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Speaking with CNN host Erin Burnett this Thursday, 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump made an unthinkable statement about Ben Carson that may have crossed the lines of ethics and decency.
"It's in the book that he's got a pathological temper," Trump began, pointing to Carson's past as an angry young man. "That's a big problem because you don't cure that."
"As an example: Child molesting," he continued. "You don't cure these people. You don't cure a child molester. There's no cure for it. Pathological … there's no cure for that."
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Trump basically compared neurosurgeon Ben Carson to child molesters on the basis that his childhood issues — attempting to crack his mother on the head with a hammer, smashing a friend's face in with a padlock and attacking someone with a knife — represent the actions of an incurable lunatic.
Furthermore, Trump appeared to believe that Carson still suffers from this "pathological temper."
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"Look, I hope he's fine because I think it would be a shame" Trump explained. "What I'm saying is, I'd rather have them if they didn't happen. I don't want somebody who hit somebody in the face with a padlock."
According to The Washington Post, Trump lodged similar attacks at Carson during a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Thursday afternoon, where statements about Carson being a child molester reportedly led audience members to grow quiet and shake their heads in disgust.
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Carson's campaign also did not take kindly to Trump's unwarranted accusations.
"Mr. Trump likes Dr. Carson, but Mr. Trump has resentment when he sees Dr. Carson rise," campaign aide Armstrong Williams said. "He lashes out like he did tonight and resents Dr. Carson's continued rise and Dr. Carson (getting) the attention of the press and American people."
It will be very interesting to see how these comments effect the poll numbers for Trump … and for Carson.
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Re: "Maine Voices: Let government fund health care and insurance run show" (May 13):
You can't do that! The insurance consortium will siphon all the monies allocated, blaming medical costs and increasing the government's budget every time, as in the metaphor of the camel's nose under the tent.
The Republican agenda calls for privatizing everything. The premise of the column, as stated by its author, Benjamin J. Michaud, is "… When the free market cannot earn an appropriate return, it simply steps aside."
It's as if the corporations and Republicans are the smartest people in the room, while the government is dumbfounded or, at the most, there to serve the Republican oligarchy with military might, police and fire protection. The tail can't wag the dog. If given the ongoing agenda to incorporate America, the corporation would do it all until we become the United States of Business, all hail.
Companies can pool their clout to get deals from the insurance companies in covering employees. If either a single-payer platform or even the Affordable Care Act subsidizes the employee instead, then corporations/companies don't have the employee pool (quantity) to garner the insurance discount and in turn can't offset (write off) company profit losses to the government (tax deductions).
To be fair, the only United today has coalesced to mean between the government and "co-boss," the corporation, with top-down and blanket policy dominion, without real-time participation or solution from us lowly customers, employees and citizens other than "vote for someone else next time." Not too far flung from colonial King George, but for today's more palatable-sounding monikers than "subjects" and "vassals."
Suggestively, we federalize recently minted medical personnel as public servants like teachers and the military, instead of enabling insurance companies with blank checks.
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Wake vortex core profiles and stability from enroute flight data
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|3rd AIAA Atmospheric Space Environments Conference 2011, 27 June 2011 through 30 June 2011, Honolulu, HI
|Induced velocity; Inertial velocity; Kinematic geometry; Numerical differentiation; Potential profiles; Spatial gradients; Turbulence level; Velocity profiles; Air; Differentiation (calculus); Reynolds number; Velocity; Wakes; Wind effects; Vortex flow
|Wake vortex core profile and stability characteristics have been analysed, based upon enroute flight data, gathered upon research flights using the NRC CT-133. The flowfield analysis has centred upon the vortex-induced gust velocities measured in the immediate vicinity outside and inside of trailing-pair vortex cores, mildly perturbed in non-turbulent atmospheres, at very large Reynolds Numbers of 2-3x1012, based upon induced wind-speed and axial length of the trailing vortices. Vortex-induced core and outside-core profiles were determined by vector-differencing of air and inertial velocity vectors. Kinematic geometry was used to estimate vortex centre and radial distance from the centre. Core radius was defined by peak vortex-induced velocity. Generally, discrete gust vortex-induced velocity profiles were found to consist of primary, secondary and tertiary vortex elements. Combinations of primary and secondary elements were prevalent, with peaks of 25 ms-1 and core radii of 2-6 m, and resulted in sharp-peaked velocity profiles, adequately described by the potential or Rankine vortex model. Occasionally, the profiles were rounded with no secondary or tertiary elements - such profiles were adequately described by the Burnham-Hallock model. Tertiary vortex elements were small and intense, induced wind speeds and core radii to approximately 35-45 ms-1 and 0.3-0.6 m, respectively When normalized, and considered statistically - about 25% of profiles were of Burnham-Hallock shape with low turbulence levels. The remainder were full-shape profiles: 50% of profiles were between B-H and potential profiles, whilst 25% of profiles had induced velocities greater than potential, of which 5% were > twice potential peak velocity. Numerical differentiation of the profiles showed that many of profiles were characterized by a strong Rankine radial mode instability between.95rC and 1.5rC. The instability was harmonically mirrored at 2rC and 4rC. Radial analysis indicated that strong, unsteady radial velocities existed for the full-profiles (but not B-H profiles) near core edges and inside cores. The radial flows were both in-flows and outflows. Associated with the inflows was intensification of quasi-vorticity, wherefore spatial gradients of wind gusts were measured under the assumption of frozen-flow, at small scale level. © 2011 by National Research Council Canada.
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A Poverty of Values and Priorities
When I read news stories like this, it makes me wonder how a society can be so advanced and yet have so completely lost its sense of values and direction.
Lisa Roberts and her 15-month old son are homeless and she is eight months pregnant. She and her son spend their days in libraries or in parks and their nights huddled under blankets sleeping in playgrounds. She is on welfare and is eligible for just over $1600 / month in benefits but cannot find a place to live for less than $800 which leaves little for food, transportation or child care.
She lives in the GTA where the waiting list for affordable housing is as long as twelve years and the shelters are full to over-flowing.
Landlords are reluctant to rent to people on welfare, especially those with small children because it has been their experience that they lose money and often have significant damage done to their property.
As tragic as Lisa Robert's situation is the real tragedy is that her situation is not unique.
Child poverty is a real and present issue in Canada as is homelessness and poverty in general. It is a national disgrace that there are so many living in destitution in a country as rich as this. It is even more disgraceful that so many who have comfortable lives continue to demand more entitlements for themselves even as children, like 18 month old Liam Roberts, live and sleep in a park.
It isn't just our priorities that are distorted, it is our willingness to see so many lives wasted and in many cases, even before they have really begun to be lived.
The Ontario government just awarded a 2% salary increase to elementary school teachers; pretty much all of whom are already well-paid and live in homes that are far more comfortable than sleeping under a playground structure. They awarded what amounts to a $6.00 / month increase to welfare recipients which will go a long way to accomplishing nothing other than assuage some a guilty conscience here and there.
For its part, the federal government under Stephen Harper considers the issue to be solely the responsibility of the provinces and the municipalities even as they hand out millions to people in other countries. Last week alone, the Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced contributions of $250 million to aid Syrian refugees.
It makes you wonder if Lisa Roberts and her little boy might not be in better circumstance if they were Syrian rather than Canadian.
I don't believe that anyone should simply live for free but we have created a welfare system that has nothing to do with helping people get back on their feet and become productive members of our society. Instead we hand out millions of dollars in pitiful little individual amounts that do nothing except perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
We invest billions in glamourous new transit programs when we're not arguing over which type of transit we should build even as people around us, including children, are going to bed hungry and don't know from where their next meal is coming.
We argue incessantly a partisan politics instead of taking our heads out of our asses and remembering that before we are progressives or conservatives, we're bloody Canadians and Canadians don't turn their backs on those in need.
We have lost our way, my friends. While there are many who donate money and their time to helping the poor, as a nation we haven't got a clue or the values to get one.
We have corporate welfare to bail out companies and to increase benefits to union members. We have money for grandiose schemes and and we have money to waste on bickering and gamesmanship. We just don't seem to have enough money or enough smarts to effectively address the poverty on our doorstep.
Quebec gives the middle class $7 / day daycare paid for with borrowed money and transfer payments from Ottawa while other children live in shelters and parks.
Ontario squandered half a billion (which is the equivalent of 2.4 million weekly groceries for a family of four) cancelling two power plants to save two seats in an election.
In the city near where I live, construction of a bridge has been halted at a cost of a few million because an empty barn swallow nest has been found and the barn swallows might return to use it. Barn swallows are an endangered species and we can justify spending millions to protect them. Apparently children are not an endangered species and we can't justify a national program to protect them and raise them out of poverty.
Across the country and in virtually every city, it is the same thing. Everything is more important than poverty. We pay lip service to it. We throw some dollars at it but we have no strategy from start to finish to lift other Canadians from the poverty in which they are trapped.
It's easy to dismiss the poor as being shiftless and lazy because some are shiftless and lazy but not the majority and especially not children. Too many are caught in a downward cycle that perpetuates their situation and there is little in the way of support to help them to both get the essentials they need to live and to put together a plan for lifting them out of the poverty they endure and we ignore.
I never drive into the city that I am not approached by more than a few begging for spare change.
Imagine that. Begging for money has become the norm in Canada where once we thought of it as being the sole province of impoverished countries with large slums and crumbling economies.
I don't care where anyone stands on this issue or how anyone tries to rationalize it or explain it away. There is no excuse – and I mean absolutely no excuse – for an 8-month pregnant woman with an 18 month old son to be living in city parks in this country!
Try remembering that the next time you drop by Starbucks for your $5.00 double mocha latte or Tim Horton's for your double-double and apple fritter. ., ,
. . .and then tell me again what it was about the UN's criticism of poverty levels in Canada that made so many of us think it was unfair and unjustified.
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text: Correlation of Mucositis During Head and Neck Radiotherapy With Computed Tomography Perfusion Imaging of the Oropharyngeal MucosaSaito, Naoko MD, PhD; Truong, Minh Tam MD; Qureshi, Muhammad M. MB, BS; Lee, Richard J. MD; Wang, Jimmy W. MD; Ozonoff, Al PhD; Sakai, Osamu MD, PhDJournal of Computer Assisted Tomography: July/August 2013 - Volume 37 - Issue 4 - p 499–504 doi: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e31828aed3f Neuroradiology Abstract Author Information Objective The objective of this study was to correlate changes in computed tomography perfusion (CTP) parameters in the oropharyngeal mucosa following start of radiotherapy (RT) with acute mucositis in head and neck cancer patients. Methods Fifteen patients were prospectively evaluated with serial CTP imaging. Computed tomography perfusion studies were obtained before RT; at weeks 2, 4, and 6 during RT; and 6 weeks after completion of RT. Results At week 2 during RT, mean transition time increased to 13.9% and 261.8% in patients with and without mucositis, respectively (P = 0.024). At week 6 of RT, patients with grade 3 mucositis had a 325.4% increase in blood flow compared with a 58.3% increase in patients with grade 0–2 mucositis (P = 0.039). Mean transition time decreased by 29.9% and increased by 187.4% in patients with grade 3 and grade 0–2 mucositis, respectively (P = 0.025). Conclusions Mean transition time and blood flow changes in the oropharyngeal mucosa correlated with the incidence and severity of RT-related mucositis. From the Departments of *Radiology and †Radiation Oncology, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine; and ‡Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Received for publication September 14, 2012; accepted January 31, 2013. Dr Saito is now with the Department of Radiology, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Hidaka, Saitama, Japan. Dr Ozonoff is now with the Children's Hospital Boston, Clinical Research Program, Boston, MA. Reprints: Minh Tam Truong, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 830 Harrison Ave, Moakley Bldg LL 238, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com). This study was supported by an American Cancer Society institutional grant (IRG-72-001-32-IRG; principal investigator: Dr Truong). None of the authors have conflict of interest to disclose. Copyright © 2013 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Global Warming: You'll See it When You Believe it
Call me a Pollyanna if you like but I believe each of us can make a difference in our environment. We can reverse global warming but we've got to believe, and we'd got to act quickly. It's time to take this matter into our own hands, break free from the naysayers, and get going with the personal business of tackling climate change.
Remember Wayne Dyer? His ideas are still out there circulating, reminding us through his talks and books: You'll See it When you Believe It. "What you can see is a tiny percentage of what's available to you." This idea can be applied to more than setting intention and following our bliss. It can also help us to change our core beliefs, get out of our comfort zones, and shift our intention to stop global warming right here now.
A few months ago I wrote about the power of our own personal Mini-Me to conquer big sustainability issues and the simple things we can do in our daily lives to reduce our individual carbon footprint. Trade in the gas guzzling car for a bike, live in a smaller house (tiny houses are cozy!), turn off the air conditioner, put on warm socks and a sweater in the winter instead of turn up the heat, replace all incandescent light bulbs with LEDs, and use reusable containers instead of disposables among other things. The list of what each of us can do to stop global warming goes on and on.
If 10 communities of 1000 applied these small acts of conservation on a daily basis for a year, it would add up to more than 3.6 million planet-saving actions. If you'd like to know how much carbon dioxide we'd keep from spilling into the atmosphere – with simple acts of conservation – try using EPA's carbon calculator. Did you know that 3.6 million gas guzzling cars is equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from five coal-fired power plants in a year? Together, we can pack a punch.
NRDC published a short article early in the spring: How You Can Stop Global Warming: Healing the planet starts in your garage, your kitchen, and at your dining-room table. The article lists 10 simple steps adding up to a big tool kit of actions we could each be working towards. Just a word of caution with number 10 at the bottom of the list: I'd think twice about buying carbon offsets without doing considerable homework. Like anything else, you get what you pay for.
Let's start a low carbon diet (not to be confused with low carb diet) at home
and work, and find a few simple things to do on a daily basis. Shrinking our individual (and family) carbon footprint is crucial to combating climate change and reversing global warming. Make a note to yourself, write it down, commit on Facebook. Whatever it takes to make it real.
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
– Wayne Dyer
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Founder of Hundredgivers, a nonprofit supporting and accelerating sustainability initiatives benefiting local and global communities. Kathryn is a social entrepreneur, consultant, researcher, writer and urban farmer. She collaborates with individuals, organizations, and businesses to develop climate change solutions, clean energy, and sustainability strategies and programs.
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The technology is always evolving from time to time, just like this unique computer generated home from Sydney, Australia. Yes, the Moebius Home is evidence on how technology really affects our life nowadays, including in building our own dwelling. While we have known some classic architectural software to build our home design, the one that helped Tony Owen Partners on making this fantastic home is slightly different. With a unique software to generate the complicated mathematic equation, the architect manage to build an extraordinary shape to this home which requires a really hard work to measure if counted manually.
As you can see on the pictures, this unique computer generated home design looks so attractive with its irregular, snail's shell-like structure that can be easily seen from a far. The geometric shape is so fluid with complicated curves and opening, making it so extraordinary and yet interesting to see. The home exterior has many openings with different shape and size, allowing the natural light to fill in the space. It is still completed by beautiful garden on its surrounding, makes the home always fresh by endless supply of oxygen.
The home interior design is somewhat modern and futuristic, also with eccentric appearance that being generated by computer software. It allows the designer to build some complicated curved corner of the home, making it has less sharp angle both on the exterior and interior. The home interior itself is being decorated by some modern furniture, from the unique black benches on the living room, the modern hanging fireplace, to the eccentric pendant lamp above the dining area, which enhances the captivating feeling of this extraordinary home design.
With the endless movement of technology, it is impossible to us to predict on how the architecture world will be shaped on the next couple years. However, this beautiful home plan shows us at least a brief example on how it will look like, which makes us getting more interested to know what will happen in the future. At the end, this computer generated imagery home is not just beautiful to see and to live, but also open our eyes on the technology in our future.


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Android app of the week: Mad Skills Motocross 2
This week's app of the week is similar to the first game I covered in this series since it's a bike game, but it has it's addicting differences. Mad Skills Motocross 2 lets you race against two digital opponents, one at a time, in a campaign mode, there's a Jam mode that has global ranking with multiple divisions for serious competition, and it has an excellent Versus mode where you get two minutes to challenge other riders in a duo. You start off as a novice rider with a basic bike and gear, but as you progress through the career mode and dabble in the multi-player modes you will begin to unlock various items that will help improve your ride and style. If you can't wait and want to pay the ridiculously overpriced cost for premium features then head over to the shop on the main page of the app. One premium perk that caught my eye was the ability to race against three others in JAM mode, but it isn't worth the price tag for me. You can also pay to upgrade to newer bikes and there are premium colors to paint your bike too.
Career mode has 5 divisions with 60 tracks total. The first time you race a track you race against a novice bot rider and if you beat his time you get to try the track again against the Ace bot who puts a little more pressure on you! In this mode you can use rockets for a short speed boost, but hold onto them, because you have to earn extra ones by coming back to the game daily or purchasing more. To unlock some of the higher divisions you need to get involved in the multi-player action and one perk isn't achieved until you've made 1000 attempts to race other players.
JAM (multi-player)
Jam mode has a global leader board that reset every Thursday when two new tracks are introduced. Play as often as you like trying to get your best time on the two tracks and if you put in enough time the following week you move up to a new division. When you make it to division one you unlock a helmet with RedBull stickers. What I like about Jam mode is that you can restart your race as many times as you'd like giving you as many attempts to beat your opponent as possible. There's no excuse to finish a race with your best time in this mode. After you beat a rider on these tracks the next rider is usually faster than the previous one.
VERSUS (multi-player)
I play this mode the most, because it's fun and challenging. You can find friends from your social networks or race random opponents. You get two minutes to complete a race recording with your best time. When time expires, your best race is sent to an opponent who races against the recording and then gets to choose from three tracks to record a race to send back. At the end of a race both racers are awarded with points that increase the racers skill level. When a new skill level is reached a one minute time bonus is rewarded. These time bonuses can be used when you are racing and the regular two minute time window expires and you need more time to perfect your race result.
Bike handling
The bike has a sweet spot when you lean back, but if you go too far you will over rotate and crash. The objective to a good race is to stay smooth. Lean forward as you advance across the starting line and lean back before jumps and right as you are landing to get close to that sweet spot to pull ahead of your opponent.
Tracks and racers
The tracks are designed well, some feel like they are in an arena, some in the woods, and some are in the desert. Each bike can fly around the tracks, because they have been designed well enough to support the speed a capabilities of each type of bike. Riders look like people and are scaled well to the bike.
If you start playing this game or already do please add me so we can race each other, my gamer tag is htcfan and you can add me in the VERSUS menu by tapping NEW CHALLENGE and ADD FRIEND.
Mad Skills Motocross 2 is a fun time waster with daily and weekly perks for returning racers. Jump into the Versus mode to race people all over the world or take on the bots in the campaign races.
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With over a decade of IT experience working in and for the US Army, Andy has helped implement pilot programs using Android devices at work and helps others learn how to turn a smartphone into a tool for getting things done. He started a blog about HTC as an outlet to share HTC news without spamming his friends on common social networks, but decided to combine forces with HTCSource to have more of an impact on the HTC community. Andy has had an HTC in his pocket since the days of the T-Mobile MDA.


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San Diego Vacation: The Hopping Pig
Technically I'm back in West Virginia, but there's a few more places I wanted to tell you about from my trip to San Diego. Today's write-up is from a place we decided to revisit after trying it the first time. … Continue reading
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San Diego Vacation: Cafe 222 Times Two
So, on Thursday, after dropping off the missus at her conference, I stumbled to find a good cup of coffee. Through a window on Island Avenue, there was a wonderful sight – somebody making fresh biscuits. It doesn't take much … Continue reading
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San Diego Vacation: Osteria Panevino
After the scrumptious breakfast we had, we did a little exploring, came back to the hotel to await a friend, and then had lunch at a little place called Lucky's Lunch Counter. It was decent but not worth writing about. … Continue reading
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San Diego Vacation: Chocolat Gaslamp
Hello, folks! It's been a bit since we've chatted, but preparations for my vacation to San Diego have squelched any culinary inventiveness of late (it's been a lot of grilled cheese and easy dinners at the homestead). But now, I've … Continue reading
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Road Trip: Wheeling, West Virginia – Part 2
After spending the day at nearby Oglebay Resort ($16/person for a near full-access pass), we were quite ready for dinner at Figaretti's. The website looks like something from the late 90's, but the menu was still enticing.
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by Remez Sasson
How long is your attention span?
It seems to me that there is a sharp drop in the average attention span of most people, especially children and young people. Did you notice that?
This sharp drop in the average attention span started a few years back, and it is getting momentum. The main reason for this are the internet, computers, smartphones and the social networks.
There is an information overload, which is constantly growing, and is difficult to handle. If once, when you needed information, you opened a book or a dictionary. Now, there are countless number of sources available.
In this situation, you cannot read or study all the information presented, and therefore, you examine it fast and superficially. This means that most people scan through the information, and go from one source of information to another. This is the opposite of focus, and contributes to a lack of focus and to shortening of the attention span.
You cannot focus on any anything, if you have a lot of mail, messages or phone calls. You will need to be superficial and fast, if you constantly need to read and post on Facebook, Whatsapp, and other social networks.
This situation disrupts focus, makes people impatience, less efficient and more superficial. It also creates nervousness and tension.
According to Wikipedia:
The attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted. Most educators and psychologists agree that the ability to focus attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one's goals.
The mind cannot think of more that one thing at a time, and this means a constant shift of attention, teaching the mind to be restless and unfocused.
The mind wants to protect itself against this avalanche of information and tasks. It cannot handle it, and therefore, learns to move fast from one subject to another. This, of course, produces shallowness and superficiality.
Due to the overload of information, people jump from one task to another, without paying much attention to what they are doing. They feel the need to read their text messages, reply, post statuses, check email, chat, surf and more, immediately.
There is always something that attracts or distracts the attention, which seems, at the moment, to be very important.
All this makes the average attention span drop down considerably. It makes the mind lose its power to focus on one task. This disturbs the ability to learn, study, and assimilate knowledge.
Trying to do many things at the same time is called multitasking. In multitasking, you do not focus on one thing. Your mind constantly shifts from one thing to another. This is not an efficient use of your energy and time. You achieve more and better things, when you focus on one thing until you achieve it.
I talked with a few young people, and discovered that they are always in a state of tension. There is impatience and the desire to get everything instantaneously, otherwise they either get frustrated, or move immediately to something else. They have no patience to invest in projects that require time, effort and training.
You can gain nothing of importance instantaneously, unless you are some kind of superman or superwoman. The good and important things require time and effort to grow and bear fruit. Self improvement, spiritual growth and advancement in any area require patience and sustained effort.
Being glued to your computer or smartphone, and living in a digital world, as most people live today, won't make you get good grades at school, learn a new language, strengthen your muscles, lose weight, build a business, learn to meditate, or improve your concentration or self-discipline.
Lack of focus doesn't help in the real world. Scanning an article or book, instead of reading it, you miss a lot of useful information. It also teaches your mind not to focus.
How about doing a few simple exercises, now and then, to strengthen your attention span and improve your self discipline, concentration and patience? Here are a few examples:
- Wait a few minutes, before posting on Facebook, Whatsapp or replying to an email message.
- Switch off your phone for thirty minutes every day.
- Once a day, focus on one task, until you complete it.
- Once a day, read an article from the beginning to the end.
- Once in a while, take away your gaze from the screen of your phone, and look at the world around you. Become aware of the world, of the people, sounds and smells.
Can you do this?
Will you lose by practicing these exercises? No, you won't.
Are the text messages and what your friends write on Facebook, Twitter or the other social networks a matter of life and death, or are they about insignificant matters that you will forget in a few moments?
Always ask yourself, who is the master of your mind, you, or your friends, your messages, your phone or the Internet.
Practice the above mentioned exercises, and you will start to gain more control over your attention span.
There is a book about concentration and focus, which can help you gain control over your mind and your attention. It is called 'How to Focus Your Mind'. This book includes working advice and simple exercises, which make a great difference in your life. These exercises are a must in todays' life, when lack of focus is becoming the standard.
You can read this book on the screen of your computer or print it out if you wish. You can also carry it with you, on your smartphone or tablet.
Remez Sasson is the founder of SuccessConsciousness.com. He is the author of articles and books, teaching how to use your mental tools and inner powers to create a life of happiness, success, fulfillment and inner peace.
Article source: http://www.successconsciousness.com/blog/concentration-mind-power/average-attention-span-dropped-down/
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id prefer Fenton to go up against Moran where he's won the battle a number of times including 2015
Kerry are putting Barry man marking Fenton to nullify Fenton and free up Moran - they have done that twice can't let that happen again if we meet - we need to dictate to them not the other way around
Mdmc can break your heart at times. But he also causes havoc for other teams .Problem is at the moment fortunately it only seems to happen if he comes on as a sub. He burst through for the goal on Sunday , also had a shot for goal (which I don't like him to do) but the point is he can give Dublin momentum when we need it.
That was the problem , We are using Reddin to nullify Moran and they used Barry to nullify Fenton. Moran was able to give a man of the match performance, while Reddin was watching him.
I've been worried about COS for a while now. He had set such high standards for so long, he seemed to slip from that last year, looked distracted too. I wonder does he need a different role?
People can say what they like about 'everything being all right in the summer' but the fact is quite a few of our big game-winning players of the past few years looked washed out, or over the hill on Sunday. A few lads who are still doing it, like Philly, and Cluxton, and a brilliant cameo effort from Mannion dragged us to the brink of a draw. Fento was always due a dip, we need to be able to survive without always depending on him dominating.
Moran has always been a class act, just crucified with injuries a long while. He represents a great challenge for Fento now, this could be the making of young Brian, of him getting even to another level. But bottom line is, if 3 or 4 of Brogan, Kev, Connolly, Flynner, MCauley, COS, Johnny, Jack Flash, either can't do it anymore, at the very top level, or struggle to get back(Johnny, Jack) then we are banjaxd. Dermos woes are not necessarily just going to work out, he could be just worn out
Let's hope Carlow beat Wexford so we have a chance of winning a game in Leinster …
Genuine Dublin fans, there's a big difference.
The worst fans I personally encountered were four Leinster-top wearing alickadoos on their way home from Landsdowne Rd on the Dart after last November's game against The All Blacks. Not young nor old, they were effing and blinding on a crowded train (women and children present) about Paddy effin' Jackson. When I, on my own, politely asked them to stop swearing at the tops of their voices on a crowded train, their response was to invite me off the train at Clontarf Road to sort the issue. I don't think their intention was to exchange addresses for Christmas Cards.
I'd rather be a bandwagoner than a pompous, sanctimonious bully. Are all Leinster fans thus? No, they're not. But they have their fair share of pricks following them too.
For the record, I didn't back down against the four of them and I'm here to tell the tale.
My fave journo, dahling.
And let's hope Carlow are missing a few of their key men just in case…
You'd swear we've fallen off a cliff on Sunday!
The Skerries U10s won't fcuk around with you again in a hurry Beeko …
Har de har. I was skipping the obvious, and talking about the major goal here. Not that anything can be taken for granted. How about some considered argument or opinion, we could all just come on here throwing smart comments looking clever(except for Beeko).
But does it get your Billygoat? Remember when The Munster Hurling Championship was, according to the national media mafia The Greatest Sporting Competition The World Over, in any code. That didn't last all that long did it? Pale shadow now. Mind you we haven't heard anything about how the evil empire of Kk wrecked it all…
Goys, can we take the rugby talk elsewhere please? There is a perfectly good thread to talk about that shite elsewhere.
@Roman what have you started?
Ha… Indeed…
I thought they were more Torfians than Skerries.
Four-to-one, I'd never have had a chance. But I was prepared to crack open early the two bottles of wine I had in my bag if it had come to it. I'm convinced they felt that once they asked what my problem was, that I'd go back in to my corner and keep schtum but I'd made my bed, etc… thankfully, other passengers intervened. Anyway, I doubt they would have done anything with all the CCTV around these days. But four worse pricks you'll never meet - genuinely believe they didn't like being pulled up on being obnoxious by someone with a "howya" accent.
You've named over half the team there. No team in any code could survive that. I don't think they will all go together but we are in a changing of the guard period and Gavin's long term plans may be a factor. Does he believe he can get one last burst out of Bernard as a starter or will he go through the process of blooding players that we need?
I'm not concerned about the defense. But I am concerned about midfield as Kerry and Mayo in particular now have a means to bring back the long kickout.
The case for two young energetic inside forwards is also now necessary and not just a we will wait and see type thing. Scores from inside will dry up and we don't have any top inside forwards playing regulary anymore. Costello Mannion McHugh or O'Callaghan must make a mark on a consistent basis.
Yep, we were always going to have to transfer to those lads at some point, they need games.
Which is where the league seems to have been a lost opportunity at this stage.
Well Costello has been injured, Con has been with Cuala so not much Jim could do about that.McHugh and Mannion have got some games and show some promise but also have things to work on, Leinster might be a better place to give them a run then ultra competitive league div 1 was.
Are the assertions about us not training at full pelt accurate ? If they are it further helps contextualise the greatness of this team . Unbeaten throughout the league and beaten by a slim margin in the final .
I think if we win Sam we will look back on Sunday as a speed bump from which we took off .
I thought we looked tired in last years all Ireland final and I'm happy to hear training has lot yet hit top gear .
Looking at that game again, it was more noticeable to me how good we were in the first half. We were totally on top in my view and doing things with relative ease. Also Connolly was totally on fire, if he had stayed on, we would have won (I think it is a safe enough assumption that Connolly is worth more then two points to us).
But yes, the wheels came off in the third quarter, that is a given, and a whole other discussion. But for 30 minutes of the first half I thought we were as good as I have seen us in a long time - so it was definitely not a bad all round performance.
Lastly - on Connolly, and many will disagree with this. But I must say I have a huge amount of admiration for his willingness to just go and totally impose himself on the situation. He is prepared to stand up and say I am running this show, and take the abuse (physical and verbal) when it doesn't come off. Sure, he could react better in different situations - but for pure moral courage, he is unreal. There are no hiding places or excuses with him.


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Chris M
@Snowy wrote:
Commission CAN be an academic and meaningless point, as the following actual example will show.
At the beginning of the year a villa in Las Chapas Playa (CDS) was on the market with several agents with asking prices ranging from just under a million Euros to 550,000 Euros – an embarrassingly large difference in anyone's book. It had been on the web for a long time at figures ranging between these extremities, but was advertised as sold in March/April with the agent who was asking the lower figure.
Just beware….
That is a really good point, and it has been covered extensively elsewhere on the forum as well, if a bit harsh to have a pop at the yourVIVA website specifically when for various reasons that can and does happen with virtually every single agents website, again for a dozen reasons covered in other threads.
Oh for a system like the UK or USA where one vendor listed their property once with one agent. But again that is another issue covered elsewhere, but all the more reason to be practical and analytical out there, and understand yes that instance can and does happen.
Be help Snowy if you gave the exact reference of the property either on the forum or by PM. Thanks Chris.


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It's going to cost us in the future. Big time.
How long have good people been telling you that when you trade The Christian Perspective politically in Government, Law and Education ,for so-called "neutral" Secularism you get the imposed tyranny of this Secular Pagan Worldview?
As Christians you are supposed to have the mind of Christ, if you are His,don't you think? Why did most Democratic Western voting citizens let the majority of Politicians ,Lawyers,Education Establishments,Popular Media Moguls, The Supreme Court Justices etc.,talk you into accepting so-called "neutral" Secularism as your "Official State Worldview/Religion," starting in 1962? Before this Western schoolchildren started their mornings with "The Lord's Prayer",led by their teachers. "The Ten Commandments", were on Government,Courtroom,Schoolhouse walls and in citizens hearts and MINDS! If Christ was still in Government, Law and Education, we would not permit Canadian and Western Children to be sexually exploited, by perverted adult schoolteachers,homosexual activists and worldviews,as POLITICALLY legalized so-called human rights. Less than 2% of the population,POLITICALLY united to get elected POLITICIANS to pass Bills into Law, thereby allowing adult schoolteachers and homosexual activists etc., to normalize,and condition all impressionable schoolchildren into accepting homosexuality,transgenderism,and promiscuity etc., as normal behaviors,as legalized human rights. If "anyone" disagrees with the Religious Secular Schoolteachers,and homosexual activists etc., indoctrinating innocent schoolchildren in schools as legalized so-called human rights, they are name called homophobic, or much worse. Heterosexuals reproduce,but homosexuals now legally recruit schoolchildren in schools as human rights. Be careful what you POLITICALLY ALLOW TO BE LEGALIZED, as Roten law takes time and hard work to Politically reverse. Remember "PAGAN ROME" where the incidence of homosexuality is clearly influenced by mores. Where "Government" and "Priests" endorse, and encourage homosexuality, the incidence increases, where they reject this it decreases. Homosexuals clearly politically organized to get their numbers increased, by POLITICALLY legalizing SODOMY etc., and conditioning all innocent impressionable schoolchildren in schools,as so called legalized human rights.
One of the History books I studied was "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich".
This eye witness account was written by William L.Shirer. These are his views of Ernst Roehm and the Nazis, A tough, ruthless,driving man albeit like so many early Nazis a homosexual , he helped to organize the first Nazi strong arm squads. Without his help Adolf Hitler probably could never have got a real start in his campaign to incite the people to overthrow the Republic.
This was common knowledge until so-called "neutral" Secularism started to rewrite Western History after 1962 when Christless Secularism became the official Western State Worldview/Religion,and Christianity POLITICALLY unconstitutional.
These are Adolf Hitler's words inscribed over a gas oven in Auschwitz," I want to raise a generation of young people devoid of a conscience, imperious ,relentless and cruel". Totalitarian Governments,and the majority of the public who love them, always start conditioning children in schools,thus indoctrinating almost everyone. The ones who disagree with their worldview are name called no-persons, and naturally SELECTED for death,re-education etc.
The Official State Worldview/Religion of Christless Democratic Secularism is now doing the same, with the majority of voting publics blessing. Canadian and Western politicians,that the voting public elects to rule them,and their children pass Bills into Law that everyone has to live by as human rights,and social justices starting with Kindergarteners. Do you ever wonder what the Churches of Sodom and Gomorrah were like?


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I am writing this letter in support of Jody Phillips for Register of Deeds. I am someone who has always been involved in the community and I appreciate others who want to give back.
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