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What is REOS?
REOS is a blockchain-based ecosystem for user generated content (UGC) that gives power and control back to content creators and consumers.
What are REOS tokens?
REOS is the ERC-20 compliant utility token that is circulating on the REOS platform
What is REOSchain?
REOSchainTM is the main blockchain for the REOS community where all digital content contributed by content creators is registered on. It ensures accurate attribution of ownership of the digital assets while providing a "Voting by Stakes" mechanism to valid the truthfulness of the content.
What problem does REOS solve?
There are two problems we're attempting to solve. First, on platforms from Yelp to Facebook, there is no effective way for regular users to validate the content, which has resulted in issues like the distribution of disingenuous content. Yelp, for example, admitted itself that as many as 25% of the reviews on its website are fake.
Second, there is too much concentration of power among a few large Silicon Valley Internet giants like Google and Facebook to the extent that they not only dictate how much money a content creator can make on their platforms, but they also routinely censor content based on their business interests and political leanings while disrepecting their users' right to privacy.
Why is REOS utilizing blockchain technology??
Blockchain technology enables us to create a transparent, secure, and decentralized system where members determine the value of the content. With our implementation, a piece of user generated content is first registered on the blockchain to ensure accurate attribution of ownership of the digital asset. Next, the results of the validation process are recorded on the blockchain which cannot be altered. Then, all transactions of UGC for buyers and sellers are recorded on the blockchain which become part of the permanent record. Finally, thanks to the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) algorithm, the system is controlled by the members, as opposed to centrally managed by a corporation, which means control is given back to content creators and consumers.
Are there any competitors?
There are two types of competitors in the market.
1. Traditional social media platforms like YouTubes and Facebook. Admittedly, they have all the incumbent advantages from deep pocket to number of users. However, for all of the pitfalls of the traditional social media as we described in the whitepaper, there is room for a decentralized platform that gives power and control back to content creators and users. In fact, many users demand it.
2. There are some blockchain-based projects that claim to be transforming UGC platforms – such as PROPS, SteemIT, Current Media, Flixxo, etc. But none of these offer a truly democratic way of voting with stakes along with an efficient consensus protocol that scales.
How does the REOS content validation system work?
In our solution, a range for the length of the content validation process is pre-defined, and the content promoter can decide on exactly how long it takes for the validation to complete. The content promoter must up-vote or down-vote the content in order to successfully initiate the validation process. Once the validation process is initiated, content consumers can come in and up-vote or down-vote the content. A set number of REOS will be deducted from the content consumer's account once they vote, which will then be put into an escrow account. Once the validation process ends, votes are calculated and then announced. The side with more votes will take all the tokens in the escrow account, and the total tokens will be equally distributed to the majority side members. The other side will not get any tokens back.
Will there be a token pre-sale?
We will conduct the pre-sale on 9:00am PDT April 27, 2018 until 11:59pm October 14, 2018.
When does the token sale start?
Our public token sale will begin October 15, 2018.
What is the total supply of REOS tokens?
The total supply of REOS tokens will be 10,000,000,000, and 50% of total issuance will be sold.
How much will one REOS token cost?
We will distribute REOS Tokens at a price of 1 ETH = 50,000 REOS Tokens during public sale.
Are there any bonuses or discounts available for the REOS token sale?
For pre-sale discounts, please get in touch with us at email@example.com.
Where and how will the REOS token sale take place?
Register for an account at https://tokensale.reos.me/user to join the whitelist. After the public token sale begins, you can select Ethereum (ETH) or Bitcoin (BTC) in the user dashboard to buy REOS tokens.
What is the minimum to participate in pre-sale?
What cryptocurrencies are accepted in the token crowdsale?
For our REOS token sale we will accept Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).
What is the minimum to participate in the token crowdsale?
The minimum purchase per person will be 0.1 ETH.
What is the maximum purchase per person during the crowdsale?
The maximum purchase per person will be 50 ETH.
Can I send ETH from an exchange?
No, we only accept payments made with your digital wallets.
Which countries can participate in the token sale?
You can participate in the REOS token sale if you are not a citizen or permanent resident from China, US, or if you don't have permanent residence in countries such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories under the United States Control.
We also recommend that you review your country's specific legislation to ensure you are abiding by the rules of your country.
Didn't see an answer to your question? Please send us an email at email@example.com.


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Quartz is a mineral which is the most abundant and can be widely found on earth's surface. It forms in all temperatures, in every part of the world and is highly resistant, durable, ubiquitous which makes it the most dominant mineral in the world.
Quartz has been known since pre-historic times, it was first found in about 300 BC and published in 1505 in Germany. All forms of quartz can be used as gemstones, they can be cut into various types of cut and can be used in all kinds of jewellery.
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Paris: a destination that most all travelers have at the top of their list. The high school travelers want to go before they start college. All the girls dream of Paris and finding love. All the hype made me put this city at the back of my list. It just seemed so cliché. Where are you going in Europe? Paris. Bleh.
This is the greatest city I've been to—and it's hard for me to say that because I loved Sydney. There is so much to see and explore. This trip was more like a field trip than a vacation. I think it felt that way because of our hotel—and because we had a cool little 9 year-old tag along—he was fun!
We arrived at our hotel, after a last minute travel change due to weather, a day early. The Hyatt Regency Etoile gave us a complimentary room for half a day (6am-3pm) because we were exhausted. That was sweet of them. The service at the hotel was great…but the hotel itself could use..um..something. They were renovating, but the place seemed bland. Anyways, let's save that for another discussion.
Paris. Ah. We had no real plan. We just wandered about and decided where to go on the fly. First, we went to Sacre Coeur, because my wife said, "This is the best view of the entire city" I'm not sure which was better, the view or the street waffles, both were sooo good!
The Louvre. So grand, so big, so amazing. Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo highlight the famous works, but there is just so much. The tables, the tapestries, the diamonds, the statues, paintings…I can't describe it….just go. Just go!
The Notre Dame. Now that is something spectacular. We decided to make the 400-step trek up the stairs to the top. Why? Because my wife said, "This is the best view of the entire city." Ok! Let's go. It was worth it—breathtaking.
The Luxembourg Gardens and the Tuileries were very nice as well. Children playing soccer, couples strolling about, statues, nature—everything is so clean and beautiful.
We placed a lock on Lover's Bridge, walked along the river gazing at street artists and various vendors, and stopped for ice cream. On this day we just wandered about, looking for some glass building that we never found. But what we did find was the ferris wheel. A GIANT ferris wheel. Those of you that know me know that I get motion sickness super easily–couple that with a fear of heights, and any kind of carnival ride makes me severely sick. They wouldn't go without me though so I succumbed. And why? Because "this is the best view of the entire city!" Hmmm…I think I have heard that before. The ferris wheel was great. It moves super slow so I was ok! Plus, a view of Champs Elysees, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and "the entire city."
Paris was great. I would love to go back, and I will. I want to eat more waffles, have more coffee and wine, and I want to find the lock that my sweetheart and I put on the bridge. Because holding her hand and walking about was "my best view of the entire city."


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Swedish cablenet Com Hem has announced plans to merge with mobile network Tele2.
The agreement would see Kinnevik has the largest shareholder in the operation with 27.3 per cent of the share capital. The next two largest shareholders, Norges Bank and MFS Investment, would hold 2.9 per cent each.
Com Hem's owners will receive a 26.9 per cent stake in the merged entity and SEK 6.6 billion in cash (€671 million).
In a statement the companies said the merger would create a leading integrated operator by combining an award-winning mobile network with the fastest national fixed network and the widest range of content in the market. Over recent years the two companies have become increasingly close with a sustained period of joint strategic development.
The combined customer base will include 3.9 million mobile customers, 0.8 million broadband customers and 1.1 million digital TV customers in Sweden.
Mike Parton, chairman of the board of directors of Tele2 said: "We are delighted to have reached agreement to combine two great Nordic companies to create a leading integrated connectivity provider in the Swedish market. I take great pride in the outstanding returns Tele2 has delivered to its shareholders over the past years and the value we have delivered to our customers."
After the merger Com Hem CEO Anders Nilsson will become the CEO of the enlarged Tele2. The company will be the second largest mobile telephony and fixed broadband provider in Sweden and the market leader in digital TV.
"Merging is the best possible next step for both companies as it will enable us to meet the demands of tomorrow and unleash the power for the best possible digital quality of life in Sweden," said Nilsson. "I am proud of the progress we have made during the last few years in improving our products and services leading to increased customer satisfaction, expanding our footprint while delivering on all our financial targets."
Andrew Barron currently Chairman of Com Hem along with at least one additional Com Hem Board Director will join the Board of Directors of Tele2, which will be chaired by Tele2's proposed new Chairman Georgi Ganev.
The completion is subject to the approval of the two sets of shareholders and regulatory authorities.


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What Pros Think about Cloud SecurityTaking an Early Peek at Our Cloud Survey
We're in the midst of conducting a global, multi-sector cloud computing security survey, and some striking results have surfaced even in the early stages of the polling of IT security practitioners. Of course, the final results could and in some instances will change, and I'm not going to provide specific figures. But certain trends are emerging:
See Also: Keeping Your Side of the Street Clean: 5 Cyber-Hygiene Facts You Wish You Knew Earlier
- Data protection by far is the top reservation respondents have about cloud computing.
- Organizations rely on others - whether it's a company similar to theirs or a third party - to verify the security of a provider's cloud offering.
- Enterprises aren't in a big rush to put critical systems on the cloud.
Respondents may show some jitters about the safety of the cloud, but they recognize that's where information technology is heading.
Despite reservations, the preliminary results suggest that most organizations are involved in cloud computing to some extent. These respondents may show some jitters about the safety of the cloud, but they recognize that's where information technology is heading.
We want to know what you think, and we invite you to take the survey. Click here to participate.
And, if you're in San Francisco for RSA Conference 2012 on Feb. 29, join NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Chief Technology Officer Tom Soderstrom and me for a session entitled How to Launch a Secure Cloud Initiative, where Tom will discuss JPL's successful efforts to prototype a variety of cloud services. I'll kick off the session with a brief overview of the preliminary results of our cloud computing survey.


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Canyon View Accommodation
CaVA - 1217
Project type:
Arquitecto - Carlos Delgado Gallego (Representante de Equipo)
Dirección de Imagen - José Romera ?
Concepto y Dirección de Estrategia - Ángel González Doce
We see this environment as a suitable place to again experience the entry of Man into a new psycho-emotional Paradise.
'Inhabitation as Adventure': an experience with oneself and with the world, in a territory which incites one to movement.
Primordial architecture as a single space, the protective envelope of the body. Born as an adjunct to the typical survival kit which every explorer takes to the Grand Canyon.


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This cheerful Jr. 1BR offers plenty of charm with its original hardwood flooring, period moldings, and tall ceilings. Illuminated by natural sunlight from two oversize south-facing windows, the spacious living room is a lovely, comfortable place to spend time in. There is a separate kitchenette, a cozy windowed bedroom with space for a full (or queen) bed, and a full tiled bathroom with a tub. The rear-facing apartment overlooks trees, providing the peaceful tranquility you deserve.
Perfectly set in a brownstone on landmarked Garfield Place in the heart of Park Slope, you are less than two blocks to the sylvan treasures of Prospect Park and a half block to bustling 7th Avenue and within close proximity to multiple transit lines. Available April 1st. No pets/no smoking. First, last, & 1/2 month security due at lease signing along with broker fee.


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The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1878 to commemorate the proclamation of Her Majesty as Empress of India, a title then for the first time added to the British Crown.
Initially it was bestowed on civilians of all religions and professions, male or female, and with time its scope was broadened to include military personnel as well.
The conventional cross-shaped design was avoided, and the badge took the form of a red enamelled rose, initially with the word 'India' spelt out on the petals.
Originally, the Order had one class. In 1886, the Order was reorganised as a junior order to that of the Star of India, was increased to three classes and became more widely awarded.
The motto of the Order is 'Imperatricis Auspicus', which being broadly interpreted means 'Honoured by the Empress'.
When the Order was first established, contemporaries, unfamiliar with its new unusual insignia, would sometimes irreverently call it the 'Jam Tart' or the 'Squashed Tomato.'


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Sheriff Who Led Wetterling Investigation to Retire
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A central Minnesota sheriff who worked to solve the decades-old kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling is hanging up his badge.
Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner announced his retirement Tuesday.
Sanner has worked for the sheriff's office for nearly 33 years and has been sheriff for the last 14.
Sanner was among investigators who worked to find out who abducted Jacob from near his St. Joseph home in October 1989. Authorities decided to take a new look at the cold case as the 25th anniversary approached. Danny Heinrich eventually confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting and killing the 11-year-old boy, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a child pornography count.
WJON-AM (http://bit.ly/2mRQcbK ) reports Sanner's retirement takes effect April 17. The County Board will choose someone to fill out his term.


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1 Naaman, the leader of the military of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man with his lord. For through him the Lord gave salvation to Syria. And he was a strong and rich man, but a leper.
2 Now robbers had gone out from Syria, and they had led away captive, from the land of Israel, a little girl. And she was in the service of the wife of Naaman.
3 And she said to her lady: "I wish that my lord had been with the prophet who is in Samaria. Certainly, he would have cured him of the leprosy that he has."
4 And so, Naaman entered to his lord, and he reported to him, saying: "The girl from the land of Israel spoke in such a manner."
5 And the king of Syria said to him, "Go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." And when he had set out, he had taken with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand gold coins, and ten changes of fine clothing.
6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: "When you will receive this letter, know that I have sent to you my servant, Naaman, so that you may heal him of his leprosy."
7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his garments, and he said: "Am I God, so that I could take or give life, or so that this man would send to me to cure a man from his leprosy? Take notice and see that he is seeking occasions against me."
8 And when Elisha, the man of God, had heard this, specifically, that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent to him, saying: "Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel."
9 Therefore, Naaman arrived with his horses and chariots, and he stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will receive health, and you will be clean."
11 And becoming angry, Naaman went away, saying: "I thought that he would have come out to me, and, standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord, his God, and that he would have touched the place of the leprosy with his hand, and so have healed me.
12 Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, so that I might wash in them and be cleansed?" But then, after he had turned himself away and was leaving with indignation,
13 his servants approached him, and they said to him: "If the prophet had told you, father, to do something great, certainly you ought to have done it. How much more so, now that he has said to you: 'Wash, and you will be clean?' "
14 So he descended and washed in the Jordan seven times, in accord with the word of the man of God. And his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child. And he was made clean.
15 And returning to the man of God, with his entire retinue, he arrived, and stood before him, and he said: "Truly, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, except in Israel. And so I beg you to accept a blessing from your servant."
16 But he responded, "As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it." And though he urged him strongly, he did not agree at all.
17 And Naaman said: "As you wish. But I beg you to grant to me, your servant, that I may take from here the burden of two mules from the ground. For your servant will no longer offer holocaust or victim to other gods, except to the Lord.
18 But there is still this matter, for which you will entreat the Lord on behalf of your servant: when my lord enters the temple of Rimmon, so that he may adore there, and he leans on my hand, if I will bow down in the temple of Rimmon, while he is adoring in the same place, that the Lord may ignore me, your servant, concerning this matter."
19 And he said to him, "Go in peace." Then he went away from him, in the elect time of the earth.
20 And Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, said: "My lord has spared Naaman, this Syrian, by not receiving from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something from him."
21 And so, Gehazi followed after the back of Naaman. And when he had seen him running toward him, he leaped down from his chariot to meet him, and he said, "Is all well?"
22 And he said: "It is well. My lord has sent me to you, saying: 'Just now two youths from the sons of the prophets have come to me from mount Ephraim. Give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.' "
23 And Naaman said, "It is better that you accept two talents." And he urged him, and he bound the two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing. And he set them upon two of his servants, who carried them before him.
24 And when now he had arrived in the evening, he took them from their hands, and he stored them in the house. And he dismissed the men, and they went away.
25 Then, having entered, he stood before his lord. And Elisha said, "Where are you coming from, Gehazi?" He responded, "Your servant did not go anywhere."
26 But he said: "Was my heart not present, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received money, and you have received garments, so that you might buy olive groves, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men and women servants.
27 So then, the leprosy of Naaman shall adhere to you, and to your offspring forever." And he departed from him a leper, as white as snow.
1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha: "Behold, the place in which we live before you is too narrow for us.
2 Let us go as far as the Jordan, and let us each take from the forest a piece of timber, so that we may build for ourselves a place to live there." And he said, "Go."
3 And one of them said, "Then you, too, should go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
4 And he went with them. And when they had arrived at the Jordan, they were cutting down wood.
5 Then it happened that, while someone was cutting timber, the iron of the ax fell into the water. And he cried out and said: "Alas, alas, alas, my lord! For this thing was borrowed."
6 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And he indicated to him the place. Then he cut off a piece of wood, and he threw it in. And the iron floated up.
7 And he said, "Take it." And he extended his hand, and took it.
8 Now the king of Syria was fighting against Israel, and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "In this and that place, let us set up an ambush."
9 And so the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: "Take care not to pass by that place. For the Syrians are there in ambush."
10 And so the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and he prevented it. And he preserved himself, concerning that place, not merely once or twice.
11 And the heart of the king of Syria was disturbed over this matter. And calling together his servants, he said, "Why have you not revealed to me the one who is betraying me to the king of Israel?"
12 And one of his servants said: "By no means, my lord the king! Rather it is the prophet Elisha, who is in Israel, who is revealing to the king of Israel every word whatsoever that you will speak in your conclave."
13 And he said to them, "Go, and see where he is, so that I may send and capture him." And they reported to him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
14 Therefore, he sent horses, and chariots, and experienced soldiers to that place. And when they had arrived in the night, they encircled the city.
15 Now the servant of the man of God, arising at first light, went out and saw the army all around the city, with horses and chariots. And he reported it to him, saying: "Alas, alas, alas, my lord! What shall we do?"
16 But he responded: "Do not be afraid. For there are more with us than with them."
17 And when Elisha had prayed, he said, "O Lord, open the eyes of this one, so that he may see." And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire, all around Elisha.
18 Then truly, the enemies descended to him. But Elisha prayed to the Lord, saying: "Strike, I beg you, this people with blindness." And the Lord struck them, so that they would not see, in accord with the word of Elisha.
19 Then Elisha said to them: "This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will reveal to you the man whom you are seeking." Then he led them into Samaria.
20 And when they had entered into Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord, open the eyes of these ones, so that they may see." And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel, when he had seen them, said to Elisha, "My father, should I not strike them?"
22 And he said: "You should not strike them. For you did not capture them with your sword or bow, so that you might strike them. Instead, set bread and water before them, so that they may eat and drink, and then go to their lord."
23 And a great preparation of foods was placed before them. And they ate and drank. And he dismissed them. And they went away to their lord. And the robbers of Syria no longer came into the land of Israel.
24 Now it happened that, after these things, Benhadad, the king of Syria, gathered together his entire army, and he ascended and was besieging Samaria.
25 And a great famine occurred in Samaria. And it was blockaded for a long time, until the head of a donkey was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one fourth part of a pint of pigeons' dung sold for five silver coins.
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying, "Save me, my lord the king!"
27 And he said: "If the Lord does not save you, how am I able to save you? From the grain floor, or from the wine press?" And the king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" And she responded:
28 This woman said to me: 'Give your son, so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29 Therefore, we cooked my son, and we ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, so that we may eat him.' But she concealed her son."
30 When the king had heard this, he tore his garments, and he passed along the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth that he had worn underneath, beside his flesh.
31 And the king said, "May God do these things to me, and may he add these other things, if the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, will remain on him this day!"
32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And so he sent a man ahead. And before that messenger arrived, he said to the elders: "Do you not know that this son of a murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Therefore, watch, and when the messenger arrives, close the door. And you shall not permit him to enter. For behold, the sound of his lord's feet is behind him."
33 While he was still speaking to them, the messenger appeared who was sent to him. And he said: "Behold, such a great evil is from the Lord! What more should I expect from the Lord?"
1 But as for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am above you, O Gog, prince of the head of Meshech and Tubal.
2 And I will turn you around, and I will lead you away, and I will cause you to rise up from the parts of the north. And I will bring you over the mountains of Israel.
3 And I will strike your bow in your left hand, and I will cast away your arrows from your right hand.
4 You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your companies, and your peoples who are with you. I have given you over to the wild animals, to the birds, and to every flying thing, and to the beasts of the earth, in order to be devoured.
5 You will fall upon the face of the field. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.
6 And I will send a fire upon Magog, and upon those who are living confidently in the islands. And they shall know that I am the Lord.
7 And I will make known my holy name in the midst of my people, Israel, and my holy name will no longer be defiled. And the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
8 Behold, it approaches, and it is done, says the Lord God. This is the day, about which I have spoken.
9 And the inhabitants from the cities of Israel will go forth, and they will kindle and burn the weapons, the shields and the spears, the bows and the arrows, and the staff and the lance. And they will kindle fires with them for seven years.
10 And they will not carry wood from the countryside, and they will not cut from the forests. For they will kindle the weapons with fire. And they will prey upon those who had preyed upon them, and they will plunder those who had plundered them, says the Lord God.
11 And this shall be in that day: I will give Gog a renown place as a sepulcher in Israel, the valley of the wayfarers to the east of the sea, which will cause astonishment in those who pass by. And in that place, they will bury Gog and all his multitude, and it will be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.
12 And the house of Israel will bury them, so that they may cleanse the land, for seven months
13 Then all the people of the earth will bury them, and this shall be for them a renown day, on which I have been glorified, says the Lord God.
14 And they shall appoint men to continually examine the earth, so that they may seek out and bury those who have remained on the surface of the earth, so that they may cleanse it. Then, after seven months, they will begin to seek.
15 And they will go around, traveling the earth. And when they will have seen the bone of a man, they will station a marker beside it, until the undertakers may bury it in the valley of the multitude of Gog.
16 And the name of the city will be: the Multitude. And they shall cleanse the earth.
17 As for you, then, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Say to every flying thing, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble! Hurry! Rush together from every side to my victim, which I have immolated for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel, so that you may consume flesh, and drink blood!
18 You shall eat the flesh of the powerful, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs and he-goats and bulls, and of fattened birds and all that is fat.
19 And you shall consume the fat unto satiation, and you shall drink the blood unto inebriation, from the victim that I will immolate for you.
20 And you shall be satiated, upon my table, from horses and powerful horsemen, and from all the men of war, says the Lord God.
21 And I will set my glory among the Gentiles. And all the nations shall see my judgment, which I have accomplished, and my hand, which I have laid upon them.
22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord, their God, from that day and thereafter.
23 And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel was taken captive because of their own iniquity, because they abandoned me. And so I concealed my face from them, and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
24 I have acted toward them in accord with their uncleanness and wickedness, and so I concealed my face from them.
25 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Now I will lead back the captivity of Jacob, and I will take pity upon the entire house of Israel. And I will act with zeal on behalf of my holy name.
26 And they shall bear their shame and all their transgression, by which they betrayed me, though they were living in their own land confidently, dreading no one.
27 And I will lead them back from among the peoples, and I will gather them together from the lands of their enemies, and I will be sanctified in them, in the sight of the many nations.
28 And they shall know that I am the Lord, their God, because I carried them away to the nations, and I gathered them upon their own land, and I did not abandon any of them there.
29 And I will no longer conceal my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit upon the entire house of Israel, says the Lord God."
8 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
10 Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.
11 For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
12 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.
13 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
1 Then he arrived at Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a faithful Jewish woman, his father a Gentile.
2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium rendered good testimony to him.
3 Paul wanted this man to travel with him, and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile.
4 And as they were traveling through the cities, they delivered to them the dogmas to be kept, which were decreed by the Apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
5 And certainly, the Churches were being strengthened in faith and were increasing in number every day.
6 Then, while crossing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the Word in Asia.
7 But when they had arrived in Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.
8 Then, when they had crossed through Mysia, they descended to Troas.
9 And a vision in the night was revealed to Paul of a certain man of Macedonia, standing and pleading with him, and saying: "Cross into Macedonia and help us!"
10 Then, after he saw the vision, immediately we sought to set out for Macedonia, having been assured that God had called us to evangelize to them.
11 And sailing from Troas, taking a direct path, we arrived at Samothrace, and on the following day, at Neapolis,
12 and from there to Philippi, which is the preeminent city in the area of Macedonia, a colony. Now we were in this city some days, conferring together.
13 Then, on the Sabbath day, we were walking outside the gate, beside a river, where there seemed to be a prayer gathering. And sitting down, we were speaking with the women who had assembled.
14 And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple in the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened. And the Lord opened her heart to be receptive to what Paul was saying.
15 And when she had been baptized, with her household, she pleaded with us, saying: "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, enter into my house and lodge there." And she convinced us.
16 Then it happened that, as we were going out to prayer, a certain girl, having a spirit of divination, met with us. She was a source of great profit to her masters, through her divining.
17 This girl, following Paul and us, was crying out, saying: "These men are servants of the Most High God! They are announcing to you the way of salvation!"
18 Now she behaved in this way for many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go out from her." And it went away in that same hour.
19 But her masters, seeing that the hope of their profit went away, apprehended Paul and Silas, and they brought them to the rulers at the courthouse.
20 And presenting them to the magistrates, they said: "These men are disturbing our city, since they are Jews.
21 And they are announcing a way which is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, since we are Romans."


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Porsche Teases 2022 Taycan Cross Turismo's SUV-Inspired Looks
Even though we all knew it was coming, we're still excited to see the first official photos of the 2022 Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo. Until now, we've only seen images of the Mission E Cross Turismo concept and spy shots of Cross Turismo mules testing across the globe.
When it finally hits the U.S., the Taycan Cross Turismo will serve as the Taycan electric sedan's more butch, wagon-bodied counterpart. Adding a little extra practicality to the Taycan model line is great, but one of the few flaws of Porsche's EV is its heavily sloped roofline that results in limited rear-seat headroom. The Cross Turismo ought to remedy this problem.
Porsche's photos also reveal the Cross Turismo's extra ride height relative to the Taycan sedan, as well as the wagon's roof rails and tough-looking cladding around its wheel arches. All of these bits hint at the fact this Taycan will no doubt be more of a lifestyle vehicle and less of a sports wagon (or über wagen, if you will). Think Audi A6 Allroad or Mercedes E450 All-Terrain. The Cross Turismo will likely offer a range of trims similar to the current Taycan. A 4 or 4S will serve as the base model, with Turbo and Turbo S models coming in at the top of the range. Those latter two trims may ditch the Cross Turismo kit, however, and arrive as more on-road focused Sport Turismo models.
We expect Porsche to take the wraps off of the Taycan Cross Turismo sometime later this year, but the production version likely won't hit dealerships until the middle of 2022. Expect the Cross Turismo's driving range to fall a little shy of its sedan sibling due to its extra weight and less efficient aerodynamics. Right now, the most range you can squeeze out of a Taycan is 227 miles, per the Environmental Protection Agency—and you have to spec the Performance Battery Plus option to net that sum, too.
Even though we're in the dark when it comes to pricing, we can look to the current Panamera range for a hint at the price Porsche may charge for the Taycan Cross Turismo. The delta between Panamera sedans and Panamera Sport Turismo wagon variant is $4,000. Given the extra off-road cred of the Taycan Cross Turismo, we think Porsche will likely charge $5,000 or more to graduate from the Taycan's sedan body style to its more practical wagon one.
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I want to offer a post to mourn the death of actor Ron Silver.
Back in 1988, I was asked to join the advocacy group The Creative Coalition, a collection of entertainment industry activists who were committed to issues such as federal funding of the arts, reproductive rights, First Amendment issues, gun control and campaign finance reform, to name a few. The group had been formed by former HBO head Michael Fuchs, Blair Brown, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon and Silver, who served as the group's first president.
On an Amtrak train trip to DC, Silver began to tutor me on the methods that he, and the group, believed were the more effective ways to lobby the Congress on behalf of the issues we were focused on. I learned a lot of what I know today from Ron. Study, learn your opponents' stances, have the cover ready for whatever fact, opinion or response they throw back at you. We had some real successes fighting on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts back then. Some would say that the work of Ron Silver, along with Bob Lynch at Americans for the Arts and the coordinated efforts of numerous other arts groups from around the country, actually saved the NEA itself when it was in the real jeopardy during the Gingrich years.
Ron Silver was a great actor on stage, film and television. A Tony award winner for the original Broadway production of David Mamet's Speed the Plow, Silver' s intensity and intellectual forcefulness were on display in all of his roles.
In the wake of 9/11, Silver transformed himself from a liberal darling to a libertarian antagonist to many of his former political allies. He supported Giuliani for president and attended the Republican convention as an honored guest. Some shook their heads in wonder. Others knew that Ron's was a mind that was always seeking, no matter what the cost to his career or social status.
Rest in peace, Ron. A great actor, great thinker, great father and great friend.


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After leveling off over the past few weeks, Ebola virus activity in West Africa sparked up again on two fronts, in a newly affected area of Guinea and in Sierra Leone, which had not had a previous outbreak case, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest updates.
In Guinea, eight new cases and three more deaths were reported from three districts. Three of the infections were reported from Telimele prefecture, its first infections to be reported in the country's outbreak, the WHO said. The area is just east of the country's capital of Conakry, which has been one of the disease hot spots.
The other new cases are from two prefectures in the southeastern forested region of the country that have already reported cases. Two are from Gueckedou, and three fatal cases are from Macenta.
The developments lift Guinea's Ebola virus disease (EVD) total to 258 infections, 174 of them fatal. So far 146 of the illness and 95 of the deaths have been confirmed by lab tests.
Nine patients are still hospitalized, including six in Gueckedou and three in Telimele. Public health workers are following several patient contacts—132 in Gueckedou and 41 in Telimele.
First cases in Sierra Leone
In a separate update posted yesterday, the WHO said Sierra Leone has reported an EVD outbreak, with one lab-confirmed case and four deaths. The illnesses and deaths all occurred in patients from the Koindu chiefdom, which shares a border with Guinea's Gueckedou prefecture, an area that has reported several cases.
While waiting for epidemiologic details, health officials in Sierra Leone and their partners from the WHO took several measures, including convening a national Ebola emergency task force and deploying a field team to investigate the outbreak and start preliminary response steps.
The EVD cases are Sierra Leone's first in the outbreak. Earlier in the event there were several suspected cases, but all tested negative.
The country's chief medical officer, Brima Kargbo, said Sierra Leone's first Ebola patient is a female traditional healer who had attended a funeral in Guinea, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today.
See also:
May 24 WHO update
May 26 WHO update
May 27 AFP story


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It is very simple: the You that already embodies abundance isn't worried about obtaining and gaining wealth and prosperity. That part of You already IS everything that is abundant and prosperous.
What if all we need to do is align ourselves with that self that already has it all?
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In a rapidly changing world, we need to know which areas of our planet warrant particular protection from existing, developing and forthcoming threats. This is hard to do objectively in the vast realm of the oceans, particularly so in the most remote regions such as the Southern Ocean. A paper published this week in the journal Nature (together with a companion data paper in the journal Scientific Data) describes a novel solution to this problem, using electronic and satellite tracking data from birds and marine mammals.
The solution relies on a simple principle: animals go to places where they find food. So, identifying areas of the Southern Ocean where predators most commonly go tells us where their prey can be found. For example, whales and penguins go to places where they can feed on krill, whereas seals and albatrosses go where they can find fish, squid, or other prey. If all these predators and their diverse prey are found in the same place then this area has both high diversity and abundance of species, indicating that this area is by definition of high ecological significance.
This community-wide initiative, termed the Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data, was a project of SCAR's Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals. Support was received from the Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité, France, and WWF-UK. SCAR engaged its extensive network of Antarctic researchers to assemble existing Southern Ocean predator tracking data. After careful validation, the result was an enormous database of over 4000 individual animal tracks from 17 predator species with diverse prey requirements, collected by more than 70 scientists across 12 national Antarctic programs. This database is now available for public download.
Even this impressive database does not directly represent all Southern Ocean predator activity, because it is impossible to track every species from all their breeding sites. Simple mapping would therefore provide a biased representation of animal distribution. To overcome this, sophisticated statistical models were used to predict the at-sea movements for all known colonies of each of the 17 predator species across the entire Southern Ocean. These predictions were combined across the 17 species to provide an integrated map of areas of ecological significance.
The most important of these areas are scattered around the Antarctic continental shelf and in two wider oceanic regions, one projecting from the Antarctic Peninsula engulfing the Scotia Arc and another surrounding the sub-Antarctic islands in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean.
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a crucial tool in the conservation management toolbox. Existing and proposed MPAs are mostly found within the areas of ecological significance, suggesting that they are currently in the right places. Yet, when climate model projections are used to account for how areas of important habitat may shift by 2100, the existing MPAs with their fixed boundaries may not remain aligned with important habitats in the future. Dynamic management of MPAs, updated over time in response to ongoing change, are therefore needed to ensure continued protection of Southern Ocean ecosystems and their resources in the face of growing resource demand by the current and future generations.


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The power of the word
Posted on: 25th October 2016
In African nations scarred by civil war, violence and poverty, God's word is transforming the lives of young Christians. Here two students share how biblical study at Carlile College in Kenya has revolutionised their understanding and the way they teach others about the Bible in their local church and community.
Innocent's story
I was born into a clergy family. My dad and grandfather were clergy in the Anglican Church in Burundi, Africa*. As a son of a pastor, it was normal to grow up in Sunday school, and every evening our family would sit together to share the word of God and sing.
But, when I was 15 years old, I fell into bad company who influenced me to drink alcohol. At the time I remember my Dad telling me: "My son, I know you are in difficult age, but remember you are gifted and you are wasting your time in wrong ways. Please come back."
Then one day I decided to change and went back to walking in the right way. I remembered what I had learned in Sunday school about forgiveness and I said sorry to God. I asked my Dad to pray for me.
I had been teaching Sunday school, but after my experiences I became passionate about children's ministry. I wanted to share with young people how the teaching at Sunday school helped change my life, in order to help them in their journey. But because I had passion but no methodology, I made many mistakes in the way I taught.
I had learnt incorrect teaching methods from my Sunday school teachers. In my country Burundi, Sunday schools are very neglected. Church leaders don't train teachers, there are no materials for Sunday schools and therefore teachers can teach whatever they want, however they want. There are many heresies.
My parents suggested to our Bishop that I should go to Bible college to learn more about how to teach Sunday school, and so I went to Carlile College in Kenya.
Carlile has changed me so much. Through lessons taught by CMS missionary Paul Sampson, I have learnt about the exegesis of Bible passages, and that the Bible is one big story with the New Testament fulfilling the Old Testament.
Today the way I teach Sunday school is very different than the way I was doing it before. Now I can't stand before the children without good preparation. I take time to see if I can help them understand what I want them to learn. In that way I have also been able to influence my colleagues to sit down and plan lessons. I am also thinking about ways to teach different age groups about the same message.
My request is that you pray for our church leaders to understand that Sunday school is a foundation of the church for today and tomorrow.
*Burundi is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. It is one of the poorest nations in the world, and its people have faced many challenges, including civil war, political unrest, displacement, and food and clean water shortages.
Jaspher's story
I am from Uganda, and I first learned about God when I was in third grade. A few years later I started reading the Bible for myself.
I gave my life to Jesus Christ in 1999, after reading Matthew 24 for seven consecutive days. Every night after reading this passage, I dreamt about the glory of God. One morning I woke up at 5:30 and went to wake up our neighbour, who was a Christian. I told her I wanted to give my life to Jesus and she led me in a salvation prayer. I returned home very happy.
Several years later my family was forced out of our home by a rebel group in Uganda, known as 'The Lord's Resistance Army' (LRA) – which claimed that it wanted to rule the country using the Ten Commandments in the Bible. This group killed tens of thousands of people in Northern Uganda between 1987 and 2009, abducted over 20,000 Ugandan children, and displaced more than 1.9 million people from their homes.
My family of four siblings and our two parents were forced to relocate to the Internally Displaced People's Camp in Northern Uganda-Lira District, while I went to the capital city of Kampala to try to earn money. We couldn't even afford two meals a day!
I lived on the streets in Kampala and started selling fruit in a market. I knew no one. In August 2006, I started going to All Saints Cathedral in Kampala. Being a church full of rich people and ministers, I felt out of place!
In 2009, I came across St Stephen's Church. To my surprise I found people singing in my own language. The next day being a Sunday I joined them at church. It happened that there was no service leader that day, and I was asked if I knew how to lead the service (luckily, I had been leading services for the past six years). After the service I made friends with the rest of the congregation and they asked me to become the lay reader in that service. I felt at home and accepted. In 2012, I was promoted to the position of the senior lay reader, second in command to the Vicar over spiritual matters in the church!
In 2014, St Stephens recommended me to the Diocese for theological training and so I began studying at Carlile College in Kenya. Before attending Carlile College, I understood the Bible as the word of God but, even as a preacher, I didn't know how to interpret the Old Testament in light of the New Testament.
During my years on the street, Romans 8:29-30 encouraged me so much that God had predestined me "to be conformed to the image of his Son". I have always had a strong conviction that I have a calling from God. I knew that even the LRA war could not stop the plan that God had in store for me. I strongly believed, and still believe, that God brought me to Kampala for a reason. I came to Kampala in 2006 as a refugee and street boy with nothing, and yet this November I will graduate from Carlile College with a Diploma in Christian Mission [accredited by St Paul's University, Kenya]. I plan to use this training to minister to, and advocate for, marginalised people – the poor in slums, drug addicts, HIV patients, street children, prisoners and prostitutes, among others. On the very street where I was a street boy, I will soon be a pastor! This is God at work.


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With bicycle share schemes, smoothly running metros and pedestrian-only streets, Europe has an edge over the New World when it comes to alternatives to automobile transportation. A new study reveals that Europe has success with another tool designed to remove people from their cars: subtracting parking spaces.
Because every vehicle trip must end in a parking space, limiting parking through economic and policy changes has significantly reduced miles driven in 10 European cities, according to "Europe's Parking U-Turn: from Accommodation to Regulation," published by the New York City-based Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
On- and off-street parking is ultimately controlled by municipalities, and decisions at the local level can help boost citizens' adoption of car alternatives. In the cities studied, which range from Antwerp, Belgium, to Zurich, researchers assessed how parking policies have shifted to fit in with "alternative social goals," including walking, bicycling and increasing park and community space.
"European cities demonstrate that if you make a city center more convenient, people won't think that driving is the best and only alternative," said Michael Kodransky, co-author of the study and global research manager with ITDP.
Optimally, parking lots should always be 85 percent full to help reduce cruising for a parking space, said the study. The coordination of on-street parking supply with off-street parking supply through pricing structures is essential.
Europeans try 'cap and trade' with parking
Shrinking the number of parking spaces also helps. Hamburg, Germany and Zurich implemented a kind of "cap and trade" of parking spots, where for every off-street spot built, an on-street parking spot was converted into park or community space. Many cities in the study also abolished minimum parking standards for new developments, instead enforcing a maximum allowance. Zoning planners also gave priority access to popular spaces to pedestrians and public transit users.
Paris even invested €15 million ($20 million in physical blocks like bollards to prevent cars from parking. London was the only city in the study to charge parked vehicles based on their level of carbon emissions.
The results are positive. Take Amsterdam, a city that saw a 20 percent reduction in car traffic in the inner city, as well as a 20 percent decrease in traffic searching for a place to park, since strict parking enforcements were implemented. In Copenhagen, Denmark, traffic dropped by 6 percent in five years, despite a 13 percent increase in car ownership over the same period.
Parking charges are less controversial than congestion charges -- a tax to drive in city centers during peak hours -- and more likely to pass in a vote, said Kodransky.
Dealing with parking is also politically challenging, he added, but the public is more likely to accept it if they know that the revenues will be used to make public spaces more pleasant -- in Barcelona, Spain, 100 percent goes to the bike share scheme, for example.
Parking regulations work best when done in concert with other policies, said Deron Lovaas, federal transportation policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"They have to be part of a package, and that has to be communicated to consumers," he said.
He added that the measuring of vehicle miles is a fair reflection of how emissions might stack up. "It doesn't make much sense to rank them in isolation," he said.
American cities mandate space availability
The fact that this study was done in Europe "points to the likelihood that there hasn't been much progress at all" in the United States, said Lovaas.
However, Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, says that some cities have shown efforts to reduce car use through parking enforcement.
One example is in Washington, D.C., where council member Tommy Wells introduced a performance parking pilot program almost three years ago that set higher meter rates around the city's baseball stadium.
"On every block there should be one vacant place," said Shoup. "If there's no vacant place, the price is too low."
Shoup is a leader in the field of limiting parking for smart growth. His 2005 book "The High Cost of Free Parking" has garnered ardent followers, or "Shoupistas," according to Lovaas.
He adds that city zoning rules have traditionally mandated a minimum amount of parking. Now, governments must instead demand a maximum number of spaces in order to cut car dependency.
"It isn't as though there wasn't any regulation; the regulation is to require a lot of parking," said Schoup. "We've been regulating badly; our regulations have done a lot of damage."
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500


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What a terrific card to kick off a new cycle! For the next four weeks the Sun will be in Gemini, and I have been talking about Gemini season for a while now. Expect some of those doors to begin opening, not all at once, but more like one at a time. You can do and accomplish so much over the coming month, and you may even find yourself amazed at the things with which you finally begin making headway.
The Circle of Life is part of this card, and it will be prominent now, as we see new babies arriving, after the departure of someone held dear. The World card is much like a relay race, and in some ways, when you successfully approach the Finish Line of a part of your journey, you find yourself at a Starting Line for the next phase. Expect new opportunities to become available to you now; you have earned them.
See you here tomorrow!
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text: I'm using the Estlcam controller and for some reason half way through a routing run it crashes with the following error: USB ERROR: SENDING FAILED I have to force a shutdown and restart Estlcam which then gives this error: USB ERROR: TO MANY BYTES RECEIVED Not sure if this is Estlcam or a controller problem, I've used different usb wires to no avail. Workbee 1010, USB CNC xPro V3 Controller Anyone else had this problem? Cheers Miles


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Patients with obstructive sleep apnea often snore, but there is a large group of patients who snore but have no obstructive sleep apnea. The prevailing wisdom is that snoring without obstructive sleep apnea is not harmful, other than waking up others (and maybe the snorer, whether from sharp elbows coming from those sharing their bed or perhaps from the snoring sound itself, as outlined in a recent study discussed on another blog entry).
However, the scientific evidence is not as clear as one might think. To address this question important for snorers and those who treat them, Dr. Jolie Chang from the University of California, San Francisco Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and me presented the evidence in an article in the June 2013 issue of the medical journal Laryngoscope. It turns out that our review was especially timely, as it was examined in a study published earlier this year. This study suggested that snoring without sleep apnea is not associated with mortality, but it had a fundamental problem–the group of people in the study was too small to answer the question properly–which we pointed out in a published letter to the editor.
The prevailing wisdom about snoring is based on relatively little evidence
It turns out that there are few good studies showing that snoring without OSA does not have health consequences. The main one is a Spanish multicenter study suggesting that snoring without OSA was not associated with cardiovascular events (heart attack or stroke) over a 10-year period. Drs. Peter Rothwell and John Stradling and their group at the University of Oxford examined 561 individuals with a recent stroke or transient ischemic attack (short stroke-like event) and showed no association between the amount of narrowing of the carotid arteries (a risk factor for stroke) and their reports of how often they snored. A major limitation of both studies is their reliance on someone's self-report of their snoring, which may not be the best way to address the question. There is indirect evidence, in that many studies show that health consequences are substantial for severe obstructive sleep apnea and much less so for mild to moderate sleep apnea. The implication is that snoring without sleep apnea is even less dramatic than mild sleep apnea, which may certainly be true.
Maybe we do not know as much about the risks of snoring as we think…
Dr. John Wheatley and colleagues at the Westmead Millenium Institute for Medical Research in Sydney were the first to provide question the benign nature of snoring without sleep apnea. They examined a group of 110 individuals with snoring and no sleep apnea and showed that those with severe snoring (snoring > 50% of the night) also had thickening of the walls of their carotid arteries in their neck but not their femoral arteries in their legs. Although the extent of carotid artery wall thickening did not place them in a high-risk group for complications like cerebrovascular accident (stroke), this work suggested that the changes may occur because of the transmission of the vibrations of snoring in the throat to the neck (affecting the carotid arteries) that are not transmitted to the legs (femoral arteries). Additional research with careful studies in rabbits and rats suggesting that vibration trauma may be the cause of these changes.
Dr. Scott Brietzke and colleagues from Walter Reed Army Medical Center examined data from a large database of patients undergoing home sleep studies. They took the interesting approach of including all patients, even those with sleep apnea. They showed that mortality was statistically associated with certain types of snoring, more so than with the common measure of obstructive sleep apnea (the apnea-hypopnea index). The implication may be that the snoring may be more important than the blockages of breathing in sleep apnea. There also was an association between mortality and snoring in those without sleep apnea who were also not obese; the association did not hold in a number of other subgroups. This study is intriguing but has its own limitations, namely that it did not include information about important medical conditions.
So what are the health risks of snoring without obstructive sleep apnea?
Based on the available studies, the only thing we do know is that we should not be so quick to dismiss the health effects of snoring. There is not enough proof to treat snoring with the same medical concern as for obstructive sleep apnea. The difficulty is that there are no good standardized measures of snoring, certainly not with in-laboratory sleep studies that are much more focused on sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Further research in this area will require objective measurement of snoring that is currently only available with certain home sleep study technologies, suggesting a possible role for research with these technologies.


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How much will that taxi ride cost you? A new Bing Maps application can give you the answer. The Taxi Fare Calculator app was developed by Ricky Brundritt for the King of Bing Maps competition.
As you may imagine, the app lets you enter in a starting address and end address and then see what the cab fare may be, as well as the shortest route. (Quick, we need a mobile version of this for tourists! )
Fare estimates are based on rates for cabs in the area, and include pick-up rates and by-the-miles costs, as applicable.
This map app is actually one of many great entries in the contest, several of which are featured here. Other apps include a "World of Football" app, a data viewer app, a pharmacy finder and more.
But the cab fare is my favorite, maybe it's yours too?


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Why are we celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day rather than Columbus Day?
The city council of Berkeley, CA voted to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day in 1992. Since 2014, other local governments have either renamed or cancelled the holiday. Missoula's city council voted to rename Columbus Day in the fall of 2015, and Indigenous Peoples' Day was first celebrated in our town in October 2016.
Columbus Day became a national holiday in 1937 – four and a half centuries after its namesake first arrived in the New World in 1492. Many Italian-Americans have been observing this holiday as a celebration of their heritage.
However, since the 1990s many have begun to question the universal celebration of Columbus Day. Historically speaking, Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas marked the beginning of a long line of genocide and brutal injustices against Indigenous Peoples in the colonies, and also later on in the United States.
Additionally, celebrating Columbus Day as a day of "discovery" totally disregards the fact that Native Americans had lived and thrived in North America long before the arrival of European explorers.
Recognizing this holiday as Indigenous Peoples' Day won't alone heal the historical trauma caused by loss of life, land, language and culture, but it will hopefully prompt the community to commemorate those who came before Columbus.
More than a mere name change, it's the first step
toward a much bigger cultural change.
We at PHC want to be a part of this movement.
When we read the history books given to children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure – there is no bloodshed – and Columbus Day is a celebration…To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves, unwittingly, to justify what was done.
– Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
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When I reviewed "The World According to Monsanto" over two years ago, I was hopeful a new administration would craft a new approach to genetically-engineered food and the regulation of industry overall, but as we have documented at Truthout, the US government continues to act like a fully-owned subsidiary of Monsanto, threatening retaliation against an ally that moved to ban GMO corn in accordance with the desires of a vast majority of its population, approving the deregulation of GMO alfalfa virtually ensuring the end of organic beef as an available option for Americans, and, most recently approving sugar beet planting this spring "despite an earlier court ruling that government approval for planting the beets violated environmental law." Monsanto's war against independent science also continues. "the World According to Monsanto" remains an essential read for all citizens, especially any who eat. – Leslie Thatcher
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How did a nation of would-be self-sufficient yeoman farmers and master craftsmen become the wellspring of the new thralldom? Can we blame corporate barons and their enablers in government for our dependence on "systems that mask and disperse responsibility while simultaneously spreading and intensifying risk" or have our own frivolity and negligence perverted the American dream?
Dominique Dhombres' review of Marie-Monique Robin's movie, "The World According to Monsanto", shown on French TV this spring, provoked so much reader interest, I obtained a copy of the book in French (to be released this coming spring in English) and the movie in English to see for myself.
Both text and film are extraordinary models of investigative reporting, each comprising chilling and compelling indictments of a company with a long history of producing varieties of poison. I have no doubt that had a human individual, rather than a multinational corporation, been responsible for the death, suffering and destruction Marie-Monique Robin documents, the International Criminal Court and other jurisdictions around the world would be clamoring for that person's head. Yet, Monsanto continues to operate so much more freely than the disguised Radovan Karadzic. Only last week The Independent reported that Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly planning to promote GMO food – 90 percent of which is produced by Monsanto – over the objections of their own populations.
While "The World According to Monsanto" excoriates Monsanto executives and their enablers, what Marie-Monique Robin most effectively documents are the perverse effects – the moral, social, technological, economic and market failures – of Western society's economic organization, most specifically with respect to science and the products of science, and, ultimately, with respect to the preservation of the public commons and human life on the planet.
Both Ms. Robin's film and her book use a montage of Monsanto advertising, promotional films, claims and pledges to illustrate the fantasy chemical, then biotech/life sciences company it purports to be. Then she proceeds in both media to examine, deconstruct and destroy the fantasy, revealing a far less attractive reality – which the company invariably denies. From PCBs to the 2,4,5,-T dioxin in Agent Orange to Roundup, Ms. Robin demonstrates that the company's products caused serious harm, that the company knew and denied the dangers and proceeded to discredit – ruining careers and sometimes lives – whistleblowers and opponents. In each case, "The World According to Monsanto" shows government agencies and entities charged with protecting the public good – most notably the EPA – standing against it, defending Monsanto's interests rather than the innocents poisoned by its products.
As Ms. Robin's investigation moves forward in time – to the introduction of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), genetically modified foods (GMO), "Terminator" seeds, and patents on life – and across the world to Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and India, she shows the pattern repeating itself. The film uses the image of an actual revolving door to convey the chief means by which Ms. Robin shows the company perverting its own regulatory regime as regulators, judges and scientists move in and out of Monsanto's executive suites and the offices of such key contractors as its legal counsel. And while American readers and viewers may be unsurprised by the impact of what Russ Feingold has called a "system of legalized bribery and legalized extortion" with respect to regulatory agencies, the corruption of science Ms. Robin depicts operating through the very mechanisms that are supposed to keep it professional and objective – peer-reviewed articles in professional journals, for example – may shock and surprise, although perhaps less so now when the eagerness of "independent" financial rating agencies and many academic economists and financial experts to jump on the financial industry's gravy train has been revealed.
Robin's documentary has the tremendous emotional force that comes from seeing the impact on human beings of the events she described and the stark gulf between company promises and realities delivered. The book is in other ways more powerful: her arguments and evidence are more thoroughly developed and supported throughout with detailed notes. It is earnestly to be hoped that the English language edition will contain an index. A timeline allowing the reader to track the overlaps and sequences of various events described would be even more helpful, as would diagrams tracking the connections between regulators and the regulated.
The most damning regulatory failure Ms. Robin documents is the FDA's May 29, 1992, ruling that genetically modified food is "substantially equivalent" to conventional varieties. The policy statement went on to address labeling: "The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by these new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way, or that, as a class, foods developed by the new techniques present any different or greater safety concern than foods developed by traditional plant breeding. For this reason, the agency does not believe that the method of development of a new plant variety É would É usually be required to be disclosed in labeling for the food." (1) She evokes the unrestrained joy of lobbyists following the ruling – which they know is a joke, scientifically – and she films James Maryanski – who in 1992 was biotechnology coordinator with the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition – saying the ruling was "a political decision … not based on scientific data." And although the evidence, Robin argues, using as examples the L-trytophane epidemic and Arpad Pusztai's transgenic potatoes, is compelling that transgenic plants may have dramatically different properties from the natural variety – properties that do not inhere to the transgene – none of the GMO food sold in the United States has been independently tested, a level of stringency inferior to that applied to the least food additive.
You might be naive enough to imagine that in the US the market would rule and consumers would be free to decide whether they care to be guinea pigs for the long-term impact of drinking pus-laced milk from rBGH-injected cows or of eating untested foods. But no, Robin reports, the agencies charged with protecting US consumers have carried water for Monsanto a little further and supported its efforts to ban labeling. "As many as 20 polls effected between 1997 and 2004 clearly indicate that over 80 percent of Americans want labeling of transgenic products." (2) Apparently our free market ideologues are unaware that a free market is predicated on – requires – perfect information. Robin illustrates the near impossibility of acquiring or developing such information when Monsanto's proprietary technology claims make it impossible for scientists to study their products or release the results of those studies without permission, when scientists who succeed in doing independent work are hounded from their jobs, subjected to concerted attacks on professional blog sites, and otherwise victimized – all too often with the collusion of their own governments. The stories Robin documents make a mockery of the concept of independent science.
But Robin shows that the independence and integrity – not only of regulators and judges, scientists and reporters – have been undermined by Monsanto's tactics, but also that rural communities in the US have been torn apart by the "totalitarian world" tactics, the "gene police" sent there to enforce Monsanto's agreements with growers and its patents – even against those whose fields have been contaminated by wind-blown pollen. That contamination of conventional varieties by GMO crops – which Robin documents occurring far from where GMO agriculture is authorized – for example, in the Mexican heartland of corn cultivation – lends still more credence to such claims made by Robin interviewees as, "They want to own life;" "They are in the process of owning food, all food."
Robin, the daughter of farmers, reveals how the invasion of mono-culture GMO soybean cultivation in Latin America has contributed to rainforest elimination as well as to the eradication of independent multi-crop peasant farmers, their communities and the extraordinary biodiversity their traditional farming methods had sustained: just so Europeans and other Westerners can feed their chickens and pigs "cheap" fodder. "The fundamental problem with GMO," Robin quotes stock analyst Mark Brunner," is that only Monsanto profits from them: the risks are for others, while the regulatory agencies have abdicated their role of regulation and control." (3)
Robin substantiates that the government of the United States under the last four administrations has been Monsanto's constant champion (there's a marvelous film clip of then-Vice President George H. W. Bush touring a Monsanto facility in a lab coat) against its own citizens' interests and expressed will, lobbying foreign governments at the most senior levels, as one interviewee suggested, as though its biotechnology were key to America's industrial base. Yet, Monsanto's key biotech products have not been developed in response to any perceptible market need: rBGH was introduced when there was a glut of milk on the market; GMO corn and soybeans were developed for resistance to Monsanto herbicides, precluding the need for the labor-intensive weed pulling by hand – at least until herbicide-resistant weeds develop. Robin maintains that no GMO crop has yet been developed that demonstrates nutritional, yield or overall hardiness superiority to conventional varieties in independent studies, not even the famed "golden rice," which apparently produces "derisory" quantities of beta carotene when cultivated under realistic conditions. (4)
The fantasy – not of biotech's promise, which many of the truly independent and subsequently ruined scientists Robin covers believed in – but of its results is nonetheless still maintained. In Le Monde's Monday, November 3, edition, the director of Monsanto's French subsidiary, Laurent Martel, is quoted, "A country that allows a handful of obscurantists to lay waste its research deprives itself of all the promises of progress that research bears for the present and the future." (5)
Not unlike the snake oil salesmen of subprimes who argued their product brought the American dream a home within reach of those who had previously been unable to afford it, Monsanto as portrayed by Robin makes the most extravagant claims for its products, some of which she shows dealing death, ruin and an entire panoply of unintended but foreseeable consequences instead. And as securitized, derivative-enhanced subprimes have infiltrated and contaminated the global financial system, Robin shows how the use of Monsanto's chemical and GMO products has contaminated biological, social and essential economic systems.
How did our leaders come to see support for such jury-rigged systems – systems that mask and disperse responsibility, while simultaneously spreading and intensifying risk – as somehow in the national interest? What has led them to renounce their responsibility to defend us as citizens and consumers – thwarting our will, common sense and the essential independent science necessary for informed decision-making? How is it that we have allowed them to create a desolation and call it "progress?" From the biblical verses in Kings, Isaiah and Micah, America's founders were inspired with the image of what we could expect from freedom and independence:
"You will sit under your own Vine, and under your own Fig-tree, none being permitted to make you afraid. All political Power will be derived from you; and will be exercised only by such Persons, during such Terms in such Manner and for such Purposes as you shall appoint. Those who shall be entrusted with the Management of public Affairs, will be the Servants, and not the Masters of the States." (6)
Neither we, nor the Paraguayan peasants Robin films trying to maintain their diverse little farms as islands in a mono-culture sea of GMO soybeans regularly sprayed with dangerous herbicides, can live without fear of coercion, or be confident there will be no reduction of our human potential for happiness and self-fulfillment through the corrosive and pervasive chemical, social and biological by-products that infuse "the world according to Monsanto."
The World According to Monsanto
Marie-Monique Robin
English edition, book: New Press (March 2009), 352 pages.
English edition, Movie/DVD: Yes! Books, 109 minutes.
Truthout French language editor Leslie Thatcher.
(2) p. 340 in the French edition, "Le Monde selon Monsanto," my translation.
(3) p. 341 in the French edition, "Le Monde selon Monsanto," my translation.
(4) p. 345 in the French edition, "Le Monde selon Monsanto."
(5) Le Monde, "Monsanto contre les obscurantistes'," by Laetitia Clavreul
(6) Journals of the Continental Congress — THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1777.
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Bra Making Hack
First, I'll share some back story about my own bra journey. I wear a weird size. I can't walk into Target, Wal-Mart, or Macy's and just buy a bra. I have a small ribcage and large... um... blessings. So, I order bras online and pay a ridiculous amount for them. They aren't made any better than what you can find at Target, etc. But, they carry more unique sizes, so I go with that route. I made my first bra last year and it was mind-blowing! It was also extremely easy, cost-efficient, and even fun (once I got the fit down).
Up-cycle Your Brand New Brassiere
So, a few weeks ago, I was walking through Dollar General and grabbed a large bra. I said to myself, I bet I could alter this band size to make it smaller. I held the foam cup up to me and it seemed to be the right cup size. I gave the cashier my $7.00 and drove home. When I got home, I tried it on and had my husband help mark where I would cut the band, to fit my back. I thought Eureka! This is the coolest bra hack ever and I need to share it!!
Side note: I don't think this will work as easily if you need to increase the bra size. This is more of a cut and slash downsizing bra project. I wear a small band, large cup. If you have a small cup, it may be more difficult to do this bra hack.
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Since the discovery of insulin roughly 80 yr ago, much has been learned about how target cells receive, interpret, and respond to this peptide hormone. For example, we now know that insulin activates the tyrosine kinase activity of its cell surface receptor, thereby triggering intracellular signaling cascades that regulate many cellular processes. With respect to glucose homeostasis, these include the function of insulin to suppress hepatic glucose production and to increase glucose uptake in muscle and adipose tissues, the latter resulting from the translocation of the glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) to the cell surface membrane. Although simple in broad outline, elucidating the molecular intricacies of these receptor-signaling path ways and membrane-trafficking processes continues to challenge the creative ingenuity of scientists, and many questions remain unresolved, or even perhaps unasked. The identification and functional characterization of specific molecules required for both insulin signaling and GLUT4 vesicle trafficking remain key issues in our pursuit of developing specific therapeutic agents to treat and/or prevent this debilitating disease process. To this end, the combined efforts of numerous research groups employing a range of experimental approaches has led to a clearer molecular picture of how insulin regulates the membrane trafficking of GLUT4.
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|English (US)
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|Endocrine reviews
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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What's a Real Food Remixed food ingredient or recipe?
Let me briefly explain…
I'm a big time foodie, but I'm more like a real food[ie].
I love to indulge in all our favorite foods just like you do; burgers, fries, ice cream, cake, cupcakes, donuts… you name it.
But let's be real, if I embrace my inner fat kid eating burgers, fries and cake all the time, that inner fat kid would soon become outer fat man, right?
So in order to keep our healthy lifestyle dialed in and enjoy our favorite indulgences, we real food remix responsibly as part of an 80/20 healthy lifestyle plan.
Choose ingredients that come with health benefits vs. ingredients that do not
In a real food remixed recipe, we remove the highly processed, food-like product ingredients that come with virtually no health benefits (or worse, are detrimental to our health) and replace them with the "real food" alternative (or closest thing to it) that comes with health benefits and that our body's digestive and assimilation mechanics actually recognize as food!
For example, instead of:
- white processed sugar: we'll use something like raw, unpasteurized honey. This is a real food.
- white flour: we'll use something like sprouted almond flour or a sprouted stone-ground flour. This is a real food.
- pasteurized milk: we'll use something like raw milk or coconut milk. These are real food options.
- additives, preservatives, artificial flavors/colors, and other synthetic chemicals: this is crap. crap is not your body's friend.
So the overall idea is that the food or ingredient(s) used in any given recipe have been "remixed" using real food vs. processed food or synthetic chemicals.
Hence, we get the real food remix…Easy peasy, right?
Here's some examples of real food remixed recipes:
- Instead of regular cupcakes traditionally made with processed white flour, white sugar and more, we real food remix into a strawberry cheesecake cupcake made from real food ingredients.
- Instead of a fast food burger with synthetic additives, preservatives, low-integrity sourced factory farmed beef, processed white flour chemical-laced bun and more, we remix with a paleo portabello burger.
- Instead of ice cream made with pasteurized dairy and processed sugar, we do real food remixed French vanilla ice cream.
We're taking the food we're wanting (cupcakes, burgers, ice cream, etc.), and eating the healthiest, real food-alternative. Make sense?
So does that mean I can eat my favorite foods all the time now?
No. It's definitely not a license to indulge all the time.
With a real food remix, we're simply eating the healthiest, real food-alternative ingredients/food as part of an overall healthy diet and lifestyle. When we get the hankering for one of our favorite indulgences, we can still enjoy the more healthy real food version of it as part of a reward day treat.
For more real food remixed recipes on the blog, search here.