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What Should my Blood Pressure Be?
H/T The Peoples Chemist
Being alive raises blood pressure (BP), and you usually don't need medications to adjust it. Unfortunately, far too many people have been drugged by their doctors to curb the natural rise. This is a dangerous game of roulette. Understanding what a normal, healthy BP is will help you make better decisions about medications and their natural alternatives.
For the first year of life, the average BP is 100/70. The top number is known as systolic and represents the amount of pressure placed on the arteries when the heart contracts. The bottom number is known as diastolic and represents the pressure when the heart relaxes. When you're lucky enough to age, your BP will continue to rise and in most cases there's nothing to fear.
For decades, Big Pharma has been pushing us to drive our blood pressure lower and lower, even pushing doctors to suggest a systolic of 120. These guidelines of "lower is better" has been at war with the scientific evidence, which proves that "lower is not better," as we age. In other words, high blood pressure—as defined by anything over 140/80—is not a death sentence. Evidence for this was uncovered over a century ago.
In Circulation of the Blood: Men and Ideas, (Oxford University Press, 1964) cardiovascular research pioneers Fred Mahomed, Clifford Allbutt, Henri Huchard, and others demonstrated from 1874 to 1893 that hypertension may occur without overt renal disease and may even be present before hardening of the arteries or blockage, signaling that rising BP is no sign of illness. These early scientists coined the term, "essential hypertension" to describe the elevation of blood pressure as a normal, compensatory reaction to healthy aging. In a 1912 speech to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society, Sir William Osler made the following statement about high blood pressure associated with atherosclerosis: "In this group of cases it is well to recognize that the extra pressure is a necessity–as purely a mechanical affair as in any great irrigation system with old encrusted mains and weedy channels. Get it out of your heads, if possible, that the high pressure is the primary feature, and particularly the feature to treat." These very early biological observations were the eventual basis for scientists to discourage the development of blood pressure drugs, and in 2016, The British Medical Journal published findings that confirmed these sentiments and warnings!
Independent researchers in Sweden conducted a systematic review and meta-analyses guided by recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration. Comparing about 74,000 blood pressure patients, they concluded, "This systematic review and meta-analyses confirms if systolic blood pressure is less than 140 mm Hg, we found no benefit, but potential harm, with an increased risk of cardiovascular death." The harm they reported was from prescription drug side effects, a classic story of the cure being worse than the so-called disease. In addition to putting a spotlight on the dangers of meds, it also proved that essential hypertension is no cause for drug use.
To assert that we all need to be lower than 140/80 is nothing more than a ploy to sell drugs. As a former pharmaceutical chemist, "The Peoples Chemist" saw this far too many times…and to further disprove the lower is better dogma of the medical community, you can look at lifespan among those who adhere to it. If high blood pressure were dangerous, then lowering it with hypertension drugs would increase longevity.
But the opposite is true! Studies in older people found that those who reduced their systolic pressure to less than 140 fared no better than those who reduced it to between 140 and 160. Worse, as seen in previous research, the medicated suffered undue side effects. These included obesity, diabetes, kidney disease and cancer as a direct result of using drugs like beta-blockers ace-inhibitors and calcium channel blockers. Quality of life was eroded exponentially, despite the "doctor approved" lower is better numbers.
In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Suzanne Oparil, director of the vascular biology and hypertension program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine affirms the risk, saying, "Medications that lower blood pressure can have effects that counteract some of the benefits. The mantra of blood pressure experts in the past has been that lower is better. Recent studies don't seem to support that."
In an article titled, "Hypertension Guidelines Can Be Erased, Panel Says," The New York Times wrote that, "New guidelines suggest that people over 60 can have a higher blood pressure than previously recommended before starting treatment to lower it. The advice, criticized by some physicians, changes treatment goals that have been in place for more than 30 years."
In sum, past, previous and current research supports the early theory of chemists and doctors that prescription drug side effects outweigh benefits of using meds to lower blood pressure. Therefore, it's completely natural for the first number (systolic) to be 100 plus our age. Diastolic pressure has shown no correlation to early death. But if it goes to 100, you may or may not have poor kidney health. Otherwise, rising blood pressure is simply essential hypertension.
The exception to the rule would be if you have rising blood pressure coupled to obesity, heart disease or Type II diabetes. In this case, rising blood pressure may not be "essential," but instead a dire warning! If you have rising blood pressure coupled to any of these, then hypertension can be a sign of illness and early death at worst—at best a sign that your lifestyle habits (smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, eating too much)—are eroding away your longevity.
The solution is working with your Naturopath, not drugs. At Pressing Matters, we have several treatment options that have worked for others and just might work for you.


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The paper "Stability properties of a two-dimensional system involving one Caputo derivative and applications to the investigation of a fractional-order Morris-Lecar neuronal model" (by Oana Brandibur and Eva Kaslik) has been accepted to be published in Nonlinear Dynamics.
New paper published
The paper entitled "Analysis of two- and three-dimensional fractional-order Hindmarsh-Rose type neuronal models", by Eva Kaslik, has been published in the June 2017 issue of Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis.
Oana Brandibur, Eva Kaslik and Florin Rosu participated at the 17th CMMSE conference in Cadiz, Spain, between July 4-8, 2017. Three papers have been presented at the conference.
- C. Bonchis, E. Kaslik, F. Rosu. Improved parallel simulations for fractional-order systems using HPC.
- O Brandibur, E. Kaslik. Stability analysis of two-component incommensurate fractional-order systems and applications to the FitzHugh-Nagumo model.
- E. Kaslik, M. Neamtu. Dynamics of a Four-Dimensional Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Model with Distributed Delays.
New paper
The paper "Dynamics of complex-valued fractional-order neural networks" (by Eva Kaslik and Rodica Radulescu) published in Neural Networks (vol. 89: 39-49, 2017) is now freely available until May 07, 2017 at this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Uk9Z3BBjKS8mH
FRACTAL Training School
Oana Brandibur, Cosmin Bonchis and Eva Kaslik are currently participating at the FRACTAL Training School within the framework of the COST Action 15225 , organized at the Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, during November 23-26, 2016.
Newly accepted paper
The paper "Stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis for the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis model with memory" (by Eva Kaslik and Mihaela Neamtu) has been accepted to be published in the Journal of Mathematical Medicine and Biology.
New PhD Student
Congratulations to our team member Oana Brandibur, who has successfully defended her Master's thesis in July 2016 (entitled "Fractional-order differential equations and applications", earning the maximal distinction) and has just started her PhD studies at the Doctoral School of Mathematics of the West University of Timisoara, under the supervision of Eva Kaslik.
The paper entitled "Parallel simulations for Fractional-Order Systems" (Andrada Baban, Cosmin Bonchis, Alexandru Fikl and Florin Rosu) has been accepted to be presented at the SYNASC 2016 conference, Timisoara (September 24-27, 2016) and will be published in the IEEE Conference Proceedings.
Rodica Radulescu, Oana Brandibur and Eva Kaslik participated at the ICNPAA 2016 conference in La Rochelle, France (July 5-8, 2016). The following talks have been presented:
- "Nonlinear dynamics in a fractional-order Morris-Lecar neuronal model"
- "Dynamics of complex-valued fractional-order neuronal networks"
- "A comparison between the stability properties in a DDEs model for leukemia and the modified fractional counterpart" – accepted to be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
- "Stability analysis of a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis model with inclusion of glucocorticoid receptor and memory" – accepted to be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
Eva Kaslik presented the talk entitled "Wilson-Cowan Neuronal Interaction Models with Memory" at the ETAMM 2016 conference in Perpignan, France (May 30 – June 3, 2016).

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The relationship between gaming and movies has always been rocky. As someone who spends a lot of time with both, I say it's time for a divorce.
Sub-par tie-in games go back as far as the Atari 2600's legendary E.T. game and continue to be the norm. The exceptions, like Tron and Goldeneye are few and far between. Every summer you can count on each potential event movie to have a console game backing it up. The movie studios seem to view them at best as an extra revenue stream or at worst a promotional item on par with Happy Meal toys.
The movie tie-in's usually characterised by a shortened development cycle as games have to match the release date of the movie. This results in games that usually vary between competent and downright broken. The better movie games are released months (or years) after the films they're tied to, but even then that's not a guarantee of quality. The most extreme example of this so far is EA's "The Godfather", published exactly 34 years after the theatrical release of the film. What did the mighty EA produce with this Oscar-winning classic? A second-rate GTA clone.
The only major change in this trend has been that unlike the literal adaptations of a movie's story back in the 8- and 16-bit days, developers now favour prequels and side-stories. While this is a commendable approach, the stories are even thinner than that of the films themselves. Most movies have self-contained arcs, so the games' plots tend to come off like bad fan-fiction.
Then there's the game-to-movie adaptation. Let's face it, apart from RPG's, story has not traditionally been the strong point of most games. No-one bought games for the cut-scenes. Did anyone play Doom 3 and think "I'd be really interested in an expanded view of this universe"?
The main attraction for movie studios is that games franchises have an in-built audience of gamers who'll turn out regardless of the film's quality. Name recognition alone with draw us in.
The problem is that these films require a different story structure to games, and have a shorter span of time to convey it. A twelve level, 15-hour experience has to be boiled down to a three-act, two-hour movie. It's no surprise the end results bear little or no resemblance to the source material. Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within was written and directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the franchise's creator, and even he produced a monstrosity that made a ten-digit loss and put paid to Square's fledgling movie studio (though this is probably due more to it's incomprehensible plot than a simple lack of spiky-haired androgynous teenagers and Chocobos).
"Silent Hill" was a rare example of a movie being an accurate representation of the game's aesthetics and story. Despite that, the change of viewpoint from the subjective to the objective killed all of the sense of dread that was key to the games' success. This also leaves room to ponder plot holes and logic gaps. In the game I was immersed in the experience of wandering through the mist-shrouded streets to find my lost daughter, with the film I sat wondering why the hell Radha Mitchell wasn't just making a run for it. Other faithful efforts, like "Tomb Raider" and "Mortal Kombat" came from games inspired by movies in the first place ("Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Enter the Dragon", respectively), so why not just watch the originals?
The tools game developers have at their disposal are equal to (or even greater) that of movie-makers, with the advantage of interactivity. The potential to create a compelling experience is greater than ever. As Jim Sterling has pointed out, using movies as a model of storytelling is a fool's errand, they can be so much more. Where Avatar uses it's visuals to hide paper-thin characters and uneven plotting, Mass Effect 2 creates emotional attachment and a constantly evolving story unique to each player.
The differing ways that each of us plays a game is what make them such a personal experience, even in a seemingly linear game.Videogame movies play out the same for everyone, with little or no room for individual interpretation.
So guys, sit down. We need to talk. This isn't doing either of you any good. You've grown apart. This co-dependence needs to stop, you're just hurting each other. A trial separation would be best, and a restraining order against Uwe Boll is probably a good idea, too…


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It used to be that a car auction was closed to the general public, but over the past couple of years this has become less and less true. Across the United States there are hundreds of car auctions that are available to the general public. And if you know where to go and how much to bid you can really get yourself one of the best deals that you will ever found. These cars come from all walks of life from police repossessions, to IRS repossessions, and from trade ins at new car lots. Going to a car auction is a great way to save yourself time and money when looking to purchase a new car. By attending a car auction you will be able to bid on the car that you want.
And the best thing about it is that if the bidding gets to high you can simply walk away and let someone else have the car. This works because there is always another car that is coming in behind it. The best thing to do is research the car auction before you get there. Get a detailed listing of the cars that are being sold and make sure you know how much you are willing to spend. The second that the car gets to be too much take yourself out of the running and wait for the next car.
Car auctions are also a great means of financial investment. Buy low sell at a normal asking price. Similar to real estate auctions car auctions tend to attract all forms of investors and future car owners. Many people are buying cars at an auction because they have found that they can get a great used car deal without having to pay as much as they would as a new or used car dealer. Plus the selection is wide enough that they do not have to worry if they lose out on the first car of their choice. Consider a car auction for your next car.
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We're extremely excited to announce that our CMO, Connor Gillivan, will be publishing and launching his own book on April 26th titled "Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies."
Connor has been writing the book for the past 3 months in collaboration with our CEO, Nathan Hirsch. They have put their heads together to define 50 strategies that they have been using to build their first two 7-figure online businesses. The book is focused on educating other entrepreneurs on how to run their businesses like absolute pros. Connor leverages his experience to share step-by-step guides and stories from the journey that he and Nathan have taken since meeting in college.
If you have any connection to FreeUp and are interested in entrepreneurship, this is definitely a book that you want to get your hands on. It will serve as a valuable resource that you can continually come back to as you are building your business and advancing your knowledge of running million dollar companies.
Keep an eye out over the next few weeks for sneak peeks into the book content, videos from Connor and Nate, and exclusive blog articles. Keep an especially close watch for information on our affiliate program for the book!
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Thinking of Selling your Property?
Harry Harper Estate Agency has been awarded 'Best Estate Agency in Cardiff' and 'Silver winners for Wales' at the ESTAs 2015. This is true testament to our continual hard work and dedication to providing an award-winning service to our clients.
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Choosing the right Estate Agent could be the most important decision that you make. The right Estate Agent can make the difference between your property being sold quickly at the right price or not being sold at all.
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Take a look at our step-by-step guide to selling your home:
- Our mission right from the start is to find you the right buyer, at the right price as quickly as possible.
- An expert valuation of your property will take into account all of the benefits of your property and its area. We will also look at other homes that have been recently sold in your area to assess the best possible price achievable for your property.
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- Your property details will be listed on www.harryharper.co.uk and uploaded to the major property portals; including Rightmove. We always ensure that your home receives the maximum amount of online exposure possible.
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- You will need an EPC (Energy Proficiency Certificate) by law before we market your property.
- It's disappointing to know that for a variety of reasons, many properties that go 'under offer' will never actually reach completion and 'sell'. That's why we employ dedicated Transaction Support staff. From chasing solicitors, confirming enquiries and being general peace keepers, our TS team are there to move 'heaven and earth' to get you moved in!
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We did have reservations about using a non-local firm but their skillful management of logistics and use of current marketing techniques and technology, very quickly turned the situation around and also resulted in us achieving a much better price than we had been led to believe was possible – I would recommend them as being highly committed and professional throughout.
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There is a very cool website for parents that has always included the most comprehensive listing of Baby Equipment Rental companies around the world.
Whenever I get a call from someone looking for Baby Equipment Rentals in another city, state or country- I always direct people to The New Parents Guide.
I was recently asked to write a guest post on The New Parents Guide blog. Check out my entry about Eco-friendly family travel.
If you are looking to rent Baby Car Seats, Cribs, Strollers and more, you can find a great listing of Baby Equipment Rental companies in the Cook Islands, Singapore, Kauai or anywhere in the world you can travel with kids.
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Welcome To Our Pensions Information Service
This section of our website endeavours to give you basic information on your pension scheme and allows you to access our pension related application forms and commonly requested circulars.
Who is the Pensions Information Service aimed at?
Any employee of Galway & Roscommon ETB (GRETB) who is seeking information relating to his/her pension scheme and/or other superannuation related matters. Please note that its purpose is to give a general guide to the pension schemes and does not purport to be a legal interpretation. Therefore it cannot confer any rights which are not conferred by the superannuation schemes themselves.
Our Pension Schemes:
ETB Teachers Superannuation Scheme 2015 (for teachers employed by GRETB).
Education Sector Superannuation Scheme 2015 (for all other staff employed by GRETB).
Single Public Service Pension Scheme (SPSPS) for all pensionable first-time entrants to the public service, including former public servants returning to the public service after a break of more than 26 weeks. NB – in certain circumstances, eg where public servant was on secondment or approved leave or remains on the same contract of employment, the 26 week rule does not apply (Section 10 (3) of the Public Service Pension (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2013.
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The ETB Teachers and the Education Sector pension schemes are defined benefit schemes i.e. final salary defined benefit schemes which give a pension based on service and final pensionable remuneration (salary).
The Single Public Service Pension Scheme is a defined benefit, career average Scheme. Career average earnings are used to calculate benefits (a pension and lump sum amount accrue each year and are up-rated each year by reference to CPI).
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The Single Scheme Estimator Tool is a spreadsheet based calculator designed to give active Single Scheme members a broad indication of the level of retirement benefits that they may be eligible to receive on reaching their normal retirement age.
The outputs from the Estimator Tool are not a guarantee of the retirement benefits payable at your normal retirement age and are not intended to replace the requirement for your employer to provide you with an annual benefit statement.
This Single Scheme Estimator Tool is for Standard Grade members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme who are currently employed in a pensionable capacity in the Irish Public Service. A Standard Grade Member is broadly described as a member of the Scheme other than any of the following: Members of the Oireachtas including the President; the Judiciary; the Comptroller and Auditor General and other qualifying and designated office holders; Gardaí, Members of the Permanent Defence Force, Prison Officers and Career Firefighters. If you are not a Standard Grade Member, you should not use this Estimator Tool as such members have different benefit terms
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
2010 Minnesota Hockey Collectors Expo Report
Last week we attended the 2010 Minnesota Hockey Collectors Expo and saw some amazing jerseys and had some great conversations with fellow hockey jersey fans. Aside from the collector's who came to share their collections, former Minnesota North Stars Brad Maxwell, Tom Younghans and Gordie Roberts were in attendance this year, as was Minnesota Wild team historian Roger Godin.
Here are some photos from this year's event, which was the 9th annual one at Tom Reid's Hockey City Pub.
Above is the impressive Ben Clymer collection on the left and Kyle Oen's Minnesota themed collection on the right. Collecting one player, such as Clymer can be a challenge when they make multiple stops in the NHL and AHL, but that challenge increases exponentially when a player extends his career by playing in Europe, so this collection was all the more impressive with the addition of game worn jerseys from the German DEL.
Kyle brought a sampling of his game worn Minnesota high school jersey collection that rivals the one on display at the Xcel Energy Center, as well as other Minnesota based teams.
John Lindberg's take on a Minnesota theme. Where Kyle collects teams from Minnesota, John is more about former Gophers NHL jerseys as well as Minnesota Wild prospects jerseys before they reach the NHL.
Can't make it to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto? Then having the opportunity to see Jon Bakke's collection of vintage jerseys with an international flavor can save you the trip. That's not just an old Sweden jersey either, it's Borje Salming's jersey! John can be easily spotted at Minnesota Wild games wearing his rotating collection of gamers, as he doesn't just hang them in a closet, he wears his regularly to Wild games.
Here are two more collections, which come at the hobby from different directions. Chris Groth (hanging on the left) just collects what catches his eye, although with a Minnesota influence, such as Mikko Koivu's game worn retro Finland jersey worn for one game of the 2008 World Championship, but his Alexander Ovechkin game worn jersey was certainly an Expo highlight.
The collection folded on the the table on the right was a very interesting collection of vintage NHL jerseys, mainly the 1980's and 1990's, from our favorite period of NHL jerseys and were terrific to look at and talk about.
Here was our contribution to the proceedings, closer to the camera were our jerseys worn in the movie "Miracle" and our game worn international jerseys from places such as East Germany, Holland, Iceland, Japan, Poland and even Spain as well as the more traditional countries like Canada, the Czech Republic and Russia. We also brought our Minnesota Twins baseball gamers on the far side of the rack.
The walls of Tom Reid's are just dripping with hockey memorabilia and create the perfect environment to hold such an event.
Finally, the event organizer Dave Frechette, without whom the Expo would not exist. Dave's collection focuses primarily on Minnesota Wild players jerseys, primarily before they joined the Wild, or at least non-Wild jerseys. Examples in his collection are Wild prospects college and junior team jerseys, European born players European club teams, Wild coaches sweaters from their NHL playing days, Wild players previous NHL team's jerseys and Wild players jerseys worn when they played for their national teams, such as Mikko Koivu's Team Finland jerseys.
How he is consistently able to track down jerseys from such a wide variety of sources is one of the more impressive things to take in at the Expo. He also has an appreciation of hockey history, as evidenced by the rare and wonderful Minnesota Fighting Saints WHA jersey seen here as well as his North Stars game worn jersey he is wearing.
Look for an announcement on the gameworn.net forums or this blog for details of next year's gathering in early October 2011, which will be the 10th annual occurrence of this can't miss event!
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The vertical structure of the ocean is determined by gravity, whereby the depth at which a water mass is going to lie is determined by the density of the water mass, which is turn related to its temperature and salinity. Temperatures are expressed in degrees Celsius (°C), and salinities in practical salinity units (psu). A salinity in psu is actually a dimensionless number, and refers to the conductivity ratio of the sea water sample to a standard KCl solution. A salinity of 35 (psu) does not exactly equal 35 grams of salt per liter of solution.
Ocean temperatures result predominantly from heat exchange with the atmosphere, together with mixing by winds. The temperatures of the uppermost layers of the ocean (above 100-150 m or so in practice) are fairly directly driven by atmospheric heating and cooling, and also exhibit seasonal variations. Below that depth, ocean temperatures exhibit a strong vertical gradient, the so-called thermocline. Friction of the wind on the ocean surface is also able to set the upper 1000 m or so of the ocean in motion. In this process, the wind also tends to slowly mix the heat from the upper layers with the underlying water masses, but this process is mostly effective above the thermocline.
Below the thermocline, temperatures in the deep ocean are fairly constant in space. This is due to the fact that temperature variations in the ocean take place predominantly through heat exchange with the atmosphere. As a result, water masses that are deep enough to be sheltered from atmospheric influence retain the temperature that they acquired when they were last in contact with the atmosphere for very long periods of time, exhibiting neither seasonal nor annual variations. Water masses located at depths of 700 to 1200 m (the depth range in which cold water is typically taken in for OTEC systems) were last in contact with the atmosphere in the Southern Ocean, where they acquired their temperature (and salinity) properties. In physical oceanography, these water masses are usually referred to as intermediate water masses. Along the equatorward edge of the subarctic oceans (mostly Southern Ocean, but also subarctic edges of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans), they are pushed equatorward and tend to slowly disappear under the warmer (and thereby less dense) water masses in a process called subduction, which in turns shelters them from atmospheric influences.
In a similar manner to temperature, ocean salinities result from freshwater exchange with the atmosphere through evaporation and precipitation. Once sheltered from the atmosphere by overlying water masses, the salinity of deep water masses changes only very slowly.
Temperatures between 700 and 1200 m typically range between 4 and 6°C throughout most of the world ocean. Only in the arctic and subarctic regions are temperatures lower (map on the left). The north Atlantic Ocean and to some lesser extent the northern Indian Ocean stand out in the figure on the left with warmer temperatures at depths. This results from somewhat different dynamics in the semi-enclosed Mediterranean Sea, which is isolated from the Atlantic Ocean by a relatively shallow (350 m deep) sill in the Strait of Gibraltar. This shallow sill prevents deep waters from the Atlantic from entering the Mediterranean Sea, so that waters around 1000 m in the Mediterranean are formed locally from winter cooling and do not cool down much more than 10°C or so. However, waters tend to flow out of the Mediterranean Sea and cascade down the sill into the Atlantic Ocean (as a result of their salinity being much larger than those of typical Atlantic water masses) so that warmer waters from the Mediterranean are brought into the Atlantic at relatively unusual depths. A similar sill isolates deep water masses of the Red Sea from deep water masses in the Indian Ocean but leads to warmer waters from cascading down into the Indian Ocean.
Since oceanic temperatures around 1000 m deep are fairly homogeneous around 4-6°C, a temperature difference of at least 20°C between the cold and warm sources for an OTEC system requires waters with a temperature of 24°C or more. An examination of observed water temperatures at 30 m indicates that such temperatures can only be reached in the tropical regions (figure on the right).


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It's moving season on Wall Street.
Bonuses have landed in bank accounts, freeing up bankers and traders to move to new employers.
With that in mind, we asked six Wall Street recruiters about the big trends in hiring.
Here's what the recruiters had to say.
"Relationships still matter in this business." — David McCormack, DMC Partners
"The biggest trend in 2017 is who can pick stocks and make money? From equity sales and trading on the sell side to investment professionals on the buy side, we are looking for alpha-generators for our clients.
"Much was made of quant in 2016, and it remains a hot theme for the buy and sell sides, but with multiple headlines surrounding big data and more opaque investment themes. We remain 100% focused on exceptional talent and exceptional stock-pickers to help drive returns for our clients.
"Automation is changing Wall Street in parts of fixed income and equities, but not as dramatically as people think. Relationships still matter in this business.
"Wall Street can be three to six months ahead of their clients (buy side), not three years. In equities, demand is in Delta-1, derivatives, electronic trading, and prime, but also key areas in cash, driven by client coverage. In FICC, rates trading is an area of investment. M&A is active, given the pipeline. Banks aren't adding mass headcount, so a lot of hiring today is driven by upgrades.
"On the buy side, we are seeing lots of demand from our hedge fund clients across multiple strategies and sectors."
David McCormack is the founder and CEO of DMC Partners.
"We have seen a strong demand for senior leadership with new thinking in the new world order." — Richard Stein, Options Group
"There has been a seismic shift in the war for talent in the first quarter of 2017. You are either on one side of the fault lines or the other.
"Using movie analogies, forget 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" – it's getting very, very hot on certain FICC desks and revenues, especially those at Morgan Stanley have been shockingly good.
"Upward rate hikes mean that many banks are now looking for additions and upgrades. The sell side is back, and the roller coaster has slowly left once again for its upward climb. The quest for the top 5% of the leadership for these businesses is still ongoing, and we have seen a strong demand for senior leadership with new thinking in the new world order.
"We have interviewed some of the most distinguished senior talent on the Street at C-suite and below that would never have even have thought of leaving even a year ago. At lower levels, there is still a dearth of talent at VP level, and we are seeing the best candidates receiving multiple offers.
"Investment bank boutiques have been eating more M&A market share and have increased appetite. They have been draping their flags in front of the global megabanks hoping to capitalize on the harsh reengineering efforts there still underway.
"Tech, media, and telecommunications is especially hot, as well as financial institutions groups. We are seeing big demand from the boutiques looking to add to their ranks from a growing disaffected group of successful bankers who feel they have been reduced to working in a Dickensian world order."
Richard Stein is the chief growth officer and head of OG iQ at Options Group.
"The demand for talented individuals has never been greater." — Michael Goodman, Long Ridge Partners
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"The 2017 trends we are seeing comes from credit funds, specifically in the direct lending space. In addition to credit, we have seen a significant uptick in recruiting at both real-estate and private-equity firms. Consistent with 2016, multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge funds are still seeking senior investment talent, including senior analysts and portfolio managers. Strategies most active at the multi-manager hedge funds include fixed income, macro, and commodities (financial, not physical).
"My advice to job seekers is twofold. If you are looking to move firms within the next year, look to identify funds that have longer consistent track records, ones that have had steady asset growth — they will offer the most stability.
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Michael Goodman is a managing partner at Long Ridge Partners.
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"Several banks have recently taken a closer look at the types of institutional clients they are covering and have started to emphasize coverage of real money accounts and corporates. They have also started to throw more resources and moved front-office salespeople into client relationship management groups in an effort to better parse out and understand the data they are getting from places like Coalition.
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Joseph Leung is a managing partner at Aubreck Leung.
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Alexis DuFresne is a managing director at Solomon Page Group.
"The clear trend is for depth of knowledge and skill in critical areas." — Peter Wagner, Affinity North
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"My advice to job seekers is a direct corollary to above: Identify key areas of expertise, and be sure to keep those skills sharp.
Identify key areas of expertise and be sure to keep those skills sharp.
"If you're the type of manager who relies on others to answer critical questions, your days are numbered.
"The most significant demand currently is for elite developers, not quants. There are plenty of quants, but there's heavy competition with big technology firms and startups for the best developers."
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This is a live demo by Travis Wright (Service Manager) and Jim Pitts (Opalis) recorded in Berlin at TechEd EMEA. Travis and Jim's session was very well received, so we grabbed them and made them do it again straight after!
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One of the most striking things about service design as a field is how diverse it's applications and it's impact can be. Makes you wonder what you have to teach anyone who want to get into the field. Should we only be teaching designers about services or businessmen about design? How does it have to be taught anyway? Is a service just another type of brief for a designer? Isn't design such an alien thing to a businessman? Hard questions the world of service design will have to answer in the future if it wants to move beyond conferences where the same names are mentioned over and over again. It's great that there are pioneers in the field, but where will the new blood come from?
Here are a few suggestions:
- Oslo School of Architecture and design
- Copenhagen Institute of Interaction design
- Northumbria Masters in Design – Service
- 10 touch points in Singapore
In the next few years, growing this academic community will be key in answering key questions like "what is service design?" because defining a curriculum will enable professionals and students to establish a "territory" for this field (something the interaction design community was always terrible at doing) and give credibility to the methods that service design promotes in order to adress some key global issues such as sustainability.
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Thanks for sharing your views Alex!
What are the important lessons that we can learn from existing Interaction / Experience design educations?
Make me wonder, why don't we apply service-prototyping to Service Design courses. Just start off and improve along the way.
Yes that would be a great idea. Have one brief that's adressed with different methodologies over and over again and with different crowds, to see what works out and what doesnt.
Hi Alex,
I liked your post, it certainly rings true with much of what we are working on at thinkpublic.
Recently we have been talking about how students can begin to understand these new areas of design, there are obviously some examples where it forms part of the curriculum but this is only in a select few places. I also feel that service design, co-design and experience based design are practical design disciplines which need to be learnt outside of the design education environment.
Last week we launched a programme called The Real Work Experience, it is only in the early stages but aims to get design students working within public service organisations. I believe that when design students understand how their skills can be applied we will start to see more and more graduates starting to push how else they might apply their skills.
Student design competitions like the RSA's Design Directions are starting to address this issue from outside education, although tutors and universities need to be more aware of these opportunities.
Hi Paul,
I agree that the practical applications of service design don't always fit in the educational environment, but maybe that's a challenge that needs to be adressed. Many young people I've been involved with lately come out of school with unrealistic impressions about the world of design and finding a way to integrate service design in gap years or internship programs could become an interesting way for those young people to develop skills they can apply later. Your program sounds great in that respect.
Hi Alex, Marc and Paul,
I'd like to participate in your discussion about teaching Service Design.
Last school year I had the opportunity to work on a self initiated project with students of both HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts) and HU (department Business School).
The project started of with a relatively simple dilemma and turned out to be a great Service Design project. What happened!
The challenge I presented was to find out what the value could be of a Coffee Kiosk for the social quality of the Utrecht Parks.
At the HKU I worked with students in Architecture. I talked to them about the challenge. They decide to do a survey and bundle their results in a book. 'Strong', coffee with a concept.
The results where great. They didn't, fortunately, come up with a newley designed little kiosk. In stead they applied there creativity on the social context of a kiosk. For example, they found out that a Kiosk would be great to have on the little square besides the Utrecht Conservatory. Not because of the nice square, but because of the piano music that fills the air…
Working with the Business School however was a complete different story.
My attempt to have them think outside the box, and try a new kinds of market research didn't work out.
I wasn't interested in a answer wether park visitors would drink coffee in the park. What we really wanted was to learn how people experience the parks. Even the slightest form of 'out-of-the-box' thinking was way out of their league.
Therefor my view is that I do think that the best way to go is to start teaching designers about services. Things like being able to think in concepts and work in co-creation are strong designer skills.
It was a great experience to see that the enthusiasm amongst the student to research in different ways was nice to experience.
hey Marcel,
I agree with you that teaching services to designers seems to make sense, but when it comes to building sustainable business models for those services, it can sometimes seem like the leap is too great (web2.0 services are a great example of that)
In the US at least there seems to be increasing interest in pitching design to the business world as an essential "tool". I wonder if they are more successful at making business people think out of the box.
Great to see this discussion happening in the Netherlands. I'm a graduate from the Royal College of Art London, Design products and looking into finding my way in the world of service design, at the moment just in London. Last week I was at a meeting hosted by 'Think public' about how designers and design education can meet and communicate with companies in need of a service designer. they called it 'The real work experience' and there should be an active discussion on-line soon.
funnily enough Paul from thinkpublic was commenting earlier about this on this thread :)
Alex, I think your right when you say that design could be (or is) a tool in business. What's interesting to me is design-thinking. The way that designers approach problems and the methods they use to find solutions is in my opinion the most valuable thing designers have to offer in the business world.
The thing is that I have no "traditional" design background (e.g.. product, graphics of industrial). I was educated to _design_ computer software. But by working with Marcel for quite a while now, who does have a traditional design background, I've noticed that we share a lot of the same mindset. Most people define designers when you have a traditional, creative background, but in my view designers are people with a skill, mindset and talent to find fresh solutions for problems.
So we come to the question once again but this time from an other point of view. Who are the most likely (and logical) design students to introduce Service Design to?
BTW, could you elaborate somewhat on your web 2.0 example?
There's an issue here of people being "creative" while not necessarily coming from a design background. I consider my bf for example to be an extremely creative software developer. Maybe this is the key, defining what "creative" means in the context of a service design project (a holistic approach to problem solving, the ability to find hidden opportunities, etc). These are qualities that don't necessarily require a specific background, and thus where does education stand in regards to service design in that sense? Could someone from a completely different background be enticed to join a service design program? What are the best ways to attract such people?
Re. web2.0, I would take advertising as an example of a technique that is "tacked on" o a lot of online services to make them financially sustainable. There is a lot of that going on, more clever businesses have found better ways (37 signals for example).
somewhat related this article is interesting in terms of questioning how we will educate the students of tomorrow
Like this discussion shows, a Service Design project can require very divers skills. I agree that the question needs to be stripped down to what the core would be of an service design course. It's an interesting discussion but maybe we should ask someone who had to crack this question before. There is a Service Design course at the Koln International School of Design, we could ask them :)
On the design background thing, let's throw in design-thinking. What's the overlap between creativity and design-thinking. Can you teach someone to be creative? Can you teach someone how to "think in design"? Before we get into semantics I looked up what wikipedia has to say about this:
Creativity (or "creativeness") is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
Herbert Simon, in the "Sciences of the Artificial" (MIT Press, 1969) has defined "design" as the "transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones" (p. 55). Design thinking is, then, always linked to an improved future. Everyone is a designer, and design thinking is a way to apply design methodologies to any of life's situations.
Now that we've sorted out that everyone is a designer. We only need to know which specific skill are involved in the design of services :)


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Third timeline:London, apparantly Celia was not the only one who was offered scholarship abroad as our hero was offered one in London. In this timeline, everybody's British except Ben. Henry is now the son of a rich dude. Ben is partners with benefits with Vivian and Celia is Viv's roommate. Henry, who is Celia's classmate at grad school, is all puppy dog eyes for Viv.
This timeline ends like a romcom with one admitting love for the other and *boom* fireworks.
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CELIA:A llttle too romantic and desperate in the first timeline, your bestfiremd is getting married to your dream guy and you are still hoping you need a good whack in the head. The korean timeline, that made me mad at her. Come on girl, this guy is accusing you of being a stalker! I like her better in the next timelines, as she showed strentgth and her love for all things nerdy, este, geeky.
In all timelines his love for Iced Americano comes in as a signature. He also shared a love for scif with Celia in some of the timelines (Star wars, star trek, Doctor who), probably why when you move to another timeline that they do get togethet you know why.
However, I didnt like him that much and didnt want Celia to end up with him. Alam mo yung paasa. That's what he is, especially in the first timeline. In the second timeline, he was such a douche. Thankfully, he redeemed himself in the third and the fourth timelines.
HENRY:Sorry Ben, but I like Henry better. He seems to be the beta male, always there when you need him, silent at times. (But this does not mean that Ben is the Alpha, okay. Vivian is. Hahaha)
Probably why he deserved that happily ever afyer as much as Celia did, as they finally get together!
VIVIAN:As I read this book, I hoped that in other universes I won't make my bestfriend an archenemey for the love of one man. She is smart and all the timelines depict her as such. Only the Manila timeline is she not much of a schemer. Love her just the same.
I assumed that the Korean timeline will bump off Vivian completely (as she and Celia met because she didn't go to Korea and met in Manila at that time, not that Ben is suddenly Korean and rich at that) and so on affecting the story and other elements similar to this in other timelines (Vivian and Ben growing up together in California, everybody else is British; etc).
For me, a parallel universe will is of what ifs, what if I graduated from another school? What if I took that scholarship? But, the author seems to think another as there are what if we were Korean? What if we just met? Plus, the characters (to be more specific Ben and Cely) knew about the alternative timelines.
Yet, this is the author's universe so best to take in an everythibg as fact or take in what you may attitude when reading this work of fiction. Especially also, it would't be titled Cities if it was set only here in Manila.
I have to admit that it was really the cover which drew me to this story. I've seen it so many times on the romance class site and have always wanted to read it, that was why I grabbed the opportunity to review this book. Shala!


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For all the hikes and walks that I've done with family and mates over the years – in stunning wildernesses and route paths – there is nothing quite as wonderful as city walks. Hiking the side of the Thames through London is exhilarating and walking a route through San Francisco and Barcelona are unforgettable sojourns that seem to throw up a wonderment around every corner, trudging through different neighbourhoods and gliding through the usual tourists at the hotspots. Walking the strip through Vegas without entering one casino is a trial but the free roadside light and firework shows, the displays of visual and audible technology and the transient, illusory nature of it all is perfectly divine!
However the best city walk done so far and up there amongst any wilderness walk was an unplanned walk in L.A.
We were on the last furlong home from a road trip through California to catch the flight out of LAX and it worked out that we needed to find some solid lodgings for a few nights after relinquishing our mobile tent back at JucyRV hire. So late on a sultry Friday night searching for rooms we happened on a classic motel in the city (for classic, think Bates) and the next morning we decided to walk out to the sea front – which unknowingly was a straight 5 miles down one road which by chance happened to be the Crow famed Santa Monica Boulevard – and then at night, under darkness, we walked it all the way back. The sites and sights we saw, the differences from one traffic light to another, the amazing cafes and shops, the yoga centres and natural health clinics, the down and outs, the spangly rich and the abundance of a much more shouty and pointy class of psychopath than the UK can offer, battling for the deranged crown.
All I wanna do is have some fun until the sun comes up on the Santa Monica Boulevard……..


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The Big Apple, known for its high-class food and art, has developed a more rotten reputation.
New York City was voted the country's second snobbiest city by Travel + Leisure readers in the magazine's annual America's Favorite Cities survey.
"The fast-paced manners of New Yorkers may put off some visitors, but there's no denying that the Big Apple has ample reasons to be proud," Katrina Brown Hunt wrote in a summary of the findings.
"It ranked at the top of the survey for its theater and art scene and for dressing to the nines," Hunt added.
Readers ranked 35 metropolitan areas on various features, including public transportation, local attractiveness and even food trucks.
But to determine which cities were, perhaps, too proud, the magazine factored in reader scores on intelligence and high-end shopping, as well as the cities with lower scores for friendliness.
New York was ranked one of the most unfriendly cities, second only to Washington, D.C., which is chock-full of politicians and lobbyists.
Those cities that have their nose highest in the air were also named by higher scores in classical music and theater—such 'highbrow cultural offerings' New Yorkers love to brag about.
And with the likes of Broadway, its no surprise "New York, New York" was ranked No. 1 for its theater and performance art.
In addition to using more traditional snob indicators, the magazine also factored in what Hunt called "21st-century definitions of elitism," including tech-savviness, good coffee and environmental friendliness.
While it's common to get dirty looks for littering in New York, the city was ranked the fifth least "green," despite so-called "nanny" Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempts to make it more sustainable.
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As my regular reader will be aware I run a completely fictitious blog poll to identify the best blogs in the known Universe and publish the results over a steady 114 day period, released at 1 per day, before reaching the grand final countdown sometime near Martinmas on the gregorian calendar. The purpose of this poll is to pronounce myself (or whoever it is) best blog in the Universe and proudly wear a virtual badge on the bar down the side of the blog.
I am pleased to confirm that following the results from Alpha Centauri; Mutters Spiral; and Kasterborous, I have now reached Earth and modesty forbids in identifying who the best blogger blogging under a pseudonym based on an Ivan Klima novel is – but commiserations to Mygoldentrades; Judgeontrial; and waitingforthedarkwaitingforthelight as there is one incredibly worthy winner. I can't be bothered to design a "Loveandgarbage has fixed it for me" badge for the winner to proudly display on my, sorry his or her, website – but frankly if anyone gives a toss about comparing apples and pears and Thals and the horrifying reality of the concept of fear they can make their own.
Personally I would have voted for Frank Chickens if I could have been bothered to vote.


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Eddie Munster from "The Munsters" TV show is bringing iconic 1960s show cars Dragula and the Munsters Coach to the car show
The little boy who lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane from 1964 to 1966 is coming to Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois on Saturday to appear at the fourth annual St. Louis Nostalgia Rendezvous. TV star Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on the hit 1960s TV show, "The Munsters," will sign autographs and be available for photo ops on the midway of the car show.
As an added bonus, Patrick will bring the TV show's iconic show cars, Grandpa Munster's Dragula coffin dragster and the family's Munster Coach.
"The Munsters" series aired once a week in black-and-white on CBS from September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966, for 70 episodes. "The Munsters" grew in popularity during decades of syndication. This popularity warranted a spin-off series, as well as several films for both television and theatrical release.
Born on August 2, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, Patrick made his acting debut in 1961 at the age of eight opposite Eddie Albert in the film "The Two Bears." While living in Illinois with his grandmother, Patrick was flown to Los Angeles to test for the role of Eddie Munster at CBS Studios. "I went in and an hour later I came out with the job" he recalls. Although a cute little kid, he could play brat parts easily.
Besides his two-year stint as a wolf boy with pointed ears, he was a regular on "The Real McCoys," "General Hospital" and "My Three Sons." He also appeared in numerous commercials and guest spots on many situation comedies throughout the sixties. In 1971 Butch starred in the Saturday morning children's series, "Lidsville," opposite Charles Nelson Reilly.
For more information on Butch Patrick and "The Munsters," please visit www.Munsters.com.
The St. Louis Nostalgia Rendezvous (@STLRendezvous) is a high-octane blast from the past, featuring nostalgia drag racing, rockabilly bands and DJs, a '69-and-older traditional car show, a pin-up girl contest, retro vendor midway, a burnout contest and vintage swap meet.
Drag racing will take place on Friday and Saturday. Midway entertainment — car show, bands, DJs, pin-up girl contest, burnout contest — will take place on Saturday.
Adult spectator admission for Saturday, May 13 is $25, kids 12 and under are free. A two-day adult spectator pass is available for $40.
All-nostalgia drag racing:
BB/FC Funny Cars
Nostalgia Gassers Racing Association (NGRA) — www.nostalgiagassers.com
Nostalgia Drag Racing League (NDRL) season kick-off — www.NostalgiaDrag.com @NDRLdrags.
Victory Nostalgia Super Stocks (VSS) — www.victorynss.com.
Ozark Mountain Super Shifters.
Nostalgia racing clubs and more feature racing groups to be added.
Bracket racing for 1979 and older vehicles only.
The Suicide Shifters — Amped, upright rockabilly ruckus from Illinois.
Vegas rockabilly headliners Danny Dean & The Homewreckers.
Rockabilly DJ Col. Paco Chaos from WRFL-FM 88.1 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reminder: This is the show for the guys who hate car shows. Open to 1969-and-older cars, trucks and classic motorcycles, including traditional customs, rat rods, lowriders, hot rods and factory stocks. No stress, no drama — just fun. Guest judges present awards.
Open to ladies age 18 and older. Best period-correct costume or period-correct bathing suit. Cash prizes of $300 to the winner, $100 to the runner-up, $50 for third place. Contest will be judged. All contestants must pre-register. When you arrive, please check in at the registration table in the pavilion next to the concession stand. Contact John Bisci, [email protected] or (618) 215-8888 ext. 119 for entry and more entry information.
Friday, May 12 — NOSTALGIA DRAG RACING
4 p.m. — Spectator gates open.
4-10 p.m. — Time trials, fun runs, exhibition runs.
6 p.m. — NDRL, VSS qualifying.
9 p.m. — NDRL, VSS qualifying.
Saturday, May 13 — "THE BIG DAY"
8 a.m. — Spectator gates open.
8 a.m.-7 p.m. — Time trials, fun runs, exhibition runs.
10 a.m. — Final bracket time trial.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Music and entertainment on the midway (Butch Patrick appearance, Suicide Shifters, Danny Dean & The Homewreckers, DJ Col. Paco Chaos).
11 a.m. — Final Nostalgia Drag Racing League (NDRL), Victory Super Stocks (VSS) qualifying.
1 p.m. — Pin-up girl contest (on stage on the midway).
2 p.m. — NDRL, VSS eliminations.
3 p.m. — Car show awards.
5 p.m. — Burnout contest (if four or more cars are entered; winner receives trophy).
7 p.m. — All final rounds of eliminations.
BONUS! Nostalgia After Party featuring complete program of Gateway's E.T. Bracket Points series following the completion of the Pre-1979 Bracket Class category. Time trial at approximately 5:30 p.m. with eliminations at approximately 7 p.m.
Schedule subject to change.
Single-day spectator ticket: $25.
Two-day spectator wristband: $40 (admission for Friday and Saturday).
Kids 12 and under: Free both days when accompanied by a paid adult.
For more information, please call (618) 215-8888. Follow GMP on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram.
About Gateway Motorsports Park
Gateway Motorsports Park is the home of INDYCAR, NASCAR and NHRA racing in the St. Louis region. Located just five minutes from downtown St. Louis and covering more than 340 acres, Gateway Motorsports Park is the largest outdoor entertainment facility in the area. Gateway Motorsports Park's facilities include a 1/4-mile drag strip, 1.25-mile superspeedway, 1.6-mile road course, the state-of-the-art Gateway Kartplex and a 14-acre, multi-purpose dirt off-road venue.


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Posted on October 16th, 2008 at 3:07 pm by Cheesesteak Hoagie
So we're rolling with another call-and-response dialectic with Derek at Iggles Blog. He led off, and now I'll attempt to provide some mildly witty/ interesting responses. Game on!
Derek, Derek, Derek. If our recent series of presidential debates have taught us anything, it's that the form requires, no, demands that one ignore the first question and instead take 90 seconds to graciously welcome and thank everyone in attendance. So screw whatever it is that nerd from PBS wanted to know about "economic policy," I need to thank the janitorial staff here at Hofstra for doing such a nice job with the wastebasket in the green room. The Philly sports blog equivalent is the following:
"Before we say another word about the Birds, CONGRATS TO THE PHIGHTINS! The Phils are going to the World Series! Our oft-jilted city is four wins away from a moment of great rejoicing! Let us send each other celebratory text messages!"
(Seriously. We couldn't be more fired up about the Phils. I'm not going to say that they'll actually take over as the city's number-one team, but, um, with the bye week looming, well, I assume we're all going to enjoy an affair with the Phils. Now I need to make my peace with the amount of money I'm going to throw at tickets.)
Aight. Time for football.
First things first — the CamelCased one, young Master DeSean. Two weeks ago, after seeing him in person, I decided to go all-in on DeSean. I had tried to play it cool, act all cautiously optimistic about him, poo-poo his achievements by insisting that he was just a rookie, etc etc. Nope. I'm there. I agree with you that he's the most exciting thing to happen to the team since early 2005 (?); what I think you mean here is really "most exciting thing since #81 started doing sit-ups in the driveway"?
Certainly my newfound fondness for DeSean is not without its risks. That is, said fondness hasn't changed the fact that DeSean is still 168 pounds. Seeing him get clotheslined in the second half against the Niners was particularly sobering; that's the sort of hit that reminds us that small guys happen to get injured more frequently than more stout fellows.
All that said, WOW. The speed is what the eye notices first, but I agree with you that he seems to get how to get open against zones. And his hands have been fairly reliable (with some exceptions), especially for a rookie. I'm actually at the point where I consider any play that involves DeSean to be "an excellent coaching decision" that demonstrates Andy Reid's subtle and uniue genius. As in, it is never a bad idea to give DeSean the ball. For the past couple years, the only other person whose qualified for that sort of praise is Westbrook. (The opposite of this would be any play involving Lorenzo Booker.) So there we are. Six games in, I've got him in the same category as the Best Running Back In the NFL in 2007.
DeSean also puts to rest one of the most boring Eagles memes of the past 8 years: The Eagles Need A Number-One Wideout ™. Seriously. It's done. And I don't want to hear that he's too small to be a Number-One guy. Steve Smith is 5′9″ (though a fair amount heavier than Jackson). It's done. DeSean Jackson is this team's playmaker for the next 5-6 years (pending catastrophic injuries, of course).
This is part of the reason why I wasn't particularly bothered by the Roy Williams (sub two) trade to the Cowboys. We actually didn't really need that as desperately as we all had thought in March, and we certainly didn't need it at the price the Cowboys paid. Cheers to Jerry Jones for making a potentially franchise-crippling trade for an admittedly mercurial guy. Couldn't happen to a better group of folks!
Now to your other points. I'm not sure I totally understand your presumptive blame of the coaching staff for mistakes they might make in the future, but I'm definitely on board for "the rest of the league has film on Andy Reid and they pretty much know what's coming." You know how I know that? Because we all know what's coming. An incompletion on first down? What do you think we're doing on 2nd-and-ten? I imagine we'll hear Big Red describing how they've been self-scouting over the bye, looking for tendencies, blah blah blah. I'm sure they will. But will it be enough? Or is the playbook just stale?
Things I do blame the coaches for: that horrific play at the goal line against the Skins. There was confusion on the field? Right. That's all on coaching (not just poor, predictable LJ Smith). And of course the Dallas game.
Now it's my turn. The bye week is a good time to revisit old predictions and invent some new ones. So what's going to shock us over the second half of the season? What's shocked you in the first half? If you'd prefer a bit more direction, a couple nominees:
1. This Darren Howard fellow. Do my eyes mistake me, or is Howard actually playing well right now? Was this the guy we were supposed to see two years ago?
2. Your buddy David Akers. I feel badly talking about it since he might actually read one of these things, but, um, things aren't looking so good there. Do you think that he'll be the kicker at the end of the season? Give me the scenarios that might put his job in jeopardy?
3. Finally one of your favorites: do the Eagles have one of the best young linebacking corps in the NFL or are they still a player short at best?
4. Is the NFC East still the best division in football?
5. BONUS: give me something I don't see coming but should, both for the Eagles and the rest of the division.
Bring it.
Related posts:
- My Grand Prediction(s) for the 2008 Eagles season
- I guess nobody wants to wear 78 (must be a fat-guy number)
- Iggles Blog Vs. BountyBowl Blogstravaganza (#8)
- PFT takes a moment to make up some sh*t about McNabb, Birds
- Monday Eagles Hangover: Birds no longer in last place


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Personal Stories of PTSD
One of the best ways to feel what veterans experiencing PTSD are going through is to read their stories…
Story 1 – From the wife of a veteran
"Your only option is to take him to the VA in Cheyenne, WY miss," the VA helpline operator tells me. My husband of all of three months had become a shell of his former self overnight. He had gone from a hardworking, compassionate, independent man to someone whose hands tremor so badly he can't tie his own shoes and has night terrors so vivid he is often hoarse the next morning.
Story 2: "I've never escaped"
"All men who go to war die kid, anybody who comes back, well they came back cheated."
In a poorly lit bunker that stunk of smoke, strong alcohol and vomit, that was something that one of hardened GI's said to me the first night I was deployed. Its stuck with me all these years, more years than you have probably been alive for Mr Nolan.
War, I believe, dare not be commented on by those who has yet to experience it. Until you kill other human beings for survival, what could you possibly say about it? It assaults all your scenes, the smell of death and the machines that cause it. Noises so loud you feel like an ant under a lawnmower. It is incomprehensible.
During my deployment (to a country that wasn't officially at war) Children, woman, teenagers and men alike all met an indiscriminate end at my hand. On my best days I tell myself I killed to survive, on my worst my mind tells me I committed acts of madness so that i didn't go mad.
There are a lot of grudges that I hold close to my heart, in some sense it means that I will always be at war. At war with my actions, at war with my survival, at war with suits who tell you that you kill for a good cause and that we (the west) were/are the good guys.
I know you asked for stories of veterans dealing VA and I'm not one of them, hell I'm almost as far away from The United States as you can possibly get. But today I couldn't escape what i had done more than 40 years ago. Although I came back, I've never escaped. And although i survived, how much of me died in the piece of shit swamp?
I may have cheated death, but just like that Joe prophetically said in smoke fueled haze all those years ago, life has cheated me.
Story 3: US Veteran of Iraq War
I am a veteran of several trips to Iraq.
I have been diagnosed with fairly severe PTSD. I can still function and work. Some days I have to go and sit in my car because I just feel out of control of my own emotions.
God bless my boss who knows about my situation but employs me and covers for me, but there are usually several days a month where my wife has to make sure she and my toddler son basically need to stay away from me because I can get pretty emotionally unstable for reasons I still can't explain because I have yet to really put a better finger on my triggers.
After leaving the military, I spent almost a decade fucking, fighting, and having random emotionally erratic episodes and just chalking it up to drinking (I became a drunk) and partying (my family and friends noticed a marked difference in me, but were too worried to mention it to me (temper issues)).
It wasn't until I left my psycho, alcoholic ex-gf (nothing worse than living in a co-dependent bubble that you don't even know you're in), that I found someone (my wife) and I learned normal human behavior and how love should actually work.


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Marquita, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
February 2013 not knowing anything about hair, I enrolled in John Amico School of Hair Design. I completed the Cosmetology program in March of 2014. During this time, I developed a passion for healthy hair. As a student, I took pictures and videos and shared it on my social media, not knowing that I was laying a foundation for my brand.
The Marquita Daniel brand has allowed me to land dream opportunities such as, working with agency signed models, being Lead Hairstylist for Black Fashion Week USA, and traveling with celebrity clients. I currently rent a booth at Change of Pace Styling Center in Lansing Illinois. While servicing my clientele I recognized common issues with the scalp and hair. Instead of covering up the issue with a pretty hairstyle, I wanted to give my clients a real solution to their hair and scalp problem. March 2017, I enrolled in World Trichology Society's Trichology program. January 2018, I will be a Certified Trichologist, which is someone who specializes in hair loss problems such as baldness, hair breakage and itchy/flaking scalp. I will also be able to treat all forms of alopecia. July 2017 MD Collection hair care products was introduced to the world, where we offer quality products that promote healthy hair.
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Zum Gali Gali
This is a traditional Hebrew working song in three parts. There is an ostinato (a repeated phrase) which sings the chorus throughout the entire song. The verse can also be sung as a two-part round. Zum Gali Gali provides a good opportunity to develop pulse and rhythm through the repetitive digging action that accompanies the chorus.Download Zum-Gali-Gali.zip (11Mb)