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This program, although it is simple, can really make a difference—a few changes and supplements can lessen stress, improve healing, and prevent infections after surgery. I have done my own independent research through the years, suggesting a program similar to this for my patients who have had elective surgery, and they have routinely told me that "the doctors and nurses couldn't believe how fast I healed and was up and about" — and invariably there were no complications. In addition, many medical studies reviewing postsurgical healing time and morbidity, particularly from infections, have shown that with a few basic nutritional supplements, namely vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc, healing time speeds up; in addition, there are fewer complications, and people are out of bed and out of the hospital sooner.
Many doctors, particularly surgeons, resist these findings. I do not know whether this is due to economics or because they just do not want to believe that taking nutrients in higher dosages than "normal" is necessary. I would bet that having patients follow a few basic nutritional suggestions would improve both doctor and patient success. A good nourishing diet and additional vitamin C, vitamin A, and zinc with adequate fluid intake will usually do it. More recently, I have had patients scheduled for elective surgery tell me that their surgeons suggested they take additional supplements starting two weeks prior to their operations, so there may be some progress in regard to nutrition in the general medical profession.
I suggest that anyone having elective surgery should follow this program for three to four weeks prior to and four to six weeks after surgery. With emergency or urgent surgery, it is wise to begin taking the extra supplements as soon as possible and to eat the most nutritious diet available. This program will also work to support tissue healing following an injury, burn, or other traumas or with an infection or sickness that causes tissue damage. My surgical program is designed to increase the reuniting of collagen fibers, facilitate protein metabolism, and strengthen the immune system.
General measures important to healing include proper rest and sleep, fluid intake, and, of course, a nutritious and balanced diet high in fiber and low in fats and junk foods. High-quality protein foods (fish, poultry, eggs, nuts and seeds) are essential because tissue healing requires protein synthesis, so our body needs all of the important amino acids. A "healthy" intestinal flora is also important to health and healing. Additional Lactobacillus acidophilus culture may help replenish the colon. The diet should also contain adequate amounts of high-fiber foods (whole grains, vegetables, and legumes), calcium foods (greens, grains, nuts, and small amounts of dairy products), and foods containing essential fatty acids (some nuts, seeds, or vegetable oils). Congestive foods (excess dairy products, sweets, and baked goods) and fatty foods (fried foods, heavy meats, and ham and other cured meats) should be avoided.
Minimizing and handling stress is also essential to keeping the immune system strong, which is in turn important for preventing infections and supporting healing. It is wise to stay away from steroid drugs, both topical and systemic, as they suppress our immune system. Doctors tend to overprescribe and patients to overuse these steroid medicines. Smoking should be stopped or minimized if possible before surgery. Avoiding stimulating drugs, such as coffee and cocaine, and sedating drugs, such as alcohol and marijuana, prior to elective surgery, is also a wise idea.


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One of the most consistent goalkeepers in world football during the last decade, Petr Cech played his part in Chelsea FC's long-awaited UEFA Champions League triumph.
The Czech Republic goalkeeper saved a penalty in extra time against Bayern Munich and two more spot-kicks as the Blues triumphed after a shoot-out and booked their place at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Japan 2012 and more was on the agenda as FIFA.com met the 30-year-old, who also discussed how the London club has changed since his arrival and selected the shot-stoppers he rates from around the world.
How much are you looking forward to the FIFA Club World Cup?
I'm looking forward to it – it's a competition I've never had a chance to play. Not many people can say 'I won the Club World Cup', the special competition of the Champions League winners. That's something you would like to achieve so I'm looking forward to the tournament and I hope, after having missed out on the Super Cup, it will be a trophy we win.
Is it a new and different challenge for yourself and Chelsea?
We have nobody with that experience, it will be a new thing for all of us. But I think we have experienced players in the team – the guys from Spain have won the World Cup, the European Championship and Champions League. So with all this experience we will handle the situation. It will be a new tournament for us, we will face a different style with the team from South America. So let's see what's going to happen.
You've been here for a lot of Chelsea's near misses in the Champions League. How much did it mean to the club to finally win the trophy?
It puts the club in a different dimension because everybody was saying we are a great club having won all the domestic trophies – FA Cups, League Cups – but this is the one thing everybody kept reminding us about, not the Champions League. We wanted to make sure that we got it one day. If you keep reaching the semi-finals, and we were unlucky in Moscow [in the 2008 final against Manchester United] to have lost the game, then you believe that one day it will come. It came in the year where I think everybody outside expected it the least, but we believed we had a good campaign.
There were things happening during the campaign where we were almost out three times and we always came back. You could see the spirit and everything went right in the Champions League, not in the league. That's when we believed that it could be the year.
How much has the club changed during your time?
I think the expectation has changed, the way the club is seen has changed. The first year I came, the club had never won the Premier League. A new manager, Jose Mourinho, arrived and everybody was saying 'OK, if you have a good year and finish in the Champions League spots, it will be a good start'. He came with the mentality of 'No, I don't want a good start, I want to win the league'. Suddenly we got a team together and we started really doing well and we won back-to-back titles. I think that was where the club changed, because suddenly you are not a challenger – you already won the league and you just want to make sure you stay there, on the top. We've stayed on the top – that is the hardest challenge.
You may achieve winning the league once and maybe it disappears, but that is not the case. We wanted to win the league and we wanted to stay there, among the top two teams in England, challenging for the trophy every year. We've been challenging Manchester United all those years I've been here. Sometimes we didn't win, but we've been there all the time – in the Champions League spots, doing well, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League and playing great matches. It was a matter of time if we managed to win the Champions League. It took eight years, which is a long time, but in those eight years we've been unlucky a lot of times as well.
I'm glad I've reached 30 years of age and I still enjoy what I'm doing.
Were you surprised at how quickly things changed last season?
We started the season and the league suddenly started not happening for us, and we had to really fight hard in the Champions League to make the season better. We won the game against Valencia at home, we were under a lot of pressure and we managed to go through with a very good game, we believed it could be. But unfortunately the first leg of the Napoli game away changed a lot of things, because Andre [Villas-Boas] was sacked and Roberto [Di Matteo] took over. We started a positive run of results in the domestic cup and the league, and that was brought into the home leg against Napoli. That's when you realise, when you come back after such a difficult situation, the team is strong enough to cope with the pressure and go far. We showed that against Barcelona, we showed that in the final, we showed a great change of character in those games.
A lot of people say there is luck involved, but I don't believe in luck because you need to play 13 games to win the Champions League. You cannot say that it was luck in every game, you're never lucky in every game. You have to fight hard, you have to defend well, you have to be organised. If you are down to ten men in Barcelona for 60 minutes, then you need to really know what you're doing. We managed to do that so I don't believe that's luck.
Do you think you're entering the peak of your career now?
A lot of people say that around 30 the goalkeeper starts being matured and enjoys this time of their career. Certainly I feel that. I've been feeling that all the time, but I'm glad I've reached 30 years of age and I still enjoy what I'm doing. I'm really enjoying football, maybe a reflection of that can be seen in the games as well.
Which goalkeepers do you rate in the Premier League and the world?
It's always hard to choose. If people want to pick one goalkeeper, it's almost impossible, because everybody plays in a different league. It's very hard to pick, but what you look for is a consistency and the impact that the goalkeeper has for the team. For sure you have Casillas, Neuer and Buffon still there – they are a really big influence on the team. I think Joe Hart is getting there in the last few years. He is in the Champions League and No1 for England, helping a lot. He was important for Manchester City last season in winning the league, and you can see he kept his level of performance. This is the way you can judge the keepers and these guys have been there for years and doing really well.

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Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Pennsylvania. She developed an interest in music at a young age, and moved to Nashville when she was just 14 to pursue a country songwriting career. In 2005, she was discovered by Scott Borchetta, who signed Swift to a record deal, a decision that eventually led them both to become industry icons.
Swift's self-titled debut album was released to critical acclaim in 2006, and won her some country adoration with the songs "Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops On My Guitar." It was Swift's next album, 2008's "Fearless," that truly turned her into a breakout star with such huge hits as "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me." The singer went on to win four Grammys in 2010, becoming the youngest artist ever to receive the Album of the Year honor.
Later that year came Swift's third album, "Speak Now," followed by "Red" in 2012, which spawned more chart-topping songs, including "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble." Swift released her first full-fledged pop record, "1989," in October 2014, and it sold more than one million copies in a single week, the first time that had occurred since 2002. The album, with the lead single, "Shake It Off," went on to break several Billboard records before becoming the top-selling album of the year, even though it was released toward the end of 2014.
And while Swift has also dabbled in movies and has an extremely intimate relationship with her fans, it's her love life that often gets the most attention. Romances with John Mayer, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Harry Styles have inspired some of her intensely-personal song lyrics.
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Daughter's April Fools' joke no laughing matter to police in LondonderryBy APRIL GUILMET
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LONDONDERRY — Police aren't laughing at an April Fools' Day prank they say a Londonderry woman played on her elderly father.
Shortly after 1 p.m. on April 1, police received a phone call from a distraught local man who told them his daughter had just called him from inside the Garden Lane Market Basket store and told him that "a man with a gun had just come in."
"He was in an absolute panic," Detective Christopher Olson said Thursday. "He was so shaken up he could hardly speak."
Dispatchers immediately sent an entire shift of police officers to the store, but upon their arrival, it became clear that something was amiss.
"The managers told us they had no idea what we were talking about," Olson said.
Management later told police that no "suspicious men" had entered the store, to their knowledge.
In the meantime, the caller, who police did not identify, contacted police to tell them his daughter "had played an April Fools' Day joke on him."
"We're not even sure if she went to Market Basket that day," Olson said of the woman, who is in her early 40s. He said police are taking this April Fools' Day prank very seriously, but efforts to contact the woman have been unsuccessful so far.
"We definitely want to talk to this woman," Olson said. "She may be facing some charges once we determine what actually happened here."
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Liam Neeson is one of my favorite actors. Liam Neeson was born on 7 June, 1952 and it has Irish origin. He obtained American citizenship and before becoming an actor, he had jobs that were not at all related to that. Among his previous jobs were a lift operator and a truck driver, but it seems that Liam Neeson followed his dream of becoming an actor and he managed. Perhaps this proofs that if you wish something very much, in the end it will happen. The same thing happened with Liam Neeson, too. To manage that, Liam Neeson moved to Hollywood to have more chances to become an actor and he was lucky. One of his first roles were in Of Mice and Men, Excalibur, Nell, The Bounty, The Mission.
He also followed Queen's University Belfast and played a lot of football, but never had the chance to be part from a great team although he was very talented. Other roles that he portrayed were in films such as Star Wars, Taken, After Life, Chloe. It seems that with each film, his success were getting higher and higher and his career was more and more in the spotlight. I also like that he was not involved in scandals, but he oriented only toward his career and family. His personal life remained private and he does not like to give too many details about that. Liam Neeson is a discrete person that built his career due to his fame and not through scandals and as the main subject of the tabloids. In a world where image is very important and people do anything for that, it seems that Liam Neeson is the exception, but a nice one.
Each film in which Liam Neeson acts, will certainly be a success and people go to cinema only when they find out he is one of the main actors, which is a proof that his popularity has not disappeared. Even today he is pretty old, Liam Neeson did not give up to another artistic projects. His talent has been awarded many times.


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What Should I Pair with My Cheese?
When putting together cheese plates for our classes, we pair a condiment with each cheese flight.
Not only is it fun for folks to try new things together but the 'whole is greater than the sum of its parts' phenomenon certainly comes into play when pairing cheeses with condiments. Classic go-tos for cheeses are honey, jam and membrillo (quince paste). We also have a range of mostardas from Italy that provide a wonderfully spicy/fruity compliment to some of our stronger cheeses. The rule of thumb (as with wine pairings) is generally to match strength to strength.
If you have a young, fresh goats' milk cheese, for example, you would probably not want to pair it with Melata di Bosco, a unique honey made from the sap of alpine spruce trees. It tends to be quite robust and as a result would work better with a punchy blue cheese. An Acacia honey, on the other hand, would provide a nice, light, sweet juxtaposition to the lemon-y, citrus quality of a young goats' milk cheese.
Other nibblies and decoration for your platter: personally, raisins on the vine are a favorite of mine, acting as a nice variation on the traditional cheese and grapes pairing. I am also a huge fan of Marcona almonds. A few of these sprinkled around the edge of your platter or in the center can look attractive. Some of my fellow mongers also gravitate to the skin-on hazelnuts. Definitely think about color contrast here
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Similarly, when in season, cherries (a classic pairing with brebis) or strawberries (great with triple-crèmes!) add a dash of color. In the fall, I like to use little Lady Apples on a platter, particularly when including a cheddar!


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This course is designed to provide M.E.M., M.E.Sc., and doctoral students with the opportunity to master the essential social science literature on sustainable development and conservation. Social science makes two contributions to the practice of development and conservation. First, it provides ways of thinking about, researching, and working with social groupings—including rural households and communities, but also development and conservation institutions, states, and NGOs. This aspect includes relations between groups at all these levels, and the role of power in these relations. Second, social science tackles the analysis of the knowledge systems that implicitly shape development and conservation policy and impinge on practice. In other words, we analyze communities but also our own ideas of what communities are. We also examine our ideas about sustainable development and conservation. Finally, we attempt to look at development and the institutions that implement it from the perspective of communities. The emphasis throughout is on how these things shape the practice of sustainable development and conservation. Case studies used in the course have been balanced as much as possible between Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America; most are rural and Third World (largely due to the development and conservation focus). The course includes readings from all noneconomic social sciences. Readings are equally focused on conservation and development. The goal of the course is to stimulate students to apply informed and critical thinking (which means not criticizing others, but questioning our own underlying assumptions) to whatever roles they may come to play in sustainable development and conservation, in order to move toward more environmentally and socially sustainable projects and policies. The course is also designed to help students shape future research by learning to ask questions that build on, but are unanswered by, the social science theory of conservation and development. No prerequisites. This is a requirement for the joint F&ES/Anthropology doctoral program, and a prerequisite for some advanced F&ES courses. Open to advanced undergraduates. Three hours lecture/seminar.
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Legally, we are obligated to have house
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Benson is located in Arizona.
Benson, Arizona has a population of 4,888.
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The median age of people living in Benson is
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The average high temperature in July is 97.4
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Located along Interstate 10, State Route 80, State Route 90 and the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad, Benson is a hub for transportation, commerce and tourists visiting southern Arizona. Named after Judge William B. Benson, a friend of Southern Pacific Railroad's president, Benson is a convenient stop for travelers on Interstate 10 and is a gateway for tourists visiting southeastern Arizona. Benson offers the warmth and friendliness of a small town with many amenities, and supports a large retired population. Many residents commute to Tucson and Sierra Vista for employment and shopping.
Benson is the western gateway to historic Cochise County, where the renegade Geronimo, Chief Cochise, and the Chiricahua Apaches once ran regular raids from the mountains in southeast Arizona. Nearby, off of Interstate 10 in Dragoon, the Amerind Foundation boasts an interesting anthropological and archaeological museum with fine exhibits on Native American cultures. The famous Kartchner Caverns State Park, a pristine underground limestone is 12 miles from town. Each year, Benson celebrates its heritage with Butterfield Overland Stage Days. Other local festivals include Territorial Days and the Benson Tractor Pull featuring antique tractors and engines.
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ICND1/CCENT passed, no study, with a score of 887. Pretty happy with that, since I had some basic frame relay questions and I'm sitting there going "fuck, I havent touched FR in years!!!".
Congrats! I'd suggest studying for ICND2 though...
Yeah, thats the plan I was sposed to brush up on frame relay last night, but dinner with a couple of friends (300g eye fillet + bottle of wine + scotch later on) was far too tempting.
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The man whose body was discovered on the Orange County side of the Neches River on May 5 has been identified as Desmond Gerard O'Hara of Beaumont, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Department. O'Hara, 35-year-old black male, was reported missing by his family to Beaumont Police Department on Feb. 16, 2013.
Sheriff's deputies and medical examiners are still working to identify a man who was found dead floating on the Neches River south of the Interstate 10 Purple Heart Memorial Bridge on Thursday, May 16, 2013.
Police have identified a man killed over the weekend in an auto-pedestrian crash in Beaumont as Michael Tyrone Motton, a 28-year-old resident of Beaumont. According to a news release from the Beaumont Police Department, witnesses reported that at approximately 11 p.m.
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Low-Information Leadership
The president's problem right now is that people think he's smart. They think he's in command, aware of pitfalls and complexities. That's his reputation: He's risen far on his brains. They think he is sophisticated.
That is his problem in the health insurance debacle.
People have seen their prices go up, their choices narrow. They have lost coverage. They have lost the comfort of keeping the doctor who knows them and knows they tend to downplay problems and not complain of pain, and so doing more tests might be in order, or tend to be hypochondriacal and probably don't need an echocardiogram, or at least not a third one this year.
At the very least people have been inconvenienced; at the most they've been made more anxious in an already anxious world. In a month, at the worst they may be on a gurney in an ER not knowing the answer to the question "Do you have insurance?" and hoping they can get into an exam room before somebody runs the number on the little green plastic card they keep in the back of their wallet.
Everyone understands in their own rough way that ObamaCare is a big mess. And that it's not the website, it's the law itself. They have seen systems crash. In the past 20 years they've seen their own computers crash. They know systems and computers get fixed.
But they understand a conceptual botch when they see one. They understand this new program was so big and complex and had so many moving parts and was built on so many assumptions that may or may not hold true, and that deals with so many people with so many policies—and they know they themselves have not read their own policies, for who would when the policies, like the law that now controls the policies, are written in a way that is deliberately obscure so as to give maximum flexibility to administrators in offices far away. And that's just your policy. What about 200 million other policies? The government can't handle that. The government can barely put up road signs.
The new law seems like just another part of the ongoing shakedown operation that is the relationship of the individual and the federal government, circa 2013.
But back to the president, and his problem with being known as intelligent—Columbia, Harvard Law, lecturer on constitutional issues at the University of Chicago Law School.
The program he created in 2009-10, ran on in 2012, and whose implantation he delayed until one year after that election—in retrospect, that delay seems meaningful, doesn't it?—has turned out to be wildly misleading as to its basic facts.
Millions are finding you can't keep your plan, your premium, your deductible, your doctor. And millions more will discover this when the business mandate kicks in.
All of this—the fraudulent nature of the program—came as a rolling shock to people the past two months.
It's a shock for most people that it's a shambles. A fellow very friendly to the administration, a longtime supporter, cornered me at a holiday party recently to ask, with true perplexity: "How could any president put his entire reputation on the line with a program and not be on the phone every day pushing people and making sure it will work? Do you know of any president who wouldn't do that?" I couldn't think of one, and it's the same question I'd been asking myself. The questioner had been the manager of a great institution, a high stakes 24/7 operation with a lot of moving parts. He knew Murphy's law—if it can go wrong, it will. Managers—presidents—have to obsess, have to put the fear of God, as Mr. Obama says, into those below them in the line of authority. They don't have to get down in the weeds every day but they have to know there are weeds, and that things get caught in them.
It's a leader's job to be skeptical of grand schemes. Sorry, that's a conservative leader's job. It is a liberal leader's job to be skeptical that grand schemes will work as intended. You have to guide and goad and be careful.
And this president wasn't. I think part of the reason he wasn't careful is because he sort of lives in words. That's been his whole professional life—books, speeches. Say something and it magically exists as something said, and if it's been said and publicized it must be real. He never had to push a lever, see the machine not respond, puzzle it out and fix it. It's all been pretty abstract for him, not concrete. He never had to stock a store, run a sale and see lots of people come but the expenses turn out to be larger than you'd expected and the profits smaller, and you have to figure out what went wrong and do better next time.
People say Mr. Obama never had to run anything, but it may be more important that he never worked for the guy who had to run something, and things got fouled up along the way and he had to turn it around. He never had to meet a payroll, never knew that stress. He probably never had to buy insurance! And you know, his policies were probably gold-plated—at the law firm, through his wife's considerable hospital job, in the Illinois Legislature, in the U.S. Senate. Those guys know how to take care of themselves! Maybe he felt guilty. Maybe that's to his credit, knowing he was lucky. Too bad he didn't know what he didn't know, like how every part has to work for a complicated machine to work.
Here I will say something harsh, and it's connected to the thing about words but also images.
From what I have seen the administration is full of young people who've seen the movie but not read the book. They act bright, they know the reference, they're credentialed. But they've only seen the movie about, say, the Cuban missile crisis, and then they get into a foreign-policy question and they're seeing movies in their heads. They haven't read the histories, the texts, which carry more information, more texture, data and subtlety, and different points of view. They've only seen the movie—the Cubans had the missiles and Jack said "Not another war" and Bobby said "Pearl Harbor in reverse" and dreadful old Curtis LeMay chomped his cigar and said "We can fry a million of 'em by this afternoon, Mr. President." Grrr, grrr, good guys beat bad guys.
It's as if history isn't real to them. They run around tweeting, all of them, even those in substantial positions. "Darfur government inadequate. Genocide unacceptable." They share their feelings – that happens to be one of the things they seem to think is real, what they feel. "Unjust treatment of women—scourge that hurts my heart." This is the dialogue to the movies in their heads.
There's a sense that they're all freelancing, not really part of anything coherent.
For four years I have been told, by those who've worked in the administration and those who've visited it as volunteers or contractors, that the Obama White House isn't organized. It's just full of chatter. Meetings don't begin on time, there's no agenda, the list of those invited seems to expand and contract at somebody's whim. There is a tendency to speak of how a problem will look and how its appearance should be handled, as opposed to what the problem is and should be done about it. People speak airily, without point. They scroll down, see a call that has to be returned, pop out and then in again.
It does not sound like a professional operation. And this is both typical of White Houses and yet on some level extreme. People have always had meetings to arrange meetings, but the lack of focus, the lack of point, the sense that they are operating within accepted levels of incoherence—this all sounds, actually, peculiar.
And when you apply this to the ObamaCare debacle, suddenly it seems to make sense. The White House is so unformed and chaotic that they probably didn't ignore the problem, they probably held a million meetings on it. People probably said things like, "We're experiencing some technological challenges but we're sure we'll be up by October," and other people said, "Yes, it's important we launch strong," and others said, "The Republicans will have a field day if we're not." And then everyone went to their next meeting. And no one did anything. And the president went off and made speeches.
Because the doing isn't that important, the talking is.
The president is interested in Ronald Reagan, and in the past has seemed mildly preoccupied with him, but he misunderstands him. Mr. Obama shows every sign of thinking Reagan led only through words. But Reagan led through actions, as every leader must. The words explained, argued for and advanced those actions; they gave people a sense of who it was who was acting. But Obama's generation of the left could never see or come to terms with the fact that it was, say, the decision to fire the air traffic controllers, or the decision to take the hit and bleed out inflation, that made Reagan's presidency successful and meaningful. With an effective presidency, everything is in the doing. The words are part of the doing and at some points can be crucial to it; at some interesting points they even are the doing, such as looking at the Soviets and declaring that we knew what their system was and wouldn't accept any but an honest interpretation of it, and yes, that constituted a change of attitude and approach. That took words. But it's never all words, it can't be. It's making the right decision and carrying it through—executing it.
Mr. Obama learned only half of Reagan's lesson.
And here's something odd. The first President Bush, George H.W., learned half the lesson too, but the other half. Bush managed, executed and decided his way through the peaceful fall of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Germany. But he couldn't, for reasons characterological and having to do with his own highly refined sense of the demands of diplomacy, explain to people exactly what he was doing, why he was doing it and how. And so a feat of great historical weight and magnitude, deserving of a Nobel Prize for peace and utterly ignored by that silly committee, is half forgotten. Whereas Mr. Obama won that prize—for words.
But let's go back to the first paragraph, and the original point of this piece.
Mr. Obama's problem now is that people think he is smart.
They think, as they look at his health-care vows, that either he didn't know how bad his program was, what dislocations it would cause, what a disturbance it would be to the vast middle class of America . . .
Or he knew, and deliberately misled everyone.
If they thought he wasn't very bright, they might give him some leeway on that question. But they think he's really smart.
So they think he knew.
And deliberately misled.
They think he knowingly quelled people's fears when he knew they had every reason to be afraid.
Which makes him just another dishonest pol, just another guy hiding in the deliberately obscure paragraph on page 1,037 of the omnibus comprehensive reform bill.
He has taken himself down, lowered his own stature.
Commentators like to decry low-information voters—the stupid are picking our leaders. I think the real problem is low-information leaders. They have so little experience of life and have so much faith in magic—in media, in words—that they don't understand people will get angry at you when you mislead them, and never see you the same way again.


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"We are in the midst of a seismic shift towards crowd-powered information," said Edward Sullivan, G2Link Founder and CEO. "By harnessing the wisdom of peers, we are changing the way businesses interact. Social networks are transforming into information networks."
Before G2Link, businesses had limited options. They had to rely upon payment and accounting data alone to make critical decisions. This data was collected and protected by the large B2B credit bureaus that charged fees for each view into this data. This information is historical and, at best, gives you red flags in the past. Many companies burn precious resources doing this themselves or, even worse, waste engineering resources to build a custom solution. Others purchase expensive, difficult to use systems designed on antiquated business processes.
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The NCSU Libraries has strong collections of materials related to the Holocaust, thanks in large part to the legacy of Larry Rudner, an acclaimed author and associate professor of English at NC State from 1978 until his death in 1995. Throughout his career, Rudner studied Holocaust stories and history, which he shared in his teaching and transformed into fiction. His family and colleagues established the Lawrence S. Rudner Holocaust Memorial Collection in the NCSU Libraries, an endowment that supports the purchase of Holocaust-related items. Additional Judaica and Hebraica materials have been acquired in honor and memory of other family members and friends, including Holocaust survivors, thanks to an endowment nurtured by relatives, friends, and colleagues, with grant support from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of New York. (See: article by Anna Dahlstein in the NCSU Libraries Focus Online) These collections are used in many research and teaching contexts, including NCSU courses on the Holocaust in History, Literature, Film Studies, and other disciplines.
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Following a Forbes piece in which a teacher proclaims he avoids turning a computer on during class time, and that face-to-face is key I thought I'd explain why all that is wrong.
Below are five examples of technology or digital in the classroom that really make life easier for both the teacher and student.
How to use digital word of mouth to boost sales
I recently completed an internship with Econsultancy, and on my final day I rounded up a group to play Cards Against Humanity.
How did I find this game? Digital word of mouth, that's how.
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A bombshell from Kia: Lady Gaga, Twitter, YouTube, Shazam and the VMAs
Kia has produced one of the year's most memorable adverts, and with the use of Lady Gaga, Twitter, the VMAs and Shazam, the brand looks set for some great 'traction'.
The advert featuring Lady Gaga's new single, Applause, and a handful of America's Next Top Model cast members premiered during the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) show on 25th of August, racking up 10.1m live viewers.
The Kia Soul demographic fits well with that of the VMAs. With many first-time drivers tuning in, the moderately priced and trendy car was a hit, as seen by some of the many tweets.
Spotify ads: which is right for your brand?
The global music streaming giant Spotify made £370m in revenue for 2012 with increases in both users and advertisers.
Spotify has a selection of ten main advert formats. Some are interruptive, others arrive during extended terms of no-use of the application, and some are clickable.
These ad formats will suit various types of businesses. The high-end or in need of last-second promotion (movie studios, album launches) will enjoy the light boxes and homepage takeovers, while small businesses with low budgets may prosper with trendy playlists.
This post details the five most commonly selected advert formats, with my own quick survey (via SurveyMonkey) of 100 people providing opinion as to which works best.
Take a look and which your brand could be using.
How misusing Tumblr might hinder your connection to the teen demographic
Back in June 2012 Tumblr creator David Karp and his team publicly announced a more focused attempt at getting advertising on people's dashboards.
One of the first brands to trial the paid service was Adidas, however it is definitely not the best as proven by the low amount of 're-posts' it receives.
Eight digital campaigns from the world's best and worst selling car brands
With in-car radios quickly being replaced by Spotify, car manuals being PDF'd onto iPads and QR codes in magazines taking you straight to the mobile site for the manufacturer, it's apparent that the digital transformation of the auto industry is taking place right now.
Ford, Chevrolet, Volkswagen, and Toyota are all selling amazingly globally, but one of them isn't performing as well in its digital marketing efforts.
In contrast, Smart, Suzuki, Fiat, and Daihatsu are floundering in terms of sales, but one is doing far better online than in the stores.
10 great examples of responsive design from around the world
Responsive design as a standard feature on a website is growing quickly.
There is no longer much of a debate over whether brands need a mobile site, as consumer demand dictates that sites need to be optimised for small screens.
The choice now is between a dedicated mobile site, an app, or responsive design.
So to show how responsive design can be applied in practice, here are 10 examples from around the world...
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As seen in an earlier post almost all major British fashion retailers attempt to entice visitors into signing up for an email newsletter.
The reason for this is obvious, as data from our Email Marketing Census 2013 shows that two thirds of companies (66%) rate email marketing as excellent (22%) or good (44%) for return on investment.
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Doctors rate Merck's ePromotion efforts as tops in the industry, according to pharma marketing data firm Verispan.
Of the approximately 1,000 physicians who participated in "Verispan's 2007 ePromotion Annual Study," Merck was mentioned as a top company by 361, while the closest competitor, GlaxoSmithKline, was mentioned by 219 physicians. Forty-eight percent of primary care doctors and 52% of pediatricians ranked Merck among the three companies with the best ePromotion programs.
Verispan's online study surveyed approximately 1,000 physicians across 14 specialties.
For purposes of the study, the term "ePromotion" was defined as including video details, online events and virtual details.
Merck's spending on ePromotion has more than quadrupled over the last three years, Verispan said. The drugmaker spent almost $83 million in 2007 on ePromotion, an amount that accounts for over 20% of industry spending for the medium.
Merck's ePromotion efforts in 2007 were concentrated on primary care physicians (68% of spending), pediatricians (13%) and OB/GYNs (8%). The drugmaker most often promoted Januvia, Singulair and Vytorin to primary care physicians and Singulair, RotaTeq and Gardasil to pediatricians, Verispan said. OB/GYNs were most likely to participate in Fosamax, Singulair and Januvia ePromotion activities.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats fell short in efforts Wednesday to block cuts to the food stamp program as the House Agriculture Committee moved ahead on a half-trillion-dollar bill to fund farm and nutrition programs over the next five years. Similarly, a Republican attempt to make deeper cuts to the program was defeated.
The program that helps feed 46 million people at a cost of near $80 billion a year, about 80 percent of farm bill spending, was the dominant issue as committee members tried to advance one of the larger and more expensive bills that Congress is taking up this year. Democrats insisted that any cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would result in people going hungry. Republicans said they were merely trying to bring efficiency to a program to ensure that anyone who is qualified for food benefits will receive them.
The committee's draft measure would save $3.5 billion a year from current spending levels through such steps as ending the practice of direct payments for nonactive farmers and consolidating conservation programs. Of that, $1.6 billion in savings would come from tightening eligibility rules and ending abuses in the food stamp program.
The Senate version of the farm bill passed last month on a bipartisan vote would save about $2.3 billion a year, with $400 million coming from the food stamp program.
The House and Senate must reach a compromise before the current farm bill expires at the end of September.
House GOP leaders have not committed to bringing the legislation to the floor, where its chances of passage are clouded. Conservatives are balking at the price and Democrats are unhappy with prospective food stamp cuts.
In earlier votes Wednesday, the committee also rejected amendments affecting the sugar and dairy industries.
The panel defeated, on a 31-15 vote, a proposal by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., that would have eliminated all the proposed cuts to food stamps. The cuts, he said, would deprive some 2 million to 3 million people of food assistance and would "literally take food away from hungry people." Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., told his colleagues, "I once relied on food stamps." Without that aid, he said, "I wouldn't have been able to feed my son and my wife."
But Republicans pointed to the sharp rise in beneficiaries, from 19 million in 2002 to 46 million a decade later, and current policies that encourage further enrollment as a means to stimulate the economy or fight obesity by promoting healthier eating. The proposed House cuts would target practices by many states of waiving food stamp asset and income limits for people receiving other welfare benefits or giving minimal heating aid to people so they are eligible for increased food stamp assistance.
The committee chairman, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., stressed that no qualified people would be deprived of help. "I believe most Americans will agree that a 2 percent cut in food stamps is reasonable," he said.
The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, also voted against the McGovern amendment, saying that while he was concerned about changes to nutrition programs in the bill, "I understand that these are the cuts that need to be done" to get the bill through the committee and the House.
The committee also rejected, by 28-15, an amendment by Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., that would have agreed to the Senate plan to reduce food stamp spending by $400 million a year.
Later, half of the 26 Republicans on the committee joined Democrats in a 33-13 vote to defeat an amendment by Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., to double the food stamp reductions to $3.3 billion a year. Several Republicans acknowledged that deeper cuts would make it more difficult to reach a compromise with the Democratic-led Senate. "We will have squandered our one really good chance of getting beyond" the level of reductions in the Senate bill, said Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas.
The House bill also differs from its Senate counterpart by preserving a price support program that pays farmers when prices fall below certain levels. The target price system is favored by Southern rice and peanut farmers, who objected to the elimination of price supports in the Senate bill.
The House measure gives farmers a choice between the price support program and a taxpayer-paid revenue protection program included in the Senate bill that compensates farmers for modest revenue losses before crop insurance kicks in. The need for a strong safety net program became more pronounced as heat and drought threatened to seriously damage the Midwestern corn crop.
The committee defeated, by 36-10, an amendment by Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., that would have brought changes to federal sugar policy that for eight decades has protected beet and sugarcane growers and sugar refiners by controlling prices and limiting imports. Goodlatte argued that government supports drove up prices, forced food companies to move overseas and cost jobs. The amendment was pushed by beverage companies, confectioners and consumer groups.
But supporters of the current policy said it did not cost the government anything and protected producers from a surge in Mexican or Brazilian imports. Similar efforts in the Senate to repeal or reduce the scope of current sugar policy failed.
The House panel also rejected, by 29-17, another amendment by Goodlatte and Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., that would have removed a requirement for dairy farmers participating in a new voluntary risk management program to also agree to be subject to supply management controls where they would have to cut production when surpluses drive down prices.


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In my mind, it's better to "go" than to wait for that perfect someday. Branches of my family tree sag with somebodies who waited upon "somedays" that never came. And so, when the choice is between traveling by myself or staying home, I water my plants and pack a bag. Faced with a full week of unfettered days a few years ago, I opted for Nuevo Vallarta and some time with a new favorite friend, Me. On one of my final days, I joined a group sailing out of Banderas Bay toward the Marietas Islands.
One interesting element of traveling alone is the way it enables one to drift in and out of conversations. One can listen to others -or ignore them. There is the opportunity to engage with those around you or to take a personal retreat. One can rev up the brain or simply observe as your senses soak in the impressions of each moment. The optimal method to achieving this mental utopia is to situate oneself within groups of a certain size. My sailing trip from Nuevo Vallarta to the Marietas Islands violated that self-imposed standard by at least one hundred people. The gleaming wood sailing vessel was elegant, classic, but unfortunately, much smaller than I had expected and hoped for… My fellow passengers numbered only twenty and included cozy couples, a family of four and an extended family group of about twelve from Appleton, Wisconsin. But, the morning sun was warming up a perfect day, and it was infinitely better to be there alone than to not be there at all. I settled onto a white canvas cushion and floated into my own thoughts as we sailed out onto Banderas Bay.
Grief over the closely-timed deaths of my parents, grandfather and marriage had created a watery barrier around my moments of joy and muffled its volume. I was no longer somebody's daughter, nor anyone's wife. And for this week, I was a mother traveling without children. I was simply "Heather."
The difficult part comes during the "look at that!" nudging moments. Sharing the remarkable seems almost an elemental part of processing it and saving it into our internal hard drive. We define the extraordinary against those who are familiar with our ordinary zones. That afternoon in Mexico, I knew I was sailing toward "extraordinary." And, instead of saving it for "someday," I was ripping open the package and taking the first bite all by myself.
The Sierra Madres merged into a singular broad expanse behind us as the sea sprayed the bow and the afternoon rolled into a brilliant sort of serenity. I somehow became part of a couple of family groups, learning the early and mid-chapters of lives for which I'd be unlikely to read the endings. Although the whale migration season had officially ended, two humpbacks swam in the mouth of the bay. Our guide, Gustavo, speculated that the stragglers were a mother and calf who had not been ready for the pod's swim north. I've watched bus-sized humpbacks breach with dramatic splashes in Maui's waters. This was different. We were further away, but the glimpse of determined mother with her child was a more intimate encounter.
We cut sharply through the dark blue waters, eventually spotting the stumpy blobs of volcanic matter that are the Marietas Islands, but before we could get there, we were surrounded by about four hundred dolphins. They circled us again and again as a dancing, leaping parade. From the reactions of the boat's crew, I knew it was unlikely I'd see such a spectacular display again.
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While Dubai's neighbors take steps to defend themselves from war or foreign cultures, Dubai believes that openness and respect for all cultures is the only way to keep peace.
When I was in Dubai for the first time, I met a calligrapher. He told me: "When sacred texts are written, they contain the soul of the man who served as the instrument to spread the word throughout the world. And it doesn't apply only to sacred texts, but to every mark we place on paper. Because each line reflects the soul of the person making that line."
On a recent trip to Dubai, I crossed the city's historic commercial creek by abra, a traditional small wooden boat now used for taxi service. All along Dubai Creek, visitors can still encounter scenes from the city's not-so-distant past. Here old shops stand in the exact places where they have traded for decades.
I took a brisk walk through the narrow lanes of the Bastakiya Quarter, an old restored village that today houses art galleries and gives a glimpse of a slower-paced time. In the Bastakiya, you cannot take a walk on your own, because its maze-like lanes were designed in such a way that only the people who lived in the village knew the way through it, making it a safer place to live. The lanes were a place for people to gather over dinner and special feasts, to exchange news, and to discuss common village issues. The houses sprout high wind towers that helped circulate cool air throughout the home. The more I roamed around the Bastakiya, the more I sensed the greatness of the people who once lived in them.
I left old Dubai for new Dubai, on the west side of the city. New Dubai flaunts its fancy contemporary buildings—Burj Al Arab, the iconic luxury hotel built on an artificial island, and Burj Dubai, the world's tallest skyscraper. Along Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai's central business district, locals say that you can buy anything that comes to mind. In new Dubai, young people single-mindedly pursue their dreams, trying to achieve the impossible. This is a city that has been working for the past two decades, with no rest whatsoever. Its inhabitants all share one aim: to win at all times, even if they have to race time itself. Although they may not share a common language or nationality, they know they will succeed, because they all speak the language of success.
Which brings me back to the sentence in the desert: The brush that wrote each word of this imaginary sentence had different hands holding it, and in each letter you can find several souls trying to work in harmony.
There is an Arabic proverb that says: "Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." People in Dubai are using marble to write in the sand.
By Paulo Coelho
PAULO COEHLO was born in Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theater director and actor, lyricist and journalist. He is the award-winning author of over 15 novels, including the best-selling The Alchemist and, most recently, The Witch of Portobello, which is partly set in Dubai. He and his wife divide their time between Rio de Janeiro and Europe.
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Imagine enjoying a leisurely meal by the fireplace. You sit back on a leather chair, settle into a low table, and dig into an Asiago chicken club, munch on some fries and wash it all down with a frosty. Sound like a dream? Nah, it's just a regular dinner at one of the newly remodeled Wendy's locations equipped with a fireplace.
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Wendy's has added fireplaces and lounge-style faux leather chairs to 80 of its locations, Yahoo.com reported. It's all part of an effort to revamp the 43-year-old brand. Wendy's is slated to remodel and add fireplaces to 200 of its locations in North America this year.
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All bikers need motorcycle gear, even if it's the minimum, and not all of us have the money to spend on top-of-the-line equipment. But that doesn't mean that we have to do with bad equipment. It's very possible to buy gear at low prices without sacrificing quality. Because quality is what we're after when selecting stuff that will save our lives, not cheap and dangerous gear.
Just because a helmet or jacket is low in price does not necessarily mean it is bad quality. Not all manufacturers have enormous marketing & advertising costs, so their product quality is very good, but their street price remains low. Obviously you will need to look carefully when selecting gear on a budget. It's tempting to buy something that is cheap just because it's cheap. Make sure it's cheap AND reliable.
The last thing you want is to buy gear that is cheap, both in price and quality.
For example, when buying a helmet – the essential safety equipment – low cost does not mean bad quality. One quick way of finding out if a helmet is to be trusted, is to check the English Government's SHARP site. The British government does laboratory testing on many helmets, and will rate them according to predefined methods. Here you can see if the helmet you want is to be trusted, no matter which price. Even very expensive helmets can be of worse quality than cheap ones. There are other sites that test helmets, but this one is the most extensive and the most neutral testing organization.
Another way to find out if the helmet or other gear is to be trusted are reviews by web sites and discussion forums. Although individual reviews do not necessarily mean they are accurate (there may be biases or commercial incentives involved), if the product you are looking into on average gets good marks from reviewers, then you can be assured it's a good product. The internet is your friend, use it to your advantage.
Take the webBikeWorld site for example. This web site tests a lot of gear every month and publishes detailed reports, often comparing the product with other ones in the same category. It will allow you to make a good informed purchase decision. They are not the only site, just Google reviews to find out how many, but as sites go, they are very extensive.
The other way to buy quality gear for a good price is a question of timing. If you can wait and have the time to buy your gear, why not wait for a) sales or b) a new updated model of the gear you want comes along.
Almost every store and on-line site have sales, sometimes several per year. That is when you can buy really good and upmarket gear for big discounts, often half price.
Check the major sale times at on-line stores, usually the holiday seasons like Halloween, Christmas etc. On-line stores are usually cheaper since their infrastructure costs are a lot lower than brick & mortar stores.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Boy band and talent show alumni One Direction raced to the top of the charts this week with the fastest selling single of 2013 so far, while BRIT Award winner Emili Sande reclaimed the top of the album chart, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.
X-Factor finalists One Direction went in at number one with charity single "One Way Or Another", a cover of the Blondie classic. The single is the five-member group's third number one and sixth top-ten single in less than 18 months.
Elsewhere in the top ten, U.S. heartthrob Justin Timberlake jumped 24 places to number four with "Mirrors".
In the album chart Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sande, fresh from winning the coveted best album and best British female gongs at the BRIT awards earlier this month, retook the top spot with "Our Version Of Events".
Sande's debut album is Britain's top selling album of 2012 and has now been at the chart summit for nine non-consecutive weeks since its release just over a year ago.
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BLOG: Meet the new mainstream media: YouTube and Twitter
Mark it on your calendars: June 25, 2013. That's the day mainstream media was officially declared DOA, replaced by YouTube and Twitter.
Mainstream media is dead, long live memestream media.
Admittedly, the 24/7 cable channels were declared brain dead a long time ago. Their physical atrophy has also been apparent for quite some time, and they will no doubt take an agonizingly long time to waste away into nothing. But last night was a turning point.
Last night, while the networks were running programs about blueberry muffins and the Kardashians, a drama was unfolding in the Texas Legislature, carried live on YouTube, with a running commentary by several thousand talking heads on Twitter.
The new network(ing) order
Some 170,000 people tuned into the YouTube feed provided by the Texas Tribune, most of them a long way from the longhorn state. They watched as State Senator Wendy Davis attempted a 13-hour filibuster against an anti-abortion statute during which she was not allowed to sit, lean, drink, eat, or go to the bathroom. She also wasn't allowed to stop talking or stray even the slightest bit off topic.
Her goal was to filibuster until midnight, when the special session of the legislature called by Governor Rick Perry would expire and the bill would die, at least for the time being. When after 11 hours the Republican-controlled chamber decided Davis had broken the rules by going off topic and declared the filibuster over, Twitter erupted. When that august body held a vote passing the law, two minutes after the midnight deadline had passed, then retroactively changed the timestamp on the bill back to 11:59 pm, the anger and ridicule were palpable.
I'm not going to get into the politics surrounding this fight. There are plenty of opportunities for that elsewhere on the Webbernets. Today, traditional notions of chronology prevailed and the bill was deemed to have failed. Tomorrow, who knows what will happen.
But the prevailing theme soon morphed from whether Texas legislators are a few cattle short of a full herd to "where was the media during all of this"?
Last night, three of Twitter's top 10 trending topics were about the filibuster. At its height, the hashtag #standwithwendy was being retweeted nearly 5,000 times per minute. Texas Tribune, a nonprofit nonpartisan public media organization most of us had never heard of, went from a couple thousand followers to more than 50,000. What were the 24/7 cable shows doing?
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