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During the last several months it has been sad to read about the ill health of Crown Princess Masako, who has been absent from official duties due to a stress-related illness. Quite a stir was created many weeks ago when the Crown Prince defended his wife in an interview by accusing the Imperial Household Agency of thwarting, or stifling her individuality.
It makes one wonder what kind of life goes on behind the walls and trees, gates, fences and police lines of the Imperial Palace of the Emperor and Empress, and the Togu Palace of the Crown Prince and Princess. No doubt the Imperial Household Agency harbors a very conservative culture within its offices - maybe a critically anachronistic perpetuation of what Japanese culture really is. So in many ways I can't help but feel sorry for Masako, a commoner, of whom it might be said is trapped and a virtual prisoner of the Imperial Household Agency.
In light of the Crown Princess's illness it seems an obvious conclusion that the Imperial Household Agency is the kind of place that drives normal people mad. I say so because if we are talking about "stress related illness" then what we are talking about is mental health. I think that such a proposition is not beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion, and the Imperial Household Agency deserves more scrutiny and, perhaps, public accountability.
Published on Thursday, December 16, 2004 as "Princess' guardians need greater public scrutiny."


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Master of Engineering Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Prof. F. M. Bartlett
This thesis investigated light-frame wood/concrete hybrid construction as part of the NSERC Strategic Network on Innovative Wood products and Building Systems (NEWBuildS). A review of eight wood/concrete niche areas identified three with potential to be used in mid- to high-rise structures. Light-frame wood structures of seven or more storeys with wood/concrete hybrid flooring seem to have little feasibility unless a concrete lateral-load-resisting system is provided and material incompatibilities are solved. Non-load-bearing light-frame wood infill walls in reinforced concrete frame structures were recognized to have potential feasibility in mid- to high-rise structures. A full-scale, single frame test apparatus was successfully designed and constructed at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes. The frame is statically loaded to accurately replicates realistic horizontal sway and vertical racking deformations of a typical eight storey reinforced concrete frame structure at SLS and ULS. A linear-elastic analysis of the test apparatus was generally able to predict the results during testing. The 2.4m x 4.8m (8 ft. x 16 ft.) infill wall specimen did not satisfy serviceability deflection limitations of L/360 when subjected to representative out-of-plane wind pressures of +1.44/-0.9 kPa. The out-of-plane response was not significantly affected by horizontal sway deflections of +/-7.2mm or vertical racking deflections of +9.6mm. Although a nominal 20mm gap was provided to isolate the wall from the surrounding frame, insulation foam sprayed in the gap facilitated load transfer between them.
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Written By Dr Al Hartmann And Presented By Ziften CEO Charles Leaver
The dissolving of the standard boundary is happening quick. So what happens to the endpoint?
Investment in border security, as specified by firewall programs, managed gateways and invasion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), is altering. Investments are being questioned, with returns not able to conquer the expenses and complexity to produce, maintain, and justify these antiquated defenses.
More than that, the paradigm has actually altered – employees are no longer solely working in the workplace. Many individuals are logging hours from home or while traveling – neither area is under the umbrella of a firewall. Instead of keeping the cyber criminals out, firewall programs typically have the inverse effect – they avoid the good guys from being productive. The paradox? They develop a safe house for assailants to breach and hide for many weeks, then pass through to crucial systems.
So What Has Altered A lot?
The endpoint has ended up being the last line of defense. With the above mentioned failure in perimeter defense and a "mobile everywhere" workforce, we need to now enforce trust at the endpoint. Easier stated than done, nevertheless.
In the endpoint area, identity & access management (IAM) systems are not the silver bullet. Even ingenious businesses like Okta, OneLogin, and cloud proxy suppliers such as Blue Coat and Zscaler can not conquer one simple truth: trust exceeds basic identification, authentication, and authorization.
File encryption is a 2nd attempt at securing whole libraries and individual assets. In the most recent (2016) Ponemon research study on data breaches, encryption only conserved 10% of the expense per breached record (from $158 to $142). This isn't really the panacea that some make it seem.
Everything is altering.
Organizations must be prepared to welcome brand-new paradigms and attack vectors. While organizations need to provide access to trusted groups and people, they have to address this in a much better method.
Important organization systems are now accessed from anywhere, any time, not just from desks in corporate office complexes. And professionals (contingent workforce) are rapidly consisting of more than half of the total business workforce.
On endpoint devices, the binary is mainly the issue. Presumably benign occurrences, such as an executable crash, might indicate something basic – like Windows 10 Desktop Manager (DWM) rebooting. Or it could be a much deeper issue, such as a harmful file or early indicators of an attack.
Trusted access does not solve this vulnerability. According to the Ponemon Institute, between 70% and 90% of all attacks are brought on by human error, social engineering, or other human factors. This requires more than easy IAM – it needs behavioral analysis.
Rather than making good much better, border and identity access businesses made bad much faster.
When and Where Does the Bright Side Begin?
Going back a little, Google (Alphabet Corp) revealed a perimeter-less network model in late 2014, and has made significant development. Other enterprises – from corporations to governments – have actually done this (in silence and less severe), however BeyondCorp has actually done this and revealed its efforts to the world. The style approach, endpoint plus (public) cloud displacing cloistered business network, is the crucial concept.
This alters the whole discussion about an endpoint – be it a laptop computer, PC, workstation, or server – as subservient to the corporate/enterprise/private/ organization network. The endpoint truly is the last line of defense, and should be protected – yet likewise report its activity.
Unlike the conventional perimeter security design, BeyondCorp does not gate access to services and tools based on a user's physical location or the originating network; rather, access policies are based on info about a device, its state, and its associated user. BeyondCorp thinks about both internal networks and external networks to be completely untrusted, and gates access to apps by dynamically asserting and implementing levels, or "tiers," of access.
By itself, this appears innocuous. However the reality is that this is a radical brand-new design which is imperfect. The access requirements have shifted from network addresses to device trust levels, and the network is heavily segmented by VLAN's, instead of a central model with potential for data breaches, hacks, and hazards at the human level (the "soft chewy center").
The good part of the story? Breaching the perimeter is extremely challenging for prospective cyber attackers, while making network pivoting next to impossible once past the reverse proxy (a common system used by assailants today – proving that firewalls do a better task of keeping the cyber criminals in rather than letting the good guys get out). The opposite design even more applies to Google cloud servers, presumably securely managed, inside the perimeter, versus client endpoints, who are all out in the wild.
Google has done some nice refinements on proven security techniques, significantly to 802.1 X and Radius, bundled it as the BeyondCorp architecture, including strong identity and access management (IAM).
Why is this essential? What are the gaps?
Ziften believes in this method since it emphasizes device trust over network trust. Nevertheless, Google does not particularly reveal a device security agent or stress any type of client-side monitoring (apart from very rigorous setup control). While there might be reporting and forensics, this is something which every company ought to be aware of, given that it's a matter of when – not if – bad things will occur.
Given that executing the preliminary phases of the Device Inventory Service, we have actually ingested billions of deltas from over 15 data sources, at a normal rate of about 3 million daily, amounting to over 80 terabytes. Keeping historical data is essential in enabling us to understand the end-to-end life cycle of a particular device, track and examine fleet-wide trends, and carry out security audits and forensic investigations.
This is a costly and data-heavy procedure with two drawbacks. On ultra-high-speed networks (used by the likes of Google, universities and research study organizations), adequate bandwidth allows for this type of communication to happen without flooding the pipes. The very first concern is that in more pedestrian corporate and federal government situations, this would trigger great user disturbance.
Second, machines need to have the horse power to continuously collect and send data. While most employees would be delighted to have current developer-class workstations at their disposal, the cost of the devices and procedure of refreshing them on a regular basis makes this excessive.
An Absence of Lateral Visibility
Few systems actually create 'enhanced' netflow, enhancing conventional network visibility with rich, contextual data.
Ziften's patented ZFlow ™ provides network flow information on data generated from the endpoint, otherwise achieved utilizing brute force (human labor) or expensive network devices.
ZFlow functions as a "connective tissue" of sorts, which extends and finishes the end-to-end network visibility cycle, including context to on-network, off-network and cloud servers/endpoints, permitting security teams to make faster and more educated and precise decisions. In essence, buying Ziften services result in a labor cost saving, plus an increase in speed-to-discovery and time-to-remediation due to technology acting as a replacement for people resources.
For organizations moving/migrating to the public cloud (as 56% are preparing to do by 2021 according to IDG Enterprise's 2015 Cloud Study), Ziften offers unrivaled visibility into cloud servers to better monitor and protect the complete infrastructure.
In Google's environment, only corporate-owned devices (COPE) are permitted, while crowding out bring your own device (BYOD). This works for a company like Google that can give out brand-new devices to all personnel – smart phone, tablet, laptop computer, etc. Part of the reason is that the vesting of identity in the device itself, plus user authentication as usual. The device needs to meet Google requirements, having either a TPM or a software application equivalent of a TPM, to hold the X. 509 cert utilized to validate device identity and to facilitate device-specific traffic file encryption. There needs to be several agents on each endpoint to validate the device recognition predicates called out in the access policy, which is where Ziften would need to partner with the systems management agent company, because it is most likely that agent cooperation is important to the procedure.
In summary, Google has actually developed a world-class service, however its applicability and functionality is limited to organizations like Alphabet.
Ziften provides the very same level of operational visibility and security protection to the masses, utilizing a light-weight agent, metadata/network flow monitoring (from the endpoint), and a best-in-class console. For organizations with specialized needs or incumbent tools, Ziften offers both an open REST API and an extension framework (to enhance ingestion of data and setting off response actions).
This yields the advantages of the BeyondCorp model to the masses, while protecting network bandwidth and endpoint (device) computing resources. As organizations will be sluggish to move completely far from the enterprise network, Ziften partners with firewall and SIEM suppliers.
Finally, the security landscape is progressively shifting towards managed detection & response (MDR). Managed security service providers (MSSP's) offer conventional tracking and management of firewalls, gateways and boundary invasion detection, however this is not enough. They lack the skills and the technology.
Ziften's service has actually been checked, incorporated, approved and implemented by a number of the emerging MDR's, illustrating the standardization (capability) and flexibility of the Ziften platform to play a key role in remediation and event response.


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A's Trade a Blueprint for Phillies?
Billy Beane's somewhat shocking, all-in trade of Addison Russell, Dan Straily, and Billy McKinney to Chicago for Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel last week signals the official start of trading season. Oakland has made a deal, similar to Milwaukee's CC Sabathia trade in 2008, that includes an extra month to use its new players and build a lead for the stretch run. The deal also takes away valuable assets from other teams that are likely to make trades for starting pitching and other useful parts. The Phillies should exploit that competition as much as possible, as soon as possible, to both control the market (instead of waiting for it), and to give their trade partners more value.
Considering that Samardzija doesn't have close to the track record of Cole Hamels, as our friends at The Good Phight have said, and that the Shark clearly wants a #1 starter contract in free agency after next season, the Oakland trade seems to give the Phillies the ability to – ugh – "replenish" the farm system. (Please rewind your brain to the Cliff Lee to Seattle trade.) Teams like the A's geared to win RIGHT NOW are willing to absorb large financial obligations and/or risk in exchange for a shot at the World Series, and in return a hopeless team like the Phillies can rebuild its franchise.
Many of you already know that the returns for standalone trades of expensive veterans like A.J. Burnett, Marlon Byrd, and Jonathan Papelbon would be underwhelming, a topic we've covered previously in this space. But a package deal built around Hamels, including any combination you like of Papelbon, Byrd, or Burnett, should bring a more enticing return for the Phillies. As a fan who has had to endure agonizing baseball more often than not in recent seasons, would you prefer individual trades of Byrd and Burnett and Papelbon for maybe a couple of B-level prospects, or a Hamels package deal? Before you answer, consider the following:
- Jeff Samardzija — he of the career 1.32 WHIP and ONE inning pitched in the playoffs — and Jason Hammel (career 4.62 ERA, 1.40 WHIP) were just dealt for a still-promising future 4th starter in Straily, Oakland's 2013 first-rounder and #2 prospect McKinney, and Russell, the crown jewel of the system and one of the top 5 or so prospects in baseball. Oakland also has to give up a player to be named later.
- Samardzija is one year younger than Hamels.
- Samardzija is good, but he's had exactly two decent seasons as a starter before this year, and 2014 is his first with an FIP below 3.5.
- Samardzija will be a free agent in 2016 and will seek a gigantic contract. Kinda like the one Hamels already signed.
- The Phillies are terrible and have a ridiculous payroll.
Now, keep in mind there may not be another Addison Russell trade out there this year. But if the Phillies were to trade Hamels, and let's say they add Burnett and/or Byrd and/or Papelbon, the market set by the Oakland trade shows the buying team can be expected to pay a heavy price. Hamels' contract gives cost certainty too, since the going rate for a pitcher of his caliber is now well north of $23 million per season. While Oakland's deal was never going to happen without cheap team control over Samardzija, the team also gave up Addison Russell's entire career for 15 months of Jeff Samardzija. Maybe the Dodgers, who have a glut of outfielders, a win-now payroll, and a proven willingness to spare no expense for a title, would give up Joc Pederson and Zach Lee to get Hollywood Hamels and pals? Ruben Amaro might as well ask for Corey Seager too.
Detroit owner Mike Ilitch desperately wants to bring a title to the Motor City. The Tigers are on Hamels' no-trade list, but such provisions can be negotiated away. Would Ilitch ask GM Dave Dombrowski to get Hamels — who would be great Max Scherzer insurance — and Papelbon, and maybe even Byrd, for a package including a mix of Nick Castellanos, Robbie Ray, Jake Thompson, Jonathon Crawford, Ian Krol, and Corey Knebel? I'm willing to bet Dombrowski could get Ruben Amaro to throw in Cody Asche to make that work.
The Phillies surely would like the Pederson/Lee package a lot more. Even if you felt conflicted, you'd probably be OK with a Hamels trade that brings back that kind of return and relieves the Phillies of that much salary. The Detroit deal would seem better if it were Burnett, Byrd, and/or Papelbon leaving town, leaving Hamels here to sweep up the pieces of the back end of his career in a half-empty stadium across the street from what will likely be the only remotely competitive sports venue in the city for the next several years.
As currently constructed, the Phillies major league team and minor league systems are not competitive. If Addison Russell can be traded for Jeff Samardzija, the Phillies pretty much have to trade Cole Hamels. Even if you project stardom for JP Crawford, that's three or four years from now. Who else is hitting in that lineup, besides Ryan Howard of course?


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Two-run homer in the ninth inning keeps Armstrong Atlantic alive
SALEM, Va. -- Armstrong Atlantic State junior left fielder Andrea Dalton launched a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning to keep the No. 4-ranked Pirates alive at the NCAA DII Softball Championships on Saturday afternoon with a 7-5 nine-inning win against No. 3-ranked and defending DII national champion Valdosta State at the James I. Moyer Complex in Salem, Va.
The Dalton home run snapped a 5-5 tie as Valdosta State rallied for a single run in the bottom of the seventh inning to send the game into extras. A Hannah Strickland RBI double in the seventh tied up the game and VSU had the bases loaded with one out, but Megan Barnwell struck out Shelby Altman and got Ashley Steinhilber to ground out to short.
Neither team scored in the eighth, and in the top of the ninth, Shelby Duff singled with one out. Peyton Roth reached on a fielder's choice, erasing Duff, then Dalton followed with her eighth home run of the season to put the Pirates ahead. It was the sixth consecutive game in this postseason in which Armstrong has hit a home run.
In the bottom of the ninth, Barnwell set down the Blazers in order, getting Courtney Albritton to fly out to right field for the final out and Armstrong's first win in the DII Softball Championships.
The Pirates started off the game well, getting a two-run single from Dalton to left field in the top of the first inning for a quick 2-0 lead, but Valdosta State responded with three runs in the bottom of the first inning on a two-run RBI single by Steinhilber and an RBI single by Hamlin.
Duff answered with an RBI double in the top of the second inning to tie the game up at 3-3. It was Duff's 17th double of the season, tying the Armstrong single-season record.
Duff and Mercer delivered RBI singles in the top of the fourth inning to put the Pirates back on top 5-3 leading to the ninth-inning dramatics for the Blazers.
Barnwell (27-5) pitched a complete-game win for the Pirates, hurling all nine innings and giving up eight hits and five runs, walking three while striking out five. It was her 86th win as a Pirate, tying the all-time career wins record at Armstrong, set by Annie Sells (1999-2002).
Valdosta State reliever Hanna Lythberg (16-6) took the loss for the Blazers, giving up three hits and two runs in five innings of work, walking two while striking out two.
Dalton went 3-for-5 with four RBIs to pace the Pirates at the plate, while Duff went 2-for-4 with two RBIs.
Valdosta State was led by Steinhilber's 2-for-4 day with two RBIs.


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First look: <i>Game of Thrones</i> season three teaser
The biggest news on fantasy fans' lips today is the release of the first official teaser for Game of Thrones season three.
The clip, a mere 15 seconds of dialogue set to a new logo, gives a very mysterious tease of what's to come in the next 10 episodes of HBO's extremely well-received fantasy epic. It also announces the premiere date: March 31, 2013.
As the voiceover explains, "The great war is between death and life, ice and fire. If we lose, the night will never end". This may well be in reference to the season finale (which we won't spoil for those who haven't seen it. To which we ask, why not?).
At this stage, it's not clear who is speaking these lines — but expect more information and teasers, to surface between now and March.
Game of Thrones season three is based on author George R R Martin's third novel A Storm of Swords in the ongoing A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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I can credit a sleepless night (thank you, shot of espresso) and the Game Show Network for giving me my first look at the 1970's game show Match Game. If you haven't seen any episodes on GSN, I highly recommend dedicating a night of your choice to some retro fun. Nothing is better than watching sweet and innocent Betty White give saucy, innuendo ridden retorts or hearing Charles Nelson Riley make sly remarks commenting on his own sexuality. Sure it's not that raunchy compared to what's on TV now a days, but because you know that you are watching something from the early '70s you can't help but turn into a little girl whose cheeks blush when Vicky Lawrence says the word "boobs." Suddenly you feel as though you shouldn't be watching such things because your mother may come in and bust you.
Thankfully a new generation will get to bare witness to all the mayhem and double entendres when celebrities try to match contestants' answers in the upcoming TBS remake of Match Game.
If you aren't familiar with how Match Game is played, I'll give you a short tutorial: Two non-famous contestants (that I'm sure are trying to get famous) go head-to-head and try to fill in a blank that is in a sentence. The object of the game is to match your blank to the panel of celebrities'. The more celebs you match, the more points you earn. The winner gets to take home a brand new washer/dryer, or at least that's what would happen in the '70s. I'm sure this updated version will have people taking home a few million bucks, or if they're very lucky, an iPod.
Watching the celebrities of the '70s chat, bicker and smoke (who knows what was in their Match Game mugs?) was like being a voyeur at a Hollywood party that the likes of myself would never be invited to. Sexual remarks, sassy quips and put-downs were an every day occurrence and the main reason why viewers tuned in so it's no wonder that one of the first celebrities TBS decided to cast in the remake of Match Game is Sarah Silverman. Silverman's sharp tongue and panache for discussing taboo topics with an immeasurable amount of satire may be what makes this show the hit I hope it will be. Joining her will be Norm McDonald, Scott Thompson (The Kids in the Hall), Rashida Jones (The Office) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911).
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I can only imagine the possibilities when this group is put to task on such sentences as: "After coming back from Little Red Riding Hood's house the Big Bad Wolf said, 'That woman had the biggest blanks I ever saw'."
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BARAKO Bull has decided to stick with coach Bong Ramos as head coach, just days after giving Serbian coach Rajko Toroman the pink slip and on the day the team is expected to hug the the spotlight in the PBA rookie draft at the Robinsons Place in Malate, Manila.
Barako Bull team manager Raffy Casyao said management felt Ramos is the best man to lead the team in the transition from Toroman, who he said was only hired by the Energy Cola under a short-term arrangement aimed primarily as an apprenticeship for Ramos.
"We chose to stick with the old system. We feel disrupting or adapting a new system with just two weeks to go before the opening might be challenging for us in terms of adjustment," Casyao told Spin.ph.
"Bong Ramos is the best coach to carry out the plays shared to us by coach Rajko."
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"We know coach Rajko won't have a hard time looking for a new team to coach. Kaya we gave him a few months of allowance. He knows one year lang talaga s'ya with us. So we gave him three months of leeway kaysa naman itali pa namin sya hanggang February. That would've been unfair." - Raffy Casyao, Barako Bulls team manager
At the same time, the amiable Barako official vehemently denied having considered ABL champion coach Leo Austria of San Miguel Beer for the position.
"No, it's not true. He (Austria) was not considered. Hindi ko nga alam bakit may mga lumabas siyang statement. But that is his opinion," said Casyao.
Ramos led Air21 Express (Barako Bull's old franchise) to the semifinals of the Commissioner's Cup with a ragtag team back in 2011. Ramos also steered the Aspac Texmaco of Indonesia to four straight titles in the National Basketball League.
"He is at par with the present pool of PBA coaches. Coach Bong is respected by our players," added Casyao.
For his part, Ramos declared his readiness to lead the team which has undergone massive rebuilding the last five days and talked as if a couple of draft-day trades involving the team's fourth, fifth, and sixth picks overall are already as good as done.
The veteran bench tactician said he is excited with the prospect of having Dylan Ababou, Denok Miranda, Robert Labagala, Mark Isip and big man Magi Sison in the team. Labagala came in through the trade for Eman Monfort while the five others are supposed to arrive in trades for picks.
[For full story, see Barako to trade No. 4 pick to Ginebra for Ababou, fifth pick for Petron subs]
The holdovers are Danny Seigle, Dorian Pena, JC Intal, Elmer Espiritu, Mick Pennisi, Mark Macapagal, Keith Jensen, Ronjay Buenafe and Enrico Villanueva.
"We have a lot of veterans and experienced players in the team. It won't be hard to put ourselves together on one page. Matatalino na ang mga yan," said Ramos, who also coached the Brunei Barracudas for two seasons in the ABL.
"It's just the continuity of our old system. Except for the newcomers, who we are still working on, wala kaming gaanong adjustments.
"Are we the darkhorse? Let's just say we have the right (mix of) talent," said Ramos, who was Toroman's apprentice for 10 months.
[For full story, see story Rajko understudy Ramos keen to mirror Uichico success after Jacobs apprenticeship]
Meanwhile, Casyao bared that Toroman was aware that his tenure with Barako Bull is only for one year.
"Since he took over as our team consultant, he knew that the partnership will not last long," said Casyao, adding Toroman's contract as team consultant is until February 2014.
"We know coach Rajko won't have a hard time looking for a new team to coach. Kaya we gave him a few months of allowance. He knows one year lang talaga s'ya with us. So we gave him three months of leeway kaysa naman itali pa namin sya hanggang February. That would've been unfair."
A source told Spin.ph that Koy Banal is still set to move from Petron to join the Barako Bull coaching staff.


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When the Catholic 7 schools–DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova–split from the old Big East to form the new Big East, they will be allowed to keep their postseason conference tournament at storied Madison Square Garden.
According to reports, the "seven schools will depart on June 30 and will begin their new league on July" are are expected to add Butler, Xavier, and likely Creighton next year to have ten teams in the league. They will look to add two more teams for the 2014-15 season, sources said.
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A little over a month ago, my Momma Aleene suffered a stroke. We're blessed that she was still able to talk but it left her unable to walk. At her request, we brought her home the next day and she has been under the wonderful care of our long-time caregiver Maggie and the beautiful home-hospice team from Livingston in Ventura.
This has definitely been a roller-coaster for us as each day brings a new challenge. With several small after-strokes, Momma's Alzheimers came on with a vengeance and all I can say is #alzheimerssucks. That. Is. All.
With Momma now homebound, my visits to the Weekend Farmgirl ranch have certainly taken on a new meaning for me. My quiet time by the lake is now filled with more prayerful time. What is so beautiful about this space on the ranch is that you can be alone with your thoughts. Totally. Alone. It's a peacefulness that we so easily forget in our busy workweeks.
I am grateful for the silence of this sacred space and grateful for my Momma.
Can you hear that? Yeah. Me neither. The quiet at the lake is deafening. When the wind blows, the pines sing and if I get too close, the coots scurry away. Today, I find solace in the silence, the deep blue sky replenishes me and the warmth of the glowing sun fills my soul.


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UN climate talks in Geneva have ended with agreement on a formal draft negotiating text for the summit in Paris in December.
The document, which runs to 86 pages, builds on negotiations in Peru last year.
The Swiss meeting set out to create a draft for consideration at the Paris talks.
The aim is to have a new global climate agreement in place by the end of 2015.
The latest climate talks, focussed on finalising a draft negotiating text for the Paris summit.
The six-day conference in the Swiss city was the first formal gathering since the Lima climate summit in December.
The Spirit of Lima enjoys full ownership
"I am extremely encouraged by the constructive spirit and the speed at which negotiators have worked during the past week," said Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"We now have a formal negotiating text, which contains the views and concerns of all countries. The Lima Draft has now been transformed into the negotiating text and enjoys the full ownership of all countries," she added.
The draft text was agreed before the end of the session, in a mood described as "the spirit of Lima". But rather than being slimmed down, the document has more than doubled in size, to contain everything to be discussed in the run-up to Paris.
Key test is countries' individual plans
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Scientific Advice at NASAAugust 24th, 2006
Posted by: Roger Pielke, Jr.
The recent resignation of three scientists on the NASA Advisory Panel raises some interesting questions about the nature of advice versus decision making and the interests of those providing the advice in the outcomes of the decisions by those receiving their input. Science magazine makes this all a bit more concrete with some of the details of the brouhaha:
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin yesterday read the riot act to the outside scientists who advise him, accusing them of thinking more of themselves and their research than of the agency's mission. Griffin's harsh comments come on the heels of the resignation of three distinguished scientists from the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), two of whom have questioned Griffin's plan to dramatically scale back a host of science projects (Science, 12 May, p. 824). "The scientific community … expects to have far too large a role in prescribing what work NASA should do," Griffin wrote council members in a blistering 21 August message. "By 'effectiveness,' what the scientific community really means is 'the extent to which we are able to get NASA to do what we want to do. "
The outside engineers, scientists, and educators on the council traditionally offer advice on the agency's policies, budget, and projects. Placed in limbo for nearly a year after Griffin took over as NASA chief in spring 2005, the NAC was reorganized this spring under the leadership of geologist Harrison Schmitt, a former U.S. senator and Apollo astronaut who is gung ho about President George W. Bush's plans to send humans back to the moon and to Mars. Schmitt replaced Charles Kennel, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, who resigned last week from his post as chair of the council's science committee. Two other NAC members–former NASA space science chief Wesley Huntress and Rice University Provost Eugene Levy–resigned last week in response to a direct request from Griffin that they step down.
Schmitt and members of that committee have clashed repeatedly in recent months over the role of science at the space agency. In a pointed 24 July memo to science committee members, Schmitt complained that they lacked "willingness to provide the best advice possible to Mike," refused to back Griffin's decision to cut research funds for astrobiology or recommend an alternative cut, and resisted considering the science component of future human missions to the moon. "Some members of the committee," he concluded, "are not willing to offer positive assistance to Mike."
Both Levy, a physicist, and Huntress, an astrochemist now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, say they support human space exploration but fear that science is now taking a back seat after years of a careful balance between human and robotic efforts. NASA spokesman Dean Acosta acknowledged that the scientists and Schmitt "weren't working well together," and that Griffin telephoned Huntress and Levy last week to ask for their resignations. Griffin's memo points to what he calls "the inherent and long-standing conflict-of-interest" by scientists giving advice to an agency on which they depend for funding. And he gives them a clear way out. "The most appropriate recourse for NAC members who believe the NASA program should be something other than what it is, is to resign."
Huntress says Griffin told him that his advice exceeded the council's charge. "This is a different NAC. Our advice was simply not required nor desired," Huntress told Science. The current council, he adds, "has no understanding or patience for the science community process." Kennel, who had been named chair of the NAC's science committee, was unavailable for comment, but Norine Noonan, a former NAC member and dean of math and science at South Carolina's College of Charleston, called Griffin's action "very distressing" for scientists. "If we can't have a robust debate at the NAC level," she says, "then where in the heck is it supposed to happen?"


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Cricket World® TV - World Cup 2011 Update - England Stay Alive
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Cricket TV - A look back at another entertaining day at the ICC Cricket World Cup and another thrilling game involving England. For the sixth time in as many matches, they were at the centre of a nerve-racking finish as they held on to beat the West Indies by 18 runs in Chennai and keep their quarter-final hopes alive.
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Maggie sorted out all of the movies. She is at home all day since she is not at school any longer and is looking for a job. We had one book shelf that had movies but was positioned behind a desk. She couldn't see all of the movies so one day while we were gone she moved the bookshelf. She also sorted all of the movies, Maggie loves to sort things. She sorted them by VHS and sorted them by ones with big plastic cases and ones with cardboard cases and ones without cases. Then she sorted the DVDs. She sorts them by adventure, romantic, series, like the Walton's. She also sorted out all of the movies that we never watch. She wanted us to look at them and make a decision and get rid of them.We needed to wait until everyone was here to sort out movies to give away. She put them back on the bookshelf but on a separate shelf from the ones that we are keeping. When all of us are home we can all look at them.
Maggie and I went to the cemetery to get some more sticks for Maggie to whittle. There are a lot of older trees there and usually there are a lot of fallen limbs to choose from.


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From a school nurse in Fayetteville, Georgia, USA:
A student I care for is absent a lot, and his mom states it is because of his type 1 diabetes. When is the parent abusing the right to educate a child? What is the law on this?
My advice to you is to report your concerns to the school principal. While your concern for the welfare of the child is appropriate, your investigation of the laws regarding compulsory education is not. In addition, you should measure your actions and disclosures against HIPAA requirements.
[Editor's comment: In general, students with type 1 diabetes should not have an inordinate number of absences. I suggest you set up a meeting with the child, his parents, diabetes care team representative (if possible), and school personnel to discuss this problem and develop a plan to alleviate this situation. SS]
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Methods to Enhance Workplace Communication
List at least three ways leaders can work with people who are less argumentative and people who are highly argumentative to enhance work communication . Use at least 100 words and cite any sources used in APA format.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com August 15, 2018, 4:24 pm ad1c9bdddf
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One way that leaders can work with people who are less argumentative, is to inform these individuals that their opinions are valued, and to place their opinions within the suggestion box whenever they have a new idea. A second way to work with these individuals is to ask them questions about their viewpoints on a consistent ...
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Life On Mars
Bashkiria, Mediterranean Sea, Valentine's Day 1984
We were in no country
on this earth, under the influence
of Venus and Mars, surrounded
by water and battleships.
Valentine's Day, 1984. Andropov's funeral. Russian speeches
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and keep pace for awhile before sinking into all that luminance.
The Russian crew would come to us and joke,
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I stood at the railing practicing phrases of Russian
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of a terrible reality, and we felt the woven texture
of the water underneath undulate us. Therefore, I understood
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He was taking us home. We were in no
country on this earth, under the influence
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Hello all!Hola!!. My name is Dionysios, I am 31 years old. I am a Greek-Italian guy that I was borne In Greece (Crete Island) and studied as a Mechanical Engineer. I have also some origins from Italy, Bologna. At the moment I am living and working in Luxembourg. My Company's contract is finished by the end of September and before to start looking for another boring Job which will probably occupy most of my time I am planning of doing a backpacking trip (about forty days in November 2012) to experience new cultures and new countries in South America.
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|Hamer Hall - Melbourne
|27 August 2005
|by Fendall Hill
Rick Wakeman's music has been a profound influence on my life and music, it was the soundtrack to a major segment of my life. Until the mid nineties, I knew the music, but not the man, apart from pictures on the album covers. In New Zealand, he is but a vague memory to all but serious music aficionados who were over 15 years old at any stage in the 1970s. With the discovery of more recent albums in a specialised Auckland music store, and the advent of the internet, I discover that this man and his music has continued over the decades, and is still followed. And just when you think his significant contribution to music is largely over, he produces albums like "Return" and "Out There", on a par with his classics of the 1970s - arguably better!
In a brief email interchange in 2001, Rick lamented with me that it was unlikely that he would ever do another concert in New Zealand, and so I would never get the experience to see him in action.
So roll on 4 years, then the sad news that Rick is to put an end to his live concerts. The hope fades! I'm turning 40 and was heading to Adelaide to speak at a conference, when I chance a view at the RWCC website, to see that he is doing a concert in Melbourne the day after we are due to fly home. So with permission from my wonderful wife to spend another $600 travel costs for my 40th birthday, we book for the Hamer Hall on Saturday 27th August.
From our prime seat, we had a great time, initially disappointed at the amount of time it took for the curtain raisers (very good in their own way) and the 'interval' - especially since Rick and Ashley ran out of time at the other end. I also sensed the Sunday concert would be like a Part 2 to this concert, and I would long since have flown home. The VIP meet and greet was also going to be on the Sunday, but that's life. Anyway, that's the only negatives, rolled into one paragraph to make way for the fun bits.
The anecdotes were hilarious, especially the drunken escapade in Seattle, with the malfunctioning Wurlitzer and subsequent review from the progressive rock-hating newspaper music critic. Rick is so good at telling this, that I have been confidently able to recite this story in every detail since - and it takes a long time to tell. Another great story covered his Mum's attendance at his concerts (complete with rest home colleagues).
The quality of his live playing staggered me; you would expect a certain number of 'flipped' notes in an evening of live performance, and I am sensitive to such things. There might have been a handful (out of tens of thousands) in the entire evening - or maybe I was so spellbound, I didn't notice for once (actually I think three out of the five missed notes occurred in the last 30 seconds of 'Merlin'). He presented a wonderful range of his music, from his very first piece 'Buy a Broom' to the 'Dance of a Thousand Lights' with a pre-recorded accompaniment from the LSO and choir - that was just awesome, and I was amazed at Rick's memory of the exact tempos and timing, especially during long runs of rolling semi-quavers (or were they 'demi's?) during sustained chords from the accompaniment, which would end precisely at the start of the bar.
I really enjoyed Ashley's singing, and his attempt at piano, but it would have been good to hear Rick sing (or would it?). Ashley's own humour and personality added to the overall fun atmosphere. Great summary renditions of 'Journey', 'Myths' and 'No Earthly Connection' were really appreciated. There was a rendition of some 'Yes' songs, but I have to admit to being a bit of a philistine when it comes to 'Yes', and really did not recognise the music. Rather unexpectedly from a timing perspective, Merlin finished off the evening, and then an encore of Gershwin's 'Summertime'. It was over all too quickly.
I hate to admit it, but I hung around immediately after the concert at the stage in the hope of a handshake and a signature. This felt uncomfortable as I cringe at the whole thought of 'hero worship' and associated activities, but to be honest there are not many people in this World that I would go out of my way to try and meet, but Rick is on that very very small list, and I was going to try after my efforts to get there, otherwise I sensed I would regret it. As it happened, I was standing in the right place at the right time, and Rick wandered up and I was the first to be greeted. He seemed surprised I had come from New Zealand. I got my chance to shake his (huge!) hand and say a very sincere "Thanks"! I got a signature on the back of the programme - I don't know why signatures are the thing to get, but I look at it as a reminder of a really fun night, and meeting the man personally. My wife apparently offered to get a photo of us, but I didn't hear her, and kind of regret that I didn't think of that now.
It was interesting to get the perspective of my young (35 year old) wife who didn't know Rick's music that well. She really enjoyed the whole concert and the music - and she could see where I got a lot of my musical influence and style from (Scary!). I have no doubt that Rick's musical influence has extended far beyond rank amateurs like myself.
Everything about Rick, things I've read and absorbed, rings true with the experience I had. He is more than a musician, but a very genuine, humble and deep guy - and very funny. I travelled home inspired in my own music and composition.
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Playing with your food takes on a whole new meaning at La Tomatina, which is arguably the world's biggest food fight with the weapon of choice being the tomato. Taking place on the last Wednesday of August this annual summer event is one of the strangest summer festivals about.The preparation and partying start the previous week with plenty of music, parades, dancing and fireworks to saviour.
The famous tomato fight on the final day is the highlight. It takes place between the hours 11am and 1pm. Before fighting can break out someone must climb up a greased up pole to release the ham – while this is happening it is custom for the crowd to sing and dance while being showered with water hoses. Once the ham is conquered trucks release the overripe tomatoes into the streets and fun filled chaos erupts. The actual tomato throwing only lasts a little over an hour.
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There are many theories as to how La Tomantina started but we do know it started back in the 1945. Some say it started as simply a local food fight between friends or as a group of children pelting the annual town parade with tomatoes after being forbidden to participate in it. One of the most popular and widely accepted theories is that unhappy locals attacked the city's politicians with tomatoes during a town celebration.
Where does La Tomatina take place?
The festival takes place in a small village called Buñol in the region of Valencia, near the east coast of Spain. It has a population of 9000 people which swells to around 40,000/50,000 on the day of La Tomatina.Buñol is only 40 kilemetres from Valencia.
Transport to La Tomatina in Buñol
Buñol is easily reachable by car but parking would be nearly impossible in this period. Bus and train are the best options with regular services on the hour arriving and departing for Valencia.
Dos and dont's
There are certain things to remember for La Tomatina. Here is a list of the most important ones.
Do squish the tomatoes before throwing them for safety precautions. Don't wear anything nice or valuable during the fight. Do bring a change of clothes. Don't throw anything that isn't a tomato. Do wear safety googles and gloves. Don't harm anyone else. Do be careful of the lorries and truckes releasing the tomatoes. Don't throw tomatoes until the ham has been captured. Do stop throwing once you hear the end of the fight. Don't arrive too late or else you could miss the whole event. Do enjoy yourself.
Where to stay during the festival
Accommodation is very limited in Buñol at the best of times so most people stay in Valenica and commute back and forth during the festival. Check at the link below to view affordable accommodation in Valencia.
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