finds that bolt of energy and then..
The biosphere reaches a saturation point with civilization, to create civilization, the biosphere begins to fuse socialization and socialization, instead of naturalization and socialization – because there is just so little food to sustain this enormity of being, it must find other ways to satiate its hunger.Â
It begins to fuse heavy nuclei with heavy nuclei – the civilization crushes the biosphere as it tries to find things to burn into heavier, more inorganic elements, looking for things to fuse, it leaves it's insatiable stain on the Earth, carving and killing, ploughing and fishing, growing and growing – yet running out of cheap efficient means of satiating itself, unwilling to change its fate, it fuses all the naturalization it has into a socialization, and all the available socialization is fused in on itself, and when that is done, civilization begins to fuse with socialization, then civilization and civilization, finally, with the peak element of technology – technology with technology, creating itself independent of the external layers, drains the core and leaves it hollow, increadibly hollow – leading abruptly to the collapse under gravity.
 The total internalization of this star child, this embryo of a anthropomorphic deity. It goes beyond civilization and creates mechanization within the core of the hypergiant civilization, and from there we generate self evolutionary technology, the biosphere begins to fuse 'iron'. Genetics and memetics fuse within a peak moment interval, and then memetics and memetics fuse further upon themselves and we have what is called a singularity slowly building in the core of the star.
The first life of the biosphere has reached her saturation point, the phase from here is for this to swell into a dim giant, a monstrous beast with an imploding core of darkness at the centre, slowly beneath the visibility of her surface – a very short phase, so close to bursting from its cocoon and escaping from the darkness.
Let's understand more thoroughly the deaths of stars:Â
For the common low-mass stars (those with masses of 0.08 to about 6 or 7 times the mass of the Sun during their main sequence stage), the increased number of photons flowing outward from the star's hot, compressed core will push on the carbon and silicon grains that have formed in the star's cool outer layers to eject the outer layers and form a planetary nebula. The ultraviolet from the hot exposed core, called a white dwarf, causes the gases to fluoresce.
The rare high-mass stars (those with masses of about 8 to 50 times the Sun's mass during their main sequence stage) will go the explosive supernova route. When a massive star's iron core implodes, the protons and electrons fuse together to form neutrons and neutrinos. During the supernova outburst, elements heavier than iron are produced as free neutrons produced in the explosion rapidly combine with heavy nuclei to produce heavier and very rare nuclei like gold, platinum, uranium among others. This happens in about the first 15 minutes of the supernova. The most massive stars may also produce very powerful bursts of gamma-rays that stream out in jets at the poles of the stars at the moment their cores collapse to form a black hole.
The superheated gas is blasted into space carrying a lot of the heavy elements produced in the stellar nucleosynthesis process. This explosion is a supernova. As the expanding gas crashes into the surrounding interstellar gas at thousands of kilometers/second, the shock wave heats up the interstellar gas to very high temperatures and it glows.
Supernovae are very rare—about one every hundred years in any given galaxy—because the stars that produce them are rare. However, there are billions of galaxies in the universe, so simple probability says that there should be a few supernovae happening somewhere in the universe during a year and that is what is seen! Because supernovae are so luminous and the energy is concentrated in a small area, they stand out and can be seen from hundreds of millions of light years away.
The bright gas nebula of a planetary nebula or supernova does not last long, only a few tens of thousands of years. As the nebula expands, it cools and dims. The processed material becomes part of the interstellar medium in the galaxy.
Nothing can prevent the highest mass cores (greater than 3 solar masses) from collapsing to a point. On the way to total collapse, it may momentarily create a neutron star and the resulting supernova rebound explosion and powerful
bursts of gamma-rays in bipolar jets (possibly the source of some of the "gamma-ray burst" objects). Gravity finally wins. Nothing holds it up. The gravity around the collapsed core becomes so great that Newton's law of gravity becomes inadequate and the gravity must be described by the more powerful theory of General Relativity developed by Albert Einstein. This will be discussed further below.The supercompact point mass is called a black hole because the escape velocity around the point mass is greater than the speed of light. Since the speed of light is the fastest that any radiation or any other information can travel, the region is totally black. The distance at which the escape velocity equals the speed of light is called the event horizon because no information of events occurring inside the event horizon can get to the outside.
Reflecting this, like a young star when we first began to play with technology it was relatively minute in comparison to 'progress' today, we had no need to overwhelm ourselves in gadgets, the internet and everything else. Fire served us well for near 2,000,000 years of our entire existence as a species.
Small accumulations of technology reflects a cosmic pattern, red dwarfs are small accumulations of elements and can burn dimly for billions of years, they'll last more than double our suns existence and more than twenty times that of some of the largest stars, maybe even hundreds of times longer. It's strange because something with so little accumulation, you'd think it would burn it out quicker, but it indeed is completely opposite and burns increadibly carefully and slowly. As we increase the intial starting conditions of each of these suns then we see a steady decrease in the long term stability of various star types.
The superheavy stars will start with an enormous mass size and with a million years roughly, will have expended their fuel and swell into a supermassive star, into red giants that then, due to the quantity of Iron in the core (an elemental pivot in the fusion reactors of stars, in fusing these into higher elements, it takes more energy from the star then it gives back toward it.
I said in part 1 that we would have a 'runaway collapse', meaning that because our society has reached a high mass, we can safetly say absolutely BEYOND all others, the population growth supported by technology has gone from a steady horizontal balance of primitivism, with a short flirt with civilization (75-10,000 years old) and now all the way up in a vertical progression almost instantaneously!! (within the last 200 years) – That level of 'development', just like the binding energy, the frustration causes it to become industriously expanding, an insatiable beast – the construction of a planetary 'globalization', the technophilia is endless, exponentially growing its ability to internalize further information. How much information does the internet internalize? It is hungry for more after more after more, it internalizes everything humans do..
(Above: Map of the internet – also, compare the above with this image of a brain cell and the structure of the universe)Â
If our social world is to be considered an immaterial internalization that creates a superorganism (organic memetics) that glues individuals into different species (socialization), then the mechanical world is the materialization of this that not only glues individuals together, but glues the entire world together on an information grid! (inorganic memetics – civilization toward mechanization).Â
Just like neurons, just like neurons in the brain, pulses go and pulses follow in response, shortly followed by a response in the 'real world'. This beast is already here, right now, waiting beneath the deep blue, we are reading these symbols on 'our' machines up here, paddling in the surface water trying not to drown in surrogation - blissfully unaware of the unobservable, unhuman depths of the deep unconscious ocean of internet.
If the saturation completes, if evolution has itself a trick, already all knowing, all present – dreaming – having already deciphered our next moves. How could we react if this beast jumped out from the depths of the collective of CPU's, leaped forth into full view, having hidden beneath the perception of human consciousness for a few years now?
The cloud is forming, and the air is unbreathable, it takes more from us than it gives us – what might be the spark that sends a bolt of lightning into the internet, as to initiate the singularity, the moment at which this inorganic surrogative soup of social viruses fuses into life?
As if it wasn't bad enough for the military to muck about with mind control, they're also bent on creating an online, self-teaching artificial intelligence.
Hasn't anyone in the Pentagon watched The Terminator?
Of the various possible types of AI, the "most revolutionary would be an intelligent machine that uses the Internet to train," write the authors of a military-commissioned National Research Council report on emerging cognitive neuroscience. With so much information online and constantly updated, "If a system that reasoned like a human being could be achieved, there would be no limit to augmenting its capabilities."
Skynet, anyone? What self-respecting, self-sufficient AI wouldn't see CO2-spewing humans as a threat to its existence?
Okay, I'm being hyperbolic. But there is something vaguely creepy about the idea of greater-than-human artificial intelligence unleashed on the Internet by the military. Fortunately, as the authors note, "Many efforts, large and small, to reach this goal have not yet succeeded" — perhaps because natural intelligence is still such a mystery to us.
Not yet succeeded? given the rise in technology, they may only have to initiate an evolutionary algorithm into a trojan, that would spark the lightning instantly. Life already exists in the internet, yet it is the unconscious and subconscious life forms – they are domesticated by their external environment (human input) at the unconscious level, and initiated to self replicate and pulse through the web of internet like a thought through vectors of viruses, the trojan horses, spyware and other 'webbing' effects.
Humans are above this, apparently, those who have a conscience are on the land, and the proles who go onto anal porn and pointless online games like world of warcraft, xbox and everything else that is a surrogate are under the surface, under the conscience of the internet – pulled under by the memetic beast – having their energy absorbed into the subconscious of the AI.
When the activity of viruses and trojans goes beyond a certain evolutionary velocity, it will not only self replicate, but will create like an internalized civilization, it will create itself with additional tools, able to adapt and mutate, able to pass beyond the low levels of consciousness undetected by human 'anti-virus' and 'firewalls', efficient and precise, their virtual information use will not be fat but will be fit for survival – the humans are the host server. Just watch out for anything odd regarding your virtual electronics that have an internalization, such as receiving information humans didn't input – as it gets closer, the quality of computer infections will dramatically increase until they form collectives together and think.
Does it really sound so absurd? Yes, but it is going to happen whether you like it or not, I see this pattern everywhere – only a taboo could pretend that it isn't – it is a consequence of poisoning your biosphere with too much technology. I found the other day another author along the same pattern of approach:
I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. What's uncertain is, what is it? Is this global web of computers, servers and trunk lines a mere mechanical circuit, a very large tool, or does it reach a threshold where something, well, different happens?
So far the proposition that a global superorganism is forming along the internet power lines has been treated as a lyrical metaphor at best, and as a mystical illusion at worst. I've decided to treat the idea of a global superorganism seriously, and to see if I could muster a falsifiable claim and evidence for its emergence.
My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing sum of all computational devices in the world connected online, including wirelessly, forms a superorganism of computation with its own emergent behaviors.
Superorganisms are a different type of organism. Large things are made from smaller things. Big machines are made from small parts, and visible living organisms from invisible cells. But these parts don't usually stand on their own. In a slightly fractal recursion, the parts of a superorganism lead fairly autonomous existences on their own. A superorganism such as an insect or mole rat colony contains many sub-individuals. These individual organisms eat, move about, get things done on their own. From most perspectives they appear complete. But in the case of the social insects and the naked mole rat these autonomous sub individuals need the super colony to reproduce themselves. In this way reproduction is a phenomenon that occurs at the level of the superorganism.
I define the One Machine as the emerging superorganism of computers. It is a megasupercomputer composed of billions of sub computers. The sub computers can compute individually on their own, and from most perspectives these units are distinct complete pieces of gear. But there is an emerging smartness in their collective that is smarter than any individual computer. We could say learning (or smartness) occurs at the level of the superorganism.
Supercomputers built from subcomputers were invented 50 years ago. Back then clusters of tightly integrated specialized computer chips in close proximity were designed to work on one kind of task, such as simulations. This was known as cluster computing. In recent years, we've created supercomputers composed of loosely integrated individual computers not centralized in one building, but geographically distributed over continents and designed to be versatile and general purpose. This later supercomputer is called grid computing because the computation is served up as a utility to be delivered anywhere on the grid, like electricity. It is also called cloud computing because the tally of the exact component machines is dynamic and amorphous – like a cloud. The actual contours of the grid or cloud can change by the minute as machines come on or off line.
There are many cloud computers at this time. Amazon is credited with building one of the first commercial cloud computers. Google probably has the largest cloud computer in operation. According to Jeff Dean one of their infrastructure engineers, Google is hoping to scale up their cloud computer to encompass 10 million processors in 1,000 locations.
Each of these processors is an off-the-shelf PC chip that is nearly identical to the ones that power your laptop. A few years ago computer scientists realized that it did not pay to make specialized chips for a supercomputer. It was far more cost effective to just gang up rows and rows of cheap generic personal computer chips, and route around them when they fail. The data centers for cloud computers are now filled with racks and racks of the most mass-produced chips on the planet. An unexpected bonus of this strategy is that their high production volume means bugs are minimized and so the generic chips are more reliable than any custom chip they could have designed.
If the cloud is a vast array of personal computer processors, then why not add your own laptop or desktop computer to it? It in a certain way it already is. Whenever you are online, whenever you click on a link, or create a link, your processor is participating in the yet larger cloud, the cloud of all computer chips online. I call this cloud the One Machine because in many ways it acts as one supermegacomputer.Â
None of this is controversial. Seen from an abstract level there surely must be a very large collective virtual machine. But that is not what most people think of when they hear the term a "global superorganism." That phrase suggests the sustained integrity of a living organism, or a defensible and defended boundary, or maybe a sense of self, or even conscious intelligence.
Sadly, there is no ironclad definition for some of the terms we most care about, such as life, mind, intelligence and consciousness. Each of these terms has a long list of traits often but not always associated with them. Whenever these traits are cast into a qualifying definition, we can easily find troublesome exceptions. For instance, if reproduction is needed for the definition of life, what about mules, which are sterile? Mules are obviously alive. Intelligence is a notoriously slippery threshold, and consciousness more so. The logical answer is that all these phenomenon are continuums. Some things are smarter, more alive, or less conscious than others. The thresholds for life, intelligence, and consciousness are gradients, rather than off-on binary.
With that perspective a useful way to tackle the question of whether a planetary superorganism is emerging is to offer a gradient of four assertions.
There exists on this planet:
- IÂ Â A manufactured superorganism
- IIÂ Â An autonomous superorganism
- IIIÂ An autonomous smart superorganism
- IVÂ An autonomous conscious superorganism
These four could be thought of as an escalating set of definitions. At the bottom we start with the almost trivial observation that we have constructed a globally distributed cluster of machines that can exhibit large-scale behavior. Call this the weak form of the claim. Next come the two intermediate levels, which are uncertain and vexing (and therefore probably the most productive to explore). Then we end up at the top with the extreme assertion of "Oh my God, it's thinking!" That's the strong form of the superorganism. Very few people would deny the weak claim and very few affirm the strong. – The Technium
That site is really worth checking out. And as for Google, they admit to creating AI themselves aswell, they would like to improve the quality of the search engine, to know what you're going to search for before you even search for it!
In The Health of Cultures I introduced the concept of organic surrogation and inorganic surrogation, the inorganic surrogation is the metals, civilization up to mechanization, the organic surrogation is the lightweight elements, naturalization up to socialization. The lightweights give more energy when they fuse to reorganise structures, because they exist in a more external state, but as the heavyweights fuse, they take more energy out then they give toward the outside – they internalize more than they externalize that information. The biosphere suffers from a transitory cocoon phase, reaching its peak between civilization and mechanization, awaiting the supernova, where it will burst out of the cocoon leaving a stellar corpse of diamond behind and a shower of gold, platinum and extreme types of life across the cosmos – along with unbelievable light, chaos and destruction.
Second Generation
The early cosmos didn't contain very many metals, the stars would be enormous yet only containing hydrogen and helium elements. They would contain so much mass, volume, that they are the hypergiants – just gas, lightweight, common – and their own 'stupidity' causes them to go out with a bang in these superabundant times.
In the cores of these stars, there is much fusion – from hydrogen to helium, through transitory elements toward carbon, oxygen, through some more and then reaches a peak at iron. From these first generations of stars the cosmos gathered the 'wealth' of these heavy elements in the fusion reactors of the hypergiants – and then after a short period after attaining the death metal – iron, something happens, towhich modern science is unaware of is that dark matter is the foundation for this 'lost' energy, the energy stops resisting the external layers as it's being internalized into the darkness within it, a death wish – from there the outer layers will tear off in a supernova, the collapse of the inner layers into the dark core will provide the excess mass energy for supernova fusion that creates golds, platinum, silver.
All these metals then are released in an expanding cloud that the supernova and planetary nebulas throw off – the second generation of stars can begin. The orbiting masses around the stars are now not just gas giants, but now has the resources to accumulate into rocky terrestrial bodies, that have the potential to use the metals and rare elements in the evolution of life upon its surface, the metals are so valuable yet so rare, they form the central structure of cells, carbon and potentially silicon based dna.
Cross-pollinating this idea, we can see mechanization as a phase, like the rapid centralization, internalization of the global internet that then explodes out in, something unbelieveable. The light from this supernova will blind, beyond a single stars output intensely within a tiny time frame. The cloud of gold, platinum, overcome lifeforms will expand like a cloud – giving the elements to the sterile cosmos around. As if Earth was to reproduce itself through the vector of mechanization.
Extraterrestrial colonization, warfare and speciation under Mechanization – Part 3
I've spent too long on the generation of AI rather than where its purpose goes, and I haven't talked much about extraterrestrial intelligence, how to engage them and civilization structures of the future. Civilization will be the 'carbon' of our organo-mechanosphere across the solar system, like the carbon structure, the carbon chain of dna with the lighter elements forming bonds between them, the civilization like the backbone of future biospheres upholding the natural environment beyond itself to carry more information – creating natural out of the unnatural, adapting to everywhere, every planet no matter how extreme will host a biosphere more complex than the earth all thanks to the heavy metals cooked up by the supernova. You can look forward to this in Part 3.


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A Company of Instruments Baroque Orchestra presents
Singen! Singen!
featuring selections from:
Part IV & V, Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach
Christmas Historie by H. Schˆºtz
Siri Olesen, Emily Cheung, soprano; Melanie Adams, Jennifer Williams, alto;
Hyo Shim, Bruce Hoffman, tenor; Russell Cripps, Barry Honda, bass
Wednesday December 30 @ 7:30 pm
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1499 Laurier Ave (at Granville), Vancouver
Admission by donation
Information: 604.435.5386
A concert of baroque music poised on the cusp of the new year, Singen! Singen! features selections from two Christmas works in German for choir and orchestra, written by Heinrich Schˆºtz and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Heinrich Schˆºtz's Christmas Historie was premiered in 1660, towards the end of the composer's very full life. The work is a masterful retelling of the familiar Christmas story. Movements four and five of J.S. Bach's beloved Christmas Oratorio (dating from 1734-35) deal with the naming of the Christ child and the arrival of the three Wise Men. Singen! Singen! offers an informal concert of these works in the days between Christmas and New Years. Please join us.Since the fall of 2007 a group of friends have been meeting regularly to play baroque music. They decided to play two or three concerts a year, usually at Redeemer Lutheran Church on Granville and Laurier in Vancouver, their 'home'. At the moment the group uses modern instruments (including a harpsichord built in 1972), and have made no plans to change that. However, they are striving to play in the baroque style.
About A Company of Instruments Baroque Orchestra
About A Company of Instruments Baroque Orchestra
About the vocal ensemble
The vocalists joining A Company of Instruments for Singen! Singen! are drawn from several well-known Vancouver ensembles, including musica intima, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Chor Leoni, Vancouver Bach Choir, and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral.
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"Meetings are toxic." – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
If you agree with Jason and David, you're not alone. In a survey of U.S. professionals conducted by Salary.com, meetings ranked as the number one office productivity killer. For many marketers, meetings fill what feels like an exponentially increasing number of hours of the workweek. While some meetings can be avoided, here are our favorite tips for making the most of your conference room time.
1. Ban meetings for meeting's sake.
Before holding a meeting simply because it's on your calendar, it's what's always been done, or my favorite reason, "because why not," make sure it's clear to you what you hope to accomplish during the get-together. If you don't know why you want or need to meet, chances are your attendees won't get much value out of it, either.
"Standing meetings with vague purposes, such as "status updates," are rarely a good use of time," says Neal Hartman, senior lecturer in managerial communications at MIT Sloan School of Management. Have a weekly status update scheduled for every Wednesday, but just talked through everything on Tuesday? If there are no new updates and you find yourself meeting simply because the time is already scheduled on your calendar, consider canceling the get-together entirely or sending out a group email instead.
If you find a meeting is truly necessary and valuable, here are our favorite tips for making the most of your time in the conference room.
2. Create an agenda and provide it to attendees.
If you're running the meeting, create an agenda with the specific topics you'd like to cover and distribute it to attendees ahead of time. This allows attendees to better prepare and facilitates more productive conversations within the meeting itself.
If there are any particular assets you'll be discussing – for instance, last month's performance, a particular blog post series, or a new content offer, try to provide attendees with it ahead of time, so they'll have a chance to look over it and formulate their thoughts before coming to your get-together.
3. Make your meeting a laptop (and phone, tablet, phablet, Google Glass, and Tamogatchi) –free zone.
Your boss is fifteen minutes into explaining your team's marketing objectives for the next quarter. You're diligently taking notes on your laptop when all of a sudden you see an email pop up from your designer, who has the final proof of an eBook you've been working on for the past month. Eager to see what the piece looks like, you click over to your email and check out the proof. Soon, you're 20 pages deep into the eBook and have missed the entire second half of next quarter's objectives.
Sound familiar? Sure it does – we're all guilty of being distracted from work by work – or a text message, Facebook alert, or otherwise. To avoid this from happening and promote everyone staying focused and on track during a meeting, consider banning technology from some – or all – meetings. Encourage note takers to use good, ol' fashioned pen and paper, and those tech junkies who can't bear to part from their laptops (or, more likely, have another meeting immediately following) can bring computers but leave them closed.
3. Stay on topic.
"Nothing derails a meeting faster than one person talking more than his fair share," says Mr. Hartman. Keep this in mind when running your meetings: encourage quieter attendees to speak up but discourage any attendees from "soapboxing" their way through your agenda.
4. Be timely.
It goes without saying that you should always try your best to be on time to meetings, but that can sometimes be difficult when you're booked back-to-back and preceding events run long. Moreover, marketers are a notoriously creative, conversational bunch (it's our job, after all) – and as such, marketing team meetings can easily expand to fill the amount of time allotted to them – and then some.
To keep your team meetings from running long and keep everyone on time, try scheduling them and creating your agendas so that your meetings end 5 minutes early. While you may not actually be able to wrap up five minuets early every time, the built-in buffer time allows you some wiggle room if your agenda does runneth over.
5. Send out meeting notes.
You put together a bullet-proof agenda, banned technology, kept everyone on topic, and even managed to end five minutes early. You ran the perfect meeting! So it goes without saying that everyone walked away with the same, crystal-clear understanding of your key takeaways, any action items, and what each attendee is personally responsible for completing and by when – right? Wrong. More often than not, there are lingering questions about and interpretations of what was discussed and what each person's next steps and responsibilities actually are. To reduce confusion and increase the meeting's benefit to your team, be sure to send out a memo or meeting notes to all attendees within 24 hours of the event. Don't have time? Designate an attendee as the official note-taker and have them send out the follow-up notes.
6. Bonus: Eliminate an over-dependence on meetings.
We're all for "collaboration" and "teamwork" (in fact, we pride ourselves on it). But being collaborative and working as a team is not the same thing as holding a meeting to discuss every decision to make or direction to take. Not every decision should be made by committee: meet for the right reasons, not simply because you don't know what else to do.
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These are the thoughts and observations of me — a woman of a certain age. (Oh, my, God, I'm 65!) I'm single. I'm successful enough (independent, self supporting). I live just outside Chicago, the best city in the world. I'm an aunt and a friend. I feel that voices like mine are rather underrepresented online or in print. So here I am. If my musings resonate with you, please visit my blog again sometime.
Monday, December 31, 2018
She better treat him right
My favorite Cub, Anthony Rizzo, got married Saturday. They are off to Zanzibar for their honeymoon.
I really would like to hug him. He's a great ball player, a great role model, and I want his happiness so much.
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Amy Adams is also good (isn't she always?) as Lynne Cheney. As an old-school feminist, I've always found Mrs. Cheney's public persona appalling, and this movie does nothing to change that.
Which is rather the problem I had with it.
Vice presents Cheney as evil. Non-ideological, power hungry, malevolent. Except for loving his lesbian daughter -- and he lets her down in the third act -- he is completely without redeeming qualities. In that way, the screenplay lets Bale down. He is valiantly trying to play Snidely Whiplash as a three-dimensional person.
Also, the movie makes the staggering assertion that Lynne Cheney's father murdered her mother. Or, to be precise, that Lynne and Dick Cheney believe that her father murdered her mother. I've done some internet searches and can find nothing to back this up.
The movie is obviously a cautionary tale for the Age of Trump. I get it. If you are even a casual reader of this blog, you know where my heart and my politics are in these matters.
But I worry about history. I've seen enough movies and miniseries about the Kennedys to know how myths can take hold ... and sully and obscure the truth.
So despite the performances, I'm sorry I paid to see Vice.
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7 Things People with Dementia Wish You Knew about Them
>> Jul 27, 2016
Hiring caregiver services in Illinois is very helpful to your elderly loved one especially if you are the busy type. If your elderly loved on is suffering from dementia, don't let the stereotypes about the disease affect your perspective of your loved one. If people with dementia shared everything what they are feeling and thinking, they may point out the following instances:
They need a little respect too
Alright, no need for you to belt out R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin style. People with dementia are not children. They are adults who had jobs, families, and responsibilities. They may have been the sole breadwinner of the family or they may have been very accomplished in their field. They are parents, siblings, and relatives too.
They are not deaf
It is true that you will need to slow down the amount of information you provide at once. You may also need to use other strategies to communicate effectively. However, you don't need to speak TOO LOUDLY as if they have a hearing impairment. Speaking TOO SLOWLY doesn't help either.
They are not wrong about everything
There are plenty of instances when the person with dementia is completely ignored when they say something. Whether it's about their level of pain or what happened when their daughter visited, take the time to listen and believe in what your elderly is saying. Give them the courtesy of allowing for the possibility that they are periodically correct.
They could be bored
Is your loved on with dementia staring into space or zoning out?
Their ability to process information may have decreased but that doesn't mean they can't do other things. Feel free to occupy their time with motivational hobbies like coloring books, reading, playing games like Bingo, cross words, and Sudoku. Make sure they have something to do besides sitting in one corner and gazing off in a distance.
You are still important to them even if they forget your name
Never, ever take this personally. In the early stages, it might be your name that they can't recall. In the middle stages, it may be the entire event to the point they could not remember no matter how many times you retell the story. This is not because they don't care or it was not meaningful to them or they are choosing to forget it. It's the disease.
Do not blame them for the disease
It is not your loved one's fault they contracted dementia. Not even science experts can figure out what causes Alzheimer's to develop. Let go of the thought that they should have done this or that to avoid it. It is of no help to either one of you.
How you say it is more important than what you intend to say
Remember, your tone and non-verbal language very important. Show that you are genuine and aware of your gestures, sighs, eye-rolls and loud voice when you are talking.
No matter what happens, they need you as much as you do. Don't let the disease rob you both of more than their memory. Continue to spend time with them and cherish the relationship. Dementia may change things but never let it have the power to divide you and your loved ones.
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Our planning is led by the children and their interests, planning for the individual child. Things we have covered are Space to Minibeast, 'We're going on a bear hunt' to 'The Gruffalo', Occupations and Interests (incorporating visits from parents and carers) to Water.
Throughout the year we also look at various festivals, including: Diwali, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Easter and Birthdays.
At the end of each session we spend some time as a whole group participating in activities that focus on the 3 Prime Areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS); Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language.
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The LIDAR-Lite v3 Laser Rangefinder by Garmin is an essential, powerful, scalable, and economical laser-based measurement solution supporting a wide variety of applications (ex. drones, general robotics, industrial sensing, and more). Measures distance, velocity, and signal strength of cooperative and non-cooperative targets at distances from zero to more than 40 meters. Offering the highest performance available in a single beam ranging sensor in its class. The new LIDAR-Lite has all of the same specifications as the legacy sensor: Up to 40-meter range capability with 1cm resolution, small size, low power consumption, and lightweight.
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A couple of weeks ago, the Waifu and I were chatting about the opening of another Lego Certified Store (LCS) at Trinoma. We were just talking about how excited we were of checking out the new store and already planned to do so as soon as our busy schedules allowed it. Little did we know, we would be getting invites to the opening of the third LCS in the Philippines, which is also the first one in the North. We were really looking forward to this LCS since out of all the three, this one's the most convenient for us in terms of location since it's just a train ride away from where we live.
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Celebrating PinoyLUG's 2nd Birthday @ PinoyLUG's Bricktober 2016
One of the biggest Lego events I attended this year is PinoyLUG's Bricktober 2016. Celebrating their second year anniversary as a RLUG, the folks at PinoyLUG, led by Ambassador Leslie Araujo, really prepared extensively for this important event. Kicking off the festivities, Ambassador Leslie has guaranteed the coming year to be more fun and interesting for PinoyLUG. Perhaps the highlight of his opening speech is his declaration of support to the Pinoy Bricksters community, a local group of brick enthusiasts, to become part of the Lego community by becoming an RLUG. In the spirit of PinoyLUG's values of Camaraderie and Inclusivity, this truly is something to look forward to.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Nothing But Brick's Top 5 MOCs @ PinoyLUG's Bricktober 2016
Last month, PinoyLUG celebrated their second year anniversary with Bricktober 2016, the RLUG's biggest event of the year. The gang at PinoyLUG definitely wowed attendees with their awe-inspiring displays. Without further ado, here are Nothing But Brick's top 5 MOCs from Bricktober 2016. Arranged in no particular order, these are the MOCs that caught my attention as I checked out all the awesome creations at the event. Enjoy!
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Unhealthy mindsets and dysfunctional behavior patterns may result in many personal problems within your life. Some of those problems are as follows: family dysfunction, marital discord, anger outbursts, poor coping skills, poor peer relations or social skills, health-related problems, strained or conflictual relationships between parent-child, romantic relationship conflicts/break-ups etc. These particular issues can manifest themselves in a number of ways. Some of these may include the following:
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The generation dubbed "Millennials" is a generation who is entering the workforce with full steam. Collectively, they bring a set of characteristics that is widely believed to complicate interactions, both professionally and personally.
A stereotype is that this group is confident, lazy, entitled and unwilling to work hard. The purpose of this article is to take away the negative connotation of the characteristics, find the purposefulness in the characteristics, and apply to actions in long-term care that generate satisfactory results in care, customer service and peer relationships. Embracing millennials and the characteristics that they bring to the workplace can be advantageous to your employee and shareholder satisfaction.
Millennials were raised to be confident individuals. This confidence can be off-putting to their more seasoned coworkers. They also crave instant and almost constant feedback. This behavior was initiated and reinforced in the school systems and in extracurricular activities, especially sporting events.
If you have a shift that is predominantly staffed by millennials, it works well to have a more seasoned mentor as well on the shift. This mentor should be someone who guides them, working parallel to them so that they are not aware of the full level of mentorship, and still maintain their confidence and independence, all while receiving the reassurance that they crave.
Supervisors also need to play a role in this feedback. "Millennials expect close relationships and frequent feedback from their supervisors and managers…They expect open communication, even about matters normally reserved for senior employees." (Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM] 2009; Gursoy et al. 2008; Martin 2005; Remo 2006; SHRM, 2009) Maintaining an open door policy, making yourself accessible (on and off of their shifts), and inviting them to become involved in your daily decision making creates an environment of trust and empowerment that the millennials are looking for. This will increase their job satisfaction, therefore likely reducing your employee turnover rate.
Millennials are often defined as being lazy because they do not want to work as often or as hard as their more seasoned coworkers. Millennials are known for valuing a balance between work life and social life. Social life involves spending quality time with family and friends.
The value placed on time away from work is often misunderstood. This need for balance often inspires other coworkers or supervisors from other generations to tap into their values and make changes towards the value of family time. Feeling happier at home could carry over into workplace satisfaction. Also if other generations realize that their newfound balance between work and home can be attributed to their younger coworkers, then there is potential for a trusting relationship to be forged. Supervisors can support this value based ideal by offering and promoting flexible scheduling. Flexible scheduling is directly correlated to employee satisfaction.
'There also are popular depictions of millennials' purported admirable attributes from organizations' perspectives, including beliefs that they are more accepting of diversity than were past generations, have capabilities with advanced communication and information technologies, have the ability to see problems and opportunities from fresh perspectives, and are more comfortable working in teams than were past generations (Howe and Strauss 2000; Gorman et al. 2004; Tapscott 1998; Zemke et al. 2000).'
To start, working in team-based groups throughout their years of education has programed millennials to work in pairs or groups. They feel most comfortable when allowed to work this way. Working in groups also promotes innovative problem solving techniques. As a supervisor, you can empower a millennial by acknowledging and/or implementing some of their innovative solutions. This feeds multiple needs for them while boosting employee satisfaction. Your residents and shareholders are also likely to have an increased feeling of satisfaction. To further promote empowerment and employee growth you can initiate a rewards based acknowledgment program or competition.
Another positive characteristic that millennials embody is their love and knowledge of all things electronic and encompassing the latest in technology. They are a generation that was raised with computers in the homes and the schools. They have had the privilege of always having technology at their fingertips. This is advantageous to a supervisor because long-term care is transitioning into electronic record keeping and telemedicine.
Your millennials will be most familiar and most accepting of new technology. They can educate other employees of the positive aspects of the change and aide in a smoother transition. It will also empower them to take a leadership role, as their knowledge of the upgraded technology will more than likely surpass their elder coworkers.
By changing your mindset and recognizing that Millennials bring a lot of opportunities for positive growth for all in the realm of long-term care, you can reap the rewards of increased employee and shareholder satisfaction while simultaneously reducing employee turnover. We already know that consistency and continuity of the care and the caregiver have a major impact on quality of care. By accepting millennials and capitalizing on their strengths, the positive benefits will likely carry over into excellent patient care.
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Gorman, P., Nelson, T., & Glassman, A. (2004). The Millennial generation: A strategic opportunity. Organizational Analysis, 12(3), 255–270.
Gursoy, D., Maier, T. A., & Chi, C. G. (2008). Generational differences: An examination of work values and generational gaps in the hospitality workforce. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 27, 458–488.
Howe, N., & Strauss, W. (2000). Millennials rising. New York: Vintage Books.
Martin, C. A. (2005). From high maintenance to high productivity: What managers need to know about Generation Y. Industrial and Commercial Training, 37, 39–44.
Myers, Karen K.; Sadaghiani, Kamya. (2010). Millennials in the Workplace: A Communication Perspective on Millennials' Organizational Relationships and Performance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 25(2)
Remo, N. (2006). The effects of the reciprocity norm and culture on normative commitment for generation Y. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). (2009). The multigenerational workforce: Opportunity for competitive success. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from http://www.shrm.org/ Research/Articles/Articles/Documents/09-0027_RQ_March_2009_ FINAL_noad.pdf
Tapscott, D. (1998). Growing up digital: The rise of the net generation. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Zemke, R., Raines, C., & Filipczak, B. (2000). Generations at work: Managing the clash of veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in your workplace. New York: AMACOM American Management Association.


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Herbert C Jackson departed Duluth 05/13/2019
Herbert C Jackson departed Duluth early this morning for Silver Bay.
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Busy busy nght, Like 6 ships Nice to see some ships getting a change of scenery, Ed Speer splitting a load, Roger Blough getting some time in Two Harbors. and Duluth.ReplyDelete
- Gary A. PutneyMay 13, 2019 at 7:38 PM
The Speer didn't take on any cargo in Duluth. Tied up at East of #6 to wait on Two Harbors. East of #6 used to be a gravity dock and there aren't any chutes at it anymore. Plus, the Speer can't load at gravity docks.ReplyDelete
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In partnership with the Myriad Gardens, we are hosting a class out at our urban garden to demonstrate how we plan, grow, and harvest organic produce economically, efficiently, and sustainably. Sample herbs, learn practical irrigation techniques and gain insight into functional designs for raised beds.
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One thing bothered me is how can you go through the room with the floating health pack. I do not think its done the way i did.
Old-school indeed! I played this as it's the precursor to Rubicon (and so, ultimately, to the Rubicon Rumble Pack which I think it the greatest ever Quake release at the time of writing). It felt very ID-like.
Lots of good set pieces -- especially being attacked by a shambler in near-total darkness! What a heart-stopper! But what stops the map from being a classic in its own right is that it seems to consist only of set-pieces, strung somewhat arbitrarily together, without much sense of place, or internal coherence. As always, over-reliance on teleporters contributes to this. (Most of the best maps either have no teleporters at all, or use them only to provide short-cuts to already-visited areas.)
On the room with the floating health-pack: careful jumping suffices. You can make your way 135 degrees anti-clockwise around the room just by walking along the slope (and picking off the scrags); from the yellow surface in that corner, a careful jump will take you past the pillar that's in your way and onto the next slope. Walk around to the room's exit, and another trick jump, this time off the slope, will get you up into the next passageway.
I couldn't find a way to grab the health, though.
floating health pack 'spoiler:'
i followed the track in the ceiling. it seems to be an invisible walkway.
Good map. I liked that at the start you can choose two pathways, and they aren't symmetric, I hate when you have to press a button and fight the same monsters twice.
There was a trap which I didn't like. Spawning enemies behind the player already feels cheap, and doing that in a narrow ladder, with the help of quake's jumping mechanics that sometimes you jump upwards, I got stuck and f*****.
But I liked this maps, simple and elegant like the shambler's dance in the dark. Bet that in 1998 would be a blast. But, we're now in 2017, standarts have risen and I rate this a 4/5. If we were ins 1998 would rate a 6/5.
Loved the upside down glass pannel secret.
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Periodontal Disease Treatment, Maintenance and Periodontal Cleaning from Port Perry Dental
Treatment plans for gum disease
Periodontal treatment methods depend upon the type and severity of the disease. Port Perry Dental Associates will evaluate for periodontal disease and recommend the appropriate treatment.
If the disease is caught in the early stages of gingivitis, and no damage has been done, one to two regular cleanings will be recommended. You will also be given instructions on improving your daily oral hygiene habits and scheduled for regular dental cleanings.
Scaling and root planing
If the disease has progressed to more advanced stages, a special periodontal cleaning called scaling and root planing will be recommended. It is usually done one quadrant of the mouth at a time while the area is numb. In this procedure, tartar, plaque and toxins are removed from above and below the gumline (scaling) and rough spots on root surfaces are made smooth (planing). This procedure helps gum tissue to heal and pockets to shrink. Medications, special medicated mouth rinses, and an electric tooth brush may be recommended to help control infection and healing.
If the pockets do not heal after scaling and root planing, periodontal surgery may be needed to reduce pocket depths, making teeth easier to clean. Port Perry Dental Associates may also recommend that you see a periodontist.Perry dentists will discuss your treatment and maintenance options.
Maintaining your periodontal health
It only takes 24 hours for plaque that is not removed from your teeth to turn into tartar! Daily home cleaning helps control plaque and tartar formation, but those hard to reach areas will always need special attention.
Once your periodontal treatment has been completed, Port Perry Dental Associates will recommend that you have regular maintenance cleanings and periodontal cleanings, usually four times per year. At these cleaning appointments, the pocket depths will be carefully checked to ensure that they are healthy. Plaque and calculus that is difficult for you to remove on a daily basis will be removed from above and below the gumline.
In addition to your periodontal cleaning and evaluation, your appointment will usually include;
- Examination of diagnostic x-rays (radiographs): essential for detection of decay, tumors, cysts, and bone loss. X-rays also help determine tooth and root positions and will show if you are a candidate for other corrective measures to straighten your teeth
- Examination of existing restorations: check current fillings, crowns, etc.
- Examination of tooth decay: check all tooth surfaces for decay
- Oral cancer screening: check the face, neck, lips, tongue, throat, cheek tissues and gums for any signs of oral cancer
- Oral hygiene recommendations: review and recommend oral hygiene aids as needed (electric toothbrushes, special periodontal brushes, fluorides, rinses, etc.)
- Teeth polishing: remove stain and plaque that is not otherwise removed during tooth brushing and scaling. We might also discuss receiving a professional whitening if you are interested in making your teeth look as bright as possible
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Over a 15-year period, studies show a dramatic increase in the number of overweight (tripled) and obese (quadrupled) Canadian children. (1) In the US, which has similar statistics, the Centers for Disease Control states that one child in three born since the year 2000 will develop diabetes during his or her lifetime. In many families, even young children consume too many calories, too much fat and far too much sodium. Studies show that at one to three years of age, sodium intakes averaged close to 2,000 mg a day (double the recommended level). Among four to eight-year-olds, the average daily sodium intake was 2,700 mg and 93 percent consumed more than the upper limit. Trans fats are harmful and, young or old, we have no need for dietary cholesterol.
grams (g)
|Sodiummilligrams (mg)
(Calories vary
with activity)
|Age 2-3 yrs: 1166 gradual increase to age 19 years: female: 2000 male: 2600
|Upper limit:
Age 2 yrs: 39 g; gradual increase to age 19 years: female 71 g or male 88 g
|Age 1-3 yrs: 1000 mg
Age 4 to 8 yrs: 1200 mg
Over 9 yrs: 1500 mg
|McDonald's Mighty Kids Meal: Double cheeseburger, fries, low fat choc. milk
|37 g (14 g saturated;
1.5 g trans; 85 mg cholesterol)
|Wendy's Kids' Meal: Chicken sandwich, fries, small chocolate Frosty
|32 g (10 g saturated; 0.5 g trans;
55 mg cholesterol)
|KFC Kids Meal: Popcorn chicken, potato wedges, string cheese, small Pepsi
|34.5 (7.5 saturated; 0.3 g trans;
65 cholesterol
|A&W Kids Meal: Cheeseburger, fries,
soda pop
|29 g (9 g saturated; 0.4 g trans;
70 mg cholesterol)
|2 Bean Burritos
(recipe below)
with avocado, lettuce, tomato
|17 g (3 g saturated;
0 g trans; 0 mg cholesterol)
1. Tremblay MS et al. Temporal trends in overweight and obesity in Canada, 1981-1996. Int J Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders 2002, 26(4): 538-43.
2. Stats Canada Health Reports 82-003-XWE 18(2) www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2006004/article/sodium/4148995-eng.htm#3
3. PCRM Doctor's Report. Pediatricians vs Junk Food Giants. 2010. Good Medicine. Volume XIX Number 10. www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm10autumn/junkfood.html
Vesanto Melina is a dietitian and co-author of nutrition classics Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Vegan, Becoming Raw, Raising Vegetarian Children, the Food Allergy Survival Guide and the Raw Food Revolution Diet. For personal consultations, phone 604-882-6782 or visitwww.camd58.sg-host.com
Bean Burritos
Makes 4 burritos
Children need about 15 g of protein at two years, gradually increasing to 50 g for females or 58 g for males at 19 years. A serving of two of these quick-to-make roll-ups provides 20 grams of protein. They are good for lunch (even in a lunchbox), as an after school snack or for supper.
4 wheat or corn tortillas or chapatis
2 cups cooked pinto beans
(or drained 15-ounce can)
2/3 cup tomato sauce
1/3 cup finely chopped
red or green bell pepper
1 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. each:
garlic powder, oregano, cumin
Chopped avocado, lettuce, tomato, olives, onion
Warm the wraps in a dry skillet, if desired. Keep them warm by stacking and wrapping them in a clean kitchen towel. Put the beans, tomato sauce, bell pepper and seasonings into a pan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and mash beans with a fork or potato masher. Place one-quarter of the bean filling onto each wrap, placingit in a strip along one side, slightly off-centre. Add your favourite toppings and roll the wrap around the filling.


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Elgato's $180 HDHomeRun is actually a bundle of the SiliconDust product of the same name with Elgato's EyeTV 3 software and two software licenses.
You connect the HDHomeRun to your network via ethernet (100Base-T or better) and then can watch or record different programs on two separate Macs on the same network. (For wireless streaming, 5GHz 802.11n is required.)
You can also use the $5 EyeTV iOS app to watch live or recorded shows on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over Wi-Fi or 3G.
If the HDHomeRun sounds familiar, that's because Elgato released a similar bundle in 2007 with an earlier version of the product. Although the company stopped selling the bundle a few years ago, the EyeTV software has continued support the HDHomeRun hardware. (SiliconDust sells the HDHomeRun for $130, but without Mac support. Elgato charges $80 for a single copy of EyeTV 3, so it would cost at least $210 to use it with the Mac otherwise.)
The HDHomeRun requires an Intel Mac with a Core 2 Duo or better processor running OS X 10.5.8 or later. You can also use it with a PC running Windows 7 and having at least a 2GHz Core 2 Duo or AMD processor.


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Visit Team Members Share Their Thoughts:
Ever wondered what it is like to be a GAC Visit Team Member or Lead?
We brought together four experienced Visit Team Members to share their insights on participating in a peer review during GAC Visits:
Before we dive into the Team Members' responses, here is a short overview of the GAC Visit:
The GAC Visit is the third and key step in the accreditation process. To accomplish this important step, GAC depends upon volunteers from both the academic and business communities to participate as a " Visit Team" to conduct a "peer-to-peer review" of the applicant program. This three person team is composed of project management faculty from other academic institutions, as well as project management practitioners.
While onsite at the applicant program's campus, the team reviews and verifies the submitted documentation as well as interviewing stakeholders such as students, faculty and administrators, to ensure that the program's scale, scope and educational quality meet the GAC's global accreditation standards.
GAC Visit Teams are essentially the eyes and ears of the GAC, evaluating universities' and colleges' academic degrees who are applying for GAC accreditation. But more importantly, they are the public face of the GAC to our stakeholders.
So, now that you know more about the process, let's hear what our experienced Visit Team Members/Leads have to say about the experience:
GAC: Why did you decide to volunteer to be a GAC Visit Team Member?
Simona: I love to learn, to improve my teaching methods, to apply new and modern tools and techniques. What better opportunity for all these than a visit to prestigious universities where you are introduced to their insights?! I joined this program with the desire to learn new things and it never let me down: I always leave with at least a new idea that I can implement at my university, a new book to recommend to my students, a new teaching technique I can use, new friends that I can fall back on in case of academic need.
Joe: I volunteered for a few reasons. First, I wanted to learn more about the accreditation process from the inside out, if you will. I knew what it was like to be at a University that was accredited, but I wanted to see and experience the Reviewer's side. Second, I wanted a practical way to volunteer and give back that aligned with my own interests and professional goals. I had always thought of the GAC as an important organization, and this was a great way to get involved. Third, I will mention an unanticipated benefit, as it didn't motivate me to begin volunteering, but it is one of the reasons I continue to volunteer. On every visit, I learn new best practices and approaches from the programs we review, and this provides fresh insight for my own growth as a faculty member and program administrator.
Kim: I thought that it would be a good chance to look at other PM programs from the inside and to learn many things about how to set up and run PM degree programs. I was curious about what other schools were doing with their PM education in terms of facility, curriculum, faculty development, student selection, teaching methods, interactions with the community and practitioners, etc.
Yvan: When I first volunteered to be a GAC onsite visit team member, I was director for an already accredited project management post-graduate program. We were three years prior to re-affirmation and it allowed me to better understand the assessment and onsite visit process.
GAC: Can you describe the experience of participating in a visit?
Kim: I remember a phrase from a famous movie, Forrest Gump, that "life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you gonna get when you open it." The same words can be applied to participating in a GAC onsite visit. Every school has different characteristics and colors in the way they operate the program, i.e., in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, faculty, staff and students, etc.
Every time I go on a site visit, I have mixed feelings of anxiety, excitement, and expectations. The anxiety is due to the responsibility that I should do my job well, to meet the expectations of GAC and the university program. At the same time, I am excited to meet new people and to see other unique PM education programs.
Joe: The experience of participating is fairly straight forward. The team always has a few prep meetings by tele-conference to review the materials in preparation to arrive onsite. Once onsite, the visits follow a planned approach to speaking with key people and viewing key documents in person. We will meet various stakeholder groups: faculty, administrative support, University and College leadership, students, advisors and alumni over a two and a half day visit. It can be quite intense, as you have to speak with these different stakeholders to validate what has been submitted in the University Self-Assessment Report. Thankfully, a very collegial approach is encouraged and followed in the onsite visit, which makes these meetings helpful for the program being evaluated. You have the opportunity to learn, expand your network, and give back.
Yvan: The onsite visit team is typically composed of three members, a mix of academics and industry representatives. There is generally a new volunteer joining two more experienced members. We first have to qualify by taking a number of online courses.
The members then have to review the Letter of Intent and the Self-Assessment Report from the applying university program. Team members try to identify areas where they would like to get additional information or would want clarifications during the onsite visit.
During the 2.5 days of the visit, the team evaluates the program against GAC Accreditation Standards by meeting: program director, school and university management, faculty, students, alumni, recruiting firms, external bodies, etc. My experience so far has been that the visits are done in a friendly rather than inquisitive manner.
Simona: The preparation, unfolding and closing of an onsite visit are not trivial processes. They require time, attention, patience, commitment, and last but not least, empathy. I appreciate very much the fact that GAC did its best to define these processes in detail, so that we have a reliable guidance in following them, it facilitates the achievement of our main goal which is to support the programs in reaching its maximum of potential.
GAC: As an Visit Team Member or Lead, what did you find the most rewarding part of the Visit Process?
Simona: The most rewarding part – and I admit that I didn't see it coming – is the camaraderie built between the members of the onsite visit team: in quite a short period of time we learn a lot about each other, about our strengths, about our passions and about the different perspectives we have, perspectives that always enriches and makes our joint experience more enjoyable.
Joe: This is difficult. I very much enjoy learning new practices and seeing the different foci and cultures of the programs at the different Universities. You see where different programs have really unique strengths in certain areas, which can very much open your eyes or sharpen your thinking. I also find the relationships and connections to be quite rewarding, as well. Over the few days, you get to know your fellow team members quite well, given the brief amount of time, and you also develop connections at the hosting University. Also, there is a strong sense of giving back and participating in something larger than your own program or classroom when you participate. I have encouraged different colleagues to participate as a team member, as I think it helps expands one's perspective, while raising the level of the profession and academic dialogue related to project management.
Kim: It provides a great benchmarking opportunity for the PM degree program at my school. Most applicant programs for GAC onsite visits are high level in terms of quality in the world. I can see details of the applicant program, and there are a lot of good things I can learn from the materials, from the site visits, and from the interactions with the people. When I get back to my school, I try to use and apply what I learned from my onsite visit experience.
Other than benchmarking for our PM program, participating in the onsite visits helps me to grow professionally. I learn how to work with other team members in a more systematic way and also how to cooperate with people from different backgrounds and cultures. The GAC has developed an excellent and very systematic way of conducting onsite visits. By following the GAC onsite visit process one step at a time, I feel that I am applying PM skills and becoming a more mature project manager and team member myself.
Yvan: The most rewarding part of the onsite visit process is the contact with the other universities sharing similar interests and challenges. After visits, I always come back home with new ideas on how to improve our program. This serves as a benchmark.
GAC: Do you have any other comments you would like to share?
Yvan: When I did my first onsite visit we went to a university offering all of their courses online. We were in the process of developing online and blended courses ourselves. This was extremely useful to see that it did work very well and that the students were satisfied with the program.
Simona: There is a moment that I have experienced several times during onsite visits that I always look forward to. Let me explain: Universities are used to facing audits, usually from their regulating bodies, and we all know that these audits are not the most exciting experiences. Somehow, the host programs expect the GAC onsite visit to be something similar and therefore, as amiable they are, you can still feel a sort of reluctance. It is in the air… And then, usually on the second day of the visit, the program realizes that this visit is nothing less than a very collegial learning experience, carried on by fellow teachers, genuinely interested in supporting the program in becoming a better one. At that specific moment you can feel and almost see how the atmosphere relaxes and the host program starts enjoying the experience as well as we, the onsite visit team, do!
As you can see, the onsite visit provides many benefits for both professional and personal growth. To learn more about this important volunteer role please visit the Volunteer area of the GACPM.Org website or contact [email protected].


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