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Ron Paul's Biggest Supporter Is A Bilderberger, International Financier
World's collide.The gay libertarian tech investor Peter Thiel, enthusiast of post-national ocean states, backed the SuperPAC.
The largest donor to a SuperPAC supporting Ron Paul is Peter Thiel, the sort of ultra-wealthy, super-national figure Paul and his supporters love to hate.
Thiel — who gave $900,000 to the pro-Paul group Endorse Liberty — made his fortune as the co-founder of PayPal; he was also an early investor in Facebook, and is now a major player in the world of high-tech venture capital. He's also a devoted libertarian and devoted Republican: He hosted a fundraiser for the confrontational gay conservative group GOProud at his grand apartment off Union Square in 2010.
Thiel is also a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group, the elite, invitation-only conference that's the frequent subject of conspiracy theories.
"They probably get together and talk about how they're going to control the banking systems of the world and natural resources," Paul said in 2008.
Thiel shares, though, Paul's anti-government, and anti-Establishment, impulses. He has funded a prize to encourage talented students to drop out of college, and is a major supporter of the cause of "Seasteading," creating independent, water-borne cities free of national law.
h/t James Carter
A previous item by Cliff Kincaid in Gulag Bound refers to this man: "Republicans Raise Money for Gay Agenda." Further information about Thiel may be found online.
It should also be underscored that Ron Paul's libertarian political philosophy is revisionist philosophy, not the authentic political philosophy of America's founders and our Constitution's framers. Libertarianism makes a mistake similar to that of progressivism, in positing its maxims, vision, and goals as if our Constitution may be removed from the foundational principles of the Declaration of Independence., our national charter.
Also, Rep. Paul's Austrian School economics are not only inauthentic to America's foundational economic philosophy (based in large part upon Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and in turn, the principles of the Bible) it is an inherently globalist economic philosophy which eschews national guardianship of the economic health and freedom of sovereign nations. As such, it is subject to the kind of Mutually Assured Economic Destruction that we currently face, stemming from the world's crises of European dominated government insolvency and banking hubris.
And gold standard? We had better find out where the gold really is, and how much, before we ever move to a gold standard. Further, any standard of a nation's currency must be that nation's standard, not global. I humbly suggest we think of what is meant by calling money "Sovereign" and then ponder what happens with global currency and concomitant global governance in the prophecy of the book of the Revelation to John.
Nations are accountable to God, each for its own nation's governance. Governance of a nation's sovereign currency is a key element of this, as is governance over its preservation of that nation's Right to Life and its acknowledgment of the essential meaning of marriage, any sane and functional culture's fundamental societal relationship.
Personally, would I vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama? Easily. Of the four GOP candidates, I would refuse to vote for the bankster-backed, Agenda-21 implementing Hollow Man, Mitt Romney, if he were nominated. I suggest looking to and questioning Newt Gingrich, who still has a chance to win the GOP nomination and who is apparently shifting from previous positions to committing to stand for the Sovereignty of the United States of America. Rick Santorum's record is not unalarming and that should be presented in Gulag Bound by Kelleigh Nelson, soon.


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Not So Wordless Wednesday: Getting Cozy
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I hope mouse feels better soon!!ReplyDelete
It has been a HORRIBLE flu season. I hope she recovers quickly, and momma gets some sleep. We all understand that is your priority!ReplyDelete
Oh how cute, but sad she's feeling sick - get well soon --all of you.ReplyDelete
I thought you hadn't been around much, wondered if perhaps I just hadn't been online at the "right" time. Hope you all feel better soon :)ReplyDelete
Oh, poor little Mouse. I know you're giving her lots of snuggles and TLC.ReplyDelete
Aww! I hope she's well soon. Stuffed animals are a great comfort. :-)ReplyDelete
Oh, I hope your little one feels better soon! This has been a pretty rough season for us in terms of illness, too (colds, stomach bug).ReplyDelete
I hope she gets better soon!!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Everyone! She is improving and hopefully will be back to full health again soon.ReplyDelete
Oh, I just want to grab her up and snuggle close with her and make it all better!!!ReplyDelete
Oh no … I hope everyone (espeically your little cutie) gets better soon. Being sick like that is no fun.ReplyDelete
I hope she recovers quickly. The flu this year has been just awful and seems to be hitting most people. You all take care!ReplyDelete
Oh no, poor Mouse! I sympathize with her as that's exactly what I was dealing with from Dec into Jan. I hope she's feeling much better soon. I love the photo of her sleeping surrounded by her beloved stuffed animals, adorable.ReplyDelete
I hope you're healthy and feeling good...you have to keep up your strength so you can wade through the tome that is War & Peace! I hope you're enjoying it!
Poor baby :/ I hope she is feeling better now! All three of my kiddos have been sick so I definitely understand. I was quiet all last week just recovering from the previous week :) Hopefully she feels better soon!ReplyDelete
Hope you all get to feeling better soon, especially poor little Mouse!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, February 10, 2013 8:47:00 PM
Poor Mouse. Take care of yourself!ReplyDelete
Poor Mouse. I hope she is much better now and that you and the rest of the family are as well! I've been sick twice in the past three weeks so I know it is really going around. I can't wait for Spring...ReplyDelete
You poor guys! Poor little Mouse (although that little thumb is adorable). Take care. I saw something on twitter about your back, too. Hope you're on the mend now.ReplyDelete
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One suspect still in Turkey as German police retrieve stolen Lennon items
BERLIN - The Associated Press
German police recovered around 100 items that belonged to late Beatles star John Lennon that were stolen from his widow in New York, including three diaries, two pairs of his signature metal-rimmed glasses, a cigarette case and a handwritten music score.
The retrieved possessions were displayed on Nov. 21 at Berlin police headquarters.
"This was a spectacular, unusual criminal case," police spokesman Winfrid Wenzel told reporters.
German authorities first became aware of the items, stolen from Yoko Ono at her New York home in 2006, when a bankruptcy administrator for the Berlin auction house Auctionata contacted them in July. The administrator had found the memorabilia in the company's storage.
Police confiscated the items from the auctioneers two weeks later, and on Monday arrested a suspect and raided his Berlin home and cars. They said another suspect, who is living in Turkey, is currently "not available," but they would try to get him extradited to Germany.
During their investigation, police officers and prosecutors also flew to New York, where they met Ono to have her verify the stolen goods' authenticity.
"She was very emotional and we noticed clearly how much these things mean to her and how happy she would be to have them back," prosecutor Susann Wettley said of the moment they showed Ono some of the recovered items and pictures of some others.
Wettley said that Ono's former driver, who is now living in Turkey, is one of the suspects.
He has a previous conviction in New York related to the stolen items, she said.
The other suspect, who was arrested in Berlin on Nov. 20, was identified as a 58-year-old German businessman of Turkish origin. During the search of his car, police said they found additional belongings of Lennon in a briefcase hidden under the spare tire in the trunk. Neither suspect's name was released because of German privacy rules.
Police are still checking confiscated computer files and business contracts to better understand how exactly the stolen goods ended up at the auction house in Berlin and if the auctioneers were aware that they bought stolen goods from the two suspects. They said the items have been in possession of Auctionata since 2014, but were never available for sale online.
The trove of Lennon memorabilia also includes a recording of a Beatles concert from 1965, a school exercise book from 1952, contract documents for the copyright of Lennon's "I'm the Greatest" song and handwritten scores for "Woman" and "Just like starting over."
There are also three of Lennon's leather-bound diaries, from 1975, 1979 and 1980. The last entry was made by Lennon on the morning of Dec. 8, 1980, a few hours before he was killed, Wettley said.
It included a note on the famous photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz that same day showing a naked Lennon embracing his wife.
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December 6, 2007
Small New Features Make Gmail Better
Contact tooltips
The tooltip that showed up when you hovered over the name of a contact in Gmail Chat was added to the message interface and you can see it when you read a message or when browser through a list of messages. This feature was added in October, but now you can edit the name of the contact directly from that small box.
Other cases when this tooltip is useful: copy the name of someone who sent you a mail, copy the mail address, read a list of recent messages that involve that person, edit the contact details or the photo.
Helpful keyboard shortcuts
Lifehacker found another small new feature: the help pane for keyboard shortcuts. You probably know it from Google Reader: just type ? (question mark) and you'll see a list of the most important keyboard shortcuts. It's difficult to remember all of them and this cheat sheet is always at a click away. Some new Gmail shortcuts:
* . (dot) - shows the "More actions" drop-down to apply a new label, star some messages
* [ - this is a great way to clear your inbox. After reading a message, type [: the message will be archived and you'll see the next message.
* z - after important actions like archiving a message or reporting a message as spam, Gmail shows a small message at the top of the page that lets you undo the action. Instead of clicking on "undo", you can just type z. Maybe in the future you'll be able to undo other actions like sending a message or emptying the trash.
You need to enable keyword shortcuts in the Settings before using them (the option is disabled by default).
Storing recent messages
If you frequently repeat the same search in Gmail (like l:unread to see all the unread messages), you've probably noticed that Gmail caches the list of search results and the next time you use the same query the search results are displayed instantly. For now, there's no option to save searches in Gmail's interface, but you can bookmark addresses like http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/l:unread (the last part of Gmail's address is your query). Gmail seems to have improved the way it caches messages, so it will load faster.
Still to come
Gmail Blog mentioned they're "doing some work to add some folder-y-ish functionality". Other features that could be anticipated by looking at the code: favorite labels, tasks, skins and gadgets. Even if some people think Gmail doesn't evolve fast enough, these small incremental updates bring some of the most requested features without significantly changing the interface.
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I'm using (new) Gmail in US English. But when I add a contact, when I try to add an address, it only appears City, State and ZIP code. How about a country?ReplyDelete
I live in Paraguay and almost all of my contacts live and work in Paraguay, Brazil or Argentina. How can i put the country information (and maybe in the future could be show a map in GMaps).
The improvements in new GMail still need some corrections. :)
That may be true but the recent upgrade to GMail 2.0 didn't play nice with a Firefox extension I was using (Better GMail). As a result, my GMail password stopped working. Not good.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Nice ! And what about push mail for iPhone ? thxReplyDelete
Okay. So there are small features. Great. What about the one feature that has been missing since the very beginning of GMail? I speak of a TRUE address book.ReplyDelete
Have you ever wanted to forward an email to someone only to find that you're sitting there having to think of everyone you want to send the email to?
Instead of having to do this, why does Google not come up with another option...one that pops up a window showing your contacts in that window? It gets VERY old having to save an email, go to your contacts, find a particular person or persons, think "Oh yeah" that's the other person I wanted to send this to", go back to the saved email, scroll to the end of the list of people you already have in the To: box, and then type in those person(s) name.
See how complicated it was to just explain how to do it? When all one should have to do is click a button, click the names, and send the email.
It really annoys me that a company as dedicated to advancement and freedom as Google is...that they wouldn't think of something so simple and handy.
If there's a simple way please let me know. And, I already know about creating groups, but I'm not always going to want to send all of my emails to the same people everytime.
The funny thing is that Google actually has that contact picker (you'll find it in Google Docs, Google Video, Gmail/Google Apps). Here's the picker:
Are you referring to the "Choose from contacts" option listed next to "Add Cc | Add Bcc" when composing a message?
From what you described, it already does that.
"Choose from contacts" is added only to Google Apps accounts. I don't understand why Google doesn't add this simple feature to all Gmail accounts.ReplyDelete
The thing with Gmail is that it doesn't explain the features that work slightly different than user might expect. Many people think Gmail doesn't have folders (what's a label?), you can only compose an email by going to Contacts and selecting an address etc.
I never realized the usefulness of shortcuts in Gmail. Awesome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Since updating Safari at work, I have the new GMail system. I miss being able to type in a single letter and having my addresses pop up. I now have to choose from my contacts before I start my email. At home, I haven't updated my IE (don't plan on it until it's vital), so I haven't had to deal with it. But, it's frustrating at work when I want to send out a quick email, and it's become a long drawn out process.ReplyDelete
Don't forget AIM chat in Gmail.ReplyDelete
Ooh, and don't forget colored labels in Gmail.
The Gmail folks have been busy. :)
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2007 at 11:45 PM
I like the new GMail... And I'm a lover of shortcuts.ReplyDelete
One of the things I miss most (and I TOTALLY expect to be added very soon) is the "saving of searches" via the GreaseMonkey script.
But, I did write up a way to almost imitate this, which adds to what you wrote above:
GMail Unread Mail Shortcut
I'm with John. I'd love to see a true address book and would love to be able to "Choose from contacts."ReplyDelete
I wonder if this uses GWT.ReplyDelete
No, it doesn't use Google Web Toolkit.ReplyDelete
<< Google didn't comment on the technologies used in this release but just confirmed that it wasn't GWT a Google spokesperson told us "We don't have anything new to share about the technologies used to create Gmail, but I can tell you that we've used Google Web Toolkit to build parts of Google Base and Google Checkout, and all of Google Mashup Editor" >>
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I like the new email features, unfortunately, it's been crashing my install of firefox (22.214.171.124) with its add-ons (gmail disabled firefox, etc) after sending mails and a few other actions. Unacceptable. Reluctantly I've changed back to the older version.ReplyDelete
Maybe there's a conflict with some of your extensions. Did you try running Firefox in safe mode to see if it still crashes?ReplyDelete
Yadda, yadda...luckily, I download my mail to my pc. Gmail's "conversation view" sucks - there ought to be a way to just list the messages in order if that's what I want. With their way, you can't delete selected messages in a string. Seems like an attempt to be "different," which isn't always better. The lack of a "choose from contacts" button is just an idiotic omission that should have been fixed on day 2. I can guarantee you that gmail's growth is fueled by free storage space, not the stupid little features they're so high on.ReplyDelete
I am having the same problems as Dan E, with FF 220.127.116.11 and writing an email hitting send and then clicking on the drafts to finish another email, etc. and having FF crash.ReplyDelete
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am very very frustrated my friend and need your help soon if you can help me????? I have been diligently spending mass time writing school districts prior to the job fair from yahoo...............then it is telling me due to unusual activity saving or receiving messages will be suspended for 48 hours RIGHT WHEN I need to receive feedback from them the most DOGGONE IT!!!!! That is IT...........I am SWITCHING TO GMAIL.................AND should have ages ago........but when I try to import my addresses etc...........it says to grrrrrrrrrrr disable pop ups so I do and it says pop ups ok up on top of my panel.........but still not letting me import my addresses cuz of that pop up blocker???? So how can I proceed my dear????? I pused a button to chat with gmail folks and same deal popped up...............not allowing me to communicate and proceed which I so NEED TO??? IF A GMAIL CREW IS READING THIS PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME SOON AS THIS IS SO TIME SENSITIVE. THANKSReplyDelete
No Gmail team here, but I might help you. First you need find out what browser you use (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.) and if you have a toolbar or other plug-in that could include a pop-up blocker. Normally, those dialogs shouldn't be blocked by your browser, but you might try disabling the pop-up blocker or adding mail.google.com to the list of allowed sites.ReplyDelete
Some clues for different browsers and add-ons.
If google people are seeing this and can gmail my answer to my last questiong please do? As I do not know if I can find where this site is to check on an answer? Oh.....will cut and paste the address...thanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2008 at 10:53 PM
hopingThanks so much for the help. I HAVE tried to disable the place on top that says 107 blocked..........then it says Popups okay.......but when I try to import addresses from yahoo after disabling ......the SAME comment comes up like I never disabled the pop up blocker? Why? And also where and how do I put the gmail word "mail.google.com" you suggested for it to allow without blocking?ReplyDelete
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How the Internet fuels the global psychedelic community
This year and the next, the United Nations will evaluate the War on Drugs. Since its official start in 1998, we have been bombed with official statistics on drug use, drug addiction, drug trafficking, street prices, court cases and all the like. But what does this information tell us? Drugs are bad, drugs are expensive, drugs are addictive, drugs equal crime. These numbers obviously show us that drugs, despite their bad reputation, are undeniably part of our society.
I am about to take a deeper look into a drug category that does not show up in the statistics provided by the drug monitoring institutions, that are mostly concerned with cocaine and (meth)amphetamines. The drugs within the category I'd like to talk about have a lot in common: they are 100% natural, they are mostly legal, they are not addictive, they provide an expansion of consciousness that can be described as a spiritual experience, they are used by a steadily increasing number of young people, and they are mostly sold over the Internet. How can I be sure about all this if statistics do not provide much information on the matter? It's simple: the Internet demonstrates it.
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On the menu are seeds with exotic names such as Hawaiian Baby Woodrose and Morning glory. You can buy ingredients for powerful shamanic potions like Ayahuasca and other indigenous sacraments from the depths of the Amazon. There are also relaxing herbs such as St. Jons Wort, Valerian, Blue lotus, stimulants such as Kratom, and hallucinogens that gained a particularly bad reputation among worrisome American parents such as Lady Salvia (Salvia divinorum). There are numerous online vendors that offer these legal psychedelics in their natural form, as plant material. Working for one of these suppliers I've witnessed ever-increasing sales and returning customers since 1999. I've also witnessed an ever increasing number of competitors, with equally increasing sales. Some of them keep an assortment consisting of hundreds of different natural psychedelics; others focus on one easily available and fashionably marketable drug.
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It appeared that the Web has exactly those qualities that proved essential for the formation of a large, global psychedelic community. More than any other non-mediated social phenomena the use of psychedelics was fueled by the Internet's biggest successes: access to unbiased information, interactive communication and e-commerce. First-hand information from experienced users has proved essential for those who consider using a certain drug. Erowid, with 45.000 documents generally considered the most extensive online source on psychedelic information, was one of the first websites that saw the importance of user-submitted content. A few trip reports can provide you with the pitfalls and potentials more so than those static, moralistic, educational texts. But there is more to the psychedelic network that heavily clouds the Web; numerous blogs, dazzling artwork, news about psychedelic studies, podcasts with conference talks of "gurus" like Terence McKenna, and videos of - for instance - "psy" events like Burning Man.
The relation between psychedelics, commerce and computers is anyhow interesting. Hippie-trippy designs never lost their impact on modern graphic design. Computer graphics, animation and virtual reality have always been marked by psychedelics. And although Burning Man used to be labelled as too-hippie-to-mention, it is now considered the ultimate melting pot of creativity, freedom and happiness by the numerous Silicon Valley workers and Wall Street executives that join the parade of cosmic artists.
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The sale of natural psychedelics is not as natural as it may seem, at least in most countries. Nowadays, only in a few countries are natural psychedelics - and smoking supplies too - openly sold and marketed according to their intended use. Back in the 70's they used to be available obscurely in London head shops and the Amsterdam red light district. It was in the early nineties Conscious Dreams opened the first "smart shop" in Amsterdam, a place that offered 100% natural drugs over the counter to adults. Non-chemical energy pills and so-called magic mushrooms, first available over-the-counter in 1994, were the biggest hits. Spain, Italy and other countries followed. Azarius, also from the Netherlands was the first European online smart shop, supplying only over the Internet. People from many parts of the world can buy the natural products and get information on their use and history. However, things are a little complicated for these web shops that operate within the legal framework. Shipping restrictions are necessary, but finding out what can and can not be sent to a given country or state is difficult due to unclearly stated and often changing national legislation. For example, if it is legal to sell a certain plant extract, does that also apply to its seeds, its fruits and the synthesized form of its active substance? To be "safe" from governmental penalties most shops refrain from marketing their wares as consumption goods. Unfortunately this does not make things safer for the customer who - consequently - does not receive any dosage information or user guidelines with ordered products. But the solution to this is also provided by the freedom and neutrality of the Internet, where this information can be found within a few mouse clicks.
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Mogwai to close festival, Balam Acab, Ty Segall, Wolf People and more newly confirmed!
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ATP recently confirmed that two very special December festival events at Camber Sands will be the last ever UK Holiday Camp festivals - two consecutive weekends going under the title ATP - End Of An Era. ATP will continue to promote curated events in the UK, but after our imminent Deerhunter curated June weekend (tickets available now here), and these newly confirmed End Of An Era weekends, we will no longer be hosting them at our traditional holiday camp locations. ATP are bringing back many fan favourites including many past curators and mixing them in with the latest and most innovative new artists around.
Today we can confirm more artists for both line-ups with more past curators, ATP Recordings artists and friends of ATP to be confirmed....
Weekend 1 running from November 22nd-24th is curated in collaboration with our friends at Primavera Sound. Since 2001 the Primavera organisation has been running amazing festivals in Barcelona (and now Porto), featuring ATP curated stages at each event since 2007.
For this weekend we can now newly confirm performances from Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Low, Tortoise, Magik Markers, Har Mar Superstar, Scout Niblett, Blanck Mass, Los Planetas, Standstill, Refree and Headbirds. The line-up now looks like this with more to be confirmed…
Television performing Marquee Moon (UK exclusive)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Dinosaur Jr.
Les Savy Fav
Chelsea Light Moving (feat. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore)
Magik Markers
Har Mar Superstar
Dinos Chapman
Oneohtrix Point Never
Wolf Eyes
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Scout Niblett
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Los Planetas
Forest Swords
The Haxan Cloak
Demdike Stare
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Weekend 2 running from November 29th-December 1st is curated by ATP and LOOP. Hailing from South London, Loop released three mindblowing albums in the late 1980s highlighted by 1990's A Gilded Eternity. Reviewing their recently reissue discography, The Quietus wrote "These were stars that burned and shone with an intense brightness, and it's testament to Loop's vision and delivery that the mark they made is indelible." ATP are very pleased to reunite Loop for this event and also to ask them to collaborate with us on choosing the line-up of the very last ATP Holiday Camp festival.
Today we can confirm that Mogwai (the headliners of the first ever ATP festival in 2000) will play the closing set of this final holiday camp festival. Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai:
"It's an incredible honour to be asked to close the final ATP holiday camp festival. We couldn't have imagined when we curated in 13 years ago that the festival would have had the impact that it's had. Back then festivals were moving further to the mainstream and I think the continued strength of underground music in the UK owes a big debt to the work done by ATP. I think getting to play with Loop, musical heroes of ours will be a fitting way for us to close this event."
They are joined by other new additions - Balam Acab, White Fence, Ty Segall, Föllakzoid, Wolf People, Civil Civic, Tall Firs, Dawn Hunger, Kandodo, New War and DJ Jonathan Toubin.
So far for this weekend the line-up looks like this:
Curated by Loop:
The Pop Group
23 Skidoo
Dirty Beaches
White Fence
Curated by ATP:
Ty Segall
Balam Acab
Edan (DJ set)
Tall Firs
Wolf People
Civil Civic
New War
Dawn Hunger
The KVB
Thought Forms
DJ Jonathan Toubin
+ many more to be confirmed!
Each event features a 35 band bill playing on the venue's excellent indoor stages featuring award winning sound, also featuring DJs until late, Cinema and much more! Tickets include accommodation in private apartments for you and your friends - tickets must be booked in groups of 4-8 people. An Installment Payment Plan as well as Chalet Sharing for Pairs are also available, see below for details.
Reduced Price Early Bird Tickets for ATP's End Of An Era events including festival entry + accommodation are on sale now priced at £170 per person via these links: Weekend One (Primavera) / Weekend Two (Loop)
There are a limited amount available at this price - when these are gone, we will also have a limited number of £180 per person tickets available. Any remaining tickets will then be available at the full price of £190 per person.
ATP are running a deposit scheme for the festival to make it easier for some people to pay. We are offering a limited number of 4 & 6 berth self catered apartments to be paid for with a deposit upfront, and the remaining amount to be paid by the end of September. These apartments will be sold at full price (£190) with a booking fee of £7.50 per person. For a 4-berth, this works out as: £360 deposit (£90pp) / £430 2nd installment (£107.50pp). And for a 6-berth: £540 deposit (£90pp) / £645 2nd installment (£107.50pp)
All deposits will be non-refundable, so please only apply if you are sure you can pay the remaining amount when it is due in September. You can pay by either Google Checkout (similar to Paypal), Cheque or Bank Transfer. Please email deposit(at)atpfestival.com with PRIMAVERA DEPOSIT or LOOP DEPOSIT in the subject line if you would like to take part. Please include: your name, address, chalet size, and which payment method you would like to use. Chalets will be granted on a first come first served basis and you will need to pay your first deposit within one week of acceptance into the scheme.
If you wish to attend but can't find four people to fill a chalet, you can now buy a pair of tickets and we can match you up with another pair to share a chalet. Some testimony from previous chalet sharers:
"My boyfriend and I shared a chalet with two awesome ladies and had a blast! We came from the states, so it was a great way to meet new people and hang out." - Susan
"I hardly knew any of the guys I shared with at Shellac ATP, but loved the atmosphere. It actually turned out to be better than sharing with friends, and I'll surely be in touch with them for future gigs and festivals." - Grazia
For full details see these links: Weekend 1 (Primavera) / Weekend 2 (Loop)
The events takes place at Pontins Holiday Camp, East Sussex over three days from Friday - Sunday. Check in begins on Friday at midday/noon and Check out occurs on Monday morning at 10am sharp. The events are held in a holiday resort so all tickets include a pass to the festival + 3 nights accommodation in private apartments. Each chalet is self-catering and has a small kitchen with cooking/dining utensils included, bathroom with either a shower or bath and of course a sink & toilet. The TV area doubles as a bedroom with a roll out sofa bed, and then there will either be one or two bedrooms with the relevant numbers of beds. Bedding is included in the chalets.
So you stay on site in your own private accommodation with your friends for 3 nights and you ALSO get a pass to see all of the bands perform over 3 days, plus bar with DJs until early in the morning, free cinema programme, use of site facilities and much more! Apart from nursing a huge hangover, there is a swimming pool, arcades, a beautiful beach across the road, the local pubs and of course Rye Village where there are some very nice places to eat.
Camber Sands is easily accessible via train to Rye (followed by a short bus/taxi ride). High speed trains now run from London St Pancras to Ashford International and take just 37 minutes, then change at Ashford International for a train to Rye (18 minutes).
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How to learn to understand the world – a question that has an answer!
How can children learn a foreign language within half a year? And why does a regular person spend years of difficult studies on the same task? It's all because of a certain skill that children aren't aware of, and adults have forgotten.
We all speak in our native language, perfectly. However, not all of us have received high grades during our mother tongue classes, in school. A language is an audio-visual dynamic environment of images. You can either imagine it as a system of rules and regulations, or you can jump into it as if you are entering a river. To learn it, is figuratively speaking, to learn how to swim. Once you have achieved the basics, you can learn the technical theory, and how to use it correctly.
Here are a few examples in which our system is especially efficient:
1. Learn basic phrases and vocabulary. Quickly and elegantly.
Without tedious study and repetition, you can learn basic vocabulary that will be sufficient in explaining oneself in public.
2. Begin hearing and understanding native speakers
You will no longer have to think long and hard before understanding what your conversation partner has just said. You will understand him naturally, as it happens to you in your own native language. Every word or phrase is pronounced by two narrators (male and female), who pronounce words in various intonations and speeds. From the very first moment, you will submerge yourself into the richness and variety of a new language.
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Microsoft has announced that, for a limited time only, Windows 8 Pro upgrades will cost just $39.99 via download, or $69.99 for a boxed DVD from retail outlets. Download customers will be able to buy a backup DVD for $15 plus shipping and handling.
Between its launch—whenever that will be—and January 1st, 2013, users of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 will be able to buy the cheap upgrades to Windows 8 Pro. Windows 8 Pro is the higher of the two mainstream Windows 8 SKUs, and it includes features such as BitLocker, Hyper-V, and the ability to join Windows domains.
The new Windows 8 pricing undercuts the equivalent promotional pricing for Windows 7 upgrades. During the Windows 7 promotion, upgrades to Home Premium and Professional were available for $49 and $99, respectively.
In Windows 8, the Media Center product is separate from the main operating system, and buyers of new systems will have to pay for it. Anyone upgrading with this promotion will, however, be able to install the Media Center add-on for free, avoiding the forfeiture of features that they currently use.
Only Windows 7 users will be able to upgrade their entire operating system in-place, with applications, settings, and data all preserved. When upgrading from Windows Vista, only settings and data will be preserved. Upgraders from Windows XP will only keep their data.
For those not upgrading, there will be Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro System Builder versions. Redmond has not yet disclosed pricing or availability for those however.


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10 Reasons Not to Buy a Smartwatch
Q: You walk into a showroom to find a Chevy Volt, a 3D printer, and a Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch. Which should you buy?
A: The 3D printer. Print $40,299 and a Xanax, buy the Volt and the watch with the money, and drive off into the sunset. About 45 minutes later when the Volt's battery dies and you realize a $299 smartwatch can't even make a dumb phone call for help, take the Xanax.
Okay, so I'm not going to quit my day job and become a standup comedian. But the point is, just as with plug-in electric cars and 3D printers, smartwatches aren't all they're cracked up to be. Here are 10 reasons why I'm not falling for all the hype and, if you're smart, neither will you.
What about your other watch? Here's the thing: most of us already have at least one watch we spent some dough on and like to wear. You know, like a Rolex, a TAG Heuer, an Omega, even a Swatch or two. It's actually a pretty big industry, in case you didn't know. What are you going to do, wear one on each arm? You'll look ridiculous.
If I can't watch Duck Dynasty on it, then what's the point? Well, maybe if it had some James Bond spy functions like a pullout wire garrote or it shoots tiny explosive darts, that might be cool. I'll have to think about it.
They're too complicated. Apple is the most valuable tech company because its products work. They just plain work – easily, seamlessly, right out of the box. For a smartwatch to do anything cool, it has to be paired with a smartphone or a tablet. That's too complicated. Even then, it's got a tiny screen with limited capability. Nine times out of 10 you're going to get frustrated and just pull out your phone. It's way easier.
A health tracker? Please. A top dog at CNET says the ideal smartwatch will be a health tracker. Really? I'm a runner. I own a pair of sneakers, shorts, and socks. I don't need to know how far I run or how many calories I burn. I know I'm fit because my clothes fit. Funny how the more fitness stuff we buy the fatter we become. If everyone would quit trying to be so smart and just go out and do something, there'd be no obesity epidemic.
What's the killer app? Every smart gadget you own has at least one killer app. That's why you plunked down cash to buy it. That's why if you leave home without it you have a panic attack. You have to have it. For that to be true of a smartwatch, it has to be able to do at least one killer app such as voice-to-text or navigation hands-free, all the time, and not just with limited capability.
It might clash with your glasses. Wouldn't it be a real bummer if Google Glass turns out to be the next big thing? All the cool people are walking around sporting these high-tech glasses and you're stuck with a dumb-looking wristwatch that can't do squat on its own?
I'm terrified the radiation from all these smart gadgets is frying my brain. Nah, just kidding. I may be neurotic but I'm not a whacko.
The one I want doesn't exist yet. Look, I know a great product when I see one. I knew the iPhone and iPad were category killers when they launched. I don't know what kind of smartwatch is worth buying; all I know is I haven't seen it yet. Maybe Apple's long-rumored iWatch will be the next big thing. We're just going to have to wait and see.
That's just what we need. We all complain about information overload, having to be on 24x7, and having no time to do anything. We're all hopelessly addicted to the distraction and attention we get from our smartphones, iPads, Twitter, Facebook, and all those apps. Is this really what we all need, another smart gadget? Like an alcoholic needs a bottle of whisky.
I'm holding out for implants. The more I think about it, maybe I'll just skip the whole wearable thing all together and go straight to implants. Hey, you never know.


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New general manager, Charles Burns, III had a stellar weekend as the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix returned to the Motor City over the weekend with three days of world-class auto racing, live music, interactive games and displays all on beautiful Belle Isle Park. The fastest weekend of the summer features cars from the IZOD IndyCar Series, the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the Pirelli World Challenge Championship Series.
Spectators were able to catch the race on the newly configured 2.3 mile street course at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park. This year, Belle Isle hosted the first IndyCar doubleheader race weekend with full championship races on both Saturday and Sunday in the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit.
Race winner Scott Dixon, who held on to finish 1.9628 seconds ahead of Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Dario Franchitti, also was joined on the stage by Simon Pagenaud as Honda swept the top three in Chevy's home race.
The Results
A week earlier, it was Franchitti leading Dixon across the start-finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win his third Indianapolis 500.
Dixon, the pole sitter, led all 60 laps in the race shortened from 90 laps because of a two-hour red flag for crews to repair three sections of patched asphalt on the 14-turn course. Dixon earned his 28th Indy car victory, passing Johnny Rutherford for 11th on the all-time list. Rick Mears (29) is next up.
"I am super happy for the team – a 1-2 finish for the Target boys for the second week in a row," Dixon said. "Hats off to the fans who stuck around through something that was totally unexpected. If I could have gotten my gloves off I'd have chewed my nails for sure on those final laps.
"I'd like to give a lot of credit to everyone at INDYCAR and the Detroit staff for getting the track back in shape so we could race. The final 15-lap shootout was exciting for me, so I sure hope the fans liked it. It is great to be back in Detroit and I hope we are here for many years to come – great fans, volunteers and staff. In the end, it was a good week for everyone."
Read more https://www.michronicleonline.com/index.php/news-briefs-original/11896-chevrolet-detroit-grand-prix-revved-up-detroit


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Time certainly flies doesn't it. Here we are again with a new challenge which is always Anything goes as long as it is mixed media/altered art - NO CARDS, ATC'S etc.
Thank you all for all your beautiful projects you share with us month by month - we really appreciate it - you inspire us all and please continue to do so. I will post the winners before the end of month.
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Twitter is an interesting tool. It is undeniably powerful and effective. But one thing remains complicated with Twitter – the amount of buzz coming from it every single second.
Because it is such a large tool with so many members, you have to really make your tweets stand out if you want to drive traffic and interactions to your site. This primarily comes down to content, and optimizing it in such a way that enforces your overall Twitter strategy.
How can you do this, when so many others are trying to do the same?
The good news is that you are competing for attention within a specific niche pool, which increases your likelihood of being seen, getting a clickthrough to your site (in the case of share links), and having others follow your account, and retweet or favorite your content. The tips below will help you boost your tweets, so they really stand out against the crowd.
How to be Seen on Twitter
Use Actual Quotes From The Content
Sometimes you need more than a snappy title to catch the interest of your potential followers. Rather than copy/pasting the title of a link, try pulling a quote from the text to get people interested in what you have to say.
For example, @Clientsfh will tweet a sentence from within their stories, as their posts don't have actual titles. They are careful not to give away the punchline, instead enticing people to click through using an engaging segment likely to resonate with freelancers:
Be Bold, Not Bland
"5 Ways To Improve Your Twitter Marketing" or "You've been using Twitter wrong from the beginning, and I can prove it!"
Which one of these do you think people are more likely to click on when they see it come up in their Twitter feed?
The first gives direct detail into what will be found, but it is easy to ignore on a live-updating list of content vying for the viewer's attention. The second doesn't give anything away, but it promises to. It offers just enough to make the viewer curious about what you might have to say.
Sometimes, you can be even more brash, or even more vague. Just ask yourself, if you saw that tweet, would you want to know what it was about? If the answer is yes -you are on the right track.
Keep Things Short
One of the best examples I have ever come across for promoted Twitter content came from a single word – and a link. The post was a collection of badly made graphic designs that were done by "professionals." But you wouldn't have known that from the tweet. What did it say?
It said, "No. [link]"
That is it – just the word no and a link to the content.
Why was this clever? Because it was one word, it offered no information. I had never seen that done before, and yet it somehow managed to deliver. Everything about the post it was linking to was a no.
This kind of tactic can backfire, however, so make sure you are choosing your words carefully. But if you can say it with less – do it.
Use Hashtags…The RIGHT Way
There is a lot of debate about just how you should be using hashtags. Some even don't think you should be using them at all. Personally, I think it is more about using them to become associated with that hashtag, rather than any real enhancement of your tweet. Sure, you can add context to a tweet using a hashtag, which is a decent method if you are trying to be goofy, funny or sarcastic.
However, as a professional user, these instances won't be very common. You're better off focusing on singling in on related hashtags that narrow down what most of your content will be about in the long term:
Boring! Revamp your #smallbiz marketing by entering to win a $25,000 #marketing makeover! http://t.co/bdea9v7sOc pic.twitter.com/iYqPwFdbGJ
— Anita Campbell (@smallbiztrends) June 16, 2014
That way, your tweets start coming up regularly in search, which drives people to follow you, or else follow your links to your site. Relating yourself to a hashtag (or branding your own as seen below) is an instant visibility – and even traffic – driver.
#TYBCommunity Round-Up: Personal Brands, Pinterest Graphics, Blogs & More http://t.co/BhXd9zVuSv via @BizSugar
— Anita Campbell (@smallbiztrends) June 18, 2014
Don't Forget The Visual Content
Why tell them, when you can show them?
There is a major problem with Twitter users ignoring the potential for sharing photos and videos on their profiles. Sure, as a microblogging site, that isn't really what it was made for. But it still has the capability, and users like visual content as much as Facebook or Google Plus adopters.
Plus, there is an image and video specific section in search results, right at the top. Add a couple of hashtags, or @ tag some relevant users, and you have a great and targeted way of using visual content on Twitter.
Visual tweets make better embedded tweets as well:
Running a #smallbusiness can take up a lot of your time. Try these productivity hacks: http://t.co/jB9baNYUN8 pic.twitter.com/Av73NpA5fF
— Anita Campbell (@smallbiztrends) June 17, 2014
Know What Your Followers Like
It can be easy to fall into the habit of random sharing. But all social media campaigns should have a tone and specific way of marketing. That means knowing what your followers want to see, and what they are most likely to share with their own friends.
Invest in a social media dashboard, such as Hootsuite, to track analytics. You can also use something like Moz for more detailed information. You can see how often certain content is being shared, and figure out what you should be posting more of.
Getting a tweet it stick out isn't really that difficult. But there is one tip that is more important than any other in social media marketing – be consistent.
So get out there and start tweeting, armed with these tips on how to be seen on Twitter, to make your posts just a little bit better.
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, November 17, 2009 – Starting January 2010, Mexicana Airlines, Mexico´s largest international airline will increase its service between Mexico City and Calgary International Airport (YYC) from four, to five flights per week.
Airline Officers said that market research indicated the airline should consolidate its presence in Alberta using only YYC as its gateway. The possibility to return in the near future to Edmonton will continue to be studied. "We appreciate the strong support we receive in Alberta from travellers; and we will keep our promise of offering the best available service and most extensive route network in Mexico, Central and South America to all of Alberta." said Jorge Goytortua, Mexicana´s Regional VP for North America.
Mr. Goytortua also added, "As a result of the global economic downturn affecting the travel industry, the H1N1 flu crisis and the restrictions imposed on Mexican Nationals travelling to Canada, the airline had to take a deep look into the bottom line, making difficult decisions in order to maintain the company afloat. In spite of today's difficult environment, we are committed to the Canadian market and believe this situation will change in the short term, allowing us to reconsider new destinations serving Canadian travellers."
"We are very pleased to see the increased service of Mexicana Airlines in Calgary," said Mayor of Calgary, Dave Bronconnier. "Adding more frequency from Calgary to Mexico City means more flexibility and ease for travelling on business, and more opportunity for Calgarians and others from across the province who are seeking some sun and fun at Mexico's world famous beaches, resorts and beyond."
"It is great news that Mexicana has reaffirmed its commitment to serve YYC and the Alberta Marketplace by increasing the frequency of service at YYC," said Garth Atkinson, President and CEO of The Calgary Airport Authority. "We are confident they will continue to do well using YYC as their international gateway to Alberta."
The airline's flight schedules to Calgary will remain unchanged, operating, as of January 2010, five weekly services. Schedules have proved to be ideal for business and leisure travellers allowing for connections in Mexico City's International Airport, the airline's main Hub. For more information please contact your travel professional or through their website.
Calgary – Mexico City
Mexico City - Calgary
08:00 – 14:25
Daily except Wednesday and Sunday
15:15 – 20:00
Daily except Tuesday and Saturday
About Mexicana
Mexicana Airlines, Mexico's flagship airline, is considered the number one brand in its category. Throughout the almost 90 years it has been in operation, the carrier has built a solid reputation, earning the trust and loyalty of its passengers. Mexicana is the country's leading airline and the number one foreign airline serving the US-Mexico market. In response to changing market and industry conditions, Mexicana recently overhauled its image, offering its passengers efficient, accessible and flexible services that translate into an unparalleled travel experience and set the carrier apart from its competitors. This new corporate culture reflects the dynamism of an innovative company, while preserving Mexicana's time-honored essence and tradition. In 2008, Mexicana flew over 11.7 million passengers to its 50-odd destinations in Mexico, Central, South and North America, the Caribbean and, more recently, Europe. Its fleet is comprised of 63 aircraft —26 Airbus A320s, 21 A319s, ten A318s, two A330, two Boeing 767-200 and two 767-300s— that make some 300 takeoffs a day. Not only is Mexicana reputed to have the best maintenance base in Latin America, but it is certified as a Socially Responsible Company and has won several major industry awards, including the World Travel Award for Leading Airline in Mexico and Central America on no less than 11 occasions. Its subsidiary, MexicanaClick operates 30 routes using aircraft equipped with cutting-edge technology.
For more information, contact:
Theresa E. Bravo
Customer & Public Relations Manager USA-Canada
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CRS: Federal Food Assistance in Disasters: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, February 23, 2006
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About this CRS report
This document was obtained by Wikileaks from the United States Congressional Research Service.
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Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: Federal Food Assistance in Disasters: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
CRS report number: RL33102
Author(s): Joe Richardson, Domestic Social Policy Division
Date: February 23, 2006
- Abstract
- There are a number of federal food assistance efforts that can provide help in the case of disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The most important are the Food Stamp program, child nutrition programs (e.g., school meal programs), and federally donated food commodities delivered through relief organizations and emergency shelters/congregate feeding sites. In addition, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) can play a limited role, if they have commodities available and providers are geographically positioned to help. Authorities under the Food Stamp Act, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and Agriculture Department laws relating to the acquisition of commodities provide the Department with the ability to change program rules and acquire and distribute food in response to disasters.
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John Mayberry Jr. hit his first career home run Saturday, and the Fox crew in Yankee Stadium quickly honed in on his father, former MLB player John Mayberry Sr. Only problem: It wasn't him. Ay, there's the rub. (Also, A-Rod homered and the Yankees won, spoiling the Mayberrys' day.) [Bats]
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Editor's note: This story is part of a series "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--Scientific American's Take."
On March 28, 2008, some of the editors of Scientific American watched a screening of Expelled at our offices and had a discussion with the associate producer* of the film, Mark Mathis. This is the entire recording of the discussion, uncut. The first voice you hear is John Rennie, the editor in chief of Scientific American.
*Note: Mark Mathis was originally identified as the associate editor of Expelled.
Other voices you will hear are
- Steve Mirsky
- Phil Yam, News Editor for Scientific American Magazine, at 39 minutes, 46 seconds (5:17 of Part 2)
- Dan Schlenoff, Copy Editor, at 40:53 (6:24 of Part 2)
- Aaron Fagan, Copy Editor, at 67:46 (33:17 of Part 2)
A couple of notes:
At 63:11, (28:43 of Part 2) Rennie is reacting to Mathis, who turned to the rest of the editors and silently mimicked Rennie as he spoke.
One point requires response here. Mathis charged that some 92 percent of the judge's decision in the Dover intelligent design trial was copied directly from papers filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We said we would follow up and find out the truth. We did. In fact, Mathis was wrong in three ways. One, even the Discovery Institute's own charge is that the judge copied 90.9 percent of ACLU material for one specific section in the judge's decision. Second, a correct statistical workup finds that the number is as low as 35 percent, depending on whether you include material filed that is not included in the decision and the length of word strings. But the most important point is one that I guessed at in the conversation. We spoke to actual legal experts who told us that when the sides in a trial file their facts, it is with the hope that they make the case strongly enough for the judge to incorporate their texts into the finding of fact section of the decision. Therefore the charges that Mathis makes against Judge Jones are both incorrect in detail and spurious in spirit. For more information, you can go to footnote 88 in the Wikipedia entry on the Discovery Institute. There's more info on the permissibility of using filed facts in a decision at The Panda's Thumb Web site, pandasthumb.org. It's an entry called "Weekend at Behe's" dated December 12, 2006.


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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Since Googlebot was born, webmasters around the world have been asking one question: Google, oh, Google, are my pages in the index? Now is the time to answer that question using the new Index Status feature in Webmaster Tools. Whether one or one million, Index Status will show you how many pages from your site have been included in Google's index.
Index Status is under the Health menu. After clicking on it you'll see a graph like the following:
It shows how many pages are currently indexed. The legend shows the latest count and the graph shows up to one year of data. If you see a steadily increasing number of indexed pages, congratulations! This should be enough to confirm that new content on your site is being discovered, crawled and indexed by Google.
However, some of you may find issues that require looking a little bit deeper. That's why we added an Advanced tab to the feature. You can access it by clicking on the button at the top, and it will look like this:
The advanced section will show not only totals of indexed pages, but also the cumulative number of pages crawled, the number of pages that we know about which are not crawled because they are blocked by robots.txt, and also the number of pages that were not selected for inclusion in our results.
Notice that the counts are always totals. So, for example, if on June 17th the count for indexed pages is 92, that means that there are a total of 92 pages indexed at this point in time, not that 92 pages were added to the index on that day only. In particular for sites with a long history, the count of pages crawled may be very big in comparison with the number of pages indexed.
All this data can be used to identify and debug a variety of indexing-related problems. For
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We hope that Index Status will bring more transparency into Google's index selection process and help you identify and fix indexing problems with your sites. And if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask in our Help Forum.


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SEOUL (AFP) - "Started search and touched a wall. Groped along the wall... moved along further. Felt a body."
It's a grim diary entry for a harrowing job - the recovery of hundreds of bodies, most of them schoolchildren, from the cold, dark interior of a submerged South Korean ferry that sank more than three weeks ago.
One of the divers who worked on the rescue and recovery operation for nearly all that time kept a daily journal that outlines, in stark detail, the physical and psychological demands placed on the rescue teams.
It follows the progression of the operation, from the early optimism that some passengers might be found in air pockets, to the tragic realisation that there were no survivors beyond the 172 who escaped the vessel before it fully capsized.
"My mind is totally occupied by one thought - find anyone still alive," the journal begins on April 19, three days after the 6,825-tonne Sewol went down.
Of the 476 on board the ferry, 325 were children from the same high school, on an organised trip to the southern resort island of Jeju.
The diver was hired for the operation by a salvage company, Undine Marine Industry, on a temporary contract that forbade him to speak to the media.
His journal entries were published this week under the pseudonym "Mr. B" by Kookje Shinmun, a local newspaper in the southern city of Busan.
By April 22, the reality had sunk in that the search for survivors had become a search for bodies, even as relatives of the hundreds of missing - waiting on shore - clung to the thinnest of hopes that some may still be brought out alive.
"What have we done to these children?" the entry reads.
"Sorry, Sorry, Sorry."
A thank you from a parent for retrieving the body of his child does little to lift the sense of helplessness.
"I don't think I deserve this gratitude," he writes.
The most searing entries are the most recent, recorded as the recovery operation picked up pace and dive teams moved deeper into the sunken ferry's interior.
The divers were under immense pressure from the authorities and the victims' families to retrieve all the trapped bodies as quickly as possible, but the journal shows the sort of challenges they faced working in near zero visibility.
"The torch is almost useless," notes a May 4 entry, as Mr. B and his diving partner tried to set up guide ropes inside the ferry at a depth of 40 meters (130 feet).
"The visibility is so bad, it's better to just close your eyes and grope with your hands." Two days later, the journal describes the moment of discovering a body, bumping into something which touch reveals to be an arm belonging to a corpse floating in one of the passenger cabins.
After securing the body, the diver pulls on his life line as a signal to the surface team to pull them up.
"We get stuck in a doorway and I signal them to stop pulling. I get through the doorway and gently guide the body through after me, and then we start rising again."
He then returns to search the same cabin, knowing that many passengers had complied with crew instructions to stay where they were when the ship began to list sharply to one side.
At first he finds nothing but suddenly comes across a body stuck in a crouched position under one of the sleeping berths.
"I feel the arms first, then the head and the torso.
"The space is too narrow. It's hard to pull it free and the dive time is running out." The entry then describes clearing bags and debris from the confined space and trying in vain to get both his arms inside and under the body's armpits.
"It's still too narrow, but then I grab some clothing at the back of the neck and pull, and the body comes out."
So far there has been one fatality on the rescue team, when a diver was pulled unconscious from the water on Tuesday and later pronounced dead in hospital.
According to the federal disaster force, 24 others have been treated for injuries and decompression sickness.


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Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty (1892 - 1975) was a Hungarian Catholic persecuted and imprisoned first by the Nazis and then by the Communists based on his faith. Today his legacy is carried on by the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation.
Mindszenty was ordained to the priesthood on the Feast of the Sacred heart of Jesus on June 12, 1915 and, after serving faithfully for almost thirty years, was consecrated Bishop of Veszprem on March 25, 1944. From November 27, 1944 to April 20, 1945, he was imprisoned by the Nazis.
On October 2, 1945, Pope Pius XII appointed him Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Just a few months later, on February 18, 1946, the Pope raised him to the Cardinalate. As Pope Pius XII placed the Cardinal's hat on his head, the Pope said: "Among the thirty-two, you will be the first to suffer the martyrdom whose symbol this red color is."[1]
In 1948 the Communists in Hungary banned religious orders. On December 26, 1948, Archbishop Mindszenty was arrested and charged with treason, conspiracy, and other offenses.
His trial began on February 3, 1949, and five days later he was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason against the communist Hungarian government.
On February 12, 1949, Pope Pius XII announced the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Mindszenty.
During the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the freedom fighters released Cardinal Mindszenty from jail, and when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to suppress it, he fled to the American embassy. Mindszenty then lived in captivity inside the embassy for 15 years, facing recapture should he ever step foot outside.
Upon the request of Pope Paul VI, Cardinal Mindszenty, then almost 80, was allowed to depart from his country of Hungary, still occupied by the Communists, on September 29, 1971. He settled in Vienna, Austria and died there at the age of 83 a few years later.
Today, Cardinal Mindszenty is buried in the Church of the Assumption, the Basilica of Esztergom, Hungary. Pilgrims visit there daily and pray for his intercession in their needs.


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The Steelers released linebacker James Harrison, the team announced today.
"We have informed James Harrison that we have released him," Steelers General Manager Kevin Colbert said. "James has been an integral part of our success during his years in Pittsburgh and has helped us win two Lombardi trophies during that time. We appreciate all of his efforts and wish him the best."
Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin said, "James has played a major role in the success of this organization during his time in Pittsburgh. I appreciate everything he has done in my six years as head coach and wish him nothing but the best in the future.
Harrison originally signed with the Steelers as an undrafted rookie free agent on April 22, 2002. He started 95 of 131 games played for Pittsburgh and registered 64 sacks to rank fourth in franchise history. He was the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 after recording a Steelers' record 16 sacks. Harrison earned five consecutive trips to the Pro Bowl (2007-11) and was named All-Pro following three seasons (2007, '08 and '10). Harrison played in 12 postseason games with nine starts. He helped the Steelers win three AFC Championships and two Super Bowls. Harrison registered the longest interception return in Super Bowl history, a 100-yard touchdown in Super Bowl XLIII.


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They're much more than a tailgating staple. In a new paper, the American Academy of Pediatrics says hot dogs are also a choking hazard to children and should come with a warning label. About 17% of food-related asphyxiations in those younger than 10 are caused by hot dogs, according to a 41-state study cited in the paper. The Academy even recommended that hot dogs be redesigned to make it less likely that they will get lodged in the throats of the young. How do you redesign a hot dog?
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Updating the results of an experiment first reported in Science two years ago, researchers say that the positive effects from psychological interventions administered then are still being experienced today. The findings of this long-term study demonstrate how early and subtle self-affirmation exercises can have long-lasting impacts that help people to escape from perpetuating negative thoughts.
This experiment focused on racially diverse middle-school students, and specifically shows how values-affirmation exercises closed the achievement gap between low-performing African Americans students and their peers not only over one school term, but throughout students' tenure in middle school.
This new, updated research is published in the 17 April 2009 issue of the journal Science.
Geoffrey Cohen of the University of Colorado, along with colleagues from Columbia and Yale Universities, designed this experiment in which groups of European American and African American seventh-grade students were told to perform brief writing assignments on their personal values at times throughout their seventh- and eighth-grade school years. Such affirmations are known to reduce psychological stress, and the researchers believed they might improve performance as well.
To explain their rationale, Cohen writes: "In a society where economic success depends heavily on scholastic accomplishment, even partial remediation of the [achievement] gap would be consequential. This is especially true for low-achieving students, given the societal, institutional, and personal costs of academic failure... Situations where one could be treated in light of a negative stereotype can be stressful and thus undermine performance. For African Americans in school, the concern that they or another African American could be seen as confirming a negative stereotype about their group's intelligence can give rise to stress and depress performance."
Cohen and his colleagues issued simple writing assignments to two separate groups of middle-school students. Over the course of the study, one group was instructed to write about the personal importance of their self-defining values, while the other group was told to describe values that were unimportant to them, or similarly neutral topics like their morning routines.
After two years of these writing assignments, the researchers noted that African American students who participated in the values- and self-affirming writing assignments had raised their grade point average by about 0.24 grade points.
Among the African American students whose grades declined during the study, those who wrote about their own values still showed significantly smaller declines in their grades than those who were assigned neutral topics.
Interestingly, the self-affirming writing assignments did not have any effects on already-highly performing African American students or on European American students.
In light of these findings, Cohen and his colleagues suggest that, since one's initial psychological state and performance will determine later outcomes, early positive interventions have the potential to break recurring negative thoughts and promote more positive outcomes over long periods of time. "The low self-confidence of students who experience early failure, even by chance, is surprisingly difficult to undo," he writes. "A well-timed intervention could provide substantial long-term performance benefits through early interruption of a recursive cycle."
Perhaps the results of this study will eventually lead to changes in school policies, or even simply educate people so they might break their own negative cycles and improve their performance in school or at work.
"Effective psychological interventions depend on the presence of positive and sufficient structural, material, and human resources," these researchers conclude. "Together with such resources and other educational programs, such interventions can help individuals perform to their potential and produce lasting positive changes in equity and opportunity."


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Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. With overdose deaths tripling in the past decade, should Murray's conviction be a lesson to other doctors?
Not really. Drawing larger conclusions about medicine based on Murray's practice is like drawing conclusions about human nature from Michael Jackson's story: you can't. Both are outliers. However, the case does have some interesting implications.
Jackson's death — like his life — was unusual. In the hours leading up to it, he was given doses of oral and intravenous sedatives that themselves would have been deadly for many adults or, at the very least, would have left them unconscious.
But he was still awake. He is said to have begged Murray to give him his "milk"—his pet name for the surgical anesthetic propofol, which is colloquially known in the OR as "milk of amnesia." Not long afterwards, the King of Pop was dead.
Several facts stand out here. The first is Jackson's tolerance to the sedatives, which can be a sign of addiction. And indeed, Murray's defense claimed that Jackson had an addiction that caused his insomnia.
However, they argued that he was addicted not to sedatives, but to the opioid Demerol. They said this addiction was caused by another doctor. And the good doctor Murray was just trying to "wean" him from it. It's true that no opioids were found in Jackson's body.
MORE: Are Doctors Really to Blame for the 'Overdose Epidemic'?
What's strange here is that if the singer's insomnia had resulted from opioid withdrawal, using an opioid like methadone to either maintain him or taper him towards abstinence might well have allowed him to sleep and therefore kept him alive. Oddly enough, it may have been failure to provide an opioid — the type of drug that doctors are now being warned off because of overdose risk — that led to Jackson's death.
Extreme insomnia caused the singer to turn to propofol. If opioid withdrawal indeed caused the insomnia, failure to consider opioid maintenance or slower detox may have been fatal because propofol is actually more dangerous than opioids. Opioids can cause the brain to forget to breathe when given in excessive doses. But Michael's "milk" slows and can stop breathing even at therapeutic doses: that's why it's never used in settings without some sort of anesthetist to monitor respiration.
Even when aided by drugs, sleep doesn't normally interfere with breathing; otherwise we'd risk death and need monitoring every time we took a sleeping pill. But the ordinary practice of anesthesia uses drug doses that interfere with respiration, which is a big part of why that medical specialty even exists. If patients were merely "asleep" on the operating table, they wouldn't need to be monitored as intensively to ensure that their brains are getting enough oxygen.
MORE: No Pain, Little Brain: Anesthesia Is More Like Coma Than Sleep
Whoever first provided this drug for "sleep" to Jackson misled him about its real effects and negligently allowed him to delude himself about its safety outside an operating room. "Sleep" is just a euphemism; anesthesia is always a potentially life-threatening suspension of consciousness. But Murray was too star-struck — or desperate for money — to say no.
For celebrity doctors, there are lessons here in not getting seduced into making dangerous exceptions to curry favor. And perhaps, more generally, Murray's case can teach doctors that addiction medicine is indeed a specialty: treating this disorder isn't just a matter of making it up as you go along. Indeed, failure to prescribe the right drug may be just as bad as overprescribing the wrong one.
In most cases of prescription drug overdose, patients are not victims of doctors but people with prior histories of addiction who got their drugs from friends or relatives. In most cases, they do not die because a doctor fails to monitor them but because they took their drugs in ways that weren't prescribed or mixed them with alcohol.
Overdose is a real problem, but so is untreated pain. If we want to effectively help patients, we need to look beyond dramatic stories of murderous malpractice and into the real truth about addiction. To stop overdose in less famous cases than Jackson's, we need to compassionately address the actions of the people with addictions, not their doctors.
MORE: Should an Overdose Antidote Be Made More Accessible?
Maia Szalavitz is a health writer at TIME.com. Find her on Twitter at @maiasz. You can also continue the discussion on TIME Healthland's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIMEHealthland.


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Some people need more downtime than others. This week I'm talking about this important act of self-care.
16 thoughts on "Self-care & Downtime"
Meditation!!! I recently only discovered meditation but since starting it I can't see myself ever wanting to stop. I've learnt to let all of my stresses go and just be in the moment, breathing and visualising beautiful things. I use an app called Insight timer and honestly I feel so relaxed after meditating.
Fabulous video 🙂 and I absolutely agree downtime should be prepared for both the activity and length of time, a schedule have you will. Could I add two qualifications, all 'tech' must be switched off and you mustn't lol sit in a chair and over think your problems for an hour, enjoy yourself. You missed one activity namely masturbation, I'm serious, Doctors tell us playing with ourselves is good for relaxation and importantly our mental health.
I unwind by journaling. Since I work four 10-hour days, I use my weekday off to take care of errands if I have any. Before, after, or instead of errands, I like to sit in a coffee shop for a while with a book or a laptop. Being anywhere by myself is relaxing!
Downtime is essential, and it's a little hard to come by sometimes when you have two small children and a wife. I'm fortunate enough to be only working part-time now, so I get my downtime and relaxtion fix early in the day. Like you say, different people need different amount of downtime (or time alone). Even with my alone time during the day, I still need some at night. If I'm intentional and stick to a plan, I can make it happen, and everyone is happier because I'm happier. I have to be super attentive to my mood and thoughts, and if I need more time and space, I take it. Great video!
Great advice!! Tea and painting are how I relax daily. Pre-illness I walked on the beach regularly and that was amazing.💙
Yes! Really important to rest the mind for a little while each day. Our minds seem to appreciate non-digital relaxation in a different way from the stimulation of online games and chat. This is an important way to be kind to ourselves and to remind ourselves how valuable we are.
This has got me thinking, and I don't actually know how I relax…because society has stolen this from me over time, such a shame – must find new ways…
Having downtime allows us to recuperate from the day we had so this video is great as it teaches us that it's ok to take stock and rest. If we don't we will burnout and crash. It's hard for people who aren't used to this sort of thing at first but just think of it as being good to yourself and for your own wellbeing and health.
Good video. Self care is indeed very important. A recently new and favourite way for me to unwind is knitting. Which has sort of turned into my own form of meditation, I also enjoy reading as well or curling up be the fire with a warm blanket.
Oh, yes, the ritual of making tea and drinking it is an excellent downtime activity!
I tend to read or write, sometimes cross-stitch or paint… and cuddle my kitten. I do a lot of cuddling the kitten (well, cat, she's 9 years old, but still). Listening to music – that's relaxing, I find (I tend to enjoy the "softer" types of music – classical, folk, pop, easy listening). Music also tends to distract the part of my mind where my anxieties live, and helps ease hyper-focus.
Sometimes driving on the highway, if there's not a lot of other cars around (Newfoundland is good for this, I wouldn't consider it downtime if I still lived in Toronto!) – that's a stim of mine, helps with the vestibular issues. Reading my own writing – even if I'm editing as I go along, that's relaxing, and it's usually done on hardcopy, so no electronics involved.
Walking, but only if the weather's mild (I don't really care for cold or hot weather – hot weather I'm allergic to, and cold weather hurts and when walking, you're bundled up, and that gets me hot, which activates the allergies).
Chatting with friends, even if it's using electronics. (Over the internet, not the phone – I'm not good on the phone.)
self-care is something i've recently started investing in as it's important to care for yourselves/love yourselves on a regular basis- as someone who doesn't do that, i found it impossible to start loving myself n caring for myself ….but after a while of telling myself each day that i deserve it and it's important, i've finally gotten into the routine of doing it
YES!!! love this post.. i recently blogged about self care as well, check it out https://messagesofmeaning.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/message-13/