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One of the dubious claims I was trying to make was that people using social media in a "microfame" sort of way are (1) seeking intensity to make up for the disappointments of everyday social media use, which stokes a far more intense need for affirmation than ordinary people in one's community can generally fulfill and (2) seeking a pre-emptive defense against the fateful loss of privacy by turning that eventuality (the transformation into oneself into what Mary Anne Franks calls a "unwilling avatar") into a self-defined risk.
After I finished writing my piece, I read Erving Goffman's "Where the Action Is" (one of the essays in the collection Interaction Ritual), which gave me a much clearer way of thinking about online risk-taking and reputation wagers (what Goffman in the essay calls "character contests"). The fringes of social-media connectivity offer a field for taking calculated risks, for what gamblers have always called "action," an intensity over ventured stakes that makes the present moment seem like the only thing that matters in the world. Gamblers' wagers are monetary and wait for the roll of the dice to decide the outcome; the anxious and microfamous risk their reputation and the immediate deciding outcome is likes, reblogs, and so on. This immediacy screens the larger ramifications of the risk down the line (much like gamblers aren't worried in the moment about being destitute outside of the casino).
Goffman theorizes that we seek action to call forth otherwise inaccessible dimensions of "character," and prove our poise and "composure," a term of art for Goffman that amounts to keeping one's cool and earning a reputation for it -- the ability to act natural. "Excitement and character display, the by-products of practical gambles, ... become in the case of action the tacit purpose of the whole show." Goffman suggests that we are fundamentally "ambivalent about safe and momentless living" and we gravitate away from the comforts of everyday life to the fringes to seek "serious action."
At the same time, this makes us believe we can assert control over the way our lives our contingent and at the mercy of fate. Through action, we seem to choose the momentous occasions for ourselves. Goffman: "It is as if the illusion of self-determinancy were a payment society gives to individuals in exchange for their willingness to perform jobs that expose them to risk." Self-construction has arguably become one of those jobs for all of us, given the real subsumption of subjectivity to capital -- no ontological security without routing your thoughts and feelings through communicative capitalism's circuits. In my New Inquiry essay, I frame that real subsumption in terms of "the threat of invisibility" -- the feeling that one will disappear from meaningful society if one stops participating in online social networks. This is complicated, of course, by the threats inherent in visibility -- surveillance, context collapse, harassment, etc. The tension between these simultaneous threats leaves us craving action as a way of re-establishing control.
Most people aren't courageous enough to seek action outright, Goffman argues, so they pursue vicarious substitutes in entertainment (they consume the extreme risky behavior of heroes in books, movies, TV) or in packaged thrills like amusement park rides and whatnot.
Here's how Goffman attenuates the division between action seekers and (to quote Bud from Repo Man) "ordinary fucking people":
Looking for where the action is, one arrives at a romantic division of the world. On one side are the safe and silent places, the home, the well-regulated role in business, industry, and the professions; on the other are all those activities that generate expression, requiring the individual to lay himself on the line and place himself in jeopardy during a passing moment. It is from this contrast that we fashion nearly all our commercial fantasies.Social media, especially highly structured sites like Facebook, are partly akin to the amusement park in providing a structured way to take risks with identity and behave in risky ways (stalking, sharing "too much," etc.) and partly akin to old vicarious entertainments, only the risk-taking heroes are peers, not fictional characters or celebrities. They are instead the microfamous; they are ourselves. The commercial fantasies are about ourselves. Like the action at plush casinos where you get to play at high-rollerdom, this social media action is "at once vicarious and real." The different social media sites offer different ways to calibrate this balance, but it is easy to get wrong and they encourage that we lose sight of the more far-reaching consequences of impulsive behavior. The vicarious thrill of being able to broadcast, to seize a moment of self-definition (which must be risky, shameful if you buy into Sedgwick's gloss on Silvan Tomkins's affect theory, to feel true) is social media's product for users.
Social media supplies high-risk opportunities to definitively establish our presence in absence, in a way that feels like something under our control, something we sought out. Through our composure in the risky performance of self, we prove that the identity we are constructing is also natural, who we really are. It has gravity; we are not simply deletable, ephemeral.
To experience action, people need to go where "the chances that they will be obliged to take chances" increase, Goffman notes. It seems like people figure out where these places are online, whether Tumblr or OkCupid or Craigslist, etc. Goffman's final line in the essay still resonates: "These naked little spasms of the self occur at the end of the world, but there at the end is action and character."


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Can by having unprotected sex (not using condom) with only your wife can leads to AIDS. We have physical relation only with each other and nobody else. so by doing sex just with each other can lead to HIV?
I'm assuming you are both HIV negative and thus your question qualifies for QTND (Questions That Never Die) status. See below.
Dr. Bob
Bareback possibility (HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES) Aug 11, 2007
Dr. Bob,
I want to have bareback sex... we are both negative, & i want to know... if we have bareback sex will we get infected because we bareback???
Response from Dr. Frascino
Here we go again . . . . Can two HIV-negative people give each other HIV??? I wish someone could explain to me why such a nonsensical question comes up so frequently! Dude, can two people who don't have a million dollars give each other a million dollars??? Just in case you're still wondering, I'll reprint some posts from the archives that address your concern. See below.
Finally, I should mention barebacking is a risk! Remember, your partner is only as negative as his last HIV test and that was taken before the cute pizza delivery guy "delivered" earlier this evening!
Dr. Bob
HIV between two hiv-negative people?(HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES) Jul 2, 2007
is there a way hiv can develop through a hiv-negative person's vaginal fluid on a hiv-negative's small cut(ripped hang nail) through clothed mutual masturbation?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Here we go again! I find it shocking how often the question of "can two HIV negative people transmit HIV to each other?" comes up! And I find it disheartening to see this question now coming up in the context of mutual masturbation! Can there be any doubt that the lack of sex education in this country has reached critical proportions? Dubya's "abstinence only" sex education policy strikes again!
Rather than reiterate what I've said so many times before, I'll just repost a few questions from the archives.
Dr. Bob
Question (HIV FROM TWO HIV NEGATIVES) Jan 20, 2007
I was just wondering. Can AIDS come out of no where? Like, if two people are disease free, can an infection occur between them like AIDS assuming they haven't had any other sexual partners. (Asking this about both Hetero and SameSex couples for a paper)
Response from Dr. Frascino
Do you really think there is even a remote possibility that AIDS can come out of nowhere?????" I'm glad you are doing a paper, because you obviously have much to learn. See below.
Dr. Bob
AIDS Jan 3, 2007
can you get AIDS or HIV by having anal sex or vaginal sex with someone who does not have AIDS or HIV? Such as if semen was to make contact with blood in the body near the anus area.
Response from Dr. Frascino
That this question comes up so very often is a stark reminder of just what a shameful job our country is doing "educating" folks about HIV and STDs in general. No doubt you were home schooled or a product of an "abstinence-only" sex education program. Right? Yeah, I suspected as much.
Now please think this through rationally, OK? HIV is an STD, a sexually transmitted disease, caused by a germ, a virus called human immunodeficiency virus. If neither you nor your partner has the AIDS virus (HIV), how can you possibly transmit or catch it from each other???? "Semen coming into contact with blood in the body or near the anus" doesn't create an HIV virus out of thin air any more than it can create a million dollars. So, for instance, if your sex partner isn't already a millionaire, would you expect him to suddenly have a million dollars just because you had sex with him? Of course not! The same thing applies to germs that neither of you have as well!
See below. I'll reprint a similar question from the archives. Please spend some time reviewing the information on this site and at its related links that pertains to how HIV is and is not transmitted, OK?
Good luck. Get informed! Stay safe. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Anal sex and aids (CAN TWO HIV NEGATIVES CONTRACT HIV FROM EACH OTHER?) Sep 20, 2006
my husband and i had unprotected anl sex neither of us have aids or HIV and i we are in a monogomus relationship. what are my chances of contacted the HIV virus
Response from Dr. Frascino
Can two HIV-negative people contract HIV/AIDS from having unprotected anal sex with each other? Astoundingly this has become another QTND (Question That Never Dies)! It dramatically points out (1) the failure of sex education, (2) the failure of HIV/AIDS-prevention efforts and (3) the lack of common sense to conquer irrational HIV fears.
I'll reprint a post from the archives that addresses your concerns. I also suggest you spend some time reading the information on this site related to how HIV is and is not transmitted.
Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Quick question - please help!
Sep 3, 2006
Hi Dr. Bob,
My gay partner and I are both HIV- but just now we've gone wild and we performed unprotected sex. Is there a chance to get HIV from unprotected sex if both parties are HIV-? I am really worried now. Please help. Thank you!
Response from Dr. Frascino
"Can you get HIV from unprotected sex if both parties are HIV negative?" Here we go again. Another QTND: Question That Never Dies. Dudes, think about this rationally. HIV is a germ, a virus. Right? OK, check. Germs are spread from an infected person to an uninfected person. For instance, a common cold can be transmitted through the air if the infected person coughs or sneezes on an uninfected person. Right? OK, check. Sexually transmitted diseases, like the clap or syphilis, can be transmitted when the infected person has unprotected sex with an uninfected person. Right? OK, check. Now with this very basic information (even Dubya should understand this much), do you think you can answer your own question? Hint #1: HIV is a sexually transmitted disease.
Hint #2: HIV cannot spontaneously appear just because two uninfected guys get horned up and do a horizontal mattress mambo, forgetting to dress for the occasion. (That would be about as logical as the bizarre notions of "intelligent design" and "virgin birth.") Hint #3: You can't give something away that you don't have to give. Otherwise I'd ask you for a million dollars. But if you don't have a million dollars, you can't give it to me, right? And even if we had nookie, a million dollars wouldn't appear, no matter how hot the encounter may have been. Right? OK, check.
So, what's your final answer?!?
Hint #4: Dubya probably thinks you can indeed get HIV this way. So considering Dubya has been and continues to be wrong about absolutely everything from the war in Iraq to WMD to Mission Accomplished to Katrina to the economy to the environment to evolution/intelligent design to stem cell research, etc., etc., etc., does this help sway your answer?
OK, if you're still confused, write back and I'll provide more hints.
Dr. Bob
19 yr old & You said: If your partner were confirmed to be HIV-positive, the risk would be 0.1 to 0.2 percent per episode Sep 28, 2003
Hello Doctor. All I'd like to tell you is that you are doing a great job with your service. Not to take much of your time, based on your statement "if your partner were confirmed to be HIV-positive, the risk would be 0.1 to 0.2 percent per episode." Based on this statement, you are saying that only so much get infected based on one episode. I am just have difficulties in understanding this statement. That really means, if you are lucky based on one episode, you will not be positive, if you are not lucky, then you are positive. So do you think you and many others who are positive, are just having bad luck!! I think this statement is not really accurate. Do you still abide with this statement? My other question is that, how does a guy who is negative turns out positive if he sleeps with someone who is negative. In other words, two negative how, can someone turn positive? How does someone become positive if the couple is both negative. But then, how does someone come positive from the first place, if someone was negative?? Am I making sense?
Thanks so much.
Response from Dr. Frascino
"Are you making sense?" No, not a bit. Two negatives never make a positive. For HIV to be transmitted, one of the partners needs to be HIV-positive. That's not all that difficult to understand, is it?
"How does someone become positive in the first place?" He (or she) must be exposed to someone who is positive (has the virus). Different types of exposures carry different levels of risk. Yes, the 0.1 to 0.2 percent statistical risk per episode is correct. This risk applies to unprotected receptive vaginal intercourse with a partner who is confirmed to be HIV positive. So this virus isn't all that easy to catch; -- however, is it possible for someone to contract the virus with a single exposure (say unprotected sex)? Absolutely.
Does every exposure lead to viral transmission? Absolutely NOT!
So, are those of us who did contract the virus "just having bad luck?" Yes, that's one way of looking at it. I don't think any of us would consider the day we became infected a particularly "good luck" kind of a day. Somehow, this all seems rather intuitive to me, but I do hope it clarifies things a bit for you.
Dr. Bob
anal sex (Apr 21, 2006)
Hi, I will start out by I don't really know much about HIV or AIDS but I have been married for almost 5 years my husband and I are very sexually active. Before him I was also sexually active and I have had several test done and been neg. I have had 2 children by my husband and was tested then and was neg. My question is we have anal sex and vaginal intercourse. I was told if you have anal sex you can get HIV even when both partners do not have HIV. Is this true? Thank You.
Response from Dr. Frascino
I find it shocking that sexually active adults could know so little about HIV/AIDS. Where have you been living for the past 25 years??? Kansas??? Oh! OK! That explains it. I guess all the time you spent learning about myths like "intelligent design" didn't leave much time for basic science topics, like sexually transmitted diseases.
So you were "told" that if you have anal sex, you can get HIV even when both partners do not have HIV???!!! Hmmm . . . who told you this? The Vatican? Fox News? Karl Rove? No, sweetie, this is not true. Exactly how did you think two completely HIV-negative people could create an HIV virus? I strongly suggest you spend some time reading about HIV/AIDS and other STDs. This Web site is an excellent source for accurate information. Once you've learned the basics, do go back to whoever told you that nonsense about "two negatives plus backdoor action equals HIV positive" and enlighten them with some basic scientific facts and common sense.
Dr. Bob

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The market for oil is a global market. Not perfectly homogenized, but global. So if the U.S. and Europe say that they plan to further "punish" Iran for its nuclear program by implementing a European boycott of Iranian oil or sanctions generally against those who buy Iranian oil, well, that's the proverbial paper tiger talking. To be sure, the Iranians understand. It was, then, a very serious mistake for Iran to threaten to retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz, not only because it was unnecessary but because the threat turned war from a negligible possibility (because self-evident direct costs are too great) into something much more tangible. Although Iranian Rear Admiral Mahmoud Mousavi walked back the Iranian position on Sunday, Iran's Army Commander in Chief, Maj. General Ataollah Salehi, further stoked the dispute on Tuesday, saying "We recommend to the U.S. warship [the USS John C. Stennis] that passed through the Strait of Hormuz and went to the Gulf of Oman not to return to the Persian Gulf... The Islamic Republic of Iran will not repeat its warning." Let's hope not. Going forward the Iranians would be extremely well advised never to say anything again about disrupting the West's oil supply.
Oil has not become a higher priority than nuclear proliferation, but an American decision to go to war can sometimes have less to do with principles or objective calculations than with the inertial momentum of a vast national security apparatus. Hit the right buttons and war pretty much automatically ensues.
During the first Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991) I was the desk officer for oil security, for oil consuming countries, at the State Department. What I remember most vividly about that war — apart from meetings of the IEA in Paris and having splendid bistro dinners with old friends — was how fast and how automatically we took the decision to use military force. Somewhat paradoxically, the decision had been years in the making through the national security inter-agency process. Having identified oil supply as a vital interest and having thus produced a number of presidential directives covering various disruption contingencies, when Saddam Hussein unexpectedly invaded and annexed Kuwait [1], instead of turning to fresh considerations regarding the utility or desirability of war the national security bureaucracy, as one, reached into its safe, dusted off the relevant directives, and clamored for a military solution. Given such riotous momentum even President George H.W. Bush — had he wanted — might not have been able to negotiate a peaceful outcome.
Although Secretary of State James Baker famously rationalized the first Gulf War as being about "jobs, jobs, jobs" the fact is, because of the world market, nothing about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait mattered to the U.S. economically (assuming Saddam Hussein would not have withheld Kuwaiti oil out of spite). If the White House had tried to logically think things through it might have been possible politically to downgrade the crisis into a vexing border dispute. But within government the automatic imperative of war went virtually unquestioned. [2]
To the extent that relevant presidential directives may have been revised between 1990 and today one assumes they must be even more robust. So the same automaticity in principle applies. Moreover, the imperative should be even greater today since in this case closing the Strait of Hormuz would, indeed, raise the world price of oil. [3] To be somewhat cynical another factor should be taken into account as well: Having left Iraq and having started drawing down in Afghanistan the U.S. military needs another expensive war in order to justify its huge budget.
Iran ought to be aware of all this. If the U.S. and Iran had had diplomatic relations during the past 30 odd years, it probably would be. But not having had diplomatic relations Iran evidently has trouble distinguishing between its (so far) successful finessing of the nuclear issue and what is, from Washington's perspective, a brilliant red flashing neon line.
It's worth noting that lots of third world countries make this sort of mistake. They assume that the U.S. knows what it's doing and they therefore ascribe all sorts of intentionality to what are, in reality, relatively random acts. 'The U.S. has not seriously pushed for war regarding nuclear proliferation, therefore the U.S. does not want war for any reason.' If only life were so simple. The Iranians clearly have no idea of the danger they have provoked. The situation thus resembles a classic case of two states slipping accidentally into a war neither wants. But who will explain things to Tehran?
We may yet luck out. Iran may not actually do anything. Iranian officials may pipe down. President Barack Obama may prove a different kind of leader than George H.W. Bush. And unlike 1990, given the many false starts against Iran, a number of entrenched U.S. bureaucratic obstacles to war now exist. Repeated war games, for example, have raised awareness of potential costs, including a catastrophic collapse of the world economy. In 2012 that's no small worry. Nonetheless, if push came to shove the predetermined vital U.S. national security interest would most likely trump objections.
[1] Caught by surprise, until about a week to 10 days prior the consensus of U.S. intelligence estimates regarding what might happen was little more than a vague guess.
[2] I questioned the rationale for going to war but I was not a senior officer and nobody listened.
[3] Threats of oil supply disruptions also probably will bleed back into the proliferation stalemate, giving hawks new arguments against an Iranian acquisition of nuclear leverage.


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Morsi edicts prompt riots
Supporters, opponents of Egyptian president battle in major cities
CAIRO — Supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give himself near-absolute power to root out what he called "weevils eating away at the nation of Egypt."
The edicts by Morsi, which were issued Thursday, have turned months of growing polarization into an open battle between his Muslim Brotherhood and liberals who fear a new dictatorship. Some in the opposition, which has been divided and weakened, were now speaking of a sustained street campaign against the man who nearly five months ago became Egypt's first freely elected president.
The unrest also underscored the struggle over the direction of Egypt's turbulent passage nearly two years after a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. Liberals and secular Egyptians accuse the Brotherhood of monopolizing power, dominating the writing of a new constitution and failing to tackle the country's chronic economic and security problems.
"I don't like, want or need to resort to exceptional measures, but I will if I see that my people, nation and the revolution of Egypt are in danger," Morsi told thousands of his chanting supporters outside the presidential palace in Cairo.
But even before he spoke, thousands from each camp demonstrated in major cities, and violence broke out in several places, leaving at least 100 wounded, according to security officials.
Security forces pumped volleys of tear gas at thousands of pro-democracy protesters clashing with riot police on streets several blocks from Cairo's Tahrir Square, birthplace of the Arab Spring, and in front of the nearby parliament building. Young protesters set fire to tree branches to counter the gas, and a residential building and a police vehicle also were burned.
Tens of thousands of activists massed in Tahrir itself, denouncing Morsi. In a throwback to last year's 18-day anti-Mubarak uprising, they chanted the iconic slogan first heard in Tunisia in late 2010: "The people want to overthrow the regime." They also yelled "erhal, erhal," — Arabic for "leave, leave."
Outside a mosque in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, anti-Morsi crowds threw stones and firecrackers on Brotherhood backers who used prayer rugs to protect themselves, injuring at least 15. The protesters then stormed a nearby Brotherhood office.
State TV reported that offices of the Brotherhood's political arm were burned in the Suez Canal cities of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said, east of Cairo.
In the southern city of Assiut, ultraconservative Islamists and former jihadists outnumbered liberal and leftists in rival demonstrations. The two sides exchanged insults and scuffled briefly.
Morsi and the Brotherhood contend that supporters of the old regime are holding up progress toward democracy. They have focused on the judiciary, which many Egyptians see as too much under the sway of Mubarak-era judges and prosecutors and which has shaken up the political process several times with its rulings, including by dissolving the lower house of parliament, which the Brotherhood led.
His edicts effectively shut down the judiciary's ability to do so again. At the same time, the courts were the only civilian branch of government with a degree of independence: Morsi already holds not only executive power but also legislative authority, since there is no parliament.
His move came at a time when he was enjoying lavish praise from U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for brokering a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers on Wednesday.


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I recently updated the sabayon to gnome 3.2 and after the updates iam facing a lot of problems.
First gnome-shell is not working now earlier with 3.0 it was working and even in the fallback mode i could see/use only the desktop ..no gnome menus , no gnome panels and task bar.
I could start the gnome panels and task bar manually in the terminal ( right click on the desktop and open in terminal )
but with lots of errors..below.This also applies to gnome-shell when i try to start from the terminal
The system for some reason after the update does not load the panels and task bars,menus in the fallback mode.does anybody have the same problem.gnome-panel
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-plugin"
(gnome-panel:8738): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2295: signal `size_request' is invalid for instance `0xb2d990'
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-plugin"
Note: Iam using nvidia drivers that came with the recent sabayon update for 3.0 kernel.
Any help would be highly appreciated
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Our Last Present to Kim YunaMBC News Inside | 2013.12.18 | Min Byeong-HoKim Yuna's final programs as a competitive skater have been revealed. Expectations were high as the interest surrounding her programs. Many Korean fans flew all the way to Croatia to see her with their own two eyes. Yuna lived up to their expectations, winning the gold with ease and thus increasing the possibility of winning another Olympic gold medal. I'm sure that people who watched Yuna skate live on TV or through the news know these facts very well. However the 2580 team was quite curious about what Yuna was thinking in the inside. So we asked Yuna a few questions and were able to receive candid answers.It seems that Yuna was immensely nervous at the Golden Spin. It was not only the debut of her Olympic programs, but also her first competition after recovering from her injuries, so there must have been a lot of pressure to put on a good performance. Even though Yuna seems strong on the outside she is only human. When I asked her about the biggest misconception about her, Yuna replied people saying, 'Yuna is strong at competitions. So she will do a good job this time too.' She said that she felt truly lonely when people would respond 'It's so not like you' when she told them that she was having a tough time. "There are times when I want to be comforted but it's not that easy," she said. I felt so sorry for her when I heard that.I was curious about Yuna's dreams for the future so I asked her where she saw herself 10 years from now. "I don't know what I will be doing then, but I guess that I will be under less public attention..." said Yuna. One could deduce that the intense attention that she was under was burdening.Yuna also expressed that training was physically difficult. "I heard at the hospital that when women pass the 18 year mark they start to age rapidly. It has become more difficult to bring up my stamina to a certain level even though I work hard and it takes longer to recover from injuries, so it's really difficult physically," she said. When I heard the 'old' from Yuna, who seemed would remain forever young, it was rather startling. These were words that you would not hear from a regular 24 year old. However to Yuna, who had spent 17 years skating, 24 felt old. A sense of sadness washed over me thinking how much this young skater had to go through both physically and psychologically to give joy and to touch the hearts of so many people.Nonetheless, Yuna did not lose her trademark optimistic sprit while she was talking about such heavy subjects. Rather, she seemed calmer and happier. "Even though I've lost the chance to experience a lot of things as living as a skater and a star, I consider myself a happy skater. I mean, everyone has a few worries of thier own that they life with," said Yuna after winning the World Championships early this year.I remember when I first started to write about Yuna in 2007. She has just started her lonely overseas life in Toronto, Canada because of the unfit training environment in Korea. The 18 year old girl who loved the TV show 'Infinite Challenge' and baked goods grew up to become the best skater in the world. She is the only female single skater in the world who has medaled in every international competition she entered and won gold with a world record score at her first Olympics. At the 2013 World Championships which was held early this year, she won three spots for Korea by winning the gold medal, giving fellow young skaters Kim Hae-Jin and Park So-Yeon the chance to experience the Games. When you think about the harsh training environment in Korea, it's something that would happen only in our dreams.However Yuna has not changed despite all of her achievements. She still remains humble and down to earth. She continues to train daily. At the Golden Spin, the Croatian media commented that, "Your popularity is more like that of a rock star than an athlete." Yuna answered by saying that "I did not start to skate to become famous. I skated to fulfill my dreams as an athlete. If I had become swayed by all the attention, other problems can occur so I think that fame and attention are not good for training." Yuna's coach, Shin Hye-Sook described Yuna as "a gifted athlete, but an athlete who works harder than an athlete who is not gifted," and said that she feels that Yuna retiring is a pity when she watches Yuna train. Of course it meant that Yuna still possesses the world's best technical ability but it felt like she meant it was a pity to see Yuna leave the sport.When Yuna's exhibition program music 'Imagine' filled the arena in Zagreb, there was a strange air filling the rink. It felt as if the final journey of Yuna as a competitive skater had started and the audience was feeling that in their heavy hearts. Yuna has decided to skate at the Korean Nationals next month, her final competition before the Sochi Olympics. She is currently training hard at the Taerung Center every day. Then what does Yuna need now? What did you think that she needs after watching her compete at the Golden Spin? Of course, winning consecutive gold medals at the Olympics is important. It would be meaningful to end her career with gold after all her hard work. But jumps and scores are not the things that are important now. 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Distribution Market Advantage (DMA) in Schaumburg, Ill., is seeking to help its restaurant customers by dishing up a helping of cloud-based business intelligence (BI). For Jim Szatkowski, vice president of technical and data services at the marketing cooperative for food distributors, a cloud-based solution was a much better choice than an on-site system, which would have required a costly and time-consuming project to get up and running.
"Supply chain professionals at member companies can look at their spend. They may want to negotiate a new deal with a supplier. They may want to know much ketchup they have consumed," Szatkowski said. "When a restaurant provides a limited-time offer, the manager needs to know that the featured product is available throughout the campaign. We provide visibility daily into product movement. They can see what's available at all times."
A cloud-based BI application made sense to DMA because, despite the organization's size and national scope -- 11 regional independent food distributors and $3 billion in member sales, Szatkowski had no appetite for a complex and expensive BI project. "We wanted to stay focused on food-service distribution."
After examining several cloud BI services, Szatkowski chose a cloud-based BI application from PivotLink Corp. San Francisco-based PivotLink is one of a number of small vendors (among them, Oco Inc. in Waltham, Mass.; Birst Inc. in San Francisco; and Indicee Inc. in Vancouver, B.C.) offering these applications.
Cloud-based business intelligence can be implemented quickly
Being able to get a BI application up and running quickly was critical to Imperva Inc., an Internet security appliances vendor headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif. "Rather than treat business intelligence as a big-bang process that would take time and cost a lot of money to roll out, we have launched bite-size projects that take weeks versus months to roll out," CIO Grant McCormick said. He is using a cloud-based BI application from GoodData Corp. in San Francisco.
"GoodData allows us to approach BI in a targeted manner, and deliver point solutions to those people who need them. Each unique project taps into a new set of data, and goes to a new set of users. We pay as we go. I much prefer spending money that way," said McCormick said.
Rather than treat business intelligence as a big-bang process that would take time and cost a lot of money … we have launched bite-size projects that take weeks versus months to roll out.
Grant McCormick, CIO, Imperva Inc.
Imperva is rolling out a cloud-based finance and ERP system, and has several projects in the works that rely on GoodData technology. In one application, the vendor has created a commission summary statement as a GoodData dashboard for each of its 150 salespeople. Another application enables managers to measure results against plan. Still another project is a competitive dashboard that pulls data from both an on-premises system and cloud sources.
BI for the masses
The cloud also is bringing the blessings of BI to nonprofit organizations, which in many cases have lacked the resources for such sophisticated applications until now. Convio Inc. in Austin, Texas, provides marketing services including cloud-based BI applications to nonprofit organizations.
"One of the things we like about the cloud architecture is the notion of elasticity. That's important in BI applications. The ability to scale up and down quickly helps save money. That's very important to nonprofits," said Convio Chief Technology Officer Dave Hart. "We're able to create affordable solutions. And we're bringing technology to nonprofits that was previously unavailable to them."
Convio's BI application will integrate Force.com, the Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, offering from Salesforce.com Inc., with Convio servers and with servers in the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, service. "The application makes sure data is stored in the most appropriate place. It features single sign-on so the user is not aware of where the data is coming from," Hart said.
Viral adoption, global reach of cloud-based business intelligence
The ease with which a cloud application can be accessed and paid for is enticing some business users to bypass their corporate IT department. "That is one of the most hidden trends and the most interesting," said Boris Evelson, analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. Managers are jumping the gun because waiting to get results from a corporate BI application might cause them to miss an opportunity.
Still, enterprises shouldn't replace traditional BI applications with ad hoc cloud BI applications, Evelson cautioned. "If it's a mission-critical back-office application, you can't really afford to let it out of your company. That's probably not a good candidate for BI in the cloud."
Even so, if an organization operates globally, a cloud-based application can deliver better performance worldwide than a premises-based application can.
"If we went with client/server, we would have had to choose where to set up the server," Imperva's McCormick said. His company's corporate headquarters is in California, and its engineering offices are in Israel, so performance could have varied greatly between the two locations. With a cloud-based service, however, performance is acceptable in Israel, even though the cloud provider is in the U.S., he said.
Stan Gibson is a Boston-based contributing writer. Let us know what you think about the story; email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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President Barack Obama slammed the 46 senators who voted against a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks in a fiercely emotional speech Wednesday and vowed to keep working to curb gun violence, just after the Senate's best hope for a successful gun control deal fell apart.
Senate Republicans, joined by a small group of rural-state Democrats, scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday in a series of rapid-fire votes, rejecting not only a bipartisan plan for tighter background checks but also bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"This was a pretty shameful day for Washington," Obama said in the White House rose garden, flanked by a visibly devastated Vice President Joe Biden and by the parents of first-graders gunned down in the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre.
"If action by Congress could have saved one person, one child, a few hundred, a few thousand — if it prevented those people from losing their lives to gun violence in the future while preserving our Second Amendment rights, we had an obligation to try. This legislation met that test," he said. "And too many senators failed theirs."
For full coverage of the gun control vote in the Senate, visit NBCNews.com.
Wednesday afternoon, Obama praised the deal Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) had put together and blasted the senators who voted "no" on it — as well as the National Rifle Association, which had lobbied hard against the bill's new restrictions.
"The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill," Obama said, saying the bill's failure "comes down to politics."
Pointing to national polls that have found support for expanded background checks from as many as 90 percent of Americans, he urged Americans to hold their representatives in Congress accountable — and urged NRA members to let the powerful organization know it did not represent them when it opposed expanding background checks.
"Even without Congress, my administration will keep doing everything it can to protect more of our communities," he promised. "I see this as just round one."
Obama's remarks came just after the Senate voted down a flurry of gun control proposals, rejecting calls to tighten background checks on firearms buyers as they spurned the personal pleas of Newtown families.
- For a full list of vote results and to find out how your senators voted on all of the proposals, click here.
One of the few votes that defied the NRA's wishes came when the Senate rejected a bid to loosen restrictions on concealed weapons carried across state lines. Otherwise Wednesday, the NRA generally triumphed over Obama, gun control advocates and many of the individuals whose lives have been affected by mass shootings in Connecticut and elsewhere.
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Some of them watched from the spectator galleries above the Senate floor. "Shame on you," shouted one, Patricia Maisch, who was present two years ago when a gunman in Tucson, Ariz., killed six and wounded 13 others, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Vice President Joe Biden gaveled the Senate back into order after the breach of decorum.
Gun control advocates, including Obama, had voiced high hopes for significant action after the Newtown shootings. But the lineup of possible legislation gradually dwindled to a focus on background checks, and in the end even that could not win Senate passage. Chances in the Republican-controlled House had seemed even slimmer.
By agreement of Senate leaders, a 60-vote majority was required for approval of any of the provisions brought to a vote.
The vote on the background check was 54-46, well short of the 60 votes needed to advance. Forty-one Republicans and five Democrats voted to reject the plan.
The proposed ban on assault weapons commanded 40 votes; the bid to block sales of high capacity ammunition clips drew 46.
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The NRA-backed proposal on concealed carry permits got 57.
In the hours before the key vote on background checks, Sen. Manchin bluntly accused the National Rifle Association of making false claims about the expansion of background checks that he and Sen. Toomey were backing.
"Where I come from in West Virginia, I don't know how to put the words any plainer than this: That is a lie. That is simply a lie," he said, accusing the organization of telling its supporters that friends, neighbors and some family members would need federal permission to transfer ownership of firearms to one another.
The NRA did not respond immediately to the charge, but issued a statement after the vote that restated the claim. The proposal "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution," said a statement from Chris Cox, a top lobbyist for the group.
Said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, "Expanded background checks would not have prevented Newtown. Criminals do not submit to background checks."
Even before the votes, the administration signaled the day's events would not be the last word on an issue that Democratic leaders shied away from for nearly two decades until Obama picked up on it after the Newtown shootings.
Biden's presence was a purely symbolic move since each proposal required a 60-vote majority to pass and he would not be called upon to break any ties. Democratic aides said in advance the issue would be brought back to the Senate in the future, giving gun control supporters more time to win over converts to change the outcome.
The day's key test concerned the background checks, designed to prevent criminals and the seriously mentally ill from purchasing firearms. Under current law, checks are required only when guns are purchased from federally licensed firearms dealers. The proposal by Manchin and Toomey called for extending the requirement to other sales at gun shows and on the Internet.
On the vote, Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana joined Pryor and Heitkamp in voting against the proposal. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a supporter of the plan, switched his vote to the prevailing "no" side to permit him to call for a revote in the future.
Begich, Pryor and Baucus are all seeking re-election next year. In an indication of the intensity of the feelings on the issue, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal group, swiftly announced it would seek to defeat them in 2014.
Among Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mark Kirk of Illinois, John McCain of Arizona and Toomey sided with Democrats.
Numerous polls in recent months have shown support for enhanced gun control measures, including background checks, though it may be weakening.
An Associated Press-GfK poll this month showed that 49 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws, down from 58 percent in January. In that recent survey, 38 percent said they want the laws to remain the same and 10 percent want them eased.
Obama has made enactment of greater curbs a priority on his domestic agenda in the months since the massacre at Newtown, making several trips outside Washington to try and build support. Last week, he traveled to Connecticut, and he invited several parents to fly back to Washington with him aboard Air Force One so they could personally lobby lawmakers.
To an unusual degree for professional politicians, some senators said afterward that they had not wanted to meet with the mothers and fathers of the dead, or said it was difficult to look at photographs that the parents carried of their young children, now dead.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said before Wednesday's vote, "I think that in some cases, the president has used them as props, and that disappoints me."
Without referring to Paul by name, Obama rebutted him firmly. "Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don't have a right to weigh in on this issue?" he said.
At the White House, press secretary Jay Carney said some of them had met earlier in the day with lawmakers, who he said should "consider who they're representing.
"Ninety percent of the American people support expanded background checks," he said.
The NRA told lawmakers it intended to keep track of how the votes were cast, and consider them in making decisions about its efforts in the midterm elections for Congress next year.
An opposing group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, funded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said it would do likewise.
The NRA has a long track record in electoral politics, and is viewed by lawmakers in both political parties as unusually effective. Bloomberg's organization has yet to be tested.
In the AP-GfK poll, among independents, support for stricter gun laws dipped from 60 percent in January to 40 percent now. About three-fourths of Democrats supported them then and now, while backing among Republicans for looser laws about doubled to 19 percent.
The survey was conducted from April 11-15 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,004 randomly chosen adults and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
For Jane... and the girls!
9 comments:
- Sue said...
So fun to see a new post! The kids and I are coming down this weekend and we're going to Jump On It in Lindon on Saturday. You wanna bring the boys and come hang out?
- January 19, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- Mauri said...
I about fell over when I saw that you had put up a new post. LOL! Looks like you had lots of fun girl time. It's awesome to have such a great group of friends.
- January 19, 2012 at 8:50 AM
- Karrie said...
Nice to see a new post from you!! Get back to updating! Lovely pictures and beautiful group of ladies!
- January 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM
- {jane} said...
...that was beautifully written. it is amazing to look at our group of friends, to think of all the hiccups we've endured & to know our hearts desires for our futures. truly beautiful.
love you, my friend. xo.
- January 21, 2012 at 12:35 AM
- Shannon said...
wow! sara you really are such a sweetheart! awesome blog post, we really do have a bunch a great girlfriends i always leave happy & recharged after a good talk with my favorite ladies. love you!
- January 21, 2012 at 3:02 PM
- Alexandra Jacobs said...
I came across your website and found it very enjoyable. I just had a couple of questions so if you could e-mail me back that would be great!
- April 3, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Heather said...
Hi I'm Heather! Please email me when you get a chance! I have a question about your blog. HeatherVonsj(at)gmail(dot)com
- April 23, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Shmonae said...
What an adorable bunch of ladies :) Looks like a blast! It was so nice going to the speaker together the other day, thanks for getting me there! xo
- April 29, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Trinket Junkie said...
You are so lucky your son is healthy. My 1 year old had a choking accident 7-22-13 and is in a coma still, or a persistent vegetative state, not sure. She was in the hospital for 36 days and now we care for her at home. We wait to see what God's will is for her. Meanwhile we care for her as loving parents.
- October 6, 2013 at 3:13 AM


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About 2000BC
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So I had an interesting conversation the other day. A writer from The Globe and Mail, a national Canadian newspaper, came across my blog when searching for information about American Girl Scout cookies. It seems that my blog post about Homemade Thin Mints caught his eye. In that post, I was lamenting the difference between the vast array of delicious Girl Scout Cookies and the boring sandwich cookies I had to peddle as a Canadian Girl Guide. Apparently, I am not the only one who feels this way. He decided to write a short piece on the matter after his wife and her friends were discussing the very same thing. So he wanted to interview me for the article as someone who has lived on both sides of the border and experienced both kinds of cookies. I suppose you could call me something of an expert.
It really was a revelation to move to the US and discover just how excited everyone got for Girl Scout cookie season. The Girl Guides of Canada only offer a single box of cookies that contain both vanilla and chocolate cream sandwich cookies. And as much as I love my homeland, I have to say that the cookies really aren't very good. I don't know anyone who gets very excited for cookie season in Canada…it's more of an obligation to buy a few boxes from your neighbourhood Girl Guide than anything else. I can't imagine that it's all that successful a fund-raising scheme. Whereas here in the US, everyone has their favourite type of Girl Scout Cookie and I know people who buy boxes upon boxes and store them in the freezer, just to make them last throughout the year. Why such a huge difference between two parts of what is essentially the same organization? As my American-bred husband says, it's just because the US does it better. And as much as I am fiercely loyal to Canada, in this case, I have to agree with him.
So what does any of this have to do with these muffins? It doesn't at all, I just thought it was an interesting story and I wanted to tell you! I don't know when the article is going to come out, but if you are in Canada and you come across fit, clip it out and send it to me. I'd love to see it.
As to the muffins, I saw something similar one day on A Culinary Journey with Chef Dennis. If you are not familiar with his blog, then you need to be. Dennis is truly a talented chef, and he is the king of Foodbuzz. He was the first person to ever comment on my blog that wasn't a friend or a family member. He makes it a point to welcome everyone to the foodblogging community. He's everywhere all at once and I can't figure out how he maintains his full-time job and his blog too! The instant I saw his muffins, I wanted to make a low carb, gluten free version.
The Results: Serious yumminess. That's the only way to describe this cross between a chocolate muffin and cheesecake. The muffin itself is nice and cakey, but not overly sweet. And then to have the creamy vanilla flavoured middle, it's a great treat for breakfast. These ones were a hit with the whole family, including the picky little 2 year old. I turned my back on a half-eaten one the other morning, and came back to discover that she'd climbed up on the chair and finished it off for me. Oh well, at least I can say it's good for her!
Oh, and my apologies that the recipe makes 14 muffins. Unfortunately, the cream cheese middle takes up a bit of room and I had too much muffin batter for 12!
Black and White Muffins
Cream Cheese Filling:
8 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup powdered erythritol
2 tbsp whipping cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
16 drops stevia extract
2 cups almond flour
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup flax seed meal (or additional almond flour)
1/4 cup granulated erythritol
1/4 cup chocolate whey protein powder (can use plain as well)
2 tsp instant coffee (to boost chocolate flavour)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
6 oz Greek yogurt
2 large eggs
20 drops stevia extract
1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
1/4 cup almond milk
Preheat oven to 325F and line 14 muffin tins with paper liners.
For the filling, beat cream cheese and powdered erythritol in a medium bowl until smooth. Beat in cream, vanilla extract and stevia extract until combined. Set aside.
For the muffins, whisk together almond flour, cocoa powder, flax seed meal, erythritol, protein powder, instant coffee, baking powder, baking soda, salt and xanthan gum in a medium bowl.
In a large bowl, beat yogurt until smooth. Beat in eggs and stevia until fully combined. Beat in almond flour mixture, along with butter and almond milk, until well mixed.
Divide batter among prepared muffin tins. Using the back of a spoon or your fingers, make a well in the center of each muffin. Divide cream cheese filling among muffins and smooth the top.
Bake 22 to 24 minutes or until both filling and muffin are set. Remove from oven and let cool in the pan.
Makes 14. Each muffin has a total of 7.6 g of carbs and 3.1 g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 4.5 g.


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Another day, another story about something bad Facebook does to kids. Today's finding: it may contribute to eating disorders.
According to the Jerusalem Post, researchers at the University of Haifa studied the Facebook, TV, and magazine preferences of 248 teen girls, and asked them about their eating habits and body image. The more time the girls spent on Facebook, the more likely they were to suffer from anorexia, bulimia, or body dissatisfaction. Sports medicine expert Dr. Naama Constantini offers the caveat that's become standard in studies like this one: it's not clear that Facebook causes eating disorders, because girls who are predisposed to them might also be spending more time on the Internet for a variety of reasons. Interestingly, though, the Post claims Facebook has now replaced "pro-ana" and "pro-mia" websites as a source of eating-disorder-enabling material for teens.
It's pretty easy to find thinspiration pages on Facebook, though many of them are private,
and Facebook doesn't have an obvious policy for removing the material (the site hasn't responded to our request for comment yet). A Facebook spokesperson tells us they're working on the problem:
Facebook does not allow any material that promotes self-harm including eating disorders, we will remove content that is reported to us with the report links found throughout the site. Those that continually post harmful material may lose account functionality or in some cases their account. Facebook has recently been working with the National Eating Disorder Association to tailor our internal procedures, in order to best serve our users and help keep our site safe.
It's also possible that much of the general concept behind Facebook encourages comparing oneself to others in a way that can contribute to bad body image in teens. Luckily, the study also found two factors that protected girls from eating disorders: empowerment, and parental involvement. Girls with a high degree of "personal empowerment" were less likely to suffer from EDs or poor body image — as were girls whose parents talked about and monitored their Internet use. Of course, even an involved family can't guarantee that a girl won't develop an eating disorder — nor will too much Facebook guarantee that she will. But it's possible that, at least to some extent, the former could counteract the latter.
Link Found Between Facebook Use And Eating Disorders [Jerusalem Post]
Image via Poulsons Photography/Shutterstock.com


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Restarting and Resetting iPad
If something isn't working right, try restarting iPad, force quitting an application,
or resetting iPad.
Restart iPad: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears.
Slide your finger across the slider to turn off iPad. To turn iPad back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo appears.
Force quit an application: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on top of iPad for a few seconds until a red slider appears, then press and hold the Home button until the application quits.
If you can't turn off iPad or if the problem continues, you may need to reset iPad.
This should be done only if turning iPad off and on doesn't resolve the problem.
Reset iPad: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
iPad Still Doesn't Respond After Reset
- Reset iPad settings. From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings. All your preferences are reset, but your data and media aren't deleted.
Resetting iPad
Reset all settings: Choose General > Reset, then tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information, such as your contacts and calendars, and media, such as your songs and videos, aren't deleted.
Erase all content and settings: Choose General > Reset, then tap "Erase All Content and Settings."
This resets all settings to their original values and erases all your information and media.
Reset network settings: Choose General > Reset, then tap Reset Network Settings.
When you reset network settings, your list of previously used networks and VPN settings not installed by a configuration profile are removed. Wi-Fi is turned off and then back on, disconnecting you from any network you're on. The Wi-Fi and "Ask to Join Networks" settings remain turned on.
To remove VPN settings installed by a configuration profile, choose Settings > General > Profile, then select the profile and tap Remove.
Reset the keyboard dictionary: Choose General > Reset, then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary.
You add words to the keyboard dictionary by rejecting words iPad suggests as you type. Tap a word to reject the correction and add the word to the keyboard dictionary. Resetting the keyboard dictionary erases all words you've added.
Reset the Home screen layout: Choose General > Reset, then tap Reset Home Screen Layout.
Reset the location warnings: Choose General > Reset, then tap Reset Location Warnings.
Location warnings are the requests made by applications (such as Maps) to use Location Services with those applications. iPad stops presenting the warning for an application the second time you tap OK. Tap Reset Location Warnings to resume the warnings.
Updating and Restoring iPad Software
About Updating and Restoring Software
You can use iTunes to update or restore iPad software.
If you update, the iPad software is updated. Your downloaded applications, settings, and data aren't affected.
Note: In some cases, an update may also include restoring iPad.
If you restore, the latest version of iPad software is reinstalled, settings are restored to their defaults, and all data stored on iPad is deleted, including downloaded applications, songs, videos, contacts, photos, calendar information, and any other data. If you've backed up iPad with iTunes on your computer, you can restore data from the backup at the end of the restore process.
Deleted data is no longer accessible through the iPad user interface, but isn't erased from your iPad.
Updating iPad
Make sure your computer has an Internet connection and that you've installed the latest version of iTunes from Apple website
Update iPad:
1 Connect iPad to your computer.
2 Select iPad in the iTunes sidebar, then click the Summary tab.
3 Click "Check for Update." iTunes tells you if there's a new version of the iPad software available.
4 Click Update to install the latest version of the software
iPad recovery mode
With the iPad powered off, press and hold the Home button, connect the USB cable from PC/Mac to iPad.
Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen, then release the Home button.
Open up iTunes to see iPad in recovery mode.


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Our mission is to provide the most up-to-date career information supporting career and educational research in an integrated, innovative, supportive and engaging manner.
The site was developed in 2007 to create a one stop national career information portal. It is a resource to the following key audiences:
CareersPortal.ie was developed by Durrow Communications Ltd as a direct response to a report generated by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) in 2007, which recommended that Ireland develop a central career guidance portal. The site was officially launched by the Minister for Education and Science in April 2008.
The site has become an integral tool for guidance professionals throughout the country. It is supported by both public and private organisations, who partner with us in order to help disseminate the most useful and update information about careers and courses across all sectors of the economy. The CareersPortal.ie website and guidance resources has grown hugely, both in content, and in its user base since its launch in 2008 and is now receiving over 4 million-page impressions a month.
CareersPortal are a core team of 10 specialists coming from a broad range of educational and industry backgrounds, including areas such as psychology, guidance counselling and human resources. We have many years� experience working in schools, adult and community development and in career services. We also have an Advisory Group made up of Guidance Counsellors from both 2nd level and the adult guidance services who work across the country and who feed directly into the development of both the website and into our 2 guidance programmes.
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The core tools and resources form CareersPortal are also available through the medium of Irish on SaolOibre.ie. This resource allows users who are studying or working through the medium of Irish receive all the information on career sectors, occupations, labour market information and self-assessments exercises through the Irish Language.
This site continues to develop and offer new resources and supports annually.
T� an t-�bhar ar fad a bhaineann le gairmeacha beatha ar f�il �as gaeilge� ar Saoloibre.ie a forbra�odh i bp�irt le COGG, For�s na Gaeilge agus le h�dar�s na Gaeltachta. Do na daoine sin ar mian leo treoracha gairme a fh�il i nGaeilge, cuirimid a l�n de na mod�il ch�anna ar f�il at� ar �r su�omh eile www.saoloibre.ie. Is f�idir le mic l�inn leagan Gaeilge d�r dTriail Sp�ise Gairme a l�onadh isteach agus Tuarasc�il Ghairme a chur i gcl� d�ibh f�in. Is f�idir leo gairmeacha, earn�lacha fosta�ochta agus C�rsa� CAO a bhrabhs�il freisin.
This resource has been developed with the assistance of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta & Gaelscola�ochta (COGG), Foras na Gaeilge, �dar�s na Gaeltachta, NCGE and The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
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What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia
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Finance & Development, June 1966
- A Hard Look at Development Planning
- International Liquidity and the Fund
- Stabilizing an Economy: Finland
- What Does It Really Mean?—Multiple Currency Practices
- Africa and the European Economic Community
- Coordinating Aid to Developing Countries
- Japan and Israel
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A Hard Look at Development Planning
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Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity, an official journal of the Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport (in Polish Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego i Sportu im. Jędrzeja Śniadeckiego w Gdańsku), is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original scientific articles based on original research as well as review and opinion articles. The subject matter of the articles published in BJHPA covers a wide spectrum of issues connected with physical culture, physical education, health sciences, human physiology, sports medicine, sports and recreation, theory of sport, public health. The Advisory Board includes specialists from many countries, representing various specialties, guaranteeing a high scholarly level of the published articles. BJHPA is published quarterly.
BJHPA is indexed in Index Copernicus and SPORTDiscus. The editors accept articles in English, with abstracts and key words. In exceptional cases, Authors may submit their texts in Polish; after a positive review and revisions introduced by Authors, Authors are obliged to submit the final version of the article in English.
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Troup County School System (TCSS) nurses decided to 'Go Gold' to tackle awareness. Christy Mason, RN Health Care Coordinator for TCSS said a door decorating contest would be a powerful conversation starter to help bring childhood cancer awareness to student and adults.
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In a burst of uninformed enthusiasm, William La Jeunesse, writing for Fox News, announced that the bill offered by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) — the "Wall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act" — was the Robin Hood tax.
If he knew better, La Jeunesse would have called it by its correct name: the Tobin Tax, first offered 40 years ago by a Keynesian economist, following the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement when President Nixon took the United States off the gold standard. That bit of information would no doubt have helped to curb his enthusiasm.
La Jeunesse wrote:
The measure would impose a tiny three-hundredths-of-a-penny tax on financial trades. Supporters say the bill would cost the average investor just $1 per year, but could raise up to $35 billion annually.
This painless way of extracting funds from its owners would then allow further spending to stimulate the economy, according to DeFazio:
It's .03 percent. But it will still generate about $35 billion a year in income — income that could be used to rebuild the real economy, infrastructure [and make] other investments.
Any proposal to increase taxes, direct or indirect (the Tobin tax qualifies as an indirect tax), can be examined at least three ways. Who is proposing it and what is his agenda? Who has analyzed its impact impartially and has the intestinal fortitude to tell the truth about the bill? And are taxes in general moral, and indirect taxes specifically?
James Tobin was an unabashed establishment Keynesian economist. Born in 1918, he received degrees from Yale and Harvard. Upon graduation he immediately went to work for another Keynesian, Paul Samuelson (author of the widely read college textbook Economics, an Introductory Analysis) and quickly adopted a fondness, even a reverence for, Keynesian economics. He built his career around promoting the concept that government's role in the economy was to "intervene in order to stabilize" it and quickly took a job in 1941 in OPA — the Office of Price Administration — which was responsible for price fixing commodities like food and rubber during the war. In that position he was able to apply his Keynesian interventionist theories on a practical level.
It's fair, then, to conclude that the Tobin tax is an interventionist maneuver to fix some problem and cure some ill. According to DeFazio, that problem and ill is "speculators." Said DeFazio:
[This Tobin tax] would benefit long-term investors with stability. It would benefit the economy with a longer-term perspective on investing, and it would reward patient capital as opposed to this useless daily second-be-second millisecond-by-millisecond churning [by speculators] that goes on.
But would it?
Not according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which was queried about the bill by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). The ranking member on the Senate Committee on Finance, Hatch asked the CBO three questions:
1. What impact would the proposed tax have on gross domestic product (GDP) and on U.S. jobs?
2. What impact would the tax have on municipal financing, including the cost to municipalities of funding their activities?
3. What effect would the tax have on the depth and liquidity of the global market for U.S. Treasury securities?
The response from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf was refreshingly blunt: The tax would have substantial negative impact in all areas. It would slow the American economy; it would shift jobs overseas to avoid paying the tax; it would raise the cost of municipal financing, and it would reduce the attractiveness of U.S. securities in foreign markets.
In addition, according to a study of the tax by David John of the Heritage Foundation, the tax:
would weaken the already frail recovery and harm investors who are saving for retirement as much as or more than it would harm high-frequency traders….
[It would negatively impact] financial institutions … that manage assets owned by small investors such as pension funds, mutual funds, and similar entities….
[It] would have a powerful negative impact on the economy….
[It] would raise the cost of financial transactions … [and would hurt] average investors who would … bear the burden of the tax when their portfolios fall in value and suffer from damage to the overall economy.
Not surprisingly, one of those supporting the Tobin tax proposed by Democrats Harkin and DeFazio is none other than that great speculator of the 20th century: George Soros. On September 16, 1992, Soros speculated that the Bank of England would be forced to raise interest rates and, as a result, made a huge bet (estimated to be more than $10 billion, in English pounds) that the value of the English pound would consequently plummet. He was right, it did, and Soros became an enormously wealthy man.
In a moment of candor Soros said in 2001:
It is not at all clear to me that a Tobin tax would reduce volatility in the currency markets. It is true that it may discourage currency speculation but it would also reduce the liquidity of the marketplace.
Soros, however, has another reason for supporting the bill: It would pave the way for a world currency. In his 2005 book, Soros on Globalization, he made this plain:
[Because] the globalization of financial markets has given capital an unfair advantage over other sources of taxation, a tax on financial transactions would redress the balance.... The tax ought to be extended to all markets, not just currency markets....
Collection has to be worldwide, including tax havens. How could it be enforced? The collecting country must be given a portion of the proceeds....
In other words, the Tobin tax must be enacted worldwide and local governments must be bought off with part of the proceeds to persuade them to enforce it. "Bribe" is a better word for it, but Soros doesn't use that word.
What about the morality of the Tobin tax, or of taxes in general? The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines taxation as "that part of the revenues of a state which is obtained by the compulsory dues and charges upon its subjects." In 1947 Frank Chodorov noted: "That is about as concise and accurate as a definition can be; it leaves no room for argument as to what taxation is."
Taxation is "compulsory" and it is levied, by force, upon the government's "subjects." Wrote Chodorov:
If the state has a prior right to the products of one's labor, his right to existence is qualified. Aside from the fact that no such prior right can be established, except by declaring the state the author of all rights, our inclination (as shown in the effort to avoid paying taxes) is to reject this concept of priority. Our instinct is against it. We object to the taking of our property by organized society just as we do when a single unit of society commits the act. In the latter case we unhesitatingly call the act robbery….
Robbery is robbery, and no amount of words can make it anything else.
Chodorov added that the Tobin tax, as an indirect tax, is especially pernicious:
It is not the size of the yield, nor the certainty of collection, which gives indirect taxation preeminence in the state's scheme of appropriation. Its most commendable quality is that of being surreptitious. It is taking, so to speak, while the victim is not looking.
The Robin Hood tax, properly called the Tobin tax, can now be seen for exactly what it is: one more governmental extraction from rightful property owners by surreptitious means, with all manner of negative consequences and a hidden agenda. That's certainly enough to wish it an early death.