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Free Kubernetes Protection, New Offerings to Hybrid Cloud BaaS
You might be aware that today we announced a new Metallic offering for Kubernetes backup as one of the cornerstones of Commvault's comprehensive protection strategy for containers and Kubernetes. What you may not know is that we've expanded our award-winning Metallic Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions as part of the next leap forward in Metallic's goal to provide support for SaaS-delivered data protection solutions for the most critical of enterprise workloads.
For Metallic customers, we are proud of the speed with which we can deliver new innovation – bringing tried and proven enterprise capabilities to market as real, usable benefits – including protection for the full Kubernetes ecosystem. Customers should take note that some vendors tout "firsts" – like Kubernetes data protection – that they don't have available today and might not have available until the middle of 2021. Our customers need enterprise grade BaaS solutions that can protect the full K8s ecosystem now – also protecting VMs, databases, object stores, and even developer workstations. Metallic has that today. It's available. You can use it in production. Did I also mention Metallic Kubernetes support is available free and unlimited for the lifetime of a subscription?
And while others need to build from scratch, or look to acquisitions and complex integrations with disparate experiences, Metallic's ability to leverage Commvault's industry leading Intelligent Data Management IP, delivered as a cloud-native SaaS with deep strategic integrations with Microsoft Azure, allows us to deliver rapid innovations that match our customers' accelerating cloud journey. Need another proof point beyond our game changing Kubernetes support that is generally available today? We also announced we are the first enterprise grade SaaS data protection provider to offer SAP HANA data protection as a service, on-premises or in the cloud, without compromise.
We've built on the foundation of our Metallic Core Backup & Recovery solution to launch a new Hybrid Cloud Data Protection portfolio, doubling our offerings with a set of unique BaaS solutions. Today, three new BaaS offerings join the Metallic roster: Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup, Metallic Database Backup, and Metallic File & Object Backup.
A portfolio designed for a Hybrid Cloud world
We get that hybrid environments and containerized applications are not an interim state for our customers – rather, hybrid cloud is a way of life for IT organizations for the foreseeable future, with Kubernetes increasingly becoming mainstream for enterprise applications. We also know that each hybrid cloud journey is unique. Our customers have a mix of applications — some containerized but using unstructured, object or cloud-native storage; some VMs; some using enterprise-class databases, whether on-premises or on the leading public clouds. That's why we offer the unique flexibility, breadth of coverage, ultimate security, and bottom-line savings to ensure our customers' data is protected today – and tomorrow – through the simplicity of a single solution.
The first new addition to the portfolio is Metallic VM & Kubernetes backup, a single solution for protecting workloads in hybrid cloud environments. On-premises virtual machines running on Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere; to cloud-hosted workloads running on Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) or VMware Cloud on AWS; or native Azure VMs or cloud-native workloads running inside various Kubernetes variants, whether VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), can all be protected with a single solution offered as BaaS. The best part is that for anyone who purchases Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup for at least 10 VMs in the first 6 months, Kubernetes support is available free and unlimited for the lifetime of the subscription.
Kubernetes-based containers offer IT organizations the flexibility to scale and migrate workloads without end-user interruption. Distribution of business workloads and flexible scale becomes easier with the orchestration built into Kubernetes. Enterprise workloads moving to a Kubernetes containerized world also need data protection solutions that are uniquely built ground up for this cloud-native model. With Metallic, protecting them is now just as simple and natively works with the Kubernetes distribution or orchestrator that you prefer.
"Enterprise customers are looking for a consistent infrastructure operating model that extends to any application," said Lee Caswell, vice president of Marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "VMware Cloud Foundation uniquely allows customers to manage container and VM-based apps running in legacy or newer HCI architectures on-prem while extending that same management leverage to the public cloud. Metallic's comprehensive data protection environment is a natural complement for customers needing data protection for every VMware environment, including VMware vSphere with Tanzu."
Also new to the portfolio, Metallic File & Object backup provides fast, granular recovery for file systems and object storage with cost-effective options for long-term backup retention. It protects file systems and cloud native storage like Azure Blob and Azure File, as well as any Windows, Linux and Unix file systems, to give customers the flexibility to protect their unstructured data either on-prem or in the cloud.
Finally, Metallic Database Backup brings leading application databases, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA, under protection quickly with a choice of storage that can grow with your solutions as needed, on-premises or in the cloud.
The power of collaboration
Microsoft has been integral to the Metallic hybrid cloud journey. This collaboration was further strengthened by our recent announcement of a strategic agreement that tightly integrates our GTM, engineering and sales of Metallic SaaS offerings with Azure. The new additions to the Metallic hybrid cloud portfolio tighten our alignment and ensure broader, more comprehensive protection for Azure customers with protection for native Azure VM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure VMware Solution, SAP HANA on Azure and more.
"Commvault's new packaging model aligns well with how many customers choose to manage their cloud services and data-protection for resources in Microsoft Azure" said Vamshidhar Kommineni, Group Program Manager, Azure Storage. "Metallic is also aligned with Microsoft and Azure and is a unique BaaS offering that can protect tier-one workloads in Azure VMs, Azure VMware Solution and Azure Kubernetes Service. With these new additions to the portfolio, Metallic is a valuable solution for hybrid customers that want layer in additional security protocols to their Azure cloud-native workloads, Azure Blob and Azure File storage, as well as their on-premises workloads with a single SaaS solution."
Cobbling is for repairing shoes, not for enterprise IT
One thing that is abundantly clear is cloud and on-prem must work better together – not cobbled together – and the right data protection solution is necessary to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption.
That's exactly what Metallic delivers. It's flexible, secure and inherently cost-optimized through BaaS delivery. Flexible in that our solutions provide hybrid data protection for a broad range of on premises and cloud-native workloads, especially with today's new offerings. They are proven to scale seamlessly to protect petabytes of data and our unique SaaS plus model combines the leverage of the best of existing on-prem storage and cloud storage of your choice for rapid recovery while having a secure, air-gapped copy for ransomware protection.
Metallic provides layered security and compliance to deliver on your hybrid cloud strategy with confidence through secure access controls, air-gapped copies with cloud storage, encryption and certifications, and it leverages the monitoring and compliance of Azure.
Lastly, Metallic helps organizations make the most of their existing resources while lowering overall TCO. Backup-as-a-Service can eliminate on-premises backup infrastructure and management, thereby saving admin time and resources that can be put to better use in more strategic, business-oriented ways. Pricing is predictable: you can utilize your storage investments and you can take advantage of pricing options that are optimized for VMs, structured and unstructured data.
Hybrid IT is not an interim state; it is a way of life for modern IT organizations. That's why we're dedicated to providing our customers with trusted data protection for on-premises, SaaS, and cloud-native data. Metallic makes sure our customers get the best of all worlds, without compromise.


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Yearly Round-Up: 10 Best Performances of 2016
In our third piece of the year-end round-up series, Surendhar MK looks back at the '10 Best Performances of 2016′ that were memorable, held our attention and earned our respect.
10. Radharavi – Manithan
Manithan was a film replete with powerful performances. With an adorable nonchalance, Radharavi enacted the role of Justice Dhanapal with uncommon élan in the initial stages of the film and with supreme verve when the story approached the climax. The countless exhibitions of grandstanding from Prakash Raj (who played a lawyer) and how a thespian like Radharavi could steal the thunder in a single scene is a lesson for every aspiring actor.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]9. Guru Somasundaram – Joker
Raju Murugan's political satire Joker was steered by Guru Somasundaram's stellar performance as Mannar Mannan. He made audiences invest in his role deeply with razor-sharp dialogues and entertaining idiosyncrasies. From being a terrific supporting actor in films like Aaranya Kaandam, Jigarthanda and Pandianaadu to shouldering a unanimously appreciated film in Joker, Guru Somasundaram has come a long way. The most underrated actor of the year.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]8. Anjali – Iraivi
Anjali, well known for her memorable performances in Engeyum Eppothum, Kattradhu Tamizh and Angadi Theru, produced her most affecting performance in her role as Ponni in Iraivi. As a conventional housewife who is trapped by marital shortcomings and comes to terms with the repercussions of infidelity, Anjali came up with a subtly, delicate performance of her career and exhibited great composure with consummate ease.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]7. Vijay Sethupathi – Sethupathi, Iraivi, Dharma Durai
It's hard to overlook Vijay Sethupathi in 2016. He was there in the big screen every time you frequented your nearby theatre. Despite a bagful of releases in 2016, Vijay Sethupathi stood out for his lovely, winning performances in Sethupathi, Iraivi and Dharma Durai. As Inspector Sethupathi, he delivered the year's most heroic performance in the most restrained manner. As vulnerable Michael, he, along with Pooja Devariya, brought taboo conversations to the forefront in Iraivi and made it look simple. He proved his versatility as an actor in Dharmadurai where he played the titular role. Overall, it was a satisfying year for Vijay Sethupathi fans. And, he has lined-up a bevy of interesting films in 2017 including Thiagarajan Kumararaja's untitled flick and KV Anand's Kavan.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]6. RK Suresh – Thaarai Thappattai, Marudhu
RK Suresh is one of the best badass finds unearthed by director Bala this year. RK Suresh as Karuppaiyya churned out a sterling debut performance in Thaarai Thappattai, making him one of the most loathed Bala villains ever. He followed it up beautifully with director Muthaiah's Marudhu where he played the role of Rolex Pandian with aplomb and proved that he's not a one-hit wonder.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]5. Suriya – 24
Suriya reiterated his willingness to be part of ambitious projects by acting in 24, one of the best sci-fi thrillers in Tamil cinema. He floored everyone with his role as Aathreya and it will be certainly remembered as one of his best. His wicked smile as the villainous Aathreya sent shivers down our spine and his charming chemistry with Samantha as 'Mani' was loved by all.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]4. SJ Suryah – Iraivi
SJ Suryah, who had hitherto performed one-dimensional roles in his directorial projects, left everyone in awe with his power-packed portrayal of the character Arul. What a revelation. And post Iraivi's success, he, fittingly, bagged Selvaraghavan's Nenjam Marappathillai, which hits screens in the first quarter of 2017.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]3. Samuthirakani – Visaaranai
The ever-dependable Samuthirakani who played the role of a conscientious police officer mired in a cobweb of political and bureaucratic corruption delivered one of the most affecting performances of 2016. As an upright man who is trapped between right and wrong, Samuthirakani made us invest in 'Muthuvel' and sympathize with his struggle of thoughts.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]2. Varalaxmi Sarathkumar – Thaarai Thappattai
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar staged a once in a lifetime performance with her dazzlingly uninhibited portrayal of a crass, loud-mouthed and randy dancer in Thaarai Thappattai. She revitalized the character of Sooravali with infectious energy and booming laughter. Don't' think there's any competent contemporary actress who could challenge her.
[/nextpage] [nextpage]1. Ritika Singh – Irudhi Suttru
Ritika Singh as Madhi is the most knock-out performance delivered by a debutant lead actress this year. Her delightful expressions, nonchalance and ravishing screen presence unanimously won hearts. Memes of her performance bombarded social media days after the film's release. At a time when even established actresses struggle to render perfect lip-sync, she surprised everyone with her flawless lip-sync in the film.
Sasikumar (Thaarai Thappattai, Kidaari), Vela Ramamoorthy (Kidaari), Lakshmi Ramakrishnan (Ammani)
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I was asked to review a network architecture at work. As I am not very familiar with VLAN utilization with multicast, that is why I am here to request your help.
The old network consists of many servers linked to clients though a switch (can be seen as separated networks).
Each client have very specific needs like a dedicated DHCP configuration, video broadcast through multicast, .... I can't put them on the same network even if I review services configuration for example.
We want to limit the number of server used, and put them in the same room, and later virtualize them.
The use of VLAN seems mandatory, to separate those network, but as most servers use multicast for the video, i don't want to have to broadcast the video stream on each server.
They use a lot of network and CPU ressources, which isn't optimal for the future.
I can't use IGMP on client to retrieve the media stream, and VLAN must be untagged for clients as those both features are not supported.
Clients won't answer to the video stream, they will just receive it, and display it.
My initial idea was to set a separate VLAN on which the video stream will be send, and then put it on the untagged port of the switch linked to the client (with the video stream also untagged).
Is that possible? Add an unidirectional untagged VLAN into another untagged VLAN? Which kind of switch could handle that kind of thing?
I am aware that I could solve this problem using a router, but i can't do it on some clients, as they use very specific kind of traffic (Ethernet broadcast) to work.
Thanks for reading this long post, and sorry for my english, i am not a native speaker.
I hope someone got some ideas or pointer to solve my problem.
Here is a small Scheme :
<server1> <=== VLAN UNTAGGED1 ===> < > <==VLAN UNTAGGED1+3 ==> Client1
<server2> <=== VLAN UNTAGGED2 ===> < switch >
<video server> <=== VLAN UNTAGGED3 ===> < > <==VLAN UNTAGGED2+3 ==> Client2


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The Federal Ministry of the Interior wants to crack down on "Darknet markets" and define a new criminal offence. But vague formulations could also place operators of gate relays or VPNs under general suspicion and deter normal users. Now the "Reporters Without Borders" association is also speaking out against the draft law. The number of VPNs is still increasing!
Drugs, weapons, child pornography – in Darknet there are all that. As early as January, North Rhine-Westphalia therefore submitted a bill to the Bundesrat calling for "the introduction of independent criminal liability for the operation of Internet-based trading platforms for illegal goods and services". In mid-March, after some discussion, the Bundesrat passed a bill on this basis. The draft contains 24 pages explaining why it should be easier for investigating authorities to take criminal action against operators of illegal trading platforms in Darknet. A simpler summary in natural language can be found here.
People will continue to use VPN software anyway, it is widely used for watching netflix and other providers outside the US, read on at macsecurity.net.
Meanwhile also the renowned association Reporters without borders expressed itself on its web page against the bill. With the draft threatens anonymization services the out. In its press release the arguments of the interior ministry specified in the bill are not called legally durable in the bill.
Darknet law: that's what the draft says
- TOR Browser is very popular with users who want to protect themselves from tracking on the Internet. According to the draft, there should be a new criminal offence under §126 a, which concerns the offer of services to enable criminal offences.
- Specifically, it is intended to deal with Internet-based services that operate "in networks that are limited in terms of access and reachability".
- This is the official German translation for Darknet marketplaces dealing in narcotics, child pornography or weapons. A list of these offences can be found in the draft under sentence .
- The operators of Darknet marketplaces could thus also be punished if they offer services abroad but make illegal crimes possible domestically.
- There is a risk of imprisonment for up to three years.
Criticism of the Darknet bill
The bill also states that the Darknet is not only home to criminals. The Federal Council, however, justifies its proposal with the argument that the current legal situation does not offer sufficient criminal sanctions against operators of Darknet marketplaces. One could prosecute these so far only over aiding and abetting, which is difficult to prove however usually. The decision over the draft lies now with the German Bundestag and not only with politicians the opinions go far apart. Prof. Dr. Matthias Bäcker, Professor of Public Law and Information Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, is heavily critical of the bill.
Like other critics, the expert criticises the preventive use of criminal law. What is to be understood by "facilitating and promoting criminal offences" is not clear, but rather that criminal liability is brought forward, because the provision of Internet services is punishable under the planned regulation regardless of whether an unlawful main offence exists at all. If peas are counted, the operation of a Tor relay or VPN service could be interpreted as "enabling". Normal users who, for example, use the Tor browser in order not to be tracked by tracking services while surfing could feel criminalized. And, of course, the general question arises as to whether the new law is necessary at all, because trafficking in drugs, weapons and child pornography is prohibited either way, whether inside or outside Darknet.


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Comparing putting stats across various age groups to discover what age groups are the better putters.
Shot Scope are able to analyse putting statistics in detail, thanks to the PinCollect feature on V2 and V3. PinCollect allows users to identify the exact location of the pin on the green, this then enables highly accurate putting stats to be generated such as putt length, putts per round, miss short or long and much more.
The image below outlines the number of putts per round by age group. The line highlights that there is a spike in number of putts per round at 20-29, compared with other ages and identifies that 50-59 year old golfers have the lowest putts per round.
The number of 3 putts per round is similar to the above graph. 20-29 year old golfers have the most 3 putts per round, average 3.4 three putts per 18 holes. Again in this statistic, 50-59 year old shows the lowest number of 3 putts at 2.1 per 18 holes.
Holing out is one of the key strengths of goof putters. If you can hole out well inside 6ft, you will likely be able to improve your putts per round and reduce the number of 3 putts in a round. The graph below highlights which age groups are the best putters inside 6ft.
Perhaps the older golfers are more used to playing, have more experience and are subsequently, better at green reading. Older golfers will have a more consistent putting stroke, simply because they have been playing longer and have been repeating the same action for a longer period of time, compared with younger / newer golfers. This also makes older players better at holing out inside 6ft, also making them less likely to 3 putt.
Younger golfers may be slightly weaker putters for a number of reasons. Perhaps they have only recently taken up the game, and therefore have less experience and understanding about putting. Putting is a skill that is developed over time. The more experience you a golfer has under their belt the better they can be a putting.
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Post round, more than 100 different statistics can be reviewed via the Shot Scope V3 mobile app or Shot Scope's online dashboard on different clubs, tee shots, approaches, short game and putting to help improve on course strategy and lower scores.
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Flytippers who dumped a TV, hedge trimmer and other items over the cliff at a Cornish beauty spot have been slammed for their stupidity.
The waste was sent tumbling over the cliff and towards the beach below at Hell's Mouth near Hayle last week.
Volunteer cliff rescue experts The Carbis Bay Crew was alerted to the mess and decided to take action to remove the rubbish.
The team scaled the cliff and was able to remove a number of items that got stuck on the way down, making a video of the operation in the process.
Crew spokesman Mark Thomas said: "There was electrical and household rubbish on the edge, on a slope further down and all across the beach.
"The Carbis Bay Crew started to organise a team to go down the next day to clear the rubbish away. We arrived at 10.30 and assessed the situation. It was clear we would only be able to clear the top level and slope as access to the beach would have been too dangerous that day as the wind was quite strong and risked blowing our man into the rocks on the overhang so we had to leave the beach rubbish.
"We set up a safely line and Patrick Moret and Sam Perkin collected the easy stuff at the top first assisted by Graham Wall, Kim Horigan and Jim Regler. This tip included flower pots, televisions and a hedge trimmer.
"Once the top was clear we re-rigged the ropes for the long drop down to the slope, we chose the area which was the safest and clear of the birds on the cliff."
Team member Sam then dropped 200 foot to the lower level and scrambled around on the slope to clean up the rubbish that was making the area look like an eyesore.
Mark added: "The clean-up lasted about three hours and all the collected rubbish filled up a large dumpy bag. There was probably an equal amount still down on the beach that is presumably still there. We may try to collect the remainder another day either by jet ski or by rope.
"The levels of stupidity of the fly tippers are off the scale. It's also very sad when you realise that the people that do this kind of thing are locals, it's always locals, it's almost as if because they live here, they do not appreciate what they have."


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Tesla is recalling more than 1 million cars in the U.S. over a faulty window automatic reversal system that may not properly detect obstruction.
Driving the news: "If a window is closing and detects an obstruction, the condition may increase the risk of a pinching injury to the occupant," according to recall documents released Thursday.
- The faulty system does not comply with federal safety requirements, per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- 1,096,762 Tesla vehicles may have the issue, per NHTSA.
- The recall covers some Model 3s manufactured between 2017 and 2022, Model Ys made between 2020 and 2021 and certain Model S and Model X Tesla's from 2021 to 2022.
State of play: Owners of the vehicles included in the recall are expected to be notified beginning Nov. 15.
- Tesla said it would perform an over-the-air software update to fix the system.
- The company said it was not aware of any crashes, injuries or deaths related to the condition, per the filing.
Go deeper... Teslas made up nearly 70% of assisted-driving crashes in last year
Editor's note: This article has been updated with information on Tesla's software update.


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Asteraceae: Sunflower Family –Arctotis Tribe
The Sunflower family is a very large family with over 25,000 members. Botanists subdivide the family into a number of tribes, of which 14 are present in Monterey County. The Arctotis tribe has three members, including the commonly cultivated Blue-eyed African Daisy and Gazanias.
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This is an escapee from cultivation. It has 16–25 ray flowers, 25–40 mm long, pale yellow above and yellow to brown/purple beneath. The receptacle is shallow and bowl-shaped. The stems are ribbed, and covered in small hairs, white or reddish. Similar to Cape Weed (Arctotheca calendula), which has shorter (6–15 mm) and fewer (6–13) ray flowers and is also classified as moderately invasive.


text: TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Abdullah al-Qirbi confirmed that Iranian diplomat Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, who was abducted in the Yemeni capital in July, is in good health conditions. Speaking in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Tuesday, the top Yemeni diplomat said the abducted Iranian diplomat is in good health and expressed hope that he would be freed as soon as possible. Unknown assailants abducted the Iranian embassy staff member, Nikbakht, in Safr street in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, in late July. In October, Iran called on Yemeni parliamentarians to seriously pursue the case with its abducted diplomat and shed light on his fate. During a meeting with a visiting Yemeni parliamentary delegation in Tehran at the time, Amir Abdollahian noted that the Iranian officials, media, and public opinion are awaiting the official results of Yemen�s probe into the abduction case. He further hailed the efforts exerted by the Yemeni government to ensure the release of Nikbakht, and called for more serious efforts of the Yemeni officials to this end. By Fars News Agency The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.


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Review by Ian Keogh
Over the years Iron Man found himself fighting other armoured foes, and the thrust of Armor Wars is a good idea from the writing team of David Michelinie and Bob Layton, revealing that much of what enabled those foes was technology stolen from Tony Stark. It's a plot that stands the test of time, but delivered to the standards of the late 1980s, and that's the problem. The styles, locations and settings that convinced readers in 1988 that Tony Stark moved in the rich and fashionable world of the global industrialist have now dated. In the worst instances the results are now laughable.
That shouldn't be laid at the door of artist Mark Bright, whose brief was to make the series look modern, and it's hardly his fault the late 1980s wasn't an era of timeless glamour. However, as in the previous Armor Wars Prologue, his work is functional without ever stunning, and while Iron Man uses a greater variety of armoured forms, the primary version is still the blocky, Transformers-like iteration. It's not dated well. Bright's overall ability is placed into focus by a final chapter co-plotted and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith. While it's likely Windsor-Smith didn't operate to a monthly deadline, the different imagination at play in laying out the pages is immense.
While Stark would naturally be annoyed that stolen elements of his technology have permitted villains to loot, maim and kill, his taking personal responsibility for their actions is overwrought. However, as his mission to set things right, Armor Wars is still a fun superhero read for anyone able to ignore the signposts of the times. As Iron Man, Stark confronts assorted villains one by one, removing their armour, while Michelinie and Layton introduce enough complications along with the main plot to ensure it's sustained over the book's nine chapters. The primary emotional drama comes from the deception required to keep friends from getting to the bottom of Iron Man's unusually proactive agenda, and anyone looking for early disagreements between Stark and Captain America will find them here. Stark is convinced all alternative armour derived from his Iron Man designs should be destroyed to prevent it being replicated, but being complete means acting against government agents using their armour for protective purposes. Also good is the way the writers use Stark and Iron Man being the same person, and that very few people realise this.
Michelinie and Layton are relatively complete in featuring all armoured villains Iron Man's previously fought, the primary exception being Doctor Doom, but the compensation for him is in the form of characters Iron Man's not met before. Stilt Man, for instance, rendered inoperative far more easily than if confronted by his regular nemesis Daredevil. Midway through, the story crosses over into Captain America's title for an issue, and that's unaccountably omitted. It doesn't affect the story greatly, but the same could be said about removing other individual chapters, so not including it just seems cheap.
For all the wonderful art, the Windsor-Smith story at the end distils to an ordinary nightmare about Tony Stark being possessed by his alter-ego, yet that art counts for a lot, and the story doesn't feature in any other graphic novels or collections. Any Windsor-Smith fans wanting to upgrade their pulp paper copy have no other choice. As with Armor Wars Prologue, if you thrilled to this as a child, it's a nostalgic read, but anyone born after 1980 will spot the flaws before the quality aspects.


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The Pac-12 football slate is set to commence for Week 2. Even though we saw two games cancelled and four teams with a season-opening performance, optimism runs wild for a full slate of games this weekend.
The Pac-12 football season continues with
No. 20 USC (1-0) squaring off against Arizona (0-0) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET)
Colorado (1-0) facing Stanford (0-1) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET)
No. 11 Oregon (1-0) takes on Washington State (1-0) at 4:00 pm (7:00 pm ET)
Cal (0-0) hosts Arizona State (0-1) at 7:30 pm (10:30 ET)
Utah (0-0) heads to UCLA (0-1) at 7:30 pm (10:30 ET)
Oregon State (0-1) travels to Washington (0-0) at 8:00 pm (11:00 ET)
The season-opening slate saw Utah and Cal cancel their games with Arizona and Washington, respectively, as the Utes and Golden Bears were unable to field the requisite number of student-athletes without positive COVID-19 tests or contact-tracing.
Stanford were also without starting quarterback Davis Mills and starting wide receiver Connor Wedington in their game against Oregon due to contact-tracing protocols.
We'll await news from Stanford regarding their status for Week 2.
The USC Trojans stood pat at No. 20 in the AP Top 25 polls after coming from behind to defeat Arizona State while the Oregon Ducks jumped a few spots in each the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll to No. 11 and No. 12, respectively.
The Pac-12 is back and Pac-12 After Dark is in full effect.


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Sometimes as an antidote
To fear of death,
I eat the stars.
Those nights, lying on my back,
I suck them from the quenching dark
Til they are all, all inside me,
Pepper hot and sharp.
Sometimes, instead, I stir myself
Into a universe still young,
Still warm as blood:
No outer space, just space,
The light of all the not yet stars
Drifting like a bright mist,
And all of us, and everything
Already there
But unconstrained by form.
And sometime it's enough
To lie down here on earth
Beside our long ancestral bones:
To walk across the cobble fields
Of our discarded skulls,
Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis,
Thinking: whatever left these husks
Flew off on bright wings.
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
This is the first step in creation. When you are there, everything else is there; everything is created all at once. When we emerge from nothing, when everything emerges from nothing, we see it all as a fresh new creation.
"[...if you are going to start a business...it has to pass...] three basic tests. First, your idea has to be big enough to justify devoting your life to it. Make sure it has the potential to be huge. Second, it should be unique. When people see what you are offering, they should say to themselves, "My gosh, I need this. I've been waiting for this. This really appeals to me." Without that "aha!" you are wasting your time. Third, your timing must be right. The world actually doesn't like pioneers, so if you are too early, your risk of failure is high. The market you are targeting should be lifting off with enough momentum to help make you successful. If you pass these three tests, you will have a business with the potential to be big, that offers something unique, and is hitting the market at the right time. Then you have to be ready for the pain. No entrepreneur anticipates or wants pain, but pain is the reality of starting something new. It is unavoidable"
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
You want job security, be creative.
— Orange Book 🍊📖 (@orangebook_) August 10, 2020
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account."
"It's as hard to start and run a small business as it is to start a big one. You will suffer the same toll financially and psychologically as you bludgeon it into existence. It's hard to raise the money and to find the right people. So if you're going to dedicate your life to a business, which is the only way it will ever work, you should choose one with the potential to be huge."
A thread on insightful ideas on consumer products by Brian Norgard (@BrianNorgard):
— Rohit Jindal 📚 (@rohit_jindal29) May 20, 2020
The single best growth hack in existence is a quality product that only works when used with other people.
Artist (and perhaps food) meccas in history seem to have:
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) August 23, 2020
1. Very cheap housing and lots of unconventional housing options, ideally paired with
2. Numerous cheap, *small* commercial, retail, or studio spaces. pic.twitter.com/kmpdMCtXbH
"Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive."
The work of reading:
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) August 20, 2020
1. Read a book while highlighting heavily.
2. Distill highlights into core insights, written in your own words.
3. Put into a searchable format.
4. Review regularly.
To build an audience, show your work.
— Jack Butcher (@jackbutcher) August 18, 2020
To build a community, show your working.
An economy that's stuck needs more creators and artists— the kind of people who open doors for others.
— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11) August 18, 2020
Still spinning from this idea in @nayafia's "Making in Public": that when the economics of consumption don't work—e.g. because the product is a public good—a more viable model may exist around the economics of *production*. That is: when might production *be* the product?
— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) August 15, 2020
— Matthew Kobach 🚀 (Sept 2nd) (@mkobach) August 14, 2020
Follow family
Follow entertainers
Follow ideas
Follow friends
Follow beauty
Follow colleagues
Follow inspiration
Doesn't matter who you follow
solocapitalist, solopreneur, solo content creator.
— Geoff Lewis (@justGLew) August 11, 2020
fascinating how rapidly the money making narrative has adapted to serve (a) incumbent software platforms that enable solo-x and (b) covid-induced societal atomization.
raging bull market in solo.
The power of storytelling via @rorysutherland: "You generate value simply by getting people to look at something that already exists in a more favorable light. That's a kind of alchemy." https://t.co/y2LalC5oUD pic.twitter.com/kyVFNr0jkR
— Paul Barnes (@LennyIce) August 2, 2020
"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself."
Perhaps obvious, but it strikes me that dollowers (dollar-weighted followers) are an important part of the future.
— balajis.com (@balajis) June 25, 2020
Platforms like Substack, Patreon, Ghost, Locals allow writers to optimize their dollowers. Dollowing is a scarce and directly valuable behavior, unlike following.
Step 1: Know exactly what you want. Have a big vision that is crystal clear.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) June 13, 2020
Step 2: Know exactly what is true. See reality for what it is and accept the honest facts of the situation.
Step 3: Be flexible in the way you close the gap between 1 and 2.
Bold. Rational. Adaptable.
"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
Tobi Lutke (@tobi) is the CEO of Shopify
— George Mack (@george__mack) May 18, 2020
He's one of my favorite CLEAR thinkers
I spent some time in lockdown going through his interviews
Here are 6 mental models I got from it


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Nearest Car Wash in Anaheim
Since 1955 Anaheim has been an official hub for the happiest place on earth – Disneyland. It's not just Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney, The Disney Gallery, or Sleeping Beauty's Castle, inhabiting the area. Anaheim is a hub for fun in general! Its neighbors include, Baden-Powell, Brookhurst, Canyon Hills, Cerritos, Chaparral Park, Palm Lane, Paul Revere, Platinum Triangle, Running Springs, Rio Vista, Ronald Reagan Park, Ross Park, Savanna and Willow Park. All places that follow the fast-paced routine of Southern California.
It is pretty easy for us all to agree that life can become very busy during the week. The first thing on your mind is typically, if not always, the weekend. The last thing on your mind is all of the annoying tasks you may or may not have to do during that time. Having a mobile car wash near you can not only be convenient but it also saves a considerable amount of time during your busy schedule. If your week constantly seems to be filled with errands, then your only "real" free time is the weekend. The thing about free time is that everyone wants to spend it in their own way. The last thing that anyone wants to do is time-consuming chores. Even in Anaheim.
It could be something as simple as running to the laundromat, grocery store, or going to the nearest car wash. One of the most important things you can do for your vehicle is to make sure that you have frequent auto detailing services done. This not only prolongs the life of your ride; it also makes sure that you are in the healthiest environment for you and your loved ones. So, the question still stands: "Where is the closest car wash near me?"
In the modern world of app development, there has been a considerable amount of service apps that have made our lives much easier. One app, in particular, is MobileWash. Since its formation, MobileWash has entered the market becoming the industry leader in mobile auto detailing. With over hundreds of vetted, insured, detailing professionals, MobileWash has set a new standard for quality and convenience in the car detailing sector.
MobileWash proudly services thousands of customers each with our mobile car detailing services. Each skillful washer arrives in a branded vehicle, I.D./credentials, and all the proper supplies to make sure your ride will be cleaned to your utmost satisfaction.
Getting started is simple. All you have to do is download MobileWash from whether the AppStore or Google Play, created a profile, select your package and then hit confirm. Within minutes a trained contracted professional will be at your work or home, ready to take on the challenge of giving you the best car wash/detail service you have ever had. Can't get a wash right at the moment? No problem. With MobileWash you can always choose from the options to "wash now" or "wash later." This allows yourself to have the freedom to have your car cleaned and detailed on your own time.
We are MobileWash, the industry leader in mobile car detailing. Our guarantee is your undeniable satisfaction. With just a click of a button, our team of experienced contractors is on their way to make you vehicle look just as beautiful as the day you took it off the showroom floor. To back up our standard we have a quality assurance team, that not only constantly interacts with our vetted washers, but also is always ready to answer any of your lingering questions about MobileWash or our various car detailing services. If there is one thing we believe, it is high-grade work backed with our incomparable loyalty.


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What Was On The Rotisserie
1980 Bally Hot Doggin (Customers)
This game is not Elkhart Pinball's. This game belongs to a home owner, we will remove all playfield plastic, light
bulbs and posts, clean everything removed in the ultrasonic cleaner, clean the playfield, polish it,
and then reassemble the game, check all switches for proper adjustment, install new light bulbs, on the top side.
She does not want a complete tare down, or reconditioning, she just want it to look nice and play as if it
just came from factory. We can do as little or as much to a pinball machine what ever the customer
Before Cleaning After Cleaning
Before Cleaning in the ultrasonic cleaner After
Thanks for looking
John Freel
Elkhart Pinball Inc.
Copyright © 2013 , Elkhart Pinball, Inc.


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According to a Fortune 500 CEO survey, 75% of CEOs agree that corporations need to accelerate the technological transformation of their businesses in order to successfully survive the post-covid recovery period.
Of course, digital transformation is by no means a new phenomenon; but the massive work disruptions that have carried over into the post-pandemic world, changes to service delivery, and sudden shift in the ways in which teams have been forced to adopt and adapt remote work models, has only served to re-illustrate the importance of digital business transformation in ensuring business continuity.
One area in which technological innovation is expected to be heavily leveraged and depended upon, lies within the talent acquisition space. Companies will be searching for the best talent needed to fuel recovery growth, amidst a sea of applicants – we have already seen a rise of global unemployment and spike in the contingent workforce - whilst paucity of available talent may no longer be an issue, the difficulty will now lie in finding that needle in the talent haystack, without wasting too much time and resources.
Companies will begin to augment their hiring selections by depending upon algorithms and artificially intelligent systems. Only through the adoption of the most efficient technological solutions will companies have the best opportunity of assembling the best talent for their workforces.
Here at Talmix, we know what it takes to undergo the trials and tribulations of a digital transformation, and our architectural transition in 2016 and shift in digital practices have enabled us to now offer unprecedented speed, precision and convenience in a state-of-the-art, end-to-end user experience with a next-gen sophisticated searching and matching algorithm.
Our top-tier, industry wide business talent network extends across the globe, encompassing over 60,000 members across 181 countries. We work with over 72,000 data points every month, continuing to exponentially increase all the possible combinations of these points so that we are able to instantly find that needle in the haystack in under 24 hours, whether for a project, full-time position or interim work. It means that Talmix can find the talent to match the uncertain requirements companies will be building their futures around.
The world of work won't be the same from hereon. Businesses that flexibly identify and implement the right technological innovations will be the ones to succeed. Businesses that don't adopt technology enablement, will be prohibited moving forward in the post-pandemic economy.
Digital businesses need digital solutions.


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I stayed at a $1,000-a-night postnatal retreat with my newborn baby - here's why it's worth it
I was eight months pregnant when I first spoke to Boram Nam, and I was nervous. My husband and I – both Brits – were about to have our first child (well, I was about to have him; my husband was about to stand beside me, clutching my hand and trying not to faint while bodily fluids covered the bed, the walls, and, at one point, his face.)
We were living in New York City, our nearest relatives 4,000 miles away. We'd been to a tranche of "birth preparation" classes. We'd filled out forms about epidurals, contractions and C-sections. We'd learned terms like "fundus" and "placental abruption". Our health insurance had delivered a scary-looking electric breast pump and a pre-emptive hospital bill for $1,000. But we still didn't have a clear picture of what the immediate days after the birth of our son would look like. Once the fentanyl pump was taken out of my spine and we'd been wheeled out of the recovery room, what were we supposed to actually do?
Luckily, there's a place in New York designed specifically to answer these questions: Boram Care, a "postnatal retreat" in the center of Manhattan, just steps away from Central Park. In just a few weeks, I would be checking into the facility. There, we would supposedly learn how to deal with the screaming, confusing little burrito who had come out of my body.
"We're here to educate you, train you – we're going to have you go through a baby bootcamp so that you and your husband are more confident, more knowledgeable," Nam told me over Zoom, as I perched on a yoga ball at eight months pregnant. I hoped she was right.
The check-in process at Boram Care is complicated by the fact that most people don't know exactly when they're going to give birth. The facility will take you any time during your first month after having a baby, but they recommend — and most people take them up on this — that you come straight from the hospital.
That means Boram Care employees are always engaged in a balancing act, trying to make sure there's enough space to take the soon-to-be parents on their books at all times. A couple of weeks out from your due date, a Boram Care employee schedules a call, during which you discuss your birth plan – Are you waiting to go into labour naturally? Do you have an induction or a C-section scheduled? Has your doctor said you shouldn't wait beyond 40 weeks? Are you planning to spend two or three nights in the hospital after giving birth, or would you rather leave as quickly as possible? – so they can predict things as best as they can. Then, they give you a phone number to text, and ask that you keep them updated as much as possible if the baby makes an unscheduled early arrival.
Needless to say, my baby did make an unscheduled early arrival. A week before my due date, my water broke dramatically at midnight, just like it happens in the movies and just like they tell you it won't happen. My husband and I called my OB-GYN in shock. "Pick up the car seat and get in a cab to the hospital now," the nurse on call told us. Bleary-eyed and on my very first day of maternity leave, I responded: "But why do we need the car seat?" First babies are supposed to be late! We had plans for the next couple of weeks! I wasn't supposed to be having him tonight!
And yet, of course, I did have him that night. Once the baby was in my arms and my husband ordered my promised post-birth meal of Sugarfish sushi, we texted Boram Care's number. The baby is here! Can we come in the next two days? The reply came: There wasn't room for four days. We'd have to go home on our own for 24 hours before turning around. "Everyone in New York went into labour last night," the nurse at our hospital told us. "This always happens around the full moon."
Three days later, we arrived at Boram Care as shell-shocked as any other set of new parents. My husband carried a car seat with our sleeping newborn in it and I staggered out of the taxi, 20 stitches richer than I'd been a few days before. Boram Care had asked us to text when we were 10 minutes away; we duly did, and there was a representative waiting for us in the lobby of the four-star Hyatt Thompson Central Park Hotel when we arrived. We took the elevator up together and discussed what I wanted our stay to look like: Did I want staff to check in with me regularly, by knocking on the door every few hours and actively offering services or help? Did I want to be left alone completely unless I asked? Did I want a combination of the two? I chose the first option because, quite frankly, I had no idea what I was doing and I needed all the help I could get.
Boram Care takes up the top floor of the hotel, where standard hotel rooms are repurposed into a family-friendly environment. We arrived to an extra-large bed with a wheeled bassinet beside it, complete with a newborn swaddle and a pile of high-end diapers, wipes, and maternity pads. The bathroom, like all of those at Boram, have large walk-in showers (they used to have a mix of bathtubs and showers in Boram Care's previous incarnation at another Manhattan hotel, but they changed to an all-shower layout at their new location after feedback from post-C-section moms who sometimes struggled to get into the baths.)
Security is taken seriously: my husband, our baby, and I were all immediately issued wristbands that gave us access to the floor. No one without a wristband is allowed in or out. This makes sense when you consider there's a nursery a few steps outside of your room where you can send your baby overnight, or for a few hours to catch up on sleep. And if you need extra reassurance (I did), the nursery is also equipped with 24/7 cameras over every crib accessible from your phone.
Almost everything you need for the first month of a baby's life is provided at Boram Care, which is deeply reassuring. What we did bring included clothes for ourselves, one extra outfit for our baby, a baby carrier, and my Spectra breastpump. During our pre-arrival phone call, I'd been asked what kind of breastpump I had so that the staff could prepare to show me how to use it. And once I'd settled in, a postnatal doula and a lactation consultant both visited my room to teach me and my husband how to set up the machine and the flanges; to teach us about sterilisation; and to assess the damage already done to my boobs by my poorly-latching baby.
This kind of situation is where Boram Care really comes into its own. At the hospital, a lactation consultant did visit me – for 10 minutes, during which she told me to feed every two hours, "and the two hours begin when he starts feeding". At that point, my baby was latching poorly, I was bleeding, my milk hadn't fully come in, and my baby was taking an hour and a half to feed—when he did feed. That would've meant starting to feed again 30 minutes after he finished — all day, all night, every day, every night.
I probably would've given up on breastfeeding before I began if it weren't for the combination of supportive staff at Boram. While one consultant focused on the baby and the latch, a doula provided saline for my gnashed nipples and drew up a sitz bath. I was reassured that it was okay if I took the baby off the boob for a couple of days and instead pumped milk into a bottle for my husband to feed him. I was shown how. I was told that all the pump parts could be washed and sterilised for me, 24 hours a day, and returned within an hour. And then, for the next three days, I texted the Boram number every few hours and someone promptly turned up, took away the parts, sterilised them, returned them on a tray, and helped me put them back together. At three or four in the morning, these professionals came straight to my bed, where I was propped up, topless, in bed with a screaming baby, and talked to me like everything was completely normal. (Crucially, Boram also has newborn formula on hand for parents who have chosen to formula-feed or combination-feed, or for those whose milk supply is low. My supply was initially delayed, and we took advantage of both formula and lactation consultants at that time.)
At one point, I turned to the baby nurse and asked: "Can you just rock him to sleep? I can't work out how to get him into the bassinet." She swaddled him, turned on a Spotify track of shushing noises, and rocked my baby until he went down. My husband and I then slept in a bed together for the first time since I'd given birth. And when we woke up, I was offered a foot bath or a massage.
When you have a newborn, everything is on "baby time", and "baby time" is never normal time. So, while Boram runs a number of sessions in the large family room a few doors down from your hotel room, they understand you might miss them. When we realised we'd slept through a baby-wearing consult, someone came to our room to give us a personalised walk-through of how to use the baby carrier we'd brought. We took a short walk three blocks down to Central Park on the third day to try it out. Did we panic halfway through that the baby might've stopped breathing, stop on the street, take it off, tear him out, reassure ourselves that he was in fact alive, and then put it all back on again? Yes. Would we have known how to do that without someone teaching us how to secure the thing step-by-step? No.
Probably the most Instagrammed feature of Boram Care is the food. The family room, which is open 24 hours, has a fridge full of healthy snacks, a coffee machine, and a good selection of teas – but pick up the phone on your bedside table and you have access to a specially prepared three-course meal, three times a day. Prepared by chefs in consultation with medical professionals, the meals offer a balance of nutrients you need in the immediate postpartum period (and can easily be made pescatarian, vegetarian, or allergy-friendly.) They're delivered to your bedside by discreet staff members who don't bat an eyelid at the fact that you don't make much sense and probably aren't wearing any clothes. On my first day, my breakfast was oatmeal with fresh fruit, scrambled eggs with sausages, toast, bacon and tomatoes, a bagel with cream cheese, a pint of orange juice, and a thermos of hot (decaffeinated) coffee. Yes, all of that. Later on, my lunch included a hearty soup and medium-rare steak with vegetables, plus dessert. It was nothing short of incredible. Oh, and you have a three-hour period in which to order any of those meals. Again, baby time.
One disadvantage – or some might say advantage – of the Boram Care offering is that food is only included for the birthing mother. The other parent? Well, they're on their own. Does this seem fair enough when you've just pushed a baby out of your body? Yes. Might you feel a little bad watching your partner order Shake Shack while you prop yourself up on four plush cushions and feed yourself steak? Perhaps. (Your partner can sign up for the same meals as you, but it'll cost you dearly. My husband stuck with ordered-in hotdogs.)
Perinatal care facilities like Boram Care are common in South Korea: Boram Nam told me that, in the same way American families will come together to buy products for a baby shower, Koreans will often chip in together to pay for a pregnant friend or relative's stay in a Boram Care-type hotel. The idea of resting for 30 days after giving birth is central to Korean culture, she explained, and when people began to move away from their hometowns and gravitate toward cities for work, such facilities started to replace what would have traditionally been provided in the mother's parents' house. These days, she told me, "more than 80 per cent" of Koreans who give birth take advantage of them: "The moment you find out you're pregnant, you're going to look for the resources and you're going to secure the financial commitment to go to [one of those] highly sought-after postpartum care facilities."
Nam was shocked to find that such attitudes toward post-birth care didn't exist in American culture. She herself has two children: a 13-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son (she joined her Zoom interview with me from her daughter's room, complete with posters of K-pop stars above the bed.) And she admits she could've been kinder to herself during her own postpartum periods. Both times, she and her husband were working on startups – they've worked together now for 14 years – so maternity leave wasn't on her radar. "Especially with my second, who was a planned C-section… the recovery was really challenging," she said. "I was working about an hour after I came back to the recovery room in the hospital."
Nam's parents were in Korea. She had a nanny for her older child, but no support from any postpartum specialists. "And I was working at the same time. So I was basically microwaving a wet towel and giving myself a boob massage, leaning against a mirror in a bathroom, just massaging my engorged boobs [while working]," she said. "It was really challenging."
At one point, she found herself pushing her toddler in a stroller and holding her newborn in her arms while visiting the office at midnight to collect documents. "It took me about two years to finally feel better physically and mentally," she said. "Both times, I had mild postpartum depression and honestly, I didn't know how to label that."
Nam believes that Boram Care is "preventative care", in the way that it provides multiple experts who can prevent postnatal depression from setting in due to overwhelm and undersleep, and prevent infections like mastitis from happening because parents don't have on-demand breastfeeding support in the early days.
The research is on her side: studies show that sleep deprivation is the biggest contributing factor to worsening postpartum depressive symptoms. She is now working with US health insurance companies to get the facility recognised as a necessary part of the post-birth process. At $1,000 a night, such preventative care doesn't come cheap – how can it, when it necessitates so many highly-trained staff, 24 hours a day? – but Nam hopes that one day soon, new mothers will be able to recoup at least some of those costs from their insurance.
"We are really trying to shift the paradigm in terms of seeing this as a luxury," she said, "to seeing this as essential." And as for what Boram Care costs, she reminded me: "In the hospital, the rooms cost between $850 and $2,500 a night." She laughed. "And the food sucks!"


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Matei Basarab National College
Summer's here and the break is near. But if you're preparing for study abroad, you know that this summer – and all the time you have until the deadlines – will be best put to use if you:
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Collective cooperation is essential to human society, and it exists in many social dilemmas. In the scenario of a collective-risk social dilemma, a group of players have to collectively contribute to a public fund to prevent the tragedy of the commons, such as dangerous climate change, because everybody will lose all their remaining money when the damage happens with a certain probability if the group fails to reach a fixed fundraising target. Yet, it remains largely unclear how the group size affects the probability of reaching the collective target and the mechanism that drives different outcomes of the collective cooperation. Here, we contribute to the literature by exploring the role of group size in the collective-risk social dilemma and the potential underlying mechanism using both model simulations and human experiments. Through simulations we found that the rate of failure for collective cooperation increases for larger groups, along with the arising of bystander effect and a decrease in average contributions, which are confirmed by our experimental observations. We further analyze the patterns of investment behaviors in the experiment setting by categorizing players into cooperators, altruists, and free riders using both a clustering method and a golden standard. We found that altruists who tend to contribute more, rather than cooperators who prefer contributing a fair-share investment, play a crucial role in groups with success outcome in early and/or middle stages of the game. Our results indicate that bystanders are dynamic and their amount depends on the contribution of others. When others contribute less, bystanders also contribute less. If the collective goal is unlikely to achieve, more players choose to be bystanders who strategically contribute less, intriguing the failure of the collective goal. Our findings suggest a potentially effective way to solve the collective-risk social dilemma by reducing the bystander effect through the mechanism design of forming small groups.
Original language | English (US) |
Article number | 126445 |
Journal | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
Volume | 410 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2021 |
- Bystander effect
- Climate change
- Collective cooperation
- Games
- Group size
- Risk
- Social dilemma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics


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Malaysia: BNM cuts policy rate in May for the first time since July 2016
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Bank Negara Malaysia reduced the overnight policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.00% at its 7 May meeting, the first rate cut in nearly three years. Market analysts had been split on the decision, with many expecting rates to be left unchanged.
The decision to cut the overnight policy rate was mainly the result of tepid inflationary pressures and a moderate growth outlook. Although inflation returned in March following two months of annual price falls, it was still modest, while core inflation—which excludes certain types of fresh food and administered prices of goods and services—was limp. Moreover, the Bank expects inflation to remain low in the months ahead due to the price ceiling on domestic retail gasoline prices and changes to consumption tax policy. Overall, although average headline inflation should remain broadly unchanged from 2018, developments in global oil prices will largely determine the trajectory of inflation.
The Bank also highlighted downside risks to growth stemming from "heightened uncertainties in the global and domestic environment, trade tensions and extended weakness in commodity-related sectors", and reduced the overnight policy rate in part to support the economy.
In its communiqué, BNM gave no explicit clue as to the future direction of monetary policy, although mild inflation likely rules out a rate hike in the near term.
Commenting on the future direction of the overnight policy rate, Prakash Sakpal, an economist at ING, noted:
"Today's rate cut still leaves the central bank with a sufficient interest rate buffer if economic conditions deteriorate further, but this may not be required. Although the GDP slowdown intensified coming into 2019 – our estimate of 4.2% growth in the first quarter puts it below the BNM's forecast range for the year. We expect the timely policy boost together with the favourable base effect to shore up growth in the rest of the year."
The next monetary policy meeting is scheduled for 9 July.


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"Sisters of Light" Gather to Reclaim Judaism for Women
Twenty-five women dance in a circle, late in the afternoon before Shabbat, beside a secluded natural pool in the woods. Chanting fills the air: "Thank you Mother Earth; thank you Sister Water; thank you for my birth; thank you from your daughter."
This was the mikvah (ritual immersion) ceremony at the Achyot Or (Sisters of Light) weekend gathering of 40 Jewish feminists from several East Coast cities at a retreat center near Philadelphia last summer.
Achyot Or grew out of the experience of several women who are members of a related group called B'not Eysh, Daughters of Fire. B'not Eysh's 24 women have met annually since 1981 for an intimate weekend focusing on issues of feminist theology: the connection between spiritually and sexuality; images of God/ess; and the impact of ritual practice on women.
The Achyot Or gathering was organized by six Philadelphia women to reach out to the many women who had heard of B'not Eysh gatherings and wished to participate in such events.
The gathering was built around three theme groups. The artists' group focused on each woman's struggle to affirm herself as both an artist and a woman, two marginalized identities in this society. Participants in the theme group on "Living our lives as Jewish Feminists" talked about the impact of class and ethnic background on women's aspirations.
The spirituality group, in discussing the relationship between spirituality and Jewish ritual, created a new name for the God/ess: Rachamema, a blend of the Hebrew words meaning womb (rechem), compassion {rachamim) and mother {Ema). At one afternoon workshop, artist Deborah Krueger taught women how to make plaster breast-plates. For much of the weekend nine beautiful casts of women's breasts proudly adorned the mantle of the main meeting room. One woman said, "It was so affirming to see huge Jewish women's breasts as art. It gave me a whole new acceptance of my own body."
Participants, who came from diverse backgrounds, included feminists who live according to halacha (Jewish law), women just beginning to explore their Jewish identity and others whose commitment to Judaism is based on radical feminist re-interpretation.
Joanna Katz had originally envisioned the gathering "to bring together peers who are creating Jewish feminism … all equally creative, responsible and empowered to make this movement happen." Katz and Julie Greenberg—both rabbinical students and active organizers in the Philadelphia Jewish feminist community can be reached at 117 W. Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia PA 19119, for information on next Memorial Day's gathering, which a planning committee has undertaken to organize.


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16:35 19 Jun 21
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16:28 17 Jun 21
Ehhhh, so the Doctor was nice but the staff is a different story. Seems like they don't like there job. And then I go... over to the eye glass place to pick out frames and the girl was nice but not helpful. I was looking for frames by myself it's my first time getting glasses so it would have been nice to get some advice but that's to much to ask for. My apt was at 9:30 I arrived at 9:05 just to fill out all of my paperwork so I'm not behind and I still waiting for another 55 mins until I was called back. So I give this place 2 stats since the Dr was friendly and thorough.read more
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00:47 03 May 21
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20:14 30 Mar 21
First visit to this clinic. Very happy with the quality of service. Both the front desk and the nurses are quick and... very polite. Saw the doctor within fifteen minutes of my appointment time. The doctor spent considerable amount of time checking my eyes and explaining my condition and then did a quick procedure which took care of my teary eyes problem.Good Job Doc. You took care of the problem created by my previous opthalmologist.read more
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17:15 06 Mar 21
Friendly service, flexible scheduling, doctors are awesome with great bedside manner. LASIK procedure was clear and... very quick and painless. Would definitely recommend!read more
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04:19 03 Mar 21
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Phil Johanson
20:49 27 Feb 21
Surgery was quick and painless! I only experienced mild pain for a couple of hours after surgery, and that was it. Each... step of the procedure was explained both before and during the process, which helped ease anxiety.Staff members were very friendly at all visits. So far, so good, I'm seeing 20/20 on the 1st day post-op. Tired of your glasses? Stop by Houston LASIK & Eye!read more
William McDonald
16:52 27 Feb 21
Great service and staff. Walked me through the process quite easily.Can't say the actual LASIK procedure was a lot of... fun but they got me through it and I see 20/20For a bit of perspective I have worn glasses since I was 4 years old and had -7.00 vision since that time.Super excited and looking forward to keeping this vision for years to come without glasses and contacts.read more
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16:49 27 Feb 21
I couldn't be any happier with my lasik . Great staff and doctors. Very professional and courteous. I was nerves , but... they explain everything in detail and put me at ease. If you want to do it just do it. this is the place you do it at.read more
Alex Phung
17:26 30 Jan 21
Extremely great experience from start to finish! All the staff at both the Houston and Sugarland locations were... extremely attentive and kind. Dr. Khokhar and Dr. Jafri made the whole process easy and very comfortable!read more
Anxhela Zela
19:16 17 Jan 21
I had the lasik 2 days ago with Dr.Kohkhar. I'm glad I make this decision in my life with the best staff... ever,absolutely amazing people and very professional. My vision is 20/20 and I couldn't be more happy. Thank you for changing my liferead more
Alyssa Trevino
18:25 04 Jan 21
Houston Lasik & Eye was such an amazing experience! From the very 1st appointment to the surgery day and post op... visits. Every staff member was so sweet and caring. Dr. Khokhar is the best! I will be making all my eye appointments here from now on!read more
lupe beltran
21:28 30 Dec 20
Best decision of my life 10 days after surgery still have perfect visionEverything was explained to me no surprises... the best price in town alsoread more
Sameer Mishra
20:25 23 Dec 20
Great experience!...LASIK operation went smoothly and I never have to wear glasses or contacts ever again! Highly... recommend!read more
Susan Alizadeh
04:51 01 Dec 20
I have been a client of Houston Lasik for about 10 years. Wonderful doctor. This doctor really cares about his... patients . All the ladies that work there have great additudes from the girls in the back to the front office. Thank U for doing such a good job !!!read more
Jebz Joseph
22:09 10 Nov 20
Best decision of my life. Lasik procedure went very smooth and I was able to see better as soon as I finished the... procedure. I highly recommend this place to everyone also to my friends and family.Only Regret was I didn't get to choose the sunglasses I wanted a brown sun glass instead of black one. Nobody did ask me to choose. Other than that everything was well. Hence I am leaving a 4 star.read more
Wes Sarbacker
14:12 27 Oct 20
Very professional how they work in there environment with the virus. Felt safe and comfortable at all times. Thank you
Diane Pont
13:58 13 Oct 20
Aaron is special needs and the staff and Dr. Jofry were very patient and kind with him. Aaron was able to get fitted... for his much needed glasses.read more
Isaias Camarena
22:58 29 Sep 20
Great place was very skeptical about doing Lasik but was met with an outstanding team keep me motivated and well... informed. Now I'm seeing 20/20 and don't have to worry about glassesread more
Judy Pearce
18:13 25 Aug 20
Dr. Kokar and his team took excellent care of me during my appt. The Doctor explained everything to me perfectly. I've... always had excellent care for all my appts. throughout the years even my eye surgery. My son had lasik surgery with great results. We highly recommend this clinic and Dr. Kokar's team.read more
Steven Santos
14:01 12 Jul 20
This place is awesome! I have been looking to get Lasik done for awhile and checked a few different places out. The... friendliness and attentiveness of the staff was what initially drew me to Houston Lasik & Eye. Jerri asked a lot of questions and made the process very natural, giving me a reasonable price. Other places just told me all their offerings and added on extra services without really explaining anything.On the day of the surgery, every person on staff was incredibly friendly. I was in and out super quick and they made sure to answer any questions I had.At my first check-up, everything seems to have gone well. It's just up to me and maintaining my eye drops.In this new COVID world, the staff and office was incredibly clean. If you are looking for Lasik, I definitely recommend this place 100%!!read more
Dolly Ali
19:03 27 Jun 20
I loved the entire process from the consultation to the surgery and ending with follow ups. The entire staff and... doctors were so helpful and nice. It was an amazing experience! Being over the age of 50, I thought getting lasik was impossible, but the doctors had an alternate route for me to get monovision and now I can see perfectly! I love it so much and it was totally worth it!!read more
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