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Science is proving more and more that our experience of the world is first perceived by our heart, which thinks about it, responds accordingly, and sends information to the brain for further processing.
Around 65% of the cells in the heart are neural cells, clustered in ganglia and connected to the neural network of the body through axon-dendrites just like in the brain. The heart is a specialized brain hooked into the central nervous system making and releasing its own neurotransmitters and with its own memory. The neurons in the heart store memories. That's why people who heart transplants experience new preferences and changes in behaviors and feelings.
In Stephen Harrod Buhner's book, The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, he explains that the neural cells in the heart have a direct connection to the brain and are constantly chattering back and forth with the brain and the two, together, decide how to respond to incoming information. Neurons in the brain alter their behavior according to the signals embedded in each heartbeat and send information to the central nervous system to make physiological and behavioral changes almost instantly.
The heart's ability to perceive meaning from the world is called aisthesis which literally means "to breath in." Aisthesis is that moment when the life force of one living organism communicates with and moves into another one. We live in a world that's alive with awareness and intelligence, and it's up to us to acknowledge and allow this intimate exchange. This communication is not unlike when the Navi in the movie Avatar plugged their tails into something to connect with it.
Even though we are trained out of using our heart as organs of perception early on, the skill still exists and can be developed. Think of what it feels like to see the Grand Canyon or any postcard-worthy scene. There's a real, palpable reaction in the body as the energy, the power of the setting is experienced and absorbed.
The brain is an organic computer processing data and acting as a clearing station for central nervous system functioning. Unlike the heart, the brain is linear and to use it as the primary organ of perception reduces life analytically to a mechanical process with little meaning.
Because of a brain injury I sustained from a pill-popping suicide attempt, I was forced to rely heavily on the perception and intelligence of my heart and learned to trust and listen to it. You know what? I found that it's much wiser than my brain ever was. Using heart intelligence and perception, I feel connected, know what is right for me at each turn, and have faith in my intuitive wisdom. I used to feel hopelessly disconnected, lost, and was always looking externally to others to give me answers.
Great power and wisdom exists in the world all around us. Our challenge is to notice, develop, and invite it to play a bigger role in our lives. To begin to use the heart as an organ of perception, intelligence, and communication allows us as a species to become, once again, a respectful, integral part of the web of life on planet Earth and allows us to begin to live more fulfilled and authentic lives as individuals.
The problem is our heart intelligence is in kindergarten while our mind intelligence has already graduated from college. We have to get the two more in sync.
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The Heit family first moved to the Garson, Ontario area shortly after Jacob "Jack" Heit (1914-1999) married Katherine "Kay" Kraft (1918-2009) on February 5, 1940 at Christ the King Church in Sudbury, Ontario. Prior to this time, both Jacob Heit and Katherine Kraft lived in Saskatchewan. The Heit's raised their family of five daughters, Diana, Janet, Marilyn, Kathy, and Susan in Garson, Ontario.
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Selena Gomez appeared on Ellen last week and was understandably uncomfortable when asked about Mariah Yeater's accusation of baby fathering against her boyfriend.
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A new analysis has found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of 12 and 13 year old girls has led to an 89% decline in cases of cervical cancer in Scotland.
The evidence, published in the British Medical Journal, was from a retrospective study looking at 138,692 women who were born between January 1, 1988 and June 5, 1996, and who had a smear test result recorded at age 20.
The researchers discovered that compared with unvaccinated women born in 1988, vaccinated women born in 1995 and 1996 showed an 89% reduction in prevalent cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade three or worse – the most severe level of the disease. There was also an 88% reduction in grade two or worse and a 79% in the grade one strain of the disease.
The authors of the study also suggested that there was a "herd immunity" effect at play, as there was also a drop in the levels of disease among women who have not been vaccinated.
Julia Brotherton, the medical director of Australia's National HPV Vaccination Program Register at VCS Foundation, commented in a linked editorial in the journal: "We must work towards a world in which all girls and their families are offered, and the majority accept, HPV vaccination, wherever they live.
"We must also actively develop, resource, and scale up more effective, feasible and culturally acceptable strategies for cervical screening, such as self-collection of specimens, if we are ever to effectively reduce the global burden of cervical cancer."
The news comes at the same time as a study from Sweden has found that women who attended cervical cancer screening at recommended intervals have a fifth the risk of adenosquamous cell carcinoma and a third the risk of rare types of invasive cervical carcinoma as women who did not attend screening as recommended.
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WASHINGTON — The novel coronavirus first knowingly emerged out of Wuhan, China. As the weeks went on, ramped up testing allowed the world to watch as the virus spread across the globe, quickly making 2020 a year that this generation will never forget.
From unprecedented quarantines and lockdowns to an interruption on the global economy not seen in a lifetime, the coronavirus pandemic will no doubt be one event that defines this era. After so many months of COVID-19 fatigue, mitigation efforts to control the spread of the pandemic seem as important as ever. In the weeks just after Thanksgiving, U.S. deaths from the virus surpassed 300,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Here's a look back at the defining moments as the country and the world dealt with what would become a global pandemic that blazed across the planet.
Jan. 9
World Health Organization announces coronavirus case in Wuhan, China
With skepticism about how large the problem would become, the World Health Organization acknowledged they were watching as cases of pneumonia-like illnesses started popping up around Wuhan, China. Talk of travel restrictions began to increase around this time, the American Journal of Managed Care notes.
Jan. 20
COVID-19 human transmission confirmed in China
At this point, the coronavirus had already killed at least 4 people and at least 200 more had been infected, scientists in China reported. The confirmation was frightening as it's the first time person-to-person transmission of the virus was proven. The WHO had still, at this point, not decided on declaring the cases a public health emergency.
Jan. 21
The United States announces its first confirmed case of coronavirus
On a cool cloudy Tuesday in Seattle, Washington, as the U.S. waited to hear of the inevitable, news broke that a man in his 30s, just north of the city, tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC announced that it would begin screening passengers for the virus at airports including the world's busiest, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta along with O'Hare in Chicago, NBC reported. It was decided that flights originating from Wuhan, China would be rerouted to one of five airports in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Chicago for passenger screenings.
Jan. 23
China places the city of Wuhan under quarantine
Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, faces immediate and strict lockdown measures with all flights and trains blocked from departing the metropolitan area. With buses, subways and ferries suspended, traveling in and out of the city was nearly impossible.
Jan. 30
The World Health Organization declares a global public health emergency
At this point, more than 9,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 had emerged worldwide in China and 18 other countries. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issues a warning telling people not to travel to China.
Jan. 31
The United States announced it is under a public health emergency
The Trump administration declares a public health emergency for the U.S. HHS Secretary Alex Azar told reporters during a White House briefing that U.S. citizens would be subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine if they had traveled to parts of China deemed at risk for contracting the virus.
Feb. 2
Air travel is restricted at various places around the globe
Passengers on certain flights from China to the United States faced 2-week home-based quarantine orders once they disembarked. As the New York Times reported at the time, passengers seemed afraid of having to quarantine and were in a rush to avoid being possibly denied entry into the U.S.
Feb. 10
COVID-19 deaths in China exceed those of the SARS crisis
At this point, alarm bells ring out loudly across the globe as reports surface that as the novel coronavirus spreads, it had reached a grim milestone within China of having, at that point, caused more deaths in China than the previous severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
March 6
Over 20 passengers on a California cruise ship test positive for COVID-19
Twenty-one passengers, almost half of the 46 people aboard a California cruise ship who were tested, returned positive results for COVID-19. The ship was held at sea and not allowed to dock in San Francisco for days. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a group of 60 passengers filed suit against Carnival Corp. and its Princess cruise line in a federal court in Los Angeles for gross negligence in passenger safety protocols.
March 11
WHO declares the dramatic global spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic
After months of meetings and global attention in the media, the World Health Organization finds enough concrete data to begin characterizing the rapid human to human spread of the novel coronavirus as a pandemic. It's a word many generations hadn't had to become familiar with in their daily lives until 2020. The spread of the global outbreak of the virus, which had sickened people and caused an alarming amount of deaths in many countries and multiple continents, had been making world headlines for weeks at that point.
March 13
Non-US citizens face a travel ban flying from Europe to the United States
President Trump announced that his administration declared COVID-19 as a national emergency. Non-Americans who visited certain European countries faced a travel ban to the United States.
March 17
President Trump asks Congress to rush emergency economic relief to Americans
At this point, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have expanded telehealth rules during the pandemic to protect older patients from exposure. Experimental therapeutics such as the University of Minnesota's clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine has also started. Then on March 17, President Donald Trump asks Congress to rush emergency relief checks as part of an economic assistance package to help Americans who find themselves out of work. The United States has now reported at least 100 known COVID-19 related deaths.
April 2
The WHO alerts the world regarding evidence of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19
The World Health Organization reports that evidence has emerged that the novel coronavirus has the ability to transmit between asymptomatic people, in addition to pre-symptomatic spread and transmission from those showing symptoms. Just two days later, over 1 million cases of COVID-19 were confirmed worldwide.
June 20
A dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases hits states in the southern U.S.
Florida and South Carolina both break single-day records for virus cases in those states while infection levels in Missouri and the western state of Nevada rise to new high levels. At this point, the U.S. has reported over 30,000 new COVID-19 infections, which is the highest since May. States across multiple regions are experiencing new highs, the New York Times reported.
July 6
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. rise above 130,000
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned the country of the quickly rising death toll saying that the U.S. was still "knee-deep in the first wave," as he was quoted in the New York Times. Dr. Fauci noted that at that time the U.S. was seeing over 50,000 new cases daily several times that week, calling the situation serious and urging the country to address the issue "immediately."
July 7
The U.S. sends a notice of withdrawal from the World Health Organization
Effective July 6, 2021, the U.S. notified the United Nations that it would be requesting to withdrawal from the W.H.O., and with that, the global body would see its largest source of aid withdrawn as well.
July 11
President Trump is seen wearing a mask for the first time
During a visit to Walter Reed, the president is seen wearing a mask after repeatedly being urged by aides to do so. The images were helpful in urging Americans to wear face coverings after research increasingly showed that masks helped slow the spread of the coronavirus.
August 17
COVID-19 becomes the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.
As the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States hits 170,434, it now becomes the third-leading cause of death in the country behind heart disease and cancer, the American Journal of Managed Care reported. Days later, convalescent plasma is cleared for use by the FDA as a therapeutic while the drug Remdesivir is questioned for its clinical benefits.
Also later in August, the FDA grants an Emergency Use Authorization for Abbott's rapid test for COVID-19.
August 28
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 reinfection in the U.S. reported
News surfaces that a 25-year-old male from Nevada was reinfected with COVID-19 in May after having recovered from mild symptoms in April. During the second infection, the man experienced more severe symptoms according to a report published in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal in October.
Sept. 14
Pfizer and BioNTech expand vaccine trial phase 3
Pfizer and BioNTech were set to recruit 30,000 trial participants for phase 3 vaccine clinical trials but expanded that to 44,000 participants. The expansion would foster a more diverse group including young people and those with hepatitis C, HIV or hepatitis B. The vaccine would be two shots given 3 weeks apart, but the vaccine would have to be kept at minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit, which caused worry that distribution would become an issue.
Sept. 23
A more contagious strain of the novel coronavirus is discovered
Reports that the coronavirus had the ability to mutate had surfaced but now a study at Houston Methodist Hospital found that a more contagious strain of COVID-19 had been discovered.
Into the second wave
As some models showed that the U.S. would hit its second wave of infections by mid-September, according to healthdate.org, new infections were still rising at alarming rates. Johns Hopkins University issued guidance on how to prepare for a spike or a second wave. The precautions held consistent, with experts urging Americans to continue to social distance, wear a mask and wash hands frequently.
Sept. 28
COVID-19 deaths worldwide rise above the 1 million mark
Worldwide confirmed deaths from the novel coronavirus surpass 1 million, setting a grim milestone. At this point, cases of COVID-19 have risen higher than that of H.I.V., dysentery, malaria, influenza, cholera and measles, the New York Times reported.
Oct. 2
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19, the president is admitted into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
President Trump was said to be experiencing mild symptoms as doctors admitted him into Walter Reed out of "an abundance of caution," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.
Oct. 5
President Trump is discharged from Walter Reed
President Trump leaves Walter Reed in a dramatic return to the White House full of photo ops and with the world's media watching as a crowd of supporters remained gathered in front of the medical center. The president would continue to receive leading treatments, not usually available to the general public, to control his symptoms and to make sure his oxygen levels remained normal, according to his team of doctors.
Oct. 8
A COVID-19 outbreak at the White House increases to at least 34 confirmed cases
After a Rose Garden ceremony for then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barret, at least 34 confirmed COVID-19 cases are contract traced and found to be connected to that event. As the Washington Post reported, White House staffers were included on that list.
Nov. 18
Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccines are reportedly found to be up to 95% effective
With the results of the expanded phase 3 trial in, and after nearly 44,000 trial participants have completed their participation in the trial, reports surfaced that the vaccines are found to be 95% effective. This would put the vaccine in line with the efficacy levels of those for shingles and measles, the American Journal of Managed Care reported. The next step would be to seek FDA approval immediately so that distribution can begin to take place.
Dec. 14
As the U.S. surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, the nation's historic vaccination campaign begins
The nation watched live on television as some of the first non-trial recipients of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine received their first doses in the U.S. First responders, including critical care nurses, were the first to be vaccinated.
Dec. 18
The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day.
Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health.
As critical care workers and those in high need areas were receiving the vaccine, the rest of the country, including the incarcerated population, waited to be vaccinated with hopes on Wall Street and Capitol Hill that the pandemic would be over in 2021 and some possible much needed economic assistance would come out of Washington.


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NSW Coalition scrapes back in as minor parties surge – but delivering on promises will not be easy
The following opinion piece by Dr Andy Marks, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Projects) was first published with full links on The Conversation (opens in a new window).
"It's not a game of SimCity," NSW treasurer, Dominic Perrottet assured viewers on the ABC's NSW election night coverage. "Sydney's under construction", he added, acknowledging the Coalition government's unfinished infrastructure projects are causing grief, but noting, "I don't sense any baseball bats". He was right.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian's Liberal-National government was returned to office on Saturday night, albeit on a slender margin. With the victory came some wreckage, and largely unexpected beneficiaries. This poll was predicted to be decided in the bush, and that's where the movement occurred.
The Nationals lost the long held seats of Murray and Barwon on swings of around 27% and 21% respectively. And it was the Shooters, Farmers and Fishers that swept the field, capitalising on internal Nationals strife and pledging to act on the fish kill, water security and the drought.
The Shooters also consolidated the slender claim they had on Orange after the 2017 byelection, securing a 37% swing to make the central west firmly their own. A possible tempering of the Shooters vote in light of events in Christchurch didn't eventuate, with victorious Orange candidate, Phil Donato, telling Channel Seven, "there wasn't a real lot of talk about it", adding, "it's unfortunate it was politicised by the government."
NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro remarked that his was "not a party of ideology" but a "party of geography". He wasn't wrong. While they incurred considerable drops in support in parts of the central, southern and outer west of the state, the Nationals actually attracted a swing of, on average, 5.6% across the seats of Clarence, Cootamundra, Monaro, Northern Tablelands and Oxley. Nevertheless, their Coalition partners were clearly concerned at the federal implications. Progressive Liberal Trent Zimmerman reserved particular scorn for Barnaby Joyce, arguing the NSW result confirmed, "he should spend more time in Tamworth and less time on TV".
Newly-minted independent, Joe McGirr, has made Wagga Wagga his own, retaining the seat he won from the Liberals at last year's byelection and building his buffer to over 15%. Long-standing Lake Macquarie independent, Greg Piper has put the one-time Labor stronghold squarely out of reach, picking up a 12% swing in the process. Depending on the flow of votes in the lower house, there is talk Piper will be approached for the speakership.
Affirming this election's broad trend away from the major parties, Alex Greenwich retained Sydney with a roughly 3% swing in his favour. While still in doubt, independent Mathew Dickerson is making a very close run affair of Dubbo, nudging the high profile Nationals' candidate, Dugald Saunders, a former ABC radio host.
Unlike the independents and the Shooters, One Nation was never going to secure lower house representation. But it did make notable inroads in urban areas. At last count, the NSW arm of Pauline Hanson's party was odds on to usurp the Greens as the third force in Sydney metropolitan seats like Camden, Holsworthy, Penrith and Wollondilly.
Despite their recent internal turmoil, the Greens made a strong showing in lower house voting. Jamie Parker (Balmain) and Jenny Leong (Newtown) substantially grew their base, securing swings of 6.4 and 5.1% respectively. While in the north, Tamara Smith expanded her two-party preferred vote to over 57%.
The struggle to take neighbouring Lismore is going down to the wire, with former federal Labor MP, Janelle Saffin a chance to pull ahead of the Greens and Nationals in a complex three-way preference contest.
The outcome for the Greens and the Coalition in the upper house won't be determined for some time. The trend towards minor parties and independents in the lower house, however, suggests that they will feature substantially in the 21 Legislative Council spots in play.
One Nation's Mark Latham looks to have secured the required 4.55% vote share, with his party a chance for a second. At last count, the Coalition had just over seven spots, Labor six the Greens two and the Shooters one. The eventual upper house composition will almost certainly see the Coalition required to deal with a significantly expanded and unwieldy crossbench; a change from their current, more predictable arrangements, usually with the Christian Democrats.
This election will be remembered as a contest of clear delineations for the Coalition. While their partners, the Nationals, took substantial hits in the bush, the Liberals managed to hold the line in the city, losing Coogee, but retaining marginal East Hills, against the odds.
Labor leader Michael Daley's "schools and hospitals before stadiums" message may have found traction in pre-election polling and with parts of the electorate, but it wasn't sufficient for a relatively untested leader to take down a government pledging to "get it done" on infrastructure programs worth over A$80 billion.
Getting it done is the task now for the Berejiklian government, who will be looking to deliver on the large scale but delay-plagued infrastructure projects it has undertaken. Pressing ahead with that agenda won't be easy for a government skirting a possible minority in the lower house and an unknown quantity in the upper house.
As for Labor, Daley is seeking to stick it out. Barring the stumbles of the last week of his campaign, he has performed remarkably well for a leader in the job only four months, fronting a party that only eight years ago suffered one of the worst electoral defeats in Australian political history. That might not matter to those seeking a new leadership direction after Saturday's result.
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Trade Rebuff Fuels Doubts on Obama Bid to Counter Rising China
Washington. In his State of the Union address in January, President Barack Obama left little doubt that his pursuit of a landmark Asia-Pacific trade pact was aimed at countering Beijing's rising influence in the region. "China wants to write the rules. Why would we let that happen?" he asked.
Obama now has the response he did not want: A congressional rebuff to his legacy-defining trade agenda has dealt a humiliating blow — at least for now — to his effort to reassure Asian allies of US engagement, and could allow China to expand its clout at Washington's expense.
The vote on Friday to sidetrack a bill vital to Obama's proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens to derail the economic centerpiece of Obama's vaunted "Asia pivot," widely seen as intended to face down the growing competitive threat from China.
At a time of heightened tensions over Beijing's increased assertiveness in the South China Sea and its expanding economic influence across the Pacific Rim, the setback has already added to regional allies' doubts over US leadership.
"The history of East Asia and Asia-Pacific is being rewritten," Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam told an American audience in Washington on Tuesday. "You are not in the driver's seat right now."
Shanmugam met National Security Advisor Susan Rice on Tuesday, a US official said, signaling that the White House was looking to ease allies' concerns while it scrambles to salvage its signature trade initiative.
It may be a hard sell as Obama faces an uphill fight to convince dozens of Democratic lawmakers to change their minds.
Bates Gill, chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, said the failure of TPP would "negatively impact views in this part of the world about America's role here."
The threatened collapse of TPP, which would cover 40 percent of the global economy, could also breathe new life into China's alternative proposal called the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific.
U.S. officials have been at pains to insist that TPP is not intended to isolate China, America's top economic rival. But the drive for the far-ranging trade pact is widely seen as a move to reassert US influence and that of key allies like Japan as China cuts deals and make investment inroads across Asia.
"The rest of the world is not standing still, they are moving ahead," US Trade Representative Michael Froman told Reuters, pointing to negotiations on trade deals between China and Australia as well as between China, Japan and South Korea.
The latest dysfunction in Washington could be seen by Beijing as a sign of US weakness that will make it harder to get the Chinese to give much ground on issues that divide the world's two biggest economic powers, one US official said.
US concerns about suspected Chinese links to massive cyber attacks on federal computer systems are expected to cloud annual high-level talks between the two sides in Washington. The June 22-24 Strategic and Economic Dialogue will lay the groundwork for a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September.
"Certainly, the United States looks weak in terms of playing a leadership role in promoting a higher level of free trade," said Jia Qingguo, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University and an adviser to China's Communist government.
'Not in the driver's seat'
No one is suggesting that Obama — who has repeatedly insisted on US resolve to remain a Pacific power — is ready to abandon the economically dynamic region.
Despite its military focus on the volatile Middle East, the Obama administration seems to be making good on its promise to gradually increase troops and equipment in Asia-Pacific.
But some allies want more action, not just words, as China flexes its muscle in maritime disputes with its neighbors.
Beijing this year has accelerated large-scale land reclamation on tiny islands and reefs in contested waters of the South China Sea, leaving Washington struggling to craft a response without triggering a military confrontation.
Many in the region worry that Obama's waning legislative power at home could mean a diminished US commitment during his final 19 months in office, leaving China to fill the void.
Obama's slap-down by fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives last week has shown the shortcomings of the White House's strategy of trying to convince them that they should fear China's rise more than the domestic union-led coalition seeking to block the trade deal.
Lawmakers on Tuesday extended the deadline for a second vote on a key part of so-called fast-track authority legislation, buying more time for supporters to rescue the bill.
Though US officials say that for now the trade deal is too important to Asian partners to turn their backs on Washington, experts believe momentum could shift in Beijing's favor.
Nervous Asian countries could move closer to China, giving further impetus to projects like the new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which many American allies, including the Europeans, have decided to join despite US objections.
In another display of checkbook diplomacy, China is expected to pledge a multi-billion dollar investment in Europe's new infrastructure fund at a summit on June 29 in Brussels, according to a draft communique seen by Reuters. Beijing aims to create a $40 billion "Silk Road" of modern infrastructure linking Asia and Europe.
"The Chinese are delighted because Obama's problems highlight that America is unpredictable," said Dean Cheng, a China specialist at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington. "And they have large sums of money to throw around."
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Thought to be named after an Ainu (indigenous Japanese) word for "nose," the Noto-hanto, a national park, juts out into the Sea of Japan and shelters the bays of both Nanao and Toyama. Steep, densely forested hills line the eroded west coast, which is wind- and wave-blasted in winter and ruggedly beautiful in other seasons. The eastern shoreline is lapped by calmer waters and has stunning views of Tate-yama (Mt. Tate), the Hida Mountains, and even of some of Nagano's alpine peaks more than 105 km (70 miles) away.
A quick sightseeing circuit of the Noto-hanto, from Hakui to Nanao, can be done in six to eight hours, but to absorb the peninsula's remarkable scenery, stay two or three days, stopping in Wajima and at one of the minshuku along the coast; arrangements can be made through tourist information offices in Kanazawa, Nanao, or Wajima.
This region is well known for its festivals. Seihakusai Dekayama festival, a 400-year-old tradition held May 3–5 in Nano, is essentially three days of nonstop partying. Huge (26-foot) 10-ton floats resembling ships called dekayama (big mountains) are paraded through the streets. At midnight the floats become miniature Kabuki stages for dance performances by costumed children.


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Dr Mark Stocker, Curator Historical International Arts, shares some exciting news about Te Papa's refereed journal Tuhinga, which he edits…
I ❤ Tuhinga!
Tuhinga, a great Māori word meaning 'document, text, writing' is just that. It's Te Papa's refereed journal, whose full name is Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. One of my many great jobs as a curator is to be given the challenge – and pleasure – of editing this venerable periodical. Established back in 1995, it's now into its 30th issue.
Research, research, research!
Tuhinga naturally needs to look beautiful and professional: don't we all?
Its contents, of course, matter even more. Here it performs a vital role in being the window of Te Papa's world of research. It's often overlooked how we are mandated as a government institution to carry out and publish cutting-edge research. Tuhinga is a great way of showing the world just what we do here.
No jargon, no way
Tuhinga operates at the most refined, often highly specialised level. But I am passionate about making it as accessible as possible. No jargon, no waffle. What you read has benefited from rigorous reading by peer reviewers (carefully chosen – they need to be brilliant yet humane!) And I hope it benefits from equally rigorous editing too.
Sheer(water) brilliance
When my natural history colleague Alan Tennyson helped discover a new (albeit long extinct) species of indigenous shearwater, I naturally wanted to shout this exciting news from the rooftops. I therefore made it the 'lead' article in the latest issue of Tuhinga (no. 29, 2018).
Weevils, prints, and visitors
Alan's fine article is joined by an eclectic mix of others, covering weevils, Victorian scientific photography, Japanese prints, Māori archaeology, and visitor engagement. All of them must have a common strand. They need to relate either to our institution and its predecessors, such as the Colonial Museum and National Art Gallery and their rich histories, and/or to our vast collections.
Narrow, restricted, and boring? Yeah right! I reckon we have enough material, and great contributors, to sustain hundreds more issues being published way beyond my lifetime.
A well-kept secret
Although heaps of time and trouble go into the production of each issue of Tuhinga, not nearly enough people share my excitement when it's published: far fewer than Te Papa's legions of social media fans.
What to do? I asked my colleague Daniel Crichton-Rouse. Naturally, as senior digital editor, Daniel has an answer for everything: put it on Collections Online!
The rest is history
So we have, and past issues of Tuhinga have been added. Go read, explore, enjoy and comment!
Can I contribute?
Yes! The contribution deadline for Tuhinga issue 30 (2019) is closing rapidly – the deadline is 31 October – but if you have anything suitable for us for imminent or future publication, please let me know.
Read our guidelines for authors.
You need to contact me in the first instance. After a preliminary chat, I will probably refer you to an appropriate curator. We are the first stop to talk things through, over a latte if you're a local! And we are keen to hear about your research and interests in turn, and open Te Papa doors for you where possible.
The Smiling Boys: a personal story
You don't need to be a Te Papa employee to contribute to Tuhinga. Indeed, my first such publication was back in the dark ages before I joined the museum in 2014. It was on the iconic 'Smiling Boy' New Zealand health stamps of 1931 and Te Papa has great holdings of these as well as this very rare poster advertising them:
My predecessor, Ricardo Palma, was editor then. As curator of invertebrates, he picked over my stamps as carefully as he would his beloved parasitic lice. And we're still good mates, as I hope to be with future contributors to Tuhinga!


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Most Doctors know that online reviews are very helpful.They can improve the flow of new patients to any practice. The challenge many Drs face is figuring out how to get reviews from happy patients.
Patients that are not happy are quick to post a review...but happy patients aren't as likely to take the time to post a review about their great experience with you.
What can make a bad review worse is that the reviews are not verified in any way, so the truth may become a casualty in a bad review from an angry or perhaps unreasonable person.
Bad reviews can negatively impact your practice because potential patients are seeing a very one sided story. You might have 800 very happy patients and 10 that are unhappy but if only the 10 bad and 3 good review you online, you're not going to be well represented online and most likely be unfairly judged.
How are online reviews used to influence a potential new patients impression of you?
Potential patients search a Doctors name to see what kind of reviews he or she has online. They often check the larger healthcare sites like Healthgrades, Vitals and others in an attempt to learn about a Doctor before trusting him or her.
How do you look online and stack up to other local Drs?
Search your name online and see what comes up. Do you have more than just a few good Google reviews? How many stars do you have? How do you look on Healthgrades, Vitals, Wellness.com and the other big healthcare review sites? Do you have a complete and complementary profile on each, or is your profile missing your photo, bio and a good number of 4 and 5 star reviews. Are other local Drs appearing on your profile in a section like the one below taken from Healthgrades. In this case - 5 alternatives to this Dr are offered to people looking at the Drs profile.
When other Doctors appear on your profile you tend to lose some potential patients to a competitor with more stars - this is known as leakage. So, not only can a low number of 4 and 5 star reviews cause people to question whether they should trust you for treatment but healthcare review sites give them other Docs as alternatives to seeing you for treatment. This is not an accident - those Drs know something that you don't.
So what can you do to:
- Get more 4 and 5 star reviews
- Look great on the major healthcare sites
- Appear on competitors profiles
- Keep competitors off of your profile
- And get more patients
Here's how we help you take control of your online reviews.
We send a chrome book (laptop) to our clients that happy patients use to write an awesome review on the spot, in the office that will go on your website, the major healthcare sites, your Facebook page, and may add stars to your organic rankings on Google.
Like this on Google:
If you search a similar term for your practice, do you have stars on your organic rankings? Which Dr do you think is going to get selected from Google by a potential patient...the one with 5 stars and 100 reviews or one with no stars.
This may be somewhat unfair. The Doc with the stars may or may not be the best provider but perception is reality to most people.
On Facebook, we can share your 4 and 5 star reviews like this:
Why does generating reviews this way work so well?
We've already talked about how unhappy people will review you quickly and happy people somehow forget to review you despite their best intentions.
You and your staff know which patients absolutely love you. Do you think that if you or a team member asked nicely, that a patient that really likes you, wouldn't spend 3 minutes and create a review on the spot?
You know they would!


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A compromise is the coming to agreed terms among two parties. It is a settled negotiation for the purpose of mutual benefit. The bible tells us that: No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other (Matthew 6:24).
A compromise is a depiction of devotion. A compromise says: I am willing to let go of this thing, because I care more about that thing.
The most evident place that we recognize compromise in our lives is in our relationships. Whether it be a familial, romantic, or business relationship, there is always some degree of compromise.
This is because as people we each come with different values and motives that are important to us. And sometimes those agendas can clash resulting in potentially detrimental disputes.
A compromise resolves/prevents those disputes. We compromise on things all the time whether it be money, time, travel plans, or food. We can also compromise our spirits (James 4:17), as we are to live in the world but not of it (1 John 2:15-17).
Spiritual Compromise
One of the essential components of a compromise is capitulation. You must be willing to give up something. But what you give up is just as if not more important than what you take on.
We compromise our spirits by tolerating things that are not life giving. This is where our convictions come into question.
What are you committed to? What are you not willing to give any ground on?
Having unshakable core values is called having a standard. The level of your standards impacts your quality of life. If you do not stand for anything, you fall for everything.
God has a standard; it is called holiness, and He wants us to live up to it. He wants us to live up to it because that is who He is (Leviticus 11:44).
We live up to God's standard by avoiding negative spiritual compromises. The simplest way to explain negative spiritual compromise, is idolatry. Where you put your treasure so shall your heart be. What you surrender to will influence you.
When we idolize something, we invite that thing to take up residence in our spirits. God wants us to compromise on what we allow to influence our lives. He wants to be the one to reside in us (Ephesians 2:22).
Why does God want you to Compromise for Him?
God cannot be seen. It would literally kill us if we were to see his face (Exodus 33:20). That being said, He still wants to have a relationship with us. He does that by living in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
It is the job the Holy Spirit to be the standard barer in our lives. Holiness is the standard and everything else falls short.
God holds us to the standard of Holiness because of the agreement He made with us. He agreed to dwell with us as long as we agreed to dwell with Him, this is called a covenant (Hebrews 13:5, Psalm 37:25).
A covenant is a contract, it outlines the parameters of a relationship, and the consequences if the agreement is broken. The perfect example of this is marriage.
Marriage is a covenant between two people. A marriage only works however, if the two individuals in union agree to the terms and conditions of that union. It is a compromise. So is the case with God, we go into relationship with Him when we compromise our values for His.
So, Does God Compromise?
The short answer is no, but the long answer is yes; let me give you both.
On one hand no, God does not compromise on His holiness standard. He cannot even be in the presence of unholiness (Psalm 5:4). And while he does want us to live up to that standard he also recognizes that it is not easy for us to do so.
On the other hand, He did already, in the form of Jesus. Jesus was God's compromise with humanity. After realizing that not only was it impossible for humans to live up to the holiness standard by ourselves, but that it was also unfair because we did not know how; he sent Jesus.
Jesus is God's son. 100% God in Spirit 100% Human in flesh. Instead of giving up on us, He showed us how committed to our covenant with Him He is.
Not only did Jesus keep the holiness standard, showing us that it is possible, but then he took it a step further and lowered the standard.
In the Torah there are over 600 rules and regulations associated with being holy. In Jesus' lifetime he took all those rules and turned them into two:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.Mark 12:30-31
The cost of our holiness was so immense that God allowed His son to die for it. That is how valuable we are. That is how determined God was to keep his covenant with us.


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I cant even launch Fetch! Help! I'm without any ftp access! :P!
I get a "shared library" error:
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n/m... 4.0.1 fixes it, one of the links on the front page however is still linking to 4.0 that's why I got confused.
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so is it base off the first one that you did?
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so is it base off the first one that you did?
Very nice continuation (if it is... I just assume it is)
she is going to wish she did not try this :P
the proportions in the first picture seem a bit off. The head is a bit too big and the lega seem way too small, but I can't wait to see the rest of the sequence!!
Billybob: it's a top-down perspective, think of it as the camera being above someone - thought it would make a good entry scene :)
Yay! Can't believe this sequence is finally getting a sequel! Can't wait to see how it goes...
Relly good stuff. Relly good.
Shes going Feral? Ouch
Heh looks like things arn't going according to plan, then again I don't see any problem with that.
After all, she is getting rid of her hybrid shape. Nice turn of events!
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. I had a strange feeling you might do one of these. The stance in 4 is common but the way you draw it is spectacular. :)
Two Words "Excellent Ending".
To answer the question "Who drank all the low-fat", obviously someone who doesn't value their life very much.
My only wish was the doctor lose that lame hair bun! Otherwise, a top-notch sequel!
I... luff... saber-toofs. n.n
Poor saber-kitty! Someone should transform a guy so she'll have some company.
HAHAHA.... very funny!
So question, is the computer she mentions in frame one the same computer shown when she got her hybrid shape?
i don't get what this did. she's still the same looking to me. except just a bit bigger. good artwork though.
zasky, notice that not only did she get bigger, but her hands became paws and her breasts shrank into almost nothing.
I guess it's a bit confusing because she looks anthro when she starts the tf and she still looks anthro when she finishes the tf. There's no objects around her that really give us a perspective of whether she changed size or not from the first to the last picture. It's just hard to tell. Great job on the coloring.
Your work is truly amazing.


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He is considered to be the "Father of the Chainsaw", revolutionized work in the woods and established a company that is now one of the world's leading manufacturers of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools. On November 10, 2016, company founder Andreas Stihl would have been 120 years old. His achievements and visions continue to inspire the Waiblingen family-owned company to this very day. Dr. Nikolas Stihl, STIHL advisory board chairman, said of his grandfather: "His lifework has had an enduring influence. He not only left behind a sound company, but also certain values and a special mindset which are still ever-present in the company today." He was awarded honorary citizenship of Waiblingen-Neustadt and Wiechs am Randen – both of which have STIHL production facilities – for his services to the communities. Recently, on October 26, he was honored with an art medal in the "Baden-Württemberg Inventors" series by the Finance Ministry and the Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg (State Mint).
Stihl's pioneering idea: "The saw must go to the tree, not the tree to the saw"
Andreas Stihl was born in Zurich on November 10, 1896 to haulage contractor Andreas Stihl and his wife Selina. After completing his degree course in mechanical engineering, he worked in a number of companies as a consultant for steam engines, which were employed in sawmills in those days. When Andreas Stihl saw that the workers had to transport logs laboriously to the stationary saws, he had an idea: "The saw must go to the tree, not the tree to the saw". He imagined a gasoline-powered chainsaw, with which trees could be felled and bucked directly in the woods. However, Andreas Stihl's chainsaw idea took a roundabout route: He initially set up, with a friend, the Stihl & Hohl company in 1923 and produced forehearth systems. It was not a great success. The company was dissolved three years later. This did not discourage Stihl from founding, on his own, the "A. Stihl Engineering Consultancy" in Stuttgart in 1926 – the beginning of the STIHL company. To start with, it produced forehearth systems for steam boilers to generate income and, later, also washing machines. Stihl soon turned his attention to his original idea: Building a chainsaw which would make people's work in the woods easier.
Andreas Stihl celebrated initial success with his two-man saws in the 1920s
Andreas Stihl built his first saw in 1926 – a 4 HP two-man electric saw. The company soon grew to eight employees. His first gasoline chainsaw came in 1929: it was the two-man Type A with a two-stroke engine, a weight of 46 kilograms and a power output of 7.5 HP. Although the saw was still so heavy that it had to be operated by two men, it was the first time a saw could be carried directly to the tree – a revolution for work in the woods at that time. The demand for the saw was so high that Andreas Stihl could hardly keep up with production. The Stuttgart premises quickly became too small and the company moved to Bad Cannstatt, an industrial district of town, in 1930. The company, which had been renamed "A. Stihl Maschinenfabrik", was then able to produce large quantities for the first time. Today, a commemorative plaque, which was unveiled on November 3, 2016, marks the site of the former headquarters of the "A. Stihl Maschinenfabrik". In the years that followed, Andreas Stihl continuously improved quality and launched new models as the demand from Germany and other countries grew.
Defying crises: Andreas Stihl fights back successfully
But it was not only success that crowned the ensuing entrepreneurial years of Andreas Stihl. During the Second World War, an air raid in 1944 destroyed the Bad Cannstatt factory. A new factory was opened in Waiblingen-Neustadt in 1945, today's STIHL headquarters. The Allies interned Andreas Stihl temporarily in a labor camp in Bavaria. He was, however, exonerated in a civilian court case in 1948. After the war, the chainsaw business went through a crisis because people were not buying new machines, but repairing their old ones. Stihl, however, didn't let this get him down. Together with a motivated workforce and new products, the entrepreneur began to fight his way to the top again. In 1959, Andreas Stihl succeeded in producing a saw that was to be a significant milestone in the company's history: The legendary Contra was launched on the market, a gearless gasoline chainsaw with a weight of 12 kilograms and a power output of 6 horsepower, which was lighter and more efficient than any other on the market at that time. Logging firms were able to increase their productivity by 200 percent and STIHL recorded double-digit turnover growth.
Andreas Stihl: A farsighted entrepreneur
Andreas Stihl was not only a creative inventor, but an entrepreneur who ran his company with foresight. For example, he focused on the world market at an early stage and, in 1931, began exporting his products not only to neighboring European countries, but also to Russia and America. He established a worldwide network of importers and thus laid the foundation stone for today's international group. Furthermore, Andreas Stihl changed the company's legal form to a limited partnership in 1960 and made his four children, Hans Peter Stihl, Eva Mayr-Stihl, Gerhild Schetter (née Stihl) and Dr. Rüdiger Stihl, limited partners with equal shares in the company. That was a crucial step for the company's development because it remained an independent family-owned company even after the passing of Andreas Stihl on January 14, 1973. Yet, it was not only his entrepreneurial foresight that left its mark on the company, but also his social responsibility vis-à-vis his employees. For example, Stihl set up a welfare fund and introduced a Christmas bonus early on. Even today, voluntary social benefits for STIHL employees, which go beyond those set down by collective agreement, are a constituent part of the company's corporate philosophy.
On November 10, 2016, company founder Andreas Stihl would have been 120 years old.
Andreas Stihl with his staff. It was not only his entrepreneurial foresight that left its mark on the company, but also his social responsibility vis-à-vis his employees.
Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg (State Mint). Recently, on October 26, the lifework of Andreas Stihl was honored with an art medal in the "Baden-Württemberg Inventors" series.
ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG, D-71336 Waiblingen


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There's a strange moment in the life cycle of a young, talented NBA team when it's neither one thing nor another: not exactly an upstart, but not quite an established power; in an amorphous zone of identity in which it has yet to establish its real self. This is the moment when NBA teams start wearing eyeliner, listening to Avril Lavigne, and slouching. It's a delicate time. Give the team the confidence to solve its own problems, and it will emerge proudly standing on a mountaintop, like Britney Spears in the "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" video. Undermine it with criticism or smother it with unearned praise, and it will emerge a nervous, spandex-clad wreck, like Britney Spears in the "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" video. It's confusing for everyone. You have to proceed with care.
Case in point: Here's what happened to the Oklahoma City Thunder in April. They went 8-7. They dropped games to the Grizzlies (a potential playoff opponent), Lakers (ditto), Clippers (twice, ditto), and Heat (a possible Finals opponent and onetime rival for the best overall record in the NBA — before April, that is; before the dark times). They lost the top seed in the West to the Spurs, a team led by a fragile core of retirement-home escapees and the front grill of a 1994 Dodge Viper.1 To top everything off, they saw their third-best player flattened by a Metta World Peace elbow so vicious it led to a national discussion about justice, which was nice and everything, but didn't give them back a healthy James Harden.2
And here, roughly, is how this month felt to Thunder fans:
SCENE. The black shimmering waste of the North Atlantic. An ICEBERG looms against the stars. In the middle distance, a GIGANTIC LUXURY OCEAN LINER, its prow rising from the sea at a delirious angle, slowly and violently sinks. Below, dwarfed by the dying ship, OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER COACH SCOTT BROOKS bobs in the freezing water, clinging for dear life to the side of a piece of flotsam.
THUNDER FAN [lying atop flotsam]: I love you, coach.
COACH BROOKS: Don't you say your good-byes. Promise me you will survive. No matter what happens no matter how hopeless. Promise me
THUNDER FAN: I I promise, coach.
COACH BROOKS: Russell Westbrook is a [groans] special, special player [Dies.]
Now, objectively, the Thunder's quasi-collapse wasn't quite that bad. It's not as though they suddenly woke up as the Bobcats.3 They're still second in the West. They still have Kevin Durant (i.e., are bathed in the light of the blessings of the Lord). And Harden is going to be fine. It was one bad month. Nas still likes them for the title! But Thunder fans have just been spoiled beyond belief up to this point. You know how people in L.A. freak out and start complaining when the temperature drops below 60? We've had perfect weather for the better part of four straight years. April was basically the first month in the history of the franchise when being a Thunder fan felt kinda bad; that's how much adversity we've had to deal with, riding in the comet's tail of our overachieving young stars. The team has been cruising on the bright side of expectations for so long that it took this semi-crappy month to make us realize that, oh, right, when you expect a team to be great and they aren't, it feels not-good. Really not-good. And that's what's been tough about following the Thunder for the past few weeks — not just feeling not-good, but having to remember that feeling not-good is an inescapable part of sports.
April for the Thunder? Call it the Lindsay Weir Transition.4 It's where the MJ-era Bulls were stuck from about '88 to '90, or where the Shaq-Kobe Lakers spent '98-99.5 (You could read the current Heat as an attempt to bypass the Lindsay Weir Transition by injecting growth hormone into a Blu-ray of Twilight: New Moon, but that's another paragraph.) One day OKC was happily romping through the league, running up crazy box scores, and going 5-0 against the Celtics, Lakers, Clippers, and Heat in February and March. The next, Westbrook's shot had gone haywire, the team's scoring plummeted (to just over 100 ppg in April, from 106.6 in March), and they suddenly went from "tight" to "semi-panicky" at the ends of close games, right as they hit the toughest part of their schedule. It's not a coincidence that this happened after a season in which the Thunder set the pace in the West for months on end. They've hit that near-breakthrough point where they're getting every other team's best effort in every game, where they're always expected to win, and where they have to decide if they're going to shy away from the pressure or aim square at the other team's windpipe night after night. And they don't know yet. Hello, LWT.
In retrospect, you could see this developing as early as the All-Star break. OKC got fantastic results in March, but below the scorelines there were a lot of dumb little signs that things were starting to go wrong. They started needing fourth-quarter rallies to overcome horrible starts — against the Mavs, they opened 3-for-11, trailed by seven at halftime, never figured out how to cope with the zone Rick Carlisle threw at them (Durant kept feeding bounce passes into it and finished with seven turnovers), and needed Defcon 2 defense from Kendrick Perkins to hang on for a 95-91 win (in a home game in which the last five points were Thunder free throws). The defense became totally unpredictable, looking all-world one quarter and then disappearing the next, a situation that was highlighted by the Thunder giving up 13 fourth-quarter points (and 30 overall) to Josh Smith in a deeply random 90-97 loss to the Hawks. Late in games, Scott Brooks's brain sometimes froze as complexly as his hair mousse6 — he never seemed totally sure whether he wanted to isolate Durant, run a play, or let Westbrook try to destroy the world from the top of the key.
The "start sloppy and work it out as you go" approach (© every Shaquille O'Neal season, 2004-11 inclusive) worked out okay in March, but it turned into a problem in April, when the Thunder looked openly perplexed a lot of the time. The offense, always the team's fallback strength, suddenly dropped into an LWT funk: lazy ball movement, bad shot selection, the works. Everything — Westbrook drives, Durant 3-point attempts — started happening too early in the shot clock, as if, as one Thunder podcaster put it, "the Thunder are trying to create transition-like scoring against a set defense." (Result: 18 offensive rebounds surrendered in a five-point loss to the Pacers.) Serge Ibaka started scowling, Perkins started ultra-scowling, and Nick Collison just looked scared. Derek Fisher put on his glassiest "I am locked in a behind-the-scenes NBPA power struggle" face.7 The most fun team in the NBA was out of step and in a bad mood, and the gloom was only deepened by the implacable march of the Spurs,
an unholy army of decaying zombies risen from the grave to feast on the flesh of live children a team of consummate grown-ups.
The NBA isn't mysterious, except when it is. OKC is finding out that being a favorite feels different from being an upstart, that there's an extra gram of moment-to-moment pressure that goes along with landing on everyone's list of title contenders, and that it's easy to make mistakes when things get weird. The good news for Thunder fans is that there's no path to a title that doesn't run straight through a phase like this. If Oklahoma City is going to become a great team, which is not in any way guaranteed but which is within their field of possibility, they're going to have to get used to things being weird, and to dealing with enhanced pressure. They're going to have to commit to playing defense on every possession, because even though it's a cliché, this is the NBA and that's how you ruin people. No team just automatically gets that stuff; it takes a light-bulb moment, like when a teenager decides to back off the drugs now in order to do better drugs after law school.
And given the current state of the league, where there really aren't a lot of elite squads that have mastered their own Lindsay Weir Transitions (the Bulls, no; the Heat, see above), OKC is better off facing this now than a couple of years from now. The post-LWT teams that matter, e.g., the Lakers, Celtics, and Spurs, are potentially formidable playoff opponents, but they're also starting the "you chose poorly" knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at small forward and could crumble into dust at any moment. And unlike some LWT squads, the Thunder know exactly what they have to work with: two superstars, a near-superstar bench scorer8 who keeps everybody else loose, a couple of physical defenders (one of whom, Ibaka, can go for 18 when he feels like it), an assortment of versatile role players (Thabo Sefolosha, Collison, Daequan Cook), and the potentially decisive X-factor of Cole Aldrich's haircut. Lingering Durant/Westbrook balance questions aside, they know how they want to play, how they can score, and how they're going to win. It's just a matter of finding that inner gear of murderousness that makes everything else work.
And no, not every young team finds it. But as a Thunder fan, I'm trying to stay cool and look at April as a step back that was necessary to take a big step forward down the road. The first round of the playoffs is going to be fascinating, especially if OKC winds up playing the Mavs, a crumbling post-LWT champion that could force the Thunder to grow up or die trying. Anything could happen over the next few weeks. The Thunder could crash out of the playoffs in the first round,9 win the title,10 or crash out of the playoffs in the first round and then win the title next year. And that, ultimately, is part of what's so fun about following them. It sucks to be reminded that feeling not-good is a part of sports, but with a team as electric and likable as the Thunder, it's worth it for the possibility of feeling just extremely not-not-good a little later.


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Escargot Tasting at Mica Restaurant
Hurry, the snails are coming. That's right: on Wednesday, May 22nd and Thursday, May 23rd Mica in Chestnut Hill is hosting an Escargot tasting menu. For $45 patrons can dig into a four-course escargot extravaganza.
Here's the escargot menu:
First Course
Escargot 'A La Plancha'Romesco, Purple Potatoes, Black Olives
Second Course
Carnaroli Risotto
Wild Burgundy Snails, Hazelnuts and Brown Butter
Third Course
Champagne Braised Escargot
Salmon 'Confit', Maitake Mushrooms and Parsley
Fourth Course
Passion Fruit Semi-Freddo
Candied Ginger, Summer Fruit and Lime
Wine & Beer Pairings will also be available.
Mica Restaurant [Official Site]


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Rod Review
Just plain slick, the new XMG 50 Bass Rod from
Lamiglas (continued)
World Tests: After our labs tests it was now time to see what this rod could
really do in the field. To test the actual functionality of our XMG 50 we head
straight for Clear Lake. I armed the rod with a Curado 100D but midway through
the test Cal simply couldn't resist and handed me one of his imported Ryobi
Varius reels to see how it paired with the XMG 50. He had been eying the rod for
a while and was convinced the gunmetal finished Varius would look downright
"slick" paired together with the XMG's woven carbon fiber grip…. he was right.
carbon fiber handle provides a reasonable amount of grip, and anglers can
actually feel the interwoven fibers
Casting: The rod
features a fast action, and true to the specification only the upper portion of
the blank is really flexible. The upper third of our test rod did all the work
when it came time to cast everything from weightless Texas rigged Senkos to
chucking heavy jigs and even some smaller jerkbaits.
Zander tests the rod's casting abilities
A more parabolic rod with a
medium or medium-fast action would deliver slightly more casting distance, but
every casting rod in the XMG 50 bass lineup features a fast or extra fast
action, emphasizing accuracy and sensitivity as key attributes of importance.
The result is a rod that can cast a wide range of baits, but really excels at
fishing lures like plastics and jigs, rather than reaction baits like jerbaits
and spinnerbaits where such a stiff rod doesn't always allow you the forgiveness
if the hook is not driven into the fish.
top of the reel seat
Retrieving: When it
comes time to lock into the hookset the EXC 722 responds promptly. The fast
action makes it possible to set the hook without moving the rod very far at all.
For the field tests I fished a wider variety of lures than the rod would
normally be used for, but what I discovered was a rod with a surprisingly wide
range of capabilities.
large cutout in the reel seat gives anglers access to the blank
Simply put, the EXC 722 is a
good mid range rod capable of handling both plastics and lighter hardbaits. The
more robust rods in the lineup will offer up more power, and be better suited
for heavy fishing in cover or retrieving hardbaits armed with treble hooks.
Varius mounted on the test rod
Over the course of a few
trips to Clear Lake I found the EXC 722 to be an absolute thrill to fish. Clear
Lake has countless public and private docks, many of which hold bass, and was
the perfect test range for a rod like this. After pitching or lob casting a
plastic into position I would allow the lure to sink down into position.
reel seat holds the enthusiast reel securely
Often I would feel the
sweet "tick-tick" before the plastic had a chance to hit the bottom. Hooksets
with this rod are lightning fast, and because the rod exhibited excellent
sensitivity I found it easier to lock into fish a second after they picked up
the bait. We found this attribute especially good for fishing shakey head worms
underneath these docks.
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Denver Broncos starting quarterback Tim Tebow has not been particularly fascinating to me in the 2011 NFL season, and the Week 14 Chicago Bears vs. Denver Broncos game was really no exception. Then again, "it" happened for what already feels like the umpteenth time for anyone who follows the league even casually: the clock spun down to a moment of desperation for the Broncos, and suddenly it was Tebow Time. With every next cutaway to Broncos' general manager John Elway and every next on-screen graphic juxtaposing Tebow's embarrassing baseline game stats with his more than passable crunch-time stats, the pseudo-mythology of Tebow Time continues to grow. The talk that borders on a pronouncement of manifest destiny is enough to make anyone sick to their stomach.
Whether the media is attempting to shove him down our collective throats (I suppose now I can include myself), or cleverly smuggling the coverage of his performances as some sort of half-baked meta-criticism on how people elsewhere are talking or feeling about the man, the fact of the matter is that the exploitation of his ethos has become ubiquitous. "Tim Tebow just wins games" is the starting point of nearly every discussion, and apparently you must proceed with the premise that either (a) it's true for reasons that transcend the role of the quarterback (leadership, faith, moxie, other intangibles, etc.), or (b) anyone who thinks it's true is a crazy person.
I happen to think the whole Tebow Time mythology is real, fake, and meaningful to the NFL all at once. I also happen to think there are pure football reasons why he has failed for the majority of his time on the field, yet has succeed in the final minutes of close games. Allow me to explain.
Tebow Time Is Real
Nobody can reasonably deny the pronounced splits in Tebow's late-game statistics. Just looking at his most recent comeback against the Bears, he opened the game 3/16 passing for 45 yards and an interception, but finished the contest by going 18/24 for 191 yards and a touchdown. Just one week prior he only managed to go 4/6 for 29 yards through the air and left the team with a 14-7 deficit at the end of the first half, but then produced 173 yards and two touchdown throws on 6-of-9 passing in the second half to highlight another comeback win. The final quarterback ratings are genuinely immaterial, but not because Tebow is somehow special.
Passer efficiency ratings and context-neutral stats simply don't capture what Tebow does well. He isn't an NFL-level passer on a consistent basis, and yet he also isn't novel or completely unconventional. In fact, he does what every non-elite quarterback blessed with a great defense is told to do in the NFL: protect the ball and keep the game close. In general, Tebow has done a wonderful job over the last seven games at limiting his turnovers and giving his team a chance to win by keeping them within striking distance. He's just another "game manager" quarterback that actually adheres to the requirements of the job description, taking very few risks with the ball early in games and often making a single, lock-on read before pulling the ball down and running with it. In even the most extreme cases, Tebow is tasked with a half-field read featuring a single route combination and a dump-off option to go with his default scramble impulse.
If a quarterback doesn't have the skill and anticipation to make meaningful NFL-caliber throws, everyone in their right mind usually calls for that guy to become a "game manager" focused on not losing the team the game with costly turnovers and errors. Early game situations marked by grossly inaccurate passes and an inability to diagnose coverages and pressure schemes aren't necessarily a death blow to Tebow's reputation or his legitimacy. Countless quarterbacks have been asked to become game managers but have chosen to perilously overstep their bounds just to escape the label, even at the expense of team wins. Meanwhile, Tebow is not scared to prioritize ball security over his stat line or his reputation as an NFL quarterback. If he has to use his legs to get first downs and avoid turnovers, it beats the potentially disastrous alternative. To deny the value of that dedication would be to ignore a key aspect of Tebow's impact: he allows his defense to do their job and keep the game close. Tebow Time is real in large part because he is committed to his role as a game manager.
Tebow Time Is Fake
There is a simple rule I use when evaluating passing yardage and completion percentage for the quarterback of a team that played from behind the entire game: don't pay any attention. Even the worst of NFL quarterbacks see a bump in their stats when working against the clock and the scoreboard, because most teams fall back into a prevent defense or base defense with softer coverage that allows short completions in exchange for eliminating deeper passing routes. The un-official motto of these defenses is: yards don't win games, points win games. If the opposing team wants to dink and dunk to rack up meaningless yards while the clock ticks towards zero, so be it. This is often the strategical space that Tebow Time occupies, and this is ultimately what makes a mockery of the developing mythology surrounding him.
Throughout the majority of most Broncos games, defenses succeed by pressuring Tebow and attacking downhill to eliminate running lanes and take away the single read in his progression. He lacks the instincts and experience to (a) identify complex blitzes and coverage schemes, (b) find the vacated area in the defense in a timely manner and (c) throw the ball with sufficient accuracy to exploit soft spots. Never is he reflexively and intuitively reading defenders like the best quarterbacks in the league. Rather, his plays often begin with hurried footwork and eyes locked on to athletic play-maker Demaryius Thomas until the pocket begins to crumble, at which point the ball is tucked away for safe keeping during either a sack or a scramble.
The NFL's most talked about player has shown absolutely zero ability to beat defenses with his decision-making and his arm under the compressed timing associated with blitzes. It never happens. It won't happen any time soon. For anyone who proclaims the efficacy of Tebow Time, this is the other side of that coin. It's what makes all the comebacks and fourth quarter throws so improbable in the first place. It's what gives meaning to the whole phenomenon.
Tebow Time Is Meaningful
Once you understand and acknowledge that Tebow is currently incapable of beating attacking defenses that apply blitz pressure and force him to beat the scheme in small time windows with intelligent and accurate throws, the responsibility for the very existence of Tebow Time shifts to defensive coordinators. Despite early successes with pressure-based defense, opposing teams have consistently shifted to prevent and base defense packages on the closing minutes of games against the Broncos. This stubborn adherence to conventional late-game point prevention gives Tebow two things he needs to succeed: more time to see throws and more space to make throws or runs.
If I was forced to describe his passing philosophy, it would be something like: don't throw it unless (or until) you see it. There are no anticipation tosses made before players exit their breaks. There is no manipulation of safeties and linebackers with subtle eye movement. Tebow simply locks onto his receiver and waits for them to come open before ever releasing the ball. Against aggressive defenses he sees in the early part of games, there isn't enough time to wait for all of this to develop before his eyes, which is why he often becomes the world's most uninteresting (yet effective) game manager. If he doesn't explicitly see the play to be made, no play is made. Unless, of course, he manages to pound out something worthwhile on the ground.
When the defense makes a shift to late-game prevent philosophy, Tebow is given loads of time to sit in the pocket without the spectre of blitz pressure, and is also afforded 10-15 yard cushions on his receivers that creates big windows for easy throws. He can see Demaryius Thomas come open off the line of scrimmage and get him the ball without worrying about a dreaded interception. Furthermore, the high risks associated with early game turnovers become low-risk outcomes when trailing late in the game. If your team doesn't make plays to get back in the game, they will lose. As the game manager role fundamentally changes into a play maker responsibility, defensive coordinators give Tebow the comfort and opportunity to excel. Scrambling lanes become larger, throwing lanes expand and the time given to make decisions with the ball grows.
Presumably, defensive coordinators stop feasting on the deficiencies of the Broncos' young quarterback with late-game leads because the prevent defense has proven effective enough in protecting leads over the course of the past few decades. It seems like a play on the percentages. As the offense moves down the field towards the red zone, those defenders making deep drops into coverage are suddenly compressed into a smaller space that restricts the throwing lanes once again. Quarterbacks must make perfect throws to beat eight-man coverages in the red zone, and that just doesn't happen too often in the NFL.
What sets Tim Tebow apart and allows him to thrive against the prevent, aside from the fundamental things mentioned above, is that he isn't quite focused on finding the perfect throw all the time. If given the opportunity to run, he has proven more than willing to take the necessary yardage to put his team in a position to win. At the goal line, the threat of his legs forces the zone defenders to make quick decisions on whether to go after him or stay in coverage, and he has shown the ability to beat defenses with runs or pick-and-stick throws against broken coverages outside the pocket.
With his added ability to run for tough yards and break tackles, it's anyone's guess as to why defenses go to the prevent package against the Broncos late in the game. Tebow is practically made to exploit prevent defenses. Real NFL defense takes away the luxury to see open receivers before throwing. It can reduce the mythology to just another story about a former Heisman-winning quarterback that lacked the fundamental skills to consistently compete in the best football league in the world. Yet real NFL defense hasn't been given the chance to answer the Tebow Time craze in late-game situations. Much like Tebow himself, apparently the strategy to stay aggressive on defense even with the lead doesn't fit the conventional mold well enough to gain serious traction among coaching staffs around the league.
So yes, Tebow Time is real, but when you understand the fundamental cause it becomes about something other than Tebow himself. That's because Tebow Time is fake. Like every other non-elite quarterback that has ever worn an NFL uniform, the winning isn't really about him, and it never will be. The meaning behind the phenomenon ultimately lies in the cookie-cutter approach defensive coordinators have chosen to take when it comes to stopping the comebacks. When the league finally adjusts, I have a feeling the clock will strike midnight and he will turn back into a pumpkin. Tebow Time will be no more.
Steve von Horn is a writer and editor at SB Nation's Milwaukee Bucks blog, Brew Hoop, and is also a writer for SB Nation Chicago. If you have questions, comments or new writing opportunities, he can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @StevevonHorn.


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MRI Signals: Myth and Reality-What we can and cannot do with fMRI
Nikos Logothetis
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 05:00pm - 06:00pm
Director of the Department "Physiology of Cognitive Processes", Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubin
Our current knowledge of cortical microcircuits, inhibition, neuromodulation, and glia cell activity suggests that fMRI can be used as an excellent tool for formulating intelligent, data-based hypotheses, but only in certain special cases can it be useful for unambiguously selecting one of them, or for explaining the detailed neural mechanisms underlying the studied cognitive capacities. In the vast majority of cases, it is the combination of fMRI with other techniques and the parallel use of animal models that will be the most effective strategy for understanding brain function. In my talk, I'll summarize what we have learned from physiology, pharmacology, microstimulation and fMRI experiments and discuss the extent to which the BOLD fMRI signal reflects local changes in neural activity.


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Skylum Luminar's artificially intelligent photo editing tools just got a little smarter. On Thursday, April 25, Skylum Software launched Luminar 3.1.0, an update that focuses on enhancing the Accent A.I. filter as well as bringing a handful of other smaller tweaks.
The existing Accent A.I. uses machine learning to automatically adjust a photo, using the data that is in the image to make image-specific adjustments rather than treating all images identically. With the update, the A.I. behind the feature is now able to recognize people and some objects, creating better results from the streamlined tool.
By recognizing people in the image, the tool can better preserve skin tones instead of applying adjustments indiscriminately to both people, objects, and scenery, Skylum suggests. The result is a more realistic image with selective adjustments based on what the software recognizes inside the image.
"Accent A.I. has been a revolutionary tool for many photographers using Luminar, helping them to speed up their workflow and come away with truly amazing images. With this update to Accent A.I., it will assist photographers more than ever, allowing them to truly harness content-aware technology in ways never seen before," Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum, said in a press release.
Alongside the update to Accent A.I., the latest version also allows photographers to pair matching files when shooting with the RAW + JPEG option to better organize photos. Users can also use an improved sync tool to apply the settings from one image to another, automatically syncing the settings but excluding layers, crop, erase, clone, and stamp edits.
When adding new images in the Windows version, users can also copy the images to a new folder on the hard drive, such as when importing directly from an SD card. Selecting images inside a gallery improves with a control-click shortcut for selecting images that aren't adjacent to each other.
The updates tweak the Lightroom competitor with simplified workflow tools and expanded A.I.-based tools. Skylum Software is the same company behind Photolemur and Aurora HDR.
The latest version is a free update for current Luminar 3 users. The update also launches with a temporary discount on the software for new users, starting at $60, which is a $10 discount. The offer is good through May 14.
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The sun is shining and the weather is finally warm! Design doesn't stop inside your home – bring your snazzy style outside where you can enjoy the sunshine on your flawless patio.
A fun way to add life to your furniture is with throw cushions – the brighter the colours the better! A wild outdoor cushion will be sure to catch everyone's eye. The best part is that they are simple to change out anytime you're feeling like a change in colour or style!
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