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Our Team
A neuroscientist, a designer, and an engineer walk into a bar…
Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH
CEO and founder
When it comes to health engagement, Dr. Bobinet has 5 words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and especially, WHY we engage.
Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value.
Dr. Bobinet teaches at Stanford School of Medicine on patient engagement and empowerment, and health design with Dr. Larry Chu, founder of MedicineX. She has studied in Dr. BJ Fogg's Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford, whom she credits as the founder of "behavior design".
Dr. Bobinet received her Masters in Public Health at Harvard University, specializing in Healthcare Management, Technology-enabled Behavior Change, and Population Health Management. She received her medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine.
When she's not geeking out on neuroscience literature, you can find her hiking on her land, studying bird behavior, and meditating.
"Engagement is everything; if we are engaged in our life, we are fully alive…we have the awareness to face the truth of our behaviors and invest in our well-being. Health is merely a by-product."
Brian Garcia
Chief Technology Officer
Brian Garcia is a 15-year technology executive known for innovation and user-centered design of health and wellness software products. As a leading voice in the industry, he has promoted the power of combining design and technology in healthcare.
Now, Brian joins engagedIN for one reason—to add our neuroscience power to his design and technology background—as a trifecta of behavior change for our customers' solutions. Brian is responsible for our product and technology services including product management, engineering, platform design and development, and architecture.
Garcia most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Welltok, growing their health optimization platform revenue by over 70% year-over-year. Prior to Welltok, Garcia was Chief Technology Officer for Healthagen, a subsidiary of Aetna, where he led technology strategy across multiple business units in both growth and start-up phases. One of Garcia's key accomplishments was developing Healthagen's award-winning platform to combine claims and clinical data sets to create a holistic patient view and inform clinical decisions. During his tenure with Aetna, Garcia held several senior technology leadership roles, including chief architect, and created an integrated suite of solutions driving the health payer business that improved efficiencies and reduced costs by $60 million.
He also does flips on razor sharp devices. No big deal.
"Technology often intrudes in our lives, not improving our experience but creating new friction in what we do. Design and technology must coexist to take complexity and deliver simplicity and a delightful experience to the user that feels like magic."
Keenan Walch
Behavior Design Lead, Product Design Manager
An expert in understanding the human mind/human behavior, Keenan studied behavior neuroscience at UC Davis. He conducted lab research on the effects of oxytocin on stress and anxiety and worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences studying the effect of adult neurogenesis in learning and memory. Over two years at the Salk, he volunteered extensively in clinical settings, observing surgeries, emergency medicine, and primary care.
When he's not debating the subtleties of the human brain, he's coaching volleyball or surfing waves.
"The most powerful statement for understanding behavior change is the simple thought: 'That's just my brain being my brain!'"
Andrew Zimmermann
Design Services Lead
Andrew rejoins engagedIN to create solutions for some of the trickiest engagement issues faced by industry leaders in health and wellness. Andrew is responsible for engagedIN's design services vertical overseeing projects and programs for our customers ensuring that the latest neuroscience, psychology, and design best practices are integrated into every stage of development.
Previously, Andrew was a founding member of Lucid Performance, a platform that provides mindfulness and mental training to consumers at scale. While with Lucid, he oversaw content production and business development working with Fortune 500 companies to bring peak performance training to their employees and customers.
Andrew started on the path of behavior design at Stanford University where he studied under Dr. BJ Fogg while splitting research time between the School of Medicine and the Persuasive Technology Lab.
When he's not designing solutions for clients, he can be found fielding questions about his height (6'9"), and whether he used it to the fullest potential (yes, I played basketball at Stanford). He continues to put his height to good use dusting the tops of refrigerators, grabbing things off of tall shelves, and providing a spectacle for people walking the streets of New York.
"Why do people do what they do? Why don't people do what they want to do? How can we create designs to help people live happier and healthier lives? Those are the questions that drive my curiosity for neuroscience, psychology, and design."
Simone Arora
UI/UX Designer
Simone takes our ideas and brings them to life – on screen and in your hands. A USC graduate, she uses creativity, story-telling, and empathy to create digital experiences that engage users – like this website, for example.
When she's not glued to her Wacom tablet, she's studying typography, watching Seinfeld reruns, or chipping away at her goal: 100 countries before she's 30.
"I set apart my design strategy by asking, how will the brain react when I put this in front of it? It's my starting point, and everything else flows from there."
Jacqueline Overton, PhD
Behavior Designer, Neuroscience Lead
Across many research pursuits, Dr. Overton has designed behavioral tasks that uncover sensory, motor, and cognitive functions with an eye toward the larger benefit for public health. With her neuroscience PhD from UC Davis and BS in cognitive neuroscience from UC San Diego, Jackie has studied the brain intensively for over a decade. She has made discoveries in age-related changes of how the brain processes sound as well as studied temporal processing in aging primates and designed 3D printed custom implants to improve their brain surgeries.
Oh, and she's also a cake-decorating ninja, makes her own jewelry and has a brown belt in judo and Muay Thai.
"I am passionate about learning what processes underlie the decisions we make—and how that makes us who we are."
Hayley Kirksey
Executive Assistant, Events Manager
Hayley Kirksey is the glue that holds the team together. She keeps engagedIN running like a well-oiled machine. A total lifesaver and organizational wizard, she ensures every one of our clients gets the very best service. Hayley is also our coordinator for all events and design workshops at CHANGE, the 160-acre engagedIN facility in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
When she isn't saving us from scheduling nightmares, she's traveling in search of the world's best beaches.
"Creating in-person experiences is essential in the world of constant digital communication. My goal is to design a space for people to connect with each other and spark their innermost creativity."
Melissa Brandt
Business Manager
Melissa is passionately interested in the mental, physical, emotional & spiritual aspects of being human. She has a degree in Psychology, holds a Life & Health Insurance license, and is a Licensed Massage Therapist. On any day, you can find her dancing, doing yoga, cuddling animals, being outdoors, meditating, and reading anything she can get her hands on. Oh and she's hooked on Seinfeld and Golden Girls – which probably explains her killer sense of humor.
"I love engagedIN's attitude of iteration, compassion, egoless-ness, and resilience."
Jeff Kreisler
Content Designer
Jeff Kreisler is just your typical Princeton-educated lawyer turned award-winning comedian, author, speaker, pundit, host and advocate for behavioral science. He uses humor to understand, explain and change the world. He authored a Boston Globe bestseller and recently co-wrote a behavioral economics book with Dan Ariely.
When he was 19, he taught English to Russians in Moscow. He apologizes for all the trouble that's caused.
"I believe humor can help us understand, explain and change the world. That and science. Also psychology. Which is science. And love. Love is good, too. Really, if we all just get more sleep we'll be fine. I have kids."
Julia Stilwagen
Neuroscience Design in Education
A veteran of putting up with our CEO, this is Julia's second start-up journey with Dr. Bobinet—having been coaxed out of her idyllic life by the compelling mission of engagedIN. Julia uses her big brain to manage our daily business infrastructure. She also leads our corporate giving effort to design a neuroscience-based training for students to empower them in designing their life.
Fun fact: Julia met her husband at a Buddhist retreat while they were both volunteers—and now lives in the beautiful hills of North Carolina with their two angelic kids.
"My burning desire is to understand the mind and listen to the heart. I love this work, especially our blossoming program for teens, because it offers practical tools to do both."
Our Work
We solve the Brain-Behavior Gap™ by combining the latest research with a compassionate design approach to increase engagement and behavior change at-scale.
Our Story
Who are we? We are a behavior neuroscience design firm squarely focused on scalable behavior change solutions. We've achieved it, not just designed it. We leverage decades of intensive 1:1 behavior change experience combined with large-scale intervention designs that yielded engagement and efficacy.
Our Habitat
We are fortunate to "work" – if you can call it that – on 160 acres of land in the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains of California. We call our habitat CHANGE, and draw inspiration and creativity from majestic redwoods, coveys of quail, and acorn-munching deer.
We believe our land is meant to be shared with like-minded changemakers. Please join us for an on-site workshop, farm-to-table community dinner, or request a tour.


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For the first time in Korea, we introduced the pressing method to produce PVC floor tiles in 1986. With the accumulated skills and technologies, Woosoung Chemical was established in 1989. Since then, we have increased productivity and have supplied products to meet the various needs of our customers by continuously improving the quality and production methods of floor tiling. We will strive to provide you with the best products.
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The 2017 Fall Leaf Collection season has ended as of December 8, 2017.Curbside leaf collection has ended for the 2017 season, however, property owners or their landscapers may drop off at no charge to the Recycling Center 110 Secor Rd., through 2:30 PM on Thursday, December 28, 2017. Leaves may also be placed curbside in biodegradable paper bags only, which will be continued to be collected. Plastic bags will not be accepted.


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I'm drawing Jesus to you near
In reverence, my prayers hear.
That rugged cross, that bitter anguish
In which I did participate,
Your death I did facilitate.
You will not allow me to languish,
You gave me life, you stood condemned,
Reached out to me, became my friend
Oh Saviour, friend; yes verily,
Who else dies for his enemy?
Who serves yet rules over the nation?
Who becomes man but still is Lord?
Leaves heaven for a mocking crowd?
Who dies, from whom comes all creation?
Is that not you, oh Jesus Christ,
You died for me, you paid the price.
Faultless, before the human race,
What you do here is perfect grace.
You pay in full what i have broken,
You suffer, yet the fault is mine,
A child of death is my consign.
You give your life for me in token,
You leave your home to do me well
When I deserve to be in hell.
Look, blinded Jew! and then take note
Whose face you spit, whose head you smote?
Is that the way you pledge allegiance?
Await you your Messiah so?
Adore you Judah's Saviour so?
Must not the stones cry out in grievance?
Is not your King so precious then,
Oh daughter of Jerusalem?
Why would a murderer then be
Of value so much more than He?
Do you accuse the one who frees you?
Do you condemn upon the cross
Him, without whom the world is lost,
And put to death the one who loves you?
But why do I give others blame;
Woe unto me, I've done the same!
Mine, mine is all iniquity,
I am the one that tortured thee.
I am responsible for murder,
I wove that piercing crown of thorns,
I spoke to you with hate-filled scorn.
I nailed you to the cross with fervour,
Now, quaking knees, in fear I stand,
You suffered, Jesus, at my hand.
Alas, Alas, Oh Saviour mine,
Oh highest life, how can you die?
Beginning and end, can you relinquish?
Bows your head down, head of the world?
Goes still the hand that holds the earth?
Intrinsic light, can death extinguish,
Those eyes, that clearer shine by far
Than moon and sun and brightest star.
I start to weep, what have I done?
I've helped to kill God's only Son.
He gave me life, He breathed creation,
I'm standing all alone today,
Where is my help on Judgement Day?
Satan is calling my damnation
Heaven is now my enemy,
And earth stands barren and empty.
Where find I comfort in my pain?
You are alone the remedy.
Lion of Judah, root of David,
You pleaded for your enemies,
You took for friend that wretched thief.
I cry out for that grace so sacred,
You say that everything is is done,
Why is my heart so woebegone?
Spite hell and death! Spite satan, ye!
You have no power over me.
My Jesus full of pure forgiveness
Bent down to me arms open wide,
And took me in, now reconciled.
For I am saved, God is my witness,
I'm one with Him and He with me,
Heaven is now my destiny.
Haven of safety, highest friend,
Your grace and mercy knows no end.
I wretched man, I don't deserve it,
I stand here now and praise your name
Always, forever, I proclaim;
To be your faithful loving servant,
My life is surely lived in vain
If by your grace I don't remain.
This world disgusts me with her sin,
I search but find no truth within.
All things holy, stand desecrated,
Oh, take me to the tomb today,
There I can let Old Adam lay.
From sin now free, I'm liberated!
Come, come my death I welcome you
More than a thousand lives, adieu.
More than a thousand lives, adieu.


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Dana Slamp is the Founder of Prema Yoga Therapeutics, an IAYT member school and the leading training facility for yoga therapists in NYC. She leads advanced teacher trainings at Pure Yoga in uptown New York, Yoga Vida in downtown New York, Three Sisters Yoga in Portland, OR, and the upcoming Ayurvedic Yoga Training at Pure Yoga July 13 - 31. Dana's presented at Columbia Medical University, the Telluride Yoga Festival, and several times at the Yoga Journal Conference.
Dana's unique upbringing in a family of ministers and teachers led to a lifelong pursuit of spiritual truth, first in the arts through classical acting and writing, through her legal writing as paralegal, and through the teachings of yoga over the past two decades. Prema Yoga Therapeutics' training for yoga teachers and medical health care professionals can be found at prema-yoga.org. For a list of local classes as well as national courses and international retreats, please check our her personal teaching site at danaslamp.com.
- Dana's origin story begins in a conservative Christian church. Her father was a minister, and so her family was deeply engaged with spiritual pursuits and the arts.
- Dana developed a tumor in her petuitary gland, which is a gland often associated with experiences of awakening and enlightenment.
- How the means and paths to Truth are mistaken for the Truth. We bring this up in the context of a discussion about being raised in religion.
- A return to mysticism in Christianity.
- Integrating Eastern philosophy with Western medical developments.
- Why an integrated approach to medicine is aided by a "new" philosophy around healing.
- How the Cartesian view of the self has shaped our medical and physiological worldview.
- "You are not your pain." The need for something like yoga to augment talk therapy as a way to liberate someone from their over-identification with the story they're telling.
- Down-regulating practices: In our nervous system, we have two sides - sympathetic nervous system (SNS) response (fight or flight) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) which "downregulates" and "rests, digests, and heals" the body.
- The Vagus nerve.
- Krishnamacharya (the father of modern yoga) and the one-on-one, therapeutic approach to yoga.
- Three types of yoga practiced in the West: exercise (vyayam), spiritual (upasana), and yoga medicine (chikitsa).
- Healing is being whole (the word Healing comes from the old English hal).
- Modern Western medical practitioners as generally being technically proficient but not proficient in preventative measures and embodied practices.
- 75% of the prescription opiates on Earth are consumed by Americans.
- Yoga Alliance's decision to take away "yoga therapy" from its designations.
- The Myth of Vishvamitra - Vishvamitra discovered the Gayatri mantra


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NVIDIA 2017 releases the Pascal-powered TITAN Xp pushes more cores, faster clocks, faster memory and more TFLOPS than its predecessor, the 2016 Pascal-powered TITAN X. With the new TITAN Xp we're delivering a card to users who demand the very best NVIDIA GPU, directly from NVIDIA and supported by NVIDIA.
NVIDIA TITAN Xp Features:
- 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbps
- 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz
- 12 TFLOPs of brute force
NVIDIA 2017 releases the NVIDIA GeForce TITAN Xp will feature 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbps, 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz and 12 TFLOPs of brute force.
NVIDIA 2017 releases PASCAL Drivers for Windows and Mac Os
NVIDIA 2017 releasesed the Pascal drivers for windows and Pascal drivers are not ready for Mac but they are process so NVIDIA is going to release the Mac Pascal drivers very soon.
If you happen to have an older Mac Pro, or even a Hackintosh, then you will finally be able to upgrade your graphics card soon as Nvidia has announced that it will finally be updating its MacOS GPU drivers with support for Pascal. Nvidia hasn't updated its GPU drivers for Mac in a long time, meaning anyone looking to upgrade their GPU or build a Hackintosh from scratch would need to find an older Maxwell GPU.
NVIDIA 2017 releases the world's most advanced GPU architecture delivering truly game-changing performance, innovative technologies, and immersive, next-gen VR. With brilliant gameplay with captivating sights and sounds, it's a whole new way to game.
Pascal-powered graphics cards give you superior performance and power efficiency, built using ultra-fast FinFET and supporting DirectX™ 12 features to deliver the fastest, smoothest, most power-efficient gaming experiences. GeForce GTX 1080, the flagship Pascal GPU, also features high-bandwidth GDDR5X technologies for incredible gaming experiences.
NVIDIA is an American technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It designs grapics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming market, as well as system on chip units (SOCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Its primary GPU product line, labeled "GeForce", is in direct competition with Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) "Radeon" products. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld SHIELD Portable Shield Tablet.
Since 2014, Nvidia has shifted to become a platform company focused on four markets – gaming, professional visualization, data centers and auto.
In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides parallel processing capabilities to researchers and scientists that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.More recently, It has moved into the mobile computing market, where it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems. In addition to AMD, its competitors include Intel, Qualcomm and ARM (e.g., because of Denver, while Nvidia also licenses ARM's designs).


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Description: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland
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Friday, February 3, 2017
~ Inspiration Friday ~
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16 comments:
- pattyb said...
Oh me! Most fun I've had all day! I loved your comment about just. loving, everything! Loving life....we need so much more awareness of that, especially now with so much turmoil, fighting and general dismay! What a GREAT reminder to LOVE LIFE!!! Bless you for inspiring us with your thoughts and beautiful pictures!!!
- February 3, 2017 at 11:56 AM
- blueladie said...
All I kept saying is wow... wow... wow! There aren't enough adjectives to describe the beauty you have created. :-o
- February 3, 2017 at 12:15 PM
- Nancy D. said...
WOWZA!!!!! Yes, my Dear, you really are smitten! Such a cheerful color! And…boy, do I love that "sprouting" hare! I'm going to like Inspiration Friday!
- February 3, 2017 at 12:17 PM
- Krissy B. said...
This is something I will really look forward to. Pinterest helps keep me sane while living in the most boring place on earth. You bring so much pleasure to my life Lori. Thanks for sharing some more of yourself.
- February 3, 2017 at 12:43 PM
- Karen said...
Lovely choices with a lovely color!
Karen in NC
- February 3, 2017 at 2:19 PM
Oh, I like yellow too! Love the piece still in the hoop! Brightened my day! (It is very cold, damp and gray, here today, I needed that wonderful brightness!!)
Thanks for sharing all the pretties!
- February 3, 2017 at 2:47 PM
- NMK said...
That was Fun !!! Yellow is the perfect color for this time of year ! Bright & cheery !!!!
- February 3, 2017 at 3:42 PM
Hi LORI, Today I found a pop-up card with a YELLOW flower I´ll send to an old quilting friend, 90+ to let her know I´m thinking of her after a tough winter.
I like yellow but I don´t wear that colour. 60 years back I made a lemon yellow dress and used it just once and just before lunch.
Probably we´ll have two more months of Winter but we can enjoy the SUN sometimes and that make the life much easier.
Louise in Sweden.
- February 3, 2017 at 4:50 PM
- Janet said...
Thank you so much for sharing. Love it. My favorite is the wall collage-not sure if that is the proper word but that's what popped in my head. Yes, I love every style, primitive, seasonal, etc. that is why I NEED TO DOWN SIZE UP STUFF. Thank you again. I look forward to next Friday.
- February 3, 2017 at 7:05 PM
- Bikegirl said...
I have just started reading your blog and I love what you create, it's sobeautiful! I also love the way you write your blog, it just seems so relaxing and soothing :)
I also love the picture of your cat Iggy.
- February 3, 2017 at 7:29 PM
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- Ann at Beadlework. said...
What an inspiring blog post - yellow is such a happy colour.
- February 4, 2017 at 3:45 AM
- Annmarie said...
Great posting and definitely inspiration. There are so many different types of stitching and don't you just appreciate them all. thanks for sharing ann
- February 4, 2017 at 5:20 AM
Bravo, Lori! Your post really spoke to me, as a person who loves prim but is also inspired by many other designs and techniques. I like to try everything, and there is so much to learn! I'm glad that I'm not alone, and I look forward to seeing your creations!
- February 4, 2017 at 8:39 AM
- Sigrid Swinnen said...
Wow, there are some real pieces of art in this collection of inspiration!
Yellow makes me happy too, so I get why you like it :-)
Have a nice weekend,
- February 4, 2017 at 1:10 PM
- Jimmie said...
Lord Love a Duck!!! I loved this post. Can't wait for the future Friday posts. Every single picture was really, really exciting.
Diane in North Carolina
- February 4, 2017 at 2:57 PM


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Andrew John "Drew" Lachey is an American singer and actor. He is known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars, and is the younger brother of Nick Lachey. Enjoy Drew Lachey's best quotes below.
"I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'"
"Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets."
"I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from."
"With families, your priorities shift. You're not going to be like, 'Let's go out on tour year-round.' I have kids in school. You have to lay things out."
"I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music."
"Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable – performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could."
"I'm trying to be the best father and take care of my kids."
"Mary Hart says she meant to stay on 'Entertainment Tonight' for three years. She was on for 29."
"I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to."
"Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you."
"My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt."


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There will be a large dedication celebrating the completion
of my "Transformation" mural this Friday September 12th at 11am.
The ceremony will be held at 41st and Market Sts. It promises to be a huge event, staff and members all 6 organizations that participated in the project will be in attendance. Come and be a part of the ceremony as well!
here is the official invite
in addition the mural has gotten some press in anticipation of this event.
Tomorrow, I will be doing a short interview with channel 6 news, Im not sure when it will air, as of yet
Here are a few write-ups the mural has received, click on the links below to view the scans in PDF format
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Portion of US$536M Asian Loan Reportedly Paid Out to Liberia; Government Still Mum on Details of MOU
Washington – Concerns are mounting amid speculations that the Coalition for Democratic Change-led government is on the verge of receiving a portion of the US$536 million loan payment resulting from a recently-signed memorandum of Understand with an Asian conglomerate led by the Singaporean-based firm, Eton Finance Private Limited.
Report by Rodney D. Sieh, [email protected]
Days after the signing of the MOU, the government has been unable to inform Liberians and the international community whether the agreement is a non- disclosure or non-circumvention one aimed at having Eton go out and raise the money.
Investigation by FrontPageAfrica has uncovered that Eton, which operates as an investment company in the asset management industry is an unlisted private company with no public information on the total capitalization or its net asset value (NAV).
The company has no website, no Dun & Bradstreet or credit rating which are assigned to businesses that have supplied Dun & Bradstreet with a current financial statement. The Composite Credit Appraisal is a number, 1 through 4, that makes up the second half of the company's rating and reflects Dun & Bradstreet's overall assessment of that firm's creditworthiness. Financial analysts say, typically, investment companies raise monies either through equity or debt for its clients.
These are the guides most organizations use to compile business credit file, alluding to an organization's ability to make good on contractual obligations.
A D&B report compiles available business data to measure the creditworthiness of a company. D&B reports are like personal credit reports for businesses and are issued by the credit reporting agency Dun & Bradstreet. Companies typically check a D&B report when negotiating payment terms and lenders will also sometimes check when assessing a business borrower.
Eton has also been marked as a struck off and removed from the financial listing although no reason is given by Bloomberg.
The last time a similar scenario occurred was with Broadway. A FrontPageAfrica 2007 investigation also raised a red flag that Broadway had no history or a website to undertake such a major operation in Liberia.
The previous government headed by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf endured similar scrutiny over the make-shift Israeli firm, Elenilto and the Western Cluster Belt.
The Western Cluster deposits comprised of the former National Iron Ore Company (NIOC), the Bea Mountains and the Liberia Mining Company (LMC). Iron ore mining activities actually began in the Western Cluster area in the early 1950s specifically at the LMC at Bomi Hills, Bomi County and later in the early 1960s at the NIOC at Kongo (Mano River), Grand Cape Mount County.
"No loans shall be raised by the Government on behalf of the Republic or guarantees given for any public institutions or authority otherwise than by or under the authority of a legislative Enactment." – Additionally, Article 34 (iii)of the constitution
The Sirleaf administration, in a bid to attract investments in the Western Cluster Deposits, decided to tender the deposits by sending out a request for proposals (RFP) from qualified concessionaires. The first bid round ended in controversy in 2007, due to award of the deposits to a South African company, Delta Mining, which was clearly not qualified, when due diligence was conducted on the winner.
The tender was triggered after a FrontPageAfrica 2007 investigation dubbed Knucklesgate Scandal found that Sirleaf's Minister of State the late Willis Knuckles had promised three companies the cluster in exchange for ten percent interest for himself. The South African firm, Delta Mining which won the bid was disqualified after the FPA investigation although Delta later reinvented itself as Sable Mining, which was once more engulfed in a new controversy triggered by a damning Global Witness report.
Fast-forward to the Weah-led government, an MOU signed with the Asian conglomerate is said to be valued at US$536 million aimed toward the construction of a coastal highway for southeastern Liberia. But while many are hailing the new government's initiative, the lack of transparency and accountability over the loan is raising a lot of questions.
One financial analyst told FrontPageAfrica at the weekend that the government's refusal to make the agreement public could boil down to one things: "That MOU must have some non-disclosure or non-circumvention elements in it. They are probably using the document signed with the conglomerate to go and shop for the money."
Article 34: No Loan Without Legislative OK
But the question many are asking is who will give such an amount without collateral.
Weighing in on the issue on his popular Darius Dillon Exchange at the weekend, the opposition Liberty Party official averred: "I will appreciate the "Loan" to construct a "Coastal Highway"; but I need to see the MOU first. What are the global acceptability and credibility of the Loaning Institution? What are the terms and conditions? It is my RIGHT to know. Article 15c of our Constitution grants me said RIGHT – and it is FUNDAMENTAL."
Additionally, Article 34 (iii)of the constitution makes it clear: "No loans shall be raised by the Government on behalf of the Republic or guarantees given for any public institutions or authority otherwise than by or under the authority of a legislative Enactment."
The governance structure in Liberia is currently dominated by leaders from the southeast – President Weah, Grand Kru, President Pro -Temp Albert Chie, Grand Kru and Speaker Bhophal Chambers, Maryland.
Wologizi or Oil Blocks: What is Liberia Given up?
Currently, all 30 of Liberia's oil blocks are said to be available as is the Wologizi Mountain range in Lofa.
Once a promising sector for oil, Liberia has been on a dry spell of late with the pull out of both US oil giants Chevron and Exxon.
Liberia signed millions via signatures fees, licensing and geo seismic data information from various multinational oil companies during the previous regime headed by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. But the failure of both Exxon, Chevron and the UK-based African Petroleum to find oil has been attributed among the factors why Exxon and Chevron have packed off and left and AP's indebtedness to Liberia.
Then there is the Wologizi Mountain located in Lofa said to be a landmine for a lot of minerals. A 1973 US-funded report found that the range comprises of a sequence of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. "In the lower part of the group these are politic and psammitic schists and subordinate mafic volcanic rocks and silicate iron-formations; in the upper part oxide and silicate iron-formation predominate." The range is underlain by a tightly folded sequence of metamorphosed Precambrian sedimentary and volcanic rocks that is herein referred to as the Wologizi group. The group consists of metamorphosed shale, sandstone, graywacke, conglomerate, chert, oxide-and silicate-facies iron-formation, and mafic volcanic rocks."
Eyes Circling Over US$536M Loan
In 2013, the Chinese government expressed interest in the range at a time when the Indian company O.P. Jindal Group had similar interest.
Now with a lot of eyes circling around the Weah-led government's overtures to Asia, keen interest is building up on what Liberia is likely to give up as part of its quest to secure the US$536 million loan
More importantly, many political and economic observers are wondering whether oil blocks and Wologizi are in the cards.
Additionally, questions are also being asked regarding what would the interest be on the loan?
One source told FrontPageAfrica at the weekend that the government is on the verge of receiving at least three percent off the amount as commission to the financing firm Eton who is handling the loan, amounting to some US$15 million.
For now, businessman Emmanuel Shaw is reportedly behind the effort to secure the loan. Shaw, who previously worked in front and behind the scenes in both the Samuel Doe-led government and the Charles Taylor-led government recently stepped down his position on the board of the cellular giant Lonestarcell/MTN to take on a role as advisor in the Weah administration.
Shaw, according to sources has been a key agent behind the negotiations of the Singapore deal. One political observer fears that because the company is a private firm, it is unlikely that the Liberian population will be seeing the details of the loan anytime soon.
Unforgiveable vs. Forgivable Loans
Concerns are also growing over how would Liberia repay such alone in addition to existing loans from the conventional World Bank and International Monetary Fund. What is the debt and what would be the priority of repayment in relations to existing IMF, World Bank and other Loans on Liberia's Books?
Should the Singapore loan surpass the IMF and World bank priority listing, it could spell trouble for Liberia in the long term as no one knows what the interests are or how the government intends to repay. This could mean any income generated could go directly back to the borrower.
Unlike loans borrowed from the traditional IMF, World Bank and other international stakeholders, the loan from the Asian conglomerate is unforgiveable, meaning those loans must be paid back and come with a lot of risks.
On the contrary, a forgivable or soft second, is a form of loan in which its entirety, or a portion of it, can be forgiven or deferred for a period of time by the lender when certain conditions are met. It is more like a grant with conditions rather than a loan as in most cases the loan is forgiven if all the conditions are met. However, if the conditions are not met the loan has to be repaid usually with interest. It can be seen as an incentive for the borrower to perform or achieve a goal set by the lender.
Some forgiveable loans though come with a catch. In most cases, as has been in Liberia over the past few years, those loans have been forgiven in exchange for Chinese firms to be hired to do construction and other works.
In November 2014, the IMF outlined several guidelines for countries with little/no access to concessional financing. Key among those guidelines was that debt conditionality would be expected to be deployed in cases where countries are judged to have significant debt vulnerabilities, as assessed using the MAC DSA.
Breaching IMF, World Bank Model
To enhance further the flexibility of the policy, both the IMF and the World Bank caution that countries at low or moderate risk of debt distress that have adequate capacity may request ceilings on total external public and publicly guaranteed debt in present value terms. "While more complex to monitor, the ceiling in present value terms removes the differentiation between concessional and non-concessional loans. This option is in addition to the "old approach" of nominal ceilings on non-concessional borrowing or loan-by-loan considerations. Furthermore, countries at high risk of debt distress will continue to be able to borrow non-concessionally based on "loan-by-loan" considerations. Finally, if a deterioration in the risk of debt distress occurs under an IMF arrangement, a justification for IDA's grant allocation in the following fiscal year will be based on a case-by-case assessment with the goal of promoting equal treatment across IDA clients."
For the foreseeable future, economists fear that borrowing outside the world bank and the IMF jacket could come back to haunt Liberia. For now, the absence of transparency and accountability regarding the Singapore loan is resurrecting refrains of the past which could see the Weah-led government falling into similar trappings that engulfed previous governments.
Bogus Companies as Construction Companies In addition to the lack of transparency on the loans being negotiated, analysts are concern whether this administration can prudently use such huge amounts to escape the mistakes of the past governments. Does Liberia have the capacity and the systems of integrity to borrow and spend such huge amounts on roads without adequate acquisition and financial management systems? Liberia has a long history, especially in the case of the immediate past governments, for officials and lawmakers of government to establish construction and other related businesses just to obtain government contracts without any intentions of doing the work, leaving Liberians to hold the empty.
The county development fund and the over $500 million spent on roads in the past administration (Jallah Town, Fish Town, Bella Yella, etc as few examples of wasted funds) did not amount to much for Liberians. Another major setback for Liberians have been for past administrations to bring in foreign firms to perform work only for Liberians to find out later that these firms were co-owned by Liberian officials and lawmakers, leaving small and medium size Liberian businesses who do not have political connections or want to connive with officials of government to win contracts to fend for themselves. One single measure of success of any major public works initiative is the number of jobs that such public expenditure investment creates.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his New Deal initiatives invested a lot in public work projects and put millions of Americans back to work. But such jobs cannot be created in Liberia when lawmakers and officials of government create companies just to siphon funds from the coffers of the Government.


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Can you recall all those under-the-radar information that suggested Apple's iPhone X or iPhone 8 as it was then called would have fingerprint scanners just below the display? Well, as we later got to learn, the Steve Jobs pioneered company in no way nursed such plans as it stunned the global market with its acute Face ID package.
Other tech giants may have had themselves lost by the novel and refreshing introduction by the company. Even Samsung, the company said to be the biggest digital fan of Apple may have set into gear the various ways it will adopt some of the immaculate technology in the iPhone X into their upcoming phone, the Samsung Galaxy S9, which has been slated to be put out to the public come 2018, the first quarter. Regardless of the change in plans, there are slight indications that the dream child of Samsung, the Galaxy Note 9, may get to have the captivating simulations installed in its software.
Competition for iPhone X to come out soon
News of Samsung going ahead to avoid incorporating the regular finger print sensors beneath the screen as it is the company's norm has already been dispersed about by the Investor, nonetheless, it is suggested that the sensors will this time be installed behind the phone, and not removed entirely, due to the fact that there are many already flourishing applications and programs that uses its technology. The fingerprint scanner has been arranged to feature in both the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+.
Also in the speculations, is the reported finalization of the description of the Galaxy S9 specification, after it ran successfully a model of it last month. The assembling of actual units of their product is slated to start next month, December which somehow appears that the company would like to release a potential competitor as soon as it possibly can for the iPhone X by Apple.


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Flying Fish Hovercraft Home
Two admissions.
I'm ONLY posting this because I think it's quite possibly the best looking Marlin we've ever produced.
And secondly, when our Sales manager Dave told me what he had in mind for our next demonstrator, I thought it sounded terrible.
I was wr...wr...wro... I may have been mistaken. :-)
Metalflake blue GRP hull, Savage Engine, Marine quality fabric and alloy/stainless components throughout, 'Angel Eye' headlights and full lighting kit.... this really is a striking looking hovercraft - goes like stink too!
Copied here because many of the questions are fairly common ones!
All our craft use Briggs & Stratton Vanguard engines. Built in Japan by Daihatsu, they are low revving four-strokes, which means decent noise levels and very good economy. Snappers use around 4-5 litres of fuel an hour, Marlins maybe 6-7 (much less than a jet ski!) They use regular UK/US pump fuel, no need for anything special. Both will get around 2-4 hours from a fuel tank (12 litres on Snapper, and 25 on a Marlin) but of course it depends on conditions, payload, wind and the driver.
Maintenance is (in brief) as follows.
Pre-operation, check the craft over. Visually inspect skirt fix and wear, oil levels, fan condition, belt etc. Takes a couple of minutes per craft.
After a days operation in salt water, wash the craft off thoroughly with fresh water. Allow five minutes per craft.
If skirt needs maintenance, you can change each segment individually (approx. 58 on a Marlin/52 on a Snapper) and it takes just two minutes. The skirt – on water – will last a very long time, you're likely to get well over a year from them. Sand/Mudflats/gravel obviously wear it faster but its top quality material and designed especially for us by a 'technical materials' company.
At 50 hours, change the oil, adjust tappet clearances, check fuel and air filters, replace if necessary.
How long do they last?
We have customers operating with over 600 hours on their engines, mechanically they are very robust (they are for plant/commercial use remember!) but you may replace ancillaries such as carburetors/coils etc in time. A whole new engine is only £1250.00UK so its not an expensive purchase if the worst happens. I'd certainly hope you got 5-10 years use from the craft, but of course, it depends largely how well they are looked after and the hours they clock up. We keep absolutely everything to build them (of course!) so there's nothing cannot be replaced, even the hulls which (to answer your next question) are built from GRP Fibreglass.
Wave capacity
It's difficult to be too precise about but they are all okay in a 'chop' – you must remember they are only small – so whatever you may be comfortable in a small boat of the same size, the hovercraft will be okay too. It's a common question, and you may find this interesting and useful. http://britishhovercraft.com/UploadedFiles/hovercraft%20performance%20and%20information.jpg Also our FAQ page - http://britishhovercraft.com/Buy-A-Hovercraft/Frequently-Asked-Questions.aspx
Which Marlin?
For your use I'd recommend the Marlin 'Beast' – it has lots of extras and has more 'kerb appeeal' than the Marlin II Freestyle. The Marlin III is the best of everything, but it costs more money and isn't really necessary for your purposes.
Marlin II : £9,500.00 - No frills, all thrills hovering!
35bhp Briggs & Stratton Engine
Yellow beacon
Bilge Pump
Jockey Seat for two
Hour meter
Kevlar reinforced floor
Internal Buoyancy foam
Limited range of colours. White hull with either blue or red trim.
The Beast : £11,000.00 - As driven by Jeremy Clarkson!
As above but with the additions of
37bhp Hi-Torque 'Savage' engine.
Rear 'T' Seat - more seating for up to three people.
All-round LED white light and navigation lights.
LED Headlights.
Rubber non-slip flooring.
Improved endplate rudders.
Tacho/Rev Counter.
GPS Speedo/heading compass.
Wide range of hull and secondary colours .
Marlin III : £12,500.00 - The ultimate yacht tender!
As 'The Beast' but with the following additions.
Upgraded, stiffer hull with integrated screen, revised splitter plate to reduce noise and add additional lift, larger receiver area to give improved plenum flow characteristics.
Lots more answers to many more question on our website!
It's been a pretty mental few months now and at times, the order book has rather outstripped production! But the team working in production have risen to the task brilliantly - working, quickly and efficiently and putting extra hours in as required to make sure that customer orders have been completed on time - we're are genuinely grateful for their efforts.
As a bit of a thank you, we decided to throw another one of our 'play days' where we invite the familes and friends to come along for a drive in the safety of our demo track in Sandwich. Some vigourous work with the mower, rakes and water pump (to refill the bone dry pond!) gave us a useable track, Emma's new exhibition trailer (of which she is rediculously proud and excited!) was pressed into use as the corporate centre (we're not quite Red Bull Formula One yet!) and a huge BBQ thrown together from an empty acetone drum, base made from an old trailer chassis and off-cuts of hovercraft fan ducts providing the grill!
All in all, a quick and dirty bit or organisation which worked out just great. I was responsible for the weather (which was gorgeous) and we got really lucky when a stunt plane turned up and put a spectacular display on for the show in the next field over... result! Nobody died of food poisoning, dozens of people drove a hover for the first time and the kids and dogs were completely exhausted when we finished up around 6pm.
A great day, thanks so much to all our staff for their hard work, and friends and family for coming along and helping out.
Here's a few photographs from the day, mostly courtesy of my Auntie Brenda!
Awesome show - Pitt Special?
The peace and tranquility of an English summers day!
I taught a lot of people to drive... successfully too! :-)
Gary soaking the girls. 6 years old and they love it...2 years old and they hate it!
Your never too old to try it - right uncle?
Emma's trailer..next stop the vinyl wrap ready for some shows.
And you're never too young either - 10 year old Kai drove the Snapper like a boss! ("Daaaad? Can I race one next year....?")
Noise is the biggest challenge faced by hovercraft designers and builders. In the last year we've been conducting a significant project to develop new, more quiet hovercraft, and the Coastal-Pro is the first to benefit from the results.
Much of the credit for this work must go to Keith Oakley. Keith has been involved with hovercraft as a passionate enthusiast for a very long time and over the last few years has tested over 150 hovercraft for their noise signatures. Using the information gained from this, we've worked together to improve noise levels using his knowledge together with our experience and engineering facilities. Keith's work is hugely respected within the hovercraft community - what he wants to achieve is a greater acceptance for hovercraft in both commercial and recreational applications, and to have him working so closely with us to achieve this is a fabulous opportunity for us. Basically (without giving away commercial secrets!) there are about ten significant factors which are responsible for the noise. Some improvements are fairly straightforward and generally understood such as bigger ducts and slower fans. But Keith's research has also identified some more subtle factors which when addressed as part of an overall design, contribute significant reductions in overall noise levels.
We knew the Coastal-Pro was good but we had only had a chance to run some rough tests. What we were keen to do was to thoroughly test it for 'flyby' noise - the most relevant test for a dynamic machine (as opposed to a static test) but had to wait for a calm day without wind to skew the results.
The outcome was extremely satisfying. After averaging three runs, maximum noise at full power measured at 25m was 78dbA. However, at cruising speed (approximately 20 knots) the noise was just 74dbA. This is way down on traditional hovercraft noise levels and we believe it is demonstrably the quietest commercially built hovercraft available anywhere in Europe. In real terms, if you're standing on a river bank and a Coastal-Pro passes by, the noise simply isn't unacceptable or offensive.
This is just the first application of the project results to our range of craft, and in some ways the easiest to apply. But our 'crusade' continues, and we promise more results in due course. Make sure you 'like' our Facebook page and you'll be the first to hear about them!
Those of you that see the updates on our Facebook page may have noticed that we have been busy providing crew transfer services on the Mersey Gateway project, a £600m six-lane motorway bridge over the Mersey linking Widnes & Runcorn in Cheshire.
This has been a very significant job for us, as it's the first time that a small hovercraft has been used commercially under the terms of the 2014 Hovercraft Code of Practice. The 2014 Coastal-Pro MACV is designed and built to comply with the code, and all correct certification for skippers and the hovercraft are correct. As you can imagine, our risk assessments, method statements and plans had to be right up to scratch with all relevant permissions gained from the MCA, port authourity etc
The work has certainly been tough! Our job is to transfer the engineers and welders to and from the various barges and work sites, and with the river at Widnes being so tidal, the craft must be able to operate over both water and sand/mudflats. The tidal bore can be quite something, with the tide rising in a little over two hours. Having said that, the mud bank doesn't always cover at all, so that after a week drying due to neap tides, the mud becomes extremely sticky. On the flooding or ebbing tide, coming alongside the barges can be challenging, especially in the recent winds. Our hardcore skippers start at 6:30am, with first transfers in the dark at 7:00am. During our first week, the cold temperatures have meant that the MACV has literally torn itself free of the ice coating the steel slipway in the morning with an unnerving ripping noise. Early though it is, any sleepiness is gone in the first ten yards – it's bitterly cold and dark, and the mudflats change literally tide by tide with gullies coming and going overnight. The skipper needs to be alert and aware of the changes in the terrain and a set of the superb 'Cree' LED lights seem almost powerless on the giant landscape.
It's certainly been an interesting period with a very steep learning curve. The MACV has performed absolutely faultlessly, proving to be exactly the right size – large enough for two or three crew, but small enough to be 'handy' amongst the barges and cranes – able to get into and out of some pretty tight spaces and through the gullies and able to deal with that 'sticky' mud. We've been told that at leats one much heavier commercial/rescue hovercraft has become thoroughly stuck when attempting to operate in this area of the Mersey. Our lighter craft and segmented skirt allows us a workaround and the separate lift system is absolutely essential for this work.
The mud rescue on site is being provided by a 'Sealegs' which if you've not seen one before is a 6m RIB with a hydraulically driven, three wheel system. This allows it to travel across the land as well as water. It's been interesting to compare the two vehicles - the Sealegs certainly offers an advantage in fast flowing tides (reverse is handy, a pointy bow and no skirt to drag in the water when not moving is a luxury) but it's is desperately slow on land and can only run for around half an hour before needing to cool down. On a bumpy day, give me the RIB every time, but crossing the mudflats from one side of the river to the other takes some twenty minutes - by contrast the MACV takes less than four! It's outboard has also proved vulnerable to silt in the shallow water conditions and it can get stuck if the mud is too soft - the wheels do have limits and cause a lot of damage to the littoral substrate that hovercraft don't. Having said that, it's been on the job for some months and is doing a demanding job in an environment I can't believe it was actually designed for.
Our skippers (myself included) have learned a lot about skippering and driving the MACV in this role. We've managed to bend a few bits that we didn't think could be bent, we've found components that have frozen up on cold mornings, we've learned to deal with 'that' mud and certainly discovered the limits of the craft. We're pretty sure that every welder on site weighs a minimum of 100kgs, and every part of the MACV has been jumped or stepped on - so far with no damage which is rather gratifying!
So, as we end the year, we'll be bringing the MACV back from Liverpool for some love and attention and will be back in the new year to continue operations until Spring 2015, when we move to another, similar job in the North East of England. Exciting times!
Our thanks must go to the team at the MCA who have allowed small hovercraft to operate in this role, with the adoption of the Ultralight category of the Hovercraft Code of Practice 2014, Peel Ports for quickly assessing the viability and safety of our operations, and our duty skippers Nelson & Dave for their hard work in tough conditions.
Evening on the River mersey
Early morning, Sealegs and the MACV together.
One of our other jobs - providing a solid, stable base for survey equipment on dangerous mudflats.


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What we're about
AmateurPianists is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2011 by Glenn Kramer to provide performance opportunities for amateur pianists of all professions and backgrounds. Since its formation, membership has grown to make us the largest piano meetup group in the world. Performances are held at various venues—from recital halls and libraries, to churches and private homes. The group also provides educational opportunities, such as masterclasses and lectures on performance practice, the history of classical music, and much more, including the San Diego International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs (http://amateurpianists.org/competition3) which took place from July 15–17, 2016. Classical music should be enjoyable and accessible to everyone, and AmateurPianists serves to facilitate this vision by connecting pianists with audiences.
2018 Schedule:
Jan: Winter Piano Recital
Feb: Romantic Classics
March: Women Composers
April: Piano Palooza
May: Latin Music
July: Summer Piano Recital
August: all music welcome
Sept: Duets and more
Oct: Fall Piano Recital
Dec: Holiday celebration
Board of Directors (as of February 2018): Lulu Hsu, Chair, Songqing Wen, Treasurer, John Evans, Director, Galina Shekhtman, Director, Earlene Dunbar, Director, Mark Chen, Director


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I watched a short documentary on Greece and the European Debt Crisis by the Wall Street Journal. There were two major points that stood out to me as it pertains to the research question:
1. Countries belonging to the Eurozone must be fiscally responsible
This does not mean that member countries never borrow or spend on credit. It means that they are both willing and able to pay back money that they borrow.
2. Some central authority, like the ECB, must ensure the members of the Euro area maintain fiscal responsibility if they refuse to do so on their own.
It is doubtful that the Euro will be sustainable in the long run if member countries will continually require bailouts or default on their debt.


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Some have been winners of the prestigious Ron Rathbone Local History Prize and are reproduced here .
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First-time sex should be gratifying as it lays the foundation for future sexual encounters.
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First things first, take time to groom and clean yourself before meeting your partner.
Make sure you have a contraceptive; preferably a condom.
Unless you are expecting an important call, please turn off your phone to avoid killing the mood.
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When it comes to sex, the location plays an important role. Choose a neutral place and somewhere very adventurous to exploit all the opportunities at your disposal.
Talk to your partner for a brief moment before things get steamy.
Ideally, ask your girl her preference before you enter the promised land.
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RAS JDIR/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libya's recognized government conducted air strikes against rival government forces trying to seize major oil ports in the east and targets in the west on Monday, but the rival government held control of the main crossing to Tunisia, witnesses said.
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Some 800 km (500 miles) to the west, an air strike targeted Zuwara, a western town near the border to Tunisia, witnesses said. But the rival government kept control of the main crossing in Ras Jdir.
A Reuters multimedia team visiting Ras Jdir saw troops allied to Libya Dawn guarding the station which had briefly closed on Sunday after an air strike some 6km from it.
Thinni's government had claimed it was controlling the crossing, an important lifeline for a country which has few international air connections.
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On Sunday, state run National Oil Corp shut down production at the Es Sider and nearby Ras Lanuf ports, whose fields had produced some 350,000 barrels a day, or more than half of the country's crude output.
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The Only Trust Models You'll Ever Need
by alex on December 23, 2010
Lately there has been quite a bit of noise about the concept of "trust" in information security. This has always confused me, because I tend towards @bobblakley when he says:
"trust is for suckers."
But security is keen on having trendy new memes, things to sell you, and I thought that I might as well weigh in because we're seeing "trust models" in everything from OSSTMM to NIST 800 series to Cloud model thingies.
The problem I have getting all excited about "trust modeling" is that it's basically yet.another.hypothetical.construct. We already have "security" and "risk" that our industry finds problematic to define and measure. Why are we soooo keen on creating another problem child?
And I have to wonder, is it really necessary? Think about it: my ability to "trust" – a person, connection, system, whatever – is simply an acknowledgement of the risk in transacting with them. I "trust" my good friends and certain relatives because I have a bunch of experience (priors) that lead me to believe that they are "trustworthy", which is a nice way of saying "low risk". I know these people will go out of their way *not* to hurt me without just cause.
Similarly, when dealing with car mechanics, salespeople, and politicians – I have very little "trust" because there is a high degree of risk in my transaction and I either have no prior experience with them, or really bad experiences with them.
So really, my amount of "trust" is the inverse of the amount of risk I perceive for whatever reason (past experience, lack of data, expected experiences given some trending data).
So in 2011, if you're sitting in a meeting and some GRC pusher decides that they need trust models for you to be really good at your jobs, you can use the following and explain to them you already have a very nice one, thanks.
Trust = Opposite of Risk
So "Low Risk" becomes "High Trust".
Trust = 1/Risk
So The larger the risk score, the smaller the trust score.
You don't need to do anything. You can say "We trust that this partner will have 10 incidents per year causing us between $50,000 and $2,000,000 in damage" or whatever.
There you go. A Trust Program/Trust model for absolutely free.
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You forgot "assurance" which has exactly the same problem.
I will preface that my opinion is currently an incomplete thought 🙂 but I had to throw my two cents in.
Not sure that high trust = "low risk" or lack of trust = "high risk". To me trust is somewhat a different construct to be applied to people/groups of people. Just because I perceive that my risk is low/high for a particular scenario doesn't necessarily mean that I trust it will stay that way, I think for scenarios or abstract concepts (non-humans) that "confidence" is a better descriptor.
From a abstract psychology perspective I can trust all sorts of people or groups of people to behave in a certain way, that doesn't mean that the decisions made are all low-risk to me but rather I can trust that the behavior would be consistent with my expectations. From a non-abstract perspective trust is having the ability to be vulnerable to other people "trusting" them to be honest, benevolent, and competent – and I can trust all sorts of people with very little risk to me personally.
But, I am not sure I can "trust" that a risk scenario or a complex computing machine can be honest, benevolent, or competent – but I CAN have a certain level of confidence in expected outcome or behavior.
The problem is that trust is not so simple a problem as described. Sure, if you can depend on past experiences or independent historic records you can model a quantitative trust. Unfortunately there are many situations where these are not present but a type of trust is. And trust varies by context, inter-personal trust has an entirely different dynamic than inter-organizational trust.
On the first point, that trust often must exist without a history to base it on consider the supply chain. Organization A has a contract with supplier B and we have a certain level of trust because of our experience. But what about supplier B's use of OEM C, D and E. OEM E has the lowest bid price and is a new company, this affects the trust I should have in the relationship with supplier B but as I am unaware of the new relationship my trust level does not vary. This type of chain of trust issue is a big issue with the Federal government. A more common scenario is when parent organization F mandates that organization A must trust supplier B as a vendor. The trust relationship exists but it is mediate through parent organization F and organization A may have no means by which to determine the amount of trust.
On the second point, trust dynamics vary by context. Trust between people works much differently than trust between organizations. People change over time and past experience is not indicative of future performance. A guy who may not be depended upon to show up to every BBQ may be the most reliable friend when you need someone to tell you the truth about some difficult fact. Inter-personal trust relationships are multifaceted. Inter-organizational trust relationships tend to be a little more steady and be based on well defined obligations and expectations. The dynamics are simpler but by no means simple. And in either case these contexts can be completely turned on their heads by a change in the environment.
So why care about trust relationships in these different contexts? Inter-personal trust can have a big impact on an organization. A trusted employee can become disgruntled, damaging assets and reputation or selling secrets to the competition. The trust relationship with a supplier can be exploited by other organizations down the supply chain. Without at least some basic understanding of the complexities of these different models companies and people accept trust blindly.
That kind of trust is pure risk.
Ideally trust relationships would track risk assessments, but in many cases organizations create trust relationships with high risk parties. Trust could be seen as a measure of how much sensitive information is being exchanged with or exposed to another party while risk is, well, risk is the risk of that trust. Just a quick tought on the post.
So true. Honesty and eevyrtinhg recognized.
@Kevin – thanks for the comments.
"Ideally trust relationships would track risk assessments, but in many cases organizations create trust relationships with high risk parties."
Right, but how much do you trust a high risk party? Not much, if you value your job.
"Trust could be seen as a measure of how much sensitive information is being exchanged with or exposed to another party"
Which I would argue is also implied in probable magnitude of loss (risk).
"while risk is, well, risk is the risk of that trust. Just a quick tought on the post."
Again appreciate it! My point is that people want to measure trust. A simple but effective measure in terms of deductive modeling would be to inverse the risk they perceive.
Sometimes we decide to trust someone who is not very trustworthy. According to the model described in the post, this would imply low risk. To see this, in the formula for qualitative risk solve for risk given a fixed trust of high.
Clearly the amount of trust we place in people can vary independently of the risk of placing that trust.
If I were asked to measure trust, my gut instinct would be to measure the amount of access to sensitive assets and define low access as low trust and high access as high trust. Then I would recommend that we focus on remediating cases where both the trust and risk are high. Remediation could be lowering the level of trust or strengthening other controls to lower the overall risk. I agree that cases of low trust and high risk aren't possible.
I guess I'm approaching trust as one of the controls that can be varied to adjust risk. But I agree that trust is a slippery concept and formally adding it to our repertoire is simply asking for trouble.
[…] The Only Trust Models You'll Ever Need – […]
IMHO, evaluating trust is evaluating the risk that whoever you're dealing with is going to screw you. The more likely they are to screw you, the less you trust them. All posters seem to be saying that trust is earned. How is it earned? Well, if the other party doesn't screw you this time, then the risk that they'll screw you next time goes down (based on past performance) and inversely your trust in them goes up.
For the scenario where A deals with and trusts B, and B deals with C, D and E, the risk to A is how B deals with those relationships. A is trusting that B will make good decisions and not screw them by blindly going with the lowest bidder.
Obviously there's a risk that B will make a bad decision which will ultimately screw A in some way. But, if B does make a bad decision on evaluating the risk of dealing with E and gets screwed by them, the trust that A has in B depends entirely on how B handles the situation. If B says "Well E screwed us and we're going to pass that up to A" then for sure A's trust in B will drop. But if B says "E screwed us and it's our mistake and A shouldn't suffer for it", then A's trust in B will remain high.
I guess I'm saying that the equation should be modified slightly to TRUST = 1/(risk of getting screwed). There probably could be additional modifications based on the nature of "getting screwed" depending on the dollar amounts involved and how much pain it would cause if you got hit with it. But that's still evaluating risk, right?
In the case of trusting a partner with PII, the trust level needs to be higher with them because the cost of getting screwed is higher. Your competitors would love to see you hand over PII to someone who will sell it to the highest bidder because now you've screwed your customers and the risk to them that you'll do it again is higher and therefore their trust in you goes down.
Hopefully this all makes some sort of sense to someone besides me.
While I agree with your general point, your model has one flaw. I buy the idea that "things that violate trust" can always be called "risk", but not the idea that "all risk involves violation of trust".
If you look at risk in a financial transaction, for example, some risk can be connected to trust ("counterparty risk", for example). Other risk cannot.


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Sweet Tooth #14
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It's a little over a year since "Sweet Tooth" first debuted, and it's hard to recognize the title now in comparison to how it began. Jeff Lemire has used a slow build-up of plot since its debut to turn the title into a quietly compelling title, one that manages to push all the right buttons for its readers.
"Sweet Tooth" is a title where you need to get at least a slight grasp on the characters for it to work its magic. Getting to know Gus, the hybrid human/deer, means that you understand why his killing the beast that attacks them in the sewers is such a big deal. For such a gentle person to have to smash in an enemy's head with a brick, it's a turning point for both him and the book as a whole; we're seeing this young, formerly sheltered boy being transformed by his new environment into something much tougher and able to survive. And in doing so, Lemire makes it a sad event.
It's not something that you cheer on, even as Gus saves one of the other hybrids. It's instead treated as a melancholy moment, complete with lingering glimpses at the body of the attacker left behind in the sewer. Gus being forced to change and lose his innocence might be a positive moment in another title, but here it's served up with regret even as it's also presented as a matter-of-fact moment. He has to make this decision to save a friend and fellow captor, but it's still a horrible thing to do.
This story is juxtaposed with Jepperd raising an army to attack the holdings of the militia, and having already seen Jepperd's story and learning how he became more hardened and tough, it's an important contrast. When Jepperd starts to wonder just what sort of beast he's unleashed, it's the pendulum swinging in the other direction. Gus has become more tough in order to survive, while Jepperd's own toughness is being called into question on how much of a good thing it really is. Lemire's rough and ragged art style is especially good in the scenes where the army is being raised; the masks worn by the troops remind me a lot of African tribal headdresses, and the snarling faces of the dog/human hybrids are scary and creepy. Add in the dark and moody coloring from Jose Villarrubia, and this is a visually striking book. I'm impressed and pleased with how well Lemire's done with writing and drawing the book every month while not sacrificing its visual style.
"Sweet Tooth" may have not instantly grabbed me when it debuted, but I'm a believer now. The "Animal Armies" storyline looks to be the strongest one to date, and what I think I like best about it is that I have absolutely no idea how it will end. Lemire's not afraid to pop surprises on us, and I'm already looking forward to the next issue. "Sweet Tooth" is a strong and compelling comic that you really should be reading.


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Here's how to make a batch (or two–you know how I love double-batch cooking):
1 cup cottage cheese (check labels for additives, extra sodium or sugars)
1 cup old fashioned oats
6 egg whites OR 5 whole eggs (depends on your needs)
Put ingredients in blender; blend on low for 30 seconds. Turn speed up to medium and blend for approximately one minute until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
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Cook over medium-low heat, use cooking oil/fat of your choice (I often use a small teaspoon of coconut oil).
I also make a berry 'syrup' to go over the top by microwaving frozen berries (add some pure maple syrup, organic honey, or stevia if you want to sweeten it up), or top them with some apple butter or fresh fruit.
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Is it dangerous to sleep on your stomach? The most useful and harmful poses for sleep according to scientists
Most of you probably know: in the morning, about 9-10 hours in conditions of ringing silence, I woke up in a state, as if I did not rest at all. The reason, in most cases, is the wrongly chosen posture for sleep.
In a state of sleep, we spend 1/3 of our lives. Sleep is a time when the body is at rest. Breathing and heart activity slows down, muscles relax, consciousness goes out. But in order for the body to rest and gain strength, it is necessary to sleep in the right posture. Pros and cons of the most popular options are further in the article.
On the back
The position "on the back" with the arms stretched out at the seams or folded on the stomach is called one of the best for a full rest and the most useful for health.
"When we sleep on our backs, our spine is in a state of natural" alignment ", without curvature. In addition, sleep on the back is the best position for the neck and head, because in this situation there is almost no pressure, and there is an even distribution of weight, "explains Dr. Melamed Mehmet of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
In this case, according to the doctor, the posture "on the back" is not suitable for people suffering from bronchial asthma, as it will provoke seizures.
According to the doctor-dermatologist from the University of St. Louis, the "back" position is ideal for those who want to preserve the youthfulness of the skin, since in this position the face almost does not come into contact with the pillow, which means it does not risk wrinkles.
In turn, therapist Stephen Diamant from New York adds that a night rest on his back (with this position the stomach is below the esophagus) is best suited to those who suffer from heartburn - the likelihood of its occurrence is reduced.
- Sleep in this position is recommended for people suffering from scoliosis.
- With back injuries, sleeping in this position is the most comfortable - all the muscles relax and release tension.
- The most useful position for the skin. Lying on the back, we do not touch the face with the pillow.
- Sleeping on the back is the best option for hypertensive patients. In this position, there is a uniform load on the heart.
- Contraindicated this position to those who snore and suffers from sleep apnea.
Next in the list of safe - the pose on the back with the arms extended to the side or raised upwards. It is often called the "sea star".
"This position is good for the back, but in this situation people also often snore (especially those who are predisposed to this phenomenon)," says neurologist Deacon Jimey from the Norwood clinic in Birmingham.
Also, according to the doctor, because of the upturned hands, there may be pressure on the shoulders, which can lead to discomfort and pain in the morning.
On the side
In general, sleep on the side doctors are classified as safe, but this method has several important features. For example, regardless of the chosen side, rest in this position is fraught with the appearance of wrinkles on the face and neck (if you constantly sleep on the same side).
A dream on the right side can trigger heartburn in people with this problem. And on the left - to cause an increased strain on some internal organs. This sleep on the side reduces the likelihood of snoring. Pregnant women doctors recommend sleeping on the left side to maintain optimal blood circulation (this pose increases the flow of blood to the uterus).
By the way, neuroscience scientists from the University of Rochester in New York, as a result of their recent research, concluded that sleep on the side is most effective for getting rid of the metabolic waste (the beta-amyloid protein that leads to Alzheimer's disease) accumulated during the day. In other words, scientists argue that the situation "on the side" allows you to best unload the brain and prepare the body for new feats.
- This position is suitable for those who have a low back pain. When we lie on our side, our spine acquires natural curves and the back rest.
- The posture helps to reduce unpleasant sensations in case of indigestion and heartburn.
- This pose also helps to cope with snoring.
- After sleeping on the side, pain in the cervical spine may appear.
- People suffering from hypertension should not sleep on their left side. This situation has an extra burden on the heart.
- When we sleep on our side, we risk getting wrinkles on the side of the face that touches the pillows during sleep.
In the fetal position
The position on the side in the embryo pose (with the knees pressed) is most often chosen by people who experience a feeling of cold during sleep. Sleep in this position best allows you to keep the heat. However, this is perhaps the only plus position.
Rest with the knees pressed to the chest can lead to pain in the back and shoulders in the morning, as it involves an increased strain on the joints, says Dr. Melamed Mehmet of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Also, the embryo pose can cause breathing disorders, which in turn will lead to an insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain during sleep.
On the stomach
This position is called the most dangerous physician. When resting on the abdomen, the spine suffers first of all. Not receiving any support at all, it bends, which leads to a violation of its natural position. In addition, sleep on the abdomen is fraught with a violation of blood circulation, numbness and tingling in the shoulders and neck, since the head at this position is always turned to one side at a right angle, explains the orthopedic physician from New York, Jonathan Fitzgordon.
If the posture "on the stomach" is the only one in which one can fall asleep, doctors recommend putting a small pillow (in the pelvic region) under it to adjust the position of the spine and thereby reduce the load.
- It is easier to fall asleep on the stomach. Therefore, this pose is considered the most convenient, but by no means the most useful.
- Doctors believe that it is worth sleeping in this position, if you experience an uncomfortable state in the digestive organs. Sleep on the abdomen helps to reduce discomfort.
- If we lay down on the stomach, then turn our heads to the side. At this point, one of the vertebral arteries bends and contracts. Because of this, the blood supply to the brain is impaired.
- During sleep on the abdomen, the lungs are not able to completely break down, the chest is squeezed. This makes breathing difficult.
- Sleep on the stomach can lead to problems of a sexual nature. And in women and men. This is due to the fact that the body's own weight weighs on the internal organs. This disrupts the circulation in the lower abdomen. And blood circulation directly affects sexual health.
- To sleep on the stomach is not recommended not only by sexologists, but also by cosmetologists! Because of this situation in the dream, wrinkles appear on the face (more often in the nasolabial area). Women also risk getting unwanted wrinkles and wrinkles on their breasts, which are difficult to get rid of. In lovers of sleeping on the stomach, the puffiness of the face appears more often in the morning.