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If you've noticed that your toes have been looking a little strange to you lately, or that they have become unusually rigid and tight, you may have hammertoes. A hammertoe is as unpleasant as it sounds: as the namesake suggests, a hammertoe is a deformity which causes the toes to bend sharply downwards rather than straightforward, resembling the silhouette of a hammer.
It is a common but painful condition affecting over 200,000 Americans per year, typically resulting from years of wearing ill-fitting shoes with narrow toe boxes, such as fashionable heels. Fortunately, hammertoe is easily diagnosed and treated, if you know what to look out for. Here is a look at hammertoe causes, symptoms, and treatment:
What Is Hammertoe?
While hammertoe can affect any of the toes, it is most commonly seen afflicting the second, third, or fourth toe. This deformity results when the middle joint of the toe becomes dislocated, forcing the toe to bend sharply downward and buckle in this position. The underlying cause is a muscle and ligament imbalance surrounding the toe joint, where the muscles have tightened from being forced into a flexed position – such as when wearing cramped shoes – to the point where they can no longer straighten out. Pain can result from excessive friction and rubbing against the top of the deformed toe, and corns and calluses may form to further exacerbate the condition.
A number of factors can contribute to the development of hammertoe:
- An uncommonly high foot arch
- Flat feet
- Cramped or ill-fitting shoes
- Pressure from a bunion
- Toe injury
- Arthritis
- Tight tendons or ligaments in the feet
Symptoms & Diagnosis of Hammertoes
Hammertoe is easily recognizable, but you'll want to confirm with a podiatrist for an official diagnosis. Common symptoms which indicate hammertoe include:
- Pain when walking
- Pain when stretching the affected toe
- A toe which bends downwards and is difficult to move
- Difficulty wiggling the toes or flexing the foot
- Calluses or corns
- Toes taking on a claw-like appearance
There are two types, or stages, of hammertoes: flexible and rigid. A flexible hammertoe means that the condition was caught within its early stages, where the toe is still able to move at the middle joint. This form of hammertoe is still mild, and has a number of various treatment options available. When the condition progresses to the point where the tendons become rigid enough to push the joints out of alignment, the toe will become immovable. At this stage, surgery is usually required.
Your podiatrist can often visually diagnose hammertoe with a physical exam. However, if you've had a toe injury, imaging tests may also be required.
Hammertoe Treatment & Prevention
The course of treatment depends upon how far your hammertoe has progressed.
Mild hammertoe that has been caught in its early stages and still remains flexible has a much greater variety of treatment options available. The first step is identifying the cause responsible for the hammertoe. If cramped footwear is the issue, simply switching to better shoes can remedy the condition. If flat feet or high arches are to blame, custom insoles or toe pads can offset the damage. For corns, over-the-counter medications or pads may suffice. Again, consult a podiatrist to determine the source of your hammertoe, to properly advise you on the appropriate treatment option.
Severe hammertoe that has become rigid and inflexible will require surgical intervention to restore motion to the toe. Hammertoe surgery may involve repositioning of the toe, removal of damaged bone, and realignment of the tendons.
The best prevention tip for hammertoes is to make sure that your shoes are fitting properly, and that your feet's special needs are met. This means getting insoles or orthotics if you require them, and ensuring that your shoes are not too snug nor the heels too high. In general, it is recommended to avoid any heel over 2 inches in height. If you notice any pain, discomfort, or deformity, consult a podiatrist at your earliest convenience to avoid further complications.
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By Amina Nazarli
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni will visit Azerbaijan in coming months.
Gentiloni spoke about his visit at the 4th session of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between Italy and Azerbaijan, held in Rome on June 13, Italian media reported.
The minister said Italy relies on Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus and noted that from a geopolitical point of view. "Azerbaijan has a strategic position and great economic potential, it is a key country linking Europe with Asia, as well as Italy's partner," he said.
Speaking about the visits of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to Italy in 2014 and 2015, as well as the mutual visits, Gentiloni said the Italian side wants that there were more official visits.
The minister also touched upon the importance of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project in strengthening the Italian-Azerbaijani partnership.
He said the project is strategically important for Italy's economy and the Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to Italy via this pipeline in 2020.
The country is the largest supplier of oil to Italy, and with the launch of the Southern Gas Corridor will supply Shah Deniz gas to this country.
Earlier this month some 18 Italian companies attended the 23rd International Caspian Oil&Gas exhibition in Baku for the first time. The Italian participation was represented by solid and better structured companies focused for foreign markets, confirming their willingness to cooperate with the Azerbaijani companies.
Gentiloni went on to add that the trade turnover between Italy and Azerbaijan amounted to five billion euros in 2015 and Azerbaijan's demand for Italian products is increasing.
Italy wants to increase its exports to Azerbaijan, he added.
Over the past few years, Italy remains the main trade partner of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan's State Statistics Committee statistics show that the trade turnover with Italy in January-April 2016 amounted to $567.54 million and some 78.14 percent of the total turnover fell to the export of Azerbaijani products to Italy.
The economic cooperation between the two countries shouldn't be limited to the energy sector, according to the minister, as the sides enjoy opportunities for cooperation in various fields.
Speaking about the importance of relations in cultural sphere, Gentiloni emphasized the attention paid by the Azerbaijani side, in particular, by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to this sphere.
The foreign minister also noted that Italy also must make efforts for restoring peace and stability in the Caucasus and for a constructive and fruitful cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EU.
Touching upon hte Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he added that Italy supports the efforts of Germany, which chairs the OSCE, for the settlement of the conflict.
The minister assured that in case of Italy's election as the OSCE Chair in 2018, the country will make every effort to resolve the conflict.
The 4th session of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation was held with participation of Azerbaijan's delegation, led by the country's energy minister and the Commission's co-chairman Natig Aliyev, and various state structures representing the country.
Along with the Commission's session, an Azerbaijani-Italian business forum was held the same day in Rome with participation of the two countries' leading companies.
Italy, being the largest importer of Azerbaijani goods, enjoys good relations with the country and export from Italy to Azerbaijan is also growing year by year.
Italy, is very interested in investing in the country, and according to experts, logistics, alternative energy, hardware, ecology, jewelry, construction, agriculture and agricultural complex, certification and food industry are the most attracting fields for Italian businessmen.
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How often do you and your partner argue? Does it seem like you argue more now than when you were first married? Do you think you fought more after the kids came along? You may be shocked — like I was — to learn that new research shows that a couple's level of fighting stays surprisingly consistent throughout the course of a marriage.
The common perception about marriage spats was that they operated on a bell curve. They were fairly non-existent in the blissful "newlywed" stage of marriage, ramped up after the kids came a long, and settled back down once the kids moved out and the couple was back on their own. But a new study by Ohio State University researchers blows that theory out of the water, showing that a couple's level of conflict stays relatively stable throughout the duration of the marriage.
The researchers used data collected from 2,000 married people from 1980 to 2000, to determine how often each couple fought and ranked the overall quality of a couple's marriage. They placed each couple into one of three subgroups:
Low-conflict: 16 percent of couples
Moderate-conflict: 60 percent of participants
High-conflict: 22 percent of the subjects
The surprising thing here is not the breakdown, but the consistency. Couples generally stayed in their subgroup over the 20-year time period studied. But it should also be noted that just because a couple fights a lot, it does not mean that they are unhappy, nor that they are headed for divorce. The converse is true as well; couples that don't argue are no more or less happy than their peers.
According to Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University, "The most important takeaway is there is a lot of stability in conflict. If you're finding it difficult to live with the level of conflict in your relationship before you get married, you probably shouldn't get married."


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My recent post where I discussed kicking my blogging habit lacked clarity. Ergo, I've got some explaining to do.
I thought this line from the post would carry weight: "By blogging I refer to the light- to medium-weight updates that often refer to a primary source." But it didn't.
I also thought this line would also make things clear: "To be clear, I'm not walking away from AdPulp, I'm changing my daily routine." But it didn't.
If I simply followed the example set by other well read bloggers, I would have written a post titled, "Blogging Is Dead." I would have also made a list giving you reasons one through ten to support my claim. But, I prefer to run against the grain, here and elsewhere. And that my friends is the root of the problem. By relying on the stack of press releases in my inbox and MarCom articles posted elsewhere to find something to write about, I lost my way. This kind of blogging is reactive, and I want to be proactive.
When you're reactive, as just about every ad blog is, there's a tendency to become a promoter, not a critic. I don't want to be a promoter. So, I stepped off for a month plus, in order to reevaluate and chart a new path. The new path is this: AdPulp is a side-project, and must be treated as such (so I can focus on making a living). When I do post here, I want the content to be exclusive. And I want every post to be carefully crafted, so it builds our brand and offers you real value.
We've moved through many phases in seven and half years on this project. There was a time when I put up four, five even six posts a day. There are ad blogs that do this today. Lord knows, there's a glut of material to work with. But I don't want to provide comprehensive coverage of our industry. I want to offer you thought nuggets.
Jim Schmidt of Downtown Partners in Chicago asked the other day: "Why can't the ad press cover the ad world nearly as well as Gawker or Daily Beast? Too busy blowing smoke up the asses of their favorite New York ad execs?"
I replied: "Great question. I'd say fear. Like White House reporters, no one wants to lose access. The problem with that is there is no access to begin with. Just PR. What advertising pro wants a real journalist up in their grill? When we prop up shitty products, we set ourselves up for the hard questions, but there's no one there to ask them. Is there?"
I've struggled with the idea of being this real reporter and filling this void. This was especially true when I held a staff job, because I didn't want my work here to come back to bite my agency in the ass. Now, that I've been out on my own for three and a half years, these concerns have waned.
To sum up, AdPulp is headed in a new direction. There will be less content, but the content we do offer will be well worth reading. The rush to post is over. This isn't a race, and buying in to the notion that we must post every day to remain relevant is wrong.
By the way, we will be introducing a series of Sponsored Posts, where we will cover various topics each week — like Search, or Social — and pay experts in the field to produce these original articles (something Ad Age does not do). If you want to write these articles, or pay for them, please let me know.
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Kathleen A. Mackenzie
Personnel Representative
Human Resources
The New York Journal
216 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Ida D. Lopez
Craft Food Services
The New York Journal
216 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Dear Mrs. Lopez:
Last week, we met to address your continuing
job-performance problems related to the
giving out of
dissemination of serving of items from the dessert
cart you operate in the newspaper's senior staff dining room.
These problems have persisted despite repeated counseling
sessions with me my boss Amy Jenkins
supervisors as well as staff training programs. Specifically,
your refusal to give disseminate serve
dessert to certain members of the senior staff has resulted in
several written complaints from administrators at this
establishment paper company.
Mrs. Lopez, your refusal to serve dessert to certain
members of the paper's staff is disruptive to food service
operations, and the explanations that you have provided for
your behavior are not
satisfactory wholly believable
inexplicable acceptable. This letter is being issued
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Failure to comply will result in further disciplinary
On a more personal note, Mrs. Lopez, please stop refusing to give senior staff members dessert, even if you feel, as you explained to me last week, that they don't "deserve it." Which members of the paper's staff do or do not deserve dessert is not your decision to make! And I would hate to see you asked to leave the food craft services department over something so silly! I would really miss you -- and your chocolate chip cookies!
Damn it.
From the Desk of
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To do:
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- Find new boyfriend.
- Get better job.
- Get married.
- Have successful career.
- Have children/grandchildren/big retirement party.
- Die in sleep at age 100.
- Pick up dry cleaning!!!!!!!!!
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Sleaterkinneyfan: What are you doing?
Katydid: WORKING. Stop IM-ing me, you know the T.O.D. doesn't like it when we IM during office hours.
Sleaterkinneyfan: The T.O.D. can bite me. And you are not working. I can see your desk from here. You're making another one of those To Do lists, aren't you?
Katydid: It may look like I'm making a To Do list, but really I am reflecting on the series of failures and bad judgment calls that have made up my life.
Sleaterkinneyfan: Oh my God, you are twenty-five years old. You have not even had a life yet.
Katydid: Then why am I in such mental and emotional anguish?
Sleaterkinneyfan: Because you stayed up too late last night watching Charmed reruns. Don't try to deny it, I heard you salivating over Cole.
Katydid: Oh my God, I'm so sorry!!!!!!!! Did I keep you and Craig awake?
Sleaterkinneyfan: Please. Craig would sleep through a nuclear blast. And I only heard you because I got up to use the bathroom. These hormones make me have to go every five minutes.
Katydid: I am so, so sorry. I swear I will be off your couch and out of your place just as soon as I get a line on a studio I can afford. Paula's taking me to look at one tomorrow night in Hoboken. $1100/month, third-floor walk-up.
Sleaterkinneyfan: Would you stop? I told you, we like having you stay with us.
Katydid: Jen, you and Craig are trying to have a BABY. You do not need an old college roommate sacking out on your living room couch while you are trying to procreate. You did enough just getting me this job in the first place.
Sleaterkinneyfan: You more than earn your keep with all the cleaning you do. Don't think I haven't noticed. Craig even pointed out this morning that you had dusted the top of the refrigerator. Obsessive much, by the way? Who even looks at the top of the refrigerator?
Katydid: Well, Craig, OBVIOUSLY.
Sleaterkinneyfan: Whatever. You can't afford $1100/month on your salary. I know how much you make, remember?
Katydid: It's the cheapest place Paula's found me so far. That isn't on the same block as a methadone clinic.
Sleaterkinneyfan: I don't understand why YOU are the one who had to move out. Why didn't you kick HIM out?
Katydid: I can't stay in that apartment. Not with the memories of all the happy times Dale and I shared.
Sleaterkinneyfan: Oh, you mean like all those times you came home from work to find that, like, one of his bandmates had mistaken the closet for the bathroom and peed on your suede boots?
Katydid: WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BRING THAT UP AT WORK? You know it always makes me want to cry. I really loved those boots. They were perfect Coach knockoffs.
Sleaterkinneyfan: You should have thrown his stuff out onto the fire escape and changed the locks. "I don't know if I can marry you after all, I have to take things one day at a time." I mean, what kind of thing is that for a guy to say?????
Katydid: Um, the kind of thing an ex-pothead who is about to land a million-dollar recording contract would say to the girl he has dated since high school. I mean, come on, Jen. Dale can get anyone now. Why would he stay with his girlfriend from high school?
Excerpted from Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot. Copyright © 2004 by Meg Cabot. All rights reserved. Posted with permission of the publisher. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.


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"That really hurts!" I cried as the masseur drove his elbow deep into my back. "Take the pain!" he replied in a heavy Swedish accent. "There is good pain and there is bad pain… you have to have the good pain to not have the bad pain."
This is true in business. Good pain is pain that leads to relief. Bad pain is just that. Most of the time you have to push through the one to eliminate the other. Case in point…
It was obvious that the SVP of product was wrong for the position. His peers knew it, his direct reports knew it, but for some reason the CEO couldn't bring himself to let him go… and so he didn't. This went on for some time. Finally, the pain became too great and he was terminated. A few months after the deed was done, the CEO questioned the head of HR, "Why didn't we do that much sooner?"
Avoiding pain only prolongs it.
This situation occurs far too often. Why? Like water, we take the path of least resistance. Let's face it, letting someone go is hard (and it should be). It's especially difficult in a smaller company where every employee is like a family member (sometimes they are a family member or friend or neighbor or even partner). There is no HR department to "handle" things.
Difficult or not, when a person isn't right for the job, you are doing a disservice to both the company AND the individual if you let him or her stay in that role. It doesn't matter who they are or how they got there. If an employee demonstrates problem(s) in one or more core areas (e.g., competence, work ethic, integrity), they must either be moved to a position where they CAN be successful, or terminated. How many problem(s) depend on the nature of each (e.g., you might have a 3-strike policy for competence but a zero-tolerance policy for integrity).
The good news is that competence, work ethic, and integrity are relatively straightforward. Employees either have the skills to do the job or they do not. They either work hard to get the job done or they do not. They either act with complete integrity or they do not. No one controls these things for them. It's not like movement of the stars.
Here are a few common fallacies that keep someone in the wrong role:
- the individual is irreplaceable,
- the individual can change,
- the individual can grow into the position, and
- removing the individual might create a legal risk or liability.
If you've ever said this to yourself (or even out loud), here are a few things to consider:
- NO ONE is irreplaceable,
- an EXCEPTION is not the rule,
- be careful not to PROMOTE someone to the level of their incompetence, and
- problem(s) with competence, work ethic, and/or integrity are VALID REASONS to let someone go.
"All of these behaviors can and should result in employment termination for the employee. Anything else is disrespectful of your other employees and will breed cynicism and ill will." — Susan Heathfield, Top 5 Reasons to Fire an Employee
How can you prevent this?
Clear conversations from the onset are key. When metrics are clear (e.g., at our company, this means a, b, c, d), they're easy to measure. When there's a disconnect (a gap between how the employee perceives their performance and how you perceive the same), that's when change must take place. But, don't wait. Establish final performance metrics and the timeline. Be gentle but firm like the goalpost in the end-zone. It's not moving anywhere but it has two feet of foam padding around it. At the end of the day, some employees will change, some will quit and some will need to be let go (but this last group becomes very small).
Today's takeaways:
- Just take the pain! Is it not better for the individual to find a position that works for both the employer and the employee? Why would you rob him or her of that?
- Look for other areas and do the same. You'll find that this principle applies to much more than human capital. It's OK to be prudent but often, time is not your friend (i.e., options tend to expire).
As a side note…
A senior executive in a global staffing company once told me, "I've never known of a situation where the employee was fired too soon." And then there's what my Dad would say, "you'll feel better when it quits hurting."


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Shopping is my thing 21.07.2018
It has been (oh my gosh) six years… six years… since I finished university. A lot has actually happened in those six years.
I ended a long-term relationship, ending a engagement… I learnt to drive! (That is huge for me…) Bought my first baby car (with a little help!) I moved in with my best friend, met my man best friend (Matthew) met his beautiful, loving family who welcomed me into their home and lives! Bought a house with said Matthew and bought my first sunflower plant which I have managed to keep alive after the first week of owning it! So much can happen in six years. Cannot believe it.
I also spent a good chunk of that time applying to jobs, bossing the interviews then dealing with the rejections, picking myself back up and applying to more. Starting your career. My god what a hard thing to do nowadays. Through it all my job as a barista in an independent coffeehouse has been constant, in the background, steady and loyal babes. I have earned my living through this.
I had a brainwave a few months back. You know what? Fuck job searching. Why work my bum off making someone else rich when I can do that for myself. And so the dream of making something out of my illustration work began.
In the past I have always shot myself in the foot where illustration is concerned. I never believed I could make a living out of something that I loved doing so I never tried in the first place. Whenever someone asked me what I wanted to do I would reply with, an illustrator, feeling embarrassed like I would never actually achieve that goal. But why not? Why cant I make a living out of it?
So here we are, I am nearing my thirties and I finally know where I stand. I know what I want to do. It has always been illustration and it always will. So even through all the blood, sweat and tears I know I will face in the future I am certain of where I want to be heading.
I have been producing like mad over the past few months, in between working and well just living life really. But with this blog post I would like to officially introduce the opening of my online shop. Selling all things created in my studio (our second bedroom, at my tiny desk!) All the work is very close to my heart and has been created with a real love and passion for all things created by hand.
Totes original. Tote bags are huge at the moment, saving the planet one bag at a time. I have created one off original hand printed tote bags. So whichever one you own will be completely unique. There will be more to come of course. Badges are available too, I love a good pin badge.
If you can please take a look at my shop and tell your friends I would be eternally grateful!
Heres to all the handmade babes out there! I join your club with great honour!
Wigmore out x
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"All Ages" by Bad Religion. This record goes back to 1995 and it features a lot of really cool songs on it, which serves to be a "history" of Bad Religion on Epitaph records. If you happen to come across a friend that hasn't heard of the band, or just isn't into punk, play them this 50-minute blockbuster, and you'll convert them quick.
With "All Ages" you get a lot of tracks from the band, and it's all from their releases on Epitaph. Some of their biggest songs are on here, and if you aren't familiar with the band, then this is the record that you need to pick up today. There are 21 tracks on this, and it came out right before "The Gray Race" came through the major label that the band signed on. If you get the special edition version, you can get a couple of extra live tracks. This is a 50-minute introduction to the band, and it's amazing. Some of the best songs ever are on here.
Ok, I'm pushing this a bit, but if you're going to buy "one" Bad Religion record, and that's it, here you go. The stand out tracks include, "Modern Man, "The Answer", "Flat Earth Society", "Against The Grain", "Generator", "Suffer", "Faith Alone", "No Control", "21st Century Digital Boy", "Atomic Garden", "Sanity", "Walk Away", and so much more. This is one record that I keep spinning all the time, and it will one day crack and I'll buy a new one.
Ever since I picked this up in 1995, I have been a huge fan of the band. My fondest memory of this record came in Seattle. In 2008 at El Corazon, I was able to see Bad Religion play live for $20. They put on a 2-hour marathon of music that I will never forget. If you're not familiar with the venue, it's a small place that can only fit like 200 – 300 people max, or maybe a bit more, I'm not sure. It's small, like Pizza Hut small. Anyways, this is a great release, with a ton of punk rock for you to listen to.
If you have yet to listen to Bad Religion, or you just aren't sure where to start, pick up "All Ages" by clicking here.


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Solon Community Pantry taking private appointments
SOLON– The Solon Community Pantry is now taking private appointments to better accommodate families. Appointments can be made Mondays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in 30 minute allotments. The pantry, located in the lower level of the Solon United Methodist Church, is very private and volunteers work with confidentiality and discretion. The pantry receives Table-to-Table items early each Monday morning that include packaged sandwiches, salads, milk, juice, yogurt, vegetables and fruits. Produce from several other sources is also available as well as non-perishable items. There are no eligibility requirements and families are able to choose those foods that will help supplement weekly food budgets. Please call 319-430-8655 to schedule an appointment.


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PASTOR'S PERSPECTIVE: "GOD GIVES JACOB HOLY HEAVEN…AND IT'S ON THE HOUSE!" By: Ron Woodrum
The book of Genesis makes no attempt to conceal the fact that Jacob was, among other things, a crook. What's more, you get the feeling that whoever wrote up his seamy adventures got a real kick out of them.
Twice he cheated his lame-brained brother, Esau, out of what was coming to him. At least once he took advantage of the blindness of his old father, Isaac, and played him for a sucker. He outdid his double-crossing father-in-law, Laban, by conning him out of most of his livestock and, later on, when Laban was looking the other way, by sneaking off with not only both the man's daughters, but just about everything else that wasn't nailed down including his household gods. Jacob was never satisfied. He wanted the moon, and if he'd ever managed to bilk heaven out of that, he would have been back the next morning for the stars to go with it. But then one day he learned a marvelous lesson in a marvelous and unexpected way.
It happened just after he'd ripped Esau off for the second time and was making his getaway into the hill country to the north. When sunset came and nobody seemed to be after him, he decided that it was safe to camp out for the night and, having left in too much of a hurry to take his bedroll with him, tucked a stone under his head for a pillow and prepared to go to sleep. You might think that what happened next was that he lay there all night bug-eyed as a result of his guilty conscience or, if he did finally manage to drop off, that he was tormented by conscience-stricken dreams, but neither of these was the case. Instead, he dropped off like a baby in a cradle and dreamed the kind of dreams you would have thought were reserved for the high saints.
He dreamed that there was a ladder reaching up to heaven and that there were angels moving up and down it with golden sandals and rainbow-colored wings and that standing somewhere above it was God himself. And the words God spoke in the dream were not the chewing-out you might have expected, but something altogether different. God told Jacob that the land he was lying on was to belong to him and his descendants and that someday his descendants would become a great nation and a great blessing to all the other nations on earth. And as if that wasn't enough, God then added a personal P.S. by saying, "Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go."
It wasn't holy hell that God gave him, in other words, but holy heaven, not to mention the marvelous lesson thrown in for good measure. The lesson was, needless to say, that even for a dyed-in-the-wool, double-barreled con artist like Jacob there are a few things in this world you can't get but can only be given, and one of these things is love in general, and another is the love of God in particular.
Jacob didn't have to climb his ladder to bilk heaven of the moon and the stars, even if that had been possible, because the moon and the stars looked like peanuts compared to what God and the angels were using the ladder to hand down to him for free.
Another part of the lesson was that, luckily for Jacob, God doesn't love people because of who they are, but because of who God is. "It's on the house" is one way of saying it and "It's by grace" is another, just as it was by grace that it was Jacob of all people who became not only the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, but the many-times great-grandfather of Jesus of Nazareth, and just as it was by grace that Jesus of Nazareth was born into this world at all.
Genesis 25:24-28:17
~originally published in Peculiar Treasures and later in Beyond Words Buechner has also depicted the life of Jacob in his novel Son of Laughter.
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Britain recently voted to leave the EU. That's probably going to have a lot of long term consequences and I'm mostly writing this to try to work through what I think they might be, good as well as bad.
In the short term there's probably going to be a fair amount of bad. Germany and France are Britain's #1 and #3 trading partners and there's likely to be some disruption there. Now that Britain has said it wants to leave it can negotiate a divorce from the EU there's some question about exactly what Britain's terms of trade are going to end up looking like. The leave campaign promised that Britain would be able to trade with Europe the same way it always had but now without cumbersome EU rules. I don't think it'll work that way. The first reason for that is that managing trade is a big part of the complex EU rules Britain had to deal with. If I sell you a ton of "Grade A Beef" it's important that we both have the same understanding of what Grade A Beef is. I mean, I could always just inspect every purchase I make ahead of time but that's cumbersome and so people generally make regulations about what "Grade A Beef" means, exactly. The modern world of trade is a whole elaborate edifice of commodity futures contracts and such that make that sort of inspection even more impractical. So Norway, in order to trade with the EU inside the EEA, has to abide by a lot of EU rules it had no hand in making. So some people in the Leave camp are going to be upset at how little will change regarding EU rules but given that many Leavers are fans of staying in the EEA and given how many people wanted to stay then I assume it's sellable.
The other short term problem is going to be EU stability. If Britain leaves then suddenly it gets a lot more thinkable for, say, Greece to leave. That probably means that the EU doesn't want to be nice to the UK in the exit negotiations, they want to make leaving seem scary to any member states that might be wavering. But in thinking about the consequences of the Brexit for Britain we shouldn't ignore the consequences for the rest of Europe either. As Scott Sumner points out the stock markets in continental Europe and especially southern Europe are down a lot more than in Britain. In some ways Britain leaving the EU now looks like Britain leaving the gold standard in 1931, and we all know how that ended. Partially that might be because the Bank of England has been handling the recent crisis so much better than the European Central Bank.
Finally, I'm a big fan of the free movement of people between countries and Britain leaving the EU is going to be a big blow to that. I don't think there's much to elaborate on here. Discomfort with immigration was a big factor in Leave winning and getting out of the EU will put a big hamper on, e.g., Poles moving to the UK.
As for the good, well, I think critics of the EU as an opaque institution have a point. The EU is the product of ad hoc growth with a lack of clear lines of responsibility. Hamilton wrote very movingly about the importance of checks and balances separation of powers but since the 18th century countries with more streamlined parliamentary systems have provided much more stable democracies than presidential systems like ours. Making responsibility transparent to voters is the most crucial thing to get right in a democratic system of government and it's hard to see how the EU accomplishes that. There was a proposal for a European constitution at one point but it was also quite baroque and also rejected by voters.
In a related point, countries work better when their citizens feel like they're all the same group. This is entirely subjective and in the future maybe the EU will succeed in creating a sense of a pan European culture. But in the meantime Germans balk at giving money to Greeks in a way that New Yorkers don't at seeing their money spent on West Virginians. The book Wars, Guns, and Votes goes into this in some detail and maybe I ought to reread it then write it up. But in the meantime, this is a fairly big problem for trying to have a union on a European scale.
Also, while I'm all on board with free trade in goods and free movement of people I'm not sure that homogenizing laws across different countries is a good idea. Lawmaking is not a science and unintended consequences are frequent. You can take this as an argument against making too many laws but equally it's an argument for trial and error. More countries with differences in their legal system tend to help us figure out what works and what doesn't - even if we fail to look at other country's experiences too often.
So Britain leaving the EU has large downsides but it has upsides too. I don't see many people in my social media circles discussing them, though. But just compare the EU with the TPP and TPIP. Both are international agreements negotiated between governments to facilitate trade but also impose restrictions on what the member countries can do.
A lot of the motivation for the leave vote was driven by xenophobia and a lot of the motivation for the stay vote was driven by cosmopolitanism. I am strongly in favor of being cosmopolitan but I don't think people's motivations for doing something have the power to make that thing good or bad all on their own. So I think that it's pretty clear that from the perspective of five years from now the leave vote will look like a bad idea. But from the perspective of 50 years I really have no idea.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Trump and Publicity
There's an old idea that all publicity is good publicity. I seem to have have written something about this a few years ago but I should repeat the important bits. If you're trying to sell something and you don't care about getting a majority of people to like you then your biggest foe is anonymity and the old chestnut is perfectly valid. But if you're doing something that requires you to persuade a majority of people that you're correct then no, not all publicity is good publicity.
I think this principle is very much applicable to the potential election of Donald Trump. If you're looking at a 17 way contest and you only need a plurality, and besides only 13 of the 29 million people in the Republican primary voted for Trump compared to the 126 million who voted in the 2012 presidential election. So it's very much true that for Trump in the primary all publicity is good publicity. But that won't hold for the general election.
I suppose that's why the betting markets are only giving him an 18% shot at winning. That's still a lot and many things could happen between now and the vote but Trump's strengths in the primary ("bad" publicity) aren't a strength in the general election.
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It is important for rock engineering design to be able to validate numerical simulations, i.e. to check that they adequately represent the rock reality. In this paper, the capability and validity of four numerical models is assessed through the simulation of an apparently simple case: the complete process of microstructural breakdown during the uniaxial compressive failure of intact crystalline rock. In addition to comparing the capabilities of the four models, the results generated by each model were compared with the experimentally determined complete stress-strain curves for the Swedish Avro granite for different porewater conditions. In this way, it has been possible to audit the models' adequacy for this particular simulation task. It was found that although the models had common features, they were each idiosyncratically different and required considerable expertise to match the actual stress-strain curves (which did not monotonically increase in axial strain)-indicating that, for more complex simulations, both adequate modelling and appropriate validation are not going to be an easy task. The work was conducted within the framework of the international 2004-2007 DEmonstration of COupled models and their VALidation against EXperiments with emphasis on Thermo Hydro Mechanic and Chemical aspects (DECOVALEX-THMC) phase on coupled modelling extended to include chemical effects and with application to the excavation damaged zone (EDZ) in crystalline rock.
The intent of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the origin of fractures in rock. The man-made fracturing from engineering activities in crystalline rock as well as the fracturing induced by the natural process of meteorite impacts is studied by means of various characterization methods. In contrast to engineering induced rock fracturing, where the goal usually is to minimize rock damage, meteorite impacts cause abundant fracturing in the surrounding bedrock. In a rock mass the interactions of fractures on the microscopic scale (mm-cm scale) influence fractures on the mesoscopic scale (dm-m scale) as well as the interaction of the mesocopic fractures influencing fractures on the macroscopic scale (m-km scale). Thus, among several methods used on different scales, two characterization tools have been developed further. This investigation ranges from the investigation of micro-fracturing in ultra-brittle rock on laboratory scale to the remote sensing of fractures in large scale structures, such as meteorite impacts. On the microscopic scale, the role of fractures pre-existing to the laboratory testing is observed to affect the development of new fractures. On the mesoscopic scale, the evaluation of the geometric information from 3D-laser scanning has been further developed for the characterisation of fractures from tunnelling and to evaluate the efficiency of the tunnel blasting technique in crystalline rock. By combining information on: i) the overbreak and underbreak; ii) the orientation and visibility of blasting drillholes and; iii) the natural and blasting fractures in three dimensions; a analysis of the rock mass can be made. This analysis of the rock mass is much deeper than usually obtained in rock engineering for site characterization in relation to the blasting technique can be obtained based on the new data acquisition. Finally, the estimation of fracturing in and around two meteorite impact structures has been used to reach a deeper understanding of the relation between fracture, their water content and the electric properties of the rock mass. A correlation between electric resistivity and fracture frequency in highly fractured crystalline rock has been developed and applied to potential impact crater structures. The results presented in this thesis enables more accurate modelling of rock fractures, both supporting rock engineering design and interpretation of meteorite impact phenomena.


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Skin pigmentation problems such as age spots, liver spots, post-pregnancy masks and skin discolouration on the face and body affect millions of people in the UK and are a result of increased local skin pigment production, known as melanin.
Melanin protects us from the effects of the sun but often, due to a variety of different influences both environmental and internal, the skin can produce more melanin. This then results in hyper pigmented skin spots or areas, such as age, liver and sun spots, after local damage from acne or burns, or pregnancy mask, which is often seen on the jaw line and other facial areas. Inflammation is a key trigger of increased pigmentation, sometimes from acute inflammation likes spot or injuries and in other cases through extended low inflammation from exposure to sun over years. The latter is key to developing a more sensitised skin and the former is often the trigger that brings out the problem.
There is epidermal and dermal hyper pigmentation. Hormonal triggered pigmentation like melasma and pregnancy mask are deeper and more dermal and harder to treat. While sun damage is more epidermal and easier to treat. A lot of pigmentation is a combination dermal and epidermal and one should ensure assessment with equipment such as a woods lamp to determine the type of pigmentation, so the best treatment option can be suggested.
Traditionally an ingredient called hydroquinone has been used to lighten dark spots but this is now banned in cosmetics due to its reported damaging effects in the skin, and research also shows that its metabolites has even been linked to blood cancers.
However, help is at hand from a safe alternative to hydroquinone cosmetics called Tebiskin LC (Lightening Cream), which has been invented by Dr de Paoli, a leading dermatologist and researcher in the field.
Tebiskin LC is highly effective and reduces excessive pigmentation production in the skin safely. The products natural-based ingredients build up in the skin over a number of weeks, resulting in a gradual slowing down in melanin production and normalising excessive levels. As a result, new lighter skin cells migrate to the skin surface, replacing older, darker skin through natural shedding which is encouraged by a mild exfoliant. Tebiskin LC utilises a combination of 4 ingredients to target 4 different stages of pigmentation manufacture while not damaging the melanocyte (the cells which make pigment) and also not releasing potential carcinogens.
Tebiskin LC does not contain hydroquinone, yet it is just as effective and eliminates the risks associated with this dangerous ingredient.
Peter Roberts, managing director of SkinMed who market Tebiskin LC in the UK, said: "It is vital for people's health that they stop using cosmetics containing hydroquinone. It is banned in the UK but a significant amount of hydroquinone creams are still imported from countries where it is yet to be banned and a strong black market trade exists. More worrying still are creams containing Arbutin and Bearberry which are natural sources of hydroquinone which are still legal but still supply hydroquinone when applied. Tebiskin LC is a safe alternative to hydroquinone and is just as effective at eradicating skin pigmentation problems.
Also, the use of chemical peels is highly recommended for treating epidermal pigmentation and also combined pigmentation. The revolutionary new EnerPeel system works in the skin rather than on the skin, to enhance skin rejuvenation and reduce melanin production to lighten dark areas of hyperpigmentation. The Tebiskin and Enerpeel range are for Clinics only. For more details on the ranges of skincare treatments and products or to book a skin consultation, please click here to find your closest stockist.


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12 March 2017
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OWON: Trump has to decide a policy on Assange now.
Trump's dilemma on WikiLeaks: Hail Assange or haul him before a judge?
For a few years there, Julian Assange seemed to have faded from relevance. He took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London's Knightsbridge district in 2012, fleeing a Swedish probe into sexual assault. There, he's been deprived of sunlight, and even endured cuts to his internet access.
But for a man holed up in an embassy, fighting off possible prosecution, the Australian founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has managed to re-emerge as remarkably relevant to U.S. politics, first during the presidential campaign last year and now with a new dump of leaked documents, this one from the CIA.
Once again, Assange is waving the flag as champion of transparency and a thorn in the side of the U.S. government, and touting the latest release as "an enormous journalistic scoop."
His re-emergence presents President Donald Trump with a dilemma. Trump once praised Assange but now faces the consequences of the CIA leak, and must decide whether to bring him to justice. Federal prosecutors long have been rumored to have a sealed criminal indictment against Assange for publishing classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in 2010 and 2011. The existence of an indictment has never been confirmed, and the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
Assange's new prominence also underscores the impact he's had on public institutions and politics since he founded WikiLeaks in 2006. His group espouses radical transparency – and radical it has been. Disgruntled employees now see the theft and delivery of documents to WikiLeaks as a way to get back at unaccountable bosses and institutions. Encryption has become de rigueur. The contours of privacy have changed...
OWON: A lot of society seems to be walking around registering no brain waves at all.
Doctors find brain activity 10 minutes AFTER 'death': 'Unexplained' discovery reveals patient's brain waves continued as if in a deep sleep
Doctors have found scientific evidence that people's brains can continue to show signs of life after they have been declared clinically dead.
A patient showed persistent brain activity for ten minutes after their heart stopped and experienced brain waves we normally get during deep sleep.
Canadian doctors studied the brain activity and heartbeats of four patients in intensive care after their life-support machines had been switched off.
Brain inactivity preceded the heart stopping in three out of the four cases.
However, in one of the cases, single delta wave bursts persisted after the heart had stopped and the patient was clinically dead.
We normally get these brain waves in a deep sleep.
Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit described the case as extraordinary and unexplained...
OWON: It is bought and paid for. This is a big problem in America.
Why No One's Going to Drain this Swamp
The Financial Sector threw $2 Billion at Congress during the Election. Biggest Spenders? Not the Banks.
The Financial Sector – whose products, risk-taking, and shenanigans blew up the sector and everything around it during the Financial Crisis – has finally gotten the memo in a serious way: During the past election cycle (2015-2016), it doused the members of the US Congress with a record amount of money to "influence decision making" and get what they want: deregulation, handouts, and subsidies.
So how much? Over $2 billion.
That's over $3.7 million per sitting member of Congress, according to a report released today by Americans for Financial Reform. The $2 billion tab fell into two categories:
Campaign contributions by companies, trade associations, and individuals associated with the financial sector:
- $1.104 billion. This was "almost twice that of any other specific business sector."
- Lobbying expenses by 460 financial sector entities: $898 million
"The financial sector is by far the largest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, and the third largest spender on lobbying," the report explains, based on data by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), which tracks campaign contributions reported to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) and lobbying expenditures reported to the Senate Office of Public Records.
This "Financial Sector" includes commercial banks, S&Ls, credit unions, finance and credit companies, securities and investment firms, accountants, and "miscellaneous finance."...
OWON: The dirt never stops coming. This uranium one deal smells very badly.
EXCLUSIVE: Dem Super-Lobbyist Podesta Got $170K To End US Sanctions On Russian Bank
Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $170,000 over a six-month period last year to represent Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, seeking to end one of the Obama administration's economic sanctions against that country, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned.
Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, who was the national campaign chairman for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's losing 2016 campaign for the presidency. Former President Barack Obama imposed the sanctions following the Russian seizure of the Crimean region of Ukraine in 2014.
The lobbying campaign targeted Congress and the executive branch, with Podesta and other lobbyists arranging at least two meetings between Sberbank officers and Department of State officials, according to Elena Teplitskaya, Sberbank's board chairman, who spoke to House aides in August...
OWON: Another new Space Travel concept. Who's got the energy?
Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?
Bizarre flashes of cosmic light may actually be generated by advanced alien civilizations, as a way to accelerate interstellar spacecraft to tremendous speeds, a new study suggests.
Astronomers have catalogued just 20 or so of these brief, superbright flashes, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first one was detected in 2007. FRBs seem to be coming from galaxies billions of light-years away, but what's causing them remains a mystery.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," study co-author Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement Thursday (March 9). "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
One potential artificial origin, according to the new study, might be a gigantic radio transmitter built by intelligent aliens. So Loeb and lead author Manasvi Lingam, of Harvard University, investigated the feasibility of this possible explanation...
OWON: Exactly why men need to avoid the chop with Prostates. Wait and keep the Todger working. Prostate ops send the Lil Fella South for life. Here's real hope.
Prostate therapy without surgery: Thousands of men to benefit from new technique that uses plastic beads to block blood supply and shrink the enlarged gland
Tens of thousands of men could benefit from a breakthrough prostate treatment announced today.
The technique uses tiny plastic beads to block the blood supply and shrink the enlarged gland – all without an operation.
A successful trial in Portugal is being followed up in Britain, with results due back later this year. If successful it could be rolled out for routine use on the NHS.
Half of all men over 50 suffer from an enlarged prostate and every year 45,000 have risky surgery to remove part of it.
As well as being painful and invasive, the operation can cause loss of sexual function and even incontinence...
OWON: The future big brother is coming. CIA control. Nasty.
CIA "Signature School" is creating Smart Cities with thousands of cameras and microphones
Pegasus Global Holdings (PGH) a Trademark of Mobile Arch Partners (MAP) is working with DHS, the CIA , the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to create total surveillance Smart Cities.
The Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation, the University of New Mexico (UNM) and numerous high-tech companies are helping design Smart Cities that will spy on everyone.
Two years ago, PGH announced their plans to spend $1 billion to build a full scale mock-up Smart City, complete with surveillance cameras, microphones, Bluetooth monitoring devices, License Plate Readers and probably Stingray cell phone surveillance equipment. (Click here to learn how Bluetooth monitoring devices spy on motorists and pedestrians.)
What this means is, the Feds have created a mock-up city specifically designed to perfect their surveillance of citizens.
CIA "Signature School" is designing Smart Cities
On November 10th, 2016, CIA Director James O. Brennan met with ten NSSP scholars following his announcement that UNM is to be designated the first IC-CAE 'Signature School.'
An article in Albuquerque Business First says, "the program will deepen cooperation between the CIA and UNM..."
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Nigeria's pension assets are currently worth over N8.5trillion, the Acting Director General, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Hajia Aisha Dahir-Umar, has said.
The Pencom boss who spoke yesterday at the Commission's sixth conference for directors of pension operators held in Lagos, said the formation of long term domestic capital, represented by the over N8.5 trillion worth of pension assets, is slowly but surely changing Nigeria's financial landscape and by extension the course and pace of our socio-economic development.
She said the transformation has placed a huge responsibility on your shoulders as directors of the entities that administer the pension funds and assets, pointing out that it underscores the necessity of continuous discourse on the subjects of corporate governance and sustainable investment in the pension industry, especially with the introduction of the multi-fund structure, in the month of July this year.
She said: "As you are aware, the pension reform has been very impactful in Nigeria since the beginning of its implementation in 2004. The major visible areas of this impact are the economic and social spheres.
"In the social sphere, the Commission is finalizing arrangements for the introduction of the Micro Pension Plan, which seeks to extend the benefits of the Contributory Pension Scheme to the informal sector. We hope to achieve this latest by the first quarter of 2019 and we believe that the product would be part of the efforts towards ensuring in the long term, the sustainability of the Federal Government's social empowerment programme.
"It is appropriate at this juncture, to draw your attention to certain unfolding developments in the pension subsector in Nigeria. Perhaps, due to the modest successes recorded in the implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme, there is increasing clamour by pension contributors to redirect their retirement savings towards the resolution of other social problems, such as health, unemployment and other similar challenges. Indeed, the year 2017 was particularly difficult for the industry as we had to contend with several Bills before the National Assembly seeking to distort or dismantle the Contributory Pension Scheme.


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Memory Tiles
This is a simple technique designed to store and retain separate pieces of information on the fly. It is ideal for creating lists in a flash, sequencing or linking items together, and boosting visual thinking skills. Next time you're out and about and have to compose and retain a list of dissimilar items on the fly, imagine a clean sheet of whichever color you desire. On top of this, in the upper left hand corner, create a tile for the first item to be recalled. I like to use white square tiles, which make for easy overlays. Suppose you're going to be married the next day. Envision your first tile imbued with two golden bells, perhaps even add a veil cascading down from the top of the tile if you're feeling fanciful, or substitute tears for the bells' ringers if you're a realist. Simply by decorating your tiles step by step, you are affording yourself more retrieval cues and creating a stronger memory.
Suppose at 3 o'clock you are expected to sit with your mother's friends for cake and pictures. Obviously, you would create a new tile stamped with bleeding and maggot-ridden skull and crossbones to the right, connected to your wedding tile by three red arrows (to encode the fateful hour). Cheekiness aside, the profane, repulsive and morally inconceivable make for stronger epoxies than sugar and water. The more bizarre or visually striking your tile, the more likely it will stick in your memory. This basic structure can be expanded and customized to suit your needs. The tiles can be animated to encode complex actions, the tiles' sizes can be altered to encode priority, and they can even be moved into equations for the purpose of encoding conditional obligations or memorizing elusive exceptions.
Review/em>: I designed this one myself. It's inherently flawless. It is, however, best suited for temporary and extemporaneous storage of information because it does not come ready made with a constant system of imagery.
The Journey System
Best for long lists, the journey system works by associating landmarks along well-known routes through the real world with dream world translations of the items to be stored. Your daily commute is an easily imaginable route and will serve as a starting point. "Hamburgers, chicken feet, liver pate and tums!" your stomach commands you as you leave for the supermarket. To remember this list, you might notice that your filthy coarse weave doormat looks like a hamburger patty, that the treacherous knot of roads you cross at one point resembles a chicken's foot, etc. When it comes time to recall your list, just relive your journey to work, complete with bizarre cues.
Review: Certainly effective for straightforward lists and capable of holding much information at once, but slightly less effective for mapping out complex concepts. It feels a little unwieldy when it comes time to vocalize your list quickly; something like memory tiles might be ideal for meetings or classes when you want to have all of your information visible at once and close at hand.
Visual Thinking Skills
Image Streaming – adapted from Win Wenger, Ph.D.
This technique is entertaining and boosts creativity, communication skills and visual object manipulation. Sit before a blank word processor screen or an empty cassette recorder and speak or write a description of the first image that comes to your mind. Focus on the sensory detail of your image and include as much as possible without sacrificing rapidity. You can use a nearby object if you are having trouble jumping off, but the key is 'flow' and making your descriptions both as complete and quick as possible. Move right from one image to another. If you're having trouble getting started, imagine a ball bouncing around a room. First describe the ball in all its red rubber glory as quickly and completely as possible and then move on to the next object it touches; floors, furniture, or even people as it winds its way through other rooms. Within even your first session, you may start to notice your visual fluidity improving as the details of visions become more easily rendered and one idea morphs into another. Doctor Wenger suggests that Image Streaming sessions should last from 10 to 30 minutes each.
Review: This is a very enjoyable exercise and allows for complete freedom of the imagination. It can even serve as a relaxation method, as you will begin to notice your focus tightening up as you approach the zone in which vivid descriptions streak effortlessly from you tongue or fingertips. After a few practice sessions with a recording medium, you can continue to image stream wherever you are, silently describing to yourself the images you generate. I strongly recommend this to those who often have a hard time quieting their minds for long enough to reap the benefits of traditional meditation techniques, for image streaming occupies much of the mind but soothes it as well.
Juggling Technique
This technique initially requires a ball and a seat. Sit in the seat. Rest the ball in your left palm, both palms upward and even and shoulder's width apart. Careful to use only your left hand, toss the ball in a respectable arc and catch it in your right palm. Toss it back, careful to maintain a nice arc. Ensure your hands are moving only a few inches each time you throw. Repeat at a steady state until you can do so while staring straight ahead. Repeat for five to ten minutes until you feel yourself relaxing. Now lose the ball and close your eyes. You can keep your hands palm up, but imagine the ball jumping from one palm to another in a perfect arc. Repeatedly toss the visualized ball for ten minutes at a steady state. When you feel you have the basics down, try changing the color of the ball as it passes from one hand to another, first switching between two colors and, once that is mastered, running through the whole rainbow as it passes in its arc. Try changing shapes, and then try changing shapes and colors simultaneously, all while tossing the object back and forth in a perfect arc.
Review: This is very calming and can be done anywhere. It is ideal for ironing out frustration when there is work to be done, and is another alternative for people who find clearing headspace for meditation to be too difficult.
Concentration and Relaxation
There is much research demonstrating the impressive benefits of various forms of meditation. Studies have shown increased cortical thickness [1], increases in nighttime levels of melatonin [2], and heightened attention and control of the autonomic nervous system [3] to be related to meditation. There are a great many traditional practices of meditation, so keep looking for one that suits you if you haven't found the right fit yet.
A very basic technique I sometimes use involves getting comfortable either in a chair or lying on your back in bed. Lie still for a few moments and breathe regularly to relax, then close your eyes and begin taking deep breaths, focusing on the sound and feel of your breathing. You can inhale and exhale for three counts each if it helps you maintain concentration. Your thoughts will distract you, but continuously return to the sound and feel of your breathing. Try maintaining this for 15 to 30 minutes at a time.
A spiritually inclined friend once taught me a more interesting variation. On a pleasant day, sit beneath a tree and follow the first steps as outlined above. Once you feel yourself sliding into a meditative state, try to "sense the tree's energy" while drawing your hands, facing together and several inches apart, toward your upper chest from your belly, heels first with each inhalation. With each exhalation, move them back down to rest before your belly button. With each ascending motion of your hands, imagine that you are bearing energy up toward your face to be breathed in; with each descending motion, imagine you are exhaling this energy back into the space between your palms. Repeat for ten minutes at a steady pace until the motion becomes smooth and your mind is cleared.
Next, your hands still facing each other and apart, imagine that this energy between them has grown into a ball. You can feel it glowing ethereally in your palms; at once weightless but scarcely palpable. Concentrate on feeling its warmth between your hands, all the while continuing your steady breathing.
Next, begin to move your hands around this ball of energy as if it were real, each cupped hand moving in opposite directions but simultaneously, to outline the ball's shape. If you are doing this correctly, curious passerby will be entranced to see you holding an invisible ball, so convincing shall your movements be. If you are doing this correctly, you will almost believe you are holding a ball yourself.
Review: Both of these techniques reward patience. While a mood brightening effect can be experienced after only ten minutes of meditating, constant practice allows one to attain the meditative state more quickly, and to remain in it longer without interruption by distraction. Nevertheless, I find that even 10-15 minutes of meditation in the early morning is anxiolytic, and can infuse me with calm and focused energy for several hours afterward.
Get to It
Many of these exercises can be performed in sequence for greater effect. Try meditating for fifteen minutes before constructing your own visual mnemonic while studying or preparing for an event that will require information retrieval. You will find that your confidence is increased, your mind is stripped of superfluous noise, and that your freshly boosted attention will serve you well as you memorize. Additionally, performing several different types of brain builders will provide an overlapping effect whenever a single skill is targeted by multiple exercises. Visual thinking skills, for instance, can be enhanced by image streaming, but are also improved when practicing the second variation of meditation outlined above. Below are a few good resources for more brain builders.
1 – Lazar et al. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport 16 (7), 1893-1897.
2 – Tooley et al. (2000). Acute increases in night-time plasma melatonin levels following a period of meditation. Biological Psychology, 53(1), 69-78
3 – Lazar et al. (2000). Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation. Neuroreport 11(7), 1581-1585.
Additional Resources
http://www.memorise.org/memoryGym.htm – a training site. Test your improved memory.
http://www.mindtools.com – geared towards the workplace; much on the mechanics of the office and interpersonal interactions therein, but also offers many good exercises.


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Well, this morning the city of Delaware did their deed and chopped down the dead ash tree near my home.
The tree had been declining in recent years and last year the city had scraped away some of the bark to expose the larvae trails of the emerald green ash borer.I'm glad the tree is gone as any larvae living there could infect all the other trees on the street, if they haven't already.
I've heard that researchers are working on an insecticide, and some are being recommended now, but they don't seem to offer a real effective solution. It would seem that any insecticide would need to be systemic to allow the roots to uptake the insecticide. Supposedly, the emerald ash borer prefers to lay her eggs in the tender shoots toward the top of the tree, making a spray insecticide more difficult to do on these large trees.
The trees along my street belong to the city, so it's not the homeowner's responsibility to treat them. It will be interesting to see what variety of tree the city plants as a replacement.
Read my two previous posts with photos of the larvae trails and "D" hole, as well as informational links for the Emerald Ash Borer.
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