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Back in 2004, before conference expansion became all the rage, the Atlantic Coast conference raided the Big East, taking Boston College, Miami and - with the unfortunate interference of then-Virginia Governor Mark Warner - Virginia Tech. Getting to 12 teams was an important move for the ACC and they got the added benefit of having Miami and Florida State in opposite divisions and playing in the conference football championship every year (oh, wait).
So these teams were good in football (er... well... sort of), but how did they impact the ACC's overall athletics profile? To get started, let's take a look at what those three teams did over the last ten years:
So what can we tell here... The three teams have been fairly consistent over the decade. Governor Warner would be happy to see that Virginia Tech has made some progress, moving from the worst of the three to the best of the three (by a decent margin). Otherwise, fairly unremarkable.
You may notice, however, that there's a lot of room at the top of the chart. That's because I kept the axis formatted the same way from the chart this past Monday. In other words, they're on the bottom end of the chart as far as ACC schools go.
For a better comparison with the Old Guard, take a look at the averages of all twelve teams:
Some points about this chart:
- The three new teams from the first Big East raid are at the end of the chart on the right.
- The orange line represents each team's average points over the last ten years.
- The blue line represents the average of just the Old Guard teams
- The burgundy line represents the average of all twelve teams
So what do we see here? The expansion clearly introduced three below-average athletic departments into the conference. In fact, Boston College brings up the rear, while Miami falls in line with the previous three worst schools from the Old Guard. Virginia Tech looks pretty darn good compared to their Big East brethren, trying (and failing) to give Maryland a run for its money as far as middle-of-the-road athletics departments go.
Speaking of Maryland, they must have been pretty happy with the addition of those three teams. It brought the average of the ACC programs down to their level.
With that, what can we say about the first Big East raid? We can definitely say that, as far as the Directors Cup is concerned, the expansion did nothing to bolster the conference's overall athletics profile. But really, anyone who watched the consecutive Boston College - Virginia Tech football championships could already tell you that.
Next week we'll take a look at the second Big East raid - the addition of Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. We can't look into the future to tell how they will perform in the ACC, but we can look at the same ten year span we've been looking at for the past couple of weeks. Until next time - Wahoowa!

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Why, oh why...
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Totally understand....things like this seem to happen no matter how well you plan! I remember days where I had every single class painting and fortunately I had 2 drying racks, but still everything was a huge mess! Some how I managed to work it out though. The life of an Elementary Art Teacher is not for the faint of heart! I enjoy reading your posts. You seem like such a Great Art teacher!ReplyDelete
I feel your pain (been there myself)!!! What happens if you add white to the cheap paint? It might make it more opaque -- worth a try:)ReplyDelete
I feel your pain! janReplyDelete
Love seeing your sink because it looks like mine did! It took me 20 minutes just to clean the sink area! I can't stand cheap paint either!!! What to do with it? Give it to a kindergarten teacher maybe for a trade?ReplyDelete
I generally plan so that all of my classes are painting at once. I like to have the big mess, rather than cleaning in between and pulling out new supplies. And, do tell what brand paint that you ordered!ReplyDelete
@Melissa- thank you, that's really sweet!ReplyDelete
@Fine Lines- mixing it with white is the best thing I can come up with to try... I did it a little bet yesterday but I need to try adding in more of the good paint.
@Art Project Girl- I think all the other teachers just get small bottles of tempera out of the work room and silly me ordered a whole gallon because I thought it would be fine!
@Angie- That's what I do with clay, all in one week. I usually just try to spread out painting in the morning and afternoon because of the drying rack situation. I'm hoping I can somehow find room in my budget for an additional drying rack but I don't know if it'll happen. I ordered all my supplies from School Specialty last year. We get awesome discounts so it saves a lot of money. I guess I found out the hard way that paint is not the place to go cheap!
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM
I am curious as to what the project is that you have on the floor that is using newpaper?ReplyDelete
Mrs E in Texas
The project on the floor is going to be something similar to this: http://pinterest.com/pin/216171376/ReplyDelete
I seem to be doing a lot of mess in every class back-to-back lately too, so I put paintings and masks on the floor in the hallway to dry, and luckily the custodians put up with me! My sink is a disaster too - but today I had a student in observing in my room and she thought it seemed like a "well-oiled machine" - I guess in the middle of the chaos all these little guys knew what was expected of them and where to find what they needed, and it worked. Yeah!!ReplyDelete


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The series Elaine is based on a one-off, which Daniel Becker realised during his studies at Braunschweig University of Art under the topic "Readymade". It was a ball-shaped pendant lamp consisting of about 150 single tea-lights with built in miniature light bulbs. The inspiration for the design arouse from the shapes the earliest satellites had, from the first models till the early 1960ies.
Two years ago, we discussed the idea of a serial production of this lamp with the renowned Dutch lighting manufacturer Quasar who were immediately enthusiastic about it. It turned out quickly that the initial idea had to be extended and optimised to develop a commercial product out of it.
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Budimex SA is a parent company in the Budimex Group. Consolidated revenues in 2014 exceeded 4,9 billion zlotys, and market capitalization as of the end of 2014 exceeded 3,6 billion zlotys. Financial results prove that Budimex SA is one of the biggest groups of construction companies in Poland.
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In 2010, the city of Wrocław initiated a project to create a modern car park infrastructure near the Centennial Hall.
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Sampha, a Wounded Voice for Drake and Beyoncé, Steps Out With 'Process'
Sampha, the experimental British pop singer and electronic producer, sounds like someone who has seen things.
For years, some of the biggest names in music (and the best talent scouts) — including Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye West and Solange — have deployed his lush, tender soprano, which can feel wounded but never weak, to telegraph their vulnerability. Through guest appearances on tell-all songs like Drake's "Too Much" and Mr. West's "Saint Pablo," Sampha has made himself a go-to collaborator for those in search of emotional heft.
So it's peculiar, then, given his ability to touch souls with his voice, that Sampha (born Sampha Sisay) long shied away from singing. As a child, he was known at home mainly as a dancer, doing Michael Jackson moves at the urging of his four much older brothers. When a career in music dawned on him, he thought of becoming a producer like Pharrell or Timbaland.
"When I started, I was just making lots of beats, and I wasn't even intending to sing over them," Sampha said last month in a low murmur, trailing off more often than he finished sentences. "I didn't even have a microphone at home — I would have to go to someone else's house to record."


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In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make Toffee Pretzel Rice Krispies Treats. These are a variation on the original Rice Krispies Treats that I hope you will love.
|4 Tablespoon
|Miniature marshmallows
|10 Ounce
|Rice krispies
|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|2 Cup (32 tbs) , broken
|Toffee bits
|1/2 Cup (8 tbs) (more if you love toffee flavor)
|Cooking oil spray
|1 Tablespoon (more or less as needed)
1. Grease a 13-inch by 9-inch by 2-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
2. In a 6-quart pot, melt butter over low heat.
3. Add miniature marshmallows, stir constantly and cook until smooth. Remove the pot from heat.
4. Throw Rice Krispies cereal, pretzels, and toffee bits. Mix well.
5. Transfer mixture in greased baking dish and spread evenly. Allow it to cool.
6. Cut into squares, serve and enjoy!
Serving size Complete recipe
Calories 3226Calories from Fat 954
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 107 g164.6%
Saturated Fat 46 g230%
Trans Fat 0 g
Sodium 4688 mg195.33%
Total Carbohydrates 541 g180.3%
Dietary Fiber 3 g12%
Sugars 229 g
Protein 36 g72%
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For Holidays – Archipelago
Surely it must have felt like a small, a really small, uphill climb when Finland in the 1930's tried to depict itself as a sun and beach paradise.
But we love that kind of cockiness.
Of course we have that one month, July that is, when everything in this poster is true. Or…almost at least.
As the hubris in the 1930's went: "The best thing about Finland is the climate."
To fry yourself on the beach was of course not something given from the start. But when the fashion icon Coco Chanel in 1923 came back from Cannes with a – accidental, it is said – sunburn, it all changed.
Soon Finland caught up with the trend. Now even the men were supposed to sunbathe.
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Friends, family, fans and colleagues said a public farewell to WBAL radio show host Ron Smith Tuesday at Goucher College. And it was as powerful and moving in some respects as the way Smith, who died in December at age 70, lived his final weeks and months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October.
The manner in which Smith shared his final days with his radio audience until he could no longer go on air, and then the way he said farewell to them in a live broadcast, was remarkable -- both public and yet incredibly intimate. In 35 years of reporting on media, I have heard nothing like it.
So, it is high praise to say that Tuesday's ceremony, which was designed by Smith and his wife, June, and brought to life by his colleagues at WBAL radio, was worthy of the man whose life it celebrated with about 800 fans and friends at Goucher's Kraushaar Auditorium. The gathering included U. S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski.
In keeping with who Smith was both on-air and off, there was nothing phony or sentimental about the ceremony. It lasted slightly over an hour and featured remembrances from Smith's closest friends and workplace colleagues.
Master of ceremonies, WBAL sportscaster Gerry Sandusky, opened by telling the group that he had just received his "marching orders" backstage from Smith's wife, June: "Nothing maudlin," he quoted her as saying.
"Ron Smith was insightful, intelligent, engaging and articulate," Sandusky said in his opening remarks. "But we're not here to canonize Ron, because Ron was also enraging, maddening, outrageous, outlandish and opinionated. He was also the voice of reason. And whether you agreed with Ron or disagreed with Ron, whether you thought he was spot on or completely off base, he held your attention."
Sandusky did a nice job of setting the tone for what followed.
Ed Kiernan, general manager of WBAL and 98 Rock, talked about what it was like being Smith's boss.
He shared an anecdote about a consultant whom the station had hired telling him and the senior management team that they absolutely had to stop Smith from referring on air to WBAL radio as "the mighty 1090," which he loved to do. The consultant felt only the call letters should mentioned -- and that anything else would cause brand identity confusion.
Kiernan said he called Smith in and told him what the consultant said, and then the general manager shared with the group at Goucher the dismissive gesture Smith made in response to the consultant's words. It was one of the largest laughs of the day.
"Yeah, sure," he quoted Smith as saying.
Smith referred on-air to WBAL radio as "the mighty 1090" right up to his last broadcast.
Stan Stovall, who co-anchored with Smith at WBAL-TV and remained a lifetime friend, also drew big laughs with a recollection of his audition to join a newscast that employed the formula known as "Action News." That format was characterized in part by anchors presenting the news at a hyped-up almost crazed pace.
Stovall said his audition was his first experience with the action format, and after sitting at the anchor desk listening to Smith speak at pace so brisk he could barely understand the words, he was dumbstruck when his turn to read the news came. All he could do, he said, was stop the audition and ask why Smith was talking so fast.
"That's why it's called Action News," Stovall quoted Smith as saying with an edge in his voice.
And everyone in the auditorium who knew Smith in person or over airwaves laughed at the memory of the broadcaster's dry, keen, arch sense of humor.
Jonathan Murray, senior vice president at UBS and one the Smiths closest friends, offered some of the most poignant words of the day in praising June Smith -- words that surely resonated with anyone that knew them as a couple on or off the air, particularly in the last days.
"June made Ron smile even at the very end," Murray said. "Humor sustained them. And to witness her strength, her grace, her dignity, her selfless love knowing that every tick of the clock meant one step closer to the inevitable, was extraordinary. In the nine weeks from his diagnosis to his passing, June got out of the house for a total of six hours."
But the most powerful words of all Tuesday came from Smith himself -- played in voiceover at the end of the ceremony.
They were the words from his riveting live final broadcast on November 28.
"The curtain is coming down right now," Smith was heard to say again Tuesday. "I'm bidding everyone a very fond farewell."
Friends, family, fans and colleagues said a public farewell to WBAL radio show host Ron Smith Tuesday at Goucher College. And it was as powerful and moving in some respects as the way Smith, who died in December at age 70, lived his final weeks and months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October.


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Vikings choosing between Blackmon, Claiborne and Kalil with third pick
There are three names up for consideration as the third overall pick for the Vikings next Thursday night.
General manager Rick Spielman said at a press conference Thursday that the team will choose between Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon, LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne and USC T Matt Kalil. Spielman, via Jeremy Fowler of the Pioneer Press, said that the front office has given all three players equal grades and they are now sifting between them to figure out which one will be on the card they hand to Roger Goodell.
"What you're saying is, 'All these guys have equal ability. What do you want? Do you want the receiver? Do you want the tackle? Do you want the corner?'"
Now comes the part where we insert the standard proviso that there's a chance the team could trade the pick. Spielman said he's received offers, but that he will wait to see what develops on draft night before making any final decisions on that front. And we'll follow that up with the standard proviso that Spielman could know which of the three the Vikings will take and is using the perception of indecision to solicit better offers than he's already heard from a team that is dead set on one of those three players.
You could insert those statements after just about everything a general manager says between now and the moment their pick is announced. Welcome to draft week.


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Gates: MS has 20m mobile market share, heads for 60%
But despite appearances, he hasn't been inhaling...
Microsoft, previously thought to be finding the achievement of a million shipped phones somewhat challenging, already has 20 million and will shortly achieve 60 per cent of the market. Or at least, that's what Bill says.
Microsoft's marketing people do tend to use a bizarre form of counting which, if employed on the financial side, would surely get the Redmond beanies sent to prison for a very long time, but this one's particularly impressive. Speaking to the European Technology Round Table Exhibition in Berlin this week, reports Bloomberg, Bill Gates came up with this:
"If 500 million devices a year is the total maket, and we have 20 million now, then that will easily grow to be 60 per cent of the market... It's not a market where anyone, looking forward, will have 90 per cent of the market share."
How very reasonable and modest, you may observe, although the ease with which Gates thinks that 20 million (4 per cent) swiftly multiplies to 60 per cent might just strike you as a tad overweening.
How does he manage to make it 20 per cent though? Well, he cites AT&T, Vodafone, Samsung and Orange as outfits selling phones using Microsoft software, and he clearly does not entirely (or even largely) mean phones based on Microsoft's mobile phone platform. He means services, and while 20 million is probably still a bit of a stretch here, it doesn't look anything like so bizarre. And it'd be wrong to just dismiss this as a numbers fiddle to make Microsoft look good in a Bill speech (so OK, we'll stop doing that now) - Gates is actually telling us what is of most immediate importance to Microsoft in the mobile phone market (services, not directly 'owned' handsets), and therefore where it intends to apply leverage.
Which takes us on to that 4 per cent to 60 per cent ramp. Microsoft's services deals with mobile phone networks so far have tended to be very dull indeed, link ups that make it easier for business customers to connect their Microsoft mail systems, their desktops maybe, and their workforces' mobile phones being a prime example. Given that there are plenty Microsoft shops out there that find this kind of thing useful it's no doubt a living, but it's not 60 per cent of the business market, never mind the whole handset market, and even in his most optimistic dreams Bill couldn't possibly think 60 per cent share was easy. Possible, inevitable in the long run, yes, but easy, no.
And there's absolutely no way that easy access to all of your business-critical applications plays to 60 per cent of the whole mobile phone market. But other Microsoft services do. Normal people tend not to be too bothered about syncing with their desktops, picking up their email on the move or whatever, but they're pretty keen on chat, instant messaging and the like, and they'll do it more if it's easy, and easily available.
Microsoft already has IM deals with several mobile networks, and it will undoubtedly get more. There's competition, certainly, but the playing field here is tilted more in Microsoft's favour than elsewhere in the mobile phone services business, and the brand and the weight of the company's existing user base in the computer area will be an advantage. Interoperability, or a lack of interoperability, can also be exploited here in the way it has been in the computer business.
Who's going to be quick enough to stop him? Nokia? Sun? AOL? You could doubt that, and maybe in a couple of years Bill really will be Mr 60 per cent. ®


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One Missing Batman V Superman Scene The Ultimate Edition Should Have Included
This past Tuesday, the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice "Ultimate Edition" was released on digital HD, providing 30 extra minutes of content and enough added violence to push the movie to an R rating. While this extended version doesn't change much in the way of tone or characterization for most of the main players, many have agreed that the new scenes helped add context and telling a more cohesive story. Still, there was one moment that both versions of the movie didn't include that would have helped in the way of fleshing out Batman's past and delving into one of the other losses in his life: the death of Robin, as revealed by the defaced costume kept in the Batcave.
Most of Bruce Wayne's anger in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stems from his distrust towards Superman He witnessed firsthand the destruction caused by the Kryptonians in Metropolis 18 months earlier, and he lost people he cared about during Zod and Kal-El's fight. That was enough to for him to be angry at Superman, but the Knightmare pushed him over the edge. However, the movie didn't delve deeply into the other tragedies in his life aside from his parents being murdered, a moment which even non-comic book fans will agree has been seen plenty of times. That's fine, because as Bruce said, 20 years of fighting crime in Gotham City can change people. That said, when he pauses at the Robin memorial, folks not familiar with the comics only got a vague sense of how the Caped Crusader's partner perished. Comic book fans know what the deal is. In the 1988 story "Death in the Family," The Joker bludgeoned Jason Todd, the second Robin, with a crowbar. While Jason was resurrected nearly two decades later, his death remains one of the most shocking moments in comic book history.
It has yet to be directly confirmed if the Robin who died in the DCEU is Jason Todd or someone else, but either way, his demise understandably shook Batman to the core. He keeps that costume on display as a reminder of how he failed the boy, and may be the reason why he hadn't worked with anyone besides Alfred for years. Nevertheless, there was little context provided for the graffitied Robin suit, and since the old adage with movies is "Show, don't tell," that moment would have benefited from showing some of what went down. As you can glean from that earlier description, the Robin murder would have been way too graphic to show in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's PG-13 version. Fortunately, with the Ultimate Edition's R rating, they could have gotten away with it, even just as a quick glimpse. Maybe as Bruce is looking at the costume, the audience sees quick flashbacks of Joker attacking Robin and cackling with insane glee. Extremely dark, yes, but for the Ultimate Edition, it would have fit.
It's also worth noting that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was originally supposed to come out in July 2015, but it was eventually pushed to May 2016 and then finally settled on March 25, 2016. The movie was completed around December of last year, but that still gave an extra five months where they could have shot at least a few extra minutes of content. Two of those months coincided with Suicide Squad's principal photography, meaning Jared Leto was in character as The Joker. Considering that Ben Affleck flew to Vancouver to shoot a couple Suicide Squad scenes, they could have shot with Leto as the Clown Prince of Crime to squeeze into Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. After all, the Ultimate Edition is three hours long. It's not like an extra minute (at most) would have been deemed excessive.
Of course, perhaps the reason we didn't see Robin being killed is because they're saving that for another movie. Maybe Suicide Squad will feature somehow, albeit a less graphic interpretation since the movie is rated PG-13. There is also a solo Batman movie on the way, and one of the plots that's been rumored over the last year is Jason Todd coming back to life as The Red Hood. If that's the storyline being adapted, then yes, that's definitely the best place to show the brutal murder. However, going off the information we have so far, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - The Ultimate Edition would have benefitted from elaborating on how the Boy Wonder met his gruesome end and showing that Batman's pain comes from more than his parents being killed and the destruction in Metropolis. He also lost someone who he took care of and fought crime alongside, and one doesn't just get over that.
What do you think? Should Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - The Ultimate Edition have shown Robin being killed? Is that a moment they're saving for a different movie? Should it even be shown at all? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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For MRC grants that involve collaborations, almost half (43%) are international. They are running a symposium in Washington D.C to encourage more of this, by joining up UK early career researchers and National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers working in neurodegeneration. But what's the international incentive? Three researchers with MRC-NIH Partnership Awards share how they hope to benefit.
Dr Chi-Hun Kim, Dementias Platform UK, University of Oxford
The UK and US each have rich data sources for dementia research. But there aren't any efficient UK-US data access channels which make it easier for researchers in the two countries to collaborate.
I plan to use the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal as a channel for more efficient and long-standing collaboration. The portal is a secure one-stop website where researchers can upload their data and analyse it for free. By using this robust MRC-funded facility, I'll conduct a study using data from both sides of the Atlantic. I'm aiming to get a better picture of how conditions that block or reduce blood flow to the brain might affect the development of dementia.
DPUK and I have been helping South Korea make a similar facility to help with international collaboration. My experiences from the MRC-Korea collaboration will set me up well for this exciting new collaboration.
Dr Ivan Koychev, University of Oxford
The NIH has access to a fantastic resource of expertise and data that I hope to use to help identify dementia before any symptoms appear. Dementia can begin up to 25 years before the first symptoms show. I'm aiming to come up with therapies that may stop the disease before it causes any lasting damage.
But before we can develop therapies, we need to identify the people who are most likely to develop symptoms. Then we'll be able to recruit the right participants into the right clinical trials, using DPUK's Clinical Studies Register.
I'll look at data from America's longest-running scientific study of human ageing: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). It's followed participants since 1958 and recently performed scans to spot the presence of dementia-related proteins. Another study, BIOCARD, collects a whole range of samples from patients, including spinal fluid. This gives us a rare opportunity to explore how dementia proteins change over time and what factors might affect this change. I'll develop algorithms using the NIH cohorts, then check how well they work in DPUK cohort data.
Dr Rozanna Meijboom, UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
I'd like to gain experience and build collaborations with a prestigious NIH lab. I hope my visit will enhance our research in Edinburgh, encourage other researchers to collaborate with the group and bring wider benefits to the UK Dementia Research Institute.
My research focuses on brain changes in dementia, multiple sclerosis and ageing, using a variety of brain imaging techniques. Professor Reich's group have very similar interests to ours – they also focus on brain imaging in multiple sclerosis. They've developed new methods, complementary to ours, for assessing brain abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging scans.
I'm particularly interested to learn about techniques that allow for assessing damage in the white matter of the brain – this part of the brain contains the nerve fibres connecting the brain nerve cells. I'm keen to apply these techniques in different brain diseases, such as dementia.
Learn more about the UK dementia research landscape.
Hear about the aims of the UK Dementia Research Institute from its Director Professor Bart de Strooper.
To see the original positing of this blog visit: https://www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2018/03/22/us-uk-dementia-research-collaboration/


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Great news, everyone: I've figured out the secret to a successful marriage. It's been 18 years, and if my musician husband and I make it past the finish line it won't be because we're more compatible than any other couple (risible) or because we tried harder than everyone else (please). Similar tastes in movies, shared values, a mutual disinterest in skiing — all good things to have. I'm here to tell you that what you don't want to share with your significant other is cash.
Paying my own way began, of course, with my first boyfriend, whom I'll call Lenny the Punk. When we met, Lenny the Punk had a real job, and I was still in high school with a mound of babysitting cash to cover my date-night expenses. I don't remember doing so, but I must have made it clear from the start that I would always pay my own way, which back then usually meant buying a movie ticket and a fizzy almond drink. Despite Lenny the Punk's inflexible exterior (leather jacket, shaved head), he was an enlightened soul — not too long ago I found a snarly feminist postcard that he sent me decades back — and I'd like to think he took my intent to pay my own way for what it was: an intuitive sort of feminism that at the time I would have called an interest in fairness, not realizing that they're the same thing.
At some point after Lenny the Punk and I broke up for reasons nonfinancial, I learned that one of the things couples most often fight about is money. The solution, it seemed to me, was pinheadedly simple: Don't share it. When partners keep their money separate, one half of the couple can't resent the other half — your musician husband, say — for using merged funds to buy another guitar that he truly doesn't need. In theory, not merging our cash means that my spouse and I can save our energies for bickering about one of the other things couples most often fight about: sex. But we don't fight about sex either, maybe because we don't fight about money. (Fights about money must be a real libido killer.)
What if your significant other makes more money than you, you ask? Before I met my husband, I lived with just such a man, and I was so splenetic in my resolve to pay my own way that I became a master of thrift in order to keep up with him. What if you're thrifty and still find yourself unable to keep up with your partner? Then maybe you should look for someone else: That chump is probably spending way too much money.
Here's how it works at my house: My husband and I both contribute to agreed-upon shared expenses (food, the mortgage, the kids) in proportion to how much child care each of us provides. These days we split the child care down the middle, so the math is a breeze. After we make a purchase, we initial our receipts, which go in a plastic clip, and once a month or so I tally the husband's expenses and then mine, total them, divide by two, and then calculate who owes who how much. For a while we were doing a one-sixth/five-sixths split because my husband did child care five days to my one day a week (I had a real job then, and he worked on Saturdays), and I will admit to you that the math was a bit of a mind melter. But convenience doesn't seem like a good enough reason for two married people to automatically pool their funds, a tradition predicated on the extinct assumption, at least here in the West, that a married woman won't earn an income of her own. I wasn't going to use my husband's name; why would I use his money? And this thing with letting men pick up the tab — it's not a serious solution to the problem of women not earning what men do for the same work, is it? That's just compounding the lopsidedness problem, no? And it introduces another one.
"Two blow jobs," a friend said under her breath at a museum shop many years ago as she was writing a check for some pricey mementos; she had a career that wasn't very remunerative (did you guess freelance writer?), so she and her husband shared a checking account into which he poured his considerably larger salary. My friend had made the "blow jobs" joke for my amusement, and I'm still sufficiently amused to repeat it here. But it distilled what I think I'd sensed way back when I was dating Lenny the Punk: When a man pays a woman's way, there's a subtext — she owes him something. Maybe not two blow jobs, or even one. But maybe a little light housework, or maybe her understanding ("Well, he did buy me that fizzy almond drink") when he's being a cad.
I do realize that I'm not the first woman who has ever pledged not to depend financially on her partner. I also realize that standing by this particular principle is a middle-class luxury: I can support myself because I'm a healthy person with a college education. My parents even covered most of my college tuition, although after I graduated I had a modest quarterly loan that I paid myself. At one transitional point in my life, I moved in with my mother and my then-new stepfather, and somehow he got his hands on my student-loan paperwork one day and did the unthinkable: He paid the balance.
My mother explained to me in private that this was a testament to my stepfather's love for me, but I was having none of it. I adored the man but was wildly uncomfortable with his picking up the tab for my loan, plus I'd been looking forward to the fizzy-almond-drink-like jolt of satisfaction that would come once I'd paid it off. I made my flustered mother find a polite way to tell my stepfather all this. I know that I reimbursed one of them — I don't recall which; because they pooled their money, it didn't matter to them who got my check. By now you know why it would have mattered to me.
Beware, heterosexual women averse to ruffling feathers: Offending traditionalists, including prospective mates, goes along with a commitment to not being carried by a man. It's also half the fun.
Nell Beram is the coauthor of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies.


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This is a great article. I was very close to my grandparents and learned so many useful and money saving skills from them. As it turns out, they were also skills that I wouldn't appreciate as healthier than today's alternatives until many years later: make my own food, use vinegar to clean, good old weeding is better than chemicals.
There are so many other takeaways from our grandparent's generations as well. Kids who are respectful rather than sulky or "fresh." Birthdays that celebrate the special kid with a small gift rather than giant extravaganza. Kids who have the skills to move out and survive on their own when they leave high school/college.
Thank you for a well-thought out article with useful reminders.


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Our Corporate Stays team has been fortunate enough to meet many people. When we talk with them, we hear of their travel plans, where they've been, where they're going, and how long they intend on staying. However, we also learn how they manage to fit a week's worth of clothing into such a small suitcase or bag!
If you intend on travelling any time soon, then these packing tips can be helpful. We've learned a lot from our travellers, and we're sure you will as well.
Packing Tip #1: Make a List
The importance of making a list featured on our last packing tips list, and there's a reason for it: it's highly essential. If you don't make a list, it's far too easy to forget some of those more critical items. Medication, money, and even a spare pair of socks can all find themselves left at home if you don't remember to write them down.
Packing Tip #2: Know TSA Rules Inside Out
The Transportation Security Administration doesn't mess around. They have strict rules for security and travel, and they expect you to know what they are. Do you? If you plan on traveling anywhere within the USA – or out of it – then you need to make sure everything you're packing complies with those rules. Otherwise, you can hold up an entire security line and possibly lose your valuable goods.
Packing Tip #3: Be Aware of Baggage Fees
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a business traveller is not familiarising yourself with baggage fees. Every airline is different. Before your journey, find out who you are flying with and what their rules are. Those fees can dictate how much you pack and whether you take one bag or two.
Packing Tip #4: Pack Outfits, Not Garments
It doesn't matter whether you travel for business or pleasure, you can find yourself packing a whole lot of clothes you'll never wear. Then, when you get home, they all come out again and back into the closet. To avoid taking items you don't need, plan your suitcase by outfits. Fold underwear, socks, pants, a shirt, and an outer layer together as one day, and do the same for every other day.
Packing Tip #5: Roll Your Clothing
While you wouldn't roll your clothing in your drawers at home, it makes perfect sense in your suitcase. It's also one of the most important packing tips we can offer. Rolling your clothing creates more room in your bag than folding and stops clothing from creasing as well.
Packing Tip #6: Learn About Laundry
Many people pack too many clothes because they fail to factor in any laundry opportunities. Fortunately, many Corporate Stays apartments offer in-suite laundries. Phone ahead and find out if where you are staying does as well. You can then pack less and travel lighter.
Packing Tip #7: Pack Versatile Clothing
Pants that turn into shorts and other versatile garments should be your go-to for travelling light. Whether you're on the road for business or pleasure, it's one of the best packing tips we can offer. If you can wear something more than once, and in more than one temperature range, it's a winning garment.
Packing Tip #8: Check Your Bag Size
Not every bag is suitable for overhead lockers. Therefore, if you plan on taking a suitcase onboard the aircraft as carry-on, make sure it fits before you get on. There's nothing more awkward than holding up an entire plane of travellers while you try to stuff your enormous bag into an area that won't fit.
Packing Tip #9: Bring a Few Extra Bags
You never know when you'll need them, especially for things like dirty clothes, which are always an afterthought. They weigh nothing and come in SO handy, so don't forget a few!
Packing Tip #10: Know Your Liquids
Almost every frequent traveller should know this rule by now, but it's still easy to forget. If you have to carry any liquids, gels, or aerosols, follow the 3-1-1 rule. You should have less than 3.4 ounces in a container, one bag per passenger, and one quart in a clear, plastic, zip-lock bag.
Sometimes you can get so caught up in thinking about what you will do when you get to your destination that you don't put much thought into the process leading up to it. It's crucial that you do. Refer to our packing tips above. Before long, you can be making your way to your destination with no problems at all.


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Check out this great video interview of four-time alum Takeya Meggett shot by SCA partner and Conservation Intern program supporter, Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS). Takeya talks eloquently about her experience as an SCA member and how her passion led to an amazing green career as a Migratory Fish Educator in scenic Hudson Valley, NY. Through the continued support of DPS and others, every year thousands of interns just like Takeya get the chance to serve in more than 500 national parks, forests and marine areas.
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There's nothing like working in the garden at the cottage—it's virtually impossible to get any closer to nature. If you've got an enthusiastic gardener in your life, here are some great gift ideas to get garden season started.
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One of the challenges of gardening at the cottage is leaving your plants alone during the week. When it's hot, tender plants can get really dry, really quick. Keep them at consistent moisture level with these handy plant nannies. Just fill a wine bottle (or any long-necked glass bottle) with water, upend it into the plant nanny, and enjoy lush greenery all summer. More info: www.amazon.ca
Gardeners need a lot of tools, but they need to use both hands. This adjustable tool belt allows your favourite green thumb to use their hands for gardening, but keep their tools close by. More info: www.mkrittenhouse.com
Whether you've got limited space, an impossible-to-plant garden (thank you, Canadian Shield granite) or a deck that needs brightening up, these nifty planters will help you fit maximum colour and visual interest into a small space. You can stack these pots up to five high, giving you 15 pots worth of flowery inspiration. More info: www.leevalley.com
Just hang these shiny metal discs in your fruit trees, and birds will think twice about nibbling your peaches, apples, berries or pears. Light enough to flutter in the breeze, the painting on these shiny bird deterrents resembles a predator's eye, spooking even the hungriest avians. More info: www.leevalley.com
Gardening is a long-term investment and a gardener's journal helps track what's been planted where, what worked and what didn't, and sketches of different designs. This journal also includes handy charts, places to record notes about gardening techniques, and a sturdy cloth binding. More info: www.leevalley.com
These suede gauntlets are perfect for roses, raspberries and brambles—pretty much anything that might poke. Running all the way up the forearm, these sturdy gloves come in men's and women's sizes for the perfect fit. More info: www.westcoutygardener.com
A terrarium is the perfect way to keep the gardening spirit alive all year long. Plant ferns, succulents or African violets to add a welcome bit of greenery or colour that will last through the dreary winter, which, thankfully, is months away. More info: www.amazon.com
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The Telegraph reports that someone's quest to acquire WMDs still goes on.
Equipment bound for Syria which could be used to test ballistic missile components was intercepted during a previously undisclosed mission, the United States has announced.
Four member states of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a group of 90 countries who seek to prevent the shipment of weapons of mass destruction, were involved in the operation in February, 2007.
US national security adviser Stephen Hadley described the incident in a speech to members of the PSI, which the Bush administration has sought to portray as a significant success in its drive to prevent biological, chemical or nuclear terrorism.
Analysts say it is hard to judge the PSI's effectiveness because members are reluctant to disclose successes to avoid betraying sources that provide intelligence needed to stop shipments.
That delivery platform was going to be matched to something. Nobody acquires ballistic missiles to put popsicles on them. Maybe the something planned as a payload vanished in a desert raid on September, 2007.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New commercial satellite images show a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site has been wiped clean since it was bombed September 6 by Israeli aircraft. Analysts say the cleanup will hinder a proposed investigation by international nuclear inspectors and suggests Syria is trying to conceal evidence.
"It took down this facility so quickly it looks like they are trying to hide something," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, which analyzed the images.
The danger isn't over, and it won't be over for a long time. But we can make it through as long as we remember that the danger is there.
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Most of my client consultations start with the Aura Cards. My favourite spread is the seven-card chakra spread, where I cross-reference aura colours with chakra positions. Using seven cards allows me an insight into the state of each chakra and provides plenty of scope for the fine art of reading colour combinations! Aura colours combine to create new meanings, and an insight into intra- and inter- personal relationship dynamics. This guides me through the spiritual counselling process, so that the client and I can work together to define what their underlying issues are and how we might approach them on the healing table.
These two Aura Cards 'Loyalty' and 'Freedom', are a small snapshot from a client's recent Aura Card reading. Talking together about these two cards, we realised they were representing an internal conflict. In this instance, the client's life experiences had led her to believe she couldn't have freedom and loyalty in a relationship at the same time. If she wanted freedom, she couldn't have it in a loyal relationship. Internal conflicts create internal tension and are a common source of ill-health for clients. On the plus side, grappling with an internal conflict and rising above its paradox can bring about profound growth and positive change in a person's life.
Looking at this client's other aura colours, I could see this client is a free spirit. We talked about how the modern western concept of loyalty in relationships often involves a sense of being owned or possessed by the other person, almost as though 'if I don't get jealous it means I don't love you properly'. My client loves connecting deeply with other people, including people of the opposite sex, and needs to find a relationship where this depth of connection is allowed and honoured.
Part of my job as a therapist was to find a balance between validating her fatigue and grief and reframing the situation in order to rescue her sense of hope. So often in these situations, people become exhausted by repeated disappointments in relationships. They withdraw from hope because they can't cope with the idea of being let down yet again. In effect, they close the door on romantic relationships altogether and choose to stay single. This is a perfectly valid option and may well be safer; people often instinctively know where their breaking points are and will self-protect via withdrawal.
As a practitioner, I also recognise that these voyages inwards to lick one's wounds can be temporary, however permanent they might feel to the client at the time. I need to honour their fatigue by allowing them the time and space to make their own decisions, while making best use of the tools I have to help them become more whole and complete within themselves. External conflicts are reflections of internal conflicts, so rather than focus overtly on the external situation between themselves and another, I work on the underlying internal conflict.
My client has two different regions in her aura (and/or her brain). One is labelled 'freedom'. The other is labelled 'loyalty'. In the aura, we would say there is no bridge between these colours; they aren't in contact with one another and they aren't co-operating with one another. In the body, we would probably find these colours lodged within particular organs, with a lack of communication (or even an antipathy) between these two organs. In the brain, the 'freedom neurones' and the 'loyalty neurons' aren't wired together, nor are they firing together. The brain is failing to associate these two qualities, values or feelings together.
My primary tool for resolving these impasses, is to engage the client's imagination. For some clients, this will involve me embodying their freedom self, then their loyalty self, and acting them out, with some humour to lighten the mood and help them see the funny side of the situation. This helps them see the distinct character, values, strengths and weaknesses of each aspect of self, as well as the dynamic between them. This dynamic (the attitudes each self has towards the other), tends to externalise itself in the client's outer world, playing itself out in relationships.
Quite often, I get the client to tell me about these inner characters. What are their strengths and weaknesses? What are their values? How do they feel about each other? We tend to swing back and forth between warring aspects of self, with one character first gaining the upper hand and taking over your self-expression, then the other. The feelings that each self has towards the other are experienced as an internal dialogue of self-judgement, self-criticism and resentment. These feelings and thoughts then get launched onto people in our external world who reflect each aspect of self back to us.
In some instances, I introduce the two aspects of self as fairy characters or archetypes and ask the client to write me a fairy tale featuring these two characters. The story-telling process can reveal the dynamics between each character . This helps the client understand themselves better. Some clients see these dynamics as they write and respond in an instinctual healing manner, resolving the conflicts between each character within the story as they write. Other clients have less self-awareness and have to be guided to see the dynamics and then given a second writing exercise where they re-write the story with greater self-awareness.
My favourite technique for healing the impasse between two disconnected or warring aspects of self is to give the client an imagination exercise which helps them practise holding both aspects of self in their psyche at the same time. (Usually we swing back and forth between them like a yoyo). I ask them "How would it feel if…" or "What would it look like and feel like if you could…". With the client in this case, her exercise was "Imagine what it would look like and feel like if you could be in a committed relationships and have freedom at the same time."
This can be challenging for the client because they have to simultaneously engage two parts of their aura/brain/body that don't usually co-operate. The struggle to imagine feeling these two feelings at the same time can destabilise the old aura patterns (neurone pathways), while laying down the first beginnings of a new, more harmonious possibility. The dialogue I use during these sessions sounds something like this:
"What would it feel like if you could have commitment and freedom in your life at the same time? Make this a really positive feeling. How would your body feel? Imagine you can breathe this positive feeling in with each inhalation. If the feeling of freedom with loyalty (or loyalty with freedom) were a colour, would would this colour look like? Imagine being surrounded by this colour (eg sky, fields of flowers, water, mountains) and imagine you can breathe this colour in with every inhalation."
"To help your mind stay focused, let's turn this feeling into a mantra you can focus on with every inhalation. For example, let's try "It is easy for me to have loyalty and freedom in my life at the same time." Repeat this inside your mind, every time you inhale."
Really good mantras often begin with "It is easy for me to.." "It is safe for me…" or "I give myself permission to have (or be or feel)…."
"With every inhalation, scan through your body and listen to its response. Notice where the resistance is. Mantras like this can press your buttons and show you where your blockages reside. You might notice a discomfort in your body, emotions coming up or some arguments arising in your mind. Take note of your response and let go of it on the out-breath, almost as though you are blowing it away. On the in-breath, come back to the mantra and the positive feelings that go with it."
Today I was working with a client who couldn't correlate the idea of accepting praise and accolades with her values around humility. She was afraid not to appear humble, partly due to parental messages from childhood, and partly because people can get jealous if you look like you are enjoying a good soak in the lime light, and they shoot you down. Her job was to practise embodying a feeling of being able to safely enjoy and saviour her accomplishments and the recognition that comes with them, while also feeling humble. Every time she inhaled the mantra we created, she started coughing and then had a good laugh, because she knew this was her resistance coming up!
When resistance comes up, we take a meditative approach, one of non-attachment. We don't want to feed these emotions by going into dialogue. In this instance, a non-constructive dialogue might sound like "I really don't want people to think I'm full of myself! What if they think I'm a bad person?! Maybe I am a bad person?! Maybe I'm just a fraud and I don't deserve this praise at all!" To avoid feeding your old stuff with mental dialogue, give the mind a job to do in the form of staying present with a mantra, creative visualisation and/or the task of observing body sensations. It's important to take note of the resistance and any dialogue that does come up, because it helps you understand itself better, but don't get caught up in it. Take note and let go on the exhalation. Come back to the task at hand.
I tell my clients "Don't feed it or fight it." If this client had tried to suppress her coughing, this would have been a form of 'fighting'. The coughing was her bodies way of communicating its distress, and it may have even been a way to release some blockages from deeper within. Rather than suppress this release, the client allowing her coughing to evolve into laughter. While I was guiding this through the imagery and mantras, two healing students were scanning through and shifting blockages and imbalances. At the end of the healing process, the client noticed her pre-existing back pain had almost disappeared.


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Ebola cases in Sierra Leone spike to highest level since March
Sierra Leone and Guinea still regularly reporting several new cases daily
Sierra Leone is introducing new curfews for two northern districts after a spike in new Ebola cases to the highest level in months, President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Friday.
The 18-month-long Ebola epidemic has killed more than 11,100 people in West Africa, although weekly numbers of new cases have fallen sharply from last year's peaks. One of the three worst-affected countries, Liberia, was declared Ebola-free in May.
Sierra Leone and Guinea, however, are still regularly reporting several new cases daily, prompting both to extend emergency measures.
"I have instructed the security to institute chiefdom-level curfew and restriction on movement from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in Kambia and Port Loko districts, with immediate effect," Koroma said in a televised address.
Offenders will be detained and prosecuted if they violate the new measures, which will be in effect for the next 21 days. The two districts lie on the route between the capital Freetown and the Guinea border and have been the focus of recent cases.
Health workers say access is difficult in the maze of islands and creeks in the region, where dirt paths are often flooded in the current wet season.
Some residents are not complying with anti-Ebola measures and more than a dozen Ebola contacts have escaped quarantine, according to a report by the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) in May.
"There will be night patrols, so the idea is to stop people from escaping using vehicles. If they run away on foot they can only get so far," said OB Sisay, a NERC official involved in "Operation Northern Push" for Port Loko and Kambia.
Oxfam's country director Thynn Thynn Hlaing warned that the new measures would only work if residents were involved in designing and implementing them.
There have also been breaches of anti-Ebola regulations in the capital. A member of parliament, Alie Badara Munu, was arrested for participating in a traditional burial in May.
Washing rituals for the dead can spread the virus, contained within body fluids such as blood and sweat.
Sierra Leone reported seven confirmed cases on June 9, the highest count since March 24, according to the NERC.
But in many other districts of the small agricultural country of 6 million people, there are no more Ebola patients. Koroma said in his speech that restrictions on business opening hours would be eased in these areas.


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Madden 18 scrubbed Kaepernick from song lyrics, too
Colin Kaepernick's likeness was in last year's Madden game. However, like Madden 19, Madden 18 also scrubbed his name from a song lyric.
The soundtrack for the version of game released in August 2017 included Bars of Soap from Mike WiLL Made-It. The song includes this line: "She be hopin' that I take a knee like Kaepernick, yes." EA removed the words "like Kaepernick" from the Madden version of the song.
The omission apparently went unnoticed for months; a Twitter user responded to the PFT story on the Madden 19 omission with a link to the audio from Madden 18. PFT separately confirmed that the Madden 18 soundtrack does indeed remove "like Kaepernick" from the song.
The fact that Kaepernick's name was removed from the game a year ago, while he was still actively seeking NFL employment and hadn't filed a collusion grievance against the NFL, could actually strengthen his legal claim. The NFL exclusively licenses EA to produce and market a video game with league and team logos and trademarks. It's an official piece of NFL merchandise. The fact that the game omitted his name even before the anthem issue became a next-level news story in September 2017 with the President's comments at a rally in Alabama and, a month later, Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance tends to show that the league had a clear bias against him.
Which becomes possible evidence that the league acted on that bias by advising teams not to offer him employment. Which becomes collusion when the league sends a consistent message to the various teams, and they act upon it.


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The morning is once again coming early, at 5:10, but it's not so bad, although this morning my 3 yr old said, "You're cruel! You're cruel!" when I turned on her lights and my 6 yr old said, "We only have to do this 178 more days, right?"
Yesterday I planted carrots and broccoli and some pickling cucumbers, and as usual, I didn't mark where I planted them, so I suppose I'll have to wait to see if anything sprouts before I work up what else I'm going to stick in the ground.
Saw that the peas are starting to sprout!
This is the year for peas for me, I just know it. It has to be! It's the third time I'll try. It just has to work....doesn't it?
On a keychains note, I've started the keychains on their own blog, but will keep up the ordering page linked to this blog as well. I've also put them on Facebook which is a whole new world for me.
Again, listening to a suggestion (send me your suggestions! email email@example.com), here are some Halloween or otherwise "teen angst-edgy" ribbons to go on the keychains. The stitching will be black on these and either black or white on the black ribbon.
I just love the one on the green. It's just obnoxious enough to be so cool! Think of teens or bikers or whomever and get those stocking stuffers ordered before your checkbook is tapped out come December, and remember, every keychain helps support Relay for Life and you get a free keychain with an order of four or more. You can't beat that. And.....My vampire and teacher appreciation ribbon just came in. Look for those soon! Thank you to everyone who has supported us. We're very grateful and want you to know we're not sketchy dudes. You place your order and it will be mailed out the next day the mail runs. I promise!
The morning comes early. Woe is me. Sweet gardening dreams.


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Foggy start to Sunday, turning cloudy from south
It's nearly a repeat performance of yesterday... with two exceptions, some stubborn fog around that could be difficult to shift and thicker cloud arriving from the south later. That said, there will once again be lots of sunshine but as the day progresses it will turn increasingly cloudy from the south and west. By 7pm the first light patchy rain is expected to arrive in Pembrokeshire and that the sign of the next rain band arriving on tonight.
So a wet night into Monday and there could be some heavy spells of rain around to start the week. Then Tuesday looks like a cloudy day for many with the risk of rain in the south and some brightness possible in the north.


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Internal documents released late Friday show managers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were aware of the potential for a catastrophic "blowout" at an abandoned mine that could release "large volumes" of wastewater laced with toxic heavy metals.
EPA released the documents following weeks of prodding from The Associated Press and other media organizations. EPA and contract workers accidentally unleashed 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater on Aug. 5 as they inspected the idled Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.
Among the documents is a June 2014 work order for a planned cleanup that noted that the old mine had not been accessible since 1995, when the entrance partially collapsed. The plan appears to have been produced by Environmental Restoration, a private contractor working for EPA.
Related: Ticking Time Bombs? Abandoned Mines Pose Environmental Risks
"This condition has likely caused impounding of water behind the collapse," the report says. "ln addition, other collapses within the workings may have occurred creating additional water impounding conditions. Conditions may exist that could result in a blowout of the blockages and cause a release of large volumes of contaminated mine waters and sediment from inside the mine, which contain concentrated heavy metals."
A subsequent May 2015 action plan for the mine also notes the potential for a blowout.
There are at least three ongoing investigations into exactly how EPA triggered the disaster, which tainted rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah with lead, arsenic and other contaminates. EPA says its water testing has shown contamination levels have since fallen back to pre-spill levels, though experts warn the heavy metals have likely sunk and mixed with bottom sediments that could someday be stirred back up.
The documents, which the agency released about 10:30 p.m. ET Friday, do not include any account of what happened immediately before or after the spill. The wastewater flowed into a tributary of the Animas and San Juan rivers, turning them a sickly yellow.
EPA Chief: 'River is Restoring Itself'Aug. 13, 201502:46
Elected officials in affected states and elsewhere have been highly critical of the EPA's initial response. Among the unanswered questions is why it took the agency nearly a day to inform local officials in downstream communities that rely on the rivers for drinking water.
Much of the text in the documents released Friday was redacted by EPA officials. Among the items blacked out is the line in a 2013 safety plan for the Gold King job that specifies whether workers were required to have phones that could work at the remote site, which is more than 11,000 feet up a mountain.
EPA did not immediately respond Friday night to questions from the AP.


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Types Of Analytics CFOs Will Pay For [CHART]
In August 2016, Deloitte polled 122 CFOs, representing various industries, mainly in the US, about their priorities for and expectations of analytics, among other areas.
More than half of respondents said analytics that help their businesses understand customer profitability (58.2%) or financial optimization and forecasting (51.6%) are likely to receive backing in the next few years. Other types of analytics that track, for example, supply chain and manufacturing rounded out the poll at 29.5% and 26.2%, respectively.
Based on this research, CFOs must be becoming aware of their marketers battle to understanding the customer journey. In a related study from Millward Brown, released in August, 55% of US senior marketers said they don't feel optimistic that they're keeping up with the ebbs and flows of today's consumer. Read the rest at eMarketer.


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Part 1 of Series
The word disruption has multiple meanings in global business with the most commonly used definition some variation of "the act of interrupting continuity". Within the context of logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, IT, and other business operations, disruption is obviously an experience managers work diligently to avoid. A good example of a recent operational disruption was caused by the Sendai quake and tsunami; a natural disaster which was unpreventable, but predictable and therefore can be mitigated with careful risk management planning.
In the context of innovation, however, and long-term economic survival, disruption can be paradoxical when "the act of interrupting continuity" of tightly controlled markets, stale products, and outdated business models is not an evil, but rather can be a savior to businesses, ecosystems, and economies, preventing eventual operational disruption, or as we've seen in many cases—complete failure.
Animal Instincts
Central to the theme of disruption in innovation is the nature of our species. We humans tend to be creatures of habit even when presented with evidence that the behavior is self-destructive in the long-term. In similar fashion, individuals and organized groups such as governments and corporations often refuse to change behavior even when continually presented with evidence that the cost of the short-term comfort zone may well be long-term survival, and of course fear and greed are ever present.
While resistance to change is often strongest in absolute monopolies, similar cultures are commonly found anywhere deep disequilibrium exists in the tension between security and progress, speaking to the need for competition. Entire industries or regions can become static relative to the world quickly today, displaying little evidence of awareness in decision making. Mix in a heavy dose of risk averse corporate cultures, conflicting (real and perceived) interests internally and externally, a bit of PR spin, and regional translation leakage between multiple native languages, confusion surrounding the issue of disruption becomes the norm rather than the exception.
History is overflowing with examples of the high costs of failing to intentionally disrupt the status quo with innovation. A few recent cases that come to mind include:
Failure to disrupt poor U.S. fiscal management and lack of accountability (in part with innovation) over a long period now threatens operational disruption
Failure to disrupt the U.S. healthcare and public educational system has greatly exacerbated the U.S. fiscal challenge, reflecting why prevention of negative spirals with continual improvement is so important
Mobile Technology
Nokia's failure to maintain leadership in smart phones is now significantly impacting not just Nokia, but Finland's national economy
Rim's response to the iPad, which seemed unable to take the risk to cannibalize, failed to physically disrupt by tethering the Playbook with the Blackberry phone
Border's failure to embrace disruptive digital publishing ended with liquidation
Offensive and Defensive Strategies
The need to disrupt static cultures, reform or replace decaying business models, and introduce competitive products is well known in management circles of course, so many kinds of offensive strategies, tactics, and systems have been crafted to overcome this age-old challenge, including motivational techniques, educational tools, recruitment practices, incentives, internal R&D, outsourcing, partnering, spin-offs, join ventures, acquisitions, IP licensing, and strategic venture capital. Quite a few companies have prospered through multiple business cycles employing a variation of all of the above in a persistent quest to achieve and maintain an optimal balance between growth and risk over the short-term and long. The number of companies achieving mediocrity upon maturity is far greater, however.
One common method of defense is the formation of cartels, particularly with commodities or commoditized products that are susceptible to innovative new comers or companies moving into their markets. Cartels and oligopolies can generate high margins for long periods of time and form very strong barriers to innovation, but eventually market and trade imbalances combined with innovation and conflicting interests of the members begin to fragment the cartel and erode market power, opening a window for competition that has proven to be healthy for incumbents, markets, and economies. When economies stagnate, it's generally a sign that incumbents have too much market power, usually achieved in part by manipulating the political processes, which is just one reason of many why corruption should be avoided.
The word cannibalism is sometimes used to describe what is often a difficult internal corporate process of intentionally replacing aging products that are still providing a significant portion of cash flow, with more competitive products. Another term used to describe disruptive innovation in the broader economy is creative destruction, popularized by Joseph Schumpeter in the 1940s, which describes the theory of replacing the old with the new in the entrepreneurial process. In the modern global economy, situations and cultures that allow progress without disrupting entrenched interests are quite rare.
In part 2 of the series, we'll explore how innovation is beginning to revolutionize the innovation process in the digital enterprise.


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QUESTION: HOW DID people evolve to drink alcohol?
There are endless arguments for why people drink, the simplest being that alcohol is tasty and it makes us feel good.
But those reasons do not address the ultimate explanation for why our brains evolved to like alcohol in the first place, at least according to Robert Dudley, a professor of biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "The Drunken Monkey."
Dudley's drunken monkey hypothesis is the first attempt to place alcoholism in an evolutionary context.
In a 2004 paper, he argued that modern patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse have a biological basis that can be traced to our fruit-eating primate ancestors.
Sugars in fruits, grains, and nectar are naturally turned to ethanol by yeasts during a process known as fermentation.
The earliest archaeological evidence suggests, based on chemical residues from pottery jars, that humans did not start fermenting honey, rice, and fruit to produce alcoholic beverages until 9,000 years ago.
But these fermented beverages were probably not our first exposure to alcohol, according to Dudley. Our pre-existing taste for booze likely developed tens of millions of years ago in our primate ancestors, who survived mostly on fruits.
As fruit ripens, more alcohol is created by the yeasts. When a fruit starts to seriously rot, it can contain up to 8% ethanol, although most ripe fruit contains less than 1%.
Dudley's theory suggests that the alcohol concentration of ripe fruit would have served a purpose for both the fruit-bearing plant and the primate. In tropical forests, fruit can be hard to track down. However, the scent of alcohol from ripe fruits travels long distances, and may have helped primates to find their next meal.
Being attracted to the scent of ethanol from ripe fruits would have been evolutionarily adaptive, enabling the primates to find fruit easier. It was also helpful to the plants, because the primates helped to disperse the seeds in the fruit.
But the gains of eating these alcoholic fruits doesn't end there. Once digested, the theory goes, the alcohol would have stimulated feeding, encouraging the primates to "gobble up the food before anyone else got to it." Humans know this feeling today as the aperitif effect, which you may have experienced if you've ever had a cocktail before a meal and found yourself hungry. Or craved cheese fries after a night out.
Primates probably weren't getting wasted, because fruits house only tiny concentrations of alcohol compared to today's drinks. In one study, Dudley found that the pulp of ripe palm fruits contained ethanol concentrations of 0.9% on average. Most beers have an alcohol strength of 4% and wine usually 14%.
This could explain why a little bit of alcohol can be healthy, he said. The problem today is that humans aren't drinking alcohol in small amounts. Much like the story of sugar — which in ancient times was limited — alcohol is not only plentiful but, thanks to distillation, available in much higher concentrations than found in fruit.
Our bodies have preserved the biological urge to drink from when alcohol sources were few and far between, even though we live in an age where the supply is unlimited.
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Srinagar, July 22: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today flagged off the Indian Pencak Silat team for the 19th World Pencak Silat Championship to be held at Melaka, Malaysia from July 26.
The Lt Governor interacted with the Pencak Silat players and coaches and wished them success in the upcoming world championship.
It is a matter of great pride to represent the country in the World Championship. Have a great game out there and make us all proud. More than a billion will be cheering for you, the Lt Governor told the players.
"Our youngsters are doing amazingly well in every sport discipline today, ready to reach for the sky and spread the country's glory in the world. I am truly proud to see their confidence, dreams and dedication to transform the country into a sporting powerhouse. Congratulations and best wishes to the players, coaches and team officials," the Lt Governor said.
The Lt Governor also enquired about the facilities and training provided to the players during the 21-day long National coaching camp conducted at Srinagar.
The team of 36 players (Men & Women) from across the country will be departing to Malaysia. Eight players from Jammu & Kashmir – Karan Chopra, Sheikh Najmus Saqib, Suhaib Jeelani, Peer Aadil Manzoor, Ravees Ahmad, Komal Dhiman, Bilqis Maqbool and Aqsa Gulzar are part of the team representing the country in the world championship.A total of six coaches & staff members including two coaches from J&K- Mohammad Iqbal & Irfan Aziz, besides one staff member – Mufti Hamid Yasin from the UT are also accompanying the Indian Team for the World Pencak Silat Championship.
This is the first national contingent which will depart for the international tournament from Srinagar.
Later, the Lt Governor, along with other dignitaries signed the ball to kick-start the One Ball One World Environment Campaign- the Spirit of Football on Sustainable development and environmental awareness about climate change.
Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary; Pandurang K Pole, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir; International sportspersons from J&K, officials of Indian Pencak Silat federation and the officers and officials of J&K Sports Council were present on the occasion at Raj Bhawan.