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Stock Market Today: Market Buoyant on Bank Results
Dow Jones Set to March Higher
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is expected to add a few more points as the big banks announce their earnings today.
DJIA closed at 19,891.0 Thursday after losing 63.28 points.
The NASDAQ Composite index lost 16.16 points to close at 5,547.49. The S&P 500 index was down about five points and closed at 2,270.44.
Bank stocks are likely to be in the spotlight today as JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) announce their results.
Stocks to Watch in the Stock Market Today
Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) stock has gained more than eight percent in pre-market trading as the company announced that it expected to exceed its Q4 2016 guidance. "During the fourth quarter, Pandora accelerated its core advertising business, increased advertising RPM and saw strong improvements in adjusted EBITDA," said CEO Tim Westergren. (Source: "Pandora Expects to Exceed Q4 2016 Guidance, Citing Subscription Momentum and RPM Growth," Pandora Media Inc, January 12, 2017.)
As a result of its direct deals with music labels and publishers, Pandora introduced "Pandora Plus" along with new features and functionality on its ad-supported tier to listeners at the end of the third quarter. By the end of December 2016, the product generated more than 375,000 net new subscribers.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock gained 1.8% on Thursday and ended the session at $813.64. The sentiment is likely to turn around for AMZN stock as the company announced that it will create more than 100,000 new, full-time jobs across the U.S. over the next 18 months. (Source: "Amazon to Create More Than 100,000 New, Full-Time, Full-Benefit Jobs across the U.S. over the Next 18 Months," Amazon.com, Inc., January 12, 2017.)
Amazon is already one of the biggest employers in the country, and now the company plans to grow its full-time U.S.-based workforce from 180,000 in 2016 to over 280,000 by mid-2018. Investors will be pleased with the news, as it is likely to improve the company's relationship with Donald Trump.
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) stock lost about one percent on Thursday and closed at $129.18. However, NFLX stock is up more than one percent in pre-market trading as it approaches its earnings announcement day next week. Sentiments are bullish on the back of the company's lead in original programming, but the focus will be on the growth in the Netflix subscriber base.


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Energy Coaching Over 50, Age Is Solely a State of Thoughts
Many individuals consider that after you attain the age of 50 your well being and health stage begin to decline. That is an city fantasy and this is why. Individuals who understand themselves as outdated and feeble usually tend to cease taking part within the actions that hold them wholesome and match, similar to common train. Alternatively, individuals who have a optimistic perspective about growing old are likely to do the issues that result in life-long well being and health.This is the reality, no matter age each worn-out cell in your physique is changed each 11 months of your life. So, yearly your physique is totally renewed. Thus, your physique is doing all it could that will help you keep wholesome by changing outdated cells with new ones. Now, the query is do you've gotten the precise psychological perspective to moreover aide your physique in conserving you wholesome and match as you age?The proper psychological perspective about growing old leads you to do the issues that enable you keep wholesome and powerful your complete life, similar to exercising regularly, and having a nutritious diet. These are the issues that enable you thrive and never merely survive as you age.The advantages of normal train as you age are many. Under are a few of the most necessary. (1)Train helps older adults keep or drop pounds. As metabolism naturally slows with age, sustaining a wholesome weight is a problem. Train helps improve metabolism and builds muscle mass, serving to to burn extra energy. When your physique reaches a wholesome weight, your total wellness will enhance.Train reduces the affect of sickness and continual illness. Among the many many advantages of train for adults over 50 embrace improved immune operate, higher coronary heart well being and blood stress, higher bone density, and higher digestive functioning. Individuals who train even have a lowered danger of a number of continual circumstances together with Alzheimer's illness, diabetes, weight problems, coronary heart illness, osteoporosis, and sure cancers.Train enhances mobility, flexibility, and steadiness in older adults. Train improves your energy, flexibility and posture, which in flip will assist with steadiness, coordination, and decreasing the chance of falls. Energy coaching additionally helps alleviate the signs of continual circumstances similar to arthritis.Train improves your sleep. Poor sleep just isn't an inevitable consequence of growing old and high quality sleep is necessary in your total well being. Train typically improves sleep, serving to you go to sleep extra rapidly and sleep extra deeply.Train boosts temper and self-confidence. Train is a big stress reliever and the endorphins produced can truly assist scale back emotions of unhappiness, despair, or nervousness. Being energetic and feeling robust naturally helps you are feeling extra self-confident and certain of your self.Train is amazingly good for the mind. Actions like Sudoku or crossword puzzles may also help hold your mind energetic, however little comes near the helpful results of train on the mind. Train advantages mind capabilities as numerous as multitasking and creativity and may also help forestall reminiscence loss, cognitive decline, and dementia. Train could even assist gradual the development of mind problems similar to Alzheimer's illness.I can personally attest to the truth that age is just a mind-set. I am in my late 50s and I have been weight lifting on a commonly most of my grownup life. I am nonetheless stronger than I used to be in my twenties. This is the important thing, I by no means let any adverse ideas about age linger and take root in my thoughts, and neither do you have to.(1) HelpGuide.org, Train and Health as You Age

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The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976)
This one is just as boring as its predecessor, but it does have nicer animation.
It picks up where the first left off, Baby Jesus suitably entertained by Aaron and his magic drum. Aaron wants to do something more (further undermining the message of the original song) and Melchior drags him off to town to help look for some bellmaker.
Melchior looks a bit more Middle-Ages-Europe king than first-century-Damascus king to my eye. Just saying.
The bellmaker, Simeon, has been telling people that Jesus is coming, and while they haven't believed him, he has cast a set of giant silver bells in preparation.
At this point, Erin can attest that I gave the screen some incredible side-eye at the idea that they would co-opt, even just by reference, one of my favorite holiday songs for this dreck, but it never went further than that reference.
Some Roman soldiers come in to collect his taxes. Simeon first hides, then denies that he has any silver. Dude. You are literally standing in front of silver bells as large as you are. You can't give them the littlest one? Apparently Simeon would rather piss off the soldiers and lose all his bells. Not the brightest bulb, this one.
Melchior and Aaron catch up at this point and all three (along with Aaron's animal friends) follow the trail of the soldiers out of town.
Up until this point this special was boring, but not offensive. That is about to change.
Because guess which legendary Broadway actor is making a quick buck as the voice of Brutus, the lead Roman soldier? Zero Mostel. And guess what he's going to do next? Sing a song (one of a very small number in this short special) about the decline of barter and the rise of greed with the creation of money. Eesh. I'm just going to leave this link here and move on.
Aaron has the bright idea of going down to play for the soldiers and... doing something after that. Seriously, he doesn't actually have a plan. This backfires when Brutus decides to melt down the bells, and grabs Aaron's drum and sticks to use for kindling.
Wasn't this a magic drum in the last special? That doesn't seem to come up here, Aaron is just normal sad from his stuff being stolen, not freaking out that someone destroyed a magical artifact. In the meantime, the critters sneak the bells out of camp.
Given the size of the camp (small), the size of the wagon full of bells (large), and the size of the camel (camel-sized), I'm going to say that these soldiers are not as observant as your average absent-minded professor, because it works and the animals get away with the bells.
They elude pursuit by having the humans bury the bells so it looks like a dune. It would be funny if they couldn't find it afterward, but no such luck. Simeon erects a giant scaffold out of, apparently, thin air, and plays the bells to announce that Jesus was born.
Side Note: Hilariously, throughout this special, Jesus is only ever called "the Babe", as though he is either a baseball star or a relation of He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named.
The bell ringing introduces our carol for this installment: Do You Hear What I Hear.
I wrote last year about this song. I am more than a little pissed to see the way it's used here. The first and third verses are cut, removing any sense or progression. The lyrics traditionally follow the news of Jesus's birth from the natural world, up to the heights of power. The bells replace the first verse, removing the night wind entirely. Removing the third verse as well (said the shepherd boy to the mighty king) also removes the intended breakdown of class separation.
So what you've got left is a lamb telling a boy, and COMPLETELY UNRELATED a king telling everyone else what they should think. I'm offended on behalf of good storytelling.
Anyway, we wrap up with Aaron deputized to lead the crowds to the manger, ostensibly to chase off the animals and stink up the place, but not to bring Mary and 'the Babe' to an actual hotel with sheets or anything.
We had to order one of those 'Warner Archive' DVDs to see this one: the kind that aren't generally stocked anywhere because not enough people want to see it. I don't recommend you do the same.


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A baby boomer asks … What in the world does Russia want?
BoomerCafé's co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs devoted his career as a journalist to covering world events in nearly every corner of the globe. One place where he has particular expertise is Russia, a once Communist country that continues to baffle U.S. government leaders.
What in the world does Russia want?
Well, the answer is right there before your eyes. In fact it's in the question itself: the world. Russia wants the world, or at least facets of the world it used to dominate before its predecessor, the Soviet Union, collapsed in ashes. But the bigger question that's not so clear is, what can we do about it?
When I covered news from time to time in the Soviet Union, then returned several times after Russia was all that survived, people were clear about their goals: Russia wants power, influence, allies, respect. Russia wants a place at the table. Russia wants equal footing with its superpower rival, the United States of America. Attempt to assassinate a traitorous countryman, then lose a bunch of people from its diplomatic bases in the U.S.? It fits right in: Russia cannot be ignored.
That's why you won't see Vladimir Putin or anyone else there wearing a ball cap with the embroidered inscription, "Make America Great Again." But "Make Russia Great Again?" That's what they're all about. Which is why, there are limits to what we can do about Russia. Punish it for its behavior? Sure. But change that behavior? Not so much.
On my last few visits, I made documentaries. One was about politics and Putin himself, namely, how he got away with slowly slashing the democratic liberties for which people there used to tell us back in the Soviet days they yearned, then briefly enjoyed after the Soviet demise… yet today, aren't agitating to reclaim.
His technique was telling. He flourished the flag of nationalism. In and of itself, nationalism isn't a bad thing: it means pride in your nation's history, pride in its culture, pride in its achievements, pride in its power. As Americans we have a lot to be proud about. But so do the Russians. From their tenacity in World War Two to their talents in literature and art to their triumphs in the space race — they put a man in orbit before we put a man in space at all.
But more than anything, they are proud of the power they wielded in the world before the Soviet Empire disappeared. Back in the day, when the Soviet Union spoke, the world listened. And sometimes shuddered. What Putin has told his people for years now is, we were a superpower once, we will be a superpower again.
Can we change that? No. Neither isolation nor sanctions nor ousting diplomats will alter that uncompromising ambition.
In fact, the Russian people want superpower status so badly, they are willing to accept the semi-Soviet style state Putin has restored. There has been just one reliable polling agency in Russia — it's called Levada (Putin had it designated as a "foreign agent," so it couldn't even do polling on this month's election) — and the year before last, Levada asked Russians whether they would be willing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for an easing of sanctions against their country, which have enfeebled their economy. Three-quarters of respondents said no. These people are tough; they have endured worse. The year before that, they were asked to assess the murderous dictator Joseph Stalin. 40% responded that things under Stalin were "more good than bad."
Which is just what Putin wants. Painting him as an iron-fisted dictator is not going to blunt the affection of his base.
This helps explain why Russia has become a covert combatant in cyberwarfare, a.k.a. hacking. Early this month the Trump administration accused Russia of targeting our utilities, not shutting them down but showing that they could. "From what we can see," said a Symantec security expert, "they were there." This is the arms race of the future, and Putin wants to be on the leading edge: disrupt, maybe destroy, an enemy's energy grids, its transportation systems, its financial data and satellite traffic and information webs and communication networks and healthcare records, even its military complex. They could do it to us; we could do it to them. The threat is that one side strikes and the other sees no alternative but to raise the stakes. If that's the new normal, it won't melt buildings but it could melt the society on which they stand.
Melting ours, is just what Mr. Putin wants. The best we could do is retaliate. Which is lose-lose.
It helps explain why Russia has disrupted the election processes of sovereign nations, and not just ours. Sometimes with overt Russian support, nationalist parties in Europe, whose populist policies parrot Putin's, have proliferated in longtime American allies from Italy to Germany, from Austria to Greece, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic. Some are now governing their countries. This is Russia's insidious way of reviving the Cold War contests for allies and alliances. It puts NATO in peril, which we see as defensive security but which Putin sees as an offensive threat. It weakens Europe, and what weakens Europe weakens us. It also weakens democracy as we define it.
But that's just what Putin wants. A Putin advisor in Moscow once gave me his definition of democracy: "Just a system designed to undermine the leadership of a nation." Another Kremlin politician told me, "When the Soviet Union fell apart, what did we get? Unemployment, corruption, inflation, crime. And the name for that was 'democracy'." We're not going to change the minds of Russians by preaching democracy.
It helps explain why Russia has spent so much in Syria, risking global condemnation for war crimes, brutally bolstering a Syrian despot who drops blazing bombs on his people. Putin made a promise to President Assad that he would pull out all the stops to support his regime, and he kept his word. American intelligence sources say he has earned the respect of other Arab leaders for whom clenched fists are more important than human rights. For half a century, the United States has been the go-to nation all over the Middle East. Today, the Palestinians are proposing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks in Moscow. Russia is a player again. And at our expense.
Which is just what Putin wants. And with American influence in the region waning, it's too late to turn that ship.
Finally, it explains the new arms race. In an early March speech to his Parliament, President Putin bragged about a new intercontinental missile and a nuclear torpedo that he called "invincible," able to outsmart every counter-defense the United States could throw into the sky. This reinforced the revelation by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that our primary focus today is "great power competition," not terrorism. Forget for a moment that U.S. analysts believe Russia is years away from weapons like those that Putin described. He spoke like a superpower, and the world paid attention.
Which is just what the Russian people want. And short of a nuclear war, what the American people can't do a whole lot about.
At a forum a few weeks ago in the city of Kaliningrad, President Putin was asked what he most would like to change in all of world history. His answer? "The collapse of the Soviet Union." That's why he presents himself to his population as their bold bulwark between superpower status and subservience, which people in Russia told me they call "Putinism." It shows the world a Russia that must be feared. It reinstates a Russia that cannot be ignored.
That's what Russia wants. And it's working. No matter how we respond, Russia's getting what it wants. Which means our actions are likely to be moot. And its behavior is not likely to change.
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We also provide optional security controls that you can turn on for added protection—you get to decide which features you want to use. Starting today, you can try a new tool called Security Checkup that makes it easier to find and use the security controls for your account.
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You can quickly start a video call from any conversation with just one tap. If you're messaging with someone and realize that words just aren't enough, you can simply choose the video icon in the top right corner of the screen and start a video call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
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The actions people take on Facebook—liking, commenting or sharing a post—are some of the main factors we consider to determine what to show at the top of your News Feed. We also offer the option to hide stories that you don't want to see in News Feed. This helps us learn the kinds of stories you don't enjoy, so we can do a better job in the future.


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Hello all of you lovely humans, I trust your Christmas was good, mine was but I tell you what if I see another Mince pie I think I shall spontaneously vomit and explode, aren't they nice?
Of course they are, especially if you have made them at home, well when I said made them at home – I don't mean by my own fair paw, does that go without saying? But I did watch some clowns make them, and then leave them to cool on the kitchen work surface, need I say more burp!
It is apparently the best thing to do, make your own Mince pies that is, "so much better than the ones from the shops because they are too sweet" I overheard, I also overheard the inhuman cries when the humans here discovered that their, now cool, Mince pies had been eaten.
Yes I think I broke some sort of record and managed to eat all of the Mince pies in the kitchen, I have to say I really don't fancy any more for a long while, hang on what's this?
I have to go, I have to go I have just heard someone ask "Turkey sandwiches anyone?"
Oh before I go, happy middle bit of no mans' land between the Christmas celebrations and the New Year!
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There is a vaccine available for Japanese encephalitis (JE) but it is not on the Australian Immunisation Schedule. JE vaccines are recommended for:
- routine vaccination of laboratory workers who may be exposed to JE virus
- routine vaccination of travellers spending 1 month or more in endemic areas during the JE virus transmission season
- routine vaccination of people who live or work on the outer islands of Torres Strait
The disease
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is caused by infection with the mosquito-borne JE virus. The disease mainly affects the central nervous system. JE is a significant public health problem in many parts of Asia, and occasional outbreaks have occurred in Torres Strait. About 30% of patients with JE die from the disease, and around 50% of people who survive suffer permanent neurological disability.
The vaccine
JE vaccination is recommended for all research laboratory workers who may be exposed to the virus. These people may need a booster dose if they have ongoing risk of exposure to the virus.
JE vaccination is recommended for travellers spending 1 month or more in endemic areas in Asia and Papua New Guinea during the JE virus transmission season.
JE vaccination is recommended for residents of the outer islands in Torres Strait and non-residents who will be living or working on the outer islands of Torres Strait for 30 days or more during the wet season.
People who are at ongoing risk of acquiring JE may need booster doses.
(Text adapted from the Australian Immunisation Handbook)
For more information about JE and the vaccine available please see here.
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Back in 2011, a little movie called Drive changed the way we felt about a few things:
a) Ryan Gosling
b) Elevators
c) White jackets with scorpions on the back
It married a noir framework to the world of a getaway driver in Los Angeles, featuring the likes of Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks, and Oscar Isaac — a cast that, in retrospect, seems almost curiously good for a film put out by the mid-level distributor FilmDistrict. The movie was a minor hit, grossing $35 million domestically and another $41 million overseas on a slim $15 million budget, while also earning a 92 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes — even if, in an almost too-perfect commentary on the current cultural climate, it suffered a C- CinemaScore, cratered by audiences expecting a Fast and the Furious–esque thrill ride rather than a moody drama in which the violence doesn't start until halfway in, then ratchets up to hysterical intensity.
Drive also served as a calling card, changing the way we think about its director, Nicolas Winding Refn, a walking Danish id who had, up until then, made just two English-language movies: Fear X, a box-office disaster that sunk his production company, and Bronson, a phantasmagoric, unconventional biopic of the British prisoner Charlie Bronson starring a mustachioed, ecstatic Tom Hardy. With its slick soundtrack, commercial viability, and sure-handed synthesis of action and elegance, Drive announced the arrival of a visionary.
Refn followed Drive with 2013's Only God Forgives, which also starred Gosling and premiered at Cannes. Only God Forgives was the directing equivalent of being given a fast, beautiful car — maybe the one from Drive? — and then steering it off the edge of the highest possible cliff. Having attained the rare kind of prestige and visibility that comes from turning an indie into a mainstream hit, Refn used that momentum to make a vicious fever-dream of a film, a color-drenched odyssey into the Bangkok underground that gave its movie-star lead only 17 lines (and eventually bloodied him to the point of anonymity); contained scenes of a God-like detective singing Thai karaoke; and featured grotesque, fetishistic violence. Our David Edelstein called it "just about the worst fucking thing I've ever seen"; meanwhile, I think it might be the most underrated movie of the decade.
Either way, it was divisive, and it squandered the goodwill that Refn had earned from his breakout hit. It was also a curious, unusual decision. In the current iteration of Hollywood, the next step after making a successful low- or mid-budget film is to make the jump to the nearest blockbuster, whether it's a Marvel movie, a Star Wars spinoff, or a franchise reboot. And while there's nothing wrong with that, it's also worth considering whether Refn's decision — to go even deeper into the idiosyncratic tangles of his psyche; to refine his aesthetic and explore how far he could push it; to make the movies he, and no one else, wanted to make — is the more artistically bold and laudable decision, even if you hate him for it.
To understand why Refn took this route, it's worth revisiting the earlier part of his career. While Bronson cemented the critical respect Refn had earned with his prior work (particularly the Pusher trilogy), it only made $100,000 domestically; his next film, Valhalla Rising, a savage and bizarre Viking epic that re-teamed Refn with his frequent star Mads Mikkelsen, was another financial disaster, outdoing even Bronson: It made just $30,000 in the States, a number that makes the $700,000 of Only God Forgives — plus another $9.5 mil overseas — look like Force Awakens money. Refn is a filmmaker defined by box-office failures, divisive productions, and iconoclastic choices, a filmmaker who has had mainstream success in spite of a far more common rejection. He inspires fierce loyalty from his actors, who often make multiple films with him, and yet the resistance he's met from critics and audiences has been so fierce that his wife, the director Liv Corfixen, made a documentary about it.
His new movie, The Neon Demon, extends many of these threads. It serves as a showcase for its star, Elle Fanning, and surrounds her with a loaded cast, including Hendricks, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, the odd and intriguing young American actor Karl Glusman, and terrific newcomer Abbey Lee. It's visually unhinged, an oversaturated Day-Glo indulgence of excess as well as a pointed critique of materialism. (Refn says he's drawn to high contrasts because he's colorblind.) And its characters are solipsistic, unable to connect, stuck in a hypermodern state of isolation.
But most of all, The Neon Demon sees Refn double down. Instead of licking his wounds after Only God Forgives and seeking out safer ground, Refn partnered with a pair of female writers to create a nightmarish version of the fashion industry that, he says, allows him to "live out my perverse dream of being a 16-year-old-girl, which I think every man has inside of him." Once again, his work seems to exist just as much in his own head as it does in any version of reality, and he continues to use a style so self-conscious and overt that you either have to accept it wholesale or risk being overwhelmed by the deliberateness of the whole thing. It's easily one of the most intriguing and entertaining films of the year, a beautiful, bizarre exception to any rules you can think of.
It's the opposite of franchise, Cinematic Universe filmmaking: Nicolas Winding Refn's movies could not be anything other than Nicolas Winding Refn movies, and their director seems to understand this; he's taken to branding his title screens with his initials like he's Yves Saint Laurent. And as long as he continues to work with slim budgets — Only God Forgives might've made just $10 million, but it only cost five, and for all its lavishness; The Neon Demon had a very reasonable $7 million budget — there will be producers willing to fund such headline-generating filmmaking, particularly if A-list actors continue to take the roles happily. In our current movie landscape, Refn's the rarest of creatures: a director dedicated to his own vision above all other concerns. I love it; you might hate it. But you've at least got to give him some credit.


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During my life, I've had lots of dramatic changes, Drinking too much, to drinking very little, smoking 100 cigaretes a day, to stopping totally, being sedentary and inactive, to becoming active and fit. Ive changed career many times. Whilst there was a day on which the big event happened, it was never an epiphany, or a conversion. It was simply resignation.
Little is to be achieved by histrionic pledges. We all know that new years resolutions are not worth the dime. Many of us have seen the over enthusiastic conversion, and then lapse of the drunk or druggie. Its easy to whip a roomful of the overweight into pledging to eat healthily. Its rarely successful. Self pressure sales techniques are interesting. A pressure salesman may flog you some rubbish ( shares, windows… what ever) ,but their aim is just to get your signature: if you join a gym, buy rubbish shares, you don't have to do anything… just pay. Real changes that you have to make need to be grounded in something more than sales tricks.
In my experience, effecting change, is a long term process that needs experimentation, practise and a "terrorise the habit" process.


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Hurray for Snow 7 Days to Go!
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With only 7 days left to reach our funding goal with the JLB Kickstarter campaign, we thought we needed a little extra awesomeness... So we ordered up some snow! Not really, but we definitely got some. With a solid blanket of white on the ground and sub 20s as I type this in June Lake this AM, we're definitely getting closer to shred time. With that in mind it's super important to support and share our Kickstarter (trust us there's definitely a correlation). We've yet to reach our goal, but it's totally within our grasp, so we need your help:
Thank you for everyone's continued support, and Cheers!
p.s. - did we mention you should support the JLB Kickstarter?
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Sunday, September 24, 2023
Sahiwal, August 08, 2017
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Sahiwal is hosting 3-Days Workshop
which is being arranged buy Center for Policy Studies (CPS), CIIT Islamabad in collaboration
with Hanns Seidal Foundation, Pakistan.
The opening ceremony was held on August 08, 2017 in CS Bock, CIIT Sahiwal which
was attended by Head of Departments, Representatives of NGO sector, Chamber of Commerce,
Media, Educationists and Civil Society.
Mr. Qadeer Ahmad Bajwa, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sahiwal was the Chief Guest.
He share his thankfulness to the Director CIIT Sahiwal for inviting him as Chief
Guest. While talking to the participants, he shared his experience about COMSATS
which has secured place in top level higher educational institutions in Pakistan
in very short time. He appreciated the efforts of management of COMSATS Sahiwal
and sponsoring organization for arranging this workshop on very useful topic.
Prof. Dr. Saleem Farooq Shaukat, Director shared opening remarks. He extended his
gratitude to the Chief Guest, Organizors, Sponsor and participants of this workshop.
He shared that COMSATS Sahiwal is regularly arranging such training programs to
provide useful information about burning issues. He briefed that COMSATS Sahiwal
has recently established e-Rozgaar Center in collaboration with Punjab Information
Technology Board, which will help providing entrepreneurship opportunities to out
Former Ambassador Ms. Fauzia Nasrin, Head CPS also addressed to the participants.
She briefed about the importance and structure of this worshop. She extended his
gratitude to Prof. Dr. Saleem Farooq Shaukat for his generosity.
Prof. Dr. Saleem Farooq Shaukat, Director COMSATS Sahiwal presented Souvenir to
the Chief Guest Mr. Qadeer Ahmad Bajwa.
The inaugural ceremony was concluded with Group Photo and refreshment.
August 10, 2017 - The closing ceremony of 03-days workshop on Public Sector of Pakistan:
Social Equity Imperatives and Governance Dynamics was held. Sardar Asad Ali Khan
Baloch (Mayor Sahiwal) was the Chief Guest. In his address, he congratulated the
organizers and the participants on conducting a successful workshop; he also briefed
the audience on Operational Mechanism of Governing Social Equity in Sahiwal District.
The Director in his address thanked the Chief Guest, and the organizers for holding
a successful workshop. Ms. Fauzia Nasreen, Former Ambassador presented the Chief
Guest Sardar Asad Ali Khan Baloch with a souvenir.
The Director, CIIT Sahiwal was accompanying her. Mr. Omer Ali, National Program
Coordinator, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Pakistan addressed the participants and briefed
them about the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Pakistan, which is collaborating with a
number of universities in Pakistan and COMSATS is one of those universities. Syeda
Mehak Jamal, Senior Program Manager and Mr. Ahmad Islam Syan, Manager (Strategy
& Implementation), PITB Lahore was among the Resource persons who shared detailed
presentation about e-Rozgaar Center at COMSATS Sahiwal (an initiative of PITB under
CM Punjab's e-Rozgaar Center).
They participated in interactive talk arranged in e-Rozgaar Center. The director
distributed the gift bags to all the guests of honor. Before concluding the session,
the Chief Guest, Sardar Asad Ali Khan Baloch, Mayor Sahiwal; Prof. Dr. Saleem Farooq
Shaukat, Ms. Fauzia Nasreen, Former Ambassador; and Mr. Omer Ali, National Program
Coordinator distributed the Certificates of Participation among the participants
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New Delhi:27/7/17: Setting the ball rolling for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), current incumbent Chief Justice JS Khehar has named Justice Dipak Misra as his successor, as per sources.
According to laid down procedure, the law minster writes to the Chief Justice seeking his recommendation on who should succeed him. Now, the Chief Justice has replied, recommending the name of Justice Misra.
Justice Khehar retires on August 27.
The memorandum of procedure, a document which guides appointment, transfer and elevation of judges of the Supreme Court and the 24 high courts, states that appointment to the office of the Chief Justice of India should be of the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court considered fit to hold the office.
Justice Mishra, 63, is the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court after Justice Khehar.
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Ralph Lane, 1530?-1603
Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. An Account of the Particularities of the Imployments of the English Men Left in Virginia by Richard Greenevill under the Charge of Master Ralph Lane Generall of the Same, from the 17. of August 1585. until the 18. of June 1586. at Which Time They Departed the Countrey; Sent and Directed to Sir Walter Raleigh
Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, [1902].
Sir Ralph Lane, soldier and courtier, was born circa 1530 in Devonshire, England. Sir Walter Raleigh invited Lane to command an expedition to America, and he sailed on April 9, 1585 under Sir Richard Grenville. At the end of June, they arrived at Wococon, now Ocracoke Island, on the North Carolina Outer Banks. A colony was soon established, with Lane acting as governor. During the next eight months, the Roanoke colonists ran low on supplies, started arguing with each other, and began to have conflicts with the natives. In June 1586, Lane killed Wingina, a tribal chief, after learning of a tribal conspiracy to attack the colonists. On the following day, Sir Francis Drake arrived with supplies and men. Following a disastrous hurricane, Lane decided to return to England with Drake and most of the colonists. Lane lived most of the remainder of his life in Ireland, and never led another expedition. He died in October of 1603.
This work chronicles Sir Ralph Lane's experiences as the Roanoke colony's first governor. He writes about explorations of inland and coastal North Carolina, Virginia, and surrounding areas and describes both amiable and unpleasant interactions between the Native Americans and colonists. Lane also mentions some of America's natural resources, including crops, pearls, and minerals. He offers an account of the tribal conspiracy he prevented and explains the reasons for his decision to return to England. A brief note written by Edwin D. Mead follows the report, and praises Sir Walter Raleigh and his role in exploring and settling North America.
Work Consulted: Powell, William S., ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1979-1996.
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'When sensors and open data collide'
Welcoming @simontroup to @OpenSensorsIO.
His first post 'When sensors and open data collide' http://t.co/G1erHCS5nq ★
So I'm new to IoT having spent my career trying to find meaning in econometric data (ouch). Given I started life as a structural engineer I'm pretty excited to be working on data products with opensensors.io, feels like I'm back home again. So what's exciting me today about where IoT and data science collide?
As data scientists we're always looking at new models, new ways of shaping our view on a given data set to eek out some kind of edge. But at some point it feels like we're chasing our tails with little hope of finding new factors to make our science better. Without new data, or at least the same data in a more granular or timely form, we're just rehashing the same functional forms over the same content.
Fortunately life is about to get a whole lot more interesting as more connected devices come on line. We're experiencing tangible innovation in IoT, we're not talking hand wavy stuff; at opensensors.io we see hackers, hobbyists and enterprises building the next generation of smart cities with real velocity.
We're also fired up since we see pretty much everyone embracing openness in their data. Exactly what open data means remains up for debate, but most agree that some flavour of open data is a prerequisite for successful smart cities.
It would be a pretty dumb city where you could only use the data in your own location. So it makes sense to open pathways for data to be exchanged allowing us all to benefit from advances in technology, without a cost to our built environment. The alternative is a proliferation of street clutter used to deliver data already gathered in our smart buildings. Paradoxically not smart! Having delivered connected buildings, transport and personal devices can expect a wave of innovation in apps and data science. So what's would help to make this happen?
Communities – Architects, hackers and makers provide the crucible of IoT innovation but need support for their creative process. Helping to gong the technical pain points is great, even better is curating communities to support and challenge. Our mission is to build best of breed engineering whilst retaining our community roots leveraging platforms like github and hackster.
Connect existing things – Increasingly we see opensensors.io used to unlock value in existing device estates. For many enterprises it's the 'I' in IoT that is new, to deliver the 'I' they need open, available, performant, secure and low cost messaging and data persistence.
Put open data to work – 'I can't define it, but I know it when I see it', to paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart. The debate about what is open data will remain, what is rightly or wrongly tagged as such. But expect innovation in business models firmly founded on principles of open data. 'Open' may mean sharing data with your neighbour, your street, your city. Most importantly make it economically attractive for all enterprises to make data available in some form, even if it's not 'open' in the purest sense.
We have an exciting journey ahead delivering significant change to our urban environment. Over a century ago 'The league of American Wheelman' catalysed improvements to America's transport infrastructure; open data movement can deliver similar disruptive change to our urban environment. I hope open data becomes as ubiquitous as our transport network is today; in future no one will recall activists like the ODI and opensensors.io, but that would be a sign of open data's success.


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Creating A Long-term Care Plan, Part 3
In this series, I address the importance of creating a long-term care plan. For more information, please visit artofthinkingsmart.com/care and claim your free spot for a long-term care seminar I will host. You also can call 524-CARE (2273).
One of the top questions I get when it comes to long-term care (LTC) is the best way to pay for it. With the average cost for a private room at $135,050 a year in a nursing home in Hawaii, you easily can burn through your hard-earned assets.
LTC can be paid for through several ways. Here are the three primary options:
1) Self-funding. The median price of nursing homes has gone up 24 percent the past five years and is expected to increase even more. Since people are living longer and often in poorer health, paying out-of-pocket for care will be expensive. You may not have much left if your goal is to pass assets to your family. Even if you want to start saving at a younger age to fund your care, it still may not be enough. Let's say a 45-year-old starts saving to fund her care and estimates using it at age 85. Since the average length of LTC services needed for women is 3.7 years, the total cost today is $500,000. If we assume an annual increase of 5 percent, the future cost of care will be $2,734,796. If she is able to get an 8 percent annual return, she will need to save $783 a month, or approximately $9,400 a year. That amount goes up to $1,792 a month or $21,500 a year if the interest rate is 5 percent! Not many have that much money around to save or use for LTC, so this option may not be best for most people.
2) Government Funding. There are several public programs that help pay for LTC services. Medicare is a federal program, and in order to qualify, you have to be 65 or older, have certain disabilities or have permanent kidney problems. Medicare does not pay for most long-term care services, but it will help pay for a short stay in a skilled nursing facility, for hospice care or for home health care, if certain conditions are met.
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps people of low income pay for some or all of their health care bills. For singles the asset limit is $2,000, and for couples it's $121,220. You can own your own home, but the equity cannot exceed $828,000. There is also a five-year look back to make sure assets were not given away. You also have to require a certain level of medical care.
There are other government programs, such as veteran's benefits and the Older Americans Act. Many people have too much in assets to qualify and if they drawdown their assets, a spouse may be left with little to nothing. 3) Private Pay Options. There are LTC products that you can purchase with existing assets that can help cover your costs. By doing so, you transfer the cost and risk to the insurer. There are different types of LTC products such as LTC insurance, annuities, reverse mortgages, trusts, life insurance and hybrid policies. Some of these products, however, have low liquidity and high fees. It is important to purchase the right type of product, or even combination of products that are in your best interest.
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OnePlus confirms that the OnePlus 6T has no headphone jack and announces Type-C Bullets earbuds
News about the OnePlus 6T is coming thick and fast now, and the latest revelation comes direct from the horse's mouth. Company co- founder Carl Pei has confirmed that the upcoming handset is ditching the headphone jack, saying that it helps make way for "more new technology".
So, moving forward you'll have to use either wireless headphones with the OnePlus 6T, or use a USB-C pair. And funnily enough, OnePlus has a set of Type-C Bullets earbuds that fits the bill!
See also:
- OnePlus works with Google on Crackables game to promote OnePlus 6T
- Confirmed: the OnePlus 6T definitely has an in-display fingerprint reader
- OnePlus 6T leak hints at in-screen fingerprint reader and smaller notch
Speaking to TechRadar, Pei did not actually reference the OnePlus 6T directly -- just the "next OnePlus handset". We may be making an assumption here in thinking that's what he's talking about, but it seems like a pretty safe bet. He speaks about the disappearance of the headphone jack:
It was a very controversial decision. We're not doing it for the sake of doing it and because everyone else is. We believe now is the right time, as it'll benefit the majority of our users while keeping the downside low. We knew this was an option for a very long time, we were just waiting for the right time.
Without going into detail, Pei hinted at positive benefits of removing the headphone jack:
By removing the jack we've freed up more space, allowing us to put more new technology into the product. One of the big things is something our users have asked us for, improved battery life.
Some of this new technology could be for the in-display fingerprint reader, but we'll find out more soon.
So you have something that you can plug into your OnePlus 6T, the company is launching the Type-C Bullets, complete with a professional DAC from Ciruss Logic. Aramid fiber has been added to the wire for better durability, and there's an inline control box for volume adjustment and so on. Priced at $19.99, they will cost the same as the Bullets v2.
There's also a new a USB-C version of the Bullets V2 headphones on the way, and the OnePlus 6T will include a dongle in the box so you can use your old headphones with a 3.5mm connection still.


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#108ing HOF – Inaugural Class
October 26, 2019
Back in February, we inducted our first class of #108ing Hall of Famers. As we're nearing the end of the first season of our podcast, I thought this would be a great one to listen to. Not only is the sound quality that of an AM radio station that you're just out of range of, it's also one of the first drafts we had. And in true form, MySoxSummer (by his own admission) did not understand what we were doing.
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Andre the Giant
- Biguns
- Lemmy Kilmister
- Wade Boggs
- Carrie Fisher
- Caddyshack cast minus Ted Knight
- Tyler Saladino
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- March 28: Jostens delivery (one day only)
- April 1: Community Service Hours are due
- April 18: Senior Photo during homeroom (8:15 a.m.) in the large gym
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- May 10: Senior Check Out & Barbecue
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NORTH CAROLINA — University of North Carolina officials should have notified the public when they interviewed candidates in their search for a new president, the state attorney general's office said last week.
University officials are not required to hold open meetings to interview candidates under state open government laws, but they must notify the public of the place and time of those meetings, Attorney General Roy Miller told schools in an advisory legal opinion, according to a local paper.
"You can have the whole thing in closed session, but the public is entitled to know when and where the meeting is," UNC-Chapel Hill government professor David Lawrence told The News & Observer.
Leslie Winner, general counsel for the university, told The Associated Press she followed old advice from the attorney general's office when allowing the committee to keep the meetings private.
The search committee held interviews on Sept. 25 and Sept. 26 in Charlotte after committee members said they would not hold further meetings until early October, according to The News & Observer.
The committee selected former Senate candidate Erskine Bowles as its only final candidate, electing him president on Oct. 3.
Other candidates for the job were not revealed despite an April vote by the UNC Board of Governors to disclose the names of finalists, according to the newspaper article.
"I want to know who Erskine Bowles beat out," UNC-Chapel Hill media law professor Cathy Packer told The News & Observer. "I like him. I'm glad he's going to be the president. But I want to know how good the competition was."
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Día de Dudley
Día de Dudley is a play on the fantastical Day of the Dead celebrations that depict life and death in a wonderful display of colour. This design aims to celebrate the vibrancy of Oor Wullie's legacy, while paying homage to Dudley D. Watkins' first and last illustration of Wullie.
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IK Multimedia is offering a free update to the AmpliTube Slash suite of amps and presets for the Mac/PC version of AmpliTube. This update was created in collaboration with Slash to coincide with the recent launch of his latest album, Living the Dream, which features Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.
The two AmpliTube Slash amp models—the Marshall JCM Slash Edition Silver Jubilee and the Marshall AFD100—have been fine-tuned using IK's latest DSP technology under Slash's direct supervision. In addition, a collection of 13 new presets designed by Slash to match the tone of his new album have been added, so that fans can replicate the sounds of each song in a realistic way when they play them.
Slash reflected on his experience with AmpliTube that led to his involvement in a signature edition, saying "I have to say, it's probably the best amp modeling that I've ever worked with. I've worked with a few different ones, and this is by far superior."
Each AmpliTube edition is designed to offer all levels of musicians the tools they need for music creation, practice and live performance. Slash has used AmpliTube for a variety of projects. "I've used AmpliTube to record a whole bunch of different things as final recordings," the guitarist said. "I did the 'Angry Birds Space Theme' for that version of Angry Birds using AmpliTube through my computer. I just did a new video game with AmpliTube as well. Recently, I recorded some stuff for Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights. So a bunch of the music in the theme I did for them I recorded with AmpliTube."
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2016 Pickleball Rocks Player of the Year: Kyle Yates
Throughout the year, people use NominateAPlayer.com to tell us all about their favorite players. Many times they tell us about players they know who win lots of tournaments. But also they tell us about people who have had tremendous impacts on their communities or towns or even the game of pickleball overall. Additionally, as we travel across the country to tournament after tournament, we ask the question, "who is your favorite pickleball player and why?" Again, we get many answers.
This year's award winner was not only nominated by many people, but we got to witness first hand as he put his personal stamp on the sport of pickleball.
Kyle has been winning tournaments right and left for several years, but in 2016 people saw a side of Kyle that went beyond simply winning pickleball matches.
Yes, in Men's Doubles, in the four largest open tournaments Kyle brought home Gold three times and Silver once. (Nationals VIII – Gold, Tournament of Champions – Gold, US Open – Gold and Grand Canyon State Games – Silver). And yes, Kyle also garnered Silver Singles Medals at the US Open and Tournament of Champions. Quite a year on the courts indeed.
But in 2016 we saw Kyle playing in, and committing to, exhibition matches across the country, including fundraisers for such great organizations as (coming in Feb 2017) Alex's Lemonade Stand (one of our personal favorites), plus the Andy Roddick Foundation and more.
And several voters pointed out how great a clinician Kyle is as he teaches players how to move to that next level.
We also had the pleasure of working with Kyle on the new USAPA Juniors Program which is energizing our sport with players under the age of 18.
So as you can see, though we had many other extremely worthy nominees, the voters once again got it right.
Join us in congratulating the 2016 Pickleball Rocks Player of the Year: Kyle Yates
2015 – Scott and Daniel Moore
2014 – Alex Hamner and Jennifer Lucore
2013 – Jim and Yvonne Hackenberg
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IT'S OUT! So here's the start of our big Skylanders Swap Force video series.
Let's Play Swap Force #2 – Chap 1 "Mount Cloudbreak"
Roland Rogers joins me to play through the Mount Cloudbreak level and we discover how the game adventure all begins. Also I manage to break the game and get stuck in a crate.
Playlist for full Swap Force Let's Play: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02RKkMS5T4jCrnSmTCvh6jtqlMXVL64p


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OE is austerity, layoffs, and a mechanism for the privatization of public education
Workers and students at UC Berkeley will be facing the next phase in austerity and privatization this Fall semester – Operational Excellence's (OE) "Shared Services". The university's administration is setting the groundwork for much of its plan this summer and students and workers are yet again not being asked for their input on Shared Services' most glaring proposal - to move hundreds of UCB campus staff to one remotely located building in San Pablo (miles from campus), a one-stop building that would handle IT, Human Resources and other student and staff services. Though this is being done in the guise of efficiency and saving money, if OE - or as some of us call it, Operation Elimination - is anything to show, this latest phase may lead to layoffs, reduced resources, greater workloads, more mismanagement, and a general transformation of the vibe of the campus for the workers and students.
For those who aren't familiar with it, OE, which has been the target of previous demonstration on campus (i.e. hunger strikes, budget cuts protests, etc.) is, as our friends in ReclaimUC point out:
"basically an austerity program developed by the UC Berkeley administration in collaboration with an outside consulting firm called Bain & Company (which as of today is being paid more than $11 million for its efforts) to cut campus costs." Even the the Daily Cal (the main UCB student newspaper) "has reported[1] that this model has been exported to other UC campuses, complete with their own ridiculously bureaucratic variations on the OE acronym like "Operational Effectiveness" (at UC Santa Barbara) and "Organizational Excellence" (at UC Davis). UCSF couldn't come up with another OE name, so they just adopted Berkeley's"[2].OE is the program of privatization and austerity that the UC regents & administration have been implementing since the major budget "shortfall" of 2009 and it has deeply affected students and workers since its first stages. As has been pointed out by great reports by Bob Meister[3], other faculty[4], the unions and students, the UC has been in a mode of privatization and austerity since the budget shortfall of 2009 and this is an instance of the general offense against public education. I and others argue that this is happening in order to turn the UC school system into a private model that is friendly for the profit-making aspirations of the UC Regents & their allies in the 1% (i.e. corporations and the very rich).
These policies of privatization and austerity mean that students are affected by the raising of fees/tuition; their debts are increased, and services that make their student life easier are cut. Likewise, campus workers have been affected first through imposed layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts in 2009-2010, and now with Operational Excellence, which has resulted in at least 300 layoffs in Berkeley and attacks on workers' pensions and healthcare benefits. In the meantime, we must point out the fact that the administration has been hiring more and more middle and senior management executives (since 2004, UC's management has doubled?) and has been awarding generous bonuses to these layers ($1.6 billion in cash compensation in 2009 alone).
The effects of the last phase of OE
During its previous phase, in 2009-2010, OE cut a lot of essential personnel in key departments. For example, departments like ESPM were gutted of their student services people. For a long period of time after this, ESPM were having a hard time advising their people and instead students and ESPM department staff had to rely on other offices/staff due to real human limitations in handling the number of students, staff, and faculty.
Unfortunately, ESPM is not the only department being affected by OE and the austerity measures. Most of the Humanities and Social Sciences departments are being disproportionately impacted by layoffs in staff and by staff and services restructuring. This is especially hard for departments that are already under-funded like Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender studies. It is important to point out that the loss of staff in these programs has drastically affected their ability to advise and recruit students.
Shared services: the next phase of operation elimination
It is in this context that the UC administration is making its next move in OE, namely "Shared Services" (SS). Deans, managers and other top-level staff have been making presentations on SS and are selling it as the next phase in efficiency and cost-savings of the Bain group[5]. Staff members will transition into the building in phases — about 170 staff will begin working at the center in 2012, and 500 to 625 staff will eventually work there over the next 24 to 30 months[6].
Nevertheless, the building's distance from the campus and the impact of reorganization have caused concern for staff members. This is because this next phase in OE could potentially impact the hundreds of staff besides the ones being moved to the campus SS center. Furthermore, even the centers' savings expectations do not seem enough to justify the millions the administration is paying BAIN & the millions they're spending to adapt the building and work-area to working conditions[7]. To add on to that, this new shared services building will hire a lot more people but it is projected that the staff will be reduced to 1/3 of its initial size due to attrition: in other words, retirement, and folks leaving due to overwork, unhappy work environment and so on.
In summary, SS will wreak havoc on the campus community. Faculty, students, and UC employees will all suffer. Students will get less, pay more, and be told that in the name of "efficiency" this must happen. In fact, while Bain Consultants will get their $11 million for proposing and implementing this corporate-style management, UC Berkeley will be left with poorly functioning administrative services in which turnover will be high, institutional memory at an all-time low, and communication extremely difficult.
Students and labor must fight back!
This shared services business has got a lot of campus staff, faculty and students talking. For example, a shared services plan in Sproul has caused some commotion. They're having 10 people who work in student services offices (Financial Aid, Registrar, Residency, etc.) apply for 9 positions in this shared service plan all in the name of efficiency. They are having the workers re-apply for their jobs and opening up applications to the hundreds in the campus. This staff include members of the clerical and allied services union CUE-Teamsters 2010.
Unfortunately, our union has not been part of the decision making of SS and CUEsters and other staff are not receiving the proper and correct information on what's going on with SS. Staff has had to rely on minimal information and rumors - this has created anxiety and fear. Nevertheless, workers and students should put together more information on the effects of SS on students and staff and call these shared services reorganizations what they are - austerity methods to squeeze out the lower-tiers of staff.
We must join with others who will fight back against this huge step in the privatization of UC and the dismantling of it as a public and affordable institution. Students and labor must educate and organize their members to stop these austerity measures. For labor, this means that we must build bodies and spaces for rank-and-file workers that will promote democratic self-organization within the unions. Rank-and-file unionists must also put pressure on their union leadership to not be silent on OE and SS and to enact a consistent and uncompromising plan to fight back against the layoffs, cuts, and plans of privatization.
In the meantime, there will be a UC Regents meeting July 17-19 and this would be a good opportunity for students and labor to demonstrate against OE, SS, and the 6% proposed fee hike.
Staff jobs and working conditions are students' living and learning conditions!
No fee hikes, no increased workload, no layoffs! Free Public Education for all!
[1] ALISHA AZEVEDO, "Other UC campuses adopt OE model", 4/25/11, http://archive.dailycal.org/article/112946/other_uc_campuses_adopt_oe_model
[2] "Update from the Hunger Strike: Day 8", 4/27/11, http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/2011/04/contextualizing-hunger-strike.html
[3] See: Bob Meister, "Debt, Democracy, and the Public University" 12/7/11, http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2011/12/debt-democracy-and-public-university.html
[4] Chris Newfield, "Bain's Blow to Berkeley",9/14/10 http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2010/09/bains-blow-to-berkeley.html#more
[5] This new Campus Shared Services Center will house finance, human resources, information technology and research administration staff from different departments together. Furthermore, the shared services project effort to cut campus costs and save $75 million annually starting in fiscal year 2016. See for more info:http://www.dailycal.org/2012/05/21/uc-berkeley-staff-members-to-move-to-new-campus-shared-services-center/
[6] Ibid
[7] Ibid


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A chilling end for R22 – But will you catch a cold?
17 May 2013
1 January 2015 will be a key date in many forthcoming disputes between landlords and tenants as to who is to bear the cost of replacing air conditioning systems. On that date EU Regulations come into effect prohibiting the use of R22 (and other gases) when maintaining air conditioning systems.
What needs to be done and by whom will vary dependent on the terms of the lease, the technical circumstances and the maintenance history of the plant. The painful truth however, is that the costs of completely replacing a system if it involves replacing all internal elements can be huge and massively disruptive to the operation of a business. In worst case scenarios you could be looking at a seven figure sum.
Practically there are often a variety of possible solutions and questions of balancing the cost benefits of replacement as opposed to refurbishment. But the shortest simplest and best advice if you have an interest whether as landlord or tenant in a building served by air conditioning plant is to find out whether it operates using a banned gas such as R22 and if it does take the following steps:
1. Get your lawyer to immediately advise as to what your responsibilities under your lease are in respect of the air conditioning plant;
2. If your lawyer advises you have a responsibility seek advice from an air conditioning specialist; and
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MCE ready to pay out more than $1.8 million in net metering payments
MCE Clean Energy's annual cash-out process for rooftop solar customers is currently underway, offering more than $1.8 million in check payments to purchase the excess solar electricity generated by customers.
"We're proud to support over 10,000 solar customers in the Bay Area, and we're grateful to them for adding 100% renewable power to our community energy supply," said Dawn Weisz, CEO of MCE. "Over the last five years, NEM program recipients have included local schools and public agencies, like cities and fire stations. It's rewarding to see so many customers get a return on their environmental investment."
MCE's Net Energy Metering (NEM) program compensates solar customers at the full retail rate plus an extra penny per kilowatt-hour for excess electricity generated. A meter tracks the net difference between the amount of electricity their solar panels produce and the amount of electricity used during each billing month. When the panels produce more electricity than is used on-site, customers receive a credit on their bill.
Most customers with solar in California are required to forfeit any surplus credits on their account each year through a "true-up" process, although some are entitled to receive a minimal payment at lower wholesale rates. MCE's NEM program offers several innovative features, allowing customers who earn credits of $100 or more to cash out their full credit balance or simply roll the credits over into the following year — up to a maximum of $5,000. Customers with a credit below $100 will have their credit automatically rolled over.
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ONGWEDIVA – The Chief Medical Officer for Oshakati Intermediate Hospital has refuted claims by female patients who said they were turned away by the hospital to buy their own pregnancy diagnostic kits.
Patients were livid saying medical staff told them the hospital did not have the pregnancy diagnostic kits and were apparently told to buy them from private pharmacies before they could be tested.
Patients who spoke to New Era said they were informed by nurses that the hospital did not have stock for pregnancy test kits.
"We were told that they need to determine whether I am pregnant or not because the applicable medication cannot be prescribed to a pregnant woman as it can result in a miscarriage," said one patient who refused to give her name.
However, the Chief Medical Officer, Korbinian Vizcaya Amutenya refuted these claims saying he has been told the hospital has stock of the pregnancy test kits.
He said he was aware the hospital has a shortage of other medical provisions but that pregnancy tests are not among them.
"If it is indeed true then I do not understand why patients have to be turned away," said Amutenya.
In addition to Oshakati, some health professionals in the Kunene Region have also complained that the shortage of medicine and other medical staff is crippling quality health delivery to the ailing community.
New Era recently reported on the shortage of medicine and pharmaceutical supplies resulting in patients sourcing such supplies from private pharmacies.
During an interview on the medical and pharmaceutical shortages the Executive Director in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ben Nangombe said there was no public tender for the past two years and it was difficult to have a fixed supplier of pharmaceuticals and some of the prescription drugs.
"Therefore, the ordering of medicine is being done on ad-hoc basis and as you know when we order the medicine, we don't necessarily order directly from the manufacturers," said Nangombe in a recent interview.


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4K Video Downloader is a cross-platform utility that lets you download YouTube videos, Facebook videos, and even those from Vimeo and more. It's been one of my go-to tools for a long time.
Background Info on 4K Video Downloader
The developer of 4K Video Downloader is owned by Open Media LLC, which first launched its YouTube video download tool in 2011 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It went from being completely freeware in the beginning to now being free supported by advertisements with additional paid options to unlock more advanced features and get rid of ads.
Why this program?
There are hundreds of programs out there that do the same thing, but 4k Video Downloader has been around for a long time and is cross-platform, which gives it tremendous staying power. It's great for downloading audio from YouTube or the videos themselves.
It may not be a problem for Mac or Linux users, but people using Windows 10 will see a scary-looking dialog box when they attempt to install 4K Video Downloader. It will say that it is an unrecognized app but click More Info and then the Run anyway button.
This software is safe, and here is a screenshot of the installation file being scanned by 57 different virus scanning engines on VirusTotal. However, if you are still concerned, you can do the scan yourself.
The 4k Video Downloader interface
After you launch the program, you'll see a clean white list with an array of buttons across the top. It's minimal but very easy to understand. The easiest way to start using the video downloader is to click the Paste Link button. You'll want to paste in the address to the video that you want to download here.
You can also hit the Subscriptions button to add channels. From there, you can download new videos as they are released.
In my example, I found a video on YouTube that I want to download. I can either right-click and copy the link, or go straight to it and copy the URL in the address bar above.
4K Video Downloader, of course, can download YouTube videos and such, but it has a few more unique features that make it worth having on your system.
Smart mode
If you're someone that is constantly pasting links to download videos, Smart Mode is just a fancy way of setting up defaults so that you have fewer things to click. If you want all videos to be downloaded and converted to a certain format in a specific folder, you can set it up that way.
Subtitles download
Some videos on YouTube have subtitles that were either done by the creators themselves or submitted by volunteers. 4K Video Downloader lets you grab these subtitles and export them into an SRT file that can be used alongside the video you download.
Here you can see that the video downloader grabbed English subtitles to go along with this video by LGR that I downloaded.
When I go to play the file in Pot Player, I also have the subtitles that were originally built into the web YouTube player. Having the subtitles offline has been incredibly useful when I needed to show content to students or someone offline.
Downloading Videos
After pasting in the link to a video or channel, 4K Video Downloader will ask you what format you want to convert the video to. You can change it to be an audio-only file or adjust the video size accordingly. In my case, this was very useful when grabbing videos to put on a tablet for my daughter for long travels. And for those wondering, yes, the software can download videos that are 2 to 4K resolution on YouTube.
Premium Features
Not all the features in this program are free. If you buy a premium license, you can download entire playlists or even a WHOLE channel from YouTube rather than pasting in single links.
Final Thoughts on 4K Video Downloader
I'm happy with 4K Video Downloader and highly recommend it to everyone because it's easy to use and available for most platforms. It's been a lifesaver for both my work and home by being able to download audio, video, and even subtitles.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Review: Nomansland by Lesley Hauge
Title: Nomansland
Author: Lesley Hauge
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company BFYR
Pub. Date: June 22, 2010
Genre: YA Dystopian
Main Themes: pop culture, societal control, no men
Pages: 256
Plot (from GoodReads):
Sometime in the future, a lonely, windswept island is populated solely by women. Among these women is a group of teenaged Trackers—expert equestrians and archers—whose job is to protect their shores from the enemy. The enemy, they've been told, is men. When these girls come upon a partially buried home from the distant past, they are fascinated by the strange objects—high-heeled shoes, teen magazines, make-up—found there. What are they to make of these mysterious things? And what does it mean for their strict society where friendship is forbidden and rules must be obeyed—at all costs?
The entire premise of the novel is intriguing. A world without men, depending on my mood, sounds both horrifying and amazing. As I was reading I just kept thinking, imagine if were were a country run by a dictatorial female leader who just happened to be completely fed up with men and she decided to move us all to a secluded island, banishing men and threatening any who tried to approach. It would be insane.
One of the things that I didn't like about this novel was the lack of explanation. I felt like the reader never really got the whole background story, which is often my favorite part of dystopian novels. Finally discovering what cataclysmic error occured that caused this dystopian environment is often the moment that brings the entire novel full circle.
Fortunately, there were many aspects of the novel that I loved. First and foremost, the discussion of pop culture by the girls of Nomansland. There confusion over models and present day fashion drove home many interesting points, causing me to look at many modern day practices and ideas in a new light. Even things like birthday cards are foreign to these future girls, especially thing like the signature Love, Dad.
Overall, NOMANSLAND was a quick, interesting read, but I have read better YA dystopian novels. If you love dystopian novels, I think this novel is worth a read, but I would wait to buy it.
Grade: B-
Cover Comments:
I'm not really sure how I feel about the cover. I don't feel that it particularly fits the novel and it doesn't really draw my eye, but I can't really think of anything that would suit the novel better. I do like the darker color palette though.
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I have this one on my wish list. Hoping to see more reviews on this one before I decide to byReplyDelete
The story sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the review.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review! I just added it to my wish list. It is a bummer that there is no background. That is one of my favorite parts too. Still it sounds interesting.ReplyDelete
Actually I really like the cover, it's so interesting and eye-catching!ReplyDelete
...I just looked at it again and I just realized that she's sitting on a horse. I used to think she was standing on a rock...
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"Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit".
If you're ever looking for some morning motivation, Les Brown has to be it. I've been listening to his powerful voice and contagious laugh for a long time now, but in recent months I've made his Spotify list a daily hit. The impact has been so big that I've even started writing some of his quotes in lipstick on my mirror.
This morning I spent an hour or so sitting at the window, watching the sun rise up over the rooftops of Vejle, thinking about what my future will look like and writing it down. It's no longer the misty haze of opportunity I used to love. The fog has cleared and, for perhaps the first time in my life, I'm happy knowing what's next.
There's a man in it. He's tall and handsome with a head full of brainporn and enough drive to make anything happen. He has the excact same inappropriate humour that I have, too. In fact, I don't think I've ever laughed this much, ever. He's a best mate, a business partner, a teacher, a looker-afterer and he's the one by my side, building that future with me.
Our Danish life starts this week in a dream apartment that overlooks the prettiest square in Vejle. Four walls to call a home. It'll be Scandi in style but garnished with little bits of us.
Helmut Newtons will hang above the dining table and cosy lamps will glow in every corner. Our roof terrace will be covered in lots of plants that he can look after and every morning in the summer we'll lay out our yoga mats for a sunrise stretch.
On the front balcony there'll be a table and chairs where we can sit and watch the sun go down over the town hall. And inside, beneath the slanted ceiling and wooden beams, there'll be a bookshelf full of wisdom and a daybed with lots of blankets to cosy up under. Our Danish winters won't be so bad at all.
Mindless Academy is going to carry on going from strength to strength to become the global business I know I'm destined to run. The impact we'll have will stretch far beyond student employability and skills in digital storytelling. We'll become an institution; a go-to destination for self-empowerment and conscious living.
Then there's my role at Lego which is starting to take shape, keeping my brain entertained in a different way. It's a labrynth of global and local organisational charts, complex processes and exciting technology. A melting pot of incredible leaders and a hive of inspiration.
Lego will be a role model for everything I build at Mindless and likewise, my experiences with Mindless will inspire me to inject some start-up agility into the corporate world. They'll both keep me on my toes and yet somehow grounded at the same time.
Further ahead from this, I have a good idea of what's coming. There'll be more adventures, more brainporn, more Buddha-loving good stuff and every day is going to feel like Christmas. We're going to aim high and hit.


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On May 18, 2016 at Fincantieri's historic Castellammare shipyard located along Italy's Sorrento peninsula, a launch ceremony was held for Carnival Cruises second Vista-class ship scheduled to enter service in spring 2018.
Carnival President Christine Duffy served as godmother to this event, during which a gigantic, 300-foot-long section of the ship's hull, constructed at the Fincantieri shipyard, was launched into the water via a traditional method that involved sliding the section down a ramp versus the newer, more common method of filling a dry dock with water.
After a priest's blessing, Duffy cut a ceremonial cord, releasing the massive section into the water to great fanfare. The section will be moved via tug boats to Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard where other sections of the ship are being constructed. The second Vista-class ship will be completed at the Marghera shipyard and is scheduled to enter service in spring 2018.
The as-yet-unnamed 133,500-ton Carnival Cruises ship will offer a variety of dining, bar, entertainment and activity options currently featured aboard Vista, which debuted earlier this month, along with some innovations unique to this vessel.


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New Chapli Kabab Roll Recipe For Kids. Chicken Paratha Roll Recipe by Kitchen With Amna
Today I will Share a new Chapli Kabab Roll Recipe For Kids lunch box A kids lunch box recipes Idea. A Step by Step Complete Chicken Paratha Roll Recipe with Mayo sauce and Dough preparation and chapli kabab complete preparation A to Z Chapli Kabab Roll Kids Tiffin recipe by Kitchen With Amna.
Dough Ingredients:
Plain Flour 2 Cups
Salt 1 tsp
Water as you required
Oil 2 tbsp
Chapli Kabab Ingredients:
Chicken Mince 500 gms
Tomato 1 (Chopped)
Onion 1 (Chopped)
Green Coriander 2 tbsp
Ginger Garlic Paste 1 tsp
Green Chilli 2 to 4 (Chopped)
Egg 1
Garam Masala Powder 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder 1 tsp
Coriander Powder 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli Powder 1/2 tsp
Pomegranate Seeds 1 tsp
Chickpea Flour 2 tbsp
Mayo Sauce Ingredients:
Mayonnaise 1/4 Cup
Black Pepper Powder 1/2 tsp
Garlic Powder 1/4 tsp
Vinegar 1 tsp
Other Ingredients:
Ketchup & Chili Garlic Sauce
Mayo Sauce
Step 1: Take a bowl and add Plain Flour, Salt and mix it well and then knead it with water and add oil and knead it well until it become into perfect shape. After that cover it and rest it for 15 minutes.
Step 2: Now take a bowl and add Chicken Mince, Tomato, Onion, Green Coriander, Ginger Garlic Paste, Green Chilli, Egg, Garam Masala Powder, Cumin Powder, Coriander Powder, Salt, Red Chilli Powder, Pomegranate Seeds, Chickpea Flour and mix it well and make chapli kabab shape and shallow fry it into preheated fry pan. Your Chapli kabab is Ready.
Step 3: Now go for making paratha/roti/bread remove the cover from dough and make small ball of the dough and dust dry flour on slab and press the ball and rolling it and make roti and put it on preheated tawa/pan and cook it from both side. You can use some oil if you want. Your paratha/roti/bread is ready.
Step 4: Now take a bowl and add Mayonnaise, Black Pepper Powder, Garlic Powder, Vinegar and mix it well. Your Mayo Sauce is Ready.
Step 5: Now take a paratha/roti/bread and spread Ketchup & Chili Garlic Sauce and Mayo Sauce and then place chapli kabab (cut it into small pieces) and then place Chopped Onion, Tomato, Cucumber and roll it. Your Roll is Ready. Follow this Steps and make all Chapli Kabab Roll.


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- Time the patient will allow for recovery
Does Dr. Urban take an x-ray?
Yes, the x-ray is a necessary procedure to provide a thorough analysis of your spine (obviously, certain factors are taken into consideration regarding x-rays…ie. age, pregnancy).
Note: X-rays are NOT part of Dr. Urban's initial exam fee. Maui Imaging at "Triangle Square" in Kahului takes all of Dr. Urban's x-rays and will bill your insurance if appropriate (cash discounts are available as well).
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Dr. Urban is not a provider of any insurance plans. However, Dr. Urban will provide you with all the appropriate documentation/diagnosis codes for you to seek reimbursement from your insurance company on your own.
Note: Dr. Urban's reason for non-participation in managed care is that Dr. Urban is adamant about helping you make your own decisions about your health care goals without the influence of corporations trying to cut their cost and manage your care without ever physically examining you. Dr. Urban prefers to treat patients, not insurance claims!
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Friday, August 6, 2010
I Had A Dream! #1
*Started a few already, though most are still on #1... Oh well, this site is still young. :)
I'm not gonna go all out* and write about how I normally dream and/or what they are like but I will tell you that I sometimes have crazy vivid dreams! The kind that stick with you and can affect you throughout the day or longer.
*At least not with this post. ._.
Several of those have me rushing to jot down their highlights, sketch some pictures or even trying to write down some musical notes*. Those then turn into shorts to submit to magazines, music I work on in garage band, and sometimes even full comics†! :D
*Seriously, some of my dreams have EPIC scores! :o
†Working on a big project now actually. When it's ready it will be put up on its own site. :)
Anyway, the dreams that will be posted here are not really those kind of dreams. They are the other ones. The kind that are still vivid but, when you look back at them, actually just really silly. o_o
Such as the one I had last night...
The dream did indeed have a false ending, in which I still had too much milk, but the top* wasn't present. >_>
* Go see inception. ._.
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I have a bunch of really, REALLY weird dreams, and I can barely remember any of them D8 But they aren't like yours.. they have more action xP Like adventure and mysteries and bad guys and scary stuff.. I wonder why I have those dreams... they freak me out O.eReplyDelete
Maybe it's a consequence for staying up too late every night?
Yeah maybe=]
Dude I haven't seen Inception yet, don't rub it in >n<
Many of my dreams are like epic movies or novels. But those are not the type that will posted here. Instead they are used for actual novels, shorts, or full comics. ;)ReplyDelete
I'm really enjoying your comic/blog/thing so far J1RG!!! Keep up the good work :DReplyDelete
I think someone was trying to pull the ole inception on you, to get you to buy less milk!ReplyDelete
AHHHHHHHHHHH love inception and this post had me dying from laughter... but i think i'll surviveReplyDelete


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Chocolate Pudding Pancakes
The name says it all. Chocolate. Pudding. Pancakes.
We're so about dessert for breakfast! Especially when it's got a healthy twist! These pancakes by Healthy Luxe are the ultimate chocolate indulgence. She has used a combination of blanched almond meal and buckwheat flour to create a soft 'pudding-like' consistency.
For a hit of protein, flavour and extra nutrients, she's also included a few spoonfuls of our Raw Protein Isolate in Choc Coconut flavour. It's made with sprouted and fermented plant protein so it's easy on digestion, and it contains up to 99% RDI Iron per serve!
We recommend serving with Healthy Luxe's addictive choc-tahini sauce, chocolate coyo and your choice of fresh berries.
If you give this recipe a go, remember to tag us (@amazoniaco) on Instagram – we love seeing your creations!
Chocolate Pudding Pancakes
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Healthy Luxe
2 tbsp Amazonia Raw Protein Isolate Choc Coconut
¼ cup blanched almond meal
¼ cup buckwheat flour
2-3 tbsp cacao powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 pinch Himalayan salt
1 ripe banana
2-3 medjool dates
½ cup almond milk
1 tbsp coconut oil (+1 tsp to cook)
2 organic eggs, separated
1 serve choc-tahini sauce
1 1/2 tbsp cacao powder
1 tbsp coconut nectar (alter according to desired sweetness)
1/2 tbsp hulled tahini
Boiling water, add to desired consistency
Choc-Tahini Sauce
Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
Place banana, dates, almond milk, egg yolks and coconut oil in a blender, blend until smooth
Pour into the dry mixture and mix well
Whisk eggs until firm peaks form and then gently fold into the pancake mixture
Prepare choc-tahini sauce (refer to sweet spreads and sauces collection)
Add coconut oil in a non-stick pan and allow to melt over medium heat
Place a small amount of the mixture in the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes (or until bubbles start to form)
Flip and allow the other side to cook for a further minute or so.
To make the Choc-Tahini Sauce
Place cacao powder in a small bowl and add in coconut nectar.
Then, add in a dash of boiling water and mix until coconut nectar has melted and ingredients are combined.
Add in tahini (this will create a creamier texture) and mix before adding in boiling water to desired consistency.
Serve pancakes with the choc-tahini sauce, chocolate coconut yoghurt and fresh berries.


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Paul Nelson
Nelson is working on an epic poem which re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. In A Time Before Slaughter, the poem is written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and Michael McClure because it endeavors to tell the history of a place. It is written spontaneously (projectively, in the living language), with an attempt to break new ground and relate stories that otherwise would be forgotten. Some stories include the myths of Native people and the xenophobia that existed against the Japanese-American citizens of the town in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. An epic that describes how America works through the example of Slaughter's compelling history, including the present, and the conflict within the individual between the need to control and dominate jutaposed with the urge to faciliate liberation.
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Academics, activists, farmers, and more gathered for the conference "Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue" – held twice: on 14-15 September 2013 in Yale University, USA, and on 24 January 2014 at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague. It brought together the world's leading scholars and activists, both sympathetic and supportive of the idea of food sovereignty, as well as those highly skeptical of the concept. They fostered a critical dialogue on the issue examining its various meanings, interpretations, and political implications. You will find below a selection of the presentations (30 video clips!) held during the conferences at Yale University in September 2013 and at ISS in January 2014.
As one of the organizers of both events the Transnational Institute presented the video on their website at http://www.tni.org/article/videos-food-sovereignty-colloquium-2013