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New Member Spotlight
Welcome New Seattle Executives Association Members
- Tricia Zemek
- Zemek Design, Owner
- 21209 212th Avenue SE, Maple Valley, WA 98038
- Phone: 4252144899
- Fax: 425-413-2900
- email@example.com
- www.zemekdesign.com
- Tricia Zemek is the Owner of Zemek Design. She joined Execs in October and represents the Real Estate: Staging classification.
A recent survey found that staged homes spent half the time on the market than non-staged homes and sold for more than 6 percent above the asking price. Zemek Design knows the importance of the right combination of art, furniture, colors, and decor to create a stylish and visually appealing design that tells a story to the buyer.
- Skylar Pond
- SPORTS MEDICINE NORTHWEST, Doctor of Chiropractic
- 2920 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA 981034
- Phone: 206-682-0676
- Fax: 206-627-0397
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- www.sportsmednw.com
- Dr. Skylar Pond of Sports Medicine Northwest joined Execs in October and represents the Chiropractor classification.
Dr. Pond graduated from The University of Western States with a doctorate in chiropractic in 2008. He continued his education at UWS to achieve the additional degree of Certified Chiropractic Sports Physican.
- Eric Johnson
- AUTOMATIC FUNDS TRANSFER SERVICES, President
- 151 South Lander Street, Suite C, Seattle, WA 98134
- Phone: 800-275-2033
- Fax: 888-313-0021
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- www.afts.com
- Eric Johnson of Automatic Funds Transfer Services joined in October and represents the Mailing Service Classification.
Automatic Funds Transfer Services proudly provides cost effective solutions related to data processing, IRS 1031 exchanges, invoicing, statement printing, mailing and payment collection through automated lock-box functions since 1971.
- Roy Cali
- SYMPATICO GENERAL CONTRACTORS, LLC, Member - Project Manager
- 7901 168th Avenue NE, Redmond 98052
- Phone: 425-406-8618
- Fax:
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- wwwsympaticogc.com
- Roy Cali of Sympatico General Contracting joined in June and represents the Construction & Remodeling:Commercial
Sympatico is a Full service Commercial General Contractor in the Pacific Northwest. They strive to exceed their client's expectations on any given project. No project is too big or too small.
- Suzan Sturholm
- ALL THINGS HR, LLC, President
- 4210 198th Street SW, Suite 105, Lynnwood, WA 98036
- Phone: 425-248-4978
- Fax: 425-354-4647
- email@example.com
- www.allthings-hr.com
- Suzan Sturholm is the President of All Things HR. She joined Execs in July and represents the Human Resources Services classification.
Since 2006, All Things HR has provided HR consulting services to small to mid-size companies located in the Puget Sound area.
- Natalie Barnes
- BUSINESS ALLIANCE, INC., President
- 1145 Broadway, Suite 1380, Tacoma, WA 98402
- Phone: 206-625-0068
- Fax:
- email@example.com
- www.businessallianceinc.com
- Natalie Barnes is the President of Business Alliance, Inc. She joined Execs in May and along with her Alternate Member, Linda Jadwin, represents the Franchise Consulting/Brokering classification.
Business Alliance is one of the largest and most experienced franchise opportunity brokerage companies in America, offering a wide variety of franchises across multiple industries.


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Feb 26, 2014
girls can be knights too
A Jennuine Life. She made an amazing Knight Hoodie for her daughter. Girls can be knights too! Jenn also made that incredible shield and is sharing a tutorial (as well as a discount code for YOU so you can get a deal on the Knight Hoodie pattern). So go check out A Jennuine Life! She's using a brilliantly unique material in the shield. You may even have all the materials on hand to make one too!
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text: Finally some 16-year old did it. An aussie named Corey Delaney hit it hard with his friends while his parents were on vacation. He actually send message to myspace.com and got together over 500 youngsters to party and drink. But the funniest thing is how bad he looks... Corey Delaney, Party Liaison at Youtube He also has a piercing in his tongue.


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Teen Improv Club at Sea Tea Improv!
For ages 12 - 17
Are you looking for a space to learn improvisational comedy? Do you love doing improv and have specific areas you want to focus on with a supportive group? Do you just want to have fun and practice comedy once or twice a month?
You should check out the Teen Improv Club at Sea Tea Improv! This is a self-driven group lead by veteran improv instructor Helena Morris. This group is great for beginners and experienced performers alike! With ample opportunity to perform in professional shows every other weekend, and a low-stress group with which to practice, this group has something for everyone. You can sign up on Eventbrite or drop in and pay at the door!
Bonus: Included with registration is one free ticket to Sea Tea Improv's Family Show at 5PM after your workshop at Sea Tea Comedy Theater, just one block from the Studios!
About the Instructor: Helena Morris is from Connecticut and has been performing improv professionally for 6 years. She has been studying improv since 2009 and has taken classes from a range of theaters in the Midwest and on the East Coast. Helena began performing professionally at Huge theater in Minneapolis in a unique longform show called "RomCom" and also performed at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater in "Camilla Presents." Once back home in Connecticut, Helena joined Sea Tea Improv, began taking classes with Sea Tea and at UCB, and has continued to perform in a variety of shows as well as teach improv in school and corporate workshops. Helena holds a B.A. in Theater, and a B.A. in English from St. Olaf College, as well as a Master's in Education from University of Saint Joseph.
All Sea Tea Improv courses & workshops are subject to our Education Policies: https://seateaimprov.com/education/education-policies/


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American companies recognize the need to boost productivity in their white-collar ranks, but find themselves stymied by disinterested or old-fashioned management, a survey by the American Productivity Center concludes. More than 94 percent of respondents to the October poll said their organizations are trying to improve white-collar productivity. But only 69 percent are attempting to measure that productivity. And success at either seems limited.
Respondents most often cited lack of commitment by top management as the biggest impediment to improvement. It was followed by inability to measure white-collar work and other factors such as cultural resistance, bureaucracy and ``no perceived need to change.``


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Energy from electronics
By Renee2, 2016-09-25
I had two panic attacks today. I have been having them more frequently again lately. There are many factors, and often times there are obvious reasons. Today, though, it seemed they came out of nowhere. I was thinking about my history of anxiety, and my worst panic attacks throughout the years were while I was on the computer while the computer was near a TV that was on. I currently have my computer sitting in front of the TV. This is temporary until I get a new router and can move the computer back into my office.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else is sensitive to energy from electronics.
The Last Year and a Half
By Renee2, 2015-08-26
A year and a half ago, I was living in my apartment with my dog. I had just recently discovered this community. Then, my internet quit working. It was a very busy time in my life as I was nearing the end of graduate school, so I canceled my internet. Just a little over three months after that, I found myself moving into a duplex in a different neighborhood of my city. My graduate teaching assistant position came to an end. However, a research position was offered to me. Right after I moved, I was thrown into a very demanding job that officially ran the duration of 2 1/2 months, but technically was really only a little over two weeks. That summer I was feeling chaos as I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing with my thesis and finding no help whatsoever. I finished what I felt like I could, but I felt stuck. To make matters worse, my advisor was going on hiatus in the fall and had not mentioned the fact to me. Slowly over time, I have come to the decision that I am not going to finish my thesis. It is frustrating because I finished somewhere around 95-98% of the degree, yet I will never achieve it.
While I was away for the research position, I met someone online. About two weeks after the position ended, I was adjusting to no school, no work, and a new home. He asked to meet, and I agreed. It quickly grew into something serious. It was not a healthy relationship in the least. He had a severe case of bipolar disorder (mental health professionals acknowledged he was among the most extreme cases they had ever seen) as well as several other mental health issues. After three months, he attacked me for the first time. He kicked, punched, and choked me. I was left with a black eye. I now realize that the only reason I gave him another chance is because I was not feeling myself already due to the problems with school. But I did, and a few weeks later he hit me again. I had told him if he ever hit me a second time, our relationship would be over. I rationalized my staying with him because he didn't actually punch me, he just knocked me down. It was only a few weeks again before he attacked me a third time. In the early morning hours after Christmas. I had spent Christmas day away from my family for the first time because he didn't have anyone else to be with. I worked several hours on a non-traditional Christmas dinner. We watched movies that night.
I won't go into the details here, but what he did to begin the series of events that night was unspeakable. I have never been treated so lowly as that. Rarely does a person humiliate and degrade another human in such a manner. When I told him our relationship was over, he attacked me. He put me in a double choke hold and pulled me to the ground. I remember distinctly the thought that ran through my mind. "So this is how it's going to happen. I am going to die on Christmas night by him choking me. I bet he kills my dog and cat after he kills me."
Then, something snapped in my mind. I did NOT want to die yet. I was NOT going to let him kill me. And I sure as hell was NOT going to let him kill my animals. (I am mostly an animal empath, after all.) I thanked my ex-boyfriend for making me watch wrestling those years ago and kicked my way out of the choke hold. I am sure that he gave up once I started fighting back too. I quickly weighed my options. My phone was in the bedroom, and if I ran to get it, he would surely just attack me again. So I ran out the door, across the cold ground wearing a cami and shorts with nothing on my feet. My neighbors called the police. I ran back home to their surprise. I was picturing him killing my babies and I wasn't letting that happen. What I found was him standing at my medicine drawer taking somewhere between 30 and 50 aspirin. He then took the remaining pills left of his prozac as well as the rest of my Excedrin Migraine. Probably about 10 each. Police arrived and shortly after, EMTs. He was taken to the hospital.
And yet, I stayed with him while he was in the hospital. He was in the ICU for about 4 days. Then he had to stay in the psych ward for another 4 days. He was lucky he wasn't sent somewhere far away. Because he was able to stay in town, I visited him as often as I could. He was put on several medications. He had to attend many different types of counseling. They even had us in a session together. He promised that he was better and that he was committed to being a better person. I told him I had a feeling it would last about 3 weeks. He was very upset that I would think that, and said he would prove that it would last longer.
Twenty-six days later he left. And even after he was gone, he treated me like crap. Then begged me to take him back. Finally, I asked him to quit contacting me. It took three times, but he finally stopped texting and calling four months ago.
You would think I would learn my lesson.
While he was still contacting me, I met someone else. Someone who was living with a woman who believed they were a couple, but told me they were just roommates. Then he introduced us and we learned the truth from each other. He manipulated his way into staying with me. The crazy laws in this city don't allow a person to kick another person out if they have been staying there longer than a week. Even if the person isn't on the lease. So I had to wait 7 weeks for him to finally save enough money to get out of my home.
I truly feel that both of these guys could somehow tell I was an empath and used me as much as they could. Once they were both gone (the end of May), I began to heal. I am now feeling back to myself. Happy to be single and working on my own life.
By the way, the abusive ex had court a few weeks ago. He got 2 years probation and was ordered not to contact me. And has to take domestic violence classes. I feel vindicated.
PS. I just got internet hooked up yesterday! Glad to be back.


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I've recently been playing around with a measure of betweenness as a way of generating cartographic street hierarchies specific to a given transport mode.
I have a few broad goals here:
Betweenness is essentially a measure of how often an edge/node in a network belongs to a shortest path across that network, when some large/exhaustive number of shortest paths are calculated. In the context of geographic street networks, it's well established that different modes (car, bike, etc) have different criteria in the general case for determining an optimal path. These different routing criteria should produce different shortest paths and in the aggregate, betweenness measures, as indeed they do.
What follows are three maps of the same area in Cincinnati, showing betweenness measures which I generated for cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. I'll explain more about how they were created in a moment, but for now, just know that line thickness in these maps is scaled according to the square root of ( one plus my betweenness measure ).
For cars:
For bicycles:
For pedestrians:
One thing you may notice right off the bat is that some paths are off limits to one or more of the modes. The next is that the car map is probably the most 'normal' looking of these. You can kind of see that by looking at the standard OpenStreetMap base map for the same area.
What appears to me is that essentially the same streets stand out here as in the car map, above. in fact though, I can offer a somewhat more precise comparison of these two maps if you're not quite convinced. OpenStreetMap defines highway tags in a clear hierarchical order and it's possible to correlate such ordinal values (ranked as 'motorway'=10, 'trunk'=9, 'primary'=8 and so on down to 'service'=1) directly with the betweenness measures calculated for the betweenness maps shown above. When considering all of the Cincinnati metro area within 30km of downtown, id est:
for which I happen to have calculated my betweenness measures, I get, as a rough back of the envelope calculation, the following (edge length weighted) Spearman rank order correlation coefficients:
If I exclude the obvious car-only, limited-access motorway and trunk roads from the calculation, I still get:
If I were to include bike/ped-only paths, I would probably only push these numbers lower for bikes and peds. It seems clear that the standard OSM hierarchy is car-oriented. Is this kind of a "duh" statement? Perhaps, but it's nice to have some evidence.
Now! How did I calculate these betweenness measures?
The first problem is to decide which points to route between. The standard graph-theory approach is a full every-node to every-node combinatorical explosion. In abstract graph theory, this has the result of producing higher measures for nodes which are more central, which is useful for a non-spatial graph like a social network (in which Kevin Bacon surely has betweenness=∞). However since I'm looking at a metro area, defined by some arbitrary boundary of my choosing, the most central areas would be highly determined by the arbitrary boundaries of the graph. To get around this problem, I placed a distance constraint on the paths I would generate, based on quasi-realistic travel scenarios. People don't walk as far as they bike and they don't bike as far as they drive. Let's say I limit foot-routes to between 0.5 and 1.5 km, bike trips to between 1 and 6 km, and driving trips to between 1.5 and 20km; this excludes most paths from the combinatorial space, and negates edge effects across most of the area of interest. If you have a 10km max trip length, then you just need to include a 10km buffer around your area of interest.
There is still however a problem of weighting. Do I route between intersections (as the standard graph theory approach would suggest)? This would underweight long segments which dominate more rural areas, and generally wouldn't make sense in this context. Do I weight according to population density since humans are the only ones who actually make any trips? I tried this and quickly realized that I had reproduced a population density map. Next I tried something less applicable to the real world and perhaps more applicable to the cartographic problem at hand: weighting by edge length. In this approach, origins and destinations have an equal probability of appearing anywhere on the street network, as if you stretched all the streets out end to end and randomly picked a point somewhere between the extremes.
Random points were selected in this way, essentially one pair at a time. This pair was checked against the distance criteria for the mode, and the route was found using OSRM and the default routing profiles for cars bikes and pedestrians respectively. If the route produced was way too long (e.g. points on opposite sides of the river with no nearby bridge), then it was ignored. This may not produce a realistic trip distance distribution, but it did seem to produce pretty pleasing results for now. Some improvement will be needed in this area. For each mode, somewhere around a million routes were calculated for one metro area and it's surrounding buffer.
Anyhoo, OSRM is able to return a vector of the OSM node ID's along the length of the route. By keeping counts for all the segments, it's easy to reconstruct a geometry table with counts for each mode. That's how the above maps were generated. I may be posting code eventually if there is any interest in this.
I hope to be using this technique more in the near future, perhaps to make a start on a Toronto bike map or something of that nature. My thoughts are a bit of a jumble at the moment, having been working on this project through a couple months of fits and starts with an eye toward a poster for the now completed NACIS 2017. Hopefully soon I'll have something more coherent to say about where this effort may be going.
I've had this post sitting in my drafts for more than a year now, unpublished and unfinished. Time to set it free!
The difference between clothing design and cartography seemed at first impassable to me. I wanted to conceive of this business, comprising some of the things I do best, as coherently as possible rendering me able to succinctly shout it's premise along with it's name across a crowded bar. The want of that economy is the reason I've told so few people of my full endeavour as yet: "I make maps and pants!" begs too much time or none at all.
I don't wish here to emphasize the difference between two distinct fields, thus demonstrating my knowledge of both. Rather, my project is to make the 'two' into one, or to find the one that encompasses both. Partly this is an irreducibly psychological need for unity in purpose. Partly it's an actual, tentative logical connection that I wish to pursue to it's ends out of curiosity.
What do clothing design and cartography have in common? How can I explain that I make both maps and pants in a way that makes sense of everything there and might even suggest other specific pursuits? If they are conceivable as one, what keeps them separate?
A map's purpose is to show the state or nature of some thing that doesn't readily present itself to our senses. Generally speaking, what's of interest are atemporal, spatial relationships. The map is a snapshot, a representation of a moment, of a thing that exists in space. Usually the space in question is a large one in proportion to our bodies: a city, region, or planet. Like a snapshot, the map is not the same as the thing itself but represents the thing itself with symbols on a flat medium. The symbols are reductions of the physicality of the thing to the level of complete abstraction. A river, a big wet uncontainable thing, becomes a blue line. Further, the abstraction necessitates a degree of selection and reduction since the only thing that could contain all of the information contained in the thing itself would be the thing itself or something larger than the thing such as the totality of space.
Aside: What about 3D maps or maps of change over time??? Not to worry. A snapshot of an absolute moment has never yet been taken(exposure time and also considerations of relativity), and the metaphor can easily be extended to sculpture for 3D maps.
The important thing to remember is that the whole thing is imperceptible or a map would not be necessary, and that the thing has to be selectively reduced to it's essentials as judged by the cartographer.
What then is clothing? Clothing is also a symbolic abstraction of a thing beyond our perceptions. In this case, that thing is a person. A person is indeed beyond our perceptions, or at least the part of them that's most important: they're mind.
Clothing (or maps) will communicate indirectly though effectively the subjective qualities of the thing when such qualities are worth noting. Yet a map is not the thing itself. The thing itself holds all of it's own qualities, equally open to any observer. The map is a summation, an abstraction, a condensation of the thing itself. It is the thing itself prepared for consumption and made digestible, when necessary, made palatable. The meat is carved from the flesh and made into stew.
Maps can aspire. They can lie; they must. A map is as much a comment on the drives of it's creator as it is on the object. I see highways and cars as a blight on everything they touch and every map I make will reflect that if subtly. I am at this point in my life incapable of failing to assert that judgement.
Maps can be and often are done quite poorly. The literal accuracy of digital geospatial data, the objective component, too often confers an unwarranted authority on the subjective interpretation, the design, feel, and ambiance of the map not to mention the more important choice of emphasis.
Clothing design I understand less; it is much more complex. Clothing elucidates a clearly subjective entity: a person. It uses symbols and signs to show us the person as they are, as they want to be seen, or in their sartorial ineptitude, as they are not nor want to be.
Both clothing and maps are essentially physical artifacts that attempt to make some claim about an objective/subjective phenomenon through the use of symbols. The symbols say things that are necessarily simpler than and abstracted from the materiality of the phenomenon and so rely on selection and simplification.
Cities1 can often be best understood as subjects rather than objects just as people often but not always can be.
The main difference, beside that of physical/temporal scale of the object, is that a map depicts it's object from a remove. It's description is atemporal and aspatial and depicts a moment. Clothing can act only when it enshrouds it's object. It is therefore inextricably linked to the objects physicality. Far from depicting a moment, clothing engages with it's object in space-time. A snapshot of a person in clothing plays closer to the role a map does, but then expands to include other aspects of styling, pose, etc.
I've heard it said that ours may be the age of the "mega-city." Cities like Cincinnati, where I came of age, seem to be in an uncomfortable middle zone. With a metro of 2.1 million people, substantially larger I might note than the city of Rome at it's climax in the first century, Cincinnati is to many a sleepy, provincial town. Yet to me, coming as I did from that homogeneous shmear we Americans all know and love, it was Metropolis.
This is so far a familiar story, and my cliches are already making me a little queasy. Will I be able to avoid them?
To my friends, some of them, Cincinnati was a layover. It's not that they got there, many of them, gave it a couple years, and then changed their minds, but rather that they came from high school already with the ambition of making it to New York or other big eastern cities. In my program especially, people co-oped half the year in other cities, in Cincinnati only three months at a time for four consecutive years. These people grew attached to other places and got jobs there.
How many dates did I go on with people I knew would be leaving?
As a planner though, and perhaps as one with typically little concern for his own economy, I grew attached, got involved, and made lasting friendships in a place that could ultimately offer me little work.
2.1 million people. If you met one person every five seconds and never slept, it would take more than seven years to meet every Cincinnatian, assuming they all stayed put for a damn second. And I couldn't find satisfying work that payed more than a stipend. Bigger than Rome and I couldn't find the work society tells me I deserve.
Having found all my best friends, and even a husband, in Cincinnati, it has now come to pass that everyone that I really care about is living in a different city. Not just not in my city, but each in their own.
Cincinnati, New York, San Fransisco, Denver, and me in Toronto. The closest any of these cities are to another is 550km. Even my family will be split soon as my little sister goes off to college in Boston and my parents retire to who knows where.
How 'bout them cliches? Can this get any more boring? People moving, getting older, life changes, yadda yadda.
But I feel like I need to stop here and just ask: What the hell is going on? That everyone I care about should not only not be in the same general place but scattered utterly across the continent. Is this the modern condition?
Most people of course don't make it this far. Most aren't this mobile. Most don't go to college. Many people live with their families or could walk to their parents' house if they laced up some comfy shoes. But for me and my peers, the academics with whom I am presently associating, we are the jet-set without the money. Hopping from one gig to the next, and I count a term-limited stipend-salary PhD or masters as a gig, we seem prevented from really setting deep roots anywhere except in our own ambitious media-fed dreams for the future, in Metropolis.
What deeper effect this has, and it always seems wise to wrap up with some musing on the deeper meaning of it all, I can only wonder at. But it seems to me that for the foreseeable future, the West's non-wealthy elite, the mobile educated, will be rootless and alienated from the spaces they occupy. Renters all their lives, never settling, ever taking the excuse of a conference in who-knows-where for the chance of seeing old friends, neither of you from this place that you'll occupy only once together and ephemerally at that, those places competing viscously for our indifferent attendance.
The world grows homogeneous, the cities blur together. We are always in metropolis, and yet so far apart.
The time has come that if I wanted to settle down, and selfishly make a home for myself at once, I would have to start by moving to New York or San Fransisco. These places, where I have never lived, hold the most of my friends. Now it's interesting to note that my partner, of a lower class than me through no fault of his own, which I think is relevant, very much has all of his friends in Cincinnati. Which of us, in the abstract, might be said to have the better life? What are the costs of ambition today? What are the benefits of immobility?
I posted here recently about my recent failure to get excited about sewing. Let this one then be about my failure to get excited about planning and geography. Now beside being something I used to like to do, geography has the special quality that it currently pays my bills, gives me an office to work from, and puts me in touch regularly with moderately interesting people.
So I really should try to enjoy it, lest I find myself without a livelihood, and also as the case would be for sewing, without another chunk of my identity, and without a thing quite capable of making me happy and fruitfully engaging my mind.
All of this turmoil reduces, I think, to the following problem: In Ohio, I was abnormal in a number of particular dimensions; in Toronto, I am not, or not in the same familiar ways. A few contrasts then:
I could go on, but my point is, and I think I've made it by now, that two major pillars of my self image have been eroded by this new normalcy. Have I realized that I am normal?
There is an analogy here, and one many readers will I'm sure be more familiar with. In high school, I was one of the only gay kids. In college, I was one of many. I became normal after having to some extent established an identity on difference. The way I dealt with this all through undergrad was with excitement. I jumped right in, attending the meetings of the university GSAs, becoming a leader of one of them, and eventually branching out from there into leadership of the larger regional queer organizations, which I ultimately served with for years before being kicked out for [it's a long story].
When I was kicked out of my big, gay ecosystem, I was left with geography and cartography for comfort. I turned more toward fashion design, and other visual pursuits, or less toward the things which had turned from me, and this ultimately led me gladly into grad school, the subject of which had begun to overlap very nicely with the subject of my interests.
From grad school, I ran to grad school, for I hadn't yet had enough. But the engine that kept me going in Cincinnati was my frustration with the transit system and its supporters, an impulse to correct those silly bastards. In that frustration, in the height of that impulse to fix things, I find myself run off the edge of the cliff, with nothing familiar to hang on to. The frustration that nourished me was suddenly removed from beneath my feet.
To that other analogy then, I must turn for guidance and I see that in high school, I wasn't driven by a negative emotion, but by pride if I may appropriate that word to myself, and later by a more biological impulse and eventually by a sense of community and a friendship for a people that I came to see as my own family.
Do I have no pride in riding a bike, though I've moved to the gayborhood? Do I have no pride in the way I make myself look, though I've moved to metropolis?
The dangerous part of the analogy is that I now take my gayness thoroughly for granted and don't spend any effort at all working inside the 'gay community' such as it is any more. Could the same happen for my other interests, that they become part of my past more than my present? But, to continue analogically, I must see now that I'm in the stage of this interest wherein I have come into a position of leadership, am inside the community of transportation and planning people, and can see them as family if not quite as so friendly a one as the gays were (certainly they are given more to handshakes than to hugs). What motivated me in that stage and why now does it seem weak?
I guess I felt like I was making a difference, like my contributions were respected, and that I had friends all around me. The friends part is slowly, too slowly, developing here in Toronto. But what is there for me to do now that makes a difference in a city, in a country that already has digested the corpus of contemporary planning dogmas?
From some work I did recently for the Cincinnati Chamber:
These images summarize some fairly sketchy census migration data, showing the general direction from which or toward which people move relative to the Cincinnati region. So for example, a large red bump on the left may mean that many people are leaving Cincinnati and moving west. A blue bump to the northeast might mean some people are moving to Cincy from Cleveland or Columbus. Greens are balanced flows.
This visualization responds to a need to show some geographic dimension to data which, though detailed to the county level, has massive sampling error and a great many missing estimates. Estimating the number of migrants between, say, the Cincinnati MSA and the Los Angeles MSA is certainly possible with this data, but the estimated error are so high as to make a map of the estimates themselves nearly useless, especially with any degree of disaggration such as that seen in these images.
As long as I've understood margins of error myself1, I've understood that it should be basically hopeless to try to get lay people to understand the implications of MOE estimates.
Anyway, some interesting patterns emerge here. Note the big southward outflow of retirees for instance. Or note the high and relatively balanced interactions between Cincinnati and it's sisters to the Northeast: Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland.
And here we see, at least, that people moving for military purposes are much less evenly distributed than people in other professions, surely the result of a small number of important military bases.
Now, the chamber didn't quite ask for these visualizations of course, but they're what I gave them because I didn't want to feel responsible for any overconfident interpretations which would be inevitably if the data were simply mapped with census boundaries. With this presentation, the data looks like it can't give you any real specifics, which is true.
The data comes from American Community Survey county-to-county migration estimates. Images were made with a combination of PostGIS, R and Inkscape. I can make some code available if anyone cares to email me.
I don't do many technical posts here, but this one took me a while to figure out, so I thought I'd just quickly upload my knowledge into the world's search indexes for all those helpless people out there trying to decypher osm2po's config file.
The 'flag' field that osm2po creates in your SQL file is used to indicate the modes of travel that are permissible on an edge. First, you must tell the program what modes you want to consider:
wtr.flagList = car, bike, foot
These modes, in this order, determine the value that will be assigned to an edge's 'flag'. In this case, we get car=1, bike=2, foot=4. Note that these are decimal representations of the digits of a binary number! You get up to 5 digits or 32 possible flags because this is a 32bit field.
A value of 1 (given the ordering above) means that only cars can use the edge. A value of 2 means that only bikes can.
The flag field represents the digits of a binary number where each digit is one of five possible modes, which are determined by the ordering given in wtr.flaglist. You can then determine whether some mode can use an edge by a little modular division.
Modal access is the business of much of the rest of the config file and I won't get into that here.
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Digestive Health
"All Disease Begins in the Gut."
Digestive Bitters
One of the most important health protocols you can do for yourself is to consume digestive bitters on a regular basis. Digestive bitters are a key aspect of great digestive health. You may be wondering, what the heck are digestive bitters? Digestive bitters are herbs that are consumed as a tea or as a liquid tincture before eating a meal. These herbs are very bitter. Their bitterness when tasted stimulates the body to get ready for the coming meal. When a bitter substance is recognized by bitter receptors on the tongue, a chain of neural and endocrine events begins, labeled as the "bitter reflex." Mediated by the release of the gastric hormone gastrin, this reflex results in an overall stimulation of digestive function, which over time strengthens the structure and function of all digestive organs (liver, stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, etc.). These digestive bitters stimulate the gastric juices or as I like to say, the gastric fire, to be prepared to break down the impending meal. The main gastric juice involved in this process is hydrochloric acid, which is released by the parietal cells in the stomach, which is regulated by gastrin, a hormone, which is secreted by the G cells.
The job of the stomach is to break down the food that is consumed, mainly the protein, into a chyme ball or acidic soup so that the protein and to a certain extent, the fat and carbohydrates, will be able to be absorbed, assimilated and utilized by the small intestine and large intestine through a complex and elaborate system that involves the pancreas, liver and gallbladder and many enzymes and trillions of bacteria.
If stomach acid (hydrochloric acid) is not strong enough then all the other mechanisms and duties performed by the pancreas, liver, small intestine, etc., will be diminished and many problems, minor and major, can arise, with the main problem being malnourishment.
Millions of people suffer from low stomach acid and the results are: indigestion, constipation, heart burn, gas, burping, acid reflux and a host of other problems. Besides a big change if diet, digestive bitters will be a huge help. The best way to take digestive bitters is in the tincture form. Take 40-60 drops of the tincture in a little glass of water or hold a little bit of water in your mouth and squirt the drops into your mouth and swallow. Do this 10-15 minutes before the meal and do this before every meal.
The following is a list of some of the various digestive bitters: Angelica, Dandelion, Goldenseal, Horehound, Wormwood, Peppermint, Orange Peel, Yellow Dock, Fennel, Ginger, Cardamom and Gentian.
Digestive bitters were a big part of many cultures and are still a big part in cultures around the world. It's time to bring this health remedy back to our culture.
My favorite digestive bitters are from the following herbal companies: Gaia Herbs and Herb Pharm.
Healthy Bacteria and Digestive Health
Healthy Bacteria and digestion are deeply connected to ensure a healthy body and mind. Healthy bacteria and digestion work synergistically together. Bacteria are the staff of life. Bacteria do not cause disease. Processed foods cause disease. Health begins in the gut, mainly the large intestine, where 70% of the bacteria in your body, resides. Bacteria are part of your immune system and they help to dissolve toxins. Bacteria also aid in assimilating nutrients, producing certain nutrients and forming a healthy bowel movement. Healthy digestion is directly related to healthy bacteria. Nutrition aids in keeping bacteria in the correct balance. Healthy bacteria and digestion are so very important to ensure an overall healthy life.
Digestive Health
Digestive Health is the key to a healthy body and mind. If your digestive health is awesome, you will be living free of illness and disease. Let's take a quick look at the digestive system.
The digestive system consists of your mouth, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine and anus. Digestive health begins with chewing your food properly. Saliva mixes with the food and begins the digestive process. The next step in digestive health is the most important: the stomach and stomach acid. Once food enters the stomach, hydrochloric acid is secreted to break down the food, mainly protein, into a soup or a chyme ball. Stomach acid, when breaking down food, should be between a .8 and 1.0. Stomach acid is extremely acidic and it has to be in order to break down the food so the small intestine and the enzymes from the pancreas and the bile from the liver and gall bladder can further break down the chyme ball so that the body and the cells can absorb the nutrients from the food.
If the stomach acid is not strong enough, the chyme ball will not be broken down enough and all the actions of the small intestine, pancreas, large intestine, etc, will be out of balance.
If the stomach acid is strong enough, the pancreas will secrete the right amount of bicarbonate to alkalize the acidic chyme ball and enzymes to break down the chyme ball and the gallbladder will secrete the correct amount of bile to further break down fat.
Most of the absorption takes place in the small intestine where the nutrients will slip through into the blood stream and the fiber and other parts of the food will continue on to the large intestine.
The large intestine is where the bulk of the bacteria resides and for good reason. The bacteria in the large intestine are part of the immune system, help to create certain nutrients, absorb some of the nutrients from the food and create a stool to be secreted out of the anus. The key to a healthy large intestine and healthy stools is the correct balance of bacteria. The bulk of your stool is dead bacteria, not fiber.
Another problem that can happen in the digestive system is bacteria overgrowth in the small intestine and bacteria in the stomach. If this happens, major digestive problems will occur such as Chron's disease, Colitis, bacteria infections, fatigue, etc. The small intestine contains some bacteria and the stomach contains none. The main reason for overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine and bacteria entering the stomach is low stomach acid.
Another interesting aspect of digestive health is the balance between alkaline and acidic parts of the digestive system. The mouth is alkaline, the stomach is acidic, the small intestine is alkaline and the large intestine is acidic.
This is just a small, but very informative, amount of information about digestive health. If you are having any type of digestive problems, please book a package of consultations with Greg Gillette here at Primal Radiance so you can learn the skills to heal and to achieve awesome and amazing health.
Bacteria is the Staff of Life
Bacteria and germs actually help our bodies to become stronger and healthier and they help to remove toxins from our bodies. I refer you to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PHd in nutrition and the creator of the primal diet. He states the "janitor" role very clearly. In fact, Aajonus, states that bacteria, germs, viruses and even parasites aid our bodies in removing toxins.
A quote from Dr. Henry Bieler sums it up: "DISEASE IS NOT CAUSED BY GERMS, BUT BY THE TOXIC ENVIRONMENT WE CREATE WITHIN OUR BODIES FROM TODAY'S COUNTERFEIT FOODS!" I also refer you to "probiotics", the friendly bacteria. Countless books have stated how friendly bacteria play a role in building our immune systems and removing toxins, etc. from our bodies.
Should We Worry About Bacteria?
Bacterial concern is a phobia that has swept the civilized world. Our natural food-supply is being annihilated because of it. We must look rationally at the bacterial issue. Consider the fact that many tribes ate primarily unsalted raw meat, unsalted raw fats and/or unsalted raw dairy products from the beginning. They did not wash their hands or sterilize their food before eating. Every form of natural bacteria, including salmonella, E. coli and campylobacteria were eaten with their food, abundantly and constantly. Why were they vibrant, healthy and disease-free if microbes are the culprits?
From the time babies are born, they put everything in their mouths, including dirt and microbes. It is believed that babies build immunity through small benign doses of bacteria, allergens, and pathogens. I believe that for millions of years, animals, including humans, formed working relationships with bacteria, germs, viruses and parasites. Those microbes have a janitorial role in nature and we benefit from them. When parents stop babies from putting stuff in their mouths, they hinder the relationship with microbes and the environment, unless of course the objects are poisonous, such as man-made chemicals and most toys that are made from plastic.
I am not saying to never wash your hands or take a shower, but do not use anti-bacterial soap and products that are filled with man-made chemicals and do not overly use soap and wash your hair everyday. Begin to have a good relationship with nature and with bacteria. Play in the dirt, plant a garden, walk barefoot, eat lots of raw foods, including fermented foods and become one with the beauty of Mother Nature. As you embrace the role of bacteria, you will become healthier with a stronger immune system, a stronger digestive system and a stronger neurological system. Yes, your brain will function better and your mental state will improve.
Low Stomach Acid
Do you suffer from gas (flatulence), bloating, heartburn, acid reflux, or that rock in the stomach feeling? Is your digestive health poor? Your stomach is not producing enough acid. One of the most under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed health conditions is low stomach acid, medically referred to as hypochlorhydria. Low stomach acid can cause a host of health problems such as: malnutrition, bacteria infections, autoimmune disease, skin rashes, arthritis, mild depression and anxiety and overall digestive problems. Low stomach acid is caused, mainly, from unhealthy eating and stress. The over prescribed medical protocol of using antacids is not the answer. In fact, antacids make the matter worse.


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Growing Trend of Instant, Temporary Breast Augmentation Raises Eyebrows Among Doctors
Temporary, instant breast augmentation is becoming ever more popular, and the health risk is low. unpict/Shutterstock.
According to the most recent statistics from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, of the 23 million cosmetic procedures performed in 2013, 87.2 percent were performed on women, and the leading procedure was breast augmentation. Approximately 11 million of overall procedures were non-surgical, up from 8 million non-surgical procedures in 2011, the last year the study was performed.
Non-surgical cosmetic procedures are generally considered a safer and less pricey alternative to cosmetic surgery, with evidence suggesting that an increasing number of people are choosing the needle over the knife to achieve the look they want.
Reasons for the popularity of non-surgical cosmetic treatments vary, but one important benefit is that there is usually minimal recovery time required. In fact, some surgeries claim that patients can stop in for a procedure during their lunch break, and head back to their jobs within an hour.
Dr. Norman Rowe, a plastic surgeon operating in New York City, is offering what might be considered the ultimate lunchtime procedure—the Instabreast.
The Instabreast treatment, which only lasts for 24 hours, takes around 15-20 minutes to perform and is designed to add more volume and fullness to breasts without involving any kind of surgery.
To achieve this look, the areola is first injected with epinephrine, a local anesthetic. Then, a saline solution is injected into the breast, causing the area to swell in size. Rowe says that he was inspired to use saline for breast enlargement, after using saline injections for other parts of the body and face.
Larger breasts—even temporary ones—come with a hefty price tag. 24 hours of boost typically goes for $2,500.
Rowe says that many women want the Instabreast surgery as a 'trial run', to see if larger breasts will achieve the look they want.
"Many women use it as a method to assess if breast implant surgery is for them. With this in mind, breast augmentation surgery is the most popular surgical procedure performed by plastic surgeons. It is a very popular procedure in my practice," he says.
Emily Orofino is a beauty writer for Popsugar.com, and recently underwent the Instabreast procedure. She decided to write about her firsthand experience of the treatment, and says that when she saw the results, she was "dumbfounded".
"I loved how my clothes fit, how they felt, and how I saw myself more positively after years of feeling like less of a woman because of my small breasts," Orofino says.
"I am legitimately considering breast implants as a result of the Instabreast experience. I would recommend it to anyone seriously thinking about breast augmentation."
Going into the procedure, Orofino says she didn't know a great deal beyond media reports and her own basic knowledge of plastic surgery. Her main concerns were related to permanent stretching, sagging, changes to her breast shape and stretch marks—all of which were assuaged by Rowe and his team.
In fact, Orofino admits that prior to the Instabreast treatment, the only temporary cosmetic treatments she had experienced were Latisse (for improving eyelash growth) and teeth whitening. To date, she has never even dyed her hair.
Overall, she says her experience was "very good", and she "greatly enjoyed living with bigger breasts for a day".
However, Dr. Anne Taylor, a member surgeon of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), believes the cost and duration of the Instabreast procedure will not catch on with the average American woman.
"It's a lot to go through for a very short amount of result. You can inject saline into almost any part of the body and have it pumped up, but the saline is absorbed very radically, probably within 24 hours for sure," Taylor says.
"That may work in Los Angeles, but it's not going to happen over the rest of the United States—I just can't imagine anywhere in the world, really. We'll have to wait and see how this evolves."
Though the risks involved with injecting saline are low, Taylor says they aren't zero.
"Any time you stick a needle in somebody there's going to be a risk of bleeding or infection, and these are real risks that if it happens even one time, it's too many," Taylor says.
"We can't just gloss over it—'oh, this is just a bit of saline'—there are real risks. So informing the patient appropriately about that is really important and why board certified plastic surgeons should do their part."
Rowe says he is working on a new treatment that will potentially surpass the popularity of the Instabreast, called 'Vacation Breasts' —designed to last a full 3-4 weeks, and ideal for taking a holiday or preparing for a wedding.
Rowe has been coy about the details of this procedure, and no specific information has been made available at this stage.
While the Instabreast procedure is a new alternative to permanent breast implants, other non-surgical cosmetic procedures for the body have been around for some time, and are performed by thousands of practitioners globally.
Dermal fillers, facial rejuvenation treatments and anti-wrinkle injectables such as Botulinum Toxin (including the famous BOTOX brand) can be administered by trained health professionals that are not necessarily doctors.
However, the safe administration of treatments is entirely dependent on the provider—and to complicate things, individual U.S. states have the final say in who can legally administer these treatments.
A lack of clinical consensus on best medical practice is similarly shared by Australia, where there are no national guidelines to regulate popular cosmetic procedures such as injectables, fillers and laser treatments.
Dr. Tony Kane is the president of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a practicing plastic surgeon in Brisbane. He says that the Society has been calling for the implementation of national guidelines surrounding non-surgical treatments.
"We are concerned that the general public think of cosmetic procedures such as injectable, fillers and lasers as not hazardous and therefore pose no risk, but this is wrong," Kane says.
"Cosmetic surgery and cosmetic procedures are still real medical procedures and as such carry real risks. Unqualified practitioners using unapproved equipment, or injecting prescription drugs in unsafe environments is a recipe for disaster.
Taylor says that while Botulinum Toxin is a safe and effective treatment that can be performed by various health professionals, the best option is to visit a physician who has thorough training in human anatomy.
In a situation where something goes wrong—like accidentally injecting the wrong muscle, or blocking an artery—a qualified physician will have greater experience in rectifying the issue.
"I have no problem with a wide variety of doctors doing this, as long as you're a physician and have gone to medical school and know the anatomy," Taylor says.
Non-surgical cosmetic procedures offer an alternative to the expense and lengthy recovery linked to traditional plastic surgery, and Rowe believes they are on the rise in plastic surgeon offices around the world.
"This is driven by a patient's desire for procedures that have minimal downtime, the improved results that they desire and a simple method of attaining these result," Rowe says.
"That being said, the future of the temporary, non-surgical breast augmentation has a huge potential worldwide."
Taylor agrees that the future of temporary cosmetic treatments is "unlimited", based on the imagination of plastic surgeons working in the field. She also believes that the lower price point for consumers, coupled with a subtle improvement, would continue to encourage people to pursue temporary cosmetic treatments.
"I've been in practice for 18 years and I can't believe what we can do now compared to when I was first in practice, when we had to use cow collagen, which only lasted a couple of weeks," Taylor says.
"We all want to look our best and feel our best, and surgery is a big step—so whatever we can do to hold back the hands of time is great."


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Amboy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,085 at the 2000 census.
Amboy is located at 45°54′12″N 122°27′56″W / 45.90333°N 122.46556°W / 45.90333; -122.46556 (45.903228, -122.465678).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 14.3 square miles (37.1 km²), of which, 14.3 square miles (37.1 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.14%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,085 people, 633 households, and 529 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 145.7 people per square mile (56.3/km²). There were 658 housing units at an average density of 46.0/sq mi (17.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.78% White, 0.43% African American, 1.25% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.19% Pacific Islander, 0.77% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.73% of the population. 14.2% were of German, 14.1% Finnish, 12.6% American, 10.6% Irish, 9.5% English and 5.0% Norwegian ancestry according to Census 2000.
There were 633 households out of which 45.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.1% were married couples living together, 5.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.3% were non-families. 12.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.29 and the average family size was 3.61.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 36.3% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.4 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $50,896, and the median income for a family was $52,170. Males had a median income of $41,535 versus $22,128 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $16,973. About 6.5% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.2% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.


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Sage Singer, the lead character in Jodi Picoult's novel The Storyteller, makes an effort to hide from the world because she is self-conscious about the facial scar left from a car accident that killed her mother. She works the graveyard shift at a bakery, making delicious breads during the hours the shop is closed, and is involved with a married man, but her unlikely friendship with ninety-five year-old Josef Weber turns her life upside down. It turns out that Josef, who has a stellar reputation in their small New Hampshire town, was an officer at a Nazi concentration camp. His request that Sage help him die brings up old secrets and causes Sage to consider the true meaning of forgiveness.
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A great idea may not always be a profitable business. You have to solve a problem being experienced by a lot of people AND do so profitably!
There are two primary ways to identify an opportunity:
Most often, entrepreneurs that have a passion for fixing a problem tend to have better success at starting a business (that passion fuels the many hours needed to start and grow a company!). But creative people with a passion for technology can often look at a technological innovation and envision applications that go beyond what the original inventor had in mind. Either way can lead to success.
So after you've identified a problem or found an interesting technology, how do you go about verifying that it can be the basis for a successful start-up company?
This should give you a "back of the napkin" analysis to determine if the business worth pursuing. This estimate will be refined as you further develop your idea, products, and markets.
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Rajiv Shah
Partner Raj Shah is the Founder and Managing Partner of Latitude Capital. Raj most recently served as the 16th Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he was credited with transforming the agency via innovative public-private partnerships and new technologies, including the development and leadership of President Obama's Power Africa and Feed the Future Initiatives.
Raj previously served as Undersecretary and Chief Scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and led Global Heath, Agriculture, and Financial Services programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Raj is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and the University of Michigan.
Latitude Capital is a private equity firm focused on power and power related projects in select emerging markets, with a specific focus on Africa and India. Our team brings trusted global relationships, deep industry and operating expertise, and experienced private equity leadership to the task of developing and implementing power projects in emerging markets.
Prior to leading USAID, Shah served as director of the agriculture development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There has been no public indication of what he will do next.
Shah traveled to Haiti this weekend — a fitting bookend to his tenure as administrator, since one of the first challenges he faced at USAID was to manage the U.S. response to the catastrophic earthquake in the Caribbean country, which struck Jan. 12, 2010, and killed more than 100,000 people.
Shah signed a partnership agreement between USAID and a local Haitian affiliate of the organization Partners in Health, which was co-founded by health luminary and former USAID administrator candidate Paul Farmer. Shah reportedly met with Farmer, who was also in Haiti this past weekend, according an interview he gave to Devex last week.
On March 25, 2015, USAID suspended CEEPCO Contracting – which had been working on shelter programs in Haiti –from receiving further government contracts, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation. CEEPCO joins Thor Construction, which was suspended in early February. The investigation concerns faulty construction practices related to 750 houses built in Caracol, Haiti by USAID. CEPR Research Associate Jake Johnston reported in February for VICE News:
CEEPCO's CEO is Harold Charles, a Haitian-American who was formerly one of the Haitian government's representatives to the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC), run by Bill Clinton and meant to be in charge of the $10 billion in earthquake relief. The IHRC had initially approved the USAID shelter program back in December 2010.
Charles also enjoys a close, personal relationship with Haitian President Michel Martelly. In an interview in 2013, Charles said, "I do know and have very close friends up through the highest ranks of government," adding, "Martelly is a childhood friend of mine." One former government official in Haiti said in an interview, "this was seen as a deal that would please Martelly."
Haiti: Partners in Health
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Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines
Charles also enjoys a close, personal relationship with Haitian President Michel Martelly. In an interview in 2013, Charles said, "I do know and have very close friends up through the highest ranks of government," adding, "Martelly is a childhood friend of mine." One former government official in Haiti said in an interview, "this was seen as a deal that would please Martelly."
Wages are another concern. "I wish they [would] pay us more," grumbles 32-year-old Nadège, during a lunch break from quality control at a South Korean-run factory at the Caracol Industrial Park in the north of the country. The factory produces "Made in Haiti" for American labels, such as Target and Walmart. "But I cannot really complain as I have a job now."
Approximate average real salaries in Haiti lie between $180-$200 a month, says the aid agency report. That is about five times more than some 45 per cent of Haitian workers earn a day, according to the UN Development Programme, and higher than in Ghana and Lesotho, where workers receive monthly salaries of $112 and roughly $140, respectively.
When the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti was inaugurated in 2012, it was packed with celebrities. Actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, Virgin's Richard Branson and fashion designer Donna Karan mingled with then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her husband, former president Bill Clinton, the UN special envoy to Haiti.
The $300m complex, close to the northern coast, was billed as a way to reduce Haiti's economic reliance on the capital. The joint project of the Haitian and US governments, and the Inter-American Development Bank, would create 65,000 "permanent jobs" once "fully developed", said the US State Department.
But job creation in the fledgling industrial park has not progressed at the hoped for pace. Many queue outside Caracol's front gate every day in the hope of a job.
The Clinton-led recovery was a disaster. A year after the earthquake, a stinging report from Oxfam singled out Clinton's IHRC as creating a "quagmire of indecision and delay" that had made little progress toward successful earthquake recovery. Oxfam found that:
…less than half of the reconstruction aid promised by international donors has been disbursed. And while some of that money has been put toward temporary housing, almost none of the funds have been used for rubble removal.
Instead, the Clinton Foundation, IHRC, and State Department created what a Wall Street Journal writer called "a mishmash of low quality, poorly thought-out development experiments and half-finished projects." A Haitian IHRC members lamented that the commission had produced "a disparate bunch of approved projects. . . [that] do not address as a whole either the emergency situation or the recovery, let alone the development, of Haiti." A 2013 investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that most money for the recovery was not being dispersed, and that the projects that were being worked on were plagued by delays and cost overruns. Many Clinton projects were extravagant public relations affairs that quickly fizzled.
Cowen Buys Latitude Capital
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About Cowen Group, Inc.
Cowen Group, Inc., through its operating subsidiaries, provides investment banking, sales and trading, and equity research services to companies and institutional investor clients in the healthcare, technology, telecommunications, aerospace and defense, consumer and alternative energy sectors.
We also offer traditional and alternative asset management services to institutional investors. Our asset management business includes teams based in the U.S. and the U.K. Our U.S. team focuses on a growth-oriented investment style centered on small and mid-sized companies based primarily in North America.
Our U.K. team provides traditional asset management products, focusing on a global equity strategy. Our alternative asset management business consists of Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, which invests principally in commercial-stage biopharmaceutical products and companies, and Cowen Capital Partners, which manages a portfolio of middle market private equity investments for third party investors.
About Latitude Capital Group
Latitude Capital Group is an Asian investment banking firm, specializing in China cross-border M&A and private placements.
The firm focuses on: (i) serving growth companies in the technology, general industries and healthcare sectors in China; (ii) multinationals and international listed corporates looking to enter China in Latitude's core industry sectors; (iii) assisting Chinese clients with private and public capital raising transactions (iv) advising international corporates seeking an Asian/China strategic buyer of, or investor in, their business; and (v) advising Asian corporates looking to grow internationally via acquisition.
Latitude Capital Group is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong (Hangul: 김용; born December 8, 1959), is a South Korean-American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012.
On March 23, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Jim Yong Kim to become the next president of the World Bank.
On September 27, 2016, Kim was re-elected as the World Bank president, for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2017.
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Always thought Jeffrey Epstein's island was conveniently located within the Caribbean.
Little St. James, USVI is about 500 miles from Port-au-Prince by yacht.
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The Sports Xchange
Sharks 7, Flyers 3
PHILADELPHIA - Center Joe Pavelski had a hat trick, and left wing Raffi Torres and center Logan Couture each scored two goals as the San Jose Sharks beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7-3 on Thursday night.
The Sports Xchange
Sharks 7, Flyers 3
PHILADELPHIA - Center Joe Pavelski had a hat trick, and left wing Raffi Torres and center Logan Couture each scored two goals as the San Jose Sharks beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7-3 on Thursday night.
The Sharks (38-16-6) snapped Philadelphia's four-game winning streak in the first game since the Olympic break for both teams.
Defenseman Andrej Meszaros, center Brayden Schenn and right wing Matt Read had goals for the Flyers (30-24-6). The 18 days off certainly stopped Philadelphia's momentum.
San Jose exploded for five goals in the second period, chasing Flyers goaltender Steve Mason from the game. Pavelski scored all three of his in the period, including a power-play goal to tie it at 2-2.
Pavelski tipped in defenseman Edouard Vlasic's slap shot past Mason to make it 3-2, and Couture scored in front just 35 seconds later.
Ray Emery replaced Mason in goal and allowed Pavelski's third goal on a turnaround shot in traffic. Pavelski's second career three-goal performance gave him a career-high 32 goals for the season.
Torres, making a remarkable comeback from knee surgery just five months ago, scored with 2.1 seconds left in the period for a 6-2 lead.
Torres had kicked off the scoring, beating Mason with a wrist shot 4:25 into the game.
Meszaros made a spectacular play to score the tying goal, shooting the puck between his legs past goalie Alex Stalock.
Schenn scored his 16th goal just 22 seconds later for a 2-1 lead that the Flyers carried into the second period before the Sharks scored six unanswered goals.
Couture deflected another goal past Emery for a 7-2 lead in the third. He nearly got his first career hat trick on a wraparound, but a long video review upheld the on-ice call that the puck did not go in.
This was the worst loss for the Flyers since Washington beat them 7-0 at the Wells Fargo Center on Nov. 1.
NOTES: The only time the Flyers were undefeated in February was when they went 10-0-4 in 1976. ... The Flyers play 13 of their last 22 games at home. ... The Sharks had not played in Philadelphia since Dec. 8, 2010. ... Sharks C Logan Couture returned to the lineup after missing the last 16 games before the break following surgery on his right hand on Jan. 8. ... Sharks LW Raffi Torres made his season debut. He had surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee on Sept. 26, only 154 days ago. ... The Sharks had four players compete in the Olympics; the Flyers had five. ... Flyers D Kimmo Timonen was not in the lineup because coach Craig Berube said he needs a few days to recover after earning a bronze medal with Finland.


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Interview: Shaun White
Thursday, February 8th
Thursday, February 8th
Transcript - Not for consumer use. Robot overlords only. Will not be accurate.
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At school, Handy Boy has to write letters to us to practice writing and spelling. I thought this one was wicked funny, so I'm posting it here. Remember, he's 8. I'm typing it like he spells it, although his spelling was very good in this one:
Dear Mom and Dad,
When I got my report card on last Monday I got lots of A's and B's. My parents were proud of me and I was also proud of myself. A's and B's are good and I like those letters. This is also the first time where I can get A's, B's, C's, D's and F's. F is the worst grade you could ever get! If I ever get an F on my report card..........I WOULD BE GROUNDED FOR LIFE!!! so that's why I try to work hard.
Coming soon: Recipe for the BEST Christmas cookies evah!
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Letter From Handy Boy
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The fifth major iteration of Apple's iOS operating system has already been jailbroken, hackers claim.
A developer release of iOS 5 was reportedly cracked by the iPhone Dev Team in less than 24 hours, after one its members, 'MuscleNerd', announced that they have successfully installed Cydia – a third party apps repository - on a fourth-generation iPod.
iPhone Dev Team, in case you didn't know, is not to be mistaken for the people in charge of developing iOS, but rather a group of programmers dedicated to 'liberating' it from Apple's clutches.
Although Apple is strongly opposed to jailbreaking – which is essentially a method used to gain 'root access' to the stuff that controls the OS – the US government has ruled it completely legal. Cupertino argues that jailbreaking is responsible for widespread piracy of applications and can permanently render some devices inoperable.
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Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 31, 2013 at 05:34PM
Thursday August 1st
5×5 behind the neck push press
3 rounds
10 jerks 135/95
20 toes to bar
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 30, 2013 at 07:51PM
Wednesday July 31st
Skill- MUSCLE UPS! Come in and work with the Boss and Leisa on some muscle ups! Or Coach Kyle at night.
12 Minutes
Even Minutes- Pushups
Odd Minutes- 5 Deadlifts at 275/185
Your score is your pushups. Pushups are regular, not crossfit standard. NO HAND RELEASE ALLOWED. Sorry wormers.
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 29, 2013 at 11:51AM
Tuesday July 30th
Back Squats- 10 @ 60%, 8@ 65%, 8@ 70%, 8@ 75%, 6 80%
3 Rounds
10 Power Snatch 95/65
5 Ring Dips
200 M Run
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 28, 2013 at 03:10PM
Monday July 29th
12 Minutes to establish todays max clean and jerk
then every minute on the minute for 6 minutes complete 1 clean and jerk at 90%. Focus on form.
2 Rounds
800 M Run
12 Front squats 185/135
10 Chest to bar pullups
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 25, 2013 at 09:08PM
Hey all!
This Saturday and Sunday (July 26th and 27th) Crossfit GSL will be closed. There will be no yoga and no wods on Saturday due to the GLMR ride that Coach Z is putting on and GSL is participating in. If you are looking for something to do you have the following options:
A) run a 5k
B) 12 min AMRAP of:
12 burpees
14 push-ups
16 squats
18 sit-ups
C) 100 burpees for time
They all sound delightful:)
If a bunch of you do the burpees for time and submit your time to me (with honor), we will give the winner a Shaker bottle.
Those of you that have bikes and want to participate in the GLMR, please reach out to Chelsea or Zach.
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 25, 2013 at 08:56AM
Who is ready for an amazing closing to the summer? (no one wants summer to end so that's not what I am saying Leisa)
We are going to have a Crossfit GSL camping trip! Friday August 23rd to Sunday August 25th. You can come up for both nights, one night, a day picnic and hike, or if you aren't very fun, not at all:)
We will be camping in the Uintahs. I am not 100% on the spot yet, as I need to know who all will be going and how many trailers and such.
More info to come, I just wanted to put it out there and see who is interested. Also, I don't mean to sound mean, but everyone will need to bring there own food and drinks. We are an awesome gym guys, but not loaded:)
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 25, 2013 at 08:48AM
Hey all!!!
On September 14th, Crossfit GSL is sponsoring an event for the Fisher House. It is a golf tournament. It is teams of four and it is a scramble, so if you suck, oh well!
This is being held at the Stonebridge Golf Course in West Valley. This is a GREAT event for a great cause. And our very own 6AM'er Billy is helping put it on. The cost is 79 per person, but as long as we get 12 it is only 69. If we can get 20+ the price will possibly go down another 10.
I need your name and phone number on the list on my desk if you are planning to sign up. That way Billy can get us all signed up under GSL for the discounted price. Please talk to me with any questions! So far I have these people who are signing up. If your name isn't on the list, please let me know! I need your phone number as well.
Matt P
Jeff P
Steve Smith
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 25, 2013 at 08:43AM
Friday July 26th
A) 3×1 3 position snatch (high hang, hang, full snatch)
B) 5×1 snatch from the worst place (you will for on the position that is the hardest for you)
3 Rounds
25 M Sled Push (185/135)
10 Back Extensions
25 M Sled Push
10 GHD Situps
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 24, 2013 at 07:52PM
Thursday July 25th
3×8 narrow grip bench press
3×3 pause back squats
2 rounds
100 double unders
50 wall ball shots
3 muscle ups
Crossfit Great Salt Lake / July 24, 2013 at 06:37PM
CrossFit-JournalPOST Growing Up CrossFit – Gauntlet events showcase how CrossFit Kids encourages lifelong fitness through fun rather than cutthroat competition. Shea-Lynn Gioia is 12. She traveled eight hours to compete in her first CrossFit event. Shea, her parents, and her coach made the trip to CrossFit Firepower, a hub for CrossFit Kids seminars in Milton, Ont. Shea is joining 30 other kids aged 12-18 for one of the first CrossFit Kids Gauntlet competitions held o… http://ow.ly/2yCn1h


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Sun Sign Astrology Forecast February 2012 February 1, 2012Posted by Kerry in Astrology.
Tags: Astrology
Aries 20 March – 19 April
Venus, the "goddess of love and all good things", enters your sign and she brings an aura of magnetic attraction. So it is impossible to hide. So you may as well let yourself true inner self shine, and see what happens. Have a think on what you would like to come into your life. Make your bucket list. Change is in the air!
Taurus 20 April – 20 May
More responsibilities and extra duties for you at work. Even those of you that are house bound will be busy chasing dust! For all of you; emotions will run high with anything to do with family issues. All this could make you feel stuck. The solution is to begin working towards the future; what are all your hopes and wishes?
Gemini 21 May – 20 June
There is no way you can stay still. So you may as well go with it, and enjoy yourself as you move from one place to another. Friends will have some surprises for you as they are ready for a change. They want you to be involved, and you are keen, but look for way out as a situation at work will soon sidetrack you.
Cancer 21 June – 21 July
Money continues to be a focus at the beginning of this month and any issues could lead to emotional reactions. Tensions are really due to feelings of insecurity, and will not be about the actual dollars and cents of life. A solution or a discovery will surprise you. So it's time to get good advice. Some personal ("me") time, will help you feel in control.
Leo 22 July – 22 Aug
With the Full Moon in your sign there is a tendency to overreact. It's best to reflect before reacting, and if people upset you it is a good idea to simply ask "what do you mean by that". Putting all your eggs in one basket will not work, so diversify your time and energy. During this month you need to negotiate how to share something important.
Virgo 23 Aug – 22 Sep
Relationships are so confusing! And the confusion level just got higher. There is nothing you can do to make logical sense of anything to do with the special people in your life, and for any organized Virgo that is a traumatic experience. What can I say; just let it go, because it's going to be happening for quite a while. So get used to it.
Libra 23 Sep – 22 Oct
Amidst this continuing time of darn hard work, your loved ones, or not so loved ones, are going to be doing something surprising. It's your choice to be upset or not. Or to join with them, or not. Hey; it may liven up your life, so give them a chance to do what they must do. Good regimes of diet and exercise will help any health issues.
Scorpio 23 Oct – 21 Nov
Young people, or those young at heart, are exciting, spontaneous, and carefree. Is that a hassle? They are simply doing what they are supposed to do. Let them awaken the inner child in you. Isn't it time? Another theme in the stars is a spotlight focusing on work and your connection to the ruling authorities (bosses). There is no need to take the situation so literally, or so personally?
Sagittarius 22 Nov – 20 Dec
Say yes if you haven't done so already. This is a month for a celebration or for an exciting social event that you have longed for. You can even take a trip or book a holiday. The stars want you to have some fun. So you may as well oblige! Later in the month the focus will return to things that must be done at home.
Capricorn 21 Dec – 19 Jan
Money continues to be on the forefront of your mind. And if you have not sorted it out by now then you will tend to worry. If you made a decision, then stick with it. Not making a decision is actually a decision not to do anything. Later in the month you get a second change to make up your mind and therefore make yet another decision.
Aquarius 20 Jan – 17 Feb
All dreams have a cost attached. And right now you are not being very practical about the cost. If other people are getting emotional then it may be due to your blinkered vision about money, or it may not. But I bet its money! A sudden snap decision will either make it better, or make it a whole lot worse. Think carefully!
Pisces 19 Feb – 19 March
Golly I wish I were a Pisces right now! More luck and greater opportunities for you to enjoy yourself this month. Although your energy levels may be lowered. If you do have ongoing hassles, then now is the time that they can be turned around. Even in a storm you will have the opportunity to see the silver lining and hence develop a positive spirit.
A lot of people do not realise that the Sun moves into the 12 signs of the zodiac on slightly different dates each year. If you are born close to the border of two signs then you are on the cusp and you are a blend of the two sun signs. The dates here are the 2012 Sun Ingress dates for Australia. Source is Solar Fire.


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In the name of God, Amen, I HEZEKIAH YANCY of the Parish of St James and County of Mecklenburg being low and weak in body tho of sound and perfect mind, I do and ordain this my last will and testament.
Item: I give and bequeath to my Brother ROBERT YANCY one negro of the name of Peter, to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my Brother CHARLES YANCY one negro boy by the name of Stephen to him and his heirs forever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my Brother [ZACARIAH ?] YANCY one negro woman by the name of June to him and his heirs forever, on paying my brother REUBEN YANCY thirty pounds at ten pounds a year in [special?].
Item: I give and bequeath to my brother REUBEN YANCY twenty pounds that is willed to me in my father's will and also a horse that is willed to me and saddle, one bed and furniture and also [act?] that I have against my father's estate for one horse.
Item: I give the crop of corn that is now growing to my mother MARY YANCY.
Item: I give and bequeath to my four brothers: ROBERT, CHARLES, ZACARIAH and RICHARD YANCY all my part of my father's estate that I am to have after the death of my mother, to be equally divided between them.
Item: I constitute and appoint my Brother ROBERT YANCY my soul [sic.] Executor and trustee of this my last will and testament revoking all other wills [I] do proclaim and declare this my last will and testament as witnessed [by] my hand and seal this eleventh day of June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Two.
HEZEKIAH YANCY (seal)
Signed, sealed, proclaimed and delivered before us:
At a court held for Mecklenburg County the 9th day of September 1782 this will was proved by the oaths of THOMAS GREENWOOD and JOHN WILLIAMSON, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of ROBERT YANCY the Executor therein named who made oath there to and together with JOHN WILLIAMS [sic.] his security enter into and acknowledge their bond in the penalty of five hundred pounds conditioned as the law directs. Certificate was granted him for obtaining a [______?] of the said will in due form.
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Protecting Conscience in Health Care: A Road Not Traveled.
Date of this version
Document Type
human rights, conscience, abortion, euthanasia, contraception, mutilation, morality, Catholic, health care
The current approach to guaranteeing rights of conscience depends on the recognition of a human (and constitutional) right not to be required to cooperate in actions one deems immoral, such as abortion, euthanasia, contraception, and mutilation. But in the culture at large, arguments made within a moral and religious framework may be ineffective. The author suggests that health care workers consider a basis for refusal that may be both simpler and more effective: refusing to do such actions not because one is Catholic but because the actions are the very opposite of health care.
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National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly,
Citation/Other Information
Heaney, S. (2008). Protecting conscience in health care: A road not traveled. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8(4), 673-680.


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a VirtualTourist member asked on Jun 18, 2006
How can I book and pay to camp on Portuguese Island; and what time of year is coolest and driest weather?
I might be wrong but I've never heard of camping at Portugese islands. As far as I know (only have been there once for 2 hours before going to Inhaca) there is nothing on the island. No people living there. On Inhaca a few km form portugese island there is a hotel and maybe camping facilities. I'm sure the hotel will be able to help you. mozambiquetravelservice.com/...
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