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How To Quit Smoking Cigarettes Naturally by Yourself
Instructions to quit smoking by yourself
One of three components that make up the successfully quit smoking formula, determination is the most important factor. The intervention and support is only effective when smokers want to quit smoking.
The ways to quit smoking successfully
The process to successful smoking addiction is also called transition behavior from "smokers" to "quit smoking" took place over seven stages as follows:
Time spent on each stage varies between individuals, depending on the intervention from outside that smokers get.
The switch in turn through the stages is continuous and relapse is one of the natural phases of this process thus in smoking cessation will have no concept of "failure". 90% of smokers in this cycle will go through periods of relapse.
However above transition behavior is not a closed circle, backwards is the spiral, and every time I go through a circle that could have added the experience from previous times, This necessary experience and is a precondition for successful smoking cessation later.
A." Apathetic" Phase:
• Corresponding period that smokers do not have knowledge about the harmful affects of tobacco, and of course no intention to quit smoking.
• Smokers in this stage are also known under the name of "happy smokers." Smokers just feel the "benefits" from the smoke brought but never feel the "harm" of the smoke.
• Examples for this phase are the case of a teenager start smoking cigarettes, the case of adults start smoking after a certain event in life. Teenager seen in smoking behavior was "symbolic" for the independence, the "mature" and "cool". Adults see the impact "reduce anxiety"," reduce stress" while smoking.
• Because time for smoking is too short, insufficient disclosure of the effects of tobacco on health, and by the neuropsychiatric effects of tobacco brought too clear, the smokers during this period have no conceptual learning about the harmful effects of tobacco, if they happen to read or know the harmful effects of tobacco, they don't trust, or if they trust, they have also said that the damage is mentioned happen to someone that not happen for themselves. Therefore people smoking in the "apathetic" of course have no intention to quit smoking.
• "Apathetic" Stage usually lasts a period of several months to several years. This phase ends when the person smokes "mature enough" in terms of awareness to be able to know and believe that the damage of cigarette is real, smokes long enough to cause some harm on health that can feel eg yellow teeth, bad breath, cough in the morning, etc.
Read more: How To Quit Smoking In 5 days – You Absolutely Can Do It!
B. "Intented" Stage
• Corresponding period smokers relative collected knowledge about the harmful effects of tobacco, enough for them to believe that tobacco really harmful to health, smoking long enough to be able to experience some harmful effects of tobacco on yourself, your family.
• Smokers in this stage are known under the name of "hesitant smokers ". They have begun to feel the "harm" caused by smoking, but at the same time they still felt very deeply about the "benefits" that smoke brought.
• Examples for this phase are the case of smokers start feeling tired, cough while smoking, or seeing relatives and friends to get sick from the harmful effects of tobacco; or have the opportunity to share, to be read, viewed on the harmful effects of tobacco, and have faith that the smoke are harmful to health. However they still regret the "benefits" brought by smoking, not to abandon the "interests" here.
• Do understanding of the harmful effects of tobacco is not deep enough, the experience of tobacco harms is not enough, besides that "benefits" brought by smoking is still significant, smokers in this phase usually intend to quit smoking but has not yet decided when to start, firstly they keep on smoking.
• "Intended" Stage take several months to several years. This phase ends when the knowledge and experience of the "harm" caused by smoking big enough to surpass or at least equal the "benefits" brought by smoking.
C. "Prepared" Phase:
• Corresponding period of smokers have found that "harm" actually greater than "benefits" brought by smoking. But smokers at this stage have not yet quit smoking because they are still worried about the "discomfort" actually greater than "benefits" brought by smoking cessation.
• Examples of this period are smokers know smoking is definitely harmful to health and "benefits" brought by smoking can not compensate for the "harm". They really begin to change behavior toward smoking cessation like: do not smoke when wake up in the morning, do not smoke in the house, only a certain number of cigarettes, reduce the number of cigarettes per day, etc. But they not dare to quit because still fear the withdrawal would be "uncomfortable" when smoking cessation as fear of gaining weight, sadness, insomnia etc. and they therefore go to learn, questioning people around whether have the way to quit smoking.
• Prepared" Stage ends when smokers find support sources which they believe can help them quit smoking "less strenuous ".
Read more: Quit Smoking Tips Q&A – How To Quit Smoking For Good
D. "Smoking cessation" – "consolidate" Stage:
• "quitting" Stage the corresponding period from the smokers quit smoking entirely until the 6th month after smoking cessation. Feature of the stage is the smokers must pass the "discomfort" of smoking cessation for non-smoking back. The "discomfort" in smoking cessation phase may include as: feeling irritable, difficulty concentrating, feelings of sadness, not euphoria, insomnia, gain weight
• "consolidate" Stage the corresponding period from the smokers quit smoking entirely from the 6th month to 1 year after smoking cessation. The feature of the consolidation phase is the smokers must overcome the "temptation" of smoking tobacco and don't smoke back. The "temptation" in the consolidation phase may include are: temptation from the external environment: the scene other people smoke, the smell of tobacco smoke, friend invites smoke; Inside Environmental temptation: moments of sadness or joy, loneliness or reunion, success or failure. In this phase, the "discomfort" of smoking cessation remains but have reduced a lot compared to the period of "smoking cessation".
• The distinction of this period of 6 months only conventional sense. Some people quit smoking quickly transitioned to a "consolidation" after only 3 months of smoking cessation was marked by minimizing the discomfort associated with smoking cessation. Some others, after 9 months or even one year is still the feeling of discomfort associated with smoking cessation, they are still in the period of "abstinence". Actually two stage "abstinence" and "consolidation" is often intertwined, on the first day, the smokers had to consolidate achievements.
• "smoking cessation " and "consolidate" Stage will end or smoking tobacco again, means falling into relapse or phase ends after one year without smoking tobacco again, means go to successful stage of smoking cessation.
E. "Successful" and "Relapse" Stage:
• "Successful" Stage corresponds with the smokers maintain smoking cessation status in a long term, is defined as smoking cessation continuous 1 year. Defining Successful smoking cessation is after one year don't smoke that also have the conventional sense. However, smoking cessation may not succeed forever; one who successfully quit smoking could relapse at any time if caught off guard.
• "relapse" Stage corresponds with people who quit smoking tobacco and smoke again. Relapse may occur early in the stage of quitting – the first 6 months of quitting tobacco even very early in the first week after smoking cessation; Relapse can occur after an average time in the consolidation – from 6 months to 1 year after smoking cessation; however relapse may occur during late- successfully quit smoking stage – quit smoking after one year even very late, after decades of smoking cessation
A. "intended" – "prepared" Stage:
• "intended" and "prepared" is marked by the gradual transformation perception of smokers. Awareness in late "apathetic " stage which said that smokers bring more "helpful" and no "harm" and smoking cessation bring "harm" and no "benefit" , turned to clear perception, in the late stages, "intended", that "harms" of smoking is greater than "benefits" brought by smoking; then continued into a clear awareness, at the end of the preparation, that the "benefits" of smoking cessation is greater than "harm" of smoking cessation brings.
Thus, considering the "benefit – harm" between "smoking" and "smoking cessation" is the transition critical awareness in time before smoking cessation. Can perform and prepare the following steps to speed up the consideration of the points' advantage- disadvantages"
1. Step 1: Thinking and filled tables compare between "benefit – harm" and"smoke – quit" cigarettes for yourself:
|1. Reduce stress, sadness.
2. Increase the excitement in work.
|1. Get Cough – due on Tobacco.
2. The son gets asthma attacks – will weigh up by inhaling cigarette smoke.
3. Waste money Etc.
|1. Skin is brighter.
2. Achievements of sport activities are higher.3. Ease of breath, less coughing .v.v
|1. Gain Weight when you quit smoking.
2. Do not focus on work.
3. Losing "longtime friend", etc
2. Step 2: Think and list the job can be done to change the effect of the elements on towards increasing the "benefits" of smoking cessation; reduce the "benefits" of smoking; increase the "harm" of smoking; reduce "the harmful effects" of smoking cessation:
• Information to help increase the belief on "benefits" of smoking cessation:
o For those who are not sick by smoking:
(1) After smoking cessation 20 minutes: Blood pressure drops to normal levels before smoking, hand and foot temperature to normal;
(2) After 8 hours: The amount of normal blood oxygen, carbon monoxide reduces the amount of normal;
(3) After 24 hours: The risk of myocardial infarction was reduced;
(4) After 72 hours: feeling easier to breath because the bronchial tubes begin to relax;
(5) After 2 weeks to 3 months: Circulation of blood vessels in the body increases, lung function increases up to 30%;
(6) After 1-9 months: Coughing, secretion of mucus, fatigue, shortness of breath decrease, cilia of the lung is worked normally, increased ability to secrete mucus, clean the lungs and reduce infection. Increased energy throughout the body;
(7) After 1 year: Risk of heart attacks decreased by 50%;
(8) After 5 years: The risk of stroke is reduced by 100%;
(9) After 10 years: Risk of lung cancer deaths fell 50%, the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas decrease;
(10) After 15 years: Risk of coronary heart disease is reduced by 100%. [7]
o For people who get sick from smoking:
(1) Heart patients: significantly reduced the risk of recurrence of myocardial infarction, the risk of re-stroke, increase the success rate of coronary artery surgery , reduce the severity of hypertension;
(2) Patients with Respiratory: decrease the rate of decline in lung function, lung function improved after smoking cessation in young people, reducing the symptoms of cough in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, reduce the rate of progression of lung cancer;
(3) Patients with cancer: growth of the cancer cells more slowly than people who continue to smoke. [7]
Read more: The Method To Quit Smoking Successfully
• Information reducing the belief of "benefits" of smoking:
o The neuropsychological effects of tobacco brings eg euphoria, excitement, increased ability to concentrate only temporary for about 2 hours, but at the same time as the brain gradually become dependent on tobacco and will become operational inefficiencies without tobacco. [3]
o Many people do not smoke can still focus. Also, there are other ways to bring excitement but not harmful to health as smoking for example play sport.
o Today, many people still communicate very well without smoking. So not exactly that just smoking can create advantage in communication.
• Information to help reduce the fear "harm" of smoking cessation:
o Gain Weight due to smoking cessation: Gain weight due to smoking cessation is not something too terrible when quit smoking. In the majority of cases can avoid gain weight due to smoking cessation. Gain Weight due to smoking cessation is often caused by two mechanisms. In the first week, the lack of nicotine would alter the metabolism in the body and cause gain weight, followed by a change eating behavior: people quit smoking may need to have something in your mouth, demand of snacking, eating sweet products… The following work may help control gain weight due to smoking cessation:
(1) Avoid skipping meals;
(2) Drink at least 2 liters of water per day;
(3) Avoid eating snacking after the three main meals;
(4) Do Exercise by walking fast at least 30 minutes each day;
(5) Limit your intake of high-fat, sweeteners, eat more fruits and vegetables;
(6) If you are being treated for tobacco cessation medications like nicotine replacement, bupropion, varenicline, please adhere to treatment regimes;
(7) After you have done the above things but still gain weight, let's see a doctor of nutrition.
o Irresistible smoking feeling: caused by tobacco addiction is entity. However, the extent of tobacco addiction can actually vary between individuals. In order to know the extent of addiction entity, answer Fagerstrom questionnaires follows:
1. How long after waking up in the morning, you smoking?
• Within 5 minutes (3 points)
• From 6 to 30 minutes (2 point)
• From 31 to 60 minutes ( 1 point)
• Over 60 minutes (0 points)
2. You smoke how many cigarettes per day?
• Less than 10 articles (0 points)
• From 11 to 20 cigarettes (1 point)
• From 21 to 30 cigarettes (2 points)
• More than 30 cigarettes (3 points)
• 0-2 slight addiction entity
• 3-4 average Addiction entity.
• 5-6 heavy Addiction entity.
With the slight entity addiction, quitting may not need to use drugs to support smoking cessation. Addiction cases of moderate to severe entity may use additional support tobacco cessation drugs: nicotine chewing…; bupropion for drink; varenicline for drink. Let inform your doctor for instructions on how to use.
o Mood changes due to smoking cessation: irritability, restlessness, anger occur when quitting, it is a sign of lack of nicotine in the body. The mood changes are only temporary and will soothe away after 4-6 weeks. During this time, deep breathing, talk to the people around to enlist sympathy, can also inform your doctor know to prescribe anti-anxiety, anti depression.
• Information increases fear the "harm" of smoking:
o Information about the harmful effects of tobacco is increasingly popular today that you may search in any source. Find out more about the harmful effects of tobacco whenever possible.
o Focus on learning about the harmful effects of tobacco in the specific case of yourself or a family member will help increase awareness of the harmful effects of tobacco.
3. Step 3: Preparation of necessary place to depend on when quit smoking.
• Make some preparations on behavior: (1) Self-starting a quit smoking consistent date with the actual conditions of yourself; (2) Publication (rather than hide) decided to stop smoking for everyone to know; (3) Putting out of reach of all items related to smoking: ashtrays, lighters.
• Create a favorable environment for smoking cessation: (1) Ask people around you to support smoking cessation efforts of yourself by not smoking in front of you, don't invited you smoking; (2) Ask people to understand the mood changes (if any); (3) Ask people to hear the sharing whenever having quit smoking trouble.
• You can quit smoking one day and record the "difficulties" appears in stop-smoking date. If you try quit smoking for several consecutive days, for sure the person who quit smoking will identify the "hard" for yourself is.
• Plan to deal the "difficult" situation when stop smoking are:
|Suddenly want to smoke
|1. Drink a glass of cool water.
2. Walk
3. Breathe deeply three times.
|Want to smoke when see others smoking
|1. Avoid going to places where many people have smoke.
2. Speaking with friends about smoking cessation.
3. Find a way to away from the places which have many smokers.
|Want to smoke after drank coffee, after a meal
|1. Change of location, time and friends to drink coffee.
2. Drinking coffee quickly instead of drinking in 30 minutes.
3. Once finished eating standing up quickly go brush your teeth.
|Too upset to quit smoking because of withdrawal syndrome
|1. Find down the facilities can support tobacco cessation, providing cognitive behavioral therapy (in case needed).
2. Notify your doctor know if can prescribe medicines and manuals to support smoking cessation: nicotine replacement, bupropion, varenicline.
3. Inform the doctor to know if can prescribe anti-anxiety drugs and depression.
2. A week after smoking cessation:
• This is an important time because they quit smoking have crossed the first 7 days. Write down the "benefit" resulting from smoking cessation that brings in the first week.
1. Feel proud to have been one week smoking cessation.
2. Breathing deeper, feel easier.
3. Sweat has reduced cigarette odor.
• The "discomfort" must continue to deal with: (1) Can not think about anything other than smoking, can not concentrate on work , Arrange work to relax during this period ; seeks to relax eg sports, chess; use support smoking cessation drug; (2) Sleep problems than usual. Avoid drinking tea and coffee in the evening, take a shower before going to bed, go to bed on time, maybe even inform your doctor prescribed some medication to help you sleep better; (3) Cough more, this is a good sign that the bronchus are active again, usually sputum has black color and will decrease after a few days; (4) Want to eat more. Remember this is the false sense appears when quit smoking, drink more water, could eat a little fruit, avoid eating sweets, etc
Read more: What Happens To Your Body When You Quit Smoking
3. Two weeks after smoking cessation:
• Many people quit smoking rated 2 first week phase is the hardest, the period corresponding to the period of the body get used to the absence of nicotine in the blood. Since this time people quit smoking will feel comfortable because the body was "familiar" with the new situation. If after 2 weeks and still feel too uncomfortable, contact your doctor to use support tobacco cessation drugs (if not used) or adjust the dosage (if used).
• Record the "benefits" brought by tobacco cessation occurs in this phase: deep breathing more easily, feeling the nose can smell better, your tongue feels good when eating…
• The "discomfort" should continue to deal with: (1) Feeling tired or sleepy during the day due to normal cigarettes have a stimulating effect, while not smoking, your body can sometimes feel fatigue. Let's drink vitamin C up to 2 g per day, remember to drink plenty of water; (2) Still hard to focus, drink Magne-B6;(3) Feeling bored. Let's talk with relatives, friends and even talk with your doctor to get more anti-depression drugs; (4) Gain Weight. Take steps to prepare the food mentioned above; (5) Constipation by nicotine in cigarettes stimulates colonic spasm, when quitting, stimulate colon spasms worsened that make you are being constipated. Drink plenty of water, eat more vegetables and fruits, especially grapefruit, athletic, avoid drink enema because the body will get used to the drug later; (6) As the urge to smoke, too uncomfortable after 2 weeks. Consult a specialist in smoking cessation.
4. One month after smoking cessation:
• After smoking cessation is one month, to check whether the situation really was coming along by answering the following questionnaire:
|1. You were decreased the cigarette cravings, even not feel strong desire smoke anymore. That means you still think of cigarettes when you see other people smoking, whenever sadness or stress, but you can pass easily without smoking again
|2. Whenever have a smoking desire, you are ready to approach the fight: chewing, drinking cool water, walking etc.
|3. Weight no more than 2 kg
|4. Sleep well and 5. mentally stable
If at least one of the five questions above, the answer is no, quick playback of the preparations ahead and follow the instructions. If you still can not, tell the doctor adjusted.
• If people are using tobacco cessation support drugs, shouldn't stop to drink at this point whether you felt "very good". This can lead to relapse early.
5. Three months after smoking cessation:
• Quit Smoking After 3 months, the "uncomfortable" feelings because smoking cessation fell very much, this is the time people quit smoking feel more about the "benefits" of smoking cessation.
• Consolidate smoking cessation determination by reviewing the "benefits" predicted before smoking cessation was achieved or not. Record the "benefit" from smoking cessation has achieved in the past and compare.
1. No more coughing in the morning anymore.
2. Skin is morebeautiful.
3. Etc.
• Review the gain weight problem: if increased 2-3 kg, it's normal; if more than 3-4 kg, there are other factors that make you gain weight: diet and physical exercise are not fit, eat too much sugary, fatty; too little movement.
• If people are using tobacco cessation support druga, now is the time to consider the stop drink drugs: nicotine replacement and varenicline will stop after 3 months, bupropion stopped after 2-3 months.
Read more: How To Quit Smoking For Good
6. Six months after smoking cessation:
• At this stage, people quit smoking feel very comfortable because they can overcome almost all "uncomfortable" things due to smoking cessation. But this time reappears subjective psychology. Many people think that this time I could smoke a cigarette just to reward for yourself for having tried for a long time, to go through a moment of fun with friends and family and are confident that will not relapse.
• Remember that smoke again though "only a little" can awaken back of the body needs nicotine and then the desire to smoke is"irresistible". The smoking cessation would quickly relapse.
• Every time the idea of "retry to smoke a cigarette", please extinguish this idea by repeating all the reasons why you quit smoking and discomfort experiences when smoking cessation to get today
C. "successful" and "Relapse" Phase:
1. One year after smoking cessation:
• One year is the time follows the definition of successful smoking cessation. However memo successful smoking cessation is not permanent. The possibility of relapse always exists.
• The risk of relapse will be the highest at the "event" in life: failures, bankruptcy, break up etc.
• Write down the benefits of long-term smoking cessation but you want to preserve for yourself.
2. Relapse:
Relapse is one of the stages of the process of smoking cessation. In smoking cessation is no "failure" but only "Relapse". Relapse is a prerequisite to success in the future.
• Do not blame yourself for relapse, whereas thinking about the causes of relapse this time and the proposed solution to quit smoking again.
• Depending on the stage of early relapse, medium, or late will have different reasons. Concentrate all reasons fall into one of the "difficulties" were cited in each stage above.
• Contact your doctor for advice whether to start smoking cessation again.


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KeyBank Rolls Out Positive Pay Solution for SMEs
Cleveland-based KeyBank has introduced a service for its small and midsize business customers designed to nip check and ACH fraud in the bud. The new online feature is the latest addition to the bank's Key Business Online service, which was launched April 2008.
The new tool combines check and ACH fraud prevention capabilities that are customized to the needs of small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). According to KeyBank, the fraud prevention features enable businesses to review the previous day's posted check and ACH items, and reverse those that appear to be fraudulent or unauthorized. This makes it possible to recognize and halt fraud early. It also features a bad check recovery system. In addition to the new online fraud prevention services, KeyBank provides a team of nearly 80 investigators and fraud prevention specialists who are available to assist clients who may have experienced fraud problems.
According to Eric Girard, VP of Key's Business Internet Services, positive pay services like these have historically been driven by and targeted to larger corporate customers. This new suite of services has been customized to meet the slightly less complex requirements of SMEs.
"Our small business clients have had access to those traditional positive pay services for many years, as well as access to our fraud experts," Girard explains. "After listening to client feedback, we wanted to provide a more streamlined service for small businesses and their less complex needs. Key Business Online is now the preferable solution for small businesses, since it has fewer product requisites and is less costly and complex to implement."
To meet these specific needs, Girard says KeyBank developed a solution that was wallet friendly to its SMEs and that required little in the way of technical expertise—it only requires a Web browser to work. The bank also developed the solution with an eye on efficiency, and to bring automation to the distribution and enrollment processes, he notes.
Good collaboration between several groups at KeyBank were instrumental in helping to launch the positive pay services for Key's SME clients, he remarks. "An internal challenge faced by many banks over the years has been the disparate goals and strategies among treasury management, small business product management and online channel management groups," Girard explains. "Thankfully, we have achieved an excellent collaboration across those groups at Key, keeping our small business clients' needs as the top priority, regardless of where the work falls, and ultimately arriving at the Key Business Online solution."

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There's no need for modesty here; I'm going to talk about boobs. It's not news that boobs bounce around—especially when you're exercising. But the topic has resurfaced thanks to a new report from the University of Portsmouth. Researchers found that women avoid working out because of their breasts. The survey of 239 women shows that breasts rank behind health issues and lack of energy or time as the biggest barriers to exercise.
This small survey aside, anyone who has a D+ chest like mine is familiar with the struggles of yoga inversions, running, you name it. There are plenty of opportunities for that unpleasant feeling of being suffocated or slapped in the face by your own breasts. I, for one, will avoid the front row in indoor cycling class (depending on what style shirt I'm wearing) so that everyone doesn't get a mirror-view of my endless cleavage while I'm bent over the bike. Under-boob and between-boob sweat? Welcome to my gross, daily reality.
Still, the biggest bust-hurdle I've had to overcome isn't related to jiggle or physical discomfort: It's my own thoughts. One of the best thing I've done for myself (and my boobs) is to back off from the negative, self-deprecating, busty-girl-at-the-gym jokes. I used to think it was funny to say things like "Wow, I could never wear that top to work out—without looking like I'm in a porn flick!" It was my way of commenting on my breast size without admitting my insecurity. [Click here to read the full story at Refinery29!]


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Paid parking in Port Stanley will continue. The pilot project this summer was deemed a success, according to Central Elgin Mayor Bill Walters.
Walters added the municpality netted about $47,000 from paid parking this summer - not as much as they'd hoped for, but bad weather played a huge part in that. He added the parking charges for next year have not yet been determined for next year. The enforced charges were met with mixed feeling from residents and beach goers.


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Governor McAuliffe Announces Administration Appointments
RICHMOND – Governor Terry McAuliffe announced additional appointments to his Administration today. The appointees will join McAuliffe's Administration focused on finding common ground with members of both parties on issues that will build a new Virginia economy and create more jobs across the Commonwealth.
Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security
Asif Bhavnagri, Policy Advisor
Asif Bhavnagri has been appointed to the position of Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security. Asif previously served as a Policy Assistant to the Secretariat since March 2016. Prior to joining the Secretariat, he served as the Press Assistant in Governor McAuliffe's Communications Office, and served on Governor McAuliffe's transition team. Asif is a native of Richmond, and a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where he studied Political Science and African American studies.
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Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee
- MSGT Robert L. Hamlin, USAF, Retired,* Past President, Moton Museum for Civil Rights in Education
- M. Vishon Luck of Richmond, Director of Recruitment, Office of Admissions, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Karen Eley Sanders, EdD* of Blacksburg, Associate Vice Provost for College Access, Virginia Tech
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Inder Monga Named Director of ESnet, Berkeley Lab's Scientific Networking Division
July 11, 2016: Indermohan "Inder" Singh Monga, an internationally recognized expert in advanced networking research, is the new executive director of the Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, better known as ESnet. He will also assume the role of director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which manages ESnet. Monga, who joined ESnet in September… Read More
For Over 10 Years, ESnet has Driven Development, Deployments of perfSONAR Network Measurement Tools
August 8, 2016: (Editor's note: This is the first of a series highlighting ESnet's contributions to the global networking community as ESnet marks its 30th anniversary.) Since it was first deployed as a prototype in December 2005, the perfSONAR toolkit has provided the research and education networking community with tools for end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting of multi-domain network performance. And… Read More
New Training Videos Leverage ESnet's Expertise to Improve Network Performance around the World
July 18, 2016: The Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create an extensive video training library to help organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network architecture for secure, high-speed data transfers at… Read More


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Cancer prevention has escalated in importance
Cancer prevention has escalated in importance due to recent World Health Organization's bold statement by Chris Wild, as quoted by BBC News, "If we look at the cost of treatment of cancers, it is spiraling out of control, even for the high-income countries. Prevention is absolutely critical and it's been somewhat neglected." "Prevention has been much more than 'somewhat neglected', states Patricia Kelley, Founder of the Stop Heal Prevent Workshops.
Kelley goes on to say, "The focus on the elusive "Cure" all these years has diverted attention from the skyrocketing cases and often preventable causes of cancer. Stop Heal Prevent Workshops offer employers, their employees, clients and customers inspiring, empowering and enlightening prevention programs. It's time to Power Up Prevention."
According to the WHO, global cancer rates are expected to nearly double over the next twenty years or so. They are warning that countries around the globe must take immediate action to prevent an impending "tidal wave" of cancer. This means a jump from approximately 14 million to 25 million new cases of cancer every year. The UK's Guardian has labeled this news a "human catastrophe."
Breakthrough Stop Heal Prevent Workshops offer participants an upbeat, empowering and educational experience on healing and preventing cancer and other dis-ease using proven, science-supported methods including, but not limited to, the powerful use of maximized nutrition. Kelley is self-healed from breast cancer via natural alternatives. She is also Author of forthcoming book series, How to Stop Heal and Prevent Cancer Naturally: A Mind Body Spirit Approach to Wholeness.
Kelley's reputation as an empowering speaker and teacher is well supported. According to Barbara Beck, Relationship Coach, "Patricia is engaging, powerful and empowering—all wrapped in humbleness and an unshakable integrity that is quite extraordinary. Her amazing knowledge about natural healing issues and her 'fire' to make a difference will inspire, light up and change your life!"
Kelley has also gained the respect of both progressive physicians and significant global health organizations. Two are noted here:
Jen Aliano, Communications & Marketing Director for GrassrootsHealth, a global health research organization, had these very positive things to say about Kelley. "Patricia is an inspiration! She has overcome and transformed frustrations from her own battle with cancer into motivation to educate others and change the way cancer is 'treated' in today's society. She is a great source of information on how to naturally prevent and heal cancer and beyond. I highly recommend utilizing her resources for anyone, at any stage of health."
Dr. Susanne Wilhelm DO offered this about Kelley's ability to empower others. "I've watched Patty through the process of cancer diagnosis and healing. She was not content to sit by and let the mainstream wisdom dictate her course of therapy. Through her process she developed a passion to empower those around her to do the same. She shares her wisdom joyously. It flows from every pore of her being and inspires those around her to believe in themselves as well."


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Why I'm an Oklahoma Sooner FanAugust 5, 2008
"I want a university the football team can be proud of." — George Lynn Cross, OU President, 1943-1968
Welcome to Oklahoma Football. Welcome to the program that John A. Harts started in 1895. Welcome to the program that Bennie Owen started in earnest. Welcome to the program that Jim Tatum abandoned and Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson turned into a legend.
Welcome to the program where the son of a bootlegger, Barry Switzer, perfected the Wishbone Offense and made it into the most prolific rushing offense in college football history. Welcome to the program that Robert "Bob" Anthony Stoops resurrected. Welcome to the football team that an entire state can be proud of.
As the saying goes, I am Sooner-born and Sooner-bred. Both sides of my family are die-hard Sooner fans. Some of my first clothes were crimson and cream. My father has the same season tickets that his father had. I was destined to be a Sooner fan from the moment of birth.
But that's not the only reason I am a fan—far from it, in fact. There are many reasons that I am proud to call myself an Oklahoma Sooner football fan.
Started in 1895 by John A. Harts, the program has seen its share of history over the past 114 seasons. It has seen its share of victories (779 wins to date) and its share of defeats (295).
It has created records, such as the 47-game win streak from 1953 to 1957. It has had 21 different men at the helm, some good and some we'd rather forget.
It has created winners (four Heisman trophy, five Outland trophy, four Butkus award, three Lombardi award, and three Thorpe award winners). It has become the No. 1 program in the modern era of college football (535-163-13).
The football program at Oklahoma is not just important to the university. Over the decades it has become important to the entire state.
Begun before there even was a state of Oklahoma (the state was created in 1907), the university was only minimally supported until after 1945. Part of the reason for that was the constant run of bad luck that the residents of Oklahoma had had.
Between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and then World War II, the then-agricultural communities of Oklahoma had begun to lose all hope in the future.
Many left for the West Coast in search of better lives. Many young men never returned from war. But at the end of that war, the University of Oklahoma promoted Bud Wilkinson to the post of head football coach and began to rebuild the program.
Under his leadership from 1947 to 1963, he not only created some of the most enduring records in college football—he gave the residents of the great state of Oklahoma something to believe in. Now these beleaguered people had a reason to feel pride.
At times, "their warriors" were unstoppable. There was money flowing back into the state. Good recruits were coming in from all over the nation. Oklahoma football not only created history—it created hope.
That feeling still lives on today. Especially in the Bob Stoops era, Oklahoma football gives us one more reason to be proud of the state of Oklahoma.
Sometimes it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. Granted, there are moments in the history of Oklahoma football that fans would rather forget.
There are players who have been better off in jail than on the football field. There are incidents swept under the rug for the sake of winning games.
While these things happen at every program around the nation, one thing that all Sooner fans can take pride in is that those things are highly discouraged at Oklahoma under Bob Stoops.
One has only to look at the Rhett Bomar/J.D. Quinn incident in 2006 to see that, or the situation with Josh Jarboe this season. The players are expected to follow the team and NCAA rules and regulations without fail if they wish to play for the team.
When players follow those rules, they can play. The situation with Dusty Dvoracek in 2004 and 2005 is a great example. The football program at Oklahoma is like a person who is always honest—you can always hold your head up high knowing that you have nothing to hide.
The Future
These are just some of the reasons that one can be proud of being called an Oklahoma Sooner fan. Given everything there is about Oklahoma football, it is hard not to be proud. While the program is not perfect, they strive each season towards that goal—just as we all strive to do in our daily lives.


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Kronisk utmattelsessyndrom. Kunnskap, aktivitet og utfordringer (The University of Bergen, 2011-09-29)Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a serious disease, the aetiology of which remains unknown. The disease is manifest in a number of complex symptoms involving the neurological, immunological and endocrine systems. The ...Doctoral thesis
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Here Is Why Samsung Acquired Joyent
Samsung Electronics Co. (OTCMKTS:SSNLF) has long been known for its smartphones and home appliances, but not anymore. The South Korean giant will have a new offer for its customers as it plans to jump deep in the software and services segment. It has agreed to acquire the US cloud services company, Joyent, but no financial details of the deal have been revealed so far. The San Francisco-based Joyent is a cloud-computing platform provider that had an early back from the Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel. The 11-year old firm previously has raised $125 million from Mr. Thiel and Intel Capital. Joyent offers big data analysis and computing services to third party companies by renting out its powerful computer servers and data centers. Major competitors of the acquired company include Amazon…
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The Jewish holiday of Purim was this past weekend and we "took part" in the celebration by making these delicious homemade Hamantaschen cookies. Even if you are not Jewish, you should totally make these because they are THAT good! You could even make these into thumbprint cookies instead of forming them into triangles. They are traditionally filled with poppyseed, fruit preserves, or chocolate. I used strawberry preserves that I had on hand and put some semisweet chocolate chips in others (yummm!).
If you have never heard of Purim, don't worry – I hadn't really either until I started attending basic Judaism classes. The holiday is unlike the other Jewish holidays because it is very carnival-like; there are costumes, drinking, noisemakers and booing at specific parts during the reading of the Megillah (the Book of Esther) at synagogue, and giving gifts to the poor. If you're interested in learning more, check out this website.
Here's how to make these awesome cookies:
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Confectioners' sugar (optional)
Filling of your choice, canned or homemade (I realized afterward I totally could have used lemon curd that I had in my fridge…guess I'll just have to make more!)
- Line unrimmed cookie sheets with parchment paper, or spray with nonstick spray.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until thoroughly combined.
- Add the eggs, vanilla, and almond extract, and beat until lighter in color and fluffy.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix just until the mixture starts to hold together.
- Very gently knead the dough on a lightly floured surface about 10 strokes or until the dough is smooth and holds together. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes (preferably for 30 minutes or more).
- Roll the dough out on a board that is lightly covered with flour or confectioners' sugar. Note: The sugar will slightly glaze the baked cookie and make it a little sweeter. (I used the confectioners' sugar and in my opinion it did not make them taste too sweet, which I was nervous about!)
- Preheat the oven now to 350 degrees
- Cut the dough into 2 1/2-inch circles, and place 1 scant teaspoon of filling in the center of each circle. Don't roll the dough too thin or they are hard to shape. My second round came out better when I rolled the dough a bit thicker. (between 1/8″ and 1/4″ thick)
- Shape into triangles by using your thumbs to push up from the bottom of the circle and your forefingers to pull down from the top sides. Pinch the top seams of the dough well to securely enclose almost all of the filling. A little should peek through the top of the opening.
- Pinch the dough together so that the filling is exposed only at the top of the cookie.
- Bake the hamantaschen in the preheated oven for 10 minutes or until golden.(mine took about 12 – 13 minutes. Store in a plastic bag or container when cool, or freeze for later use.
- Enjoy your cookies! They're really good with a cup of your morning coffee!
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MOBILE home owners in Shripney added their voice to a parliamentary protest.
Nearly all the 150 members of Poplars Court Residents' Association were among the 31,440 people who backed a petition to get rid of a 'property tax'.
The campaign was presented at a meeting held in the House of Commons by MP Annette Brooke on July 2.
It was attended by Bognor Regis and Littlehampton MP Nick Gibb, who told the Poplars Court residents he shares their concerns.
They are angry about a rule which allows all owners of such sites to receive up to ten per cent of the sale price of every property.
Residents' association vice-chairman Bill Killick, 78, said it was unfair to force them to hand over the slice of their properties' prices. "We are having to give the site owners ten per cent of our savings or purchasing power for another property," he said.
"That means the sellers can only afford to move into a smaller property."
Mr Killick, stressed the association had no quarrels with its site owner, Britannia Parks.
"They had a good relationship and the company carried out its duties.
The situation stemmed from a 1983 piece of legislation which enshrined the maximum ten per cent cut in law. It was previously 15 per cent.
This is on top of the monthly site fee of £166.92 for each plot on Poplars Court, which increases annually according to the Retail Prices Index.
Fellow Poplars Court resident David Oliver, 77, said: "All site owners across the country are getting this money from the sale price and the people who can least afford it are having to shell out."
A recent sale on the park saw a property fetch £120,000 to mean £12,000 to the site owner. There are 96 properties there. The fee of up to ten per cent survived a change in the law last year which removed the right of the site owners to veto prospective buyers.
If it is not abolished, the petition calls for the levy to be cut to two per cent and is only imposed on the difference between the previous purchase price and the sale price.


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Release Notes: The associated grunt was added to the task list in job details. Queue behavior was improved when tasks fail: the queue continues and the user is notified and given the option to stop the queue. The user can reset failed tasks to the ready state. Home directory paths with spaces are now handled correctly. Grunt no longer hangs after a failed task. On task failure, the master user can see both stdout and errout in a popup message.
Release Notes: This release brings several major improvements and changes. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X using Mono, so now you can have a mixed platform render farm. An executable is available for download. There are real-time updates in the GUI for job and farm progress. Usability and error handling are greatly improved. The internal architecture has been redesigned from the ground up. The code has been completely rewritten in C# for use with the Mono platform.
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Growing up in my suburban patch of Southern California, we kids were excited by the rise of a new pro baseball stadium accented by a towering structure shaped like the letter A.
The Big A, as it is known, is crowned by a halo, signifying it as the home of the Angels.
These days Hà Nội has five even bigger A's (but no halos) that are aligned to straddle the Red River.
These gargantuan A's are the stanchions of the 5.5 kilometer Vĩnh Thịnh bridge which, when completed, will be the longest span across this river, providing a four-lane shortcut to and from hi-tech zones, Nôi Bài Airport and the greater urban glory of Hà Nội.
Think of it, an icon in the making.
Much as Long Biên bridge evokes historic Hà Nội, Vĩnh Thịnh will symbolize the new capital city.
After more than 2½ years living in this perplexing place, I'm sure I'm not the only expat – or Hà Nội native, for that matter – who struggles to understand the capital's grand plan, while hoping for the best.
I make no claims at expertise, but urban planning is a topic I frequently covered as a reporter in the vast, messy sprawl of Greater Los Angeles.
On a recent trip to Seoul, South Korea – a sprawl that seems to work – serendipity enabled me to meet a world-class urban planner who created the master plan for the Seoul Olympics and the city's efficient subway system.
When I mentioned that I lived in Hà Nội, did I detect a grimace?
Or was that me?
To most expats and tourists, Hà Nội is daunting, an old city that largely eschews grid patterns.
I've tooled around on an old Yamaha Nuovo for a couple of years now, but once I'm off a familiar path, the meandering roads and intensely vertical architecture make it easy for me to lose my bearings.
The other night, I decided to save cab fares and make the long drive from the Tây Hồ District to 72-story Keangnam Tower, northern Việt Nam's tallest building.
I was doing fine until the last few kilometers, when a wall of glittering buildings sporting KARAOKE blocked my view.
Somehow I overshot the mark and made a few wrong turns working my way back.
As Hà Nội expands outward, it is also planning a Metro fixed-rail system that would be elevated in some areas and underground in others.
Some years from now, you might be able to board the Metro at a far-flung "new city" suburb and find your way to Hoàn Kiếm Lake.
It might be wonderful and it's certain to be expensive.
But in the near future, I find myself wondering how old Hà Nội and new Hà Nội will mesh.
Old Hanoi was a city on bicycles that made an easy transition to motorbikes. But now more Hanoians want autos – sedans, vans and SUVs – and the impact on traffic is obvious. And these thoughts bring to mind a political term I learned in LA: nimby.
"Nimby" stands for "not in my backyard."
It was the knee-jerk reaction the public just about everywhere had to projects ranging from freeways to landfills that were necessary for the greater good – but really should be someplace else.
Even as an expat, I feel a nimby twitch when I look at new buildings that could add hundreds of new residents (and their motorbikes and cars) to my little patch of Hà Nội in the expat-heavy Tây Hồ District.
Roads like Xuân Diệu, for example, can get snarled as it is.
But I also remember that Việt Nam's real estate market is suffering from premature erections.
Privately backed housing, retail and office developments have delivered supply far ahead of demand.
This is bad news for the economy – but not all bad for me getting from A to B.
The B, as it happens, is often the school where my children study and help coach baseball.
The road now requires a dusty detour to enable work crews to smooth the asphalt for the new roadway that, in time, will flow with vehicles coming over the Vĩnh Thịnh bridge into a corner of Hà Nội that is being reinvented.
We expect Tây Hồ will be our home for a few more years, so I see Hà Nội's growing, morphing city scape with a mix of excitement and trepidation.
Change is, of course, inevitable.
One of Hanoi's great charms is how Vietnam's past coexists in such a palpable way with its present and future. This can be seen in its people, its lifestyle and its changing urban landscape.
Will the brave new Hà Nội work?
Beats me.
But it will be interesting to witness the transformation.
By SCOTT HARRIS
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i know how to animate my name now but i don't know where to actually code. Is there some application or place for me to code whatever and test out results? when i'm finished with the lessons ill need a place to practice in case i want to do anything serious or more worth while.
Places to code
I would say on your own computer. All you need is a text editor for this: I would suggest Sublime Text. If you save a file as
something.html and you open it up in the browser, it will be rendered correctly.
If you're ready to code in real time, you can start working on local. In order to do this, you must have a text editor (in windows, the default one will be notepad). I recommend usually text editor with colors so it's more easy to understand yourself in particular getting error messages, knowing where they occurred. You just type in text editor in google (whichever browser you're using) and it should list out a great list of text editors for you to use. I might cite some of the popular like Sublime Text with a rich, modern interface in a black background or you may want to try for Notepad++ which is an open source (which means it's completely free) recommended particularly for windows user. I might not go over which one is the best but here's a nice thread for suggestions.
After you've downloaded and installed the text editor, you can start writing code by opening your text editor application. Once you're done with it (I mean, you can have uncertainties about how it is going to look so you don't have to be sure if your code is done), you can see a preview of how it looks like. Please save your file with the appropriate extensions depending on which languages you use (
.html for HTML files,
.css for CSS files, and
.js for JavaScript files) anywhere you want (I recommend to save it in new folders for this particular project if you have a specific project on which you want to work with). Now, access to your folder and right click your
index.html to open it with your browser. This is a good way to preview projects before they get published or simply test for debugging purposes.
Now you can get into the real world by publishing it online. I know there's a Github tutorial online there. Github is a very useful tool to use for restoring previous versions of whatever software you are using or we can simply say it in one word: versioning We are not going to talk much about it however it's good to know how to use this technologies. In order to export it to the real world, to the Web, we must buy a domain name (like example.com for international or example.ca for Canada or example.fr for France or well, you know, lot of extensions for domain) or use a free subdomain provided by the web host. Oh, don't worry, you won't have to spend a lot of money, domain registrar like goDaddy offer for cheap prices domain to buy. The domain is what is going to appear in the URL (Unified Ressource Locator) with the
http:// which is the type of protocol used (you can refer to it as a language for machines to communicate) or
https:// if your server is encrypted with SSL. The slash following it will be the path of your directory to access to a specific file.
Next, you will need to find a web host service to host your server (you can host it for yourself but I'll not explain it here because it is pretty complicated). As I said previously, you can host it freely or pay for unlimited disk storage and unlimited bandwidth. Then you can access to a file manager to export your files into your server but you can also use ftp protocol like filezilla to upload your website online. If you're using the file manager in your C-Panel, you should just get your folder with your project transferred in it, that's lot more faster than transferring files to your server separately. If you are using filezilla, you will first need to enter your server information like host provider, username, password and port which should be given by the web host. If you don't know this information yet, you can ask it to your web host provider. After entering all the authentication details, you can start transferring files to your server.
Finally, it should be all done by it. To view your website, simply go enter your website's URL like http://example.com. You can modify the files and retransfer these files to overwrite the existing ones. Like this, you can update your website. Sorry for the long reading by the way
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The international contemporary art fair, Frieze London will take place this weekend in Regent's Park.
Over 160 of the world's leading galleries aim to feature contemporary artists. The programme consists of different sections including Frieze Projects, Frieze Artist Award, Frieze Music, Frieze Talks, Focus and Live.
In the Southard Reid, Focus Section, one artist, Joanna Piotrowska from Warsaw, Poland stood to me. Here, Joanna reveals the sequence of movement. From researching and observing the stillness of being, it's possible to capture credible moments with displayed objects and powerful photographs. Elements of unstable formation often appear in Piotrowska's work. This was perhaps my favourite of all at the art fair.


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Kentucky students loosened their grip on reality and riot after winning the game. (Meanwhile, the losing team's fans gathered and cheered their players for their effort. Showing more class than Kentucky could ever hope for.)
Wouldn't it be interesting–and a great change of pace–if the coach of Kentucky withdrew the team from the Final? Tell everyone that they are embarassed by the infantile actions of their students. And they refuse to play.
How refreshing would that be?
Here's hoping that Obama has an August surprise waiting. He brings the troops home from Afghanistan and he cruises to victory (and we can stop this wasteful, never-should-have-started war).
I must take a moment and confess I was in error. If I was going to confess all of my errors, it would take a lot more than 'a moment'.
When the UW to Downtown light rail tunnel was first proposed–back in the late 1990's–I was of the opinion that the soil was too saturated with water to bore through. Advances in tunnel technology have made it practical to dig the route.
Having said this, I still doubt if very many people will want to go from downtown/Capital Hill to the Husky Stadium. (Sorry, 'close to' is still 'too far to walk'.)
But I was wrong on the tunneling. Let's hope I am as wrong on the Viaduct Replacement Tunnel. I still think that will be our 'Vietnam of Local Transportation Projects': costly, hopeless and eventually abandoned.


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Alpine House
The alpine house is a superb place to view and photograph alpine plants up close. Built in 1991 with funds raised by The Friends of the Garden (FOG), this structure has two viewing benches along the sides and a small rockery at the end. The plants are displayed in clay pots sunk into sand, which helps keep the roots cool and allows for some moisture absorption from the damp sand. The beauty of this design is that plants can be easily removed when they have finished flowering and replaced with others just coming into bloom.
The roof shelters the plants from heavy rains that can ruin delicate flowers, and the slight shading allows the flowers to last longer. Diminutive bellflowers, lewisias, saxifrages and primroses are just some of the scores of species presented for close inspection in the alpine house.
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- The Wine Cellar is reopening on Hatch Street in the former home of the Mushroom Shop. They were forced out of their previous home on St. Gregory by a non-renewed lease.
- Jared Whalen, formerly of the now-closed L'Auberge in Dayton and more recently Hugo, will be joining Jean-Robert's table as Chef de Cuisine. He worked with de Cavel previously as chef at Chalk, Pho Paris, Pigall's and The Maisonette.
- Brew River Gastropub will open the first week of April. They are not brewing beer on site (making them a gastropub and not a brewpub) but a local brewery will be creating beers exclusively for them.
- Le's Cafe lost their lease inside the library (they're the home of a fantastic Banh Mi which I will miss). They will close on May 19th and will be replaced with a yet-unknown food provider.
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Return to the Earth
Enter the Ruby Dragonshrine through one of the northern or southern passes and search for Ruby Acorns. Use the Ruby Acorns on the fallen red dragons to return their bodies to the earth. Return to Ceristrasz once the task is complete.
I have another task that needs attention. I have brothers who are falling in the battle overhead and if we do not act quickly, they will only bolster the emberwyrm ranks.
Get into the shrine through one of the other passes to the south or north... the Scourge presence should be lighter there.
Search the shrine for ruby acorns that have fallen from the tree and plant them near the bodies of my fallen brood. Through this, they can give new life... a proud fate for any of my kind.
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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections
Kumaraswamy may be expelled from JD-S
February 04, 2006 13:50 IST
Last Updated: February 04, 2006 14:24 IST
The expulsion of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and other rebel MLAs from the JD(S) seems to be on the cards, with party president H D Deve Gowda having decided to take all necessary action against those who have flouted the party's principles and discipline by aligning with BJP.
"The party president will take all necessary steps, including expulsion of all those who have violated the principles and discipline of the party inspite of their status and position," JD(S) spokesman and secretary�Kunwar Danish Ali told PTI.
Ali said the national executive meeting of the JD(S), convened�on February 20, would ratify Deve Gowda's actions against the rebels.
Kumaraswamy led a group of 41 JD(S) rebels to join hands with BJP to form the government in Karnataka on Friday. Ali said the JD(S) president had a fresh round of discussions with senior leaders�on the Karnataka developments.
Besides Ali, party vice president Bapu Kaldate was present. Deve Gowda also had telephonic conversations with some state unit presidents and asked them to take all necessary steps to save the identity and ideology of the party, Ali added.
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The Struggle For Private Game Servers
A story at the BBC takes a look at the use of private game servers for games that tend not to allow them. While most gamers are happy to let companies like Blizzard and NCSoft administer the servers that host their MMORPGs, others want different rules, a cheaper way to play, or the technical challenge of setting up their own. A South African player called Hendrick put up his own WoW server because the game "wasn't available in the country at the time." A 21-year-old Swede created a server called Epilogue, which "had strict codes of conduct and rules, as well as a high degree of customized content (such as new currency, methods of earning experience, the ability to construct buildings and hire non-player characters, plus 'permanent' player death) unavailable in the retail version of the game." The game companies make an effort to quash these servers when they can, though it's frequently more trouble that it's worth. An NCSoft representative referenced the "growing menace" of IP theft, and a Blizzard spokesperson said,"We also have a responsibility to our players to ensure the integrity and reliability of their World of Warcraft gaming experience and that responsibility compels us to protect our rights."
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Geostrategic ramifications of Iran Nuclear Deal and Port ConstructionDecember 30, 2013
From a recent Iran Pulse:
The November 24th Interim Nuclear Agreement between Iran and the Six Powers provides for the limited easing of trade restrictions on strategic items such as petrochemicals products, aircraft parts, and precious metals, accounting for up to US$7 billion of trade over the next six months. With the prospect of even wider Iranian trade in the near future, India's construction of Iran's first deep-water port to meet modern shipping standards will radically transform Iran's geo-strategic position, breaking the international economic pressure on Tehran and transforming Iran into the key transit link for the most cost-effective transportation corridor for European-Indian Ocean trade. While Iran and India traditionally have been allies in Afghanistan against Pakistan, New Delhi's drive to construct a deep-sea port at the Iranian city of Chabahar along with transportation corridors running northward has been motivated by New Delhi's economic rivalry with Beijing. For Iran, it means a centrally important position in the emerging pattern of trade between Europe and an ascending Asia.


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Welcome to Hallowes Golf Club
Hallowes Golf Club, founded in 1892, is a very pleasant hill top parkland course situated halfway between Sheffield and Chesterfield with magnificent views over the Yorkshire and Derbyshire countryside. This well manicured course offers a complete variation of holes with quick, true greens and is a fine test for accomplished players whilst being fair and rewarding for golfers of all standards.
We offer all our visitors:
- Large secure car park.
- Fully stocked Golf Professional's shop.
- Practice putting green directly in front of the clubhouse.
- Practice nets located in front of the locker room and adjacent to the putting green.
- Two large practice areas running alongside the 1st hole.
- Electric golf buggies to rent if required.
- An attractive golf course that is both challenging and enjoyable to play.
Our 17th Century Clubhouse provides:
- A separate visitors changing room and modern showering and washing facilities.
- A fully stocked cellar and bar.
- Catering offering sandwiches, bar snacks, specials and 1, 2 or 3 course meals.
- Two snooker tables.
We welcome you to our Golf Club and hope you have a very enjoyable time. For further information please see the Contact Details.
History of the Golf Course
Golf started at Hallowes (which means nooks or small pieces of land) in 1890/1891 when local enthusiasts approached farmer Ashton of Hallowes for permission to play over his fields.
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History of the Clubhouse
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Sun Microsystems is in deep trouble.
So say a number of analysts, most recently Brian Richardson from Meta Group who says the company has got it all wrong, with its hardware seen as proprietary and expensive.
Richardson said that it was hard to see any upside for Sun - and he's not alone. Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich wrote last month to CEO Scott McNealy and the board: "The company has gone from being pure in vision and predictable in financial performance to an underachieving, bloated, unfocused reflection of its former self."
Sun has lost money consistently ever since the end of the boom - when it boasted it was the dot in dot-com - and is about to post another set of quarterly and annual results. It declined to comment on what those results might contain.
Full Story [2].
It is very much like old times for Scott McNealy.
There he was earlier this month at Stanford University to help christen the Computational Earth and Environmental Science research center that Sun donated equipment too.
Old times because Stanford was where it all started for McNealy, and "employee #1" Andy Bechtolsheim, who was also on hand. Bechtolsheim designed the company's first workstation using the Stanford University Network (SUN) while both were students there.
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A series of events have coincided these days, providing food for thought as to whether Made in China presents more opportunities than challenges both locally and abroad. The opening of the first Shang Xia store outside China, in Paris, this week, could not have coincided more ironically with the opening of the "European-style pedestrian street" as part of a new Wanda Plaza shopping complex in the city of Shenyang – a collection of entirely fake storefronts of major international luxury brands.
Shoppers in the new Wanda Plaza Shopping Center in Shenyang can walk past store fronts entirely make-shift, imitating the identity of each brand, from a distance, yet when approached closer, the brands would read Herwès, Cnanel or Cairtier. The developers of the retail project went as far as stating, on the record, that the storefronts were created for marketing purposes, as Western brands attract Chinese consumers. Needless to say, none of the stores with the fake windows do not sell genuine products.
French luxury maison of Hermes created the Shang Xia brand as part of a distinct entity based in China with the intention of promoting Chinese creativity, craftsmanship and the exceptional quality of raw materials. At the same time, the unstoppable hunger for Western luxury branded products, although it may change in forms of expression, it is not likely to ebb any time soon.
Then, last week, Milan's leading luxury shopping street, Via Montenapoleone welcomed its first ever Chinese brand – Giada, in an imposing location, rivaling established houses such as the adjacent Versace and opposite the Dior flagship store. Created in 2001 by Rosanna Daolio, the Italian fashion brand Giada was acquired in 2005 by Chinese based Red Stone Haute Couture Group. Today, the brand is already well established in China and the Milan outpost is likely to serve as a a boost of awareness and an opportunity to introduce the brand to consumers outside China.
I strongly believe that, in the long term, the contrasts between the examples above will slowly but surely contribute to the evolution and the education of both the Chinese consumers in respect to luxury products made in China but also of Western consumers in respect to the creativity and quality of luxury products made in China. The honest purpose of any such business will always overcome the opportunistic and in many cases illegal means of turning a huge profit overnight.
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The rules permit searches of such devices without a person's consent. The review is to be done in the presence of the owner, unless there are national security or law enforcement reasons to conduct it elsewhere.
Immigration and customs officers can also hold the devices or the data, which may be copied without the knowledge of the owner for further review, according to the rules.
Between October 1, 2008 and August 11, 2009, 221 million travelers were processed at U.S. borders and about 1,000 searches of laptop computers were conducted, of which 46 were in-depth examinations, the agency said.
That's not many at all. Chances are you're unlikely to have hassle. Previously, it could have happened, but, at least the rules are now clearer.
I wonder what would happen if they ruled that people's business information, briefcases and personal diaries could also be searched without your consent?
I think it is likely that every country on the planet reserves the right to do that - and more - to anyone crossing their borders without diplomatic immunity.
That they don't go to extremes very often is simply pragmatic common sense.
Start worrying when they put on the latex gloves.
There have been a lot of posts going around that have ways to protect your data when crossing the border.
One such way is to take all private client data and put it on an SD card. Then put that card in your camera. It is less likely that they will copy your camera card data.
I have seen suggestions of sending your laptop by Fed-Ex to your hotel.
I would like to see the day that some bank official or some major corp official tries to cross the border with corporate secrets on their laptop and they want to copy it.
I am sure Haliburton execs would love that.
Imagine an Apple exec has the latest unreleased iPhone OS source and a custom official tells him they need to make a copy of all his data..... Based on the last guy that lost a prototype I don't think that is something he would be willing to allow.
Which ammendment(s) would those "gimme your laptop" from a border official breach ..
I like Demaestro's suggestion of putting sensitive information on an SD card (encrypted, of course :) ). But in many cases, most of that information should be left at the office.
take all private client data and put it on an SD card. Then put that card in your camera
And how do you think the customs service would react if they find out that you were dissimulating data in this way?
Confidential information should not be stored on a laptop, encrypted or otherwise, they are far too much of a theft-magnet, and theft is a far more common problem than a few searches by border guards.
- Only take cleanly installed for the trip laptops with NO data on them
- Have back home a VPN with servers behind them
- DO NOT have access to the VPN while crossing the border (disabled account)
- If they take the laptop out of your control or connect anything to it in any way: wipe it and reinstall from trusted media only
- Once you're in the country you're visiting call home (phone), authenticate, give the secret handshake to inform them you're not being forced to do this, and only then have them enable the VPN account.
(if it takes too long between the touchdown of the aircraft and the phone call: build in a "will not open the VPN anymore" policy so the one passing the border can't be coerced into giving the secret handshake all to easily)
(add a duress signal: it looks like you authenticate to have it enabled, but you inform the folks back home you're being coerced into doing it and they only give you what looks like access and it only leads to phony data)
- While in the foreign country: only have access to what you absolutely need to have access to, nothing else should be accessible. Authentication and encryption should be the best achievable.
- Before leaving the country: securely wipe the laptop and phone home to disable the VPN again, without a way for you to enable it again. This should be scheduled to automatically be done based on expected time of departure for optimum result.
That way they can try to decrypt anything on it for as long as they care to waste CPU cycles on it / demand your password as long as they want, and you can give them full access for as long as they care to annoy you.
There are commercial companies out in Europe who consider the US government to be hostile and in league with their competitors (e.g. Boeing's competitor).
But most won't need to fear this nor go to these extreme measures, but if you're paranoid this is easily enough defeated.
The guise under which this is done" "terrorism" and the ease with which to defeat it, means the measures will not work against the apparent targets (but that's not uncommon with overreacting border measures ever since 9/11). So that leaves the real reason:
- either a show of force to both scare the general population and show them "we the politicians do take care of you, give us more power"
- either they are after other targets that don't take the needed precautions and do pass through border carrying data
- (insert your conspiracy theory)
The guise under which this is done" "terrorism" and the ease with which to defeat it, means the measures will not work against the apparent targets
Exactly, and these are the same people who leave their own computer systems exposed to simple hacking like that done by Gary McKinnon.
I'm getting the impression that when crossing an international border in most parts of the world absolutely nothing is private, right? Except that which is actually stored in your head.
So, ah, when do you suppose the law enforcement and law making types will start working on that "in your head" loophole?
So, ah, when do you suppose the law enforcement and law making types will start working on that "in your head" loophole?
Imagine an Apple exec has the latest unreleased iPhone OS source and a custom official tells him they need to make a copy of all his data
What is a rival bribes a customs official to demand the data? People carry some valuable info around these days.
I've been thinking too much about this thread over the past few days and finally came to the conclusion when I return to the United States I am going to have some copies in my possession of some parts of this manual for Federal prosecutors put out by the United States Justice Department, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division titled "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations"
Published by Office of Legal Education Executive Office for United States Attorneys
The Office of Legal Education intends that this book be used by Federal prosecutors for training and law enforcement purposes and makes no public release of it. Individuals receiving the book in training are reminded to treat it confidentially.
The contents of this book provide internal suggestions to Department of Justice attorneys. Nothing in it is intended to create any substantive or procedural rights, privileges, or benefits enforceable in any administrative, civil, or criminal matter by any prospective or actual witnesses or parties. See United States v. Caceres, 440 U.S. 741 (1979).
This requires a lot of time to read, but from what I have had time to study there are about ten pages that I would have ready -- multiple copies so I can hand them around to the various law enforcement types that may be bothering me.
You folks may find this to be particularly interesting, and it is given special note in the manual with a little index finger pointing at it.
To determine whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in information stored in a computer, it helps to treat the computer like a closed container such as a briefcase or file cabinet. The Fourth Amendment generally prohibits law enforcement from accessing and viewing information stored in a computer if it would be prohibited from opening a closed container and examining its contents in the same situation.
It is my understanding that this manual was recently updated by the Justice Department, so how the law enforcement types at the borders or airports could conduct searches that contravened the guidelines set for Federal prosecuters is a question I will explore when I have more time.
For now, I thought we might get this discussion on solid grounds with a document that is supposed to contain facts.
And how do you think the customs service would react if they find out that you were dissimulating data in this way?
Who cares, it is my right to put data on a data card and put that data in whatever card slot I choose. I mean honestly you could wear the SD card up your rectum if you really felt it was warranted.
Confidential information should not be stored on a laptop, encrypted or otherwise
While I agree for the most part, sometimes that is just how it goes. I would much rather prep any data I needed on a server then access it remotely like I usually do, but sometime that isn't always viable.
In a perfect world no you shouldn't store sensitive data on any mobile device. But this world is hardly perfect, so if you do have to bring sensitive data with you there are some good and safe ways to do it.
Individuals receiving the book in training are reminded to treat it confidentially.
To determine whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in information stored in a computer, it helps to treat the computer like a closed container such as a briefcase or file cabinet. The Fourth Amendment generally prohibits law enforcement from accessing and viewing information stored in a computer if it would be prohibited from opening a closed container and examining its contents in the same situation.
It would be interesting to hear of any court challenges (won or lost) over the issue.
About the Fourth Amendment and it not applying at a border, if I am a United States citizen and I am on United States soil, the airport, my Fourth Ammendment rights had better be in play. Suspending a citizen's constitutional rights, no matter the nation, is a very serious business.
I'm certainly no Supreme Court Justice, nor a constitutional lawyer, but I thought that suspending a citizen's constitutional rights was frowned upon in that fine nation of democratic principles.
Over the past few years I have been getting this very odd feeling that I have been away from my country too long. I am beginning to suspect my country needs me more now than when they sent me to that far-off land to fight for the well-being of the country. It's been sounding lately like the country hasn't been so well.
And we thought things were bad back then.
It's been over three decades since I last set foot within the 50 states, so you can bet your sweet bippy any border guard type is going to run up against a real tyrant if I hear he/she doesn't think my constitutional rights are in play as they go about doing their job to keep the country safe.
I have no problem whatsoever with these border checks and whatever else it is they do, as long as they are not stepping on my rights. I haven't done any harm to my country, so I don't expect my country to do any harm to me.
How did that fella put it? "That's all I have to say about that."
Run, jimji, RUN!
And regarding relevant court cases, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the government's position and held that "reasonable suspicion is not needed for customs officials to search a laptop or other electronic device at the international border."
Really? We haven't exactly seen a lot of sophistication about the use of computers out of Al-Qaida. My sense is that their equivalent of an IT department doesn't know (for example) what a VPN is... Just from your post, I'd say you could run rings around them. Fortune 500 companies are better equipped to circumvent this than AQ and similar groups.
And claus, I'd be really surprised if the EU doesn't have similar regulations on their books.
I wonder what the criteria are for who will be searched.
And what are they going to do if they find you have your business details on an encrypted drive ..?
the UK would like to tell you hand over the encryption key or face two years jail ..
the USA position is ?
They would probably ship the drive to the NSA. Your encrptytion would be broken in very short order.


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Monday, May 23, 2011
Sarah Silverman bares all in Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz is a new dramedy from Sarah Polley that's reportedly "a bittersweet, funny and heart-wrenching story about a woman struggling to chose between two types of love." The film's headliners are Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams. It has apparently just finished filming and is awaiting a release date.
The talented actress Michelle Williams is the main star of the film, and she also gets nude in it.
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I have been in love with Sarah Silverman since seeing her in The Aristocrats when she turned joke telling into a shocking (albeit sham) revelation of rape.ReplyDelete
I also have this thing for Jewish girls...
Amen to that! She's also gonna be in a new movie called Peep World, which I think is also a drama strangely.ReplyDelete
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While spiders specialize in sexual cannibalism, scorpions, their fellow arachnids, seem to just dislike each other. They lead solitary lives, and when they meet, they often fight, kill, and eat each other, as this photo shows. They also sometimes practice sexual cannibalism, if they don't immediately fight to the death.
A study of desert scorpions back in 1980 showed that other scorpions represented only the fourth-most common meal for a scorpion, but by body mass it was number one, representing more than 25 percent of the total.


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WITHOUT sounding like a pensioner, how cold has it been this week?
Honestly, it's been frostier than the reception for Tulisa's new album.
Yes, sub-zero Scotland is officially more Baltic than the Baltic.
Oh how we're all pining for a return to the glorious days of summer. I say days, I think it was just one day actually. Somewhere near the end of June.
Wrapping up to head out now is getting ridiculous. We're all cushioned in more layers than the plot in an episode of Homeland.
Seriously, it's hard to tell if we're dressing for a Scottish winter or a nuclear winter. And the wind in this country is ridiculous.
Our wind is like an argument with an angry Glesga wummin – it will turn the air blue and happily cut you in half.
The good news is we've been promised a wee mild spell starting today. Apparently we'll all know when that kicks in – Rudolph's nose will be red due to sunburn.
I actually thought I saw Rudolph last weekend. It was an old boy with a red nose pulling his team through Christmas. Turns out that was just
Sir Alex Ferguson.
And there's a new risk we're being warned about this week – snow blindness. That's where all you can see is white. Nick Griffin has had it for years.
It's caused by the bright sun dazzling off the frost and has seen a winter boom in sunglasses sales. But a new report has criticised the quality of cheap sunglasses you can buy on the high street, saying they fail many of the basic eye safety tests.
I agree, some sunglasses can pose a serious health risk. For instance, when I see Bono wearing shades on a cloudy day I just want to punch him in the face.
The other cost of this freezing weather has been all the extra fuel we have to use.
Between this and the sprouts, the gas output in my house will be through the roof this Christmas.
That said, a new report says that, on average, we spend more on coffee than on our annual fuel bill. They are very similar – both will make you sweat and keep you awake at night.
This is in the same week more research says too much coffee can damage your heart. To be fair, so can looking at the price of your gas bill.
So wrap up warm if you're out and about. Here's hoping we're through the worst of this winter freeze but I have my doubts. Well it is just typical December Scottish weather – a load of Baltics.


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Two time winner of The National Endowment Artist Award, and the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting , Tennessee painter Nick Blosser presents his 5th solo show in Portland. His first Portland show was at Jamison/Thomas gallery in 1992. In this show, for the first time, he will exhibit a larger canvas in addition to the smaller egg tempera on panel for which he has been known and admired.
Blosser's style is very American, akin to the works of Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove. Blosser quietly observes nature, picking out pattern and form to make a composition that can be intimate, odd and familiar at the same time.
I enjoy working with outdoor imagery because there is always something familiar and distant in it. We see it and do things in the landscape everyday and it becomes expected. As a painter I want to figure out a way of looking at landscape that is unexpected without seeking out the exotic.