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Forskolin is found in the roots of a herbal plant from the mint family. It is an extract from the plant Coleus forskohli.
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Tolo Harbor Cycling Tour
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- Explore the picturesque surroundings of Tolo Bay as you pedal through
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- Take in the beautiful scenery of rural Hong Kong
- Guided cycling tour with experienced guide leading the route
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My Postponed Dream
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While reading the poem, "My Family" by Garrison Keillor, I was deeply touched by the line, "Of dreams postponed and finally lost". I read this line aloud time and again to understand the underlying pain in this line. I could picture an old man lamenting upon his decision in the past to set aside his dream and settle down before fulfilling his dream. Once we choose to push back our dreams, we can hardly get back to it in the future and often times it is lost. This is similar to the lost dream of John, the old man, in the poem.
While talking about postponed dreams, I remember the time right after my grade ten. I had around three months break before I could go to a higher secondary school. I thought about preserving all the memories of my grandmother, who used to share about her life before I was born. I thought of writing a biography about her, and I used to spend a lot of time listening to her past life. For me, her stories were very unique and I could clearly see the places, pictures, and events in front of my eyes as she used to describe them to me. So one day, I sat down to begin writing about her. I tore many pages and spent five whole hours trying to begin writing about her. Today, I regret for what I did after writing the first page spending five hours on it. I just pushed my notebook aside and thought I would continue it later. Time went on. I never opened the notebook or tried to continue writing. Now, I have forgotten many details of the stories she told me then. In addition, she is ninety-six year old and she has hard time remembering her past life. Even if she remembers, she mixes up one with the other. Thus, I thought that the poet was indirectly referring to me in that very line telling about postponed dreams.
However, after reading the poem, "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes, a spark of enlightenment ran inside me. I realized that our unfulfilled dreams are stored in our subconscious and they always seek outlet. This also alarmed me not to repress my dream for a longer period of time as it may explode someday. Thus, I plan to fulfill my dream that I had postponed many years back.


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ADM Instrument Engineering introduces a new range of Mean Well power supplies in Australia for security applications.
A leading manufacturer of power supplies for security monitoring systems, Mean Well now presents the new DRC-40 and DRC-60 series designed to be mounted on TS-35/7.5 and TS-35/15 DIN rails, making them a perfect choice for power supplies that are easily mounted in a control cabinet.
In addition to the primary output, the power supply also has an additional charger output that can be used in conjunction with an external battery, allowing the user to build a DC UPS facility into their security system.
The DRC-40 and DRC-60 power supplies are perfect for use in security systems, emergency lighting systems, alarm systems, DC UPS systems, central monitoring systems and access systems.
Key features of Mean Well DRC-40 and DRC-60 power supplies include input voltage range of 90~264VAC and output voltage of 13.8VDC or 27.6VDC; reliable construction with no fan; cooling by free air convection, eliminating risk of failure from moving parts; ambient operating temperature of -30°C ~+70°C; efficiency rating of up to 88%; TTL signal and relay contact to provide AC OK and low battery alarm signal; and optional relay contact on the DRC-40.
The DRC-40 and DRC-60 power supplies also feature short circuit protection, overload protection, over voltage protection, low battery cut off, battery reverse polarity protection by fuse, and front panel DC voltage adjustment.
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Gelato Secrets uses fresh, natural, locally sourced ingredients to make their artisanal gelato and fresh sorbets served in homemade cones. The range of flavours varies based on what produce is in season. Depending on the time of year you can expect to find flavours like mango, passionfruit, coconut, durian,lemongrass and strawberry. There are also more unique flavours available including the best-selling organic Sulawesi vanilla with bamboo charcoal, salted butter caramel gelato, coconut pandan sorbetto, dark chocolate gelato from Tabanan. Open daily 9am-10:30pm.


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Morning skate is a feature that will look at the stories developing each day in these 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and a look ahead to the games on the schedule.
There were three game-three's on the schedule last night and in each case the road team won by a goal.
Rangers 1 Senators 0
Henrik Lundqvist held off the Ottawa Senators, making 39 saves, and Brian Boyle scored the only goal in a 1-0 Rangers win. Lundqvist made his best save on Kyle Turris, point blank and alone in the slot, with less than a minute to go. Despite speculation he could play, Sens captain Daniel Alfredsson sat the game out with concussion symptoms.
Game 4 Wednesday 7:30 EST


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Blackburn, Robert and Smallbone, David (2008) Small firms' strategic stickiness and the impact of state interventions. In: Barrett, Rowena and Mayson, Susan, (eds.) International handbook of entrepreneurship and HRM. Edward Elgar. pp. 305-325. (Elgar original reference) ISBN 9781845429263Full text not available from this archive.
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Actress Charlize Theron is catching heat for remarks she made comparing seeing the results of a Google search of her name to rape.
In comments published Friday, Theron said the following when an interviewer from Sky News mentioned what he'd found when he Googled her: "I don't do that, so that's my saving grace. When you start living in that world, and doing that, you start I guess feeling raped."
Theron is not the first celebrity to make such a statement. In 2010, actress Kristen Stewart compared looking at paparazzi photos of herself to seeing images of rape; and in 2011 Johnny Depp said that having paparazzi pictures taken of himself made him "feel like you're being raped."
Sexual assault survivor and journalist Carly Milne told CBS News' Crimesider that, while she understands where Theron is coming from in terms of feeling violated by the press intrusion into her life, she wishes the actress had chosen another word.
"When you use the word rape to describe something that is not rape it dilutes the word and turns it into something that has less meaning," says Milne. And, she continued, when "rape" has a more muddled meaning, it makes it harder for survivors to get the support they need when coming forward to talk about their experience with the crime.
Annie Clark, a sexual assault survivor and the co-founder of End Rape on Campus agreed, saying that Theron's comment is "symptomatic of a larger cultural problem of not taking rape seriously."
"I don't think she should have said that," Clark told Crimesider. "Nor do I think college students should say things like 'that test raped me.'"
On Friday, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) issued this statement about Theron's remarks: "We wish Charlize Theron had used a more appropriate metaphor to describe the experience of being a celebrity in the era of digital media. The horror of being raped should never be compared to the 'unpleasantness' that someone could experience Googling themselves."
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center also issued a statement, calling Theron's comment a "teachable moment" and saying that using the word rape lightly "dilutes the seriousness of the crime, and downplays the trauma that victims experience."
Both Stewart and Depp apologized publicly. So far, Theron has not. But Milne said that she doesn't think a public apology is the only way for Theron, who has worked with the United Nations in its fight against rape in her native South Africa, to handle the incident.
"Celebrities in a way become spokespeople, sometimes unwittingly, and that brings with it a responsibility to be more careful about how you conduct yourself and what you say," said Milne. "What I would like coming out of this is a discussion about what was said and how we can work together to change the way we use the language."


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Michael Pizzi is now one step closer to regaining his position as mayor of Miami Lakes. A three-judge panel of the Third District Court of Appeal ruled today that Pizzi should legally be restored to the office. The town of Miami Lakes now has five days to appeal the decision.
Pizzi was first removed from office back in August 2013 after he was indicted on charges of bribery after an FBI corruption sweep. Gov. Rick Scott was required to remove him from office.
However, it turned out the fed's case against Pizzi was weak. He maintained he was a victim of entrapment, and Pizzi ended up beating the charges.
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At the same time, however, Miami Lakes held a special election to replace Pizzi and elected Wayne Slaton.
After beating the rap, Pizzi set to work to get his old job back. The Florida Supreme Court ruled late last year that Scott must revoke Pizzi's suspension from holding any public office, though that alone didn't mean he was returning to his old office. In March, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Gisela Cardonne Ely ruled that Pizzi should be returned to office and receive any back pay. Though, that decision was placed on a 30-day stay. The stay expires next week, on April 30.
Though Slaton and the town could still appeal the latest ruling, it appears that Pizzi is almost certain to return to office then.


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It might actually start again.
We might know more sometime today.
Late on Tuesday the Milk of Magnesia managed to break down the rock-hard stool that has been lodged in the courtroom's colon for three months. Equality California (EQCA) and the ACLU were being pressured by Walker to produce internal documents shared during the 2008 campaign against Proposition 8. The organizations resisted and challenged the request but Walker wouldn't budge. On Monday, just before the constipation was eased, Walker threatened to fine the groups if they didn't produce the documents. If that isn't Milk of Magnesia, I don't know what is.
The threat of a $2,000 per day fine for every day of ongoing delay was enough pressure on EQCA to get it to relent. Always the politician (to the point of making people wonder if he really is human), Geoff Kors, Executive Director of EQCA, issued a statement so full of spin my hair blew while I read it (and I haven't had hair for over 10 years). In the memo Kors says (more or less), "It's all good! This is just what I wanted to happen! Hell yeah, Vaughn Walker, you are my sweet gay BFF and I can't wait to run into you again at Eros when this is all over!!"
Of course, the actual back-and-forth details of the shenanigans that have gone on for weeks and weeks and weeks is much more complicated (and prodigiously boring) but the bottom line is that the damn trial might actually resume once EQCA turns its shit over. It is kind of odd that these two groups are being compelled to reveal internal documents like this -- considering that they aren't even involved in the lawsuit to begin with.
Neither the ACLU nor EQCA were asked to join the lawsuit to overturn Prop 8. At first they didn't even want the trial to happen at all. Eventually they warmed up to the idea but it doesn't make much sense that that their strategies to defeat Prop 8 would contribute to making a decision about whether or not the proposition itself is constitutionally sound.
Even if there is some legal explanation for the request, what could either organization want to keep from being revealed? Unlike the Yes on 8ers, the same-sex marriage side didn't spend any time concocting terrifying tales of children being masturbated to death in order to manipulate public opinion. If anything, the No on 8 effort was so utterly benign, and toothless, and drab that I'm wondering if, perhaps, Walker is suffering from insomnia and is hoping to be put to sleep by reading EQCA's documents.
At any rate, thank you for finally offering to hand over your boring filth, EQCA. Now for the love of gawd, Judge Walker -- GET ON WITH IT, ALREADY!
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Obituary: Daisy M. (Gonzalez) Baxter, 57
Oct 28, 2016 08:15AM
By Theresa Gilman
Daisy M. (Gonzalez) Baxter obituary
Daisy M. (Gonzalez) Baxter, 57, a resident of Dracut died Saturday, October 22, 2016 at Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill after a long illness. She was the beloved wife of Kevin A. Baxter, to whom she was married for 33 years.
She was born in Cambridge on July 22, 1959, and was a daughter of Gloria (Vargas) Gonzalez of Tewksbury and the late Bienvenido Gonzalez. She received her education in Somerville and was a graduate of Somerville High School, class of 1977. She went on to earn her associates degree from Massachusett Bay Community College.
Daisy's passion was caring for the elderly and had worked with them in various capacities throughout the years.
She was an active member of Christ Church United of Dracut.
Daisy was an avid reader, especially the bible, and enjoyed spending summers boating and camping at Ossipee Lake.
In addition to her husband and mother, Daisy is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ross and Judit Baxter of Hungary; her daughter, Rachel Baxter of Manchester, NH; her two sisters, Maria Marchand and her husband Michael of Tewksbury and Crucita Johnson of St. Petersburg, FL; her mother-in-law, Marion Baxter of Westminster; three sisters-in-law, Marie Salig and her husband Ron of Grafton, Patricia Baxter and her husband Steven Reardon of Bethleham, NH, and Elizabeth Ferrick and her husband Thomas of Westminster; and many nieces and nephews. She was also the daughter-in-law of the late Frederick Baxter.
Daisy's funeral service will be Saturday, October 29 at 11:30 AM at Christ Church United, 10 Arlington Street. Her burial will be private. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Daisy's memory to Christ Church United of Dracut, 10 Arlington Street, Dracut, MA 01826.


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Senator Whitehouse to Ceres Conference: 'Denial Castle' is Crumbling
With the ink barely dry on the landmark Paris COP21 agreement signed by 175 countries, one New England lawmaker sees "real cracks in denial castle" and is calling on corporations to lobby Republicans in Congress to break party ranks and take a stand on climate change.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said industry associations opposed to stronger laws curtailing fossil fuels are now the only voices being heard in Washington.
"Talking to my colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escape," Whitehouse quipped at the opening session of a conference presented by Ceres, a sustainable investment advocacy organization.
Characterizing GOP lawmakers as lowering their voices and nervously looking around to ensure there are no witnesses to climate conversations, Whitehouse urged the 600 Ceres attendees to push their organizations to end the lobbying vacuum and reassure Republicans they have support if they soften their position.
"Give cover to the Republicans who want to do the right thing but who are only hearing from the biggest knuckleheads in the equation," said Whitehouse.
Whitehouse credited Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his willingness to ask other Senate Republicans why they continue to behave as though climate change was not a real concern.
In October, Graham asked a pre-presidential primary audience in New Hampshire to raise their hands if they believed climate change posed huge planetary risks.
"I do, too," Graham said at the event, sponsored by the bipartisan group No Labels. "So here's the trade-off. For those of you who believe climate change is real, you're going to have to deal with a guy like me who will push a lower carbon economy over time and in a business friendly way. The great trade-off is energy producers and environmentalists in a room trying to find, over a 50-year period, a way to go to a lower-carbon economy while in the meantime responsibly exploring for fossil fuels that we own and trying to create alternative energy in every sector of the economy."
At the Ceres event, Whitehouse pointed to momentum following the April 22 signing of the COP21 agreement at the United Nations.
"There are real cracks in denial castle. It's really crumbling," Whitehouse said, adding that industry lobbying may not be as potent a force as a home state electorate angry that climate change is adversely affecting tourism.
In New Hampshire, the moose tour business cannot operate if snowmobile trails don't have snow, and if moose are covered with ticks that were not killed during the traditional winter freeze, Whitehouse said. The skiing and timber industries have been similarly affected by climate change in New England.


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I was mildly amused when i found this photo floating around on Facebook.
it is… Photoshop! in the manual age. I kind of miss a time without the digital age.
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I was mildly amused when i found this photo floating around on Facebook.
it is… Photoshop! in the manual age. I kind of miss a time without the digital age.
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ahh…. completely enthralled by the creations people can come up with with paper! And since the memories of Stop motion animation class and all the work that went into making them are still fresh from last semester…
Andersen M Studio's paper stop-motions have amazed me!
"Going West" has won quite a few awards since being released:
and another animation by the same studios, one about Harry Potter *squeals*, it is not as fantastic animation wise but… it is HARRY POTTER. what's not to like!
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the new semester has started and this time round, i am taking animation history as a module!
after one semester of making my own stop-motion animations, i have really learnt how work goes into a good story and execution! so yes, i think i appreciate animations more.
our lecturer said something interesting last night, he said that good animations are those that hold without any dialogue. He was referring to those blockbuster animated films by the big companies like Dreamworks and Pixar nowadays which makes use of dialogue heavily, to bring the entertainment value. i have never thought of that before.
and with that. i present you with what i think my lecturer would approve of:

Plato from Léonard Cohen on Vimeo.

"Plato" by Léonard Cohen (i am wondering why Plato but i think i got an inkling why.)
somehow everyone likes an animation with an unusual plot involving the character being able to mess around with its own surroundings like:
"the Tantilizing Fly", 1919 by Max Fleischer
a classic animated film but the jokes haven't grown old yet.
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I was reading Today paper yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to spot a familiar face in the 'local music acts to watch in 2012'. i decided to be kapoh and go to the website to have a look-see…
ok so what am i babbling about?
not so long ago i was in secondary school and i had a senior who sang really well.
she still does. evidence here:
hi Amanda Tee! if you ever see this… I am a fan! So happy to see you are all successful! jia you! 🙂
(and that i can say that i know a 'celebrity'. hahaha! )


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Happy Tuesday, friends, and welcome to another edition of You Got Served. Not much of interest happened over the weekend, so I'll probably just keep this boring and unprovocative, like everybody does on a slow news day. How about them Texas Rangers?
I guess there's the little matter of Tim Tebow getting some action, and being named the starting QB today, so I suppose I'll touch on that a little bit. It hasn't gotten enough attention, so why not give it some? Ready… BEGIN!!
1. The Broncos did the only thing they could do on Sunday, and that's bench Kyle Orton. He has played poorly this year, and he lost the QB job after an ample amount of time to turn it around and show better results than he did. There's no reasonable defense that can be made of his play, and no rationalization about anybody else will stand up. Isolating Orton's play, there was simply a lot to be desired.
When Tebow entered the game on Sunday, he was joining a completely flat team, and they got energized pretty quickly on both sides of the ball. I don't know if we can attribute that all to Tebow's entrance, but I think it's the most likely cause. I will definitely say that I think the offensive group competes harder when Tebow is in the game than they do when Orton is in the game. The 3.5 games we've seen of Tebow tell me that that is the case, when measured against the 33.5 Orton games.
I was in the car this morning, and I heard a bunch of hand-wringing about how badly Tebow played on Sunday on Sirius from Bob Papa and Solomon Wilcots. Let's clear this up right now. The dude played well given the circumstances. He came onto the field at halftime with a deficit against a defense that had played really well, and played a bunch of high-leverage snaps. Even as his throwing often left something to be desired, he made some positive plays and some neutral plays, but no negative plays.
In the course of all of this, Tebow gave the Broncos a chance to compete to win a football game, like he has in every game in which he's appeared. Others absolutely had a hand in that, but if Tebow wasn't doing what he was doing, there's no chance. I was interested to see that Total QBR was so complimentary of Tebow, because his performance deserved it. You have to understand this guy differently than other QBs, and while Total QBR isn't a perfect stat for doing that, it at least attempts to do so. You have to understand Tebow as a guy who makes plays and who moves an offense in unconventional ways. He's not going to be David Carr in 2006, leading the NFL with a 68.3% completion percentage. That was Carr's last year as a starter in this League, and he averaged a pathetic 6.3 yards per attempt. Completion percentage is a worthless statistic, because all completions aren't created equal. I've covered this before, of course.
The most impressive play of Tebow's game to me was the scramble where he just barely missed hitting Eric Decker on a deep ball. That goes in traditional stats as a simple incomplete pass but Tebow gave the Broncos a chance to make a huge play there that almost nobody else in the NFL could make. The last play of the game was really interesting too. Tebow ran around for more than 10 seconds looking for something to come open, and he almost got it to Matt Willis. Those improvisational plays are going to turn into big plays a lot of the time, and since defenses are going to have to account for them, it will soften their ability to deal with other things.
Tebow does four things very well:
Throw and sell the screen
Throw the deep ball
Run with the football
- Extend plays with his feet, and throw on the run
He struggles with some other things:
Hitting intermediate throws with accuracy and timing from a straight dropback
- Handling the exchange from under center
I'm here to tell you that you can work around those last two things while coaching them up for eventual improvement, and you can also take steps to maximize the things he does well. He needs to do better on hitting open receivers, and he will once he gets going. Remember, he was a 67% passer in college. Regardless of how things look now aesthetically, that should tell you that Tebow is not lacking the ability to make a throw. Also remember that the guy has 3.5 games of experience in the NFL. He's going to have growing pains, and we all need to let him grow or not grow. (He'll grow and improve, trust me.) It seems that Tebow has what amounts to an 11-game audition to prove that he should be the go-forward QB. I think he's up to it, but if he isn't, the Broncos are in no worse shape in January than they are right now.
Orton and Brady Quinn won't be under contract in 2012, Tebow will be, and the Broncos either will or will not be looking to acquire a new QB. We should all want Tebow to succeed and prove that he can be a top starting QB in the NFL, because that would expedite this rebuilding process. Wouldn't it be nice to have Tebow throw for 15-18 TDs, run for 10-12 more, and have the Broncos go 5-6 or so over the next 11 games? Wouldn't you feel good about that? I think it's realistic that it could happen, because unlike last year, the defense is playing well enough to win at least half the Broncos' games when they score in the 20s.
If that scenario unfolded, suddenly, the Broncos are picking eighth or ninth in the Draft, and they're talking about drafting Alabama CB Dre Kirkpatrick, or Iowa OT Riley Reiff, or Alabama RB Trent Richardson, or Clemson DT Brandon Thompson, and not QBs Matt Barkley of USC or Landry Jones from Oklahoma. Another premium player would be coming in to augment a young and developing roster that has some emerging talent in place. Your QB is going to enter his second season as a starter and third in the NFL, and that generally portends for big-time growth.
If Tebow fails, and the Broncos are convinced that they need to get a different long-term QB, then nothing was really lost. The first-round pick that was used to draft him should have been long ago forgotten as a sunk cost, and you gave the guy a chance that he wasn't up to meeting. Oh well, right? As for the concern that Tebow's fans will scream if he's just okay and the team decides to go in another direction, that's something that John Elway will have to deal with publicly. He's John Freaking Elway, so I think he has the standing to tell fans that the team's evaluation of Tebow is that he wasn't what they wanted as a starting QB on a go-forward basis. I could live with that, and I think most others could too.
Like TJ, I felt the blood pumping through my veins in the second half on Sunday, and I was thankful to have a competitive, high-tension football game to watch. It had been quite a while since I'd felt that way. I was sitting in my home office in Cleveland, but I felt like I was right there with the fans. I feel that way as I type this right now, somehow. I'm excited to see what happens over the next 11 games, and whatever the outcome, I don't think it will ever feel like playing out the string as it would have with Orton.
2. I made the comment in yesterday's Chewing The Fat that a tackle that Wesley Woodyard made early in the game to prevent a first down and force a field goal is the kind of play that is usually the difference between winning and losing. The Broncos have had mixed results in these hidden high-impact plays this season.
Coaching decisions can sometimes have similarly major effects on winning and losing, and I wanted to address something that went very, very wrong on Sunday. I've covered this before, and long-time readers may recognize it - so for them, let this be reinforcement. For the newer readers, let this be a new way of understanding.
Assume you're a football coach, and you receive a kickoff after a touchback with 1:47 to go before halftime, and two timeouts. The opposing team also has two timeouts and leads the game 16-10. What's your mindset at that moment? I know what you're thinking - it doesn't matter who you have on offense. What's your goal?
If you're playing Madden, and you have a great play that you can always hit for big yards, you go to that, and try to get down the field and score quickly. It's no sweat, because you're playing Madden. An NFL game is not Madden, though. The other team is going to make a better run at stopping you in real life than the Xbox's AI or the trash-talking 12-year-old on the other end of the headset.
There's only one right answer here, and it's counterintuitive. No TV analyst is likely going to tell you this, but I'm right and they're wrong. The first priority is to get into the locker room with the status quo in place. It's going to be 16-10 or better, but never worse. The team that received the ball has the ability to control this outcome, and a smart coach is singularly focused upon doing so.
So what does that mean in terms of specific tactics? It means that the first priority is to run the clock down below one minute. The second priority is to make a first down, or at least force the opponent to use both its timeouts. The third priority is to prevent turnovers at all cost. The fourth priority is to score points.
I'm not some stodgy or conservative guy, as most know, but the end of the first half requires a conservative approach, because it's a dangerous time. Mess up and you run the risk of giving the ball back to the other team north of one minute to go, with both timeouts, and maybe even with good field position. You run the severe risk, in other words, of not maintaining the status quo.
Here's the correct approach:
First and 10 from the 20, 1:47 to go - Use passing personnel, spread the field, and try to gain some yards with either a draw or a screen. The imperative thing is to make sure that there's no incomplete pass, and that nobody goes out of bounds.
Regardless of the outcome of the play, you're going to run the clock down a minimum of 25 seconds. Let's say you gained five yards for this purpose, which is typical for a shotgun run against a sub-package defense.
Second and 5 from the 25, 1:20 to go – Run another draw or screen, focusing on staying in bounds, ball security, and positive yardage.
If you got the first down on that play, you let the clock get under one minute, and then, and only then, do you start hurrying up. Your risk orientation changes under a minute, because if you punt the ball back to the opponent under a minute, it's unlikely that they'll do much more than run the ball and go to the locker room with a lead.
If you have first and 10 from the 30 or 35 with a minute to go and two timeouts, you are in better shape to start thinking about getting a field goal. As you advance more and more, you can take more and more risks, because you're under a minute to go, and the further downfield a potential turnover occurs, the more like a harmless punt it is, where the other team is just going to kneel on it and go to the locker room.
If you didn't get the first down on second down, but you're close, you snap the ball at 1:00 and try to get it with the running game. If you don't get it, you force the use of a timeout by the opponent, but at least you're around 55 seconds now. After the punt, you'll be more like 45 to 50 seconds, and the opponent will only have one timeout. They're likely to hand it off once or twice, and unless they get a big play, head into the locker room with their six-point lead.
Contrast that to the results of the last 1:47 on Sunday, which uncoincidentally had the same parameters that I just laid out.
1st and 10 at DEN 20 (Shotgun) K. Orton pass short left to E. Decker to DEN 16 for -4 yards (D. Hughes).
2nd and 14 at DEN 16 (Shotgun) K. Orton pass incomplete short right to B. Lloyd (E. Weddle).
3rd and 14 at DEN 16 (Shotgun) K. Orton pass incomplete deep right to M. Willis (Q. Jammer).
4th and 14 at DEN 16 B. Colquitt punts 50 yards to SD 34, Center - L. Paxton. P. Crayton to SD 46 for 12 yards (L. Ball).
DRIVE TOTALS: SD 16, DEN 10, 3 plays, -4 yards, 0:32 elapsed
Where to begin with this nightmare? For one thing, the main proponent of the approach that I laid out above is Bill Belichick. He has Tom Brady, and he's conservative, and gets the clock under one minute as the first priority. John Fox and Mike McCoy have Kyle Orton (in what was hopefully his last hurrah as Broncos QB) and they have him drop back and throw it.
The series starts with a poorly executed WR screen to Eric Decker that loses four yards, but at least the clock runs. At that point, having lost yards, the strategy needs to change to using the full 40 seconds after first down, and then calling straight up handoffs to kill the clock. At the very least, you force the Chargers to burn both of their timeouts, and they're getting the ball back with no more than a minute to go. You're being conservative, and fans who don't understand will complain about that, but you're going to force the other team to be conservative too when you give the ball back to them.
What happened here though? The Broncos went back to the line, dropped back and threw an incomplete pass, of course. Then they threw another on third down and had to punt. The Chargers got the ball back north of a minute (1:02 to be exact) with both timeouts, and that cannot happen. As an added bonus, the Broncos allowed a 12-yard return and the Chargers started at their own 46. What was the result?
1st and 10 at SD 46 (Shotgun) P. Rivers pass short middle to R. McMichael to DEN 48 for 6 yards (W. Woodyard).
2nd and 4 at DEN 48 R. Mathews left guard to DEN 45 for 3 yards (D. Williams).
Timeout #2 by SD at 00:34.
3rd and 1 at DEN 45 (Shotgun) R. Mathews right guard to DEN 42 for 3 yards (W. Woodyard).
1st and 10 at DEN 42 P. Rivers spiked the ball to stop the clock.
2nd and 10 at DEN 42 (Shotgun) P. Rivers pass deep right to M. Floyd for 42 yards, TOUCHDOWN.2210
N.Novak extra point is GOOD, Center - M. Windt, Holder - M. Scifres.
DRIVE TOTALS: SD 23, DEN 10, 5 plays, 54 yards, 0:49 elapsed
Note the differences; the Chargers started conservatively with a short pass and then ran the ball twice, using one timeout and one spike to manage the clock since they were under one minute. After getting a first down and running the clock a bit, they took a shot downfield and beat some bad coverage for a TD. At the plus-42, you can take a shot and not worry about it, because even if you get one picked, it's like a punt. Matthew Stafford threw a pick in plus territory under a minute in the first half Monday night, and it didn't matter. The Bears kneeled on it, and there was no harm.
Internalize this thought, and never forget it. Clock management is about much more than saving time. Just as often, it's about intentionally causing time to run off the clock as a risk management tactic. The atrocious clock management by the Broncos' coaching staff on Sunday did as much to lose the football game as anything that any player did all day. I will always hold the Broncos' coaches accountable for this, because they should know better; there's an intelligent way and a stupid/reckless way, and they chose the stupid/reckless way.
3. I've decided to give y'all a little sump'm sump'm of a technical football variety between today and Friday. Since there is nothing to Digest for this week, I have a time slot for Friday, and nothing to fill it, so I thought of something worth doing.
There has been a lot of conjecture that the Broncos will need to "scale back" their playbook for Tebow. That's actually pretty stupid, because it assumes that there is such a static thing as a "playbook." It's not like the coaches did a bunch of doodling between February and July and then put them in a book, and made a sacred pact never to reconsider the contents of that book, for any reason.
Look, every team has players, and those players have different skill sets. The coaches for the teams have to be keenly aware of what those skill sets are and tailor their schemes and game plans to maximize the effectiveness of those players. Some coaches will cut off their noses to spite their faces in sticking to their preferred schemes, but the Broncos don't have those kind of coaches. A "playbook" may have 1,000 plays in it, and a team may like certain ones better for one QB or another, and use those plays in the game plan. That's not scaling back the playbook; it's intelligently deciding what to use from it. The QB draw was certainly in the playbook, and for some reason, the Broncos never got around to calling it when Kyle Orton was in the game. Shocker!
I've seen some commentary on this site that Mike McCoy is incapable of scheming or calling effective plays, but that's also nonsense. There's been nothing wrong with the playcalling in a general way - just the execution. (Yes, I've hated some individual calls in individual situations, like anybody, but the criticism from some people is overblown, when you consider it in a general sense.)
Today, I'm going to draw and explain six offensive plays that maximize the abilities of Tebow and the rest of the offense. On Friday, I'll give you six more. This is just to show you that for a person with some schematic knowledge, it's not too hard to think up some tailored stuff. Mike McCoy is a professional NFL Offensive Coordinator, so I'm sure he can do it more easily than I can.
Play 1: Zone Read
Have you heard the one about how Tebow is handicapped by never having played in a "pro style" offense in college? It's a bunch of malarkey; he'd only be handicapped on a team where he was being forced to do something that he couldn't do, for the sake of saying that that's how pros do it. The truth is, a lot of the most innovative offensive stuff going is coming from the college level and being incorporated into the NFL piecemeal.
This is pretty much a college play, and it works in the NFL just fine too. It requires a read that Tebow has made many times. What is the Left Defensive End doing? Is he crashing hard inside? Then Tebow hands the ball off to the RB off Right Tackle. Is he staying home? Then Tebow fakes the handoff, and runs the ball himself to the left side, off the block that the slot WR is making on the backside DE.
This play works when you have a QB who is a threat to run the ball, and when he's durable enough to have that be an acceptable risk. Tebow is very durable, of course. This design makes LBs hesitate, and that's always a high-value thing to do.
Play 2: Shovel Option
Does this one look familiar? The initial backfield action is the same as the Zone Read, and the line plays it the same way. The receivers go downfield, because this probably ends up being a forward pass, and you don't want guys blocking downfield too early. It's better to run the DBs off and make them cover a route.
This is an option play, but not something you'd have ever seen at Oklahoma under Barry Switzer. On this one, the RB is primarily a faker, unless Tebow sees something in the pre-snap alignment that tells him to hand the ball off, like the LDE pointing way inside or aligning tighter than usual.
Failing that, there's a fake, and the TE simply runs across the shallow part of the backfield as Tebow moves left. He's reading the RDE now. If that guy rushes toward Tebow, the play is a shovel pass to the TE. If the DE sees the TE and tries to cover him, the play is a QB run in the B gap. Another very simple read.
This comes straight out of the Urban Meyer scheme at Florida, and Tebow and Aaron Hernandez hit it for ridiculous yardage against a lot of really good and fast SEC defenses. It can definitely be effective in the NFL, especially if you have a fast guy at TE. Another fun idea is to run it with Knowshon Moreno lined up as a wing or slotback, and running the shovel action.
Play 3: Play Action Left
This is another familiar look, and that's not an accident. It's play action to the zone read, with a bootleg left and a shot downfield to Brandon Lloyd. Failing that, Tebow has a slot receiver and a TE to work with, or the edge to run to. This is a half-field read to Tebow's strong side of the field, and he gets to either throw on the move or run. There's a lot here to promote success, including the triangle concept that we've discussed before.
Play 4: 959 Double Crosser
This is a straight dropback play from the shotgun. Tebow has proven that he can make those crossing throws with good-enough accuracy, and with the rub action, it's likely that one of the crossers gets open pretty quickly. There's also the two 9 routes outside, and Tebow throws a terrific deep ball, so defenses had better not sleep on those.
Play 5: HB Opposite-side Screen
That's five plays from the exact same shotgun formation and 11 personnel, in case you're not keeping track. The downfield route action is the same as the last play, and the RB is going to initially block left, as in the last play, and then slide over right to receive the screen pass. This takes a moment to set up, but it's really effective having the back come from the left side to the right side. Tebow can sell this and make the throw consistently, and the RB will have J.D. Walton, Chris Kuper and Orlando Franklin in front of him to block downfield.
Play 6: QB Draw Action
A new formation! Does anybody recognize this look? I saw some complaining on Sunday that Tebow always runs from empty formations, and that that is predictable. That's all about to change. The most devastating play that Tebow ran at Florida was something like this, where he personally faked a run by stepping forward and ducking, like he's putting his shoulder down, but then stepped back to throw. A defense can't account for it and still account for all five eligible receivers. There were a lot of deep balls hit on this action to Percy Harvin, Louis Murphy and Riley Cooper, and there's no reason in the world that it can't work in the NFL too.
What ends up happening is that if you run it the same way you run a designed QB run play, defenses get no clue from the presnap look, and it causes indecision in both run support and pass coverage. This is the definition of making a defense account for something that they don't have to account for with a more conventional QB. For all this nonsense about how defenses are going to stack the box and prepare for Tebow specifically, there is a lot that the Broncos can do to combat that.
I'm going to stop there for today, and I'll be back Friday with six more plays that can maximize the effectiveness of Tebow. Have a good few days, and we'll talk soon.


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Uninformed analysts and tech pundits continue to posit that smartphones are becoming commodities. In doing so, they completely ignore, or perhaps underestimate, Apple's ongoing efforts to differentiate the iPhone from competing devices.
Of course, the idea that smartphones are fast becoming commoditized is often brought up as a reason why Apple needs to come out with a magical new product immediately. The often overlooked reality is that Apple works tirelessly to ensure that the iPhone houses features that competitors simply can't match. We saw this most recently with the introduction of Touch ID on the iPhone 5s. While some competitors -- namely Samsung -- have attempted to mimic the functionality of Touch ID with their own offerings, the simplicity, usability, and more importantly, the reliability of Apple's own implementation remains unrivaled.
As a quick example, here is Engadget's review of the fingerprint sensor on the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Over the course of several days, I made dozens of attempts with each finger and it only recognized me on the first try about half the time -- and that's a generous estimate. More often than not, I had to swipe my finger two or three times before it let me in; typing in a PIN code would've been more efficient. Worse, there were other times when the scanner wouldn't recognize me at all, even as I adjusted my swipe speed, angle and finger pressure. And even when it works, there's a small delay after you swipe before the phone accepts your print.
Folks who argue for a commoditized smartphone market might as well argue the car market is commoditized in the sense that any car you choose will just as ably get you from point A to point B.
Recently at WWDC 2014, we saw that Apple remains committed to enhancing the feature set of iOS in ways that are difficult, if not practically impossible, for competitors to copy. The mounting integration between iOS and OS X is the most glaring example. With iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, Apple continues to blur the lines between the Mac and iOS. More importantly, Apple's over arching theme of "continuity" brings with it a number of features that will have a real impact on the way consumers use technology; Handoff is a boon for efficiency while the ability to make phone calls from the Mac elicited boisterous applause from WWDC attendees.
This type of seamless integration will prove frustratingly difficult for companies like Samsung or LG to implement. Microsoft could presumably go down this path, but with the share of Windows Phone still obscenely low, they've still yet to prove themselves a major player in the mobile space.
Smartphone innovation hasn't yet peaked
Taking a step back, let's examine the notion of a commodity itself. A commoditized market is one in which one good is practically indistinguishable from competing goods in the marketplace. In other words, competing goods are on all counts and forever interchangeable because no discernible improvements can or will ever be made to the goods in question.
To that end, arguing that smartphone commoditization is upon us is the equivalent of asserting that technological progress in the smartphone realm has come to a halt. And who, aside from the most cynical of pessimists, would suggest that we've reached that point?
Horace Dediu articulated this point back in 2010 when, surprise surprise, people were predicting smartphone commoditzation was afoot as well.
To suggest that this time, in 2010, it's different: that the definition of the smartphone as it exists today is the product at its zenith; that user experiences and expectations and hardware specifications and platform dynamics will be henceforth frozen with minor sustaining tweaks to look forward to is, in my opinion, a far riskier bet.
I don't try to be a futurist or predictor of how the product will evolve, but I can see a dozen ways of how the very definition of a smartphone will change and how in 4 years we'll have products that won't be recognizable as such today.
What's so incredibly exciting about the smartphone market is that the competition is so fierce that we're constantly seeing a great number of interesting ways in which handset manufacturers try to separate themselves from the pack. Though many new features are often gimmicky, there are a few smart ideas out there that often keep things interesting. And to be clear, not all of them come from Apple.
The smartphone battle is an ongoing race
When Steve Jobs first unveiled the iPhone back in 2007, he boldly proclaimed that it was five years ahead of the competition. And lo and behold, Android handsets, after a few years of mediocrity, finally began making great strides in catching up to Apple. What's more, Android functionality in some ways even began to surpass the iPhone.
But Apple is not a company prone to standing still, and just when one might have been ready to proclaim that the iPhone was no longer that different from the competition, Apple raised the bar a little bit higher. From the Retina Display introduced with the iPhone 4, to the introduction of Siri, to the ongoing rollout of A-x processors, to the Touch ID feature introduced with the iPhone 5s, Apple has a proven track record of innovating before commoditization can rear its ugly and non profitable head.
As it stands today, consumers clearly see enough differentiation between varying smartphones that Apple in 2013 was able to sell 150 million iPhones, a 20% increase from 2012. Even within the iPhone family, the flagship iPhone 5s with TouchID was far more popular than the iPhone 5c. In other words, Apple has a penchant for creating differentiation that consumers actually care about,
Looking out into the future, Apple has a number of technologies in place to ensure differentiation going forward. Touch ID, for example, may seamlessly tie in with a mobile payments scheme in the future. And with over 800 million credit cards on file, Apple is better positioned than most to bring mobile payments to the mainstream. Similarly, with the recent introduction of HealthKit and HomeKit, Apple is clearly trying to broaden the iOS ecosystem and offer functionality that competitors may simply not be able to match as effectively.
If anything, commoditization across Android handsets seems like more of a pressing issue than commoditization vis a vis Apple and Android.
To be clear, if Apple stops innovating, then sure, commoditization will occur. But there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that Apple has lost its innovative mojo. If anything, WWDC 2014 showcased that Apple is as strong as ever, with great new ideas that got developers and consumers alike excited. And that's all without even seeing the next-gen iPhone.


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Karl Lagerfeld recently apologised for called one of our favourite Brit singers "a little too fat", but Madonna told The Sun that Adele has nothing to worry about:
"That's horrible. That's ridiculous, that's just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
"I don't like it when anybody says anything bad about anyone — I don't like it. Adele's a great talent and how much she weighs has nothing to do with it.
"The thing for Adele to remember is at the end of the day, whether you rise or fall, it has so much to do with how you sustain yourself and keep your integrity and your inner strength.
"It is all about who you surround yourself with — friends and people who really do care about you, and care about your well-being beyond being a superstar. That's the most important thing."
We LOVE that Madonna's on our best girl's side - what do you think of Madge's comments?


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Most accounts of Cardinal Schönborn's recent wigging by the Pope for his criticism of Cardinal Angelo Sodano (for calling accusations of clerical child abuse "petty gossip") tended to deflect attention from the fact that Sodano himself did not escape criticism. However wrong Cardinal Schönborn may have been to make his criticisms to journalists and not to the authorities in Rome, the fact is that he was dead right about Sodano. The wording of the Vatican's press release made his real mistake clear: "when accusations are made against a cardinal", specified the statement, "competency falls exclusively to the Pope". After Cardinal Schönborn "clarified" his own remarks, Cardinal Sodano was made to do the same: "The word chiacchiericcio [gossip] was erroneously interpreted [hum, hum] as disrespectful to the victims of sexual abuse, towards whom Cardinal Angelo Sodano nourishes the same feelings of compassion… as … the Holy Father."
I think not. Cardinal Sodano appears to have an exceptionally sinister record of shielding abusers, particularly eminent ones, which goes back many years. He blocked a 1995 investigation into subsequently proven accusations of child abuse against Schönborn's predecessor as Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groër. The most shameful episode was his consistent defence over decades of Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legion of Christ. And, according to reports in the National Catholic Reporter, he had his reasons: he stands accused of receiving a great deal of money and other benefits from the Legion of Christ. In 1998, according to reports, Sodano halted investigations into sexual abuse by Maciel then being carried out by the CDF. One of Pope Benedict's first actions was to depose Maciel and forbid him to function as a priest.
Cardinal Sodano's continuing danger to the Church comes from the fact that he is still Dean of the College of Cardinals. This means that if the Pope were to die before he can be removed, Sodano will be in charge of the obsequies (he will preach the panegyric) and of the conclave: and the international press will have a field day, with millions of column inches about his alleged support for child abusers, his corruption and his sheer incompetence. This is a disaster which must not be allowed to happen. Sodano must go, soon.
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This week I took the plunge and decided my kitchen needed to get messy. So I tried a recipe from Jamie Oliver's Jamie's 15-Minute Meals. Oh hells yeah! I decided to bring it.
Did I manage it? Eh…. no.
Now, I love Jamie as much as the next person. His recipes are delicious, no nonsense and always work, but I'm not too sure what he's at with this everyone-can-cook-faster-than-the-speed-of-light malarkey. Honestly like. I know there have been about 20 bazillion blog posts written about how it's nigh-on impossible to make any of his meals in either 30 or 15 minutes, so I'm not going to go there again; but I do think it's a shame he's made such a rod for his own back. I get the point he's trying to make: food can be quick, easy and tasty if you're clever about how you prepare it. However, I think that people in general are pedantic and once they can't make something in the allotted time limit they will immediately call the whole venture a failure.
Well, this beautiful salad took me longer than 15 minutes to make, and afterwards my kitchen did look like a bomb had hit it; but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try it, in fact I urge you to. The mix of flavours, texture, spice and sweetness is incredibly yummie and it's pretty healthy to boot. It's definitely one worth waiting for!


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Isle of Man funding for African states hits £100K
The Isle of Man has donated £100,000 to an international charity dealing with aid projects in Zimbabwe and the Central African Republic (CAR).
The International Development Committee said grants had been given to Oxfam.
The charity is currently working in the CAR, supporting an estimated 1.3m people in need of food and shelter.
Oxfam GB also has a presence in Zimbabwe where a state of national disaster was declared in February after severe flooding in one province.
Chairman of the International Development Committee, Phil Gawne said their funding continued to "make a genuine difference to people's lives".
"These latest awards represent a small but much-needed contribution to Oxfam GB's response to the emergencies."


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Lakeshore Learning 2014 Teachers' Choice Award Review
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Congratulations to Lakeshore Learning as they were recently awarded four Teachers' Choice honors from Learning® Magazine! Over the years, Lakeshore Learning has been one of my favorite resources for supplemental educational products such as learning games, arts and crafts supplies, toys, educational software and children's books. I was thrilled to learn that Lakeshore Learning earned the four awards for 2014 for the following exceptional educational products for the home and classroom i.e. Math Plinko, Launch It! Language Games, Let's Learn Language! Interactive Game Shows and the Pop & Add to 20 Game.
My children are using two of these award winning educational products in our homeschool classes and I agree with Learning® Magazine that these products are excellent for young learners. My kindergartner and first grader are learning to read and the Let's Learn Language! Interactive Game Shows series is one of our favorite supplemental resources. This complete set includes three CD-ROM games (for Mac/Win) or it is available as an instant download and includes Let's Learn Phonics!, Let's Learn Vocabulary! and Let's Learn Early Reading Skills! Creatively developed in an exciting game show format, my children forget that this is a learning activity since it is so much fun. In fact, they frequently ask to play these games on a regular basis during school and even during their free time on the computer. They especially love when the winner is taken by the fairy host to the castle so they can choose a "magical prize" such as an egg that hatches into a baby dragon. I appreciate that these also include free printable assessments, score reports that I can use in our annual homeschooling portfolio, audio support and additional bonus features. The Let's Learn Interactive Game Shows complete series is packed with learning activities and is very attractively priced at $39.99 for a single license CD-ROM, $39.99, $39.99 for a single license instant download or $95 for a class license.
My younger children also love the Pop & Add to 20 Game (SRP $26.99) which helps kids practice valuable addition skills. This wonderful hands-on math activity game is a fun way for children to make math more exciting by allowing them to use the dice poppers to create addition problems with a sum up to 20. Jacob and Hannah love to play by pressing each of the dice poppers and then they write both numbers on the dry erase game board. Then they place the coordinating number of pretend apples on the board and write the correct answer in the designated area. After simply wiping the game board clean, they are then ready to do a new problem. While it is designed for addition problems we also modify it a bit by using our dry erase marker to mark through the plus sign and then do subtraction problems too. Overall, this is an excellent learning game……I am not surprised that it is an award winner!
You are invited to visit Lakeshore Learning to view all of the Teacher's Choice award winning products and browse the entire educational product line. Lakeshore Learning is not just for teachers but a wonderful resource for parents who are looking to provide their child(ren) with the highest quality learning toys, books, games and computer programs for home practice.


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About Myotherapy Institute
About Myotherapy Institute
The Myotherapy Institute is an educational institution dedicated to providing thorough research-based training in massage therapy while embracing that which has made the profession historically so attractive—the caring relationship that exists between therapist and client.
Instruction at the Institute is designed to blend these two aspects of massage therapy—the clinical and the empathetic with the goal of preparing students to acquire a mastery of technique while encouraging them to remain sensitive to the whole needs of individuals who come to therapy seeking treatment.
For the critically minded, its curriculum is designed to encourage students to explore their creative potentials—perhaps with the aim of improving the therapy process itself.
Since its founding in 1993, the Myotherapy Institute has been earning a reputation for solidly preparing its students for professional success, as well as success in passing the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCETMB). Of the 30 states which currently administer this exam as part of their professional licensing process, Nebraska has the highest pre-licensing educational standards for demonstrating the mastery of didactic learning and practical therapy skills. As a result of these challenging requirements and the commitment to academic excellence, the Institute has a pass rate well above the national average of those graduates who take the NCBTMB examination.
The key to the Institute's success in preparing students for practice after graduation is its focus on students' individual learning needs. Instruction in the state mandated science courses, for instance, is never presented solely in traditional lecture format. Rather, in recognition of the varying needs of adult learners, class presentations are conducted in a variety of modes-seeing, hearing, touching. Low student-to-instructor ratios further help to enhance the success of the individualized instruction.
- Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) providing degree and diploma programs
- Licensed by the NE Dept. of Health
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Recognised during his lifetime as a genius, Henry Purcell subsequently influenced
countless classical composers from Handel to Britten. This delightful assortment of his
best-known works includes the beautiful yet melancholy 'Dido's Lament' from his
perennially popular opera Dido and Aeneas and the joyful Jubilate Deo for choir and
orchestra, as well as some of his instrumental works; the elegant Fantazia in C minor is a
particularly exquisite example of the English composer's mastery.
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The Thought Process of a Computational Scientist
This was originally published at inSCIght.
To appease the PI, our hero - the dashing, young scientist - faces down the following problem with moxie normally reserved for Marie Curie.
In 2D or 3D, we have two points (p1 and p2) which define a line segment. Additionally there exists experimental data which can be anywhere in the domain. Find the data point which is closest to the line segment. Please see Figure 1.
attempt 1
Instinctually, our code-slinger reaches for an off-the-shelf solution. Most of the time this is the correct thing to do.. This is essentially a minimization problem and we know that SciPy (and other similar packages) has an API that should be able to help us out. With about 2 minutes and Google, our hero finds the scipy.optimize.fmin() function and tries a solution like the following:
import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import fmin
p1 = np.array([0.0, 0.0])
p2 = np.array([1.0, 1.0])
data = np.array([[0.3, 0.6], [0.25, 0.5], [1.0, 0.75]])
def point_on_line(x):
y = p1[1] + (x - p1[0])*(p2[1] - p1[1]) / (p2[0] - p1[0])
return np.array([x, y])
def dist_from_line(x, pdata):
pline = point_on_line(x)
return np.sqrt(np.sum((pline - pdata)**2))
def closest_data_to_line():
dists = np.empty(len(data), dtype=float)
for i, pdata in enumerate(data):
x = fmin(dist_from_line, p1[0], (pdata,), disp=False)[0]
dists[i] = dist_from_line(x, pdata)
imin = np.argmin(dists)
return imin, data[imin]
print closest_data_to_line()
While this approach certainly works it is a little like swatting a fly with a tank. In some sense, this solution is order O(n^2) because for every data point we perform and optimization. Then we have to solve for the minimum-distance data point afterwards. For a large number of data points, all of the calls to fmin() can get quite expensive. So while this solution works it lacks grace.
attempt 2
At this point the plucky researcher notices that minimum the distance from the data point to the line has an analytic solution. This is great! It means that all of those nasty fmin() calls can go away and we can make this problem O(n). But what is the equation? Recalling back to trigonometry, the stalwart champion notes that in general 3 points (p1, p2, pdata) form a triangle.
From Figure 2, a may be calculated from the distance between p1 & pdata, b from p2 & pdata, and c from p1 & p2. Therefore shortest distance between the data point and the line is just the height of the triangle, which is given by h = a sin(beta). To calculate any of the angles the Law of Cosines can be used. For instance, beta = arccos((a^2 + c^2 - b^2)/(2ac)). Furthermore, note the inverse identity sin(arccos(w)) = sqrt(1 - w^2). Therefore, the new closest point and line distance functions would look like:
def dist_from_line(pdata):
a = np.sqrt(np.sum((p1 - pdata)**2))
b = np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - pdata)**2))
c = np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - p1)**2))
h = a * np.sqrt(1.0 - ((a**2 + c**2 - b**2) / (2.0 * a * c))**2)
return h
def closest_data_to_line():
dists = np.empty(len(data), dtype=float)
for i, pdata in enumerate(data):
dists[i] = dist_from_line(pdata)
imin = np.argmin(dists)
return imin, data[imin]
attempt 3
Unfortunately, attempt 2 is not quite right either. The points circled in blue in Figure 3 lie closer to the line defined by p1 & p2 but do not lie closer to the line segment!
These points have a very small height as compared to other data points but the triangles formed by them have a very large perimeter. This leads us to the third and simplest implementation: minimize the perimeters!
def perimeter(pdata):
a = np.sqrt(np.sum((p1 - pdata)**2))
b = np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - pdata)**2))
c = np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - p1)**2))
return (a + b + c)
def closest_data_to_line():
peris = np.empty(len(data), dtype=float)
for i, pdata in enumerate(data):
peris[i] = perimeter(pdata)
imin = np.argmin(peris)
return imin, data[imin]
This has the advantage of performing fewer floating point operations than using the trig functions in option 2. Moreover, it is conceptually simpler to understand what is happening just by looking at the code. By minimizing the perimeter we are minimizing the area of the triangle which happens to minimize the height of the triangle for the data points we care about.
attempt 4
Up until now, our hero has shied away from trying to do any code optimization. We were just trying to get to a solutions that works without excessive computation times. However, almost immediately from attempt 3 we can see that the length c (between p1 & p2) is the same for all data points. Therefore this calculation is redundant for minimization. We can thus replace the perimeter function with something that is sufficiently perimeter-esque but requires even less floating point arithmetic.
def like_a_perimeter(pdata):
a = np.sqrt(np.sum((p1 - pdata)**2))
b = np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - pdata)**2))
return (a + b)
While this only works if p1 & p2 do not change, it will outperform any of the other options. This makes it suitable to use on a large number of data points. Finally because the above is so simple, we can use NumPy's vectorization capabilities to reduce this whole problem to a single line:
data[np.argmin(np.sqrt(np.sum((p1 - data)**2, axis=1)) + np.sqrt(np.sum((p2 - data)**2, axis=1)))]
By continuing to think about the problem we end up with the simplest and quickest solution which also happens to be the most concise to write. We could have stopped at any point and had a solution that would have worked. We went from a 25 line version to a single expression. What is more, is that this solution works for any number of dimensions since three points always form a triangle.
Having the simplest, most general solution has distinct advantages. This code will not often need to modified in the future because of the variety of cases it satisfies. Moreover, should the code ever need to be revisited it is possible to look at the whole thing in a single glance.
Much of good software development - and scientific code in particular - must make the trade off between human time and computer time. In general, human time always wins. At any of the checkpoints in this evolution we could have stopped. Thus they key engineering decision to make was at what attempt the code is "good enough" to satisfy the vast array of other requirements:
- easy to ready,
- easy to understand,
- easy to test,
- easy to maintain,
- speed,
- and making the PI happy.
With that, the triumphant hero returns home from the lonely cafe to have a delicious vegan victory cookie!


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Born to Fred and Rita Woodward on January 24, 1953, in Coloma, Mich., Tina spent her early years among the cherry, apple and peach orchards, playing cowboys and Indians with her siblings and lifelong best friend, Claudia, narrowly avoiding brush-ins with flying arrows and ropes.
As a junior in high school, she moved to Winona, where she attended Winona Senior High School. She met her husband, Jerry Rivers, and fell in love with his fun-loving, respectful and patient ways. They married on January 13, 1973, and began a journey that included years of farming, parenting and traveling together. With the marriage, Barbara and Reinhard Rivers and their children, Mike, Don, Pat, Mary, Nancy and Kenny, welcomed her in as part of their family and she cherished the time she spent with them. Always a lover of the John Deere 4020, Tina spent countless peaceful hours raking hay and watching the hawks fly overhead, collecting the feathers that drifted down to her. Her garden became a showpiece for the rocks she collected on her travels and the flowers that she cultivated.
Diagnosed with stage-four cancer five years ago, Tina chose to fight the disease with everything she had, while continuing to work throughout her chemo treatments with the loving support of her friends and co-workers. She never gave up hope and faith. She continues to fight cancer after death by the donation of her body to research.
Tina is survived by her husband, Jerry; sons, Nate and Ryan; daughter, Mindy; and the children she gained and loved like her own through marriage, Rachel, Sarah and Josh. Tina found ways to build a unique and meaningful relationship with each of her 10 grandchildren — Owen, Jordan, Elan, Ettalia, Luke, Annabelle, Aiden, Jayden, Olivia and Kinsley — by seeing who they were and what moved their hearts. Through her years of work with the Winona School District, she adopted many more children into her heart and passionately strove to find ways to lift their minds and spirits. Tina has five brothers, Tim (Victoria) Woodward, Dave (Dawn) Woodward, Fred (Lyn) Woodward, John (D'Ann) Woodward and Paul (Yvonne) Woodward; and two sisters, Mary Beth (Dave) Bradbury and Caroline Woodward. Tina gained another mother and best friend, Betsey Woodward, through her dad's second marriage. She loved Betsey's sons, Rick, Curt and Corey, like brothers. Tina was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Fred.
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Even if the landscape of the Puglia Imperiale area is often superficially described as uniform and only rich in suggestive olive trees, it actually consists in a wide range of enviroments and biodiversities. This is the result of thousands of stratifications that closely link natural components to the history of the human beings. Each of these stratifications has left its mark. This is the case of the S.Croce Grottos in Bisceglie dating back to the Paleolithic (about 70000 years ago). These grottos were surely inhabited as confirmed by some findings such as a femur of an adult Homo sapiens Neandertalensis and a fibre mat , the most ancient artifact discovered so far in Italy. The grottos are located along Lama di Santa Croce, that extends as far as Corato. The lame, the gravine and the karstic doline prove extraordinary natural transformations. The Gurgo, in the area of Andria, is one of the widest Doline in Apulia. The countryside surranding Andria is both characterized by a large number of age-old olive trees and vineyard producing good-quality extravergine olive oil and d.o.c wines, and enriched by a magnificent artistic heritage. The most significant example is the Castel del Monte, the mysterous castle ordered by Frederick II and famous throughout the world for its octagonal plan.
The importance of this precious landscape is confirmed by the institution of of the High Murgia National Park, the first rural park in Italy as a whole.
The tangible signs of the close integration between the wild nature and the human beings is confirmed by the presence of an ancient sheep tracks' network used during the transhumance. These sheep tracks were bounded by drystone walls and "the poste", i.e transhumance station.
Some examples of sheep tracks are: the ancient ones of Canosa/Corato corresponding to the Trajan Way, or that connecting Barletta to Grumo, or the Melfi/Castellaneta sheep track that passes through Spinazzola.
The beauty of the Altamura landscape, the only example of mediterranean steppe, is surprising. This territoy, important for its biodiversity (flora and fauna), is characterized by natural phenomena such as the karstification.
In the past millennia this phenomenon has shaped the area making the landscape unique.
Recently in Minervino, in the direction of Spinazzola a complex grottos' system has been discovered.
This is the proof that the karstic phenomenon is widely spread in the High Murgia area and in Apulia as a whole.
Another interesting example is the San Michele Grottos. This was a place of worship dedicated to S.Michele Arcangelo.
The grottos can be reached through a tourist itinerary that allows to visit the Lama Matitani. In the area between the grotto and the rocky church of Madonna del Sabato, some tombs and ruins of settlements dating back to the 7th century have been found.
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I love photography. I really do. I really really do, but i have found the last few months to be an unmotivated self critical self-depricating void. In other words i haven't given myself the freedom or the space to create. Consequently the other aspects of my life have suffered.
Today i read an article on 500px. I didnt really engage with the article and the suggestions were almost pointless (why im not sharing the link). It did however remind me that i do actually want to take pictures. My twitter feed was full of hundreds of worldphotographyday posts and i just happened on a scene with aome very dramatic lighting.
My wife had cooked supper on the barbeque and left our window open. Smoke filled our room and the setting sun cut a sharp beam through the swirling smoke. At first i just took pictures of the "cool smoke". An amateur mistake forsure but then my daughter happened into my room with her mettalic winged butterfly. She was excited to dance and play in the smoke and the sun reflected off the butterfly wings making a magical bright glow.
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Cashing in on that life insurance soon? I'm deeply sorry for your loss. But GIRL what are you going to wear???
I kid. I hope you caught on to the satire at the beginning. If you haven't, the internet has its share of sugar daddy memes. I'm only poking fun at a cultural phenomenon. It's like we're stuck in some dark Lana Del Rey song. Young vibrant beauty meets handsome old money, a romance about lovers from different eras. I'm sure there's a Lana song about an old rich dude that lives in California that drives a Chevy Malibu. It's called Shades of Cool and there's a video too. So mysterious.
Inspired by dark, old money, old Hollywood glamor I bring you…what to wear to your sugar daddy's funeral with a small side of Coco Chanel and sass. I present to you this all black look with a touch of vintage featuring black lace gloves. Can we bring back gloves for formal occasions? I feel fancy wearing these gloves.
I opted for a black pencil skirt and an off the shoulder bodysuit. It's a two piece, not a dress. This is my favorite black pencil skirt that goes with virtually everything.
Making my bodysuit and skirt the centerpiece, I opted to keep my shoe choice simple with a pair of strappy heels.
I paired this black choker with an all rhinestone choker to balance out the black. Note: rhinestones are always a good idea if you want to feel and look fabulous.
And I completed my look with my Betsey Johnson cheetah tan handbag, I LOVE her handbags. I felt that I wanted a little pop of print and color just to keep things interesting and from falling flat.
Coco loves chillin in handbags so she's good. No one is getting harmed I can assure you.
Remember darling, you don't need a sugar daddy and no man to slay. Let's make this money ourselves.
Outfit details:
Gloves: vintage
Shoes: Aldo
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Handbag: Betsey Johnson
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WATERTOWN — Like it or not, there's no denying the success of Fox TV's American Idol, currently running in its 8th season. And as long as the show does well, so do many regional efforts that mimic the show — including the current "North Country Idol" contest sponsored by Froggy 97 (WFRY).
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What commands are available to pass ass commands when starting up an AX client?
You can find all of them in the SysStartupCmd class in the construct method.
If you want to add your own command you can create a new class which extends the SysStartupCmd class and add it as a new case in the construct method.
For other client commands see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa569653.aspx. For example you can find out how to bypass changes made to startup of AX for clients.


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