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3 Powerful Questions Which Will Increase Your Chances of Success
Many people think that if they work hard, be the first person in the office and the last one to leave at night that they will be successful. Entrepreneurs put in 50 to 60 hours a week chasing success as they slowly burn out. The reality is that success is often closer than you realize and it depends on how you think about it and what questions you ask yourself.
As you pursue the path to success, whatever that means to you, the questions you ask yourself are ultra important and can shape your success. If your mindset goes to dark places when things don't go as planned, you may be someone always asking yourself "Why me?" This question will not get you closer to your goals. It is a disempowering question because your brain will attempt to answer it with negative answers.
For example, if you didn't get that contract that you pitched, when you ask the 'why me' question, you blame yourself and even others. You might say you quoted too high, you said the wrong thing in the meeting, or that your assistant delivered the proposal late.
Instead, ask yourself how you can do better next time. Find out what you needed to do to secure the contract and use it to fuel the next proposal. Powerful questions can change your state and catapult you quickly into a more positive frame of mind, which helps you on your journey to success.
Here are 3 powerful questions you can ask yourself every day to increase your chances of success:
1. What Am I Capable Of?
This is a little bit of a trick question. No one REALLY knows what they are capable of. We set boundaries for ourselves that limit and define us. That keeps us small. It is important to think big – so much bigger than you even think is possible. Other people will try to knock you down for thinking what THEY think is possible, but in reality no one ever truly knows what is possible.
Many times from great adversity comes our greatest achievements. Until something happens to you that tests you, you may not even know you were capable of getting through something, let alone thrive from it. Consider the proverbial "Rags to Riches" stories that are so popular. If any of the people in those stories forced limitations on themselves, they would not have achieved greatness.
When you ask yourself what you are capable of, let your mind go wild. Remember, only a few short years ago, we could not have conceived of watching full movies on a small handheld device. The possibilities are endless.
"The mind is what the mind is fed." – David J. Schwartz
2. Who Do My Closest Allies Need To Be?
Jim Rohn famously said we are the average of the five people we associate with the most. Take a look at your own life and make note of who your closest allies are now. Are they the ones you need to be with to achieve your goals? If not, start making conscious choices to go and meet the people that are like-minded and will support you on your road to success. By identifying and spending time with the right people, you'll increase your chances for success.
3. Who Do I Need To Become?
Picture yourself starring in a movie. In this role, consider what that person would look like when he is successful. Notice the traits or habits you practice. How you handle situations and adversity, as well as the good times when you become that successful person is important. Once you are clear on who this person is, become that person now. Practice becoming your movie star every day and keep growing as you fit into the role.
"What we think, we become." – Buddha
Ask yourself these powerful questions every day and for each aspect of your life. For example, you can use these for your relationships, for career and even for your health. You will find increased success in all of those areas of your life.
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How to Overcome Stage Fright in 5 Simple Steps
Fear of public speaking, also known as glossophobia (which literally means fear of the tongue) is the apprehension that one experiences when speaking in public. It's reported that 1 in every 4 individuals reports some sort of anxiety when presenting ideas in front of an audience. Regardless of one's personal or professional background, being able to communicate ideas confidently and eloquently is of utmost importance. So, how can you overcome stage fright?
Here are 5 simple steps to help you overcome the fear of speaking publicly or in a group:
1. Success Visualization
A great deal of the fear we experience stems from the negative self-talk that goes on in our minds. Thoughts such as "I don't think I can do it; I'm going to forget my notes; what makes me think people want to listen to me?" The first step in trying to counter the negative self-talk is through what I call Success Visualization. It's a well-known scientifically-proven fact that the best way to counter negative mental chatters is with positivity.
Find a quiet place where you can be undisturbed for at least 15 minutes, create a mental image of the speech being a complete success. See the audience cheering and learning. See the equipment working properly. See yourself sharing your ideas with confidence. After all, no one goes to a speech to see a speaker embarrass themselves. Visualize what you want (success), not what you dread.
2. Purposeful Practice
How many times have you heard this well-intentioned advice: "Practice makes perfect"? You might wonder, "I've practiced over and over again, why am I not improving?" We've been told to practice, but no one ever told us how. In his bestselling book Peak, Anders Ericsson introduces the concept of purposeful practice that he defines as a focused process toward a well-defined and specific goal.
What we're all engaged in is called naive practice, which is repeating a particular task and expecting to get better. That kind of practice as it relates to public speaking is highly ineffective. There is a myriad of skills that need to be mastered in order to become an effective public speaker. As such, purposeful practice is the right way to go since it allows you to focus on one skill at a time with timely feedback on what is and what isn't working. Always practice with a goal in mind!
3. Energy Reversal
Science claims that we experience the same physiological changes whether excited or stressed. Our adrenal glands release epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol which are the flight or fight chemicals. From a physiological perspective, being ready to fight, or afraid, ready to run away, are two sides of the same coin. Henceforth, we can channel that same energy resulting from stage fright to psyche ourselves up for the speech.
Positive affirmations such as "I am excited! I rock", can help trick your subconscious mind into believing that you're excited. Our subconscious mind is impersonal. It doesn't discriminate or rationalize, it accepts as true and brings to us whatever we suggest. Positive powerful autosuggestions sink deep into our subconscious mind, and manifest themselves in the way you feel, think, and act. Never tell yourself not to be afraid! Well, I mean always tell yourself you are excited and ready to rock.
4. Action
No great results are to be obtained without consistent and persistent actions. Many of us attend speeches, workshops, and seminars expecting to get the desired outcomes right away. It doesn't work that way, it never did, and it never will. The three previous steps mean nothing if you don't have a structure that you can use to help reach your goal.
Knowledge alone won't bring any result. Knowledge coupled with deliberate, systematic actions, will. What are you going to do? Are you going to join a local Toastmasters Club? How many times a week are you willing to practice? Do you have a support group? You reading this article is vibrant proof that you've had enough of stage fright. So, why not grab a pen and paper, and write your next action?
5. Know your purpose, audience, and materials
Three things must be absolutely clear in your mind before giving a speech: Your purpose, the audience, and your materials. First, on a blank sheet of paper, at the very top; make sure you have this question answered: Why am I doing this? Or in the form of a similar statement: By the end of my speech, the audience will have learned. Without a purpose to give you direction and bring value to your audience, you don't have a speech.
Next, Who am I talking to? Before getting on stage, basic information about the audience's age group, cultural background, and level of knowledge is essential. Those insights empower you to appropriately frame your message, so you can engage the audience and get your message across more effectively. Speaking isn't about you, it's all about the audience.
Finally, make sure you've mastered your materials. Specifically, the introduction, main ideas, and the conclusion. Part of why we are afraid results from doubts of not being fully prepared. Never get in front of an audience without having fully mastered your materials. Complete mastery of your materials will boost your self-confidence which will, in turn, reduce your public speaking apprehension.
I hope these techniques serve you well as they have me and the many others who've attended my workshops. Your willingness to try, fail, and improve is what makes magic happens. As you may have realized by now, all you have to do to transform your fear from a foe to a friend is to S-P-E-A-K despite your fears.
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3 Steps to Overcome Your Brain Biases and Become a Better Leader
If I asked you what time it was, you would likely look at your watch or a clock and read the time out to me. And if I were to ask you where you were, you would likely tell me the exact place, city, or state. If I were to then ask you who you were, you would likely identify yourself by your name, demographics, and perhaps a work description. On the surface, answering these questions correctly would indicate that you were not delirious. But are these answers technically correct?
Biological research indicates that superficial orientation to time, place, or person is actually far from accurate. Rather, leaders might benefit from tending toward a non-dual awareness of the world, or at least offer themselves the opportunity to see the world this way. For time, place, and person, the biological realities differ from what we might initially think.
1. Don't let the past dictate the future
We are not ever-present in the moment, nor should we be. In the human brain, the past, present, and future are all represented at the same time. Although we consciously organize our experiences using this segmentation of time, each of these networks can intrude upon the other. In fact, what you remember can influence what you can imagine for yourself in the future as well.
As a leader, ensure that you frequently examine your memory for positive reminders and biases, take advantage of your presence circuits by incorporating mindfulness practices into your day, and use your "possibility" circuits to imagine or simulate future scenarios. In fact, in the brain, imagination is a lot like reality.
Using all three components at all times will help you to become aware of biases and could also help you escape traps or an impasse. For instance, when a possible solution for product development is vague, thinking in terms of what you want and then reverse-engineering this process to make what you imagine could be helpful.
Walt Disney saw great success after building Disneyland in Anaheim, California, but outside interests began crowding his theme park. When he decided to build another park in Florida, Disney didn't let the experience of California dissuade him. He expanded his vision to something greater — a city of tomorrow. He created fake companies to secretly purchase acres upon acres of land near where Interstate 4 intersected with the Florida turnpike so his company could develop the area around the theme park.
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." – Walt Disney
2. Think beyond your reach
We are not where we think we are. The notion of "place" has become increasingly irrelevant in a globalized world. With the increasing interconnectedness of societies, cultures, and economies, leaders need to be careful not to think of themselves too locally. When leaders are global in their thinking, they are likely to elicit more widespread cooperation from international markets.
Ask yourself, "What communities beyond my local community do I want to impact?" and "What communities am I impacting?" When you take this approach, it can help your advertising strategies, for example, become more congruous with specific or global markets. Also, leaders who think globally will be more aware of competition from afar and opportunities for collaboration, too.
Jack Ma can be credited with being a global thinker for founding Alibaba, allowing Chinese consumers to access domestic and international markets that they could not previously access. By moving into e-commerce, online banking, and cloud computing, Alibaba has expanded into India and Southeast Asia. Alibaba's Electronic World Trade Platform has even enabled farmers in Rwanda to sell coffee in China. This is a perfect example of thinking beyond your reach.
3. Connect the body and mind
We are not what we think we are. We are made up of 50% human and 50% bacterial cells. And water comprises 60% of our body weight. So we are basically bags of water and bacteria — with a dash of human cells thrown in for good measure.
Also, though we might think of ourselves as being separate from other people and things, many people or things you encounter in your life are stored in your brain's memory centers. Our brain tissue contains images, voices, and other attributes of people and things, too. We are not actually as separate as we think.
Take care of your bacteria, and they will take care of you. Having the right balance of bacteria is of paramount importance to effective functioning because the wrong balance can make you depressed or anxious. Taking a probiotic can help restore this balance. Understanding that you are part human, part bacteria can change the way you take care of your moods by essentially reminding you to take care of your gut.
Mindy Grossman, the CEO of WW International — formerly Weight Watchers — is a good example of someone who understands the mind-body connection. Grossman has led the company's focus from strictly weight loss to wellness through healthy habits. Part of the transformation includes a partnership with meditation app Headspace to help members maintain a positive mindset.
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." – Mahatma Gandhi
When you engage in non-dual awareness by recognizing that your brain fuses and connects time, places, and people, your leadership capacities might also be enhanced. As Warren Bennis, founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, suggests, "Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself." And your "self" is more intriguing and mysterious than you might first imagine.
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3 Ways to Optimize Your Life for Success
Welcome to the 21st Century! The era of the Internet and computers, lack of focus and superficiality. I know it sounds scary, maybe a little more exaggerated, but it's true. We live in a world of short posts and 3-minute videos. We barely engage in deep learning, deep thinking, and deep focus to produce iPhone-level products or services. So, the majority of us are actually a failure, thousands of miles away from achieving our life goals and business visions. How do we turn things around? We need to optimize our lives.
Here are 3 tried and tested tips that will help optimize your life for success:
1. Upgrade your sleep
When I started my freelance writing career—about seven years ago—I was passionate and excited at the beginning. I'd fill my To-Do list with 6-10 items, worked until 12 am, set my alarm to go off at 3 am, and had my running shoes close to my bed before I went to sleep. However, I barely accomplished anything. I usually became weak and bored before noon.
I noticed that I was putting a huge strain on myself. I was sleep deprived, which is the primary reason why I didn't have the energy and the drive to accomplish my tasks. Many studies have shown that sleep-deprivation affects productivity.
As soon as I began increasing my sleeping time from 4 hours to 7 hours, my whole life changed. I started producing a lot and earning a lot more than before while also improving my health. With more sleep, I get the emotional energy and willpower I need to read, learn, and optimize my career.
"By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away." – Arianna Huffington
2. Read every day
I get it. You're in the middle-class struggling to survive. You simply have enough to deal with. Reading? That's not included on your to-do list. Well, if that's you, then you're not alone. The global literacy rates are at an all-time high at 84 percent, which means people don't read as much anymore.
We already have enough on our plates. In fact, a study by the National Endowment for the Arts has found that the reading culture among American adults has drastically declined. That's a big issue in our world.
Nothing can prevent you from reading, not even your plate that's chock-full of other life's priorities. If you want to produce more and impact the world around you, you've got to read more and learn more.
Take a look at the visionaries and business titans in our world. All of them are avid readers and avid learners. Bill Gates is a bibliophile and Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, reveres books. In fact, Knight customized his library to the extent that, before you enter into his library, you have to take off your shoes and bow.
So, what would you do next? Take Roald Dahl's advice, captured in this beautiful line of the poem: "So please, oh please, we beg, we pray / go throw your TV set away / and in its place, you can install / a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
3. Use Pomodoro to time yourself
You can't go far in life if you can't stay totally focused on a task. If you want to achieve your goals, you have got to stay laser-focused on a single task before jumping on to another. Why? Because goals are not achieved in one session, they're achieved in a series of tasks, one after the other.
To install the focus habit in your system; therefore, you need to use a time-management kind of "system" that will keep you firm and attentive on a specific project. Pomodoro is that time-management tool that will help you stay focused.
It's an excellent app that lets you set a timer for a particular task. You can set it for 30, 60, or 90 minutes and stop working when it goes off. I use it all the time, and I can't imagine my work life without it.
"I know when I stay focused, good things will undoubtedly happen." – Marc Trestman
Optimizing your life for more power, passion, and productivity is not about working hard late at night or running multiple projects at a time. It's about maintaining your health and recharging your energy (having a deep, quality sleep), updating your knowledge (by reading every day), and staying focused on a project—until you accomplished it (by using Pomodoro technique to boost your concentration).
Of course, developing these sets of habits is not easy. You'll fail and get frustrated, but as the productivity guru Robin Sharma beautifully puts it, "all changes are hard at first, messy at the middle, and beautiful at the end."
Which one of these three ways to optimize your life resonated most with you and why? Share your thoughts below!
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If You Want Your Business to Grow, You Need to Increase Your Capacity in the Following 4 Areas
Every entrepreneur must come face to face with the reality that there is only a limited amount of time, money, and people that you can use within your current position. The question is how do we increase or maximize the things that we find limiting?
As we walk through our hectic and often over packed ten, twelve, or fourteen hour work days, one of the questions that we should be asking is "What can I do to get more, to do more?" Instead, we just put our heads down and plow through the ever growing mountain of work. We are limited by capacity.
Webster's dictionary defines capacity as "the maximum amount that something can contain." As an entrepreneur, we have to be a little more creative than the average person and find ways to increase our capacity.
Below, we'll identify the four areas where we need more capacity and ways to get more with less:
1. Time
Every human on this planet is granted twenty-four hours a day. That is it. Your capacity is a total of twenty-four hours. Within that amount of time you must manage several different demands. Our goal is to buy back our time, when we can, and operate at peak performance when we are accomplishing our daily task list.
First, without staying in performance shape, you will lose the ability to stay at optimal performance levels. Our bodies are truly a machine with an amazing capacity, but when it is abused by lack of sleep, improper nutrition, and lack of exercise, you are reducing the capacity at which you are able to work and function. The closer you are to peak performance, the more you are able to accomplish in a shorter amount of time.
Second is our mental condition. Here is what my experience has taught me. If I am mentally rested, I can think and make decisions faster because I can reason more quickly in addition to understanding the circumstances and information at an extremely fast pace.
When your brain is healthy, it becomes easier to absorb and process information at a lightning fast rate. Taking the time to allow your brain to rest will give it the ability to function at peak performance.
Third is our ability to train and delegate. So often, entrepreneurs are control freaks. No one can do it as good, as fast, or with the same passion as they can. While that may be true in most cases, you are only one person with twenty-four hours in a day.
You've got to delegate and accept people's help. If you add one person that's willing to give you eight hours of work a day, you have now bought back hours in your day to focus on activities that will generate more income and grow your business. Why wouldn't you want to add more hours to your day by delegating out the appropriate task to qualified individuals?
"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days." – Zig Ziglar
2. Money
Money tends to be a sensitive topic. We all have beliefs that were formed through our childhood on the concept of money. With many different views and beliefs on this topic, let's just focus on the fact that money is a tool that will either help grow the company or a tool that limits a company's growth.
It is always amazing that the faster a company grows, the greater the challenge of money becomes, and this could potentially cause the company to implode on its own success. How do we then increase the capacity and have more money available to keep the company healthy?
Here are a couple of things to watch out for:
- Keep an eye on your budget and get accurate figures.
- Look at your Accounts Receivables. If they get too long, they could cause significant cash flow issues.
- Find investment opportunities. There are many private investors that are often willing to invest in companies that have true growth with solid foundations.
- Look at additional profit generators, products, or services that fit within your current business model.
Each of these are ways to increase the capacity that money contributes to the growth of your business.
3. Space and Supply
I will never forget exactly where I was standing when I had a manufacture call and tell me they were unable to supply anymore products. They had sold us everything they had, and they weren't going to have anything available to sell for at least another six months. At that time, we were selling customer printed t-shirts and had tens of thousands of orders that we needed to fulfill within the next thirty days.
Space and Supply are tied closely together. Space is often associated with the production. Do you have a space large enough to meet the demands of the supply? If production can only create 1,000 products a day and buyers need 5,000 a day, there is a conflict.
A business needs to understand that challenge, and there are only 3 solutions to this problem: The business figures out how to increase production within the current workable hours, adds more workable hours with the equipment and space, or adds more equipment and space to increase production.
Space and supplies are assets that can be used towards the business advantage. Here are a few questions to ask when making decisions based on space and supply.
- Evaluate your supply channel. Are they able to maintain a solid supply of your raw product materials to match your growth as a company?
- Are there back up supply manufactures that can create a safety net for your raw products?
- Evaluate the amount of space you have available along with the time the space is usable. Can you run a second or third shift with the current space and equipment?
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. People
Your employees are likely going to be the most important way to create more capacity. We talked briefly about delegating to qualified individuals to increase capacity around your own personal time. The next phase is to create more capacity by adding additional, trained people.
You need to create leaders of leaders instead of you being the leader of followers. Don't miss this because the greatest of all companies focuses on increasing their capacity by training leaders of leaders and not just a loyal following.
Entrepreneurs tend to be a lonely bunch of souls. Too often, we are misunderstood and looked at with slight amount of annoyance. Others just don't always know how to take someone that is passionately thinking outside the box.
People skills are a must in order to have more than just yourself work to achieve that dream. As an entrepreneur, develop the social skills to work with individuals that are different than yourself.
Here is a 3 step plan to have great capacity with people as your allies:
- Start by learning how to delegate your own tasks to buy back your time. Identify the tasks that are easiest to delegate and document how you do them. This will give you a specific job description, set achievable goals, and create a daily action plan that is now something that is teachable.
- Use this system and apply it to the other things you are currently doing. I would suggest building out an organization chart and dividing the different tasks you do within the company. Then create a plan that will allow you to hire the right person and move you onto the next area in the organization that you will systematize.
- Finally, create the culture. Culture is like a child, it will grow whether or not you pay attention to it. So be intentional. Learn what it takes to build a culture that attracts the employees that want to be there and grow with the company.
Each of these four areas has an incredible amount of potential to increase your capacity, and allow your business to grow. Don't attempt to tackle everything at once. Identify just one area that you will commit to grow within the next three to six months. Take action and implement.
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Commencement Addresses
In both of his 2008 commencement addressesat the Air Force Academy on May 28 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
2008/05/20080528-2.html) and Furman University on May 31 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
2008/05/20080531-3.html)President Bush extolled students for "a resurgence of personal responsibility" and pushed them to continue their commitment to family, community, and country. "You're the 50th graduating class in the history of the academy," the President noted before cadets in Colorado Springs. "Each of you is a volunteer who stepped forward to accept the burdens of war, knowing all the dangers you would face upon graduation. You willingly risk your lives and your futures so that our country can have a future of freedom and peace.... A nation that produces citizens of virtue, character, and courage like you can overcome any challenge and defeat any adversary." Similarly, in Greenville, South Carolina: "I was impressed when I heard that nearly two-thirds of you balanced your academic studies this year with outreach to your community," the President said. "Through such works of compassion, you've learned early in life that nothing is more fulfilling than putting the needs of others ahead of your own.... And, as you leave this campus today, my call to you is this: strengthen this rising culture of responsibility by serving others, contributing to our civic life, and being accountable to yourself and your families."
Community Service
Continuing this thread, the final "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (June 17, 8:00-9:00 ET) of the 2007-08 season will showcase the work of the USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and other federal, state, local, private, and philanthropic programs devoted to creating a "culture of service and responsible citizenship." Like the members of generations who came before them, America's youth have time and talents to share with those in need. Solid research indicates that young people have a lot to gain from volunteeringincluding increased academic achievement, increased civic engagement, and positive character developmentand, in turn, feel more empowered and connected to their community. Through dedicated service, students can see how their actions make an impact, are exposed to positive role models, and become vested in organizations that make contributions to society. The broadcast will also feature a special segment on reading and learning during the summer, highlighting the Department's Reading First program. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/edtv/. (You can watch archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Note: At USA Freedom Corps' "Call to Summer Service" web site (http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/about_usafc/
special/summer.asp), you can search hundreds of thousands of volunteer opportunities by location and area of interest and tap resources to get started.
NCLB Update
In a June 3 letter to Chief State School Officers (http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/saa.html#peerreview), Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Kerri Briggs commended states for the work they have done to implement high-quality standards and assessment systems and furnished a fact sheet with information on the Department's standards and assessment system status designations and implications of those designations. As of now, the systems in 32 states have received "full approval" or "full approval with recommendations," while the systems in three states have been designated "approval expected." It is unlikely that all the remaining states will have fully approved standards and assessment systems by the end of the 2007-08 school year. Moreover, some states that have approved systems may revise their standards or assessments in ways that result in systems that do not meet all No Child Left Behind requirements. Accordingly, the Department will continue its usual practice of designating states to reflect their level of compliance.
Starting next week, The Achiever newsletter will be available solely online, providing a greater focus on how successful schools across the U.S. are working toward the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act: to have every student reading and doing math at grade-level by 2014. The latest story, presented as a photo narrative, spotlights a Kansas school on a military base. At one time, Ware Elementary School was considered a chronically under-performing school. Today, as a result of specific reforms (detailed within), 99.6% of students are proficient in reading and 100% of students are proficient in math. And, Ware has exceeded the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals for Kansas, earned a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School designation, and received a Title I Distinguished School Award. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/achiever/.
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West Crack, Daff Dome 5.9
Tuolumne Meadows, California USA
Avg time to climb route: 2-4 hours
Approach time: 20 minutes
Descent time: 30 minutes
Number of pitches: 6
Height of route: 700'
OverviewLooking at Daff Dome from the parking area, you would never imagine that the west face could be climbed at anything less than 5.12. Yet a splitter finger crack in the middle of the giant golden face goes at only 5.8. Except for a few face moves off the ground, which are protected by a bomber bolt, the entire route is 5.8. While the roof at the start of the second pitch is intimidating, hidden holds make it reasonable. Even the offwidth on Pitch 4 is climbed via great face holds to the right.
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HistoryIts hard to believe that this handsome chunk of granite had no name as late as 1963. Frank Sacherer and Wally Reed, in July of that year, climbed the classic West Crack, one of the earliest Tuolumne climbs. When Valley climbers asked where this gem was, Sacherer hesitated only a moment before replying: dome across from Fairview. Within weeks this had been shortened to Daff.
The admirable Tuolumne ethic of never using aid perhaps originates from the climb of West Crack (Pratt and Reed, on Fairview in 1958, had used lots of aid, but this was in the Dark Ages and the cracks brimmed with dirt, meaning that jamming was out of the question). By 1963 Sacherer and Reed were superb free climbers and as they stood beneath the west face of Daff they spotted crystals and dikes and knobs and cracks everywhere. This was high-country granite, weathered far more than the smooth walls of the Valley. It seems safe to say that as they roped up they were thinking of a free ascent. Trouble was, about 20 feet above the ground the rock was, for a short distance, smooth and featureless, almost Valley-like. But it posed little problem, going at 5.9. Higher, the climbing proved thrilling and amazingly easy, and pitons could be driven anywhere for protection. Because Sacherer had a huge free-climbing agenda down in the Valley, he never again put up a first ascent in Tuolumne. One wonders what he would have done had he lived in the Meadows for a few months!
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StrategyCome prepared to wait in line or climb nearby routes. Large cams are needed to protect the fourth pitch or you can run it out. Beware of the possibility that the rope may drag cams into the crack on this pitch. If you have a #11 Hexcentric, bring it and use it at the bottom of the offwidthnot only is it great pro, it also keeps the rope running smoothly. With a 60m rope you can climb the route in four pitches with no difficulty.
The crux of the route is the first 30 feet. Clip the bolt with a single locker and stand on thin polished edges, working up to a good crimp. A few easier moves gain the crack, which stays easy for the next 60 feet. For the roof on the second pitch, jam with the right hand and use bomber jugs up and left to work your way through the overhang. This section is easier if you are tall.
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Readercon: fanfic vs. original fiction
July 17th, 2011
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Borders (If Any) Between Fan Fiction and "Original Fiction".
Panelists: Gwynne Garfinkle (GG), Eileen Gunn (EG), Kate Nepveu (KN), Madeleine Robins (MR), Kenneth Schneyer (KS, leader).
Panel description: Maguire's Wicked books. Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Chabon's The Final Solution. Kessel's "Pride and Prometheus." Resnick's "The Bride of Frankenstein." Reed's "A Woman's Best Friend." Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. All of these stories employ characters, settings, and pre-existing plots from other authors, yet these authors (with the possible exception of Chabon) would probably deny that what they have written is "fan fiction." Lee Goldberg has spent thousands of words explaining why his dozens of authorized television tie-in novels are not "fan fiction." Is there an actual, definable difference between fan fiction and original fiction, or this just another instance, like Margaret Atwood's, of authors rejecting a label or genre in order to remain "respectable" or "marketable"?
Nepveu suggests that the difference between fanfic and OF is whether or not you can fully appreciate the story without prior knowledge of its canon.
MR suggests multiple impulses to write ff—wanting more of canon, and wanting to subvert canon, and they're very different impulses.
EG: Tried to write a "straight" Star Trek story, and found she couldn't help but subvert it. When she pitched her steampunk pastiche to Tor, she was writing in donor characters, and then wrote four steampunk vignettes based on four great steampunk stories. The hardest part was doing it without subversion.
KS cites Pub(?), a Theodora Goss story about the characters not onstage in Jane Austen, and he couldn't tell the difference between that and "offstage"/"minor character" fanfic.
MR: Georgette Heyer was essentially writing fanfiction…not necessarily of Austen, but neaby
KN: Yuletide story with Elizabeth Bennet as a lieutenant in the Naomi Novik universe.
KS: Goldberg has said that the difference is authorization, and that fanfic is uniformly bad.
KN: There's clearly a line having to do with whether or not you can be paid, but that's not a useful line for readers or critics. Sturgeon's Law still applies, across all of it.
KS: Literature refers to other literature. There are pieces of TS Eliot that do nothing but refer to other literature. Which is why you can find the KJV quoted everywhere, and Shakespeare. Cites a story that refers to Bugs Bunny, someone from The Honeymooners, and Ferarri from Casanova
Chabon's Final Solution story—unnamed beekping character. Emotional resonance for readers of the Holmes canon, from a throwaway line
MR: Wimsey shows up in a Mary Russell Holmes story, unnamed, which delighted her but upset the Sayers estate. Her daughter wrote crossover with Buffy and HP about Faith and Sirius Black, which was heartbreaking.
KN: Read one about the Duke and Duchess (Sayers) and Holmes waiting for a train. Another reader felt that he was missing something—which he was, because he didn't get the Holmes canonical background. Was surprised that A Study in Emerald won, for that reason.
EG: The pleasure of writing in a universe is to broaden it in some way.
GG: There are all those shortcuts with a shared canon—you don't have to describe setting or character.
EG: I didn't find that to be the case. In the steampunk, the trick was to use their vocabulary, but not to rewrite anything they'd written, and NOT depend on the audience having read the canon.
GG: But in fanfic, writers do often shortcut descriptions, which played to her own inclination to slight those elements.
EG: But you SHOULD be doing it in fanfic, too. And finding ways of showing new things about the Buffy universe to people who already know the world well.
KN: Besides the financial/profit line, another difference—is the person writing it self-IDing as part of the fanfic community? Because those people are often engaging with other stories created by that community—playing with fanon, the shared decisions made by fans about the shared world. The ACD offline fandom has worked out their own stuff.
Watched the rise of fanon in Inception—the fan decisions: Eames is not a thug, Arthur doesn't wear suits, Yusef and Saito exist. These things happened very quickly, and people who were writing other things had this wall of whiteboy slash to write against. People who self-ID as writing fanfic have access of these other qualities within the community.
KS: You're speaking of community. And outside of fandom, do we have as much crosstalk about what we should and shouldn't do?
EG: There is within feminist writing, LGBT writing, there was in the 70s—and it's exploratory. Wow, that's…wrong. Why is that wrong? Now that the internet's here, it's easier, but before that, with Cyberpunk, there was a lot of discussion about what was wrong, and that was carried on in magazines.
KN: Mentions fanon for SGA—the strange welcoming ceremonies that never actually show up in canon, but that have been around so long that newbs thing they must.
EG: Similar to what happens in gaming. Maybe it helps if you're a gamer, to enjoy the constrained space.
GG: With the community online it all happens at top speed. One of the addictive things, the speed of the feedback. I'd post Friday night and get up at 4am and my British readers would be awake and commenting. Different from the feedback I'd be looking for with OF, which is more about critique and less about begging for more.
KS: The comments I liked best were the long, ponderous ones.
MR: Shakespeare in Love is Shakespeare FF. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer. Is there RPF?
KS: Well, yes. See Scalzi and Wheaton. Scalzi was an orc and Wheaton was on a pegasus…kitten. And said yes, do write stories, just don't slash us…with each other. Because that's icky for us.
MR: Did you see the XKCD about Strunk/White? And then I found ACTUAL STRUNK/WHITE porn.
KN: Introduces the terms RPF and bandom. Bands that have concept albums and videos and have created personas and so on… Some RPF goes off actor's apparent RL personas and sometimes it's political and so on.
FQ: Moorcock wrought Hawkwind FF. It was terrible.
FQ: Do we have a name for playing with someone else's toys that covers FF and…this other stuff?
EG: I call it referential fiction. Howard Walter says you don't need a special name.
Fan: Slightly different. Something about another person's universe.
KN: Not really, because pastiche suggests style…
KS: This is a spectrum, running from the referential to the…broader reference like Russ's "When It Changed" (which references Goerthe) until you get a purely derivtative work and I despair of finding a line where you say This is derivative and this is not. We're in a global community and sometimes my reponse includes more or less of what you've said.
FQ: Function for slash fic as a way for straight women to …something something. As a queer woman, it's hard to find myself. Similar impulse to The Persian Boy and so on.
KS: Subversive doesn't quite cover this stuff. There's a transformative function that some of this derivative work can be.
FQ: Ishmail—authorized Star Trek novel that's also Here Comes the Bride fanfic. Author works in nearly every Western TV character and many movie characters, all described, from 60s TV.


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SEATTLE — A Fortune 500 home builder and land developer which identifies itself as the nation's largest home builder refused to accommodate an employee's pregnancy-related disability and unlawfully fired her because of it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The EEOC's suit charged that D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) refused to accommodate a female project manager for Horton in Kirkland, Wash., when it denied her additional unpaid leave time after her doctor placed her on bed rest for over seven months as a result of pregnancy-related complications. Although the company initially provided some leave time, it finally stated it was against company policy to provide the employee any more leave time, even if it was unpaid, and then fired her.
Disability discrimination violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires employers to engage in an interactive process with employees in good faith, exploring possible accommodations for an employee's disability. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington [Case No. C09-1383-RSM] after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The EEOC seeks monetary damages on behalf of the employee, training on anti-discrimination laws, changes in policies on accommodating employees with disabilities, posting of notices at the work site, and other injunctive relief.
EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo noted, "It is shocking that a company of this size would have a policy that is so rigid, one that fails to consider its obligation under the law to discuss potential accommodations for an employee's disability."
San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "Companies that fail to engage in discussion with their employees about reasonable ways to accommodate their disabilities will lose valuable members of their work force and invite litigation. A company that bills itself as 'America's Builder' can surely do better to ensure equal opportunity for all its workers, including those with disabilities."
According to the company website, www.drhorton.com, D.R. Horton is the biggest home builder in the United States and a Fortune 500 company with operations in 28 states and headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Dr. Ned Sacktor received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He went on to complete a behavioral neurology fellowship at the same institution.
Dr. Ned Sacktor received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He went on to complete a behavioral neurology fellowship at the same institution.
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- MD; Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1988)
- Columbia College Columbia University / Neurology (1992)
- Neurological Institute of New York (1994)
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Dr. Sacktor's research focuses primarily on the cognitive manifestations of HIV infection. These investigations include clinical, epidemiological and neuroimaging studies. He also focuses on trials of therapeutic agents for the treatment of HIV-associated dementia.
Clinical Trial KeywordsHIV dementia
Selected PublicationsSelected Peer-reviewed Publications (in chronological order)
Sacktor, N., Bacellar, H., Hoover, D.R., Nance-Sproson, T.E., Selnes, O.A., Miller, E.N., Dal Pan, G.J., Kleeberger, C., Brown, A., Saah, A., McArthur, J.C. Psychomotor slowing in HIV infection: a predictor of dementia, AIDS, and death. J Neurovirology 1996:2;404-410.
Sacktor, N. (Corresponding author). The Dana Consortium on the Therapy for HIV Dementia and Related Cognitive Disorders. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of deprenyl and thioctic acid in HIV associated cognitive impairment. Neurology 1998;50:645-651.
Sacktor, N.C., Lyles, R.H., Skolasky, R.L., Anderson, D.E., McArthur, J.C., McFarlane, G., Selnes, O.A., Becker, J.T., Cohen, B., Wesch, J., Miller, E.N. Combination antiretroviral therapy improves psychomotor speed performance In HIV+ homosexual men. Neurology 1999;52:1640-1647.
Sacktor, N., Schifitto, G., McDermott, M.P., Marder, K., McArthur, J.C., Kieburtz, K. Transdermal selegiline in HIV-associated cognitive impairment: a pilot, placebo-controlled study. Neurology 2000;54:233-235.
Sacktor, N., Lyles, R., Skolasky R., Kleeberger, C., Selnes, O.A., Miller, E.N., Becker, J.T., Cohen, B., McArthur, J.C., and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. HIV-associated neurological disease incidence changes: Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 1990-1998. Neurology 2001;56:257-260.
Sacktor, N., McDermott, M.P., Marder, K., Schifitto, G., Selnes, O.A., McArthur, J.C., Stern, Y., Albert, S., Palumbo,D.,Kieburtz, K., Marcaida, J., Cohen, B., Epstein, L. HIV associated cognitive impairment before and after the advent of combination therapy. J NeuroVirology 2002;8:136-142.
Sacktor, N., Haughey, N., Cutler, R., Tamara, A., Turchan, J., Pardo, C., Vargas, D., Nath, A. Novel markers of oxidative stress in actively progressive HIV dementia. J Neuroimmunol 2004;157:176-184.
Sacktor, N., Wong, M., Nakasujja, N., Skolasky, R., Selnes, O., Musisi, S., Robertson, K., McArthur, J., Ronald, A., Katabira, E. The International HIV Dementia Scale: a new rapid screening test for HIV dementia. AIDS 2005 19;1367-1374.
Sacktor, N., Skolasky, R., Selnes, O., Watters, M., Poff, P., Shiramizu, B., Shikuma, C., Valcour, V. Neuropsychological test profile differences between young and old HIV+ individuals. J Neurovirology 2007;13:203-209.
Sacktor, N, Nakasujja, N., Robertson, K., Clifford, D. HIV-associated cognitive impairment in Sub-Saharan Africa: the potential impact of clade diversity. Nature Clinical Practice Neurology 2007 Aug;3(8) 436-443.
Sacktor, N, Nakasujja, N., Skolasky, R., Robertson, K., Musisi, S., Ronald, A., Katabira, E., Clifford, D. B. Benefits and risks of stavudine therapy for HIV associated neurological complications in Uganda. Neurology 2009;72:165-170.
Sacktor, N., Nakasujja, N., Skolasky, R., Rezapour, M., Robertson, K., Musisi, S., Katabira, E., Ronald, A., Clifford, D., Laeyendecker, O., Quinn, T. HIV subtype D is associated with dementia compared to subtype A in immunosuppressed individuals at risk for cognitive impairment in Kampala, Uganda. Clin Inf Dis 2009;49:780-786.
Mohamed, M.A., Barker, P.B., Skolasky, R.L., Moxley, R.T., Pomper, M.G., Sacktor, N.C. Decreased brain Glx levels in HIV dementia: a 3 tesla MR spectroscopy study. MRI 2010;1251-1257.
Sacktor, N., Skolasky, R.L., Cox, C., Selnes, O., Becker, J.T., Cohen, B., Martin, E., Miller, E., for the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS). Longitudinal psychomotor speed performance in HIV+ individuals: impact of age and serostatus. J NeuroVirology 2010; 335-341.
Gandhi,N; Moxley R; Creighton,J.; Vornbrock Roosa,H; Selnes,O.; McArthur J.C.; Sacktor N. Comparison of scales to evaluate the progression of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. HIV Therapy 2010 4: 3:371-379.
Sacktor, N., Miyahara, S., Deng, L., Evans, S., Schifitto, G., Cohen, B.A., Paul, R., Robertson, K., Jarocki, B., Scarsi, K., Coombs, R.W., Zink, M.C., Nath, A., Smith, E., Ellis, R.J., Singer, E., Weihe, J., McCarthy, S., Hosey, L., Clifford, D.B., and the ACTG 5235 team. Minocycline treatment for HIV-associated cognitive impairment: results from a randomized trial. Neurology 2011 (in press).
Activities & Honors
- Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College, 1984
- President, Maryland Neurological Society, 1997 - 1998
- Member, Neurologic AIDS Research Consortium Leadership Committee, 2004
- Dementia Focus Group Chairman, Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 2004 - 2005
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Were you getting bored of all these movies based on 1980s board games and thinking 'I wish they'd make a film out of something less cinematic"? Well someone has heard your dumb prayer.
Deadline is reporting that an emoji movie is already moving forward and has a writer and director.
In a deal near seven figures, Sony Pictures Animation won a three-studio auction for an animated movie pitch centering on the Emoji, those lovable round headed figures that are as much a staple of social media correspondence as adverbs and adjectives. The project will be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis, with the latter directing the feature.
This move came as a result of a three studio (yes, three studio) bidding war.
Apparently, Leondis shopped the project around because he had finally cracked the code on what would make the most compelling movie out of slightly more fully-formed emoticons.
They just have to be reactions to things right? Or will it animate those faces or that guy with his head down:
Wired had a pretty good explanation for why you don't make an emoji movie:


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The means test takes account of virtually every form of income but assesses it in different ways and disregards various amounts. Different rules apply to income from farming and other forms of self-employment, income from certain schemes such as the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (REPS) and Agri-Environmental Options Scheme (AEOS, income from employment and income from property and capital.
When you apply for Farm Assist, a social welfare officer will call to see you and ask to see various documents. For example, accounts prepared for tax purposes, creamery returns, cattle registration cards, details of headage payments, area aid, etc. They will also want information on the sale of crops, cattle, milk and other produce. The officer will then assess the costs actually and necessarily incurred in connection with the running of the farm. These costs may include rent, annuities, the cost of inputs like feed and fertiliser and the depreciation of farm machinery. Labour costs are taken into account, with the exception of the labour of the farmer and spouse, civil partner or cohabitant. You are entitled to receive a copy of the farm income calculation.
If you or your spouse has other income from self-employment, this is also assessed, taking into account the costs incurred in the business.
The income from farming and other forms of self-employment is added together and the costs involved are deducted. If you have dependent children, €127 per year for each of the first two dependent children and €190.50 per year for each subsequent child are deducted. Your means from self-employment, including farming, are 85% of the balance.
Some but not all of the payments received under the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (REPS), the Agri-Environmental Options Scheme (AEOS) or the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) scheme are assessed.
If you have leased your milk quota, the income from the leasing is assessed in full. It is not included in the assessment of income from farming as described above. The same applies to income earned from the leasing of land. If you have leased all of your land, you are no longer eligible for Farm Assist.
Your income from a job is assessed. Your assessable weekly earnings (gross income less PRSI, union dues and superannuation fees) are usually assessed on the basis of the 13 weeks before you claim. Not all of your income is taken into account. €20 per day (up to a maximum of €60) from casual work is deducted from your assessable weekly earnings and then 60% of the balance is assessed as weekly means.
Any income from an occupational pension is assessed in full.
Your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant's income from employment is taken into account as follows:
€20 per day (up to a maximum of €60) from work is deducted from your spouse's, civil partner or cohabitant's average assessable weekly earnings and then 60% of the balance is assessed as weekly means. The weekly means is then deducted from the combined total of your personal rate of Farm Assist, the maximum Increase for a Qualified Adult and any increase for child dependents.
People who were getting Farm Assist before 26 September 2007 and are still in payment on 26 September 2007 may be assessed differently.
Income from capital includes property, savings and investments. If you own property that you are not personally using or you have investments or any other form of capital, the value is assessed, using a special formula. You may or may not be getting an income from the property or investment.
The value of capital is assessed as follows:
The assessment only applies to units of €1,000. Therefore all amounts should be rounded down to the nearest €1,000. For example if you have €38,400 in the bank, the first €20,000 is disregarded, €10,000 is assessed at €1 per €1,000, which is €10 and the remaining €8,000 is assessed at €2 per €1,000, which is €16 per week. So your income from capital is €26 per week or €1,352 per year.
If you don't use your farm and as a result have no income from it, an assessment of its value to you is still made. The farm is effectively treated as capital.
Your home is not taken into account in the means test unless you get an income from it.
Your total means from all sources are added together to get a total weekly means. The difference between your assessed weekly means and the appropriate weekly amount of social welfare payment for your family's circumstances is the amount of Farm Assist payable.
You may be liable to pay
Class S contributions on your income from self-employment.
Weekly rates in 2012
€29.80 (full-rate), €14.90 (half-rate)
An increase is payable for each child dependant if you are getting an increase for a
qualified adult. If you do not qualify for an increase for a qualified adult, you may get a half-rate increase for a qualified
child dependant.
Download and complete form Farm 1 (pdf) and return this form to your local social welfare office.
You can
appeal a decision if you are unhappy with it. You should appeal with 21 days of the decision and you can ask for an oral hearing. An Appeals Officer, whose decision is final, will then hear your case. If new information comes to light or your circumstances change, you can apply for Farm Assist again.
If you have further questions about Farm Assist contact your
local social welfare office.


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Failing to Prosecute Financial Fraud – On Either Side of the Atlantic – Is Extending Our Economic Crisis
by George Washington
As numerous experts have pointed out for years, failing to prosecute financial fraud is extending our economic crisis.
This continues to be a key, ongoing story.
For example, the Telegraph reports today:
The EU's financial watchdog has systemically "sabotaged" investigations and caved into intimidation from countries including France and Italy to cover up fraud, according to a senior official.
And Bloomberg noted on Monday:
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's internal watchdog is reviewing an allegation that Robert Khuzami, the agency's top enforcement official, gave preferential treatment to Citigroup Inc. executives in the agency's $75 million settlement with the firm in July.
Inspector General H. David Kotz opened the probe after a request from U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who forwarded an unsigned letter making the allegation. Khuzami told his staff to soften claims against two executives after conferring with a lawyer representing the bank, according to the letter….
According to the letter, the SEC's staff was prepared to file fraud claims against both individuals. Khuzami ordered his staff to drop the claims after holding a "secret conversation, without telling the staff, with a prominent defense lawyer who is a good friend" of his and "who was counsel for the company, not the individuals affected," according to a copy of the letter reviewed by Bloomberg News.
I will keep hammering on this until people get it: The economy will not recover unless fraud is prosecuted.


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(UNIX only) The find-links function searches the current path for symbolic or hard links to other directories or file systems. If any are found, an error is returned. This function is normally used for directories that are not trusted (such as user home directories). It prevents someone from pointing to information that should not be made public.
The following table describes parameters for the find-links function.Table 7–22 find-links Parameters
Character string of links to disable:
(Optional) Directory to begin checking. If you specify an absolute path, any request to that path and its subdirectories is checked for symbolic links. If you specify a partial path, any request containing that partial path is checked for symbolic links. For example, if you use /user/ and a request comes in for some/user/directory, then that directory is checked for symbolic links. If you do not specify a dir, all directories are checked.
(Optional) Checks linked file for existence and aborts the request with the 403 Forbidden error if the check fails. Controls whether the server checks if the target of the link exists. If set to Y, the server aborts the request with a 403 Forbidden error if the target of a link does not exist. The default is N, meaning the server does not check whether the target exists.
(Optional) Common to all obj.conf functions. Adds a bucket to monitor performance. For more information, see The bucket Parameter.
PathCheck fn="find-links" disable="sh" dir="/foreign-dir" PathCheck fn="find-links" disable="so" dir="public_html"


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The Cougars plan to make some personnel changes on defense for Saturday's game at No. 22 UCLA.
The first couple of changes, according to the two-deep chart released Tuesday, are at the safety positions.
Nickel cornerback Trevon Stewart, a true freshman, has been moved into the top spot at free safety and Colton Valencia is listed as the starter at strong safety.
UH also made a change on the defensive line, moving Joey Mbu ahead of Dominic Miller at defensive tackle.
The changes may not stop here.
Head coach Tony Levine, without offering names, said other players would have an opportunity in practice this week to state cases for playing time.
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Levine said tackling would be a point of emphasis this week after the Cougars had 29 missed tackles in Saturday's loss to Louisiana Tech.
After watching game film, Levine said the Cougars allowed 196 yards after the missed tackles.
"That's unacceptable," Levine said at his Tuesday press conference. "We're not going to stop many people or win very many football games defensively tackling like that."
Levine said the mistakes "are correctable" and the Cougars will focus on fixing things in practice this week.
"A lot of it is technique, maybe some of it is personnel," Levine said. "Guys being out of control, guys ducking their head. If you duck your head and close your eyes … if you don't see it you're not going to tackle it."
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Levine also said the Cougars need to improve the pass rush from their four-man front, which has been non-existent through two games. The Cougars did not have a sack and only one quarterback hurry against Louisiana Tech, allowing quarterback Colby Cameron time to complete 34-of-52 passes for 353 yards and three touchdowns.
"We've got to get pressure on the quarterback," Levine said. "We have not done that with our defensive line rushing the four. We've got to generate that by being creative and bringing other people, bringing linebackers, bringing safeties.
"We can't give quarterbacks as much time as we did Saturday night when they are going to throw the football."
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Here is where the Cougars rank nationally in the major defensive categories:
• 115th out of 124 teams in Football Bowl Subdivision in total defense (521 yards per game).
• 114th in scoring defense (43 points per game).
• 111th in run defense (246.5 yards per game).
• 93rd in pass defense (274.5 yards).
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• Wide receiver Isaiah Sweeney, who suffered a broken foot during the first week of preseason camp, could be out until midseason.
• Wide receiver Larry McDuffey, who missed the Louisiana Tech game with a lower leg injury, is listed as day-to-day.
• With starters Kevin Forsch and Ralph Oragwu out with injuries, the Cougars will shuffle their offensive line. Bryce Redman will start for Forsch at center and DeAnthony Sims will start for Oragwu at right tackle. The backups are Austin Lunsford (center) and Emeka Okafor (right tackle).
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The Material Mom got her hands dirty in Malawi.
Madonna planted a tree during a ground breaking ceremony for the all-girls school she is funding in the impoverished African country where she adopted two of children.
Sporting black strappy heels and a dark-colored summer dress, the 51-year-old singing icon dug into the soil with a shovel and helped plant a Moringa tree as part of the kick off festivities for the construction of the $15 million Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph.
Madonna had the help of Lourdes, who, along with the singer's three other children, accompanied her mom to the country on Sunday.
"If this school is a success -- with God willing it will be -- we will replicate it not only in Malawi but in other parts of the world as well," Madonna said at the ceremony.
The school is set to open in 2011 and will focus on science and math, its future principal told the paper.
"Madonna did not accept that Malawian women would not study science to become doctors," soon-to-be principal Anjimile Mtila-Opponyo told the Telegraph.


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David Brion Davis discusses American and British Slave Trade Abolition as the keynote speaker at an Emory University conference, "Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and the Bicentennial of the End of the Slave Trade, 1808-2008," on December 5, 2008. Davis presents political, ideological, religious, and economic factors that led to the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Visit the database at: Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
Recommended Resources
Cooper, Frederick and Rebecca J. Scott. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.
———. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
———. The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
———. Slavery and Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
———. From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
———. In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
———. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
———. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Drescher, Seymour. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
———. Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
———. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Morality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997.
Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little Brown, 1974.
Fogel, Robert Williams. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989.
Klein, Herbert S. and Ben Vinson. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
An exhibition by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
David Brion Davis: The New York Review of Books
Online book reviews by David Brion Davis


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In the spring of 1963, Ruby Barnett and her husband visited the city of Hiraoka, our Japanese sister city that later became Higashiosaka. During her stay, she toured some of the city's parks and gardens.
At one point, the Hiraoka mayor asked Barnett, founding president of the Chevy Chase Estates Garden Club, if Glendale had an official city flower. And she had to say that she didn't know.
"I felt embarrassed not knowing Glendale's official flower," she later told the Los Angeles Times (Oct. 6, 1963).
Once back home, Barnett shared the question with Marge Tucker, then president of the garden club. And they began a quest to find out if the city had an official flower, and if so, what it was.
After an extensive search by city staff through council records and correspondence, they had their answer. "We found that on May 15, 1941, the City Council adopted a resolution proclaiming the hibiscus as the official flower." It had been suggested by the Glendale Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary, she told The Times.
Armed with this information, the two of them went off to City Hall to visit the mayor, Herman Barnes. They had a plan in mind: a request that the city proclaim a Hibiscus Day to celebrate the bloom. They suggested a day in October, as the plant has a long blooming period that often extends into November.
Mayor Barnes and the rest of the council looked favorably upon their suggestion and went them one better, proclaiming a Hibiscus Week, which that year would be Oct. 4 to 11.
With that, the garden club members went into high gear, writing a letter to 500 local businesses, asking them to support Hibiscus Week by placing an arrangement of colorful hibiscus in their window display or in the lobby of their business.
To kick off the week, Barnett and Tucker presented a hibiscus floral spray to the city; they placed it in the City Hall rotunda as City Manager C.E. Perkins and Mayor Barnes looked on. Fresh displays were placed there each day of that week.
Garden club members planned to take photos of flower arrangements appearing in shops and businesses. Residents on two streets, Chevy Chase Drive in Chevy Chase Canyon and East Glenoaks Boulevard in Oakridge Estates decorated their mailboxes with fresh hibiscus blossoms for the enjoyment of motorists using those streets.
Other residents also got into the act. One, Harriette Walker, who lived in the 500 block of Cumberland Road, wrote the garden club concerning a hibiscus plant she and her husband had planted 32 years before. "When it is in full bloom it is a gorgeous thing to behold." A photo of the Walkers' hibiscus plant was published in the Glendale News-Press, Oct. 10, 1963.
When Hibiscus Week ended, garden club members celebrated their efforts at a luncheon affair. Colorful centerpieces filled the tables.
And yes, they were hibiscus flowers.


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Message "Exception in module AVGNT.EXE" or "AVCENTER.EXE" or "AVCONFIG.EXE"
At the start or during the use of an Avira product, it may happen that the message "Exception in module AVGNT.EXE" appears. This message may also appear with the modules "AVCENTER.EXE" and "AVCONFIG.EXE".
The installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package is mandatory for Avira products. If it is not installed, you will get the above mentioned message.
The setup should basically install the correct redistributable package, but in some cases it doesn't succeed.
Please download the latest Redistributable Package from the Microsoft website and install it:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
After the restart the Avira products should work properly.
Please note that the 32-bit version of the Redistributables should also be installed on 64-bit systems.
However, if this fails to work and you still need help, then please contact Support, quoting the number of this KB-article (in this case 1085).
Affected products
- Avira Professional Security [Windows]
- Avira Free Antivirus [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Premium 2013 [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Pro [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security Suite [Windows]
- Avira Ultimate Protection Suite [Windows]
- Created : Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- Last updated: Thursday, November 12, 2015