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Prenatal Chiropractic Care | Sugar Mill Chiropractic and Acupuncture
Pregnancy and chiropractic care go hand in hand. Chiropractic care and adjustments are a safe and natural way to help a woman's body adapt to the many changes during pregnancy. Here we'll answer some of your most common questions related to pregnancy and how chiropractic can assist your changing body.
Q: Why do I have low back pain during pregnancy?
- Body changes cause unfamiliar mechanical compensation
- Weight gain adds structural stress on muscles and joints
- Hormonal changes cause a decrease in ligament stability resulting in weakened joints
Q: How can I prevent it?
- Exercise
- Learn to relax
- Stretch (yoga)
- Use proper posture
- Avoid repetitive twisting (vacuuming)
- Wear comfortable low-heel shoes
- Change positions frequently
- Sleep on your side using a body pillow
- Go swimming
Q: What kind of treatment is available?
The Webster Technique
The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) discovered this technique as a safe means to restore proper pelvic balance and function, which is essential throughout pregnancy and delivery. This specific sacral analysis can be used on all weight- bearing individuals to determine S/I joint dysfunction/sacral subluxation and is therefore applicable for all clients. It is used on all weight- bearing individuals with this biomechanical restriction.
Because of the particular female adaptations from the increase of hormones, weight gain and postural adaptations, pregnant mothers have a greater chance of sacral subluxation and neuro-biomechanical imbalance than the general population. Additionally, because of the effect the chiropractic adjustment has on all body functions by reducing nerve system stress, pregnant mothers may receive significant benefit by having their spines adjusted regularly throughout pregnancy, thus optimizing health benefits for both the mother and baby.
Chiropractic - Assists in maintaining a spine free from vertebral misalignments and fixations - optimizing spinal biomechanics, keeping pelvis and spine in correct position/posture, assisting in pain relief by reducing spinal and pelvic stresses which produce soft tissue pain, keeping tissues and biomechanics functioning to minimize complications during birth
Massage Therapy -Keeps muscles relaxed and flexible, reduces bouts of muscle aches and pains and decreases spinal stress
Physical Therapy - Keeps spinal musculature strong, balanced and pain-free, enabling spinal muscles to maintain the spine and body in a neutral, correct posture, keeping mom active and mobile
Acupuncture -In fertility treatment, it is thought to increase blood flow to the uterus, relax the cervix and inhibit "fight or flight" stress hormones that can make it tougher for an embryo to grow
Sugar Mill Chiropractic doctors are specially trained to work with pregnant women. We have tables that are specifically designed for performing chiropractic adjustments on women who are pregnant, and we perform gentle techniques that avoid putting pressure on the abdomen area. We can also teach and assist you in safe prenatal exercises and stretches that can complement any adjustments to your spine and body.


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AMTRAK- When Political Absurdity Meets Government Inefficiency
Amtrak is the government subsidized and sole National Passenger Railroad Operator in the United States. Through outdated requirements and the inability to secure funding for long term investments, Amtrak has accumulated annual losses of greater than $1 Billion every year since its inception.
The National Passenger Railroad Corporation was created by the US Government in 1971 to consolidate the fledgling passenger rail industry in the United States. Branded as 'Amtrak', this organization operates 300 trains, carrying more than 84,000 passengers daily.
Business Model
Amtrak's mission is to deliver intercity transportation with superior safety, customer service and financial excellence. Amtrak operates a nationwide rail network, serving more than 500 destinations in 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces on more than 21,300 miles of routes, with more than 20,000 employees. Last year Amtrak recorded $3.2 billion in revenue and while incurring $4.3 billion in expenses.[1]
According to AMTRAK's Business Plan published in 2013, the company prioritized 5 goals:[2]
Goal 1 – Safety and Security:
Become North America's safest, most secure railroad by creating a collaborative, team-oriented workplace culture that minimizes risks and maximizes passenger and employee safety.
Goal 2 – Customer Focus:
Advance customer service quality by responding to the wants, needs and expectations of our customers in order to improve their experience and maximize passenger and partner satisfaction.
Goal 3 – Mobility and Connectivity:
Improve national mobility and connectivity by growing Amtrak's business through new partnerships, routes and frequencies to increase ridership system wide.
Goal 4 – Environment and Energy:
Contribute to the nation's environmental health by attracting automobile and air travelers to trains, while improving Amtrak's efficiency and reducing transportation related carbon emissions and fossil fuel consumption.
Goal 5 – Financial and Organizational Excellence:
Attain a standard of organizational excellence by aligning our products, services, processes and culture with stakeholder expectations to improve financial performance and overall business results.
Operating Model
Beholden to Government Whims
Unfortunately for Amtrak, despite these logical business goals, its operations are still dictated by a very fickle and confused Congress. Amtrak is reliant on Federal Subsidies greater than $1 Billion annually. Efforts over the past decade to secure this funding through multi-year legislative allocations have repeatedly failed; forcing Amtrak officials to plead their case annually before a highly politicized legislature. The inevitable outcome is an inability for multi-year planning and an inability to secure the proper funding for the investments necessary to make Amtrak competitive with existing forms of inter city transportation.
Inability to invest
One glaring example of this failure to properly invest in necessary technologies was seen in the May 15th, 2015 derailment of a Northeast Regional Train in Philadelphia. Subsequent investigations found this deadly incident was caused by operator error. The conductor failed to slow the train to the prescribed speed for a curve, resulting in multiple cars coming off the tracks. Amplifying the apparent failures that led to this disaster, was the fact that the technology to prevent it had already existed, however Amtrak had failed to fully implement it due to funding and technical issues.[3]
Inability to divest unprofitable operations
Amtrak's operating problems are further complicated by a Legislative Requirement to maintain long distance intercity rail lines that are perennially unprofitable.[4] Amtrak officially are continuously berated by Congress for their inability to generate a profit, while ignoring that the continued reauthorization of the Passenger Rail Act, with its declaration that "long distance passenger rail is a vital and necessary part of our national transportation system and economy," is the proximate cause for a majority of the operating expenses.[5]
In the most glaring example of Congressional ineptitude regarding Amtrak's operations, members of Congress floated the idea of privatizing the Northeast Corridor of Amtrak. This line, running from Washington, DC to Boston, and including the only high speed rail in America, is often the only profitable line for Amtrak. When pressed, the backers of the plan identified that private investors were willing to raise private capital to make the necessary infrastructure investments to keep the line operational. What they failed to address is how that plan would benefit the remainder of Amtrak which would then struggle even more to match revenues to the growing costs of running the remaining long distance passenger transit lines that Congress continued to mandate.[6]
If the process for securing funding for Amtrak continues to be a contentious and annual process the enterprise will continue to fail. Despite the $1.5 Billion it will receive from tax payers this year, Amtrak is simply securing the minimum amount required to remain solvent, removing any possibility of making the investments required to remain a viable option for intercity transportation in the United States.
Compounding this problem is the fact that Amtrak is still beholden to an outdated federal mandate to operate inefficient and unpopular long distance routes. Congress should reevaluate the stance and determine if it is indeed integral to the national economy. If it does find that the long distance routes need to be maintained, the façade of Amtrak remaining a semi-private venture should be removed, subsidies should be increased, and the railroad network should become part of the nationally funded infrastructure. If not, Amtrak should be entrusted to divest unprofitable lines and prioritize capital expenditure towards the routes that are profitable or can be in the immediate future.
[1] Amtrak Website
[2] Amtrak FY13 Budget Comprehensive Business Plan
[3] International Business Times. "Amtrak's Failure to Gain Wireless Spectrum Rights Stymied Safety Technology" May 15, 2015.
[4] The Brookings Institute. "New Amtrak Bill Still Means the Same Old Funding Debate" September 16, 2014.
[5] Amtrak News Release. "LONG DISTANCE TRAINS ARE FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY" May 21, 2013.
[6] Washington Post. "House GOP proposal would privatize high-speed rail along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor" May 26, 2011.
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How Activity Tracking Can Reduce Life Insurance Premiums
Activity trackers (including the likes of Fitbit, Apple Watch, and Garmin) have spiked in popularity, with increasingly more people taking advantage of the motivational and analytical benefits that the tech provides.
They're also pretty cool little gadgets!
Wearable fitness or activity tracking devices essentially use GPS and different movement sensors to count your steps and monitor a variety of other health-related metrics. For example, some devices can calculate the distance you've walked or run, your heartbeat activity, and even the quality of your sleep!
They aren't only useful for promoting great health benefits and working as a wearable motivator, but they could also save you money on your life insurance with some providers, whether you take out whole of life insurance or term life insurance.
Activity trackers linked to life insurance
It's no secret that the unhealthier you are, the more risk you pose to insurance providers, and therefore the more expensive your life insurance premiums will be.
However, with certain companies, you are now able to use data from these activity trackers as evidence of your healthy lifestyle and in turn receive cheaper premiums, as well as various perks and rewards.
You don't have to be a fitness-freak to benefit from these incentives by any means, but being healthy and active does statistically mean that you are at less risk of passing away at a young age due to lifestyle-related illnesses, and life insurance providers are taking notice of that.
Activity trackers not only provide unfit or inactive people with the motivation they need to start changing their lifestyle, but it also rewards those who are already active for simply doing what they would usually do in their every-day lives.
Life insurance providers in the UK have started to offer discounted premiums for those who demonstrate a healthy and active lifestyle by linking their policy to their activity tracking device, while also providing members with incentives such as free cinema tickets and high-street vouchers.
20% of millennials already have a wearable activity tracker, and with their popularity growing rapidly, why not use them to your advantage?
Incredibly, over 40% of people aged 18-34 claimed that they would be more likely to take out life insurance if their provider incentivised them with activity goals by partnering with an activity tracker or smartwatch company.
It really is a win-win situation for everyone: providers get more customers, as do activity tracking companies, and policy-holders are rewarded with cheaper premiums and (surprisingly impressive) perks.
What do life insurance providers offer those with activity trackers?
Although using data from fitness tracking devices is not necessarily standard in the life insurance industry at the moment, it does seem to be moving in that direction. Some providers offer their members a whole host of rewards and benefits.
Some providers encourage life insurance policy-holders to use activity trackers, promoting a healthier lifestyle and recognising their members' efforts by providing them with various offers and rewards.
If you take out life insurance with certain providers, you're able to purchase an activity tracker at a discounted price and use that device to monitor your activity, whether it's running, cycling, swimming, or going to the gym.
You're then rewarded for your activity – for example, if you achieve 12,500 steps in a day, twice a week, you'll receive points and qualify for rewards such as a free Starbucks drink. If you accumulate more steps over a few weeks, you could receive free tickets for Cineworld or Vue.
Certain schemes like this have been so successful, that members' physical activity levels have increased by nearly 50% since using an Apple Watch to track their activity.
Some providers even offer substantial discounts on the Apple Watch Series 4, depending on the amount of activity you do and whether you reach your goals.
You may also be eligible for discounts on gym memberships, running trainers and bikes – giving you the best chance of improving your health!
The best life insurance in the UK
Whether you want a life insurance policy linked to your fitness tracker, or simply want basic, traditional cover, our team of trained advisors here at Unite Life are happy to help!
We work with a wide range of providers across the UK and will compare the best life insurance policies for your personal needs, guiding you through the whole process of taking out cover.
If you're interested in taking out a policy, give us a call using our free phone number, obligation-free, or complete our simple contact form and we'll be in touch at a time that best suits you.
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Mark Rasmus, MD
Practice Name: Saltzer Health
Specialty: Sleep Medicine
Address: 7272 W. Potomac Dr.
City / Zip: Boise, ID 83704
Website: saltzerhealth.com
Phone: (208) 884-2922
Fax: (208) 884-2923
IDID Insurance: In Network
Practice Location
Physician Biography
Dr. Mark Rasmus was raised in New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a medical degree from St. George University School of Medicine.
Dr. Rasmus completed a residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Albany Medical Center. While spending time at National Jewish Health, a hospital in Denver, he decided to further his training in pulmonary, critical care, and ultimately sleep medicine.
He completed a combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Utah and a Sleep Medicine fellowship at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Rasmus said he chose sleep medicine because "…people are very aware of their sleep disorders and it's life-changing when you can fix their problems."
Dr. Rasmus met his beautiful wife, Romy, in Boise, while both were working at a local hospital. She is a registered nurse. They have two adorable children, daughter Tanzen and son Isaac.
As a family, they enjoy mountain biking, skiing, going to their cabin, cooking, and traveling.
Specialty: Sleep Disorders
Residency: Albany Medical Center: New York
Fellowship: University of Utah: Salt Lake, UT, LDS Hospital: Salt Lake, UT
Board Status: Board Certified
- Residency — Albany Medical Center, New York
- Fellowship — University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
- Medical School – St. George University School of Medicine
- Undergraduate — Dartmouth College


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President Robert Zimmer is dating a faculty member after separating from his wife and moving out of the President's house in September. Zimmer's wife, Terese, is a director at the Urban Education Institute and will continue to live in the president's house in Zimmer's absence.
Zimmer notified administrators and trustees about his relationship, University spokesman Steve Kloehn said, to prevent even the appearance of impropriety. "The President has worked with the University leadership to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest. It's something that all the parties who might be involved in any way have worked out," Kloehn said.
Board of Trustees President Andrew Alper (A.B. '80, M.B.A '81) said the relationship shouldn't have any bearing on Zimmer's ability as an administrator. "I see this as a personal matter, not an issue of University governance," Alper said in a released statement.
Crain's Chicago Business connected Classics professor Shadi Bartsch with Zimmer in an article Friday. Jonathan Hall, chair of the Classics department, did not respond to questions about Bartsch's alleged relationship with Zimmer, but said in an e-mail that he was "satisfied that University policy has been complied with."
Zimmer and Bartsch did not return calls for comment.
Zimmer's family will continue to live at the President's house on 59th Street and University Avenue, and pay for any costs "that arise" out of personal funds, Kloehn said. Zimmer and his family are discussing living arrangements, in consultation with the Board of Trustees. Presidential business and University receptions will continue to be held at the house in the interim.
Terese Zimmer is director of Strategic Initiatives at the U of C's Urban Education Institute, and "there is no reason to believe that will change," Kloehn said.
According to General Counsel Beth Harris (A.B. '74), Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum have come to an "understanding" about potential conflicts of interest. "The president and the provost have made extra provisions to make sure that the president doesn't get brought into a situation in which there would be decision-making involved," Harris said.
She said it is not uncommon for a relationship to develop between faculty members or faculty and their supervisors at a university. However, she stressed that because the president is not the professor's direct superior, there are few circumstances in which a conflict would arise.
Alper said Zimmer handled the situation professionally. "President Zimmer has been forthcoming with me and the board regarding his family situation. The president has gone out of his way to ensure that there is no conflict of interest, or appearance of a conflict, stemming from his personal life. I am satisfied that his actions are in accord with the policies of the University," Alper said. "President Zimmer has my full support."


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Japan's SoftBank is in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
An acquisition of DreamWorks by SoftBank would make the Hollywood studio that created "Shrek" part of a Japanese communications and media company that, under founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, has shown a willingness to take big bets on combining seemingly unrelated businesses.
The acquisition talks were first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, which quoted an unidentified source with knowledge of the deal as saying an acquisition would value DreamWorks at $3.4 billion. The entertainment trade publication said SoftBank had offered $32 per share for DreamWorks.
The stock closed at $22.36 on Friday.
Last week, SoftBank booked a $4.6 billion gain on the share listing of Alibaba Group in New York. SoftBank retains a 32 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce company, making it Alibaba's biggest shareholder.
SoftBank has significant stakes in other large listed entities, including U.S. mobile carrier Sprint, Internet portal Yahoo Japan and online games maker GungHo Online Entertainment.
A SoftBank spokesman said the company had no comment on the reported talks with DreamWorks. A representative of DreamWorks could not be immediately reached for comment.
DreamWorks, based in Glendale, Calif., has seen its share price drop 37 percent this year after two consecutive quarterly losses, a string of weak-performing releases, such as "How To Train Your Dragon 2," and investor concern about the production costs of its movies.
In July, DreamWorks said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating a write-down it took at the end of 2013 on the animated flop "Turbo."
DreamWorks Animation was spun off from DreamWorks Studios in 2004 as a separate listed company.
The earlier DreamWorks studio had been founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who moved with the spin-off and remains chief executive of the animation company.
(Writing By Kevin Krolicki; Reporting by Paritosh Bansal in New York; Editing by Paul Tait and Alex Richardson)
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.


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Five Tips for Five Times the Fun!!!
- Keep Hummingbird feeders up for two weeks after your last sighting. This will not keep your hummers from migrating – promise! Any visitors now need to bulk up!
- Fall Migration is still on. Keep your bird baths clean with fresh water to lure in beautiful Fall migrants. These are mostly non-seed eaters. Water is a welcome treat and will encourage them to hang out and rest a bit. Seriously. Don't underestimate what a game changer water can be for backyard birding. We just have to share this customer's comment. See below.*
- Clean out your bird houses to get them ready for winter roosting during bad weather. Chickadees, Carolina Wrens and Bluebirds will be particularly grateful!
- Check the freshness of your bird seed! The oils in seed go rancid after a while and are not attractive to the birds. If you don't feed during the summer and if your seed is left over from last winter (And friends, you know who you are!), it's time to buy fresh.
- Clean your bird feeders! Now's the time to clean your feeders and remove any moldy remains from our rainy, humid summer.
…Thank goodness, the Grackles have mostly moved on!!! And the Juncos and White-Throated Sparrows will be making their appearance soon!
Birding during Fall Migration is awesome! Keep your field guides and binoculars handy for unusual sightings, because you never know who's going to show up!
*P.S. Almost immediately after sending this annual checklist to our subscribers, we received this email from a customer in Takoma Park:
I can attest to the importance of keeping bird baths clean and filled. I attended to mine after a period of delinquency of several weeks and what did I see within the half hour but an immature Baltimore oriole! Thrilling and beautiful. The first balty oriole I'd seen of any plumage/age/sex in my Takoma Park yard!"
Whew! I was afraid you'd think I was just nagging!
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Richard Jefferson "The Spurs always have a target on their back because they've been so good, so consistent, for so long."
February 1, 2011 – 7:15 am by Steven Cuce
Former University of Arizona standout and ten year NBA veteran, Richard Jefferson, was traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to the San Antonio Spurs to help transition the team in terms of age according Spurs general manager R.C. Buford. Jefferson was added to bring a dynamic wings scorer to play alongside San Antonio's "Big Three" in Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan.
Last season was an uneasy one for Jefferson as he had to adapt to a new system in San Antonio as well as learn how to play around the "Big Three." This year San Antonio has really gelled in all facets of their game as they have become the surprise team of the NBA this season. The Spurs have won ten of their last eleven games and have the best record in basketball at 40-7. Jefferson has been a big key to that success this season averaging 12.3 points per game emerging as one of the many go-to role players of the Spurs.
Richard Jefferson joined the Jim Rome Show to discuss the reason for why the Spurs have started out with the best record in franchise history, the challenges adapting to San Antonio's system last season, what it's like playing alongside the "Big Three" in San Antonio, is the bull's-eye back on the Spurs now having the best record in basketball and the three-and-half million dollar check he wrote out to his alma mater at the University of Arizona.
Listen San Antonio is off to their best start in franchise history. What is the reason for that? Is it due to the team being healthy all season?
"Well I think it's a combination of a lot of things. I think some of our newer guys including myself, even though I've been in the league a few years. We have a better understanding of what the system is and what coach wants. We have a year under our belt with playing with Tony [Parker], Tim [Duncan], and Manu [Ginobili]. Guys like myself, DeJuan Blair, Antonio McDyess. I think it's been a combination of a lot of things."
Talk about the challenges coming into San Antonio's system? How tough was it last year to come in and fit in?
"It was difficult. A lot of the times people don't really look at it from a basketball IQ perspective. In the sense that this system is built around three guys. The strengths of Tim [Duncan] and Tony [Parker] and Manu [Ginobili]. I'm not similar to any of those players, but it took me a little bit to find my niche and understand where I could help the team the most. I think there have been other players too this year that have a better understanding. Like I said DeJuan Blair, George Hill, really in his second year of playing and Antonio McDyess. We've gotten contributions from everyone."
What's it like playing alongside the "Big 3″ in San Antonio? (Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker)
"Oh it's great playing with them. They're great teammates. Obviously they have a certain amount of trust amongst each other that everyone else is trying to get in that circle, but no it's great. The more times you spend with them. The more games. The more shots that you hit that are clutch. The more they're able to trust you. That's what it is. It's not only about gaining trust from them, but also Coach Pop. [Gregg Popovich] I think this year the trust level is much higher on the team because like I said everyone has contributed."
Is the bull's-eye now on your back because the team is healthy and the best in basketball by record?
"Well I think the Spurs consistently have a bull's-eye even though the Lakers are the two-time defending champions, three-time Western Conference Champions, and they are the team to beat as far as we are concerned. They're the one's that we are focused on and trying to have a better year than we did last year. The Spurs always have a target on their back because they've been so good, so consistent, for so long. I don't think anything has really changed. I think teams are much more aware, but it's like not in any point of time in last the ten-to-twelve years, when the Spurs came to town that teams started to relax."
College basketball players talk about a family when they play at school. You wrote a check for three-and-half million dollars for the University of Arizona program? Why did you do that?
"You know coach Olson [Lute Olson] was starting to reach the end of his career there and I've been so blessed throughout my career. I still attribute a lot of that to everything I learned at Arizona. I grew up in Phoenix. I watched University of Arizona basketball really pretty much starting with Damon [Stoudamire] and Khalid Reeves. Those are the first guys I really watched go to the Final Four. So when I got the opportunity and they had that gym there. I just felt it was an opportunity not to add to my legacy. I don't really have a legacy, but more to add to coach Olson's legacy. You know his name is on the court. To have one of his former players have their name on the practice gym versus a different type of rich, business, oil man or somebody, but an athlete. Those things help with recruiting. Those are things that are important to me. My great,great, grandkids and my parents love it. I think it's great opportunity to not only show coach Olson helped us as people, but he also helped us be able to provide for our families. I thought that was a great way for me to give back."
Listen to Richard Jefferson on Jim Rome here
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* Invited by the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter, Alexandre Solon, an expert in thermodynamics of these systems, will hold talks, technical courses and will talk with physics students.
Active matter is the new paradigm of current physics and solving its questions promises to generate a real "new industrial revolution."
By active matter, we refer to all those systems composed of many biological or artificial elements that seem to move as a unit, in a synchronic and organized way, and where each individual has the ability to extract energy from the environment to generate movement or self-propel. That is to say that in these systems each of their individuals can act as a mini-motor, which places these structures in conditions very far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Examples of these structures are flocks of birds, schools, suspensions of bacteria or the cytoskeleton within a cell.
For all these systems, the tools of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics have no use.
Alex Solon, Ph.D. and Master in Theoretical Physics at Université Paris Diderot, France and current postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is an expert in biophysics and out of balance statistical mechanics theory and, currently, he is working on the search for a thermodynamic theory of active matter.
But is it possible to make a thermodynamic theory of these systems? That is the question that many physicists of the world are asking nowadays and Alex Solon will discuss in two activities next week when he visits Chile invited by the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter. The expert will also make time on his agenda so that students and researchers can talk with him, expose their work or discuss some issues.
Rodrigo Soto, Director of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter indicates that Solon's work is very important since it seeks to find the laws that govern the active matter, such as the suspensions of bacteria, for example. "If we know these laws we can manipulate them and generate micromachines in which they are the engines," he says.
Tuesday, November 27th, at 10:00 a.m. Technical Seminar for the Nucleus, open to students and researchers of Physics of the country, which will be held in the Matter Outside the Equilibrium Laboratory, underground of the Department of Physics (Beauchef 850).
Wednesday, November 28th, at 12:00 p.m. Class on Thermodynamics of Active Matter for students and physics researchers. (Beauchef 850, room F12).
More information about Alexander Solon: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YFsYIxwAAAAJ&hl=es


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Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon
Gala Presentation
Director: Mike Myers
For a few years, it seemed like Mike Myers just might never make another movie. Thankfully he has. Weirdly, it's a documentary. Fortunately, it's a good one. As the title suggests, Supermensch profiles the legend of Shep Gordon, an infamous Hollywood agent and all around good guy beloved by seemingly the entire entertainment industry. He started his showbiz career by supplying drugs to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, which then segued into managing Alice Cooper and discovering his natural talent for generating publicity and sheltering celebrities. Over the years he helped build several music idols, created the celebrity chef, and became one of the closest friends to some of Hollywood's power players like Sly Stallone, Michael Douglas, and Myers,.
This is a man who Myers obviously loves, and he clearly enjoyed laying out a remarkable life story for his audience. Using a mix of playful interviews, archival photographs, and hilarious reenactments, Myers flows through Gordon's life with a mix of joy and admiration. That translates directly to viewers who will smile through the film and come out the other side feeling like one of Gordon's infinite list of friends. As with most profile docs where the filmmaker is personally connected to the subject, there might be a touch too much gushing and sentimentalizing. However, based on his gregarious personality on display and the loving anecdotes weaved together, Gordon probably deserves his sparkling treatment. Supermensch is a wonderfully charming little doc and even though it's sad Myers still hasn't made another comedy, this flick can fill the gap for now. (Phil Brown)
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LONGMONT, Colo. (Feb. 10, 2020) – The University of Colorado College of Nursing's Center for Midwifery – Longmont (CFM-Longmont) practice is partnering with Mother's Milk Bank (MMB) as one of the milk bank's newest human milk donation locations in the Denver metro area, and the first in the city of Longmont. To celebrate, CFM-Longmont will be hosting a kick-off reception at 10 a.m. on Feb. 14 at 2030 Mountain View Avenue, Suite 400, which is open to the public. "This new site allows families in the Longmont and surrounding communities to donate human milk at a convenient location," said Jessica Anderson, director of midwifery services with CU Nursing.
Please see full press release: CFM Longmont Announces Partnership with Mothers' Milk Bank


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Khaana khaaaya…? Gaana gaaaya…? sings out Phuntsog, looking like sunshine, skipping towards us, as we lie among her impossibly colourful flowers, gently digesting our lunch. If I look to my left, there are sunflowers so bright the sun doesn't know which way to turn. If I glance to the right, there are mountaintops so silvery that misers sit back and sigh in contentment. All around us are apples so big and red and inviting on their trees that they are positively brazen. It is really hard to believe that I'm in a land described as 'mountain-desert'. Phuntsog's Oriental Guest House does not usually offer lunch. But Amit has twisted his ankle and cannot walk down to the nearby restaurant. Phuntsog has asked the kitchen to feed us from the family's regular lunch, unlimited food as you'd serve to any house guest. I charge myself for this lunch on our official bill.
At Oriental they don't keep meticulous records of what you have consumed. At the beginning of your stay they give you a typed sheet saying 'breakfast', or 'Internet' or 'flask tea'; throughout your stay you tick all the facilities you have used, and at the end of the stay it's all added up, preferably as we all giggle over our maths. The first time I came across this unafraid informality, which was so free from the fear "what if they eat extra but don't pay for it?", "what if they are out to cheat me?" that I thought about it for days. But now I'm used to the relatively noncontractual ease that keeps popping up in Ladakh, the lack of the pressure to make money all the time from everything. I'm used to the children and their mothers at roadside villages who ply us with the sweetest peas we've ever eaten, or the bakery boy who tells us truthfully that all his cakes are from yesterday ("Aaj tooooo", checks, looks at each cake, tries to recall, then… "koi bhi fresh nahin hai," he pronounces with satisfaction).
When I leave the guest house, I present my bill sheet to Phuntsog. She comes across my mention of this lunch, grimaces, looks at me as if to say, "how could you?" and cuts it out emphatically. "Oh-ho," I say. "Oh-ho," she says. And our giggles wrap up the exchange under faded blue prayer flags. A 'different' land My heart lies in Ladakh but in the areas of India that my body inhabits there is a consensus that the place is 'different'. My relatives often confuse 'Leh' and 'Ladakh', first-time visitors worry if they are physically up to making the trip, and friends-in-the-know call it Tibet. At the heart of this difference lies sheer geography, which Ladakh changes from a boring school subject into a superb drama of altitude and terrain.
A drama in which you can thrill to any random reference point: The Great Himalaya, the Zanskar Range, Indus River, Siachen Glacier…. Ladakh lies beyond such high mountains (so high that monsoon clouds can't cross over to nourish the land), experiences harsh cold weather and for so long (the mountain passes into Ladakh are snowed under between late October and June), seems so remote and inaccessible (only two proper highway routes, linking Leh to Srinagar (via Kargil) and Leh to Manali (via Rohtang Pass) that for a long time it either seemed like an impossible fairyland or a logistical nightmare. Or at least it did till the flights started.
Ladakh lies at the topmost stretch of India, sharing its eastern borders with Tibet (or China, if you will) such that the lake Pangong Tso falls partly in Tibet and partly in India. The western regions of Ladakh are those made infamous by proximity to the Pakistan border, such as the town of Kargil — not tourist havens at all. North is the heavily contested Siachen region and Pak-Occupied- Kashmir (POK). Leh and the now-famous Buddhist monastery-villages around — you can access these in your hired taxi — lie more or less along the Indus River, in the central part of Ladakh. Leh, as well as these monasteryvillages, are oases in the central part of this mountain-desert. The villages are mostly written along the route of the Indus as she flows in from Tibet and into Pakistan, fed by many small glacial streams.
Go to any village and you will be enchanted by this oasis quality: the drawing together since forever of human beings where there is water and possibility of life, the sound of water bubbling down irrigation channels, the unbearably intense green of the standing crop, the silence, and the potential for your very being becoming quiet. You will see fields of barley, white houses with painted doors and windows, colourful prayer flags, and at the very top of the mountain, a Buddhist monastery, guarding the whole. The monastery and the village share their name, and it is these monasteries with their fascinating corpus of traditions and treasures that have made the villages so famous: Hemis, Thiksey, Basgo, Alchi, Lamayuru…. Much of what I love about Ladakh emerges from this terrain, this climate and this very remoteness. As in so many places, geography defines history as well as lifestyle.
Scarcity of agricultural land (since, in the absence of rain, only melting glacial streams or the Indus waters can irrigate this mountain desert) means that houses are built clinging dramatically and photogenically to hillsides on top of the fields, so as to not waste productive land. Scarcity of resources like water means that people have to cooperate and share. Walking through the fields we can still see how the irrigation channels of glacial waters are used cooperatively by farmers. Each farmer blocks the channel with stones, waters her fields till sufficient, and then scrupulously removes the stones so that the water moves on to other fields downstream.
Historically, scarcity of resources meant that nothing was ever thrown away. As Ladakh scholar Helena Norberg- Hodge wrote, "What cannot be eaten can be fed to animals, what cannot be used as fuel can fertilise the land…. Ladakhis patch their homespun robes until they can be patched no more. Finally, a wornout robe is packed with mud into a weak part of an irrigation channel to help prevent leakage…. Virtually all shrubs or bushes — what we would call 'weeds' — serve some purpose" (as fuel, fodder, roof material, fence material, dyes, basket weaving and so on). Even human faeces was not wasted. Each house had a dry composting latrine with a hole far below. Earth and kitchen-ash was added to the waste "to help decomposition, produce better fertiliser and eliminate smells". This dry compost was used in the fields.
There is literally no waste, wrote the scholar, and today, as I sit amid my polluted rivers, unmanageable urban garbage, depleting resources, global warming — I wonder what we've lost. Leh time In Leh, we are walking in the Changspa area, away from the town centre and bazaar. We are at 11,500 ft, it is September and fiery autumn colours are setting in. Except for a couple of army vehicles and a mule with a secret sorrow, we are pretty much alone for most of the walk. We've decided, very sensibly, to not walk down the main road that leads comfortably to the bazaar but to zigzag through the terraced fields. This means that we climb the rocks that demarcate field boundaries, cross a stream of water, freshly melted, graciously allow some donkeys the right of way, and make friends with Tsering, all of two years old, who scowls determinedly into my camera.
At some point we are just lost in the fields. The views of the snowy Stok Kangri Range are divine when foregrounded by the intense green crop. I can spend hours just looking at how the sunlight polishes the running water, how the light gives colour to the pebbles, how the music of the stream falls into the silent canvas of the oasis. But we are hastening to see the documentary Ancient Futures made by scholaractivist Helena's NGO, on the ecologically- economically-socially harmonious society that Ladakh used to be, and to some extent still is. We are struck by the changing psychological landscape of Ladakh that she draws up. In 1975, Helena had, while doing anthropological research in a village, asked a boy how many people he would call 'poor' among fellow villagers.
He thought and said, "None." In their interdependent, selfsufficient, unwasteful ways, notions of sufficiency and sharing made sense but 'poverty' did not. Needless to say, all of Ladakh, especially Leh, where people are forced to earn their incomes in a few months of the tourist season, is not an innocent haven of such values. (The documentary film did go on to say that when Helena visited the same village after many years, after 'development' and tourism had come to Leh, the same boy told her "please do something for us, we are so poor".) And yet. We are quite unable to separate the clarity of the air and the plenitude of the flowers and the peace of the whitewashed houses and the silence in which the rivulet gurgles and the way the light dances off colourful pebbles… from the inherent beauty of these ways of living, whatever is left of them. It's the best reason to go to Ladakh.
The gompas Gompa: A solitary place. Ladakh's gompas (Buddhist monasteries) are wonderful in simultaneously maintaining their aura of solitary contemplativeness and their attraction for tourists, especially at festival time. Central Ladakh is home to long-standing traditions of the Vajrayana form of Buddhism, particularly fascinating to visitors for its Tantra elements, vivid colourful art, mystical feel and erotic imagery. Historically, Buddhism came to the area we call Ladakh around the 2nd or 1st century BCE (the earlier shamanistic, pantheistic practices were called Bon-chos). Central Ladakh saw the rise of Buddhism throughout the first millennium, fell under the rule of Tibetan kings — saw a lot of Tibetan migration, especially in the 8th and 9th centuries CE — and from the 11th century (as Buddhism declined in India), started finding inspiration in Tibetan Buddhism. The gompas we see today were mostly built from the 16th century onwards, once King Tashi Namgyal (circa 1555- 1575) unified the Ladakh kingdom.
We visit a few of these. Leh's old quarter and its tunnel-like passages lie in the shadow of the imposing nine-storey Palace of King Sengye Namgyal, and the Tsemo Gompa above it. Hemis (48 km south-east of Leh) is the best known of Ladakh's gompas, since it has its annual festival in the summer when tourists can visit easily. The festival is dedicated to Guru Padmasambhava and every 12 years the gompa's greatest treasure, a three-storey-high thangka of Padmasambhava, studded with pearls and precious stones, is unveiled. But for our money, Hemis is best visited in a month like September, when the trees are golden and the wind dances along.
Built in the 1630s, Hemis is Ladakh's biggest and richest monastery. Thiksey (19 km south-east of Leh), built in the mid-15th century, is another large gompa, impressively sprawled on a hillock above the village. The dark atmospheric main temple, like a large assembly hall, has old murals on the wall, mostly of scary-looking tantric deities, often in sexual poses. There are wooden bookracks holding ancient manuscripts and the mystical smell of ghee and incense is omnipresent. The roof offers spectacular views. Both the Hemis and Thiksey monasteries are typical of gompas here, with massive walls, small windows, prayer flags, and from inside, a maze of tiny dark rooms and passages.
You can also visit Stok Palace (close to Thiksey), the residence of the Namgyal dynasty since 1843, where a museum displays old thangkas, statues in bronze and gold, ornaments, and a sword twisted out of shape, it is said, by the legendary Tashi Namgyal himself! Basgo (north-west of Leh) used to be a capital of a branch of Ladakh's Namgyal dynasty, and while its fortifications are now ruined, some lovely 15th-16th century murals can still be seen. Likir Gompa (60 km north-west of Leh) enjoys a lovely location, being well off the highway and has a lovely collection of old thangkas, images and manuscripts. The present building dates to the 18th century.
Alchi village, with a population of a few hundred, and its 11th-century chos-khor (religious enclave) is the jewel among Ladakh's gompas, with 12th century murals that were preserved (they were not painted over, nor diminished by soot from lamps) because for some reason active worship stopped here in the 16th century. Travelling to practically any of these places, we are offered fresh peas when we stop, and happen on the most photogenic of green-gold views, and meet the cheeriest of smiles, and go deeper into the heart of an inimitable windy silence…. We agree that when we grow up, we want to become Ladakh.
By Juhi Saklani
Unlike the villian in the Harry Potter series, who divided his soul into several pieces to avoid mortality, Juhi Saklani is multiplying hers by travelling, under the guise of being a travel writer.


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"Fortress of Solidarity" – It's the holidays at Super Hero High and Supergirl is reminded of how much she misses her parents. In an attempt to quench her homesickness, Supergirl goes to the North Pole where she is attacked by Captain Cold.
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The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has adjusted the dates for the party's primaries ahead of the 2023 general election.
The Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Hakeem Amode, made this known in a statement in Lagos State.
According to him, the new date of the party's primary for the State Houses of Assembly and the House of Representatives seats is now May 22.
Meanwhile, the primary for the Senate remained May 23.
He urged the party members and members of the public to take note of the new dates.
The party had, before the latest adjustment, put its House of Assembly primary for May 21 while the House of Representatives was fixed for May 22.
Meanwhile, the earlier adjusted dates of the primaries for the Senate and governorship earlier scheduled for May 23 and May 26 were not tampered with in the new adjustment.
The party's presidential primary has been fixed for May 28 and May 29, NAN reports.


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"I like my art to be on the floor, not on the wall," says Swiss photographer and artist Michel Comte. "If you look at glaciers, that is how they are." The exhibition space in Milan's Triennale museum is dark, apart from a sort of blue polar winter light emanating from one of the installations. Next to each other on the floor are photographs of glaciers from above, which the artist flew over in helicopters or hang gliders. Meanwhile, the MAXXI in Rome has a polar opposite equivalent. He shows me a picture from his Instagram feed of a white room, in which gallery goers are instructed to remove their shoes so as to cause no sound, as in untouched landscapes, and so as not to tarnish the room's "uninterrupted light and uninterrupted space", as he says. His grandfather Alfred Comte, one of the first aviators to cross the Alps, took the first aerial photos of them over a hundred years ago. "They were taken in summer," says Michel, "but everything was white. Today you find, in summer, in Switzerland, everything is black with some silver caps."
Comte is famous primarily for his fashion photography. When he was twenty-five he was collared by Karl Lagerfeld, and since then has photographed subjects from Iggy Pop and Ray Charles to Jeremy Irons, Scarlett Johansson and the Dalai Lama (who he counts as a personal friend). He shot Miles Davis and the picture became an album cover. "I never planned to be a photographer," says Comte, who before that restored works of modern art. "That's how I started. Maybe I'm going back to where I came from, and what I really enjoy doing." Indeed, his sprawling project Black Light, White Light, began thirty-seven years ago and has taken him from the Alps to the Himalayas to Svalbard. He not only documents climate change's effects—as with a video installation projected onto the outside of the MAXXI capturing the violent, surprisingly deafening rush of glacial melt—but tries to slow those effects as a piece of land art. He covers glaciers in British Columbia with protective space blankets during the summer months. Next, he plans to drill cooling tubes into them.
"If you go to where it is happening, it is frightening. If you go to an ice cap, the amount of water they lose creates huge waterfalls. Last August, Spitsbergen in Norway was like Niagara. The ice cap there is receding 30cm a day." At the back of the room here in Milan is a silver mass of foil, referencing but not replicating his covered glaciers. The amount of ice this blanket could cover would, he tells me, make the floor collapse. "We can stop the melting for three months and then when the snow comes we can start the rebuilding, but the problem is wind. It takes a lot of maintenance and manpower, and even then you cannot stop it, only slow it down. Stephen Hawking has said that if Trump makes his full presidency, the acceleration of the melting process will be 37%. Even if we change our ways, we cannot completely stop it, only slow it down."
In front of the space blanket mountain there is a long installation with what appears to be a reflective floor, lit up by auroral blue. What appear to be glass sculptures, gem-like in dark spaces, are ice blocks Comte himself has chipped into shape. The ground is water, and you can hear the dripping. "Every night we vacuum a little bit out, so it doesn't overflow." New ice is brought in every week. "But it's most powerful when the very last ones almost disappear," he says.
"I think contemporary art has its own politics. We, like politicians, have our own attempts to make a change."
If the ice looks like mimetic glass sculpture, there are also glass sculptures that mimic glaciers, containing bits of real glacier. Collected pieces of stone, sand and other materials—copper, iron, pyrite and gold—have been mixed and poured into mountain-shaped moulds, producing organic glass sculptures that look like marble or quartz. He leans on them as he talks. "People can touch them," he says. "People should touch them." I do. They're soft around their ridges.
I ask him how long he has had an appreciation of the natural world. He says "always" repeatedly. But what is his earliest memory that resulted in that love, and also perhaps ignited a response on such a grand, forty-year scale? "I was about seven and had been doing a lot of skiing. A helicopter dropped me and my teacher off at the Breithorn mountain range and we skied all the way to the south of Switzerland. At this core of deep snow it was very, very dry. It was like you were like on the moon you know, and there's not one sound. Only 'tschhh, tschhh'. We sat and and opened our thermos flasks with hot tea inside and I thought this is not possible, this world is just so incredibly beautiful. I think that triggered a lot."
"If you go to where it is happening, it is frightening. If you go to an ice cap, the amount of water they lose creates huge waterfalls."
It's a lovely thought, made more lovely by the fact we've all had a similar childhood memory of snow's purity, and made sad by the fact that children of today and tomorrow might have less access to a similar experience. But what can really we do, as individuals, besides mourn and reminisce? Comte has said that he wants this exhibition to show we should have a cleaner and greener future. But how can visual artists actually contribute to stabilizing that rate of global warming or ice caps melting? "I think contemporary art has its own politics. We, like politicians, have our own attempts to make a change. All we can do is use the tools we have to show in simple or abstract ways how change is happening: our own specific means of communication. I think that's the great power. Just like you: you have your pen. Or your machines." He gestures to my phone and dictaphone, one of which I am reading questions from. The other is sat between us on the platform for a piece of onyx chosen, after a long search, because it looks like a mountain. He talks about the misuse of such power. "You put on Fox News, for instance: that's terrible. But then you read two lines of Salinger, or you look at Yves Klein or Canaletto, or you look in the eye of a child—you are touched. Whether it's with your pen, your phone, or with sound; if we use this in a good way, then, I think, we can make a difference."
I bring up the fact he has in the past photographed Donald Trump: the very person on whom he laid responsibility for the current rate of glacial melt. Doesn't using the power of his platform, his means of communication, involve drawing a line as to who he shoots? Comte laughs in the spritely, high pitched way he has when something interests him. "No. I would go, and I would read [Trump] the rights. I played racquetball with George W Bush. I asked the same questions of him as I would have asked of you. I have no qualms about that, and I think people respect me for this. I never draw a line between people. I treat them with the respect they deserve, but no more than that." So he would photograph Trump now? "I'd take the picture. But I'd use the opportunity to tell him what I believe and to resign."


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Phony cop preyed on Anne Arundel County's Latino community, police say
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. - Anne Arundel County police have arrested a man who they say betrayed the community's trust by masquerading as a cop in order to take advantage of Latino businesses.
They say Christopher Tate – whose real name is Christopher Jefferson – was able to make relationships with law enforcement in the area by volunteering at charity events.
He then allegedly went to businesses in the Latino community demanding business owners to pay him cash, or face fines.
Police say Tate told his victims he works for law enforcement – including ICE.
He was apparently soliciting money for a fake charity and, in one case, reportedly used a real police officer, who unknowingly gave the perception that Tate was authentic.
Investigators say the scheme started last winter.
They say two victims have come forward so far – one in Severn, and another in Annapolis.
When they searched his home, police found a ballistic vest, which is illegal, and multiple badges.
Police "strongly believe" there are "dozens" of other victims. They're hoping that anyone who may be a victim of Tate's schemes will come forward.
He's been charged with:
- 2 counts of theft
- 2 counts of fraudulent ID theft
- Possession of bulletproof armor
- Impersonating an officer
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Saudi Arabia's overweening confidence as a leading Sunni power has been enfeebled by the 14 September attack on its oil facilities. Its sworn enemy, Iran, has carried out the attack by itself or its Houthi proxy in Yemen. It amounts to the same thing.


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Rosemary Anne Brown began her fashion career in New York City, after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Apparel and Textile Design. After several years as a Fashion Designer in New York City, Rosemary moved to London and continued her career in fashion, learning the art of couture womenswear. After a few years, Rosemary Anne womenswear was created. Rosemary's passion for beautiful fabrics, elegant details and the perfect fit are seen in every piece.
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by Ethan Zhao, Bioengineering '19; and Jason Grosz, Bioengineering '19
David Issadore, a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania teaches an engineering course ENGR566 – Appropriate Point of Care Diagnostics. As part of this course, he and Miriam Wattenberger from CBE, have taken nine Penn students, most of them majoring in Bioengineering, to Kumasi, Ghana, to study the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis. While in Ghana, these students are blogging daily on their experiences.
Today, we went to see how Kente cloth is made. Kente is a special ceremonial cloth, often woven with a story or message in the pattern. Our tour guide showed us several different kinds of fabric they use, including wool, polyester, and cotton, and demonstrated how they are threaded from the original material with a wooden, hand-operated machine. Next, he brought us to see the Kente cloth weavers at work. It was incredible to see the speed and skill with which the weavers passed the shuttles back and forth between the strands of fabric to create a pattern, while Ghanaian (and sometimes American) pop blared from their handheld radios. Finally, he showed us the land where plants like cacao trees and cotton plants grow. After the tour, we bought a colorful assortment of Kente cloths, bow ties, and wallets.
Next, we went to a series of wood shops to buy various carved wooden souvenirs and to practice our bargaining skills. As we stepped outside the bus, we were immediately surrounded by dozens of shopkeepers, not-so-gently coercing us to check out their own shops. Since there were no listed prices, the prices for everything bought were the result of bargaining. Shopkeepers would often present us with relatively high initial prices, only to offer us "discounts" since we were students or "friends" to make us feel like we were getting a great deal. Overall, it was an overwhelming but exhilarating experience to fight for a price on every good we bought.


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Blue Led Mouse, one more time
Well… this is something I made over a year ago and a little while ago I put the 'how-to' inside my current content-management system (and rewrote it for a part). Actually I put it inside my current CMS for testing purposes and such, call it an experiment. It can be found if you really strawl through this page(I knew that)... Now the last couple of days people start linking to it, so that's why I'm putting it down here now… Maybe it's useful to somebody, I don't know.
click image to go to the how-to
- William Essig @ 29 January 2006, 00:49 :
My fault!
- david @ 29 January 2006, 02:02 :
Hey just tried this on my logitech… seems like the light cone from the blue led is too narrow and doesn't allow the ccd to see right. Mouse output is slow and irregular. Fortunately i soldered with mouse ON, so i could visually spot the problem and solder back the original red led! Maybe with better blue leds i'll achieve the result. Or I'll go buy myself a blue mouse :D. Keep up! bye
- n3ldan @ 5 January 2007, 05:15 :
Blue LED: kind of cool, sort of useless
IR LED: very cool, serves a purpose
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Roger Hood, 1936-2020: Compassionate Criminologist Dedicated to Justice
Professor Roger Hood CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA, known for his immense contributions to the international discipline of criminology, passed away on November 17, 2020. He was 84-years old. Until his retirement in 2003, Hood was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Roger Hood graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in sociology. He went on to complete a Ph.D. at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and studied as a Doctor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls. From 1973 to 2003, he was Director of the Oxford Center for Criminology, and from 1987 to 1989, he served as the President of the British Society of Criminology. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for "Distinguished International Contributions to Criminology" (1986), the Cesar Beccaria Medal from the International Society of Social Defense (2011) and the ESC European Criminology Award in (2012) recognizing his lifetime contribution as a European criminologist.
Professor Hood was known by his colleagues and students for teaching, advising and inspiring many personal and professional paths. His colleagues at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law describe him as a 'man of immense intellectual generosity, the sponsor and inspiration of innumerable professional careers'. He is described by the German term for doctoral supervisor, "Doktorvater" which encompassed his fatherly warmth, limitless attention to detail, and constant care for his students' welfare.
Professor Hood worked until the very end, with his most recent work focused on the death penalty in the Caribbean. He spent nearly two decades working with Saul Lehrfreund and Parvais Jabbar at the Death Penalty Project in London, designing and conducting research to challenge assumptions about the death penalty and providing empirical data to help bring about reform and abolition around the world through litigation and policy engagement. He published with Florence Seemungal between 2006 to 2011 three empirical studies on the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad. In 2013 he also reported on public opinion on the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia and was subsequently appointed to be consultant to Malaysia's Attorney-general. Hood was also a consultant to the United Nations on capital punishment, which led to the publication of The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective. He traveled widely, lecturing on the human rights case for global abolition in China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Uganda and Pakistan.
During his retirement, he continued to actively engage with the subject of criminology. He held visiting professorships at several international institutions, including the University of Virginia and Hong Kong University. He was appointed CBE, for services to the study of criminology, Honorary QC, and Hon Ll.D by Birmingham and Edinburgh Napier universities. In 'short-course' seminars and his role as visiting professor, Hood advocated for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
As he encouraged young scholars and worked with new colleagues, his students and colleagues easily became some of his closest friends. Hood believed in the power of criminology not only as an academic discipline, but also a resource to turn to in the face of legal and social justice. He was a faithful friend to his students, colleagues and circle of contacts globally, and a devoted husband. He was also a loving father, stepfather, uncle, grandfather and great uncle. In his professional, academic and personal circles, Roger Hood was "a man of high principle, unimpeachable integrity, and an antiracist from an early age".


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The Arizona Coyotes swung for the fences when they acquired Taylor Hall from the New Jersey Devils in December. Although the 'Yotes are still currently in a playoff spot, things haven't been looking too good for them as of late. How concerned should general manager John Chayka be about his team's struggles?
As of right now, Arizona is sitting in the first Wild Card in the Western Conference with 58 points and 21 regulation/overtime wins in 53 games. Vegas is one point behind them with a game in hand and tied in the first tiebreaker, Regulation Wins. Nashville is three points away with three games in hand and one more RW, and Chicago and Winnipeg are trailing them by four points with two games in hand and 18 RWs each.
Yeah, things are tight in the West. And the Coyotes aren't doing themselves any favors right now.
They're in the middle of a four-game winless streak and they've dropped seven of their last eight contests. They've picked up just four of a possible 16 points during this funk.
Hall has been reasonably productive since moving to the desert, as he's picked up seven goals and 16 points in 18 contests.
Last night, the Coyotes opened their four-game home stand with an OT loss to the lowly Los Angeles Kings. That's an extra point they simply can't afford to lose.
"We've got to keep the energy level up, we've got to stick together. That's the way it is," head coach Rick Tocchet said after the loss to the Kings, per NHL.com. "There's no other way. Nobody's going to feel sorry for us. There's going to be a lot of negativity around, but we've got to stick together."
If Hall is producing, what's the problem?
First, they've been banged up between the pipes. Darcy Kuemper was having a terrific season, but he's been out since Dec. 19 with a lower-body injury. Antti Raanta, who is a talented goalie in his own right, has also missed some time since the start of this month. It's not easy for them to roll into every game with Adin Hill in goal. They need Kuemper back ASAP.
Secondly, other players around Hall have stopped producing. Here's what we're talking about:
• Phil Kessel has four points in his last eight games, but three of those came in one night.
• Clayton Keller has one assist in his last nine games.
• Derek Stepan has four assists in eight games but three of those helpers came in the team's win over San Jose.
• Nick Schmaltz has three points in his last two games, but he had no points in his previous seven.
To make matters worse, top defender Oliver Ekman-Larsson left last night's game against the Kings with a lower-body injury and he didn't return.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson injured after getting knee-on-knee by Dustin Brown https://t.co/MOK9niiLfp
— Main Team (@MainTeamSports) January 31, 2020
The Coyotes need to pick up as many points as they can during the remaining three games of this home stand because they'll be hitting the road in different time zones after that.
Between Feb. 10-20, the 'Yotes will play in Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Dallas and St. Louis. They'll have just two home sprinkled into their schedule during that time. In fairness to them, they have more wins on the road (14) than they do at home (12), but their recent play suggests they won't be able to keep that up.
Chayka now has to decide whether or not he should give up more assets to improve his team before the Feb. 24 trade deadline. Does he ride it out with this group or does he shake things up again? He has less than a month to decide.
Thankfully, if they miss the playoffs and win the lottery, the first-round pick they sent the Devils in the Hall trade will transfer over to 2021.
Joey Alfieri is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @joeyalfieri.


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Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Suzanne Hutt
I'm not going to lie. The energy here in Jerusalem and at Pardes in the past 10 days has been rather high-stress. On the one hand, I think that it's warranted, considering that the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are meant to be an intense time of reflection and reparation, a time in which the metaphorical Book of Life is opened and then inscribed. It is a time for evaluating the most important relationships in your life and thinking of how you can both make amends for the hurt you've caused people and also work to improve those relationships in the future.
On the other hand, I don't think we need to look at Yom Kippur as quite so apocalyptic.
Hurry, do all your repentance now because this is the time to do it!
Think about what you want to change and vow to change it! Make the holiday count!
Go buy all the groceries you need today because the whole country will shut down for Yom Kippur!
The whole thing sounds a little like the Y2K scare.
Since I choose to view Yom Kippur as less apocalyptic and more of an opportunity built in to the Jewish calendar to reevaluate my actions and relationships, I decided to slow down, take a pause, and look through all of my class notes from the past month and pick out my favorite quotes related to Yom Kippur, in an effort to consolidate the many meaningful things my teachers have said in the past month. I've chosen 10 things – some direct quotes and some of my own paraphrasing of things my teachers have expressed – to represent the 10 days and their significance this holiday season. They share a similar theme – save for one, which I had to include for comedic relief.
1. Teshuva (translated most often as repentance, but which literally means to "return") is not about fault or blame. It is about cleanliness. It means going through a cleansing process and recognizing that whether we sinned intentionally or inadvertently, we must make ourselves clean again.
2. Our understanding of the past is mostly about our present identity.
3. Yom Kippur is like an ocean that you immerse yourself in. You can't help but get wet. But once you're dry again, you have to ask yourself, have you really made a change?
4. Yom Kippur is about finding faith in yourself.
5. The first step in changing is believing that you actually can.
6. G-d is the Supreme Dentist, and Yom Kippur is our annual dentist's appointment. We cram and cram leading up to it, brushing our teeth extra hard, flossing, using mouthwash, hoping to get a favorable judgment from the dentist. But what happens after? Do we return to our normal brushing habits? Is this going to be the year that I actually commit to flossing on a regular basis?
7. We can do teshuva out of fear or out of love. Out of fear means dissociating with the past entirely – from fear that we could relapse into old habits and sins. Out of love means carrying the past into the future – using any regret we feel in order to use those experiences to make a positive change in the future.
8. The story of Jonah (which we read on Yom Kippur) teaches us that G-d is merciful and gives second chances. And third chances, and fourth chances…
9. Our greatest weakness as humans is that we don't know everything – we struggle, we make mistakes! But our greatest strength as humans is that we don't know everything – we live in a state of not knowing, and that means we can be open to surprises, open to the possibility for change!
And finally,
10. Don't store rice next to lentils!
May we all find this Yom Kippur to be restorative and meaningful, and may it set the tone for a more reflective year to come.


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A statement from Saoradh member, Damhnic Mac Eochaidh, read out at the demonstration against British/PSNI harassment in Belfast, and also one by 15-year-old Ailise ni Mhurchu from west Belfast, on the PSNI stop and search procedures she has endured while going to and coming from school.
A chairde,
Can I first of all begin by thanking you all on behalf of Saoradh for attending here tonight. It is to be commended that we have such a good turnout here, given the short notice and cold weather.
As Republican activists, no quarter is given and none should be asked for. We have taken the conscious decision to embark on a life of struggle, a life committed to achieving Freedom for our country and betterment of the lives of the working class. We seek to remove the twin evils of occupation and capitalism as we achieve liberation. We make no apologies for that, and are aware of the intimidation, harassment, hardship, imprisonment and possible death that awaits us.
Accordingly, we face an enemy that is willing to use the tools at its disposal. Fists, batons, tasers, plastic bullets and live ammunition are but equipment to the Crown Forces. Their real tools are the various forms of legislation they utilise in futile attempts to break the Republican Struggle. Legislation that has been imposed on us by a foreign parliament at Westminster with no right to be in Ireland.
RIPA. The Terrorism Act. The Justice and Security Act. Stop and Searches. Home Invasions. Arrests. Malicious Charges. Miscarriages of Justice. Collusion. The murder of Irish citizens, the most recent just a few weeks ago in our city centre.
These are all separate components of the British War Machine in Ireland, supported by unknown numbers of MI5 operatives. All of which is supported by a Sinn Fein/DUP coalition at Stormont, implemented by their unionist "justice" minister. We continue to resist all these mechanisms of British Rule.
In the course of their war on our communities, Britain and the Stormont State has now taken to attacking and threatening the families and children of activists. Not content with threatening the lives of their parents, stealing their toys and consoles, confiscating laptops with important exam coursework and wrecking their homes, the PSNI have now specifically targeted children for harassment.
The children of activists, many of whom not yet in their teens, now find themselves being the victims of stop and searches on their way into school. They are being targeted on their way to GAA, soccer, boxing or Irish dancing practice. Their hurling coaches are being threatened with arrest for carrying sticks. Even on holiday, they are targeted by whichever secretive arm of the Crown Forces MI5 deem appropriate. Is this part of the process to pressure children into becoming informers that Gerry Kelly has publicly stated he approves of?
It is no coincidence that this targeted harassment of children has coincided with the recent launch of Saoradh. It is in the interests of the State, of reformists and of the establishment clergy that there is no national, articulate and radical Revolutionary Movement that will organise to oppose their collective agenda. This, allied with the efforts of the gutter press, condemnation from reformists and the hysteria of political unionism are the age-old combination of forces that has traditionally railed against progressive, socialist, Republican alternatives. Those who support the armed wing of unionism need to publicly explain their endorsement of those who abuse our children, and be honest as to the responsibility they bear with regards to passing information to the PSNI on activists and their children.
We are here, Saoradh are here, along with other welcome organisations and individuals, to state that nothing will break us. We will not be strangled at birth. The advantage of movements such as ours is our resilience and the strength of comradeship. Our activists, our families and our children have the collective strength and internal support to withstand these attacks. We also want to appeal to the public, anyone who is the victim of harassment, intimidation or approaches and thinks they are alone. You are not alone, contact Saoradh and we will assist and support you.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Ailise ni Mhurchu
I am glad to get the opportunity to speak here tonight about my experiences of British stop and search powers. The first time I was stopped and searched was I was 11 years old on and it happened on Lanark way. I was frightened being surrounded by so many members of the PSNI. At that time I didn't realise that this would become the norm for my family. 5 years later, I've now overcome those fears.
I've been in my daddy's car during most of the stop and searches and have got used to it. I'm still only 15 years old and still at School. I'm now in my important GCSE years and have recently experienced stop and searches while being brought to school and some times being late. I find it difficult trying to explain why I be late. Outside of my family I feel like a lone voice, especially among those whom I feel have a duty to protect me as I have done no wrong.
I've now began to question why is this happening? and why these PSNI people are not challenged by any politicians? As a 15 year old, I am now speaking out and I would hope more and more people who should know better would speak out against these stop and searches. I see the PSNI as an oppressive force denying me my freedoms as a human being.
I just want to finish by saying in the words of Martin Luther King, "In the end we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".


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Parksville Library Receiving New Year Makeover
December 6, 2018 | Parksville
Thursday, December 6, 2018, Parksville, BC: Exciting renovations are coming to the Parksville branch of Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL). The branch, which has been located on Jensen Avenue since 2001, will soon receive an aesthetic makeover that will significantly improve the experiences for library customers who use this branch.
"When the City of Parksville informed us that they were planning on redoing the floors in the library, we saw an opportunity to make other needed improvements," says VIRL's Executive Director Rosemary Bonanno. "The renovations will make the Parksville branch a much more comfortable, user-friendly, and dynamic space. We're very excited about this project. Customers will feel like they are stepping into a brand-new library."
The renovations are projected to start on January 2, 2019 and to be complete just over a month later on February 7. The branch will be closed for the duration of the renovations, starting on January 1. Prior to the closure, customers can arrange with Parksville staff to have their holds picked up at either the Qualicum Beach or Nanaimo North branches while the library is under renovations.
Due to the short-term nature of the renovations, there will be no temporary library during the closure period. Customers can return their items to the Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo North, or any other branch of their choosing. To help address challenges customers may face with their library items during the closure, most items checked out from Parksville during the month of December will have a 70-day loan period, meaning they won't be due back until after the branch has reopened.
Once complete, the renovated Parksville library will have the following features and amenities:
- New flooring
- New paintjob
- New lounge area with fireplace
- Replaced furniture throughout the branch
- Upgraded public computers
- New Circulation Desk
- New book drop
The total budget for this project is approximately $150 thousand, with $40 thousand being supplied by the City of Parksville for the flooring. The budget includes all aspects of the renovations noted above.
When it reopens in February, the branch will return to its regular hours of operation and staffing levels.
More information will be provided as it becomes available.
For more Information
David Carson
Director, Corporate Communications and Strategic Initiatives
250.753.1154 ex 248
Cell: 250.327.3651