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August 28th, 2002, my friend Johann and I pull up to the Barr Trail trailhead at 8 am. The temperature is 68 degrees. Our mission today is to run 12 miles up the Barr Trail to reach the top of Pikes Peak, then back down for a total of 24 miles. Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 14er's with an altitude 14,110 feet, which is almost 2.7 miles of elevation.
We slowly chug up the mountain, wearing shorts, a light long sleeve t-shirt and carrying a water bottle. With 3 miles to go, at about 12,000 ft of altitude, the game really changed. The partial air pressure is so low that we can't seem to get enough oxygen to saturate our lungs. We are hypoxic. The best way to describe the feeling of hypoxia is to quickly run up 5 flights of stairs with your nose pinned together and only breathe out of a straw through your mouth. The air is so thin that trees no longer grow there.
On the 16 Golden Stairs: "Whoever named this section was under severe oxygen deprivation or had a sick sense of humor."
With 1 mile to go Johann and I were really struggling. We had been running for 2 hours 40 minutes and were searching for the magical 16 Golden Stairs which were supposed to lead us to the top. This is very misleading because there are a lot more than 16 steps. According to the guide books it refers to the amount of switch backs. There are actually 32 switchbacks. I think whoever named this section was under severe oxygen deprivation or had a sick sense of humor. To make matters worse we had run out of water and a storm moved in, dropping the temperature from a cool 68 degrees to cold and windy 31 degrees. It started snowing. This was not good for us sea level, Miami boys.
At this point we were in really bad shape. Our core temperature dropped and we were shaking. We were going into hypothermia. After the final 45 minutes of swtichbacks, high winds, and snow flurries we reached the summit.
Dress for success. Plan for the unexpected. And above all to get to the top doesn't take superhuman strength, tremendous leaps, or short cuts, all it takes is the commitment to take one more step.
When you encounter an obstacle, are feeling overwhelmed, or want to give up commit to taking one more step.
PS – There is a restaurant at the top of the mountain. We rested there for about an hour in order to warm up and re-hydrate. It took us almost as long running downhill as it did going up because the decent was so steep.
What do David, Venus De Milo, and the Pieta all have in common?
They are 3 of greatest marble sculptures ever created. These masterpieces were trapped inside marble slabs until their sculptor freed them.
What if I told you that you could sculpt something more beautiful, more unique, more important?
Let me share a quick story.
Growing up my parents had instilled in me a strong sense of curiosity. I romanced the thought of becoming a Renaissance Man. A Renaissance Man is defined as polymath or a person whose expertise spans many different subject areas. I drew inspiration from were men like my father, my 10th grade philosophy teacher Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, Aristotle, Leonardo De Vinci, and Benjamin Franklin.
I worked hard to become the best athlete I could be. I trained daily, I studied anatomy, physiology, I studied what great athletes and coaches were doing so I could be better. I studied French, Latin, German, Greek, Spanish so that I could communicate better. I took advanced courses to push my mind. I studied philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Watts to learn how to think. I was that kid that asked the teacher a "million" questions.
I kept adding to my "bag of tricks" trying to become Armando, the Man, but something was missing.
This year I went to Thailand for 10 days. I had the opportunity to really reflect and evaluate my life – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Here is one "Ah-ha" moment I had.
We spend much of our lives adding to our lives so that we are "worth it", so that we become better, so that we can be successful. I believe we were always worth it. I believe that our greatest success lies in showing up as the best version of ourselves at that moment.
When they asked Michelangelo how he was able to sculpt "The David", he replied, " I just removed everything that was not David."
Like Michelangelo, I ask you to start removing everything that is not you, everything that is blocking the best version of you from showing up into this world. Remove everything that is stopping your brilliance, everything stopping your light from shining brightly.
Marble sculpting is subtractive. To get to the masterpiece you must remove rock and dust to see details, to see the real form.
I challenge you to take your chisel and hammer and start removing from your life. Simplify and clarify, and what you have left is the most brilliant, most unique, and most beautiful sculpture of the greatest version of you.
PS – I continue to learn and be curious but they don't determine my worth. They help magnify my brilliance. Take up your hammer and your chisel and get to work. Make it a great one.
Would you die for your beliefs?
I know it is a tough question but the answer to this question will change your life.
This Sunday I was in mass and the priest was giving his homily. He asked us this same question. He spoke of the killings of Christians that refused to convert to Islam in the Middle East.
This made me reflect on my faith. In that same scenario, what would would I do? The truth is we have it easy in the US. We are free to practice our faith and mostly anything else we decide. The question is, do we? Do we really cherish and live each moment, live each day to its potential?
Let's change the focus.
What could you accomplish if you made your decisions as important as the air you breathe?
Hope your lunch was appetizing.
Time to seize the day, one moment at a time.
Happy Tuesday.
Yesterday was my 34th birthday.
The day before my birthday I felt down. I was feeling emotionally drained, a bit lost, a bit frustrated, a bit defeated.
I woke up on my birthday, February 25th (mark that on your calendar), at 4 am. I saw some of my great clients and my mood lifted. I felt supported and loved. I was getting bombarded by Facebook messages of people I rarely hear from just to wish me a happy birthday. I know Facebook lets you know but I was so appreciative that they took time to write me that message. It really meant a lot. I received text messages from friends and family.
Later that day I was the guest speaker at 2 UM classes. They sang me happy birthday then I had the opportunity to hear their story, their dreams. I felt energized.
By the time I got home, my wife had invited my parents, in-laws, and brother to come over for dinner. We had a great time together over dinner and a delicious strawberry shortcake and a banana-chocolate tiramisu from Glaser Organic Farms (I highly recommend it, very delicious). It was a perfect end to a special day with some of the most important people in my life.
Do the people that surround you add or subtract to your energy?
Do the people in your life offer value or only take away value?
Who you surround yourself with will highly impact your energy, your productivity, and your success in life.
In life there are adders, subtractors, dividers, and multipliers.
Adders are the people in your life that always leave you feeling more energized. They leave you with something extra of value than before you interacted with them.
Subtracters are people that seem to take and take and never give back. They are those negative people that leave you feeling drained.
Multipliers are those people that are exponential growers. They are similar to adders but make you excited to be around them. They help you grow exponentially.
Dividers are the most dangerous people of all. They are destroyers. They seek to divide and conquer. They are the gossipers that are looking to manipulate and destroy relationships. They seem to take away fro your life.
1. What category do the friends, family, and clients you have fall into?
2. What category would others say you fall into?
My birthday wish for you is that you eliminate the subtractors and dividers in your life, surround yourself with adders and multipliers, and most important is have you move closer to becoming that multiplier in the lives of your family, friends and clients. As Gandhi stated, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." It is always easier to cast that stone and judge others.
I have said it before but I believe it is pertinent to this post,
"Our relationships are one of our most valuable assets for fulfillment, growth, and success."
I am very appreciative to all the wonderful people in my life. To my family, my friends, my clients, thank you for the great birthday and for being the source of love and support that energizes me and my dreams.
PS – If you forgot to get me a birthday present don't worry. 😉
Help me instead to help kids get clean drinking water. Did you know that every day 5,000 kids under the age of 5 die because of water related illness. Let's bring that number down one child at a time.
(See why I donated my birthday to charity: water to help this cause –> Click here)
The other day I was watching Winnie-the-Pooh with my son and daughter. There was a scene that I wanted to share with you.
Eeyore was sad because he had lost his tail. Winnie-the-Pooh had been starving the entire show so he decided to go to owls house and ask for honey. Only when he got there he sees Eeyore's tail. He declines the honey (and puts his needs on the back burner) because he feels compelled to bring back Eeyore's tail.
They put Eeyore's tail back and Rabbit asks him, "Eeyore are you happy now?" Eeyore's reply, "No, I am not happy but I am glad I have my tail back."
An Eeyore is person that no matter what, they choose to be unhappy, chooses to look at everything wrong with their life.
Time for some reflection.
No matter what you do for Eeyore it will never be good enough. Circumstances have very little to do with happiness. Happiness is not a place, it is not a thing, it is a choice. Unless you choose to be happy you will not be happy.
Choose today.
Be happy.
Life is too short not to.
PS – Watch this video and the message of this 11 year old. (Click Here)
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This has nothing to do with writing a book, yet it has everything to do with it.
Recently I was writing the outline of one of the books I want to write. I have been saying I am going to write a book for a long time and never done it. In fact that is why I started blogging. I thought that if I blogged on a regular basis I would build the habit of writing and as a result it would make writing a book easier.
First – I judged the work before it was done.
Second – I did not play to my strengths
Third – I stopped.
*Bonus – I didn't have accountability.
If you have not done so watch the 3:43 video. It will help put things in perspective on how you can use the analogy of writing to help you achieve what you want in your weight loss and fitness goals and more importantly in anything you desire in life.
If you are the cliff note type because 3:43 takes to much time to watch then here it is…
You will miss out on my smooth and eloquent delivery of such a fine message. You will miss my voice as it carries through the air penetrating your ear playing the hypnotizing rhythms on your eardrum. If you are willing to miss all that then read below. 😉
As the Great One, Wayne Gretzsky once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Decide what you want in life.
Decide what you want for your health.
Decide what you want to be able to do and START.
Don't be perfect.
Start creating some momentum. Create your life's first draft. Embrace the process. Take imperfect action and correct and edit along the way. The truth is no matter how awesome your plan is, it does you no good if you don't start executing it.
Don't fall victim to the 3 Critical Mistakes I made. Start today.
Hope you find this helpful.
PS – I want to thank my friend David Altshuler for inspiring me to write this post and for lighting a fire under my butt to get my first book written. He just launched his book, Raising Healthy Kids In An Unhealthy World. I have not read it yet. I am finishing another book but I can assure you he is an expert and you will benefit from reading this book.
He quite the story teller and has a very humorous style of writing. Usually it involves typing from right to left as he reads it from the mirror in his underwear. Joking aside pick up the book if you are a parent or want to be a parent.
Be on the lookout for an interview with him in the future.
In our fast paced world listening almost seems like a luxury not afforded to us.
Over the next few paragraphs I hope to persuade you that listening is not a luxury but a necessity if you want more energy and abundance.
Think about everything you have ever been told about losing weight and getting fit.
It usually goes like this, "Eat less, move more." (Sound familiar?)
What if this was all wrong?
Recently I was doing an assessment on a new client. She was frustrated with the way she looked and felt. She felt completely drained. She wanted to lose 30 lbs. Over the past few years she kept pushing harder but kept falling short and so the vicious cycle of frustration and self doubt continued.
She had signed up online for a 2 week intensive with us but after our assessment I explained to her why this would actually be the worst thing she could do for her health. Instead of leaving it there I created an alternative restorative plan. I wanted her to do it for 2 weeks then return and we would evaluate her progress. After I gave her the plan for the next 2 weeks that included meditation, walking, sunbathing, she instantly looked as if a huge pressure was removed. She finally had permission to listen to what her body had been telling her all along. She radiated with warmth and confidence.
In the above example my client was primarily operating in the sympathetic nervous system. Said differently, her body was operating as if she were surviving a life and death situation, like being chased by a lion. In this mode your body doesn't digest the food you are eating and extract the nutrients needed, so you lack the energy. Because your body feels it is fighting for it's life it stores more fat for later to protect itself for this emergency. Her body was not recovering properly. Her ability to create new information and problem solve were greatly reduce. She felt "burned out" which stimulates cravings for sugary and fatty foods that help satisfy the chemical and hormonal needs the body wants in the short term.
What do you do?
Do you push harder or do you take time to listen?
Carving time to listen and implementing what your body is asking for, in spite of conventional "wisdom" takes courage.
Be courageous today. Listen, feel, and grow stronger.
If you feel trapped, frustrated, or burned out and want some direction feel free to contact my team and I at 305-741-0560. We are here to serve, guide, and support you on your journey.
For all you parents I am sure you can remember with great clarity the first time you kids were hospitalized.
This is a vivid image I wish would never occurred, but I learned 5 things I want to share with you.
1. The Miami Children's Hospital nurses and staff that we encountered were all very nice and genuinely cared. I really appreciated that considering it was the first time Mandy was admitted to the hospital. They made the experience less scary.
2. Doctors use you as an experiment. I know this is a little controversial but this came from the doctors mouth. He was wanted to prescribe medication for Mandy based what he thinks Mandy has. He said if it doesn't work then we know it wasn't what I thought. If it does work then it could be what I thought.
I get it that action in a life and death situation is better than nothing but this was not life and death. I feel it prudent to wait for lab results before you prescribe medication to my son that has side effects that my son will have to deal with for a long time. (I think I will elaborate on this on a future post because I can the people with pitch forks waiting outside my door for what I just said.)
3. Make the best of each situation. Mandy was feeling better the next day in the hospital so we spent the entire day together playing. It was amazing. We colored. Here is my Smurf. I didn't get to work out but at least my Smurf looks like he has been hitting the gym with those 8-pack abs.
4. I need to disconnect more. When I was with Mandy he became my only focus. We hung out and watched Youtube videos about building Legos (he loves Legos, me too). We did some target practiced with a rubber band paper projectiles I use to make in class when I was a kid, and we hopped around the room form colored tile to colored tile. We dared not to step on the white tiles as they were part of an alligator pit. 😉
5. I need to be a kid more often. This is not some nostalgic dream but a practice of play and presence that I feel is beneficial to all. Try it today.
Looking forward to spending more time with the family. I've been dying to take the family camping.
A mentor of mine talks about the the 4 "F's"
A great Family makes the other three that much sweeter. Enjoy.


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What Are the Functions of an Expansion Valve?
Most refrigerators and air conditioning systems are made up of condensers, compressors and expansion devices, as stated on the Encyclopedia Britannica website. Expansion valves are used to reduce pressure levels within a given system and ensure it continues to function efficiently. Valves used in heating systems, ventilators and air conditioning units are known as thermal expansion valves. These types of expansion valves work as part of the evaporating system and assist with regulating the extraction and omission of cold and hot air.
Refrigerant Regulation
Thermal expansion valves regulate the flow of cooling substances (refrigerant) within a device and work under variable pressures and temperatures. Thermal expansion valves are usually employed to sustain the flow of liquid in air conditioning units. A cooling substance is sent via the compressor to reduce the temperature of a building. The heat of the liquid then gradually increases until it changes into gas.
Gas Transformation and Regulation
Once converted, the gas flows down the coil, which results in the heat dissipating and changing back into liquid form. This liquid is then sent to the expansion valve where it transforms into a chilled gas capable of extracting heat from the atmosphere around it. The gas is channeled through a set of tubes, and cold air is pumped into the building premises.
Pressure Regulation
Pressure levels are transmitted via the capillary tube toward the sensing tube, which is linked to the thermostatic valve. Thermostatic expansion valves regulate the pressure levels of the whole process to transform the cooling substance into cool, breathable air. If pressure levels grow too high, the expansion valve widens, reducing the pressure within the device. The cooling liquid can then flow smoothly from the expansion valve into the evaporating system.
Some refrigerators and air conditioning units use capillary tubes in place of expansion valves. Capillary tubes operate in a similar mode to thermal valves but are only tailored to endure a consistent climate. Capillary tubes are unable to handle substantial shifts of pressure levels or temperature.


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Firefighters Fight Blaze For Third Day
Facing shifting winds, low humidity and debris from previous fires, area firefighters continued their efforts to snuff out a wildfire at Iron Bridge Park near Moody Tuesday morning.
The fire began Sunday when a campfire got out of control. As of Monday evening, the fire was 75 percent contained according to a representative of the Texas Forest Service.
Around 40 firefighters from departments in Coryell City, Flat, Gatesville, Jonesboro, Levita, Moffat and Oglesby have worked to contain the fire. Some areas that are unreachable by fire crews will be left to burn themselves out or be extinguished by rain. Five homes initially threatened by the fire are now said to be out of danger.


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Home Fires
Gene Wolfe
Tor, Jan 18 2011, $24.99
Due to an interstellar military duty, affluent attorney Skip Grison is now two decades older than his contracted paramour Chelle Blue though they were the same age when they met at college. Her time in outer space was months, but years in North America where he waited for his wife to come home from serving in the combat. Skip seeks a special present for his beloved who came home early due to war related injuries; he thinks he may have one. Skip arranges for Chelle and her estranged mother Vanessa, whose essence has been loaded into a new body, to see one another.
Soon after the mother-daughter reunion, Skip takes Chelle and her mom on a cruise that circles the globe. However, the vacation proves anything but relaxing as hijackers, assassins, and others of their ilk come after someone on board with collateral damage acceptable.
This is a terrific science fiction mystery with the whodunit and why-do-it thriller themes up front as the prime thread, and the futuristic SF elements serving as background enhancement. The fast-paced story line grips the reader from the moment Chelle and Skip reunite with her so many years younger than him chronologically but in many ways her military experience makes her seem older than him. Red herrings abound in this exhilarating character driven thriller.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Home Fires-Gene Wolfe
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Disney submits plans for an omnimover boat ride
US Patent and Trademark Office last month published a patent application from Disney for a omnimover boat ride... http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220130025491%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20130025491&RS=DN/20130025491
and... http://www.google.com/patents/US20130025491?dq=floating+omnimover+disney&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kv8jUY2QC4iGrgGuq4HoCg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
Here's the abstract of Disney's application:
"A floating omnimover ride with high capacity throughput and enhanced control over speeds of passenger boats. The ride includes a water containment structure with spaced apart sidewalls defining an elongated guide channel that defines a loop-shaped ride path or circuit. The ride includes a volume of liquid contained in the guide channel to a desired depth. The ride also includes a chain of passenger boats floating in the liquid contained in the guide channel. Each of the boats is linked to the two adjacent boats with a connecting link such that the chain of boats is a continuous loop. The chain of boats has a length that is approximately equal to a length of the ride path, and during operation of the ride, the boats in the chain are moved along the loop-shaped ride path at a predefined rate by a pump station moving the liquid in the guide channel."
Translation? Picture Pirates of the Caribbean or It's a Small World with the boats all hooked together, nose to tail, a la the Doombuggies on the Haunted Mansion.
By linking the boats into a continuous chain, Disney would eliminate bumping and slower boats, which can disrupt the flow of guests through a ride. To maximize hourly capacity, the chain wouldn't stop to load and upload riders, so a moving walkway at the load and unload points would be necessary, as on Mansion. But Disney's been thinking about nifty ways to alter the omnimover ride experience. Here's one:
"In addition to the guide channel or trough, the ride system may also include an open bay or free-floating portion or section in which the boats are not guided by and do not contact nearby sidewalls. As long as a sufficient number of the floating vehicles are contained in and guided within the guide channel (or flowing or drive) portion or section of the ride system, other sections of the vehicle chain may be "undriven" by the water in the free-floating section or bay portion of the ride system. In this portion, the water may be relatively still or unflowing, but the boats in the vehicle chain will still follow a path between an exit of the guide channel and an entrance to the guide channel because they are pulled and/or pushed by the boats or vehicles traveling in the guide channel (where water is flowing to push the boats along the path between adjacent sidewalls). In the open bay or free-floating portion, the boats or vehicles may even be caused to traverse over land or out of the water by placing ramps in the path of the boats and providing pads or rollers/wheels on the bottom of the boat hulls/bodies. The pushing and pulling forces provided along the vehicle chain by the boats in the guide channel due to the flowing water will roll the boats in the open bay or free-floating portion over the dry or shallow portion of the ride. By including an open waterway in the ride system, the ride experience is enhanced as the boats appear to be magically guided and propelled through the still water with their boats spaced apart from guiding sidewalls."
So where will we see this new type of omnimover boat ride? The consensus on Twitter seemed to be Shanghai Disneyland. But once a company proves a technology in one park, it's nice to get a return on that tech development expense by spreading the technology to other parks.
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Technical Paper
Hybrid Diesel-Electric Heavy Duty Bus Emissions: Benefits Of Regeneration And Need For State Of Charge Correction
Hybrid diesel electric buses offer the advantage of superior fuel economy through use of regenerative braking and lowered transient emissions by reducing the need of the engine to follow load as closely as in a conventional bus. With the support of the Department of Energy (DOE), five Lockheed Martin-Orion hybrid diesel-electric buses were operated on the West Virginia University Transportable Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. The buses were exercised through a new cycle, termed the Manhattan cycle, that was representative of today's bus use as well as the accepted Central Business District Cycle and New York Bus Cycle. Emissions data were corrected for the state of charge of the batteries. The emissions can be expressed in units of grams/mile, grams/axle hp-hr and grams/gallon fuel. The role of improved fuel economy in reducing oxides of nitrogen relative to conventional automatic buses is evident in the data.


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If you were to stand high up in the Wadi Musa mountains of Jordan and look out across the landscape ahead to Israel you would see only more mountains, and desert. Completely unknown to you would be that, there, in the crevices of some of those mountain walls below, lies a hidden city, a city abandoned over 1,500 years ago, that once was home to an inspiring civilization – the Nabataeans.
I was fortunate enough to visit the ancient city of Petra and the nearby Wadi Rum desert while working in Jordan researching the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis. Long have I been in love with this part of the world – from Southern Spain and Greece down into Northern Africa and Egypt, and up and across through the Middle East to Iraq and Iran. These countries talk to me of ancient civilizations, of learned philosophers, astronomers, mathematicians and poets, of kings (and queens) erecting temples to their Gods (and to themselves.) They speak of aromatic spices, priceless gems and cloths, carried by wooden sailing ships, unloaded at the docks of noisy harbors, to make their way to be sold at incense-filled souks. It is where our recorded history as a human race begins to take shape – the rise and fall of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and later Romans too. And so, they speak to me of possibility and also of the legacy we leave.
I had gone to Petra and Wadi Rum after spending several days in Jordan's main refugee camps. They are home to 120,000 of five million Syrian refugees who fled their country when the conflict began six years ago. As time has passed, tents have been exchanged for more solid structures. Many have A/C or heaters. The camps have stores where almost anything can be purchased if you are lucky enough to find work, or receive money from relatives abroad. And there is mostly electricity and water. Advancements have been made there, if not in Syria.
There are vivid memories of bombs, violence, and the heartbreak of leaving, but it was not a sense of hopelessness or despair that met me there. What struck me rather was the resilience of the human spirit. Because, in spite of all they have endured, what the refugees desire now is to create a new life and to find work. Their hope is waning that other countries beyond Jordan will help them do so.
Petra was my first day off in weeks. To reach the city, you have to take the same path as people over 2000 years ago would have taken – through that hidden fissure in the mountain carved by tectonic forces millions of years ago. The narrow path, dotted now with other tourists, some on donkey, winds for almost half a mile between the rose-colored walls before ending in a large courtyard where the Treasury building is carved into the rocks. Beyond, among the sprawling ruins, archaeologists tell us there are administrative buildings, tombs, an amphitheater, a library, a monastery. There are remains of advanced water irrigation systems that enabled the Nabataeans to create an oasis in the desert.
So why did the people abandon Petra? No one knows. Perhaps it was a gradual change in climate, or the slow impact of changing trade routes that favored the Nile, or maybe people were forced to leave because conflict thrust upon them.
I had this on my mind when I arrived later at the Wadi Rum desert. My guide was a young bedouin called Hazzum who was going to drive me through the Mars-like dunes and rocks. By now, after weeks of work and travel, I was slowly beginning to unwind, and Hazzum and I had some light banter as we drove. When we pulled up to a shady spot to make tea, however, the chatter stopped as Hazzum instead turned his focus to starting a fire.
There is a silence that the desert brings that I have yet to experience elsewhere. With no trees to rustle, and no life in sight, the stillness of a desert forces the senses to give up, and the mind has nothing to distract it. You are left raw. I went and sat in the shade of a large rock, but in that moment the silence of the desert swallowed me whole, and I began to cry. If Hazzum wasn't brewing tea nearby, I would have surrendered and sobbed my heart into the scorched earth.
In the ruins of Petra, a seed had been sown. It was a reminder of just how long we, the human race, have been doing this dance – of creating civilizations that strive to be brilliant, to develop new technologies that make us feel more "advanced" than civilizations that have come before, and of creating 'legacies'. But for all these advancements, have we become any better at humanity?
Just 200 miles away, the electricity was being turned off in Za'atari refugee camp, and 200 miles beyond that, Syria's conflict raged on. In the other direction, just beyond neighboring Saudi Arabia lay another humanitarian crisis – 20 million people on the verge of starvation in Yemen because of a war. And there just over the mountains beyond Petra was of course Israel and Palestine. And even thousands of miles away back in my own country I watched from social media as a different kind of crisis raged – one of a growing wealth gap, a seizure of public lands for profit, the threat of a nuclear attack, and an oppression of people because of the color of their skin.
The Nabataeans don't make it to our history books chiefly because there is little record of their culture, but Roman writings depict them as a democratic people. Unlike their nearby counterparts, the Nabataeans rejected slavery. They also welcomed diverse people and religions alongside their own. And, for all their prosperity, the Nabataeans did not desire power. They didn't seek out war, and indeed, tried to avoid it. When the Romans turned their sights on taking over Petra, the Nabataeans reportedly declined to fight.
While the living museum that is Petra, is something everyone should see in their lifetime, for me it is the values of the Nabataeans that will remain forever in my heart. In the end whatever we build, whatever we material advancements we achieve, history has taught us that all civilizations come to an end. But what if the legacy we leave is also one of a civilization that shared its fortune with those less fortunate, one that protected its land for the future generations, one that welcomed others to its shores, and one that was committed to unity and peace? That would be a legacy worth leaving, and it is also a possibility.
(This article was written originally for Books for Better Living.)


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Russian holding Sibirsky Cement increased cement output at its three plants by 21.2% YoY to 2.99Mt in January-September, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
The company's three plants include the Krasnoyarsky Cement in the Krasnoyarsk Region, Topkinsky Cement in the Kemerovo Region, and Timlyuisky Cement Plant in the constituent republic of Buryatia.
For the nine months, Topkinsky Cement produced 1.995Mt, up 26 per cent, while Krasnoyarsky Cement produced 0.657Mt (+5.0%) and the Timlyuisky Cement Plant saw the largest YoY increase to 0.337Mt (+35%).
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Microneedling is a treatment carried out by penetrating the dermis and dermis (layers of the skin) with a dry needle (a needle that doesn't leave any substance behind within the point of insertion). Insertion of the needle(s) causes minor injury to the skin. This in turn increases blood flow to the area which promotes healing and activates fibroblast. Fibroblast is a type of cells that synthesizes the extracellular matrix and collagen. Collagen is very important in the wound healing process. Therefore, Dry Needling stimulates a person's own collagen to remodel (flatten down or fill up) the scar or wrinkle. The technique was discovered to be effective in 1940's, but the methods of performing it today are more sophisticated. Dry Needling is also called Matitrepannic Collagen Actuation (MCA). This procedure is more popular in Europe and other countries than in the United States. However plastic surgeons in the U.S. are beginning to use it more.
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'If Syria keeps firing at us, we will respond with more force.'
This was the message delivered to Damascus by Turkish army chief General Necdet Özel during a tour of the village Akçakale, on the border with Syria.
He went to meet the families of five civilians killed by fire coming from Syria last week. He also reviewed troop strength and deployment.
Syrian mortar shelling intended for rebels has at least six times strayed into the territory of Hatay in southeastern Turkey. Turkish artillery has responded.
The killing of townspeople here is the most serious matter for Ankara since Syrian ground-to-air fire downed a Turkish fighter jet in June.
The day after the Akçakale deaths, the Turkish government won parliamentary support to conduct military operations in Syria if it deems them necessary.
Without calling for war, Turkish President Abdullah Gul was not ruling out firm action.
He said: "The worst-case scenario that we've all been dreading is unfolding in Syria right now. The Syrian people are suffering greatly, and as you've seen, once in a while, we are also affected. Some of our citizens have died."
NATO could get involved if Turkey invoked the mutual defence clause in which an attack on one NATO country is taken as an attack on all its members. But the organisation's head has revealed little.
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said: "We have taken the steps necessary to make sure that we have all plans in place to protect and defend Turkey, but I think you understand very well why we can not go into details when it comes to such plans."
Turkey has been in NATO since 1952. It is also a former ally of Syria. But the violent repression of opposition by Damascus, which led to the present civil war in Syria, lost President Bashir Al Assad Ankara's friendship.


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Why Laddomat ?
Laddomat in your system prolongs the lifetime of your boiler.Because Laddomat cools the boiler with pre-warmed return water, the corrosion in the bottom half of the boiler is reduced drastically. Many boiler manufacturers also provide a longer boiler guarantee when Laddomat is fitted to the heating system
A tankless system (direct system) must be started several times per day to maintain heat and that means that it consumes more wood or pellets. When you fit a storage tank and Laddomat to your system you can save up to 50% of your costs.
An accumulator tank acts as a buffer and intermediate store for water that is pumped around the system. The boiler heats the water in the tank, and the hot water is then supplied to the consumers. With accumulator tank there will be long pauses between the times the boiler is fired.
- E.g. one firing/day with accumulator tank with Laddomat
- E.g. two to four firings/day without accumulator tank
With a storage tank and Laddomat you do not need to fire up the boiler as often as when the boiler is connected directly to the heating system. You exploit the energy that the fuel liberates significantly better, and create optimum conditions for environmentally sound heating
Why Accumulator Tank?
The function of an accumulator tank is simple, and is built around the physical principle that hot water is lighter than cold water. Hot water from the boiler is pumped into the top of the tank, at the same time as cold water is retrieved from the bottom of the tank.
If this process is to function as intended, the boundary between hot and cold water must be sharp. If hot water and cold water are continually mixed, the water temperature will be lower. This means that capacity is reduced – in a
worst case scenario, there will not be enough energy to heat the water for a single shower.
The secret behind perfect separation is to control the intake of the tank so the separation is not disturbed. The fitting that accomplishes this is called a charging unit, and the market leading charging unit is the Laddomat.
This is how LADDOMAT OPERATES
When the boiler starts to fire up, Laddomat circulates the water internally in the boiler, so that it rapidly achieves its working temperature and can begin to heat the tank. Laddomat then pumps the hot water into the top of the accumulator tank slowly and under full control, so that separation remains optimum.
In addition, Laddomat cools the boiler with preheated return water – hot water from the top of the boiler is diluted with a little cold water from the bottom of the tank.
Laddomat 21-60 and 21-100 – charging from wood-boiler to accumulator tank
Charging unit for regulation of charging between the wood-boiler and tank, up to a maximum 60 or 120kW. During fi ring, the Laddomat 21 transfers the boiler's hot water to the tank. This occurs at low speed so that separation takes place. Because the Laddomat 21 preheats the cold water from the tank, condensation and corrosion are avoided, and the boiler can work at a high and even temperature throughout the fi ring. This increases the lifetime of the boiler and gives optimum effi ciency.
The integrated non-return valve for self-circulation provides extra safety in the event of a power cut, and after fi ring has concluded, the heat that remains in the boiler is automatically transferred to the tank.
Laddomat 11-30 and 11-100 – charging from biofuel boiler to system with or without accumulator tank
For control of charging between boiler and system.
During fi ring, the Laddomat 11 transfers the boiler's hot water to the system. When using a tank, this occurs at low speed so that separation takes place. Because the Laddomat 11 preheats the cold water from the system, condensation
and corrosion are avoided, and the boiler can work at a high and even temperature throughout the fi ring. This increases the lifetime of the boiler and gives optimum efficiency.
Laddomat 11-30 is an extremely compact thermal valve, especially designed for small boilers and stoves that are fuelled by wood/chips/pellets/oil, up to max. 30kW.
Laddomat 11-100 is a larger thermal valve. It can handle maximum output up to 200kW.
Laddomat flue thermostat
To start and stop the charging pump in Laddomat 10, 11-30, 11-100, 21, 21-60 and 21-100.
The fl ue thermostat starts the pump as soon as the temperature of the fl ue rises to a predetermined level, after firing starts. The pump closes the self-circulation valve (if any) to the tank. Hot water from the boiler top is pumped directly into the boiler bottom = the boiler quickly becomes hot.
When the wood fi re goes out, the pump stops as soon as the fl ue cools down. The self-circulation valve (if any) opens to enable cooled water from the bottom of the tank to transfer residual heat in the boiler to the top of the tank.
Thermomatic TVM is a simple actuator that controls turning mixing valves. Its modern design provides quiet and reliable operation. The actuator features an indicator for the valve position and LEDs that show its direction of travel.
The actuator can be easily turned by hand and has an integrated blocking protection. TVM is easy to install and completely maintenance-free.
Thermomatic CC is a mixing valve automation with only fl ow sensor for temperature stabilisation, which can control a turning mixing valve with a 90 degree opening angle.
CC can control the fl ow temperature during both cooling and heating.
CC is suitable for all installations with constant fl ow, such as radiator and underfl oor heating circuits, air heaters and charging of accumulator tanks. This version is not suitable for domestic hot water control.
CC is easy to install and use. Settings are made using the touch keys on the actuator, which are resistant to mechanical contact, as well as dust and moisture.
Thermomatic EC Home Thermomatic EC Home® is basically an easy-to-use mixing valve automation with room sensor, but with the option of more advanced functions, if required. All settings are made from the digital control panel, which also acts as a room sensor.
It is easy to set which menus should be shown and the control can be locked, to avoid unwanted changes.
Examples of more advanced functions: Alarm clock for day/night temperature (integrated function), connection box for control of start/stop of the circulation pump and supplementary heat (via an external relay box), connection box for connection of external control (e.g. GSM module) for connection or disconnection of day/night temperatures, output to send an e.g. SMS alarm (requires external control) and also a history of room, outdoor and supply temperatures. Wireless room sensor and outdoor sensor can also provide control, and you can also use so-called passive room sensor, which may be appropriate for e.g. rental apartments, where you do not want the guests to change the temperature at any time.


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The Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Department has made it more difficult for the disabled to enroll in the state Medical Marihuana Program (MMP) by removing a discounted registration rate that had existed for five years.
The change was not announced via press release or through letters sent to discount recipients. Patients and caregivers reported seeing a new chart on LARA's website to operators of certification centers and other related businesses. The chart is called "Supporting documentation for reduced fee eligibility" and indicates that it was revised on 6/2013. Disability is now listed as 'not eligible' for a discounted rate; the registration fee is normally $100 and the discounted rate is $25.
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"It seems really unfair to do that without a public hearing," said Matthew Abel, an attorney with the firm of Cannabis Counsel and the current Executive Director of Michigan NORML.
This is the second time LARA has changed longstanding policy under new head Steve Arwood, appointed by Governor Snyder earlier this year. Soon after his appointment Arwood bounced MMP head Celeste Clarkston and disbanded the New Conditions Panel of mostly physicians that endorsed adding Parkinson's Disease and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to the list of conditions qualifying a person to receive a recommendation to use medicinal marijuana. He then discarded their recommendations and has announced he will compose his own advisory board of physicians.
The panel was assembled with much fanfare in 2012, after a four year delay, had met several times and proposed to consider two new conditions to the list, asthma and autism. Clarkston reported in media during 2012 about the careful and precise composition of the Panel during its formation; Arwood's reason for dismissing the Panel is that the membership was not appropriate. Also gone is longtime member of the MMP staff Rae Ramsdell, leaving the MMP leaderless and being steered by Arwood.
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Arwood is systematically applying a new, more restrictive reading to existing administrative rules. "What LARA is doing right now is changing the rules without any oversight," said Abel. The disability discount has been in place since the very first applicants dropped off their paperwork to the Department of Community Health in April of 2009. A patient could have filed their original application and four renewal applications- all of which were approved- only to now be told that it was all a mistake.
"What bothers people the most is they are changing the rules without any input or discretion," said Bob Redden, whose criminal case stretched out over more than 1,500 days in the Oakland County court system and is now a frequent observer at many marijuana trials and hearings. Redden is a veteran who walks with a cane. "Look what they did to the New Conditions Panel. They decided to change the rules midstream," he adds.
"Who are they taking their orders from?"
When queried about the changes, a telephone operator at LARA stated management told them the discount was not allowed under current Administrative Rules and that her supervisor Mrs. Williams was handling complaints about the change. She also said the Rules were going to undergo a complete overhaul in the near future. The change also affects those collecting Medicare and Medicaid- now only those receiving FULL Medicaid (not Medicare) will be able to claim the discount.
Redden sums up the frustration of an entire community when he says, "Does the will of the people mean anything at all?"
LARA's representative stated the new rule went into effect for all applications received after May 29, 2013.
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Emilio González Márquez
González dropped out of the contest for the PAN's nomination on September 22, 2011.
González Marquéz is currently Governor of Jalisco. He previously served as the mayor of Guadalajara, the head of the PAN in Jalisco, and also in the national legislature. He joined the party in 1992, after leaving the smaller (and now defunct) Mexican Democratic Party (PDM).
González Marquéz has trailed Santiago Creel and Josefina Vázquez Mota in opinion polls, but with around six percent of the intended vote, he has so far remained close to Ernesto Cordero and Alonso Lujambio.
-See his September 22, 2011 decision not to contend for the PAN's nomination.
-Read a July 31, 2011 interview with González Márquez about his presidential ambitions.
-Follow his Twitter feed.
-See the July 31, 2011 Reforma poll of presidential candidates, in which González Márquez receives six percent of the intended vote.


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I vaguely remember the marketing for "The Duchess." The advertising I recall seemed to imply that the film was a light romp, a look at the It Girl of generations long gone by, a wispy bit of inoffensive nothing. The problem? Well, deceptive marketing mainly. This film is light-hearted for all of about 20 minutes before settling into a much weightier vibe. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was expecting. Continue reading
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Conservatism can survive despite liberal bias
Best-selling 'Bias'
Bernard Goldberg's book, "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," has ridden near the top of the best-seller lists for weeks. Chronicle columnists Debra J. Saunders and Stephanie Salter take up the debate today.
Of course the news media are liberal. A survey of the Washington press corps found that 89 percent of them voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, while 7 percent went for George Bush.
When I'm with my brethren in the news biz, whether in the newsroom or at a press conference, I know two things: I'm the freak; and 90 percent of the people around me didn't vote for George W. Bush, hate Attorney General John Ashcroft for not letting medical marijuana clubs flout federal drug law, but were furious that the Gonzalez family didn't rush to pack Elian off to Cuba after then-Attorney General Janet Reno told them to.
About the only journalists who won't admit that the news media are filled with liberals are lefties whose big beef is that the media are liberal instead of ultra-left.
I'm not whining, because I know that conservatism can thrive despite liberal bias. Nor do I respect those who quit reading newspapers because of the bias. After all, savvy readers can see through the gauze. Better to get the facts with a little bias than no facts at all.
Besides, most reporters -- not columnists, who are paid to be opinionated --
try to keep their ideology under wraps. Most also strive for balance within a story.
It's in the story ideas, however, that the bias really shows.
Here are some stories that you are very unlikely to read in a mainstream newspaper, and certainly not on the front page:
Gender gap hurts Democrats. (The better half of the gender gap is that men vote Republican.)
Illegal immigrants cashing welfare checks hit record high. (That's not the case now, but when it was, you really had to dig to read it here.)
Parents and students support standardized tests. (Only stories against testing need apply.)
Alaskan caribou herds thrive near oil pipeline. (If there were a 10 percent decline in the size of the herds, you know that there'd have been a front-page story heralding ecological disaster.)
Senate panel rejects Kyoto global warming pact. (Last year, a Senate committee voted to urge President Bush to return to the Kyoto negotiations, but to reject any treaty that exempts developing nations, which Kyoto does.)
You also see the bias in the stories that papers report on ad nauseum. When Prop. 209, which ended racial preferences in state hiring and admission, was on the ballot in 1996, The Chronicle ran more than 250 pieces (including letters to the editor) on the measure from July to December.
Repetitive stories chronicled the fears of minority students, with next to no recognition of students who might be helped. Poll stories reported that women "surprisingly" supported the measure.
The reportage was similar for Proposition 187, the 1994 measure that denied health care and schooling for illegal immigrants. I voted against 187, but still was appalled at journalists' frequent failure to report relevant information, say, on the costs of illegal immigration.
Prop. 209 won 54 percent of the vote, and 187 garnered 59 percent. Go figure: Many reporters write that support for either measure is politically risky.
Too many reporters saw it as their mission to defeat Propositions 209 and 187. In the end, the constant droning of the same arguments revealed a pitiful lack of imagination, and a herd mentality, in a profession that prides itself in its independence and intellectual curiosity.
The mantra at the modern journalism conference is diversity; but practitioners don't really understand what diversity means.


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Janet Yellen spoke on October 14th and sent a clear signal. Yellen's Fed is more "dovish" than past Feds, and that is probably a good thing. There has been an almost paranoid focus on inflation in the past 2 decades all over the world, while NO proof exists that 3% or even 5% inflation is any worse than 2% for growth and prosperity. Yellen has communicated her views to the world, and all traders, business people, and fund managers must listen, because the implications are far-reaching. This post helps you make sense of it all in clear, simple language.
Yellen's message in a nutshell
There is NO hurry to tighten monetary policy, because there are NO signs of inflation, while growth remains sluggish and the employment rate remains extremely low relative to pre-2008 levels. The demographic undercurrent of the aging population all over the industrialized world has been accelerated by the Great Recession, but it seems that the fall of the US employment rate has been excessive, even taking into account demographics. This means that there remains plenty of slack in the labor market, even with the unemployment rate close to 5%, and that slack explains at least in part the absence of inflation.
The US employment rate was roughly 63% pre-2008 and now hovers around 60%, which means roughly that there are 3% less US workers as a fraction of the 15-64 population than before that are actively working and contributing to the production of goods and services. That is about 3% of about 204 million people, or about 6 million less workers, which corresponds to about 600 BILLION dollars less in production activity EVERY YEAR (because each worker produces on average a bit more than 100k per year in production value)! That means a net loss of 6 trillion over the next decade. That means less jobs, less profits, less income tax and other tax receipts for the government, lots of lost potential and business opportunities, and also less global demand, since the US is a major contributor to demand for many other countries such as China, Japan, Canada, etc.
Now perhaps PART of that fall in the employment rate is indeed caused by the aging demographics which was "accelerated" by the slump, but certainly not all of it and probably not even most of it.
How Yellen's Fed sees this
Essentially, the Fed sees the sluggish growth and the absence of inflation as signs that there remains major weaknesses in the economy and plenty of slack, and Yellen sees this as "scars from the recession" that have yet to heal. This is the point of view of hysteresis (which I share, by the way): major negative shocks to aggregate demand could cause permanent damage to the SUPPLY (production side) of the economy: companies close due to lack of opportunities and demand and less new companies open than otherwise would have been, more people abandon the labor market, less opportunities bubble up, and a general "negative vibe" gains households and SME business people, along with fiscal issues for governments. All this creates a sluggish economy, which then feeds on itself in a negative feedback loop.
This is a subject of debate, as some economists believe that demand and production are NOT related in the long run, and that only production (supply-side) aspects matter in the long run: growth in the number of workers, productivity growth, innovation and technological advancement, and that these are mostly driven by institutional aspects as well as tax and regulatory policies.
I have no issue with this more orthodox view, but I believe (as do many at the Fed) that the lack of demand for a prolongued period of time could lead to lack of business investment and a lack of opportunities for small-and-medium-sized companies. In other words, demand and supply DO interact even in the long run for those who believe in hysteresis, which is the case of Janet Yellen (and her husband, George Akerlof, a Nobel in economics from UC Berkeley).
What Yellen's Fed wants to do about it
If policymakers consider growth to be lower than it could be in a long run perspective, they will want to do something about it, and without the threat of inflation, they will act. The first thing to do is do "fix" supply-side aspects that block or kill production and employment: high corporate tax rates, red tape, a rigid labor market that causes firms to hesitate in hiring workers, etc. This is out of the hands of central banks, as it is related to changes in corporate taxation and regulation, labor market laws and regulations, among many others, which are all the responsibility of representatives at the (dysfunctional) Congress and Senate.
So the only thing the central bank can do is to boost demand with super-stimulative monetary policy to create demand and "pull the production side up." This means to let interest rates lower than most people expect and to "print" money to finance government spending that boosts demand if the need arises. All this has one general objective: to create a temporary "overheating" of the economy so that all those idle workers are reabsorbed into the labor force, businesses start to spend, hire, and invest more, mood becomes really good and potitive about the future, and inflation finally picks up to normal levels, even perhaps above-target for a while. They may even aim for a higher inflation target such as 3% some day, which would have a few advantages, but I don't want to talk about that for now.
Risks of this strategy
The risks to such an approach is that super low rates for a very long time and huge amounts of liquidity in markets all amount to one big red flag: the danger of bubbles. All that money eventually ends up "somewhere" and all that credit is taken on as debt by "someone"... you can end up with bubbles in stocks, bonds, housing, land, household debt, corporate debt, land, oil and other resources, and so on. Big bubbles generally pop in ugly ways, as we have seen in 1929 and 2008, so this is a delicate balance to strike, and Fed economists are well aware of this, as is clear from the remarks from Yellen and several other FOMC members.
What to make of all this for the USD and interest rates going forward?
In general, keep an eye on inflation, especially core personal consumption expenditure inflation (now around 1.7%) and don't think the Fed will react strongly even if it goes above the 2% target. The whole point is to create "overheating" for a while, to heal the supply-side scars of the recession that still hinder growth and employment. I personally fully agree with this approach, as long as bubbles are not created, which means we need a much greater role for macro prudential policies, but that is another subject...
All this means that Fed policy will be looser than most expect into 2017 and beyond and the USD will have a general tendency to depreciate while the economy grows and unemployment drops... BUT it will have short periods of appreciation once US elections are over and into the December Fed meeting, which could give ONE rate hike just to contain bubbles, but don't expect much tightening after that... If it comes, the rate hike will come with very moderate talk (dovish flavor, with a hawkish twist to contain bubbles). The value of the USD will fluctuate due to the disconnect between market expectations and interpretations of solid growth and increasing inflation (which causes the market to expect appreciation, which itself causes a short run appreciation) and Fed policy which could aim for some "overheating", which emans looser policy than normal and a more depreciated USD...
I see the USD volatile until the end of the year, with bursts of appreciation caused by upcoming events (elections and Fed meeting and perhaps some good data on the economy)... but I see the USD generally depreciating as of early 2017 due to Fed policy stance, unless of course the ECB and BOJ also start printing and stimulating even more, in which case the net effect will have to be reassessed. If a massive fiscal expansion comes in the USA (government spending program) after the next elections, it could spur appreciation as well. Just keep all this in mind as things unfold and you will understand what is going on at all times.
If in doubt and you get confused about Fed policy, look at 3 things:
The loss of production capacity and jobs from the recession poses a threat to becoming permanent and costing trillions, and "overheating the economy for a while" may indeed be required to jolt the US economy back on track. Higher inflation and a bit of overheating are small prices to pay relative to a permanently damaged economy. The cost-benefit is in favor of looser-than-normal-policy and above-target inflation for some time. That said, this policy creates risks of asset bubbles, which could end in ugly ways. This is why there may be one rate hike, but that remains to be seen. It also leaves out the elephant in the room: policies aimed at making production and job creation interesting again on US soil... a pro-production set of policies, which have yet to be discussed by the US candidates in the ongoing "humor show" that is the current presidential debate between 2 quite different candidates!
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Great blog entry has always. To your 3 things to watch concerning FED policy I would add this one: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html
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A Boy and His Blob has been rated for the PlayStation Vita by German rating board USK.
Publisher Majesco Entertainment revealed in August that it was working on a new A Boy and His Blob title for current gen consoles.
A Boy and His Blob is a puzzle platformer that first launched on the Nintendo Wii in 2009. What we do not know yet is whether this rating is for a port of the 2009 game or a brand new entry in the series. The game was also rated for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
One thing that we can be sure of is that we will bring you more news on this title as soon as we have it!


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TEDDINGTON, an urban district in the Uxbridge parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, close to the Thames, 13 m. W.S.W. of St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the London and South-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 14,037. The district is residential and the town is a resort of visitors both to the river and to Bushey Park, which lies immediately south (see Hampton). The National Physical Laboratory, for making scientific investigations of industrial importance, and for mechanical testing, was opened in Bushey House in 1902.


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In 1709 (or was it 1710?) the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all things copyright, warts and all. To contact the 1709 Blog, email Eleonora at eleonorarosati[at]gmail.com
Friday, 10 March 2017
"Copyright - to be or not to be"
The 2017 ALAI Congress which will take place in Copenhagen on May 18 and 19, 2017.
ALAI, or 'Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale' is the organisation which, under the chairmanship of its founder, Victor Hugo, initiated the series of international conferences that eventually led to the adoption of the Berne Convention in 1886. The theme of this year's Congress is "Copyright - to be or not to be".
The program and further information is available on the Congress website at http://alai2017.org. The Congress is open to both members and non-members of ALAI.
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Friday, April 9, 10:01 p.m. Maybe seven partygoers have arrived at Carlos's house on Esther and El Cajon Boulevard. Jason plays a song by the Asylum Street Spankers on the piano while I stock the fridge with beer.
Back in his room, Carlos plays Flying Burrito Brothers tunes from YouTube while Aaron passes around a bottle of bourbon. Jason talks about his new place in Silver Lake, which he calls the "North Park of L.A."
"My window has a great view of this lit-up revolving sign," he says. "On one side it has this foot with a frowny face and on the other side is the happy foot. So it's happy foot, sad foot spinning outside my window 24/7 for eternity. It's going to drive me crazy."
With Jason on piano, Scarlet Symphony's Zach on stand-up bass, a harmonica, and a couple guitars, we play a jazzy "How Many More Times," improvising strange lyrics as we go. Then "Sleepwalk" by Johnny and Santo as Aaron (Western Set) picks out the pedal steel lead on dobro.
In the middle of blues standard "'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do," a gang of about 15 people plow through the front door and immediately begin feeding shots of tequila to everyone with an instrument. A few disappear briefly and return with 42 Jack in the Box tacos.
Some of us step out front to smoke and Jason talks craps. "The trick is knowing when the table goes cold. The mojo disappears and you just keep losing money. It's a metaphysical thing. A vibe."
"I need some more epic jams," Aaron says. "I need prolonged jammage."
Instead, we talk about South America and how they really have life figured out down there. "[In Brazil] the bus broke down, like, three times, and every time, within 20 seconds, the orange cones came out and there'd be a soccer game in the middle of the road," Aaron relates. "People were playing guitars and singing. If the same thing happened here in the United States, everyone would be on their phones and iPods, all pissed off. We had a huge party."
We discuss how alcohol bolsters foreign-language capacities and how we feel we've been cheated, somehow, by our homeland's tradition of dance. Brazil has samba, Argentina has tango, everyone knows how to salsa, but what do we have? The funky chicken? The soulja boy? The electric slide?
Inside, Gigi plays a piano theme she wrote for an androgynous character in her half-finished novel. Savina tells me about getting hit by a car while riding her bike in O.B. a few days ago.
Later, the first chords of "Five Years" ring from the piano and we commence to jam with every instrument in the house and everybody howling along. "Five years, my brain hurts a lot! Five years, that's all we've got!"
The tune shifts to a tango, with off-the-cuff vocals about food, (ex-)lovers, and consciousness. Loud talk and laughter booms from the kitchen.
I meet a Filipina girl with bright blond hair named Wowie. I'm not making this up! We somehow end up talking about the hummus guy at the farmers' market, Lent, and that age-old question: "Are Jack in the Box tacos, in fact, vegetarian?"
"Did you know that when the Mayflower came over, water would go bad, so they brought beer?" Gigi asks. "America was founded by alcoholics."
We take a patriotic swill from our drinks, then, and, as if cuing the end credits to our evening, the first chords of "Bohemian Rhapsody" ring from the piano and we all join in for a crooning, impassioned chorus.
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Happy birthday, Dan Radcliffe! Take a look at Harry's evolution over eight 'Potter' films
23 July 2015 at 14:10 GMT
Dan Radcliffe, the actor who brought Harry Potter to life, turns 26 today! In honour of Dan's birthday, take a look back at Harry's evolution over eight 'Potter' films. Which era was your favourite?
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Happy birthday J.K. Rowling and Harry!
31 July 2011 at 11:05 GMT
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling celebrates her birthday today, along with her fictional hero Harry Potter. Happy birthday Jo!
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Please join me in wishing HPFZ's webmaster Andy McCray a very happy twenty-first birthday (June 14)! Andy, we truly appreciate the commitment that you have made to this site and its visitors. Even as you grow older and near graduation, you show relentless enthusiasm toward improving HPFZ and the fandom as a whole. We raise our butterbeers to you on this day, and wish you the very best in your future endeavors. Happy birthday, mate!
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24 August 2009 at 08:14 GMT
A very happy birthday today to Rupert Grint, who turns 21 today and plays a phenomenal role as Ron Weasley in the 'Harry Potter' films. Best wishes to him!
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The 31st of July is every devout Harry Potter fan's favourite day of the year because of two very important celebrity birthdays. A very happy birthday today to Harry Potter, who beat Lord Voldemort at his own game and made the world safe for Muggles everywhere.
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Happy birthday, Neville Longbottom!
30 July 2009 at 13:26 GMT
J.K. Rowling's official website has been updated to wish Neville Longbottom a happy birthday.
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This week I'd like to share something that came to mind as I watched the 1946 American Christmas Drama film called 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
It is the story of George Bailey , a man who has had to give up his dreams of traveling and going places in order to help others. Frustrated and feeling like a failure he opts for suicide on Christmas Eve. He is miraculously saved by the intervention of his guardian angel Clarence who shows George all the lives he has unknowingly touched and how different life in his community would be had he never been born.
This movie set me thinking of how many of us like George may not really be aware of the lives that we are responsible for changing by some small act of ours. Often we may not be doing any great thing, many times we may never even be in the lime light only behind doors and doing our duties faithfully not even aware of the mighty influence we may be having on someone somewhere! At this point I am reminded of an incident when my sister-in-law shared some money with a family who was struggling. Later on they told her that they were contemplating suicide and it was her action that made them change their mind. We may never fully know here and now how crucial our small acts of concern and kindness can be. It took a supernatural visitation to open George's eyes. Let this movie do that for us and open our eyes to the truth that truly, our life is pretty awesome and it's a Wonderful Life after all!
For those of you who would like to watch the movie, here's the link: http://youtu.be/frXklECPkD0
Nugget of Life: "Go into the world and do well but more importantly go into the world and do good."- Minor Myers Jr
Have a wonderful week!
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It's Customization Month on Android.Appstorm! Throughout March, we plan to share with you all our tips, tricks, apps and resources to help you improve your phone or tablet experience and make them suit your style.
Being Android users, we have a bigger opportunity to customise our devices. Opposed to the likes of iOS, the Open Source software allows anyone to fiddle around with a huge range of things. One such aspect many of us have been keen to change is the font. Normally, you'll only have the choice of three different font sizes on your phone, however, with extra apps and websites its possible to give yourself a much bigger choice.
As part of of the Customisation month on Android.Appstorm today I'm going to address the different ways you can do this. I'll also provide links to apps and web pages which make the process much easier.
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How To Change Your Fonts
The process for installing fonts is different between AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and Samsung devices. For this reason I've split this section into two different parts. If one doesn't apply to you, feel free to skip.
One thing to bear in mind is that some of these methods require rooting.
Samsung Devices
The easiest way to get fonts on Samsung devices will take roughly a minute. The first step is navigating to your Fonts Settings, located under Settings > Display > Font Style — you will also have an option to change font size here. Once you've navigated to Font Style you have a choice of three different options — these are all pretty boring though. However, don't fear, if you look to the bottom you should see an option called "Get Fonts Online."
Clicking on this you'll be taken to Samsungs Official seller and the fonts will range from $1-$3. But, you don't really need to pay this money as there are many options which give you the same service except they're free. One example is Socket84's tutorial on the XDA forums which is specific to certain devices. I've personally used this method and it worked, so hopefully it will for you too. Another alternative is simply looking for Flipfonts packaged as .apk files and installing them like you would any other third-party app.
FlipFont is built-in on Samsung devices and this serves as the standard store for the Fonts. However, after a quick search online you will find a range of apps and fonts will work with FlipFont and give you the same thing for free. My personal favourites are:
- Clean Pack for FlipFont® free
- Gothic Pack for FlipFont® free
- Or simply go to the "Fonts for FlipFont®" developer page and you'll be able to pick an app with fonts from many more genres that should fit your style.
AOSP Devices
One of the best ways to find fonts for AOSP device is through websites and web searches. Many different databases exist and will give you enough options to last you a lifetime. Below are some of the best.
- Font Squirrel: By following the link on your Android device you'll be taken to a page which has a range of different fonts to choose from. These are downloaded as TTF files and aren't any different from normal downloads. Once on your phone, the file will be automatically added to your device in the Font section, you will now be able to pick it easily in your settings.
- Roboto is one specific font which is available through "developer.android.com" along with other downloads. It's a sleek and smart typeface, proving to be a great improvement to Android devices that don't use it natively.
Font Apps You Should Check Out
The Google Play Store is another source of fonts, below I'll look at a few of my favourites.
Font Installer
Font Installer only works with rooted devices and lets you install hundreds of font types really easily. The app has a simple interface and you can even preview fonts before fully installing them.
Price: Free
Requires: Android 1.5 And Up
Market Link: Font Installer
Developer: JRummy Apps Inc.
TypeFresh works in the same way as Font Installer; meaning you do need a rooted device — you'll have a smaller choice of options if you don't fancy rooting. You will need a separate File Explorer to navigate around the app, but once you've downloaded something which works, this should be a simple process.
Price: Free
Requires: Android 1.5 And Up
Market Link: TypeFresh
Developer: Pixelpod INTERNATIONAL
Fontomizer SP(Font for Galaxy)
The final app is Samsung specific, but it's the best option on the Play Store which doesn't require root. Fontomizer is easy to use and doesn't make a fuss about getting you the fonts that you want. All Samsung users who have compatible devices should really give it a try.
Price: Free
Requires: Android 2.1 And Up
Market Link: Fontomizer SP(Font for Galaxy)
Developer: bottobuche
Some of these processes are quite easy while others are rather difficult and depending on what you want to achieve, the methods may be different. But I hope that this brief introduction into changing fonts on Android devices has opened your eyes to the customization of typefaces. Have you changed the font on your Android device? What method did you use?


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We have a lot of news here at BA for you all so I'll just get to it!
A Welcome
Bookish Ardour now has a new contributor! Ashley, of The Cross Review, will be joining us with reviews starting late next week. She mainly reads Classic Literature, Dark Fiction, Dystopia, and Paranormal Fiction so we hope she likes it here and we look forward to her reviews.
Welcome Ashley!
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Going To Print
One of my new favourites, Morning Rising by Samantha Boyette, is going to print! It's available in eBook format, but now you can also purchase it from Lulu in paperback. And from now until December 14th, if you enter this coupon code – BUYMYBOOK305 – you'll get 25% off!
My review isn't up until Sunday, but I can tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed Morning Rising. Here's the synopsis if you want to know more about the story.
Morning Rising by Samantha Boyette
In the ever present dusk of Inbetween, Kara Hart wakes up dirty and alone with the memory of a girl named Dylan. She remembers meeting Dylan and how her heart beat when Dylan touched her face, but nothing else. When Kara is sent to Demitar, the evil ruler of Inbetween, the truth is revealed. She is Dylan's Guardian and neither of them are who they thought they were.
Set in a darker version our own world, Morning Rising follows Kara as she tries to save Dylan from Demitar's clutches. She is given three days to find Dylan and get her out of Inbetween before she belongs to Demitar forever. Memories must be regained and powers restored if they have a chance of escaping. Each memory and sighting of Dylan helps Kara remember the love they once shared. If only she can help Dylan remember before it's too late.
Time Yarns Seeks Reviewers and Writers
Time Yarns, a shared world science fiction transmedia publisher, is seeking reviewers for the 2012 anthologies Cassandra's Time Yarns and Anarchy Zone Time Yarns.
Submissions are now open for the 2013 anthology Cat's Cradle Time Yarns. More info is available on the website.
eBook Guide Update
Our eBook guide has been updated with a few more links including GoodeReader and Lending eBook. We also have a section with eBook software now and if you know of any resources, global friendly eBook stores, websites with freebies, or anything else, we'd love to hear from you.
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eBook Giveaway – We have 3 copies of Nadine Rose Larter's Coffee at Little Angels up for grabs.
The BA Christmas Giveaway – There's a print or kindle copy of our top rated for the year up for grabs.
Idols & Cons Blog Tour – S.S. Micheals debut novel, Idols & Cons, is now available and she's having a blog tour.
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It only takes three ingredients to make soft and tender potato gnocchi. My Polish dad was the cook in our family and he used to make them and called them kluski which I later learned are the same as Italian gnocchi. In Poland they are called kopytka and the Polish way to serve them is with fried bacon and onions but nobody needs to do that any more! I prefer gnocchi Italian style as a side dish with red sauce or as a main dish topped with my homemade bolognese sauce. Anything you can do with pasta, you can do with gnocchi and it's a pretty simple recipe. Plus they freeze beautifully. Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
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One of the standout albums of 2016 was from the Aaron Maine-helmed synthpop outfit, Porches, with their excellent album Pool. The album featured a very organic, lo-fi 80s pastiche that was altogether soothing and cathartic.
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(Costa Mesa, CA) Dainese, the worldwide leader in sport protective apparel, is pleased to announce two Made to Measure events in US.
Two unique Made to Measure(also known as Fitnet) events will allow Dainese customers a rare opportunity to be measured by a factory tailor and order custom made leather jacket, pants, or suits. Dainese specialty tailors will be at the D-Store Chicago on December 1st and D-Store San Francisco on December 8th offering their services to customers who prefer special sizing or colors of items from the current Dainese collection.
This is a rare opportunity to be fitted by the same tailors that measures Dainese MotoGP or WSBK racers. AMA Superbike star Blake Young will be attending the event at D-Store Chicago as a special guest. Blake, like many sponsored riders, has been wearing custom Dainese race suits for years and will be answering questions about his experiences of riding and racing wearing the world's most protective motorcycle gear.
Customers should contact the Dainese D-Stores for an appointment as space is limited for these one day events.
D-Store Chicago: December, 1st 2012
D-Store San Francisco: December, 8th 2012
D-Store Chicago
1408 N. Meacham Rd.
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D-Store San Francisco
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