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Disk /dev/sda: 16.1 GB, 16106127360 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1958 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0004f39a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 32 248832 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 32 523 3942401 5 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 32 523 3942400 8e Linux LVMThe first thing I've been trying to do is resizing the physical volume, but although pvresize's output tells me that the volume was resized, it keeps showing the same size, so I must be missing something.
root@v-ubuntu-server:~# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda5 v-ubuntu-server lvm2 a- 3.76g 40.00m root@v-ubuntu-server:~# pvresize /dev/sda5 Physical volume "/dev/sda5" changed 1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized root@v-ubuntu-server:~# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda5 v-ubuntu-server lvm2 a- 3.76g 40.00mThis is a virtual non-production server and I have a backup of the virtual disk, so I can play with the partition table without much worries. As I understand, I should resize the pv (which is already part of a physical group), or create a new pv and add it to the physical group, which will allow me to extend or resize the logical volume. Am I correct ? As shown above, the disk capacity is 16.1 GB., but the pv is only ~4 GB. Can somebody tell me what is the exact (and complete) procedure to increase the size of the root partition in this case ? Thank you.


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As a personal exercise, last year I assigned myself a project to shoot 30 portraits in 30 days, the only rule being that no portrait could be lit like any of the others.
Among those I asked to sit (or in this case stand) for me were New Orleans-based musicians Luke Winslow-King and his girlfriend, Esther Rose, who sings and plays washboard in his band, The Ragtime Millionaires. Luke's sound is a combination of pre-war blues, traditional jazz, folk and rock and roll, and I wanted to shoot portraits that reflected this sound.
For inspiration, I looked to Ansel Adams' 1937 portrait of Orville Cox and George O'Keefe against a backdrop of brooding clouds in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. (If you're looking for inspiration, go big.) This is a photo that Adams himself chose as one of his best works, and I thought the mood suited my subjects well. Luke and Esther liked it too, so we were set.
I don't know anything about how Adams created this particular image, but to get that darkened sky I knew I was going to have to bring a studio light on location. Armed with a Vagabond lithium mini battery pack, an Alien Bee 1600 and a 24×36 soft box, I headed for my favorite location in New Orleans to do big wide-open sky photos like this. I arrived with my assistant about 15 minutes before Luke and Esther to determine the best spot to set up in relation to the sky.
I shot these images around 4 p.m. in early October, meaning the sun was still very bright. I knew I'd probably have to crank my light to full power, and after a meter reading and a couple of camera tests, my suspicions proved correct. In order to get the sky dark enough to establish the mood I wanted, I had to stop down to f22 and keep the soft box very close to my subjects (my iso was 50, the lowest setting on my camera).
To add a little more drama to the shots, I worked from low angles with my 24-70mm lens zoomed out to 40mm, which introduced subtle distortions. Fortunately, because of the angle of the sun relative to the camera, I look like I have a two-light set up here, but that rim light on the shadow side of these photos is actually the sun giving me a little extra help.


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Thank you for the comments and emails about the Tern in yesterday's post. Nice to know you are paying attention.
Of course I didn't know it was a Tern or a Swift. To me it's just a flying bird, but I couldn't pass on the opportunity to increase the blog hit rate!
We had visitors call unannounced for dinner yesterday evening and they bought their large family.
It appears dad missed out at the expense of the kids because he returned and
knocked pecked on the hull begging for more. It was a good mooring location where we may stop on our return.
The CRT weed cutter started ahead of us this morning but as the crew had left their vehicle opposite our mooring we knew we were going to meet them at some point during the day. Hopefully they will have reached Stockwith in time for our return trip.
Amazing how a full stomach can change your perception. Last night's visitors ignored us today. We continue to be enthralled by the scenery.
There are more good moorings at Clarborough. Like last night's mooring; It also has a canalside pub. We pressed on to Whitsunday Pie Lock where we caught up with the CRT inspection team checking the condition of the lock. Apparently it's the annual inspection.
There's a water point at Hop Pole Bridge. It's on the off-side and adjacent to the Hop Pole pub where there are also 48 hour moorings and power pods.
With no water point in Retford we decided to top up the tank. It's also assisting with our cruising as the weight in the bow slightly lifts the stern which is an advantage with the shallow depth of the canal. At least there's no less weed.
It was midday when we reached Retford and the sky was starting to look ominous so we quickly moored and set ourselves up in preparation for rain. Shortly thereafter the heavens opened and we received a downpour.


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When I found "magic boxes", I had to give them a try.
The butterfly is from Silhouette, with a rainbow fill added (I was astonished to learn that although Silhouette doesn't allow copy & paste between files, it does allow "drop & drag" from almost anywhere!). I brushed them with glue & sprinkled with clear glitter.
The swirl embossing was done by cutting a file I created in Silhouette Studio (which WordPress won't allow me to upload) and using a stylus to press squares of cardstock into it. A little brush with an inkpad brought out the design.
Lift the lid, and the box falls open:
The text reads:
In Celebration
Nine Months After
Your InCarnation
Happy Birthday!
("Carne" means "flesh",
so "Incarnation" literally means "enfleshment", ie. conception–
the carnation gets its name from being flesh colored)
The green "fill" is a photo of our lawn in bright sunlight under trees.
Carnations are one of my mom's favorite flowers, so I worked them in with the butterflies.
The carnations were made by folding squares of paper in half twice
…cutting with tiny zigzag scissors (with a cut down the center & each side to make petals)
…pleating the edges against my fingers with a pair of tweezers
…crumpling the petals along the pleating & rubbing the tips against an inkpad
…and layering 8 or 9 sets of these for each flower (gluing them together in the center). A calyx cut from similarly folded green paper finished each one off.
The ovals were also designed & cut in the Silhouette (although I had to finish a lot of the cuts by hand–I was having trouble with my blade with things that intricate).
To make the flowers & butterflies "fly", I cut strips of plastic left from laminating relic cards (The cards are laminated several per sheet & cut out, so there are scraps of fused plastic from the edges). I bent back about 3/8″ on each end, glued a butterfly or flower to one bent end & tucked the other through a slit in the base of the card. I glued down the bent ends on the underside of the card, then cut a second bottom to glue over them (to hide & stabilize them).
A personalized greeting was written on a separate square of paper & glued into the under side of the lid.
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No guide gig proper this week, partly due to there not much being on, but mostly down to me being in a bloody horrible mood today. Instead of doing a gig guide, or replying to the pair of ridiculously bitchy emails that put me in a mood today has been spent hanging around in the garden with a couple of beers and cheery tunes.
There's a couple of decent gigs this week, so I'll batter through them quickly.
On Wednesday Kitty The Lion play Stereo, along with The Invisible Republic.
Thursday has Over The Wall, Gdansk and Adam Stafford at Oran Mor, a line up which is quite likely to tempt me out of the house.
Thursday has Over The Wall, Gdansk and Adam Stafford at Oran Mor, a line up which is quite likely to tempt me out of the house.
Friday (and Saturday) has both a decent gig and worthy cause going for it, in the shape of Dusk To Dawn. This is a two night thing at The Buff Club, presented by TBC (Together Beat Cancer). Friday's line up includes Admiral Fallow and Louise McVey & Cracks In The Concrete, while Saturday has Findlay Napier and Alan McKim, amongst others. Visit the TBC website, and check out our PodcART pals for all the details you need.
Records out this week include singles by Teenage Fanclub and God Help The Girl, a Julia and the Doogans EP, and an album by Jack James.
Next week, and pretty much all of June, promise to have gig guides that will kill me - not to mention going to the gigs themselves - with the amount of stuff that's on, so it is probably a bonus that I can save my energy this week.


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MASTER NOTES: Last thoughts on Tout...
The thing about an intense fantasy baseball weekend is that it really gets you thinking about the game. I scribbled some notes during Tout Weekend 2017, and here are some last thoughts...
Huh? What?
The Tout weekend got off to a rocky start when the Head-to-Head (H2H) Mixed League auction had to be moved just a few minutes before it was scheduled to start. The drafts were all being held at Rock 'n' Reilly's, one of New York's newest and most popular sports bars, and it was very busy. Who woulda guessed? A Friday night during March Madness, with tournament games being played a block away at Madison Square Garden.
Now, when I say it was "very busy," I mean it was "about as quiet as sticking your head into a General Electric GEnx dual rotor/axial flow/high-bypass turbofanturbofan engine." It was apparent pretty quickly that the only way an auction could work is if all the league members quickly developed semaphore skills or Chicago Board of Trade pit-signalling abilities. After some quick discussions between the venue management and Tout head Peter Kreutzer, who was actually in the draft, they moved everything up one floor to a conference room and got it going. The only drawback was that the hotel hadn't expected to use the room that chilly New York night, and it was quite cold in there. One picture making the social-media rounds showed Paul Sporer huddling in a jacket and hoodie, and looking a lot like a guy waiting for a bus. In Greenland.
The rest of the auctions were held in the bar, before the crowds started filing in, and went off without a hitch.
Punting in H2H
Among the approximately 800 commentators and analysts hovering over Tout Wars weekend, one of the hot topics was the overt punting strategy embraced in Friday night's H2H auction. At least two teams took a seemingly radical approach by punting multiple categories, and spending crazy loot on subsets of players outside the punting zone. Paul Sporer spent $41 apiece on Votto and Arenado, $44 on Bryce Harper, and $50 (!) on Trout. His pitching exploits the rule that replaces strikeouts as a counting stat with K/9: He got a $23 Chris Archer, a $9 Michael Pineda, four $1 starters and three $1 relievers.
Kreutzer, meanwhile, was also taking advantage of the K/9 category—introduced in last year's Tout H2H—but punted power and loaded up on bags, runs and OBP. He spent $28 on Jonathan Villar, $23 on Francisco Lindor, $32 on Trea Turner, $28 on Andrew McCutchen, and $12 on Jose Ramirez. He also invested $43 on Clayton Kershaw and $24 on Stephen Strasburg, and rounded out his staff with a $12 Rich Hill plus bunch of $1-$3 LIMA high-K/9 relievers, mostly closers-in-waiting with saves upside.
In the immediate aftermath of the draft, I was asked on a radio program about what I thought the plan was, and I said I thought it was a strategy designed to win six categories out of the 10—not a viable approach in straight Roto scoring, but one that makes a lot of sense in H2H, where 6/10 wins the week.
Later, I talked with Kreutzer and he confirmed the plan to dominate speed, OBP and runs and to compete in pitcher decimals and k/9.
I have to say I admire the planning and the thought process. But I've always been a little reluctant to endorse such obvious "gaming the system." This might be something that needs further study.
Gianella's W/K punt in NL-only
In the NL auction, Mike Gianella was also punting, only he was punting wins and strikeouts. He bought only three starters, Johnny Cueto ($23), Kyle Hendricks ($18) and David Phelps ($2), to get a solid base in pitcher decimals, and rounded out with two cheap closers (Jeurys Familila and Tony Watson for $21 combined) and four $1 LIMA relievers with saves potential (Bruce Rondon, Joaquin Benoit, Mauricio Cabrera, Juan Nicasio). His whole pitching staff cost $68.
With the remaining $192, Gianella got a balanced offense, with Starling Marte the top guy at $30, but only two $1 guys.
He said later that he plans to get 12 points in each ERA and WHIP, high points in saves, and 1 point each in wins and Ks. That's 26 so far. Add 9-12 in Saves, and he's 35-38 in pitching, which is a little less than halfway to the usual winning score of around 80. Worst-case, he needs about 45 from offense, which is nine per category or fourth in each. With his balanced offense, it's certainly possible.
The difficulty might be the Tout IP requirement of 950. Assume 400 total from Cueto and Hendricks and 140 from Phelps, that's 540, leaving 410 for the other six pitchers, about 70 apiece. Most relievers are right around there, so maybe Gianella has this neatly calibrated. It's possible Phelps could step up to 160, which would make it a pretty easy coast to the finish. If there's a shortfall looming, Tout uses a "swingman" position that can be switched from a second UT hitter to a 10th pitcher, which he could use to get to the minimum. He'll have to watch it carefully, though—especially if Cueto or Hendricks misses any time.
Points to win
This is not completely about Tout, but does anyone actually know what it takes to win a league? I looked into a few past leagues, inside and outside Tout, and it seems like a decent rule of thumb is that it takes 75% of the maximum points to have a chance of winning a league. Post a comment or e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com if you think normal winning points levels are different, especially if you have or know of an actual study.
Who's on third?
My former home league, the long-running Regina Rotisserie Baseball League, has a Facebook presence where they put up some pictures and commentary about my Tout efforts. Very flattering.
At that same Facebook page not long ago, a debate erupted over whether Nolan Arenado or Manny Machado is the best 3B in the game. One of the debaters put up Arenado's stats from 2013-16 as evidence that he's the top guy. So I looked into it, and on offense at least, out of Arenado and Machado, the best 3B is ... Josh Donaldson:
Arenado Machado Donaldson =================================== BA .285-2 .287-3 .284-1 HR 111-2 98-1 131-3 RBI 376-2 285-1 413-3 HIT 613-1 649-2 677-3 SB 8-1 28-3 26-2 RUNS 320-1 333-2 426-3 OPS .851-2 .817-1 .893-3 ----------------------------------- TOTAL (Roto) 11 13 18
Anchors away! (Yes, I know it's "aweigh." I'm no landlubber.)
Just before heading to Tout weekend, I read Michael Lewis' latest book, The Undoing Project. It's about discoveries by two Israeli psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, who basically invented much of what we now know as "behavioral economics." Its basic premise is that people are not the rational decision-makers beloved in classical economics, but emotional and mistake-prone, with quite poor skills at figuring out the best choices.
Lewis wrote the book after a review of his great baseball book Moneyball. The reviewer said that Tversky and Kahneman had pointed out most of what the Oakland A's were doing years before they were doing it. Intrigued, Lewis looked into their story.
Among many other decision-making faux-pas we make is a phenomenon called "anchoring," which means we tend to "anchor" our price expectations to some handy figure—and the number can be completely random and a totally irrational way to price anything.
They tested this idea by having roomfuls of university students write down the last three numbers of their Social-Security numbers or their student IDs, and then asking them to set the prices they would pay for various objects with whose prices they were not already familiar. Remarkably, the students whose random three-digit numbers were on the low end almost always set lower prices, and those whose random numbers were on the high end set the highest prices! And remember—the "anchor" numbers themselves were entirely random.
So, what does all this have to do with fantasy baseball? I was thinking about how auctions work, and the long-running debate about where to start the bidding when nominating a player. If Tversky and Kahneman are right, then maybe there's a sliver of advantage to be gained. If you want the player, always start him at $1, because in that way you set a low "anchor" for the player, and bidders will get more reticent as the price climbs further from the anchor. Might save you a buck or two! Conversely, if you nominate a player to force money out, start him higher, near his value. The anchor is higher, so the bidders might feel more comfortable bidding more.
Also, as far as whether to wait until "going twice" or to bid quickly, Tversky and Kahneman also identified several phenomena about what motivates decisions. One of those phenomena says we fear loss more than we get excited over gain. That made me think that you shouldn't wait until the last second on a player you want, because your opponent now fears the loss of a player he nearly owned and might be more likely to re-bid. Instead, bid right away, before he gets in his head the idea that the player is his.
I might be out to lunch on all of this, but it costs you nothing to try!
The Undoing Project is an excellent read. Read an excerpt here.
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DENTON, Tex. — In the second game of a two-game Texas swing, the visiting Bethune-Cookman Wildcats were looking for a better result this time out.
Against the UTRGV Vaqueros on Monday night, a strong first half for the home side put the Wildcats behind the eight-ball, and they weren't able to recover. The Vaqueros knocked off Bethune-Cookman, 92-74.
Thursday night, the Wildcats were looking to earn a split in the state of Texas, as they squared off against the North Texas Mean Green in Denton. The Mean Green were coming off a road loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and were looking forward to playing at home once again.
North Texas held a nine-point lead after the first half, at 42-33, but pulled away early in the second frame.
The home side opened the second half on a 19-3 run, and the Wildcats were unable to recover. North Texas bounced back from their loss, holding down their home court and notching a 90-78 victory over Bethune-Cookman. Continue reading Second half run propels North Texas past Bethune-Cookman, 90-78


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Semuc Champey, consists of natural 300 m limestone bridge, a natural monument in the department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala near the Q'echi' Maya town of Lanquin. The Cahabon River passes under the bridge, and atop of bridge a series of stepped, turquoise pools. Semuc Champey, which in the language of the Maya means "sacred water," and another name for it might well be heaven. Semuc Champey is a natural wonder tucked away in the mountains of an isolated jungle in Guatemala where the harder rock on the surface has held strong while the river eroded the softer rock beneath.
It's a famous swimming place among visitors and getting more popular as the time passes. The pools naturally created by Cahabon River which turquoise color and Muddy River runs beneath them and out the bottom of a larger waterfall on the other end. The pools water is so clear, as it is rain water and river may flood over the pools as well. The natural limestone bridge & turquoise blue pools of Semuc Champey had revealed themselves where you can get a great view of the scenery around you. The Cahabòn River water color is incredible a strong bright turquoise blue that sharply stands out from the surrounding green jungle.
So, you should be very careful to get close to the edge, as few people have fallen in here before, never to be found again. Due to this sad incident, the park has hired a guy who stands near the hole and warn you with whistle not go to edges. Make sure to dip into pools, some areas are deep enough to dive into from high points on the limestone shelf. The limestone's have small caves too, and you can swim and enjoy into them and explore from underneath a waterfall. There's slight sunlight outside reflecting from the bright blue water to give you beautiful view.
This is the perfect place which had inspired visitor's quest, a source of fascination and trepidation and it looks like Mother Nature's amusement park. In spite of staggering beauty the place is so cut off but most extraordinary spot you'd have ever seen. A tangle of greenery with lovely parrots in the trees, monkeys, an underground river, miles of stalactite-and-stalagmite-filled caves orchids in the trees, butterflies fluttering: if there was an Eden on earth this might be it.


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2nd harvest!
Hi everybody!
Well, we've had our second vegetable harvest today and between the deliveries and pickups I hope everyone's had a chance to take a look at what's in their bins this week. You'll find spinach, garlic scapes (the last ones of the year, sadly – but remember to try out that carbonara recipe if you haven't had a chance yet!), lettuce, broccoli, beet greens and herbs (summer savoury, chives & oregano). Welcome to our Week B quarter shares, I hope you'll enjoy your tasty veggies this week!
This is a good time to give everyone an update on what's going on in the garden at Our Farm, too! We've got lots of blossoms on the peas, so it wouldn't surprise me if we have some action on that front very soon. The swiss chard is coming along nicely and should be ready for a first cutting next week. The kale is coming along but it will still be a while. Cabbages are starting to form but I think it will still be another couple of weeks before you see those in your bins. The beans haven't been growing as quickly as we'd hoped because of some shade issues… we'll be working on that this week and I hope they'll catch up quickly. We've got quite a few blossoms on the tomatoes and we've actually got at least half a dozen green tomatoes started! Can you believe it?! The peppers are coming along nicely and some blossoms have started to bud which is a very promising sign. There are blossoms on some of the potato plants as well, so it won't be too long before you see some new potatoes in your bins. The carrots are probably going to be another two weeks before they're sized up enough for harvest but they're getting there. The onions, leeks and eggplants are growing away, but they'll take quite some time before they're ready. The ground cherries, celery, zucchini and yellow crookneck squash are started but they're going to be a while, too. The radishes are coming along after a rough start, but they're going to be another week or two, as well.
But back to one of the vegetables we do have this week – spinach. I took a quick peek over at food.com to check out some recipes and while it was tempting to go with everyone's favourite spinach dip (1/2 cup mayo, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 packet of vegetable soup mix – or 1/4 cup of homemade vegetable stock if you're into that!), every recipe I could find called for a ten ounce package of frozen chopped spinach. Not exactly what we're looking for, eh? After I specifically searched for fresh spinach, though, I came across a mouth-watering recipe for Fresh Spinach Mushroom Frittata by Mysterygirl. And she's right – it really does only need things you're likely to already have around. Doesn't that just make life easier?
Fresh Spinach Mushroom Frittata
About This Recipe
"I had some fresh spinach that I needed to use and this recipe was born. Uses all the good stuff that I always have on hand."
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 cloves garlic, minced*
- 1/2 cup onions, sliced*
- 8 ounces mushrooms, quartered
- 2 cups fresh spinach, chopped
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash pepper
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese**
- Melt butter in an oven proof skillet.
- Add garlic, onions and mushrooms cooking until onions are translucent.
- Add spinach, sautee for 2 minutes.
- Beat eggs, salt& pepper together.
- Pour over mixture in skillet, stirring to combine.
- Cook eggs for about 4 minutes, eggs will be almost but not quite set still moist on top.
- Sprinkle with cheese and put in oven.
- Broil 6″ from heat for 3-4 minutes or until eggs are set and cheese is lightly browned.
* I would suggest that you could substitute about 1/3 – 1/4 of a cup of minced Our Farm garlic scapes here and come out with a very similar result.
* That would be grated fresh parmesan cheese. You could probably substitute gouda, or even mozzarella, if you wanted.
So, eaters of Our Farm veggies – bon appetit! If you have any recipes you'd like to suggest to fellow CSA members please feel free to leave them in the comments, or if you try this recipe out yourself please let us how it was. Have a great week everyone!
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First harvest!!!
Hi there everybody!
I'm very happy to finally be posting the news that we had our first harvest today. For those of you getting a full or half share, or the Week A quarter shares, your bins this week contained spinach, beet greens, garlic scapes, summer savoury, chives, oregano and either broccoli or lettuce.
Since there are only going to be a couple of weeks of garlic scapes, I thought I'd focus on those for a recipe this week. Everything else can go in a salad (or if the mood strikes you you could sautee the greens & use them as a bed for a meat dish or in a stir fry), but garlic scapes are special. I found a recipe for garlic scape carbonara at Sarah's Cucina Bella along with a write-up about garlic scapes that really helps to get across just how awesome these little sprigs of Springtime really are.
Garlic Scape Carbonara
serves 4
This pasta is fantastic as a meal served with a big garden salad and some crusty bread. If desired, add a half-cup of fresh, lightly cooked peas to the mix for a little added nutrition (and sweetness).
1/2 lb campanella pasta, or shape of your choosing
4 slices bacon (about 3 1/4 ounces), chopped
1/4 cup garlic scapes, cut into 1/4 inch coins
2 large eggs
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1/2 cup freshly grated Romano cheese
Set a pot of water to boiling on the stove and cook the campanella pasta (or desired shape).
While it's cooking, cook the bacon over medium heat until browned. Remove the bacon pieces with a slotted spoon and add the garlic scapes. Cook until soft (2-3 minutes). Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon. (Drain both the bacon and the garlic scapes on a paper towel).
Whisk together the eggs, salt and red pepper flakes.
When the pasta is done, quickly remove it from the stove and set a different burner to low heat. Drain the pasta and add it back to the pot, on the burner set to low. Stir in the garlic scapes and bacon. Add the egg mixture and stir feverishly for 3-4 minutes until sauce is thick and creamy. Don't let it overcook or it will be gloppy. Sprinkle the romano cheese in, a little at a time, and stir to combine. Don't add it all at once or it won't mix through out the pasta as well (since it will clump).
Hope you enjoy your veggies this week! We're looking forward to hearing how things tasted, and we're also looking forward to seeing what comes out of the garden next week. Stay tuned!
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Can't spell voyeurism without VR
You may have noticed I've written on a number of lewd games in recent memory, and what it may make people think of me and my taste in games is obvious. But what can you do when you focus on covering Japanese games? Not covering a bunch of eroge ("erotic games") is like focusing on professional baseball and not covering steroid abuse.
The Japan-only Summer Lesson just released yesterday and it already has its version of "Ass Ventura," a lewd ripoff called VR Kanojo or VR Girlfriend, set to release in January 2017 for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on Windows 10, 8.1, and 7. This unmistakable new spin on Summer Lesson is more blatant in giving what most people interested in Summer Lesson are really after: love and lewdness.
[All NSFW]
In the trailer there are heavy romantic undertones and a few potential upskirt opportunities, just in case turning your head wasn't enough. It ends with her sprawled out on the bed scolding you for doing something naughty. Here's a view of the fan scene from a more. um, strategic angle in a 360 video:
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BackgroundAfter Action Review (AAR) was developed by the USA military, and is a method of evaluation conducted during or after any project. It allows employees and project leaders to discover and learn what happened during the project and why. It can be thought of as a professional discussion of an event that enables employees to understand why things happened during the progression of any process or project, and to learn from that experience. The AAR is a continual method of evaluation that connects past experience with future actions, and can be performed after each identifiable event within a project or major activity, and therefore becomes a live and continuous learning process. This project is one of the first evaluations of AAR in the United Kingdom. The AAR is a professional discussion that includes all the participants involved in a project and focuses directly on the tasks and goals. It is not a critique and has several advantages over a critique:
After Action Review focuses on four key questions:
A lack of ongoing evaluation of projects expecting to change practice can be costly to any organisation due to redundant project work, and repetition of mistakes. It is suggested that a properly conducted AAR can be an influential method to use in any organization, understanding that every action is an opportunity for learning. It can become part of the communication process that educates, informs and motivates a project group, by ensuring they continue to do the right thing. It can prevent future confusion ensuring lessons are learnt from successes and mistakes.
AimTo pilot the use of AAR within the Practice Development Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT), to assess its value as a method of evaluation in a busy acute hospital.
The Practice Development Team undertakes projects which affect all areas of the Trust, and potentially impact on the outcomes for patients, and/or the service, and/or the staff. An aim of CLAHRC SY TK2A theme is to identify key success factors about getting research into practice which can help embed project learning into the organisation.
ApproachA mixed methods service evaluation approach was used to evaluate AAR from March to May 2010. The methods were a survey, observation, and audio taping of the AAR meetings.
All participants were briefed about the purpose of AAR before the session began. All the AAR's were observed by the same individual, notes taken, and were audio-taped with the participants' permission. Detailed written notes of the discussions were recorded by the observer. The audio tape was listened to afterwards for clarification and to add any points that may have been missed to the notes. Written feedback from the observation notes and audio tape transcription was sent to the lead of the group for each of the projects who took part.
A 12 item questionnaire on the perceived value of elements of the AAR process was distributed to staff taking part at the end of each AAR. It used a Likert scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree, and took 10 minutes to complete. There were 18 responses from 24 staff; respondents also had the opportunity to add free text comments to the questionnaire.
The role of the facilitator in the AAR's
All of the AAR's had a facilitator trained in AAR to guide the team through the AAR process. The facilitators followed the steps and guidelines for conducting AAR's by setting the climate for the AAR. Ground rules for openness, honesty, and confidentiality were discussed, and the facilitator allowed and encouraged all participants to contribute. The facilitator also aimed to keep the group on track, answering the four key AAR questions, and to keep to time. The facilitator was independent and unfamiliar with the projects, and was therefore able to ask probing questions to the groups which helped them to reflect and recall events to add to the discussion.
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If you're arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Orange County, immediately retain the services of an experienced Orange County DWI lawyer. A good DUI attorney can advise you regarding the specifics of your case and can fight for justice on your behalf. More generally speaking, listed here are some popular myths and misconceptions about DUI: Every driver in California needs to know the truth and dismiss these myths:
- "Eating, lodging a penny in your mouth, or using a breath spray will impact the result of a breathalyzer test." These are all urban myths. Eating can make you feel better, but you don't want to risk swallowing a penny, and most breath sprays contain trace amounts of alcohol that can actually raise your blood alcohol level.
- "Most drivers accused of DWI are guilty." No evidence exists to support this misconception. Most guilty verdicts are based on the results of breathalyzer tests, which can be entirely inadequate and unreliable.
- "You can't win a DWI case." That's just a popular myth, but winning can also mean having a DWI charge reduced or agreeing to a plea deal that avoids a DWI conviction.
- "DUI is no big deal." That may have been true decades ago, but since at least the 1980s, DWI is a very big deal. If you're convicted you'll face fines, possibly jail time, years on probation, higher insurance rates, and in some cases, employment trouble.
These aren't the only dangerous ideas about DUI that have made their way into popular culture. If you drive in California, you need to know the facts. If you're charged with driving under the influence in Orange County, now or in the future, a good DWI defense lawyer can examine the details of your case, address your concerns, and fight aggressively for the best possible result. Don't deal with a DWI charge without having an experienced DUI defense attorney at your side. If you're charged with the crime, speak at once with an experienced Orange County DUI lawyer.


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It might be going too far to proclaim 2013 the Year of the Mustache, but viewers have been privy to a glorious bounty of mustachioed upper lips at the movies this year. Phil Olsen, the captain of Beard Team USA, knows a thing or two about hirsute looks. He and his colleagues will battle for global facial hair supremacy at the World Beard and Mustache Championships in Portland, Ore., in September. He agreed to share his thoughts on a selection of actors with striking 'staches.
Tom Hanks in "Saving Mr. Banks"
Character Walt Disney
Period 1960s
Expert opinion Mr. Olsen was unimpressed by this classic yet conservative mustache based on the one sported by the real Disney: "I wish Disney had tried to make a bolder statement. How would Walt have looked with a giant handlebar? Goofy maybe, but we will never know for sure."
Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Buyers Club"
Character Ron Woodroof, a rodeo rider and electrician who smuggled medications from Mexico to help fellow patients with H.I.V.
Period 1980s
Expert opinion Mr. Olsen compared Woodroof's look to that of another famous movie scofflaw. "The Sundance Kid patented the droopy but stylish mustache with a kick that looks best when worn with a cowboy hat," he said. "It worked for Redford, and it works for McConaughey, too."
Will Ferrell in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues"
Character Ron Burgundy, oblivious newsreader
Period 1980s
Expert opinion It is rare to see a mustache used as the focal point of a movie poster, but then it is also rare to see such a luxurious and unashamed specimen like Ron Burgundy's. He "proves that a mustache looks dorky on a dork," Mr. Olsen said. "Facial hair is for everyone."
Joaquin Phoenix in "Her"
Character Theodore Twombly, lovelorn professional letter writer
Period Near future
Expert opinion Mr. Phoenix's mustache highlights the face of a heartbroken man who begins a relationship with a computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). "Good facial hair enhances the wearer's overall appearance, style and personality," Mr. Olsen said. "This is good facial hair."
Idris Elba in "Pacific Rim"
Character Stacker Pentecost, commander in a war against alien invaders
Period 2020s
Expert opinion Mr. Olsen pronounced it superb. "Impeccably groomed and perfectly defined, this 'stache requires discipline, a steady hand and careful, loving attention to detail at least daily," he said. This mustache stands for more than just fine grooming. It stands for authority. Leadership. This is a man you could follow. When Mr. Elba gives his rousing, genre-necessitated motivational speech, the viewer is ready to defend humankind in a gigantic robot right along with him.


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It isn't surprising that my first post about my marine voyages is about food. I love to eat and in particular, I love seafood. In Māori, we say kaimoana but it all means the same thing – seafood, fruit of the sea – and those of us with an affinity for the water, equally have a love affair for the bounty that the moana (ocean) provides.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to visit the Wright Brothers in Soho for a birthday catch-up with my closest friends. It was a fairly easy decision on where we would celebrate because as eight Māori women, we have a cultural history that is closely linked to water and the food our moana provides.
At a pound a pop at the Wright Brothers we were not disappointed and devoured these Jersey gems. We left well satiated after also sampling soft shell crab, catch of the day, oyster ceviche and some lovely wine.
It was a great Sunday afternoon sampling delicious kaimoana, enjoying good friends and feeling further connected back home.


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Verve is committed to safeguarding personal and sensitive data and works in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and has prepared for the implementation of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679 EU)).
As an accredited ISO 27001 business, our commitment to data security has always been a priority. We have a collection of processes and policies that are fully auditable and we regularly review and make improvements, too.
In line with GDPR requirements we have undertaken a complete review of our structure, processes and policies and our ISO 27001 requirements enabled us to have a detailed structure to follow.
As part of this we have clearly identified the following areas of importance:
Our action plan, which has been in process and will enable us to meet the May 25th 2018 deadline, includes (but is not limited to):
We instructed a working group of Senior Management, meeting bi-weekly, to manage the process of implementation. This group includes: MD of Finance & Operations, CTO, SVP of Group Operations, IT Manager, and Onboarding Director. To help with the implementation process and as part of our ISO 27001 commitments, our monthly internal audit process is being re-designed to stress test GDPR regulations.
At Verve, we strive to deliver an incredible customer experience. We will continue to make additional required operational changes resulting from the new legislation, and will keep our clients, partners and regulatory authorities informed throughout this process. Our internal cross-functional team will continue to monitor GDPR as it moves to become more clearly defined over the next few months, and will continue to inform our strategy for GDPR.


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A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics
Can you obtain outcomes with no right? The simple answer is challenge is how you can do that. Every single of us have a limited volume of authority. And the positional authority that accompany our name enables all of us to have some influence, yet far a lot less than what is needed to get the work performed. To get points carried out in time device highest top quality predicted so you may satisfy the requirements and targets of your customers and also with whom all of us job, all of us need to depend on other folks. And to carry out that, we really need influence — but the right kind of affect. Affect is a Command Top quality and a Managing Skill Affect is the ability to obtain each of our purposeful (to receive function done) once we do not contain complete control or a sufficient amount of right to accomplish the objective. Impact is not treatment. Completed well and done right, affect is usually not really: * A demonstration of power* A solution to gain greater control* A method to promote your personal agenda* A method to check good in front of large audiences in the organization* A means of self-promotionInfluence is around mutuality. Even though influence may be a powerful tool for receiving work done, now there are obstacles that may wait in the way of influencing others. These barriers cause all of us to count on positional ability to obtain things done. 10 Limitations You Have to have to Overwhelmed to Impact Employees plus your Peers
1 . Fear — This is the primary issue that stops us from applying affect to acquire function done. And fear looks in a large number of varieties. This can get the worry of inability, the fear penalized rejected, the fear of appearing foolish, the fear that we all are certainly not very good enough. Regardless of the you are afraid of, fear helps prevent us useless in each of our tunes. We all tend be successful, we all no longer put out effect because we now have persuaded by ouselves prior to we actually start out which we might not or perhaps will not really be good. 2. Lack of ability to develop legitimate interactions — Persons talk with people that they like. They will purchase from people they like. They provide you with support to people they will like. To think otherwise is always to miss a vital component of organizational accomplishment. It can be hopeless to put out influence about someone with to whom you have certainly not developed a total and positive relationship. four. Poor responsiveness — The quicker you respond the more responsive you appear. And if response is important to the person you want to effect, you have just made a great impression upon them, and still have often added value with a giving these people some thing that they were interested in. 4. Overselling – This is not just a great concern we see found in sales guys; it is an issue we see through a company regardless of could be position. Overselling is irritating and it also communicates uncertainty within your position. Each time a person says yes, and you continue to try to influence them- what are you undoubtedly communicating? 5 various. Quitting without – Today, nobody enjoys rejection. But "no" is oftentimes the response we get when the timing within the demand is normally wrong (i. age., "no, not right now"or "no, My spouse and i need more information"). Often, an resistance is not only a being rejected. 2 weeks . demand for more details and a chance for additional discussion. Don't let not any be an instantaneous lost option. 6. Perfectionism — Too much, we believe that that unless task management, engagement, submission is totally framed, this cannot progress. This is definitely dead wrong. Flawlessness directs a great unintended sales message of you becoming indecisiveness and the worse case it might set up immobilization. Whilst you may well believe you are seeking perfection, your partner wonders what taking you so long. six. Over-Expressing Personal Opinions — A lot of operators and executives only can't apparently keep their particular opinions to themselves. Have you heard a director criticize their particular peers, all their tenants, their very own subcontractors with statements such as "they just don't get it". A further threat is to express personal political or perhaps social beliefs including "the democrats adaptation of healthcare is normally socialized medicine" or "teachers are actually overpaid and they underperform". Expressing personal beliefs has a way of tearing through an organization and irritating other folks. (By just how, these two examples are good examples only and do not reflect either of each of our attitudes. )8. Lack of Concentrate — It is challenging to get work or perhaps to achieve much reverence if you move out of one task to an additional; one particular thought to a different; an individual strategy to another and finish off nothing. Generally people is going to just offer up, stop being attentive or perhaps no much longer support your time and energy.
9. Poor Impression Operations (Executive Presence) — This is simply not just in regard to searching the part. It can about getting the portion. It has the regarding taking care of the photo thoughtfully and not unnaturally. Want it or perhaps certainly not, unsuitably provided, exhausted, overweight, out of shape, careless guys present a poor and unconvincing graphic. 10. Deficiency of Gratitude — People like recognition; they like to understand they are treasured; they decide to be noticed in a positive approach. Ignore this kind of at your peril. Remember, if you are unwilling or perhaps think really unnecessary to recognize and express appreciation for others, your possibility of influencing all of them is One of the Top ten Barriers Storing You Again From Affecting Others? We now have often observed that you or more of the on top of behavioral quality is present in individuals exactly who believe (or so, who others believe) will be less good then they will either prefer to come to be or can be. These types of behaviors will be the intangibles that inhibit good performance. We believe these intangibles are so crucial that you recognize and enroll in to (if you find these in your individual thought procedures or perhaps behaviors) that should you refuse to bring up them, you can expect to come up less than exerting the influence needed to get work done on time the correct way and finding the perfect tools on this www.javidstore.ir page.
Cheryl Contee aka "Jill Tubman", Baratunde Thurston aka "Jack Turner", rikyrah, Leutisha Stills aka "The Christian Progressive Liberal", B-Serious, Casey Gane-McCalla, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley aka "Marcus Toussaint," Fredric Mitchell
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ALTERED CARBON by Richard K. Morgan is probably the first major cyberpunk novel since Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH. The genre didn't die in 1992 but it suffered a bit of a downturn with only The Matrix actually carrying on the genre afterward. Basically it was the time computers became ubiquitous and corporations DID take over the world so the dystopian future of the 80s was just the present now.
Altered Carbon is something that helped revive the genre for the literary world even as the cyberpunk genre has managed to fix itself on television (Mr. Robot), video games (Watch Dogs), and now movies (Blade Runner 2049). It managed to give a boost to what was a dying genre that still had some wonderful independent stuff (Prime Suspects: A Clone Detective Mystery, The Immorality Clause, and Technomancer: To Beat The Devil). Altered Carbon is something special, though, with a truly great noir protagonist and an amazing setup.
The premise of the book is technology has managed to copy consciousness onto "stacks" that can be moved between human bodies at will. This means a person can be murdered one day and alive the next. However, this hasn't benefited the poor as while the rich can afford new bodies to be grown, the poor often find themselves cheated out of their bodies then dumped in a file drawer somewhere to live out their existences digitally.
A shoot-out results in Takeshi Kovas, former U.N. super soldier (called an "Envoy"), being killed and his consciousness hijacked before it's transferred to Earth. On Earth, he is blackmailed into serving a 300 year old "Methuselah" named Laurens Bancroft. Laurens apparently committed suicide with one of his previous bodies but wants Takeshi Kovacs to investigate as that's not something he believes he'd do. If Takeshi doesn't, then he might never get off the Earth again or worse. What follows is a noir mystery involving porn, classicism, a sentient hotel, gangsters, and affairs with beautiful women. Plus more body-swapping.
What truly works about the story is it managed to combine the low life with the high tech. Takeshi Kovacs is a sociopath, a manipulator, and a professional killer but it allows him to move between the worlds of corrupt high society along with the dingy digital strip clubs with practiced ease. Sometimes he's helping a family of impoverished fishermen try to get their bodies' back while others he's trying to deal with the fact a police officer is in love with the body he's currently inhabiting even as he sleeps around with a client's wife. Good stuff.
Much like classic detective fiction, Takeshi is an outcast investigating the seedy underbelly of the Big City (Earth in this case). Everyone has secrets to hide and all of them are morally compromised to one degree or another. Takeshi's own corruption makes him unpredictable as he's willing to cross quite a few moral lines but has a genuine disgust for a number of people in the book. The fact he can't permanently die is mitigated by the fact the body he's in is the one of someone who can't afford a replacement. So while Takeshi might survive the book no matter what, he's being held hostage to someone else's existence. Plus, there are permanent ways to kill people in this world--they just require destroying the device which stores memories that's located in a person's head. Destroy the brain, destroy the cyber-zombie so to speak.
I think my favorite characters in the book are the Bancrofts and Officer Ortega. The Bancrofts are a corrupt and decadent old family but I don't think of them as evil, just extremely flawed. Certainly, Laurens has a better side to himself than people suspect even as he's also undoubtedly a sleazy old man. Miriam is similarly multi-faceted, being the kind of femme fatale I think Takeshi would love under other circumstances. Ortega? Ortega is a nicely flawed hypocrite who is, nevertheless, probably the most decent person in the story.
I love all the characters, I love the world created within, and I love the technology despite how horrifying it is. It's fairly clear the people aren't "transferred" but just mentally copied by the technology. That means we get to see the cast murdered repeatedly across the series as well as brainwashed into thinking they're other people. It's dark, humorous, and entertaining but also sometimes sweet. The action is fast, the situations absurd, and yet it all makes a wonderful amount of sense. It may not be the best cyberpunk novel ever written but it's close. I'm very excited about the Netflix adaptation of this book coming out but I think there's no substitute for the novel.


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The latest surveys of eurozone businesses showed private sector growth is continuing, but it eased very slightly this month.
Manufacturing activity was disappointing, but there was an unexpected pickup in the service industry.
Analysts said overall the numbers show the euro area's recovery is gaining traction, though France remains in the doldrums.
For the European Central Bank the numbers are encouraging, but worryingly companies continue to drastically cut prices which threatens to lead to deflation.
ECB Executive Board member Peter Praet told euronews: "The context we have now is a more structural sort of pressure on prices which is a result of slack in the economy and so we have been taking accommodative monetary policy. We have done that for example by communicating our assessment about the situation, by saying we will have to face a relatively long period of subdued price pressure, related to weak economy, moderate growth and fragile growth."
The ECB has already strongly hinted that it could go for more stimulus with a further cut in the cost of borrowing at its June policy meeting along with other steps to encourage commercial banks to lend money to businesses, particularly small and medium sized firms.
That could include moving the deposit rate into unprecedented negative territory, so that commercial banks that leave money on deposit with the ECB would not receive any interest on that cash.
"If banks have to pay interest on the money they park in the euro system, this could revive the money market between banks, among others, and therefore also stimulate lending to businesses," said ECB Governing Council member Jens Weidmann.
A programme of asset purchases, known as quantitative easing, is also a possibility.
The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been doing that to pump money into the economy there.
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Today, Friday the 6th of January, 2012, has seen the first meeting with our new Dean. Everyone seemed excited and was looking forward to this inaugural meeting…and no one was late. I was excited myself to see how our new Dean plan to bring new changes to the faculty. It's typical I guess to have someone like me expecting something out of ordinary from our new boss…to bring some kind of miracles and change things. But isn't that the last thing one should do in this circumstance…waiting and expecting. You cross your arms , bit your lips and whisper to yourself….hmmmm…..let's see what she can do… as one of the staff members you would feel perfectly okay to do that . I mean nothing much will change if you think otherwise. But as a leader that will put you so isolated at the top and while sitting there alone you must have been hoping for God to grant you some kind of miracle as well. You want to get out of this misery. One miserable head and a bunch of miserable staff will make a meeting very interesting. But that's not what happened in my meeting this morning. It was alright I guess; jovial and refreshing. A bit of tensed moments here and there but that's normal in decision-making. Nevertheless, I did feel the old dilemma still kept hitting my head over and over again. So what's the dilemma? You know what, I don't know myself how to spell it out; but there remained something unfinished and unfulfilled. The bright smiling face of our new Dean just could not convince me that there will be changes around here soon. I am tired of hearing that the fund has dried out and we could not do this and that. The same old excuses for the same old applications for student's activities. The same old fear for the same old "new policy in the faculty". I was not happy because I saw the same old stressful future ahead of me. It's like a dark and frightening road to my grandma's. I always feared that and the 15-minute walk seemed like an eternity. I thought I would never have to go through that old road again; but here it is again right in front of me.
Meeting is always a stressful exercise, and if it is dealt with so seriously, it will be so deadly stressful. Deadly stress is not good for an old man like me. I was looking for something cheerful and colorful for a Friday morning but sadly I hit a big white and blank concrete wall. I just did not know what to do with it. Maybe I am being too paranoid for some thing trivial. There must be a solution to this dilemma..and as someone said..if you can't find a solution then YOU must be the problem… you know what—I hate that expression. If you can't work it out then blame yourself….this pitiful self-torture has to go; it is nothing but irreponsible authority keeping its hands clean. Would you say this to your child : if you fail than have yourself to blame not me or anybody else! Maybe you find it okay but I think it is a bit unfair—I found a sense of loneliness in there as if I were sent to a solitary confinement—to rot and die.
There is a lot of work to do in this faculty; things to keep the faculty afloat againt the high tides of today's demands ; publish or perish (an inherited shit from the US), globalisation, world class ranking, research university, and some other things that I don't want you to puke over it. The amount of work that will not make you see the end of the day….it's just endlessly tiring. One semester after another, one year after another and soon you will find yourself lying helplessly at the end of your journey in life. Before that inevitability, I want to see myself as a small solution in the big problem. It does not matter how big the problem is; i jus wanna be a small insignificant solution. So help me God.


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Some more blog posts that have appeared over the past few days, that could provide some interesting sessions during the BarCamp portion of the agenda.
Then again, they might not, if all the questions they raise have already been answered. Remeber it is up to you, the attendees to decide what sessions will take place, so come prepared.
With the release of Latitude by Google, Andrew Scott of Rummble posts an interesting analysis over on Mobile Industry Review.
Having posted this link to the Jaiku channel there followed an interesting discussion (see here)
This post (also written by Andrew Scott but over half a year ago) raises some interesting points. Are they still valid today?
And the point that this post is making gets more relevant by the day, with all the different platforms that are converging on WebKit and Firefox making progress with it's portable version.


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So the learned authorities deem the solution to the teenage sex problem as "better sex education in schools and more parenting programmes".Yeh right,as the father of two teenage daughters I can assure you that this demented idea is more pathetic stinking thinking from a bent system devoid of any practicable solutions to the increasing problem.
What a load of piffle. New Zealand governments have continually undermined the family unit for three decades now. Along with the media they have portrayed men as deadbeats and continually demonized fatherhood at every available chance, because New Zealand has been in the gripes of radical feminist ideologies, ruthlessly implemented by childless scum like Helen Clark and Heather Simpson. Fatherlessness is a rampant problem in kiwi society and many girls are sexually abused by step parents as the biological fathers are usually crucified at the request of the hateful radical feminists who couldn't care less about the rising suicide rate for forced clients of the insidious Family Court .CYFS referrals are up 100% and that Department is a dangerous dysfunctional mess. Looks like New Zealand will continue to be world leaders in teenage pregnancies and child abuse. Proud to be kiwi? Just the mention of the country makes my stomach ill. What a cess pit for children.Gold medalists in child abuse. What a disgusting couuntry. How can anybody be a proud kiwi?
By JOHN HARTEVELT - The Press
Last updated 05:00 26/05/2009
Half of 16-year-old Kiwis say they have been in love and more than a third have already had sex, a new study reveals.
Results from the New Zealand Council of Educational Research (NZCER) longitudinal study of 500 young people have led to calls for better sex education in schools and more parenting programmes.
The new study also reveals 84 per cent of 16-year-olds had drunk alcohol in the previous year and 51 per cent had done something they regretted while drunk.
"Sixteen is still young," Family Planning Association chief executive Jackie Edmond said. "This shows how important it is for parents to talk to their children around sexual health and sexuality."
Family Planning had "huge concerns" about sexual education in New Zealand schools and homes.
"The reality is that sexuality education and sexual health education in New Zealand is incredibly inconsistently applied across schools," Edmond said.
"We feel strongly that young people need the information so that they can make the decisions and there is no research that supports that telling young people more means that they will have sex earlier; in fact, it does seem to be the opposite."
The new results from the NZCER study, which started following the 500 young people from the greater Wellington region in 1993, also showed a fifth of the study's participants had got into trouble with the police.
Half said they had got into trouble at school and 30 per cent said they had been involved in a physical fight.
Almost all of the young people (92 per cent) had family rules about drug use, and 85 per cent had rules about alcohol use.
"You wonder why this isn't 100 per cent when these issues to do with engagement in risky behaviour is something that is worthy of discussion and parental input," said Professor of Parenting Studies and Family Psychology at the University of Auckland, Matt Sanders.
There were far too few parenting programmes available for the parents of teenagers, he said.
"There is no other human activity that is as important as parenting, but we provide far too little training and support for people to be able to do this and this is particularly true of parents with teenagers," Sanders said.
A government parenting education scheme, the Incredible Years, is expanding to include 15,000 more families.
The 12 to 20-week group courses, which include homework assignments on how to play with children, are targeted at the parents of three to eight-year-olds thought to have chronic behavioural problems.
However, Sanders said such schemes needed to cover teenage parenting and be more widely available.
"If you normalise it, de-stigmatise it and then give the public what they're looking for ... it will become just like a healthy, normal rite of passage," Sanders said.
Peer influence often overwhelmed parental influence on sexual exploration, he said.


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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Inflammation
Inflammation underscores so much of what we cover here at mbg—it's the root cause of not only preventable diseases but also gut dysfunction that many of us experience daily. So for the next 10 days, we're doing a deep dive into inflammation, giving you everything you need to know: the basics of what inflammation is, how to know if you have it, and what you can do to control it. Follow along here, and to learn even more, check out our FREE Functional Nutrition Webinar with Vincent Pedre, M.D.
Sometimes we oversimplify concepts in health and nutrition. We classify hormones like cortisol, insulin, or testosterone as good or bad when they actually behave in a far more complex and intricate way within the body.
So too with inflammation. In the short-term, it can save your life. Let's say you get a nasty paper cut at work. Immediately, your immune cells step in to protect against pathogens and heal the wound.
We call that acute inflammation: your white blood cells steps in, do their job, and then leave.
In the short-term, inflammation can save your life.
But there's another type of inflammation that sticks around way after the party ends. Chronic inflammation is like that dinner guest who can't take the hint to leave. Whereas he was quiet in the beginning, as he becomes more inebriated the louder he becomes.
Chronic inflammatory diseases can take years before you see their first signs, but their destruction is far-reaching. Inflammation in these cases is working at the microscopic level — you won't see it with your eyes until it is bad enough to cause something like a swollen joint. And it isn't an isolated problem: Chronic inflammation goes hand-in-hand with other issues like oxidative damage that when taken together trigger or exacerbate disease and make you age more rapidly.
Numerous things may fuel that inflammatory fire, including toxins in the environment you are exposed to on a daily basis. Consider that about 80,000 chemicals are registered in America, and every year about 2,000 new ones appear. Most haven't been tested for long-term safety in humans.
So too can prescription drugs, antibiotics, chronic stress, lack of sleep, and especially what you eat.
Our heavily processed, sugary, gut-damaging, inflammatory diet paves the way for obesity, but also type 2 diabetes and all its complications, fueling that low-grade inflammation.
As a medical doctor who specializes in functional medicine and gut health, I see how chronic inflammation is directly related to gut disorders, like dysbiosis, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and leaky gut syndrome.
What affects your gut, also impacts your brain. Consider that your gut makes about 95 percent of your feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. That could explain why inflammation often leads to mood disorders. For example, researchers have found a link between chronic stress, inflammation, and depression.
Chronic inflammation is sometimes called the silent killer: It plays a role in nearly every disease. Inflammation at its worst is deadly, like a massive heart attack or stroke; yet, for many chronic inflammatory conditions it can take years before their symptoms become apparent, by which time a lot of the damage has already occured.
How do you measure inflammation?
We are all inflamed to some degree (for a few strategies on how to tame inflammation, check out this article and this one). Signs and symptoms of chronic inflammation are sometimes obvious, such as fatigue and pain. Other times, they aren't so obvious and can simmer for years before they manifest as symptoms.
I can usually determine chronic inflammation among patients with specific findings on their physical exam:
- Obesity (a BMI > 30.0; BMI = [Weight (lbs)/height (in)2] x 703), which can ramp up inflammation, but also make you more prone to problems like blood clots.
- High blood pressure (>130/85)
- Increased waist circumference (Men >40 in.; women > 35 in.)
- Dark circles around the eyes
- Skin rashes (hives, eczema, psoriasis)
- Tenderness or fluid around joints
I also look at my patient's blood work, which can reveal hidden chronic inflammation. Inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), are able to predict problems including future cardiovascular issues, like a heart attack (even in women).
C-reactive protein (CRP) is a protein your liver makes. Elevated levels indicate your body is harboring inflammation somewhere. Your doctor is able to measure levels with a high-sensitivity C-reactive protein test, sometimes also called an hs-CRP test. If it's greater than 3.0 mg/L, it is elevated and will put you at increased disease risk.
Other inflammatory markers I frequently use in my practice include:
- Lp-PLA2
- Ferritin
- CBC (complete blood count)
- Liver Function Tests, including GGT (gamma-glutamyl transferase)
- Fasting blood sugar (ideally < 90)
- HGBa1c (ideally < 5.7)
- Low HDL (good cholesterol) [<50 mg/dl women; <40 mg/dl men]
Ask your doctor to measure these levels. He or she should then review and discuss these tests with you, including helping you find optimal levels and strategies to normalize these inflammatory markers.
When I measure inflammation in my patients, I also look at two key fatty acids. One is the omega-6 fatty acid arachidonic acid (AA), which is the precursor to pro-inflammatory signaling molecules known as eicosanoids. The other fatty acid is the omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which generates anti-inflammatory eicosanoids.
Once upon a time, we consumed about equal amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Today, research shows we eat 20 or more times omega-6's than omega-3's, which fuels the inflammatory fires that keep us fat, sick, and achy.
The higher the AA/EPA ratio in the blood, the greater the level of silent inflammation that is likely to be found throughout your organs and blood vessels. And that's where your diet comes in.
Fight Inflammation With Your Fork
Chronic inflammation has many culprits, and foremost among them is what you eat. That's actually good news because you have the power to dial down inflammation starting with your very next meal.
Food is information, and when my patients lose weight, they reduce inflammation, which in turn helps them lose more weight. Foremost among those strategies is to reduce the amount of inflammatory foods and increase anti-inflammatory ones.
Inflammatory foods aren't always obvious. Sometimes they get cloaked as healthy, or they might be healthy foods with unhealthy ingredients. Watch out for "friendly" labels, as the food industry is quite savvy in making unhealthy products look healthy and appealing. Among them are included:
- Vegetable oils and other oils high in inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids
- Grain-fed meats and farm-raised fish
- Damaged and hydrogenated fats
- Trans-fats
- Food sensitivities, including the two biggest ones — gluten and dairy
- Sugar in all its many disguises (including refined carbs)
- Raw nuts and seeds
- Soy
- Genetically-modified crops
- Most processed, boxed foods in the grocery store's center aisles
- Gluten-free cookies, crackers, and other "healthy" junk foods
An anti-inflammatory diet, on the other hand, includes plenty of foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, including wild-caught fish, walnuts, avocado, and freshly ground flax and chia seeds. These foods taper down inflammation while supporting a healthy gut with their dietary fibers.
Other great sources of healthy anti-inflammatory fats include extra-virgin coconut and olive oils, grass-fed beef, and sprouted nuts and seeds. You'll also want to incorporate plenty of colorful non-starchy plant foods and sufficient, but not excessive protein.
An ideal way to incorporate this plan is with a ketogenic diet. Inflammatory foods like dairy and grain-fed meats may slip into a ketogenic plan, so you'll want to be very careful about focusing on anti-inflammatory ones to get the diet's full benefits, remembering to eat mostly plants and spices for the inflammation-fighting properties.
Intermittent fasting offers a great way to complement the anti-inflammatory power of a ketogenic diet. When you give the digestive system a break, you reduce inflammation in your gut, which reduces inflammation throughout your entire body. This article can help you determine the best fasting plan. Take it a step further, and a 5-day fast-mimicking diet will turn on longevity genes that rejuvenate your cells while helping your body dump old cellular debris.
Working with your doctor can reveal where microscopic inflammation is coming from, but at the end of the day, it comes down to food and lifestyle. It's what you eat that can make the most dramatic difference in reducing body-wide inflammation.


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Explore & Learn
Message from the Director
To visit the Museum is to encounter a remarkable range of works that attest to the highest achievement of human creativity in the art of Magic—from drawings and literature to photography, rare books, and Illusion and magic props.
The museums beginnings are rooted in the extraordinary acquisitions of magic by James Karp, one of Australia leading magicians and producer of The Magicians Cabaret theatre. His tastes were encyclopedic, and by early 2015 his holdings were of such magnitude that he decided to share it with the public with the view of inspiring people of all walks of life.
Over the years, the museum has added a beautiful collection of theatre costumes and art.
A visit to the museum would not be complete without a stop at the cabaret room where the actual live shows perform weekly. Visitors can order from the café, be still and absorb the wonder of magic.
We look forward to keeping the magic alive.
Thank you,
Hannah Pollard


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The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
I'm a sucker for Nantucket which is the main setting of Elin Hilderbrand's novels, but in The Identicals, the author added Martha's Vineyard into the mix. This turned out to be a happy thing for me, because I got my fix with twice as many beaches, twice as many lighthouses, twice as many lobster rolls and twice as many ice creams. Happy days.
There are also twice as many heroines as usual since The Identicals features twins Harper and Tabitha, forty year olds who have been estranged for 14 years. Harper is the easy-going screw-up who lives on Martha's Vineyard, a community where everyone knows everybody else's business. Harper recently ruined her reputation by having an affair with the married doctor who had been treating her dying father.
Tabitha lives on Nantucket and is the elegant, stuffy twin. She is the mother of an out of control teenager, Ainsley, who has been brought up in the same disinterested way that her mother brought Tabitha up. (Harper and Tabitha's parents divorced when they were teenagers, and in the style of The Parent Trap, each parent took a twin. Separating siblings didn't work well for the twins in The Parent Trap or The Identicals).
When their father dies, Tabitha and Harper swap places, with Harper going to Nantucket to look after Ainsley and to work in her mother's exclusive fashion boutique which is on the brink of bankruptcy, while Tabitha moves to Martha's Vineyard to renovate their father's house to sell.
These characters are flawed but I liked them regardless, I enjoyed the story and as always, loved the location. The Identicals is an easy summer read and I can imagine myself lying on a beach towel, feeling the warmth of the hot sun on my back as I read, in between dozing, paddling, collecting shells, swimming and riding the waves on the boogie board… pure bliss!
I'm always surprised by how badly Elin Hilderbrand's characters mess up their lives, and yet, I still like them. They drink to excess, use drugs and mess around with other people's husbands, all things that I would avoid and judge in real life, but I love these books, which are pure escapism.
As an Australian I'm not all that good with American geography, so before reading this book I had no idea that Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are neighbouring islands. This has opened up a whole new world of travel daydreams for me, as I intend to see the Gingerbread Cottages on Martha's Vineyard for myself (one day…)
The sections on the rivalry between the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard was clever, with the islands comparing themselves using a combination of sweetly pointed remarks, leaving the reading feeling as if the island are siblings much like Harper and Tabitha, who have their differences but love each other anyway.
As always, I loved my annual fix of Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket, and am delighted to have gotten to know Martha's Vineyard in The Identicals.


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Mentor: Peter J. Park, PhD
Jinkuk Kim received his PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from MIT, where he studied regulatory small RNA genomics with David Bartel. He also studied glioblastoma genomics for five years at Samsung Medical Center in South Korea as part of his military service. More recently he worked on machine learning approaches to genomic data analysis at Deep Genomics in Toronto.


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I'm brand new. I'm an older first time mom and have went from working out 5-6 days a week to very rarely. I'm 3 yrs in and getting in worse shape. Etc. I bought the brain octane oil and put it in my protein shake in the morning and I'm my salads at lunch. I don't eat a ton of carbs but probably more than the diet. Will I see any benefit from what I'm doing or do I need to really up the fat and cut the carbs? Where should I start. Thanks.
Reka ✭✭✭
First try monitoring how much you eat of all macros, then you can see the effect of the changes you make to it. Actually by adding the oil, you increased the calories you are taking in, you got to calculate that into the equation.
It doesn't get easier... It's you who gets better.
Is your social worker in that horse?
Success has a price, not a secret.
Hello y'all,
I am new myself the thing is am trying fasting the two weeks but i am getting hungry around 11am though. Us there any recomendation or it's normal the first 5 days.
How long are you supposed to fast? How many hours? Does the fast include the oil?


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More home improvement projects this weekend. This is what Cory said right before going outside to cut tile, and followed it up with a little tune from "Raiders of the Lost Ark". If you have ever done this before, you know where the water splashes back in the process of tile cutting. If you haven't ever done this before, the post title doesn't leave much to question. I hope your weekend is more exciting than ours.
Update 5:23 pm - Hard work, saving money, and pride in one's ability to learn new skills is overrated. The end.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
6 comments:
- ganelle said...
There's a visual I didn't need. Thanks.
- April 12, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- Heather said...
Wow, I have cut tile many a time. I'm not sure my crotch has ever been watered. But maybe Cory and I aren't the same height.
- April 12, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Kerri said...
Now I have that music stuck in my head.
- April 12, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Question - Why do so many people (yourself included) wait to spruce up their house only to put it on the market? Wouldn't you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor? Sorry I guess that was two questions.
- April 13, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Miss P said...
"Snakes. Why does it have to be snakes?"
- April 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Brittany said...
Are you moving? Not out of the ward, I hope!
- April 14, 2008 at 4:28 PM
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Asians Snap Up U.S. Luxury Properties
A new wave of buyers from China is snapping up luxury properties across the U.S., injecting billions of dollars into the country's residential real-estate market. Lauren Schuker has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Erhard Pfieffer.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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"I'd like my name taken off your mailing list - I didn't order the catalogue."
"Are you a client of ours?"
"What's the number above the name and address printed on the magazine?"
"There isn't one."
"Not a six cijfer one?"
I spell out my name and address and there is a concentrated silence as my details are entered.
"OK. I've put your details in the system for removal from our mailing list. It will take six weeks, so you may get one more before it stops completely."
I mentioned that it too would be filed in the re-cycling and how an unwanted catalogue is a waste of resources and environmentally unfriendly.
"So, how did you get my details in the first place?"
"Probably from one of our sister companies."
A snippet from this morning's conversation with a mail-order company, requesting they take my name off their mailing list. Not only had I not requested a copy of their catalogue, they had managed to produce 133 pages printed in full colour, of a really unappealing line of clothes and one I can only describe as: Oh Dear.
Even the models in the magazine found it hard to pull off the experience as a good one. The clothes were definitely not ones they would choose to wear in their free time and that could be seen by their forced smiles and on occasion, gritted teeth. The smile of one particular model, in a taupe pleated t-shirt - from a series of cream, turquoise, purple and screaming coral - looked like the Joker from Batman. Another in a 'flattering' paisley-look blouse had the subdued expression of someone obviously running through her 'to do' list of the day. Turn the page and an attractive twenty-something has been put in a characterless tartan on one page and an unfashionable crochet the other, thereby ageing her considerably. The list goes on: unstylish, bad design, technicolour sick pattern, cheap curtain material. Who designs this stuff?
The thing that really gets my goat is not just the fact that my details are being bandied around, but the purchase of my address allows the darn catalogue to be posted through my letterbox. The fact that I have a sticker on it, especially for mail like this saying: 'no unsolicited mail,' then becomes worthless. For the inconvenience there is no apology. I then have to waste my time and money to cancel what I didn't order in the first place. It's addition, means I have to add it to my already bulging bag of unwanted paper for re-cycle, which I find irritating too. The explanation that my details came to them from 'one of our sister companies,' is not only unacceptable, but I don't find very sisterly behaviour!
Of course I realise that these days business is done in any way possible, but sending me a catalogue that I am not going to look at and which is destined for immediate re-cycle, is not only a waste of resources it is environmentally unfriendly. Then we have the fact that it takes six weeks to implement my wish, during which I may receive yet another undesired catalogue. It's mind boggling in an age of computers how backward some things remain. It's not rocket science to remove a name from a list! Are they are hoping that a second example may seduce me into making an order? Well, dream on.
Who's the company, I hear you ask? With a little edit on the possessive adjective to avoid liable, but without diminishing its amusement value, they're called: 'My Look for Less' - hmmm, I think that says it all.


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Nina Dobrev gets a little teary eyed in a cute new video with Michael Trevino after wrapping their last scene together on The Vampire Diaries.
"That's a wrap on Elena and Tyler. We were just kids when we started the show, and we still are, 6 years later. #TVDFamily Love you Trevino…" the 26-year-old actress captioned with the video. Watch it below!
Just a few days earlier, Nina was feeling the end coming near: "Ok. Officially a mess. No hiding it anymore. Today has been a day filled with farewells.. I still have 2 more days of shooting before I wrap TVD. But it's officially a wrap on Caroline&Elena&Bonnie. Finished filming with these two beautiful, funny, sweet, sassy, amazingly talented and lovely ladies…. @candiceaccola @katgrahampics . Love you with all my heart and soul forever and always… #TVDFamily."
Check out all her pics from Instagram below!


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