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Orca with the Isle of Eigg in the background and the peaks of Rum in the distance. Click photo for source – Wilderness Scotland
It's been an emotional journey following the lives of Tahlequah, her calf, and her pod in their heartfelt grief ritual. Killer whales are one of the most widely distributed species, although many of the individual pods are severely threatened. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a nonprofit group which maintains the '"Red List" a global list of endangered and threatened wildlife. While they haven't put killer whales on the list many individual pods of orca are facing widespread and localized threats to their survival.
Before I introduce the Scottish orca pod to you I had to share this recording (made by the Whalemuseaum.org) of Tahlequah and her pod communicating. This was recorded on the 29th July, 5 days after Tahlequah's calf had died. Click on the whale to listen to them.
The top photo isn't Puget Sound but an orca swimming off the coast of Eigg in Scotland. This is where I run my Ancestral Mothers of Scotland retreat each year. Just a few months ago the same pod was spotted in the River Clyde!
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The home territory of the 'West Coast Community' orca pod
Britain occasionally has visits from transient Orcas who travel down to Northern Scotland in pursuit of their prey. Many of these visitors are from the Icelandic population of Orcas. Transient Orcas can be spotted from Shetland, Orkney, and Caithness where they are regularly seen. Scotland however, has its own resident pod of 8 Orcas that are regularly seen around the Hebrides, where it is commonly referred to as the West Coast Community. These animals are sighted year round, throughout the inner and outer Hebrides, particularly around the Small Isles and the Isle of Skye. These resident Orcas never mix with the transients from the North.
Research from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and North Carolina State University carried out a study, published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology which discovered that the main difference between the transient pod and the residential pods is their diet. Residents eat fish, whereas transients hunt and eat marine mammals, including seals and porpoises. In the 40 years that these animals have been studied, scientists have never seen a resident eat a mammal and never seen a transient eat a fish.
Each of the Scottish resident Orcas can be identified by their unique markings, and have been given names: John Coe, Floppy Fin, Nicola, Moon, Comet, Moneypenny, Aquarius, Puffin, and Occasus.
The body of Lulu, one of the West Coast Community orca pod who washed up on the Hebridean Isle of Tiree
Last year, the body of a female orca was found on the shores of the Isle of Tiree, Scotland. Her name was Lulu and she was one of the West Coast Community pod members. She died after becoming ensnared in fishing nets yet after analysis it was found that her body produced surprising results, as Rebecca Morelle reports for the BBC reported, her body was found to contain one of the highest concentrations of pollutants ever recorded in a marine mammal.
The Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme and the University of Aberdeen conducted an in-depth investigation of Lulu's corpse and found that analysis of her blubber revealed a PCB concentrate 100 times higher than the accepted toxicity threshold for marine mammals. High PCB levels are linked to poor health, impaired immune function, increased susceptibility to cancers and infertility. The investigation revealed that Lulu was at least 20 years old but apparently never reproduced, despite being much older than the average age for maturity in killer whales. Brownlow called Lulu's apparent infertility an ominous warning and said it is "increasingly likely that this small group will eventually go extinct."
Scotland has known orca's around the Hebridean isles for thousands of years. Some of the earliest people to these islands might well have swan with these great creatures in their hand-built boats as they came to spend the summer gathering and hunting. This Samhain I am launching an Ancestral Mothers of Scotland online Wheel of the Year course which will cover an ancient Scottish wise woman, Cee-al, who has a unique connection with the creatures of the Hebridean seas!
Click on the image for the documentary trailer
There are currently a total of 60 orcas held in captivity (27 wild-captured plus 33 captive-born) in at least 14 marine parks in 8 different countries. I remember campaigning in the early 1990's when I lived in Brighton, on the south coast of England to free Missie a dolphin who I think had been in captivity for around 20 years (I was the same age). With great campaigns all over the country, the majority of these businesses shut down and closed their doors forever. Missie, the dolphin from Brighton was released back into the wild in the Caribbean (with several other UK dolphins).
A great short film created by the International Marine Animal project discussing Sea world's lies of happy and healthy captive orcas and the real alternative of returning them to a sea sanctuary.
The Whale Museum: promoting stewardship of whales and the Salish Sea ecosystem through education & research. You can support their work in various ways including adopting a killer whale!
Links and source articles
PCBs: Why Are Banned Chemicals Still Hurting the Environment Today?
Baby Orca Death Could be Linked to Salmon Farm Virus
Dead orca found with extremely high levels of PCBs
Killer whales seen in river Clyde
U.K. Killer Whale Contained Staggering Levels of Toxic Chemical
Killer Whales Hunt in 'Stealth Mode'
Amazonite & Howlite Antler prayer Beads – click to view in the shop
Howlite is a stone that looks like ancient bleached bones. In fact, it can help absorb calcium and strengthen teeth and bones, yet its bone-like appearance can connect us to the bones of our previous lives. While many people will tell you tales of previous lives at King Arthur's court or their life as Egyptian royalty, howlite helps us to remembers past lives and maybe it will tell you of your previous life of fox, owl or even a great elk. This set feature a wonderfully gnarly antler tip from a wildcrafted naturally shed White-tailed deer antler, maybe you might remember a previous life as deer? Surely all our previous lives weren't human and for those lives that were human who is to say that they were lived out on planet Earth!
Howlite also offers us qualities of soothing our emotions whether that be anger or stress. It calms an overactive mind and howlite prayer beads are particularly useful in meditating with before sleep to help calm your mind if it often races with worries which keep you awake. It is a stone beneficial in recalling information – wither it's the past lives we mentioned earlier but if you're like me and have trouble remembering your dreams, howlite can help recall that wisdom that came to us when sleeping.
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Amazonite is a stone o the peacemaker and the truthteller. Firstly it helps us communicate our true thoughts and feelings and then secondly it helps us with compassion in an ability to see the others point of view. We can work with it by keeping it under our pillow – it helps make everything more conscious and with it being a stone of truth we can trust it's visions and dreams and the intuitions that bubble up while we are working with it.
Amazonite is particularly powerful in manifesting our dreams and desires. Try holding it as you consciously affirm what it is you wish to create and the power of the stone helps our ability to bring this into being.
Image from the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre
What an invitation into the wild, to see the world through the eyes of a reindeer. To see through their eyes is the story about a rather special hag stone. It's is a rather magical stone, which told me it's intriguing tale.
The great eye of the stone was formed many thousands of years ago, yet this tale is set in its relatively recent history – a mere yesterday of 14,000 years ago. It was worn around the neck of a wise woman. She practiced the ways of being with the reindeer. She was the one who ran with the herd and saw the luminous trails of their ancient migratory paths sparkle and shimmer in the land where there was no path to the discernible eye.
She wore this stone around her neck and when in trance, swaying to the heartbeat of the drum she would look through the stone and find the herd. Then she would shape shift, feeling her hooves touch the earth run and stretching her legs she would run, run with the herd. She would interpret their movements into answers she needed for her people. How to cure this, what plant for that, what solution to this – this is how she gained her answers. As the female reindeer led her herd this wise woman led her people.
She Who Runs With the Herds
Here lies an ancient invitation here to work with this stone and to view the world through it's eye under a dark and a full moon – what stories and insights she might whisper…..
Click on the Etsy heart below to view the stone in my shop – it forms the focal point for a set of Celtic Soul Prayer beads and you get to select the gemstones. The prayer bead set will be created in ceremony just for you.
Stay tuned for Scottish travel stories as next week we're off to visit the Cairngorm reindeer herd!
As we move towards spring equinox it is time for us to leave the winter cave. This is not an easy time as I am really getting into the rhythm of hibernation, dreaming and exploring it all in art. Trees full of spring bloom entice out as well as mild weather, until some snow and we feel justified again to retreat.
To help with the shift I'm offering 10% of all prayer beads sets. The circle of beads is divided into eight sections which represent the wheel of the year, the diving beads mark the threshold and a point where we are equally between two festivals. I created these beads as I am not of the tradition which mala's or rosary beads belong to.
There are many ways to work with these beads and I find as my fingers move around the beads it naturally quietens my mind. Breathing in and out of the circle o beads is also calming, as I hold them in my hand and let the medicine of the stones work is effective,
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Spiritual Warrior Beads with Wolf & Bloodstone
These prayer beads are imbued with the spirit of wolf, acknowledging how their very presence helps a landscape flourish and yet that these beautiful creatures are persecuted. These prayer beads are inspired by the spirit of the wolf and paired with the medicine of a stone which is called the stone of spiritual warriors.
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Sheela na Gig Prayer Beads with Carnelian
The theme of these Celtic Soul Prayer beads is set by the Sheela na gig pendant a figure found adorning medieval church entrance ways whose origins go back to Paleolithic cave art. Starr Goode author of 'Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power' describes her as a renewing life force of the universe. She is a symbol of birth and rebirth and all the creative powers of the cosmos.
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Woman of Willendorf Prayer Beads with Picture Jasper
The Woman of Willendorf is probably the most well known of the ancient female figurines. She represents many things to many people and to me she represents the female lineages, my foremothers. We can only imagine the world of the people who created her, what she meant to them and their deep relationship to the land.
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Edgewalker Antlered Prayer Beads with Hematite and Mystic Quartz
The beads separating the sections in the Celtic Soul Prayer beads represent the thresholds, the edges of one holyday as we move into another. The threshold beads on this set are purposely large with the use of mystic quart crystal to represent being at the edge of things. Thresholds are in between places – not quite fully in one and not fully the other yet somehow a combination of both. The main hematite beads provide a strong grounding and protecting force in the work you do on the edges – be that in an otherworldly realm, in your community or even at the edge of your own thinking or interacting.
Wolf and bloodstone prayer beads – click on photo to view in shop
Antlered hematite and mystic quartz prayer beads – click on photo to view in shop
Antlered mookiate prayer beads – click on photo to view in shop
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I've always enjoyed hunting out Sheela na gig figurines in old churches in the West Country of England such as this one I got to visit at St Mary and St David's Church in Kilpeck, Herefordshire (not my photo).
This wonderful curious figure is often a liminal figure as you enter into a church a reminder that your entering into sacredness, a sacredness that Starr Goode in her book Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power links the Sheela na gig to Paleolithic cave art and relates the sacred display of the vulva to be a universal archetype and the most enduring image of creativity throughout the world.
The Sheela na gig prayer beads are inspired to bring you into alignment with this cosmological creative force, she who gives both life and death.
Click above to listen to Karen Tate radio interview The Mysterious and Sacred Sheela Na Gig with Starr Goode author of Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power.
Howlite is a stone that looks like ancient bleached bones. In fact, it can help absorb calcium and strengthen teeth and bones, yet its bone-like appearance can connect us to the bones of our previous lives.
While many people will tell you tales of previous lives at King Arthur's court or their life as Egyptian royalty, howlite helps us to remembers past lives and maybe it will tell you of your previous life of fox, owl or even a great elk. This set feature a wonderfully gnarly antler tip from a wildcrafted naturally shed White-tailed deer antler, maybe you might remember a previous life as deer? Surely all our previous lives weren't human and for those lives that were human who is to say that they were lived out on planet Earth!
Priestess Zhann from the show TV Farscape
Howlite also offers us qualities of soothing our emotions whether that be anger or stress. It calms an overactive mind and howlite prayer beads are particularly useful in meditating with before sleep to help calm your mind if it often races with worries which keep you awake. It is a stone beneficial in recalling information – wither it's the past lives we mentioned earlier but if you're like me and have trouble remembering your dreams, howlite can help recall that wisdom that came to us when sleeping.
Click here to check out suggested ways of using Celtic Soul Prayer Beads and click on any of the photos or the Etsy logo below to view these howlite beads in the shop.
These beads are now sold – get in touch if you'd like a set made just for you
These prayer beads are imbued with the spirit of the wolf, of knowing their plight in today's world yet acknowledging how their very presence helps a landscape flourish. With the inspiration of wolf and the medicine this stone provides is a wonderful tool for today's spiritual warriors. These beads were made as we approach the first full moon – the Wolf Moon and the first supermoon of 2018.
Stone Medicine Qualities
Bloodstone is known as the stone of spiritual warriors. The energy of bloodstone offers support and courage during times of adversity – offering the courage to take the right action to help fulfill commitments in the face of obstacles. It helps strengthen the physical body and help maintain stamina during extreme difficulty. It offers emotional support to find the courage to follow your own heart and take action on what you know in your own heart to be true.
Working with bloodstone (as well as wearing or carrying it) can help foster an increased zest for living and manifest physical endurance which in today's world is something much needed by spiritual warriors.
You can learn more about how to use Celtic Prayer beads and the symbolism of the layout of the beads here
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The Goddess Brighid is a fire Goddess. When she was born it was reported that flames were leaping from the roof of her house. The uniqueness of Brighid's fire is that is a fire of compassion rather than a flame that burns. The main carnelian stone of this prayer bead set represents Brighid's fire for the stone holds a medicine of inspiring creativity and motivation.
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Brighid is known for her mantle which had magical qualities. It is a healing cloak that offers great comfort when it's wrapped around you. This blue/green form of African Bloodstone offers the same qualities of all bloodstone, which are all a form of Jasper, which helps us in nourishing our roots allowing us to feel more comfortable in our own body.
This set of prayer beads offer working with the magic of Brighid's mantle wrapped around us and the stone medicine of drawing courage from that protection and the confidence to face whatever it is we need to face in our lives while we remain grounded.
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The pink of the adventurine beads is symbolic of the first rays of Imbolc light, it's not yet spring but the new light carries Brighid's blessings as she 'breathes life into the mouth of the dead Winter'.
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New Brighid online courses launching this week:
Weaving Brighid's protection
Creative Imbolc Ideas
Breejah's Daughters – Exploring the path of bear, Goddess and Mary of the Gael


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Ayushman Bharat Health To All
Philanthropist and social Entrepreneur Priya Jain, who is known for kick starting several Socio health initiatives recently joined hands with another cause dedicated to health for all. Priya jain kicked off an awareness campaign that is meting out benefits of Ayushman Bharat and various other health schemes to needy and poor people from across the country. Campaign aims at creating awareness about different health welfare schemes and disseminating information pertaining with benefits for poor people. On asking about her inspiration behind this Priya stated, " While leaving for Jaipur one day a saw an extremely poor women with her infant , she was selling books on red light, her pale and feeble condition clearly reflected state of malnutrition, her infant also looked very weak, on asking about her family she told me that her other child passed away because they did not have money to buy medicines for him, their feeble state made me feel very shocked and depressed, although these kind of scenes are not new in the city but anyone not able to receive medical attention and treatment is sorry state of affairs for us. I also have facts that many poor people in need dont have right knowledge and information about various schemes and benefits that offer them medical help without any cost, awareness is the predicament for them. So i tried to plugin the loophole in a way of spreading word about various benefits of medical schemes.
This initiative by Priya is being kicked off in urban and remote areas, tier 2 cities through various activities, speaking futher on the issue Priya stated, " In prevailing such unfortunate situations Prime Minister Mr. Narendar Modi has come as a savior. His recently launched Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission that has been launched from the land of Jharkhand covers more than 10 crore Poor and Vulnerable families. It is an insurance scheme which covers costing upto Rs 5 lakh per family per year for medical treatment. Certainly there would be many challenges while implementing this scheme. This is the time and call of the hour that every citizen, organisation especially Private Hospitals will have to be co-operative and helping poor and needy as per the true essence of the scheme, concluded Priya Jain.


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The following post is from Lifestyle Patient Eric Winebrinner.
One of the passions that I haven't mentioned is rock climbing. I have been climbing for years and enjoy the mental and physical challenge. Some routes can be physically easy, but mentally hard and vice-versa. I've had the sun in my eyes, sweaty hands, route finding issues and dive-bombing hawks sending me off the wall to a sudden stop when my belay partner stops the rope. I always want the routes that fit my style. One of my favorite places is Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas. I've gone the same month for years. It is a great place to go because its warm, the routes are always fun and its an out of state trip 🙂
Yes, every trip I come home with an injury, ailment, or soreness. I have this bad ankle and it's rare that I injure it rock climbing. This year I managed to overdo it before my trip and then I was weak climbing. So I came home to an inflamed hip flexor. I was having a hard time sleeping, my hip was unhappy and my posture was horrible for a month. I didn't know what it was so I went in to see Sean and Lifestyle Chiropractic. He had me do a few stretches and it helped. A few weeks later I went back in and he checked my progress. A few new stretches and I'm feeling really good.
Climbing tip: Push the limits, but have a healthy respect for the protocols. If you haven't been before… go try it. There are easy and hard routes for all skills. The easiest way up… use your feet! Most people pull with their hands, but walking up like a ladder is much easier.


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text: As the winner of the tour de France, cyclist Floyd Landis , is now being tested positive for testosterone, as is the Olympic 100 m champion Justin Gatin, the debate is again heating up to see if we are making any progress on the war against the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. The sports organisation are becoming better at testing, and the penalties for being caught are harsher (I believe Gatin is up for a life long ban) and still the debate rages on. Some people still feel that certain drugs should be allowed. Other people, myself included, worry about genetic manipulation. Interesting piece in the discussion section of the Guardian entitled "Is sports winning its war against drugs".


text: 6 January, 2019 0 News The Tripitaka was declared a national heritage at the historic Aluvihara, Matale under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday. Here Aloka Viharadhipathi Ven. Dr. Inamaluve Nandaratana Thera presents a set of Ola leaves where the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta is enshrined to President Maithripala SirisenaBhikkhus arrive at the ceremony Comments Your name Subject Comment * Leave this field blank


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Nayanthara to join BJP?
Lady Superstar Nayanthara who had last acted in Vijay's Bigil had recently been to Bhagavathi Amman temple in Kanyakumari and Murugan temple in Tiruchendur along with director Vignesh Shivan, and they offered their prayers and sought blessings from the almighty.
During this devotional trip, Nayanthara got to meet former MP and BJP member Narasimhan in Tiruchendur temple, and it has been said that he had invited Nayanthara to join BJP. When questioned about the meeting that happened with Nayanthara, Narasimhan has given his clarification.
Narasimhan has said that it was a coincidental meeting, and wasn't planned. As Nayanthara had recently welcomed the Hyderabad encounter and had said in her press release that laws must be made stronger to protect women, Narasimhan has said her that laws have been made stronger in Modi's governance. He also requested Nayanthara to join BJP saying that if stars like her speak good things, it will reach the public. Nayanthara had reportedly given a smile as her answer, as said by Narasimhan. Sources close to Nayanthara however say that the actress has no interest in politics, and she neither accepted his request nor reject it.


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In fact, the reds's main man, Mohamed Salah, was brilliant and outstading and proved that he is, indeed, one of the best, if not the best, player in Europe this season.
The game started strongly as Liverpool were struggling to keep up with football Roma imposed at first but that changed at the 36th minute when Salah scored the first goal for Liverpool only to annonce the beginning of a very strong game for both teams.
The second goal was scored by the same brilliant man, Salah, after a great effort that made us take a second look thinking that he was lionel Messi on the pitch.
The third goal was onyl fair to Mané as he already missed 2 open goals, assisted by the egyptian genius.
Firmino scored the fourth and fifth goal as the game got too easy for the reds while Roma stood there in shock not knowing what to do to stop the attacking trio of Liverpool.
In the last 15 minutes of the game, Roma took advantage of mistakes made by Milner to score a first goal by Dzeko then a second from the penalty spot by Diego Perotti.
The very enjoyable game game ended by a 5-2 score. Can we hope for another comeback from Rome after that Barca one ? only time will tell !
It's half-time in the tie. Another big 90 minutes in Rome await.
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Coronavirus updates: Major headlines from April 8, 2020
MySA.com is compiling the latest headlines on the COVID-19 pandemic and its affects in the San Antonio area.
Coronavirus cases: The number of COVID-19 cases in Bexar County jumped double-digits again Wednesday to 554, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said at the daily city/county briefing. Deaths remain at 20. More than 80 of those confirmed with COVID-19 are in the hospital now.
Three hospital workers in S.A. test positive: Three employees at Kindred Hospital-San Antonio Central have tested positive for COVID-19 , according to the hospital. But Kyle Sinclair, the hospital's CEO, said Wednesday that none of the patients at the small hospital have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, he said.
It's unclear how the employees contracted the disease.
Eight Bexar County Law Enforcement Officials have COVID-19: Two additional law enforcement employees in Bexar County tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, bringing the total to eight. One — a facilities maintenance employee at the Bexar County Sheriff's Office — prompted a temporary shutdown of some Bexar County Detention facilities on Wednesday afternoon.
San Antonio lays off almost 300 workers: The city of San Antonio furloughed 270 municipal employees across several departments Wednesday. All employees work in several departments funded by tax revenue through hotel room bookings, which have plummeted as the city's travel and tourism industry dried up in recent weeks.
Fourth SAPD officer tests positive: A fourth San Antonio police officer has tested positive for COVID-19, the city of San Antonio confirmed Wednesday. The officer is a sergeant, who has been with the department for 24 years. It is unknown how the sergeant contracted the coronavirus, but he has been placed on administrative leave and is recovering at home, city officials said.
S.A. H-E-B employee tests positive: An employee at an H-E-B on the far West Side tested positive for COVID-19, the company said in a statement Wednesday. This is the second employee in San Antonio to test positive for the virus. The second employee to test positive works at the H-E-B near the intersection of Grissom and Tezel roads and was last there on April 5. The company said the store has since been "deep cleaned and sanitized multiple times."
Deaths at S.A. nursing home: Two more residents of the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center who contracted the coronavirus have died, city officials said Wednesday, raising the fatalities there to 10. One of the residents was a woman in her 70s who had been receiving hospice care at the facility after a hospitalization. The other was a woman in her 80s who died at the nursing home.
USAA returning $520M to members: San Antonio's USAA on Wednesday became the latest insurer to announce it will return some money to auto-insurance customers who are driving less as they hunker down during the coronavirus pandemic. USAA members will receive a 20 percent credit on two months of premiums in the coming weeks, the company said.
Positive case at S.A. facility: A resident at a North Side assisted living facility has tested positive for COVID-19, according to San Antonio officials. Bruce Davidson, communications director for Mayor Ron Nirenberg, confirmed the case at Franklin Park TPC Parkway on Wednesday.
S.A. professor working on coronavirus treatment: Doug Frantz is co-founder of the Center for Innovative Drug Discovery. Partnerships among UTSA, UT Health, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute are helping scientists tackle the virus on multiple fronts, and "you're going to see a lot more of this coming out locally in San Antonio," he said.
Plasma donations in S.A.: A San Antonio man's donation of plasma after recovering from the coronavirus has kickstarted local efforts to treat the sickest COVID-19 patients with a therapy that has been used for other diseases without treatment or cure.
S.A.'s homeless: San Antonio soon will provide hotel rooms for up to 400 homeless people at high risk of contracting COVID-19 and will create overflow shelters for 200 more people as the city continues its efforts to slow the spread of the disease.
Workforce Solutions Alamo closes centers: Amid a historic flood of jobless claims, Workforce Solutions Alamo announced Tuesday it would shutter all of its 16 career centers to help mitigate spread of the coronavirus. The closures are effective Thursday.
Total Coronavirus count: Confirmed COVID-19 cases shot up, with a total of 503 San Antonio area residents testing positive for the virus, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said at Tuesday's briefing. Of those, 150 patients were infected by community transmission, while 179 cases were attributed to "close contact," such as catching the virus from a family member. On Tuesday, 88 were hospitalized. Of those patients, 51 remained in intensive care, while 40 were on ventilators.
S.A. Food Bank asking for help: Fearing its warehouse could be empty within three weeks from the strain of feeding tens of thousands more than it usually does because of the pandemic-fueled recession, the San Antonio Food Bank is seeking $12 million worth of help from the state. It's the first time in its 40-year history the nonprofit has petitioned the state for aid.
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8 medium potatoes
1/2 cup olive oil, plain or flavoured (suggested flavours: Garlic, Chipotle, Milanese Gremolata)
2 teaspoons salt
pepper to taste
1 cup grated cheddar or other melting cheese (optional)
1 tablespoon chopped chives for garnish
Preheat oven to 400˚F.
Make thin, parallel slices across each potato, being careful not to cut all the way through.
Toss potatoes with olive oil in a large bowl, making sure to get plenty of oil between the slices. Arrange potatoes on a foil-lined baking sheet, sliced side up. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, making sure to season between the slices.
Bake for 30 minutes until edges begin to turn golden brown. If desired, remove potatoes, sprinkle with cheese, and bake for another 15-20 minutes until fully tender and golden brown.
Adjust seasoning to taste and sprinkle with fresh chives for garnish. Serve as-is or with sour cream.


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Damian Clarke designed these super-slick additional weights for fishing at long range, or with tight lines.
Because the length of the Stow bobbin has to stay the same to ensure that they drop away on the bite, Damian had to find a way to add weight without adding length. The Overweights are the result. They slide over the weight that is supplied with the Stow heads. An internal shoulder stops them from sliding up and down the head.
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Hi Tom and Blake, I came across your question and link in my blog referrals, thanks for that!
The CausalImpact package has this concept of control time-series that do something to mitigate against what you speak about Blake, that is to try and account for other variation that may have happened in the test period. If you are using GA data, then you can import SEO traffic and a control segment in my app "GA Effect", that just wraps CausalImpact into an interface that fetches GA.
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El sábado el 7 de Julio 2018, the first Valencia trip for Friesland students in year 10 got underway. We flew from East Midlands Airport direct to Valencia where we boarded the metro and finally walked through the ancient city to our authentic "Hostal": Home for the next 5 nights.
The Mission: to live La Vida Valenciana, communicate with the locals and to experience points of linguistic, cultural and scientific value. The students engaged in the activities brilliantly and especially when under remote supervision, were a credit to themselves and the school.
Exercises undertaken were:
- Orienteering around the city itself to find certain landmarks
- Buying picnic ingredients in the main market
- Finding information about Valencia from the locals
Trying all the different kinds of food that was put in front of them – they were very adventurous and in the main enjoyed the food.
The trip also included visits to two of Valencia's main places of interest.
The city of Sciences – This is the great 21st-century science museum for getting to know in a didactic, interactive, and entertaining way everything to do with life, science, and technology. The Príncipe Felipe Science Museum has become a reference point for interactive science. Its main objective is stimulating curiosity and critical thinking and at the same time surprising and amusing the public by its contents from the world of science, technology, and the environment. The Oceanogràfic is the largest aquarium in Europe, and includes representatives from each of the world's main marine environments: the Mediterranean, Wetlands, Temperate and Tropical Seas, Oceans, the Antarctic, the Arctic, Islands, and the Red Sea, as well as the Dolphinarium. More information can be found at https://www.cac.es/va/home.html
The Bioparc – Students enjoyed a rare opportunity to see species co-existing in a true recreation of the savannah – this included antelope, giraffe and rhinoceros, lions on rocky vantage points, dens of hyenas and warthogs, the density of the equatorial forest with gorillas, buffalos, leopards and elephants, hippopotami, crocodiles and coloured fish to name a few.
Many species here are involved in European conservation breeding programs, and having learned about genetics in the GCSE biology course, students were able to consider the complexity of breeding such species, and about disease prevention in large groups of animals. https://www.bioparcvalencia.es/
Visit to and English Academy – On the day of the Bioparc visit some students opted to go "Back to School" and visited a private English Academy to see Spanish teenagers learning English. Feedback was that this was actually one of the most interesting parts of the trip. It gave them an insight into the difficulties faced by foreign students learning our language. http://www.englishtower.com
All in all, I was very impressed with the students and the way they conducted themselves and how they got on together in a very supportive group. I am also very grateful to Miss Shapland for all her help before and during this first successful trip with Friesland students. Valencia 2019 planning is now underway.
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I'm not sure about compensation, but I use tire rack all the time. The preferred installer in my area doesn't carry the tires that I put on my p car. The $10-$20 per wheel they get to mount them is still money they wouldn't have had otherwise. They have corporate insurance to cover any damages that may occur. I'm sure that isn't much of a worry for them. They are just glad to get another customer out of the deal, and some free (or cheap) advertising on tire rack.
If your feeling guilty, I'm sure the installer would love for you to come back any buy some tires for the wife's car...
The dealer that imported the car is most likely to work with you.
I was the second owner of my 2000 C2 Cab. I didn't buy it from a dealer, but I always had it serviced there. When I had the intermix problem, they looked it up, and found out that they had imported the car originally. They worked with porsche and decided to cover the re-man engine. I paid only $2k for some of the labor.
Good luck! Goodwill is out there... Don't give up without a fight!
The "recent and sudden" cause that BruceP was referring to is a possible inter-mix issue with your oil. I would check that to make sure there are no signs of coolant in the oil.
Tried a search on this topic but most answers pertained to boxters and 944s, where there was much discussion, but very little pertaining to the 996.
I have a 2000 porsche 996 cabriolet in San Francisco CA. I have noticed that sometimes during especially hard rains, water will build up in the right hand side rear passenger footwell, beneath the carpet. I have checked the roof pretty thoroughly and everything seems quite dry up there. Where could this water be coming from? The walls seem to be dry as well.
I have found some discussion in other forums suggesting that 944s have a problem with drains clogging up underneath the battery box, but do not understand how this could leak into the rear right passenger footwell without soaking underneath the carpet of the front passenger footwell ;-) Is there some sort ventilation system that stretches to the back seat area?
I removed some leaves from the drain area under the battery box and will report back if that stops the leak. BUT, any other ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. I am hoping to avoid spending money unneceesarily if this is something that I can fix myself ;-)
thanks much!
There are other drains in the back on a Cab. Take a look at this: http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7791
The wear of your back tires is typical of the 996. This is due to the toe-in and camber of the wheels. Depending on the type/brand of tires, you should expect 8-12k miles per set of street rears. You still can't go wrong with an allignment.
Check the factory label under the hood. A lot of times the dealer will write the key number on the label. If so, take that info to your local dealer, and they will gladly sell you a new key that will work :)
I place a piece of cloth tape on the back of each one of the covers. It did the trick for me.
I wouldn't call it a great solution, but I used industrial double sided tape. It was a few years ago, and I needed a quick fix for a drive event. It ended up lasting about a week, and then took me about an hour to remove it after I got home. Make sure you take the pressure off of the window before you attemp to bond it.
Best of luck......
Looks to be a common problem. This may help:
You have a great looking product. How many have you installed/sold so far? I too am looking for a replacement option for the wonderful plastic window.
Make sure the plastic cover that surrounds the metal hook on the closing mechanism is still glued to the hook. If the top over stresses, the plastic cover is designed to detach, and it won't activate the micro-switch. That would make the windows not function correctly, and the light would stay on.
If that is the case, you should be able to push up on the plastic cover (after it has retracted... don't lose a finger) and activate the micro switch. That should allow the windows to activate. You will then need to get the top calibrated, and a new plastic cover for the hook.
This problem is very common in colder environments, if you put the top up while it is too cold. The canvas and plastic window shrink slightly in the cold weather, and can make the top too tight to fully deploy safely.
My engine never did smoke at all. I'm guessing from the blinking coolant light, that your coolant level was very low, due to consumption by the engine. I had that same issue, and required a replacement. Just like Lee above, I don't know exactly what was wrong due to the fact you can't open the engine without losing your core return.
Good luck.
I forsee a new engine in your near future. Could be a couple of things, such as the porous block problem, a slipped sleeve, or a bad oil cooler. I would have it towed to your nearest dealership.
There are quite a few articles on the site about that problem. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15003
I would get to a mechanic asap. Your coolant should not be oily. If you shine a flashlight into the open reservoir, do you see any particulate matter, or foamy residue? You may have a leaky oil cooler, or worse...
I don't have any experience to lend on the PCM, but looking at the wiring schematic, it looks like the CD Player uses the Radio ground, which is ground point 4.(GP4) The Interior lights use GP3, and the luggage compartment light uses GP2.
Hope that helps a little. PM me if you would like me to send you the diagram.
I switched to the Kumho Ecsta's. I was running SO3's, but decided to look for a cheaper alternative after they were discontinued. I have no complaints after almost 22k miles and 2 DE's, rears will still last me through the fall and spring months. Great handling for road and track. They are somewhat more noisy, but at almost half the cost.... $109 and $207 for the fronts and rears (respectively) at tire rack.
I am on my second set of Kumho SPTs. The price/performance is great. They are 1/3 the cost of the Bridgestone counterpart, and wear twice as well. I bought a new set of SO3s when I purchased the car, and the nylon was showing at 8k miles. My last set of Kumho SPTs lasted around 20k miles, and I have about 14k on this set, and they have about 8mm of tread left on the inside of the rears.
My only complaint about the Kumho's is road noise. They are definitely louder than the Bridgestones, but not to the point of overbearing the exhaust ;)
I don't have a lot of expertise to offer, I'll leave that to the veterans. #4 is a very simple and fairly cheap mod. Check this out: Smokers Delete
I'm sure you can find information on the rest of your issues using the search feature.
No matter what model year you purchase, an extended warranty is always a good idea. I have a 2000, and have been through the replacement. No fun there, but at least with the extended warranty, you can get back on the road again for less that the $10-$15k replacement cost.
There are actually multiple issues that you may read about with the 3.4, from a slipped cylinder sleeve to a cracked head, or even a bearing failure. I believe each problem was fixed at a different time. I know on my rebuilt 3.4, the bearings have been beefed up to prevent that issue.
Others may be able to comment on specific modifications made to the 3.4 over the years, but honestly, most of us don't know what caused the engine failure, due to the fact that Porsche will not give you the core reimbursement if you open the block.
Bottom line... Get the carfax, a ppi, and an extended warranty if your worried about it.
Happy shopping!
I now run "Kumho Ecsta SPT"s on my 2000 Cab. After I went through a set of SO3's in only 7,500mi, I decided to look for a less expensive tire. The road noise is a little louder than the SO3s, cornering and wet traction are about the same, but I get around 12,000mi(19,000km)/set and they only cost me about $550USD for all 4. I am now on my second set of Kumhos, and would recommend them to anyone, even thought they are not OEM for Porsche.
Hi, i did a search for this and couldn't find an answer. I have recently purchased a 1999 996 cab and i noticed that the rear window bottom was coming unglued. Well, today, i noticed a section roughy six inches has come completely unglued. Does anyone know what kind of glue i can use to fix this?
Had the same thing happen to me.. Here are a couple of posts that may help you. The technical term for the issue is "Delamination"
There is also a TSB on this issue called "Convertible Rear Window Bonding Loose". I believe you have to be a contributing member to download the TSBs.
Good luck
The tire sizes you mentioned are the OE tire sizes for the 18" factory rims. Should work fine..
Can anyone tell me what size (width) wheels and tyres I can put on my 2001 996c2 without the use of spacers.
I was thinking about getting the following:-
Front :8 x 18, 225/40 ZR 18
Rear :10 x 18, 265/35 ZR 18
Just got a letter today stating that my "Porsche automobile may benefit from a product improvement campaign". Too late to call them tonight, so I was wondering if anyone else has received a letter like this.. Is this Porsche's term for a recall notice?
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Turkey: economic growth seen slowing
President Tayyip Erdogan's government is considering further stimulus measures to address an expected slowdown in growth in coming quarters, two officials said - a move that could raise expectations that fiscal policy will be loosened, Reuters reports in its article Turkey considers new stimulus as growth seen slowing, officials say. The economy expanded at a breakneck 7.4 percent last year, boosted by government stimulus and domestic consumption, although analysts said growth was uneven and not sustainable. Erdogan, a self-described "enemy of interest rates", has pushed banks to lend more to boost private spending.
His demands for lower interest rates have exacerbated concerns that the central bank lacks independence and sent the lira currency into free fall - it is down by a fifth this year. That has propelled inflation to a 14-year high above 15 percent last month.
In the aftermath of a failed coup in 2016, the government boosted the size of a fund that backs loans to companies to 250 billion lira ($52 billion). It has also introduced measures to increase employment.
"Certain steps may be taken to realise higher growth. This issue is on the agenda," one of the officials said, without elaborating on what that could entail.
The officials said the steps were being considered because they now expect a contraction of the economy in the third quarter and full-year growth of around four percent - short of the government's 5.5 percent target in its medium-term programme.
The officials declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue. No one was immediately available for comment at the treasury and finance ministry.
Even as the economy has kept growing - in the third quarter of last year it expanded at a blistering 11.3 percent - economists are concerned Erdogan is focused on expansion at seemingly any cost. While investors have long admired Turkey's budget discipline, that perception may be starting to change.
"The government's reputation for fiscal prudence is coming under increasing scrutiny," said Jason Tuvey of Capital Economics in a note to clients this week.
"Looser fiscal policy would exacerbate the vulnerabilities that have accumulated in Turkey's economy in recent years," Tuvey said, citing the wide current account deficit.
In his 15 years in power, Erdogan has transformed Turkey into a major emerging market, building hospitals, highways and ambitious infrastructure projects.
But his apparent growing influence over monetary policy - and a sweeping security crackdown - have unnerved investors.
This week the central bank left interest rates on hold, confounding market expectations of a rise and weakening the lira sharply. It was the bank's first policy decision since Erdogan was re-elected last month with new, sweeping executive powers.
More than 160,000 people have been detained, including dozens of journalists, in the crackdown that followed the failed coup. Scores of media outlets have also been shut.
A Reuters poll of 55 economists last week forecast 2018 annual growth at 4.1 percent and 2019 growth at 3.5 percent.
The economy grew at 7.4 percent in the first quarter of this year. The officials said second-quarter growth was seen at slightly more than six percent.
The third quarter would see a contraction, partly due to the base effect given last year's 11.3 percent growth, they said. ($1 = 4.8047 liras)
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A hip fracture is a break in the top of the femur (thighbone) where the bone angles toward the hip joint. If the break occurs within two inches of the joint, it is called a femoral neck fracture. If it occurs between two and four inches from the joint, it is known as an intertrochanteric fracture. (A break further down the bone is classified as a broken femur rather than a broken hip.) Femoral neck fractures require more extensive surgery.
Hip fractures usually make it too painful for the person to stand. The leg may turn outward or shorten. They generally require hospitalization and surgical repair.
A person's risk for suffering a hip fracture increases if he or she is over 65, female, or small-boned; has a family history of hip fractures; has osteoporosis or low calcium, which leads to bone weakness; smokes or uses alcohol excessively; is physically or mentally impaired; or takes medications that cause weakness or dizziness. Hip fractures are a common and serious problem for the elderly, for whom a simple fall in the home may be enough to break the bone.
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The hip is a "ball-and-socket" joint where the "ball" at the top of the thigh bone (femur) fits inside the "socket" in the pelvis (acetabulum). A natural substance in the body called cartilage lubricates the joint. When the bone and/or cartilage of the hip becomes diseased or damaged from arthritis, hip fractures, bone death or other causes, the joint can stiffen and be very painful. A total hip replacement may be recommended for patients who experience severe hip pain and whose daily lives are affected by the pain.
In a total hip replacement, the diseased bone and cartilage are replaced with a metal ball and plastic cup. The artificial joint, called a prosthesis, may be cemented in place, may be cementless, or may be a hybrid of both. The surgery takes from two to four hours, followed by another few hours spent under observation in a recovery room. Patients usually enjoy immediate relief from joint pain after the surgery.
Physical therapy starts as soon as the first day after surgery with the goal of strengthening the muscles and preventing scarring (contracture). Therapy begins with the patient sitting in a chair and progresses to stepping, walking and climbing stairs, first with crutches or walkers and then without supportive devices. Occupational therapy and at-home exercises help patients learn how to use the prosthesis in everyday activities.
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(ABC 6 News) -- A southeastern Wisconsin teenager known for his large gift to Rochester's Ronald McDonald House Charities is continuing his giving through a blanket drive for kidney dialysis patients at Mayo Clinic.
ABC 6 News first introduced viewers to then-16-year-old Seth Bayles in July 2017, when he collected more than one million pop tabs for his "second home." During an interview, he met ABC 6's chief photojournalist Chad Corey, who undergoes multiple weekly dialysis treatments as he waits for a kidney transplant. The two became friends and kept in touch, and when visiting Chad at dialysis one day, Seth had an idea.
"We noticed he was wearing a winter hat," Seth's mom Julie said. "He seemed kind of cold and his mother had explained that the blood upon re-entry is a bit cool and after the process of three to four hours, you become chilled. Seth left here and he said, 'Mom, I want to do something.'"
Julie said Seth at first wanted to donate a kidney, but due to his ongoing autoimmune system issues that weren't realistic. Then he came up with the idea to donate blankets to keep Chad and the other dialysis patients warm during treatment.
"My buddy, he told me that it is cold and I'm just like, 'Wow, I want to give blankets. I want to make sure they get some comfy blankets and just like a little gift for the holidays, just something that they can do to keep warm,'" Seth said.
Seth took his case online, and collected a total of 459 blankets, easily beating his goal of 100. He delivered them earlier this month, including a special hand-tied Vikings blanket for Chad.
"He's been through a lot so it's hard to imagine dealing everything he does but at the same time doing stuff like this and giving back to others," Chad said. "It's pretty amazing obviously for somebody... we're not family, we're not necessarily blood, to see all these people from other places who don't even know me take time and some money and donate blankets and see people that might need them."
Seth said he's just glad he's able to return the favor after so many have helped him along his journey.
"I'm just so glad I'm so blessed that we can give all of these blankets to all the patients and more patients because of just the drive having way more than my goal," he said.
Seth's story resonated with one Mayo Clinic doctor earlier in 2018, who surprised the Pittsburgh Steelers fan with what he thought was a football signed by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. It turned out the signature was fake, which led Roethlisberger to send Seth and Dr. Stulak the real deal.
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I'm a pretty big fan of Cartier's Métiers d'Art timepieces, especially when they venture into something a little different. When I first started writing about watches in 2010, the decorative dial arts were comprehensively represented in the Cartier range — mostly the ones we're familiar with, such as enamelling, mosaic, marquetry, all that kind of stuff.
Not long after that, Cartier began going into the lesser-known branches of these established techniques. Grisaille enamel, for example, which layers blanc de Limoges (an opaque, viscous white enamel blend) on a black base to create startlingly three-dimensional chiaroscuro images. Plique-à-jour enamel, which holds panes of translucent enamel in delicate frames for a stained-glass effect.
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For IBM Watson CTO Rob High, the greatest innovative test in machine adapting right presently is making sense of how to prepare models with less information. "It's a test, it's objective and there's positive motivation to trust that it's conceivable," High let me know amid a meeting at the yearly Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
With this, he echoes comparative proclamations the whole way across the business. Google's AI chief John Giannandrea, for instance, additionally as of late recorded this as one of the principles challenges the pursuit monster's machine learning bunches are endeavoring to handle. Commonly, machine learning models should be prepared on a lot of information to guarantee that they are exact, however for some issues, that substantial informational index just doesn't exist.
High, be that as it may, trusts this is a reasonable issue. Why? "Since people do it. We have an information point," he said. One thing to remember is that notwithstanding when we see that prove in what people are doing, you need to perceive it's not only that session, it's not only that minute that is advising how people learn. We convey the majority of this setting to the table." For High, it's this setting that'll make conceivable preparing models with less information, and also ongoing advances in exchange realizing, that is, the capacity to take one prepared model and afterward utilize this information to kickstart the preparation of another model where less information may exist.
The difficulties for AI — and particularly conversational AI — go past that, however. "On the opposite end is extremely attempting to see how better to communicate with people in ways that they would discover regular and that are powerful to their reasoning," says High. "People are impacted by the words that they trade as well as by how we encase those words in vocalizations, affectation, pitch, rhythm, temper, outward appearance, arm and hand motions." High doesn't think an AI essentially needs to imitate these in some sort of human frame, however perhaps in some other shape like visual prompts on a gadget.
In the meantime, most AI frameworks additionally still need to show signs of improvement at comprehension
the purpose of an inquiry and how that identifies with people's past inquiries concerning something, and in addition their present perspective and identity.
That raises another inquiry, however. A considerable lot of these machine learning models that are being used right presently are innately one-sided as a result of the information with which they were prepared. That regularly implies that a given model will work awesome for you in case you're a white male yet then falls flat dark ladies, for instance. "Above all else, I surmise that there's two sides to that condition. One is, there might be total predisposition to this information and we must be delicate to that and constrain ourselves to consider information that widens the social and statistic parts of the general population it speaks to," said High. "The other side of that, however, is that you really need total inclination in these sort of frameworks over individual predisposition."
For instance, High refered to work IBM did with the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. IBM and the healing facility prepared a model in light of crafted by a portion of the best tumor specialists. "Be that as it may, Sloan Kettering has a specific logic about how to do medication. With the goal that rationality is exemplified in their inclinations. It's their institutional predispositions, it's their image. [… ] And any framework that will be utilized outside of Sloan Kettering needs to convey that same theory forward."
"A major piece of ensuring that these things are one-sided in the correct way is both ensuring that you have the perfect individuals submitting for and who these individuals are illustrative of — of the more extensive culture." That's a dialog that High says currently routinely concocts IBM's customers which is a positive sign in an industry that still frequently overlooks these sort of themes.


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The world economy is slowing down and the authorities are worried.
Besides the official gross domestic product statistics, we have further confirmation of this slowdown from the four big commodities associated with growth; oil
Japan, Italy, and Greece are all in recession. China is slowing down according to its official statistics, and even more according to the whispers.
" The days of rapid economic growth are behind us because the days of cheap oil are behind us. "
Germany, France and the Netherlands are all at stall speed.
The U.S. is, according to the Commerce Department, doing just great at nearly 4% growth, but you wouldn't know that from either the quality of the new jobs being created (which is low) or consumer spending (also low).
The worry, as always, has nothing to do with the central banks' concern for you, your job, your children, wealth equality, or the future, and everything to do with the simple fact that the stability of the banking system absolutely depends on a steady stream of new loans being created.
The core of the problem is that we have a monetary system that is either expanding or collapsing. It has no steady state.
In 2008 and 2009, net credit creation was only slightly negative, but that was enough to very nearly cause the entire system of money and banking in the developed world to collapse.
Either money and credit are expanding and the banks are relatively happy or the banks are collapsing and demanding taxpayer bailouts. It's really that stark.
Now after the most heroic run of interest rates forced to zero (ZIRP) and below (NIRP in Europe) and the grandest experiment with money printing in global history, credit growth is somewhat back on track but not enough to ease the bankers' worries.
So they continue to pump, and jawbone, and panic at every slight downturn in wildly inflated financial asset prices because those are their only major successes in this drama.
The actual economy, the one that lives on Main Street, never really recovered, at least not compared to past recoveries. Growth, jobs and incomes all were anemic compared to prior recoveries. Capital expenditures by corporations were all but dead in the water throughout the "recovery."
" If oil prices do not recover and quickly, the U.S. shale miracle will rapidly turn into a shale bust. "
And this brings us to the collapse in oil prices.
Our view here at Peak Prosperity is that the days of rapid economic growth are behind us because the days of cheap oil are behind us.
Oil fuels the engine of growth and the world has spent $2.5 trillion over the past nine years chasing more oil and yet is producing roughly the same amount of oil as it was before it spent all that money.
As Jeremy Grantham put it in his latest quarterly newsletter:
"As a sign of the immediacy of this problem, we have never spent more money developing new oil supplies than we did last year (nearly $700 billion) nor, despite U.S. fracking, found less — replacing in the last 12 months only 4½ months' worth of current production! Clearly, the writing is on the wall."
Unless investment in oil production really accelerates from here, new production will be swamped by existing declines.
But with oil down some 40% since June, new oil drill programs are being scrapped left and right.
New drill permits in the U.S. shale plays were down 40% in November compared to October and for good reason: most of the plays are uneconomical at current prices:
The bottom line, though, is that without growth in oil supplies robust economic growth is impossible to achieve.
If oil prices do not recover and quickly, the U.S. shale miracle will rapidly turn into a shale bust. The decline rates on these wells are ferocious. With that loss of production will go the entire narrative that says that peak oil is somewhere off in the distant future and that we can safely ignore it for now.
Worse, global oil projects are now on hold and those potential future supplies have been pushed out further waiting for higher oil prices.
No new oil means no new economic growth. It's as simple as that.
This calls into question the sky-high valuations we currently see for stocks and bonds. The operative question being, what is the value of these stocks and bonds in a world without growth?
To me the answer is simple; a lot less than they currently are.
So the central banks are worried that their efforts to ignite new borrowing are not working, but I am worried that the bloated asset prices that were a product of this quest are going to run straight into the reality of diminished oil output.
In short, my worry is that we are now well past the point where the next financial correction can be avoided. It's going to hurt.
The central banks have failed, perhaps honestly and with good intentions, but they have failed nonetheless. All because they were peering out just one of several portholes and thought they understood the world.
Chris Martenson is an economist and futurist who co-founded the PeakProsperity.com blog.


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Yes, yet another filament spool hanging device. I realized if I attached the spool to the underside of the small wire rack shelf I have next to my printer for my notebook that I could put tools and other things on the space underneath it. This should work for most types of wire rack shelving. This is set for a 90 degree hanging angle on a shelf 14" (356cm) wide. If your shelf is smaller or larger you might want to edit the .step files and change the angle of the rods. (Sorry, i'm not an openscad kind of thinker, heh) I also wanted a way to easily change spools (I keep my spares bagged up so they do not absorb Seattle moisture.) So the spool "axle" just sits in the sockets which allows it to be easily interchanged with my other spools. The outside nuts on the spool rod are not tightened down, but rather I have 2 nuts on the ends of the rod acting as a cap.


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Fragile marine ecosystems in Canada will finally get the protection they need.
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As other countries surge ahead with marine protection, Canada has a long way to go to meet its targets.
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WWF-Canada launches a powerful new data-visualization tool to demonstrate what's really going on in our oceans. It's free online and can be easily customized.


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Dawn Takes Off the Rubber Gloves
Dawn is dishing out some criticism at its competitors in a new campaign.
The Procter & Gamble-owned dish care brand launches new digital creative this week touting the product as more powerful than two bottles of a rival, nonconcentrated product. TV, print and in-store ads — carrying the same theme — first began rolling out last month. The competitor in the ads is unnamed, but the tall, slender bottles strongly resemble Colgate-Palmolive's lower-priced Ajax brand.
The approach is a new one for Dawn, which, until recently, had focused its marketing message on highlighting new product attributes.
One such campaign, for instance, describes Dawn Hand Renewal with Olay Beauty as dish soap that "transforms the look and feel of your hands in just five uses." Dawn's latest move, though, comes as some data show Ajax has grown a bit faster than Dawn.
P&G maintains the campaign — which carries the tagline, "One bottle has the strength of two" — isn't "aggressive" per se, but simply meant to entice consumers as they continue to skimp down on household purchases in a downturn.
Dish care sales, for the most part, have been bubbly in a recession, as more consumers eat in and stay at home. (Translation: More dishes to wash.) Dish care advertisers, taking their cue, likewise upped spending by 53 percent to $58 million last year, per Nielsen, which doesn't include online expenditures.
For the 52 weeks ended June 13, dollar sales of Dawn, the category's No. 1 dish detergent, grew 18.3 percent to $147.1 million. Sales of Ajax, meanwhile, rose 22.8 percent to $99.7 million. Private label is right behind with an increase of 12.3 percent, or $45.7 million in sales, during that period.
P&G, however, is hoping to stanch some of that growth. A TV spot via the Kaplan Thaler Group, New York, shows an animated orange sponge readying an unnamed dish detergent — and an army of scrubbers — for the battle: a pile of dirty plates and utensils. Before it can even start tackling the mess, however, a hand appears and switches the bottles. The new warrior in the fight against grease is now a blue bottle of Ultra Dawn detergent.
The ad then makes the claim that one drop of Ultra Dawn has the cleaning power of two drops of a (again unidentified) rival.
Dawn brand manager Dan Jackson said the campaign is aimed at getting consumers to change the shopping habits they might have adopted in last year's tough economy. Whereas many consumers now shop "autopilot" when it comes to selecting the cheapest-priced detergent brand, doing so doesn't necessarily equate to saving more money, he said.
"What we've found is that this is in fact not true," he said of the latter, adding that P&G derived its new value claim following research. In truth, consumers actually save more by switching to Dawn, which gets the job done the first time around — and with fewer drops of detergent, he said. P&G was largely able to convince consumers of the same thing with Tide 2X, a version of the liquid detergent that requires half the usual amount thanks to a new concentrated formula.
In its research, the consumer products company found that consumers would often "buy a big bottle of [detergent thinking they'd get a] great value. But when we educated them about the benefits of Ultra Dawn, and they learned they can actually use less product," many actually converted, Jackson said.
Dawn, which increased spending by 39 percent to $43 million last year, also per Nielsen, did not disclose the exact amount for this effort, but Jackson said it's the "biggest brand equity message" in many years.


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by Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting
In October and November, JVA Consulting will take its show on the road to the American Evaluation Association (AEA) 2010 Conference, which takes place in San Antonio, Texas and the American Association of Grant Professionals (AAGP) 12th annual national conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Randi Nelson, Nancy Zuercher, Ashley Kasprzak and Julia Alvarez, members of JVA's research and evaluation team, will head to Texas to share ideas and best practices with evaluators from across the country. The JVA team will present two sessions: Aligning Priorities of Diverse Stakeholders Using Collaborative Evaluation Planning; and Using the Comprehensive Organizational Assessment Tool to Diagnose and Evaluate Organizational Capacity. In the first session, Randi, Nancy and Julia will explore the challenges of planning a multipurpose evaluation that meets the needs of diverse stakeholders, specifically the needs of multiple funders. In the following session, Randi and Ashley will demonstrate the 17 critical nonprofit capacity indicators of the Comprehensive Organizational Assessment (COA)—a pre-post outcome measurement tool created by JVA.
At the AAGP, JVA's senior grant writer, Lisa Cirincione, will make two presentations: Common Grant Applications—What Funders Really Want to Know and How One State's Funding and Nonprofit Community Changed the Conversation. In her presentations, Lisa will share knowledge she has gathered raising more than $52 million for JVA clients and lessons learned as a member of the committee that revised the Colorado Common Grant Application (CGA) in 2008.
Locally, JVA will be presenting on similar topics in the coming weeks. On August 4, Julia Alvarez will facilitate a three-hour workshop titled How to Effectively Collect Data. "Data is an essential part of fundraising, applying for federal grants, demonstrating outcomes and so much more," said Julia. "I'm excited to share my knowledge of working with nonprofits and collecting data from hard-to-reach populations with Denver's nonprofit community." To learn more and register for How to Effectively Collect Data, click here.
Come back to JVA on August 24 for Write a Grant in a Day—JVA's full-day grant training. This popular workshop allows you to create boilerplate language for your organization's CGA under the tutelage of one JVA's expert grant writers. To learn more and register for Write a Grant in a Day, click here.


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Finishing Equipment – Different Types of Industrial Products Found in the List
Some people's definition of finishing products concentrates mainly on the fact that such items provide a surface with a more refined appearance. In the process, however, such items may also be utilized to roughen a certain surface depending on the surface's finish. Finishing equipment may also clean, prepare or strengthen a material. Additionally, they are good for deburring, and polishing. Popular products include convoluted wheels, sanders, polishers, grinders, bench motors and sponge pads.
The type of application is a deciding factor in the type of finishing system that a company should employ. For instance, centrifugal barrel furnishing is highly favored in industries that would want more immediate results than by using traditional techniques. Ceramics, glasses and other forms of brittle materials make use of the ductile grinding process while metals rely upon metal finishing equipment like heaters. Learn about the products included in some processes.
Finishing compounds
Finishing compounds are found in order to make a surface processing equipment do its work. They actually help improve not only the finishing of the surface but also its flatness. Fine abrasives are found in finishing compounds ranging from metal and plastic buffers to valve and specialty lapping compounds. For polishing purposes, there are stainless steels and cultured marbles found on this product's list. Depending on the type of machine used, a finishing compound will function at its best.
Honing machines
These are types of finishing equipment that improves the geometry of the surface while complying with the so-called tight tolerances. They are typically small and have bonded abrasive stoners or sticks inside the equipment. The honing process is important in order to align holes as well as produce the typical surface in a particular application. Some variations included in this list are lapping and super-finishing machines. The former is important in geometry refinement while the latter is used in order to produce finer surfaces out of a certain material.
Paint sprayers
One more popular type of finishing equipment is the paint sprayer. Also known as spray painting equipment, this gadget has the capacity to convert liquid into fine particles. People usually love paint sprayers because they make the paint application easier. Each type of paint sprayers has different purposes. Spray paint booths are utilized to collect any paint that was excessively sprayed on a particular area while in some instances; a spray paint gun may also form part of the list of types of paint spraying equipment. The latter is important in order to atomize paint through the use of air.


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By: Seamus Fay
It goes without saying that Boston has been ready for Big Leano to drop Packula, the follow-up to his debut project Tales From The Mud, for some time now. After touring with Cousin Stizz and blessing us with a limited number of verses throughout the course of this year, it looks like the project is finally coming soon, or, according to a few of his friends on Twitter, sooner than we think. Leano released the cover art on Twitter this past week, done by Michael Janey, and according to several tweets that came out in response to the artwork dropping, it sounds like we are getting a taste of Packula this weekend with a new single. Make sure pay close attention, because if the verses we have heard so far this year from him are any indication of what he has in store, Packula is already a classic. Click the link below for a recap of the year that Big Leano has had and the verses he dropped: