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At first glance on the map the state of Coahuila, Mexico looks like a nondescript desert filled state border state. Most tourists avoid the state when entering Mexico or hurry through to reach more interior destinations. That's a shame, for I've explored Coahuila on and off for years and it boasts many wonders The capitol, […]
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Sit down this new year's and make your bucket list. Really look at it as if this year may be your last. Imagine what it would be like if, at the end of your life, you looked back and felt that you had done everything you truly wanted to do. Imagine the legacy you could leave behind to your family, setting the example of allowing each day to count, making each day vital towards accomplishing all the special and magical things you could dream of in your life.
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Loving Pain
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa
Many situations in life cause pain. Scorching , excruciating, soul-searing pain. It can come out of nowhere, your lover leaves, you lose your baby, cancer. All destined to turn your world on its ear and to leave you with deep, abiding pain. Alice Cooper described it as feeling like "the man with no skin." Sleep is evasive, being awake is intolerable, and it feels there is no escape. The only thing that is for sure is that it feels like it will never end.
The more we struggle against this psychic pain, the more difficult it is on us. Like having our wrists bound with barbed wire, the struggle drives the barbs deeper and deeper. The saying goes "what we resist, persists." There is relief to be had from the pain, but the remedy sounds too radical to be real, too dangerous to risk trying. Believe it or not, love is the cure, because only love heals pain.
There is a point, when you have fought all you can fight, resisted with all your might, and finally have come to the end of your strength, where something amazing can occur. You see, at the end of you lies a miracle, where only the brave dare to tread. It is a place so terrifying, so beautiful, so radical, that I hesitate to direct you there, lest you fear I have lost my mind.
When you're finished being pissed off, finished fighting, finished trying to create a different outcome by manipulating the world like a Rubik's Cube, a phenomenon occurs that feels much like what J.M. Barrie describes in his book Peter Pan. "When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." When you let go of attachment to "what should have been", and you roll over in acceptance, you will find that your ego shatters into a million tiny little pieces, and that an ocean of bright, beautiful love comes from your soul, radiating out in a tsunami so violent that it threatens to flood the world. Then you can love your pain.
Yes, I am suggesting loving cancer, and loving loss and loving grief. You see, as terrible as they are, they are your tutors that bring you to this beautiful land of love. They are the signposts on the path to a love so satisfying that it feels like you have transcended this world and have been transported to the next. This journey is not for the feint of heart, but if you want to weep with joy at the beauty of a sunset, or be brought to your knees by the sound of a bird singing, this is the path for you. It's only a simple shift. Just roll over from the fighting, the anger, the fear, and decide to love.
By giving up, you save yourself. As Antoine St. Exupery said, "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." The journey is not pleasant, few would choose to begin, knowing the cost on the road, but the destination is surely splendid.
How Technology Can Help Reduce Anxiety Surrounding Child Custody
Custody issues are stressful enough, having to communicate with your spouse or former spouse over them can be a minefield. Being expected to communicate and coordinate schedules with someone that you may have a contentious relationship is at times difficult and at other times impossible. Fortunately technology is available to make communications and coordination easier, and it is increasingly being applauded by lawyers and judges.
Technology also enables the non custodial parent to have more seamless access to their children, enhancing relationships. Online custody management tools, Skype and cell phones have revolutionized how former couples communicate, enabling parents to make arrangements without having face to face dispute and facilitating parent/child relationships. It is a win/win for the children and the parents. Unfortunately, if you aren't tech savvy the prospect of depending on technology to manage your child custody calendar, medical expenses, communications with your former spouse, communications with your children, child support management, etc may feel daunting.
In helping my clients navigate the waters of the divorce process both before and after, I consider the technology piece a major boon to assist in keeping anxiety levels low during the process. In addition to learning coping skills and interventions to address the inevitable life stress that comes with this transition, getting connected with technology to help make life easier is now a standard part of what I do.
Fortunately there are people who are well versed in this technology and are able to get you set up in a way that will facilitate good record keeping for the court, interaction with your child's school, coaches, etc, and communication with your former spouse. In my psychotherapy practice specializing in pre and post divorce issues this is commonplace. By taking some of the conflict out of divorce by making communication more collaborative and cooperative we help the parents feel more secure and less anxious. More secure and less anxious parents make for more secure and less anxious children, which in the end, is what really matters.
If you are having difficulty adjusting during the pre or post divorce process, or if you just need some support around the technology, please reach out to a qualified professional to help make the transition a time of growth and discovery for you.
Carolyn Tucker LAPC is a psychotherapist specializing in pre and post divorce issues and anxiety. For more information please call 770-789-0847 or see www.carolyntuckertherapist.com to set an appointment.
Anxiety and Divorce: Holiday Style
Going through a divorce is tough, really tough. Going through a divorce during the holidays is excruciating. Everything you have known about the holidays changes, and if you have children it is complicated exponentially. There are few situations that inspire more anxiety than figuring holiday schedules for children and planning how you will fill the hours while they are with their other parent. Even if you do not have children, the holidays represent a death of the norm.
Grieving is normal and natural during this season. Your singleness is magnified by images of happy couples gathered with their happy children around the tree, while you try to figure how you will pay for gifts and groceries on an income that has been decimated. Not spending holiday time with the family that had become like your own can be a painful part of the loss that no one acknowledges.
There is hope for you if you are going through a divorce during the holidays. Despite the fact that nothing feels secure until the divorce is final, you can learn to thrive during the ambiguity. I know that thriving may sound like a stretch. If you are like many, you spend much of the time curled up in bed trying to sleep the time away until the divorce is final and all the arrangements are in place. Learning to live mindfully can help you begin to appreciate your life again. Even though it may feel like you have had a giant bomb thrown into your life, learning to live in the moment can help you get out of bed, put your feet on the floor, and start all over again.
The first step is learning to breathe again. Yes, you heard me, breathe. When is the last time that you took a really deep breath? When we are anxious and grieving we actually forget to breathe. When we focus our attention on our breath, and really notice how luxurious it feels to throw our heads back and take a deep belly breath, we become engaged in the process of life again.
Remembering the little things that we love about the holidays is a big step towards learning to thrive again. A glass of eggnog in front of the fire, the twinkle of the lights at night, the smell of the Christmas tree, the feel of the winter chill on your cheeks when you step outside in the morning are all precious moments if we notice them. It is REALLY noticing the little things, the special moments, that make for quality holidays. When you string together several special moments, you have created a lovely day. Once you have created a lovely day, then you have the pattern for creating a delightful holiday season.
Making new memories is another way to help you flourish during the season. Time with friends, a chance to travel, shopping or seeing a newly released movie can all become thrilling adventures if you reframe how you expect to experience the holidays. Engaging with other single people or joining in celebration with another family can begin a tradition that will provide you with beautiful memories. A nice bottle of wine and your presence may be all that is required in return.
If you are having a really difficult time I recommend that you volunteer at a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter. There are people everywhere who are in need of encouragement, of a warm body to remind them that they still matter, that they are important. It is amazing how connecting with those less fortunate than yourself can give you perspective on your blessings.
The game plan for thriving through the holidays as you are going through a divorce is to put one foot in front of the other. Do the next thing. Keep your mind in the moment. Do not think about the future, do not dwell on the past. Take a deep breath, and realize that right now, this very minute, is enough.
Carolyn Tucker LAPC is a psychotherapist and life coach specializing in pre and post divorce support and anxiety. To find out more information call 770-789-0847 or see www.carolyntuckertherapist.com.
Feeling Love in The Midst of Imperfection
Feeling Love in The Midst of Imperfection
Living in an imperfect world is stressful. Imperfection can look many ways. It can look like an argument with a loved one, being let down by a friend, losing a job or even not being able to pay the bills. When things do not go how we want them to the imperfection seems to mock us and get us twisted into a bundle of nerves. Many of us walk around in distress much of the time due to our circumstances. Most of the discomfort we experience is from negative emotions wreaking havoc in our body.
We have two primary emotions, love and fear. The discomfort comes from resisting fear and thus trapping it in our bodies. Fear in our bodies can manifest as anxiety and can cause many physical symptoms. Our muscles tighten, we get knots in our stomach and lumps in our throats,our heart rates increase, our breathing becomes quick and shallow when we experience fear. It can feel almost unbearable.
We are hard-wired to have the fight or flight response from the beginning of time. It does not serve us well because we rarely encounter a pterodactyl waiting to devour us for dinner these days. The evolutionary response that saved our lives when we lived among carnivorous beasts is killing us now. It causes our bodies to idle at a high-speed, exhausting our adrenal glands and wearing out our minds with repetitive thoughts of "danger".
Fear is literally an energy in the body, as are all of our emotions. When we recognize it as such we are able to visualize control over it, being able to manipulate it and to help it shift. We usually resist uncomfortable energies, because it feels like if we focus on them they may consume us. Actually dropping your awareness into the area where you are experiencing the energy and noticing its presence is helpful in taking away some of its power and causing it to dissipate.
Making a conscious choice to shift to the place of love inside of ourselves is the cure for this discomfort. Fear and love cannot exist at the same time. To make the shift we focus on the area of our heart in our bodies. We begin to call into our presence picture the faces of those we love (their smiles and hugs, picturing them at tender and vulnerable moments), remembering fond experiences from childhood (playing a game, enjoying a toy that we loved so much, playing with a special friend), we focus on gratitude to the universe for all we have.
As we do these things we will notice an energy being created in our chests directly above our hearts and we then begin to consciously visualize swirling that energy of love and happiness down into our entire bodies. Notice how when the energy of love reaches the area of your body that experiences the fear, that you can literally feel the fear leave and be replaced by to love.
The more we practice this intervention the better we become at shifting from fear to love. The ultimate goal is to shift right into love when an anxious thought hits. If we intervene immediately we save ourselves from the unpleasant physical effects of fear. If we learn to exist in that energy of love, we can forgive ourselves for not being perfect, our relatives for not being perfect, out mates for not being perfect, and our circumstances for not being perfect, and we can begin to be alright in the midst of imperfection.
Carolyn Tucker LAPC is a psychotherapist and life coach and energy healer who provides services face to face and via SKYPE. For more information call 770-789-0847 or see www.carolyntuckertherapist.com.
Anxiety and the Horrible Breakup
So your relationship is over? Whether it is a divorce, a breakup with a long time partner or the dissolution of something that you felt would have potential, breakups are painful. My clients report being in literal physical pain after a breakup, and many do not know how to soothe the pain or where to turn to get better. Let's discuss the energy of ending a relationship.
When a relationship ends there is a grieving process that is rivaled only by death. I have heard some say that death might be easier. I believe it was Alice Cooper that said he felt like "the man with no skin" after a breakup. This is echoed by my clients over and over. One client stated that she felt like someone had poured gasoline on her and lit her on fire. This is no small pain.
Anxiety prevails alongside the pain as the major emotion that is reported to me. What will I do now? Will she come back? Is it really over? Will I ever really heal? Having to rebuild a life that you thought would be different is a monumental task when you are in pain and twisted in knots with anxiety. Doubting your ability to make decisions and lack of confidence in yourself comes with the blow to the self esteem. Learning who you are all over again seems impossible, since it feels like half of your identity walked out the door.
I have been told that the feeling of grief of losing someone is the same feeling of loving someone. The difference is the story that the brain is telling about the sensation. Since you are already in that energetic space in your body, you can leverage the energy by focusing on something that you love and dwelling on that instead of the lost partner. Learning to shift out of the energy of grief and into the energy of love is very helpful in transforming the pain. Transform the focus from the lost partner to your dog, or your child, or even your wounded self can help change the story your mind is telling your body.
Allowing the pain and anxiety to flow through your body without resistance is so important. If you resist the waves of pain and anxiety they will set up residence in your body and will be unremitting. If you can focus on your body, visualize the pain there as transitory and actually visualize it passing through you you will find some comfort.
Common advice like the "no contact rule" is hard to follow, but I promise if you block their number, unfriend them on Facebook, and give yourself a chance to breathe, you will feel a small surge in anxiety at first, but you will notice a feeling almost like a buffer between you and the energetic tie to the partner. There may be times that feel almost like panic when you realize that those ties of communication are cut, but if you breathe through the panic, and get really grounded (notice the sensations in your body, be aware of what is going on in the moment, feel your feet on the floor) the panic will pass.
Actually determine what your emotional needs are. Do you need to socialize? Friends are a life line during this time. Lean on them and let them meet some of your social needs. Do you need to spend some time in the cave? Stock up on comfort food and Kleenex and give yourself time alone to lick your wounds. Do you need to keep busy? Make some plans to start a project, finish one, or pitch in to help someone else with theirs. Really knowing what you need during this time will help you process the grief.
When you love someone, what you are really loving is how YOU feel when you think about that person. Given this, know that you can feel that way again about someone else because the feeling comes from within you. During a breakup it is hard to look for the gift. You will know that you are beginning to heal when you notice that you can look at the things you brought out of the relationship that made you stronger, helped you learn to love deeper, or that made you a better communicator.
In some people the discomfort passes quickly, in others it feels that it will never go away. Learning to function with the pain and anxiety is key to moving on and thriving after a breakup. Look for small things that bring you joy, notice the change of the seasons, really tune in to others, looking for things you have in common. Making deep connections with others is an activity that stimulates oxytocin, the bonding hormone, and can help ease the pain for awhile.
You will get better. One day you will wake up and notice that it does not hurt to breathe, or that you are looking forward to your day. When you can tell your story without wanting to cry you will know that healing is taking place. Until then, be very gentle with yourself. You deserve your love!
The anxiety of what your life is going to be like after a breakup is very uncomfortable, but there are a few things you can do to help you to understand the healing process and to ease the discomfort. If you find that the grief if not passing and that you are not able to move on, maybe counseling or life coaching are an option that could help you. Feel free to call me at 770-789-0847 or see my website at www.carolyntuckertherapist.com to set an appointment.

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Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add 6 tablespoons of the butter and let it melt. Stir in the onions and the thyme and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions caramelize, about 40 to 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, put the mushrooms in a small pot and cover with a couple of cups of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to low and simmer to reconstitute the mushrooms.
Add the sherry to the pot with the onions, to deglaze the pan, then stir in the wine. Remove the mushrooms from their broth with a slotted spoon to a cutting board. Chop them, and add them to the onions. Add all but the last 1/2 cup of the mushroom liquid to the soup, about 1 cup. Add herb bundle and the beef stock to the pot and simmer the soup for 30 to 45 minutes. Cool and refrigerate for a make-ahead meal. Reheat over medium heat, covered, and prepare the croutons when ready to serve.
Heat the oven to 425 degrees F. Toast the bread on a rack over a baking sheet, until deep golden brown. Butter the bread, using the 2 tablespoons of remaining butter and liberally rub them with the cut garlic. Top the toasts with the cheeses and return them to the oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Toasts may be arranged on top of crocks of soup, put on baking sheet, then topped with cheese and baked to brown, for a more dramatic presentation.
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Oxalates are naturally-occurring substances found in plants, animals, and humans.
In the body, oxalates combine with calcium and iron to form crystals. In most people, these crystals are passed from the body in urine. For some people, these crystals can grow into
kidney stones. A low-oxalate diet may reduce the risk of certain types of kidney stones.
The effects of oxalate in the body depends on several on factors, including how your body absorbs oxalate in the stomach and intestines, so this diet does not work for everyone. Fortunately, you can still get all the nutrients you need without excess oxalates in your diet. Talk to a registered dietitian about your goals and concerns.
A low-oxalate diet usually limits oxalate intake to about 50 milligrams (mg) per day. Because oxalates are found in many different foods, it is important to become familiar with which foods are fine to eat in moderation and which foods should be avoided.
Unfortunately, there are variations in reported amounts of oxalates in food. New methods of measurement may counter established norms, causing confusion. There are also variations of the same food, for example, different kale can range from low oxalate levels (dino kale) to moderate oxalate levels (curly kale). Oxalate content can also vary depending on cooking or processing method, soil content, time of harvest, and form (fresh versus canned).
This chart from the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics spotlights foods that are either low or moderate in oxalates. If you have calcium stones, it is important to decrease your sodium intake as well.
Coffee, fruit and vegetable juice (from the recommended list), fruit punch
Apples, apricots (fresh or canned), avocado, bananas, cherries (sweet), cranberries, grapefruit, red or green grapes, lemon and lime juice, melons, nectarines, papayas, peaches, pears, pineapples, oranges, strawberries (fresh), tangerines
Artichokes, asparagus, bamboo shoots, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chayote squash, chicory, corn, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, lima beans, mushrooms, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, zucchini
Egg noodles, rye bread, cooked and dry cereals without nuts or bran, crackers with unsalted tops, white or wild rice
Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, egg whites, egg replacements
Homemade soup (using the recommended vegetables and meat), low-sodium bouillon, low-sodium canned
Cookies, cakes, ice cream, pudding without chocolate or nuts, candy without chocolate or nuts
Butter, margarine, cream, oil, salad dressing, mayonnaise
Unsalted potato chips or pretzels, herbs (like garlic, garlic powder, onion powder), lemon juice, salt-free seasoning blends, vinegar
Beer, cola, wine, buttermilk, lemonade or limeade (without added vitamin C), milk
Lunch meat, ham, bacon, hot dogs, bratwurst, sausage, chicken nuggets, cheddar cheese, canned fish and shellfish
Tomato soup, cheese soup
Coconuts, lemon or lime juices, sugar or sweeteners, jellies or jams (from the recommended list)
Fruit and vegetable juices (from the recommended list), chocolate milk, rice milk, hot cocoa, tea
Blackberries, blueberries, black currants, cherries (sour), fruit cocktail, mangoes, orange peel, prunes, purple plums
Baked beans, carrots, celery, green beans, parsnips, summer squash, tomatoes, turnips
White bread, cornbread or cornmeal, white English muffins, saltine or soda crackers, brown rice, vanilla wafers, spaghetti and other noodles, firm tofu, bagels, oatmeal
Chocolate cake
Macadamia nuts, pistachio nuts, English walnuts
Jams or jellies (made with the recommended fruits), pepper
Chocolate drink mixes, soy milk, Ovaltine, instant iced tea, fruit juices of fruits listed below
Apricots (dried), red currants, figs, kiwi, plums, rhubarb
Beans (wax, dried), beets and beet greens, chives, collard greens, eggplant, escarole, dark greens of all kinds, leeks, okra, parsley, rutabagas, spinach, Swiss chard, tomato paste, watercress
Amaranth, barley, white corn flour, fried potatoes, fruitcake, grits, soybean products, sweet potatoes, wheat germ and bran, buckwheat flour, All Bran cereal, graham crackers, pretzels, whole wheat bread
Dried beans, peanut butter, soy burgers, miso
Carob, chocolate, marmalades
Nuts (peanuts, almonds, pecans, cashews, hazelnuts), nut butters, sesame seeds, tahini paste
Poppy seeds
Be aware of how many grams of oxalates you are eating. Consider meeting with a registered dietitian to develop an eating plan. You may need to make several adjustments to reach the effects you want.
Additional tips to help prevent kidney stones include:
Eat Right—American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation
Dietitians of Canada
The Kidney Foundation of Canada
Attalla K, De S, et al. Oxalate content of food: A tangled web. Urology. 2014;84(3):555-560.
Diet and kidney stones. National Kidney Foundation website. Available at: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/diet. Updated December 2014. Accessed May 9, 2017.
Diet for kidney stone prevention. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/urologic-disease/diet-for-kidney-stone-prevention/Pages/facts.aspx. Published September 2016. Accessed May 9, 2017.
Finkielstein VA, Goldfarb DS. Strategies for preventing calcium oxalate stones.
Massey LK. Food oxalate: factors affecting measurement, biological variation, and bioavailability. J Am Diet Assoc. 2007;107(7):1191-1194.
Last reviewed May 2017 by Dianne Scheinberg Rishikof MS, RD, LDN
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Holding to true seasonal tendencies, select retail stocks and the ETFs that track them have been performing well over the past month. Digging deeper into the retail space, investors may want to consider ETFs that are heavy on apparel makers, according to a research note published by S&P Capital IQ. The research firm apparel retailers have benefited from slumping cotton prices.
"Higher cotton prices and rising manufacturing costs drove retail prices up last fall (2011) and this spring," said S&P Capital IQ. "Fortunately, many apparel retailers found that their customers, while demanding value, were willing to stretch their budgets when the product was right. However, as price increases only partially offset higher apparel costs, most retailers felt a pinch on their merchandise margins."
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Regarding cotton prices, investors can track the iPath DJ-UBS Cotton TR Sub-Index ETN (NYSE:BAL) to keep an eye on that commodity and the impact it is having on apparel sellers. BAL has continued its fall from grace this year, slumping 16.4 percent. The ETN closed just over $47 on Wednesday. In March 2011, BAL traded above $110.
"With cotton prices declining this year, apparel costs are lower this fall," according to the S&P note. "However, many retailers have kept their prices flat, year-over-year, in order to regain lost margin. Some retailers have also used their cost savings to improve the quality of their apparel offerings. In our view, lower product costs will continue to be a tailwind for apparel retailers through next spring."
Investors should remember that not all retail ETFs are created and that some good funds can toil in obscurity. In its note, S&P Capital IQ highlighted two retail ETFs, including the Market Vectors Retail ETF (NYSE:RTH). S&P rates RTH Overweight.
Home to just 26 stocks, RTH allocates a mere 8.7 percent of its weight to pure play apparel retail names. However, those holdings include TJX Cos. and Limited Brands (NYSE:LTD), which S&P rates as four-star names. TJX is RTH's ninth-largest holding with a weight of nearly 4.3 percent.
An ETF with a far larger allocation to the apparel sub-sector is the PowerShares Retail Portfolio (NYSE:PMR). PMR, which has $52 million in assets under management, devotes offer a third of its weight to apparel names. Limited is the fund's second-largest holding at just over five percent while TJX is PMR's number six constituent at almost 4.7 percent. Other apparel names found in PMR include Gap (NYSE:GPS), Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and American Eagle (NYSE:AEO).
S&P rates PMR market weight. What separates PMR from a fund such as RTH is small-cap exposure. Approximately 42 percent of PMR's weight is devoted to small caps, both growth and value names. In addition to TJX, both ETFs count Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Costco (NASDAQ:COST) and CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) among their holdings.
RTH is the cheaper fund with an annual expense ratio of 0.35 percent compared to 0.63 percent for PMR though the latter has outperformed the former by 140 basis points in the past month,
For more on retail ETFs, click here.
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Serfas' Thunderbolt Headlight delivers 90 lumens in an extremely versatile, USB-rechargeable package. Attach the water-resistant silicone body nearly anywhere on your bike, and use the high, low, or two flash modes to make sure cars, cyclists and pedestrians can see you at night. At just 50 grams, you won't even notice it's on your bike — but others will!
Be safe out there with Serfas' TL-STN Seat Stay Taillight. This water-resistant safety beacon will get you noticed out on the road with a large, super-bright 1/2-watt red LED flanked by 6 brilliant smaller LEDs. Plus, the weatherproof silicone body stretches to easily mount to any tube on your bike. Use a few Seat Stay Taillights for 360-degrees of visibility! This great light has steady, strobe and flash modes.
Tail light with 270 degrees of weather-resistant visibility. Get on everyone's radar All-day, everyday visibility. Flare 3 is powered by two ultra-bright 1/2 watt red LEDs surrounded by two standard LEDs that provide over 30 hours of run time and over a kilometer of visibility on only two AAA batteries. Batteries included—when else does that ever happen? - Be seen with Bontrager's focused optics and over 270 degrees of visibility - Two 0.5W and two bright red LEDs - Two modes—steady high beam and flashing - 30+ hour run time - Includes AAA batteries and seatpost clamp
Everything you need to be seen on city streets and paths. Party in the front and in the back One light set for a complete daytime running lights solution. The Ion 100 R and Flare R City feature focused optics, an interruptive flash pattern, and broad range to ensure visibility. Their compact design and wide beam spread are optimized for city riding and make these USB rechargeable lights great for any bike. Product details 1 - Be seen with a broad, powerful beam and balanced optics designed for city riding 2 - Includes Ion 100R, Flare R City, two quick connect brackets, and a micro USB charging cable 3 - Bontrager Daytime Running Lights feature flash, focus, and range to be seen during the day 4 - USB rechargeable
$39.99 $49.99 20% Savings
Welcome to the future The Transmitr Remote wirelessly controls up to seven Transmitr ready devices. It easily attaches to any bike's handlebars for convenient on the bar control of all Transmitr lights. The ANT+ enabled Transmitr remote is compatible with all Transmitr products and allows for wireless on/off, mode selection, real time light battery status, and more. - Transmitr remote can simultaneously control up to 7 lights - ANT+ enabled for use with all Transmitr products - Use Transmitr system for wireless on/off, mode selection, and more - Can be used with multiple Flare RT lights for turn signal configuration - Includes CR2032 battery, mount, and quick-start manual
Compact and super bright LED front (2 x 0.3W)/ rear (3 x 0.2W) lights to illuminate you way home after dark. RedLite Mini USB with Integrated mount clip attaches to any Topeak bag with ease. - Lamp: 2 super bright 0.3W white LED's (WhiteLite), 3 super bright 0.2W red LED's (RedLite) - Battery: 3.7V 330mAh Lithiumn Ion (integrated) - Control: 3 modes - Burn Time (approx): WhiteLite: 7 hr Blinking / 3 hr 0.5W Constant / 35 hr Rapid Blink RedLite: 6 hr Blinking / 2.5 hr 0.5W Constant / 15 hr Blink Sequence
Planet Bike's Beamer 1 & Blinky 3 Light Set will keep you safe when it's dark. For excellent visibility the Beamer headlight provides a focused LED beam and the Blinky taillight boasts 3 red LEDs. There are also quick-release mounts for easy on/off.
Stand out at night! The Blinky 3H combines 3 bright LEDs with a parabolic reflector for up to a mile of visibility. And, its self-leveling helmet mount ensures optimum visibility as you ride. It also includes seatpost and seatstay mounts. The Blinky 3H has steady and flashing modes and runs for up to 100 hours on the included AAA battery. Also, this light includes a reflective lens and side reflective strips for extra safety.
Planet Bike's BRT Strap is a small item that provides big visibility. This versatile LED safety band can be used as an arm band, pants keeper, dog collar and anything else you can think of. An included lithium battery provides over 200 hours of run time in either flashing or steady mode.
$64.40 - $64.90
Light & Motion's Urban 500 lights up your daily commute. It's light, bright, and rugged for urban and off-road adventures alike. Featuring: • 500 Lumen output certified to the FL-1 Standard. • Engineered with top of the line CREE LED and enhanced firmware. • It is the only light in its class with an accurate 4 level battery charge status indicator so you know if you have the juice to get home. • Custom engineered reflector optimizes the light to provide the most efficient and effective distribution of light for cycling. • Amber Side lighting for a full 180 degrees of visibility. • Designed to be mounted on your handlebar or helmet (tool-free system). • Lightweight aluminum body with integrated heat sink fins. • MicroUSB Rechargeable (fully charges in 5 hours). • Low battery warning and auto shut-off to prevent damage. • Multiple power settings. Runtime/Lumens • High 1:30/500 • Med 3:00/225 • Low 6:00/115 • Pulse 12:00/115
Make sure you have excellent rear visibility at night with the Blinky 3. This sweet taillight aims 3 bright LEDs directionally to provide visibility from up to a mile away. Its soft-touch power switch accesses flashing or steady modes for up to 100 hours of run time on the 2 AAA batteries (included). And, it includes seatpost and seatstay mounts.
$49.99 $59.99 17% Savings
Make every ride safer with the first tail light designed for daylight visibility. Flare R's balanced optics set off with a powerful CREE LED can be seen from over 2km day or night. 65 Lumens and 270 degrees of visibility help make you the biggest distraction on the road. The Flare R's powerful CREE LED shine bright through balanced optics ensuring visibility of over 270 degrees. Visible over 2km day/night for the ultimate in riding safety. - 65 Lumens for visibility from over 2km day or night - Be seen with balanced optics designed for 270 degree visibility near and far - Two day-time visibility modes and two night modes - Day modes: 65LM flash-4.25hrs, 35LM all-day-10hrs, 25LM steady-4.5hrs - Night modes: 65LM flash-23hrs, 5LM steady-21hrs - Battery save mode at 5% life helps ensure a safe ride home with depleted battery - Quick Connect bracket with 16 degree offset compensates for seatpost angle - Includes quick connect bracket and USB charging cable
Planet Bike's Superflash/Blaze Combo Light Set is a commuter's dream that maximizes your visibility on dark, moonless nights. The Blaze boasts a Nichia half-watt white LED with a brilliant beam specifically designed not only to be seen, but also to let you see where you're going. The Super Flash aims 2 LEDs plus a half-watt Blaze LED for light that can be seen for up to 1 mile! They both feature flashing and steady modes, include batteries and deliver run times of up to 100 hours.
Light & Motion's Taz 1200 is the all-in-one handlebar light that outshines many car headlamps and fits in the palm of your hand. Perfect for the most technical singletrack or critical commute where Lumen output is a priority. Featuring: - 1200 Lumen output certified to the FL-1 Standard - Engineered with a 3 LED array using the highest level CREE LEDs. - Sealed, waterproof design – up to 1m. - Custom engineered reflector/optics diffuses the bottom LED to cover an ultra-wide spread down in front and focuses the top two LEDs to penetrate the darkness with a far-reaching beam, without wasting any light. - Beam pattern was engineered to maximize visibility at high velocity with ample beam distance lead-time and the widest beam angle for the sharpest turns. - Side lighting to maximize visibility on roadways with a dedicated button to toggle the side lights on/off. - Secondary Race Mode simplifies your settings to switch between high power with 2 hours run time and low power with 4 hours. - Accurate battery status indication illuminates the power button with three different colors to clearly display remaining battery life with 4 levels. - Universal tool-free mounting system. - Ultralight aluminum heat sink with tapered fin design. - Micro-USB Rechargeable - Charge rate indicator illuminates the power button with three colors to display speed of charge. - Low battery warning and auto shut-off to prevent damage. - Multiple power settings with cruise and secondary race mode Run time/Lumens: - High 1:30 / 1200 - Med 3:00 / 600 - Low 6:00 / 300 - Pulse 9:00 / 300 - Flash 18:00 / 300 - Race High 2:00 / 1000 - Race Low 4:00 / 450
Planet Bike's Blaze is a commuter's dream that cuts a swath of visibility through dark, moonless nights. The Blaze boasts a Nichia half-watt white LED with a brilliant beam specifically designed not only to be seen, but also to let you see where you're going. This great light features flashing and steady modes, and a tool-free quick-release handlebar mount so you can install and remove the light in seconds. Plus, the included 2 AA batteries offer run times of up to 100 hours.
Safely ride into the night with light sets from Bontrager, all featuring 270 degrees of visibility and steady and flash modes. - Set includes: Glo headlight, Ember taillight and 2 silicone straps - Each set includes lights with focused optics and over 270 degrees of visibility Glo Instantly add safety lighting with the Glo headlight. Used as a stand alone system in twilight conditions, as additional lighting, or as an emergency back-up, these compact, bright and stylish lights can be run in either steady or flashing modes and provide over 40 hours of run time. Elastic bands add versatility. - Be seen with Bontrager's focused optics and over 270 degrees of visibility - One bright white and environmentally-friendly LED - Features steady and strobe-flash modes - Run time of 40+ hours via two 2032 batteries (included) - Includes silicone strap for quick installation on handlebars, seatposts, and more Ember Instantly add a burst of visibility to the rear of your bike with the Ember taillight. Used as a stand alone system in twilight conditions, as additional lighting, or as an emergency back-up, these compact and stylish lights provide key visibility with steady or flashing modes and provide over 40 hours of run time. Ember Multi-Use Lights include two CR2032 batteries and an elastic strap for attachment to a variety of surfaces including helmets. - Be seen with Bontrager's focused optics and over 270 degrees of visibility - Features steady and strobe-flash modes - Run time of 45+ hours via two 2032 batteries (included) - Includes silicone trap for quick installation on handlebars, seatposts, compatible shoes, and more
See and be seen with CatEye's HL-EL135 Headlight. This compact light uses 3 super-bright LEDs for a wide beam that lets you see more of the road. With 2 AA batteries, it provides up to 80 hours of run time on steady mode and up to 320 hours on flash mode. Plus, the no-tools universal mount makes installation fast and easy.
A daylight-visible tail light with 35 Lumens of balanced light to keep you visible in the city, day or night. Paint the city day or night The Flare R City tail light is daytime visible and designed for the city. A wide beam spread, focused optics, and an interruptive flash pattern make it visible from over 400m during the day. A built in ambient light sensor provides auto-brightness control, and the included Quick Connect bracket offers simple removal for recharging via the included USB cable. 35 Lumens of power and the wide visibility angle of the Flare R City tail light make you the biggest distraction on the city streets, day or night. - 35 Lumens provide visibility from over 400m day or night - Wide visibility angle intended for city use - Two day-time visibility modes and two night modes - Day flash 35LM-8hrs, night flash 35LM-16hrs, day steady 20LM-3hrs, night steady 2LM-20hrs - Integrated light sensor for auto-brightness control - Battery save mode at 5% life helps ensure a safe ride home with depleted battery - Quick connect bracket with 16 degree offset compensates for seatpost angle - Includes Quick connect bracket and micro USB charging cable
Let Giant light the way with their Numen HL2 headlight. The five LEDs provides bright white light, and you have your choice of high, mid, or flash settings. The three included AAA batteries provide up to 120 hours of light, and there's a low battery indicator to let you know when you're running out of juice. The tool-free handlebar mount is fast and easy to use, and fastens securely to any handlebar.
Topeak's HeadLux helmet light is the Siamese twin of bike lights. This one light does double duty with two super-bright LEDs facing forward and two red LEDs facing the rear. Its 3 modes and wrap around lenses ensure you'll be seen. A nice supplement to your regular light set, the HeadLux is a convenient way to add extra safety to your commute. Plus, batteries are included.
Quick, easy straps for your Flare and Ion lights Product details (Front - Ion) - Fits all Ion headlights - Works best with 22.2 - 35.0mm handlebars Product details (Rear - Flare) - Fits all Flare tail lights - Works best with 27.2 - 31.6mm seatposts - Includes 16 degree offset for optimized use on seatposts
Light & Motion's Vis 180 Taillight offers both visibility and convenience with its unique design. It combines high-power LEDs, custom reflectors and a rechargeable lithium battery for total convenience and unmatched visibility on the road and trail. Featuring: • 70 Lumen output certified to the FL-1 Standard. • Engineered with the highest-level CREE LED and enhanced firmware. • Dual LED array to maximize visibility. • Ultralight aluminum body. • Accurate battery charge and status indicator with 4 status levels. • Custom engineered reflectors and optical solutions optimize the light to distribute red and amber light a full 180 degrees. • Secondary LED spreads amber light for 180 degrees of visibility. • Simple ratchet in/out adjustability. • Slide lock system allows you to easily take on/off without tools. • Integrated clip for attaching to backpack or messenger bag. • Bike rack mount available and sold separately. • MicroUSB Rechargeable (fully charges in 5 hours). • Low battery warning and auto shut-off to prevent damage. • Multiple power settings. Run time/Lumens • HiPulse: 6:00/70 • LoPulse: 12:00/35 • Solid: 4:00/75 • Paceline: 32:00/5
Three bright LEDs with over 270 degrees of weather-resistant visibility. Send the right signal Added visibility. Flare 1 is powered by three ultra-bright LEDs that provide over 75 hours of run time on only two AAA batteries. Batteries included—when else does that ever happen? Product details - Be seen with Bontrager's focused optics and over 270-degree visibility - Three bright white, environmentally-friendly LEDs - Three modes—steady high beam, flashing and random flashing - 80+ hour run time - Includes AAA batteries and a seat post clamp
You can't be too careful when riding at night. Sunlite's K100/L300 Light Combo gives you extra visibility at a good price. The headlight sports a super-bright Krypton bulb, and the taillight uses 3 super-bright LEDs with both flash and steady modes. Both lights are housed in tough, water-resistant bodies so they're perfect for commuting year round. The taillight mounts to your seatpost, and the headlight uses a quick-release handlebar mount.
Planet Bike's Superflash USB uses super bright LED's for visibility up to 1 mile. The ultra-compact case is weatherproof, light and durable, and features a soft-touch power switch. A USB-rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to 36 hours of run time.
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On a crowded bus ride in Beijing, Chinese artist Liu Di noticed his surroundings. "Looking out at the decrepit housing blocks", he said, "I had a vague but strong feeling that there was something missing between the ground and the sky." It was then that he had the idea for his 2008 series, Animal Regulation, an almost cinematic display of enlarged animals sitting amongst the 'urban ruins' of the city of Beijing. Using photoshop, he seamlessly embedded these wild, large animals into Beijing's forgotten and depleted back streets, construction sites and tenement courtyards.
With the addition of the gigantic,exotic animals, Di not only tries to fill the void that he notices as he travels through the city, but most importantly, he attempts to draw attention to these spaces in a big and scandalous way. We cannot help but notice 'the big panda in the room', and that, I think, is the kind of reaction the artist is looking for. The metaphorical animal living amongst the city of Beijing alludes to deeper issues here–the void is filled with an unwanted visitor and in order for it to go away something must change.
Di's political undertones cannot be missed.
"Between nature and human society, between the material world and the intellect, between obedience to and violation of the laws of nature. It is only when our preconceptions are jolted that we wake up and truly see."
These photographs are part of Barbara Pollack's My Generation, an exhibition that acts as the first in the U.S to focus solely on the new post-Mao generation of dissident Chinese artists. The catalogue includes works by Sun Xun, Lu Yang, Ai Wei Wei's former assistant, Zhao Zhao and many more. The show is currently being co-presented in two venues simultaneously through a unique collaboration between Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St.Petersburg, FL. My Generation will be on view until September 28th, 2014.


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God, I know I'll meet good souls in heaven but what about the soil? Let's talk about this and what it means to me your faithful garden servant here on earth.
Did you know we talk about worm castings here on earth? One of the ugliest most unappreciated creatures on the planet and we go ape over its excretions. I bet that humors you to no end—–well maybe you are infinite— so it still keeps you knee slapping.
And we appreciate cultivars—- and that all knowledge comes from above–cause then we don't have to use as many pesticides–they are strong–since they are super plants and all. But when we get to heaven–could you have waiting for us, all those species we killed off while in our care? We won't need the cultivars then….but don't take them away yet–we still need them.
God you promised me a mansion but there was no mention of good soil–just good souls. I won't have to amend the soil will I? I'm pretty tired of amending my soul and this soil. Both are exhausting. I want heaven to have perfect soil and I want to plant up all sorts of combinations. I want there to be endless combinations. Can I bee ( meant to be play on words ) the head garden keeper? Has anyone ask you that? Adam was assigned but he flubbed it.
Do you like my garden blog God? If so….could you multiply my efforts and send so many people here to applaud my efforts. Just because you created me to post all these photos and talk about plants endlessly and it seems fitting they would want to see what you've done with my life?..ok? and I want a fiat…and an old old old truck.
God? are you there? I see you in my garden. I see you in every intricate detail of the plants. I see you in the order of life. I see you up close and personal…but do you see my blog? If you do….let me know that there is good soil in heaven.
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Fight to save Kenya's wildlife uses the tools of the drug war
Every day, 96 elephants are gunned down in Africa. Every 11 hours, a rhino is slaughtered. And every few years, Kenya loses a wildlife park ranger at the hands of a poacher.
"Encounters between the poachers and the rangers almost always turn fatal on one side," said Paul Mbugua, a spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, which has lost 13 rangers to poachers in the last three years — four this year alone. "It's like fighting a guerrilla war."
As a resurgence of illicit ivory and rhino-horn trafficking leaves a trail of blood across Africa, this East African nation is borrowing a page from America's war on drugs. Sniffer dogs, normally used to ferret out cocaine shipments, are being put to work in Kenya to track down hidden tusks and horns passing through Kenya's seaport and airports.
"They are very good," said Cpl. David Sang, head of the Kenya Wildlife Service's K-9 unit based in Mombasa, a leading transit route for smugglers. "A dog's sense of smell is very high."
Indeed, even ivory, referred to as "white gold" in China, carries its own scent. So do rhino horns, which sell for close to $30,000 a pound — as much as $390,000 for the horns of a single white rhino — on the black market, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
The dogs have become a key tool in Kenya where rangers are being outgunned and outwitted by ruthless, well-armed and well-financed poachers trying to meet the growing demand for ivory and rhino horns in Asia.
But the unprecedented demand is presenting an economic and security challenge for Kenya, which attracts about $1 billion a year in wildlife tourism revenue.
The assault on wildlife comes as Kenya faces a new threat as evidenced in the recent terrorist attack at an upscale Nairobi mall.
Weeks before the September attack, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking at a White House conference on combating illegal wildlife trafficking, warned that Asian criminal interests and those of terrorists groups, like the Somali militant al-Shabab, which claimed responsibility for the mall attack, had begun to coincide.
U.S. intelligence, Clinton said, revealed terrorists groups are "exploiting some of the same porous borders and global criminal networks that carry arms, drugs and victims of human trafficking, creating ungoverned space."
As Kenya launched a national awareness campaign to save its elephants, Clinton and daughter Chelsea also unveiled their own campaign. The $80-million, three-year initiative in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society is focused on curbing demand for illegal ivory.
The Clintons' commitment comes as the Obama administration moves to add the southern white rhino — the last rhino not protected — to the U.S. endangered species list. The administration also has committed to intensify training of African game officers and promote an anti-poaching campaign in the United States.
A plan earlier this month to destroy nearly six tons of warehoused ivory the U.S. has been collecting for more than 25 years, had to be postponed to Nov. 14. It was a casualty of the U.S. government shutdown.
By crushing the ivory, U.S. authorities hope to send a strong message to traffickers that ivory has no value other than on an elephant's tusks.
However, whether that will be enough to temper the appetites of blood-thirsty poachers is debatable.
This past summer Kenya formed an inter-agency anti-poaching squad involving police and rangers.
Twice in recent history, Kenya has burned stockpiles of ivory. But even with close to 100 tons currently under lock and key, no decision has been made about its fate, said Mbugua, of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Deciding what to do with the ivory isn't a top government priority, he said, but curbing the illegal trade is.
"We don't want to encourage the ivory trade, and because of that... selling has not been our position," he said. "We have been thinking of using the ivory in a better way. We have been toying with the idea of building a monument using the ivory."
Conservationists and others say economic growth in China with more people able to buy the expensive animal parts, rising prices for horn and ivory, and folk beliefs in Asian countries are behind the escalation in poaching.
"When you have an extra 1-million people with a lot of money to spend, and all of them want items of value, and if items of value happen to be ivory or rhino horns, then you can see we are in trouble," said Mbugua. "It's just a question of economics. Once there is high demand and the supply is low, what happens is the price will shoot up."
Some Vietnamese believe rhino horns — made of the same material as fingernails — cure aliments such as cancer. Scientists refute the belief.
Mbugua said the rising price of black market ivory also is encouraging poachers.
Meanwhile, at Moi international airport in Mombasa on Kenya's south coast, a camouflage-clad handler coaxed and cajoled his four-legged companion. He kept a steady grip on a rope as the black-and-brown canine sniffed out a target.
Moments later, Tony, a 75-pound Kenyan-bred German Shepherd, spotted a metal briefcase sitting in a luggage cart, raced after it and attacked before ranger Edwin Koech grabbed the case to reveal the illegal contents inside.
Kenya's sniffer dogs this year alone have helped authorities arrest at least 39 suspected poachers. Among them were19 Chinese, nine Vietnamese, six Tanzanian, three Thai, one American and one South Sudanese, Mbugua said.
"The dog cannot be fooled. You cannot bribe it," Mbugua said.
The dogs, which have been used for about a decade, are called in when scanners at both the airport and seaport fail to detect the illegal trophies, or when inspectors suspect something is amiss after looking at scanners.
"The dogs make work easier," said Sang, the K-9 unit head. "Work that could be done by 10 men in one day can be done by a dog for maybe five minutes easily."
So far, no dogs have been lost in a battle that is increasingly employing a high-tech arsenal of GPS tracking, aircraft, night-vision goggles and even high-caliber guns.
But that isn't where the sophistication ends. Poachers have gotten more sophisticated too, concealing horns and tusks in suitcases lined with mattress cuttings, wrapping them in wax and even disguising them as Macadamia nuts.
"Previously, we used to beat them at their game. We applied a lot of intelligence work to establish who is poaching, where are the gangs of poachers," Mbugua said. "But now there is a difference in the modus operandi of these poachers."
That change, say conservationists, is putting Africa's elephants and rhinos near extinction.
"Since 1980, African elephant populations have declined by 65 percent from 1.2 million to 420,000 elephants in 2012," said Mary Dixon, a spokeswoman with the Wildlife Conservation Society. "WCS estimates 96 elephants are killed each day in Africa. About 35,000 were lost in 2012 alone."
Last year, Kenya lost 384 elephants. So far this year, 246 elephants have fallen to poachers who use everything from spears and poison arrows to high-caliber guns.
Tolls are high in other African countries too.
Recently, Zimbabwe lost 41 elephants in Hwange National Park after the watering holes they frequented were laced with cyanide.
In South Africa, 668 rhinos were poached last year, and 446 in the first six months of this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Across Africa, that's one every 11 hours, said the International Union for Conservation Nature, an environmental organization.
The poachers are becoming more brazen too. In August, they killed a pregnant white rhino in Nairobi National Park on a day when there were more than 250 vehicles inside touring the expansive reserve.
Kenya now plans to implant microchips in the horn of every rhino in hopes of saving them from poachers.


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Dennys Food and Recipes: Breakfast: Easy Simple French Toast Casserole: From Denny: Whether it's the holidays, a busy summer when the kids are out of school or company came to visit, we all need something fast and simple to put together that's a crowd pleaser. This simple easy to assemble breakfast casserole fits that bill!
All the ingredients required are a loaf of good French bread, a full 8 ounces of your favorite brand of cream cheese, milk, maple syrup, butter, sugar and eggs. Add fresh fruit to serve and it's that easy!
Usually when a recipe calls for sugar I often substitute agave syrup or brown rice syrup or even molasses. If you don't like or can enjoy cow's milk why not substitute almond milk? When butter is in a recipe I choose to clarify it just because we love the extra boost of flavor at our house from browning and filtering out the milk solids - as well as the added health benefits. You could use margarine in this recipe as a substitute too. And, to gild the lily, why not add a few shakes of nutmeg and/or cinnamon, some chopped pecans or walnuts before baking? Yeah, Flavor Town is the name at our house...
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European Union is currently experiencing a substantial grain deficit and will be forced to import 10 million metric tons (394 million bushels) of corn and 3 million to 4 million tons (118 million to 157 million bushels) of sorghum this year, according to the U.S. Grains Council.
Weather issues across the region have depleted traditional sources of grains for the European Union and Africa, said Kurt Shultz, USGC director in the Mediterranean and Africa. "In addition, the price difference between U.S. sorghum and EU wheat and corn is what is driving this demand. The EU's stance on biotechnology is also affecting imports."
The USGC President's Mission, which included members of the National Sorghum Producers, traveled to Europe and northern Africa in late November and early December to assess the status of European and Moroccan feed grain markets and the impact of Council programming in the region. The delegation visited France, Germany, Morocco and Spain, where they met with producers, feed millers and processors.
The delegation concluded that the European Union is a good short-term market for U.S. sorghum and advised the Council to proceed in planning a sorghum marketing and educational seminar in the region to promote long-term use.
"Because the pressure is mounting on the European feed milling industry, the timing is right to try and educate the EU grain industry about biotechnology and elicit their support in addressing policy," said Dale Artho, USGC chairman.
"Producers are the same all over the world, but with biotechnology and genetically modified organisms, scientists abroad are more wary of long-term effects," said Dale Murden, NSP president.
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Maybe I am wrong. > > Many "locked down" shops want a fair amount of control over the software > that's hanging on their internal network, and if your particular cluster > distro isn't one they "trust", then it's a problem. For us thats not an issue, as we use anything our customers tell us they want, though if they don't have a preference we will argue the technical merits and other bits of the most suitable distro. We do have customers using and building RH7.3 based clusters due to application support issues. Whether we like it or not is not an issue, its what runs the software correctly that matters. > Clearly, if a vendor is providing a turnkey systems to someone, then > they've taken on the responsibility (and expense) of complying with all > the rules for the customer. That can be a major project in itself (it > can also be easy.. depends a lot on the customer...) Yes it does. If the customer tells us "use X with patch set Y", we do it. If it is inadvisable, we tell them why. Compliance with this is not hard, unless they have hardwired loading processes at their factory. Our cluster load process start out using whatever distro you want, and loads from there. [...] > But not vector formats as easily.. And, yes, you can interconvert on the > Linux side to get something useful, but you've also lost a lot of the > "seamless user interaction" and starting to get more like a batch > oriented sequence of operations: I set up my cluster job, run it, get > the output file, then run this script to convert it to a format that's > Windows pastable, then copy the file to my windows box, then do "insert > file...." in ppt... A lot more steps than "Click on graph, Ctrl-C (or > Ctl-Ins), Click on ppt slide, Shift-Ins".. Hmmm.... I could tell you things but I would be spamming. Short version is that for our customers, its fill out a web form for their job and then after it finishes, open up your post analysis tool on the desktop, pointing over to the result. This is IMO how it should be for most folks who don't care about the inner workings of clusters, batch systems, etc. And most dont. And they shouldnt. > In the Linux cluster but Windows desktop scenario, you're running on two > different machines, with two different user interfaces, and you have a > cognitive "context switch" every time you go back and forth. (Just the > "single click" in kde vs "double click" in Windows distinction is bad > enough... how many times have I opened multiple copies of the editor on > the headnode?) Hmmm... we are hiding the cluster from the casual user. All they see is a web page and a big disk. Everything else is magic. They do not log into the cluster. The log onto the web page. It takes quite a bit of work to make this simple for them, but this is the goal. >> As for "pandering", well, that may be an option for some, but my >> customers and users need to get work done. The issue is how do you >> get it done in the least amount of time and effort, and the greatest >> impact. > > And my contention is that in some circumstances, that might be with a > cluster using Windows rather than Linux. My point is that it almost doesn't matter whats on the cluster as long as the application software runs and runs well on it. In many cases you cannot use windows due to application compatibility issues with service packs. In some cases you cannot use Linux due to glibc issues. To a large degree the job and workload decide what is on it, and yes, you are right in that if you use windows OS, you could take a fairly substantial hit in performance. Oddly enough, most of the folks I have spoken to are unwilling to take that hit. I am sure that there are some out there that are willing to pay more for less. [...] >> Also true, quite true of my customers. They are looking for minimum >> time to insight (hey look, its a marketing phrase). Fussing around >> with transport and conversion of data is not an option. So they don't >> have to. > > presumably, though, your customers are Linux centric? That is, they are > doing their analysis and reporting in the Linux environment, not the > Windows environment? Nope. For most of our customers, everything is in windows. Seamless is the order of the day. The unix folk are far easier to support and don't want any of this web page stuff. Fine. They get a command line. The rest of them get a web page and a big disk. > Indeed.. and an essential resource they are. However, if you're a naive > buyer of cluster computing, you might think that it's easier to just buy > that MS cluster and have it supported by the inhouse MS support folks. Yup, and that is a danger. Just look at SQL server. > Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt are powerful, powerful forces when it comes to > support. There's a big psychological difference between having your > boss call the boss of the support division (keeping it within the > company) and calling your outside support vendor. Somewhat, though for people interested in performance (most everyone using a cluster) you have to balance many issues. Tight interconnection or not. Intel or AMD. Disks or diskless. Windows or Linux. You will see costs and benefits to every decision. I simply don't see the points you are raising as being as significant to my customer base, though it is possible that there are windows only shops who cannot wait to replicate the CTC machine. In that case, why haven't they? > Practically speaking, the actual support might be identical, but it's > the thought that "I can get one of those PC support guys over here in an > hour to fix my dead node" without spending a fortune (because you've > already spent the money for them to be always there for all those > thousands of desktops). Hmmmm.... we have trained the PC support guys on how to fix the nodes, right at the level they are comfortable with. No issues from them. They seem to like playing with the stuff. Their bosses like them learning it. There are other processes at work here. > >>> The odds of getting someone to fix my broken cluster, today or >>> tomorrow, are much higher if it's Windows based, just because there's >>> more folks around who are capable of doing it. If that 1 Linux >>> cluster weenie happens to be on vacation, I'm dead... the odds of all >>> 10 Windows cluster weenies being on vacation simultaneously is much >>> lower. >> >> Hmmmm. Again, thats why there are external experts who do this stuff. >> As for the 50-100, I think the number is closer to 20-50 desktops per >> admin. I have seen 4000 node clusters supported by 2 people full >> time. I am not going to comment on the other aspects of this. > > Typical desktop support costs are around $150/month for a large shop > (paying for the help desk and the roving techs)... That's roughly > $2K/yr. Figuring a support person costs $200K, that's 100 systems per > person. But, as you say, it could easily be a factor of 5 either way, > and I think a very good case can be made that the boxes/body ratio for a > cluster (which, by definition is all identical boxes configured the > same) might be higher. We have seen in-company costs of $800/month and higher for boxes sitting in a server room at a number of our customers. We have seen somewhat higher desktop/laptop support costs. > OTOH, a lot of big corporate desktop management systems do the "You can > have system configuration A, B, or C, and no other" thing, so they are > pretty homogeneous too. Heh... It keeps the support costs down. [...] > yes, huge firedrills on Patch Tuesday.. BUT... the MS cluster won't > incur *additional* hassles, because it's just the same as everything > else. (Well, it might.. the applications are different) Again, I am going to disagree with you on this, as I have seen the admins who are spending all their time working on keeping the existing systems up and going after the patch bolus, who have no time to handle incoming priority one tickets (things which are deemed critical loss of business functionality), because they are busy trying to deal with the issues that the patches create. In fact this problem is so bad at one customer (and I am told it is the same pretty much everywhere), that they pull the unix admins and others over during these sessions to help them. Basically the current patch management system is horribly broken. I know lots of folks will disagree with this. I purposely avoid patching any of my windows machines before major events, even if there are day-0 nasties running around, as I cannot deal with the critical loss of functionality at inopportune times. The risk from a day-0 nasty is far lower for us than the risk of a patch borking a working system. While it might be nice to have everyone doing exactly the same patches, I would argue that the HPC would not be considered a priority-1 or priority-2 system in most cases (mail, dns, web, ...) . It is not core infrastructure for these admins. No one will lose their jobs if it fails. It would be patched as they have time. This is how it is now, as the admins struggle to deal with the major issues. That said, we have some neat ideas on how to effectively mitigate these issue (completely on a cluster, and almost completely on a desktop). Requires you take a performance hit on your systems running windows. The worst that would happen is you need to copy a file back over, even if a virus hit. >> Look carefully at what the CTC has to go through with their systems. >> If you are running 1000 copies of Norton on your disks, with each one >> loaded up with a personal fire wall, anti spyware and virus ... do you >> really have a cluster? I don't think so. > > Sure.. why wouldn't it be a cluster? Sure, you've encountered some > inefficiencies in having all those antivirus programs, etc. running > where they're not really needed, but still, you're doing cluster work. > Mostly, all that dreck fills up disk space and doesn't hugely affect > computational performance most of the time, except once a night when SAV > phones home for the latest virus pattern files, etc. No... if you have it scan all files, and all IO, the performance hit is *huge*. And that nice security center, will happily block all those nice outgoing sockets, for stuff like MPI ... >>> Say I wanted to install a Linux cluster. Ooops.. they're not quite >>> as familiar with that. >> >> And this is why there is a market for this expertise. > > But then, you have two sources of expense: The outside expertise PLUS > the inside people who have to deal with them. Yes, the inside expense > is less than it would have been before, but it might well be that the > total cost is higher. Our customers tell us otherwise. It costs them less to handle problems correctly the first time. > > >>> They don't have all the patch rollout stuff, they don't have a patch >>> validation methodology, etc. Sure, there's all kinds of patch >>> management stuff for Linux, in a bewildering variety of options, but >>> now we've got to have a Linux security expert, in addition >> >> ... all of this outsourceable for a tiny fraction of what they pay for >> their required in house windows staff ... > > Is it really that much cheaper? I suspect not. Large windows shops > aren't all that inefficient.. they can't be. It's not going to be, say, > 10 times more expensive to manage windows boxes than Linux boxes in an > apples/apples comparison. And, there's a huge commercial pressure to > come up with ways to reduce the management costs of Windows boxes (so > you have products like Patchlink). There are some real and unbiased studies out there somewhere. It is significantly less expensive for a well design and built infrastructure. For a cluster, and this is the point of the thread, the cost differences are going to be huge, and from what I can see, massively in favor of linux. Per node base software costs scale linearly on windows clusters. They are flat on linux as RGB pointed out. The management systems for linux clusters are fairly well honed right now. If you want to manage a 1000 node cluster, reload every node using a toolkit like Rocks, Warewulf or similar, you can do it with a single command line (or even hook it together in a web page, though I would advise against this particular one). It is unknown how many mouseclicks per compute node you will need to do this under windows. Now this is not to say the Microsoft might not have something up its sleeve. I am keeping my mind open on this. But the pain and cost of management for things like linux clusters is fairly well known and fairly low. The tools are very powerful and very flexible (Warewulf and others). Huge and functional complex computing infrastructures can be built, rebuilt, re-rebuilt in very little time (Rocks, Warewulf). If they can show a convincing argument that they can do a better job at lower cost, thats when it starts to get interesting. Some folks may deny the better job. I am thinking that the cost is just not going to be in line with what it needs to be. Flat. > > And once you add in the overhead to make the inhouse compliance folks > feel warm and fuzzy, outsourcing might not be as cost effective. Hmmm. This is dependent upon the organization. I don't expect the NNSA to outsource. I would expect the FDA, HUD and others to. [...] > > But this is essentially the same choice.. either your software works on > your configuration (be it Linux distro or Windows build) or it doesn't. > In the Linux case, you've got the potential option of spending serious > time convincing the powers that be that you can make it work and still Rarely do you have that luxury. All projects have a choice A and a choice B, with choice B being the default choice you make if A does not work in the alloted time. Choice B must work. Choice A is the thing you would like to work because it is better than B. Call it a fallback plan. In most cases, our customers use a very simple rubric. If the thing is not up and functional in very few hours (to days for complex things) it ain't gonna work. Pursuing something to the point of nearly infinite time might be great for academic circles :) , but it doesn't fly in industry. > be in conformance with the instutitional computing rules. In the > Windows case, you're just plain out of luck. I have as of yet to see an individual contributor told that they are being let go due to the inability of the IT staff to make the IT infrastructure work for them (and therefore rendering them effectively unable to do their work). I have seen IT missioned to make something work, regardless of how they have to do it. > Of course, in the Windows world, most shops have dealt with the "how to > support multiple SP levels of Windows" problem.. and, of late, this > problem is much, much reduced from the days of Win95,Win98,WinME,NT4.0. > I haven't had anything break with Win2K or WinXP patches in a long time, Heh... about 3 weeks ago, a major customer had all sorts of joy. LOTS of stuff was hosed. All "Standard" stuff. Delayed a project we were working on with them (HPC, go figure) almost to the point of missing it for this year. I am having trouble remembering a clean and simple patch install under windows, either at any of my customers sites or at my site, which just worked. You have to watch the system for days. I built one XP system (my desktop XP system) which was rock solid stable until that last patch bolus a month ago. It now crashes after about 4 days. Like clockwork. My laptop is suffering under the same patch stream. A number of tools no longer function. > with the exception of a weird interaction between the OpenGL drivers in > Matlab R13 and Win2K. I don't have what one might call a positive sense about the Microsoft patches. I wish they would stick to bug fixes, and not change functionality on me. > As far as the "MS only supports 2 versions back".. that comes with the > territory in Windows applications. If you're selling applications for > Windows based clusters, you'd have to factor that into your support > strategy, same as if you're selling applications for any other flavor of > Windows. So customers with business dependencies upon w95 (hey, could happen) are toast if they cannot upgrade. Yet customers with business dependencies upon RH5 could probably run just fine. [...] > > I think so... and you've got to "look" to the Windows centric world > appropriately "trustworthy", just like that network connected HP printer > down the hall. What you can't do is "look like a computer", because > that will scare them. This isn't actually a problem in most cases. A well implemented SAMBA system will appear to be a NAS. A well implemented cluster will appear to be a web page and a NAS. You can direct both systems to authenticate against the corporate oracles of truth. [...] > Indeed... I agree... the problem is that someone has to pay for building > that "web appliance" and I'm not entirely sure that the market for > clusters is big enough to allow that (substantial) expense to be spread > thin enough. So what if it already exists? What if a fortune 500 or two were using it? > My Linksys WRT54G has Linux inside, as does my Moxi digital cable box, > but the vast majority of users of either are not aware of it. They're > also being produced in million scale quantities, so the considerable > work required to "hide" Linux (or equally valid for some other devices, > WinCE) and make it truly "appliance like" is small in a per unit sense. :) > > I think there IS a market for an appliance with some applications > tailored to use it. Say you have someone doing a lot of work with > NASTRAN or HFSS (both are computationally intensive FEM programs). You > could give them their familiar windows executable that just happens to > feed work off to a networked attached computational engine. I've > contemplated doing something like this with a program called 4NEC2, > which wraps a nice Windows front end around a compiled FORTRAN backend > program (NEC -Numerical Electromagnetics Code). NEC runs just fine on > Linux (heck, there's even cluster versions of it) and the "interface" is > just text files in 80 column card images and 132 character printer output. Would you like a URL? > > > Jim -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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