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Merlita has always been compelled by the holistic nature of Osteopathy, it's core understanding that the body heals itself and the simple but profound idea of movement as an expression of health and life. She believes in finding and treating the cause of pain and dysfunction rather than simply treating the symptoms.
She enjoys treating people of all ages and seeing the improvement in their health. Merlita believes in patient education and treats both structurally and cranially, incorporating a wide range of techniques to suit patients needs in every body in a gentle yet focused way. She also brings her experience of many years in Physiotherapy to her practice. Her goal is to assist in optimizing patient's health and well being through a holistic and alternative approach to health care. In her spare time Merlita loves spending precious time with her daughter, taking walks, loves to read whenever possible, cooking and enjoys cake decorating.
Merlita is very passionate about Osteopathy and she is continuing to study postgraduate courses in Osteopathy. Merlita Cabalse is a diplomate of the Canadian Manual Osteopathy Examining Board (CMOEB).
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Listening Techniques: An Osteopathic Approach to Evaluation – Barral Institute, February 2019
Caring immensely for the comfort and care of others, Sheelagh is so passionate about her work and her connection with every person that walks through her door. Her journey into studying the capacities and complexities of the body mind complex began 15 years ago, and turned toward Osteopathy after struggling with her own chronic physical pain and stress. Her philosophy is focused on the unity and integration of the body as a whole, and its own innate ability toward recovery, healing and regulation. Sheelagh is a graduate of the National Academy of Osteopathy, and continues her studies in manual therapies and integrative care. She joined the graduating class (2016) of the Whole Health Medicine Institute (USA), led by Dr. Lissa Rankin (MD).
"It's unbelievable how an empathetic person, whose hands convey a genuine sense of concern, can enhance the body's healing response".
Courses Completed:
Visceral Manipulation (VM1) – Barral Institute, April 2018
Jessica Graduated from the Canadian College of Massage and Hydrotherapy in 2015, after becoming licensed she started her own business in her hometown of Cambridge Ontario where she currently works with motor vehicle and work related injuries. Jessica utilizes a variety of techniques and takes pride in individualizing every treatment for each client's particular needs. Strongly believing in homecare and postural correction you can always expect stretching and strengthening exercises at the end of every treatment to help you further reach your goals. In Jessica's spare time she enjoys reading, Crafts and staying active by taking her dogs for long walks and playing on a soccer team. Jessica is looking forward to learn and grow with the practitioners at Belmont Osteopathy Clinic.
Jessica is currently Licensed with the CMTO and a member of the RMTAO.
Wilma is a certified Advanced Reiki Practitioner. She received her First Degree Reiki Certificate from Conestoga College, Complementary Care Program in 2009. She went on to receive her Second Degree Reiki training in the Usui Reiki system of natural healing and completed her training in the method of Usui Shiki Ryoho Advanced Reiki Training.
As a complementary healing therapy, Wilma graduated from the Foot Reflexology Program at the Reflexology Training Ontario Inc. and is a certified Foot Reflexology Practitioner.
Wilma is a registered member of the Reflexology Registration Council of Ontario (RRCO)and the Canadian Reiki Association (CRA).
Wilma has a passion for working with clients using her training in Reiki and Reflexology to promote deep relaxation, reduce stress and holistically relieve the body of physical, emotional and spiritual 'blockages' and restore the body's natural ability to facilitate much of its own healing.
Wilma grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo and is fluent in German. She started her career in the banking industry before becoming a stay-at-home mom and raising her three children. Wilma has always had an interest in health and wellness, fitness and yoga as well as volunteering in her community. Her interest in holistic health care lead her to explore complementary healing modalities. She lives in Baden with her husband and family dog. She enjoys spending time with her family, walking the dog, gardening and travelling.


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Mouth harp, Ozark harp, Jew's harp, trump, juice harp. All names for the jaw harp, which falls into the category of plucked idiophones. It's considered to be one of the oldest instruments in the world, depicted in a Chinese drawing dating back to 4 BC. And despite its name, it has no connection to Jews or Judaism. So why the name? Some say it derived from the word 'jaw,' others from a French term: 'jeu-trompe' (toy trumpet), and still others claim it was the Jews who first sold these mouth harps in England. For whatever the reason, the jaw harp is played all over the world, like the Austrian jaw harp featured here:
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The Managed Heart, Commercialization of Human Feeling
Arlie Russell Hochschild
University of California Press, 2012
339pp, $39.95
Forcing front line staff to engage at a "personal level" with customers has been an increasingly obnoxious part of low paid workers' employment.
To obscure the all-pervasive low quality of the "food" and "services" that capitalism offers, what is sold now is the "experience" of social interaction. Key to the Happy Meal is the "happy sale".
The capitalists know that we are all used to alienation so they provide — at a price — a substitute relationship; the semblance of non-alienation.
They force workers to not just stand there bleary-eyed at the cash register, bored witless by the monotony of it all. They must make eye contact, smile at the customer, and act like they care about them and not just their money.
Then, after the money has made its transition from wallet to till, they must charmingly hasten the customer on their way.
To play the role, the workers must be induced into the correct mindset, no matter what the emotional cost to themselves.
Whole industries have been erected to produce workers with the mentality necessary to continually perform the required role. "FISH! Philosophy" is the latest example; just Google it — and keep a vomit bowl handy.
Originating at a successful fresh fish stall in the US where the staff were keyed up to be outlandishly funny and engaging with the customers and each other, FISH! Philosophy has been commercialised as a training system for employers to "create the work culture you've been looking for".
Workers who are pushed through the FISH! Philosophy wringer learn to "Be There" for the customers, "Play" with each other in an entertaining manner, "Make Their Day", which is to "delight people in a meaningful, memorable way" and, most importantly to "Choose Your Attitude".
The British Pret A Manger fast food chain has recently been exposed for their demands on employees to exhibit "Pret Behaviours", which derive from FISH! Philosophy.
Pret A Manger workers must "create a sense of fun", be "genuinely friendly" not be "moody or bad-tempered" or appear like they are "just here for the money".
That is: Pret A Manger doesn't just want to buy an employee's labour power, it wants its employees' souls.
In the 1980s, when he wrote the newly republished Managed Heart, a landmark study of this art of manipulation, Arlie Hochschild coined the term "emotional labour" to describe this activity. It means forcing workers to adopt techniques of emotional self-management in order to serve the company's commercial purpose.
He studied the methods that Delta Airlines used to make its cabin staff the friendliest in the skies. This was meant to be more than acting. All staff were put through gruelling training where they were taught all sorts of internal mind manipulation techniques so that they would smile "from the inside out".
Then Delta cut staff numbers so drastically that, as Hochschild puts it, "it became virtually impossible to deliver emotional labour".
"As workers," Hochschild says, "the more seriously social engineering affects our behaviour and our feelings, the more intensely we must address a new ambiguity about who is directing them (is this me or the company talking?)."
Of course, this impinges on us as consumers. We put effort "into distinguishing between gestures of real personal feeling and gestures of company policy".
In the end, navigating through this maze of manipulation, workers struggle with the idea of our "real self", which is "our unique possession no matter whose billboard is on our back or whose smile is on our face".
Around the surface of our human character, says Hochschild, for both the workers and the customers in these interactions "we don a cloak to protect us against the commercial elements".
Hochschild does not explore it, but this situation raises parallels with Stalinist societies. Workers were required to pretend that they agreed with the bureaucrats, while the secret police checked to see that they went through the required motions.
Last September, Pret A Manger fired Andrej Stopa, who was trying to unionise the chain. After all, Pret A Manger staff are not allowed to be unhappy and the chain does not want a worker who "overcomplicates ideas".
Pret A Manger employees have to keep an eye on each other, ensuring that they continually high-five eachother and maintain the flow of chatty banter.
Secret police, in the form of mystery shoppers, visit every branch of Pret A Manger every week. If they like what they see, the staff get a bonus that week.
But punishments flow if the spy happens to be served by somebody who is slightly less than delightful. For living in this fish bowl, workers are paid a pittance and are bullied mercilessly about their shifts.
As capitalism intrudes more into personal psychic space it will inevitably produce a rage against the machine. Tired of low pay, speed-ups and social austerity, workers left with no psychological place to escape the "smile from the inside" will replace it with passionate anger.


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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Maximizing Health Span with Kyle Fisher
**Editor's Note: Today's Ruthless Performer Q&A Series is one of the most expansive in the Q&A series to-date. Like many health professionals, Kyle's own history in sports and wellness lends credibility to many of his thoughts on health and maximizing the health of athletes and the general population. If you like what Kyle has to say, check out his Youtube page (links provided throughout the text). Enjoy!**
1. Hey Kyle, glad to have you on the site… We worked together in college, but you've since came back onto my radar with a video you recently put out that was pretty critical of the modern health care system. What was the chain of events that made you view our healthcare system so unfavorably? What was the straw that broke the camel's back and lead to you to make that youtube video?
The chain began with myself at a young age while in middle school my body began showing warning signs of early degradation of my joints that carried on into high school as well. Don't get me wrong I played hard. I never really had a good internal gauge of when to slow down and just play for fun. I was the guy going 1,000 miles per hour at all times. It didn't matter if it was dodgeball or riding a goat it was all at my best effort. But the immobilization and rest prescription never made sense to me. Before the age of 14 I had 2 ankle casts, 2 full leg casts and a corset back brace applied for a stress fracture in L4 and L5. After all these immobilization techniques and very little rehab you can imagine the insuffiencines that were creeping up in my musculoskeletal and nervous system alike. I felt confused and not well understood during these conservative treatment techniques and believed more could be done. Why not add in an abundance of z packs for sinus infections with the side effect of increased chances of achilles tendon ruptures to the mix. So I continued on my merry way through high school with an unbalanced motor and a broken down immune system. My skin began showing signs of immune system malfunction with acne and a condition called vitiligo that failed conservative medical doctor directed treatments for 8 years. Between dermatologist and orthopedic appointments I had about all but given up on this whole idea of health.
Around this point I had started spending time with a local chiropractor Dr. Lee Lausch that had treated me with a non – traditional modality called the ARP electrical stimulation unit. This really blew me away as it got me back significantly faster than any other treatment I had tried in the past (rest and ice). So I began asking more questions and that's when the flood gates opened. He began providing me with information on nutrition and really from there I began viewing the world through this lens of the body can heal itself. Just at the point where Dr. Lausch and I really began connecting my father had gotten into a traumatic accident. During football camp my senior season a truck had fallen on him and he broke 36 bones in his body. He survived, in which I am so thankful for all the modern medical system has to offer in regards to trauma care. Once they patched him back up is when the wheels started to fall off. He had his entire right femur replaced with a metal rod. His left ankle was in pieces and needed to be put back together. So they essentially did a full ankle replacement. This didn't last long. He was out hiking one day looking for turkeys as he is an avid archery hunter. The ankle replacement had failed quickly and we later found out the bone was necrotic. The surgeon mistakenly anchored the metal into bone that had little integrity. There was no other option at this point but to amputate his leg from the mid calf down.
Yet no fault taken for this complete lack of patient care or pure ignorance to the integrity of the bone. Now this poor guy is 10 plus surgeries in and can't seem to find his way out. His phantom pain is real now from the amputation, he can't sleep and he feels constant jolts of electricity going down to his foot. This seems to be common after an amputation and this field needs more research focused here as it massively affects our veterans.
At this point hes taking a cocktail of medications mainly to control his pain, with the rest of the meds to manage the side effects. We're 2 to 3 years in and his liver is struggling to keep up. The only thing this medication did was temporarily decrease pain and rip apart his body from the inside out. He was getting more unhealthy, losing more of himself and ultimately slowly dying. I came home from college one day and things began to click. One of the last doctor appointments I went to with him they recommended a battery powered device to place into his sacral plexus. This was intended to shut off the pain signals to his lower extremity. We both just stared in disbelief. Lets just say we walked out confused without answers. My dad was at his last resort and that was getting off the meds, begin exercising, fixing his nutrition and using alternative modalities and physicians to get back on track. The results were astounding. Within 6 months he had completely got off his medication, lost give or take 50 pounds and actually started to live his life again. Solely from the pure will of his heart. Not guided by a physician.
Here's the loophole that he discovered that most people will never tell you. And quite frankly what they don't want you to know. His medical doctor didn't want him off medication. The only thing his nurses ever called him for were to check and ensure he was taking his meds. If he didnt fill his script in time you better believe they were calling in minutes to question why that didn't happen. Workers compensation won't pay for much of any alternative therapy beyond what big pharma doesn't control. But here's what they will cover. And this is exactly what my dad did to get his life back. A massage from a licensed massage therapist, a gym membership, physical therapy and chiropractic care. You mix in some quality supplementation and a whole foods diet and voila you have your recipe for success.
The problem was who was going to tell us this? First, the person has to be open to it and that is definitely step number one. But our medical doctor wasn't getting a cut to tell him he gained weight and needs to lose weight. Their concern wasn't directed on fixing. It was solely directed at managing. We had to piece this together through trial and error. You get what you get because you do what you do. If you allow the system to guide you, you can only get out of that system what they offer. You don't know what you don't know.
Well now I know and I'm here to express my story. This was 10 years ago the alternative health movement wasn't as mainstream as its slowly becoming.
2. What roles have you played in the healthcare system? What do you do currently?
I have played many roles in the healthcare system. It began with personal training at the chiropractors office I mentioned previously. Here I was training highschool and Division I athletes all the way up to 70 year old mail carriers using the super slow method on MedX machines. We focused on metabolic specific training from the book Body by Science written by Doug McGuff, M.D. If you haven't read this I highly recommend it.
From here I went to Florida International University to do my graduate work in Athletic Training. As a student I spent time in Division IA football and soccer, NFL with the Cleveland Browns, Orthopedic Urgent Care with a Upper Extremity surgeon and a Private High School. During my time here I also continued studying nutrition with a focus on holistic healing, which was the missing link that I continually found within my more than 2,000 hours of clinical experience in school. It's the large pink elephant in the room and nobody wants to address it. Because the reality is, the majority of folks in these settings have little to no knowledge on the topic which is a system flaw not a personal issue. So really the only way you get proper nutritional training is if you take the time to do it yourself. Period. If you're not learning you're dying. Athletic trainers must have an overseeing physician in most states to practice. Medical Doctors volunteer for teams to get their 'in' for more prospects for their clinic to produce of course more money. What the orthopedic doctor says goes.
I saw the small influence the athletic trainer really had when push came to shove. Especially when speaking on the NFL and athletic trainers role in that setting. They're puppets to the medical doctors and physical therapists. Why hire highly trained medical professionals (ATC's) then disregard their skill set? Once this really clicked for me I decided the NFL was certainly not for me. I passed my board exam early in February before I graduated and accepted a job in march to work as an athletic trainer at a NAIA school in Maine. Everyone thought I was out of my mind for accepting this job due to the location being in northern Maine.
What most didnt know is that I as the primary caregiver for 110 college athletes with no outside influence. I was able to run the strength and conditioning programs, implement injury prevention programs for warm ups, take the athletes grocery shopping and facilitate healing through nutritional understanding and direct application. I wanted to see what I could do with a group of individuals with this approach of an all encompassing program. I was in absolute heaven. 4 of the 5 teams I worked with made it to the national tournament. Men's basketball made it to the final four and both mens and womens soccer teams won the national championship.
Unfortunately the majority of the staff left after this year so I parted ways as well, and moved to Texas. In Texas I worked for a small group of wellness centers that was developed and run by chiropractors. Here I was the movement director and the marketing director. My roles as the movement director included community health education, orthopedic evaluations, soft tissue application and corrective exercise. Here is where my understanding of community health and what the general populations thoughts were on health really expanded. Myself and the chiropractor would go into businesses to provide the employees a green smoothie and salad for lunch. In turn we would present on health and wellness and provide a quick posture screening. My biggest take away here was that people still weren't connecting the dots between what is at the end of their fork and their health. As well as the degenerative effects of sitting under artificial light for 8-10 hours , staring into a computer while in high stress environments.
I mean how far can we possibly get from a human's thriving environment? The typical american spends more than half their life in captivity which is essentially the example I just gave. From a 50,000 foot view of how the typical american lives it looks as if were living in a cage. At the end of the day we're animals. No if, ands or buts about it.
Currently I am one of the athletic trainers at an all boys private high school in Miami Florida where I care for 1,000 athletes that participate in 22 different sports with a total of 50 sports teams. Its my absolute dream job. I perform exactly as NATA states: We collaborate with physicians to provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions. I am the first person to see an injury and the last person to clear them to return to play. This is key for me as I advise the direction of the athletes referral and treat mainly all in house. This is what I learned early on about athletic training, that I feel most people are unaware of. We're holistic healers and use nutrition, modalities and exercise to treat orthopedic injuries. It's a beautiful process. You can essentially build and run a clinic exactly how you want within the confines of your licensure in that state.
3. I know you have experience with athletic training, what are your thoughts on this profession? Where should field of athletic training be applauded for doing a good job and where are mistakes being made?
I'm a big believer that your perception is your reality. Coming into the profession I was very hesitant on staying traditional–referring to working in an academic setting or for a professional sports team. For the sole reason that's what I was exposed to at the time and it seemed as if athletic trainers are all burned out, overworked and underpaid. As a whole is this true? I believe so yes.
The reality is in medicine if you don't work with insurance, prescribe medication or do surgery it's difficult to make great money. Is it possible? Absolutely, but not common. What I discovered is athletic trainers are now everywhere in healthcare and it's expanding which is awesome. It's so important that you find your niche. Every job is very different from the next and that is so important to consider. Like my job in Maine. All the moving pieces were there they just needed someone to glue them together. I was told not to go time and time again.
As an AT you MUST be creative, open minded and adaptive at all times. If you're open to that it will be a blast. Its fast pace, ever changing and always exciting. It's certainly not for everyone. But I believe I found my jam.
Athletic training has been making bounds and leaps in the last 10 years. Especially here in Miami-Dade county. All public secondary schools are required to have an athletic trainer on site. I think this has been our biggest impact. Research and the implementation of evidence-based medicine is so important. Don't get me wrong. But big picture and where I think the focus should be is on the youth. They are vulnerable and exposed to a lot of injuries, specifically concussions. This age group is in such a critical time in human development.
To have someone there on site to assist them with acute management and recovery of injuries. I believe we will continually keep sports safe and will remain developing the youth in a really positive way that just makes society an overall better place.
The mistakes are in athletic trainers allowing past culture nuances of athletic training to continue in the growth that is now taking place. All athletic trainers are now required to have a master of science degree in athletic training to practice. When previously it was a Bachelor's degree. Degrees aren't everything, but the cost vs benefit has to be there. The reality is as a seasonal athletic trainer that is board certified and licensed in the NFL typically makes between $8.50 and $15.00 an hour. This is for a 7 billion dollar company. Yikes. This is supposed to be the peak of the profession, huh? Not to mention athletic trainers are still taking jobs for $30,000 a year after giving over 1,000 hours of work for free and a $100,000 master's degree. It makes absolutely no sense. Know your worth, create your value and stand by it.
4. It's good to see someone involved in the well-being of young athletes being active and leading by example. What are you doing to maximize your health and wellness as an individual?
This is ultimately how I found athletic training. I wanted to know how to heal from injuries and to perform at a high level at all times not just in sports. I had to learn the foundation of this process by really understanding anatomy. I learned anatomy in undergrad but it was nothing remotely close to what I learned in the athletic training degree. From there I could expand.
My daily routine focuses are: mindset, nutrition, exercise, sunlight, giving back, sleep. In that order.
I've really focused on developing in my career to allow these to flourish as much as possible.
This is a big reason why I love my job so much. I go outside everyday, my job requires walking, running and lifting with sitting being a choice. The key focus and most rewarding part is to give back to others and help when they are in need. What a true blessing this really is.
To develop my mindset for the day, I begin my day with gratitude and journaling. This has been the biggest game changer in my life. Setting your intention for the day, being thankful for what you have and sending out some motivational videos/quotes to loved ones that I think will help them that day. Knowing where to focus your consciousness daily can and will help you reach your goals. Instead of letting your day direct you, you direct your day.
Take my probiotic: ultimate flora fx on a empty stomach to create the optimal environment for digestion and immune function throughout my day
Chug a glass of clean water: zero water filter is what I use
Go through emails, write and listen to a collaboration of podcasts or videos for whatever I'm tackling that day.
Currently my favorites are Ram Dass here and now (podcast), Dr. Peter Glidden (youtube), bulletproof radio (podcast), and Chris Kresser's book (your personal paleo code).
After my probiotic breaks down for about a half hour I introduce food which typically looks like 3-6 pasture raised eggs cooked over easy in grass fed butter along side smoked salmon, grass fed cheese and organic berries – this varies.
This is on days I exercise. If I know I'm not going to lift I will fast until lunch and just supplement throughout the morning.
My daily supplements in the morning currently are:
Tangy Tangerine 2.0 and Osteo FX: multivitamin and mineral powders
- 60 minerals
- 12 amino acids
- 16 vitamins
- All plant derived from organic/non-gmo ingredients
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I'm currently detoxifyng my liver so I'm also mixing in that same drink a powder called Pollen burst: superoxide dismutase (SOD)/Gliadin complex
- Created from Flower pollen
- To Increase antioxidant pathways
Read more about this here.
Also, Ultimate EFA plus.
- Fatty acids from Borage, Flax and Fish (anchovy, Sardines and Pollock)
- IFOS (international fish oil standard) certified
- This is so essential as it tests the product for oxidation, heavy metals and potency along with many other specifications
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I26 hyperimmune Egg: Immunoregulatory supplement that is well documented and quite an advancement in the ability to assist in arthritis healing and digestion.
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Ultimate Selenium: This prevents many types of cancer specifically two types breast and prostate
- Essential trace mineral
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Zinc Fx: 48% of americans are deficient in zinc. This trace mineral isn't talked about enough.
- It builds & supports immune system
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What I have found for myself that works really well is quite simple. I lift weights/exercise for 30 minutes a day everyday. I believe the core foundation to a successful healthy lifestyle is rooted in quality and consistency not much of anything else. I don't think there is a specific exercise that is going to correct anything in the body but more the collaboration of movement and consistency at which you perform that exercise. Currently because of the lifestyle I choose to live, training to become proficient in advanced lifts isnt what my focus is on. So I choose the most effective and efficient way for my body to prevent illness and thrive. Which for me and my physiology is 30 min a day of no short rest heavy lifting. I usually keep it to 3 to 4 different lifts that change frequently to attend to the SAID principle, the process of reversibility and engaging in different exercises to challenge my nervous system to generate growth in neural pathways.
What I don't currently do enough of that I need to refocus on is just going outside and playing. The psychological aspect of creativity in exercise is so important and finding ways to move the body and challenge the nervous system with complex dynamic movements is key. Playing frisbee, golf, volleyball or climbing a tree and using the gifts we were given as humans is the best way to fulfill the human bodies requirements of advanced technological movement patterns that dampen quite fast if not used.
To categorize my diet to American fad diets you could say it's a paleo diet mixed with keto fasting focusing on quality not quantity. I eat less and focus on high quality diversification of nutrient dense foods and supplementation. Most of my calories come from lunch. Lunch consists of a small amount of carbs such as white rice, yuca, sweet potatoes, plantains. With protein I try for two different types each meal between fish, eggs, pork, beef, and chicken. A large salad with fresh raw veggies and my dressing is ACV or balsamic vinegar. I like to include a majority of raw fruits and veggies as I've found this is what works best for me.
At lunch I do nutrition counseling with some athletes on what to eat for that day which keeps me accountable and learning everyday from them.
Dinner: Raw fruit and vegetable based. This has really worked for me and has been a great alteration in my diet that was a big change from how I grew up. Dinner was always the biggest meal to now dinner being my smallest meal calorie wise, because of the way my day is set up. Sleep is the last focus for the day. My greatest challenge here has been slowing down my mind enough to rest. My strategy consists of putting my phone down and turning on airplane mode, getting rid of all the white light and just leaving my salt lamp on while I reflect on my day. Once I generate my thoughts I journal and get all those thoughts on paper. This has really allowed me to fall asleep and once I'm out I'm out for the night. With a typical night being 8 hours. I don't believe everyone needs 8 hours but it's what works for me. Some people may need more or less.
5. Some (of many) similarities I see between us are your voracious reading habits and how up-to-date you are in the world of health. What trends do you see emerging? Are these good trends? Where should the academic sphere of health be directing its resources?
It's been an incredible journey thus far. I think it's our obligation to read and keep up with the steady flow of information. I don't want to outsource my problems to someone else. I'd rather take the time to learn myself.
The trends I see coming are environmental awareness which the nutrition and holistic healing community are dovetailing off of. People are gaining interest in less medications and are looking for alternative routes to the failed health care system here in America. This has also brought about a spiritual shift as well. We're connecting the mind, body and spirit instead of tearing them apart into separate entities. I think this is where the big yoga explosion and the legalization of cannabis are coming from and millennials aren't interested in the old failed systems. We're interested in progression and change for the most part. The age of information has opened the door to self healing and questioning of what's really happening in health care. I think these are great trends and I am so excited to be a part of it.
Academia should be directing their focus on staying up to date with the latest evidence. But presenting it in a way the common man can benefit. Not manipulating information to benefit big corporations. The gap is in the presentation not the information. I don't think we need more evidence at this point to prove that daily exercise, proper sleep, exposing yourself to sunlight and the outdoors, eating organic whole foods, drinking clean water and surrounding yourself in a loving community prevents illness and is required for the human body to thrive. These things are non negotiable. Yet its still so far from common knowledge.
My point here is: It's simple. Let's start with the basics and build from there to heal this planet and the human race. No magical discovery of a gene, medication, working at stressful job inside a cubicle, and separating ourselves from society is going to fix the problem. Vote with your dollar if you want change not on a ballot. Support your local farmers and small businesses.
6. If you had $1,000,000 to maximally improve the health of as many people as possible, what would you do?
My dream is to be able to create a project for an annual immersion retreat similar to what Tony Robbins does, but make it very affordable to the common person that will focus on daily routine alteration. Teaching cooking, exercise and play, education series each day, nature immersion and connecting to the earth and your food, mindset development through self love and expression. There are many retreats like this going on now. I just feel as if they are all separate and not brought together as one complete piece. I know I can't reach everyone, because people are ready when they're ready. One of my favorite quotes is "when the student is ready the teacher will appear"- unknown.
7. Do you have any closing thoughts? Where can people find more about you and what are your plans for the world of health and athleticism over the next year?
Ask questions and educate yourself everyday, create a filter of truth for yourself to view the world, never settle, love yourself, you're beautiful in your own ways, be kind to others, get outside and play you're never too old, eat real food and have fun. Being healthy is exciting not bland and boring.
I'm currently proposing to the school I work at to develop two strength training courses that will teach movement and nutrition to freshman and juniors for next school year. I also began my personal brand called the Alternative Fish which is a youtube channel, facebook and instagram page that will be for information on exactly the topics I covered here. I just started it so bare with me. Lots of posts to come!
Thanks for having me. Really looking forward to this collaboration.
Ruthless Performer Q&A – Functional Medicine with Dr. Touchinsky
This post marks the first in our new Ruthless Perfomer Q&A series. Throughout this series we'll be talking with various health and fitness influencers regarding their specific niche and how it effects the world of health and wellnessa at-large.
Today we're joined by Dr. Touchinsky who established Blue Mountain Family Chiropractic in 2005. His early focus was helping people suffering with pain and injuries utilizing hands on chiropractic care. Within the first few years of practice, he realized that many of the cases seen required more than just physical treatment. People were dealing with issues caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, inadequate sleep, and other lifestyle related factors. However, due to a variety of reasons, none of their health care providers were addressing these issues. This lead Dr. Touchinsky to study and become certified in Functional Medicine.
What is Functional Medicine and why is this something you're so engaged in?
Conventional medicine usually seeks to identify a problem, an injury, or an illness. Diagnosis and treatment of that diagnosis is their forte. They are the doctors of "what". They want to know what is wrong with you, and then they apply the treatment designed for that problem.
The best way to describe functional medicine practitioners is we are the doctors of "why". Why are you sick? Why do you have an autoimmune disease? Why do you have chronic fatigue? This "why" can vary… it may be poor gut health due to frequent use of antibiotics in the past, or nutrient deficiencies due to an inadequate diet, or excessive stress from work, overtraining in the gym, or lack of proper sleep and recovery. The "why" can vary from person to person so we look at each individual's "why" so we can develop a plan for that person and not their disease.
Teach us something… What is something within health that you think many physically active, healthy individuals may be ignorant to (i.e. I am always sure to teach clients about the relationship between the lymphatic and muscular system)?
Gut health is supreme. "You are what you eat" is a common saying. However, it's not that simple. It's what we eat, digest, assimilate, and excrete. Our digestive system helps manage what our body takes in to help build muscle, health and repair all sorts of tissues including our vital organs, make neurochemical and hormones, etc. It also helps us get rid of the toxic by products of doing all of that. It's both the fuel injector system and the exhaust system. If the gut is chronically inflamed it's going to affect nutrient absorption. If there's constipation, it's like plugging up the exhaust pipe in your car or the chimney in your house. This affects health more than most people realize.
If you doubt that or this is a new concept to you, google "gut" and <insert health problem or disease name here> and take a look at what shows up.
What do you think is the easiest thing individuals already engaged in a fitness program can change about their daily routine to further improve their health?
Most people can benefit from eating less meals per day and eating within a 12 hour time period per day, with earlier being better. An example might be at 7am, 11am-1pm, and 5pm-7pm. Eating food disrupts normal equilibrium and places the body under stress. It's a necessary function, but triggering that stress every few hours is not good. It's beneficial to give the body plenty of time between our meals and then one long period per day of 12 hrs or more. There even some interesting research showing that more than 12 hours can be even more of an advantage. This is called intermittent fasting or time restricted feeding. This can be taken even a step further by doing full water fasting or a Fasting Mimicking Diet on occasion. For more information on that, search for fasting and Dr. Valter Longo.
As someone within the field, what do you think about the current state of chiropractic care? What are some common myths or concerns that you come across regularly? Are these concerns warranted?
Chiropractors practice methods that are the most effective means of addressing muscle, joint, and many nerve issues in my opinion. We have extensive training and spend our career seeing people with injuries and pain. Not only are we trained in treating these issues, but diagnosing them as well. This makes us a great first option when someone has something wrong. If it turns out it's a more serious issue that requires a surgeon, or if there's doubt and more testing needs to be done, we can refer or order testing such as blood tests, MRIs, and CT scans. Most of the time we can start treating immediately and begin providing patients relief on day one.
Some common myths that I see are we only treat the spine. That might be how we got our start over 100 years ago, but we now are trained on evaluating and treating a wide variety of issues. We're not just "bone setters" either. I work just as much on the muscles as I do the bones and joints. Another common myth is that once you start going, you have to keep on going. There may be some cases of permanent injuries or those that have very demanding jobs where it makes sense to see someone once every few months to keep them in good shape, but in most cases my goal is to get the person out of pain, show them what they can do for themselves to prevent the problem from recurring, and then discharge them from care.
Most forward-thinking individuals working in healthcare admit it's a rather flawed system. What do you think is the most troubling aspect of modern healthcare in America? What do you think is the easiest problem within healthcare to fix?
It's a very flawed system. Health insurance dictates care and most providers end up treating to the insurance. Insurance payment to providers is based on what is done to a patient. It's procedural based. That means that the more "stuff" that we do to patients, the more we bill, and the more we get paid. If you do less "stuff", you get less payment. This only promotes overutilization of certain services. Additionally, an officer visit where your doctor diagnoses a common cold gets paid the same as a visit where they diagnose and (attempts to) manage diabetes. The latter is way more complicated and requires much more attention and expertise to handle. I could really go on and on, but I'll leave it at that.
The easiest problem to fix is to take away the middleman. Take away insurance. That sounds horrible because it's the only way most people can afford to see a doctor, but by taking away the middle man we would lower the costs for everyone. If people had to pay for everything out of pocket (at least up front), then they would help, along with the doctor, if a procedure or test is really necessary. If you doubt this, ask any provider, "do you tend to order more testing on people with or without insurance?" For those that truly can't afford care, we can take the money we use to subsidize health insurance and set up free and reduced clinics. At least this would put money directly into communities and building facilities and paying providers, vs. sitting in the coffers of insurance companies to selectively dole out as they wish.
**Editor's Note: John Matulevich of Ruthless Performance will be appearing on Dr. Touchinsky's Podcast "Healthy Habits with Dr. T" this wednesday night. You can preregister to listen to the podcast at the address here or watch it live on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/doctortouchinsky/ **


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Seattle's Center for Infectious Disease Research announced Tuesday that it has received a new, $17.2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to fund its research into tuberculosis, a persistent and deadly disease in many parts of the world.
While the research at CIDR will focus primarily on basic science that studies how the disease operates, that information will be key to developing new treatments and preventions for tuberculosis.
"To combat the global health crisis that is TB and deliver new diagnostics, drugs and a vaccine, we desperately need new approaches and new understanding of the disease," John Aitchison, president of CIDR and co-investigator on the program, said in a press release. "Systems biology approaches enable big data generation, analysis and modeling that enable insights and prediction not possible any other way. This consortium will apply systems biology and predictive modeling to understand TB pathogenesis, and will lead to new methods for diagnoses, treatment and prevention."
In 2016, 10.4 million people were diagnosed with TB and the disease was responsible for 1.7 million deaths, according to the Center for Disease Control. Not everyone who carries TB bacteria gets sick, though: About 25 percent of the world's population is infected with the disease but doesn't show symptoms, making it hard to stop the disease's spread.
A recent increase in drug-resistant tuberculosis is also ushering in new research as scientists work to find new treatments to battle those strains. Researching drug-resistant TB is one of the focuses of CIDR's work.
The announcement of the grant comes the same day as a new study from Bentley University, which found that the 210 medicines approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2016 all had ties to funding from the National Institutes of Health. In all, the government put $100 billion in funding towards scientific research that led to the new treatments.
"The research ultimately seeks to catalyze new, transformative interventions, such as diagnostics, drugs and vaccines," CIDR said of its work.


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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul (41) has officially retired from international cricket, seven months after selectors opted to discard the veteran and push for a youth-oriented policy.
Chanderpaul, who was dumped before the home series against Australia last June, said at the time he felt he deserved the opportunity to play one final series despite a poor return in domestic cricket before the squad was selected.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) thanked him for his contribution to their game.


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Instagram has started showing notifications in Urdu, everything in this app shows in Urdu now.
Whereas according to the settings Instagram will appear in the same language that your phone or tablet is set to.
There are number of users who are freaking out over this sudden change and complaining that there language was changed from English to Urdu and they have no idea why or how to change it back. Any thoughts?
If you want to just look up for some words and their definitions Just see the below reactions tweetries have posted on their twitter accounts regarding the change in Language.
#Instagram in #Urdu now #AJAppleNewsCenter #Instagrammers #AppleNews pic.twitter.com/svhK5sQ1OO
— A-J (@AJavedSoofi) May 18, 2016
I added urdu keyboard to look up for some words and their definitions online yesterday and my instagram is now in urdu tf
—  (@BismaShoaib) May 17, 2016
My instagram is showing notifications in Urdu wth
— No (@WhereIsDonut) May 12, 2016
How to shift from Urdu Instagram language to English, any help ??
— Soldier (@Truth_pk) May 11, 2016
Gone are the days when you follow someone on Insta it has become PERVI now
What a time…
HUMNE APKI TASWEER KO PASAND KIA.. Just look at it
Just a thought that from now onwards there will be in depth anaylysis in Urdu on posts rather then mere Comments, more like URDU ADAB KI CLASSIC BETHAK ( Urdu litrary corner).
Urdu is most likely the sweetest dialect to pass on your affection. Nothing is more enjoyable than writing things in your own language.
Need your help guys#INSTAGRAM ke language kaise change hogi? Khudi urdu hogai ha????????????
ajeeb ajeeb words hen samhj e ni ata kch
Please help
— ali murtaza-Bunny (@ChawkltyAli) April 13, 2016
Skype Arabic Mein hai aur Instagram Urdu Mein.. Patane Kon pangay kerta rehta hai..
— meinammaratounaihu (@Raaawraaw) April 14, 2016
Learn your own language Urdu, my friends!
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iPhones with curved screens and touchless gestures coming in 2-3 years
A new report purportedly coming from "people with knowledge of the matter" says Apple is working on bringing curved screens to its smartphones, a move which may happen in around 2-3 years. These panels will curve inward gradually from top to bottom, and not down at the edges like Samsung's recent flagships.
It's unclear if Apple sees any additional benefit in ergonomics by going a different direction with its curves, or this is simply a measure meant to preemptively stop people from saying it copied Samsung.
Apple iPhone X
Although the OLED panel of the iPhone X curves at the bottom, that's mostly hidden from owners of the device – the purpose is solely to make the bottom bezel as small as possible, by having the necessary screen drivers 'under' it. But Apple's long-lasting distaste for curved displays may be going the way of its hatred of big-screen phones – which was legendary back in the day before the first Plus iPhone launched.
Touchless gestures are also apparently on their way to an iPhone near you, and they could be implemented in two years at the earliest. This means you'll be able to 'hover' your finger above the display in order for certain tasks to be performed. You'll need to get pretty close to the screen, though, because the gestures rely on technology built into the display itself.
Both this and the curved screens are currently in the early research and development phase at Apple, and thus it's not a given that either or both of them will actually make it to shipping products.
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LANGUAGES OF FOOD: The framing of culinary appropriation
In the modern global market, languages are traded alongside with goods. Words and linguistic symbols are used to mediate economic exchanges. The way products are framed, described by their quality or authenticity, has important effects over their value. Meanwhile, purchasing and consuming are languages by themselves, symbols of class and status that transmit meanings to others. Although there is no straightforward explanation about how consumption expresses meanings, there is a general sociological consensus that purchasing is not only an individual activity to ease personal needs and please innate tastes, but rather a language through which we interact with other people, fulfill social aspirations and place ourselves among our peers. Mainly borrowing from the contributions made by the French intellectual Pierre Bourdieu sociologists have produced a vast range of academic research about consumers as subjects devoted to a communicative process. … More LANGUAGES OF FOOD: The framing of culinary appropriation


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Everything is Illuminated
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2002. The advance reading copy of his first novel, one of the most highly praised literary debuts of the year -- named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and winner of the Guardian First Book Prize, among other literary awards. A film adaptation, done by Liev Schreiber, won the Laterna Magica Prize at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Signed by the author. In the first issue, red and cream wrappers. Slight splaying to front cover; near fine. [#029309] SOLD
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With the cleanup from Hurricane Sandy underway, fans flocked to re-opened theaters on the East Coast to get a much needed escape from the devastation. The result: One of the busiest weekends in recent memory and a huge win for Disney's new animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph," which conquered the box office to the tune of an estimated $49.1 million.
That marks Disney's biggest non-holiday opening of all time and signals both a renewed creative energy for Disney's non-Pixar animation studio as well as the birth of a new franchise, as these kind of numbers just about guarantee a sequel. The film's "A" Cinemascore and lack of competition from other family films should ensure a long run as well.
"Wreck-It Ralph" wasn't the only new film impressing audiences and critics, though. Denzel Washington's aviation drama "Flight" took in a surprisingly robust $25 million, which is especially impressive given that it debuted in only 1884 locations, barely more than half as many as "Wreck-It Ralph's" 3752 screens. Strong word of mouth and a high per-screen average could keep "Flight" around for awhile as well.
The news wasn't so good, on the other hand, for RZA's new kung-fu epic "The Man with the Iron Fists," which finished a distant fourth behind "Argo" with just $8.2 million in its opening weekend. And Andy and Lana Wachowski's ambitious sci-fi epic "Cloud Atlas" faded even further in its second weekend, dropping to sixth on the charts. With a cumulative total of only $18.2 million so far, the $102 million production looks destined to become a major box office flop.
Here's a look at the full chart, courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. "Wreck-It Ralph" - $49.1m (our review)
2. "Flight" - $25m
3. "Argo" - $10.2 (our review)
4. "The Man with the Iron Fists" - $8.2m (our review)
5. "Taken 2" - $6m (our review)
6. "Cloud Atlas" - $5.2m (our review)
7. "Hotel Transylvania" - $4.5m (our review)
8. "Paranormal Activity 4" - $4.3m
9. "Here Comes the Boom" - $3.6m (our review)
10. "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D" - $3.3m (our review)


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Over time, drug users will need larger doses, which leads to increased drug use. Frequency of drug use will also increase until eventually an attempt to stop or failing to use will cause withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms may include headaches, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and seizures/tremors.
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Labor razor gang faces dilemma as coffers $8bn worse off than predicted in May budget
The Federal Government is facing a budget dilemma, with the ABC learning revenues are around $8 billion lower than the May budget predicted.
The Government's razor gang met on Friday morning to debate whether to implement painful budget cuts before the election or delay the return to surplus, currently scheduled for 2016-17.
The budget is in a tough position with the mining tax underperforming and revenue from other taxes also lower than expected.
Treasurer Chris Bowen said Australia was also facing "dramatic reductions" in its terms of trade, but reaffirmed the intention to return to surplus on schedule.
The Government has got decisions to make on any potential cuts, but insiders insist the easy cuts have all already been made.
One Labor source questioned whether the Government should cause budget pain for the public at a time when Labor is just starting to perform better in the polls.
The Government will release its fiscal update next week, and Treasury will release its own accounting, the pre-election fiscal outlook (PEFO), early in the election campaign.
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey questioned the motives for the release of the Government's fiscal update so close to the PEFO.
"Why is the Government releasing a comprehensive economic statement just a few days before the pre-election fiscal outlook? It is about trying to bully the Treasury into a fixed set of numbers," he said.
Will Rudd miss his chance?
If Kevin Rudd doesn't go to see the Governor-General this weekend, there will be plenty of people willing to say afterwards that he should have done so.
The leadership is refreshed, party reform underway, the intervention in NSW announced, the carbon tax set to be abolished, and the asylum seekers issue in better shape than it was.
Barrie Cassidy suggests that any time now wasted outside a formal campaign can only erode the initial burst of support built on the departure of Julia Gillard and the emergence of an alternative to Tony Abbott.
Read the full piece here and have your say...
Mr Hockey questioned the independence of Treasury by saying the Coalition would not rely on its figures to frame its policy costings because they could not be trusted.
That was despite earlier in the year saying "the only numbers than we can rely on are the PEFO numbers released by the heads of department during the course of the election campaign".
Mr Hockey now says every time the Government publishes budget figures they are "dead-set wrong".
He says the Coalition will instead base its policy costings on figures from the Parliamentary Budget Office, state Coalition governments and independent advisers.
The Treasurer has rejected Mr Hockey's assertions about Treasury's independence.
"It is an insult not to me but to the Treasury and the Department of Finance, and I am sick and tired of the Opposition trashing the reputation of Australia's public servants," Mr Bowen said.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has backed his treasury spokesman.
"Joe was making the point that figures from this Government have never turned out to be true; never, never, never starting from their very first budget."
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Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
this week I have been immersed in assembling and reassembling pieces - I'm not talking metaphorically but rather quite literally as I have been busily working on constructing a quilt. it is difficult to say what is my favorite part of the making a quilt, but piecing a quilt is right up there with selecting the fabrics for a project.
I'm almost finished piecing the quilt pictured above, all I have left is to add the borders; once the borders are done the piece will be ready for quilting. quilting is the perfect word for the letter q - but, alas, I used that word the second time I played around with the alphabet.
p is also for pesto.
the word pesto is derived from pestâ - and means to pound. the traditional process for making pesto is to pound the ingredients - basil, nut, garlic - with a mortar and pestle.
instead of a mortar and pestle I use a small food processor (but you can also use a blender). so one could say my sauce is made from the pieces of my ingredients. this is the time of year I put up pesto to last until next year's basil harvest.
recipe for perfect pesto:
2-3 cups loosely packed fresh basil leaves
3 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of salt
1/4 cup of pine nuts
1-2 tablespoons of freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano
3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
first chop up basil, garlic and salt into fine bits with the small food processor. next, crush the pine nuts and then add to basil and garlic, chop some more and throw in the cheese. finally add the olive oil a small amount at a time - my appliance has a small hole on top and I slowly pour the oil through that while mixing.
use any way you like. some people say not to add the cheese if you are planning on freezing the pesto. I have both added the cheese and not added the cheese, and to tell you the truth, I haven't found that the cheese in anyway compromises the integrity of the pesto.
buon appetito!
and now for something completely different. betty hutton (as pearl white) singing the sewing machine song from the 1947 movie the perils of pauline


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LOTS is spoken about the best gig and the best solo and whatever, nothing much is ever talked about the best encore you ever saw at a gig.
|YET'S TWIST AGAIN... Super Furry Animals
The second best was the Super Furry Animals (right) coming back on to the stage at the Royal Court, dressed as Yetis and playing a white noise guitar version of That Man Don't Give a Fuck which was introduced with a 10 minute techno mix with a sample of Bill Hicks intoning 'All Governments are murderers and liars'. (Great alternative review here at Time magazine.)
However, the best was Brazilian legend Seu Jorge (Last FM link) at the Liverpool Philharmonic a few years ago.After doing a mesmerising two hour mega show full of solo acoustic hits and full band material, he took the band on a tour of the stalls and upstairs to the balcony of the great old hall one and all beating out a samba rhythm. I was 'that' close to the man, I touched his dreds, blud.
All gigs should close with a parade - or may be that's the Northern Ireland in me coming out.
Here's some more youtube footage of a magnificent evening I enjoyed with our much missed mate Dave McManaman RIP - if you stare closely you'll see me and Macca dancing up on the balcony.


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About this event
New communities are growing on the internet, but they are using decentralized architectures, peer-to-peer protocols, and cultural codes (emojis, meme gifs, etc) that make it harder to survey, map, and understand. Your challenge is to explore this new ecosystem and develop novel data science techniques to illuminate it.
You will be provided with a list of platform and protocol sources (Check the Rules for a comprehensive set of links to the data and other resources provided for this challenge.)
You must:
Scrape and ingest a representative set of content from each resource provided.
Perform text analysis (including entity extraction/identification, sentiment, etc) on all unstructured and structured text fields. This includes translating from the source language to English (at some point in the overall analytical pipeline)
Perform graph/SNA-type analysis on all relationship data (post, author, comment, etc)
Perform analysis on all media posted. Goal is to derive as much context as possible from a given media post as well as context of the collective post (media, non-media such as tags, comments, etc), and any other topical/contextual "channels".
Finally, you will have to provide an overall "contextual dashboard" to illustrate the topical/semantic/sentimental trends within and across different platforms and protocols. Extra credit for a "Grey Network Weather Report" that can illustrate probabilistic correlation over time series across all sources ingested.
This challenge is sponsored by Donovan Group, SOCOM J-5, and will be judged by Maj Jen Snow and CDR Ed "Rockhound" Ward.
- Friday
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- Saturday
Schedule for the day is not published
"Rules are for people without principles" - M. Scott Here are the OpenWERX Principles: Open Source We recommend that all your work for this Hackathon be made publicly available under an Open ...
"Rules are for people without principles" - M. Scott
Here are the OpenWERX Principles:
Open Source We recommend that all your work for this Hackathon be made publicly available under an Open Source license. Make sure to submit your work to the repository of your choice, and include the URL in your video submission. If you use non-Open Source building blocks, frameworks, libraries, APIs, etc, you will face a points penalty during the judging phase.
Community We highly recommend you build a team with various skills. Remember that you will be judged by your approach and presentation, not just the work you actually accomplish.
Collaboration We use the #openwerx channel on the Suncoast Developer Guild's Slack. Go here to sign up: https://suncoast.io. This is where you can ask questions about the event and the challenges, and the judges will use Slack for team Q&A while they are reviewing your submissions.
Submissions You must make a 3-5 minute video demo your hack and upload it to YouTube. No slide-decks or Powerpoints will be allowed. During judging, at least one team member must monitor the #openwerx Slack channel to respond to any questions from the judges.
Suggested Data Sources:
ZeroMe (decentralized social media through the Zeronet network). You can either install the Zeronet (https://zeronet.io/) software, or use a public proxy.
SteemIt (social network with cryptocurrency rewards for content contributors): https://steemit.com
Mastadon (distributed social network): https://mastodon.social/about. We recommend scraping the Federated feed (https://mastodon.network/web/timelines/public)
IPFS (p2p hypermedia protocol): https://ipfs.io/. There are search utilities and websites that make this easier (http://ipfs-search.com/ and https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYo5ZWqNW4ib1Ck4zdm6EKteX3zZWw1j4CVfKtnAzNdvu/)
You can use any publicly available information set to help you with this challenge
For general event information: http://www.sofwerx.org/openwerx-hackathon/


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This test provides an automated way of examining whether Psiphon works in a tested network.
Psiphon is a free and open source tool that utilises SSH, VPN and HTTP proxy technology for censorship circumvention.
This test runs Psiphon and checks to see if it is working. If it's able to connect to a Psiphon server and reach a website over it, then we consider that Psiphon can be used for censorship circumvention within the tested network. If however the test is unable to connect to Psiphon servers, then it is likely the case that they are blocked within the tested network.


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Bored… Bored… Bored… I am so bored!
On the plane between Rio and New York, heading North. I'm not sure where we are exactly but it's about 3am NYC time. About an hour ago we were over Venezuela. I could tell by all the oil rigs. We have about three hours left. All my passengers are dead asleep.
I slept like a rock on my break, which was good because I'm not sure when my next good sleep will be. It won't be tonight because that's now and we land at 6:30am. I'll sleep for a few hours during the day and then go out with Cindy, Diggy, Buffy, and Sport in the East Village. Diggy and his DJ buddies are throwing a party on Houston and Orchard. I'm sure that will be a late night. I'm positive of that. So that will be very little sleep because the next day I gotta get up at 10am to watch the Liverpool game on TV and then head straight over to Newark to stand by for the SAS flight to Stockholm. So that night will be spent on a plane and not much sleeping will happen then I'm sure.
Once I get to Sweden I reckon I'll be out partying all five nights. I can only hope we sleep in during the day, but I'll be way too excited to do that. I'll be up early and wanting to wander around and check out Stockholm with my camera and journal. I think my best bet is to take a sleeping pill on the plane to Stockholm and sleep all the way there. At least I'll be hitting the ground fully rested. I won't be at my house again until the night of the 23rd. I left it on July 29th so that's nearly a month. I'm glad I don't have any pets. My plants will be lucky to be alive.
I got the lowest maintenance plants known to man. My mom once threw one away and six months later it was still alive. That's the perfect plant for me. I like my friendships that are like that. They can remain dormant yet preserved thru months of neglect.
It's really like I don't even have a house. I'm not sure why I got one. Obama's $8000 First Time Home Buyers tax credit was too good to pass up. I love being home more than anything, but I'm also perfectly happy staying in New York and running around with my friends there on my days off. I also love to travel and could do that forever. I always thought it was a good thing to be that adaptable, being able to live anywhere, but now I think it says something about my personality, and maybe that's not necessarily a good thing. Maybe that's why I'm still single.
I'm getting even more bored. This flight is dragging. I'm eating Brazilian cheese balls by the handful and drinking vegetable broth just out of boredom. I've also noticed that I've been staring at the ice cream for the last ten minutes. It's as good as in my stomach.
I'm so damn bored that I'm now racing glasses of juice. I had set out ten little glasses of OJ and apple juice in case someone woke up and wanted one. They're sitting on the counter and the vibration from the plane is causing them to very slowly move down the countertop. At first I thought the lady I'm flying with kept moving them but then I noticed it happened again when she was in the back of the plane. They don't go very fast. It takes several minutes to travel a few inches. They're moving at glacier speed.
That's when I decided to race two of them. I picked an orange and an apple and made sure they held the same exact amount of juice. I moved them back ten inches and let them go. It's been about five minutes now and Apple has moved 3cm and Orange 1cm. It's like watching turtles race. I decided it's more fun if I don't watch them and just check back every few minutes to see how they're going.
All the other glasses of juice are lined up in the back, cheering them on. There are seven orange juices and just one apple so I'm rooting for Apple. He's a loner, Dottie, a rebel. Some of the OJ spectators aren't staying where they're supposed to on the sidelines. They're slowly vibrating their way on to the track.
Fuck it, I'm starting the ovens early. It won't get us into NYC any earlier but it makes me think that we are. The next step in all the steps that need to happen to end this flight is to serve First Class breakfast. That should be happening in an hour but I think I'll do it now instead, even if it means just two of us serving the entire cabin while the other two First Class stews are still on break. Then we can move on to the next step. Let's get these steps done as quickly as possible, no matter how sloppy and rushed. I'd make a horrible twelve-stepper.


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There is an inspiring range of product and services available at these web portals includes spa & salon services, hair & skin care, dental care, makeup and cosmetic, perfumes and fragrances, dental care, fragrances, nutrition, gym equipments, weight loss products and more. You can make a pick from the huge array of products available at your favourite online retailers.
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It might not feel like it right now, but spring is just around the corner. Early spring is one of the most exciting times of the year. Plants bloom, flowers blossom, grass turns from brown to green; it's like the whole world wakes up. Birds are one of the best parts of spring. After getting used to the silence of winter, morning bird songs are a treat you forgot you missed. Well. Usually.
Birds coming back in spring is supposed to be a happy occasion. If those birds decide to roost on your home, however, you could wind up wishing for six more weeks of winter. And nobody should ever miss winter. Here are a few of the birds that'll be back this season, and how to keep them from killing your blossoming buzz.
Most birds are sort of charming, even when they're being pests. Not geese. Geese are the terrorists of the avian world, and it can feel like they're out to get you, personally. They drop their "bombs" on cars, windows, and rooftops with unerring accuracy. They seem defiantly unafraid of people, cars, or, indeed, the possibility death itself. If you cross them, they will unleash a winged vengeance completely incongruous with their size or apparent relative domesticity.
Every spring, geese return to their northern nesting grounds to lay eggs and foster goslings. Parent geese stay with their children as they grow and defend them against perceived threats fiercely. They breed and nest near bodies of water and eat grass. Geese tend to be particularly attracted to kentucky bluegrass. If you have geese on your property, don't attempt to scare them away yourself. Instead, keep your lawn mowed higher, fence off areas near water, and consider investing in goose deterrents.
Seeing the return of the robins is considered the first sign that spring is here to stay. Ironically, however, many American robins don't actually migrate at all! Instead, they move into deeply forested regions to feed on unfrozen berries preserved under heavy foliage. Robins re-appear in spring because they can access their preferred food source, earthworms, as soon as the ground thaws.
Robins aren't typically considered serious residential pest birds. They're not unusually aggressive, they don't inflict major property damage, and they mostly leave gardens alone. Robins can become pests in two ways: by munching on fruit crops, and by making nests near homes. The former problem concerns farmers primarily, but nesting could potentially concern everyone. When robins nest they may pose health, safety, and property damage risks. Prevent this by cleaning your gutters and downspouts frequently, clearing fallen yard debris, and installing gutter guards.
Barn Swallow
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is one of eight swallows that breed in North America. During winter, they fly all the way to South America to stay warm. In late winter, they begin the long migration north to Latin America and the southern US. Barn swallows nest all over the US. As their name implies, barn swallows tend to like to build their nests in and around existing structures. This can occasionally make them pest birds.
Barn swallows build small nests by bunching together various yard debris and taking it to a high, sheltered location. They're fond of building in rafters, outcroppings around rooftops, ventilation shafts, and other high places. Unfortunately, these nests can sometimes block ventilation, gutters, drains, or other important fixtures. Swallow waste is dirty and can transmit disease, as well. Prevent barn swallows from nesting near your home by setting up gutter guards, clearing yard debris, and installing ventilation grates.
Like swallows, warblers are known for their long, seasonal migrations. During winter, warblers can fly from the northern US all the way to South America or the West Indies. In spring, they molt into brilliant colors, making their migrations a favorite for birdwatchers. Unlike robins or swallows, warblers don't eat plants or build nests in home structures. In fact, warblers are typically considered helpful birds because of their heavy insect diets.
Homeowners are just as likely to want to attract warblers as keep them away. Their beautiful songs, plumage, and pest-fighting abilities make them a favorite of bird enthusiasts everywhere. Like most other birds, however, warblers can also create problems for you around your home. Warbler nests may attract wildlife predators looking to prey on the small birds. Warblers fly at high speed to chase their insect prey, and may collide with windows. Keep warblers (and your home!) safe by screening or shading your windows and trimming bushes frequently.
You deserve to be excited about all aspects of spring, including the birds. Don't let a few pest birds ruin the whole beauty of the season for you. Implementing the few easy preventive strategies we mention will help you stay positive this early spring (late winter?).
And remember, if you ever need a little more help managing a bird situation, you can call Varment Guard anytime. We're here to help whenever you need it, even if we sometimes wish we could fly south, too.BACK TO BLOG


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General Electric maintains a slight edge in the 787 engine battle after Qantas cancelled an order for 787-9s on 23 August, but its lead over the Rolls-Royce alternative is razor thin with nearly 40% of customers still undecided.
Qantas had selected the GEnx-1B70 in 2005 to power its now-foregone 787-9s, helping GE open a significant lead over the R-R Trent 1000.
GE's lead within the 787-9 backlog before the Qantas cancellation stood at 131 to 93, with airlines still undecided on orders for 123 aircraft.
The gap between GE and R-R has now shrunk to a difference of orders of three aircraft. GE's orderbook now stands at engines for 96 aircraft, or 30.8% of the new total, versus 93 aircraft for R-R, or 29.8%. Undecided airlines make up the remaining 39.4% of the 787-9 orderbook.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news


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Album: Love Love Love (2007)
Artist: Steven Ybarra
Label: self-released
Where available/price: iTunes for $9.
Songs: 1) Love Love Love 2) All I Am 3) The Beauty of Your Love 4) Please Please 5) The Perfect Song 6) Can't Live Without You 7) Lifetime Valentine 8) Good Thing 9) Who You Are to Me 10) No More Lonely Days 11) Lay It Down
Band: Steven Ybarra (vocals, guitar), Debbie Galan (vocals), Mark Hattersley (vocals, keyboard), Brian Darnell (keyboard, guitar, vocals), Evan Hesse (guitar), James Hood (guitar), Chris Wilson (guitar), Kirk Cumming (guitar), Brandon O'Connell (keyboard), Alex De Pue (violin)
Extra info: Steven Ybarra's CD-release show — free! — will be at Grace Chapel of the Coast in Oceanside (102 N. Freeman St.) on Saturday, May 17, at 7:00 p.m.
A lot of music produced in San Diego drifts away from being an expression of humanity and relies on formula to be pleasing rather than evocative. Steven Ybarra's new disc also smacks of standards instead of creativity. And while Love Love Love lyrics strive for consensus rather than confrontation, who among us would argue against "love"?
Ybarra's unclouded devotion to a single motif (check the title for a hint) and pat phrases (thanking the Lord for love, staring into the eyes of a loved one, and hearts — oh, so many hearts) obstructs his guitar work, which is top-shelf. While his voice carries a bit of soul and sass, those qualities seem manufactured, as is the tradition of too many San Diego acts. (Jason Mraz, I'm looking in your direction.)
Even in the love-gone-wrong song "Please, Please," Ybarra's delivery lacks ferocity and pain; his voice tends toward the tepid and regulated. (It's certainly not Big Joe Williams begging his woman, "Baby, Please Don't Go.") Ybarra's project handles that tumultuous and dangerous emotion — love — with the most surface of treatments and the safest skillful playing.
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Saltwater Series
The Saltwater Series
Since the beginning of time, humans have been drawn to the sea. Captivated by the waves, some come to enjoy the beauty and pleasure of the open water as an escape from their harried lives. For others, it is a source of income and survival… having to endure the most extreme conditions imaginable.
These Springfield products are ideal for saltwater use. The products are designed to withstand the tough ocean elements. Rough ocean waters require solid materials able to take the beating of an ocean storm. The saltwater mists demand finishes that are resistant to rust and corrosion. These products are up to the challenges that even the harshest conditions can dish out.
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Pedestals built to take it…
Springfield Marine products have it all!
So, whether going for a joy ride on a calm, sunny day; or heading out to the rough open seas to chase the big catch, Springfield Marine provides the exact product for all occasions


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Posted by Lotg on October 10, 2004
In Reply to: Put it in your diddy bag posted by Henry on October 10, 2004
: : I think this may have originated in the military as a sarcastic expression. Anybody know?
: Ditty-bag; a sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc., also called sailor's housewife.
: But I don't know the phrase.
Wasn't this one of the Laugh In lines?


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Thursday, January 4, 2007
On my daily route very few phrases are needed. There is,
1. Hello!
2. How are you today?
3. Good! How are you?
4. You're welcome!
5. Have a great day (or nice day, good day, great evening, nice evening, good evening)!
The combination possibilities are endless! Using the above expressions and a rudimentary knowledge of the weather, you have it made. For collecting you need a few more.
All of the above
Is right now a good time to collect?
Yes, it is about that time of the month again!
Thank you! [or]
That's alright! [regardless of what you actually think]
I will try to come back tomorrow. [or]
I will be back on Friday. [and the next and the next]
Do you notice all the exclamation marks? Well, that is because almost everything I say has to be happy, enthusiastic, and friendly. It is not always easy, but what else can I do? They don't know me as me; they know me as a paper carrier who (hopefully) does the very best job she can, smiles, is polite, helpful, and efficient. They also know me as the one who will stop by every month and cheerfully request $7.50. In some ways I prefer my Office Pay Customers; I don't need to ask them for money. My Carrier Collect Customers have a closer relationship with me, and, depending on the customer, that can be either good or really bad.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Blessings: My Old Paper Route
One of my favorite pastimes is reading over my past journals. It amazes me what little details I recorded or what important milestones were left unmentioned. The journals remind me of where I have been, what struggles I have been through, what celebrations I have rejoiced in, and how my relationship with the Lord has grown.
Often, there is just something fun that makes me want to laugh. For instance, I retired from my paper route one and a half years ago, but shortly before I gave my route up I recorded a list of the entire vocabulary needed by a news carrier. Here Goes!
What fun! And yes, I did have real conversations with many of my customers. Several of my relationships formed on the route last to this day. My paper route was a blessing that lasted four and a half years, and I know God used it to draw me out of my little circle and give me a bigger perspective.
It also gave me a good hour on my bike every day where I had a chance to think and pray. Even as I was working, the time alone gave my mind an opportunity to work things out and bring my concerns to the Friend that is always with me.
So, enjoy this last week of 2008. Count your blessings!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
December Happenings
This has been an amazing and very busy week. My church had a Living Christmas Tree program on the 12th, 13th, and 14th, and we had several nightly rehearsals leading up to opening night. My family was busy singing all week! I am thoroughly entrenched in Christmas music now, but I am hoping to add a little more variety in the final days before Christmas.
We did a Living Christmas Tree last year, and the programs were similar in many ways, but there were several new twists this year to add some additional fun. A quote from my blog post last year is true for this year as well.
"The performance was given on and around a 30 foot high Christmas Tree set complete with lights, greenery, music, and people. It was beautiful!"
I enjoyed playing in the bell choir and watching my sister play the part of Mary in an interpretive dance to Mary, Did You Know. Like last year, she also sang a trio with Gabriel and Joseph.
Our church did a donation drive as part of the program. Box loads of clothes, food, and toys came in to support The Mission here in town. They run low at this time of year, so it was a brilliant idea to replenish their stock right before Christmas.
The programs alone would be enough to keep anyone busy, but that wasn't all on my plate this week. Activities such as rearranged work schedules, a staff Christmas party at the library, studying, a difficult test in school, decorating, time with friends, and a large family gathering out of town added some spice. My great aunt and uncle are celebrating 60 years of marriage! In addition, their daughter and her husband are celebrating an anniversary of 25+ years. That is reason to celebrate!
I know many of you are just as busy, and my prayer this Christmas season is that we will take time aside to remember the true reason for the season. God loved us enough to send His Son Jesus to us and provide a way of salvation through faith in Him! That is good news!
Have a Merry Christmas!
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