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I love getting all dressed up – hair done, make-up perfect, high-heel shoes, favorite pair of earrings and the perfect lip color to top it all off. I call this getting "fancy" to head out to a special event with appetizers served on trays called things I have never heard of before. Everyone is walking around mingling and talking. It's off to a great start until you run into that one person. That one person, who always seems to point out the obvious or share the latest gossip from the who's who at the party; is it just me or have we all been around someone like that? Someone, who always brings up the "elephant" in the room making it uncomfortable and awkward; I call them, Captain Obvious!
In John 8:1-11 it tells the story of a group of "Captain Obvious" people. The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus who was literally caught in the act of adultery. We read in verse 3, "The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, they said to Him, 'Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act'." Did, you catch that… CAUGHT IN THE ACT! This gives me the impression they were watching and waiting for this woman to mess up. Hiding around the corner and on the prowl just ready to pounce and catch her in the act.
They were waiting for her to mess up. And why? Just so they could point their finger at her and condemn her. Well, I got news for you "Captain Obvious", I am pretty sure she was aware of what she was doing. She was aware of her sin. She was aware she was having an affair. She was probably all too aware. You didn't uncover some covert operation. She didn't need Captain Obvious on the scene. She didn't need stones thrown. What she needed was Jesus! She needed someone to show her love, compassion, grace, and mercy. Stating the obvious doesn't change people BUT love, mercy, compassion, and grace does!
Jesus knew exactly how to respond to her, in a way which would teach us something wonderful. Instead of responding with disappointment, shame or even righteous anger, we read in verse 6, "… Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground". Later in verse 7 when the Pharisees persisted he answered and said: "He who is without sin among you let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Then he continued to write on the ground. Sin begs us to respond in shock and awe; however, Christ's response ended up being more shocking than any stone thrown could have been. His response is always greater than the sin. His response is LOVE! Christ gets up and says to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first". Not one was able to pick up a stone. Not one was able to continue pointing their finger, because they all became too aware of their own sins and shortcomings.
I have heard many speakers share and teach their thoughts about what Jesus was writing on the ground during this time. Could he had been trying his hardest to ignore the Pharisees and started doodling to annoy them? A simple game of hang-man, anyone? Maybe, it was a way for him to calm down and catch His composure before responding to them. Could he have been writing out the sins of those in the circle condemning the woman? And then when he continued to write, adding each name next to the sin? I wish I could have been a fly on the wall or in this case – a fly on the sand - just to see what Christ was writing and their responses. To see the responses when the tables turned and went from "look at what she did!" to "look at what I have done". Grace and mercy always show up when we need it the most.
Isn't it time we stop being Captain Obvious and start doing the unexpected – love them. Isn't it time we stop judging people and holding grudges, instead start forgiving; start extending grace and mercy.
Can you imagine how shocked the adulterous woman was in John 8 when Jesus told her to "Go and sin no more"? Now imagine how shocked people in your life will be when you do the same' when you turn from pointing fingers and throwing stones to extending a helping hand with grace and love.
Jesus told her to "GO" – to move on. Leave the past here and GO! It's also time to forgive ourselves and to "go" and sin no more. The same grace and mercy which was extended to the adulterous woman is available to you and me. Let's walk in grace and mercy today and watch lives be forever changed.
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It has been brought to my attention by some customers I know shopping at the same supermarket I do that some of the meat in the meat case has a shiny, iridescent appearance. They pointed out to me a package of fresh cut eye of round steaks that were on display and had a greenish/yellowish cast to part of the steak. Almost "rainbow" like. See the beef eye of round picture above as an example.
This greenish cast was a little shiny but as I would turn the package at different angles the greenish/yellowish cast would change shades of green. Again, rainbow like. Iridescent was the way we three decided was the best way to describe this.
The two customers asked, "Is it spoiled?" It's not brown or black -- but iridescent. It's not a moldy green color, but a shiny green tint that changes as you look at it from different angles when I turned the package.
No, I told these young ladies, it is not spoiled. It is the way the light that hits the meat fibers and is reflected off the meat and splits into various colors. Many of us have seen this but we did not know what it was and we assumed that there is something wrong with the meat.
When light hits the meat fibers it splits into colors that resemble a rainbow. A good comparison would be if you look at a DVD with light shining on it. As you move the DVD to different angles you will notice that the DVD changes color. Almost "rainbow" like. This is called "diffraction grating" . That is as scientific as we need to get for now.
We had to move the eye of round steak around several times to get the picture you see above. And the flash from the camera also helped show more of the diffracting. In other words, it was not something that just jumped out at us. Knowing that, you may have bought some of this beef in the past and consumed it without even realizing it was iridescent.
The cells and fibers that that make up this muscle have formed in such a way during the time that the animal was growing that they cause the light to diffract, thus forming the "rainbow".
This iridescence is not in all meats, however, I have seen it most often in the beef eye of round steak or roast that these two young ladies were looking at. It is also visible from time to time in the beef brisket and I have seen it in a beef chuck roast. And sometimes you might notice it in a whole muscle ham or even a cooked beef roast that you might purchase from your favorite deli. On a rare occasion, I have noticed it in a leg of lamb. Have you noticed that most of the cuts I have mentioned are from the hind leg? I, along with many other even more scientific people than myself, can not explain this but maybe it has something to do with the fact that the hind legs are used quite a bit so those muscles, because of the work they do to propel the animal forward have a tendency to have muscle fibers gather in such a way.
Trying to keep it simple, I am not going to dive any deeper into the scientific aspect of this. Let's just realize that this iridescent meat is safe to eat. Again, it is just the way the light reflects off of the muscle fibers. Now I'm not saying that any piece of meat that has a tint on green is safe, but don't be alarmed if you are looking at a package of meat and it seems have a small section of the surface area iridescent. If you have any questions at all concerning the safety of the package you are looking at then don't purchase it.
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Zorats Karer
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|Zorats Karer, Carenish, Dik-dik karer
|near Sisian, Syunik Province, Armenia
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|Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age
|Site notes
|Is being protected by the government.[1]
Zorats Karer (Armenian: Զորաց Քարեր, locally Դիք-դիք քարեր Dik-dik karer),[2] also called Karahunj, Qarahunj or Carahunge and Carenish (Armenian: Քարահունջ և Քարենիշ) is a prehistoric archaeological site near the town of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. The phrase Zorats Karer is literally translated from Armenian as Army Stones. It is also often referred to in international tourist lore as the 'Armenian Stonehenge.'[3]
The Carahunge site is on latitude of 39° 34' and longitude of 46° 01' on the mountain plateau having altitude 1770 m and occupies a territory of about 7 hectare on the left side of the Dar river canyon, the tributary of the river Vorotan (at 2 km). It is located on a rocky promontory near Sisian.[4]
Armenian historian Stepanos Orbelian in his book 'History of Syunic' (I-XII centuries) mentioned that in Tsluk (Yevalakh) region of Armenia, near town Syunic or Sisian was a village Carunge,[5] which means in Armenian Stone Treasure or Foundational Stones.
The name Carahunge is interpreted as deriving from two Armenian words: car (or kar) (Armenian: քար), meaning stone, and hunge or hoonch (Armenian: հունչ), meaning sound. Thus the name Carahunge means Speaking Stones.
This interpretation is related to the fact that the stones make whistling sounds on a windy day, presumably because of multiple reach-through holes bored under different angles into the stones in prehistoric times.
In 2004, the site was officially named the Karahunj (Carahunge) Observatory, by Parliamentary decree (Government decision No. 1095-n, July 29, 2004).
Carahunge is also known in local lore as Zorats Karer (Զորաց Քարեր), Dik-dik Karer (Դիք-դիք քարեր), and Tsits Karer (Ցից Քարեր), meaning Vertical Stones in vernacular Armenian.
The Carahunge Monument consists of the following parts: the central circle, the north arm, the south arm, N-E alley, the chord (crossing the circle) and separate standing stones.
The site is rich with stone settings, burial cysts and standing stones - Menhirs. In total registered 223 stones.
The heights of the stones range from 0.5 to 3 m (above ground) and weight up to 10 tons. They are basalt (andesit) stones, eroded by time and covered with moss and lichen of many colours. The inside surface of holes preserved much better. There are also many broken and unnumbered stones.
About 80 of the stones feature a circular hole, although only 37 of the stones, with 47 holes, are still standing. They have been of interest to Russian and Armenian archaeoastronomers who have suggested that the standing stones could have been used for astronomical observation. Seventeen of the stones were associated with observations of sunrise or sunset at the solstices and equinoxes, and 14 with the lunar extremes.[6] However, this must remain conjectural as the holes are relatively unweathered and may not even be prehistoric in origin.[7]
The astronomical significance of megalithic structures at Zorats Karer was first explored by Armenian archaeologist Onik Khnkikyan in 1984.[8] A year after, a hypothesis about the existence of an astronomical observatory at Zorats Karer (Carahunge), as well as analyses of other megalithic sites at Metzamor and Angeghakot, was made by Armenian astrophysicist Elma Parsamyan.[9]
Investigation by radiophysicist Paris Herouni and his research team during 1994-2001 led them to the now disputed conclusion that Carahunge is the world's oldest astronomical observatory.[10] In 1999, Herouni got in touch with British-born American astronomer and archaeo-astronomer Gerald Hawkins, renowned for his analysis of Stonehenge in which he proposed its purpose as an ancient astronomical observatory. In a letter to Herouni, Professor Hawkins confirmed his Armenian colleague's similar conclusions about Zorats Karer, stating, in particular: "I admire the precise calculations you have made. I am most impressed with the careful work you have done, and hope that the result will ultimately get recorded in literature."[11]
Zorats Karer was investigated in 2000 by archaeologists from the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, University of Munich, as part of a field survey of prehistoric sites in southern Armenia. They identified the site as a necropolis dating mainly from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age, finding enormous stone tombs from those periods within the area. Team leader Stephan Kroll also concluded that the lines of stones were actually the remains of a city wall, possibly from the Hellenistic-period, that had been constructed mostly of rubble and loam, and in which the upright stones had acted as reinforcements.[12][13]
Archaeoastronomer Clive Ruggles wrote that 'Inevitably there have been other claims—more speculative and less supportable—relating to the astronomical significance of the site. One is that it can be astronomically dated to the sixth millennium BCE and direct comparisons with Stonehenge, which few now believe was an observatory, are less than helpful.'[7]
Armenian biologist and mathematician Vachagan Vahradyan has recently further developed the hypothesis about the astronomical function of this archaeological complex.[14]
A recent critical assessment found several problems with the archaeoastronomical interpretations of the site. The northeast avenue, which extends about 50 meters from the center, has been inconsistently associated with the summer solstice, the major northern lunistice, or the rising of Venus.[6] Harouni had postulated that in order to use the holes in the megaliths for astronomical observations sufficiently precise to determine the date of the solstices, it would have been necessary to restrict the field of vision by inserting a narrow tube in the existing perforations. Without these modifications, for which there is no archaeological evidence, the claimed astronomical significance of the orientations of the holes vanishes. As a consequence, González-Garcia concluded that the archaeoastronomical claims for the site are untenable, although further investigations to determine the astronomical potential of Carahunge and similar sites are merited.[15]
In the nearby city of Sisian, there is a small museum dedicated to findings in the area, including palaeolithic petroglyphs found on mountain tops in the area, and grave artefacts form the Bronze Age burial site with over 200 shaft graves.
See also
- Notes
- ↑ "Decree N853-Ն (2009) of the Government of the Republic of Armenia". Armenian Legal Information System (Arlis). Retrieved 13 July 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Քարահունջի չտեսնված հմայքը. 1in.am (in Հայերեն). 3 July 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Vorotan Project". Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. 2005. Retrieved 9 November 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Herouni, Paris (2004). Armenians and Old Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia: Tigran Mets.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Orbelian, Stepanos (1986). History of Syunic (I - XII centuries). Yerevan. p. 395.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ruggles, Clive (2005), "Carahunge", Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, pp. 65–67, ISBN 1-85109-477-6<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Khnkikyan, Onik. Zorats Karer of Sisian (in Armenian: "Սիսիանի Զորաքարերը"). Armenia's Nature Magazine No. 4. 1984. pp. 33-34.
- ↑ Parsamian, Elma S. About the possible astrological role of megalithic rings in Angeghakot: Collection of scientific articles (in Armenian: "Անգեղակոթի մեգալիտիկ կառուցվածքի աստղագիտական նշանակության վերաբերյալ" and Russian: "О возможном астрономическом назначении мегалитических колец Ангелакота"). Reports of Byurakan Observatory No. 57. The Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. 1985. pp. 101-103. ISSN 0370-8691 (http://byurakan.asj-oa.am/351/)
- ↑ Paris Herouni, Armenians and Old Armenia, Yerevan, 2004.
- ↑ Herouni, Paris (2004). Armenians and Old Armenia, p. 24.
- ↑ "2000 Survey in Southern Armenia".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "2000 Survey in Southern Armenia". Archived from the original on 2007-12-23.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Vahradyan, Vachagan & Vahradyan, Marineh. "About the Astronomical Role of 'Qarahunge' Monument" in "Armenians and the World History" (http://www.anunner.com/vachagan.vahradyan/About_the_Astronomical_Role_of__%E2%80%9CQarahunge%E2%80%9D_Monument_by_Vachagan_Vahradyan,_Marine_Vahradyan)
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Bibliography
- Herouni, Paris (2004). Armenians and Old Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia: Tigran Mets.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Ruggles, Clive (2005). Ancient Astronomy. ABC CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-477-6.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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The C Family is celebrating the 2nd birthday of their youngest member. They're having an Elmo party for him, I asked him to show me his Elmo, he quickly found it and before I knew t, it was story time. After Elmo fun, we headed towards Three Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake for a bit of water, wild flowers, tall grass and cuddles. Their little guys was sooooooooo happy, we bonded so well, he smiled so much.
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Wow! I have been so busy seeing the sights, smells and sounds of London, I haven't had any time to update my blog…well for all you guys itching to hear what I've been up to, you are in for a treat! If you have 10 minutes, watch the video I made, if you have more time, go ahead and read the journal I've been keeping. Enjoy!
Saturday, May 16
This is the first day of the trip, and I am thrilled! I made a great friend of the lady sitting next to me on the plane. Alba Flores grew up in Honduras and at age 25 she moved to New Jersey. In order to prepare for Spain, I spoke Spanish to her and she would help me out, teaching me new words and correcting my grammar. She enjoyed talking about her family, and encouraged me to spend as much time with my family as possible. We shared some great stories and I can say I walked away with a good friend. The bus ride to Oxford was eye opening. First, we drove on the left side of the road and UK laws requires bus passengers to wear seatbelts. Faster traffic always was in the far right lane rather than the left like America. The whole hour long ride, we only saw one American car, but plenty of smaller vehicles. I noticed that most drivers went about 20 Km per hour faster thanGoing through roundabouts was interesting and made me a bit nervous, but upon thinking about the concept of the roundabout it makes sense because cars never stop which leads to a more efficient flow of traffic.
Next stop, Oxford! We toured the University and the town and it was absolutely delightful! The structure of the school system is very unique, and consists of thirty eight different colleges which were governed by the University. These colleges were all different and each had its own unique history, culture, living accommodations, church, and bar. We walked on the same grounds as many famous people including: J.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Bill Clinton, the founder of the Methodist church, and countless other. Some scenes from Harry Potter were filmed at various halls and locations throughout Oxford. For food we visited the local covered market. Everyone in my group ordered cheeseburgers, but I was feeling bold so I went and bought a beef and ale pie from the pie shop. As I chowed down on the deliciously warm morsel, I couldn't help thinking of the horrific musical Sweeny Todd and wonder what kind of meat I was really eating.
Sunday, May 17
Today I visited a supermarket and found some serious differences between UK supermarkets and American ones. The most evident difference was the lack of an efficient system to checkout customers. It took me the same amount of time to buy 10 items as it usually takes to check out 100. They do not regularly use plastic bags, and when I didn't give the cashier a reusable bag like most other shoppers, he had to rethink his life in order to figure out how to bag my groceries. Their stores are stocked much more randomly and have shortages and excess of items and chaotic shelving is a bit more commonplace. We made some progress in our petty attempt to breathe in London's scent as we practically ran from sight to sight.
Our tour began on a "coach" where we drove about in a treacherous fashion. I say treacherous because the streets of London were built long before cars were envisioned and as a result, there is often not even enough room for two cars to pass each other facing head on; one must pull into the parking lane. There are so many amazing details that I will have to spare you in order to keep this succinct and interesting. Next we visited the Queen's Tower, former prison and current home of the crown jewels. I then convinced my group to walk about a mile and cross London Bridge, yes…THE London Bridge to visit Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the Tate Museum of Modern Art. The Tate was enormous and the people visiting it were as different as the art itself. Among my favorites were pieces by Picasso and Andy Warhol. No photography was allowed, but I took some candid shots of pieces that I want to recreate or use techniques from. After the long walk, my group was exhausted, so we went to a pub where I tried authentic bitter ale known as "bitters" by the locals…not bad! Although we were tired, the night was still young. We made reservations to the "coolest" bar in town, The Absolut Ice Bar, which was made completely of ice and maintained a temperature of negative 5 degrees Celcius. The cover charge was high, and the line to get in was long, but well worth it. Before entering, we all were handed fur coats and gloves.
Monday, May 18
Wow! Today was quite a treat, the adventures are fast and furious. The day began at 6 am: Garrett and I went to a local coffeshop to sit and read our Bibles. After starting the day off right, we visited Parliament, the home of British government. We got to walk around in the actual rooms where politicians have met and discussed legislature for hundreds of years. Among the highlights of Parliament was seeing the grave of William Wallace and stand where Her Majesty The Queen has her throne when she is present. When we walked into Parliament, there was a small group of Indian people protesting their persecution in Sri Lanka. When we left, the group had grown exponentially into a mob that consumed the large city square. It was quite a sight to see thousands of protestors contained by a thick wall of police on all sides. After a picnic in a quaint park, we then visited Bloomberg, the world's leading financial news reporting company. The building was gorgeous and the security was stringent. I was fascinated with their corporate culture and effectiveness at their trade. They have some of the best customer service in the world, and rightfully so, their customers pay through the nose for their "Terminal" and make decisions with millions of dollars based on what Bloomberg reports. Immediately after Bloomberg, we rushed to catch our showing of Les Miserables. The show was excellent and this beautiful story of grace and redemption brought me to tears as the curtains closed.
Tuesday, May 19
We began the day with a visit to the V & A museum filled with beautiful artifacts, fashion and relic from history all over the world. My favorite exhibit was the Raphael Cartoons, huge paintings which were used as templates to create tapestries. They beautifully depicted many Biblical scenes were particularly inspiring to me because I am currently striving to use Bible stories in my art, and he created these images so simply, yet they spoke volumes about the attitude and the atmosphere of the story it was portraying. A short walk in the subway, which is an underground pedestrian passageway, I toured the Natural Science and History museum filled with technology, dinosaurs and beautiful sculptures.
The famous Harrods department store gave us their best including a teddy bear and a phenomenal presentation by the man who runs their management training program. After taking silly pictures imitating the window models, Garrett Milner and I went to go have man dinner and talk about serious business. We went to a lovely little Italian place and ordered a seafood pizza that came with mussels, crabs, clams, and crawfish…all still in their shells. We talked about life, prayed for each other and made plans for tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 20
After all of these adventures, me and my roommate Andrew decided it was time to sleep in. Needless to say, we left for Westminster Abby around 1:00 in the afternoon. This church, where the royal coronation ceremonies occur, was the most beautiful building I have ever seen. The ceilings are high and there are marble and stone statues covering all of the walls. Kings and queens were buried throughout the halls and courts as well as Charles Darwin. Upon leaving Westminster Abby, Garrett, Andrew and I went deep into the crowd of people protesting injustice of native Sri Lankans. We interviewed a couple people within the group and took plenty of pictures and videos of the turmoil. Essentially, the protestors were known as the Tamil Tigers and they were creating awareness of persecution of the Tamil people by the recently overturned government. Everywhere we looked were people with brown skin and a dot in their forehead, and we began to realize that everybody here was a local Londoner taking off of work. Their story was captivating and I would be very interested in hearing other perspectives on the situation. For dinner we went to an authentic Indian place called "Memories of India" where I tried a spicy lamb dish.


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Our designers have created the main page in modern style. The menu bar was made more convenient so the user could navigate the site without any problems. As a result, the responsive design was developed in accordance with the needs of the client. Much attention was paid to the content and its format, as it affects the level of interest among the users. The site has bright, modern and convenient interface, high-quality graphics, everything is simple and stylish here.
Our programmers created an easy-to-use and plain panel for filling the site with the product cards. We achieved the fastest possible page loading speed. The site got the multi language versions. A delivery method with the ability to integrate with "Nova Poshta" was added to the site. An adaptive desktop / mobile HTML layout was created as well. We redesigned the basket, and created a non-standard personal cabinet. The site was created on the OpenCart system.


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Letters to the Editor
Cost of Alzheimer's
Every 66 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's — a disease that cannot be prevented or cured. Alzheimer's can bankrupt our economy; it will cost an estimated $259 billion in 2017.
Last week, more than 1,300 people attended the Alzheimer's Association Advocacy Forum in Washington, D.C. The forum provided a venue to learn new facts and figures for Alzheimer's, and to meet with our legislators to discuss what is at stake and what Congress can do to address the challenges presented by this devastating disease.
I met with one of our greatest Alzheimer's champions, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. I am very grateful for her steadfast support and commitment, and her understanding of the impact Alzheimer's is having on families and the U.S. economy. I also had the opportunity to meet with staffers for Senators Nelson and Rubio. I thank Rep. Ros-Lehtinen and all those who are supporting an increase in Alzheimer's research funding and are fighting for a world without Alzheimer's.
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Throughout April, The Caregiver Hour weekly radio show is featuring a series of interviews with Holly Whiteside exploring "The Intentional Caregiver." This Monday, April 11 at noon EST, Holly will join host Kim Linder and Eden Alternative CEO Chris Perna to discuss empowering caregivers to approach caregiving with mindful intentionality.
Holly Whiteside is author of "The Caregiver's Compass" and "Exploring Hell and Other Warm Places" and a contributor to ChangingAging.org. Holly recently blogged about her upcoming interview and how caregiving puts us in situations where we confront feelings of resistance towards the behavior of others, the aging of a loved one, our own feelings of powerlessness, or the undeniable facts of aging:
Resistance is one of the caregiver's biggest energy drains. When you're angry, frustrated, or judgmental, you're locked into negative energy. The more you resist, the more time and energy you waste, the more resistance there is, and so on in a self-perpetuating drain cycle.
So, what to do with that? We start where we must always start, by looking straight at it. Even as we're groping for a different action to take, it can be that the only right action is inaction. Stop. Take a breath. Notice what is. You can't get beyond resistance until you clearly see it. What do you resist in caregiving? Make a list. Just seeing the list in front of you can give you some power over it.
What then? "What You Resist Persists" means also that "What you focus on is what you get." Focus too long on being angry and you experience more anger. Focus on another's annoying behaviors and you see only those annoying behaviors. Or, as Abraham Maslow put it, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". So we don't want to focus too long on our list.
How do you escape the cycle of negativity, fear and judgement that often accompanies caregiving? Through acceptance, refocusing and "intentional caregiving", Holly wrote. Read the full post here and listen to The Caregiver Hour online at http://www.thecaregiverhour.com/ or on Tampa Bay radio WHNZ Station 1250 AM.


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We are proud to have as our clients some of the best-of-breed companies across different business areas all around Europe, from both the public and private sectors. Our services have more than 210 000 users, and over 40 000 tenderings have been made through them. More than 20 billion euros worth of purchases are made through our Marketplace every year.
In our work with several organizations using digital solutions we have seen how companies thrive when they focus their investments on automizing manual procurement processes and contract management. With our services the customers have saved up to millions of euros!
Read our customers' success stories here and below our customer references.
Business Finland Testimonial – Simplified procurement processes with Cloudia solutions
The service has made it easier to use contracts correctly
We use Cloudia services in almost all our procurement. Tendering, contract period management, and real-time follow-up have become significantly easier, thanks to the directions and automation of the service. It has given us more time to spend on planning and developing procurement. This has had a clear positive impact on savings and risk management.
Helsinki is the capital and the largest city of Finland.
Kari Gröndahl
Development Manager at City of Helsinki
A clear decrease in workload
Fimea started using Cloudia Contract in the fall 2017 and Cloudia Sourcing in the spring 2018. Fimea's Finance Director Esko Kiiski says that when acquiring a contract management system, the goal was to facilitate contract monitoring and reporting.
"Searching for contracts no longer takes a lot of time; instead, the user can easily find the contracts they want."
Read more: Fimea uses Cloudia's services to make their procurement processes more efficient
Add professionalism to procurement with Cloudia Sourcing
The National Institute for Health and Welfare has used Cloudia Sourcing for tendering its procurements since January 2018.
Miika Kivinen, a procurement expert at THL, says that the organization was looking for a system to make its procurement process electronic so that the digitalization of the procurement process would always work in an efficient and professional manner, from planning to signing a contract.
Read more: THL promotes the sustainability of the welfare society in Finland
Services that are easy to recommend
The partnership started because Business Finland had to digitalize their procurement processes. They didn't have that kind of know-how within the company, so Cloudia was chosen to assist them.
The services Cloudia have provided consist of two separate platforms, Cloudia Sourcing and Cloudia Contract. Cloudia Sourcing is a digitalized sourcing system and Cloudia Contract is used for contract management.
– We needed new systems and support in their use. We couldn't have developed this kind of software by ourselves, says Eriika Autio, who is a Senior Director at Procurement Unit in Business Finland.
Eriika Autio
Senior Director at Procurement Unit, Business Finland
Read more here: Simplified procurement processes for any company looking for growth in global markets
North Karelia has saved hundreds of thousands of euros with the online auction
The North Karelia Procurement Office is also a pioneer in utilising online auctions and has used the Cloudia auction since 2013 (the name of the unit at that time was Joensuu District Procurement Office).
"We believe that the online auction had a significant impact on prices, so we decided to try it out immediately, once it was possible both legally and technically," tells Procurement Manager Mika Purmonen.
The North Karelia Procurement Office is one of the most active users of the online auction and has achieved significant savings in doing so.
Mika Purmonen
Procurement manager, City of Joensuu
Read more: Customer success stories
The sought-after savings have been achieved
Based on my earlier good experiences, I knew I could renew Caruna's tendering model and make it electronic using Cloudia's service. Cloudia services deliver us the process efficiency, openness of operations, and total savings we seek after, by providing comprehensive process control from tendering to contract lifespan management.
Caruna is Finland's largest electricity distribution company.
Mervi Haukilahti
Head of Procurement and Real Estates at Caruna
Lekolar-Printel Oy has used Cloudia Marketplace since 2012. Over the years, Lekolar has prepared hundreds of tenders in the Marketplace, significantly improving its participation in competitive tendering.
"The calls for tenders are now clearer than before, showing at a glance the sections that must be filled out and the questions that must be answered. Cloudia's Supplier Portal has clearly improved the process, resulting in better and clearer calls for tenders."
Taneli Kivistö
Director, Marketing & Tender Management
Read more: Improved quality in the calls for tenders
Improved control over tendering documents
The digitalisation with Cloudia Sourcing has simplified the opening of a competitive tendering, among other things. We save time and costs now that the amount of manual work has been reduced,
Riitta Juutilainen
Procurement specialist, Helen Oy
Read more: Helen improved its control over its tendering documents
Digitalisation makes processes more effective
Tenders received in digital format are easy to manage, and nobody needed to scan and copy the tender documents. The process was made as much as 15% more effective than before.
Katja Vidgren
Secretary at the Espoo Public Works Department
Cloudia Sourcing makes global tendering effective
We have a lot of suppliers from abroad, from whom we purchase for example supercomputers and other hardware. We are also involved in developing the weather service for emerging countries by consulting and helping them the best we can. The difference between the Nordic countries and emerging countries, however, may be very high in the use of electronic systems. The Cloudia customer support has helped us with any culture differencies, which has been very effective.
Pirkko Niemi
Head of Procurement, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Read more: The Finnish Meteorological Institute puts its procurements out to open tender globally with the help of Cloudia Sourcing
Digitalized procurement saves time
Cloudia Sourcing has intensified and facilitated, above all, the handling of procurement documents, including the verification of ESPD forms. The biggest benefit of the system has been the time savings, which we estimated to be around 25%.
Salme Kokko
Service Specialist, VENI Energy Group
Read more: VENI Energy Group saves time with Cloudia Sourcing
Transparency in procurement processes
One of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Biogen, is now carrying out their procurement processes with Cloudia Sourcing. Biogen chose Cloudia to digitalize their previously manually handled processes in a way, that all procurement data can be found and compared as easily as possible. In addition to centralized data, Biogen is hoping to find more suitable partners to their tenderings.
Our experience in procurement and comprehensive product portfolio convinced Fingrid
Fingrid Oyj chose Cloudia Sourcing as a tool for digitalizing their procurement function because of our high level of security, our experience in procurement, our knowledge of the energy sector customers and our comprehensive product portfolio.
Fingrid's nationwide grid is an integral part of the power system in Finland. The transmission grid is the high-voltage trunk network which covers the entire Finland.


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Where is God in all of this body changing business? He is right here with me. Inside of me, around me, for me, proud of me, accepting me just as I am, but believing that I can do more than I imagine.
Faith and fitness don't seem like compatible concepts. But for me, they are.
When I get down, when I worry, when I wonder if I am "living up to my potential", He is there. My ever-so-gentle Coach of all Coaches comes alongside me and reminds me: you are just enough as you are.
This unconditional acceptance of my current condition gives me peace. It reminds me to accept me, right now as I am even if I am NOT living up to some trumped-up notion of my potential.
He has plans for me that don't involve boot camps, bikini photos, noticeably outlined abs or single-digit clothing sizes.
So then why change at all? Why not go on about my donut-gorging, couch-hugging, Netflix-binging way? Because He wants (or so He tells me in a couple of verses in His Book) abundant life for me, joy and peace. He doesn't want me wrasslin' myself to the ground with a bunch of made up standards, but instead, He wants me to Auntie Mame-it: that is to LIVE LIVE LIVE!
He wants me to feel free, feel the freedom from oppression (self-induced or otherwise), in whatever way that is relevant to me. Sometimes that means I hang from a trapeze bar, or racing my dog down the driveway on my rollerblades. Sometimes that means giving myself a break from the gym and getting some extra rest (and perhaps a Netflix or two).
Not that I could possibly ever know the mind of God, but I think He cares a lot less about the size and shape of our container, than the soul that is inside.
When I grab that trapeze bar and pull myself up and think about how I spent the last two years getting stronger, learning about myself that I can do the seemingly impossible, that I built resilience and learned to conquer my inner objections. THAT's what He wants for me.
When I feel the breeze blowing in my hair and I wobble just a bit as my skate wheel rolls over and crushes pecan hull, throwing me off balance for just a moment, and then…NO, I don't fall down. I realize I have better balance. I am capable. I am confident. THAT's what He wants for me.
Not fear, freedom. Freedom from the barriers that I once saw for myself. Freedom to be me. Freedom to rediscover me. Freedom to redefine me.


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Traveler Camper CS-10
Traveler Guitar CS-10, the first model in our affordable and portable (and also adorable) Camper Series. This short-scale beauty plays with big-scale sound and it's jam-packed with value.
The Traveler CS-10 has a solid Engleman spruce top, which is snappy and reactive and that makes for rad upper mids. Then there's the warm, rich okoume (very similar to mahogany) back and sides with lacewood veneer. Together the species (fancy talk) make the CS-10 tonally balanced and totally purdy. It's also got an arched back for added boom-boom and comfort.
We've gone the extra mile with super slick appointments like pearloid dots, our Traveler "bug" at the 12th, sick black binding, an embossed logo on the headstock, and a super smooth satin mahogany neck. Oh, and it's got a cutaway! Are you kidding?! No. We're not. Also, gig-bag standard.
You could use the CS-10 as a boat paddle if you found yourself in some sort of preposterous Cast Away type situation. Then you could name your guitar and have conversations with it! But we don't recommend that. Instead, we want you to take this lil beauty camping, or hiking, or biking, or climbing, or fishing, or swimming (j/k not swimming), and serenade yourself, your besties, and anyone else who's down with your hilarious Bob Dylan impression.
The Traveler Guitar CS-10 is lotsa guitar for very little moolah and it's a true space-saver, which makes it quite literally a happy camper (or glamper).
22.15 inch scale length
Solid Engleman Spruce top
Okoume back & sides w/Lacewood veneer
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How to Get Foreclosure Help from Your Lender
Layoffs, injuries and other sudden changes to your financial situation can impact your ability to make mortgage payments. Unfortunately, consistently paying late or missing payments could put your loan into foreclosure. Before you get to that point, there are a number of steps you can take with your lender to help prevent the loss of your dream home.
Ask for Foreclosure Help
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Lenders want their borrowers to make good on issued loans. When borrowers miss payments and foreclosure becomes inevitable, it negatively affects the bank. Banks are not in the business of real estate, and owning your home typically means a fairly substantial financial loss for the bank. They are motivated to offer a variety of programs designed to help those facing foreclosure, as this benefits both you and them. If you are having trouble making your monthly mortgage payments, your first step should be a call to your lender.
Investigate the Possibility of a Forbearance
If your financial situation changed suddenly, your lender may choose to extend your grace period on late payments. When your financial struggle is very temporary, this can help you get back on your feet. If your financial woes may last longer, your lender may choose to allow you to miss up to six payments over the course of two years. This can be invaluable after a layoff or an injury that affects your employment status. If six months is not long enough, even spread out to accommodate partial payments, you may need to move on to the next step.
Restructure your Loan
In the face of a long-term or permanent change to your income, it may be necessary to permanently change the terms of your mortgage. During a restructure, the most likely change is to extend the duration of your mortgage to lower your monthly payment. For example, if you have 25 years left on a 30-year mortgage, you might extend it back up to 30 years. That stretches your balance over an additional five years, lowering your payments by a corresponding amount. You might also need to negotiate a lower interest rate. Restructuring is not always available, but there may be other lending options that will offer assistance.
Refinance for Foreclosure Help
In some very limited circumstances, a refinance loan can help you lower your payments and avoid foreclosure. If interest rates have lowered dramatically and/or your credit has improved, you might refinance to a lower interest rate. The downside is that during a refinance, there are expenses associated with closing the loan. Remember the closing costs you paid when you first bought your home? During a refinance, you might need to pay those all over again. There might also be points on the loan, which would require a significant cash outlay. Refinancing to change your type of loan may be an option, particularly if your original loan was an adjustable rate mortgage or a fixed rate with a very short term. Be very cautious about refinancing. There are many lenders that prey on people who are desperate to avoid foreclosure.
Get HUD Involved in the Negotiations
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has a whole host of programs designed to offer foreclosure help. Programs like HAMP could reduce your monthly payment by 40 percent or more, based on your new income level. If you are underwater on your mortgage, they have programs for that, too. Also, keep in mind that your lender may need to increase the amount of forbearance offered to you if you are unemployed. New requirements extend the forbearance period to 12 months.
The right combination of government programs and lender services could help you keep your home.
Key Takeaways:
- Contact your lender immediately if you are facing financial difficulties.
- Ask for help.
- A loan restructure could give you crucial financial relief.
- Refinance loans may come with hidden costs.
- HUD may hold the solution to your home loan woes.


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A Carton of Milk
It's the week before Thanksgiving and a carton of milk—specifically the December 4th expiration date on the carton of milk—caused me to have a bit of stress at the grocery store. Why? Raise your hand if you agree that 2015 has flown by. I know that I am not the only one with my hand in the air. As a child, time definitely did not pass so quickly, especially those LOOOOONG days leading up to Christmas morning.
But, here we are… days away from Thanksgiving and December is within earshot.
As I was about to start the ole' "let's stress about the holidays" routine, life got in the way or, actually, life at St. Mary on the Hill Catholic School got in the way.
Sitting in my office the following morning, one of our 8th grade students was leading the entire school with our morning prayers and intentions. A short time later, Mrs. Patricia Gormley, library/media center specialist, asked a 1st grade homeroom about why they are thankful. It was an absolute privilege to listen to those sweet voices respond.
Just as I was placing envelopes in the outside mailbox, a school parent was returning from the Adoration Chapel with some of our 3rd grade students in tow. They took a few minutes out of their busy school day to visit Jesus.
From the school office I saw our principal, Mr. Joe McBride, looking out the front door. The skies were dark; the rain was starting to fall. He told our 1st and 4th grade teachers and students they would not be able to attend their weekly Mass. They had religion class instead.
All this happened within the first hour of the school day. So exactly what was so important at the grocery store that it caused me to stress? So what if the expiration date on a carton of milk reminded me that life is moving along maybe more quickly than I desire?
That first hour of my workday reminded me to focus on being grateful. I work at a wonderful school where Jesus is welcome. For that I am very grateful. He is most definitely the center of our school. He is that presence that moves our day along. He helps our teachers create a caring and supportive environment for our students, and He helps our students excel in a very challenging academic curriculum.
During every school day here at St. Mary's, Jesus helps grownups and students alike achieve the balance we all need. He helps us remember what is truly important and to be grateful for all that we have.
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Fans of Daria can now rejoice for there will be a DVD release of the show almost 12 years since the first episode aired. There was an ad promoting Daria hitting DVD in 2010 at the begging of the newly released DVD of the long awaited MTV original The State. Above is Daria's screencap.


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Stacey Dooley: Strictly star eyes up ENGAGEMENT ring after speaking out on baby plans
The 31-year-old Strictly Come Dancing champion recently revealed she would like to have children in the future and, during her appearance on The One Show earlier tonight, she could be seen weighing her opinion on an engagement ring which has gone viral. Stacey Dooley got stuck in to a debate about Poundland's new £1 rings as BBC presenter Alex Jones, 41, handed over the red heart-shaped box containing one. "I think that's lovely," host Matt Baker, 41, insisted. "I don't think money should ever get in the way of a nice, generous, lovely gift."
Sounding slightly more skeptical, Alex chipped in: "If you found out 10 years later it was a pound, I'd be annoyed."
"For me, it's a celebration of the fact you've made this commitment to each other," Matt added, while Stacey took the ring out of the box to get a closer look.
Appearing relatively impressed with it, she announced: "I sort of don't mind that at all, actually."
When it was revealed many of the people who The One Show stopped in the street to ask about their views on the much-discussed new £1 engagement rings had quite liked them before they knew the price, Stacey commented that they looked more expensive than they were.
Her interest in the engagement ring comes after the Strictly star told The Times Magazine about her plans for a family.
On the subject of watching One Born Every Minute, she said: "I close my legs and think, I'm never going to do that."
However, she later added: "In the future, [having children] is something I would like, but work is so brilliant at the minute, it won't be too soon."
Stacey has been dating personal trainer Sam Tucknott for seven years and she also went on to open up about their relationship.
Following rumours Sam was "jealous" of her Strictly pro partner Kevin Clifton, 36, the documentary filmmaker told the publication: "The truth is Kevin and I are brilliant friends and he'll be my pal for life. And Sam was probably the most supportive he has ever been."
She recalled meeting Sam when he was working as her personal trainer, quipping: "Cheesy, innit?
"We kind of hung out for a while and were pally,"(sic) she continued.
"I remember seeing him and thinking, oh my god, he's so handsome. But I never thought he was for me. Never thought of him like that."
Stacey's comments came after The Sun reported her relationship was "under strain".
A source claimed she and Sam were struggling to spend time together due to her hectic schedule with the Strictly Come Dancing live tour.
"She has already blamed the six months she spent on Strictly for putting a massive strain on her love life but now being away from home has made things even more difficult," they told the publication.
"She and Sam used to train together most days, but now she is always dancing. He's not sure how much more distance their relationship can stand."
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Ride Along – 2200HP Viper vs 1100HP Dodge DemonJuly 20th, 2019
You don't tug on Superman's cape. Don't spit into the wind. Don't pull on the mask of the old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim! Who's Jim? I don't know but he's driving a Viper. Allow me to welcome you to Colorado Springs for the Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack 2019. Today, a modified Dodge Challenger SRT Demon (1,100hp) will get a reality check. On hand for this half-mile event is Calvo Motorsports. Calvo is the premier shop for high performance Viper modification. These guys have turned up with a bevy of hot Vipers that are raring to Read More


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Our family orders something from Amazon at least once a week. Increasingly, we order items from Amazon third-party sellers, many of whom honor Amazon Prime shipping and are almost indistinguishable to the common buyer throughout the entire purchase and delivery workflow. We have very few problems with third-party sellers, but there is one major difference between buying something Amazon-stocked and from a third-party supplier: the inevitable follow-up email that essentially puts the buyer on a mailing list they never opted into.Read More
Get Fuzzy! Craig Blower's inspirational writing while battling lung cancer.
During the time my dad battled stage IV lung cancer, Craig Blower, a friend of a friend, was also going through the fight. It helped me to see how Craig dealt with his struggle (he and my father had very different methods of doing it), and Craig documented the whole thing on his blog,Read More
Cold calls
Do people answer random phone calls anymore? I basically do not answer the phone unless Caller ID matches a (good) friend, or I have a scheduled call in my calendar.
I also use Google Voice to transcribe voicemails (I never listen to them). The transcriptions are never perfect, but I usually get the gist. It's much more effective to hang up and send an email or text, but if someone just writes "call me" without saying why, I usually do not call.
And this is coming from me! A middle-ager! Imagine what happens when you cold-call an actual millennial: you've just advertised yourself as someone who has not adapted, probably will never adapt, and possibly doesn't ever want to adapt.
I turned 40 and got an awesome AwesomeBox
Today, I received my "surprise" 40th-birthday gift from Pam: an AwesomeBox! What a great gift—I absolutely love it. A diverse set of 63 friends from various parts of me life (family, school, music, photography, technology) submitted pictures and heartfelt messages (which are printed on the back).Read More
Avegant Glyph mobile personal theater is almost here
I caught up with Avegant at their Redwood City headquarters and had a chance to try out a pre-production Glyph personal theater headset, which had literally been flown back from manufacturing in China a day or two earlier. I backed Glyph on Kickstarter almost a year ago and have been following its progress closely as the company has moved from early prototype to having plans to ship in late January.Read More
360 spherical shots of Facebook HQ's Building 20
Schrep had a rare lunch slot free this week, and we tried the sit-down family-style restaurant inside Facebook's Building 20. Of course, I had to break out the 360 camera and get some shots. It's viewable through Cardboard through the Roundme app (iOS).Read More
John Markoff e-signs his book, "Machines of Loving Grace," on an iPad Pro
I caught up with author and New York Times science writer John Markoff today over lunch, and asked him to electronically sign his book, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground. Neither of us really knows what that means, so we used Skitch, and iPad Pro, and a screenshot of my purchased Kindle-version book cover.Read More
Migrating from Wordpress to Squarespace
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It's the new echeng.com!
After 13 years, I have finally migrated echeng.com to a modern design. I designed and coded the old version back in 2002, when using server-side includes, home-brew templates coded in PHP, and layout done using tables were still acceptable...Read More
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When ZEVO became unsupported, all of its users became stranded on OS X 10.8, ZEVO's last supported OS version. Most of us have been watching the OpenZFS project with great interest because it promises ZFS support for Mac users on Mavericks (and beyond—they have already announced support for Yosemite!)...Read More
edgertronic high-speed camera with inexpensive follow focus
Today, I received and set up a relatively-inexpensive follow focus system for the edgertronic high-speed camera. The follow focus is the EzFoto Fotasy, which includes a follow focus and 15mm rail system for $278.99 shipped on Amazon Prime...Read More
edgertronic high-speed camera configured for field use
configured my Edgertronic high speed camera for field use, today, which means attaching portable power and a portable, battery-powered wireless router. Once the edgertronic works directly by using Wi-Fi, the wireless router can be removed.
The portable wireless router I'm using is the TP-LINK TL-MR3040...Read More
Olympus OM-D EM-1 first impressions
First hour of exploring: I'm really impressed with the ergonomics of the Olympus OM-D E-M1 (although Olympus marketing needs a lesson in product naming). If you are the type who loves to customize every button of your camera, you'll love the E-M1. The defaults are reasonable, though, so you don't need to customize if you aren't into that...Read More
ZEVO ZFS over Thunderbolt on a Mac
After years of threatening, I finally set up a ZFS pool in a Mac OS X (10.8.5) environment. Today, I downloaded ZEVO Community Edition, which is (self)-described as "a momentous, much needed and long-overdue improvement over Apple's status quo file system (HFS+) that was designed in the mid 1980s — before the Internet existed!" I totally agree. HFS+ is a turd, allowing "bit-rot" to silently corrupt your data over time. I am a working photographer with many terabytes of data that I need to store securely. Although I keep many copies of the data (and versioned copies of important stuff), I have, on occasion, gone back to old pictures only to find them to be corrupted. This scares me. Luckily, ZFS is a file system that has been designed not to allow silent corruption. If you want to know more about ZFS, read its Wikipedia entry.
I've been warned that ZEVO may not be supported in the future, and that their version of ZFS for the Mac has the following limitations:
- No GUI
- No Deduplication
- Limited storage capacity (16 TB)
- Other natural limitations ("resource diet," they say)
Still, people seem to be successfully using ZEVO on a daily basis, and I'm told it's very stable, so here I am.
I'm not really a unix person, and I hate configuring storage via the command line. But ZEVO and ZFS is really brain-dead simple. Anyone can get a ZFS volume up and running by following instructions carefully.
Here's what I did:
I bought an Areca ARC-8050 Thunderbolt RAID 8-Bay. I am pleasantly surprised by how quiet this box is. When you first power it on, it sounds like a jet, but it's apparently just doing a fan test. The fan is adaptive and typically runs quietly. I can hear the box, but it's not annoyingly loud.
I filled the box with 8 x 4TB Western Digital Red SATA NAS hard drives.
I revived an old-ish Mac Mini and upgraded it to 16GB of RAM and an inexpensive SSD. This is the Mac I am going to use with the Areca box because my Mac Pro doesn't have Thunderbolt. When the new Mac Pro comes out, I'll move the connection over, assuming that OS X Mavericks doesn't do something stupid like disallow such things.
I registered at the ZEVO website, downloaded ZEVO Community Edition, and installed it.
I downloaded the latest firmware for the ARC-8050, unzipped it, and applied the firmware updates using the web interface for the Areca. The firmware update comes with 3 .bin files for the ARC1882 (which is correct), and you have to apply all of them. There is no feedback from the web GUI after you hit "Submit" until the update completes (or fails!). Scared, yet? I was, when I got here. The documentation is poor.
I went to Physical Drives->Create Pass-Through Disk in the Areca configuration interface and created a pass-through disk for each of the 8 drives. Creating a pass-through disk allows Mac OS X to see the drive, but doesn't allow you to use the disk in a RAID set. This is fine because we are going to use ZFS to manage the RAID instead of the Areca's RAID controller.
I initialized and partitioned each disk as GUID and formatted as Mac Extended (Journaled). I don't think it matters what you format as, but ZEVO definitely wants you to initialize and partition the drives.
At this point, running "zpool showdisks" returned:
DISK DEVICE SIZE CONNECTION DESCRIPTION /dev/disk1 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk2 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk3 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk4 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk5 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk6 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk7 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media /dev/disk8 3.64TiB SAS WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Media
- I created a RAID-Z2 (2-drive fault tolerance) by running:
sudo zpool create -f -o ashift=12 copepodzfs raidz2 /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2 /dev/disk3 /dev/disk4 /dev/disk5 /dev/disk6 /dev/disk7 /dev/disk8
I used "-o ashift=12" because pretty much every consumer drive is an "Advanced Format (AF) Drive," which means that it has large, 4K sectors, but fools computers into thinking that it uses the old, 512-byte logical sector. ZFS can be told to align with a 4K sector size by giving it an ashift of 12. This results in better performance.
I used "-O casesensitivity=insensitive" after being given advice by Graham Perrin. Some applications in Mac OS X do not do well with case sensitivity, which is the default setting in ZEVO. You cannot change this after the fact, so you should decide during pool creation time.
You can verify that your drive is telling the OS that is uses 512-byte block sizes by running "diskutil info /dev/disk1" (assuming one of your drives is "/dev/disk1") and looking for "Device Block Size." Mine says, "Device Block Size: 512 Bytes"
Creating the RAID-Z2 was instantaneous. ZFS is amazing.
- I checked my ZFS pool status by running "zpool status copepodzfs" (my pool is called "copepodzfs"):
pool: copepodzfs state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM copepodzfs ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 GPTE_BB07001A-8B58-4C54-AF77-D71CEE3BE391 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk1s2 GPTE_FF882147-9E69-4CD2-AD64-EE216275F239 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk2s2 GPTE_BE799326-E888-4EDE-9CFD-4D604FB728C5 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk3s2 GPTE_22475434-3E60-491A-BD9D-8BE9EDF3239D ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk4s2 GPTE_957351BC-43EC-4F2F-9120-1791090539EF ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk5s2 GPTE_03AB5A7A-BD0A-4EF1-8613-FAB64EFBBFE4 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk6s2 GPTE_EAD32B39-2FEA-4B62-BD7C-E0FA115706C5 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk7s2 GPTE_E66C7105-DF1B-4B4A-9C72-CB74E722C1B9 ONLINE 0 0 0 at disk8s2 errors: No known data errors
- I claimed ownership of the new volume using "sudo chown echeng:staff /Volumes/copepodzfs".
Here's the volume (below). One thing that is strange (but consistent with what others have seen) is that it is reporting 22.4TB even though ZEVO Community Edition has a 16TB cap.
Speed Tests
Local speed test on the Mac Mini, using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. This thing is FAST! It's a little freaky that writes are faster than reads.
Speed mounted over SMB / gigabit ethernet:
Note that this is 100% Mac Mini-limited, since running the same speed test to the Mac Mini's internal SSD yields similar results:
I get 100MB/s over my wired network when talking to a Synology DS1812+ NAS box, so the network is capable of running at full speed. Hopefully, accessing the device over the network is temporary. If the new Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 works with ZEVO, I'll be connected directly. Fast, redundant, corruption-immune and rebuild-friendly? If this works, I'll be super happy!
That teen who rode a whale shark
'm being asked about the kid who rode a whale shark recently, and I have mixed feelings about it. I am, however, sad that there is a witch hunt by so-called conservationists and animal lovers whenever something like this happens.
Whale sharks are listed as Vulnerable by CITES—they are not endangered, nor are they protected in many places of the world...Read More
I sold my Pebble watch without opening it
Recently, I was at dinner with someone who had a Pebble E-Paper Watch. I love the idea of the Pebble, but during dinner, the guy kept looking at his watch. He looked at his watch almost literally every 5-10 seconds. At that point, I decided that I no longer wanted one. I am not sure that I have the discipline to totally ignore the watch when I need do (like I do with my phone), and I don't want to be the person who looks at his watch every 5-10 seconds.
Today, my gray Pebble watch arrived (I backed their Kickstarter project). I sold it without even opening the box (people are really interested—it sold in just a few minutes). I think I might have kept it if I were planning to do some development work to make it more interesting, but I know that I won't make time to do that.
Go back and reprocess your old pictures!
I was assembling a collection of underwater images tonight and decided to see what Adobe Lightroom's 2012 processing engine would do to an old image I took at Roca Partida (Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico) back in 2006. Back then, I used Adobe Photoshop to quickly process the picture from raw to a 2000-pixel JPG image for screen viewing. Tonight, I pulled up the raw file in Adobe Lightroom, chose the 2012 processing engine, and did a few minor tweaks using the Develop module. WOW. It's like a different picture.
Have you had pictures take on new life when you've gone back and reprocessed old raw files using new image-processing software? If you haven't, it's time to get started!
A poorly-worded Stanford CS account phishing email
I received a pretty crappy attempt to get me to give up access to my lifetime Stanford computer science department email address. I hope no one falls for this!
From: Stanford University
Subject: Computer Science- Web Upgrade Date: May 29, 2013 1:20:01 PM PDT To: you Reply-To: email@example.com
This email is being sent to you because of violation security breach that was detected by our servers. Our server detected that one of the messages you received from a contact has already infected your mail with a dangerous virus.
You can no longer be allowed to send messages or files to other users to prevent the spread of virus to other @cs.stanford.edu mail users. Please follow the link below to perform maintenance work needed to improve the protection of the web-mail for us to verify and have your account cleared against this virus.
WARNING!!! E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his or her account within 48hrs after notification of this update will permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of the client or user's account and we will not be responsible for loosing your account.
The link goes to: http: //www.123contactform.com/form-591874/Web-Upgrade (I didn't click on it)
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Computer Science- Web Upgrade
Another day, another copyright infringement (this time, by Greenpeace)
Greenpeace International is using my screaming turtle picture without permission nor credit. Most of their feed, for the past couple of days, consists of pictures ripped from the internet and modified with text, uploaded directly to their Facebook timeline...Read More
Scam: traveling, mugged, and need cash
I've gotten this email from more than one person in the past. If any friend asks for cash via email, please make sure you talk to them directly on the phone before you even think about helping them. Usually, it means that their email account has been compromised, so they should also immediately change all of their passwords.
I'm sorry you're getting the mail from me at this Point in time,my family and I came down here to Manila(Philippines), for a short vacation unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel we stayed,all cash credit cards and cell were stolen off but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.
I have been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves pretty soon from now but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills.Please be so kind to reply back so I can tell you what to do and how to get some cash to us.
I'm freaked out at the moment
Here's a helpful snopes article that talks about this scam. Also, all the telltale signs of scam from non-native English speakers are there: poor grammar, arbitrarily capitalized words, missing spaces, and the use of the word, "kind" or "kindly."


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Fakultäten » Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät » Banking und Finance, Institut für » Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney » Chesney Stromberg Wagner
|Title / Titel
|Risk-Taking Incentives, Governance, and Losses in the Financial Crisis
|Abstract (PDF, 14 KB)
|Summary / Zusammenfassung
|Risk-taking Incentives, Governance, and Losses in the Financial Crisis
This paper studies the extent to which risk-taking incentives of CEOs and other governance
features in a range of years prior to the recent nancial crisis were related to the write-downs of U.S. nancial institutions during the crisis. We document that institutions whose CEOs had particularly strong risk-taking incentives, weak ownership incentives and independent boards had the highest write-downs, both in absolute terms and relative to total assets. Furthermore, nancial institutions with lower Tier-1 ratios and those with CEOs who earned less than their colleagues at comparable rms had larger write-downs.
Keywords: Executive compensation; Subprime crisis; Write-downs; Corporate governance;
Managerial incentives; Risk-taking; Too big to fail
Weitere Informationen
|Project leadership and contacts /
Projektleitung und Kontakte
|Funding source(s) /
Unterstützt durch
|Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Others
|Duration of Project / Projektdauer
|Jan 2010 to Dec 2014


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As hard as it can be to think about, everybody dies at some point. It's just a fact of life. But the part that worries many of us is when and HOW it will happen. That's what the team at TitleMax.com was interested about as well. The act of dying is the scariest part of the whole process. But that doesn't mean we aren't completely engrossed by it and want to hear all the gory details, literally.
From the many tragic stories you hear in the news, to television shows based around weird ways people have died, humans are fascinated by their own demise. Tragedy can strike at any time, even when participating in an everyday activity such as going for a swim, riding in a car, or even just from getting out of bed in the morning. What are the odds of dying from these sort of activities though?
This infographic from Title Max takes a look at the likelihood of tragedy striking during a variety of activities, as well as the behaviors (such as smoking or eating red meat) that can speed the process up significantly.
Infographic Source: www.titlemax.com


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How to Pack for a Five Day Trip
How to Pack for a Five Day Trip
In these days of heightened weight restrictions and airport security, packing well can become a challenge. However, with a few simple tips, you can rise to the challenge, as well as be prepared for any occasion. Read this eHow to learn more about packing well for a five day trip.
· Take enough underwear for six days. Underwear can be washed, if necessary, in the sink, and after being wrung out and hung to dry, will be ready to wear in the morning.
· Pack clothing that's made of fabric that's wrinkle resistant, like skirts, pants, and shirts made of polyester and rayon blends. The benefit of this fabric is that it too can be washed in the sink at night and will be dry in the morning, ready to wear. Read the label when you buy your clothing in preparation for the trip.
· Make certain to bring a sweater or jacket that's both lightweight and warm. Also include a rain coat--possibly one of the ones that can fit into a very small bag.
· Take one or two sets of pajamas.
· Buy travel-sized toiletries for the trip. Thanks to the new regulations, you can no longer bring shampoo or conditioner on the plane. If you are staying at a hotel, you will find some toiletries there. Remember your toothpaste and toothbrush, as these will probably not be provided.
· Fold your clothing, then roll each item into a cylinder when packing. You can even do this with your socks. In this way you can pack all of your clothing and toiletries into a carry-on bag, thus lessening the risk of losing your luggage.
· Consider silk garments if traveling in winter. Anything made of silk--underwear, long underwear, shirts, sweaters, socks, and silk shirts--are great insulators, and pack more tightly than bulkier garments made of wool.
· Bring something to read or listen to. Paperback books might be the better choice than hard-back books, but as you packed your clothing so tightly, you may have extra room in your bag.
· Try to choose shoes that go along with most of your outfits so you don't have to pack more than three pairs. Make certain that one pair of these shoes are ones that are able to handle inclement weather.


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Last Friday afternoon Gambit and I flew out from Heathrow to JFK.
I successfully filled all of our 3 suitcases to the point where the zippers looked like they were going to rip apart. I didn't manage to find any clothing I liked so I bought enough food products to stock my pantry to make me feel like I was in the UK.
After checking in and stopping through Duty Free to pick up some liquor and gifts, we had approximately 20 mins in the Virgin Lounge. This was one of the better lounges I have ever been into.
When we entered the lounge we noticed that there seemed to be some type of filming going on and when we left to board our plane, we were told that it was up-and-coming artist, Audreya Triana performing.
The Delta flight to New York was actually really good. The plane was a bit dated but I got very lucky as noone wanted to sit next to me, so I had two seats to myself. I also had one of the better plane foods I've ever consumed and the service was very good. Overall the experience was great and I intend to fly with them again.
Now the not so great news is that during the flight, I decided to bite my left thumb's nail. While I was having a good go at it, I suddenly felt I had a bit of rock in my mouth. I pulled it out but because it was lights-out time, I couldn't see what it was exactly, so I thought it was perhaps something stuck under my nail which I pulled out with my teeth.
Then… the penny dropped. I ran my tongue on across the bottom of my front teeth and felt it. A chunk missing from one of my front teeth! I had managed to chip my tooth by biting my nail! I have either strong nails or weak teeth. I would honestly say it's a nice 50/50 combo.
So wait for it, here is what my front teeth look like for the rest of the flight – and although I have had Invisalign, my teeth are still not picture perfect – so people with a weak stomach may want to skip the photo.
It wasn't until Tuesday that I could make an appointment with the dentist to get it fixed. And by Wednesday night my front tooth was fixed and better than new – see scary image below. I wondered why my tooth was slightly discoloured and shorter than the other but the dentist was kind enough to explain that discolouration may have occurred from trauma to the tooth (and I have an idea of when that happened…) and it is shorter than the other because I grind my teeth.
My dentist experience yesterday was one of the best ones I have ever had. The whole experience, from booking my appointment to my filling and scale and clean was excellent and I highly recommend Frangella Dental. I am actually feeling pretty good about having to return in a couple of week's time for another filling.
Yes, I know – I have teeth worse than a kid.
And also just to add – it is great being home. Because for me, home is where Ava is.


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MarketAxess buys Greenline
March 11, 2008
Mostly reports that MarketAxess has bought a FIX tools vendor: Greenline. Greenline's entire product line seems to consist of FIX debugging tools. I'm sure they're very helpful if you're executing a FIX integration. But what does it say about FIX as protocol or standard if an ISV can build an entire business around debugging and diagnostic tools ?
More importantly, I think it teaches us an important lesson qua Ferguson on platform strategy. For a platform to gain adoption in a multisided market, it has to give one group of constituents a free ride to get the others on board. For instance, Microsoft gives developers a free ride with excellent dev tools and resources either free or at cost. The developers generate apps that bring fee paying users on board. FIX is just a standard, and not a platform, and doesn't give a free ride to buy or sell side. Hence the patchy adoption in fixed income, and the market opportunity for the likes of Greenline.


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Below are the dates for the Academic Year. From September 2018, Holidays in Term Time will not be authorised and will be subject to a fixed term penalty notice.
Autumn 2018
Monday, 3rd September to Friday, 21st December 2018
Half term - Monday, 22nd to Friday, 26th October 2018
Inset days
Monday, 3rd September 2018 (School Closed)
Tuesday, 4th September 2018 (School Closed)
Spring 2019
Monday, 7th January to Friday, 5th April 2019
Half term – Monday, 18th to Friday, 22nd February 2019
Summer 2019
Tuesday, 23rd April to Tuesday, 23rd July 2019
Easter Monday, 22nd April
May Day – Monday, 6th May
Half Term - Monday, 27th May to Friday, 31st May 2019
Inset days
Monday, 3rd June 2019 (School Closed)
Monday, 22nd July 2019 (School Closed)
Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 (School Closed)


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The Kichwa community of Sarayacu, on the Rio Bobonozna, east of the Andes in Amazon, Ecuador. In the video, I state that they have been here for 150 years, I was told later by a priest that there are accounts from the Spanish that place a village here in the late 16th Century.
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Sammy Charlie Striped Jeans
Regular price $269.00
Shimmery metallic racer stripes trace the sides of the Sammy Charlie Striped Jeans, a high-rise skinny jean cut from black Flawless denim boasting advanced stretch for a streamlined yet comfortable fit. A bit of fading creates a slightly broken-in effect, and worn edges complete the look.
- 10 1/4" rise, 9 3/4" leg opening, 28" inseam
Fabric Content: 70% Cotton 21% Polyester 8% Rayon 1% Spandex


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Rural Residential
Perfect for first home owner in great neighbourhood
Situated in the quiet Glennie heights area home is within walking distance to schools and town.
Features three bay lock up garage and carport under house.
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If you truly want to change your life, you must first change your mind. You must free it from the restrictive thinking that holds you back. People's mindsets It's often misguided. The more you choose your actions based on what other people are doing and thinking, the less you'll do what you feel is right, and the less fabulously you'll live
"Stay true to yourself. Never be ashamed of doing what feels right. "
Do You Want To Be Average?
Do You Want To Be Training The Same Way Everyone Else Is?,
Do You Want To Have The Same Body As Everyone Else?.
Probably Not.
But if you base your thinking on "conventional wisdom," average is your fate. Going along with the crowd and the norm is definitely easier than thinking for yourself, but it's not the way to live your best life and get the most from your health and body.
"You are what you do today, not what you say you'll do tomorrow."
There are many times we make decisions based on other people's thinking, this happens scarily close to all the time. We automatically train the same way our friends are, because that's easier than considering whether you would be better off in a different training environment to suit what you want. We eat what our families have eaten since childhood, even if it's not the healthiest food. We follow the rules that were set by others years ago in terms of many different things instead of breaking out of the box and trying something different.
Okay, I've Convinced You, But How Do You Think Differently?
"You are only destined to become one person – the person you decide to be.. "
Your turn…
For one day, question everything you take for granted, from the way you brush your teeth in the morning to how you get your work done to how you communicate with your family.
Why Do You Do It The Way You Do?
Would It Be Better If You Tried Doing It A Different Way?
Can You Try That Right Now?
What If You: Trained a few muscle groups together other than just working on one body part, "its chest day to day cannot train legs, they won't be recovered today?
What If You: Combined a yoga session with training, instead of your usual 30 second warm up and training? Maybe cause it's not cool and everyone one would laugh cause its not the norm.
What If You: Took a different route to work? What if you said No to an obligation you would normally say Yes to, even though you didn't really want to?
"To get something you've never had, you must do something you've never done."
We all have Greatness in Us. We do have it within us to choose how we are going to live our lives Live each and every day, minute, second, to the fullest.
Take Action:
This will be an eye-opening experiment. When you do this Challenge, please post a comment or email to let us know how it went.
What did you decide to question or change that has helped free your mind from negativity and restrictive thinking ?
Did this article have an Impact on You?
I think you'll discover that there's a whole new world out there that you haven't discovered only because the people you know and whose actions you follow haven't discovered it yet themselves.
Your Friend Dan
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