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"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same …. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son."
This is the famous extract from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", a copy of the poem was presented to the great Tony O'Reilly by his father before he began his final year of rugby at Belvedere College in Dublin. In the years to come, O'Reilly would always keep this extract close to his heart.
Over the past two weeks, when a spare moment presented itself, I have been totally engrossed in the book "The Maximalist" by Matt Cooper, O'Reilly's unauthorised biography, following his rise and fall from starring as a British and Irish Lion to becoming Ireland's richest man, to then ultimately losing it all, declaring bankruptcy in the Bahamas in November last year.
Having first encountered this line some years ago during my time as a student at St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, it resonated at the final whistle on Saturday. For more times than I care to remember, Down have always had the upper hand on us, dishing out some hammerings that left me questioning what was the point of it all?
This current Armagh group is different, however, and it is the total belief possessed by the group that was the main catalyst for our victory on Saturday. Having played Down in the first round of the league this year and having been on the wrong side of a two-point defeat, we knew what was required to turn the tide and in my mind on Saturday, we epitomised the saying "fratrem in armis" (brothers in arms). It really was an unprecedented turnaround for a team that had only three years previously been fighting for its very survival in the division.
The choice of field for the game in Dowdallshill in Dundalk was an odd one, as there had, for a brief moment, been some suggestion that the game would be played as a double header in Croke Park along with the Division 2A final. This was not to be however and as I ran on to the field for the warm up, Michael Johnston, the Down manager, commented that it was an awful field to host the game. I shouted back that it reminded me of playing on the silage field at home and that it would be no problem to us Armagh boys.
In my experience, the game is won or lost in the warm up; as a team you are either switched on or you're not. Conor Corvan hit me a shoulder in one of the drills and nearly landed me on my backside and it was at that moment I knew we were ready.
The game that followed was one were again the strength and depth of the panel was plain to see: the beauty of where we are as a county is the level of quality not on the field but on the bench. The likes of Adam Toal, Paddy McGrane, Paddy Kelly, Stevie Keenan, Pauric Hughes, Liam Woods and Dylan McKenna to name just a few, would grace any Armagh team in any other year but this season, the competition for places is unparalleled.
When the final whistle went, to see the subs running on to the field and the delirium of it all was something very special. It was extra special to be embraced at the end by Paul Duggan, a great servant to Armagh hurling and a man whose passion for Armagh hurling knows no bounds.
On a personal level, the real joy for me was seeing the faces of the players and managers when I lifted the trophy. We have put in a tremendous amount of effort so far this year and the win on Saturday was testament to the dedication and single mindedness of the group of players. Being an Armagh hurler is by no means the most glamorous title in the GAA but the reaction to our win on social media and the various forums showed that there are a lot of very passionate Armagh hurling people out there. The hashtag #ArmaghIsAHurlingCounty was even trending on Twitter at one point, or so I'm told.
After the game I sat in the changing rooms watching the players embrace and take photos with the trophy. The management team were busy reassembling the table in the middle of the room that had been rearranged through some motivational techniques during halftime, most of which involved broken hurling sticks.
As I sat there, I thought again of the words of Kipling, cherished by O'Reilly, and recalling the hammerings that Down had dished out to us in the past, I thought to myself: "They can keep the Earth and everything that is in it because this particular Triumph means more than the world to me"
To end this column, it would be remiss of me not to mention and wish all the very best to my sister Olivia and her new fiancé Thomas McArdle. As I was travelling home on the team bus on Saturday, I got a call from my sister who had been staying at Dromoland Castle Estate in Co. Clare over the Easter break. A lifelong supporter of Armagh and Middletown, having played camogie for both, she was following the game throughout the day on Saturday and Thomas had to wait his turn before popping the question.
As a reluctant supporter at many of our games this year, my future brother-in-law now knows all too well that although true love may last forever, at least in the Carvill household, it would have to wait until after the hurling was over.


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What Is QE? Basic Questions and Answers
What is QE and who does it?
Quantitative Easing (QE) is a monetary policy tool, widely used by major central banks (US Federeal Reserve, Bank of England, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan) after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The Bank of Japan has been doing QE already since March 2001.
How exactly is QE done?
The central banks purchase financial assets from commerical banks and other private institutions, such as insurance companies and pension funds. Therefore QE is also often referred to as "asset purchases" (although obviously not all "asset purchases" are QE).
Which assets do the central banks purchase?
The assets include particularly, but in some cases not only, government bonds (such as US treasury notes or UK gilts), mortgage-backed securities, and corporate bonds.
One difference of QE vs. more traditional monetary policy tools (besides the wider range of asset types) is that the time to maturity tends to be longer with QE (e.g. 2-10 year treasury notes or even 30-40 year JGBs).
Why is QE done? What is the mechanism and what are the goals?
The immediate objective and desired effect of the asset purchases is to increase the demand for the assets being purchased, which should result in an increase in their prices and decrease in yields (because there is an inverse relationship between price and yield of fixed income securities). This translates to general decrease in longer-term interest rates (QE targets longer maturities, as stated above), which should make loans cheaper and better accessible, increase nominal demand, and generally stimulate the economy and prevent deflation.
There are additional channels (with the same end goals), although the one described above should be the strongest one.
Why now? Why can't the central banks just do more of their traditional tools?
From the mechanism and goals above you can see that QE is in fact not that different from the more traditional monetary policy tools, particularly open market operations (technically QE can be considered a specific kind of OMOs). The important difference is in the tenor (time to maturity) of the interest rates that are directly being affected. The problem and the reason why QE is done now is that the potential of the traditional monetary policy tools, which target mostly short-term interest rates, is limited (close to non-existent) at the time when short-term interest rates are close to zero.
Furthermore, the effectiveness of traditional monetary policy measures can be constrained due to (commercial) banks trying to strengthen their balance sheets or credit markets lacking confidence after the financial crisis.
Does QE equal manipulating the markets / economy?
It depends on your definition of "manipulating". In fact, any economic policy by central banks and governments (including monetary policy, fiscal policy, and regulatory activities) does affect (= manipulate) the economy and financial markets. The question is whether such manipulation is good or bad, or whom it benefits (and who pays for it). There are of course different opinions on this, depending mostly on people's general beliefs regarding the roles of the government and central banks in the economy.
In any case, increased prices of financial assets, such as stocks and bonds, are clearly stated as an important intermediate objective in the transmission mechanism of quantitative easing (see for example the nice diagram on page 7 here).
Will the markets crash when QE ends?
There is no doubt that any change in QE does have significant effect on the global financial markets, not limited to the particular domestic country. Changes in QE have been among the most powerful market moving events in the last years. Nevertheless, it is impossible to predict the extent of future market impact, as we don't know how exactly the "QE exit" will look like and what the macroeconomic environment will be at that time. Moreover, as with everything concerning monetary policy, the sole anticipation of a change can move the markets as much as the eventual change itself (as we saw in June).
Official QE Resources on Central Bank Websites
US Federal Reserve
The Fed monetary policy start page
Note: The Fed doesn't like the term "quantitative easing" that much. QE is usually referred to as "asset purchase programs" and listed directly under open market operations.
Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet – details about all parts of monetary policy following the financial crisis
Details about asset purchase programs (when, what, how many billion) – under open market operations
Current FAQ: Why do the U.S. economic recovery and labor market require ongoing monetary policy support through the purchase of longer-term Treasury securities and agency mortgage-backed securities?
FOMC meeting calendars, statements, and minutes
Lectures, testimony, and speeches by Federal Reserve officials
Bank of England
BoE monetary policy start page
Quantitiative Easing Explained (links to more resources at the bottom of that page)
Quantitative Easing – How it Works (4 min. video)
Quantitative Easing Explained Pamphlet (pdf)
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decisions
MPC Minutes
Statements and speeches by MPC members covering QE
European Central Bank
ECB monetary policy start page
Press releases on monetary policy
Key dates of the financial crisis (since December 2005) – with links to related materials
Bank of Japan
BoJ monetary policy start page
Monetary Policy Measures – follow the links for materials concerning individual tools
Monetary Policy Meetings – schedule, statements, minutes, reports
Speeches related to monetary policy
Kuroda, Haruhiko: Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, Speech at a Meeting Held by the Yomiuri International Economic Society in Tokyo, 12 April 2013
Selected QE Research Papers
Sorted chronologically from newest to oldest.
Kandrac, John; Schlusche, Bernd: Flow Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases, Federal Reserve, 10 July 2013
Cho, Dongchul; Rhee, Changyong: Effects of Quantitative Easing on Asia: Capital Flows and Financial Markets, Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 350, June 2013
Mamaysky, Harry: The Time Horizon of Price Responses to Quantitative Easing, Citigroup, 12 June 2013
Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland: On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing, ECB Working Paper No. 1557, May 2013
Faure, Alexander Pierre: Money Creation: Misconceptions: Quantitative Easing Creates Money, Rhodes University, 22 April 2013
Carpenter, Seth B.; Demiralp, Selva; Ihrig, Jane E.; Klee, Elizabeth: Analyzing Federal Reserve Asset Purchases: From Whom Does the Fed Buy?, FEDS Working Paper No. 2013-32, 12 April 2013
Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland: On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing, DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1304, March 2013
Fawley, Brett W.; Neely, Christopher J.: Four Stories of Quantitative Easing, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February 2013, 95(1), pp. 51-88
Reynard, Samuel: Assessing Potential Inflation Consequences of QE after Financial Crises, Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 12-22 , 26 November 2012
Thornton, Daniel L.: The Federal Reserve's Response to the Financial Crisis: What It Did and What It Should Have Done, FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2012-050A, 30 October 2012
Thornton, Daniel L.: Evidence on The Portfolio Balance Channel of Quantitative Easing, Working Paper 2012-015A, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, October 2012
D'Amico, Stefania; King, Thomas B.: Flow and Stock Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases: Evidence on the Importance of Local Supply, FEDS Working Paper No. 2012-44, 29 February 2012
Berkmen, S. Pelin: Bank of Japan's Quantitative and Credit Easing: Are They Now More Effective?, IMF Working Paper, January 2012
Krishnamurthy, Arvind; Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette: The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2011
Kolev, Gueorgui I.: Quantitative Easing Engineered by the FED, and Prices of Internationally Traded and Dollar Denominated Commodities and Precious Metals, EDHEC Business School, 2 September 2011
Bowman, David; Cai, Fang; Davies, Sally; Kamin, Steven: Quantitative Easing and Bank Lending: Evidence from Japan, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System International Finance Discussion Papers Number 1018, June 2011
Tan, Ji; Kohli, Vaibhav: The Effect of Fed's Quantitative Easing on Stock Volatility, University of California, Berkeley, 1 June 2011
Blinder, Alan S.: Quantitative Easing: Entrance and Exit Strategies, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2010, 92(6), pp. 465-79
Klyuev, Vladimir; de Imus, Phil; Srinivasan, Krishna: Unconventional Choices for Unconventional Times: Credit and Quantitative Easing in Advanced Economies, IMF Staff Position Note, 4 November 2009

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text: Home > Sports Pacquiao scores unanimous decision over Clottey ABS-CBN News Posted at Mar 14 2010 01:37 PM | Updated as of Mar 20 2010 05:20 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE 2) Seven-division champion Manny Pacquiao outpunched his defense-conscious challenger Joshua Clottey in their welterweight clash at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas to retain his World Boxing Organization (WBO) crown on Saturday (Sunday in Manila). It was Pacquiao who scored more punches, challenging the boxer from Ghana to engage him into a brawl. However for most part of the fight, Clottey remained in his turtle defense, throwing lesser number of punches and apparently waiting for Pacquiao to tire out. As a result the judges saw the fight 120-108, 119-109 and 119-109, all in favor of the General Santos native. 'In control' In the post fight interview, Pacquiao said he felt he was in control of the fight from the first round. He said the fact that he failed to knock out Clottey showed the challenger was a "strong fighter." "I already controlled after the first round but I'm never [over]confident because he's looking for a good shot and I know he's strong, really strong fighter," he said. Asked if he believes Clottey was the strongest welterweight fighter he has fought, Pacquiao said: "Yes, exactly, that's right. He's not an easy opponent. I mean, Clottey is very strong, very tough. You know, he took a lot of punches and never been hurt, you know." 'Has speed' Meanwhile, Clottey said it took him time to adjust to Pacquiao's speed, which was the problem for him more than the champion's power punches. "I don't feel his power too much, but I feel he has speed. That's the problem. He's fast, so I had to take my time because I don't want to open up [for punches]," he said. Clottey said Pacquiao didn't have too much movement. Asked if he was hurt at any point in the fight, Clottey said: "No, not really. As you see, my face, I'm fine. Clottey said he was not affected by the big crowd at the Dallas Cowboys stadium since he's a fighter. Asked who he would like to fight next, he said he's willing and ready to face anybody. The victory improved Pacquiao's record to 51 wins. It was his first successful defense of the WBO welterweight title after defeating Puerto Rican pugilist Miguel Cotto last November. By the 9th round, Clottey's trainer Lenny de Jesus implored the Ghanaian to take a chance, saying that Pacquiao had won every round. Clottey tried to rally in the last 2 rounds but was clearly dominated by Pacquiao who kept punishing his challenger. Judges Levi Martinez, Nelson Vasquez and Duane Ford scored the fight 108, 119-109 and 119-109 all in favor of the pound-for-pound king. Elections and then Mayweather? In his interview, Pacquiao thanked the estimated 50,000 people who came to Cowboys Stadium to watch the bout. "Right now, I am so happy because the support of the fans is so unbelievable," he said. "It is the first time that so many people came to see me fight." He said that he would stay in the United States for about a week to rest before going back to the Philippines to start his campaign for congressman of Sarangani province. He also said he is willing to go back into negotiations to fight former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Pacquiao was originally scheduled to face Mayweather in the March 13 bout until a disagreement on Olympic-style drug testing being pushed by the Mayweather camp derailed the fight. "I want that fight because people want to see that fight," he said. He added, however, that he will only decide on his next bout after the May 10 elections in the Philippines. Clottey, meanwhile, said he is willing to go back into the ring again. "I will fight anybody and I am ready for anybody. Next time, I'll come out big," he said. With reports from David Dizon and Dennis Gasgonia, abs-cbnNEWS.com Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: Manny Pacquiao


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Amid Europe's intensifying debt crisis, a spat between banking authorities in Germany and Italy shows how Europe's carefully nourished financial ties are fraying.
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Antoine Griezmann has been linked with a move to Manchester United for what seems likes decades.
The France forward, who is said to have a huge fan in Old Trafford manager Jose Mourinho, has been the subject of numerous reports that insist he could end up at the Red Devils.
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About This Life
Searching for Depth in Bonaire
A Short Passage in Northern Hokkaido
Orchids on the Volcanoes
Informed by Indifference
In a Country of Light, Among Animals
The American Geographies
Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire
The Whaleboat
Replacing Memory
A Passage of the Hands
Learning to See
In June 1989, I received a puzzling letter from the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, an invitation to speak at the opening of a retrospective of the work of Robert Adams. The show, "To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West, 1965-1985," had been organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and would travel to the Los Angeles County Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., before being installed at the Amon Carter, an institution renowned for its photographic collections, in the spring of 1990.
Robert Adams, an un-self-promoting man who has published no commercially prominent book of photographs, is routinely referred to as one of the most important landscape photographers in America, by both art critics and his colleagues. His black-and-white images are intelligently composed and morally engaged. They're also hopeful, despite their sometimes depressing subject matter—brutalized landscapes and the venality of the American dream as revealed in suburban life. Adams doesn't hold himself apart from what he indicts. He photographs with compassion and he doesn't scold. His pictures are also accessible, to such a degree that many of them seem casual. In 1981 he published Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values, one of the clearest statements of artistic responsibility ever written by a photographer.
If there is such a thing as an ideal of stance, technique, vision, and social contribution toward which young photographers might aspire, it's embodied in this man.


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Social and Psychological Factors in SBD Recovery
by Mile High Sleeper
Sleep-related Breathing Disorder or SBD
"I realized that I had a handicap rather than a moral defect. Finally, I could stop criticizing myself for not meeting social and personal standards of behavior."
Sleep apnea patient Jerry Halberstadt, Sleep Apnea – The Phantom of the Night, p. 154
Just as we're all different in our physical conditions, we're all unique in our psychological nature and approach to life. Listed below are a few personal issues related to sleep disordered breathing (SBD) and CPAP treatment that can come up, not even including equipment issues. If you have a family member or friend who is not very supportive of your condition and CPAP therapy, perhaps discussing some of these items will increase their awareness and understanding.
Have I accepted that I have a serious medical condition, or am I still in some stage of denial? What emotional impact has this diagnosis had on me? How am I dealing with it? Am I making the best decisions in this weary and sleep-impaired condition? How good is my judgment?
This is the first time I've had a serious medical condition. Is it really life-threatening? It brings up issues of vulnerability, infirmity, aging, and mortality that I haven't experienced before. How do I feel about that? Or, now I have this condition on top of other serious conditions. How do they affect each other? How do I deal with them all?
Why don't more people understand sleep apnea? Why did my doctors not diagnose my sleep apnea for so many years? Did they misdiagnose and mistreat my other health problems when they were really sleep apnea? Did undiagnosed sleep apnea cause my other health problems? How do I feel about that?
Is untreated sleep apnea an affliction, a chronic disability, a handicap? If it's effectively treated, is it still a handicap or impairment? Will I ever feel as good as before? How does this affect my image and self-concept? What will others think of me at home, at work, in the world?
How difficult is the therapy? How do I face my fears? Can I succeed? Can I do this long term; do I want to? What kind of support do I need and can I get?
I don't like being dependent or an addict. How do I deal with being tethered to a machine every night for the rest of my life? How do I deal with being dependent upon a machine for my health and well being?
How does this affect my spouse, family, friends, co-workers? How can they deal with these changes? How do they support me? What blocks are other people putting up? What blocks am I putting up? How well do I support myself? How do I get around these blocks?
How does using CPAP equipment at night affect the comfort of my bed partner and sexual relations or dating? My libido is still low. Will that improve? Or, my libido is much better. Either way, it's affecting my relationship.
Before now, I haven't needed to deal with the healthcare system very much - doctors, specialists, insurance, hospital sleep labs, local or online Durable Medical Equipment (DME) or Home Medical Equipment providers. Who does what? How good are they? How do they interact? How do I make it all work for me?
Where is the best place to get equipment (CPAP machine, heated humidifier, masks, software, etc.), at the doctor or sleep lab acting as a DME, at a local large national DME or local small DME or online DME, or some combination? Which DMEs does my insurance authorize? What does the DME charge and what percentage does insurance pay; what are the deductibles? Where can I get the best value, prices, and service? Is it sometimes more cost effective to pay out-of-pocket and shop online instead of using insurance and the local DME with its pricing and insurance deductibles? If I shop online, what about service; can I still get mask trials and fittings somewhere locally?
What are the costs that I need to pay on my own? What can I afford? Are costs mainly start-up, and how much is ongoing? What equipment is worth spending more on? Are there places where it's okay to be economical, or will that hinder effective treatment in the long term? What's the overall effect on my health and quality of life, the cost-benefit ratio?
What do I do when part of the healthcare system doesn't work? What do I do when I run into inadequate treatment or lack of integrity? Why do I need to deal with incompetent people or dysfunctional organizations when I'm already challenged enough by my condition and with making the therapy work for me? Is there hope for large national Durable Medical Equipment providers' improvement or is it hopeless trying to deal with them? Is it worth the emotional distress to deal with them? What are the issues? What is my moral obligation to bring attention to the situation so other people aren't harmed by lack of information, misinformation, incompetence, or unethical treatment of patients and questionable business practices? Where and how can I help and be effective?
I still don't feel as good as I used to feel before. The results vary a lot. Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down. I haven't achieved stability or consistency. I still get tired or depressed. I have more mental energy to accomplish things, but not the physical energy. Or, I feel a lot more physical energy but don't know what to do with it anymore. I feel new levels of energy but don't know how to handle it, how to integrate it into my daily life.
Have I achieved success with my CPAP therapy – is this as good as it gets? Or will my standard of success change, will the bar be raised, after I've been on CPAP for a while? How long does it take to feel optimal? What is optimal?
Was it me or was it sleep apnea? What past actions, performance, and psychological state was the impairment of sleep apnea, and how much was me or my character? Who was I? Does it matter? Even more important, now that my energy is returning, who am I now, at this age, with this condition? Do I need to reinvent myself? How?
Whhttp://www.cpaptalk.com/wiki/skins/common/images/button_italic.pngat things were hidden from me because of fatigue and lack of attention? I've been neglecting things for years. What things have been harmed or have self-destructed because I didn't have the energy to deal with them? What do I do about them now? What do I do about my health? Weight? Fitness? Relationships? Family? Friends? Work? Finances? Dreams and goals? Fun parts of my life? What have been the costs of this unknown, untreated ailment? What losses do I need to mourn? How do I get my life back? How do I play catch-up? What is possible? How long will it take?
These are very important life issues about loss, change, and rebuilding. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross studied death and dying and came up with five stages that apply to any loss, not just death. The stages aren't always sequential; they overlap or people go backward as well as forward. The point is to not get permanently stuck in one stage, but to eventually reach the acceptance stage. It's natural to be going through these stages in dealing with the many physical, psychological, quality-of-life effects of OSA; not only what happened to your body and mind while untreated, but to other aspects of your life:
Denial. Isolation. "This is not happening/did not happen to me."
Blame. "How dare they do this to me." "How did I let this happen?"
Bargaining. Unrealistic attempts to fix. "If I just do this, that will happen."
Depression. Regret. "I'm so sad about what happened to ___ ." "I can't bear to face going through this, putting my family through this." Acceptance. Gaining a realistic perspective. This doesn't mean you like it, but you do accept that it's happening or that it did happen. "I'm ready to face it. I don't want to struggle or deny it anymore."
Maybe the next interim stage is mourning or grieving the deterioration or death of parts of your life, before you move on to adaptation or rebuilding.
Psychologist William Bridges in The Way of Transition describes three sequential stages of psychological transition during any change, which can be applied to adapting to CPAP and the consequences of OSA. Getting stuck in the first two stages is a block to successful transition. See http://www.wmbridges.com/ Endings or Saying Goodbye. Letting go of the way things were. Maybe mourning. Chaos or Wilderness Zone or Shifting into Neutral. Uncertainty, confusion. Not knowing what's what. There is lots of this in getting used to CPAP therapy. New Beginnings or Moving Forward. Behaving in a new way.
If you think you might benefit from it, seek understanding help from a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, religious or spiritual leader, or healer. Patiently rebuild your new life. Take heart that you now are gaining energy to find out who you are and who you want to become. Successful CPAP users seem to be practical and pragmatic. The CPAP therapy proves itself through results, health, well being, improved quality-of-life. Their gratitude for the results of CPAP treatment overcomes their concerns about dependency on the machine.
Discussion threads:
Singles and OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea): http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t16860/Singles-XPAP-obvious-at-night.html http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=19913&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Emotions and OSA:
Insomnia, Anxiety, Trauma, PTSD, Nightmares, Sleeping Pills
http://sleeptreatment.com/ and the book Sound Sleep, Sound Mind by Barry Krakow, MD http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=20756&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Depression and OSA:
CPAP wiki Page: Depression and OSA
http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t20790/Initially-misdiagnosed.html http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t25139/CPAP-for-Sleep-Apnea-Improves-Depression.html http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=22015&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=10601&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t18172/Depression-and-CPAP.html http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=5156 http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=6348 http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=10601
Escaping from the sick role and OSA:
Sources: Based on personal experience with obstructive sleep apnea and gleaned from the collective wisdom of cpaptalk.com contributors.
Want more? See the peer coaching articles CPAP Adaptation Stages and Ready to Give Up? at http://smart-sleep-apnea.blogspot.com .
Not written by healthcare professionals. The information and opinions offered are not intended or recommended as a substitute for professional medical advice. © Mile High Sleeper, October 2006-2008. Permission to use for free educational purposes.


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Seoul: South Korean activists have launched a new batch of propaganda leaflets toward North Korea despite Pyongyang`s threat to open fire.
The activists launched balloons carrying about 200,000 anti-North Korea leaflets and one-dollar bills over the border on Monday, the 66th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean ruling Workers` Party.
North Korea warned over the weekend that it would fire at South Korea if leaflets were launched on the anniversary. The North has issued similar threats against leafletting in recent years.
South Korean activists say they won`t yield to the North`s threats, and continue leafletting to urge North Koreans to rise up against the authoritarian government.
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Fair City's corner shop is being closed down.
Christie Phelan's modest store will soon be replaced by a "state-of-the-art" Spar mini-supermarket after RTE Sponsorship agreed to product placement in the soap opera.
In return for a 900,000 euro (£774,000) deal between BWG Foods and the show, producers have promised to give the Spar brand regular coverage in the series.
Gerry McGuinness from RTE told The Journal that the move will be "the first high-profile product placement agreement for RTE and the biggest to date in this territory".
In March, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland amended their product placement regulations, meaning that products can also be advertised during scheduled breaks and as sponsors between programmes.
BWG Foods' managing director Willie O'Byrne said that the company hopes the Spar brand would reach "over 500,000 viewers across Ireland four times every week".
It is believed that the new Spar shop will be unveiled in Fair City on December 6.
Coronation Street will become the UK's first primetime show to include product placement when a Nationwide cashpoint soon replaces the currently-unbranded ATM machine inside Dev Alahan's shop.
Hollyoaks and Channel 4 also revealed earlier this year that they are "close" to agreeing a series of product placement deals which will see companies paying to have their brands featured on the show.


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I see from the Sunday Times that Nick Clegg is intending to submit the name of Rumi Verjee as a new LibDem Peer. Mr Verjee is a very successful businessman, so successful that he has been generous enough to donate £770,000 to the Liberal Democrats over the years. Good on him. They need it.
Strangely the Sunday Times carried no quote from Lord Oakeshott, who has in the past been very vocal about peerages for people who have donated money to a political party. All Tories, natch. I await his wholehearted condemnation of a peerage for Mr Verjee. But I suspect I might be waiting some time.


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Additional disaster assistance for bushfire affected communities in South Australia
The Minister for Justice, the Hon Michael Keenan, and South Australian Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion the Hon Tony Piccolo, today announced additional assistance is being made available to communities affected by the recent bushfires.
Mr Keenan said the assistance was being provided to local councils under the jointly-funded Commonwealth-South Australian Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements.
"As the full impacts of these bushfires become evident, we continue to activate support for these local councils to assist with the costs incurred as a result of fighting the fires and defending communities," Mr Keenan said.
This assistance will be made available in the bushfire affected local government areas of Barossa, Berri Barmera, Ceduna, Coorong, Gawler Ranges, Karoonda East Murray, Loxton Waikerie, Mid-Murray, Mt Remarkable, Murray Bridge, Renmark Paringa, Southern Mallee and Tatiara.
Mr Piccolo said this assistance was in addition to the personal hardship and distress assistance announced by the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Senator Brandis and South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill on 18 January.
"We have been working with those affected communities, to ensure those South Australians who have suffered loss or damage as a result of these fires get the support they need," Mr Piccolo said.
Under the Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) assistance is available to eligible affected individuals and families through emergency relief and accommodation grants, to assist with emergency accommodation, food and clothing, and through emergency-reestablishment grants, to assist in the rebuilding and replacement of essential household contents. Assistance is now also available to local councils to help with the costs associated with counter-disaster operations carried out to protect communities and ensure public health and safety.
"With another extreme heat warning issued for South Australia yesterday, it remains important that anyone who lives or works in a bushfire prone area remains vigilant and ensures that they have a bushfire plan in place," Mr Piccolo said.
"Those families that have lost their homes, suffered trauma or other loss – or for people looking to donate funds to support those affected by the fires – can contact the SA Bushfire Recovery Hotline on 1800 302 787."
South Australian Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements are jointly funded by the Federal and South Australian Governments and administered through the South Australian Department for Communities and Social Inclusion.
Information about the range of assistance measures available can be found at http://www.sa.gov.au/safiresrecovery or the Australian Government's Disaster Assist website at www.disasterassist.gov.au


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Choose invitations tailored to the event and send them out at least 2 weeks in advance of the baby shower. It is not a bad idea to call your guests a month ahead of time to tell them to "save the date"; the shower will be a bigger success if all of Mom's guests can attend. Send RSVP cards out with your invitations so you know exactly how many to expect. Be creative and put a good deal of thought into your decision before you start booking or buying supplies. The extra effort you put into choosing the right type of shower will pay off ten-fold when you see the ecstatic look on her face!
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If you've volunteered or been asked to host a baby shower for a friend or family member, you are a lucky girl indeed! Hosting the shower is a great honor and a chance to show your pregnant friend just how much you care for her. There are many considerations to keep in mind as you are planning, but most important is that the type of shower you choose to throw is a good choice for the expectant mother. The shower is a celebration for her and her baby; you want her to be as comfortable and happy as possible throughout the event.
Start by talking to her and sharing ideas. It might help to make a small checklist, to be sure you reallyunderstand what her wishes are:
Many of the other decisions you will make really depend on how well you know the mother. Maybe you've known her since childhood and she's always be a fan of a certain band… wouldn't it be fun to plan a shower playing their music and having guests dress up as the band members?


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Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi was the first Democratic lawmaker to suggest that Rangel should give up his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates not only tax laws but also benefit programs that now pay nearly half the costs for Americans' health care.
In Taylor's words, Rangel should "either step down or step aside until this is resolved." Taylor made the remark to reporters while the House was voting on an intelligence bill. Rangel of New York was on the House floor taking part in the votes at the time.
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Ex-boxing champ Vinny Paz charged with assaultProvidence (R.I.) Journal
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence police have issued a warrant for the arrest of former boxing champion Vinny Paz in connection with a Tuesday assault which left another man with several broken teeth, the police said.
Maj. David Lapatin said the police had received a complaint from a man who said Paz, 55, of 54 Tivoli Court, Warwick, assaulted him late Monday-early Tuesday. Lapatin said the man suffered injuries — several broken teeth, a black eye and bites on his left hand that drew blood — that were serious enough to merit a charge of felony assault.
A police spokeswoman, Lindsay Lague, said Tuesday that a warrant had been signed.
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As the Sony Xperia Z1 was announced yesterday, pricing details weren't revealed. But now we have that information too, thanks to sources from Germany and the UK. The well-known UK retailer, Clove, has put up the smartphone up on pre order for £564 which is about $880. Sony Germany however has mentioned that the smartphone will cost about €649 or $856. Negri Electronics has priced the smartphone at $729.5 and is expected to have it in stock by September 20, so we have a brief idea of where Sony is headed with its pricing. Of course, carriers in the U.S. will adopt a different pricing model and we can expect the standard $600-$650 off contract pricing.
Amazon is currently listing the add-on Smart Shot camera lenses known as the QX-10 and the QX-100 for $248 and $498 respectively. These lenses can be added on to the Xperia smartphones or other Android smartphones with relative ease. The Xperia Z1 should launch later this month in the U.S. along with a bunch of other countries. There's no word on which carrier in the U.S. will sell the smartphone, but our first guess is AT&T and T-Mobile.
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Telltale's Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands launch this week on Microsoft's consoles.
Another Monday, another week, another month. It's all a fresh start this week, eh. So what's coming your way in terms of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games? Well, quite a handful actually.
Most notably we will see the arrival of Telltale Games' take on the Game of Thrones universe. They're using actors and characters from the HBO TV Series, so that will add some authenticity to it at the very least. Plus, Telltale Games tend to be pretty bloomin' brilliant, so there's always that aspect to take into account too.
Tales from the Borderlands, another Telltale game arrives as well, and there's The Crew from Ubisoft also. Let's just hope that Ubisoft's new game launch goes more smoothly than other recent titles. Ahem, no names, no names.
Anyway, here's the list of this week's game releases for the Xbox consoles:
Xbox One
Limbo - TBA
Terraria – 2nd December (retail)
The Crew – 2nd December
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games – 3rd December
Xbox 360
The Crew – 2nd December
Tales from the Borderlands – 3rd December
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games – 3rd December
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare – 3rd December
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Srinagar: Over 43 per cent of 13.57 lakh voters cast their votes in the last leg of the five-phased polls today in Jammu and Kashmir where 19 candidates are in the fray for the two Lok Sabha seats of Baramulla and Ladakh.
Baramulla constituency, from where National Conference sitting MP Sharief-ud-din Shariq is locked in multi-cornered contest, recorded 39.6 per cent polling while Ladakh registered a poll turn out of 65 per cent to choose their representative among the four candidates in the fray.
Baramulla had recorded a voter turnout of 41.84 per cent in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, while Ladakh had recorded a poll turnout of 71.86 per cent five years back.
"The tentative voter turnout for the Baramulla Parliamentary constituency is 39.6 per cent, while Ladakh constituency registered a voter turnout of 65 per cent," Chief Electoral Officer of Jammu and Kashmir Umang Narula told reporters here.
The voter turnout figures might change as last reports from some of the polling stations are yet to be received, he said.
In Baramulla constituency, Kupwara district registered the highest voter turnout of 63.19 per cent followed by Bandipora district at 35.65 per cent.
Baramulla district recorded a voting percentage of 25.04 per cent. The constituency has a total of 11,96,120 electorate including 5.45 women, Narula said.
Among the 1,59,631 voters in Ladakh constituency, Kargil district led in the voting turnout with 65.80 per cent casting their ballots. Leh district which is also part of the constituency witnessed a turnout of 64.0 per cent, he said.


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text: Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is named in honor of Brig. Gen. William Bowen Campbell, the last Whig governor of Tennessee. He was elected colonel of the First Tennessee Volunteers, the "Bloody First," and is remembered in history as he led his regiment in the storming of Monterey in 1846 with the cry, "Boys, follow me!" The post is located between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee. The site was selected July 16, 1941, with construction beginning Feb. 4, 1942. Within a year, the reservation designated as Camp Campbell was developed to accommodate one armored division and various support troops, or a total of 23,000 men. Early in the summer of 1942, the post's initial cadre, one officer and 19 enlisted men, arrived from Fort Knox, Kentucky. From that time until the end of World War II, Camp Campbell was the training ground for the 12th, 14th and 20th armored divisions, Headquarters IV Armored Corps and the 26th Infantry Division. Following WWII Camp Campbell was selected as a storage site for nuclear weapons, this storage site became known as "Clarksville Base" and was a top secret installation that at one time held 1/3rd of America's nuclear arsenal. In the spring of 1949, the 11th Airborne Division arrived at Campbell following occupation duty in Japan. The 11th was in residence there until early 1956. In April 1950, the post became a permanent installation and was re-designated Fort Campbell. On Sept. 21, 1956, Secretary of the Army Wilbur M. Bruckner and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor presented the colors of the 101st Airborne Division to Maj. Gen. T.L. Sherbourne, the first commander of the new "PENATOMIC" airborne division. This was the official ceremony reactivating the famed "Screaming Eagles" of World War II. The 1st Brigade was sent for duty in Vietnam in July 1965. In January 1968 the remainder of the 101st joined the "Always First" Brigade during Operation Eagle Thrust where, for the first time, an entire division was deployed by air into a combat zone. On May 2, 1966, Third Army General Order 161 directed the activation of a Basic Combat Training Center at Fort Campbell. On July 6, barely two months after its activation, Fort Campbell's Army Training Center received its first 220 newly inducted Soldiers. Basic Combat Training began on schedule July 11, 1966, with a full complement of 1,100 trainees. The 6th Infantry Division was reactivated at Fort Campbell on Nov. 24, 1966, and inactivated July 25, 1968. On Aug. 18, 1969, the U.S. Army Training Center and headquarters, Fort Campbell, was combined. The 173rd Airborne Brigade got its official homecoming ceremonies Sept. 2, 1971, welcomed by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. The 173rd was re-designated the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile). On April 6, 1972, the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) was officially welcomed back to its home station in ceremonies attended by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army chief of staff. On April 15, 1972, the U.S. Army Training Center was inactivated..


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If you use the PHISH library in one of your publications, please cite the following paper and list the URL of the PHISH WWW site, namely http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/phish.html.
Streaming data analytics via message passing with application to graph algorithms, S. J. Plimpton and T. Shead, J Parallel and Distributed Computing, 74, 2687-2698 (2014). (abstract) (PDF pre-print)
If you write a paper using the PHISH library, send us an email, and we'd be happy to post a citation to it on this page.


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edit: following Seb's question about why I used the version of nfs that I did, I went back and tried it his way. After testing things out for a few minutes, it was apperent that his recommendation did make things faster, so I'm editing the howto. If you're reading this then the howto is already edited and you can follow the steps listed exactly.
If you've already used this howto and are now kicking yourself for taking the advise of a jackass like me, don't worry–correcting the setup is easy. Steps to remove nfs-user-server and replace it with nfs-kernel server will be in a comment following the howto.
Many thanks to Seb for bringing this up for me.
Say you've got multiple Ubuntu systems set up and you want to be able to easily browse folders and share files between the remote systems as if they were local. This is pretty easy to to with NFS, or network file system.
First off, let me say that there are other ways to achieve this same type of goal, but I've found NFS to be the easiest way to go, and is reliable enough for a home user who doesn't have a long list of demands for the system.
Let me also say that this howto is based largely on another excellent howto found here. The reason I am making my own howto instead of just giving you a link and telling you to have fun is that 1) I found that it wasn't 100% complete from an Ubuntu perspective and 2) it provides more information than the typical new user will really need. That being said, it is an excellent resource and deserves to be looked at if you have further questions or want to set up more than a few systems at a time.
That being said, let's get started!
NFS allows you to mount and browse remote directories as if they are local to the client you're working on. You can set permissions to read\write, read-only, and others that I'll go into later on. Any machine can be either client or server, or both, and multiple clients can be set up to access the same directories. More on this later.
First, the server set up. The server, in this context, is the machine that actually has the directories you want to share.
Open a terminal and do the following:
sudo apt-get update
This, of course, updates your package list. Then:
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
This will install any necessary nfs packages and get daemons running.
Now set up the configuration files. There are three files you'll work with on the server: /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.deny, and /etc/hosts.allow. Technically, /etc/exports is all you need to set up, but that would make for a very insecure configuration. Setting up the remaining files takes only a few minutes, so there's no need to chance it and be lazy.
/etc/exports is nothing more than a list of volumes that are shared, how they are shared, and who they are shared to. You can get the full scoop on the setup options from your friendly neighborhood man page (man exports), but what we do here will probably work for you just fine.
Suppose the directory you want to share out is called /mp3, and you want to share it to two clients, giving the first client read\write and the second read only. Easy as pie.
sudo nano /etc/exports
and then insert something like the following line:
/mp3 192.168.0.1 (rw) 192.168.1.2 (ro)
What did that do?
The text /mp3 is the directory you're sharing. The first IP address (0.1) is the first client connecting to the directory, and (rw) is the permission set you're giving the client. The second IP address, as you probably guessed, is the second client, with (ro) being the read-only permission you're assigning.
You can use hostnames instead of IP addresses, but using the IP address is more reliable and secure.
For fun, here's the complete list of (options) you can assign to each directory:
- ro — Pretty straight forward.
- rw — Again, pretty straight forward.
- no_root_squash — Be careful with this one. By default, any file request made by root on the client will be treated like it has been made by user nobody on the server. If you select no_root_squash then root on the client will be treated like root on the server, and have the same set of permissions. Don't use this option unless you have a good reason to do so.
- no_subtree_check — If you only export part of a volume, there is a routine called subtree checking that verifies that the requested file is in the appropriate part of the volume. If you export an entire volume, then disabling this will speed things up a bit.
If you have a larger installation and want to make directories available to a large number of clients at once, you can give access to a range of machines instead of individuals.
To do that, you would put something like this in /etc/exports instead of the text we did up above:
/mp3 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 (ro)
You just gave read-only access to all of the clients between 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.1.255
You can also use wild cards instead of host names or IP addresses.
/mp3 *.foo.com (ro)
Bear in mind, though, that this is not the most secure setup. If you've only got a few clients you're dealing with, list them all out.
Now the other files:
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny handle requests to the server in like this:
- checks hosts.allow to see if the machine making the request matches an entry in the file. If so, it is allowed access. If it is not, then it moves on to hosts.deny
- hosts.deny contains a list of machines that are specifically denied access. If the file contains a listing that matches the requesting machine, then it is denied.
If the requester doesn't appear in either file, then the request is accepted by default. But this huge hole is easy enough to fill and make secure…
The easiest way to control access from unwelcome hosts is by opening hosts.deny
sudo nano /etc/hosts.deny
and adding the following lines:
or you can cast a wider net and do something like this:
This will deny any request unless it is explicitly allowed, but might cause some headaches if you forget about it and try to install some new service later on down the road.
Save your file, and let's move on to /hosts.allow
sudo nano /etc/hosts.allow
portmap: 192.168.1.1 , 192.168.1.2
Again, you can replace IP addresses host names if you feel like it.
You can also use wildcards or IP ranges, just as in hosts.deny.
Now, let's verify that NFS is running:
rpcinfo -p
And in there, you'll see something like this: 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
Now let's mount the remote directory from the
server client! (Thanks, Mark!)
First, you have to have a mount point. I created a directory in /mnt, but you can do it anywhere. I personally would not recommend putting in /home, though, especially if you run backups. And of course everyone does. If you do decide to put your mount point in your /home directory, make sure you also add that mount point to your excludes file for you backups.
But let's just assume you want to put the mount point in /mnt.
cd /mnt
sudo mkdir /mp3, or whatever name you want to give it.
now you just mount it:
sudo mount servername:/mp3 /mnt/mp3 where servernameis the server or IP address of the directory's host.
What's that? It didn't work? If you have trouble, try rebooting the server you just set up. You shouldn't have to, but it is probably the easiest thing to do. (it worked for me).
To unmount…
sudo umount /mnt/mp3
Suppose you want to mount at startup. Just modify your /etc/fstab to read something like this:
# device mountpoint fs-type options dump fsckord
master.foo.com:/home /mnt/home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
The options specified here are worth talking about. rw, of course is read-write, and can be changed to ro should that suit your purpose. The other two have to do with how everything in handled in the event of a crash. hardwill cause the program accessing the NFS mounted file to hang when the server crashes. The process can't be interupted or killed unless you specify intr. When the NFS server is back up, the program will continue undisturbed where it left off. There are other options you can use, but hard,intrare the most frequently recommended for NFS mounted file systems.
There are lots of other options and things you can do to optimize performance, and you can find them all here, or with the help of your good friend Google.
I hope you found this helpful, and as always, would appreciate any feedback you care to give.
Until next time..


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Australian captain Ricky Ponting will miss the rest of the Twenty20 world championships due to injury and is doubtful for the upcoming tour of India, team officials said.
Ponting suffered a hamstring strain while batting during Australia's six-wicket loss to Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Tuesday night.
Ponting's injury, which did not allow him to field against Pakistan, comes ahead of Australia's must-win clash against Sri Lanka in Cape Town on Thursday.
The winner will qualify for the semi-finals along with Pakistan from group F, while the loser will crash out of the tournament.
Team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said Ponting's injury could keep him out of the game for four weeks, making him an unlikely starter for the seven-match one-day series in India starting on September 29.
"Over the next three to five days we will have a much better indication of where it's heading, so we will know whether he will have to go home or be able to go to India," Kountouris told reporters.
"Hopefully, he will take some part in the series in India. The best case scenario is a couple of weeks. The worst case scenario is four weeks."
Kountouris said Ponting strained his hamstring while running between the wickets against Pakistan.
"He just took off for a run and felt it a bit," the physiotherapist said.
"He was stretching his left leg because he was not sure if there was a problem. I don't think he has had a hamstring strain before.
"He wasn't really sure what it feels like."
Ponting, who won the ICC's player of the year award for the second successive year, arrived in South Africa just two days before the tournament began on September 11 following his wife's illness.
But Kountouris said the late arrival or the return to action after a four-month break had caused the injury.
"It can happen anytime," he said. "We get them anytime in a season.
"He's been here for a week now so really I could not say with confidence that it had anything to do with it. It's just coincidence."
Ponting is expected to be replaced for the crucial Sri Lanka game by all-rounder Shane Watson, who himself has just recovered from a hamstring injury.
Ponting out of T20, may also miss India series
Australian captain Ricky Ponting will miss the rest of the Twenty20 world championships due to injury and is doubtful for the upcoming tour of India, team officials said.


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Just had a bit of a brainstorm. I've been thinking about a chicken forage forest for Dad's place, and how to manage the flock to stay out of the growing annuals like peas, amaranth, or sorghum.
What about reverse tractoring? Instead of constructing movable tractors to keep birds confined, what about movable tractors to exclude birds from certain areas? With proper management, each plot could be available for forage, compost scratching, and soil preparation. The birds having both eaten the forage crop, prepared and processed compost, scratched and aerated the soil and fertilized would leave each plot ready to plant after 2-3 weeks of access.
Imagine a system of 10 plots with 7 cages. Figure an average of 8 weeks growth (might need more, but this is just a thought experiment). Assume that you've started each plot with a seed mix of peas, lentils, and other fodder plants with a roughly 8 week maturity a week apart for 8 weeks. You now have 8 plots covered with cages at various stages of growth. We'll call plot 1 the oldest plot.
On the first week after plant maturity, uncover plot 1. Chickens are free to poke around and basically destroy it. The reverse tractor would be moved to cover plot 9, where you plant your seed mix.
On the second week, uncover plot 2, allowing the chickens in to destroy it. You cover plot 1 with composting materials that the chickens can continue to scratch through. Move the reverse tractor from plot 2 to plot 10, where you start another plot.
On the third week, uncover plot 3, cover plot 2 with compostables, and assess the ground on plot 1. You might be able to plant in plot 1, and the tractor from plot 3 could cover it.
The question would be, is this system any better than just some temporary fencing? Well, perhaps if you've got flyers – that way the tractors with tops would still exclude the chickens. Perhaps put a few roost poles on the tops of the tractors, and resting birds could still fertilize.
The tractors could be designed so that there are wheels that would allow movement after the tractor has been tipped on it's side (I'm guessing it would be difficult to try to roll through a thick plot of plants). Or maybe just design some sort of dolly, tip the tractor onto the dolly, and then move it as needed. a 4×4 or 4×6 tractor shouldn't be too hard to move like this. Something like the featured image could be easy and cheap to construct (though perhaps not quite as big as the featured image).
At some point, you would have the soil on these plots so fertile and refreshed that you could maybe devote them to other market crops. Fence them off, and move your reverse tractors to other parts of the forest to begin regenerating the soil there. Or you could just leave the tractors and build some new ones for your second plot. Set up a biennial rotation between the two areas with the chickens on a year, off a year.
The featured image for this page was taken from homesteadmama's blog. Her blog can be read here.
Scientific Name: Fabaceae Baptisia australis
Common Names: Wild Indigo, indigo weed, rattle weed, horsefly weed
Zones 3-9
Growth Habit: mature plants produce mounds with flowering spires.
Height: 3-4 feet
Permaculture Designation: Nitrogen Fixer, Flowering Beneficial, Herbaceous Layer, Medicinal, Craft
I started one this spring from seed and set it out in late May. It's still growing, but no sign of flowers. Maybe next spring. Forms a flowering mound with spires (Similar in appearance to lavender?). The root is used medicinally, and there are ample warning in all sources of toxicity in large doses.
Start from seed. Dividing is discouraged as the roots are really twisted and gnarled, and you could end up irreparably damaging the mother plant.
Preparations of the root (decoctions and tinctures) are purported to boost the immune system, and fight disease and infections. Also used as a purgative and emetic, (I'm guessing in its stronger doses as it reaches toxic levels). This is a probably not a preparation for the amateur to tackle.
As a member of the pea family, it is a nitrogen fixer. The flowers are pretty, and can be used to make a blue dye that is not quite as colorfast as indigo. The flower and pods are also used in floral arrangements.
Getting ready for the permaethos PDC to start, so today I read the first chapter of Permaculture: A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison. Here's my notes from the read, followed by my reactions.
PRIME DIRECTIVE: The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
PRINCIPLE OF COOPERATION: Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of existing life systems and of future survival.
1. CARE OF EARTH. Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.
2. CARE OF PEOPLE. Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
3. SETTING LIMITS TO POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION. by governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.
I've been turning some things over in my head about Dad's acreage. I'm pretty sure I want a large berm complex on the western edge to help with the prevailing winds, and I was toying with the idea of using those berms as catchment for either a large pond or series of smaller ponds. The problem is, the average rainfall is less than 18 inches, and even with steps to reduce evaporation (provide shade, wind protection, and pond shape to maximize volume to surface area ratio) I'm afraid there's no hope that the ponds will hold water for more than a few weeks. In any event, I don't think they would be stable enough to make ducks or fish a possibility.
Would it be better to build the berms, and then focus on storage of water in the land, and hopefully hydrate it to the point that the lower lying areas could fill of their own accord? Or, if ponds are enough of a desire and benefit, given the water quality of the well, would that water be okay to preserve a minimum depth during dry periods?
Scientific Name: Onagraceae Onagroideae Onagreae Oenethera sp.
Common Names: Evening Primrose, sundrops, sun cups
Zones 4-9
perennial, biennial reseeder (depending on species)
Growth Habit: Central stalks with radiating branches.
Height: 1-10 feet (10 feet!) depending on species
Permaculture Designation: herbaceous layer, medicinal, flowering beneficial, food
The most common warning, in fact it's near the top on most of the pages I've read, is that evening primrose is hard to control once established. One poster labelled it a "garden thug" as it takes over where it's planted. The other common refrain is that evening primrose "thrives on neglect." Fairly drought tolerant and needs light to sandy soil that drains well. Easy to grow, self-propagates, with medicinal and food uses, pretty flowers and insect attractors. Sounds like a great permaculture plant.
There are many, many species of Oenethera, so some additional research may be needed on each species as to edibility, invasiveness, etc… Most of the sources I've seen claim the entire plant is edible – the leaves as greens, the flowers as garnishes, and the roots as root vegetables. The medicinal property comes from the oil of the seeds. Pressing your own seeds can be challenging, as the seeds are quite small, and you will need a great volume of seeds to make the effort worth it. The seeds can be prepared culinarily (used similar to poppy seeds) and the medicinal quality made available by lightly grinding the seeds to prevent them from simply passing through the digestive system whole.
Scientific Name: Asteraceae Asteroideae Calendulae Calendula officinalis
Common Names: pot marigold
Zones ?
perennial, but frost killed. Also self seeds if allowed to mature. Effectively an Annual
Growth Habit: Central stalk with some branching
Height: 1-2 feet
Permaculture Designation: Flowering beneficial, Medicinal, herbaceous layer
Grew 4 calendula from seeds started indoors. They didn't really seem to thrive there by the driveway, and it could be from the transplant shock. I'll try direct seeding next season. I did get 5-6 flowers from it, which my wife deadheaded for me. They're still growing, so it's possible I'll get some more.
Also, these medicinal herbs are a little shorter in height than the others I've written up so far, so that gives another height layer to a medicinal herb plot.


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Manchester City's Champions League clash with Barcelona has been dubbed the '£655 million game'. According to the Deloitte Football Money League, the last 16 tie brings together two of the wealthiest clubs in the world - with a combined revenue last season of £655million, reports the Daily Mail.
They rank Barcelona as the second wealthiest club in the world with revenue of £394.8million, behind only their great rivals Real Madrid, who are worth £425million.
City come sixth in the Money League table, with revenue of £258million.
1. Real Madrid £425m
2. Barcelona £394.8m
3. Bayern Munich £353m
4. Manchester United £346m
5. Paris Saint-Germain £325m
6. Manchester City £258m
7. Chelsea £248m
8. Arsenal £232m