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Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), the leading patient education organization for people with allergies, asthma and anaphylaxis, offers five tips for families seeking fun in the summer sun.
If you know you're going to be in stinging insect territory whether in the woods, at the beach or the local park, Tonya Winders, AANMA's Chief Operating Officer and mother of five, recommends:
Wear light-colored clothing and skip flowery perfume, so bees don't mistake you for a flower
Keep food and drinks covered and check before sipping to make sure no insect is inside your soda can
Picnic as far away from trash cans as possible
If you do find bees or yellow jackets flying around you, walk away slowly; do not swat at them
When in Southern states, steer clear of fire ant nests: mounds of dirt up to 12 inches high
"I am allergic to fire ants myself," says Winders, who has lived in fire ant territory for years, "so I always carry two epinephrine auto-injectors. Fortunately, I've not had to use them."
"Most people who are stung never have anything more than a local reaction swelling, itching and irritation at the site of the sting," says Waterbury, CT, allergist Christopher Randolph, MD, a member of AANMA's Anaphylaxis Community Expert (ACE) program and co-author of the Joint Task Force on Insect Sting Guidelines. "However, if you experience a generalized reaction, such as hives (a rash) apart from the sting site, or any difficulty breathing, stomach upset, rapid heartbeat, or dizziness, seek medical help immediately. Use auto-injectable epinephrine, if available, and get follow-up care as soon as possible. Don't wait to see what happens, as anaphylaxis (a life-threatening allergic reaction) can progress very quickly. Once at the ER, patients should be observed for at least four hours, since symptoms can recur."
Randolph says everyone who experiences a generalized reaction to an insect sting should see a board-certified allergist for an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan, often including immunotherapy (allergy shots).
"Immunotherapy is proven to help develop a tolerance to insect sting, so if you are stung again your symptoms will be mild or non-existent," explains Randolph. "We recommend it for anyone who experiences a generalized, or systemic, reaction and whose subsequent allergy tests are positive for sting. Many people shy away from allergy shots because of the discomfort and inconvenience, but a few years of treatment will give you a lifetime without fear."
AANMA's award-winning ACE program features teams of volunteer physicians, nurses and community workers across the country offering free educational programs about anaphylaxis diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending needless death and suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. AANMA specializes in sharing family friendly, medically accurate information through its award-winning publications Allergy & Asthma Today magazine and The MA Report newsletter, its web site at http://www.aanma.org and numerous community outreach programs. Follow AANMA on Facebook at facebook.com/AANMA and on Twitter at twitter.com/AANMA.
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Elysian Park near downtown L.A. is a huge space containing great networks of trails and commanding broad city and mountain views. This introductory walk might make you a regular visitor.
1. Begin at the trailhead and walk uphill, past the big swing gate, into a grove of eucalyptus trees. Follow the wide dirt path as it winds up and around the hill.
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2. Enjoy the views of Taylor Yard, Mt. Washington, the L.A. River, the new Rio de Los Angeles Park and Forest Lawn. But don't leave the main trail as it approaches the peak and passes a large water tank on your right.
3. At the peak is a small bower of shade and succulents, with benches, known as Marian Harlow Memorial Garden. Continue past this as the trail descends and begins to give off big views of the downtown skyline. (This is also a popular place to watch fireworks from Dodger Stadium; people drive in and park a short distance away.)
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4. At the trail's first major intersection, you could take a shortcut and head straight downhill to Elysian Park Drive, passing behind Grace E. Simons Lodge, a facility dedicated to the journalist, activist and community organizer instrumental in protecting Elysian Park from development. If you're not ready to stop, walk straight on. The trail continues to descend slightly into an overhang of eucalyptus, pine and oak.
5. Walk past a yellow swing gate, where the trail ends, and make a hard left past another yellow gate and continue onto a closed section of Elysian Park Drive. Watch on your right for a boccie ball court, a fitness circuit and a children's play area on your way back to the parking area.
6. Near the end of this loop you'll find picnic tables, barbecue pits and public bathrooms.
Fleming is the author of "Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles."
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Duration: 1 hour
Difficulty: 2 on scale of 1-5
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – As if the tightening of the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) playoff race didn't supply enough excitement, the Georgia College soccer team also has plans to host Youth Soccer Night and a cookout for Bobcat Club members Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at Bobcat Field.
As part of Youth Soccer Night, young futbolers will have the opportunity to meet the GC mascot, Thunder the Bobcat and to compete in the game's halftime promotions.
Information will be available for the Zaxby's Junior Bobcat Club as well, the best way for local youngsters to be a part of Bobcat Nation.
Bobcat Club members in attendance will also be treated to a free cookout at the game.
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The lucky gang at Next Generation got to break an exclusive news story today, announcing that Sony would be launching its online games service in September. Oh, and maybe the PS3 will launch in Japan and America as well.
According to well-placed industry sources, PlayStation HUB will offer PlayStation 3 owners much the same services as Xbox Live, including chat, downloadable demos, independent games and online play. The service is also designed to support PSP online play as well as PS3. It's a departure from PlayStation 2's online strategy, widely regarded as vastly inferior to Microsoft's.
Developer sources are also suggesting that PlayStation 3 is currently scheduled to launch in September. A launch games release schedule seen by our sources states a September launch. Although the schedule does not explicitly state a hardware launch date, nor a launch territory, we understand Japan and U.S will both see the machine in September.
Sony's been taking a drubbing in the games press with its about-face on online gaming, but whether or not six months is enough time to work out all the bugs of such a system remains to be seen. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, the folks behind the YourPSP.com online media center, are rumored to be in charge of developing the new online portal.
As for the Japan and North American release of the PS3, which the article claims will be in the last weeks of September, we'll just have to see, won't we? It's a pretty ambitious task to be launching the direct competitor to Xbox Live along with their next-gen console, but if anyone has the resources to do it, it's Sony.
So let's see—an article that is pretty light on console and subscription pricing and mysteriously quiet on the games front. I'm guessing the first two numbers are going to be sky-high and we'll be able to count off the last number on two hands.


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Byoyomi (秒読み) is a Japanese Go term which literally translates to "counting seconds." A player is in byoyomi when his remaining time is being counted aloud for him. See also the discussion of the literal meaning.
Byoyomi is also used more specificly to indicate Japanese Overtime or Japanese timing
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Literal Definition and Pronunciation
Byoyomi (秒読み) is a Japanese Go term which literally translates to "counting seconds." A player is in byoyomi when his remaining time is being counted aloud for him. See also the discussion of the literal meaning.
It is approximated in English as three syllables, "byoh-yo-me". (In Japanese it has four syllables, "byo-o-yo-me". Pronouncing it "bye-owe-yowe-mee" is definitely wrong.
The following sections discuss how the term byoyomi is used in specific situations.
Japanese Professional Matches
In Japanese title matches and televised games, when a player is running out of time, the timekeeper will count aloud the amount of time used. The timekeeper counts up rather than the Western practice of counting down. See the article entitled Time is the Enemy in Go World #13.
There is an excellent article on byoyomi by Richard Hunter in the British Go Journal , titled "Byoyomi Explained."
These pages also might help:
Japanese Overtime
How it works
- one gets a number of time periods of same size (e.g. 480 one-minute periods),
- time used for each move only deducts as many periods as fit into this time (possibly none),
- and counting seconds is done when one's number of periods is equal or less than a certain number (typically 10).
In other words,
- fractions of a period don't matter.
1---1 time per period
1 2 3 4 5 6 number of periods |---|---|---|---|---|---| periods before
|---------| time used for move n (between 2 and 3 periods)
|---|---|---|---| periods for remaining moves (two periods are used up)
|--| time used for move n+1 (less than one period)
|---|---|---|---| periods for remaining moves (no period is used up)
(see also Japanese timing)
See also
- Short history of Byo-Yomi by John Fairbairn on life in 19x19: http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25019#p25019


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—Gary, on being a Transducer
Transducer Alphas are human antennas that have the ability to intercept communications and encrypted messages with their minds. They can literally "see" electromagnetic wavelengths but have also been shown to hear noises produced from the frequencies that even a synesthete can't hear.
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Transducers can read a wide range of frequencies but can become easily overwhelmed when they are unable to turn these signals off. Using this ability also produces headaches if the person uses it continuously for extended periods of time. Transducers can see wavelengths in colors and shapes.
Sub-powers of being a Transducer are:
- Decryption: Phones and other electronics can be penetrated or hacked by Transducers
- Disability Immunity: Gary Bell, the only known transducer on the show, is autistic. His autism makes him immune to Nina's pushing. This has been explained as his mind being too inflexible to be affected by the power of suggestion, but he also never looks her in the eyes. This might better explain why he is immune to her power. An Alpha who can determine the truthfulness of other people's statements by reading their micro-expressions also finds this impossible with Gary.
- Nature Signal Detection: Electromagnetic signals found in nature can also be detected, translated, and transmitted. Claude was able to transmit signals to a swarm of bees, commanding them to move away from a victim. He later explained this technique to Gary, who was able to do the same at a much less accomplished level given his inexperience.
What is a transducerEdit
A transducer is a device that converts one form of energy to another. Energy types include (but are not limited to) electrical, mechanical, electromagnetic (including light), chemical, acoustic or thermal energy. While the term transducer commonly implies the use of a sensor/detector, any device which converts energy can be considered a transducer. Transducers are widely used in measuring instruments.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to software development that will allow common computer programs to run up to 20 percent faster and possibly incorporate new security measures.
The researchers have found a way to run different parts of some hard-to-parallelize programs — such as word processors and web browsers — at the same time, which makes the programs operate more efficiently.
Every computer program consists of multiple steps. The program will perform a computation, then perform a memory-management function — which prepares memory storage to contain data or frees up memory storage which is currently in use. It repeats these steps over and over again, in a cycle. And, for difficult-to-parallelize programs, both of these steps have traditionally been performed in a single core.
"We've removed the memory-management step from the process, running it as a separate thread," said Yan Solihin, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State, director of this research project, and co-author of a paper describing the research. Under this approach, the computation thread and memory-management thread are executing simultaneously, allowing the computer program to operate more efficiently.
"By running the memory-management functions on a separate thread, these hard-to-parallelize programs can operate approximately 20 percent faster," Solihin says. "This also opens the door to development of new memory-management functions that could identify anomalies in program behavior, or perform additional security checks. Previously, these functions would have been unduly time consuming, slowing down the speed of the overall program."
Using the new technique, when a memory-management function needs to be performed, "the computational thread notifies the memory-management thread — effectively telling it to allocate data storage and to notify the computational thread of where the storage space is located," said Devesh Tiwari, a Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of the paper. "By the same token, when the computational thread no longer needs certain data, it informs the memory-management thread that the relevant storage space can be freed."
The paper, "MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management," was presented this week at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Atlanta. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The paper is co-authored by Tiwari, Solihin, NC State Ph.D. student Sanghoon Lee, and James Tuck, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State.


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CaCee Cobb Pregnant With First Child — Congrats
Jessica Simpson and her BFF CaCee Cobb both have babies on the way! CaCee confirmed her pregnancy with new hubby Donald Faison on Thursday, Jan. 31 and judging by this Hawaii vacay shot, it looks like she's already baby-bumping.
Gee, best friends do everything together! CaCee Cobb, 31, spent the Christmas holidays on vacation in Hawaii with Jessica Simpson and the rest of her family — but now it looks like CaCee and Jessica were sharing a lot more than the beach and sunshine.
CaCee Cobb's 'Little Stormtrooper'
On Jan. 31, CaCee explained the baby bump photograph taken on Dec. 29 by Instagramming a cute baby tee of a Star Wars character, along with the caption, "Looks like @donald_faison and I are going to have a little stormtrooper of our own!" So is CaCee also telling us she's having a boy?
We're betting Jessica Simpson was equally thrilled about her BFF's exciting announcement — talking about CaCee to US Weekly on Thursday, Simpson said, "That's my other sister!" Then it looks like you're going to become an aunt all over again, Jessica!
CaCee Cobb & Donald Faison's Big Family
CaCee Cobb married former Scrubs star (or Clueless star — anyone?) Donald Faison, 38, less than two months ago. The ceremony took place in Scrubs co-star, Zach Braff's backyard.
CaCee and Donald's new baby is being born into an already pretty huge family. Even though this will be CaCee's first child, Donald has four children from previous relationships — Kobe, 11,Dade and Kaya, both 13, and Sean, 16.
Jessica Simpson's Baby Bumpin' Tweet
Jessica Simpson, who had her first baby girl — Maxwell Drew Johnson — in May of 2012, announced earlier this month that she and fiance Eric Johnson are expecting their second child together — a boy this time! Jessica tweeted a pic of herself sporting a bikini and a rather large baby bump.
Little did we know that her best friend was following suit! Congratulations to CaCee!
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In partnership with the Colorado PTA, family and community guides to the Colorado Academic Standards for grades k-5 (in English and Spanish) have been created to help families and communities across Colorado better understand the goals and outcomes of the Colorado Academic Standards. The guides describe the "big picture" purpose of the standards, as road maps to help ensure that all Colorado students graduate ready for life, college, and careers. They also provide overviews of the learning expectations for each of the ten content areas of the standards and offer examples of educational experiences that students may engage in, and that families could support, during the school year.
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My 10-year-old daughter and I were excited to play with craft kits from Arterro. Kits are a great introduction to a new craft without requiring a large investment in materials. She and I have tried a lot of kits in our time and often find that many popular ones for kids are so heavily packaged and prepared it isn't nearly as fun to make the items as we expect.
What a breath of fresh air to receive Arterro kits! Kits with open ended purpose! We can immerse ourselves in the process with their high quality, sustainable materials. We worked with their new Paint With Wool Portrait Kit:
and the Collage Jewelry Kit:
First we tried needle felting with the Wool Portrait Kit. It contains four, high quality, thick 4-inch wool squares, an array of wool roving in rainbow colors, and three sturdy needle felting needles. Needle felting needles are long and sharp with little barbs to grab wool fibers and lock them together.
The package contains enough instructions and ideas to encourages us to explore the materials and plan our compositions.
Forget planning, Mom. I like this color and I'm getting started!
My daughter used a foam pad as a base that I had around the house. I used a rolled up towel as suggested in our instructions.
"Sweetie, you are using all the color, you have to pull off small pieces of the wool so I can have some." We agreed that the colors of wool are beautiful. Although there isn't a large amount of each color, we had plenty for our little wool portraits.
We loved needle felting with these materials. My daughter observed, "This would be fun to do with the Girl Scouts!" We also had an, "Oops! I poked a finger. Ouch!" No harm done, though. She wrapped her finger in a bandage and got right back to work.
It was a dark snowy Saturday, and we were still feeling creative, so we got started on some collage jewelry. This kit contains glaze, a paintbrush, decorative decoupage papers in patterns, tissue paper solids, assorted glass and wooden beads, twine and jewelry findings, and one large wooden bangle.
This time we took a little more time to plan our designs.
At first I didn't realize the white goo in the pot was a finishing glaze and not the sticky medium. We mixed up a separate little bowl of our own watered down Elmers glue to stick our collage paper to the wood beads.
Again, the papers were beautiful designs and were fun to work with.
Jewelry findings were included in the kit, as were simple instructions to tie the beads to earring wire with the twine.
- Materials are sustainable and natural
- Appealing collections of creative supplies
- Fun for all ages, not just kids
- Enough materials for multiple finished items
- We already want to replenish our supplies, especially the thick white wool base material for the needle felting. Arterro only offers craft kits and not extra supplies.
We had a very creative afternoon and my daughter has learned two new crafts she can do herself when she is feeling an urge to make something.
Give these kits a try. We had a great time with them!
Our friends at Artterro are giving away a kit of the winner's choice to two of our lucky readers! Answer the following question in the comments section to be entered:
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MIDDLEBURY — By her own count, Betty (McCormick) Bourgeault has attended 27 graduation ceremonies during her 81 years. It comes with the territory when you are a senior member of a large and loving family.
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The Norway-based prize jury cited McKibben for "pioneering new methods of social protest," from Internet-based organizing to the widespread civil disobedience confronting the Keystone XL pipeline. Past recipients of the award include Nobel laureate Wangari Mathaai and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew.
MIDDLEBURY — Two local nonprofits and an area resident are working feverishly to try to save a highly rated Middlebury childcare center that was scheduled to close its doors at the end of June.
MIDDLEBURY — Unseasonably bad wind and rain on Sunday drove the Middlebury College commencement ceremony indoors for the first time in 21 years. The 557 graduates of the class of 2013 gathered in a packed Nelson Recreation Center to receive their diplomas, in a ceremony that was in turns funny, thought-provoking and emotionally moving.
Overflow spaces around campus live-streamed the ceremony for friends and relatives whom the Nelson space — which could seat only 1,800 of the anticipated 5,000 commencement visitors — could not accommodate.
LINCOLN — Two groups of Vermont students will hit the road this summer with documentary film equipment in hand, as participants in "Conversations from the Open Road," a creative new summer program founded by Vermont educator Mary Simons, in partnership with the Vermont Folklife Center.
Each group will travel to a region of the United States to explore what Simons calls the "stories behind the issue" most pertinent to that region. The program is designed for students age 16 to 19.
VERGENNES — Unlike some longtime educators, Vergennes Union Elementary School kindergarten teacher Donna Ebel did not grow up convinced she wanted to spend her career working with students.
Ebel followed a winding path to the VUES classroom that has been her professional home for the past 21 years and now for just a few days more — she will step down at the end of the school year.
MIDDLEBURY — She's been visiting Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (HPHRC) just about every Tuesday for more than three years, but the senior residents still line up for her arrival, hoping to get some eye contact and a handshake or two. No need for an exchange of words.
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Are Men More High Maintenance Than Women?
OK, here's the question: who spends more time in front of the mirror - men or women? Well, according to one study 1 in 5 women think their man is higher maintenance than they are.
Andy Oldham, Managing Director at the UK's biggest cashback site Quidco, which commissioned the study, told the website Female First:
"Traditionally, it's women who are thought to be high-maintenance in a relationship, but it seems men have not only followed in their footsteps, but actually taken over. The rise of the metrosexual has led to men taking more pride in their appearance and enjoying the finer things in life more than they ever have before."
Now, before women thank the style-gods that their man will finally stop looking like a campus dorm room reject, all is not as good as it may sound.
According to Oldham, "This has started to creep into our relationships and it's no longer the women who want constant attention, or expect expensive and luxurious dates and holidays."
So now ladies, ask yourself, is it a good thing or a bad thing that your man spends too much time in front of the mirror or want YOU to buy them an expensive watch for his birthday.
According to the study, here are the five reasons why women think men are more high maintenance:
- Men are more likely to throw a tantrum if they don't get what they want.
- Guys spend more time in the bathroom getting ready to go out than women do.
- Men are more likely to refuse to leave the house without their hair looking perfect, and without the right clothes.
- Men constantly need to be told, "I love you."
- Guys get upset when women don't answer when they call.
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'American Idol' Recap: Most Shocking Results Show Yet
Can you believe what happened on tonight's 'American Idol' results shows? I'm still scratching my head!
I don't think anyone was expecting what happened on American Idol April 11. Even though the song choices weren't fantastic the night before, I still had the bottom three pegged completely wrong.
Elise Testone, Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez were all at risk of leaving. Elise and Josh were sent back to safety, leaving Jessica(!?) to sing for her life. However, before she even got through the song, all three judges rushed up to the stage and announced they were using their one and only save.
The whole thing should have been really emotional, but it came across to me as staged and dumb. After successfully keeping Jessica for another week, Randy Jackson gave a lecture to America about Jessica being one of the best singers in the country. Blah, blah, blah.
I definitely wasn't expecting Jessica to be the one who got the boot tonight, although I had a feeling the judges were going to use the save no matter what. At this point, nearly everyone is flawless…which makes decisions like who's going to win very hard.
Currently, my top three are Colton Dixon, Phillip Phillips and Elise. What did YOU think about tonight's non-elimination?
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The Syrrannites were a Vulcan dissident group who followed the teachings of Surak closely during the 22nd century. Syrrannites believed that Vulcan culture at the time had become "corrupt" and no longer followed the original teachings of Surak.
Specifically, the Syrrannites objected to the militaristic attitude that the Vulcan High Command had adopted. They also believed that Vulcans had disregarded other basic tenets of Surak's teaching by engaging in frequent deception, distrust, and anger as embodied by the use of the monastery at P'Jem for espionage. The withholding of the truth from allies such as Humans, even though the Syrrannites did not fully accept the presence of non-Vulcans on Vulcan, was considered another sign of the cultural failings of the time.
Each leader of the Syrrannite movement was believed to be in possession of the katra of Surak. In 2154, the leader of the group was Syrran, and its members included T'Pau and T'Les.
In 2154, the United Earth Embassy on Vulcan was bombed by forces unknown. The Syrannites were strongly suspected. In particular, T'Pau, one of the movement's leaders, was implicated by the government. Investigating the bombing, Enterprise NX-01 Captain Jonathan Archer and First Officer T'Pol encountered Arev (who was actually Syrran himself) in Vulcan's Forge. While seeking shelter from a sandfire storm, Arev was killed by an electrical burst from the storm. The injury was fatal but, before he died, Arev transferred Surak's katra to Archer. (ENT: "The Forge")
Guided by Syrran and the katra of Surak, Archer and T'Pol discovered the Syrrannites' main base at the T'Karath Sanctuary, where T'Pau unsuccessfully attempted to remove Surak's katra from Archer. The base was subsequently destroyed by the Vulcan High Command to cover up their involvement in the bombing of the embassy. Among the few survivors were Archer, T'Pol, and T'Pau, who then began a search to locate the Kir'Shara. (ENT: "Awakening")
The recovery of the Kir'Shara and the Syrrannite role in its discovery directly resulted in the Vulcan Reformation. (ENT: "Kir'Shara", "Daedalus")


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A More Glorious Failure
I was in a jam last Friday. The middle part of "Unproven" (the new book I'm writing) still wasn't working. So I sat down to try to sort it out.
I wasn't actually intending to write anything. I was just going to type out my thoughts, on what I was trying to say, to try to get it into some kind of order.
But the funny thing is, whenever I do that – let go of intending to write, that's when the words start pouring out. Over the course of two hours, I wrote a ton of material that started looking like a new chapter, and maybe a nice blog article spin-off as well.
I quit when I got to the end of my workday, knowing I still needed an ending, but I figured I'd get to it Saturday.
It took maybe 20-30 minutes to finish it up the next day, and then I read back over it.
But my heart sunk.
This chapter/article thing, suffered from the exact same problem in miniature that I'd been having with the book. There were too many ideas trying to fit in too small a space. Two different metaphors, one at the beginning, one at the end, with awkward glue in between. On the one hand, lots of hints dropped to be picked up later, and on the other hand, various conclusions drawn without showing how they were gotten to.
It was going to need some serious work.
So I set it aside, thinking, "okay, I think I need to mindmap this or diagram it somehow, so I can untangle it, figure out what to move to other chapters. Maybe I can still turn the rest into an article or something."
But somehow, I never got around to it. Sunday and Monday came and went, without me getting around to even looking at the piece again, let alone diagramming it. There was always something more urgent or more attractive that needed doing "first".
It wasn't until Monday night that I finally realized what the problem was, while doing some mindhacking on something unrelated.
(Explaining that "something unrelated" would sadly take too much space here – it's actually a core concept within the same set of things that I'm still having trouble explaining in the middle of "Unproven"!)
Anyway, what I realized was this:
I am totally unwilling to lose.
To fail.
To make mistakes.
Like, intellectually, I know that it's the only way to learn, builds character, blah blah blah.
But, in practice, I am totally not willing to experience it.
For example, even if it's some silly little project like hanging a picture on the wall, I don't want to start it unless I'm sure I have everything I will need in order to complete it, and that I will have enough time to complete it no matter what sort of problem might come up.
And if, despite all that, I still don't complete it in time, I feel awful.
No matter how stupidly unimportant the project is!
(This, by the way, is an important sign of something that needs mindhacking: the fact that you respond with the same intensity to a certain kind of situation, regardless of how big or small the actual consequences are in that specific situation. When you respond, as it were, to "the principle of the thing"!)
To Be Vulnerable
Now, one of the big themes in the middle part of "Unproven" is vulnerability. It's the idea that, in order to actually live our lives, we have to be willing to experience certain states of mind that we'd rather avoid. Natural struggling is in fact the result of organizing one's life so as to avoid these states of mind. (Like, "not knowing" as I described in a previous excerpt/blog article.
And even though, while expanding on that theme in the book, I thought intellectually about how that related to mistakes and failure, I hadn't made the specific emotional connection to what I was doing with my own mistakes, whether actual or potential.
This is a great illustration of another basic mindhacking principle: action is not an abstraction.
Merely intellectually knowing about a concept simply will not change you, until and unless you can connect that idea on a concrete, emotional level to specific situations and actions in your life.
In other words, it's not enough to realize that "mistakes are good" in a general sense. You must realize they are good for you. Like that mistake in particular. And that other one back then. And so on.
It Has To Be About You
Without this specific connection to people, places and things in your life, your emotional brain simply doesn't take it seriously. It's just a random factoid, another answer on a test with no connection to the "real world" of your actual thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
And making this work is a conversation between you and your emotional brain: co-operation, not dictatorship.
You can't browbeat yourself into believing that failure is good; that's just starting a new argument with yourself.
However, if you ask yourself questions like, "How do I act when I think failure is bad?" and "What would it be like if I believed failure was good?"...
And if you actually give yourself time to reflect on these questions, not just spit back out a canned answer...
Then you will find that you can begin to actually think and feel differently about something, in a way that never would have changed without that reflection.
An Act of Rebellion
Now today (Tuesday), I started writing this, without being sure if I would have enough time to finish it before I have to leave the house this evening. It's just one of a dozen small steps I'm taking now, tiny acts of rebellion against my previous patterns of protection, my firewalls against failure.
Because I reflected last night on what kind of life I want to live, and how failure-proofing has kept me from really ever living at all (entirely aside from the procrastination aspect!), I am now seriously looking to expand the number of things that I am (potentially) failing at.
The funny thing, though, is that actually failing is harder than it looked! More often than not, the "attempted failure" seems to succeed anyway.
Because I wasn't just avoiding failure, I was trying to avoid the mere possibility of any imaginable failure.
And so there's a big gap between how difficult things actually are, and how difficult I was making them.
(Again, a classic mindhacking principle at work: our brain makes us think our limitations are out there in reality, when in reality, most of our limitations are only in our minds!)
And so, once you are actually doing things, instead of thinking about what kinds of awful things might happen, well...
Things seem a whole lot easier!
It's kind of a paradox: most of our limiting beliefs and feelings convince us that they are giving us something positive... when in fact the only way to get that positive thing, is to give up the belief.
Because all that time I was protecting myself from failure, it didn't make me feel strong or safe.
It made me feel weak and scared!
Yet now, as I find myself taking these "risks" (that aren't really risky at all)...
I instead feel strong and courageous.
And the possibility of "failure", feels nothing less than glorious.
Fail on!
P.S. If you want to learn more about the trick of "not intending to" do something as a way of getting into "flow" states where you can effortlessly do all kinds of stuff, check out one of my newer books, "What Happens Now: How To Enter A Timeless, Effortless Space". It's free for Effortless Way subscribers and Mind Hackers' Guild members to download this month.


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Photographer Denise Prince challenges our perception of beauty and aesthetics by interchanging professional models with physical trauma survivors in her latest photography and video project Tractatus 7. Using a catalog by a high-end Italian fashion house Missoni, Prince replicates the superimposed glamour with a pinch of cruel, muted reality.
The provocative project, originally titled Replication and Breakdown of the Missoni Estate Line Catalog, is a juxtaposition between our approach towards reality and the events that take place beyond that fantasy. Prince raises a question of what happens to our designed reality when a traumatic event occurs? To her belief, people who have undergone severe traumas have an improved capacity to face the human condition.
"My sense is that when we see people with evidence of physical trauma we initially see them as people who were "not safe" and are reminded, ultimately, of our own mortality. I deeply believe that engaging with what we think we fear and yet gives all meaning to life (death – to the extent that this work is a reminder) brings with it a sense of greater peace."
Prince uses her uncomfortable and grotesque way of storytelling to share the subject's experiences (accidents, birth defects or assault) in an attempt to surpass standards of representation with the public, which is often deaf and blind to such events. Photographer is committed not to position her models as victims: "I work with people who have sufficiently recovered, established a new relationship to fantasy <…> At this stage <…> they are open to play, <…> to serve as an object of desire, to social risk taking."
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With the arts festivals over for another year, Laguna Beach's local theatergoers can take advantage of a half-price offer they can drink to.
The Laguna Playhouse is offering Laguna residents two tickets for the price of one on its two touring shows this month — "Ethel Merman's Broadway" and "Cloris Leachman: A One-Woman Show" — but only for the Sept. 18 and 25 performances.
And, playhouse officials promise, they'll throw in one complimentary drink voucher good for any beverage at the lobby bar for each ticket purchased.
"Ethel Merman's Broadway," which opened Thursday and will be reviewed next week, spotlights Rita McKenzie channeling the queen of Broadway musicals from the 1940s and '50s. The singer's life story is weaved into the collection of her signature songs.
When "Ethel" leaves the stage, another showbiz legend — this one living — arrives. Cloris Leachman, an Oscar winner for "The Last Picture Show," will take the playhouse stage to reminisce on her long career.
Leachman may have won her award for a heavy dramatic performance in 1971, but she's also equally well known for her broad comedy in such farcical Mel Brooks movies as "Young Frankenstein" and "High Anxiety."
She's starred on Broadway in Shakespeare ("As You Like It" with Katharine Hepburn), musical comedy ("South Pacific") and headlined her own television show ("Phyllis"). And she also competed recently (at 83) on TV's "Dancing With the Stars."
The Merman production plays through Sept. 19, while Leachman's show runs from Sept. 22 to 26. The "locals night" tickets are for the Sept. 18 and 25 Saturday evening performances.
The special offer cannot be combined with any other deals, the playhouse noted, and no refunds will be offered on previously purchased tickets. More information may be obtained by calling the playhouse at (949) 497-2787 or going online to http://www.lagunaplayhouse.com.


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The Georgetown accessory haven just relocated to a roomy new venue around the corner from its former home, adding 1,000 square feet and plenty of airy, beautifully lit space. It's the perfect canvas for the 80 or so designers showcased there — you can expect everything from beaded baubles and coin purses you can't resist to furniture and some truly adorable home decor buys.
Among the shelves and racks, you'll find cozy pillows, Etro printed pants, Chan Luu bracelets, scarves and skirts by the boatload, and a sweet assortment of candles by Calypso and Mine Design. For summer, we're loving the totes in nautical and animal prints and the sassy Thomas Paul eyewear cases. And to make things even more interesting, the team at M29 isn't slowing down: If a bigger location weren't exciting enough, you can also look forward to a cafe opening in the store this fall. In the meantime, we've got some gorgeous snapshots of the brand-new digs for your clicking pleasure — it's the next best thing to a shopping trip, right?
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WASHINGTON — A trip to Taiwan that Rep. Peter Roskam took with his wife in 2011 has been referred to the House ethics committee at the urging of an outside panel that found he may have violated House rules and federal law in accepting the $25,000-plus excursion, according to ethics officials and the congressman's office.
Roskam, 51, a Republican from Wheaton who entered Congress in 2007, is his party's chief deputy whip in the House, a leadership role that includes vote counting and messaging.
The crux of the ethics matter is who paid for the eight-day, $25,653 trip taken by Roskam and his wife, Elizabeth, at a time when their daughter was teaching in Taiwan.
He and his lawyers maintain that the Chinese Culture University in Taipei sponsored the trip, a mix of meetings with government officials and sightseeing.
But the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, whose investigation resulted in a referral to the House ethics committee, contended that the Roskams' trip may have constituted what is called an "impermissible gift" because of the involvement of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States. That office is an arm of Taiwan's government.
In a statement Friday, Roskam spokeswoman Stephanie Kittredge said the lawmaker "fully complied with all laws, rules and procedures" governing congressional trips sponsored by private sources.
She released more than 60 pages of documents about the trip, which took place Oct. 15-22, 2011. Included were the findings of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which voted 6-0 on May 31 to forward its conclusions to the more powerful ethics committee.
The House ethics committee, in a short statement Friday, declined to say what the Roskam "matter" involved — but the disclosures from the congressman's office bring the matter into sharp focus. The independent ethics office found that the trip appeared to be "organized and conducted by the government of Taiwan, with little or no involvement by the University."
The rules governing congressional travel are long and arcane. Foreign government can't pay for lawmaker trips except when they are cultural exchanges authorized under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (MECEA). Under such trips, however, no travel money can flow to a family member of a lawmaker.
Roskam was invited to Taiwan in May 2011 for a MECEA trip sponsored by the Taiwanese government, the ethics office said. He ultimately decided to travel to Taiwan with his wife and it was determined that the trip instead would be privately sponsored, the office said.
The ethics office said the Taipei university was a "non-cooperating witness" in its probe and that TECRO declined to provide documents or make officials available for interviews.
On Friday, the Office of Congressional Ethics had no comment on the case. The non-partisan entity lacks the muscle of the House ethics committee, which may subpoena documents and witnesses and compel testimony under oath as it examines lawmaker conduct. The committee – unlike the office – also has the power to sanction lawmakers who violate the law or House rules. The committee had no comment Friday beyond its statement.
In a statement Friday, the ethics committee's Republican chairman and top Democratic member said the outside panel transmitted the matter to them June 13. The two lawmakers said their statement did not indicate a violation had occurred nor did it reflect a judgment by the committee. The two also said the committee will "announce its course of action" in the case on or before Sept. 11.
The board of the outside ethics panel found "there is substantial reason to believe that Representative Roskam accepted payment of travel expenses for an officially connected trip to Taiwan from an impermissible source, resulting in an impermissible gift, in violation of federal law and House rules," the documents show.
Roskam and his attorneys, from the Patton Boggs firm in Washington, emphasized in writing to ethics officials — at both the outside panel and the committee — that the same House ethics committee had pre-approved the Roskams' Taiwan trip. They said Chinese Culture University sponsored the trip in a manner consistent with rules governing privately sponsored travel.
A story in the Daily Herald in 2011 said the lawmaker's daughter, Gracey Roskam, spent a year in Taiwan teaching English to second graders and Skyped weekly with her family. By 2012, she was working at the Republican National Convention as an executive assistant to the GOP's platform committee, party officials said.
Kittredge, Roskam's spokeswoman, said in her statement that the ethics office was "wrong to take issue with the involvement of the Government of Taiwan in planning and conducting the trip, a matter that is routine, allowed under the law, and was known to the House Ethics Committee as they thoroughly vetted and approved the trip."
She said Roskam will continue to fully cooperate in the matter and already has made himself and his staff available for interviews. "He fully expects the clear and indisputable facts of the case to speak for themselves, that both he and his staff have acted in accordance with all laws, rules, and regulations," she said.
Roskam travels abroad regularly. A Tribune review of congressional travel during the years 2009 and 2010 found he had made four trips abroad during that time to five countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Israel and South Korea.
The west suburban congressman first won a House seat in 2006 in a hard-fought contest against Democrat Tammy Duckworth, who ran again last year in a different district and won. Roskam serves on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.


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Delayed slashing
I recently attended a bread making demonstration given by an Italian baker.
He placed the unslashed bread in a covered Dutch oven heated to 500°F. After five minutes he removed the bread from the Dutch oven and quickly slashed the bread. He then returned that covered Dutch oven to the oven and reduce the temperature to 425 to 450°F and completed the baking process
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Even people living outside the U.S. caught the Black Friday fever this year, and the frenzy will only intensify in years to come as the world becomes more tech-savvy and America's retail culture continues to globalize.
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With the global e-commerce market set to surpass $1 trillion over the next few years and more consumers in other countries coming online, American retailers have started pushing holiday promotions across U.S. borders in an effort to reach the still largely untapped market.
Online spending among international consumers more than tripled on Black Friday weekend compared with an average day, while the number of international shoppers taking advantage of holiday deals doubled from 2011, according to data from FiftyOne Global E-commerce.
"The international opportunity is immense," said FiftyOne CEO Michael DeSimone.
The increase is a mix of growing appetite for holiday deals among consumers outside the U.S. as well as a ramp up by U.S. retailers to push their advertising across the border. The combination of the two has influenced some cultures, particularly those in regions already similar to the U.S. like Canada, Australia and the U.K., to pickup certain cyclical American shopping habits.
It's a "globalization of American retail culture," DeSimone said. "Retailers are training international shoppers to shop on an American pattern."
Canada made up the largest percentage of international Black Friday sales this year, at 31%, followed by Australia with 19% and the U.K. with 6%. Rounding out the top five were Russia and Hong Kong, according to the FiftyOne data.
The growth was even more prominent in emerging countries, with online sales from Colombia jumping 1086% on Black Friday compared with an average day, followed by Israel, whose sales climbed 603%. Mexico's sales rose 502% over a regular day, while Russia's increased 381%.
"More people in these countries are looking to buy online, it's an increasing comfort level," DeSimone said. "They want to buy a product from a brand they like and they don't care where it's coming from."
While the bullish FiftyOne numbers reflect activity among its customers, including major retailers like Macy's (NYSE:M), Sacks (NYSE:SKS), Gap (NYSE:GPS) and Sears (NYSE:SHLD), data from digital analytics company comScore, which has more than 2,000 clients worldwide across a variety of industries, was bearish in comparison.
ComScore said international sales accounted for just 6% of total Black Friday spending, which is about the same as last year. The company, though, still forecasts a sharp rise in e-commerce spending over the next few years, with other countries grabbing a larger chunk of the market as they move online and more consumers become comfortable with online shopping.
The growth of e-commerce in the U.S. has soared over the last 10 years, with online sales peaking last week at $1.46 billion, making Cyber Monday the most lucrative day in online shopping history.
American shoppers, however, continue to make up a smaller percentage of total e-commerce sales as more international consumers begin moving online. Having held 73% of the global market in 2004, U.S. consumers are expected to make up just 26% of total global e-commerce next year, according to comsScore data. At the same time, comScore predicts total e-commerce sales will surpass $1 trillion globally by 2015 from just $200 billion eight years ago.
Noting the expected surge in global demand, U.S. retailers are ramping up marketing to regions across the border through e-mail marketing and online advertising, while working with third-parties like FiftyOne to make sure international transactions run smoothly.
Retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) are pushing out promotions to a broader range of customers through social networks and e-mail, while others are offering exclusive online deals and have even started customizing promotions to specific countries.
"Fast e-commerce growth in these countries really opens up the opportunity for U.S. retailers," DeSimone said. "Going international allows them to leverage that investment against a much broader consumer base."
Presenting an ever greater opportunity, there are major retailers across the world that still don't have an online presence at all. For example, more than half of Australian retailers don't have an online sales channel despite about two-thirds admitting that international online retailers have impacted their business, according to a recent study by Experian.
Even more telling, 30 top retail web sites used by Australians are operated by foreign retailers.
Lacking a sufficient online footprint, foreign retailers in the U.S. and U.K. have been able to swoop in and capture a chunk of Australia's rapidly growing e-commerce market, and now the country's domestic retailers are facing intense online competition.


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TORONTO - It's that time of year again. The Queen Street streetcar has been replaced by buses while teenagers from all over have set up camp chairs along Toronto's downtown sidewalks, all in preparation for the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards.
But can you really call the event an awards show if a number of the awards are handed out on the red carpet, potentially before the recipients have arrived? It's a strategy that certainly streamlined the show - getting rid of a number of pesky acceptance speeches - but it did make the whole thing more like an elaborate concert than a party about honouring talent.
Nonetheless, the weather was perfect and the area around MuchMusic's downtown headquarters was transformed into a compound of stages, red carpets and screaming fans. All prerequisites for a show bookended with Lady Gaga performances and peppered by celebrity appearances by the likes of Justin Bieber and co-host Selena Gomez, performances by The Black Keys, Bruno Mars, and City and Colour (among others), and presenters such as Snoop Dogg, Shawn Desman and Danny Fernandes.
Video of the Year went to Desman for his song Electric/Night Like This, directed by RT!, the man behind six of this year's nominated videos, including the MuchFACT Indie Video of the Year, which went to JDiggz featuring Neverending White Lights for This Time and Best Post-Production of the Year, which went to Danny Fernandes featuring Belly for Automatic. Despite his dominance, though, RT! failed to snag Director of the Year, which went to Sean Wainsteim for his espionage-esque video for You Say Party's Lonely's Lunch.
Other notable winners were Lady Gaga and Bieber, both of whom won all the awards they were nominated for. Lady Gaga sealed her international dominance by beating out nine other nominees to take home the award for International Video of the Year - Artist for Judas, and picked up the fan choice UR FAVE International Video for Born This Way.
Teen heart-throb Bieber also picked up two awards. Bieber's Somebody to Love (remix), featuring Usher, tied with Drake's Find Your Love for International Video of the Year by a Canadian. But the Beliebers rallied and the Stratford, Ont., native snagged the UR Fave New Artist award for his Somebody to Love (remix) video.
There weren't many upsets at Sunday night's awards, but MuchMusic spiced things up by debuting a new statuette for the awards. The latest incarnation of the trophy - the fourth since the MMVAs started in 1990 - is made of an aluminium alloy, and distinctly brick-like in appearance. The statuette was redesigned as part of the music channel's rebranding efforts, said Peter Moller, creative director of design, in a news release.
"The heavy-weight trophy was meant to materialize the impact, significance, weight and profoundness of receiving a prize," he said in the release. "The simple yet stylish shape is timeless and is meant to be on a shelf or a proud MMVA winner for many years without becoming dated."
The size of the trophy also means that the winners' names will be engraved directly onto its surface, rather than on a plaque attached to a statue. At 10 pounds apiece, though, it may be a blessing in disguise that none of the nominated artists won more than two awards - that alone has to be worth a day off of training.
Here is the complete winners list:
-Video of the Year: Shawn Desman for "Electric/Night Like This," directed by RT!
-Post-Production of the Year: Danny Fernandes f. Belly for "Automatic," directed by RT!
-Cinematography of the Year: Blake McGrath for "Relax," directed by Kyle Davison
-Director of the Year: You Say Party for "Lonely's Lunch," directed by Sean Wainsteim
-Pop Video of the Year: Down With Webster for "Whoa Is Me," directed by Aaron A.
-MuchLOUD Rock Video of the Year: Abandon All Ships for "Geeving," directed by Davin Black
-MuchVibe Hip Hop Video of the Year: Classified for "That Ain't Classy," directed by Harv
-MuchFACT Indie Video of the Year: JDiggz f. Neverending White Lights for "This Time," directed by RT!
-International Video of the Year - Artist: Lady Gaga for "Judas," directed by Lady Gaga and Laurieann Gibson
-International Video of the Year - Group: Far East Movement f. The Cataracs & Dev for "Like a G6," directed by Matt Alonzo
-International Video of the Year by a Canadian: (TIE) Drake for "Find Your Love," directed by Anthony Mandler, and Justin Bieber f. Usher for "Somebody to Love (Remix)," directed by Dave Meyers
-UR FAVE Video: Fefe Dobson for "Stutterin," directed by Alan Ferguson
-UR FAVE International Artist: Lady Gaga for "Born This Way," directed by Nick Knight and Haus of Gaga
-UR FAVE Artist: Justin Bieber f. Usher for "Somebody to Love (Remix)," directed by Dave Meyers
-MuchMusic.com Most Watched Video Taio Cruz for "Dynamite"


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