text: Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Jun 30, 2017 (ง'̀-'́)ง Nº96 Tricks, Kicks and Bricks 🃏 👞 ┬┴┬┴┤ Don't player hate, anticipate and formulate! This week I did some reading on negotiation. I learned t (ง'̀-'́)ง Nº96 Tricks, Kicks and Bricks 🃏 👞 ┬┴┬┴┤ By Jon Woodroof • Issue #96 • View online Don't player hate, anticipate and formulate! This week I did some reading on negotiation. I learned that all negative "negotiation tactics" can really be boiled down to three main strategies: 1. Deception 2. Coercion 3. Prevention (- from Negotiations and Selling by Sameer Kulkarni)Another (rhyming!) way to remember them is: Tricks, Kicks, and Bricks: Look out for Tricks when: One party has little to lose or much to gain from deception.Information asymmetry is great & verification is difficult. Also when interaction or interdependence between parties is infrequent. (source) Be ready for Kicks when: improper use of negative leverage puts the opposing party in duress. Can include bribery and blackmail. (source …very interesting paper) Prevention (or 'BRICKS') may occur when: a person acts as a gateway to other people or places. A simple example could be obstructing access to information. (source) Knowing the other party's tactics will help you anticipate and formulate a better argument. But is that enough? How often do you encounter Tricks, Kicks, and Bricks when negotiating? What do you do?As always, thank you for reading!with appreciation,Jon❤ this? Please tweet it, share on LinkedIn or post on FB. Obrigado! Cycling Human Race: Cait Dooley File this under people I'm proud to know : )Like a lot of people who've survived a street fight with cancer, Dooley is fully engaged in her present and circumspect about her future. 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Date & Menu:
Mon. Sep. 23 Appetizers
Mon. Oct. 21 Steamed Dishes
Mon. Nov. 25 Main Meals
Mon. Jan. 20 Noodles
Mon. Feb. 24 Bento
7:00 – 10:00pm
$25 (JCCC members) /workshop
$30 (Non-members) /workshop
(plus HST)
Materials – $10 payable to instructor
*Please bring an apron.
**Class schedule is subject to change.
Mr. Shoji Yano is offering 5 cooking demonstrations at the JCCC. Focusing on taste, techniques and special ingredients that make Japanese cuisine unique, Shoji wishes to show that Japanese food is not only easy to prepare and serve, but is also healthy and delicious. Choose one or two workshops, or sign up for them all.
Shoji has been teaching cooking classes at the Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre in Hamilton before he started his manju and cooking demonstration workshops at the JCCC. He is a self-taught hobby chef with a passion for Japanese sweets and homestyle cooking. Over time, he has built up quite a repertoire!
Please bring an apron, and be prepared to assist if needed. Each class consists of demonstration lesson, tasting of each dish and clean up.

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Tomasz Stanko: Wolnosc w Sierpniu (Freedom in August)
Wolnosc w Sierpniu (Freedom in August) is an independent Polish release written for the Warsaw Rising Museum, which opened in August, 2004 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the fight for Warsaw. Stańko was commissioned to write a suite of music for use by the museum, working here with an augmented version of his current quartet with pianist Marcin Wasilewski, bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and drummer Michal MiÅkiewicz. Stańko's characteristic openness imbues these six tracks totalling just under half an hour of music. However, the addition of the Polish Radio Orchestra's string section, as well as synthesizer, percussion, and saxophonethe latter played by Tomasz Szukalski, a Stańko collaborator since the 1970screates a more broadly-textured work, a stronger blend of Stańko the composer with Stańko the improviser.
And yet, while songs like the title track clearly have more detailed arrangements, there's an airiness and a sense of freedom that perfectly embodies the spirit in which these pieces were composed. As Stańko has aged, like Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava, he has found a more centrist way of retaining the freedom that's imbued his work since he first emerged in the 1960s with Polish composer Krystof Komeda and Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra. Rather than confining, Stańko's arrangements paradoxically seem to liberate him to the point where defined melodies and improvisations become almost one and the same.
While the leader's is the primary voice, Wasilewski and Szukalski both have their own opportunities to explore the potential of Stańko's lush and accessible compositions. On his own records, as well as Manu Katche's recent release, Neighbourhood, Wasilweski is proving to be not only a highly adaptable player, but one whose elegant language is evolving in leaps and bounds.
The title track, though at a bright tempo, retains a certain darkness in texture, while "Hope Song" is more ethereal, Stańko's voice rising above the wash of synthesizers and strings. "Rising Ballad" begins with Stańko's plaintive voice alone, the mournful tone and soft accompaniment evoking the mixed emotions of freedom gained and lives lost. "Crash Song," on the other hand, may have an equally soft backdrop, but Stańko's jarring lines create a more vivid sense of discord.
Wolnosc w Sierpniu is not widely available, but it's highly recommended for Stańko fansand a beautiful way to fill the void until his next ECM release.
Track Listing
Wolnosc w Sierpniu (Freedom in August); Pie?? Nadziei (Hope Song); Ballada Powsta?cza (Rising Ballad); Pie?? Ruin (Crash Song); Dee; Pie?? Kana?
Tomasz Stańko: trumpet, composer; Marcin Wasilewski: piano; Janusz Skowron: synthesizer; Slawomir Kurkiewicz: double-bass; Michal Miskiewicz: drums; Antymos Apostolis: percussion; Tomasz Szukalski: tenor saxophone; Wojiech Karolak: orchestral arrangements; String Section of Polish Radio Orchestra.
Album information
Title: Wolnosc w Sierpniu (Freedom in August) | Year Released: 2005 | Record Label: FiRe


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The Team
Liz Weeks BDS FDSRCPS MSc MOrthRCS
GDC Number: 63477
Liz graduated from Guy's Hospital Dental School, London in 1988. She gained considerable experience in many of the specialities within dentistry before undertaking her post-graduate training at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke. Having gained her post-graduate orthodontic qualifications, she established Abbey Orthodontics in 1998.
Liz takes great pride in her work, dedicated to gaining the best results for you, so that after treatment you can smile with confidence.
Away from the practice Liz's interests include skiing, wildlife photography and walking. She lives locally with her husband.
Practice Manager
Sally joined us in April 2016. She is new to the world of orthodontics, having spent the last 18 years in insurance.
Sally's interests include baking, cake decorating and countryside walks with her fiancee and their two dogs.
Nicola RDN
New Patient Advisor, Orthodontic Nurse
GDC Number: 148271
As New Patient Advisor, Nicola is responsible for welcoming new patient's to the practice on their first visit. Discussing any treatment options after Dr Weeks has examined them.
Nicola qualified as a dental nurse in 1976 and worked for the school dental service with her father for 4 years. After marrying she left dentistry to have a family, but returned to general dentistry in 1991. In 1998 she became an orthodontic nurse at Abbey Orthodontics. She gained her qualification in radiography from Portsmouth University in 1999.
Nicola has two grown-up daughters and two grandson's and is a staunch Saints supporter.
Lindsey RDN
Orthodontic Nurse, Radiation protection supervisor
GDC Number: 127713
Lindsey is a qualified Dental Nurse and has had experience in both general and orthodontic practices.
She obtained her certificate in Dental Radiography in 2002 at Portsmouth university and is the practice Radiation Protection Supervisor, overseeing the safety of both patients and staff.
In 2006 she specialised by gaining her Orthodontic Nurse Qualification. Lindsey has now obtained the new certificate enabling her to take dental impressions.
Lindsey lives locally with her husband and two children. She enjoys shopping, travelling and showing her pedigree cat Pebble.
Miriam RDN
Oral Health Educator, Orthodontic Nurse
GDC Number: 122443
Miriam qualified as a dental nurse in 1985. She took a break from dentistry while her family were smaller. On returning to orthodontics she trained to be our Oral Health Educator and Dental Radiography. She is here to support patients with their oral health throughout their time with us, providing advice and practical help. Miriam has also trained to take dental impressions.
Miriam lives locally with her husband and four children. Miriam enjoys walking her dog, swimming and keeping fit.


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"Nothing happens to a man, good or ill, before he has beheld some intimation of it in a dream." – The Talmud
Have you ever passed through the Sacred Doorways of Dreams and met Your Spirit Guides or Guardian Angels?
Your personal dream language can be confusing. You may feel much like Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass when she encountered the frightening Jabberwocky in the forest.
Alice could not see the forest for the trees or completely understand the Jabberwocky for the words. Alice understood enough to understand the importance of the message for her in the frightening dreamscape.
Nightmares are often a gift in disguise and always have an important message that can lead us out of the dark. It is easy to forget a nice dream, but how do you ignore a nightmare? The power is in the memory.
That is often the case in your dream world – your dreamscape. The information can help you find your way out of the deep dark woods of life, but first, you must understand the dream language.
This is part of the challenge of finding your way through the Sacred Doors of your Dream World filled with information and guidance for a better and more fulfilled life.
Sacred doors connect you with your innate Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels. You are born with them. You are their job, and they take their job seriously.
When you are in a crisis of any kind, including but is not limited to, health, wealth, or relationships, the sacred doors open. The only way they can close is if you choose to shut them.
If you feel your doors are not open; and therefore, you do not receive the information you need to live your life purpose, circumnavigate the torturous waters of an emotional storm, receive guidance for a life-threatening illness or live your life to the fullest, ask for the sacred doors to open, and you will receive.
Your request will be heard and answered. It is Universal Law.
Connecting with your Spirit Guides is as easy as one, two, three.
Here are five strategies for doing so.
State your intention to the Universe, because it is always listening. Tell the Universe you wish to meet your Spirit Guides in your dreams tonight.
Write your intention on a piece of paper and place it beneath your pillow. You are acting out the requested event by taking an abstract idea (meeting your guides) and making it concrete (writing it on a piece of paper.)
You are taking an idea from the fourth dimension of spirit and bringing it into the third dimension of existence. You are connecting these parallel universes with your written intention.
Now, "sleep on your intention." Sleeping on it is a more than a play on words. It is the key to opening the Sacred Doors to answers within the dream realm. Everyone has access to their Sacred Doors.
In the morning, write down your dream in your dream journal. If you don't have a dream journal, go to http://www.SurvivingCancerland.com, and download the FREE guidebook in the right-side column.Put the dream journal pages in a notebook binder beside your bed. Replenish the pages when you need more. Use the free dream journal pages as your own personal dream journal.
Watch for the people, animals, and plants in your dream. Underline them and write your feelings about them. What did they say to you? What colors did you see during the dream?
You may have just met some of your guides. Now, watch for the validation during the day that verifies your dream was guidance. Validation is very personal. You will know immediately when you get it. You will feel like you have just experienced an "Ah-ha" moment.
In my free Dream Guidebook @KathleenOkeefeKanavos.com, I explain how, "Meeting your SpirGuidesdes and Guardian Angels will be a positive turning point in your life. It will be the beginning of the next phase of your life-purpose-journey toward your destiny. This is a path you will only travel once in this lifetime, so enjoy every step of it. And, remember to smell the flowers, listen to the animals, and walk with the guides in your dreams."
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When its not crunching data brought back by spy plane missions, the US Air Force's PlayStation 3 super-computer (nicknamed "Condor") is now being loaned out to universities so they can crunch slightly less dangerous data.
One of those institutions is the University of Dayton in Ohio, where it's being put to work creating "artificial neural networks".
The University of Massachusetts is another, assistant professor of physics Gaurav Khanna given access to Condor to help him model the effects of things like black holes colliding and ripples in space-time.
Khanna is full of praise for the toughness of the PS3, saying of his own PS3 super-computer (which uses 16 consoles in a machine called the "Gravity Grid") "They've been running almost continuously for four years now and it's a non-ideal environment. It's a lab, there are students." Not a single one of the consoles has needed replacement in that time.
Lucky they never need to connect to the PlayStation Network, then.
PlayStation 3 Clusters Providing Low-Cost Supercomputing to Universities [Govtech]


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Commodore William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on 7 May 1774. He entered the merchant marine in 1789, at the age of fifteen, at nineteen became commander of a merchant ship, and in 1798, Bainbridge married, at the island of St. Bartholomew, Miss Susan Hyleger, daughter of a merchant, and granddaughter of the governor of St. Eustatia.
On the organization of a navy in 1798, Bainbridge was given command of the schooner RETALIATION with the rank of lieutenant-commandant. He was soon afterward captured by the French frigates VOLUNTEER and INSURGENTE, but the schooner was returned to Bainbridge by the governor of Guadeloupe, and he proceeded with her to the United States, carrying many American prisoners, for whom, he had obtained their liberty. For his services, Bainbridge was promoted to the rank of master-commandant, and given the command of the brig NORFOLK, of eighteen guns. In NORFOLK, Bainbridge operated against French forces in the West Indies during the Quasi-War, eventually capturing the French lugger REPUBLICAN and destroying other vessels.
In May, 1800, Bainbridge was ordered to take command of the frigate GEORGE WASHINGTON, and on diplomatic mission, to carry tribute to the Dey of Algiers in order to safeguard the growing American merchant fleets from attack by corsairs. On his arrival at Algiers, Bainbridge was obliged to accede to a demand of the Dey to carry presents to Constantinople, and also an ambassador to the Ottoman Porte. At Constantinople, Bainbridge paved the way to the first treaty between the United States and the Ottomans.
On 20 May 1801, Bainbridge was appointed to command the ESSEX, forming part of the squadron under Commodore Richard Dale, to cruise against the Barbary powers. Then on 20 May 1803, he was ordered to command the PHILADELPHIA, of 44 guns, of Commodore Preble's squadron, fitting out to cruise against, Tripolitan corsairs. On his arrival in the Mediterranean, he captured the Moorish ship-of-war MESH-BOHA, of 22 guns, and recaptured the American brig CELICA from Barbary corsairs. On Bainbridge's arrival off Tripoli he gave chase to a Tripolitan corsair and struck an uncharted rock, on which the PHILADELPHIA was wrecked. Surrounded by Tripolitan gun-boats and forced to surrender, Bainbridge, his officers and crew remained captives in Tripoli for nineteen months. PHILADELPHIA was floated off the rock by the Tripolitans and carried into the port of Tripoli, where she was later burned by American forces led by then Lieutenant Steven Decatur. When peace was restored Bainbridge was acquitted of all blame for the loss of the PHILADELPHIA.
After regaining his freedom in 1805, Captain Bainbridge supervised naval facilities and the construction of the fledgling American Navy and, while on leave, again served in the merchant marine. He returned from the last of his commercial voyages in 1812, shortly before the United States went to war with Great Britain.
Commanding first the Boston Navy Yard, Bainbridge solicited the command of a frigate, and his request was complied with by giving him command not only of the CONSTITUTION, but of the frigate ESSEX, Captain David Porter, and the sloop HORNET, Captain James Lawrence. Relieving Captain Isaac Hull shortly after his victory over the HMS GUERRIERE, Bainbridge sailed for the South Atlantic.
On 29 December 1812, CONSTITUTION was sailing in the Atlantic about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil when sails were sighted on the horizon, and CONSTITUTION altered course to investigate. The ship proved to be HMS JAVA, a frigate similar to GUERRIERE. Both frigates stood for each other and cleared their decks for action.
At approximately 2:00 in the afternoon, she began a fight with the faster HMS JAVA. Commodore William Bainbridge was wounded twice, and the ship's wheel was shot away, but for more than 2 hours he maneuvered brilliantly and fought tenaciously until, finally, JAVA had no masts left standing and her Captain lay dying. This time, there were 34 American casualties as opposed to around 150 British. Like GUERRIERE, JAVA was too badly damaged to bring home - but before sinking her, Bainbridge had her wheel removed to replace the one shot away on CONSTITUTION. Commodore Bainbridge on his return to the United States in February 1813, was received with high honors, awarded a congressional gold medal, and ordered to command the Charlestown Navy Yard, where he laid the keel of the line-of-battle-ship INDEPENDENCE.
After the end of the War of 1812, the American government turned its attention back to the Mediterranean where Algiers had resumed preying upon American shipping while the United States was preoccupied by its recently concluded war with Great Britain. Work fitting out two American squadrons promptly began - one at Boston under Commodore Bainbridge and one at New York under Commodore Steven Decatur.
Commodores Bainbridge and Decatur led squadrons in a show of force that resulted in a peace settlement with Tunis 13 July 1815 and with Tripoli 9 August 1815. Having enforced the peace in less than 6 weeks from time of sailing from the United States, and combined an entire naval force assembled at Gibraltar under Commodore William Bainbridge of 18 warships, including ship-of-the-line INDEPENDENCE, 5 frigates, 2 sloops-of-war, 7 brigs, and 3 schooners, it was the largest fleet ever collected under the American flag in the Mediterranean to that time.
Commodore Bainbridge was commander of Navy forces afloat at Boston for much of the rest of the decade, and in 1820-21 flew his flag in the ship of the line COLUMBUS during another Mediterranean cruise. He was later Commandant of the Boston Navy Yard, served as a Naval Commissioner in 1825-1828 bringing about much of the Navy structure used to this day, and then was Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Bainbridge returned to the Boston command in 1832, but ill health forced him to leave that post in 1833. He was attacked by pneumonia, and died on 28 July 1833. His remains were interred in Christ Church, Philadelphia.
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Steamed Cod2018-01-15
Put saffron threads in a small bowl, then stir in lukewarm water and let stand. Trim cauliflower stalk flush with base of crown, discarding stalk, then quarter cauliflower lengthwise. Cut each quarter lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Set aside large slices and reserve small pieces without any stem for another use. Swirl oil with garlic in a deep 12-inch heavy skillet to coat, then heat over moderately high heat until oil is just smoking. Discard garlic. Carefully arrange cauliflower slices in 1 layer in skillet and cook until undersides are lightly browned, about 2 minutes. Turn over with tongs and cook until other sides are lightly browned, about 2 minutes. Add carrot and wine and swirl skillet to combine, then boil until liquid is reduced by half, about 30 seconds. Add saffron water, broth, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon white pepper and simmer, covered, until cauliflower and carrot are crisp-tender, 5 to 8 minutes. While cauliflower simmers, pat fish dry and sprinkle both sides with remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon white pepper. Increase heat to moderately high, then add mussels to skillet and steam, covered, until mussels just open wide, checking frequently after 3 to 4 minutes. (Discard any mussels that remain unopened after 8 minutes.) Divide mussels among 6 shallow serving bowls using a slotted spoon. Place cod on top of cauliflower, arranging fillets in 1 layer. Sprinkle with scallions and parsley and steam, covered, over moderately high heat until fish is cooked through, 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer some of cauliflower along with 1 piece of cod to each bowl using slotted spoon. Season broth with salt and white pepper, then ladle broth (with carrots) over each serving.
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Curves in all the right places.
The clever bend in Clongs handles keeps their tips up when you put them down. Mess doesn't hit the deck, your benches and counter tops stay clean, and germs stay off your Clongs and out of your food.
Click to open. Click to lock.
The push of a button is all it takes to open or lock your Clongs. Just like the mechanism in a retractable pen, it's so easy to do, it only takes one hand.
Designed to grip, not scratch.
Clongs silicone tips are the ultimate grabbing and lifting tools. Their waffle head design makes them ideal for serving whilst the flat tips make picking up the smallest of foods a breeze. Clongs won't scratch non-stick cookware and are heat resistant to 260°C/500°F.
Strong arms for delicate precision.
Clongs are formed from thick stainless steel in a C-channel profile for superior strength. This heavy-duty rounded shape fits perfectly in the grip of your fingers, making Clongs feel every bit like an extension of your hands.


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During the computer use, you may encounter some errors of hard disk or partitions. Some of the errors are caused by physical problem and some caused by "software error". If you need more advice about hard disk repair, please refer another article Hard Disk Repair. Today, I want to talk about partition repair and how to fix partition problem.
Common partition errors
- Invalid media type reading drive. Abort, Retry, Fail?
- File system is displayed as RAW.
- Windows may ask if you want to format the drive.
- File names contain weird characters.
- Sector Not Found messages.
Did you see or hear these error messages before? If you did, how you fixed these partition errors?
What caused partition error?
- Error connections, especially for external hard drives, if the connection is correct, it may cause the problem and you cannot access the partition again.
- Insufficient power supply, also common for external drives.
- Virus, the most probable reason for both internal and external hard drives.
- Partitioning error, some users run software to resize partitions but this partitioning software failed due to some reasons.
- Other application errors, similar to partitioning software, these applications have the same feature that they will write something to the hard drive sectors.
How to repair partition?
To fix the partition problem, there are two ways.
1. Recover files from this partition, after that reformat this partition to use.
This is the safest way, as data recovery software just read information from your disk partition and it will not write anything, even if one recovery tool fails to recovery files, you may try the others. Here I recommend Recovery My files.
2. Repair partition directly.
By partition repair software, you can fix the partition problem, after that you'll be able to access the partition again. The partition repair operation also is quick enough.
Note: Be caution to use this method, as it may cause problem worse. If you have backed up the disk partition sector by sector, you may repair partition directly.
If you really want to repair partition directly, please refer another article How to Fix Boot Sector Error. As this software doesn't support Windows Vista and Windows 7, so if you use these operating systems, try Active Partition Recovery.


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Night Trading
- Asian equity indices are -.25% to +.25% on average.
- Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 88.0 -1.75 basis points.
- Asia Pacific Sovereign CDS Index 26.25 -1.0 basis point
- Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 71.95 -.01%.
- S&P 500 futures +.02%.
- NASDAQ 100 futures +.01%.
Morning Preview Links
Earnings of Note
Earnings of Note
Economic Releases
9:15 am EST
- Industrial Production MoM for February is estimated to rise +.2% versus a -.3% decline in January.
- Capacity Utilization for February is estimated to rise to 75.5% versus 75.3% in January.
- Manufacturing Production for February is estimated to rise +.5% versus a +.2% gain in January.
10:00 am EST
- Preliminary Univ. of Mich. Consumer Sentiment for March is estimated to rise to 97.0 versus 96.3 in February.
- The Leading Index for February is estimated to rise +.5% versus a +.6% gain in January.
Upcoming Splits
- None of note
Other Potential Market Movers
- The President Trump/Angela Merkel meeting at White House and the Eurozone Trade Balance report could also impact trading today.
BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly higher, boosted by technology and commodity shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open mixed and to rally into the afternoon, finishing modestly higher. The Portfolio is 75% net long heading into the day.


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Forecasting studies frequently use confidence interval tasks to illustrate the tendency to trust personal forecasts too much (overprecision). Pointing at deficiencies of the standard assignment, we advance an alternative, more direct, measure of forecast overconfidence and use the modified task to test the overprecision hypothesis.
In three studies, 163 of 195 finance students and traders overestimate their forecast accuracy significantly, in line with overprecision. The improved task is used to test the correlation between forecast-confidence and trading propensity, revealing two distinct links between the two constructs.
Föreläsare: Doron Sonsino has a Ph.D in business economics from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and additionally holds an Ms.C in Operations Research (with excellence) from Tel-Aviv University Management School. Doron was a faculty member at the Technion and the College of Management, and in his early career also worked as a financial journalist covering the Israeli Capital Market. Doron's domains of interest in research and teaching are diverse, including financial decision-making, asset pricing and arbitrage, applied game theory, experimental economics and more. Doron is an associate editor at the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. He currently heads the finance studies at the Centre for Academic Studies in Or-Yehuda and is adjunct at Ben-Gurion University Economics department.
Datum: 2019-02-19
Tid: 12:15 - 13:00
Kategorier: Ekonomi/juridik
Arrangör: Gothenburg Research Institute
Plats: Gothenburg Research Institute Rum 326, plan 3, Viktoriagatan 13, Göteborg
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n his novel Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart depicts a near future in which everyone is glued to portable digital devices called "äppäräts". More than mere mobile phones, these track your health, your personality rankings and what percentage of your lifespan has elapsed. And far from being privileged information, these most personal of details are public knowledge in what is now a fully networked society – indeed, your stats are the first thing anyone will check before they decide to sleep with you. All of which makes life rather cruel for our desperate hero, Lenny Abramov ("47% lifespan elapsed … Ailments: high cholesterol, depression"). Lenny may be a salesman in Indefinite Life Extension, but he is failing to make the grade.
Like any well-observed piece of futurism, this picture is both ludicrously far-fetched and just around the corner. For the first generation of these holistic lifestyle monitors is now upon us. The latest is called UP, and it's a device that you wear around your wrist – day and night. It measures your activity levels and your sleep patterns, and you can also use it to monitor your eating habits. All of this data is stored in an app on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and naturally it is there to be shared with friends or colleagues. Together with your "team", you can pursue your collective goals, whether it's losing those extra pounds, running that extra mile or sleeping that extra hour. UP's marketing positions it somewhere between a "fun" consumer product and the answer to a societal epidemic of obesity and declining sleep quality.
Produced by Jawbone, the makers of hands-free headsets and the impressive Jambox portable speaker, UP uses an accelerometer, or motion sensor, that counts the number of steps you take in a day and is sensitive enough to detect whether you are in a light or a deep sleep. Of course, pedometers have existed for years, as have sleep monitors, but UP brings them together in one neat, socially networked package.
The logic is that a healthy lifestyle is not just something we adhere to on our once-, twice- or (in my case) zero-weekly trips to the gym – it's a way of life. So Jawbone, working with product designer Yves Behar, has housed its delicate machinery in a rubber wristband designed to be comfortable and unobtrusive enough to wear all the time. It is, then, step one towards Shteyngart's "äppärät".
But as gadgets go, UP is decidedly ungadget-like. You could easily mistake it for one of those rubber charity wristbands that were all the rage circa 2008. It is not a piece of conspicuous tech, but plug it into the headphone socket of your iPhone and it will tell you that you've walked 8,258 steps today after having slept six hours and 52 minutes (of which 3:03 was deep sleep and 3:49 light sleep). That is, if you were me.
I was awe-struck seeing my first night's sleep dissected into slivers of deepness and lightness. That bar chart seemed full of profound insights into my wellbeing. I was even showing my friends – after all, if someone asks you why you're wearing a "man bracelet", what better riposte than to call up a graph of your sleep rhythms? Here was data that I couldn't even have guessed at – because I was unconscious. In the daytime, we have a sense of whether we've been active or not, but even then there was a morbid fascination in knowing exactly how many steps I was taking. At first, anyway. After a few days, this information became utterly banal. The digital age is very good at feeding back data but, without interpretation, numbers are just numbers. 8,258 steps over 3.94 miles? Wow – but so what?
The problem here was one of goals – my lack of them. UP – as in "up and at 'em" – is unashamedly goal-oriented, aimed at people who want to improve their fitness or their sleep quality, not someone coasting along in the belief that he's fine, thank you. And it won't tell you whether you need more sleep, or more deep sleep, or how to achieve either of those. You have to set the goals yourself and do whatever research you may need to in order to get the data moving towards your target.
Similarly, it won't tell you anything about what you're eating – it's up to you to log your meals and analyse them yourself. Still, whatever these limitations, a lot of people will find this a valuable tool and will seamlessly integrate it into their lives. For me, the chief asset was in being woken up by a vibration at my wrist at the end of a deep sleep cycle (it will wait, you see, instead of catching you in the middle of a deep sleep, which would leave you lethargic) rather than by my alarm clock. Apart from that, as someone who hasn't worn a watch for years, I kept involuntarily looking at my wrist and not finding the time there.
However, UP's social media dimension is full of prurient potential. It takes Nike's "social running" programme, with its inherently competitive aspect, a step further. Now we can share and compete over our activeness, our sleep quality or the healthiness of our meals. Pizza and beer for dinner will elicit OMGs and frowny faces from our "team". Biological data is the new frontier of social media. In the next-generation model we'll all be sharing our bowel movements – LOL. In the model after that we'll be sharing our adrenal-stress index and our sperm counts. What starts as helpful lifestyle monitoring develops into new forms of social unacceptability. Today it's your smoking, tomorrow it's your cholesterol.
But it's not as though we didn't know this was coming. Having conquered mobile telephony and portable music, we still have the endless steppes of healthcare to colonise with our digital consumer products. While UP may not yet be Genghis, it is clearly the first iteration of a product-type that will keep evolving until it's of serious use to Lenny's Indefinite Life Extension firm. And, of course, it wonderfully fulfils the historically circular logic of the consumer product, a logic that runs something like this: gadgets begin by saving us labour and giving us more leisure time; then, to fill that leisure time, we invent gadgets to entertain ourselves; soon we're glued to gadgets in our work life and in our social life so that we're no longer moving enough or sleeping enough. What's the answer? A gadget – what else?


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Exercise specialist and personal trainer, Andrew Cox, tells Healthy Living Asia readers how to set up your life for exercise success with his top tips. Depending on your fitness goals, see our other articles on exercise to determine which type and plan is best for you – longevity, strength, endurance, speed, and/or flexibility. For more exercise tips from Andrew Cox, find out the best ways to get fit starting in your 20s and beyond.
Be Realistic
Evaluate your current state of health and fitness, and try not to do too much too soon to avoid injury and burnout
Start Slow
Commit to long-term health, fitness and performances goals
Find a Coach
Establish a baseline, build upon what exists and then continue to challenge yourself beyond your current capabilities
Schedule Exercise
Make it a priority by adding it to your weekly calendar in your normal schedule
Add Friends
It is easier to create and keep goals, challenge your limits and find exercise more enjoyable when scheduling it with a group, friends, partner or trainer
Practice Health
Health is a skill crafted and honed over many workouts, games, training sessions, meals, recovery periods, social interactions, thinking patterns and sleeps. The more practice, the better quality of health you will enjoy
For lots more of fitness, fun and places to try, check out our articles for more exercise wisdome!
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Worst Film of 2018: The Cloverfield Paradox
Phil's Quick Capsule Review:
Yawn. There's nothing crushingly bad about Netflix's The Cloverfield Paradox but the fact Paramount chose to dump it to the streaming service should tell you all you need to know about how much faith they had in the finished film. And they were right. This second Cloverfield sequel (nominal sequel at least) isn't a patch on 10 Cloverfield Lane and is a hot mess of a film that has no idea what it is or wants to be. It drags, things happen, then it ends. Watch for curiosity but little else.
Best Bit: The FX are good
Buy, Stream, Avoid: Stream
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Science and Faith Institute
Applications still open! Sing up before November 18th
Click here to register
Course Description
The Science and Faith Institute of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, in collaboration with Othonia, the International Center of Sindonology in Turin and the Giulio Ricci Diocesan Center of Sindonology of Rome is offering for the eighth consecutive year a Postgraduate Certificate in Shroud Studies. This program offers a systematic approach to the intellectual challenges posed by the Shroud of Turin, as well as the opportunity to go deeper into the message that it proposes to the faith and to the heart of believers.
Who Should Take This Course
This program, which covers a wide range of topics, is for clergy, laity, professors, researchers, journalists, and anyone else who may want to gain a deeper understanding of Shroud studies, using an interdisciplinary approach.
The program is two semesters long.
From June 1 to November 18, 2019
Note: Registration can close early if the maximum number of students (50) is reached. There is no limit, however, to the number of students who may audit the program (see below).
Requirements for admission
To obtain the Postgraduate Certificate in Shroud Studies
Students must fulfill the following criteria:
Therefore, 22 ECTS credits are required: 13 from the courses, 3 from the conferences, and 6 from the paper.
How to Take Part in the Program
This program is available on the internet.
2019-2020 Calendar
1st semester: October 16, 2019, to January 15, 2020
Exams: deadline February 15, 2020
2nd semester: February 20 to May 29, 2020
Exams: deadline June 15, 2020
First semester
Introduction to Shroud Studies (2 ECTS)
Bruno Barberis (International Center of Sindonology, Turin) and collaborators
History of the Shroud (3 ECTS)
Flavia Manservigi (International Center of Sindonology, Turin)
Pastoral and Biblical Approach to the Shroud (3 ECTS)
Andrew Dalton, L.C. (Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum), and collaborators
Second semester
Scientific Research on the Shroud; STURP: History and Results (3 ECTS)
Barrie Schwortz (STERA, Inc.)
The Shroud and Archeological Studies (2 ECTS)
Ada Grossi (Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti)
The Shroud and Science (3 ECTS)
A series of conferences coordinated by Bruno Barberis
Collaborators: Nello Balossino, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Marco Riani, Luigi Rodella, Kelly Kearse, Enrico Simonato
As indicated above, the program consists of six courses, three in each semester. The professor of each course is responsible for communicating the format of the final evaluation of the student's performance. The most frequent form of evaluation is a written paper to be handed in at the end of the course. If for any reason the student cannot complete the exam during the exam period, he or she may request to be enrolled in the following semester's exam period. From the time of enrollment, each student has one year to finish all the exams.
"We do not simply observe; we venerate. Ours is a prayerful gaze. I would say more: it is letting yourself to be gazed upon. This face has closed eyes; it is the face of one who is deceased. Yet, mysteriously, he looks at us, and, in the silence, he speaks to us. How is it possible? Why do people of faith, like you, want to pause before this icon of a man scourged and crucified? Because the Man of the Shroud invites us to contemplate Jesus of Nazareth. This image—impressed on the cloth—speaks to our heart and urges us to climb the Mount of Calvary, to look at the wood of the Cross, to immerse ourselves in the eloquent silence of love."
Pope Francis, video message for the extraordinary exposition of the Shroud of Turin on March 30, 2013
Rafael Pascual
Scientific Committee
Nello Balossino, Bruno Barberis, Gianfranco Berbenni, Antonio Cassanelli, Andrew Dalton, Rafael Pascual, Gian Maria Zaccone.
Teachers and Lecturers
Nello Balossino, Bruno Barberis, Andrew Dalton, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Roberto Falcinelli, Giuseppe Ghiberti, Ada Grossi, Kelly Kearse, Flavia Manservigi, Alfonso Muñoz-Cobo, Rafael Pascual, Alfonso Sánchez Hermosilla, Marco Riani, Luigi Rodella, Alfonso Sánchez Hermosilla, Barrie Schwortz, Enrico Simonato, Joseph Spence.
For further information
Fr. Andrew Dalton, LC – [email protected]
Vittorio Fioravanti – [email protected]
Tel.: +39 06 91689941
Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190
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Traditionally, category managers focus solely on finding lowest cost options and give little consideration to factors beyond the traditional procurement scope, such as increasing business with small-to-medium sized businesses (SME), local or diverse suppliers. However, most procurement teams have the tools in place to enable SME participation and it only takes a slight shift in how they are used. Here are a few tips to incorporate this new approach:
Benchmark current SME spending. With flexible reporting, procurement can measure the total percentage of diversity spend, spend by ethnicity/minority group, and diverse spend by category through a spend analysis tool. Establishing a starting point is essential for measuring the effectiveness of the programme over time.
Build diversity requirements into contracts. Take your SME initiative one step further by requiring all core suppliers source a portion of what they sell to you from diverse tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers. This instantly creates a more impactful diversity initiative. Set clear expectations for suppliers. For example, when asking about supplier diversity, explain in the RFP what qualifies as a SME or diverse supplier and list if any certifications are required. Then, in e-auctions, buyers can set aside a percentage of contracts per event that must be awarded to diverse suppliers.
If you're looking for more information, the Institute for Sustainability and Action Sustainability recently compiled a guide for engaging with SMEs – it's an easy read, and definitely valuable for all procurement professionals.


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Replica Watches — Created by the AMS, the Watch Sales Academy offers a training program which, after completion of the final exams, leads to the federal certificate in watchmaking sales.
You are fans of watchmaking because a large number of you have chosen it as a profession! You have a passion for technology, creativity and design. You would like to pass this flame to your clients, to discuss new techniques with them, to have compelling arguments to encourage them to acquire a timepiece. But therein lies the rub – you have no idea how to start learning to transmit your passion.
The Cheap Replica Watches Sales Academy is the perfect solution for your needs. An institution created by the AMS (Association des fabricants et détaillants en horlogerie, marché Suisse – Association of Swiss market watchmaking suppliers and retailers), the academy offers a training program which, after completion of the final exams, leads to the federal certificate in watchmaking sales. This official Swiss federal diploma enables graduates to successfully take on any sales challenge whatsoever, from the simplest to the most complex of Swiss replica watches.
Established in Le Locle, in the heart of the watchmaking region, the Fake Watches Sales Academy offers an opportunity to visit the most technologically sophisticated Manufactures. The instructors responsible for transmitting knowledge are all active employees of watch brands, and therefore perfectly up to date with the latest creative trends as well as the most recent technological developments, whether in the realm of innovative methods in measuring time or new materials. During 42 days spread over two years, you will be immersed in the world of knowledge. So why wait any longer if you'd like to climb the ranks of your career ? The Federal Certificate in Watchmaking Sales is designed for you.


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Bee Happy Hotels
Here you can find a child friendly apartment, hotel, resort, bungalow, pension, room, studio, cottage, lodge or self catering rental villa. Search our family friendly hotel accommodation and safe for children lodging all over the Mediterranean coast and islands, selected by Beehappyhotels for families with kids who want quality holidays.
The philosophy of Bee Happy Hotels is simple: holiday accommodation where families can be happy together. No need to worry about available facilities or safety, we have made the selection for you.
The most child friendly hotels, resorts and self-catering apartments from all over Mediterranean coast and islands have been selected and have been awarded a 'happy bee'. Some accommodations have been rated by our Quality Team and divided into three categories (3, 4 and 5 Bees) based on various quality criteria.
You have finally found the time for a holiday ? We fully agree that you deserve one, but how do you go about choosing and booking that well earned rest? If you have never been on holiday with a child before, be well prepared: it's still going to be a holiday, but not as you know it. You don't want to come back more exhausted than when you set off, so think about your needs.
How do you imagine your perfect family holiday?
Who are the members of the family and what do they expect from their holidays?
Let us help you to make your life easier and choose from our selection!


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The Five College Women's Studies Research Center announces a call for applications for Research Associates in 2019-2020.
Located in a geographic area with one of the largest concentrations of scholars dedicated to feminist scholarship and teaching in the world, the Five College Women's Studies Research Center encourages engaged, critical feminist scholarship from diverse perspectives. To support this work, the Center established its Associates Program more than 25 years ago. Scholars come to the Center from around the world, seeking a supportive environment to carry out their research. Provided with office space and access to extensive consortium resources, Associates gather regularly to discuss their research with each other and local faculty in a variety of settings. Travel, housing, and living expenses are the responsibility of Associates in this unpaid residency. It is important that Associates remain in residence for the duration; beyond this requirement for the facilitation of community, Associates define the scope of their research program. The Center's Director will help facilitate conversation partners and resources as requested.
Application Instructions
Applicants should complete an online application that includes a project proposal (up to three pages in length), curriculum vitae and contact information for two professional references. Project proposals should include 1) a statement about the contribution to and significance of the project or dissertation for women, gender, and sexuality studies, 2) a detailed description of the project or dissertation and timeline, and 3) how a stay in the Five Colleges will advance the project or dissertation.
South Hadley, MA
Open Date
Nov 15, 2018
Feb 15, 2019 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
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This one was inspired by a recipe from Cook's Country. I took their low-fat beef stroganoff on a different spin by taking out the beef altogether. Alright, the truth is I accidentally used the meat for something else, ok?
Actually, by having just the portobello mushrooms, it now felt even lighter. Also, I thought the idea of using yogurt instead of sour cream was interesting. Great for slashing the calories, for sure. Fortunately, with the tomato paste and mustard, it still retained quite a bit of tang, but not too much. Which I liked a lot, actually.
You'll love the down home taste of this recipe. Give it a try. Definitely a cut above the commercial variety.
Oh, and feel free to add the meat. Not gonna hurt my feelings, I promise.
Ingredients (4 servings)
1 8oz pkg. No-Yolk Egg Noodles
4 Portobello Mushroom Caps
1 onion, finely diced
3 tbs. All-Purpose Flour
1 tbs. Tomato Paste
2 cups Low-Sodium Beef Broth
1 tbs Dijon Mustard
1/2 cup Fat-Free Plain Yogurt
Salt & Pepper
1 large Egg White, discard yolk
2 tbs. finely chopped Fresh Parsley
Brush portobellos with a little EVOO and sprinkle with salt & pepper. Grill or roast to preferred doneness. Slice into long, thin pieces. Set aside.
Now, in a medium-heated large skillet, cook onions until browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in flour, salt and tomato paste and cook until paste begins to darken, about 2 minutes. Add broth and mustard and bring to a boil while stirring, making sure there are no lumps. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until sauce is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, Whisk the yogurt and egg white in a bowl until smooth. Add in sliced mushrooms to the skillet and mix to combine well with the sauce. Turn off heat then stir in yogurt mixture and parsley. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with a side of your favorite veggies.


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From 7/25/2011 to 8/8/2011 the SPY lost 16% in 11 trading days, the Nasdaq 100 lost 15%, and the Russell 2000 lost 21.6%. In the last five trading days, the SPY on a closing basis has lost 9.7%. The Nasdaq 100 -11%, and the Russell 2000 8.4%, but it's off 14% from its high on 6/23. In 2011, the markets got ugly real quick, individual stocks were crushed.
On 7/25/2011 61% of all stocks were trading above their 40-day moving average, by 8/8/11 that number was down to 2%, a complete washout, today that number stands at 7%.
At the same time, (7/25/2011) 1,119 stocks were up 13% or more in the last 34 days versus 481. By, 8/8/11 those figures were 98 to 3,693, the selling was palpable, today's figures are 271 up 13% or more in the last 34 days versus 2,568 that are down. Another down opening and we will be close to the 2011 figures that will probably be a low as far as the breadth numbers are concerned. While the breadth numbers might bottom on a down opening tomorrow, the indices are sure to a hit a new low in the future with the ultimate low probably in October.
2011 +13%, -13% figures.
The amount of stocks above their 20-day moving average bottomed at 2% in 2011, today's reading ended at 6.51%. Low readings usually lead to short term bounces. Also, notice the higher high in October while the SP500 hit a new low.
To conclude:
- A breadth low is a down opening away.
- The first index low will not be the last, the ultimate bottom might be in October, in which you will notice the positive divergences.
- The current oversold levels will make shorting tough, expect vicious rallies to be faded, sell-offs that will be bought, look at the 2011 chart.
- The 2011 playbook would be ideal oppose to a drawn out multi-month correction.
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Breadth Stats courtesy of Pradeep Bonde
Breadth Stats courtesy of Pradeep Bonde


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An Evening with Shane Bitney Crone
- Monday, October 20, 2014 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm
- Strand Union Building - view map
BRIDEGROOM is a documentary directed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving and committed relationship -- a relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep off the side of a roof. The story of what happened after this accidental death- of how people without the legal protections of marriage can find themselves completely shut out and ostracized- is poignant, enraging and opens a window onto the issue of marriage equality like no speech or lecture ever will.
On Monday, October 20th, join producer Shane Bitney Crone, who was born and raised in Kalispell, MT, for a free screening of Bridegroom followed by Q & A. The screening will begin at 5:30 pm in the Procrastinator Theater.
For more information, contact the Diversity Awareness Office at (406) 994-5801, or visit http://www.montana.edu/diversity/.
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For 7 years, the public was told that former FBI agent Robert Levinson went missing in Iran while on a trip for private business.
The story was exposed as a fraud last night, when Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman reported in the Associated Press that Levinson was on an unauthorised CIA operation.
In the reporting, it's clear that a perfect storm of roguery, lack of oversight, blind ambition, and bald-faced lies led the CIA into what's turned out to be the biggest scandal since the Iran-Contra weapons smuggling of the 1980s.
There were 5 main screw-ups that allowed this to happen:
1. The huge loophole that quasi-allowed rogue analysts to run a spy operation
Agency Analyst Anne Jablonski reportedly hired Levinson on a contract stipulating that he would "write papers based on his travels and expertise" as an investigator in money laundering and criminal organisations.
Levinson wasn't just writing papers, he was travelling places and gathering intelligence for the Jablonski. Email correspondence indicates that Jablonski knew very well of Levinson's operations, though she would never tell him where to go, nor would she oversee any of his meetings with sources and assets.
As such, Levinson's travels were on "a wink and a nod" basis, as the AP puts it.
"Levinson's meetings blurred the lines between his work as a private investigator and his work as a government contractor. Inside the CIA, the analysts reasoned that as long as they didn't specifically assign Levinson to meet someone, they were abiding by the rules."
2. Everyone noticed the intelligence Levinson gathered, no one asked how it was gathered or who it came from
Intelligence coming from Levinson was pure gold. He delivered up to "20 packages" per month despite the expectation of approximately two.
The packages provided intelligence — photos and documents — on targets ranging from Venezuela's "mercurial" president to Iran's nuclear program.
In order to "avoid the CIA's lengthy mail screening process," Jablonski reportedly instructed Levinson to mail those packages directly to her home address, which investigators later determined was a deliberate effort to hide her operation from Agency officials.
"[If] Levinson were producing only unclassified analytical documents, there would have been no reason he couldn't email them to the CIA [HQ in Langley]."
3. The rock-star status of Levinson's work blinded better judgement
"Had anyone at the CIA or FBI conducted even a cursory examination of Levinson's work product, it would have been immediately clear that Levinson was not acting as a mere analyst," the authors of the report conclude.
4. The Agency's "Illicit Finance Division" either reflexively, or deliberately, issued refunds for travel that Levinson wasn't even authorised to perform
This has to be the most absurd part of the AP's investigation: "Had anyone read his invoices, people who have seen or been briefed on them said, investigators would have seen handwritten bills mentioning Iran and its Revolutionary Guard."
So a man on contract for the CIA who was not authorised to travel has invoices popping up in Langley, and the Illicit Finance Division simply reimbursed him.
5. The CIA's lack of adequate, capable oversight into Levinson's relationship with Jablonski led officials to tell Congress that Levinson's contract with the CIA was "over" when he left for Iran.
The Agency was "slow to respond to Levinson's disappearance and spent the first several months denying any involvement," the report says.
David McGee, a former Justice Department prosecutor in Florida and friend of Levinson, eventually got a hold of all the email correspondence between Levinson and Jablonski. He took it to Congress, who was "furious."
Though the email wasn't visible to the Agency investigators — since it was through personal accounts — evidence like the invoices came back into view once the case was reopened.
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"[The] evidence had been hiding in plain sight. The CIA didn't conduct a thorough investigation until the Senate got involved. By then, Levinson had been missing for more than eight months. Precious time had been lost."
Lies upon lies.
Levinson disappears in 2007. By 2008, it becomes apparent the Iranians probably have him. It's also just as apparent that they aren't willing to give him up. Instead of immediately fessing up, the government bribes Levinson's family.
The CIA paid the family about $US120,000, the value of the new contract the CIA was preparing for him when he left for Iran. The government also gave the family a $US2.5 million annuity, which provides tax-free income, multiple people briefed on the deal said. Neither side wanted a lawsuit that would air the secret details in public.
Jablonksi and the director of the Finance Group later resigned under pressure from the Agency. Several other employees involved in the debacle were censured.
Meanwhile, the lie about Levinson's employment and fate continued from the Bush administration into the Obama administration — needless to say, the truth was inevitable.
If there's one graf in the AP's piece that sums up how badly everyone screwed up, it's this one:
Jablonski was in the office when news broke that Levinson had gone missing. She went to the bathroom and threw up.
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Our principal, Jonathan Baumgartel, is a 1996 graduate of Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska. He completed his Master's Degree in teacher education in 2002, and his Master's Degree in Administration in 2006. He received both of his graduate degrees from Concordia, Seward, Nebraska. Jon has had a variety of Lutheran teaching and administration experiences in Colorado, Indiana, and Iowa. He, most recently, comes to St. John's Sauers from Trinity Lutheran School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jon and his wife, Jill, are the parents of four children.
Rev. Craig Muhlbach has served at St. John's Sauers since August 1999. He is a 1987 graduate of Concordia College in Bronxville, New York. Pastor completed his Master of Divinity at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1992. He has served both in the United States Coast Guard and recently as a minister in the Indiana National Guard where he was deployed to Iraq. Pastor Muhlbach was previously called to churches in Nebraska and Wyoming before serving at St. John's Sauers. He and his wife, Erika, have three sons.
Brenda Klosterman teaches pre-school – both beginner and pre-Kindergarten. She is now now our longest serving teacher, with 3 years as a teacher's aid prior to assuming responsibility for pre-school instruction. She and her husband, Max, have four adult children and reside on a farm near our church and school.
Mrs. Susan Hessong currently is the 1st and 2nd grade teacher here at St. John's. She graduated from Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan with a B.A. in education. She has also taken graduate courses through Niagra University, IUPUI, and at Indiana Wesleyan. In her twenty years of educational ministry, she has experience teaching at all grade levels from K-8. Susan has taught in Lutheran schools in Cleveland, Ohio, North Tonawanda, New York, Lafayette, Indiana, and most currently here at St. John's.
Her husband, Brian, is a financial services professional with Thrivent Financial. They have three children.
Mrs. Kelly Williams is the 3rd and 4th grade teacher at St. John's Lutheran School. She previously taught four years at North Harrison Elementary in Ramsey, Indiana. She loves teaching and especially loves teaching the children at St. John's. She looks forward to many more years of teaching the wonderful students at St. John's.
Mrs. Williams was born and raised in Seymour, Indiana, attended St. John's Lutheran School as a child, and has been a member of the St. John's Lutheran church all her life. Her husband was also born and raised in Seymour, Indiana and works for Kroger/Jay-C Distribution.
Mrs. Williams graduated from Indiana State University in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. She also earned a certification to teach 6-8 Middle School Mathematics.
Mrs. Erin Brooks is the 5th and 6th grade teacher at St. John's Lutheran School. She also teaches Math and Science. Mrs. Brooks received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University in 2007. She previously taught at Seymour Middle School and Seymour 6th Grade Center for 7 years. While there Mrs. Brooks taught Language Arts for 2 years, Social Studies for 3 years and math for 2 years.
Kim Sullivan is a 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade teacher at St. John's Lutheran School. She has taught in Commiskey, Indiana and at Jackson Elementary in Seymour. Mrs. Sullivan graduated from Indiana University in 2004 with a B.A. in Elementary Education. She then went onto receive her master's degree through an online program. She was born and raised in Seymour, attending Immanuel Lutheran Church. Her husband, Scott Sullivan, is from Brownstown and works at King's Trucking and Excavation. She has a daughter, Addi, who is 7 and a son, Archer, who is 4.
Leanna Royalty is the kindergarten teacher at St. John's Lutheran School. She has taught in Clarksville, Indiana and at Jackson Elementary in Seymour. Mrs. Royalty graduated from Indiana University in 2012 with a B.A. in Elementary Education. She was born and raised in Seymour, attending Redeemer Lutheran Church. Her husband, Drew Royalty, is also from Seymour and works at Crane Hill Machine.
Holly Sawyer is the Administrative Assistant for St. John's Lutheran School and Church. She has served at St. John's since 2001. She and her husband, Mark, have two children.


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The following links are to sites which we believe might be of interest to visitors to this site.
Thunder Bay Multicultural Association
TBMA provides services to newcomers to Thunder Bay and its surrounding area. Some of these services include assistance filling out forms, translation between around 50 different languages, English as a Second Language education.
Thunder Bay Police Service
Official web site of the Thunder Bay Police
Thunder Bay Public Library
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Concert pitch: Hackney's gig guide for June 2018
8 June: Warmduscher @ MOTH Club
Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, E9 6NU
South London's Warmduscher may be the only 'supergroup' who still make a habit of playing the Brixton Windmill – home to the area's current bunch of Country Teasers-aping bands. With a smell that modulates between 'someone's vomited over there' and 'someone's vomited here', a rooftop dog, and a truly unfortunate attempt at self-brewed beer, it's hard to know what The Traveling Wilburys would have made of the Windmill. But this is a supergroup well-acquainted with London's insalubrities.
Fat White Family's Saul Adamczewski and frontman Clams Baker Jr (who sounds like a young David Thomas from Pere Ubu) corral this eclectic, electric bunch around whatever dive venue pops up next on the Warmduscher itinerary. Sonically, Whale City tracks like 'Standing on the Corner' allows funky to mix with junkie, and the verse of '1000 Whispers' approaches doo-wop, but most of the time, this band runs on tinbox fuzz and other such disorienting substances.
11 June: Waxahatchee @ Oval Space
29–32 The Oval, E2 9DT
Katie Crutchfield took her stage name from the eponymous Alabamian creek, but since putting pen to paper on a deal with Merge Records, her sound has progressed from a lo-fi trickle to take on the width of the next state over's Mississippi River, with all of her Deal Sisters-esque musical aspirations realised in stereo.
Most recent album Out in the Storm is an excavation of a failed relationship, with songs like 'No Question' bringing the direct callouts ("you were always looking for a fight/an invisible race/we'll be in it til one of us dies") and the countryfied 'A Little More' assessing the damage. Support on this UK tour, of which this Oval Space berth is the opening show, comes from new band Ex-Vöid, who continue this month's supergroup theme – they're made up of the former core of Joanna Gruesome, with other members from Playlounge, Keel Her and Garden Centre.
16 June: The Fuzillis @ The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB
It'll be well worth the trip into Islington to sample this selection of combos, who all play grimey amphetamine garage like Altamont was a permanent state of mind. Instrumental headliners The Fuzillis play what they call "atomic age raunch'n'roll", and are made up of self-evidenced masters of the rock pseudonym – Dan Martin Jr on guitar, T-Mag Maguire on tenor sax, W J Oake III on skins, and on bass, Mr Frankie Fuzilli. (My apologies if these are actually their real names.)
Openers Thee Dagger Debs have more of a fist-pumping pub rock feel – albeit with a lineup you'd never see in the boozy, Lahhhndan geezeriness of OG pub rock (the Debs are a three girl power-trio.) The filling in this scuzzy sandwich is Ye Nuns, an all-female conjuring of 60s avant-garage trailblazers The Monks. I say 'conjuring' as this is no mere straight tribute – Ye Nuns lay on wild sounds that would have shocked the most acid-fried 60s head into boogie frenzy.
21 June: The Ex @ Electrowerkz
7 Torrens Street, EC1V 1NQ
Why not celebrate the summer solstice with some anarchist punk jazz? (Perhaps a genre that could only have been pioneered in The Ex's native Netherlands.) With enough past members to necessitate one of those timeline bar graphs on their Wikipedia page, The Ex have been going since 1979 – and yet somehow span more genres than their number of years active.
Dip in to one of their 13 studio albums and you might get pure anarchist punk, squonking jazz riffs, a cover of the Eritrean independence anthem 'Huriyet' (the band made a transformative trip there in the mid-noughties, playing gigs and handing out cassettes), so-called 'world music' with ants under its skin, orchestral collaborations, bone-drilling Albini-produced industrial bass – or something else entirely. The Ex have been making regular UK trips this decade, bringing them to the attention of the DIY scenes of this generation, and even supporting Neutral Milk Hotel in London previously.
26 June: YoshimiO, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Susie Ibarra @ OSLO
1A Amhurst Rd, E8 1LL
OSLO – normally home, in the most part, to club nights and performances from upstart rappers and indie heroes – has clearly been drinking from Cafe Oto's glass. They're bringing together three of the most respected names in experimental sound: Boredoms drummer YoshimiO (aka Yoshimi P-We; also of OOIOO and Free Kitten, and key guest vocalist on The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots), percussionist/composer Susie Ibarra and multidisciplinary artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.
An improvisational outfit, the only real clue to how their Hackney gig will go comes in the form of live album Flower of Sulphur. Stretching over four tracks (from 'Aaa' to 'Ddd'), the gang of three run through an hour of clattering beats and primal wailing; at its best, the multiple drums commune with the vocalisations as one. One of only three UK dates this summer, the trio come to Hackney Central on the 26th.


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In the 1960s, the struggle was for black civil rights. The 1970s saw the stepping up of the fight to free the world from apartheid. And in recent years, we have seen the battle for LGBT equality.
The freedom struggle of the coming decade is the battle for the rights of children – rights too often neglected or ignored. By fulfilling our promise to a deliver a quality education to the world's young, we can be the first generation in history where every child goes to school.
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How To Paint Interior Spaces: Part I
If you're thinking about taking on a painting project (either yourself or by hiring a professional), here are some important tips for getting the best result.
There are two things to take into consideration when preparing to paint your walls – First is paint color, and second is the type of finish you use.
As far as color goes, it's first important to know that colors look brighter on the walls than they do on a tiny chip. Also, light conditions will affect the appearance of colors. Be sure to test the color in areas of shadow and direct light. Observe it during the day and evening and test it in artificial light to get a sense of whether it's right for you. Live with the colors for a couple of days and the best option will become clear to you.
If you're not sure where to start when it comes to choosing color schemes, check out our color guides (Part I, Part II, and Part III).
As for paint finishes, there are four options (matte, eggshell, semi-gloss, and high gloss/lacquer).
Matte and flat paints are different. Flat paint is generally just used on ceilings, and paint with a matte finish is velvety and gives colors a rich, deep appearance. Any color will look richer with a matte finish, and this paint isn't reflective and will hide any imperfections in your walls. The downside is that walls with a matte finish are difficult to clean – if you'd like to use this type of paint, it's better to use in low-traffic areas. If you have kids, you may want to consider another option.
Eggshell is the most popular, go-to paint choice. It has subtle shine, moderate reflectivity and is generally easy to clean.
Semi-gloss is a popular choice when painting your trim and it has more reflectivity than eggshell. Many people choose to use an eggshell finish on their walls, a semi-gloss on trim, and flat paint on their ceilings.
High gloss/lacquer
High gloss paint is both trendy and tricky. True lacquer paint has a lot of toxins, so it's rarely used anymore, but you can achieve the same effect by using a regular paint with a high-gloss finish. High gloss paint will achieve a very reflective appearance, but be aware that it will display every imperfection in your walls. With that being said, it is also very durable. Using this type of finish is also pretty labor intensive – your walls will need to be skim-coated (a layer of plaster is applied) before priming and you may need to layer three to five coats of color to achieve the saturation you're looking for. If you're painting just a small area of your home (like a small accent wall) it's likely safe to take this on yourself. However, for larger spaces it is best to hire a professional.
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Adult care services make life easier for people of all ages who may need a helping hand due to medical conditions, illness, and disability or age. Use the information above to ensure that you get a caregiver who exceeds your expectations.


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Structural Steel Erectors erect and dismantle structural steel frames of buildings and other structures.
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The number of people working as Structural Steel Erectors (in their main job) stayed about the same over 5 years:from 350 in 2011 to 360 in 2016.
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We drove through Moscow twelve days ago, my junior brother at the wheel of his Chevrolet. I took this shot of Savyolovskiy railway station building right out of the car.
Three days ago I was in Moscow on the burial of my first cousin. She was only 44. Massive stroke. After the burial I photographed the nearest lake around her former residence in Kraskovo, that is not far from Moscow.
There is one more lake over this one and one more to the right, which is smaller than the first two lakes.
There is a railway bridge over Vyazma River about 87,5 yards (80 meters) from our countryside house. A couple of years ago trains rolling past our place were not so noisy as they are these days. I presume it's because wooden sleepers have been renewed and replaced with concrete ones, and now trains make a big noise rushing over the railway bridge. They are too loud now, indeed.
There was nobody else except me near the lake when I photographed it, because of the dull and cloudy weather that evening. Usually there are lots of people swimming in the lake and tanning around its shores on sunny summertime days.
I swam there several times too, and I can say that the lake is rather dangerous. The water is very dark and dirty at a depth of one meter and below, though it is inconspicuous from the shore. So, if someone drowns, it's hard to find and save drowning swimmers in the dark water.
Besides, there is a transmission line almost above the surface of the lake, you can see the pillars of the power line on the opposite shore. It is very unsafe to swim there.
This is the sequel of my Central Asian photographs series. On the first photo you see a street of the ancient Osh City, which is situated in Southern Kyrgyzstan. This photograph was made in late May of 2008, as well as the other two images below.
At that time some Russians might still be seen there, I don't know if there are any nowadays, after the latest inter-ethnic armed conflict between Kyrgyz population and Kyrgyzstan citizens of Uzbek origin.


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Fancy Island-Hopping off Cambodia's Coast?
Off the southern coast of Cambodia, in the Gulf of Thailand, lie over 60 picturesque islands awaiting exploration… Taking a boat from Sihanoukville, visitors often indulge in a spot of island hopping during their Cambodia holidays. If you are looking for a romantic getaway or you fancy island-hopping some uninhabited locations provide the perfect location for privacy and tranquillity.
When desiring to experience local culture, head to the charming fishing villages on islands where life has remain virtually unchanged for decades.
Koh Rong
Located two and a half hours from Sihanoukville by boat, Koh Rong is not only one of the most beautiful in the archipelago but also remains virtually uninhabited. The locals call the shoreline on the southwest side "Snowdrift Bay" because the powder soft, white sand resembles talcum.
The beach on the island extends for 43 kilometres and beyond the shore, travelling inward, visitors find a lush, thick tropical jungle. Koh Rong is a spot favoured by divers and snorkelling enthusiasts while jungle treks are also popular along with some rustic camping.
Koh Tang
Charter a boat and venture to Koh Tang when in need of reclusive Cambodia holidays. The island's location also attracts scuba divers wanting to escape the tourist crowds. Divers encounter a living aquarium beneath the water's surface filled with colourful corals and reefs. Barracuda, octopi and seahorses frequent the area along with varied species of large fish that include jacks, sail fish and snappers.
Divers venturing to Koh Prins can also find two shipwrecks lying in the ocean. Kingfish, moray eels and nudibranches are some of the sights lurking in the water's depths around Koh Rong Saloem. If planning on spending the night, bring supplies as the island has no amenities.
Koh Tonsay
A 20-minute boat ride from Kep, Koh Tonsay once boasted an upscale resort in the 1920s. These days, the island serves as home to a handful of Khmer families who operate restaurants and beachfront properties. Two exquisite white sandy beaches attract visitors who spend the days swimming and snorkelling in the shallow waters where the landscape slopes gradually out from the shoreline. Generators supply the locals with electricity and the rustic environment provides the perfect location for an undisturbed Cambodia holiday filled with relaxation. Gaze at the seemingly infinite starry night skies while being serenaded by the island cicadas.
Koh Ru
Another great snorkelling destination, Koh Ru offers golden beaches and a lovely, lush forest filled with the sounds of local wildlife. A path bisects the island and travels from one popular beach to the other. The few available bungalows on either side mean there are never more than a dozen guests staying on the island at any one time. Cambodia is a perfect destination for the young people and those who fancy island-hopping.
Author: This article was written by Tom Browne, a travel writer who went to Cambodia back in 2012. Cambodia holidays provide travellers with a unique experience of ancient cultures and a rich history combined with relaxation on sun-drenched beaches.


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