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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Had a bad day? Try exercising.
Penn State researchers recently found people's satisfaction with life was higher on days when they exercised more than usual.
"We found that people's satisfaction with life was directly impacted by their daily physical activity," said Jaclyn Maher, graduate student in kinesiology.
Read on, young adults
The team examined the influence of physical activity on satisfaction with life among emerging adults 18 to 25 years because this population's sense of well-being appears to worsen more quickly than at any other time during adulthood.
"Emerging adults are going through a lot of changes; they are leaving home for the first time and attending college or starting jobs," said Maher. "As a result, their satisfaction with life can plummet.
"We decided to focus on emerging adults because they stand to benefit the most from strategies to enhance satisfaction with life."
The study
The researchers recruited two groups of college students at Penn State. The first group, consisting of 190 individuals, entered information into a diary every day for eight days.
The second group, consisting of 63 individuals, entered information into a secure website every day for 14 days.
Both groups answered questions aimed at determining participants' satisfaction with life, physical activity and self-esteem. The personalities of all participants in the first group were assessed at the outset of the study using the Big Five Inventory short form.
For the second group, the researchers wanted to further investigate whether physical activity was indeed, the cause of participants' increased satisfaction with life rather than some other factor such as mental health, fatigue, or Body Mass Index.
"Shifts in depression, anxiety and stress would be expected to influence a person's satisfaction with life at any given point in time," said David Conroy, professor of kinesiology.
By controlling for these variables, the researchers were able to determine that the amount of physical activity a person undertakes in a particular day directly influences his or her satisfaction with life.
Specifically, the team found that by exercising just a little more than usual a person can significantly improve his or her satisfaction with life.
"Based on these findings, we recommend that people exercise a little longer or a little harder than usual as a way to boost satisfaction with life," said Conroy.
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Wireless Laziness
My girlfriend is bringing her work laptop home from work today for the weekend. Why is she lugging it all the way home with her?
So that tomorrow morning I can check that Danny's flight is on time, using the wireless broadband from the comfort of my own bed. Excellent

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Corn Rootworm 2017.3 - It's time to check your corn fields for rootworm damage so plans can be made for management/rotation next year (2017)
Lodging, tipping over, instability or 'goosenecking' is evident now in fields with rootworm.
The photo below shows severe rootworm larvae damage to roots. Brace roots are completely destroyed and larvae are present on plant crown.
On July 24, 2017, beetles were emerging from the soil and were present on leaves in the Fraser Valley.
The photos below show a beetle feeding on leaves and "window-paning" and sawdust.


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Doha: Brushing aside earlier reports of a failure to form a credible alternative to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the opposition groups finally managed to form a national coalition on Sunday.
The hard won coalition was formed after opposition leaders signed a 12-point agreement, according to leading dissident Riad Seif.
The agreement was based on US-backed reformative measures.
A prominent opposition leader, Haitham al-Maleh, declared that the formal signing ceremony would take place in the evening itself.
Former prime minister Riad Hijab felt that the coalition is a step towards toppling the regime.
Organisers of the coalition, particularly Qatar and the US, had hoped for the formation of a body that could build bridges to groups inside Syria and channel aid money to them.
US and senior Arab League officials had signaled they would recognise any new body that could bring together disparate factions. It had suggested that aid money would again start to flow.


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Growing up in England with an amorphous circle of friends intersecting at one time or another with aspirant Bohemians - roughly speaking the sort of people I knew at art college - I've encountered a very specific kind of female on several occasions, at least often enough to recognise her as a type. She is generally well-educated, vaguely middle-class, and a committed Islamophile. On balance, she means well and should probably be applauded for at least pissing off Islamophobes, but I find myself uneasy in her presence, as I tend to find myself uneasy in the presence of anyone whose enthusiasm has run away with them.
In two instances which spring immediately to mind, she has been a vocal advocate of feminist principles whilst going weak at the knees over some dreamy eyed young stallion of middle-eastern heritage. 'They're so different to western men,' she tells me, unwittingly suggesting an entire group might share a single personality, and with some hesitation as she reroutes white men to western, but still using the term to mean all you lot. 'They're so much more sensitive.'
Sadly the eulogies turn to complaints once realisation dawns that the sensitive men in question have been raised to regard women as housekeeping donkeys with whom one may have sex without the need to spend a fortune on carrots - nice to have around, but incapable of conversation and you wouldn't let one run your business.
In case this revelation inspires anyone to bang their souvenir Enoch Powell tin mug on the table or to type out a rousing response of here here, I should perhaps stress that I refer here to very specific individuals, and mainly in respect to the naivety of their female admirers. I've never held to the belief that all of Islam can be summarised as a basic personality type, and certainly not as those two specific mummy's boys to whom I was briefly introduced. I don't believe that everyone within any particular demographic can ever be characterised as being any single thing, this being the error made by my two guileless female acquaintances, mistaking one individual for some exaggerated or even idealised image of that person's entire culture on the grounds that he's got a nice bum.
In Mexico the term is Malinchism, named after La Malinche, the indigenous woman who became both mistress and interpreter to Hernán Cortés during the conquest. It refers to a preference for the foreign over the things of one's own culture or country. Whilst I'm in no position to start pelting the walls of this particular glass house with stones, I like to think I appreciate the new and unfamiliar for reasons other than that it's foreign.
Marian, my girlfriend a few years back, was something of an Islamophile. She liked the art, and would drape her home with rugs and cloths of Islamic design. She seemed to identify with Islamic culture, although the terms of that identification were never entirely clear to me. Certainly her interest was not overtly religious, and I'm not sure Marian herself had really worked it out. She acquired Islamic looking ornaments for the house; she read the occasional book set in the middle-east; she attended belly dancing classes; and we would sometimes watch films like Marzieh Meshkini's excellent The Day I Became A Woman. Still it struck me as a vague engagement, an aesthetic followed at about the level of an article in Time Out magazine, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Marian had been hinting that we might go to Mexico together at least since we first met in the Autumn of 2005, just as I returned from my fifth visit to the country with my friend Rob. Initially it was exciting that someone should apparently be so keen on me as to make such a proposal, but as the relationship developed, I came to realise that it was a bad idea. By 2007, Marian and I had accrued the experience of several holidays spent in each other's company - excursions made not so much because we always had such jolly larks together as we licked ice creams on foreign shores, more due to threats delivered by Marian during those first formative weeks of our union. 'I'll be expecting you to take me to interesting places,' she said. 'I grow easily bored with relationships quite quickly, so you will need to make the effort to keep me interested.'
With these parameters established, we went where Marian decreed. My suggestions were never to her liking, which provided further annoyance in addition to her being burdened with always having to come up with ideas for where we could go next - one of those heads you lose, tails I win dialogues I suppose you would say. We'd been to Oxford, to the village of Théza in the south of France, to Machynlleth on the Welsh coast; each excursion distinguished by Marian generally failing to rise before noon, then spending the rest of the day blaming me for everything that had gone wrong with the holiday, on top of which I generally ended up carrying her bags as well as my own. So as she reminded me that I'd promised to take her to Mexico, I knew by then that I would rather dine from my own lavatory bowl. Mexico was one place she wasn't going to ruin.
We'd been together nearly two years and it had become increasingly difficult to dodge certain bullets, to avoid certain undertakings despite the sure knowledge of a disastrous outcome. Denied my services as Mexican bag carrier, she revived an older threat. 'I may go and spend some time in India, maybe six months or a year,' she offered with studied defiance. 'What will you do then?'
I didn't have an answer that I could give without repercussions, and I had no inclination to visit India. I lived in a world wherein people were required to work for a living, and extravagant experiments with global travel were dependent on not pissing off for an indeterminate amount of time and coming back to find out you've been sacked. This whole deal about being able to afford to eat and have a roof over one's head was apparently one of those things that made me something of a bore.
'What do you mean you've never wanted to go to India?' It was a fairly typical question for Marian, an inquiry presupposing that views other than her own are by definition aberrant. We were once watching a television programme called Grand Designs which each week would follow the progress of someone building their own home from scratch, usually someone with a ton of money, and the more eccentric their ideas the better. This week some guy was working on his own self-sustaining environmentally neutral home, a variation on the thing in which the Teletubbies live but with more solar panelling.
'Oh for God's sake,' I muttered under my breath.
Marian turned to me, more confrontational than surprised. 'Haven't you ever dreamed of building your own self-sustaining environmentally neutral home?'
I hadn't, and she asked the question as though the premise were self-evident and I was the weirdo here, just like haven't you ever considered that smoking eighty cigarettes a day might be bad for you?
What do you mean you've never wanted to go to India? was the same deal, a question framed with disbelief that an intelligent person could entertain any desire divergent from her own. I had nothing against India, but neither did I find it so fascinating either as a country or culture as to necessitate my going there; and I was painfully familiar with the sort of homeopathy-addled dimwits who visit India in order to find themselves, returning six months later talking the same bollocks as always and telling you that it was amaaaaaaazing. Whilst it may be true that travel broadens the mind, I generally believe it helps if you have something to work with in the first place.
'Let's go to Morocco,' I said.
She had been pushing Morocco for as long as she'd been waving the flag for India. To my way of thinking, the flight would be cheaper, the country was nearer, and it therefore didn't seem like such a massive investment in something I wasn't really sure I wanted to do in the first place. It was a strategic suggestion, a grand gesture intended to at least give me breathing space before either Mexico or India were wheeled out yet again.
'Morocco?' She regarded me with a look I hadn't anticipated. I wondered if she had ever really considered the journey as something that might happen, something other than an ideal, a goal for which one could aim without fear of ever having to worry about what you would do once you got there.
Later that summer, we landed at Fes-Saïss airport serving the city of Fez in northern Morocco, just south of the Atlas Mountains - and whilst you might point out that it's actually Fes with an S, I could never unlearn all those years of Tommy Cooper or Laurel and Hardy even if I wanted to, and if you're going to be pedantic, then actually it should be rendered فاس . This was my first visit to the African continent, and it felt like stepping off the edge of the map to some degree. I had been to Mexico, and by Mexico I don't mean the parts where English people will be served egg and chips if they just shout loud enough; but Mexico seems distantly related to the US, which has always presented itself as a known quantity. Morocco on the other hand is at the edge of the Arab world. I knew it was there, but that was about all.
The first problem introduced itself when Marian attempted to extract dirhams from the airport ATM, and found that her card was blocked from further use. The Moroccan dirham was at the time in quarantine from the European wongaverse by means I don't fully understand, and for this reason the Lonely Planet guide had advised taking either dollars or traveller's cheques and converting to local currency on arrival, all the while keeping in mind that someone in a uniform would laugh in your face if you tried to convert it all back on the way home. Luckily one of us had remembered to do this, specifically the one who didn't trust the supposedly international language of the credit card. The other one hadn't seen the need to inform the bank of her travel plans, deciding they would probably realise she was on holiday as soon as she started making massive withdrawals of funds in a foreign country.
You just never think! she would rant and rave at me on a more or less daily basis before bemoaning having to do everything for herself, but there was never any benefit to be had from pointing out that this simply wasn't true, so I didn't. Instead I sighed, cashing in a lot more traveller's cheques than I'd bargained for, and resigning myself to being Marian's piggy bank in addition to bag carrier and scratching post. We would have enough to get by for the time we were there, but would have to be considerably more careful with our spending.
For once, Marian couldn't quite work herself up to the full proposition of this all being my fault, and for a second I wondered if she was broken; but I could sense her going over the psychological small print as she made a testy promise to pay me back. She resented that I had known she would dump us both in the shit before we were even out of the the airport, and resented that I'd been right.
'Well, I didn't do it on purpose,' was her best shot, and I thought better of offering comments which would only be weaponised and thrown back regardless of original function. All the same, I hadn't anticipated the change that had come over Marian. She was in a genuinely foreign country full of unfamiliar and troubling smells, somewhere that bore only fleeting resemblance to the beautifully patterned realm of sand, spirit, and Fry's Turkish Delight she probably imagined as she browsed Persian ceramics in East Dulwich. I too was bricking my pants as I tend to do when first arriving in profoundly unfamiliar places, but I'd done this before and had learned how to fake it, how to act like I'm just passing through and it's really no big deal. Additionally, I have a theory that most places to which one may travel will be socially similar once you get beyond the window dressing, so I was pretending that Morocco was Catford with warmer weather and more prayer just as some pretend that every member of the audience is in just their underwear.
Having Marian follow my lead, looking to me to see if whatever we were about to do seemed like a good idea, was peculiar but not unpleasant. The root of her problem had always been gross-overcompensation for an absence of self-esteem, a slipped cognitive disc by which she conflated assertiveness with basic bullying; and at times it was exhausting. Bizarrely, this newly developed humility seemed like a good start to the holiday, and it also seemed like a good idea that she had taken to wearing her headscarf as a hijab in so much as it suggested a willingness to engage with others on their terms. It transpired that Morocco is generally a tolerant and cosmopolitan country, the hijab worn mostly as a matter of preference, and eschewed by many; but I think it made Marian feel a little more secure, which had to be better for everyone.
It was now midday, so we took a taxi into Fez and began to look for a hotel. The first place didn't seem too promising as the proprietor took us up a flight of stairs past workmen taking a break, to a very nearly bare room with just an iron frame bed and a dressing table. I imagined people being electrocuted in this place, and it seems Marian agreed with me. We went elsewhere, at last booking into a much larger hotel, fairly luxurious with rooms big enough to host drag racing events; but the air conditioning was deafening, and it was prohibitively expensive so we vowed to stay for one night and then find somewhere cheaper.
Morocco, or specifically the Ville Nouvelle quarter of Fez reminded me of Mexico City. The general populace appeared roughly similar bar a few regional quirks of dress, and even the architecture and economy seemed really not so different. The weather was warm and people were generally friendly. Truthfully I hadn't known what to expect. I hadn't exactly anticipated the oppressive religious austerity which certain people seem to believe constitutes the entire Islamic world, although I'd wondered if Fez might be something like Marrakesh. Naturally I had never been to Marrakesh but by repute I imagined Islam wrestling with the overbearing presence of the sort of people I generally cross oceans to avoid, new-age tourists boring everyone shitless with weed anecdotes, painted toenails lazily dipped in someone else's culture, probably even fucking jugglers in those novelty felt hats worn by the terminally cretinous at the drippier rock festivals. People who feel the need to find themselves are rarely worth finding, and the suspicion that I would encounter a great many of them in Marrakesh ruled it out as being somewhere I would ever want to go; of course it had been Marian's first choice for the very same reasons, but with much lesser tourist traffic increasing the likelihood of our finding anywhere to stay, Fez became the more practical choice, and to my astonishment, I found I'd already begun to like the place. In fact I think I liked it more than Marian did.
Being as this was 2007 and I didn't keep a diary, much of the detail is now sketchy. Marian took her camera so I left mine at home, reasoning that Morocco was really more her field and whatever photographs she took would logically be superior. Unfortunately, as we later realised, her camera was fucked and had exposed the entire film but for eight photographs carrying a thin strip of detail down one edge.
The second day we booked into Hotel Dar Ziryab on the Rue Lalla Nezha, or at least I believe we did. I'm retracing footsteps using Googlemap which doesn't seem inclined to risk a street level view of Fez, so it's really just an educated guess. The price was better, and the room less like a warehouse and more ornate as I recall, and there was a beautifully decorated communal salon at the top of the building. I seem to remember only being able to stay until the weekend due to prior bookings, and for whatever reason, we later transferred to Wassim Hotel Fez on Rue de Liban, then spent our last day in the youth hostel on Rue Abdeslam Seghrini. When away from home Marian had a habit of changing hotel every forty-eight hours having decided she didn't like the curtains or something, although on this occasion I don't recall our failing to settle as entirely her fault.
Wassim Hotel Fez was distinguished by elevators and a television in the room. In the evening, still reeling from the spectacle of hearing the call to prayer sound across the roofs and towers seen from our hotel window, then the subsequent hush as streets emptied and the entire city fell silent, we sat glued to Moroccan television. We found a channel called Melody and watched a powerfully atmospheric black and white Saudi feature film from the 1950s, although programming otherwise resembled Mexican television so far as I was able to tell - broadcasts in the universal language of Benny Hill and people falling over to a soundtrack of uproarious hysterics.
Our ultimate move to the youth hostel was due either to prior bookings at the Wassim or simply because that was where Marian wanted to be. It was absurdly cheap and accordingly basic, a gated square of tiny rooms arranged around two conjoined courtyards and sharing a communal shower. The upside of this was that the courtyard was full of tortoises, all shapes and sizes, and I sat watching them for hours which was actually more fun than it may sound.
We kept to no strict daily routine, although I usually started off with mint tea which was incredibly sweet and for which I acquired quite a taste. Some days we would begin at a particular outdoor café which served a breakfast of khlea - eggs fried with meat and cumin - also the place at which some enterprising Moroccan tried to persuade me that my girlfriend and I could have an exciting time with him and his wife at their pool. I still wonder if he would have asked had Marian been with me. I expect she was either still asleep or shopping at the time, the latter having turned out to be her main reason for coming. I recall her asking how much available space remained in my bag. She'd already filled a couple of suitcases and needed to assess how much more I would be able to carry. That's just the way it was.
Our first major excursion was to the Medina, Fes el Bali, the mediaeval part of the city which had remained more or less unchanged at least since times when Arabic civilisation made that of Europe seem like a bunch of cavemen playing with their own poo. My first impression as I climbed out of the taxi - impacting upon at least three major senses, not least that of smell - was that we had arrived in Star Wars and would soon encounter Jawas, Sand People and Alec Guinness. It was quietly terrifying, but nevertheless we dutifully went forth because the taxi already had another fare and wasn't going to take us back. We stumbled towards the gates to the old quarter, trying desperately to appear as though we did this sort of thing every day. As it turned out, we weren't the first Europeans the locals had ever seen, and everyone was too busy shouting or arguing or just telling jokes to care about two more. Within the walls we found a labyrinth of streets, very few of them wide enough for more than two people walking side by side. High above us the sun was kept at bay with sheets stretched across the gap between the rooftops; and every ten yards we would acquire a new one-hundred and fifty year old Sid James-faced best friend hopeful that we would be interested in buying his rugs, jewellery, socks, spices, shoes, pens, watches, or possibly even his sister. Marian spoke French much better than I and so was better equipped to judge which were the good deals, but we adopted the habit of politely shooing traders away, something at which I had become reasonably adept in Mexico.
The Chouwara tannery, around which Fes el Bali seems to be built was a great area of ground covered in neat circular vats full of dye, pigeon dung, and possibly urine. Animal hides are dipped and then left out to bake dry in the sun on adjacent roofing and other available surfaces; and the smell is amazing, so powerfully repulsive that it somehow comes out the other side and becomes an almost artistic experience - a Maurizio Bianchi album for the nose.
Having survived the tannery, we took mint tea in some restaurant buried so deep inside the Medina that it felt like we'd entered an underground kingdom made entirely of ornately patterned carpets; we bought spices, and Marian haggled with a rug seller principally for the purpose of seeing what he had on offer. This was the sort of behaviour which made me uneasy. Whilst haggling may or may not be a way of life in the middle-east depending on which story you hear, I suspect people who sell rugs tend to haggle as a means of earning a living rather than providing exotic local flavour for visiting Europeans, so haggling purely for chuckles struck me as rude.
I wasn't the only one to hold this view. We had taken a train the forty mile distance to the neighbouring city of Meknes, through countryside bearing a peculiar resemblance to England but for being thoroughly bleached of all colour. This also afforded a good view of the Atlas Mountains, the domain of Berber and Tuareg tribes, so we had been told. Once in Meknes our first port of call was the market, larger than those we had seen in Fez, and more like the sort of thing we knew from back in England. I don't recall what Marian was trying to buy - although I have a feeling it may have been something prosaic like shampoo, the sort of item someone would sell in order to make a living rather than because they love haggling. She argued with the seller for a minute before storming off, barking away in fluent matron which, hajib or not, probably would have worked better for someone a bit taller.
'What is wrong with your wife?' the trader asked me in English, both aghast and bewildered. 'She is crazy!'
I smiled and shrugged because he was right.
The main reason for our visiting Meknes was the architecture and the presence of one of the few Mosques to allow limited access to non-Muslims, so we briefly got to watch people talking directly to Allah within a building of such sophisticated and elegant design as to make all those European cathedrals seem fussy and hysterical, like the work of talented children who just didn't know when to stop. Meknes in particular underscored that the Muslim world does not suffer a lack of either civilisation or culture, which is something that perhaps a few more people really need to appreciate. No good can come of viewing entire countries as essentially alien, populated by those with whom we have nothing in common, not least because it's a wrong view. As though to illustrate this realisation in microcosm, some young Moroccan struck up a conversation with us on the train as we returned to Fez. Bizarrely, Marian said very little and later told me she had found his behaviour suspicious, but he was really just a young guy genuinely fascinated by the presence of strangers, telling us about his country and wanting to know all about ours. Sometimes there is no hidden agenda, just people very much like ourselves.
It wasn't a perfect holiday, but Marian had for the most part managed to behave like a human being, humbled into shutting up at least some of the time by something too big to be bullied into submission. I think she found the culture shock exhausting, even to the point that we ended up spending an evening at the Fez branch of McDonalds eating McKebabs - or whatever local variant they were serving - just like going out to a bar, except we sat out on the terrace drinking shakes and gazing across the darkened hillside beyond a road which Googlemap identifies as being called McDrive. At around eight or nine a band turned up and started playing. Marian, being environmentally minded, had always frowned upon the burger chain and would cheerfully berate anyone who so much as walked past a branch without spitting.
Don't you care what happens to the rain forest?
'Don't tell Penny about this,' she chuckled, in reference to one of her friends from the belly dancing class.
I never did, and back in England, our relationship resumed its traditional downhill trajectory, we returned to our previous roles, and it took me about eighteen months to claw back the two-hundred pounds she'd borrowed, a sum returned grudgingly in dribs and drabs and by terms suggesting that I was the selfish one; but if nothing else it is at least nice to be able to recall a holiday that wasn't a complete waste of time, a couple of weeks during which we almost managed to pass as a regular couple. I gained first hand experience of a world I might never have visited under my own steam, and it is an experience I will not forget.


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EU squabbles feed market frenzy
The European Union can rarely have been more in need of a
show of unity than now, as it tries to convince financial
markets it can handle the euro zone's debt crisis.
Hardly a day goes by without a European leader underlining
the need to act together, but hardly a day passes without signs of
differences among them that undermine the impression of unity.
This week is no exception. European Commission President
Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech in Brussels on Tuesday:
"We can turn today's challenges into opportunities only if we
stand together, give a collective response."
But comments he made in an interview published hours earlier
showed the EU's leaders are anything but united in their vision
of how to tackle the crisis.
In the interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Barroso
dismissed as "naive" Germany's call for the EU treaty to be
modified to prevent a repeat of Greece's debt crisis — and
Germany hit back quickly.
Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said he was surprised at
the remarks and went on to criticise a joint euro bond
proposed by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy,
saying it would create the wrong incentives and reward member
states that do not pursue sensible budget policies.
"What we need are clear signals for solid state finances in
order to secure trust in the euro over the long term, and to
prevent future crises," Bruederle said.
Investors and financial markets are also looking for
clear signals from the EU. Despite agreement on a
110-billion-euro rescue package for Greece and then on a
750-billion-euro safety net for other euro zone countries,
the messages being sent by the EU are often mixed. EU
leaders' public statements sometimes do more to heighten
market concerns than ease them.
So what can the EU do to reassure the markets?
One obvious answer is to forge exactly what EU leaders
themselves are calling for — genuine unity — and refrain from
criticising one another in public.
Another would be to act quickly — something EU leaders call
for constantly, yet often find hard to do, partly because of the
EU's creaking institutions and bureaucracy. Agreement on the
huge euro zone safety net over the weekend of May 7-9 showed
the EU can at times act quickly when required.
National leaders in the EU are also being urged to put
long-lasting European interests above short-term domestic
political needs. Political courage is needed for this, and it
may be hard to find unless there is a change in the sceptical
public perceptions of the 27-country bloc, which represents more
than 500 million people.
Commentators and policymakers are likely to be kept busy
discussing this question for a long time. What must be
particularly worrying for the EU is the fact that many experts
see less cause for optimism than at any time for decades.
"Normally in the past the EU was pretty strong in dealing
with serious crises and always got an impulse out of it," said
one analyst, Ulrike Guerot of the International Council on
Foreign Relations think tank. "Will this be the case now? I
don't know and it is the first time I don't know."
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This is not your typical rock climbing rappel! You will be wearing a full- body industrial harness and using an industrial descender to go down. You can control your speed to a certain extent. Should you go too fast the back-up device will engage.
Getting your weight off the roof and into the harness is the difficult part for most people. You will have an opportunity to practice your technique during training, and an OTE Technician will guide you through these first few steps. Once you're over the edge, you will have a radio to communicate with your OTE Technician, but basically you are on your own. Don't forget to stop and take in the view!


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I picked up a few things for my work toolbox. I'm at the point where I'm basically self-sufficient with any type of assembly, repair, maintenance, or construction task I get involved with.
Starrett 156M thread pitch gauge. This is a really nice piece.
eBay and Classified ad hunting. I usually stay away from used tools with engravings... unless they're engraved with my initials already!
Wilde prybars. These are US-made and they're a great value.
So I went a little nutty with sanders and grinders recently. When I'm busy with life and school, I can't stop thinking about tools and they're too easy to buy. I got an awesome deal on the Matco 1.0 hp grinder on eBay, the 3M is new from Amazon and appears to be really well designed, and the straight grinders are junkers from Harbor Freight to replace the ones I've burned up in the last few years. For $8, I consider them disposable.
Dynabrade with the old Harbor Freight unit it's replacing. This is a gearless 0.4hp angle sander, it's so much more powerful, smooth, and quiet than the Harbor Freight!
I gathered everyone up for a family photo.
Now that my grinders aren't disposable junk, I bought some proper grease.
With the recent influx of tools from my Grandpap Bernard's collection, I'm struggling with tool storage. I now have a full set (4" through 12") of adjustable wrenches in my work toolbox, and decided to build an organizer for them.
Fast forward a few cuts and welds...
New wrench drawer in my work toolbox.
Next I decided to build an organizer for the bottom drawer of my work toolbox. I started cutting a form for the plasma cutter
Not the cleanest cut, but it was wicked fast.
This will all make sense in a minute I promise.
Hemmed edges - 45º out of the brake in the foreground, and smashed flat in the background.
Well that only took a few days!
And here is why. The bottom drawer of my work toolbox has been crowded and unorganized, but I do actually use a lot of this stuff frequently.
After. It's still not the cleanest drawer, but at least everything is accessible and visible.
And here is a little preview of some furniture I've been working on. I will be providing more details in coming posts, but this has been consuming a lot of my time and I decided not to document everything until I'm a bit further along.


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On 28 April 2016, the Romanian Ministry of Energy published the draft amendment to the Electricity and Natural Gas Law and requested consultation. The draft amendment is aligned with EU Regulation no. 994/2010 concerning measures to safeguard the security of the gas supply and improves Romanian authorities' ability to respond to gas disruptions.
The draft amendment aims to reduce the risk of future gas supply crises by guarantying gas supplies to households and other protected customers for a certain period of time, even in the case of a failure of the main gas infrastructure in the country. Under the draft amendment, the category of "protected customers" includes: all household customers connected to a gas distribution network; public authorities and any other public or private entity which provides medical and social assistance services (provided that these additional customers do not represent more than 20% of the final gas usage); and district heating installations (provided that these installations are not able to switch to other fuels and are connected to a gas distribution or transmission network).
A special legal regime will be applied to protected customers in order to ensure their gas supply during emergency situations. The draft amendment introduces the obligation for gas producers, gas suppliers and transmission systems operators to conclude different agreements with protected customers and also to perform these agreements with priority during emergency situations.


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The 14th annual KDnuggets poll measuring use of analytics software is open for voting. The poll asks, "What Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, Data Science software you used in the past 12 months for a real project?" and allows up to 20 choices from commercial software, open source software, and "big data" software. R was the leading choice in 2012, and currently leads the pack in the voting for 2013.
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/PRNewswire/ -- The City of Atlanta and its partners in the Georgia Transit Connector initiative submitted yesterday an application for $298.3 million in federal stimulus to fund a 9.7-track-mile modern streetcar system in Atlanta.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's discretionary Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants are earmarked for local surface transportation projects that will help jumpstart the economy.
"If Atlanta is to remain competitive with other urban areas for economic development, we must improve our connectivity and mobility," said Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. "A streetcar system will help make Atlanta a more walkable city and serve as a catalyst for development and revitalization in Midtown and Downtown."
The proposed streetcar route is a T-shape, with 6.6 track miles north-south from Peachtree Pointe/SCAD-Atlanta in Midtown to the Five Points MARTA station in Downtown and a 3.1-mile east-west route from Centennial Olympic Park to The King Center.
As proposed now, TIGER funding would cover all capital costs associated with the streetcar, such as construction and vehicle procurement. Several models for operations and management after construction are being considered. Atlanta's application will be competing against applications for transportation initiatives nationwide.
The partners anticipate the streetcar will act as a catalyst for new urban development, support local and regional land use plans, and accommodate significant population and employment growth. The streetcar is projected to meet future travel demand, enhance existing neighborhood character in an environmentally sensitive manner, and improve transportation access and connectivity to disconnected destinations and activity centers in the urban core.
The streetcar will connect with MARTA's existing heavy rail and will be used for traveling shorter distances within Downtown and Midtown, alleviating intra-city congestion. The carbon-free streetcar has the capacity to transport more than 20,000 passengers daily and will reduce MARTA's carbon footprint as it replaces bus service along the Peachtree corridor.
The U.S. DOT is expected to notify recipients of funding by February 2010. If funding is awarded, the City would begin construction immediately with a projected completion date of February 2012.
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City of Atlanta Submits Application for U.S. DOT Stimulus Grant
/PRNewswire/ -- The City of Atlanta and its partners in the Georgia Transit Connector initiative submitted yesterday an application for $298.3 million in federal stimulus to fund a 9.7-track-mile modern streetcar system in Atlanta.
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ABBA Tribute – Bjorn Belief
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Formed in Swansea in 2002, the band is made up of four accomplished musicians who not only sound like the famous Swedish performers - they look just like them too.
Tina Williams, who is "Anni-Frid", has been a singer with many bands. The rich, deep tones of her voice are well suited to Abba music as well as to the jazz numbers, which she also loves to sing.
Lorraine King ("Agnetha") is an experienced singer and song-writer. She has performed on television and radio programmes and has won several song-writing competitions, including the Unisong International Song Contest.
"Benny" is really Colin Evans, who trained as a concert pianist but prefers classical composition. He also has a keen interest in various musical genres and describes the music of Abba as "a joy to play".
Peter King ("Bjorn") is a record producer and studio owner. Peter has worked with some of the greats in the UK music business including Bonnie Tyler, Eric Clapton, The Bee Gees, Cilla Black, to name a few. He is a respected musician and his vocals give an authentic Abba sound.
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In August, Uber announced that it's probably not coming to Oakland after all and will likely put the former Sears building back on the market. Since the issues of gentrification and displacement that caused The Greenlining Institute and others to form the No Uber Oakland campaign haven't gone away, this might be a good time to ask what we've learned, and how we move forward.
When Uber announced its initial plans that would likely move 2,000-3,000 highly paid tech workers into downtown Oakland, we were alarmed about the impact on Oakland's residents, workers, small businesses, nonprofits and artists. We've all seen what happened when San Francisco rolled out the red carpet to big tech companies: Skyrocketing housing costs left even families with six-figure incomes struggling to find adequate housing, while soaring commercial rents priced out nonprofits – and all of this badly undermined the city's diversity and character.
Much the same continues to happen in Oakland, where the average one bedroom apartment currently rents for $2,025 per month – making it the country's seventh most expensive rental market, according to Abodo, an apartment rental listings website. That's just not viable when Oakland's median household income is $54,618.
We launched No Uber Oakland only after months of unsuccessful efforts to meet with Uber's leadership and have a serious dialogue about the company's plans for supporting Oaklanders. While the company made some token gestures, it became clear it was never really serious about listening to Oaklanders or being part of our community. On the No Uber Oakland site, we laid out a 10-point platform that Uber could adopt if it was really serious about working with the Oakland community.
We never gave up hope that Uber would sit down and work with the Oakland community to create something that would be good for the company and for Oakland. Uber, sadly, never had any interest in a real partnership with Oakland.
That also means opening up good tech jobs and leadership positions to all of California's diverse population. Right now, tech remains a fortress where Latinos and African Americans are drastically underrepresented and leadership remains overwhelmingly white and male.
But we've also learned that companies won't reform on their own. Local governments, including Oakland's, must look at the broader picture when any big corporation – not just tech – wants to move into town. Of course we want companies to grow and invest in Oakland, but no good will come from pretending there won't be downsides in a town where working families, artists and community groups already struggle to keep a roof over their heads. In the future, city leaders must work with the community to make sure companies act responsibly and that the rising tide of corporate investment doesn't drown ordinary Oaklanders.
Although Uber isn't coming to Oakland, we will keep the No Uber Oakland site up as a community resource – and because we still think that Uber and other major companies should put that 10-point platform into operation.


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The Military Stress Recovery Project
The Military Stress Recovery Project (MSRP) provides free acupuncture treatments for veterans, active military personnel, reservists and their families. This work is part of AWB's Community Service Clinic Program which serves all types of communities affected by traumatic events.
Acupuncturist Soraya Applegate providing ear acupuncture and acu-tonic treatments to Marines in Hawaii, 2016. Photo credit: Katie Fisher
The MSRP began in 2006 with a pilot clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and currently includes over 30 AWB-affiliated clinics across the country. As AWB trains more practitioners through its "Healing Community Trauma" educational program, additional clinics are being established.
AWB created the MSRP program during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because so many soldiers and veterans were suffering the effects of trauma without effective treatment within the military medical system. Pharmacological treatments for post-traumatic stress (PTS) have been shown to be relatively ineffective and can create chemical dependence with devastating side effects, including increased suicide rates. AWB has pioneered the use of acupuncture as a safe, effective, non-pharmacological therapy for returning soldiers that fills this trauma treatment gap.
Currently, the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Affairs Administration are supporting research on the efficacy of acupuncture for treatment of combat-related pain and trauma. Increasingly, acupuncture is being integrated into health services provided on military bases and in VA hospitals. AWB's work over the past decade has helped make this happen.
Treatments offered in the MSRP program are based on the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) ear protocol, which has proven to be extremely powerful in alleviating symptoms of stress and trauma. During treatment, people sit fully clothed in a room together, often in a circle of chairs, and a licensed acupuncturist places 5 tiny needles in each ear. Recipients are invited to close their eyes and rest for 30-45 minutes as the acupuncture does its work. In many MSRP clinics, the NADA protocol is supplemented with additional ear, scalp, or body points. Clients at MSRP clinics experience benefits such as a full night's sleep for the first time in years and fewer bad dreams. They experience improved mental clarity, less anxiety and depression and a renewed interest in social relationships and community. Many subsequently report that they are able to reduce medication dosages for a wide variety of symptoms that are co-morbid with stress and post-traumatic stress, including pain and insomnia.
The potential of this program is enormous. History has shown that the long-term impact of war takes a tremendous toll for decades. By providing free acupuncture to veterans who have recently returned from war, we can play a part in preventing history from repeating itself. By offering treatment for veterans from previous wars and conflicts, we take part in helping mend the psychological wounds of the past.
The beauty of acupuncture is that it is a simple, low-cost modality offering immediate, effective, easily accessible support for large numbers of people. It can also work harmoniously with other more conventional treatment modalities such as counseling and medication.
If you are interested in getting involved with the Military Stress Recovery Project please send an email to email@example.com or call 505.266.3878. We look forward to hearing from you!
For information on how this model is now being used in community service clinics that treat other populations, please see AWB's Community Service Clinic Program.
Also Available: The AWB Community Service Clinic Manual
This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up Community Service Clinics for veterans, active military, their families, and other populations affected by trauma. It was created based on AWB's experience in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and is full of useful documents, consent forms, safety protocols, press release templates, posters and more. The Manual is a "working document" which can be revised as we all learn and grow with the Military Stress Recovery Project and AWB's other Community Service Clinics. So please keep us updated on your learning and progress!
– Free PDF file to AWB Training attendees and paid registrants
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To purchase the Community Service Clinic Manual, please call our office, 505-266-3878.
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All of the clinics listed below are independent entities run by local acupuncture volunteers, and have no legal affiliation with AWB. We collaborate as part of AWB's national Military Stress Recovery Project. AWB makes no guarantees about the services provided, and is not legally responsible for those services.
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I served two tours of combat in Vietnam. I'm 100% disabled because of PTSD. When I first started coming to the AWB clinic in Albuquerque, I had spent years suffering from high anxiety. I believe that because of the acupuncture I have become calmer and my anxiety has drastically come down. I don't want the new vets to suffer for years like I did. Acupuncture is helping me get my life back.Raul Rojas
Veterans are the light at the tip of the candle, illuminating the way for the whole nation. If veterans can achieve awareness, transformation, understanding, and peace, they can share with the rest of society the realities of war. And they can teach us how to make peace with ourselves, and each other, so we never have to use violence to resolve conflicts again.Thich Nhat Hanh


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Maaaany years ago, my sister bought this cd, and I borrowed it and fell in love with it. It is a rather quirky cd, full of interesting combinations of sound. Think Beck, but different. Er.
Well, in the last few years it seems to have gone walkabouts. Which is a real shame, being the really, really great cd that it is. So the other day I decided that, dagnammit, I'm going to buy it so I can listen to it again.
I got it off eBay for £3. Not bad, eh? Great music to listen to while I send some thoughts over to my sister (hej H!) in California.
The artist, by the way, is Imani Coppola and the cd is called Chupacabra. You can see the video for the best know song from the album over on Youtube, it's called Legend of a Cowgirl.


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And now for something completely different
"Will it Go Round in Circles?" - Billy Preston (Music is My Life, 1972)
"Will it Go Round in Circles?" - Billy Preston (Music is My Life, 1972)
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Loved hearing Billy when I hit your blog. A great talent lost for sure.
It sure sounds like a busy summer for the girlies. Glad to hear that Haley is as smart as the rest of us (haha) and going into the gifted and talented program at an early age like Cousin Lyman. Being bored was always a reason to have his own little party time for Lyman. Tumbling?? I see more broken, bruised and cut baby bodies in your future for sure. Do your girls want to play the piano or is this a mother thing? You may need to make sure everyone knows about you doing your blog, they may be missing out.
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I was wondering the same thing as Donna about the piano lessons. I love music so much that I think I'm going to have to be careful not to push it too much on my kids. Luckily, Layla seems to be a music fan already too. Our recent nighttime music to go to sleep is Michael Buble. No crappy lullabies for us!
I knew the name Billy Preston, but I couldn't place any of his songs in my head and you picked the one that I immediately knew. So thanks.
I noticed it's saved in a different location. Comcast allows you a certain number of websites and you are going to use the storage in all of those before finding some place else?
you are very clever, Drew. Yes, I figured that comcast allows me x storage space for every email account I have and I think I'm allowed up to 8 so before I go find more online storage I thought I 'd use up what I've got as I figure out this whole blog thing...
I'm hoping that my kids' affinity for music will parlay into enthusiasm for making it on their own. I don't really have any particular objective in mind, just that they understand a little about how music is made---enough to make some on their own or to inform their listening. I don't think anything you share with your kids enthusiastically and without pressure can be bad---unless its just bad stuff to begin with---like maybe running with scissors or playing with matches... and luckily for us both Haley and Anna seem genuinely fired up about the piano lessons...
I applaud your efforts to introduce Layla to quality music early in life. We also stayed away from conventional baby fare in the nursery... we played a lot of James Taylor but Enya was also very nice and had a soothing effect on Mommy and babies... its funny though that my kids all really have this subconscious awareness of James Taylor.


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Liberal Democrat Wiltshire Councillor for Melksham South and Town Councillor for Melksham Spa Learn more
Jon Hubbard has been a resident of Melksham for the past seven years. Residing in Sweetbriar Road with his wife Annette and their dog Toby, Jon works as a lecturer in Computing at Wiltshire College. He also runs his own IT Consultancy company specialising in writing software applications for small businesses.
Jon was elected to Melksham Town Council in a by-election in August 2008 where he has quickly become well known for his campaigns to clean up Melksham and fighting hard on behalf of local residents.
In June 2009 Jon was returned to represent Melksham South on the newly created Wiltshire Council. He currently leads the 24 strong Lib Dem group on Wiltshire Council.


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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (April 2, 2014)—Freshman McKenna Wiegand (Gilbert, Ariz.) slapped a two RBI single through the left side of the infield scoring Annie Dreher (Saugus, Calif.) and Justine Sibthorp (Santa Clarita, Calif.) for the only two runs Pioneer runs of the game. Jamie Carlson (Corona, Calif.) got the loss after allowing Allison Hand's walk-off homerun to give Iona the 3-2 win over the Sacred Heart softball team. The loss drops SHU to 9-11 on the season.
Carlson gave up all three runs on seven hits, including two solo homeruns, tying her season high. The rookie struck out five batters over 6.1 innings of work. Sibthorp went 2-for-3 at the plate with two singles, and reached once on a hit by pitch, which turned into a run.
The Pioneers resume Northeast Conference play this Saturday when they take on Mount St. Mary's on the road. The doubleheader is set to start at 1:00 p.m.


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Game Revolution writes: "I have a confession to make: I love baseball. I love the aesthetics of the game, the poetry of the game, the drinking of beer during, before, and after the game (and on off days too!), but mostly I love the numbers of the game. In fact, baseball was my first love. (Okay, and more than a little to do with not yet having discovered the fairer sex, but I digress...). For me, there was always something inherently pleasing about baseball numbers, the core of the sport, and I don't even enjoy math. Because of the nature of the game (the consistency through the decades of one pitcher, one hitter, 90 feet between bases, 60"6' from the mound to the plate, etc.), many of the most famous records in sports are of baseball. In no other sport do the numbers mean as much.
I also happen to enjoy video games, and baseball has always seemed to me to be the one sport that should easily translate to the video game world. The language of numbers, baseball numbers, is one computers speak fluently. In fact, there are a gazillion baseball sims based solely on these numbers, but the best baseball titles seem to be those that can marry a baseball sim with an arcade-style baseball game, where the gamer can have realistic representations of how the game looks and the numbers it produces. Sadly, MLB 2K8 is not that game."
+ There's lots to do
+ It's baseball
+ Good graphics
- ...but bad player movements
+ They're trying
- ...but putting their energy in the wrong places
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ENGRCEE 170 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (2015-2016)
ENGRCEE 170 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
ENGRCEE 170 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (Credit Units: 4) Thermodynamic and mechanical fluid properties; fluid statics; control volume and differential approaches for mass, momentum, and energy; dimensional analysis and similarity. Corequisite: Mathematics 2E. Prerequisite: Physics 7C; CEE20. Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering majors have first consideration for enrollment. Only one course from ENGRCEE 170, ENGRMAE 130A, CBEMS 125A may be taken for credit. (Design units: 1)
1. Understand thermodynamic and mechanical properties of fluids such as density, viscosity, surface tension, specific heat, and vapor pressure. (EAC e)
2. Be able to interpret manometer readings. (EAC b)
3. Be able to compute hydrostatic forces on structures, such as a dam or gate. (EAC a, EAC e)
4. Be able to analyze the buoyancy and stability of submerged objects. (EAC a, EAC e)
5. Be able to apply mass conservation principles to a flowing fluid system. (EAC a, EAC e)
6. Be able to compute dynamic forces using momentum principles. (EAC a, EAC e)
7. Be able to analyze frictionless flows using the Bernoulli equation. (EAC a, EAC e)
8. Be able to sketch and interpret energy and hydraulic grade lines. (EAC k)
9. Be able to arrange dimensional variables into dimensionless groups in accordance with the Buckingham-Pi Theorem. (EAC e)
10. Understand the physical significance of the Reynolds Number, Froude Number, Mach Number, Weber Number, and Drag Coefficient. (EAC e)
Calculus in 2 and 3 dimensions, Mechanics, Numerical Methods in Matlab.
- Thermodynamic Fluid Properties (Week 1)
- Mechanical Fluid Properties (Week 2)
- Pressure, Manometry and Hydrostatic Forces (Week 3)
- Buoyancy and Stability, Acceleration, and Pressure Sensors (Week 4)
- Reynolds Transport Theorem and Mass Conservation (Week 5)
- Momentum Conservation and Bernoulli's Equation (Week 6)
- Design Project Introduction (Week 7)
- Energy Equation, Energy and Hydraulic Grade Lines (Week 8)
- Dimensional Analysis and Similarity (Week 9)
- Navier-Stokes Equations, Stream Function, and Vorticity (Week 10)
Meets for 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion each week for 10 weeks.
Students must be proficient in engineering computations including numerical methods in Matlab. Laboratory Software Needs: Matlab
Contributes to Engineering Topics Courses of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering majors. Contributes to FE Exam Preparation: Textbook includes sample FE Exam problems, and these appear on quizzes.
Students work in teams to design a cart that is propelled by a jet of water from a pressure thank. Students compete against other teams from class, and the objective is to: (a) cross the finish line in the shortest time and (b) build a computer model that accurately predicts the race time. Teams are responsible for constructing the cart, configuring the pressure and water level in the tank, configuring a nozzle for the jet, and building a computer model of the cart/jet system.
- Participation: 5% (Includes Field Trip)
- Homework: 10%
- Design Project: 10%
- Quizzes: 30%
- Final Exam: 45%
- Total: 100%
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Computing: 0.0 credit units
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Engineering Science: 3.0 credit units
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Distance from Antes Fort, PA to Oxford, MD
Driving distance between Antes Fort, PA and Oxford, MD is 252.55 miles (or 406.43 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Antes Fort, PA you would reach Oxford, MD in about 4 hours 50 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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UK Daily Mail
May 30, 2010
The mystery of why people 'brought back from the dead' report powerful spiritual experiences may have a biological explanation, according to experts.
Researchers who studied brainwaves of dying patients, found there was a surge of electrical activity in their brains just moments before their lives ended.
The doctors from George Washington University medical centre in Washington believe this surge may be the cause of near-death experiences, where patients see themselves walking towards a bright light or floating outside their bodies.
Many patients who experience these sensations believe they are having a religious vision and treat it as confirmation of an afterlife.
Some revived patients even reported seeing religious figures such as Jesus, Muhammad or Krishna. Others said they felt suffused with a sense of peace as they start to walk into a light-filled tunnel.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1282598/Near-death-experiences-explained-Scientists-believe-gasp-dying-brain.html#ixzz0pPgG2sRN
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I only have one so far... a small caviar classic flap with silver hardware. How about you?
Just one!
I have two so far A cambon bowling bag and a black caviar silver medallion tote.
I have three right now, but hopefully 2 will go back to Saks....
Do you have pics of the medallion tote? I've never seen one before. How much was it if you don't mind me asking. Thanks!!!
Just one.
I don't mind at all, it's $1,650 plus tax. I absolutely love her it's the best tote I'd ever had. Here a pic of it with the cambon bowling bag.
Thanks a lot pursegalsf It's beautiful Now I want one!!! The silver hardware is just beautiful. I may just get one
I have four and always looking for more to add to my little family!
You should Next on my list is a jumbo caviar classic flap
asl_bebes you have a lovely collection.
Thanks pursegalsf ... you're very sweet!
I've been eyeing your caviar tote as well ... but I guess I'll have to wait until my birthday!
Just one - my black/white cambon bowler
two - a cambon tote and a classic lambskin flap
I have 4. A grey 226 reissue, a black glazed lambskin star-stitched classic flap from last year winter, a white caviar signle flap single strap classic flap, and a deerskin light gold camera bag from this spring. I used to have a pink cambon bowling bag too but I sold it on ebay.
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Stephen Green on the GOP's proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA):
I'm still not convinced that a bad law with GOP fingerprints on it is an improvement over a worse law with Democrat fingerprints on it. Politically it could be much worse.
This is the bind the Republicans find themselves in. For seven years they have promised to repeal ObamaCare if voters would only put them in power. Now, voters have delivered, giving the GOP control of both houses of Congress as well as the presidency, and they are expecting Republicans to step up and deliver as well.
And that's a problem, because Republicans can't deliver, and the truth is they never could.
Once ObamaCare was passed, the cake was baked. Though ObamaCare remains as unpopular now as it ever was, the political reality is that once you've given people some benefit, it's nigh impossible to take it back.
Americans are rightly outraged with ObamaCare. They had it forced on them along a strict party line vote. Then they watched as, despite Obama's repeated promises, their premiums skyrocketed and they lost both their doctors and their health care plans. The mandates, regulations, and extra taxes that came with it just added insult to injury.
You'd think, given it's unpopularity, ObamaCare would be easy to repeal. And it would be, except for one thing. Amidst all the mandates, broken promises, and runaway costs are a couple of things that people actually want– the biggest of these being that ObamaCare forced insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions.
People love that. And now that they have it, they aren't going to give it up. Ever.
The thing is that covering preexisting conditions is hugely expensive. If we're talking about cancers and other terminal illnesses, treatments can easily cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Traditionally, insurance was meant to actually insure against something that may or may not happen in the future. You pay (relatively) small payments up front in order to transfer the risk of a very expensive treatment that may be needed in the future to someone else.
As soon as you throw preexisting conditions into the mix, you're no longer talking about insurance. You're no longer asking (or, in the case of ObamaCare, forcing) a company to assume the risk that you might need expensive treatment in the future; you're now expecting them to absorb the costs of something that is certain, ongoing, and very expensive.
The scam of ObamaCare is that it demands that "insurance" companies provide a much more expensive product to a much larger number of people without charging more for it. It's not hard to do that math and realize that it doesn't add up.
ObamaCare was doomed from the start, which is why the "death spirals" we are now experiencing were predicted from the start.
It's also why any ObamaCare replacement that forces companies to cover preexisting conditions will fail as well. Either premiums will have to skyrocket to cover the extra costs, or (if they are not allowed to charge more) insurance companies will close up shop and seek more profitable ways to invest their money. (Which will force us into "single payer" — i.e. fully socialized health care, which will be even worse than what we have now.)
Economist Thomas Sowell has spent years pointing out that there are no "solutions," only trade-offs. The trade-off here is that we can have coverage for preexisting conditions or we can have cheaper health "insurance." But we can't have both.
That said, no one ever said that people are rational. They want what they want, and they don't want to pay for it. So they will continue to demand the impossible, and they will continue to vote for politicians that promise the impossible.
And that's the bind Republicans are in. Because there is no way to win this game. And they will get the blame when it all blows up in our face. Already, the new bill is being referred to as "GOP-care," "Ryan-care," and "Trump-care" by various talking heads. Eventually we'll settle on one of those names or something similar. And, the re-branding done, "ObamaCare," which lit the fuse in the first place, will fade from memory, leaving Republicans holding the bomb when it goes off.


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What a bizarre week it has been in professional sports.
Lack of air conditioning decides Game 1 of the NBA Finals and a piece of trash determines the outcome of a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Despite all of the advancements in technology and all the money invested in athletes and racing teams, star basketball players can dehydrate in excessive heat and race cars can get bogged down by a piece of paper.


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McElderry happy with reaction to gay news
The 19 year old, who won Simon Cowell's reality show The X Factor in 2009, confirmed rumours he is gay earlier this year (10) but admits he felt anxious about how the news would be received.
He tells New! magazine, "Everybody's been absolutely outstanding. I couldn't have asked for a better reaction. I was overwhelmed.
"I was nervous. It's not ideal to have to tell the whole nation that you're gay! I thought, 'Oh my God, this is big stuff'. But once I realised who I was as a person, I thought, 'Right, I'm just going to be honest'. It makes your life easier. I'm more relaxed and I feel comfortable in myself now."


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Racism in Asia???????? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Racism in Asia???????? Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Which country provides the most and best opportunities for black EFL instructors? Japan 33% [ 2 ] Hong Kong 50% [ 3 ] Taiwan 16% [ 1 ] Total Votes : 6 Author Message deshell32Joined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 9 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:38 am Post subject: Racism in Asia???????? I am a black American who has been employed in Korea as an EFL instructor for almost 9 months. I have a little more than 3 months left, and I can't wait to leave. I have lost a lot of respect for Korea due to their very nationalistic attitudes, and what I find to be a general dislike for non-Koreans especially non-koreans who are also non-white. I am debating between Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for my next stop as an EFL instructor. I have a Master of Science degree in International & Comparative Education (no type of teacher certification) and one year of experience (Korea). Which country do you think will be easier for me to obtain employment in? Which country do you think would be less likely to not let color negatively affect my odds of obtaining employment? Any mention of unbiased schools will also be beneficial. Thank you very much for your input. Back to top chi-chiJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 127Location: Back in Asia! Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:04 am Post subject: Hong Kong will offer the best quality of life (for anyone-English is widely spoken), but will be the hardest to get into (even for the typical caucasian person.) Right now there is ONE Hong Kong job on Dave's board. Japan is the next best as far as quality of life, lower overt racism (from what I've heard) but is also "hard to get into" because MANY people are leaving Korea right now and going there to look for work. With the exception of Hong Kong, I've heard Japan referred to as "the promised land" for ESL. Taiwan: offers the lowest standard of the three, but is quite easier to get into than the other two places. IT WILL BE BETTER THAN KOREA THOUGH. (At least that's what I hear-I have never worked outside of Korea but have been researching on this quite a bit.) If you are trying to pay off student loans and such (in other words, you NEED to make some decent money) then don't bother looking anywhere besides these three places you mentioned. (Except for the Middle East countries, but you have to have a Master's degree to get into the Middle East.) Anyway as far as making money stick with what you're looking at, the other places will offer you a good life in THAT country with the pay but will not help you pay off student loans (Example China.) For what it's worth, I am also leaving Korea, and Taiwan is the only place that seems to be interested in me-but I think that has to do with so many people leaving Korea right now also.) Good luck. This may not answer all of your questions, but I hope it helps. Chi-Chi Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:10 am Post subject: off topic, sorry chichi, Could you please explain what you mean by the fact that you "heard Japan referred to as "the promised land" for ESL". I ask, rather off this thread's topic, only because I have another thread going with questions on this very thought. Specifically, what have you heard, where did you hear it, and when did you hear it? Thank you in advance. Back to top chi-chiJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 127Location: Back in Asia! Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:33 am Post subject: I heard it somewhere here on Dave's, I don't remember exactly which board this was stated on. Those words were specifically used in response to someone who thought that getting work in Japan would be "easy" (don't recall if that person had a degree or not.) They said something along the lines of less xenophobia, better pay (although the cost of living is indeed higher) better treatment of minorities, and better living conditions (ie housing) than here in Korea. The person seemed to put out that Japan was a much more liveable country (overall) than many other places to teach ESL. But much harder to find work, hence the comment "the promised land." I don't remember who it was or when that was stated...just that sentence and those other foggy details... Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 7:13 am Post subject: Dear deshell32. Can't help you out with those specific coutries, but here's an observation based on 60 years of living in a lot of different places: There's racism everywhere - and to about the same degree, everywhere. Because there are approximately the same percentage of idiots everywhere. Regards, John Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 8:03 am Post subject: universality of racism I agree with John S. about the universlity of Racism. You could do worse than try Saudi Arabia. If you ahve American citizenship you will be treated reasonably. Don't know about those with Nigerian or Ghanaian passports though ! Back to top deshell32Joined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 9 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:59 am Post subject: Of course I realize racism is going to exist everywhere, but I am just simply searching for a country where it might affect me to a lesser degree. Thank you all for your comments. And I didn't quite understand the last comment pertaining to Saudi Arabia. Back to top deshell32Joined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 9 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:12 am Post subject: Possibly the ME? Can anyone tell me what the odds are of landing a job in a Middle East country are with a MS (not arts) in education and only one year experience? My Master of Science degree is in International & Comparative Education. Instead of focusing on the actual teaching methods of school, it focused on social issues relating to education such as vouchers, teacher autonomy, public v. private schools, school bureaucracies, etc, etc. Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:06 pm Post subject: I see chichi, The promised land does not mean Japan is where it is "much harder to find work". I can't even understand that kind of definition. Promised land means a real boon, a godsend, a wonderful place where dreams come true (and usually quite easily). This is far from how most of us would describe Japan. Yes, as you said, SOMEONE posted that Japan has "less xenophobia, better pay (although the cost of living is indeed higher) better treatment of minorities, and better living conditions (ie housing) than here in Korea. " That does not make it a real boon, a godsend, a wonderful place where dreams come true (and usually quite easily). Just better (in that person's mind) than Korea. SOMEONE wrote " Japan was a much more liveable country (overall) than many other places to teach ESL.", eh? Do you live in Japan? I do, and have since 1998. Have YOU lived in many other places including Japan? If you can't even recall who said such things, it's not really a good idea to spout such claims. I am harping on this fairly seriously because I really get frustrated when someone relays secondhand information with little to no supportive facts. This is NOT a vindictive post, nor a personal attack on you. Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject: Dear dashell32, Well, for starters, more info would be needed: Are you male or female, married or single, how old are you and do you have any overseas teaching experience? But, with the qualifications you mentioned, I'd say it'd be tough to get a decent job with a good salary and good working conditions. Most, if not all, of the " respectable " employers require an MA in TESOL or Linguistics, although English Ed can sometimes sneak through. You might try places such as the American School in Riyadh, grades 1st through 12th, I believe, where many ex-pats send their kids. I know some people who work there; they like it and the salary's decent. Regards, John Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: Dear dashell32, My mistake: it's K - 10th grade. Here's a web site that gives some general info and contact numbers / e-mail address. http://www.state.gov/m/a/os/1517.htm Regards, John Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:45 am Post subject: i don't want to make the mistake of saying people from Taiwan are the same as peple from China, but I have several black friends who all have enjoyed working in China. The ones that left did so because the take home money is not great here. So you are rich while you are here, but can only save $500 a month working an easy college life. I assume you are looking for a place with more money then China. One uni that has about 15 foreign teachers actually has a kind of affirmative action plan, they always try to hire at least one black. Language schools can be different. To over generalize, in the PRC you are either Chinese, a foreigner , or a Japanese (who they still love to hate) Back to top stgeorgeJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 26 Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject: Well I have mixed first hand stories regarding Taiwan. I met a few black and mixed race teacers at adult language schools. But on the telephone I was constantly asked what my hair colour is, can I send a photo, are you a white people or a black people [not my mistake], are you sure you are 100 percent Caucasian [I kid you not]... Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 12:31 am Post subject: Racism is a fact of life that's deeply ingrained in people's minds. Education can help overcome it. Asians in general lack this level of insight. When Asia will one day be prosperous, it will lure more folks from other continents, the local populations will mix with overseas partners. To some extent, it is happening, and it happened when the British were in nominal control of parts of Asia though there were exclusivist mindsets on both sides - the British and their subject peoples. Meanwhile, we as outsiders run the daily gauntlet of stares, being touched, being spoken to but not with, being called all manner of zoological terms. I am not exaggerating! I am white and sometimes I enjoy what some might call "reverse racism": The bus conductor not knowing how to approach me finally gives asking me "mai piao", the policeman that just has fined a jaywalker stares wide-eyed when he sees me crossing the road under a red traffic light (the fining of jaywalkers is a new phenomenon!), the staff in a business centre of a five-star hotel politely ignore me although they are under strict instruction to kick out any stray visitor. Those special treatments are a kind of compensation for the often rude behaviour I face elsewhere. Back to top stgeorgeJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 26 Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 11:30 am Post subject: What country are you referring to Roger and why do you call it "reverse racism"? Are only white people capable of being "racist" in your eyes? My experience is that the only country where you get those sort of racist freaks is South Korea. Korea is full of racist idiots who think a waygook is a thing to be played with. Such attitudes are almost non-existent in more civilised Japan, Taiwan and Thailand. 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